Cleveland County Enterprise. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 9, 1913 Page: 1 of 8
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CLEVELAND COUNTY ENTERPRISE.
VOL. XXII
NORMAN. OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY, OCT. 9, 1913.
NO. 14
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New Oil Field Near Norman
Discovered
H. B. Houghton, of Oklahoma
City and president, of the Zelnia
Oil Company, that is putting down
the oil well near Newcastle, was
in Norman Wednesday and said
that the well was down 560 feet,
and that a small strata of oil sand
had been drilled through, but only
a trace of oil in the sand. He said
the indications, judged from the
formations passed through were
encouraging, and he was hopeful
of finding oil or gas before the well
was down 2000 feet.
A report reached Norman Tues-
day morning that oil had been
struck at a depth of (500 feet and
some Norman people rushed out in
autos Tuesday afternoon, but came
back without having their clothes
ruined by oil spray.
Wins Premiums In Baby Contest
In the "Better Babies" contest
'which was held at the state fair two
Cleveland county -babies were
awarded premiums. Miss Helen
Louise Downing, the 15-months old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. V.
Downing secured the second prem-
ium iu the city girl baby class,
grading 07 per cent. She receiv-
ed $10.00 and a red ribbon. Miss
Mary Elizabeth Miller, the 14-
months old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. H. O. Miller secured the 3rd
prize in the rural girl baby class
and was awarded a white ribbon
and $7.00.
Tucker Miller to Oklahoma City
Tucker Miller, who has been
connected with the Democrat-Topic
office for the past eight, years, and
for the past six years as linotype
operator, resigned his position Sat-
urday and Monday accepted a po-
sition with the Western Newsp iper
Union at Oklahoma City on a nevf
Model 8 linotype at a much better
salary. Tucker has the reputation
of being one of the best operator-
machinists in the state. He will
not move his family to that city,
and figures on living at home as
soon as the interurhan is complet-
ed.
Statement to the Public
Feeling the public has the right
to know who are standing behind j
the Chamber of Commerce in its ;
work, and also that those who sub-
scribe money needed in carrying}
out the work laid out and being |
done, I desire to have this state-
ment made public.
After the Board of Directors
decided t h a t, Cleveland county |
should have an agricultural exhibit
at the State Fair at Oklahoma City
and at the International Dry-Farm-
ing Congress to beheld this month
at Tulsa we determined that there
should be some advertising matter
at those places for distribution.
We therefore and to that end con-
tracted with Mr. Danner for 1000
pamphlets of advertising matter for
that purpose, the said matter to
also be run in the October number
of the educational magazine put
out by Mr. Danner and in this way
be sent to the 3000 subscribers of
that magazine, for this we agreed
to pay him $50.00 and the costs
which the extra cuts desired would
cost. The work was done and was
very satisfactory, and cost us the j
sum of $71.50. The following per-
sons subscribed the amounts sug-
gested, D. L. Larsli $.>.00, T. F.
Carey $5.00, W. N. Rucker $.).00,
Cleveland County Abstract Co.
$5.00, H. G. Greenman $5.00, F.
B. Swank 15.00, W.L. Eagleton
$5.00, E. K. Newby $5.00, the other
&31.50 was borrowed from the Con-
tingent fund, but as this fund is
quite limited and is badly needed
for other purposes we hope some
progressive citizens of Norman will
voluntarily make good this short-
age.
Arthur Williams,
Chairman Advertising Coin.
BEAUTIFUL MEDALS TO BE AWARDED AT
TULSA DRY-FARMING CONGRESS
Ringling Circus at Oklahoma
City, October 22
While it is true that Mr. Jerome
got a frost in Canada, it is like-
wise a fact that a Thaw followed.
It is quite natural that the
suffragettes of England should
quit rocking babies: they are busy
rocking show windows.
Sheriff Plckard to Kansas
Sheriff Pickard left Tuesday for
Kansas with a requisition from
Governor Cruce on the Governor
of Kansas for T. A. Heavlin, who
is charged with Allie Wood and
Tom Akin, with horse stealing.
The case will be tried before Justice
J. W. Linton Friday. Also Tom
Akin, who is charged with shoot-
ing at a man east of Noble with
intent to kill will be heard on the
same day.
Some folks imagine that u:iser-
ines and econino are equivalents.
YOUR SUBSCRIPTION
At this season of the year is
a good time to renew your sub-
scription to theCleveland ('onn-
ty Enterprise.
If you are in arrears, you will
please call in at the office and
pay your back subscription and
renew for another year.
The amount that each sub-
scriber owes is small, but sev-
eral hundred means a great deal
to us, and at, this time we need
the money, therefore we kindly
ask you to call in and settle
'your account at once, also to
renew for auother year.
Cleveland Corvrv Kntkkimsi:
MY ATTAINMENT OF
THE POLE
BY
Dr. Frederick A. Cook
and the
Cleveland County Enterprise
One Year For $1.50
My Attainment of the Pole by Dr. Cook sells regularly
for $1.00, and is worth it, but in order to place our list on a
paid in advance basis we are going to dispose of a limited num-
ber in connection with the Enterprise at a reduced price.
Remember, one year's subscription and the book for
onlv $1 ."in.
Cleveland County Enterprise
Bring or send us your subscription are renewal.
Anv man who wins a prize at the International Ury Farming Congress
and Imposition at Tulsa will at once «-)ii -\•• a reputation that is more linn,
national, Hood farmers would compel* ii the value of the prizes were but a
penny each, for the honor in itself i- worth while
The Congress, however, never does thiniss by half nor in the ordinary
way. Us prizes for the Tulsa Expos! on will be greater in value than those
of any other fair or exposition in tin- 1'nited States on similar classes of
entries, but they will not lie
given in money except iu i
few instances.
Nearly all fairs give smalt
rash prizes which are quickly
spent and as quickly forgot
ten. The International con-
gress will give specially en-
graved and embossed medals,
together with bronze and
solid silver cups and trophies
and farm machinery, in prac
tically all of its competitive
classes.
Beautifully engraved gold
and silver awards, bearing
the winner's name, will be
given in more than ~.oo indi-
vidual classes for shea!' and
Obverse of Prize Medal.
threshed grains, vegetables
and roots and fruits For
district exhibits, where more
than one farmer enters his
products, solid silver or
bronze trophies, ranging in
value up to $40(1 each, will be
given. For individual collec-
tive exhibits and in the
sweepstakes classes the
prizes will be farm machinery,
some of the single prizes
ranging in value as high as
$1,250 each. Every machine
will be the best of its kind
manufactured in America,
and will he especially de-
signed to do proper work
in assisting the western
farmer to produce better crops and more of them per acre. I liis veat s
prize lisl totals a tr.s lor value than I' >. ev r before been given at any inter-
national Dry-Farming Congress or Exposition.
Spectacle of *',10*111 of Arc*
Added to I heir Idiot,
more than ever attractive. Its com-
pany of :!7."p foreign artists, its
double menagerie and its new street
parade will prove a great surprise
to those who attend from this city.
The event is one that should not
be missed.
Ringling Brothers' Circus ami
newly added $.100,000 spectacle of
"Joan of Arc," will exhibit in Ok-
lahoma City, on October 22.! The
spectacle in itself ii
that should bring thousands of vis-
itors from the surrounding country.
Ii is beyond question the greatest
production of its kind ever in
America.
The world's most skillful scenic
artists, costumers, property-makers
chorus directors and stage manag-
ers were engaged to mount the pro-
duction. A stage bigger than a
hundred ordinary t heatres was built
ami made portable so that it can
be conveyed from town and erected
each morning in the main tent.
Thus the circus proprietors have
made it possible for those who live I K E> ,,errl"ii for Governor
in contributory towns as well as Gentlemen:
in the large cities to see this mag Von will please say to the voters
nifieient. wordless play with its east ; of this state that I shall be a can-
of 1,200 characters, a ballet of :S0n didate for the democratic nomina-
girls, a grand opera chorus of 400 t ion for Governor in 1014. A corn-
voices. COO horses and a train load P'ete statement of my position will
Money at the Fair
The honey displays at the state
attraction ! ^u'r 'mm Cleveland county were by
far the best from any county in
tiie state and certainly attracted
much favorable attention.
The first premiums were award-
ed to I! F. Bartholomew of Nor-
man. while Burrage & Helms of
Little River and Garee & Garee of
Noble secured some premiums.
Earl, the little son, of Mr. and
Mrs. B. F. Bartholomew wasaward-
ed a blue ribbon and six dollars iu
nionev for an engine made of bees-
wax. It certainlj showed the lit-
tle fellow to be some mechanic.
of special scenery, costumes, pro-
follow in the near future.
Reverse of Prize Medal.
Strength of Bridge Tested
by Artillery
Thousands of •iti/.ens waited to'
more than an hour on Main Steeet
Sunday afternoon to welcome the
soldier boys, who arrived in the
city at about 5 o'clock.
The batteries camped in the city
park Sunday night, and left Mon-
day morning for Fort Sill, cross-
ing the new steel bridge 4 miles
southwest of Norman, and in order
to test the strength of t he bridge
the two batteries with their heavy
cannon, ammunition wagons, in-
cluding .!00 horses and 800 men.
were lined across it from one end
to the other, upying the full
length of the bridge, while a photo
graph was taken.
It is estimated that t here was at
least 50,000 pounds on each span,
or about 750,000 pounds on all,
which the bridge stood without the
least vibration. It was certainly a
test of strength for our new bridge
Wlnklewads
Sin -e we have come into the age
wherein we keep 'mobiles,
You doubtless have observed thefacl
that folks have fewer wheels
Sometimes when rain is pouring
down from clouds low in the sky.
We find, amazedly. the town 011
which it falls is dry.
How sweet the little baby sleeps, its
eyes and lists shut tight.
It's getting ready for the fun its
Pa will have tonight.
We parents sometimes ga/.e upon
the scrawny son we own.
Deciding he shall wear long pants
before he's one-sixth grown.
Why does the snn move every da\ '
And whv do you suppose
A child of ours, possessed of sense,
shoves peanuts tip ils nose?
NOTICE
1 To whom it may concern:
There will be a meeting of the
i Patron-Teachers Association at Mie
west-side scjiool building, Friday
j afternoon at •'! o'clock.
A short program by the children
will be given and matters of spec-
ial interest will be discussed. All
persons interested are earnestly re
(piested to be present.
Miis. C U. Lackknck, Sec'v.
i
Taxes Going Higher
In last, week's issue of the county
official papers throughout the state,
appeared the first publication
• lie lelinij'ient tnx'list for the
year 11(12. How the same may
have compared with previous lists
in other counties we can't say; but
in Cleveland county we don't think
that during any previous year, so
heavy a delinquent list ever appear-
ed. The number of farms upon
which the taxes show delinquency
and for the amount of the tax, is
enough to make one stop and think
and wonder "what is the matter.''
Cit\ delinquency a 1 so shows up
strong. On most of this delinquent
list a penalty amounting to IS per
cent has run since last January.
Years ago King George III said
in answer to the complaining colon-
ists, "I will make their taxes so
high that they won't be able to do
anything but think of how they
can pax them." and the Revolu-
tion soon followed.
In Oklahoma it would seem that
the question of "How to pay the
tax's," is causing some thinking.
Last year the tax rate in Norman
was high, but when the taxpayers
learn that this year the rate will
be over one third higher than last
year, outside of paving tax in cer-
tain districts people will be called i
upon to think some harder.
For 20 years the politicians in
this state have every two years :
came well nigh puncturing their
lungs assuring the people that they
only sought to serve them in the
legislature and officers for the good
they could do in the way of lessen-
ing the burdens on the taxpapers I
and yet, and ever yet each succeed-
ing year has witnessed the taxes
climbing higher, until they have
reached the point where it is a
travesty to longer style the same
by so dignified a term as "taxes."
It is "the killing of the goose
that laid 1 he golden egg every day"
kind of policy that we would seem
to be pursuing in this state. More
patience, and not so rapid a gait, 1
would seem to be better for the ,
constitutional vigor of the egg pro-
ducing goose.
perties and mechanical devices for j ' take the position that state gov-
producing such stage effects as eminent is nothing more or less
thunder, lightening, storms, fires. I than a great corporation in which
and the sound of battle. every taxpayer is a stock-holder.
In the old market place of Rouen, Having had many years exper-
Franee, there now stands a monn- ionce in various lines of business,
inent by which the French of toda\ 1 have the utmost confidence in
have sought to redeem their part | myself, and believe that I can give
in the execution of Joan of Arc, them a business administration, not
who on May HO, 14:11, was burned forgetting our great democratic
to death 011 the false
i heresy after having di
conn try t'v 11 the !
having restored the
of
charge
livered her
'.ngli -h x.m!
crown to
Charles VII. History records but
the meager facts of this strange
heroine of eighteen years, who led
the armies of France victorious
through English invasion, and then,
deserted by all, even the indolent
monarch whom she preserved, died
by the crudest torture known with
the name of the master upon her
lips. Unsung in poetry, the name
of this simple peasant girl has come
down through the ages to be rever-
ed as that of a saint, and whose
wonderful powers and whose brav-
ery are verily believed to have
been of divine inspiration.
O11 the triumphant incidents, the
victorious engagements, tin
defeat of the
organization, which will be my
creator if successful.
I believe that I will be able to
systematize, and economize the af-
fairs of this state to such an extent
that it will reduce very materially
the burden of taxation.
I most earnestly solicit the sup-
port of the democratic voters of
this state.
Very Respt.,
F. E. 1 Ierrini 1
M. E. Church, South.
"The Ideal Preacher" will be the
pastor's subject, next Sunday morn-
ing. A brief symposium on this
subject, written by members of the
congregation, will be a part of the
sermon. At the evening service
the subject will be: "The Trail of
final i Serpent" a study in the first temp-
English armies, and! tation and the last.
the coronation of Charles VII, all I Sunday School at 0:45 sharp,
achieved by the frail Maid of Or 1 Prof. E. K. Holmes, superintend-
leans. has been founded the inspir- cut Classes for all ages and grad-
ing spectacle which gives Ringling' es.
Brothers' circus a new significance j Strangers and visitors are always
and makes an attraction such as! welcome.
the world in searching for amuse- R. L. Ownbky, Pastor.
ment has never before found.
The regular circus program is Subscribe for the Enterprise.
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