The Freedom Express. (Freedom, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 9, 1907 Page: 1 of 4
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: The Freedom Express 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:
• • ( '» ,
•/ \
<r•» •‘•f*****- *~"- ^.4;- ’ h. .><;-.sm* -r y» * i .ympifyua*.v. : * - *jr\ *>>»<
» \
A
M
t
The Freedom Express.
Tl^e Onl3r 2STewepaper ZFMTolieJaed. In ISTortneasterm. Woodward Ccnnty,
Volume 2
Freedom, Oklahoma, Thursday, May *>, 1907.
Number 4.
THE FARMER’S FRIEND,
Grand Millinary Opening, Q
You are Cordially invited tr* attend ourLarg^e Millinery display, Saturday March 30
The largest display of Easter Bonnets in the west, for Ladies, Misses and Children
all in the very latest Styles, ‘‘First ceme,first served”shall be our rule during this Sale.
Received a nice line of Spring DressGoods. Nice line of Gents Clothing.
Large Line of Pants, Work Shirts and overalls ready made. Just Received Line of
Fresh Drugs. Groceries, Everything good to eat.
aiwaiu
Files, Clevises, singletrt cs, etc etc etc.
Highest Market Price Paid tor All Farm Produce.
—1 carry a General Line ot-»~
)ry Gaols
Groceries.
WM. CLIFFORD,
East Main St
FREEDOM, OKLA
B733 -rs
How Do We Know?
I* Oklahoma’s preposed constitution
to be voted on August 6tb. without
the voters kuowing what the con-
tents really are?
The official copied are to remain
in the bands of President Murray
nutil the night before election. The
■convention ha« now adjourned, and
among its laBt acts was to make
Murray official custodian of the
parchment and copies until the
i.ight of August 5th when the con.
vention will cease to exist as an
official body. ,
The oopies of the Constitution'
have not been Sled with the secre-
tary of Oklahoma, as required by
the enabling aot, They are now in
•a .safety deposit vault in a Guthrie
bank, under the care of the presi-
dent of the convention.
It is stated by close friends of
President Murray that he intends
to take the documents to his home
in Tishomingo when he leaves this
city.
The question arises, how wiil the
people be authorized to vote upon
a constitution of which they know
nothing. During the last few days
many changes were made in the
parchment by interlineation
several new olauses adopted and
other changes from the copy
furnished to the public through the
alleged officially edited and com-
plied dooament signed by Lassater
and Carney.
President Murray now has the
dooument in his possession and it
i - his intention not to file it with
the territorial secretary until too
late for the people to know its con-
tents. Under this procedure it
would be a very easy matter to de -
cieve the voters as to the contents
and if desired, changes conld be
made without the knowledge of the
• people or delegates not in on the
deal-
The alleged offioial oopy publish-
ed by the editing oommittee and
compiling committee, of which Mr,
Lassater and J. J. Carney were
chairmen, has been found not to
oompare with the docament as en-
grossed upon parohment and adopt-
ed by the convention. Several sec-
tions have since been added by the
convention whioh have not been
published except by the aewspapers
as a matter of news.
The “yellow peril” as published
by the committee does not contain
several seotions, others have been
garbled, while in several places
words have been changed and an
entirely different construction
placed upon the laws by the changes
It is possible that the purpose of
the convention in not filing the
constitution in the secretary’s office
where all public documents are re-
quired to be filed, is to keep the
people from knowing the contents.
Why was it not filed in order that
any oitixen of the future state may
have the privilege of reading it?
Another question which is being
discussed, is as to whether the con-
stitution has been submitted to the
people. Until it is filed with the
secretary the people will have
nothing before them for r, osidera-
tion. No question can be submitted
to the voters unless it is in the
hands of the public custodian,
officially certified and attested by
the secretary of the territory.
Unless the parchment is tiled
with the proper officer the question
of its adoption or rejection cannot
be submitted to the voters, is the
opinion ,ot a large number ut
lawyers.
The enabling act provides that
the parchmeut shall be filed with
the secretary, and by him turned
over to the state secretary to be
preserved for the future state. This
the convention has uot allowed
President Murray to do, and there-
fore it is doubtful whether the
voters will have an opportunity to
vote upon the question of adopting
it.
Have
private
SCHAEFER & MEYER,
Money to Loan on Wofiward County Land
on as low a rate as any company.
Application can be made at Express Office
or direct with us at Alva, Okla.
S. ?. KRAMER,
President.
J. H..HOPKINS, EDS ROBERTS.
Vice-President. Oashiei.
To tlxe People cf estern Oklahoma.
The Time has Arrived
——when you should begiu to-
Plant Cotton!
Kingman, Okla.
T he long looked tor rain came at
last
Mr. Lon Greenwood took his
broom-oorn to Alva this week.
Mr. W. H. Cole started for his
home at Walton K0ns- this week.
Mr. Charley Bowles took his
sister-in-law Mrs. Younger to Alva
where she will take the train for
her home atTongonoxie Kang.
Bert Bartholomew is in Kiowa
after a load of freight.
There was quite a large crowd
of Abbie people at Kingman to
Witness the ball game between
Avard State Bank,
AVARD OKLA.
Capital Jtock If ally j aid %p %10,QC0.00.
■\7s7"e Solicit To~a.r DBijisixiess-
8. P.
—XDIrectcrs—
KRAMER. J. E. KRAMER.
LAURA UOPKIN8. JOHN J
J. H. UOPK1T
GERLAGH,
If you are ambitious and desiie to better your financial condition you can dr,
so by no more safe, sure or quicker method than by planting (lotton right now.
The acteage you should plant depends on yom ability and the help you may.,
have at your command to assist you in the cultivation and picking of this crop.
“.losh Billings” once said that any fool can profit by his own experience buvfc
it was a wise man who could profit by the experience of others and there is tq
woild of truth in this statement. It is a fact that the Wheat and Oat crop in
Texas has recently been destroyed by the ‘‘Green Bug”. It is a fact that 60per
cent is a conservative estimate of the Wheat and Oat crop of Southern Okla
horn a that has been destroyed this last month by the Green Bng and dry weather
The Green Bng together with the dry weather is injuring the crops all a
round us right now, and it is reasonable to believe that the Wheat yield for
the coming season will not be a large one in this part of the country.
With the above conditions staring us in the face at this time it behoove*,
every farmer to figure on some other crop that he yet has time to put in tc,
insure himself against failure in the crops he already has planted. It is fortuate
fci him that the existing conditions have come up so early in the season for
I t! time was never more propitious or favorable to tbe replacing or planting
.1 a crop than the present time is for the planting of Cotton.
;jast season with few exceptions every man who planted Cotton in Weston:..
Oklahoma averaged between 25 aDd 80 dollars per acre. What other crop car
-qual or beat this?
Auton Shafer, President, E. A- Haines, Vice-Pree.
L- A. Wes' fall, Cashier,
SAJjlX of
Solicits Yo«r Patronage,
For the people of this part of Oklahoma who can come to Avard with their
Cotton they can rest assured of finding the highest market for their Cotton
either in the seed or iu the bale. A contract has been made to have a modern
Gin in Avard ready for operation before the season opens. An experienced
j Cotton and Gin man will be iu charge and you will get every cent your Cotton
is worth You can sell same here or have it ginned and ship to Galveston and
store same, iv eiving an advance on it and sell it when you get ready.
Alva,
Okla.
Abbie and Kingman on
28th. The scores stood
Uuts Abbey
Bunion
Rackley
1 . Rouijue
Lewis
Emil Archer
8un. Apr.
as follows,
scores
0
Earnest, Archer (j
4 Harris O
2 R. Bush l
1 Reed 2
2 Ream l
iv.ngman
4 1, May 1
4 B- Aluiuiy 1
2 J. Province H
1 beunei 4
1 Pioviuee 2
3 B. May 2
a F. Province 2
2 B Uoie H
d B.llicbarkjju o
5 A. Feltner o
Abbie is getting better but stiji
need* practice that long pull
praoiioe practice.
It you get beaten grin and bear
it but let not defeat enclude that
you are have lost the art of smiling
! It will do no sort of good to be glib
with your exouses just own up and
let it rest. You was beaten on your
merits while doing your best.
Mr. Muudy and Mr. Cole and
Mr. Tead Metcalf are all iu Alva
with bcaom-corn.
i’l Bartholomew broe. have
tii ii new house almost completed
on ta-t main street,
M«ss Elizabeth Mundy is visiting
in Aiva this week.
It -eems as though Aunt 8al
doe- not keep well posted on the
in j > cents of tbe Abbie bail play-
ers, Kingman will play Abbie on
Saturday the lltb. A good game
is looked for. A. B. C. will probably
witness the game and pick up the
fragments that may be left after
be battle i« over.
A. B. C
There is no known er
make good.
p that will stand a drouth as well as Cotton an
In conclusion, we wis to state that we have sold a large amount of seed*
a!! of our first shipment is gone, and we have just received another car of very
fine seed which we aie going to sell to the people at 40 cents per bushel. We
can get 85 cents more per bushel for this seed by loading it on cars here n
Avard and shipping same as there is a grea t scaicity ■ f good seed but we wiil
hold this seed for our people. We believe every man should plant from 10 ro
3o acres of Cotton at least but unless he has plenty of help to plant and pic*
same would not advise him to piant more.
One bushel of seed ought to plant two and one-half acres of Cotton though
the usual method is to plant one-half bushel per acre tb get a stand and tb-u
thin out. You can't plant cotton too shallow. This red soil forms a crust
that is to© strong for the tender plant to break thron.h unless it is just at tne
top of the soil. °
Consider us at all times at your service-
pondence.
We will gladly answer all Corre„
WisbiDgvon success with all your crops and assuring you of our every *.;■
sistance, we are
Yours Very Truly,
TheGeRlACH Mer. Co Avard Okla.
PER R. B PATTON
B M- Curtis who purchased the
H. J. Stewart place a -hurt time a-
go has eold his farm of 27o a.ree in
Jewell-co. Kaos, and with bis fam-
ily and goods started for Okla. on
the -8 of April. He is expected to
arrive boon
James, Griffin has heeu having
his house plastered this week,
K. H. Frederick went to Alva to
meet Mrs Frederick who w.s
coming iu on thetraiu from a y« i
to Wichita and other points jn
Eastern Kane.
; \
r
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.
DeGeer, R. I. The Freedom Express. (Freedom, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 9, 1907, newspaper, May 9, 1907; Freedom, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc951303/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.