Harrah News (Harrah, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 26, 1914 Page: 1 of 16
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The smallest weekly newspaper in Oklahoma County, but not toe wont.
Harrah, Qklahoma County, Oklahoma, Thursday February 7b. 1914
Number 5
Volume 5 ^ Harrah, Uklanoma county, ------
•_ I -..xc««****<! a n (1 Informing
New* Item* Of The Week
Gathered For Our Reader*
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Daniels were
Shawnee visitors Tuesday.
Walter Steciak was a business visitor
at Oklahoma City Tuesday.
Miss Lucy Chitwood spent Saturday
and Sunday with her parents near
Arcadia.
Miss Hattie Harris visited her par-
ents near Luther, Saturday and Sun-
day.
A D Spencer and family moved last
Thursday to the John Drew farm east
of town.
Will sell my splendid team, 4 and 5
years old; also a tine Poland China sow.
T. L- Richardson.
Seed time is here; we have fresh
bulk seeds of all kind. T. L. Richard-
son.
Mrs. Giesier left Friday morning for
Brenham, Texas, to visit his parents
for a'couple of weeks.
Percy Wirthle and sister Louise,
were here Sunday from Shawnee, visi-
ting Miss Grace Wilcoxon and other
friends.
Miss Bessie Ferguson has returned
home from Edmond, where she has
been attend the Central Normal.
Mrs. Fred Breske le f t Saturday
morning for Little Rock, Ark., to join
her husband, who left here several
weeks ago.
. Bruno Benedix returned Friday morn-
ng from the City, where he has been
serving on the jury ip the Gore-bond
trail.
Prof. Ferguson took the civil service
examination at the City Saturday, for
the Railway Mail service. There were
about seventy who took the examina-
tion.
Mrs. Mote Ensminger visted her par-
ents. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Jones at
McLoud a couple of days the past week.
The condition of the farm seeds is
bad. There is little good seed in South-
hern Nebraska, in Kansas, Missouri,
Oklahoma or Northern Texas. Cor.
raised in 1913 in Kansas and Missouri
is generally unsafe to plant and much
of the 1912 crop shows weak germina-
tion. Along the east and west line of
the Rock Island in Oklahoma there is
considerable good seed corn, but none
at all in many counties both north
and south. Thousands of bushels of
Kafir were allowed to rot in shock and
stack and there is not enongh good
Kafir s*ed to supply pressing needs.
There is a shortage of Milo- Cotton
seed is more scarce in Oklahoma than
any other seed. Sj^nish peanut seed
is so scarce that not over half the usu-
al acreage can be planted.
A search for good seed shoukl be
sufficient good seed and Informing
those who need seed, where they can
Every man who expects to plant seed
this year should arrange for good seed
now
The nearer good seed has been grown
to the field where it is to be planted,
the better will be the yield: Secure
seed grown in your own county if pos-
sible; if not, then get seed grown in
your part of the state. Never plant seed
grown father south than your farm In
Iowa, seed corn secured from another
county yielded 12 bushels an acre less
than home grown seed. In Nebraska
choice seed from another state yielded
9 bushels of corn an acre less than
home grown seed. In Texas home
grown seed corn yielded 17 bushels an
The Ignorance Of
A Congressman
Congressman Bill Murry of Oklaho-
ma sends me a speech of his on vocat-
ional, agricultural and mechanical
education which he delivered in the
house on December 11,1913.
He started out by saying that the
object sought ia increased production
and that the problem to be solved is
the discovery of the wisest plan to at-
tain this object. Then the congress-
man oratorically spits on his hands as
it were, and takes a grab at ancient
and bibical history as follows:
“This knowledge, sometimes called
•vocational education,' but more com-
monly called agricultural and mechan-
ical, is not a new science. It is the
oldest science known to civilized man.
We are just now having a revival of
science lost to the white race during
grown seed eon, nM* " J™ 7^'“ »T-Petition »n3
acre more than good seed from outside . fance known as the Dark Ages.
m. ” .... . 1 iL _ .C__4- KaaIi- rvf
the state -H. M. Cottrell, Agricultur
* pS1 al Gwninisaionnr, BoC Wand Lin,.,
Often a crop matured in 1913 on a field
of bottom land or on a field that had a
shower at the right time. Farmers
STRAYED: One brown mule, two
shower ai ui« its*** - , ,
and business men should join m nnding
No More Skating
On Sidewalks
Skating on the sidewalks, which
sport the boys and girls of the town
have enjoyed so long, will be prohibit- ^°°n fith tbe murder of Jim
ed after this week. The town council December 19.
has passed an ordinance which puts the I Taylor at i.utner
ignorance known as the Dark Ages.
If you will but read the first book of
Moses, or the history of Laban and
Jacob, you will observe the ethnologic
distinction between Laban and Jacob.
You will further discover that Jacob
iri.1.1. -C nfAnlr ruiainrr whilf* Lil-
Will Arthur Found
Not Guilty
A verdict of “not guilty” was re-
turned by a district court jury at
noon Saturday for Will Arthur, who
Mrs A. J. Radford returned Friday
morning from Oklahoma City, where
she has been visiting her daughter for
several days.
John Honea was here a couple of days
last week from Cushing, looking after
business, and visiting his brothers and
other relatives.
Mrs. O. K. Thornton, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Wilson, returned
to her home at Durant, Miss., Satur-
day, after having spent several week*
here.
This is a good time to renew your
subscription to the News. We have a
splendid clubbing proposition to make
you, giving you four magazines for
only 28c extra.
The biggest bargain we h»v8 ever;
offered our subscribers is the New ,
and four magazines, all one year, for
only $1.2& Ask the News man about
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kibosh on this much love sport.
All of the town ordinances have been
revised, and a couple of new ones ad-
ded. Under the revision the town laws
are iron-clad, and if enforced, the town
will not never be infested with peddlers
and street fakirs. The new ordinances
will be found in this issue of the News.
Blizzard Came
Up Unexpected
What is said to be the warst storm
in years swept over the entire country
Sunday afternoon. AH unexpen ted
the blizzard struck here about 4:30
Sunday evening and transformed a
spring tempture within a few minutes
into a veritable northwester. Within
the course of two minutes the wind
shifted from the south to the north-
west, bringing great clouds of dust,
ban, the scienunc breeder knew
and actually succeeded, through sexual
selection, in demonstrating a principle
of Darwinism 2,000 years before Dar-
win was born, wherein he robbed old
Jacob of his herds by producing “a
spotted, ringed, streaked and striped”
breed from the old man s herds. La-
ban said the Lord had. prospered him,
and Jacob thought it was true. But
he was really robbing the old man by
a process of science in the name of
“estorywilldiKlMe to you
ney Pope had made the closing argu tfee old man and his boy3 ultimate-
ly woke up, when it was too late, to
ment.
Jim Taylor was killed after an ar-
gument over the digging of a ditch in
in front of Taylor’s house a mile south
of Luther. Arthur was acting as road
overseer.
Mrs. Russell Grant-
ed A Divocre
Mrs. Edith B. Russell was awarded
a divorce from her husband, Dr. U. wade through the rest of his
L. Russell, in Judge Carney’s division Tom McNeai in Mail and Breeze
of the district court Saturday after- j ' _ ' .
jy WOKC Up* wild*
the fact that Laban, through a shrewd
contract, had gotten the old man’s
herds by the process of science, or
throigh his knowledge of stock breed-
ing and feeding.”
1 have not read the rest of the
speech. 1 concluded that if this Okla-
homa congressman does’t know any
more about bis subject generally than
he does about bibical history and Dar-
winisms it would be a waste of time
to wade through the l'est of his talk.—
wi Moil onH Rreeze.
noon. Under a property settlement
stipulation entered into by Mrs. Russel
and her husband she is given $25,000
m the form of state bonds, certificate
west bringing great clouds of dust, Gf deposit and municipal bonds and in
and the meacury fell rapidly until a j the event Russell’s property invoices
minimum of 10 above was reached, j more than $87,000 Mrs. Russell is o
minimum ui ~ *—
The Blizzard was not forcasted by the
weather department. It appeared to
have been created on the spur of the
moment up in Colorado somewhere.
The mercury dropped 50 degrees in six
hours between 3 and 9 Sunday even-
ing.
Rev E B. Wilborn filed his regular
moaT;ru“w. »
so extremely cold Sunday
fto services Were held-
her-in-Iaw, Wm. stoker arm family.
She returned home Monday accompani-
ed by Mrs. Wm. Stoker, who will visit
in the City for a couple ot weeks.
Mrs. Chas. Fay has been appointed
clerk of School District No. 85. east of
Jones City, to take the place of Jim
DeFord, who recently moved to Ca-
i uvosa. Okla.
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have ond-third of the residue. Judge
Carney gave to each, party litigant the
might to have possession, for alternat-
ing periods of six months, their two
minors sons, aged 7 and 9 respectfully.
The Civic League an organization
Improved Rural
Schools
One of the best and most compre-
hensive measures passed last spring
by the Oklahoma legislature was the
bill which segregated all the residue
of the public building lands in Okla-
homa to the use and benefit of con-
solidated rural graded schools.
This means that in a few years more
I Oklahoma is to have the most advan-
’ ced and thorough system or rural grad-
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•- , ! schools to he found
Mrs. Ed Stoker was here Sunday .composed of ladies at McLoud, has se- ^ th>t it wjj| n0t be necessary when
from Oklahoma City, visiting her fat- cur(Kj the services of Ewers White, a tkat time arrives that
her-in-law, Wm. Stoker and family. essive farmer, who will oversee | farmer wjt| be compel!
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curai --------------- that time arrives that the progressive
progressive farmer, who will oversee , jarmer wiU be compelled to move tu
the work of constructing the road lead- town to educate his children
from the Venable hotel, to the da- ^^^ttn^becomeH possible
pot. This work is to be done by popu- j forythe coUntry bred boy and girl to
lar subscription, and the ladies will . at home just as good a primanj
serve lunch to the men employed each edu8atian as can be obtained m the
day until the work is complete. I city. -Shawnee Transcup*.
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Todd, J. A. Harrah News (Harrah, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 26, 1914, newspaper, February 26, 1914; Harrah, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc937920/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.