Pauls Valley Democrat (Pauls Valley, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 12, 1915 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL. XII.
PAULS VALLEY DEMOCRAT
PAULS VALLEY, GARVIN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1915.
NO. 22
WOODMEN PICNIC
WHS BIG SUCCESS
The W.O W, picnic and annual
log rolling held at the park here
last week was quite a success,
though the crowd was not as
large as was expected All the
business concerns of the city
closed from two to five o'clock
each day for the picnic, and
A COTTON PUNIC
son the people who are opposed IU|| I TUCDC DC
to a real rural credit bill will be mLL ,,,UIL uu
at Washington to see that a bill
suitable to them is reported, but
the farmers will not be there to
represent themselves and every The most important question
one of them should through a pri before the farmers now is will
vate letter telling their senators there be another cotton panic
what kind of a bill they want, this fall. We a'l know that be
cause of the war last fall there
PURDY PICNIC was no cotton market at all for a
The citizens of Purdy will give while
a one day, old fashioned demo The Wall Street Journal pre-
Au- diets there will be no cotton
leans Cotton Exchange, the 1914
crop was 17,004,000 bales, but
the commercial crop was only 15,
108,111 bales and the value of
the crop including the seed was
#749,3F>4,978, while the the value
of the 1913 crop was *1,134,444,
114. The average price of the 14
crop was 7.95, cents and the av
erage price of the 191* crop was
13.49cts.
by even those not Woodmen,The
Stratford W.O.W. team won the
first prize of *25, as also did the
Satratford circle win the first
prize of $15 The Pauls Valley
W. O W won the second prize of
515 and the Maysville circle won
the second prize of $5.
Mayor T. L Kendall and City
Attorney Mac Williamson deliver
ed welcome addresses on the o-
pening day. Senator Joe Ed
wards of Stratford, J A Fox,dis-
trict deputy of Norman and R L
Forgan state manager, ench en
tertained the crowd at different
WEEKLY WEATHER FORECAST
Issued by the U S. weather bur
eau, Washington, D. C, for
the week beginning Wednes
day, August 10, 1915.
For the Weil Gulf States -
Embracing Lousiana, Arkansas,
Oklahoma and Texas:
Special Notice — There is a
tropical disturbance over the
j southern Windward Island sec-
' tion and weather in the territory
east of the Mississippi River for
INSANE MAN KILLS FRIEND
About five o'clock Tuesdayithe c<min* week is
much good will was manifested cratic picnic on Wednesday, --- . ... The Dallas News
gust 18th, at the new suspeasion panic tnisyear. ineL aiia.->i\ew.
bridge li miles south and A mile says there is still danger that ------ ■■ - - - pen(jent upon the movement of
west of Purdy on Rush creek the farmers will be led by the morning at his owr> home miles of thjg disturbance At present
John W. Alexander, C E Parr, clamors of the politicians into east of Civet, G. R. McLaugnin jn(]jcations are as follows:
conceiving the outlook to be ^ with a shot gun at close range j Thunderstorms for two or three
much worse than it is, and con killed R S Hurley by emptying days, followed by generally fair
bond issue is the only practical
solution of the bridge difficulty
in the county at the time. The
spring rains and overflows prac-
tically destroyed three-fourths
of the bridges in McClain Coun-
ty and under the law passed by
the last legislature all bridges
built new must lw of permanent
construction
It is impossible to mak«> a tax
levy in this county sufficiently
large to meet these retfuilvments
Awing to the fact that ftvsu 40
to 60 per cent of the cfcuuty is
uou-ta.\al>le.
Joe Brummett, Dick Hughes and
Andy Allen compose the committ
ee in charge, and you can bet
on them putting the big pot in
the little one on this occasion.
sequently, into accepting the the contents of 0ne barrel into weather thereafter.
first price that is offered them. 0f jjr hurley who died tempature
It ought to be said, however, to instantly The men were the
The fplace is an ideal one for the credit of politicians that they ^est of friends and Hurley had'
. r. , j „ • „■: are much less meddlesomely ac-
o,d fashioned democratic picnic Uve and vociferoU8 this year
splendid shade and beautiful run j than lh were a ag0 They
ning running water and a fine disposed to yield precedence I'*'•* noticed that McLaughm was
place to bathe and you are myit |tQ the ,)ankersail(1 businessmen, |oft mentally and Hurley went
cd to bring your bathing suits, j and h h have accepted | home wIth him. It is thought
There will be amusements,base , ^ leadership with ari earnest- that McLaughlin was afieeted ov
times delivering an address on : ball, etc, speaking b\ piominent ^ n?g8 promises success.
Woodcraft H M Carr made a men- Congressman J L I homp The supreme question is that
fine short speech in introducing so^ js expected to speak. Stand t^e campaign will be won or lost
Congressman J B Thompson Fri- privileges will be sold on the -n very first stage. The
_ _ Jn Af A /\' nln/ilr rv Ml vnfiu"
stayed all night with McLaughin
The evening before at Civet it
Seasonable
dap afternoon. Mr Thompson o- grounds at 4 o clock p m, Sat u
pened his speech on the benefits ^ay> Aug 14th
of woodcraft and its insurance
features, but devoted the larger
part of his speech to good roads,
free rural mail delivery and the
rural credit system to farmers.
He favors government aid in
Duilding roads, and explained at
length the bill he introduced in
congress providing for rural cred
its — it provided for direct gov-
ernment aid for a rural credit
system, and Mr Thompson show-,
ed clearly that it is the only feas
ible system, as well as showed
why a system of private owned
capital would not work in this
country as they work in Europe.
His bill provides that the gov
eminent loan the money direct
to the farmers who live on their
farms in sums not less than 1300
nor more than $5,000 to any one
man, and that,the term of years
for it to run shall be sufficient
for 5 of 5J per cent annually to
pay the interest and principle
with a sinking fund out of the
said annual interest He said the
rural credit bills before congress
were in the hartds of certain com
mitteemen, and that our sena-
tors, Gore and Owen had half of
the power in their hands to re-
port a bill to the next congress
for action, and he said every far
mer who believed in the real ru-
ral credit system of government
aid should write Senators Gore
and Owen just what they want
and write at once.
One thing certain said Thomp
CHARGED WITH FORSERT
Richard Lewis, Emma Clem-
mons and Exer Jones.all negroes
were arrested last week and gi
ven an examining trial before
Judge W. R. Wallace on a charge
of forging a deed to convey 30
acres of land to Minor Dorches-
ter, and they were held over to
await the action of the District
Court.
The facts of the case as we un
derstand them are substantially
these: The 30 acres of land lying
east of Wynnewood in question
was sold by Richard Lewis to
Minor Dorchester, for, as v^e un
derstood 1300. When the deed
was made to the land Lewis
brought with him one Emma
demons who was impersonated
as being Alter Grimmett who is
also a negro and is owner r f the
30 acres of land in question. The
demons claimed she could not
write and Lewis signed her name
to the deed as Alter Gremmett.
Exre Jones and Emma Clem-
mons are said to be Ardmore ne-
groes, but they had been living
arouno here sometime as man
and wife- The Clemmons woman
since being confined to jail has it
is said confessed the whole trans
action and clsims she was forced
to do what she did.
County Attorney Bowling says
he has a clear case against the
negroes. The deed to the land
was executed June 15th, last.
FORD CARS
We have just received a carload of ten
cars, a new price on now.
The new price— i
Ford Roadsters, f.o.b. Detroit $390.00
Ford Touring car, " $440.00
Our now 1916 contract calls for one hun-
dred and fifty (150) cars, for Garvin Co.
« Get yours now. Help us sell this 150 cars
■ for 1916. It means 19 car loads of Ford
cars, unloaded in this county! We are
sure we can sell them, call early
GOLDEN & HUMANN
Ford Agent*
er politics, religion and war. He
was arrested by Cap Shi and E B
Forrest and brought to town
Shi and Forrest said that Mc
Laughin never seemed to realize
that he had killed his friend, he
talked peace, peace, all the time.
McLaughlin was examined
here by Dr G L Johnson, a mem
ber of the board on insanity, and
others, and his case was pronoun
ced a bad one of temporary in-
sanity and was sent to the insane
asylum at Norman Tuesday even
ing
McLaughlin has a wife and
tauves a wife and seven children
Dallas News further says editor
ially on the subject:
"If the farmers manifest ner
vousness, an eagerness to rid
themselves of their cotton with
out much regard to the price,
they will probably lose it. They
will then-enable their adversar
ies to intrench in the sense that,
being then in no urgent need of
cotton, thev can wait for the
necessities of the farmer to work
in their interest But if, in the
beginning, the farmers show a I
greater disposition to store than
to sell, unless, of course, prevail-
ing prices should be distinctly
good, they will make the neces-
sities of the spinners work for
them. The spinners will test
out the spirit of the growers bv
offering in the beginning less
than they expect to pay, and the
outcome of the contest will be
determined very largely by the
response which the growers make
to these overtures. They ought
not to be stampeded by the ex-
aggerating statements that are
being made as to the consequen-
ces of the English blockade.
They can put the German and
Austrian shares of this year's
cotton crop in storage, and by
doing that get something like a
normal price for what is kept
out of storage Even if Great
Britain should make cotton con-
traband, the consequences need
not be disastrous for the cotton
TAXES RAISED SLIGHTLY
The state board of equalization
raised the Garvin County total
assessment 1200.385, and sug
gested the amount be increased
on the following property, ■'> per
cent on horses, 10 per cent on
cattle, 15 on hogs. HO on thresh-
ers, 25 on diamonds, 50 on ab-
stract books, and 5 per cent on
city and town lots, but the sug
gestion being not compulsory the
OKLAHOMA'S LAND CLAIM
Washington, Aug, 11.—>ena-
tir Robert L. Owen, whoi;-
P'aivd before Assistant Secre-
tary Jones iif the Interior De-
partment in support of Okla-
homa's claim for land script un-
der the Morrill act,believes that
the Stale's position will be sus-
tained. The Inteior Department
has said that Oklahoma's claim
depended upon whether th~ act
was still in force Attorneys for
the General Land Office oppos-
the state contended that the act
had been repealed by implica-
tion in the early 70'e, answering
which Senator Owen pointed
out that Colorado was subse
the County Commissioners made
the raise as suggested on dia-1 quently admitted, and its claim
monds and abstract books and t0 land under the act recogniz-
they then assessment 2 03 pr ct,
on all property, to make up the
raise of $200,385.
The assessment of the public j reviewed,
service corporations has not yet
been made by the state boftt'd
levy cannot be
ed Oklahoma's claim has been
pending before the department
for five years and was recently
four children, and the dead man !anc* 1 ..fl . ,
made until the certificate of as
County Attorney R E Bowling
and deputy sheriff, E W Turner,
went out early Tuesday morning, ,, , . . . . _ . , - „
to the scene of the killing, made ^ be ,the first,°{ Sept. before
sessment on public service cor
porations is made to the county
assessor, and then turned over
to the excite board. It will prob
a thorough investigation and
found that the killing was the re
suit of positive insanity in Mc
Laughlin.
BIG CORN CROP
The following is the estimate
growers.
The clamor of politicians and
cotton buyera should be totally
ignored. The cotton should nev-
er be stopped on the streets for
sale, but should go straight to
the warehouse. Garvin County
is amply supplied with ware
houses, and last year's experi-
ence is sufficient.
More than two thousand bales
were stored in the Pauls Valley
warehouse last year, The first
"500 bales, financed by one of the
banks, when cotton was selling
on the streets for less than 6
cents was two months later sold
in bulk by the bank, at the re-
quest of the owners, for 7c and
better, and the second 500 bales
that was warehoused when it
was selling on the streets for 7c I
was 30 days later sold in bu k by'
the bank for 8 and 8ic. These |
are some of the facts which the I
growers reaped last year by i
storing their cotton, and there
were others who reaped like
benefits, and the same can be!
done again.
VALUE OF COTTON
According to the final report of |
H C Hester, secy of the New Or|
of Oklahoma's corn crop by the
U.S. Agricultural Department of
August first.
Corn: Bushels
Aug. 1, forecast 100,000,000
Final 1914, 50,000,000
All wheat: Bushels
Aug. 1. forecast 38,800,000
Final, 1914 47.975.000
Oats Bushels
August 1, forecast 35,100,000
Final, 1914, 30,250,000
Cotton . '.BuBilels
Condition, July 25, 1915 69
10 year average SO
the work is completed,and in the
meantime the county commiss
ioners cannot allow accounts.
WRECK
A local freight train was wieck
ed north of Wynnewood Tuesday
morning. Several cars were ditch
ed, no one was hurt. The south-
bound pasenger was detained
here a short time Tuesday morn-
ing was the only interference
with travel.
An Interior Department state
(pent shows t lie re is public land
m the United States to the ag
gjegate amount of LY79,504,494
acrec. of which 42.177 acres are
in Oklahoma. In event tha; the
State's claim is ffc-ognized, it
would prooably be required to
file on this land and take scripi.
for the remainder. In all the
state believes its claim worth in
the neighborhood of one million
dollars, all of which would go to
the State School fund.
MAY VOTE BONOS
Purcell, Okla, Aug. 10 —The
board of county commissioners j of torpedo b'jats
of McClain county is preparing | to guard against German sub
BIGGEST 6010 SHINIEIIT
The British battleship in which
England sen' $187,000,000.00 in
gold to this country leacheil
New Yo.k yesterday. It was
consigned to J P Morgan & Co.
and weighed ahout 75 tons. It
was the largest shipment of
gold ever made. The battleship
was guarded through the war
zone by a cruiser and a Hotil'si
ud destroyers.
to call an election for a t£,.0tHi
bridge bond issue. The board
claims that the voting of the
inanpjes.Thq shipment cost $23"
Obo. Its pumose was to reiuforco
British credit in thw country
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