The Vinita Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Indian Terr.), Vol. 6, No. 60, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 15, 1903 Page: 3 of 6
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Prazee Hardware and
1 tornittire Company...
Coffins Caskets and Fun.
eral Directors.
MISSPELL VJKDOW SIGNS.
T. F. CKUTCHFICLD. Embalmtr
THE LIVE STOCK MARKET
OF ST. LOU18.
1 he St. Louis National
Stock 0 Yards.
Lceatad atEast St. Louis. 111.
uireouy opposite th city ol Bt. Loun. Boy-
ra for all erlptlon of Llvo stock alwaya in
tttoBtlsaon and wlthlu tbs irrouodi or the
Stock Yard. It Bent Canning Company with
eapacltr for alaoirlillrtnir R.imii huad of cuttle
aaitjr. ami rora racking eniaiiiuriinenta bare
a oatnc.it f ror'itigbtr!nr ltf.uod hoira dally.
0. O. KKOX Vice Pre.
0. T.JONES.Ge . M.'r.
L. W. &SAKE Aaa't. Oen. Mgr.
BAUUEL HUNT. Oct).: Agent (or Teaa
anil Indian Tfrrltorw. dw
Joe Davis' Barber Shop
I have just furnished my shop
with new up-to-date furni-
ture and have refitted the bath
room3 making of this shop
one of the finest in the Indian
Territory. Call and see us.
JOE DAVIS Proprietor.
South of P. O. Opp. Golden Rnle.
VINITA
GRANITOID COMPANY
All kinds of granitorial work :
Sidewalks .Steps etc. etc.
Will figure with you on work.
All work guaranteed.
H. II. MILLER Managers
Vinita I. T.
Tew Trick In Ad vert LI uu blcSk
Ken- turk Merchant Shjm
V orka A undera.
"One of the tricks of the trade during
the nest year" said the window dresser
for a big department store according
to the New York Sun "is going to tie
the misspelling of words iu window
signs. It works wonderfully. You
know at one time a great trick was to
put a picture in your window upside
down. People would come in droves
to tell you about the 'mistake' and it
gave business a boom for a time.
"But this misspelling of words beats
all the other old devices. Why? Be
cause it is human nature to love to cor
rect other folks. It's the same spirit
that animates the man woman and
child who go blocks out of their way
to show a stranger where he wants to
go.
"It pleases people to know that they
know something you don't and after
they' have corrected you they go on
their way Inwardly pleased with them
selves or else they are so brim full of
geniality that you can sell them goods
tnat they never dreamed of buying.
W e tried the new trick" two weeks
ago. I had a sign made to eo In our
white' window It read: Thanksgiven
Linens. Well that sign had hardly
been in t lie window 13 minutes before
a gray-haired man wearing spectacles
stepped in. The floorwalker at that
door caught him. He was beaming.
lie had noticed an odd error in spelling
in the window and if the floorwalker
would only step outside he would show
it to him.
The floorwalker went out. of course.
wltti the old fellow who pointed with
his cane at the carefully misspelled
sign. The floorwalker thanked him
profusely and they chatted until the
old chap got asking Questions about the
price of some of the handkerchiefs In
the window. Then the floorwalker took
him inside and turned him over to one
of the counter girls.
After that they came thick and fast.
In two hours the floorwalker sent for
me and raid he ooiiMnt stand It. He
wasn't engaged as a barker and soroe-
body'd have to be put on the Job; he w as
neglecting his business. So we got a
him to!o nothing else but attend to that
misspelled sign.
It worked well all that week and last
week too. Persons who did not want
'w hite goods' got Inside In trying to cor-
rect that Thanksgiving error and saw
something else that interested them so
it wag just the same.
'But last Friday we took the sign
down and spelled Thanksgiving in the
good old-fashioned way. Pretty soon
I expect we'll have to spring another
one. There s no reason whv we shnnhi.
n't take all honest advantage of the
frailties of the human rare."
THE SLY OPOSSUM.
ot So Hralnle.a aad Koollah aa Ita
A'liona Would Seem to
Inl irate.
A FEW NEW STATES
Mater. al in Canadian Provinces to
Lwell the Union.
W lint Would Accru. t I ulleil State.
If Canada (Hame In Immenae
Territory and Vaat
Heaoarcei
The Cobb Hotel
g Barber Shop
Is now the leading shop
in the town. Every-
thing is strictly first-
class. We are prepared
to do anything in the
tonsorial line. (live
us a call.
FINLEY and HAWKINS.
ANDREWS
&
SON
Carriage and Sign
Works 2
The only exclusive carriage and sign
shop iu Vinita.
I have hail an experience of MO
years iu some of the Irs iinjj carriage
shoos of the East and will guarantee
that ur work will compare more
than fa;" ii'ly wi'h new work from
the factory. You run no risk in
sending us your work as we know
our bt.siness thoroughly.
Shop at old l)tthn works building
on North Wilson street one door
North of Cray's mule barn.
Andrews (SL Son
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WILSON
OSTEOPATH
Office in F.ivniond huihliug
Vl filTA I. T.
Hours 9 a. ni tV 1- nt. 1 to 3 p ni.
Residence 1 1 S. t'oraper St. Hours 3 to
5 p ni
We cure Rheumatism Constipation
!rlysi. Malaria llialn'tes diseases of
ue K.;e Lungs Heart Stomach Kid-
neys fc: Diseases of women; diseases
cf the Bloii and Nerrou System Dis-
locations Etc. dw-tf
The "Katy" Girl
A beautiful picture in colors (without
advertising) on plate piper suitable
fo framing Makes an appropriate
Holiday Gilt.
Sent anywhere on receipt of 12
cents
GEORGE MORTON
0VL .. Af.l.lT. .
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St. Lt
To the casual observer the opossum
is a brainless nlow-eoinz lazv
wiili scarcely enough energy to eat bis
food says a writer in Woman's Home
Companion. Hut I fancy that there Is
a good deal more of the knave than
the fool about him and that his ap-
parent Bttipldlty is but a part of his
business policy. Helpless as he often
seems to be he usually has a snug hole
to crawl Into when he wishes to sleep
and he seldom goes hungry when there
is any food to be had. Although he la
slow he Is persevering and manages
somehow to capture many animals
which have much greater speed. Squir
rels for instance. of;en fall a prey to
him In the open woods and once when
I left an opossum for a few hours Iu
the same room with some red squir-
rels he had captured and half de
voured one before I returned. Ra:s
ml and rabbits he also captures.
probably by lying in wait for them and
insects he obtains In various ways.
Ilirds' eggs he regards with much fa
vor and he finds a great many both
on the ground and in the trees during
the nesting-season. Young birds too
are hunted for and devoured and occa
sionally the old birds themselves fall
to escape him.
Bm he is not dependent on animal
food for all Is grist which comes to hi
mill. lis Is fond of nearly all the wi'd
fruits and berries he finds in .he
woods and fields and will evra come
Into the orchards and v';eyards to
sample tin- cultivated rarieties
t'tinrtatr from Aula.
The following information from Gid-
ion's history of Indian territory con-
cerning the Chickasaw" Is of interest:
"Prior to their immigration to the
country east of the Mississippi both be-
longed to the Muskogee nation of In-
dians. One being for separation took
the name of 'Choctaw.' the other being
for rebellion chose the- nnme of 'Chick-
asaw.' Thus much for the names
taken principally we suppose from
their respective chiefs Chotah and
Cliichsah. The traditions of the Choc-
taws and Chiekasaws all point toward
the time that their ancestors all came
from a country beyond the 'Big Wafers.'
far to the northwest; and the Muskogee.
Shawnee and Cherokee tribes have the
same traditions that point beyond
Bchring straits to Asia as the land from
which their forefathers came In past
ages. They owned this vast continent
and possessed It fur aces. So much fnr
their origin. After the treaty of Danc
ing Rabbit creek the Choctaws and i
Chickasaws came to this conntrv from
Mississippi l from l'pi to is)."). Most
of them settled at Doaksville and Boggy
Depot. ha r fas City .Journal.
Mr III nil the cenea.
The iMar.agcr Who is that man over
there in the wings?
The lra!n e-l.r.dy (rorcplact r.l'.T)
OH that is n;y ar.r.-i. Judc.
Le Debat a Montreal paper comes
out flatfooted for Canada's union with
the United States provided the prov-
inces of the dominion be admitted as
states. Some of them would be ad-
mitted thus on the consummation of the
union even if that event took place
to-morrow says the Chicago Tribune.
Ontario with Its 2225000 of popula-
tion its 7000 miles of railway its
abounding fields of wheat and barley
its generous orchards. Its Immense
self-replenishing forests Its natural
wealth of copper nickel Iron petrole
um gas and salt would make a state
which the entire union would hasten to
welcome. Ontario borders upon four of
the great lakes upon Georgian bay
Lake St. Clair the Detroit river the St
Iawrence river. Its natural facilities
for navigation In the heart of the North
American continent are plethoric and
the few connecting links In the arteries
of water commerce which a wearied na
ture had neglected art has supplied
These bodies of water are now the bar
riers of trade between the United States
and Ontario but were the union effected
they would soon become Instead high
roads.
East of Ontario the Ottawa river and
the St. Lawrence meet the great city of
Montreal In the province of Quebec
Montreal combines the advantages of a
seaport with an inland port for the St.
Lawrence flows from It to the open
ocean In a stream of such width and
depth as to accommodate the argosies
of the world while canals enable the
barks of the five lakes to meet deep sea
ships in the continuous harbor which
surrounds the island of Montreal. Que
bec has a population of nearly 2000000
noted as much for their industry and
thrift as for their detestation of race
suicide. Its people are farmers lum
bermen salt and fresh water fishermen
sailor? and manufacturers. Thevexhlbit
the same diversification of Industry and
enterprise as characterizes the eastern
states of this country. Quebec like On
tario will enter the union a fullfledged
state.
The three maritime provinces have
together nearly 1000000 people lum-
bernnn and fishermen hardy people of
the sort celebrated by Kipling In "Cap
tains Courageous." The Incorporation
of such men and women as they are In
or nation would do much to offset the
hundreds f thousands of the dregs of
Europe which we yearly absorb through
Castie Garden. The maritime provinces
would not be asked to wait for state-
hood though It were well Indeed
either for the three to combine in one
ate. or else for New Brunswick and
Prince Edward to unite. The latter Is
small to be a separate state.
Columbia. In the northwest Is doub.
ling Its population each decade
Though Its greatest length from north
west to southwest is 1.250 miles yet
Its wonderful seacoast has a length of
12.000 miles. Undeveloped as it is its
productions are already a considerable
proportion of the wealth of the whole
dominion its mines producing . one
sixth of Canadian metals its fisheries
one-third of the Canadian catch of fish.
Columbia would make a glorious cap-
stone to the column of Pacific states
Its name wa. Recorded It with prophetic
vision.
Manitoba has over 230000 of inhab-
itants. Its numbers are swelling In al-
most equal ratio with Columbia's and
two seats In the United States senate
are waiting for it.
The northwestern territories Of Atha-
basca Asctnllmia Cclalfhcn'an a..
Alberta are ranidlv filling with nonu- S
latlnn much of It Indeed being Amer-
ican. Whether they would be required
to serve an apprenticeship as territories
la a question which would be settled on
the same principles as were applied to
almort every state In the union except
the original thirteen. Whenever their
population warranted they would be
admitted as states.
Locally the new states would have
the same rights of self-government as
belong to the constituent parts of the
present United Staies. Nationally they
would have two senators apiece at
Washington and representatives ae-
cordirg to population. Their national
legislators would have exactly that part
In the formation of rational legislation
to which the federal system of govern
ment entitles them. In the cabinet of
the president would sit members from
the new states and whenever the wheel
of political fortune made the proper
revolution an Inhabitant of the present
dominion of Canada would be the presi-
dent of the United States.
Wri. Than Philadelphia.
"Who's the slowest roan you ever
knew?"
"A chap in New York.
He fell out of
third story flat window and did cot
reach the ground for an hour."
How was that?"
'He caught in a tree at the second
story and went in to visit some friends."
Detroit Free Press.
The One TliInK Needful.
She I am thinking seriously of en
tering the literary field.
He Well. I hope you possess the
chief requisite.
"Chief requisite:"
"Yes: postage stamps vou know."
Chicago Daily News.
Mahtlj Occurrence.
Teai hi r What is this word?
Tommy-1 don't ki.ow ma'am.
What do-? a .i ni'. man remove when
he ci.o r:- a home?"
. "Wti!. if i awake pa removes til
huts." CUcaiu: Daiiv New.
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January ist 1904 will be the first anniversary of our business in Vi-
nita and to reduce our stoqk preparatory to invoicing we wiH 0ffer our
entire line at ACTUAL COST until that date beginning
MONDAY MORNING'
DECEMBER 14 f03
No reservation from the Greatest Furniture and Carpet Sale that
Vinita has ever witnessed everything: from show window to ba-k yard
and from floor to garret will feel the axe that cuts all profit.
CHRISTMft
F0RNIT0RE
is all around our store. We have bought it
from the best manufacturers and offer it to
you for the next two weeks positively
WITHOUT A MARGIN.
MIT-.
1 has often had the advantage of cut price clothing
sales dry goods sales grocery sales etc. but
never before the opportunity of stepping into a ten thousand dollar stock
of Furniture and Carpets to buy at absolutely Wholesale Prices. This is
a rare chance and it will pay you to come early while our stock
IS COMPLETE AND
STILL UNBROKEN
Thanking you for the liberal patronage received during the past year
and wishing you a Merry Christmas and prosperous New Year we are
ll3
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Furniture P and
Carpet Company
OPPOSITE : P05T0FFICE VINITA IND. TER.
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Marrs, D. M. The Vinita Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Indian Terr.), Vol. 6, No. 60, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 15, 1903, newspaper, December 15, 1903; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc774996/m1/3/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.