The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, August 27, 1915 Page: 1 of 4
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MANCHESTER, GRANT COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1915.
Volume 23, Number 13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
ABOUT THINGS AND PEOPLE YOU KNOW.
Read the Advertisements Also.
Say! When are you going to cut the
weeds along your property and in the
alleys. They sure need cutting.
Dr. Six, the eye man, was here Mon-
day having come up on the train, as
the roads were not in shape to come
in his auto.
Ira Watkins installed a new hollow
wire lighting plant in the Star Cafe,
owned by Mrs. M, J. Hocking, the first
of the week.
Miss Clara VanRuskirk came up
from Oklahoma City, the first of the
week to visit her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Wm. VanBuskirk.
C. T. Littlepage of Anthony was
here this week putting a cement cop-
ing around the lot in the cemetery
where Mr. John York is burled.
Cal. C. George has been having a
serious time with lumbago, and some
days is crippled up so that lie can
hardly do anything in the way of
work.
Mrs. C. N. Helms was brought home
from Attica the latter part of last
week, where she accidently fell down
a stairway and was badly hurt. She
is improving slowly at this writting.
Jess McMullin’s cottage will be
ready for occupancy the latter part of
the week, when they will move in it.
Green & Miller have the contract for
painting and papering and will have
the work doue early this week.
Jas. W. Leisure, has decided to hold
a sale of surplus stock and imple-
ments Thursday, September 2ud and
move in town for the school year. He
had his bills printed at this office this
week and a copy of the bill will be
found in this issue.
Rev. C. W. Weatherby, master of
the Boy Scouts in this vicinity, and
about a dozen of the boys left on a
“hike" for Drury, Kansas, Tuesday
morning. If it don’t rain too much
they sure will have a good time.
They expect to be back the latter part
of this week.
It looks now as if the wheat in the
shock would not dry out so it could be
threshed this fall, so many have told
us they are going to stack and wait
until it does dry out. We doubt if
wheat stacked very damp or wet and
dries out by “stack-burning” will be
of any use for seed.
J. A. Jacobs liviug four miles west
of town was in Monday with some
fine Klberta peaches aud was not very
long in working up a deal whereby the
Jacobs family will read the Journal
for a year and the editor will have
some peach butter to spread on his
bread this winter.
The dryest year we have ever had
in Oklahoma produced more water-
melons than this, the wettest that
has ever been known. Of course we
have had years in which more water
fell, but never had one that the rains
were so frequent as they have been
siuce early in February.
Doctor George J. Roach has sold
his auto to Charley Eckard, who lives
south of the Catholic church. It would
have taken a better car than a Ford
to have caught Charley, the first time
we saw him driving out in it. We
don’t see how the doctor can get
along without a car, so we suppose
he will buy a new one.
With the exception of low Hat lying
fields, 191S has been the most favor-
able corn producing year we have had
siuce this country was opened for
settlement and found about the small-
est crop out, this vicinity has ever
planted. Probably next year will
prove a repeater better figure that
way aud prepare Vg fdqnt a good si /,ed
oropf
Mrs. S. B. Fling aud daughter Loie
went up to Wellington and Wichita,
last week to visit relatives for a week
or ten days.
The stork paid a visit the latter part
of last week to the home of Mr. and
Mrs. II. M. Pierce leaving a fine little
girl in their care.
Judge F. H. Boggs, of Urbana, 111.,
is reported here, having arrived Mon-
day, to look after his large land inter-
ests in this vicinity.
The third crop of alfalfa is ready to
cut and several had & part of the crop
cut, which got a good wetting Satur-
day evening and again Monday
morning.
Chas. Elliott left Monday for his
home near Bowling Green, Kentucky.
He is a cousin to the Stone Bros., and
has been firing W. C. Stone’s engine
what time they were able to thresh.
Frank W. Bailey is going to Waur-
ika, Oklahoma, about September 1st
to run an engine in a cotton gin.
Frank is said to be a good engineer
and we hope he will have an all win-
ter job.
Miss Nellie Warnock has resigned
her position in Simmons & Reneau’s
store to make preparation for school
days, Miss Hazel, daughter of Elmer
Broyles is tilling her place behind the'
couuters.
The cholera has about cleaned up
all th8 hogs on the town site, and
those who were feeding 90 cent corn to
some shotes will have to make other
arrangements for their meat thiscom-
ing winter.
A post card from Mrs. Laura E.
Blye and little daughter, Frances,
who are visiting relatives at Bridge-
ton, Michigan, says it is very cool up
there and they had a frost the 18th of
August, She says to be comfortable
they have to have fires mornings and
evenings. It is different here, all you
need is a rain coat, umbrella and a
palm-leaf fan. Possibly a pair of rub-
ber boots should be added to the
above list.
Miss Sadie Still and sister, Miss
Mary of St. Louis, Missouri, arrived
Monday on a visit to.their aunt, Mrs.
M. J. Bookings and the Watkins
family. After visiting here a few
days then they will accompany Mrs.
Kate Hickman to her home [in Bush-
ton, Kansas, and visit with her a few
days. Miss Sadie is bookkeeper for
Liggett & Meyers and is spending her
two weeks vacation on this visit.
Joe Vocasek, Pleasant Smith and
Cash Wood, were in town the first of
the week looking up the cost of a car
to ship their chattels and household
goods to New Mexico. We believe
that they intend to load a large car
and then one of them go with it to
look after stock and others will drive
the teams overland. Mr. Smith has
a brother located near where they
are going and he writes that crops are
good out there this year. They are
expecting to get off some time next
week,
J. W. Samsshipped his type that he
had stored at Cherokee, also the
cement imposing stone that he had L
C. Roach make him, to Medford the
first of the week. While waiting for
ids press to come from some point iu
northern Texas, he got out the first
issue from the Journal office. If his
other supplies arrive he will get out
the next issue in Medford. His type
is in good shape and we have heard
that his big job press was practically
as good as new. Mr. Sams is a
good mechanic, but from conditions
as the Journal sees them it will re-
quire a whole lot of hard work to es-
Wtyisli ft new paper at this time
Some of the wheat land that has
yeen plowed a week or longer is now
covered with a fine coat cf volun-
teer wheat, which if it continues
raining a few days longer will make
a solid mat. All of the volunteer
wheat either on plowed or unplow-
and is full of the new crop of hes-
sian fly. E. R. George and several
other farmers tell us that a brood
of fly has been hatching out about
every three weeks all summer.
With conditions as they are now,
it looks like a discouraging proposi-
tion to even try to get much
and reaply for wheat or to think of
sowing a great deal of that which
ras been plowed. We noticed last
Saturday while returning from Med-
ord that the land which has been
isted a few days was also a solid
mass of green wheat, this will be
easier to handle than the plowed
and should it remain wet, as the
ridges may be split open the ground
worked down and the volunteer
destroyed. But with wheat fields
in every direction covered with vol-
unteer growth it looks like it might
mean the loss of seed to sow any
wheat however late it might be
sown, as it will be an impossibility
in all the fly infested district to
get rid of them any other way ex-
cept to mow the fields and as soon
as the grass, of which there is a
very heavy crop, gets dry to burn
it.
MRS. ROBERT LANSING
LOOKS DISCOURAGING.
TENT WRECKED |g*
Sunday evening when the tent
meetings closed, which have been
running four weeks, there was not
cloud in sight and no sign of the
rain storm that struck the town
about three o'clock Monday morn-
ing, consequently every one went
lome without letting the tent down
as was the custom whenever it
ooked stormy. The high wind
which lasted but a few minutes
ylew the tent down ripping it up
considerably, turning the organ
over and scattering the song books
over the platform. Then a heavy
rain came and soaked the organ
and books, probably ruining them.
The tent while it was a large one
was getting pretty old and from
the general appearance has braved
the wrath of the elements for a
number of years.
Mrs. Lansing, wife of the new sec-
retary of state, is a handsome, digni-
fied woman of social prominence in
Washington, where she has lived
nearly all her life. She is the daugh-
ter of John W. Foster, secretary of
state under President Harrison.
Demonstrated Value Of Being:
Prepared
In the two-cent fare case great
importance was attached by the
railroads to the testimony of their
mechanical expert, Symans, whose
evidence looked strong .against the
state rate. At the conclusion o ’
his cross-examination Attorney
Bledsoe, for the Santa Fe, askec
the court to permit him to defer re-
direct examination for two days
The request was granted but in two
days the witness was in Chicago.
It is understood he will not he usee
further.
The cross-examination if success
ful in discrediting the conclusions
of this witness, won because the Cor-
poration Commission has been for
seven years accumulating informa-
tion and records which enable the
state’s attorneys to see and prove
the incorrectness of the conclusions
submitted. Other states have fail-
ed to shake the evidence of this
witness because unprepared to see
it* weakness,
.TWENTY YEARS AGO.,
HAPPENINGS OF TWENTY YEARS AGO, TAKEN
From Journal Files of Aug., 29, 1895.
PRETTY GOOD FARMING
J. E. Vardy, who lives a few
miles northeast of Manchester in
lurper county was in the office
this week, by dint of much question-
ing we learned that they had stack-
ed about 500. acres of wheat and
aad commenced the stacking the
first week in July and kept at it
till all was in the stack before the
rains that were so destructive came.
The Vardy Bros also have out over
200 acres of corn which Jim esti-
mates will make 40 bushels or bet-
ter per acre. Jim is feeding about
80 head of hogs now, using some
early corn that is now ripe. He
said the hogs were healthy,—had
all been vaccinated and that he had
never had hogs do better. He has
about 50 acres plowed for wheat,
3ut was going to sow most of his
200 acres in corn stalks, as he
would have the corn shucked out,
the ground disked and then drill
the wheat in late and thought by
this method he might escape a re-
currence of fly damage next season.
Where farming operations are car-
ried on as extensive as the above,
some things cannot be attended to
at the right time, but the Journal
considers this a pretty fair record,
at least for a year like this has
been.
J. L. Johnson of Sand Creek
brought to this office Tuesday two
stalks of cane that were nearly 13
feet tall.
The Harper normalites returned
home Sunday. Miss Etta Whit-
tington of the Journal force attend-
ed the closing exercises on Saturday.
H. P. White of near Hawley was
in town Monday and called at this
office. He says he has one and a
half acres of buckwheat which he
thinks will make fully 50 bushels
J per acre.
Much of the early corn is almost
ready to crib. The yield varies
greatly owing to variety planted,
care given it in growing and the
uality uf the land. Some fields
will only make 20 to 25 bushels per
acre, while others nearby will
yield 75 to 80 bushels.
NO FLY-PROOF WHEAT
An article appeared in the Jour-
nal a few weeks ago about soft
wheat in this county that was very
nearly free from fly and made 21
bushels per acre, while other fields
adjoining of the hard varieties were
not worth cutting. A garbled re-
print of this was sent to the Kan-
sas Agricultural College, asking i
there was a known “Fly-proof"
wheat? The answer was an em
phatic NO! The statement was
also made that about a thousanc
bushels of this wheat had been en-
gaged to farmers in the locality
and asking what was thought of
the plan sowing this “soft" wheat
late to meet with the conditions in
regard to assisting it in escaping
fly damage. The reply was, it is
not a safe proposition to sow soft
wheat late as it is more liable to
winter-kill than hard varieties. The
soft wheat must have time to make
considerable growth in the fall, anc
probably because of its earliuess
and the stiffer heavier straw was
the main reason the above mention-
ed crop was scarcely injured. We
have now presented both sides
this question as it has been told to
us. Personally the Journal knows
but little about the contentions,
but would advise our farmers
take the matter up with the Coun-
ty Agent and any others they may
wish to consult. We do know that
hard wheat will stand more cole
weather and make more from ex-
treme late sowing than wijl soft
wheat,
NEW STUYVESANT MEMORIAL
On order from the government of
Holland, the Dutch sculptor. Toon
Dupuis, has made this brt-xze bust of
Petrus Stuyvesant, who from 1646 to
1664 was director general of the New
Netherlands, afterward New York
state. It is to be presented to New
York city on the third centenary of
its founding and will be placed in St.
Mark’s Episcopal church on the
Bowery, where Stuyvesant is buried.
The bust was cast recently in Belgium
by special permission of the German
military authorities now ruling in
that country.
Peaches are very plentiful over
in the vicinity of Attica and can be
had for 15 to 25 cents per bushel
on the trees. This is a splendid
opportunity for the farmers of this
part of Oklahoma to lay in a sup-
ply of this kind of fruit.
We knew that crops were im-
mense out on Sand Creek, but did
not learn until a few days ago of
the gigantic proportions of the corn
yield. Out in that country every
stock has two big ears of corn and
a “nubbin” 15 inches long. East-
ern exchanges please copy.
Miss Lizzie C. Brennan, one of
the expert typewriters at the Enid
U. S. land office, has the thanks of
the Journal for a copy of the deci-
sion in the Manchester townsite
case. Except for her kindly act
we would have been unable to pub-
lish the decision in this issue. Many
thanks. Miss Lizzie.
The Journal would advise people
who came here and located on lands
for future homes, to hang onto
their claims even though they may
be offered five times what it would
have taken to buy them one year
ago. We have never lost confi-
dence in this country and now
while things are coming our way
we want to see those who under-
went the hardships and privations
of the last two years reap the bene-
fit of the golden harvest that is in
store for them in the future.
The issue of the Journal, from
which we are clipping this week,
was largely filled with and about
the decision of the land office grant-
ing to Manchester her rights in full
in the contest with G. M. Morrison.
The tone of the paper is very jubi-
lant as it had a right to he. This
will account for the lack of other
items of interest to our readers from
those early days. (Editor Journal)
Statutory Rules Of The Road.
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Final Round-up of Rate Case
Data.
Commissioner George Henshaw
and Attorney General Freeling are
in Chicago and Auditor J. M. Gayle
of the Corporation Commission is in
St Louis, in final conference with
the Oklahoma rate experts prepara-
tory to resumption of the trial in
the United States Court September
6th. The intermission since the
last adjournment of the hearing
has been of great value to the state.
It has given the accountants and
experts in the case a opportunity to
digest the data already accumlated
and to secure additional facts found
to be needed.
F. Kremer received a letter from
W. T. Hodson of Dugger, Arkansas,
this week, which says they had 55
hours rain in which 25 inches of water
fell. That was some rain, as the big-
gest we have had here at one time
was possibly between ttiree and four
inches. Over towards Bluff City aud
up Anthony way, some rains were re-
ported over six and seven inches.
Dou’t know what this country would
do with 25 inches at one time.
We saw T. B. Smith, of Anthony,
Wednesday as he was down between
trains. He was in a hurry so we did
not stop him. There is going to be
a mighty good openiug for a big store
here soon, and it may be tnat Mr.
gmifch will take advantage pf it
Rule 1. Vehicles in meeting each
other shall keep to the right of the
center of the road.
Rule 2. All vehicles overtaking
others shall in passing keep to the
left of the center of the road, and
shall not pull over to the right
until entirely clear of the vehicle
passed.
Rule 3. All vehicles turning to
the right into another road shall
turn the corner as near the curb as
practicable.
Rule 4. All vehicles turning to
the left into another road shall pass
beyond the center of the intersect-
ing road before turning.
Rule 5. All vehicles crossing
from one side of the street to the
other, shall do so by turning to the
left, so as to go in the same direct-
ion as the traffic on each side of the
street.
Rule 6. All motor vehicles be-
fore passing other vehicles from the
rear shall give notice of approach
by a horn or other signal before
passing; provided that said vehicle
shall be required when signaled to
turn to one side and give half the
road.
Rule 7. At intersecting roads or
streets, vehicles approaching from
the right shall have the right of
way over those approaching from
the left. United States mail, fire
apparatus, ambulances, police
patrols and vehicles of physicians
when so designated shall have right
of away in any street or road and
through any procession.
Rule S. Punishment.—Any person
violating any of these rules shall
upon conviction be fined in any
sum not less than one dollar nor
ruore tbap fifty dollars
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Wood, E. A. The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, August 27, 1915, newspaper, August 27, 1915; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc497770/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.