The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, March 20, 1908 Page: 2 of 4
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THE MANCHESTER JOURNAL
J. M. SIMMONS, Editor and Prop'r
Published Every Friday at Manchester.
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
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FRIDAY, MAR. 20, 1908.
ODR CHOICE FOR 1808,
For President,
W. J. BRYAN.
Our Friend Palmer of the Patriot
is opposed to the workings of the
Oklahoma legislature. The Journal
is sorry that the legislature can’t con-
duct itself in a pleasing manner to
this old duffer, but since it would be
impossible for any man or set of men
to do that, T. J. will just have to grit
his teeth and bear it. The legisla-
ture, you know, is working for the in-
terest of the people and not for the
interest of T. J. Palmer and his
capitalistic hobbies.
The State tax commissioner has
received a letter from the assessor of
Leavenworth county asking if farmers
are to be assessed upon their seed po-
tatoes. This brings up several more
Is seed wheat and seed corn taxable?
The letter was written by the county
assessor of Leavenworth county after
half a dozen farmers had called upon
him in a body and demanded to know.
They contended that if the assess-
ment could be put off for two weeks
they would have their seed potatoes
in the ground and they would not
then be assessable. The commission
has not yet taken the matter up for-
mally but it is believed, that it will
hold seed wheat, seed corn and seed
potatoes to be taxable.—Topeka
Capital.
The Oklahoma State Register, one
of the strongest Republican papers in
Oklahoma, carries a prominent line
clean across the front page of the
paper in which it says: “Not less than
a complete revolution in the Republi-
can party in Oklahoma will put it in
condition to win election victories.”
The Journal has been preaching this
doctrine to the Republicans of Grant
county for years, but they will hang
to the "old crowd,” both in the
county and the state. If the party
will send McGuire, Flynn, Cade, Sea.
Grimes, Busby, Coal Oil Ferguson and
forty others out in the country to
work the roads, as Henry Asp of
the Santa Fe had sense enough to see
that it was best for him to do, then
tiie party might bring up new men
that would have some chance of win-
ning, in a very few localities—but
they would be very few, of course.
The Anthony Bulletin has attacked
the bucket-shops in that town and
Harper. A bucket-shop is a sort of
board-of-trade where people gamble
la futures. The editor of the Jour-
nal visits the bucket-shop every time
he goes to Anthony. They have the
markets right up to the minute there,
and when a man has sevt ral car loads
of cattle and hogs feeding for the
market he is always anxious to get
the latest quotations and receipts at
the big markets—then he tries to rest
easy until the next day. The bucket-
• shops are handy in this particular,
and that’s why we visit them. Aside
from this they are perhaps a mighty
poor investment for a town or com-
munity. The Journal never bought
a dollar’s worth of wheat, corn, pork
or anything else on the board-of-trade
and never will. It’s the “other
fellow’s game,” and the Journal
never bites. These bucket-shops are
prohibited by the laws of the state of
Kansas, so the Bulletin says, hence
we see no reaeon why the Bulletin
should not have an easy task in root-
ing them out. The only thing about
it that we don’t understand is, where
la the Bulletin’s profit to come from?
The faction on the side of the bucket-
shops may get gay and red-headed and
have their paper stopped, while those
who are opposed to them will pat the
Bulletin man on the back and tell
him he’s “all right”—but that won’t
buy grease to run the machinery.
GANDERBONE’S FORECAST.
The Ides of March will come again,
When Cmsar’s blood was let;
The foes of Bryan will hide out
Behind the parapet:
And when he sees them lurking there
He’ll guess their full intent
And run just like his friends all hope
He’ll run for president.
The candidates Republican will
pass the stand again, and the portly
form of Mr. Taft will show a hand-
some gain; the whiskerlets of Mr.
Hughes will float upon the breeze, the
fleet that sailed Magellan’s Straits
will cruise the western seas; the
infant boom of Cortelyou will grimly
yield the ghost, and the fleet will run
the banquets on the other Latin
coast.
Another lot of foreign counts, and
busted sports and old, will come
across to marry some of our dead easy
gold: a count will marry a million
cool, and a discount two or three, and
gold and girl (and horse laugh loud)
they’ll all put out to sea: and while
the Goulds give Boni one—just one-
more chance, alack, we’ll all steal off
and kick ourselves quite low down ou
the back.
The country papers will get used
To Uncle Sam’s mandate.
That they may not hold readers who
Are not paid up to date;
But the Government will not assist
At squaring things, somehow,
With old subscribers made so mad
They never will pay now.
March was the first month of the
Roman year, and was named from
Mars, the god of war. Mars looked
like a twin brother to Richard P.
Hobson, and he was the regular Ro-
man delegate to the Peace Conference
at The Hague. He was supposed to
be the father of Romulus, the founder
of Rome, but he was not; he was only
the young man’s god-father. In
ancient warfare it was customary to
place a good bronze bust of Mars on
the field and then fight for it.
The comedy of life will be about
what it has been—the men will labor
day and night, and the wives of men
will spin. They’ll have a club for
every day, and never cease to go:
they’ll learn to talk of many themes
their husbands do not know: they’ll
hear a lecturer on Greece, another on
Japan, another on the Renaisance,
and several on man: they’ll hire a lot
of long-haired freaks to make them
erudite, they’ll work on papers every
morn and look up things by night:
and their husbands will get supper
cold and suffer ridicule—and the chil-
dren will grow up like wolves, while
Mama goes to school.
The money indiscreetly loaned
Will faithfully keep Lent,
And a lady teacher will sit on
The pin when it is bent;
But when the principal responds
To screams heard thro the house
She’ll not tell him what happened but
Will say she saw a mouse.
Until the 21st March will be under
the influence of the zodiacal sign
known as Pisces, the fish. Pisces will
induce his relative, Stuy vesant Fish,
to take the Illinois Central fight into
the U. S. Supreme Court, where E. II.
Harriman will be ditched with two
bum lamps, a derailed back-bone, and
a swift kick in the caboose.
After the 21st, March will be under
the influence of Aries, the sign of the
Head. Under this sign, old heads
will come to the front in the presi-
dential race, and Uncle Joe Cannon
will come out of last place and make
the President put two more burrs in
the spacious bosom of Mr. Taft’s
pants.
Persons born under Pisces drink like
a fish and vote wet. They make ex-
cellent subordinates, like Friday and
Loeb. They can say no and it is fu-
tile to expose them to any more life
insurance, for they won’t take it.
They are very cautious and always
take seats near the fire escape.
Persons born under Aries always
think before speaking, and then
never say anything. They are good
organizers and generally belong to the
Anti-Saloon League. They make
good lawyers, and generally get the
case continued until they can elect
the prosecuting attorney.
The Vernal Equinox will come
And the Irish will parade:
The booming bullfrog will resume
His music in the glade,
The mole will burrow in the lawn,
And the rash duck hunter ‘ toot
His caller while pneumoDia drills,
A leak-hole in his boot.
And then the gentle spring will
come and the poet will essay, with
swelling breast and bliss his bum and
Muse-attended lay; the rooster will
announce the dawn, th8 hen will
scratch the dirt, and every body will
put on a thinner undershirt. The
sassafras will brew again to tone the
system rank, and the washout will
upset the train and throw it down the
bank: the gander and the goose will
moult, the meadow will be wet, and
the spring-intoxicated colt will turn a
summerset. The house will be clean-
ed upagain,therobbins come in drove,
and the husband will eat bread and
cheese behind’the kitchen stove. The
young man’s heart will beat for love,
and the widow in her weeds will fiud a
man and seize him where Estella wore
the beads.
And then sweet April will return,
And John D. get in line
And pay his month’s installment on
That thirty million fine.
SEED OATS.
I have about 150 bushels of seed
oats, for sale at 05 cents per bushel.
Oats is fine, clean and heavy. Call
at farm, opposite Catholic church, 51
miles south of Manchester.
Joseph Heinz.
GOING TO MOVE
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OUR SPECIAL SALE WITH
LOW PRICES WILL CLOSE
SATURDAY NEXT WEEK
R. S. EMERY
Contractor
and
Builder,
First-Class Carpenter Work In all
its Branches.
Leave orders at the Rock Island
Lumber Yard, or call at W. Van Bus-
klrk's, 5 miles southwest of Manches
ter.
WE WILL MOVE TO OUR OLD STAND
SOUTH OF OONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
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WHEN HUNGRY.
SHORT-ORDER AND
MEALS
ALL FRUITS IN SEASON-.
Fresh Bread, Pies and Cakes.
Mrs Mae Morgan, Prop.
smith & co
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Manchester I<odge No.081. A.H.T. A., meets
Brst and third Friday night In each month
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.1. M. SIMMONS, President.
W.T. CLARK, Vice-Pres
S. B. FLING, Treasurer.
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MANCHESTER GRAIN &
FUEL CO.
GENERAL GRAIN
Milling Wheat a Speciality.
BUSINESS.
We are also in the market for ail the kafir corn
cane or corn you have to sell, at* highest market
price. Phone in office. Call us up.
MANCHESTER GRAIN & FUEL CO.,
A. E. DEERE, MANAGER.
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Headquarters for first-class Cigars,
Stationery, Perfumery, Jewelry,
Leather postals, Clocks, Drugs
and Fancy Candy.
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Cutlery received the Grand
Prize at the St. Louis World’s
Fair after a variety of ex-
haustive tests, which proved
that KWi MUR Cutlery
is the best in the world.
We have a fine stock of
Scissors, Shears, Razors,
Table Cutlery and Pocket
Knives, which we shall be
glad to show you at any time.
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MANCHESTER, OKLAHOMA
GUY CROMWELL
Buyer and Shipper of
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MANCHESTER,
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ManZan Pile Remedy
RELIEVE* WHEN OTHERS FAIL
Sold by Madden-Nully Drug Co.
BEE’S LAXATIVE COUGH SYRUP
RELIEVES COUGHS AND COLDS
8nld l>v Madden Nilly Drug Co.
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Simmons, J. Mason. The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, March 20, 1908, newspaper, March 20, 1908; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc497531/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.