Cleveland County Enterprise. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 16, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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CLEVELAND COUNTY ENTERPRISE.
The Largest and Best Newspaper Published in Cleveland County. All The News While it is News.
VOL. XX
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1^11.
NO. 20
TAFT AND STANDPAT
ISIUJMS THE ISSUE
Mr. 1 aft has Very Good
Reasons To Feel Shaky.
Results Tell
Special to tlie Enterprise.
Washington, Nov, 14
chusetts goes, so will the
in 1! 12:"
This was the slogan of
As Maesa
nation go
both
Re-
publicans and Democrates in the
Massachusetts campaign And the
Democratic candidate, Gov. Foss, won
hamiily.
The ifsue was the tarill' and Taft
staudnatism, tlie same issues that
will predominate in the 1912 campaign
yuei'5. If the protectionists cannot
carry Massachusetts,home of the cot-
ton and woolen manufacturing indus-
tries, where the people are supposed
to reap some of the tremendous ad-
vantages of protection, how can they
expect to carry the middle and west-
ern states, in which regions live the
people who piy the excessive prices
caused by high tariff anii reap none
of the alleged benelits of protection?
Here is an article which speaks
for Itself. It Is taken from lhe Da-
kota Democrat,published at Aberdeen
S. I>., ami is a fair sample of what
the newspapers in the cities visited
by Mr. Taft on his trip through the
West published after tie had left
town. Incidentally this article in a
measure reveals the sentiment which
prompted Mr. Taft to m ike his now
funous prediction of Republican de-
feat in I4J12:
"The hig event Taft day at Aher
<Iee11 has come and gone. Curiosity
In see the 1'resldetitcaused thousands
to como to Aberdeen, stand in line
ami rven went to a few feeble cheers
when he spoke, but they were not'
with him at any stage in tin- game.
Poor Taft! It,g hearted, jovial and
companionable, a commoner ill his
bearing. Everybody instinctively ad-
mires hiin for the personal charm of
his manner. 11 is too bad that such
a KOod man should be spoiled in try-
ing to make presidential timber of
him. We love him for his large per-
sonality, but in view of what he has
uone we cannot vote lor him again."
The President got to vote after ail
A lot o f red tape was necessary, but
h ' voted. And thereby hangs a tale.
Six years ago Mr. Taft made a
speech at Akron, ()., in which he
roundly scored the notorious Cox
machine In ('iueinnati. lie said he
could take great pleasure in voting
against it. 1 fe declared tills foul re-
publican machine was a stench in the
nostrils of all good citizens. The
people of Ohio, realizing that Wil-
liam II. Taft was telling the truth,
applauded him vigorously and with
tlie utmost sincerity.
In the recent election Mr. Taft
publicly indorsed and voted for the
i'ox machine, which is still the dis-
graceful alliance of politics, corrupt
business and tlie brothels that it was
in PJOI. Hut the President was there
with an excuse. He said tint I'con-
dil ions had substantially changed."
Whatever the President was al-
luding to, it was not the Cox machine
for it had remained as foul as ever.
The only change visable to observers
is that, whereas six years ago Mr.
Taft was not a cmdidate for ollice,
he is today.
Government To Blaine
The Democrat believes that the
United States government has done
more than all other agencies c untun-
ed to bring about the low price of
cotton. Reports of an over-produc
Hon has caused the price to drop.
Tlie fact >s. the crop is much smaller
than the government report quotes,
and after the crop goes from the pro
ducers to the speculators the i hort-
ne-s of the crop wili lie in evidence
and the prices go up The republican
fe-teral government, like .ill iis oilier
nets, stands in with the !>i• ■ trusts.
Sulphur Democrat.
HasLcl Hull tiamr Saturday Nl^lil
The Norman Football teams, both
University and High school have won
all kinds of notice this season: but
the Norman people don't seem to
know so well that the (iirls High
school basket ball team is the real
sensation of the season. The team Is
composed of 8th grade students of lasi
year, and are young in years and small
in size for a High school team, tint
they play like veterans matching
skill against strength. Tney suffered
one defeat at the hands of the Pur-
cell team but attribute same largely
to the smallness of the arena they
had to play game in, and at the Gym-
nasium in this city Saturday night.
they meet the Purcell team and lire
confident of winning victor*. They
don't concede that Purcell c n win
in a regular sized Basket ball Held.
The Purcell girls are larger and
stronger but this fact does not alarm
Ihe Norman "whirl-winds." They say
to Norman people "Come out and see
us win."
UNIVERSITY SBONERS
DEFEATS JAY-HAWKERS
NORMAN RIGR SCHOOL
DEFEATS OKLAHOMA CITY
At Lawence, Kans., Saturday One of The Most Interesting
by a Score of 3 to 0. Much Games Ever Played on
Interest Manifested Boyd Field
Saturday afterr oon the victorious j f,aHt Friday afternoon on the Hovd
Sooner football team met the Kansas Field in the presence of over 1000
Jay-haw k team on the latters gridiron > people was witnessed one of the lints
at lawrence, Kansas, and for the1 f, oiball games ever played on that
first time in many annual contests field The day was ideal for wltn ss-
inade Hie .lay-hawk give the "squak" ing the game, but the wind was a lit-
The Sooner team left Norman Nov- tie strong for the fast handlin ■ id'
ember 2nd fully expecting to return the ball.
home with tlie Missouri Tigers'seal |i j ti, , . ,
" 1 1 lie contest was between ihe Nor-
L L. BRIGGS DIED
MONDAY MORNING
At His Residence After a Ling-
ering Illness. Was An
Early Settler
f.ast Monday morning at 10 o'clock
at his home in this city Mr. h. [,.
Briggs passed away after a long and
lingering illness. Mr. Ilriggs was one
of the early merchants and cotion
buyers coming to this city from Ar-
kansas in lHM.'i ami in connection with
M. ('. Huiiyan opening up a general
stock of mercliamlise'in the room now
occupied l>y the .1. II. Holland Plain
Price store. The firm carried on a
big cotton credit business for a num-
ber of years. Since retiring from the
merchandising business Mr llriegs
has bought cot ton each sea iou and
was engaged in tliii buuness a yeat
ago when taken sick from which sick
ness he never fully recovered, lie
leaves a wife and a family o! grown
sons and daughters.
The funeral was conducted from
the family re idedce Tuesday after-
noon under the ,iu.-pieit-s of the
Masonic order.
and the Jay-hawks also; but did not
feel quite so sani> ti inn ol success over
the latter,but after scalping ttie
Tigers I 1 to ti nothing less than the
".lay-hawk-" beautiful plumage of
black would satisfy and after a tierce
contest of 2 hours last Saturday after-
noon on the Jay-hawks gridiron at
Lawrence, Kans., the proud bird of
the Prairies was forced to capitulate
for the first, time to the victorious
i Sooners.
It was a furiously i untested battle.
. Iroui hIin-L to finish aud any bodys
game until time was called. The
j 2000 Kansas rooters never cea-ed to
i cheer and chatti r, tor Mercury was
dancing around Ihe fni-ziii;; point
j and wind was blowing almost a gale
| carrying Hurries ot snow, until the
I very close- of the game for a Held goal
would i.ave tied and a touch down
I won the game.
In the tirst J minutes of the game
the Sooners succ eded in kicking a
Held goal anil this was the only score
J imiile by rillier Irani. Many oilier
attempt < at ti rid goal-, were made by
both tenuis but all failed and a"l.ouch
down it eemcil was an impo-sible
thing for either team to secure.
mm High school team and tli - Okla-
homa City High school team. The
Oklahoma rooters came down in great
numbers to luck tip their team and
the Norman hoy-; never tact d a more
determined team to eitliei win or at
least score against the Norman team
which had not suffered an opposing
team this season to so much as score.
Th Oklahoma boys were determin-
ed nnt to tlruw a cypher; nil at the
end of the game they were indeed
thankful that they had by the most
heroin playing ever witnessed on
Uoyd Held succeeded in keeping- the
Norman Tigers from making more
than 2-1 points while thry -gathered iu
a goose egg. The Oklahoma li iy . w.-re
sirouger oil line bucking: bill, the
Norman back-Held was too swill a id
good at interference and forward pas
ses and during whole game they nev.-i
succceded in getting within striking
distance of Norm til's goal hut
one time. One tiui during
the ilril quarter the Oklahoma boys
lout toe h. II on the .1 yard line and it
looked like a touch down was coming
but Ihe ti.ill was piintrd hack into
the lield. Oklahoma attempted to
make a Held goal with tli
liii".
During the progress of the game m£k* a Ue'd P««) With the wind In
j hind the ball a couple ol i
i tlie ball fell sli ort t'Htii t i iim*.
The Moi 111 Ti II tc.l f v m | I,. (| llir fill
about f oo Sooner* and Normauit s
watched the ball, as it slipped back
ai ti forward on a Held hung up Iti
front of tin- Itai lxinr Drug store, and ward pass ~uI'mi-s sticree.line in male-
listened to tli- calli:> or the plays in? it win gains 17 time-. liritt.John
I through a megaphone, ami the cheer- M,n Geyer were I lie spectacular
j ing in Norman was abmt as great i I' aycrs on tlio Norman team but they
j throughout the game as in Lawrence ' were backed up
Kans., and when the end came and mates in makliu
■ i a!
Cull Curry llust Solidly
Nashville, Tenn.,Oct. 30. -Aspc
from Jackson,Tenn., to tli? Na.-liviile
Tennessean says:
Charles If. Harris, of Washington,
D. son of tlio late United States j
Senator lsli.nn Harris and for
twenty-one years private secretary
to his distinguished father, arrived in
Jackson yesterday on a visit to his :
cousin, Mrs. "harles F. Howard. Mr.
Harris is now a prominent contractor
of Washington and has always been a
close student of political affairs.
lie talks very interestingly of po-
litical affairs at the national capital, j
and says that there is nothing jn the
worid to prevent a sweeping Demo-
cratic victory next year. When alli-
ed whom be considered the logical!
man for tlio Democrat ic nomination, j
he without lie itatioii replied. "Wood-
row Wilson." lie states that Wilson
is the only posslblity mentioned thus
far who can carry the east solidly, j
Mr. Harris states that Wilson's ad-j
ministration as Coventor of New
Je rsey has been marked by phenomen-
al achievementi-: that it has surpas-
sed the expectations ol the most
sanguine Democrats.
"Gov. Wilson represents the old-
line Democrat." continued Mr. liar- !
ris,"who has accepted the pirty poll-
cies of this progressive twentieth
century."
the score \\ to 0 in favor of Oklahoma
was announced the bells and all the
steam whistles in Norman began and
lor live minutes everything that could
be used to make noise was seized by
the frenzied citizens and instantly
the whoir population knew tint the
Oklahoma Sooners had triumphed
over the Kansas Jay-hawkers.
On the teams return honu
evening several hundred
by their team
plays. Kvery
lini
the-
man on the Norman I earn s niir I t
be filling his position to a nicety and
ibis really was the I'eatui e t hat mailt
the game so interesting. There was
no defective places In tli • Norman
team. It was Heel in ss. skill and head
work, not brawn, that won the game
fur the Norman team.
I The Oklahoma boys played a strong
Sunday defensive game but they c<uld nut
Indents 'charge the Norman Tigers and retain
I Irpliant Causes liunuwiy
Wrdnesday unheralded, a show
parade burst into Main street coming
from the North down Peter's avenue.
In the parade was a hig elephant and
the horses on Main si n et did not take
kindly to this animal and several
near runaways took place and one
real one was pulled oil'. The delivery
team of Rule ,v Co. carrying the
hitching weight started west ' n Main
street going like the wind and in try-
ing to turn oIT into Peters avenue ran
up on to the sidewalk at Farmers
making turn northward. The wagon
was crippled up to some extent and
the ponies badly frightened.
DISTRICT COURT NEWS
PASTJ THE WEEK
This Will Complete The Se-
cond Week of Session.
Many Cases Tried
Last Thursday Judge McMillan ex-
cused the jurors until Monday morn-
ing bavin# disposed of all the jury
National Bank ln-fore succeeding |„ j^ on the <1l°,'ket 3et {°r last "eek.
malrlnir i ti In Ihe lirst I days of the court .IK
cases were cleared from the docket.
A number of them were jury cases:
iiut tlie litigants rather than face
the jury settled cases wltnout going
lo trial.
On Monday four of the prisoners
were brought into court and entered
pleai Jim took charged with robbery
Kdward Pullman charged with utter-
ing forged checks. W. II. Smith
charged with larcency and I.,. C. Pas-
chal charged with false pretense.
They all entered pleas of'-not guilty"
The case of Hearn vs. Cartright et
al. tor foreclosure was tried by a jury
and a verdict rendered for plaintiff
lor *.lLNi> and s.Idii attorney fees and
costs. Judge Wilkins was plaintiff's
attorney and attorney Owen of Okla-
homa city assisted by .I.H.Dudley
appeared for defendants.
I '|i lo 11-i11 Judge McMillan has siic-
> ei ded in disposing of rvery case set
down on the docket for trial, on the
day set and il he succeeds to end ol
term as well all the cases will be
cleared Iroui court docket.
were at the station to welcome and | Ihe lull and were weak on tin- forwai d
congratulate the haltered but victor- pass play. Their best su.ves was iu
ious members of the team. 1 punting and line bucking.
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McCall's Magazine J years, :! ];„
patterns ami the Cleveland County
Enterprise 1 year. Value £2 95, our
pi ice $1 ■>() lletter take advantage
of this remarkable offer. NOW.
(let right and read the Enterprise.
Hilly Sunday is holding revival
meetings at Wichita. The Hcacon is
reporting attendance and collections
day by day in three days collections
amounted to $ti00 and the attendance
was 40,(100. Not two cents apiece.
Oh, those Kansas tightwad
Pryor Creek Clipper: "Tlie Vinita
Leader quotes J0hn J. Ingalls as
saving 'non-partinship politics is an
irridescent dream.' The (steemcd
secretary to 'lie governor is wrong,
as usual, ingalls said *ttie purifica-
tion of politics is an irridescent
dream
RUGGING ARTICLE
E BUSINESS
None of 1 lie Business Men In
Norman Are Bribing
I he Editors
II a certain IiihIiics-. man in this
r.ity does not ceasc hugging his
stenographer it may l erome neces-
sary lor us to publish I he names of
tlie principals in this all'air," The
above is i not ire that was inserted iu
oik ol on i ex tli in*, and t II.- editor
In comun ntiug on t ho elTet i ol the
-rime said, "On the day following the
public ;11 i• 111 o| thr notiee .17 Inisint'ss
men iu the t it,y dropped around paid
their subscriptions one y: ;ir in ad-
vance and left .in order lor .'IV col-
uinns of advertising to run until for
bidden." and tlie business men were
11 smiles „in! infoi uied him not' to
take matters si seriously and he
said lie did not do so. In fact we are
rather inclined to think Im was iu
lull sympathy with the hugging pro-
position in his city.
We dont think any of tin' business
men in Norman are bribing the edit
or.- judging from the patronage they
are giving the papers. Possibly
the editors arc not as wide awake as
tli *y should be in securing business
from the husine-s men never thought
before of eucha plan to extract (ilthy
lucre from the busine-s men. but the
present time-* are calculated to cause
editor- to think seriously of ways and
means to secure money for current
ex penses.
4tIJIue Low" Kxcitc Ardmore
Ardmore, Okla., Nov. lo —(Special)
Business men in Ardmore are much
l he O. I~. A.
I be evecir.ive eouunittee of the Ok*
bihouia l-lducation Association met in
< lahoma ('ity a few days ago and
out I i ned the general plan of the meet
ing. Tlie members of the committee
are Thos. VV. Butcher, tin id, presi-
dent: W. T. Hod son, Durant, vice-
president. M. L Perkins, Ada, chair-
man I !.\ecyi ive Committee: VV. VV
< uningham, Shawnee, secretary and
treasurer: f,. M. christian, McAlaster
A J Dovett, Blackwell. The annual
meeting will be held in Oklahoma
City on December 27-30, Two years
ago the meeting was held at the same
place on the above date and was the
lar"c-t meet in" the association has
ever ha>I This years meeting prom-
ist s to break all records for edu-
cational meetings in the entire
Southwest. The committee has se-
cured some of the best talent to he
had in the Pnited States and will
give the teachers of the -tate an
educational treat of high character.
Superintendent Brandenburg of Ok-
lahoma City attended the meeting of
the committee and assured the mem-
bers ot the co-operation of the school
board of the commercial club of the
city. Hie general session of the
meeting will held in Convention Hall.
r
Governor Declines to liitcrferc
Iticbuiond, Va., N'iiv. 1.1 (,'iiveriior
Mann tniav declined to interfere ir.
the cane of Ife'tiry t'l.iy lleattie Jr.,
ami IIiih I lie ynnii| wife inurilerei
las!, liope of escaiiinjr tlie ele.tri,
elialr. Friday, Nnvriuln-i u 11 h, wa«
swept away.
In his statement lvfuslng clemency
lor Beattie, Oovernor Mann -aid:
"I followed the case as all possible
developed and regretted that
facts
Fire Destroys Properly
Sundap morning i 'lareru • AmbrM-
er lost all of his ollice turniture and
law library in the Kile building lire I sl, 'h a malicious crime occured in our
in Muskogee and Sunday night Dr *d te. The judg who pre-id. d w is
.1. C Ambrist' r lost his beautifill I a**li* a ml impartial, as was .shown by
home and all its contents by lire in | '-opreine court'- upholding l iui.
Chickasha. j ' haven t tlio slightest doubt of Beat-
I'oriun;. t ely the loss of both young I ti1*'* guilt. To grant a respite would
men is partly covered b/ insurance I precedent and encourage th
delay of just ice.'
Doris Stogner and wife, ot Tribbey,
c ime in Monday for a few days vi it
with relative* and friend*
If it's up-to-date printing yen want
call at the Knterprise.
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besides the style features which are of interest to all.
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Cleveland County Enterprise
- " 111 uv iu III oineiiuuii imo.
UP "V;'r"eW * ordinance Tbe high scb„ ,1 building an.l the
that has much of the nature of the churchea of the city will be thrown
^nnec icut blue laws. Section | om.„ for departmental sessions. A
5 of thU ordinance reads: rate of a fare and a third for the
A manner of business and of pub- round trip bas been secured on all
He selllnjr, or ofTerlnp or exposing for railroadg throuffbout the lUte>
sale publicly ot any commodities up- |
on the lirst day of the week, is pro-
hit ited, except that meats, milk and
fish may lie sold at. any time before
'•* o'clock in the morning and except
I that food may be sold, to be eaten tip-
ton the premises where sold, and drinks
! and medicines and surgical uppliances
j newspapers, ma^a/.ines, cigars, cakes
| bread, soft drinks, candies and ice
I cream may be sold at any time during
the day: Provided that this section
' shall net be continued ?is permitting
| t he peddling of any such commodities ,
upon the streets of the citv on Sun-
day.
j I'er.-ons violating the law may be
lined $100. This Sunday law is the ;
prime topic upon the streets and is 1
j being discussed in the newspapers.
i Prominent lawyers question i's valid-
ity, but the citv attorney asserts that
! it will positively "hold water "
Do vial want to exchange your land
for stocks of merchandise? Have you
a stoc.; of merchandise you vant to
exchange for good land? See us. We
h iv. stocks listed for land and land
tor stocks of merchandise.
Jno. S. Allan
Office over Broken Dollai Store.
(Jk lalinni
iiul she is
inn winnlrrfiil
il li
ha I
In,lav
Attorney Patterson, of I
ley, was in Norman 'I'lifHila \ <
hii-inc S-.
Don t overlook the nevvstorv
inn Dayliulit" which starts
issnu of tIn Knterprise.
aula Vill-
on leeal
• I ti I ril-
ll this
Two Papers I or The Price Of One
All farmers need a live farm paper
as well as a local home county paper.
! We are going to give a good farm
; paper to all uur subscribers who re-
new their subscription, and to all new
subscribers without additional cost.
The Oklahoma state Farmer,anew
paper, twice a month, subscription
price >0 cents a year: and the Cleve-
land i ounty Knterprise, both for 11.00.
The Oklahoma State Farmeris a de-
partmental farm paper, edited by
j (Qtlrtnen experts in Hairing, Poultiy
v etfrinary, Lin-stock, Woman's Au\
Hilary, farmer's Instil ;.te Farm Dem-
ons! ration, Hoys'and tlirls' Agricul-
: 1 oral < lull-. Horticulture, Good Roads
'ami Agricultural Schools, timer K.
Ilnieili i, former iilltor of tho Okla-
homa City Daily Times, will lie editor
in-chief
Subscribe .N'OvV.
ml i
I-itHi- Mi-s Mililrnl ('niilili
l lined i|uite a number of In r young
friends at a birthday social lust Wfil-
Inesdiy. 11 was her fourth birthday,
and she was the recipient ol many
hi.'iutllul a ml useful presents. Ile-
freshmwnts were served,
I I Smith brought, to Norman last
Thursday I lean 11 mily 11, his 18 months
mIiI Hen1 feiil bull i alf to have him
wriglieil anil foil in i his weight to lie
I l.iii lbs. This is tho calf that won
the rand champion prl/. j at the Ok
lahoma State Fair and one of tbe
'iHi--1 anluials of the llereferd breed
j to be fouud anywhere.
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