Queen City Times. (Agra, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 22, 1910 Page: 2 of 8
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Queen City Times
AGRA.
OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA HAPPENINGS
COLONEL QEORQS HARVBY 8AY8
COUNTRY ALL RICHT,
Fine apples of the Pippin variety
were grown this year In Major county.
The state’s home for feeble minded
at Enid will open soon, with Dr. Frank
P. Davis in charge.
THE WRITER SEES KO CLOUD
Striking Article In North American
Rovlew That Is Attracting Wide
Attention. '
The National Convention of Good
Roads Association will meet in Okla-
homa City , during the State Fair.
The third grand jury called in nine
months for Oklahoma county lias been
empaneled in Oklahoma City. They
will investigate election frauds in that
city.
Work will begin at once for paving
the principal boulevard leading to the
capitol at Oklahoma City. Electric
lights and water works construction
have already been planned by the cap-
itol commission.
State Enforcement officer Caldwell
last week in the superior court a: Ok-
lahoma City asked for an injunction
against all carriers from delivering in-
terstate liquor to persons possessing
federal licenses or those violating the
state liquor Jaw.
L. T. Turner, former agent for the
Wells-Fargo Express company at Bart-
lesville, plead guilty in district court
and was sentenced to the penitentiary
for one year. He disappeared from
there two years ago and was arrested
in Wichita recently.
Alleging that sparks from a loco-
motive set lire to dead grass in his
fruit orchard in the w-estern part of
Oklahoma county and caused great
damage to the trees, D. M. Phillips
has filed suit for $1,950 against the
M. K. & T. railroad in the district
court.
The clean-up committee recently
appointed during a citizens’ mass
meeting at Marietta has communi- j
cated with the city council. It de- |
mands that streets and alleys be kept ■
(free of rubbish and that an ordinance ;
Ibe passed requiring property owjiers
to keep weeds cut.
Five hundred and seventy-five of
the 700 called reports have been re-
ceived by the state bank commissioner !
and show up well. Reports accom-
panying them say that crops are good |
all over the state and financial condi-
tions much better now than the same
time last year.
Waurika is soon to have a new de-
pot according to Rock Island officials.
Eight years ago Waurika was a town
of tents. Today it is a city of more
than 2,500 inhabitants and soon is to
put on garments of the ’’first class.”
Waurika is an excellent example of
thrift.
J. W. Phillips, of near Washington,
claims to be the most prosperous
farmer in Oklahoma. He has 215
acres in cotton, 100 acres in corn and
twenty-five acres in oats. He esti-
mates that he will make 175 bales of
cotton, forty bushels of corn to the
acre and seventy-five bushels of oats
to the acre.
Mrs. Dave Johnson was seriously
wounded while handling a 22-calibre
Winchester rifle she didn't know was
loaded at Arnett last week. The weap-
on had fallen from a table and un-
breeched when it struck the floor.
When Mrs. Johnson picked It up she
coupled it and the shell exploded. The
bullet went through her wrist.
The Santa Fe carried to the state
supreme court the suit testing the I«f
gality of the 14-mill common school
le’-v for the fiscal years 1909-1910 a*
seased by the state legislature cd
1909.
The attention of business and pro-
fessional men in all portion* of the
country has been attracted to a strik-
ingly strong article by Col. George
llgrvey In the September ls»uo of the
North American Review In which the
writer takes a view of the groutest
hopefulness for the future of America
and Americans. The article Is cu
titled ”A Plea for the Conservation of
Common Sense,” and it is mooting
with the cordial approval of business
men of all shades of political opinion
throughout the entire country. In
part. Colonel Harvey says:
“UnQuesuonabiy a spirit of unrest
dominates the land. But, if it be
true that fundamentally the condition
of the country is s?und. must we
necessarily succumb to despondency,
abandon elert looking to retrieval
and cringe like cravens before clouds
that only threaten? Rather ought
we not to analyze conditions, search
for causes, find the root of the dis-
tress, which even now exists only in
men's minds, and then, after the
American fashion, apply such rem
edies as seems most likely to produce
beneficent results?
Capital and Labor Not Antagonistic.
“The Link that connects labor with
capital Is not broken but we may not
deny that it Is less cohesive than It
should be or than conditions war-
rant. Financially, the country is
stronger than ever before in its his-
tory. Recovery from a panic so
severe as that of three years ago was
never before so prompt and compara-
tively complete. The masses are
practically free from debt. Money is
held by the banks In abundance and
rates are low.
"Why, then, does capital pause
upon the threshold of Investment?
The answer, we believe, to be plain
It awaits adjustment of the relations
of government to business. • * * The
sole problem consists of determining
how government can maintain an
even balance between aggregations
of interests, on the one hand, and the
whole people on the other, protect-
ing the latter against extortion and
saving the former from mad assaults.
"The solution Is not easy to find
for the simple reason that, the situ-
ation is without precedent. Hut is
I not progress being made along sane
j and cautious lines? * • •
Conserve Common Sense.
"Is not the present, as we have
i seen, exceptionally secure? What,
then, of preparations for the future?
Patriotism is the basis of our Insti-
j tutions. And patriotism in the minds
of our youth is no longer linked solely
with fireworks and deeds of daring, it
is taught in our schools. A new
j course has been added—a course in
! loyalty. Methodically, our children
learn how to vote, how to conduct
primaries, conventions and elections,
j how to discriminate between qualifica-
tions of candidates and, finally, how
to govern as well as serve. They are
taught to despise bribery and all
: forms of corruption and fraud as
treason. Their creel, which they are
made to know by heart, Is not com-
plex. It Is simple, but comprehen
•ive, no lesH beautiful In diction than
lofty in aspiration. These are the
pledge* which are graven upon their
memories:
”A» It Is cowardly for a soldier to
run away from battle, wo It I» coward
ly for any citizen not to contrlt/'-.ie
his share to the wellbeing of hi*
' country America Is my own d
land; she nourishes me, and 1 will
l love her and do my duty to her,
whose ehll^ servant and civil soldlof
I am, , , .
"As the health and happiness of
my body depend upon each tnusote
and herve and drop of blood doing
Its work In its place, so the health
and happiness of my country depend
upon each Citizen doing his work la
his place.
"These young citizens are our
hostages to fortune. Can we not
safely assume that the principles alii-
mating thslr lives augur well for the
permanency of the Republic? When
before have the foundation stones
of continuance been laid with such
care and promise of durability?
"The future, then, is bright. And
the present? But one thing is need-
ful, No present movement is more
laudable than that which looks to
conservation of natural resources.
But let us never forget that the great-
est Inherent resource of the Amer-
ican people is Common Sense, Let
that be conserved and applied with-
out cessation, and soon It will bs
found that all the ills of which w«
complain but know not of are only
such es attend upon the growing
pains of a great and blessed country.
The Latest Fed.
Mrs, Forundrcd—Marie, I see by the
Society Weekly that the latest among
fashionable people Is to be domestic,
and appear on the avenue In matronly
garb, behind baby carriages.
Maid—Ves’iu.
Mrs. Forundrod—Go at once to Pink-
ferns and order me a costume eulta-
bie for that purpose. Then stop at
Spoke have’s and order the most ex-
pensive baby carriage they have, Next
stop-in at Madam Makeuppe’s and
tell her to eond me an appropriate
complexion and suitable hair.
Maid—Ycs’m; but the baby—
Mrs. Forundred—Order one.—New
York Weekly.
A soul occupied with great Ideas
best performs small duties.—James
1 Martlneau.
How’s This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
esse of Catarrh that cannot bo cured by Hall’s
F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. O.
Wc, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney
for t lie laBt 15 years, and believe him perfectly hon-
orable In *11 business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made by his firm.
Walui.no. Kinnan & Marvin.
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. O.
Hall's Catarrh* Cure Is taken Internally, acting
dlrectlv upon the blood and mucous surfaces of ths
system. Testimonials sent free. Frlce 75 cents per
bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
lake lian a Family Fills lor constipation.
World’s Largest Cemetery.
At Rookwood, Australia, Is the
largest cemetery in the world. It
covers 2,000 acres. Only a plot of 200
acres has been used thus far, In
which 100,000 persons of all nationali-
ties have been buried.
Cruel.
Mrs. Benham—Every time I sing to
the baby he cries.
Benham—He gets his ability as a
musical critic from my side of the
house.
A Handicapped Official.
“You let some of the swiftest auto
scorchers get by without a word?”
“I know It,” replied the village con-
stable. “My glasses don’t suit my
eyes like they used to, and 1 can’t do
eyes like they used to, and I can’t do
anything with an auto that ain't goin’
slow enough fur me to read the num-
ber."
A Mustr.ched Horss.
A thirteen-year-old borne, owned by
Victor Trauger of Walpack township,
N. J., Is attracting attention by grow-
ing a vigorous muutache, asserts tha
New York Press. The fringe hangs
below its nostrils and has already
reached the edge of its upper lip. The
longest hair Is three Inches, and tha
adornment Is as bushy as a “King
Humbert.”
Trauger Is putting it up In curl pa-
pers at night, and during the day it
looks like a man’s well-trained mus-
tache.
Pierp’s Appetite
J. P. Morgan, Sr., was always a
good trencherman in his youth and
he has as good an appetite today as
he ever had, not only for corned beef
and cabbage—his favorite dish—but
for other foods. If the Morgan, who
! dazzled the Teutons with his mathe-
matics when he was a German uni-
versity post-graduate student, had ac-
j cepted the chair of mathematics of-
fered to him by Heidelberg, instead of
his Yankee corned beef and cabbage
!t might have been frankfurters and
sauerkraut.—New York Press.
He Knows the Game.
According to the Metropolitan Meg-
azine, Fire Chief John Conway of Jer-
sey City, has solved the baseball ex-
cuse question by the posting of the
following printed notice on his desk
at fire headquarters:
’’All requests for leave of absence
owing to grandmothers’ funerals, lame
back, house cleaning, moving, sore
throat, headache, brainstorm, cousins’
wedding, general indisposition, etc.,
must be handed to the chief not later
than ten o’clock on the morning of the
game.”
Duty Smears.
“How can you go around,” demand-
ed his wife,” with tobacco Juice all
over your face?”
"This Isn’t tobacco Juice," respond-
ed the candidate, mildly. "It’s mo-
lasses. I've been kissing babies.”
Pretending.
“Bee the boys."
“Pretending to be soldiers, eh?"
"Yea; kids get lots of fun pretend-
ing."
"And grown-up*, too. I put in my
vacation pretending I was rich."
Trying to Do Getter.
"Ixiok b-ri that cheek you gavo
me I* no good!"
"All right, old man don’t get sore
j at my awkwardne**. I'll give you
another.”
Women !<■: y come and women may
go, hat a it u - an always depend up-
on Lik inn’t.er
’."/ahie C‘:U lighter by sitting
\ op at uIgaL
PUZZLED
Hard Work, Sometimes, to Rais*
Children.
Children’s taste is ofttlmes more ac-
curate, in selecting the right kind of
food to fit the body, than that of
adults. Nature works more accurate-
ly through the children.
A Brooklyn lady says: “Our little
boy had long been’ troubled with
weak digestion. We could never per-
suade him to take more than one taste
of any kind of cereal food. He was
a weak little chap and we were puz-
zled to know what to feed him on.
“One lucky day we tried Grape-
Nuts. Well, you never saw a child
eat with such a relish, and it did me
good to see him. From that day on
it seemed as though we could almost
see him grow. He would eat Grape-
Nuts for breakfast and supper, and I
think he would have liked the food
for dinner.
“The difference in his appearance is
something wonderful.
“My husband had never fancied ce-
real foods of any kind, but he be-
came very fond of Grape-Nuts and has
been much improved In health since
using it.
“We are now a healthy family, and
naturally believe in Grape-Nuts.
"A friend has two children who were
formerly afflicted with rickets. I was
satisfied that the disease was caused
by lack of proper nourishment They
showed it. So I urged her to use
Grape-Nuts as an experiment and the
result was almost magical.
"They continued the food and today
both children are well and strong ns
any children In this city, and, of
course, my friend Is a firm believer in
Clrape-Nuts for she has the evidence
before her eyes every day.”
Road “The Road to Wellvllle,” found
In pkgs. “There’s a Reason.”
Ever rontl flic nb.ive letter? A new
one nppenrs from time to time. They
nre Ki-nulne, true, nnd full of human
Interest.
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