The Daily Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 185, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 13, 1917 Page: 1 of 4
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LOCAL NEWS
WHILE ITS FRESH
The Daily Transcript
15EST ADVERTISING
MEDIUM IN TOWN
VOLUME IV.
NORMAN. OKLAHOMA. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY. 13. 1917.
NUMBER 183
BILLIE BURKE - University Theatre To-day
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AN INVITATION.
Being unable to reach the presi-
dents of the different organizations,
the members of the Old Regime club
take this method of extending a
cordial invitation to the ladies of the
city to their "Open House" at the
home of Mrs. T. E. Clement, DeBarr
avenue, Thursday, Feb. 15th, from 3
to (5. MRS. C. H. BESSENT, Pres.
MRS. B. F. WILLIAMS, sec'y.
—New Spring Millionery. Mrs. Liz.
yie Smith, First National bank bldg.
It's a mistake.
Oh is that so.
Yes, you told me wrongly. Rucker's
sale did not close like you said. It
is on all this week, and they told me
that they never said that it was to
close Saturday, but would be all this
or until every soiled article in
their house was sold.
APPRECIATIVE PRESENT M. L. HOWARTH KILLED. THE CEMETERY ROAD PHARMACISTS TO HE HERE
The Oklahoma state druggists as-
sociation is meeting in Oklahoma
City today, and on Thursday will
come in a body to Norman and spend
several hours in our city and at the
University. Several hundred phar-
macists from all over the state will
attend, representative men and wo-
men of Oklahoma, and Norman
should put her best foot forward to
entertain them.
The Transcript likes to see these
sort of people visit our city, know-
ing full well they cannot but take
away a most excellent impression and
become walking advertisements of
Norman's excellencies.
You could not send your friend a
present that would be more ap-
preciated by him or her, than to
send here or him the Weekly Trans-
cript for a year or so. Especially
would this be so if they formerly re-
sided here. Come in and let us send
it to your friend or relative.
THAT BIG SURPRISE.
Watch the Transcript tomorrow
and see the Big Surprise sprung by
one of Norman's merchants.
News was received an the
Transcript go«*s to press that M.
Howurth, the well known well
driller. «as killed at Oklahoma
City this afternoon in an ac-
cident at the well he was drilling
tor Morris & Company. No
particulars have been learned.
An additional list of contributors
to the Cemetery Road fund will be
published tomorrow. If your name
is not on the list, hand Mr. Edwards
a dollar and get it there. There's a
nice list to a most commenable plan,
and your name ought to be among
them.
—W. L. Hollingsworth arrived
yesterday from Murfreeboro, Tenn.,
on a visit to his brother, J. C. Hol-
lingsworth, and may remain perma-
nently in Oklahoma.
—If you fail to get one of Rucker's
price lists, phone 43.
—Mr. and Mrs. Mack Harvey got
away last night for their new home
in Cameron, Texas.
—A baby girl weighing but 2%
pounds was born to Mr. and Mrs.
John Pope at Pauls Valley, Friday.
It's a mistake. We don't thank any,
one to tell that our Water Damage
Sale is closed. The 11c toweling;!
I2%c Turkish towels, 9c huck towels.
10c corded towels, 6toe double fold
percales and dozens and dozens of
other articles only slightly soiled at
almost your own price.—RUCKER'S.
Subscribe for the Transcript- i —Try Classified liners.
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—If you fail to get one of Rucker's
price lists, phone 43.
DON'T FORGET Col. Harvey's Good Roads
Meeting at the Court House Tonight-
TUESDAY
at 8 p. m.
INTERESTING FIGURES LATE NEWS OF THE WAR OVER THE "OZARK TRAIL" RECENT TRANSFERS.
wuh lvhe,. "ROLL DOOR HOOS1ER''
theonly anitary, removable roll door,
The moment the hoosier
comes into the kitchen, exhaustion
and weariness and old-time dis-
couragement vanishes.
Instead of standing and walking all day long
doing your work, you simply sit and reach-—no
more aching feet and tired backs. Do your
kitchen work the HOOSIER WA Y.
Dollar Down and Dollar per Week Payments.
/. M. JACKSON
Professor Adams, in his address
before the Housewives League, at
the regular meeting, Monday, Feb.
12, gave some very interesting, if
distressing data.
From his own studies and those of
other economists, it can safely be
said that the marketing of food
products costs an average of 44%
of the retail price. So when a house-
wife pays one of the hard earned
dollars to buy food for her family,
she gets in reality only about 56e
in actual merchandise, the remaining
44c covering the marketing expense;
that is the wholesaler, retailer and
t" reight.
Dry groceries cost less to market,
reaching an average of 38'/*, than
fruits, vegetables and dairy products,
which, owing to rapid decay and en-
suing loss, cost from 60 to 65%.
The cost of maintenance of retail
grocery stores range from 10%,
where utmost efficiency is practiced,
up to 30%, and as the consumer ul-
timately pays for every cent of this
cost, it becomes interesting to study
the means of reducing it.
The smaller the store, the larger
the cost due to the smaller volume of
business, the relatively heavier rates
for produce and freight, and other
overhead charges.
Where the individual grocer cannot
alone compete with the large stores
or mail order houses, co-operation
will enable him to ao so successfully.
That it works has been proved time
and again, as for instance in Phila-
delphia, where, being% confronted by
ruin, a number of small grocers
formed about six years ago a retail-
ers wholesale association, and elected
a wholesale buyer, who, by handling
the combined orders of all grocers,
secured for them rock bottom prices
and enormously reduced freight
rates, thus enabling them to sell at
prices fully as low as those of the
large stores, and giving them a fair
profit.
The grocers of Norman have been
keenly aware of the fact that their
enormous overhead charges should
and could be reduced and have start-
ed an earnest campaign towards that
end by inaugurating a co-operative
delivery system which reduces the1
delivery expense from 7 to 3 or 4%.1
It is hoped that as soon as possible ,
this will be cut from four to two de- j
liveries a day, making the item no 1
more than 2%, and if every house- '
wife co-operates by putting in her i
orders at the proper time, it wil!;
prove as successful here as in the
other cities where it has been tried.
In addition to Prof. Adams' lecture,
a great many things of interest were 1
discussed. A report of Senator
Owen's speech before the Oklahoma !
City Housewives League was read by
Mrs. Stang. It was decided to start j
a campaign against the early flies.
As there are always possibilities o*
misunderstanding, a motion was*;
made to appoint a committee to re-
ceive complaints from both house-]
wives and merchants, investigate the
matter, and turn all evidence to the
exeutive board of the League for ac-
tion. Thus it is hoped that co-opera-
tion between merchants and con-
sumers will not be marred in any
way.
MRS. OSCAR JACOBSON,
'Publicity Sec., Housewives League.
German Ambassador Bernstroff
and party will leave New York to-;
morrow on Steamship Frederick
VIII, a Swedish vessel.
American Ambassador Gerard and
party of 100 Americans have arrived
safely at Berne, Switzerland
Germany massed a large army,
on the border of Holland, causing
that country to be very mild in its
criticisms of the German U-boat
campaign.
Germany has given further notice
thai, the tJ-boat campaign will be;
continued with increased ruthfulness,
no warning whatever begin given
neutral or any other vessels.
The British give out that their
land forces have made increased
gains on the fronts in Mesopotamia!
and Southern France.
An Associated Press co-respondent >
writes from Berne, Switzerland, that1
suffering from hunger is very bitter !
in Germany and prices of meat and
eggs and fats and fowls have reached
unprecedented prices. The soldiers
at the front are still fed in good
shape, wholly at the expense of the
civilians. The correspondent says
the suffering has increased very
greatly during the past month.
Five vessels, aggregating 8,360
tons were sunk by submarines, Mon-
day. The total tonage destroyed
••nee Feb. 1st is 148,783, embraced in
79 vessels, of which one was an
American, 26 belonged to other neu-
trals, 37 to the British and 5 to other
belligerents.
Persons who have left Germany1
recently state there is great activity
in German shipbuilding centers, and
very large number of merchant j
vessels are being turned out. It is,
figured that Germany expects to be '
eady for a great trade expansion!
after the war, and that England will j
have lost so many merchant vessels 1
that she will no longer be "mistress
of the seas."
Full detail of plots to destroy all
the ninety-three German merchant
shins in American ports in the event
of hostilities between the Unit 3d
States and Germany are said to be
contained in the Captain Von Papen
papers seized some six months ago.
Several automobile loads of Nor-'
man citizens left at noon today for
Tecumseh to escort Col. Harvey from
that city to Norman over the pro-
nosed Ozark Trail. A delegation
from Tecumseh will come with them
and expect to reach Norman about 6
o'clock this evening. The Harvey
meeting will be held at the court
house tonight, beginning promptly
at 8 o'clock, and every citizen should
be present.
/Among others who went to
Tecumseh today were President S. I).
Brooks, A. II. Van Vleet, Jas. I.
Tucker, J. M. Moomau, Leo McMakin,
Thos. Vincent, Arthur Williams ami
Tom Carey. Their route was direct-
ly east from Norman, past Big
Jim's.
MORE ARRESTS.
Mrs. Josie Dunston, her son-in-law,
John Dunston, and the latter's son,
were arrested in Oklahoma City by
Sheriff Wheelis yesterday for
complicity in the theft of ti# Ben
Barbour automobile. They were
held in $1,000 bond by Judge J. I).
Grigsby, which they gave with D. C.
Patterson and Harry Evans of Okla-
homa City as sureties. Mrs. Dun stow
is said to be a sister of Hawkins, ar-
rested Saturday.
Messrs. McGarrah and Hawkins
succeeded yesterday in giving the
.1,000 bond required. F. E. Vorheis
and T. E. Baldwin, Oklahoma City
men, went their bond. McGarrah and
Hawkins ran a garage on West 3rd.
in the 500-block.
i ATRIA'—A GRAND SERIAL
Manager Ray C. Berry is ever
looking out for the very best pictures
he can secure, and his latest serial,
"Patria," to begin next Saturday at
the Orpheum, is regarded as one of
the very best and of the highest
class. Coming just at this time it
is especially good and interesting,
for it deals with the affairs of the
United States with other nations
and is an intensely interesting in-
ternational story. There are fifteen
numbers of it, and the first one will
be given at matinees next Saturday
afternoon at the Orpheum.
Mr. Berry, to introduce the excel-
lencies of the pictures, and impress
them, will give three matinees—one
at 3 o'clock, one at 4 and the other
at 5. To one of these, every lady or
child who has patronized the Uni-
versity Or Orpheum theaters at
matinees or night performances this
week, will be given a ticket free of
charge. Don't fail to call for your
free ticket when you go to the
University theatre tonight and every
night or matinee this week.
Mrs. Vernon Castle is the heroine
of "Patria." She is not only renown-
ed as a dancer, but is equally good
as an actress. The serial will be
"worth while," and ladies and chil-
dren are cordially invited to attend
the opening matinees next Saturday
afternoon, free of charge.
A. Ellis to M. C. Wolfe, lots 1 and
2 and EV4 NEVi 13-8-1 East, $1.00.
N. Runyan to Norman B. & L.
Asso., lots 31 and 32, block 13, $500.
W. Bass to R. L. Lambert, SE!4 3-
8-1 West, $3,500.
G. B. Pearce to E. Martin, lots 15
and 16, block 32, Noble, $212.
E. G. Iliicks to W. C. Hicks, lots 26
to 30, block 41, Noble, $10.
R. E. Clement to S. I. Higgins;
tax deed to lots 1 to 12 and 17 in
block 32 Noble, $20.16.
M. 1). Whitely to J. H. Shears, lots
13 and 14, block 3, Uni addition to
Norman, $300.
S. Jones to A. C. Bahner, NE% 22-
2-1 West, $200.
C. E. Richardson to W. S. Thoma-
son, lots 5 to 13, block 90, Lexington,
$250.
L. R. Jones to J. C. Bowman, SEVi
22-10-4 West, $10,500.
E. J. Searle to F. O. Miller, lot? 27
and 28, block 84, Norman, $800.
J. s. Bowman to W. E. Williamson,
SE*4 10-10-4 West, $7,000.
j R. V. Downing to E. L. Matlox,
EVfe NEV; 7-9-1 West, $3,000.
I R. A. Gilmore to J. H. Hicks, SW'i
32-6-1 East, $2,000.
E. L Richards to W. E. Hanoi,
lots 27 and 28, block 20, Norman,
$500.
L. S. Sullivan to W. F. Boyer, lots
9 and 10, block 66, Norman, $2,OOCU
F. O. Howlett to W. W. McCul-
lough, lots 32 and 33, block 4, State
Uni Add., $350.
J. B. Dudley to G. W. Benge et al,
lots 1 and 2 and SV£ NE*4 6-8-2
West (Alice Brittian farm), $20,-
000.
DEATH OF MRS. CLAXTON
Mrs. Anna Claxton died at the
home Of her son, S. L. Claxton, on
Route 1, this morning (Tuesday, Feb.
13, 1917) aged 76 years. She was a
highly esteemed lady and leaves
many friends to mourn her demise.
The funeral will be held on Wed-
nesday at 2 o'clock p. m., at the
Claxton home, with burial in I. O.
O. F. cemetery.
CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY
On Friday evening, Feb. 9th,
fourteen of Miss Velma McBroom's
friends and schoolmates met with
her at her home to enjoy the cele-
bation of the fourtenth anniversary
of her birth.
A delicious 6 o'clock dinner was
served, after which games and music
were enjoyed by all until 9:30.
At the request of Miss Velma the
girls came dressed in the "tackiest"
apparel they could muster. Mattie
Muldrow received first prize for be-
ing the "tackiest" of the crowd, and
Clara McKinney walked off with the
booby.
A unique feature of the dinner was
that Miss Valma's uncle, Mr. Oscar
Wells, both cooked and served it.
All went away declaring they had
spent a most delightful evening.
FURNITURE FOR SALE.
—The Ford thieves have struck J —Judge and Mrs. F. B. Swank
Pauls Valley. They had the nerve ' went to Ada yesterday, where Mr.
to steal a rural carrier's machine Swank will hold court for the judge
Monday night. I of that district this week.
—The Classified Department of the
Transcript gets results. If you have
anything to sell, want to buy, want a
job, want to rent, or anything in that
line, try it.
Call over T. S. Mount's Racket
store opposite postoffice, and see the
furniture for bedrooms kitchen an 1
parlor. Prices very low, as it must
sold. H. W. Stubbeman.
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I —Mrs. S. M. Salter left today for
j Carmen, Okla.. to be gone several
j days visiting relatives.
NEIGHBORHOOD CLUB
The ladies of the Adair neighbor-
hood met with Mrs. Sam Walters on
Friday last and organized a Neigh-
borhood club with Mrs. (). C. Adair
as president; Mrs. ('has. Taylor, vice
president, and Mrs. Dan Graves as
secretary-treasurer. The next meet-
ing will be held with Mrs. Cal Shai^
rick next Tuesday afternoon. The I
ladies in attendance at Mrs. Walters
spent a most pleasant and profitable
afternoon, and there is every prom-«
ise of an excellent club in that
neighborhood.
—Miss Mildred McClellan, who is
now connected with the state agri-
cultural school at Cameron, Okla.,
spent the week-end with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. McClellan. She
is making a most excellent record at
Cameron.
—Harry Spottswood has sold his
residence property on W. Comanche
to Mr. D. Foster of Taylor, Texas,
for $1,350. Mrs. Laura Burke and
family will occupy it, moving in to-
morrow. Mrs. Burke is a daughter
of Mr. Foster and recently came from
Taylor to make her home here. Mr.
and Mrs. Spottswood will probably
occupy the house at 317 West
Apache, vacated by Mrs. Burke.
—Classified liners get results.
THERE'S A BRIGHT
FUTURE
ahead for the man who chooses
real estate wisely now. Values
are increasing all the while and
those who act promptest will
reap the biggest and quickest
returns. Stop in and talk over
a couple of propositions we
have that will not take very
much ready cash to handle.
Vincent & Wier
Phone 50.
Bargains in City Property and Farm Lands-See Pickard Co., Real Estate and Farm Loans.
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