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THE DAILY TRANSCRIPT
VOL VII. NO. 303.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24. 1920.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
STATE CONVENTION GIVEN TO NORMAN
WIDOW OF ACCIDENT
VICTIM FILES SOU
FOR LARGE DAMAGES
ALLEGES THAT ACCIDENT
WAS CAUSED BY CRIMINAL
NEGLIGENCE.
Suit was tiled ir the C.evcU.nl
county district court yesterday by;
Anna B. Robertson, widow of John
E. Robertson, Oklahoma Railway
company motorman who was killed
on December 23 when the interur-
ban freight car which he was driving
collided with a passenger car near the
Wilrnont switch, south of Oklahoma
City, for $25,000 alleged damages.
She alleges in her petition through
Williams and Luttrell, attorneys, that
the death of her husband occurred
through criminal negligence on the
part of employes of the Oklahoma
Railway company.
Robertson was given directions by
the dispatcher to proceed to Wilinot
switch, according to the petition,
where he hwas to pas sthP passeng:1
car. He acted on the«e instructions
and met thP passenger car shortly
before reaching the switch.
"Furthermore,'' the petition al-
leges, ''there was ample time for the
motorman of the passenger car to
bring it to a stop before it struck the
freight car".
Occurred December 23.
Robertson was so bruised and in-
jured that he died .vithin a few hours
after the accident.
The accident occurred on Decern
ber 23, 1919. It resulted in the death
of Robertson and Chester Calvert,
Cleveland county man, an 1 in th,. in-
jury of a number of the occupants of
the passenger car.
Telephone booths are placed at
each switch along the railroad tor
the use of the crews of the cars in
communicating with the dispatcher
to be given right-of-way directions,
and it is supposed that through some
error in directions the two cars were
were given conflicting orders.
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Real estate recorded yesterday
were: Bessie B. Wilson (nee Bessie
Smith i, daughter and heir of J. M.
Smith, deceased, and C. C. Smith
husband to II. J. Cobb, an undivided
one-eighth interest i na part of the
southeast quarter of section 18, town-
ship 7. north, range 1 west, contain
ing fifty acres; consideration $328.12.
Delia A. Bright (nqje Delia A.
Smith), and husband. ('. W. Bright,
to II. J. Cobb, one eighth interest in
a part of the southeast quarter of
section 18, township 7, north, range
1 west; consideration $328.12.
H. J. Cobb and Cora Cobb to B. H.
Rackers, a part of the southwest
quarter of section 18, township 7
north, range 1 west; consideration
$3,000.
J. M. Bell and Rose A. Bell to
Rose A. Bell, lots 12 and 13 in block
1 of Houghtondale addition to Okla-
homa City; consideration $200.
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Mrs. Fird Shader and Mrs. Mc-
Coy spent the day Thursday in Ok-
lahoma City.
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Mrs. Cora Dill was in Oklahom
City Thursday visiting her son.
UNIVERSITY
THEATRE
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
"The White
Heather"
Aspectacular
melodrama by Mau-
rice Tourneur that
will make you
grip your seat.
Also
Harold Lloyd
in
'Haunted Spooks'
His latest two reel
comedy
If you like a good laugh,
don't fail to see this comedy.
Admission 10c and 20c.
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MILLER APPOINTED MANAGER
Chamber of Commerce May D.LONG RETURNS FROM Advertising Manager of
Stage Active Advertising GOLDEN STATE VISIT Daily Transcript Chosen
/""* • /* A T /"* •. • Says Oklahoma is Best State in Un-| rf> WW If A 11 y" . .
Campaign tor New Citizens To Handle All Contracts
BANKER SUGGESTS
PUBLICITY DRIVE
TD BDGST NURMAN
G0SSETT FORCED TO
RETURN TO HOSPITAL
KIDD WOULD SPEND MONEY
TO BRING MORE RESIDENTS
TO LIVE HERE.
A suggestion that the Chamber of
Commerce set *tide a fund for an
advertising campaign for Norman in
the newspapers of the state was mad£
at the weekly luncheon yesterday by
PhH C. Kidd. ip. • I'.'.iit ot the
First N ation il b mk.
During his talk he cited Hie in-
stance ot the bankers' convention
held at Norman February .^5, when,
he said, many of the visiting bankets
were favorably impressed by the ad-
vantages offered by Norman and
were surprised at the excellent ap-
pearance of the city.
it was Mr. Kidd's opinion that
Norman should bes set before the peo-
ple of the state and told of the assets
of tile city in such a way as they
would bP discontent to live else-
where. . |
Is a Home City.
The .suggestion was well received j
but' no action was taken on account'
of the shortage of time.
In planning a campaign of this I
kind, advertising men all over the
country say that some special feature
hould be "played up'' throughout
Says Oklahoma is B**st State in Un
ion; Finds Former Norman Citi-
zens Doing Well and Happy.
Phil II DeLong. well known con-
traci >r, is home from a two months'
vi-.it in California, and says that while
that land of fruit and flowers is all
L. E. Gossett. traffic officer of the right < )kllioma is, after all. the
Norman police force, has been forced best state in the union.
to return to the Sunnyside hospital lie visited Mr. and Mrs. H \\ .
to undergo treatment for an injured Stubbenian at Long Beach and Mr
foot. and Mrs. Fred Carder at Ontario,
Gossett was discharged from the < al . found them well and enjoying
hospital about two weeks ago but life to the utmost.
since that time his foot has grown Mr. and Mrs. Stubbenian are
steadily worse and it is thought that 1 pleasantly located in a lovely hunga-
will be necessary to place it in a low a11«1 Mr. Stubbeman spends his
plaster cast. time fishing, sailing and automobil-
He Iwas injured some time ago , ing.
when his motorcycle skidded on a if They desired to 1«* remembered
sandy spot in the pavement. He was | to all their Cleveland country friends,
taken to the hospital where he re- \
mained for about three weeks.
♦. barley Miller was yesterday ap-
pointed as special officer to take his
place and immmcdiately assumed his
duties.
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NORMAN HIGH SGOREO
248 POINTS SEASON
' Team Made Good Record First Year
in Basketball; Only Two Regulars
Will Be Back in 1921.
DARWIN P. KINGSLEY
the series of advertisement
Norman has this feature. As the
person thinks of Norman the person
should have in mind, "The Univer-
sity City—The Home City," This is
one advantage Norman has over
every city in Oklahoma. For Nor-
man is a home city.
Play this feature up in a series of
advertisements in Oklahoma's news-
papers and the results soon may be
noticed. Traveling men who are away
from home a great deal would be
glad to learn that this is a city
where they may leave their family—
in goyd surroundings, in a good city,
in a city where one may live at the
minimum cost, and in a city which
specializes in homes.
Bureau Offers Opportunity.
If that traveling man learned of
Norman, his family would be moved
to Norman.
An advertising campaign, if pro-
moted properly and by competent
men who understand the advertising
game, would produce wonderful re-
sults for The University City.
The Oklahoma Advertising Bu-
reau, which has been located here,
affords the Chamber of Commerce
a splendid opportunity to have the
copy prepared, papers selected and
the order placed for the advertising.
Should Take Action.
The man in charge of this bureau
was picked from the members of the
Oklahoma Press association, triie
highest recommendation a man could
have.
if the bureau handled this adver-
The season just closed was a suc-
cessful one for the Norman high
school boys' basketball team in the
opinion of the fans who took an
interest in them.
Though not winners in the district!
meet, they made an excellent show-
ing iu all their games.
As this is their first year to com- il
pete in this line of sport, fans be- (
lieve Norman high will turn out a j1
j winner next yea;, basing their opin-
ion on the record made this, the first,
year.
The tea ' played eight games, five
of which were won and three lost,
blanchard, Guthrie and Pawnee each
took a name from the locals. Points
scored by Norman were 248. while
their opponents gathered 120. Dave
Price was responsible- for 14() of the
local points, with Ed Johnson, Snap,
and McCall running close for second
honors.
Clifford Bowles, Lawrence Snapp,
Captain Rutherford and Ed Johnson
are in their senior year and will be
gone next year. The regulars re-
maining are Dave Price and Bob Mc-
Call. center and forward, respectively
All the players did goodwork, es-
pecially that of Price being compli-
mented everywhere. The boys did
much to advertise the city of Norman
and brought some good, wholesome
entertainment to Tlje University
City.
Letters Must Bear
Writer's Signature
Before Puiblcation
The Transcript is published for the
people of Norman and Cleveland
county and it is an open forum for
these people. Letters written by-
Transcript readers for publication
usually are printed.
Many are not. Many anonymous
letters are sent in which the editor
positively will not print. The first
requisite of a letter to be published
is that it be signed by the writer.
W hether the name bP printed vvith th
letter or not, it must be signed be-
fore the editor will consider publi-
cation.
Subscribers sending in letters
should bear this in mind.
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HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS
DEFEAT UNIVERSITY
Nab Fourth Game of Series Bv Score
of 22-10; Best Girl's Game in Years
Did Good Work.
WILL 00 WORK IN
ADDITION PRESENT
DUTIES FOR WHILE
FIRST YEAR'S BUSINESS EX-
PECTED TO EXCEED $7S,000,
MILLER SAYS TODAY.
The appointment of Tucker E.
Miller to the office of manager of
the Oklahoma Advertising Bureau
was confirmed yesterday by the
Oklahoma Press association executive
board. Miller will resume his duties
at once.
Through this office all foreign and
state advertising ot* every newspaper
in Oklahoma will be handled by
Miller. Though this is the first year
for the bureau .Miller expect
least a business of $75,00(1.
Many advertising men of this
tion of the country had applied for
the job, J. L. Newland of the Fred
erick Leader said, but Miller was se
lected for his intelligent and exten-
sive knowledge of newspaper adver-
tising. Miller was selected from the
■ [entire field of Oklahoma advertising
After losing three games to the men.
university girls' basketball team. Nor I Through the bureau, which will be
man high turned the tables last night operated lor the next few months in
and smothered them under a 22 to addition to lus work on the Tran-
10 score, in the fourth game played script, Miller expects to land much
at the old university gymnasium. I foreign advertising for state papers.
Fans who saw the first games of | Several advertising campaigns have
tising, the success of the campaign
would be assured.
The Chamber of Commerce should
raise a fund for this purpose. Nor
man has the qualities to back up the
advertising. She should advertise and
let the people of Oklahoma and sur-
rounding states know of th,. possi-
bilities of The University City as a
home city.
Darwin P. Kingeley of New York,
president of a big life insurance com-
pany, is being boomed for the Repub-
lican presidential nomination on the
ground that a business man is needed
at the head of the government
MRS. G .H. SMITH
Miss Lula Loutzeuhiser was born
i rat Damille. 111 . on December 10,
; lfOO, and died at Oklahoma City on
. March 24. 1920, aged 29 years, four
m >nths and fourteen days.
She joined the First Christian
Udhurch at Danville in her early days
I and was a member at the time of
1 her- death. Her father was Sunday
1 ttohool superintendent for years.
| She received her V B. degree from
the University of Illinois in 1913 and
, taught school at Flora, 111., and Ash
' land, Wis. She was a member of
the Alpha chapter of Kappa Delta
Pi fraternity at Illinois university
'.anii also was elected to the chapter
! in Oklahoma. She was patroness
Madame Borgny Hammer
Wit li Rolf Hammer
and company of talented Players
in the wonderful f
Ibsen Plays
The
Master
Builder
Friday
March 26
at 3:00 p.m.
Hedda
Gab let-
Friday* k
March 26
at 8:00 I
University Auditorium
Probably the greatest dramatic event (hat
ever came to Norman. Your patronage will
encourage the University in bringing such
artists to your city.. Help to get the best.
Single tickets $ 1.50
Season (both plays) - - - 2.50
On sale Treasurer and Office Dean,
JSchool of Fine Art. / .
of -the Pi Zeta Kappa, religious so-
ority recently organized here.
On July 31, 1918, she was married
to Prof. C,. li. Smith and came to
Norman in Ocotber, 1919, She has
made many friends here during her
brief residence, all of whom will
miss her in the days to come.
Mrs. Smith is survived by her hus-
band, two brothers, Ernest H. and
David A., and many relatives.
A brief service was held at the
home at 1021 Monnett avenue this
afternoon by Rev. W. L. Broome.
The funeral will be held at the First
Chrirstian church of Danville Sun-
day, conducted by Rev. S. E. Fisher,
who was her pastor for many years,
land who performed her marriage
ceremony.
i A cousin, Miss Vera Fisher, came
to Norman today from McMann and
will accompany Mr. Smith with the
body to Danville, 111.
April Ninth
FAMOUS NORWEGIAN
ACTRESS IS COMING
Prevents Two of Ibsen's Plays Here
Tomorrow at University Audito
rium Under Auspices Fine Arts
Department.
Madame Borgny Hammer, a dis-
tinguished Norwegian actress, for-
merly connected with the Bergen an«l
Christiana National tl/'atres, will
make her appearance in Norman at
the University Auditorium, in Eng
lish productions of Henrik Ibsen's
Hedda Gabler and the Master Build
er.
Madame Hammer is particularly |
noted for her jjreat dramatic power,
her keen intelligence, and her com j
pell ing personality. ^o great are I
these assets that foreign critics have |
compared her acting with that of |
Bernhardt and the famous Italian
actress, F.leanora Duse, while the
American critics have unhesitating I >
ranked her work with the best work
of Mrs. Fiskc and Nazimova.
Madame Hammer has just comple
ted a very successful tour, and she
will appear in onP of the New York
theatres early in the fall. Prior to
this opening, she will make another
tour, playing almost exclusively un-
the season between these tw
have predicted such a victor\ as they
scored last night.
Miss Ima James, coach of the uni-
I versity girls, recently said that she
would put the Norman 1 igh girls
up against any girls' team in the
state. loach Abbott did not learn
I of the tournament at Edmond in
time to enter his proteges in the
state meet
i The game last night was one ot
| the best girls' games ever played
| a Norman court. Strong offen-
, sive work of the high school tor
j wards, and impenetrable defense oi
j the guards featured the play.
The high school lineup Is as fol
lows: Forwards, Dorothy McCall and
Sybil Webb; centers, Lydia Ilaig and
Lcta Martin, and guards, Maud
Kitchen and Pauline SloVer.
Nadine Ferguson substituted.
April Ninth
WILL GIVE PIE SUPPER
A pie supper will be given at the
Falls schoolhouse, seven miles east
of Norman, Friday, March 26. hvery-
body come. A program will also be
rendered.
April Ninth —
Mi>s Fredricka Fitch a geology
student, attended the meetings of
the American Association of Petro-
leum (ieologists at Dallas last week-
end She spent a few days with Miss
Linda Green, who is an Oklahoma
graduate in geology, now with the
Roxana people at Mineral Wells,
Texas before returning Wednesday
to Norman.
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Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Slaton and
children of Granite, Okla., are guest-
of Mrs. Slaton's parents, Mr. and
Mr-. T. W. Baker at 229 West Syni
mes street.
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Mrs. Glenn Clark and daught« :
Betty Lou, of Ponca City are visit
ing Mrs.. Clark's sister^ Mrs. Walter
Berry an dMr. Berry at 515 North
Porter street.
Rotary Minstrel—
Miss Isabel DeBarr went to the
cityy Thursday morning.
been turned over to Miller to carry
out and place to the state papers.
In the appointment of Mr. Miller
to this office, Norman gains another
recognition for merit. The fact that
he is considered the best man in the
state, irrespective of importance of
papers others work for, is the highest
honor that could be paid an adver-
tising man.
The additional fact that Oklahoma
newspapers have confidence in tom to
turn over their foreign advertising
contracts, which will soon amount to
SRANNON WINS OVER
CAPITAL AND CITIES
OF EASTERN STATE
FOURTEEN DELEGATES AT-
TEND CLAREMORE MEETING
FROM CLEVELAND.
Norman was selected today by the
executive committee of the Oklahoma
Sunday School association as the
convention city for next year, ac
•ording to a phone message received
from C. \Y..'Shannon, Inember of
the board.
Fourteen delegates from Cleveland
"iinty are present at the convention,
which met at Claremore beginning
Tuesday. The convention closes to-
lay and the Cleveland county peo-
ple will return to their homes tomor-
row.
I)r. A F. Bonnell of Muskogee
w.is elected president of the asso-
ciation at the election held this morn,
ing. Numerous Oklahoma City men
il vtere elected to office.
Had Hard Fight.
The contest for the selection for
tin meeting place for next year was
strongly fought for by 'Muskogee,
t ulsa, Oklahoma City and Norman,
the latter winning out in the final
vote.
Two or three thousand visitors
will meet iu Norman next spring as
the result of this selection. It is
tin first state convention ever to he
held in Norman, it is said.
Those who Have attended these
conventions are authority for the
statement that it will equal the in -
terscholastic track and literary meet
in volume of visitors.
C. W. Shannon is responsible for
bringing the convention to Norman.
I-tanked by fourteen loyal delegates.
Shannon fought every inch of the
w. > in an ertoit to show tlie many
reasons why the convention should
come to Norman.
April Ninth
NEW CASES FILED
Cases filed in district court yester-
day were: V Ludeman vs. E. Hal-
bert, et al. for recovery of $2,500 ou.
note: and Henry Meyer vs. the com-
missioners of the county of Cleve-
land, state of Oklahoma, in a suit to
quiet titlP to a tract of land.
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Miss Florence Furtnan returned
from Shrevesport, La., where she has
been spending the past two weeks
with relatives.
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I hp «'ast side Patron's club will
meet Friday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock
at the Jefferson school and will d is -
topic: "Carelessness iu
der the auspices of the large schools
and colleges of the country. It is for
tins reason that the people of Nor
man will ha\> the very rare oppor
tunity of -eeing this distinguished
actre.ss and hjbr talented company
in two of the plays of th egreatest
dramatist of modern times.
Matine,. and night tomorrom.
a figure of $150,000 to $200,000
year, show that they made a careful I euss the
investigation before filling the posi- Children.
tion. Rotary Minstrel
Miller now is engaged in prepar-l \fr> a„d Mrs. Fletcher Riley of
ing data in regard to the papers |,awiton are visiting Mrs. Riley's
lor which he is acting advertis- Mother, Mrs. T. S. Duffy,
ing manager and will get in touch .. .r . ,
with foreign advertisers immediately.1 —Rotary Mmtlrfl
He will remain with the Transcript Mrs. O. B. Bingham of Dromright
in the capacity of advertising man- is visiting hr mother, Mrs. Marv C.
ager until September, when the duties Brown
of his office will be so great as to
compel his resignation, he said to-
day.
"I have been approached by numer-
ous members of the Oklahoma Press
association for some tune to accept
this office, but not until recently
have I recognized the magnitude of
the work and considered accepting
the place." Miller said this morning.
Miller has studied the advertising
game for several years and is now
reaping the benefits of his years of
work preparing himself for this line
of work.
April Ninth—
Misses Louise McCoinb and Mar-
ia Stapleton were Oklahoma City
visitors Thursday.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Pierson were
in the city today attending the auto-
mobile show.
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Rev. and Mrs. T. H. Aszman spent
the day Thursday in the city.
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R. L. Klein attended the automo-
bije show in the city Thursday.
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B. B. Boylan was an Oklahoma
City visitor Thursday.
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Guy Taylor was a ciay visitor
Thursday afternoon.
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Henry Johnson was in the city on
business Thursday.
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Miss Olga Meyers of Bristow, is
the guest of Rev. and Mrs. W. L.
Broome.
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John Lindsay attended to some
business matters in the City Thur-
day.
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Mrs. S. W. Hogan went to Yukon
Thursday morning to visit her broth
Your Fire insurance
You must, be thoroughly
protected to be safe. If your
fire insurance is insufficent
you are following a poor
business plan.
Let us give you rates and
make an estimate on how
much you should carry. The
companies we represent are
thoroughly reliable.
You canaot be without
this protection against loss
by fire. Let us write your
policy.
Let us show you Pickard Acres.
; West
SMITH BROTHERS
Door Odd Fellows
Phone 280
Bldg.
Adults
20c
Liberty Theatre Ki^e*
FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
J. Warren Kerrigan
in
"A Man's Man"
Nine hundred Mexicans, a cock fight, and wond-
erful battle scenes, are just part of what you will see
in this picture.
A Mach Sennett Comedv
"HAYSTACKS and
STEEPLES"
With Gloria Swanson and
Robbie Vernon.
A New Chapter of
"THE TRAIL OF
THE OCTOPUS"
With gen Wilson and Neva
Gerder.
Coming Monday and Tuesday—"A Qamble in Souls,"
a Fine Arts production. Gale Henry in "A Poor Fish."
Also a new chapter of the ack Dempsey serial.
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