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RENFRE W’5 RECORD
The Only Democratic Paper in Woode County
VOLUME 19
ALVA, WOODS COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY. MARCH 26, 1920
NUMBER 22
HOSPITU. FOR
BENEFIT OF III
Sis Rmiom Why Woods County
Should Have o County
Hospital
1st. At the present time there is
not a hospital in Woods County ade-
quate to take care of the sick in nor-
mal times. This lack of means for
providing for the sick means that in
times of much sickness, such as the
“flu" epidemic of 1919 and 1920, there
is a much greater loss of life and suf-
fering among the people than there
aa would be if the medical fraternity had
an adequate place to care for them.
2. Unity is strength. Woods
County united in an effort to equip
and run a hospital can give to the
people at a much less cost, better
service than at the present time. It
will be the people’s hospital run by a
board of directors appointed by the
people, whose duty will be to see that
every one gets good service at abso-
lute cost.
3rd. A county hospital will be an
asset and not a liability to Woods
County. At the present time about
$9,000 is spent annually in caring for
the poor, of which at least 75 per cent
is for the sick, (approximately $2,000
was spent in the hospital last year)
and by sending all sick county charg-
es to the county hospital this saving
alone would pay for the hospital
building in a few years, with only an
additional tax of 25 cents on one
thousand dollars valuation.
4th. The saving to the individual
patient in time and money will be at
least half. Railroad fare and hotel
bills both for the patient and his
friends will be saved. He will be at
a, home where loving hands can admin-
ister to Kim and- friends can^ cofhe In'
were played at the Normal grounds
during the day and at the high school
gym in the evening.
The all-tournament team as an-
nounced by President Battenberg and
referee Louis Wilke, Monday, is as
follows: Boys, first team: Weeks,
Cherokee, and Norris, Laverne, for-
wards; West, Jet, and F. Haster, La-
verne, Guards; Johnson, Helena, cen-
ter.
Second team, boys: Anderson,
Alva, and Rodgers, Jet, forwards;
Bates, Canton, and Rushton, Forgan,
guards; Barrick, Laverne, center.
Girls: Smith, Alva, and Valentine,
Jet, forwards; Stevens, Sharon, cen-
ter; Rodgers, May, 2nd center; How-
ard, Alva, and Collins, Jet, guards.
UNION REVIVAL AT
M.
E. CHURCH
The Union revival services of the
Methodists, Presbyterians knd other
churches, is now in progress. The
revival began Sunday, but owing to
the fact that the evangelist, Rev. Al-
bert G. Fisher, could not close his
successful revival at Stigler as soon
as he had anticipated, and because of
other delays, he did not arrive until
Wednesday. Mr. Payne, the singer,
WOODS COUNTY CENTEN-
ARION CALLED HOME
and see him and surrounded by the
best nurses and physicians and daily
in touch with business affairs, which
would be impossible if he were at a
hospital in some distant city.
5th. Every patient who goes out of
Woods County for treatment incurs
a loss to Woods county, both in time
and in money. With him goes his
money and time away from work,
with him goes his friends, their mon-
ey and time, which is nothing less
than an economical loss to Woods
county.
6th. A large spacious, well equip-
ped hospital in Woods County, built
and run by the county, will be an as-
set and not a liability, and will ever
stand as a memorial to the achieve-
ments of the people of Woods coun-
ty. In this great need let us forget
selfishness and work for a greater
good, the administration and care of
those among us who are unfortunate
enough to need the care of efficient
nurses ind doctors.
Woods Co. Hospital Association.
Michael Lyons died at the Alva
Hospital Friday evening, March 19,
1920, aged 102 years and 4 days. His
death was due to the infirmities of
age.
Michael Lyons was born in Ireland,
March 15, 1818. When 35 years old
he emigrated to the United States
and lived for some years in the east-
ern states. When 41 years of age he
was married in Vermont. He often
said that the two best places in the
world were Ireland, where he was
born and Vermont, where he got his
wife. The family lived for many
years in Iowa, whe/e his wife died
some years ago.
About 10 years ago he moved with
his son, W. M. Lyons, to a ranch
near Saratoga, in western Woods
county, where he lived until a few
months ago, when they moved to a
farm a few miles west of Alva. He is
survived by three children, namely,
Mrs. Joe Hole, Linn, Kansas, Mrs.
Margaret Levie, Omaha, Nebraska,
and W. M. Lyons, west of Alva.
Funeral services were held at the
Catholic church at 3:00 p. m. Sunday,
after which the remains were laid to
Test in the Catholic eemetery..
Mr. Lyons’ long life covered the
most remarkable century in the his-
tory of the human race. He was
born during the reign of George III,
more than a year before the birth of
Victoria, Great Britain’s most fam
ous queen. He saw the beninning of
railway transportation, the telegraph,
the many labor saving inventions and
in later years saw the telephone,
phonograph, automobile, wireless tel-
egraphy, submarine, air ship, etc.,
come into practical use.
Mr. Lyons expressed no surprise
when these remarkable inventions
came into common use. “Why,” he
would say, “the Bible foretold all of
these things.” Mr. Lyons had a re-
markable memory and except that his
hearing was somewhat impaired, pre
served his faculties to the last. He
was probably the oldest person in
Woods county at the time of his
death.
BASKET BALL TOURNAMENT
Citiwns Join With Schools in Enter-
taining Players and Visitors.
/
/
The third annual basket ball tourn-
ament held at Alva Friday and Sat-
grday of last week, was perhaps the
Jnost successful of any previous
▼ /event, both in point of interest and
the number of teams* taking part.
The contesting teams commenced to
arrive Thursday evening with their
coaches and were met at the trains
by citizens and Northwestern stu-
dents, who assigned them to the
rooms provided.
Twenty-one teams entered the
tournament for honors, namely:
Gage, boys and girls; Jet, boys and
girls; Vici, boys and girls; Sharon,
boys and girls; Driftwood, boys and
girls; Alva, boys and girls; May,
girls; Helena, Forgan, Burlington,
Cherokee, Laverne. Canton, Mutual
and Waynoka, boys. Friday’s win-
ners were the girls’ teams from Vici,
Jet and Alva, and boys’ from Helena,
Jet, Forgan, Cherokee, Laverne, Can-
ton and Mutual. Saturday’s games
eliminated all except the girls of Jet
and Alva, and the boys of Jet and
Laverne. In the finals played Sat-
urday night, Jet girls and Laverne
boys were the winners. The game*
were interesting throughout and all
teams showed first class coaching.
, Miss Sarah Crumley and thq girls
I*, the domestic science department oi
the Northwestern served two meals
a day to the visiting teams and. their
coaches at the sclcoee hall. Games
was present Sunday and organized
two strong choirs, senior and junior,
to assist in the revival. Rev. E. C.
Anderson, the Methodist pastor,
preached the Sunday evening sermon,
Rev. LeRoy Thompson, Presbyterian
pastor, Monday evening and Rev. T.
S. Pittenger, district superintendent,
M. E. church, Tuesday evening.
Evangelist Fisher conducted the serv-
ices Wednesday evening and from
now on has fulT charge of the revival.
A good attendance has been present
at every meeting and the song serv-
ices conducted by Singer Payne and
the sermpns have been most inter-
esting.
Evangeliat Fisher haa a pleasing
personally and frf original ‘way of
presenting bis subject that have
given him a wide reputation as a pop-
ular evangelist. Alva needs a revival
and we believe that Evangelist and
Mrs. Fisher and Singer Payne, as-
sisted by our pastors and church
membership, can do a great work in
the coming series of meetings.
The meetings will be held in the
Methodist church. Day meetings will
be held at 3 o’clock p. m., on Tues-
days, Wednesdays, Thursdays and
Fridays, and at 8 o’clock every even-
ing. Song service begins each even-
ing at 7:45. The evangelist announc-
es that the week day meetings will
commence on time and continue for
one hour only, so that busy people
can attend and not lose much time
from their daily, work.
People of all dhurches and no
church are cordially invited to attend
these meetings.
the rural districts such that the farm-
er can affetd to keep his children
there, s.rd he can not afford to keep
♦hem wlere there are not good
schools; lunce, the welfare of the
cities demands that good schools be
provided for the rural districts.
8. A six-mill state-wide tax levy
will amount to about fifteen dollars
to each boy and girl of school age in
the state, and will almost double the
amount of school funds now avail-
able.
9. Such levy will guarantee all ru-
ral districts a good school with well-
paid teachers, even where school
hoards are not progressive, and will
enable towns and cities to meet the
emergency confronting them.
10. Such levy will give the boys
and girls in the poor districts more
nearly an equal opportunity, with the
boys and girls in cities or wealthy
districts.
11. Where the limit is now suffi-
cient or unnecessary, the six-mill
levy will reduce the present local levy
by six mills and not hurt the districts,
be it rural or city.
12. With good pay or even the
prospect of good pay, the best teach-
ers will remain in the business, many
well qualified teachers who have left
it will return to it, and our normal
schools and the educational depart
ments of other institutions of learn-
ing will become filled with the best
and brightest of our young men and
women who will soon become pre-
pared for reaching and thus supply
(he depleted ranks of the profession;
yet, it will, at the very best, require
three or four years to replenish the
teaching forces with teachers as com
petent as they were in pre-war days.
13. When the ranks fill, standards
of qualification will be raised and we
will then, and not until then, be able
to eliminate the incompetent teach
ers.
14. The children—our future men
and women—deserve our best efforts
and mutinied help. This is our op-
portunity to give It and in so doing
manifest the true spirit of Ameri-
canism. Will we do it ?
W. C. Canterbury, Sec’y,
Oklahoma Educational Association.
SPECIAL TERM OF DISTRICT
COURT IN SESSION
Judge Frank Matthews of Altus,
arrived over the Rock Island, Sun-
day and opened the special term of
district court Monday morning.
Judge Matthews was sent to try
some cases in which Judge Sutton
was retained as counsel before his
election as judge, which incapacitated
hint from presiding while these cases
were tried. The first case taken up
was Gaskill vs. Fulkerson, forgery
A jury was empaneled Monday and
Tuesday at the close of a night ses-
sion the case went to the jury. The
;ury took up the case Wednesday
morning and about 12 o'clock, noon,
brought in a verdict of guilty, and
recommended a sentence of one year
in the penitentiary for the defendant.
The next case taken up was the
State vs. Queen, and a jury was em-
paneled and the trial began.
I. O. O. F. BUY HOME
. The Alva Lodge of Odd Fellows
have recently closed a deal whereby
they became owner of the Wiggins
building, south side of the square.
The Bradbury Book Store occupies
the lower floor and will continue bus
iness in the same room. The Odd
Fellows will remodel the rooms and
take possession in the spring.
CONFIRMATION AND REUNION
READ THIS CAREFULLY
We are endeavoring to get the
name of every ex-service man in the
county. Every person who reads this
notice is concerned. We need your
help. Read carefully and fill out the
instructions below and mail to the
Post Commander of the American
Legion, at Alva, Mr. Arthur Lane.
We are sorry that no one took the
trouble to keep a record of all the
men from Woods county who were in
the service. We will have to do the
best we can and do not want to miss
a man. In order to get a correst list
we need the co-operation of all who
read these instructions. If some boy
who was in the service has moved
away, you who knew him must sent
his name to us or write him and tell
him to send the desired information.
Will the parents of boys who were
killed or who died during the war
send this information also. We want
to compile thia into book form as a
matter of history, therefore it
urged that no one be missed. This is
important to,.all. Do not neglect
If you can’t give all the information
desired, send his name and we will
endeavor to do the rest. The
American Legion has important in
formation for you. Please fill this
blank out:
Full name---------------------------
Rank -------------------------------
Former Org.----....---------------
(in full)
No. of mo. in service----------------
Present Address---------------------
Present Occupation_________________
Information sent ',by-----------------
Yours respectfully,
Arthur Lane, P. C.
Alva, Okla.
FOURTEEN REASONS
RURAL SCHOOL BOARDS
ORGANIZE
Pursuant to a call by the county
superintendent, about twenty-five
members of rural school boards met
in the court room Saturday and per-
fected an organization by electing
the following officers: J. E. Milsap,
district 54, president, and Mrs. B. F.
Hufford. district 53, secretary. The
president asked the county superin-
tendent to appoint a committee of
five to prepare plans for securing
better teachers. The committee ap-
pointed was Messrs. Joseph, Otti,
Rhodes, Hull and Nelson. Messrs.
Nelson, Otti, and Hull were appointed
committee to draft a petition ask-
ing our senator and representative
to use their influence with the legis-
lature to have the school law amend-
ed by having the annual school meet-
ings held the second Tuesday in
May. The change to be made be
made because of the present dale in-
terfering with harvest work, hence a
poor attendance at the meetings.
Why Provision Should bo Made for
a Stato-Wido Tax-Lory for tho
Support of tho Public Schools
of tho Stato.
ORGANIZE WHEAT
GROWERS ASSOCIATION
Abe Slaughter of Wakita, State Or-
ganizer of the National Wheat Grow-
ers Association will be here at the
court house Saturday, April 3, at 2
o’clock to organize the wheat grow-
ers of Woods county. The wheat
growers of Alfalfa county met last
Saturday at Cherokee. 1300 members
have already been secured to the or-
ganization. Every wheat grower in
the county should be present. The
state organizer has appointed Oscar
Abbott and Pprd Easterly to assist in
organising the county.
1. There is an emergency in edu-
ca’ion—140,000 teachers left the pro-
fession during the last year. Many
of their places are filled by young or
incompetent teachers, and many va-
cancies yet exist.
2. The great majority of those who
left the teaching profession did so to
enter positions offering better pay;
lienee, it is evident that they were of
the more ambitious, intelligent, and
progressive class.
3. As these have left the teaching
business, and others in great num-
ber* will doubtless follow, to enter
paying positions, it is clear that the
only way to meet the emergency is to
secure better pay for teachers.
а. A very great number of dfttricts
are now levying the maximum limit of
fifteen ini:'.*,‘and th’s in many places
is found to be inadequate, and it will
be inadeqt ate in far more places next
year, to | rnvide the salary funds nec-
esstry tc keep the sut teachers in
the protession.
5. In districts where the limit is
net be j g levied, they are in many
casts hav.ng short t«rms of school
with rotrly paid teachers.
б. Education is not a local affair.
l*s rat re is state-wide, and the State
should protect it* interests and help
to supt ort it., , g.
7. The critic* ane dependent upon
7. The ritigji are dependent upon
the pooter rural (Iktt.cts , for their
existence and suppfrt, and the sup-
port is made possible cnly by making
Sunday, M'arch 28, at 10 a. m. a class
of seven children will be confirmed in
Zion’s Lutheran church, corner 3rd
and Maple street. Those in the class
are: Clarence Dubben, Edward
Rauch, Christian Psychigoda, Matilda
Ritter, Agnes Meyer, Esther Vetter
and Anna Hort. Rev. Vetter will ex-
amine the children and perform the
solemn rite of confirmation. Rev.
Walter Meyer will deliver a short
address to the class.
In the evening a reunion service
will take place. All those confirmed
in Zion’s Lutheran church since 1901
are cordially invited to be present.
Rev. Vetter will deliver a short ad-
dress and one member of each of the
20 classes will read a short history
of his class.
SENATOR BLASSINGAME HERE.
Mrs. Bell Thomas brought her
father, Mr. W. H. Worland home
with her from his home at Waureka
last Friday. They went from Alva to
Mr. Luther Thomas’ home, north of
Alva, for a short visit. On Wednes-
day they passed through Alva on
their way to Ochiltree, where Mr.
Worland will make his home with
Mrs. Thomas. Mr. Worland has not
been enjoying the best of health for
the past several months. His many
friends in Alva hope he may soon be
strong and well.
Miss Neta Smith, instructor in pub-
lic school music in the Carmen
Schools, returned to her work after
the basket ball tournament and a
visit with home folks.
SCHOOL BOARD
THE ACTION
‘lon-Rssidnt Pupils Must Bo
Transferee! or Pay Tuitiaa
to Attend City Schools
The Board of Education of the
City of Alva has found it necessary
to require that pupils who are not
residents of the Alva district either
be transferred or pay tuition. The
Board of Education finds that it is
impossible to maintain our school
and keep up to standard on the 15
mill levy without making this re-
quirement. We have been requested
to publish some information regard-
ing these transfers. I quote the fol-
lowing from the school laws as com-
piled in 1919:
Procedure for Transfer.
Sec. 312. All requests foi* transfer
by the parent or guardian of ahy
child or children shall be made and
filed with the County Superintendent
not later than the first day of June.
The County Superintendent shall, not
later than the fifth day of June, no-
tify in writing the school boards of
every district from or to which an
application for transfer has been
made, that he will on the tenth day of
June hold a hearing regarding said
application for transfer. If the trans-
fer is to be made to a district in an-
other conuty the county superinten-
dent shall notify the county superin-
tendent of the county to which the
transfer is ot be made of the request
for the transfer, who shall then no-
tify the district affected. On the
date of said hearing any person or
persons of an affected district may
appear before the County Superin-
tendent and gfVe any reason why the
transfer should not be made. After
the hearing, if J|lie County SomNb-
tendent is of the opinion that it is to
the best interests of the school will
not be adversely affected, he shall
make the transfer. If he is not so
satisfied, he shall refuse the transfer,
Provided, that any person interested
in such transfer, shall have the
right of appeal from the action of
said Superintendent to the Board of
County Commissioners, who shall
hear said appeal at their next meet-
ing after said appeal shall have been
nerfected before said board, and their
decision thereon shall be final. (Sec.
2, S. B. 33, S. L. 1919.)
Funds Pro-rated.
Sec. 314. Fees for a|j transfers
shall be based upon the previous
year pro-rated expense for pupil in
the district to which the transfer is
made, tuition for common schools
and high schools estimated separate-
ly. (Sec. 4, H. B. 296, Session LaOrs
1917.)
Shall Furnish Statement.
Sec. 315. It shall be the duty oLJhe
county superintendent to furnish the
school board of every district from
which a transfer has been made with
a statement not later than the fif-
teenth day of June, showing the
amount necessary to be raised for
“transfer fund,” said amount to be
ascertained as required in section 314
of this act, and said statement shall
also show the number of pupils
Ex-Senator Blassingame of Salli-
saw, was in the city Wednesday.
Senator Blassingame was for many
years a prominent newspaper man in
the eastern part of the state, but it,
at present, out of the work and is
now connected with the State Board
of Agriculture. Hit duty is visiting
the towns of the state to tee if the
seeds dealers have complied with the
law -in-iregard to testing the garden
and other seeds before offering them
for sale.
MRS. EMMA FERBRACHE DEAD
Mrs; Emma Ferbrache died sud-
denly Wednesday of apoplexy, at the
home of her ton, L. Romig, one mile
west of Whitehorse. She was aged
67 years, 4 months and 14 days. No
arrangements have been made for
the funeral as we go to press, as they
are awaiting the arrival of two
daughters of the deceased.
Mitt Sarah Crumley returned Sun-
day from BartleavUle. where she at-
tended the State convention of the
D. A. R.
Mrs. R. E. Carter is enjoying a
visit from her sister. Mrs. Caves, of
Altus, Oklahoma. Mrs. Carter will
have a sale of her household goods at
her residence, corner of Church and
7th, on Tuesday, March 30, at 1:30
p. m.
transferred and the district to v(
The Eastern Star held a most en-
joyable meeting Tuesday evening. Dr.
and Mrs. H. H. Sherman and Mrs.
John Carey were initiated into full
membership. The chapter (t growing
rapidly in membership.
Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Nuce of Foun-
tain, Colorado, formerly of the Ml-
rabile neighborhood, are rejoicing
over the arrival of their first grand-
child. A new ton hat arrived at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry R. Nuce,
in Colorado. The Record family also
rejoices, as the new arrival is a grand
nephew of the editor, J. P. Renfrew.
Dahl DeGeer hat purchased the
Boydston property on Fourth street,
between Maple and Normal. Mr. De-
Geer has leased his farm to Frank
Bently of PAry, and will move to
Alv* to educate his son Everett.
hich
they were transferred, a copy of said
statemnet shall be furnished the dis-
trict to which transfer is made.
(Sec. 5, H. B. 296, Session Laws 1917.)
Duty of Board*.
Sec. 316—It shall be the duty of
the school boards from which trans-
fers have been made, in compliance
with the act to include in their an-
nual estimate the amount for trans-
fer fund at shown by statement re-
ferred to in section 315 of this act.
(Sec. 6, H. B. 296, Session, Law* 1917)
For your information we have se-
lected the principal sections of the
transfer law. Some have asked the
question whether children would have
to pay tuition if they are transferred.
Those who are transferred do not
have to pay tuition in addition to the
transfer fees. If your children are
not ransferred they will have to pay
tuition to attend the Alva schools.
If they are transferred your school
district will pay the expense. The
county superintendent will be glad
to give the details of the law if you
wish to transfer. We should like
to know toon whether you are going
to transfer in order that we may
know how tnalny teachers to elect.
Albert W. Fanning,
Secretary Board of Education.
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