The Harper County Democrat (Buffalo, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, December 4, 1914 Page: 1 of 4
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e Harper (Eouttfa Hetnorral
THE LEADING NEWSPAPER.
VOL. 8
BUFFALO, HARPER COUNTY. OKLA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1914.
Get your friends to bring their
job-work and advertising to this
office. Votes given with all job-
work and advertising.
FOR FARM LOANS
ON GOOD FARMS.
COOL
YOU GET ALL YOU
BORROW. NO DELAY
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Lumber
Do your own freighting and buy
your LUMBER of us. We will
meet competition at Rail Road
Points. Can return all left overs
to Buffalo and get credit. Leave
your money in Harper County.
Zook & Smith
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§ WOODMAINCY & ZOOK 1
J BUFFALO. OKLA. f
NUMBER 132
Democrat Piano Coupon.
Cut out this coupon and pre-
sent at Roberts’ store in
Rosston and they will ex-
change it for 25 votes in the
$400.00 Piano Contest.
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We have several sets of first class
heavy work harness, which are
priced to save you money. Come
in and get our prices and look
these harness over before buying
elsewhere.
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GET A CHRISTMAS
PACKAGE FREE
Greatest Subscription Offer Ever
Made by the Harper County
Democrat
For the next three weeks the
Harper County Democrat is go-
ing to offer its readers and all
others who desire to become
readers the most liberal sub-
scription proposition ever made
by a newspaper in Harper county.
We have made arrangements
whereby we are enabled to give
you absoluteiy free a beautiful
collection of Christmas cards, la-
bels, stickers, seals, and decora
tions with each and every renew-
al and new subscription received
at this office. These are just
what you v ill need for your
Christmas greetings and pres-
ents.
Following is what we are go-
ing to offer you:
Harper County Democrat, 1 year... $1.00
Weekly Inter-Ocean. 1 year.... I 00 j
American Farmer 1 year .. .50 i
225-piece Christmas Package......... 1,00 ]
A Fiae 22-inch Art Caieadir --
Total..........$3.50 j
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All of the above we are going j
to give for the next three weeks
for the small sum of $1.40 for
new subscribers, and to all who
will pay up their back subscrip
tions and renew for a year wf
will give the entire collection fo*
$1.25, and every subscriber wh*
comes in and pays as much as
$1.00 on back subscription can se
cure the set for 50 cents extra.
The beautiful Art Calendai
and the 225-piece Christmas
Package are well worth the pric*
we are asking yon for the entir*
lot.
The articles contained in the
Christmas Package are on display
in our front window and you car
see them as you pass by.
Place your order early in ordei
that you may secure the Christ
mas collection in time for Christ
He has data which shows that
the Sultan of Sulu intends invad
j ing Kansas. He firmly believes
i that Indianapolis is menaced by
; a contemplated attack from the
Objibway Indians from up the
i St Lawrence. His middle name
is Doubt and his diet is Fear. If
you meet him, shoot him. He is
a danger to the community and
to himself.
Follow his advice and the rail-
roads will stop running to savt
coal. The furniture factories
will close down to save wood anc
the newly married George anc
Mabel must eat their meals off s
cracker box in their new home
this winter.
Meanwhile, with all Europe a'
war America ought to be shoul
dering the world’s work.
We ought to be working hard-
er, manufacturing more, adver-
tising more.
We are approaching an era o
great business expansion an.
prosperity. We must not let th
howls of the calamity preach* r
deafen our ears to the call of
Opportunity.
Let’s go to work.
THE PRESIDENT
THANKSGIVING DAY
mas.
Also remember you get thre*
papers for a whole year practi
cally for nothing.
Send in your order now, be-
fore you forget.
THE TRAITOR AT HOME
The i a’amity howler is abroad i*
the land. He would have yot
throw down your tools and spent1
your days in complaining rathei
than work.
To listen to him is dangerous
S"* often has he repeated his tali
o *«•» ti a* he has come to be-
lieve it himself, and he will con-
vince >ou unless you are properl'
posted in advance.
He has closed down some fac
tories and put others on short
time. And with each bit of ei-
coutagement his wail become*
louder and stronger
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New York, Nov. 2G. — Thi
I Thanksgiving day found seve
: nillion starving people in wa>
'swept Belgium crying out f<
bread and only half enough fo* i
on hand to appease their hunger
j Three thousand tons of food an
required each day to feed th*
sufferers, yet to date the Unite'
i States, upon which the Belgian*
nust depend in the main for su-
tenance has furnished less tha*
one-half of that amount. Ter
ounces a day will save a hu-
man being from death by hun-
iger.
The foregoing epitomizes t
I statement issued Thursday by th*
! American commission for the re-
lief of the Belgians, carrying r
olea for the small quantity oi
ood specified for each inhabitant
j >f the stricken land.
A cable from H. C. Hoover,
•hairman of the London commis-
i -ion, declared the situation des-
oerate and urged assistanc e irr -
mediately. He said the commis-
j sion was chartering several ship*
for dispatch to the Atlantic sea-
ooard, trusting that Americans
would fill them with supplies.
We love to hear the president
speak, for out of his mouth comes
the self-abnegatory wisdom of a
master mind, couched in English
of exquisite purity and pregnant
with pointed essentials. Two ex-
cerpts from his recent letter to
the secretary of tbe treasury
should arrest the attention of ev-
ery citizen, for they are at once
in encouragement, and exhorta-
tion to do our duty, and direction
regarding the character of that
luty. The president said:
“I do not know that any spec-
ial credit belongs to me for the
oart I was privii ged to play in
r.he establishment of this system
>f which we so confidently hope
io much; in it the labor and
knowledge and forethought and
jractical experience and sagacity
>f many men are embodied who
lave co-operated with unusual
wisdom and admirable public
-Dint.”
And further along he gave out
the following beautiful senti-
ment:
“The future is bright and clear
with promise of the best things, j
Yhile there was agitation and j
suspicion and distrust and bitter!
:amplaint of wrong, groups and;
:lasses at war with each other did
iot see that their interests were!
common and suffered only when
separated and brought into con-
flict. Fundamental wrongs once
righted, as they may easily and
quickly be, all differences will
tear away.
“We are all in the same boat,
hough apparently we had for-
rotten it. We now know the
>ort for which we are bound.
Ye have and shall have more and
nore as our new understandings
dpen a common discipline of pa-
triotic purpose. We shall ad-
vance and advance together with
a new spirit, a new enthusiasm,
a new cordiality of spirited co-op-
eration. It is an inspiring pros-
pect. •
“Our task is henceforth to
work, not for any single interest,
but for all the interests of the
country as a united whole. The
future will be very different from
the past, which we shall present-
ly look back upon, I venture to
say, as if upon a bad dream. The
future will be as different in ac-
tion and different in spirit, a time
of healing, because it will be a
time of just dealing and co-oper-
ation between men made equal
before the law in fact as well as
in name”
The president referred particu-
larly in this letter to the opera-
tion of the new banking system,
now successfully effective.
His tender, sympathetic senti-
ments toward all men were illum-
inated in his words; his yearning
for tne nation’s happiness is
plain.
We should help, every one of
us to make his wishes and fore-
casts come true. — Oklahoman.
§ F=?. f—L DALY
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Oklahoma 9
POINTING HUT A
FEW SPDTS
METHOD IN MADNESS
Buy a bale of cotton, Bill
Buy a heavy ham
Buy a bar’l of apple sas3
Buy a jar of jam.
Buy a box of Oranges
Buy a car of oats
Buy yourself a suit of clothes
Buy some overcoats.
Buy yourself a ton of hay
Buy a load of bricks
Buy a pair of rubber boots
Buy a bunch of chicks.
Buy yourself some chawin’ gum
Buy it by the box
Buy yourself an auto
Buy a dozen sox.
Buv a year’s subscription
PAY it in ADVANCE
Then your friend, ye editor,
Can buy a pair o’ pants.
Now comes Charles R. Hilles,
chairman of the Republican Na-
tional Committee announcing
that the 1916 National Conven-
tion will have 989 delegates in-
stead of the 1,078 that achieved
notoriety in 1912. Under the
new system each state is to have
four delegates at large, two del-
egates for each representative at
a shakeup in all divisions of the
school land department. Ray
Weems, it is said, is the only
man certain to hold on. x
Governor-elect Williams has
finished the rough draft of his
message to the legislature. lie
will recommend the cutting out
of many commissions and beards.
Bob Dick, it is said, will not
retain his place as warden at Me-
Alester. Williams will ask that
the prison board of control be
abolished and its powers vested
in the warden and state board of
EZ—j
and an additional delegate from
that the state board of affairs su-
persede the capitol commission.
Williams believes that the law
each Congressional district in
which the vote in 1908 for ary. ,, . ,
Republican elector, or for the Re-! “''"’f. ft* °»P*td Pyaatoent
publican nominee for Congress in
1914, shall have been not less
[should be enforced and the elec-
tric chair at McAlester will likely
have work to do after the first
of the year.
The governor-elect said that tie
than 7,500.
The effect is to drop out eighty-
one delegates from the Solid ,,
South and two each from New d«mculty m
York, Hawaii. Porto Rico, and ««^ ««>* busmen to ac
the Philippine Islands. The new
system is not based on any prin-
ciple of representation whatso-
ever, but merely dresses up the
old scandal a little. It’s like
brushing a drunkard’s teeth.
The convention will be unwieldy
and will still be susceptible of
manipulation by those in party
office. The “rotton borough”
factor is reduced, but it is still
cept places on different boards,
owing to the small salaries at-
tached to the places.
W. M. Franklin, new clerk of
the supreme court, will appoint
Reul Haskell, Jr,, his chief as-
sistant and G. C. Stark chief of
the filing department.
C h a s. McCafferty, former
treasurer of Oklahoma county,
will be assistant secretary of
ance is the proof of a rejuvenated
Republican party. Chairman
Hilles gives the whole bluff away
in his solemn conclusion. “The
system of unequal numerical rep-
resentation, against which many
states constantly contended, was
the legacy of years and of po-
litical custom. It was, therefore.
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DIRECTORS
1! R. McMin*. President,
\\ E. Dalt, Cashier,
\V. A. Davis. Vice Presideut.
C. E MeMIsy. Asst Cushier
J. P. Dali
Get the difficulties out of the
armer’s way and the farmer’s
orobiems will solve themselves.
The farmer can produce with-
out organization, but to sue-
cesssully market he must unite
with his neighbor.
W*> realize that we need your Assistance and we too know
there is little difference in the terms offered by Banks: yet
there is a potent factor in attracting and holding buaiuee-*
that is eutireiv apart from these considerations. IT 1>
THE SPIRIT OF THE RELXTION. We want oar pa-
trons to be not merely our customers, but our friends; to
look upon us not merely as an institution for paying their
checks and making their collections, but to know and t<*
feel that we have a live interest in their welfare and a
desire to promote it in any way within our power.
When our advice or experience will be of any service to
you. we are at your command
there. And this lame perform- stat-e under Secretary Lyons.
Lou Van Meter of Hobart will
probably be State Treasurer Bill
Alexander's chief assistant.
-Guthrie Leader.
Senator Robert L. Owens in
his recent speech at Muskogee,
gave the people of Oklahoma a
little bit of inside history that
not in any way identified with i ordy goes *° sb°vv wbat £reat
1 the convention of 1912”’ Not' men we have at the head of our
“identified,” perhaps, but it was government. A man to be great
j the jimmy that turned the trick, I ™ust be abi,! to do- and after he
[and a lot of people have not for-: has do"e these things which
gotten it. If the Republican par-1 w1ould ®nn« him nattonalap-
' ty is to be made over into a fit in- P}ause. kno zshow to keep it to
strument for popular rule, it will j himselt- A short time ago when
be done by something more than wc iad 3 ,a'ncd relation with
patchwork.-Collier’s. the Japams€ government over
________ the serious alien matter in Cali-
an fornia, the ambassador of Japan
AFFAIRS BOARD IS sajd t0 Secretary Bryan: Is
nri rfTpn this. then, the last word?” Mr.
uLLLuI HU Bryan replied by saying betwi on
- friends there is no last word.
The new state board of affairs A man like Teddy would not have
under Governor Williams will be used tact: be would not have
composed of J. M. Aydelotte of, been discreet. He no doubt
Oklahoma City, chairman; H. would have replied in a manner
Morley of Hartshorne, and J. that would i ave resulted in war.
Wilcox of Durant. Wilcox will This is on!' »nc of the many m-
be the republican member. The stances that to to show that «*•
present board is preparing to have a man ;*3 lirst assistant t*»
i quit. Lon Frame will return to the president who is one of the
Ardmore; Howard becomes state
auditor; while Morris will leave
brainiest men the world ever
produced. A man who can save
The increase in prices of farm
oroducts has not kept pace with i
. the increased cost of living.
THE BANK OF BUFFALO *
the middle of December for Los the integer of a nation and at
Angeles to reside. It is said that the same time maintain peace
Clerks Brown and Keyes will be!deserves the respect and lcve of
retained by the new board. jthe entire nation. Instead «*t
It is likely that Chairman Sam- being narrow let us thank G*»!
uels will succeed John R. Wil-1 that we have representative mm
liams as secretary of the school i at the head of our great govern
‘ land department. There will hr ment.
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Adams, E. Lee. The Harper County Democrat (Buffalo, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, December 4, 1914, newspaper, December 4, 1914; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc941552/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.