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the choctaw herald.
Vol. 6.
Hugo. Oklahoma. Thursday, April 13, 191]
No. 7
Street Paving
Bond Approved.
The city council met Friday night
in adjourned session with Mayor Jones
presiding and five alderman present.
Those absent were Aldermen Henry,
Marks and Lawless.
The principal time of the meeting
was consumed In considering and al-
lowing accounts, and one claim met
with strenuous objection from Alder-
man Downing. The account of I). L.
Swint for $lo« for a set of harness for
the hi* team of the lire department
was presented, arid thougn the claim
han the O. K. of Alderman Henry as
chief of the tire department, Alder-
man Downing opposed its payment.
''My understanding was that the
f ol<1 "*rness was to be worked over in
thi new harness, or they were to l>e
exchanged for a new set, and I think
we will be violating the law to pay
that claim," said Alderman Downing
"Just lay that claim out," insisted
Mr. Downing, "or I will vote against
every one the accounts in the budiret.
1 don't propose to vote for any more
accounts in violation of the law. We
violated the law when we voted to al-
low tlie claim or #uoo for those big
horses, but 1 did not know it until J
looked up the law. Just like a whole
lot more things that have been done
by this council, and If we keep It up
we are going to bankrupt the city."
After Alderinan Downing had com-
pleted his protest, City Cl«rk Echols
continued to read the accounts, all
of which had been aporoved by the
finance committee. After that had
been completed Alderman Downing
wanted to know if the Swint claim
for the harness had been laid out of
the pile of accounts repeating his de-
termination to.vote against the whole
business if that claim was allowed to
remain "In the pile " The account
was laid aside, and on motion of
Alderman Klrkbrlde all the accounts
were allowed as read, which included
the #100 account of Mr. Swint. hut
Alderman Downing did not seem to
realize It; or at any rate he offered no
futher protest.
The next business laid before the
council was r.he bond of F. R. Stone
for the fulfillment of the oavlng con-
tract, which was carefully considered
by the council. The bond Is for
833.W), and Is signed by the Southern
Surety company of Muskogee. The!
amount of the bond is just double the
amount of the contract, which is ap
proximately
The bond was formally approved
and accepted by the council ami the
city clerk and the mayor were author-
ized to sign It for the city
This was done by the mayor and
City Clerk Echols Tuesday morning
and under the contract work w ill be-
gin on the paving withlu ten days.
At the meeting of the council on
the third Tuesday night a proposi-
tion will be submitted for having the
business streets with either creosoted
pine blocks or vitrified brick.
Let's have some conveniences now
and let the Yankees, who are going
to flood this counnry. help pay for
them. Many of us will 1* deal or
In other counties in ten years. Let's
strike for progress while we can and
enjoy the conveniences while we
allye. /
Game Warden Gives
Pheasant Eggs.
State Game Warden Doolin fur-
nishes blanks to all applicants wish
ing pheasant eggs for propagating
purposes, and when properly returned
the applicant Is given the eggs free.
Last year the Warden's office placed
about 14,000 eggs, 80 per^nt of which
hatelied, and about 50 per cent of
these birds lived. The department
this year will distribute about 20,000
eggs. They may be placed under
barnyard fowls and hatched as any
other eggs. The pheasant is a do-
mestic bird, will run with the chicken
brood, but owing 'o Its varying foo-<
Inclines to wander from the lot. but
returns to roost. As an Insectivorous
bird the pheasant ranks with the
<iuall, only eating a greater variety
of bugs and weevils. Herein lies Its
value to the agricultural section, for
they have been known to clean a Held
of worms, bugs and Insects that
damage crops. The pheasant is pro
tected under the Oklahoma game law
until I 14.
Why Not Make
City Flyless?
There is no doubt that there are
fewer mosquitoes than there used to
lie, says the Dallas News. There Is
little reason to question that certain j
pests of long ago, by which the EgyD-
tians or the Chaldeans were annoyed,
have long since been exterminated,
just as the mastodon and other large
animals have been. There are In
Arkansas regions formerly noted for
a ferocious and fierce tick thatspeared
one as severely as a long hatpin, dis-
turbed religious worship, and kept
the world awake and uneasy. These
sharp-shooters have disappeared, and
the drowsy deacon now has nothing
to keep him awake and remind him
of a pltchforky hereafter. San Fran-
cisco has been cleared of rats, and
eyery person of experience knows how 1
easv it is to pet well rid of fleas.
About the worst of all the pests is
the fly. With the screens in general'
use In this country, and with other j
precautions that hare been resorted
to the number of house flies per capita '
has been perceDtibly reduced. The'
census doctors at Washington have I
not gotten to the tiles yet, and. at the !
rate they are going In counting the j
people, who were already counted by j
the takers almost a year ago, they j
may not give us any information be-1
fore the next census* is taken; but,'
everybody knows that there were'
when we had long brooms of peacock j
feathers with a lazy darky at the han-'
die, or When we progressed to a creaky i
framework above the table with stated j
newspapers trimmings, to lie drawn !
to and fro with a twine string, with I
just sufficient vigor to slap a flv lnto:
gravy now and then. There are fewer
tiles than there used to lie; but there I
are still too many of them.
Atlanta has decided to "-akcof her- '
self a flyless city. It |s claimed for
this enterprising Georgia city that its I
\ an Dyke screen ordinance, passed
unanimously by the City Council, Is
the most far-reaching step toward the
elimination of the typhoia fly taken
bv any city The two ordinances
are, as a matter of fact, Inter-acting
th" °"e serving to supplement; the '
other. The law requiring that all
garbage be inclosed insures that the j
fly shall have his breeding places re-
duced to a minimum. The ordinance
requiring the screening of foodsoffered
ior sale insures that the products that
daily go upon Atlanta's tables shall
be protected from the flies that breed
despite the garbage can ordinance.
There Is an Important w ord to add -
these ordinances are to lie rigidly
forced. No man or woman or child
is going to be permitted to maintain
any fly hatchery In Atlanta.
"Once that is accomplished." says
Atlanta Constitution, "we shall have
attacked the death rate wl.ere it is
most constantly fed-the infection
conveyed by the fly that does not
•wipe its feet' save on substances that
become germ cultures to spread dis-
ease and death among the unsuspect-
ing. The speed with which Atlanta
has made up lost time In Its sanitary
program is especially worthy of no-
tice. In less than two years steps
have been taken to Insure the aboli-
tion of those unspeakable health men-
aces earth doscts-a law has been
passed requiring the covering of all
manner of garbage, and now comes a
law to require such screening of food
as serves to put a capstone on the
two preceding reforms. The rapidity
with which what really amounts ti
a revolution has been wrought is a
tribute to the intelligence and ag-
gressiveness of the people of the city.
The timely and commendable exam-
ple thus set by Atlanta Is respectfully
called to the attention of gentlemen
n Hugo who have authority to do
likewise -power to promote the com-
Tort and even preserve the health or
thousands of men. women and chil-
dren who are dependent upon them
for protection from f he deadly pests
Agricultural School.
^NNdUNCKMENT is made that the state board of
agriculture and the A. & M. college will conduct five
county short courses in agriculture of one week each, to be
held in the five supreme court districts. The school will be
held in the county of each district which has the largest paid
up membership in the county farmers' institute and the
woman s auxiliary by May 1. judged according to the total
population of the county as shown by the 1910 census The
l~rTh thC regUlar agricultural st hoo,s are located
The A. & M. college will take two car loads of material
for use in these schools, including pure-bred horses, cattle
and sheep, charts dairy implements, utensils for modern
kitchens and much other interesting and scientific material
rhc school will be organized into classes on such subjects as
soils farm crops, orchards, dairying, injurious insects, live
stock, corn and stock judging, cooking, home decoration
sanitation and social observances. A large tent will be'
erected for demonstration in stock and corn judging vacci-
nation for hog cholera and black leg. spraying and other
similar work. 1 he first school will begin July 10, and all
of them will be open to all persons residing in the district
The boys and girls clubs will also be taken care of by
trips to the state fair and vthe district agricultural schools
bath county may send two boys and one girl to the state
^,ir a'°f'ahoma City this fall for a week of pleasure and
proht. The delegates are to be selected by the county far-
mers institute, the woman's auxili.ry and a delegate county
convention of junior agricultural clubs at a date to be named
One boy and one girl from each county, who
honors in the contests in corn growing and judging and
bread making and sewing respectively will win free trips to
the district agricultural schools for a week's training.
If is not too late for Choctaw county to enter the race to
have the short course for this district held in Choctaw coun-
ty. it all go to work soliciting memberships for the Far
men. Institute and keep at it till May 1 all these good things
for our farmers will be brought here where all can see
Why not make an effort to get the short course-it is worth
the truuhle and expense.
Oklahoma City
Wants Conference.
The
following are some of the
counties that have been governed by
the constitutional provisions for
bridges Improvements and the amount
they have voted for bridges, viz. ("ar-
te r county. Ardmore, 1200,000; Okfus-
kee, county. Okeema. 9100,000- Creek
county. Sapulpa, $200,000; Johnston
countv, Tishomingo, 9100,000; Coal
county, Coalgate. 1100.000: Nowata
county, Nowata, 9100,00:). None or
these counties hair as bad as Choctaw
county. Let's get in the line and t«
abreast or the times. We need the
bridges badly. See that bridge bonds
are voted for.
Wonderful Wealth ol the South.
g I RANGELY. the richcsl in resources andjjhe moa
undeveloped part ol America is the last quarter ol
the alobe to attract active interest „| Americanrcapitalist,
Three decades a$o. alter nearly twenty pathetically lean
years.nd wh.ieyet stru«lin4 i„ ,he mida
Southerner, look.nl forward, saw .his day. jus. „ he now
sees the South th.rty years hence. He knew his country
('f'TETl.'L miSl" hav,: 'he vision
i" V" . / r° a4ricullur ' a d industrial history
ol the South lor the century and .1 hall preceding the com-
in| of destray.nl war. Natural resources and;pro|re i™.
ness, not slavery, were the foundations ol post-bellum a«fo.
cncc and ascendency. But the investor, no, having the in.
sight of faith, now has the mind-opening facts
Asia SK3 t'ino mi? dreW ,r°m ,hu «> Eur°pe and
Asia 5S53,000,000 for raw cotton and cottonseed oil. besides
manufacturing more bales than New England. In 1910
bouth Carolina farmers sold their cotton and its seerl f«r
SIOO.OUO.OOO, while South Carolina mills manufactured more
cotton into cloth than any State. excep^Massachusetts. Sim-
ultaneously. South Carolina produced thirty per cent. moTe
than her previous record, and continued to do that which
has been done for more than half a century-hold the
Znil«:Tu°lieC?wSUC''0'' °n 0"e '«-> •■ E.
Important Decision.
DIRECTLY alter statehood Jud|e Campbell, sitting on
the federal bench at Muskogee ruled that certain In
an lands in the state were not to be taxed Since thZ
time thousands of acres of this land has been alienated ha
is it has passed out of the hands of the allottees ami
taxable. I here is any amount of this land'in Ch„ ,°W
county, and the board of county commissioners has d!??'!
to look into the matter. decided
The question of whose business it was to look i.n . j
was raised, and two of the county commSLone^Cd th-l
it was not the duty of the county treasurer while one
that it was. The case was put up to Coun'iv tZ "C'a
Steen, who said it was not his duty, and that if hi ^asurer
assess it and attempt collection of taxes upon the land h°
would stand in contempt of Judge Campbell's court i
held
week the matter took new headway, when it w.isH^L Vast
enter into a friendly mandamus suit between the boiH '°(
county commissioners and the county treasurer to .
whose duty it was to look this land up. and the ,
tried this week by Judge Hardy. He handed W3S
opinion to the effect that the board must secure the ? a,n
ance of an expert or someone to look up this i
land, but that the county treasurer could give over s . h
formation as to the change of title in ih«<. l .n ULh
lr you are a mossback and a fossil
do not stand In toe way of thoso who
would develop the country by voting | Messrs. John Hastings.! | Ward
against the bridge Ixmds if you U. u. I'hlppen spent Sunday on til
wont pull keep off the "double tree\ ke. on the
:hange ...
teased, and the commissioners court
title in these lands as he
pos-
Stadi'ord"loproc"dlu«i«' d*
I his means a great deal to Choctaw county as th*-
hundreds of cases here where this previous^ nn„
land has been sold to others by the original ilU 5
now becomes taxable if it can be located , 0"?S and
that the taxes derived from this source wilj run i ^
thousands of dollars annually, and will lighten the b^H^
to a considerable extent. burden
OklahomaM of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, South, expect the next
general conference to be held InOlcla
homa City, which will be in May
i !f'p Ed^S' Dr" Llnebaugh
and Bev. O. E. Sensabaugh, presiding
elder, returned from Nashville, where
they met the general committee and
laid before it Oklahoma City.claims
San Antonio, New Orleans, Atlanta
Memphis. Louisville, Aahavllle and
lampa are also applicants The lo-
cating committee will visit Oklahoma
Uty and Inspect the facilities before
the town ror the conference is select-
ed. Thomas B. King, Nashville, Job.
O. Brown, ttaleigh, and L. M. Thorn-
as Chattanooga, are the committee.
The conference gathers once every
four years, and Is the lawmaking body
or the church. It remains In session
about tiiirty days, the attendance be-
mg anywhere from 6,000 to 10,000.
The last conference was held In Ash-
vllle last May.
. T,1l* Oklahoma City committee reels
it will have the support of San An-
tonio as well as Memphis and New
Orleans when the final test arrives.
It pointed out to the committee that
there was a membership In the church
of approximately 1,600,000, one-third
of Which was west ot the Mississippi
Contract Let
for Biff Hotel.
There were several contractors in
the city Tuesday to bid on the work
of erecting the big modern hotel on
the corner of Duke and Crockett
street, but a local man, W. M. Robin-
son was the lowest and best bidder
and was awarded the contract.
The hotel complete will cost In the
neighborhood or 975,OOo and will be
the finest hostelry in this section of
the state. The building will be Fire
proof with four stories and basement
built or cherry red pressed brick with
gunmetal and Carthage stone trim-
mings. It will contain 73 rooms with
circulating steam heat and hot and
cold water in every room, and 38 ot
the rooms will contain bath.
Contractor Robinson ordered his
first shipment or material Tuesday
nlght'by wire and work will commence
on the building within the next ten
days, and the building iwlll be ready
for occupancy on or before November
This will be good news to the tra-
veling public, for Hugo has long been
In sore need or a hotel that could ac-
comodate the enormous transient
business which is compelled to stop in
tbe city.
w. H. Blakely, of Fort Smith drew
River, and only thrw times ha^'the Pr0bab* rema'"
conference gone £ tl.Tu^t "y "ere -
first
in
twice to St. Louis and once to Dallas
Pending selection or the meeting
Place local Methodists will continue
their campaign.
National Bankers Meet.
Representative* or National banks
liaye recently converted from State
banks met In Oklahoma City last
week to perfect organization with the
View of resisting collection or the 1
per cent emergency assessment made
for the benefit of the State guaranty
fund by the State banking board.
Little inrormatlon was allowed to
leak to the public, but It is said the
movement represents about tirtv Na-
tionals. which, the story Is, have de-
serted their State charters in the last
thirty days, and representing a total
assessment or about 1150,000.
Complaint against the assessment
Is two-told, the bankers claiming
there was no necessity for It, at least
such necessity had not been known to
them, and, second, they object to the
use or guaranty money to keep weak
institutions going.
This complaint, It was made plain
by one or the bankers. Is not against
present state Administration or pres-
ent Banking Board, but It Is pointed
out that in tlie last fourteen months
the state has rusned to the rescue ot
banks In a bad condition and loaned
the guarantee fond to keep their
doors open.
The State bankers haVe said that
as soon as the report ot the examina-
tion or the guaranty fond made by
the State Bankers' Association was
received by the Individual bankers a
meeting woula be held to consider'it.
.Just what the report shows has not
been made public.
The Banking Board will probably
make a test case with some of the re-
cently converted State banks for the
purpose of collecting the l per cent
guaranty fund assessment.
i superintend the construction.
The commissioners have gone into
this pioposition in a business like
manner. Haye employed an exper-
ienced engineer to make the specifica-
tions and the work will be let to the
lowest bidder. See that your neigh-
bor votes for the bridges. You your-
self can't afford to vote against the
issue.
Large Crowd
Heard Miss Kate.
The city hall auditorium was crowd-
£st Friday night to hear Miss Kate
Bernard, state commissioner or chari-
ties and corrections, speaK. She
came here from Fort Towson where
she spoke the night before. Her
business In this section of the state
was to organize a conterence of the
men and women to aid her in her
work of taking care of and looking
after the children of the state, and
in Hugo she added many names to
tlie list.
During her talk here she took oc-
cas'on to call attention to tlie fact
that the county was in Jsore need or
a jail In .vhich to look latter our pris-
oners as they should be. aud was verv
positive in her statement that ir we
had a good jail there w ould have been
no necessity for the death of Harve
McKinney. who died there last week
Of pneumonia. She called attention
to the fact that there was no place
for women in the present jail and
that she lad secured an order from
the district judge to transfer all
women prisoners to Ardmore jail un-
til Choctaw county built a jail. This
will be ratlier expensive, and the
sooner the county builds a jail the
sooner this unnecessary expense will
cease.
According to the specification on
file the bridges will be steel and the
Piers concrete. They will last 100
years. Tlie piers will be on the banks
out of tne way of drift and the bridg-
es wIM span entire stream. Vote for
bridges.
There will be a big Choctaw Presby-
ry held a* •— ■ —
about a week.
The constitution of Oklahoma has
in Its wisdom provided a way for such
counties as Choctav to secure local
improvements. This Is one of the ad-
vantages of statehood. Lefs avail
ourselves of this opportunity and de-
velop our county. Vote "Yes on the
bridge proposition April 25th.
Kd L. Reed and Joe Homer went
In the county Friday evening to ylslt
on the .arm.
Is there a business man In Chocta
couaty who is worth $6000 who would
be afraid to borrow (100 at 5 per cent
due In 25 years to Improve his pro-
perty and make it worth 12,«00? We
certainly hope we have no such nar-
row short sighted ones. This is the
proposition you are to decide on April
25tn. Vote for bridges and lets move
orward, develop aud expand.
What Is business for an individual
is business for a county. Let us look
at the bridge business in a compara-
tive business like way and you can't
afford to vote against the issue. See
that your neighbor votes lor the
bridges on April 25th.
J- H. Henderson, of Roby, was In
the city Saturday.
Vote for the bond issue on April
25th, and place Choctaw county in
the column of progressive counties.
Frank Gordon, the painter, will be-
gin the interior decorations in the
passenger station here in a few days.
There was a fairly large crowd in
town Saturday and all the big stores
did their share of business.
Glenn Blessing is visiting friends
in Hugo. He Is at present engaged In
concrete work in Commerce, Texas.
Miss Viola Allen Miller, or Antlers
visited her aunt Mrs. Jesse G. Curd
here this week.
John W. Wood, of Shoals, was in
the city Monday on business.
That was a tine rain Monday night
and will give us some stock water for
a few days. A good rain was also re-
ported from Paris, Texas, last week
Paris is one of the dry est towns in
the south and has been suffering great-
ly for water recently.
Several contractors Jof other cities
were here this week to bid on the
erection of the new hotel.
Work on the big hotel of the Webb
Brothers is progressing nicely.
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