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Oklahoma Historicl Society
OHl.AllO.l V , OKIMIIIMJ
THE LEXINGTON LEADER
VOLUME 27
LEXINGTON, CLRVJPi AND COUNTY. OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1918
NUMBER 2
Savings vs.
Speculation
Many thousands are putting their entire savings in highly speculative etocks.
Countless others are placing their money in cumulative sav ngs accounts.
Who will lie the better off, say at the end of live years? Wouldn't a glimpse into the future
'^TM/h would yon rather be; the speculator with his blasted hopes and disappointments-for few
ever "striken rtch'-or the man who invests his savings wisely and safely, his capital secure, earn-
'\j^VAKKa<)F THE MAX who tells you: "I wouldn't want to ADVI R you to buy th s stock, but
I'K'tSONAU^el^^nk^t good. ^ Bond, Thrift stamps, a farm, cattle, hogs, or place your sav-
ings in this STRONG and conservative iiank.
Bank
"tnrivc
Say War
Saving
V\«W Stamps
letters
FROM THE
HOYS
80LDIKR
Security State-
R. NORTHCUTT, Caslnei
Mrs. E. M. ABtiRiNATHY Pres
SOCIETY MEETING
The Mlssir nary Society of the
I Methodist church met at the parson-
j a'ge with Mrs. H. C. Oulledge last
Tuesday afternoon. The program
J!EI> CROSS MET WITH MRS. FAR-j
RIS.
Last Thuj-sday afternoon the mem-
bers ot the Lexington Red Cross so-
ciety met at the home of Mrs. Farris (
with twenty members present The j consisted of a study of lessons front
afternoon was spent in knitting, hem- the Missionary Voice. A \ery in er-
mine and finishing several garments. ; esting hour was spent in the s u y
'1 he president, Mrs. E. J. Keller, of the lessen, several taking part in
requested that thirty members of tno discussion. Thane present were
the organization raise $10.00 each Mesdames Collins. Ethridge, Far^s,
by the next meeting date, which will Lee, Breeding, Stevens, BrowneU,
be held at the home of Mrs. Robert Strong, Wright, Shockley, Massey,
COUNCIL OF DEFENSE QUIT WH O
CATTING
Tvaus.
The ladies need the funds with
which to purchase a new supply of ^ lx>rATEI) HOG HI T
materials on which to work, and to —._
meei other obligations.
The following letter was handed us
this week for local comment. We
think that the publication of the let-
ter will be better than any comment
that we can make a this time.
Feb. 20, 1819.
Security State Bank.
Lex'ngton, Okla.
Gentlemen: —
At a .recent meeting of the execu-
ssev "ve c°mmittee of the Cleveland coun-
, ty council of defense, the question of
Roy Sherman. Milt Sherman, lsom ......
and Whorton.
HEAD
H. C. KASTON
Mr. H. C. Easton, aged 74, died
tfc the home of his daughter. Mrs. T.
Roy Hooper was iu 'own Moodsy aud
called at the Leader office and had
us enter his name on our list as a
regular reader. Last week Mr.
Hooper had an ad in the Leader offer
selling stock in mining, oil and other
: concerns to the citizens of this coun-
T WAS was discussed. ^ou know some-
j thing of the large amount of money
j that has left your community in the
last few months going to such con-
cerns, aud the small likelihood of any
considerable part of it ever being re-
turned.
It was decided that the newspapers
Below we reproduce portions of I
letters received from Nile F. Smith
and Frank Stevens, two of 1'ncle
Sams soldier boys:
Lexington Leader,
Lexington, Okla.
Will write a few lines to my home
! paper to tell the folks at home about
the life of a sold'er, and our trfps
coiiilng down here.
We had a good time on the ro*4,
and have had ever since we landed
here.
The finest thing that has happened
to us all is that they have stopped
| all gambling in the camps, the worst
habit some of us had.
All of the Cleveland county boss
are very well pleased aud seem to be
was as nice a bunch of boys as he had
enjoy.ng life. Our cantain said it
ever met We have a fine bunch of
officers.
it goes pretty hard with some of
the boys when they have to work in
the kitchen, but 1 like it fine. We
have plenty of to eat and a good place
to sleep, but we have not drawn all
our clothes yet We will get the rest
today-
Charley Mock says that he has no
use for h's Ford now. It has been
raining every day that we have been
here and we have all the black mud
that we want Hope it is raining up
there.
Well, we have got to go to work,
so I will close this time. Good luck
to the Lexington community.
We want to hear from all you''
Lexington people Write.
Very truly yours,
NILE F. SMITH,
44th Co. 11th Bn.. 156th D. B.
Camp Travis, Teras.
Your Quarters
By investing them in Thrift Stamps.
Get 1G Thrift Stamps on your Thrift card
and take it and 13c in money and buy a
$5.00 War Savings Certificate payable by
Uncle Sam January 1,1923.
Also remember that this bank is better-
prepared than ever before in its history to
take care of your banking needs. We
will pay you four per cent on time depos-
its, or we will loan you money. Take ad-
vantage of our many facilities for your
accommodation.
FARMERS STATE GUARANTY BANK
Chas. Greemore, Pres. R. M. Evans, Cashier
John T, Kemp, Asst. Cashier.
AN OMISSION
LOCAL
W. Keller, last Saturday morning at ,ng a reward for a
1:30
m. The immedite cause of had lost Qne insertion found the
t e ea er o e ^ (he county would comment on the
fine gilt that e ^ nature of some of these Gon-
itis death was erysipelas.
hog but it was dead.
the
immediate section ever since.
He leaves a son, 1). B. Easton, and
two daughters, Mrs. T. W Keller and
Miss Gladys Eastcn, all of whom re-
side in Lexington and were at his bed
side at the time of his death.
Funeral services were held at the
Keller home Sunday afternoon with
Rev. H. C. Gullcd'ge, pastor of the
Methodist church officiating, after
which the rema ns were removed to
l°n l°unn cerns, and try to induce the people
— _ . „„„ — — It ha Btrayet ^ g0 t0 t)le hanks or some party fa-
• Mr. Easton was born in the state from home and gotten into a bunch miUar wlth the operations 0f these
of Pennsylvania and served in the that had cholera and it contracted cerns than the average person,
civil war from the time the first gun the disease. ! tjjat the banks might point out to
was fired until its close, after which Leader advertising brings them in, ,jl0m jjle (0jiy 0f investing their mon-
fte came to this country and settled dead or alive- I ey ^ueh an uncertain way. The
at Pauls Valley in 1870, where he liv- - facts are that if any person has the
ed for a number of years. He then Dr. Northcutt of this city received
returned to Pennsylvania but only re- a telegram from Washington, D. C.,
raalned there a short time, as the call Mondas afternocn notifying him to (ho returns are not ,arge
of the west gripped him, he return- be ready to report for (lut^ i!1 t,l( . safety •_*> the money is unquestioned,
ed to this country and located at medical corps of Uncle Sam's army, Wg arp gojng tQ be confrontetl jn
Purcell in 1887, and has lived in this on the 2 Sth of th's month. The doc- ^ few WReks wlth the sale of
tor is now arranging his personal ( uberty B<md jsgue (han any
matters preparatory to leaving on ^ ^ prev,0U3 iggueg an(, , thillk
that date. , that ( am safo „ sayjng, that in the
last few months enough money has
left this county for the purchase c f
the aforesaid stocks, to care for the
county's quota of the forthcoming is-
sue.
To successfully discourage the op-
orations if these concerns, we believe
— ■ - ; t necessary to state to your custom-
Hie Lexington cemetery, where, in the young men had a jolly good "m,,]ors that ln your 0p nion they are
the presence of a large concourse of playing games and feasting <n a
friends and relatives, they were laid delicious luncheon, is putting t mild-
to rest. 'y-
KIllM SELLS TWO FINE
FARMS
' ln an article published in Wst |
; week's Leader in regard to the ser- j The real estate lirui of Breeding
| vices held in the Methodist church1 & Lurry report the sale of two fine
jon the Sunday prior, we in some way farms this week.
overlooked one of the principle ad-1 1#0 acre farm of Mr Page, eight
i dresses of the evening. We are very miles north and one and a half miles
sorry this occurred and promise that east of Lexington to Ed Arnold. Ctvn-
j we will try to see that it does not sideration $4000.00.
happen again. The address omitted ( 80 acre farm of Tony Leffenhaus.
The following letter Is from Frank wag th(, one deHvered |,y Mr. J. B. eight miles north and two miles east
Stevens, son of Mr. and Mrs J. J. (.oliillR on , ,u, ,ut>jCr-t of "Organiza- of Lexington for $30£0.00.
Stevens of near Lexington addressed |jo|i wiirk an(1 the gun,iay school," i ■* w-
to his parents:
New York City, N. Y., March
Lucian has arrived safely overseas:
aud no doubt you will soon hear from !
him. 1 reteivedhiscardt m h hrdlu]of (his c(tJ, for nilieteon long years j home folks aud friends. Before re-
and thoroughly understands Sunday turning to the city he called and h, .
! Hon work and the Sunday school,'
land was very ably delivered and much Willis King who is attending school
appreciated by the audience. at Oklahoma City, was home the lat-
Mr. Collins has been superintend-j ter part o flast week and the first
1! ent of the Methodist Suuday school j of this spending a few days visiting
him. I received his card this morn-
ing that the authorities mailed as
soon as he arrived.
Since he has such a life saving de-
vice in the immense rubber suit. I am
school work, and is a real treat to
hear him talk on this subject.
sure ycu d'd not worry one bit The
facts are that If any person has the | lransports are v^ng ba(;k ami forth
money to invest at this time, the Gov-! nmv jn a conthluous procession and
eminent needs the investment. And
Last Friday afternoon Mrs. C. W.
Lee was hostess to her Sunday school
class at her home in the southwest
part of the city. Mrs. Lee i- teacher
of the Jun'or clns3 of the Methodist.
Sunday schocl, which class is com-
posed of boys only and t osay that
HASK HAI L GAMR 1 T C. Couts, who lives ntrth of Lex-
! ington, was here Monday trading with
The first baseball game of the sea- merchants. He called and had us
«on was played last Friday afternoon enter his name on our subscription
on the Spring Hill school house diam- list for a ,,ear
otid between the Spring Hill and Wil-
low View teams. The score stood 15
and 11 in a nine inning game, in fav-
or of Spring Hill. The next game
betweon these contesting teams will
I.. J. Feureborn was in town Satur-
day and called at the Leader office
for a copy of the paper. He missed
h's last week and says that when he
absolutely bad investment, and in the
most of the cases will prove a loss.
We t.-ust that you will take what
interest you can in the matter, and
use your influence t od'scourage the
further operat'ons of these salesmen
in your community.
Very truly yours,
R. F. ELL1NGER,
President First National Bank, No-
ble, Okla.
We are sorry to report the entire
family, five in number of J. W. Dan-
! - iels, as being confined to their home
l now in a continuous procession and • jt]l mea8ieH
no one worries. |
Today I go to Pelhave Park naval
reserve stathn, just outside the city
limits, to become the camp, or gen-
I eral secretary of that stat'on. There
lare eight secretaries there now. I
take the place of one of them who is
i leaving.
| There are two Y. M. C. A build-
ings several hundred yards apart,
and a third is under construction
which w 11 also be under my charge
when it is completed.
There will be 15,000 sailors there.
Again I will have a wonderful oppor-
tunity to co-ordinate elements in
mak'ng the work harmonious. And
i ven then it will keep me busy ev-
ery minute, I know 1 shall like it.
FRANK STEVENS.
W. C Kemp is this week loading
up his personal belongings for Iis-
tancio, X. M. Mr. Kemp and family
have resided in this county for many
years and have many friends here
who join with the Leader in wishing
tb' in well in their new home
\ Mr. and Mrs. Gene Daniels form-
erly of this city, but now living at
.Mangum, have announced to their
many friends here that the stork vis
us send him the Leader.
E. O. Whitwell, wife and littlfl
daughter,, and Mrs. Whitwell's sis-
ter. of Norman, were in Lexington
Monday where Mr. Whitwell was at-
tending business matters.
W. T Scott, the efficient city mar-
shal of tills burg, called and paid us
a dollar on subscription the latter
part of last week It's a good thing
he came in when he d'd. We were
just contemplating getting out papers
for him and having him arrest himself
and throw him in the city calaboose.
C. E. Strong was in town Saturday
attending busines matters and called
ited 'their home on last Thursday and t'le '^atler offiee and lla<l us enter
'left an e ght pound bof ame 011 "le "8t as il regUlar' He
also lias some fine horses, mules and
| T. .1. Jarboe and wife living east >"alPS for salt" Fil"1 hls art elewhere
I of town, were here Monday morning ,hiH issue
on their way to Norman, where Mr.
i Jarboe had been summoned an a ju- E. J. Keller was attending business
r. matters in Norman first of the week
W. E Hurst, manager of the Baird
Motor company garage at this place,
is stepping high this week over the
fact that Mrs. Hurst presented him
with a fine baby girl Monday. Both
mother and babe are reported as do-
ing nicely.
be played next Friday at Willowview. misses a copy he gets awful lonesome.
Your Easter Suit
HART, SCHAFFNEU A- MARX Two- piece, Dixie Weave
$20. $22.00, $25.00, $28 00 and $30.00
Midline SriMNti NECKWEAR at
25c, 50c, 65c, 75c
11 ltd. Selby & Crossett shoes.
W. W. JANES
The Store for Men and Boys
Ordorr- (or Custom M>He Shirts
BOUGHT A REO-5
H. M. Hardwick, one of our local
merchants, has presented h's family
with a big Reo Six automobile. He |
purchased the car last week from Mr.
Boyer of Norman.
County Commissioner Sudderth1
was transacting business in Lexing-j
ton Saturday.
Rev. H. C. Gulledge was attending
business matters in Washington and
"oie Tuesday i f this week.
Jus. Robertson returned lant Fri-. John Ivey of Wanette was in Lex-
day from New York where he has j ington Tuesday.
been serving Uncle Sam in the navy.
J in says that he has made several Oscar Folsom of Caney was here '
trips across the pond. His last trip the latter part of last week visiting;
was just completed prior to his com- j at the home of T. J. Oliver and fam-
ing home. I lly and attending other business mat-
ters.
Mr. I'i T). Jarboe returned Tuesday
,-om Norman and Oklahoma City.
!' P. Smith and wife, who live out
While • here lie bought a. Velie ti au- on route ft ur, are rejoicing over the
t.omobHc through the ugencj of the arrival of a fine baby boy at the r
Boyer Garage company of Nor- home on Tuesday night of last week
Oscar Jnrbte, son of E. I). -*U parties are reported as getting
111 ha..' tlie agency foj thits car In along nicely with Papa Smith reeup-
t!-,e Lexington territory. erat ng fast.
Wni
man.
Sl'RING TONIC
A general and blood tonic for the run down and debilitated
condition of your system is what you need to clean your system up
tor the spring weather. We have several leading brands.
Our tonics are those that are composed of well-balanced pro-
portions, ingredients which are valuable to stimulate digestion, tone
up and regulate the bowels and restore the blood to its natural, pure,
and healthy condition which is essential if you enjoy good health
(inrlng the spring and summer.
Just the thing for thul tired reeling of which you Imvc been
complaining.
PALACE DRUG STOKE
SHERMAN & SHERMAN
Pure Drug Pharmacists
p. s.—When the doctor calls and leaves a prescription, don't for-
j-.et to bring it to our registered pharmacist. He will fill it exact-
1> as the doctor orders and use nothing but the best and purest of
drugs.
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Little, Ed F. The Lexington Leader (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, March 15, 1918, newspaper, March 15, 1918; Lexington, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc110820/m1/1/: accessed March 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.