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VOL. XII NO. 267.
DAILY TRANSCRIPT
PRICE FIVE CENTS
NORMAN," OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12. 1920
Henryetta Chamber of Commerce
Uses Publicity in Solution of
Shortage of Housing Facilities
Future Development of City Depends Upon Hav-
ing Houses For New Families Attracted to
Their City.
BIG DELEGATION
The other towns and cities in the
confronted with the problem of
more houses are taking active
steps to supply the demand. At Hen-
ryetta the chamber of commerce is
actively at work in an effort to make
room for industrial plants.
As indicating the vigor and energy
with which Henryetta is going after
the matter a news dispatch from that
town says:
'The locating of two new indus-
trial plants with an aggregate force of
600 workmen, about 80 per ccnt of
whom are high-salaried skilled men,
has again emphasized immediate or
ganization of a building era in Hen-
ryetta in order to supply homes for
these incoming workmen. While
there never was a supply to equal
the demand, the situation has reach-
ed the point where homes must be
built or Henryetta will not only lose
these proposed plants by reason of
being unable to house their families
but also will lose some of those who
are now living in cramped quarters
through force of circumstances.
Chamber of Commerce Working.
"Realizing these conditions the
chamber of commerce is throwing its
full force behind a concerted home-
building campaign. A committee was
appointed to see to the organization
of one or more building and loan as-
sociations which resulted in one as-
sociation now arranging for the im-
mediate erection of thirty foru and
five-room modern houses while an-
other organization proposes to erect
a number of six-room houses.
"In addition to these building as
sociations, a call has been made up-
on the private individual who will
build for sale or rent, and after urg-
ing upon them the dire necessity of
more houses, requests that reports
be made to the chamber of commerce
to the end that material committee
will be appointed to obtain blanket
prices upon the complete supply of
all building materials entering into
the erection of a given number ot
houses, in this way dbtairting all the
accessories possibly on the lump or-
der for material.
Wage Publicity Campaign.
"Copy for the local papers is be-
ing prepared, and a vigorous cam*
paign of publicity will be waged that
a general era of house building will
be begun
TO GO TO STATE
MEET PONCA CITY
Eighty university democrats prob-
ably will attend the meeting of state
democratic clubs at Ponca City,
February 21, is the opinion of party
followers who attended the meeting
Tuesday.
The local club will be entitled to
votes at the convention, on the basis
of one vote to every ten democrats
Forty to fifty votes will be appor
tioned to the local delegation, it is
thought.
The delegation from the university
was instructed to vote for E. J
Meacham, the only university alum
nus who has announced for president
of the state club.
A fourth of those who attended the
meeting were women. J. S. Ross,
and Oklahoma City attorney, and
several other persons will be on the
program at the meeting of the Cleve-
land County Democratic club
night.
GILES GOES IN DITCH
FOLLOWING HIS FORD
Takes Fo'Tteen Foot Embankment
Between Amber and Chickasha
Tuesday Night.
While driving between Amber and
Chickasha Tuesday night in a rord
roadster, L. C. Giles went over a
fourteen-foot embankment, but escap-
ed without injury, and his ^ord' "
soon as he got it back on the road,
ran along just like a Waterbury
watch, never missing a lick. _
He says it was about 10:30 o clock,
as dark as a stack of black cats and
raining to beat the band. The em-
bankment was recently constructed
and was soft, and when the Ford
went over it hung in the soft dirt
about half way-but threw Carl over
the windshield clear to the bottom.
He picked himself up and got a
neighboring farmer with a block and
"M~J Everly was made chairman | tackle and a team and after a
of the committee to register all in- 0r two of maneuvering got the flivve
dividuals who will build for their back on the road. ,nnthpr one
own occupancy, each to present blue Carl says it was Just ano'h
prints state size of building, mater- Gf those experiences which the mo
fal and cost, and contractor's name. 0rist must expect, hut just about a
I?1 ,anV° A'..* obtained im- , call as he ever had and is not
OPEN PLAY WILL
FEATURE SOONER
BASKETBALL TEAM
Feb. 12, 1809 ABRAHAM LINCOLN April 15, 1865
"He belongs to the ages; not merely to America, nor to a period, but to the world/'
This is the terse eulogy bestowed upon Abraham '"irea| g^ndpator
character „ Lit,coin, together w* how he hit up-
on the idea of writing a play around him.
-To me he h. tom been .ne oj ,h=
water, "as well as the guiding and con \ g heroes it must inevitably have been
If Carlyle had written thathe was the apotheosis. He stood for the complex
on Lincoln, the great public o < . ^ ubertv but the marvel and miracle of the man
warlh^L neveHost" ouch with, nor thought of, the individuals that form the mas,
Describing the vision of Lincoln as he incorporated it in his play, Mr. Dnnkwate.
continued:
For the first time
oner hi
BOARD PURCHASES
IANDT ADDITION
SITE FOR SCHOOL
tory, Oklahoma university has a regu-
lation home basketball court. 1 he
new armory floor is eignty-four ieet
long and fifty feet wide.
The old gym., floor would oh
the new floor it laid cro- f. .t-
is was but fifty feet by thirty tool
The old floor invited bunched play-
ing, tending toward a football for-
mation. Open playing and better
amwork will be the result ot the
new court which does not at all re-
semble a "bull-pen," as Bennie Owen
described the old one.
A better style of basketball will be
the rule, anil the football team will
not play basketball after Christmas,
as ha* usually been the case.
WILL DECIDE COUNTRY
CLOB PLANS TONIGHT
Faculty Members Will Be Charter
Members; Two Lakes Stocked
With Fish Already.
SOUTHWEST NORMAN TO GET
WAKD BUILDING; TIME 01'
ERECTION NOT KNOWN.
The Bond of Education of the
Norman school district has purchas-
I'd a tract of land in the Landt ad-
dition for a site for a new ward build-
" n is located in the first block of
the addition, at Lahoma anil l.ruce
about two blocks west of
the" Ji. B. Johnson home, f.s duncn-
siuiii arj ItSUxiOO feet and the Con-
sideration is given at SAaUU
It ,S .M'ected that when the board
,cts ready to build, or very soon
thereafter the site will be in the cen-
ter of a thickly populated part of
the city, for that part of tli: city is
building UP rapidly. Aa any rate, it
| ' , ' iiie only centrally-located uact
I ti,at could lie secured at anything
[ like the figure the board was able
i'° Another site is being considered for
I ti,,, southeast part ot town and it s
probable one will be secured in the
■•I saw him following his vision wZwith sup^,
I saw him accepting his great mission h"™b^ a ^-impressing himself on circumstance
atssfsst
ognized the gantry of(hisgoh^Ahe way of dominion with a pitiful high
SC are the things I SiVd to put i*S 'Abraham Lincoln-
Eight signatures were obtained im
mediately.
"A canvass of the vacant building
lots will be made and the owners
urged to join in the general building
movement, warning them that unless
the city can take care of the large
number of families consequent upon
locating these new industries, Henry-
etta industrial opportunity will re-
ceive a heavy setback, if it d°es not
lose altogether the work of the cham-
ber of commerce."
JUNIORS-SOPHS TONIGHT
The juniors and sophomores meet
tonight in the inter-class basketball
series, at the gym on East nn.
Both boys and girls will play, the
orist must , . ,
close a call as he ever had and is not
anxious to have any closer one.
FAXON
BUY
CITIZEN WILL
FARM AND HOWIE
Secretary C. W. Kuwitzky of the
Chamber of Commerce is in receipt
of a letter from Ben B. Breret°n
Faxon, asking the names of real
estate men, newspapers, etc., statu g
that he desires to move here.
Brerton will buy a home in the city
and also will purchase a farm near
the city. Brereton is a prominent
diizen of the western state town and
will come to "The ty City
for its educational facilities.
He has all the information desired,
Both boys and girls will play, the chi^S this week by Kuwitzky.
first game to be called at 7:30 o clock, sent him m
Blanchard Widower
Gets Two Years for
Defrauding Widow
PURCELL, Feb. 12.—J. H- Corley
has again leaped into the IimeliKht
Yesterday he got on the Associated
Press wires and the story of his
sentence was printed in all state pa-
^Corley came into prominence some
months ago when he was arrCJ^
for defrauding Mrs. Eva Marcum,
a petite little widow of near \\ asti-
ington, out of $2,000, which she had
realized from the sale of her prop-
erty and which he obtained by tell-
ing her he would go to Oklahoma
City, buy a rooming house, ionic
back and marry her and they w^ould
make the rooming house their busi
""corley got the money but the
charges allege that he never got the
hotel. Neither did he come bilckt°
claim his bride. He was arrested
but comprotnised by paying he^
sum down and agreeing to pay the
balance in monthly payments.
He left and the payments never
showed up. Mrs. Marcum, by this
time developing something of a dis-
like to the widower of Blanchard
community, set the officers after
him. He was brought back to I ur-
cell and has been in jail awaiting
U'He was sentenced yesterday to
two years in the penitentiary and
gave notice that he would appea..
CHURCH"CENSUS TC Rides Broncho in
' BE TAKEN SUNDAY %Y;^en.
The Liberty Theatre
TODAY and THURSDAY
Lured by the Glamour of Bohemia
William Fox, Presents
Teams Have Been Appointed and
Work Completed in Two Hours;
Be At Home.
The churches of Norman, under
the direction of the Ministerial alli-
ance, will take the church census of
Norman Sunday afternoon.
A number of teams have been ap-
pointed by the pastors and streets
will be assigned to each team to be
worked. These teams will meet at
. i old, roue to ixcw
back with his younger brother iem-
ple to greet Roosevelt when the lat-
ter returned from his hunting trip
the Presbyterian church Sunday 11 Oklahoma and son of "Jack' Aber-
afternoon at 2 o'clock to begin work. «uthy, former U. S. marshal and fam-
The work is expected to be finish-1 ons as a catcher of wolves with his
ed in two hours, from 2 to 4 o'clock. I |)are hands.
The ministers request that all be at; Young Abernathy, w'u e ten years
home between those hours, or have ro<Je (<) New York on horse
someone there to answer the que9- . ... Tpm
tions.
The following information is want reiurneu .«u ... ~
ed: (1) Name, (2) Are you a m south Africa. Lat^ th* two made
member of a church? (3) What tjlc sanle trip by motorcycle,
church? (4) It not a member of a; The boys had met Roosevelt prior
church, what is your denominational i t0 that when he visited their father,
prefercent? (5) Is your church I Rough Ri(ler> jn Oklahoma,
membership here or somewhere else. ] ater the Abernathy boys made
Your co-operation in this matter is tjic trjp from New York to ban rran-
verv necessary if it is done correctly,] cjs(:o on horseback in ^ Mx y:Vl°.
W L Broome, secretary of the Mm- jays, a record at that time. Afte
isterial alliance, stated this morning. his discharge ^m r™y,erv,«
You are expected to be at home or came to Norn* „'\ud*t wichUa
have someone there from 2 to 4 ple is in high school _ at Wlcnita
o'clock Sunday afternoon and your Falls where his father is no
help will be appreciated, he added. oil business.
Those who are at the head of the
project to establish a country club
near Norman to be enjoyed by the
tired business man ami hi- folks are
much pleased with the encourage-
ment they have received since it \\.i^
first talked of, and feel sure they will
succeed in putting it across
A large number of the leading bu 1
ness men of the city a;i'l vicinit\ an
getting interested and oxpre- ed a
willingness t<> take stock in it. ov
eral being willing to take a number
of shares.
The Ambrister farm is regarded .v
an ideal place for it. the two lakes
already upon that tract of land mak-
ing it doubly attractive and suitable,
and its proximity to the city is an-
other worth-while recommei
The land lies pretty and has build
ing sites for the main edifice and the
in dividual cottager that would make
them very pleasing and sightly.
A meeting ot" those interested 6r
who desire to become interested is
to be held at the city hal tonight at
8 o'clock at which time the matter
will be discussed and the plan ex-
plained in all its features.
"Come out," say tnosc at the head
of the enterprise, and hear our ideas
and give us yours. Don't show your
interest by staying at home with the
wife and children, but come, to the
meeting and help us put the project
on its feet. There will be full and
bettor proposition offer than tli
that has been proposed it will be giv-
en earnest consideration.'
Remember the time and place
tonight, at the city hall, at ii o'clock.
Jf you ridden to New York from
Oklahoma on both a broncho and a
motorcycle, had paraded down Broad-
way with the late Theodore Roose-
velt, had been his guest at Sagamore
Hill, and later had been an army avia-
tor, studying law might seem rather ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
dull. free discussion and if anyone ha
That is the present occupation of!, „f(„r ihm the
Louis Abernathy, of Witchita tails.
Texas, a student in the'University of
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Tate of Qkla
homa City were 12 o'clock dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Am
brister today.
lassen-Miller addition. This one has
not as yet been fully determined
U1>°tn' is a certainty that new .vard
buildings will be an absolute necess-
11V within avery short time, for ev
,.,'y school room in the present build-
\„L is crowded to capacity, and the
school population is steadily mcreas-
The board has demonstrated
Kood judgment ill cinching the sites
at this time, even if they, are not
Vnle to build at present, for it is cer-
Z suitable sites for such a purpose
'"ould soon be gone and obtainable
onlv It greatly increased figures.
Th, board has not yet got it fig-
ured out where and how they are
-To get the money to erect new
buildings, but it will have to come
me cny is | somehow. Those two ward buildings
ecommeiulati- >,. absolutely necessary, and a ne
• ' l I school building is likewise a
necessity in the very near future.
SCOTT WILL DELIVER
ADDRESS SUNDAY NIGHT
A most unique service will be con-
ducted at the Presbyherian church
Sunday evening. It is called
Demobilization of the Service Flag.
Dr \ C Scott, head of the bureau
of lectureship of tl.c University of
Oklahoma, will deliver the address
for the occasion. Other features wi
lie the singing of the old war songs
by the Sooner quartet and the sound-
ing of retreat as it is done in the
'"Tl'iss Bragg will sing "When the
Bovs Come Home' by Speaks. I his
service will be of especial interest
to ex-service men.
Dr Scott is considered the leading
orator of this part of the country
and it should be a privilege for Nor-
man people to hear him. __
Onion Sets
Should be bought at once
jobbers only delivered 50 per cent of their
ns a shortage of sets when the planting
Th
s. Thi
son comes.
Order your red or ye
ow Onion sets here—now.
Whitwell Grocery Co.
211 East Main Phon-
Peggy Hyland
In a gripping story of the
charms and perils of unconven-
tional life in large city in
"A GIRL IN
BOHEMIA"
The big New York stage suc-
cess by H. B. Parrish
Another of Peggy Hyland's
scintillating success, which
throws some sidelights on the
"Bohemia" of long haired men
and short haired women.
TWO BIG COMEDYS TODAY
A Bulls Eye Comedy
"Her Nitro Night"
With Billy West
A Poppy Comedy
'All Wrong Ambrose'
With Mack Swain
A New Chapter of Pathe Serial De-luxe
"THE BLACK SECRET"
With Pearl White in that famous story .written by Robert
Chambers, "The Secret."
Tom
Coming Friday and Saturday-William Fox presents.
Mix, the man that never fakes in THE SPEED M
MRS. ROBERT LESSLY
DIED AT HER HOWIE
Mrs Robert I-essley, one of the
best known and most highly esteem-
ed ladies of the Clothier neighbor-
hood. died at her heme Monday.
February 9, about 9 o clock, aged
some 31 years. She leaves a Un-
hand and three children and many
warm friends to mourn her demise.
Mrs. Lesslcy was formerly Miss
Freda Fchrle. a daughter of Mr and
Mrs. Fred Fehrle, old residents oi
Cleveland county, and prior to her j
marriage to Mr. Lessley was one o
the county's best known school
teachers. •
She was a consistent Chr ..i.J
lady, member of the Church o> t .ui-t
of Norman, and the funeral w i r.
ducted at the home Tuesday b> Kej,-
I. L. Winterodd. pastor of the cniirch
with burial in I. O. O. I;, come '
a large concurse of friends a
neighbors attending to '• '
esteem for the deceased lad> and
sympathy for the bereaved.
Her death was caused by ■> at
tack of the influenza.
[FALSE ALARM TURNED
IN FOR M'CALLSTORE
l Pile of trash burning in the alley
behind the McCall store la«t
about 10 o'clock resulted in a tire
alarm calling out the departna ,it.
I The reflection of the flame- 1
| seen by a passerby in front ot 'he
busiding, and immediately sounne
the alarm^
Save Money
We wish to discuss your farm
loan with you now. We take
a pride in our personal serv-
ice, and want to show you the
advantages of our loans.
The service is quick and di-
rect—there is no red tape.
If you will come see us, we
can show you where you can
save a material sum. i
Let's discuss your loan.
UNIVERSITY THEATRE
TODAY
D.W. GRIFFITH'S
THE
greatest question
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A Worthy Ideal
Lincoln once said:-
"I will be prepared and when my op-
portunity comes i will be
ready"
To the Young Men of today this Bank offers its
facilities to help them prepare for the time when their
opportunity arrives.
But you must do your part bv deposit.ni? regu-
larly a portion of your earnings We wiU guard it for
you, pay you interest on it, and then when the time
comes when you need it, you will find it «ady.
Start now preparing for your opportunity,
may tome any day and you ™t* to be ready.
The Farmers National Bcmk
THE BANTC OF PERSONAL SERVISE
"The Brute and the Child"
He driven by an uncontoled impulse—
she by that age—old instinct of feminine
self protection. Neither reason when im-
pulse drives. Why does the Creator put
brutes and children into the same world?
And having placed them so—to struggle
and suffer because of each other—has lie
not placed a greater compensating pow-
it the disposal of suffering human-
? That power is "The Greatest Ques-
er
ity ?
tion
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