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MUSKOGEE SEES QUIET FOURTH. No Fatalities Reported—Law on Fireworks Enforced. The people of Muskogee, for once, have enjoyed a sane celebration of Independence Day. Instead of the usually noisy and dangerous display of huge buns, fire crackers, Roman cannons sky rockets and other fire works, there was perfect tranquility. The parks were filled with picnics during the day and until a late hour at night. A big picnic and base ball game awaits given at Deen's Park by the colored people which was well attended and through it all the people were in good order. If any one was killed or injured from explosives, it was not reported. Chief Ledbetter served notice before hand that the city ordinance relative to fire works would be enforced. Few were arrested for celebrating. Many thousands of dollars is spent in the United States each year for fire works. If the people of America would celebrate the fourth day of July by contributing funds to the poor unfortunates of the land instead of burning up these hundreds and thousands of dollars, to make a useless noise and destroy hundreds of lives, then the day would become hallowed to the heart of every true man regardless of nationality, and the day one of praise and thanksgiving to many thousands of poverty-stricken homes to which the celebration it is generally practicest nothing. But then, we give their own p IN KANSAS CITY. A few days ago a dwelling house in Kansas City was destroyed by a maritime because the owner had consented to rent it to colored people, and signs tacked up in various places, some on the homes of Negroes in that community warned all Negroes that they could not live in that ward. This looks bad indeed. Such treatment is enough to turn an angel into a demon. The ideal One, or a number of, American citizens telling another American citizen that he can not do this or that on other authority than base race prejudice. If the colored people have paid for their homes in that community they have a perfect right to live there. The same is true if they are paying rent. Somewhere, some time, this injustice to the Negro must stop, but ere it does the Negro must take a man's place in life and fight like the angels of his Satanic Majesty of Pluto to maintain that place. MISS WATSON TO CHICAGO Departed Last Monday, Will Be Absent Several Weeks. Miss Ida B. Watson, of Grayson, who is recognized here as a representative young lady, left last Monday on the fast mail for Chicago, where she will spend the remaining days of summer. Miss Watson is formerly of Texas but for the last seven years has resided in this state. She attended the Langston University three years, and for the last three years past has served her race in the capacity of public school teacher. Her father is a prosperous farmer and besides his farm, owns a nice home in the town of Grayson, a colored town known as Wild Cat, located about thirty miles west of Mushogee. ALABABA RETURNS. Mr. Editor: I see that Alababa, the Hindoo Seer who murdered James Richardson a year ago, has returned but I don't see Katy Smith here whom I will always believe was gotten away to keep her from testifying against the (in)famous Hindoo Seer. The Seer may think the case over but it still on the docket and if Katy Smith can be found, justice may yet be done. The county attorney will do the work if the evidence locked in the breast of the abc The Muskogee Cimeter. sent witness can be obtained. D. RICHARDSON. 224 South Second 84. Muskogee, July 6, 1909. M. Editor: I would like to explain a few things to the people of the city who have known me for more than 15 years. I never was arrested or had a case in court during all these years until W. W. Waters, who clerks in Henry Smith's store on South Second street, made complaint, charging me with assault to kill. Waters claims that I walked up to him on the street and without cause struck him with a revolver, all of which is a lie of the deepest dye and all the people who have lived in Muskogee since it was a village know that I have always been a law-abiding citizen and the witnesses who came at the bidding of Waters to swear my liberty away knew at the time that I was in the right and they tried to cover up the dist of pot eye Waters. Sadie Ware was the only one who was fair. Old Big Foot Hardin ought to be in the thicket, he was so eager to steal my liberty that he swore Sank Sango was there when Sango was miles away. It was a lie so plain that the entire people can see the fabrication made up by all connected in protecting Waters in his outrageous conduct. The entire gang who are engaged in the plot to ruin me and destroy my standing in this community would swear hell is an ice house to put into effect their devilish desires. I never assaulted Henry Smith or Sank Sango or any officer with a weapon or anything else and no one can truthfully say so. I warn Waters and all other prowlers to keep out of my back at dead hours of night. to be continued. D. RICHARDSON. 224 South Second St. NEW LODGE Established for Knights of Pythi- ians. A new lodge was added to the Pythian force of Muskogee last Wednesday night which promises to be a representative body in that order. Dr. A. H. Tyson of Wewoka arrived here Wednesday afternoon for the purpose of setting up the new lodge. There was some contention and jealousy among members of another lodge and it was rumored that Dr. Tyson would not be allowed to set up. However, the Doctor played his own cards and initiated 24 men for the order. PLANT JUICE MEDICINE CO Still Leads in Show Business. A Noted Ventriloquist Who Has Performed in Many States. The most popular evening attraction now in Muskogee is the famous Plant Juice Medicine Company which carries a trio of vaudeville comedians who would do credit to any of the leading minstrel shows now before the public. This company has been here several weeks and during that time have sold hundreds of dollars worth of medicine, and are still selling it each night at their quarters near Second and Okmulgee. The star performer of these comedians is John W. F. Woods of Memphis, Tennessee, who is an expert ventriloquist. Woods has traveled extensively with different troops, but for the last three years he has traveled with the Plant Juice people. A few years ago he appeared before the largest white air dome theater in Georgetown, S. C., and acquitted himself with credit. Muskogee will long remember little "Henry" and his little wife "Georgia," the black dummies who, under the dexterity of his gifted art, holds animated conversation with each other and cracks many funny jokes. Another feature of Woods' performances is the London Punching Judy. This is an interesting and amusing act and always keeps the crowd in an uproar of laughter. The show begins each evening about 8 o'clock and continues about an hour. They are stationed near the corner of Second street and O'Malgee avenue. MONEY TO LOAN. On real estate or personal property at lowest rates. R. H. LEARD & CO. 220 N. Third St. Ground Floor Chicago Bldg. LOCALS. LOCALS. E. I. Saddler of Guthrie and S. Douglas Russell arrived in the city last Sunday night. Mr. Russell left Wednesday for Taft. Alexander Scott who left here several weeks ago seeking health for his wife, returned last Sunday morning. Mr. Scott traveled over much of Arkansas and Texas with his wife in an effort to improve her health. Mrs. Scott's in Dallas where she will remain a few days. Prof. J. C. Tull, principal of schools at Grayson, is in the city, he arrived here Monday morning from Grayson. Mr. Tull will leave next week for Detroit, Mich., where he will remain until September. Prof. Tull is a native of Pennsylvania. Prof. Wm. Haines of Checotah arrived in the city Monday on his way to Charremore, where he will spend a few weeks recuperating and preparing for his school work this fall. We stated in these columns last week that Miss Carrie Watson of Grayson would spend the summer in Colorado. This, we learn, was a misunderstanding. Miss Watson will spend the remaining days of the summer Oklahoma City. It is reported that eighteen car loads of Negroes will leave Texas as next month to tour Oklahoma. Muskogee will extend a hearty welcome to any good citizen from any state, and Texas is not an exception. Mr. E. E. McDaniel of South McAlester arrived in the city Wednesday and returned Thursday. Dr. Simmons of Boley was in town several days this week. Mh. Wm. H. Hall, the young tailor of Okmulgge, Okla., in company with his sister, Mrs. Jane Tilson, of Eptias, and his partner, Mr. Spenser Anderson, of Okmulgge, were visitors in the city last week. To better see the town the new automobile of Ragsdale and Davis was secured and driven around to all points of interest in the city. They were highly pleased with their short stay and left Wednesday for Okmulgge. English and American Gallon. 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 3,786 liters. Inventor of Hanson Cab. The hansom cab was the invention of Joseph Alessios Hansom, an eminent English architect, who flourished about 75 years ago. He invented what he called the patent safety cab about 1833 and died in 1883. The Call of Companionship You often hear a lonesome child say: "I want some one to play with!" Elderly people often become lonesome and want some one to play with, but are afraid to say so—Michison 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 rag, silk samples, etc., to find a quarter.—Detroit Free Press. COFFEE BRULO IS EXCELLENT. Popular Beverage That Had Its Origin in New Orleans. In this country coffee brailo seems to have had its origin in New Orleans. On the other side it has been popular for years, especially in France and Hungary. A tray is brought the hostess, bearing the coffee um, a silver bowl with a wide mouth, a small indie, bowl of loaf sugar, a little dish of whole spices, cloves, cinnamon and cassia buds, and another with the peel of a mandarin orange minced fine. There is also a little flask of brandy. The hostess, counting noses, puts into the wide-mouthed bowl a lump of sugar for each person, then the cloves, cinnamon and orange peel. Ov: this a little brandy is poured, which is then lighted and allowed to burn until the alcohol has all disappeared. During this burying it must be occasionally stirred. As soon as the flame has disappeared the coffee, black and strong is poured in until the bowl is full. A flour and this is ladled out into after dinner coffee cups. TO TELL WHEN MEAT IS DONE. Scientific Device Workshy a Place in Every Kitchen Cooks are accustomed to cut into a piece of meat when cooking, to prepare vegetation with a fork, and to use a similar primitive methods of assortment the stage to which the reading or boiling process has advanced. The first really scientific device to measure the temperature inside a piece of cooking food has recently been invented in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is called a "thermo needle," and consists of a thin metal tube, peltated at one end and containing a spring held in tension by an alloy melting at a specified temperature, which is that desired for cooking. The melting of this alloy releases the spring and shoots up a pin as a signal that the driest temperature exists in the interior of the food into which the "needle" has been thrust. As the instrument is with drawn, the pin is pushed down and held while the fusible alloy "sets," when the device is ready for use again. INGREDIENTS FOR LIVER LOAF. Variety Needed. But the Finished Product Is Delicious. Sonk a lamb's liver and heart to cold water until the blood is disgorged, then place a steak pan with one calf's tongue and one half pound of lean fresh pork. Add one scant teaspoonful salt, a dash of pepper, and tied together in a thin bit of mulin, four cloves, six alpine berries, and half of a bay leaf. Pour over barely enough boiling water to cover, and simmer gently tour hours. Trim off all fat, tubes, and grate, and chop fine. Add a little more salt if needed and a shake of pepper, and just enough of the hot liquor to molten. Pack in a greased pan, cover with a plate and weight, let stand over night, when it will be ready to slice. it is the best way to let it cool in the liquor in which it was cooked before chopping. Stewed Spanish Onions. Two pounds of Spanish onions, one cupful of milk, one tablespoonful of flour, one tablespoonful of butter and seasoning of salt and pepper. Peel the onions, put them into a pan of boiling water and boil them until they are tender; they will take from one to two hours, according to their size. Next drain off the water. Melt the butter in a saucepan, stir in the flour smoothly, then add the milk, salt and pepper. Stir this over the fire until it boils and let it cook for five minutes. Now put in the onions, reread them thoroughly and serve in a hot vegetable dish. Apple Pucker. Roll out your pie crust a little thicker than for a pie, like a granite or crockery basin with the crust, letting it fall over the sides of the basin to touch the table. Fill basin with sliced apples, sugar, pinch of salt; bits of butter, and cinnamon as for an apple pie. I put cinnamon through the middle and again over the top of the apples. Then pull the paste up over the apples, letting it packer or come out it will, only don't let it meet. If there is too much paste cut it out so there will be a hole in the center as large as the bottom of your lamp kidney. Pake same as a pie. Do not use a large deep basin, but rather a shallow one. Potatoes Baked in Milk. Pare and cut in thin slices cross- wise one dozen potatoes, slice two large calories and add about one-half pastry. Put the whole into a granite pudding dish and cover with milk, put pieces of butter on top. Bake in a hot oven for one-half hour. Salt and pepper should be added when i wved, as the milk is apt to candle if it is added bore cooking. This recipe is also good if canned tomatoes are used instead of milk. AX GRINDING VS. BUSINESS. Municipal Ownership In Practice Seen Through the Eyes of a Grand Forks Citizen. In an article on the gas situation in Grand Forks, N. D., Light quotes F. J. Janey, a prominent real estate man of that city, as follows: "As a real estate man and a member of the real estate board I did not vote at the recent meeting of the board for the issue of the $2,000,000 bonds for the purpose of buying the gas plant, and I stated at that time to the board that I was opposed to the ownership by the city of the gas plant. "I think that we have one too many of our city utilities already managed and operated by a committee of the city council. Our experience with the water business as it is managed by our council committee is not one which would make it desirable for us to place any other utility in the hands of another such committee. The difference between management by the council committee and management by a private corporation is simply this: "The council committee are grinding their axes and making use of it for their political interests, whereas a private corporation has dollars invested and looks at it only in the way of a business enterprise, which it is willing to push in any way where it can see an increase of income. One is using it for influence and the other to earn dollars." "If you want a water main put in and apply to the city for it, you are lucky if you get it inside of three or four years. If you want a gas main put in and apply to the gas company for it, the company will have the mail in in time to deliver you gas when your house is finished. "I should very much like to have an option on the city water plant at the cost of reproducing the same as it is today, and if I had it I could within four months place it with reliable parties who would agree to sell water at a less rate than we are now paying and who would not ask semiconscientially that the city tax itself in order to encharge the plant, build reservoirs and filtration plants. They would simply look at these matters as to whether they would pay for putting in, and if they found it would increase their income they would raise the money themselves for the improvements." OFFICIAL EXTRAVAGANCE Ohio Has Been Robbed by Its Officials For Years. The state bureau of accounting is giving us something new to think about. It relates to extravagance in office and specifies the purchase of supplies, particularly stationery, as the direction which this extravagance has taken. Our news columns have been giving full particulars, showing that the people have been robbed of thousands of dollars by this excessive and needless expenditure of the public funds. It has been discovered that conspiracles have been formed by county officers for "rakeoefs" from needless purchases. And the evidence is so plain that the officers have hustled to return the money. This occurred in Adams county, but we are informed by the bureau that this form of graft covers the state. It is an alarming condition—to see how many public officers steal from those who have trusted them. We say "steal," for that is what it is, and it is hoped that the prosecuting attorneys will not permit it to pass for anything else. A man who will make a $500 purchase and rake off $100 from the price paid is as sure a thief as any man behind the bars in the penitentiary. We must throw away our soft gloves and handle things as they are or this country will go to the dogs. It is not simply the loss of the money, but the spirit in which the extravagance is committed is as fatal as treason. It runs down through the arteries of our public and private life like strychnine through the blood. It should be the doctrine of our public service that extravagance and needless expenditure is a crime—that official life is corrupt to the extent that it expends the public money beyond what is necessary to properly perform the public duty. That is the ideal that we need in the public service, and it is hoped the bureau of public accounting will keep on until that ideal becomes regnant in the official life.—Ohio State Journal. POLITICS RESPONSIBLE. Ever Present Reason For the Failure of Most M. O. Enterprises. The Duluth Evening Herald recently printed an interview with G. R. Cosley, a representative of an electrical supply house, whose business gives him an insight into the workings of municipal lighting plants. Mr. Cosley thus diagnoses the trouble: "One thing more than any other is responsible for the failure of most municipal ventures of any kind, and particularly so in the case of electric lighting plants. That is too much politics. Too much politics results in misan- agement, mismanagement results in failure, and failure spells a big loss for the taxpayers. "I've seen plants in prostrate towns in a condition such as no private company would think of keeping them and no public company should either. They have gone to wreck and ruin, the machinery is out of order and the town is without light most of the time just because every new mayor appolus a different superintendent and every alderman and officeholder who has a political parasite he wants to reward gives him a job at the municipal plant. They do not do their work properly, and the plant goes to ruin." $1,000,000 LOST IN TOLEDO. How Brand Whitlock's City Tried to Run a Gas Plant. When Toledo installed her natural gas plant in 1895, to be abandoned eight years later, it was expected that the price of gas would be brought to a very low figure. The original cost, $1,500,000, was met by the issue of $4½ per cent bonds, $1,050,000 of which is still unpaid. The business was unsuccessful from the start, and the very men who had advocated the undertaking and made their private profit from it soon advised that it be sold. As its gas field became exhausted the city tried to secure a new supply, but its efforts were frustrated by the fact that it had to advertise its intention for sixty days, giving others a chance to get in before it. Finally the main part of the plant was leased, and in 1903 the lines and mains outside the city were sold for $102,000, of which $27,000 was protested by the purchasers on the ground that several miles of pipe included in the sale was not delivered, having previously been stolen from the city. It is impossible to tell how much the city will ultimately lose by this experiment, but it will be undoubtedly in excess of $1,000,000. A request to the mayor for information elicited a reply from his secretary which gave no hint that a loss had been incurred except the following: "However, the experiment was of much greater benefit to the city than the figures show, for this reason: The consumers of natural gas in Toledo have been given a lower rate than any other city in the country, with perhaps one or two exceptions, for practically the last fifteen years. The low rate was brought about by the competition that began when the city entered the field." If this were true it might be an adequate offset to the loss on the plant, but unfortunately the facts do not bear out the statement. The 1907 edition of Brown's Directory of American Gas Companies gives more than 100 cities and towns in Ohio alone where the rate for natural gas is lower than in Toledo. This is a good example of the sort of "information" which is given out by city officials who are in favor of municipal ownership for political or other reasons. SOME INTERESTING DECISIONS Cities Liable For Damages When Persons Are Hurt or Killed by M. O. Electric Current. It has been claimed that municipal electric light plants are not liable to one item of expense, which in the case of private plants is sometimes a very large one—viz, damages for injury or death due to contact with a live wire. If this were a fact, it would only go to show the unfairness resulting from municipal ownership in making an innocent individual bear all the burden of an accident which may result from municipal parsimony or carelessness. While the decision of inferior courts has sometimes been in line with this claim, recent decisions of higher courts are opposed to this view. In the case of Davoust versus the city of Alameda the supreme court of California held the city liable for damages, but the case was complicated by the fact that the municipal lighting plant was engaged in a commercial business as well as in lighting the streets. The supreme court of Indiana has just handed down a decision where this complication is not involved. In the case of Allen versus the city of Columbus it holds that municipal ownership and the management of municipal utilities do not make such business a government function to the extent of relieving the city from liability for negligence, and it must pay damages to a person injured by the fall of a defective live wire. Although they are not at hand for reference, we recall similar decisions by the courts of other states. It is worth noting that in general where damages have been assessed against municipal plants or where extraordinary legal expenses have been incurred on account of them—the amounts have not been charged up against the operation of the plants, but have been paid out of the general tax levy, thus enabling the plants to show a lower "cost" of operation than would be the case if the items had been properly charged. MONEY LOANED ON REAL ESTATE LONG TIME, EASY PAYMENTS. RELIABLE REPRESENTATIVES WANTED. The Jackson Loan & Trust Co. FORT WORTH, Texas. JACKSON, Mississippi. J. H. HAMILTON REAL ESTATE, LIFE INSURANCE NOTARY PUBLIC. LEGAL DOCUMENTS DRAWN AND ACKNOWLEDGED Postoffice Box 62. Telephone No. 71. THE CIMETER 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 Muskogee, Okla., as Second Class Mail Matter. 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. HARRIS MEAT MARKET. All kinds of fresh and cured meats and lard, game in season. Pwone 177心 Convention Hall. Two large size 21x28 pictures, one of President Taft, and one of Vice-President Sherman, ill be sent to anyone who subscribes for this paper before the 30th of Jul, 1909. Subscription $1.00 Per Year. See or write to MONEY TO LOAN. We also sell lots on easy terms and build houses. Don't pay rent. See us. 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. For your suvenir cards. We have the finest assortmont in town. 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. 200 LEFT FREE! A. J. SMITERMAN. 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. ECONOMY DRUG CO—A complete line of Drugs, Stationery, Perfume, etc. A new place. Call and see us. 305 So. 2nd St. Phone No. 1479. Give us your job work. We guarantee satisfaction. Call us. Phone 148. 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 $2,750 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 Box G, Muskogee, Oklahoma. 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, Okla., June 16th, 1909. WM. P. FIELDS, Mortgagee. By Z. T. WALROND, His Attorney. NEGRO BUSINESS MEN'S LEAGUE AND TRADING EXCURSIONS. E. N. D. Welch, Secretary. Rev. C. L. McPherson, President. About 1,500 people from the entire state are sure to come among them—Dr. R. B. Bluitt, M. C. Cooper, Wm. McDonald, W. A. Redwine, Prof. G. W. Jackson, Corsicana; Dr. W. W. Humphreys, Corsicana; M. W. Dogan, Pres. Wiley University; W. M. Archibald, Beaumont; W. E. King, Ed. Dallas Express; S. B. Rose, David Abner and others. C. R. HUME, Sherman. THREE, CIMETER NEGRO'S LEGAL STATUS. Amendments to Federal Constitution Binding, but Disregarded The Hon. J. C. Ten Eyck, who is one of the leading members of the Westchester (N. Y.) bar, in replying to a letter which he recently received from Mr. John E. Bruce of Yonkers, N. Y., in which the latter requested his views as to the exact legal status of the Negro under the constitution of the United States as amended, said: "The thirteenth, fourteenth and the fifteenth amendments to the federal constitution were legally adopted as they are now incorporated into that document. They have the same force and power as any other provision of the constitution. There is no doubt about it. But, on the other hand, there is no doubt that these instruments are sometimes disregarded, and they are not always enforced. And yet they have always been recognized by the supreme court of the United States as binding." CHICAGO COLORED Spend 23 23 Cents Each Year for Advertisements in 1908- More Work for the Business League. Numbers of people ask the question as to what the Negroes in Chicago are doing in the advertising line, and why it is that only a few names are seen in the weekly papers giving account of their business. The Defender has followed this idea up carefully and found out that most of the men who go in business feel that he is so important that he is known over the whole of Chicago and unlike the Boston Store, Mandels, the Fair or Rothschild's and others they are not forced to spend their money along this line. In taking a general average of the 300 colored business houses in the city during the year from January 1 to December 31, we find that they spent 23-23 cents per year for their advertising. Is it economy? Do you think it will help the business? It certainly does not show thrift. Wake up in 1909 from your long slumber.—Chicago Defender. What is true in Chicago is true in Muskogee. With possibly a half dozen exceptions colored business men in this city have not spent five cents in advertising and especially is this true as to race papers. Wake up, gentlemen, and practice what you preach. You ask our people to trade with you. Why not reciprocate by placing an ad, in the Cimeter, the only race paper in our city. TRUE WOMANHOOD. BY MARY PATTERSON. Checota Oklahoma (Special to the Cimiter:) Mrs Buchanan and Mrs. Alex- ander, have returned from Grayson where they spent the 19th of June, they report a good time. Keep your eyes on the Watson addition that hall is being completed so on July the 10th the prices will be advance on lots in block 1 and 2, so get your contract before the 10th in order to avoid that raise of prices. Now the Normal is over at Eufaula and all of the teachers are gone home. Btt the teachers are not satisfied on the account of not receiving their sheap skin, they should not weary if you mised it you will get it, so be quite. The death angle has visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lone Landum and taken away their son Reed, who has been sick for some tooo months with paralysis He was unable to talk doing his sickness. We their friends, extend to them our heart felt sympathy in their bereavement. Jamie Chambers son of Mrs Harper, who was just entered into manhood, was called from earth Sunday, June 27th 1909. his death is lamented by relative and friends. Grandfather, Gus Minor, who has been very feeble for the past eight or nine months has gone to southern Texas for his health. Checota water works have been improved and we are glad to have the assurance of good water through out the summer. Rumor has it that checotah will soon be a city of the first class. A. J. Eemple, Checotah, Okla. Reporter. 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. HOW MOLLY SAVED PLEASANTVILLE. By ARTHUR H. GRANT. Pleasantville had waked up. The center of a rich farming district, it had grown so quietly that it hadn't realized that it had outgrown its short dresses, so it to speak, until Henry Graham, the enterprising manager of the pioneer Electric company in Mildale, eight miles away, asked for a franchise and a contract to light its streets with electricity, which he proposed to transmit from his recently enlarged Mildale plant. Pleasantville was divided between a sense of shame at having so long been content with oil lighted streets and delight at the prospect of having its beautiful elm shaded streets as attractive in the evening as they were by day. The city fathers had discussed the project, and a final vote was to be taken at the council meeting on Thursday evening. Graham had made the proposition that was fair to Pleasantville and yet would give a good profit to the stockholders and was congratulating himself on having done a good stroke of business, for a practically unanimous vote was assured, when, as usual, the unexpected happened. On Wednesday afternoon trouble alighted from the westbound express in the person of Hiram Stickney, a stoutish, middle aged man of the "glad hand" type, but with little wrinkles around his eyes, which, to the wise, were danger signals of a more sinister character than was revealed by the jolly smile with which he greeted the clerk of the City hotel: "Lectric light contract let yet?" he asked of that rather sleepy functionary. "No, but it will be tomorrow night." "Maybe so and maybe not," replied Stickney as he followed the bellboy to his room. Twenty-four hours was all he needed to make his "maybe not" come true, for as the representative of the Slicker Manufacturing company he had become expert as a franchise killer and as a builder of municipal plants. A week later he and the mayor were seated side by side on the platform of the largest hall in town. The final vote of the council had been postponed, and Stickney was that night to show the people of Pleasantville how narrowly they had escaped the wiles of the shrewd Graham and how much better it would be for them to have a lighting plant of their own. "We have with us tonight," began the mayor, "a gentleman who has made a special study of the lighting problems of cities like Pleasantville, and whose coming to us at this juncture seems to me little short of providential. He will tell you tonight what he has previously told your representatives in the council, and I have no doubt that you will agree with us that it was wise to postpone action on the proposed lighting franchise. I have the pleasure of introducing to you Mr. Hiram Stickney of the Sticker Manufacturing company." Stickney had not been idle during his week in town. He had the history of Pleasantville down as fine as the oldest inhabitant. He knew all its ambitions, its jealousies of neighboring towns, the range of trade of its merchants, and had taken the gauge of almost every man of any prominence. He began, therefore, by skillfully playing upon all the strings of local pride and envy and ambition until, when he reached the climax of his introductory remarks, he had his audience just where he wanted it. "Get your current from Milldale? Send your money to build up your rival? Become a mere appendage to another city? How long before you would find your customers following the wires over to Milldale, and saying. If Pleasantville has to get its current from there, why should not we get our goods from there? Where would your political leaders stand in the county conventions when the Milldaliers would refer to them as representatives of one of our suburbs? No! Pleasantville must not mortgage life future in any such way. It is strong enough and brave enough to stand on its own feet. And it can do it"—here he was interrupted by a perfect storm of applause—and it can do it, and save money in the bargain." Then he plunged into the details of a municipal lighting plant. Boilers, dynamos, transformers, were described as already the property of the thriving little town, until the audience saw the completed plant and felt that sense of proprietorship which is dear to every tight thinking American. "And the entire plant can be installed in four months, and at a cost which will not exceed $10,000—in fact, my company has authorized me to make a contract with you for a trifle less than that sum, if it can be signed within two weeks, as this is the dull season in the year of our business." When he sat down, mopping his rather bald forehead—for the oil lamps Continued on Page 4 Continued on Page 4. THE MAGIC IS TWO TIMES LARGER THAN NETURE IT IS 9IN LONG STEEL HEATING BAR THE MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER AND HAIR-STRAIGHTENER ALUMINUM COND MAILED ANYWHERE IN U.S. $1.00 POSTAGE PAID. SEND MONEY BY POST OFFICE MONEY ORDER. Address all letters to Magic Shampoo Drier Co. Minnesota, Minn. ALL CLEAN CONFIRMED TO BAR. The Commercial National Bank Report of the Condition of Deposits as rendered to the Comp troller of the Currency each year since organized. First Statement Made. 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