Cleveland County Enterprise. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 11, 1911 Page: 1 of 12
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VOLUME 19
NORM AN. OKLAHOMA THURSDAY M..Y
mil.
NUMBER 45
GlEVEUO C01INIV ^CLEVELAND ROUNTY
NORMAL INSTITUTE • HEALTHY LOCALITY
Nineteenth Annual Session
Will be Held from June 5th
to June 30th, l^ll, here.
PROSPECTS BRIGHT
Many Attractions Offered to
Those Who Attend
Able Instrctors.
In March Report to Health
Official, She Shows a Smaller
Percentage of Sickness.
BIRTHS FIFTEEN
6
Nine Males and Six Females
Claimed by Death During
Month.
The nineteenth annual sc-sion of
In tlir health statistics reported to
the Cleveland County Normal Insti |,|u. s,;iU. Commissioner of Health for
tute will he held here commencing
.June 5th and continuing until Jun
30th, 1911. The teachers' Examin i
nations will be held June 29-30. The
Institute will he held in the Hijjh
School building.
Since th • last session of the Insti-
tute, Cleveland county has added an- . , , • , , , .
' . , . imis cured with one <i itli resulting
other successful year to her ,ist « 1 f , •,
li "in ti'' «Ii-< ;i ■ I en • ;i ■ - Of inn u-
echool years. In many re-pects ir . lf
, J , , 1 , ; ii".ni,i with lour dentil •.
has been the best year In her school
history. In addition to the l ict tint
our schools have been carried on in a
more thorough and efficient manner,
i March, 1911, Norman presented ia
| very good report. The health stand-
! inn of this locality is as good as any
in the state. Cleveland county as a
, whole reported two cases of dip-
! theria, ten cases of small pox, no
. scarlet fever, two tuberculosis vic_
Fhe stork also got in hi- work and
the number of happy fathers make up
a errand ar
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HIGH SCHOOL
GRADUATING EXERCISES
Will Be Observed During the
Week of May 14th to 20th
With Many Social
Evetns
SEVENTEEN GRADUATE
Class Play "The Rivals" to be
Given I hursday Night at
1 he Franing.
New Administration Building at I'uiver.sitv of Oklahoma
of smile—that is
most caM Of course bovs are
times appreciated, but oh, you girls.
COUNT?JUDGE ON MI/EMS CROP PROSPECTS
MARRIAGE LICENSES DECLARED INSANE LOOK BRIGHT
mice (o, a cotint, , nobkm! Gives C™Ples S°m* Helpful Husband and W ife Both in Everything Points to Bumper
a millionaire <>r some good pros. Advice on 11 *ie Subject. Sanitarium. Yield. Facts in Case
perous farmer hoy. Here ive have i
we baye been abie to begin ;i consol-
idated rural schod in districts lit au I , .. ,, , ,
... , ,. tile papa say. 1 hey .11 look at it n
-ti. l pis school has proven a success
and we hail the time when every boy
and girl can enjoy tbe privilege of
High School. ,. . , ....
School boards are showing their "arch twelve male births with only Spring is here; the county Judge's Rosa Vejrazka was adjudged in.
appreciation of honest effort on the '' ?,"c consola. office is being almost swamped by | cane Wednesday b> tin
part of the teachers by tlieir Itbe ali- '"m " ' !i,t1..lh'} wclv a wh,le> ",ut "l" '" >• > v * k «■ ker^ -I the
ty in granting go. d salaries. Their I""' Nh'," "r Mi>-c- o, the ,ppy P..; , ; ;
motto is getting to be more and more " uacung m . ouo ogist-, , Here.tie a lew pointers that siiotii .
is trite the negro race is becoming be carefully observed by those matri.
extinct—and Cleveland county seems monially inclined:
to be the ground of the theory. The
every year, "Let us have the best.
The salary is a coil a y considera-
tion. In conttequeoue ot this feeling!t0 bC. the grouml ot the theory' The| first, seemingly few PeoPle know-
on the part of the patron*, our ineffl- varla,ble oh'"at'' r" <=an- where the nuptial (ies arc dished out.
cieni tf achers have found themselves he withered by tile constitution MaiSy go to the cininly clerk's
I lie commencement exercises of
ili X<>rnian high school will be held
ni Ntinila\ until Saturday night.
1 li ■ entire week will be one of fes-
tivitics in honor of the seventeen
k ad nates*. Ihe baccalaureate ser-
mon will 1-f delivered Sunday morn,
th'- -Ji school auditorium at
ven < clock. The sermon will be
preached by the Rev. W. M. P. Rip,
pev cf Sulphur, Okla. Mr. Rippey
was ;■ rnierl \ a pa-tor here and a
vr:'.v le tall, r. The Junior-Senior
' ' iven in Davis' hall
' 1 !| Mi • Anne McCall
• 1 1 'hare.- . i tlie arrangements and
-1( ' time is being planned. The
" play, ' The Rivals," will
pr< •« uted Thursday night at the
1- rani lie. It is a five act comedy,
d a 1 : . with a romanti. love story.
Mi^s (iracc I hacker has had charge
1 Friday evening the com-
i will be held.
ealed by a drive through Dr. A c Scott of Oklahoma City
! communities. Every. I wi„ de,iver (|)c (q ^ ^
II" >-s I" em, "History and Fro.
!'hei \. will be pveti by Nellie Mc-
prospccts
a I on the
and many
encouraging na-
in a not very enviable position and
i the black man and death rate over.
many of them have quit. It should ,
laps the birth rate by a
be our concern to nee to it that we do
nut allow ourselves to become one of ■' " '
the ' inefflcienis ' and with n little
assistance the s dary will take care
of itself.
iiealizing that "as is the teacher,
so is tbe school" applies eijua ly well
to Normal Insti otes, we have sought
to gut ihe best. We have again se-
cured the services of Itilph C. Har
die as Conductor. Mr. 11 aid.e has
served in this ctipiicity a number of
years and has always provtn tiis abil-
ity. No school man in the state has
a better record than he b s.
Prof. G. M. Mob rts will again n - 'lllu'1 r~
sttuct in ttie institute. Prof It berts
work in the previous institutes has
given tiiin a high place in tbe inti-
mation ot those who have been in bis
classes. His wor< this year wi:| no
doubt sustain his reputation as au in
structor.
.Miss Edith Bennett of Oklahoma
University, and Prague School of
Art, Chicago, will taue some of the
work in Iv glii-h beside the wi rk in
drawing and domestic science. Hi r
The negro population i-.
• mall ratio
flowly <le-
with a bashful grin on that won't
ci.iv.c ofand peevishly ask, "Ha*.'
you got any licensi ?" Upon !
told that llie hunting; ^■ in no r
and no more hunting licen- s e.a be nivt -te not of the incurable type
! usb:.Mid lost hi- mind, ti •
Ihe
1 '.Ither Time was no idler in March
himself and he went about claiming ;sstted until the next ' -son. .In ait,..
rewards in a great many homes. His happy victim 1 :.<1.ftillv admit : th; wife seemed to fail i -t ; iri her ,
toiling brought results among those he has already found a "Dear" and dition became Precari..us two da.
who had reached the age limit of tlvat it is a marriage license that he after Mr. Vejrazka was taken to
good health and succumbed to slight- i,.now seeking: The county cierfc. I sanitarium. Her affliction was oc-
est attacks of the prevalent diseases, being of good nature, and having casioned by a trouble which could
Nine male deaths were reported and been along that line himself, conducts not ^e prevented and it -
six females. But as rang as the world the candidate for matrimony to the medical attention could not reverse
'
wiili the man who lias the upper properly fitted up for a lor . v \' «.f the n. t h : j- and «..ri
hand and in this array will be found j on the Sea o" Matrimony. incidents l.i,!n0 of the count
A very (li-bt.o'htrnc thine- s an . C unty I'. 11. S.vank h
times occurs when the timid appli- j' t iiui-he<l a bu j n ek in the v '
cant, or the lady of his choice, is mi. i f ^hi, ofi.e lie di s insuing a la
der the age of majority, and is polite- nund.er of maii :.;ee M. | •
ly tohl that he will have to produce 1 . ng ca-es, and in-anity cas.1-, he
a consent from l i ; or h. r parent?, also heard a g 1 ly number of re-
Cleveland county ciop
insanity up to date this -print, are
board and ., inmitted to the ^ani- ro-eate side of the caleiida
tariuin. Her husband, B. J. Vejrazka thine, of a highly
was declared 11 -ane two days before ' ture are revealed by
her. 'ihe unf rtunate parent- have the farming
a family of ti, clvl-'rvn which makes thin in lo .kine favorable and if the
the calamity doubly .sorrowful. .... „|. van; hi r; in fa II continue-, the |
Mf. \ejr; i hard working iHiih . A -ured of lie best eropsi r
i till f . .. 1 I'"ie Montgomery and Floyd
N '#an. I ; condition seems to Franklin there i- not one farm that ^,1" M'M
t H valedictorian and Charles
4 1 ' ■ ' ' 1 1' 'i in May. . saintatorian. The week's fes-
•1|' «' 11 ' lilt is up tivities will he concluded by the
ni to alumni banquet to be held at Davis
have been one of inln rilaii. e as was
the case with I . i wife. Both have
been inmate- of tile asylum before, j,, j.
thrifty and in
"f rain-1 hall Saturday night. Tbe graduates
' ' ■ 1 1 : • eirts are Charles Mayes, Allan Gray,
a prosperous appearance. Very little Clarke Cunningham, Keith Miller!
I ''III th I loyd \bshier, Neil Johnson, Ro
l :" fip'ds to be seen are budding in I Lewis, Bruce Givens, Bessie Bntlei
■' )•••!. , elia Pickard, Myrtle Levy, Lotty
nl1' I. Cor, I-. t'fio Montgomery, Hutl
Ids have aire
taking m;
a secund
Old Man Time whose power is
the mighty.
the
the
Ruth
n cut onci and Burch, Edna Boylea, Adeline Gray,
ranee j Nellie McFerron. 'l'he high sdhool
annual "The Trail," will be out
Thursday of next week.
field
and tc
JOHN BRYANT
SDJUDSEO INSANE
pn
the
'ane may nc, sigi
I nowledged before a no
the clerk, or - nne other
thorized to t ake acknowledgement-
The poor hoy can't -ee why th. \ •
unobliging cler': )ir to he s'o par
John Bryant, a farmer living six ticular, e-p- • i.i'lv when a fel'o"
Farmer From Lexington Sent
to Sanitarium Tuesiav.
ml ac. ports, etc.
public. 'I he annual accounts of the Phillips
bunts of the McFadden minors were
'-o heard-Monday. A petition was
ited Monday to mortgage the n 1
tale in the Hallmark e-tat
favorable
locality, all (
perity for ti
m unity. Tnif
le grectiin
growth
cannot help but be
. d fortune l>v the
'its Dr. Ho-hall at
i:s i- ' ne of the. most
- in years in bis
which augur- pros-
peoi i of his com-
vem Is ean be noted
C. H.
SUDDENLY DISAPPEARS
et married a- bad
be
r mile- ea>t and one mile north ot v ' t
work i.i the Institute last ye r was Lexington was up bet re tin in- d<
tx e letit and we fuel oursftlves fortu- sanity board Tuesday and after hear- Another tiling about 1
nate to be again able to have her ing a recital of the facts of his con. licenses is that, like other cotnmodi.
petit
in th
on many place-. Blackjack farms
•'"v ' in.", grn' erl ut ml crops be-
ing tilled in tlieir fead Tn some
l'i 1 - thi 1 I.. r k jack - have been thin-
ned out and p-od pasture land has
'',i''1 1)( . n made «>ut of almost worthless
ate of S. M. IL - r was settled
! the administrator dismissed A
n t • in'Mt'-j ure the. r. al e>!a;e
University Student Gone From
Schooi---Foul Play Feared.
ate. John E. Miliar is acting as
dministrator and W. ir, Newell as
ittorney. An order was also issued
o - II property in the 1'owell . tate.
d.iry Powell is administratrix and '
J. M. Gr
tam,
ver ity ami a ver.il lectures by prom
ineiit ei ucaturs of our s ute.
rhe graduating exeicises of those
who passed the eighth grade wi 1 be
held here June 20th.
A special invitation U < xtended to
mittisters to be pr sent ami help with
the d. votioi.nl exercis is at tlu gen-
eral exercise peri d.
Br
y -
r and M. C.
:ned on a chare
irohibltory law.
adjudged insane
it of Lexington,
McKlr
W. A.
Veir;
in a \
mort
Holland estate was filed Mon- f;irm
with us. I dition the board decided that a few ties, the price has advanced; the day. An order was issued to sell the „
Mr. John E. Luttrell Will take the weeks in the sanitarium would bj presetil market quotation being three real estate in the R. M. Rowntr
work in grammar and {trithmetic. best for all parties concerned. Mr. hard earned silver dollars, this being
Mr. Luttrell is an instructor of unu.-- Bryant sustained an injury on his five I 1-
al ah I tv aivl is truly rinked as one head >ome six weeks ago iu a run- Don't iorget to find out y. . r I;. !>
of Cleveland county's ot st teachers away and suffers from la pse of mem. love's age and place o. birth and t
There wpl be many pleasai.t occa- 1 ory. other dope t. ir\ hefo t '
sions du-lng June; the chaut mqua, i Monday, it is alleip: d 1. a-.-ault- 1 ' applicati. ,n.
the graduiting- exercises i f the Uiii-. hi-, wife with a knife and cut her Marri. I n >o i .,!. t i],'
clothing. She notified the neighbors I tt:< ••• f 1« r males under ta
and Tuesday Deputy Sheriff Lou a>ce of 15 are prohibited by law
Higbee and Dr. Walter brought i Positively nil rs filled by mail.
Bryant to Norman. Bryant appeared niinisteis solemnizing niarriagi
perfectly rational in it s examination. ^'°ws are required, by law to liavt
lie •oulei not remember anything of 'heir credentials recorded ill thi-
assaulting his wife but said that if state.
he had he ought to he put in the sani- | Marriage licenses are only good n
tarium. He told of having -., vere ,i, , ,
heatlaelH-s since the accident, but ,l,t "mnt> w,u r" ti'"!' are -ucd.
could remember ft. tets violence Marriage Licenses.
that he had comnii!'..!. Dr. Yv.ltcr. l-'red 1 re.rt, 21. Imperial, X,
"" that with a few weeks ire it. | Alice Newman, 30, Norman. Okla.
lm|'c I). G. Baley, 54, Moore; M. I'
ground. Many silo
now on the farm
general advance!!
< ha- H. McCormiek, 31, student
■'t the 1 ni\'er-ity of Oklahoma, has
been mi ing since April 27. His
father, J C. McCorfnick of Chandler
fyisited police headquarters in Okla.
' °' homa City Thursday and asked as.
tin istance ot the officers. Several
bi
I companion -tmlents of McCormick
., Ihave been iu Oklahoina City several
, , . ' days seeking to locate the University
l he« pits r r : her bins man.
ireat
\ great deal of
was s.Joed last year ow ing t
condition
year will
th
this I
ding t" one of the students,
see many of them in use. )Ti >'s". :il'P.''(,d t0 the police for
hi lp, Met urmick is business manager
of a magazine which is published by
.dition.
J.
Tin
published by
i- ' n on la club of the University
brisk and came to Oklahoma City on April
Many ' '''r purpose of soliciting ad-
, vertising matter N'othing has been
st en or heard of him since that day.
rward Friends of the missing man de.
busi. I clare that they do not believe he had
ny great
University Students Go Camping.
day.
ing is
A mod rn public - hool build-
mouey with him
when he left Norman. His where-
abouts from the time lie left
Between fifty and
. . |. e(- ill the Uni
merit lie
The University of Oklahoma was
a trifle too fast for the Norman
"Wildcats" Saturday on Boyd field incut
and bumbled the town team- by a lived
score ot ■! to 1. It was initial game
rant
will be ill ai
as ever. ?
I.i x'tigt on I'..- ; a \. irs
M'd is n i ! I i: K e 11 . .. > . 1,. iv wi •
I v 1 .1 know hill". He .,1 ., strai ;nti'. r-
fo, the Normal! boys, hut the game wari|, ,rll,hi„l Mon c „„t
was an interesting one from the -ai'l that if his wife and hi- frieoi-
kiekoff. Harty Brown served em up s,lid that he eommitteii the allejvcd
for the "Wildcats." lie worked a- :i!,!i ,l,:" ''r -J'""1,1 '■•iv.-n
steady as a seven-day clock and the ln':",,u'nt ri'"u'<b 1,11,1 has
I.in- are now grooming him for a
berth as -lahman for -nine fast Te\.a-
league team. Courtright worked
for the Soonerites ami wa< touched '
up quite freely, In the eighth jn-J *
niing with the bases all intoxicated Monday atlernoon at the court
a—ault that hn
treatment to remedy
in a crop nt 1-40 acres at Lexington
and his unfortunate condition makes
tilings look very pitiful to hi- many
friends.
Julian, 44, Moore,
Geo E Green, 1
I •• il. IS'. \
R. W. 11 ntt<. J
Bertha B --, nt, 18
M. E. I..old, 40,
Mrs. Alma SuiiiTih
< )kla.
Kemper
Okla.; Le
Okla.
Harry 1
homa, in charge c
ilt 1 it men t, left
in a special car
Mountains in -out
ty
idents of
if Okla.
f the faculty of that
i
for the Arbuckle
lost noticeable im- complete mystery, as a thorough
v ar.li oi ili-. register hooks in a
Within a radius of from six to ten numb" of hotels, failed to divulge
t t r
1 ! McCormick is said to be of
' 1 '"aii'l County larv habits and not of a
looks
;ood tr
the ^
carry off the Id
. Id til: , season.
rib.
exemp-
sporty na-
ern Oklahoma. Ta
Norn
Musk
rdell, Okla.
nan, Okla.
which they
., Im-'
Lexine
Kimberlin, 1°,
Moseley, 19,
Norman,
Norman,
some of the mo
grnphy in the w i
such c ppc rtunity
ul
dd his
Can't Stay Away.
W. II
o leave
a pub
t tire.
McConukk is described as being
' a " ut six feet in height, has a dark
complexion, dark eyes and dark hair.
At time he wears eye glasses.
White,
outheast
for the
-ale,
B. Swank 1 .an 1 K
>
Rice, 30,
.
Oklahoma
iklahoma
i it \
and nom in the morgue, the '\ ar-ity lvouse. County Judge l\
executed, a triple play, tile first in the performed the mairiae. ,vrenioin
history of the game here, and eoin. uniting Harry B Riec and l.ariie I
pletely -mothered any hope „> th • Scott both of Oklahoma (in Ihe
Norm a iiil e- winniny. Norman will wedding wa a unique nr. \\ h .
ha\e a last amateur team this coining tlu groom n-lo 1 . i :be bri'1 ■ wha: Will
summer and some good games will church minister sj'c preferred she Ing to the arres and c >i
be seen. . ,,| - j' |, j.. (, ,Iim. |.,,i ... i,,,'
Score Snfnnloe P II .... ■ ' - .' " persons b . t nor t:c ■ I r
"re "tut ua\ k. II tom . i In re i;is n > inrther parh \
I niversitv 010 0(11) 10(1—1 i, oi l ti,* l.-„,,t „ ... o,.,l ti,., cnlii-"-
Norman M win 1 & Or i n Co.
$5.00 licw ird
p 0'1 for ' I'orm.t: ,.i j,.-).
"acres ami cmv cti n of
stre. t
I ' • in . i '' iv \ ,i in • i ti i t i.r i | iu ill \ ,
mver-ity OKI 000 100 o and the knot was n'ed
Norman (MK) 100 000 -1 o .,„| n,,,,,- i,,t,v uCn invited in
Latteries; t ourtright and ( onk_ and extended their eongi lulations to
ling; Brown and McLean. the happy couple. I Call lor Coupon* at McQlnlev's.
i \v -pots on the ■ n licni: ph.
Tb-f i untry is or of wild and p
-.•fflbled within a sniall compa -o,
i
rugged hilL for thn e days, follow
the . uteri.p ..f r • Hunt n .mi ! \
linn - one, the Syh n -hale and oth
fenmntions and \i-itii ■ such poii
the asphalt mine
the
and with bis family departed
ntana, win a e they expected lo
: li. '.vever, they
entirely different,
.'is not suitable,
lid not tarry long,
o be quite an ex.
their
pri
pen-
al
lo - $
mova . and als
tented, for he
lahoma is tile
; ■ . . i n-lier, and the v; iaous n ii i ■ - and Cleveland is the I
sil beds of the Arbuckles. |t]10 s(atc
;1,1
irday and Mr.
farm, --'hen he |
I'.oi-cd by the I
. «ill be better con- I
i- confident that Ok- |
b« t state in the Union j
t county iu
! ■ Noah Hall of Lexington
" - I Monday with his guardian,
1 on I hornton, also of Lexington.
1 hornton received his commission as
guardian in the boy's estate from the
county judge. Hall is a minor and a
lucky hoy He has been left an es-
tate valued at approximately $27,000,
which augurs very well for him in a
oil ee-- o;; ii i nre
h ritanee with a modest mcin, though
and gives promises of making the
best of lii- already good start in
life. He i- an industrious, hard-
11, ng -li.tp and one of the best
in Lexington.
You can bank on the
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