The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, September 19, 1902 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 11
McCall
ANNUAL ADDRESS
DAVID R. BOYD.
It was Logical Practical and
Right at the Point.
THE CHAPEL CROWDED.
The President Placed Before the
Students the Vast Importance
of a College Education.
"Get the first lesson the first day,"
"Get the second lesson the second
day and avoid the mistakes of the
first day, and so on every day of the
school year..' "Choose friends care-
fully." "A pretty food thermometer
of your mental temperature is the
society that seeks you." "Finally
my bretherti" declared the President
with the merry twinkle of good
humor that is characteristic, learn
three thing's. First, this is a place
for work. Second, it is a place to
form acquaintances, to make wise
investments in friendship. Third,
learn to do the work of each day as
it comes to you if you would ex-
perience the best lasting- happiness
life has for you.
J. 0. Blakeney Nominated for the Council
in 5th District.
Last Friday the delegates to the
democratic council convention from
the 5th District met in Norman for
the purpose of nominating a candi-
date for the Council. There was only
one candidate before the convention,
J. O. Blakeney, of Shawnee, and the
nomination went to him by acclama-
tion. Cleveland county democrats
favored the nomination of Hon. R.
E. Woods, of Shawnee, but in the
primaries held in Pott county Mr.
Blakeney won over Mr. Woods and
the latter withdrew from the race.
Dr. Nisbett who represented the 9th
district in the last assembly has been
renominated again by the democrats.
Two years ago the 9th district lay
partly in Cleveland county; but now
it comprises the whole of Pott coun-
ty while the 10th District takes all of
j Cleveland county.
A Complimentary Statement,
Mr. Andrew Kingkade president of
the Andrew Kingkade Company,
leading investment agents of Nor-
man, Okla., spent sometime in the
east lately, and was one of the wel-
come visitors at this office. Mr.
Kingkade has built up a very suc-
cessful loan business in his attractive
field, where all the conditions com-
bine to insure safety and at the same
time a maximum rate of interest in
organizations, in social, business and , return f^e above was taken from
political lines; how the school of Augugt numberof "Bonds and M)rt-
yesterday organized its forces the j jra,,es-' the largest financial journal
same way, but how the school of j in the United states.
today went beyond, better, to de-!
NORMAN OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 19, 1902.
IT WAS STRICTLY NEWS MATTER. I
I Being of an Entire Public Nature it j
Should Offend no one,
The man who would slur or speak
disrespectfully of the Y. W. C. T.
U. or of the W. C T U lowers himself
in the estimation of all right think-
ing people every time he does it.
Members of these organizations may
make mistakes and do some very in-
discret things; but the power and in-
fluence of these christian organiza-
tions of women, lor good, is too great
well known, and appreciated by the
world for a man to raise himself in
the estimation of his fellowman at-
tempting to slur or speak disrespect-
fully of the organizations.
NUMBER 9
HAS IT FOR
LESS.
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock the
formal opening occured. Though
the enrollment was not nearly com-
pleted, the program announced in
the catalogue was carried out. The
event was a formal one, and to those
who have witnessed like occasions at
the University, was characterized by
a dignity and an impressiveness that
set9 out clearly an earnest purpose
in growth. The students new and
old, were glad to hear and see Mr.
Merrill, Miss McBride and Miss
O'Connor, and the members of the
Faculty who took part. Dr. DeBarr
introduced the speaker, commenting
on the ten steps already taken in
educational progress, and the readi-
nessof all concerned for the eleventh.
Dr. Boyd did not choose to go into
unknown fields for a subject. He
talked scraight from the shoulder to
to the students before him, about
the things every old student knows
every new student will have to come
up against, and about the aim and
purpose of the institution. He spoke
of the tendency to uniformity in
yelope the individual. The fact that j Buckskin Bill's Show,
in a certain city, 4000 school children j Buckskin Bill's show last Monday
were studying grammar at precisely j was well attended in both afternoon
the same minute of time, would not ! and evening but there was not an
be counted an educational achieve- j individual that attended who did
ment of any merit today. Pres. | not realize that he had been faked,
Boyd said the University was not 1 The acting was poor and the music
an accident; it filled a want that | horrid. The only thing to be said
manifests itself in a demand for regarding the show is there was noth-
ing to it. The city was out more for
extra police force than it realized
from the tax collected of the show
people.
college trained men; men with col-
lege power rather than a college de-
gree. He illustrated the failure of
meagre training by pointing out a
class of students who take three
months business courses expecting to
be successful afterwards, with no out-
look upon the world, and with no ac-
quaintance outside, their township,
and immediate relation. The speaker
then pointed to the college course
as described in the catalogue. He
proved the wisdom of it by showing
Very Much Disappointed,
Last Saturday a young couple from
the eastern part of the country
came in to Judge Botsfords for a
marriage license, but being under
marriagable age and without a cer-
tificate of concent from their parents
the Judge refused to comply with
A man who would sign a petition
to have a business of a public charac-
ter lisenced and whose act in signing
was of a public nature and for the
purpose of letting the public know
that he favored the granting of the
license, and because his public act
was given publicity through a news-
paper, he falls to abusing the news-
paper and its editor, either did not
desire that the public should know
what he had done for the public,
(some men are very modest) or his
conscience is pricking him for his
act and he is attempting to square
the matter with his conscience by
abusing the editor and his "dirty
rag." If the former is the trouble
we would say; don't do anything for
the public that you would feel bad
about should the public find it out.
If the latter should be what is
troubling you. you will have better
success wrestling it out with your
conscience than with the newspaper.
We do not know that we have any
men in Norman who would take
oft'ense at a newspaper or its editor
because in the columns of the paper
appeared his name in connection
with something, of a public nature,
he had done for the public, for in the
past the Peoples Voice has pub
lished the names of many of the
citizens, either as a matter of news
or upon request of interested and
appreciative parties, the acts or
amount of money they had contribut-
ed to things of a public or charitable
nature, such as donations to build a
church, improve the public roads, or
purchase land for the University, or
to help some unfortunate etc. and
even the amount the respective mer
chants had contributed to indivudal
marketing first bale of cotton, and
never once have heard a murmur of
dissatisfaction expressed by reason
of such publication or any dire
vengeance being taken towards the
editor because lie had graciously
given the columns of his paper
t'> give; publicity to such news.
Last week a request was made on
the editor of this paper, by a very-
respectable organization known as
the "Ys" also by several W. C T U.
women and many other respectable
citizens in Norman, that we publish
a list of the names of many of the
citizens of Norman (which they
furnished us with) whom they stated
they had found as petitioners for j
the issuance of saloon licenses in !
Norman since the 1st of last Dec-j
should keep their names off of the |
petitions in the future. Since writ-
ing the above we have heard it
rumored that some of the men whose
names appeared in the published
list have expressed great displeasure
and said some very uucouiplimentary
things concerning the "Ys" and
other people who joined in the re-
quest to publish same and also about
the newspaper and editor who would
consent to give space in columns of
his paper to such an article. The
Editor of this paper, doubts, if any
such things as rumored, have been
said by any of the men whose names
were in the published list; but if
there be any of the men whose names
appeared in article, w fio feel in
anyway displeased, will be so kind as
to let us know their reasons why we
should hav^ denied the request of
the "Ys" we would be more than
pleased to publish same with their
names duly attached, for we believe
it would make excellent news matter.
their foreign language work, and j the request, so the lovers took the
F.nglish work, (Prescribed courses) \ first train for Oklahoma City where
were of value because one of man's J they anticipated success in securing
great struggles is to express his ideas j a license and parson.
by means of his words. Latin., Greek,
French, German, in addition to giv-
ing a student power, will give him
words to project his ideas before
others. He went farther tc defend
the prescribed courses in science,
saying each student should have
made journeys into the lines of As-
tronomy, Biology, Chemistry and
Geology at least as far as a first
semester, to widen his horizon.
He then discussed the elective system
and the selection of a major study
in the Junior year, pointing out
that the student who followed out
the plan was gaining the ability to
choose and to decide for himself;
power that would largely determine
his success in life. •
Dr. Boyd closed with what he
happily termed fatherly advice,
"catch step" he said "and keep step"
Oklahoma's Electric Oars,
About Oct, 15th Oklahoma Ter-
j ritory's first electric cars will be put
I into operation in Oklahoma City.
i When started up thirty foot cars
will be run every fifteen minutes to
all parts of the city where the line
operates. In October is the time
when the clong of the gong of the
first electric cars in Oklahoma will
be heard
The D. T. Answered Again by County
Treasurer Stow.
To the Peoples Voice:—
I see the D. T. makes a blow of
the business ability of the democrats,
in reducing the county debt $8,988.53
in five years. Of course this does
pretty well; but if the D. T. will
look up the county clerks financial
statements it will find that the
county debt was reduced $11,665.69
from July 1st 1897 (or a period of
only two years) the "un-business-
like-Pops" who had charge of the
county affairs at that time. The D.
T. is worrying about gold bonds but
failes to state (for the benefit of the
new comers) that these bonds were
issued to refund an indebtedness
indurred by former Democratic Ad-
ministrations. I would like for the
D. T. to inform the people as to who
has been called on to put up any
gold with which to pay the interest
or principlal of this awful "bond
issue" (please give name and P. O.
address very distinctly.) The D T
might also inform its readers again
that the Populists left a "Deficit"
of more than $16,000" solid cash in
the Treasury and warrants at par;
while the Democrats left to their
Populist successors "Surplus" of
$90,000.00 of debt and a credit worth
about 65 cents on the dollar.
J. W. Stow.
It should also be borne in mind by
the taxpayers that the amount of
taxes levied by the "un-busi-ness
like Pops" during the two
years they were in office, was less
than the amount levied during any
two years of their business like
democratic successors, and this may
possibly cause the taxpayers to
wonder why they had not reduced
the indebtidness of the county some-
thing like $30,000 instead of only
$8000 during the past five years
Book Shower.
Come and see the shower Saturday
night, not of rain, but of books. The
Real Estate Transfers.
The following are the real estate
transfers for the past week as com-
piled from the Andrew Kingkade
Company's reports:
J. W. Garrison to Wm. Boatwright
lots 25 and 26 block 6 Larsh's add.
Norman, $600.
Polly Woodring to Stephen A Doug-
las sw i sei 29 8-le, $000.
Tate & Clement to M P Standley lots
1 to 4 block 15 Jones' addition, $400.
H M Muir to J G Brasier w i nw i 10
9-lw, $500.
Andrew Kingkade to Homer Sellers
ne i 13 8-2w, $3000.
Elias Presnoll to Lottie Presnoll e i
ne i 19 7-le, $300
W D and H T Mills to Dar.iel England
lots 6 and 7 e i s>v 46 6-2w, 14000.
A Runaway on Main Street.
Last Monday afternoon just after
the show where the crowd was thick-
est on Main street, a team belonging
to Rev. M. D. Long become scared
at the mill's coal yard and came run-
ning through Main street at full
speed, but luckily no one was ran
over. The team finally found an
obstruction when the tongue of the
wagon to which the team was hitched
struck the rear end of another
wagon thus breaking out the tongue.
This created some little excitement
and some very careless individual
in trying to reach the filial scene
first, ran over a child of M. Mc-
Ginley's giving it some very painfull
bruises.
ember, and as the request was very . , ,
, ladies of the Coterie will give a-book
courteously made and the publica- h
tion very much desired, as a courte-
ous and accommodating newspaper ]
man who believed that a newspaper j
was of aquasi public property nature,
agreed to publish same, though
shower at the Ariine Home Satur-
day night September 20th. Each
guest is expected to bring one well
bound standard book suitable for the
we I llul,'ic library. The evening will be
Public Notice.
On Sunday Sept 28th there will be
held at Independence school house
in Township 8 It 2 w a Sunday school
convention beginning at 1 o'clock
sharp. All are invited to come and
participate in the exercises. There
will be a march of the schools at the
beginning, each school carrying its
banner at the head of the column.
Many good Sunday school workers
are expecte I to be present among
which will be President Boyd of the
University. Come everybody and
bring your baskets well filled. Dinner
on ground. I. M. Little,
County President.
Mortuary.
Died—Last Monday morning at
8 o'clock in west Norman Mrs. Nancy
J. Notine age 46 years. She and
her husband moved to Norman only
a short time ago and were almost
strangers in the city. The cause of
her death was neuralgia of the heart
which she had been troubled with
for about 18 months. The funeral
was preached by Rev. C. D. Spillman
at the home and the remains were
then taken to the Odd Fellows ceme-
tery for interment.
Which?
, Okla.
Sept., 16, 1902.
Peoples Voice,
Norman, Okla.
Hello Eddie: Enclose find check for
! $1.00 please send me the voice send
j a copy or two back if you have them.
I can't get anything out of that
"Demo T" or the town has gone
dead, one—"which?"
Your's Very Truly,
doubted very much if it would be
very interesting news matter. In j
the latter we were very much mis
taken for it proved to be a great
news item and everybody seemed to j
be anxious to get hold of a copy of j
the paper to see if his name was
mentioned ill the article. The j
type was thrown in before we dis- j
covered the importance of the
article as news matter or we would j
have been tempted to have run it
again this week. If there are any ;
of the citizens in Norman who were j
The people in this county will be disappointed in not finding their!
sorry to learn of the bereavement of names in the list published and want
Judge Irwin and wife in the loss of to see it there let them get a hustle
their 16 year-old-son at their home on themselves and get it on the next
in El Reno last week from an attack saloon petition circulated. If there
of typhoid fever. The body was taken are citizens in Norman who do not
back to old home in Elgin, Illinois, desire to see their names published
for burial. 'attached to such a petition they
enlivened by a most excellent musi-
cal program- In addition to this the
ladies will serve ice cream and cake
Price 15c.
Judge Irwin's Son Dies at His Home
El Reno.
Marriage Licenses.
The following marriage licenses
were issued the past week by Judge
Botsford:
L. Mitt Asbury 22
Nora Rowland 18
Geo. D. Katon 26
Miss Lillie May Steelty 21
John L. True 20
Minkey A. Gaines 18
Moore Gin in Operation.
Last Saturday the new gin at
Moore was put in operation. A great
deal of cotton will be raised in the
vicinity of Moore and the proprietors
of this concern expect a heavy run
this season.
Hon. D. T. Flynn Coming to Norman.
Hon. D. T. Flynn and Hon. O R.
Fegan of Guthrie, will open the Ter-
ritorial Republican Campaign in this
county Monday afternoon -ept 29th
in the city of Norman. They are
both good couipaign speech makers
and understand how to "yan the
Republican prosperity bell cord" and
make their meetings interesting to
their hearers.
Fined $25.00 for Carrying a Pistol.
Last Sunday morning Joe Daniels
arrested one of Buckskin Bills cm
ployees for carrying a pistol. He
brought him down town and had the
usual line and costs assessed which
amounted to $30.75. The fellow paid
the cash. It had the effect of mak-
ing the employees of the show stack
arms while in Norman.
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