Cleveland County Enterprise (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 52, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 26, 1918 Page: 1 of 4
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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF CLEVELAND COUNTY AND THE CITY OF NORMAN
w county Enterprise
VOLUME XXVII.
GERiAfiS
SINK FLEET
IN HARBOR
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY, JUNE 25, ] •
NUMBER 52.
London, June 21.—The German
officers and sailors, forming the
complements of the German ships
interned at Scapa Flow, sank most
of their fleet today. All the big
ships, the battleships and battle
cruisers, excepting the Baden and
numerous smaller craft, • were
sunk while others went ashore in
a half-sunken condition. Eighteen
destroyers were beached by tugs,' treasurer of the 'grand chapter
BANKER SHUTTE
DIES IN EL RENO OF
HEART TROUBLE
News comes from E; Reno of;
the death there on Monday of 0. j
A. Shutte, well known to many
Norman people. The account
says:
"An attack of heart trouble Sat-
urday evening brought death to
0. A. Shutte, president of the Cit-
izens National bank and a pioneer
citizen of El Reno, today.
"Mr. Shutte has held an emi-
nent place in Masonic circles of
the state for many years, being
past grand commander of the
grand chapter, present grand
four are still afloat, while the re
mainder went under
The wholesale sinking of the
German ships, which were sur-
rendered under the terms of the
armistice, was carefully arranged
by officers and crews. All ex-
plosives had been removed and
therefore the only means of de-
stroying the fleet was by opening the institution
the seacocks. The ships went down "Besides his
slowly with the German flag,
which the crews had hoisted,
showing at t'ne mastheads.
The crews, composed entirely of
Germans, under the terms of the
armistice, which did not permit of
British guards aboard, took to the
boats when the vessel began to
settle. While making for the
shore the boats were challenged
and called upon to surrender.
Some of them ignored the sum-
mons and were fired upon, a few
casualties resulting.
This stroke was apparently an
entire surprise and the first news
reached London through a corres- j enj°y 'he Country Club it is nec-
pondent, who was informed by! essary that you subscribe to at
farmers in the neighborhood that 'eas*' one share of stock—$10000.
and a member of the board of con-
trol of the Masonic home at Darl-
lington. He came t<j El Reno in
1892, when he became cashier of
the Citizens bank, associated with
Dr. H. T. Smith. He was later
made vice-president and with the
retirement of Dr. Smith the first
of the year became president of
wife, he leaves a
family of two boys, Thomas and
Walter, and two daughters, Nellie
and Lucile. Miss Lucile was a
student at the State University of
Oklahoma.
"Funeral services wi
Wednesday, conducted
Masons of El Reno."
be held \
by the
COUNTRY CLUB
LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS
If you or your family wish to
they had seen the German ships
sinking with their flags afloat.
The Admiralty at first denied
the report, but later confirmed it
and issued an official statement.
The German officers and crews
have been made prisoners. None
of the officials tonight would of-
fer an opinion as to how they are
to be dealt with.
The statement which was issued
by the Admiralty says:
"According to the latest reports
from Scapa Flow, all the interned
battleships and battle cruisers
have been sunk, except the battle-
ship Baden, which is still afloat,
Five light cruisers have been sunk
but three have been reached.
We at this time have three good
locations submitted, two of which
are on the Interurban, priced from
$6,400 to $7,000, for 160 acres.
We need only 80 acres, and will
sell balance if organization sees
best.
Remember the stockholders will
elect directors to secure option
on other tracts and that each
stockholder will have a vote on lo-
cation.
You don't want to be left out, i
so don't wait for some one to call
on you. Mail your subscription $1,000 WORTH FISH
Chiggers
Thriving on
All Ankles
"Say, I believe Bill has the
cooties, look at *im scratch."
"Cooties nothin", I got the
same thing, and they're just
as bad as cooties ever was."
The above conversation was
heard on a downtown street
last week and caused a few
inquiries and a member of
the city health department
who detected a lai;ge number
of people with the "itches" al-
so got to inquiring. As a re-
sult it has been ^discovered
that the annual chigger sea-
son is in full bloom, and there
never was a better season for
the "little pests, they say.
With plenty of tall grass to
thrive in, the chiggers are
chigging at everybody's an-
kles that come their way and
they chig in very large num-
bers, too. Almost every resi-
dent of Norman who has
mowed his lawn this year
has suffered thereby—from
the chiggers.
Physic.ans have been asked
what can be done in case of
bad chigger bites, but soda
water or a mild antiseptic is
the only relief offered. Those
who have mowed weeds in the
back yard this year have met
the native chigger in his own
element, and met him with
millions of his kinsmen.
One of the redeeming fea-
tures of chigger bites is the
short length of time they en-
dure. One to three days is
not so bad if the little red
demons will stop digging af-
ter the first day, which they
generally do. The pests seem
to have no preference, and
will hop on a slim ankle as
soon as they will on a fat one.
Even as this is being writ-
ten, we are scratching for
chiggers, and boy, believe me,
they're not the most comforta-
ble feeling at all. But they
gave the inspiration for this
•itory.
KEEP OFF THE GRASS!
Recruiting- Office * r ry
Opened in Norman 'Vo / Omp
to This Last
War Hero
Lieut. Edward I). Barber, ac-
| companied by three sergeants, ar-
rived in Norman on Saturday,
coming over from Fort Sill, and
| has opened a recruiting office in
Norman, making headquarters at
i the Chamber of Commerce rooms
in the city hall. Lieut. Barber be-
! longs to the 9th U. S. Field Ar-
i tillery, and is recruiting for all
branches of the service, and those
who enlist in the aviation corps
will be given a ride in an airoplane
from Oklahoma City to Fort Sill.
They will be here a week or ten
days, and will be glad to give all
information concerning the army.
Men can enlist for a period of
' one year or three, and be sent
overseas immediately.
Chamber of
Commerce
Banquet.
Many Matters of Interest to
Norman Discussed — The
New City Charter Endors-
ed and Efforts Will Be
Made to (Jet Out the Vote
—Good Talks Made by
Several Citizens.
New York, June 21.—With
breast shattered, but still
alive, General Muir, one of
the greatest of war heroes, re-
turned today on the transport
Great Northern. As the big
steamer pulled into New York
harbor. General Muir sat on
(lie deck wrapped in a blan-
ket that bore several wound
and service stripes. There
was no perceptible sign that
he realized where he was. He
made no comment.
Reporters vainly tried to in-
terview him. Sergt. Fred .1.
Harmann, his commander, did
all the talking. You see—
General Muir is a carrier pig-
eon.
He was one of the seven
birds of the intelligence de-
partment of the A. E F. that
the transport brought here.
On one occasion having been
assigned to deliver a message
of great importance to a post
twenty-eight kilometers away,
he flew through shrapnel and
gas, and past a squadron of
German hawks that had been
sent out to intercept carrier
pigeons, and delivered the
message in thirty-three min-
utes.
With his breast torn open,
with his wings singed by fire,
with eyes blinded with blood,
he qept on till he had reached
his objective.
"CIRCUS STAR" SAYS HflPMAMITR
HE DCESN'T NEED TO NUKm.<RhtJ>
TRAIN TO KEEP BELT TAKE RIDE IJI
AEROPLANE
\. K. F. Sport Writer Denounces
'lie Champion, Predicting that
Bob .Martin, A. E. F. Title
Holder, Will Take Fall Out of
Mini.
No soldier of the A. E. F. has
| any use for Willard, and little
more for Dempsey, according to
| reports reaching the states the
j past few weeks They fail to se-
why Willard didn't join them, and
later, why he didn't consent to
j benefit boxing for the Red Cross,
j The following arti< is from the
j Hour Glass, officii, publication
j of the 7th division, in France,
j "Interest of sport followers in
America will be centred this year
on the Willard-Dempsey bout, to
be fought in Toledo on July 4th.
Both fi 1 hters are in training and
the Police Gazette of May 2 car-
ries a long story giving the writ-
er's opinions on the probable win-
ners of the fight, ami the chances
each is taking in the bout.
"The real humorous feature of
the story is in the head which car-
I ries t'le interesting line "Cham-
pion fears no m:in, and his train-
I ing is more to satisfy the public
j than anything else." Just since
' when, the Hour Glass would lik
j to inquire, did Willard begin to
; show any desire
ing the public.
toward satisfy
Notice
There seems to be some demand
for co-operative marketing in
Cleveland county this year. Po-
tatoes and peaches are in den and
and while there is no market for
small lots if we could get togeth-
er and make the small lots into
carload shipments I think that we
could handle the situation.
Accordingly I am calling a meet-
ing of those farmers interested
at my office Saturday, June 28,
at 2 p. m., Come and tell us
what you can do so that we will
be able to know whether to have
a buyer figure with us or not.
Come if you have only a small
amount as the little dabs make
carloads.
L. E. BOGAN, County Agent.
today.
^ ou will see below list of 77
subscribers totaling $9,300. We
want a good club house, the more
LOST—DAM RROKE
McMAKIN-FERGUSON y . , .
At the home of the officiating Brewe'r T H ^' '-uttrell
R. B. Curry, living northeast of
here on Spring Creek, was in town
Eighteen destroyers were beached money the better it will be, as well i M°nday looking up a market for
by local tugs. Four destroyers ! as other improvements on the j his cabbage crop. He says that he
are still afloat. The rest of the £rouncl- ! believes he will realize a goodly
destroyers have sunk." | pHIL C. KIDD, Tem. Chairman. I sum from this croP-
Mr. Curry had a very large dam
J built across Spring Creek which
held up the water and made a
large lake which he had stocked
j with several kinds of fish. 'The
! recent heavy rains caused such a
{ heavy rise in the creek that the
i dam broke and he lost all the fish,
J which he estimates at $1,000. He
says that there were fish in the
lake that weighed seven and eight
pounds each. He intends to re-
i build the dam in a more substan-
I tial way and restock the lake.—
Blanchard News.
minister, Rev. G. J. Rousseau,; Berry, R. C
about 11 o'clock Monday evening,; Baker, J. J,
June 23, 1919, occurred the mar- \ Burke, J. J.
riage of one of Norman's best ®ur"s> L P
i I Barbour, Jo
known yong men and a charming Berry Rav
young lady of Davis, Okla., the j Bowers, Jack
contracting parties being Mr. Leo
McMakin and Miss Margarette
Ferguson. The happy young cou-
ple are now at the home of the
groom's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Geo. McMakin on West Main St.,
but will go soon to make their I
John E.
Lindsey, R. D.
Myers, M. T.
Meyer, H. P.
Morgan, Wm.
„ , Maguire, J. D.
Barbour, John WMuldrow, H. L.
Monnett, J. C.
Moomau, J. M.
Minteer, E. R
McCall, E. B.
Newell, W. M.
Owen, Ben G.
'Pickard, Clyde
Bobo, C, S.
Cheadle, J. B.
Corbett, J. L.
Clement, Buck
Clement, T. E
Edwards, L. J
i. , 1 ' oster, J. W.
home on the McMakin farm near Foster, Roy
Downing, R \\ Piekardi Claude
Eagleton, W. L. Parham, R. H.
Reed, Fred
Synnott, Wm.
with
many
Daugherty, Okla,. taking
them the best wishes of
friends.
Leo hp- grown to manhood in
Norman and is a young man of
fine business abilities and will un- j
doubtedly make a good husband |
for the young lady of his choice.|
Miss Ferguson comes of a prom-
inent family of Davis, and was'
formerly a student at the Univer-;
sity. They have the earnest good
wishes of the Transcript.
Foster, E. A
Fischer, M. F.
Fox, J. O.
Giles, L. C.
Griffin, D. W.
Goodrich, L. H
Mrs. Ben Fleming
Operated Upon
Stubbeman, E. H j
Tappan, F. G. j
Weir, W. C. |
Carson, C. C.
Lindsay, H. G. j
McCall, A. H. | Oklahoma City Tuesday mornirg [
u;„„u t McGinleys, I. J. i and performed an operation upon! ,
Hinshaw, Justin Ellinger, R. F. \llg Ben T r,-,, , gunnvsj tj the lawn of ttle home of Mr. L. won, 6 to 4
Two surgeons came down from
There were about 75 of the lead-
ing business men and citizens at
the Chamber of Commerce ban-
j quet and "Get Together" meeting
i held at the First M. E. Church
I banquet parlors on Monday night,
j when there should have been dou-
j ble that number—but those who
; failed to be there missed a verv
i . ,
i interesting meeting; a worth
while" meeting in every accepta-
: tion of that term.
President H. L. Muldrow presid-
ed and after the banquet had been
served introduced the different
speakers in his usual able man-
ner. The program opened with
some good solos by Prof. Wm.
Schmidt of the University, one
especially enjoyed being "Oklaho-
ma," a composition of his own, ac-
companied by Louis Salter. Talks
Were then made by citizens on
topics of interest to Norman and
for the upbuilding of our com-
monwealth.
Prof. J. B. Cheadle was the first
speaker, taking as his subject the
coming election on the new char-
ter for the city, which will be held
on the coming Thursday, June 26.
He likened the matter of caring
for city affairs to housekeeping;
that the aldermanic form was sim-
ilar to a household that had a
number of cooks and waiters, and
stewards, all of whom were doing
things their own way and really
not responsible for their acts to
anyone. The commission form was
better than the aldermanic, inso-
far that it placed the responsibil-
ity upon three to five men, but Quite a few Norman baseball
had its drawbacks in the fact that | fans went to Oklahoma City Sun-
these men were continually pull- j day for the double header a (.trac-
ing for their own departments, tion between Oklahoma City and
getting every dollar they could for! St. Joseph. The Saints took the
their own work, with little regard ' first by a 5 to 2 score, despite
for that of the other commission- Holland's sending in two pitchers
ers; lack of co-ordination was the to stem the tide of hits.
principal objection to this form. Meadows started in the box in
• > the last game, but was soon re-
; lieved by Dennis, and before the
j ninth, all four Oklahoma City
pitchers had worked. The Indians
'Willard's claims that he trains
; to satisfy the public is a joke.
<: He trains because he knows he is
| out of condition and because he
fears Jack Dempsey. If he want-
ed to satisfy the public, why did
he refuse the Red Cross when
that organization wanted him to
fight for it last summer? If he
is so anxious to satisfy the pub-
lic, why didn't he close his circus
contracts and come over here with
Uncle Sam? Surely if he is able
to go through a hard ring fight
he was able to come over here
and fight the kaiser.
Almost all the young ladies of
j Lexington who are attending the
normal at Norman returned home
for the weekend. Some for one
reason, and some for another, but
J principally, so we are informed,
| was because, well because, oh well,
you had better ask them.—Lexing-
' ton Leader.
Billy Parker, chauffeur of a
[fine Curtiss biplane arrived in
j orman with his machine about
I 8 o'clock on Monday morning.
; John G. Lindsay rode down with
him in the machine from Oklaho-
ma City and they made the trip
[ in nineteen minutes. Mr. Tom
Relph, mechanician of the machinc
arrived by car from the City soon
after, and in a few minutes they
were ready for business.
The machine is one that the
Parker company purchased from
the I'. S. government, and cost in
the neighborhood of $9000. It
carries Knl one passenger, wno
sits in the front seat, the pilot
driving the machine from the
rear seat. It is a beautiful ma-
chine and Mr. Parker says is can
nAw be manufactured for $5500.
It/ is not impossible that several of
them will come to Norman, for
many of our citizens who took
rides in it were carried away by
their experience.
Mr. L. J. Edwards, having made
his will and fixed up all his earth-
ly affairs, was the first one to
take the joy ride. Having wit-
nessed the ox team period, and
the horse period and then the
automobile period in Norman and
vicinity he conceived the idea of
being the first Normanite to take
a real joy ride in a real airoplane.
He mounted into the seat, bidding
all his friends goodby. The ma-
chine got a good start, and away
he went mounting into the epher-
eam to the height of 1000 feet or
more, and as he went scattering a
large number of bills over the
city, which contained the follow-
ing:
"If it had not been to get away
from Congress, 1 have my doubts
if he would have gone to Europe."
Norman Men Buy
Lots in Walters, Ok.
An entire block of 30 lots in the
Porter addition to Walters has
been sold to Wier & Pickard of
Norman and the tract may be the
basis of an oil company that will
drill on it. Lots in this addition
carry oil and gai rights with thein
It is expected that a test well will
be drilled soon, says a dispatch
from Walters.
SAINTS, INDIANS, SPLIT
^LIBERTY*
THATER
18 Big Fans. Show Starts 1 O'clock
Every Day. Friday and Saturday
Hoosiers, Attention
There will be
Hardie, Ralph C.Fischer, Rav
Hutto, R. W
Himes, E. K.
Jackson, I. M.
Johnson, M. T
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, N. P.
Kidd, Phil C.
Kimberlin, E. B
Lewis, Roy V.
Lindsay, j. G.
Lauer, Chas.
Lindsay, J. L.
Hutson, Ed
Richards, C.
DeBarr, Dr.
Owen, Wm.
Johnson, Graham;
Herbert, H. H.
picnic held on staged a batfest in the eighth and
ime of Mr. L.
I Hospital for appendicitis, with' J' E?wards' 20s University Bool. - -
I whirh she has beer troubled for ''vard' on the «<* ">* °f Ju|y 2nd. < arl Quigg Home: Carl Quigg,
If; , to which all "Hoosiers" are in- w"0 saw active service in the
some time, TV operction was en- j
tirely successful, and she is doing
nicely. Mrs. Fleming was formerly)
Williams, Guy Y. | Miss Alice Polk and ha*; a world)
of friends in Norman, who trust!
j she will soon regain her wonted
health.
vited.
trenches and as a member of the
Newby, E. R.
Craven, J. H.
Cralle, E. L.
Truby, F. M.
Sergt. Wm. Salter, son of Mrs.
S. M. Salter, was discharged from
Camp Bowie on June 17th and im-
mediately hied himself to Durant,
Okla., where he was married on
June 18th to Miss Cannie Atkin-
son, and will locate in Oklahoma
City. The newly-weds visited with
Mrs. Salter on Saturday and Sun-
day. William is the last of Mrs.
Salter's sons to return, the other i i , . .
four having got home some weeks K PUt °Ut each : Wr H'S count"nance
"At last we are going to get
even with them for all their com
missions coming over here."
"FOR MEN ONLY"
"For Men Only," read the sign
on the artillery range-finder tri-
pod in front the of army recruit-
ing station yesterday. Crowds
swarmed around it all day, each i
If you can and will come please Army of Occupation, was a guest
at the weekly Rotarian banquet
on Monday, and made un interest-
ing talk 011 his experiences going
over, while he was there and the
coming back. He was emphatic in
his declaration that, after all, j
America is the greatest country
on earth.
notify the undersigned, Mrs. W.
C. Weir, Mrs. C W. Shannon, or
L. J. Edwards, and do so by Sat-
urday noon of June 28th. We
Hoosiers want you to come and
help us have a good old "Hoosier"
time.
C. M. KEIGER, Chairman, of
Hoosier Club.
ago. He was a member of the j
142nd Infantry band.
. "Now to get to my Peace trip 1
iiv .. i - , . i , i About three months have supposed
Ttou know for a while Commit.-j warmed around it all day, each! Don Martin Home: Don Martin, j to have elapsed between the last
sions were coming so fast that we Person trying to get a look thru J one of the best known boys of paragraph and this one All of
were lucky to find a fellow who I the instrument; a smile would I Norman, rolled into town on Tues- which time was taken up by Con-
but no in" I (lay morning from Camp Bowie, gress talking (see Congressional
ormation would be forthcoming | Was a member of the 90th Division I Record ). Finally Pres. Wilson
as to what he saw, says the Okla-1 and has been
day
Subscribe for the Transcript. I homan.
overseas eighteen I got tired listening to them and
| months, making a good record, i walked out on them."
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"The Regeneration"
e
with thrills, action and romance. The I,-. ..m, s of th. , i;;
! boat (ire. the rescue of the children, the njits lictv. , ,
:>f water rats and ihc regeneration of tile hero.
j A Henry I.crlimen, Sunshine Comedy, the costliest tvo-reel
"Oh' What A Knight"
j Sparkling with fun, pretty girls and run .irkable animals See
this one sure.
_ \ I SO—
\ new chapter of the cyclonic \\ i stern serial -
"The Masked Rider"
Thrills, \dventure. Wonderful Horse Hark Riding
i oming MONDAY WD TlT.ShW Triangle presents
i onstancc I ahnadge in I 11 F < >i RI of the flM IIFR t'l. M MS"
,i Keystone comedy, "['inched in the I ii'iish." Mutt and left
in "Seeing Things." Tom Mix in a two-reel Western, and a new
chapter of tile "Man of Might," with William Duncan, ioe
Ryan and I tith Johnson.
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