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' "5 pv" ," ( y "-- TTT 1 "- r vtt ELOIrf. OK LA. FARMERS CHAMPION 4 rt ii fe- if i.. 1 iii '1 8 s H- o liii h fHHWHffl1SHUtgggai THE ELGIN GIN has been thoroughly over hauled and is now ready to handle cotton in any quantity. Highest mar ket price paid for cotton in seed or bale. r B. V. HAMILTON, MANAGER. wtmmMmm!tmA Farmers' Champion R. H. Wessel. Owner. WETTENGKL and SoNfl Publ'h's. Published Every Thursday Elfin, September 11. Entered as second-class mat ter, December 3rd, 1912, at the postoffice at Elgin, Oklahoma, nder the Act of March 3rd. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION: Oie ;mt 11.00 Six Boattu COc No ulKcrlptloni taken (or loss than Six month. Tour suoscrlptlon has expired or 1111 expire wltli this Issue If there Is a rots (X) on the margin opposite tbls etlce. ADVERTISING RATES: Display ads, II lzcenta per Inch lor each Insertion. Discounts given on arte ads. All advertising matter run HUT paid and ordered out VMAMMM Knockers. The question often arises, nuni KnocKerf ana noi hBf ago one of our ciiisens was btwre to ask, Who are the knock- -"MkA I 1.. 1 Oil 1 i ' en in Eljrin?" The writer has heard some people call one citi sen a knocker and others have called some one else a knocker. Bo let us get down to an analysis of the term and find out who the knockers are. First we should say a knocker ia one who says or does anything to the detriment or injury of his homo town. Some do their knocking by talking and others do their knocking by acting. Expounders of scripture teach that there are sins of commission and sins of omission. When a man does a bad act, that is a sin of comission; when he refus es or fails to do what he knows is his Christian duty, that is u in of omission. Likewise it may be there are knockers of ion and knockers of said that Or one of commission might be called an active knocker and one of omission an inactive knocker, C. F. BRANDON Dray man ottotto B'6,roT8'YffroTr5"fTnroToTnnr We Do It Now, The Hotel Elgin Good Meal. Clean Beds FiiTBt-xdiS Accommodation J. H. CRAWFORD, Prop. IT fit 5 When a man goes about talking against his home town, he is an active knocker; when he goes away from his home town, to do his trading or transact other business, he is an inactive knock er. Both are of equal injury to their home town. The good booK says, "Judge not that ye be not judged" and for this reason we refrain from' mentioning any names. But let no persons be guilty of calling other people Knockers unless they Know positively that they are saying or doing nothing to injure their town. We said two weeks ago our aim would be to boost Elgin and we believe a better name for this paper would be the "Elgin Champion." War Talk. Some people seem to think the first thing the United States should do when a controversy comes up with another nation is to have war, regardless of the fact that this nation has done so much to bring about the settle ment of all international ques tions without going to war. At this time people say that Uncle Sam should jump in and whip Mexico, but do not consid er the loss of life and property, and the expense, and what our nation would have on its hands after it had Mexico whipped. A London daily had the situa tion sized up about right when it said that it would take the Unit ed States three years to whin Mexico and then would have Mexico to govern and control after the war was over. The head men of this nation have acted wisely by keeping u cool head and going slow, giving Mexico time to adjust her own difficulties. This nation acquir ed the Phillippines at the close of a war but most people realize that it was a dear price paid and this nation would now be better off without them. : ffW all kinds of Work vr ura y Rain or Shine A man over at Comanche com mitted suicide last week after a quarrel with his wife. He was only 23 year oid which must ac-1 count for his lacK of nerve to , face the music. MISSIVES FROM MISTLETOE Lee Carter marketed a bale of cotton at Elgin Saturday. ! Vic Sparlin and wife spent 1 Sunday with Tom Sperling. bmoot's girl, upon examtna-! jtion, proved to be a boy our er- j J C. A. Sperling and family ' went to Lawton Saturday and! returned home Monday. Bill, Herman and Claud Bent-; ley went to Lawton Saturday where they marketed oats. Mr. and Mrs. Townley from near- Marlow visited Tom Sper- ' ling and family over Sunday. Edgar Bernard and family spent a lew days with his sister and folks, Mrs. C. A. Sperling this week, Clake Sperling and family from east of Rush Springs made an extended visit among rela tives here recently. Sam Montgomery went to El gin Sunday to meet his daughter ! I Emmogene, who has been vis-, ltingher brother at Shawnee the, past month. j Millard Richardson who was operated on for appendicitis last j week at Oklahoma City is con- vs'escing rapidly and expects to c. ia short time. C. M. Martin 13 delivering his books through here and is doing great good by putting a bible in almost every home in the com munity. He leaves rnday for Baylor University. This community was thrown into a state of great excitement and surprise last Sunday when Charlie Cox led Miss Sarah Ford to the Hymeneal Altar and pro ceeded to hop the conjugal twig, Bro. Shockley officiating at the auspicious occasion. The protracted meeting came 25 Photos for 25c Post Cards, perdoz. $1.00 Cabinet Photos, per doz. - $2.00 LOGSTON STUDIO Phone 280 Over Modern Store. 406 1-2 D Ave Lawton, - - Oklahoma --- - - - - - I Elgin First-Class Rigs and Best Accommodations At any Hour of the Day or Night W. F. Walcott, Proprietor. ? T - - - - - to a close Monday night Sept, 1, with a large crowd present, nnd good interest. Six conversion's wore the visible results among the sinners, with a spiritual and moral 'uplift among the Christian people. Everybody praises Bro. Wusson for his gos pel preaching, and earnest soul touching appeals to the unsaved of the community. Everything considered it was the grcntest revival of any sort this commun ity has ever experienced, and Bro. Wnsson assures us that he will be with us for another ser ies of meetings next summer with more time to devote to the great work to be done here. SHOKTY. Dates. Sterling Fair. Sept. 10-12. Rush Springs Carnival, Sept. 8-13 47th Not, Enc. G. A. R. Chat tanooga, Tcnn. Sept. lfi-20. Revival meeting Elgin M. E. church begins Sept. 21. County Fair, Anadarko, Sept. 15-17. State Fir, Oklahoma City,. Sept. 23-Oct. 4. Elgin schools open Oct G. Apache Street Fair and Carni val, Oct. 8-11. Peanut Carnival, Duncan, Oct 16-18. Ringling Bros. Circus, Lawton, Oct 17. International Dry Farming Contra, Tuka. Oct. 2741. . County News. Senates Gore haslet a contract for $1100 to have his home in Lawton remodeled. At the opening of the Camer on school at Lawton last week 100 students were enrolled. Two men were busy passing bad checks on Lawton merchants the day Barnes Circus was there. A protracted meeting will be gin in the Baptist church at; Sterling Saturday evening of this week. i Two Indians had a fight near the ice Dlant in Lawton late Sat urday night but were soon ar rested and fined. The Fort Sill band and three batteries of field artillery will be in OUUh-jma City during the state fair at the request of Gov. Cruce. While hauline baled hay twelve miles south east of Law ton Tuesday J. S. McGowen had his left arm broken in two places in a runaway. Early Sunday fire was discov ered in some goods boxes in the rear of Condons store in Lawton but was soon put out. A big fire was narrowly averted. Two soldiers from Fort Sill and three citizens of Indiahoma bad a free-for-all melee in a re sort at Lawton Saturbay night and gave bond for their appear ance. The board of county commis sioners report that there are no funda available to make a coun ty exhibit at the State Fair or at the international exhibit at Tulsa. Earl Vaughn, a lG-year old boy, was arrested on a charge of stealing a bicycle which he offered to sell for 3. The wheel was identified and return ed to its owner. Attorneys for defendents in bootlegging cases before county court this week have done all they can to prevent members of the Law and Order League from serving on juries. Rev. Jas. E. Pershing, pastor We Develop Kodak Films at 10c Per Roll. Kodak Post Cards Each 3c - - - - a - Livery Barn - - - - - of the Congregational church at Lawton nnd master of the boy scouts, has moved to Oklahoma City to be pastor of the Congre gational church there. Lottie Turner, a Lawton wo man, was fined $500 and sen tenced to 90 days in the county jail in county court Tuesday on a charge of having an unlawful supply of liquor in her possess ion. F. A. Parkinson has resigned as postmaster at Lawton, same to take effect Oct. 1, after which ho will be actively engaged in the banking business business in the Lawton National bank. It is reported that Sen. Gore favors Robert Landers as his successor. Church Services METHODIST Preaching morning nnd night fourth nnd every fifth Sunday in the month. Sunday school every Sunday at 10:00 a. m. HAl'TIST Pleaching morning nnd night on the first Sundnys of the month. Sunday school at 10:00 a ml V P u- cver-v Sunday night. Prayer meeting overy Wednesday night. DR. D. A. MYERS Lawton. - . Oklahoma Special Attention to Surckry and Consultations 'Phone 575 and 136 ' """""( VaMVVVWkM Young & Wolcott Successors to J. P. KENNEMUR, Dealer in Staple and Fancy GROCERIES, Furniture and FRESH MEAT. Our efforts shall always be to please all our customers. We buy Cream Price 25 Cents per lb. Dees Help Alfalfa "Insect visits are essential to the proper pollenatlon of the alfalfa flow, er. It Is a practice In some parts of the country to place bee hives along the margins of alfalfa fields Intended for s-ed. Dec keepers follow with their colonics fields planted for seed, for the purpose of Retting the honey. This Is mutually beneficial, as a larger yield of both seed and lioney results." U S. Hureau of Plant Induktry Cir cular 24. Raw Materials of Oklahoma. No paint is manufactured in Okla homa. Hut Oklahoma furnishes raw materials for tho making of paint in eastern factories. An Oklahoma City mnn purchased 20,000 barrels of Okla homa crude oil to be shlppod to n pa'nt factory of New York. The freight paid on tho oil was 49 cents a hundred, or about $2 a barrel, which na more than tho vulue of the raw material. Keep Up the Goad Work. It now appears that Wagonor county will be tho first to organize a county agricultural association as an aux iliary to the state organization, follow ing the recent big agricultural meet ing In Muskogeo. Other counties will fall in line, and before another three months has passed It Is expectod there i will bo a doxen or inoru ruch county organizations. Bankers Boosting Kafir Many of tho banks over tl.o state are helping tho farmers In their sec tions by furnishing them with good kafir corn seed, thus showing their progrctplvenecs in helping tho farm er to help himself, nnd In so doing help the entire community nnd stats. Trained 700 Hcrees Seven hundred young horses pur chased in Oklahoma, Wyoming mid Toxas, are being trained at Fort Reno for the United States cavalry by Cap tains Valvntlne and Tratt. nnd 80 mtu. Elgin Buyers paid 13 cents for cotton Wednesday. Railroad Time Table HAST BOUND No. 40S leaves 0:58 a. in. No. 10 leaves 11:10 a. in. WEST urmun No. 9 leuves 1 :.ri3 n. m. No. -107 leaves 9:15 p. in. jBjjHSjS; ' D. E. McAnaw I umber " Compai Dealers in . . . All Kinds of Building Material Grain. Cotton. Coal. Best McAlecter Nut Coal $6 a Bridge Work. Ed Harper, agent for the Mid land Bridge Co.. of Kansas City, was in Elgin Monday morning, coining up from Lawton, where he had bcon in consultation with the board of county commission ers relative to some bridge work which the company ha3 contract ed for west of Elgin. Mr. Har per took the company's tools out of the depot here Monday and says they will have two or three months work near here. This company is putting in a steel bridge over Chandler creek on the Meridian line road be tween Anadarko and Lawton. The material is being unloadec at Richards. Moffitt Bound Over. J. W. Mofiit of Lawton, who shot and killed Chas. E. Lewis of Collinsville, had his prelimi nary iiearing last Friday. , He pleaded not guilt to the charge but was bound over to tho dis trict court. Eye witnesses to the shooting--testified that Lewis abuEcrt Mof fitt and reached for a gun under tho counter in the hotol whn Moflitt shot him. Molfit pur chased the gun during the j.f ternoon and stated to the clerk that he was going to ask tho officers once more for protection and if he did not get it he wa going to protect himself. Cyril Depot Robbed. Deputy Sheriff Vic Sparlin wasr in town Monday evening and re ported tho robbery of the depot at Cyril Mondaj noon, while ho was there. The agent was at dinner and some one broke in and secured $18 or $20 which he left in the money drawer. No' clue has been discovered. State Poultry show, Enid. Jan. DR. JERRY ASHLEY Office: Fletcher Hotel Calls Answered Day or Night Fletcher, Oklahoma Ton I 4i t t a-1' "'mM' ' - jtj.jj.ii.w- .T5kfcT-v r .itfrV