The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, November 20, 1908 Page: 2 of 4
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THE MANCHESTER JOURNAL
J. M. SIMMONS, Editor nd Prop’r
Published Every Friday at Manchester.
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FRIDAY, NOV. 20, 1908
The Medford Star and the Wakita
Herald are both tryiDg to claim the
election of Hon. J. W. Smith for their
respective towns. Both towns cer
tainly ought to be congratulated for
their good work in selecting such a
capable man as we have in Hon. J. W
Smith as Representative of Grant Co.
Gdthkie elected “a oolored gentle-
man” to the next legislature. The
Patroit has nothing to say against our
member of the legislature, but we
hope he will draw a seat adjoining
him. Perhaps, though, they will give
the “coon” a box, a kind of jim Crow
attachment, all to himself. But
won’t the demmies go into fits over
the negro?—Medford Patriot.
Like Palmer, the Journal has
nothing to say regarding this Re-
publican “coon” representative, but
we like to ask our Republican friend’s
how they like to have a “coon” repre-
sent them in the legislature.
GONE TO GREENER PASTURE
“Bubby” Norton of Waldron Argus
fame bade us “good bye” in his last
issue of the Argus and tells us that he
is going to Ingersoll, Alfalfa county
Oklahama. The Journal thinks this
a wise move on the part of Mr, Norton
as we believe there is a good opening
at Ingeasoll for a wide awake news-
paper man. Here’s ssccess to youBro.
Norton.
for oil and gas development. About
$13,000,000 has been invested in the
Oklahoma field, which has been
opened but a few years. The state
geoligist in a recent report says; “At
the present time no one knows the
extent of the field or the amount of
all that may be produced, but, judg-
ing from present developments and
the stratigraphy and structure of the
rocks in the regions yet undeveloped,
and is safe in making the prediction
that the Oklahoma oil field is destined
to become the largest and most pro-
lific so far discovered on the con-
tinent.”
The question of establishing a
great irrigation product in the ex-
treme northwestern portion of Okla-
homa is again being agitated, and the
federal government will probably in-
vestigate the matter thoroughly in
the near future. It is interesting to
note the state institutions of learn-
ing have nearly 1.00,000 acres of land
in Texas and Cimarron counties,
selected there because of the belief
of the officials of the Territorial
School Land department that great
irrigation scheme was feasable there
and would sooner or later materialize,
making a large portion of this land
very valuable. With an enormous
reservoir (such as the conditions there
seem to indicate possible) established
on the upper Cimarron, land that is
now worth but a few dollars an acre
would increase in value a hundred-
fold and the schools and colleges of
the state be beneiitted accordingly.
Oklahoma has to ter actual credit in
the National irrigation fund over
$3,000,000, and it only requires the
proper effort to demonstrate to the
government that the project is feas-
able to secure the starting of work
that will be of untold benefit to the
state as a whole as well as to the
residents of that portion of the state
where the works will be constructed
and the water supplied.—Enid WaAe.
with unflnching determination
tosmite down wrong, strive with all
the strength that is giveu us for
righteousness in public and in private.
“Now therefore, I, Theodore Roose-
velt, President of the United States,
do set apart Thursday, the 26 day of
November, next as a day of general
Thanksgividg and prayer, and on that
day I recommend that the people
shall cease from their daily work,
and, in their homes or in their
churches, meet devoutly to thank the
Almighty for the many and great
blessings they have received in the
past, and to pray that they may be
given strength so to order their lives
as to deserve a continuation of these
blessings in the future. In witness
thereof, I have here-un-to set in my
hand and caused the seal of the
United States jto be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington,
this thirty-first day of October, iu the
year of our lord, one thousand nine
hundred and eight, and of the in-
dependence of the United States, and
one hundred and thirty-third.
Theodore Roosevelt.
By tiie President:
Alvey A. Adee, Acting Secretary of
State.
JIM CROW SUSTAINED.
Washington, Nov. 9.—In deciding
the case of Berea College versus the
state of Kentucky, favorably to the
state the surplus court of the U lited
States, today held that the stales of
the union may constitutionally legis-
late to prevent the co-education of
the white and black races. The case
instituted to test the validity of the
state law of 1904 prohibiting white
and black children from attending the
same schools. The higher state court
took the position that the white and
black races are naturally antagonistic
and that the enforced separation of
the children of the two is in line of
the preservation of the peace. The
opinion of the supreme court was
banded down by Justice Brawer and
affirmed the finding of both the Ken-
tucky Circuit court and the Court of
Appeals. Justices Harlan and Day
dissented.
GREAT RESOURCES OF NEW
STATE.
A comparatively few years ago
none of the cotton raised in the south-
ern states was consumed within their
borders, the entire product going to
the northern states or foreign coun-
tries to be manufactured into cotton
cloth., rope, twine, yarn, etc. With
the establishment of cotton mills
throughout the south, a gradual
change has been brought about, until
as shown by the figures of Secretary
Hester of the New Orleans Cotton
exchange, during the season just
closed 2,195,000 bales of the 1907 crop
were consumed in the south, as com-
pared with 1,163,000 or 220,00 bales
less in the north. In the increase of
home consumption of cotton Okla-
homa stands second in the list of
southern states. A very small portion
of the cotton crop of the state is,
however, consumed therein and there
should be six or eight cotton spinning
mills established within the state
during the coming year. It has the
raw product the fuel and the market
for the manufactured product. There
is certainly no where any better or
more inviting opportunity for the in
vestment of capital.
Prof. Charls N. Gould professor of
geology in the state University of
Oklahoma, who has been making a
special study of the state’s mineral
resources, says in a recent report.
"Oklahoma has a vast amount of
coal, but if the state did not have a
ton of coal, the oil and gas, if properly
utilized, would furnish sufficient fuel
to last for many generations.”
The young state is enabled to offer
attractive inducements to manufac-
turers in many lines.
The new state of Oklahoma pro-
duced 40,000,000 barels of oil last
year, the value of which, added to its
production, was greater than the
combined gold and silver production
in any American state, territory or
possession.
The last report of the Oil Produc-
ers’ association shows nearly 1,000,080
acres in the state of Oklahoma leased
ANNUAL PROCLAMATION.
By the President of the United
States of America: A proclamation
Once again the season is at hand
when according to the ancient cus
tom of our people, it becomes the
duty of the president to appoint a
day of prayer and of thanksgiving to
God
Year by year this nation grows in
strength and worldly power. DuriDg
ohe century and a quarter that lias
elapsed since our entry into the cir-
cle of independent people we have
grown and prospered in material
things to a degree never known be-
fore and not known in any other
country. The thirteen colonies which
struggled along the seacoast at the
Atlantc aud were hemmed in but a
few miles west of tidewater by the
Indian-haunted wilderness, have been
transformed into the mightiest re
public which the world has ever seen.
It‘s domains stretch across the con-
tinent from one to the other of the
two greatest oceans and it exercises
dominion alike in the Artie and tro-
pic realms. The growth in wealth
and population has surpassed even
the growth in territory. Nowhere
else in the world is the average fo
individual comfort and material well
tjeiug as high as in our fortunate
land.
For the very reason that in mater-
ial well being we have thus abounded
we owe to the Almighty to show
rqual progress in moral and spiritual
things. With a nation, as with the
individuals, who make up a nation,
material well being is an indispen-
sable foundation. But the founda-
tion avails nothing by itself. That
life is wasted, and worse than wasted
which is spent in piling, heaps on
heaps, those things wnich minister
merely to the pleasure of the body
and to the power that rests only on
wealth.
“Upon material well being as a
foundation must be raised the struc-
ture of the lofty life of the spirit, if
this nation is properly to fulfill its
great mission and to accomplish all
that we so ardently nope and desire
The things of the body are good; the
things of the intellect better: but
best of all are the things of the soul
for in the nation, as in the individual
in the long run it is character that
caunts. Let us therefore as a people
set our faces resolutely against evil,
and with broad charity, with kinness
and good will toward all men, but
PROF. WILLISTON OF CHICAGO
SPEAKS IN PRAISE OF
OKAHOMA UNIVERSITY.
Prof. L. W. Williston who for ten
years was connected wish the Univer-
sity of Kousas and for the past six
years has been Professor of Palaeon-
tology at Chicago University, the
worlds authority on certain forms of
fossils and the man who has mounted
more forms of extent reptiles than
any other man in the word, stopped
here last week on his return from a
two months collecting trip in Texas
to arrange with Professor C. N Gould
of the Oklahoma Geological Survey
for a collecting next summer.
Professor Williston addressed the
student body in chapel and gave a
lecture on the palaeontology of Okla-
homa to the geology students.
In chapel he said: Although Okla-
homa University is young it promises
to be orieof the very best institutions
in the United States. Indeed it
could not be other wise considering its
energetic citizens, its fertility of soil
and its vast resourses. Even now
you can get just as good an education
here as at Harvard, or Yale. For
some years you may have to go to
eastern institutions to do higher
work on degrees, but even now the
men who teach iu Harvard and Yale
came from the west, from Oklahoma,
Kansas andiNebraska.”
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SPECIAL
American steel wire corn cribs, 500 bu. capacity,
$4.5, Shoveling1 boards, no holes to bore to
attach them. $2.50,
Thomas and Van Brunt disc drills, while they
last, at $10 less than regular price.
Best McAlister nut coal, now $6.50 per ton
Everything in hardware and implements, at
S. B. FLING
The Hardware & Implement man
Manchester - - Oklahoma.
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GREAT MUSIC OFFER
Send us the names of three or more
performers on the Piano or Organ aud
twentyfive cents in silver or pospage
and we will mail you postpaid our lat
est Popular Music Roll containing 20
pages full Sheet Music, consisting of
popular Songs, Marches and Waltzes
arranged for the Piano or organ in-
cluding RudKnauer’s famous “Flight
of the latest popular songs, “The
Girl I've Seen.”
Popular Music Pudlisiiino Co.
Indianapolis, Ind.
DONT SHOOT.
Owing to the number of cattle and
hogs on the farm, shooting or tres-
passing on the northeast quarter of
Sec. 14, township 29, range 8, is
strictly forbidden. To permit one
would be equal to permitting all to
shoot, and that would result in the
loss of stock. So please don’t try it.
M. J .Simmons.
NOTICE
.las. Clary, city marshal, requests us
! to say that hereafter all boys found
jumping on and off moving trains in
Manchester, or loafing about the rail-
road station when they have no busi-
ness there, will be arrested under the
city ordinance which prohibits such
acts and taken before the police judge
and lined.
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STAR RESTAURANT
For a good meal or
short order
SINGLETON &
MANCHESTER,
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WEISS, Proprietors.
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ROCK ISLAND
LUMBER & COAL CO.
THE THANKSGIVING SEASON.
Unhappy indeed must be the man
who because of political disappoint-
ment, can not find something in life
for which he can express his’ thanks
daily, aud his special thanks upon the
holliday set apait for that express pur-
pose. While it is natural that disap-
pointment in politics, like disappoint-
ment iu love or business, should ere.
ate depression, yet theie is surely
something, somewhere, which will
suffice to more than equilize the bal-
ance if it is but brought out and pro-
perly enjoyed. For one thing, it you
can not rejoice because your plans
have not been bettered, you can at
least rejoice that things are no worse.
Cheerfulness is a habit that may be
and should be, cultivated by every
hnman being. It will help you to
bear reverses with a smile and face
the future with hope.--Commoner.
NEW SIFTER.
The Manchester Mill & Elevator Co.
has been at work the past three weeks
installing a new flour sifter, a new
up-to-date machine which will enable
them in the future to make flour
second to none anywhere. The mill
will be running inside of a week usiug
the new machine. You should go
and see it when completed as it is a
wonder for the average man to look
at.
YOUR CHANCE
A tine lot of pure bred Duroc-Jersy
sows, bred to Royal Improver 11 and
ready to farrow soon, for sale at very
little above market price. Make your
own selection from top of the whole
herd. At private sale only Call at
the Journal farm or at this office.
J. M. Simmons
LOCUST FENCE POSTS.
I have a large number of well seas-
oned black locust fence posts, all
sizes, which are for sale by S. B.
Fling at Manchester, the Badger
Lumber Co. at Gibbon, G. W. Cox at
Wakita, and also at my farm 10 miles
south of Manchester, at reasonable
prices.
lltf C. L. BlCKERDlCKE.
STRAYED.
I have at my farm, 3 miles south
and 3 miles west of Manchester, a red
cow with wire yoke on, rather old.
owner can have same by paying for
the keeping and this advertisement.
Frank Busch.
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Headquarters for Lumber, Lath,
Shingle, Doors and Hardware. We
also handle the Rock Island Plow
Company’s plows, Buggies and Wa-
gons. See our new hay loader, over
80,000 in actual use.
report of the condition of the
THE CITIZENS STATE BANK
at Manchester, In the State
of Oklahoma, at the ciose of business
Sept 23, 190s.
RESOURCES.
Loans anu Discounts.................{
43 845 29
Overdrafts,secured and unsecured
I 310 85
5 000 00
1 000 00
Furniture and Fixtures ...............
m oo
Other Real Estate Owned..............
588 95
Other Real Estate Owned and
charged off. S41H6 2D.
rash and due from banks
42 230 44
94 641 44
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock Paid In .................»
5000 00
surplus r U11U..111W y, -------
Individual Deposits Subject to check 72 147 57
Demand ertiOcates of Deposit 14 440 51
Total..................................« ««««
State of Oklahom. County of orant.
I jj_ w.Ueneau.cashlerof the above named
hunk, do solemnly swear that the above
statement Is true to the best of my knowl-
edge and belief, so help me God.
H. W. RENF.AU. Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2Htb
day of Sept. 1908. E. A. WATKIN
Notary
My commission expires May 9th.l90
MANCHESTER
OKLAHOMA
LEE DUNHAM, AGENT
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Directors
WOLF CHASE
There will be a big wolf chase on Sat-
urday, Nov. 21, commencing at the south-
west corner of the old Ed Harmon farm,
thence east three miles to A. Slaughter’s
northeast corner, thence north three miles,
reaching one mile into Kansas, thence west
three miles, thence south three miles to
place of beginning
Hunters will be on their lines prom ptly at
10 o’clock a. m. John Long and Will Ald-
drige will be captains for the south line,
Frank Gillespie and Will Long, capains for
east line; Ed and Clem Livengood, cap-
ains for north line, and N. B. Thomas and
J. M Simmons captains for the west line
No rifles allowed, and no shot to be
used heavier than No. 6.
Everybody invited to come and join in
the chase, There are lots of coyotes.
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