The Canadian Valley News. (Jones City, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, September 25, 1914 Page: 4 of 8
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SPECIAL PRICE ON SHEAR.
Friday the 25th, and Saturday the 26th,
we will sell you 18 pounds of PURE
CANE SUGAR for $1.00 with all ' pur-
chases of $3.00 worth of other goods.
This is an exceptionally low price
on sugar and when you take into con-
sideration the low prices we are selling
other groceries you will readily see we
are offering you a BARGAIN.
IMS STILL "iitAKE Mir AS DID
IHEIfi FATHERS III THE LOUS AGO
Efficacy of Cow-Tails as Storm Producers, an Article of Faith
With Euchie Medicine Men—Interesting Ceremony in
Which Indian Prays for Rain for His Corn-
No Rain, No Pay for Performer.
Splendid Medicine,
Stomach Trouble
I Suffered for Several Year*
Peruna Restored My Health
. COZART S CASH STORE. .
Vb ■■HIM • —i — • BIB ■■■«'
IS HE OF JEWS
LATE NEWS OF
LOCAL IMPORT
INTERESTING ITEMS OF THE
WEEK IN ANO AROUND
JONES CITY
Mr. and Mrs. Oias. Walker, who
have been in the Philippine islands
the past year, liave sailed for home.
They came by way of Japan and lhe
Hawaian Islands, and will reaeh the
stateg sometime next month, ,and
soon after their arriyui are expected
here for a visit with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. .Ins, Kama.
The annual grand lodge of Odd
Fellows will Lie held at Hapulpa, be-
ginning next Mommy. W. A. Jones
is the delegate from Jones Oily, and
will leave on the special train which
leaves here nt 4 p. ui. Monday A
number of Odd Fellows from Olioc-
law will also lake the train here.
1C. T. Lane, nominee for the state
senate, John W. Hay sou ami Loyal
J. Miller, nominees for district
Judge, all Republicans, held a
meeting here Saturday afternoon,
going from here to Spencer for a
night meeting.
Frank Cook was over from Choc-
taw Wednesday calling on his many
friends. Mr. Cook, who was- ap-
pointed postmaster at JJhoctaw re-
cently, will take charge of the office
there the first of October,
Mr. and Mrs. K. L. Reynolds,
who have been living on tlieir farm
three miles west of Jones City, the
past year, are moving to SI Reno.
They have rented their farm to A.
L. Merritt.
Choice Alfalfa Seed For Sale.—II.
M. Dorman.—Adv.
Pay your subscription amt get
5000 votes for yourself or your
friend in tho “Golden Gate Contest."
Somebody gets to go to the Panama-
Pacific Exposition free, with many
side trips, all traveling expenses
paid.
Broadway Has Found
Source of Fame.
New
New York. — The government at
Washington gave permission recentl)
to a baud of Sioux to hold a modified
sun dance on one of the reservations
out in the Northwest. It was explained
that the resident agent had instruc
tlons to confine the ritual of the cere
monlal to its purely religious features
eliminating those fanatical demonstra
tions, designed to appeal to race preju
dice, which have worked so much in
jury in the past. It was a sun dance
under the clever manipulation of the
cunning Sitting Bull, which led to one
of the most frightful Indian wars.
While the sun dance is the best
known by name to white man. yet il
ki by no means the most important
of aboriginal seasonal feasts. When
Capl. Sam Geer of Tallequah, Okla,—
the "Indian Nation," as it is still
called by old-timers in (he West—ar
rived at Hempstead, L. I„ a few days
ago, on a short visit, he told how the
| Euchie were "making rain” to save
the corn.
"In the southern part of the old
Creek reservation, In what was the In-
dian territory. Is located the Euchie
village, which holds the remnants of
a once powerful tribe that was'sub
dued by the Creeks many years ago."
NEWS FROM AROUND
STAR SCHOOL HOUSE
New York’s Great Thoroughfare Shows
Up With 118 Varieties of Minerals
In Rocks When Excavations Are
Made for Skyscrapers.
New York.—Broadway, most talked
of thoroughfare in the world, Ameri-
can home of the opera, the drama and
the lobster, famous avenue of sky-
scrapers and tango, has found 118 ad-
ditional reasons why its fame should
be undying.
For Broadway, far down beneath
the hurrying feet of ttB crowds, is a
gem-studded treasure filled vault of
the mineral kingdom, unequalled, per
hups, by any other thoroughfare in
the world In the variety of minerals
to be foufid along its borders.
A paper recently written by Jpmes
G. Manchester, which now forms part
of the records of the New York Min-
eralogies! club, has established the
right of Broadway to claim its meas-
ure of fame In this new direction.
While Broadway has been known
since 1814 as a mineral producing
area, It was not until the advent ‘of
the giant structures which dot its bur
ders that the real extent of Us-wealth
in that direction was realised Then,
with almost every boring that pierced
the solid rock foundation, find after
find was made by amateur and pro-
fessional collectors. Finally, so many
species and varieties had been brought
from beneath the street surface that
the highway actually began to attract
attention from the best known mineral
collectors In the country.
"It Is safe to say," Mr. Mam beater
wrote, "that no other public thorough-
fare can equal Broadway In the varl
ety of minerals found along iis bor
ders.” His paper lists, with extensive
descriptions of the specimens and the
location of their finding, amphlbole
(tremollte, asbestos, bysBolitei, npa
tlte, beryl, calclte, chalcopyrlte and
malachite, chrysoberyl. dumortierite
epidote, fluorite, garnet, graphite, gyp
sum, kaolin, magnetite, manganese ox
ide, marcasite, mica, mlcrollte, oligo-
claae, opal, orthlte, pyrlte, orthoclase,
pyroxene, pyrrhotlte, quarts, rlpdolite,
rutile, sllblte, uranlnite, topaz tour
maline and xeuotlme.
"A complete list of the minerals
found In New York city," Mr Manches
ter wrote, "consists of 118 varieties, or
82 species."
Garnets are quite common. Th<
most Interesting one found on Man
hattan Island Is owned by I)r Oeorge
r. Kunz. It weighs nine pounds ten
ounces and measures six Inches In Its
greatest diameter.
Follow Faith of Their Father*.
SPENCER NEWS
The Star Suinhty school was dis-
missed Sunday for that day ami the
school went to Peach Grove to at
teud the township Sunday School
convention held at that place. Guile^^^^^
an interesting program was rendered, <Contlnued from 1 lrst 1
a bountiful dinner was served and Jol>" ‘"‘-Coy’s yard and killed a tur
the convention adjourned al a iU(t. I key and several diickens.
hour to meet again with the llarrah | M
said he. "I passed through this vil-
lage one hot July day. The weather had
been dry. No rain had fallen for weeks
and the grass was scorched to dust
colored hay on the ground. Driving
along the road a short distance beyond
the village, I saw a crowd of Euchles
on the banks of a small stream. There
were many squaws In the gathering, i
and, wonderful to relate, they were
silent. 1 pulled up the horse and asked
John Slxshooter, the Creek guide who
accgmpanied me, the meaning of the
assemblage and of the Bllence which
prevailed. He shaded his eyes with
Ills hands, looked at the crowd fur a
few minutes, and said:
” Reckon they is bout to make rain
1 see the old mediclae man an' some
o’ th’ things they use when gettin
ready lor a play o' that kind.”
"Do they really make rain?’ 1
asked.
''yi’ell, they say they do; but, like
th’ white man, they sometimes say a
denied lot more’n they mean.'
"We drove over to the Euchles.
John had reckoned correctly. Rain
was badly needed In the country, and
the Indians had called upon their med
cine man to provide a bountiful sup
!>(>■
"The members of the tribe were
massed on one of the banks of the
oteek stolidly regarding the medicine
man, who stood some fifty yards awaj
on a little grass-covered knoll which
was clear of tree or shrub. He was
porfe-. tly naked. At his feet was a
tub, three quarters full of water from
he adjacent stream. The tub was a
plain wooden affair, such ns Is used
by the country housewife on wash
days. On the ground, near the tub
were two dried cow tails with the
fringe of hair at the ends well pre-
served.
"Turning to the northwest, the med
ielne man swept the expanse of clear
who understood the language could
not distinguish the words. This, no
doubt, by design. It would not do
for the members of the tribe to know
all the medicine employed on such an
occasion. They might witness the the
atrical display; but without the pre
else form of the communication to His
sak-i-ta Eemlsa they were powerless to
make medicine on their own account
"The prayor concluded, the medicine
man closed ills hands, which all the
while had been extended, and drew
them slowly to his breast. He began
another prayer in an undertone, ex
tended hla hands, opened them when
at‘the lull length of his roach, closed
them and drew them to his bn ast as
before.
" Seems to be pulling on unseen
strings,' I remarked to John.
" That'B whatever; he's Jist doin'
that Baaie,1 replied the guide
"After repealing the string pulling
performance a dozen times, the modi
cine man, still muttering a prayer
reached over the side of Ms tub and
picked up the cow tails. He shook
them in the air ever his head with 8
quick, Jerky motion, laid them down
and began again to pull on the unseen
Btrings in the northwest. Three times,
at regular intervale, the medicine man
| shook the tails. Then he stepped from
the tub; emptied the water on the
ground, and retired into the forest to
the northwest, taking tub and tails
with him.
"Later I asked the old chief of the
Creeks the meaning of the perform-
ance I had witnessed at the Euchie
village.
“ First,’ began the chief, 'let me tell
you that only a few Sundays ago I I
heard a white man preacher pray for j
rain. Now, what was the difference
between the white man's appeal and
that of the Euchie medicine man? You
don’t care to say, eh? Well, I'll tell
you the difference, and a very impor-
tant one It is. from the Indian's stand-
point. If the medicine man brings
rain he saves tile corn crop, and, in
return for his services, he receives
a portion of the crop raised by every
Indian in the tribe. No rain, no crop;
no crop, no corn for the medicine
man. The white man preacher gets
his corn whether he bringB rain or
not.'
"‘But tell me: If the medicine man
falls, what excuse has ho to offer?
Those ehapa always leave a hole
through which to crawl, without dis-
turbing the popular belief In the effi-
cacy of their medicine.’
"'You observe,’'replied the chief,
who was an Indian of some education,
'that the rainmaker seemed to be
drawing on "unseen strings” from the
northwest. The rain always comes
from the northwest in this country,
and those "strings" were attached to
rain-clouds. He was sure to draw the
clouds to himself, and there would
surely be rain unless some enemy of
his, or of his trftie, had planted a
hatchet, edge up. between him and the
cl nd«! If a hatchet had bo":: buried
Mrs. Elizabeth
Reuther, No. E08
Twelfth St., N. We
Washington, D. C.,
writes: “I am
pleased to endorse
Peruna as a splen-
did medicine for
catarrh and stom-
tch trouble, from
rhlch I suffered , v&svg
.- several years, jppi
i took it for sev-
eral months and
at the end of
lime found my health
was restored and have
felt splendidly ever]
since. I now take it when. I contract
a cold and ltj Boon rids the system of
any catarrhaj tendencies.
Over Ten Years Ago.
"I would not be without Peruna.
Although it was over ten years ago
that I first gave you my testimonial, I
am of the same opinion as when I
wrote It, and give you the privilege to
U3e it as you see fit. I still use Pe-
runa when I think It necessary. I tun
recommending it to my neighbors
whenever a chance occurs.”
LAYS BAD LUCK TO A STONE
Woman Is Sorry She Took Forbid-
den Relic From Bombay
Temple.
Los Angeles - Til luck which has
followed Mrs Edith Parker Karrach
of Silver Falls, Ida., and her near rel-
atives for many years Is attributed by
her to a small, smooth cobra stone
which she Indiscreetly took from a
temple in Bombay, India, in her girl-
hood. She regrets now that she failed
to heed the warning given by her Par-
see nurse.
"I was Informed by my nurse that
the stones would bring ill luck to any
one who took them." said Mrs. Kar
rach. "I did not believe it. One
morning I went to a temple with her
While she was praying I took one of
the stones from a casket under the
high priest's chair.
"After I came to America the 111
luck which apparently I had brought
down upon my head entered into my
domestic life. I have known of sim-
ilar cases."
PURLIC SALE.
R. E. Balduc, 4 miles west and 1
mile south of ChoNaw, has a sale
advertised for October (i, at which
lie will dispose of a lot of live stock,
implements, etc. Col. N. N. Evans
is the auctioneer, C. H. Randall
clerk.
Frisco Time Card.
In effect May 24, 1914.
413— West—.......... 6:55 a. m.
111— West—..........10:3p a. in.
407— West—...........4:13 p. m.
408— East—..........11:22 a. m.
112— East —.......... 6:34 p. m.
414— East —..........12:45 a. m.
f en Good t ommandmei
1. Thou shall have no other food
than at meal lime.
2. Thou shall not make unto thee
any pies or put into pastry the like-
ness of anything that is in the
heavens above or in the waters un-
der the earth. Thou sliait uot fall
to eating it or trying to digest it.
For tlie dy spepsia Aviil be visited u-
pou tile children to the third and
fourth generation of them that eal
pie, and long life and vigor upon
those that live prudently and keep
the laws of health.
3. Remember thy bread to hake
it well, for lie will not he kept well
that eateth his bread as dough.
4. Thou shalt not indulge sorrow
or borrow anxiety in pain.
5 Six days thou shalt wash and
keep thyself clean, and the seventh
day thou shalt take a great bath,
thou, and thy son and thy maid ser-
vant and the stranger that is within
thy gates. For in six days man
sweals aud gathers filth and bacteria
enough for disease; wherefore the
Lord has blessed the hath tub aud
hallowed it.
6 Remember thy sitting room
anti bed chamber to keep them venti-
lated, that thy days may lie long in
the land which the Lord thy God
givetb thee.
7. Thou shalt nqj eat hot biscu-
its.
8.
fried.
9. Thou shalt not swallow thy
food nnchewed or highly spiced or
jsst before hard work or just after it.
ill. Thou shall not keep late
hours in thy neighbor's house, nor
with thy neighbor's wife, nor with
liis man servant, nor his maid ser-
vant, nor anything that is thy neigh-
bors.
Thou shalt not eat thy meat
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WS&r.rsJteft*
Sunday schools sometime in Decern one day last week by a train running
b«r. : over it.
Mrs. T. H. Whitfortl enjoyed a I Misa Bessie Cams is sewing for
visit from Mrs. Geo. Anderson and j Mrs VanOstrand this week,
children aud mother. Mrs, Cannady
of Choctaw Sunday.
Mrs. D. TV. Stevens called on Mrs.
J. W. Chancellor Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. S. O. Hanson and Mrs. A.
M. Maxey called on Mrs. W. F. !
Taylor at llarrah Monday.
Mrs. W. P. Loyd who has been
visiting in this vicinity returned to
her home at Carthage, Mo., Friday*
E. Ragland and daughter Mrs.
Alfred Williams visited at liis fath-
ers, A T. Raglands Sunday.
The little sou of Mr. and Mrs.
Lee Rowlen is quite sick at this I
writing.
blue slimmer sky with a searching
G. Kringlen lost a fine jennet gaze. Prnbubly he was looking for
clouds; If so, he saw none, for there
was not even the seaman's proverbial
’cloud as big as your hand' In Uro heav-
ens But the old Indian's face betrayed
uo sign of disappointment. He was
grave, dignified and methodical In
bearing and manner. Some sixty years
of age. he was as erect as a young
buck and a splendid specimen of the
The Young Ladies’ Bible Class | red man Stepping Into the tub. the
will hold its meetings in the church metgeine man squatted with hiB chin
every two weeks on Sunday morning' 0,1 h*8 knees. He sprinkled water on
Young Men’s Bible Training Class
meets Wednesday evening of eaeli
week at the rhuroh.
his chest, on his head and over his
Choir practice at the church every | ^ unurhe seoo^d «» »
could as much water as his hand*
would hold. Soon his txjdy was run-
ning rivulets.
“Extending hla arms at full length
before him, the hands open, palms
upward, the medicine man began a
prayer to Hts-gak-l-ta Eemlsa, the air-
er of Breath!'' It was a muttered oup
plication, In so low a tone that those
11 o’clock.
Thursday evening.
The Kpworth League lesson for
September 27 is “Industrial Slavary
in the Light of Two Standards'. ”
Orval Legg, leader.
JAMBi BEATY
Democratic Nominee for
COURT CLERK.
If Elected I Will Stay in the Office and
Attend to Business.
I WILL APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT.
Elb^erAcs
THE BEST FOB
BILIOUSNESS
AND hlDNEVa
A Modern Indian Girl.
to the northwest, fhy, It Is perfectly
plain the stringss would be cut In pass-
ing over the sharp edge, and, conse-
quently, the medicine man would lose
his hold on the clouds.
" 'Then If there should be no rain
Mr. Medicine Man would make It con-
venient to find a buried hatchet the
following day, while If there should be
rain he would be careful to say noth- j
ing of a hatchet or of hatchets?'
"'Well, something of the kind.'
"’And the cow tails?’
“ ‘That feature of the performance j
I have tracked back to the early days |
when the Craeke, Choctaws, Semlnoles
and the Chickasaws were known aa
Meescocees. The Euchles were a j
neighboring tribe, and, doubtlM^, bor- |
rowed much of their medicine from I
the older and larger organization. The
Meescocees inhabited the country east
of the Mississippi river; but occasion- j
ally the young braves crossed the big j
stream to hunt on the buffalo grounds
some distance to the west. When they
got up a herd of buffalo the Kama, on
SALE BILLS!
If you are thinking of having a public
sale this fall, The News would like to
figure with you on your printing bill. We
do good work at low prices. And if you
get your bills here you also get a free
notice of your sale in The News, which
circulates among hundreds of buyers in
this county. Come and see us.
THE NEWS,
Jones City, Okla.
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Keyes, Chester A. The Canadian Valley News. (Jones City, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, September 25, 1914, newspaper, September 25, 1914; Jones, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc859953/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.