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Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-09
Durant Directory

Churches-M. E. Church,
South, Rev. j. A. Parks, pastor;
First Baptist Cnurch, Rev. @.
StubbIefield, pastor; Presbyte-
rian, church to be supplied
Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
Rev. Chalmers Kilbourn, pastor;
Fifth Avenue Christian Church,
to be supplied; Church of Christ,
Rev. w. N. Carter, evangelist.
Lodges-Woodmen of the
World, woodmen Circle, A. F.
and A. NJ, Royal Arch Chapter,
Eastern Star, F'raternal Union of
America, knights of Pythias, B.
p. o. Elks, Jr. o. U. A. M, |. o.
o. F., Brotherhood of American
Ypomen, Modern Order Pretori-
ans, United Benevolent Associa-
ton.
Societies = Fortnightly Club
and Entire Nous Club.
Schools-Public schools in all
the wards, Durant college, Du'
rant Practical Business college,
Halsell's college, three private
schools.
Public Schools Board ofirrus-
tees: r. L. Crudup, president
]. Q. Cabler, secretary; j M
Abbott, Clipper Hamilton, w. r
Lewis and Green Thompson
Superintendent. G. Adamson,
Terms. fall and winter.
Federal Court Terms-Atoka
in January, April and October
Durant, in February, June anc
November. Antlers, in March
September and December.
Federal Officia s--Ju ge. Thos
G. Humphrey; Prosecuting at
-torney, Thos. B Latham; Chic
] Marshal, George X. Pritchard
Chief Clerk, e. J. Fannn.
Durant Division - Commits
sioner, G. H. Elting, Marshals
A N. Wilcox, Dorant; 2. r
! Stacy, Boswell; office marshal
T. j. Sexton; constable, Jame
Yarbrough, clerk, W. B. Stone.
Recording district, No. %, 134l
square miles.
City Government-Mayor, w
l.. Boner; police judge, w. L
Poole; city attorney. w. H Rit
chey; chief of police, N. S Bled
soc; night police, Tom Anderson
and l.. D. Stinson; tax assesso
and collector, A. NJ ely; treas
urer, T. B. Sledge; health officer
DR.. Jas. L. Shuler; city clerk
w. s. Shannon; street commits
sioner, z. T. Serner; pound
keeper, Ed Berry; sanitar,
officer, j. w. Barry.
City Aldermen-First Ward, J
Ii Newman and J. H. Baugh
second ward, t. j, Perkins ant
j H. Downing: third ward, j v
ConneIl and G. A. Woodward
fourth ward, Horace Marshall AM
D. B Pugh; fifth ward, G. II
Marshal and E. l.. Siinson; sixtl
ward, A. p. Blackwell and j. l.
Blanchard.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-09

mittees-W Ways and means,
Connell, Blackwell, Baugh ;street
and alley, Newman, Blanchard,
Downing; schools and public
buildings, Pugh, Woodward.
Marshal; sanitary, Marshall,
Perkins, Stinson; Judiciary, Con-
nell, Marshal and Newman.
Waterworks commission Con-
nell. Black Nel Marshall. Su-
perintendert, c. G. Frost.
General election-First Tues
day in April of each year; polls
held in all the wards. Schop
election, third Saturday in De
cembsr of each year; polls held
in all the wards.
ASS Citations Grocers' Retail
Association, Fruit and Vegetable
Associa ion, Farmers Union,
Fish and Game Protective Asso-
citation, Durant Concert Band
Political Clubs jackson DEM
ocra ic Club. Democratic Club of
Durant; Republican Club, Local
Socialist Club
u G. V. Camps-N. b. Forest
Camp, No. 1866; Stonewall jack
son Camp, Sons of the Confed-
eracy; Daughters of the Con
federacy. G A. r. Post.
Durant Fired partment-Chas.
Huber, chief; j. A. Triplett.
assistant chief; T. E. Armstrong,
secretary; w S. Shannon, treas
urer; j. A. Maloney, Aubrey
White, H M. Newton, Newton
Jones, j. d. EARLY, l. D. Sdn-
son, Chas. Shipman, Sam Trout,
j. q. A. Harrod, J. e. Horn, W.
B. Leo, M. E. X ller, r. f.
Glover, Lon Wallace, N. Houk,
Major Taylor.
Postoffi II urs--Dally, opens
8 a M, closes 6 p m; opens Z
p. M, closes 7:15 p IN. Sunday,
opens 10 M, closes IL a m,
Mails close thirty inutes befo {
each train Mails for ght trains
close at 7 7p m. w H. Hilton
postm ster.
The Weekly News is tw, lv'
years old, from eight to twelve
pages, all hom- print, and give
all the important news of The
Indian Territory, Federal anC
city government and local events
The weekly contains the cream
of the Daily News. pu lishec
every Friday, S100 per year.
The Daily News is five year.
old, four to eight pages, all home
print, gives special attention tc
home events, Territorial, COVER
ment i and fore gn. Published
every afternoon; price by mai
or carrier, SO 80 per year.
The News is located in it's owl
building, a modern two story
stone building, ia North I hire
Avenue, and was built by Lewis
Paullin especially for the News
Aside from printing two news
papers, the News has the bes
equipped job printing office il
the Choctaw Nation, all operated
by power. The News employ
from eight t a dozen men t.
operate the plant and carry OF
the different departments of th'
bu, mess.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-09
Catholic Hospital.

Muskogee Feb. 6.-Father JOS
eph Van Hulse of the Catholic
church of this city left yesterday
for St. Louis to use his influence
in having Catholic hos pital estab-
lished in Muskogee by the Sisters
of Charity. 1t is proposed to
buili a hospital building which
VIII be the largest in the Terri
tory.
Bait your hook with a gold
orlck when you fish for suckers
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-09
Purely Personal


M. ,. Blackburn of Nida was
in the city today on business.
j. r. Mckinney left this after
noon for She man on bu-i in, ss.
Miss Ruby Early returned this
morning from few days visit at
SterretS.
Chas. McPherren and w. H,
Ataway ara in the city today
/ from Caddo.
j. Moreland Williams OF Union
Town, Ky, is in the ity today
prospecting.
B. Walk r returned last
night from "a few days business
trip in Dallas.
Attorney G. F. Deck returned
today from Oklahoma City where
he has been on business.
Forest ii. johnson anu Ha ley
E. Colbert are business visit r. in
Adm re for few days.
Solomon Homer of Cad 10 was
transacting business in Dur ut
yesterday morning.
DR.. and Mrs Haygood of S err
rett spent last night in The city,
the guest of re st.ves.
j. T. May field, OF Madil, came
in this morning to spend the day
in the city on business.
j. r. Griffin and j. P. Rey-
nolcs, two Of Nails prominent
citizens, are in the city oday.
Franklin Lindsay departed on
the noon train for Dublin, Tex
after having been a visitor IN the
city ior fr day
Cla q Stub efield, prosper.
Gus farmer of the Sterrett com.
munity, was in the city yester.
day on business.
L. w. Mosher, travelling freight
agent of the M, X. C t., is in the
city today looking after the inter
est of his road.
s |. Watson was the only pas
senger to take advantage of the
; special for Tupelo, which passed
through Durant at 8.45 a m
Miss Virginia Chapman, VIII
has been the guest of Mrs. S. w
St''Ae for the past few days, re-
turned e. her home in Sherman
this afternoon.
Mrs. Graham of arrensburg
Mo-, arrived in the city yester'
day and will be the guest of Mrs
b. F. Grider for a few days
t T. H. Davis, j A Stone, j. G
| Dobbs and E. j. Tadlock, al o
Bokchito, were in the city thi'
J morning transacting business.
w. M. Potts and wife of Rome
Ga arrived on the noon traiI
and will he the guests of Mr.
Potts brother, f f. Potts, for 1
few days.
Col. E. G Horne of Folsom
came in this morning from thu
st. Louis mark Is where he haC
disposed of car load of steers a
a fancy price.
Mrs. R. R. Parker of Dallas
Texas, arrived in the city yester'
} day afternoon and will be tn,
guest of her father, DR.. W. H
Jones for few days.
G. F., Atkison and Lon Waits
left for Bennington on business
today. Mr.. Waits will remain il
Bennington one week to look af,
ter the firms interest at tina
place.
G., A. Crenshaw and wife O
Wardburg, Tenn, arrived in tn,
city today and will proceed OF
their journey this afternoon fo
Mead, where they expect to re
side in the future.
The B. s. Johnson Land Co. il
moving its offices to the Atwood
Hotel and will establish an ele
rant COZ of off,oao m ~ will Ioa Z,
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-09

Joe Langford of Bonneville,
Miss, is in the city for a few
days prospecting. He desires to
invest in Duyant and Blue county
dirt, and is favorably impressed.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-09

Come on to Hampton's Clear
ance Sale and hitch your dollar
to the biggest load it ever drew
before. Sale positively closes
Saturday, Feb. II. Hampton g
D. G CO.. On ant. |. T.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-09

A bank note often supplies the
key note to the situation.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-09

The elevator boy manages to
reach the top, but he isn't allowed
to stay there.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-09

Men should battle for their own
convictions on their own firing
lines and "tote" their own skill
lets.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-09

Such an opportunity presented
to ou by Fl mpton's Clearance
Sale may never come into your
lives agan, Don't miss it. Sale
c oses Saturday, Feb. II. No
time like the esent. Hampton
ID. G Co. WI
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-09

Many a man starves his family
in order that insurance grafters
may live on the fat If the land.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-09

Presbyterian ladies will serve
dinners during court.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-09

S. A. Mckee, who has been
acting as ght clerk at the
Wann, departed this morning for
Campbell, Texas, to make at
place his future home.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-09

Will you attend Hampton's Big
Clearance Sale in time for biggest
and best bargains of the season
Sale closes, Saturday, Feb. II.
Come. Hampton D. G.. Co Du-
rant, |. T.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-09

Last Call. Hampton's Clear
ance Sale will positively clos,
Saturday, Feb. II. Don't hesi
tate. Come for greatest values
ever offered in Blue county.
Hampton's ID. G.. Co., Durant.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-09

A millinery bill frlghtens a man
almost as mouse frightens a
woman.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-09

A small man lodges when he
meets a great opp rtunity.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-02-09

Falr Warning Dry goods have
been reduced to the last, leas t
and lowest prices for the remain-
ing days of Hampton's Big
Clearance Sale, which positively
closes Saturday, Feb. II. Don t
delay one moment Come on.
Hampton D. G. Co., Durant, 1T.
| w. Gregory of Pauls Valley
spent last night in the city on hls
way home from Paris, Texas,
where he shipped two car loads
of cattle to St. Louis markets.
j. E Nelson of Ada, Ohio, was
in Durant yesterday taking no.
tice of the many advantages Du-
rant has to offer in the way of
good Investments.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-03
See America First.

The Commercial club, Of Salt Lake,
has met with such a warm and enthu-
siastic Endorsement Of it's proposal to
interest tourists ito see Europe if you
will, but see America first" that it has
decided to enter upon a general cam
paign to call the attention of people
all over the United States to the scenic
beauties of the great west and to en-
courage a larger tourist travel hither.
According to Bradstreet's of June II,
1905, says the SeaL.le Post-Intelli-
gencer, the sum of $150,000,000 is spent
yearly by American sightseers in for
eign travel. This statement was the
basis of the action by the Salt Lake
Commercial club, which, on investiga-
ton, found that the statement itself
was ultraconServativeA 1t was decided
that the time was ripe to attempt to
divert some OF this extraordinary
stream of travel to the states west of
the Missouri river, which certainly
have more to offer the tourist in the
line of scenic beauty and grandeur
than can be found on the continent of
Europe.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-03

we were leaving Akron, O., and we
got it in one end of a cage occupied
by happy family of rabbits coons, a
spotted leopard and a hound dog and
house cat. The new animal was a
bob cat, such as Roosevelt shoots when
the man has the camera ready to catch
him in the act. Say. but that bob cat
is a terror, and crosser than any ami
NAL we got, except the hyenas. The
bob cat just walked around and snarled
and spit at the happy family through
the bars, and kept them awake all
night on the road, and the happy fam
lily held a sort of convention and
could see by the way they all looked
at me that they were passing resolu-
tons inviting me to break up the bob
cat business. The manager of the
menagerie told pa he wished the con-
founded bob cat would escape, cause
he was a blooming nuisance, so l
thought l would help get rid Of the
beast, and save the show frcm dis
grace. So when we got to Oberlin
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-03

going off into a panic when pa and a
few brave men came and drove the
bob cat up centerpole, away up above
the torches, and made speeches to the
audience, and quieted them down, and
the performance went on. But pa was
a sight. and the head circus man told
pa he would have to dress better, or
forever after hold his peace, and pa
said if any man could be more patient
than he was. with a bob cat on his
neck. sacred COW walking on him,
and camel trying to eat his whiskers
and shirt, they better hire that man.
But it was all fixed up and everybody
apologized to everybody, and the bob
cat went on up the center pole and out
on top of the canvas. and escaped
into Ohio, where it will probably be
holding office before next fall.
Gee, but the giant is coward
When the bob cat began to run up the
giants leg, and then up his back, and
then jumped from his shoulder onto
the fat lady, the giant turned pale and
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-03

cried. and the midget said to him.
20. you big stiff. why didn't you have
sand enough to hold the kitty till the
keeper came? I've a good mind to get
on a stepladder and kick you" and
the cowardly giant cried again. and
said if the midget ever struck him he
would report him to the MANAGEMENT.
Just then pa came along and asked
what the row was about. and when pa
found that the midget was trying to
pick quarrel with the giant. he took
the midget across his knee and gave
him few spanks. and told him to Quit
bullying the freaks. The midget got
up on a barrel and called his son. who
is bigger than pa, when l stepped in
between them and told the midset's
son if he struck my father | would
have his hearts blood, and he auailed
and then l bullied the giant. who is a
coward, and now they are all afraid of
me.
l don't see how big fellow like a
giant can be afraid of things smaller
than he is, and shy when a dog barks
and be afraid some one is going tn
smash him in the jaw, but pa saws the
size of a man don't make any differ
ence. cause 1t is the heart that does
the business. A man may be big
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-03

thought that was a pious community
that could stand a wild bob cat, so
put several sheets of sticky tanglefoot
fly paper in the bob cats cage and
opened the door of the cage, after the
crowd had gone into the main tent to
the big show, and the menagerie tent
was empty except the keepers. They
were all asleep under the wagons, and
the animals had all curled down for a
nap. and the freaks were on their plat
form lolling around, waiting for the
main show to be out SO they could do
their stunts over again.
The bob cat got all his four feet in
the tanglefoot fly paper, then he
grabbed a sheet in his mouth and
rolled over in few more sheets, and
when he was entirely harmless and
you couldn't tell what he was, opened
the door of the cage and he went out
like a rocket, and rolled over a few
times in the sawdust, and then jumped
on the platform with the freaks. run
over the fat woman, who was laying
back in Morris chair, and left one
of the sheets of fly paper on her low
neck, and it stuck like a porous pias-
ter. She yelled that she had been
stabbed, and pa came along just as
the bob CT jumped OF the platform,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-03
Japan's Sentiment.


That the population of the United
States will have reached the enormous
total Of 600,O0O,0OO by the end of the
present century, and that it's wealth
will greatly increase during the same
period was the prophecy made re-
Gently by Kogoro Takahira, Japanese
minister to America, in an address be-
fore the American Asiatic association.
Mr.. Takahira paid a warm tribute to
President Roosevelt for his part In
bringing about peace between Japan
and Russia, and thereby ending 1.-The
bloodiest war in the history of man
kind" He believed, he said, that he
was echoing the true sentiment of the
whole world when he said that nu-
mainly and civilization owed the
president great debt. 81 assure you,"
he said, that President Roosevelt will
be immortaliZed forever in the hearts
OF my countrymen, as well as that
part of the far east where our in
fluence extends, and all American citi
Zens will always receive there cor
dial welcome" Mr.. Takahira was the
guest of the association at dinner
given in his honor on the evening of
his departure for Japan on leave of
absence 81 cannot help believing"
he said, that the regular and con-
tinued expansion of foreign commerce
must be encouraged to insure the
healthy growth of your population and
the solid increase Of your wealth. l
need not say that your neighbors across
the Pacific would be ready to buy the
productions of your agricultural and
industrial enterprises, provided their
purchasing power is fostered and en-
couraged, but not hampered 1t is
therefore earnestly to be hoped that
any such measure as might interfere
with the right of intercourse and trade
between the Americans and any far
eastern people should be confined
within the proper limit, aad that
every effort be used to promote as
mach as possible the mutual interests
and reciprocal advantage of commerce
and navigation between the two bor-
ders of the Pacific"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-03
Modern Terms.

All over the United States men are
talking of graft and grating and graft
ers. They don't have to explain what
they mean; everybody knows. Web
ster may be ignorant of the words, in
the new American use which makes
them so useful; the Century may ac-
knowledge them not; it isn't of the
slightest consequence, says the Hart
ford Comm Courant. They are fresh
from the peoples mint, they were
needed. they pass current and they
have come to stay. Only the other
day the interdenominational confer
ence in New York refused to weaken
one of it's resolutions by striking out
graft" and putting dishonesty in
its place. But it is a slang term, .
objected Rev. DR.. H. H. Oberly, of New
Jersey. What if it is? A word that
makes good in the common speech
of to-day will be in the dictionaries
tomorrow.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-03
WHISPERED BY WIVES.

Marriage Is a mistake, and you are
a blunder that l cannot correct.
Men have the rapid change artists
beaten. Before we were married you
called me dear. Now you want me to
be cheap.
You are constantly complaining
about my cooking. but at no time do
you neglect to pass your plate for a
second helping.
The difference between a husband
and a lover is that while both know
that the soup is burned, the latter
eats it and says nothing
1 have come to the conclusion that
good husbands are only so during the
honeymoon. That is why all novels
end with the wedding day.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-03
Art AND LITERATURE.

Andrew Carnegie has ordered an edi-
ton of 500 copies OF the Poems Of
Wilfred Campbell. copy of which he
intends to present to every one OF the
Carnegie libraries.
Mrs. Gertrude Massey, the painter of
miniatures, has received II commits
sions from the king and queen of Eng
land, and not long ago painted a pic
ture Of the queens Japanese spaniel,
Marvel
Mrs. ThyrZa Beckwith Gray, who
won distinction as a writer of verse,
died in Oswego, N. Y, recently at the
age of 1oS. Much of her published
work was accomplished after she had
reached the century mark
Sigmund Neumann, a 19-year-old
schoolboy, not yet graduated from the
gymnasium, is the author Of a play
called Storms" which was successful
ly produced in the leading Frankfort
on-the-M Main theater last month
Meissner, the noted German sculp-
tor, has completed for the city of Nu-
remburg the statue intended as a me-
mortal to Peter Henleln, who 400 years
ago substituted springs for weights in
clocks and thus also made watches a
possibility.
Lower Depths" play written by
Gorky. the Russian, was produced re-
Gently in a French theater (the Nou-
veau of Paris), by Duse, the Italian
actress. The chief promoter of the
production was an American, a de-
scendant of Edgar Allan Poe.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-03

In a recent interview with a New
York reporter Charles T. Yerkes. for
merly of this city, said London people
we're the slowest he had ever seen.
ITO see them get on and off our under
ground trains one would think they
took no note of time Still, they are
doing better, and hope to work them
down to an allowance of 80 seconds. "
This moves London writer to remark
that the man who leaves his seat in
one of Mr.. Yerkes' underground trains
before it comes to full stop gener-
ally travels half the length of the car
on his nose.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-01-03

and struck pa on the back, and the cat
spit at pa, and pa fell over among the
sacred cattle and rolled under cow
and got on his knees. when the ami
mails all began to roar, and pa crawled
behind a bale of hay, and a zebra
stepped on pas face, and pa yelled
Hey, Rube," which is a grand hailing
to fight, and about hundred of the
canvasmen came running with tent
stakes to hit people with.
Pa crawled out from the bale of hay,
which he had pulled over him, and the
hay stuck to- the fly paper on pa, and
camel began to eat the hay, and he
chewed pas shirt until the hands
pulled pa away.
The bob cat escaped into the main
tent, just as the Japanese jugg:ers
were juggling in No. 1 ring. and the
elephants were standing on their heads
in No. 2 ring, and the flying trapeze
artists were jumping from one trapeze
to another, End the bob cat rushed
through the Japanese, and amongst the
elephants, with the fly paper~al over
him, and the audience fairly yelled,
cause they thought 1t was a clown
dressed up to do some stunt, but the
Japanese left the ring in a panic, while
the elephants got down off their heads
and stood on their hind feet and cried
like children.
The audience saw that something
had happened that was serious and
they all rose to their feet and were