Cleveland County Enterprise. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 28, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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NORMAN. OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY. NOVEBFR 28. 1912.
NO. 22
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leather Has Been Fine
The weather has been the best
ever known in this country for
gathering the corn and cotton crops.
No rain to injure either crop and
there has been practically no time
lost on account of weather condi-
tions since the tirst of October.
! The cotton has come to market
practically free from stain and the
corn clean and dry. The price for
MUSKOGEE AVENUE
AND BOULEVARU
To Be Paved With Asphalt
Was The Sentiment of the
Property Owners
Monday evening the resident
property owners on Muskogee and 1(()th pl.tl(iUcts has been fair. Corn
the Boulevard met in the Council
Chamber for the purpose of decid-
ing upon the question whet her brick
or asphalt should be used in the
paving of this district.
There were many who favored
brick, some favored asphalt and
others did not favor paving of any
kind at present time. D. L. Larsh
was chosen as chairman of the
meeting and Prof. Roy Gittinger
as secretary. A considerable man-
euvering was indulged in by the
leaders of the respective materials
for an advantage in the start of
the handicap to be run and at one
time it looked very much like the
meeting would be broken up before
race was started. Finally the pre-
liminaries were amicably agreed
upon and the representatives of the
different kinds of pavement called
upon to address the meeting.
Col. Knowlton for the asphalt
company opened up, who set for
the beauties of asphalt pavement
and pledged his company that if
awarded the contract the maximum
cost should not exceed .^2.1 ■"> per
square yard including excavation.
Mr. Browdish representing brick
company then explained brick pav-
ing and that cost of same, which
was some higher than asphalt and
to meet this tried to show, how in
the end it would be the cheapest
and best.
This move opened up a lively dis-
cussion and debate between the re-
presenattives of the companies on
the subject of the durability of the
different kinds of paving and ex-
pense of maintenance, etc., and
after a spirited and at times quite
an animated controversy between
the factions, a motion was made
and carried that the vote he taken
and the matter decided. II was
thought that vole would be very
close and favorable to the brick ad-
herents, but when result was made
known it was almost 2 to 1 in favor
of asphalt. This will, perhaps,
settle the paving question as to
Muskogee and the Boulevard and
the city council will proceed to ad-
vertise for bids and let the contract.
What the effect of this action of
the citizens on Muskogee and (lie
Boulevard will have on the other
streets and avenues within the dis-
trict included in the paving resolu-
tion is not known at this time; but
it would seem to favor asphalt as
the material to be used in paving
on streets leading to University.
It is hardly thought Asp avenue
property owners will now desire
brick, thereby inviting all of the
heavy traffic, instead of the pleasure
carriages.
up to last week ranged from 40 to
50 cents the bulk of the crop mark-
eted up to that time bringing 45c.
It is now down to 36 cents and the
farmers are filling their cribs. An
abundance of katir and maize, hay
etc., to feed the stock is in the
country and the Oklahoma farmer
will not have to depend on red tag-
ged sacks to nourish his stock this
winter. The cellars and closets
arc also well stored with vegetables
and cans and jars of "biddy"' with
plenty of katir and corn will do her
duty in the hen house. The yield
of corn has not averaged high but
quality is very good. The yield of
cotton and quality has been fair to
good on fields where plant started
off well in the spring. A consider-
able of the average was injured by
plant getting a late start, owing to
the unfavorable May conditions.
The price has averaged around
11 cents. The 1912 crop will go a
long way towards paying up their
store accounts anil note indebted-
ness; but it will take another good
crop to enable them to begin to
wipe out mortgage indebtedness
and to expend much in the way of
making necessary farm improve-
ments. For the past live years,
farming in Oklahoma has been a
strenuous struggle. Crop yields
have been below an average
count of unfavorable season
tions. The proper cultivation and
preparing of the land for a bumper
crop the past season was rendered
impossible by the lack of feed for
the work animals.
With plenty of feed the farmers
will tret their fields into better con-
dition and should the season of
1913 be even as favorable one as
the 1912 season a much larger crop
will bp harvested.
on ac-
condi-
Mormanxs. Oklahoma City
The Norman High School foot
ball squad proposes to trim the
Oklahoma City High School bunch
today. The teams meet on the
Davis field in Oklahoma City where
the sand burs are said to be quite
numerous, and considerable whoop-
ing and yelling is to be expected
from the field as well as from the
bleachers and grandstand. A big;
crowd of Norman citizens and
students will accompany the team.
So intoxicating has become the
spirit of foot ball in our high
schools that even the pupils in our
public schools down to the primary
seem to have caught the spirit al-
most to the exclusion of any real
"zest" for their lessons. To be a
star on the foot ball team would
seem to be the highest ambition
possessed by the young urchins in
our city schools.
Athletic sports of so exciting a
character are certainly not conduct-
ive to the training of the mind in
our city public schools. It is quite
a task, at best, for teachers to in
The "Turk'' began coining into
Norman Monday and on Thursday
his demise was duly observed and
his body carved up and distributed
around upon the plates on the din-
ing room tables in Norman. Many
complimentary things were said of j forest young pupils in their books
him by the guests, such as "How|nn(j lessons, and with foot ball
juicy and tender and how so well conducted at present time, no
prepared." All of the naughty j wonder little interest can be arsns-
things that may have been said of j,.,| j„ )hp work of the S).hool ,mtj|
him in life were forgotten .and Lfter the foot ball season closes.
nothing but praise of the noble1
bird were heard around the festal j inker's Thanksgiving sale was
board of his bier. a great trade puller. The prices
j quoted will be good while the pres-
Fred Thomas and family, of Ok- cut -stock lasts. The merchandise
lahoma City, will be guests of Mr Uttered was from their big purchase
and Mrs. S. W. Hutchin today, in St. Louis. Come any day to
They will endeavor to help them Rueker's Cash Store, south side
eat a big turkey. j Main street.
SOONERS LDSE
TO CORNHUSKERS
OLIVER H. AKIN
RETURNED MONDAY
The Game Was Hard Fought
From Start to Finish by
Both Teams
The host and biggest game of the
1912 schedule of the Nebraska
Oornlmskers was played Saturday,
at Lincoln, and the speedy Sooners
from Oklahoma were the attraction.
Bennie Owen's warriors went to
Nebraska fully determined to give
the heavy Cornhuskers the battle
of their lives if they would win
from Oklahoma. The battle was
desperately fought by both teams
from the first whistle to the last,
but at the close of the game, Ne-
braska had counted thirteen points
Christ gave to the world regulating
man's action towards his fellow
creature.
To temper justice with tender
kindness is better than to harden
Homer Sellers Go* Him at Lone i )vil1' harshness. It is
Wolf Sheriff Met Them ; "f."'' "" ,lu' '",r,"'s
, lately concerned and a most whole
at El Reno
some policy to pursue for
! tection of societv.
I he pro
INTERURBAN WILL
BUILD TO NORMAN
Representatives of The Com-
pany Were in The City
Last Friday
Monday evening on the 10:2."> j
train Sheriff I. B. Sale arrived in
Norman with Hon. Oliver II. Akin
in custody. Homer Sellers found
him in Lone Wolf and was bring-
ing him to Norman, but was met
at El Keno by Sheriff Sale, who
paid Mr. Sellers the $25.00 reward
and took custody of Mr. Akin.
Mrs. Akin came over from Lone
Wolf Saturday, and it is thought
to have made arrangements for
bond and to have Mr. Akin come
in. I>nt it was not the arrangement
—— A number of the representatives
Civic Improvement i ot tlic Intcrurhan Railway people
I>id you ever stand on Mainj"1 Oklahoma City visited Norman
street in Norman and watch the and held a conference with
sun go down behind the Arline 11 number of the citizens and bus-
while the speedy Sooners were held that he should come in under the
to nine counts. The game was
clearly a battle where weight over-
powered speed. The Sooners were
so expert in their manipulation of
the forward pass, so speedy in skirt-
ing their opponets ends, and so in-
vincible in their line of defense that
the mighty Cornhuskers were push-
ed to their limit in winning their
hard earned victory. The punting
of Heeds was the greatest seen this
season on Nebraska'sgridiron. and
the Sooners' forward passes were
the most brilliant ever witnessed on
MeCook field. Courtright, the
nimble Sooner halfback, scored the
points for Oklahoma by making a
touchdown and negotiating a field
goal. The game was a surprise to
the whole Missouri Valley and es-
pecially to the Nebraskans, for it
was generally conceded that they
would win over their lighter rivals
by a decisive score. The game
clearly places the Sooners in the
front rank of the football world,
and their wonderful prowess clear-
ly indicates the fact that they have
received their training from a real
football genius.
Local and Personal
Today is Thanksgiving,
one should be thankful.
Even
Mrs. .1. (). Fox was very
latter part of lasi week.
sick
Clyde Piekard made
trip to Noble Saturday
a dusines*
afternoon
Sam Hawk, of Oklahoma City
visited friends in Norman Sundav
I>r. .1. R. McLauchlin, of Den'
ver, was a business visitor in Nor-
man Naturdav.
Norman wi
urday, and ti
splendid business
full of people Sat'
merchants report a
Mrs. Oliver 11. Akin and two
little boys came in Saturday for a
visit with relatives,
A man named Clover has just
been married—and soon there will
be several blades of grass where
there was formerly but one.
•I. I). Womaek and family, who
have been residing at Altus for
several months, have moved to Ok-
lahoma City, where .1. 1). has se-
cured a good position. Mrs. Wo-
maek and children spent several
days in Norman with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. I., Rentier last week.
Died at home li miles north cast
of Norman Saturday night, Mrs.
Burke, the young wife of Rufus
Burke. She left behind to mourn
a husband and a babe only a few
hours old. The body was brought
In the Meyer Meyer <!c Morris un-
dertaking parlors Monday and ar-
ranged to lie shipped to old home
in ()hio for burial.
custody of Sheriff Sale, but Mon-
day the sheriff learned of what was
being attempted and met Sellers
and Akin in El He no and took
charge against the strenuous objec-
tions of Mr. Sellers and Mr. Akin.
On arrivial in Norman a satisfact-
ory bond was furnished and Mr.
Akin was released from custody.
Tuesday morning Akin's troubles
were renewed, and other parties in
Norman to whom he had given
hot checks" began to sware out
warrants and he was re-arrested
and finally lodged in the county
jail, being unable to furnish bonds
fast enough to keep him from be-
ing thrust into the jail, a thing he
had battled against from the time
he left California in the custody of
the sheriff. He was made to feel
indeed that "the ways of the trans-
gressor are hard."
His action in desserting the sher-
iff on his way to Norman and caus-
ing the sheriff additional expense
and some humilation because of
the trust he had imposed in him,
doubtless had much to do in having
the additional warrants sworn out.
The parties who held the "hot
checks" were enraged by the treat-
ment the sheriff received and swore
out warrants they otherwise would
not have done had Mr. Akin came
back with the sheriff in the first in-
stance or even had he given him-
self up to the sheriff and saved
Mr. Sale the $25.00 reward he had
posted, the case might have been
different.
Mr. Akin has acted extremely un-
wise in every move he litis made
since he was apprehended by the
sheriff, and has lost much sympa-
thy, even with his family, forwhat
seemed to them his folly and indis-
cretion in the first instance, and
they would have gladly extended a
hand to Assist him as best they
might, out of his present troubles.
The many thing for him to have
done would have been to return
meekly and decently with the of-
ficer and to have confessed his
fault and showed a willingness on
his part to do all in his power to
make amends. By such a course
his friends would have rallied
around him and assisted him, for
the sake of his family, if no other,
hot elf This hotel reminds the writ
er of the time when Norman was
young, away back in those day s,
in shadeless, treeless Norman, corn-
bread and beans were more popular
than apple blossoms. Civic pride
iuess men of Norman relative to
the extension of the line from
Moore to Norman.
The company is anxious to have
Ibis line extended but claim that
flic question ot' securing the neces-
had not yet set in, the hopes of thejsary funds at this time is a difficult
builder of this hotel had not yet one, owing to the tightness of
been blighted, like John, on the Is ' money centers
land of Patomos, lie had a vision,
he saw a multitude of people all
traveling towards the Arline Hotel,
but his dream was never realized,
the town was built to the eastward
and ever since that time that hotel
has been an orphan. Back of this
hotel on the side where the sun
goes down, is a wonderful I
the Civic Committee wants
They expect after crops are
handled money will be easier to
procure and the company has in
i an application for a loan of $130,000
j to entem 1 this line. They do not
figure that this will lie enough and
were in Norman for the purpose
of ascertaining how much assist-
ace and j ance from Norman might be count-
von t«H ufon ''.V company.
go over and see it. It i
piece of ground fenced
screen wire, and in side of this cage
is all manner of t hings, Daniel may
not be in there but it looks like
wild beasts might be found inside.
If may be the city dump grounds
judging by the looks of trash pile.
The old papers are drifted up against
the western wall until it looks like
snow drifts, and this scene right
on Main street in the city of Nor-
man, right where the streak of pav-
ed streets lands in a mud pftddie,
on the way to the University the
place we all point to with pride,
right on the main traveled street,
right where all the automobiles
raise the dust in the summer time,
and splash mud in the winter time.
By all means go over and see this
center piece, this bequest and re-
member while over there to take a
look at a yard that is clean as a
pin, and is kept well trimmed all
the year around. Look at the cozy
porch all hemmed in with vines,
how cool and pleasant is this home,
and how inviting is this lattice
porch on a hot summer day. This
home is the pride of west Norman,
it is situated between Dad Moore's
home and the Arline hotel. Whose
home home is it ?
Talking about Civic pride re-
minds the writer that Norman is a
Medley. Civic pride and don't care
are closely welded together, and it
is our aim to try and help cultivate
more and more, the spirit of Civic
pride, and these illustrations as out-
lined above is done solely for the
purpose of making a contrast, and
to get the people of Norman to
cultivate one, and discard the other.
The writer had already cleaned upj"ul
one or two dismal corners of oui-j
own yard, just to keep down unfav- i
orable comment, but every wind
that blows from the south, brings
more trash back again for the old
red rooster to scratch around and
mall > They want to build into Norman
with "-long the line of the last survey,
which came in along the west line
ot Santa l-'e right-of-way to lumber
yard and thence west on Main to
Websler, going down Webster and
Asp avenues to Campus. The Nor-
man citizens could not give much
assurance of financial assistance at
the present time.
I he Special Session
Oov. Wilson has announced that
immediately after his inauguration
as president of the I'nited States
he will call an extraordinary session
of congress to convene not later
than April 15th, for the purpose
of revising the tariff. Governor
Wilson has acted well in this mat-
ter and while he lias the approval
of democrats generally, men of all
parties express the opinion that he
has taken a wise course. Governor
Wilson has gone to Bermuda for a
vacation and he will return about
December Hi Every one will hope
that he may enjoy his rest and
return with new strength for the
patriotic task that is before him.—
(Commoner.
Mucker's Big Thanksgiving Sale
Which commenced last week was
one of the best they ever had, draw-
ing so much trade from outside of
the regular Norman territory. Sev-
eral from Tuttle came over, quite a
few from beyond Stella and Eta-
wah .
If all the Norman merchants
would advertise and make an effort
to reach the trade not coming to
Norman we would soon have a
big lot of new trade coming to
little city.
to get him out of the present dif- \ almost ruin our peaceable temper.
Acuities in an orderly and decent
manner.
He may not so some claim, have
violated any civil law in the first
instance, but he certainly did do a
moral wrong to friends who trusted
him. "Two wrongs never make a
right" and while civil law will up-
bold the frequent arrests Akin has
been subjected to, yet same does
not seem to be from humanitarian
viewpoint, at least, to be commend-
able in subserving the ends of
justice. In meeting out punish-
ment by man to his fellowman ; the
L. j. Edwards.
('hairman (' ivie I 'om.
Senator Franklin Sick
Hon. Ben Franklin, Senator
elect from the nineteenth district,
has been quite sick for several day s,
with an attack of typhoid fever,
but is now reported improving, and
hopes soon to be able to get out —
Purcell Register.
The ladies of the Missionary
Society of the M. E. church South
will serve ice cream, chocolate and
old Jewish law "an eye for an eye coffee or something every day of
and a tooth for a tooth" was repeal- their sale at the corner building
ed under the new dispensation second door east of MeCaH's.
City Council Meeting
The Norman City Council met
in regular session Tuesday evening
and after the transaction of the re-
gular routine of busiress the dis-
cussion of the paving matter was
brought up and the wishes of the
preperty ownerson Muskogg and
the Boulevard as to kind of paving
respected and plans for an asphalt
paving were ordered prepared and
drawn and bids for the pavingon
this avenue will be called for at
once. The call for bids for the
pavement on Asp and Boyd ac-
cording to plans and specifications
for a brick pavement was issued
and ordered published.
Rev A W Rogers returned
home Monday, after a six weeks
trip to Texas, where he has been
conducting revival meetings. Ho
reports much interest and many
confessions during his meetings.
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Fox, J. O. Cleveland County Enterprise. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 28, 1912, newspaper, November 28, 1912; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc108375/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.