The Daily Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 308, Ed. 1 Friday, August 7, 1914 Page: 4 of 4
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DOINGS OF THE VAN LOONS
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Sritered an second class matter Jau
lary 17. i( '4, *'t tlie Postoffice at Nor
■■a i, Okla., under tlie Act of March, 3
'asued Daily
Except Thursdays
Sundays
Mail sut
ntions, per annum
" six months
'* M one month
iy carrier, per annum
4i per week
—We are going to give bar-
gains in Summer Merchandise
for one week, so be sure and at-
tend. Rucker's.
—Do your buying while the
prices are cut at Rucker's End
Season Sale.
—Mrs. F. A. Barker will leave
; Tuesday on her visit to her
, daughter, Mrs. Beavers, at Post
.'25 Falls, Idaho. Her son, Deputy
3.00 Sheriff Barker, will accompany
and
LOCAL AN1) PERSONAL
•°5 1 her as far as Kansas City
•; see her safely on her way.
and
—We close out all summer
t goods. This week its soft shirts.
—Take a look at McCall's shirt | choice at 89c. Better be at the
window this week. $2.00 values j closing. McCall's.
—Contractor Geo. DeLong
—Mrs. J. B. McKinney left Was a visitor to Oklahoma City
yesterday for Mosquite. Texas, I this morning.
to spend a month at her old . ,
. —Do you need a nice cool
! soft shirt? Onlv 89c this week.
—If you need a nice cool shirt ( McCall's.
for these hot days take a look at
McCall's shirt window. 7rTh(>, Norman baseball boys
| gathered up a nine yesterday
—A letter from Cameron, i and played the Washington club.
Ti'v-. this morning to Mrs. Ed(The score was 11 to 1 in favor
Burl i from her mother, says j 0f Norman.
they had a twelve-hour rain —Come, be one of the first to
there the first of the week, and a present at Rucker's Sat-
not a little old drizzling rain, but urjay at 9 a ni Rucker's.
* Pol'r"^own> —Mrs. G. A. Smith got away
—Rucker's store will be clos- j this morning for Lake Bruce,
ed all day Friday to arrange tor [nil., where she will spend a
the End Season Sale, which [ month or six weeks visiting rela-
atarts Saturday at 9 a. m. : tives and friends.
—Mrs. J. T. Highley was here ! —Miss Emma Davis writes
from Oklahoma City yesterday her parents that she is greatly
V uting her sister, Mrs. J. J enjoying her visit in Colorado.
Burke. • —Jfour choice of $1.25, $1.50
—It will be "Hon. Fletcher B. and §2.00 values this week.
Swank, Judge of the 14th Ju- Take a look at them. McCall's.
dfcial District." He has reports, —Grace Bumgarner gave a
from all the counties in the dis-1 pleasng slumber party at the
trict and his majority over home of her grandmother, Mrs.
Judge Fielding of Sulphur will be L. L. Briggs, on Wednesday
1300 or 1400. ■ night, having as guests Agatha
—An enjoyable piano recital Rurke, Nadine Runyan, Helen
-was given by Ruth Ince and Berry, Alice Little, Mabel Her-
jl jorie Corn this morning, un-; rington, \ iola Abbott, Xyla Pen-
der the management of their dleton.
teacher, Mr. Clark Snell. Mr., —The opportunity is now
Snell also contributed a couple | yours. Take advantage of it
of fine selections, and Miss Ruby this week for your wants in the
Ince sang two solos. soft shirt line. McCall's.
—Ben C. Belt came over from —Mrs. C. A. Herrington went
Tulsa this week to visit his par- to Sulphur today to get rooms'
■ ents, Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Belt. 1 and prepare them for a month's!
■ He is now a consulting geologist occupancy. The children will:
! at Tulsa, and securing an excel- follow her in a few days.
lent business. He does not think —
1 he will return to the Mexico oil
I fields.
—Almost three months for
soft shirt wear. Choice at Mc-
j Call's this week 89c.
—Singing Convention: The
thirty-fourth Cleveland county 1
singing convention meets at.
I Franklin on Sunday, August 9. j
] 1914, and promises to be one of j
the best ever held in the coun- j
I ty. Everybody invited to bring
1 baskets and stay all day. "THE EYES OF THE WORLD"
—When we make a price it is!
j worth your while. Look at those On Sale at Smith's Bookstore |
I $1.25 and up to $2.00 values in j on Saturday, August 8th.
j soft shirts at McCall's. 1
| —Mr. J. M. Griffice came up Harold Bell Wright's Greatest
! from his Pontotoc farm to vote,, Story — The Greatest Ro- i
'and returned today. He owns) malice of Modern Times. j
an 185-acre farm down there,
135 acres of which is fine bot-: Haro|(1 Bel, Wright's greatest |
tom land. A three-inch rain a , „The E * th *World „ !
couple of weeks ago put his corn,wi„ ^ on sal£ at Smith-s Books
and cotton m fine shape. He is .
twelve miles west of Ada and on Saturday
thinks it is a garden-spot. ' August 8U1.
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Buick Automobile
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For Livery, business Calls or Pleasure Rides.
When you wish an automobile, phone S65 ana
prompt answer wil! be rendered. A fine Buick 5-
passenger car for livery, pleasure or business
calls. TERMS REASONABLE
J. A. MclNTIRE
Bus and Baggage Calls Promptly Answered
morning,
See the window
! display. This is regarded as
—All sizes, many patterns to | Mr Wright's best and finest
choose from. McCall s soft shirt n.ork> the Greatest Romance of
| Modern Times. Price, $1.35.
indisposition
window this week.
—Owing to the
of the pastor, Rev. F. M. Alex-, _MARRIED; A wedding an-
:^h^tebeSePsKS
! church next Sunday morning.
Other services at usual. Mr.
Alexander's condition is not ser-
ious, but he has been advised not
i to exert himself too much.
At half the value of the ma
away from the Transcript was
that of Mr. Joe Klinglesmith j
and Miss Kathryn Rose, which
was solemnized in Kingfisher:
some weeks ago. "Joe" was one (
of Norman's popular young men j
. , . , . , , when he lived here, and has j
in, *hose a°ft shirts atj"made good" as engineer for the!
I McCall s this week. Choice 89c. | oklahoma city fire department
—-Mrs. Chas. Standley and for the past year or two. His |
children and Mrs. Standlev's bride will be remembered as one j
mother, Mrs. J. P. Monroe, who of the most charming of the al-
en you wan
Acekt^ HARCOURT CO.Louisville. Ky
I I I IN C O TVP O RATED. '
I CLi 1 MANUFACTURING ENGRAVERS
Prices Quite as Reasonable as Consistent wjth Quality.
f First National Bank
t Norman, Oklahoma
r '
Capital Stock, $50,000. Surplus, $20,000
Deposits $350,000
The Oldest Bank in Cleveland County
We solicit accounts from those desiring safe
sound and conservative banking connections.
'I 1 \ 1 H H 1 I M I 1 I I I I' I -H-vl I I 1 1 1 1 1 I I 1 I
1
have been visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Crow in Des Moines, Iowa,
returned last night. They re-
port very nice and cool weather
1 in Iowa, with plenty of rain, and
| crops of all kinds fine. Mr.
1 Crow, who is professor of civil
J engineering in Highland Park
ollege, has made so good in that
—Miss Mary Orme, who stop- i
ped off here Sunday on her way
home from Colorado, continued
ways charming bunch of Nor
man's telephone girls, with
which she was connected some!u . , , , . Tr
time. The Transcript and many her Journe7 to her home in Hu2()
Norman friends wish the young today. Miss Orme has been con-
couple much happiness. j nected with the Hugo schools
j for the past six years and mak-
mi . , , i ing an exceptional record in the
—There has never been such prjma department.
... I,., 1 , 1 values as you will see in McCall s i
position that he has been ap-; ft shil/window this week. ! -H. O. Miller's plurality
pointed to assist in the govern-1 —
Thirty-Eight Persons Killed.
ment work of valuing the rail-
roads, and will begin September
1st at a salary of $2,400 per an-;
num. Joplin, Mo., August 5.—'Thir-
—At almost the actual cost ofity-eight persons were killed andj
making, soft shirts this week at j twenty-eight injured, ten prob-
McCall's. i ably fatally, at 6 o'clock to-night |
in a head-on collision between a
Card of Thanks. K^'}sas City Southern passenger
I train and a motor car on the Mis- j
and North Arkansas,
; 207 for representative
Franing and Morrison.
is
over
—Miss DeEtta King is here
from Kansas City, Mo., spending
her vacation with Miss Lucile
Leahy, who is making her home
with Miss Euphia Bogle. The
little ladies are having a fine
time.
—-Miss Opal Scales, of Calvin,
Okla., is visiting with her sis-
ter, Miss Pearl, who is attend-
ing the summer term at the Uni-
versity.
We sincerely thank our neigh-1 twelve miles south of Joplin.
bors and friends for their kind- After the collision the gaso-
ness through the illness and jine anf} 0n in the motor car
i death of our little darling datigh- took fire and the wreckage was
, ter and sister, Jennie Ellen Mon-jburned before the dead and in-
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ical.
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:: Fresh From New York :
Yesterday
Straight into Ruckers Store •
NEW WAISTS
50 of them, made with organdy col= j
lars and cuffs with edging of colored ;
figure and dols, Copenhagen pink, ;
navy and red. These were $2.00 a !j
month ago, ;
Now Only $l.oo •
y Would you hurry to save money?
1
ijured could be removed. Many
Mr. and Mrs. Monical: 0f the victims were burned to
and children. 1 death.
j Eyewitnesses describe a scene j
Season Sale >f horror as the flames swept j
a. m. Don't!over the wreckage.
—Rucker's End
! starts Saturday, 9
fail to be there. Rucker's
I bargains.
for
Judge B. F. Wolf Thanks His
Friends.
Six bodies have been recover-
ed, and all are badly burned. The j
bodies w^re taken to Neosha.
Ten of the injured are badly i
burned and will probably die.
All in j ured were brought to Jop- j
To my friends and supporters: ,lin on a relief train.
I take this method of thank- The Missouri and North Ar-1
ing you for the splendid vote j kansas motor car uses the Kan-
given me at t he primary elec-isas City Southern tracks from |
tion, August 4th. I have no;Neosha to Joplin. The passen-|
language that sufficiently ex-
! presses my gratitude and sin-
| cere thanks to you, and if elect-
ed county judge I will certainly
endeavor to merit your contin-
I ued confidence in me and give
; you no causes to regret support-
j ing me.
Sincerely yours,
B. F. WOLF
—Prof. Nat Boomer, friend of
Mayor Oliver, who has been at-
tending the University, left for
his home in Buncombe, 111., to-
' day. expecting to return to Ok- '
lahoma later. iv
ger train was eight hours late j
and had orders to pass the mo- j
tor car at Tipton Ford. The
motor car, however, did not |
wait at Tipton Ford, and while i
traveling thirty-five miles an i
hour collided head-on with the
passenger on a curve.
—FOR SALE: At a bargain,
1 large 5-room house, four cor-
ner lots, close in. Very desirable
property. For information call
on Pickard Co.
—Come Saturday at 9 a. m.,|
i Rucker's, where the crowd |
ill be. Rucker's.
GOVERNOR
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Burke, J. J. The Daily Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 308, Ed. 1 Friday, August 7, 1914, newspaper, August 7, 1914; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112769/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.