The County Democrat. (Tecumseh, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, January 17, 1919 Page: 2 of 8
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THE COUNTY DEMOCRAT. TECUMSEH. OKLA.
Gunner Depew
Albert N. Depew
ODTTrtrtl ««•. *t ■**! BrtHoa Tbrntigh B|MeUI
Ex-Cunner and Chief Pftty Officer, 0.*. N«vy
Member of the Porel«n Letfion of *’”nc*
Captain Cun Turrrt.French B«ttle»bipC*»»»rd
Winner of the Croi* de Guerre
I With Ik. Om|< M»Hh«w hnl"
CHAPTER XII—Continued.
-11-
No one mun can aw all of an attack,
whkl* may extend over nit lea of
ground, but during the three weak*
I was in the treccbea on the Gallii*>ll
peninaula we made four graml attack*
and many minor one*, so 1 know In a
,-eueral way wbut they are like. Each
wave la organ.n*» I*1® other*.
Ktr*t come three lines of whut yon
might call grenadier*. though they aw
not picked for alxe as the old king*
grenadier* used to be. They are de-
ployed In skirmish formation, which
mean* that every man la three yard*
from the next. They were armed only
with grenades, but, you can take It
from me, that la enough! Behind them
come two line*, also In skirmish for-
mation. and armed with machine guns
and grenade rifles. The first men on
the left carry machine guns, then come
three rifle grenadier*, and then anoth
er machine gun and so on down the
length of the line. After these come
two line* of riflemen with hxed bay-
onets.
Then come the trench cleaners, or
moppers-up, a« we call them. They
were aorae gang, believe me. Imagine
a team of rugby players spread out In
two lines—only with hundreds of men
on the team Instead of eleven, and
each man a husky, capable of han-
dling a baby grand piano single-
handed. These fellows were armed
with everything you could think of,
and a whole lot more that you could
not dream about In a nightmare. It
used to remind me of a trial I saw
In New York once, where the police
had raided a yeggmen’s flop and had
ill their weapons In the courtroom as
exhibits.
- The moppers-up were heeled wltn
sticks, clubs, shlllelahs, black-jacks,
two-handed cieavera, axes, trench
knives, poniards, up-to-date toma-
hawks, brass knuckle#, slung shot#—
anything that was ever Invented for
crashing a man with, I guess, except
firearms. These knock-down, drag-out
artists follow the riflemen very closely.
Their job was to take care of nil the
Turks who could not escape and would
not surrender.
There are lots of men In any army
'who will not surrender, but I think
probably there were more Turks of
that gnmeneBs than men In most other
armies. I have heard thnt It Is a part
of their religion thnt a man. If he
dies fighting, goes to a very specially
fancy heaven, with plenty to eat and
smoke. And I suppose If he surren-
ders they believe he will be put In
the black gang, stoking for eternity
down below. It was awfully hot at the
Dardanelles and I guess the Turks
did not want It any hotter, for very
few of them ever surrendered, and the
trench cleaners had a lot to do. Their
job lc really Important, for It Is danger-
ous to have groups of the enemy alive
and kicking around In their trenches
after you have passed. Almost every
prisoner we took was wounded.
The one thing I do not like to have
people ask me Is. "How does It feel to
kill a man?" and I think the other
hoys feel the same way about It. It
is not a thing you like to talk about
or think about either. But this time,
at “V” beach, when we got past the
first and second Turk trenches and
were at work on the third, I do not
mind saying thnt I was glad whenever
But the Turks were not as bad u»
Frit*. They were Just as good or bet-
ter a# fighters, and a whole lot whiter.
Often, when we were frying In the
trenches and not a drop of water was
to be had. something would laud on
the ground near us and there would be
n water bottle, full. Sometimes they
almost bombarded us with bottles.
Then, too, they would not fire on the
lied Cross, as the German* do; they
would hold their fire many times when
we were out picking up our wou.ided.
Several times they dragged our wound-
ed ns close as they could to the barbed
wire that we might find them easier.
After Murray died I got to thinking
n lot more than I used to, and though
I old not have any hunch exactly, atlll
I felt as though I might get It, too.
which was aomething I had never
thought much about before. I used to
think about my grandmother, too,
when I had time, and about Brown
I used to wonder what Brown was
doing and wish we were together. But
I could remember my grandmother
smiling, and that helped some. I guess
I was lonely, to tell the trntn. I d d
not know the other garbles very well,
and the only one left that I whs
really very friendly with got his soon
afterward, though not as bad as Mur-
ray. And then there was no one thnt
I was really chummy with. Thnt would
not have bothered me at all before
Murray died.
The other lad I spoke of as having
been chummy with was Philllppe
Pierre. He was about eighteen and
came from Bordeaux. He wns a very
cheerful fellow and he and Mutiny
and I used to be together li lot. He
felt almost as bad about Murray ai
I did, and you could see that It
changed him a great deal, too. But h*
wns atlll cheerful most of the time.
— CHAPTER XIII.
Then I Would Stick Another One.
I slipped my bayonet Into a Turk and
more glad when I saw another one
coming. I guess I saw red nil right.
Each time I thought, "Maybe you are
the one who did poor old Murray.”
And I could see Murray as he looked
when they took him down from the
storehouse wall. Then I would stick
another one.
The other* from the Cassard were
red-hot, too, and they went at the
Turks In great style. There wns
nothing to complain about In the way
they fought, but I wished that we had
had a few more boys from the Foreign
I,egton with us. I think we woul'i have
gone clear on through to Constanti-
nople.
— -*’*■*•'
Limeys, Anzaca and Pollu*.
One night, while we were expecting
an attack, the word wns pnssed down
the line to hnve the wire cutters ready
and to use hnyonets only for the first
part of the attack, for we were to try
and take the first enemy trench bj
surprise. The first trench wns only
about eighty yards away. Our big guns
opened up nnd at xero we climbed out
and followed the curtnlu of fire too
closely. It seemed to me.
But the bnrrage stopped too soon,
as It does sometimes, and there were
plenty of Turks left. We were half
way across when they saw us, nnd
they began banging away at us very
hard. They pounded at us as we came
on untjl we were given the order to
retire, nliuost as we were on them-
what was left of us.
As we turned and started back the
Turks rushed out to counter-attack us,
the first of them busy with bombs.
Then I tripped over something and
rolled around a while and then saw
It wns Philllppe Pierre. His left leg
was dangling, cloth nnd flesh and all
shot away and the leg hanging to the
rest of him by a shred. Two or thret
of our men who were on their w*p
back to our trenches tripped over me
ns I tried to get up, and then n shell
exploded near by nnd I thought I had
got It sure, but it was only the rocks
thrown up by the explosion.
Finally I was able to stand up. So
I slung my rifle over one shoulder
and got Philllppe Pierre up on tlx
other, with his body from the waist
up hanging over my back, so that
I could hold his wounded leg on. and
started back. There was only one or
two of our men left between the
trenches. Our machine guns were at
It hard and the Turks were firing and
bombing at full speed.
I had not gone more than two or
three paces when I came across
another of our men, wounded In sev-
eral places nnd groaning away at n
great rate. Philllppe Pierre wns not
saying a word, but the other chap
did enough for the two of them. One
wounded man was all I could manage,
with my rifle nnd pack, over the rough
ground and the barbed wire I had tc
go through. So I told this fellow,
whose name I cannot remember—I
never did know him very well—that I
would come back for him, and went
on. I almost fell severul times, but
managed to get through safely nnd
rolled over our parapet with Philllppe
Pierre. They started the lnd back in
a stretcher right away. When I saw
him agaiu he gave me n little box us
a souvenir, but I have lost It.
The Turks had not got very far with
their counter-attack, because we were
able to get our bnrrage going iu time
to check them. But they were still out
In front of their trenches when
started back after the other garby.
I was not exactly afraid as I crawled
along searching for the other man,
but I was very thirsty and nervous
for fear our barrage would begin
again or the machine guns cut loose.
After what seemed a long time I came
upon a wounded man, but he was not
the one I was after. I thought about
“a bird in the hand," etc., and was just
starting to pick this chap up when
a shell burst almost on us and
knocked me two or three feet away.
of ua, but neither of us was hurt. I
thought the fire would get heavier
then, so I dragged the other chap Into
one of two holes made by the shell.
Some pieces of the shell had atuck
Into the dirt In the hole ami they were
■till hot. Also, there wns a sort or
gas there thut bung around for sev-
eral minutes, but It was uot vary bud.
The mun began talking to me. au<l
he said It was an honor to Me on the
field of buttle with a leg shot off nnd
dead men plied all about you. and
some not dead but groaning. He told
me I would soon be able to hear the
groaning, though I had not said I
minded It, or anything ubout it. Then
he euld again what un honor It was,
and asked If I hud a drink for him.
hnd not had any water all day, and
. told him so, but he kept on asking
for It all the snine. Some of the Turk- ;
IhIi bombers must have sneaked up
j»r«*tty olo«e to our lines, for when
looked out of the hole towurd our
lines, nnd a shell burst near them,
could we “ Tu k coming toward us.
We played dead then, but 1 had my
bayonet ready for him In case he had
seen us and decided to come up to the
hole. Evidently he had not. for when
he got neur the hole he steered to the
side nnd went around.
The other garby wns cheerful when
he was not asking for water, but you
could see he wus going fust. So we sat
there In the hole and he died. Shortly
afterward the fire slackened a little
und I got out and started toward our
Hues. But I remembered about the
other wounded man I hod passed
when I wus carrying Philllppe Pierre,
so I "began hunting for him, and after
a long time I found him. He was still
alive, His chest was all smashed In
and ne was badly cut up around the
neck and shoulders. I picked him up
and started back, but ran Into some
rarbed wire and had to go around.
I was pretty tired by this time and
awfully thirsty, and I thought If I did
not rest a little bit I could never make
it. I was so tired and nervous that
I did not care much whether I did
get back or not, nnd the wounded
garby was groaning all the time.
So when I though, the shells were
coming pretty thick again I got Into a
shell hole and It was the same one
I hnd left not long before. The dead
garby was there just as I hnd left him.
The wounded one was bleeding all
over, and my clothes were just soaked
with blood from the three men, but
most of all from him. There was some
of my own blood on me, too, for when
I was knocked down by the shell my
nose bled and kept bleeding f<* a long
time, but, of course, that was nothing
to the bleeding of the
5. „11. of tb. bb.r«« d— "•
th\Ve were fighting about thla part ot
the country one time when we saw
three motor truck# disappear over th#
„ld. of a hill going across
The detachment from tt» Caasard wa*
H4‘nt over on the run and we came
upon the Turks from thMitrucki -and
several other# Just aftar they had got
out and were starting abend on foot
We captured that whole bunch—I do
not know how muny In all. They were
reinforcements on their way to a part
of their line that we were battering
very hard, and by capturing them w#
helped the Anxucs a great deal, for
they were able to get through for a
big gain. . ..
We heh. thnt position, though they
rained shells on us so hard all that
day und night thut we thought they
were placing a bnrrage for a raid, nnd
stood to arms until almost noon the
next day. But our guns gnve hack
shell for shell, and pounded the Turk-
ish trenches and Itroke shrapnel over
them until they hud all they could
do to stay In them.
Finally, our guns placed shell after
shell on the enemy’s communication
trenches, and they could neither bring
State
News
Notes
Roll of Honor
OKLAHOMA CASUALTIES TO JAN. S.
Killed In action, died of wounds snd
Occident ...........................
Died of dlooaoo................
Wounded ......................
Mtoeing end prleonere..........
•S3
. *01
.1.13*
. 461
Total ......................
KILLED IN ACTION.
. .4.24!
p.______ ■
Willie Hunter. FI Iteno.
Bert Bledsoe. Bradley.
Gilbert Parnall. Oberlln.
Will Coopei, Fort Towson.
James L». .Reynolds, Weleetka.
DIED OF WOUNDS.
Corpl. Charles Have. Park Hill.
Wagoner Albert Chandler. Fort Toweon.
Thos. K, Daniel, Ansdarko.
Carl T. Medford. Wheatland.
Welter It. Drake, Fargo.
Walter A. Durham, CoWeta.
Ollle K. Dykes, Stillwater.
Kmanual Orlst-emer. Watonger.
John L. Tolley, Chne.
Hardin A. McCalren, Muskogee.
DIED OF DISEASE.
Henry’ Bledsow, Hobart.
John Phillips, Yeager
William D. Garvin. Jr.. Austin.
Dewey K. Jones, Muskogee.
DIED OF ACCIDENT.
Louis A. Treaner. Tuttle.
WOUNDED IN ACTION.
Herat. Tom Hargrove. Hugo.
Herat Klmer M. Marsh, Chlckasha.
Cotpl. James M Evans, Oaage.
Busier Grover C. Pickle, Comanche.
Carl D. Collingsworth. Blxby.
James P. Cooper, Chelsea
Thomas J. Kern, Urandfleld.
John White, Klmore City.
Henry C Moster. Earlsboro.
Mlllord H. Ford. Ada.
Joe. W Trumbly. Tulsa.
Ellsworth Hlcktnan. Agra.
Bruce Itaglln, Porter.
John H. ridcock, Hand Springs.
Win. E. Wilson, Une
Arthur L. Webb. Marsden.
James C. Clift. Cement.
Grover C. Conley, Ardmore.
Pen T. Ely, Eastman.
Henry Locust, Church.
Pleas St. John, Ardmore.
Jebse James Gordon. Tishomingo.
hold a live stock
compared
others.
The worst of all was that he kept
groaning for water, and it made me
thirstier than I had been, even. But
there was not a drop of water any-
where and I knew there wa* no use
searching any bodies for flasks. So
we Just had to stick It out. I retty
soon the wounded man quit groaning
nnd was quiet, and I knevf he was
going to die too. It mnde me mad to
think that I had not been of any use
In carrying these two men around,
but If I had gone on with either of
them It v ould have been Just the same
_they would have died and probnbly
I would have got It, too. AVhen I fig-
I Picked Him Up and Starfid Back.
up reinforcements nor retire. So we
went over nnd cleaned them out and
took the trench. But then our guns
had to stop because we were in range,
and the Turks brought up reinforce-
ments from other parts of the line and
we were driven back after holding
their trench all afternoon. It was
about fifty-fifty, though, for when they
reinforced one part of the line some
of our troops would break through In
nnother part.
That night there was a terrible rain-
storm. I guess It was really a cloud-
burst. We had all the water we
wanted then, and more, too. A great
many men and mules were drowned,
both of our troops and the Turkish.
Trenches were washed In and most of
the works ruined. There were several
Turkish bodies washed Into our trench,
and two mules came over together,
though whether they were Turkish or
French or British I do not know.
worrying
fire would
ured It out this way I qull
about It, only I wished the
Tet up. *
So the other man died, and there
were two of them In the bile. I read
the numbers on their Identification
disks when shells hurst n*ur enough
so that I could see them, and after n
while got back to our lines!nnd rolled
in. I could not remember the num-
bers or the names by that time, but a
working party got them, e'ong with
others, so It was all right.
My clothes were a mess, ns I have
said, nnd I wns so tired I thought I
could sleep for n week, but I could
not stand It In my clothes any longer.
It wns absolutely against regulations,
but I took off all my clothes—the
blood had soaked luto the skin nnd
wrapped myself In nothing but nlr
and went right to sleep. I d>d not
sleep very well, but woke up every
once In n while nnd thought I wns in
the hole again.
During the night the} brought up
water, but I wns asleep nnd did not
know it. They did not wake me.
but two men saved by share,
though usually In a case like thnt It
was everybody for himself and let the
last man go dry. You could not blame
them, either, so I thought It was
pretty decent of these two to save my
share for me. I believe they must
have hnd a hard tin* keeping the
others off of It, to say nothing of them-
selves, for therfe really was not more
than enough for one good drink all
around. It tasted better than anything
I have ever dru#k. Go dry for 24
hours in the hotA?st weather you can
find, do a night # work like that and
come to In tin/ morning with a tin
cup full of mu/ly water being handed
to you, and You will know what
mean.
At Gnba T/pe there were steep little
hills with qpjarrtes In between them,
and most of the prisoners we took
McAlester will
show In April.
Muskogee Is to have a new cotton
compress of 20,000 bales capacity.
A municipal bond issue for *1,100-
000 Is the latest Oklahoma City dream.
Twenty-one thousand acres of Osage
oil leases will be offered at Pawhus-
ka March 5.
The vlllrge of Bismarck in Me-
Curtain county has changed it= name
to V/right.
Oklahoma’s production of coal for
1918 was 4,276,000 tons, or an increase
of 388,000 tons over 1917. .
A Y. M. C. A. building as a monu-
ment to Clinton soldiers in the world
war Is being promoted by Clinton busi-
ness men.
Fourteen murders were committed
In Oklahoma City 1r 1918 and four-
teen suicides. The same number was
reported in 1917.
Rev. Charles Bell, Baptist minister
»t Holdenvllle for four years, has re-
signed to take one of the Baptist
churches of Memphis.
About one hundred delegates from
svery part of the state attended the
' - Oklahoma State
grange, held in El Reno January 14
:o 16.
Oklahoma’s conrlbutlon to the na-
'ion’s first loss during 1918 will reach
iproximately $5,000,000. This Is ap-
proximately $250,000 less than for the
rear of 1917.
The U. S. senate confirmed the nom-
ination of Former Governor Robert L
Will lams to be Judge ot the United
3ta.es court for the eastern district
af Oklahoma.
Mrs. C. D. Alexander, 50 years old,
was burned to death, at Edmond when
her clothing caught fire while she was
attempting to light a stove with the
use of kerosene.
For extraordinary heroism in action
near Somme-Py France, October 4,
the Distinguished Service Cross lias
been awarded to Sergt. George Mark-
ley, a Williams soldier boy.
The Chlckasha postoffice is now
rated as first-class, having advanced
when the report of Postmaster Bare-
foot showed that the receipts for the
In 1918 Muskogee county Issuod $7*
L errtsge licenses and filed 365 divorce
petition*.
A new city directory just out. gives
Oklahoma City, a population of more
than 110.000.
Fir# resulting In a loas of *100,000
virtually destroyed the National ho-
tel building at Packlngtcwn, Oklabo
ma city.
John Carrot, of Haileyvlllo. a well
to-do mining engineer is In trouble
because James B. Dowell, a revenue
officer found a forty gallon moon
shine still In ht* home.
The following Oklahoman# have
been released from German prison
camps: Harry Miller, Coalgate, De-
los A. Robbins. Lawton: Joseph H.
Bishop. Dill; Granville E. Brookshire.
Cuahing; Carl C. Leslie, Alva; Char
les Hendrickson. Earlsboro, Roland
F. Hess, Bartlesville; Warren Hlll-
brandt, Lamont; Hannibal B. Wood-
ward; Ben Wilson and Henry Zemp.
Morrison.
Although officially reported by the
war department as having been killed
In action, wounded six times in the
decisive American drive at Chateau
Thierry an<i missing from his regi-
ment for several days by reason of
the fact that loss of blood prevented
his reporting for immediate duty after
that memorable struggle, Lieut. James
W. Hanberry of Enid i# home again,
practlcaly r well man.
Spanish influenza and pneumonia
claimed 5.683 victims in Oklahoma
during the last three months of 1918.
There was a total of 76,500 cases. The
influenza epidemic will Increase the
normal death rate In Oklahoma more
than 20 per cent for the year. It was
In October that the flu fire appeared,
and if it had continued for a year
with the same violence that charac-
terized it during the past three months
the state's normal deatn rate would
have been more than doubled.
M. L. Larrick of Durant has leased
the state prison farm near Ayleswortb
consisting of 1,450 acres, and are pre
paring to drill for oil early In th*
year. The location Is to be on Glas
sy creek In the Washita bottom and-
Immediately north of two wells In
Texas In which oil sands were founc
at 300 and 600 feet. The Texas wellt
were drilled by Edward Butler of Du
rant, but his affairs are so entanglied
In court over a property division that
a proving of the capacity of the well*
may not be made soon.
STATEROUSE BREVITIES']
A few days after the rain stopped | neetln£ Df the Oklahoma State
I was going along the road to the
docks at “V” beach when I sow some
exnmples of the freakishness of shells.
There was a long string of mules go-
ing back to the trenches with water
and supplies of various kinds. We
drew up to one side to let them pass.
Two or three mules away from us
was an old-timer with only one ear,
nnd that very gray, loaded to the gun-
wales with bags of water. He had had
his troubles, that old boy, but they
were just ;bout over, for there was a
flash and the next instant you could
not see a thing left of Old Missouri.
He just vanished. But two of the
water bags were not even touched,
and another one hnd only a little hole
In it. There they lay on the ground.
Just as though you hnd taken the mule
out from under them. The mules next
him. fore and aft, were knocked down
by the concussion but unharmed; but
the third mule behind had one ear
cut to shreds, and the man behind
him was badly shot up and stunned.
A little farther on a shell had struck
The regular quarterly examination
was held by the State Board of Phar-
macy last week. There were seven-
teen applicants of which six made
grades entitling them to certificates
as registered pharmacists. The six
applicants for the assistant examina-
tion. made the grades.
The successful applicants for the
regular examination were:
Charles F. Kirkland Lawton; B. A.
Bates. Falrview; E. L. Hay, Carter. J. >>.
Bell. Lindsay; C. E. Rogers Geary; C. I.
Hartman. Canadian; T. 1". Hubbell, OUla-
hotna City; assistants; J. L Campbell.
Weatherford; W. G. Green, Winter; I) M.
Kelley, Marshall; Arthur Grundy. Coving-
ton; Albert L. Mitchell, Binlta, William A.
Denny, Tryon.
Hugh C. Jesse, Lawton, was grant-
ed a certificate of registration by
diploma from Oklahoma university.
A acale for valuing crude oil for
taxation- purposes was agreed upon
by the County Assessors Association
at Oklahoma City. More than fifty
counties were represented at the meet-
ing and the uniform scale adopted will
be applied throughout the oil regions
unless stopped by court proceedings.
Oil derived from all Oklahoma fields,
Garber, Billings and Healdton fields
excepted, and fresh crude oil in stor
age January 1 will be assessed *2.26
a barrel; crude oil in storage not ex-
ceeding one year will be assessed
$2.02 a barrel; crude oil in storage
more than one year, $1.69 a barrel.
All crude oil derived from the Garbef
field and in storage will be assessed
$3 a barel and all crude oil from Bil-
lings field and in storage, $2.50. Geo.
W. Hines of Blackwell was elected
president and W. S. Hooker of Tulsa
secretary-treasurer.
the road and plowed a furrow two or ________
three feet wide, and Just ns straight | pag^ year were above $40,000.
ns an arrow for three of four yards;
It then turned off at almost a
right angle and continued for a yard
or two more before it burst and mnde
a big bole. Thnt Turk gunner mutt
hnve put a lot of English on thnt shell
when he fired It. He got somebody’s
number with thnt shot, too. and the
lnd pnid pretty high, for there was
blood around the hole, not quite dry
when we got to It.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
It is a
wonder It did not kill both | were caught In the quarries. " ®
The Building of Life.
Life Is a building. It rises slowly
day by day. through the years. Every
new lesson we lenrn lays a block on
the edifice which Is rising silently with-
in us. Every experience, every touch
of another life on ours, every Influence
thnt Impresses us, every book we rend,
every conversation we have, every act
of our commonest dnys, ndds some-
thing to the invisible building.—J. R-
Mlller. ___
Dally Thought
To be nameless In worthy deeds, ex-
ceeds an Infamous history.—Sir Thom-
as Browne.
There is satisfaction in the thought
of having done what we know to bo
i right
J. Harvey Randell, 49 years old, for
eight years president of Bacone col-
lege, near Muskogee, and ten years
prior to that a Baptist missionary in
India, died at Muskogee following a
ong illness.
Thomas Pullen, teller of the Bart-
lesville National bank, has been ar-
rested. charged with embezzling $7,-
J. D. Lankford resigned as state
commissioner, to take effect imme-
diately. Lankford has been hank
commissioner for nearly eight years]
Charles J. Kendle will be assistant
secretary of state. Kendle was pri-
vate secretary to Mayor Whitt M.
Grant and later was connected with
die office of state commissioner of
public health.
Women may not serve on Juries in
Oklahoma it was held by Attorney
General Freeling in an opinion sent to
D. M. Cavaness, county attorney of
Grady county. The attention of Free-
ling had been called to newspaper
of the bank’s funds while receiv- I stories to the effect that women were
to be called for service in Chlckasha
and this prompted the sending of the
opinion. Freeling pointed out that
sections 18 and 19 of article 2 of the
Oklahoma constitution provide that
both grand and petit juries should be
composed of "twe ve men.”
Tho corporation commission tight-
ened its grip on gas companies, which
have failed to give adequate service
In cold weither emergencies, whe it
issued an order directing all distrlbut-
ng companies to begin keep ng Im-
mediately accurate charts and reports
ihowlng the pressure maintained up-
on their lins during emergencies such
as exist in extreme cold ewather when
the demand of gas is abnormal. All
gas companies are directed to install
pressure gauges at all points and
places where gas is received from
pipe line.
900 _____
ing remittances through the mail.
This is the second defalcation discov-
ered in this bank within thirty days.
J. E. Spangler, teller, recently arrested
on the same charge, is now out on
bond. Pul.en waived a hearing and
was released on $5,000 bond.
Dirt should be flying on new roads
prvided by a $30,000,000 bond issue
within six months, said J. B. A. Rob-
ertson, governor-elect in an address
outlining his plan for a great system
of hard-surfaced highways to the Ok-
lahoma Good Roads’ Association at
the Chamber of Commerce at Okla
homa City. This is the most import-
ant of all projects that Will come be-
fore the legislature," Judge Robertson
said, ’’and I will ask the legislature
to devote its entire time to the road
program until a satisfactory bill has
been drafted.
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Henderson, L. P. The County Democrat. (Tecumseh, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, January 17, 1919, newspaper, January 17, 1919; Tecumseh, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1078403/m1/2/?q=%22United+States%22: accessed August 15, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.