Pauls Valley Democrat (Pauls Valley, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 8, 1915 Page: 1 of 8
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Historical Sotietr.
* VOL. XII.
PAULS VALLEY DEMOCRAT
PAULS VALLEY, GARVIN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1915.
NO. 17
COMMISSIONERS PUN
EXTENSIVE ROM SYSTEM
The County Commissioners,
Sam Neill, N. D. Duffield and
T H. Rice, had before them in
regular session Monday, besides
the rotine monthly business, two
propositions of more vital im-
portance to the county than any
thing that has been before them
yet— they are the tick eradica-
tion and the road question under
the new road law,
The petition for tick eradica-
tion was filed at the June meet-
ing containing the names of 2324
citizens of the county, a majority
of the voters, asking that a tax
be levied for the purpose of clear
i g the county of fever ticks,
and the levy will be made, how
much has not been determined,
it will be made with other esti-
mates which the Commissioners
are now considering. Under the
new road law which went intoef
feet July 1st, the county com-
missioners are authorized to de-
signate 15 per cent of the county
roads, which when so named be-
come a part of the state highway
system.
This the commissioners attend
ed to Monday, laying 212 miles
of road, a little less than 15 per
cent. A map was drawn showing
the roads,they were laid off with
a view to the whole county, no
particular place, or section was
favored,! ar.d the lay off was ap-
proved by who examined it. An-
other map showing the roads, to-
gether with a written description
of every section line touched by
the roads, was drawn, and this
map and description was takento
Oklahoma City and filed with the
State Highway Commission, and
Garvin was the first county that
filed its state road system.
L. J. Milburn,J.M.Dorchester,
W.J.Thompson,and T.H.Vaughn
presented the map and descrip-
tion to the commision, and the
State Commissioners were so
pleased with it that it is said that
it will be adopted as require-
ments for the whole state.
The new road law provides for
a state levy of 1-4 of one mill ad
valorem and also an automobile
ta* of 50 cents per horse power
of each auto the first year, 40c a
in. p. the second year, 30 cents a
h. p. the third year,and 25 cents
per h. p. thereafter, for the pur-
pose ot financing the state roads
with whatever is collected from
a county goes to the roads of the
county. The state convicts will
also be worked on the roads un-
der the supervision of the State
Road Commission. The state will
furnish the convicts,teams,tools,
and board the convicts. The
counties where they are worked
will be required to furnish, the
guards and material for building,
the roads. When this kind of
work will begin is not known, but
it is thought that when it is put
into operation. Garvin stands a
fine chance to be among the first
to receive such benefits if she
will get ready to meet the re-
quirements in this respect of the
state road commission
GOV. WILLIAMS COMING HERE
The W. 0. W. Picnic August
5th and 6th, at Pauls Valley, have
secured Gov R. L. Williams as
one of the principal speakers
This promises to be the best
and biggest two days celebration
ever pulled off in Garvin county,
as the committees in charge are
spairing neither pains or money
in their arrangements.
Full program and particulars
will be ready for p"blication
shortly.
MISS JORDAN APPOINTED
Prof W. Cromwell, county
superintendent of public schools,
has appointed kiss Jenett Jor
I dan, as his deputy. Miss Jor-
J dan served over six years in the
came capacity under Miss Pearl
Bradfield while superintendent
The work of the office is very
heavy and tedeous, but Miss
Jordan has long since be<-.;me
thoroughly familiar with every
detail of the work, and has made
a prompt and most efficient officer
Prof. Cromwell chose wisely
when he ^appointed her to con
tinue in the office.
CIVIC IMPROVEMENT
The City Civic Improvement
League held a session at the
Mayor's office Tuesday afternoon
The Municipal Committee of the
Commercial Club was to have
met with the league but only two
of them were present, Judge B
W. Patterson, chairman of the
committee being in Texas. The
next meeting will be held at the
Mayor's office next Tuesday
afternoon at 4 o'clock and every
member of the league and com-
mittee are urged to be present
as there are business matters
that must be attended to
The league expects Dr. Dukes,
state health officer, to speak here
about 18th The secretary was I
authorized to correspond with!
the judges and have the last in-1
spection made the last of this
month or the first of August for
awarding the prizes offered by
league.
The rain6 have ceased and it is
now an opportunity to cut weeds.
There are many places where
weeds have been permitted to
grow so rank that the side wa'k
is practically overlapped with
them—that is dangerous to the
health of the people and the
weeds should be cut at once
There is no excuse for such con
ditions
5 PER CENT MONEY FOR
GARVIN COUNTY FARMERS
The following letter is self-ex-
planatory, showing that there is
some money due Garvin County,
farmers from the state school
land funds. The other funds re
ferred to by Mr, Smith is ex
plained in another article in this
paper.
J. D Mitchell, Editor,
Pauls Valley, Okla,
Dear Sir:
As an ex-newspaper man, I
realize how much a newspaper
man is interested in seeing his
country get all that is coming to
it and the purpose of this letter
is to notify you that in the appor
tionment of the Permanent Com-
_ mon School fund to be loaned to
i farmers at 5 per cent interest
| your county has not received its
j pro rata share, and we have sev
eral thousand dollars that we
can place at 5 per cent to bona
fide farmers who live upon and
cultivate their land. We do not
desire applications from any one
else.
We also expect to have anoth-
er fund available within a few
days in which the borrower will
pay 8 per cent per annum or 4
per cent semi-annually and this
discharges both the principal and
interest in 23£ years. I believe it
will prove a very popular loan
In notifying your farmer
friends of these facts you will be
doing a double service, because
the state wants to make the loan
and I am sure your farmers are
trying to get money at a lower
rate.
Assuring you that any notice
given along this line will be ap
preciated greatly, I am.
Very truly yours,
G A SMITH,
Sec'y, School Land Department
can credit him with visions of
statesmanship, only by impeach-
ing his patriotism For full half
of his tenure he was a despot It
was both his mistake and his
fault that, instead of converting
a despotism into a democracy, he
J. PiERPONT MORGAN
SHOT LAST SATURDAY
J Pierpont Morgan, the finan-
cier, was shot and wounded last
converted it into an oligarchy., 0 . , , . . ,
! u„ t , iSaturday in his own residence at
He found the people of Mexico ,,, X1 v „ ...
o t u a * , .. Glencove, N. Y by Frank Holt
"" a state of bondage, and left i . . , ., *.
„ , | who entered the residence, as he
said, for the purpose of having
iMorgan stop the shipment of mu
nitions of war to Europe. He car
ried a p;stol in his hand. Morgan
them little less enslaved-
The present plight of Mexico
is as much his work as was the
overthrow of Santa Anna's die
tatorship, and history cannot
credit him with on e without
charging him with the other
grabbed his assailant and in the
struggle which ensued the pistol
was twice discharged and both
shots took effect in Morgan's hip
PURDY PICNIC Holt was over powered by Mor
The good citizens of the Purdy Ran and his butler who ran to
neighborhood will gi\e an old i assista.nce. No vital part was
i fashioned one day picnic the last; struck by the bullets and Morgan
I week in July, the exact date will''s recovering rapidly,
be given later. The picnic will! Holt is of course crazy He is
t be* held at the new suspension from Dallas, Texas, where he
brfclge one and a half mi es 'has a wife- wl™ is the daughter
the corn and broom corn in his
neighborhood are the best in sev
eral years, but wheat and oats
which |were very fine have been
greatly damaged by the rain, that
the farmers above and below him
on Rush creek have suffered a
great deal from the rains, that
Rush creek has been out of its
banks seven times.
The conversation with Mr. Al-
exander recalled a co-incident
in the trial of a certain case in
the District court here shortly af
ter statehood when three men
on the jury whose names were
John Alexander. They were the
John W, here referred to, John
B, Alexander, former hardware
merchant of this city, and John
Alexander of Wynnewood.
MEW STATE LOAN PLAN
southwest of Purdy.
Oklahoma's new "Home Own-
ership'' law is now in effect and
the state School Land Board has
MEETING AT BYARS
Rev. J. A. Ogle, pastor of the (includges this city.
Baptist Church at Byars, was in professor
the city Monday, having circu-
lars printed announcing the Bap
tist meeting which will begin
there July 11. Rev W, R Chan
dler. one of the Baptist State
Missionaries will do the preach-
ing, assisted by Rev. Ogle
of Rev. 0. S. Sensabaugh, pre-
siding elder of Dallas, and who:
was formerly presiding elder of . , , .
., ,. . . . , . , organized the department r>r its
the Oklahoma Lity district which , , • . ■ ,
administration by the selection
|of J. Frank Laux, the present
Title Examiner of the Board for
BUYS BUILOINB
Holt was a
in the Poletechnic col
leffe at Ft Worth in 1908, and
had been engaged as an instruc- <
tor in the new Methodist univer
sity at Dallas In 1 .jIO he was
professsor of German in the Ok-
lahoma University.
After Holt's arrest at Oltncove
N. Y. Saturday, he confessed
that he was the man who set the
bomb that was exploded in the
Secretary.
This department will have the
handling and investment of the
monies derived from the sale of
Section 13, (The State Education
al Institution lands or lands tak-
en in lieu thereof) and "The New
College Lands" all of which have
been or will be sold within the
Mr. Sam Kimberlin of Dallas, 'public reception room of the nat neai |utur^ Unlike many pr twite
T. .. , , ,. | r , .. . . , . . _ , . investment companies the'.'start
was m the city several days this I .onal capitol at Washington last with over four hundred thousand
week looking after business in-
terests.
Mj. Kimberlin purchased from
Thursday, and chattered part of , „ , , . .
... j ,^dollars of real money and this
the ceiling, walls, doors, and' .. „ : . . -
windows of the room, but no one , mcreas o a o o <?v-
Lucius Carroll the building occu-' was hurt. Nothing is known ol a mi 10n y ' anu" 8t"
pied by Enos and Lofton on Main the history of Holt prior to his ' , ,
street a few months ago, and on entering the Ft Werth college in . r 'S 18. 0 Je oaa<J( • or
this trip he added to his interests 1W8, and the evidence is tight "ives e ra rs ga-
in Marietta by purchasing theening to show that Holt is not ^ or improved farmland m Ok-
two buildings adjoining the Sam his real name, but he is Erich 3 0,na uni er eruesan legu-
P0HTIF10 DIAZ IS OEAO
The exiled ruler of Mexico,
Porfirio Diaz, died in Paris, last
Thursday July 1 , being 85 years
old. His wife, his son, Porfiaio
Diaz, Jr , and the latters wife,
were with him when he passed
away.Diaz ruled Mexico 35 years
and on the 24th of May, 1911,
following the successful revolu-
tion of Madero, he resigned the
presidency of his country and
fled to Europe.
No question but that Diaz was
conceeded to be the greatest man
Mexico ever produced, but there
was something lacking. He did
win the independence of his coun
try, restored order and establish-
ed government only to suffer the
masses of his country to become
slaves of the few To see that he
did not forsee the climax is to
question his statesmanship. He
did not lack opportunity, and one
Strauss Co's. store on the east.— Muen'er who was a professor at
Marietta News. Harvard in 1! 06, at which place
. „ his wife died in 1906, Muenter
fled and was charged with pois
Al BABliST CHURCH ioning his wife,and had not been
Rev. Gore, of Woodward, heard of until Saturday when his
Okla., will preach at the Baptist description aroused suspicion.
church Sunday morning aT,d Miss Muenter of Chicago, is|the^h'value of totaiid
evening. reported as saying that Holt is
her brother, when shown Holt's
picture she identified him as E- II"j" J a"" a
Misses Frances and Nell Lind- rjch Muenter She collapsed af- ! l , . Per C.ent °f
sey. of Marlow, are guests of ter she was shown HoIt-s picture the tuil value are to ** P «* serm
lations of the Commissioners of
the Land Office in sums not to ex
ceed two thousand dollars to any
one individual or family.
Loans are to be made only up-
on lands on which the borrower
resides and holds as his home-
s ead, and not to exceed one half
The
notes are to run for a period of
twenty three and a half years
Mrs. W. W. Robinson.
FRUIT JARS! FRUIT JARS!
We have just unloaded a car of fruit jars that we bought at the
right price and we will sell thern the same way. There will he a
large crop of fruit this year and it will pay you to can all you
will need for two or three years. You cannot depend on a fruit
crop in Oklahoma every year, We have in stock
One half Gallon Schram Jars.
One Quart Schram Jars.
One Pint Schram Jars.
One half Gallon Mason Jars.
One Quart Mason Jars.
One Pint Mason Jars.
—Mason Fruit Caps; Mason Rings, Schram Fruit Jar Caps, Economy Fruit Jar Caps.—
Also a complete stock of groceries. See us before you buy groceries and Fruit Jars.
A. C. WAGNER
Paula Valley, Oklahoma.
Later—Holt committed sui
cide in jail Tuesday night by
climbing the bars of the jail to
the ceiling and plunging head
forward 18 feet to the floor, frac-
turing his skull. He was thoroug
hly identified as Erich Muenter.
WEEKLY NEITHER FORECAST
Issued by the U S weather bur
eau, W7ashington, D. C, for
the week beginning Wednes
day, July 7, 1915.
i or the West Gulf States —
Embracing Lousiana, Arkansas,
Oklahoma and Texas:
The week will be one of gen-
erally fair aryi moderately warm ! paid the Democrat a pleasant
weather. i social call. Mr Alexander said
annually; at each payment inter
est at the rate of six per cent per
annum upon the unpaid balance
of said note is to be deducted
from the amount paid and *he
remainder is to be credited upon
the principal of the loan.
Loans from said fund can only
be made for the following pur
poses:
1. To assist the borrower to
THREE .JURORS SAME NAME
John W. Alexander, of Purdv
one of the best known men in ' pay for a home.
the county, was in the city Mon-| 2. To pay off an existing mor-
day on business and while here | tgage on the home.
3 To make improvements on
(Continued on page 4
FRAGRANT PERFUMES.
Every user of perfumes wants the most fragrant odor possible, and because we early rec-
ognized the fact, we have always enjoyed a large business in perfumes, etc.
It is not only quite a task to buy a real choice, delicate and true odor
but a good perfume must be properly kept to preserve its natural
fragrant and flowery daintines. Note—Keep your perfume in a dark
place as cool as possible, it will be sweet and fresh to the last drop.
We exercise great care in selecting our perfumes and as a result we have a very choice
line. AH are highly concentrated Jand represent the most exquisite odors from nature's
choicest flowers. Such fragrant Rose and Violet odors as ours cannot be excelled, and
our Lilac, Heliotrope, Carnation and all Others are of high grade and cannot be excelled.
Richardson-Robinson Drug Co.
PALACE DRUG STORE
Pauls Valley, Okla
For thejUver take Robinson's High BalJs
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