The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 11, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, March 18, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
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A Hardware Proposition,...
Oils atU' riardware- Bu&S,es> ,;u»s. Ammunition, Paints and
F. A. WHITE’S Low Price Store,
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[manslaughter the verdict.
James Morgan Is Found Guilty
In the District Court of the
Murder of Haver at the
Soldiers Reunion at
Jefferson in 1903.
The trial of James Morgan of Pond
Creek for the murder of a man named
Haver,on the grounds at the Soldier’s
reunion at Jefferson last summer, was
ended on Tuesday last when the jury
in the district court at Pond Creek
returned a verdict of manslaughter in
the first degree,the minimum penalty
for which is four years in the peniten-
tiary. He will be sentenced on
Saturday.
On the day of the killing Morgan,
Chas. Pfeifer and Tom Ilite drove to
Jefferson together and were drinking.
Haver was on the grounds at the re-
union with a covered wagon accom-
panied by a woman of ill repute. The
boys went to Haver and ordered him
to get out, one of them pretending to
be an officer and another owner of
the land. Haver started to hitch up
to get out but tiie boys interfered in
various ways until soon a fight took
place in which Morgan stabbed Haver
with a knife, from the effects of
! which lie died soon after.
♦ A FRESH. CLEAN
^ I liave disposed of nearly all my
^ stook ,jf groceries from top to bottom.
A _ ' 111 Pay in trade the following
▼ Prices forsald ariirles. These iiuotit-
A t ons hold Kood until.next Issue with
z »h« exception of ejfgs.
Lggs. per doz......... ,,,
X H*»?. P-r pound f :
4k Broilers .............
X Spring chieliens................
stags............... .........
X v1'1 roo2.lers........... ..........
O X”unK Tom turkeys, fat ........'if,.
X Al^r'lr turkey liens........
^ Old lorn turkeys ...............
STOCK.
<>id goods and added a complete new
An excellent flour £t sack, guaranteed.
(iZeafeaeh.Cr.WeiKUt not Wttntf'i(;
............5c
..........13c
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$1.50 to2.no
..........50c
..........25e
.........50e
50 to 75c
uuineas, each.......
Ducks, per pound.
Iiee.se
Hotter..............
Creep row hides.....
Creep horse hides...
skiink hides..
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raccoon.......
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"joie.......... ......... 50 to 7'„.
Hoys buy yourselves some steel traps
and make some money.
Fine Wines. Liquors and Cigars, i ft
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Manchester
Saloon.
Jolly Bros.,
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We Want to Meat yon—-
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ID the moat line you
will think it was a
very happy meating.
CITY
MEAT
MARKET
McMULLIN BROS.
Propr's.
C. E. McMULLIN,
Buyer & Shipper of Live Stock
north of rock island LB’R yard
Manchester, Okla.
PLAIN VIEW ITEMS.
BY AUNT LIB.
Elberta peacli trees are in bloom.
Ciab apple trees are leaving out.
Everett Folger is building a new
barn.
B. S. Goff Has a new boy at his
house.
Joseph Cotterill is building a new
barn on his farm.
Mrs. Wienke, mother of Mrs. A.
Ziegler, is down on a few week’s visit
from Ell in wood, Kansas.
The U. B. church has been papered
and is being painted. Montgomery-
M ard & Co. donated the paper used.
E. K. Paulk, wife and babe, also
Fred Wood and sister Emma have
gone on a two week’s visit to Okeene,
Oklahoma.
The Christian church west of town
has been enclosed and the roof is
being put on. It is on land high
enough to be seen a long. ways.
Lois Woodring, who lias been on a
live month’s visit to her grandfather’s
at Belle Piaine, Kansas, came home
on last Monday.
A good soaking rain would be appre-
ciated at this time very much. If
this sort of weather is going to hold
out we will plant 35 acres of kafir
corn.
H. M. House will install telephone
service between his house and that of
his father-in-law, J. j. Baker, using
the barb wire fences on the farms
laying between.
1 lie Plain \ iew school was closed
on March 10th for two weeks by the
school board, to prevent the danger of
spreading the scarlet fever. Should
there be no danger school will be
resumed on the 28th inst.
Jno. Schwarz, who has been attend-
ing school at Wichita fpr the past
year, will finishhisstudies April 15th.
He lias been offered several good
situations but at this time does not
know whether he will accept any of
them or not.
Tii is neighborhood has the champion
lazy man. He was seen driving
to town the other day. a mule in a
single buggy without a collar, the
steel hames being buckled around the
mule s neck. When asked where the
collar was he said “oh it's down home
-I couldn’t reach it without walking
around the mule, so thought I’d get
along without it.’’ Next.’
plant nothing else. After one of the
dry years we had to buy .seed and
• B. Smith, who was then in business
at Cameron, coaxed us to plant some
white corn known as the “Iowa Plug.”
It yielded better than the yellow corn
we had been planting so this variety
was planted for two or three years.
One day while passing a field where
VVes Warnock was shucking some
Kansas King” we saw it was larger
and better than ours; so five bushels
were bought for our next year’s plant-
ing, and it is the kind we still plant
and expect to until something better
is found for this vicinity and if there
ever is then another switch will be
made. The stock of “selected” seed
corn lias been exhausted and nothing
more to sell this year. We have heard
tiie Kansas King criticised on account
ot its big cob—big cobs make good
stove wood—and one big ear to a stalk
beats two nubbins a long ways and it
takes a lot of corn to cover a big cob.
This is no fault.
Some man over in Woods county
won a lot of newspaper notoriety by
saying he had discovered a“sure way of
heading off” tiie damage usually done
by tiie hot winds to the corn tassels,
which was by planting odd hills of
corn here and there over the fielc
about two weeks later than the
original planting. The fallacy of this
theory will be readily apparent to any
one who has ever watched corn grow.
1 he tassels (male blossoms) commence
to shed pollen about the time that
the silks (female blossoms) appear,
which do not stay fresli and capable of
being pollinated longer than three or
four days, and should hot winds
kill these tassels before pollination
has taken place, the ends of the silks
-one of which is attached to each
kernel—will be dried up too much to
receive any benefit from pollen pro-
duced on stalks two weeks later.
There are a whole lot of theories in
“book farming” that will not pan out
in practical farm work. Another
theory we have heard some otherwise
really bright farmers advocate was to
mix your corn—about one half of an
early variety and one half a late
variety before planting. This theory
is not in accord with practical farm-
ing for the same reason given above
as to pollination. The writer spends
but little time in experiments but
watches closely the experiments of
others and is ready at all times to
acknowledge proven truths, but takes
no stock in fallacious theories.
HOUSE AND LOT FOR SALE.
Three-room house, lot 50x150. newly-
papered and plastered, for sale cheap
for cash. If you want to buy a home
in Manchester for a small amount
this is your chance. A good invest-
ment if you want to buy to rent.
Best location in town. Call on John
B. Miller, Journal office.
Scarlet Fever Raging There
and in Other Parts of Reno
County — Theory That
the Disease Germ
Came From Reno
Is Doubtless
Correct.
Scarlet fever appears to be epi-
demic In Reno county, Kansas. The
Hutchinson News reports its presence
in five different families in various
parts of that city. At Turon, also in
Reno county, L. B. McClurg, a man
about 40 years of age, died with the
disease and two other members of
his family are sick.
It would appear from this that the
man from Reno county who stopped
over night at Mr. Wilkinson’s home
in Manchester two weeks ago last
Wednesday night is doubtless the
one who brought the disease germ to
this place.
There are cases of scarlet fever in
the vicinity of Byron, Woods county,
and the Journal would urge the
public everywhere to enforce rigid
quarantine as has been done in Man-
chester and stamp it out.
One trouble in stamping out infec-
tious diseases in many of the smaller
towns is a disposition on the part of
some people to suppress facts in the
fear of losing trade for the town. We
want people generally to understand
that this disposition does not now
and never did prevail at Manchester.
It could not prevail if it would, for
the Journal never did and never
will suppress facts which might in
any way endanger the life of man
woman or child, or spread contagion *
among them
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f bu* •"ffhing, tay to through the +
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J where you reside, lor It a man 1
J. toototh not his own horn the +
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Volume II, Number'41.
SCARIJETTEmT
Two Deaths in One Family
Here But There Are No
New Cases and Danger
Period Is Passed if
Proper Work Is
Continued for
Short Time.
The danger period from scarlet
fever lias come and gone at Manches-
ter, and while it is sad, indeed, to
know that the Death Messenger
plucked two bright jewels from the
happy home of Mr. and Mrs. Wilkin-
son, there is yet consolation in the
thought that one child (Nina) has
been spared to them and that the
deadly disease did not spread beyond
the confines of this one home.
Nina Wilkinson, 7 years of age, is
slowly meading her way to recovery
from tiie terrible malady which car-
ried away her younger and older
listers, and at this time the only nec-
essary precaution for the safety of our
people is for this one family to be
cared lor and guarded in proper man-
ner until the least possibility of
infection lias passed away. It may
seem hard to isolate these good peo-
ple from the society of others for so
long, but they full}’ realize tiie need
of it all and will bear the burden with
a kindly spirit and friendliness for
one and all.
Prof. Clark informs us that tiie
public schools at Manchester will be
resumed next Monday. Tiie general
opinion of physicians and the public
here is that tiie danger period is
passed, and the Journal is pleased
to say that it shares in that belief.
DR a. C. E R D M A N
WAKITA-S RESIDENT DENTIST.
PUBLIC SALE.
I will sell at public sale on Tuesday
March 22, at my farm 8 miles due
west of Manchester and one-half mile
southeast of Waldron, 10 head of work
horses, brood mares and colts, 41 head
of cattle, one good Polled-Durham
bull, one brood sow and II shoats,
farm implements, wagons, buggy'
harness, etc., etc. Terms, six months
without interest if paid when due.
Eight per cent discount for cash.
Free lunch at noon. Tuttle & Slaugh-
ter. auctioneers. H. W. Reneau.
cerk> J- H. Werner.
Crowns and
Bridges like
Natural teeth.
Does Dental Work of
all kinds and Guaran-
tees Satisfaction.
Makes Teeth
Without
Plates.
OPPOSITE
POSTOFFICE,
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Citizens state Bank
OF MANCHESTER OK A.
PAID UP CAPITAL STOCK, $5,000.
DOES A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS.
MONEY^O^OAN
farms at reasonable rate of interest, r
“THE OLD
RELIABLE."
Hardware, Tinware, Stoves,
Musical Instruments.
Oklahoma j
The wind storm of March 9th
moved Mike Old's house about two
inches on its foundation. The corn
crib on Geo. Schutz’s place was blown
around. X. B. Thomas’ granary with
over 200 bushels of grain was capsized.
L. W. Clark s granary was turned
completely over and stands on its
roof. Christian Jensen's barn was
torn to pieces. Taking the direction
from southwest to northeast where
the line of damage shows most, it was
probably a “young twister.”
Good sound white milling corn is
now worth fifty cents per bushel.
That is the kind to raise. White
corn will stand more punishment and
make more bushels to the acre than
any of the colored varieties. Before
coming to Grant county we raised
nothing but yellow corn and would
A NEW POSTMASTER.
Manchester is soon to have a new
postmaster, and as predicted by the
Journal at the start. Geo. W. Mor-
ris will be the man. His appointment
was made at Washington by the
I ourth Assistant Postmaster Gener-
al on Friday last and he will soon be
in charge of the office and “us” Demo-
crats who liave been in charge as
bondsmen of the deceased P. M. will
have to step down and out.
Tiie opinion of the Journal is that
George was not only entitled to the
office from a party standpoint, but
,,, n,ake a k°°d postmaster. He
will want a good bond and if there
should prove to be a scarcity of quali-
fied Republicans at hand when the
tune comes to fix it up, we know of
some very good Democrats who will
not hesitate a moment on helping
him out. The “lion and the lamb”
can lie down together in peace and
harmony at Manchester. That's the
spirit that made this town and it is
that same spirit that will keep it
moving on and on.
—Since it has reached a point w here
a —11°w doesn't know- whom to trust
any more, we would suggest to J
Journal readers that it might be'
safest for them to not pay their sub-1
script ion more than five years
advance at any one time.
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Simmons, J. Mason. The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 11, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, March 18, 1904, newspaper, March 18, 1904; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc497655/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.