The Daily Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 141, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 12, 1916 Page: 1 of 4
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LOCAL NEWS
WHILE ITS FRESH
The Daily Transcript
BEST ADVERTISING
MEDIUM IN TOWN
VOLUME IV.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, TIES DAY, DECEMBER 12, 1916
NUMBER 141
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The High Cost of Living
Cut to Pieces
U. S. TUBE'S
Model Grocery
STAPLE AN1) FANCY GROCERIES, CANNED (iOODS,
CHRISTMAS CANDIES AND FRUITS,
NUTS, FAMILY SUPPLIES, ETC., ETC.
Stare, 115 East Main Free Delivery Phone 31
Splendid Meat Market in Connection
The high cost of living will be cut to pieces if you do your
trading with U. S. Tubbs, who is offering the very best
goods in his line at the very lowest prices. In every line his
stock is complete and he invites an inspection.
"THE NICE MAN TO DO BUSINESS WITH"
A Few Sample Specialties
Sweet California Juicy Oranges (with orders), per doz, 15c
Nice Juicy Grape Fruit, each 5c
Fresh Country Butter, per pound 35c
No. 10 Bucket of Compound $1-65
Gallon of Peaches 40c
Gallon of Pineapple 1 50c
Gallon/of Gooseberries 50c
Gallon of Strawberries, Cherries or Pears 75c
Four 10c Rolls of Toilet Paper for 25c
Two large cans Apricots, Peaches or Plums 25c
Sugar Cured Breakfast Bacon, per pound 25c
Absolutely Pure Pork Sausage, homemade, on hand all the
time.
Two large cans Sweet Potatoes 25c
Three 10c cans of Milk ' 25c
Quart Jars of Queen Olives 1 25c
Homemade bulk Sauerkraut, finest in the land.
Old fashioned Black Walnuts, per -pound 5c
Three large cans of Hominy for 25c
Fish and Oysters
The meat market offers best of cornfed beef and meats
of all kinds. Full line of cooked meats ready to serve.
NEW UNIVERSITY BUILDING.
Every Hope and Probability That a
Teachers' College Building to
Cost $100,000 Will Be
United.
It looks very favorable for another
$100,000 building on the University
Campus during the coming year; a i
companion piece to the two fine de-!
partmental buildings now gracing
i that campus—the Law Building ana
the Chemistry Building. Those are
I beautiful twins, and the "triplets"
i will be just that much more beauti-
• ful.
The new building will be a Teacher'
GolllfC, with facilities with which to
ear* properly for the training of the
men and women who are to teach in
1 Hje high schools and normals of the
state, and is a demand made upon1
| the incoming legislature by four
Gtthj iO
woro
STOGNER FUNERAL TODAY.
Mr. J. R. Stogner arrived home last
night from Seattle Wa.sh., at which
point news of the death of his son,
lrby, reached him last Thursday. It
was a long journey, hut he lost no
time in taking train for home that
he might look his last upon his be-
i thousand teachers, representing i 'ov®'j sVn' "e lear>ied none of the
every township and practically every ; t
school district in Oklahoma, at the reached Oklahoma City.
Ihe funeral of the young man is
- OJU
convention recently held in Oklahoma
i City.
! A resolution asking the next legis-
, lature to appropriate money with
I which to institute the teachers' col-
lege was passed by the Oklahoma
educational association without a
dissenting vote.
| "State normal schools provide
facilities where teachers in the gram-
mar grades may be trained," one of
! the Oklahoma educational experts «
move., most beautiful.
IN MEMORIUM.
I GERMANY BEGS FOR PEACR
Kaiser and Allien Transmit Plana to
rope and Neutrals.
Berlin Dec, 12.-Germany and her
| allies today proposed to enter forth-
i St. lnto Peace negotiations.
I The proposition which they will
bring forward are, according to
Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg
appropriate for the establishment of
a lasting peace.
The Austrian, Turkish and Bul-
garian governments are making simi-
lar proposals. These proposals have
™ tr,a"fmi"ed a'9" to the Vatican.
Ihe following announcement was!
was given out today by the semi-
official Overseas News Agency:
The chancellor this morning re-j
ceived one after another the repre-
sentatives of the United States of
America and Spain and Switzerland,
that is of the states protecting tier-1
man interest in hostile foreign coun-1
tries. The chancellor transmitted to i
them a note and asked them to bring'
it to the knowledge of the hostile
governments. The note will be read in ;
the reichstag by the chancellor.
"In the note four allies (central
poewra) propose t0 enter forthwith
on peace negotiations. The proposi-
tion which they bring for such
negotiations are, according to their
firm belief, appropriate for the es-
tablishment of a last peace.
"The governments at Cienna, Con-
stantinople and Sofia transmitted
Identical notes and also comtnunica-
tion with the holy see and all other
neutral powers."
£
a
10 ,' JIVC-
COUNTRY TIDINGS.
being held at the M. E. Church
South, :is the Transcript goes to
press this afternoon (Tuesday, Dec.
12, 1916), with Rev. E. R. Welch con-
ducting the services. Interment will
be in I. O. 0. P. cemetery. Irhy's
age was 22 years, I months and 26
days. There is a large attendance at
his funeral indicating the high
esteem in which he was held, and the
floral tributes are very numerous and
said in commenting upon the move-
| ment, "and they are very efficient.
| But no facilities exist in Oklahoma
! where the men and women who want i
I to become real experts as high school, I r'}V f?one: Our precious darling.
I teachers or principals or superin- Never more will he return.
tendents may get the training they Ue sleeps a peaceful slumber
must have. They must either go with-' 'Till the resurrection morn. I ~
out the training or go outside the i t Mrs. C. W. Eichhorn attended the
state to get it." j He has left this world of sorrow , Sunday school institute at Oklahoma
The state teachers are asking for! For a home beyond the sky, i City, Friday,
an appropriation of 100,000 with | But we hope some day to meet him. Jewel Hisinger of Norman, re-
which this building may be erected j There to reign with Christ on turned home Saturday. She was the
to care for the higher training of, high. | K^est of Frances Miller, and attend-
Oklahoma's teachers. |_ . i J, . "e P'e supper at White Mound,
Friday evening.
White Mound will have a new
hanging lamp as a result of the pie
supper, proceeds were $8.35. A
, literary was organized and officers
BISHOP OIIAYI F BAPS RFVIVAl ' m«jclad day, which soon is coming, elected and a program arranged for
' " 1 " We shall meet beyond the skies, the next meeting. The Neighborly
Fort Smith, Ark., Dec. 9.—'"When | Ther£11 be ™ore sad partin.'. I Club No .7 had already made ar-
Billy Sunday is in town he has all the
Christianity there is in town and it
looks bigger. The same thing is hap-1 „ mi*.,*
pening every day in other cities, but' / y°ur 1 owels tonight
it don't look so big because it's all j Kuc*er
spread out." said Bishop W. A., tim a i op . ™ .iaddio
Quayle of St. Louis, addressing the I RIAL OP LfcE .MORRIS.
state conference of the Methodist! .. „ , T. , „ ,
[Church here today in denouncing w- I Messrs. Hutch in and Burke, at-
I vivalists in general and Billy Sunday ! .rneys for Lee Morris, 15, charged
- HIM -
j from the
| Ephraim Clothing Company
{ Rel"w we are offering some useful Christmas
I Crifts; Rifts that are always appreciated by
FATHER, BROTHER, or FRIEND
lu these Kilts we can save you a neat little sum-
A SUIT OF CLOTHES.
AN OVERCOAT.
V I'AIlt OI'^SHOES.
A PAIR OF HOUSE SHOES
* HATH ROHE.
A NIGHT ROHE.
NECKWEAR IN XMAS ROXES.
A PAIR OF GLOVES.
And Many Other Useful Gifts that will be a
pleasure to show you. Call in.
The Ephraim Clothing Co.
—Wool coats, sweaters, wool
shirts, work shirts and overalls. Low-
est price at McGinley's.
high.
j Father dear, and loving mother.
Put your trust in Christ the Lord.
:om" sweet day, around his altar
We will gather at his word.
STUDENT MUSICIANS HOME
j ROBBERS MAKE BIG HAUL.
Student musicians who gave the j Vinita, Okla., Dec. 11.—Four mask-
first number of the University ol'1 ed men robbed the Farmers State
Oklahoma lyceum course to half a bank of Vinita of $16,000 this after-
dozen towns last week received an noon and escaped in a motor car
enthusiastic reception from every j They entered the bank when the
thcy v' 'ted. University author- eashier, Jasper Martin, was alone
There will be no more good byes, rangements for Mr. and Mrs. Wil- "T ojcowaeed over the results thrust him into a vault, grabbed all
MRS. R. S. DAVIS, j liams of the Oklahoma Farmer- 0 t num',e1' i"1"' they hope to the money in sight and fled to a
Stockman t0 visit White Mound that J? the work l,fore the en(l "f, motor car in which two accomplices
„ , ■ - the vear. 1 were waiting.
Two of the robbers are believed
A DOLL'S HOUSE.
Next Friday night, Dec. 15th, the ;
citizens of Norman are to be given a
treat in the way of a theatrical en- j
tertainment, when the "Ka Nun Ta j
Klage" Dramatic club gives Henrick;
Ibsen's great play "A Doll's House." I
It will be given under the personal !
direction of Miss Marie Anderson, j
and the cast has been selected with ,
the greatest care on account of their j
ability to protray the characters they;
are to represent.
It will well be worth your while.
Tickets on sale at Harbour's Thurs
day morning. Prices, 35c and 50 c.
RESEARCH WORKER HERE.
Mr. Givens of New York, a mem-
ber of the national committee on
child welfare has just arrived in
Norman to make headquarters at the
Extension Division for one year dur-
ing which Lime he will study child
labor conditions in the cotton fields
of Oklahoma. By making his head-
quarters at the university he will be
able to learn much from the ex-
periences of the men connected with
the extension division and they, in
turn, will receive the benefits or his
researches in the state. He intends to
make a survey of the whole Oklahoma
field.
in particular. The bishop also scored j w a statutory crime against the
the four railroad brotherhoods for i Person °' little Winona Sherman, 11,
their activity for the recently adopted I I?8, / a. JU|T when the case was
Adamson measure. Continuing on re-iy , „{r, s. niornmg before
vivalists the bishop said: Judge Wolf, and a jury was sum-
"If we'd omit the set revival alto-i "l?" 'he case goes to trial this
gether for a year 1 think it would be a'Jernoon, all the parties being pres-
a good thing for this conference. I :ud*® f' Dll?1?y ,ls
Usually those who are lukewarm just | un*^' , Attorney Grigsby in the
get a little more lukewarm. We get, Prosecution,
j one hundred 'conversions,' and ten of' - Although it ih a boy and girl af-
' them join the church. The other nine-1 • t,ie °f*enK0 is a very serious
—Ladies Bleached Union Suits,
small lot for quick sale, Wednesday
evening, ( :.'50 to 8 p. m.—Rucker's. j
—Community Silver is guaranteed
Tor 50 years. It is the best plated
ware in the world—Minteer Hdwe Co.
DON'T LOSE MONEY
Trying to run your business by
ftuess. Let a new slip or receipt
printing National Cash Register give
you the facts each day. It will soon
pay for itself. Sold on easy terms or
iiUeral discount for cash. Write Fred
D. Whiting, Sales Agent, 326 In-
surance Bldg., Oklahoma City.
—"The Doll's House," at
Franing on Friday night.
the
ty just evaporate. If you get
urcl
you don't get one hundred more con
. one, and to© often ignored and cov
at | night, so everyone make an extra ef- thLyenr-.
: fort to come out to Literary and hear .f scho°l °f fine arts of the uni-
Mr. and Mrs. Williams, December Xers,lty.' ,un''(!r "le direction of Dean
15th, at 7:30 p. m., sharp. Frederick Holmherg, is offering a
I Mrs. Parr and Pleasant Lawrence !ycl!Um course to the cities of Okla-
called on Mrs. Russ and Mrs. New- ,°"!a ,that, Is composed entirely of
man, Friday afternoon student and faculty material from the
Guy and VVilln Mae Morgan of statfu• •cho°1' that ranks w"" with
Newcastle, were week-end guests at a"y,'Vnlf tl,at can be obtained from
the H. <). Miller home, driving over in ' ,b K Chautauqua circuits, and that
their new Ford. Is. lo.w enough in price that it is
Neighborly Club No. 7 will meet J"1*"" 11,6 reach of any city in Okla-
witli Mrs. Riggers, Friday afternoon, 5Jf' .. ( , , ,„ „
Sr5 ™=";" - a a"
ii« ■ ... , . . . Thev visiti'il Pnul« v-.li«.ir Qi.ir,u,,.. we" 'or a" banks in all towns to
totr8upChaa„dearoGu"ndWOOd " """ #b,e A rdmonf'lluran? " C^Vo.''where' ^ is
Mr. and Mrs Ralph Hardman and ?.h^"!e Tecumseh. Five other where the "ext ha"k Wl"
Laura Elsie spent the evening Mon
to be Mack Roe and William Hart,
who broke jail at Vinita a few nights
ago. They were being held awaiting
trial on a charge of robbing a Cen-
tralia, Okla. bank some time ago.
Posses are in pursuit of the rob-
bers, but with very faint hopes of
capturing them or recovering the
money. Roe and Hart are desperate
men. and will probably fight to death.
Vinita is a city of some (5,000 pon-
tile course.
hundred additions to the church and iered thc Par?"t1s.of ^ little girls <'nv with L. M Newman and family., „w consi(i(>t. th- nn„ , ...
; in such cases disliking the publicity. Miss Marie Slayer was down from consiuer tnis on< of the great-
tributors to benevolences, you might But .tthere is •o'nething; owed the com. I fnd™0"d1,to sPend th« week-end with 1?"nTm°of 7hr^tayt™andbfor the
as well have omitted the revival." | and neighbors in such matters h°me f°lks. ^ benefit of the state and for the
I and if more of them were prosecuted i Mrs. Parr and Mrs. Russ were ;; "T , UV .1.. ln .tlle university,
j tbere would be a great deal less of it.
LISTEN! McGinley has mens and
womens $4.00 shoes priced at $2.50.
See them.
ILLUSTRATED LECTURE.
Mrs. Parr and mm. huss were n . • « , v*
shopping in Norman Tuesday after- * ™ien(* Holmberg said on his
noon. Pleasant Lawrence spent the rrU'''\'r(lnl l?e orchestra tour. "It
"fternoon at Newman's | gives the people of the state the op-
portumty of lyceum work as good as
—Great
Rucker's.
Towel Sale tonight-
—Special Ribbon Sale,
day evening, 6:30 to 8 j
Rucker's.
Wednes-
m. at
p r n, iT~T"u BETHEL SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Prof. Oscar B. Jacobson announces
the second illustrated lecture to be ] ,\£ter having ithe Sunday school
ffveii at Room 111, Administration ' closed for two Sundays on account of
Hall, University, Thursday evening,1 smallpox, we met together yester-
,4' 1 , i(,ay ^or services. The attendance was
4.rru ffPl60^ t",e lecture will be fine owing to the weather. We made FOR TURKEYS $300
The History and Romance of; our plans ior our Christmas enter- I prof. Alva Christian of the Rnek ■
Tapestry Weaving, and will deal tainment which will be held Sunday Springs neighborhood w o t known ''
with this form of art expression from | evening, December 24th. Next Sunday to bo t rong for^ dWer^f"ed agS-!
re, and a good farmer as well as '
earliest times to the present. 1 we are expecting a larger attendance
The public is cordially invited. Ad- und hoping the weather will be fa
they can obtain, and it gives students
the experience of actual work on the
road."
—Ribbons, Ribbons, lots of them,
Wednesday evening, 0:^0 to 8:00
m.— Rucker's.
THE STALLARDS DIVORCED.
Kirshhaum Overcoats—Rucker's.
FORCED TO
—Mr. J. C. Minteer got away Mon-
day for that nice trip to Toledo,
Ohio. We notice by the Dallas, Kan-
sas City, Wichita and other big
papers that there's going to be a
tremendous lot of Overland agents in
Toledo, this week, and they'll prob-
ably have a right royal time.
—Find out for yourself what Phys-
cultonathy is. Dr. Rice gives two
week's trial. Over First National
bank.
j mission free. For the special benefit I vorpble for the little people of the priced eoUon aeain Jlth hisrh nrifed
for the citizens of Norman who are: neighborhood. Special services follow- turkeys Hi " con Hbutio of Thank,
busy during the day. the Great South-|ing the Sunday school. Come and be giving birds nXd him a little ov";
! prompt.
western Exhibition of Art will be
open on the same evening until 10
o'clock. Also the splendid exhibition |
of Industrial Art from New York,! I]ftIIHP HI)
Boston, Rhode Island and Philadel-1 HIUUL MltO I fir Iijj u lfl
phia.
Trunk Hauling
50C
Owing to the fact that every-
thing costs us more, we are
forced to raise the price ol
hauling trunks to 50c each.
Also, Night Calls, later than
1:00 o'clock, 50c for each
passenger, j. A. McINTYRE
PHONE 565
GOES 1000 miles Ptll
week foil 20 mm
$300, and he has between 00 and 70
Christians birds at home. Last year
Prof. Christian was the largest in-
dividual shipper of turkeys in the
commi :'tj.— Maud Monitor.
—Prof. J. }J. Cheadle was called to
Cherokee, Okla., on Thursday by
news of the serious illness of his'
mother, and news was later received j Used as a "Jitney" in Los Angeles
that she had passed away on Friday. | Car Performs at Low Tost
The body was taken to Ohio for for <)wner
burial. The utmost syihpathy will be 1
extended to Mr. Cheadle and family! Out in Los Angeles there is a
in their bereavement. ( Dodge Brothers car that is establish-
o • . n , 0 , „ on . ing a record for consistent per-
—Special Remnant Sale, 0:30 to1 formance
8 p. m„ Wednesday at Rucker's. j Used as a "jitney" by' P. E.
! Kritch, it has regularly covered 1,000
—Mrs. J. J. Burke, who has been! mile per.week for 20 weeks and bids
visiting in Kansas, is expected home ] fair to continue to travel at the same
on Friday. rate for many weeks to come.
[ Mr. Kritch uses the car on a route
—Silks at Ruckers Monday night. | which covers eight miles in the city
i and each day he drives back and forth
| over this route.
I Mr. Kritch has kept a careful roc-
T?!T ||T^l} | « ''• °f his expenses in order to find
JL AlLCi XjLlvB££ j'1"1 if he is really making money, and
_ 'he information he has gathered is of
iPfjCT OF j interest to all motorists.
^v * During the 200,000 miles he has
averaged slightly over 20 miles to
the gallon of distillate, which he uses
, in place of gasoline, and he used only
one and one-half sets of tires. He got
17,000 miles out of his front tires
rnd 11.000 miles from the tires on the
rear wheels.
The success of Mr. Kritch with
distillate has led to many motorists
of Los Angeles turning to this fuel
as its cost is but nine cents per gal
Ion,
—Cold weather is a good time to
take Ph.vscultopathy. Good results
are obtained in a shorter time.
—Special Remnant Sale, 6:30 to 8
p. m., Wednesday at Rucker's.
LIVING
has not affected our job
printing prices. We're still
doing commercial work
of all kinds at prices sat-
isfactory to you.
iniiiiani—n—mmt
—Gum boots, overshoes and
hers to fit all feet at McGinley':
rub-
H. C. of L.
Owing to Ihe fact that
everything coatii us more,
we are forced to raise the
price of hauling
TRUNKS
TO
50c Each
City Garage
rmmrim wmmmmm*
W. J. FALKENSTINE, Prop.
Phone 254
Hobart, Okla., Dec. 12.—Mrs. Mary
A. Stallard has secured a divorce
from Henry H. Stallard. three times
socialist candidate for congressman
from the Seventh Oklahoma dis-
trict. The suit was filed immediately
after the general election last No-
vember. The decree was granted last
week, and Mrs. Stallard was given
the two minor children. Alleged
cruelty and non-support were grounds
for the action. Stallard has gone to
Nevada and did not contest the peti-
tion. The Stallards were married in
1889 in Virginia.
—Visit our Special Sale
lay evening, (!:IS0 to 8 p. m.
VVednes- i
Rucker's.
—Before selecting that Xmas
present take a look at our stock of
Silverware—Minteer Hdwe Co.
—Blankets specially priced at
Rucker's After Supper Sale.
RAISE PRICE
Owing to the fact that
labor, feed and everything
cllse costs us more, we are
forced to raise the price
el hauling trunks to f>0c
each.
j. L. HARRISON
Dray ing and Transfer.
Phone 523.
FOR TRADE
We have a purchaser for a nice little home in East or West
Norman, who wants to put in a Ford and some cash. What have
you to offer?
We have (50 acres highly improved adjoining a nice little town
in Northeast Oklahoma, about south of Muskogee. This 60
acres has a $6,500.00 high school on it. Want Norman property.
We have 120 acres laying just one mile from good little
town in Northeast Oklahoma, well improved. 12 acres in
orchard; an ideal dairy and stock farm. Want residence or
acreage.
We have two or three parties wanting to buy small residences
in Norman on small pa\ ments, and finish paying out by the
month. What have you ?
Phone 50.
VINCENT & WIER.
Bargains in City Property and Farm Lands-See Pickard Co., Real Estate and Farm Loans
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