McCurtain Gazette (Idabel, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 56, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 3, 1921 Page: 4 of 8
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McCurtain Gazette
Entered at the Postoffice at Idabel,
Okla., as second class mail matter
$1.50 per year in advance
our new district. i advertisers on advertising, b
!S8 Of retail mpwVinnts I?— hihuiiiiii_
cial district in Eastern Oklahoma,! in Chicago, it was the enthusiastic jE=
even though it does create more of- i opinion of the delegates, all of whom! ==
fices and give political jobs to more were advertisers, that judicious, ag- EE
office seekers, has its merit, we be-'gressive and generous advertising is EE
lieve. ' ; indispensable to success in trader Ex-; 55
Largely because of the prohibi-j perts who addressed the convention ' Sg
tion business, the federal courts are j vigorously stated that merchants who EE
W. J. OLD, Editor.
Published
Wednesdays and Saturdays
By
McCurtain gazette printing, crammed to the guards now and per- J do not advertise cannot prosper, and I ££
company ; haps will continue to be until people'that merchants who merely carry 15
lose the receipe for moonshine liquor, cards or unchanged displays in the
and as there can be no compromise newspapers are but a trifle wiser and' EE
in the fight against moonshining, the! liver than those who sleep in unknown EE
next best thing is to add more ma-: and deserted stores. The general j 3s
chinery to that now grinding. ; conclusion was, too, that the coun-! S
And while this section is being car- try newspaper is the best advertising 13
: ved up to suit the convenience and medium. 3
1 disposition of the powers that be, why ————— EE
couldn't they go a step farther and j SNAKE in man's shoe. 3
j give us a separate congressional dis-
WHITE CREST FLOUR
telephone no.
10
A WISE ONE.
There was an old geezer
And he had a lot of sense,
He started up a business
On a dollar'n eighty cents.
The dollar was for stock
And the eighty for an ad
Which brought him three dollars
In a day, by dad.
Well, he bought more goods
And a little more space,
And he played that system
With a smile on his face.
The customers flocked
To him two by four,
Soon he had to hustle
For a regular store.
Upon the square
Where the people pass,
He gobbled up a corner
He fixed up all the windows
With the best he had,
And he told them all about it
, In a half-page ad.
He soon had 'em coming
And he never, never quit,
And he wouldn't cut down
On his ad one jit.
And he's kept things humming
In the town ever since,
And everyone calls him - ,
The Merchant Prince.
if]
Some say it's luck—
But that's all bunk-
He was doing business
When times were punk
People have to purchase
And the geezer was wise—
He knew the way to get 'em
Was to advertise.
—The Fourth Estate.
trict on this side of the state. We 'iave heard of men having :s:
' Therej is; little meritorious argu- snakes in their boots, but B. F. East- j —
• ment against such an ides. wood can testify as to having a real 3
As it now stands, this congression- l've S|iake in his shoe. Mr. Eastwood =£
al district is a muddle of conflicting haci left an old pair of shoes hanging ==
occupations and wishes. Oil and coal j 'n a closet at his home, and last Sat- 3
don't mix very well, and oil and far- j urday decided to get them down and j=jj
ming have less in common. , Put them on. When he did so and 3
It's too big a district for one man: had gotten one of the shoes on he j 3
to handle well but even its size might i discovered something in it which he EE
1 not be burdensome if it were not > thought was an old sock he had possi* EE
. composed of so varied elements.— j bly 'eft in there. However, he was j —
Hugo Daily News. ! very much excited when he pulled out 3
It does seem from the amount of a black snake about three feet long
killing in McCurtain county therej which had crawled in the old shoe to
should be a criminal term in session j take a little rest.—Foreman (Ark.)
, every day. Sun.
EDITORIAL NOTES |
The sixty-two billion cigarettes: 3
Henry Ford bought an unprofit-'
j able railroad, reduced the rates 20
; per cent and made it a paying propo-,
i sition. Now it is claimed he made it > , , ,
pay because h, shipped great manu""u™d1Jn " * ? "«? ' *'! =
ties of raw material over the road to If" w") ,*l<,°l,tlfss U1™5 the ant.- 3
. • . i fti, , 1 tobacconists an equal number of rea- —
his factories. Other railroad owners, . 1UC1 U1 —
... • 1 • i i x 1 a 1 sons for the prohibition they seek. —
it is claimed do not have great quan- j * * * 3
tities of raw material to ship over
their roads, and therefore cannot re-
duce the rates. The reasoning
The Poles do not mean to be pro-
fane when they hail Hoover as "Next
MUST WE WEAR COATS?
... , , „ . 1Sito God." It is human to be more —
short-sighted and fallacious. If rea-;enthusipstic after than brfore # ]ong £
, sonable rates prevailed the increased 1 delayed dinner. 3
! tonnage would be forthcoming from J * « * j 3
the development of lands now unpro- The women politicians keep on 3
ductive. High freight and express complaining that the men politicians 3
! rates can and do retard the growing j have double-crossed them, not yet =E
of livestock, poultry, fruits, berries, having acquired the male method of;3
| melons and vegetables. If persisted paying back in the same coin without: S==
; in it can kill these industries as the either shedding tears or blowing 3
i old woman killed the goose that laid trumpets. 3
the golden egg. On the other hand, 1 * * * 3
; low freight and express rates can j The whole world dropped every- j =
and will develop these industries; can thing and jubilated when the arm is- i —
and will develop thousands upon tice was signed in 1918, but relative- 3
thousands of acres of uncultivated ly few people seem to have found =
land, that never will be cultivated un- time to read the recent treaty of! 3
FOR PERFECT BAKING AT ALL TIMES
You Can Always Depend
Upon the Quality Being
the Same
Wooten Gro. Co,
Wholesale
Idabel, Oklahoma
The corporation commission an-, , , . , , . ,, T, .. , , ,
. .. . «. , ... til their products can be carried to peace between the United States and
nounces that it has postponed until, , . ^ r
September 8 the hearing on the mo-!'*arket f a cost that W,U le/veJ° he Ge™any- . . ,
mentous question as to whether the Ifarme^ fa^r compensation for his la-
Fred Harvey dining rooms on the
Santa Fe railway shall be compelled
to revoke the order requiring men
to wear coats at the tables. It is
stated that Campbell Russell, the pe-
titioner, will summon a number of
women to testify as to whether it is
proper for men to eat with their coats
off.
It is possible that some of the wo-
Distributors
Phone No. 168
men will say that it is a matter of
looks that if a man is wearing a
clean shirt, it is proper for him to eat
Why all this racket over that fel-
at"the" table" without" his coat";" but low Bergdoll? He is just a common
that if his shirt is very dirty,
should put his coat on.
he
bor.—De Queen (Ark.) Bee. j The Michigan woman charged withi
That's it in a nut-shell. All the the murder of a child born to her un-
talk you can do is not going to help. married daughter is described as "a
the farmers until lower freight rates prominent State temperance worker."
are put in action. You can have all A strange juxtaposition of pursuits,
the farm domonstrators in the state;but possibly she feared that the child
tell you how to raise these things, but wou,d ac<JUire home-brew habit,
it will be worthless until the rail-
No doubt Mr. Bryan is willing to
be the Democrat the President is ex-
pecting to select as a delegate to the
disarmament conference, but in that
event he would promptly discover a
disappointing lack of his brand of
pacifism in the great assemblage.
Illlilllllllllllll!
roads take action and reduce all their
freight rates. They are too high on
POLITICAL NEWS
OF OKLAHOMA
"BOSS" PENROSE, OF PENNSYL-
VANIA, HAS PROMISED TO
LOOK INTO AFFAIRS.
run-and-jump to give the Standard Oil • oil men loose again? Everybody re-
corporation control of oil, not only i members that they were seeking a
within the United States, but in Mex-j change last year and got just what
ico and the United States of Colum-, they asked for.
bia.
Senator Boise Penrose has promised
What boots it whether one or 20 j to look "into" some Oklahoma "mat-
democratic candidates aspire for place | ters". The "matters" to be investi-
when the principal objective is to
flat headed German who knows no:
better and isn't worth the powder
again place the state and nation un-
der the guidance of democracy—pled-
ged to the rule of the people and cur-
bing of the great trust power?
gated are not yet chained down and
it is to be hoped the Pennsylvania
boss will not Htegin the investigation
until all of our worldly possessions
are more securely fastened.
The Fordney tariff bill did not in- j Perhaps the Oklahoma republican
crease the duty on cut diamonds. The' leader who predicts party success
next year expects all citizens who
have had to execute mortgages since
Harding was inaugurated to join the
republican party. If they should all
do this, republican success would be
certain.
State comment by democratic edi-
tors shows much concern about the
prospective democratic candidates for
. Titled scions who so often marry state offices, and there appears to be
If it is the idea of the Harvey man- twould take to send him to per ltion beautiful daughters of the people in j much lost sight of. It is reasonable
agers to prevent their women guests we want to get leal ig game fjctjon seidom do so in real life, but to presume that there wiil be a very
from viewing broad expanses of dirty dont we 8et right up in t e sen* the news comes that the master of large number of democratic candi- , ,oa/ a
shirts, they might very well make a ate and ('° some '"discriminate s oot- gjn]oss ^eir to a baronage, has dates before the 1922 primary and pvnon^itn«.°'f tt° ste®rs at '30.00
rule that all men with dirty shirts inp- wer* a^'e t0 lighten erg- brave(j tbe disapproval of his family this should excite courage rather • Ti., ,° " *n em .Can uy
would then eagerly pull their coats out °* 1 e country, ut t e 0 an(j happily wedded a blacksmith's than fear, for the reason that these T.e" . ' anys a' tbe sa™e old rates,
off. devils the senate seem t0 think daughter. are democratic times and the contin- v'* " encouraf>gand shows the
If the Harvey managers forbid ^ have hati The Ha"d Placed uPon, ♦ • ♦ uous performance of a do-nothing re- j ^ '^5? I ^ P PrC'
coatless meals because they think it tm and are lmmune- Though modern as well as ancient publican congress will quite natural- t a as 1Rg on.
violates the highest dictates of fash- - politicians have greatly desired that ly cause ambitious democrats to be1 Manuel Herrick's secretary, Major Judge GarberV^didacy for con-
ion, it is possible that additions to its 'die men mean prosperity and tht. leader of the opposition should anxious to lay their cases before the|Harry Gilstrap of the Fourth Con- ,gress against the erudite Congress-
dining room rules may be made in the full dinner pails the republicans have ;write a book. ex-President Wilson democratic electorate in the hope of gressional district, has received an- man Herrick in the Eighth district
futura The time may come when given it to us funously-we only persistently declines to be accommo- being successfully approved. |other appointment> Harry jg a high:seems to be suffering from the intense
men must prove that they have shav- have six million men looking for work dating in this particular. Eight months ago the democrats, ( prjced fe]low and refuses to DUmD 1 mid-summer heat.
ed before going to a Harvey break- at present—we venture to say that * * * divided in this state, were somewhat1 sense jnt0 reDUblican stat sm n ;
fast and must go to all Harvey even- five million of that bunch voted for a Apparently the London Saturday at a loss as to how to proceed. The at Washington unless the a 6 car
ing meals attired in dinner jackets or change, all of which proves to our Review of old, ever sarcastic and gen- republican legislative fiasco and the1 dumps heavily on each round
j -a. /M-i-L satisfaction that the average man erally non-Kjonstructivie, has passed lack of leadership among republicans
does not know when he is on easy from the scene, for the new editors at Washington, gave the sight ahead. LOST: One desire to run fot gov-
street—they couldn't stand full pock- announce that "the incorporated so- Added to this were the wretched Ok- ernor. Finder send to Roy Johnson's
et books and unpatched pants—they ciety of British pessimists will re- lahoma appointments of President friends at Ardmore, Oklahoma, and i Mrs- A- G- Phillips, who has charge
got what they voted for, poor devils, ceive no countenance or recruits Harding and his cabinet—so wretched receive a reward. ' ' of the Bed Cross work in Idabel and
—Poteau News. from us." that not even Oklahoma republican McCurtain county has been untiring
~* * party leaders will stand for the list, The "auditor" employed by the re- in her efforts in behalf of the dis-
That overwhelming republican con- Senator Lodge says he is in favor, being published. publican house of representatives tojabled soldiers. Thursday she accom-
Why shouldn't democratic ambi-, make out the claims of the clerks panied four soldiers to Hugo, who
now 'f the big nations invited to the con- tion run high? Is there any reason left to fiddle on the house journal, were disabled in service, to meet the
MRS. A. G. PHILLIPS
Took Ex-Service Men to Hugo to Meet
Examiners.
dress suit.—Oklahoman.
When a man buys a widely adver-
tised brand of any article of merchan-
dise, he is quite certain of getting a
good and satisfactory article. Man-
ufacturers who put fortunes into
making claims and familiarizing the
public with their products, simply gress the people elected last fall has °f "general disarmament, but
have to make good. Otherwise their got disgusted with itself and
investment is lost, and their business taking a rest 'till cool weather. It ference can be influenced and brought for fear in the fact that the strong has moved his family from Bartles- committee of government examiners
is soon a commercial failure. The gave us a separate peace with Ger- to agreement, the uninvited little men and women of the state believe ville to Oklahoma City. It is recog- who were there Thursday and Fri-
same principle applies locally. The many, which is a sorrow's crbwn on a ones W'H either fall into line or dis- that the democratic star is to again nized as the last chance for the g. 0. day, in the hopes of securing aid for
merchant who has good merchandise proud nation's brow, lowered the tax cover that their attitude is not like- rjde on high and that they ask to ride p. to wallop the state treasury and the j them. The boys were Joe Webster,
and reasonable prices is anxious for on soda water and popped it up on 'y to be a matter of world-wide im- with that star? work goes merrily on. Geo. A. Riece, C. R. Daniels and El-
all to know it. And when he makes everything the laboring people eat and Portance. ... — vert Wortham, all of Idabel. Mr.
the announcement his business repu- wear—they went to the capitol on a
tation is at stake. He has to make pledge to give the people a change
good. And when he does make good and they gave us one.—Poteau News.
he earns and gets new customers, and
his business thrives. That is why it
It is also true that many whose j Marshal Alva McDonald of the I Wortham will go from Hugo to the
Tho?e who hold that the despotism names are being mentioned as candi- western federal district declares that hospital at Houston, Texas, where
of the Czars was more enlightened' dates may never have intended that "I am go>g to attend to my busi- through Mrs. Phillips'efforts he is to
and humane than the alleged democ- their names be so used; likewise true ness". As he was appointed as a receive treatment by the government
Our offi-t force ha° been somewhat ra°y °f ^ Bolshtvists will find sup- that many now contemplating being special slap at Senator J. W. Harreld, j physicians.
port 111 the announcement that before candidates many never enter the pri- it may be inferred that his business ■
pays the consumer to buy from the busv thi« week We had to set the !, ",7 ,,, r. ^ . - - —
man «ho advertise., and why it pays fimLia] statement of the eountv for , , "ar , * '7'0rtei ™>ry race, but whether any or ail of is to keep the senator juessinc
the wide-awake merchant to adver- wa,.nf,a,ly ? <°m / -SET thcm b«°™ c'ndid" «"•: .. ,
tjgp . .. . a"y and now clamors for 1. 0,000, will be numerous others, and the dem-; Muskogee republicans are angered
, e, ?T?eSt PS' u Lfh . hitr t0IM °' *00<* *rom a^roaci to *ceeP a ocrats will have a spirited primary because District Attorney Frank Lee, pntirrb i- n lnf.nl tlw
had before. This coupled with a b g ^ part of jtg from 1922< will not and can not apypoint ,,, of rrh .8 a local d.seaso, greatly
run of job work nas put us down to; • y ., _ , ... T . influenced
Rut wp or? them to office. Mr. Lee's eJccuse wj ditmn.
out we are 1 ^ .. , . . ... tiuionp.
Catarrh
by constitutional con-
HALL'S CATARRH
That primary should be conducted that his department can not employ all. MFnTPTNT? i. « Pl"^
with dignity and with respect to all, un-qfficed republicans and it must be S.?
Millions of dead grasshoppers float
ed down the St. Lawrence River re- our work on double duty
cently. At Three Rivers, Quebec, the here for the work. iiAm/ir
iT„ covercd the ri^ from hank — NOTICE. l^aaTi".", Z' "! K"' ^ ^ ^
to bank at one point. New York ag- We have just received the cata- fjnd no bad,y ^gj^d man jn the de- building up tlic System, HALL'S
riculturists believed that, having logue of the Red River County Fair A11 High School boys who are in-: feated rank*-will find a rank and; If the state republican committee CATARRH MEDICINE restores
eaten everythnig behmd them, the which is a credit to the Clarksville. terested in football are requested to file ready to wipe out the stigma of really can not raise the $7,000 indebt-' normal condlt 101)8 ftn,] a,lows
grasshopper hordes failed to make (Texas) Times office. The fair will ^ at the High School Auditorium' having even a part of our state gov- edness so that it can hold a meeting.
_!W.br0ad,Jr,P.Whe,n . f refched the : >e i^ged by the catalogue to a great Monday aftenjoon at 4:00 o'clock. ; ernmcnt under the domination of a without the mortgagor fbreck> ing,!
extent . . , . j (2t) J. R. SPRAGUE, Coach. , party whose national leaders made why not have some of those "rich" i
river and fell to their death.
ture to do its work.
All Druggists. Circulars free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
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