The Nowata Times (Nowata, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 12, 1923 Page: 4 of 8
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THE NOWATA TIMES THURSDAY APRIL 12 1923
“Like a Letter from Home”
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A Weekly Newspaper
By ROY U FRUIT
Official Paper' Nowata County
Official Paper Five Civilized
Indian Tribee
Catered at the Postofflce la Nowata
Oklahoma at second-class matter
8150 PER YEAR
"Cc-vers Nowata Coun-
ty Like the Dew"
leonn eng
mi io i-
nim
New Justice Appointed
Charles Walter Mason district
judge at Nowata was named by Gov-
ernor Walton to fill the vacancy oc-
casioned by the death of Justice John
H Pitchford of the state supreme
court end was give the oath of of-
fice Mnron Is 26 years old Selection
of the fifteen commissioners will be
announced later with perhaps 109
candidates contesting for the 95000
Jobs '
High Prices Were Paid
In OsageOil Lease S Jej - -y '1' 2ftt da May 1923 at the hour of April 1923 the undersigned guardian
Osage Indiana In Oklahoma are mninveii r two ocloct cl al‘ dy at the will offer for sale and aeU at public
richer by 95029000 That was the mmorintanrt ° front door of the ctmrt hoU8e ln the auction to the highest and best bidder
amount of money realized from the! ' " Xt superintendent of flty of Nowata In said county and
sale of 119 leases la the Osage field I JL'T H1 8llary ’" state effer for sale and aeU to the
auctloued off in a Pawhuska opera hghest bidder for cash the said prop-
house last week
The highest price for any single
tn oil and gas mining lease on the
17th day of Aprll'1923 at 1:30 o'clock
P M the following described la nils
is superintendent of the colored
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Witness my band this 12th day of
advertising and success
The oldest shoe-blacking firm In tho
world la going out of business Day
k Martin whose product Charles
Dickens made famous by mentioning
it In Plcklck papers Is to be sold un
der the hammer The manager of
the business saya failure to advertise
la the cause of the linn's demise
Ten years ago a hard-headed di-
rector of the Cpca Cola company de-
manded to know whether or not the
company's enormous advertising ex
penditure was Justified by tbe returns
- produced To find out tbe com-
pany cut Its advertising 60 per cent
In three widely separated section
Within less than three months sales
In those sections fell off more than
25 per cent This ln spite of the fact
that coca cola Is one of the world's
most famous "repeaters"
"James Pyle Pearline” was the first
washing powder ever marketed In
America It was the equal of any
the country has ever known experts
declare Millions of families used It
a quarter of a century ago A new
set of men bought the company They
decided to save the money they spent
for advertising Their product they
believed was too well known to be
advertising Today the average
housewife has never heard of "Pear-
line” Failure to advertise killed a
most profitable business
And still there are those whodoubt
(hat advertising Is essential to pres-
ent day business snccess
Cities Clamor for Elevators
A number of cities are preparing
to bid for favor In tbe locations of
the terminal elevators made possible
through the enactment of the Cordell
act Th state has 912GOOOO avail-
able to lend toward the construction
of co-operative warehouses and eleva-
tors Under the act the state board
of agrleulture has authority to lend
up to 50 percent of the purchase price
of sn ordinary warehouse and 60 per
rent of the value of a terminal
6hort Off era To Sea Court
Oklahoma may yet have a represen-
atllve on tbe boundary question If
plans of the attorney general and the
commerce of the land offices are suce-
essfully carried out That is possible
In spite of the fact that the United
States supreme court appointed com-
missioners to represent the govern-
ment and the state of Texas did not
appoint one for Oklahoma
George Short attorney general con-
ferred with the commissioner of the
land office and told them if they want-
ed a man to represent Oklahoma on
the commission that he would go to
Washington and personally request
the supreme court to appoint one
Short said that he had telegraphed the
department of justice Inquiring If
there was Met time for Oklahoma to
obtain a place on the commission
If the reply la favorable and If the
attorney general's trip to Washington
results in having an Oklahoma rep-
resentative appointed the commission-
ers of the land office will name the
man
Phillips of the Phillips Petroleum Co
It gave to his company tho oil rights
on a 160 acre tract on the west aide
Bidding on the tract started at 9100
Mounting by hundreds of thousands
until the balf-mllllon mark had been
passed by bids of tbs Carter 01) Co
From the Carter and Phillips campan-
les Tbe last bid of the Carter re-
presentative wa 91900000 to which
Phillips added 925000 putting the hid
up to the mark which took the lease
Three other sales were for more
than 91000000 each Ten leases
In the Burbank pool brought nearly
fifteen times as much money as was
paid for the other 138 leases sold
April A D 1923
! w F GILLESPEY
Sheriff of Nowata County Okla
Working on Now Gin
Construction work on the four-
stand cotton gin for Nowata started
this week with the arrival of W h
Williams of Hominy Mr Williams
8 well pleased with the outlook for
cotton In Nowata county
Attacked Him With Pitchfork
Following an alleged altercation
near Lenapah Saturday J W Rains
was brought to Nowata to await a
preliminary on a charge of assaulting
George Potwln with a pitchfork Satur
day morning
Governor's Nomination Confirmed
After several days of anxiety on the
part of aspirants for an appointment
and after the supreme court had spent
the greater part of tjvo days In con-
sidering the governor's nominees the
fifteen members of the newly created
supreme court commission were nam-
ed Following the selection of the com-
missioners Ben La Fayette former
chairman of the democratic state cen-
tral committee was appointed chair-
man of the state board of affairs by
Governor Walton to succeed Charles
H Ruth who goes to the commission
The governor's nominees for the
commission who were confirmed by
the supreme court are: J 8 Estes
Oklahoma City P E Stephenson
Hugo R L Ray Lawton Tom V
Lyons Tulsa N B Maxey Musko-
gee B G Logsdvm Marietta B M
Threadgill Coalgate D L Plnkham
Newkirk J H Jarman Salllsaw
Cham Jones Waurlka A 8 I'ickson
Beaver J M Shackleford Ohemah
William Thompson Vlnlta: W E Fos-
ter Henryetta and Charles H Ruth
Oklahoma City The commissioners
will nssist the supreme court with Its
docket on which it is far behind In
consdvration of cases Salary of the
commissioners will be 95000 a year
KANSAS CITY MARKET LETTER
April 10 1923
Supplies of killing cattle were again
too liberal today and values were gen-
erally steady to 15 cents lower with
the low priced kinds figlly steady
Hogg averaged 5 to 10 cents higher
with top Rt 8810 Rest steers sold
today around $9 to 8950 Sheep and
Iambs held fully steady with wooled
lanmbs Rt 91410 and Arizona spring
era at 814
Today's Receipts — Receipts today
were 11000 cattle 21000 hogs and 7-
O00 sheep compared with 9000 cat-
t'o 18000 hogs and 6000 hep a
week aco and 8913 cattle 8679 hogs
and 6341 sheep a year ago
Reef Cattle — The mnrket on all fat
killing classes opened very slow and
dull and packer buyers were bearish
and discriminating on all classes that
run Into money The hulk of tho bet-
ter grades of steers sold around 9SR0
te 8950 The low prices kind around
87 to $S25 were steady and were the
easiest moved Good cows continued
scarce and hold Billy steady Heifers
and mixed yearlings were weak to
15 cents lower Most cows sold
around 9450 to 8650 with tops at
750 The bulk of the snles on heif-
ers ranged around 87 to 98 Calves
were steady to 50 cents lower with
veals around $8 to 89
f Stockers and Feeders— There was s
more llhernl supply of desirable stock-
era and feeders today The kinds
mrst suited sold readily nt steady
prices but the plainer grades were
more or less neglected Most Stock-
ers sold around 7 to 8S with selected
kinds nt 8825
Hogs — Receipts of hogs were mod-
erntely liberal but there wa Im- ( The Xoaa T1“p9
provement In the demand and trade ’r an 2®'
was fairly active with values geneJ n h" Cnl °f N°ata
ally 5 to 10 cents higher Top fat Couny Oklahoma
In the Mutter of the Guardianship
Hall Employed at Pawhuska
J O Hall has been employed for a
three-year term as superintendent of
Pawhuska schools Ho will receive
85000 for the first year 85500 for
the second and $6000 for the third
year
Mrs E F Austin of Nowata re-
cently entered the Moody Bible In-
stitute Chicago Illinois and Is now
enrolled In the Bible-Muslc course
Being a pastor's wife and having been
engaged In Young People's work she
desires the thorough training given
at the Institute
LENAPAH NEW8
Snm E Keith from here was at-
tending to business matters at No-
wata last Saturday afternoon
Mr and Mrs William Clay were
business shoppers and visitors at Cof-
feyvllle the middle part of the week
C U Owens was transacting busi-
ness at Nowata the first part of the
week
Mr and Mrs John A Kidd made
a trip by motor to Coffeyvllle attend-
ing to business Interests and visiting
friends the first part of the week
Mr and Mrs P C Suagee and
son Glene had aa their guests Mr
and Mrs M L Hiltner and daughter
Miss Symara aud sons Sunday after-
noon Miss lone Coker of this city spent
the afternoon at Coffeyvllle visiting
and shopping
Mrs J R Mattox was a business
shopper In this city and Coffeyvllle
last Thursday afternoon
Mr and Mrs F B Harris from this
place were attending to business mat-
ters at Nowata last Saturday after-
noon Mrs J B Brown accompanied by
her daughter Miss Margaret spent
the day Saturday at Coffeyvllle shop-
Railroad Consolidation Completed
The consolidation of the Oklahoma
Union Railway company with inter-
urban track from Tulsa through Sa-
pulpa to Kelfer and the Oklahoma
a ’ i April 12th 1923)
Southwestern railway with a steam
road from Bristow to Nuayaka Okla NOTICE OF SALE OF
is practically completed I F Crow LEASE
president of tbe Oklahoma Union ®tate °f Oklahoma
Railway company announced at Tulsa Nowata County as
Oklahoma to-wlt:
The NWH of the NWH of the
SWH of Section 12 Township
28 North Range 15 East contain-
ing 10 acres
Said oil and gaa lease will be sold
on the following termn and condition!
(Published In The Nowata Time to-wlt:
On Departmental form for a cash
bonnt and a royalty -
OIL AND
In The County Court
Notice Is Hereby Given la pursu-
The case of state versus Roy Daub- ance of an order of the County Court
enspeck and L E Paxton was dis-
missed in district court Tuesday fol-
lowing presentation of the state's aide
Lack of evidence was tbe reason The
two were charged with taking auto
accessories
Said sale tp be held In the County
Court room of Nowata County Okla-
homa at the time above stated
Dated this 11th day of April 1923
STEPHEN MILLER
Guardian
(Published In Tbe Nowata Times
April 12 19 26 May 3 10 1923) !
NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND UNDER
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE
Notice Is Hereby Given that ln pur-
suance of an order of sals Issued out
of the District Court of Nowata1
County Oklahoma on the 12th day of
April 1923 ln an action -wherein W i
S Raydure was plaintiff and Nellie
Underwood nee Nellie Foster C E !
Underwood and W F Miles were de-j
fendants directed to me the under-
signed sheriff of Nowata County com-
manding me to levy upon appraise
and sell the following described prop-rty-
to-wlt:
Tbe EH or SWH and the SH
of KWH of SWH and the SWH
cf SWH of NEH of Section 5
Township 27 North Range 17
East containing 110 acres more
or less In Nowata County Okla-
homa '
to satisfy a judgment and decree of
foreclosure in favor of said plaintiff
and against said defendants obtained
and made In said court on tbe 16th
day of February A D 1923 for the
sum of 825000 with interest at ten
per cent per annum from January 9
STATEMENT
Commercial National Bank
NOWATA OKLAHOMA ' '
At the close of business April 3 1923
RESOURCES
Loans and Investments $22588475
County and City warrants r 545122
U S Bonds and Oklahoma State Bonds 9331856
5 per cent Redemption Fund - J -- 250000
Federal Reserve Bank Stock L— 195000
Banking House : 1350000
Cash and Sight Exchange 1 13702083
TOTAL - 1 --$47962536
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock $ 5000000
Surplus - 1500000
Undivided Profits 368519
Circulation 4910000
Deposits - 36184017
Rediscounts ’ None
TOTAL — $47962536
Tbe above statement la correct
HUGH WILKIN80N Cashier
On tbe showing of this statement we respectfully solicit the accounts
of Individuals and ttmu who appreciate conservative banking
Four per cent paid on Time and 8avlnga Deposit
The TIMES covers Nowata County i
like the dew Read It i
hogs sold at $810 and the bulk of
sales ranged from 8790 to 8S-10
Stock pics were unchanged with sales
Bom 87 to 8725
Sheep and Lnmbs-rrartlcnllyl oUce 18 Here5r Glven that a
evervthin shown In the sheep R-
rartment was fat western lambs A I 0' m'n0T’ haa his da flled
fairly active movement waa reported !her‘!'" h'8' flnaI account and Peitlon
with prices unchanged Best wooled for d‘8chnge' a"d hat 8ad lnaI ac'
lambs sold around 814 to 81410 c"unt and fetitiof for the aPP"val
Arizona springers sold at $14
Horses and Mules— Dealers report
of same and for the discharge of said
guardian have been duly set for hear-
ing for May 1 1923 at ten o'clock A
Improved demand for good weighty
M at the County Court Room No-
horses and mules Trices are hold- ' t '
wata Oklahoma at which time any
and all persona Interested In said es-
tate may appear and contest said re-
port and petition If they so desire
" W H THOMASON
(Seal) County Judge
Glass A Calvert
Attorneys for Guardian
up well on the better grades
while the plain and common kinds
were slow to find sale and values are
uneven
CHAS M PIPKIN
Market Correspondent
The TIMES cover Nowata County
llhc the dew Read 1L
Si
ATURDAY
PECIALS!
ATTENTION MEN!
A 17 -ounce Polished
Steel Hammer-
only tC
each
Come early and get R
bargain
SPECIAL
For the Housewives
Good Quality
OIL MOPS
50
c
each
House cleaning days are
here
REED STORES CO
“Say Boy! That SIio1 Am
Some Sale Down fo Be
fry Goods Store
see ail dem peoples down
dere Thursday morning? Looked
like a camp meetin’ or sumpin”
This was the verdict of the shine boy next door
watching the mob of bargain buyers as our big
sale opened Thursday Thousands came and
bought Have you? It will pay you to lay ev-
erything aside and get in on some of these bargains
The Hub Dry Goods Stock
Now in the hands of the Johnson Sales Service of
Texas with orders to sell To turn all merchan-
dise and fixtures into cash Hence this Big
'Closing Out Sal®
You cannot afford to miss this Sale of all Sales
ni m i H BARR CLOTHING
I lie MID COMANY-Nowata
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Fruit, Roy L. The Nowata Times (Nowata, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 12, 1923, newspaper, April 12, 1923; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1924795/m1/4/: accessed June 11, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.