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THE BABY NEWS.
VOL. 1.
Thursday, August 1, 1901.
No. 18.
THE MAIN CAUSE.
“Deobjec’obdis hyar meetin’,”
said the chairman of a gathering
of colored people, “is to considah
inter de financial en de pecuniary
affairs ob dis chu’ch. Will de
commitee on finances please give
its repo’t?”
Thereupon the chairman of the
committee mentioned rose stiffly
and said, with great gravity:
“De committee has only to
repo’t dat it has made a long en
car’ful investigation inter de fi
nancial en pecuniary affairs ob
de chu’ch en dat de main en prin
cipal cause ob de finances bein’
so low is de lack ob money. ”
When the booths closed last
Friday night at the end of the
last registration day at ElReno,
Oklahoma, the total registration
reached 165,700 names. Quite a
number of citizens who register
ed will no doubt return to their
respective homes after the lot
tery has been finished sadder
but wiser folks. There are peo
ple in all communities who are
of a migratory disposition—
never satisfied with their lot in
life or with their surroundings
and who are always looking for
some new country or some new
snap to be sprung where they
can get a fortune without work
ing for it. However “many are
called and few are chosen” in
such a gathering as the ElReno
assembly. There are quite a
number of people throughout the
country who were so constituted
that when the present dry spell
began jumped at the thought of
leaving for “greener fields and
pastures new,” being loaded
with this non-contentiveness
that the human race is so full of.
As a rule this class of citizens
never have anything, never ex
pect to have anything and would
not work for anything if they
were to strike a gold mine.
They would always labor under
the hallucination that there is a
mine away out yonder just a little
better than the one they at pres
ent possess. “The rolling stone
gathers no moss” is a trite but
true saying, and when you look
around to see the citizen who is
most influential and is best
equipped with this world’s goods
you will moat invariably find
them to be the ones who stuck to
one place and hustled there from
year to year without a murmur.
NOTICE.
I hereby want to express my
sincere thanks to those who so
kindly assisted me in my pasture
fire the first of the week.
T. A. Jeffries.
MORTON.
By Our Regular Correspondent.
Mr. Ellis is up and was on our
streets.
Misses Ellis was in Morton
Saturday.
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No rain here yet, everything
as dry as can be.
If all would do their duty,
McCrory would soon be our
county-seat.
Mr. Desha’s little 12-year-old
son was injured by jumping from
a moving train.
Messrs. Huddleston and Llew
ellyn were over in our village
shaking hands with friends.
Miss Toria Cain, her mother
and several others attended ser
vices at Pumpkin Bend Sunday.
We have an addition to our
town. Ed Cobb and family have
decided to live in Morton awhile.
Sorry to say their little babe is
quite sick.
Morton contributes several
subscribers to the “News.” All
are well pleased. That is right,
we have a first-class paper and
should give it our hearty sup
port.
Tip’s correspondent: When
you get tired of fish come up and
Mr. Cobb will divide coons with
you. Last week he killed 6coons
on trees. If he had had trees
enough how many coons would
he have killed?
I will say to Tip’s correspond
ent, the best place to go for food,
is to find the boat the fish jumped
in and keep up with it. I have
consulted several and all agree
that the boat is the place, even if
the fish do jump in on Sunday.
Mr. Ruffin says that he dined
at the home of Tom Browning
the first of the week. He says
the fish were delightful. He
also says that Mrs. Browning
had the misfortune to turn some
hot grease over, badly burning
both her feet.
Messrs. Henkle and Crissman
will soon put up a number one
mill at Seay. Their firm will be
known as the Seay Hoop & Lum
ber Co. They are enterprising,
genial gentlemen. They have
fenced over one thousand acres
with woven wire. This is a
great protection to their thoroug
bred stock.
Our directors are not slow to
take a hint. They saw a few
lines about a pump in Pumpkin
Bend, and as we have the same
directors, they at once sent us
a pump. Messrs. Ruffin and
Cobb drove it. J. C. Anthony of
Tupelo, tried the pump first. He
said it looked like water, tasted
like water, and was good, pure,
cold water.