The Hennessey Clipper (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 19, 1916 Page: 2 of 12
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THE CLIPPER, HENNESSEY, OKLAHOMA
NEWSOFTNE
STATE CAPITAL
CREDITS OF STATE SCHOOL FUND
SIX AND ONE-HALF MIL-
LION DOLLARS.
NEWS FROM STATE OFFICES
What the State Officials and Depart-
ments Are Doing—Items of In-
terest About the State
Government
■"■ollectlons by the stale school land
department during the month of Sep-
tember which reached a total of $551,-
147.43, were the largest for a single
month in the history of the depart-
ment. Total collections for the first
nine months of the calendar year,
ending on September 30, were $2 562 -
909.95.
Of the total collected during the '
montho f September $18,722.02 was t
collected in the lease division, $423,- |
164,96 was collected In the sales di-
vision, $108,3Sy.r.4 was collected in the j
farm loan division> and $880.91 was j
collected in the home ownership di- i
vision.
Sales Returns Large.
"It will be noticed that the largest
collection was in the sales division,"
said Secretary Smith. "This repre-
sents payments of both installments
and interest on lands that have been
sold by the state. During the month
of September, 1914, the total collec-
tions were $243,539.36. In September,
1915, during which month a big land
sale was being held, the total collec-
tions were $383,220.92, and it, there-
to^ came as a complete surprise to
the department that September this
year exceeded that of last year by
$167,926.51.
Activity In Farm Loans.
The farm loan division was also
very active during this month and
paid out during the month on farm
loans the sum of $261,761,25. During1
the month there was collected by the
farm loan division the sum of $184,-
085.29, belonging to the permanent
common school fund, leaving a cash
balance in the permanent common
school fund at the end of the month
of $492,064.38.
On May 31, 1916, there was a cash
balance in this fund of $1,022,261.04
since which time it has been decreas-
ed to the September balance as shown
above. To consume this balance of
$492,064.38 we have pending a little
over a million dollars in farm loan ap-
plications. The commissioners of the
land office are not alarmed by having
more applications than funds, because
the rapid collections insure that by
the time the lands are appraised, the
titles examined and money ready to
pay out funds will be accumulated suf
flcient. to cover all applications pend-
ing, but for the present applications
cannot be received from counties
which have overdrawn their pro rata
part of the permanent common school
fund.
The report of the farm loan division
also shows that the loans now total
the sum of $5,687,626. This does not
include the applications pending, but
the loans that have actually been
made.
The total credits of the permanent
common school fund, including loans,
cash on hand and current county ex-
pense bonds, amounts to $6.588,555.48
In 1915 November furnished the lar-
gest collection, the amount being $502,-
318.66. If November of this year ex-
ceeds November of last year as much
as September of this year exceeded
September of last year, the collec-
tions will be almost staggering, and
v the distribution of common school
funds to the schools next January
will be most gratifying.
U. 8. PAYS 1200,000 REFUND.
A check for $200,000 was turned
over to the Oklahoma corporation
commission by representatives of the
United States Express Company
which went out of business some time
ago following Inauguration of federal
parcel post service. The money rep-
resents refunds due to shippers of the
j state on payments made to the com-
| pany during its appeal to the state
' supreme court from the decision of
tne corporation commission. The
commission refused to allow the com-
pany higher rates, and its decision
was sustained by the court.
The express company settled Its Ok-
lahoma obligations after an agreement
| had been reached between its repre-
sentatives and Attorney General Free-
ling. The corporation commission
was then notified and a judgment ren-
dered against the company, which was
paid within a few minutes by check.
The Wells-Pargo owes refunds
amounting to $125,000, according to
the contention of the commission, and
the American Express Company re-
funds to the extent of $100,000. Neither
have liquidated these claims.
The last chapter in the famous ex-
press cases was being written when
the corporation commission began a
hearing of the express companies' re-
quest to be permitted to put into ef-
fect a zone system of rates instead of
the mileage system now used.
It was during the caurse of this
hearing that the United States com-
pany came to its decision to pay its
refunds.
MEW TYPE OF SCOUTING AIRCRAFT AT SALONIKI
j( STATE NEWS N0TEs|
SHADOWS Oc COMING fcVSLNT*.
^Oct 10-12 —Stephens county fair, Dua*.
14—Henry Kendall College at Nor-
can.
Oct.
man.
Oct. 21—University of Oklahoma va
University of Texas at Dallas.
Oct. 28—University of Missouri at Nor-
man.
Nov 1-3.—Garfield county fair, Wau.
komis.
Nov. 4—University of Oklahoma va
University of Kansas at lawrence.
Nov. 11 - KinRflsher College at Norman
Nov. 18—Kansas State Agricultural
College at Norman.
Nov. 25— University of Oklahoma vs
University of Arkansas at Fort Smith
Nov. —Oklahoma A. & M. College at
Oklahoma City.
March, 1917.— Fouthwest Live Stock
Sliow, Oklahoma City.
.. Aeroplane basket of the new type,of scouting aircraft used by the ullies on the JSuloniki front. This is a com
blnation balloon and aeroplane. The huge gas bag is not shown.
BOSTON WINNING FIRST GAME OF WORLD'S SERIES
Normal Course in 23 High Schools.
Normal training courses of 23 high
I schools have been approved and the
j courses of 36 others have been sub-
mitted and are now under considera-
tion for approval, according to figures
: Siven out by State Superintendent Wil-
son. Those now under consideration,
j it was stated, will be acted upon be-
for the meeing of the State Teachers'
Association here the latter part of
I November.
The schools which have applied and
have been approved and the number of
I students enrolled in the normal train-
ing work are as follows: Ardmore, 14;
' Blackwell, 13; Checotah, 7; Chickasha
) 10; EI Reno, 21; Elk City, 11; Enid, 26;
Guthrie, 13; Hobart, 8; Holdenville',
! 11; Hugo, 16; Lawton, 13; McAlester,
12; Mangum, —; Muskogee, 22' Okla-
homa City, 44; Okmulgee, 5; Pryor,
13; Shawnee 17; Tulsa, 15; Vinita
Waurika, 7: University Preparatory
! school, Tonkawa, 25.
There aren ine colleges on the list
awaiting approval, including the six
district agricultural schools, The
other institutions are Henry Kendall
college, Tulsa; Phillips university of
Enid, and the negro normal training
high school at Muskogee.
Expense Money Unlawful.
County officials who accept money
from manufacturers of culverts, roail
and bridge materials in payment of
expenses Incurred by officials in vis-
iting the plants of such manufactur-
ers, violate the constitution, their of-
ficial oath, and are subject to remov-
al from office, according to an opin-
in last wc«*k from Smith C. Mat-
son, assistant attorney genpral. to
uorge R. Noble, highway commis-
sioner.
The opinion was given in reply to
n letter from Mr. Noble in which was
inclosed a check for $50 from A I
flreeberg & Co.. of Terre Haute, Ind..
and made payable to Benjamin Halt-
man, of Avant.
Across the face of the check was
written "this check is for no other
purpose than to cover round trip rail-
road fare and /hotel bill to Terre
Haute, fo that your board can inspect
Zone Express Rate Will Hit Shipped.
Shippers all over the state are due
to pay much more is express rates if
the corporation commission allows the
companies to charge on a zone basis
instead of the present mileage system.
W. V. Hardie, manager of the Okla-
homa Traffic Association, has spent
practically all of the past month in
working out a table of comparisons
of the rates under the zone system and
the present one. A hearing before
the corporation commission is now on
One of the extreme increases which
will go into effect if the commission
rules favorably to the companies was
cited by Mr. Hardie. Butter and
eggs on the present mileage basis
from Geary, Okla., to Oklahoma City,
are rated at 35 cents a hundred pounds.
By the zone system the charge would
be 60 cents. The increase on 25
pounds, however, would be only 2
cents, the present rate being 25 cents.
The zone system now applies on in-
terstate shipments between Oklahoma
and Kansas and in many other places,
the interstate commerce commission
having decided it fair.
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Field.
3D,Otw' spectators. S°* WlnnI"S ,lrst SUUJe of the ™'s
Brooklyn
in the pres«
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BRITISH CAVALRY STILL PROVES USEFUL
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airy !' TT "n"s,lal siBht 1,1 thIs w'ir "f guns and trenches. This column of British cav
a > marching over captured territory on the western front might be imagined as belonging to an earlier war.
DECORATIONS FOR HEROIC VERDUN
Team Officers for National Shoot.
( omplete membership of the Okla-
homa rifle team to go from the regi-
ment at San Benito, Texas, to the na-
tional matches in Florida has not been
made up, but Adjutant General Earp
announced the officers. Maj. William
Greene, of the Third battalion, will
captain the team; Capt. Ralph Jarbo
of Company K will be coach; Capt.
Harry Gilstrap of Company B will be
spotter, and Lieut. Earle Patterson will
be range officer.
"ir culverts, bride
faetu
mean
visit
eral years ago, it is
ers of tin culverts a
t ef getting county
ieir plants and plac
id road ma-
said, manu-
adopted this
officials to
large or-
ders with them.
State to Help High School Boys.
Working on the theory that the high
fchool has other functions than mere
teaching, W. G. Ashton state labor
Commissioner, and J. F.' Wellemeyer
Oklahoma City high school principal
are planning to establish an employ'
merit bureau at the high school The
bureau win be the tlrst one in the
Southwest and will help boys and girls
get employment without cost. The
need for such a bureau is shown at
the high school every dav Emplov
prs are constantly sending in order
for students to do work.
Cotton Yield 600,000 Bales.
i Final estimates by the state board
of agriculture place wheat production
of Oklahoma at 27,541,000 bushels;
oats at 16,S80,000 bushels and corn at
j.s.., 000 bushels. Of this amount
-i per cent of wheat, 44 per cent of
corn and 82 per cent of oats are still
in the hands of the farmers. The esti-
mate of the state's cotton crop is
'"■97,700 bales.
September Fire Loss Is $149,042
Oklahoma's fire loss for the month
"f September, which was $149,042 15
was the lowest for a single month
since January,
Week's Clearings Seven Mlllloni.
Three "million dollar" days contrib-
uted last week to put the Oklahoma
city bank clearings far higher than
'optimistic booster had pre-
dicted. The report of the Clearing
House Association yesterday showed
a total of $7,080,714. This is ail in-
crease of 141 per cent over the $2,942,-
•;<0. for 'he corresponding week o't
1 lie largest days reported were
Monday, with $1,411,177; Wednesday
with $1,301,645, and Thursday, with
J $1,040,189
AT HOME IN A SHELLH0LE
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An ingenious Tommy who has set up
camp and housekeeping in the shelter
of n deep shellhole. Although he is
careful not to show his head above the
hole, he evidently goes upon the suppo-
sition that lightning never strikis
twice In the same place.
Garber grain buyers are paving $1
per bushel for wheat^
Oklahoma City's school teachers
I and principals draw $32,016 a month.
The Bristow city council has enact,
ed an ordinance segregating the ne-
groes.
A record price for broom corn wa
|f| j paid at Harney in Major county last
week when $215 per ton was received.
Lint cotton is being sold at Hugo
for $15.25 a .. ndred pounds. A large
part of this season's cotton crop has
been marketed.
The Presbyterian church building at
Ardmore is being moved from its sits
to make room for the new $40,000
church edifice.
Mildred Linton, 13 years old, and:
Clark Read were married at Tulsa a
few minutes before the girl's parents
arrived to prevent the wedding.
A $65,000 water bond issue was voted
at Arnett, Ellis county. Only one
vote was cast against the bonds, and
71 were cast in favor of the issue.
Not a vote was cast against an
$18,000 bond issue in the election at
Bennington. Proceed?, from the sale
of the bonds will be used in construct-
ing a high school building.
The four Ada banks at the close of
business Friday, October 6, showed to-
tal deposits of $1,718,911.68, an in-
crease of more than $300,000 over the
statement of September 12.
A statement of the Oklahoma Na-
tional bank of Chickasha issued last
week showed deposits of $1,297,333.
This is the largest deposit ever
shown by a bank in that city.
The First National Bank of Ho-
bart paid $50,000 for cotton during
September, which is within $7,000 of
the total paid there for cotton in any
other entire season. Bales ginned were
610.
Three hundred and seven of the
thousand men students in attendance
at the University of Oklahoma this
I year are earning all or part of the
money necessary to keep them In col-
lege.
A baby four months old was burned
to death when the William Hubbard
farm home, nine miles northeast of
Elk City, was destroyed by fire. The
b.-fby's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard
were working in a fieid.
Rev. F. O. Seaman was elected mod-
erator of the Oklahoma Presbyterian
sj nod which held its annual meeting
at l*.l Reno. Rev. Lloyd C. Walter of
Okmulgee was elected state clerk.
Tulsa was selected for the next meet-
ing. More than 150 ministers at-
tended the El Reno meeting wsich con-
tinued through three days.
Oklahoma City was selected as the
next meeting place of the Oklahoma
grand lodge of Odd Fellows at the
McAlester convention. S. X. Swimme
of Talihina was elected grand master
and M. B. Cope of El Reno grand war-
den. The Rebekahs elected Mrs. Viola
Crisler of McAlester, president; Mrs.
Alary West of Oklahoma City, vice
president; and Mrs. Lillie M. Burney
of Burneyville, grand warden.
Chickasha was awraded the 1917
reunion of the Oklahoma division of
the United Confederate Veterans at
the closing session of the eighth an-
nual reunion. Major General D. M.
Halley of McAlester \ as re elected
commander of the division.
The Rogers county treasurer has
conceled the first bond issue ever
made in Rogers county. The issue wa
foo the amount of $25,000, and was
voted at the beginning of statehood
for current expense.; before there were
taxes available. The state school land
department held the bonds.
A town fight has developed north of
Ringling, where a new oil field has
been developed. The first town plat-
ted bears the name of Chapman, in
honor of one of the promoters and the
junior member of the McMan Oil Com-
pany. Near it is Clark City on the
Lindensmith land. Application has
been made for a postoflice and several
stores are to be established then
soon. The third site has not been
named. It was selected and platted,
near the other two, by men/living in
that part of the country. All threa
are live settlements.
Caught in the Act.
At the chamber of commerce recent
ly was sportsman's day, and the chair
man for t"
surpassing
No arrests have been made in con-
nection with the lynching at Nowata
- — vU>ui- j Mark Foreman and "Sunny" Powell,
occasion bragged of the' negroes, one of whom killed Deputy
truthfulness of Spokane j Sheriff James Gibson. Formal inve
poitsmen. .There," he said, pointing ligation by the county authorities is
<> an enormous fish labeled as cap- I expected.
I1"'"*'4' l l'""(v h,,s t the city of Verdun, the war's
.st battlefield, decorations from all «.f the allied Powers. The photo-
shows he collection of crosses and medals presented. Top, Cross of
eorge, Russia. Left to right: Military Cross, England; Legion of
I - iTn!tit r*r ,rnnce;, M|lltllr>' Bravery, Italy; Military
, Leopold Cross, Belgium; Gold Medal, Montenegro.
tured in Spokane river, "is ocular evi-
dence that Spokane fishermen don't
lie about their catches. The anglei
who caught that fish will stand up an<
he introduced to the audience." At
Reports from Forgan, Beaver, La
i Kemp and olher towns on the Wich-
ita 1* alls & Northwestern railroad in
the broom corn belt of northwestern
Oklahoma state that farmers have
sportsmen'leopMl lo7h«lr°f I"0","!',' "bl° ,0 ^Pose" of" broom corn
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