State Sentinel (Stigler, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 13, 1913 Page: 4 of 8
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STATE SENTINEL, STIGLER, HASKELL COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1813.
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Published every Thursday, at its office on Third street,
one block north-east of the Midland Valley Depot, in the
town of Stigler, Oklahoma, by C. D. Milam.
C. D. MILAM, Editor and Proprietor.
Entered at the post office at Stigler, Haskell County,
Oklahoma, as second class matter, February 21, lUtoi, un-
der act of Congress of March 3rd, 18"M.
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printed in the county combined.
THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF .HASKELL COUNTY
"MEET ME 1\T CARTERSVILLE." j other states. In Oklahoma, how-
Editors all over Oklahoma are re- ever, there has been an excess of
minding each other to "meet me at! charging, counter charging and ac-
Bartersville." That city has been cusation. And the honest, faithful
selected as the place for holding the official has come in for a share of
annual convention of the State Press this, that is not his by right. Offic-
association. The dates are May 9
and io, and no editor of Oklahoma
can afford to miss this meeting.
President Geo. A. Smith and Sec-
retary Edgar S. Bronson are devoting
a lot of time to the preliminary ar-
rangements. They expect a large
attendance and they are planning to
have the biggest convention since
Oklahoma obtained a place on the
newspaper map.
In addition to the formal program
there will be an abundance of in-
formal energy turned Iooseat the big
meeting. There will be side trfps to
some of the progressive towns of the
east side of the state and there will
be the most fun nd the most busi-
ness crowded into the two days than
at any like meeting ever held in Ok-
lahoma.
''Meet me at Bartersville."
—Oklahoman.
WHEN THE BIST HAS SETTLED.
When all the dust that has been
stirred up over official investiga-
tions, charges and counter charges
of corruption and extravagance has
heen allowed to settle, a lot of Ok-
lahoma newspaper publishers will be
able to see more clearly than at the
present moment. Likewise and al-
so a lot of them will be invited to a
fplthti.l feast of stewed crow. For
fome time throwing mud at public
officers has been quite fashionable,
and some people will be up with the
lashions whether or no. Some gar-
ments that a,re fashionable, however,
are not hygienic, and the wearer
generally suffers. It follows then,
that the newspaper that jumped in-
to the mud simply because others
were slinging the stuff, and without
being mighty careful whom they
threw at, will have lots of trouble
later on. There has been lots of
wrong doing by certain Oklahoma
state and county officials, but no
more lately than in the years gone
ers that are a credit to our state
and would be a credit to any country
or any state at any time have been
the victims of these mud slingers,
who had to be in fashion and talk
learnedly of grafters and boodlers.
Whom are we trying to defend
now? No one in particular. Every
REPORT SHOWS A PRCFIT
(Continhed from page one.)
cost, and this man would have taken
the place of one of tfce men employed
by the receiver. As the improve-
ments made in the plant is no part
of the expense, the report shows,
with the plant valued at $25,000, a
net profit of something like 20 per
cent, and this could be increased.
The town of Stigler let the first real
business proposition, that would
public man in the'state «has come in ha\e financed itself, go, and all their
for a share of this, from governor
down. Cut it out, men. The more
mud you sling, the bigger the job
of cleaning up.—Press Bureau.
SMITH OUT ON BAIL
investments so far have been ones
that the taxpayers must come for-
ward and furnish the money needed
to run them.
WANTED—PAIR HETI HNS.
Not more crops, but more profit;
is the present crying need of the
American farmer. It is with hope of
attaining this end that the Ruralist
offers this Market Number. We are
positive that better marketing of
farm products is the most direct
road toward more profitable farm-
ing. It is because of this conviction
that we have advocated a market di-
vision in the National Department of
Agriculture. For the same reason
we introduced the resolution passed
by the Farmers' National Congress
(Continued from page one.)
told that he had sworn falsely be-
fore the coroner's jury as to his
whereabouts on the night of the
murder, and was ready to tell the
truth about it. Thereupon, the de-
tective summoned witnesses, had
Smith make what he said was his
true statement, and after consider-
able persuasion, had him make an
affidavit to the statement that var-
ied greatly from the former one
made to the coroner's jury
The trial was one of considerable j calling for a department of farm eco-
interest and there was quite a crowd j nomics and marketing in each Land-
present. Guy A. Curry, assisted by'grant college.
Henry Smith of Mansfield, Ark., j We would not detract one iota
were the attorneys for the defend-, from the credit due our experiment
ant, while Messrs. Gardener and. stations and colleges of agriculture
Dennis represented the state. The for their great share in recent agri-
trial lasted about three hours, dur- cultural progress. We believe, how-
ing which time several witnesses; ever, that the time has come for a
were examined, being mostly the for-! change in their chief line of effort,
mer jurors and witnesses for the Heretofore they have devoted their
state. Most of the evidence intro- energies chiefly toward more pro-
duced was for the state, the defense i ductive soils—better yields of crops,
having very little grounds for argu- What the farmer now most needs is
ment. i not knowledge of how to increase
o yields, conserve fertility or even re-
The school board at Lehigh, Coald,,ce the COf;t of Production. He
, , , .. . , needs to know not how to make
county,has begun the task of forcing , ,
n-o'-e crops, but how to get more
all the children of the legal school , oney out of the crops he already
age to enter the public school. It is makes.
STILL THEY COM!
Those New Patterns and Styles
Hart-Schaffner & Marx Clothes
Norfolks two or three button
sacks. You can find these $nd
many other good styles here
ready for your selection.
The time and money you
can save by buying ready-to-
wear clothing should interest.
you, Quality and workman-
ship in these garments abso-
lutely guaranteed.
If You Need New Shirts, Shoes, Hose, Hats, Ties,
Underwear, We Have Them-AU The Newest
OUIFITTERS FOR IN"
stated there are two hundred chil- Most thoughtful observers will
by, and no more among Oklahoma! dren in Lehigh who are not attend- recognize the truth of this assertion,
officials than among the officials of ing school. j Too few as yet recognize the impor-
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tance of the marketing problem as
a direct means toward the desired
end. Greater economy, larger yields
on the same area, increased fertility
and similar prescriptions are the
common solutions offered for most
farm ills. They are all right as far
as they go. Indeed they are the
principles practiced on most intelli-
gently managed farms. This fact
alone is abundant proof that some-
thing else is needed, because condi-
tions remain insufferably bad in
spite of these propesed remedies.
Most good farmers make good
crops, produce them economically
and maintain the fertility of their
soils. Few even of the best farmers
receive a just part of the great dis-
crepancy between the cost of pro-
duction and the price paid for the
products by the ultimate consumer.
This fact proves that something is
radically wrong in present methods
of marketing farm products—get-
ting them from producer to consum-
er with satisfaction to both.
I I'njust transportation charges in
many cases are partly to blame for
present conditions. Remedy for
such evils, however, is comparatively
simple, and this source of trouble
is exaggerated. A Georgia water-
melon, for which the grower in
South Georgia, receives 5 cents, costs
the consumer in Minnesota 7 0 cents
Of this difference, only 14 cents
were paid for transportation. Who
got the difference? Here is the ans-
wer: Broker, commission man, job-
ber, retailer. These worthy gentle-
men have divided between them $300
on a car load of melons, which by a
businesslike system of distribution
and selling, would have gone into
the bank account of some farmer
who should have no possible use in
his business for these go-betweens.
The aggregate result of this condi-
tion as affecting the farmers of the
country is appalling.
On a basis of a $9,000,000,000
value for the crops of the country
for 1912, one-third remains on the
farm and $0,000,000,000 worth of
products are actually sold by the
farmer. For these products the
consumer pays $13,000,000,000 or
more than twice as much as the
farmer receives.
The Department 6f Agriculture es-
timates that farmers receive only 4 6
per cent of what the consumers pay.
Here is the distribution:
Received by the producer*, $6,-
000,000,000 or 46.1 per cent.
Allowing for a reasonable expense
of selling and dealers' and retailers'
profits, $4,945,000,000, or 38.1 per
cent.
Waste under existing methods,
$1,500,000,000, or 12 per cent.
Received by the railroads, $495,-
000,000, or 3.7 per cent.
Total, $13,000,000,000.
We are not now offering detailed
plans, but merely laying down eco-
nomic principles and presenting
facts essential to a final remedy. The
articles of personal experience offer-
ed in this issue are of practical sug-
gestions. We propose to follow
them up and keep this matter 'to the
front until there is less waste of ef-
fort and more net profit in the crops
we make.
Not more crops, but more profit!
—Southern Ruralist.
TAKE ALL OF THEM
retary of state, June 20, 1912. The
report states that $1,500 of this
money was drawn in order to keep
it from reverting to the state treas-
ury at the end of the fiscal year and
according to testimony of Secretary
Harrison it was later spent in buying
stamps and defraying other expenses
of the office and that the remainder
was spent in defraying the expenses
of distributing the Red Book. The
committee finds that $30 of this was
spent to pay expenses of Richards,
the compiler of volume 2 of the Red
Book, for a trip to Tulsa.
Secretary Benjamin Harrison is
complimented by the committee as
efficient and his whole office forco is
declared to be competent. The re-
port finds that while two employes
are on the payrolls in addition to the
number of positions created by law,
that these clerks are at present nec-
essary until a large amount of unre-
corded documents are recorded and
indexed. The report was made by
the subcommittee of which Repre-
sentative John Wright of Oklahoma
City, is chairman.
sweet
F. O.
Genuine Nancy Hall seed
potatoes, at $1.50 per bushel.
B. cars, Stigler, Okla.
T. A. POPE.
53-2t
Sooner or Inter every man who
fights booze comes to his Valley
Continued from page one.)
triets. The report arranged the dis-
tricts so as to provide seven demo-
cratic and one republican districts.
The republican district embraced the
counties of Oklahoma, Grant, Kay,
Garfield, Noble, Payne and Logan.
Duiing debate on the report,
charges were made that the "map"
was arranged to suit present mem-
bers of congress, who possibly had ' Forge.
promised postoffices in exchange for
good districts. Tlie report was re- j Our idea of an egotist is a man
committed to the conference commit- who starts a rumor and thinks it a
tee. | revolution.
Secretary of State Benjamin Har-!
rison and W. B. Richards, president j All men may be born free and
of the Young Men's Democratic equal, but there's a powerful dlffer-
clubs of the state, came in for criti- ence in babies
cism at the hands of the efficiency
committee of the house in a report
tiled late last night. The report
finds fault with the connection of
the secretary of state and Richards
with the famous "Oklahoma Red
Book," which has been a prolific
cause of scandal ever since its pub-
lication. The committee objects to
the fact Richards spent three months
working on the Red Book while em-
ployed by the state in the secretary s
office and at a time when the latter
officer was hiring two clerks in addi-
tion to those authorized by law In
order to clean up a large amount of
Of course a phonograph costs a
good deal of money, but the average
family these dnys doesn't buy a new
kind of patent churn every spring.
Another reason <why a man is a
man is because he wants to get re-
venge on society or the government
for not being himself a success.
Miss Loraine Bailey, teacher in
one of the public schools at Medford
was called out of her home late at
night by her brother and frightened.
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extra work. Mention is also made'in running back into the house she
of a warrant for $2,140 alleged to stepped In a hole, fell and fractured
two bones Id her arm.
have been drawn in furor of the sec-
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