The El Reno American. (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 25, 1923 Page: 4 of 8
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‘TTSn Um vote fM token Tues-
f tk Ct senate to determine whetfe
r -'t Ootrornor Wolton should be
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i— t vote in the’ senate Jack
Master from Canadian coun-
1 the (ml one to cast a negative
y It baa been contended repeated'
vboa the impeachment vote
I tikes Barker ' would be found
V tbo coventor wine
J oalir explanation that can be
t' led to tboooaduct of Mr Barker
' ‘ tej-at favora received from the gov
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n r Barker wilt elected from this
AnouUty for the purpose of reflecting
tbo Will of the people in the leglida'
tarn Thus far'- be ha consistently
8a lied to do so and if he persists in
‘ 'Voting against Impeachment for the
f governor if he Is found guilty he
‘ ' wn commit the most flagrant viola-
tion of the confluence of his constitu
enio in the hlstorv of his unfortunate
’ term fa the legislature
The recent election was a clear and
' emphatic Indictment by the people
and W lift (Barker wishes Ko live
up to Jla oath of office he will follow
tha path of duty-aa shown him in
tbo three to one vote against the
governor It is not too late to get
right Jack You have stuck nobly
to the standard of the deposed gov-
ernor but if you would save your own
political scalp t is now timo to capitu
late to the will of the people
’ ' ’ TWENTY-TWO COUNTS
'When the average Oklnhomnn
reads over the 22 counts for impeach-
ment which have already been drawn
against our flssling governor and
further on In the news reports is as-
sured that additional counts will be
added soon he is constrained to won-
der how in a democratic form of gov-
ernment such a record of crime and
tyranny could go so long without in-
terference by the people
However the unbelievable has liap-
pend and Oklahoma Is destined to
suffer for many years the blotch on
her fair reputation and from the sus-
picion engendered in the ranks of
capitalists
Through it all the state has bc
haved in a manner which gave Ho to
tha--tumors that she was in a state
'''-Insurrection and Instead of resorting
to the use of arms in fighting the
forces of the erring governor they
have at all times played the game
squarely and given the governor a
chance to abandon his asinine policy
of gun flourishing and bluffing
However all th's is past and unless
a miracle happens the Sooner state
will soon be able to start off anew
with a clean slate We have learned
a lesson out of the unfortunate dynas-
ty of Jack the Destructionist Our
constitution Is incomplete It must
have a recall clause added Even
though the legislature Is now em-
powered to meet for impeachment
purposes a recall is less cumbersome
O and expensive and more certain
1 tEE Chany was nUI te nn Warataga f tbo sfuVg
x the oupertntoManey of the Deal were aent oet at lanst three duya
teMeL i institute at BaM tm before its arrival bet notwtthstand-
tt because We failed to pay hie dose
wee the governor buying e vote
In an effort to stave off impeach-
ment? ’
2 Did Senator Gore really think
that ho could save his political life by
waiting until the Walton ship was
practically sunk before abandoning
It?
2 How much practice on the pis-
tol and rifle range is required by
candidates who are seeking positions
on the state board of health?
4 How many people actually be-
lieved what was printed In The Re-
cord? 5 Which is the most remunera-
tive to his excellency the pardon and
parole rake-off or the donations from
outside states solicited theoretically
for the purpose of carrying on the
fight against the barbarians and sav-
ages of Oklahoma
I Is Jim Harris a Republican a
hybrid or merely pie hungry?
7 Is the highway department a
business institution or mereiv a de-
partment for genteel highwaymen?
8 Wherein lies the charm which
makes Fred Dennis so popular with a
number of state officials who have
Joined the Lincoln automobile class?
9 What sort of capitalistic en-
deavor does Mr Walton propose to
tag this tact preventable
amounting thousand of dollars re-
sulted In Canadian county alone by the
failure to pay attention to tbo re-
peated warnings
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E F POPE RETURN
After a month’s sojourn In Missouri
E F Pope depredatory animal ex-
terminator of the U 8 Biological
Survey returned to bis office here
Friday and is again conducting his
Oklahoma work The state of Mis-
souri was recently added to his ter-
ritory of Oklahoma and Arkansas He
reports that the people of that state
appear very appreciative of his ef-
forts and he- now has 15 men in
the fieid In active work On his trip
back he came via Arkansas and spent
several days in the Kiamichi moun-
tains of Eastern Oklahoma Ho re-
ports having poisoned two timber
wolves and a large bob cat in the
latter country An appropriation of
$350 has been furnished by Dewey
county to be matched by federal funds
for n campaign agaist coyotes and
wolves
GASSING PRAIRIE DOGS
Use of carbon disulphide gas to kill
off prairie dogs has been started this
week by P L Depew an assistant
follow after his retirement from taw- the rodent dP8trucUon dlv8lon of
A LIQUIDATING RECORD
’ While the payments received by
( v' depositors who entrusted tlielr funds
“ to the Commercial Bank previous to Its
?’ ' closing are extremely small and will
' probably reach not more than 20 per
t cent in the matter of liquidation ex-
” ’ '' penses they have fared extremely
' - '4 well according to the testimony taken
l’ 1 "ta the recent trials of C L Engle
’ former president of the bank at Chick
'' ‘ asha
‘ With M B Cope as liquidating
agent the amount spent in the task
of liquidation has set a record among
all of the failed banking institutions
’ of the state according to several of
“ the Btate officials who attended the
’ trial and heard the testimony
i ‘ While the process of liquidation
- has been going on for almost two
years only $1800 has been spent by
7 ' 'Mr Cope for attorney’s fees His
‘ t‘ salary during that time ha® been $300
t per month and in addition to xnak-
ing most of the collections he has
handled much of the attorney work
' v required this being responsible for
‘ - ' the low figure for attorney’s fees
1 - From the total paper held by the
Ifank at the time of failure the Com’-
’? y'"'' merce Trust company of Kansae City
i V fleeted the beet notes as security
r a loan The remainder was then
me over by the Seaboard National
d the beet taken to secure another
This left Mr Cope with an
i Sroxlmately $404000 of notea most of
hlch were regarded as more or less
doubtful” Notwithstanding this fact
has managed to collect almost 60
far cent of them -
I There te some' unjust complaint
heard occasionally of Mr Cope’s ad-f-
Mastratlon of the job but a comparie-
f 1 on of his fees with other banks of
t ha state which hava bean literally
’ ' pack ad in the liquidation process pqja
tig efforts in a batter light
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V f DOES IT MEAN ANYTHING?
‘ Doreed by the kaleidoscopic dou-t’e-oroealng
'shifting of the political
f jte of Oklahoma in tha past tew
t enths It is no Fonder that a cynical
' 2tede toward politics and politicians
baa Unplanted sprouted and de-
— 8 to a tall growth in the minds
At eltisens It is with this ex-
- ‘"rk that ws Tenters to make the
mg irrelevant interrogatory:
dry and uncouth Oklahoma?
10 Are there any honest politic-
ians left in Oklahoma?
11 If so what caused their death?
Marine Npws — The 5-ton freighter
Jack Smith launched Sunday I now
plying regularly between the north
and south banks of the North Cana-
dian cargo mostlv automobiles sel-
ect accommodations for passengers
docks every ten minutes at Meridian
highway landing
ROADS SHOW CIVILIZATION
Gibbon famous hlatorlan wrote
‘‘The character and civilization of any
community can Improperly judged by
the class of roads it has"
The community which can afford a
good road ancj i content to wallow in
mud is hy'thta standard not tlior-
uglily civilized This my not lie
agreeable reading to thoHe contented j don Excavations uncovered several
with bad roads yet these very people aections in excellent condition Ap-
will Judge their neighbors bv stand- 1 parently the material was a natural
ards no more ’ exacting Tho man cement mixed with pebbles and
who can afford an automobile a tele- worked into a roadbed about Uvi ’vf
phone a lighting syHti in a waim Indies thiek
The art stems (o have be-'ii los- for
nearly two thousand years the next
example being in Edinburgh Scotland
in 1872 when some eonerete pave-
ments still in use and good condition
were made
In our own country Bellefontaine
Ohio gels credit for being the first
the IT 8 Biolqglcal 8irvey head-
quarters here The offensive against
the rodents is being carried on at
the P W Jensen farm near the fair
grounds Poisoned oats were first
used against the pesta but on ac-
count of the rains carrying away a
great deal of the grain the use of the
gas method was resorted to Balia of
cotton are first saturated in the car-
bon disulphide then placed in the
homes of the prairie canines and the
openings stopped up While this
method Is more expensive than the
poison grain It la recommended as
a method of killing off the few who
are too wary to be polsond
CONCRETE IS ANCIENT
HIGHWAY MATERIAL
The first known concrete highway
was laid down by tho Romans in Eng-
land between Westchester and Lon-
house nnd good clot lies and who
walks borrows his neighbors’ plume
reads by candles 1ms a cold liouse and
wears rags is not called civilized tij
bis neighbors
A good road is s necessary for the
enjoyment of the advantages modern
civilization lias to offer as is the ability
to rend (which was once the ac' j municipality to experiment with ce-
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compliBhment only of Hie priest and
the king)
The abandoned farm Is seldom or
never found on a good road The il-
literate child does not live he side a
good road People who live on or
near good roods get to town see pic-
tures mix with their folows enjoy
a rich social life visit each other liny
and sell quickly and easily are In
touch with the world Those who live
on bad roads cannot even depend upon
the R F D If rain or snow lays its
prohibition upon tile carrier
This great country is away down
the list among the lilerate nations
one of the reasons Is the difficulty or
educating either child or adult where
mud prevents attendance at school
Gibbon’s measuring rod may not
be comfortable hut the facts seem to
show it is accurate
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IN SPITE OF WARNING
Aw I won’t pay any attention that
it’s just newspaper talk” was the
opinion expressed by hundreds of
citizens up and doprn the North Can-
adian river previous to that river’s
greatest flood recently when they
read warnings in the newspapers t°ll
ing of tlie approach of the destructive
torrents “It can’t he worse than
last June and we came through all
right” Now as they dismhlly check
over the number of hogs and cattlo
which they lost and try to repair
the furniture damaged by the waters
possibly they will have a little more
respect for future statements of the
ment streets In 1893 Ilut it is reahy
Wayne county Michigan the Detroit
automryiilo factory region which
made the concrete highway known to
the nation This early experiment
was in 1907 in 1909 loss than half
a million square yads of concrete
were laid (perhaps fifty miles) while
In 1921 more than sixty million square
yards were laid (more than 7000
miles)
One of the great advantage of con-
crete is the low cost of hauling its
surface being less resistant to tractive
elTort than any we know Dynamom-
eter measurements show that the trac-
tive forco required to move a wheeled
ton of weight on a level road ate for
concrete 325 pounds for -asphalt
777 pounds for brick fl 8 pounds
and for earth 1347 pounds
A taxi company so situated that it
drove one set of cars almost entirely
on dirt roads and another set almost
entirely on concrete roads reports
that it cost 24 cents less per mile to
operate the taxlB on the cement road
than on the dirt roads
There are 12000000 automobiles In
the country If they average the low
amount of 3000 miles each per yenr
the total miles driven Is 36000000-
000 At 2 cents a mile saving the
sum of $720000000 a year could go
towards ibuildfng hard surface roads
which Income would build 24000 miles
of permanent highways every year!
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and h:iks?ht
By BUck CAMPBELL
Judge by results rather than
actions
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A man does well who Is able
to do his best friend
The fear of the Lord and the
laws of the land keep many n
uiun out of JaiL
The man who understands hu-
man nature is afraid te shake
bands with himself
The only energy that some
people ever exert Is In trying
to live without work
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A lot of fellows who ere loud-
mouthed patriots now were
cowardly slackers when patri-
ots were ta demand
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There may he no hell but
there ought to be so that tho
fellows who are not fit to go
anywhere else could bo sent
there
If yon got money put It
in circulation remember the
poor Hah who burled his one tal-
ent Idle money gathers no
interest
I PURELY PERSONAL
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C (X Blake returned home last
week from his old home in Ohio after
a two weeks’ visit He was forced to
walk from Kerfoot in crossing the
railroad bridge
Wn Henderson of Kerryville Mo
is spending a few weeks with his
niece Mrs H E Bondurant
Albert Butler who has been work-
ing at Ponca City is visiting his
mother Mrs Alice Butler this week
Mr and Mrs O 1- Palmore an-
nounce the birth of a daughter on Oc-
tober 12 whom they have named
Mary Iouise
Flank Hensley who has been as-
sisting in the moving of linotypes at
Ponca City for the past three weeks
returned to El Reno Monday even-
ing Supt W W McCollum of Union
City was a business visitor in El
Reno Monday
County Judge W M Wallace was
a business visitor in Oklahoma City
Tuesday
Glen Ricker motored to Oklahoma
City Tuesday to meet his wife who
has spent the past three weeks’ visit-
ing with her mother in Tulsa
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Announcement Party
’ Mrs R B Cobbs entertained Thurs-
day evening nt bridge honoring her
daughter Bernice Following the
game the guests were invited into the
dining room where n delicious three
course lunch was served The table
waa centered by n wedding cake de-
corated with a tiny doll bride nnd
lighted by white candles in crystal
holders As the last course was served
Miss Lucille Ruiter who had receiv-
ed high score in the game was given
the card to read which announced
the marriage of Miss Cobbs end Mr
Thompson Gilbert which had taken
place at 6:30 that evening The bride
cut nnd served her cake Mrs A C
Gilbert assisted in the hospitalities
Enjoying the courtesy were Mrs Clar-
ence King Mrs Clarence Fales Miss-
es Vernle Fales Elaae Harrison Ruth
Musty Ruth Finley Jewell Stokes
Lucille Ruiter Marguerite Collins
Helen Flanigan Edith Witcher Grace
Jackson Helen Flanigan nnd Velma
Gilbert o
Matinee Club
Mrs Barney Stewart entertained
the members of the Matinee club
Tuesday afternoon Mrs Maude Wil-
liams won the favor for high score
In the game of bridge Delicious re-
freshments followed the game
Luncheon
Mrs L R Gephart nnd Miss Mary
Shuttee entertained nt luncheon Sat-
urday complimentary to Mrs H J
Gillum of Chicago Mrs Charles Clark
and Mrs James McGlnty both of
Neosho Mo Autumn flowers in blue
and yellow tints decorated the rooms
and the tables The guest list includ-
ed: Mrs Warren’ Carr Mrs J L
Funk Mrs M D Libby Mrs H L
Reed Mrs 8 8 Macy Mrs John De-
Lana Mra Otto Shuttee Mrs B L
Caasady Mrs Glenn Hess Mrs Karl
Humphrey Mr P F Herod Mra
Glenn Bonebrake Mra Tom Shuttee
Mra Fred Gillette Mrs L A Garner
Mrs J T Riley Mis R C Rice Mrs
J P Matthews Mrs Hal Townsend
Mrs Donald Lothian Mrs LeRoy
Jones Mr Kenneth Curry and Miss
Lida Dashiell
Talk-a-Bit Club
Miss Helen March entertained the
members of the Talk-a-Bit club Friday
evening when additional guests were
Mrs Geo Bradley of Oklahoma City l
Mrs Stella Beets and Miss Marv Ash-
brook High score at bridge was won
by Miss Marie West The club wHl
meet tomorrow evening with Miss
Irene March I
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Priscilla Embroidery Club 1
Mr Earl Morris entertained the
members of the Pricilla Embroider'’
club Wednesday afternoon Delicious
refreshments were served at the close
of the afternoon which was snent with
needlework Mr Forrest Nave will
entertain the club In two weeks
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The tcCki of 12es M Bermloe
Cobbs lU kr TlMriM GAhert wee
aolemleod at : Thursday svaotac
ta the boom of tho bride parents
lantanaa end ptak end white dahlias
decorated the rooms The bride was
attractively gowned ta brown crepe
with harmonising i accessories Her
flowers were a corsage of sweetheart
roses and gypsophelia Rev G A
Swanson of the Presbyterian church
read the ring ceremony in the pre-
sence of the immediate relatives
A wadding supper followed when a
white wedding bell from which fell a
shower of smllax and lilies of the val-
ley hung over the table Seated with
the bride and groom were: Mr and
Mra R B Cobbs Mr and Mra A C
Gilbert Mr and Mrs John Smith Miss
Velma Gilbert Mr Earl Palmer and
Mr B F Palmer 1 j
The bride who is a native El Reno
girl Is the only daughter of Mr and
Mrs R B Cobbs She is graduate
of the local high school Mr Gilbert
ie tho youngest eon of Mr and Mrs A
C Gilbert He too received his educa-
tion ta the El Reno schools and is now
In the employ of the Henry Behne
Jewelry store They will make thajr
tabs la tha Bryaat apartassatoat C! r
Sooth Both lstand —
Dinner Ornate
Mr and Mrs Robert Ewato hU aw
their dinner guests Sunday Brand
Mra B B Carder Mrs Lena Evans
Mr 8 H Harris Hollow Mae Lcnore
end Irene Carder
Taylor-Neleen
Announcement has been received
here of the marriage of Mlaa Evelyn
Eloise Taylor daughter of Mr nnd -Mrs
Frank Taylor of this city nnd
Richard S Nelson of Wichita Kan
the ceremony being performed on
Tuesday evening at 7 o’clock by Rev
Hulton former pastor of the Bap-
tist church at the HuJton residence
Mr Nelson is general manager of the
Kansas and Oklahoma branch of the -American
Credit Indemnity company
of New York with headquarters at
Wichita Kan The couple will make
their home in Wichita
MASQUERADE CARNIVAL
A masquerade carnival wUl be held
at Green Valley school house on the -evening
of October SlsL A ten cent
fee will be taken from all attending’
who are unmasked
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Fire Whistle
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will blow four blasts to an-
nounce that the break in
the Oklahoma Natural Gas
Company’s gas line has been
repaired and gas service
will be resumed in 1 hour’s
time
Oklahoma Gas &
Electric Company
JOHN T NAYLON Mgr
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Third Annual Horse Show
El Reno Oklahoma
' November 8 9 10 1923
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V 1 Fair Grounds Pavilion
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The Big Event of the Season
Admissions 8100
Tlokst for Thrss Nights 8200
Studsnts 2Go
“ LEARN THE WAY”
A New Store With An Old Name
AFTER retiring from the clothing busi-
ness three years ago I have decided to
enter the field again and have located at
200 South Bickford (the Butts 9 building)
where you will find a new stock of dom-
ing Shoes and Furnishings for Men and
Boys
It is going to ' be the policy of this firm to
handle good staple lines of merchandise
and sell for cash saving the expense of
bookkeePin§ collecting and loss on bad ac-
counts giving our customers the advantage
of a low cash price on good staple merchan-
dise '
All of our stock is new just from the fac-
tory and every item sold has pur guarantee
of satisfaction and if not as represented your
money will be refunded just as cheerfully as receiv-
ed We served the people of Canadian county for
thirteen years and you £non the class of merchandise '
that we handled l and it is ouraim to maintain this
high standard You are cordially invited to call and
pay us a visit arid inspect our store and merchandise
“LEARN THE WAY "
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Beckton Clothing Company
200 South Bickford
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Bronson, E. S. The El Reno American. (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 25, 1923, newspaper, October 25, 1923; El Reno, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1785369/m1/4/: accessed June 12, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.