The Yale Democrat (Yale, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 36, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 2, 1919 Page: 1 of 8
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THE YALE DEMOCRAT
Rntrrrd at the Pontofflte at Val*>, Oklahoma, as Second ('!»»» .Matter
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PubUched Monday, Wedneaday and Friday of Each Week
YALE, OKLAHOMA, APRIL 2, 1919
Volume ll. Number 36
Official Publication for City of Yale
Yale To Have New Officials
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Only Two Councilmen Are
# Reelected
WOMEN ARE ACTIVE
Stay On Ground From Open-
ing To Closing of Polls
Yesterday was a beautiful day,
it was a9 fine a day forelection as
could be asked for. Sickness or
disability was the only excuse
for not voting, failure to register
not even being an excuse, for
there was an indiscriminate
swearing in of votes by all par-
ties.
The result was almost a -clean
sweep for tne candidates for the
“New Deal.” Newell for mayor
and C. F. Ford for clerk ran so
fast their opponents had not a
look-in after the first quarter. In
the first ward J. 0. Slaybaugh
was completely snowed under.
In the second, ward J. H. Mont-
gomery made Rookstjol a close
second while in the third and
fourth wards the race was ex-
ceedingly close, the two candid-
ates for re-election winning by
two and three votes respectively.
Women, voting for the fir^t
time, made a great difference in
results and the tot il vote cast
was the greatest ever cast in the
city.
It was a rather quiet election,
no rough stuff developing, and
in the evening after the decision
was made, appropriate head
stones were prepared and placed
at the flag pole to represent the
defeated candidates and their
friends and some were given a
ride in an old hearse. All the
defeated candidates took the pro-
ceedings go id-naturedly and
without question after the sting
of defeat is over they are more
than glad that they do not have
the position which means“d—d if
you do and d — d if you don’t.”
One of the peculiar happenings
of the day was that in the pro-
poganda of the New Deal, A. E.
Sloan was listed as a member of
the “Old Gang,” while during
the day his cards were carried on
the same cars as were those of
E. G. ^Jewell and C. F. Ford.
Following is the vote cast by
wards for the various candidates
where there were contests:
School Board Outlying District
Goddall 47 60 76 114
Courtney 92 131 32 37
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
Mayor
Monnett
64
71
44
46
Newell
95
116
78
100
Clerk .
Gelder
45
65
49
51
Ford
115
116
72
89
Councilman 1st Ward
Slaybaugh 52
Tull 106
Cauncilman 2nd Ward
Montgomery 86
Rookstool 97
Councilman 3rd Ward
Manlove 60
Adams 58
Councilman 4th Ward
Dymond
Campbell
School Treasurer
Sloan 87 134 61
Northgrave 66 68 51
School Board 1st Ward
Christie 89 141 65
Lewellan 40 127 52
Crops Best for Years
Crop conditions in Oklahoma
are better than have been report-
ed at this date for a number of
years, according to the figures of
W. B. Hamilin, statisti an for
the state board of agrculture
announced Monday.
The average growing condition
of wheat is 94 percent. This is
an increase of 2 percent compar-
ed with one month ago, and of
34 percent as compared to this
date last year. In the north-
western counties some light dam-
age is reported due to continued
high winds.
Farmers still have on hand of
the 1918 crop 9 percent of corn,
2 percent of wheat, 9 percent of
oats and 10 percent of kafir and
milo. There has bee i consumed
and marketed during the past
month 6 percent of corn, 2 per-
cent of wheat, 7 percent of oats,
and 6 percent of kafir and milo.
Last year at this time farmers
had on hand of the 1917 crop 14
percent of corn, 3 percent of
wheat, 9 percent of oats and 14
percent of kafir and milo.
Fruit prospects are excellent
according to all reports. No ma-
terial damage was caused by the
recent cold weather The con-
dition is as follows; peaches 78
percent, apples 79 percent, cher
ries 81 percent. In some of the
southwestern counties some trees
are reported to have died on ac-
count of continued drouth.
Of the land planted to spring
crops 51 percent has been plow-
ed up to the present. Fitm wor^
has been held back in different
parts of the state oA account of
the late season, and in many cas-
es the ground has been too wet
to work. This has held up the
planting of oats, and may cause
a decrease in the final acreage.
The average price paid to the
farmer for butter is 41 cents a
pound, and for eggs 30 cents a
dozen. Last year butter was
selling at the same figure and
eggs at 39 cents.
Free Textbooks
Undaunted by three successive
defeats in legislatures in their ef-
forts to put through a free text
book law, the school men of the
state will initiate a bill the latter
part of the summer or early fall,
it was stated Monday by State
Superintendent R. H. Wilson.
It also is considered probable
that the initiative may be extend
ed to include the McNabb reso-
lution, which was also killed,
providing for an extra tax levy
to make possible a nine months’
school term in every school dis-
trict of the state.
Don’t forget to ask to see the
Ladies’ Silk Dresses while you
are looking around at the won-
derful bargains in the Golden
Rule Mercantile Company Store.
The word notions makes one
think of where I get them fur the
least money and all have learned
that the Golden Rule is the place
Seventh Oklahoma Legisla-
ture
Thar Governor Robertson la of tbi
opinion that the salary increases au
thorized by the legislature cannot aa
crue to the benefit of those offlciali
who were elected or appointed prioi
'to the increases is Indicated in a veU
message transmitted to the hous«
setting forth his reasons for disap
proving the bill to increase the sal
aries of district judges in an indirecl
way of maging them referees.
The fight to provide special attor
neys for the banking department and
the school land department and tc
provide a private secretary to th<
lieutenant governor, was terininatec
in defeat of the proponents of th<
measures in the house of representa
tiveB following a spirited contest.
The-valued policy act, defeated it
the house eurly in the session by •(
close vote, was stricken from a house
bill In which it h J been inserted bj
the insurance committee, after three
hours debate in thP senate. The vote
was 20 to 18. The proposal inserted
in the bill was that a fire insurance
policy in case of total loss, should b«
liquidated for the full amount of the
policy.
The bill carrying supplemental ap
propriations for a number of state
departments and institutions was
passed finally by the house after the
item appropriating $10,000 to be spent
by the corporation commission ir
making the express rate refunds was
stricken from the measure.
The senate passed a bill making ai
appropriation of $175,000 for the com
pletion and equipment of the Univer
sity hospital in Oklahoma City. The
bill also provides for the erection ol
a two-story brick building at the hos
jpltal to be used as a home and train
|ing school for nurses.
r The senate killed the free \ext book
'bill by a vote of 18 to 12. The bill
[did not seek to make free text, booki
'compulsory, the proposition being op
tional with the counties.
The other proposal was in senats
concurrent resolution No. 34, which
suggested the initiation of a consti-
tutional amendment to increase th«
levy to 33Vfe mills.
Pay of jurors was increased 50 per
cent In a bill which passed the sen
ate. In the future Jurors will get $3
a day, intsead of $2.v The bill al-
ready has passed the house.
Because of the item appropriating
$10,000 for the corporation, commis-
sion to cover expenses of completing
the express rate refunds, the house
killed senate bill No. 366 by the sen
ate committee on appropriations,
which made supplemental appropria
tlons for several departments and in-
stitutions. The house appropriations
coximittee recommended that the
Item to eliminated and the house
adopted the amendment. On reconsid-
eration, however, the item was rein
stated before the bill was placed on
final roll call.
STATE BREVITIES.
The city of Newkirk is planning for
the pavement of fifty blocks of its
principal streets during the present
summer.
Rev. W. R. Johnson, formerly pas-
tor of the First M. E. church at Guth-
rie, has gone to Kingman, Kans., to
take a church.
Bank clearings in Oklahoma City
for the past week were $9,716,648 22,
as against $9,250,829.08 for the cor-
responding week in 1918, an increase
of five percent.
R. C. Blackmer, one of the two Ho-
bart Bank and Loan company offfl-
cials who now faceB federal charges as
a result of the failure of the two In-
stitutions with which he was associat-
ed, Is blind. Despite his handicap, he
opqr^tes a typewriter, rides horseback,
goes every place In his home town un-
aided and, before his loan office closed,
p&BBed on every mortgage taken by
the firm of Scott and Blackmer. He
has stocked the Hobart library with
books and Is credited with having
beaded every Red Cross, Y. M. C. A.,
APR 22 VOLUNTEER DAY
State's Birthday Day Set For
Special Drive
Ready For The Victory Loan
Oklahoma’s Quota Between
Ooernor Robertson’s emphatic an- 35 and 40 Millions
Bouncement that he has not given the
eubject of selecting the commission-
ers who are to spend the proposed
$50,000,000 for -.-oad construction a
thought until after the election, hae
fai’od to silence gossip among poli-
ticians around the capitol as to who
will be chosen.
Wagging of political tongues In the
corridors continues and, according to
those who are said to have a line on
the inside workings the personnel of
the committee virtually has been
agreed upon, at least to the extent of
whom will be offered the places.
Brig. Gen. Roy Hoffman, former
law partner and for yeurs a close per-
sonal friend of the governor is look-
ed upon by the “dopesters” as the
one best bet for a place on the com-
mission. E. E. Hood, Shawnee at-
torney and some times referred to as
the Colonel House of the Robertson
administration because of his close-
ness to the governor, is another who
It is said will be offered one of the
places.
Two proposals for the submission
of constitutional amendments In
creasing the constitutional limit on
tax levies In Oklahoma were defeated
in the senate. House joint resolution
No. 14, which was killed on a roll
axil vote, would have increased the
maximum levy to 39H mills on the
$100 valuation and would have made
the maximum levy for school purposes
18 mills.
JR 10,000 Memorial Bill
The bill providing for erection
of a memorial monument to Ok-
lahoma men who died or were
killed during the late war was so
emasculated by the senate and in
conference as to preclude the
possibility of building the mem-
orial, it was said Monday by leg
islators who supported the bill.
The measure started out with
an appropriation of*$500,000 and
as finally disposed of during the
eleventh hour of the session Sun-
day morning it carries an appro
priation of only $10,000, which it
is said is wholly insufficient to
erect a suitable monument.
Fiiendsof the measure, how-
ever, declare they will proceed
along some other line to raise the
money.
The Johnson-Hodges Bill pro-
viding for the establishment of
a slate cemetery in which it had
been suggested the memorial
monument would be placed was
passed and will become a law
with the approval of the govern-
or.
Searching for Graves
Four thousand men of the A.
E. F. are now engaged in the
registration of and search for the
graves of Americans who died in
battle.
The tireless seeking for identi-
fication tags marks the daily
task undertaken by the sec-
tion of graves registration which
is directing its efforts so as to be
able to disignate the grave of
every American should congress
authorize the return of the bod-
ies of the fallen. They set out on
their solemn mission equipped
with pick, shovel and gas masks.
Sometimes they pry down into
the ground for the identity of
the dead warrior; sometimes they
ferret into the recess of discard-
ed dugouts and sometimes they
clear away the brush of the for-
est to find some trace of the vic-
tims of battle.
See the Robert and Mary Mis-
sionary play Friday evening.
This will be a demonstration of a
call to real missionary life. Come
and see for yourself the full
meaning of a call. Methodist
Church.
For your classy needle work
call Mrs. Hill, phone 36.
Oklahoma City, Okla., April 2
The Yale Democrat,
Yale, Oklahoma.
‘ ‘The Victory Loan drive in Ok-
lahoma will be a successful one. ’
said N. R. Graham, who with
Chester H Westfall, is directing
the loan in Oklahoma.
“It will be a success,” contin-
ued Mr. Graham, ‘‘because it is
a loan of honor and because it
will be by far the best loan ever
offered to the people of the Unit-
ed States by its government.”
“To my mind the honor feature
of this bond is its most impor-
tant element. Not to subscribe
to this loan would be for a per-
son to say to any of the two and
a half million men still in service
— “we were real excitdd over the
idea of tearing you from your
little job—but now that you have
won the war we haven’t any
time to give or money to invest
that you may be brought home.”
‘‘I cannot beleive that people
who say ‘I’m through’—or ‘I’ve
got to make a little money’ real-
ize just how their words sound.
Maybe a few of them are of the
pro Hun element who would na-
turally take advantage of the sit-
uation to their own selfish ends,
but I feel mo3t of them unhappi-
ly are usually loyal but misguid-
ed Americans.
“Those who are loyal at heart
will soon catch the spirit and im-
port of this Victory campaign and
it is to them we must look for
support of their country in the
cool after days of conflict. They
have always been the back-bone
of our nation—they will not fail
now.
“Oklahoma is asked to raise
from 35 to 40 millions of dollar#.
Looks like lots of money—but it
would not pay $1.00 per day the
wages of men still in arms for
more than ten da's or two weeks
—it will not more than pay feed
and return to their homes the
50,000 Oklahoma boys still in ser-
vice.
"Be the business feature of
the loan what it will, I cannot
bring myself to believe that the
people of Oklahoma are shouters
when the ‘band begins to play’
and quitters wen the real test of
manhood and womanhood is pre-
sented.
“At this time there are only
five counties in all the state that
are not organized. We are be-
ginning our speaking at least two
weeks ahead of the usual sched-
ule, and best of all we propose to
give real loyal Americans the
happy privilege of volunteering
their purchases before they are
solicited—we are confident that
there are many thousands of our
citizens who will understand and
appreciate our confidence in their
loyalty by our designation of Ap-
ril 22nd (Oklahoma Day) as the
Volunteer Day of this campaign.
State Committee Victory
Loan, 8 a. m.
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