The Tahlequah Herald. (Tahlequah, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, May 24, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program and was provided to The Gateway to Oklahoma History by the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
>1
THE TAHLEQUAH HERALD.
LARGEST COUNTY AND CITY CIRCULATION.
Volume XI
OFFICIAL PAPER OF CHEROKEE COUNTY.
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR IN ADVANCE -SAMPLES FREE
Tahlequah, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, Friday, May 24, 1912
Number 2
SENATOR OWEN'S
OLD FRIENDS;
Greet Him in Large Numbers
And Extend a Cordial
Welcome.
The Senator arrived in Tahle j
quah at 2 p. tn., Saturday and a j
committee composed of the may- j
or and several of our leading citi- J
zens met him at the depot and es-
corted him to {he old Cherokee j
Capital building for dinner with
the Methodist ladies.
While the Senator was eating
and shaking hands at intervals
• with old friends the band was
playing to summons the people
and get all things ready for the
speaking, which soon followed at
the opera house.
The weather was fine and the
day was beautiful, and many peo-
ple were in town from Park Hill,
Hulbert, Peggs and other parts of
the county. It was an auspicious
day for the Senator's coming and
a house full to overflowing greet-
ed him with a hearty welcome.
Mayor Adair was chairman and
in a few well chosen jind appropri-
ate remarks introduced Mr. Owen.
The speaker was naturally at his
best, for he was in perfect physi-
cal trim and could not help feeling
that he .vas in a congenial atmos-
phere and surrounded by old
friends and former associates who
were eagerly awaiting the feast
the Senator had in store for them.
In a calm, dignified and classi-
cal manner he indulged in his in-
troduction, in some pleasing remi-
niscences, recounting with appar-
ent pleasure some of the experi-
ences of his early manhood, while
he was but an humble teacher
and a citizen of Tahlequah. He
then gave a synopsis of the work
he had done at Washington since
his election to the senate. He
showed what he had done and
how he had been instrumental in
bringing about many great re-
forms.
Wnat seemed to have given
him the most genuine satistaction,
was that he was one of the prime
movers in bringing about the elec-
tion of U. S. Senators by a direct
vote of the people and what re-
sulted from his great speech (in
the senate) of eleven hours at the
time New Mexico and Arizona
were knocking for admission into
the Union. He made his appeal
to the better nature of his auditors
and asked a re election at their
hands only on the grounds of
merit. Throughout his long ad-
dress he occupied high grounds,
not resorting in a single instance
to vituperation and abuse. He
said "mv record is before you, ex-
amine it and be governed accord
ingly." If you cannot conscien-
tiously support me, I do not ask
your votes.
In conclusion he made a most
touching appeal to all present and
especially to his own people to
rally to the support and stand by
the party on national issues that
had always been the friend of the
common people.
The Senator spent the night in
Tahlequah and was given a recep-
tion at the Commercial Club
rooms. Colonel Suggs was pres-
ent and he and the Senator both
' made good talks and gave the
good roads movement quite a
Cherokee County Farmers' Institute
Has a meeting scheduled for June IS. 1912, at Tahlequah for the purpose of electing of-
ficers tor the coming year and appointing delegates tc the Sta'e Convention to be held
later at Stillwater, Okla. This meeting should not be overlooked and every farmer in
the County should remember the date of June 19th, and arrange to attend the meeting or
send a representative.
The Cherokee County Fair held at Tahlequah last year was well attended and the
exhibits plainly demonstrate 1 the splendid crops our county can produce. There was
shown in last year's exhibit every variety of fruit and vegetable, besides corn, wheat,
oats, alfalfa and cotton. This year should be a good crop year and in addition to the
above mentioned varieties, a new arop undoubtedly will be represented as reports are
coming in from every direction that from five to ten acres of kafircorn is being planted
to insure a feed crop. This is a good move on the farmer's part and one that is bound
to pay. If you have not planted your cafircorn bv June first, do not neglect to plant it
during the month of June. While it will not produce as much grain by planting late, it
will make plenty of forage and you know too much forage never happens. Just remem-
ber that hay sold this spring for 75c the bale.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS
$100,000.00
W. W. HASTINGS,
D. W. WILSON, •-
•• President.
Vice-President.
D. 0. SCOTT, -
J. R0BT. WYLY,
• Cashier.
Ass't Cashier.
DACCALAUREATE
ADDRESS DELIVERED
TO THEN.E. S. N.
boost. The people turned out,
en masse, party lines were loss
sight of for the time and every-
body seemed bent on showing
their Senator and former citizen a
good time.
REVIVAL MEETING
The M«thodl t will begin a revival
meeting Sunday snd continue till
June Oth. Kev. P. R. Knickerboker,
_ leading evangelist, will do the
preaching and the song (service will
t>e conducted by Lueious Anderson.
Both men come well recommended
and a great meeting is expected.
Everybody is invited.
In this issue of the Herald you
will find the name of T. F. Latta
as a candidate for County Clerk.
Mr. I >atta was born in Washing
ton County. Arkansas, and came
to this county 12 years ago. He
now lives and has lived in the vi-
cinity of Park Hill all these years.
Those who know him pronounce
him a man of sterling integrity
and say he is one of the best and
most substantial farmers in the
county.
The past six years he has served
T F | a it ■ his school district in some official
|( r. LAI IA ;apacitv and ever since statehood
he has been justice of the peace of
Park Hill Township, showing the
esteem and confidence his home
people have in him. He says his
health will not permit his making
a canvass of the whole county and
he feels the necessity of present-
ing his claims through the news-
papers, and hopes the voters of
Cherokee County will regard his
announcement as a bid for their
support at the primary on August
6th. He promises if elected to be
ever faithful in the discharge of
his duties as County Clerk.
THE COLLEGE MAN, THE BANKER, THE RAIL-
ROAD PRESIDENT—THE LEADERS—ALL
SBW@SIf A
Skilful tailoring", style, expert workman-
ship, beautiful fabrics—these and a thou-
sand other features make "Benjamin
Clothes," made in New York, the lead-
ers in wearing apparel.
If you want to have that well-dressed,
prosperous air, be sure that you select
a "Benjamin" garment.
New York's latest Fifth Avenue styles,
made from the best fabrics, by the most
efficient workmen in the metropolis, are
on show here today in our clothing de-
partment. A "Benjamin" Bell Model
garbs the Collegian shown here.
0cnj*M|in GsJ4«wy*rfc
Last l-ord's Day was a great
day in Tahlequah. Not only great
as the consumation of a great
year of school work at the North
Eastern State Normal, but great
in that the school had made a
wise choice in choosing such a
man as Dr. Logan to deliver their
Baccalaureate address.
The Doctor was especially hap-
py in the choice of hi* theme.
What he said was based on a text
from one of Paul's letters, "I am
debtor both to the Greeks a«d to
the Barbarians; both to the wi9e
and to the unwise."
In his exegesis of this text he
drew many beautiful and practical
lessons, but the thought he laid
special stress upon and elaborated
most thoroughly was that we are
all debtors. That instead of the
world owing us a living, that in-
stead of the world owing us any-
thing we are all debtors, not only
debtors to our parents and to God
but debtors to all humanity.
From the beginning of his
splendid address he seemed to
have but one aim and that was to
inspire the young with proper no-
tions of life and we desite as a
student of ethics to place the
stamp of our approval on every
word of advice he offered the
young men and women of that
graduating class on that occasion.
His i kal were >the highest at£
his discourse abounded through-
out with lofty conceptions of hu-
man life and human obligation.
From the tone of his argument
it was evident that he had climb-
ed the heights, as it were, and
had garnered the richest truits to
be fouud in the whole domain of
Ecclesiastical and Ethical re-
search, and felt it was his duty to
bring those precious gems as an
offering and lay them at the feet
of those who were soon to go
forth to do service in the great
battle of life.
In his reference
which some seem to
derstood, he cast no
them as a people. What he spid
was really complimentary to them.
He spoke once of having rebuked
a friend who in his hatred for the
Jew. was criticizing their svstem
of Tithing, and he said to his
friend, if I hated a Jew as bad as
you do, I would do better than
they do by giving more than they
give. Now this in substance is
what Dr. Logan said, and those
who misconstrued and misrepre-
sented him must admit ->ne of two
things, either they were not pay-
ing attention or do not understand
good English.
Had we the space we should t
delighted to review his whole d
course, but it will suffice to
that his address moved us de
and we regard it as one (
very ablest of the kind it hr
been our good fortune to '
OUR BOOKS HAVE f
5cnjart\in Clothes
THE LEADER
Weare|giad to anno
readers that we have ju.«
boxes of our books,
Dreams," and can f
50 cents per copy.
This book was wr
of the Herald. It i'
but a beautiful
poems. Call at t'
see for yourself.
/
to the Jew,
have misun-
reflection on
U
ft
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Justus, E. W. The Tahlequah Herald. (Tahlequah, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, May 24, 1912, newspaper, May 24, 1912; Tahlequah, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc94512/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.