The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 29, 1911 Page: 1 of 4
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MANCHESTER, GRANT COINTV, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, MEMBER 29, 1912.
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ASK YOUR FRIEND
Where he gets his clothes.
If he says they came from
my shop that customer and
his clothes are all the ad-
vertising I need. Be one
• of the “always pleased.”
Let me make the next
snit.
J. W. MALLORY
Agency for ROYAL TAILOR Clothes.
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E A. Watkins, President.
L. Feely, Vice President.
n, W. Reneau, Cashier.
J. W. Mallory, Ass’t Cash.
ANDREW CARNEGIE SAYS
It is not Capital that men require, it is
the man who has proved that he has the
business habits which create Capital.”
The greatest proof of business habits
is the HABIT SAVING. When you start
an account with us you simply press the
Big Button ef Prosperity.
Why not call and talk it over with
us now.
6HIZ6DS State Bank
OP MANCHESTER, OKLA.
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-Warrant books, embracing the
i w form required by law, are for
s a at this office. Will be pleased to
I ve school district officials get their
6' ppltea here. 14-tf
—R. B. Metcalf, of Hutchinson,
' nted Manchester friends between
i tins last Saturday.
—Don’t forget to deposit that load
t wheat In the mill for your winter’s
supply of flour. 6-tf. Adv
—SNAP judgment Is all right some-
times, but not when It comes to buy-
ing shoes. It Is then that you want
to use your best judgment and buy
only the shoes that will give you real
service. That Is what you get when
you buy the Star brand from Simmons
& Warnock, tf
-‘‘The servant In the House"
next Friday, December 6th, Grand
Opera House, Anthony. Adv.
Get Ready
When the new parcels post be-
gins business January 1 it is likely
to go lamely at first. The express
companies already are predicting
the service will prove inadequate
To get the equipment and all nec-
essary details in readiness to put
the system in operation by January
1 on the meager appropriation
made by congress is about as great
a problem as it was to get the bill
through congress. The new post is
likely to need our forbearance as
well as our support during its in-
fancy.
Congress made no provision for
the handling of the parcels, or to
care for the parcels in transit. Ex-
tra railway cars will have to be
provided for the business, wagons,
horses, etc.
A new issue of parcel post stamps
will half to be printed, ' ranging in
denomination from 1 cent to $1.
A classification will have to be
made of all articles that can be sent
by parcel post and the mode of
packing must be designated.
In towns and cities, hampers and
boxes for collecting the parcels
must be provided and it is prob-
able that depots for the reception
of that class of mail will have to be
opened in the business sections.
A complete system of maps,
showing the distance zones within
which the different rates apply,
must be supplied to the different
postmaster. Upwards of300.000 of
those maps must be made and two
copies will be in every postoffice in
the country.
Stamps will be carried by the
mail carriers to affix to the parcels
to be transported. They will also
be provided with a map and a pair
of scales, and will collect the right
amount of postage upon receiving
the package. The stamps will be
canceled at the next postoffice
visited.
One of the biggest features of the
new parcels post system is the C.
0. D. provision. Next to it is the
insurance feature. These two fea-
tures provide absolute protection
to the shipper in using the parcels
post. The postmaster general ex-
pects to see country merchants ad-
vertising free delivery in their local
papers just as city merchants do,
only the country merchant will use
the parcel, post for his delivery-
wagon.
Rural mail carriers in particular
are getting ready to meet the de-
mands that the new post will make
on them after January 1 next and
one motor car factory has designed
and is building a special mail car
for rural delivery. The factory
calls it r\ "postoffice on wheels" and
it is appropriately named. The
body is of galvanized steel and con-
tains cabinets, pigeonholes, and
special receptacles for the different
classes of mail. All the cabinets
areeasily removed and may be
taken into the postoffice to be
filled. When locked the car is bur-
glar proof and the mail is absolu
tly protected from the weather.
The car is self-heating, the heat
passing from the exhaust of the
engine into a specially provided
steel drum. It is apparent we
must soon have better roads for
mail routs.
—A number of Manchester young
people, whose callings keep them
pretty much la doors, and who fell
the need of outdoor diversion, walked
to Gibbon Sunday afternoon, They
were M. F. Morgen, Misses Willie
Merrlman and Mary Roach, Mrs. Bess
McMullln, Charley Cordray, Gus Tur-
ner, Clark Botkin, Clyde Reneau,
Mason Savely and Fred Smith. We
understand some of them had no de
sire to make the return trip by foot,
so they all came back on the evening
train.
—Mr. and Mrs. W, A. Rally visited
Gibbon friends Sunday.
Nothin; Doing.
A rumor baa gained circulation
this week that the Journal has
changed hands. The rumor is un-
founded. True, there was a deal
started last week, which, had it
been carried through, would have
resulted in this paper passing into
the hands of Mr. Tom Hickman.
But the deal didn’t go through—it
couldn’t.
From Mr. Hickman’s way of
talking trade, I infer that he has
been led to believe that it was only
necessary for him to offer me
enough money to get out of Man-
chester, and he wou'd have a news-
paper. He wyuld not deny that
the price I named was reasonable,
but merely said that it was more
than he had expected to pay. 1
didn’t ask him how much he would
pay—I merely named my price,
and told him that not one dollar
less would buy it. That price was
$3,500, and anyone who wants the
Journal at that can have it. That
is not saying that we are particul-
arly desirous of selling, but this
paper, like any other property I
have ever owned or ever expect to
own, is for sale when I can find a
buyer who thinks it worth my
price.
I will perhaps never know just
how near I came to making a trade,
but it is my opinion that there was
nqt more than $3,500 between us
on this particular deal.
After The Trouble.
Oh, now the vanquished states-
man kicks and murmurs while the
victor sings; but let’s forget state
politics, and try to think of helpful
things. If any man rears up and
tries to thrash the threadbare
issues o’er, let,s biff him once be-
twixt the eyes and take him home
upon a door, The land the dippy
eagle guards without our efforts
can make good; let's take the tin
cans from the yards, and bank the
house, and whack up wood. Let’s
see the kids have decent rags when
to the school house they parade;
our old palladiums and flags and
bulwarks do not need our aid.
Let’s fill our homes with true de-
light and see the wives and child-
ren laugh, while Freedom on her
mountain height is sitting for a
photograph. Let’s help the wife
Weo daily slaves among her tubs
and pots and pans, the while the
shaugled banner waves above a
crowd of also rans. Let’s quit this
thing of talking big of Vital Themes
and Peepul’s woes, and give some
bedding to the pig, and put away
the garden hose. Oh, let us for a
while be sane and fix the porch
and mend the pump, and let the
musty old campaign lie dead and
rotting at the dump.—Walt Mas-
ons.
—A change In the balance of power
from one party to another In the pop-
ular branch of Congreas falls to cause
the money market a single quiver.
That is due to two reasons at least,
one of which is that our national
government is so firmly rooted in the
oonvlctlons of the people that no
change of legislative or administra-
tive power can effect. The other
reason Is that the Democratic party
Is equally as patriotic, and at heart
has the good of the the country and
seeking In various ways to advance
Its Interest. To be sure in the heat
of a political campaign each party
p red lota untold calamities In event of
the other party winning, but that
Is for election purposes mainly:
Nevertheless, we hope for a successful
administration aDd the Democrats
are in a position to make their word
good.—Amortta Herald.
—The next attraction at the Grand
Opera House, Anthony, will be “The
Servant in the House”. Friday, Dec-
ember 6th; seats on sale December
2nd. Adv.
Alfalfa For Horses. j Burchfiel Items.
A good many farmers feed their ( Everybody is busy hunting, but
horses alfalfa month after month, do not find anything,
believing that iti. . good roughege, | MiM ReQ1 McC.uI ,oJ p
but never tek.ng the trouble to Moor, spent Su„d.y with Jim
Gillispie’s family near Freeport.
Rote Reneau, Brown Lee and
Teed Moore returned from northern
part of Kansas, Saturday where
they have been shueking corn.
Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Hoopee ard
family and Mr. and Mrs. John
Price visited with Frank Doty’s
Sunday.
Rote Reneau visited with
Walker Moore Sunday.
Rena, Roy, and Stewart McC ■ -
ley were absent from school Mon-
day.
C. T. Reneau spsnt Sund /
with Mearl Bettis.
Miss Isna Burchfiel, from Barton-
rite, Texas is visitingh rr grandma,
Mrs. Sarah Burchfiel.
Misses Dena and Alice Crofts
visited sear Furgerson Sunday.
George Deere became very much
excited the other day and ever
rince, he has been saying, “Of all
•ad words of tongue or paa the
•addeet are those, It might have
been:’’—
Miss Alice Stag* and Lloyd Ren-
•au spent Sunday evening with
Maggie and Maude Rife.
Miss Bessie Loskot visited Lena
Reneau Saturday night and Sun-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Charley Seth visi-
ttep with his sister, Mrs. J. N. Den-
tioh.
Misses Maggie Rift and Ret ie
Lee visited echosl Monday-evening
Miss Mary Rife visited wi h
Misses Re* and Higdon Wednesday
night.
A large part of Burchfitd neigh-
borhood attended the Farmers
Institute held at Anthony Thurs-
day.
Miss Ollie Priee visited with
Luts Frazisr Sunday afternoon.
but never taking the
find out just how valuable it is as a
feed for horses.
W. H. Brasher who lives just
eaat of town, has been observing
the effects of alfalfa on horses, and
last Saturday he was in the Journal
office acd gave us some figures
which show that the favorite bay
is really a fat producer for horse*.
On October 17th Mr. Brashsr
weighed four of his work hones,
and they weighed respectively,
1,415, 1,430,1440 and 1,495 pounds.
He turned the horses to pasture,
and fed them nothing but good
alfalfa hay. On November 23rd
he again weighed them, and dis-
covered that while some had made
greater gains in flesh than others,
still every one of them showed a
substantial gain. Their weight on
the later date was 1,430, 1,450.
1,450 arid 1,530. This goes to show
that alfalfa is not only good as a
strength producer, but that it
actually puts flesh on the horses.
"Ambush Becker.”
A strong feature of the recent
campaign in Grant [county, and
one that no doubt aided very
materially in building up sentiment
against some of the Democratic
candidates, particularly our can-
didates for commissioner and as-
sessor, was a series of letters pub-
lished in the Medford Patriot and
Wakita Herald that were so
worded, directed and headed as to
convey the impression that they
were written by farmer taxpayers,
one living in the southeast part of
the county and one in Valley
township. The News suspected
these letters were crooked, and
tried to learn who wrote them.
We asked the Patriot man, Crox-
ton, late of Guthrie, who wrote
them, but he refused to tell. Since
the election it has come out that
they were written by Becker, of
Medford. Now think again, reader,
before you say it was a eute trick.
It was a dastardly, mean, low
down trick. It was a deliberate,
and we are sorry to say a succesful
plan to deceive the voters.
Becker knew the fabrications he
was getting up would not be given
credit if it was known who wrote
them. So he poses as a farmer,
and tells of imaginary conditions
in certain localities, conditions that
did not exist. Many voters were
no doubt deceived.—Grant County
News.
Special Meetin;.
All farmer raaidenta of Illlnoia,In-
diana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennes-
see in Grant county are requested
to meet at the District Court room,
Saturday, December 14th between
the hours of three and four for the
purpose of perfecting an organisa-
tion that has for its object the
securing of an excursion rate to
some eastern point for the above
named states and if possible to
takt a special train from Grant
county next fall.
Committees for:
Illionis, D. H. Cattenberg.
Indiana, A. J. Stover.
Ohio, T. H. Longman
Kentucky, }. M. Chism.
Tennessee, J. B. Drennan.
—A Frenchmen has an Invention
which be deelam makes damege by
ball storms Impossible la areas pro-
tected by hla Invention. A thorough
test urder Parisian aolentlsts bis pro-
ved it effective. The Invention Is an
eleotrical barrier pot up somewhat \
after the fashion of lightning rods
In the valley of the Vienne river, \
these stations have been put up every
6 miles and for two years this valley !
has been proteoted from dastructl
hailstorms while outlying
i have suffered the usual Isms.
Report.
From Rosedale school, for the
month beginning October 28th and
ehding November 22nd.
Number enrolled, 41.
Average attend enee, 39.
Those who have not been absent
or tardy are: Betty Bennett, Fay
Jbnes, Florence Jones, Avery Wat-
kins, LeeRov Watkins, Glen Wat-
kins, Ravone Watkins, Carol
Garndstaff, Maggie Buts, Mary
Penrod.
Those who have not been absent
are: Agnes Harmon, Clarence
Rartnon, Frank Bennett, Clarenca
Soott, Zara Scott, Paul Elmore,
and Ruby Riggs.
Com Audunder,
Teasher.
—Say, you peopls; for that const 1 pa
tlon and kidney trouble, I have im
ohly cure. If you do not want youi
children to wear glasses, bring them
td me. There Is a eauss for everj
disease. Ton oan’t get oavad anj
plaeaslss. "A stitch in time mves
nine.” Dr. Garden ter.
Yorcmpay ypur I9f2t«*ai
ray qffice. y W. Sum.
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at Citizens State Bank, wtll re-
ceive all watch and jewelry re-
pairing left with him, and give
prompt and careful attention.
All work returned to him fur
collection charges. AU work
guaranteed,
F. E. P1RTLE & Cl.,
Jewels!* and Mosle Dealers,
ANTHONY, KAtftttf
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Thomas, L. K. The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 29, 1911, newspaper, November 29, 1911; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc497349/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.