Cleveland County Enterprise (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 9, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 29, 1917 Page: 1 of 8
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CLEVELAND COUNTY ENTERPRISE
CONSOLIDATION OF CLEVELAND COUNTY ENTERPRISE, NORMAN TKANSCR1PTAND NORMAN DFMOCRA1 101 II.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY. AFCUST U>1S.
NUMBER !).
VOLUME XXVII.
I
largest contingent
of draft men keeps
roard busy all day
145 Future Soldiers Crowd
Rooms Where Officials Con-
duct Checking Process.
HOME SERVICE SECTION
HAS RUSHING BUSINESS
Loads of Watermelons Brought
in Response to Call by
Relief Committee.
"Apparently they are all here,"
said H. O. Miller, chairman of the lo-
cal draft board, when he undertook to
walk from his office through the hall
and down the stairway, all of which
places were crowded to overflowing
with draftees, who had come to re
pert to the board at 9 o'clock in ac-
cordance with orders. Not only these j
places, but the sidewalk and street in j
front of the office, the courthouse, j
the courthouse steps and part of th; j
' lawn were filled with soldiers-to-be.
After being checked at the draft j
board office, the men arranged for j
the insurance in the office of the Red
Cross home service section. Six type- j
writers in that office and in the ad-
joining office of Judge J. D. Grigs- j
by were being kept busy with the
work of the home service. When the |
men had finished there they reported j
to the district court room, where j
their numbers, given them by the
draft board, were fastened on their
sleeves by the members of the War
Relief club under the direction of the
military relief committee. In the
same room the men received their
comfort kits from the military relief
committee.
Courthouse Room Occupied
The lawn of the courthouse was
placed at the disposal of the boys and
their relatives, as is usual when a
contingent is leaving. They ate
lunch and supper at the expense of
the government, for they are in the
employ of Uncle Sam just as soon as
they receive thier calls, and he feeds
them.
A large number of watermelons,
more than the number called for, were
ready to give to the soldiers when
they boarded the train. Many of the
melons were furnished by auxiliaries
of the Red Cross. The members of
the branch at Lexington and its aux-
iliaries have furnished a wagon load,
between twenty and thirty melons.
Fifteen melons had been waiting
at the ice plant since Monday. By
Wednesday morning thirty had al-
ready been brought in, and people
continued to bring them all day.
E. 1). CORNELIUS GOES
TO CAMP FOR OFFICERS
Emmett D. Cornelia, son of Mr.
and Mrs. B. F. Cornelius, left Okla-
j lioaia llfty Wednesday for Augusta,
I Ga., where he will enter the machine
gun officers' central training school
at Camp Hancock, as a civilian candi-
date for a commission as second lieu-
tenant. His orders direct him to re-
port at the camp on Friday, and he
expects to arrive there shortly before
that time.
Mr. Corneliusj, who was graduated
from the university in 1913 and has
since taken advanced work, has been
superintendent of schools at Noble.
"All the others are getting into tho
j service, and I couldn't stay out any
longer," he said, in discussing his in-
tention to try for a commission in
I the army.
FIVE NEW teachers pivot of defense in picardy
elected to places taken by allies during night;
;n schools of city vesle captured earl y tuesda y
Board of Education Fills Vacan-
cies in High School and
in Grades.
THREE OTHER VACANCIES
TO BE FILLED TONIGHT
Decision to Be Made This Even-
ing as to Location of tirades
in Churches.
new agency created
to speed industries
Facilities Division of War Board
Will Develop Means of
Meeting Needs.
| By United Press]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—Ber-
nard M. Baruch, chairman of the war
industries board, has announced the
creation of a new division of the
board—the facilities division—whose
task will be to speed up war produc-
tion throughout the country and sup-
ply essential needs of the civilian pop-
ulation through creation of new facili-
! ties.
1 Samuel P. Bush, who has directed
j the expansion of ordnance facilities
for more than a year and who has
i been with the war industries board
I since its organization, will head the
1 new division. Bush's home is in Col-
umbus, Ohio.
To Provide New Facilities
The facilities will consider and de-
termine questions of need or sugges-
tions for new and additional indus-
trial facilities for the conduct of the
List of Those Called
The following is the list of men
who left Wednesday for Camp
Pike:
Warner Alexander, Norman.
Wiliam McKinley Adkins, Nor-
man.
James Windsor Antrim, Moore.
Ambrose Bradley, Newalla.
Lawrence Bauemschmitt, Norman
Walter R. Ball, Norman.
J. Edward Benesh, Oklahoma City.
Walter Butler, Norman.
Martin Cornelius Bode, Norman.
Conrad Nathan Baxter, Lexington.
Charles Holmes Baldridge, Noble.
Roy Vernon Butler, Norman.
Frank Wesley Branning, Norman.
Carl Fred Bruemmer, Norman.
Herman Henry Boeskin, Norman.
Henry Richard Brauer, Norman.
Alfred Bacon, Newalla.
Carl Byrley, Tribbey.
George Blevens, Lexington.
Joseph Cobb, Tribbey.
Robert Ernest Church, Norman.
Shirb Couch, Lexington.
Benjamin Oliver Campfield, Nor-
man.
, Cecil H. Coulter, Norman.
Henry Cobb, Tribbey.
Percy Paul Cooley, Norman.
Charlie Cronan. Lexington.
Pete Marion Crane, Lexington.
Claud Haden Coker, Noble.
Jonah David Connelly, Moore.
Trudy Van Buren Cable, Norman.
Arlo Ralph Davis, Norman.
Joe Doussett, Noble.
Clarence DeValk. Norman.
James Wooley Dodd, Norman.
Clarence Edward Davis, Noble.
Michael Theodore Dallmeier. Nor
man.
Oran James Dunn, Moore.
Fre<l Wiliam Diehm, Norman.
(Continued on Page Four)
It will closely co-operate with the
resources and conversation section of
the board, which under C. A. Oatis
has already started cn war work in
hundreds of idle plants.
Special Sections Created
I. A. Chase, head of the explosion
division of the board, will assist the
new division in chemical require-
ments. Other sections on specialized
war facilities will be authorized. War
demands of the government will be
co-ordinated under the council repre-
jenting the army, the navy , the
emergency fleet corporations and
other agencies.
In determining new facilities, cap-
ital, labor, supplies, housing accomo-
dations, location and transportation
will be considered.
Associated with Bush will be D. R.
McLennon, Chicago, who has been
named chief of the division section
on civilian industrial facilities.
Five new grade and high school j
teachers were elected for the coming
year by the board of education at its
meeting Tuesday evening. On ac- [
count of the lack of time, three other j
teaching vacancies were not filled.1
The teachers who were selected |
Tuesday evening are as follows: Miss
Pauline Council, supervisor of music j
at a salary of $75 a month; Mrs. A.
C. Parsons, head of the department of 1
English at a salary cf $1000 for the
school year; Mrs. L. A. Turley, first ;
crade teacher in the Washington
school at a salary of $75 a month; j
and Miss Kate Barbour, assistant j
high school principal and teacher of
mathematics at a salary of $115 a
month. C. C. Smith was employed as j
janitor of the west side school build- j
ing at a salary of $75 a month.
Meeting First of Year
The meeting of the board on Tues-
day evening was the first of the
school ytar of 1918-19, and all the !
members were present except Fred
Reed, who is in Colorado on a vaca- ;
tion. and Dr. R. H. Pendleton, who
had not yet returned from his va-
cation in Colorado. N. II. Edwards,
up/erintendent of city schools, was
also present at the meeting. He has
just returned from the University of
Chicago, where he has been studying
this summer.
The business which was left over
at the meeting will be transacted
at a later time. At that time
the members of the board will decide
what churches in which the grades
of the west side will hold session.
The west side building is not yet
completed. The grades for which
teachers will be selected Wednesday
evening are the fifth grade in the
east side school and the sixth and
seventh grades in the west side
school.
WORK LATE TO PREPARE
COMFORT KITS FOR MEN
The members of the military relief
committee of the Red Cross and of
the War Relief club stayed at the
Red Cross rooms till ten o'clock Wed-
nesday, filling the comfort kits for
the 145 men who left on the 6:30
train Wednesday for Camp Pike, Ark.
When they had finished the kits
filled thirteen small market baskets,
each basket bearing a Red Cross on
the end of it.
FARMERS VERY BUSY
PLOWING FDR WHEAT
County Agent Bogan Reports
Activity in Preparing Soil
For Fall Sowing.
NEW STEEL COMING IN
FOR TRACK NEAR HERE
Next Liberty Loan
Bears 4 1-4 Per Cent
An Stanta Fe construction crew has
been busy in the vicinity of Norman
the last two or three days distribut-
ing steel rails along the track in
preparation for laying new steel on
the road from a point a few miles
north of Norman to Purcell.
The work of relaying the steel on
this division of the Santa Fe was be-
gun two or three years ago, but was
discontinued because of scarcity of
material and labor. This work is to
be finished in the near future.
"Farmers are busy in all parts of
Oklahoma through which I passed,
plowing and preparing seed beds for
their wheat." said L. E. Bogan. coun-
ty demonstrator, who has just re-
turned with his wife from an auto-
mobile trip to Muskogee. They vis-
ited Mr. Bogan's father, J. F. Bogan,
for eight days. Mrs. Bogan's mother,
Mrs. Louisa Linton of Gore, Okla.,
-tturned with Mr. and Mrs. Bogan.
In going to Muskogee, Mr. Bogan
traveled the northern branch of the
Ozark trail, and he reports that the
crops on that route and around Mus-
kogee were suffering from rain at
that time, and probably would not
tvx '.M very heavy harvest? He re-
turned to Norman along the southern
| branch of the Ozark trail and found
i the crops in much better condition,
! although he said that the recent rain
probably helped them greatly.
More Wheat This Year
"There seems to be more tendency
among the farmers to plant wheat
this year than in previous years,"
said Mr. Bogan. "This m-iy be due
to the advice of the government that
all farmers should plant some wheat."
"I saw many people picking cot-
ton, and the cotton was good along
the southern branch of the Ozark
trail," said the county agent. "Cot-
ton is being marketed rapidly in the
southern and eastern parts of the
state. Also the alfalfa is being har-
vested now, although this crop is very
poor. There will be one more crop of
alfalfa this year, and it will probably
be much better on account of the rain
which has already fallen. J. L. Rol-
lins, who lives one-half mile east of
Robinson school house, nine or ten
miles northeast of Norman, seems to
have a big crop of alfalfa this time.
Thirty Villages Taken in Day's Time, in French
Drive Forward to Within Two Miles
of Somme North of Nesle.
NET ADVANCE IS SEVEN AND HALF MILES
British First Army Makes (Jains South of Searpi
River, Reaching Bemy, Three Miles
Beyond Hindenburg Line.
LONDON. Aug. 28.—One of the decisive battles of
history was being fought today over a front of nearly one
hundred miles, extending from the vicinity of the famous
Vimy ridge southward to the regions of Soissons. Three
British and three French armies were engaged there.
FRENCH CAPTURE CHAULNES
PARIS, Aug. 28.— (12:05 p. m.)—French troops captured
Chaulnes, the great German defensive point on the Picardy front
last night, the war office announced today.
The French along the whole front between Chaulnes and the
Oise continued through the night and this morning the French had
reached the vitally important railway town of Nesle.
Thirtv villages have been taken since yesterday and at som<
French are now within two miles of the Somme at a point north
of Nesle and are advancing rapidly.
"During most of the advance our troops maintained contact
points the French have advanced seven and a halt miles. The
with the German rear guards, continued to move north and south-
west."
WAR MOTHERS TO
MEET NEXT WEEK
DOWNEY, HELD IN JAIL,
IS TURNED OUT FRIDAY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 28.—
Secretary McAdoo has definitely an-
nounced that the fourth liberty loan
bonds will bear 4,4 per cent interest.
The secretary has been insistent
that the government interest rate
should be stabilized at 414 per cent.
He points out that a raise in the rate
of interest of only one-fourth of one
per cent on $10,000,000,000 of govern-
ment bonds would mean an annual in-
crease of $25,000,000 in interest char-
j ges, and that this money would have
to be raised increased taxation and
paid by the people of the country,
it would not be paid by one class only,
i because there are consumptions as
well as other kinds of taxes, and the
consumption taxes reach exery class
, of people.
j "As an intelligent people," said Sec-
! retary McAdoo during the third lib-
1 erty loan campaign, "we should now
make a stand for the financing of our
1 government during the period of this
war at a stabilized rate of interest
say at four and one-half per cent per
! annum, so that all business and all
! investments may be adjusted to that
| basis, and so that we ourselves may
| protect ourselves against successive-
! ly increased rates of interest on gov-
; ernment loans."
Tom Foster, formerly of Norman,
enlisted in the navy August 6, at
Wichita, Kan., and was sent to the
naval training station at Mare Is-
land, Cal. He made the highest grade
in the examination, in which there
were nineteen other applicants.
John Doweny of Pottawatomie
county, who was arrested as a slack-
er Monday by Deputy Sheriff Ben F.
Clay, was released Friday because in-
formation was received by the offi-
cers here that the man is in Class
4-A, and his board does not want
him now. He has a wife and chil-
dren.
BRITISH TAKE BEMY
SOUTH OF SCARPE RIVER
LONDON, Aug. 28.—Troops ol the British lirst army have
made further advances south of the Scarpa, reaching Bemy. three
i miles beyond the Hindenburg line. .
"In Flanders the British advanced on a four-mile front astride
the Neuf-Berquin-Estaires road, taking a number of prisoners,
i said Marshal Haig's official statement today.
"Yesterday our troops south of the Somme took I'oucour.
where the Germans had held strong with machine guns," the state
■nent said. , , , , ... .
"North of the Somme we attacked and captured the greatei
part of Tronee wood, taking a number of prisoners from a Prussian
j in ard division. . ,.
"South of the Scarpe. troops of the first army have improved
heir positions astride the Arras-Cambrai road and have reached
the outskirts of Haucourt (eight miles southeast of Arras), Remy
(hall' a mile north of Haucourt) and Boiry-Notredame (a mile and
a half south of the Somme."
This Melon Is
One Like Those
You Read About
' They say there are no watermelons*
| in the country, that are "any 'count"
this year, but after seeing the water-
melon which came through Norman
Tuesday, at least some of the citizens
will believe that this country is a
great deal better place in which to
live than a desert island even if they
do declare that "the crops ain't no
'count this year 'tall."
C. L. Smalley, who lives four miles
east of Noble, brought a load of fine-
looking watermelons through Norman
and lu had one which about
fifty pounds, and is about a foot and"
one half in diameter. It is of a variety
which is almost round. He offered to
take no less than T 0c or the water-
melon. He say that he has a field
full of such melons, and that without
question he raised them this year, for
they would have spoiled or frozen had
he saved them from last year's crop
Large Delegation Will Represent
Local Division in State Conven-
tion in Oklahoma City.
Here's Whet's In Those Comfort Kits
Red Cross Gives Boys Who Goto Camp
"Why do you want to know what is
in our comfort kits," asked one of the
soldiers of his mother.
"Because," she answered, "you are
my son, and I want to know every
little detail since yoil are leaving
me. 1 want you to write and tell me
all the things you had for breakfast,
and even tell me the number of tines
on your fork."
"All right," answered the boy who
was leaving Wednesday for training
camp. "The comfort kits contain a
housewife, a tooth brush, a package
of stamped postcards, a home service
card, a lead pencil, a package of
shaving cream, carborundum, a pock-
et comb, a pin cushion made of rib-
bon if your own girl made it, and of
some other cloth if the Red Cross
made it, and the last thing contained
is a note from the Red Cross.
What's in the Housewife
"Then you want to know what is
in the housewife. It ha- some safety
pins almost a half foot long to pin
our blankets with, some smaller pin
>f sizes grading down to some larger
than misroscopic, a few white pearl
buttons and khaki buttons strung on
a safety pin, several needles includ
ir.g a darning needle and a spool of
khaki and one of white thread,
i "The kit when rolled makes a very
small roll which may be carried
about easily. When opened it has
three loops with which it can be hung
on the wall of the tent. The kit ha.-,
seven sections in which the articles
named are distributed. A flap closes
down over the openings of the sec
tions like an envelope, so that noth
ing can lose out."
A large number of the ninety mem-
bers of the Norman division of the
War Mothers' Association of Amer
ica will attend the state convention
of that association in Oklahoma City
during the first week in September,
when the total charter membership
j of this chapter will be reported to the
I tate division. The state organization
; will grant the Norman division a
i charter with all the names of the
j members of the Norman division en-
j graved on it.
i Forty new members were given the
nledge of charter membership at the
I called meeting of the War Mothers'
I association in the Christian church
Monday evening, when S. S. Waters,
i Y. M. C. A. educational secretary
from the artillery training center at
! Fort Sill, talked to the mothers.
He told them ail about the soldiers'
life in the camps, and said that the
boys were happy and ^aii-fied, and
that they wanted no sentimental let-
ters ti. m members of their families.
His talk was enjoyed by the mothers,
according to their reports.
Mrs. Pearl Porter played "The Star
Spangled Banner," re-arranged by
Joseph Hoffman. Her music was
gr'iatly enjoyed.
The War Mothers association will
i,eel again in regular session Mon-
day evening, August 2, in the Chris-
trian church.
New Closing Time Fixed—The Red
1 i 'ross sewing rooms will close prompt-
' ly at 5 o'clock, according to an an-
nouncement made Monday by Mrs.
J. Keller, secretary-manager of the
Red Cross. "We can't afford to keep
J the rooms open any later," said Mrs
Keller. "People have been coming
1 as lato as G:30 to take out sewing,
I but they will have to come before 5
o'clock from now on."
C AI 'TV IN K LI NGLESMITH
MAY BE ON WAY ABROAD
A letter m. led in New York has
been received from ("apt. Jim Klin-
iglesmith by his mother, Mrs. J. W.
Klinglesmith, and sister, Miss Ruth
i Klinglesmith, saying that ho has
| probably sailed foi overseas. His
mother and -istcr have recently re-
ceived a pi.' of the company of
.'hich he is .iptain. He has some
fine-looking ruen in his company, an i
iime very y ng looking ones. His
ompany is Company D, 312th en-
j gineers.
Klinglesmith was commissioned a
first lieutenant in the first officers'
t :.ini'ig camp at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan He was then sent to Camp
Pike, Ark., where he remained a
year. He wa promoted to the rank
of captain in May. He went from
there overseas.
Mrs. Jim Klinglesmith will arrive
Thuisday to visit Mrs. Klinglesmith
and Miss Klinglesmith.
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