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THE DAILY TRANSCRIPT
VOL. VI. NO. 114.
NORMAN; OKLAHOMA, TUESDAY, AUG. 6,1918.
COTTON WILL BE GOOD
IF RAINS COME SOON,
FARM AGENT BELIEVES
Some Corn in Little River Dis-
trict May Make Yield
Despite Drouth.
OTHER CROP PROSPECTS
ARE VERY DISCOURAGING
Fruit Crop Hetter, With Peaches
a Sure Crop and Apples
Promising Well.
"A Man in Every Sense of Word" TWO NEAR DEATH AS
Is Owen's Tribute to Anderson
RESOLT OF SHOOTING
EAST OF LEXINGTON
J. L. Sudderth, County Commis-
sioner, and .lohn Motsen-
bocker Wounded
"'Andy' was our star tackle and ; on the fighting front in France since
football hero in the years 1914-15 December till Gahring was wounded
and 1915-16," said Ben G. Owen, in May.
football coach of the varsity teams, Lieutenant Anderson attended the
in speaking of Lieut. George R- An- j university during the years 1912-1.!, j
derson, whose name appeared in the 1913-14, 1914-15, the summer of „ Is, OUTGROWTH
casualty list Monday of those killed 1915, thp year of 1915-16 and the AFFRA > .STANDING
in action in France. "Too much can- summer of 1916. He never received Or L ; • '
First Shot Fired by Motsonbock-
er After Sudderth's Depar-
ture From Farm.
PRICE 2 CENTS
ALLIES SWEEP AREA
BETWEEN TWO RIVERS
WITH ARTILLERY FIRE
Tableland Between Vesle and Aisne Subjected to
Terrific Hail of Steel to Force With-
drawal of Hun Forces.
not be said of him, as a man in every j his degree although he had done
sense of the word."
Lieutenant Anderson
■
! practically all the work on it
it was stated j \yas Coach at Tahlequah.
in the cablegram received in Ard- jn the fa]j Gf 1916 he was coach at
.........— jn the camblegram received in Ard-j tjje Northeastern state normal
. more Monday, was killed in action July j Tahlequah. The following May he
Cleveland county will have a gooa, ^ ^ thg flrgt dayg of the allied coun. wen). tQ training camp at Fort t.ogan
cotton crop matured by the middle of L^eniive and on the day that the H Roots.
September, if it rains immediately, , wp prince called for help for his
the prospects for corn near Little | armjes a? they retreated across
River are good, the crop of fvu.t, j ^ Mal.ne He had been in active ser-
peaches and apples is fine, but the ^ ^ the front ]ines since christ-
outlook for alfalfa and wheat is dis- 1917, having gone to the front
couraging, and little maize and kafir
corn will mature. This is the present
condition of crops in the county, as
summarized Monday by L. E. Bogan,
county farm agent.
The farmers who have silos are
saving their maize, com and kafir
for feed by cutting it now and put-
ting it into silos, but very little of
these grains have any chance of ma-
turing, in some parts of the county,
according to Mr. Bogan. It will soon
be too late to save it in silos, and a
great many farmers do not have
them.
Watermelon Crop Foor
The county demonstrator thinks
that the watermelon crop is very
poor. Mr. McWilliams, who lives on
the Duval farm one and one-half
miels west of the university campus,
has a good crop of watermelons, but
he is one of the few in the county
who have successfully raised melons.
The fruit crop will probably be
good, says Mr. Bogan. The peaches
are being marketed now. The ap-
ples will be ready with a fine har-
vest a month and a half. Grapes will
probably be fairly good, and pears
now have a chanc.e to mature plenti-
fully.
S inc Co.'n Excellent
George R. Anderson was born De-
cember 31, 1892. His mother is Mrs.
J. L. Cox, 202 G street, northeast
Ardmore, Okla. Ann Anderson, who
~ c - was graduated from the university in
after three months' intensive artillery I june> 191g) jg a sister. Lieutenant
J. L. Sudderth, county commissioner
•om the second district, and John
.Jotsenbocker, farmer living in the
Banner neighborhood, District 47, are
at a point of death as a result of a
shooting affray which took place near
training in France.
Anderson was first lieutenant of J
Battery G, 102nd field artillery, |
American expeditionary forces. He 1 daUKhteI% Migs Anderson, are in Colo
attended the first officers training , radQ Springs and the cablegram an-
"amp which began May 11, 1917, at . , e 1
Anderson was a member of the local
chapter of Sigma Chi.
Mrs. Cox, witl; her husband and
Fort Logan H. Roots, Ark., and | ei, from Ardmore to Mrs. Cox at that
ceived his commission August 15. He , thought that they will re-
! nouncing her son's death was forward-
then came back to Norman and vis-
place. It is thought that thoy will re
1 vis- . , .. , ,
„ . . , . turn to Ardmore immediately
ited university friends for a short j , . ,
iime until he again went to Fort Lo- Besides his mother and sister
_ | Lieutenant Anderson is survived by
gan H. R °t£.rectiy 0vergeas ian aunt, Mrs. E V. Morten, 1102
Immediately upon returning to camp Burch avenue, Ardmore. Two cousins
Anderson and Ross Gahring worn Lieutenant William Edward VVinston
chosen as the first representatives of ™d Maurice Morten both of whom are
the University of Oklahoma from | m the service. Lieutenant Winston is
Fort Roots to be sent overseas. They stationed at Camp ^. Va.- wMe Mr
sailed about the first of September Morten left last week for San
Lieut. Gahring, who- was graduatt- \ e'sco, where he enl.S ed in th navy,
from the university i" 1917, was' Lieutenant Anderson was a cousin
wounded in May. Although not in j of Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson of
the same unit, both boys had been | Merrimac fame.
Courthouse Poet
Pens a Touching
Election Stanza
w. E, ("Jill") Barnard, who within
William"*Barr," a prosperous farmer [the last forty-eight hours has sue-
Little River district, has a j ceeded James M. Stogner as court-
May Require People
To Burn Only Wooc
in the uitwe xvi*c« — - , ... , . i 11
twelve-acre seed-plot of Silver Mine house poet, pves to the world
corn which will make 65 bushels of
good sound corn to the acre, accord-
ing to information given by Mr. Bo-
gan. The average number of bush-
els which will be :aised to the acre
his
masterpiece at the eleventh hour be-
fore close of the election. Mr. Barn-
ard, county assessor and candidate to
succeed himself, was so affected by
lu smoking the "stogie" cigars so num-
this year around Lexington and in erous around the polls today and by
the Little River district is twenty- 'the fact that he will have only repub-
two and not more than thirty. | lican opposition for a place on the
"The chances for alfalfa are poor," county payroll for the coming tern
continued Mr. Bogan. "The next j that he sat down and produced t ie fol
crop which will be harvested in about lowing touching little ditty.
two weeks will be about one-half
AWAIT ARRIVAL OF BIG GUNS ON FRONT
Bridgeheads Established on Vesle Are Maintain-
ed In Face of Two Strong German Countcr-
Attacks Near Braisne. ,
HY JOHN DEGANDT,
United Press 8tatf Correspondent
PARIS, Ang. 6.— (4 p. m.)—With the Cfermans
R1S Ang. l>.— ti P- m.j—vv,ul ,Mt'
:n lis™10"'Mon"" * i tst tsz s? a°z w «**«. -. >
Sudderth had called at the Motsen-i were also heavily shi^lod. A • aviators flew over thp
hocker home, but was ordered to leave Sirmiltanoous y ) b ' the pontoons thrown across
by Motsenbocker. Sudderth, it is said, j enemy forces and dropped Don IDS o n lilt I
immediately obeyed the command and,,he Aisne^ >y^ is having little efl'.r.t, but Freiuh all-
across a field to the main highway, j tempting further advances in force.
Motsenbocker, who had a shotgun in HKIDGEHEADS MAINTAINED.
his possession, fired the first shot, j T„p pRWNCH ARMIES IN THE FIELD, Aug. 6.—
which entered Sudderth's body m the i_French troops today maintained their bridgeheads acroaa
rear of the left shoulder and ■■ Ves,e rjver despite two strong German . ounter-attacks. A
wounded him. He fell from the c.u b .. - j__ .r (i,(1 village of Rraisne, on the Vesle, six miles,
shortly recovered from the shock anl by the French during the night
immediately reached tor his pi-t . •> v,rjdjres in that, region were also seized. The Germans are still
Savage automatic .32. j ijj_„ in Rraisne
° Machine gun emplacements have been estabhshed in Braisne
In the meantime, according to :n and the enemy is making heavy resistance lei r > •' > < .i
what it should be. The last cutting
in July only yielded half of the us-
ual amount. However, alfalfa, like
other crops, will be better if it rains.
Dairy Business is Best
"The dairy business is what is sav
ing Cleveland county. Prospects are
good, provided the farmers can get
feed, and it is probable that they can
save enough in silos if they begin
immediately. The pastures are all
burned up by the hot sun and winds,
but farmers are feeding cottonseed
meal, bran and green maize and
kafir to their cows, and keeping up
the supply of dairy products."
"I believe that the dairy business is
the coming business of Oklahoma,
and I know it is for Cleveland coun-
ty," said Mr. Bogan. "There are 100
men in this county who sell milk, and
many of these have large dairy farms
and ranches. Some dairymen receive
checks for $100 a month for milk
sold, and none of them receives less
than $25 a month.
"The largest dairy farm in this
county is that owned by F. L. Hill,
six miles north and one-half mile
"east of town. Thus far, the dry
weather has not injured the dairy
business, and the dairymen are mak-
ing as much money as ever.
UNCLE SAM PUTS NAME
ON OLD TICKET OFFICE
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Aug. 6.
—"The United States Railroad Ad-
ministration Consolidated Ticket Of-
fice" is the new title of the former
"Union Ticket Office," 131 West
Grand avenue. Orders to change the i
name were i*2ceived from Washing-
ton by R. O. Hopkins, in ch rge of
the office, a few days ago and with-
in a week the new name in large let-
ters, red, while ind blue, will be
painted on the front window.
Tickets, dies, stamps and all othtr
railroad equipment soon will bear the
"United States Railroad Administra-
tion" insignia.
ADA, Okla., Aug. 6.—That citizens
of Oklahoma living in timbered sec-
tions may be prohibited from buying
coal this winter by State Fuel Ad-
ministrator P. A. Norris is the gist
of a statement given out from his of-
fice today. Mr. Norris hopes that it
will not be necessary to make such
rigorous rules, but the coal may not
be available in sufficient quantities
to keep all the people warm, and
those citizens with wood around them
ought to be able to protect them
selves without using coal.
The United States fuel administra-
tion at Washington has suggested
that in those states where a plentiful
supply of wood is available, the sale,
shipment and distribution of coal for
domestic purposes to persons residing
outside of cities or incorporated
towns may be prohibited, except un-
Superintendent at Lamar—C. Clies- ^ ('er special permit.
ter Beaird, who was instructor in i State fuel administrators are ad-
science and mathematics in Norman | vised that if they find, as a result of
high school the second semester of I prohibiting the use of coal outside of
the year 1917-18, has been elected | cities, excessive prices are demanded
superintendent of schools at Lamar, j by wood dealers, the dealers should
Okla., and has begun his duties at i be dealth with under the authority
that place. ' conferred by the Lever act.
In the meantime, according i- iand the enemy is majiuiB i.cavj- ■« ', —•
formation received by county of'i lal arrnies is heavily shelling along the Aisn , - banks'
Motsenbocker had concealed himself! Further sorth the French are solidly e. e ' '
behind the car, preparatory to firing; 0f the river Avre, north of Braches and Neuville woo .
another shot at the wounded man. I - —
Sudderth, however, beat Motsenbocker
to the second shot, and fired thr.
times at him
The first shot tired by Sudderth iiit
Motsenbocker on the left elbow, shat- ______
tering the bones of his arm. The bu'J ountv Agent Learns of High ] First Contingent of Draftees ta
let glanced off and lodged in the ' Standing at Stillwater ! Go to Camp Fremont
Farm Congress. .W Entrained.
CLEVELAND IS SECOND TEN MEN LEAVE FOB
AS A DAIRYING CDDNTY CAMP IN CALIFORNIA
man's side, ^severely wounding him.
The other two shots failed to hit their
mark. I That Cleveland county is second in
Both men live in practically the | (he state in the value of its dairy pro-
same neighborhood, as Spring Hill and j ,]uctSi but is behind many of the
Banner are adjoining districts. Dif-! ( 0Unties in grain and cotton crops, is
ferences between the two men coi:- , ^jit, report brought back from the far
"After the election is over,
After the race is run,
Some of the boys will be cussing
How the thing it was done."
Ten men selected by the locnl ex-
emption board from Class 1-A, lefk
this afternoon on the 3:05 northbound
train for Camp Fremont, Cal.
A crowd of friends and relatives
thronged the station platform at their
departure.
The men, in accordance with orders
received from Ed P. Ingle, clerk of the
- local exemption board, reported at tli
:an market it when the 0ffjco 0f the exemption board at 1®
and that every farmer | 0tcl0c,k in or,|er to permit the mem-
to | raiSe some wheat. ! |)crs 0f the board to ascertain that
the home of his son, Oscar Motsen- j "The government thinks it has |
hocker, in Lexington. Both ine" are j WOrked out a plan which will prevent
in a critical condition, and little hope j the bottom from dropping out of cot-
of their recovery is entertained by at-1 ton markets in the future," said the ^ mjlitary relief committc
tending physicians.
stituting a feud of several months' | mers' congress last week at Stillwa-
duration, are thought to be the cause j ter by L. E. Bogan, county agent,
of the affray, although no definite in-! ;-he advice which Mr. Bogan brings
formation as to the real cause has j 0 aJi farmers of Cleveland county is
been received by County Attorney! that they raise cotton as a side crop,
Tom Cheatwood. j s0 that they
Sudderth was taken to an Oklahoma j price is good,
City hospital, and Motsenbocker
Inone of the registrants selected wotifri
be prevented by any cause from mak-
ing the trip.
i county agent. According to this Plim ! charge of Miss Eloiso Eagleton *>'<*
each farmer markets his cotton a lit- ^ jlgr corpS flf helpers met the train . '<*?
tie at a time, and the market is not ij,ave each of the soldiers a comfort
n 80-acre farm near j overstocked. However, most of the ^it containing a housewife. Magazines
McClain county, the | cotton will probably lie in the cotton l,e algo distributed to the boys.
yards till spring." -phis is the first contingent of men
! which has been sent to Camp 1' la-
mont from < leveland county. This-
camp is near the coast and the draf-
tees thought it would be a desinibto-
place to train. Fourteen made appli-
cation to be sent.
Wilson Estate Sold—The R. R. Wil-jtle at a time,
son estate,
Newcastle i
east half of the northwestern quar
ter of Section 22, Township 9 north,
Range 4 west, was sold Monday to
T. C. Johnson of near Newcastle. The
purchase price was $3700.
JUDGE J. B. A. ROBERTSON
IS LEADER EVERYWHERE
Oklahoma City, Aug. 6, 2 p. m.— (Special to the
Daily Transcript.)—Reports coming into the head-
quarters of Judge Robertson up to 2 p. m. point to the
fact that Judge Robertson is by far the only candidate
that is being seriously considered by the great mass of
the voters throughout the state.
In Oklahoma City a close tab is being kept and
Judge Robertson is receiving two to one over his near-
est opponent.
Every county in this congressional district will be
carried by a large majority, in the estimation of Judge
Robertson's supporters in the different counties.
Cleveland County is also rolling up a big majority,
and at the time of going to press reports are to the et feet
that he will receive a large majority eve:' all opponents in
this county.
Good Rains Elsewhere
That Oklahoma and Texas are the
only states suffering much from
drouth was one of the points brought j
out at the congress. The northern
and southern states have good pros-
pects for wheat and cotton, respec-
tively. The pastures in New Mexico
are poor and the farmers there are I
of necessity selling their stock.
The registered Holstein heifer of- j
fered by M. C. Bogle in the boys' ,
clubs contest was won by Major
county. Three prizes went to this
county. Mr. Bogle was elected vice-
presiden of the Oklahoma Dairy as-
sociation.
P. C. Parr of Norman was elected
one member of the board of local di-
rectors of the Oklahoma Seedgravv-
ers' association. Mr. Bogan wishes
to announce that any farmers wha
want wheat for seed may purchase it
through the Oklahoma Seed grower''
association.
Those who were entrained for Camp
Fremont are as follows:
Henry C. (Ireeson, Norman.
Wallace N Abbott, Norman-
Julian Champeau, Norman. .
Louis Champeau, Norman.
Tom, Walter Arnold, Wheatland.
William Bryan Breatchel, Norman.
Otis S. Wilson, Bfanchard.
August John Auwen, Norman.
Judie A. Philpot, Noble.
Dave Mitchell, Noble.
BLACKER! FAMILY 1U
REMOVE TO SHAMROCK
Mrs. C. E. Blackfsrt, who lives bit
541 South University boulevar j, tbUB
, leave Sunday for Shamrock, whcr&
JULY WAR STAMP SALES ! Hl>e and her daughters expect to.
REACH TOTAL OF $9,208.2:11 n>'lkc future hoI^e- Her
terg( Mjsses ione and Nora, Ief Mou-
A report of July sales at the W. S.
S. bank, compiled Saturday, shows a
total of $9,238.23 for the month. This
added to the amount reported up to
ju]y j —$30,406—makes the grand
total of sales to August 1, $39,614.33.
"Let us remember to stand by the
pledges we made," say^ John Har-
die, treasurer. "Some are delinquent
for July; they should call at the
bank and redeem their pledge-
Mrs. A. D. Harrold
Jones City visiting her ire 1
W. H. Abbott. Her brothi
Abbott, left this afternoon
drafted men s?nt to Camn
c,v
day for Newton t'fld Spirit Lak'S
Iowa, where they will visit re'ative*
and friends until September.
The other daughter, Miss Kathryar
Blackert. will leave Wednesday for
San Antonio, Tex , where she will'
visit her brother, Lieut. Fi antz EL
Blackert, and his wife, who was Rcr-
otliy Jarrett formerly of Norman.
She will return in September t©
Shamrock and till a position as
. teacher of Einglish and domestic
■ v front j science in the Shamrock high school.
• Mrs Carl Blackert will stay in Norman for
Vallace I awhile, but expects to join sorn*
with the branch of the army o* navy soon.
Fremont,
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