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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-02-02
CITY GOVERNMENT.

Hayor....................R K. w. Dick
City Clerk...............G. II. Bruce
Police Judge. ...............J. j. L. Gait
Chief OF Police. ..... Buck Garrett
Assessor and Collector w. K. Roberts
City Attorney. ........ .Caswell Bennett
City Treasurer. B. Franc
Aldermen.
First Ward. S. McCharen and G
W. Stuart.
Second Ward--J. S. Mullen and l. Il
Best.
Third Ward r.. Pennington anc
R. W. Randol.
Fourth Ward-W A. Gillian and c
{ Carter.
.t Committees . ..,...
Finance committee-J. r. Pennlng
ton, ]. S. McCharen and C. D. Garter
Street and alley commlttee--I. X
Be-., W. A. Gillian, r. W. Randol and
G. w. Stuart.
Police committee-G. W. Stuart, W,
4. Gillian and j s. Mullen.
Fire committee-W. A. Gillian, J
R. Pennington and G. d. Carter.
Waterworks committee-C. d. Car,
cer, |. r. Best and G. w. Stuart.
Ordinance committee-J. S. Mullen
J. s. McCnaren aud ]. X. Pennington
Cemetery committee-R. w. Randol
". A. Gillian and ]. S. McCharen.
Sanitary committee. S. McCharen
J. s. Mullen ard R. w. Randol
Improvement committee-R. W
Randol, c. d. Carter, l. r. Best and
g. ". Stuart
Street commissioner-W e. Ian,
| drum.
City physician-Dr. j. w. Motfett.
Scavenger-Silas j. Boyd.
Waterworks and sewerage inspector
Mr.. Broadnax.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-02-02

Some men learn to fear treachery
by studying their own nature.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-02-02
For the Farmer

Don't forget that your actions are
measured as critically through life
as is the borrowed butter you return
to a neighbor
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-02-02
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Coupons

Long distance coupons will be
sold on the following basis in
the future.
l0per cent discount will be
given on $500.
Is per cent discount will be
given on $4,000.
90 per cent discount will be
given on $4,000.
Coupons to he bought and
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Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27
THE CORN HARVEST.
Doings Over in Callaway-Land
Renting at So Per Acre.

EDITOR RURAL WORLD: We are
beginning to cut corn in south
Galloway county. A large per-
centage did not ripen, but simply
dried up. More corn will be cut
for feed this year than for some
time, as the hay crop was very
sh ort. The men that are gener-
ally depended upon for cutting
corn are not rushing into bottom
fields looking for work this year,
but are holding off, wanting twen-
ty cents per shock and board,
which is exhorbitant. Almost any
man could readily earn So per day
and board at that schedule. They
could not make more than half
of that at any other work
they are capable of doing. | real
ize that cutting corn IS the hard
est work on the farm and work
that most of us dread, especially
in hot weather like we have had
for the past week or so.
A large acreage of wheat is ex-
pected'to be sown this year and
farmers are trying to get it into
the ground earlier than last year.
The early wheat last year made
the best crop and weighed from 2
to 5 pounds heavier per bushel.
Rent has raised on all farm land
around here, and with the price OF
labor advancing, our farmers have
but one alternative; better meth
DDS of farming. Better methods
must be followed or the balance
will be on the wrong side at the
close of the year. Land is rent.
ing for Sc per acre and making
only 20 bushels of wheat per acre,
which sells for 60c per bushel, YET
fthe sun never shone on better land
than is to be found in this county
There has been a vast improve
ment in corn during the past few
years, due to the work of Secretary
George B. Ellis and others in pro
pounding its benefits so vigorous
ly. l hope we can get friend G
d. Lyon around here for an insti
tute lecture this fall. AS we'll az
myself there a number of farmers
who want to see and hear him.
James o. Erwin.
Galloway Co., Mo.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27

D. Ward King, good roads ad-
vocate and inventor of the split
log drag, spoke at the court house
at Trenton the other day to Grun-
dy county farmers. He asked, the
press to correct the impression
that seems TO prevail that because
he talks most of the dirt roads, he
is therefore opposed to macadam.
1 came from a country where
there is no such thing as a dirt
road" declared Mr.. King, "aud l
have fought for years for a rocE
road from my farm to town. Nc
one knows the value of macadam
better than 1.
If the principal roads of the
country were made of stone, far
mer could sell his hogs one day
and deliver them the next. A
community that has land worth
$50 an acre aud within three mile!
of a quarry that does not macad
amize is wasting its opportunity. F"
Mr.. King paid a beautiful trib,
ute to Missouri, declaring it to bC
the fourth state in the Union. II
MissOurians only had the self suf
ficieney of the people OF Kansas,
he said, the superiority of thu
State would not be long disputed.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27
GOT ENOUGH.
But He's a Queer Republican If
That Is What He Is.

The Concordia Empire, printed
at Concordia, Kansas, published
the following the other day;
We have been invited to send a
dollar contribution to the republi-
can car ?1;gn fund that is being
raised by popular subscription and
to which President Roosevelt re-
Gently subscribed. We would like
to have our dollar in such select
company all right, but we've done
all the contributing we intend to
do this year.
We recently have completed
building a house at a cost of some
thing oyer $4,000, and for every
foot of lumber, every pane of
glass, every sack of cement, every
pound Of nails, and in fact for
nearly every bit of material that
went into it we made a good lib
eral contribution thru the trusts
that control them, and we guess
we have done our share.
1t may be treason for a republi-
can newspaper to talk that way,
but facts are facts, and it sort of
relieves our conscience to tell the
truth about the trusts once in a
while. Well just let the several
trusts to which we have had to
pay unwilling tribute in the past
year pay our dollar for us. We
need it if they don't.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27
Says He is Puzzled.

Says He is Puzzled.
Walter Williams in his Colum-
bia Herald comments:
We are puzzled.
We have been told all these
years that profanity was ungentle-
manly and that the successful man
was agentleman. Yet here's man
who swears in public and is hailed
as one of the successful men of the
age.
We have been told that to lie
and swear and get drunk and gam
bic are wrong. Yet we find that
people elect to high Office a man
who lies and gets drunk and gam
bles and the people who vote for
him say they do because he does
these things openly and is no hyp-
ocrite.
We haye BEEN told that it is
wrong to go to a baseball game or
theater on Sunday. And yet the
Christian people pay 25c to hear
concert and reading or speech
making on Sunday.
We have been told that it is the
duty of the Christian gentleman TO
be soft of speech and gentle of
thought and truthful of statement
and yet we find nine-tenths of the
Christians in this community go
hear and applaud a Christian
preacher who is none of these but
who draws a crowd by his coarse
ness of speech, his harshness of
manner and his exageration of
statement.
We do hope you will be a sue
cess, we say to the Young man.
Then we point him to "A man who
has made his thousands aud starv-
ed his soul, or who has gotten
elected to office and is foul of lip
and is filthy of life, or who has
come up from the clods and is
lowered with elods, or who doesn't
know music or art or literature or
flowers or spiritual things but his
voice and money and a position in
society.
We are puzzled.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27
A Pike County Man /.

Col. Arthur Murray, of the Ar
tillery Corps, whose appointment
as Chief of Artillery, to succeed
Brigadier General Samuel Nj. Mills,
announced from Washington City
the other day, was born at Bowl
ing Green, Pike county, Mo-, in
1851. Col. Murray has seen thir-
ty-twO years of military service,
having entered West Point in 1870
at the age of 10. He graduated
two years later second in his class.
The one man ahead was Col .
Thos. w. Symons, now head of
the Isthmus Canal Commission.
Col. Murray was appointed to
West Point by Colonel Pat"
Dyer, of st. Louis, then a mem
ber of Congress. The appoint
ment was made as a result of q
competitive examination partici-
pated in by thirteen or fourteen
young men, several of whom were
college graduates.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27
Suit in the Justice Court.

=
The following item is from the
Farber Forum:
An interesting suit was tried in
Justice Athey's court here Friday,
in which Mrs. Jane w. Bradford
sought to recover against w. l..
Wright and Others a sum of
$50 which she had paid as COM
mission for selling her farm. The
Vandalia firm had also contracted
for its sale. Commission was paid
to both firms. The amount in
volved in the suit was only $50.
The case was tried by jury, which
rendered verdict against Mrs
Bradford. P. H. Cullen was at.
tOrney for Mr.. Wright and s. d,
Stocks of Mexico for Mrs. Brad.
ford.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27
Again as to Alfalfa.

1t is said that unless yon are an
industrious farmer you had best
leave alfalfa alone. There are four
serious objections to growing it.
/. The first cutting is due just
when you want to give the corn its
first cultivation and the alfalfa
will not wait.
2, 1t needs to be cut the sec
ond time just when you want to
cut your wheat,
3. 1t demands cutting the third
time just when the corn has to he
cut.
A. If You let your stock eat il
they will not eat it they will not
eat anything else,
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27
DEMOCRATS PLANNING.
Reception Committee to Meet Har-
ry Hawes-Speaks Here Oct. O..

The Audrain County Demo-
cratic Central Committee held
meeting in Mexico last Friday and
began plans for the opening of the
county campaign.
No action taken as to the case of
E. r. Dudley, nominated for j P.
of Salt River township but who, it
was understood, had moved from
the county.
Constable Bently's politics, Of
Prairie township, was ordered to
be investigated; some doubts ex-
pressed as to his being a Democrat.
F. n. Frost. j. T. Ricketts, and
j. j. Wakefield were appointed to
act in conjunction with Co unity
Chairman E. S. Cave to assist in
arranging the speaking IN this
the county.
The committeeman from the diff
fereut townships were instr ucted
as follows: Salt River to choose 10
men, Cuivre seven and the remain
der five each to form a reception
committee to greet Hon. Harry B.
Hawes when he arrives in this city
Oct. 9th, to speak.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27
Another Mexico Addition.

0, D. Gray, the Sturgeon Lead
er man, came down to Mexico last
week and bought 80 acres of fine
land just west of the fair grounds
aud viii likely lay it off in lots and
make it an addition to Mexico. 1t
is one of the finest spots adjoining
the city. 1t was bought of Bolts
and Lewis for $4,000.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27
vandalia Property Sold.

The McPike estate property was
sold at auction at the Mexico
court house last Friday, as fol-
lows:
The Neal building was bought
by A. L. Afford $3O5O; the Lemon
building by X. of p. lodge $4050, (;
the Nagle building by w. l..
Wright S4500. The lots, 20 in
all, brought S6740.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27
SCHOOL SUPERVISION.
Youths Teaching Our Schools-The
Teachers to Be Coached. 2

A campaign to bring about counc
ty supervision of schools thruout
the State has been entered upon by
A IS S t an t Superintendent of
Schools Ben Blewett, of st. Louis;
A. A. Dodd, principal Of the High
School, at Springfield, Mo-, and
Ferd Tharpe, assistant superin'
tendent of schools at Kansas City.
They were appointed at the last
meeting of the State Teachers AS
sociation to urge legislation in this
direction. Letters were sent out
by this committee last week to
presidents of the normal schools
requesting them to have the mat
ter laid before all the county
teachers institutes at their next
meetings, which will be held in
every school district in the State
between now aud December.
Preparations are under way for a
complete canvas of the State to
bring the question to the atten-
ton of Representatives and Sena-
tors aud to solicit the cooperation
of the press of Missouri. A bill
asking that a properly qualified
county supervisor of schools be
elected for each county, and that
his duties be to carefully superin-
tend the methods of instruction in
the various county districts, will
be presented at the next session of
the Legislature.
At present the counties have To-
cal option in their selection Of a
Superintendent of Schools, and in
many districts where supervision
is most needed, it is said there is
no supervisor.
Youths of II to Is years of age
are not infrequently the teachers
at salaries of $50 month, and it
is to supply them with instruction
and knowledge of the best meth
ods of presenting the work to tn e
pupils that the enforcement of su
pervision over the districts is
deemed necessary.
The State Technical ASSOCIATE on
has announced that county super
vision is the greatest educational
need in Missouri today. 1t is the
intention of the associations com
mittee to provide in the bill that
the County Superintendent be
obliged to go about from district
to district in his county to coach
teachers, and, if necessary, improve
the system or instruction. de Will
be asked to call meetings of the
teachers, and to visit the schools
not less than two or three times a
year.
To the argument that there are
boards of DIRECTORS of the schools
at present, the committee replies
that the directors. in most cases,
lack the technical knowledge nee.
essary to proper supervision Of
teaching. They may be able tC
recognize a well-organized schoo
from bad one, it is asserted, but
they cannot remedy the weakness
Again as to Alfalfa.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27
Clark to Speak.

Sturgeon, Mo, Sept, 2l. Dear
Beal: AS there will be street
fair at Sturgeon Saturday, Sept,
Sept 81, the date of my appoint,
ment at Saliug( Township church
please announce in MESSAGE that
/ have cancelled my Sailing ap-
pOintment aud will speak there
later.
viii speak at Benton City OF
Saturday, Sept, 30 at 1880 p. NJ
Your friend,
CHAMP CLARK.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27
LATER

Mr.. Halves writes the County
Committee that he cannot be in
Mexico Oct. 9th but will be here
at a date to be announced later.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27

B. w. Britt, an aged citizen of
this county, deserted by his rela-
tives, it is said, was last week TAX
en- to the State Hospital at Fulton.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27
Farm Insurance..

All who want Fire aud Light
ming andTornado insurance should
come to see mel can write you in
the Phenix Of Brooklyn. the great
farm insurance company, on most
reasonable terms.
john W. HOWELL, Agent,
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27

Miss Pearl Parker. who teaches
on West Cuivre, this county, rides
a horse to school aged % years;
the animal was carrying three
school girls the other day and be-
came entangled in some wire and
in his limp old age he gave a
lunge and the girls were thrown to
the ground, Miss Beulah Moore,
one of the three, suffering broken
leg.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27

Miss Nellie Humphries of Rock
vile, Indiana, will come to Mex
leo to make her home. She is an
aunt of Misses Betha and Nora
Humphries of this city.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27

Joe Quinlan and w. j. Arm
strong sold the Jefferson Street
Restaurant in this city to Martin
ouinlan and the latter has since
sold it to Illinois parties.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27

Sam Sharp is a candidate for
City Treasurer, Ethan Howell re-
signed.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27

7. B. johnson, out near Aux
vase, was in Mexico last Friday
and with his brother, W. H.
johnson, paid the Message a pleas
ant call.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27

Frank Eckler, down near Mar
tinsburg, sold about 25O bushels
of peaches this season at so cents
a bushel.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27

Bishop Tuttle baptized at the
Mexico Episcopal church last week
the infants Of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Maxwell and Mr.. and Mrs. G. j.
Shaw.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27

Mis-. r. Leeper, on Youngs
Creek, lost her family horse the
other day; he lived to the good
old age of q years.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27

The Missouri Military Academy
opened last week with rs boys
present the first day. The at
tendance this year, it is expected
will be very much larger than last
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27
GOOD ROADS.
We Are Talking Them,
But What EISe?I
Some Fine Roads Near Mex
leo on Which The Drag Is
Used Regularly.

in Missouri. Usually we talk roads
in the winter days when we can
not get from farm to town or back
again. Then when springtime
comes and the mud is turned to
dust by the kisses of the sun, we
forget the impossible roads of
January in the glory of the good
roads of June. This year it is
different in Missouri. For the
first time in years-or ever-the
good roads discussion has cOntin-
ued thru the spring and the sum
mer and now, when the hint of the
falltime is In the air and the roads
are like velvet in their smoothness,
still out here in Missouri we are
talking good roads. Farmers are
chief in the talking. Missouri is
an agricultural state and the big
gest men in Missouri are the far
mers. They are the real captains
of industry. 1t is because they
are coming to realize the toll
which the bad road levies upon ev-
cry pound drawn over it that they
are seriously considering the bet
rerment of the highways. The
merchants of the small towns are
seconding the farmers with all the
means at their command, for upon
the trade the farmers bring de-
pends their prosperity.
The chief economic issue in
Missouri is the building of good
roads. The Chillicothe conven.
tion took up the question in dead
earnest. Four days were spent by
300 delegates, grave. serious men,
deeply interested in the highway
situation, in considering ways and
means. The meeting was held un-
der the direction of the state
board of agriculture and was pre-
sided over by Gov. Norman j.
Colman of st. Louis with George
B. Ellis Of Bates county as secre-
t8ry. The convention decided
with unanimity, after deliberation,
that adequate state aid to good
roads could not be provided under
the present constitution.
The movement for new
constitution received large impetus
at Chillicothe.
There are 1876, 900 miles of road:
in Missouri. On 10 per cent Of
the mileage, however, is carried
80 per cent of the business trans,
ported. While all roads need tC
be improved, the largest need is
of course, upon the main Travelled
highways. The cost of good roads
was estimated at the Chillicothl
convention differently by differen
speakers. Largely it was a ques
ton of material available in tn,
various localities. From Boom
county came a report that grave
roads were under construction a
$1700 a mile. This was a conser
vative estimate. After a di, roat
has been put in well-graded condi
tion it could be kept in good con
dition, it was demonstrated, b,
the use of the drag at practicall
nominal expense. 1t is not to b
wondered at, therefore, with it
demand for new constitution an
for the training of good engineers
thaG the convention adopted a nep
resolution favoring Legislation
looking toward the more genera
: employment Of the drag, "Th
best road material, "it was decided
lis men and money cash taxes
competent engineers. /"
The state board Of agriculture
planning to follow mp the Chill
cothe convention with other cor
ventions in different towns. Th
good roads campaign in Missoul
is on in earnest.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27

Mrs. Monte Leon, a sister OF
Mrs. B. II. Robinson of Mexico,
died at her home in st. Louis
last week.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27
% HAPPENED AND HAPPENING. ~

Farmers in western Andrain get
their coal at Clark Mt 5 cents bu.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27

w. w. Braden, of Lick Creek
vicinity, this county, was here last
Friday talking up that electric
railway project from Santa Fe. He
is very anxious that Mexico should
be its southern terminus. Braden
is loyal to his home county, and
we are glad to see him pushing to
pull this railroad toward Mexico,
the capital of Audrain, the great
est county in the State.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27

The following young ladies from
Laddonia paid the MESSAGE a
pleasant call last Friday. Misses
Lutte and Faye Darlington, Grace
ouisenberry, Margaret Williams,
Bernice Bruton and Alta Hobson.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27

j. H. Rice, who lately traded
for Mexico property, and his
friend Chris Pearson of the Mid
dletown Chips, were here to see
the elephant last Friday and
paid this Office a pleasant call.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-09-27

Money to loan on real estate Sc
curity. j. w HOWELL,
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-02-21
cABBAdE PLANTS, CELERY PLANrs nn

Can now furnish all kinds Of cabbage plants.
grown in the open air and will stand great cold,
Plants carefully counted and packed Celery. Let
tuce, Onion, Beet and Cabbage Plants ready now.
Reduced express rates promised. Prices: small
lots $I.5O per 1000; large lots, 81 to SIPS PEI d.
OOO f. o. b. Meggetts, s. Q. The United State /
Agricultural Department has established an rx
pertinent Station farm to test all kinds OF
vegetables, especially Cabbages. N. Fl. BIITCH
CO., Meggetts, S. g..
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-10-24
LAST HONORs
To A DEPARTED
D|PLOMAT|ST

Washington. Ocvt. 24.--With full diplo-
matte honors. the funeral OF Senor Jorge
Munoz. late minister from Guatemala 10
the United States, who died In this city
last Saturday were held I'm st. Matthews
Catholic church today. President Roose-
velt Secretary Root and several other
members of the cabinet. Admiral Dewey.
Brig. Gen. Thomas IL. Barry and many
other prominent army and navy officers.
as well as several members OF tire supreme
court. attended.
nj. Jusserand the French ambassador.
attended as acting dean OF the diplomatic
corps. Baron Hengenmuller. the ranking
member OF the diplomatic body. being
detained in New York
The represmta tives OF practically all
the South and Central American republics
were present Rev. Thomas s. Lee. pas
tor OF st. Matthew's church. celebrated
the mass. assisted by several other clergy
men.
= The body was escorted from St Mat
thews church 10 Oak Hill cemetery by
the 18th Cavalry band n squadron OF
cavalry and two light batteries from Fort
Meyers.
Senior Munoz body will rest temporarily
In the receiving vault at Oak Hill ceme-
terry. but will be taken In a short time
10 his native country.