The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, June 3, 1910 Page: 1 of 6
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A TRIP TO HARPER.
Last Sunday morning Mr. J. M.
Simmons went to Harper in his car,
COMMENCEMENT EXER- | one we heard last Friday evening.
CISES. At the close of his speech, Prof.
The Manchester High School Herod presented'each member of .
closed last Friday, and in the even- the class with a diploma, not fail- and brought back with him Rev.
ing the commencement exercises ing to goint out to them the res- J. R. Edwards, who delivered the
were held in the opera house. The ponsibilitics these diplomas in- Memorial Dajt address in the after-
house was crowded to its full capa- volved, and the opportunities they noon. Mr. Simmons was kin
city at an early hour, and prompt- opened to the graduates. enough to extend to the Journa
ly at 8:30 the orchestra opened Following Mr. Herod, the orch- editor an invitation to accompany
the exercises with "Somebody estra rendered another very beau- him, which invitation was promptly
Waits for You.” Simultaneously tiful selection, after which the ex- accepted. The other members o
the curtain was raised, giving a ercises were closed with the bene- the party were Mrs. Jess McMullin
view of the stage, which was splen- diction by Rev. Robinson. and Mrs. Earl Smith. -
didly decorated and overhung by Personally, there were two things Owing to the heavy rain w ic
the beautifully lettered class which impressed the writer very had fallen Saturday night the start
motto, -‘Labor Conquers Every- much. We noticed with no small was made at a later hour than ha
thing.” On the stage were Prof, measure of pride that Manchester been planned, but at that we
Clark, Hon. J. W. Smith, Chairman can muster a very large and reached Harper in good time to get
Rev. Wright, Rev. Robinson, and attentive audience, and we were our dinner, as well as thespeaer.
Prof. Herod of the Southwestern agreeably surprised to learn that The writer was very favorab y
Normal at Alva, the principal the city can get so much talent to- impressed with the country, an
speaker of the evening. Also there gether at one time and one place, especially with the con ition o
was the graduating class, consisting Withal, it makes one feel proud to crops. While the distance rom
of Misses Elsie Morgan, Edith have become a resident of Manches- this place to Harper is practica y
Fulwider, Edna Sclyal and Lena Up. ___twenty-three miles, yet we failed to
.Reneau, and Farris Feely and AT NELSON S LAKE. see a single field but what gave
Gussie Turner. Monday was a holiday, and a|P™m“ of. “ ''"'T
After Rev. Wright hiul large number of Manchester pee- ZZhthlu raw's” wait,” ,md
nci. -------— large numoer ot jnancnesier peu- . . , • . „ .
wsmsmmm
the evening. Miss Edna Sphul J, ^ ^ even should it not rain again be-
then read the history of theclass of I o{ land> including the large for*h™- route looks
‘10, which brought out some very Lke_ which ig well st0cked with 7^? L , \ v
interesting facts concerning the various kinds of fish. splendid, but without any
members. Miss Schul did not fail The grounds are well shaded with of boasting’ we mU8t Sa^ , *
to pay a glowing tribute to Prof, locust fnd cottonw00d, and beside H" wlthl" .fi™ ^ Evinced than
Clark, and called attention to the Lhe lake there is plenty of running er was ra nrl that limit
fact that while the class started F . auy we saw beyond that limit
with ten boys and five girls, it com- Wemention incidentally that a T#hi^Ar7nThi mrts this veaT
pleted the course with four girls and numh>er 0f Manchester young men ® a m , ' j- ’
two boys, thus reversing the pro- haye leased the3e ground8j with the and ba"mg hal1’ °r “m® .
portion. We have never heard of ideft of converting them into a sort nOW a"d ^
a better record of attendance. . „ resort where our people of June’there 13 n° d bt that °?e
There were six hundred and twenty I gQ {or a quie’t day of rest from ^ thelarg®8t it
school days in the four years, and I their iabor8. These young men w*8 VLCUf e n
the poorest attendent was there six I Qfc ^ toQ highly commended Manchester this al.
hundred and twelve days while two for thcir effort3) and we beiieve a Aad Jhll° "e th‘" ° g.
members of the class only missed substantial encouragement mus a ,, nor omit to state
two days during the cut,re Hwouldnot be allhoUgh we “£££*££ hU„ a»d
The next number was a vocal | “y °nM wading mud puddles, htB Reo 4 la
trio by Mrs. Madden and Misses . a to fhelake Mon-| rd 40 beat'
Dottie Simmons and Maude Feelv 1 , . . , In the evening Mr. Simmons 1
^h el^onTas a g“ one and da>' are T P ’ R*v. Edwards to Anthony, and was
The selection was a good I and we believe they will encourage Lcompanied by> Me8dames C
the enterprise as far as they can- simmong. G. T. Price, J. W.
They were shown that a fine time I&nd yy A Nally
can be had there, because they__
away, or, perchance have been
called to their reward beyond, and
it is largely due to the efforts and
admonitions of Noble Grand
Patton, together wfth the ladies of
the Rebekahs, that these graves
over which there are none left to
mourn, were strewn with fragrant
flowers, thus exemplifying the
fundamental principle of Odd
Fellowship, Brotherly Love.
DEMOCRATIC NEWs’BUREAU.
Special Correspondent
Washington, D. C., May 1910.
EXTRAVAGANT EXPENDITURES
The present Congress has appro-
priated $96,000,000 for the army,
$134,000,000 for the navy and
$156,000,000 for pensions. $385,-
000,000, 71 per cent of our total
levy for expense upon wars, past,
present and to come. Only $9,000,-
000 were expended by the pre-
sent Congress upon agriculture.
Multiplied millions for the arts of
war and a mere trifle for the fruit-
ful arts of peace. This is Repuli-
can statesmanship. Two battle-
ships, costing $32,000,000, were
provided for in the naval appro-
priation bill last week. All the
Democrats but three and the in-
surgent Republicans voted against
the battleships—the standpatters
voted for the “sea monsters”.
high Tariff Tories
The high tariff tories have just
succeeded in placing in the Sundry
Civil appropriation bill of the
House an allowance of $250,000 for
the tariff commission. They hope
to make their rescue in the coming
November election. The plan is to
tell the people that they will revise
the tariff again as soon as this
board makes their report, if the re-
port justifies and necessitates
another revision. In other words,
the tariff is to be revised by its
friends again. Republican leaders
are in dispair and unless they can
deceive the people again they are
utterly without hope.
THE TAX QUESTION.
A NARROW ESCAPE.
The fishing and bathing expedi-
tion to Nelson’s lake Monday came
very near ending in a tragedy, with
Jess McMullin, of the Rock Island
Lumber Company, playing the part
of star.
A number of men and boys were
in the water as the evening began
I to close in, and as they had been
in for a long time, they ^lecided to
cross to the west bank and return
home, among the number was Mr".
McMullin, who took lhe lead, pre-
ceding his followers by several yards
Jess is a good swimmer, and while
there was no-race, so to speak, still
he easily maintained his lead, which
led near to his undoing.
Before reaching the shallow
water, Jess, who had been in the
water for about two hours, was
growing rather weary, and when he
GOOD FOR GRANT COUNTY
The following item appeared in
the Wichita Eagle last Sunday.
GRANT IS BANNER OKLAHOMA
COUNTY
Guthrie, Okla., May 27—Grant
county’s agricultural statistics, re-
ceived by the board of Agriculture,
show It to be the banner tgrlcultural
county of the state, unless Garfield
county’s report shows a much greater
advancement over the remarkable
gains In yields made last year In
Grant county.
TJiooounty raised 2,587,702 bushels
of corn test year, an increase of
826,931Jiuihels over the previous year,
and makes the county fifth In rank
among the oorn producing oounties.
The county raised 1,740,422 bushels of
wheat last year, a gain of 231,588
bushels over the 1008 crop and places
this oounty second in wheat produc-
tion. The oats yield* last year w;s
1,103,151 bushels, which makes it the
banner county, as not a single county
last year raised as much as 1,000,000
reached a point where he thought j busliels. The acreage planted to cow-
he could reach the bottom, he let
himself down with the purpose of
wading. To his surprise, however,
he found that there was no bottom
there, apparently, and before he
could regain the surface he was
seized with a cramp. Now the
cramp was not severe, and passed
off as quickly almost as it came,
but it had weakened the swimmer
to such an extent that, in his al
ready exhausted condition, he was
pets increased from 455 to 96# showing
that the farmers are making an effort
to use fertilizers to preserve the fer-
tility of the soil. Poultry produce
brought 850,173 in 1909 and 943.178.
in 1908. Eggs brought 9104,822 In 1909
and 973,192 in 1906. The county is also
one of the leading counties in live-
stock production. The value of
animals sold for slaughter last year
was 9889,012 as compared with
<538,327 for the privious year. There
were 387 more farms tilled in the
county last year than during the pre-
ready exhausted concmion, ne was v|ou3 y#ar w,th an lncrea8ed acreage
unable to help himself, so he went I |Q cultivation of 28,262 acres,
down again, this time taking in a I This certainly speaks well for
large quanity of water. Grant county, and tends to con-
He again struggled to the sur-l grm the belief of our farmers that
face and called for help, but thal this is the best agricultural county
men following him, knowing him to I [n the state.
be a good swimmer, thought ho was —:-
only pretending to need help. But I —Leslie Fenton went to Kansas
when he again went under, they be- CU* Mond»y afternoon to meet his
mother, Mrs. ISmma Fenton, who re-
turned with him and is making quite
an extended visit here.
trio had been well chosen. I went ftnd had the good time them
In a few well chosen words, Hon. , onoortunities wil
J. W. Smith then introduced Prof.
selves. Ample opportunities will
be afforded for boating, bathing,
MEMORIAL SERVICES.
At the opera house Sunday after-
Herod, who delived a splendid I ^hi^°r nd °[he °\ike and the noon a ful1 hoUSe listened to asPlen
addrea and presented the diplomas. ^ are wonderfuUy adapted k*
’ * help the boys along. pices of the Odd Fellows, ably
LOOK THEM OVER. I assisted by the Rebakahs.
The National Democrat, pub-| Mr. Edwards claimed that he
lished at Washington, D. C., “t°l had never before delivered such an
course
chosen field, mathematics. He
told how he had never, until com-
ing to Manchester, been confronted
with a- proposition for which he. _ ,
could find no solution. “But since all Democrats” this good advice: address under similar circum-
coming to your city,” he continued, “Be sure and nominate good, live, stances, in that this was the first
"1 have met with a proposition for brainy men at the primaries for the audience he had ever addressed on
which there seems to be no solu- next congress. Then let every Memorial day which boasted of but
tion. The proposition is this. Democrat throw off his coat, go to one 0id soldier. However, the ad-
With all of these beautiful and work and elect the nominee. We dress wt}8 given in Mr. Edwards’
accomplished young ladies in Man
Chester, the problem which defies
analysis, which baffles erudition, is
why that man (pointing to Prof.
Clark) remains single.”
Several minutes later, after the
listeners had brought their mirth
under control, Mr. Herod started
on a series of stories and illustra-
tions which kept the audience in
laughter for a full half hour. Then,
suddenly growing serious, the pro-
fessor directed his remarks to the
mothers—the mothers of the boys
and girls who occupied the seats of
honor that evening, the mothers of
boys and girls who have occupied
those seats in the past, and the
mothers of the future classes—in
short, the ‘mothers of our nation.
He dwelt at length upon the re-
sponsibility of the mother, and
appealed to mankind to give to
these same mothers the credit due
them.
It has seldom, if ever, been our
privilege to listen to an address
more interesting, more instructive,
more prolific of good than was the
want men of brains in congress. I usuai pleasing style, and while it
Cut out the dead wood and we will I was uncomfortably wftrm in the
soon build up a Democratic party hall, yet we believe that a great
that will give the people a govern-1 majority of the listeners would fain
ment of the people, for the people, I haVe listened at least an hour
jy the people.” \ [longer to the remarks which carried
-*"• I so many- truths ijto the hearts of
-The Board of Directors of Hthe pe0pie
After the close of the meeting,
the Odd Fellows marched in a body
Christian church met last Sunday
evening and engaged Bev. E. ^-|ine wuu rcilu„a 1UQlv,TOVi
Garner of Alton, Oklahoma, to fill the tQ ^ cemetery, where they were
pulpit of that church for the next two -oined by the 'Rebekahs. Together
“‘then, they marched past the
, - | grave of each departed brother,
that when the two months “rvlc«|and ag the Odd Fellows opened
has been rendered the members °Mran|(8j the ladies passed between
the church will decide that they want tbe b|es and placed flowers upon
Mr. Garner to remain with them. j resting places of the loved
—On Saturday morning of last week ones.
Robert Metcalf, one of our popular Having decorated the graves of
barbers, reoelved the aad new* of the all departed Odd Fellows, the lodges
death of hla brother in Hutohlnson. dispersed and made a thorough
He, with Mrs. Metcalf, left on the canvas of the cemetery to see that
afternoon train for the home in not a single mound, no matter whose
Hutchinson. dust reposed beneath it, was for-
—W. T. Hodaon went to Ponca City gotten. There are a few graves
Monday to look after some matters of out there which might otherwise
business In which the Manchester have been neglected. The relatives
Milling Company le interested. of those who lie there have moved
The people of Oklahoma put in-
to the state[treasury for state pur-
poses $2,000,000 and they pay into
the national treasury $18,000,000
for national uses and extravagance.
Republicans favor a high tax for
national and pretend to favor low
tax for state purposes.
MCGUIRE NEGRO RILL
The McGnire bill to enroll 10,000
negroes as Indians, which would
cost the Indians twenty or thirty
million dollars has been if not
finally postponed, at least delayed
for the present by the vigorous fight
made against it under the leader-
ship of Congressman Carter, Senator
Gore and the other Democratic
members of the Oklahoma dele-
gation.
WHITE HOUSE EXTRAVAGANCE.
For the purpose of furnishing
care of horses, carriages, auto-
mobiles and maintenance of green-
house and stables of the White
House there is expended yearly
$53,000. Should not the people
resent such extravagance as this?
—M."F. Cowles has extended hla
route to Sand Creek, thereby giving
the farmers throughout that neigh-
borhood'an opportunity to market
their oteam right at their homes.
This cream industry is certainly be-
ing wonderfully developed.
R. A. Moore ie advertising a big-aMe
to ba held at his old home near
Gibbon next Thursday, June 9th.
He has listed a fin* lot of live stack
and implements, and the Ladies Aid
will serve refreshments.
gan to feel some concern.
On the west bank of the lake
stood J. M. Simmons, father-in-law
of the apparently doomed man,
together with Dr. White and H. W.
Reneau, cashier of the Citizens
State bank. Mr. Simmons swims
like a brick, which fact left him
helpless. Not so, however, with
j Mr. Reneau. Now the banker was
clad in his very best, we believe,
and no doubt had valuable papers
and letters in his pockets, to say
nothing of an expensive watch, but j News.
at the critical moment he forgot al* I . .. . _ ^
, .. . x XL * J I —It is reported that a Democratic
about everything but that drown-1 . .. . . . . „
* ° . I newspaper is to be launched in Ren-
tng man. From his position he I _ .
6 , I from in the near future. Well,there’s
saw at an early moment that Mr. 1
ir ,r ... . , , u. [plenty of room—Two can starve to
McMullin was in danger, and with- \
x x i- x- x death juatas easy as one.—Renfrew
out even taking time to remove his [ ^,rll)Una
coat or hat, plunged into the water |
and swam with all possible speed to —Automobile men in Manchester are
the rescue. He reached the scene I wondering what particular thing Is
at the right moment, for Jess was I w™* with a car when the trouble is
just in the act of going down for I described by the word “nothin’.”
—Late frosts have not been con-
fined to horticultural and agricultural
districts. There has been some severe
political frosts in certain eastern Re-
| publiean congressional districts.—Ex.
—A marriage license was issued at
[thecounty seat last week to James
j Branson and Miss Bertie Goff of this
place, according to the Pond Creek
the third and last time when he
was seized by the sinewy arms of
the banker. About the same time
some of the men from the other
side, who had realized the danger
much later than Mr. Reneau, but
were closer to the victim, also
—H.C.Shipley. representing the Gla-
zier Lyceum Bureau, was in the city
Monday in the interests of his bureau.
However, as our Lecture Club has al-
ready contracted numbers for the com-
ing season, Mr. Sbipley was disap-
pointed in his desire to book his at-
reached the spot, and helped carry I tractions here,
the nearly drowned man to the [
bank.
The danger was not over yet. I
| There was still plenty of evidence
of life, but none could say how
much water had been shipped, or
just how long the lungs had de-| _________
prived of air. Consequently. Jess Mr ^ickizer.
was stood on his head and hammered , .. _
and cuffed until he showed ^igns of ~B. F. Watti™, of U» WttX n,
returning volition. Dr. White “““xT' .
proved himself efheient in ,J Wattle. * Simmon. In getting their
emergency, and rendered valuable »hl o.» ««»In rnnnteg enter.
assistance, as did the other members
—Lou Morgan, who had the miafor-
| tone to Injure his eye some time ago,
I found it necessary to return to Anth-
ony Saturday, vtffer* he waa given
farther treatment by Dr. Uptergraff
of that place. He was accompanied
by his sister, Mrs. Fred Wlckizer and
—1“Clock day” is getting to be a big
thing, not only for E. L. Smith & Co.,
but for the entire town as well. It
draws* large crowd from the sur-
rounding country, and all share in the
benefits derived*
—Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Scott and Mrs.
J. W. Smith went to Crtafield Satur-
day for a few days visit with relatives.
of the party, but there seems to be
no doubt that had it not been *for
Mr. Reneau the Rock Island yard
would be closed today, and the
hearts of Manchester people filled
with sorrow instead of thanksgiving.
—Rev. E. M. Garner, pastor of the
| Christian chureh, went to Wichita on
business Monday afternoon, returning
the middle of the week.
—Miss Mabel Fulwider is visiting
relatives and friends in Manchester
this week.
i i
J. W. MALLORY
at Citizens State Bank, will re-
ceive all watch and jewelry re-
pairing left with him, and give
prompt and careful attention.
All work returned to him for
collection charges. All work
guaranteed.
F. E. PIRTLE & C0n
Jewelers end Music Dealers,
ANTHONY, KAN8AS;
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Thomas, L. K. The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, June 3, 1910, newspaper, June 3, 1910; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc497256/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.