The Spencer Siftings (Spencer, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 49, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 27, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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THE SPENCER SIFTINGS
SPENCER, OKLA. SATURDAY FEBRUARY 27,1909.
*1.00 PER YEAR
SPENCER POOL HALL
A Fresh Line of
CIGARS AND TOBACCO
On Hand
GERM-GATHERERS IN GOTHAM
U. S. DYER, Mgr.
Spencer, Okla.
THE SPENCER SIFTINGS
ISSUED WEEKLY.
R. W. NIXON, LOCAL EDITOR.
SPENCER, • . OKLA.
Published By
SUBURBAN NEWSPAPER PUB. CO.,
217 Nortth Harvey St.,
OKLAHOMA CITY - OKLAHOMA.
H. W. Smith, Mgr.
Subscription price Is $1.00 per year, in-
variably In advance. Six months, OOc.;
three months, 25c.
tin# together and organizing a base
ball team for this year.
Frank Redding was in Oklahoma
City Sunday.
Marvin Harrteon of Oklahoma City
spent Sunday in Spencer visiting his
Itarents.
Mrs. Spiers was a visitor to Okla-
homa City Tuesday.
The editor had business in Edmond
Tuesday.
Dr. Thurman was in Edmond Tues-
day on business.
G. C. Kramer made a (business trip
to Tuttle, Oklahoma Monday.
A. H. Howell had busness in Okla*
•homti City Wednesday.
Bd. White and wife of Cordell, Okla.
is visiting friends and relatives in
Spencer.
When you are in town drop in and
>Mr. Douglass Miller of Aurorai 1H., subscribe for the Siftings,
son in law of Mr, Shrubshell Is in Bob Penntey spent several days In
Spencer. Mr. Miler ish here to “look Edmond thi3 week,
around” and if liking thd vicinity may j Pror. Van Ness is on the sfck list
perhaps locate in or near here. j this week.
The potato men are busy this week
1 lanting potatoes.
Advertising rates—Our advertising rates
are as follows, and no deviation will be
mad* therefrom except on long time con-
tracts:
Displuy advertisements, per Inch per
week, 10c.; reading notices, per line per
week. 5c. A special rate for contract ad-
vertising will be made where the con-
tract runs for six months or longer.
Communications—Address uil communi-
cations to the editor of the paper. Write
on one side of the paper only, and be
' ery careful to see that all proper names
are spelled correctly and plainly.
SPENCER '-EMS.
Mrs. ClayJbaugh and son, earnest,
wore visitors in Oklahoma City Mon-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hevron and Miss
Abbie, were shopping in Oklahoma
City Monday. Miss Abbie remained in | ^le to be out.
Arthur Abel is much improved after
a long spell of typhoid fever. It will
only be a few days until he will be
the city to take in the George Wash-
ington Memorial exercises at the
Chamber of Commerce.
Misses Willa Thurman and Lena
Abel were participants in the vYash-
ington Memorial exercises.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Roberts were
in Oklahoma City Monday on business
and shopping combined.
Mrs. Delia Thurman went to Okla-
homa City Monday to see the Wash-
ington Memorial services.
Mrs. Halbert is making an extend-
ed visit to her oid home in Tennes-
see.
Miss Myrtle McIntyre of Oklahoma
City visited the Misses Halberts Sat-
urday and Sunday.
Miss Irene Harvell is visiting Miss
KImmeil in Oklahoma City.
Mr. John Tiefel of Kansas City is
visiting his sister, Mrs. Perkins.
Mrs. Neal of Wind Mill Flats has
been quite ill, but is at present con-,
valescing.
Miss Jessie Pock attended the
(Washington Memorial services in Ok-
lahoma City Monday.
Claude Spiers was in Oklahoma City
Monday on business and pleasure com-
bined.
BoyB it is about time you were get-
The farmers are all busy now gat-
ing the ground ready for the coming
crop.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Benedict
Thursday, February 25> twins. Vine
boy and one girl.
TO CHECK TYPHOID
VACCINATION TO BE TRIED IN
ARMY CAMPS.
RAILWAY MANAGER AT 2S.
Military Authorities Decide That Amer-
ican Troops Can Be Immune
and Seek Volunteers for
Treatment.
For tome time past, New York hat been making elaborate efforts to keep
Ite etreets clean. Varioua appliance* have been experimented with, and the
results have been tested bacterlologically. Plate* similar to thoae u*ed in the
laboratory for making bacterla-culturea were exposed in the street* in differ-
ent localities, and the number of bacteria-colonies which developed on them
during exposure at particular spots before and after the street* Had been
cleaned gave a ready, If scientifically rough, idea of the effectiveness of the
apparatus. Thus, In Fifth avenue, between 8eventh and Eighth etreets, a
plate exposed on a windy day before the street was cleaned gave 320 separate
colonies of bacteria. These were not necessarily of a harmful nature. After
the street had been cleaned, another exposure of a bacteria-culture Dlate at
the same spot revsaled only 120 colonies. a-c u P * **
The new Turkish minister of educa-
tion says: “We have compulsory edu-
cation at present, but we lack primary
schools. We shall establish them.
We shall develop the existing higher
education. The study of history will
now be allowed. We want a regime
of liberty, and particularly of liberty
of the press, even with all the evil.?
it means, for it is a necessary evil.”
FACTS ABOUT AFRICA
STRANGE COUNTRY WHERE
ROOSEVELT WILL HUNT.
What is a million sterling today?
Fifty years ago a millionaire wa^ an
object of universal curiosity. But in
order to “startle” people today one
need3 a few country and town houses
and estates, stables full of horses,
garages full of motors, a luxurious
yacht and an aeroplane or two.—Paris
Gaulois.
British Explorer Asserts East Africa
Is No Place for Poor Man—
Sleeping Sickness Is on
the Increase.
Sir Waiter Hilyer haw been appoint-
! ed expert adviser to the Chines gov-
ernment. Sir Walter was born in
j China of English parents and is a
* 5* learned linguist. Li Hung Chang once
said that he spoke and wrote Chinese «•*«*« me seiners, says air. woi-
as well as the most highly educated laston* “and from many others whom I
mandarin. *' M*‘—kl —1 «-*—*— * *----*
London.—One of the experts who
took part in the British museum Ru-
wenzori expedition in central Africa
in 1905-1906, A. F. R. Wollaston, has
just published one of the best books
of African travel that has yet ap-
peared: "From Ruwenzori to Congo.”
The Mountains of the Moon are
represented by a range of at least five
distinct groups of snow peaks, of
which the highest has been deter-
mined by the duke of the Abruzzl at
slightly less than 17,000 feet, and some
ten miles of glaciers, between the
Lakes Albert Nyanza and Albert Ed-
ward. in the country where President
Roosevel% will hunt big game.
"From the settlers,” says Mr. Wol
METHODIST SERVICES.
Preaching evyr.v Sunday morning
and evening at eleven o'clock a. m.
and eight o'clock p. m., at the M. E.
church at Spencer.
Sunday school at ten o'clock a. m.
Song service at seven, p. m.
Epworth League at half past seven
P. m.
Prayer meeting on Wednesday even-
ings at eight o'clock.
Everybody is invited.
REV. W. H. HOUSEHOLDER.
Pastor.
Get a certificate of deposit from
The Bank of Spencer.
DR. W. L. MAUPIN
DENTIST
Specialty: Bridge and
Crown Work
Suite 1. 2 sad 3. 116 1-2 Main St.
OKLAHOMA CITY
Miss Elizabeth Russell. who
founded the Kwassui girls’ school at
Nagasaki, Japan, in 1879, celebrated
her seventy-first birthday a short time
ago. She is still connected with the
school, where she does the work of
three people. Beginning with a hand-
ful of girls, the school has grown un-
til at present the enrollment is con-
siderably more than 100 . It number.!
among its graduates some of the best
known women in the Japanese em-
pire, several of whom traveled many
mile-,5 to sho wtheir respect and grat-
itude to their old teacher at her birth-
day.
Lene-Holes.
These curious well-like excavations,
found in Kent and Sussex, are popular-
ly supposed to belong to the time of
the Danish rule In England, says the
Youth's Companion. They are invari-
ably about three feet in diameter and
seldom less than 60 feet deep. Ingress
and egress were provided for by
means of rude ladders or hide ropes.
Various explanations have been of-
fered to account for their existence—
some supposing them to have been
places of refuge, others that they were
connected with secret forms of wor-
ship, still others that they were dug
for the extraction of chalk and flint.
A. J. Philip, In a recent study of the
subject, advocates the view that the
holes were made to serve as silos, or
granaries. They are found close to
gether In groups, corresponding with
the habit of various tribes of cluster-
ing in restricted areas.
met at Nairobi and Nalvashat I heard
all sorts of expressions of opinion,
from the gloomiest to the most en-
thusiastic, about British East Africa.
But everybody was agreed, even the
most sanguine of them, that it is no
place for a poor man.
“A capital of several hundred pounds
at the least was regarded as an abso-
lute necessity, and this at once puts
the country on a different footing from
such colonies as Canada, or Australia,
or New Zealand. People in England
are accustomed to hear East Africa
spoken of as ‘a white man's country,’
but it can never really be a white
man's country when the smaller trades
and the labor are efficiently carried on
by the Indians and natives, while only
the officials and employers of labor
are European.
And In any case the extent of health-
ful upland country suitable for perma-
nent settlement by Europeans, after
allowance has been made for native
reserves, game reserves and forests,
is exceedingly limited. Africa is cursed
with a host of parasites.”
And so little Is known of the dis-
eases of horses and cattle "that one
hesitates to predict a very brilliant
future for the stock breeder"—cereals,
coffee, fruit, potatoes aad other Euro-
pean vegetables would be at a perma-
nent disadvantage in comparison with
larger and at least equally productive
territories. On the other hand:
"If prosperity is to come to British
East Africa, the means of it will prob-
ably be the cultivation of cotton.”
But a yet more serious problem con-
fronts Europe in Africa—the preven-
tion of the scourge known in medical
'*n*ruaxe by the formidable same of,
trypanosomiasis; by the yet more for-
midable name of sleeping sickness In
the vulgar tongue. The chief things
known of It, beyond its hideous symp-
toms, are that it is infectious; that it
ie invariably fatal; and that its geo-
graphical distribution corresponds
with that of a tsetse fly.
European victims have thus far been
few; their prejudice against native
nakedness no dcubt amounts to de-
fensive armor against the assaults of
the plague-laden foe. But why should
there have been such a wholesade in
crease of the pestilence in recent
years—why should its extent be ceas-
ing to be limited by the regular hab-
itat of the fly?
It is a lamentable fact, but cannot
be gainsaid, that civilization must be
held responsible In no small degree
for the spread of sleeping sickness
during the last few years. In the old
days, when every tribe and almost
every village was self-sufficient, and
had no intercourse with its neighbors,
except in the way of warfare, it might
very well happen that the disease be-
came ’realized in a few districts,
where its virulence became dlmin
ished.
Nowadays, with the rapid opening
up of the country, the constant pas
sage of Europeans traveling from one
district to another, and the suppres-
sion of native warfare, it is becoming
increasingly easy for natives to move
beyond the limits of their own coun-
tries, and by their means sleeping
sickness is spread from one end of
the country to another. And the out-
look at the present time Is at the best
a gloomy one.
Washington.—Immunization against
typhoid in army camps by vaccination
is to be undertaken by the military
authorities.
The wnole matter ia to be frankly
put before the army, and individuals
are to be invited to volunteer for vac-
cination. No soldier or officer will be
compelled to submit to anti typhoid
vaccination against hla will, but an
effort will be made by lectures and ex-
amples to show the soldier the advan-
tage of availing himaelf of such a sim-
ple and easy way of escaping one of
the wont and most dreaded of army
camp diseases. These measures are
to be taken as a result of the recom-
mendations of the board of eminent
physicians appointed to consider
measures for preventing typhoid fever
in army camps. It was named at the
instance of Brig. Gen. Robert M.
O'Reilly, then Burgeon general of the
army, and included In lta membership
were I)rs. Victor C. Vaughan of Ann
Arbor. William T. Councilman of Bos-
ton. John H. Musser of Philadelphia,
Alexander Lambert of New York.
Simon Flexner of New York, and Wil-
liam S. Thayer of Baltimore.
A summary of the board’s onclusiona
were made public recently. Thin
points out the well-known fact that
both during the civil and the Spanish-
Amerlcau wars typhoid fever prevailed
to a great extent among the troops,
especially among the younger men in
regiments recently recruited. Old sol-
diers were not orten affected, and as
regiments learned how to take care of
themselves the disease tended to di-
minish.
In t.mes of peace when the army
Is stationed at its various garrison
posts throughout the country, the re-
port says, there Is less than half as
much typhoid among soldiers as is
found among that part of the civil pop-
ulation of military age. But, unfor-
tunately, the moment the troops go
Into camps and large numbers of new
and untrained men are recruited and
mobilized tho conditions change for
tho worse.
It has long been recognized, says
the report, that u person who has
once had the typhoid is practically in
sured against a second attack and the
medical profession has now found in
anti typhoid vaccination a simple and
harmless way of artificially inducing
almost this same amount of protec
tlon. In the last few years 15,000 men
have been treated in this way with ex
cellent effect and without a single un
toward result.
Albert H. Dickinson Covers a Division
of 260 Mites on the Orient.
Kansas City.—Work—hard work,
too, and long hours—is one thing the
young superintendent of the Falrvlew
division of the Kansas City, Mexico A
Orient railroad isn’t afraid of. He
covers the 260 miles of his division as
a soldier walks his beat, and probably
lends his hands and braius to more
different kinds of work than any other
man on the job. If he finds a lone
baggageman struggling with a lot of
sample trunks, he helps him. If a
Albert H. Dickinson.
AMAZING SURGICAL FEAT SEEN
Knee from Corpse Is Successfully
Grafted on Living Sufferer.
crew unloading ties or rails are short-
handed in a pinch, he lends his aid.
He is known in every roundhouse,
switch shanty and station house on
the division as a type of the western
hustler.
Albert H. Dickinson Is 28 years old.
He finished a course in the Sheffield
scientific school at Yale In 1904. The
same winter he went tc work as an
assistant to J. A. Foley, superintend-
ent of the Wichita division ot the Ori-
ent. He served in that capacity until
the death of Mr. Foley, when he was
promoted to fill the vacancy. He la
married and lives in Wichita.
Heredity may have had something
to do with Albert Dickinson’s Incllna
tlon for railroad work. His father, E.
Dickinson, was superintendent of a
division on the Union Pacific when he
was 26 years old. He was educated,
he says. “In the school of hard
knocks." Dickinson, senior, traveled
the slow road of promotion until he
was general manager of the Union
Pacific system, and had an excellent
reputation as a railroad man. He vol-
untarily cast his lot and incidentally
an amount in six figures, with the Orl
ent project, because he believed in it
Rules Life Begins at Birth.
St. I^ouis.—Circuit Court Judge WM*
liams In a decision which was put on
record recently held that a child’s life
begins at birth and not before. In
sustaining a demurrer of a street car
company to the suit of Cornelius H.
Buel and his wife for damages for the
death of their four-month-old son, I
who It was claimed died as a result I
of an accident before he was born.
Judge Williams based his ruling upon
a part of the scriptures. He quoted
Genesis 2:7. The demurrer averred
the child in the meaning of the law
was not a person at the time Mrs.
Buel was Injured five months before
the baby was born.
Washington.—Doctors ;t the George-
town university hospital witnessed a
remarkable operation performed there
several days ago by Dr. George Tully
Vaughan of this city on George A.
Kelly, aged 29. Tho bones of Kelly's
knees were so badly diseased that ur.
Vaughan decided on amputation.
In the hospital was a man about to
die. Dr. Vaughan obtained permission
from the dying patient’s family to
remove the left leg in the event of
death, and It was decided that the
knee of the dead man should be graft-
ed to the leg of the living sufferer.
The transfer was duly made. The
bones were riveted together by slen-
der, strong wire and the most delicate
phase of the operation, that of Joining
the ligaments, caused the surgeons to
work as they probably never labored
before. Every tissue, tendon and mus-
cle was joined and the bones fastened
together. Kelly is said to be improv-
ing rapidly.
THE YOUNGEST OF INDUSTRIES
Paris Concern Building Aeroplanes at
Rate of Four a Month.
New York.—The making of aero-
planes is now carried on to such an
extent in France as to deserve the
SAD, SAD DAY FOR THE SMITHS.
Texas Deals Blow to Elopers.
Austin. Tex.—A blow was dealt to j
Texas elopers by the state legislature j
when the house -ecently passed a bill j
Introduced by Representative R. L. ‘
Cable requiring all parties eontemplat 1
ing matrimony to give ten days’ no I
House of Representatives Will Have
Only Four in Sixty-first Congress.
Washington.—March 4 wfil be a sad
day for the Smith family. Its repre-
sentation in the house of representa-
tives will on that day be reduce-' from
six to four. Representative Madison
R. Smith of Missouri and Marcus A.
Smith, delegate from Arizona, will not
be in the Sixty-first congress, and no
new Smiths will come to uphold the
family name and fame.
Ralph H. Cameron will succeed Mar
cus Smith from Arizona, while Politte
Elvins of Elvins, Mo., will occupy the
seat of Mr. Madison Smith of Missouri.
The retirement of the Missouri and
Arizona Smiths will leave on duty
Samuel W. Sm'th of Michigan, Sylvea
ter C. Smith of California and Walter
i. Smith of Iowa, all Republicans, and
William R. Smith, the lone Democratis
Smith.
Section of Aeroplane Factory in Paris.
t*ee that they Intend to apply for a
marriage license.
Everything comes to him who waits
—except the waiter.—Judge.
rank of a new Industry. The illustra-
tion shows a scene in the most im-
portant shop, that of the brothers
Volsln, at iiillancourt. This firm is
now able to build aeroplanes at the
•ate of four a month. In the principal
nail of the shops may be seep lying
about the various parts of aeroplanes
that are being fitted together—pieces
of the framework, canvas planes u*
wings, und so on—while tvorkmen are
putting together monoplanes, biplanes,
and sometimes even triplanes. Here
are used all the different metals or
alloys that enter into the construction
of a flying machine, except those for
the motor. For the tubular frames
ordinary steel is used; for the fittings
of the screw propellers, nickel steel,
because of its greater strength, and
aluminum for all parts under compres-
sion, because of its lightness. The
propellers themselves are made of a
combination of cast and forged steel,
with aluminum for the active surfaces
One machine a week not seem a
large output, but, considering the fact
that the industry is extremely infan
tile, being only a few months old, per
haps the product is as large as we
might expect. This Industry is as jet
unborn in our own country.
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