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RENFREW'S RECORD
Vol. 13.
ALVA, WOODS COUNTY. OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY. AUGUST 14. 1914
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ELECTION RETURNS OOME
IN SLOWLY.
We take the following summary
of the result of the state-wide pri-
mary election as to democratic can-
didates, from the Dally Oklahoman
of August 12th, just before going
to press.
By the complete vote of 7 4 of the
77 counties of the state, Judge Rob-
ertson had 32,450 and Judge Wil-
liams 34,386, making Williams’
plurality 1936. The three counties
which had not reported were, Kiowa
(Hobart), Washington (Bartles-
ville), and Tulsa (Tulsa), and it is
has been adopted, it is believed.
For several of the state offices the
candidates were so nearly equally
the choice of the plurality, that it
may take a recount of the vote to
decide the question.
Senator Gore has been renominat-
ed for the United States Senate by
a stupendous majority, variously es-
timated at 30,000 to 50,000. The
actual majority will probably be
known by the time the Record
reaches its readers.
The candidates for congress, so
far as learned, are Davenport in the
first, over Pat Malloy; W. W. Hast
ings in
ALVA EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO.
j PROFESSOR J. B. CHEADLE HERE gust 4 th. To my loyal friends, who MRS. WOODROW WHiSON^
Prof John B. Cheadle of the I wish to express my gratitude. With-I -
state university law school, arrived out such services and loyalty, no 1 For the first time in the history of
in Alva, Tuesday, to look after bus- campaign can be successful, or vie- tke nation the wife of the President
iness matters and greet old friends, tory appreciated.
Mr. Cheadle has always made good “The returns show that I carried
and he is regarded as the strongest 75 counties of the 77
Alva Review, June 25, 1896.
A. C. Towne, Pub. and Prop.
Bert Moyer has purchased the
Briant tonsorlal parlors. and he )g regarded as the 8trongest 75 counties of the 77 in the state,
A. J. Linvllle of Wisby. was upon : ^ ^ ^ facuUy q{ the ,aw 8chool. and that my majority is 28,424. This
our streets Friday. Hlg raany frlends will be gratified to is very gratifying to me, in the face
Miss Lillian Snyder is enjoying | that he hftf, beeQ offered the „f the fact that l took only seven
position of acting professor in the days from my official work to devote
law department of Leland Stanford to my campaign.
her sister
the school vacation with
at Wichita, Kansas.
Miss Laura Williams left Monday
has been called from the labors of
earth to the higher life, during her
husband’s Incumbency in office. On
Thursday morning, August 6th, Mrs.
| Woodrow Wilson, after months of
i suffering, passed to her reward. In
I her going President Wilson has lost
' the loving helpmate of years, whose
f Kildare where 9he wlll vl8lt with diversity, at a salary of ,3500 for "When I announced for -nom.-,—^el a^ender'aHecUon has
for Kildare, where she will visit wun the coming year, and that he has nation, I stated positively that I - .....
her sister for several weeks.
Fred Hanford has bought out the
31 ‘ _ . ..I rlBU 11 ^ .. . | granted a
the second, over Campbell interest of his partner, A. Kalb, and
leave of absence for one would reflect upon the character or
that he could accept the reputation of any man who might op-
ville), and luisa tiuisai, auu n. -- — ■ ,*-----— — — r _ , . i year, so that ne couni accept me . ........... ....... - —
not believed that these returns will ] Russell. Charlie Carter, without ( henceforth will go it alone. Fred is; offer Qf the great rallfornia 8Chool. pose me for this nomination. I am
change the result on the two leading' opposition in the third; Bill Murray ,a careful, conscientious business man
candidates for governor, materially. | in the fourth; Joe Thompson, over and will surely succeed.
“Judge Robertson, who filed a Claud Weaver, in the fifth^
protest with the state election board Fe*ris of course, in the sixth,
several days ago against the count
in several counties in the southwest-
part of the state, which gave
era
Williams a large plurality, stated
Tuesday night that so far as he per-
sonally was concerned the protest
would not be carried out. The pro-
tests, he said, were made in his be-
half by his friends and supporters,
and with them rested the question
of whether the protest would be
prosecuted.
Robertson Quits. „
“I have gone as far as I can. My
financial condition is in such shape
that I must quit now. If the people
of the state who supported me care
to .protest the nomination of Judge
Williams, they may do so,” * said
Judge Robertson, Tuesday night.
The nominations which appear
certain are W. L. Alexander of Ok-
lahoma City, for state treasurer; A.
P. Watson of Shawnee, for corpora-
tion commissioner; S. P. Freeling of
Shawnee, for attorney general;
Fred Parkinson of Wagoner, for
state examiner and inspector; Ed
Boyle for state mine inspector; W.
G. Ashton for state labor commis-
sioner; A. L. Welch of Purcell, for
state insurance commissioner; Wil-
liam D. Matthews of Wynnewood,
for commissioner of charities and
corrections, and R. H. Wilson of
Chlckasha, for state superintendent
of public instruction. Clinton M.
Allen of Marshall, who opposed Wil-
son for the nomination has conceded
Wilson’s nomination.
Lieutenant Governor Race.
The contest for lieutenant gov-
ernor remained without material
change through the returns receiv-
ed by the election board Tuesday.
Former State Auditor M. E. Trapp 1
r e Intained his lead of approximate-
ly 1,500 votes over Ben F. Lafay
Scott
Jim
McClintic In the seventh, and Henry
S. Johnson in this district, the
1 eighth.
For justice of the supreme court:
Summers Hardy In the second dis-
trict; J. F. Sharp in the fourth; G.
A. Brown, without opposition in this
district, the fifth.
W. D. Close, a republican candi-
date for the nomination for sheriff,
from Walthall, was in Alva the first
of the week, and was certainly mak-
ing himself very agreeable with his
partisans. He has caught on to the
candidates handshake in elegant
style.
Attorneys .Prlckett and Dunn
started Tuesday morning for a trip
but in granting it President—
--expressed the opinion
indeed glad to be able to say to you
County Judge W. M. Bickel won t0 tke southwest corner of the coun-
the nomination for state senator in ^y
this district for state senator in this j c q chandler, of Medicine Lodge,
district, composed of the counties Kansas, was in Alva the latter part
of Woods and Woodward, by major-|of the week assisting Mr. Fallls in
ities in both counties; 53 in Woods hlg Iaw sujt.
and 59 in Woodward. Sam Quinlan The article from the pen of Mr.
was nominated for representative of j Share of this city, headed “Stay
Woods county over J. D. Scott, by a w[th |t •• published in the Review a
majority of nine votes.
couple of weeks ago, is being very
E. O. McCance, editor of the Mu-1 largely copied by the press of Okla-
tual Enterprise, was nominated for boma.
representative of Woodward county
by a substantial vote.
Judge W. C. Crow has been nom-
inated for judge of the district
court of this district by a majority
in every county in the district.
We believe that a good ticket has
Orrin Cowgill returned home
from the state of Kansas last Sun-
day. He visited quite a number of
counties in search of work, but
found that crops were much lighter
than reported and the demand for
hands not near equal to the supply.
been nominated, whichever candi- But 75 cents per day was being paid
date in the near-tie cases shall final-1 for harvest hands.
Jy get the election certificate. We
accepted. Mr. Cheadle has been would ^ througr\heaTears,or\tlmTredweddS
life. Her mission was to go about
I
doing good, not only in the home but
wherever she saw an opportunity to
make life brighter for every one.
Her arduous work In bettering the
conditions of the poor of Washing-
ton City, Is said to have hastened the
final summons. The husband and the
three daughters were by her bedalde
at the last.
The funeral was simple and unos-
tentatious. The services were held
In the White House. Friends and
high dignitaries from all over the
world wired to Washington florists to
send flowers to the funeral.
The special train, bearing the body
of Mrs. Wilson, left Washington
Monday night, August 10th, for
Rome, Georgia, her childhood home.
The family and a few relatives and
friends accompanied the remains.
All that was mortal of the loved
| wife and mother was laid beside the
graves of her parents, Tuesday, to
rest forever in the sunny southland,
where her joyous girlhood was spent.
President Wilson, already burdened
with the cares of the nation, at one
of the most critical periods of Its his-
tory, has almost more than he can
bear In this, the greatest sorrow oL
his life. The prayers and sympathy
of a nation are with the President
and his children In their great grief.
that that I kept this promise.
Mr. Cheadle would not return to Ok-1 “Our public school system has at-
lahoma. The great universities of tracted the attention of prominent
the land, backed by their splendid educators outside the state, and we
endowments, seek out the best tal- pan make It far more attractive if we
ent in the country and by paying will unite with one purpose, and that
munificent salaries, secure and hold to better the school conditions and
men that make the universities fa-, the school facilities of all the chll-
mous. While rejoicing in Mr. Chea- dren of the state of Oklahoma,
die’s good fortune, we regret that j “I shall devote my entire time and
Oklahoma Law School loses such a energy in behalf of the common
valuable man. The Oklahoma Law schools of Oklahoma, and I appeal to
School, the youngest in the south-: school men of the state, whether
west, already ranks with the best, they have assisted me politically or
but the state will have to back up Its not, to assist me professionally In do-
university with liberal appropria- ing everything that can be done for
tions if it holds its rank with the Jhe uplift of education in this state
universities of neighboring states, during the next four years. Under
no circumstances will I be a candi-
date to succeed myself for a third
term. I shall work untiringly to
make it possible for every boy and
girl in Oklahoma, to have an equal
__ opportunity to secure an education.
Vance Green, who has been assist- In this effort I am entitled to the
ant cashier in the Burlington Bank support and co-operation of all public
for some time, has accepted the same spirited citizens of this state.
Mr. Cheadle is making arrange-
ments to leave for his new field of
labor in a short time.
CHANGE IN THE CAPRON BANK.
jiad some personal . preferences
among the candidates and they were
not all nominated, but the ticket
nominated is our ticket and we are
for It.
If fraud is proven in specific cas-
es, punish the perpetrators, whoever
they may be.
We believe that every honest
vote cast should be honestly count-
ed, let the nomination go where L
will.
CARRIED EVERY COUNTY
IN DISTRICT
Editor Renfrew of the Record, re-
ceived the following wire from
ette of Checotah, and apparently has] Judge W. C. Crow, announcing his Alva, Monday.
Alva Review, July 2, 184)6.
A. C. Towne, Ed. and Pub.
H. L. Ross is out in the country on
a canvassing tour this week. ’ '
U. S. District Attorney Brooks and
his assistant Roy Hoffman spent
some little time in Alva this week.
A. T. Whitworth and Mr. McAdoo
of Augusta, two of the leading popu-
lists, were in the city a short time,
Monday.
W. B. Tyler of Driftwood, was one
among our callers last week.
The Augusta Free Lance has be-
come a thing of the past.
R. D. Herold, one of Kiowa’s
leading merchants, drove' down to
position in the Capron State Bank,
Sefton McHugh retiring. Mr. Green
Is a son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Green,
who live a few miles east of Capron,
and is capable and popular. He re-
cently married Miss Euphroslne
Webb of Capron, and this change
brings Mrs. Green back near the
home of her father, “Uncle Billy”'
Webb.
Sefton McHugh, who has held the
position for more than 10 years, will
look after his farms, write Insur-
ance, etc. We wish both Mr. Green
and Mr. McHugh continued success.
Sincerely yours,
“R. H. Wilson.’
MAYOR OF EVERY TOWN
IN OKLAHOMA TO HELP.
JULY CORRESPONDENCE.
won the nomination. Trapp stated | nomination at the primary election
Tuesday that he was confident he j last week:
bad won.
E. B. Howard and Frank Carter
are both claiming the nomination
for state auditor. Howard claims
his plurality will be approximately
900. Carter claims he is leading
Howard by a little more than 2,000.
The positions of J. L. Lyon and
Guymon, Olda., Aug. 7, 1914
J. P. Renfrew,
Alva, Oklahoma.
Have carried every county in dis-
I. F. Newland of Belle township,
was in town Monday.
W. A. Talkington has been placed
in charge of Waidley's store i Shield’s
old stand.)
Geo. W. Crowell will leave for the
record
, , , . . ... .. . I Chicago Convention, Saturday,
triet by good majorities considering > , , , ,,
! Five inches of rain is the
the light vote cast in some sections. , fRr (agt week
Impossible at this time to tell justj Rev. Watt and wife returned Tues-
T. S. Askew in the race for the nom- j what my majority is in the district,! day from a week's visit up in the
ination for secretary of state re- but will be almost two to one in av- j afate.
mains unchanged, Lyon still leading erage. Please express my sincere] o. c r Randall, who has been a
Askew by about 1,500. gratitude to the democrats of Woods j citizen among us since the opening
W. H. L. Campbell apparently has county, "who also gave me such a j 0f the county to settlement,'left the
been defeated by former State Sen- J gratifying expression of their confl-: territory unceremoniously Sunday
ator William Franklin for the nom- dence. Respectfully yours. ! night during the still, dark hours.
W. C. CROW. | His object, no doubt, was to evade
Judge Crow's hundreds of friends | the payment of delinquent taxes.
in Woods county will be pleased to | ___
learn of his nomination. We have
On account of the great wheat
harvest the country correspondence
to the Record has been cut down re-
markably when compared with other
months in the year. There were five
Issues in July, which still further
reduces the averages. Letters re-
ceived, 79. Neighborhoods heard
from, 33. Number of items received,
879. The old reliable Topsy, from
Sunny Side, and the new correspon-
dent from Fairvalley, were the only
correspondents who got through
A novel scheme that ought to be
successful, has just been outlined by
the Oklahoma Panama Pacific Expo-
sition in a letter to the mayor of ev-
ery town and city in Oklahoma. • -
Governor Cruce recently designed
Saturday, August 15th, as EXPOSI-
TION DOLLAR DAY and the Com-
mission is making it “Tag Day”
throughout the State. They have
written every mayor urging his co-
operation and enclosing a few tags
to be sold at $1.00 each in his town.
They ask the mayor to attend to the
matter personally, if possible, but if
too busy, to get some business men,
church society, or young ladles to
attend to the matter, and have ar-
THE TURMOIL IN EUROPE.
It is hard for a weekly newspaper
to boll down the extravagant re-
ports of the dailies In regard to bat-
tles on sea and land between the
warring nations of Europe and give
its readers a very clegr idea of the
week’s operations.
The heaviest fighting so far, has
been around the city of Liege, on
the Belgian frontier, between a Ger-
man army and the Belgians. The
Belgian army also put up a brave de-
fense and still claims to hold the
forts but the Germans have occupied
the city. French and British armies
are rapidly coming to the relief of
Belgian and a great battle will no
ranged with the Daily Oklahoman to j doubt be fought in that vicinity
publish August 23rd, a complete rec,- soon The Germans are threaten-
ord showing towns contributing to |ng the entire French frontier and a
the same, name of party superinten- prencli army has entered Alsace and
ding the “Tag Day” in each town, Paptured Mulhausen, which the
and the amount remitted. A list Germans have vainly attempted to
will also be published of those towns retake. The Germans, on the other
| that do not contribute anything, hand, claim to have won a great vtc-
The Germans
ination for clerk of the supreme
court. Franklin has a lead of
about 2,000 over Campbell, with J.
O. Crawford third.
with a letter each issue., though Dis-
trict 111, Keystone, Liberty No. 9. j] only a small number of tags Is being jory at Mulhausen.
Pleasant View and Prairie View ^ sent t0 each town and It is expected are making demonstrations near the
were close seconds. ] that the full amount will be sold in Holland frontier and the Dutch gov-
To show a comparison of the; every instance, and thus assure the ernnient is demanding to know what
mental activities of the Record cor- > ear|y success of this big movement. they mean by it. The little Swiss
--1 republic is mobilizing its army de-
PROFESSOR STEVENS OFF i termined to preserve its neutrality
FOR HARVARD, against all assailants whether Ger-
- man, Austrian or French.
Prof. O. W. Stevens and family left, Although first reports indicated
Another close contest has devel-, heard many republicans .and social-
oped in the race for the nomination
for president of the board of agri-
culture between Lieutenant Govern-
or J. J. McAlester and Frank M.
Gault •/ Geary. The returns so far
give Gault a lead of several hundred
votes.
Campbell Russell of Warner, one
■of the defeated candidates for the
nomination for congressman in the
second district, called at the office of
the election board Tuesday to get a
line on thw vote on the general rev-
enue bill, which he initiated. Mr.
Russell stated that he had heard
from fifty three counties and the
vote on the revenue bill was 59,108
ists express a desire to have a chance
to vote for Judge Crow at the gener-
al election if they had the chance.
They will now have the chance, and
the size of the Judge's majority is all
that we need figure on now.
CROWELL BROS. LUMBER
YARD MOVED.
respondents In summer and in win-
ter, January last shows, in four is-
sues, 138 letters, 47 neighborhoods
heard from and 2052 news items re-
ported. Good for the Record’s re-
porters. If it was not for them the
world would not know what Woods
county was doing.
GORE CONGRATULATES HAYES.
OLD-TIMER CALLS ON RECORD.
John Snapp, the jolly cattleman of
western Woods county, called on the
Record last Friday. The Record
family knew John 25 years ago on
Big Mule Creek, on the Comanche-
Barber county line, in Kansas.
John and his brothers, Ed and
Bunk, then came around annually ] coal and feed
Crowell Bros. Lumber Yard, Coal
and Feed Business, which has been
located on the north side of the
square ever since the founding of
Alva, 21 years ago, is now being
transferred to a new location on
College Avenue, just south of the
Alva Roller Mills office. The entire
stock will be under roof, a tract
80x100 feet being shedded. The
buildings are well under way and
the change will soon be made. Mr.
G. W. Crowell states that the object
of the change Is to get the lumber,
business near his
Sunday evening for Cambridge, Mass- that the Germans had lost 25,000
achusetts, where the Professor will
finish his course in Harvard Unlver-
for Its adoption and 30,217 against ] with a little coffee-mill for a thresh-j grain elevator, In order to better
it. He said that he believed that if ing machine, to thresh out the little consolidate the business and reduce
Lawton, Okla., Aug. 6.—In re-
sponse to the telegram of congratu-
lations from Judge S. W. Hayes upon
his victory at the primaries, Senator
T. P. Gore Thursday evening sent
the following telegram to the man
who was opposed to him in the battle
of ballots:
“Hon. 8. W. Hayes, Oklahoma
City.—Please accept my slncerest
thanks for your cordial and generous
congratulations. The joys of tri-
umph cannot be complete on account
of the reflection that so chivalrous a
contestant experienced the reverse of
victory. (Signed)
“T. P. GORE.”
slty. Professor Stevens has been
professor of the department of bi-
ology In the Northwestern ever since
the infancy of that institution and
the museum that he has built up is
the largest and best in the state.
Mr. Stevens took a course in Harv-
ard last fall and winter and we are
glad to see that he has been able to
return and complete his university
work.
as many as 76 per cent of the people
voted on the bill It was adopted.
The two anti-gambling laws pass-
ed by the last legislature and refer-
red, Russell said, had been sustain-
ed.
The constitutional amendment
patches of wheat that the settlers . the force necessary to run the busi-
ralsed among the gyp hills and can-J ness. We wish Mr. Crowell contin-
yons. John Is now prosperous and ued and increased success in busi-
lives within three miles of the Salt
Plains of the Cimarron, 37 miles
west of Alva. He comes to Alva
every week or two In his automobile.
making drunkenness grounds for spends most of the day here and
ness as a result of the change.
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
men in the assaults on Liege, th»
probability Is that their losses were
much less.
It Is believed that the Germans,
by passing through Belgium and
thus flanking the strong French
forts, expected to move rapidly on
Paris wlthout^much opposition, but
the strong fight put up by the Bel-
gians In the defense of Liege, has
spoilt their plans, until the French
are prepared for them.
THE ALVA HOSPITAL MOVES.
STATE SUPERINTENDENT WIL-
SON APPRECIATES SUPPORT.
Messrs. Van Saun and Amos,
Dacoma, were In the city Tuesday.
Mr. Van Saun has almost entirely re-
Oklahoma City, Aug. 11.—State
of Superintendent R. H. Wilson has Is-
sued the following statement:
“To the people of Oklahoma I wish
Impeachment and removal from of- easily makes the trip home In two t covered from the terrible fall he had. to express my sincere thanks and ap-
flee, one of the five amendments pro- and a half of three hours. Come from a windmill tower, some time, predation for the very large majority
posed by Attorney General West, again, John.
I received in the primary election Au-
Ben L. Newton, Springfield, Mo.,
Lorena F. Wilhite, Alva.
Chas. O. Hopkins, Woodward,
Mrs. Lalla Porter. Heber Springs,
Arkansas.
James Bales, Dacoma,
Anna Crittenden, Dacoma.
Roy F. Miller, Stillwater,
Audrlce A. Kelley, Kiowa, Kan.
Clarence LeRoy Amey, Waynoka.
Ethel B. Jones, Waynoka.
Howard J. Garrison,. Waynoka,
Adah Jones, Waynoka.
Guy Joachim. Waynoka,
Mary Plgg, Waynoka.
Harvey Gilworth, Faulkner,
Edna Olson, Winchester.
Mr. Glenn Woolley’s lease for the
building occupied by the Alva Hos-
pital having expired, the honpttat
has been moved to the Groh proper-
ty, In the southeast part of the city.
We regret to see this valuable Insti-
tution leave the business part of the
city but learn that it will be mov-
ed back to the square as soon as a
suitable location can be secured.
The success of the Alva Hospital has
demonstrated the fact that Alva
needs such an institution and would
be poorly prepared to take care of
emergency cases without it.
Travis Blcksl made a business
trip to Wichita last week.
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