Carney Enterprise. (Carney, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, September 4, 1914 Page: 1 of 8
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DAENEY MVTERPRISE.
VOL. 14. CARNEY, LINCOLN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 4, 1914. NO. 5.
CARNEY ENTERPRISE
Published Every Friday.
H, S. HERBERT.
Editor
Entered July 10, 1903 at Carney
Oklahoma,assecond class matter ,un
der actofongressarch 3, 1903.
SUBSCRIFTIOKRATES.
one year $1 6 months 50
3 months 25c
Wheat is soaring in price. It has
reached the $1,00 mark.
Too much wet weather in parts of
the state and it is feared that cot-
ton will be injured.
Don't blame the grocer for the
increase in the price of sugar, The
profit is not his.
Arcadia, Okla., received its first
bale of cotton last week. The bank
bought it paying 10 cents a pound
for the lint.
A farmer near Snyder, Okla.,
bronght in the first bale of cotton
last week, selling it for S59.60, and
the merchants of the town gave him
$73.50 as a premium.
The Ada Daily News says: -'If
Kaiser Bill keeps on sending the
men of his country to death on the
battlefield, the fatherland may be-
come motherland, or worse, wid-
owland."
Lightening started thirteen fires
in the Healdton oil field last week
and five 55,000-barrel steel tanks
burned. The fire was three miles
long. About 400,000 barrels of
oil was burned.
It is now certain that the Uni-
ted States will levy a war tax for
the purpose of off-setting the loss
of ievenue from imports caused by
European war. But the tax will be
on beer, tobacco, and patent med-
icines and such other things which
we can well do without.
A Gotham man who insisted on
monopolizing the talk at a woman's
meeting, was collared and ejected
by a stalwart feminist. A man
with no more sense than to attempt
to do talking in an assemblage of
women, ought to be sent to a feeble-
minded asylum for the jest of his
natural life.
W. R. Burford is preparing to
make an active campaign for elect-
ion as County Commissioner to
succeed himself. His platform is
ihort but comprehensive, and
briefly is as follows: "Economy.
Substantial improvements. No fa-
vorites. A sqnare deal to all.
-Wellston News
American Tobacco Co.
Assistance To Merchants.
President Percivial S. Hill of the
American Tobacco company has
sent the following notice to all the
company's customers in Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louis-
iana, Mississippi, North Carolina,
Oklahoma, Sonth Carolina, Tenn-
essee and Texas:
"We have become aware of the
embarrassment brought on the cot-
ton growing sections by the Euro-
pean war, and the resulting ina-
bility to market the cotton crops.
We earnestly.hope and believe that
this embarrassment is temporary.
We are earnestly anxious, though,
to contribute, so far as we can, to
the relief of it. On that account
we will permit our :ustomers in the
states above mentioned to discount
their bills' on account of purchases
made hereafter, within ten days
after 15, 1914. This applies to
all purchases of all our,lines wheth-
er of drop shipments or of stock
shipments."
Eighty-Six Years Ago.
In view of some recent discussion
as to what should not be discussed
in school the followiig from the
press of eighty-six years ago is
interesting.
The school board of Lancaster,
Ohio, in 1828 refused to permit the
school house to be used for the
discussion of the question as to
whether railroads were practical or
not, and the matter was recently
called to mind by an old document
that reads in part as follows: "You
are welcome to use the school house
to discuss all questions in, but such
things as railroads and telegraphs
are impossibilities and rank infidel-
ity. There is nothing in the word
of God about them. If God had
designed that His intelligent creat-
ures should travel at the frighttul
speed of fifteen miles an hour by
steam He would have clearly fore-
told through His Holy prophets.
It is a device of Satan to lead im-
mortal souls down to hell.
Some Freaks.
A. T. Smith, who resides in Spring-
dale, but owns owns a large farm on
White river, called at the News
office a few days ago and reported
the queerist freak of the time.
On his his farm he has two full
blooded red, shorthorn Durham
calves, one week older than the
other, they are fully developed in
every way, except they are two
legged. Both the calves walk,
eat, drink and are healthy, but
they have no forelegs, the body at
the shoulder tapering off, much
like a kangaroo. The calves can
stand on their hind legs and walk
the same as a man. He asks an
explanation from our ranches.—
Springdale News.
Why Not Tag Oklahoma Bach
elors?
A great many State legislatures
have given consideration [to bills
taxing bachelors and many con-
vincing arguments have been pre-
sented why men who escape mat-
rimony^should pay a penally, but
why not tag them as a more pain-
less and effective method of exter-
mination? If the baehelors were
tagged the widows could find them
easily and Cupid would do the rest.
The bachelor is naturally timid,
but under the encouraging influ-
ences of a merry widow he can
easily be led to the altar, for there
is no more helpless craft afloat
than lovesick swain who has passed
the age of discretion, and the little
imp that plays ping-pong with hu-
man hearts has no more capable
ally than a woman who loves at
second sight, for experience makes
Cupid subtle and bold.
The women have tag days to pro-
mote most every other public en-
terprise, and why not a tag day for
bachelors? We have in Oklahoma
approximately forty thousand bach-
elors and an equal number of wid-
ows. Why not get them together
and solve two vexations problems
with one marriage license?
Diseases Play Havoc Witl]
Oklahoma Hogs.
Washington, D. C. Aug. —Dis-
eases caused the swine breeders of
Oklahoma to loose 94,600 hogs,
valued at $794,640 last year, ac-
cording to a report which has just
been issued by the Department of
Agriculture.
This is an average death rate of
870 per 1,000 head. During 1913
the ratio was 81 per 1,000 head and
a total of 107,300 head were lost-
The latest Census Reports, which
are dated January 1, 1914, show
that there are 1,352,000 head of
hogs in Oklahoma and they are
valued at $11,357,000 or $8.40 per
head.
The farmers of the entire nation
last year lost 7,004,800 h;ad of
hogs from disease. Their total
valne was $75,000,000 and the
death rate 119 per 1,000.
A few republican jditors are
either deluded themselves or are
trying to delude their readers into
the belief that there will be a great
landslide this fall in favor of John
Fields for governor. They tell in
big headlines of democrats going
over to Fields but in no instance do
they tell who they are or where
they are to be found. There
might possibly be a few but they
will be so scarce on election day
that the result will scarcely be no-
ticeable.—Prague News.
! DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For Senator—Thomas P. Gore,
For Cohgress—Wm. H. Murray.
For Governor—R. L. Wtlliams.
Lieut. Governor, M. E. Tr*pp.
Attorney General, S P. Freeling.
Auditor, E B. Howard.
Treasurer, W. L. Alexander.
Secretary of Slate, J.|L. Lyon.
Sept. Instruction. R. H. Wilson.
Com. of Labor, W. G. Ashton,
Commissioner of Charities and Cor-
rection—W, D. Mathews.
Pres. Board Agriculture, F, Gault,
Corporation Com. A. P. Watson,
State Examiner, Fred Parkinson,
Commissioner Insurance, A.L.Welch
Clerk Supreme Court,
Wm. M. Franklin.
State Senator, C, L. Edmonson.
Judge Dist. Court, Chas, B. Wilson,
COUNTY TICKET.
Representative, Peter Dickinson.
County Judge' H. M. Jarrett.
County Attorney, Streeter Speakman
Sheriff, Chas. D. Spencer.
County Clerk, J. Bart Foster.
Court Clerk, Darwin Filtsch.
County Treasurer, S. A. Key.
Assessor, J. W. Green.
Superintendent Schools,
R. G. Creekmorc.
State Committeeman, T. J. Hinchey.
Surveyor, R. D Alexander.
Weigher, Herman H. Grimes.
County Commissioner, 1st Dist. R
A. Morrow. 2nd Dist. W. R. BuT-
ford. 3rd. Dist. Ed Hillman.
A Fantasy.
That the woman was mentally
deranged could not be doubted,
else what meant the roving eye,
tumbling hair, the trembling lips
and quivering form, poised upon
the top of a table and brandishing
a ravolver in one hand, a heavy
poker in the other; she looks the
very essence of extreme insanity,
Ah! see, the form, stiffens then
bends into a crouching pesitien ;
the glittering eye quits i'.s roving,
the frothing lips their muttering,
ihe whole figure denotes intense
watchfulness. A look of strained
attention is upon the fair face, she
holds that pose for minutes, the
clock looms out in the death like
stillness but still, but still she does
not move, she seems scarcely to
breath never removing her eye
from that dark corner of the room,
Ah! what dark crime is about to
take place, what intruder has en-
tered this woman's home? But
watch the form relaxes, a sigh es-
capes her white lips, a look of ex-
treme happiness glides across her
pale and weary face ; her lips utter
a proyer of thankfulness;—the
mouse has gone back in its hole.
The story is told o1 a young man
who squeezed his mother so hard
that he broke one of her ribs.
What the mother said is not re.
corded, but ioubtless it was some-
thing tc the effect that there are
few girls good enough for her boy.
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