The Rocky Weekly Advance. (Rocky, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 13, 1907 Page: 4 of 8
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for the sometime and amount,
that it had cost the parties the
/ year before.
Now we do not pretend to
know anything about the way
. other people do business. All
we know is that we got every
, cent we were entitled to out of
the business. Possibly we were
pot enticed to as much us other
} people. We cant say as to that.
But we have always been sat"
isfied with what we are entitled
> to. At all events it seems to
have been a good thing for
Rocky and vicinity to have an
insurance agency, not only be-
cause it has saved the people
, nione7 but because it has been a
groat convenience.
Perhaps we ought to say a
Vford in behalf of the insurance
i»gent who charges a policy fee,
(which we duni) for ;k* reason
that his expenses are greater
, than.^ours. In order to secure
his business he has to do a great
deal of traveling, and this is ex
pensive.
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Wo do not travel over the
country to solicit insurance.
Probably three days woulc
cover the entire time taken
away from our other business,
iP° aH the, foregoing business
, an,l therefore we can afford to
write yoijr insurance for the
commission on the legitimate
premium ( which we do ).
Of coin so, it should be under-
stood that ono groat reason why
people give us their insurance is
because by doing so, they help
out tho papey in Rocky, and they
feel that it is an advantage to
the town to have as good a paper
as possible, and when they can
assist in this matter, by merely
placing their insurance with us
with no raced cost, (frequency
■les9 ) they.^re glad to do so, and
we, on our part are glad to have
them, because it enables .us, rc
get out just eo much better a
PLAIN VIEW ITEMS
Mr. J. R. Cook and daughter
Mrs Alvin Haley loft for Vernon
l«*x. last Wednesday to see sic k
relatives. They returned Sun-
day morning.
A number of our young folks
attended singing at Mr. and Mrs
loin Brown s Sunday ev ning.
Mrs C. C, Allen and little dau-
ghter went to Rocky Friday.
Rev. Goul was unable to fill
his appointment at PlainView
Sunday, on account of the rain,
Pee Gilland went to Ilohart
Tuesday.
A good sized crowd attended
the Anderson s le, mo t every
hing sold brought a good price
Mrs Jim Ilaley spent a feu-
days with her mother last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Gamble moved
to their new home on tho An
derson farm Tuesday. We are
glad to welcome.Mr. and Mrs.
Gamble into our neighborhood
and Uopo they will be pleased
with this country.
Mr and Mrs Will Long visited
Monday with Lit. former’s pa-
rents Mr. and Mrs John Long.
Auctioneer Pickerel urd wife
visited a little while Monday
with Mr and Mrs H. Marshall.
Mrs Solomon was very sick
last week.
Billy Anderson, wife, and fam
ily started Tuesday foi their new
home. Billy has given up j is
Mexico trip. And intends to
ocate some where in the pasture
and. We wish them success.
Mrs Will Allen and little
daughter visited Mrs W. Long
Saturday.
< Jill,
PIGS AND POLITICS
There are two pigs in Rocky
who have a vital interest in the
result of the first gate rnatori.dl
campaign tn Oklahoma.
They belong to Uncle Mike
Robinson. Ho has named one
Cruoe and the other Haskell
And he has made a vet. to
kill the one that dor.t get elected.
I nclo Mike is such a strong
Cruce man that wo wouldnt Lo
surprised if, in the event of
Grace's defeat, ho would kill
Haskell loo.
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It isn(t costing Ed,* Denison
much for shoe leather these da vs
i hat’s because he is walking
oil a.r since the s ;cond little gir
Das come into his family.
She arrived Tuesday June 11.
md (lie entire family is doing
jfino except little Mi id red who
“ bad her nose broken ” by the
coming- of the little sister.
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If you meet & stalwart young
fellow that knows you but you
Jont kiow him, it is probably
Bari ie Tierce, who is back from
Biackwell College for his sum
mer vacation. He has grown a
toot or two, since last summer,
it satins to us He goes back
next fall.
Rocky was as
follows
For Clerk
Bolding
150
Austin
14
Coker
18
Rigsbeo
2
For Superintendent
McAlister.
100
Hubbard
05
W7alIaco
18
For Representative
Reeve
101
Loveall
8G
Smith
82
Oiiry
22
For Governor
Haskell
146
Cruco
20
Doyle
5
For .-District Judge
Tolbert
120
Edwards
35
Morrill
9
Gore received 125 votes for
Senator.
The total vote was 188.
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I pay 7 cents a -pound for
hides. J. A. Olive.
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Mr. and Mrs. Will Sanders
got home from Lone Wolf Thuis
lay mbrning.
paper r- ,which is our principal
aim tp d6. ‘ 1 ’ , '
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• Then, too the fact that Rocky
has never been asked to put up
.a bonus to got a paper started
as most towns are called upon
to do in such eases, may have
something to do with it.
The insurance business may
be considered as doing tho same
thing that tho bonus does, with
this difference that the bonus
costs the town money, while the
insurance plan costs nothing.
It would have to ho paid to
some one any how.
Taking into consideration the
experience of our first year
•“ tJhe insurance business as a
side issue” we feel that it has
been a good thing all around and
f at by means of it, the public
is not only getting a better paper
but has actually saved money
y the deal. Insurance will
never again ho as high as it has
been in Rocky.
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DIED, Tuesda June 11th
Miss Lizzie Sharp, of Rainy, Age
20. Her death resulted from
Measles with other complications
Miss Sharp had been a suffer
ei trom childhood, having injur-
ed her hack by a fall down stairs
when a little girl.
She was a bright intelligent
young lady and will be greatly
missed by a largo circle of friends
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A FINE SHOWING
In this issue will he found the
reporfcof the State Bank of
Rocky.
It will be seen that about 78
percent of its deposits are on
hand in cash assets.
These with the bank and fix-
tures would ho Bufficent to pay
deposits in full if all the loans
and discounts would bo found
worthless. If that isn’t conser-
vative banking we wouldn’t
know where to look for it.
And by tho way, the appear-
ance of this report in our col-
umns indicate that th ' Advance
is now old enough to publish
legal notices of all kinds.
A paper loss than a year old
cannot publish legal notices of
any kind
Thanking our friends for their
kind cooperation, and pledging
* * *
Charley and Jim Lanterman,
Rich Rasor, and Dick Dyaswent
on a wolf hunt recently and
made a bag of one Mamma wolf
and nine wolflets.
* * *
Agent Ralston is fighting the
battle of life alone. Wife anc
babies are gone on a v e
old folks in Kansas.
* * *
Always a cup of good coffee
t Olive’s Restaurant.
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TROUSERS UNDER THE BAN.
Less Than a Century Ago They Were
Considered Irreligious.
It will assuredly seem more than
strange that within the past hundred
years the wearing of trousers has
been regarded a3 Irreligious. The fact
(hat In October. 1812, an order was
made by St. John’s and Trinity col-
leges that every young man who ap-
peared in hall or chjipel in pantaloons
or trousers should be considered as
absent Is startling enough; but It
would appear that eight years later
the founders of a Bethel chapel at
Sheffield inserted a clause in the
trust deed ordaining that "under no
circumstances whatever shall any
preacher be allowed to occupy tho
pulpit who wears trousers.” This Is
striking, but It Is even moro impres-
sive to find that Rev. Hugh Bourne,
ono of the two founders of the Primi-
tive Methodist Connexion, said of his
confounder, "That trousers wearing,
beer drinking Clowes will never get
to heaven." And it would need a stu-
dent of "the Breeches Bible” to say
precisely when this assumed con-
nection between theology and trousers
began and where tho departure from
it will end.—Notes and Queries.
Mr. D.W.Means r:e wi(h a
painful accident a fe w days ago
while Itiadin straw.
The team ulartcd'up, throwing
him to the ground, dislocating
his shoulder.
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A Broken Family.
. "T bought your married life wan 30
happy,” eaid tho gossipy woman “and
now you say tho courts have ’ sepa-
rated you from your husband.” “Yes,”
answered the woman who was weep-
ing. 'John has been drawn oa the
jury again.”
Although the two candidates
from this part of the county,
made records of which they
have a right to feel proud it so
happened that each lacked a few
votes of enough to win in the
county.
McAlister lost the Suprintend
ency to Hubbard by -10 votes and"
Bolding fell GS votes below
Austin for Clerk.
Both men carried their own
boxes by heavy majorities.
Frank Folding's majority in
the precincts of Rocky, Rainy and
Sentinel were simply -‘beastly"
He got the largest' home vote
of any man on the ticket.
We have not been able to get
figures on Mr McAlister,but we
understand that wherever he
was best known, his vote was
very heavy.
Hot Chilli at
Olive’s Restaurant.
DRIVES OUT SPIRITS
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HOW “HOCDCO DOCTOR” TREATS
HIS PATIENTS.
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REPORT
Negro People Mostly Are Firm Believ-
ers in His Power to Save from
Effects of Being Con-
jured by Enemy.
Dutch Courage.
The phrase “Dutch courage,” which,
ns .the World truly says, was a libel
upon th0 most redoubtable foes (and
nov/ the truest friends) we ever met
at sea, seems to have originated in a
story that a hogshead of brandy was
broached before the mast on a Dutch
man-of-war' upon going into action,
says tho Loudon Chronicle. There
were many old expressions which im-
plied our forefathers’ belief In the con-
vivin! habits of the Dutch. A "Dutch
bargain" was a bargain mado when all
the parties were In liquor, and a
"Dutch feast” Is explained by Grose as
one at which the entertainer got drunk
before his guests. Any number of ex-
pressions may be assigned to the old
hostility to tho Dutch-such as "Dutch
comfort," or “consolation" (it’s a good
job it’s no worse); a "Dutch defense,"
which In “Tom Jones” means a treach-
erous surrender; and, "if I do, I’m a
Dutchman."
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Remember the Chautauqua ai
Hobart, commencing Juno lGth
our best efforts for the future we ending, Jimo 22nd. llohson
lose this sketch of “ A Year’s Bryan, mid other noted speakers
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Insurance Business in Rocky ’
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Rights of Employes Laid Down.
"Framers of Iho earliest laws which
have come down to us gave particular
attention to the question of the rights
of employes,” writes an observer.
“Those wonderful statutes which the
great Babylonian king, Hammurabi,
codified over 10 centuries ago have
law upon law- devoted to t{ie rights of
servants. If the servants were free
born then their rate or payment was
lived for them, their scalo of compen-
sation established in tho event of
their suffering Iohs or Injury. For tho
most pari, of course, the servants of
that ago were slaves, For these, too,
provision was made, if a doctor in
Jared a servant in a surgical operation
he had to pay half the price which
that slave cost; If death resulted tho
master received slave for slave. If tho
patient were cured, then his master
had to pay the doctor's fee—two
shekels of silver "
Outdoor Life of English Women.
English Judies cook not at all and
tlit lr servants cook horribly, but still
the English lady is free to go out for
her walks an 1 drives and rides—and
she dots. Then there’s the climate—
iho dear old soggy climate that you
can bo out-of-doors in ail the year
round, One doesn't stay in the house
and work one’s self to slirods over
< laborato cakes for tho children—they
eat stale buns. Altogether I believe
tho well-spring of our contentment
over there is the ndorahle gypsy Brit-
ish spirit that’s always driving one
ut of tho house—it's so restful to be
out In the open air! They are terribly
envious ol tho real wildernesses over
hero where people can go and camp
out summers, but after all—outside of
the circle of fashionable pleasure-
chasers, who are making themselves
diz:i.v in their little merry-go-round all
the time—Englishmen camp out every
dny In one way or another.—Helen
Leavenworth, In the Outer’s Book.
Educated Care.
Some of the villagers were over-
heard dismissing tho nmlr’a motor-
cir. "It In m.I a carriage, for It has
no horses," said one. "It is not a train
inr 11 lias no rails,”.said another. "My
brothers," raid the oldest of the gray-
beards, "ye are as fools having no un-
derstanding. For f,0 years the sahibs
have been training their devil car-
riages run on rails. Now at Inst
they Slave learned to run by them-
selves."—Loudon Bpoctntor.
Other doctors may cure you If you
are stricken with some disease, but
there is only one doctor who can Cure
you if you are really “hoodooed.”'
The "hoodoo doctor” is a tall, gaunt
and cadaverous looking negro with a
wealth of long wavy hair, and lie lives
In the West side, says the Kansas City
Star. He is a familiar ligure on the
streets of both cities, and invariably
carries a little black hand satchel.
Tho hoodoo doctor is held in awe by
mno-tenths cf tho negro population
and his services are in demand by tho
people cf ills race.
^°u may laugh at us for believing
in our hoodoo doctor," said one colored
woman, ’but what is tho difference be-
tween him and the divine healers of
white folks?”
The negro people, or at least a greht
majority of them, are firm believers in
tne power of tho evil spirit nnd go So
lar as tr> “ v' 1 wine of their race wlih
the p'dwer l:> “conjure” an enemy, or
cne of whom tho conjurer i3 jeal
ous.
hen such a person pays a social
call to a supposed friend the first thing
necessary after the visit, according fo
the hoodoo doctor is to thrqw coarse
i alt over the iloor of the room in which
the alleged conjurer has visited, and
then, with a vigorous moVementi
sweep-the salt east and west and north
and south, the while tho’ sweeper mut-
ters an Incantation known only to tho
hootkio doctor and to his patients.
Iho next step is to send for tho hoo-
doo doctor—the quicker the better, in
order th. I the conjuror may not have
time to get In Ills deadly Whrk or tb
work any material harm to the health
or the happiness of his victim.
When the hoedoo, doctor arrives
upon tho scene be goes through the
salt sweeping process again and calls
upon the evil spirits to depart in-
s.anter. - IHs visits are preferably
made at night, but where this Is im-
practicable the room wherein lies the
victim of the dread hoodoo is darken-
ed. The hoodoo doctor then proceeds
to rub his patient—always in tho dark
—and the evil spirits he robs out of a
conjured patient are said to be mar-
velous in size and hideous to behold
After the rubbing process Is over the
hoodoo doctor prepares a concoction
ol hard boiled eggs, fresh grans in Bum-
mer or the dried article in winter, a
handful of twigs and several otiier
mysterious and more or less unpala-
table ingredients, the concoction a fie-
ri et known oniy to the hoodoo doctor.
I liis he feeds in tablespoon doses un-
t-1 ho is asxured that the work of the
conjurer has be. n destroyed and his
patiento free from all tho wiles to
which victims of tho evil spirit are
lielrs.
Once a negro has been hoodooed ho
*3 a|lt have a recurrent attack nt
any time, always being moro* or less
susceptible to the wicked conjurer
l lius is tho hoodoo doctor in sucli
great demand.
"People can bo hoodooed In different
ways." said I lie hoodoo doctor. "They
run be 'fixed so they' can amount to
anything or have any success In busi-
ness or love or bo able lo keep in talr-
i> good health, and they just got to
get thal hoodoo out of ’em before they
ever will be tin. good. That’s what’s
.no matter with lots of the white folks'
1 illurca, only they think they are too
s.iiart to bother with the hoodoo doc-
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of the Condition of
THE STATE BANK OF ROCKY
At Rocky, in . me Territory cf
Oklahoma, at the close of business
* June 1st. 11X7
RESOURCES
Loans apd Discounts §19,861,38
Overdrafts, secured and unsecured 12.54
Bunking House $948 32
Furniture and Fixtures $615,20
Due from Banks §38.452,65
CJidcks and other’Cash Items §120,81
Cash and bight Exchange flj, 131,jJ7
TOTAL $03.142,41
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock Paid-In $5,000,00
Surplus Fund $0 000,00
Ludiyided Profits, less Expenses and
taxes Paid #1,401,51-
Individual Deposits subject ,y to
Chock $51,645,75
Time Certificates of Deposit $2,500,00
Cashier’s Checks Outstanding $595,13
TOTAL ... $63,142,41
TERRITORY OF OKLAHOMA
Couktv of W 1S1IITA ss.
I. W. A. McAtee.Casbio, of the above
n a.nitd Bank, do solemnly swear tha
the above statement is true und that
said Bank lias no other liabilities and is
not endorser on any note or obligation
otiier than that shown in tli^ above
statement, toltlie best of my.knowledge
and belief, so belpjmeJOod.
Wr. A. McAtee. Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
,^’th (jay of June 1907.
J. A. Julicu, Notary Public.
My commission expires May 1M911
correct Attest:
F.C. Finerty
F. P. Finerty3 it ibkctors.
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iHf] JIM OLIVE RESTAUR
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ANT AND
MEAT MARKET,
Everything first class ip
line. • V. , -
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I sell you meat at tha low price
of 7 to 10 cents per pound. ,
We sell you Breakfast Bacon
strips at 14 cents.
Best skinned Ham 171-2.
Same carved up, 20 cents per
pound. ... /-■ t,
I handle only the BEST.
In our Restaurant we serve the
best steaks. -Gall and give ns a
tn a 1. \y e propose to treat - .you
right. ,
J. A. OLIVE,
Sole proprietor.
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Binder & Mower
REPAIRS!
WE KEEP'THEM ON HAND
We will have a full stock
for the following BINDERS
DEERING
McCormick ' p 'u
OSBORNE
MILWAUKEE
and for MOWERS
DEERING . >
McCORMICK
OSbOItNE
We keep these repairs in stock
.uni you can get them at a mo,
iuent’s notice.
Anything special that we
haven’t in stock we will get for
you on short notice.
Wehave rural phone.
Just phono in and we are a
your service. , , .
J,I.DENISON,
Hardwareman
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A squara meal and a equa
ileal at Olive’s Restaurant.
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