Chickasha Daily Express (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. SIXTEEN, No. 323, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 11, 1915 Page: 1 of 8
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Chickasha Daily Expre
All the Local Every
Day ia The Daily Exprest.
News By Wire Daily From
United Press Association.
VOLUME SIXTEEN.
ATTENDING
SCHOOL AT
AGE OF 76
"Grandma" Becomes "Moonlight'
Student in College Mound; Plans
to Write Christmas Letttr to
Daughter in Texas
GRADY CO. LEADS IN
NEW MOVEMENT
Total of 575 are Enrolled in 25
Districts with 51 Teachers
at Work; Many Pupils
Past Middle Years
Through the tireless efforts of
many of th teachers of Grady county
who have Joined hands with County
Superintendent Shepard In his cam-
paign for a better education Grady
row stands as the banner county of
the entire state of Oklahoma in the
matter of moonlight schools.
Two months ago the moonlight
fchool In Grady county was a mere
theory a theory which many thought
would be exploded by the prick of a
pin. Today there are in the county
a total of twenty-five moonlight
schools with an enrollment amounting
to a grand total of 573 while 51 teach-
ers are Instructing those who never
had the opportuniey afforded them of
attending regular schools aud learning
the simplest rudiments of that educa-
tion which the exigencies of the pres-
ent time render necessary to success
In life.
Of the total of 473 pupils enrolled In
Grady county's moonlight schools 46G
are men and women of mature years.
The totul number of 575 Is dlvidcl as
to sex of pnpll" as follows: Males
CIS; females 237.
The struggle for an education by
those who seemingly missed the
golden opportun'ty but who "are now
responding to the knocking on the por-
tals of life of that opportunity Is not
confined to the white citizenship of
the county. One hundred and sixteen
negroes are attending the night
schools now being conducted In three
out of the total of five negro schools
in Grady county. A fourth one of the
negro schools expects to start up a
nioonlig'it school with the beginning
of the sccind semester.
In the list of moonlight schools in
the county is included the North
school in Chickasha. This school has
one of the livest of all the live wire
moonlight classes which is under the
direct supervision of Principal P. H.
T.lack who conducts his regular
classes with tireless energy through-
out the day and leaches the "spe
cials" at night.
" Out of the 4G6 adult pupils in the
moonlight schools of Grady county
the majority of those attending are
between the ages of 30 and 45 years
Some are barely 21 while a goodly
number are between 23 and 30. Eight
are nat fitty years. Three are sixty
years of ape and one is a grandmother j
of 76 years. This lady whose name
the teacher failed to disclose is a
pupil in the moonlight school at Col-
lege Mound near Rush Springs and
taught by E. Drightwell.
Mr. Brlghtwell writes Superin-
tendent Shepard a newsy and an In-
teresting letter about the progress
made In his school of adults and in
speaking of the lady above referred to
states that three weeks ago she could
neither read onr write but can now
read simple sentences in both the
rtomnn iptters and In script and is
learning to write with commendable
rapidity. This lady has a married
daughter residing In western Texas
and Khe intends sending this daughter
as a Christmas gift a letter written
by herself.
In referring to the efforts of the
adult negroes to gain the rudiments
of an education under the opportun-
ities of the moonlight school provis
ions Mr. Shepard stated this morn-
ing that practically the entire attend-
ance of that race was composed of
men and women of middle age aud
said that one of the three pupils whose
nee 1b aixty venrs is a jegro and an
attendant at one of the negro schools.
While Grody cotmey undoubtedly
htands at the head of the column of
noonlipht schools In Oklahoma the
movement is younger in this than in
almost any other county In the state.
The first moonlight school to be or-
gunized In this county was at Ninne-
kah about the first of November.
There was not It Is stated a moon-
light school fully organized In the
county at the time of the holding of
the teachers' convention in Chickaeha.
Practically if not two-thirds of the
entire number of moonlight schools In
Grady were organized after the
middle of November.
That the teachers are taking the
greatest interest In the movement Is
evidenced by the following extract
from a letter written Superintendent
Shepard by a rural teacher who is at
the head of one of the most success-
ful as well as one of the youngest
moonlight schools in the county. He
says "The moonlight school is un-
doubtedly proving a god-send to thou-
sands who would never otherwise
have known the pleasures of Intellec-
tual enjoyment. The pity is the move-
ment did not come sooner."
COUNTRY IS
IN MIDST OF
GOOD TIMES
Six Insurance Company Presidents
Say Wave of Real Prosperity
is Sweeping AH Sec-
tions oi U. S.
By United Press.
NEW YORK Dec. ll.-Real pros-
..not.. I. btuoantni. Vi n anltm r ( ill ii t rv I
sn-i-nrAlnsr in th nnlnlnns exDressed I
by the presidents of six of the largest
life Insurance companies In the United
States.
The prosperity of In the east 18 at-
tributed to orders for war supplies
. ... . .. ... ji.t i . i. 1
Dut it is nem mai couumuiiH m oiueri
sections including the west are due
. . aa
in . natural reaction from the depres-
sion which followed the outbreak of
the wear. I
The heads of the insurance compa-lblue
Tia n hn oxnressed the above ODin-1
Ion are W. A. Day of the New York
Eauitable J. C. Cummings of the
Etfuitablo 'Life of Iowa George B. I
Stadden of the Franklin Ufe George I
Cochran of the Pacific Mutual. Al-
fred D. Fo3ter of the New England I
Life and Jose R. Clark of the Union
Central all of whom have been attend-
ing the meeting of life Insurance com-
pany presidents here during the past
three days. -
I have never seen such prosperity I
as now; prevails especially In the I
northwest central and soutnern
states" said Clark. "These sections
are voicing the accumulated demand I
for Improved equipment and more I
land and In the south the present
condition represents an astonishing I
recovery Irom the depression which a
rear ago appeared ruinous. Texas Is I
notably in the midst of an era of pros-
perity and the closing of last year's
cotton market Piems to be forgotten. I
I expect present conditions to con-
tinue indefinitely."
STEAMER
RELEASED
By United Presa.
HALIFAX Dec. 11. The admiralty
court here has ordered the release of
the American steamer King which was
held here on the grounds that it was
German owned.
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By Lnited Press.
GALVESTON Dec. 11. The Amer-
lean steamer Ausable sailed from here
today for Denmark with a cargo or
coeton seed cake.
A British cruiser was recently
sighted in the gulf and Is believed to
be lying in wait for the Ausable.
WEATHER FORECAST.
4. For Oklahoma. 4
Tonight fair and colder In south
east nortlon. Sunday fair and
Local Temperature.
During the .twenty-four hours ending
at 8 o'clock a. m.:
warmer.
Maximum. 69 degrees.
Minimum 3.r degrees.
GERMAN INVADERS OF SERBIA AT
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One of the first pictures of the Germans on Serbian soiL It shows a Teuton Invading division halting for the
noon meal and rest. The horses an
"goulasli cannons" the portable field
EMBARK AT
MESSINA IN
'SUB' ZONE
War Correspondent is Warned ol
Danarer hv Hiiii) Whn Throw!
"
rOuu farewell ftlSSCI
Across Waves
By WILUAM G. SHEPHERD
t'. p. staff correspondent
.(. I(v 0rt 27. tBv
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mail.) "Ill help you catch your
'
boat" says a huge Italian with an
American hat American shoes big
ppectacles and a tendency to
New York slang. "You're going to
Salonika huh?'
"We've got half a day to catch the
boat. We don't need a guide
"Well half a day ain't enough with-
out me. You've got to go to the police.
to the customs office to the military
police and then to the harbor police
all In two hours before you will be
permitted to sail."
What's the use? We hire him
The ruins of Messina which was
rattled to pieces in 47 seconds one
june morning seven years ago line
the coast and run bacK up tne slopes
0f the low Sicilian mountains.
Very few citizens are rebuilding
New skeletons are coming to light
every day for over 40.0CO human be-
ng3 were shaken into eternity that
(morning. Most of the new buildings
are of wood and one-story roughly
built in Klondike style
Messina might be a '47 mining camp
in California.
We get into a rickety carriage and
go to a frame shack for our steamer
tickets. Then we ride another mile
through the ruins that line the beach
to the military police. Two or three
Italian officials must sign our pass-
ports at every place; strange assort-
ments of letters and numbers are put
rn our papers with rubber stamps.
All this is bocaupp we are going to
leave Italy; because we are journal
ists Koine to Greece; because well
just because. Europe is full of little
offices where little officers sit doing
just such things.
At last we get into a row boat with
1 cur baggage and start with our guide
I for the Italian liner that lies In the
bay.
That man you bought your tickets
n 1 f.fh(ii." cava thA Ellifie.
lui la 11 it 1 n i " r wm.-- --- - o
I "es
reDreSents the Italian steam
shlp line in Messina."
I "Yes?"
I wouldn't ride on that boat to 1
Greece for a bag full of gold."
Why not? Se sickness?"
Sea sickness nothing. Submarines.
Two ships of this company have been
blown up on the way to Greece from
Messina. Honest you couldn't get me
on that boat."
We're at the ship's ladder now.
"By golly you fellows got nerve"
says the guide whose father sold
the tickets. "Remember I told you.
God bless you. 1 wish I knew how
you come through it. My father could
not refuse to sell the tickets. He's
the agent. He couldn't tell you. Hut
I can.
By golly not for me on that
boat."
You pay him twice as much as he
asks just to get him to shut up. It's
sundown ly now. As he rows toward
CHICKASHA OKLAHOMA SATURDAY DECEMBER 11 1915.
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pack mulea are lert to graze wniie
kitchen.
STRIKE BIG GASSER
AT THIRTY FEET.
I!y United Press.
INDEPENDENCE Kansas
Dec. 31. What is believed to
be the shallowest gas well ever
struck was drilled four miles
southeast of this place where a
flow estimated at a million feet
was encountered at a depth of
thirty feet.
BOREAS MAKES
SUDDEN MOVE
At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon
the balminesss of spring permeated
the ether of Chickasha and surround-
ing territory; at 4:30 o'clock Green-
land's icy mountains had displaced
India's coral strand and the garment
merchants of Chickasha who have
been fearing that they might have to
buy a couple of carloads of moth balls
in which to pickle their large stocks
of unsold overcoats rubbed their
hands together and smiled a pleasant
smile. At 4 o'clock according to the
time recorder soon to grace the top-
most pinnacle of the city hall the
thermometer registered 08 degrees.
And every degree of it was present
and the men folks grumbled in their
shirt sleeves while the good ladies
wiped the perspiration ' from their
flushed cheeks dapped a bit of addi-
tional powder upon the tips of their
noses and drew their fur-trimmed
mantles about them with a wen-ae-fined
determination to wear their j
winter garments even though each
moment they woe them was one of
buffering turning their bodies into
that state accomplished by a good
Turkish bath. At 4:30 o'clock the
thermonsher registered thirty-two
just freezing and the winds were
coming across the wastes of Colorado
from the hinds of Manitoba whistling
and whispering and screaming and
tn thft male section of
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Chickasha's citizenry impertinent in
quiries about summer's salaries spent
in riotous living and of overcoats left
with uncles at 10 per cent a month
and telling and advising and urging
the lady element to hustle home and
put on a few rags beneath the cloaks
and fur-trimmed creations In which
thev had a few short minutes previ
ously smothered and sweated. Last
night the winds continued the cold
winds the merry winds the biting
winds the frosty winds. Those winds
toyed with one's religious inclinations
and blew everything out of the county
except the coal bill and the note which
will fall due in thirty days. Every
good resolution against swearing and
being late to Sunday school and late
at the breakfast table was blown clear
over into the rear guard of Villa's
reversed advance. This afternoon.
with the aid of the sun. the ther
mometer has manufully tried to re-
cover its strategic advance of yester-
day evening with 'Jttle success how-
ever. T. H. D'.vyer of the Chickasha Na-
tional bank returned last night from
New Orleans where he attended the
southern bankers' cotton conference.
shore he waves his arms shouts good
bye and even throws a kiss at us
as If he fully expects never to see us
again.
He won't either if we see him first.
MIDDAY REST
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t if
tne men lie aown or gainer aDoui weCO. COURT
READY TO
ADJOURN
Civil Case with Cloud of Witnesses
Consumes Greater Part of
Two Days; Criminal
Matters Cleaned Up
Following a strenuous session last-
ing two weeks the county court Judge
It. E. Davenport presiding will ad-
journ for the term at a late hour this
afternoon.
The attention of the court was occu-
pied throughout the entire day yes
terday and for the greater part of to
day in the trial of the case of R. E
Mullican vs. John Scott. A cloud of
witnesses were examined in this case
which is a suit on a note and the
matter had progressed far enough for
the court to charge the jury when it
reassembled at 1 o'clock this after
noon after the noontime recess.
At today's sitting of the court the
following proceedings were had: State
nf Oklahoma vs. John Robinson
charges violation of the quarantine
laws settled upon payment of costs
by defendant; State of Oklahoma" vs.
Harve Bailey W. G. Dobbs and Fred
Barnes liquor charges continued for
the term; W. W. Walker vs. Pat
Walker continued for the term by
consent; W. W. Wells vs. C. M. Jones
dismissed with prejudice at cost of
plaintiff.
All witnesses were discharged lor
the term at noon today as were all
jurors except those sitting on the
panel trying the case of Mullican TS.
Scott.
RELEASED FROM JAIL.
J. O. Martin sentenced by the fed
eral court to pay a fine of S100 and
to serve a 60-day sentence in the
Grady county jail for dabbling in In
toxicants was released from custody
yesterday afternoon upon an order
from Judge Campbell. Numerous
business men including the heads of
the two banks at Comanche the doc-
tors of the town and practically every
other citizen of that city had written
letters to Judge Campbell advising
him that Martin had hitherto borne a
good reputation. The letter stated
that Martin's wife was in delicate
health and that his presence at home
was badly needed. The fine was paid
and the unserved portion of the jail
sentence commuted.
TO BE WEDDED TOMORROW.
Marriage license was issued this
afternoon t E. Ward aged 28 and
Mrs. Nora Kieiber aged 38 both of
Chickasha. Announcement was given
out from the court clerk's office that
the couple would be united in mar
riage bv Rev. H. P. Bailey following
church services tomorrow morning.
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' TEACHERS IN TOWN.
Roy Windle teacher of Cottonwood
school: Miss Anna Mae Dempsey
teacher of Freeman school; J. A. Till
man teacher of Tabler school; Miss
Lucinda Hickman teacher of Laverty
school; Mr. and Airs. C. H. Russell
teachers of the Ninnekah schools and
J. A. Tillman superintendent of the
Minco city schools were in Chicka-
sha this afternoon on business with
the county superintendent.
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PAVING HEARING IS
POSTPONED TO DEC. 21.
Attorney Alger Melton was
notified today that the staU
supreme court had postponed
the arguments on the motion
for a rehearing the Chickasha
paving case till Tuenday De-
cember 21. The hearing was
originally set for next Tues-
day.
DIVORCE ASKED.
Through her attorney George B.
Forrester Mrs. Pearl Smith today
filed suit for divorce against her hus
band Don P. Smith. Plaintiff alleges
desertion and Infidelity and names the
party for whom she alleges her hus-
band forgot his home ties and mar-
riage promises.
BILLED TO
GO ROUTE
OF DMA
Another Austrian Diplomat in Seri-
ous Danger of Being Invited
to Depart; Evidence
Given to Lansing
By United Press.
WASHINGTON Dec. 11. Simul-
taneously with the announcement that
the Ancona note had been delivered
to the Austrian foreign office It be-
came known that Baron Sewiedinek
the temporary successor of Ambassa-
dor Dumba is in grave danger of fol-
lowing the latter home at the request
of the United States government.
Photographs of letters which the
acting Austrian ambassador is alleged
to have written to the Austrian consul
general in New York in August 1914
planning wholesale forgery of Amer-
ican passports have been handed to
Secretary Lansing It is reported.
It is understood that the note of the
United States to Austria on the An-
cona affair which is said to bo prac-
tically an ultimatum will be made
public Monday. In the meantime offi-
cials decline to discuss the situation
Tmt admit that the danger of a break
in diplomatic relations Is serious.
Ambassador Bernstorff late yester
day afternoon delivered to the state
department a communication from the
German government stating that the
Kaiser had ordered the recall of the
embassy attaches who had made them
selves "persona non grata" to this
government and asking for safe con-
ducts for them to return to Germany.
HASTENING
TO ENLIST
Bv United Press.
LONDON Dec. 11. In a whirlwind
attempt 10 stave 011 cuiisuhimiuii.
thousands of men today overwhelmed
the recruiting officers in London and
in provincial cities anxious to enlist
in the anwy before Iord Derby's vol-
untary recruiting campaign ends at
midnight.
The rush of volunteers was so great
in many places that the usual medical
examinations were eliminated. Hun-
dreds of school teachers were called
upon to assist the recruiting officers.
MINISTERS HELPED CAMPAIGN.
In the recent educational campaign
conducted in Grady county the minis
ters of the different cities and towns
of the county rendered most material
aid teachers of both the rural and
the cillage schools say. Six ministers
of the county of different religious af
filiations spoke at different rallies in
the county in the interests of a better
school.
WEATHER ELSEWHERE.
Western Union reports received at
S o'clock a. m.:
OKLAHOMA Partly cloudy. Tem-
perature. 3S to 48 degrees.
TEXAS Generally clear. Temper
ature 2i! to "2 degrees
'veston and Winnsboro
NUMBER 323.
GREEKS TO
CONCEDE
NO MORE
Decision is to Resist Further De-
mand of Allies; Military Au-
thorities Sent to Frontier
After Conference
DESPERATE FIGHT
BELIEVED COMING
Retreat from Serbia Continue;
Movement into Greece by Ger-
mans Indicated as Final
Effort to Oust Allies
By United Press.
ATHENS Dec. 11. Greece has re-
fused to make any more concessions
to the allies t present.
Thin announcement was made a few
hours after unconfirmed reports came
stating that the allied forces were
evacuating Serbia.
Greek military authorities have
been dispatched to the frontier fol-
lowing a conference with General
Sarrail aud it is possible that their
reports may result in the resumption
of negotiations but the Anglo-French
diplomats are not hopeful.
Big Battle Imminent.
By HENRY WOOD.
U. P. staff correspondent
ROME Dec. 11. One of the most
desperate battles of the war Is be-
lieved to be Imminent as the allies
continue their retreat from Serbia.
Dispatches from both Athens and
Salonika Indicate that Germany In-
tends to carry an encircling move-
ment into Greek territory.
The combined Austrian German
and Bulgarian forces are expected to
make a supreme effort to drive the
allies' expeditionary forces back to
Salonika.
It. is believed probable that Greece
will lie drawn into the conflict within
a fortnight. The Greeks may be
found fighting with the Teutons or
with the allies and it is possible even
that they may fight Independently re-
sisting first one and the other army
threatening Greek neutrality.
Ford Party Plans.
By United Press.
LONDON Dec. 11. The Ford peace
party may be .rmitted to Ucd at
some German port and then proceed
to Switzerland In case Holland refuses
permission for holding a peace confer-
ence at The Hague according to the
Berne correspondent of the Morning
Post.
Greeks to Demobilize?
By United Press.
PARIS Dec. 11. A Bpatch from
an Athens news agency says Greece
will soon demobilize her army.
Evacuate Lemberg.
By United Press.
LONDON Dec. 11. Reports from
Petrograd say it is rumored that the
Austro-Germans were forced to evac-
uate Lemberg because of an epidemic.
Mackcnsen at Turkish Capital.
By United Press.
ROME Dec. 11. It Is reported that
General Mackensen has arrived at
Constantinople with two regiments ot
infantry.
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Many Killed In Explosion.
Ey United Press.
PARIS Dec. 11. Dispatches re-
ceived here say many were killed by
the explosion of a Belgian powder
plant at Grandville.
Germans' Electricity for 8rltij.
(U. P. correspondence.)
LONDON Nov. 2. (By mail.)
How a part of the British line was
supplied with German electricity was
told today by a member of the London
Irish Rifles. British telephone line-
men found two live eeableg back of
the British lines in northern France.
The current came from a German gen-
erating statiou somewhere across No
Man's Land. The linemen soon fitted
wires and piped the current Into ba-
tallion headquarters the dressing sta-
tions the officer's dugouts and other
points. Incandescent lamps were sup-
plied from a nearby village and Ger.
Rain at Gal-j man electricity was thoroughly en-
' jo;-ed "by all."
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