Norman Daily Independent. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 33, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 10, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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NORMAN DAILY INDEPENDENT.
VOL. 1.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1909.
NO. 33
SAME BILL AS WAS PASSED
LAST YEAR BUT TABOOED
BY GOVERNOR.
FEATURE THATCAUSED
GOV.'S VETO DROFPED
Does Not Apply to Farm Work for
Boys and Girls Like First Bill.—
Other Provisions Same.
WOMEN AND OHILDBEB NOT TO
WOBK UNDEBGKOUND IN MINES
Children Under Fourteen Must Not
Be Employed in Theatres, Pool
Halls or Bowling Alleys.
Guthrie, Okla., Feb. 10.—(Special.)
The Franklin child labor bill was
Tecommended for adoption by the
senate in committee of the whole
without debate. The bill is practi-
cally identical with the one passed
last year, except that the sections
which were objectionable to the gov-
ernor, and which caused him to veto
the bill, have been so modified as to
meet his objections.
The section which prohibited any
kind of work by boys under 16 or
girls under. 18 (except agriculture
and domestic service) between the
hours .of 6 p. m. and 6 a. m., has been
modified so as to apply only to work
in any factory, workshop, theatre,
bowling alley, pool hall, steam laun-
dry, or any occupation injurious to
health and morals or especially haz-
ardous to life or limb. No children
under 14 years of age can be employ-
ed in any of these occupations under
any conditions, and no child under
16 except on presentation of certi-
ficate of age and schooling certificate.
No child under 16 years of age is
to be allowed to work at oiling, oper-
ating, wiping or cleaning any dan-
gerous machinery while in motion;
operating or assisting to bperate cir-
rular or band saws, steam boilers,
roling mill machinery, punches or
shears; washing, grinding or mixing
mills; passenger or freight elevators;
preparing any composition in which
dangerous or poisonous acids are
used; manufacture of paints, colors
©r white lead; where there are acids,
ilyes, lyes, glasses, glass or other
•lust or lint in such quantities as to
be injurious to health; dipping, pye-
ing or packing machines; manufac-
turing, packing or storing powder,
dynamite, nitroglycerine, compounds,
fuses or other explosives; manufac-
ture of goods for immoral purposes.
Girls under 16 are not to be em-
ployed in any employment which
compels them to remain standing
constantly, and are not allowed to
sell newspapers or periodicals on the
.street or in any public place. No
child under 16 and no girl or woman
is alowed to work underground in
any mine or quary.
Knockers Become Boosters and Roosters Become Knockers—
An Unlooked for Transformation--Peter's Avenue Pellows
Gave In When Bested.
UNUSUAL FLOW OF DEMOSTHENIAN ORATORY
REGARDING BOULEVARD-QUESTION UNSETTLED
Fact That Boulevard Is Not a City Thorofare Gave Rise To Objections
—Thing For Council To Do Is To Get Paving Started.
Tuesday night the Norman city
council held a session that was mark-
ed by outbursts of explosive oratory
with City Attorney Wolf, Prof. J. S.
Buchanan, Dr. Van v leet, S. P. Ren-
der and Dr. Bobo as the principal
speakers on one side and W. M.
Newell on the other. The theme un-
der discussion, as a matter of course,
was the overworked and thought to
have been settled, when city accept-
ed the bid of the Cleveland-Trinidad
Co., question of city paving. Just why
the council would waste any more
time discussing a question t'sai has
been settled is not clear to outsiders.
1 he bids for the paving have been
advertised, the same opened and con-
tract awarded to the Cleveland-Trin-
idad Paving Company, and the com-
|pany's bond up, and all that remains
is for the city to go on and appraise
property and issue paving bonds.
Nothing to discuss concerning the
question of paving it would seem;
but rather ways and means to get the
work under headway at the earliest
possible date. During the early dis-
cussion of the paving question it de-
veloped that the boosters all seem-
ed to roost on Muskogee Avenue and
the University Boulevard and Main
Street and the knockers, for the most
part boosted on Peters Avenue. The
knockers, however, were overpower-
ed, died game, smiled subjectly and
said "All right, gentlemen, we have
fought and lost. We now join the
victors and will be found boosting
(Continued on page 8.)
"CLEVELAND COUNTY FAIR'
PROMISES TO BE A GREAT
THING.
FULL OF LAUGHS
AND LOTS OF MUSIC
The Stage to Be Decorated With All
Sorts of Grain, Vevetables
Fruits, and Such People:ias
FABMEBS, OLD MAIDS, SCHOOL
BOYS, JOOKEYS, AND PREAOHEBS
Grand Jury At Muskogee Now After Timber Thieves Who
Have Been Operating On Segregated Indian Lands For
A Number of Years.
JUDGE ISSUES ORDERS FOR NAMES NOT TO BE
MADE PUBLIC UNTIL ARRESTS ARE MADE
Thefts Occurred In Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole Nations By
Representatives of Eastern Corporations.
Muskogee, Okla., Feb. 10.—Indict-
ments against twenty-six representa-
tives of big corporations, charging
them with stealing valuable timber
from segregated lands in Oklahoma,
were returned by the federal grand
jury here yesterday. An additional in-
dictment was returned against one
person , for impersonating a United
States officer in furtherance of the
scheme of the alleged timber thieves.
The alleged thefts occurred chiefly
in the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Semi-
nole nations.
Judge Campbell issued strict orders
that no names of the indicted persons
be given out until after they have
been arrested, and have either been
committed to jail or have given bond.
Tonight United States Marshal
Grant Victor dispatched ten deputies
on a south-bound train to arrest the
persons indicted, who reside chiefly
in Leflore, McCurtain and Choctaw
counties. They will be returned here
and required to give bond.
Grand Teddy Bear Chorus of Three
Hundred Little Girls.—-Other
Choruses Also.
It has been decided by a number
of prominent people of Norman to
produce here on February 19 a home
talent play entitled The Cleveland
County Fair. 1 his play was written
by Annie Sara Bock, a West Virginia
woman who has made the drilling
and producing of home talent plays
a specialty. This home talent play,
Cleveland County Fair has been her
biggest and most successful.Wherever
it has been given it has been an im-
mense success, as it no doubt will be
in Norman.
The plan and plot of this play is
very simple—nothing .but a County
Pair scene with all manner of people
coming to the fair. It will be a real
picture of the real old time County
hair, with displays innumerable of
rich, yellow pumpkins, big potatoes,
imense squashes, monstrous ears of
yellow corn, red aples and ai1v and
every kind of fruit and vegetables
raised by the farmers of Cleveland
County.
Not 'only will there be displays of
these farm products, but the needle-
work, machinery, and handiwork of
the thrifty inhabitants of Cleveland
county will also occupy a conspicu-
ous space.
W hile the displays above described
are always looked for at the county
fair yet the real interest of this par-
ticular Cleveland county fair is in the
dialogue of the visitors at the fair
and in the musical numbers to be
presented. As the scene opens the
loud mouthed faikers, lemonade man,
side show man, balloon man will al-
most deafen you with their mighty
yells. Then folows a quick succession
of farmers, old maids, school boys,
jockeys, preachers, bride and groom,
gold brick men, city visitors and all
the characters one can possibly im-
agine at a county fair, each with an
appropriate dialogue and conversa-
tion. All these dialogues are bf the
most humorous nature and have a
life -.and spirit to them that convulses
and amuses even the most staid audi-
ence.
But after all, no amateur entertain-
ment at this day and age can be a
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Danner, V. E. Norman Daily Independent. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 33, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 10, 1909, newspaper, February 10, 1909; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc106715/m1/1/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.