The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, August 8, 1902 Page: 1 of 8
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NORMAN OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, AUGUST, 8, 1902.
AMENT APPOINTED.
NUMBER 3
IT'S
VERY DESITABLE
LOCATION.
Many diversified productions
and Heavy Yields.
HEALTHFUL CLIMATE.
A High Class of Citizenship as
is Proved by Her Progress-
Iveness.
Cleveland county, Oklahoma's ban-
ner county is located in the south-
eastern portion of Oklahoma and
free from danger of hot winds and
drouths. The South Canadian River
is its western and southwestern boun-
dary and the fertility of the Cana-
dian river bottom land is not surpas-
sed anywhere in the territory and
this county has a strip of it about
five miles wide and seventy-five miles
long on its west and south boundary
line. The county contains 348,000
acres and possesses more agricultural
lands according to its area than any
other in the territory. Its central
and western part is a beautiful rolling'
prairie, which in the spring of the
year is a solid belt of wavering wheat
iields, while in the eastern portion
being more broken with some timber
is a very productive cotton belt
The southern portion which embraces
the fertile valleys of the South Cana-
dian and Little River is a great corn
producer. • While diversified crops
are found throughout the county, yet
it is desired that the reader shculd
know the different crop belts in the
various localities. In most of the
counties of the territory a single pro-
duction is the predominant one, either
corn, cotton, wheat, or hay owing to
the location of the county; but here
it is hard to determine the chief
product. In Norman, the county seat
a large flouring mill is kept busy the
year round grinding Cleveland
county's wheat, besides the thousands
of bushels that are shipped to south-
ern markets. Between 8000 and 9000
bales of cotton are raised here each
season and a large cotton seed oil
mill is kept busy, day and night from
September till March, making oil
from the native seed and as high as
175,000 gallons of the oil have been
shipped from the mill in a single
season. Extraordinary heavy corn
crops are raised in the bottom lands
while the uplands make a fairly good
yield. As large ears of corn are
gathered in Cleveland county as in
the states of Kansas or Iowa. Alfal-
fa does well over the entire county,
especially those with open, porous
subsoils, and located in the bottoms.
And then again do not forget the
winter wheat pasture. The farmer
turrs the stock, cattle and liogs on
the wheat and devotes his attention
during the winter, to fattening cattle
and liogs. With bran and cotton seed
meal at the low prices for which they
may be bought here, and with the
varieties of grains and forage, both
cattle and hog feeding are profitable
industries. Fruit culture in this
county is a very profitable industry
and every summer heavy fruit ship-
ments are made to other points.
Cleveland county feels proud of her
many large orchards and vineyards
as they are second to none in the two
territories.
Castorbeans and peanuts give a
heavy yield in this county but are
not planted extensively. There is no
state in the union that can raise
larger watermelons, turnips, pump-
kins or anything in the vegetable
line than is grown in Cleveland coun-
ty. One can readily see from the
preceding facts that any thing that
grows in a temperate climate, out of
a fertile soil is raised here, and in
such quantities as to allow exporta-
tion.
This is a healthful county, the
drainage is excellent and but very
little malaria fever is known of. We
haye a pure atmosphere and is kept
as such because of the continued
winds that blow the year round. The
hot sun of August is not so sultry and
oppressive as in Iowa, or New York.
The winters are mild aud short and
our Aprils are just what Longfellow
witnessed in New England when, he
said "What is so rare as a day in
June."
We have 20,000 people and most all
are truly Americans of the highest
] type and are a progressive class.
This fact is verified in the
condition of her schools. Cleveland
county has 69 school districts and she
pays her teachers on an average of
f56 per month more than any other
county in Oklahoma. It is not known
why this fact exists unless it be that
the University is located here and
better educated teachers are em-
ployed.
Upon comparing, the county's an-
nual tax lexy with other counties of
the territory we find it much less
according to the valuation. For ex-
ample we will take Logan county
with twice our property valuation and
we find a tax levy 14i mills, not in-
cluding a school levy while we made
only a levy of 15 mills including the
school levy. When our county is
squared up out of the lands
of the Chickasaw Nation, which
is sure to come and not far remote,
we will be almost twice our present
size with double our present valuations
and but little additional expense in
the running of the county's govern-
mental affairs.
President of the Normal School of the
State of Oregon,
The announcement was made Fri-
day from the territorial superinten-
dents office that Prof. James E.
Ement, the first president of the
Northwestern Normal at Alva, has
been chosen as president of the
State Normal school at Oregon.
President Ament was removed
from the Alva Normal for political
reasons.
Prof. Ament will leave the terri-
tory at once to prepare to enter upon
his duties in Oregon. Once more
the fact has been proven that "you
cant keep a good man down."
THE
The
WEALTH OF
CHICKASAW
Obstacle That
fronts us.
THE
Con-
A Gutting Affray,
Last Monday night at a late hour
Drs. Capshaw and Lowther were
called to their office to dress the
wounds of two Bohemian farmers.
JoJanda and Joseph Valouch who
live eastof the city, were the men
and the former had a very ugly cut
just back of his ear, which would be
considered a serious wound, the
knife blade barely missing the
carotid artery while the latter had a
long slash cut in his forehead just
above the right ear. The men say
that some one else did the cutting,
but it is the general opinion that the
two men, being intoxicated got into
a difficulty and engaged in this hand
to hand combat. This of course
sobered the men and in order to
evade the law they made friends and
and acted very shrewd in the laying
of the blame.
An Example of Energy and Brains.
Father Metter who is so well known
in Norman came here about seven
years ago as priest of the Catholic
church and upon his arrival he found
that his denomination consisted of a
veiy small number and a very cheap
church building which he afterwards
sold for the pittance of $125.
Father Metter now looked into
the future and saw a great work
to be done and within his power to do,
the advancement of his church in
strength and interest. In his seven
years in Norman he has utilized
business principles, good judgment
and extraordinary forethought, which
has characterized his great success.
Within this elapse of time through
the management of this Catholic
priest, the denomination has grown
to a membershio of 250. They have
church property valued at $21,800,
consisting of a fine two story par-
sonage, a large convent for the ac-
commodation of a 130 students and
sixteen lots in a very beautiful por-
tion of the city
This shows what energy can do;
and now Father Metter although he
has had many obstacles to surmount,
can look back over his success
with much satisfaction and
feel that he has been a benefit to
his people and to the town.
The pastors of the churches who
were here when he came have gone
and others have come and gone but
Father Metter has been in the Nor-
man Ministery longer than any other
man. These are the kind of people
that do good in the world and are
missed when they are gone.
A GREAT HARVEST.
Sunday Base Ball.
Many people in Norman are op"
posed to Sunday base ball and in-
tend to take steps to effectually stop
Sunday games in this city. The city
council will be requested to pass an
ordinance prohibiting the playing
of Sunday games within the cor-
porate limits in this city. Sunday
games in city parks is bad enough;
but in small towns like Norman it is
much more objectionable. We think
the Norman boys can make friends
and their games more profitable to
them if they would make it a rule to
play no Sunday games in this city.
A Bold Petty Thief.
Last Friday about 10 o'clock when
the south hound local freight train
was doing its switching in the yards
here, some sneak entered the local
caboose and stoled a coat, a pair of
pants and a fine watch belonging to
the conductor and made good his es-
cape. This robbery was not discov-
ered till the train left Norman, but
at Purcell a telegram was sent to
the chief of police here to keep a
lookout for stolen articles, but as yet
no clue has been secured.
E. P. Eingo's Fruit Farm.
Mr. and Mrs- E. P. Ringo who live
3 miles south of Noble in the south
Canadian bottom have one of the
finest orchards and vineyards in
Southern Oklahoma. A great deal
of the fine fruit that is seen in
grocery stores comes from their
farm. Mr. Ringo says that 1500
bushels will not cover the amount of
fruit that he will gather this season
from his 250 apple trees 150 peach
trees, and 40 pear trees. The city
editor received a complimentary
basket of fruit from their farm
this week and the assortment
contained peaches measuring 9
inches in diameter and pears 10i
inches. This is an example of a
Cleveland Co fruit sarm.
Norman Could Easily Double Her
Her Population if She Could
Get the Chlckasaws Trade.
Norman merchants will only have
to look into the country contiguous
to the southwestern borders of
Cleveland county when they will see
the great wealth of the Chickasaw
Nation with Norman as its nearest
seeker and the tenants and land
owners of the northern part of the
Chickasaw are aware of the same
fact, but on account of the treacher-
ous South Canadian river they are
obliged to market their products and
do their trading at Purcell a town
much farther away, but on their
side of the river. If a bridge was
built across the Canadian river south
west of here the business men would
reap a great harvest from the
Chickasaw Nation, and this could be
done at the expenditure of only a
few thousand dollars which would be
of untold benefit to the town and
county. The fertility of the soil of
this part of the Nation of which we
are speaking is unquestioned. When
all this soil is in a good state of culti-
vation and our county is squared up
out of this land Norman could easily
double her population if she had a
bridge over the Canadian river on
which the people south and west of
us could cross. This gives something
to think about and some end to work
for in the near future.
Real Estate Transfers.
The following are the real estate
transfers for the past week as cotn-
j plied from the Andrew Kingkade
J Company's reports:
Annie Glaser to James S. Thomas, sw
i 13 10-2w. Consideration $2,500.
James F. Dixon to William M. Rich-
ardson, n i se i sw } se J 29 8-el.
Consideration SI,000.
W. H. Johnson to S. S. and S. E.
Prince, lot 11, block 6 Norman.
Consideration $1,600.
W. B. Morter to E. B. Johnson, lots
13 and 14, block 22, Norman. Con-
sideration $500.
Ella Leverett to W. C. Jackson, nvv i
9 9-3w. Consideration $15 00.
Eugene F. Bowman to Douglas B.
Fleming ne 1 23 and nw t 24 8-2w.
Consideration $3,000.
Jennie A Ross to Renel C. Nash, lot
9, block 3 Ross' add. to Norman.
Consideration $350.
Sam F. Sewell to Howard M. Atkin-
son, sw i 21 7-lw, Consideration
$4,000.
Chas. S. Clark to Wm. N. Myers, e I
sw i 30 t!-le. Consideration $1200.
T. E. Antrim to Jason Hicks, lots
27 and 29, block 48, Norman. Con"
sideration 1600.
John J. Brice to John W. Armstrong
lots 30 and 32, block 16, Norman.
Consideration $800.
Notice to Residents of Norman.
Anyone having employment for a
University student that he might pay
his or her board in such work should
let such be known at the University
office, as they are receiving letters
daily asking about such work. The
University will soon send a man
around to homes in West Norman
and find out those having rooms for
rent and places to board. Anyone
living east ot the track having rooms
to rent should inform Mr. Roy Had-
sell of the University as he has this
in charge.
Barbour & Sons New Store-
Barbour & sons have now moved
into their new building and have one
Is My Name Written There?
A petition has been circulated to
secure a license for the running of a
saloon in the ward which the Uni-
versity is located and where the
students room. This has caused
considerable agitation and a re-
monstrance has been circulated. At
a request of a number of the citizens
residing in that ward we publish be-
low a list of those who signed the
saloon petition.
A. J. Crawford, D. Reynolds, H.
Singleton, P. Waggoner, Giles W.
Itoundtree, W. J. Hess, Charles
Kahoe, J. W. Orf, H. P. Mizer, J. H-
Skaggs, W. H. Dewitt, G. W. Hill,
W. H. Devore, C. H. McElhaney, C.
O. Leffler, Kirk Reynolds W. Kitchen,
C. H. Hess, J. R. Pyles, Guy Cox,
John H. Mosir, S. S. Crawford, J.
A. Mann, J. J. Baker, Geo. W. Elliott,
John Little, T. C. Hogue, T. E. Clem-
ents, A. R. Loomis, W. H. Ferguson,
Car O. Hull, A. Pomff, Wm. F. Finley
J. P. Cooper, C. W. Rice, H. B. Mat-
lock, G. Gingras, Earnest Belden, J.
W. Harbry, E. Levy.
Norman Team Defeated,
Last Friday the Oklahoma City
League Team stopped off on their
way home from Pauls Valley to play
a game with the Norman team; but
the Norman boys could not interest
them. On Sunday the Holdenville
team also took a very bad fall out of
of the neatest and best equipped j jj0rman team. The members of
Drug stores in Oklahoma. Their show the Norman team play yery K00d
cases are all new and made of oak.
combined
ball for their age and the amount of
They have a fine combined prescrip- practlce they have had; but Gkla-
tion case and partition that adds to homa city and Holdenville have
the beauty of the inside. Every j good strong teams and in good prac-
thing that the boys had in their old j tjce
old building in the line of furniture
was burned in the recent fire so all
they now have is new and up to date.
Misses Hattie Graham and Odessa
Wallace Sundayed in Wayne, I. T.
Another Convention.
At Union Center school house one
half mile south of Denver will be
held on Sunday Aug 10th beginning
at 10 o'clock a Township Sunday
school convention. A march of the
children will be first thing on the
program. Banners being carried
at the heads of each school. Now
to all the people of the vicinity
make it a point to come and spend
this day with us in this grand work.
All schools are hereby urged to come.
I. M. Little, Co, Pres.
M. McCullough, Secy.
A Lawn Social,
Last Friday evening a crowd of
Norman's young people, thoroughly
awake for a good time, went out to
the home of Mr. M. McCullough one
and one half miles west of town and
enjoyed a very pleasant evening on
his large lawn. Through the hospi-
tality of Mr. McCullough the young
people enjoyed an abundance of fruit
and mellons of various varieties.
The program consisted of eating, the
playing of games and a good time
socially.
Pres. J. B.Jones Visits Norman,
Prof. J. B. Jones President of
Williams Woods College in Fulton,
Mo, visited in Norman Friday and
Saturday with his college friend Rev.
J. G. Creason. Pres. Jones is one of
.Missouri's leading educators and
since he has the management of a
girls boarding school he visited the
Arline Home and gave the matron
many new ideas regarding its man-
agement which will perhaps be of
great benefit to Miss Graham.
It is a Boy.
Last Monday morning a large sign
was posted in Dr. Van Vleets yard
bearing the following: "A good
$5.00 bird dog to be given away. No
longer needed.
Born—last Friday morning August
1st in Newton, Kans, a son to Dr.
and Mrs. A. H. VanVleet. Mother
and child doing well: but father rest-
less as he is 200 miles away.
Marriage Licenses.
The following marriage licenses
were issued the past week by Judge
Botsford.
.- lonzo Harmon 21
Claude Scroft 21
Geo. W. Rowland 21
Tennie Brannon 20
Geo M Sasser 25
Mrs. Mary Cummins 20
Oklahoma Oity vs. Holdenville,
Today (Friday) the Oklahoma City
base ball team will play Holdenville
on the Norman grounds. Both teams
are in excellent condition and will
put up a stiff game. The event is
an important one as it will determine
the supremacy or championship of
the two Territories.
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