The Star-Gazette from Sallisaw, Oklahoma • Page 3

Pat Stewart was here Tuesday from Blsckgum. R. J. Miller, of Van Buren was here" Monday. Max Reader was up from Muldrow Tuesday.

Mrs. IW. Ahrens vjsited in Fort Smith last Sunday. J. A.

Hanna is in Crawford county Arkansas visiting relatives. You can find fresh vege tables and those delicious florida Russett oranges at tplace. The original J. E. Williams was looking after legal matters in Redland this week.

Ben Mabray made a business trip to Kansas City this week. A good sack of Peacock Flour in jyur pantry is better than a Stetson 'at on your head. We sell it. Cherry Winter "Quality Store" Mrs. J.

I. Pitchford returned Monday from her visit at Tahlequah. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Wells attended Masonic lodge at Sulphur, this week.

Lost a watch: Open face, gold filled case. Hampden movement. Please re turn to Watie Wheeler and receive reward. Would it pay you to give 25 cents per bushel for ordi nary oats rather than to give 65 cents for good ones? are selling the genuine Texas Red Rust di rect to us from Mckinney Texas. McDonald Matthews.

Attorney T. Shackelford iB at Oklahoma City this week on business before the legislature. Miss Ruth Pilgreen and Miss Clara Hancamp were at Fort Smith the latter part of the week. 1 County Superintendent, J. H.

Dodson looking after official business at Oklahoma City the early part of- this week. Ladies New Spring House Dresses in wash ginghams for $1.00. Cherry Winter "Quality Store" Attorney J. E. Williams was af Marble City Thursday on legaL business in i Judge Silk's court.

A man doesn't discover that there is a line between his own lot and his neighbor's until the first snow falls and he has to clean the walks. Judge Luther Kyle and Judge J. McCombs were looking after legal matters in the Federal court at Muskogee this week. Our big spring shipments of Peters Shoe Co. shoes are arriving this week.

Come early and see all the new styles. None better. Your Sequoyah Mercantile Co. C. B.

Rhoades returned from Musko gee Tuesday evening after, about tep days absence. He has been attending'to business before the Federal court. Mrs. Alex Foreman, Mrs. Ed Pinkerton-and Mrs.

Margaret Flanagan at tended the Kindling at Fort Smith Mon day. Mrs. M. D. Jones, Misses Hallie and Vidla BoggesB and Mrs.

Brown were among the Sallisaw ttregoers in Ft. Smith last Friday Mrs. Martha Payne was up from Muldrow this week visiting her son W. She, was accompanied by her grand daughter Miss Beulah Payne, 'hey returned home Tuesday. B.

O. Reed, of McKey, won his suit lis week in the Federal court at Mus- was. a suit for damages 'for burning his orchard and has been pending since 1909. He got judgment for $1183.00. In pur round news this Week; we found.

Payne Huggins busy arrang ing a. neat office in the. rear of their store building that is a marked improvement and wiH be a great convenience in handling the bookkeeping and 'clerical department of their busily neas. "if you to Jfety something that wilbmakeyoumoney see EugeneBeas- ley about the.FjMn.QUf* Fish Fertilizer thafr be, npw baa on the market. It /mafces.t'woearsof butontf and use you can' hv hank account and decrease" I your See A.

Quesenbury for town The very time to be. nleasapt is wltan, tWe other people are cnW. J. I. Pitchford was at Oklahoma City this week the law makers.

A good typewriter for, sale at a bargain See D. P. Hannah at the post office. tf Ex Congressman C. E.

Creager, of Muskogee was here Tuesday a guest at the Belt Hotel. A exchange says that gossips have motor cars beaten to a frazzle when it comes to running people Deputy County Attorney Riley Cleveland has been at Tahlequah this week attending to some legal business. A. Quesenbury was at Muskogee Monday as a witness before the U. S.

grand jury. A letter from that O. B. Payne is rapidly improving in health. Buy your clocks at Crossno's jewelry store and have them tested, regulated and guaranteed.

(tf) We will have everything the farmers need this spring RocJt 'iy every description. Seed oats, seed potatoes of all kind: northern grown, onion sets, garden seeds, etc Your friends, Sequoyah Mercantile Co. You can get town lots from A. Ques enbury afright prices and right terms. D.

A. McCallum'was here from Joplin over Sunday the truest of the editor, his old friend and former business part- neT. W. N. Francis, was on duty again Monday at the Merchants National Bank.

This waB his'first time out for over a week. 50 pieces of new spring gingham just received guaranteed fast colors and only 10 yard. Cherry Winter "Quality Store" Richard Bibb left Monday night for Guthrie to attend the Masonic Grand Lodge as a representative of the local lodge here. 'Buy a Jewel Save Fuel' you try one of our Ranges. We refer you to a long list of sat isfied customers.

McDonald Matthews. It is' remarked, that the mail order houses have not relaxed their effdrts to get business just because a few dull months in the year appear. They everlastingly keep at the advertising end of their business. On the K. C.

S. No. 2 leaves Salli saw at 4:25 a. m. and arrives in K.

C. at 2:30 p. m. This is the fast train and stops at Sallisaw, Stillwell, Watts, Siloam-Springs, Sulphur Springs Neosho, Joplin and Pittsburg. No.

leaves Sallisaw at 8:31 p. and makes stops at nearly all stations arriving at K. C. at 7:30 a. m.

No. 6 leaVes Salli saw at 8:17 m. arrives at K. C. at 7:40 p.

m. only runs between Ft. Smith and K. C. and makes all stops.

The Twentieth Century. Club spent two enjoyable hours withi Mrs. Arch Matthews, Wednesday afternoon, February 5th. The progranvwas one of a religious nature and was very much enjoyed by all. Mrs.

C. M. McDonald read a very interesting and instructive per on the "Bible as literature." Mrs Floyd read a most helpful paper on 'the need of religion in eyery day life. She brought out facts that would make UB want to live our religion instead of merely claim to be christians. Mrs.

Morgan gave a most interesting sketch of the life of Jobe, showing that though afflictions come, the true heart will remain loyal to God. MRS. JOJHN E. WILLIAMS, Secretary. Our line of Fitform Clothes for men and boys is complete.

We are making special prices them for the next few McDonald Matthews. The Oklahoma Geological Survey has just issued Bulletin No. 10, a report on the Glass Sands of the state by Frank Buttram, chemist of the survey. The sands suitable for making the better, grades of glass occur in regions; the Arbuckle Mountains; the region River, east of Ardmbre; and along Illinois River in the northeastern part of the state. The bulletin contains detailed descriptions of all known deposits of these areas a number of maps and a large number of analyses of the sands from all the deposits.

brief revieWrOf the chemistry of gtaafMtikinft la givBnVs-ThJiB; bu.fletin'wil^ anyonejwiyFe- To Cut Expenses; A special dispatch from homa City to the Times Demo crat at Muskogee has the following today about the consolidation of county Oklahoma City, Okla ip Feb BIHB harmonizing the various theories of office consolidation were introduced in the house this afternoon byCarrpf Muskogee, for the committee ott county offices. They were compared by subcommittee of Representatives Carr and Mitchell and Senators Franklin and Mcintosh, as substitutes for a score of pending bill abolishes township offices, conferring duti on the county commissioners Another abolishes the county assesor, conferring his duties on the county treasurer, effective.Jan­ uary, 1915 A third consolidates register of deeds, clerk of coun ty. court, county clerk and clerk of district court in counties under consolidating register of deeds with county clerk in counties -from 20,000 to 45,000, permits one assistant county attorney in counties from 35,000 to 45,000 and as many as allowed by commissioners in larger counties. The fifth for county assessors prior to 1915, ranging from $1,800 to $3,000 based on population. Just what action will be taken in the matter is hard to guess but that some radical action should be taken is a certainty.

Our taxes are too high and the only remedy for this is to reduce expenses. There is too much mon ey going into the salary fund in every county in the state and it can be reduced without any det riment to the working machinery of the county- In this county durrngtbepres ent fiscal year the salary fund is as follows: County Attorney, $2125.00 Deputy, ..600.00 County Clerk 1. 1925 00 900.00 County ..1925 00 1st Deputy, .....900.00 2nd Deputy, 300.00 County Judges--- Clerk hire, .1800.00 Stenographer 900.00 District Clerk, 1925.00 Deputy, ...225.00 .2125.00 Under Sheriff, 900.00 Register of Deeds, 1925 00 ..900.00 County Clerk 200.00 County Assessor, 2125.00 County Con.missioners,.. 1850 00 mm DR. A.

G. COPPENBARGER VETERINARY SURGEON AND DKNTIST WILL BE IN SALLISAW, FEBRUARY 14th and 15th. $27,075.00 The population of Sequoyah County is 25,005, so it will be seen at a glance that we are taxed at the rate of over $1.00 per head for every man, woman, and child in the county for salaries alone. Without going into detail at this time we venture the assertion that this sum can he reduced more than one third with out impairing "the efficiency of the service. During the coming week we hope to be able to secure a copy of the various bills effecting these salaries and study them carefully and as soon as we receive them we will' take this question up in the succeeding issue.

The salary fund however is not our only luxury. Here is.an Last week Mr. Mershon filed with the county commissioners a paper of which the following is a copy: To the Hon. Board of County Commissioners: I have placed an order with the Muldrow Press, subject to your approval, for the following blanks which are needed in my office at 1000 Jury 100Q Ben oh War ran af te conviction, 1000 BiH of costs, 1000 Garnishment Affidavits, 1000 1000.i^rqbi09iC6r 100Q Judgment OB Sentence and 1000 Inventory and Appraisment on Attachment, 1000 Undertaking to discharge attachment, 1000 Venire for. Jury, 1000 Special Venire for jury, 1000 Execution, 1000 Writ of Replevin, 1000 Bond in attachment forthcoming, 1000 Order of Sale, 1000 Affidavit in Replevin, 1000 Summons, 1000 Affidavit for Warning Order 1000 Judgment and Sentence on Conviction- FRKD MERSHON, Dist.

Clerk. Now we are not criticising Mr. Mershon in this matter for we think he is simply following a custom that has become almost universal throughout the siate ansl-it is that custom that we object to. Our first objection to- the list isjbe numb'e'r ordered." for instance the order of 1000 special Venire for jury. We need over ten of those blanks per year, "therefore 1000 of them would run the office 100 years, arid the.chances are that some of us will lose interest in the matter before that time would roll around.

Our second objection to it is that: Garnishment Affidavits, Undertakings in Garnishment, Affidavits in Repleyin, Undertakings to Discharge Attachment, Bonds in Attachment and all papers of this character are pleadings in.civil actions and the county cannot legally furnish them to the attorneys any more than it can legally supply them with letterheads and envelopes for their offices. The list asks for 23,000 blanks and these blanks will cost on an average of over $7 50 per thousand therefore it is quite a little item. This is just one of many of our little public leaks and if we ever hope to reduce our taxes we must get busy and stop some of them. We will refer to others latter. The leak in the County Judge's office on useless legal banks is greater than it is in the clerk's office but we will get to that matter later NOTICE! As we are back in the Laundry business we take this method of thanking the people for.

their patronage in the past and soliciting same in the future. oooooooo New Time Card The K. G. S. announces the following change in train time, effective Sunday Feb.

9th. SOUTH No. a. m. No.

a. m. No. ai m. No.29 p.

except Sum NORTH BOUND No. ni. No. No. a.

We Are Taking The Usual Care of our old customers, and can use a few new ones. Should ypu contemplate new Hanking connections, remember we est, strongest and most conservative in? stitution in Eastern Oklahoma. THE MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK OF SAtOSAW GORESOS The Company horse, will make the season pf 1913 at my place three miles southwest of Sallisaw. The season this jear will be $15.00 instead of $25.00, the price charged last year. 3 i C.

II. ORENDORFF I it' i -4 lilii FARM LOANS Five, Seven Ten timei lowelt SALLISAW REALTY COMPANY; E. TURNER PETERS BEAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE Fraternity Building, Phones 8 and 66 Sallisaw. 1 SI JONES, LUTON 1 ftxtn.