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DAILY TRANSCRIPT
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« VOL. VIII. No. 99
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1920
PRICE FIVE CENTS
INTERURBAN RATE S$^iU0L BOARD SUES W. E. ALVEY DROPS
' PROTESTED BY CI1, ,ri TO BE RE INSTATED DEAD AT BRISTOW
HEARING AT CAPITAL
DON'T CARE FDR INCREASE
IF SERVICE IS GIVEN, IS
LOCAL OPINION
Protests will be made on the raise
in interurban passenger rates by
Mayor John W. Barbour, City Attor-
ney John Luttrell and City Manager
W. R. Cater at the hearing to be held
before the corporation commission in
Oklahoma City today, the city mana-
ger said this morning.
"People do not care so much about
the extra nickel. What they want is
service . They would be willing to
meet the increase, if assured that those
rates would secure adequate service,"
he declared.
That everyone will fear the same
crowded condition which has prevailed
so much of the time, is the trouble
with this raise, it was thought. .
Cites Specific Instances
One hundred and eleven people
were counted on a car with the seat-
ing capacity of 56, causing nearly
twenty women to stand throughout
the trip, is just one instance of the pre-
vailing condition. This double capa-
city load was Saturday two weekj ago
after the summer students had left,
it was explained.
During August service is usually
adequate, but as soon as the students
return in greater numbers than ever
before for the opening of the univer-
sity, a trailer on every car will be
required with even the seating ca-
pacity of two trailers at rush hours,
the city manager forecasted.
The proposed raise is approximately
12'/ per cent over present rates; that
is 45 cents from 37J4 cents by round
trip between here and Oklahoma City;
25 cents over 15 cents between here
and Moore, and 7 cents for fares with-
in Oklahoma City limits.
Clark Acted in Official Capacity, Is Body Will Be Brought to Norman
Claim; Officials Allege Misrep- Tonight; Announcement of Fun-
representation in Petition j era! Will Be Made Tomorrow.
Word reached here late this
afternoon bearing the sad news
of the death of W. E. Alvey,
well known in Norman, who drop-
ped dead at noon today while on
the streets at Bristow. Mr. Alvey
is v ell known here, having mar-
ried Mrs. Ora Beavers some time
ago. The body will be brought
to Norman tonight ,and funeral
arrangements and more fitting
words will be published tomorrow.
To reinstate school district 39 in
its integrity as it was before being an-
nexed to the independent school dis- i
irict of Norman city, is the petition
'of S. E. Townley, director, Henry
! Walch, clerk, and Geo. B. Dodd.
j member of the school board, agains
W. R. Clark, county superintendent,
j Clark, acting in official capacity.
| had annexed this district to Norman
i on the petition of district patrons
July 19.
j On grounds 0f misrepresentation in
passing the petition for signatures, >
the board filed suit in district court !
i for mandamus to the superintendent.
COMPANY SUES SCHOOL
BOARD FOR MATERIALS
! A suit for judgment for $432.23 aid
j interest was filed by the Reliance
Price company against the schoo!
I hoard of district 51 and L. E. Bailey,
their head contractor, who is now al-
leged tc be bankrupt, for the final
(payment on building material? pur-
I chased ia.'t year. The action was f:'e'
jin district court last week, recor
| snow.
Th>- total amount of material :>ur-
! chased from this company was $1,080.-
<5 i of v hich $648.60 were paid accord-
I ini* to the petition file.d. It was alleg-
! cd "further the Reliance-Brice com-
pany wculd not have sold the material
' to this contractor if they had not sup-
posed him to be properly bonded as
| provided by law.
Misses Edith Newblock and Ida
j Smith left Sunday for Marietta;
J where they will attend a house party
' given by Miss Ruth Gray.
A Small House at a Bargain
Do you want a nice small home on the
west side at a bargain?
Let us show you this one at once.
Good, new four room house near pavement on
west side, modern. This house has been built only
14 months, on lot 50x140 feet. Can be bought on
easy terms at $1800.
This is a very, nice small place. Or perhaps you
require a larger place, in which case you should call
on us and look over'sqme of the bargains we have in
Norman real estate.
Come in and see us.
McDANIELS & MATTHEWS
Real Estate, Loans and Insurance Phone 23
SELLS OUT SPECIALS
IN FiFiEEN iiiiii uiEo
AFTER STORE OPENS
Fifty-three women of N'orman were
in front of the Meyer and Meyer
furniture store at 7 o'clock when that
establishment opened, to take advan-"
tage of the special Monday morning
offering n aluminum ware, says
Henry Meyer, manager of the store.
The one-hundred pieces of ware
were sold in a very short time after
the store opened, and the manage-
ment sincerely regrets that it was not
able to supply the demand.
Preparations will be made to obtain
an adequate supply of specials for
each Monday morning hereafter, and
he advises the people to watch for
further announcements.
The unequaled values the customers
received in this alumnium ware and
the response to the advertisement
:-;o to show that both the reader of
advertisements and the purchasing
public are benefited by real bargains
and proper publicity.
DRAFT DODGER LIST
IS BEING PREPARED
FOR PUBLICATION
Washington.—The roll of draft de-
serters who failed to respond to the
draft call in the United State during
the war is soon to be posted bv the
war department. It will contain the
name of every American eligible un-
\ der the draft who evaded the call.
There are 173,199 named now on
the list.
The department is taking pains to
avoid having the name on any man
listed on the deserters' roll who does
not deserve to have it there.
The department asks state and local
officials, patriotic societies and other
| similar agencies, including the de-
partment of justice, to co-operate in
the search for the deserters. '
Because of the large expense which
would result if the large fee of $50
for the apprehension of a deserter
wefe maintained, the department tem-
; porarily suspended the payment of
:he fee and asks the public to per-
form the work as a patriotic duty.
Mrs. J. T. Grey of Topeka, Kans..
j is visiting her mother, Mrs. G. Wes-
•ervelt.
INCINERATOR COMPANY
OPENS HEADQUARTERS
OFFICES IN NORMAN
JIM SMITH IS HEAD; BEARS
PROMISE OF BEING BIG
THING IN YEAR.
What promises to bring much more
advertising and prosperity to Norman,
is the location here of the headquart-
er offices in the McDaniel and Mat-
thews suite, of T. M. Smith, who is
getting behind the Wm. McCanse in-
cinerator patents and will soon start
an active campaign to place the equip-
ments in many of the cities of the
state.
The incinerator was designed and
patented b- Wm McCanse. who came
l.cre about t\\ . from Dur-
ant where he ,>erfec d it in the
first stages ai ha I inst; lied one of
fifteen-tons • -nacity Mr Smith
had been associated with him, to a
certain extent in this vrk and ma-
■rially aided 'dm in perfecting it.
Died in Year
McCanse died during the year after
he arrived here, and Dr. T^. A. Turley
was appointed admini trator. In the
sale of effects, all the patents to the
incinerator were purehast d by Smith.
Three plants are now in operation
in the state—:" ' rdmo^". Durant and
Okmulgee. These machines are giv-
ing utmost satisfaction and Mr. Smith
now is compiling figures for the in-
stallation of additional units at Ard-
more and Okmulgee, where the olants
are being overtaxed daily, but still
are holding up.
He has received encouragement
from the city governments of Okla-
homa City and Tulsa, and probably
will install in those cities in the next
year.
Is Enthusiastic
City garbage, trash, dead animals
and the like are totally destroyed by
these plants. Everything the city us-
ually hauls to the dump grounds is
hauled to the incinerator and des-
troyed. At Durant the garbage runs
through the septic tank, the solid
trash then going into the incinerator
proper and the liquid runs into a tank
where it is electrified and then run
into the river there.
Mr. Smith is very enthusiastic over
the prospects of his new promotion,
and the Transcript believes that the
proposition has every merit of suc-
cess. This city should be proud of
the opportunity Mir. Smith has, and of
the fact that he is making Norman his
headquarters.
MISS BELL TAKES ON
VACATION, NEWBLOCK
GIRL IS ON SOCIETY
Swank Agreed to Marry
It Elected to Office;
Remember the Promise
By Tom Phillips
When Judge 1'. 11. Swank, demo-
dratic nominee for congressman from
the fifth district, was touring Cleve-
land, McClain, Garvin and Murray
counties in 1914, seeking the office of
district judge of the Fourteenth Judi-
cial district, he stated in his speches
that his opponent offered only one
reason why he < Swank) should not be
elected to the position, That was that
he was not married.
From the speakers' platform he de-
clared that he would overcome this ob- j
jection and promised to get married j
if the voters 'of tin: Fourteenth Ju- j
dicial district would select him to oc-
cupy the district judge's chair, lie
won the race by a large majority—
and he jetnembt red the promi
Soon after the election in 1914, (
Judge Swank was married to Miss Ada j
Blake, a teacher in the primary de-
partment of the Norman public
schools of Iowa and Kansas; several
months "instruction under the supervi-
sion of Professor Dixon, a mathe-
matician, who conducted private
schools in the Ol ' ihoma and Indian
territories in the lineties;" a winter
term in the Noble icademy, a school
abolished several years before state-
hood; one year in Georgetown uni-
versity, Washington. 1J C two sum-
mer terms at the University of Ok-
lahoma and one year in the Cumber-
land law school, Lebanon, Tenn.
Swank lived in a dug-out while en-
rolled in the Noble acad my and in
Professor Dixon's private school. He
cooked his own meals and was his
own housekeeper. He "batched" du-
ring the time he attended the summer
sessions at the ^tatc university.
Was Section Hand.
Work with a railroad section gang
once attracted the Norman judge. Af-
schools. One son, Fletcher Swank, jr., ' u'.r ,,is c,rop had been laid by, Swank
was born to th
-Mrs. Swank is a daughter of M. E.
Blake, former merchant of Norman,
who died several years ago.
Born in Iowa
Judge Swank was born
county, near Bloomficld, la.,
1875. With his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Wallacc Swank, now residents of
union lour years ago.
in Davis
\pril 24.
with a fri nd. W. S. De< iraffenfield,
of Edmond, left the Indian territory
for a tour to different towns in east-
. n Oklahoma. They rode horseback.
The journey ended in Coffeyville,
Kan., where the travelers discovered
that their finances were exhausted.
h men secured jobs with an Iron
M untain section gang. The com-
Norman, lie moved to Osborne coun- i Pal,Y owt's lhe mfe" f°r tW° ,d V?
ty, Kan., in 1885 and remained ii Jay- ! w°rk "r a aum of approximately $4
hawker for three year
Lifetime Furniture
Queen Anne Dining Suite
. i
Our Aluminum
Special
The special sale of aluminum
ware announced for this morn-
ing was an overwhelming suc-
cess.
We have onlv one rperret—
that we could not s"ir>lv all
who wished to obta'~ *-h'i hieh
grade a'-irrunum at t1,:s cne'-ial
price. There was greater de-
mand tban we a"*!'-in? ed and
we could not get enough to go
aro"nd. B"t ,rfC will rare
to have a sufficient sunplv to
irift the derr-n-' for our next
weekly special.
Watch for our announcement
for rev Mondav morning, of a
snecial that wiU nrove as attrac-
tive as this aluminum.
But we invjte you to the store
snv time Tt will be a nleasure
for you to look over our excel-
lent line of furniture, and we
have f music room where vou
are welcome to come and enjoy
♦he wonderful music of the
Pathe. Yours truly,
MEYFR & MEYER.
-Have you seen the beautiful Queen
Arne dining- room suite in our window?
It is representative of the quality
Lifetime Furniture we offer you. The
pieces are most excellently constructed
and finished, the best of the maker's art
of design and skill of workmanship being'
evident.
Come inside and inspect it . See the convenience
of the buffet drawers and compartments. Note the de-
sign and excellent finish of the table and chairs.
And it is only one item of the dependable furniture
for every room of the house. Or you will find the
single piece of furniture with the same integrity of
workmanship and design, that you have been wanting
for some room.
Courteous salesmen will show wou whatever you
wish to look at, and it will be a pleasure to have you
come in and look over our stock.
MEYER & MEYER
lie moved to Beef Creek (now
Maysville) in 1888, and remained in
the Indian Territory until 1896 when
he accepted a position as teacher at
a small one-room school house known
as Oak Grove, in eastern Cleveland
county. Later he taught school at
Stella, a larger school located in the
same section of the county.
Board and room for the sum of $7
monthly. This was the condition that
existed in the Oak Grove community
when Judge Swank held the position
of school teacher at the Oak Grove
school. lie received a salary of $31)
One summer Judge was employed
on the X-Y ranch near Granada. Colo.
Swank was admitted to the bar in
1909, soon after lie received his LL.
D. degree from Cumberland law
school. Congressman Tom D. Mc-
Keovvn, of \da, was a member of the
state bar. Ben Williams of Norman,
was chairman of the comiYiission. He
now holds that position.
Seventh Consecutive Victory.
When Judge F. B. Swank defeated
Roy Stafford, Oklahoma City million-
aire and former ne\4sp per editor
for the democratic nomination for
congressman from the Fifth district,
Beginning today Miss Dorothy Hell
takes her summer vacation from her
duties with the Transcript. She has
well earned this rest from the "daily
grind" and will enjoy herself until
September 1.
During her absence, we have been
fortunate in securing Miss Marguerite
Newblock to act as reporter and so-
ciety editor. We are sure that Miss
Newblock will handle the position to
the utmost satisfaction of all con-
cerned, and we sincerely hope that
everyone will encourage and co-oper-
ate with her to the extent of making
the local column the best ever.
You are also requested to use the
ie'eohonc—N'o. —-and tell us all you
know—we'll appreciate it.
k'ui. -ii*: 11V.11V1.U a oanii v wi «p "' . , , • ,
month. Later when Swank taught ['e scored his seventh consecutive vic-
at Stella, he received a salary of $65
a month. Board and room in the
Stella district cost the teacher $10 a
month.
Played Base Ball.
Judge Swank's home study did not serv,nK two y°ars ,n that
prevent him from taking in out-door
sports. He was fond of fishing,
hunting, swimming and ball playing.
When 18 years of age, Judge Swank
held down the second base position on
the Johnsonville team which claimed
the championship of the Indian ter-
ritory. Johnsonville was a trading
oost one and one-half-miles from
Byars. Members of the Johnsonville - - , . . , .
squad lived in the surrounding terri- at Lebanon, 1 enn., from whicn n
frvrtr and on* f\i XT hpfnrp flip craTTlf* tUtlOFl lit fCCl'lVC'd IllS LI.. ' CfJ
tory.
The Norman jurist made his bow in
politics in 1902 when he was elected
county superintendent of public in-
struction of Cleveland county. After
capacity
he was renominated without democra-
tic opposition. He was elected and
held the position until statehood.
Judge Swank was the first privte
secretary of Congressman S^ott Fer-
ris, who last week defeated Senator
Thos. P. Gore for the democratic
senatorial nomination. He resigned
the p-iv-tte iocratrysh'n in 19>U and
entered the Cumberland la<v school
insti-
tory and one day before the game tiilion he received nts L.I-, .5 degree
would assemble in the town. Trips 'n
to opponents battle fields were made
horseback. .
Wardwell, one of four brothers who ■ ennessee law school, Mi w .
Chosen Coin y Jir'/c
Returnin: " Norman
held berths on the Johnsonville club,
was pitcher. "Our pitcher was al-
ways invincible and we had no trou-
tered the practice of law. lie con-
tinued to practice law until 1910 when
he was elected county judge of Cleve-
Miss Fredrika Fitch spent the week
end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
j'. F. Fitch, returning to Oklahoma
City Monday morning.
Lifetime Furniture
220 East Main
Phone 67
THE LIBERTY
Today and Tuesday
WILLIAM FOX
Presents
George Walsh
in
"The Dead Line"
Out of a deadly feud, car-
ried on for years, there
sprang the purest love. A
son dared to forget the her-
itage of hate, and love the
daughter of his family's arch
enemy. A djama of love
and revenge.
A New Chapter of
"The Third Eye"
With WARNER OLAND
A Sunshine Comedy
"A Self-Made Lady"
You know the kind that we
all daugh a little at.
Coming Wednesday and
Thursday—Tucker Bros. Road
Show. ' The Lost City." A dou-
Me pro" ram.
ble winning." Judge Swank declared land county, defeating N. L. .Sharps,
last week. "In one game with Pur- candidate for re-election to the o 'ce.
cell, we had battled through seven Mr. Sharpe is now attorney of Hag-
innings and the opposition bad never goner, Okla. In 1 >1-, Indue . wan -
scored. At the end of the eighth was re-elected county judge He had
Wardell called the members of the no opposition for the demcratic
team together and told them he was nomination. , ,
oing to let them score one run 'just The district judgshlp was tendered
for fun.' He did. That year we de- the Cleveland cunty jurist by the vot-
feated every team in this part of the ers of the sixteenth judicial distr c
country including Norman." after ludge Swank had seived w •
Felt Pangs Of Poverty. terms as county judge of Ins home
All poverty's pinches have been county He received a majority of ap-
felt by Tudge Swank. At the age of proximately 1,200 for the democratic
13 he was dependent upon his own nomination for district judge in ivi
resources. Immediately after his ar. In 1918, he was nominated without
rival in the Indian territory thirty-! opposition.
two vears ago. he went to work on a | Floyd Swank Norman postmaster,
large ranch owned by J. B. Wilson is a brother of the Fifth district norn-
no \va hanker of Marysville. While iive. and Mrs. Marvin Moore, ot t.a-
here he spent most of his leisure time mond, is a sister. T. H.
studying and reading, continuing the a farmer living near ulsa, is a
hope of becoming a lawyer some day brother of Judge Swank
"I read every book and magazine I The B"_ in Tudge^Swaiik s Jiutt.il
could buy or borrow, sain Judge
Swank this week No educational
i advantages were offered young Swank
He was forced to get his education
by reading and studying at oppor-
tune times
is "phony", having been adopted in
his boyhood. "When a boy." explain-
ed Judge Swank's aged mother,
" 'Fletch' did not like the idea of
having only one Christian name. He
just put the 'R* in his initials. Judge
Swank's schooling consisted Swank's Christian name is Fletcher,
short terms in the public 1 ontinued on age l our)
Judge
of a few short terms in
HURRY!
A Number of Persons Are Considering Buying
My $10,000 Property
On Elm and College Avenues
For $8,500
My Terms Are $5,500 Cash; Balance on First
Mortgage—The First One With the Cash Gets It.
BEST BARGAIN IN TOWN
Lot 65 by 275, a building site on College and an
ei^ht room house on Elm. W ell built with furnace,
bath room -and all modern conveniences. Four
hundred feet from campus.
HENRY H. FOSTER
480 Elm Avenue Phone 151
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