Harrah News (Harrah, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 29, 1913 Page: 2 of 8
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The Harrah News
J, A. TODD, Ed. and Pub.
watiraH OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA NEWS NOTES
No married ladies will be employed
as teachers in the Durant public
schools.
Durant business men are organizing
a boosters’ club that will go in auto-
mobiles over Bryan county.
Lawton will entertain two conven-
tions this week, the master bakers and
the druggists being in session.
Durant Is endeavoring to organize a
farmers’ co-operative gin company
with a capital stock of $10,000.
Five hundred head of cattle were
recently shipped from Pushmataha
county to Miller brothers’ ranch.
Hobart Democrat says the Harris-
Day code, in section 1849, provides
that no women can be deputy county
officials.
The Lawton News says that fish
have quit biting and that you can now,
with a clear conscience, attend church
on Sunday.
Lightning struck a Pauls Valley
house and did no other damage to the
house or contents than to burn the
window curtatins.
Enid defeated Guthrie and Tulsa as
the next convention city for the Okla-
homa Pharmaceutical association in
the meeting at Lawton.
P. O’Byrne, a gold miner of Cold
Springs, states that the Brown reduc-
tion works, Installed at a cost of $40,-
000, will open for work in a few daya.
Although the local ball team has lost
nine straight games, the Durant Daily
Democrat refuses to desert the bleach-
ers and says the team will pull out of
the hole. ,
Tha survey of the Quanah, Sey-
mour, Dublin and Rockport railroad,
better known as the “Middlebuster”
in northern Texas, is completed from
Quanah to Graham, Texas.
Bartlesville Enterprise is offering
$10 to the first man" in town who will
whip a peddler, and remarks that as
the fine will be only $7.50 there will
be easy money for someone.
The Sapulpa Democrat can’t har-
monize the idea of the legislature
drawing railroad fare for mileage they
did not travel, with its refusing to pay
a $75 bill that appears to be justly
due.
The Times-Record of Fort Smith,
Ark., tells of a man who drank two
ounces of sulphuric and one ounce
of nitric acid and says he survived
because of being accustomed to drink-
ing Oklahoma squirrel whisky.
Editor Hawkins appeals to the peo-
ple of Pauls Valley to muzzle the
dogs for fear some of them will go
mad and bite him, which might give
some of his enemies an excuse for
shooting him.
The Longdale News tells of an In-
dian who, with his pockets full of
Hostetter’s bitters and his stomach
full of whiskey, taking the town and
going to another Indian’s home and
running everybody from the house.
The editor says the Indian is a gentle-
man when not drunk.
Times-Democrat of Muskogee says
it is perfectly right for congressmen
to conduct a mail course of instruc-
tions on how to obtain a federal of-
fice, if he wants to, but in the mean-
time the pio knife is getting rusty.
Through the instrumentality of Rep-
resentative Claude Weaver, General
Leonard A. Wood, chief of staff of the
United States army, has promised to
send several companies of infantry,
artillery and cavalry to Oklahoma
City the coming fall for maneuvers
during tha state fair.
TENDERFEET WIN
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
HILL AND SONS, THE OAT CHAM-
PIONS, ARE COCKNEYS BORN
AND BRED.
City-bred in the world’s greatest
metropolis and untrained as to things
agricultural, were J. C. Hill and his
three boys wh.en they settled on home-
steads at Lloydminster, in the Prov-
ince of Saskatchewan (western Can-
ada), eight years ago. Today they
are the recognized champion oat grow-
ers of the North American continent,
having won twice in succession the
silver challenge cup, valued at $1,500,
at the Fifth National Corn exposition,
Columbia. S. C. The Plate, officially
known as the Colorado Oat trophy, is
emblematic of the grand champion-
ship prize for the best bushel of oats
exhibited by individual farmers or ex-
periment farms at these expositions.
The HilJ entry won this year in the
face of the keenest competition, hun-
dreds of exhibits being sent by expe-
rienced farmers from all parts of the
United States and Canada. The oats
were grown on land which was wild
prairie less than four years ago.
When Mr. Hill and his three sons,
who probably never saw a wider acre-
age than the hills of Hampstead
Heath, or the parks of London, came
to Saskatchewan eight years ago, they
had little more capital than was re-
quired for homestead entry fees. They
filed on four homesteads, in the Lloyd-
minster district, which straddles the
boundary of Alberta and Saskatche-
wan. They went to work with a will,
ripping the rich brown sod with break-
ing plows and put in a crop, which
yielded fair returns.
They labored early and late and de-
nied themselves paltry pleasures, glad
to stand the gaff for a while In rising
to their possibilities. They talked with
successful farmers and studied crops
and conditions and profited by both.
The new life on the farm was strange
but they never lost heart, handicapped
as they were by lack of experience
and capital.
The farm house, modern in every
respect, compares favorably with any
residence in the city. The Hills have
substantial bank accounts and their
credit is gilt-edge from Edmonton to
Winnipeg and beyond.
“There is nothing secret about our
methods nor is our plan copyrighted.
We first made a thorough study of
climatic conditions, soil and seed,”
said Mr. Hill. “We tended our crops
carefully and gradually added live
stock, realizing from the beginning
that mixed farming would pay larger
and more certain returns than straight
grain growing. We have demonstrated
that fact to our satisfaction and the
result is that many of the farmers in
the district are following our exam-
ple.”
The land that the Hills work is of
the same class as may be found any-
where in Manitoba. Saskatchewan or
Alberta.—Advertisement.
Cheap In Ireland.
An Englishman traveling through
Ireland went into a restaurant, where
he ordered some fish. On finishing
the meal he inquired its price, and
on being told, complained of its being
so dreadfully dear.
“Why, in England," said he. “one
can get fish for little or nothing.”
Pat, who had been standing by lis-
tening to the argument between the
waiter and the Englishman, came up
to him and said:
“Well, it’s cheaper in Ireland than
ever it was in England. Sure, the
people here are cleaning their win-
dows with whiting, it’s that cheap.”
You came into the world to serve
your brethren, not to lord it over
them; you are called to work and to
suffer, not to gossip and take your
ease. This would be a furnace In
which men are tried like gold.
Thomas a Kempis. (The Imitation ol
Christ.)
The talkative barber illustrates his
story with cuts.
Be thrifty on little things like bluing.
Don’t accept water for bluing. Ask for Kea
Cross Ball Blue. Adv.
A hen sitting on a porcelain egg is
a pathetic example of misapplied con-
fidence.
Exceptions.
“Never put your foot in it when
acknowledging a birthday present.”
“Not even if it is a pair of slip-
pers?”
It Puzzled Him.
Newedd—Did you spend so much
money as this before I married you?
Mrs. Newedd—Why, yes.
Newedd—Then I can’t understand
why your father wrent on so when I
took you away from him.—Boston
Transcript.
Tramp Defrauded Lawyers.
Four Ammanford (Carmarthenshire)
solicitors were alleged to have been
duped by George Sullivan, otherwise
Murphy Finnegan, a laborer on tramp,
who was recently committed by the
magistrates for trial on charges of ob-
taining money by false pretenses.
Representing that he had been knock-
ed down by a motor car, he asked, it
was stated, each of the solicitors to
act for him in a compensation claim,
and they all gave him money when
he told them he was penniless.—Lon-
don Mail.
Mr. Winkle's House to Go.
Two buildings in Birmingham asso-
sociated with Dickens have been de-
molished, and a third, Mr. Winkle s
house, is being pulled dow’n.
When Mr. Pickwick asked the wait-
er at the Old Royal where Mr. Winkle
lived he replied: "Close by, sir; not
above 500 yards, sir. Mr. Winkle is a
wharfinger, sir, at the canal, sir. ' And
Mr. Pickwick found in “a quiet, sub-
stantial looking street stood an old
red brick house with three steps be-
fore it, bearing, in fat Roman capitals,
the words, ‘Mr. Winkle.’ ’’—PaJl Mall
Gazette.
‘•LIKE MAGIC”
New Food Makes Wonderful Changes.
When a man has suffered from dys-
pepsia so many years that he can’t re-
member when he had a natural appe-
tite, and then hits on a way out of
trouble he may be excused for saying
“it acts like magic.”
When it is a simple, wholesome
food instead of any one of a large num-
ber of so called remedies in the form
of drugs, he is more than ever likely
to feel as though a sort of miracle has
been performed.
A Chicago man, in the delight of re-
stored digestion, puts it in this way:
"Like magic, fittingly describes the
manner in which Grape-Nuts relieved
me of poor digestion, coated tongue
and loss of appetite, of many years
standing.
“I tried about every medicine that
was recommended to me, without re-
lief. Thon I tried Grape-Nuts on the
suggestion of a fripnd. By the time
I had finished the fourth package, my
stomach was all right, and for the past
two months I have been eating with
a relish anything set before me. That
is something I had been unable to do
previously for years.
“I am stronger than ever and I con-
sider the effects of Grape-Nuts on a
weak stomach as something really
wonderful. It builds up the entire
body as well as the brain and nerves.’’
Name given by the Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
"There’s a reason,” and it Is ex-
plained in the little book, "The Road
to Wellville,” in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A aew
owe apaeara from time to time. Thay
are {genuine, true, and fail of homaa
Interest.
HOW’S YOUR LIVER
AND BOWELS?
If you are Taking Hot Spring* Lhrer
Buttons they are no Doubt in
Splendid Condition
If you would be cheerful, healthful,
full of life and vigor, don’t fool with
calomel or any violent cathartic.
HOT SPRINGS LIVER BUTTONS
are made from the prescriptions of
one of the many great physicians of
Hot Springs, Arkansas. ____
If you have been, to this famous
health resort you know all about
them for they are prescribed there
generally by physicians for all liver,
stomach and bowel trouble.
If you are having trouble^ with
your bowels or liver and aren t feel-
ing as full of energy and ambition as
you should, get a 25 cent box of HOT
SPRINGS LIVER BUTTONS at your
druggist’s to-day, take one each night
for a week—they do not give a parti-
cle of discomfort; on the other hand
they are gentle, safe and sure.
They are simply splendid, every-
body says, and after you try one box
you’ll say the same. For free sample
write Hot Springs Chemical Co., Hot
Springs, Ark.
During the Family Grouch.
Mr. Snapperly (reading)—Man com-
mits suicide by Jumping off ferry-
boat.
Mrs. Snapperly—Just like a man!
Why didn’t he jump off a dock and
save 2 cents?—Puck.
Mr*. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for ChUdrm
teething, softens the gums, reduces Inflamma-
tion,allu> a pale,cures wiud colic Abo a bottle iW.
Some men show good judgment by
showing a lack of self-confidence.
Ccurage is the thing that makes
people forget they are afraid._
It’S
Good night”
to all such ailments as
POOR APPETITE
SOUR STOMACH
SICK HEADACHE
INDIGESTION
CONSTIPATION
if you will only begin
your meals with
, HOSTETTER'S
I STOMACH BITTERS
It tones the stomach
and assists digestion in
everyway. Try it today
SPECIAL TO WOMEN
Do you realize the fact that thousands
of women are now using
A Soluble Antiseptic Powder
as a remedytfor mucou^ membrane af-
fections, such as sore throat, nasal or
pelvic catarrh, inflammation or ulcera-
tion, caused by female Utst Women
who have been cured say “it is worth
its weight in gold.” Dissolve in water
and apply locally. For ten years the
Lydia E. Plnkham Medicine Co. has
recommended Paxtlne in their private
correspondence with women.
For all hygienic and toilet uses It has
no equal. Only 50c a large box at Drug-
gists or sent postpaid on receipt of
price. The Paxton Toilet Co., Boston,
Mass.
f. N. U., Oklahoma City, No. 22-191*
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