The Dover News (Dover, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 31, 1918 Page: 1 of 4
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Buy War Saving 5tamps Donate to the Ked Cross! Hooverize and help
in every way to Win I he War
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brightest and Best pa-
per published in Kingfisher
County. Fears God, tells
the truth and shames the
devil. $1.00 a year.
THE DOVER NEWS
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VOL. XVII. NO. 38.
Dover, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, Thursday, February i, 1 *> 1S
$1 the Year
THE paper with a "kick.'
Only paper in the coun-
ty combining brains and
mechanical ability. A fear
less advocate of what is due
our town and community
Things You Want
IT isn't any trouble at all to ihink of the
things you want. It's how to get them
that causes most of the worry.
There's the comfortable home, money for old
age, means to educate your children' thai vacation
trip and a thousand and one other things thai come
crowding up the minute you think of the things
you want. A little savings account at our bank is
ihe best start you can make. It will grow The
funds are safe. Some day some nt ihe things you
want will be yours if you work, save and bank
yvith us.
Your Deposits Guaranteed.
The Bank of Dover
C. B. SHERWOOD
Cashier
H. H. MITCHELL
Ass't. Cashier
"Unfurling of the Service Flag
Service Program
At the Evangelical Church, Sunday F.vening,
February 10, at 7:30.
Song by the Congregatton.
Scripture and Prayer.
Patriotic Song—Four Boy Scouts
"What Our Denomination Stands for in Relation
to This War.''—Re\ Holer
Song—Mixed Quartette.
Two Reading: Mother Can 1 Go?"— kennis
VVessel.
"The Mother's Reply"—Helen Gray.
Let Us Hav e Peace, Bass Solo, (gralonolo
Sermonette, "Every Man a Man" Motto oung
Men's Class)— Rev. Hofer
Raising of Service Flag.
Presentation of New Testaments to Vouiig Men
Responding to Their Country's Call (given by
the Sunday School)—V. I) Wessel.
"When the Boys Come Home," Male Quartette
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Stanfill Writes
From Florida
LaFollette Doc-
trine Decried
Red Cross Doing
Active Work
'lUiiaev- meet .uk of the Led
Cioss was helu at the home of
Mrs. Wessel Jan., 25, at which
time new officers were elected.
There were twenty present. The
members voted by ballott. Mrs.
Wessel was elected chairman,
Mrs. Kimrnerer, vice chairman,
Mrs. Clyde Sherwood, secretary,
and Mr. Chas. Sherwood, treas-
urer.
The colored folk organized a
o! this organization, and as soon
as material arrives these good
women will commence work on
various assortments of garments.
They are very enthuiastic and we
aie looking forward to some good
reports from this organization.
Mrs. Barrett was appointed to
look after the publicity interests
of the Red Cioss society at the
last meeting.
A Red Cross member in King-
fisher recently criticised a local
editor for not publishing a long
article which she had sent in. If
j ou buy materials for garments
for the Red Cross work, your
LaFollette may have, for po-
I1' ical reasons, thought that it was
necessary out in Wisconsin, to
take the stand he did in e eou-
raging the anemy, but there was
at least one woman of German
birth who was not alfected by
what he said. This woman,
when asked what she thought
about the war, said:
"If the Germans here don't likt1
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DIABOLil
What Is It?
One oi ihe best standard Cream
Separators on the market.
Now on display. We will be glad to show you
the construction of this D1ABOLO Cream Separa-
tor any day you come in. We positively guarantee
to you that there is no Separator on the market
That skims closer,
That is so easy to turn of the same
capacity,
1 hat is easier to clean,
I hat gives you the (juality at our price.
Ly buying within the next few days you can rave
20 per cent
as the price will advance Feb. 15. So give us your
order at once and own a Diabolo Sepat ator.
LISTEN! Your cream will more than pay -rr g ~-
eery bill if you have a few good milch cows.
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Red Cross society recently, elect- merchant charges you for it! The
ing Mrs. s hannon, chairman, editor's only stock in trade is space
There are ninety-eight members and while he perhaps donates
more in this way than any mer
chant or business man in town,
he is often unjustly criticised for
not doing more. He gladly pub-
lishes Red Cross news, but lie can
discriminate more wisely than the
average individual just what is
news and how much space he can
give to this work.
One Red Cro s member in Okla
homa City offers to adopt a sol
dier s child, or care for one until
the war shall have ended, A
beautiful idea and should become
contageous.
410 garments have been com-
pleted, here, among which are
hospital bed sheets, pajamas, bed
socks, bed shirts, ice bed covers,
knitted socks, helmets, wristlets >
etc.
Mrs.Wessel, Mrs. Kimrnerer
and Miss Bunce took almost
three hundred garments to King-
fisher, Wednesday.
The Red Cross has taken in
$310 dues and $(J1.00 donations. !
The Red Cross membership)
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Miami, Fla., Jan. 28. 1918
Dover N ews, Dover, Okla.
Dear Lditor:
I am located at last, have been
here two yveeks and have beei
all over the city and visited other
villages nearby. Some of my
friends may want to know what
I think of this part of the world.
Now that is a hard question to
answer. The winter climate is!
as near peinct as any one < ould! A./ieiiea, let theingubackt
ask: if is Oklahoma June weatli-{many, where the poor people live
er; the beautiful (lowers and'like swine. it took me three
tropical fruits and green vegeta- j years to save enough money to j county and havi
bles are alluring and appeals to get to this country, and 1 had to
the man of the north, and he is J borrow a little then to get a ticket
apt to want a home here, and if j for the trip. The people there
he would listen to the real estate j wear wooden shoes, held on by a
agents he would rather have a strap across the top, and I wore I
home here than to take chances a pair when 1 came here, but I !
on heaven. | saved enough out of my first '
What of the soil, and what j week'.-, wages to buv a pair of
will it produce. There is a leather ones. That was more
soil called muck, that is made of than I could save in a month in
decomposed vegetation washed Germany. They live like hogs
nto the lakes which fills them over there, whole families in two
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Council Names
. Its Committees
in any way it can,
offer our services.
nd we Ju'llv
Troop Ship
Fuscania Suofe
The Kingfisher County Coun
cil of Defence has organized t he
appointed threi
patriotic citizens in each township! "Press dispatches announce
and town to look after the selling sinking bv a submarine
ol Liberty Bonds, and arranging
for Red Cross solicitations. The
committee appointed for Dover
and N. Cimarron are: Chas.
Sherwood, chairman; Claude
Mauk and Will Kimerer.
The Dover News has been re-
quested to assist this committee
t he
- the
American troop ship Tu rania,
carrying two thousand United
States soldiers. Several hundred
soldiers reported lost while others
have been landed in Ireland.
Don't borrow
paper. Don't be
your neij
a slacker.
lllOI-
in Dover is 21!).
G. W. Fletcher, one of the best
friends the News has as well as
one of our most highly respected
citizens, handed us $3.00 on sub-
script ion this morning. He sends
ne of the papers to his sister,
Mrs. Stubbs at Formosa, Kans.,
one to his daughter Minnie
Fletcher in Iowa, and the oilier
tie leseives for himself. We
thank jou Judge Fletcher and
hope j our days on ear.h may run
into the three figures, and the
final reward be all man could
hope for.
Mrs. McGee was a Kingfisher
visitor Wednesday.
up, and when you can get it dry
it will produce anything that
grows in a tropical climate. Vou
have beard people who have
been to Florida say the soil was
like ashes. Now all the land
around Miami is rock formed and
built up of decomposed sea shells.
which is a soft and portts rock,
and the roots of trees and small | The German
plants penetrate them and live,
and some people have pulver-
ized the rock and hauled muck
and covered it and are growing
vegetables on it and some tried
the commercial fertilizer, but it
I costs too much to be profitable.
Now don't get in a hurry to go
| to Florida; wait till they build the
| road from Miami to the west
| coast of Florida. They will
build through the Everglades,
: and wili dig a catial for small
j boats and use the rock and dirt
j to build the road ffnd you can
i imagine the country you would
! have to farm. As one man told
ine, the land is so poor you can't
raise an umbrella on it.
I went to Cape Florida yes-
terday and visited the old Span-
ish fort and Spanish light house
and one of my party killed a
nice rattler.
Hoping to ,..:t a copy of the
News regularly, I remain as ever
Yours truly,
WILLIS STANFILL
202 North C. Ave.
Don Northup has had his name
added to our subscription list.
Everybody's doin' it.
small rooms where they dress and
undress before each other. It
seemed like heaven when 1 got to 1
America and had a room all to
myself.
"The American people have
treated me fine, and never once
made me feel like a lickspittle, as
the rich people do in Germany.
people here must
not take the American courtesy
lor forbearance for fear or coward
ice—no, sir, or they will get an
awful bum)) soon. I know the
American reserve and strength
better than most people of my
nationality. 1 think they have
given us every chance in the
world to get along and prosper
and it is a mean and dirty thing
now to go bragging and encou-
raging our country's enemy, Ger-
many, a country that is so con-
ceited that it thinks it can rule
the world Germany is the
worst place in the world for a per-
son to live, and 1 would as soon
be in hell this minute as to go
back where I came from in Ger-1
many."
After a shut down of some
days on account of cold weather
and a shortage of coal, work has
been resumed on the oil well ea^t
of the city. The two shifts are
now working full blast.
Mrs. John Miller attended a
lecture on Psychology at Okla-
homa City, Monday night.
Ulysses Brittain, a nephew of
Will Kimerer, visited here over
Sunday from Vinita.
Closing Out Sale
Draws Bargain
Hunters...
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Many bargains left for you to
take advantage of if you don't de-
lay. Goods marked in plain fig-
ures and every article a money
saver13 you.
Fake advantage of these low
prices to get what you need
Gilchrist - Sherwood
AND COMPANY
Phone 32 - Dover, Oklahoma
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Barrett, W. K. & Barrett, M. A. The Dover News (Dover, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 31, 1918, newspaper, January 31, 1918; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc136601/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.