Cleveland County Enterprise (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 4, 1917 Page: 1 of 8
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Cleveland County Enterprise
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NORMAN. OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, l'.Hi.
NO. 27.
GOOD ROADS WEEK
LARGELY ATTENDED
Two Miles of Road to be
Oiled in Demonstration
Friday Afternoon
Good Roads Week, the first meet-
ing of what will probably become a
permanent institution in the univer-
sity. is in full -way in the engineer-
ing building this week, and has at-
tracted county engineers, suveyors.
commissioner.-, and others Interested
in the problems of road building
from all over the state. Each day
is bringing larger attendance.
Friday is expected to be the ban-
ner day since it has been announced
that majority if not the entire mem-
bership of the state legislature now
in session at Oklahoma City, will at-
tend the session on t hat day.
A large attendance is expected to-
ijay since, in addition to the regular
attendance, the annual meetings of
the County Commissioners' associa-
tion and the Oklahoma Good Roads
association have been called to meet
with the good roads school today.
The week's school commenced Mon-
day morning with the registration of
the visitors and assignment to room-
ing and boarding places.
. A feature of tomorrow's meeting
wil! be the demonstration of road
oiling machinery. Two miles of
road will be treated, one along the
east side of the campus running
south, and one on the cemetery
road. The Worlev Logan Manufac-
turing company <>f Kansas City is
sending one of their oiling machines
at a cost approximating $300 to carry
on the demonstration. Oil has been
purchased at a cost of S224 by the
commercial club of Norman from the
Healdton field near Ardmore.
v . S. Gehrhart, Kansas, state
engineer, was the principal speaker
at *he meeting Tuesday, speaking on
... " 1: l*idgr: , t * ."tytion
M. OunniliKhat i. Oklahoma state
engineer was also at the meeting j
j,nd spoke on the snhjeet of surveys,
t jng followed by E. E. Colby, con-'
lilting enginr^r, who t:ilkotl on road I
drainage. Moving picture films and'
illr-trated lectures ari being given!
night. George A. Ricker. for-
mer state highway commissioner of
Xe\. Yo.-k and now an engineering
expert for the Portland Cement Man-
ufacturers association, spoke Tuesday
night on the subject of concrete
roads.
JOSH LEE WINS
ORATORICAL CONTEST
'Lay the Ax to Root of the
Evil," Subject of Win-
ning Oration
By winning the National intercol-
legiate prohibition contest last Sat-
I urday at Lexington, Ky„ Josl\ Lee
I won the highest oratorical honor in
the United States for himself and
the university of Oklahoma. The
subject of Lee's oration was "Lay the
Axe to the Root of the Evil."
Fighting his way through the local
state and sectional contest Lee won
the right to participate in the blen-
enjo.vment. jnd one which they come-j af.fajr ;ift<■ r defeating tin
to look forward to from year to year.
IMtlW KYI'IUTAINS l'Ull.TY
AT HKCKFTION LAST NIU1IT
| President and Mrs. Stratton I).'
I Brooks entertained Wednesday night
with the annual reception for mem-j
hers of the faculty between the hours |
of S::iil and 10:30 at the Brooks home j
on west Boyd. The guests werej'e-
ccived by President and Mrs. Brooks,
and several of the faculty ladies as-
sisted with the entertainment.
The hall and living rooms were
draped with pink rosebuds at points
of vantage. The dining room fol-
lowed the colors of the university,
decoration being of red and white
roses. This color scheme was car-
ried out in the refreshments, which
consisted of red and white brick ice j
cream, cake and coffee. The guests
report the occasion one of unusual
\ mON VI. (il OI.OOISTS TO
llol.l) \NM VI. MI LT lll ltL
A telegram received Tuesday from
Frit/ Aurln. assistant geologist of
the geological survey, who has been
SEVEN SIMS ASSIST
LAWMAKERS IN LEGISLATING
If one
were to take
peep into
■ attending the annual conventions of j the legislature chambers of the Ok-
the Geologic Society of America and j lahoma lawmakers now assembled in
the Association of American State j oklahoma City, they would see seven
Geologists at Albany. New York. j students of the university among the
states that the state geologists have active members.
chosen Oklahoma for the meeting] wilburn Cartwright, Roy I'. Hinds,
place or its summer meeting. One i Thud Baker, E. J. Meacham. E. 0.
day will be spent at the university j xortlic.Ut. and Fletcher Riley took
and about five more on branch trips
of inspection over the stale.
W. Shannon, dlrtctor of the Ok-
lahoma geological survey has been
endeiivoring for the past two yeai
to secure the meeting for Oklahoma
hut was beaten first by Michigan and
then l.y New York. The meeting will | ^ Wa,drep , ,, „ ,r>. has boen
mmok LLirnms to jiaki
\\\l AS. INSPECTION TOt'It
Five senior electrical students ac-
companied by Prof. I- W. V. Mor-
bow will take a trip through the
north-central states from January 28
February ti. inspecting large
electrical and power plants of TopeKa
and Lawerence, Kansas. Fort Madison
and Keokuk. Iowa, Chicago and
Gary, Illinois. Milwaukee. Minnes-
ota. St. Louis and Kansas City. Mis-
souri.
These men will inspect many of
the plants of these cities including the
Lawerence Hydro-Electric plant, the
Chicago Commonwealth Edison Co.,
Allis-Chalmer.s plant of Milwaukee,
the Union Electric Light plant and
Buch-Sulzer works of St. Louis.
The trip will cover about S.000
miles by rail and will cost each maii|
about $150.00.
rep-
resentatives of Missouri, Kansas,
Iowa, Nebraska* Minnesota. North"
and South Dakota and Wisconsin, in
1315. At Lexington, Ky„ last Sat-
j urday, eight men met for the nation-
al honors, four of these having been
chosen in 1915 and four in l!*lf>.
I Lee was the second man from Ok-
lahoma to ever reach a national con-
test, Lyle having reached the nation-
al peace prize contest several years
ago, and is the first man to ever
win a national contest for Oklahoma.
His oration is a plea for national
j their places in the house when the
first meeting was called to order,
and J William Cordell holds the
1 j position of reading clerk in the Sen-
late. A. Stevenson, LL. R. 15. is also
counted among the members of the
| lower house.
IIOI SHVIYLS MlCITING
In response to a call from a com-
mittee of housewives, to the house-
wives of Norman and vicinity, quite
a number of ladles met in the City
Hall at II p. m.. December 17. 1916.
Mrs. Jacohson and Mrs. Williams
acted as temporary chairman and
secretary.
made on
"Paying
'Saving in
Ownership
"Housew lv(
bring the majority of the slate geo-
logists of the United States to the
university, in addition to a number
of eeologieal experts from other
universities.
"Merchants'
of Bills
Marketing,"
of Light
s league."
HOlMBKltd \TTIM>s NATIONAL
MINK TI' \('ll I US' 111 IT1 NT.
I'LIG \H l'KI SIRLS OY11!
JU'.LTING 01' INGIM.IHS
The Oklahoma Society of Engin-]
eers, of which Dean .1. H. Felgar Is
president, held its annual meeting at
TulSft, Ueci inb'i 27 anil 2S.
Three sessions, morning afterroon
and evening, wqre conducted each |
day. Half of the time was devoted1
to roads and the remainder was
utilized in the reading ancr discus-
sion of mechanical and electrical
papers.
*
elected speaker protein of the house,
and Walter Ferguson, formerly a
student here, is chairman of the
Fish and Game committee in the
Senate, the only republican member
to be given the chairmanship of n
committee.
Although it is not yet known what
That the East is beginning ■ to buildings will be given tin utiiver-
recognize the music of the West, is sit.v by this legislature, an effort
the impression of Dean Fredrik will be made to secure appropria-
Holmberg who attended the National lions for an auditorium and a 11-
*usic Teachers' association which ] brnry. The state Board of Education
was held in New York City
ber 27, 28, and 2ft.
The tendency throughout the con-j
vent ion was to learn something
about the West, says the Dean who
was honored by being asked to dis-
cuss two subject*. They were "The i
Music Situation i
"Community Musii
Talks wcrt
Grievances,"
Promptly
"Municipal
Plants" and
Figures given b> one of the mer-
chants showed that sixteen thousand
eight hundred dollars Is paid yearly
for deliver) service.
A motion carried that the body
present go on record as favoring co-
operative delivery and opposing out
of town solicitors.
Mrs. S. D. Brooks and Mrs. J. M.
Williams, were then chosen as tem-
porary president and secretary.
On Jan 8, 1917, immediately fol-
lowing the meeting of the Centra'
I Civic Committee a constitution and
I by-laws will he adopted and officers
1 elected.
MRS. S. D. BROOKS,
MRS. J. M. WILLIAMS.
Decern- has recommended the appropriation
of $150,000 for an auditorium.
ULTLItN OF I NGIMLIUNii
COKIN NOT LM'LCTLI) SOON
COI'XTt COMMISSIOMItS Rill'
The new board of county coinmis
A letter received from James Ren-
net, graduali of the university, first
lieutenant of the Oklahoma engineer-
Los
PW IHIHIU III euuillj V'MIIIMI.-
It. F. McBride. Z. K. Wester- *tut "n*d„ at
Oklahoma." andivelt and .1. L. Suddreth. met Monday
and Standardlz-! morning, and at once organized for
ing the Music-Teaching Profession."
The next conventipn will likely
ineet in New Orleans next year.
This is the farthest west of any
meeting place of the association.
the purpose of taking care of the
county's interests for the next two
years.
7j. K. Westervelt was elected tem-
porary chairman, but on permanent
organization J. 1 Sudderth was
i Ebanos, Texas states that the mem-
| tiers have 110 idea, when the corps
j w ill be returned to Oklahoma. Six
university students are members of
this corps which is stationed at
Llano Grande, but which is now at
Los Ebanos, where it was recently
I ordered for instructions and to care
Hit.
II OS il \ LL U < ll>LVr\LI,\
KILLLR.
Dr. J. I.. 1
Franklin, who
oshall, formerly of
has been practicing
:i 1 mil t
OR'LYS ! N MR YORK
Coach and Mrs. Bennie G. Owen
left Non,i,'in Christmas day for Stew • — ■
York City where Coach Owen has prohibition in which many new and
.been attending the national athletic!strong arguments are brought forth.
V.' P. Danford, assistant state j coaches' convention. Hiey will re- it was delivered before the students
highway engineer told of the accom-jturn by the way of Washington D. C.,!„f the university
ptlshments of the state highway de- and will probably reach Norman
partment. 1 1 ""xt Monday.
or three years, was killed
ntan11y in n.i automobile accident; Januai y
: lii> niorning about 5 o'clock.
, He and his wife were returning to
their home in his automobile from
JOSH LLK. i a professional v isit to Capitol Hill.
I University orator who won first when his ear was struck by a large
| honors in the national prohibitioh I truck and lie was thrown to the
contest held at Lexington, "Ky., pavement, his skull being badly
' last Saturday, eliminating seven crushed, causing almost instant
I other national contestants. J death. Mrs. Hoshall was also
Injured, though not seriously.
elected chairman for the ensuing!
year
The board spent Monday and Tues-
day in acting on bonds and reports
and getting onto the run of business
In ■ •> eeiMU-a' iv The- d' ■ -irm-i'
Tuesday afternoon until Monday,
8th.
NO HI-: OLI'I TI IS \ IM'Ol NTLD
Fresh Groceries!
We have a complete line of Fresh, Staple
and Fancy Groceries, and cordially invite
you to come in and see us.
Tt has always been my pleasure to serve
you with the best the market affords in the
Grocery line at prices within reach of all.
and I certainly appreciate the large amount
of business I have received, and I trust by
square dealings that I have merited a con-
tinuance of your business for present year.
Come in and see me any time you are in
the city and take advantage of the many bar-
gains that T am offering in good, fresh gro-
ceries.
WALTER VICARS
TELEPHONE 347.
prior to the nation-
al contest. The prize for the con-
test was a gold medal and $10.
Lee is a junior in the university and
takes a prominent part in school
activities. He is a member of the! National Bank of Nobl
national honorary debating fraternity,i :i|*o t0 u"' I'"""''*
Delta Sigma Rho. and has previously '""- f'"' was arrested by IX-
represented the university on the j ■>«*>• barker, nye or «.* n.,les
, ast of Lexington Friday night, and
^ 01111. , placed in the county jail. He
The three-dav conference of the as-l"a-s i",M
. 10 ,,, nt wis ivaived preliminary examination,
sociatlon, December 28 to il was
.pent in a discussion of the various; Cleveland is also wanted in Chick-
phases of the liquor problem and the i aslia, being rlutrgei w it i ioi.i
attitude college men and Women j stealing and also with jail breaking,
should take toward it. Notable spea-
kers from throughout the United I
States addressed the convention. j
In addition to tin
deputies, mentioned in the Enterprise
Inst week, the following have been
appointed:
Sheriff J. B. Wheelis 1ms appointed
istant|Ed K|rbie as deputy sheriff at Noble
1)at"y|and E. Knight as deputy sheriff
at Moore. Two good appointments.
| Mrs. Chas. Adair has been ap-
I pointed deputy court clerk by Court
„ . T~ ...iti, I Clerk Stogner. Mrs. Adair is a most
Grover Cl6vol/inci, cnarpoo wiin . , , rr;,:, 1
r thit accomodating and pleasant official,
mortene nir <i team of iiors<'> tliatl
inoiiLa-ins. The board of county commissioners
lie didn't own to the iirst National
, ' , c.,- has appointed Jno. M. Fisher as 1ani-
Bank of Norman for $37.oO, also w ith | # ..
, ... , nu,t tor and have retained D. II. Hill as
mortyauing said horses to the fust r,..,„
for $50 nil superintendent of the count* farm.
at Washing- 15oth are R001' men and are <IoinK
'excellent work.
for pontoon equipment taken to that
place l ist June by engineers of the
1 n,Kular army. The company expects
jo return to Llano Grande within
, i three or four weeks. The company is
, 1 i.i t,i build 10n vard'.ol pon'oon in
[sixty minutes.
I According to Bennet the company
how coil ists of 72 men who are a.
I enjoying good health and most of
I them gaining weight each day.
appointment ofjg|nCe the New York and Iowa engin-
eers have been ordered home, the
company of Oklahoma engineers is
tli,. only engineering company in the
entire Brownsville district with the
exception of two companies of engin-
eers in the regular army stationed at
Fort Brown.
GItOYIK CLLVLUM) IN JUL
SOON 1.ItS 1IOMI BOl \l> FOB
HOLIDAYS l\ TRAIN WRECK
DR. CLIFTON RLTl ltNS
j Dr. and Mrs. G. M.
turned home Saturday
' Orleans, La„ where Or.
a post graduate course in tin
Sin Sooner-, enroute to Texas for
tin- holidays, were aboard the Santa
Fe train which jumpted the track.
. plitting a switch six miles north of
;' Gainsville on December 21. The
I train was going at a high rate of
speed and the passengers were badly
j shaken up. but no one received ser-
Clifton re-iious injury.
from New After two hours a relief train took
Clifton took I the passengers to Gainsville where
famous they spent the night. Mrs. E. P. R.
"RUN I'll" It Li 0\ Lit I NO
ROY BAINLS. GRADI ATL OF
L\Sr SIMtlMi. MARRIES
Roy Dixie Raines, B. A. '16, now
"Pie" Pembleton, of the Engineer-
ing school, who has been sick with
the small pox for two weeks is re-
ported to be getting along nicely.
"Pie" had just returned to his home
Tulane University, the be
school in the South, and
ter prepared to take car
large practice here.
medical | Duval. Mary and Eloise Iteirl, Grace
now bet- Deatherage, Frances Buchanan and
of his i Mary Lee Galbralth were among
those who survived the accident.
at Shawnee to enjoy vacation when
he became ill. The engineers are
mighty lonely these days. They say
that things don't go right when
Dean Pie is absent.
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IM'KRCOLLKGIVfKS
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government,
students may take a free train-
in aviation at the government
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permission of the
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AUCTION SALE!
$2,500.00 worth of Good Furniture to be
sold at Auction, Saturday, January 13, 1917,
o'clock at corner Main and S. Peters
at 2
avenue.
COL. (i. I). (MlAVUS, Auctioneer,
> i
in the milling business with his
father at Hennessey and Miss Nannie
! Ellen Taggart, daughter of Mr. and
i Mrs. C. B. Taggart of Enid were
] married on Sunday, December 17 at
j tlie home of the bride's parents. I
[ Dixie was assistant editor ,of the | *
I University Oklahoman during the
j second semester of the 1916-1B uni-j^'
! versity school year. Throughout his ,
| entire university career he took an i ^
! activ'e part in student activities and ! By
I was one of the "A" students in the Yale
| college of arts and sciences. He was) ing
a member of the Sigma Chi, Alpha I aviation fields during each summer, i
Kappa Psi, Ka-uun-ta-klage, Phi | The students of journalism at the
I Alpha Tau and Cheekmate. Mrs. University possess ability which .
Raines,who was a member of Kappa I ranks well with the best newspaper
I Kappa Gain ma, was of the class of j learning of the state and it is a
They will make their home regrettable state of affairs that the j
Hennessey. j efficiency cannot have the nid of a I
first class University printing office. I
Wth the proper mechnnical equip- ;
ment the Oklahoma Daily would com-1
pare favorably with any paper in tin I
state. Gracemont Herald.
• Senior Coeds Startle Campus With j
Red Hats." says a headline In the
Indiana Dally Student. And seniors
are supposed to be dignified!
Only two men were selected from
Harvard In the January Outing's
list of 1011 all-Amerlcan material.
101^
NHY .li'BY COMMISSION
The new jury commission, consist-
ing of Tlios. Vincent, of Norman, R.
, A. Isom, of Lexington and A. J.
Smith, of Moore, were sworn In
Monday, and at once proceeded lo
the names from which the
jurors for the next terms of
county court for Norman and Lex-
ington will be drawn
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