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Ardmore, Sunday, July 12, 1908.
THE DAIIY ARDMOREITE.
PAQE THRER
It Is No Joke
Lumber is cheaper a n d
labor is plentiful. Why not
build that new house now?
Hudson - Houston
Lumber Co.
Droadway and Washington
Phono 82
CALL 631
For Frensley's
Transfer Wagon
Baggage a Specialty
Ardmore
Transfer Line
The only lirst-class line in
the city
Calls Made Promptly
Wagon Out All Night
Packaues and grins han
dled with care. Phone 201
STEVE ROWLES, Proprietor
Open Day or Night.
The Praetorians
National Headquarters
Praetorian Building
- Ds'las, Texas
Writes all forms of life Insur
anco at the least possible cost
consistent wltb salcty. You cau
not fio suspended while yJU
nro sick'. Prtld up or extended
Insurance In (Use you drou out
Admits both men and -women
See
M. B. WHEELER,
State Manager,
Room 6, Slms-Pennlngton Dldg.
Wolverton $
Son
Oldest and most reliable ab
stracters In Cartor county. Send
to us for abstracts anywhoro
In Oklahoma. Wo also write
cyclone and lire Insurance.
Wo are bonded abstracters.
ARDMORE, OKLA.
f. i ., ,i
GOV. PECK ON PROHIBITION
CONDITIONS NOW IN MAINE
Hy Oeor'o W. l'eck 1 to my companions
(Former governor of Wisconsin, hell!" s.itd olio of them. "There Is
who Is studying tho prohibition ques- moiv whisky Fold In Portland than
tlon for The Ardmorelto nnd tho Mil there Is In lmlsvillc, Ky.. and not n
wnukoo Sentinel.) saloon In town.' 1 could not believe
Augusta, Me., July 11. No rnllr.xid
trip could be moro pleasant In Juno
than otio from the Brent, free, laugh
ing west, ncross Uio benutlfiil coun
try from Milwaukee to Hoston, through
rich states that are not hypocritical,
and whose people eat and drink what
tliuy want to without apologizing to
any one, or without going behind tho
door to do It. Through tho slates of
Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, New York
and Massachusetts, a man Is proud to
meet Uio citizens and hear them talk
freely and without looking furtively
over the shoulder to see If anybody
Is listening. If there ever was a frco
It. but wo wandered around tho streets
and the frequency with which we had
to side-step to escape a collision with
a drunkuu man was monotonous.
"Well, where do they get It?' I
asked, and the boys told me that thcro
wero several hundred boot-legging
joints In tho town, and "kitchen
speakeasies." 1 asked what a "kitchen
speakeasy" wos, ond my companions
for f business Is had they simply
shut down the factories, or prhnps
cut wages, while the poor laborers,
who have the mime appetites and df
siren as the rich, ride In the street
eirs for their outing. k to out-of-town
park nnd gardens, and If they
drink It Is of vile stuff they get oil
the cly. and with no Intention to get
runk, a spoonful will go to their
heads aiht eut o it the'r stomach, mid
' Temperance, niany go to work on Monday, after a
Sundiiv outing, wishing they were
dead, nnd looking as If they were. If
there was one saloon or beer garden
where t.ioy could for a nlckol get a
good schooner of stuff made of hops
and malt, Uiey wotiM go home at
night sober and happy, with a song
on their Hps wh'le going to the next
day's lalior. and smile on their faces
They know this, and all tho better
class of people know that Maine needs
a few places where good old ale can
be drank, or good beer, with the fin
gal luncheon these laborer are con
tented with. The time Is coming
wthen Maine will change her prohl
Iioopio on earth, they live In such
told me to como on and they would
show me. We went up the steps of i.ui,,., inw- . ,,,, in, unto, nml
a respectable-looking mldu.o class . ,-,0 ,,0(),n admit It. but they do
house, not two blocks from the old , nol now when
home of uiq oot Iongfollow, which Al Augusta, the capital of Maine.
Is kept as n show place by a society on tlle heautlful KennelxH! river. I
i which nas douki i n. anil Keens n u: i it.i..i ti... ........ ,..,..,(.
states as one imssc throng1! In going ! jst t was when Uingfellow lived ' ,ottt. everywhere Imught of boot
east, nnd the country outside tho ,t. and rang the bell. Tho lady nr:lwrHi . Patents drank on
speeding train shows It. nnd the crowd ) house cntne to tho door, one of i ,,u, gt.. om, would Wi money
at the nations, of clean, well-dressed, j ,v friends nsk.-d If the husband was wlll, ;o owmir was ,,, looking; the
laughing citizens, with no ono having mme. nnd was told that he hod gone j ,.m)tv bottle klekeil about or lloatlug
a grouch, clinches tho argument, and ()t u Htore, ' lint step Into the ' down t, rVers Into the 'ocean and
the traveler knows he Is r.mong tho kitchen.1 said the good old Maine i ,,v,,rJ. mRt ,,, who drinks of the
best peoi o to be found anywhere ...if,, .,., ,nother. and ho sboweil us ...... i
Iloston is always most Interesting, for, t nnd closed the door The man j n7vi ,y w tlmt liquor exists In
wno nau neen mere noiore saw. mvo ;,,e, m, mere Is no comiulsslon or
me a bottle of John's beer.' and tlie oitlcers whose duty It Is to analyze
old lady said she guessed .nihil had tm. Htuff nli destroy It If found pol
a little left In the Ice box. and he sonous. so the dealers who deal In
told her If any of his friends dropped n. dark nre not compelled to furnish
In to. let them have a bottle, and she ,lro Koods. In fact, thev do not want
went out of the room. The beer was ,,,,. eooils. They keen certain stuff
good and cold, and when we loft ono nn,j yoll don't have to buy it If you
M. & 0. G. RAILWAY
ACTIVE CONSTRUCTION WORK TO
BEGIN BETWEEN RED AND
CANADIAN RIVERS.
In Hoston you get your first fresh
codfish, and as yon eat It you rolled
on the fact that the cod..sh did moro
to welcome tho Pilgrims nnd make
them fat and brainy than anything
they found In New Knglnnd, nnd hut
for the codfish, which fairly yearned
to be caught, and would blto at any
thing thrown Into the water, our fore- of my companions left hmf ft dollar do not want It, and If you buy It you
ratners would nave starved nnu irozon on the kitchen table, nnd we went take your chances. They nre like the
. .. i ... 1 1. , i. ,i . ...I... .. . ....... i . ..... ..)
in iit'iiwi me nrsi. winter on uie.iit
Cape Cod, and as you think of theso
things you arc glad that Massachusetts
has made the codfish Its trademark,
by erecting nnd kooplng In Its state
capital, In a public place, a bronzo
codfish, rampant. Hut when you re
flect further, about the carp, nnd
suckers, and dog-fish that you havo
oaten tor salt codfish, put up elthor
out. the lady opening line door for Kreen goods men who sell n box or
us and remariving that sho couldn't Haw-dust to the man who thinks he Is
take anythln from us, ns It would ho getting counterfeit money. WT'.on he
against the law. and one of the boys , n ihIm he has got the worse ()r It. he
said. "Why. of course not: this Is KOes home nnd kicks himself, hut he
on John, from his prlvnto stock." and , does not kick to the man he lind the
as we went out she returned to the , dealings with. If Maine Is going to
kitchen, and no doubt put the half continue to he a "prohibition" state,
dollar In the teapot. That was a and wnnts to remain a healthy state
' kitchen spenkensv,-' and thorp are i r eoeil and irrost men. she must make
I hv these YnnKeo admirers of tho coil- hundrouit of such In Portland, kent by , li nrtm.. nnnUhiiblo wltSi death for
flub, or some wicked, Imitation Yan respectable families, who would keep ' men to sell to the men. women nnd
kee, you nre saddened, nna want to a few boarders If they couldn t make i children of the slate alleged .liquor
kick. In Hoston It seems that tho more money giving away a l'ttle prl-1 that eats out their Interior decora
most of tho stores are conducted for vate stock to those who know where ! tlons. or beerlne that Is so full of gas
the sale of liquor, either for homo It K and who leave the price on the i that a man has to wirry sandbags In
consumption, or to help out neighbors table, i ills woman that I met looked I his pockets to keep him from sailing
wSio nro dry. Some of Hoston's sub- h-i-Mit and intellltrent. ns a farmer's awav like an airship. Augusta Is full
urbs nro awfully dry, but by crossing wife m'ght look, but I thought sho of the Joints that enter to the people
the river and striking tho sacred soil looked a trifle ashamed of her calling, wtiio want a drink, and everybody
of Hoston, the. first hulldlng Is always As walked up the street an express I laughs about It. No man, business
a saloon, and tho first man to greet wagon came un and unloaded several 1 man nr otherw'se. seems to care how
the suburbanite Is n bartender. Many cases of beer, dkect from Iloston. and I many places there aro to get drunk
pans oi .Massachusetts are ory, oui nonoiiy turned n hair as It was un-! In, or who keeps them. They all tell
the same story when asked If prohi
bition In Maine Is a blessing to the
people, "messing, hell!" s the almost
Invariable answer, and they will add
Hromlde. Oklahoma. Julv 11 '
William Kenellci'. president or the
Missouri, Oklahoma & (inn railway. I
Is expected here this week with a 1
vlow to beginning nctlve construction
work between tihe Canadlnu and Red
rivers. V. S. Young, chief engineer,
stated today that President Kenellck
secured all necessary mono) while In
Kurope. nnd that oetlu work would
begin at once, lie said the steel
bridge across the CuiMdlan. near Cat
vln, would be finished early this fa'l
and thnt Sherman. Texas would li"
reached next spring or early sum
mer.
Mr. Young declined to stale deflnlt
ly ns to tho rxirled chniiKe in th.
new line, hut said recent high walem
would entile them to construct many
bridges from ttree to five feet higher
than at llrst pmitoneil. lie said the
oldest InlmbltantM along the Hue de
clared the recent Hoods re.u-ln-il high
er levels than ever In-fore, and this
fact alone would cause numernus
changes In their bridges ami ni .
proaehes. j
The engineer In charge of construe
lion is minding a handsome home here
and when asked If Mr. Kenellck would
erect a nildeneo here, replied-
"I nni not at liberty to say what
Pn-Hldeut .veneflck will do, but I know
he thinks a great deal oi these min
eral springs, especially the Hroinldo
water" lie snld his line would bo
construe lt-d on a six-tenths grade,
preparatory to handling homy freight
tr-alllo.
The M. ). Ar (. ts operating HIl
miles of track, between Wagoner and
Lamar, a small station just north ot
the Canadian river near Calvin Tho
road will bo llnllil Into Hiomid.
early in November or l)i-conihcr.
..BURN GAS..
Have us do your gas work and furnish your gas
stoves. We can fill your orders at once. There is
no strike at our shop, we work only union men which
insures good work a tid safe work.
Practical Tinners and Plumbers. South Washington St.
J. A BIVEN8, President.
A. H. PALMER, Cashier.
DON LACY, Vice Preildtnt
FRED C. CARR, Att Caihler.
THE CITY NATIONAL BANK
ARDMORE, OKLA.
Capital
Surplus Fundi. .,
.....I100.OOU.00
$100,009
Account! of firms nnd Individuals solicited. Courtnous treat
ment accorded to atl alike.
Messenger B, 121 113
Three choice fine Poland
China male pigs for sale
sired by Messenger 13, a
nephew of Meddler, the
world's champion dams by
Keep Ons and Perfection fa
milies Mo. and Ohio winners.
West End Wagon Yard
J. T. I3yars
Hoston tries Its host to Keep such loaded In the kitchen. On the way I
places from cracking open from tho
drouth, ns It has done for n 'hundred
years to nil the world lending Its
Medford rum wherever there was In
telligence enough among the natives
to manipulate a corkscrew, and It Is
wonderful how quick tho weakest
brain of tlhe most doprnved race on
the face of the oaith will comprehend
the workings of that great Invention,
the corkscrew. Hut for tho cork
screw the people of the world would
be digging corks out of bottles with
rt-lKsors and Winner forks, pushing
hack to i no hotel four little girls,
from ten to fourteen years old. wuiio
up bes'de us and asked In a whisper
If we didn't want them to show us
where we could get a bottle of nlc.
fresh beer. Thnt was a new ono on
tf-nt there Is mote liquor drank In
Maine than there Is In Hoston. N u
nsk the banker what he thinks about
Notice.
Notlcel h hereby given that a the
next meeting of tho city council,
July 20th, 1U0S, bid will bo rocelved
for the olllclal printing for the Cltv
of Ardmoro by the city clork nit
later than 12 o'clock m. on inld
ilMo.
This July 7th, 190S.
O. It. imuci-:,
City Clerk.
8 Per Cent-8 Per Cent--8 Per Cent
Money to loan on farms at eight per cent net. No
commissions charged. Loans closed promptly. All
or any part of loan may be paid at end of any year
without notice to company.
GORMAN BOGIE
OHico Over City National Bank
Delny In commencing treatment for
n slight Irregularity that could havo
been cured quickly by Foley's Kidney
Remedy may result In a serious k d
ney dlseaso. Foley's Kidney Remedy
ullila up tho worn out tissues nnd
strengthens theso organs. Commenco
taking It today. Sold by all drugglsU.
W. 1'. Poland
W. U. Foster
Poland & Foster
Successors to lioborts it Poland
Loans and Abstracts, Fire and Tornado Insurance. Prompt
Service. Reliable Companies.
me, and I nsked my commercial men .Maine nnd prohibition, and he wMl
what It meant. They said theso girls ay. "Well, you know. I nm no drink
could make more money getting a nj man. though I keep liquor In my
rake-off on tho boor they brought house, nnd I am classed among those
customers lo buy than thoy could by ', who favor prohibition, but our law
never has been enforced, and wo aro
the laughing stock of the world, wltlu
moro drunkenness than Cheyenne In
Its palmiest davs, and Maine Is the
.lek)l-IIyde state, and wo nil know It.
claiming to be bettor than other j
states, and with purer morals, and
at tho same time winking at crime
nnd raising the devil nfler dark, but
wo nre going to have a change and
open up some respectable saloons nnd
working In a factory: that the chll
dron were respectable, and all thoy
did that was wrong was to act as
part of the cork Into tho bottle nnd cappers for a "kitchen speakeasy." 1
drinking the cork In instalment, could not go to s!oi that n'ght from
Next to the steam unglne and the cot-' thinking of the Maine method of
ton gin. the corkscrew is one of our bringing up children to act as agents
greatest dlscover'es. and I wish I for the solo of liquor In a prohibiten
knew who discovered It. for he ought state. During the night dozens of
to have a monument. The best of It drunken sailors passed under my w'n-
is. one dives not have to take lea- dow, on the way to the docks, singing
sons In tho use of a corkscrew. Put sa'lor songs, and In the morning I let people drink In public nnd smlli
a corkscrew Into the hands of a child. empty pint and half-pint bottles lit-! and help ly taxes. Instead of drink
a blind person, a lunatic or a jmlltl tered tne street. The next day I went I lug behind the door, nqua fortls and
clan, and Instinctively they begin to to an engine house where there Is a I carbolic nc!d, diluted with wood nl
work It. 1 suppose the use of a cork- city agency, where liquor Is sold by the J cohol, and Hinting everybody, ns they
screw Is bred into us all. like walking city for medicinal, mechanical or do now. Hut don't say I said so.'
on all tours, and creeping. ' scientific purposes, where a citizen Asked when this was to bo brought
I knew tiiat It would come to this may. by signing the proper affidavit, about, tho banker will tell you to
and that 1 should eventually land In secure a bottle of fairly decent liquor. I wait until the people get a chance
Maine, but I stood off ns long ns pos- but If Hie swears to a He to get It. he to ote on "re-subinlsslon,,' and you
sihio. l could go to near proamnion may be fined from twonty-llvo dollars j will hear something drop,
siates. and jony tne people necauso up. or sent to Jnll. and nobody not a
citizen can got any liquor there.
though he may need It scandalous, for
they were trying to Imitate Maine, 1
hut I thought It well to keep away
from Maine, because t.ie people In
that state aro Just truly good, do not
want to drink, nml It must be a crlmu
to make fun of them 1 thought ove-y
man, woman and child In Maine hud
been brought up to think that nny
Do you know, much ns I have
looked up to Maine for half a cen
tury as th.' temperance state that
For convenlonco
For economy,
For comfort,
Burn Gas
When you havo onto used It
you would not do without nat
for an hour, and only saw oik- citizen
buy a bottle, but while that bottle of
decent liquor was being sold 1 doubt
not live hundred tiottles of tho vilest
liquor, beer or wlno wns sinful to , stuff ever concocted wns sold u dir
think about, and that probably in thnt ferent parts of tho town, to eat out
Pine Tree state there was not a case the vitals of tho poor working class
of thirst . though they religiously oat . of people.
salt cod, nnd that probably In tho I visited Hlddeford. where great
whole state there wouldn't bo more factories cover block after block of
than a couple of gallons of liquor, ' the streets, and where thousands ot
kept for sudden nttacks of heart fall-' factory girls and hoys, men and wo-
nro, and only used ns a modlclno. men are employed a part of Uho time,
medlc'nal, mechanical, or scientific has produced so many statesmen, but
purposes. 1 remained at tho agency which has gone out of Uio business
of producing statesmen since Hlallie
and Tom Heed passed away, when I '
go about and see the hypocrisy of I
a truly good state ;Kislng ns a tern- i
perance state, and making Home j
howl with hor drunk-nness, I nm I
ti-liiimcd of Maine, and a. most every i
respectable man I talked with In the I
state Is nnhamod. ' .now, honest, how
does prohibition affect your stale?'
I asked of a prominent business man
In his own counting room. He looked
over his shoulder, ns all Maine men
do before they oxpress themselves on
To ask lor or expect to find a drink and where cotton goodB, ginghams,
in Maine wns to mo like expecting to ami so forth, nre made, as well ns ) prohibition. "It Is n terrible force, and
nun a nurginr leacning in n Hiinuay many other Kinds oi goons tor snip- a crltno, and wo aro tho confoundedest
school. For fifty years, since Noal inent over the world. On account of
Dow'g time, I ha4 thought of Malna 1 occasional labor d'fllcultlos, nnd tho
as tho only truly good stato, nnd ha1 uncertainty oi being able to sell goods.
noticed all my life that temperat'co overproduction, etc.. the factories da
workers pointed to Mnlno ns tho Mo- pot run so regulatly, and the employes
hammednu would l'olnt to Mecca, and are not happy and not very healthy,
tho wonder to mo was that nil tho and they ?ro nlways hard up, and
temperance agitators of the last half
century, who wero so saddened at tho
way things wero run where saloons
wero allowed, did not move to Maine,
where nil was dry and peaceful, and
nobody was Intemperate. So when I
was proporly located In Portland, for
a few days, I said, "Now wo will see
a community of sober. IndustrloiiB peo
ple, and during all the time spent horo
thero will bo no sound of revelry by
night, and no smell of liquor will
tnlnt tho atmosphere." Tho first
night I walked up to Monument
square, the busiest part of tho town,
with a cooplo of trnvellng men. and
wo saw a crowd around the lody of
un npiKirently dead boy of 11, lying
on the s dewalk. Tho.remnlns wero
tak n Into u drug store, an nmbulanco
was called ,iud tho hoy was taken
to the aosppal. Tho doctor Bhought
he wns dea l but by tho uso of a
s'umuch pump a pint of so-callod whis
ky was putuicd out ot tho boy, and
in a couple ct hours ho was sent
home, alive, b it the sickest boy in
Portland, "V( 1 this Is going some.
In a strictly tuu peranco state," I said
frequently In debt, nnd It Is not an
Inspiring sight to witness thousands
upon thousands of these tired and dis
gusted Inlsirers on tflio street, seek
ing nmusement, nnd trying to seem
contented when they nre not. Many
of them' would like an occasional glass
of beer, or ale, which thoy could got,
pure nnd for a nlckej, If saloons wero
permitted, but If tho working man
wants a glass of beer ho has to "hldo
out," as they say in the south, nnd
when he finds a Joint where he can
get beer on tho sly. Sic has to pay
twenty-five cents for a pint bottlo of
beer, which he cannot nfford to do,
and the result is that ho will buy n
qufrter's worth of the vilest spirits,
ami when ho has got It Into him ho
Is almost In tho condition of tho
Portland boy who was pumped out.
Tho rich people of Hlddoford and
Wntervllle, and Rumford Falls, and
dozens of other small manufacturing
cities, can afford to buy good liquor
nnd keep It In their housos, and those
people look prosperous and happy,
driving good rigs or auto?, living In
fine houses, and they make money,
hypocrites on earth, and tho soonor
wo have a chanco at "ro-submisslo i, j
the bettor It will be for us. As It Is
now, wo nro making prohibition the
football of ioltloal desperadoes, and
tho Sturgls commission Is rotten to
tho core " Hut nlsiut tile "Sturgls
commission" and ' ro-BUbmlsslon." I
shall ihnve to hnvo another whack at
Maine, after going up tho state, to
Hangor. Har Hurlmr, Rockland, nnd
all around tho potato and codfish bolt
From what I hav0 seen so far In .
Maine, I feel mud'ii ns 1 would If I
found thnt my favorite Sunday school
tmicher. who bad been teaching my J
children nnd grandchildren for two
generations, had nibbed a bank,
skipped out with nnother man's wife,
nnd on Investigation It had boon dis
covered he had been leading a double
life all those years and nod not gone
to bed sooor for twenty years, Ono
feels thnt ho has been deceived In
good old Maine, that most proh'bltlon
ists had collars full of good stuff, nnd
that It was the othor fellow that ought
to l saved
Kodol wll wl.nout dauht help any
ono who has stomach disorders or
stomach trouble. Tako Kodol today
and continue It for tho short tlmo
that It Is necessary to give you com
plete relief. Kodol Is sold by W. D.
Frame.
May wo o d
THE BEAUTIFUL
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FOR SALE
Overlooking Ardmore from the North. Only one-half
mile from city. Location fine, soil fine and the price is
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blocks already selected. Don't wait until they are all
sold then ask someone to kick you. Buy now while
you can get the best, all good, but some are better.
The price is right. Call at our office for full informa
tion. Phone 726.
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Ardmore, Oklahoma