The Hennessey Clipper (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 1, 1917 Page: 2 of 6
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. THU1SDAY,
*!
GERMANY WILL
SINK ALL 8HI PS
PROORAM Or rOREBT OAK
SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT
ami freight vessels—the course
which the United States in th
Sussex negotiations «nve warn
ing would eause the American ! To l.e Olvcn Friday Night, February
s
n
2, at Forest Or k School Holts')
government to sever diplomat!
relations was received at Wash
fngtoti with the most profound
urprisc. The state department
closed for tin1 day soon after tin
note was delivered l>\ Amhassa
Iro von liernsdorfl'
The situation is vieweM with
xtremc gravity by tin- officials
at Washington.
(Clipper)—
MRS ANNA LOVE DEAD
following progran will h
lered by the pupil* of Forest
school Jit th it school house I*
night, February 2nd. A special
fort in being made b) Mr. Lyman
Hi kman, teacher of this school
mak< thin one of the bent school-> uf
the • ountv. and Mr. Hickman and t
pupils extend a cordial invitaticu
nil to attend thin entertainment ana
witness the splendid results of earn
est effort
IBong .. .^^^^Tt^TTT77^Bm3
on
Remember, We Are in a Position to hit Your Home
From Kitchen to Parlor
led llickrau'i
Sarah Patton
.Christopher Melton
Recitation
Reading
Recitation
Musi'1
Death Occured This Morning
Home in Dover
Stoves
Floor
Coverings
aged 8521
lock this
of her son,
A stroke
he suffered
the direct
Ulth HKOWN'H VlBITOl!
('amt ol* Characters
Heating Stoves, Oil btoves
and Ranges
. Nollie Nivison
Fayo Melton
Ha rali Patton
Helen Bradfleld
Mrs. Brown.
Mrs. Hlack
Mrs. \Vhit*
Jennie Brown
ICe.itation
Rending
Keeitation
Short Dialogue
Monologue
Keeitation
\! undolin
Carpets, Rugs and
Linoleum—Good
Quality—Low
Prices
r
HUSBAND
Furniture
\\ niter
Statement Sent to All Neutrals
—Order to Be Put Into Ef
feet Immediately
licrlin, Jan. 31—Unrestricted
warfare at sea has been declared
the future policy of Germany. A
note of warning to neutrals an
nounees that beginning Pcbruarj
1, the imperial government con
siders "the tight for existence
again forced upon it with the
full employment of all weapons
which an- at its disposal. was
presented to the foreign off:
yesterday.
Besides tin- presentation to am
bassadors at Berlin, the note had
previously been sent to German
simultaneously to the govern
tries and was given by them
simultaneously to he govern
tnents to which they were accre-
dited.
The new forbidden /ones v< re
oulined and tin- statement
nounees that neutral ships
ing within the barred zones
do so at their own risk, although
precautions will be taken to pro
t.uct. neutral ships which sailed
for these zones prior to February
1st.
Neutrals are ugcutly advised
to warn their vessels on the way
to parts in the barred zones and
direct them away from those
areas. Ships in port within the
barred areas will be given until
Monday to sail, and will not b
molested, providing they take
the shortest route out of the re-
stricted area.
Viewed With Extreme Gravity
At Washington
Germany's declaration of un-
restricted naval warfare, which
is assumed to mean the sinking
without warning of passenger
mi-
ni v-
will
Mrs Anna .VI. Lov
years, died at ten <
morning at the homi
Pros Love, at Dover
of paralysis, which
| last Saturday, was
cause of her demise.
Brief funeral services will be
held at the home at two o'clock
! Friday afternoon. The remains
will be shipped to Monroe, Mo.,
tomorrow evening for interment.
The deceased was the mother
of I'res and Charles Love, both
well known throughout the coun-
ty
_(cupper) —
E. Washburn Recovers Stolen
Mare—Found Animal Near
Hillsdale
The driving mare stolen from
the E. Washburn pasture, out
northwest, of Hennessey, about
December 27th, has been recov-
ered. The animal was found in
the possession of a farmer about
seven miles northwest of Hills-
dale, who asserted that he had
purchased the animal from an-
Public Sale!
As I intend to quit farming and
move to town, I will sell at the
old Harding farm, 2 'A miles
east and 1 Vii miles south of Hen-
nessey, on
Tuesday, Feb. 6
Sale commencing at 1 :00 o'clock
p. m„ the following property
5 Head of Horses
Two black horses, 10 years old-
Weight 1200 lbs. each.
Two bay horses, smooth mouth,
weight 1000 lbs. each.
One white horse, smooth mouth.
3 Head of Cattle
One good milch cow, •"> years
old, giving milk.
One red steer calf.
One red heifer.
6 head of hogs, weigtit about 100
pounds each
Implements and Household
Goods
St-t heavy work harness.
Set light work harness
Set single harness.
Good MeCormick binder, new
(Jood MeCormick binder-7-foot.
Wheat drill, ten shoe.
Disc harrow, 20 inch
Three section harrow.
Good Enough riding plow
1 -inch walking plow
Riding cultivator, 6 shovel
Hiding lister Disk plow
ti barrel tank
•>0 gal. coal oil tank
2 scat trap buggy
Fish Bros, wagon nearly new
Low wagon and rack
12."i egg incubator nearly new
Ilavard piano
+0 hens
Other articles too numerous to
mention
AUTO—CHEVROLET 1916 Mo
del Will be Sold at This Sale.
or 4 bushel of seed potatoes
TERMS: * months time ami
usual terms.
E. Hollenbeck
Col. J. L. Murphy, Auctioneer
M. A. Mitchell, Clerk.
other farmer in the neighbor-
hood for $120. Investigation
; proved the truth of his statement
<ind developed the fact that the
| first purchaser had secured the
i mare from a well known farmer
| who resides west of Hennessey,
| the consideration being $70 in
| cash and a Winchester rifle.
A warrant has been sworn out
| for the Kingfisher county farmer
and he may find i a very serious
■'and while he has been good oi-
lexplainin' in the past, this may
j prove a hard one to explain to
j the satisfaction of the man to
j whom he sold it.
The animal was brought back
1 from Hillsdale Tuesday.
Attorney W L. Moore came
| down from Enid yesterday to
j look after legal business.
i Curt Thomas arrived home
j Sunday night from Detroit,
where he has been employed in
the Ford plant at that place
A cold wave from the north
with a piercing wind, caused
i drop ill temperature of fully 50
degrees within twenty hours.
| The thermometer registered one
above this morning.
William Holmes, A. E. Lane.
Ham Lane, A. L. Richardson
,\. W. West lake, M. A Mitchell.
If. W. Wylie, Charles N'othstein
and Attorney W. I. Moore were
in Kingfisher today atending
court.
An elegant 7:00 o'clock din-
ner was served Wednesday eve
niutr at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. A. C Black by the losers of
the Whist (Hub to the winners.
The evening was one of the most
enjoyable of the season After din-
ner the club game was indulged
in. The club members present
were: Mr. and Mrs. W T. Parks,
Mr and Mrs. Levi Herzberg. Dr.
and Mrs. Roy Bowernian, Mr.
and Mrs. R. E Watson, Mr. and
.Mrs. A. E. Lane, Mi and M s
Charles Pepin, Mr. and Mrs.
Black and Mrs. Joe Sternberger.
- (Clipper^—
As I have quit the grocery
business I will appreciate an im-
mediate settlement of all ac-
counts due me. ("HAS. PEPIN.
Joe Butler
. ..N'oHin Nivistoa
...Wiluia Chout"
Moral Sun lion"
.... . Olen Itutler
... Frank Patton
and Guitar
Mr. aii't Mrs. Hickman |
1' < "roHsflre " Bv Two Boys
Keeitation Henry Patton
Recitation .(Hen Goodpasture
ADVKRTIHING FO!£ A
< Characters
Miss K.-tvr Melton
Glenn Hickman
Jeno Renshaw
Dick Nivison
Hong Mr. and .Mrs.
Tom and Roxy
Nellie N'ivisou and Roy MeCaleb
Recitation Cecil Fisher
Heading Helen Brndflold
Music.
l.OV K AND LATH KB
Characters
Charles Goodpasture
Will Norris
Irvin Norris
Glenn Hickman
John Hull
(Clipper)
The Sunday Schools of King
fisher County *
I1KWKS8KY—M. E.—George Dauner,
Bupt., Hennessey; Hazel Black,
Hoc'y, Hennessev. ^
FOREST OAK-JK. M. Woodworth,
Supt., IleunesHey Route 3; Sylvia
Nivison, Sec. 'y, Hennessey Route 5.
FAIR LAKE—Mary B. Lawrence,
Bupt., Dooor Route 2; Gladys Cot
ton. See 'y, hover Route 2.
REEDING—Perry Oivan, Supt., Re^d
inp.
KINGFISHER — Baptist . —Geo. K.
Moore, Hupt., Kingfisher; Alma
Schmidt, See 'y, Kingfisher.
PARK Cong.- Ernest Toepfer, Supt.
Kingfisher Route 4; Lula Gillilan,
Sec'v. Kinirfisher.
BOX SPRINGS—Mrs. C. E. Bray.
Supt. Dov r; O. M. Overman, Sec 'y. j
Dover.
Better Ranges than the
Grairon
are not made at anything
like our price
Our Furniture De-
partment is overflow-
ing with BARGAINS
in strictly high grade
Merchandise.
Let us figure
with you on
your require-
ments. We
will make it
pay you
G. W. WOOLSEY
Hardware, Furniture and Implements
Cashion; Eva Dunkelbergor, See 'y, ■ Tulsa. I'll never forget my oxperi taxi cabs old man Nebuchadnozzer
Cashion.' I ence with one. I went out with him u«ed to ride in. Fine [ilace, Born H)
KINGFISHER—First Miri-tiau — Jo- to look over about three hundred —for a I)yak!"
siah Qooden, Supt., Kin^f'shof; Yir-' acres my people were thinking ot Gold h;is been for ages the food of
pie. Cleaver, Sec'y, Kin^u.ther. 11. asing. The whole trip took us three romance, but now it is oil. The gold-
KINGFISHER Presbyterio'i Mrs. ' nnd a half hours. Wo were about ! fleeee has been soaked in petro-
M. M. Flickinpjer, Supt., Kin^tisher; thirty minutes on the ground.
Ronald B. Laing, Sec'y, Kingfisher.
T. W. Loighton.
Eth«^l Dixoru
Stove Wood
Well seasoned - cut last year
$2.00 Per Rank
Delivered in town. Satisfaction
guaranteed
LYMAN HICKMAN
Phone FM—55 334
Pure and Fresh Drugs Spht'q
Toilet Creams, Soaps °dUr b
RuDber Goods of All Kinds
Toilet W aters, Perfumes
!5cllir S Prompt, Efficient Service
L
IIA MBRIOHT -Mrs,
Supt., Kingfisher
flee'y Kingfisher.
CAFniON Free Methodist -Mrs.Je-
mirim Wjushbum, Supt., Cashion.
CASHION M. E.—Miss Jaunita Jar
vis. Se : 'v. Cashion;
Bl'THEL -Free Methodist Emna
Smith. Supt., Cr.shion.
HAUMONY—R. (). Murphy, Surt.,
Henno«srv.
OAK VIEW-Unon—Mrs II. J
Cresswie'e, Supt., Hennessey; Gra- ie
Beal, Sc.-'v. Hennessey Route (I
UNION CHAPEL - Fred Will.
Supt.. Hennessey Route 1 Alice
Maddox, Sec 'y, HennMsey.
DOVER- Christian - G. W. Miller
Supt.. Dover; L. Grav, Sec.'v, Do\^'*
KI NG FISHER Cong. -- Mrs." W S.
Whirlow, Supt., Kingfisher; Minii'e
Bidwell, Sec'v, Kingfisher.
The above are those schools whiel
have ehan ed officers during th«* year
KINGFISHER M. K.~ F. D. Yergler
Supt., Kingflshor; Kdna Meredith.
Sec'v, Kingfisher.
DOVER - Evangelical—Archie 8t4*en,
Supt.. Dover.
CIMARRON - Christian—W. H. Hm
gins, Supt., Kingfisher; Bess Co
«hniWt Sec'v. Kingfisher.
CASHION Federated School—G. F.
Ross. Supt., Cushion; Elmer Down
ing See 'v. Cashion.
HENNESSEY -Baptist—Dr. Roy V.
Wool wine, Supt.. Henuosse*-; Mrs.
Olive Redenbo, Sec'v, Henn**ssi\v.
HENNESSEY Christian M. A. Mit
chell, Supt., Hennessey; Russell
Dunlap, S«s 'y, Hennessey .
HENNESSEY -Cong. B. C. Morrof.*,
Hupt. Hennessev.
PRAIRIE VIEW' Mrs. M. U. 'Iioek,
Supt.. Dover.
SHERIDAN Mrs. Wm. Fox, Supt..
Marshall; Miss Mildred Ra ney,
Sec'v, Hennessev., Route 1.
CENTER VIEW CHAPET, MUf An
ua Lightle, Supt. Lovell Route 1:
Miss Jessie Ramsey, Se< Lovell
Route 1.
I'NION School House—Mr. Elmer
I Brown, Supt., Dover Route 4; Miss
j Helen Magee, S v *y, Dover, Route*
ALTONA Cong. Keith Sellars, Supt
Okarche, Route 1; Lena Robinson,
j Sep 'y, Okaroho.
j ALPHA Cong. C. W. Cros.s Supt.,
■ Kingfisher, Route 7; Bert I, * Calli
' son. Sec 'v. Kingfisher.
j PA RK ER—Cong.--John Ketch, Supt.,
I Kiel. Route 1?; Fern Colli*'-, So -'v.
Kiel.
OMEGA—Advent Christian J. A
I Burson. Supt., Omega; Mr<. Rose
j Epler, Sec'y, Omega.
j OMEGA Baptist—Mr. 8am Sruith,
' Supt.. Omega.
PLEASANT VALLEY—W. T Win
tors. Supt., Hennessev Route 4.
TWILIGHT Mrs. Geo. I). Fester
Supt., Kingfisher Route 1; Loslie
Howell. Sec'v, Kingfisher.
EXCELSIOR—Mrs. Vorda Ab. ruathy,
Supt., Dover, Route 1; Archie Streit
Se. 'v, Cre cent.
KIEL* M E. W. F
K i e 1.
KIEL Christian—O
Ruth Hnwkins, Sec
COLT* MB IA -George
Crescent. Route 1.
PLEASANT VIEW—M. .1. Jobnso i.
j Supt.. Marshall.
j MT. ZION Mrs. Rose Norris. Supt.,
(Clipper)
About Geologists and Oil
Oil is a funny business. Somebody
notices a creek that lios stagnant and
black under a thick scum ot' soapage,
or a spring down on the farm that's
"plumb ruined for the cattle on ac-
count of the pesky slush" and then
some day, a quiet young ma a happens
along with a surveyor's level and a
foolish little hammer and a knapsack.
He asks a lot of questions and
answers few. His business is syn-
clines and nntidines.
Before this era of the quiet young
man in khaki an occasional enthusi-
ast who knew something about other
oil fields, would rnino enough money
to bring a drilling outfit to the old
farm and a derrick would go up.
Somewhere down under the earth,
maybe a few hundred feet, maybe a
quarter of a mile, he thought there
was oil. You wonder how he knew
where to start making that cuto little
hole in the ground, and though he
wouldn't admit it, he wondered, too.
But he started drilling and sometimes
he brought in a gusher.
Now the earnest young geologist
has a theory about oil. Down under
the earth lies the strata of rock, like
the layern in a chocolate cake. Otice
they were nice level layers, one above
another, but the all powerful Baker
took the cake in his hand one day and
crumpled it up and the layers bent
into hills and hollows. Sometimes
they broke up completely.
In the hollows there lies the salt
water in the sea, that was forgotten
with the dinosaur, vagrant drops left
over from the great evaporation and
floating on the water lies the oil,
squeezed out of a niyrid forms of ve-
getable and animal life decaying
down there. With the oil is its own
peculiar oil sand, and often a tremend-
ous accumulation of gas.
What the young geologist knows is
how to find whore the hollows are and
where the hills. Perhaps the earth
above is fiat as a table, but the rocks
beneath, lying in layers, have been
bent into all manor of dips and
angles. The geologist knows that ;f
he can find the top layer of rock in
this gigantic layer cake he can learn
from its bends and dips how the lay-
ers beneath it lie. Thus he can say.
"If you wish to drill, I think this i
is a good place to look for oil."
He never says:
"If you drill here you'll strike |
oil.''
He stuck up his level and took a
. long look at the outcroppings you
'' ould see across the prairies.
"No good," said he, "it's a mono-
^•line.''
Then he climed into the car and
hustled back to town.
"Didn't take you long," T said,
"but you're the expert. You're gett-
ing a hundred dollars a day to report
on this thing. If you can tell all
about it in half an hour I'm satisfied."
"Well, to tell you the truth." said
he, "I was pretty well satisfied it wan
no good before I came here."
"We didn't lease and so far as f
know the land never has been drilled."
There's another story about an ex
pert they toll in Oklahoma. A com-
pany considered spending a quarter
of a million on a lease. This expert
took a look through his level, rattle.I
around with his little hammer and
said "No." Anoher company spent
a quarter of a million on the lease—
and never got a drop of oil.
Edward L. Dohenev, who drilled the
first well in Los Angeles because he
noticed that a wagon load of dirt from
an excavation was full of petroleum,
discovered oil in Mexico. He pros-
pected in a railway train. It was one
of those accomodation trains like
the Missouri Pacific train to McLouth.
As it ran across the state of Tarn-
aulipas, Dohenev watched from the
window When he saw a likely loca-
tion he ask the conductor to stop
tho train—and the conductor did! The
train waited for him and while he
prospected the passengers enjoyed an-
other siesta. He discovered one of
the world's richest oil districts that
way.
"Talking of the sudden prosperity
of oil towns," said an expert in Cof-
fey vilie, "I was in the district
about Baku soon after the big strikes.
The land was held by Cossacks, and
they are about the laziest, most
worthless men I ever sayy, except
when they're working "for somebody
else. They had done nothing with
their farms except live on them no,
not live—exist.
"Then came the oil strikes. The
Russian government handled the busi-
ness for the Cossacks and we had to
pay a royalty of five kopeks per pood.
A pood is about thirty-six pounds,
nine poods make a barrel—say
twenty two and a half cents a barrel,
that's about the equivalent in Amer-
ican money.
^Did the Cossa«'ks get any of it? I
Ion't know, probably most of it stuck
n Colchis,
to the hot
Dimnvrk, Supt,
Hamil,
y , Kiel.
Seaman.
Sapt
Supt
scientist, and scientists ar^ the Government's fingers, but I do
Jikuow that the vodka revenue fron
the Kubausky district—the Russian
government sold the vodka, you know
—for one year amounted to 4"> million
dollars. After the Cossacks leased us
their land they went to work as rous
tabouts, and it wasn't any trick to
see what they done with their wages."
Down in Borneo is the place if you
Ho is a
cautious.
That, in a rough outline, is the busi-
ness of the young man in khaki.
j not think that is all the big experts
i men like Thompson, do. True, they
I go to find oil or rather to report on
I the broader aspects of promising
fields but they do much more than f/e
oloyists. Thev are interested, as well,
:ii finance and management, the labor are looking for this
question, political complications, at
coflsibility to seaports. They pay heed
to the attitude of governments and
possibilities of international compli-
cations. They keep awatchful eye
on the doing* of small and powerful
i roups of gentlemen who sit in offices
in n few world centers and start
things in lauds they never see. never
hope to see. never want to see.
"Experts?" said an oil man at
stuff," declared another
picturesque
oil scout.
loum, but it Htill hangs
cast of the Euxine, a. lure
blood of youth.
American universities are preparing
the Jasons who are to go seeking
from the Cimarron to the Caspian;
who w ill look upon Baku, clustered on
its hills behind the long stone quay,
and the ruins of Pagan that Kub a
Khan destroyed; who will dare fever
and gris and poison dart «o that the
fat tankers, with their greasy decks
may find new ports wherein to glut
their hunger. Romance is not dead—
not until the last well is drilled.—K.
C. Star.
(Clipper)
Hartman Well
The depth reached at the Hartman
well which is located one and one
/half miles southeast of Hillsdale, is
7-S0 feet. The drillers are working
in a substance that is making the
work very difficult to get ahead.
(Clipper)
FOR SALE— Good Ford
car. Inquire atlClipper office.
Hides! Furs!
Farmers bring me your Hides!
Boys bring your Furs to
D. R. Brewer
PHONE 141
1st Door North of Myers Produce Co
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Nature Warns
Against Using Calomel
The sickening, nauseating feeling
that follows the use of calomel is the
natural result of disarranging your
entire system. Doctors everywhere
are agreeing that the action of calo-
mel is much too strong nnd leaves the
body sii-k and weakened.
LIV-VER-LAX is a wonderful sub-
stitute for enlomel, that has nil its
good effects and none of its bad ones.
It nets soothingly but thoroughly on
Contract labor down there, and that j the liver, cleansing it of bile and rid
means blnckbirding—slave labor. They ding the entire system of stagnating
build big stock(utes out in the .inn- poisons.
files and keep the labor in them. Got | LIV-VER-LAg is strictly a harmless
a small army of guards to watch their vegetable compound and is guaranteed
telephone lines and pipe lines and to to give satisfaction or your inonov
take potshots at the l>vnk headhunt , will'be returned. Insist on the orijfi-
cr . The elephants do the heavy work nnl, bearing the likeness and signu
in clearing, uiul the stuff comes up tare of I,. K. Origsbv, For sale here
in carts that look likv tin- kind of at ,'ii, and 11.00. at G C. SAUR'S.
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