The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, November 23, 1906 Page: 1 of 8
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MANCHESTER, GRANT COUNTY. OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY. NOV. 2J, I9N.
ON A VACATION.
A newspaper man gets tired some-
times the same as other people and a
vacation is very much appreciated.
The editor of the Journal has been in
the harness every week and every day
for a long time without rest, so on
Wednesday of this week left for a vis-
it to relatives in Scotland county
Mo., and may also visit in southeast
ern Iowa before his return.
During our absence the Journal will
be looked after by A. E. Deere, Mrs
Bessie McMullin and Miss Ada Hall
assisted by Miss Helen Wilson. These
ladies are competent to manage the
mechanical work in pretty good shape
for a couple of weeks; and and will al
so do what they can in the way of
gathering news. Mr. Deere will
make a good proof reader and can
write up an item of news in good
shape, but as it is out of his line of
work and he has much other business
to look after, it will be necessary that
the whole neighborhood in and around
Manchester take hold and help to get
up copy for the paper for the next two
weeks. We invite one and all to con-
tribute news items and such articles
for the paper as they think will be
readable, and hand the copy in just as
( early as you can. This invitation is
to one and all, so if the Journal isn’t
a newsier and better paper for the
next two weeks than it has been in
thepast.it will be your own fault. Its
columns are open to you, so get your
copy up, plainly written, at the earl
iest m oment and hand it in to this
oflice. __
CALLS THEM HYPOCBITS.
We were surprised at the sayings of
the Wakita Herald after the election.
In copying from other papers con-
cerning the result of the election in
Oklahoma, one statement appeared
like this: “It’s astonishing! It’s
wonderful!! It’s amazing!!! It’s
h—1!!!!”
Hut this statement does not begin
to compare with the one printed by
the Herald in which it said, “All the
hypocrits are not in the churches by
any means!’’
This is the first knowledge that the
Journal has ever had that a Republi-
can who from pure motives votes the
opposition ticket is a “hypocrite,”
but since a good Republican paper
like the Herald says so, we suppose all
the Republicans who voted for W. F.
Hendricks in this district will know
where they stand in the estimation
of the leaders of the Republican
party.
Other Republicans dubbed the in-
dependent Republicans who voted for
Hendricks as “milk-and-water-hay-
seeds,” etc., but the Herald is the
first we know of to come out plainly
and tell them that they are nothing
more than “hypocrites.”
Hro.Loomis talks rather pointedly
for a good church deacon and Sunday
school worker, but it would seem from
the tone of his remarks that he
thinks considerable more of his poli-
tics than he does of his church or
Sunday school work.
Loomis probably thinks the people
will forget all about these statements
by the time the next campaign is
held, when he will print all kinds of
nice things to work the independent
Republicans back into line, but the
Journal will remember all such state-
ments and refresh the voters minds
with them when the proper time
comes.
A GOOD SELECTION.
County Superintendent J. A. Alder-
son, who was elected to the constitu-
tional convention which is now in
session at Guthrie, did the proper
tiling in securing the services of C. M.
Jacobson of Wakita to look after the
oflice of county superintendent during
his absence. Prof. Jacobson reported
at tiie county superintendent's oflice
on Monday,and is now engaged visit-
gin schools and attending to the offic-
ial duties of Mr. Alderson. Ileisa
thoroughly competent man in this
line of work, having spenx several
years as teacher in the grammar
grade at tlie Wakita schools, also
served in the capacity of vice-presi-
dent and president of tlie Grant Coun-
ty Teachers Association, and lias been
Volume 14, Number 25.
LICE AND WORMS.
Going on the theory that “an ounce
of preventative is worth a pound of
cure,” and fully believeiDg that nine-
tenths of the losses of hogs in this
country have their origin from the
hogs being permitted to becomeloussy
and wormy, the Journal in the grow-
ing of hogs alms to guard against
these two pests, although finds it
pretty hard to do.
The hogs can be kept pret ty free of
worms by the almost constant use of
coperas. We used to feed it in a mix-
ture of bran and shorts, but have
come to the conclusion that to put it
in the drinking water for the hogs,
where they can get no other, seems to
answer the same purpose.
Dipping will kill the lice, they tell
us, and we don’t doubt it; but it. will
only kill those that are on the hog,
and the lice that are around the sleep-
ing places will soon get on the hogs
again and then there is a new supply,
to contend with. For this reason and
the further fact that it is an irksome
half alfalfa.
L. P. Roach, who operates a large
rented farm four miles northwest of
town, was a business caller last Sat-
urday. He lias been successful at
farming for the last few years, and al-
though handling them only on a small
scale, he has done well growing hogs
and thinks there Is no other stock on
the fa^m half so profitable.
Mr. Roach says if he owned a farm
here he would have it all fenced hog
tight and cross fenced, even if he had
to mortgage the land to do it, and
then he would seed half the land to
alfalfa and use the other half for gen-
eral farming purposes, hut would sow
hut mighty little wheat. He thinks
the farmers generally of this part of
the country would do well to pav more
attention to the growing of hogs than
they nowido, and-he thinks that every
farm in the country should be fenced
hog tight in order that nothing iray
be allowed to waste that a hog will
eat. He also believes in keeping a
few cattle, even though the price is
and expensive job, we have never low, as a few head can be cared for
tried dipping. 0n what would otherwise go to waste.
Our observation is, although we The Journal looks at the matter
have not yet thoroughly tested it,that just as Mr. Roach does, and would
coal oil and carbolic acid will not only urge every farmer to go to raising
kill the lice if properly used and used hogs-any breed that suits the owner
often enough, but will also go a long best—but be sure to get the best types
ways towards keeping the disease 0f whatever breed you may like best,
away from the hog lot. We have it may pay to raise a poor stock of
tried it with hogs placed in close con- hogs, but it would pay better to raise
linement with straw several inches good hogs. Of course, you can’t raise
deep scattered over the pen, and then hogs successfully without plenty of
sprinkle with asolutiou of an ounce of fields and lots in which to grow them,
caibolic acid to a gallon of coal oil. but a $500 mortgage on your farm will
This seems to kill the lice for the provide a lot of good fencing, and
time being, and we believe if it were then with alfalfa and a few old sows
kept up once a week for a few weeks the two together, if properly cared
and then once a month the year for, will soon lift the mortage off the
round, there would be very few lice farm. Try it.
on the hogs. --
Several years ago we used to lose A-*- IT.
hogs with what was called cholera, ' e had a letter from the Republi-
but since we commenced the free use|caa ^err*tor'a' committee under date
of Nov. 16 (another one of those
DIRECTORY
>1 the Buiinei, Firms ol Manchester and Naar-B*
T#wn«. Who Aik lor Your Patronag in This
Paper Through Display Adi of Two Inc he.
Spice or Over. Read Their Adi and
Patronize Them when in Need ol
Anything in Their Line:
of coperas for worms and coal oil and.
carbolic acid for lice, we meet with s^raJ’si we suppose) in which there are
no losses at all. If you try this , sorts of excuses made for the de-
remedy, don’t be too stingy with I . ^ the Party in the recent con-
either coperas, coal oil or carbolic st'tutional c°nveution election. The
acid. The hogs will drink the water },et5er ^ien ^oes on t° say that “this
when it is red with coperas, and a <*e*eak has taught us a lesson, but in-
sprinkler would be a nice tiling with stea^ ^ discouraging us it will and
which to spread the coal oil and car- must iRStill us with renewed life and
bolic acid on the hogs when they are en~!^'.
eon fined in a close pen. This is perhaps good and wholesome
- advice, but if the Journal were a Re^
SLIGHTLY PATHETIC. publican newspaper it would fail to
The appeal made by the Medford see wherein there is any hope or con-
Star last week to its patrons to pay solation to be gleaned from it. If the
their subscriptions to the paper, and committee had announced that it had
following as it did closely after the "thrown up the sponge” and expected
receipt of $140 which was taken from the old crowd of grafters to do the
the earnings of the farm to assist in same, thus leaving the way open for a
liquidating the ligitimate running ex- "new deal,” then we might have
penses of the paper, had a sort of pa- some hopes for the distant future,
thetic ring to it, judging from a jour- but to be informed the the old crowd
ualistic standpoint. of grafters and scrappers in the Re-
Among other things, Pete said to publican ranks in Oklahoma will be
his readers in that appeal, “Last year Up and at it again in Oklahoma and
when the crop was not what it ought asking the support of the Republican
to have been, we gladly carried you press and the people, would cause us
over until a bounteous harvest came.” to condemn the whole works and de-
By the time Pete lias had one year’s mand a “new deal.”
experience in publishing a newspaper But the McGuire-Cade-Ferguson
to where we have had ten, he will (we mean Coal Oil Ferguson) Frantz-
learn that the big list which lie Flynn-Barnes gang still have possess-
boasts about has been the greatest jon of the Republican reins in Okla-
obstacle of all in the way of failure to homa, and they propose to hold them
make ends meet in a financial way, to the last ditch
and tiie longer lie undertakes to carry The letter further announces that
a lot of dead-heads in tiie hope that it will keep “open shop” in the Lyons
sooner or later they will come in and Building in the City of Guthrie with
pay him, just that much worse olT the same force, J. L. Hamon, Chair-
will he be, and befpre he is aware of man, and V. W. Whiting, Secretary,
it ins weekly shipment of "ready- "and on behalf of the Territorial
print” will becoming to him “C. O. Committee we desire to ask and in
D.” He has quite a sprinkling of Lite Republicans when in Guthrie to
good men on his list, and also quite a make these rooms their headquarters,
sprinkling of those who are no good The candid, thinking and more in-
when it comes to paying their debts, dependent element in the Republican
so that the loss on one more than ranks in Oklahoma will thusseethat
o\erbalances tiie other, and this isI there is no hope left other than to
why it is that the farm is being again go to the polls in the next
called upon for $140 at a time to keep election and once more bury these
up expenses, with a pathetic plea fol- grafters who have brought the party
lowing close behind in which subscrib- hnto disrepute with the people
ers are asked to “dig up." • beneath a mountain of ballots. It’s
There is absolutely nothing what- the only means of getting rid of them,
ever to Pete's paper aside from and the sooner it is done the better it
neighborhood gossip, which the pub- will be for the Republicans of the
lie in general cares nothing about, so whole state
that his busines is bound to come —
down in proportion to the merits be-1 —Before leaving home the editor
hind it, and that means tiie ragged the Journal told us he would ex-
edge of an absolute waste of time and Pect t,ie Journal for the next two
money that could be used profitably weeks to be the newsiest and best
on the farm to the man at the helm PaPer printed in this part of the coun-
and to the community. try- Be left the way open for one
The Old Reliable is disinterested, and all to hand in items of news, and
however, aside from the fact that the paper is completely turned over to
Pete's adventure was sprung by him- tiie oilice force and its patrons for the
self with tiie view to running the next two issues. Let's all take hold
Journal out of house and home, and and show the “old man" that Man-
on the teachers examining board for I this is why it I* that we have license Chester can have a paper when he is
the last three years. In the nomina- to take a peep into ti e inner work- out of town tiie Fame as when he's
tion of candidates next spring for • ings of his Try-Comity Star whenever here Don'tletamatterofnewses-
ccunty officers, it would not be a bad it suits us to do so. Pete may come to cape. This invitation is extended to
id a for t l»e Democratic convention ills senses and get lack on the farm one and all, and get your copy in the j toV^wardrni^ 'fn'r'I
to look well into the merits of Prof, and be somebody once again, but t lie oilice just as early as you can. davs outirnr with a mn ’ He rot
Jacobson in selecting a candidate for chances for it are getting slimer and T,,E Journal Force. , there jU9t ,u Ume fof ^ blizzardKt0
county superintendent. I slimer every day. 1 -Next Thursday is Thanksgiving. I spoil all his fun. I
Manchester.
E. L. Smith A (Jo., general merchandize.
Badger Lumber Co., lumber and hardware
—T. W. Peter, agent.
S. B. Flint:. hardware, implements,harness.
Citizens State Bank, general bunking
business.
Star Restaurant—Miss Sadie 81ngleton and
Mrs. Weiss, proprietors.
Periling Investment Co.. Citizens Btate
‘Bank, agents
Blackwell Mill A Elevator Co., A. E. Deere,
agent.
Burchflel A Warnock, live stock dealers.
J. W. Smith, law loans, real estate.
Rock Island Lumber Co.,lumber and hard-
ware— Luther Iieck. agent.
Slaughter A Tuttle, Auctioneers.
Manchester Hotel, Mrs. Anna Deere. Prop.
Lucas Drug Co., W. M. Lucas, Proprietor.
Mort Canfield, Carpenter.
Manchester Produce Co., E. H. Savely,
proprietor.
Manchester Livery Barn, N. H. Fulwlder,
proprietor
T. E. Buckles, blacksmith and repair shop.
W. E. Plunkett, Photoes and Enlarged
Porttalts.
GIBBON.
Post Mercantile Co., general merchandise.
Badger Lumber Oo.. lumber and hardware
-O. A. Clasen. agent.
WAKITA.
E. M. Garrett A Co., real estate, loans and
Insurance.
W.T. Tucker, undertaker and funeral
director.
ANTHONY.
Blake Bros , Furniture and undertaking.
OUR TELEPHONE SYSTEM
This part of Oklahoma, with its
rural phone lines reaching here, there
and everywhere among the farmers
and to the various towns in this part
of the country, has by far the cheap-
est and best phone system that there
is extant.
This, you may say, is claiming a
good deal, but if you can refute it,
these columns are open to your dis-
posal. The rural system in Grant
county, or at least at Manchester,
costs the members but 25 cents per
month for the service. The member-
ship owns their own phones "and of
course have the little expense in keep-
ing them up in addition to the above,
and aside from this the farmer looks
after the line along his own place,
which amounts to pratically nothing.
Thus we have the service for an out-
lay not to exceed 30 cents per month
to each member, or about $3.60 per
year.
There are diverging lines out of
Manchester which reach every town
in the county, and between most of
the towns there are commercial wires
which are brought into use to handle
all messages at a distance. In addi-
tion to this, we have lines reaching
into Harper county on the north and
Woods county on the west, and we
got it all for the small sum of about
30 cents per month.
In Kansas and many counties in
Oklahoma where the big telephone
corporations have control and erect
rural lines, the expense is three to
four times as great to the rural peo-
ple who use them, and the service is
cut down about four to one. The
patrons at one central or town cannot
get through another without addi-
tional expense, and when they wish
to talk with the county seat or any
other town in the country in which
they live, toll charges are made of
from 15 to 25 cents for each message,
so that in the course of a year the
man who patronizes the big corpora-
tion system pays several times as
much as we pay here under the rural
system, and t he service is not as good.
Our rural lines all center with the
big syndicate lines out of Manchester
the latter using the rural switch-
board, so that the farmer out on the
rural line can be connected up with
Wichita, Topeka, Kansas City, Guth-
rie and all other points, the same as
though he were right on the long dis-
tance line, and the toll charges are no
greater.
We believe if the people of other
count ies knew what the real value of
the rural system is to the people of a
county or community, they would cut
loose from the costly use of the cor-
poration lines and build lines of their
own. It can be done at nominal ex-
pense if ail will take hold, and when
once in use they would not think of
such a thing as going back to the cor-
poration system.
POSTPONED UNTIL
Monday Night, November 26, 1906
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A complete Reproduction of the Destruction of San Fransisco liy Earth-
quake and Fire, showing tiie terrible conflagration at its height, brought out
in natural colors of the fire
Panorama of the Ruined District—People looking for the Dead—Ferry
Boats Carrying Away the Refuges, Etc., Etc.
Also 1,000 feet of other moving pictures.
Everybody invited. Admission 10and 25 cents..
E. A. WATKINS, President.
L. FEELY, Vice-President.
R. W. RENEAC, Cashier.
J. W. MALLORY, Ass’i.
CITIZENS STATE BANK
OF MANCHESTER, OKLA.
DOES A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS.
MONEY TO LOAN
On improved and unimproved farms at reasonable rate of interest.
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Manch ester
Livery Barn,
N.H. FULWIDER, Prop.
General Livery
and
Feed Business
Special attention to all busi-
ness entrusted to our care
Call at the ba.n when In
Manchester. One door north of Journal Building.
—C. N. Palmer of the Medford Pa-
triot was a passemrer last Friday on
tiie north-bound Santa Fe. on his way
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Miss Sadie Singleton and Mrs. Mattie Weiss have pur-
chased the Star Restaurant and when looking for a
SQUARE MEAL or
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call at the Star Restaurant. It has been thoroughly
cleaned and renoviated and nicely stocked with a new
and fresh stock of everything in the restaurant line.
Everything will be kept neat,‘clean and attractive.
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If so you want the best. See the
WALNUT GLEN HERD OF DUR0C JERSEY SWINE.
Can show some of the finest In this part of the country. Climax. No. 8eal4,
hred by J. F. Stodder, Burden. Kansas, is the head of my herd. Oklahoma
Oueen, No. 117«W, and Hose Mary. No. HTxVS. bred by B. W. Harned of
Beaman. Saline county. Mo., are two or the finest dams in this part of the
country. Prospective buyers areinvited to call at the fa-tn and see them.
It don't pay to raisescrubs and in-breds of any kind. When you buy of me
you get the best, pure bred. A few registered males for sale, ready f. r u.e
this fall. Price$13, No gilts for sale until next season.
Call at the Journal office, or address me at Manchester, okla.
J. M. SIMMONS.
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