Carney Enterprise. (Carney, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, December 26, 1913 Page: 1 of 12
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BY ENTERPRISE,
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VOL. 13.
CARNEY, LINCOLN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA FRIDAY DECEMEER 26, 1913. NO, 22.
CARNEY ENTERPRISE
Published Every Friday.
H. S. HERBERT.
Editor
Entered Jaly 10, 1903 at Carney
Oklahoma,as second class matter,un-
er attof Coagress arch 3, 1903.
SUBSCRIPTS RATES .
one year SI 6 months 50
3 months 25c
A Merry Christmas and a pros-
perous new year to our patrons.
Better get in plenty of coal and
not put too much faith in the goose-
bone prediction.
It is predicted that next year will
be a big crop year, for the reason
that last year wasn't. Gat ready
for it.
" It is easier for a country Minister
to earn his salary[than!it is to get it.
There are all kinds of people in
the world, including the jap who .be-
lieves he is purchasing a genuine
diamond for two bits.
In olden days there existed in
many places a belief that the girl
who was not kissed under the misle-
toe during the Christmas season
would not be married during the suc-
ceeding year. In such localities
kissing a girl would be a positive
kindness. There is a story of cne
damsel who to make sure, wore
mislitoe on her hat.
The Turning Point.
Make 1914 the year to point back
to as the turning point in your lite
towards success by putting in the
first three or four months of the
year in fitting yourself to hold a
good office position, and be able to
support yourself and others with
the comforts you most desire. A
complete course of shorthand or
bookkeeping or both may be finish-
ed in the Capital City Business
College of Guthri8, Oklahoma, in
from 3 1-2 months for a single
course to 5 1-2 jponths for both,
and at a cost easily in reach of rich
or poor. If the cost is standing in
your way, write the school about it
at once.
The C. C. B. C. has been turning
out hundreds of successful graduates
for 18 years, and it is the oldest and
most firmly established school of its
class in Oklahoma. It is also the
only school in the state allowed to
teach the famous Byrne systems of
shorthand and bookkeeping, which
may be finished in so short a time
and at the same time prepare young
people for profitable positions.
Write the school now and begin
the new year on the road to success.
—Adv.
The Mail Order Trust.
So silently and insidiously that the
| great public is as yet almost un-
aware of its presence, a new trust is
extending its tentacles out over the
country. It is the mail order trust.
Already its strangling grip is tight-
ening about the million small town
and country merchants, who are the
backbone of national prosperity.
The mail order trust has capitaliz-
ed women and child labor. It has
capitalized prison labpr. Ithascap-
italized misfortune. It has capital-
ized vice. It has turned all these
things into dollars, dollars whi;h
should have found their way in to the
tills of the country merchant, instead
of flowing into the trust's Wall
Street hoard.
One mail order house recently in-
creased its capital stock from $500,-
000 to $40,000,0.00. A new $10,-
UJO.OOO merger of mail order houses
nas been formed. Wall Street finan-
cier, including the Morgan bank-
ing firm, has had charge of both
these financial operations. St 11 an-
other mail order house, with 63
acres of floor space, made a net
profii of $17,000,000 last year.
It rs evident that the greedy eyes
of the great mail order financiers are
turned upon the entire business of
the United States outside of the
great cities. It is also plain that a
gigantic trust is rapidly forming.
The small retail merchant is facing
ruin. That the grip of the octopus
is already being felt is shown by the
population in the census of 1910.
It is declared that something must
be done by immediate legislation or
the parcel post will not be the com-
plete blessing it ought to be. It is
asserted the solutiorrof the problem
will be in the form of heavy tax on
mail order business. This tax
would, it is contended, tend to stop
the expansion of the mail order busi-
ness and to reduce its present for-
midable size. The money thus col-
lected would be spent for road build
ing or other local improvements in
the districts which contribute to the
mail order houses.—Chicago Bulle-
tin.
It is a peculiar fact that people
will say and do things openly and
publicly, without the slightest
thought of secrecy, which if quoted
or mentioned in a newspaper will
cause them to rise up at oirce with
a mighty protest. If half were pub-
lished of the gossip that forms the
main topics of conversation from
day to day in a small town like this,
and if half the things were mettioned
that people do and think it smart,
the editor would have to hire a body
guard. This is why many things
you hear of bordering on the sen-
sational never get into print in the
ocal paper.
! High Mountains of W - oming.
The highest mountain in Wyom-
ing is Gannett Peak, whose elevation,
according to a chart published by
the United States Geological Survey,
is 13,747 feet, and Fremont Peak is
only 17 feet lewer. There are six
additional mountains higher than 13,
000 feet, their elevations ranging
from 13,007 feet for Knife Point
Mountain to 13,600 feet for Mount)
Helen. But these are not all the
lofty mountains in the State, for
there are in addition 21 named peaks
and about 40 unnamed peaks whose
altitudes are above 12,000 feet.
Wyoming has, therefore, some 70
mountain peaks that rise more th in
12,000 feet ao^ve sea level
An exchange says there is a new
game called "Tickle the Editor."
You taue an ordinary sheet of writ-
ing paper, on which you pen a few
lines suitable for the occasion.
Next you fold it carefully, enclos-
ing in the fold a check or pesuffice
order sufficiently large for all ar-
rearages and a year or m:>re in ad
vance, and hind it to the editor
Keep an eye o.i him, and ic a smile
ddjrns his face the trick works fine.
It can also be played by mail. Now
is the time tj play the pkf.
Liv ry and
FEtD STABLE
Good Rigs a Specialty
Stable North ot
the Lumber Yard
GEO. E.HALL, Prop.
HUGH~0DELL
Tonsorial Artist
For a clean shave, hair cut or
shampoo, call at the barber shop,
three doors south of the postoffice.
Bring your laur.dry and I will
have it d ne up in gcod style.
RHEUM AT SO SUFFERER*
SHOULD USE
Dark Days.
I look or. the heavyweight fighters
and shed seven buckets of brine, for
they are the woist lot of blighters
that e/er were whipped into line
They're slower than winter molasses,
that rigidly drips from the kegs,
they're stupid as so many asses,
their feet are too large for their legs.
They're largely suggestive of
cher-ses they ought to be back on
their farms; they've spavins de-
forming their kneeses, and ring-
bones and splin's on their arms
Alas, for that era departed, when
giants were here in the land! Fitz"
simmons, the langaroo hearted, and
Corbett, with craw full of rand; and
Jeffries, tie massive and mighty,
who ruined full many a chin and
Shailiey, the rjugh and the flighty,
who'd scrap w.;h a grizzly and grin!
Such men in the past weie the victors
in many incarnadined rings; now j
look at the chapo—drat their pic-1
ture's—succeding those giants, by
jiugs! They ought to be out with
Maud Miller a-raking up hay in the
mud, their systems, I doubt not,
are fuller of prun«s than of good
fighting blood. They ought to be
milking the cattle, and moulding the
butter and cheese ; they're no more
constructed for battle than cows are
for roosting in trees.—Wal t sjen
A Pennsylvania Scientist declares
its his belief that life on earth must
cease in fifteen million years.
|TlwBM( Romody]
For mil form* of
Rheumatism;
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IATICA. GOUT. NEURALGIA.
ID KIDNEY TROUBLES*
STOP THE PAIN
Bhru Quick Rallaf
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fmmon Rheumatic Cur* Co.,
im-1u w. lafca st., chicaoo
Da You Realize
THAT no matter where you live,
ycu may be visited by a wind-
storm.
THAT you cannot guard against
it.
THAT you cannot defer it.
THAT it comes without warnir g.
THAT when it comes you can do
nothing to protect your prep"
erty.
THAT the loss following its trail
is generally complete.
THAT a TORNADO POLICY will
protect you against loss.
THAT we can write you a Torna-
do Policy TODAY at a very
low cost.
THAT our Companies pay all los.
ses promptly in CASH with-
out discount.
SEE US TODAY, TOMORROW
MAY BE TOO LATE.
CARNEY STATE BANK
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