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Newport daily independent., 1913-04-11
A Real Road Needed.

a EAtdE IhUdu AHNNhIh-
The story of Newport's neg
lect of an opportunity to secure
the extension Of the Bonneville
Southwestern, now a branch Of
the Frisco, is too we'll known to
need repetition and TOO sore a
subject to be ever referring TO it
unless some good results can
come from the discussion.
With the trade Of the Eastern
half Of Jackson County slipping
away from its rightful and nat
ural metropolis and distributing
center, we have one means left
with us Of bringing to our mar
ket the trade, intercourse and
friendly relations of this impor-
tant section, and that is by
real and permanent public high
way, good for travel the year
round from the eastern border
of Jackson county to this city.
The county will not build this
road, for the road money is
needed in the respective town.
ships. The city would have no
right to build such road and is
not financially able. The way to
build such a road is through an
Improvement district that shall
take in both Newport and
Grubbs and the land upon either
side of the said roadway for
DISTANCE of perhaps three miles,
not Jess than that and perhaps
more. This would need to be a
macadam road for at least parts
of the way if not all. though a
system of drainage and regular
dragging Of the road, might
Tess expensive road feas-
~ible.
To every citizen of Grubbs
with whom we have talked, the
project found favor and enthusi-
astic support. These people are
ready and willing to enlist in
such an enterprise,to tax them
selves to build and maintain
road whereby they may reach
Newport. They prefer to do
business in their own county
seat rather than go to another
city, to which they have easy
and ready access by rail.
This is time of a call to your
public spirit, your business in
terests, your own and our city's
future welfare and growth.
Can't we build this road and pre-
serve unto ourselves and our
successors the trade of that half
of the county, whose reclama-
ton and development is only be
gun?
Why not have a meeting of
our business and professional
men to decide upon some definite
plan of roadway and prepare pc
titions for circulation among the
property owners affected. ask
ing the creation of this improve
ment district. Let's not sleep
on our opportunities, until they
are hopelessly lost
The time of good road build
ing is near at hand even in
Jackson county, where we have
u ~ made a start, The coun-
eeds a system Of permanent
- from border to border, but
Newport daily independent., 1913-04-11
Faith. Hope and Charity

The days of revelation are not
ended.
In the recent floods, as in the
thunders of Sinai, the Almighty
speaks to His people.
In narrow selfishness we be
come pessimistic and rail against
humanity as base and absorbed
in greed. Brotherly love turns
cold and suspicion strangles
sympathy in our souls. Glass ar
rays itself against class, and
Newport daily independent., 1913-04-11

urgent is the New
port-Grubbs road if we are to IN
vite and secure the trade of our
eastern territory.
Newport daily independent., 1913-04-11
.ASHCAKE.
(By James A. Ford.)

ms poem was Wrllleu III C0p-
TENDER 1907, while Ford was
stationed at the navy yard,
Washington, D. C. Knowing
we'll that it was a violation OF
the rules and regulations OF the
y. S. Navy to converse with any
one while on post, except IN the
line of duty, the Marine listen
ed to Dave Ashcake, an old ne
gro working on the dump in tire
S. w. corner of the yard, Iong
enough to catch an idea OF the
subject. After being relieved
from duty he went to his room
and wrote these words in negro
dialect:
Well. yes, sab; dat am comical
name.
1t are so, for a fac
But I lnowed one down in Ferglnyer,
Could "a toted dat on its back.
what wuz it," I'm gwine ter tell yo'
Twas berry long ago:
Twas @ashcake," sab; an all OBJ US
Use ter call 'um jes' "ashcake, .
SO.
Yo' see, sab, my ole marster, he
Wuz powerful wealthy man
Wild mo plantations dan haihs on
yo' haid.
Greet acres of lowground Ian.
Jeems river bottoms, dat use ter
stall
A fo' boss plow, no time;
An he'd knock you down if you jes'
dyared
Ter study bout guano and lime.
De corn use ter stan in de row dat
thick
Yo' jes could follow de balk;
An rank? Well, 'clar' ter de King!
Use seed
Five 'coons up single stalk.
He owned mo- niggers n arr man
Bout dyar, black and bright;
| T. Il fo) do I
He didn't know all by sight
Well, sab, one ebenin' long to'ds dusk,
I seed de marster stan
An watch yaller boy pass de gate
Wild a ashcake in his han
He never had no nanny at all
Leastways, she war dead by
dat
An de cook an de hans bout de place
Use ter see dat de boy KEEP
Well, he trotted long down de PAT
dat night,
An de marster he seed i'm go.
An hollered, "Say boy; say, what's 20
name?
"a Ashcake, sah," says Joe.
1t 'peared to tickle de marster ter def,
An he called i'm up to de do.
"Well, dat is a curisome NAME" says
he.
"But I guess it suits you, sho'" -.
"Whose son are you de marster
axed,
young James," says Joe,
"She's daid."
A sperrit coudden a 'growed mo- pale,
An "My God" I heard him
said
An de marster grieved so bout dat
thing,
1t warn't long, sab, befo' he
died;
An he's sleep way down in Ferginyer,
Not fur from young Ashcake's
side.
Newport daily independent., 1913-04-11
Mississippi Outlook Better.

Memphis, April 10-Optlmlsm
marked the expressions tonight
of those in charge of the battle
to hold the Ievees in the central
section of the Mississippi valley
against the mighty f1ood-swollen
river. Conditions, while still
grave, were generallymore hope
full.
Two gaps in the Ievee near
Wilson, Ark, are serving as out
lets for a great volume of water,
relieving the strain on the en-
bankments south of that point,
and a day of sunshine has had
it's effect both on the bikes and
the spirits of the food fighters.
North of Wilson, at Osceola,
Luxora and Barfield, the situa-
ton still is critical, although not
so desperate as last night. South
of Memphis preparations are be-
ing made for a hard fight near
Helena and in the levee just
north of BeuIah, Miss, the filed
in crevasse of last February has
shown signs of weakening.
At Memphis the river fell IL
feet today, standing tonight at
the high stage of last year, 45.3
feet.
Mound City, north of Mem
phis, which was in danger of
collapse last night, reported ap-
proximately the same fall.
The two breaks near Wilson,
one at the upper end of Golden
Lake and the other at the lower
end near the village of Random
shot, occurred last night. The
first was about 6 o'clock and the
second at midnight. The result
will be a more rapid spread of
the overflow over a somewhat
greater AGRA. Wilson, town of
$50 persons, is flooded to depth
of about three feet. No loss of
life has been reported.
The Randomshot crevasse is
along the same stretch of levee
that gave way during the food
of 1903.
Near Beulah an old levee over
which railroad tracks had been
built to convey material used in
closing the break caused by the
early spring food settled several
feet for distance of about SO
yards. The tracks have been
torn up and large forces are en-
gagged in bolstering up the en-
bankment.
The Mississippi Levee Com
mission met at Greenville today
and authorized the issuance of
S15O,OOO bonds as an emergency
fund, to be used during the high
water fight. Chief Engineer
Shackleford assured the COM
mission that the levees in that
district would be brought to a
height two feet above the high
stages of last year within a few
days.
An Osceola, Ark, dispatch de-
scribes the storm of last night
as the most severe of years at
that point. The levee workers
were driven from the banks by
the washing of water over the
dixie End at Barfeld the waves
carried large timbers over the
embarrassment.
Relief expeditions began the
exploration of the flooded terri
tory about Wilson today. A
number Of refugees were taken |
to Blytheville and from the ter
ritory overlooked by the
Graves bayou break, below Mem I
phis, $50 were brought to this
Newport daily independent., 1913-04-11

When the city cupboard was
bare, we didn't expect much in
the way of streets, but with
money in the bank, why not
have better graded streets and
more uniform, serviceable gut
ters. To properly care for the
surface drainage of this city as
we'll as to provide good streets,
this kind Of work ought not to
be delayed.
Newport daily independent., 1913-04-11

oairyInS IN Sweden.
OWodsn has agricultural socis1
Vhlch assist the dAirying business
a0Dolnttng it1nsran& tsachsrs. gtvl
grants To schools and support TO
k1hSt1ooA
Newport daily independent., 1913-04-11

Friday, April Is is cleanup
day and as a special inducement
for citizens to rid their premises
of rubbish, the Civic Improve
ment League is offering to pro
vide wagons for hauling away
rubbish. This "free horse of
course and ought not to be rid
den to death by citizens who can
afford to pay for such service.
Newport daily independent., 1913-04-11

Make Newport clean and
sanitary city by improving your
own premises and then demand
ing that the proper officials look
after the streets and the alleys.
Newport daily independent., 1913-04-11

Manager Whitson, the very
accommodating manager of the
Southwestern, has placed before
the higher officials of his COM
pany the matter of installing
free telephone in the Iron Noun
tain passenger office, for the
convenience of subscribers. who
wish to ask about the times of
trains. It's a little thing. but
often means a great deal as a
convenience.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-03-27
A PITiABLE SPECTACLE.
Oklahoma City Man Tells Of Smiths
Criticism of Gov. Cruce.

Oklahoma City, Okla, March 25.-
Under glaring headlines across
three columns in republican news
paper which has evidenced great de-
light in playing up his utterances
during the session, Legislator Smith
of PottawatomIe issues four-col-
umn answer" to Governor Cruces
criticisms"
Ye gods and little fishes! What
eternal presumption of the man to
imagine that Governor Cruce singled
him out in his message to the extra
session to CTiticise HIM. Where on
earth did he get the idea and since
when has HE become so important
or achieved such a station on the
horizon of Oklahoma craftsmanship
that anything he might do or leave
undone should call Tor special men
ton in a special message?
In the "tirade' in question Gov
ernor Cruce is charged with most
every crime on the political calendar,
chief of which appears to be that he
favors his political friends
wonder whether a governor is sup
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-03-27

the Catholics made up a large per
cent of the population and his talks
against the priests and sisters, in
variably caused riots and dissentions.
Delaney drifted down in the scale
and during the past five years he has
been preaching in the small towns ii
the southwest.
Delaney according to reports, was
raised in Conshocken, Pa. and later
lie went to St. Charles college at El-
licott, Maryland. He was dismissed
from this college in 1893 and for the
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-03-27
D|SRUP TER Of
CATHOLICS DIES
"REVEREND" DELANEY, WHO
PREACHED AGAINST CATHOLIC
CHURCH, DIES PENNlLESS.

Muskogee, Okla, March 26.-"TMth
is mighty and in the end it Is certain
to prevail | advise Catholics to
pay no attention in the future to Rev.
Delaney. His end is as certain as
there is a God. In a practically new
country where his history is now
known, an in a small place sur
rounded by strangers, penniless and
bereft of friends, he will pass into
eternity and the doctrine of the
church. The gates of hell shall not
prevail against her will be ful-
filled"
This strange and unusual prophecy
made by an American archbishop of
the Roman Catholic church ten years
ago, when a man giving his name as
w. J. Delaney, and who claimed to
be an eXpriest, was preaching
throughout the country and assailing
nuns and priests has been fulfilled
to the letter for in Bokoshe, a small
town in LeFlore county. "Rev. De-
laney" a man known throughout the
entire world PASSED away this week
He died penniIess and alone from spi-
nal meningitis.
The career of REV. Delaney" has
been unusual in the extreme and not
unlike that Of Margaret Shepard who
prospered for years by preaching
against the sisters in the Catholic
church. 'Rev." Delaney" spoke in
the Baptist church at Stigler, last
week aganst the Catholic church
but his remarks were not well re-
ceived.
He left Stigler on Sunday and
went to Bokoshe, where he was sud
denly stricken with spinal meningitis
and on Tuesday he died 1t is un-
derstood he was buried in an un-
known grave for at the time of his
death his earthly possessions con
sisted of forty cents in money.
With the possible exception of
Margaret Shepard, Delaney caused
more controversy from a religious
standpoint than any other persh in
America. Fifteen years ago he was
a sensation in the big cities where
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-03-27

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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-03-27
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A COLO-N0 QJ|N|NE
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COLDS AND GRIPPE IN A FEW
HOURS.

You can surely end Grippe and
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-03-27

Try as you will, after an applica
ton of Danderine, you cannot find a
single trace of dandruff or a loose
or falling hair and your scalp will
not itch. but what will please you
most, will be after a few weeks use
when you will see new hair, fine and
downy at flrst-yes-but really new
hair-growing all over the scalp.
A little Danderine now will imme'
diately double the beauty Of your hair
No difference how dull. faded, brittle
and scraggy, just moisten cloth with
Danderine and carefully draw 1t
through your hair, taking one small
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-03-27

take the trouble to Investigate the
state highway department and its
charges in this matter of taxation you
would suffer your right hand to be
cut off before you would vote for
it's abolishment, if you are sincere
Could any stronger statement be
made to a legislator? made the
same statement to other men WHO
DID investigate and who refused to
vote for the bill.
Mr.. Smith voted for the bill. Con
sistency, thou art a jewel!
And this same Mr.. Smith presumes
to criticize the governor and charge
that Governor Cruce would not do
anything for the working man 1t
makes me sick. 1t must make all
men sick who know Governor Cruce
while those who do not-save by rep
utation-will never be influenced by
such clap-trap.
Oklahoma is getting tired Of poll
ticians who pose as "the peoples
friend" for political favor. This set
ting ones self up as the Moses to
lead the horny-handed son Of toll out
OF the bondage of Egypt has about
played out. Our working men are
nearly able to take care of them
selves. They do not need polite
ian to lead them. They do not ask
it but only a square deal and to be
left alone to work out their own sal
vation They ask reduction of taxes
and by the way, there is a bill re-
ducing taxes under the authorship Of
this critic-they ask decent govern
ment and decent men at the head of
the government.
They know they have it in Gov.
ernor Cruce. Thinly veiled sarcasm
as was used by Mr., Smith about the
governors preachments before
church assemblies" might make a
hit" with a certain kind, but thank
God the vast majority of our people
in this state rejoice and are exceed
ing glad that they have as a chief
executive a man who does not carry
his heart in his sleeve and who is
churchman, a Christian and a man,
and who is not afraid TO look the
whole world in the face and do as his
conscience-rather than political ad-
visers-woul1 direct.
In conclusion | would suggest that
Mr.. Smith gets down to business.
If he is really interested in the wei
fare of the people he will find a
staunch ally in his governor, but he
must not think he can intimidate q
man by grandstand plays to the gal
leries and uncalled-for philipics
through the medium of a hostile
press.
(Signed) A CITIZEN OF
OKLAHOMA CITY
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-03-27

past twenty years he has been preach
ing against the Catholic church. He
was first exposed in Martinsvile, Ind.
on August 20, 1902 when the Baptist
district council preferred charges
against him and he was forced to re-
sign his pastorate.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-03-27
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Get a 25 cent bottle Of Knowlton's
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toilet counter, and prove to yourself
tonight-now-that your hair Is as
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been neglected or injured by careless
treatment-that's all.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-03-27

Then the governor is asked why
he does not discharge" certain Of
ficials turned down by the senate,
cts ! am not going to comment on
that phase because | am not familiar
with the merits of the cases. ! ven
ture to assert, however, that the gov
ernor has good and sufficient reasons
for his actions.
Here however we come to the
milk in the cocoanut." "My opin-
ion was, is now, that the governor
would sign little legislation in the
interest of the working man. says Mr..
Smith.
Mr. Smith has posed as TIE mentor
of the working men. He has faith
cred bills which have been introduc-
ed in which it has been alleged they
were In the interest of the working
man" The governor vetoed one of
these bills-namely, the railroad hos
pital bill.
There is no man in the state today
who has been more consistent and
insistent for proper treatment from
the corporations than |. For twenty
years my pen has been welded and
my voice raised against encroach-
ment by the rich and powerful. AT
| times | have been charged with be
ing socialist" ! have never, however
/ asked for the working man more than
/ he was entitled to and never asked
for more than our pound OF flesh.
| did not see hundreds of railroad
men asking for this hospital bill tc
be passed / at all times doubted
the wisdom of it and when | found
that the lobby for it vas confined
10 practically one or two mdividuals
decided that railroad men did not
care anything about it. But Gov
ernor Cruce is to be charged as "do
ing nothing for the working men
because he vetoed this bill.
Now, 1t us take look at the other
side of the question. Let us turn the
searchlght on this critic, this man
who poses as the friend of the poor
clean politics, for decent officials
etc, and see how consistent he has
been in his legislative work.
One of the first bills to be intro
Iuced in the legislature Was that
to abolish the state highway depart.
nent.
This bill was probably introduced
in good faith by the author from
Garfield county but nevertheless was
the result of a systematic canvass
and a campaign on the part Of the
tin bridge trust and the steel trust
extending over eighteen months or
since fifty days after the state high
way department commenced war on
inferior bridges and culverts.
WHAT DID THIS WATCHDOG OF
THE COMMON PEOPLES INTER
ESTS DO IN THIS PARTICULAR?
Did lie investigate? No.
Did he read the report Of the hiSh-
way department which was placed
on his desk? No.
Did he take the trouble to find
out whether or not this greatest oc-
topus of the nation, the steel trust,
was responsible for this sentiment
against the highway department? No
Did he make the slightest attempt
to investigate whether or not the
charge made by the highway depart
ment that this steel trust was eating
more than TWO MILLIONS or DOL
LARS EACH YEAR FROM THE
TAXPAYERS WITHOUT GIVING
FAIR VALUE FOR THE MONEY?
No.
l personally went to see Mr.. Smith
of Pottawatomie and asked him if
lie had investigated this matter He
said NO.
I personally made this statement
to him: "Mr. Smith, if you would
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-03-27

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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-03-27

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stops chronic and hacking cough, re-
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Take no other; once used, always
used. Buy it at Ringer Drug Co.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-08-07
The Negro Lost Out: A Full
blOOded Indian Gets the Job.

& UGH great cutlery was made against the
- appointment of the negro, Patterson,
to be Registrar of the Treasury that our
President-whose name, you know, is Wilson
backed down.
The spirit was willing, but the flesh was
weak.
So Patterson will not have to sign Uncle
Sans notes to make them good.
With great mOdestv Patterson compared
himself to Christ who also, was victim of
persecution.
[ haven't doubt that Senator Gore and
President Wilson will provide for Patterson,
and that in the long run, he will wind up
with a nice roost on tho payroll.
In the meantime, the plum that Patterson
lost goes to copper colored person, named
Gabe Turner, said to be sure-enough Indian
not half-breed. or a squaw-man, Or a
Buffalo Bill fake, nor a Cigar-store sign, but
a real live In un
All right. If we aC0n't have a niger, and
can't have white man, give us Lo, the Poor
Indian.
A good many people are saying that the
President did not know that he was trying
to give one of the very best Washington jobs
to a negro. We have long since learned, to
our sorrow, that a good many people say
good many things
If you will, kindly pass the grape juice,
we will drop the subject.
This much [ wW say, however, before the
benedicton:
Meg the time come aOhen every Y. s. SOL
der, sailor, Of5ce-hOId and V0ter WILL BE
Il WHITE PERSON! Selah.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-08-07
The Death of Judge Sam w. Will
liamS, of VincenneS, Indiana.

A TELEGRAM received at Thomson on
"A Tuesday morning, August 9Th, 1913,
announces the death of the able jurist and
pure man who was the war-horse of Popu-
ism in Indiana. AS yet, have not received
any particulars, and l presume died sud-
denly. Letters passed between us, some weeks
ago, and there was no intimation that the
Judge was not in his usual good health.
The survivors of the Peoples Party will
be sorry to learn that another of our heroes
has crossed over the River They will unite
with me in the fervent hope that he may rest
under the shade of the trees
No better man had gone before; no better
man waits to follow.