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Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-10-29
LOCALS
Broadway.

Saturday, Nov. 6.
Try those Cream PuGs at thi Star
Bakery, 22s If
M Hester Of stecker was in Ana.
darko Friday.
We have a nice lot Of fresh fruit
always on hand. Paul Kaiser.
COD meat market has fresh oys.
tors. Phone 500. 229 Std
Fresh mackeral at o 4 Skaggs'
cash grocery. Phone %. 226 4td
a pleasant place to take hot luuch
and a cup Ct hot coffee. Paul Kaiser
Call 322, tho II and. e grocery and
meat market, for first class goods.
226 BID
MIR. Baum's Millinery Ad on the
editorial age should be noted by all
the ladies.
Guy Lawrence of El Reno was in
Anadarko on busineus for the Rock
Island Railway company.
Past, present and future told from
the lines of your hand by Thomson,
the pallpist at Broadway rooms.
Mr. and Mrs Arthur G Waugh Of
Chickasha we're in the city Friday,
enroute to Chattanuga for a short
visit with relatives. Mrs. Waugh
was formerly Miss Virgil Greeley of
Anadarko.
In all mans hand God has placed
some sign so that they may thus
prove their work, SO don't fail to
consult Thomason, the palmist, at
Broadway rooms.
$40 reward for the two bay horses,
about 10 hands high, one weighing
about 900; branded B on right hip.
Other weighing about 100 with black
spot on left hip. Both had on webb
halters. Got away from barn of S.
A. Barnes in Anadaiko, 20 inst. Re-
turn TO W. a. Stephens at Crude Oil
Burner office, doors west of post
office and receive reward. d2t
Suits pressed, SOC. Anadarko
Tailoring Co. Phone 73.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-10-29

any people on earth who persistently
and extensively and aggressively ad-
vertise it is the railroads. They pay
pay regular advertising agents large
salaries to attend to this very thing
and tie proprietor Of every little
crossroads newspaper knows that he
can always get the railroads ad if he
will go after it. Fometimes without
Now what is true of all these is true
of AnadarKo and Anadarko's business
men. Let the people krow rou ar.
here and have what they want and
keep it everlastingly before them.
Take tumble. Mr. Merchant. Get
those old antiquated, out.of date no.
tions out of your cerebrum. Wake up
to the fact that we are in the goth
century and the man that does bus..
ness must advertise The Democrat is
at your service, gentlemen.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-10-29
Notice of Sale

Notice 10 hereby given that the
Separate School building lyirg, being
and situate upon the SW Ia of Sec.
tion ID, Z, 8, will be sold to the
highest bidder for cash in hand on
the 1st day of November 1909, at ]
O'Clock p. m. The board reserves the
right to reject any and all bids.
Attest; C C Fisher
John d Pugh, Chairman
County Clerk. 224 d9t
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-10-29
Sealed Bids
County Clerk

Sealed bids will be received at the
office of the city clerk up to and in
cluding INV. !, 1909, to furnish coal
for city light and water plant for en-
suing year. Bids to be made ou mine
run and slack to be furnished as di-
rected by the mayor and council and
delivered at the plant Successful
bidder to accept city warrants in Fay
ment.
Chad Mcknight,
2S7 dot City Clerk.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-10-29
Suggested by an
Evening in the City


TIE man who does not take much
stock in advertising should open his
eyes. and sit up and take notice.
There are lots of opportunities in this
world for the fellow who is wide
enough awake to see them, but lots
of men 90 through the world missing
q great deal they might have enjoyed
because thew fail to see and profit by
the achievements of those wiser than
they are.
There are three classes of people
who make possibly more money than
anyone off the stock exchange and
mako It more constantly and without
risk of losing it. The first is the
PATENT MEDICINE VENDOR AND
THE QUACK DOCTOR,
II is astonishing how many people
are in correspondence with all sorts
of quacks and charlatans in our larg'
er cities. We mean people who live
in Oklahoma. Yes and in Texas and
Missouri and Arkansas and every
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-10-29
FOR CUTTING FRUIT.

A new fruit cutter sends the fruit
TO the table cut in scallops and is ex-
cellent for canteloupes. oranges. grape
fruit, cucupbers. etc. The fruit IL
pressed on one end OF the cutting
blade and slowly rolled toward the
other end. 1t is distinctly the latest
novelty for serving fruits. while sal
ads served In cucumbers scalloped
lengthwise are most effective and
dainty.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-10-29
For Sale or Rent

One Smith Premier No Type
writer, new. K. X. Robinson.
l63dt q
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-10-29

O P Skaggs, the groceryman at IL,
Broadway, has nice line of hous,
plants in his store window. They are
for sale.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-20
Divorces While You Wait.

Margaret Ellington, wife up to Fri
DAY or Daniel Frohman, is now the
wife Of Mr.. Bowes of Washingtonton.
And Daniel, the first husband. is not
dead. Margaret got divorce from
MIN on Friday, married Bowes on
Saturday. and is far away from the
State Of Nevada. in which she claim
ed citizenship long enough to get
back her maiden name.
Miss Ellington was an actress Of
promise. She became the wife of
Frohman, who starred her in the
Thief" firing of the drudgery of
that nerve-racking play, Miss Hing
ton journeyed from New York to Ne
vada. made application for a divorce.
got 1t and is now another mans wife,
made so by civil Judge.
The whole transaction shows how
rotting to moral sentiment is a stage
career and how Infamous is a State
such as Nevada-that lends itself to
scheme to permit polyandria or DO
iygamy under the form of law.
Margaret Ellington never set foot in
Nevada until a few months ago. She
hired a furnished house there, de-
ciared an intention Of becoming
cltiZen. On the day she became a le-
gal citizen she got her divorce, and
Nevada Will know her no more for
eVer-unless she tires Of husband No.
= and returns for another severance
Of matrimonial bonds.
Several years ago the women OF
America organized and directed
crusade against polygamy among the
Mormons, and they won that fight.
There Is similar work for them to
do in organizing divorce granting and
for uniform marriage laws.-Mephs
Appeal.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-20
OUR PICTURESQUE LANGUAGE.
Enrichment Of American Tongue Re-
fleets National Temperament.

The recent bill passed by the legis-
lature Of the State Of New York to
prevent "joy riding marked a step
in the enrichment of the American
tongue. Curiously enough, it is not
to the cultivated and scholarly, the
thoughtful and the refined that the
vitality Of our speech is due. The
wealth Of the language, as our ma
terial prosperity, comes from below,
declares a writer in Scribner's Maya
zine.
AS people acquire education the
tendency of speech is toward formal
ity, recognized observances, phrases
and expressions that have been
sanctioned and established. 1t is the
lower, busy, uneducated world that
seeks the short cut and uses the most
convenient word-toll at hand. 1t is
from this direction comes the quick
Introduction il o current speech of
figures taken from industrial prog
ress, the inventions, the arts, the
world of affairs, or whatever catches
the public attention. For example,
the electric cars were scarcely run
ming when "off his trolley" was so
neatly descriptive of a certain mental
state that it was put into immediate
commission. "Get on to his curves"
sprang directly from the rooters and
holders down Of the bleaching boards
on the baseball field, who thus brief
ly denominated those incursions into
higher mathematics which baseball
pitchers discovered, to the confusion
Of batsmen and professors. To add
another. it was only few days ago
that our recent attorney general an
nounced his preference for govern
ment by megaphone.'
By their slang you shall know
them. This enrichment of the Amer
lean tongue reflects the national tenn
permanent. 1t is gay, humorous, pos
sibly reckless, but certainly pictur-
esque. and often approaches the
higher realms of poetry and philoso-
ply If it is none of these it does
not survive the state in which it was
porn. Joy riding denoting the
happy insouciance with which the
chauffer in his hours of ease gives
pleasure to his friends by means of
MS employers motor car, and now to
be legally honored, is one of those
expressions. Its buoyancy, as indeed
that of the greater part of our slang.
may be contrasted with the crude
Deastly' and the unmeaning "bally,"
those two Overworked adjectives of
our English cousins. Tribute to
whom tribute is due.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-20

silver trophy was presented by Hon.
James Bryce, British Ambassador to
the United States and one Of Eng
lands most eminent statesmen. He
spoke OF his own knowledge Of Mr..
Poe and declared that no one brings
to the association "a finer literary
sense and ZEAL The production that
won for Mr.. Poe the trophy was his
book entitled "A Southerner In Eu-
rope the second edition of which is
now being rapidly sold. The cup is
known as the William Houston Pat
terson Memorial Cup and was offer
ed by Mrs. Lindsay Patterson, of
Winston-Salem, to be awarded at
each meeting of the Association for
ten successive years, beginning with
October, 1905. In years past it has
been won by such men as Capt. S. A.
Ashe, historian; DR.. Edwin Minis,
professor in Trinity College; DR..
Kemp p. Battle, ex-president of the
State University, and the late John
Charles McNeill. poet and journalist.
"The judges of award were: Presi-
dent of the Literary and Historical
Association of North Carolina, the
occupants Of the Chairs Of English
Literature at the University of North
Carolina, at Davidson College, at
Wake Forest College, and at the State
College Of A. and M. at Raleigh, and
of the Chairs of History at the Uni
versity Of North Carolina and at Trim
ity College,"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-20

sorts of stories calculated to discredit
that told by the agents, and, though
there was prosecution, there was no
conviction. Yet that was the most
glaring case Of smuggling of which
we had knowledge while I was in the
department.
"Parr is now making the mistake
of thinking that because he wasn't
originally assigned to the sugar cases
there was a disposition to favor the
sugar cases, but they were not given
to him. If he had been assigned to
sugar and not to wool, and had sub
sequently found that wool was being
smuggled, he might think that the
delay was designed to favor the wool
men,"
Mr.. Shaw spoke Of the difficulties
in the way Of obtaining convictiors
against offenders.
1T Is seldom" he said, that a gov
ernment employe is crooked, bur they
are in an atmosphere that is un-
friendly to the strict enforcement of
the law."-Baltimore Sun.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-20
OUR PIANO CONTEST.

For tn purpose Of advertising and
stimulating interest In our two news
papers-the Semi Weekly Watchman
and Southron and The Sumter Daily
Item-we have decided to conduct
voting contest and give away as
prizes a s4o0 Piano and two Gold
Watches. The Piano Is a standard
make--the Cote. and Is guaranteed
for ten years. This piano Is now on
display at the Savoy Ice Cream Par
Ior. where II may be seen and tested.
Several competent judges who have
tested II say II Is very fine instru-
mont with a beautiful tone. The two
gold watches will be selected from
the stock OF local jewelers. and the
winners may select any gold watch
sold for $50 by the jewellers from
whom we decide to make the pur-
chase
Pull particulars Of the contest and
the conditions governing 1t are to be
found in the large advertisement on
another page.
Thk $500 voting contest Is the
.reatest subscription contest ever
undertaken In Sumter county and we
feel confident that our readers and
ths public generally will evince a
lively interest In the outcome. 1t Is
In oh he nf q
watchman and Southron should be
particularly interested for the rea-
son that subscribers OF that paper.
who pay by the year. will obtain a
large voting privilege with each pay
ment on subscription account. while
subscribers OF the Daily Item. ninety
per cent. OF whom pay by the week.
will not receive voting ballots for
weekly payments. Read the cond.-
tiops and see how It Is not only pos
sible but probable that subscriber
60 the watchman and Southron will
win the grand prize-the $500 Piano.
But to make sure that there will be a
prize for both town and country can
didates in this contest we are offer
ing the two Gold Watches as second
prizes--one to go to a resident OF
this city and the other to a non-resi'
dent.
These valuable prizes are to be
given away on February 2Sth. and
she winners will be the ones who en-
Ter the contest early and go in with
n determination to win.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-20

Chesterfield. The price to be paid for
the cotton, so the plaintiffs allege.
was 10 cents for middling, and that
at the expiration of the contract the
price was IA 1-2 cents per pound and
that the difference in the price to-
taled $6,l46.S6 on the 800 bales call
ed for in the contract less the amount
delivered for which amount the suit
is brought. The outcome of the case
VIII be watched with much interest
by farmers generally. 1t is known
that some farmers lost by making
contracts before the season opened
as the price Of cotton took a pheno-
menal rise from the start and the
high price was not foreseen.
The complaint of Sprunt G. Son is
in part as follows:
That on the 18th day of Nav.
1909, defendant executed its contract
in writing with the plaintiff, whereby
it sold and undertook and agreed to
deliver TO the plaintiffs between the
18th day of September. 1909. ana the
Slst Of October, 1908, SOC ables OF
middling cotton 10 weigh Eve hun
derd pounds each. 5 per cent more
or less, for which plaintiffs were to
pay the defendant the price of ten
cents per pound for "middling and
Is difference for grades above
American classification"
That the defendant has failed and
refused to comply with its contract
and has delivered thereon only the
amount of five thousand, three hum
dred and sixty-eight pounds of mid
ding cotton, leaving a balance of
one hundred and four thousand, six
hundred and thirty-two pounds un-
delivered, and plaintiffs having con-
tracted and sold the said cotton to
their customers were compelled. in
order to replace the cotton so with
held by the defendant to go upon the
open market after having first de-
manded that defendant deliver the
cotton, and buy said cotton at the
price it was bringing at the close of
said contract, which price was four
yeen and one-fourth IA la cents per
pound at Cheraw, S. c., where the
same was to be delivered; causing the
plaintiffs by their breach of contract
a loss of six Thousand, one hundred
and forty-six and S6-1OO (s6,146.S6)
dollars, which sum has been duly de-
manded of the defendant, and it has
refused to pay the same.
Wherefore plaintiffs demand
judgment against the defendant for
,146.S6."-News and Courier, Nov
13.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-20
Farmers Union News
Practical Thoughts for Practical Farmers
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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-20
Some Random Thoughts.

The clipping about the presenta-
tion TO Editor Poe Of the Patterson
cup In recognition Of the merit of his
little book, "a Southerner in Eu-
rope" Is reproduced that our readers
may know something of the man
who is making the Progressive
Farmer. the leading Southern farm
paper. 1t consists Of IA letters that
he wrote his paper while on a trip
last year..
I tried to secure him to address
the Sumter Farmers Union in July,
but his health would not permit
Have his promise to be with us at
some future time, and If he is as
good a speaker as writer we have
treat in store for some suitable date
next year. when we have crops grow
ing and leisure to properly entertain
him.
The County Union will meet in
Court House on Friday, Dec. 3rd at
10 o'clock a. m. Being the annual
meeting for the election Of officers,
the last meeting at Salem decided
that for once it would be best to
meet in Sumter, where there could
be no excuse for failure to attend. 1
trust to have one or two live uniop
workers from other counties to meet
with us on that occasion and address
the public before the business meet
Ing. hence the hour Of meeting is fix
ed at 10 O'clock.
Directors and stockholders in our
business enterprise should bear in
mind that this is the final meeting
before beginning business. and gov
ern themselves accordingly.
E. w. d.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-20
NECESSITY OF VACCINATION.
State Health Officer Williams Will
Enforce the State Law RigidIy.

State Health Officer, DR.. c. F. Will
liams specially urges vaccination i'm
all parts Of the State at this time. 1t
is particularly important, he says.
that everybody should fortify him
self against danger, as the winter is
setting in, and smallpox is a winter
disease.
There are thirty cases at Ninety
Nine Islands, and one case in New
berry. All of the schools and colleges
throughout the State have been or
dered to have the scholars and teach
ers vaccinated in accordance with the
laws of South Carolina.
City Health officer E. I. Reardon
received yesterday one thousand
tubes of fresh pure glycerinized vac
cine virus from the National Vaccine
and Antitoxin Institute, of Washing-
ton, D. c. He is now prepared to fur
nish vaccine virus to all city physi-
clans, free, as the State board of
health furnishes the health officer
with this virus for free distribution.
Any country schools desiring vac
cine virus will be supplied with same
upon application to DR.. c. F. Will
liams, State health officer, at Colum-
bia. The application should. how
no ma do
physician of the rural neighborhood.
or through the nearest local health
officer, the understanding being that
all unused virus is to be returned to
the State health officer.
Rural school superintendents. trus-
tees, teachers and parents and guar
dians of school children are held
equally as responsible for the vacci-
nation of the children under their
care as those in the Incorporated
cities and towns.
While there is no desire to frighten
people, but merely with a view of i'm
pressing upon every one the impor-
tance of being successfully vaccinated
and revaccinated every six years. it is
stated that smallpox is much more
virulent. and deadly now than it was
in 1898 to 1907, seven out Of ten
cases resulting in death in a recent
outbreak in this State.
The only way to ascertain whether
previous vaccinations are protecting
you against smallpox is by revacci-
nation at least every six years.
The work of vaccination among
the nearly 1900 scholars of the city
schools, white and colored, will be-
gin next week and will continue un-
til every pupil is known to be sue
cessfully vaccinated. The import
ance of rural schools enforcing this
law is stressed by the State and city
health officers, as vaccination to be
successful, as means Of preventing
epidemics Of smallpox should be
widespread.
Lumber mills, factories. and mills
OF all kind should see that their en-
ployees, and their families are all
vaccinated, according to law as the
State health officer is going to en-
force this rule rigidly.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-20
NATION ROBBED HE SAYS.
Former Secretary Shaw Says Customs
Frauds Cost Million. -

Philadelphia Nov 15.-Direct
from one who has held the position
of Secretary of the Treasury and who,
therefore, Is in position to know
whereof he speaks-Leslie NJ. Shaw,
who was in the first Roosevelt cab;-
net--came the declaration today thar
the gross fraud against the Govern
ment in the weighing of dutiable su-
gar is but one instance Of a general
practice.
1t was explicitly stated by Mr..
Shaw that on nearly every commodity
In every port, including PHILADELPHIA,
there is undervalution and under
weighing which defraud the Govern
ment Of million of dollars annually.
Mr.. Shaw said he, had heard the
amount Of this loss estimated at as
high as $100,OOO,OOO per annum,
though he believed this to he an ex-
aggeration. However, he said,
though an estimate Of the extent of
the fraud is impossible that 1t is great
is certain.
1T is impossible" said Mr.. Shaw,
ito estimate the loss of the Govern
ment that results from underweigh-
ing and differentiation. I have
heard 1t stated that the government
loses 800, 100000 a year in this way.
But let me say that these practices
are not confined to New York. They
are relatively just as bad in Philadel-
phia and worse in Boston. It is bad
now, and always will be. It is like
any other tax system; make taxdodg-
ing capital offense and still people
will evade taxes.
There is very marked difference
between evidence that will satisfy the
individual that frauds are being per-
petrated and proofs upon which
conviction can be secured. 1 was con-
vinced early in the game that not
only sugar, but nearly everything else
on which a duty by weight was lev
led, was being underweighed, and that
many things upon which ad valorem
duties were levied were being under
valued. 1 put a new man to work,
and. though we didn't discover fraud,
we likely did prevent 1t. There were,
however, many cases in which we did
proceed, though we did not get the
necessary evidence in the sugar cases.
Mr.. Shaw was led to speak Of Spe-
cial Agent Parr, who unearthed the
sugar frauds.
II remember" he said, that l ap-
pointed Mr.. Parr on Mr.. Loeb's rec
ommendation. The department sent
him to port where, it had been said,
goods were being smuggled. The
agents concealed themselves and
watched bargeload Of wool brought
In at midnight, which was never en-
tered at the custom house. Then the
friends of the importers circulated all
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-20
SUIT ON COTTON CONTRACT.
Case Is OF Interest To Farmers Gen.
orally.

a case growing out of an alleged
contract to deliver cotton, the con-
tract, SO the plaintiffs claim, having
been made last May, the allegation
being that it was not completely car
ried out, has been filed in the United
Staes Circuit Court by the cotton
firm Of Alexander Sprunt & Son
against Hurst-Streator Company, Of
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-20
"A SOUTHERNER IN EUROPE
AWARDED THE TROPHY CUP.
European Travel Letters of Editor
Poe Win Patterson Cup as the Most
Notable Literary Production of the
Year by Any North Carolina Writ
err.

Readers of the Progressive Farmer
N all our territory will be interested
IN the recognition given week before
asst to the book of European travel
letters by the Editor-in- Chief. The
Following statement is from the Fay
ettevlle Index:
"A Chatham County farmer boy,
Clarence H. Poe, was the man who
on last Thursday at the annual meet
ing of the North Carolina Literary
and Historical Association in Raleigh
was awarded the Patterson Cup for
having written the production of
greatest excellence and highest lit
erary skill and genius Of the year.
Standing up before an audience COM
posed of North Carolina's historians,
poets. college professors and leading
Journalists. he had conferred upon
him the highest honors Of the chief
literary authority In the State. The
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-20

FOR SALE-Three nice gifts left, one
pure bred Bershire and two with
trace of Poland China Two or
three cows will be fresh in milk la
ter. Several undressed sleep skins
at a dollar each; about that value
In wool on them. After washing,
fine for bottom of buggy or bedside.
Goat skins soc. E. w. Dabbs, Mayes-
vile, S. c., Nov 4th.