The Texhoma Times. (Texhoma, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, September 11, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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THE TEXHOMA TIMES.
VOLUME FOUR.
Texhoma, Texas County, Oklahoma, Friday, September II, IW8.
NUMBER FIFTY-TWO
it II
Make No Mistake!
Go where you
are sure of get-
ting goods of
quality.
We carry a complete line of Diamonds,
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Cut Glass,
Silverware and Hand Painted China,
Optical Goods; also complete sets of
KODAKS and PHOTO SUPPLIES
W.S. Riddle Th"
♦ Jeweler
Guymon, Okla.
REFUSES FARMERS' UNION
BANK CHARTER
The state banking board at
Guthrie which is headed by Lieu-
tenant Governor G. W. Bellamy
has refused a charter to a new
bank at Hinton in Caddo county.
It is asserted that the members of
thefarmers' union desired to start a
bank at this place, but the bank-
ing board refused the charter.
And there seems t > be some "per-
sonal interest" why the democratic
state administration turned down
members nf the farmers' union.
The following from the Hinton
Record gives further light on the
matter:
"A. D. Cannon has been at
Guthrie the past week for the pur-
pose of getting the stale banking
board to grant a chart, r for a new
bank at Hinton. The board hav-
ing refused on the ground that
there sre sufficient banks hero now,
they believe it jeopardizes the
guarantee fund to place too many
banks in any comuJnity.
Mr. Cannon contends thai 0eQ
W. Bellamy, Lieutenant-Governor
and chairman of the state banking
board oontrols both banks at Hin-
ton which is contrary to law."
Morgan Coming.
Hod. Dick T. Morgun will be here
the first week in October to discuss
ha issues of the campaign. He is
me of the best orators on the stump
today and he should be heard by
all who desire to hear the political
questions of the day fairly and
-quarely discussed. The date will
be announced next week Prepare
to come and bring your friends with
you.
To Homesteaders.
I wish to say to the homestead-
ers of Texas and Cimarron coun-
ties that if they want the very
best service in final proofs, to
transact their land business at mv
office. I understand how to take
your proofs.
J. H. Langston,
Guymon, Okla.
The Texas State Bank
Texhoma, Oklahoma
Texas Side
STRAIGHT BANKING,
THAT'S ALX,
J. W. ELLIOTT, Cashier
-The Old Reliable Business, established in 1903-
WHERE THE RIO DIFFERENCE COMES
=The Largest Stock, the Lowest Prices, the Best Assortment, "The Store Ahead".:
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We are showing a brand new stock of fall and winter merchandise We have just received a large stock of Schwabs clothintr the host nn tw ,„,ru* , , .
styles are up-to-date, our patterns correct, our prices right, we solicit your patronage, and promise courteous treatment. We sell the Oarhlrt'OverJlf * JO-U.r ° lQsl^tion, and if our
"THE SQUARE
DEAL STORE"
THOMASON
HE FARMERS CAN'T
BORROW MONEY
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Now, if George Bellamy, lieuten-
t-governor of the state, has vio-
ed the law in borrowfng $15,000
>m the state school fund, on pro
rty that lacks $25,000 of being
irth the required value, will
v„ Haskell kindly instruct the at
•neygenerai to investigate, or
11 he pass it up, as he did before?
ie Times charges that there is a
lation of the law. Qov. Haskell
1 either have to take action in
is matter or admit that he pro-
its certain violators and prose-
68 others. What will you do
pernor, call the Times editor a
ft? The records of Canadian
«nty shojv this violation. Will
ou investigate? —Oklahoma City
'Ifcies.
ow unfair.
Ividently Mr. Bellamy has bor-
ed the money.
r the Times is libeling him.
will be taken for granted that
lieutenant governor has bor-
ed the money ?
nd how unfair.
hy is a high up state offioial al-
d to borrow such a large sum
money and poor, common ordi-
but houest Texas and Cimar-
coitnty farmers denied any kind
faim loaa?
he farmers of Texas aud Cimar-
counties, if ever they will need
at a low rate of interest, need
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lut they can't get it.
d there are many instances
re the farmers' only home will
acrificed at half its real value
use the state will not make him
n.
Mr. Bellamy's $15,000 loan had
placed where it ought to have
to deserving farmers it wouldj
b accomodated sixty farmers in
as and Cimarron oounties with
in of $2e0 each.
nt the farmers of these two
ties are not high up politicians,
ley are only hard working and
'st citizens who now need flnan
help to tide t*iem over the win
>nd through next summer until
can raise another orop.
is $15,000 alleged to have been
!<d to Lieutenant Governor Bel-
, the w#U fed and polished high
toned gentleman, would have saved
sixty homes from being sacrificed;
.t would have assured sixty fathers
and mothers a home in their declin-
IQg years; it would have brought
happiness to sixty homes where
there is now darkness and despair.
Farmers have you been treated
fair?
CONDITIONS IN
CIMMARRON COUNTY.
BEAVER COUNTY TEACHERS
MUST CUT OUT DANCING.
Much Wheat Will be Sown
Again This Fall.
The following items are taken
from last week's Boise City Tri-
bune:
While the drouth in the early
spring played havoc with the
wheat crop in this section of the
country, nevertheless a large acre-
age will be planted again this
month. We predict that the far-
mer who has a good acreage of
wheat next June will reap a bounti-
ful harvest.
Many fields of broom com are
about ready to "jerk." There is a
large acreage in Cimarron county
this year, and in most instances it
will be a good yield. Some in-
dustrious broom corn dealer would
do well to locate at Boise City and
be in readiness to buy this year's
crop.
The heavy rains lasr week in-
sures sufficient moisture to ma-
ture the feed crop in Cimarron
county. In the northeast portion
of the county, however, the crop
will ba light owing to the lack of
moisture at the time of planting to
start the crops, and in some in-
stances large fields are perfectly
bare. But the balance of the peo-
ple have been more fortunate, and
indications now poiut to a bumper
crop in many parts of the country.
Democratic Printing Graft.
The Oklahoma City Oklahoman,
the state organ of Democracy does!
not get along well with the Guthrie
Leader, the personal organ of
Governor Haskell. And the Lead-
er every once in awhile says a lot
of mean things about the Okla-
homan. Aod then the Oklahoman
The teachers over in Beav i
county must "cut out" dancing, at
least, while the present county
superintendent holds office.
Last week Superintendent Meeks
issued a long leiter to the teachers
in regard to the matter and made
it very plain to them that thej
would not be permitted to teach ai-
long they mingled with a "motley
dancing crowd."
Part of the letter is given below:
"A moral standard is required of
our teachers second to none. While
many evils which have crept into
our common school exist and ueed
extermination, yet the subject at
issue is "The dancing teacher,"
and we have come to the parting
of the ways "like the crowing hen''
of our mothers days, the head
must come off. The dancing teach
ers head must come off. I would
not sa-" people who dance are all
immoral, neither would I abbro-
gate their right. But my content-
ion is that you have no right after
mingling with a motley dancing
crowd to loom up, still jaded from
the dance hall and have the effron-
tery to ask fos a position in our j
common school to teach and fnflu- |
ence our children, and not only
this, but you are asking for public
money for your support, and does
not the dancer know that a large
per cent of the tax payers are op-
posed to dancing? Hence the
moral sentiment is that you as a
teachereither divorce yourself from
the ball room, or school room,
there is a tremenduous chasm be-
tween the two. We aek for the
passing of the dancer as regards
our schools, so long as you are
enrolled as a teacher, during the
entire time of the life of your li-
cense, you are subject to the rules
and regulations and conduct gov-
erning teachers. Our new state is
making warfare upon many of the
-social evils which inflict our school*
School boards in every county of
the state have in cases and hun-
dred of cases refused to employ
teachers who were guilty of th s
practice, aud in many cases have
refused to issue certificates, and in
case of an issue would note the
fact on the face of said certificate.
And I, as Co. Supt. of Beaver
county, and looking to the welfare
of our children, will make it quite
unpleasant and troublesome in all
county examinations and normal
institutes for these "would be"
teachers who persistently retuse to
be divorced from the ball room'
and are determined to connect,
Siamese like, the ball room and
the school room. If you want to
teach dear teachers, out the danc-
ing out and if you are determined
to dance cut the teaching out.
I wish to go on record for a very
high moral and intelligence stan-
dard for the schools of Beaver
county.
Sincerely,
G. W. Meeks,
County Supt."
Now Beaver county has gone on
reoord against its teachers dancing
Right step in the right way.
comes back and charges th« Lead-
er with grafting propensities.
It will be remembered that the
Leador last winter presented a Hill
to the legislature for $15,000 for
printing several thousand copies
of the state constitution. The edi-
tor of the Oklahoman was a mem-
ber or the stato senate and refused
to vote to pay the bill. It was as-
serted that any job printer any
where in the state would have been
glad to done the same printing for
$900, that the Leader charged
$15,000 for. But the bill was pass
ed and the Leader was paid $15,-
000 on a $900 job.
And the Leader ie Governor
Haskell's own "reform" organ.
And yet it was overpaid $14,100
of the tax-payers money.
In regard to the matter the Okla-
homan in a recent issue had the
following to say:
' Because the editor of this paper
as a member of the state senate, vot-
ed against its printing graft last
winter. With four other members
of tho senate, ho refused to be either
bought, bullied or bamboozled in
to doing something which he
deemed unjustified. And he, nor
any of the members who voted
with him, have any apology to
offer for their action in the pre-
ml*."
TEXHOMA.
OKLAHOMA
OUR BUSINESS IS BANKING
BANKING IS OUR BUSINESS
1 he Bank That Does Things."
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Of Texhoma.
DR. E. SNOW, President
A. F. BAILEY, Cashier
The Farmers State Bank.
CAPITAL $25,000.00.
DEPOSITS GUARANTE|rn
Interest paid on Time Certificates of Deposit, large
or small. Depositors Protected by the Depositors
Guaranty Fund of the State of Oklahoma, which
protection is absolutely free to our Customers.
j^£_Farmers^tatej}ank_Want8 Your Business.
Be sure to see us if you wish to
borrow money, for we have
lots of money to loan.
All Business Dealings Kept Strictly Confidential.
We Retpectfully Solicit Your Account.
THE FARMERS STATE BANK
Texhoma
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Fischer, J. S. The Texhoma Times. (Texhoma, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, September 11, 1908, newspaper, September 11, 1908; Texhoma, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metapth352488/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.