The Orlando Clipper (Orlando, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, August 2, 1912 Page: 3 of 8
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HYPOCRISY ABOUT HIM
This Man Frankly Admits That He
Likes the Circus, and Doesn’t
Care Who Knows It.
“Well. I see there's a circus or two
coming to town b'fore long,” began the j
stocky little man with the shepherd’s,
plaid suit and the stogies and pencllsi
alternating in his weskit pocket as h«
finished his lunch. “So I s’pose it won’tj
be long till we’ll be hearing the liDe o'
Ninnekah, Okla. Declaring that the j talk of the pinhead that is ashamed to
“tin bridge trust” has made competl-
BRIDGE TRUST IS
CHARGE OF S'JGGS
Commissioner of Highways Says Com-
panies Divide the Business—State
Is Districted.
tion in bridge building a farce in thi3
s’tate and is responsible for an annual
loss to the taxpayers of half a million
dollars, Sidney Suggs, state highway
commissioner, created a stir during
an address delivered before a large
crowd here.
He declared that the combination is
fostered ,by the steel trust, and that
concerns interested in the sale of in-
ferior material are opposing the state
highway department in this and other
states because the department de-
mands a better class of material in
the public work.
“Show me the man,” declared Suggs,
“who is fighting against the state es-
tablishing and enforcing adequate and
efficient standards of construction with
public money and I will show you an
emissary or agent of the steel trust or
one of its offshoots, the tin bridge
trust or the tin culvert combine. Those
who have decent stuff to sell have no
objection to being required to sell de-
cent stuff.”
$21,483.50 IN CASH PRIZES
FOR LIVE STOCK AT STATE FAIR
Management of Big Exposition at Oklahoma City Indicates
A Desire to Bring the Best and Greatest Variety to
the Big Show September 24 to October 5.
Peel Sentenced to Seven Years.
Oklahoma City, Okla.—The first sen-
tence ever pronounced on a man found
guilty under the law of assiting a sui-
cide, was delivered in the district court
of Oklahoma county, when Judge Tay-
own up he likes to go to a circus and
says he goes for the purpose of taking
his young ones.
"Right here,” he went on after he'd
paid the waitress, “I want to remark
that when there's a circus In town I go
to It because I want to go to It I sea
that my 'kids’ go, too; but If they at-
tend the show with some of their
friends I go by myself.
“In fact I’d rather go by myself, be-
cause T don’t want to be bothered with
anybody else. I like to go to circuses,
if anybody happens to make inquiry.
I’m crazy about circuses. And what
gets me Is why any man that hasn’t
got a mess of chicken giblets In hts
skull In place of regular brains should
want to act sheepish because he goes
to circuses, or try to throw out that
line of guff about going to take the
■kids.’
“I’d rather go to a circus than any-
thing I know of. If I can get away
from the office on circus day, I go out
early and watch the men put up the
tents, and I hang around watchin’ ’em
get ready for the parade. I can put In
an hour of unmitigated enjoyment
around the side show, first listening to
the spieler on the outside, and then to
the weird explanations about where the
freaks all came from after you’ve paid
your dime and gone Into the tent.
“I like the crowd around the ticket
Oklahoma will have the greatest ex-
hibit of live stock in her history at
the sixth annual Oklahoma State Fair
and Exposition, September 24 to Oc-
tober 5, 1912. Entries in the horse
and cattle, sheep and swine depart-
ments will close September 23, but the
interest already manifested in these
departments would indicate a large in-
crease in number and quality. This
means that this year’s State Fair and
Exposition will take its place where
it belongs—in the forefront of the
great national live stock shows.
Never Defore has the management
of the Oklahoma State Fair and Expo-
sition offered such liberal premiums
for exhibits of the best breeds of live
stock. While the amount of the cash
the capacity of the big barns to accom-
modate the very finest of blooded ani-
mals.
Many of the well known exhibitors
sending beef cattle, dairy cattle, heavy
horses, jacks and mules, sheep or
swine to the 1911 State Fair have
already written that they are coming
again this year, while Secretary Ma-
han is now in correspondence with
numerous other new exhibitors. They
all say their herds are in line condi-
tion and that they will make great ex-
hibits. The horse show this year will
be especially good in the number of
splendid horses shown and there will
probably be many horses shown that
have never before been seen in this
section of the country. There is every
lor sentenced Roy Peel to serve seven ; wagon ~too ~and j don-t care a conti-
years in the penitentiary. Peei was
convicted by a jury of aiding Blanche
Jones, a woman with whom he was
living, to kill herself by giving her a
loaded revolver. The evidence at the
time showed that the two were alone
in a room; that the police, after hear-
ing a sTAt. made an investigation and
found the Jones woman with a revol-
ver wound in her body and the gun
near her on the floor. Peel was first
rental how often I get my feet stepped
on so long’s I get hold of the little
piece of pasteboard that’ll admit me
to the sawdust smell inside, where I
can sit and keep so busy looking from
one thing to another, and sort of con-
s juring up pleasant, dreamy recollec-
; tions of my youthful days.
“That’s how I stand on circuses. I’m
i crazy about 'em. And the next time
there’s a circus in town and some bro-
$500,000 Live Stock Parade—State Fair, 191 1
held for murder, but later was charged j jnidiCi undersized pinhead springs that
one about going just to take the young-
sters, he Is going to get a right sharp
rise out of me and have a few cutting
things said to him, all inside of a min-
ute or two, so he is!”—Boston Herald.
with assisting a suicide, the first case
of the kind ever tried in the state of
Oklahoma. The sentence of seven
years is the minimum under, the law,
which provides from seven to fifteen
years’ punishment for that crime.
Boardman Succeeds Embry.
Guthrie, Okla.—Announcement has
been received here of the confirma-
tion of Homer N. Boardman of Waton-
ga, to be United States district attor-
ney here, succeeding John Emmbry,
who resigned last March. Boardman
was named by President Taft on the
recommendation of former Congress-
man Dennis T. Flynn, who at Chicago
during the Republican convention held
the proxy of National Committeeman
Cash Cade. Boardman is a native of
Monticello, Iowa. He was campaign
manager, two years ago, for Congress-
man Dick T. Morgan of the Second
district.
Exploding Engine Kills and Injures.
Perry, Okla.—The explosion of a
threshing machine engine eight miles
east of Bliss killed Frank Immel, the
engineer, and injured Joe Kelly, one of
the crew. Both were struck by flying
pieces of iron. Kelly is expected to
recover. Escaping steam also struck
Immel, cooking his flesh until it drop-
ped from the bones. He was 33
of age and lived at Ponca City. The
cause of the acicdent is unknown.
Defect of a Good Quality.
Does it not seem odd that so often
thrifty women are of the nagging
sort?
Is it because money loving must al-
ways influence the disposition toward
hardness?
But then one may be thrifty from
far better reasons than mere love of
money. Perhaps it is just in the
difference of motive that the solution
lies.
Hoarding and scraping for one’s
children should not harden the heart
of the hoarder and scraper.
But does it never?
However, there must be far more
selfishness and consequent hardening
in reckless extravagance than there
can possibly be in thrift.
If I wanted, for any reason, to pick
out the hardest hearted woman in the
world I should at once look for ono
who has dragged her husband into an
1 abyss of debt by the extravagance of
i years.—Chicago Tribune.
prizes does not make the fair it shows
beyond all question of dispute the
position occupied by the management
and indicates its desire to bring the
best and the greatest variety to the
great State Fair and Exposition this
fall. Here is a list of cash prizes of-
fered in the live stock department:
Cattle, $6,612.00; Heavy Horses, $4,-
946.00; Light Horses, $966.00; Horse
Show, $3,020.00; Sheep, $1,261.00;
Swine, $2,440.00; Poultry, $2,238.50, or
a total of $21,483.50.
The showing In all departments this
year is expected to exceed that of any
other year. Secretary I. S. Mahan is
getting letters by the hundreds every
day, asking about live stock entries,
and the indications are that it will tax
A MAN IN THE OPEN
indication that the swine show will be
larger than ever and already reserva-
tions for pens are being made.
splendid line of specials contribute
largely to the interest in all the classes
of live stock.
People of Oklahoma who missed tho
half a million dollar live stock parade
at the 1911 Oklahoma State Fair
missed the sight of a life time. It is
worth more to the average man, wom-
an or child to go to see than to catch
a glimpse of any other known parade
or pageant, not even excepting the
inauguration next March at Washing-
ton, and this year it is believed live
stock worth at least a million dollars
will pass in front of the immense grand
stand.
I This unusual style has the advantage
Bearing the decided stamp of oriSi-, hoarst!,’k I’hei'r"o^rionc^s'7l!o°charf
nality, A Man in the Open, by Roger : acteristics of the various figures in the
Pocock, heads the list of early autumn j story and of injecting into the narra*
books. It is an entirely new departure
in fiction writing, but will he none the
less welcome because of that. It Is
bound to attract attention by reason of
its very oddity and unconventionality.
The author has tapped a fountain of
humor that never dwindles, his knowl-
edge of human nature is seemingly
limitless, the supply of adventure is
bounteous, the philosophy is shrewd
tive a charm of variety which keeps
the interest at fever heat. Surprise
follows close on the heels of {surprise,
and there is never an instant when
the reader has cause for declining in-
terest.
But most remarkable of all is the
character of the hero. Never before,
since men began writing of imaginary
people, has anybody thought of such a
man as Jesse Smith. He comes to life
Politics Reach Fighting Stage.
McAlestpr, Okla.—Local politics
reached the fighting stage here the
other day when, followjiig an argu-
ment, Mayor B. A. Enlne, Jr., knocked
out County Commissioner John H. Sav-
age in one round. The mayor went to
the municipal court, pleaded guilty and
paid a $5.00 fine.
In 1916.
“But you can’t vote for that wom-
years j an Remember that you have been
sent here with instructions to vote for
Mrs. Pollington first, last and all the
time. You are in honor bound to obey
those Instructions.”
“Fie on your old instructions,” re-
plied the lady delegate. “I wouldn’t
vote for Mrs. Pollington even if there
were no other woman in the world to
vote for. She’s gone and had her hat
trimmed just like mine.”—Chicago
Record-Herald
and original and the narrative never j and a„ 1(s expericnces absolutely fresh
fails to hit the target. One might think nn/i nifrvo-oHwn* Boc- monvr nvn»«.t
,.,at De Morgan had reached the
of formlessness; but Mr. Pocock seems :that seems to be lnherent in his nature,
to go him one better, though his struc-1 A]I the prima] passlons of meu are fa.
tural method Is artistic In its uneven-
ness and serves to emphasize the stal-1
wart character of Jesse Smith, the I
hero.
miliar to him, but the littleness, the
meannesses engendered by human na-
ture, he does not readily comprehend,
and each of them has to be thrust on
In the beginning the story is related j him afresh. He is not stupid, he is not
by an ignorant mail in the first person
from his earliest recollection. Later,
his wife, whom he marries long after
the beginning of the story and who is
a cultivated woman, takes up the tale
and for a few chapters carries it on,
when it is resumed by the husband.
After the middle of it is past, and there
Is trouble between the husband and
the wife, it is told in the form of let-
wilfully blind, he is not sentimental
where human nature is concerned; but
the little training he has had as a child
and his later life at sea and on the
plains have made him oblivious of
small things and have absorbed him
In the vastness of nature. So, through
every thing, he remains simple, and
he approaches all situations and prob-
lems fr.ee from conventional views and
ters from the man to his dead mother. J methods of treatment.
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Lanter, W. L. The Orlando Clipper (Orlando, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, August 2, 1912, newspaper, August 2, 1912; Orlando, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc913618/m1/3/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.