The Spencer Siftings (Spencer, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 13, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 18, 1910 Page: 1 of 8
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THE SPENCER SIFTINGS
PUBLISHED AT 217 NORTH HARVEY ST., OKLAHOMA CITY. OKI.A.. BY THE SUBURBAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHING COMPANY.
NO. 13
SPENCER, OKLA. SATURDAY JUNE 13, 1310.
SI.00 PER YEAR
SPENCER NEWS NOTES CHOCTAW NEWS.
Crops around Choctaw look fine
since the rain.
Professor Harris dug hjs potato
J. Floyd Greason, Local Editor.
DO YOU WANT TO GO.
We have two or three scholarships crop Tuesday and they were fine,
in Hill’s or Draughn’s Business Col-1 Dr. Townsend and wife were called
lege to sell. Will give reduction aud j to the city on account of the serious
easy payments. These Colleges are (illness of the doctor's mother. We
the best in Oklahoma City. Write B. hope she will recover,
f. Cole & Son, Box 246, Oklahoma Little Russel Evans has been very
City. | sick but Is much better.
—•-- i Mr. and Mrs. Frank Anderson were
Quite a number from Spencer at- trading in Choctaw Monday,
tended the celebration in Oklahoma Mr. and Mrs. Ralls are boarding at
City Wednesday evening. ithe c,t>' hotel.
. , ,, . . , Several farmers are hauling some
Messrs. Harry Lehmer, Ben \ rig j very jjne po(ra{0e8 the city,
and his (brother a^e attending the je8g £tone_ who has been visiting
county teachers’ Institute now being jn yQ{? eastern part of the state, has
held in Oklahoma City, returned.
It was interesting to those ac- The dance at the home of Mr. and
quainted with the voting capacity of Mrs. Keener, Wednesday night, was
Spencer to note the heavy vote cast well attended. Everyone reports a
for the capital location. When Spen- good time.
cer was thrown upon the canvass by Miss Ola Hughes, of Harrah, is
the Oklahoman office and its vote re- visiting with MrB. N'. H. Hughes and
corded the large crowd gave Spencer friend, in Choctaw,
a boosting cheer, while they were Rev. Wood will preach at the M.
crowded around to note the returns E. church Sunday morning and even-
as received by the Oklahoman on the ing. Everyone invited to attend,
evening of the election. Mrs. F. Darling is on the sick list.
. > Mrs. J. W. Smith and Mrs. Dave
Mr. Janies F. Greason, who was Amleraon were m Oklahoma City Fri-
prtncipal of the Spencer hlgn school
this year, was admitted to the supreme ^ Frank Cook hag purcha8<?d a
court of Oklahoma last week upon Qew ojl gtove
a two days' written examination. The uncle Bob Ewing has just returned
oath was administered by the c iief fronj goutb McAlester, where he has
justice and license issued which e"- been v[8itjng. He says Choctaw is
titles the holder the privilege to prac- goQd enougrfl for him
nienput nourt ot Oklahoma , w.... ^ „
tice in the highest court of Oklahoma
and all the inferior courts.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Knott, of Okla-
homa City, attended the Sunday
Let scime one who is interested in 1 * school convention at the Oak Hill
the news of Spencer report some to school house Sunday. They both made
The Siftings. The publishers will be a very interesting talk. Several very
glad to publish all happening* of in-j able speakers were there. We had a
terest in and around Spencer, and fine dinner, if anyone went away hun-
the people will be glad to read it gry it was his own fault. When Oak
after it is published. There are a .Hill people undertake anything they
number of young men and young always make a success and the Choc-
ladies in Spencer who ought to report taw people alwavs accept their invi-
to newspapers the news. Lots of tations for they know they wMl be
boys and girls are glad for such a treadted nicely. Mr. H. P. Sword,
privilege, besides it is educative. superintendent of the Oak Hill Sun-
_ ’ , , heintr daT School, cordially invites everyone
ThecapUa! ^Oklahoma no^eing | Sunday School every Sun-
In Oklahoma City, afforus much con- . 10.30
venience to i Mrs- A D Jones is in recel^ of a
Spencer peop e. cai}itai es- letter from the P°lice department of
!ive in k,ght of th® .tote «piUl.^ Psanci^o, Cal„ telling of the
d-h of her so, Ue. He was found
“CUB" RECRUIT IS PITCHING GREAT BULL IS READY TO RETIRE
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Rear Admiral Kimball Will Soon
Haul Down Flag.
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, Officer Who Recently Settled the Nic-
araguan Imbroglio Without War,
Was First to Recognize the
Submarine’s Value.
Washington.—When Rear Admiral
William Wirt Kimball hauls down his
flag from the cruiser Albany as com-
mander-in-chief of the Nicaragua ex-
peditionary force he will have ended
a five months' tour of duty which has
been of exceptional Interest and Im-
portance. The assignment, moreover,
has been extremely complimentary to
him. Inasmuch as he is the only offi-
cer of the navy who has been as-
signed to the command of a squadron
after having been transferred from
the list of active service to the roster
of the retired.
The admiral had already rounded
out the stipulated period of active
service when the Nicaraguan trouble
broke out When In the first of last
LEONAR D COLE.
City will be worth more.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
All is well that ends well.
One of Mr. Bryan s slogans in his
last campaign was: "Let the people 01 * * * ■
rule.” Let the people understand.
They always have and always will do
the ruling.
•death of her son. Lee. He was founJ
in a room asphyxiated. He left Okla-
homa City April 11th, with the Camp-
bell Bros. show. Beware, 'boys, if you
have a good home, take your mother's
advice af?d stay at home.
Miss Jennie Socerman had the mis-
fortune of being burned very badly j
while trying to light a fire with coal
The railroads are now placing on
special low rates for the summer to
all parts of the United States. As a
general rule the railroads are more
favorable to the public in this par-
ticular when their rates are not
tampered with by legislation.
Mr. F. Compton, postmaster, has
purchmased a fine show case.
Miss Lela Compton is clerking for
her grandpa.
Mr. Clyde La won, of Oklahoma j
City, was down Sunday and attended
the Oak Hill convention. He met lots
of his old friends.
Miss Nettie Stephens went t0 Mc-
IfCud Tuesday to have a tooth extract-
ed Pcor girl! !
Mrs. Ben Anderson went to Shaw-
nee Tuesday.
Some of the candidates will be de- \ye are very BOrry to have Mr. and
feated because they are known and Mrs Rans leave us. YVe fear it will
gome because they are not known. be hard to get another good agent.
Better get right with the people. I Miss Rachel Stubblefield and her
- little nephew, Charley Stump, and
It is never good taste to speak un- j her sister, were shopping in Oklalio-
kindwords about the deceased. Let ma City Tuesday,
us not be too hard on Guthrie. The Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Smith were the
election demonstrated emphatically guests of Mr. and Mrs. Paul B.
that the people like fairness. It is Stone, of Oklahoma City, Sunday,
not good policy to try to win by run- Mrs. Bud Cunningham is on the
ning the other party down. Better sick list.
be defeated and comeout with clean Among those who are attending the
hands than win by destroying the teachers’ institute of Oklahoma City
character and reputation of opponents irom Choctaw are Mrs. Dr. McCor-
by unfair tactics. mack, the two Westmoreland sisters,
_ ! Miss VanHook and Miss Pauls.
The twentieth century Is pre-emi- j . .... 1
nently the age of the leader in all
vocations and avocations of life. The j
leader in small things is translated
great when sumed up as a common
factor towards a common end. All j
cannot be great in position of life
as the world sees it. but all can do
a man’s part in a manly way. These
are the things that count after all.
IT LOOKS as if Manager Chance of
1 the Chicago Cubs made a real dis-
covery when he got Leonard Cole
from the Southern Michigan league.
Cole has pitched four games for the
ex-champions and each was a victory.
’’King” Cole is naturally the nickname
given to the recruit by the Chicago
fans, who have taken to his twirling
like a duck does to water.
Cole is a barber and in his first four
games he gave his opponents every-
thing from a shave to a massage. Un-
der the direction of Chance and his
catchers Cole has been practising on
a slow one and when he used It suc-
cessfully against the Pirates Chance
was tickled almost to death.
The new twlrler has established the
fact that marriage is not a failure. He
took a bride recently and she has
been a silent "rooter" for him In every
game he has pitched. Chance Is urg-
ing the other bachelors of his staff
to get married.
That fellow Richie, obtained in a
trade with Boston, likewise is going
some. The Cubs took Richie because
he had been a stumbling block for
Pittsburg. Richie upheld his reputa-
tion by shutting out the Pittsburg
bunch the first time the two teams
met after he became a Cub.
such and such a play would have gone
through, but tbc trouble Is they do
not grasp the idea at the right mo-
ment"
One of the duties of the present-
day editor is to interpret the world
to its inhabitants; to show the indi-
vidual, the state, the nation what
place each holds in the panorama ot
human development; to enable the
patriot, the prophet, the statesman to
read the signs of the times, that they
may labor together without friction
or lost energy for the upbuilding of
the race.
Senator Hale's Whims,
Senator Hale, who will pass from
public lift at the close of congress, has :
many peculiar whims and fancies. Em- j
ployees at the capitol regard him with ;
awe. It is his practise to enter the |
building at the east front and take ;
the elevator. He never notices agy of i
the boys who might be standing j
around. Due day, however, contrary * 1
to his usual custom, when he entered
the building, the senator was all
smiles and graciously tipped his silk
bat to the watchman and elevator
man The incident caused a small
panic. "The senator is going to put !
- good thing over this day," said one
of the employees
Plague of Rats In Canada.
According to Consul General Jones,
at Winnipeg. Canada Is In great need
Now that the election is
every Oklahoman pull togetht
greater Oklahoma. I-et us r
guns upon the enemy and n
each other. Let us turn or
tfl<in io the big,throbbing p
of building up the counties an
of the state.
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rat traps Farmers In the grain
are becoming anxious over the
: >n of rodents from the United
f e r a
tos, and m
willing and able to
our
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a good pr:e
•or a trap that will
upon
it ;
The
'dne dumb8
•ats am >
H y and efficiency
ring Winnipeg and
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mots to c!
k them by inocula-
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fifty
! with a con
micable virus have
ownb i
SO
far failed
r>p their march.
The newspapers seldom refer to
John J. McGraw, manager of the New
York Giants as "Muggsy” any more.
It Is not because McGraw isn’t as
scrappy as ever, but he has said he
didn’t like the nickname and the base-
ball writers have deferred to his
wishes. McGraw, who has that bunch
of Giants going at top speed all the
time, recently in an Interview said
the peculiar athletic ability that
makes a ball player a star must be
born in him. It certainly was born In
John, for in his day he certainly was
a star.
"During my career as a player and
as a manager on the diamond,” said
McGraw, ‘‘I probably have seen 1,000
players start out in the spring, and I
have never seen a star develop who
was not born with the ability to make
his success.
"Of course they can be developed
and Improved, but they must have the
germ of the ball player when they
start, or they will be Just ordinary
ball players. Whenever you find a
young player at the plate who sees his
fellow-player about to “pull” a new
one as we call a clever play, and then
see the batter work with him, you
have found the natural ball player.
"We have In baseball a class of
ball players who are known by the
players as T thought’ ball players
That is to say. they will make a bad
play and then upon their return to the
bench will say, ’Well. I thought,' etc.
Those players never make stars. If
they had seen the play at the start
they could hava fallen Into It and
helped to carry it through, but they
didn't because they didn’t think of It
quickly enough. They were not born
with the power to think and act a*
the same time. After thinking It over
for a few minutes and digesting It
thoroughly they can readily see why
“No, Indeed, Inside baseball Isn’t
bunk," says Clarke Griffith. "If you
have the pitchers you can pull oft a
lot of this Inside stuff.
"With the Mathewsons and Browns
working you can use signs, signals
and shifts galore. When your pitch-
ers have perfect control of the ball
and twists on the sphere which force
the batter to hit weakly, you can
plug up the ’grooves.’
"With the greatest pitching staff In
the big leagues the Chicago players
are puffing out their chests like pouter
pigeons and taking a lot of credit for
being the best 'Inside* artists.
"No disputing the assertion that
Chance is commanding a ‘smart’ ball
club, but did you ever watch the Cubs
J when their pitchers were going
wrong?
"With the best pitchers and catch-
ers of course the Cubs can get away
with lots of that Inside stuff, but.
mark you, with ordinary twlrlers
working they are so busy chasing
base hits that they don’t find time to
‘shift’ and signal on every pitched
ball.
“Brown, Reulbach, Overall and Mc-
Intlre are the masters of the pitcher’s
mound. They can throw the pea to
any corner of the piate they want to.
"I^et KUng signal for a fast ball
outside and. of course, the lnflelders
will shift to the right to head off a
hit to right field. If the ball pitched
Is a slow inshoot of course the in
fielders will shift to the left When a
pitcher can put the ball anywhere he
want3 to the lnflelders can shift for
fast balls and curves, but If the twlrl-
er is a bit unsteady. It knocks all this
’Inside’ business into a cocked hat"
Ban Johnson has Issued an order
that In future catchers must take
their masks and protectors to the
bench after each half-inning, so that
these Implements are not strewn
about so as to Interfere with players
chasing foul files, or force an umpire
to do some hurdling If he has occasion
to leave his position behind the bat
The broom which is used for sweep-
ing off the plate is also to be carried
out of the way. for there have been
several instances where players, while
fielding a foul, have slipped on the
handle and injured themselves.
Rear Admiral Kimball.
December the government deemed It
necessary to send a strong body of
marines and a numerous force of war-
ships to the scene, It was announced
that Admiral Kimball, then on duty
In Washington, had been assigned to
command the expedition. The ad-
miral was then almost on the
verge of retirement and It was prac-
tically certain that this duty would
considerably overlap Into the retired
period. But as explained by the navy
department, "Kimball Is the very man
for the work."
Those Intimately acquainted with
the admiral and who had a fore-
knowledge of what the work was like-
ly to be, did not need that official In-
dorsement to know that he was the
very man to handle It. Eminently
competent In his profession, the ad-
miral possessed other qualifications
which peculiarly fitted him for this
task, one of these being a thorough
knowledge of International law. The
result has shown that It was to Ad-
miral Kimball, more than to any oth-
er man, Is due the credit of our hav-
ing emerged from the Nicaragua im-
broglio with so few blunders when the
possibility of creating numerous ones
and accentuating those already made
were so numerous and prolific.
But the admiral showed himself to
be a diplomat of a high order. He
won the confidence and esteem of
the whole of Nicaragua, Irrespective
of party. He was cheered wherever
he went, by the Madrtz government
party, by the Estradlsts, by the inter-
ventionists.
"What we need," one of the Inter-
ventionists enthusiastically said to
the admiral at the time when Inter-
vention talk was running high. "Is
American occupation and the strong
arm of your country compelling order
in Nicaragua.”
“What you really most need," the
DOG USED THE TELEPHONE
It is worth $500 to be compelled to
remain unwillingly at the Polo
grounds to see the New York Na-
tionals play ball, according to a re-
cent cerdlct returned In the supreme
court. Frederick L. Talcott, Jr., of
Manhattan, received Judgment in that
| amount against the National Exhibi-
| tlon company, which controls the
| grounds. Talcott alleged that be was
held back by officers when he tried
to leave the enclosure, after his fail-
ure to obtain reserved seats. He de-
scribed his detention for two hours as
j false imprisonment, and demanded
| fj,<W0 damages.
I Intelligent Act of Animal Imprisoned
In Office, Reported by the
London Mail.
The operator at Grimsby telephone
j exchange received an unexpected call
; from tho premises of a firm of tobac-
| conlsts In the early hours of a recent
Sunday morning Putting the Instru-
ment to his ear. his surprise de-
i veloped Into wonderment, for all he
j could get In reply to the usual query:
| "What number, please?” was the
i vigorous barking of a dog
Coming to the conclusion that there
were burglars in the place, the opera-
tor Informed the police In the mean-
time the owner of the dog suddenly
remembered that he had. contrary to
practise. left the animal, a fox terrier,
\ in the office, had gone to the premises
: to release It. When he arrived he
found a couple of police officers about
to force an entrance, and their as-
tonishment was gieat when reaching
the office they found that the terrier
bad climbed on to a desk five feet
high anu knocked the receiver off the
admiral, with his customary good
sense replied, "ts less talk of revolu-
tion, less Importations of fire arms,
and more of farm implements.”
The Nicaraguan newspapers have
had columns of complimentary refer-
ences to Admiral Kimball. Consid-
ering that be was In Nicaraguan wa-
ters and in command of a military
force which mlghf any day have been
celled Into use against Nicaragua, this
praise from these Sir Huberts 2a
praise Indeed. With three parties
struggling for supremacy, with tho
one in power being distinctly hostile
to everything American, the situation
from any point of view was an ex-
tremely delicate one and required In-
finite tact to handler The admiral Is
possessed of that tact In a high de-
gree and brought it into play. Not
only did he prevent any conflict be-
tween the forces of the United States
and those of the contending parties,
but In so doing fully maintained the
dignity of the flag and met every sit-
uation with a strict observance of the
requirements of international law and
of naval usage.
The admiral was born In Paris, Me.,
on January 9, 1848. He entered the
Naval academy on July 31, 1866. grad-
uating for years later. In 1870 be was
promoted to the rank of ensign and In
the following year to that of master,
a rank which was abolished many
years ago. He was one of the first of
his profession on this side of the At-
lantic to recognize the potential value
of the submarine, and It was largely
through his efforts that John P. Hol-
land was eventually enabled to con-
struct the pioneer of that type of ves-
sel. One naval board after another
sat on the device, and sat on it in
more senses than one.
KING GEORGE HER HUSBAND?
Daughter of Admiral Seymour, Said
to Have Married New Ruler
of England.
London. — Mrs. Trevelyan Nopler,
daughter of Admiral Seymour, was
said at one time to have been
married to the duke of York,
now George V. of England, and
so strongly has the belief In such A
ceremony been grounded that it still
prevails.
The royal family considered it
Mrs. Trevelyn Nopier.
necessary, at the time, for the arch-
bishop of Canterbury to issue a de-
nial that any ecclesiastical obstacle
existed to the duke of York's mar-
riage to the princess of Teck, now
Queen May.
Belief that there was a ceremony
ts not yet wholly dissipated, but cer-
tain laws regarding the marriage of
people of royal blood would make It
illegal, even If performed.
A Need for Them.
"There ought to be a humorist or
two In every legislature."
"Why so?”
“Then there might not be so many
Jokers in the bills.”
telephone. Used to hearing Its mas-
ter’s voice over the instrument. It had
apparently barked Into the mouth-
piece to draw attention to Its plight.—
London Mail.
No History Repetition.
“My dear,” said the man who bail
married his stenographer, “sit dov.-r, a
while, I want to have a llttlo business
talk about your expenses.”
“All right,’’ replied the wife, “on
condition that you do not begin tho
way you used to preface your business
talks.”
“How's that?” he asked surprised.
“What did 1 use to begin with?”
’* 'Please come and take my dicta-
tion.” she quoted.
The Shady Side of Po
Hairdresser—What
madam have ze hair dyed f?ii
She tin a whisper!—Keep
London Opinion
The Profits cf Gardenir
In this unjust world a iars
(be profits of a town garden
j by the hardware store.-
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