Cleveland County Enterprise (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 33, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 13, 1918 Page: 1 of 8
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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF CLEVELAND WUNTY AM) THE CITY OF NORMAN
Ceveland County enterprise
VOLUME XXVII.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 13, 1919.
Nl MISER 33.
Good Appointment
Mrs. W. E. Conkling, \vh0 has
■been manager of the Southwestern
Telephone company's business in
Norman for a year or more, has
accepted the position of superin-
tendent of the State Industrial
School for Girls in Oklahoma City,: for
take up her duties. Those who
What Might Come Cleveland Co.'s
to Cleveland Co.
Four Oil Wells
WICHITA, Feb. 10.—What is I Well, maybe they are not oil
believed to be a record pas well for (wells yet, but the Transcript be-
Kansas, was brought in near
Douglass, Butler county, Saturday
night. The owners of No. fi Wil-
•d estimate the production at
100 million cubic feet a day. Gas
and left Wednesday morning to I foun(, >t ) 850 ft,et The pres-
know the lady are certain she will |sure ,jfted t|)e too)s snappal the
fill the position admirably, being a
lady of fine executive ability,
lieves they are going t0 be and op-
en up a new oil field in Oklahoma.
At any rate, there is going to be a
thorough test made in every one of
them. They are:
Will the Public
Back the President
President Wilson's Idea of League
of Nations, With European
Partnerships, Will lie
Fought by Many
Leading Americans
Armenian Relief Humor in Marriage A Notorious Woman
Manager
•ommittees
John Alley and his Some of the pithiest and most j Theda Bara in her latest super-
who have had charge amusing humor has centered about j production, "When a Woman Sins"
if the Armenian-Syrian Relief matrimony. From Balzac's
' WASHINGTON. Feb
10.—Ac-
Cleveland County Development 1 cording to unofficial advices that
company's well on Braman farm, (have reached the capitol, Presi
' i the rig. The roar of th
well as capable and conscientious.! fan fae hfiar at DoUKills,
The appointment was made by
Gov. Robertson, upon recommenda-
tion of friends who have known
Mrs. Conkling for many years.
Her place here as manager of thcLT^ the wilford' k,ase Capping
telephone company is temporarily, lhe we], js expecte(, to be a
being filled by Miss Robinson of I j ^n(. jay's production
Oklahoma City. jwiU give Wichita a 10-day supply.
The State Industrial School is
. . . i , . Before No. ti W ilford was
the institution which has been in-
•i. t ti,„ brought in
vestigated by a committee of tlie
legislature following charges of
maladministration, cruelty to in-
mates and numerous other dere- ^.Jiothei* Wonder
lictions. Following the investiga- . c XT
i ion, Miss Ftathery, its snperin-'l Picture for ISormail
tendent , resigned, and it is tins
place that is being taken by Mrs. Five iiunjre(| persons will ap-
Conkling. She goes into the place ,,ear jn otle 0f £],<, scenes of "When
steel cable and blew the roof off j which is now down something like dent Wilson may be e: pccU'd to ro
gasser | 2,100 feet and on which a new con-
three tract lias been made to push the
'miles away.
\ Fear the hig well might be set
on fire caused the owners to shut
down the electric plant which
the largest Kansas
gasser was in Elk County.
with full power to hiie and fi e, a Woman iSins,"
and will undoubtedly biin.. it out sypej,_pj-0duction,
the Theda Bara
which will !>
of the kinks
50 Cases eggs
and Saturday at
ance Sale.
wanted
Suckers
Friday
Clear-
And how read the ads.
shown for the last time Friday
and Saturday at the Liberty
Theatre Picturing the struggle
1 of a notorious woman for the love
if a young divinity student, the
production achieves several ex-
tremely powerful effects.
Liberty Theatre
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
Starting Saturday 1 o'clock. Other Days 2 p. m. Continuous 11
BARA
Romance
Passion
drilling to at least 3.500 feet. The
men who are at the head ofthis
erprise are among the leading
men of Norman and Cleveland
county and certainly mean busi-
ness. They have put lots of their
own money int0 the project and do
not propose to lose it without
making a thorough test.
Then there iv the well being pr
down southeast of Noble by the
National Oil company, a company
that has plenty of money to do
any thing they wish. The drill in
this well has reached a depth of
about 1200 feet and work is being
pushed.
The well near Etowah that is be-
ing engineered by the Macklen-
burg-Duncan interests is another
one that promises to give a thor
ough test. It has reached a depth
of 1,500 feet, and work is contiru
ing every day. Recently the com
pany re-leased the large acreage
it has in that locality, paying the
farmers a large sum of money for
leases for tlie coming year, which
indicates they mean business.
I The fourth well is the one on the
leases of the Cleveland County
Gas and Oil company, at Box. east
of Lexington. The leases of this
company have been acquired by a
company that is said to be very
strong financially and the well
will go down to the required
depth 0f 3>500 feet or more.
And in every one of the wells
the indications so far a? the drill
has gone down are very favorable,
the same indications, the drillers
ampaign, have nearly completed
their labors and think Norman and
Cleveland county will go "over the
top" several hundred dollars. The
'luota assigned to Norman and the
University was one thousand dol-
lars, and the donations to the fund
will aggregate more than $1,300.
Moore, Noble and Lexington are
expected to come to the front
with good subscriptions,
there is no doubt the
! $1,600 will be raised with
i erable to spare.
The young ladies who had ehiirire
of the drive at the I Diversity did
1 especially good work, raising
something like $425, when it w.
before Congress February 25 or
26, depending on when his ship ar-
rives, and give the V«i rienn pub
lie for the first time something of
the picture behind th< scene; in
Paris, say- the Washington com
spondent of the Kansas City S!'<r.
It is known that the members of
the Cabinet, w'n0 have been having
their semi-weekly sessions during
his absence, are a unit in the belief thought if they raised
that the President must also go j would do well. The
before the country and make more public schools and busine
of an appeal for the League of Na- s0 were liberal in their
tions and support of his plan than tions.
his presentation of the subject to Major Alley offered a prize of a
Congress would give him an o|t- German bayonet to the delegation
portunity to make. He would not (,f girls who secured the largest
be able, to leave Washington be- amount of subscriptions and t was
fore Congress adjourned March 4, Won hy the Delta Phi sororiety,
because of his necessary presence who worked the law department
here to sign the' appropriation building thoroughly. The bayonet
bills, but after that it has been will be a prized relic for their
suggested in circles very close to home, for it is one picked up by
will Maj. Alley himself on one of the
four battlefields in France.
far west as
haustive treatise. "The Physiology
of Marriage," to Dryden's trivial
As for women, though we scorn
and flout 'em,
We may live with, but cannot live
without 'em.
we find an almost limitless ran'jc
of observations tragic and farcial
and crabbed and gooil natured,
contemptuous and mellow, brutal
to be shown for the last time Fri-
day and Saturday at the Liberty
Theatre, has one of the greatest
roles of her career, depicting the
' struggle of a notorious woman for
the love of a young divinity stud-
lent.
''1Mt|and sentimental.
iuire.1 j
on snl-
$200 they metaphor
churches
ss men al
contribu
the administration
make three and
speeches, going
Chicago.
It is no secret
that he
possibly
nlmin-
Whcn U S. Tuhbs came up
istration circles that not only has ^own Wednesday morning he
found all the banks closed in hon-
or of his being a grandpa, his first
grandchild coming to him that
morning (Wednesday, February
12, 1919.). It is a charming little
girl, and was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Kvle Gilmour. The happy mother
a wide chasm developed betwe
the President and Congress, par-
ticularly the Senate, during his
absence, but the fear is expressed
that this exists as to the public s
attitude toward the peace settle-
ment and the President's view of
it. With peace came a reaction i wag former)y Miss Eileen Tubbs,
and the country ceased to talk and ^ am| jias many friends to congrat-
think in terms of interna,'onal a-- vi 1 e11o her Mother, father, babe
it did during the war. This per-j.lllf) grandpa all doing nicely
haps was natura) t ' cxpect. But, __________
since the Peace Congress has been -
in progress this spirit of intense
The definition of marriage ha
particularly appealed to the hum
orists. I'etit-Senn litis summed it
up thus: "Marriage is a port >n
the storm, but more often a storm
in the port;" while Edmond About
uses another and more violent
Says this gentleman:
"Marriage is in life like a duel in
the midst of battle." Beaumar-
chais, on the other hand, is milder,
but equalb as cynical. He re
marks that "of all serious things
marriage is the most ludicrous."
Balzac, who really never married,
but who had much to say on the
subject, puts it in this terse man
ner: "Marriage is a fight to the
death." La Rochefoucauld, the
greatest of the French epigram-
matists. compromises with the ex-
tremists and remarks: "There1 are
good marriages, but there are no
delicious ones." How different is
this esthetic viewpoint t0 the petu-
lant observation of Sulpiee Guil-
laume Gavarni, who says: "When
a man says he has a wife, it means
that a wife has him " Exchange.
E. Matthews returned on
Tuesday to his home in Lexington,
having been discharged from the
army at Camp Pike lie has been
stationed al a camp in Florida,
near Arcadia.
Subscribe for the Enterprise.
Mr and Mrs. J. C. Minteer and
daughter, Elveta, Mrs. Barney
Minteer of Chilloeothc. Mo., and
Mr. Edwin Minteer of Oklahoma
City were Sunday dinner guests of
Mr and Mrs. ('. P. Landt.
; 50 Cases eg
i and Saturday
| ance Sale.
wanted
Ruekers
Friday
Clear-
Mrs. I ils llafner, who has been
| the guest of Mrs. Laura Burke of
We i Comanche several days, re-
| turned to Oklahoma City on Tues-
day, where she is making her
home with her sister, Miss Edna
Foster. Her cousin, Miss Mary
Iturke, accompanied her for a
i short visit
| \ small Marion boy was urged
to hurry with his bath and not to
play ar und and waste ail the hot
water because his mother told him,
"Your father wants to take a
'bath." "Wants to?" asked the
hoy in amazement. "Wants to
take a bath! I don't see how any-
one could want to take a bath!"
'fhe members of the Board of
County Commissioners and the
County Engineer are in Noble to-
day meeting with a delegation of
the boosters of that locality and
discussing the Good Roads propo-
sition The Noble people are anx
ious for a change in the route ot
the state highway, which will
probably be made.
say, as have been found in other j f jed nationalism as opposed e- en to
THEDA
Greatest Ameri-
can Actress
In a Tremendous Drama of a Modern Magdelene
"WHEN A WOMAN SINS"
The Regeneration of a Modern Vampire
Her siren's Soul longed (or love, and, though society's wolves
snapped at her heels, she won her heart's desire. Men flung
away their lives for her smiles, but—she risked her own life to
win the love of a man. A pulsing, throbbing drama that cuts to
the core of human hearts A picture of love that plumbs tin-
depths of human experience. See the dance of passion! The
Broadway revels! The banquet of death! See Theda Bara in
her latest and greatest play of the decade—"When A Woman
Sins."
| good fields It is not impossible
| that a new field of fine propor-
tions will be uncovered in Cleve-
i land county At any rate, we are
1 certain to know whether there's
j oil or gas in Cleveland county, for
i if a thorough test is made in all of
these wells it will come pretty
i near telling the story.
Suffrage Failed
, WASHINGTON, Feb. 10—Wo-
! man suffrage by federal constitu
! tional amendment wss beaten
I again today in the Senate.
The House resolution for sub-
mission of the amendment failed
of adoption with fifty-five votes
in favor of it, and twenty-nine
against, one less than the neces-
sary two-thirds.
Thirty-one Republicans voted for
the measure and ten against,
while twenty-four Democrats vot-
ed in the affirmative and nineteen
in the negative The women lead-
ers will try again in the next con-
gress when a majority of the sen-
ate will be Republican.
—Also—
The Greatest Laught of the
Season
"A Self Made Lady"
A Henry Lehrman Sunshine
Comedy, full of pretty girls and
big stunts.
—Also—
Beautiful and dainty Leah
Baird in a new chapter of
'The Wolves of Kultur'
A serial of memorable thrills,
revealing the enemy within.
Notice
There will be an important cot-
ton conference in my office at 2
o'clock p. m. Saturday, February
15, 1918.
You are requested to come, and
the farmer wh0 stays away will be
out of line with the development
of the county.
L. E. BOGAN,
County Agent.
ANGER'S POISON
Coming Monday and Tuesday—Your favorite star—Win. Hart
in "The Hell Hounds nf Alaska." a startling melodrama of the
Northland, supported by Enid Markey. Also a big Keystone
Comedy, "Thirst," with an all ,\tar cast, with a new Mutt and
Jeff cartoon "Hittng the High Spots," also "The Iron Test."
Coming Wednesday and Thursday.—The greatest athletic
i>ctor in the world, Geo. Walch, in "On the Jump," a story of
speed and' pep, "over there". Charlie Chaplin will be here in
one of his break-neck comedies. Also Fatty Arbuckle in "Fat-
ty's Suitless Day." With greatest serial star in the Serial
kingdom, Pearl White, in "The Lightning Raider."
From the BoBton Globe:
Biologosts have proved, by lab
oratory tests, that anger is a pois-
on in the blood; that a person who
loses his temper is actually self-
poisoned. Take a few drops of
blood from a man in a violent rage
they tell us; drop them on the
tongue of a guinea pig, and it will
probably make the little beast
siek. Yet we hear people brag,
"I gave him a good going over,"
"I got good and mad," as if one
bragged of deliberately contract-
ing a dangerous case of blood pois-
oning.
60 Cases eggs wanted
and Saturday at Ruekers
ance Sale.
the program of international re-
sponsibility outlined in such mea-
ger reviews of the League of Na-
tions as have been made public,
has evidenced itself both in the
Senate and out, with a degree of
popular accord that has worried
administration leaders.
It hasn't come from the bourbon
elements of the Senate or Gon-
..vess -men liltr* Lodge or Penrose.
They have crit'i ed the de rei of
secrecy that has surrounded the
peace negotiations and some other
phases of the conference, but for
the most part stopped there. It
has come rather from the progres-
sive element of Congress men
like Johnson of Califronia. Borah
of Idaho, Kenyon and Cummins of
Iowa and Lenroot of Wisconsin
They are not reactionary. They
were liberals before the President j
was a liberal in political thought, t _
They supported the President for
the most part during the war
with a fidelity and absence of crit- j
icism that became irksome to the
other wing of the Republican
party. It is such men as these
who arc voicing what Senator
Johnson terms a demand for "an
American—not an international
or European policy."
These senators are men who
keep their ears close to the grass
roots and seldom have been wrong
in the past in interpreting correct-
ly what the people are thinking
and talking. Right now their
creed is for the United States to
pull out of European affairs as far
as can be and keep out.
One factor in the situation has
been generally overlooked, al-
though members who have at-
tempted to study public sentiment
say it has been significant in gen-
rally influencing the public mind
—that is, the returning soldier.
There has been a striking unanim-
ity in their sentiment. They feel
and rightly so, mighty proud of 1
the job they did. They think per- j
haps they haven't got all the cred-
it due them for a big job well done.
But they are returning sick of
Europe and all things European ,
This may wear off.
But, instead of their fighting
alongside of the English and the
French and seeing England and
France making them think in
Friday terms mor e international, they
Clear- are returning, as some of the re-
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