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(First Published ia the CLiertain,
December IS, 1912.)
OTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE
Notice is hereby pivon that in nur-
- -am . of an order of the County
V'u'.t of Craig County, Oklahoma.
V on iliH 11th dav of December.
iu the matter of the Estate of
Viiliam R. Badgett, Deceased, the un-
jj b '-rsigned, as the Administrator of
k"i:d estate wil offer for sale and fell
I private sale to th.1 highest bidder
r ( ash ou delivery of ded. and sub
jL'ei to connrmatio:i by said County
t Court, on or within six months after
y,i'-ie 30 th day of December, 101L', all
W :ho light, title and interest of said es
tate, and baid William R. Badgett, iu
iiul to the following described real
estate situated in Craig Count-, Okla
homa, to-wit:
"! South Half of Northwest Quarter.
''l ;ml Wiict ITnlf nf Smith w-ost Onnr-
ter of Northeast Quarter, and
Southeast Quarter of Southwest
Quarter of Northeast Quarter, and
Southwest Quarter, and West
Half of West Half of Southeast
v Quarter of Section 25, and West
J Hal of Northw est Quarter of
1 ! Northeast Quarter, and Northeast
Ii' Quarter of Northwest Quarter of
Northeast Quarter, and South Half
' of Southeast Quarter of North
X y west -Quarter of Northeast Quar
f, ter of Section 30, Township 20,
Range 18, containing S4.j acres
more or less.
Said land is subject to a first and
f .second mortgage in iavor oi tue wai-
fU. m...ni ........ t 1 . . i 1 . . T i t.
apuri, dated July 27, 1909, and due
fv July 27, 1916, one mortgage to secure
i&e sum of $3,300.00 aud th-3 other to
secure the sum of $462.00 payable in
Jnnual installments of $66.00.
i aereoi w ue maae m w nuns aim uc
1 I (ivered to the administrator at Vinita,
. . i j. ... n: .. i .1 ..
,'JKiaiioma, or may oe ueiiverea to me
Ctounty Judge of Craig County, at any
jrne before the sale.
The Administrator reserves the
right to reject any or all bids and to
Squire the advance navment of ten
t per. cent of a bid before reporting the
Jaie tnereon lor connrmauoii.
,Tlatfr1 rieemher 12. 1912.
1 j JOHN S. TIIOMASON,
il. l'HUUASUO, .auunui&Litilwi.
-18 Attorney for Administrator.
'( First Vublished in the Chieftain,
December 13, 1912.)
OTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE
oticc is hereby given that in pur-
.nee of an order of the County
of Craig County, Oklahoma,
oade on the 9th day of December,
:!12, mii the matter of the estate of
Vera Dez Thompson, a minor, the un
dersigned as guardian of the estate
o.ii.1 minnr u-ill cnll at TinmtR KRle
. , ...livi "ii' v . . i ...
t'-to confirmation by said County
urt, on Monday, the 30th day of De-
limhor 181! nt ten o'clock a. m.. of
t i day, "or at any time thereafter
rl in-th statutory period for recciv
'' f bids, all the right, title, interest
fl estate of the said Vera wr.
5iompson, a minor, acquired in what-
, ,1. ( n
I'tver manner, in ana to tne iohow
Jr. described property situated in
it rin,,nif nL-loVinma nnil more
lil'I'ecio "v ,
hi icurately described as follows, to-
'.i hjot 3 in Section 31, Township 22
h At the office of the Judge otthe
Ijlf'ty Court, accompanied by a cer-
U chfeck for ten per cent ot tnc
lount of the bid.
Dated this 9th day of December,
'A. J. THOMPSON,
i.vDDIS A. BROWN, Guardian.
1 8 " Ilia Attorney.
First Published in the Chieftain,
December 13, 1912.)
'.t of Oklahoma, Rogers County, ss.
n the County Court. Probate No.
' the Matter of the Estate of Lorena
f .aim, a Minor,
W . - r- nrAI fCTATT
i TCE Or SnLt ur n tu to ''--
pi order of the County Court of th?
y of Rogers, State of Oklahoma,
V on the 10th day of December,
f ,miorcliii((l Cnardian of the
. uitr u"-- o"v-
o of Lorena .Vann, a Minor, will
at private sale to the highest bid-
subject to confirmation by said
ATr.nHnv the thirtieth day oi
4 fmhci 1912, at ten o'clock a. m., at
'rtfl'.ce of the County Judge ot uog
j Vouuty, Oklahoma, in Claremore,
I rs County, Oklahoma, all the
itle and interest of saiu L,orena
.'a Minor, in and to the follow
, vscribed real estate situate in
Countv, State of Oklahoma, to-
'A Two and the South West
.r of the North East Quar
'ir Section Four, and the
, V K East Quarter of the South
I i of the North West Quarter
Mn' ration -Thirty-three, all in
I 4hp Twenty-five, North and
f ie .;ighten East of the In
ix Meridian in Craig County,
'f"ihouia, containing in all 89.71
rv-,c more or less as the case may
'according to the United States
1 ?4 . B
i r U'vpy thereoi.
i v rcal estate win oe eom on iue
follow ii:g terms aud co .-ditions. tw it:
At private sale tr the highest bidd-r
fo: lafch in hand.
Dida fo ithe purchase thcivof must
be i.i writing and aust be filed in the
County Court or d-elivred to .1. C.
Starr, Attc.rucy for (Utardiaii or to th
underjiijriied at or befon- the tinit- fix.'d
for said sale.
Dated the !"t.i day D.-i-riiiber.
1012.
KII.KV (TKLS.
(Juardia . (f 1. una Vann. a Minor.
.;. C. STAKK. .utornc fur ('.uardiau.
Vinita. (MvlaihUija. li'.-ls
INFORMATION WANTED
By JULIUS CAREY.
Sylvester was limping slightly as
he approached the breakfast table,
but Mrs. Sylvester, having troubles of
her own, did not comment upon it.
"I believe I must have a touch of
rheumatism," she remarked, lifting the
coffee pot wearily.
"Whatever that may be!" respond
ed her husband scornfully. "The
truth of the matter probably is that
you got all tired out running up and
down stairs when you were cleaning
the attic yesterday."
"Oh, it certainly can't be that," she
replied, "because you know, the doc
tors say now that running up and
down atalra Is the very best kind of
exercise."
"The doctors!" he scoffed, trying as
he spoke to find a comfortable posi
tion for his left leg. "If we are go
ing to do ail the fool things the doc
tors advise, or refrain from doing all
the desirable things they forbid, we
shall have a delightful time of it!
"It grieves me to think," he contin
ued, "how many good things I've miss
ed because the doctors forbade them,
only to be told a little later that it
didn't make any difference, after all.
I shall never cease to regret the rich
red beefsteaks I didn't eat during a
period when I fondly trusted in the
assertion of the doctors that red meat
caused rheumatism."
"They've found out now that It's
trawberrlea," said Mrs. Sylvester. "I
was reading an article yesterday, by
a doctoi "
"No doubt you were," interrupted
her husband. "It's Just the time of
the year that the medical fraternity
would choosy for the publication of
an article denouncing strawberries
right in the season when they are the
most tempting. Why, I had a dish for
luncheon yesterday that made life
Beem worth living again. So the doc
tors have combined to deprive us'of
the solace of eating fresh strawber
ries, have they? Well, they can't
work it on me this time! I'm a pa
tient creature, but my patience has
Its limits. Not till I've forgotten the
long dreary winter, during which I
abstained from eating raw oysters for
fear of typhoid, only to read in tho
first month of the year without an R
an article by some noted medical man
asserting that the percentage of ty
phoid due to oysters is bo email as to
be negligible."
"It's best to be on the safe side,"
said Mrs. Sylvester.
"The safe side, Indeed!" he exclaim
ed. "Oh, certainly! You got a great
deal of comfort out of being on the
safe side when you used to arrange
all the' grape seeds so carefully along
the edge of your plate. . If you swal
lowed a single one by mistake you
worried for weeks in fear, of an at
tack of appendicitis! I don't notice
you troubling much about grape seeds
in 'late years. And why? Simply be
cause your feminine credulity has
been satisfied by the assertion of
some doctor that grape seeds are not
the cause of appendicitis, after all!"
Mrs. Sylvester began to look
alarmed.
"We have been exhorted to wear
flannel and not to 'wear flannel,"
b went on. "We've been admonished
to drink water during meals, after
having been sotemnly warned never to
do so."
"They do seem to change their
minds pretty often," admitted Mrs.
Sylvester.
Sylvester continued oratorlcally:
"Each succeeding generation ol doc
tors since the days of Aesculapius, or
whatever his name was, has pro
nounced false the opinions of the pre
ceding generation."
His wife looked thoroughly fright
ened. "It's perfectly dreadful!" 6he
exclaimed. "I really never thought
about it before."
"Ah-bo!" groaned Sylvester, who
had so far forgotten himself as to
draw back his left leg quickly.
"What is It, Henry?" asked his wife
anxiously. "Oh, I don't know what on
earth we should do if you were to get
sick, with the doctors all disagreeing
ind changing their minds every few
minutes!"
"Nothing's the matter with me," he
replied. "I was about to say, how
ever, that, of course, the doctors are
bound to hit It once in a while, and
there may be something, after all,
In that Idea that strawberries cause
rheumatism. I've been having a lit
tle pain in my left foot for a day or
two, and as I've been eating straw
berries every day for luncheon, I don't
know but it might be a good thing to
stop In on my way to the train and
ask the doctor what he thinks about
if
"Do!" exclaimed Mrs. Sylvester, so
interested that her own aches were
forgotten. "It's so much mors com
fortable to be sure."
The Author Who Bores.
The author who speaks about his
own books is almost as tad as a
mother who talks about her own chil
dren. Bnjam!n DltraelL
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IF HAMLET WERE A PRINTER.
By R. D. Meek cf tne Wroe Staff.
To cut or not i cut: that is the (iiu-stioii:
VflicllKT 'tis wiser for a man to suffer
Th apparent, inroad. rl small-minded ri.:s,
Or to take arms 'gainst cheap competitors.
And by price-slashing end them? To cut, to get
The order: and ly getting the order, to say we put
The K:lvsli on unfair competitors. 'tis a consum
mation Devoutly to be wished. To cut -to .uet lie.' order:
To get the biz! lVrehat.ce to get it in the neck:
aye, there's the rub:
For what man recks o cost when price he cuts'.'
And how long can ho play his losing gain;
Simply to get orders?
And lot us pause. There's the respect'
He must have for his rade, for who would deal
For long w ith one w hose argument is solely price.
With one that cuts and slashes and maltreats
His prices, simply to get orders
On which he may lose money?
Far rather bear what ills we have.
Meet unfair competition on the square,
Ask profit-bringing prices, than to yield
To 'th' impulse of the moment, and to cut.
And slice, and slash, and shade, and squeeze
Our half-gussed figures in the press
Of rivalry. Such men may gain
Some paltry orders, but must lose
Their self regard, the high esteem of others.
They stay in business for a time, 'tis true.
Mnt shame the name of printer.
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EXPDSIT ON
AT
Columbia, 8. C, Dec. 23. From
three thousand miles acrofts the con
tinent there will be brought to the
Fifth National Corn Exposition here
next month an exhibit in which com
i will not bo featured. This exhibit will
come from the agricultural experiment
station in the stats of Washington,
and among other things, will feature
modern methods in the growing, hand
ling, packing and marketing of fruit,
including a demonstration of the pene
tration system of spraying; the plant
breeding work ni the station in wheat,
oats and bailey; and some of the
work on moisture requirements of
crops. '
This exliit. is a striking illustration
of the fact that the National Corn Ex
position is not .strictly speaking, 'a
corn exposition, but deals fundament
ally and educationally with all phases
of agriculture, demonstrating graphi
cally the results of experimental and
research work of various state agri
cultural institutions, the federal de
partment of agriculture, and other
agencies in rural improvement work.
The exposition will open on January
27th.
The Washington -exhibit is being
! prepared under the supervision of Mr.
'Ii. W. Thatcher, director of the ex
periment station. Mr. Thatcher is
president of the American Society of
.Agronomy. He is being assisted in
making up this exhibit by Mr. Alex
jCarlyle, station cerealist, and Mr. J.
ii!,. Dumas, who is a member of the ex
tension force of the college, a director
of the National Apple Show, a former
'president of the State Horticultural
Society. The two last named gentle-
I men will accompany the exhibit to the
exposition, to demonstrate it and ex
plain to all visitors points of interest
i j
tiuu value.
Will Pension Employes.
The following circular of vast im
portance to all employes of the Frisco
has been issued by President Winchell
land heartily approved by Chairman
Yoakum.
The St. Louis & San Francisco Kail
road Company.
j The Fort Worth & Rio Grande Uail
Way Company.
St. Louis & San Francisco & Texas
Railway Company.
j Taris &. Croat Northern Railroad
Company.
j OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT,
j St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 20, 1912.
j It has been determined that a plan
for granting pensions to employes of
I these companies, for superannuation!
or disability, following long service on'
these lines, shall be made effective
July 1, mn. !
I Details of the plan will be announced i
before that date. In the meantime, it
is thought that this advance notice
may bring enocuragement to the em
ployes as a whole, as well as comfort
and holiday cheer to some of those
who are approaching years, of retire
ment. Yours cordially,
' 13. L. WINCHELL, President.
1 Heartily approved,
IS. F. YOA9KUM, Chairman.
Mrs. Porterfield arrived yesterday
from Pickerine, Mo., and will visit her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Lionberger,
two miles north of this city for the
next several days.
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Assistant Highway Commissioner to
Prepart Road Laws.
Oklahoma City, Dec. 23. Announc
ing his belief that public officials
should not -engage in advocating legis
lative measures which might affect
the duties of their offices, and that he
had been requested by the legislative
committee of the Oklahoma State
(lood Roads association to actively
engage in preparing and presenting a
new code of road laws to the legisla
ture, Assistant State Highway Com
missioner Clark Hudson tendered his
resignation to the department Satur
day. Mr. Hudson has recured ollices in
the Colcord building, from which the
legislative campaign will be conducted.
His letter of resignation, addressed
to Commissioner Sidney Suggs of the
highway department, Is as follows:
' "I have been requested by the legis
lative committer Of the State Good
Roads association, to prepare a tenta
tive draft of the measures which will
be presented to the legislature by that
body as a complete code of road laws
for the state, and I do not feel that I
can consistently do so and remain in
any manner officially connected with
the state highway department. 1 do
not believe that public officials should
ibscome advocates for or against any
legislation which might affect the du
ties of their offices. Therefore, since
1 am and have been more interested
in securing results in the good roads
movement than I can possibly be in
the nourish of an official title, which
I think the report of the work of .this
department will verify, I am resigning
in order that I may be of more im
mediate service to the cause.'
Other members of the legislative
committee are: II. M. Johnson, Chan
dler; W'. E. Crown, Sapulpa; C. M.
j Foe hheiuier, Chickasha; C. J. Wrights
jman, Tulsa; Itoone Williams, Lehigh;
' J. W. IIock?r, Purcell; George H. Dod
st. a and E. E. Blake, Oklahoma City.
.Its duty is to prepare legislation in
line with the demands of the State
Good Roads association and affiliated
bodies, comprising several thousands
of members over the state. Mr. Hud
son is secretary of the state organiza
tion and familiar with road legislation
in all the states. He has made special
j study and personal investigation of
;roads in half the states of the nation.
NOTICE.
The 13th of January, 1913, will be
the opi ning of the second semester of
tho ( ity schools at which date all pupils
that have become of school age since
! September may enter. All natrons
that have childre i 'falling under the
above conditions should start them in
at once as this will close Friday even
ing the; 10th of January, allowing only
one week for beginners to enter.
Marriage licenses were issued to
day to Oscar D. Jenkins, age 2G of
Bluejacket and Miss Lillie Hicks, age
18 of Miami. To Charley Newman,
age 22 of Central ia and Miss Bessie
Kelly, age 22, also of Centralia, and to
Emil C. Anderson, age 34 and Miss
Lorene Ridenhour, age 21, both of Vinita.
GLARK HUDSON
FOR GOOD ROADS
NEED FOR AUCTIONEER
SOOD MEN ALWAYS IN DEMAND
IN THAT LINE.
Needed Qualifications Are Many, but
the Profession is One Well
Worth Following.
Tho successful auctioneer must have
many qualifications.
To right any wrong opinion, if one
might exist, regarding auctioneers, I
will give a brief synopsis of my opin
ion, same being founded upon many
years of past experience and from a
very careful study and a close observa
tion during that time. The auction bus
iness no doubt has been greatly
abused, as havo other professions by
the unfair, dishonorable, and unlawful
methods adopted by some so-called
auctioneers.
The auction business Is a profession
and the qualifications necessary are
Indeed numerous. To become success
ful, a person must be a good judge of
values, also be able to give an intelli
gent and elaborate description of the
thousands and thousands of different
articles. Oood auctioneers are born,
not made; a person can learn to be a
doctor, lawyer, or a minister, but there
never were such advantages where a
person could go and learn to be an
auctioneer.
Then, furthermore. It Is the only
profession wherein a person can dis
play whatever ability he may possess
In different respects and can intermin
gle theteln comedy If he sees fit.
There Is not anything by which he
may refer to for reference and every
thought is extemporaneous and he
must guide himself accordingly.
Many fortunes have been made by
some auctioneers, yet we have at the
present time only a handful of thor
oughly qualified auctioneers In and
throughout the United States. Looking
backward since the time ot slavery
when the negro was sold to the high
sat bidder, we find many auctioneers
who were not only successful, but in
telligent and qualified. The auction
business Is divided Into many different
specialties, namely, live stock, high
class art and brto-a-brac, high class and
rare paintings, Jewelry, real estate, au
tomobiles, and books. Men who spe
cialize on the above, that Is making
any one of them a specialty, must be
qualified and are generally successful.
Then we have men who make no spe
cialty, but follow the lino of general
auctioneering, those men sell furniture
and other second handed articles of
lesser value, and the qualifications nec
essary In those lines are greatly lim
ited. In foreign countries the most valu
able Jewels or rare paintings of some
of the greatest celebrities are sold un
der the hammer, and those sales, like
many others, are attended by the very
best of people.
It. is not only very interesting and
amusing to attend some auction sales,
but there Is where some goods have
been slaughtered and where some de
cided bargains have been obtained. It
Is Indeed very strange that we have
such a few thoroughly qualified auc
tioneers of any prominence, but we do
know a great many men have tried to
break In, but only to fall by the way
side. Exchange.
NOTES OF SCIENCE.
An electrically driven machine to
(.plit kindling wood Is a notelty.
The population of Jamaica has In
creased 30 per cent. In the last 20
years.
Electrolytic etching Is used by a
new process to produce hardened
steel dies.
According to recent expert estimates
China produces almost 10,000,000 tons
of coal a year.
Liberia will be given a wireless sta
tion with 2,500 miles radius , by a
French company.
Operated much like a job printing
press Is a new rapid printing ma
chine for photographs.
A red hot poker will soften old put
ty and make Its retooval from around
window panes an easy matter.
It has been estimated that It costs a
dollar to Btop an ordinary passenger
train moving at a 50-mIl speed.
London has more than 1&00 motor
omnibuses and the number Is being in
creased at a rate of about 30 a week.
Of Spain's 4,130 coal mines only C01
are officially recorded as productive,
yielding but about 4,000,000 tons a
year.
An international congress on hy
drology, climatology, and geology will
be held at Madrid in October of next
yc-.tr.
For treating goods returned by cus
toniers a New York department store
has installed a complete sterilizing
plant.
The oldest map of the heavens, con
taining 1,400 stars, was made in China
600 P.. C. and Is in the National library
at Paris.
Arizona and Montana together pro
duced more than half of the United
States' record breaking copper output
last year.
An electric cab which is finding fa
vor in Berlin Is a three-wheelfd af
fair with the body and feats com
pletely Inclosed.
Cold lace and embroidery can be
cleaned with powdered burnt alum, ap
plied with a soft brush and wiped off
with a soft cloth.
For the use of Immigrants a two
story hotel with sleeping accommoda
tions for 3,200 persons has been open
ed at Buenos Aires.
For mission work in rural England
an automobile has been equipped with
an altar and other fittings and d'llj
coniecratsd by church authorities.
CHILDREN'S BUREAU
FIELD El
Department of Commerce And Labor,
Washington.
The Children's Bureau has completed
tho preliminary work upon its first
field inquiry, which is to be launched
immediately after Christmas. It will
take up the subject first mentioned in
the law creating the bureau, namely,
infant mortality, or the deaths of
babies under one year of age.
Statisticians in Europe and America
have recently called attention to the
astounding loss of infant life and to
the importance of making careful in
quiries into Its causes. The death rate
for the total population is slowly but
surely declining, that is adults are liv
ing on the average longer lives, but
the death rate for babies less than one
year old is not declining and, in the
words of Sir George Newman, "This is
tho broad fact which constitutes the
problem to be. considered."
Dr. Cressy L. Wilbur, chief statisti
cian for vital statistics of the United
States Census Bureau, estimates that
at least three hundred thousand babies
die annually in the United States,
which means that one baby out of every
eight dies before it is a year old.
In certain unfavorable localities this
rate is much greater. Babies in poor
neighborhoods in an American city,
for which figures are available, dio at
the rate of 373 per ono thousand babies
under one year of age, while the cor
responding rate for babies, in the good
residence quarters of the same city is
156, or less than one-half as great. The
New Zealand denth rate for babies,
however, Is but 68 per one thousand
births.
The difference between th infant
death rates for the most-favored and
the least-favored city babiea supports
the statements mado by many authori
ties that at least half of the babies who
dio under one year of age could be
saved by the application of methods
with which we are already as a people
well acquainted. Thus of tho 300,000
babies dying In the United States year
ly at least 1 "30,000 could be saved. The
aim should be, of course, to reduce our
rates to those lowest terms of which at
present New Zealand la the best ex
ample. Hence the Children's Bureau
has taken the position that it is funda
mental to the work which it is ordered
by law to perform to endeavor to show
why babies perish la such numbers.
The inquiry will have some new fea
tures. It will be the first Intensive
house to house inquiry conducted by
the United States government that in
based upon birth records rather than
upon death records. Its method will
be to secure a list of all the children
born within a given year in the com
munities under consideration and to
trace each child through Its first year
of life, if it survives so long.
The schedule has been very care
fully prepared to cover the questions
of housing, " feeding, and care of the
child, the milk supply, industrial and
economic condition of the parents, san
itary conditions of the neighborhood,
etc., in fact the hygenic surroundings
of the child.
The method of this iuqulry will nec
essarily be that of visits to parents by
the women experts of the bureau. It
will be seen that this is an absolutely
democratic inquiry, involving as it does
visits to every mother of a baby born
within a given period of time. It seeks
to discover the favorable conditions
concerning children who survive and
it Is believed that its whole purpose Is
-such as to enlist the good will of the
mothers of the country who will wel
come an opportunity to co-operate with
the government iu trying to save in
fants' lives. The value of the Held
work done by the agents must neces
sarily depend upon the cordial co-operation
given them by all mothers In the
communities which they study. The
bureau mis already received most cor
dial assurances of sympathy and co
operation from mothers and health au
thorities in various parts of the coun
try. At first smaller towns outside the
large urban areas will be chosen, so
that each city can be a complete study
in Itself, comparable with later studies
and furnishing types of varying social
and industrial conditions.
All the cities in which this inquiry
will be carried on have not-yet been
selected. It is certain, however, that
at present cities can only be studied
which are in that portion of the coun
try designated as the birth "registra
tion area," that is, the New England
States, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
These are the only states recognized
by the Census Bureau as having rec
ords of birth which can be used for
statistical purposes, and this inquiry
depends upon using the birth records.
The inquiry is under the direct su
pervislo nof Mr. Ethelbert Stewart,
statistical expert of the Children's Bureau.
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