O. K lis tor leal Society
DAILY DEMOCRAT
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VOLUME VII. NO. 260.
ANADARKO OKLAHOMA FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27 1908.
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THANKED GOD
FOR PROGRESS
Unique Sermon Given
By Rev. Mr. Brooks
Thursday.
GLAD HEls A MAN
Declared Himself to Be An Opti-
mist Seeing Some Good In
All Things
Ono of the most unique and inter-
esting Thanksgiving sormons' ever de-
livered in Anadarko was that of Rev.
J. P. Brooks pastor of the Baptist
church at the union services held in
the Methodist church Thursday morn-
ing. The day with its clear skies
and bracing air was an ideal one for
Thanksgiving and the church was fill-
ed to its capacity at the hour announc-
ed for worship. The program was
carried out as published with special
music appropriate to the occasion.
Rev. Brooks began his discourse by
saying that he was thankful that he
was a man. Not  thankful as the
Jews of olden days when three times
a day they turned thoir faces toward
Jerusalem and thanked God that they
were not women but he was thank-
ful that he wag a man. That while
he had passed his fifty-ninth milestone
in lifo's toilsome journey he could
look back ovor the yean nnd have no
lecollection that he had ever at-
tempted to take an unfair advantage
of his fellowman. For this he con-
sidered himself a man and for being
such a man he thanked God.
Ho was thankful that ho lived in the
great new state of Oklahoma the
only state in the Union that had been
born strictly sober. If any people on
the faco of the earth had cause for
thanksgiving it certainly was Oklaho-
mans. Living in a great new and
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less opportunities a state vh6re to
tickle the soil meant an abundance
for him who would toil with honest
labor a state that was destined to
take its nlace at tho head of the
Union in all that meant for the weal
of tho people was a thing to be truly
thankful for.
Ho thanked God that he lived in an
nge of progress. He was an optimist
and did not see evil in everything.
He thanked God for the railroads the
great steamship lines and the great
industries that were giving employ-
ment to their thousands upon thou-
sands of laborers and he was glad for
all these. The progress of the age
was a wonder to him. The inventions
of man annihilating distance and
giving tho world all forms of rapid
transportation and communication
were things to be thankful for and in
illustration he recited the instance of
the man far from home calling up
his wife over the telephone. "Well
Mary how is everything at home?"
said he.
"All right John. I'm reading
'Ben Hur' and the' baby is raising
Cain as usual."
"Put him up to tho 'phono nnd lot
me hear him."
' Tho baby was put up to the 'phone
and the father heard IiIb offspring
yell ai'd bawl thon turning to a by-
stander he remarked: "It beats II--11
a follow can't get far enough away
from home not to hoar his own child-
ren squall."
The speaker recalled the fact that
ho had talked over the first telephone
installed in Louisville Ky. and had
ridden in tho first trolley car in that
city. "This is an age of wonderful
progress" he continued. "I am
nothing but a poor Baptist preacher
and remember when I have ridden
over the mountains of Kentucky in
the coldest' of weather and the wont
of rain and slush preaching at some
distant point and riding twenty miles to
my home on the back of an old mule
or walking and teaching home tired
out with the mud frozen knee high on
I my trousers and I then thanked God
J that I was abl to do this. But to-
 day how different ! I remember once
I walking along the highway whon
behind me I heard tho choo-choo of fi
auto. I stepped aside and as t1-
machine came up to me I hailed tho
driver. 'Mister let me ride.' 'Who
are you?' said ho. 'I am nothing
but a poor Baptist poacher and I have
ridden all over this country as Christ
rode over the hills of Palestine
preaching the gospel in my poor way
and I want to ride in one of these
new fangled cars.
" 'Get in said tho man and I got
in and called to him to 'turn 'er
loose." He turned her loose and
when we reached a stretch of road a
little better I again cried 'Turn 'er
loose' and he turned her loose a
little more. Aeain. I cried 'turn 'er
loose and he turned her loose until
we were fairly flying over the ground
f. . . .
and snatching my hat from my head
I waved it in the air and yelled to
the top of my voice in my exultation
thanking God for tho age of prog-
ress. "And there is ono thing" said the
speaker that I could notar under-
stand and that is that while we
poor Baptist preachers always had to
walk you Methodist ministers"
turning to those on the platform
"always had your horses and car
riages and when 1 think of it
thank God that wo have always
been able to walk while you have
been able to ride."
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In finding thnt tenant-
boarder buyer job"
then wnnt advertising
is imuortaut; for it In
fluences tho "when" of.
things oftener thnn
nny other force.
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HISTORY CLUB
MAY ASK FOR BIDS
with contractors or th' manufacturers
themselves. He claimed that his
company afforded the city the best
kind of competition in these matters.
As to the construction of the dam
he stated thst he believed that it
could be constructed within the limit
of the estimate of 120000. He was
certain that it could provided that
after the earth at the bottom of
tho river was uncovered no faulty
foundations should be discovered. In
-egard to this matter he explained
that everything had been done that
could be done nt this time to deter-
mine thlH matter but that it was a
physical impossibility to definitely
Engineering Company Agrees to determine this until after the coffer
 . . t . - . . dams had been built and the wnter
Waive It s Present Contract mmi.t out. nmi tho wtn n( ti
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BAD FUMBLE
LOSES GAME
wwu
High School Boys De-
feat the Riverside
Indians
With the City
every place
of tho dam
CORN WHISKEY
Moonshine Found in Abandoned
House Near Hobart
IS
Hobart. Okla. Nov. 25 What
believodto be a wolljorgnnized moon-
shlnerVcamp has been unearthed by
Sheriff Parham a few
Entertained Thursday Evening At
Home of E. D. Williams. .
One of the most elegant events of
the season was the C o'clock dinner
given Thanksgiving evening at sthe
beautiful home of E. D. Willinms by
tho History Club. The dining room
and tablos were tastefully decorated
with club colors and flags fruits and
other autumn offerings. By tho tjmo
the puzzling questions on tho nftnu
woro solvou all were facing tho boun-
tiful feast that was spread bajpre
1 1 them for which David liBh offorsfll a
very appropriate thanks after which
all did ample justice to the abundance
ofeatabes. -
In the absence of Toastmaster
Gibbs the president Miss Aroa lire-
sided every one listening attentively
to the following toasts: "Individual-
ity of our Nations" by H. M. Tilton.
"History Club" by Tliss Munfell
Conundrums by David Gith "Ameri-
can Birds" by Miss Aroa "Tur-
key" by Miss Daniels "Another
man's wife" by Theo. Oolke Im-
promptu speeches by Mr. Peeters and
Mr. Harry Miller A Reading "Sot-
Last fall J. T. Burgess oloped to
Oklahoma from Georgia with his
daughter-in-law. He rented a farm
of Henry Dick and played the role of
a farmer for several months. Dur-
ing his residonce there Burgess made
brags of his tact andjgenius as a whis-
key maker. The neighbors paid little
attention to him until Burgess and his
young wife skipped out last Saturday.
In searching for a stove leg in the
cellar of the abandoned house Dick
found six pint bottles of corn whiskey
in n pile of straw. This with other
bits of evidence which the officers
have collected lead to the belief that
Burgewas a genuine "moonshiner."
If found he will be arrested on that
charge.
While it is definitely settled that
when the city council meotB one weok
from next Monday night an election
will bo ordered for tho purpose of
voting bonds for tho proposed exten-
sion and improvement of) tho electric
light and wnter works plants the
construction of a city building and
fire headquarters and equipment of tho
latter and the construction of a dam
across tho Washita rivor for tho pur-
pose of giving the city cheap power
facilities it is not definitely deter-
mined in what form tho peoplo of the
city will bo asked to voto on the
propositions.
Mr. O'Noil of the O'Neil Engi-
neering Co. of Dallas Tex. met
with the council Wodndosdny after-
noon ami the matter of the proposed
work and the existing contract be-
tween the city nnd the engineering
company was thoroughly gone over.
Mr. O'Neil explained to the council nt
some length the nature of the con-
tract with tho city and endeavoed
to impress on the mombcrs of the
council tho advantages offored to the
city. He stated and showed by fig-
ures from other cities where the O'-
Neil company has operated that iii
the buying of materials and machin-
ery tho city could secure better prices
through the contract with his com-
pany than bj dealing independently
river could be seen in
where the foundations
would rost.
Ho stated that the city could not
afford to undertake a work o this
nature and magnitude without provid
ing for nny contingency that might
arise. While ho fully believed that
tho dnm would not cost over the esti-
mate of 20000 nevertheless it would
bo bad business policy to undortako
it without providing the means to sue-
ossfully carry it out regardless of
what emergency might arise. He
insisted that tho city should provido
he moans whereby additional funds
might be raised in case the emergency
aroso making their use nocceseary.
Beforo the council adjourned Mr.
O'Neil agreed to waive his existing
contract and accent tho supervision
and engineering of tho work on n per-
centage contract permitting the city
to ndvertise for bids on tho const ruc-
tion letting the contract to the lowest
bidder provided a responsible bidder
should be found who would undertake
the work nt a lower estimate than
thnt given by his compnny.
BROWN WAS STAR
Kicked Goal in First Half When
Fowler Made a Frctty
Touchdown
TULSA-The nowost oil field to bo
openwl up in Oklahoma is the McDon-
ald pool midway between Claremoro
and Collinsvillo and some twenty-five
miles northeast of this city. The pool
came in with p. 200 barrel well and
gives every evidence of being a liberal
producer.
The Thanksgiving day gamo of
football between tho Anadarko High
School and tho Rivorsido Indians wa3
hard fought throughout. The .High
school boys had tho Indians outclass-
ed tho ball being in Riverside's ter-
ritory during tho greater part of tho
gomo. For tho first twenty minutes
of piny it looked liko a no-score game
but during tho Inst fivo minuies of
play tho Rivorside fullback fumbled a
high school punt Fowlor loft end
broke through the Indians interference
nnd captured the ball making -the
first touchdown Brown kicking goal.
In the second hnlf the snme tilav
was made byFowler assisted by Orme
another touch down was made. On
goal kick tho ball failod to pass be-
tween the uprights and only fivo points
were counted. The ball was again
put in play center Anndnko soon get-
ting the 'mil and with successive line
drives ant. center rushes made good
gains on tho Indians and succeeded in
gotting tho ball within one yard of
Riversido's goal Brown making tho
goal on an ond run. Tho goal kick
failod and time was crdlod score 1G
to 0.
Brown full-back for the high school
did some pretty rushing nnd runs
around tho ends and his work showed
that some more weight he would put
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mil or southeast
Mr V--.ftingwcsiit'niVb;.Mr..JJntKlinan.
In the Miss contest Miss Roena
Monsell was successful in answering
eight of the ten questions and was
awarded the prize a turkey. At a
late h our all departed voting Miss
Ethel a delightful hostess.
Stecker Items
H. B. Meyer cotton and grain buy-
er shipped another load of cotton nnd
one of Ucorn this week. W. H. Hi-
ler is improving as well as can be ex-
pected from the severe burns he re-
ceived two weeks ago.
F. W. Cox made a business trip to
Anadarko Thursdny.
Yeargin A. Sunders of Virginia
purchased proporty at Stecker this
weok. Mr. Sanders mny come to
Stecker to go into business of some
kind Inter on.
Tho Highland Gin Co. shipped a car
load of cotton seed this week.
Corn is still coming in at a goodly
rate. Stecker grain men are paying
43 and 50 cents.
NEW COUNTY
IS PROPOSED
Governor Haskell Calls an Elec-
tion to Take Township
 From Kiowa
Rich
Cut Glass
"We have just recdved
a nice assortment of Rich
Out Glass nil new designs
giving beautiful effects.
See our -windows for the
latest and best at the
least money.
f.F. MITCHELL Jeioelry Co.
AnacarKo
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The Missouri Lumber Company un-
loaded a car of lumber Wedesday and
have three more cars en route R. E.
Larton who is very familiar with the
lumber business having run lumber
yards in different places in tho south-
west Apache included is to be tho
manager. Alrendy they have con-
tracted lumber for tho Stecker State
bank building nnd J. M. Leazenby
and are figuring with more for store
buildings also residences and in a
short time Stecker will be booming.
Marriage Licenses
M. II Louis Emporia Kan.
Ethel Jones Minco
R. E. Peveler Gotebo.
Pearl Spears Gotebo.
TULSA Township trustees of Tul-
sa county met in this city to consider
certain features of the state law cov-
roing tho ndinismtration of township
affairs with a view of mittinc a ie-
Iquwrt before the next lcgisUturi- lor
 more pay.
Petitions signed by the requisite
number of free holders residing in
Hunter Township Kiowa County have
reached Governor Haskell who in turn
has issued a proclamation calling for
an election to be held Tuesday Dec-
ember 29th.
According to the Governor's Proc-
lamation the election is called for the
purpose of transferring Hunter town-
ship to Tillan cmounty.
. More than one half the total popu
lation of the township attached their
names to tho petition.
Hunter township is located on the
extreme southern portion of Kiowa
county and is closer to Frederick
than Hobart making it more Jconven-
iont for the farmers to visit Till-
man county seat than Hobart.
The ultimate plans for the south
enders is to sever several townships
from Kiowa county eventually form-
ing a new commonwealth with Sny-
der as tho county seat.
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When You Are Ready To
Choose Your Fall Suits
yo.u are particularly invited to .make our elothiug
room a call. You have to examine several lines to
get posted to be able to judge which is the best. We
do the same thing in a larger way to keep up-to-date
All good dressers have tho ambitlon-to wear the
best. We ask for a chance
To
Show You
how superior Stein-Bloch and Sampeck clothing set
off your figure.
IIow much style is put in thoir make-up; they are
the pioneers of modern High grade clothes and are
still maintaining the lead.
These goods in fit style and quality are so supe-
rior that thoy have drivon tho merchant tailor out
of business except for irregular shaped figures.
Give Us a TryOn
We will not bore you to buy will not have to.
Prices $15.00 to $25.00.
GREAT SHOE DEFT
FOR MEN
Mrs. Nannie Marney of Chickasha
is visiting Mrs. Win. PJum.
Jesse Tweed Mrs. A. S. Evans of
Yukon E. R. Rutherford nnd Mr. and
Mrs. Jas. Murphy of Missouri are
visiting Clyde Thompson and wife.
Mrs. H. G. Harvey returned from
Wichita Kan. this morning accom-
panied by Miss Blanche who has been
attending the Mount Carmol school
but owiing to ill health has returned
home. She roturns with roporU that
rank first in her clnssbe and it is hop-
ed that in a short tims she will be
able to return to the school and com-
j plete her woik as she was one of the
m03t energetic mtt.usia&tir little stu-
IJont in the Anadnrko schools.
looking at
suits
the uqw.'
at our place. When
navo .Mr. Largui snow you
shoes. It will interest you
EDWIN CLAPP SHOES
$6.00 and $7.00
THOMPSON BUOS.
$4 and $5.00
are the Two best makes sold. Wo can
iit all feet  narrow or wide.shortor long
DON'T FORGET
to examine our now Fall Underwear
have a great assortment to plenso the
most fastidious.
MEDIUM WEIGHT RIBBED
65c
UNION SUITS THAT WILL FIT.
$1.00 1.50 200 2.50 3.00.
LIGHT WEIGHT FINE WOOLENS
$1.50 2.00 2.50.
If you are particular about your
Underwear be sure and st-o ur.
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