The Mountain Park Herald (Mountain Park, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 21, 1907 Page: 1 of 12
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The Mountain Park Heral
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[Successor ito the Mountain Park Lance]
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FULL PAY FOR SHORT WORK. I of that amount from the national
Perhaps no one should blame treasury for a service the people
the railroads for not wanting to [ do not get
let go of a good thing, as this is j In other words, it looks as if
a sort of a general trait and not i the railroads have been drawing
particularly peculiar to corpor- a full day's pay for doing six-
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ations. But when that “good
thing" comes from the pockets
of the people, or from their
.national treasury, which is about
, the same thing, it is time,to get
busy with protests,
• The particular incident which
prompts this observation is the
effort which is just now being
made by the railroad inter-
in Washington
ef
the postofiks btH, which
to
provides that they shall not be
paid for service which is not
performed.
Under the arrangement by
which various railroads are en-
titled for transportation of mails
have been arrived at, the custom
has b$en to weigh all the mail
transported on each line cover*
ing a period of a full week of
sevenths of a day's work.
It would seem that herein lies
a clear duty which congress owes
to the people, whatever else it
may do in the matter of retain-
ing the old postal arrangements.
If congress will cut out this
excuseless graft and put in a
provision which will require the
railroads to hmnHfr the
on time, it wBl
a service for
DAD WHITE CRAWFISHES, of persons who may become in-1
As our county capital, Hobart terested in property here they]
is certainly due the people an will receive these annoum
efficient city government The regularly without cost This I
taxpayers of the county pay will call their attention to the
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days weight is divided by “six,
the number of so-called “work-
ing days," to get the daily aver-
age weight which is made the
basis of payment
Now, if the weight of the Sun-
day muif is to be included in the
dividend, why should not that
day, in all fairness and justice,
be included in the divisor? Why
should not seven days' weight
be divided by seven instead of
six, to get the true average?
Representative Murdoch ashed
these questions and failing, no
doubt, to g^t any adequate reply
from the government’s, or rath-
er from t}ie people’s stand-
point, he offered his amendment
jp^jing to change the diyiaor
ten. This means a differ-
$5:000,000 annually to
within .fouryiia
tions that it that Bmd Smoot to
to retain his seat in the aerate.
If the senate can find a ruling
nthis length of time it looks
if some of our county officials
might do equally as well.
It is reported that bon. W. E.
Banks, who represents south
Kiowa and south Greer in the
Constitutional convention, voted
this report be true, Mr. Banks is
failing to vote the sentiment of
his people.
Uses Httlft Koiol after yottr meal*
and it will be fomid to afford a prompt
and eilltiient relief. Kodol nearly ap-
proximate* the diffeatire juice*. It di-
gest* what you eat. It i* «old on a
guaranteed relief plan. Sold here by
B R Roberts.
more for the maintainence of
Hobart than the resident tax
payers and are justly entitled to
a city government that would do
credit to both city and epunty.
In reference to recent criticisms
of his candidacy for t e mayor-
ship of Hobart old dad White se-
verely attacked the editor of this
paper, in his usual bluffing *nan_
ner and says “ask John
Williams.’' We don’t have to
ask John Williams what White
told CBnt Worral. We
and heard it, and have plenty
of witnesses to prove that the
dirty old skunk did whine cm*.
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people, and tolerate abuse from
Worral no man possessed with a
sense of honesty and common
advantage? of this country and |
increase the probability of sales'
Low rates can be furnished on|
real estate loans.
Insurance in reliable compan-|
ie»- Grant Mitchkll.
ON UFE*5 SAD JOURNBV. •
A myriad of men
hmm the* _
the joy of Ufa to turned to Site
ing grief. The toed sue* pain,
decency would stand for. Ho- *>y *t length —btgoa k
bart seems to be darned shy of dead, pride is dead; vanity is
mayoralty timber. Any friend dead; longing for release is in
to the gentleman (?) referred to their place. It comes st last—
who doubts his attitude immed- tl\y only unpoisoned gift eerth
iately following the last city ever had for them—and they
election, can be enlightened by vanish from a world where they
the entire staff of the “Hobart were of no consequence; where
Chief," working at that time, they achieved nothing; when
including the present business were » mistake and a fail-
manager. As to the personal ure and a foolishness. There
threats of the old vagabond we they have left no sign that they
only have to my that the write, ’Sf 2
has known Hobart and her peo-
ple for nearly four years. We
office at Mountain Park, come
and see us.
forget them forever.
I am now located in the room
in the rear of the bank building.
In addition to the practice of law
I will handle real estate, loans.
One
Stillwater has only one saloon
and that one will be dosed April
1. Prohibition is coming to Nor-
man, too. It is only a question
of a short time when Norman and first class insurance,
and every other educational town
in the new state will be swept
clean of its saloons, no matter
whether prohibition carries in
the state or not. —Norman
Transcript
. This shows that local option is
effective wherever
During a recess Wednesday
night the Odd Fellows were sur-
prised by the Rebeckas who
made a rush on them with well
filled baskets, and in less time
than it takes to tell it a feast
was spread which was good
enough, even for Odd Fellows.
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the railroads, and the payment1 want it to be. *
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thousand announcements of prop- j The table which reached almost
erty listed for sale will be print-, the full length of the hall, was
ed and distributed each month, fairly covered and quaked with
Arrangements have been made to. the weight of good thingB which
place these announcements be- only Rebeckas know how to pre-
fore prospective purchasers in pare. An hour was thoroughly
he east and southeast. enjoyed by all, when the “good
If you will kindly give me a angels” took their departure and
list of the names and addresses1 the lodge resumed business.
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Noel, C. L. The Mountain Park Herald (Mountain Park, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 21, 1907, newspaper, February 21, 1907; Mountain Park, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc853627/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.