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THE MfLY TRANSCRIPT
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VOL. VI- NO. 144.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 11, 1918.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
WHERE TO REGISTER
Below are given the names
of the registrars and the
place of registration in the
various precincts of Norman:
Ward 1—C. H. Richards
registrar; registration place,
Mayfield's drug store, East
Main street.
Ward 2—E. B. Kimberlin,
registrar; registration place,
Kimberlin's clothing store,
East Main street.
Ward 3, Precinct 1—Charles
S. Standley, registrar; regis- •!*<
tration place, Farmers' Na- v |
tional bank. "•*
Ward 3. Precinct 2—R. S.
Barbour, registrar; registra- *5*
tion place, Barbour's drug *
store.
Ward 4—Wililam Synnott. *•*
registrar; registration place, ,
First National bank. *•'
Precinct Boundaries *
The division of the city of
Norman into voting precincts
is as follows: *•'
Ward 1—North of Main
street and east of North Pe- *••
ters avenue. *•*
Ward 2—North of Main •>
street and west of North Pe-
ters avenue. *
Ward 3, Precinct 1—South
of Main street between Santa
Fe railroad and University
boulevard. *•*
Ward 3, Precinct 2—South •••
of Main street and west of
University boulevard. *2*
Ward 4—South of Main •••
street and east of Santa Fe *!*
railroad.
' COURrtlEi'S OFFICE
CLOSED BY OFFICIALS
1200-1500 EXPECTED
: ENROLLMENT IN DNIT
J OF ARMY CORPS HERE
❖ ,
* University Prepares for Larger
Number of Men Than Ever
Before Registered.
QUARTERLY DIVISION OF
YEAR GOES INTO EFFECT
Four Terms of Twelve Weeks
Each Are Established Be-
gining Last of September.
From 1200 to 1500 men are now ex-
pected to enroll as students in the un-
iversity, acording to the present rate
of registration, and enlarged plans
are being formulated to provide for ^
their housing and subsistence, it was ,
MORE THAN 2,100 MEN
ESTIMATED NUMBER OF
DRAFT REGISTRATIONS
Enrollment to Take IMace in
Town and Country in Twen-
ty-four Election Precincts.
REGISTRARS ON DUTY
FROM 7 A. M. TO 9 P. M.
Regulations Affect All Male Per-
sons Between 18 and 4(5 Un-
less Already Registered.
More than 2,100 men are expected j
to register for military service in *;*
Cleveland county Thursday, when by £
presidential proclamation men be- •_
tween the ages of 18 and 21 and 45, '
inclusive, are called upon to present j ^
themselves for enrollment at their j
precinct voting places. In Cleveland ; ^
county, registrars are supplied with ^
the necessary blanks and supplies j ^
and are ready for the work of regis j
tration. j
In the election districts outside of [
Norman, the registration will be held
at the usual voting places. Registrars
will be present at each of thesg all
day. Ti N :rran rCT tnticit w'l
t::ke p'uwC the <eveiajdSipffificf-.,
E.t tlij d.
column.
The hours during which registra- j
tion may be made are from 7 a. m. to j
9 p. m. Persons who are sick will be j
registered at home upon application j
to the local board for such privilege.
All registrations out of the usual or- j
der are to be made through the local j
hoard instead of through the precinct j
V&gistrars.
Who Shall Register
For information of those who may
be uncertain as to whether the
should enroll, the following state-
ment of thoajj^-eyuired to register is
reprinted from- the provost marshalj
general's orders:
"All male persons who shall have I • ■ •
•• ttained their eighteenth birthday Stogner's Bondsmen Turn Him
ar.d shall not have attained their for- j in and County Commissioners
ty-sixth birthday on or before the Start Investigation.
day set for registration by the presi- begin
ident must register. The only excep-1 Action taken by the county com- fhe christmas holidays. It will
tions are: I nms,oners Wednesday closed the of- ^ than usual< but
"(A) Persons, who, prior to the | fice of district court clerk and some time will probably be lost at the
day set for registration by the presi-1 lated an investigation of the bo bepinning in getting the schedule in
dent, "nave registered under the terms and accounts of Court Clenk Jinj runnjn„ or(jer
of the act approved May 18, 1917 i Stogner, whose bondsmen decline to classes Six Days a Week
(which fixed the original age limit at J remain responsible for his acts. Stog-1 A further change ig the extension
21 to 30 inclusive) or under the terms [ ner himself is absent from the city,, Qf ^ sehedule to inciude Sat-
of the public resolution of congress j having left for Texas, it is said, Tues-; urJ,iy ag a regular recitation day.
approved May 20, 1918, (providing, day evening. _j.ii Courses have been placed on the
for the registration since June 5,, The keys to the office of court clerk three ^ six.hour basis to conform
j with this change, and classes will now
1 recite, as a *-ule, three or six times a
wtek.
. . , I One innovation, which is to be tried
Wednesday, making arrangements to !
obtain an accountant to make an in-
vestigation of the books. They were
advised by tha state examiner and in- \
spector that an audit by a represen- j
tative of that office would cost at j
least $1,000, and they are in a quan-
dary. since the county has no money
which could be devoted to such a pur-
pose.
Office Now Vacant
In the meantime the office remains)
without ail incumbent.
Stogner is without a bond he cannot
RAIN SLOWS DOWN OPERATIONS
ON WESTERN FIGHTING FRONT;
ALLIES CLOSER TO ST. QUENTIN
Ladies Serve Lunch
At Lexington Pool
VERY QUIET ON AISNE ANI) VESLE RIVERS
French Now Within Seven Miles of City on Ap-
proach From South; German Counter at
Essigny-le-Grand Repulsed.
Lunch and hot coffee are being serv-
ed at the Lexington swimming pool
today by the ladies of the Red Cross
branch of the town, as a means of in-, British Now Near Attilly and Vermand, Towns
Only Five Miles From St. Quentin, Field
Marshal Haig Reports.
LONDON, Sept. 11.—Little changes in the fighting fronts
was reported in the night official statement, due to the rain which
slowed up local operations.
Pushing toward St. Quentin from the south, the I'rench ad-
, h vanced a mile from Gibencourt to Hinacourt, which puts them
un°i i within seven miles of the city. A German counter-attack launtnecfc
1'p°n"<i, [from the town of Essigny-le-Grand was defeated.
ADVANCE NEAR ST. QUENTIN
LONDON, Sept. 11.—British troops advanced their line to-
ward Attilly, less than five miles west of St. Quentin, and toward
Vermand, Field Marshal Haig reported today. .
The statement said: "We advanced our line yesterday in the
direction of Attilly and Vermand. In the evening the enemy
stronglv attacked the ridge west of Gouzsacourt. There was sharp
fighting, as a result of which the attack was completely beaten
off except at one point where one post remained in the enemy s-
possession."
LITTLE PROGRESS TODAY
PARIS Sept. 11.—Outside of artillery on the Aisne and tni
Vesle and in the Champagne there is nothing new to report, saie
today's French war office communique.
Cteasing the revenue for the day, j
which is to be all turned over to the I
Ideal Red Cross work.
; The management of the swimming i
•to.jl last week offered to give the pro- j
eeds of the day's business to the
announced at the university Tuesday, '^d Cross, and the people of Lexing-
Although the opening of the univer- tqn are interested in .vetting a good
sity is a week away, nearly six hun- "Uronagc for the benefit The lunch •
dred men have already registered. is being served during the d
In addition to the men in the stu- . in the evening, and Norman peopl
dents' army training cors, the uni- especially urged to pay a visit to
versity expects eight hundred young the pool.
women to enroll. If these expecta- —
tions materialize, the,actual resident S. I\ VICARS SELLS
enrollment in the'univefrsity will ex- i INTEREST IN STORE
ceed 2,000. This' will jbv considerably i i _____
in excess of any enrollment S. 1'. Vicars, senior member of the
in the institution, atf->|(5itargest hum- grocery firm of S. P. Vicars & Sons,
ber of student in res'imW* it the uni- by a transaction just closed, sold his
versity at one time was in 1917, when one-third interest in the store con-
tfce enrollment was 1583. , ducted by the firm on East Main
Important Changes Made street to W. W. LeFlore of Norman.
Administrative changes determined Mi-. LeFlore is now in active connec-
upon by university authorities with- tion with the business.
in the past few days will considerably The Vicars firm consisted of Mr.
alter the plan upon which the univer- Vicars. Sr., and his sons, Walter and
sity has been operating. Instead of John, the latter of whom is in the ar-
two semesters and a summer session, my. Mr. LeFlore, the new partner, is |
the university year will hereafter be an old resident of Yorman, but has
divided into four quarters of twelve
weeks each. The university will thus
! be in session forty-eight weeks in the
! year, with recesses only at Christ-
I mas and for about two weeks in Aug-
ust.
j The quarter system is adapted to
! conform with the government plan of
| weeding- T>ut and reassigning men in
I the students training corps every
\ three months. The first quarter will
been in Shawnee for ab ut a year.
J. W, BRIDGES BECOMES
WAR GARDEN DIRECTOR
University Man Selected to
Conduct Work in Oklahoma,
Colorado and Kansas.
"I'M YOUR M AN,"
1JOY REPLIES IN
ANSWERING CALL
STREET PARKINGS
NEED ATTENTION,
NORMAN MAN SAYS
September 17 and will continue prof y w Brid(;eSj head of the de.
partment of agricultural education
"I'm the man you're looking for, it's time for Mr. Edwards of the
Uncle," wrote John Linton of Black- ' civic committee to col back to Nor-
well, Okla., nephew of Judge Lintoa man and see that some of the prop'
of Norman, when he received his call crty-owners on the University bonle-
for entrainment to one of the army yard and other streets clean up their
training camps, September 3. When ^ vacant lots and parkings," said a
he received his notice from the Kay prominent citizen of Norman 'lues-
county exemption board he replied day. "A trip along the Boulevard!
with the following letter: from Symmes street to the univer-
"Dear Uncle: I just received your sity wil show anyone what is needed
I kind letter stating that you need a —a sharp scythe, a good lawn-mower
! gocd fighting man. I am the guy. I and plenty of elbow grease."
j remain your loving nephew, j There is plenty of evidence to sup-
"JOHN LINTON." port this citizen's complaint. Uni-
The young soldier is the son of Mr. versity boulevard, the street which
and Mrs. J. A. Linton, who live at has the greatest possiblities for
of
I The keys to the office of court clerk
1917, of those reaching the age of 211 are in the hands of Commissioner R.
years), whether called for public ser-' F. McBride and no one has been plac-
I ed in charge of the work. The com-
missioners were in Oklahoma City
vice or not, and
"(B) Officers and enlisted men of
the regular army; officers appointed,
and men of the forces drafted, under
the provisions of the act approved
May 18, 1917; officers and enlisted
men of the National Guard while in
the service of the United States; and
the officers of the officers' reserve
corps and enlisted men in the enlist-
ed reserve corps while in the service
of the United States; and
"(C) Officers and enlisted men of
the navy and marine corps and of-
ficers and enlisted and enrolled men
of the naval reserve force and ma-
rine corps reserve while in the ser-
vice of the United States, and
"(D) Diplomatic representatives,
technical attaches of foreign embas-
sie and legations, consuls general,
consuls and consular agents of for-
eign countries residing in the United
States."
Must Register Upon Return
Persons not subject to registration
solely on account of being in the mil-
continued on page two)
in the university, has been appointed
federal director of the United States
war garden army work in the three
states of Oklahoma, Colarado and
Kansa, and will be given leave of ab-
sence from the university to assume
his new duties at an early date.
Professor Bridges, who has been a
member of the university faculty
since September, 1917, was director I
of the garden bureau conducted by j
the Oklahoma state council of de-;
fense during the past year, and un- "We are holding our own with the
der his supervision thousands of gar- j p,ermans" is the modest way in which |j0
take possession of the office. If he
new plan for the university day pro- fed„ral appointee_
den were planted and thousands of
school children enlisted in the war
garden army.
Success Attracts Attention
His success in the garden work in
Oklahoma, which was unhindered un-
til the drouth struck the state in
July, was so marked that he was call-
ed to take charge in three states. The
war garden movement is fostered by
the department of agriculture
position Professor Bridges becomes
de-
velopment, is marred by the rank
growth of grass and weeds, not only
on the parking, but on the adjoining
vacant and occupied property. Hany
— . oil* these lots are owned by men wh >
Says 1 his So! aid iire otherwise public-spirited and pro
'gressive, but they have apparently-
forgotten their duty to their neigh-
and the town in allowing tha
Tonkawa. He is the second son
these parents to enter training.
"Holding Our Own'
weeds and grass to grow.
It has been pointed out that within
a few days hundreds of new students
will come to Norman for a year's
schooling. Their impression of the
at the suggestion of. President Strat-
ton D. Brooks, is to have classes meet
on three successive days, then jump
three days before meeting again. This
is a change from the old plan, under
which classes met at one or two-day
intervals. The plan has been used in
eastern colleges, where it is s id to
have been a success.
The schedule of classes has been
completely worked over and many
So long as; changes made in the number of Washington and in ;issuming his new Dear Mother: cutting of weeds on vacant lots, and
hours and t.mes of recitation. The ,, Jlow a^ellInd^getting Long notice was
Charles G. Miller speaks of the suc-
cesses on the west front, in wiiting
from France to his mother, Mrs. lan-
nie Miller of Norman. Private Mil-
ler is in Company H, 110th infantry,
and received his training at Travis, town as Kained from the appearance
to whiclj camp he was sent among 0j University boulevard, is not likely
the first of the drafted men to leave lo add much weight to the town's slo-
the county. His letter is as follows: "The most beautiful small city
Somewhere in France, oklahoma."'
August 10. 1918. Ti,ere js an ordinance requiring the
Lawrence Leffler Is
Lawrence Leffler, one of the 145 The first of three mess shacks
men who left Norman August 28 for | being constructed on Brooks field on
Camp Pike, Ark., is now in the hos- j the university
pital at camp as a resplt of having I the hundreds
been struck in the stomach with a | pected he
baseball bat in a game there on Mon- j toward completion and work is under
day. His injury was rather serious, | way .on the other two.
but it is thought he will recover. j The buildings are of standard army
A peculiar fact in connection with mess-shack construction and will ac-
the accidment is that the bat, after commodate three hundred men at a
hitting Leffler, was deflected in its time. Each will contain a completely
course and struck Red Harris, break- equipped kitchen.
ing a collar-bone. In a letter to J. D.
Pierson, received Tuesday, Leffler tells ! Mrs. R. F. Grow and Mrs. Mohler,
of the accident. ; both of Butler. Okla., are guests at
Both men were sent to the hospital, 1 the home of Mayor and Mrs. S. W.
vides for four one-hour periods in the
morning and two in the afternoon.!
Afternoon classes will begin at 1:15
instead of at 1:30, and, so far as S.
. . , A. T. C. students are concerned, wiil
If the county commissioners secure; , ,,, ... ,, , ,
• , ^, I close at 3:15. After that time the
student-soldiers will be given then-
daily drill period.
Commandant Here Soon
No information has been received
by the university as to who the com-
1 manding officer of the training corps
i unit will be. It is thought that he will
j be selected soon, although he may not
I arrive here until about October 1. A
| number of army officers will be de-
I tailed to assist him, but the number
! is not known. It will probably de-
fails to make bond, it is likely that I
the county commissioners will take \
steps to appoint some one to perform I
the duties of the position.
an accountant, he will have to obtain
pay for his services by means of a
judgment against the county. It is
said that this method will probably
be employed, since the state examin-
er will not undertake an audit unless
the money to pay for it is available.
just fine. I am getting plenty to eat,
Mr. Bridges accepted the place on so do not worry about me. I have
condition that he might continue to
make his home in Norman. He will
make thi city his headquarters and
will be furnished stenographic help
and an office at the university, from
which will go out the large amount
been through the hardest that I think
we will ever go through.
It rains over here nearly every day,
but it doesn't stop us, as we are used
to it. How are the crops this year
recently given that if
weeds were not cut the work would be
done by the city and added to the tax
charges. This seems to have had lit-
tle effect, however, in improving con-
ditions. "The people who have failed
to cut down the weeds are the same
fha't tihs!you'ts°kle ^war' news", ^nlTl people who ignore such notices," said
can't give much of that, onlyjwe are the citizen
" ing up the town.
who is interested in clean-
c, ill? „ r>, mess hall buildings
Struck by Ball Hat ARE rapidly going vv
of correspondence and propaganda holding our own with the Germans,
necessary to make the war garden | Hoping this will find you all well
work a success. I and happy, I am,
Your son,
CHARLES G. MILLER-
Company II. 110th infantry. Amer-
t ii7-.il \\T ur i ican expeditionary forces, via
Busy \\ itli War \\ ork Vork.
E. R. Newby Already
New
"There is a great deal to do here
and I am already at work," writes
Errett R. Newby, secretary ard reg-
Farmers Cannot Pay-
War Stamp Pledges
rsity campus, for feeding 'nd cons" rthe "Umber -trar at the university till last week. .
eds of students who are ex- he. S- A' T ,C' U"'t . when he left for Washington re-1 MUSKOGEE:
re this fall, is already well I M/nf dfet 'ls 88 to d—phne and ,ponse to a call from the conim,t-v; ' ^ ™
,.„„i„f,-„„ J,i io . : l 0nduct of the ,llen are unsettled, on education and special training of | embracing abou
j pending the arrival of the comman- tj,e war department.
I am in the vocational section of
New Firm Establishes
Feed Store in Norman
B. C. Headrick of Tuttle and Eu'
Hutson, a dairyman of the northesat
part of the city, have opened a new
feed store in the Hull building on
East Main street and within a short
time will have a stock of all kinds of
grain, mill feeds and flour. They will
dant. Just what action he will take
on numerous matters cannot be stat-
ed, but it is likely that the men wiil
be governed by practically the same
regulatiens as obtain in a regular
army camp.
and are getting along well.
Ilutchin.
THE WEATHER
Return From Reunion—E. Haksteen,
John Kuhlman and Levi Greenfield
have just returned from Portland
Ore., where they attended the nation-
il G. A. R. reunioh. On their return Oklahoma Weather: Tonight and
they visited Los Angeles, and other Thursday generally fair; little tem-
C'alifornia cities. ; perature change.
PETROGRAD IS BURNING
| By United Press.1
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Sept. 11.—
Petrograd is burning in twelve dif-
ferent places and there are indis-
criminate massacres of people in the the filling
streets, according to reliable infor- made,
mation received by the American
Christiania legation reaching the Miss
Okla., Set. 11.—The
region of Oklahoma,
about twenty-two counties do business under the firm name of
the southwestern part of the state, Headrick & Hutson.
ill be unable to make its quota, ac- Mr. Headrick is a new resident of
... , eni-dine- to reports received by the Norman, having removed here last
administration and coiain^ , ... . ... , .
w ll" Mr \pwhv. Oklahoma war savings committee, week from luttle, where he was in
' * ' ' These reports show conclusively that the grair. and lumber business. He
hundreds of farmers through crop has brought his family v ith him. and
failure will not be financialy able to they have leased tin Smith house,
their pledges. That the state 317 East Keith street, as a home for
(Continued on ^age two) the present. Vernon L. Headrick, a
on, was a student in the law school
Called to California—W. F. Shults, it the university last year and will
principal of the Jefferson school, re- be in the training corps there this
the S. A. T. C
like my work very
writes. He is as yet unsettled, but
hopes to find a permanent place soon.
Mr. Newby's place at the univer-
sity was taken by Dr. V. H. Kulp of | ' e<loem
the school of law, but he was called
to Washington last Saturday. Dean
Roy Gittinger ha- taken charge of
the work of the registry office for
the present, but no other plans for
of the place have been
coived a message from his brother at year.
l.odi, Cal., Tuesday evening, saying. The new firm already has several
"If you wish to set, your mother alive, carloads of oats for feed and seed,
' come at once." He left Tuesday and hay and other feeds will be add-
earT Gilbert of El Reno is; night in response to the message. He ed shortly. As soon as the building
state department today,
are added.
No
detail visiting her uncle and aunt,
Mrs. W. C. Henton.
Mr.
and will probably be absent from his can be made ready, the firm will al-
! school duties for two weeks or so. so yut in a stock of flour and meal
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