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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-04-06
Carter Delivers
Address to Students

Washington. d. C.. April 6.-Repre-
sentative c. D. Carter, who takes a
deep interest in the education Of the
Indians all over the country, himself
a part Indian went TO Carlisle, where
he delivered short address at the
commencement exercises of the In
dian school at that place. Mr.. Carter
is a member Of the committee on In
dian affairs and is always in close
touch with the school Senator Clapp,
chairman of the Indian affairs com
mittee in the senate. also delivered an
address before the Carlisle school
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-04-06
MiddIeburg News Notes

Middleburg. April 5.--Farmers have
most all finished planting corn, and
some Of it is coming up very nicely.
We have hade a few days Of warm,
balmy spring, but just a little too
windy; however, It has started the
grass and the timbe' to budding.
Bro. Moore Of Whitehead, minister
Of the Christian persuasion, has been
with US and left a regular appointment
for second Sundays.
The church was crowded yesterday
for Sunday school, and preaching. and
an able sermon was preached by Bro.
Jefferson. Services last night were
conducted Bro. Bassmore, who preach
ed good sermon on THE Wages OF
Sin"
A number Of cases Of smallpox are
reported in the neighboring communi-
ties. but there are none in this imme-
diate vicinity.
The merchants all report good
trade Saturday. We have had a pros
peetor or two in town the past week.
The new enterprises that are being
talked Of are a large hotel and an
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-04-06
JUST A FEW BARGAINS

200 acres good farm land IL miles
from good railroad town; 20 acres
bottom land, 60 acres in cultivation:
2-room house; can give possession
now. Price for quick sale. $4,000 Can
make loan Of $4,000 on above.
No. up-to-date Munger system gin
on railroad track in good town; one
half or all. cheap; terms. See about
this at once.
One-fourth block close in, 4-room
house barn, windmill, city water, cleo
trio lights On good terms, $3.50.
FAYETTE COPELAND,
Phone 500 Williams Building
s-5dti
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-04-06
SENATOR GORE WRITES
ABOUT TOWN LOT FUND

During the closing days, however, ]
succeeded in attaching It as an amend
ment to the Indian appropriation bill.
and In that shape 4 was enacted into
law. The people therefore viii soon
be enjoying the benefits Of this law
and the taxpayer will experience the
corresponding lessening on his bur
dens.
Permit me 20 say further that 4 SCI
cured the enactment OF a provision
requiring The survey Of the Washiia
river as far up as NJ View There
Is an Increased interest on the sub
ject OF Improvement Of water ways
and Il the system is 10 be instituted.
Oklahoma must enjoy her full share Of
is advantages.
am happy to have been in situ-
alton to render these services TO your
county and your section and hold my
self at all times subject to the com
mand OF your people
With best wishes. beg 10 remain
Truly your friends.
r. ?. Gore.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-04-06

Have you seen our new hardware
store at Clay Donovan's old stand7
Thos. L. Taylor 5-St
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-01-07

times at home? Do you give them
games to play, books to read, a den in
which to accumulate boyish treasure
a place they can call their own? DO
you try and dress them we'll enough,
so they will not feel ashamed to go out
with other boys well dressed? Do you
teach them good manners at home and
to be polite? Do you teach them to
be kind to one another, kind to dumb
animals, to be thoughtful and consid-
crate of other people? Do you teach
them to be honest and truthful?
In full, do you love them as you
should and teach them to respect and
obey you, or do you push them off
into one corner some out of the way
place, giving them cuff whenever
they make mistakes; deprive them of
good clothes, furnish no amusement to
keep them at home, and letting them
run riot, going and coming as they
please without even an inquiry con-
cerhing them or their whereabouts;
keeping them out of school or permit
ting them to play truant? Parents,
you may ponder well and long over
these things; the responsibility of your
boys conduct rests upon you. AS you
train the vine, so will it grow. 1t is
well that you take notice of your boys.
1t is the highest duty for which you
will have to render account to your
God.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-01-07
SHARP PRACTICE.

There was politics galore in the cleo
ton of speakers in the general assem-
bly, yesterday. 1t was practically ma
chine against machine. 1t was the
purpose of both fractional organizations
OBSCURE caucus control for the further
ance of their ends, but when the men,
bers of one faction, after having signed
the call for a caucus for the expressed
purpose of nominating officers for leg
islative positions, discovered that they
would be in the minority in the demo-
cratic caucus they refused to carry out
the caucus plan, and, joining with re-
publican members, proceeded to organ
ize the houses with republican aid.
Whatever this faction may have charg-
ed of machine methods and work on
the part of its opponents, its action
was not in good faith and was essen
TALLY of that machine character which
makes the end justify the MEANS
Nashville Banner.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-01-07
OUR BOYS.

Who are our boys? Who are I'VE?
Our boys today are we of tomorrow.
Do we fully grasp the meaning and
responsibility of this problem-the
rearing of our boys to become the 1--WE"
of tomorrow?
Let us who have boys ask ourselves
are we doing what we should and all
we can to bring them up to sturdy,
industrious and honest manhood? to
become the future good citizen, for
which we will be proud in our old
age. When we relinquish our hold
upon affairs of business and state, turn
over to them the reins of government
and progress, fitted and capable of
assuming the responsibility, we can
take pride. in the fact of duty well
done. We will have fulfilled one of
the highest missions for which we
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-01-07
In his recent Thanksgiving procl

In his recent Thanksgiving proch-
nation Gov. Patterson said in part:
I'VE have much to be grateful for,
in that our country is at peace with all
the world, is loved at home honored
in every land, and among the nations
OF the earth leads in the upward march
of human progress and enlightenment.
We may also find in the material
condition of our beloved state, solid
growth and safe prosperity, neither
famine nor pestilence among us, but
health and plenty on every side, and
golden opportunities for all who are
willing to SOW that they may gather
the rewards which follow honest toll.
But in the midst of our prosperity
there are clouds which darken the sky
and cast their shadows athwart our
paths. Let us hope that these will
presently pass away, and that the same
divine hand which gathered will scat
ter them again, when the warning has
been taken and all our people learn
again the lesson which some forget,
that in law is our surest hope and that
only in obedience to its eternal COM
mands can we live in social order, en-
during peace and fulfill the high mis-
sion of civilized life Let us so live
that good will and gentle peace may
come down from heaven to bless us all,
that justice shall reign among us, that
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-01-07
COURT At J0NESB0R0
Monday, January 4th, Decides to
Issue $t5O,OO0.OO Good Roads
Bonds for This County.

The county court met at the court
house in Jonesboro on last Monday,
with Chairman $. S. kirkpatrick in
the chair.
The report of the treasurer was read
and showed the county in better fnan-
cial condition than ever before. All
moneys collected and in process of col
lection is more than sufficient to meet
all of the county's Indebtedness and
have small surplus left.
The salary of the county superinten-
dent of education was raised to 800,
and $, A. Estes, the present superin-
tendent, was unanimously reelected.
George &. Sells was reelected county
attorney.
The court voted $50 to supplement
the $50 given by the Carter county
court at the request of the ID. A. r.
Society TO mark historic spot at Syca-
more Shoals. A vote was taken and
carried to submit to the people a prop
osition to vote on Sl5O,000 bond issue
for building pike roads in Wash
Ington county and committee was
appointed to 60 over the county and
map out the roads needing improve
mentS and to submit the plans to the
people before the election, SO as to show
just what roads are proposed to be inn
proved.
! This is a movement in the right di-
rection, and the court deserves much
commentator No county needs good
roads more, and no people will appre-
ciate them more. We predict the bond
issue will carry, for the crying need
comes from all sections for better roads.
No other one thing will do more to
raise the value of our farms and make
money for our farmers
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-01-07

have been called But to be Tecreant
to this sacred duty, to lose sight of this
great responsibility in our desire to
acquire fortune, we become guilty of
crime-a great sin for which we will
surely have to render account.
We are proud of our boys; we love
them all, and although we see them
do many little wrongs, commit mis-
chievous' pranks, yet we know they
have good hearts, bright minds and
are capable of making good men, and
we forgive them their shortcomings.
But it is not in the miSchievouS
FRANKS of the boys wherein lies the
wrong; not so much in the things they
do, but in the doing of them without
friendly advice and counsel and the
restraining hand necessary to show
them how far to go.
We can no more allow our boys a
free hand and full sway in their desire
for adventure and amusement, and en-
pect them to properly conduct them
selves and come through into man.
hood and make good citizens, than we
can expect horse to pull load back
ward.
If the boys 60 wrong the fault is
with the parents and the boys home
environment.
We are moved to these eXhortationS
just now because we see so many boys
who are fast getting into bad habits
and keeping bad company.
Boys, little boys, of young and ten
der years, are seen on the streets both
day and night smoking cigarettes and
using bad language and in bad COM
pany; while Older boys are confirmed
smokers, chewing tobacco, often drunk,
and invariably hanging around pool
rooms and other places of evil resort.
Why have the boys been permitted
to acquire these bad habits and evil
associates, and TO hang around evi!
places and on the street corners?
Whose fault is it, we ask?
To those boys who have parents we
lay the fault at the parents door. TIC
those boys who have no parents the
matter is different and must be han
died differently; and to all we say, d
part or large part is due to our lax
laws or lax officials, if we have sut1i.
Gent laws.
To those parents who have boys LET
us ask : What are you doing toward
counselling your boys and advising
them in the correct way of living
Are you properly looking after them il
the matter of association and habit
Are you doing anything or everything
YOU can to make their home life pleas
ant and attractive? Do you furnish
them amusement and innocent pas
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-01-07

fhe Comet has nothing to say about
the democrats who violated their eau
Gus call, except to endorse as being
true of them just what certain State
wide newspapers and individuals would
have said about the other fellows, had
they acted in such a manner.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-01-07

we be saved from intolerance, dissen-
sions and suspicion and the evils which
flow there to yeX the state and divide
4
the people.
81" Let us pray that mercy will bring
her balm of healing, and bind up the
wounds of bleeding@bearts wherever
they may be, that innocence will not
suffer, that our land be washed of
bloody stains, that we may have faith
and hope and charity and not forget
the Son of God taught that charity is
the greatest of these
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-01-07

The city council should begin the
new year by passing an ordinance pro-
hibiting the sale of fire works, particu-
larly canon crackers, in Johnson City.
Let's protect those who will not take
care of themselves.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-01-07

and age of Frank have been going out
every afternoon after school, where the
railroad is building, and jumping the
construction trains for rides.
Medical attention was promptly Civ
ell and the boy is resting quietly.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-01-07

crushed by being run over by the
"Dinky' train on the G., c. & 0. Ry.,
just southwest of the city, yesterday
afternoon about O'Clock. A crowd of
these small youngsters about the size
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-01-07
A CORRECTION.

The article elsewhere in this issue
relative to the suit of d. II. Willard
against the Employers Indemnity Co.
should have stated that the ex parte
judgment given Willard was later set
aside and the company given time to
answer.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-01-07
THE NEW HORIZON.

Is the name of new monthly jour
nal issued by the students of Milligan
College. Vol. l, No. l, December, is
just now out and is credit to the edit
or, Miss Nellie Snodgrass, assistant ed
itor, Miss Minerva Shelburne, and
business manager Ben H. Taylor and
assistants, Eugene Buck and Lambeth
Hancock.
The journal is printed by The Comet
press and is one of the finest pieces Of
printers art ever published in the city.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-01-07

Juege Beard has decided to remain
on the supreme bench, All right,
Judge
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-01-07
BOY LOSES ARM AND
HAS SKULL CRUSHED

Frank, the oldest son of 7. A. O'Don-
nell, had his right arm cut of and his
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-01-07

PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1909-07-10

upon the community. The speakers
at the recent financial rally which
was held by the circle in the interest
Of foreign missions were the Rev. l..
G. Jordan. corresponding secretary Of
the foreign mission board at Louis
vile. Ky: Revs. Taliaferro. Vaughn
and j. G. Love. pastor OF the above
named church. The needs OF the mis-.
sion fields were so clearly outlined by
these eminent men that the members
Of the missionary circle resolved,
among other things, to thoroughly
equip themselves for their work and
have recently organized a class for
the study OF mission work in relation
to Africa and another class in Bible
study with particular reference to the
home field. The circle has also Joined
the state union missionary conven-
ton Of New Jersey. Miss Mamie C.
Lee. secretary Of the Women's Mis-
sionary circle, Is young woman Of
more than ordinary ability. In whom
the circle fully confdes. In the va
rious departments Of church work
Miss Lee Is always to be seen in the
foremost ranks. She also takes an ac-
tive part In otter organizations and
social circles not connected with the
church, which makes her influence
doubly helpful. Another worker for
the uplift Of the people Of the commu.
nifty is Mrs. Frances Cook, who is the
treasurer Of the circle
Mrs. Cook Is well known and highly
respected by the people. and with her
loyal devotion to the interest Of the
race much good is being accomplished
In quiet way. Miss Louise B. Elliott
is the vice president She says: 81
believe that the message which was
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1909-07-10
Right to Live
Means Growth.
Students at Mlberforce University Hear
Brilliant Educator Tell of the Ethics
Of Life = The Individual and
Society Must Cooperate.

Among the many charming addresses
delivered by eminent educators to the
graduating classes at the various uni
versities, colleges and high schools for
Afro-Americans we select the follow
ing. which was delivered to the stu
dents and graduates of Wilberforce
university, Ohio. at the recent COM
mencement exercises by Professor Will
liam A. Joiner, who is the professor Of
Latin at Howard university, Washing
ton. Professor Joiner said:
Everywhere in the world is going on
fierce and never ending conflict between
two contending forces. the one construc-
tive. tending to build up, to develop to
increase, the other destructive, working
as necessarily to tear down and DESTROY
This implacable contest Is limited neither
in time nor place, but is everywhere eter-
nally existent. Arrayed on the one SIDE
are the elements that make for life and
development, for growth and progress. on
the other. those which terminate in death.
disintegration and decay.
Midway between the two are the ele-
ments OF conservation, Inert and sluggish.
constituting a barrier in the path of ell
ther force. the ever present resistance TO
change.
Viewed from the purely physical side.
this struggle Is interesting and is evident
In the formation. mutation and final de-
struction Of the various land forms which
make up the terrestrial habitat OF man
and Of the myriad of lesser creatures.
The Bible proclaims (Ecclesiastes vii,
1D. THE excellence Of knowledge is that
wisdom giveth life to them that have it."
The purpose Of the present paper is to
investigate few of the simpler condi-
tons upon which the right to live may be
predicated.
The first. last and all absorbing desire
of every living creature under normal
conditions is to live and next to keep on
living.
Life may be thought of and treated as
an Individual existence, thing apart, af-
fecting only Its possessor. Considered in
this form all rights are absolute and un-
related. and Dryden's dictum, "All things
have an equal right to i've" may hold
good. But the individual is far more like
ly to live as part Of a community. and
he must then live in relation to others.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1909-07-10

stantly sending out the Macedonian
cry OF the Apostle Pauls time. Come
over and help usr We must either 20
or send some one In our stead, and TO
that end we must strive diligently"
The Rev. Mr.. Love, pastor OF the
church. is also the organizer and pres
ident OF the missionary board Of the
state. He Is n man well qualified by
experience and education to represent
the great Baptist interest OF New Jer.
sey. He understands Its needs and
knows how TO get the best results un-
der the new organized system Of
operation with the Afro-American
churches OF the state. When Rev. Mr..
Love took charge Of the Union Bap-
fist church at Montclair ten years
ago the membership had dwindled
to mere handful, and the financial
condition OF the church was serious.
Within the past seven years he has
lifted the mortgage, built up the mem
bership 500 strong. improved the prop
erty and given the church an enviable
place among the Baptist brotherhood
Of the state. The women OF the circle
had as their guest and one OF the
speakers Mt the recent reception Mrs.
r. Talbot Of Buffalo. y. Y.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1909-07-10
New Bank Opened at Dallas.

The opening of the Penny Savings
bank at Dallas, Tex. the other day
was an interesting event. The board
of directors had previous to the open
ing day issued invitations to the peo-
pie Of Dallas and vicinity to be pres
ent, and they came in large numbers
Each visitor was requested to register
his name and address In a book which
was provided for that purpose with
out some money and some property
there is but little appreciation for our
people. This is the day Of accumula-
tion." said the directors to the people
The three ranking officers Of the bank
are Dr. G. |. Jackson, president: b. r.
Bluett. cashier. and NJ. G. Cooper. vice
president
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1909-07-10
Political indspen jenee.

There Is growing spirl, Of indc.
pendeDce among the younger element
Of Negroes. which is hopeful sign Of
the future for the Negro politically.
The tendency Of our fathers to pose
as martyrs to the cause Of the g. o. =.
while white demagogues In that party
had working agreements with their
political opponents which enabled
them to swap votes for certain Offices.
using the Negro as n pawn In their
desperate game. will not be 80 pro.
nounced In the future state and ma.
tional campaigns. The young Negro
is going "to play BALI when the
political season opens again. and he
will certainly make some political
leaders sit up and take notice. Ne
groes are slow but apt scholars.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1909-07-10
New Foreign
Mission Circle.
Women Of the Union Baptist Church al
MontcIalr Show Their Faith BY TheIr
WorkS-Rev. J. G. loves
Executive Ability.
By Mis-, LOUISE B. ELLIOTT.

In order that they might do more ef-
fective work for home and foreign
missions the women of the Union Bap-
tist church of Montclair, n. j.. have
organized themselves into a society to
be known as the Women's Missionary
circle and have as their motto THE
World For Christ" Under the leader
ship Of Mrs. Malvina Hampton as
president the circle has built up 4
membership Of nearly hundred loyal
women who are doing splendid
work for the cause Of missions, be-
sides eXerting benefcent influence