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Barbour County index., 1910-01-12
Deputy County Assessors.

County Clerk Ireland is now
county assessor ex- off1cio under an
amendment to the tax law made by
the legislature year ago. County
Assessor Bailey's term expired on
Monday, and the new law provides
that in the smaller counties the
county clerk shall act as co unity
assessor. The trustee of each town
ship becomes deputy assessor for
such township and it is made the
duty of the county clerk, as county
assessor, to appoint the trustees and
no other persons.
The deputy assessors of the diff
ferent townships are as follows, anc
the formal notification of their ap-
pointment as assessors will proba
bly, go forward to them this week
w. L. Wells. Aetna
T. N. Cunningham. Cedar.
Geo. Larkin. Deerhead.
]. NJ Williams. Eagle.
A. B. Jarvis. Elwood.
| T. B. Kinkaid. Elm Mills.
W. R. Kincaid. Hazelton.
| j. s. Vanhook. kiowa.
| A Hef1in. Lake City.
J. H. Mckenzie, McAdoo.
| J. W. Brown. Medicine Lodge.
F. B. Nurse, Mingona.
Geo. Landis. Moore.
| Clarence Martin. Nippawalla.
]. r. Dunkin. Sharon.
| Homer Hastings, Sun City.
r. L. Kennedy. Turkey Creek
Mart Reessler. Valley.
Barbour County index., 1910-01-12
Skinner VS.. Gibson

H. w. Skinner of this city filed
a suit for damage in the sum of
$S.oI3.I5 against w. P. Gibson of
Elm Mills township last Friday.
The suit involves a large land
lease. Mr.. Skinner leased three
pastures from Mr.. Gibson in Feb
ruary, 1909 at $4,000 per year, the
lease to expire December I, 1911.
He alleges that the defendant rep
resented to him that the pastures
contained $3.50 acres and upon
that representation he put o73 head
OF cattle on the range in the spring;
that by reason of the shortage of
grass he was compelled to remove
517 head of cattle to other pastures
in the summer time which resulted
in great loss and expense. He sets
up a claim that the pastures so
leased did not contain over $500
acres but that he did not learn this
until near the close of the pasture
season. Another allegation is that
the defendant was to keep up the
fences which he failed to do,and the
plaintiff was compelled to employ
a man to do it, that by reason of
broken fences some of the cattle
got into adjoining crops which re-
suited in the plaintiffs having to
pay damage bill and that one
steer died from eating too much
green cane and kaffir corn,
The final allegation is that the
cattle had skrinked very much by
reason of the shortage of acres in
the pasture and the items, all foot
ed up, amount to the sum above
noted.
Mr.. Gibson, we understand, de-
nies all of the material allegations
upon which the suit is based but
he has not yet made answer.
Noble g. Tincher represent Mr..
Skinner. Mr.. Gibson has not YET
retained counsel but it is said that
he will be in the fight to win al
the proper time.
Neither of these men is known
as gutter and both are well Sup
piled with the "long green. TT
looks like "war to the hilt."
Last Thursday, January 9th, L
B. Hill of Kiowa, filed a suit fol
$1,000 against The Shawnee Fire
Insurance Company of Topeka
The plaintiff alleges that the de,
fendant company insured a barr
belonging to her and that it wa:
destroyed by fire last September
Barbour County index., 1910-01-12

P. B. Band of Bluff City arrived
last Wednesday to visit with w. T.
Collins and other old friends. His
sister, Miss Rhilda Bond, joined
him here on Sunday and they will
return home probably today.
Barbour County index., 1910-01-12

Dr.Hardin GilbertTeturned home
from his trip to Grayson, Kentucky
on Saturday. He left his father
slightly improved but far from
we'll.
Barbour County index., 1910-01-12
Notice

If the holder of tax receipt num-
Der 23Io will present it at this Of
fee, there is a dollar owing him.
r. l.. GRoENDYCKE,
County Treasurer.
Barbour County index., 1910-01-12
Where the Money Goes

frequently, after man relieves
himself of his cash at the county
treasurer's Office, he expresses a
desire to know what becomes of
the money, and to those who in
quire, the following figures which
have been obtained through the
courtesy of County Treasurer
Groendycke, will be of interest, as
representing the amount of money
drawn from the treasury of Barber
county by the state, county, town.
ships, cities and school districts to
defray the expenses of the different
departments of local government
during the year:
OIate. ........... p p, IO2. .O7
COUNTY FUNDS
County General. ...... 35,363.3o
County Interest. ........ I3,26I.27
County Sinking. . =. 8,84o.85
County High School (two) 5,3o4. SO
Townships. ps............... 26,637.63
Cities. .......... I8,269.29
School Districts. -. -. 59,I4I.38
Total. ......... I92,456.72
There are eighteen townships,
seventy-five districts maintaining
schools and five Incorporated cities
in the county.
Barbour County index., 1910-01-12
County Business

The county commissi oners COM
pleted the business of the session
and adjourned last Thursday:
The bulk of the business was
granting certificates of error and
in majority of cases the errors
arose on account of parties being
assessed in cities when they should
have been assessed in townships.
Aside from the allowance of
quarterly bills, the following orders
were made:
NJ. Fordyce was granted certif-
icate of error on account of errone-
Gus assessment on four lots in Kio-
wa.
The road petitioned for by E. F.
Mathews in Hazelton township was
ordered established.
Bondsand coupons in the amount
of $7,48o, we're destroyed, having
been taken up by the county
treasurer.
G. A. Bucklin was granted a
certificate of error on a valuation
of $500 in Medicine Ledge, two
lots, no Improvements having bee n
made prior to March Ist.
An unclaimed warrant of $500
drawn in favor of Mingo Porter,
was destroyed, having remained in
the clerks Office the statutory limit
three years.
w. F. Lindner, Sharon, was given
a certificate of error on valuation
of $3.50, no Improvements having
been made on lot at time of assess
ment.
{. A. Lawry was granted certif-
icate of error on a valuation of
$52o, having been assessed in
Medicine Lodge City instead OF
the township.
]. F. Vanhook was granted a
certificate of error on a valuation
of $I74o, on account of being
assessed in Kiowa City instead oi
the township.
The A. T. & S. F. was granted a
certificate of error for $751.86, on
account of error in levy in Medicine
Lodge City and excessive levy in
general and poor funds in county
Ed. H. Smith was granted a
certificate of error on a valuation
of $4,000 on account of property
being assessed in Kiowa city in.
stead of the township.
A. E. Grouse of Kiowa was
granted a certificate of error or
valuation of 5000 for the reason
that no reductions or offsets were
made for debts. Mr.. Grouse made
the proper showing.
A. Garland was granted a certifi.
cate of error on a valuation of $8,.
100, being assessed in Kiowa city
instead of the township.
|
w. H. Holmes, publisher of the
Isabel Herald, was granted a certih
cate of errcr on 5000 valuation or
account of an error in assessment
Mr.. Holmes was valued 5000 toe
high,
E. Kicks was granted a certih
cate of error on $27o, Aetna town
ship, on account of double assess
ment.
w. E. Clark of Valley township
was granted a certificate of erro
for $53. Io on account of double as
sessment.
w. F. Schmidt was granted 4;
certificate of error, Medicine Lodg
township, on valuation of S So
on accountof erroneous assessment
1t was ordered that Geo. S. Ora
ham be allowed to redeem the v
ne & W Sc 26- 34-II for fiat ia.
without interest or penalty on &C
count of error of former treasurer
Katie Johnson of Kiowa was Civ
en- certificate of error for $17.8
on account of double assessment.
> The road petitioned for by F. c
Stone and others between Medicin
Barbour County index., 1910-01-12

Chas. Marsh of Lake City was
looking after business in the city
between trains on Monday.
Barbour County index., 1910-01-12

Homer Hastings who has been
visiting at Canadian, Texes, the
past month, returned to his home
at Sun City this week.
Barbour County index., 1910-01-12

"Hello-yes this is No." "No,
they're not married" Now will you
be satisfied?
Barbour County index., 1910-01-12

Fish, Oysters and Celery at
Cole g. Sons meat market on Fri
day.
You'll like it-you can't help it
"The Girl and the Gawk." Tomor-
row night.
"The Village Singers" at the
opera house Friday night of this
week. This is the most expensive
number on the Lecture Course.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-21
To Destroy Moles.

Messrs. Editors: To kill moles get
few peanuts-as many as needed
and shell them. In the soft end of
each kernel prick out small open
ing and in this insert about as much
strychnine as the size Of half field
pea. Stop up the hole with a crumb
of bread. Now find where the mole
had last been working, and put q
kernel in the run. Just punch a hole
with your finger in the run, drop in
the peanut, and cover with chip or
piece of bark. Don't mash down the
run where you put in the peanut. but
on both sides. q foot or two on
on both sides. press it down with the
foot SO you can tell IL the mole has
been along. Next day visit the place
and II you discover that the mashed
places have been raised again, either
on one side or both. or where you
put the peanut. you may be sure it's
your mole.
!. l once had a small strawberry
patch infested with moles-every row
seemed to be hollow-and I put q
peanut in nearly every row. and got
every mole. I tried poisoned pieces
of potatoes. poisoned corn and va
rious other things. but nothing did
away with the moles till I tried the
peanuts. M. L. GUYTON.
Rocky Point, N. c.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-21
X FRUIT, TRUCK AND VEGETABLES :

may be treated in the same way as
crimson clover. The seed are sown
IN August or September and the cron
worked into the soil in the spring.
II crimson clover or hairy yetch ia
to be planted on land where neither
OF these crops has grown before. it
Will be necessary to inoculate the
field by securing soil from land where
vetch and clover have previously
grown. This soil may be scattered
over the land in the same way as fer
tilizer, Immediately after sowing the
seed, and then mixed with the soil
and seed by means of tooth harrow.
Wheat. oats. and barley make
good cover crops, but they do not
thrive on poor land as we'll as rye.
In no case should grain be allowed
to mature in the orchard as it would
rob the trees of moisture and plant
food at the very time they need them
most.-Press Bulletin. South Caro-
lima Experiment Station.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-21
Use the Weeder Right Now.

Messrs. Editors: Please allow me
space in your paper to suggest to the
Farmer Family that the weeder Is
the best farm tool that can be used
just now. With frequent and con-
tinual use of the weeder all grass
and weeds can be destroyed. l have
one 2O-acre corn patch that is clear OF
grass and weeds that have only cul-
tivated three times with the weeder.
Will run weeder over corn one or two
more times, then will finish with my
Planet Jr. cultivator. which l con-
slider the best cultivator ever made
for all purposes.
The trouble with most farmers is
that they do not prepare for the
weeder, therefore they can't use It,
| break my land early. as well as
can with two-horse plows, follow
with smoothing harrow. In Is or ~
DAYS. owing to the condition OF the
weather, put my 20-inch disk har-
row at work, followed by the smooth
ing harrow again. In this way l
thoroughly pulverize my lands be-
fore planting, as we'll as cut all veg
etable matters up so they are not IN
the way of cultivating the crop. but
are of real value to the growing
crops. Think l shall use disk pillow
next winter for breaking land.
/ With the disk or two-horse plow'
disk and smoothing harrow the
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-21

"eeder. good cultivator. some LOO
pound mules. Q combination planter
OF good quality. herd of Berkshire
swine. some pure-brsd poultry, with
milk and butter for family use and
some to spare. and The Progressive
Farmer and Gazette as his guide.
tnere is nothing to hinder the South
ern farmer from accommodating a sur
plus. We Southern farmers ought
not to have to buy any provisions or
feed-stuffs Of any kind at all, but
have some to sell every month in the
year. w. A. SHACKLEFORD.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-21

under boil weevil conditions. The
principal lesson, think, should be
the determination of every farmer
to save hereafter until after May 1st.
double as many good cotton seed as
he is likely to need for a single plant
ing OF his crop, instead of risking
the pains, expense and final disap-
pointment of planting high-priced
seed OF poor terminating capacity.
Only the harvest season can re-
veal the extent Of the loss due to the
use this year OF inferior seed for the
second planting. 80
!. r. DrTCqAR
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-21
INJURY TO COTTON BY LATE
FROSTS.

Professor Duggar Reports on Oondi-
lions In Alabama-SOme Lessons |
to BE Learned From This Season. |
Messrs. Editors: The heavy frostsA
of April oath and 26th, brought great
loss to the South. The principal |
damage in the Cotton Belt has been
to cotton itself. In some localities
where a considerable proportion of
the young cotton was killed. beans.
Irish potatoes. and even tomatoes es-
capped without injury. Corn, while at
first severely set back, has almost in
variably survived and only awaits
rain to regain it's former condition. IT
suffered worse where the land had
recently been cultivated.
In a trip through central Alabama.
the writer made an effort to learn
the extent to which in different
neighborhoods it was necessary to
pillow up the frosted cotton. This
was only about two days after the
last killing frost. at which time, of
course, final and positive judgment
could not be made. AS conditions
then appeared, the prospects were
not nearly so gloomy as might have
been inferred from press reports w
to that date. For example. on twt
plantations where the first expecta
ton was that about half the cottol
acreage would need to be plowed up
10 or IL per cent Of the total ares
was found to be more accurate. Yet
on one Of these plantations. with stin
prairie soil. there were single tenant
farms where about one-third Of the
cotton acreage had to be planted
again. A suficiency Of seed seemed
to be available in most neighbor-
hoods, but the price. IS cents to 81
per bushel. worked q hardship.
OF course by the time this is in
print the true extent Of the damage
can be more accurately estimated.
Weather conditions were favor
able to recovery in the first week
after the frost. First, there were
two cloudy days. followed by fair and
war}i weather, which prevented an
extension of the injury to the root
system and helped to bring up those
seed which were delayed in germi-
mating. However, fair and dry |
weather continued too long. baking |
the land and causing unthrifty plants |
to die. Ten days after the frost
found a large part of the cotton of
north central Alabama planted over
and the country in need of rain.
Can we learn any lessons from the |
freeze? Certainly hasty conclusion
should not be formed unfavorable to
moderately early planting, especially
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-21

J. F.. DUGGAR.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-09-03
GOOD WORK IS PROGRESSING
Women in Every State Ioin Earnestly
in Campaign Against Tu-
berculosis.

Four years ago the only active WOm-
en- workers in the anti-tuberCulOsis
movement were a little group of about
30 wOmcn's clubs. Today 100000
women. under the United States, are
banded together against this disease,
and more than 1000 clubs are taking
a special interest in the crusade. Not
less than $500. 600 is raised annually
by them for tuberculosis work, be.
sides millions that are secured through
their efforts in state and municipal
appropriations. Mrs. Rufus =. vii.
liams is the chairman of the depart.
ment that directs this work. In ad.
ditiOn to the work of the General Fed.
GRAFTON of WOmen's Clubs, the Public
Health Education committee of the
American Medical association, com.
posed largely of women physicians,
has carried on an educational cam
raign of lectures during the past year
in which thousands have been reach
ed. The Mothers congress, the Young
WOmcn'S Christian association, and
many unattached clubs bring the mum.
Der Of women united in the tubercuio-
sis war to we'll Owe a million. There
IS not a state in the union where some
work has not been done.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-09-03
NO CHANCE TO GO WRONG
Statement of Beauty Doctor May
Have Been True, but 1t was
Not Gallant.

William F. Oldham, bishop of Sing.
apore, talked at a dinner, on his last
visit to New York, about missionary
work.
"A certain type Of man. he said,
goes about declaring that we dom
inant races c"ivilize the savage out OF
existence-that We do them harm In
stead Of good.
We'll, as a matter Of fact, If these
cavaliers knew what | know about
some tribes. they would speak less
confidently. Some tribes are so de-
based that to do them anything but
good would hardly be possible. They
are, in fact, just like the ugly wom-
an who visited the beauty doctor.
~This woman was ugly in every fea-
tUre, but her nose was particularly
ugly. That, no doubt, was why she
desired the beauty doctor to begin
on 1t.
"I am wiling she said, to pay
you literally. doctor. but | demand IN
return substantial results. We Will
start with my nose. Can you guar
antee to make it ideally beautiful?'
1.-THE doctor, after looking attentive
ly at the woman's nose, replied:
"'Well, madam, I cant say as to
ideal beauty, but a los like yours I
couldn't help improving If | hit with
a mallet.'"
Lower coast gazette., 1910-09-03
IN AGONY WITH ECZEMA

mo tongue can tell how I suffered
for five years with itching and bleed
ing czema, until | was cured by the
Cuticura Remedies, and | am so CRATE
full | want the world to know, for
what helped me will help others. My
body and face were covered with
sores. One day it would seem to be
better, and then break out again with
the most terrible pain and Itching. |
have been sick several times, but
never in my life did | experience such
awful suffering as with this eczema. l
had made up my mind that death was
near at hand, and | longed for that
time when | would be at rest. | had
tried many different doctors and mcfi-
cincs without success. and my mother
brought me the Cuticura Remedies, In
sistins that | try them. | began to
feel better after the first bath with
Cuticura Soap, and one application OF
Cuticura Ointment.
81 continued with the Cutlcura Soap
and Cuticura Ointment. and have
taken four bottles Of Cuticura Resoly-
ent, and consider myself Well. This
was nine years ago and | have had
no return of the trouble since. Any
person having any doubt about this
wonderful cure by the Cuticura Rene
dies can write to my address. Mrs.
Attic Etson, 90 Inn Road, Battle Creek,
Mich, Oct. IS, 1909
Lower coast gazette., 1910-09-03
Why He Was Sorry.

To impress on young children just
what should and what should not be
done and why. is among the most try
ing problems of parents, as evidenced
by the recent experience OF a West
Philadelphia mother. Last Sunday
she asked her small son, aged eight, to
carry a chair for her from the dining
room to the parlor. He started off
willingly, but in the hall he tripped
and fell. Amid the crash could be
heard the boy giving vent to utter
ances that would have done credit to
a pirate Of ancient days. The mother
was taken by surprise and was greatly
shocked. She gave the boy a long
and serious talk on the subject of pro-
family. This apparently did not make
the right impression. for when she
concluded the boy added to her dis
comfiture by exclaiming, Il an sorry
I swore, mamma, but l forgot It was
Sunday"
Lower coast gazette., 1910-09-03
THE BLIND SENATOR
Marvellous Career Of Thomas P,
Gore of Oklahoma.
How He Won His Fight Against Pow
erty and Adversely, and Achieved
His Early Ambitions in Spite
of Obstacles.

Oklahoma City, Okla.-No man IN
public life today has had a more re-
markable career than Senator Thomas
Pryor Gore Of Oklahoma, whose
charges of attempted bribery in n
neCtiOn with the sale of Indian lands
stirred the country and brought about
investigation by a congressional com
mittee. Marvellous almost beyond be-
lief were the struggles Of this blind
man-blind from early youth-to
reach the great goal Of his ambition
a seat in the senate of the United
States.
Senator Gore was born on a farm in
Mississippi in 1870, later being tak"n
TO the village of Walthall, when the
latter was created. At the aye of eight
one of his eyes was jahbed out by a
playmate. Bat he still had one good
eye left and his grief was forgotten
when some friends told him II day
that he mad been appointed a page IN
the Mississippi legislature. This career
was, however, ended three years after
the first accident by a fate so cruel
and unusual that ii would have crushed
the spirit OF n~incty.nine boys out OF
any hundred in the land. While eX.
p~crimenting with a toy c~rOss-bOW, he
himself shot out his remaining eye.
He was now totally blind. and had
to give up lis ~pageship. For the next
five years his chief diversion was to
hear his sister and mother read to
him. Then a normal school was opened
at his home town, and he entered, his
lessons being read to him at home and
by his sChOOlmates.
A debating society was organized IN
this school and the blind boy joined
and displayed a wonderful aptitude
for debate. One day a companion
found an old volume of the Congress
sional Record. Going to an old stable
the companion would read to him the
speeches of the lawmakers at Wash
ingtOn and then there entered Cores
Lower coast gazette., 1910-09-03
LACK OF MONEY
Was a Godsend in This Case.

It is not always that a lack Of
money Is a benefit.
A lady of Green Forest, Ark, owes
her health to the fact that she could
not pay in advance the fee demand
ed by a specialist to treat her for
stomach trouble. In telling Of her
case she says:
81 had been treated by four differ
ent physicians during 10 years Of
stomach trouble. Lately called on
another who told me he could not cure
me; that | had neuralgia of the stom-
ach. Then I went to a specialist who
told me | had catarrh of the stomach
and said he could cure me in four
months but would have to have his
money down. | could not raise the
necessary sum and in my extremity I
was led to quit coffee and try Postum.
80 l stopped coffee and gave Post
UNI a thorough trial and the results
have been magical. l now sleep we'll
at night, something l had not done
for a long time; the pain in my stom-
ach is gone and I am a different
woman.
81 dreaded to quit coffee, because
every time had tried to stop it I SUI
fered from severe headaches, SO I con
tinued to drink it although l had rea'
son to believe it was injurious to me,
and was the cause of my stomach
trouble and extreme nervousness. But
when l had Postum to SHIFT to it was
different.
ITO my surprise l did not miss COT
fee when | began to drink Postum.
Coffee had been steadily and sure
ly killing me and l didn't fully realize
what was doing it until l quit and
changed to Postum"
Ever read the above letter! A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true. and full Of human
interest,