Collinsville Times. (Collinsville, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 70, Ed. 1 Friday, May 29, 1914 Page: 2 of 8
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ah opinion of mine.
Aa Answer to the Communication in
Tuesday’s Issue of Times.
To the Editor of the Times:
In your Tuesday's issue a correspon-
dent to your paper wrote some very
pertinent paragraphs regarding the so
them in respectable order. ,
This temporary feeling is evidenced!
in the fraternal organization and in the
churches. Men and women who have
moved here from other places have
b..,n actively identified with this work
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ment of the city. And
thought of these same conditions as
mentioned by . your correspondent. 1
have noted a great many times the ;act
that no considerable number or people
seem to be interested in school, church
or civic affairs, and I too, have won-
dered where the fault lay.
To hit mind we have a very peculiar
situation here that may in some way
explain the lack of social unity. The
fact that our town has been of q
growth has, I think, a great deal to
do with the condition referred to in the
recent article. Doubtless your corres-
pondent, like a great many others, came
here from old communities where the
social organization was one of slow
growth hut of many years standing.
There the schools, the churches, the
newspapers, and the fraternal organiza-
tions have largely unified and crystal-
feed the life of the community and the
necessary. , , ,
There are nearly fifteeen hundred
pupils enrolled in our public schools, but
-o :ar as the public sentiment toward
the schools and the work they are try-
ing to accomplish is concerned, it is at
as low ebb as are the other activities,
and we are told that that it is seldom
that the parents and patrons of the
schools take the time or trouble to visit
luick | the schools or investigate their work.
' only on some special occasion.
fhe-e are some of the conditions that
are here with us. Why are these
things so? That question may be hard
to answer. The following are some of
the things that appeal to the writer
as being the causes of the conditions
as we have-thera here. The town, built
oi/the boom of the smelters, attracted
a great many who came here for the
purpose of getting rich quickly. Their
Statement of
The First
National
f th* comrauniiv ana me r—r- ° ~
th, more app.^t “ “Vj Jk
into a new town such as
change i-
one comes
this.
As I see it, one of the things that
works against the progress of things so-
cially is the temporary feeling that pos-
sesses so many of our citizens. The
sentiment has hold of many that we
are here today and may be gone to-
morrow. Talk to a man about an in-
vestment and someone steps into your
conversation to say that the town may
not be here in another year. Some have
the feeling that if the smelters should
leave here, the whole town will pick up
and follow them. Because of this atti-
tude, many do not take any pride or
pains with their homes. So long as
they have a roof to cover them when it
storms, they feel satisfied. It is true
that the smelters add a great deal to
the prosperity of the town, but even if
they should leave here, and there is no
prospect of their doing so, there is no
reason on earth why this will not con-
tinue to be a good town, and no reason
Let me tell you
h
about
lo
h
Do
Low Summer
Tourist Fares
on the Santa Fc in effect daily
June 1 to September 30, with final
limit, October 31.
You can live put in the open,
climb the peaks and camp in the
pines. There's good trout fish-
ing, too.
I will be glad to furnish illus-
trated travel books and lay out
sample itinerary.
W. T. Goggin,
Agent
Phone 110
BE. sure:
Good Crops
in sight should make you realize that
now is the time to see about a
Common Sense
Stave Silo
Silage pays for itsef, and returns a
greater dividend than any other tool or
appliance on the farm.
soon as they can, and then go back
from whence they came, to live off the
interest of their accumulations. It is
true that many great fortunes have
been made in Oklahoma, but the men
who have made big money are the ex
ceptions. while in Oklahoma, as in every
other place, the people who make the
homes and who make the towns fit
places to live in, are those who do their
daily work for the pleasure it affords
them in the doing of it, and not for an
any special ulterior aim. So long as
the people of Collinsville have the feel
ing that they are here, not to make a
home, but for the money they can
make, there will be a lack of that uni-
fied social feeling that is no necessary
to the life of any community.
Another thing that appeals to me as
operating against the better life of the
community is the cheapening of its
amusements. Your correspondent re
ferred to the fact that good musical
entertainments and good lectures do not
receive sufficient patronage to make it
worth while to arrange for such enter-
tainments. And yet one has but to
stand on the streets for a little while
each night to see why it is that the bet-
ter entertainments are not patronized.
There are two moving picture shows
and an airdome, that each evening play
-to full houses, and while some of their
shows are fair, it is true that some of
them, while being not only very cheap
are extremely coarse, and border on the
vulgar and indecent. And yet, people
of all classes flock to them, while that
which is worth while and uplifting fails
for a lack of support. This condition
cannot he blamed onto the people in
the lower walks of life here, for some
of the best patrons the picture shows
have are these who are financially and
socially and educationally the best peo-
ple of the town. And it is many of
these same people who wonder what is
the matter with Collinsville.
I have heard the complaint many
times from those who are connected
with the churches in Collinsville, that
it is so hard to get people out on Sun
day or to get them interested in any
form of church work. When we con-
sider that many of these people are
worn out with their many clubs and
parties by the time Sunday comes it is
not hard fo see why the real work of
uplift in the community is neglected.
. And this is no reflection on many of
the commendable enterprises that some
of the clubs are carrying on for the good
of the community.
To my mind what this twon needs
more than anything else is an awaken-
ing to the real needs and conditions
that are here with us, and an intelli-
gent spirit of co-operation in trying to
meet them. We have the forces here
that can meet the situation, if v\e have
effective leadership to direct the forces.
Qur churches have been -truggling along
doing the best, they could with their
,Ujall congregations, and still smaller
membership. Lodges have -piling up
and tried to meet some of the social
demands, and have dwindled out again.
The schools have not been a. large force
in the community, nor have they filled
the place they should have filled in the
life of the city. The commercial clubs
and Business Men's Leagues that have i
been organized have not accomplished.
their purpose because of the feeling |
present in their membership that some-
one might get a little advantage over
someone else, and the spirit of jealousy
has killed them, and any good effects
they might have had.
But I do not believe that the situ-
ation here is hopeless. The city has
passed through its pioneer state and is
just now emerging into a more settled
and satisfactory existence. The build-
ing of sidewalks and the construction
of paving in the near future will do
as much as anything else to give the
people a feeling of pride in their homes
and in their own institutions. There is
always the darkness of night before the
bright day, and I feel that we are now
emerging from darkness to the light of
a new day.
I trust that there may be others who
will express their opinions on this sub-
ject through your paper. D. F.
Bank
Resources
Loans and Discounts $147,407.17
Warrants, Securities
U. S. Bonds - • ■
Overdrafts - - -
Bldg, and Fixtures -
Cash and Exchange _
Total - - - - $257,292.58
9,558.88
6.500.00
.4,756.88
8.300.00
80,769.65
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at the Close of Business
March 4,1914
The substantial growth which this
bank has enjoyed is the best evi-
dence that its service is both safe
and efficient. Ample capital and
surplus together with efficient offi-
cers and directors, places the First
National Bank in a most excellent
position to handle accounts of indi-
viduals and firms on a safe, con-
servative basis.
Liabilities
Capital - - - - $ 25,000.00
Surplus and Profits
Circulation - - ■
Deposits - - -
Total - - -
20,563.32
8,500.00
205,229.26
$257,292.58
T. A. LEE
Glessner Plumbing Co.
Across Street from Times Office
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EMBALMING AND UNDERTAKING
Collinsville, Oklahoma
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NATIONAL TRANSFER Co.
0. A. LAWRENCE, Prop.
Storage, Transfer and Baggage of all
kinds. ” All work guaranteed to be
satisfactory.
OFFICE PHONE 135
Sequoyah Aerie No. 1692
F. O. E.
Meeting every Wednesday night at 8:30*
after April 15.
C. D, FRANKLIN. W. P.
HUGH GILLILAND, Secretary.
E. E. Bateman
INSURANCE OF ALL KINDS
RENTALS. BONDS.
LOANS. REAL ESTATE.
Down Stairs Lee Building.
Phones—221-131.
There will be Sunday school at the
Christian church basement Sunday
morning at !):45. We will be glad to
see you there. P. P. HOPSON,
Superintendent.
O. A. FICK
Let us send you a few facts that
prove that you cannot afford to be
without a Common Sense Stave Silo.
Good baseball game Sunday. Col-
linsville vs. Tulsa Moose.
l UMBfP BUhDINGMATEm
COLLINSVILLE AND OWASSO.
SECULAR SPORTS BARRED.
Games and sports on Sunday remain
under the disapproval of the Presbyte-
rian church in the United States. At
the session of the general assembly in
Chicago there was a suggestion from the
floor that a sentence in the report of
the committee on Sabbath observance
disapproving "All secular games and
sports on Sunday" be changed to read
“all commercialized games and sports.
The suggestion failed to carry.
CYCLONE HITS s REDERICK, KAS.
Are you going to wait until it hits
your place before you insure? Cyclone
insurance costs but 25c per hundred at
Ward’s Land Office. Phone 31. We
want the business. 3-31tf
We will do your work right for less cost than others,
guaranteeing all material and workmanship.
We handle electric supplies at reas-
onable prices. Give us
a trial.
Phone 216
NOTICE.
The public library will be open Wed-
nesday and Saturday of each week from
2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p. m. The public
is cordially invited.
‘BY ORDER COMMITTEE.
SCIENTIFIC OPTOMETRIST.
Byer examined and glasses cor-
rectly fitted.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
Office hours—9 a. m. to 12, 1 p. m. to •
With Fick ft Beck, Jewelers.
Collinsville, Oklahoma.
H. H. HAMILTON & CO.
Architectural and Structural
Engineers.
First plans and specifications for
buildings of description
COME IN AND GET OUR PRICES
BEFORE BUYING. IT WILL PAY
YOU. SEE OUR WINDOWS.
G. L. Carpenter’s Two Stores
Phones 27-29. Branch, 26
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Steenrod, F. L. Collinsville Times. (Collinsville, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 70, Ed. 1 Friday, May 29, 1914, newspaper, May 29, 1914; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1137004/m1/2/?q=green+energy: accessed June 30, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.