The Fairland News (Fairland, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, March 7, 1913 Page: 2 of 8
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The Fairland News
Albert Sidney Lee, Editor and Owner.
;rAIRLANa___-|_-_ OKLAHOMA
Grip takes to the low-necked, low
■hoed girl.
Many a bachelor will breathe easier,
for leap year has gone.
This should be a good year, for
there Is luck In odd numbers.
STATE NURSERIES
PLAN OERANDALL
REPRESENTATIVE INTRODUCES
BILL IN LEGISLATURE FOR
TREE INDUSTRY.
Love Is the one game that has no
code of rules, and wants none.
How Is It that fudge can be sent by
parcel post, though dynamite Is re-
fused?
The get rich quick rascal always
bas a get rich quick victim. They g'
together.
Mules are no joke, at least not Mis-
souri mules, for they now command
$212 a head.
Make CourtsMr a Science Is the
m< tto of the Fathers and Mothers'
club of Boston.
ON PUBLIC SCHOOL TERRITORY
Providing Farmers With Seedlings
Purpose of Measure.—Only
a Small Appropriation
Is Needed.
Having in mind that the success of
the farmers of Oklahoma means a
rich and porgressive state, Represen-
tative Hugh A. Randall, of Harrah,
Oklahoma county, introduced a bill in
Sir Thomas Lipton says liquor
drinking is ruining the nations. And
tea is so cheap, tool
"If society women smoke," remarks
one of them, "that's their business."
Also, the tobacconists.
A car horse in New York committed
filicide. Another instance of human
Intelligence in animals.
Dr. Woods Hutchinson, as champion
of pie and the hard-boiled egg, talks
like a railroad lunch counter.
Going down to the sea In ships
■eemB to be about as perilous In this
enlightened age as ever It was.
Caging all available microbes In
Dne'B living room is about as bright as
warming a serpent in one's bosom.
The world's aluminum industry is
■aid to be under control, but the spell-
ing cf it has never been regulated.
A disagreeing pair were likened to
kittens by a magistrate. Then, again,
they are sometimes called panthers.
Owners of automobiles must envy
poets who exercise their own sweet
will about taking out poetic licenses.
Germany's federal council refuses
tc block dueling in the army. Its
members may have feared being chal-
lenged.
The seed catalogs are coming In
and all your resolutions against gar-
flen making this year will be met and
overcome.
HON. HUGH A. RANDALL
Of Harrah, representative from Ok-
lahoma county who introduced the
measure to establish state nurseries
and supply the farmers of Oklahoma
with fruit, nut and shade trees on
easy terms of payment
ORDER ISSUED REDUCING OKLA-
HOMA FREIGHT RATES
Both Grower and Manufacturer of
Product Will Receive
Benefit.
The peanut industry In Oklahoma
was given a material stimulus when
the corporation commisison reduced
the existing prohibitive freight rates
on this commodity on practically all
of the railroad lines of the state.
The action was taken following com-
plaints of farmers in Caddo county
and the recommendation of the Okla-
homa Traffic association in a recent
official meeting. By the order,
which went into efTect Feb. 3, farm-
ers will be enabled to grow peantus
and send them to market at a profit
and the change promises a great In-
crease in the peanut factories of Ok-
lahoma.
Heretofore the rates on peanuts
from Hydro In Caddo county, to St.
Louis, were the same as those from
Ft. Worth, Texas. This system of
rating, it is said, practically shut
Oklahoma City out of the market and
farmers raising this crop were not
properly paid for their labor. Com-
plaints were made and the corpora-
tion commission canvassed the field
and made new rates, making a ma-
terial decrease in freight charges
througout the schedule of tariffs. The
minimum weight per car, however,
remains at 24,000 pounds.
For 150-mile hauls the following
reductions were made for the various
grades: Raw, in the shell, in boxes
or barrels, from 45.4 cents per 100
pounds to 36.9 cents; In bags, from
54 cents to 36.9 cents; shelled, in
boxes or barrels, form 54 cents to
31.6 cents, in bags, from $1.08 to 36.9
cents. Others than raw, in the shell,
In boxes or barrels, from 45.4 cents to
36.9 cents; In bags, from 54 cents to
36.9 cents; shelled, in boxes or bar-
rels, from 54 cents to 36.9 cents; in
bags, from $1.08 to 54.4 cents; car-
loads, raw, from 36.9 cents to 25.3
cents, and for carloads other than raw,
36.9 cents to 25.3 cents.
Talcs
AND OTOE
ClTItS
Riding in Hearse Is All Right If You Are Dead
NEW YORK.—Riley knew Just what
it meant—the sober pace of the
horses, the almost noiseless rumble
of the rubber-tired wheels, the swish-
ing of the black curtains against the
windows and the other sure signs of
a hearse outbound. All these things
were known to Riley from years of
service as Btableman In an undertak-
ing establishment.
But when Riley realized about 6:00
a. in., after stretching out his arms
cautiously and listening to the rumble
of the wheels, that he was in the posi-
tion of the "gentleman deceased," he
let drive with a No. 10 with all his
might It hit the rear doors of the
hearse squarely. Glass flew In a
shower as the doors burst open. Ri-
ley threw himself Into the street. Sam-
uel Kersteln, the driver, dropped the
reins and leaped from his perch.
Persons at Avenue C and Sixth
street heard the crashing of glass and
saw Riley's black-clad form j)ick itself
up and dash off at the top speed of a
pair of nimble legs. One woman
fainted and two peddlers deserted
their push carts and fled, terrified.
Ab Riley in his flight flashed past
the line of four carriages following
the hearse a driver shouted: "it's Jim
Riley, none other."
Riley pulled up out of breath, when
he had found refuge In the WlUett
Btreet stables.
"1b thlB me? Am I alive? be
gasped to a stableman.
"It's you. Riley, but your face has
gone all chalky. What's the matter?"
Riley pinched himself to feel if
hurt. Being assured, he explained-
"Maybe I was a bit groggy when 1
came In at four o'clock this morn-
ing. Looking for a place for forty
winks, I see the hearse open and look
ing snug and warm. So 1 crawls in-
side and go sound aBleep after closing
the doors. The next thing 1 know I'm
on my way to the cemetery.
"At first I didn't know whether I
was dreaming or it was the real thing
I thought If I could kick a hole In king-
dom come I'd know I was dreaming;
bo I lets drive. I was so scared I dls-
remember dropping into the street,
but I kept on running and here 1 am."
The hearse had been ordered out at
6:00 a. m. to attend an early funeral.
Munyon's Paw-Paw
Pillsare unlike all oth-
er laxatives or cathar-
tics. They coax tho
liver into activity by
gentle methods, they
do not scour; they do
not gripe; they do not
weaken; but they do
startall the secretion*
of the liver and stom-
ach in a way that soott
puts these organs in a
healthy condition and
corrects constipation. Munyon's Paw-Paw
Pills are a tonic to the stomach, liver and
nerves. They invigorate instead of weaken;
they enrich the blood instead of impover-
ishing it; they enable the stomach to get all
the nourishment from food that is put into
Price as cents. All Druggists.
PARADOXICAL.
Boy Wanted Someone to Help Him Say Prayers
t
France complains that the automo-
blleB are destroying her good roads—
the famous routes natlonales of the
Napoleonic era.
Surely the title of meanest man
must be passed over to that fellow
who sued the man who took him rid-
ing in his auto because he was burt
In an accident
A college professor declares It Is
not always easy to tell the difference
between genius and Idiocy. One great
difference is that the idiots generally
j*oap6 consequences.
Somebody has Invented a cowcatch
er for automobiles, which may or may
ot relieve the anxiety with which the
line have been afflicted ever since the
advent of the petrol cart.
t It 1 said In a New York college that
more city boys are studying farming
than country boys. This, however,
may be only the natural reaction ot
wanting something different
Titled males are renting them
lelves out as afternoon tea attractions
In London for from $7.50 to 115 a tea.
The Impoverished aristocracy is learn-
ing methods of high finance.
A baby girl In Boston Is being
trained up to become a perfect wom-
an. If her Ideal destiny 1b fulfilled,
•he is going to be bo lonely that she
will wonder if perfection pays.
In Denver a bill has been introduced
threatening dire punishment for phy-
Blclans who remove healthy appen-
dices. Which causes the question: "is
k removed appendix a healthy oner'
The society to abolish useless glft-
rlvlng Is to be extended to take In a
crusade againBt useless tipping. But
the trouble about the latter is the
gigantic difficulty of telling in advance
when tipping 1b useless.
A New Jersey Judge rules that $20
la enough for any woman to pay
for a suit. But wait until New Jer-
sey is annexed by New York city, and
aee how completely he will reverrse
himself.
The flngerbowl of the restaurants Is
"to go. it Is now classed with the roll-
er towel and the common drinking
cup. In even high class restaurants
only a few finger bowls are kept,
and these do servloe for many pa-
trons.
The message caught at Arlington,
Va., from the Eiffel tower, In Paris,
.■hows that the possibilities of the
-wireless are practically limitless. The
I girdling of the earth by the power of
roan will soon b« mors than a pOetlo
jflctloa
the house recently which has for its
object the establishment of a num-
ber of small state nurseries on the
school lands of the state.
The bill provides for a very small
appropriation, the plan as outlined in
the bill calling for the installation of
an important industry that will he no
burden to the taxpayers and which i
shall grow into one of the creative
enterprises of Oklahoma that proba-
bly will be followed by other progres-
sive states.
The Randall bill does not contem-
plate the establishment of a lot of
official positions, the bill designating
certain officials to be the ex-offlcio
members, of a board of tree commis-
sioners, who shall serve without sal-
ary. „ ,
Nurseries call for no outlay of
money. "Tall oaks from little acorns
grow", and It is Representative Ran-
dall's idea that seedling trees shall
be sold to farmers by the state of
Oklahoma, giving the farmers the
chance to cultivate forests and trees
and earn large dividends from the
fruit and nuts. One of the other
Important features of the Randall bill
la the fact that shade trees on the
farms of Oklahoma will give added
values to such farms.
Hugh Randall is a farmer, hence he
knows of the importance of the in-
dustry. Also, he is aware of the
fact that if the state of Oklahoma will
start the small nurseries, they will
be the means of aiding the farmers
of tbiB state to develop extensive or-
chards and groves.
At his home near Harrah, Okla.
county, Hugh Randall is engaged in
the dairying business on an exten-
sive scale. His fine herd consists of
forty-four registered Jersey animals
and two AyrshlreB, the latter pair be-
ing recent purchases to ascertain their
value as adjuncts to an Oklahoma
farm. .
The Randall dairy furnishes high-
class butter to many families in Shaw-
nee and Oklahoma City. This butter
is sent dally to families, direct from
the creamery department of the Ran-
dall farm. Mr. Randall has lived in
Oklahoma county for twenty years
and is active in developing the dairy
industry.
DEHORNING OF CATTLE
Agricultural School Man Tells Proper
Method of Performing
the Operation
"Have a fine calf some ertght months
old that I want to dehorn, and also
a couple of 2-year-olds 1 want to de-
horn. How best to do it? And what
is the time of year to do it?"—H. C.,
Headrick, Oklahoma.
You will find the present time of
the year to be suitable for dehorning
cattle, as the weather is moderate and
there are nQ flies to bother them. A
pair of dehorning clippers are about
the most satisfactory where large
numbers of cattle are to be dehorned,
but for just a few you will find that
an ordinary meat saw or hand saw will
do Just as well. To use the saw you
will simply need to fasten the ani-
mal's head more solidly and securely
than when using clippers. Cut close
to the head so as to take off just a
small ring of skin around the horns.
When done this way the skin will
grow over the horn and you will have
a neat polled head as a result. Tar is
a good thing to put on the wounds
after the horns are cut off. In de-
horning large numbers of cattle we
usually keep a large handful of cot-
ton waste on hand, together with pine
tar. Soak a wad of cotton in the tar
and stuff enough of the cotton into the
hollow of the stump of the horn so as
to hold It In place and keep files out,
and then wrap the rest over and
around the cut place. The bleeding
will stop In a few hours, and with
young cattle will heal over in a few
months altogether.—Bray.
CHICAGO—There was great excite-
ment at one of the big downtown
hotels the other night The blo°de
switchboard operator had just confid-
ed to the hat boy that "she should
worry." But the cause of her prospec-
tive unrest was never disclosed, for
at that moment the buzzer began to
make sounds like Dr. WatU' "busy
little bee."
"Hello! Hello!" she answered. Say
—don't Jiggle the receiver like that.
What? You want the proprietor. In
room 501, quick?"
"For heaven's sake," Bald the oper-
atoro, appealing to the hat boy, "Bee
if you can find Mr. Drake. A party^up
in 501 is being murdered, I guess."
The boy hastily rushed for Tracey
Drake's office.
"Hello. Yes? Yes? Hello? You
want a bellboy or a chambermaid?
All right. They're coming up."
At the command of "Front!" from
the desk clerk the captain of the bells
saluted.
"Something awful's happening up
in 501. Let me know the worst as
soon as you get there."
By this time an awed group of
chambermaids stood trembling out-
Bide the door, fearing to open it and
reveal the grewsome mystery. Dqwn
the hall came a procession of bell-
boys, followed at a distance by the
house detective and Proprietor Drake.
.From within all was silent. It was
an ominous silence.
PLEASE
HURRY
"Had we better knock or force the
door open?" asked some one In a bat-
ed whisper.
Then one of the boys was shoved
forward. The door was opened, and
the excited crowd followed In timor-
ously, prepared for anything.
On a chair near the telephone stood
an eight-year-old boy in his pajamas,
the receiver to his ear. _
"I thought you were never coming."
he burst out. "Didn't you hear me
ring?"
"Now that we're here, Baid Mr.
Drake, his voice still unsteady after
the "turn" he had had, "what can we
do for you? Is—is it ice water—or
what?"
"I'm Willie Jackson," explained th«
small boy. "My papa went down
stairs to talk business. My mamma
is In Cincinnati, and I want somebody
to say my prayers to, as I want to go
to sleep."
A chambermaid cheerfuly volunteer-
ed to serve In the capacity of
"mother."
"I've made a great discovery, papa."
"Well, what is it?"
"I've found out that the heavy end
of a match la the light end."
Literary Bethrothal.
Inscriptions in complimentary cople*
of learned works do not always serv«
the graceful purpose to which one
was dedicated by the celebrated Pro-
fessor Wilson of Edinburgh.
When the suitor for the hand of
Professor Wilson'B daughter had
gained the young woman's approba-
tion. she. of course, referred him to
her father. Having stated his case,
the young gentleman was asked to
bid the young lady to come to her
father. Her obedience was prompt.
Professor Wilson had before him
for review a ponderous volume, o
the fly-leaf of which was duly In-
scribed, "With the author's compli-
ments." .
He tore this fly-leaf out, pinned It
to his daughter's dress, solemnly le«
her to the anxious lover—and went
back to his work.—Youth's Compan-
ion.
Surely a Good Cook.
Mrs. Champ Clark was engaging ■
new cook. The applicant, a nice look-
ing woman, made a fine Impression o
Mrs. Clark. After the usual prelimi-
nary questions, the speaker's wif
asked:
"Can yon really cook?"
"Can I cook!" exclaimed the appli-
cant. "I should say I can cook!"
"But are you a good cook?"
"Am I good cook!" echoed-the wom-
an. I go to mass every morning."—
The Sunday Magazine.
Steals Stove to Save Himself From Freezing
Officers Meet to Discuss Road*.
That tin culverts are too expensive
jor road work is the conclusion of
the Carter county board of commis-
sioners, and a meeting of all township
officers of the county was called for
February 4. to discuss the best means
of constructing roads. Sidney Suggs,
state highway commissioner, whose
plans have been approved by the
county, addressed the meeting.
Bermuda Roots.
A small start in Bermuda has been
furnished at a nominal price to nearly
one thousand farmers by the Still-
water school.
Farmers Allege Trust.
Members of the American Society
of Equity, which held its annual state
meeting at Shawnee January 28, took
steps to memorialize the state legis-
lature to relieve the state from the
domination of the so-called Cotton
Seed trust, which cotton growers as
sert Is controlling the price of cotton
Beed and the ginning of cotton in the
state. The meeting was in session two
days for the discussion of marketing
crops under the "equity system", man
aged by the society.
Big Cotton Crop In Kiowa
Over seven thousand bales of cotton
were marketed at Lone Wolf, Kiowa
county, during 1912, and the Kiowa
County News, mixed a little as to the
year, says: "The year 1918 is starting
out so favorably that we, one and all,
have high hopes of a repetition at
least of what good old 1912 has been
to us."
The Old Story Again and Again.
The kaflrcorn special told the same
old story and that same old story will
have to be told over many times be-
fore even one-half of those who now
are trying to grow corn on land where
oorn does not pay will abandon it and
treat kaflr and milo like real crops.
Sweet Clover Succeeds.
Sweet clover has been found to be
a marked success upop poor upland
and 1b very valuable for green manur-
ing purposes. Sweet clover makes a
valuable bee pasture.
Break Land Early.
The farmer who had his land broken
before the freezes and rains Is In fine
shape for a crop this year.
Peanuts in Oklahoma County.
The cultivation of 2,000 acres of
peanuts in Oklahoma county this year
waB pledged by farmers and business
men who attended a Cottrall meet-
ing In the assembly hall of the
Chamber of Commerce at Oklahoma
City.
SEATTLE, WASH.—It was a cold
day. "Tommie" Mason shivered
and pulled the blankets closer about
him. No UBe. The bed was a little
warmer than any other part of the
bare, Icy room—but a fellow can't
sleep all day.
He arose, wrapped some blankets
over his freezing shoulders, and got
mad This was the only means he had
of keeping warm—becoming angry—
for there was no stove In the place.
That sort of treatment didn't melt
any Icicles, however, so Mason deter-
mined to get something more warm-
ing than an idea. He would steal a
stove! The only thing to consider
was where.
Janitors would laugh at him. he re-
flected, If he aBked for a stove. He
had no money to buy one, which left
only one course—he would appropri-
ate a furnace, a heater, a range even
a chafing diBh If that were all he could
find—but he was bound to get some-
thing.
He paused in front of a furniture
house and considered. He would next
have to steal some coal and some
wood—he could borrow the matches
maybe.
And if he were "pinched" he should
worry, for there were plenty of nice
warm stoves In the bridewell.
So like his namesake, "Tom, Tom
the Piper's Son"—he stole a stove
and "away he run." The stove weighed
85 poundB, and It kept growing heavier
all the time, so MaBon was not cur-
prised when Max Matrofsky, proprie-
tor of the store, caught htm, and called
the police.
The next morning he was arraigned
in court and was sent to the bridewell
in lieu of the payment of a fine of $5
and costs. Thus do dreams come
true.
Evening Matters Up.
Mra. March took a bite of the cak*.
and laid it down hastily.
"Norah," she Bald, "did you follow*
the recipe, or do as you usually do
and guess?"
"Sure, mum, I follow the recip®.
only I put in six eggs instead of four,,
because two was bad, and I wanted1
to even 'em up."—Youth's Campanion.
Stealing away from bad company t
Justifiable larceny.
Mirrors Have a Bracing Effect on Wanderers
Relative Feeding Values.
With bran and shorts at $18.00 a
ton, corn at $16.00 and katlr at $15.00
per ton there is very little to choose
between them for feeding dairy cows.
CLEVELAND, 0-—Comes now a new
wrinkle in psychological experi-
ments, at least the application of it Is
new to Cleveland. Down at the Way-
farers' Lodge, 1440 West 10th street,
mirrors are being Jised as an active
corrective influence.
Credit for the idea is due to a
"drifter" who spent several nights
there some months ago. He was an
old man, who said he was "paying the
ptper" for a misBpent life. The super-
intendent discovered him before the
glass In the men's dormitory, thought-
i fully surveying his somewhat bleared
countenance.
"There ought to be a lot of these
things around here, bo," Baid the old
man. "It tells a feller a lot of things
about himself that he wouldn't listen
to from anybody elBe. It Is the kind
of advice you cannot get away from.
True, It comes to you kind of late-
things you do and shouldn't have done
don't always show right away."
/gee whiz!
/flNK
I'D &ETT?fl
REFORM
Naturally, there have always been
mirrors a plenty In the women's de-
partment
Several more have been added to
the men's quarters. There Is one in
the dining room and another in the
parlor. They are being UBed, too. . It
has been noticed that the men who
spend the night at the lodge make a
point of consulting , the glaBB closely
before reporting for breakfast, and
more often than not straighten their
shoulders a bit, put up their heads a
little higher and generally try to look
unlike "down-and-outera."
Shivery
Mornings
You can have a taste of the
summer sunshine of the corn I
fields by serving a dish of J
Post
Toasties
These crisp flavoury bits
of toasted white corn make
an appetizing dish at any
time of year.
Try them in February
and taste the delicate true
maize flavour.
A dish of Toasties served
either with cream or milk,
or fruit, is surprisingly good.
"The Memory Lingers"
Grocers everywhere sell
Toasties
Poatum Cereal Co., Ltd.,
Battle Creek, Mich.
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