Okeene Democrat (Okeene, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, December 21, 1917 Page: 1 of 8
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OKEENE
DEMOCRAT
VOLUME 2
OKEENE, BLAINE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER. 21 1917
NUMBER 15
War Savings Stamps.
Postmaster Casper lias received
small pamphlets containing all the
Local Advisory Board
Begins Work.
The Questionaires, the mailing
necessary information regarding of which began the 15th instant
the sales of War Savings Stamps began to reach registrants early
and Certificates. If you do not this week. The honor for being
receive one of these /call at the first in the classification goes to
postoffice. From it you can get! Andy J. Slonecker. He waived
all the details which are somewhat fall exemptions and was entered
too long to reproduce here. in Class One.
The pamphlet gives as reasons The Local board requests the
for buying stamps and certificates Democrat to announce that regist-
the following: rants may receive aid at three
The main reason for the purchase 1 piaces in Okeene, namely: Dus-
of War Savings Stamps is because j babek’s Garage, the Citizens
your country is at war. Your j State Bank and the Guaranty
Country needs every penny which I State Bank,
everv man, woman, and child can There will be some one or more
Save and lend, in order to feed, j of the Board at each of these i
clothe, arm, and equip the soldiers places during the business hours,
and sailors of America and to win | While the* members have said
this righteous war in defense of, nothing concerning the matter, it
American honor and the cause of j is advisable that those desiring aid
democracy throughout the world.j in classifying themselves properly
If we are to win the war, wel®bo1^ choose times during the
must win it as a United people. j^ay wben business is at its lowest
The saving of every man, woman,;ebb- ?hus interfering with routine
and cihld are necessary if we are activities as little as possible.
to hasten the victorious ending of
the war. War Savers are Life
Savers.
A singie strand in the cables
which uphold the great Brooklyn
Suspension Bridge is not very
strong, but thousands of these
bound together uphold one of the
great thoroughfares of the world.
When our fathers and sons and
brothers w e t i called by our
Country to take up arms in her
defense, you did not hear an indi-
vidual soldier refuse to serve be-
cause his services silone wooM
not win the was. Each man was
ready to do his part The great
army thus formed is going for-
ward to face the fire of battle and
to risk everythingjfor safety and
security of our homes and our
families, and for the very existence
of our Country.
These are the men for whom
you are asked to save and lend
your dollars.
A Country WPrth fighting for is
a Country worth saving for.
To save money is to save life.
The Local Advisory Board for
Okeene consists of the following
men: I). S. Randolph. H. M. Bear,
D. L. Holter, Geo. F. Dusbabek,
O. E. Durham, Otto Graalman, G.
F Roetzel, M. A. Braund, Chas
Guild and John Boyles.
Jacob Schmidt Dies.
Jacob Schmidt, one of the pion-
eer settlers in this section, ans-
wered the last call Sunday morn-
ing, December 16th. At the time
of his death he lacked only nine
days of being eighty-one years of
age and his death was attributed
to old age. If he had lived until
Christmas he and Mrs. Schmidt
would have been married sixty-
one years. Only a few days be-
fore his death Mrs. Schmidt was
stricken with paralysis and at
the present time is not expected
to survive her companion very
long.
Funeral services were conduct-
ed Tuesday at the church three
miles north of Kiel and the re-
mains interred in the cemetery
there.
The Red Cross Drive.
Numerous Red Cross serveice
flags are already to be seen in
the windows of o u r business
houses and residences' Most all
uf them have at least one or two
additional smaller crosses, indi-
cating that more than one member
of the household has become a
Christmas member of the organ-
ization.
At the Citizens State Bank Mr.
O. G. Graalman has a Red Cross
Booth and additional abvertising
matter i s displayed at various
places in town. The publicity
given the drive for members has
been so thorough that there can
scarcely be a man, woman or
child in Okeene or vicinity, who
is not familiar with its objects
and purposes.
The drive does not close offi-
cially until Christmas Eve and you
who have not yet joined will have
until that time t o make good.
However, it is advisable to look
after the matter as soon as possi-
ble. Do not wait until the last
minute, but see Mr. Graalman or
some other of the local committee
now. Do not wait to be solicited.
The committee w il l appreciate
such action on your part, for these
are very busy days with them.
Put the Red Cross Service Flag
in your window and show your
Red Cross Button.
School Notes
The first Christmas present to
our Library was in the form, of a
set composed of five volumes of
Thobarn’s Oklahoma History. The
students and faculty wish to ex-
tend their thanks to Mr. Chapman..
Who will be the next?
The boys m military drill have
received their new bugle and now
have the use of the bugle and the
snare drum in their drills. They
are ready to begin manual of arms
drill and are arranging to get
equipment for this at once.
One of the very best of our lit-
Friday afternoon by the Ithanna
Society. They are improving all
the time. Better come out and
see for yourself.
A Camp Fire girls’ club has
been organizee with a member-
shiy of twenty High School girls,
under the direction of Mrs. Ware.
The girls are very enthusiastic
about various nhases of work in
Wheatless Day Not Observed
Wednesday’s Oklahoman con-
tains the statement that Wheatless
day is a tailure in Oklahoma City.
The Bakers are not responsible,
neither are the restaurants and
hotels, The blame rests with the
public. It seems that the majority
of the housewives there refuse to
keep the pledge and when they
could not buy wheat bread a t
dealers or bakeries they bought
the ingredients and baked at home.
These conditions have aroused
the bakers until they have appeal-
ed to Food Adminstrator Stratton
D. Brooks, who says that things
must tighten up and that those
erary programs was given last ] who want to lose the war by
eating wheat bread on wheatless
days should be interned in camp
with German spies and other
enemies of the government.
How Is It in Okeene?
Wheatless a n d Me atless, Days
both seem to be failures in Okeene.
None of our restaurants and hotels
are observing either one and, so
which they will be engased. |far as tan be 'fned' few
Watch them, for you will hear of fam'bes are observiyg em m
them again.
We have jest received some ex
their homes. We understand
that the butcher shop made an
effort some weeks ago to enforce
Oklahoma’s war savings quota
calls for $20 for eyery man, wom-
an and child in the state
lUajcstic (Theatre
Program for Week £n&iiq
December 30 b* 1917
MONDAY—Jackie Saunders, in
a Mutual Star Feature;
‘CHECKMATE”
TUESDAY—Kathlynn Williams
in great 7-Reel Feature,
“THE ROSARY”
‘‘As good as any good sermon.”
WEDNESDAY—Helen Holmes,
in that exciting serial,
‘ RAILROAD RAIDERS”
THURSDAY—Jimmy Dale and
that funny fellow, “Shorty”
FRIDAY—Vivian Martin, in a
Paramount feature,
“A KISS FOR SUSIE”
SATURDAY—3-reel drama and
2 reels of Mutual Vogue
COMEDY
Appointed County Chairman.
B. M. Hippard of the Hockaday
Company has been appointed j
chairman for Blaine county o f j
the State National War Savings |
Committee. His duties will be to
organize the county in the war- j
savings and thrift Campaign soon
to be put on and to work in co-
operation with the banks and
postoffice in the sale of these |
certificates and stamps. A meet-;
ing of the state chairmen will be
held in Oklahoma City sometime
soon to plan the statewide cam-;
paign.-Watonga Republican.
While teaching a novice to drive
a Ford Tuesday, the son of Henry
Laubach ran the car into a ditch.,
upsetting it, the occupants escaped |
without injury and the car only
suffered a broken wind shield.
And The Red Cross
Flag is Flying.
_ *
Ud to noon. Wednesday a num-
ber of business houses were still
failing to display their service
flags. * A representative of the
Democrat inspected both sides of
the Main Street business section
and found flags as follows, the
number indicating the large flag
and the smaller flags, the total
denoting the number of members
of the firms and their employees
who had joined the Red Cross up
to that time.
Okeene Hospital____________5
Let.s Eat Cafe-------------2
Citizens State Bank--------5
Dr. Allen_________________4
Dr. Murdoch______________4
National Bank-------------5
Okeene Cash Store---------3
C. W. Bardrick____________3
Whittett & Hey.-----------7
E. R. Black________________5
W. H. Metz_______________2
Dusbabek’s Garage-------13
An effort was made to overlook
no one and no one was intention-
ally overlooked. In case such
has occured please accept our
apologies and we will make the
correction in the next issue.
cellent briefs for debate work for Meatless Dayt but upon consult-
our library. These books consti-1 ing with a number of the inter-
tute a much needed addition. We ....
hope now to have some good de-
bate in literary society programs.
The Domestic Science pate had
their first lesson in making candy
Tuesday afternoon. Look out Mr.
sandy man, you are liable to have
competition or lose out altogeth-
er! Many a student has already
looked with wistful eyes and long-
ed for that candy cooling in the
windows across the way.
Theft will be a basket ball
game between Okeene High
School 1st team boys and Drift-
wood Friday at 4 p. m.
A chapel visitor Wednesday
inorning was Mr. 0. E. Graalman,
who talked to the stndents in the
interest of the Red Cross.
Many of the rooms for the
grades have been prettily deco-
rated by the teachers. The pu-
pils are enjoying the holiday air
to the fullest extent. Come and
see the rooms for yourself.
Christmaf holidays are coming!
So is the Berkeley Sextette.
ested parties, was compelled to
give up the idea. The public de-
mand was for meat and, under
such conditions, it is difficult for
the dealer to observe that dav.
The same statement applies to
dealers in bread.
We might as well face the facts
and get into line. If we do not,
the time is coming when the
government is going enforce these
things if it has to resort to con-
gressionial action and force.
The Democrat does not believe,
cannot believe that our failure to
observe these days is due to
any disloyalty to the governmen t.
No, our opinion is that it is due to
the fact that the mass of the peo-
ple has hot yet realized what the
war means —what it would mean
to be defeated. They have not
realized that this is the greatest
crisis in our national existence
and that WE MUST WIN THE
WAR- President Wilson and a
few otters do realize these
things and are taking the steps
they consider necessary to save
our flag from disgrace and our
people from disaster. We MUSI1
help, both individually and collect-
When we arrive at the
point where we see all these
The Red Cross Christmas drive
has succeeded so well throughout 'veb
the Southwest that there is a P°*nt
shortage in buttons. Temporary things clearly ue wi nee no
tags are being used until buttons coercion. But it seems that we
though younger men fightand fall
In France and Flanders faraway.
Your Red Cross serves them all;
“He also also serves,’ who joins
today
Services at the Methodist Church
Sunday will be in charge of the
District Superintendent, Rev.
Baker,vof Enid. He will preach
at both morning and evening
hours. The Sunday School will
have a Christmas Tree on Christ-
mas Eve.
The Sunday School of the Church j
of Christ will have their annual
Christmas Tree and program on
Monday evening
Don’t you feel better now, after
you have coughed up that dollar
for the Red Cross?
cah be secured, 'every.ope who
joins being promised a button as
soon as the factories can catch up.
are awlully slow about it.
The Dusbabek Garage received
,a shipment of Fords Thursday
. , [consisting of four touring cars and
There will be special Christmas j two sedansl
services at 10:30 a. m. Christmas
day at the German Baptist Church:
The Sunday School will have a
Christmas program Monday eve-
ning.
Have you heard of anyone who
has refused to join the Red Cross?
What was the reason? Did such
an on one lack the heart or the
dollar? The lattter might prove a
valid excuse but the former i s
utterly unacceptable;
Jr* VIVIAN MARTIN
.Wf Mb' ftwsounl
In “A Kiss for Susie.” at the
Majestic, Dec. 28th.
Have you a heart and a Dollar? Join the Red Cross today-don’t delay!
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