The Mountain Park Herald (Mountain Park, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, May 1, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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The Mountain Park Herald
LUTHER ROBERTS
Ed!ter end Publisher
Entered as second-class matter May 29, 1906, at thu pout office
at Mountain Park, Oklahoma, under the net of eongrem of March
3rd. 1879.
A* we go to pres*, 6 p. m.,
Thursday, no fire in Snyder.
One by one the republican
delegation, are falling into the -f KtHHJ dUaeni don-j rtock to
.
evil, crush out corruption—
stop the unclean drifts of scan
dal and gossip, and hold up a
standard worthy of men—and
Taft column.
Judge Mansell has found it
necessary to establish a special
court at Snyder to suppress
boot-legging.
We enjoy reading a paper
with snap and ginger enough
to get up and talk and gray
matter enough to express itself
in commanding language.
Such a paper is the Altus
Times.
such a community, thtm we
confess that we dont know
what a good citizen is.
The Ethical Club and a num-
ber of other womens organisa-
tions in St. Louis are becoming
very much interested in the
shop girl, the factory girl and
other girls who toil. It must
be remembered that these girls
work only eight and ten hours
a day while the house servants
slave on an average of four-
teen hours a day and SunJay
too. Again we would say to
th-se society women, as Em-
erson said to the abolitionist:
••Go home and free thy slave."
The Herald would feel re-
creant to its duty if it did not
occasionally speak out in be-
half of the morals of the com-
munity. It is well to “boom”
the country; but what of the1
|>eople? If it weie not for the
inoral element in this state no
decent man would live here.
Money is allright [wish we had
a little of it] but we place men
liefore money. The ragged
apparel of a Lazarus and the
tine linen of a Dives look alike
to us. In building up a coun-
try we should remember this:
an immoral institution will
never invite a good citizen.
We would say: plant trees,
beautify your homes, keep
your children clean, build up
your schools and churches,
inspire the young with beauti-
ful thoughts and lofty ideals,
tone up society, cleanse and
purify legislation, strike down
AS I WAS SAYINO.
Newspapers are like indi-
viduals: some can't tell the
tru'h; some can, and do.
A big mouth «md a disposi-
tion to use it, a full chest, and
a pair of lungs that a fire-whis-
tle would covet, are, with
some, an infallible f ign of a
Divine call to the ministry.
Men who don't know an ed
itorial from an itch-cure ad,
nor an adjective from cn axe-
handle, know all about running
a newspaper.
If you dress well, some peo-
ple will call jcu a slouch; and
if you keep your shirt-tail in,
others will call you you a
dude.
It adds dignity to the occa-
sion for a big plug-ugly get up
and stomp out in the middle
of the sermon.
When a man says every
man has his price, we naturally
wonder what he charges. And
when he says every woman
has her price, we wonder what
his mother charged.
Men come to the editor and
ask him to boom the country;
and when he turns on the hot
air they say he's a liar.
It is pleasant to live in little
world where everybody knows
your business and tries to run
it.
The goods box statesman
talks loud on current issues
and when picked up on a false
statement, says he read it in
the papers and that all papers
are liars—but he goes right on
and qi otes them.
If you try to be decent some
men will look askance at ycu;
and instead of speaking will
only grunt, a la hog.
Put it down that “they say"
is almost invariably a scape-
goat liar.
The man who sits on the
street corner and makes derog-
atory remarks about women
is too rotten for the associa-
tion of buzzards.
The incongruity of an Easter
sermon poured out in sepuchral
tones is enough make the
denizens of the tomb break
forth in spontaneous laughter.
FIVE PERCENT
LOANS
The Scnool Land
Board is now mak-
ing 5 per cent farm
loans in Kiowa
County.
we ARC
BONDED ABSTRACTORS
KIOWA COUNTY
LAND & TITLE CO.
JOHN R. WILLIAMS, Pns.
South AMs Square.
HOBART. - - OK LA.
For Farm Loans
-SEE-
Hotchkiss & Jacquart
LAND and LOAN
COMPANv
HOHART oKLA
Long-Bell
Lumber Co.
Mountain Park, Ok la
Our 1906 stock of Famous
Wabash Screen Doors have
just arrived. We have sever-
al new styles. Come in and
look them over.
Our Price# on Them are
Right.
Let us figure your Lumber
Bills. AJI Lumber Off from 2
to 7 Dollars per Thousand.
We will figure
A# Low a# Any of Our
Competitors.
A. J. SPARKES. Mgr
w.o.
Shelton
Carriaa now. as ha
always has in tha
past, a full (ins of
Staple and Fancy
l
HwmI potatoes
Oarttan hmmI
Can ii il jtimmIn
Cereal* mid Feed,
Which he is sailing
at right prices.
Ha is in a position
to give you good
figures, because he
is buying on a strict-
ly CASH BASIS.
His motto is:
Buy end S' A CU
Sell for wMOn
At the low-
est possible
price.
For the present
nothing goes except
for cash. Possibly
after the summer
season opens we
will do a cradit bus-
iness. In the mean-
time bring the cash
and get your groc-
eries at vie
Lowest
FiQure.
DK.TATMAX
Fhy*ftcan & Surgeon
Office il. Dr. White', rnidrsit
Mountain Paik, Oklahoma
Dr. Slattery
Dentist
Over Red Chum Dai'fl 8tokk at Kkro-
an, .vary day aacapt Tuaadaya aad
Wadnaadaya, of aaeh week.
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Roberts, Luther. The Mountain Park Herald (Mountain Park, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, May 1, 1908, newspaper, May 1, 1908; Mountain Park, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc853489/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.