The Choctaw Herald. (Hugo, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 16, 1913 Page: 1 of 4
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THE CHOCTAW HERALD.
at County Fair.
How to Detect and Deal With the j
Boll Worm. u ~
Washington, D. C, Oct. 14.—The £ TTvr( .♦
The Choctaw county Wr commit' I DeP"rtment( * Agriculture' has re- J J HIS CONTRIBUTION. 2
tee has awarded the prizes for agri-1 TI , T™1 J"™!™* u n**™ « I
cultural pvhihifc on/< «<■ f • ■ about injury by the cotton boll worm, " '■
2T,«Z2£L?imJ'£ Z rr",1*ln " *""rn
were beyond our fondest expectations I In,man/ cas«s insect has,, The pastor of a city church not long ago received a tel- ¥
been confused with the bell weevil, ;& egram asking him to arrange for the funeral of a home- ?
and seveial erroneous r*norfc flhrmf- it misftinnarv nnctnr whn ho/1 A\r,A i « .♦
expectations
would be putting it mildly. There
was corn galore from the smallest of
small popcorn to the great father cf
corn, the white "King Kern," every-
where to be seen. Cotton was there
and considering the great disadvan-
tages to which cotton has been sub-
jected, it was truly above the aver-
age. Special mention is due to little
Nellie Copeland for her canned to-
mato exhibit. Miss Copeland is only
12 years old, but her 31 varieties of
canned tomatoes were truly remark-
able, and one that a fully matured
matron could well be prcud of. The
exhibit of Mrs. Perry Fling, who re-
sides west of the city, was truly re-
markable, and if the Fling exhibit
goes to Tulsa with the other prize
winners there are some people from
the so-called fruit country that had
better look well to their laurels. All
of the prize winning products will be
taken to Tulsa and we feel no doubt
but what Choctaw county will bear
away some of the laurels of the
world's exhibition. The premiums
as awarded are as follows:
Cotton.
Best 10 lbs. Mebane Triumph, W.
T. Cox, Hugo.
Second best 10 lbs. Mebane Tri-
umph, J. F. Winton, Hugo.
Best 10 Iba. General Variety, G. T.
Tyler, Hugo.
Second best 10 lbs. General Var-1
iety, T. H. Johnson, Hugo.
Longest staple, any variety, J. T.
Leard, Hugo.
Second best longest staple, any va-
riety, Mike Wickson, Soper.
Corn.
Best 25 ears White, J. T. Weddle,
Erwin.
Second best 25 ears White, Frank
Fling, Hugo.
Third best 25 ears White, J. D.
Knight, Ft. Towson#
Best 25 ears Yellow, J. E. Burleson,
Hugo.
Second best 25 ears Yellow, J. D.
Knight, Ft Towson.
The boll worm is the larva of
moth, and is only very distantly re-
lated to the weevil which belongs to
the large natural group of beetles.
The worm when first hatched is very
tiny, but grows rapidly, becoming
linally a little over an inch long, and
gieenish or brownish in cclor. The
weevil grub is white and found only
within the cotton square or boll. It
never exceeds one-half inch in length
In this case of the present outbreak
the injury began so late in the season
that little can be done to protect the
present crop. Neverheless, a farmei
can insure the crop of the coming
season against injury by the pest
with comparatively little trouble and
expense. The action that should be
taken wherever injury has occurred
this year is to pick cotton as quickly
as possible and immediately thereaf-
ter to plow and harrow the fields.
This work will result in the de3truc
tion cf the immature stages of the
worm which have passed just be-
neath the surface of the soil. In ad-
dition to the effect in destroying the
insect he plowing and harrowing of
the fields will have very great value
in the way of preparing for the crop
rf the following season.
Methods of control of the bol'
worm which are applicable in differ-
ent seasons of the year are described
in Farmers' Bulletin 290.
Messer News.
We are having some nice coo!
weather at present.
No serious sickness of any kind at
present that I know of.
Every one is busy gathering King
cotton.
There will be preaching at Shady-
Grove Sunday, Oct 19. Everybody
welcome.
' There were between thirty and for-
ty bales of cotton from around Mes-
Third best 25 ears Yellow, T. L. ser marketed at Antlers last waek
Kefauer, Hugo. Seems as though Antlers is getting
Best 25 ears Mixed, J. K. Caldwell,; to be a great cotton market.
Hugo. I It has gotten so that it is danger
Second best 25 ears Mixed, U. G. ous to even read some newspapers on
Knox, Hugo. account of germs and microbes and
Third best 25 ears Mixed, A. J. I disease bugs. Everything has bugs
Willis,, Hugo. I nowadays—except The Choctaw Her
Best 25 ears Pop Corn, Mrs. A. J. aid. You will find no microbes or.
Willis, Hugo.
Second best 25 ears Pop Corn, M.
E. McMillan, Hugo.
Third best 25 ears Pop Corn, U. G.
Knox, Hugo.
Miscellaneous.
Best bale Alfalfa Hay, L. A. Stokes,
Forney.
Second best bale Alfalfa Hay, L.
A. Stokes, Forney
The Choctaw Herald.
Talk about the need of reform. I!
there is anything that needs reforn.
it is the price of cotton. The farm
ers in this ccuntry hav "riz" up oi.
their hind legs. And they are about
to bust their suspenders trying ti
reach a higher market.
Some cne wants to know what ha
become of the old fashioned mothers
| should be brought to that particular church for burial, but A
he wired that the service could be arranged, and during the ?
9 making of the arrangements he learned the reason for hold- ?
n ing the funeral there. The home-missionary, he discoverd ?
a had conducted a mission chapel in connection with hi-' tt
tt church. The work had begun while he was a theological a
It and he continued it for a few years afterward. A
♦ 1 hen he went West, and took up work in a remote plac> A
♦ an° ceased his active connection with the church in the city. V
9 But during all these years he had felt that church to be his ?
a home, and it had been his wish that when he died he shouid ?
a be buried from it, and near a little child of his who died
n while he had lived there. The pastor was afraid that few «
£ would remember this man, so long absent, therefore h.> I
♦ took pains to circulate the news of the funeral service, and T
♦ to inquire about this humble worker in the field of missions. ?
a !• irst of all he was surprised to find how many people re 9
tt membered the man. The number who gathered nearly fiil-
£ ed the large church. Although the news had but two days
£ to travel, there were several hundred people who came to ♦
pay their last tribute to the former pastor of the little mis- ♦
« sion—a mission that might be said to have lived off the ?
tt crumbs that fell from the table of the larger church Tlv a
a minister was so impressed to find that so many people ro- u
? fnem1b,ered the f°rmer minister kindly. His work had been a
humble and obscure, and it had been a long time befov- ♦
♦ Yet in many hearts there were hidden memories of it, all of ♦
A them apparently beautiful. The home-missionarv had en- ?
tered the ministry with meager preparations, taking his ?
a theological course without previous college training, am ?
? navmg to neglect his studies to earn the money on which to tt
« u! !?a^,never been a event man. but had gone fro-n A
£ one haid field to another, on an annual salary always far ♦
♦ ess than one thousand dollars, and sometimes small almos 7
♦ l° ^'an,sbinK point. But the man left no unpaid debts. He ?
« had a modest sum in life insurance, and enough in the sav- ?
? gS barJkLt0 Pay.his funeral expences and a little more a
5°^i e ? By the most ri£id economy, of course a
£ Yet he and his family had had their daily bread and had A
♦ never gone without food or fire. And what a family! The ♦
i widow was a woman of ability and character. Everv one ?
« spoke of her in terms of the highest praise; and of the chil- 9
a dren one is a minister, one a physician, one a successful a
n business man. One daughter is married, and a useful woman A
£ The youngest, a daughter, is the only one who has not had T
A a college education, and she is to have it. The others all ?
A woi-tad their way through, encouragcd from home, but lit- ?
♦ le /ulia?Cial aid,-,rh,e minister, first of the slums and then tt
a of the frontier life, lived always a life of privation, yet a a
a life of joy in the sen-ice. He left behind him a wife, bear- A
£ mg her loss bravely, and five chidren, all of whom enter up- "
A n'ru • ?uth a 2°°d education, good health and character. 7
♦ \\ ho is there that can be called richer than this, and what ?
7 man makes a greater contribution to the world? **
~a • a • a -a-a- a- a-a -a • a^a-a-a • a~a • a~tt- a • a-c-a-a- a- a-a?
SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
ON THE FEDERAL GOOD ROAD
BUILDING POLICY.
Outlines to the Good Roads Conven-
tion the Problems Which Must Be
Solved n' Developing the Roads cf
the Country—Expresses Particular
Interest in the Roads Lted for the
Mail, for Transportation of Farm
Produce, and in Getting Children
Id School.
Detroit, Mich., Oct. 8.—David F.
Houston, Secretary of Agriculture,
delivered an address on Federal co-
operation in road building before the
Good Roads Convention in session in
this city last week. Mr. Houstftn said
in part:
"The suggestion of great national
transcontinental roads appeals to ;ny
imagination, as does the suggestion
of interstate roads connecting capi-
tals or cities of commercial import-
ance to my logical faculty and to the
sense of pleasure that I experience in
tiding abcut the country in my good
friends' automobiles. But that the
essential thing to be done is the pro-
viding of good roads which shall get
products from the community farms
to the nearest station and make rur-
al life more profitable, comfortable
and pleasurable, 1 entertain no sort
rf doubt; and it is obvious that the
representatives of the people in the
Congress are like minded. For in
making their appropriation they stip-
ulated that it should be used in im-
proving the conditions of post roads
I v-ith a view to the economy and ef-
i iiciency of postal delivery and for
; the transportation cf farm products
j to the market. Such roads are equal-
News of the
District Court.
The criminal docket of the district
court opeHed this morning with the
caae of the State against Charles
Draper. It will be remembered that
Draper killed a man in his yard at
his heme west of Boswell. Draper
struck the man with a stick of wood,
and his plea is that the blow was
struck while trying to frighten the
man away. Draper claims the man
was drunk and was raising a distur-
bance and he was forced to frighten
the man'in order to stop his loud and
forceful talk and that in endeavoring
to do so struck the man too hard.
Another case to be disposed of is
the case of Wood Mitchell who is
charged with having too many wives.
Simpson Fleek is charged with
having in hi3 possession a heifer that-
did not belong to him by right of
ownership. On that charge he is out
on bend, but nevertheless, he is still
the guest of .the Connell hotel on an-
other charge of purloining' a steer
and butchering ft'.' '
The case of Robert Lewis, who is
charged with assault and attempt to
kill is also docketed for today.
The criminal docket for this terni
is • very heavy and it will require
some time to clear it. The case of
Isaac Rhone for killing Wm. Stewart
near Grant also comes tQ trial thi3
term.
Best bale Native Hav, J. T. Leard,lwho canned a11 kinds of vegetable;
jjUg0 j and every kind of fruit she could ge
Second best bale Native Hay. w.| hold of , ^hy she isdead along tim.
T. Cox, Hugo.
Best bale Peanut Hay, W. T. Cox,
Huge.
age, and her daughters are all out
making woman suffrage speeche
and demanding their rights, and th<
Best bushel Oats, T. H. Johnson, b°ys are eatin& co,d sPuds and friet
Hugo.
Second best bushel Oats, J. K.
Caldwell, Hugo.
Best bushel Stock Peas, A. E.
Hicks, Hugo.
Second best bushel Stock Peas, J.
T. Brian, Hugo.
Best bushel Irish Potatos, J. L.
Groves, Huge.
Second best bushel Irish Potatos,
Dr. Perry Fling, Hugo.
Best bushel Sweet Potatos, D. R.
Grantham, Hugo.
Second best bushel Sweet Potatos,
P. O. Duffy, Hugo.
Largest and best Pumpkin, M. D.
Lingo, Hugo.
Second best largest and best 'Pump-
kin, W. T. Cox, Hugo.
mush
Say, it is queer and funny, too, hov
how some people live religion. Holi
ness is the pure and clean, both in
mind and heart, and it preaches th
gospel of Jesns Christ so straight ev
ery sermon brings many poor sinner
to the mourner's bench in a trot. I:
gets 'em, going and coming, and it is
the best thing in this old world to g
by. And the only thing that will d'
to die by.
A Deity believed is joy begun,
Deity adored i3 joy advanced, and t
Deity beloved is joy complete. H
that rejects the Bible embarks with
out a friend, upon a ship without t
helm or rudder, upon a sea without a
shore, upon a night without a star o'
Best 10 heads Kaffir Corn, Dr. A. d*wn, "P0" 8 voyage without a de?
H. Davis, Hugo.
Best 10 heads Feterita, Dr. A.
Davis. Hugo.
Brought Cotton to Hugo.
Qne day last week S. E. Rhodes
saw 35 bales of cotton at Antlers but
the price of the staple did not appeal
fo Mr. Rhodes and he and 35 oth«vj
brought their cotton to Choctaw
county for sale. The cotton market
has been wavering for a few days
and damaged cotton is being offered.
This being the first season market, j God
the damaged product has found a l There was one of the grandest old
slow sale. About 2000 bales were I meetings at Pine take last Sunday
tination.
What we need more than anything
else is more heart tonic. Something
that will stimulate our souls, and
paralyze our selfishness and hate
something that will put goodness ii
our souls, and the devil on the run
We've got to get right from within.
Churches and Isms and Theories have
no more to do with saying our toul
and carrying us to Heaven than bind
ing pan cakes on the bottom of a
man's feet will satisfy his hunger
We must get our hearts right. with
mng over with the love of God in ter service we yd goodby to those
their hearts, and it was just old-time,! good people, and headed north to
heartfelt religion. j pjne Lake where we met a host of
| good friends and Herald readt.;; so
at night they had divine services and
I the Rev. German delivered the ser-
| mon to a large and attentive audi-
ii/ ii ... ,, ence- He informs us that he is the
Well, Mr. Editor, thought I would' of„, t .u u u i ■ j .
write aflin P8St°r °f the °hurch of Gad at that
It Kti" rains j i, I Place> "*hich has a large membership,
it sti r rains, and we dont nave' MniB i
nuch u nshine. N°W' E*tf>r' we s«re r^ret
c- . . . , . . were not with us on that trip.
^ Everybody is p.ck.ng cotton in the, So OTth these c]osjng quU
in time,
AUNT DINAH.
Edgewood Items.
(Tool ate for last week.)
Lest I could
rhyme.
never make them
LEM PICKJ1GGER.
Rock Hill New.
Mr. Phillips has gone to seek a
home in other ports. We hate to lose j
him. Choctaw county is good enough
"or me.
Cotton has taken the second growth'
which makes it bad to pick.
Mr. Editor, I want to tell you- It is raining just a little more. We
about my trip ast week. We brought certainly have had encugh for a lit-
out our ought-to-be and after getting tie while.
the motive power regulated, we took; Crops are looking fine these days,
our seat and headed north. The first although we can't get in the field to
stop was at cne ofthe neighbors, Mr. gathei them without wading mud.
Byrns. We were very much surpris-j Aunt Dinah, excuse ine for sav-'
ed* when we took a look at his corn-: ing I couldn't walk for the mud. I
field. It is of a seedless variety. Wa really meant I couldn't hardly walk,
have senn seedless ribbon cane, but Eveiybody is having chills and fev-i
his corn is the first Indian corn of a er.
seedless variety that we have ever; Aunt Dir.ah, come over and snjoy.
seen. We are told that it is a wild: the .nud a while with me. It's rain-
kind. Then we continued north end 'ing some more, which will add a lit-
->ur next stop was at the home of the'tie more to what we already have.
Rev. W. E. MeClanahan. We found Lem Pickjigger, hring Aunt Dinah'
the preacher much worried over an j over and help us eat chicken,
experience he had in trying to marry i Aunt Dinah, has Butterfly cem-
a couple. He doesn't seem to knowjpletely flown-away. I haven't heard
whether he completed the job or no!.) of her for a long time.
he was so badly scared. We would! Jeff Roberts says. "Looks mighty
advise that couple when they marry j like cotton pickin' time."
again not to excite the preacher. Af Aunt Dinah, are you going to the
ter having a good dinner with the Ringling Brothers show?
preacher, we turned our face toward SUNFLOWER,
the city of Messer, and almost the
Davis Not Guilty.
The jury in the case of the State
vs. Jcsoph Davis, Buck Bertholf, Tom
Spencer, Bob Wortham and Jack Da-
- —v.. .v.™ CTjumi-i Y'9 charged with holding up and rob-
ly essential to the establishment and binK an M. K. & T. train between Eu-
j operation of decent elementary and. fau!a and McAlester a year ago, re-
j secondary schools for the benefit, of i turned a verdict of not guilty at 11
j the country boys and girls. I do not ''"'dock Saturday night after a trial
i eliminate other things for considera-, that consumed the greater part cf
I tion and I do not underestimate the i week. Bond was made after the
-lights and pleasures of the autoroo- j arrest of the yeung men and trial
bilists and the service they have ren-' was set for two weeks ago, but an
. dered in the propoganda for road1 extra week was consumed because a
! building. * " " *' - j Jorr csufd not be impanelled as Judge
There are complex problems to be;Cole could nct be convinced that
solved in many States before the! McCuen was not prejudiced
most efficient expenditure of money aga'nst defendants. Jack and Joe
by States and communities for roads '^av's are residents of Hugo and the
ran be secured, and there are many ca?e was matched with more than
j mere to b worked out before one can i usual interest.
i rationally expect the Federal govern-1
' ment largely to participate. Who Frisco Train Wrecks.
j shall say how aid should be appor-1 Train No. 505 on the west end of
tioned so that the States may re- ithe A- 4 c- divisicn was wrecked at
| ceive equitable treatment? Shall it Kinl("k Iast Monday morning and
| be apportioned equally among the E'^neer Jas. B. Marean was pain-
States on' the basis of total popula-i full>' and not seriously injured. En-
tion, farm population, area, taxable j &'ne *30 was badly damaged. The
valuation, road mileage, or all these: j trai" was in charge of conductor Mc-
and should Federal money be expend- j Micheal and the direct cause was a
ed evclusively through its own agen- j sP!it sw'tch which caused the engine
cies for a certain system ? What jto leave the rail of the nain track
roads are to be improved? There;and start off on a siding. The en-
are approximately two and a quar-j?'ne w-as turned completely over and
ter million miles of publicly owned ;tl,e baggage car trucks went out
roads in the nation. Half of £hisl'ic'a under it and piled themselves
mileage is utilized for post roads arid I bes'de the engine. Engineer Marean
less than ten per cent of the total was on'y person injured, fireman
can be classed as improved in any Lawhcrn escaping with a severe
large sense. Shall we undertake to shaking.pp., This is the third wreck
apply aid to all the roads or shall! ^at has occurred at Kinlock and it
is due. no doubt, to some meddlesome
we consider this_ta task too gigantic?
Shall we apply it to the rtlral routes
or shall we regard this as equally be-
yond reason? Or shall we single out
certain directions in which centra)
roads shall run. and if so, how? Is
it not clear that this opens up' a field
where petty politics, community in-
terest and individual selfishness may j
run riot? Assuming that we have
settled this, for what purpose Shall
the aid be granted and in what pro-
portion? Shall it be exclusively for
cr.nstrucHon. exclusively for main
person whq left the switch open.
The wrecked train was going at a
slow speed, otherwise it is likely that
the whole train would have been
wrecked.
New Kind of Mail Bix.
• A young, man in the employ of the
express _ ccmpany was wandering
around vigwitig the wonders cf our
city. Spyipg the auto filling station
ia front.ofihe.G;|den Rule Grocery
therein. Sorije fclks_ would say
"what brand", but the yeung fellow
is from the wilds of St. Louis, and
that is an explanation in itself for
his strange behavior
first one we saw was Aunt Dinah
with her smiling face almost as
*>road as a new moon, and you may
Negro Philosophy
Frank Covington, a negro, seems
to have ideas of his own concerting
tenance, or for both? Shall it be to compare he .tried to mail a. letter
pay the entire cost of either or both
of these items, or shall it be depend-
ent on the equal or larger contribu-
tion by the States and communities?
Shall the aid come through votes of
money out of the treasury or from
the sale of bonds?
"That the suggestion of Federal
aid to road building raises grave
questions and involves possible dan
gers, no thoughtful citizen doubts
There are propoals before the public
mind which would bankrupt the Fed-
eral treasury and suggest possible
abuses before which those of the
worst pork-barrel bills of the past
would pale into insignificance. No
proposal which doss not carry with it
the assurance of safeguarding
Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Garner spent
Sunday with friends at'Messer and
from the opinion voiced by Mr. Gar-
ner, the road overseers' of north
Choctaw county are not the inost in-
dustrious in the county.
To Marry In Ft. Worth.
be sure your Uncle Lem was really, the law, and beintr summoned as a
entertained. It made us feel like we: witness in a suit that is in cha'^e of
had met some of o-ir kinfolks. Ev-jwork* & Copping, he tried to ta">
erybody likes to read what Aunt Din- himself out of witness duties, and
ah writes and I assure you it is not!w-hen Mr. Works explained to him
like meeting her. I had the privilege the law in such matters, he answer-
of gcing with tbem to church. Theled "If you could expound de ro-
pinned in Choctaw county in the week and S-mday night I believe I evsr at- Rev. German did the preaching and!pt.| ink you can expose de law vo«
juat closed. 4 , j J tended. Everyone was full to run- they had quite a good meeting Af-1 sho' would be some revangelist.''
Cards are out announcing the mar-
riage of Mr. Fred W. Russell of thi3
city and Miss Willie Gregory of Ft.
v..e the .Worth, Texas, on Monday evening,
treasury in this direction sesms tc j October 20th. Mr. Russell is the
me to stand the ghost of a chance of popular bookkeeper of the Caytor
favorable consideration. It is . no! I Lumber Company of t^:* city. Miss
alone the fear that there would be'Gregory is a beautiful and accom-
no stonoing place. There is the' ques- plished young lady of Ft. Worth, and
tion of precedent. This is not the j is one of the most popular young la-
— 1 AmHi-si- dies of that city. The Herald extends
Congress involving the suggestion of sincere congratulations with the hope
...wtiiiatiuns. lhe « are oth- that both may enjey a long and hap-
(Concluded on last page.) py married life.
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