The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, May 12, 1905 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 13.
NORMAN OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, MAY 12 1905
NUMBER 4 I
Territorial High Schools Field Day Meet.
Last Saturday the first annual Held
meet of the Oklahoma and Indian
Territory High Schools met on the
University grounds. An attendance
of over 2000 were present to witness
the contests. The' day was an ideal
one and the meet was a great success.
There were eleven High schools rep-
resented in the meet. In the contest
there was 126 points to contest for
and out of this number the Logan
County High School captured 57 the
Norman High School 31, Kingfisher 12
Stillwater 10, Oklahoma City 4, Ana-
darko 4, Perry 4, Enid 4 the other
three schools represented, drawing
blanks. In the 100 and 220 yard dash
and one mile run Norman scored first
place Hugh Roberts winning the first
two events and Robert Meyers the
latter, Roberts also scored 2nd in the
440 yard dash and Meyers scored 3rd
in the half mile race. In the mile
Bicycle race Norman won first place
with ease and also second place, Wil-
liams riding first wheel and Green
2nd wheel. In the low hurdles 120
yards Norman with Miller and Will-
iams captured 2 id and 3rd
place. In the broad jump Norman
also captured 3rd place. In the shot
put, Hammer throw and discus the
Logan county boys possessed the
strength and in the jumping they al-
so showed up strong. In these con-
tests the Norman boys fell down. At
night the Oklahoma City High
School again met the Norman High
School in a debating contest to win
back the Lion Store Cup which the
Norman School recently captured
from the Oklahoma High School: but
Floyd Westervelt, Clyde Pickard and
Oliver Aiken on the part of the Nor-
man High School, successfully de-
fended the cup and if Oklahoma City
or any other High School in the terri-
tory wants the cup they must win it
away from Norman High School. The
field meet of the Territorial High
Schools opened up under very favora-
ble auspices and far surpassed any-
thing expected by promoters of the
same, not only in interest taken but
in the attendance present and the
number of schools represented. The
visitors were well taken care of by
the University management and the
young people as well as the older
seemed to enjqy the event immensely
and the next year meet will be eyen
better handled for the managers will
will know just about what to expect
and prepare for while this year they
were somewhat in the dark.
Drowned in the South Canadian River.
Base Ball Game-
Last Friday afternoon the Logan
county High School base ball team
crossed bats with the University
team on the University diamond: but
at the close of the 4th inning with
the score standing 0 to 0 the game
was called on account of rain. Satur
day morning the teams agreed to
play a seven inning game and it was
an very evenly matched game up
to 6th inning with score standing 1 to
0 in favor of Uni boys. In the sixth
^he Guthrie boys and Uni boys scored
1 tally each: but in the last half of
the 6th, one of the Logan county
boys who ran home from second was
called out by Umpire because he did
not go back to second on a foul b> ] 1
before starting to make his run for
plate. This retire/d the side with the
score standing a tie: but unfortunate-
ly over this decision a wrangle arose
and umpire was called a liar by one
of the Logan County boys whom the
umpire very promptly put out of the
game for language he used and the
Logan boys refused to continue the
game without this player and what
promised to be one of the prettiest
games of ball played this year on the j
Uni diamond ended in a disgraceful !
manner. There were two umpires in j
the game one from the University \
and one from the Logan county High
School and this indeed was a very un-
fortunate arrangement and terminat-
ed as such arrangements usually do.
In the absence of Rev icott Dr.
W. A. Jarrel of Dallas Texas, will fill
the pulpit of the Baptist church on
Sunday evening May 14. Dr. Jarrel
is well known and will preach his
famous sermon on new views of Hell
—What is Hell?—How long will Hell
last? Every body invited to hear
him.
Last Sunday morning Mr. Grissom, !
wife and four children in attempting !
to cross the South Canadian River at J
the Adkins crossing in a wagon, the
wagon box was tipped over by the
curi ent and all the occupants precipi-;
tated into the water, With great j
difficulty Mr. Grissom succeeded in I
getting his wife and three of the
children out but a little boy about 7 j
years of age was lost. It is thought j
that he was caught under the wagon
box. Help was summoned, many go-1
ing out from Norman and river was !
searched for body but it could not be I
found. During the search John Mc- j
Kittrick of Norman came near losing
his life. When rescued by Wails and
other^f he was quite limp and it was
sometime before he could be revived.
He was carried of his feet by the
current and became frightened and
would have been drowned had his
rescuers not reached him just about
the time they did and landed him
upon the shore.
Visit Norman.
The Chamber of Commerce and
Traffic Association of Oklahoma City
started out on its annual tour of the
territory last Monday morning. There
were about 70 men representing the
big business firms of Oklahoma City
on Jthe special. They were loaded
with souvenirs and advertising mat-
ter and carried an excellent brass
band and a core of speakers and sing-
ers. Their stop in Norman was only
40 minutes: but they made things
lively while in the city.
Marriage Licenses-
Claude Brown 32
Lottie Carlock 22
Fred A. Clark 20
Ethel Helms 21
Marion F. Geno 27
Pearl Robertson 19
Edward W. Nedean 24
Elizabeth Tarp 31
Jesse J. Adinson 18
Ada Holliday 25
Carrie Nation in Norman.
Last Monday night Mrs. Carrie Na-
tion appeared in the opera house in
Norman and a fair sized crowd turn-
ed out to hear her, many of whom
were no doubt attracted to the
meeting out of curiosity to see and
hear a woman who had gained so
much notoriety with her hatchet de-
molishing joints in Kansas and lan-
guishing in Kansas jails because of
her good work in this direction. A
saloon or "joint"' in Kansas has nei-
ther a moral or legal right to exist
and Kansas manhood will yet blush
with shame for having jailed any of
its citizens having the moral courage
to seize a hatchet and smash up one
of these hell holes tlftt would seek to
establish itself in a state where by
moral and statute law it is forbidden
under penalty of destruction toes
tablish itself. To say; that the large
audience, which was somewhat skep-
tical and yery ready to criticise, even
to the extent of being slow to com-
mend, was greatly surprised in the
woman and her address is not stating
the facts too strongly. It is true her
delivery from an oratorical stand-
point would not be classed high and
her rhetoric quite faulty and her
language not up to the highest class-
ics but there was an earnestness and
feeling in the way she spoke and so
much self evident truth and logic in
what she said as to hide from view
very largely her lack of oratorical
and easy How of language to express
her thoughts. It was the kind of an
j address that people take home much
f with them to think and ponder over
j and burns and sears their conscience
rather than tickles their ears and de-
lights their fancy. There has been
many able addresses delivered in
Norman and for the good they may
accomplish or have accomplished in
the way of uplifting humanity to a
higher plane we doubt very much if
any of them was more effective than
Mrs. Nation's address.
You Believe It f . Oyclone-in Oklahoma.
The cardinal tenets of the party of' Last Thursday morning a rep.rt
T nr°thl Y611 r . (reached Norman that a disastrous
Brotherhood of man, love, justice ! cyclone had swept over the town of
r oust an hi I I > •. ,.C , •- r.
liberty and equality of opportunity.
2 Government by the people—the
recognition of the right of the people
to rule themselves by establishment
of direct legislation, the initiative
and the referendum,
3 Honest money—national money'
not bank money—that will serve
creditor and debtor alike: that will
insure stability of prices thus be an
honest measure of value, and there
Snyder in western part of Comanche
count*: doing great damage and kil-
ling many people on Wednesday at
about 11:00 o'clock. It was traveling
in a northeasterly direction and
twisted things around a little at
Anadarko aid Chickasha and at
Quinlan Woodward county is report-
ed 4 persons lost their life. The wires
were all down and it was hard to get
anything reliable from the scenes
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by encourage honest industry and where the storm parsed over by
discourage speculation.
4 Nationalization of railroads and
other monopolies that must be public
rather than private monopolies.
5 Prevention of overcapitalization
of all corporations, of overcharge for
services rendered the public by such
corporations
or telephone and it will be Thursday
afternoon or Friday morning before
auth^utic reports will come in.
Wire From Snyder.
Last Thursday about noon Mr. A.
Kingkade received a telegram from
Snyder stating that Mrs Geo. Car.
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Abolition of industrial trusts, those'800'8 mother had been killed by ey-
that exist because of tariff' protection
and those that exist oecause of dis-
criminations whethi r by rebates,
special rates or otherwise,
7 Taxation that will tax every man
according to his accumulated wealth
—tax property, not man: collect state
clone. The telegram was seni by
her son-in-law. Geo. Carson was
thought to be in Snyder at the time
of cyclone but no word was heard
from him at noon Thursday.
S. M. Moore also received a tele-
and municipal taxes by direct tax on I iT*,™ ab°Ut jhC Hame Ume Mr' King"
the accumulated wealth of society received his informing hiin that
the accumulated wealth of society I , ,
ione Chanes Gorton's boys was
assessed at actual cash value: collect
national taxes by a direct tax on the
earnings of accumulated wealth
whether large or small. Have only
direct taxes, for indirect taxes cover
injustice and extravagance.
8 Foreign policy that will keep our
country out of all entangling allian-
ki'led in the cyclone and three in-
jured and Mrs. Gorton was also slight-
ly injured. Mr. Gorton was not at
home.
The reports of a cyclone at Snyder
last Wednesday night are meager
and unreliable up time we go to press
ces with European and Asiatic coun-j',ut enough is known to be certain
tries, and strengthen our economic that the death and wounded lists at
relations with all American countries Snyder is a long one anywhere from
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that have different soil, climate and
products from tho-e of the United
States.
These are the demands of the Peo-
ples Party, the cardinal principles for
which that parly contends. They are
all simple easily understood and must
have approval of a great majority of
the American people when brought
to them for consideration by a party
of the rank and file controlled by the
| people themsel'/es not dictated to-by
: the money oligarchy: by a party that
j stands for the interests of the many
not of the few.—Wharton Barker, in
Tom Watson's Magazine for May.
Belled Buzzards.
\V. W. Brown of Morgan Postoflice
was.in Norman on business last Tues-
He said that he had finished
Here'sa good reason
for offering' such greatly reduced prices on sea-
sonable clothing". It is a lixed policy in our
clothing department never to carry over goods
from one season to another. In order to clear
them out, we name prices that cannot fail to be
attractive. This is your opportunity to accom-
plish a great saving on your wearing apparel.
Every garment offered by us is a bonalide bar-
gain. You will profit by investigating the values
we will place before you.
Winans Mercantile Company,
mSuccessor to
GEO. M. WINANS & COMPANY.
I day.
j planting his corn and cotton and was
I ready to go to cultivating. He said
| his attention was called to a tinkling
j of sleigh bells a few days ago and he
j could see nothing around upon which
bells would be tinkling. He noticed
a few buzzards Hying around but
never suspected that they would be
wearing bells but he could see noth-
ing else and began to make a close in-
spection of the buzzards and sure
enough he found that they had little
bells swung around their necks. Now
Mr. Brown would like to know what
trust was belling the buzzards and if
a charge would be made by the trust
tor the services of the buzzards as
scavenger birds.
Annual Recitals.
The following recitals will be given
by pupils of the School of Music,
University of Oklahoma, in music
hall on Main street.
Saturday evening, May 13 at 8:30
by Miss Hutchins, piano and Miss
Newby violin.
70 to 100 being killed. The whole
town of about 2500 inhabitants was
destroyed leaving scarcely a building
standing. The storm struck about 9
o'clock at night.
Attention Farmers' Union.
The several local Farmers' Un-
ions in this count) desiring to pur-
chase binder twine are n quested to
send a delegate to Norman to meet
me Saturday afternoon May j pro-
bate court room at 1 o'clock. Come
prepared to say about how many
pounds of twine your local will need.
1 am ready to take such orders now.
C. H. Taylor,
County Purchasing Agent.
Morgan News.
Frank McKittrick visited his father
and mother at Hico Sunday.
Mr. Floyd Swank passed through
here Tuesday on bis road to Norman.
Henry Reed and family made a
trip down to see Mrs. Reed's father
and did not get back until Monday.
The Schwarts Sunday SJiooi U
progressing as we like to see it. Will
Schwarts handles the School well
The Literary Society will meet at
meet at the Schwarts next Saturday.
An interesting subject is up for dis-
cussion.
Miss Bessie Sims accompanied by
her friend Miss Tucknis, is visiting
her grandparents, H J. Donewortb
and wife.
A few of the people from here ex-
pect to attend the basket meeting at
Hico pleasant Valley School house
next Sunday.
The young people who gathered at
Mrs. Martins last Sunday evening re-
port having had a good time in prac-
ticing singing.
The dance which Hill Jennings
gave Friday evening for Mr
Monday evening May 15, at 8:30 by ! Floyd Swank was well attended and
Miss Addington, piano and Miss , a peaceful time was bad.
I Givens voice assisted by Mr Roller,
I violin.
Thursday evening, May 18, at 8:30
by Miss Goodrich, piano and Miss
Bucklin, voice.
The singing school taught by Frank
Smith at the Schwarts is drawing to
a close. This has been by far the
best term of lessons given in this
community. A good interest has been
j maintained throughout, despite the
Pupils' Examination. ! fact that all the students are work-
The next pupils' examination will ing hard throughout the day time in
| be held Thursday and Friday, May 18, ! addition to the class work which they
110, at the following places: Norman, : do at night.
I Lexington, Stella and Science Hill. I
I Pupils may retain grades of 85 per l/ fine rain visited this county last
cent and over made at other exam-! t ( "t-day night and it was begining
iuationa. A fee of twenty-five cents 10 be "eeded and came In time.
will be charged those who took the ' Fred Carder leaves next Sunday for
last examination and other applic- j Pauls Valley to take charge of Carey
ants will be charged fifty cents. j Lombard.Lumber Co. lumber yard
F. B. Swank, Co. Supt1 'at that place.
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