The Daily Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 77, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 22, 1917 Page: 1 of 4
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Local News
While It's Fresh
VOLUME V.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA. WEDNESDAY,'Al (it ST 22, l#l 7
NUMBER 77.
Special a I Berry s
Supreme Hams, best quality
per lb. 29c
Border Queen Flour,
per sack • $3.25
Irish Potatoes
per peck (50c
Quart Mason jars,
dozen 75c
Half Gallon Jars
dozen 85c
"*> R. C. BERRY
HI
Linoleum For
The Farm Home
LOCAL AND_PERSONAL 8 More Soldiers
Rainy days on the farm
don't bother the hou .'. -wife
v. hen her floors are ccner-
witli
ARMSTRONG'S
LINOLEUM
Mud from soiled boots simply
will track up the kitchen and
dining room floor. Hut never
mind, linoleum is easy to chin
and your floor is soon spicand
span again.
Come in end see the attrac-
tive pa: tern* cr# tire ojjerins.
We have tJtsignt suitable fir
every mom in the house.
French Make Gains
j Paris, Auk, 21.—LeMort Homme,
I known throughout the tfreat Verdun
I battle of a year ago as "Dead Man's
Hill," the Avocourt wood, Corbeaux
; wood and Champneuville are among:
the positions taken by the French
yesterday in their daring smash
against the Herman lines on the
| Verdun front. The French captured
j enemy defenses over a front of elev-
miles on both sides of the river
Meuse and penetrated the line* to a
depth of a mile and a quarter. More
than four thousand unwounded pris-
oner's were captured.
When prisoners came back in hun
— Ezra McCall has gone to market,
expecting to be back a week from to-
day.
—Many new bunjiulows are Doing
i built in different places of the city.
I They need them to supply the demand,
especially in the university part of
j the city, where desirable residences
, for rent are becoming very scarce.
! —We usd to say in describing a
| girl, "Just a little thing in short
j dresses." That description doesn't go
any longer. They are all short—or
shorter".
—Judge R. McMillan spent yester-
i<lay at hoaie and left this morning
! for Sulphur, rba judge is making a
1 fine record as assistant attorney gen-
eral, being a lawyer of fine ability
and thoroughly Conscientious.
I —Hack From Vacation: Ed Bar-
bour, Alfred McCall, Mrs. Alfred Mc-
Call and Miss Nellie McGinley re-
turned last night from their ten-day
sojourn in the mountains near Davis,
Okla. They report plenty of fish—
both caught and in the river—fine
big mountain trout, the fish that sur-
passes them all. When cornered this
morning Ed Barbour refused to either
deny or affirm the story that seeped
into Norman during his absence that
he had "tied onto" a fish that weighed
"somewhere between 75 and 7.r 0
pounds" resulting in someone else be-
sides the fish getting wet.
—Roy Sykes, son of Mr. and Mrs.
S I. Sykes, who had been spending
part of his vacation here with his
parents, has returned to Shawnt e to
take up his duties as manager and
chief operator for the Western Union
Telegraph company at that place.
—W. S. Fleming writes to his son
from Denver, Colo., where he is spend-
ing his vacation, that he is having the
time of his life in the "Mile High
City," enjoying the luxury of sleeping
under covers at night and otherwise
dreds shortly after dawn yesterday j getting the benefit of the cool
the observers knew that the sharp | weather. But with all that he writes
blow decided en by the French higher | that the delights of Denver are only
command in order to give more|'j00tl ^or a vacation—that Norman
breathing space at Verdun had been |suits him as a permanent place of
successful. After the artillery hadi residence and he will be glad to get
pounded the German positions stretch-1^ ac'k again.
. ing along a front of fourteen miles
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THE HOME OF THE HOOSIER
COME OVER
Where Prices
Are Down
NEW AND
SECOND HAND
FURNITURE
STOVES
and everything1.
J. Ross Bridgewater
Phone 423
208 W. Main
from south of Bethincourt to
Bezonvaux, until they must have been
like pulp, the infantry advanced as
the first streak of dawn lighted the
I sky and occupied all the position 4
they had set out to conquer at the
same time, sweeping into their net
, many prisoners of several divisions of
• the German crown prince's army,
i The French soldiers showed once
I more that they were not yet bled
I white. When the order was jiiven for
them to ko over the top in the face
I of hundreds of batteries of heavy and
.light artillery and thousands of ma-
1 chine guns they advanced sinjjinK and
j nothing could stay their dash. They
I were handled in such a way by their
officers that they escaped through
the most dangerous part of the
ground they had to negotiate with
almost negligible losses.
The correspondent passed the night
on the battlefield in the vicinity of
the thickest artillery fire and can
testify to its intensity. During two
| famous French victories, on October
|^4 and December 15, 1916, before
Verdun the correspondent was present
—E. J. Osterhaus returned last night
from his trip to Fort Worth, Texas.,
where he went to take a peek at the
Satest offerings for men in the line
|f furnishings. His new stock will ar-
rive the last of this week. While gon«
Mr. Osterhaus says that he took time
to make the trip out to Camp Bowie,
the place where the government is
constructing the new cantonment
buildings for the housing of the se-
lective army. "It is a city in itself,"
says Mr. Osterhaus, "and the soldiers
will have'every comfort that the gov-
ernment can devise for them. The citi-
zens of Fort Worth are planning a
great reception for the soldier boys on
their arrival there." Plenty of rain is
reported by Mr. Osterhaus from Noble
south to Sanger, Texas.
—Want S3.00 I'er Bushel: The
farmers are not satisfied with the
$2.00 per bushel which the govern-
ment has fixed as the minimum
pVice for the 101X crop of wheat, and
are going to demand $3.00 per bushel
—and, probably, if they got the $3.00
it would be but a day or two before
on both occasions and this time reach- ithey ,lo"u,"ded W °° or *f'00' Tht:
Farmers Co-operative Union of
America is now meeting in Oklahoma
City, and appointed a committee to go
to Washington and urge the $8.00
rate. The Transcript is not one to
think the farmer should not have
everything that is coming to him, but
I must insist that the poor people who
have to buy the wheat have likewise
Up to 1:30 o'clock this afternoon
thirty-one of the fifty applicants
called for today had been examined,
and the following were passed and
did not claim exemption:
Ila/.lett B. Caldwell, Norman,
John H. Harding, Noble,
Glenn E. Porter, Norman,
Harvey H. Woodrow, Norman,
Ed. J. Barbour, Norman,
Geo. C. Abbott, Norman, ,
Edgar M. Halford, Norman,
Jasper K. Williams, Trousdale.
Those who failed to pass the physi-
cal examination were Louis J. Schil-
ler, Ora Kalivoda, Jesse J. Carmen,;
Jose Enriquez, Claud T. Holman,
Estel Arter and Otis McBride.
Those who passed and asked ex-
emptions because of dependents were
Iva Richuber, Early Bennett, John W.
McKee, Theo. Osterhaus, Chester L.
Graham, Glenn (). Morris, Willard
Hallmark, Henry F. Williams, Edgar
J. Majors, Frank E. Lawson, John F.
Matlock, Henry H. Ford, Ralph L.
Kimball, John W. Garland, Erwin J.
Robinson and L. M. Bowling.
The board have ordered fifty more
men to appear on Friday for physi- (
cal examination, from Nos. 523 to 572,
and from Nos. 572 to 632 to appear
on Saturday. From these and those
ordered for tomorrow (from 471 to
522) it is believed enough men can
be secured to fill out the 151 quota.
The board hopes to close up the busi-
ness with Saturday's examinations.
Liberty Theatre
The work of remodeling the Frailing opera house is ad-
vancing rapid hi and our show will open Saturday, Sept. 1st with
matinee in afternoon and two shows at night. The name
"Liberia" has been suggested to us as appropriate for the
times, and we intend to give the show-going people of Norman
an even ehanee to get value received for their money.
Programs for the show will appear in advance and the
popular prices of five and ten cents admittance will be charged.
Wm. Ward, Manager
Illegal Exemptions
A large number of youths who have
been granted exemptions by local
boards upon their claims, are likely
to have to serve in the army, accord-
ing to a notice that was sent to all
local draft exemption boards Tuesday
by Adjutant General Ancel Earp. At-
Barbour Says
Zona Pomade, The Healing, Beau-
tifying Powder, Is Guaranteed.
There has been a sharp advance in
the cost of perfume. Most of the
pomades from which perfumes are
made come from the flower gardens
of France, where workmen are scarce
and freight rates are high. Alcohol
has also advanced to two or three
Further ad-
vances are sure to come. Buy now.
—Furnishing Affidavits: The court
house boys, learning that those claim-1
ing exemptions before the local board | l'nus 'ts ,oniler price
had to pay $1.00 each for blank affi-
davits, have raised a purse and are
getting blank affidavits printed, which
will be given to applicants free of
charge by calling on Glenn O. Morris
at Register of Deeds office. At first
the local board had blank affidavits,
which were given out free of charge,
but the supply was soon exhausted
and no more could be secured from
the government, no applicants had to
rely on getting the blanks from other
sources. Each blank was typewritten
and $1.00 was probably a fair price
for the work. The court house boys
are entitled to much credit for going
down in their jeans and supplying
the blanks.
Said a young woman the other day,
"When 1 first saw a gray hair in my
head 1 was panic stricken. It seemed
as though every thing worth while
was gone. I commenced to let go and
be careless of my personal appearance.
Luckily, before things had gone too
far, I met an old school mate about
my own age to whom 1 told my
trouble. 'Forget it,' said she, 'buy a
bottle of Scotch Tone Hair Restorer
As soon as my hair was restored to
its former beauty and luster 1 felt
like a new woman; life became a
pleasure again and I felt as though
Ponce De Leon's Fountain of Youth
were mine.
ed the conclusion from the fierceness ;
of the fire that the French employed
at least an equal number of guns,
—Our Citv Parks: Norman's citv
J parks around the Santa Fe depot are
among her best assets. They attract
and appeal. Everyone who goes
| through on the trains looks out of
A Grafanola in your home will
furnish you and the entire fmaily un-
limited pleasure. The prices are rea-
sonable.
ZONA POMADE, THE IDEAL
BEAUTY POWDER, STAYS ON
DURING HOT WEATHER.
Skilled physicians prescribe Dry
tention of all appeal boards has been Xenzal and Moist Zenzal for Eczema
especially called to the new notice. because they get results quickly and
"Where the draft hoards have surely. Try these clean, odorless
granted exemptions in many cases ointments for all skin troubles.
just because they were asked and * • •
It seems to us that if the United I
States would put their idle submarines]
to gathering sponges that it ought to
reduce the price. We are offering this1
merely as a suggestion, and we trust1
that the navy department will not go
into this scheme on our own say so j
to a large extent without preliminary
i experimentation.
As chairman of the woman's com- * * ♦
mittee of Council of National Defense, ZONA POMADE, THE ALL
I am calling a meeting for Saturday BEAUTY POWDER, HEALS
afternoon, August 25th, at three BEAUTIFIES.
o'clock at the court house. * * *
Dr. Stratton D. Brooks will speak Bring us your prescriptions,
on how the women can best help in prices are right.
carrying out the Hoover plan of con- • %
servations of foods. The woman's com- Thl' Ko,lak views teke now wi"
mittee urges that the women unite lie worth more tn ^ou if >-ou P^serve
of women in an 'them" Th'"k what a collect,on V" can
make of beautiful scenes, important
events, and familiar faces. Buy a
Kodak now and commence collecting.
where they accepted all who did not
claim exemptions, there is no draft—
it is merely a volunteer system," says
the letter in part. "Such action is il-
legal."
Call For Meeting
the windows with pleased looks, the *°me r*h,s- Thc f"rmers, ,wiU ki th«
beds of flowers, the artistic display *°°se that lays the «oMcn egga ,f
the beautiful lawns, the attractive
ihev are not careful.
vines, all appealing to them. Every
dollar we spend in keeping up these —Special August Clean-Up Sale of
parks, is money well invested, and ladies' and misses slippers—all kinds
every citizen ef the town should in- —this week. Rucker's—"The busy
sist that there be no stinting of money store."
used for park purposes. L. J. Edwards
and the members of the Park Com-
mission are doing a noble work, and
their hands should be upheld in every
way possible.
—Alarm of Fire: The alarm of fire
this afternoon was caused by a fire
that caught in the ceiling and back
end of the Jitney lunch room, next
door to the Transcript office. It was
put out without much damage.
J r—Try a classified liner.
—Waterspout at Purcell: The Big
clouds yesterday afternoon that lay
in the south and east did not bring
much lain to Norman; only a sprinkle.
From Noble south, however, it was
heavy, Mid took the form of a water-
spout and teriffic storm at Purcell,
there being a great electric display
at that point. Lightening struck two
houses in the north part of town, and
shattered the firehouse in the south
part of the city.
DAY
AND
Our
urge
with the thousands
effort to know and carry out the plans
which the Government have placed in
reach, the call is therefore to you to
do your part, and in doing so you will ln conilnK >pars il w,l> be y°ur most
bind yourself to the whole army of valuable possession
women who are serving their country
Some have said they can not econo-
mize any more than they have been
doing, perhaps this is true, but in our
co-opi*htion and exchanging ideas and
plans perhaps our present economy
will become easier.
What is economy? True economy,
BARBOUR & SONS,
Norman, Okla.
—Special Clean-Up
week at Rucker's.
Sale all this
—Maxwell Agent: The Transcript I
learns that Norman is to have a new
the kind the country is asking of every automobile agency. Wm. Holtzchue,
woman is freedom from waste, from a leading business man of Oklahoma
extravagence, from going beyond the c\ty, will represent the Maxwell in
ordinary and useful. It is hoped there cleveland county, and put in a num.
is not one woman in Cleveland coun- |)er ()f machines, and also carry sup-
ty who will not want to co-operate pijes an(i established a garage.
in this great work. We especially urge
the attendance of the women who live
in the country. Let us get together and
work hand in hand.
MRS. E. A. FOSTER
-Try a classified liner.
Are you holding your wheat!
Is it insured? We write
grain insurance by the moiitli o
year.
McDaniel & Mathews
FIREWORKS
PATRIOTIC WEEK AT
BEAUTIFUL BELLE ISLE
THREE "OLD GLORY" NIGHTS
WEDNESDAY, I KIDAY and SUNDAY,
AUGUST 22nd, 24th and
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The
If you do not believe that PA
HELP WIN A WAR refer to yi
Council of National Defense has said: Co on with your fairs,
carnivals and celebrations; you can best serve your country by
keeping the wheels of commerce going. The government itself
is preparing exhibitions to keep spirits enlivened and the public
mind exilarated.
NOTHING HEATS FIREWORKS
NOT A WASTE OF POWDER
Only black powder is used in fireworks—Did you know that?
l)o you know that armies use smokeless altogether?
Visit Belle Isle This Week
THREE MONSTER
DEMONSTRATIONS
WEEK.
DURING
CURTAIN OF EIRE
GEORGEOUS DESIGNS
MINES AND BATTERIES
BOMBS AND SPLINES
Closing with Patriotic Tableau each night
WITH COMPANY OE PERFORMERS
under the direction of Miss Edna Daullon
SI'ECTACI.E HKGINS AT 9:30 I'. M.— AMI'l.E CAR SERVICE
1 tip—Admission to the Park these Nights only—1fJr
Wednesday — Friday — Sunda\
Bartholomew
real honey.
SEED BEANS
Just received a shipment of Red Val-
entine Seed Ilcans, for late fall plant-
ing. Order now and plant. There is
plenty of time to raise a late crop of
green beans.
Ice-Cold Watermelon
—Right off the ice. Order one and try
them, they are guaranteed.
Our Fruit Line
Eating pears, white grapes, banan-
as, oranges, #lemons cooking apples,
canteloupes, green butter or lima beans,
okra, cabbage, cucumbers and green
peppers.
Honey in jars—the
BARBOUR'S
SANITARY GROCERY
Bargains in City Property and Farm Lands-See Pickard Real Estate Co., and Farm Loans
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