The Davenport New Era (Davenport, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 1, 1918 Page: 1 of 10
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The Davenport New Era
"YE LITTLE OLE HOME PAPER"
VOLUME 10
DAVENPORT, LINCOLN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1918
NUMBER 25
Subscription Notices
Did you get a notice from this
office the other day stating that
your subscription had expired?
We sent out subscription state-
ments the first of this week
amounting to nearly $100.00,
which, were they all paid at once,
would prove a neat little sum,
and would come in mighty handy.
On the first day of July this
year, as you have noticed men-
tioned in other papers and maga-
zines, the United States govern-
ment made a change ir. the sys-
tem of mailing and the postage
rates of second class matter.
This change was so radical that
it knocked a number of papers off
the band wagon, und has made a
general stir among all news-
papers. The zone system rate
increases the cost of mailing so
abnormally, as compared with
the former second class rates,
that we, as well as othe>' publish
ers, must ask th d our readers
keep their subscriptions paid up
in advance.
So if you got one of the little
notices, don't get offended and
throw it into the waste basket
andfoi,,et it, but come in and
settle up, or make some arrange-
ments with the editor for credit.
If you don't want the paper
longer, please dou't have us go
to the expense of mailing it to
you only to have the account
refused at the end of the year.
We caii accommodate you till
fall, if necessary, but don't want
to s >nd you the paper unless you
intend to pay for it.
Near Wreck on Santa Fe
The New Era—$1.50 a jear.
Sam Grigsby was in Kendrick
Sunday.
W A N T E D.—Bran and feed
sacks.—E. B. Moore.
Watermelons are beginning to
ripen now. O-o o-oh boy!
J. Russell Jones mace a busi-
ness trip to Tulsa Monday.
Deputy Sheriff Ike Dodrill was
in Davenport Tuesday on legal
business.
The New Era man is the guy
that's going to print the sale
bills this fall.
Hot winds are common now,
and promise to continue for a
month or more.
John Landis spent Sunday and
Monday with his uncle and cous-
ins at Stillwater.
Rev. James Cage preached at
the Christian church Sunday
morning and evening.
John Nash of Shawnee was
here Sunday evening on his way
to Sapulpa to accept another job.
Hon. Art L. Walker, demo
cratic candidate for Slate Cor-
poration Commissioner, speaks
to the public through a large ad
in this issue of the New Era.
Give it your careful considera-
tion.
Last Saturday morning a good
deal of excitement was caused at
the Santa Fe station when a near
wreck occurred. The local
freight, due at 11:05, had pulled
in with a hot box and the crew
was working on the engine. No
flag had been placed as they evi-
dently thought themselves safe
from oLher trains. However, in
a short time the conductor heard
a whistle from the south, and
made a run for the over-head
bridge to flag the approaching
train, yelling to the passengers
to get off. And they sure did
get off, too!
The approaching train was a
through freight coming at. a
pretty swift rate, and when they
saw the frantic signs of the local
conductor they applied all their
brakes. The fireman and engin-
eer began to think their train
would not stop in time, so they
jumped for their lives.
The wreck was not serious, but
the excitement was great. If
such a thing were possible we
would say that the conductor of
that local freight was scared out
of a year's growth, and he will
be mighty careful about the
placing of signal flags hereafter.
Put Off Fifteen Days
Some twenty-five or thirty
Davenport citizens were sub-
poenaed to attend the case of the
State of Oklahoma, Plaintiff, vs
Homer V. Oldfield, Defendant, in
the Justice of the Peace Court at
Chandler yesterday. The case
was postponed, on the petition of
the defendant, for fifteen days.
Edgar Allred was in Davenport
Saturday night and Sunday.
The sunflowers and ragweeds
are prominent growths in Dav-
enport.
J. B.CoIvin left yesterday noon
for Cynthiana, Ky., to visit his
mother for a month.
Banker A. J. Langer was here
from Piyor, Okla., attending to
business matters yesterday.
A. L. Welch, a democrat for
State Insurancs Commissioner,
has an ad in this issue of the New
Era.
The Misses Edna and Margurite
Merideth and Clemmie and Flem-
mie Jones were shopping in
Chandler Saturday.
Miss Lavina Wright of Okla-
homa City spent the week-end
with her sister here, Mrs. Arlie
E. Strough and family.
Some country boy tried run-
ning over a car with his bicycle
on the street here Sunday, re-
sulting in a badly wrecked bi-
cycle.
Co\ Link Roberts is having
cards printe 1 this week, netting
ready for the Public Sale busi-
ness this fall and winter. The
Colonel is a good auctioneer and
generally keeps pretty busy dur-
ing the sale season. •
Mrs. O. H. Coxen and daught-
ers, Ompga and Dorothy, passed
through Davenport Monday on
their way from Shawnee to
Wellson. Mr. Coxen has again
taken charge of the Wellston
News, but Mrs. Coxen and the
girls will live in Chandler, where
the girls will attend high school
this fall.
E. B. Moore has in his drug
store a piece of alum, which was
found west of the Santa Fe sta-
tioi)#that weighs six pounds and
an ounce.
Mrs. N. P. Myers and Mrs. O.
G. Robertson, and Misses Leilah
'.f:u Marie Robertson were visit-
ors at Red Cross headquarters in
Chandler Saturday.
Mi.^s Olive Bass, who is teach-
ing school west of Chandler,
spent Saturday night and Sunday
with the Merideth girls here.
She taught at Mountain View a
year or so ago.
The Little Home Paper
By Charles Hanson Towne
In American Magazine
The little homo paper cornea to me,
Ah badly printed as it can be;
It's unirrammatical, cheap, absurd -
Yet how I love each intimate word!
For here am I in the teeminjf town.
Where the sad. mad people rush ur and down.
And it's good to got back to the old lost place.
And gossip and smile lor a little space.
The weather is hot4 the corn crop's good;
They've had a picnic in Sheldon's Wood.
And Aunt Maria was sick last week;
Ike Morrison's got a swollen cheek.
And the squire was hurt in a runaway —
More shocked than bruised, I'm glad to say.
Bert Wills—I used to play ball with him— ^
Is working a farm with his uncle Jim,
The Red Cross ladies gave a tea.
And raised quite a bit. Old Sol MacPhee
Has sold his house on Lincoln Road —
He couldn't carry so big a load.
The Methodist minister's had a call
From a wealthy parish near St. Paul.
And old Herb Sweet is married at last —
lie was forty-two. How the years rush past!
But here's an item that makes me see
What a puzzling riddle life can be.
"Ed Stokes." it roads, "was killed in France
When the Allies made their last advsnce."
E i Stokes! That boy with the laughing eyea
As blue as the early summer skies!
He wouldn't have killed a fly -and yet.
Without a murmur, without a regret,
He left the peace of our little place.
And went away with a light in his faca;
For out in the world was a job to do.
And he wouldn't come home until it was thru.
Four thousand miles from our tiny town
And its hardware store, this boy went down.
Such a quiet lad. such a simple chap-
But he's put East Dunkirk on the map!
Training for Nurses
Mrs. Myrtle Nickell, Miss Ada
Nickel 1 and Miss Lois Hall went
to Oklahoma City Monday of this
week to begin a training course
in the St. Anthony Hospital to
qualify for Red Cross nurses.
These ladies are expecting and
intending to see active service
across seas before the war is
over, and this shows that all the
patriotism is not possessed by the
sterner sex.
J. M. Keeth made a business
trip to Shawnee Tuesday.
Mrs. Lulah Luce is visiting at
the parental home of Mr. an*
Mrs. T. W. Nunn.
H. G. McKeever, candidate for
Governor, asks for your vote,
through the New Era this week.
On account of one of her
brothers being called to war, and
another having broken an arm
while cranking a Ford, Miss Jen-
nie Gertson has given up her job
as "Hello Girl" here and return-
ed to her home ntar Stroud.
E. IV. Hoyt
For County Commissioner
It has been impossible for me
to call upon all of the voters of
my district during this campaign,
and I wish to say that I will ap-
preciate your support on August
6th, and if nominated and elected,
you will find that I still have the
backbone and nerve to do my
duty and do what is right.
Very respectfully,
E. W. HOYT
Do ye read the New Era?
Neri Buchan visited the first o!
the week with the King boys.
Mrs. O. G. Robertson and
children, Marie and Myron, are
visiting at Calvin this week.
We understand that J. M.
Keeth has rented Jeff Sawyer's
old barn and will open a feed and
storage barn.
E. W. Hoyt, a candidate for
County Commissioner in this
district, speaks to the voters
through the New Era this week.
OKLAHOMA CITY'S LIBERTY KITCHEN
Sisters May Join Now Are You a Live Wire?
Washington, July 30.—Because
the American Red Cross, the
Young Men's Christian Associa-
tion and other allied bodies doing
war work in France are unable
to obtain a sufficient number of
women workers, the war depart-
ment prohibition against grant-
ing passports to relatives of
officers and men in the American
expeditionary forces was modi-
fied today by General March,
chief of staff, so as to permit
sisters of soldiers to serve as
workers under certain conditions.
The order provides that the
sisters must be duly accredited
members of one of the authorized
organizations; must be particu-
larly qualified for the work to be
done; must be sent to France a3
workers and not as relatives;
must make no effort to visit rela-
tives in France whether sick or
well; must be returned home by
the organization to which they
belong, if they violate the rules
as laid down by the department,
and must automatically be re-
turned home if they marry of-
ficers or soldiers in the American
expeditionary forces after their
arrival abroad.—Oklahoman.
Put This in Your Hat
And when some chaps are sit-
ting around assuming to tell
everyone what they know, as to
what numbers constitute certain
divisions of our army, remove
your hat and read the following
to them:
An army corps is 60,000 men.
An infantry division is 19,000
men.
An infantry brigade is 7,000
men.
A regiment of infantry is 3,000
men.
A battalion is 1,000 men.
A company is 250 men.
A platoon is 60 men.
A corporal's squad is 11 men.
A field battery has 195 men.
A firing squad is 20 men.
A supply train has 283 men.
A machine gun battalion has
296 men.
An engineer's regiment has
1,098 men.
An ambulance company has 66
men.
A field hospital has 55 men.
A medicine attachment has 13
men.
A major general heads the
field army and also each army
corps.
A brigadier general heads each
infantry brigade.
A colonel heads each regiment.
A lieutenant colonel is next in
rank below a colonel.
A major heads a battalion.
A captain heads a company.
A lieutenant heads a platoon.
A corporal is a squad officer.
Miss Flemmie Jones is the
central girl at the 'phone office
now.
Miss Lucille Irvin and Mrs.
Eleanor Chapmau returned last
Friday from Oklahoma City and
Edmond, where they visited rela-
tives. They reported their little
sister, Oleta, improving very
nicely after her operation.
Mrs. Rosa Nash and Mrs. Lula
| Jones have moved back to Dav-
' enport to make their home.
Mrs. Eva Chapman, who has
been in the hospital at Shawaee
for several weeks, returned
home Saturday, greatly improved
in health.
Can suffragists cook?
Here Is where they prove every day Id the yonr that they both cook and
can. This Is the Liberty Kitchen, built under the direction of Mrs. A. J. Rigsby,
vice chairman of the Oklahoma City District Council of Defense, head of Its
food consm-yation work and also a member of tlie Oklahoma State Suffrage
Campaign Committee. The kitchen, which is a Couucll of Defense proJe<ft, has
graduated 112 women from its cannlngand drying classes and has tlfty more
ready to organize. Mrs. Rigsby has made sixty-two addresses on food con-
servation since last March, conducted seventy-eight demonstrations and sev-
enty-five Investigations of food regulation observance. She had charge of the
food concessions at the fair on July 3rd and 4th In Oklahoma City and was
assisted by the Suffrage organization. For five years Mrs. Rigsby has had
charge of the baby health conferences at the state fair, she sponsored the
Qlrls' Club at the Oklahoma City Community House and hat been president
•f U s usu fsiigratlaa
If some of the girls would put
! in as much time working for the
Red Cross as they do joy riding,
| it would be some easier on the
| mothers, who toil from early
morn till late at night.
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Oliver and
13. F. Grigsby are messengers
: from the church here to the
Lincoln County Baptist Associa-
tion now in session at Pleasant
1 Home Church near Prague.
The New Era management
wants a correspondent, or writer,
in each rural community to
write the live news of that vicin-
ity for the paper each week.
We want someone for this
work who can distinguish be-
tween "news" and "slosh," and
someone who will take enough
interest in the work to get all
the main items of interest each
week, and someone who will
mail their items each week in
time for publication.
And in connection with the re-
porting, we would like to have
someone who could and would do
some soliciting for subscriptions,
for which a liberal commission
will bp allowed.
If you are a live wire and want
to make a little money, como in
soon and talk it over with the
editor. We want the NEWS,
and are willing to make it worth
while to the right persons.
Mrs. I. J. Chapman has been
quite sick.
Girls, why not go 50-50 on the
joy rides and the Red Cross.
Miss Beulah Jones is now the
popular soda dispenser at the
Owl Drug Co.
J. T. Jeter is attending the
Baptist Association at Pleasant
Home Church near Prague.
We want a correspondent in
each rural district to write the
live news of the district for the
New Era.
W. J. Dustman, as Assistant
Superintendent, will have charge
of the Union Sunday School for
the next month.
A number of Davenporters at-
tended the photo play, "The
Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin" at
Chandler last evening.
Read the ad in this issue of the
New Era of Robert F. Scivally,
a candidate for president of the
state board of agriculture.
Elder Fred Wright will preach
at the Baptist Church Saturday
night and Sunday morning and
night. Everybody invited to at-
tend these services.
We understand that several
Davenport people will attend the
big Barnum & Bailey circus,
either at Tulsa on Saturday or at
Oklahoma City Monday.
A move is on foot to consoli-
date the churches of the town.
Can it be possible that all the
gigantic minds of Davenport can
be as one? In union is strength.
Miss Willa Harvey has been
appointed as leader of the Soul
Winners Band, which meets at
the Christian Church every Wed-
nesday night, during the absence
of Captain Colvin.
Floyd Carter, a Davenport
soldier boy, who was hurt last
summer while stationed at Ft.
Sill, is located at Camp Bowie,
Texas. He thinks he will get his
discharge and come home soon.
Little Miss Mary Nunn from
Houston, Texas, is visiting her
auntie, the little Miss Lucille
Nunn, at this place. The two
little ladies were celebrating
Mary's eighth birthday Saturday.
Lucille is only seven.
Steve Grigsby, George Suko-
vaty and Walter Keith, who are
well known here, were among
the sixty-six young men who
went from this county to Camp
Green Leaf, Ga., last Friday.
Another call will be made about
the 5th of this month.
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Tryon, W. M. The Davenport New Era (Davenport, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 1, 1918, newspaper, August 1, 1918; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc109490/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.