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The Crittenden record. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1904-1907, 1906-10-26

Kansas; while in the second car the
clerks work Indian Territory and Okla
homa mails. On reaching Springfield,
Mo-, four Texas" clerks get into the
second car, which is the Texas car.
After the other clerks have completed
their distributions the Texas" clerks
begin their laoors, my reason for say
ing Texas" clerks is because they
don't do thing but work Texas and
don't have time to think Of anything
else.
There is usually from Is to 20 pouches
of letter mail and from so to 100 sacks
OF papers of Texas mails to be worked
by the Texas clerks in distance of 344
miles and only eight hours in which to
do the work. At the present time the
N e Jerks are unable to
work all this mail before reaching the
end of the run which is at Denison,
Texas, and while the clerks are mostly
clerks that were picked for the line and
the best of all Of the surrounding rail-
| way postoffices. The amount of mail
is so great that they often bring in from
10 to 30 sacks of papers and very often
two or three pouches of letters that
they have never had time to work. This
is called stuck Texas" and is given to
the lines running out of Denison to be
worked, and the most of it loses from
IL to "a hours in reaching its destina-
ton.
This train leaving St. Louis at 2:35 a.
M, reaches Denison at Ais p. M. of
the same day making a distance of
5S2 miles in thirteen hours and forty
minutes, and in 30 minutes after the
arrival Of this train in Denison you can
see the st. Louis daily papers being read
5S2 miles away and on the same day
that they are published.
The name by which the postoffice de-
partment has designated this Fast
Mail of the Frisco Katy" is the
"Morette and Denison Railway Post
office, While ! am not averse to fast
riding | can truthfully say that this
fast mail" runs as fast as care to
move on rails, either wood or iron.
As my time is limited will close and
sometime in the future I'll give you a
description of the duties of railway
mail clerk. Very truly,
HARRY GILL,
Denison, Texas.
The Crittenden record. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1904-1907, 1906-10-26
A Farm for Sale.

A good farm Of l25Eacres six miles
from Marion, Ky, within three miles
Of railroad station, one mile from
church and school house. Residence
Of three rooms with front and back
porch. Tobacco barn 20 20 with 10
foot shed on all sides. % acres in
woodland. rs acres Of bottom land, 65
acres in grass. Three good springs on
this farm and fine eistern in yard. For
the present we can sell this farm at a
bargain.
MARION REAL ESTATE a INVEST
MEST Co.
The Crittenden record. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1904-1907, 1906-10-26

Preventics, as the name implies, pre-
vent all Colds and Grippe when taken
at the sneeze stage" Preventics are
toothsome candy tablets. Preventics
dissipate ali colds quickly, and taken
early. when you first feel that cold is
coming, they check and prevent them.
Preventics are thoroughly safe for chill
dren, and as effectual for adults. Sold
and recommended in cent and 25c
boxes by Haynes G. Taylor.
The Crittenden record. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1904-1907, 1906-10-26
Boarding House Geometry
BY SKEEZIx, JUNIOR
Definitions and Axioms.

btHnlNlonh anu hNlOfnS.
All boarding houses are the same
clearinghouse.
Boarders in the same boarding house
and on the same Hat are equal to one
another.
A single room is that which has no
parts and no magnitude.
The landlady Of clearinghouse is a
parallelogram; that is, an oblong and
angular figure, which cannot be de-
seribed, but which is equal to anything.
A wrangle is the Discrimination Of two
boarders to each other, that meet to-
gether, but are not on the same fat.
All rooms being taken, a single room
is said to be a double room.
PosTULATEs AND PROPOSITIONS.
A pie may be produced any number
Of times.
The landlady can be reduced to her
lowest terms by series of PROPOSE.
tons.
A bee-line can be made from any
clearinghouse to any other boarding
house.
The clothes Of clearinghouse bed.
though produced ever so far both ways.
will not meet.
Any two meals at a boarding house
are together less than two square
meals.
II from the opposite ends Of board
ing-house a line be drawn. passing
through all the.rooms in turn. then the
stove-pipe which warns the 6oarders
will lie within that line. - IA.
On the same bill and on the same
side Of II there should not be two char.
ges for the same thing.
II there be two boarders on the
same Hat, and the amount of side Of
one be equal to the amount Of side Of
the other, each TO each, and the
wrangle between one boarder and the
landlady be equal to the wrangle be-
tween the landlady and the other, then
shall the weekly bills Of the two board.
ers be equal, also, each to each. For
Il not, let one bill be the greater.
Then the other bill is less than il might
have been, which is absurd.
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MAGISTRATES.
Church Directory.

METHODIST CHURCH.
Pastor, Rev. Virgil Elgin
Preaching every Sunday at liza. m.
Sunday School every Sunday at $3.50
Prayer Meeting every Wednesday night
BAPTIST CHURCH.
Pastor, Rev. j. H.lButler.
Preaching each Sunday at II a. m.
and night.
Business meeting Thursday night be-
fore the 4th Sunday. Msn1
Sunday School every Sunday at $3.50 a.
m.
Prayer Meeting every Thursday night.
CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN.
Pastor, Rev. j. F. Price.
Preaching LIST ard 3nd Sunday in each
month
Sunday School opens at $3.50 every
Teachers meeting meets every We'd
nesday night.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN.
Pastor, Rev. Ben Andres.
Preaching every Sunday.
Sunday School every Sunday at $50
a. m.
Prayer Meeting every Wednesday
night.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Pastor, Elder ]. Shelby Rowe.
Preaching LIST and 3rd Sunday in each
month at II a. m. and night.
Sunday School every Sunday at $50
a.. m.
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Court Calendar.

v O1iNiAheti.
CIRCUIT COURT convenes on the
third Monday in March, the fourth in
June and the third in November.
COUNTY COURT convenes on the
second Monday In each month.
QUARTERLY COURT convenes on
the fourth Monday in each month.
FISCAL COURT convenes on the
first Tuesday in April and October.
Court Officials and
County Officers.
CIRCUIT JUDGE-J. F. Gordon.
COMMONWEALTH ATTORNEY
Jno. L. Grayot.
COUNTY JUDGE-Walter A. Black
burn.
SHERIFF.. F. FlaAary.
DEPUTY. A. C. Pickens.
COUNTY ATTORNEY Carl Hen
derson.
CIRCUIT CLERK -Jno. G. Asher.
COUNTY CLERK &C. E. Weldon.
DEPUTY-C. v. Franks.
ASSESSOR DIR. ]. A. Davidson.
JAILER-A. H. Travis.
SCHOOL SUP'T. -Jno. B. Paris.
CORONER Chas, Walker.
SURVEYOR. E. Sullenger.
The Crittenden record. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1904-1907, 1906-10-26
The Texas Fast Mall

During the latter part Of the winter
and the early part Of last spring. the
quadrennial weighing Of the mails was
IN progress in the eleventh division of
the railway mail service.
The railway mail service of the elev.
enth division is comprised Of Arkans as
Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Texas and
Louisiana west Of the Mississippi
river.
The mail is weighed in order TO ascer-
tain the amount Of mail carried by the
different roads, and their compensation
for the next four years is based on the
weights secured in this way. and their
pay Is based on the ton-mile.
Heretofore the bulk Of the Texas
mail originating east of the Mississippi
7ver and coming by way Of st. Louis
has been carried by the Iron Mountain
Railway, recching Texas at Texar-
kama. Ark. Texas, and making con-
nections with the Texas lines at that
point.
For the carrying Of the mail alone,
the Government pays several hundred
thousands Of dollars yearly, and as a
consequence. all the roads running from
St Louis to Texas wished to get a 'fn-
ger in the pie" but were unable to do
so separately on account Of the Iron
Mountain having the shortest route 20
Texas, enabling them to reach Texas
before the other roads could do so.
The Missouri. Kansas & Texas Rail.
way, commonly known as the Katy, 4"
and the ST. Louis and San Francisco
railway, known as the as the Frisco"
put on combination train service and
thus were enabled to make better SER
Vice than the Iron Mountain.
When the Frisco Katy Fast Mail"
was put on the Iron Mountain also put
on fast train and the race began in
earnest for the carrying Of the Texas
mail. Each road seemed to put forth
their best efforts, and the tracks were
all cleared twenty minutes ahead Of the
racing trains, At every station hun
drcds Of people were eongregatcd to see
the fast mall 80 past, and il usually
passed at a rate offrom fifty To seventy
miles per hour Everybody was talk.
INK Of the fast mail. "
For the first thirty days the Frisco
Katy" train was late but once. which
was caused by an cAgine breaking
down, and the lron Mountain train was
scarcely ever on time.
Each day when the huge iron horses
came towering into their destinations
with their three cars and It's ton after
ton Of mail, they were greeted by
cheers from hundreds Of people. who
went to the depot for no other purpose
than to see the fast mail" arrive.
At the expiration Of the first thirty
days the contract for carrying the Den.
ison, Dallas and IT. Worth mails and
their respective connections was award.
ed the Frisco Katy Fast Mail. !" and
the train first put on as an experiment
was made permanent.
This train leaves 81. Louis every
morning at g:S5'a M. and is composed
Of two 60 foot mail cars Tin which there
are from seven TO nine clerks. and one
storage car usually containing from
eight to fifteen tons OF through Texas
mail In the first working car they
work mails for Missouri. Arkansas and
The Crittenden record. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1904-1907, 1906-10-26

BIGHAM LODGE NO. 256 ~. &AM
Regular meeting in Masonic Hall
Saturday before full moon IN each
month.
Visiting members are invited to at
tend.
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Plans 10 Get Rich

Pr often frustrated by sudden break
'"n. due 10 dyspepsia or constipation.
face up and take Dr. Kings New
lie Itlls. They take out the materials
hrh are elogging your energies, and
'' you a new start, Cure headache
4 Guinness too. A. Haynes and Tay.
trug Store; 2sc guaranteed.
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The news ofMarion. Crittenden coun-
ty Livingston county and other adj
joining counties is to be found In The
RECORD.
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Republican County
Committee.

CoMMITTaEE: Marion No. T.
Marion No. 2, Jno. A. Clark; Marion
No. 3, Jas. James; Marion No. 4. ODE
Hunt; Marion No. 5, Jno 7 Pickins
Dycusburg, VIM II Mays; Frances, Jno
Yandell; Union, A Davidson. p o
Levias; Sheridan, Tolu, ] C
TAYLOR; Fords Ferry, P Z Beard: Bells
Mines. M Davis, P o Rodney; Rose
bud. j L Sullivan, p o Nation; Piney,
W II Reynolds, P o Tradewater: Shady
Grove, Hey Stations.
II. A. HAYNES. Chairman.
JOHN G. ASHER, Sec.y.
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Lodge Directory.

BIGHAM LODGE NO. 256F. a. IL.
Regular meeting in Masonic Hall
Saturday before full moon IN each
month.
Visiting members are invited to at.
tend.
d. B. Kevil. W.M
j. b. Kevil. Sec'y.
cRITTENDEN CHAPTER NO. 20.
Meets Saturday night after full
moon in each month.
wINGATE COUNCIL NO. 35.
Meets End Monday night in each
month.
]. G. Gilbert. 7. I'm.
]. b. kevil, See'y.
NEW MARION LODGE no, los. l. o. o. ?.
Meets Friday night in each week in
Masonic Temple. Visiting brothers
welcome. G.. +. Grissom. N. G,
f. V. Carlton. Sec'y.
BLACKWELL LODGE NO. 81. KNIGHTS OF
PYTHlAS.
Meets in X. Of 2. Hall every Friday
night from October TO April inclusive.
and 2nd and 9TH Friday nights from
May 20 September inclusive.
All visiting members OF sister lodges
are invited TO attend.
c. w Haynes, Chancellor Com.
X, l.. Flanary, X. Of r. and s.
MARION LODGE No. 60, A. o. U. W.
Meets LIST and Srd Monday nights in
Pierce's hall.
J. s Braswell. NJ. w.
h. l.. Wilborn, Recorder.
ROSEWOOD CAMP. No. .. ". O.w.
Lodge meets in Piercc's Hall the 9nd
and lth Tuesday nights in each month.
All visiting members are invited 10
attend.
Jno. Sutherland. &C. Com.
S. II. Ramage. Sec'y.
Outside Appointments
Of Our Local Preachers.
Elder j. Shelby Rowe, 4th Sunday
Cave-in-rock, ILL.,, End Sun. Salem.
Rev. W. 7. Oakley. LIST Sunday Mt.
Carmel; 2nd Dawson Springs: 3rd
Sugar Grove; 9TH Crayneville.
Rev. 4. &. Carter, LIST Sunday. Pond
Fork; 2nd Dekoven; Bird Harmony;
9TH Salem.
Rev. +. b. Blackburn, LIST Sunday.
Donaldson; Srd Walnut Grove. 2nd
Cookseyville Greek.
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OUR DIRECTORY.
City Government.

]. W. Blue. Jr., MAYOR.
W. H. Walker, JUDGE.
Jas. l.. Travis, CLERK.
II. X. Woods, TREASURER.
ono: A. Moore, ATTORNEY.
A. S. Canaan, CHIEF of POLICE.
COUNCILMEN- v. Stone, W.
d. Canaan, Henry Paris, DR.. Geo. W.
tone, K. E. Flanary and Geo. C. Gray.
Regular meeting of City Council Sec
ond Tuesday night in each month.
CITY COURT first Monday in each
month.
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Rev. ]. F. Price, End Sunday, Lisman;
4th Sullivan.
Rev. U. G. Hughes, Ord Sunday,
Sugar Creek; Bird Baker Church; 4th
Old Salem.
Rev. ]. S. Henry, I'd Sunday, Blooming
Grove; Sd Dun Springs; 4th Good
Hope. Services held both Sat. and
Sun.
Rev. H. E. Smith, Wilson Chapel,
Crittenden County, LIST Sunday in each
month. White Union, Crittenden coun-
ty, End Sunday in each month. Green's
Chapel, Bells Mines, Bird Sunday in
each month. Bethany, Caldwell coun-
ty, 4th Sunday in each month.
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PE j. d. SMITH. OF PdduCdh
Nnll'llcenSe Prohibition Candidate
for Congress-.

The way 10 MI an
evil Is II shoot u 10
death with youf vote.
ThewaY 10 pofpelu.
ate an e,llisio fecu.
late. restrict and pro.
tcctitWith ypuf,ulo.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-08-15
c. A. R, REUNION BUSINESS BOOMS
At Baxter Springs This Year
Will Be Biggest In History
of Association

AT the 8axter Springs G A. r. re-
union, one Of the biggest picnic affairs
in the southwest, Friday, August 81,
has been set aside as Oklahoma day.
and on that occasion it is expected
that thousands Of visitors will be pre-
sent from all sections Of the new state,
since very low excursion rates will be
in effect Delegate Bird S. Mcclure
will be one Of the speakers on that
day, and another will be a yinita
man, 9. B. Rogers.
Thursday will be Missouri day, and
Senator William Warner Will be the
orator Of the day. There will be
splendid speaking each day Of the re-
union, and there will be sports Of al
kinds.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-08-15

Judge Parker WiIIBring
Plans for the
Auditorium

]. w. Orr today received letter
from Judge L. T. Parker, Jr., in
which the latter states that he will
be home on the 2Oth. The Judge says
that the plans for the new auditori-
um will be completed by that time
and that he will bring them home
with him from ST. Louis. AS the bo-
nus has been practically signed over,
the project is waiting now only oil
the clearing off of the park grounds
and the letting Of the contract.
1t is understood that some Of the
e-holders on the Frisco right Of
way object to moving and will fight
eviction. AS the improvement will
be such a great public benefit, howev-
er, and as it is 50 universally demand
ed, it is hardly possible that any
business firm will venture to oppose
the public will, especially as just as
good location can be secured else
where.
But, even If a fight must come, the
Frisco officials say they will win cas-
lily.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-08-15
INDIGNATION
is INTENSE

st. Petersburg, Aug. 15-Intense
popular indignation has been created
here by the TREATMENT Of Mile. Smir-
notf, a refined goung woman, at the
hands of the crack Cheyaller Guards
While the guards were passing along
the street the young woman made an
innocent remark. She was arrested
and taken to the court yard, where
twenty-seven lashes were administer
ed with whips. The girls clothing
was cut by the lashes and her flesh
was horribly lacerated.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-08-15
CLUB
MEETS TOMORROW
Annual Election of officers and EIec-
ton Of Delegates to Saturdays
District Convention

Tomorrow afternoon at o'clock in
the court house the Vinita Republi-
can club will hold its annual election
of officers and select delegates to Sat
urday's district convention. The vi
nita club embraces not only all Re-
publicans residing in this city, but
also all those who live In the town
shipof which Vinlta is the center,
and the meeting is placed In the ar
ternoon in order that these latter may
attend.
There is considerable interest IN the
meeting, not only In regard to the
selection Of officers, but also the cleo
tion Of delegates to the district con-
vention. 1t is of course important
that good men be chosen as officers Of
the club, for the coming year will be
the most important IN the clubs his
tory. TIE men at its head, there
fore, must be not only good politicians
but also good citizens, who will com
mand the respect and confidence Of
everybody There are plenty Of such
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-08-15
Many Old Soldiers Will
Never March Again
in Parade

Minneapolis, Aug. l5-For the fort
ieth time since its work was finished
and its glory won the Grand Army Of
the Republic was in line today.
Never has there been in this country
a parade more appealing and impress
slve than that which passed through
the streets of Minneapolis today.
At times the veterans we're greeted
by cheers that'drowned the roar and
crash of their many bands; at times
they passed through living lanes
where every tongue was still, every
eye dim, and every head barred in
reverence.
The parade was notable thing as
such things go, well-handled, quick
moving and inspiring to look upon.
Countless flags snapped In the breeze
and the lines Of veterans passed for
miles between buildings gorgeously
decorated. The weather was ideal,
The column was three hours In
passing a given point, and the line Of
march was two miles.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-08-15

men in the Republican ranks here.
and there Il no doubt that the club
will choose such.
Then the delegates TO the district
convention are important also. The
district convention will select dis
tict campaign committee composed
Of one member from each township,
and it will also form an organization
in each township The delegates,
therefore, should thoroughly represent
the sentiment Of their communities.
AS each club Is entitled to dele
gate in the district convention fox
each twenty-five members, it is inn
portant that every Republican in
Vinita and Ia the township BIZ at the
meeting tomorrow and enroll ia the
club, in order that Vinitas delega.
tion Saturday may be as large as
possible.
Saturdays meeting will be called
to order by @. A. Davidson, the ex-,
ecutiye committeeman from this dis
trict 1t will be held in the coure
house at l:30 pm.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-08-15
D|STRICTING BOARD
COMPLETES ITS WORK
Election Proclamation for Indian Terri
tory WilI be Issued as Soon as
Oklahoma Board is Ready

election boards. This prevails In the
south, even, where the Democrats are
in the majority, though you might
not think il from the howl southern
Democrats are making up this way
over the "injusJice" Of partisan"
election boards.
AS soon as the election proclama-
tion is issued the conventions for the
nomination of delegates to the con-
stitutional convention will be held BY
both parties. This election, doubt
less, will be held on the regular elec-
tion date in November, which this
year is November 8. And between
now and then there is certain 70 be a
most tremendously exciting campaign.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-08-15
Articles of incorporation Filed
in Office Of United States
Clerk

A number Of new corporations haves
filed their papers with the United
States clerk here in the past few days.
The Sequoyah Mining company, with
a capital OF 100000, Of which $4,000
has been PAID In, intends to mine ir
Marion county, Ark. The principal
Offices are in WEIGH, where the incor-
porators live. The offlcersare; George
w Dixon, president; W. Copeland.
vice president; Eugene N. williamson
Sc retary; J. A. Dobkins, treasurer
The officers, with T. j Hancock, x.
@. Harlin and Henry B. Smith, CON-
stitute the board Of directors,
The Cherokee Republican Publish
ing company of Salllsaw has been in
corporated with capital stock Of
10000, Of which $4,000 has been paiil
III The company is to engage ia tfe
general publishing business, printing
the Cherokee Republican. The ON
GERS OF the company are J. f. Hamil-
ton, president; G. O. Frye, vice presi-
dent: John X. Hannah, secretary andl
treasurer These, with e. NJ. Frye
and A. T. Evans, constitute the board
of directors.
The Ayery-Roberts Investment
company OF this city hes alec dled in-
corporation papers, The capital NtocE
Of the company is-&lo, 200, al paid In
The officers 49, Avery presi--
dent; W. r. Phillips, vice presidents
C. G. Roberts, secretary-treasurer. on
the board Of directors, besides the
officers, are r. d. Knight and Cay
lord n Bebout The company IS
to do general real estate
and investment business.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1906-08-15

The News OF McAlester, where the
districting and canvassing board has
been in session, is out with the an
nouncement that the board has
found tho population Of the Indian
Territory to be 878,O00, and that there
fore each delegate district will have a
population Of 10000. This would
give the Cherokee Nation and Quapaw
country Is delegates, says the News;
Chickasaw, Ia; Choctaw, l3; Creek, III
Seminole, l.
The Chieftain has been unable to
learn the source OF the News infor-
nation. Judge Gill; who was here for
d few hours this morning, refufed to
be interviewed on the subject, saying
that the estimated population Of the
territory, the boundaries Of the cleo
tion districts cs decided upon, and all
other information would be given out
at the time Of the issuing of the elec-
tion proclamation, and not before.
The proclamation will be issued for
Oklahoma by Governor Frantz, and
for Indian Territory by Judge w. FL
H. Clayton, and it is expected that
they will be issued within few days
now.
The districting and canvassing
board of the Indian Territory has
finished the first part Of its work.
that of districting the territory,
and as soon as the Oklahoma board
finishes the districting Of that Terri.
tory tile proclamations will be issued
simultaneously.
Now the real work of The board be-
gins, the selection OF three Judges
and two clerks, for each election dis
trict, the printing Of ballots, the
building Of booths, and all the other
necessary operations that must be
gone through with in giving elections
to country that has never had them
before. The Oklahoma election laws
will prevail here and the citizens
therefore, whose only experience has
been with the decidedly simple pro-
cesses of the tribal and Arkansas ell
ection laws must struggle with the
somewhat complicated Australian
system.
The judges, Of course, will in all
cases be two Republicans and one
Democrat in each district. This will
doubtless provokea tremendous howl
from the Democrats, but they win
probably calm down when they learn
that in all cases throughout the state
party in power has majority on the