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Give Us Your Job Work! Satisfaction Guaranteed. Prices the Best. Call Us-Phone 143. The Muskogee Cimeter. Change of Business Sale NOW GOING ON Buy Now and Save Money. Smith and Bass Furniture and Carpet Co., SUCCESSORS TO The Smith House Furnishing Co. Vol. 10. To all transportation and trans mission companies, all gas electric light, heat and power companies, doing business in the State of Oklahoma, and all other public service corporations doing business in the State of Oklahoma, and to all persons whom it may concern: You are hereby notified that in the office of the Corporation Commission of the State of Oklahoma, in the City of Guthrie, Oklahoma, on the 24th day of July, 1909, at 2 o'clock P. M., the said Commission will hear any objection which may be urged by any person interested against the following proposed order, rule, regulation and requirement: It is hereby ordered, that all public service companies, both domestic and foreign which are organized or doing business in the State of Oklahoma under the laws or authority thereof, shall have and maintain a general or public office or place in the State of Oklahoma for the transaction of their business, where transfers of stock shall be made, and where shall be kept for inspection by the stockholders of such corporation, books in which shall be received the amount of capital stock subscribed, the names of the owners of stock, and their postoffice address, the amounts owned by them respectively; the amount of stock paid and by whom; the transfer of said stock, with the date of transfer; residence of its officers; the names and residences of directors and the date of expiration of the term of each; accounts of outstanding bonds, debentures, and indebtedness, and the amount respectively thereof, when issued, and rate of interest, when due, and for what purpose issued, and rate of interest, when due, and for what purpose issued, how used, to whom issued, to whom sold, and the price in cash, property, or labor, if any, received therefor, the disposition of the proceeds, by whom the indebtedness is held, the amount due thereon, the floating indebtedness of each of such companies, to whom due, and his address, the credits due thereon, Bargain Prices on Every Article. and the judicial or other sales of its roads, plants, proportion and franchises, and the amount paid, and in what manner paid therefor; the amounts paid for salaries of officers of such public service companies and the wages paid its employees; and in such general or public office it shall also keep its books, accounts, memoranda, records and contracts, or verified copies thereof, relating to all its business, properties, and operations, showing the value and cost of all of its properties, all kinds and the amount of all of its receipts or revenues of the various classes, and all of its disbursements in classified detail (including operating expenses, taxes, interest, dividends, rentals, and all other fixed charges); showing the detailed records of all assets, and liabilities; and, profit and loss accounts; segregating and classifying all revenues and expenses accruing to account of Oklahoma business from entire business. It is further ordered, that the directors of each such company shall hold at least one meeting annually in the State of Oklahoma, public notice of which shall be given thirty days' previously. It is further ordered, that the resident agent in the State of Oklahoma designated as the person upon whom service of summons or other notice may be had for foreign corporations, as provided by the laws of the state, shall be vested with equal authority with that of a general manager of such public service company in so far as effects service upon such agent of any process issuing by or from said corporation; and in relation to any matters to be transacted by him with said commission. Such agent shall be vested with full and complete authority to act in the same capacity as would such general manager; and all foreign public service companies which are unincorporated shall designate and maintain a resident agent within the State of Oklahoma who shall be vested with all powers as herein provided for resident agents of foreign corporations. As used in this order, words "company," "public" Muskogee, Oklahoma, Friday July 2, 1909. ervice company" shall include all "transportation companies," "transmission companies," all "public service corporations," and all "persons" as defined in each instance in Section 18b and 34, Article IX, constitution of Oklahoma, or any company, corporation; trustee, receiver, or other person owning, leasing or operating the business of any or either of same. nurse; S. H. Russell, indus teacher and engineer. At same time the board powered the Superintendent, Douglass Russell, to secure service of another oral tea for deaf mutes and a ste rapher. DEATH ANTICIPATED. Young Man Prepared to D CORPORATION COMMISSION J. E. LOVE, Chairman. A. P. WATSON, Commissioner. J. J. McALESTER, Commissioner. Guthrie, Oklahoma, June 25, 1909. WARNING TO THE RACE. Make Future Appeals for Justice to People, Not Political Parties. The Negro's appeal for justice must in the future be made not to political parties, but to the people who constitute the good hearts in this nation, and he must make a determined effort to crystallize public sentiment in the direction of his political and civic disadvantages and seek to show thinking white men and women who still have faith in him that, despite the roseate hue which is said to surround his progress, he is not getting a square deal, never had one and never will have one unless there is an eclipse of faith and a change of heart among the solid white men of the United States who make and control the sentiment which governs and directs in this nation. TAFT FACULTY SELECTED Gutfrie, June 29.—The board of regents of the colored deaf, blind and orphan school at Taft has elected most of the faculty for the coming year. They are Monroe Ingram, teacher for the deaf; Mrs. Nellie Green, grammar school department; Miss Mollie Berry, grammar school and domestic science; Beatrice K. Parker, matron and trained nurse; S. H. Russell, industrial teacher and engineer. At same time the board empowered the Superintendent, S. Douglass Russell, to secure the service of another oral teacher for deaf mutes and a stenographer. DEATH ANTICIPATED. Young Man Prepared to Die— Tells Friends Good-Bye. That there is a mystic medium of communication between this temporal dwelling and the great unknown is a firm belief of many people who have witnessed strange happenings in cases of death-bed patients. Some are inclined to scout the idea, however, and condemn it all to religious superstition. However that may be, a very strange thing happened down near Rentiesville last Sunday. James Chambers, a young man who lived with his mother on a farm near Rentiesville, had been confined to his bed for several weeks with a fatal illness. Sunday morning he left the bed, prepared his own bath, donned his best clothes, and bid his friends and relatives goodbye, after which he retired to welcome the death that he knew was coming. Wm. Ragsdale, an undertaker of this city, embalmed the body and arranged for the funeral Mr. Ragsdale left Muskogee Sunday night and returned Monday morning to get his hearse returning with it through the country Monday night. The body was entered Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The young man leaves a mother, father and several sisters and brothers to survive him. PIANO CONTEST IS ON. J. W. Adams Store will be the center of interest when the public learns that he is going to give away a $400.00 piano in a contest to run up to December. Any one may engage in this contest and feel sure of absolute justice. Three judges will be selected, one of whom will be a young lady. The piano is on exhibit now at J. W. Adams Store. We Want Your Trade. Will Hold Its Thirteenth Annual Meeting in Kansas City Aug. 1-2-3-4. Will be Largest Gathering of Negro Publishers in the History of the Organization. The Western Negro Press Association, which was organized some twelve years ago, is the only organization of its kind in existence in the United States. Its membership is composed of newspaper publishers, editors, managers and writers of the states west of the Mississippi river. An annual meeting meeting is held each year for the purpose of bringing its members together in order that they may exchange ideas and discuss such measures as may be destined to improve conditions. The last meeting of the association was held in Des Moines, Ia., in June, 1908, at which time it was decided to hold the 1909 meeting in Kansas City, Mo. This organization has an important mission, and the possibilities for the accomplishment of good through it is in a measure becoming more appreciated by the public each year. As a result more interest is taken in this meeting than has been the case in any former instance. Kansas City has an appreciative public, and a large number of discriminating intelligent people of both races who are always ready to encourage that which is known to act for the advancement of civilization. The officers of the association will endeavor to have present and addresses from some of the ablest men of the race. Mr. Editor: It's a fact that our social condition is far from what it should be. When we find mothers, or those who should be mothers, trying to lead in society in dancing, card playing and indulging in ardent liquors at public resorts when they should be holding mother's meetings, helping out in church work and doing all in their power to teach the boys and girls under them that there is something in life besides trying the sportive fine. Women and men who are on the shady side of forty trying to cut up like kittens and making their associates among the young are the cause of many a boy and girl taking the wrong start in life and ending their career in shame and disgrace. These old she-devils and he-devils are as dangerous to the innocent youth as the fires of hell to a magazine of powder. There are men leading in society here who are graduates and should stay in their places as such and women who would be grandmothers had they followed the teachings of the Bible. These parasites are damning the race and placing a stumbling block in the path of the youth. Every explosion in high society can be traced to the old devils who have gone all the gaits elsewhere while young and who now are spreading the poison virus among youth and old under the guise of being society leaders for good. Young people, kick out the old devils. Organize yourselves on moral lines and keep it clean. Make decency and respectability the test for membership and you will have done something to purify the morals of the community and taught the old cuss and his female partner their place in the community. SUBSCRIBER. MONEY TO LOAN. On real estate or personal property at lowest rates. R. H. BEARD & CO. 220 N. Third St. Ground Floor Chicago Bldg. MISSOURI STATE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Life insurance is the poor man's estate, the rich man's sage-guard. All who have a pecuniary interest in the existence of a life may protect that interest by insurance. The Missouri State Life is the only old line company having a colored representative in the state. If interested call on. JAS. T. BUSH, Agent. Suite 4 & 5 Sims McCulloch Bldg. Phone 1907 ```markdown ``` Put Your Faith in Truth. Have faith in truth, never in numbers. The great surge of numbers rolls up notally and impassingly, but battens on the shore, and sticks back into the mind of oblivion. But a true opinion is the ocean itself, calm in its rest, eternal in its power—Flatt. English and American English The English gallon is ten pounds of water at a temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The American gallon weighs only 8.33 pounds. The difference, therefore, is 1.67 pounds. The American gallon is equivalent to 2,760 liters. Inventor of Hanoom Cab The hammock cab was the invention of Joseph Abelson Hammons, an eminent English architect, who sourced about 75 years ago. He invented what he called the patient safety cab about 1823 and died in 1883. The Call of Commanonable You often hear a lonecome child say: "I want some one to play with." Kilbyer people often become lonecome and want some one to play with, but are afraid to say no. Atchison Globe. Revised. "Who steals my wife's purse steals trash," muttered the head of the house as he fumbled through a bunch of hairpins, recipes, chamois rags, silk samples, etc., to find a quarter—Detroit Free Press. Mourning. Exterior signs of great afflictions are for the living as manoeules are for the dead; they often attest more concern than sorrow or virtue.—Chateaubriand. The Wiser Counsel. It is better to listen to those who shout at us from afar: "Relieve our misery," than to those who whisper in our ears: "Augment your fortune."—Marie Leclinska. Supply Assured Kaine halted in the middle of her grayer. "No use asking for bread," observed she, "when the bakermas comes every morning." Rapa at Faith Cure. Bays the Philosopher of Folly: "The thing that faith cure has cured most people of is faith in the faith cure."—Cleveland Leader. Mistake Some Men Make. A good many men think kicking when it is necessary to put on evening clothes is a sign of genius. Above Consistency. Emersons With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Two large size 21x28 pictures, one of President Taft, and one of Vice-President Sherman, will be sent to anyone who subscribes for this paper before the 30th of July, 1909. Subscription $1.00 Per Year. See or write to An Air-Loving World Wanted. Once get a nation into inviting fresh air instead of barring it out and not only is that nation going to repel consumption, but it is going to better itself physically in such a measure as to be practically immune from other diseases — Philadelphia Inquirer. The Real Problem A New Yorker has built a hospital to find out why whyes do not lay when eggs are 60 cents a dozen. He will have to build an innate anytime if he wants to find out why they cross the road. Other Fish to Fry "Ma'am, here's a man at the door with a parcel for you." "What is it, Bridge?" "It's a fish, ma'am, and it a marked C. O. D." "Then make the man take it straight back to the dealer. I ordered trout." Needed a Bonnet When Harry's little sister came, the nurse brought him in from play to see her. He looked at her with a frown and then said: "She got awful sunburst coming down from heaven; she is so red."—Dellineator. See? "If you wants to see de bright side o' life," said Uncle Eben, "you's got to be willin' to put in a little patience an' hard work to help keep it polished up." Post-Prandial Indulgence The man who regularly drinks coffee, port or liquor after dinner is physiologically worse off than the man who does not—The Lanceot. Well! Well! It seems to make some people positively angry if one insinulates that this world is not wholly a wilderness of woe—Nashville American. Sport Loving Australians. Australia's love of outdoor sports sourisbee greatly on a very favorable climate and the universal half-holiday on Saturday. Will Bell Old Fire Engine. The authorities in the village of Holywell, Flintshire, England, have decided to sell an old fire engine which they possess. It is probably the oldest fire engine in the kingdom. One Exception. "Distance," says the Philosopher of Folly, "lends enchantment to the view of almost everything but pay day." Fortunately for Some of Us. Considering the modern novel, it is scarcely safe to say that one's life is an open book. 200 LEFT FREE! A. J. SMITERMAN, SUFFER AND DIE IN A WRECK Fishermen Have Terrible Experience Off Coast of Iceland. A terrible tale of shipwreck was told by the nine survivors of the crew of 13 of the Grimstaff trawler Washington, which was wrecked on the coast of Iceland on December 22. The men reached Leith recently, their hands and feet still showing signs of their sufferings during a blizzard. The wreck was wrecked during a heavy gale on the rocks near Selvvyr; and the only boat and two rafts were washed away. Notwithstanding the gigantic tide which awept over the ship, the mate, Asma Kemp, seized a life-line and endeavoured to swim with it to the shore 209 yards away. The attempt failed, however, and his shipmates had to haul him back to the ship. So terrible had his sufferings that he went mad and died within half an hour. Then the second engineer went mad, and as the tide rised the crew had to retreat to the wheelhouse, where they stood up to their waist in water, holding the insane engineer. When the tide receded they found some food, but it was soaked in salt water. When the darkness came on the tide rose again and the sight of the crew through the long night was a terrible one, and before daylight came two of the hands and the mad engineer had been washed away. In the morning the plight of the ship wrecked sailors was seen by the islanders, and they were rescued by means of a line. REWARDED FOR HIS TRUSTING Shoemaker's Faith in Providence Evid- dently Was Not Misplaced. The pastor of a negro church in a southern state was one day making his weekly visit, when he dropped in upon a member of his congregation who was a shoemaker. The preacher was surprised to find that his parishoner, usually of a bright and lively demeanor, was on this occasion in an extremely dependant mood. "Well, doctah." explained the shoemaker, sadly, in response to the divine's question, "I see just got a rival shoemaker dat's set up against me down the street, an' mah trade is already beginning to leave." "Come, come, man," expostulated the clergyman, "you mustn't allow yourself to be cast down like that! Meet your trouble like a man, and, above all, trust to Providence and all will come right." When, on the next round of visits, the minister called again on the shooter, he was delighted to find the cobbler as cheery and gay as ever he was. "I told you your troubles would vanish if you trusted in Providence, didn't I?" demanded the preacher. Box G. Muskogee, Oklahoma. "That's right!" quickly assented the other. "And I took your advice." Then, after a bit, he added, significantly, "The other showmaker a dead!"—Harper's Weekly. Curious Mourning Custom A curious mourning custom obtains among central Australians, who, although representing, perhaps, the lowest and most degraded type of human beings, have managed to evolve a most complex system of rites and ceremonies, which governs almost every action of their lives. When a husband dies, the widow paints herself all over with white pigment, and for the space of a year must not exhibit herself to a male member of the tribe on pain of death. For the rest of her life, unless she marries again, which is sometimes allowed, she must not speak, but communicate with the other women by means of a sign language, consisting of movements of the hands and fingers, which has been developed by those savages to a marvelous extent, and by which their limited stock of ideas can be fully expressed. A Dramatic Suicide A novel, but grewsome, method of suicide is that of Lieut Stanwekier, Gallicia. He saturated the furniture of his room with naphtha, which he also poured over the floor, and he placed on the carpet a number of ball ca 'dges. Then he fired the room in several places, so that in a few minutes it was converted into a veritable furnace, and finally hurled himself into the midst of the flames. The smoke and a series of violent explosions alarmed the neighbors, who hastened to help in extinguishing the fire, but when it was possible to enter the house only the ashes of the lieutenant were to be found. The American Voice Whatever be the cause, it is a fact that American men no longer seek to control the pitch of their voices as the gentlemen of the old school were taught to do. Undue haste, excessive nervousness, and a vigor of purpose that is likely to assert itself in an overemphatic manner have probably combined to produce in the American voice that raw, shrill, unrestrained quality so noticeable. The voices of American women are even more shocking when heard in contrast to the low, well-modulated voices of European women—Washington Post. Yellow Peril. "What is your idea of the yellow peril?" "The only one I'm afraid of," answered the comfortable statesman. "is the restaurant soft-boiled egg." Nothing Pure. Bill—Do you believe this theory that there are microbes in kisses? Jill—Oh. yes; everything seems to be adulterated nowadays. Grace Considered Sacred Bird GOOSE CONFERENCE SAVES BIRD. To many peoples the goose was a sacred bird, and even to this day there are found many, especially in Asia, who will not kill a goose. The devout cherish a food fancy that all goose perform an aerial pilgrimage to the holiest of lakes in the Himalayas every year, transporting the sins of the neighborhood, returning with a new stock of inspiration for the encouragement of the devout. Money and Its Drawbacks. Some people are left money just in the nick of time, and make good use of it; it is ruinous to others to receive money that they have never earned. A good many people would never do any work at all if it wasn't for the fact that they had to, and so a wise Providence decrees that money shall not come their way except by the sweat of their brow.—The Captain. Glory. How many metals make the bronze of Corinth? Insults on boards or on paper, the spot of ink or charcoal or mud, the dregs of heart, of mind and of body, the dirt of calumny, all these, under the sun, dry, harden, turn into bronze solid and brilliant—a pure bronze, which is called glory!—Catulle Mendez. Woman's Remarkable Feat Though the compiling of a dictionary is a tank that even a corps of trained editors undertake with no slight hesitation, a Washington woman, Mrs. George H. Gorham, finished the remarkable feat of writing an idiomatic French-English. English-French dictionary entirely unnaided. The Lesser Evil. The colored boy employed by a New York lady was named Lycurgus Jones. "Lycurgus is a rather long name," she said to him; "suppose I call you Gus for short." "Ah doesn't like nicknames," he replied: "If you doesn't like Lycurgus, you kin call me Jonesey." She calls him Lycurgus. The Highest Authorities A Kentucky physician, after extensive experiments, has written a paper to show that whisky aggravates the venom of snake bites. This is testify mony from a high source and leaves little to be done except to appeal the case to the supreme experts in North Carolina.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Humanitarian Who Failed A Brooklyn man complains that he lost $500 backing up an invention to prevent snoring. He can at least count on the sympathy of several million "light sleepers," who will join him in heartfelt regrets that the anti-snoring device did not succeed. By the Grace of God Alone. No iron chain, or outward forces of any kind, could over compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve; it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone.—Thomas Carlyle. Cultivate Ideals It is a cheering thing to meet young minds inspired by ideals. It is a delightful pastime to give a quarter of an hour a day to a great poet. Have a little blank book and copy a quotation or two when you meet them. Newest Thief-Catcher A recently invented thief-cat for stores consists of a system of levers, which will close doors from behind a counter on pressing a pedal and at the same time ring an alarm outside the building. Dearth of Great Actresses Although acting is essentially a female art, Englishwomen are making far less mark in it at the present time than in probably any other period of our theatrical history. We have no Mrs. Siddona—London Tatler. Old Thoughts May Be New A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. It has come to you over a new route by an express train of associations. Holmes. Introduce Method "More time." is the usual exclamation, even by those who have all the time there is. They should bethink themselves about more method, or else waste less time.—W. H. Howe. Think It Over When you avail yourself of an opportunity to get even with a man you furnish him with a desire to get back at you. Tulips Like the Light Tulips are very sensitive to the light. During a cloudy day they will sometimes close their petals, and not open them until the sunlight returns. Lessons from Experience Publius Syrus: Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. Double Use for Electric Fan. The electric fan for winter ventilation is quite as important as for summer cooling.—Philadelphia Record. Laughter Sometimes Out of Place. Quintillian: A laugh costs too much if it is bought at the expense of propriety. Lake Erie Rich in Fish. Lake Erie is the richest body of water in the world in fish. SOME RECIPES GUARANTEED TO GIVE GOOD RESULTS. Nourishing and Inexpensive Food Should Be Served Frequently to Children—Best Method of Preparing the Stock. Soups should be given to a growing child twice a day. And the soup should be rich in quality and nourishing in ingredients, not a plate of seasoned water. Good soup warms the stomach and thus makes it able to digest solid food. Many mothers argue that the children are tired of soup and will not eat it. This is often accounted for by the fact that the same style of soup is served to them week after week, and the stomach of a child demands a change just as often as that of its parents. The recipes given to-day are for soups that are inexpensive to make and are full of nourishment. In boiling meat from which to get soup stock, the meat should be put in cold water, allowed to stand a little while, then heated gradually to the boiling point. This extracts all the juice and leaves the meat utterly tasteless. Let the stock get perfectly cold and remove the grease from the top. It is then ready for flavoring. Chicken soup—If you have boiled a fowl for salad or fricassee, take out three cupfuls of the water in which it was cooked. Put this in a porcelain pot, and add to it three slices of carrots cut in cubes or dice, one stock of celery cut in small pieces, half an onion chopped finely, six peppercorns, a bay leaf, if the flavor is liked by the family, and lastly two tablespoonfuls of finely chopped lean boiled ham. Let it all come to a boil gradually, simmer and then strain through a colander and add three tablespoonfuls of boiled rice. If this proves too rich, add a little water. Scotch Broth.—Buy two pounds of mutton from the neck and add to it two quarts of water. Let it stand for an hour. Heat slowly and add half a cup of barley, let it boil and skim again, then simmer for an hour. Add to it half cup of chopped onion, half cup of chopped carrot, half cup chopped turnips and half cup of celery which have been fried for five minutes in clean drippings. Then let the entire soup simmer for three hours. Season highly, thicken with a little flour and serve with chopped parsley on the top. Clam Soup.—Buy one dozen large clams and scrub the shells, put in pan and add a little water, cover tightly and let them steam open. Remove clams from the shells and chop fine and add one quart of water to clam juice. Let it come to a boll and skim off the scum which will rise to the top. Add tablespoonful of butter, season with pepper. In another saucepan boll one cup of milk and just as you remove the clam soup from the fire ready to serve add the boiled milk. Salmon Soup.—Cut up one large potato and half a large onion into very small pieces, boil in one cup of water. Add red pepper and a dash of Worcestershire sauce and one quart of milk. Just as the milk comes to a boll add one cup of salmon meat and two hard-boiled eggs chopped fine. Serve with large soda crackers which have been buttered and set in the oven to heat. Danish Bullpoese Get a thir. flank of beef for an outer covering—any size from two pounds up. Spread it out and put on it small pieces of lean beef and fat pork alternately, to this add pepper, salt, paprika, allspice or poultry-seasoning, and, last, a very little finely-minced onion. Roll into as compact cylindrical shaped roll as possible, sew it up very tight, and the strong cord around it. Soak in brine for some days, or weeks, if the weather permits. Then boil for four hours, after which put it under a heavy press until cold. It is good sliced as cold meat or for sandwiches. Stuffed Steak. Round steak, bread crumbs, butter, chopped onions, salt and pepper. Get a round steak and pound it to insure tenderness. Lay it on a board and cover with a good dressing of chopped onions and bread crumbs. Season with butter, salt and pepper; roll like cake, tie, make a good shape and bake, basting often. Cook one hour and make a thick gravy. Peppermints. One and one-half cups granulated sugar, one-half cup boiling water, six drops oil of peppermint (or winter-green). Put sugar and water into a granite saucepan, stir until sugar is dissolved. Boil ten minutes after it begins to boil. Remove from fire, add peppermint. Beat until creamy. Drop from tip of spoon onto buttered paper or platter. Maple Candy. Put into a saucepan a pint of hot milk and stir into this a pound of maple sugar that has been broken or rolled small. Boil hard as soon as the sugar is dissolved and stir constantly. When a little dropped into cold water is brittle, pour into buttered pans and cut into squares. Oyster Stuffing. Into a large cupful of fine bread crumbs work a tablespoonful of butter, salt and pepper to taste and moisten with oyster liquor. Add two dozen small oysters chopped coarsely and stuff the fowl or small pig with this. THE MAGIC IS TWO TIMES LARGER THAN PICTURE IT IS 9 IN LONG STEEL HEATING BAR THE MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER ALUMINIUM CORE MAILED ANYWHERE IN U.S. $1.00 POSTAGE PAID- SEE HONEY BY POST OFFICE HONEY ORDER Address all letters to Magic Shampoo Drier Co. Minnesota Mind. ALL HEAT CONTAINED TO BAND The Commercial National Bank Organized December 13, 1899. Report of the Condition of Deposits as rendered to the Comp troller of the Currency each year since organized. First Statement Made. 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. DR. COE'S SANITARIUM. LOCATED AT 20 WASHINGTON BEST INVALID'S HOME IN THE WEB? 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Martin's New Cafe is the place for all lovers of something good to eat. Buy a $4.50 meal ticket for $3.50 and save money. 108 Court St. Phone 1654 Martin, Jas. H. Mgr. Go to D. Richardson's Barber Shop at 224 South Second street for first class work. First class workmen and satisfaction guaranteed. D. RICHARDSON, Prop. DO YOU WANT THIS? 10 acres within five miles of city limits at a bargain. Write W. H. Twine, Box G, Muskogee. DO YOU WANT A HOME? Ten acres of land near Great Muskogee for $1,000. Land in vicinity is selling for $150 per acre. It's a great bargain. Call or write to A. J. Smitherman. LODGE DIRECTORY. Muskogee Chapter No. 5. Order of Eastern Star; meeting first and third Thursdays of each month at 2:30 o'clock. IDA JONES, W. M. A. L. LOVE, Secretary. Trinity Lodge No. 8, A. F. & A. M.; meetings first and fourth Thursday night of each month. BARFIELD BARNETT, W. M. W. H. TWINE, Secretary. ST. LUKE'S PHARMACY. For your souvenir cards. We have the finest assortment in town. THE DRINK THAT HELPS YOU THINK DRINK Fan-Taz DRINK OF THE FANS A PENNANT WINNER "He Who Drinks This Drink They Say, Lives But to Drink Another Day." By these signs you shall know Fan-Taz IT'S RED, IT'S RICH. A suggestion of orange; the something else that is more deliciously refreshing. Say Fan-Taz to the boy. At fountain or in bottles Sparkling Exhilarating Manufactured by the Puro Manufacturing Co. If no exclusive agency in your city. say Fan-Taz on a postal and mail today ROSENDORF & KOCH, Distributors For Oklahoma. MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA. FOLLOW THE CROWD. 2 MORE WEEKS 2 OF OUR GREAT Slaughtering Wall Paper Sale. Wall Paper at 1-2 Price, 5, 6 and 7 cts. LOOK FOR THE BIG SIGN. Bockeuheuser Wall Paper Store. 133 S. Third Street. THE EWING SEED, PRODUCE AND COMMISSION CO. Call on them for Your Seeds. 300 South Second Street. Phone 2003. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE CIMETER. $1 per year. See J. A. Smithman, traveling agent and advertising man- ager. Box G. MCCALL PATTERNS 10¢ AND 15¢ NONE HIGHER MCCALLS MAGAZINE 50¢ A YEAR INCLUDING A FREE PATTERN Celebrates for style, perfect fit, simplicity and reliability nearly 40 years. Sold in nearly every city and town in the United States and Canada, or by mail direct. More sold than any other for free catalogue. McCALL'S MAGAZINE More subscribers than any other fashion magazine—million a month. Invaluable. Latest styles, patterns, dressmaking, millinery, fashion, accessories, clothing, etiquette, good stories, etc. Only 50 ceats a year (worth double), including a free pattern. Subscribe today, or send for sample copy. WOW! Available to Agents. Postal brings premium catalogue and new cash prize offers. Address [THE MAGCALL CO., 288 to 388 W. 37th St., NEW YORK] 331 West Okmulgee St. Phone 360. Muskogee, Oklahoma. Creek Hardware Company The Only Hardware Store in the City Operated by a Colored Man. Call at 114 Court Street. LIBRARY SLIPS saved (TRADE MARK) means MAGAZINES free or for subscriptions to standard magazines or for Books. Catalog sent for 2 cent stamp. Library Slips are FREE Save Library Slips Like Pennies WATCH THIS PAGE Next Week. A. J. SMITHERMAN. Advertising Manager and Traveling Agent. Published Every Week in the interest of the Negro by the Climeter Publishing Co. Entered at the Postoffice at Muskegee, Okla., as Second Class Mail Matter. LOCALS. Misses Ida B. and Carrie Watson of Grayson, who attended the Normal at Eufaula, returned to their home Saturday afternoon. Both made good marks in the examination and passed without any trouble. Miss Carrie Watson will spend the summer in Colorado, while her sister, Miss Ida B., will swap the peaceful repose of a quiet country life for the gay fantasies of the busy city—she will spend the summer in Chicago. F. P. Brinson of Rentiesville was in town last Monday on business. He returned Monday night. Mr. Brinson is the hustling president of the Rentiesville Rustlers. Rev. N. A. Robinson, mayor of Rentiesville, and Jno. W. Barnes of that town, were in the city Tuesday. After transacting their business they returned Tuesday night. I. C. Tull of Grayson, who has been assisting in conducting the Normal at Eufaula, arrived in the city at 1 o'clock Tuesday. Mr. Tull is an admirable young fellow, with many good friends. He departed Wednesday morning for Boley where he will spend a few days visiting. The Hon. S. Douglass Russell arrived in the city last Tuesday night from Guthrie, and made a visit to Taft Wednesday. He returned last night. ALL ABOARD! THE CIMETER SPECIAL You have just one more week to get ready for this special edition of the Muskogee Cimeter. Owing to the failure of most of the business and professional men to get ready and their desire to be represented in this issue, we have postponed the date of publication to July 16th. Photographs will not be accepted after the 10th day of July. Advertising matter will be accepted up to the 14th day of July. For particulars address Adv. Manager, phone 143. --- Prof. J. H. Dykes, of Rentiesville, arrived in the city Wednesday. Wednesday evening at 6 o'clock he left for Red Bird. TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT. Both daily papers for a week have been writing of the strange and unforgivable doings of some white fellow named Uphoff who had married a woman who had a trace of negro blood (that means legal cohabitation). The good white folks of the town, according to the Times Democrat and Phoenix, are awfully worried over this start at amalgamation. Why, bless their innocent souls, it's going on illegally every day between white men and black women of the lowest type and character and nothing is said by the aforesaid daddies and the people are not indignant. It's amusing to the negroes to hear our good white folks roar about a white feller marrying a yaller woman when we know that a white man (not woman) is responsible for the yaller woman's existence. It's a known fact that some white men will amalgamate with a negro as black as the high sheriff in hell and then kick like h—— when the result of amalgamation proceeds to legally amalgamate with the same blood that caused her being. The negroes are satisfied to let Uphoff alone, taking sides neither way, as it's a matter of no concern to them. We sympathize with our white folks who have got such a mess that they can't tell what degree of blood it takes before their sons can amalgamate with the daughters of their sons. All of them admit that Mrs. Uphoff is the daughter of a white man. Go to any colored church you please and you will find many attendants so white that Up's tormentors would be at a loss to tell where the negro ended and the white began. "What fools these poor mortals be." BEBEE DOTS. Dr. Teague, one of the popular young doctors of our city, married to Miss Bradbury of Kansas City last Sunday. They seemed all smiles and will make a hoppy couple. They were married by Rev. J. E. Bradford, pastor of Bebee Memorial C. M. E. church, at the home of Dr. J. Boston Hill. The C. M. E. church is fast approaching completion. Miss Merritte of Topeka is visiting in Muskogee. She worshipped at Bebee C. M. E. church on Sunday. The young people's societies are alive and do great work. REPORTER. PIANO TO BE GIVEN AWAY AT J. W. ADAMS STORE, 111 S. SECOND ST. Within the next ten days there will be on display in the show window of J. W. Adams Dry Goods Store one of the finest pianos made—the Gerhard piano, style 15. This piano retails for $400.00, and is warranted for ten years. This beautiful instrument is to be given away, absolutely free, during the month of December. There will be a great opportunity for some individual church or Sunday school to get a fine piano free of cost—absolutely free. We invite our friends and customers to call at our store and examine the piano and let us tell you how it may be obtained. In the meanwhile we are going to carry the explanation into every home in the community—giving each and every one who may desire, one of the greatest opportunities in a lifetime to obtain a piano free of cost. Let the trading public get busy—come in and see this piano for yourselves. It's an opportunity of a lifetime. HONOR TO J. J. JONES. Will Represent the State of Oklaoma. Jacob J. Jones of this city was recently appointed commissioner to represent the State of Oklahoma at the National Negro Fair to be held at Mobile, Ala., some time this fall. Mr. Jones is a graduate of the Tuskegee Institute and the Howard at Washington, D. C. At present he is a regular practicing attorney in this state, and a great career is before him. PLANT JUIGE SPECIALIST MONOPOLIZES SHOW BUSINESS. That the free out-door vaudeville performance is preferable to the general public is well demonstrated each evening near the corner of Second street and Okmulgee avenue, where the Plant Juice specialist and his trio of comedians are the center of interest at each evening performance. This wonderful trio of funmakers are attracting much attention and as a result one air doune theater has "pulled in their tents like the Arabs and silently passed away." This air dome was located on South Second street, the most traveled street in Muskogee, but the Plant Juice fun manufacturers have put them out of business One visit to this outside exhibi- tion is enough to convince one that it is the most desirable place in town to see real vaudeville. The show begins at 7:30 every evening and lasts until 8:30 or 9 o'clock. NOS. 29715 AND 31007. Notice of Mortgagee's Sale of Realty. Whereas, Miner London and Susie London, husband and wife, did on the 18th day of April and 31st day of May, 1907, execute deeds of trust for borrowed money, granting unto William P. Fields all of the easterly one hundred and twenty-six (126) feet of Lot eighteen (18) of Block sixty-two (62) of the original townsite of the City of Muskogee, realty then located in recording district No. ten (10) of the Indian Territory (now Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma), with the condition that if they failed to pay to him their promissory notes of $2,760 and $800 with annual interest thereon at 8 per cent per annum, September 1st, 1907, and July 1st, 1907, after date, the said Wm. P. Fields, or his agent, could sell said property, and thereupon the said grantee duly filed the said instruments for record in the office of the Clerk of the U. S. Court, ex-officio Register of Deeds of said recording district, and the same were recorded in Record of Mortgages 89, at pages 142 and 253, respectively, in his office. Whereas, the said Miner London and wife have failed to pay the said notes and there in now due and owing thereon unto the said Wm. P. Fields, the owner thereof, the sum of $1,808.74, with 8 per cent interest thereon from date of nates and attorney's fees as stipulated therein, and the terms of the said deeds have become absolute. Now, therefore, in accordance with the terms of said deeds, the undersigned will sell the said parcel of land, viz., the easterly 126 feet off of and from Lot 18 in Block 62, of the City of Muskogee, in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, at public sale at the highest bidder for cash, at the south front door of the building known as the Colorado building, in which the office of Register of Deeds is kept, upon West Okmulgee avenue, in the City of Muskogee, County of Muskogee, State of Oklahoma, on Wednesday, the 21st day of July, 1909, at the hour of one (1) o'clock P. M. The property has been appraised. Dated at Muskogee Ohio June LONG TIME, EASY PAYMENTS. RELIABLE REPRESENTATIVES WANTED. J.H. HAMILTON REAL ESTATE, LIFE INSURANCE NOTARY PUBLIC. LEGAL DOCUMENTS DRAWN AND ACKNOWLEDGED Postoffice Box 62. Telephone No. 71. 16th, 1909. WM. P. FIELDS, Mortgagee. By Z. T. WALROND, His Attorney. ECONOMY DRUG CO-A complete line of Druge, Stationery, Perfume, etc. A new place. Call and see us. 305 So. 2nd St. Phone No. 1379. ST. LUKE'S PHARMACY For your suvenir cards. We have the finest assortmont in town. CAFE MARTIN CAFE MARTIN Matin's New Cafe is the place for all lovers of something good to eat. Buy a $4 50 meal ticket for $3.50 and save money. 108 Court St. Phone 1654 Martin, Jas, H. Mgr. ECONOMY DRUG CO. For refreshments, none better. Cold drinks a specialty. If it is too warm to come to us, call us and we will come to you. GET BUSY! The Cimeter special will soon be on and we desire to urge all the business and professional men who intend to come in on this—those who have no cuts—to send or bring your photographs as soon as possible. We are anxious to make this the best and most beneficial issue we have ever put out, but we can not succeed without you. Because the object of this special is to show to the world that the colored man is an important factor in great Muskogee. WE NEED YQUR ASSISTANCE. See Advertising Manager, Phone 143. HARRIS MEAT MARKET. J.B. HARRIS PROR. J.B. HARRIS PROR. All kinds of fresh and cured meats and lard, game in season. Phone 1775 Convention Hall. WANTED-A lot of colored farmers, share crops, stock, poultry, truck, mixed farming. I furnish provision and everything. Good land. Big money for willing workers. Immediately see C. K. Marks, the Land Man, Ohio Building, 120 South Second St. We also sell lots on easy terms and build houses. Don't pay rent. See us. F. T. MARTIN & CO. 309 West Okmulge. NOTICE. When no one else will loan you money, or sell you a house on any plan to suit you, or build you any kind of house you may want, go to Wm. P. Fields at No. 1 English Block in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He will trade any way or for anything. WM. P. FIELDS. Call on A. T. Clark when in need of coal, feed and groceries. Corner Fourth and Elgin.