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OKLAHOMA U'rY
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The Daily Transcript
VOL. VI. NO. 244.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY, JAN. 10. 1919.
PRICE FIVfc CENTS.
The Craven's Way
Few people understand the life
of a florist; how their time ;s
spent among the flowers.
Few people understand the
amount of time and labor neces-
sary to raise the flowers from a
little tiny seed until a full grown
flower is unfolded, leaf by leaf,
to shed its glory and sweet per
fume upon an admiring world.
Such is the Craven's way. Yes-
terday we followed the trail lead-
ing south of the University and
found the Craven home nestling
under the shadow of the trees.
The Craven home, where he
spends many happy hours amorfg
the flowers, is an interesting
place. Preparedness now for the
coming spring time is the order
of the day. Under the glass that
keeps the cold away, a summer day
was felt, while we lingered, and
that reminds me,
That is the Craven's way,
From day to day,
When it snows
And it blows
When the weather is fair,
He is always there.
When others sleep
And warm their feet
Out in the cold he goes
To care for the lily and the rose
That you- and I
And the passer by,
When the soft wind blows
May stop and pluck a rose,
And then we will say
We love the Craven's way
THE CIVIC COMMITTEE
Twenty-one Ratify Fine Circulation
If the Constitution of the United
States is to be amended to provide
for national prohibition of the man-
ufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquor, three-fourths of the 48
states comprising the Union must
declare in favor of the amendment,
each by a majority vote in its
Legislature. The record of the
states on this question now stands
as follows:
Number necessary to tarry the
amendment, 36.
Number that stand in favor, 21.
Number that stand against, 0.
Number that have yet to vote,
27.
Number needed of those yet to
vote, 15.
States that have ratified, fn
order of ratification, with date:
Mississippi—Jan. 9, 1918.
Virginia—Jan. 10, 1918.
Kentucky—Jan. 14, 1918.
South Carolina—Jan 23, 1918.
North Dakota—Jan 25, 1918.
Maryland—Feb. 13, 1918.
Montana—Feb. 19, 1918.
Texas—March 4, 1918.
Delaware—March 18, 1918.
South Dakota—March 20, 1918.
Massachusetts—April 2, 1918.
Arizona—May 24, 1918,
Georgia—June 26, 1918.
Georgia—June 26, 1918.
Louisiana—Aug. 8, 1918.
Florida—Nov. 27, 1918.
Michigan—Jan. 2, 1919.
Ohio—Jan. 6, 1919.
Tennessee, Jan. 4, 1919.
Colarado—Jan. 6, 1919.
Oklahoma—.Ian, 7, 1919.
West Virginia—Jan. 9, 1919,
Time To Clean Up
Members of the Public Welfare
Committee who have investigated
sanitary conditions in the city re-
port a deplorable state of affairs
in many of the alleys, and sug-
gest that the authorities and cit-
izens get busy at once in the mat-
Tim Daily Transcript is securing
an excellent circulation at Noble,
Lexington, Moore, and all the rural
routes leading out from Norman,
besides completely covering Nor-
man and vicinity, and therefore of-
fers the advertiser a splendid me-
dium of publicity. We print over
1200 copies a day and now have
an almost perfect delivery. Every
copy is read by at least five per-
sons, so it can be readily seen
what value it gives to every mer-
chant whose advertisement appears
in its columns.
To build up a good business in
High School Debate Fifth Division Put
One Over on the
Prohibition's Year Roosevelt Fortune
Watch Saturday's Transcript for I
the outcome of the Junior-Senior j
debate to be held in the High I
School auditorium this (Friday) I
C* 14* XT* +*41 T,1C lif!upr interests 0f the Unit
lighting ninetieth ed States are being driven to the velt disposed
The will oJ Gel. Tket.dore !.< >«e-
estate i.iiutd
wall, says the Christian Science at $500,(KKl Nearly all of is
Mrs. M. C. Brown is in receipt Monitor. Before the year 1919 willed to ■Sir". Roosevelt, "ome
evening. Or, better still, follow I of the following letter from her, shall havo passed away the man heirlooms being given to th .-ml-
the crowd and come out to hear ! son Virgil E. Brown, who is a top I ufacture and sale of intoxicants dren ami $*0 000 of a -> u«: fund
the debate between the high school j sergeant in the 60th Infantry, en-j within the border of the country divided a mo v '.hem.
students. Wednesday morning, be-| closing the division commander's j willhave been, to all intents and,
fore the entire student body and j order citation of the Fifth Division purposes, forbidden, constitutional
the Junior High from the Jefferson i for bravery and thorough devotion j ly, although the dry amendment to
school^ the Sophomore team took j to duty. Virgil thinks he has a j the national constitution
the Freshman-Sophomore debate
by a 4 to 1 decision. Class snirit
runs high in this debate, so do not
fail to come out. It makes the
students think you are behind
any line, patronize the advertis-' them and boosts the "morale"
ing columns of the Daily Trans-
cript. It will certainly give you
j results, and allow you to wear
, diamonds—if you wish to do so.
great deal. Tonight at the High
School auditorium, starting at
7:30. H. S. TURBYFILL,
Publicity Manager.
Why Taxes Are High For and Against
, iui>. * 11^11 tuiiiiva lit* n«i> ii ,
crow coming over the boys in the
Ninetieth. He writes:
Villette, France, Dec. 1st, 1918.
Dear Mamma:
Just a note to let you know that
I am still in the land of the living
and getting along fine, but pretty
busy now. Don't know when we
will start for the states, but it
will probably be some weeks yet.
Am sending the citation which
! our division received after the
armistice was signed. You may
' i against Gib
Lowcnberf
Sales com pan
cannot aj fnmplaint
become operative within less than
twelve months after the date
which the last of the necessary 36
states shall have ratified the meas-
ure. It is reasonable to expect
that before the end of next March
the required three fourths of the
legislatures of the country will
have passed favorably on the
amendment. Meanwhile the pro-
hibition sentiment of the nation is
manifesting itself, after a practical
fashion, in other particulars. The
u>-d: The I n i tt-d
filed a crimia-
i the county ourt
venberjr 4« :h* ef-
fect that he secured goods fr.-w it.
to th< amount of $104 20 an.I aidi
not account for the proceeds—en -
bcz. led them This is one cf the
charges upon which it is b<v..ed to
secure the return of the «iiok.
gentleman to Oklahoma
When Normanites go to the
; have this published in the daily if | manufacture of spirituous liquors
vulgarity .andjyou wish you think jt wi]1 be 0f jand of beer has been suspended by
county treasurer's office these
days to pay their 1918 taxes they ligion more than
are somewhat surprised and dis else; and I do not believe that find ii i u ■
, . ., . ... , , ' ' , 1 """eve mat i.oti (he officers were anv too strong in .while this suspens
jtruntled at their magnitude. A dies not choose what I may call Lt • , , ; , ,
... • . . ,i,, ,, ... , ' 1 their praise of our work, as we, >var exigency, and t
Iranscript representative went (the language of the eye to redoem
over County Assessor Barnard's . the soul."
books this morning t0 try and as-1 This was the statement of Rev.
certain the reason and found tfi" N. H. Royer, pastor 0f the First
following aond'tions: English Lutheran church of Okla-
The rate foi the 1917 taxes n homa City with regard to the
Norman and Norman school dio- coming of Billy Sunday to that
trict was $3.73 on the $100 For city Mr. Royer declared that he
the 1918 taxes it is $4.69, or al- did not believe his coming would
most $1.00 per hundred increase, do any lasting good.
Slackers Listed
The local selective draft board,
acting under instructions from the
War Department is busy goin '
over all the papers 0f the men who
registered, and ascertaining if any
oi~ them were "slackers"—i.e., neg-
lected to fill out and return their
questi-.,!r. •; It is saind th.' war
department will deal severely with
those men who were intentional
slackers, ev< n if it takes fifty
years to find them, and those who
were unintentional slackers will
have a liurd time explaining. It is
believed there Wfcre something like
fifteen of the drafted men in
Cleveland county who failed to j officiated on Thursday at the tved-
return questionnaires, nearly all of! ding of Robert O. Allen, 33, and
them between the ages of 2) and Mias Bessie I>ye, 18. which was
31—the first registration. Of the : solemnised at the court house
last registration, the Board hits re- The h:if>py cotrple belonged t0 Ofc-
cord of only two men, and prob- lihoma City, Xo Which citj tlie\
ably they can explai? their deve- '' eturne 1 on th<i inter-urban
liction satisfactorily.
- ■ ' The "Chew the Rag" club met th
regulit session Friday ever ing, *•
1:30 in the Transcript office
Questions of the day we dis-
cussed and everyone report* a very
enjoyi ble time.
j The school tax rate in 1917 wfl?
SI.48 on the $100, which is in
I creased in 1918 to $1.80 on the
$100. The City of Normal's rate
in 1917 was $1.37 per $100, and
the present rate is $2 11 on the
hundred. Mew school bouses and
additional other expenses catised
the school tax raise, while the
fact that a levy to provide for
nvarly $10,000 interest and sink-
ing furx'i on the Main street pav-
ing (which debt th* city has as-
sumed for "he time being) was
ter of cleaning up. "A stitch in j largely the cause for the raise
in the city rate.
The vacation of the whole
county is $12,01! ,990, on which
taxpayers are repaired to pay $30.
time saves nine," and if shey a>
cleaned up once, it will not take
rnucJ. trouble to keep them clean
"I believe that
speftacular language cheapen re- j any jnterpst of course I am proud ! Congress, the federal bone-dry law
do an\th:ng|0f my ,jjvjsjoni but don't believe J becoming effective July 1, and
pension is due to
therefore is tem
sure gave them h the last few j porary on its fa£o, there is little
days of the war and were on the probability that cither of these in-
front forty-six days without relief dustries will ever be resumed
The 90th division referred to in the would be building upon ski I
citation is made up of Oklahoma I however, t(, trust in anbi-liqu
and Texas men, and many of the legislation, or even in an anti-
Norman boys are in that outfit, j liquor constitutional provision, if
I will have something to crow I public r,> i lon were in any consid-
about, when I get back, as we went 1 rabo de ree antagonistic or i
out of our sector and took a town different : the prohibition no
assigned to thvm and then tunic i nient. Means might be found 1,
it ovev to them. the tireless agents of the liqUT r jp
Am making this short as 1 :■ in
sleepy and think we will move to-
morrow so will have to get up
early. Will write again soon.
With love,
VIRGIL E BROWM,
1st. Sgt Co. B, 60th. Inf.
A. E. F.
The following is the citation, amd
certainly one of which every mem-
ber tjf the division can feel de-
servedly proud:
Headquarters Fifth Division
American Expeditionary Forces,
Frtnce, November 11, 1918.
Rev. Frank Barrett asserted
that he believed Billy Sunday (*
would stir up the city ro!ii;iousl?
as no one else coul'j.
Rev. E. B. Ringland sitirt he ' -1
beMi through a campaign with,
Sunday and had found the results
beneficial though he admitted
that there was a class of religiou-
fiersons to whom Sunday's moth
uds would not appeal. Rev II.
T. Wright alio declared himself
strong for it.
tli tireless agents of th
tcrests !u defeat both ConstiVJtlon-
*1 and statutory law agains't their '
traffic, if the public "were. :he
future, to extend to>ration • ■ n Id
encouragement *> their U r-
1 ground methodfr.. Rut popu .. -i n-
timeTit in it*- Vnited St*v - is
positively ui^in-t any '.:nk«r
temporarhinf- w th the trade i -
toxicants 'm proof of th.-. is i
necessary only to turn to .
mary of results attained i
dry mQT/ement to date, and i
ially t/ , no; th-- advar.t ■ met
dur.r.t; the v Jst ende . 2n~
46(> counties in the I'nited S "S,
of their own volition, as a : tier
f f local judgment, were a<! -- 1 to
1 the number already dry, bi ting
the total dry counties in the hole
nation up to 2M6. as against 151
wet. This is a purely independent
sha'Aing. Tin,; .- to say. '.«• •an-
tics referred to would he • re-
gal dless of the attitude
prohibition o' the states :
• urd
■j ;c>.
thev are situated.
4, i,,rty.,ev.n cannr.n, four I But, aooner or later, CO
h una red and aixty-one machine!.
um? an 1 ovei Mine hundred pris I ,na^es state yentirr.ent.
oi) - s •were fuptured. However, i been proved durintr the
w Rhea to C(^ratul&t6 the Divia-1 months in Ohio, Florida,
what the Division Commander | an(, Nevad;li thp four
191S contributed to th .!
:wt
Married: Judge George Ai'ipn
Married: Elder J. W Linte'i
officiated on Thursday at the mar-
riage of IV. C. Cole, 47, 4nd Mrs.
Emma Wi.rd, 35. both oi Oklaho-t Gmieral Order No. T3.
ma City, which took ph.ee at the | - It is with prifte and pleasur
H. W. Stubb iman was her.' from
Oklahoma City on Thursday visit-
inir his son, Er.tei'y. He telb. us he
and Mrs. Stublienura i.re arranging
to spend the summer in Califor-
nia, going as soon as they can get
away. Mrs. Stubbercan was here Mrs
during tLe sictness <*■' her liaugh- l.Oon.
tea-in-law with the irfluenau, but will rmke he; home with
has returned home, 1 Irs Snubbe- '.ieut. James Tuot.^r,
man, Jr.. being much better tommaidi.n
064 statF tax, 'fn3,498 'for cotthty cotirt house
purposes and jfi0,219 lor sinkm
find. 1 he Norman school dis-J 'Coming Home*: Rev. T. H. Asz-
tiict paFes $f)0,if>05, ami the city of. it:an w5* tes the Transcript from
Norman $48,7S6 this year. The ; Atchisoli, Kans., that e and Mrs.
lotal paid by the county fo all i Aszmaa expect to be home today
purpos-'s is some $2(5,750. Seem, j < Friday >, and Mr A will o-cupv
pretty big, doesn't it? [the pulpit of the First Presbyter-
Mr. Barnard's book-; are trodals.' i«n chnrch on Sunday morning and
and iidicate the utft.ost car? aad ^pveninft. SimAay morning's sub-
efficb-ncy in their pieparat t> n ar. iect will be "Roosei elt, the Man "
corrs tness. Mr. As/.man writes that he and
— Mrs. As/.man have hail a very en-
| that the Division Commander caii
the attention of the Division t
General Order No 43, 3rd Army
| Ct rps of Nov. 9th, 1918, wherein
the Corps Commander cites tin-
Fifth T M ti-ion for 'forcitr:'*
against the enemy in position, ;t
* rossing the river M«i..-.e near
Dun and near Brieulloa, huildii
•iridges and swrn.ming the riv« r
in the face of machine g«n and a'
tillery ft" and m advancing some
nine kilometers in the enemy's
territory to thi vicinity of
Brandevlfie. This action not or.lv
uncoverprt the left. flari* of the
French Corps and assisted that
lOi upon - its unti/ring uncom-
i ainii-.i: ti-it city of Purpose in its
■onstaii; <—ivi'ig of the enemy i making the to':.I of such
,n spite of fatigue sinA fthoctage of' thirty-one out of a powibh
rations, being wet from swimmin .*iTh« ,-..^•,,1, ..u.
the rtvei and
reference to the inde] er
the rtvo and caiuu or wading the
swamp of the Voret-de-Voevre t
This :s i' I • iliiant. example of what
tin- Amrruan swdJier can do in
an emergency v/nen he must go to
the utmost ex;- nt of his power
The DMaion Qtunnandtr is proud
i* the worl s>t the division. No
Division coulci have accomplished
mote, and *vury member of the
e imim,:id . iM be proud to l>"
long ti) a division which has so
Jam--
has
st «ilve
W ming
le iich
iin,
-iates
fc-tv-
•vith
po-
rop-
s to
dry
sition of the counties may b
erly extended here That
say, the thirty-one states n.
will remain dry even in the next-
to-impossible event of ti e re *;ti<m
of national prohibition Mor- *han
this, two states which re jetted
state-wide prohibition last year.
brilliantly
ar real'
r-w led
a: the
its record in the Missouri and Califorwi:
M a j/. r
world has known.
H. fi ELY,
General U. S. A .
< Commanding.
elected legislatures
the ratification of the
hihition amendment
nave
>V.e to
.'1 pro-
rr pay.5
Ba.l Accident: Gladys Pierce joy able Christmas vi<it with rela- Corns, bu\ broke the lint of resi
happened tc a bad ticcident a few
j days ago b;. falling on lie? foot
Rose 7 ucker . eft th:s after-i whil ■ skatnig, severely snV.r ining
>r Ra> Arizena, wh-ire . he, her tanklf ',,ne ttiiWs shtf
tives at d frienJs, even if the ther-
monwtro • dill 3t times get down to
1S Viet w zeto. Tney are
glad to get btv. . to (.-.lahoo t, aw!
tance of the German army, ami
by turning its position on the east
bank of the Meuse compelled i's
withdraws.!;" and a letter of Ne
■mher 11th 1918, from the Chief
her g,, t|«tay ue cwlfmed 'tu her hon e six undoubtedly 1I<- "Uiiiversity City" of Staff, 1st Arn.y, A. E. F t
- i
at thai place
week
bi le to received some
from tihvm.
gooi advej tisinv
*/-■' -t
• TO
BUY
from u5
iW'
.ifay and Saturday
ArrtRNOON ANDTMGHT--CONTINUOUS VROM 2 p. m. lip m.
AA'ILLIAJir FOX'PRESENTSlyVEKVONK'S FAVORITE
THED.A H.dRA
IN POWERFUL STORl ; EN'l HRA1 .LINOLY.UNFOLDED—THE
MOST WONDERFUL W ORK C>F THE FAVORITE ALEXANDER
DUMAS——
"Z>be Clem&nceau Case"
A THEDA BARA SiUPER->RODUCTION THAT THRASHES SO-
CIETY WITH A LIVING V/HIP. "THE BEST SCREEN DRAMA
EVER SEEN" A WONDERFUL STORY OP THROBBING EMO-
TION THAT PULLS RELENTLESSLY.
ALSO BEAUTIFUL AND DARING
LEAH BA1RD i a New Episode of the Serial oi Ianunerable
Thiills
"WOLVES OF KULTUR"
As Startling and Vivid as a Fiash of Lightning
in a Midnight Sky.
Coming Monday-Tuesday
Alma Rubens in a big 5-act Drama ' The
Ghost Flower." Also a big Keystone
Comedy "A Poor Fish" with Ed Brady.
Also Mutt and Jeff in "The Side Show^
with that Wair raising serial "Iron Test"
$
Also SUNSHINE COMEDY—Greatest Fun
Film Made—"DAMAGED NO GOODS
Fast and Full of Furious
Actien.
-. •'.vv.v.--. ■-.-
Coming Wednesday-Thurs.
Peggy Hyland in a 5-Act Drama 'Bon-
nie Annie Laurie." You will like this.
Also Fatty Arbuckle in his latest "The
Sheriff"—two reels of fun fever. Also
that Phantom Rider in "Hands Up."
Coming Friday-Saturday
Wm. S. Hart in a 6-reeler. Full of tfcrills
and chills. "The Devil's Double." Also
a big Sunshine comedy "Shadows of
Her Past." These are the costliest on the
market. Also that new serial "Wolves
the Commanding General 3rd
Army Cortos, A. E.. wherein hi
writes: "The Armj Commader ha
•noticed with great pleasure and
appreciation the work of your
' 'orps in crossing the Meus; rver
and rlearim the heights east of
the town of Dun-snr-IVleuse • He
appreciates fully the difficultie
ir.volved in this 7iroblem and
therefore realizes that the results
attained reflect great credit on
yoir Corps and the divisions in-
cluded therein"
2. The Fifth Division alone
fort. d the crossirg and established
the Bridgehead. It was aft«r-
warfis joined for s few days by
a regiment of the 32nd Division.
| For two days and nights the Di- )
vision held a front of twenty kilo- '
meters against the enemy oh its
front and boKh flank*. Not con-
tent with this, it went out of its
sactor oio the north and took the
town of Jdeuzay and turned it over
to the 90th Division On the south
it went oat of it sector and took
Viletnes, enabling the French
Division on its right to cross the
river.
3. In the thirty days proceed-
ing the armistice, this division was
seriously engaged under shell,
rifle and machine gun fire for
twenty-seven days In the past
tw0 weeks, no day has passed that f NO MOR-E AT ANY TIME
some town, wood or hill has not
been wrested from the enemy. In
succession th following were cap-
tured: Bois-des-Rappes, Dun-sur-
Meuse, Liny. Aingreville, Bois-de
Baiemont, ('lery-le-Grand, Clery
le-Petit, Brieulles, Douleon, range
of hills east of the Meuse, forming
the bridgehead, \*tlesnes, Milly.
Lion. Murvaax, Fontaines, C'l .
teau Charmeis, Meuzay, Brande
ville, Foret-l«-Vo«rve, JameU,
Romeivifle. Louppy. A penetration
I of tw«nty-one kilometers into the
enemy's line wi made, wresting
from him one hundred and ninety
square kilometers of territory,
and on the announcement of the
armistice, the Division had a fiiont
of thirteen kilometers, being five
kilometers in advance of troops on
its left and two kilometers beyond
NOW
IT PAY5 TO BUY TRoM VJ AT ALL
BECAUSE WE ALWAYJ JELL GOOD
AND CHARGE YOU JUJP WHAT IT IJ WORTH
WHAT YOl/ WANT IJ A "REGULAR" PLAG€
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BEGIN NOW To MAKE OUR .STORE. YOUR
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E. B. KIMRERUN
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