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Patriotic Speeches Ended
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LThe barbecue at the Western
Asylum this year on the 4th was the
plcasahtest of the entire series The
51 weather was ideal and the number
Wm of guests was largerthan usual AU
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HON JOHN FELAND
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nfeted them to be out of the institu
tion were grouped in the shady
ry grounds and were all served picnic
fashion The officers and their guests
ate later at a long table prepared
under a majestic sycamore by the
side of the brook that runs through
h grounds Dr and Mrs Milton
Lard Dr Alex Bailey acting su
perintendent Dr Joe Ferguson Dr
JUDGE J T HANBERY
Florence Meder and other officials
were indefatigable in their attentions
to the guests and made everyone feel
at home The dinner consisted of
barbecued lamb and shoat fried
chicken salads pickles olivescoffee i
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and cakes and ices of all kinds It
was served on woodari trays until
eyary guest was more than satisfied
The new Pembroke band discours
ed stirring music at internals
throughout the day and the young
nqpfdo played tennis fthd enjoyed
itliQrhsolves in other Vtys After
dinner a number of tha Visitors wereI
called upon arid made impromptu
fourthofJuly orations Among
these were County Attorney J C
I Duffy Attorney Jp n Feland Col
Jouett Henry and Judge J T Han
bery Their patriotic efforts elicited
loud applause Mr Feland dealt i n
humor and satire and defended
theparty from a Republican stand
point creating much amusement
HOPKINSVILLE DOCTOR
Files a Petition in Bankrupt
cy in Circuit Court
Dr William Moore Leverett a
colored physician of Hopkinsville I
filed a petition in bankruptcy with
Deputy Clerk Dudley Lindsey says
the Owensbo1o Messenger The pe
tition is unusual in that it sets forth
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the names of only ten creditors and
was evidently forced by 500
a judg
ment in the Christian circuit court
rendered against Dr Leverett in
favor of Annie Bell Phelps an in
fant The largest indebtedness is to
i the Planters Bank and Trust Com
pany of Hopkinsville for 1100
The unsecured liabilities amount to
55045 including the 500 judg
ment and attorneys fees The judg
ment bears interest from June 14
1906 The assets are a 1100 house
andlot and household goods valued at
36550 After the mortgage is set
tled all of theproperty is claimed as
exemptPOSTMASTER
POSTMASTER LESTER
Dies at Cadiz After Illness
of Three Months
Mr James Lester postmaster at
Cadiz died Tuesday of consumption
of the bowels He was a native of
Missouri and was 63 years old He
was appointed postmaster at Cadiz
under McKinleys administration
about nine years ago was reappoint
ed for a second term and recently
received a third appointment to the
same place Deceased is survived by
his widow and two sons
Marys Billy Goat
Rhyming on Marys little lamb
seems to have about run out and
the billy goat comes in for his share
of notice The following is the latest
from a local rhymist
Of all durn queer things afloat
That Mary ever had
I think by jingo her billy goat
Was her strangest fad
Billy wandered everywhere
In bright or rainy weather
So when he died
They took his hide
And made it into leather
Our June Clearance Sale
1 Geared Up hings In
a a Whoop
Nothing Hold fashioned about it It was to suit
He day people and season up to date in every way
jpe did not expect such a rush after our gigantic sea
sons business We are gratified and want our good
friends and patrons to know it so we are now ready to
II respond to their wants by opening up four big boxes of
fresh new seasonable Millinery for their inspection
Sale B gan July 2Ild
And Spntitmes Through the
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< firing very special prices in all lines no end of sea
son shop worn goods but fresh Oris
SulnmeMillinery r I
Millinery > I
Five hundred Duck Pique and Embroidered
Hats July prIce 24c 48c and 79c How ISj
that for a starter Other styles just as fas I
cinating in material style and price A brail
new and complete line ofnovelties in BeltsI
Bags lair Ornaments and Jewelry embracing new
original ideas that will appeal to all Trimmer and all 1
j ne ssary help throughout the year I
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Temple of Fashion
Miss Sallie B looser be Co 105 South Main Street I
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PERSONAL GOSSIP
MrsT J Blain is visiting rel
atives in Clarksville
Miss Bettie Burke is spending a
few days at Ceruleanth
Senator Frank Rives has returned
fromavisit to Mammoth cave
JohnL Griffith has accepted a
position with the Hopkinsville
HopkinsviileGrocery
MrF L Goff is visiting in the
city thisjveek the guest of MissI
coh
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Mrs W M Hancockand children
havereturned from a visit to rel
atives ill Cadiz
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theHopkinsviile
Hopkinsville Grocery is now with
Buck 5 Cb
Mrs Jack Meador is visiting herI
sister Mrs Anderson inSpringfielffc
TennC v Tr
MrsDYM Taylor and 1 Iissu I
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weeks i 1
Mr and Mrs W C Doughef
went to Dawson yesterday to reji
for several dayss
Mis Lea Overshiner of Clayton
Ala is here on a visit to relatives
asand will remain several weeks
MissesMary and Nell Tandy and
Miss Agnes Flack are visiting the
family of Mr Baylor Hickman in
LouisvilleMiss
Miss Elizabeth Wilson ofm 1 Hick
man Ky and Miss Carrie Baker of
Julien are visiting Mrs LC Van
Cleve at Cadiz
faradt
Walter Cox of Gracey accompanied
by Miss Lela May Wilson and W F
Cox Jr spent Thursday in the city
cityz
Mrs Patti Warfield Hendricks and
daughter Miss Helen of Washing
ton D C arrived Thursday on a
visit to the family of Mr A G
Warfield a brother of Mrs Hen
dricksMisses
Misses Bessie and Alice Ogglesby
of Jeffersonville Ind and Miss 1
Eloise Southgate of Nashville who J
had been visiting Miss Martha Ellis ti
Soyars have returned to their e
homes tl
homesRev
Rev W E Lyon and family of
Seymour Texas are visiting the u
family of Rev A P Lyon Mr
Lyon is a brother of the pastor of u
the M E church and will preach
next Sunday
Mr Sam Owsley who is now u
traveling for the Kurfees Paint °
Co of Louisville is in the city on a o y
ten days visit to his mother He
has been on the road two months tl
and says he has had fine success and b
is stuck on his job w
Mr Jas F Brewer and mother a
now of Palatka Fla who had been w
visiting relatives in the city for a t
week left for their home yesterday
afternoon Mr Brewer is old
an of din
lrChristian
having lived in the Southern part
of the county until his death and
operated what is now known asn
JjMr
0Mr Brewer went to Florida when 5l
a mere boy and located and has been in
very successful and is now at the incu
head of a large business concern lu
This is his and also his mothers
second visit to their old home since at
their removal from the county over An
twenty years ago Itc
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Mrs Rickman DeadK
Mrs Mamie Rust Rickman daugh co
ter of the late Prof J W Rust and
stepdaughter of Mrs M G Rust
of this city died in Nashville yester P
day after a long illness She was a tr
widow and one child survives her
She was buried at Elkton toaay
A new church entertainment was I
given atClovorport the other night a
It was called a Tom Thumb Wod co
ding and 22 couples of small chil iu
dren participated in a church wed
ding The minister asked the groom
would he mail the bride letters the sn
same week she wrote them and he l
promised yes The bride was asked
if she would make buscuits for her 0
hubby every day She also said 1
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The Glad Hand to
Entering Oklahoma
The New Stat in Our FlagThan and Now Show
Miraculous Changes Land of Fertility
and Progress
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There Is nothing BO successful as
success and to proBporoitk Oklahoma
we give warm welcome Oklahoma to
day in not the ends of theearth No
Mans Land but a promising region
with many promises fulfilled
One April day not so many years ago
saw a miracle wrought out there on
th e rolling plains to the south of Kan
sas in a night towns and villages
upspringing a solitude In a twinkling
made populous The date of the open
Ing of the central portion of Oklahoma
to settlement was April 22 1889 To
day only 17 years later Oklahoma en
ters the union with a population of
700000 souls With the 650000 that
constitutes the population of Indian
Territory we find the new state has a
total number of inhabitants of 1350000
The region that SQ short a while ago
was given erto Indians now has a
proportionately small Indian popula
tion lass than 100000 of Indian blood
The negro population is put at 60000
Oklahoma formed a part of the
Louisiana purchase was included in
the unorganized or Indian country that
congress set apart In 1834 In isdc the
Creek Indians ceded to the government
the eastern portion of their Indian
Territory domain the price 30 cents
an acre the SemlnoleB parted with
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their holdings at just half that price
Upon these lands the Sacs Cheyennos
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MAKKKD CHANGE IN SHORT TIME I
Foxes and other tribes were settled
although a great part of the region
remained unoccupied In course of
time the white man turned covetous
eyes upon the country but for some
time It was forbidden land In 1879 and1
prof c
lamations forbidding settlement but
the boomer paid small heed It be
came necessary for troops to be called
to dislodge these pushing people fee l
Ing ran high on the pros and cons of
opening the lands to settlement In
1885 congress authorized the president
to enter into negotiations with the
Creeks and Seminoles for the purpose
ot opening the lands they were
thrown open to entry April 22 1889
0 the wild charge they made
the Oklahoma rush Is now a part of
history a picturesque event the like of
which will not again be repeated in
this country whoRe unclaimed lands
are fast disappearing And after the
wild charge what tremendous energy
to get started what tremendous re
sults shortly forthcoming Pioneering
Involved heavy drudgery but there is
it a stir and hopefulness that fur
nishes the element of excitement lack
ing iu farming back east
But let us get down to hard facts
measure success in figures Oklahoma
state has six towns of more than 16
000 population 12 towns of more than
5000 population and it must be kept
mind the people are largely agri
cultural It has taxable property val
ued at 8QO000000 it has an annual
wheat crop of 40000000 bushels an an
nual cotton orop of 600000 bales an
annual corn orop of 72000000 bushels
1n agricultural and grazing country
s doraofltlo animals are valued at 98
000000 Oklahoma may not be exact
a land ot milk and honey but it Is
tend of live stock and corn and
cotton
HonOrchards
Orchards and vineyards flourish
apace IK Oklahoma and two crops of
potatoes can be raised In one season
Potato raising promises to be a great
Inditctvy Kino day In this region
The mineral resource of the new
state are abundant especially in In
dian territory Tha latters coal de
posits are enormous It Is difficult to
estimate the amount of wealth in oil
and natural gas the Standard Oil
company has heavy interests in ol 1a
land leases in Indian Territory Among
producto of the now state not hltliorto
mentioned we should speak of the vast
bade of salt the bode of asphalt the
frrnnlto building atone gypsum load 1
lIne brick shale and lumber
Railroads havo done their part iu i
opening up Oklahoma t ore are 560 4
6001miles
vrr able arttclo in he Kansas Cit h
Times thus summarizes the trans
portaUon facilities
Pour trunk lines the Atchison To
peka < Banta Fe the Chicago Hock
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Island Pacific the St Louis San
Francisco and the Missouri Kansas
Texas pass through the state from
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north to south all to a gulf outlet A
fifth the Kansas City Southern from
Kansas City to Port Arthur impinges
upon the eastern border The Choc
taw Oklahoma Gulf railroad cuts
the state in two from east to west
Elsewhere the state is gridironed with
feeders and independent lines
Rural free delivery makes glad the
heart of farmer and farmers wife in
the more thickly settled agricultural
communities even the smaller towns
g
hare telephone connection and the tel
ephone is in common use in many ru
ral districts Several towns have elec
tric street railroads But it is in her
schools Oklahoma has shown herself
markedly progressive
The little schoolhouse red or white
or whatever colorIs the first thing
thought of by a group of settlers
And educational advantages have kept
puce with the growth of the country
There is the ambitious Oklahoma unl
versity at Norman normal schools at
Woatherford Alva and Edmond a uni
verslty preparatory school at Tonka
wa and at Stillwater is situated the
agricultural and mechanical college to
which is attached a United States ex
pertinent station For the benefit of
the negroes there is located at Lang
stan an institution which is a com
dblned college agricultural mechanical I
and normal school All the institutions
named are well equipped
The percentage of illiteracy in In
dlan Territory which has been with 1
out aa organized school system Is cop
ofsiderably larger than in Oklahoma
For a long time the many thousand 1
white children there were deprived of
public school advantages and until re
centlv the Indian were allowed to
manage their own educational affairs
a management accompanied by dlsas
trous results The Curtis act of 1898
placed the charge of education for the
Indians of tne territory in the hands of
the national government and a recent
act of congress had made suitable pro
vision for the white childrens school
ingThe
The new state Is Justly proud of the
Indian school in Kay county situated
at Clillocco close to the Kansas line
the Clillocco Industrial college is a
rival of the famous school at Carlisle
Pa More than 700 students are en
rolled In the annual attendance the
standards are very high
The church follow the schoolhouse
schoolhousen
today In Oklahoma there are some SOO
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churches whoso property is valued at
over il500OOO In the entire state the I
number of churches must reach 1000
Thoro are several sectarian schools In
both western and eastern Oklahoma
Missionary work anion the Indians
has for long been very active
Of the 800000000 taxable land r
erred to above Oklahoma brings in i
much the greater part A large pOl C
Hon of Indian Territory lands is non S
taxable There conies In a nice ques
tion in regard to the exemption of
Indian homesteads from taxation the
question of treaty pledges also the
question whether the Indians should
enjoy all the privileges of organised
government and at the same thus bear
none of the burden of its cost It 2s
forecast that before many years the
Indian citizen will enjoy tho oltizan8
duty cf paying taxes
Oklahoma is a sizeable state has an
area of 70230 square miles It is only
a littlrt smaller than Kansas by which
titsg
north On the woof of Oklahoma are
art
again on the south To the east lie
Arkansas and Missouri As tho writer
abovo quoted puts its Tho stato Is
close to the center of western empire
its doorways opening to tidewater and
the future great world highway of th eI
Panama canal
CHRISTOPHER WEBSTER 1
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HONEST DEALING 1
Is my motto So if
you want fair and
square dealings call
on me and you shall
have it I do not prey
tend to run a whole
sale supply house and
I want to assure you
I make no confidential
prices I t o anyone
Each and every cus
tomer is treated with
the same courtesy
courtesyMy
My line is complete
and I can supply your
wants and during the
threshing season we
are prepared to do
machine work day
or nightDont
Dont forget the
placecorner 8th and
Clay streets
Yours to please
MsIL Mctirew
Successor to Metcalfe i
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Home Phone 1197 Cumb 1653
Residence Cumb 498
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At Mammoth Cave
Mrs Frank Quarles left this week
with a party of young folks to visit I n
the great cave of Kentucky In the
party are Mrs Quarles brother t
Mr Albert Lewis and two sons of
New Orleans Also her daughtersh
Misses Kate and Eva Quarles Viola
Williams Misses Annie Radford
Johnson Maggie and Lillian
Foard and Beulah Adams of Church
Hill Others were to meet the party
at Pembroke h
Dawson and Cerulean Rates
Dawson and return 100 These
tickets are now sold on Saturdays and
Sundays good to return until Mon
day night Season tickets sold every
day at 170 good until Oct 31
Cerulean and return 50c These
tickets are now sold on Saturdays
and Sundays good to return until
Monday night Season tickets sold
every day at SOc good until Oct 31
J B MALLON Agt 1 C R R
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Gov Beckham pardoned 26 more
Louisville men Monday arrested by
Magistrate Hoffman for keeping
their places of business open on
Papers Sunday A
Window Shades
Curtain Poles p
Oil Lead Turpentine q
Varnishes JapaLac
Ready Mixed Paints
Paint Brushes 1
Fancy China
Queensware
00Glassware
and almost everything in the HOUSE
FURNISHING GOODS LINE
Our stock of
General Hardware
is very complete and prices right
Call on us before making your
yourSpring
purchaseVery
Very Respectfully
WAIPPOOLSON
Successors to Jack Meador I
Ennis Morris
so N E Chappell
Chappelle
Blacksmithing
Woodwork and
Gen Repairing
No 209 West Seventh St
I have associated with me J B
Cravens a well known and expe ri
rienced warkman Prices most reas
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