The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-20
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Never again will a leading real es'
| tate dealer and money lender of this
city have faith in blue overalls, dirty
| hands, seraphic smile and plaus-
ible story of two good teams of work
stock and one hundred acres of cot
ton
Yesterday while the sun was shin
ing down in its most brilliant brillian-
cy, while the cotton seed already in
the ground We're turning over and
over in an effort to break through to
the light of a new life and while the
mules of the Carter county farmers
were braying sweet anthems of praise
to the divine power which made 1t
possible for them to live in this sec
ton of the twentieth century Garden
of Eden, a man entered the innermost
sanctuary of the sanctum sanctorum
of an Ardmore gentleman of means,
who is wont to furnish those mea'ts
to farmers at reasonable rental per
dollar. Now this man was a young
man, and he bore all the earmarks
of a horny-handed tiller of the soil
His overalls were covered with dust
from the fields; he had grease spots
between the shoulders of the jumper
which covered the upper sections of
his anatomy; brogans adorned his
trilbys and stray hairs peeped through
the crown of his battered white Stet-
son. His hands seemed to have been
long unacquainted with water and
were hard and calloused. How was
the money broker 20 know that the
callouses were caused by contact with
a shovel used on the county roads
how was he to know that the grease
spots on his jumper came from the
cogs of the county's road grader?
The echo answers the echo in ask
ing: "How?"
Well to make long story short the |
young man stated that he was the |
owner in fee simple of one span of |
good mules and of one span of good |
work horses, both spans sound men |
tally, physically and otherwise. In |
addition to this he stated that he had |
acquired through long and honest toll |
one hundred acres of cotton. He !
would need some money to bring this |
cotton through the gentle days of |
its infancy. How much? Oh, about |
five hundred dollars in United States |
currency. But he did not want all |
this wealth in one bundle. He would |
take one hundred and fifty now and |
the balance when the Bermuda grass
fought with the hoe for supremacy
in the rows of growing cotton. Would |
the money loaner make the loan? Meh
we guess he would. Notes were
drawn up, mortgages signed and the
little paper Williams fell with a thud
to the bottom of the yCrng mans off
pocket Soon a bunch of it was plac-
ed in circulation in the hurrah line.
Later another bunch was deposited
with the Ardmore police for fractur-
ing the rules of morality which gov
ern the city. Still later the lender
OF coin to the sweatv sons of the |
cotton fields received a tip that AL |
was not well. In fact his tip lacked |
so much of indicating that all was VOL, |
tha tthe lender has been feeling far
from well ever since he received the
tip and followed it up with ensuing
Investigations. The investigations re-
suited in impressing it upon the mind
of the money broker that his eXper-
ience account needed credting At
the same time it resulted i'm placing
The young man in the care and father
" custody of Sheriff Garrett with a
siege in the castle at McAlester star
ng him in the face. And now one
horc man thinks appearances are
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