The Daily Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 137, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 15, 1917 Page: 1 of 4
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OKLAHOMA CJTT
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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The Daily Transcript
VOLUME V.
NORMAN. OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15. 1917.
NUMBER 138.
100 Coat Suits and Dresses at
Sis. 00
On Sale Saturday Morning
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J}rintz?£&
Mr. Rucker, having brought these goods home with him
direct from the factory and having contracted for the entire
output of the factory for his line of stores, we are enabled to
offer this exquisite line of Coats, Suits and Dresses at prices
otherwise impossible, and the best values ever offered in
Norman. Your seeing them will convince you.
R U C K E R ' S
WORK OF COUNCIL OF
NATIONAL DEFENSE
The Counfcil of National Defense
was created by act of congress and ap-
proved Au;,'. 29, 1910. It was on
April 21, 1017, that the Council of Na-
tional Defense in Washington, ap-
FOOD LICENSE PLAN
TO REDUCE PROFITS
Dr. Brooks Returns From Conference;
Real (onsen at ion by People
Must Come. *•
Although the results of the food
! pointed the Woman's Committee with 1 pledge campaign in Oklahoma has
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw as general been very successful, insofar as the
chairman. This committee was ap- number of signers is concerned, it
pointed for the purpose of organizing j will be necessary to translate that
and co-ordinating the woman power show of patriotism into actual food
for war work. The woman's commit- conservation, Dr. Stratton D. Brooks,
tee being appointed by the Council of , food administrator for Oklahoma
National Defense is the only body of stated Wednesday afternoon. Dr.
women organized for war work which Brooks returned Wednesday from a 10
has their direct connection with the ; day trip to Washington, D. C. where
national government. The members he attended a meeting of the food
of the committee serve without com- administrators from all the southern
pensation. The woman's committee states.
of Oklahoma was not organized until To License Wholesalers.
July, 1917. The question has been' The licen«injf of cotton oil mills, and
| asked, "Why have a women's commit-1 cotton tcins, and wholesale groceries,
tee when the Red Cross is directing I and the complications arising from
all the work?" The Red Cross is not such licensing, were the two prinicpal
directing all the work the women subjects-of discussion at the confer-
can do and are doing. It is charged
only with the duty of ministering to
the wounded soldiers and sailors so
says Dr. Anna Shaw. Some have said
why have a woman's committee when
there are so marv woman's organiza-
tions? The Government found it im-
practical to deal separately and indi-
vidually with each organization of
women and created this committee as
a central official body as a clearing
house for all women's activities in this
war.
We have the work organized in dif-
I ferent parts of Cleveland county. As
' chairman of this work I have also re-
ceived an appointment from Governor
Williams as a member of the execu-
tive committee of the Council of De-
fense of Cleveland county. We hope
by this to receive a great deal of help
in our plans from this council, also
from the County Farm Demonstrator,
who has offered his assistance in any
way he can help. The Food Pledge
campaign being the first great work
Cleveland county. 1 have made a call
for the clubs and church societies to
furnish the name of a woman from
each organization for this work, but
have had only one club so far to reply
to this request. We have learned that
there have been apples, peas and other
things gone to waste in the county on
account of the farmers not being able
to get help. This is very discouraging
jto the farmers when the boys and girls
The Petroleum Development asso- i On Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock our towns as well as others, might
ciation, which has the contract of put-' there will hi* held in the City Hall one ^ave ^a^en their lunches and gone out
ting down two wells on the Big Jim of the most interesting meetings in on Saturdays and helped to gather
GOOD PROPOSITION SUFFRAGE MEETING
ence of southern food administrators.
The purpose of the licensing is to
prevent speculation and secure proper
distribution of the supply of foods,
o far as possible. All licensed dealers
will be compelled to sell their pro-
ducts at a certain margin of profit,
vithout regard to the replacement 1
value.
Before drastic measures are taken ,
to enfore the regulations, an appeal j
will be made to the patriotism of the ]
wholesalers, if that is not found to j
be sufficient, stringent measures will,
be employed to curb all attempts to
secure excessive profits. Dr. Brooks,
as food administrator, will have com-
plete charge of the enforcement of
the regulations in this state. The ma-
chinery to be employed has not yet
been determined.
The food situation is extremely ser-
ious, Dr. Brooks stated. In place of
the present substitution plan, it may
be necessary to reduce the amount
of food consumed daily by the in-
Thanksgiving Sale
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of this committee, we are glad to say : dividual. "We will have to reduce the
we have helped to put Oklahoma in waste line," he declared. "Nearly
the lead. With our little help in twice the amount of fats needed by
prospect, six miles east of Norman,
and has a forfeit of several thousand
dollars up with the company that such
wells will be sunk to a depth of 3,500
feet unless something good is found
before that depth, now announce that
it is going to do even better than that
having arranged to put six additional
wells down on the Vaughan eighty,
making eight in all that will go down
on that "eighty." To secure the
funds to do this, the association has
purchased the "eighty" outright and
divided it into 28,000 units, which they
propose to sell, the entire proceeds go-
ing into the drilling of the wells. The
owners of the units on which oil or
gas is struck are to receive 60 per
cent of the proceeds of the well, leav-
ing 40 per cent to the company, which
is a most equitable division—eminent-
ly fair and square to all.
These "units" will be sold at very
reasonable prices, and in the event
of anything being found in any of the
eight proposed wells will become ex-
tremely valuable, for it will mean
that oil or gas will certainly be found
on any of them should they be discov-
ered in the wells close by.
The management of the Petroleum
Development Association is composed
of reliable and thoroughly competent
oil men; men who have investigated
the probability of finding oil or gas on
the Big Jim property, have had the re-
ports of experienced and expert geo-
logists, and are demonstrating their
faith and confidence by investing
many thousands of dollars of their
own money in it.
behalf of woman suffrage that \ror-|these croPs- Wc need not talk Food
man has ever known. Workers have j Production if we are not going to help
been sent from the Washington, D. C.J P,eserve from waste after jt is
headquarters of the National Worn-1raised- One of the duties of the wom-
an's I'arty, to explain the objects a,,d!an's committee is to help the farmer's
methods of the organization, and to Iwife' but not the way we usually hcl"
refute certain misrepresentations i"*0 out and spend the day' kcep the
made concerning it. particularly the woman ln th° kltchen c0°kmg Amn"
charge of "militancy." The principal for us half da>'' but take uur '™ch
, f ,, r, him and help gather the over production or
speaker of the afternoon will be Missi. . ,
,, , , :r . - in any other way we can and if we
Mabel \ ernon, a suffrage worker of i J
nation-wide reputation, who w;^ . v
, i ■ Anna Shaw.
cently imprisoned for carrying a suf-1 „
frage banner in Washington. She
will talk on the subject, "Why We
Picket." She has just completed a
speaking tour in Minnesota and North
the average individual is consumed
daily. It is not necessary to stuff
the stomach until it aches to satisfy
the demands of nature."
Licensing of the cotton oil mills and
cotton gins, is expected to relieve the
shortage of foodstuffs to a certain
extent in the southern states. One of
the questions discussed at the food
administrator's conference, Dr. Brooks
said, was whether it is better to ship
f >od into the southern states to feed
the cattle or to ship out the cattle.
Immediate action is necessary to re-
lieve the condition. Twenty thous-
and tons of cotton seed meal, which
had been purchased by the Danish
Government, was confiscated at Gal-
veston and sent to a southern state.
can't do this stay away so says, Dr.
So, with the Food Conservation and
Food Production committees organized
throughout the country and in the
towns and with the cooperation of
Dakota, and spoke in Oklahoma City
all these, we want to be ready for re il
. MRS. E. A. FOSTER,
Chairman Cleveland County
Woman's Committee.
J. p. Toberman, son of Mr. and
Mrs. A. W. Toberman, arrived Thurs-
day to spend a few days before going
to Camp Wood, N. Y., where he will
serve in the Signal Service Division,
having passed a very successful exam-
ination.
Wednesday evening of this week at a
mass meeting in the ballroom of the'
Skirvin hotel, and was introduced I
by Mrs. Bonncll, president of the Ok-
lahoma City Housewives' League, and The marriage ceremony which uni-
prominent in public work as well as ted P. M. Bowman and Miss Alice
in society. Miss Vernon's appear- Owen, both of Drumright, was per-
ance in Norman Rives everyone the formed by Judge J. D. Grigsby on
opportunity to hear a speaker of rare Monday, November 12, 1917.
personal charm and exceptional elo- | ^
qucncc. She is particularly hopeful
that the opponents of suffrage work
will attend the meeting. She says,:
"In my speaking tours in the west, |
I have found the spirit of fair play i
•and the willingness to hear both sides!
of a question very .prevalent. I al-
ways appreciate the person who says, i
41 am not in favor of suffrage, but T i
am willing to give you a hearing.';
Such a person is a type of true Amer-
ican fair mindedncss."
The meeting on Friday is free to
the public, and all are cordially in-
vited to attend.—Mrs. Oatman- i
Blachly.
CRIMINAL ASSAULT
W. A. Bater is in the Cleveland
county jail charged with criminal as-
sault upon three little girls. He was
brought from Davis to prevent trou-
ble when his crime was made known.
He is a man of over (>0 years, and was
janitor of one of the Davis school
buildings. He denies the charge, and
does not look like a man who would be
guilty of such a henious crime. He
has lived at Davis for more than fif-
teen years and had the best of reputa-
tions.
—Rev. C. S. Walker officiated on
Wednesday at the wedding of Mr.
Henry A. Davis, 42, and Mrs. Majorie
Jackson, 24, both of Oklahoma City.
Right now is the best time of
the entire year to buy your
Thanksgiving supply of household
Linens. Now stocks are at their
best and prices are lower than you
can expect them to be for many
years to come.
Linens are almost impossible to
secure, England only lets us have
10 per cent of what we require.
Cotton is now three time the
price it was when the cottons we
have on sale were bought. Do you
not see why you should buy every-
thing you need for the home—not
alone for this year but for the
coming year as well.
Note the many special lines we
offer you this week.
45c Mercerized Table damask,
Thanksgiving Sale price is only 35c.
50c Mercerized Table damask, 64 inches wide, Thanksgiv-
ing Special 39c.
75c Mercerized Table damask, very fine, 66 inches wide,
special yard 59c.
90c Finest Mercerized table damask, Thanksgiving Sale
price is only 69c.
$1.50 Linen damask, all linen one way, 70 inches wide,
Thanksgiving Sale price, yard $1.19.
FINEST LINEN PATTERN CLOTHS REDUCED
Very finest of double satin, all linen damask, two yards
wide, beautiful patterns, best $2.50 damask, Thanksgiving
Linen Sale price, yard $2.19.
These special prices are wonderful in face of an ever in-
creasing Linen market. Buy for this year—buy for next
year—not for years will prices be so in your favor.
$7.50 Pattern Cloths, size 2 yards square, beautiful round
patterns, special $6.25.
$6 Pattern cloths, all linen, 2 by 2 yards, new round pat-
terns, special $5.25.
$10 Finest Pattern Cloths in 2 by 2'/a and 2 by 3 yards,
special, $8.69.
$12.50 Finest of Dinner Cloths, 2 by 3 yards, beautiful
quality, special at only $10.95.
85c Indianhead napkins hemmed, ready to use, special pet-
dozen 75c.
$1.50 Mercerized Napkins, size 18 by 18 inches, ready lo
use, special, dozen $1.29.
$6 All linen Dinner Napkins, 21 inches square, beautiful
patterns, special, dozen $4.95.
$7.50 Fine all linen napkins, size 22 by 22 inches, Thanks-
giving Sale, dozen $6.{ 5.
$10 Fine all Linen Napkins, large dinner size, special
dozen $8.95.
The S. K. McCall Company
NORMAN'S GREATEST STORE.
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Are You Fair Minded?
You have heard opponents of suffrage.
Have you ever heard its friends?
Miss Mabel Vernon
Recently imprisoned in Washington, D. C., for
carrying a banner, will speak in the City Hall on
Friday at 4:00 o'clock.
Admission free.
Come to Hear Her
How much wheat is saved by the
; wheatless day and how much meat by
I the meatless ?
' Probably the figures furnished by
Dr. D. W. Griffin, superintendent of
I the Oklahoma State Hospital, as to
the experience at that institution give
a pretty good idea.
Tuesday was wheatless day at the
hospital and the 1300 inmates and at-
tendants and officers all went without
I anything that wheat entered into the
making. Every day it takes 2,000
I one-pound loaves to supply the de-
mand, besides considerable flour that
enters into the making of other eat-
ables. Bakers figure that 000 pounds
of flour make approximately 1000
one-pound loaves of bread, so in that
institution alone at least, 1200 pounds
, are saved wheatless day. On meatless
day they save something like 425
pounds of meat.
Figuring on the ratio of about 1H
pounds of bread to the person who
keeps wheatless days and one-third of
j a pound of meat to the person on
meatless days, it can be easily seen
| what a tremendous saving of wheat
and meat is made by the millions who
have signed the Food Pledge.
County Superintendent W. R. Clerk
1 took the University quartette anc
.Judge Swank to the box supper at No-
ble a few night ago, and after the
former had treated the audience to
some fine music, Mr. Swank made an
excellent address. Reports from No-
i ble are that the entertainment was
highly appreciated. Friday night Mr.
('lark will take the same party tc
Moore, and give the school and pa-
trons the same sort of an entertain-
; ment. In fact, he intends visiting
all the schools of the county and es
tablishing a lyceum course with which
to keep up the interest.
Mr. Clark says that now that the
cotton is practically all picked, schools
all over the county are reconvening,
and that much "pep" and interest be
jing manifested by teachers, student*-
and patrons. He predicts a very suc-
cessful school year from now on.
—The Bible Study class of the
j United Districts of ward three will
meet at 3 o'clock, p. m., tomorrow,
Friday at the home of Mrs. John Har-
: die, 310 Boulevard. Rev. Alexander,
1 leader. Study lesson, John, 1st and
2nd. chapters. All are cordially invi-
ted.
I —Thursday's cotton prices ranged
j around $28.00 per 100 pounds.
Rev. and Mrs. E. R. Welch and
| family are now domiciled at the Cot
tage Home, having rented a suite of
I rooms in that institution, where they
! will be "at home" to their friends and
1 pleased to see them.
—Take a look at the Jos. Nelson
show window. It is a real patriot!,
window, full of Uncle Sam's and
Glory."
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