Cleveland County Enterprise. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 19, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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Cleveland County Enterprise
'Successor to The Peoples Voice'
VOLr.MK 1!)
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA THURSDAY JANUARY 19, 1911.
NUMBER 29
UNO TJK DECISIONS
GIVEN AT MUSKOGEE
Judge l{<-)lph Campdell Holds That
Homestead of Allottees of One-
half or more Indian Blood are
Non-taxable.
MI*SK OCil-T. okla., Jan. IT. —
Important division* involving the
ri jht ol tli" 'tnte to tax certiao claes-
<•- of Itici .in lands and sell the land
>een banded down by
hnicr.'i] .hul Ralph Campbell in
suits that wen- brought at the in-
-' .i t- of the federal government and
i 1 • > 1tiieeounty assessors.
'1 ■ ti. > ^ions apply to the Creek,
Choctaw a ad Chirkasa w nations, In
« i instance one decision covers
1908 t a xi s and the other 1909 tax
that no Ian 1 that
is uot alienable, cannot be si bject
u ami that in all the Five
Civilized Tribi sthe homesteads of all
Imiian aHottO's of one-half or more
Imo .-tii i '. of nucIi aliottees de-
(*a-<--l who I • liildren surviving
luent to March
I. UK"'. .Hi- <i'.i!imable and non-tax-
ab!.-. Tin* government will not ap-
p* a I from the decisions and it is
(IomIiI fnl if 1 ho .-tale will.
Moy.tlly Entertained
\n nnii- iiiiv beautiful reception
was jjiven iast Thursday evening',
■ lannarv tii "•!h. when the Ladies of
tin Old lit me entertained their
hiM> i:i<u. it tli elegant home of-Mrs.
I II. Johnson. Ai 8:00 o'clock the
in to arrive, and were
"la-eti ] by the dub president, Mrs.
( . S Bobo, and programme com mi t-
tee, Mesdann s Ferrc, Campbell, and
Hanlii a'Ur which they were es-
curt . op -t iiiv mid received by
<H.-a Hob,). Mao.'l Morgan, Charlie
Hern. ami X Johnson. Decorations
we; most .•harming. Quantities of
pink and white carnations contrast-
ing effectively with (freed ferns were
iboratf y in the hall,iii>rary
and mi.-ir iiiiiii!, 'I c red and white
Bed exclusively in
e' ha >During' the social
hour, i" the stains oi beautiful music
bv the Orchestra, stationed
I- ■ hidden by a screen of
ferr-andv irnati.ins the grand march
was formed at nine o-clock, led by Dr.
Hobo, a i i Mi -. If. (I. Lindsay, the
forty tw>i "iie-ts matched to the
ill mil were directed to
t ht i >• places by the daughters of the
:i'b. MU>es Hert ha lie-sent, Agnes
L-ndrav. Ini Johnson. Elizabeth
' and Ruth New-
e 'I'lie tables laid in the banquet
room, were artistically decorated with
eai 11a ■.-u. ferns and trailing vines.
Cainat.aiv win iven as favors.
\fterthe elaborate seven course
dinner. Mrs. i;->bo as toast Mistress
ea.,cd i>ii ( ach guest present to re-
spond to a one minute toast on sub-
orn! tinder their place card.
Pi ichett contributed largely to
pleasure by singing in
her own sweet way, several numbers.
. Mrs. Maguire and
Mrs. Priohett was very much apprec-
iated At a late hour the quests
it Tieiitlv said "good night"
to tie- i 11,.ii host and hosies*, who
a Iv offered their home
o in Old Regime for the Twenty
M'l Animal Haiuj uton the Twen-
nniv i -ai-y <jf their Grand
I pvvorlb Leaguj Social
I'Aorth I ague held a social
■ !' U« v and Mrs. It. K.L.
n I i al >y evening. The pro-
gram w. s as follows:
• a er t y Frank Smith
i y .Vis* Mabel Morgan,
"rea' men and re-
n Williams.
anm i Alexander,
e attendance and
The league meets
iing at 0:30 o'clock.
OIL AND 6AS FIELD
Some years ago, so strong was Turn
Blackburn's belief that Oil and gas
could be found and a rich field open-
ed in the vicinity of Franklin that ha
put forth a strenuous effort to organ-
ize a company to put down a deep
hole and for a time it seemed that
he might succeed : but bad crops
and a coolintf off of the enthusiasm
killed the project. Recently inter-
est has been revived by the actions
of a well on Elm Creek, near Frank-
lin, on farm recently owned by H. W.
Stubbeman. Some time ago a strange
noise was heard in well sounding
much like the running of a gasoline
engine escapj explosion anil the well
still continues to keep up noise. It is
caused by escaping gas and seyeral
Oklahoma City parties have visited
the well ahd there is likely to be a
new interest taken in organizing a
company to sink a deep well in the
Franklin neighborhood. It looks very
much like an oil field country and
the people living in the vicinity have
long thought that indications justi-
fied prospecting.
H, W. Stubbeman is a little fearful
least he may have let an oil or gas
well gusher escape from him by sel-
ling farm.
niirce- !>
Advice to Boys
There is no New advice to give to
boys, and there are no New boys to
advise. The b>y is the same that be
has been and he is not likely to
change much in years to come. His
impulses are the same that they were
centuries ago; the dangers that con-
front him confronted his father and
his grandfather in their boyhood
days. If I were suggesting a warn-
ing to bjys i .rould not suggest a bet-
ter one than that embodied in the
text, "The wages of sin is death."
That is the law, and it cannot be re-
pealed. The honest, truthful, indus-
trious boy will succeed in proportion
to his intelligence, but no intelligence
can make up for the lack of honesty,
truthfulness or industry—especial y
is it impossible to substitute any-
thing for honesty and truthfulness.
Laziness will limit one's accomplish-
ments whatever his other good quali-
ties may be, but he can outgrow lazi-
ness just as he can outgrow lack of
education or intelligence, but it is
much more ditti:ult to outgrow a lack
of honesty or lack of truthfulness.
Possibly I ougnt to suggest that
patience is a virtue which should be
added to the ones already mentioned.
Impatience has led many young men
to ruin: they have not been willing
to wait for a fortune to come through
legitimate accumulation, and through
their baste to get rich they have
fallen. The boy should "learn to la-
bor and to wait." Character is built
slowly; but it can be lost in a day.
The farmer must wait from seed time
until the harvest, however long it
seem, before he gathers his crop, and
so the boy must be willing to plant
in the springtime of life for the har-
vest that ht will gather when he is
grown.—W. J. Bryan.
COUNTY POINTING AWARDED
The Old Saying, "That He Who Does The Most
Work in Politics is the Loser When Anything
Is to oe Handed Out" Seems to be Quite
True in Our Case.
t > ' >.:o on City Property
unipieted arrange-
i 'i capitalists where-
0 m.n." lnans on im-
1 it % piop rtv and
i o ni --t tbuse who rlc-
n vi'-t m nt, to add -
nt< or to pay off ma
it niv nllice over
hi.i i ink, between the
il I:.'M p. m. Do not
im ining hours as I
il • ;i>i not meet
;" t hi' afternoon hours
I; \-pectfully,
vi r iIm 1'ii■>i National Bank,
Niirmau, Okla.
On The Hog
VVa raise fine hogs In Oklahoma,
and lots of them In spite of all that,
Oklahoma hog raisers allowed a Tex-
an to win the big honors at the Na-
tional Feeders and Breeders' Show
at Ft. Worth last March It can't be
done again, if our hog raisers try,
and we know of some who are going
to be on hand at the Feeders and
Breeders' ahsw, March 13 to 18, next,
with the intention of bringing the
honors and a b'g pile of premium
money to Oklahoma.
Certianly the inducements are
strong enough. B. C, Ithome, Jr.,
secretary of the show, figures out
what may be won by the hest hog at
the show. The premiums aggregate
$275 for the best barrow, if h Duroc
Jersey; *250 if a Berkshire; $195 if a
Poland-China, and $175 if aTamwortb.
The difference is caused by the spec-
ial premiums offered by the associa-
tions of the various breeds. The
show premiums are, cf course, the
sami: on all classes.
We are not hoggish, but in this
matter we confess to a * earning for
this hog money to come to Oklahoma
It's going to take a powe rful fiue hog
to win, hut Oklahoma iias that Kind-
Candidates for Congress
It is reported that in the atate sen-
ate there are fifteen and in tuehots ■
fnrty-one, who want to go toe mgr. >s
from the three mw district!, wnich
will be made by the present session
of leKislauire From the amount of
candidates we cer ianly can s cure
game good representatives as addi-
tional congressmen.
It will be remembered that three years ago when the editor
of the Cleveland County Enterprise was the editor of the Lexing-
ton Leader, a bid was submitted to the Board of County Commis-
sioners for the county printing which was far less than was ac-
cepted by them for a contract with the Democrat-Topic, but the
first of this year the Commissioners deemed it best to let the
printing to the lowest bidder, and the Democrat-Topic, which
had been having things its own way until the Peoples' Voice was
purchased, with ;t change of name and politics, making a tirst-
class democratic newspaper in the field, when it appeared that
oar contemporary had made sufficient tokput the price down to
such low figures that the work could not be done and come out
on the black side of the ledger. There is at least one thing which
the Cleveland County Enterprise has to its credit, even though it
did not secure the county printing. By its coming to Norman
it will save the county iu the cost of county printing for the
year 1911.
But is it right, we will leave it for you to judge, for the
Cleveland County Enterprise and the Lexington Leader, that
made the hardest fight for the county and state ticket, to simply
be ignored in regard to the county printing, simply because an-
other concern, that has enjoyed a handsome price for the county
printing for almost twenty years, saw fit to do the printing for
cost and less than cost, in order to try and put the Enterprise out
of business.
The law fixes the salaries of our county officials and their
deputies and the same law lixes the price for the publication of
legal proceedings and we believe the above provisions are wise
ones. If a county official making a campaign would pledge him-
self to accept a less salary than the law provides, this fact would
disqualify him for the office should he be elected and he would
not be permitted to serve but the law does not seem to disqualify
a legal publication because the County Commissioners may be
able to contract for the same for less than the law provides hence
in the matter of securing legal publications the newspapers are
called upon, in some instances, for bids to do this work and news-
paper men will actually submit to and invite such legal publica-
tion work they are entitled to, and should receive the compensa-
tion the law provides, as much as a county official receives the
salary the law provides for his office. If the law permitted we
have no doubt but men might be found in the county who would
serve as County Commissioners, for the honor, and we are quite
sure many men would volunteer to fill any of the couuty offices
for a less salary than the law provides. The legal publications
of a county legitimately belong to newspapers that supported
the party winning the victory as the salary belongs to the officials
of the party elected to till the offices and award the printing of
the legal publications. Now whether this work should
be divided among the papers in the county supporting the
victorious party or awarded to one of such papers is discretionary
with the officials awarding the work. The county printing prop-
osition is not anew one to the ebilorof the Cleveland County En-
terptise. Some three years ago this samequestion came up when
the present editor of the Enterprise was editing the Lexington
Leader and in the part of the county where the democratic party
always looks lor and receives its heavy majorities. At that time
the Leader was invited to submit a bid for the, legal printing of
the county and complied with the request only to learn later
that although the Leader's bid was the lowest it was not awarded
the printing fjr the reason that Commissioners thought it wise
to award same to a paper published in the coanty seat.
Rumors have it that the present editor of the Enterprise
came to Norman for the purpose of securing the county printing,
but who started this canard we cannot say nor do we care. We
came to Norman because we wanted to come and were solicited
to come by scores of the leading democrats of the county, who in-
sisted that we move our plant from Lexington to Norman. We
did not deem it wise to move our plant from Lexington when
same was paying us well and where a good live democratic news-
paper was needed and appreciated, besides we thought four
newspapers in Norman would be more than was needed but when
the opportunity presented itsell to buy one of the papers publish-
ed in Norman we purchased it and converted it into a demo-
cratic newspaper and exerted our best efforts to win all of the
the old subscribers to the support of the democratic ticket and to
elect the candidates supported by the Leader in the democratic
primary most of which candidates had been opposed by the Dem-
ocrat-Topic in the democratic primary. The action of the demo-
cratic Commissioners in awarding the county printing in the man-
ner they did, will not change our purpose in coming to Norman
towit. to publish a live democratic county newspaper and to as-
sist in building up and boosting one of the best county seat cities
in the State of Oklahoma and w will also continue the publica-
tion of the Lexington Leader and sometime perhaps the county
officials ni this county will see fit to reward our papers with some
of the spoils of victory.
1 he county Couiiriissioncrs proceedings we expect to pub-
?ven without compensation, as we feel our readers
SOCIETY NEWS
SCHOLASTIC CENSUS
! w- Armstrong has just comple*-
„.6 L,0terit' met Krilla>' Mrs. , the work of taking the scholastic
I). W. Ohern.
The Old Regime Club will meet
Thursday with Mrs. I.. J. Kdwards.
The K. A. Fraternity held open
house Thursday at their borne on
University Boulevard.
Mrs. Joseph F. Paxton
home to the members of
will be at
cencus of Norman and the same shows
ilo males and (iit females making
a total of 1-4X2 children in the Nor-
man school district of scholastic age.
1 he three large school buildings in
the [city are filled to oyer llowing
and the need of an additional ward
school building is keenly felt at the
present time and the construction of
such a building during this year is
being seriously considered
year
, | - by the
Alpha Theta Sorority and patron's' ! ^m'^Yhoul l ^ of
ses Friday afternoon. , Norman should increase this year
as everything indicates, when the
. ~~ school term opens next September
Mrs. Will Hayes gave a thimble there will be enough children to fill
party to the members of the Kappa
Alpha Theta Sorority and their
patronesses Friday afternoon.
The Hor. e Missionary Society of
the M. E. Church South met Tuesday
afternoon with Mrs C. S. Hobo. The
afternoon was spent with Hible li'iuh'
after which dainty refreshments
were served.
The Social Hour Club met Thurs-
day afternoon with Mrs. James I).
Maguire. A very interesting pro-
gram was given after which a lunch-
eon was served. Special guests were
Mesdames Kircher, Minteer, Morgan,
McKnight.Newell and Harry Lindsay.
The Prsscilla Ciub met Thursday
afternoon with Miss Kva Blake. The
election of officers took place, the
following being elected Pres. Mrs.
F. O. Miller, Sac'y. Mrs. Ira Wheeler
Treas- Mrs. RufusClement. Refresh-
ments were served.
The Progressive Club was delight-
fully entertained Tuesday evening
by Miss Alice llimes at her home on
North Peters Ave. Roll call was
answered to by jour favorite Recipe.
A good time was spent with fancy
work and a dainty chrfing dish sup-
per was served to Mesdames L. J.
Edwards and Oscar Holland, Misses
Bessi-nt, Bell, Berry, Lindsay, t ook,
Goodrich, Nellie Johnson, Itia John-
son, Newell, Barrett, McMillan and
Mille.
I ing the wants of such an incraase in
Mrs. Joe Davis was at home to th'- population and as the p opulation In-
an additional ward school building of
eight clai-s rooms. The fact that Nor-
man is known to havo one ot the
very best organized and conductei
systems of public schools in the state
and in addition there to is t!:e home
nf Hii! S ate University, is attracting
Norman a very high class of citizen-
ship who are establishing their hom-
es in this city for the purpose of se-
curing for their children the opport-
unities offered for tho best educat-
ional training to be secured anywhere
in the south-west. As we pointed out
in a previous article, the time has
come for Norman to arouse themselv-
es and get busy reaching out for an
increase of population by letting it
be known more generally the advant-
ages our city possesses. The quest-
ion of securing the building or exten-
sion r,i the interurban railroad from
Moore to this city should be agitated
and the road secured at the earliest
date possible, for witn the building
of this road into the city will come a
heavy increase in the nopulation of
Norman. There are perhaps 500 or
1J00 families now living in Oklahoma
t ity. who would become residents of
Norman within six months after the
building of such line into the city,
and the same would be families of
the very highest type ot citizenship.
Norman people should begin to do
some real boosting, as a sound busi-
ness proposition, at the present time.
I he public utilities of Norman are
such as would meet tho requirements
of double the present population and
were constructed with a view of meet-
New idea 11)0!) Club Wednesday after
noon. The subject of the program
was " The Rose". Responses to roll
call was something pretaining to the
Rose. The house was very pretty In
its decorations of yellow and gold,
the club colors which was also car-
ried out in the two course luncheon.
Mrs. Davis was assisted by her moth-
er Mrs. Killingsworth in sewing.
Special guests were Mesdames S. K
creases the cost of mnintaining city
government per capita will decrease
and the tax rate lovvor.
messing the most conundrums. Those
present wero Mr. and Mrs. W. M.
Newel,, Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox, Mr. and
Mrs. ( l:as. Bessent Mr. and Mrs.
John Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Mag-
uire, Dr, and Mrs. liobo, Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Clement, Mr. and Mrs. R.
Mct'all, Henry Miller of Oklahoma;1" ,!t'rryi Mr- and Mrs. John Hardie,
City, Taft, Oliver and Miss Emma1 l'1'0'- aiu' Mrs. Roy Gittinger, Mrs.
Davis. Hell and MUs Dorothy I Jell.
Death Of Pioneer
Captain J. M. Heddens, a pioneer
of Norman, died in the Episcopal
church Siturday evening of heart
failure.
The Captain had drove over to
the church Saturday afternoon, he
was doing some work, preparing for
Sunday Service, which he had finish-
ed, and had gone outside to wash his
'lands, and on returning ho fell dead
lisli,
The members of the PI Beta Phi
Sorority held open house Friday
afternoon at their home oil DeBarr
Place. In the receiving line were
Miss Alice Himes and their patrones-
ses Mesdames DeBarr, Sawtell, Reey-
es and Ihe house mother Mrs. Walter
Capshaw. The house decorations
were red carnations, the Sorority
flower, and ferns. The girls took
pleasure in showing their different
rooms to the guests. A salad course ' -iusl- !l|side the vestibule.
with coffee and olives was served in "e '1H(I 1101 been dead but a short
the dinning room by Misses Ruth timL' when he was discovered, and
Davidson, Lora Rhinebart, D iris Pro- 1 was taken to bis home in East Nor-
bst Gertrude Murphy, Lucille Bell, luan-
Kthel Van Camp, Gladys Anderson 1 The deceased came to Norman in
and Elizabeth Eyans, Curtis Orebes- lhe early days, and for several years
tra furnished music during the after- conducted a grocery store here, later
noon. Misses Inez McMillan, ileus moving to a farm Jj miles west of
McMillan, Eva Lee J. an Dowd, Eli- 'own, ami a few years ago he remov-
xabeth King, Alice Murphy, Lina Cl' to Norman, where he was
Hryan, Wynn Ledhetter, Beatrice living at the time of his death.
Von Keller, Fay Saw and Nellie remains were laid to rest in
Johnson assisted in entertaining. Red r'le '■ O F. cemetery Monday
carnations were given as favors to morning at 10 o'clock.
the callers which numbered about
two hundred. A New Firm
M. F. Fisher and son have just
The Social event of the week wasPPeoeda new plumbing shop in the
tho banquet given by the Needle an .1 1 '''irst NaU"n i1 lfank hullding, where
Thimble Club to their husbands Thurs-
day evening at the beautiful home of
Mrs. Marquart. The house was pret-
tily decorated in Mowers and ferns.
, The dinning room table looked es-
are entitled to the same in their county newspaper, in fact we be-1 pecially gay with its decorations of
lieve a county newspaper should publish the same pay or no pay. j rei1 carnatinnsand ferns. Place cards
The doings of the county officials is news the taxpayers in the ' wei'e ,ire crac!ter balli wilh Pin cush-
county are entitled to and should be furnished to them by their'""1" attached f"r ,he 'adies and
respective county papers published at the county seat. To our
friends throughout the county we would say keep your dollars for
subscriptions rolling- our way and we hardly think it will be said
by any one that Norman has not at least one real live county
democratic newspaper and such a paper as you would feel free
(Continued on page 4)
quotations for the non These were
made by Miss Marquart, The ban-
quet was served by Misses Luttie
Taylor, Lucille Bell, Olga Bobo, Ber-
tha Bessent and \ id a Marvuart. Aft- I-Y.i nk t !n were united in marriage by
er leaving the dinning room stories Judge Swank at the county court
and conundrums were tiild. Mr> A. loom Monday. They were very pop-
M. Newell winning the prize for i ular young people of S 1 east.
they will be pl.-a-ed to have you call
on them when in nesd of anything in
the plumbing line. They promise
quick s rvice. See ad on other page.
County Court News
P. P. Hammer plead guilty ,to vio-
lating the quarantine law Tuesday,
an 1 was tin. d $100 and costs.
stanlev Kevs aged 15, was sent to
ti e reform school at Pauls Valley
last week, for petty larceny.
K. (.'. Woiulrow and Miss Katie
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