Claremore Progress (Claremore, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 4, 1917 Page: 6 of 8
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CAGE SIX
THE CLAREMORE PROGRESS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1 17.
E. E. NORTH COMPANY
GIVES BIG BANQUET
Plates Laid for 26 at Hotel Maaon and
All Had Fine
Time
GUESTS REPRESENT COMPANY
Interesting and Instructive Speeches
Made by Several of the
Guests.
CLAREMORE NEWS
This Case Hat a Hint for Many Prog-
ress Readers.
A Claren.ore von.an has used
Doan's Kidney PKls.
She ha found then as represented.
She v ishe her neighbors to know.
She publiclv re>.omTrends them.
No need to look further for a.te-ted
kidney remedy.
Tlie proof of merit is h.*re andean
The E. E. North Company gave a
Banquet to all of its stockholders,
salesmen and managers at the Mason be investigated
Hotel Saturday evening. The guests: Profit b> 'he stst • '• n; '>■ Mrs s
assembled nt" the company's office H Goodwin. S.vmt.i and Winona
rooms at eight o'clock and were shown st, She >:i; . "1 o .M"t ben«t over
through the wholesale department and I w ju,n ( . down without
from there to the retail store, thence'
to the Hotel where a bountiful spread
was enjoyed by all. Plates were set
for twenty-six.
After the sumptuous five-course,
luncheon, S. B. North, secretary-treas-1 tiilke-on l>r K i and Mi \v -a
urer of the company, arose and in | <iulc k rMief and sw n rid me
well chosen words gave an interesting troubl- ent.rel
detail of the company's growth and' from V dney di
great pain in my b'i:k. At t.ines my
back was so sore I could hiul y Ret
around to do my work. I bought
I loan's Kidne Pills at 11 e Hall *•
me
the
I hive beei fr^e
rler ever s nee."
Price 60c, at ai; dei'«
Milb'ir Co.. Mfgrs., lluffa
development. Many good points on
efficiency and management were brot |
out. al u of system and true salesman-
ship. The e remarks were very much
appreciated by all, as well as by the
.-uler-men and managers. After show-
ing conclusively that the company had
made a very substantial growth and
that larger ami better things were in
store for it, Mr. North called on dif-
ferent ones of the party for state-
ments. Good, instructive talks were
given by C. A. Senseman, travelinR
salesman with headquarters at Ponca
City; . Cunning and L. R. Can-
field, managers of the shipping de-
partment; K. P. Hardy and J. W.
Jones, of the local retail store; J. W.
i lillinjrham, construction manager for
the company, and several of the stock-
holders, among them J. 51. Bridwell
of Wagoner, K. W. Canfield and J. J.;
Sanders of Claremore. F. E. Carl-
-ttrom, of Oolagah, and others.
Mr. Gillingham is a man of wide|
experience, having been with S. H.
Kress & Co., for a number of years
and some of the large syndicates of
the United States. His talk was ex-
ceptionally good, bringing out the
thoj of importance of details, the
value of knowing how and why. was>
J'hfi whole evening was very enjoy- , . Ur<1
able, seeming like a large family re- StrawaticL-
union. The spirit of the occasion was lf bale{1
great, cementing a lasting friendship Publishing
Foster-
s'. Y
Claremore and Vicinity
Homer Draper spent the first of the Mr. and Mrs. Lew Barnes, of De-
week in Kansas City on business. troit. Mich., spent Thursday in the
Bert Krauter, of Fargo, is in the city guests at the A. L. Kates home
ity on business and for a short visit Mr. and Mrs. Barnes lived here lomu
with relatives and friends. 23 years ago.
The City Council held a lengthy Pruitt Shelton went to Tulsa Fri-
session Monday night. All claims day. He is engaged in the oil busi-
were allowed and other routine busi- ness at Chelsea.
ness was transacted. S. C. Vinson spent Thursday and
The Board of County Commission- m Oklahoma City. He said
ers convened Monday in r egular
monthly session.
John Bybee. of Oolagah, spent Tues-
goods but his friends believe he went
to attend the state fair.
Mrs. Buford Cardin and young son,
;ngyfrnienhdes.City °" h"81""' ^ ^ Buford, went to ^Wequah _Thuw^y
Mrs. L. B. Hchl and daughter,
Florence Louise, of Sand Springs, are
in the city on a visit to friends.
for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Nor-
wood Peterson.
Harry Martin, of Tulsa, spent
. . Thursday and Thursday night in the
Mr. and Mrs. Whitney Stewart arc- cjtv wfth relatives. He returned to
the proud parents of a 1<>-pound girl Tu'lsa Kri(lay morning.
tZ «?nne'fin," " Mes,lames Bert Krauter and Floyd
babe getting along fine ( lift spent Thursday and Friday in
Mrs. H. 11. Kaho went to Pittsburg. Tuisa visiting friends and taking in
Kan., Tuesday afternoon for a visit ^ sjKj,ts.
with her brother, who is soon to go jjrB< pyu|tt
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Ladies wore bustles.
Operations were rare.
Nobody swatted the fly-
Nobody had seen a silo.
Nobody had appendicitis.
Nobody wore white shoes.
Nobody sprayed orchards.
('ream was "> cents a pint. ..- , ,,,
Mo-' young men had "liberty bills." |,eat j* on Main street.
to a training camp.
Jim Nairn, of Nowata, passed thru
the city Sunday enroute home from
attending the officers' training camp
at Leon Springs, Texas. He resigned.
Hiram S. Garst is moving this week
into the Ben Hester property on East
Seventh street, Bert Draper having
purchased the property occupied by
Mr. Garst.
Ed Ham, who is now working on
the Tulsa police force, spent Tuesday
in Claremore visiting friends anil
transacting business. Ed says his
A. L. Farmer, national bank exam-
iner, with headquarters at Tulsa,
spent a short time in Claremore Sat-
urday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Payne will
spend Sunday in Owasso with their
daughter, Mrs. Stewart Arbuckle.
Miss Bonnie Sue May will spend
Sunday in Wagoner with her parents.
She is stenographer at the court
clerk's office.
Sheriff John W. Green and deputy,
John Thurman, spent Friday in Tulsa
as witnesses in the United States
court.
C. A. Hale, of Little River, Kansas,
arrived here Friday to be at the bed
side of his little daughter, Marie, who
■is dangerously ill with typhoid fever.
John Burrows spent Friday in No-
wata on business. Mr. Burrows has
until recently been employed at Col-
linsville but now again calls Clare-
more his home.
Miss Olive Laderer, of MePherson,
Kan., will arrive in Claremore Sun-
day for a visit with Mrs. Mary A. Da-
vis and other friends.
S. A. Miller went to Sageeyah Sat-
urday morning on business.
Ernest Schrimsher, postmaster at
Collinsville, spent Friday in Clare-
( antaloupes were muskmelons.
You never heard of a "tin Lizzie.'
Doctors wanted to see your tongue.
Milk shake was a favorite drink.
Adveertisers did not tell the truth.
Nobody cared for the price of gas-
oline.
Fanners came to town for their
mail.
The hired girl drew one-fifty a
week.
The butcher "threw in
liver.
Jack Buldwin, of Oklahoma City,
spent Tuesday in Claremore with
friends. He has just returned from
Miami. He says there are plenty of
investments there if one just ha* the
■"in of the realm.
Oiling of West Third street would
i\e a meat deal of expense to the
city and county. A Reavy rain places
the street in an almost impassable
ondition and dragging is a necessity,
a chunk of expense of which could be avoided
should the authorities see fit to ex-
and confidence among all. i wag not a business
Those enjoying the evening were: p ,e th ht English
E. E. North, president of the com- ••birds"
pany; Mr. and Mrs. S. B. North, Mr. i Aere
and Mrs. K. W. Canfield, Mr. and
Mrs. L. R. Canfield, Mr. and Mrs. L-
Folks said pneumatic tires were a pen<| a few dollars for crude oil.
joke. W. p. Hutchins, John Thurman and
Nobody ''listened in" on a tele- Hr.vertield went to Collinsville
phone. | or the country thereabouts Tuesday
There was no sane ]• ourths, no' afternoon They were loaded for
ere burned instead' >fpatty Nicholson, stenographer
from Nowata, returned home Friday
country newspaper! ,fter a ^hort business trip here.
Miss Lila B. Murphy left Thursday
sparrows, nit^-ht for Phoenix, Arizona, for a visit
were "birds." . , with friends.
Jules Verne was the only convert to; an(j jfrs Melvin Means left
the submarine. j Thursday nigit /or points in Arizona
You stuck tubes in your ears to
Ault prvi'. >s
stuck tubes in your toj for u visit with friends,
phonograph and it cost a dime. ];tif W ithers, of the
lingham, J. J. Sanders, F. E. Carl-
strom, C. C. Cunning, C. J. Adding-
ton, manager of the Mi&rai store, K.
P. Hardy, J. H. Jones, W. A. Waga-
jr.an, traveling salesman with head-
quarters at Coffeyville, Kan., C. A.
Senseman, J. M. BiJwell and P. W.
Holtz-ndorff.
oufcty till.) Republican.
INOLA
in Missouri taking M vacation.
Shelton, of Chelsea,
arrived in the city Thursday night
for a visit with relatives and friends.mort, on business and visiting friends.
Joe Krauter, prescription clerk at John jj Krench, justice of the peace
the Collins Drug Co.. goes to Kansas at Collinsville, spent Friday in Clare-
City, Mo., Sunday there to attend " more on business and with friends,
dental college. Mr. Krauter has at- Attorney Tomerlin, of Oklahoma
tended this school before. City, hr.d business in the district court
Mrs. E. A. Church, of Locust hem Friday.
Grove, who has been in the city on n Harold Boyd spent Friday evening
visit to friends, returned home Fri-! in the city ot* Tulsa with friends.
■ lay morning. Mrs. Church is a form- Attorney C. B. Holtzendorff spent
er resident of Claremore. While here Saturday in Wichita, Kan., on busi-
she subscribed for The Claremore ne.ss.
IVogress, saying she must have the
home news.
Attorney A. Nicodemus. of Collins
v-ille, spent Friday in the local courts
on business.
Claude Nichols has returned from a
few days spent in Oklahoma City at-
tending the state fair.
F. L. Dale, of Foyil, spent Friday
in Claremore on business. He has re-
Miss Thelma Burgess has accepted signed his position as cashier of the
:i position at the Putman Market. F°y'' Sta*e Bank-
«. v n it i . . uv, i The foilQwintr marriajre licpnse was
K. 1). I ollard w^ent to Checotah Tri- jj.sue(j Saturday: Bee Samuel Hensley,
day morning on business. 23, to wed Miss Martha Poe, IS, both
Attorney J. F. Orr, of Collinsville, residents of Chelsea.
spent Friday In Claremore on busi- Milo Foyil, city clerk, spent Satur-
ness in the local courts. : day in the Miami mining district-
H. O. Hurst went to Wagoner Fri- j Misses Golden Payne and Irene
day morning. He is managing a mill Foyil went to Owasso Saturday morn-
and elevator for The OBannon Co., atjing for a visit with Mr. and Mrs.
that place. j Stewart Arbuckle.
Mrs. ". B. Beall, of Muskogee, is Ortle, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L.
visiting Mrs. F. L. Winkler, at the I Shelton, is quite sick, being threaten-
Berwick Hotel, this week. I ed with typhoid fever.
L- 1) Odom and W. T. Taylor re- Mrs. W. L. Shelton, who received
turned Friday oi<;rping from a two
days' trip to the state fair at Oklaho-
ma City.
P. W. Samuel, president of The
First State Bank or Vinita, spent Fri-
day in Claremore on business and vis-
iting friends.
Roy D. Noel, of Pittsburg. Kan.,
drove down Monday for a visit with
injuries by being thrown from a bug-
gy last week, is improving slowly.
Miss Marie Hale, who is suffering
from typhoid fever, is reported tq be
none improved
Oren Stafford, of Buffalo. Mo., is
m the city for a visit with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. B. Stafford.
Fay Hite, of Arkansas City, Kan.,
Casper Lipe and family motored to
Tulsa Sunday and spent the evening.
Buford Carden and J. W. Bishop
drove to Tulsa Sunday and attended
the Passion Play.
Vess Berryhill, of Sapulpa, visited
with friends in Claremore Sunday.
Mrs. Joe Chambers spent Saturday
in Tulsa a guest of friends.
E G. Berridge. editor and proprie-
tor of the Oolagah Tribune and Talala
Times-Gazette, was in tfce city Mon-
day He reports his business very
«ood as a result of his first month s
operations. Mr. Berridge is a home
boy and everybody wishes his well.
Reverend 11. M. Gardner was re-
ported on the sick list Monday.
F. A. Neilson. of Coffeyville. Kan.,
spent Monday in Claremore on busi-
ness— His usual monthly visit.
A footbridge would be a downright
convenience across Cat creek on
West Third street. ,
M. Haas returned Saturday from a
several days visit to the St. Louis
Mo., market. While there he bought
many pretty things for the Haas
StMfss Ruby Theton, of Tulsa, spent
the latter part of the week in Clare-
more visiting Miss Trella Wilson.
Miss Trella Wilson leaves tonieht
for Topeka, Kan., where she will at-
tend business college.
Mrs. Eugene Hardgraves received
word Monday from her grandmother
at Oklahoma City, Mrs. S. J. Plank, is
very low at that place.
Ernest Humphrey, of Miami, spent
Monday in the city with friends and
on business.
Guy Michael, of Collinsville, spent
Sundav in the city with friends
A1 M. Suchanek and Howard Clift,
both enployees of the Progress, spent
the ilny on the Verdigris river Sun-
day near Sageeyah, and returned in
the evening with about seven pounds
of fine fish as a result of their day's
sport
Buford Pickett enrolled Friday in
the Telegraphy Department of the
Chillicothe Business College, of Chil-
lirothe. Mo. Mr. Pickett is a son of
Mrs. Bud Bacon.
Misses Lois and Morris Buchannan
spent Saturday and Sunday in Inola
visiting at the F. M. Courtney home
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Buchanan visit-
ed friends in Inola Sunday, making
•he trip in their car.
DEAD LETTER LIST
List of letters remaining uncalled
for at this office for the week ending
Sept. 24, 1917:
Names—Ladies
Miss Emilie Adairi Miss Isabel Bar
ton, Mrs. Annie Cockrell (2), Mri
Nellie Chiltign, Mrs. Lizzie A Wea
ver, Mrs. Florence Wells
Names—Men
Burri.;s Curley-Chief, G. M. Collins,
TO BE WON BY FAMINE INSTEAD
OF FIGHTING
Seven years ago a famous Euro-
pean Student of history prophesied
that the next great war of the future
would not be won by fightmg but by
famine. We are today fighting that
war, and famine is indeed threatening
to be its arbiter.
The men of Enuland, Scotland, Ire-
land, France. Italy, and Belgium—our
allies—are fightinp; they are not on
the farms. The production of food by
these countries has therefore been .
greatly reduced. Even before the war visiting friends
it was much less than the amount con- here.
stimed. The difference came more S. N. North and Newton I-yl^s majUj
largely from other countries than « business trip last week to Winfield,
from America. Now, this difference Kansas.
is greater than ever, and. at the same J A W illiams and son, Garvin, of
time, supplies can no longer come I-amsr. m the first of the week
Miss Olive Chenhall, teacher at the
Pleasant View school, has typhoid fe-
ver and Miss Hi'da McLain is teach-
ing in her plac
Miss Grace Williams, of Claremore,
who has been visiting with friends
here for the past week, returned home,
Sunday ni.*rht.
H. K. Kusch and family visited at |
Collinsville last Sunday, making thej
trin in their car.
The Inola soldier boys who are at
Camp Travis write home that they
are well pleased with their quarters!
and that everything is moving along
nicely.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Crawford, of
Choteau, visited last Sunday with Dr.
S. c. Rutherford and family.
Mrs. .T. W. Dean, of Little Rock, and]
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Heasley, of Wich-j
ita Falls, Texas, were here Sunday i
They formerly lived
his sister, Mrs. H. H. Kaho. Mr. Noel I spent Monday in the city with his
... ...... — . i« a conductor on the K. C. S.. but will grandmother. Mrs. Mary Richardson,| Henry Carson, A. S. Couch, Frank
Jamei Ryan, local real estate man. ieaVe /qt the training camp Wed-: and daughters. Crow, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Coulter, Har-
spent Friday in Inola on businefc>. nesday. Mrs. R. K. Adair, of Radium town,; ry Ham, Henry Reece, C. B. Settle.
Me dames J. W. Bishop and M. Hi ||rb. Jqe Chambers returned Satur- lis r^p. rt*-d to be quite sick. [ These letters will be sent to the
Gcrdon went to Tulsa Friday morning day morning from an extended visit I Earl Fry, .jofcsp Willis, Wayne dead letter office Oct. 8, 1917, if not
for a vi* i with relatives and friends,; jn Kansas City, Mo., with her parents.| Ross, Victor Martin and W l Ment- delivered before. In calling for the
J l rank Kyw: returned Friday | Vern Rogers, of Collinsville, spent | gompry motored to Tulsa Sunday and ■ above please sj#y "advertised," givmg
norninjr fr-m a business visit to Jop-! Friday m Claremore visiting friends attended tU Pussion Play at one of; date of same.
|jn> Mo. and transacting buslnes*. ! the theatres there. A. L- KATES, Postmaster.
from most of the other countries.
They must now come from America
Therefore, our allies depend on us for
food as they have never depended be-
fore, and they ask us for it with a
right which they have never had be-
fore. For today they are doing the
fighting, the suffering and dying—in
our war.
We must send them the food they
have to have. We will send it. But
we can only do it by a wise and loyal
economy of food on the part of every
to take charge of the Inola Telephone
Co., in place of J. B. Kintr resigned. |
Mr. Williams' family will follow later. I
John Elliott and family have lately!
returned from a visit to relatives at
Granby, Mo.
Mrs. N. D. Ixiwe, of Claremore, vis-
ited with relatives here last week.
Mrs. John Greene returned home!
last week from a visit to relatives atj
Lebanon, Mo.
W. W. Hubbard and family made a
visit to Claremore Sunday, makincr the |
trip in their fine new Oldsmobile.
one of us. We must stimulate our food ,, „ XT n . , . .
production, organize our food hand!- „.M' % R; N . an<1 daughter,
jngT eliminate all the waste possible,; "lss Jws'e. Vls,ted Claremore Satur-
""ft
ducts, and sugar, and reduce consump- £er, Miss Leota, of Choteau, visited
ti on where it is excessive. hertf Saturday and Sunday.
To accomplish these things is the L. Rees, of Muskogee, was here
problem of the United States Food !afst WPek ,ook^ aft^ hls lar^ farm |
Administration. But this accomplish- ln„rest?;, r . '
ment can come only from the combin- M,ss Florence Evans, who is teach
7U the peopl'' ''f the land. To that and visited her parent., Mr. and Mrs.
end we want all the people to join the ^ \ ^ans, until Sunday evening.
Food Administration No fees or dues; JJ " * pr°V,n* t0 a
merely a promise to help. Send for( m i m^ir a k ♦ • I
our membership pledge aid our plan. * J.
U. S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION. ! l" f ral?KS and Webber Falls the frrst
Washington, D. C. of,, , , . . .
' H. E. Roberts made a business trip
FREE OF CHARGE to the county seat Wednesday.
H. E. Roberts is drilling for oil on
Why suffer with indigestion, dy.- $e,I£™,en farm' 5 miles northwest
pepsia, torpid liver, constipation,
sour stomach, coming-up-of-food-af-
ter-eating, etc.. when you can get a
sample bottle of GREEN'S AUGUST
FREE OF CHARGE
... n-n-rr, r . <rv *r- ^ Any adult suffering from cough,
fr*Vl- Z '"8°n P;u,g eold or bronchitis,Js invited to call at
Co. .' This medicine has remarkable the dru(? 8tore £ vlnson Dru/ Co.
curative properties, and has demon- and get abg0lutely free, a sample bet-
strated its efficiency by fifty years tle of fcoschee's German Syrup, a
of success. Headaches are often soothing and healing remedy for all
Ca^K,^'. ,^a ■ ston?ach'. oc lung troubles, which has a succearfu!
AUGUST FLOWER is put up m 25 record for aI, Iun? tTOUblea, which haa
and 7o cent bottles, tor sale in all a successful record of fifty years.
civilized countries.
A. T. Challburg moved
from Third street into his
purchased property, the Kistler prop
erty on East Fifth street.
Mrs. Wm. Jump, of Dana, Indiana,
is visiting her mother, Mrs. R. L.
Downs, and her brother, O. L. Downs,
at Inola.
S. C. Vinson spent Wednesday in
Tulsa on business.
Gives the patient a good night's rest
free from coughing, with free expec-
Tuesday toration in the morning.
recently R^hir sizes 25 and 75 cents. For
s&.e in all civilized countries.
STRAYED OR STOLEN
Bay mare about 14 hands high, 800
lbs., scar on left of neck. Notify S. F.
P. Hyatt, Claremore, Okla., and re-
ceive pay for trouble. 33-4t
NOW-HUBBY!
Don't You Forget to Subscribe for the
Claremore Progress
I Want the News of the Boys Who Have Gone to
Fight for Us—It Will Be a Dollar Well Spent or Be
Sure to Renew if You Are Already a Subscriber.
DO IT NOW!
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