The Choctaw Herald. (Hugo, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 5, 1912 Page: 2 of 4
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The Choctaw Herald
ISuccesror to Tlio Soper llci alill
JESSE G. CURD. - - - Editor and Owner
Teiehone No. 21, Editorial Room
Entered as second-class matter March 3, 1910,
at the post office at Hugo, Oklahoma,
under Act of March 3, 18"9.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY IN THE YEAK.
To Subscribers—You will be notified ot the time your
subscription expires and unless an order is received to
continue sondlne The Borald to your address it will t>e
stopped as soon as your time Is out.
When a chanee of address Is ordered he sure to gi>e
both the old and new address.
The Herald Is exclusively a local paper, devoted en-
tirely to Huifo. Choc taw County and Oklahoma and so-
licits communications pertaining to City, County and
State affairs.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, *1.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1912.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
RATES.
County offices, $10.
State, $15.
Congressional. $15.
District, $5.00.
Township, $3.00.
For President—William Howard Taft, of Ohio
For Vice-President—James S. Snerman, ol
New York.
For Representative—Jesse G. Curd (republi-
can). ,
For District Clerk—J. W. Hammond (repub-
lican). ,
For County Judge—G. Earl Shaffer (repub-
liean. , ,
For County Treasurer—II. B. Smith (repub-
lican.)
For Register of Deeds—W. P. huskey, (Re-
publican.)
For Sheriff—Ben D. Locke (Republican.)
For County Attorney—R. L. Evans (republi-
can.) , , ,
For County Surveyor—F. N. Molyneux (repub-
lican) .
towards becoming self-supporting.
In view of the fact that there is a growing de-
ficiency in the expenses of the county, it might
be well to have an expert go over the books of
the county and find out just where the deficiency
comes, and why. Such an examination might
bring to light some points wherein the county
might economize and save a little of the people's
money and give just as good and efficient ser-
vice. That there has been extravagance and
needless expenditures was recently evidenced
when this same board declared several clerkships
in the court house vacant, thereby acknowledg-
ing to the taxpayers that their money was being
spent for clerks to perform duties for which the
officials had been elected. However, at a subse-
quent meeting of the board the salaries for
these same clerks were made a part of the esti-
mate for the ensuing year, even after the places
had been declared vacant.
Those against whose property the taxes are
assessed to pay these expenses and the "legal
outstanding warrant indebtedness" are entitled
to know just exactly where the money goes, who
gets it and for what purpose, then if there is
shown to be an absolute necessity for the expen-
ditures there will be no criticism for the officers
in charge of county affairs. But, election time
is at hand, and there is a possibility that there
will be several new faces in the frame of county
jfficials, it is nothing but fair to them and the
outgoing officials that a complete audit of tlie
books of the county be had, so that all books may
be turned over in proper shape.
Many who have watched the proceedings of
the county have asked the question as to why
this bond issue is necessary; the only way to as-
certain the whys and wherefores is to tell them
for just what purpose the money is needed and
why there i9 no money in the treasruy. Then all
vvill be perfectly satisfactory between the offic-
ials and the taxpayers.
O
3, SON, we are not displeased with the ac-
No matter how willing and how
competent a cook a woman is, she is
always culinarily handicapped if her
husband hasn't any credit at the gro-
cery store.—Ex.
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Running up and down stairs, j At
sweeping and bending over making tfj
beds will not make a woman healthy -Js
or beautiful. She must get out of j tjC
doors, walk a mile or two every day
and take Chamberlain's Tablets to
improve her digestion and reguate j
her bowels. For sale by all dealers. Ig|
BROUGHT TO LIGHT.
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WHITHER ARE WE DRIFTING?
EVER SINCE STATEHOOD there has been
a continual climbing of the taxation of the
state and county until the people are be-
coming alarmed, and justly so. There has beei
needless and seemingly wanton waste of tht
monies collected as taxes, and an army of offi
cers to be paid, many of them needless append
ages to a political machine; but they must b'
paid, and the taxes must be forthcoming to mee1
the expense. The cry of high taxes has gone out
but appears to have struck no sympathetic chord
those in charge of the monies of the state ant
county continue to hand out funds to Tom, Dicl
and Harry for "services rendered."
We realize that there have been many im
provements made, but most of these are munici
pal or in school districts, and need not apply ii
the summing up of the expense of the county ant
placed as a debit against the county, as the mon
ey is not raised by the county and the propertj
of the entire county is not subject to taxation oi
that account.
What does interest the county is the monies
raised for county purposes and how it is spent
There was imposed on the entire holdings of th<
county a tax for the court hou?^ and bridges
that is all right and comes under the head o
county funds; then there is the estimate for th
expenses of the county, and the money for thi:
must be raised from taxation of the entire taxa
ble property of the county. We know that. Bu
what we do not know is where this immense
amount of money has gone, and why there is «
necessity to issue bonds for $19,530 to pay thi
legal outstanding warrant indebtedness of thi
county, as shown in the following order of thi
board of county commissioners at their recen
meeting:
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO FUND.
Notice is hereby given that on the 7th
"\ day of October, 1912, at 10 o'clock A. M.
or as soon thereafter as a hearing may
be had, the County of Choctaw, State of
1 Oklahoma, by its proper officers, will
proceed before the District Court of
Choctaw county, Oklahoma, to make a
showing and offer proof and ask said
court to hear and determine the exist-
ence, character and amount of outstand-
ing legal warrant indebtedness, and to
sign the bonds to be issued in payment
of the same. The bonds the Court will
be asked to sign aggregate the sum of
nineteen thousand, five hundred thirty
dollars ($19,530).
All persons interested may be present
at the time 3aid proof is made to remon-
strate against the issuance of said
bonds.
Dated this 15 day of August, A. D.
1912.
JOHN HUSKEY,
Chairman Board County Commissioners
Attest: J. W. MILAM, County Clerk.
(Seal)
That is a considerable amount of money to ac
crue against the county, when we consider th
extremely high rate of taxation.
Another extract from the proceedings of tin
board reads as follows:
WHEREAS, the said county of Choc-
taw has no funds in its treasury with
which to pay said warrants; and it is
deemed necessary to fund and pay the
same by the Issuance of the negotiable
coupon bonds of said county to the ag-
gregate amount of nineteen thousand,
x'ive hundred thirty dollors ($19,530),
1 as may properly and lawfully be done
pursuant to the provisions of section
408 to 421, both inclusive, Compiled
Laws of Oklahoma, 1909, Snyder, and
other statutes of the State, supplemen-
tary and amendatory thereto.
With all the high rate of taxation the people
certainly thought there would be sufficient mon-
ey raised to pay the running expenses of the
county, but it appears we are "running in the
red" all the time and not making much headway
tion of Choctaw county democrats intheir
action in the recent county convention, and
he little squib concerning the actions of the par-
ly was simply to express humiliation. The "re-
publican organ" acknowledges that there are
nanv, many good men in the democratic party
(which is more than the little daily will concede
{'or republicans); we are your neighbors and
Aell-wishers, whether you desire it or not, and
A'e really want to see you do well and keep with-
n bounds of political decency. Rather than that
xe are displeased with the action of the conven-
:ion, from a political standpoint, we "wer etick-
ed to death," for we know that the rank and file
>{ the party turned up their nose and got out of
ange of the stench as soon as possible. The "re-
jublican organ" does not know the gentleman
lamed as chairman at that meeting, but we do
:now that there is not a more genteel democrat
n the county than the man defeated. No, we
vere not displeased, we simply exhibited our hu-
niliation for a neighbor which that neighbor does
lot feel for himself.
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FAIR WEEK. What a thrill of joy at the
thought. Beginning October 22 and last-
ing four days, Choctaw county will this
,-ear pull off the biggest fair event on the east
>ide of the state. The premium list is large and
ittractive, and will draw exhibits from all sec-
ions of the county. Then there will be the
sights to be seen. The men in charge will ar-
•ange for as much entertainment of the visitors
is will be possible to crowd into the four big days.
"Jhoctaw county wants you and your entire fam-
ly to come and spend these four days at her big
'air and have a good time. Will you come?
O
DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY. The 62nd con-
gress, just adjourned, was strongly demo-
cratic ; for years this party has been flowi-
ng about the extravagance of the republican p ar-
y and the millions appropriated by republican
congresses. The 62nd congress appropriated
nore than one billion dollars, and President Taft
•etoed appropriation bills to the amount of at
east one hundred millions of dollars—still the
-epublican party is the party of extravagance.
O
-IILE we stand for Taft and the republi-
can party, we have failed to see where
many of the democratic papers have ev-
Hugo People
the Full
Receiving
Bent fit.
There have been many cases like _
the following in Hugo. Everyone re- j ri
lates the experience of people we jjj
know. These plain, straighforward , <3*
statements will do much toward re- Iff
lieving the suffering of thousands, j
Such testimony will be read with in- l|£
terest by many people.
George Sheeler, carpenter and ifj
contractor, 507 W. Jackson St., Hu-l<-}a
go, Okla., says: "I can certainly rec- Uj
ommend Doan's Kidney Pills. About j
a year ago I was taken with severe |l|i
pains in my back, just over the kid-
neys and was laid up for several
days. The doctor called it lumbago.
A dull, heavy ache settled in my back
and when I stooped, sharp twinges «£«
like knife thrusts caught me in my
loins. The kidney secretions were ir-
regular in passage and during the
night I was obliged to get up sever-
al times. The remedies I used not
proving satisfactory, I sent for a
box of Doan's Kidney Pills. In a
short time after I began taking
them, the pain grew less severe and
finally passed away. I used in all
six boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills and
they made me strong and well."
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster-Milbum Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the Unitl
ed States.
Remember the name—Doan's—and
take no other.
Insurance
Against t
Shut-Downs! I
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Occasionally a manufacturer has a break-down in jr
his power system which causes money-losing de-
lavs. Do you want insurance against such occa--y>
sions?
Machines Driven by Electric Power
purchased from a wholesale producer are most
highly insured against shut-downs.
ELECTRIC POWER from our station is always I
ready any minute of the 24 hours to drive any J
machine. '
Our record of service is open for your inspection .
if you are interested, and will convince you that j
our Dowei will not fail at critical times. j
Electric Motors will run for weeks and months <
without anv attention except oiling.
Let us explain the matter more fully to you !
j| Hugo Ice & Light Co.
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A man is a person who promptly
takes his troubles to his wife but
lets her get his money only by beg-
ging for it.—Ex.
The implicit confidence that many
people have in Chamberalin's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is
founded on their experience in the
use of that remedy and their knowl-
edge of the many remarkable cures
of colic, diarrhoea anfl dysentery
that it has effected. For sale by all
dealers.
Transact your business through the
Oklahoma Slate Bank, Hugo,
the bank where the safe return of your money
is GUARANTELD by the DEPOSITOR'S
GUARANTY FUND—and courteous treat-
ment is combined with conservative banking.
We oav interest on time deposits.
We want vour business.
U. G.
priipPEN.
Fnsidtent.
H. WRIGHT,
Vice-President.
P. J. T. GERM \,
Ci , ler
Oklahoma City Polo and Pushball Team.
tx endorsed the free trade plank in its own na-
tional platform. The difference between the two
platforms is the difference between prosperity
and the free soup house of '93, and the people
who vote have not forgotten that.
O
A WEST SIDE paper stated that a circus car-
ried a great deal of money out of the
town, to which the McAlester News-Capi-
tal added that "so did Sears S: Roebuck, and they
did not even give a street parade." And besides,
you don't even get to see the performance
O
IT HAS BEEN announced in the state papers
that C. N. Haskell has made extensive invest-
ments in Mexico and will soon go there to "lo-
cate." All of which probably means more trouble
for Madero and the organized government.
O
ABOUT COMMISSION FORM.
THE LOCAL DAILY paper has been pub-
lishing several articles from Ardmore, a
town in which commission form of munic-
ipal government is in vogue. From the published
irticlea there seems to be something wrong with
the new form of government in our sister city.
Private letters from Ardmore, however, would
indicate that the same thing is the matter with
the commissin form there that exists in the ai-
dermanic form here. The politicians of the city j
are making a hard fight to remain in eowfrol of'
the city, even under the commission form—and
thereby hangs the tale. The Ardmore paper
from which the local paper has been quoting was
stripped of all the city printing when the new
form went into effect, and has been dyiijg hard
for the past two or three years. Lettefs from
business men of Ardmore, however, state that,
as a rule, the business men of the city are satis-
fied with the commission form, and express the
opinion that the only thing the matter is that
there are five commissioners when there sliou'd
be only three. The local paper shoufd write to
some other cities having the commission form
and get opinions from them.
DELICACIES
for .desert, pure, delicipus and whole-
some, fresh baked every day. If
you want to amke your family hap- Pony polo and pushball by Okla-| given on five big nights, September
py and healthy give our homa City and Rockwall Ranch ■ 30 to October 4, inclusive.
I (Texas) teams, concert every night J Pony pushball delighted thousands
BAKERY ! by one of the best bands in the coun who attended the Horse Show laBt
try. high class vaudeville acts, prize year and arrangements have Just been
a trial. Rolls, Buns, Bread, Cake j contests by hi?h steppers and fancy, made to have pushball again this year
turnouts, saddle and high school 'as well as pony polo and possibly
horces—these and many others will potato races played on horse back,
bp features of the great Horse Show The Indiana State Fair management
to be bold in connection with the, was so impressed with the games in
Oklahoma State Fair and Exposition! Oklahoma last year that the feature
which opens September 24 and closes was incorporated in the horse show
October 5. The Horse Show will be1 program at Indianapolis this year.
and Pastry.
Krauter's Bakery, Huga.
For the Best Service
Ask the Ticket Agent
to Ronte Your Tick-
et This Way.
"""rains on Time
Cofe Car Service
F. B. McKAY,
Fr. & Paasgr. Agt.
errell, Texas.
REDUCED RATES TO STATE FAIR
All railroads entering Oklahoma
City will give reduced rates for the
round trip from all points In Oklaho-
ma during the sixth annual Oklahoma
8tate Fair and Exposition, September
24 to October 6. Tickets will be placed
on sale prior to the opening day of
the big exposition and the sale will
continue until the last day. A rato
of one and one-third fare for the
round trip has been assured and Secre-
tary I. 8. Mahan has endeavored to
get a still lower rate, if possible. Full
Information concerning rates will be
furnished by all ticket agents.
"THE SHADOW OF THE CROS6"
Arrangements have been made
whereby the famous painting "The
Shadow of the Cross" will he exhibit
ed every day at the Oklahoma State
Fair and Exposition, Oklahoma City,
September 24 to October 5. This Is
the last public exhibition of the pic-
ture, the owner having decided to
place the painting In bis private pal-
Ury at the end of this year.
WIRELESS TELEGRAPH STATIONS
Two complete wireless telegraph
stations will be in full operation every
day of the big Oklahoma State Fair
and Exposilion, Oklahoma City, Sep-
tember 24 to October 5. 1912, accord-
ing to announcement Just made by
Secretary I. S. Mahan. One station
will be located near the main en-
trance to the grounds, which cover 160
acres, and the other station will be at
some point on the grounds accessi-
ble to the hundreds of thousands of
visitors. The idea is to establish wire-
less communication between these two
stations.
COUNTY EXHIBITS.
Every county in Oklahoma is urged
to have a county exhibit at the Okla-
homa State Fair and Exposition, Ok-
lahoma City. September 24 to October
5. Individuals and organization!
thinking of making county or other
exhibits are asked to write to Secre-
tary I. 8 Mahan for a premium list. >
Already someth'nt like thirty coun- ,1
ties have entered.
Sometimes a girl gets a fine rep-
utation for propriety, when in fact
it's because she has a complexion
that will kiss off.—Ex.
Rub-My-Tism will cure you.
J13412
Even the sort of man who lets his
wife kill the chickens at home and
drown the unwelcome kittens and
poison the rats and polish the stove
is afraid that if she voted it would
harden her.—Ex.
Few, if any, medicines, have met
with the uniform success that has
attended the use of Chamberlain's
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem-
edy. The remarkable cures of colic
and diarrlhoea which it has effected
in almost every neighborhood have
given it a wide reputation. For sale
by all dealers.
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Curd, Jesse G. The Choctaw Herald. (Hugo, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 5, 1912, newspaper, September 5, 1912; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc97664/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.