Renfrew's Record (Alva, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, August 24, 1917 Page: 4 of 8
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RENFREW’S RECORD
Published every Friday
WE MUST NOT WASTE
A SINGLE
J. f*. RENFREW, Editor and Pub.
MRS. J: P RENFREW
Associate Editor and Business Mgr
TASTE
OKLAHOMA-
S. SOLDIERS, FAREWELL HERE’S YOUR FREE SPEECH f
And Greetings to Kaiser
Terms of Subscription
One Year........................^ 5®
Si* Months----------------------
Entered at the Post Office at Alva
Oklahoma as second class matter.
TELEPHONE 157
Lute M Axline has sold his news-
paper, the Medicine Lodge Cresset,
to Painter & Herr, editors and pub-
lishers of the Barber County Index.
Mr. Apline has been publisher of the
Cresset for more than 30 years and
he dpade it a power in the republican
councils of the state. The paper was
founded by Hon. T. A. McNeal of
the'Mht! and Breeze of Topeka, and
E. W. Iliff, in 1879. The Index, found
edjin 1880, under the management of
Politer & Herr, the past 25 years,
hat’become one of the leading demo-
cratic papers of Kansas. I his con-
solidation gives them the entire news-
paper field of Medicine Lodge and
the- greater part of Barber county
arid We wish the boys continued suc-
cess.
These August days I fix my gaze
upon the marching troops who sally
forth from South and North in regi
mental groups; who make reply to
Freedom’s cry with vigor and with
zest; who proudly go to meet the
foe and give the land their best. With
boyish smile these heroes file to wait-
train or ship, though well they know
that some who go are on their final
trip. And when 1 chance, with guard-
ed glance, to see some sad farewell,
my pulses stir for Him and Her
whose anguish none may tell. The
stirring scene must surely mean, to
us who stay behind, that we must do
our duty too, with single heart and
mind. It’s up to all to heed the call
to give our best support to those who
dare the battle’s glare in trench
or field or fort. The one great need
that we feed our boys who cross
the sea, with spirit brave, our flag
to save and keep our country free
We must not let ourselves forget
that famine’s cruel pinch will crush
the nerve with which men serve and
make the bravest finch. Our course
is plain. We must sustain our troops
where’er they’re led, with stores com
plete of stuff to eat, and keep them
amply fed. We must not waste
single taste of what our land has
grown, but practice Thrift of Nature s
gift in ways we’ve never known. With
jealous care we must prepare to save
with lavish hand. The surplus yield
of fruitful field must all be dried or
canned. Thus we’ll afford abundant
hoard to keep our boys in trim and
give them brawn to spur them on wth
never-failing vim; thus give them
strength to go full length, with zeal
that does not lag; and thus uphold
the soldiers bold who fight to save
the Flag.
By Benj. R. Morehead
Friends, we know you wish us well,
For we are bound to Germany to
give the kaiser hell.
Our hearts are sad and sore
When we leave America's shore.
From our home we have to part;
It will break many a wife’s and
mother’s heart.
For us they must not yearn,
Although we may never return,
For we are boys brave and true,
And will defend the red, the white
and blue.
Our guns are big, our aim is true;
We will blow the trenches through.
Our air fleet is large and strong;
We will carry many bombs along
Over your cities we will soar;
They will be left all blood and gore.
Kaiser Wiliam, we warn you now,
Put all your men behind the plow;
Lay down the flag, give up the fight.
Thank the Lord, you did one time
right.
Nearer the kaiser, to thee,
When we cross the deep blue sea.
On your ground we have to fight.
We will strike with all our might.
The first thing we will do
Clean the seas of your U-boat crew.
On Old Ocean our battleships will
float;
They will butt into your U*-boats
like a billy goat.
Kaiser, you think yourself ‘a mighty
man,
But Thomas A. Edison will Spoil all
your plan.
—Uncensored.
Secretary of War Baker has sent a
letter to all mayors of near by towns
and county sheriffs that all vice re
sorts within five miles of army can-
tonments, must be supprMsefK If
such resorts are located too'tonveni-
ent to the five mile limit they must
be suppressed, just the same, or the
cantonment may be removed to a
cleaner place. The morals and physi-
cal fitness of troops go hand in hand
aijjd. the mothers of soldiers should
< bless a government that thus pro-
tects their eons.
Chinaa has declared war against
AuttrorHungary and has given the
Austrian ambassador his walking pa-
pers* but the envoy extraordinary re
files to walk. He takes the ground
thiat China does not give good and
sufficient reasons for declaring war.
Gkrmany has never satisfied the en-
tente allies that she had a good and
sufficient reason for throwing the en-
tire world into war, but war exists,
nevertheless.
Complete detailed instructions for
preparing vegetables and fruits for
winter needs are given in the Home
Canning Manual and the Home Dry-
ing Manual issued by the Natonal
Emergency Food Garden Commis-
sion, 210-221 Maryland Building,
Washington, D. C. A copy of either
manual may be had upon request,
enclosing two cents for postage.
UNCLE WALT
president Wilson has issued a pro-
curation requiring licenses for the
storage -of wheat and rye and the
manufacture of products derived
(therefrom, except those1 operating
mills and manufacturing plants of
a daily capacity of 100 barrels or less
apd farmers and co-operative asso-
ciation* of,, farmers. Th^e licenses
should be secured by September 1st.
.ft v - _
.Th^ Nation’s Capitol goes dry on
Novgfefbtf 1. William J. Bryan sug-
gests that ^)te churches and tamper
ance organizations of the country
should prepare for the proper cele-
bration of the event. In this celebra-
tion, Mrs. Lucy Hayes, who first
banished wines and liquors from the
White House table, should not be
forgot,t,e,q.
Ex-U. S. Senator John \V. Kerr
of Indiana died in Ashville, N. G.
August 17, aged neatly 68 years. Mr
Kerr was vice presidential candidate
with W. J, Bryan in the campaign of
1908 aud later represented Indaina
in the United States Senate being
for some- years the democratic leader
of that body.
Drafted
Jim Brick was hewing wood for me,
a wholesome, cheerful fellow, so
husky he was good to see, without
touch of yellow. And while, to earn
a shining bone, he plied the ax,stout
hafted, his father called him up by
phone, and said, “My boy, you’re
drafted!” An instant Jim looked
rather sick; perhaps he thought of
mother, and all the family of Brick,
the sister and the brother, A sweat
stood out upon his brow, I saw his
paie lips quiver, and thought, “Alas,
this young man, now, has got a chic-
ken’s liver.” A moment Jim looked
full of care, then raised a cheerful
holler: “I’m glad I’m called to do my
share, you bet your bottom dollar!
So for this day my labor ends—the
news this fact determines—I want to
go and tell my friends that I’ll be
potting Germans. I want to tell a
certain girl that I have been elected
to make the kaiser’s whiskers curl,
and make the prinz dejected.”
Star Item*
What nice weather we have been
having a little warm.
The farmers are pll in hte fields
again after a ocuple of weeks’ rainy
weather.
Miss Mildred Hall spent Sunday
night with the Misses Lings.
'Mr. Lingo and family moved on
the Eccles place, known as the De
Haven place.
Miss Amy Taylor spent Friday
afternoon with Miss Birdie Hyde.
Mr. Moyer is putting a new roof
on his barn that the wind damaged
during harvest.
Mr. and Mrs. Ert Gum and family
and Mrs. Dollie Smith spent Sunday
with Mrs. Mary DeHaven.
The sun has been shining a few
days, maybe a threshing machine
will be in the neighborhood in a
few days. LUCEILLE.
You can’t have democracy without
free speech, oral .and printed. That
is stlf-evident and fundamental. No
rational person thinks of denying it.
And you can’t have democracy with-
out submission by the minority to the
formally expressed will of the majori-
ty. That alsQ is self-evident and
fundamental. No rational person
thinks of denying it.
If you take free speech in an abso-
lute sense, no such thing was ever
known under any government—or
ever will be. You can’t get up in the
middle of the church service and re-
cite the Declaration of Independence.
You cannot urge a man to commit
murder. *You cannot speak slanders.
You cannot orate on a busy street
corner. You cannot speak sedition.
The practicable, and only possible,
rule is simple enough: You can use
your freedom of speech to any rea-
sonable extent for the purpose of
trying to shape the decisive will of
the majority; you cannot use it for
the purpose of trying to defeat that
will after it has been formally ex-
pressed. '
Say you don’t like an income tax.
You have every right to urge th^t
that tax be repealed. You have no
right while the law stands, to urge
individuals who are subject to it to
evade or resist it by holding up the
tax collector with a gun. You have
every right to urge that no conscrip-
tive army law be passed. You have
no right to incite resistance to it af-
ter it has been passed. When the
country decides for war you have no
right to resist war by any means.
The rule is self-evident to common
sense. In easy, general, normal times
nobody cares to draw the line very
strictly. In war it will be vigorously
enforced, for when the majority has
taken a decision the execution of
which will require many to die it is
in no mood for genial leniency toward
verbal efforts to frustrate its plans.
The tolerance of seditious free speech
would be an insult to every man un-
der arms.—Saturday Evening Post.
Notice To
School Boards
We have on hand practically a car of
School Desks, in all sizes, both single and
double desks—these were bought prior to
the advance in price and we will offer these
to you F. 0. B„ Alva, either knocked down
or set up at less than the present wholesale
prices. We also have a quantity of Chalks,
Erasers, Blackboarding and other school sup-
plies that we can sell you at less than they
can now be bought by the dealers. Being in
the first draft and subject to military service
and to be called at any time—it will pay you
to talk to us about School Supplies and
equipment right now, as we must sell.
Bradbury Bras. Book Co.
ARTHUR BRADBURY, Owner
iiiiiiiiMii
CLEVER HERD OF ELEPHANTS
Franklin Item*
The rains are sure fine on the
crops, but roads are in a very bad
condition.
Everyone is busy preparing the
ground for wheat.
The party at Wash Rtjbinson’s was
well attended Monday nght.
There were sixty-nine present at
Sund.ay School. Everyone is invited
to come. BOB.
ADVERTISED LETTER LIST
I
handed Jim a bunch of flowers, and
said, “Go, do your playing: I’ll only
dock you seven hours when comes
the time for paying.” When he was
gone my eyes grew dim wdth patriot-
ic fervor. "The country’s safe while
boys like Jim,” I said, “are here to
serve her!”—Wichita Eagle.
The battle-scarred Flag of the Sec-
ond Tennessee Confederate Cavalry
captured by Illinois troops fifty-five
years ago, has just been returned to
its survivors. The Civil War is sure
over. , ,
President Wilson has ..uthorized
a $5(UXX),0(XJ grain corporation to be
used by the food administration in
the. food control program.
The movement of cantonment sup-
lies occupied the full service of 30,
(XX) cars.
STANDING OF CONTESTANTS
Weiser's Cash Store
No. 29, 1st. 10 2nd. 5, 3rd. 52, 4th. 17,
5th. 26, t6h. 48, 7th. 30, 8th. 42. 9th
46, 10th. 21. 11th 50, 12th. 39 13th. 14
14tly 8, 15th. 4,. 16th. 40 17th.
WANTED—To. .buy
chicks. Enquire at Woods
Union Bank.
forty little
County
It
GOD SAVE OUR MEN
(To follow "America.")
JRf^W^tanza.by ^lar>'
M. mirth, 01 iJernuon, Va , Past Na-
tional Junior Vice President of the
Woman’s Relief Vorps, was written
by her to follow our national hymn
It has been taken up in Washington
and elsewhere and is sung in churches
well as patriotic organizations:
God bless and keep our men,
Our gallant, fighting men—
Oh, guard our men;—
Make them victorious,
Their valor glorious.
They are so dear to us,—
God save our men.
Mary M. North.
Advertised letters, Post office, Alva
Oklahoma, for the week ending Aug
21, 1917.
Biger, Elis.
Belcher, Rev. A. M.
Donaldson, Jack.
Franklin, G. C.
Haugherty, Hugh P.
Hendricks, Willie.
Lewis, J. W.
McArter, W. E.
McConnell, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Prohibition Signal (Editor)
Stevens, J. A.
Schubert, Ed.
Van Meter, Rev. Prestin.
Campbell, Mrs. Mae.
Evans, Mrs. Earl.
Enterline, Nora.
7Kvery, Miss Maud.
Hayes, Miss Grace. 1
Kirby, Miss Nell.
Lewis, Miss Jean.
Moore, Mrs. Claire.
Morris, Mrs. Ora.
Parker, Miss Virginia.
Potter, Miss Esther.
Pruitt, Mrs. Cora.
Stoats, Miss Freda (2),
Smith, Miss Dollie.
Young, Mrs. Lavona.
Parties calling for letters in
list will please say "advertised,
One cent will be collected on each
letter delivered. J. P. RENFREW,
Postmaster.
A circus wouldn’t be a circus if it
didn't have elephants, and it is claim-
ed that the John Robinson Circus,
which will exhibit in Alva Wednes-
day, August 29th, carries the biggest
herd of any circus this season
These huge animals are always of
special interest to children and stu-
dents of natural history Twenty of
the Robinson elephants—separated
into groups of five—occupy the four
rings at the same time, performing
extraordinar feats which show the
remarkable acumen and intelligence
of these enormous creatures and
make them a never ending source
of wonder as they always have been
since they were first imported from millllll
Asiatic and African wilds
As an instance of the retentive J
memory of elephants, the trainer,Mr. j|
Wheeler, tells the following story J
of Jana, one of the biggest in the , g
herd : Over fourteen years ago Mr. j g
Wheeler broke him to perform some • §
FRED J. FASH
BonM Abstractor
A. M. MILLS
TIm UmI Mii
FASH & MILLS
Successors to Fash & Graves
Abstracts, Farm and City Loans
Insurance and Real Estate
Notary in Office Alva Okla. Pfcono No. 177
c If you care to sell your property list it with us. If ypu are
in the market for some real bargains in Woods county, we
have them. If you are interested in Texas lands, we have
some of the best propositions you have ever had the priviledge
of inspecting—having b6th pasture and agriculture land* w
Ochiltree, Lipscomb and Hansford counties; also the Santa Fe
Townsites along the new road extending out of Shattudk, Okla*
homa. If interested, come in and talk it over with tit.
New President for Alva School
Prof. A. S. Faulkner of Durant has
been selected as head of the Alva
uomal succeeding Prof. Preston
Graves who was transferred to toe
normal at Edmond. The editor lived
as nearest neighbor to Prof. Faulk-
ner in Durant a few years ago and
knows him and his family as mighty
fine people. He is the pick of all the
profession of the Durant normal to
which he contributed much resulting
in its success as a school. He was al-
ways popular with the students and
is a learned gentleman.—Carmen
Headlight.
very clveer tricks and left the show jj
he was then with to join the Robin- . jj
son’s, and it was over ten years later j jj
that he had a chance to see Jana J
again. In the meantime he had never p
been worked in the ring and had {jj
grown ugly. At first he did not re- 1 jj
cognize his old trainer, but as soon j|
as Mr. Wheeler spoke, Jana gave him g
a genuine elephant welcome. He jj
wound and unwound his trunk jj
around his old. friend’s body and jj
arms, padded alternately on his fore ||
feet, shrilling joyfully all the time, g
and when Mr.Wheeler gave the com- |
mand he went through all his old j
tricks with a speed that proved his |
excellent memory. It
Mr. Wheeler, was so much affected
by Jana’s demonstration of affection
that he prevailed upon the Robin-
management to purchase him,
and with the confidence and mutual
understanding between Jana and his
trainer, he is now one of the clever-
est of the clever big herd.
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TINKER BROS.
FRUIT JARS. CAN RUBBERS
AND PICKLING SPICES
STINE
BLDG.
PHONES 780*781
this
ALVA MARKETS, AUG. 23 17
Wheat______________ $2.00
Corn __________________________ 2.00
Kafir ... 200
Oats ___________________________ .83
Hogs __________________________ 16 50
Turkeys ________________________ .14
Hens ___________________________ U
Springs ---- 15
Butter---------------- .30
Eggs ____________________________ 30
Pat and his wife had been in a
railroad accident "And you say, Pat,’
said a friend of his, “that you col-
lected five thousand dollars 'from
the company because of your wife s
injuries?”
“Yis,” replied Pat
“But I understood that she wasn’t
injured in the least”
"No; not by the accident, but Oi
had the prtsince of moind to kick her
in the face,” replied Pat.—Southern
Ruralist.
Mrs. Mel Provost and daughter,
Mary, accompanied by Miss Maud
Share motored to Pond Creek Mon-
day to visit friends a few days.
Captain Thomas L. Dyer and bride,
formerly Miss Alice Welch of Chero-
kee, arrived on the 9:18 Santa Fe,
Wednesday evening and will remain
a few days visiting the family of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Dyer, 803
Fourth street, before leaving for the
army cantonment at American Falls,
Washington. Tommy will receive a
hearty welcome from old friends and
fellow students.
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PROVE YOUR LOYALTY BY
Patronizing Local Dealers (
WE HAVE ADOPTED AS A SLOGAN
“Business as Usual”
THE FARMER’S SLOGAN SHOULD BE
“Greater and Better Crops”
Other industries should adopt similar slogans, and then we p
should all live up to them so that the best interests of our com- jj
munity may be conserved. We can render our greatest service jj
to the Government by keeping all industries moving.
Co-operation is necessary. It is time when we should all j
work together for the common good of our community. Patron- g
ize home dealers. Keep the money at home.
WE ARE READY TO DO OUR PART BY SUPPLYING 1
HIGH GRADE DRUG STORE GOODS AT
PRICES THAT ARE RIGHT.
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