Muskogee Cimeter

FURNITURE CARPETS MATTINGS RUGS LINOLEUMS LACE CURTAINS DRAPERIES WINDOW SHADE TABLE LINENS TABLE PADS SHEETS PILLOWS PILLOW CASES TOWELS BED SPREADS COMFORTS BLANKETS QUEENSWARE CUT GLASS CHINA BRIC A. BRAG PICTURES FRAMES MOULDINGS WALL PAPER SCREENS BASKETS VOL. 10. FURNITURE CARPETS MATTINGS RUGS LINOLEUMS DEMOCRATS IN FAVOR OF REFERRING ELECTION LAW Many Business Men Signing Petition Believing Taylor Measure Is Detriment to Oklahoma. Guthrie, Ok., April 21.—Reports are being received from various election precincts throughout the state, and in almost every instance it is shown that business men of intelligence, irrespective of party affiliations, are signing the petitions to Governor Charles N. Haskell, asking his to call the election referring the Taylor election law. The general opinion among the better class of democrats is that the Taylor law is a detriment to the state's growth and development and that Oklahoma is not seeking notoriety. Business democrats, generally, look up the law as bad, selecting no special features or provisions of it to condemn, but believing as a whole it will result in no good to the state if permitted to become a statute. They believe the people will defeat the law and are willing to sign petitions asking for its defeat and vote against it when they go to the polls.-Kansas City Journal. The above is true in Muskogee. There are many honest democrats who will not wink at the stealing of a ballot or disfranchising any one. They mean for every one entitled to vote to vote. A) good citizens regardless of politics are in favor of a fair deal. COLD FEET REPUBLICANS BEWARE. Now if ever is the time for the republicans of Muskogee to rally together. A republican victory at this time means strength for the future fights which must be waged between the republicans and democrats of Oklahoma. This is not a time for idle gossiping. Every true republican should get busy and not rely too much on the current password, "all is well." There are some have been republicans here who have declared their intentions to vote against the ticket. There are others who have cold feet, and have denounced the party because of that dreadful contagion of Negrophobia. Such cusses as these are not wanted in the party and the sooner they are kicked out the better it will be for the party. The party is finding out its true supporters and the other fellows must go. We have got them going or else they would not have resorted to the mean trick of trying to disfranchise voters by having the registration officer skip. The republican ticket will win by a thousand majority. It's easy to do. The democratic colored man is humiliated by the action of his party in making the assault upon the Negro. When the democrats attempted to stop the registration by having inspectors hide out it was then that the white republicans and business men in general regardess of politics came together as one man in defense of right and insisted that the duty o inspector be performed and it was done. The democrats cannot truthfully say that a single word against a man on our ticket. All of them are splendid Americans and good republicans. Bushy Creek Baptist Church. Sunday April 18.—There was held a grand meeting at the above named church. Program rendered Thursday night. Subject the progress of the Woman's Home Mission Society. Sister Sally Rider presided Friday night. Subject the revelation of the Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. to the church. Bro. C. N. Harlin presided. Program for Saturday night. The Duties of Officers of the B. Y. P. U. Bro. W. M. Choiteau presided. Sunday School Sunday morning at the usual hour 9:30. Preaching at 11 o'clock. The second anniversary of Rev. Geo. W. McClepdon was preached by Rev. E. D. Grandy of Fort Gibson. Text. Luke 2nd chapter and 52nd verse. Preaching at 3 p. m. by E. W. Wright. Text Luke 6th chapter and 48th verse. Total collection $75. Many visitors present from Muskogee, Fort Gibson, Tablequah and Melvin; also Wagoner and other places. The Muskogee Cimeter. NOTICE NO. 825. In the District Court for the Third Judicial District of the State of Oklahoma, at Muskogee sitting. John Hisbon, Plaintiff, vs. Hattie A. Hisbon, Defendant. The defendant, Hattie A. Hisbon, will hereby take notice that she has been sued in the District Court for the Third Judicial District of the State of Oklahoma, at Muskogee sitting, by the plaintiff, John Hisbon, and that she must answer the petition therein filed on or before the 5th day of June, 1909, or the same will be taken as true and judgment rendered against her for an absolute divorce as prayed for in said petition. Witness my hand and the seal of said court this 20th day of April, 1909. TONY MATNEY, Clerk of District Court. By ROSS HOUCK, Deputy. BROWN & STEWART. Attorneys for Plaintiff. EURING SEED & COMMISSION COMPANY, 300 So. 2nd street. Call them for Seeds. Phone 2003. ECONOMY DRUG CO—A complete line of Drugs, Stationery, Perfume, etc. A new place. Call and see us. 305 So. 2nd St. Phone No. 1379. Scipio, the Roman warrior, conquored Hannible. T. X. No, we can not favor you. You had better employ your mind differently. LOCAL GLEANINGS. Mrs. A. J. Temple and her little daughter Ethel who passed through Muskogee last Friday last Friday the 16th on their way to Rentle, returned to Checotah last Sunday evening. They enjoyed the trip immensely and report all well with friends and relatives whom they visited. Dr. S. Douglak Russell arrived in the city last Sunday evening and remained over here until Monday morning, when he resumed his journey to Taft, where he has been all the week. See the Tennessee shoe, saddle and harness shop. Make and repair All work guaranteed. S. L. Berry, Mgr., 221½ So. 2nd St. Cimeter Chaperon Column. The following are answers to questions received up to Thursday 22nd inst.: X. X. Your question can not be answered through this column. We can give you any business address you want, but no private address will be given. How do you expect any one else to answer that question? If you do not know, then no one else does. However, to satisfy yourself, we suggest that you keep yourself absent from the young lady for, say a month or two and you will be able to answer the question for yourself. A. Z. If you will kindly call and interpret your letter we will try to answer it. K. Do you remember receiving any questions from you last week. Write again. Student: Carthage was a very ancient city and no doubt is the city you have in mind. DEFENDIING His Home Against Night-Riders, Negro Is Killed. After He Had Killed One and Seriously Wounded Another and His Wife Is Lashed by Man Who Resented His Remaining in Town After Being Warned to Leave. Shellman, Ga., April 13.—Defending his home against four "night-riders," Alfred Iverson, a negro, killed one assailant and wounded another before he himself was killed. Iverson had been warned to leave after a quarrel with a white man. He refused to go and at 2 o'clock this morning "night-riders" arrived. The "riders" forced their way into the negro's home and a bloody fight followed in the presence of his wife. The negro shot one assailant dead, blowing top of his head and wounding another so badly that he fell. MUSKOGEE, OKLA., APRIL 23 1909. The two other "night riders" then killed the negro and mercilessly whipped his wife. The woman notified the neighbors and the negro's body was found in the home, and also a portion of the head of the slain white man. Tonight "riders" removed the body of their dead comrade and also their wounded friend.—Advance. If there were a few more suh men as was Iverson in the south where the terror of cruel "night-riders" reign, there would be more harmony between the races. When these brutal cowards learn that the negro will kill and die in defense of his home this terror will disappear. Reeves can win in a walk if the votes of the black phalanx are counted with those of the white republican battalions. Register and then see that your neighbor does the same. Every man who is entitled to vote should register and vote as his conscience dictates. Win this election and we can win the county. This election means much for Muskogee. Vote the republican ticket. Let every man sign the petitions that are being circulated to invite the referendum against the Taylor election law. Register on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. It is absolutely necessary if you would vote at the coming election. Register and sign the referendum petition and you will have done your duty. Every citizen regardless of politics should favor a fair election; should demand that every voter entitled to vote should be allowed to vote and have that vote counted as cast. To permit anything else would say to the world, we are dishonest and cowardly and will deter honest capital from coming itno our city. We must have a square deal at any cost. There are many Negroes in Muskogee who were born in slavery and have not the advantages of an education but pay more taxes than the quill pusher of the democratic party and if a judgment was obtained in any court against them would be able to respond. Can the Times-Democrat say as much? The republican ticket must be elected. Vote it straight no matter if you do dislike some of the candidates. It is a duty you owe to your party and to your country to see to it that the city government is in the hands of the party of progress. There were five republican meetings in town last night. All of them were well attended by enthusiastic republicans who are determined to elect the ticket by the largest majority ever given and this too in spite of the threats heard on the streets supposed to com from democratic leaders. In fact, the republicans ask to be shown how a democratic majority can elect a ticket over a republican majority. REPUBLICANS Of the Fourth Ward Hold Enthusiastic Meeting. Walkers hall, the rendezvous of the fourth ward republican club, was the scene of a redhot meeting last Monday night, presided over by Chairman E. D. Nickens. A spirit of republican enthusiasm was manifested by each speaker and all expressed themselves as favoring the election of the entire republican ticket. Among those who spoke was Mr. P. B. J. Hudson of Gatesville. This was the first meeting the club had called since the primary election, and it was well attended. Petitions asking for the referendum of the Billups-Taylor election law were circulated at this meeting and about sixty signers secured. NO MUD SLINGING. We don't believe in mud slinging in a campaign and shall throw none in this one. So far as we know the personnel of hot httickets are gentlemen and honset men, but the republicans, as we see it, are better filled for the offices than the others. Both tickets are composed of white men, the evening Democrat to the contrary notwithstanding. ST. LUKE'S PHARMACY. For your souvenir cards. We have the finest assortment in town. COMPLETE WITH RUBBER TIRES $90.00 Full Wrought Gear, Twin Auto Seat and Leather Trimmed C. R. BIRMINGHAM, THE BUGGY MAN 117 S. Main Street, Scales Building NEGROES OF VIRGINIA Pay Taxes on $25,000,000 Worth of Property. Richmond, Va.—Investigation by the state authorities has brought to light that the negroes of Virginia own real and personal property assessed at $25,000,000, and own one-sixth of all the land in the state; that they own property not listed for taxation valued at $10,000,000, making a gran ditalal of $22,000,000. The Daily News-Leader, of Richmond has the following to say editorially about the negroes in累 "Figures from the second auditor's report made a showing of negro owned property in Virginia which may surprise many people. As a holder of real estate and personal property, the negro fifteen years ago hardly counted, now he is a considerable factor. He pays taxes on more than $25,000,000 of property. He owns property in every county of the hundred in the state but two, and in every city of the nineteen. "There is curious interest in the fact that Dickinson county Virginia, probably is the one county south of the Mason and Dixon line in which there is not a single negro citizen or resident of either sex or any age. "The negroes paid for the fiscal year -907-08 total taxes to the state of Virginia of $282,570. In 1900 their total tax paid in the state was $188,193. This shows an increase in tax payments by the negroes of nearly $100,000 in eight years, and indicates that they have gained rapidly in material wealth since the enactment of the new constitution taking them out of politics. In other words, calculating roughly but approximately correctly and using round figures, the negro in the eight years iron 1900 to 1908 gained more than a third as much in taxable property as they had gained in the whole thirty-five years of the war to 1900. "It is notable that in the city of Richmond the taxes paid by colored persons in 1900 were $11,000, while in 1908 they were $22,000. This is a gain of more than 100 per cent in the eight years because the tax rate we believe, is slightly lower now than it was in 1900.—Indiana Register. Steel Vs. Steel. The Negroes of Muskogee have done the proper thing, they assisted in nominating a republican ticket and it is steel against steel. A white ticket against a white ticket. White men against white men. If stealing is done it must be white men stealing from white men. There is no Negro domination anywhere. Whoever wins it will be white domination. The Negro will unfurnish his share of the votes and puts it up to the white republicans to see to it the white democrats do not steal the election. The democrats are on the run and making a great game of bluff. It won't work. Our fellows are as solid as a stone wall. We have the votes and they will be cast for With the enormous increase in room added to our store we are prepared to serve the Public better than ever in the Furniture Carget, Wall Paper and Queensware lines. Our Prices and terms are the fairest. BUY YOUR GROCERIES, SEED STUFF, GARDEN AND FIELD SEED FROM US. WE KEEP A FRESH STOCK ON HAND TO MEET THE DEMANDS OF OUR TRADE. NO ORDERS TOO SMALL. YOURS TO SERVE. THE CLEMONS MERCANTILE CO., 306 SOUTH SECOND STREET. PHONE 2003. the republican ticket. They must be counted as cast. No honest man will ask more nor concede less. There are many honest democrats who abhor anything but a square deal and will not join in a steal. thereby, showing their patriotism and spiking the democratic gun of negro domination.—Editor. WHITE CTIZENS JIM CROWED. THE INTERESTS OF PROPERTY OWNERS. The undenied fact that Democrates number four-fifths of the property owners of Muskogee has set the other one-fifth to thinking. The four-fifths see, know and painfully realize that their holdings are being depreciated and the city's progress much retarded by the domination of the negro and both classes feel that it is high time to get the city and themselves out from under the blighting conditions and advertise to the world that in April, 1969, the city emanated itself from such blasting control and declared herself forever free from what is admitted to be a curse and a handicap. Too long has Muskogee, the very queen of the new state's cities, been laboring under the reputation of negro supremacy and white subordination, and her citizens, those who have the city's real interests at heart, should band together and redeem it and then publish the fact to the world that it is both a good place to live and a safe place to own and enjoy property. That such a sentiment is rife and active can not be gainsaid, and a little thought upon the matter will line up every white vote in the city for the ticket nominated and endorsed by white people. The election will be held within two weeks and before ten days expire every white voter should put patriotism above his desire to have the negro control Muskogee and give both his time and his vote to her redemption. — Times-Democrat. The Democrat as usualvents its spleen against the negro. There is not a word of truth in the above scurrilous article. The negroes pay a very fair proportion of the taxes of this city. Some of them pay as high as $100 taxes and we know of one small fellow who paid $133 a few days ago and that was only half of his taxes. The fact is that republicans pay the major portion of the taxes. We know that one republican paid $6,000 taxes a few days ago and that only will offset about half of the poor democracy. We know many negroes who pay more taxes than that prepudced cuss who wrote that scurrilous article. The thing that hurts the democratic quill pusher is that negroes are paying a large portion of the tax and are not asking for representation with the enormous in- room added to more we are prepared to the Public better over in the Furniture, Wall Paper and sware lines. Our and terms are the D STUFF, GARDEN AND FIELD FRESH STOCK ON HAND TO MEET NO ORDERS TOO SMALL. YOURS CANTILE CO., 306 SOUTH SECOND thereby, showing their patriotism and spiking the democratic gun of negro domination. Editor. WHITE CITIZENS JIM CROWED What appears to have been an exasperating case of the conductor of the first out-going barn car on the Hyde park line this morning failing to do his duty was reported by a number of white citizens today. According to their story every seat in the car was pre-empted by about twenty negroes who were on their way to work and some eight or ten white men were "Jim Crowed" and compelled to stand on the rear platform. The white passengers protested to the conductor against such treatment, but they say he disregarded their complaints and placed the marker in a position to give the negroes practically the entire inside of the car. Among the passengers on the car was Under Sheriff Pooper.—Muskogee Times-Democrat. "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." The above article appeared in the Times-Democrat last Tuesday and shows conclusively that the infernal Jim Crow law as applied in this city works both ways and evidently hurts both ways. The negroes on this car had a perfect right to any part of the car which they were first to occupy. The street car companies have not provided a special apartment for either race. They have a line "marker" which is a movable contraption made to slide from one end of the car to the other. On one side of this board or "marker" the word "white" is printed, and on the other side the word "colored" or "negroes." Often the white citizens are in the majority on these cars and the marker is pushed up until not more than one seat on either side of the aisle is left for colored passengers. At such times—and that is frequent—colored people are compelled to stand on the platform and steps. But not once have they complained. It seems that these few "white citizens" who registered complaints against a conductor who did his simple duty to the public, are infurated because these negroes were not compelled to yield their seats to them. It is just such low rate cusses as these that all true men should try to eliminate. Away with that class of men and let real men take the front ranks. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE CIMETER. $1 per year. See J. A. 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A South Bend Watch Frocen to oohdicglheape perfect time Sr creer ceil Ps wise or cd Hee aoe EL LS ET os Hoy So stat kien waac toners SOUIW BEND WATCH CO., Seath Bend, tod. J. C. STUBBS HARRIMAN’S RIGHT HAND MAN. Type of Persons Who Build Up Great Raiirosds—A Freight Clerk When Huntington Found Him Years Age. New York—A mag with sharp. piercing eyes and a face smooth sheven and heavily lined sat lstentng to the efforts made by the attorneys for the government at a recent hear- ing to show that the combination of rafiroads formed by E. H. Harriman was {legal and should be dissolved under the Sherman act. At different times the testimony had to do with the peach crop of Calt- fornia, the apples of Washington, the mineral products of Arizona and the alfalfa grown on the plains of Kansas, but no matter what the crop was ot where it was grown this man seemed to know more about it than the law- yers or witnesses. This was because he was the railroad traffic director of one of the biggest railroad systems of the country. J. C. Stubbs is the traffic direetor ot the Harriman lines. He is perhaps the best example in this country of what the railroad tra fe man bas be- come, because with the lines acquired by Mr. Harriman, Mr Stubbs now controls absolutely the traffic moving over 27,000 miles of rail and boat Mines, a far greater mileage than it has ever before fallen to any one traf- fic man to control. It t the business of a trae man of @ railroad to know not only all there is to know about a railroad it- = = = > 4 ® 4 ay Cf By WY /}) TH NAM self, how steep its grades are, how many ears can be bandied by any of {ts locomotives and other things about tte operation, but he must also know What crops are grown along its lines, what crops might grow and what in- dustries eau be fostered in the terri- tory which his system covers, In short, he must know about as much an the census bureau and the depart- ment of agriculture combined. It would be a poor trafie man, for tn- stance, who couldn't telt offhand jast about how many peaches were pro- duced in a state throngh whieh his ‘road passed, but when you are trate director of a system covering with all its Ines more than half of the country thin becomes a pretty big job. ‘The trate man of the big railrond generally ranks next to the president. Sometimes he is the president, for traffic experts have had the ability recognized by promotion to such places @, many Instances, as for ex: ample, President Ripley of the Santa Te. 1p the case of the Harriman lines the pAbsident fs not the practical traf- fle man, Among railroxd men Mr. Stubbs is frequently spoken of as the traiic brains of Mr. Harriman, and to him have been credited many of the latter's moves, most of which are {n- spired by considerations of trate, such for instance as the acquirement of the Hlinols Central and the stock purehases in many of the important Hines in the east Stubbs started in when a young man as clerk In the freight office a Oakland, That was back tn the ‘70s when Collis P. Huntington was build ing gip bis railroad system, When he found ont how much Stubbs could fle away In his head he began to pro mote him rapidly unt!) he finally be came the traffic director of the South ern Paeific, and as such the man whe made the rates for the Pacific coas and its two Important outlets. ‘The headquarters of Mr. Harriman’? traffic director are in Chicago, Fron | there he gives his orders, whieh ar exeented on the boat lines on the At lantic coast as Well as on the rai lines across the western plains, an all the time Mr. Stubbs ts watching what the other transcontinental car riers are doing, particularly thos dominated by the genius further north J.J. Hi, Watehing the flow of traf fle from ocean to ocean and that pu off at way stations, Mr. Stubbs keep making mental notes and every weel or xo comes on and has a talk wit Mr. Harriman, who got Mr, Stubb when he got the Sovthern Pactile an fumediately made him commandiny general of the trasic of all the Hue he controlled. AILING WOMEN. Keep the Kidneys Well and the Kid. neys Will Keep You Well Bick, suffering, languid women are learning the true cause of bad backs and how to cure th Mrs. W. G. Davis, of Groesbeck Texas, cays: “Back. = aches hurt me so I and sick headaches aac Bow to cure them. Mrs. W. G. Davis, of Groesbeck. Texas, says: “Back. = aches hurt me so I 3 could hardly stand. Spells of dizziness and sick headaches were frequent and the action of the kid. © neys Was irregular. Soon after I began taking Doan's Kid- ney Pills I passed several gravel stones. I got well and the trouble bas Bot returned. My back is good and Strong, and my general health is bet- ter Sold by ali dealers. 50 cents a box, Foster-Mitburn Co. Buffalo, N. ¥. Too Literal. “Well, yes,” said Old Uncle Laszen- berry, who was intimately acquainted With most of the happenstances of the Village. “Almira Stang has broken off her engagement with Charles Henry Tootwiler. They'd be goin’ together for about eight years, durin’ which time she had been inculcatin’ into him, as you might call It, the beauties of economy; but when she discovered, just lately, that he had learnt his les fon so well that he had saved up 217 pairs of socks for her to darn im- mediately afrer the wedding, she ‘peared to couclude that he had taken her advice a little too literally, and broke off the match.”"—Puck. Intruder Among the War Dogs. Prof. William Lyon Phelps of Yale Went to West Point last fall to lec- ture. He was lecturing in the chapel, the cadets were rigidly paying at- tention, erect, eyes front, each man ® ramrod of military etiquette. An Irish setter entered the chapel door and ambled sniffingly down the aisle and up on to the platform. The ca- dets squirmed under the eagle eyes of their officers but not a man smiled. “Billy” noticed the strain. He looked down at the dog wagging its tail benev- olently on the rostrum. “What! How's this?” said Prof. Phelps. “A setter? Why, I expected to see noth- ing but West Pointers up here."— Yale Alumni Weekly. The Missionary Mule. “That mule,” said the old farmer, “is what call a ‘missionary mule,’ an’ Ill tell you why: It throwed one man on his head, an’ when the man wuz able to be up an’ about ag'in, he went to preachin’; an’ the last time the sheriff come to levy on that mule the critter kicked him ‘cross the county line, whar they wuz holdin’ a campmeetin’ an’ I'm blest ef the sheriff didn’t git relig- jon ag’ quit runnin’ fer office—wich cenagonnce hard to do, seein’ that the habit run in his blood. I tell you, nuthin’ in this here worl’ is to be despised, wen as humble a critter as ‘a mule kin be a missionary!” cies thaaieie ‘The members of the church voted that their dearly-beloved and devoted pastor should have a vacation, and so he decided that he would visit a broth- er-worker in the neighboring village. This good brother recognizing his fellow-worker in the Lord way back among the congregation, on Sunday morning, and wishing to show every courtesy, asked him to lead in prayer. But the visitor calmly replied: “You'll have to excuse me, dear brother, I'm ‘on my vacation."—Ladies’ Home Jour. nal. Jess Said Her Prayers. One day three-year-old Baby Jess was visiting her grandmother, who was very devout. She asked Baby Jess if her mother had taught her to say her prayers. Jens answered: “Yes, ma‘am," “Whom do you pray to, dear, and ask to forgive your nanghty ways?” “Sometimes 1 pray to mother's knees and sometimes to the bed."— Delineator, “COFFEE DOESN'T HURT ME” yw Tales That Are Told. i Tales ‘hat Are Told, “T'was one of the kind who wouldn't believe that coffee was hurting me,” says a N. Y. woman. “You just couldn't convince me its use was connected with the heart and stomach trouble I suffered from most of the time, “My trouble finally got #0-bad 1 had to live on milk and toast almost entirely for three or four years, Still I loved the coffee and wouldn't believe tt could do such damage, “What I needed was to quit coffee and take nourishment fn such forts as my stomach could digest. “Thad read much about Postum, but never thought it would fit my case until one day I decided to quit coffee ) and give it a trial and make sure about t. So 1 got a package and carefully followed the directions, ‘Soon I began to get better and was able to eat carefully selected foods without the aid of pepsin or other di- gestants and it was not long before I was really a new woman physically, “Now | am healthy and sound, can eat auything and everything that comes along and I know this wonder- ful change js all due to my having quit coffee and got the nourishment I needed through this delicious Postum, “My wonder ts why everyone con't give up the old coffee and the troubles that go with it and build themselves up as I have done, with Postum.” Easy to prove by 10 days’ trial of Postutm in place of coffee. The reward is big. “There's a Reason.” one sppenrs from tite to time. Shey She ienuine, true, wad fall of Raman Gan THE WRETCHES. | a a A | a, . oe ( ie A a Se a Uncle—How fs {t, young man, that you failed again ia your examination? Nephew—Why, the wretches usted me the very same question 1 could not answer last year! Letting Him Down Easy. A young man of very limited means, after the marriage ceremony, present- ed to the minister 27 large copper cents, all spread out on the palm of his right hand. “This fs all I've got, parson,” he said. Seeing a disappoint. ed look in the minister's face, he add- ed: “It we have any children we will send them to your Sunday school.”— Success Magazine. eet 0 ie Bee Spring is here. Your system needs toning up to fortify against the long summer's debilitating influence. Sim- mon’s Sarsaparilla will build you up, make you strong and carry you through without that usual “want to lle down” feeling. ‘50e and $1.00 per bottle. Usually They Are. “Professor, what is the meaning of the werd ‘monologue” ” “MyA dear sir, consider the deriva. tion of it. ‘Mono’ is slang for ‘money,’ and ‘logos’ means ‘a word. Monologue, words for money.” Deception. “Did a man ever kiss you against your will?” “No; but some have thought they did."—Brooklyn Life, Time is the best test. 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Many a headache is not so much due to the grape as the potato. I yield a sweet syrup. In this form I am often present in cheap cocoa, honey, butter and lard. Let the corpulent try as they will, they cannot escape yours truly. A Grateful Customer. I suffered for four years with eczema on the ends of eight of my fingers. Had it so long my fingers drew up and could do nothing at all at times, and I tried almost everything that I ever heard of, including several largely advertised ointments, spending many dollars for them. Never a thing did it any good at all. At last I saw in a home paper Hunt's Cure was being advertised and tried only a part of one box, which cost me only 50c, and it cured them. Now I can wash or do anything which before I could not without my fingers bleeding, burning and paining me very much. If this ever comes back I surely will know just what to get. I wish every friend and stranger that had anything of the kind could have seen my fingers before I used this and see them now. It is the best Ointment on earth. That 500c box was worth a hundred dollars to me. You deserve all thanks that can be given you for that wonderful salve, Hunt's Cure." MRS. J. I. BLAOCK To A. B. Richards Med. Co., Sherman, Texas. GOING THE PACE. Tortoise—What, have you started a motor car? Snail—Yes, one must move with the times, you know. Question of the Hour. "We are really at a loss to know how to punish Earle," she said. "We have tried all the punishment in our kindergarten list without effect. We have reasoned with him and told him that he will cease to be our pretty pet and will grow up to be a bad, bad man, and—" "Madam," interrupted the gentleman of the old school, who was visiting them, "you will find on the trunk in my room a very excellent strap that I shall not need temporarily." But, of course, he didn't know anything about modern methods. $100 Reward. $100. Offensive Advice. "Madam," said the medical man, gravely, "you must practice filling your lungs with deep breaths of pure air." "An' bust the smithereens out of my new directry gown," sniffed the lady. "I think I see myself." And turning on her high heels she haughtily left the apartment.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Ask Your Druggist for Allen's Foot-Ease "I tried ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE recently, and have just bought another supply. It has cured my corns, and the hot, burning and itching sensation in my feet, which I have been unable to be without it now.—Mrs. W. J. Walker, Camden N. J." Sold by all Druggings, 25c A Hot Time All Around. Lawyer—What did the prisoner say when you accused him of arson? Witness—He answered with heat that such a charge was a burning shame. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES FOR RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES. BACKAQUE FR 375 "Guaranteed" ft Cannot Be Done by Using Cheap Material and Cheap Painters. In arranging for painting, a good many property-owners try to save money by employing the painter who offers to do the job cheapest—or try to save money by insisting on a low-priced paint. But no property-owner would run such risks if he realized what must be taken into consideration in order to get a job that will wear and give thorough satisfaction. No houseowner will go wrong on the painting question if he writes National Lead Company, 1902 Trinity Building, New York, for their Houseowner's Painting Outfit No. 49, which is sent free. It is a complete guide to painting. It includes a book of color schemes for either exterior or interior painting, a book of specifications, and an instrument for detecting adulteration in paint materials. Nearly every dealer has National Lead Company's pure white lead. (Dutch Boy Painter trademark) If yours has not notify National Lead Co., and arrangements will be made for you to get it. "Why didn't you come around ear- Her? The snow is all melted away." "Dat's just my luck, lady. Every time I feels like workin' de sun comes out and does me out of a job!" (tched and Scratched Until Blood Ran —$50 Spent on Useless Treatments —Disease Seemed Incurable. "When my little boy was two and a half months old he broke out on both cheeks with eczema. It was the itchy, watery kind and we had to keep his little hands wrapped up all the time, and if he would happen to get them uncovered he would claw his face till the blood streamed down on his clothing. We called in a physician at once, but he gave an ointment which was so severe that my babe would scream when it was put on. We changed doctors and medicine until we had spent fifty dollars or more and baby was getting worse. I was so worn out watching and caring for him night and day that I almost felt sure the disease was incurable. But finally reading of the good results of the Cuticura Remedies, I determined to try them. I can truthfully say I was more than surprised, for I bought only a dollar and a half's worth of the Cuticura Remedies (Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Pills), and they did more good than all my doctors' medicines I had tried, and in fact entirely cured him. His face is perfectly of the least spot or scar of anything. Mrs. W. M. spot or scar. Mrs. W. W. Comerer, Burnt Cabins, Pa. Sept. 15, 1908." Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. Sole Props, Boston "Duke," said the helix, eagerly, "did you see father?" "What? Lose your nerve again? Why don't you brace up and talk like a man—a subject of a king on whose domain the sun never sets!" "Can't," monned the duke. "All the time I was in your father's office he kept grinning at a big painting." "What painting?" "The battle of Bunker Hill."—Lipcott's. Not Our Discovery. The Greek, Eratosthenes, 250 B. C., taught the doctrine of the rotundity of the earth, and the ideas of the sphere, its poles, axis, the equator, arctic and antarctic circles, equinoctial points and the solstices were quite generally entertained by the wise men of that time. There were plenty of men in Rome, therefore, who were prepared to talk about the earth as a sphere and to make globes illustrating their ideas. Red, Weak, Weary, Watery Eyes Relieved by Murine Eye Remedy. Compounded by Experienced Physicians. Conforms to Food and Drug Law. Murine doesn't Smart; Soothes Eye Pain. Try Murine in Your Eyes. At Druggists. The Easiest Way. "I wonder if there isn't some way we can get our assemblyman to advocate good roads?" "Give him an auto."—Brooklyn Life. Lewis' Single Binder — the famous straight 5c cigar, always best quality. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. The sugar production of the United States does not grow with the consumption. If you wish beautiful, clear, white clothes use Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. He who is buried in thought dodges the undertaker. YOUNG CHARLIE TAFT NEW WHITE HOUSE BOY IS A MANLY LAD. Dominant Trait That Distinguishes Him Is That He Is Unspoiled— A Lover of Travel, History and Adventure. Washington.—Charlie Taft is rapidly coming into his own. As the American people come to have, at first hand and through the newspapers, a closer acquaintance with the president-elect's youngest son there is bound to be an increasing appreciation of and admiration for one of the most likable and most manly lads that ever shone in the reflected glory of a famous father. It is not too much to predict that Master Charles Phelps Taft—named for his uncle, who resides in Cincinnati—will become, during his father's service as chief magistrate, the most popular boy that ever resided at the White House. And this prophecy can be made with due realization of the hold on the public gained, in turn, by the storied "Tad" Lincoln, the Garfield boys and, latterly, the very mischievous young Roosevelts. The great dominant trait that distinguishes Charles Taft is that he is absolutely unspoiled. It would seem as though he is virtually unspoilable. The wonder of all this can only be realized when you stop to think what his life has been during the 11½ years of his existence. His father has been in public life ever since young Charles was old enough to take notice of things about him. The boy spent years in the official atmosphere of the Philippines, traveled around the world with his father, feted all the while and has been made much of in Wasb 1910 Charlie Taft. ington, Cincinnati. Hot Springs and Augusta during the interval between Taft's nomination for the presidency and his inauguration. It is more than possible that something of Charlie Taft's manliness is due to that free rein within reasonable limits, which the new president and Mrs. Taft have always allowed for the development of the individuality of each of their children. In her close personal attention to her home and the upbringing of her children Mrs. Taft comes pretty near being a mode housewife, but for all that, she has ever exercised the closest supervision over the schooling of her children and other main essentials of their training she has not made the mistake of hedging them about with what might perhaps be called superfluous precautions. The result of the commendable Taft parental policy is shown in the healthful self-reliance of which young Charles is possessed. As may he surmised from the foregoing, Charlie Taft has young America's proverbial interest in outdoor sport. Indeed, he goes in hard for all sorts of outdoor athletics. He started when he was in the Philippines by becoming expert at a number of the native games. When he accompanied his father on the latter's trip around the world he won a good share of the prizes in the athletic contests on the ocean steamer. When the Spanish game of diabolo became a fad in this country Charlie was an early convert and this was succeeded by roller skating, which is yet in high favor Charlie now points with pride to the fact that he is a member of the foot ball team and also the baseball team for boys of his age, at his uncle's private school in Connecticut, where he is now a pupil, and the president-to-be recently gave his youngest son a course of lessons in golf, declaring that the time to learn this game was in youth There is no pose about Charlie Taft, but no person could be long in the company of the boy and not realize the broadening influence of foreign travel of which he has had so bountiful a proportion. This boy of less than 12 years has been twice around the world, once via Suez and the other time by way of Siberia, and on both journeys he had opportunities for seeing places and meeting distinguished people not vouchsafted to any other juvenile in his generation. For all that Charlie Taft is such a devotee of athletics he is almost equally fond of reading—thus presenting an unusual combination of tastes. It is pretty near an axiom that if you see Charlie indoors he has a book in his hand. History and the usual favorite tales of boyish adventure have the preference in his literary menu. Charlie will celebrate his twelfth birthday anniversary September 20 next. You Look Prematurely Old Because of those ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. Use "LA CREOLE" HAIR RESTORER. PRICE, $1.00, retail. SAVING PAINT MONEY HIS LUCK. BABY'S WATERY ECZEMA Cured by Cuticura for $1.50. "Well?" "We talked about the weather." Not Our Discovery. The Easiest Way. "Give him an auto."—Brooklyn Life. ```markdown ``` WHAT JOY THEY BRING TO EVERY HOME as with joyous hearts and smiling faces they romp and play—when in health—and how conducive to health the games in which they indulge, the outdoor life they enjoy, the cleanly, regular habits they should be taught to form and the wholesome diet of which they should partake. How tenderly their health should be preserved, not by constant medication, but by careful avoidance of every medicine of an injurious or objectionable nature, and if at any time a remedial agent is required, to assist nature, only those of known excellence should be used; remedies which are pure and wholesome and truly beneficial in effect, like the pleasant laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna has come into general favor in many millions of well informed families, whose estimate of its quality and excellence is based upon personal knowledge and use. Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna has also met with the approval of physicians generally, because they know it is wholesome, simple and gentle in its action. We inform all reputable physicians as to the medicinal principles of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, obtained by an original method, from certain plants known to them to act most beneficially, and presented in an agreeable syrup in which the wholesome Californian blue figs are used to promote the pleasant taste; therefore it is not a secret remedy, and hence we are free to refer to all well informed physicians, who do not approve of patent medicines and never favor indiscriminate self-medication. Please to remember and teach your children also that the genuine Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna always has the full name of the Company—California Fig Syrup Co.—plainly printed on the front of every package and that it is for sale in bottles of one size only. If any dealer offers any other than the regular Fifty cent size, or having printed thereon the name of any other company, do not accept it. If you fail to get the genuine you will not get its beneficial effects. Every family should always have a bottle on hand, as it is equally beneficial for the parents and the children, whenever a laxative remedy is required. The perfect principle of the MUNGER System Gins gives the grower more profit to the acre; the ginner more bales to the day. Close ginning, steady running and greatest profits are certain characteristics of the The famous MUNGER System is a saving of time and power, and will handle cotton too wet for any other gin. The MUNGER Separator, Lint Flue System and Battery Condenser decidedly improve the sample of the cotton, as compared with any other gin. Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any other dye. One 10c package colors all filters. They dye in cold water better than any other dye. You can do any garment without ripping apart. Write for free booklet—How to Dye, Biesse and Mix Colors. MONDE DRUG CO , Quincy, Illinois. SAMSON ROOFING ELASTIC RUBBER "Proven Best after 15 YEARS TEST." Send for Samples and Prices. If your hard- ware or lumber dealer don't handle it—write ST. LOUIS ASHPALT CO., Manufacturers, Fully Guaranteed. ST. LOUIS, MO. PUTNAM Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any garment without ripping apart. Write for free boo The total number of sailing vessels in the world is double that of steam- ers. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces in- fammation, allays pain, carews skin, coils a bottle. No woman really believes that she is in the homely class. SPOHN'S DISTEMPER CURE JUST DOUBLE 320 ACRES INSTEAD OF 160 ACRES As further inducement to settlement of the wheat-raising lands of Western Canada, the Canadian Government has increased the area that may be taken by a FARMS WESTERN CANADA FREE As further inducement to settlement of the wheat-raising lands of Western Canada, the Canadian Government has increased the area that may be taken by a homestead to 320 acres—160 free and 160 to be purchased at $3.00 per acre. These lands are in the grain-raising area, where mixed farming is also carried on with unqualified success. A railway will be built to Hudson Bay, bringing the world's markets a thousand miles near these wheat fields. The railways and churches are convenient, climate excellent, railways close to all settlements, and local markets good. "It would take time to assimilate the revelations that a visit to the great empire lying to the north of the continent, the Correspondence of a National Editor, who visited Western Canada in August, 1908. Lands may also be purchased from railway and land companies at low prices and on easy terms. For pamphlets, maps and information as to low railway rates, apply to Superintendent of the authorized Canadian Government Agent: This Trade-mark Eliminates All Uncertainty in the purchase of paint materials. It is an absolute guarantee of purity and quality. For your own protection, see that it is on the side of every key of white lead you buy. NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY 1902 Trinity Building, New York DEALS FOR HOME clean, ornamental, convenient, cheap, not spill, or tip or injure any thur- Guarantee, will refund, offee, or refund, failure, or so refund 150 De Kale Auction Brooklyn, New York LIVE, STOCK AND MISCELLANEOUS In great variety for sale at the lowest prices by WESTERN NOWSAFER UBUS, Kansas City, Missouri OUR POCKET GOLDFONDER is the best in- strument for locating Hidden Treasure- sources in Needles with Guide Book Catalogue # C. 6. 8, WATER CITY, Depa- harsburg, Pa. W. N. U., MUSKOGEE, NO. 17-1909. For DISTEMPER Pink Eye, Epizootic Shipping Fever & Catarrhal Fever Pure cure and positive preventive, no matter how horses at any age are infected or "exposed." Liquid, given on the tongue, acts on the Blood and Glands, expels the poisonous germ from the skin. Use only with a licensed live stock remedy. Curse La lappa among human beings and a fine kidney remedy. Ask and $1 a bottle. So $1 a dozen. Cut this out. Keep it. Show to your doctor, who will get it for you. Bookist, La lappa, Distemper, Cats and Dogs. SPOHN MEDICAL CO., Chemists and Bacteriologists GOSHEN, IND., U. S. A. Newville Press Do you want a stylish up-to-date buggy like cut,eitner Steel or Rubber tire at a reasonable price? If so, we have it and dozens of other kinds. We have an array of vehicles on our floors that are beauties that range in price from $45.00 to $400.00. Our stock is the largest in Eastern Oklahoma. Let us show you. Hooker-Hendrix Hardware Company West Okmulgee Ave., Muskogee, Okla. W. H. TWINE, Editor. A. J. SIMTHERMAN, Advertising Manager and Traveling Agent. Published Every Week in the interest of the Negro by the Climeter Publishing Co. Entered at the Postoffice at Muskogee, Okla., as Second Class Mail Matter. REPUBLICAN TICKET. Municipal Election. April 27. For Mayor—ira L. Reeves. For City Clerk—Morgan Caraway. For City Treasurer—Murray G. Sells. For City Attorney—W. F. Ramph endahl. For Street Commissioner—W. H. Harper. For Treasurer Board of Education—J. H. Chandler. For Councilmen. First Ward—James King, Felix Winkler. Second Ward—W. T. Granger, B. F. Stewart. Third Ward—Grant Foreman, J. L. Huff. Fourth Ward—G. W. Seibold, (Contested). For Members Board of Education. First Ward—Myron White, S. W. Alken. Second Ward—A. W. Bonnell, J. N. Wilson. Fourth Ward—C. C. Butte, J. N. Wilkinson. PROVISIONS FOR REGISTRATION Requirements Preliminary to Tues day's Election. All eligible voters who have not yet registered have the opportunity to do so on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week in order to qualify themselves to participate in the municipal election of next Tuesday. All registered voters who have lost their certificates of registration must be fortified with duplicates of may have the privilege of casting the missing certificates before they their ballots. To secure duplicates of lost registration certificates voters must make affidavits to the inspectors of the precinct in which they live. This may be done at any time prior to election day. Change of Location. A voter who is duly registered but who has changed the location of his place of residence from one precinct into another since registration or from one ward into another, must go to the precinct inspector of the precinct in which he formerly lived and make affidavit concerning his removal. The inspector will then indorse on the back of his registration certificate a transfer to his new voting precinct, qualifying him to cast his ballot in the coming municipal election. In the Fourth ward where precinct lines were recently changed it will not be necessary for voters to again register or to have their registration certificates transferred if they have not changed their places of residence. Election Board's Interpretation. While the language of the Taylor municipal election laws, passed by --- THE RIGHT PLACE To buy Clothing right away Men's and Young Men's high Grade Suits $15---$20 and $25 Values Our Price $8.85--12.85 and $14.85 Marked in plain figures Clothing Manufacturers Sale 114 So. 2nd St. Scales Building THE EWING SEED, PRODUCE AND COMMISSION CO. Call on them for Your Seeds. 300 South Second Street. Phone 2003. THE RIGHT To buy Clothing Men's and You Grade Suits $15---$20 and Our Price $ and $ Marked in Clothing Manu 114 So. 2nd St. the recent legislature, the law under which the Tuesday election is to voters shall be given on the Thursday, Friday and Saturday previous to the primary election, the county election board interpreted this language differently, ruling that suh registration should take place the Thursday, Friday and Saturday previous to the municipal election—or April 22, 23 and 24. Precinct Inspectors and Voting Places The following list of precinct inspectors, their addresses and the locations of the voting places has been given out by the County Election Board: FIRST WARD Inspector Address Voting Place Precinct 1 W. J. Doyle, 100 N. J. street—Murphey's Store. Precinct 2 J. A. Bailey, Jefferson and C streets—Labor Temple. Precinct 3 M. G. Bailey, Bailey's Court, Wall street—Callahan and Cherokee. SECOND WARD. Precinct 3 J. M. Switzer, 108 S. Cherokee street—Reeves Machine Shop. THIRD WARD. Precinct 1 J. M. Porter, Res. 21st street—Virginia and Harsha. street—Virginia and Indiana. Precinct 2 W. B. Moore, New Jersey Bldg.—Jefferson School. Precinct 3 A. S. Purvine, 4 Crabtree Bldg.—West Side Fire Station. Precinct 4 W. D. Brewer, 119 S. Main street—3rd and Fremont. Precinct 5 J. M. McAlpine, 207 Iowa building—Bonton rocery. FOURTH WARD. Precinct 1 Taxle Miller, 219 N. 16th street—Moffat's Barn, 16th and Denlson. Precinct 2 U. L. 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Willie Thurman, Plaintiff, Te defendant, Ezekiel Thurman, is hereby notified that he has been sued in the above entitled action for an absolute divorce by the plaintiff, Willie Thurman, in the district court sitting in and for Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma, and that unless he answer on or before the 15th day of May, A. D., 1909, the said petition of the said Willie Thurman, against the said Ezekiel Thurman, filed in the clerk's office of said court, such petition will be taken as true and judgment for an absolute divorce rendered accordingly. Witness my hand and seal of court, affixed at my office in Muskogee this 31st day of March, A. D., 1909. WILLIE THURMAN, Plaintiff. BROWN & STUART, Attorneys for Plaintiff. ATTEST: TONY MATNEY, Clerk of District Court. BY ROSS HOUCK, Deputy Clerk. Give us your job work. We guard antee satisfaction. Call us. Phone 143. STUDY LAW AT HOME THE ORIGINAL SCHOOL. Instruction by mail adapted to everyone. Recognized by courts and educators. 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Send 10 cents to help pay postage and packing and receive the above "Famous Collection," to get with you New and used seeds. GREAT NORTHERN SEED CO. 1796 Rose St. Rockford, Illinois McCALL PATTERNS 10 15 NONE HIDDEN McCALL MAGAZINE 50 YEAR RECEIVING A FREE HAT There are more McCall Patterns sold in the United States and many other areas of patterns. This is an account of their style, accuracy and simplicity. McCall's Magazine (The Queen of Fashion) has been a leading magazine for over 100 years. Its year's subscription (in number) costs 50 cents. Later summer, 5 cents. Free subscriber gets a McCall Fash Lady Agate Wanted. Handouts promote mo ior cash commission. Pattern Catalogue (of 60 pages) and many special promotions are available. 44000 TM McCall CO., New York --- Pioneer Abstract Company Iowa Building. This Company makes Absolutely Correct Abstracts of Title. Go there for Correct Information. Next to Muskogee National Bank. Muskogee, Oklahoma. Martin and Martin Fresh Groceries and Country Produce Always on Hand. Up-to-Date Meat Market. Goods Delivered to all Parts of the City on Short Notice. Phone 1654. Phone us when you want anything. 168 Court St. Wall Paper OUR SPRING STORE Look at the prices: 5e, 6e and 7e Rooftop Can You Buy FANCY STOCK—E Mixed Paint, $10 BROCKENHEUFSER PAINTING 133 South T Look for the Big Sight Muskogee Painting COMMERCIAL Wall Paper, Pa 831 West Okmulgee St. Phone W. H. Smith, Sons LEADING MASTER Greatest Department Dry Goods Department, Notice Gents' Furnishing Department Market Drawing You can get anything you desire competition. All goods up for sale CALL ON US IN THE SOUTH SECOND STREET. Creek Hardware The Only Hardware Store in the South Side Corner Cherokee WALL B FOR SPRING STOCK IS NOW IN s: 5c, 6c and 7c a roll; 80c, 90c Room. Can You Beat That? FANCY STOCK—FANCY PATTERNS Mixed Paint, $1.25 Per Gallon. LISER PAINTING AND DECORATION 133 South Third Street. For the Big Sign, "WALL PAINT ogee Paint and C COMPANY, Wall Paper, Paints and Glass. ee St. Phone 360. Musk Smith, Sons and C LEADING MERCHANTS. Latest Department Store in City Department, Notions and Milline- nishing Department, Grocery De- market Department. anything you desire at this store. All goods up-to-date. IN US IN THE CARTER BUIL- d Street. Musk YOU can buy a Hopkins & RIFLE Single Shot and Rifle $3.50 to $11.00 Shoot where you every time Come in and s Sold and Rented by the EAST SIDE HARDWARE CO. Corner Cherokee and Broadway Hardware Ware Store in the City Operate- Man. OUR SPRING STOCK IS NOW IN. Look at the prices: 5c, 6c and 7c a roll; 80c, 96c and $1.12 a Room. Muskogee Paint and Glass COMPANY, Wall Paper, Paints and Glass. 831 West Okmulgee St. Phone 360. Muskogee, Oklahoma. W. H. Smith, Sons and Company Greatest Department Store in City. Dry Goods Department, Notions and Millinery Department. Gents' Furnishing Department, Grocery Department, Market Department. You can get anything you desire at this store at prices that defy competition. All goods up-to-date. CALL ON US IN THE CARTER BUILDING. South Second Street. Muskogee, Okla. YOU can buy a Rifle! Hopkins & Allen RIFLES Single Shot and Repeaters $3.50 to $12.00 Shoot where you aim every time Come in and see them Sold and Rented by the EAST SIDE HARDWARE CO., Corner Cherokee and Broadway. Creek Hardware Co. The Only Hardware Store in the City Operated by a Colorcled Man. Call at 114 Court Street. The Ten-Year-Old The Commercial National Bank The Ten-Year-Old The Commercial National Bank Organized December 13, 1899. Report of the Condition of De- troller of the Currency First Stat Feb. 13, 1900, Depo Sept. 5, 1900, Depos Sept. 30, 1901, Depos Sept. 15, 1902, Deposits Sept. 19, 1903, Deposits. Sept. 6, 1904, Deposits... August 26, 1905, Deposits. Sept. 4, 1906, Deposits.... August 22, 1907, Deposits... condition of Deposits as render the Currency each year since First Statement Made. * * * * * 13, 1900, Deposits.....$78 15, 1900, Deposits.....$9 16, 1901, Deposits.....$1 1902, Deposits.....$ 1903, Deposits.....$ 1904, Deposits.....$ 1905, Deposits.....$ 2, Deposits.....$ 1907, Deposits.....$ Report of the Condition of Deposits as rendered to the Comptroller of the Currency each year since organized. First Statement Made. * * * * Feb. 13, 1900, Deposits.....$78,509.38 Sept. 5, 1900, Deposits.....$95,241.37 Sept. 30, 1901, Deposits.....$147,254.19 Sept. 15, 1902, Deposits.....$120,474.18 Sept. 19, 1903, Deposits.....$359,452.25 Sept. 6, 1904, Deposits.....$414,217.89 August 26, 1905, Deposits.....$595,290.79 Sept. 4, 1906, Deposits.....$798,665.96 August 22, 1907, Deposits.....$1,234,252.91 Sept. 23, 1908, Deposits.....$122,508.14 Feb. 5, 1909, Deposits.....$1,352,005.47 We invite your account and offer every advantage consistent with conservative methods and the most courteous treatment is extended to those who desire banking facilities. ```markdown ```