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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF CLEVELAND COUNTY AND THE CITY OF NORMAN.
CLbVFIAND COUNTY ENTERPRISE
VOLUME XXVIII.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY, ANGUST 14, 1919.
OKLAHOMA
'NHUSTRIM.
NuTES AND REVIEW
OWEN FUR PRESIDENT FOOD COMMISSION NORMAN RETAILERS 'GHOGK" BEER
CLUS ORGANIZED REORGANIZED BIG LUNCHEON BEING MADE HERE
RECITAL BY PROF.
1 here was a good attendance II. L, Muldrow is home from
j at the meeting called at the court Oklahoma City where on Tuesday
'house Tuesday evening to organ- he met with a number of leading
Aug. 11 All of Osage county is ize an "Owen for President" club, citizens of the state at the call of
under oil and gas leases. On the! Judge R. McMillan was electcd Governor Robertson to reorganize
Osage Indian rolls, entitled to j temporary chairman and several the State Food Commission, it he-
royalties, are 2,230 persons and &°od addresses were made, the ing deemed advisable tliat that
The biggest luncheon yet given (
by the Norman Retailers' a soci-1 ...
i , i i . .. . 1 hc transcript understands "on
ation is to bo held at the Sooner j
Confectionery at noon Thursday l'le l'lat considerable
and is expected to be an enjoy ! "chok ,)eer ' bein« made in Nor*
able affair. Efforts are being man an(I C,evc,anrl county, and
made to get representative farm- arc thinking of entering
during 1918 these drew $4,500 per I principal address being jnride by coinaiittee be reorganized to deal ! ers present from all of Norman-1 m*° ' " n,anullictuiMost "f j!
capita, or a total of $10,035,000. At 'he Hon. Baxter Taylor of Okla- , ..<• 11 i;;!i Cos': of I-iving prop
present time, or during this week, homa City, who was present and osition. J. „\. YVhitehurst, presi-
Osages are drawing $730 per cap- assisted in the organization. dent of the State Hoard of Agri
ita from oil and gas royalties, mak- j Election of permanent officers culture, was elected president of
ing a total of $2,500 per capita for then followed and the Hon. E. B. the organization, and Mr. Mul
first seven months of 1919, or i Johnson was elected president of drow named as the member of the
$5,575,000. On present production ■ the club, Judge R. McMillan vice- state committee from Cleveland
trade territory, and matters o!
however, is being made for h-nm
On tin owning < , An-,i t 5th. a
pleasing recital \va- given by tin
music pupils of Prof. F. L. Howard
at his hnmc at 412 1 ,ist l omanche.
l herc were twenty little folk- took
part and the\ demonstrated mark-
ed ability, and that their training
of a high order Those who
CORN CROP LARGER
THAN LAST TWO
YEARS COMBINED
of oil and gas in- the Osage, and
basing the figures on a minimum
price of $2,25 per harel, for oil,
and allowing 3 cents royaltey 011
president and Robert Muldrow county. It was resolved to or-
secretary treasurer. gamze branch commisions in ev-
The club was officially named cry county in the state to ileal
"The Robert L. Owen for I'resi- with the matter in the several
gas, the daily income of the I'dent Club, of Norman, Oklahoma." counties, and the county judge of
The president was authorized to each county was named as chair-
name two committees, a member- nl;in of this county commissioner
ship committee composed of ten, ,0 he assisted by the county at
named as follows: John Harbour, forney and county superintendent,
I'. O Miller, J. S. Buchanan, 1,. C. these three to appoint twelve men
Giles, M. C. Runyan, Mrs. Strat- an<' women from different parts
ton D. Brooks, Mrs. C. S. fiobo, of •heir counties to assist them—
Mrs. H. L. Muldrow, Mrs. E. A. making the whole committee in
Foster and (Mrs. T. E. Clement I each county consist of fifteen
Committee 011 finance compos- members.
ed of five, as folows: II. L. Mul-' is said these committees will
drow, Phil C. Kidd, Ralph E. ! ')c empowered to investigate con-
Downing, R. VV. Hutto and E. K. 1 fhtions in their counties, ascer-
llimes. I tain the cost of articles and prices
The secretary-treasurer's office c'larsed by the merchants with
will be temporarily at the office of ,lle idca that if there is any profi-
Pittsburg County , Muldrow and Kidd, where all bus- leering the citizenship may be in-
Street Railway Co., is permitted i„ess will be transacted and lists (°™ied thereof.
to charge seven cent fares. furnished the various committees !
Beggs has a new 700 barrel oil . from time to time. ins- m 1 IIT 11111 ■
WCv r 1 I I 1000 00(l' Th.e "°wen fc- rnsident" rally ' luC PLANT WILL
New England replaces 3,000,000 , meeting will be held at the Court*
Osages wounld amount to $38,125.
Ponca has new 2000 barel oil
well.
Refining company in South
Ponca field, Kay County, is the
largest producer west of Osage
county and is considered an im-
portant development. Average
daily production for first 15 days
of July was 2,340 barrels.
Muskogee Phoenix: A hard
surfaced road in front of your
farm would straightway increase
the price $25 an acre.
Tulsa has a little item of 500 new i
houses going up.
McAlester
vital interest to the merchant nU c°n,umpt'on' a'"' have heard|t00^ ,,art were: Gwendolyn Roane
.1 <■ ... . .. I nf nnnn lininn enl/l "PU,,. '' l)eCl*
the farmer will be di*cu>sed
Plates will be laid for 100 guests
and speakers of ability wi'l bo
present.
Louis Martin, Eleanor Gossett.
Irene Miller, Ruth Crowder, (.'race
Miller, Pleasant Mann, Lowell Ri I,
der, Loui Lindsay, Ohmart Bauch,
1 of none being sold. "Che
is said to have a "kick" to it
ecpial if not superior to bock beer,
and makes the votaries thereof
At this luncheon, also, plans will! WI,I|"K to flBht a buzz saw. N'uni -j Bauch, I ffi. Mayfield, Hazel!
he laid for the Trade Excursion | "°"s lnsta ces of f'8hts caused j Quisenberrv. Pauline lluey. Ruth
by the stuff come from over the ! Roane and Clara Moore.
state. Normanjte-, and Clevel-tmij Swimming Party: .The Sigma
county citizens who are making it Lamba Chis entertained with a;
or thinking of doing so better I swimming partv at Doll*
little out
trip which the mc.-clint-i and
business men of tho city iitend
making in the near future into
Norman's t'ade territon-—a sort
of "Get-together" trip—visiting
(■liferent parts of the country and
taking in Noble, Lexington,
Washington, Blanchard and New-
castle. All the cars will he de-
corated, and it is expected there
will be a large number of them.
BUYING A CAR
vat eli
j Mr. and Mrs. Albert Cox, whose
home Js in Bozeman, Mont., are
expected here today on a visit to
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Cox and to
Mrs. Cox's mother, Mrs. G. N.
Shears. They have been in Iowa
some weeks visiting friends. It
will be rememberel that Mr. Cox
underwent an operation at the
Mayo Institute, Rochester, Minn.,
some weeks ago in which his arm
was ampjitated. It is said hc has
House next Tuesday night at I
N:30 p. m—August 19th.—at which
tons coal as fuel with oil in 1919.
How can our country pay high
prices for labor and high prices tiltlc a|i the committecs wi„ r
for products of the sod and have ^and it is anticipated that all pat-
liotic citizens will come out and
BE ENLABGED
help make the meeting one grand
success.
low-priced finished commodities?
Tulsa—New $1,000,000 tire and
tube factory being erected.
Miami—$150,,000 Baptist hos-
pital dedicated.
Tulsa county is growing fast 1
but taxes are growing faster. Cost |
of county government $200,000 j
more than 1918.
Lindsay—700 men to work in |
broom corn fields wanted at once. ,
Muskogee—Construction to be- tion and City Superintentent la-
gin on the new $75,000 hospital, j u,kncr dec;ded
McAlester -Doss House being
remodeled. j ' eptember 15th- as the date upon
Oklahoma City votes bonds for j which the schools of Norman will
Victory Auditorium to cose $750,- c°nvene for the 1919-1920 term.
000. | T,lis includes the high school as
Tulsa county gets $600,000 for! W(,H as the grade school. The
hard surfaced highways. length of term will be nine
Oklahoma City—Work starts! months and an extra large at-
on Grace Methodist church at cost j tendance is expected and good
$400,000. I school year promised.
Western Union employes have a i * ■—
system of arbitration and do not d
, , , v i ♦ i BROKE HER ARM: Her num-
bclieve m strikes. \ olnntary med- c . ,
, erous friends ' are p eased to
lation of abor troubles is grow- \ . T ^ .
I learn that Mrs. L. C. Westervelt
1,1 n r • * t t i ! is restin& easy and will soon re-
Beaver Co. is to secure federal I „ s .
4 . . . ; covcr from the effects of her ar-
motor truck service. I -j.,,. . . . .
, tiennnn . . r c,t«ent. which happened last Sun-
Muskogee — $150,000 building I. „ ,
. m 11 C. . I- 1 da>' resulting m a broken ami.
program at Oklahoma State Tree \\-i-, . ,
' . p • ... While walking with Mr. Wester
State hair Hearing comp etion. ; . ,. ,
jvelt and their little daughter, in
attempting to save the little
Although the present ice plant
of the Norman Milling and Grain
company is sufficient to furnish
all citizens of Norman and vicini-
ty with plenty of ice, that is about
all it can do, and demands from
the outlying towns have to go un-
supplied. The demand this year
is the largest of any year in the
plant's existence, indicating the
I town's steady growth in popula-
The Norman Board of F.duca-1tl0n'
I he Transcript understands
that Mr. f.arsh is now contem-
plating doubling the present r.-i-
SEPTEMBER 15TR
MORE WHEAT HERE
THAN SNSOME YEARS
I met a friend of mine today;
his face was drawn and haggard.
His locks were prematurely gray
and when he walked he staggered. ! fully recovered and i> now in good I
A week ago with pep and vim, his health. They will be warmly wel-
body fairly bubbled. It frighten- corned by their Norman friends.
ed me to look at him, so woe be- j —
gone and troubled.
I said, "Pray tell me why the
gloom? What makes your phiz
so addled? Don't say your bank
went up the flume or that your
wife skedaddled!" He sighed and
sadly shook his head; his hopless
vision chilled me. "I tried to
choose a car," he said. "Advice
has nearly killed me#
At first I thought a modest 4
would take my hard earned mon-
Marked deterioration in the
growing condition of corn in the
state, as a result of lack of rain-
fall, is shown in the joint crop re-
ports just issued in the IHited
States department of agriculture
and the state board of agriculture.
In spite of thi fact, the report
sa> s the state will raise as much
corn even on a reduced acreage
is was raised in 1917 and 1918 put
together.
In the northern central and east-
ern sections where much corn
wa> late, upland growths were fir-
ed badly by the first of the month.
I ark i pju, condition figure for the state
is given at 76 per cent of the
normal as against 95 per cent last
Lucile Wickizer Monday night j monlh 25 per cent August 1, 1918-
and picnic breakfast at the City 30 August 1. 1017, and a
lark or. 1 ucsday morning. Those ycar avcraf?e of about S6 per
present were Misses, Anna Mae j (.en, On the basis of the estimate
Simpson, Wilma and Lucille I
Wickizer, Alberta Guthrie, Mar- !
ion Moffett. Martha Lee McCcinb
MondViy evening, followed by
slumber party at the home
There has been more wheat
raised in the vicinity of Norman
)md marketed here this season
than for some years. Time was,
several years ago, when a long
line of wagons loaded with wheat,
seen
Nelle Beavers, Ethel Walker,
Pauline lluey and Ruby Bartho-
lomew.
LITTLE SHOWER
COOLS THE AIR
A nice little shower at 4:30
Wednesday morning cooled the
atmosphere, wet the lawns and
settled the dust on the paved
streets, but outside of that was a
mere aggravation. What we want
is a two or three inch rain to be
really appreciated. The shower
measured a little over three-ten |
ths of an inch.
upon Monday,
iy. I told some friends who loud-1 could be seen at the elevators
ly roared; they seemed to think | unloading the golden grain, but
ii funny. I hey cracked rude jokes j until this year that has not been
that made me blush and shamed j the case. The Elevator men es-
liie from the notion and praised a , titnate that something like 100,000
sporty super-Slush as means of bushels have already been mark-
locomotion. I etedjn Norman thi, season and
I thanked them kindly for their j that probably there are 15,000 to
bunch and changed my first de- 20,000 more to market. The good
cision. Next day I told another j prices paid has put a goodly! Mi-
DEATH OF MISS
STELLA GOODE
3,(>88,000 planted acreage this fig-
ure forecasts a crop of approxi-
mately 65,713,000 bushels.
Wheat Yield 50,204,000 Bushels.
The early corn in the southern
portions of the state was matur-
ed to considerable degree during
I the early part of July. The hcavi-
j < st deterioration occurs in the
I north central counties where there
is a drop of fully 41 points.
The preliminary estimate for
> ield an acre of winter wheat is 1*
bushels which places the Oklaho-
ma crop at 50,204,000 bushels
This is a reduction of about 7,360.-
000 bushels from the forecasted
crop of 57,573,000 based on July
conditions.
SHIPPING PEACHES
BY THE WHOLESALE
pac.ty .making it seventy tons perl ^ V 1 j " P"Ces
day instead of thirtv-five, and may r c l'ootedwlth dcnsion. amour
add 50 tons to the / J"e super-Slush? Of all the jokes! I j„ Nc
A sad death occurred at the Sun-
nyside hospital on Saturday morn-
August 9th, being
Stella Good
tons to the present out-
put. It could sell every bit of that
quantity at the present time and
the demand in 1920 for home con-
sumption promises to be
increased over
They told me I was
turn out cj
spokes and
amount of money into circulation 0f Abilene
Norman.
Messrs. Ben Barbour and W C.
Parker conceived the idea a week
or two ago to get into the peach
business, realizing there were lots
of fine Elbertas in this part of
the state in small orchards that.
that 01 could be marketed at a profit to
youi. -r lady I 'j'0 farmer and a fait profit to the
aged 24 yi
She had been going to th' sum-
niscs to be greatlv 1 « , .■
8 - I top and tin
this year s . , ,
always have
nutty. I hey! Lexington, Noble and Moore
turn out cars with pasteboard > have also been good markets for nlcr sch°o1 and just its
engines made with),he grain, and elevators hnv
putty. I he car that has
GIRL KILLED IN
AUTO, SMASHUP
Broken Arrow votes $10,000
school bonds for improvements.
Peryr—City votes $260,000 bonds
for rebuilding ilight plant.
Claremore -work has begun on
barracks for Military Academy.
Tonkawa - -$100^)00 university
building and $25,000 Christian
Church going up.
Bolsheviks, I. W. W.'s and radi-
cal socialists find themselves to be
quite as useless to society as the
fifth wheel of a wagon.
Oklahoma City—The terminal
building to be remodeled at cost
of $250,000.
Tulsa—Foundations are in and
walls rising on 8 new school build-
ings.
Trousedaye voted bonds for
Union graded school.
Shawnee—Santa Fc furnishes
250 refrigerator cars to move El-
berta peach crop.
Oklahoma City—Six additional
building in Capitol district contem-
plated
Idabel—Excavation for McCur-
tain county's $125,000 Court House
begun.
Pitcher—Two deep oil wells to
be driled at once. Several mod-
ern residence to be erected also
from falling, Mr
made a mis-step and fell herse'r,
breaking her arm. Dr. Lowther
was called and reduced the fract-
ure. I he accident occured in
front of the millinery store of
Mrs. Lizzie Smith on South Pe-
ters.
creamery es-
Atoka will have
tablished at once.
Oklahoma City—Gigantic term-
inal elevator is a possibility.
Sand Springs—Petitions for pav-
ing hundred blocks presented to
city commission.
Sand Springs Tractor Factory to
open—will manufacture attach-
ments.
Sequoya comity voted $20,000
bonds for bridge across Arkansas
river at Gore.
Muskogee—Masonic temple to
be erected. Wil cost $200,000.
Hogs sell in Chicago for $23.00.
The federal trade commision will
next be investigating the profits
of farmers and advocate govern-
ment control and regulations of
farms.
1 oteau, Okla. Sun: A lawyer
in a court room may call a man a
liar, a scoundrel, a villain or thief,
and no one makes complaint, when
court adjourns. If a newspaper
prints such a reflection on a man's
character there is a libel suit or a
dead editor. This is owing to the
fact that people believe what an
editor says.
Oklahoma City, August 13.—
Georgia Raines, 18-year-old Tulsa
girl, died at her home late last
night as a result of an automobile
smashup near Wellston Sunday
one l^'iffl". and criminal charges may
'elt.' 1,0 filed Tulsa as a result of the
accident, it was reported from that
city last night.
In the party in the automobile
were two men and two women
from Oklahoma City, according to
W, E. Maston, Welston city mar-
shal. Maston, declares that all of
the Oklahoma City persons re-
fused to give their names. The
Raines girl knew the names of
the Oklahoma City women, buf
knew only the first names'of the
a ten-man | done a good busine
foil carburetor; I'd '
er in the
how I'd liatY. r, ,,f , ,
m Wanted a Ride: Owing to
tar- i i;i.„,i , i- i the fact that so main -erious ac
tar, I liked its lines and: , ,
th t 01 have recently occured to
j persons taking airoplane flights,
the citizens of Norman have !>e-
see me thus, why worries h#ve Icome p0"«"d ^Ith "cold feet-
upset me. 1 want to buy a ben 1 °" C ProPos,t'° w"h the re"
zine bus but faithful friend
hop and j
gracious
"I thought I'd
ing
cleanness. A neighbor said,'
ain t a car, it's welded junk and !
meanness." And that is why you'
shipper. 'They accordingly got
into the busiess, with the result
that they have already shipped
five carloads or 2000 bushels and
when she was getting ready to re-1 will ship that many more before
turn home, ^he was taken with a I 'I"' end of the season. They find
serious ailment which necessita• j their market in the north, at dif-
ted an operation. She was taken to ferent points in Kansas, Kansas
let me.'
won't
UNIVERSITY
HOSPITAL MOVES
Oklahoma City. Aug. 12—Five
ambulances have been plying be-
tween the old University hospital
325 East Fourth street and the
Emergency hospital, Third and
Stiles street, all afternoon today, I
moving patients to the new Uni-
versity hospital at Thirteenth St.
and Phillips. Seventy-six patients
suit that not many of them took
advantage of Billy Parker's vis-
it here Tuesday. Billy is a care
inl driver but there is always
the clement of danger
the hospital and the operation per-
formed Friday evening, but too
late jo give her relief, and she
died Saturday morning at 9 o'clock
The father and mother of, the
young lady were here and took
the body home with them for bur-
ial.
Miss Stella was a fine young
lady, popular with her fellow stu-
dents, and much regret is ex-
pressed at her untimely death.
( ity and St. Louis, and are doing
quite well at it.
The peach growers are realizing
about $1.00 per bushel, and ir
costs the shippers about 20 cents
additional to get them sorted and
ready to ship. They have shipped
from Blanchard, Noble, Washing-
ton and Norman and say the
quality is very fine—that Oklaho-
ma Hlberta .peaches are sure in
demand in the large cities.
men, Bill and Tom, Matson de-' u< re movetl' including climral
•clared.
Matson says that the automo-
bile ran into a ditch two miles
west of Wellston late Sunday
night. He was called to the scene' 11 conta'ns l'u' most modern
of the accident and took all of the C(Il,iPmcnt of any hospital in the
persons to Wellston, where they I southwest>" s!>id Paul Fesler, si p-
remained all day Monday, he said ! crmtendent' has every nev
tients at the Emergency hospital
I he new hospital has a capaci- j
ty of 176 beds including thirty-
five private room-
"lt contains the
Relatives of the Tulsa" girl were
device known to medicine.'
All state and city cases will be
handled at the new institution.
The moving began at 1 o'clock
notified, and she was taken to her
home. Matson says that the oth-i
" four persons, slightly injured,' , .
left Wellston for Oklahoma City j continued throughout the a
late Monday afternoon. The
Tulsa girl told Matson, he says,
that she was being brought to
this city for immoral purposes.
No record of any of the fouri
ternoon. Every ambulance in tin-
city was utilized, including those !
of all the Undertakers.
The old University hospital will
be operated as a private institut
persons could be found at any of I IT ""l' -m® f°r",Cr EmerE^cy
the hospitals here last night It i !',° converted into the
was believed that the persons '"VerMty Medical School.
were not sufficiently injured to he
taken to a hospital. j
<ia> on buauic.ts ami pleasure.
Ctiff Turner went to Sulphur to-
J. Warren Kerrigan
In a Photodramatization of Grace H. Lutz' Novel
Important documents are stolen from the Secret Service
Department at Washington. "Jack" Kerrigan as Cyril
Gordon secures the papers, becomes complicated in a wed-
ding, and finally returns with the missing documents—
and a bride—thus offering a combination of thrilling and
amusing scenes.
A Five
Act
Comedy
Drama
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