Pittsburg County Guardian (McAlester, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 11, 1919 Page: 1 of 8
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ounty Guardian
GUARANTEED CIRCULATION EVERY WEEK, 1700—AN.) GROWING.
VOLUME XV
eight pages
Mcalester, oklahoma, Thursday,septkmkei
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all HOME PRINT
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"BEATS CALIFORNIA."
mm IN i'iCALtSTER;
E. A. Daniels Sells Drug Store to
Prague Druggist—Economy Closes
Out; Bakery Company Coming.
One of the quickest business deals
ever made in McAlester was consum-
mated here this week when the drug- * anyhow.
"Oh, it's alright to spend a few *
weeks in a place like California *
* or Colorado," said W. N- Red- *
★ wine, who has just returned from *
* an extended trip to Western and *
* Pacific Coast points, "but for a *
■*' regular, day-in and day-out thing ★
★ of it, give me Oklahoma. It's *
★ the best country in the world, *
l Exhibitors Urged To
Speed Up Fair Entries
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THE WEATH1.K
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Reported Weekly l!y Walter
T. Edwards, I . S. Weather
Observer, McAlester, Okla.
County Agent Nelms this week
sends out a warning to piopcctive ex-
hibitors at the county fair to hurry
up and get their exhibits in shape,
lie suggests that delay or indiffer •
Ajlti store owned by K. A. Daniels was sold
| s to J. L. McDowell, of 1'iague, Okla-
tor honia. The deal was made with ab-
solutely no preliminaries and with-
| out a moment's hesitation by either
party to the deal.
Mr. McDowell has been in the drug
business at Prague for several \ears,
but sold out recently and made a
Can t beat it foT'cli-' * ! i?..°f «>«> .«?'
elubs, and the domestic sci
purtmont ought to be of a very hi\jrh I
order this year.
Township fairs Ure to be held in a
f instances, all so far
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PR0PE8IY VALUATIONS
TOTAL $28,158,280
rase of $3.317, 150 During
Year—Ti Township Makes
Most Remarkable increase.
★ mate, except a little while in the *
★ summer, and as for being a *
★ place to live and make your liv- *
*• ing, it beats them all." Mr. Red- ★
| * wine came in Tuesday. Mrs. Rod- *
★ wine, who accompained him out *
' * west, will remain for a few weeks
★ longer before returning home. *
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survey of Oklahoma town, for a new
location, lie came to McAlester and ;
wr.3 pleased. He visited several of the
drug stores and finally walked into,
that owned by Mr. Daniels, on East i
Choctaw, looked it over and asked
the owner if it was for sale. He was :
old that it could be bought.
"What do you want for it," he ask- \ 15, 106 and
CONSOLIDATION CARRIES
the fair preparation would be very
unfortunate, and that the people of
the county must realize the responsi-
bility of the indi\ idual this year
more than ever in making the fair,
a success. He asks that the prospec-
tive fair exhibits be collected at cen-
tral points in the various communi-
ties of the county and notic • then
given either to him or the member
of the county fair board so that the
exhibits can be gathered up.
Secretary Ha
20,
<d.
tic. Daniels promptly informed h'm
what it would take to handle it, "spot
kash."
Without batting an eve or asking
for ."0 seconds to consider the trade,
the vis:for ropl'od: "You've
store; I'll take it."
And the deal was closed. Mr. Me-
Dowall will take change as soon as
the preliminary arrangement? for the \
transfer oa« be m: de. Do will remove
his farnHv to McAlester, where he is ;
errec-'nllv impressc ! with the school .
advantages.
Mr. Daniel; had been in the drug!
business nearly twelve years, and had !
built up an unusual'" large trade. He
soi l at a figure that indicates a!
1. I.!*. " condition of business.
TI" will not leave McAlester. Some
time ago. w;th Janes Gwin, lie form-j
ed the Daniels-fiW'n A "to. Co.. here
handling nart'Cidarlv the Stodebnlcer
a-.tomebile. Thev hav the di '.-ilm-
t'on of the epr over a large section of
Ep stern Oklahoma, and an agencv
y-ill lp established to cover the MllS-
]ti--", tc'r'torv. ATv. (twin will direct
fVn Mi"koe*ee office, a*1'! M" Daniels
will have ('Vin -n of fVio ^*0 blester
ar rev. Cn-'n howevev. will not
remove h'S fanvlv to 1Tusbon-oe, as
he rxeect- to also srend considerable
time in the McAlester territory.
/ nother deal of eons>uevab1e im-
portance is that wherebv the Federal
PaVinp* Comr.'t"' u'ers t^e local field.
Tt*. rotn'""" will O' • n UP In the
Hereon P'u'ldin" on East Choctaw,
formerly occupied bv the Economy
f? ror^ry.
The grocery >s beine* c'osril out by
the owners, Me-;' Clark Brothers,
who nave operated one of the largest
retail grocer** 1 to*' in the c'tv for
the rast eight vcai*'. They recently
decided to e*o oet of bnsTnesq, ^nd
have heen f i*ad"a11v dosing the stock
By an almost unanimous vote tb"
school election at A bland, Wednes
day, for the consolidation of Districts
107, into :i argn district
erect
was carried. The plan is to
a modern school buib'in" to take can
of the districts more advantageo is
ly and with more effective facult'
and equipment than would be possi-
old vour ! hie in individual or separated districts
We will have a more extended report
on the election in next issue.
fair 1
I! reel
anionp
.mds
the Saturday b
1'airs are soli;
Cabaniss, Kiow
other townships
But the fas
should not ov< i
tance gettirg ti
either bi'inping
or collecting thi
cd, where f
great savir
Gem ral
fair
Cu
itnd ii
■■ vital impor- i
bits ready and !
direct to the i
Date
Aug.
ther Pittsburg
r The
prop
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t.f time
be tali
PRIM \RY VOTE SI 111
CANDIDATES 15 Y
Total of 323 Polled, W'
Half
Thai
.'umb
Th
in ti
as f<
ent
done
men a
;il the bi
School Districl Budgets
Be Heard Nc-xt
To
Weel
HOG VALUED
DIES
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if VOU
re a
or and lii-
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in
flit
Herd Header for Famous Welch
Ranch Lived On); 20 Minutes
After Being Taken From
Crate.
unty Nc
na's foi
Savs the Latimer C
It. A. Welch, Oklabon
; wine bre der, had some
hard luck Saturda ', v.'
purchased boar. "S. nsa
kee" died in a few min
was taken from the i xp
the Red Oak depot.
Welch purchased this
Villisca, Iowa, at'a prici
a l'ew weeh.-; ago and he •
have be, n one of tile be
the roland China world,
had made great plans to
big spring sale on his ho;
thinks lie has lo t a S--JOOO
the death of "Sensational Yankc
.ir district yot
knowing that
ird will nt xt
'Igets of the
Is for the pa
m a;;d fixing
ne.
'n the proper
" e ef this is.su
w 11 be
will b<
■0 will
d Thursday
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und
will
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Ward.fli
"i; liar
■ond pi
taki
animal
on foi
11; Allen. :r
of .'
Mr..
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a:d to
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Welch
;! his
Excise Board Forced To
and
1 in
Use K
m
'• :p
Bud:
i Ward,
in, 2G; i
;th Ward, 1 fi for
on,
candidate.
County property valua-
ceived the fifentle hike of over
nd a half million dollars over
ar, as a result of this year's
lent of real estate and person-
icrty.
rt v assessment now stands
i,2S0, as against $24/110,880
or exactly .f3,747,450 more,
isioi or classes of property
untv thi year are assessed
<; Personal property .?7,907,
. Lown lot $(5,704,006; land, $5,-
,"7j); public service corporations,
122,MO.
'he increase in valuation is regard-
as very gratifying, and is fully
large as should have been expected,
snow , a constant, substantial jrcn-
1 growth.
V i- markable feature of the as-
nient increase is f'iat shown in
district of Commissioner .Tohn O.
ire, which has incr ased over $700
I din ing the year. A big part of this
n ;' e, and the larger percentage
fan ^ a in Ti Township, ir. the
.n't of the county.
ARRANGES
,LY EVENING
if Commiti'cial Camp,
the World, the newly-
iodmen camp of the city,
e in allowing things to
held a box supper and
• that was so sue essful
i a pleasurable social event
; for the fraternity that another has
i he-n planned for Wednesday evening
i Sertombev, 17.
The affair will be given at the
I Woodman Hall, on the third floor
over the Grand Leader Store, and
v II include in addition lo the box sup-
per. a rin •: contest and dancing.
Mcmbei of the fraternity not on-
I" from the city but from surrounding
camps are expected to attend as
well as the fri-nds of the camp gen-
i rail'*, the camp keeping "open house"
on theso occasions.
SHiP-RY-TRCCK P\Y
AT TIIF. STATE PAIR
mizod \\
Mr. Welch W!
day. making fh
garding the cop
rable !iog in s
from Iowa. TI;
in McAlester Mon-
iu investigation re-
e taken by this val-
pment to his farm
f.s unloacUd
. here in transfeirm. fi-mi one .a w;
t line to another, and attracted much
' attention because of its unusual value
I while at the station.
Mr. Welch, by the way, states that
he will immediately endeavor to se-
oi-t fo,*mall- closing the place the 10 {"Vre ar^hpl' b°a '. equallv as valua-
of t>P* • mnnfVi ',l0 as the one. that he lost and of
„w ' . , ! the same blood lines. He never be-
We are not gome- out because the , ,jcvps , in ..quits" 110 mattol.
bus ness has not Wn satisfactory " | wnat ,ucU he }.as,
snu' Mr. rJeorpo C ?>•>, "or because Me i
Alester isn't a good business town
liecause tt
would not pi
ed bv the vei
the County 1*
long paving
week, 'i he\
v.hackc ' the
he'd the tolii
thing like th
ration
vide all the b;
WELL KNOWN PRODUCE MAN
GOES WITH GRiPFIN CO.
and
t-h ■ •.
Nothing of the so'*t. We are simplv
getting out for awhile because we are
tired and want a little rest. As to our
future plans we have nothing to say
at nresent, for. frankly, we have not
definitelv considered them. Rue
have no
The Federal Baking Company, it is
said, will open un a thoroughly mod
SOME MORE "FIRST BALES"
FROM OVER THE STATE
Lon Steidley brought in the first
bale of the season received at Jndi-
V, consKlereri them. Hue we anola It was bought by Milton Her
idea of leaving McAlester. stein at 11 cents per pound in tlu
per pound in the
seed. The second loads there were
brounght in by W. D. Dowing and
ern business and on a large scale. The .Toe Cathey, and were also bought by
concern is said to be an important; Mr. Herstein
business aecquisition, and its coming ! The first bale harvested in Oklaho-
bidjoat.es the steadily {rrowing popu-1 ma County was brought to the Okla-
larity of McAlester as a business cen-! lioma City market by Newt Winters^
ter. | a farmer living near Jones. He hart
• 1630 pounds of seed cotton and sol
county budget to some-J
limit s of the cloth from )
which the garment had to be made. ;
In the trimming process, practical i
ly all departments had a. call. Ex- j
pease accounts are said to have sufF-
was retained. I'1
! that the work of both the !
:ni & ' : a ent was particularly!
it'ruct.iv. & n nature of a general I
ni i wi -".ent. and that the coun-1
could nor, aifoul to slacken ii. the
■it u f "' better farm and livo-
*' ,y **"* ' 1' ' ; a vei.v tractive oP*hi'
aecomi ished proved the im- ft;i Grocei'y Compair.
I and the intrinsic vab. I week bccomes general
for that well kno\vn c eepan -.
has made an excellent record in
1 A. I. Latimer, for
years manager of th
i Produce Compon hei
ti-:
. Y
farm demonstration work and
i'id home demonstration service,
co ntv' levy will be 8 mills,
I severeh , and for awhile thei wlv'ch, with the state levy of 3 1-2
was fear and trembling lest it would
he necessary to cut out some clerical
help entirely.
The road and bridge fund was cut
down from $8,000 to $4,000, among
other retrenchments.
For awhile it looked as if the coun-
ty farm agents could not both be re-
tained, but this wrinkle was finally
ironed out, b\- the elimination of the
tern of expense money for the agent.
The first vote was to leave the lady
an-ent's place now occupied by Mrs.
Breckner, vacant for the year, but on
produce field here as manager, and
will make an important* addition to i
A hip-In -Truck dav with a great
motor truck exhibit will feature the
'ruck show at the Oklahoma Stale
Fair and Exposition at Oklahoma City
lYcn September 20 to '.*7.
Every t' oo and model of truck will
; he on display.
' The exhibit, program and demon-
;,;* 'rations are bein- riarged bv a
" , rar.snomtion cor -r itVe of tnick
.JWgo dealers. Saturday. . • .'ti * "J, the
^ i .-losing day of the Fair is "ship-by-
the 1
two ;
Tumor
*
Truck Day.
Local truck dealers
are preparing
makes 11 1-2 mills already for, the Griffin force in his *. \v capacity
• consideration of the city, with that companv. }
At the Turner Company's headquar-
ters, Robert W. Brinlee, ho has been
with the company sinc^ it opened
it's offices here, succeed: Mr. Latimer
as branch manager. He is wMclv ex-
perienced in the produce sales field
t.own.ship or school district levies,
are to be disposed of, as nearly as
Citv le, :,s and township budgets
' le, this week, and school dis-
tricts will come next week
The Kxeise Hoard has anything but
a delightful job in trying to make
"ends meet" when the budgets in
nearly all cases total more than the
lev. allowed will bring. Wo will give
more detailed account of the board's
work next week.
j to nttend.
-
Mcintosh county roads
GRADING CONTRACT LET
According to the Eufaula Journal,
the highways in McIntosh CoutVy are
to be put in classy shape just as fast
this at 12 1-p cents per pound. He
received a bonus of $26 for the bale or
$22D.7g altogether.
Haileyville made up a bonus of $58
for the first bale brought into that
market last week. The bale was
Tom Finley, formerly county com-
missioner from the Hanna district,
has been awarded th" 'ontract for
grading the Jefferson Highway inn-
ing north and south through the coun-
ty and also the road runnino* west out
of Eufaula through If inn i to the
county line.
Mr. Finley was lier the first of the
'«k looking for a tractor that he
was expecting to arrive that day.
Grades, fills, culverts and etc. were
completed on the Jefferson highway
more than two vears ago at which
time it was graded, but it is begin-
ning to get bad in pla™s again ar.d
if properly "raded and dragged, ran
be put in fine shape and w!ll be as
rrood dirt road as can bo found in the
state. All culverts, fills ard etc. on
the road running west to Hanna are
completed or will he in a very short
while and this road, when graded and
dragged, will also be ore of the best
dirt roads in the state.
The First Christian Church has
adopted the plan of keening "open
house" every day at the church. Miss
Lois Foster will ho :u cl aro*. of the
building di'i'ine the veol-. The plan
is to nrovid^ re**t and vejid'nR rooms
for the public, particularly visitors,
and make the church u'-cful seven
da's out of "
even* dav fro
McAlester To Have Another
Moving Picture Theater
The local recruiting station has
received orders that recruits may be
enlisted for service in Siberia for
either the one or three-year terms of
enlistment, provided no enlistments
... f for one year are allowable to any ex-
and will enter his new work equipped cept men of previous service in the
to handle the trade to the satisfac-! arm v. It is desired to secure 2,000 re-
tion of the most exacting home of- i cruits for the Siberian service dur-
ficegeneralsuper. The changes were j ing September. If you want to see
to hav become effective September
1, but Mr- Latimer was away on a
brief vacation and did not make the
change until this week.
-vhat the other side of the world looks
like and make the trip at Uncle Sam's
expense, see the local recruiting offi-
cer at once.
as Contractor Tom Finley can do thel 5«^htjn by Jim Minyard, who lives
,iob. Tins includes improvement of i Mark Isbel place.
the Jeff Highways an interesting news ! Hartshorne went "one better" on
nugget for Pittsburg County readers. I ^^"g so far quoted in regard to
The Journal of last weeT: says;; ! t . ,' . , 0 the season. The
first bale was brought in from the
Mose Watts place, south of Harts-
horne and marketed by his five child-
ren. It brought 31 1-2 cents per pound
in the lint, and a bonus of $144 was
raised, making the bale bring a total
of $327.05. Jim Bibb, of Arch, also
brought the second bale to the Harts-
home market. It brought 31 cents in
the lint.
J. H. Berry, of near Dustin, Hughes
County, sold the first bale on the mar-
ket at Hanna. It brought 11 cents in
the seed, with a bonus of $37. The
bale and bonus amounted to $203.65.
Holdenville merchants (put up a
bonus of $50 for the first bale sold
on the market. Tt was harvested by
W. M. Gibbs, and brought 30 1-2 cents
in the lint. With the bonus the bale
totaled $212.97.
Ed Johnson, a farmer near Calvin,
was the first on the market at Calvin
with a bale of cotton, Wednesday of
last week. The merchants made up a
bonus of $42 00 for Mr. Johnson.
While definite announcement can-
not be made at the time of going to
press with this issue, it is common
street knowledge that McAlester is to
have another moving-picture theatre,
and that is to be a high grade con-
cern, located in one of the best sec-
tions of Choctaw Avenue. The inter-
D
C
til 5 in the afternoon.
L. C. Cogburn, of Stuart, was in
McAlester last Friday, on business.
Mr. Cogburn is a Stuart booster and
one of it's live business wires. He
reports the first hale of cotton as hav-
ing alreadv come in, selling at a good
price in addition to a bonus of $50
made un bv the business men of Stu-
art. The first bale was grown on the
Tt w!l' be open Kirkpatrick place, about 5 miles So.
1 the morning un-1 of Stuart and was marketed by W.
ness. It is selfevident that a city of
the size of McAlester should not be
bound down to a single moving-picturv
concern or management. It insinuates
that the city can not and will not sup-
port what anyother first class town
of similar size is suppoyting-more
than one theatri«al concern. This i.s
ests back of the new enterprise are 1 not true. It will support another and
from Dallas and have a chain of stand do it liberally. The presence of more
dard show-houses, the kind it is pro- j (ban one amusement concern will be a
posed to install here. I guarantee to the public that it will get
H is understood that contracts have ; something worth coming to see. If it
virtually closed for several of the doesn t, it will soon learn to discrim-
highest' class film productions, and mate sufficiently to give its business
that when the show is opened it will to the one that does give satisfaction,
give the city something that will be \ It is evident that variety and corn-
worth while in the way of entertain- j petition m the show business, just
. u . . , 4. • ii, „ ^ „ • ■ as in anyother business, will make
ment. It is to be strictly a moving pic- f a hj h stan(!ar<1 pf sprvice amI
ture showhouse, catering to the bet- wjI] an interpst and a pat,.on.
ter class of picture p l , a £|ia(. noj now PX;st,
thing that wi 1 be rece.vcd w.th much , fn ;my pvpnti McAlester is entitlod
local approval. . to more than one moving picture con-
The new theater is to be distinct or anything else that's worth
from the present theatrical arrange- having at all, and the Guardian is |
ment in McAlester. It will have no frankly glad to see the introduction
connection whatever with the Brophy 0f now ideas and new enterprise in a
interests, it is said, but will be strict- phase of education and entertainment
ly independent of all amusement in- ;;.• important as the moving picture
terests now established in the city, phow has become in everv community.
The building said to have* been secured .And we iust as earnestly trust there
under long time lease is to be extend- TVill be some jarring loose and ox-
ed 40 feet br.ck, giving large seating pansien in some' other very much-
capactity arid ample operating room, needed lines in McAlester besides the
McAlester and the large territory mo> picture shows. This town has
adjacent will welcome this spliting out-grown the one man idea. Just
up and enlargement of the show bnsi- put that down.
I!. F. Mavnard, of Crowder, was
down the first of the week. Mr. May-
nard says they are going to have a
Miss Cathryn Clark, of McAlester,
i.s spending the week end with, home
folk ■ Misa Clarke has just returned '
T. Rogers.
big township fair at Canadian Satur-i from an extended visit with friends
day, September 20, and then com and relatives in Chicago and other
on down and get first prize at the j north n points.—Latimer County
county fair. N'1 .
The McAlester Trust Company
(STATE BANK)
There are several things about this bank which we
wish to impress and which we are entitled to im-
press upon the general public:
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1. It is 'THE PERSONAL SERVICE BANK."
2. Its deposits are GUARANTEED under state
law.
3. It has made a special effort to serve farmers
and stockmen of Pittsburg County, and it is
especially proud of the record it has made in
this respect.
4. It is the largest STATE BANK in Southeast-
em Oklahoma, and has ample strength to take
care of the largest business. Its personal ser-
vice extends to the smallest customer and de-
positor.
5. It pays 4 per cent interest on Time and Sav-
ings Deposits.
6. Its business has increased over one thousand
per centum under the management of its pres-
ent officers and directors, and its profits earn-
ed, dividends paid and the gradual increase in
value of its stuck is substantial evidence of the
conservative and successful management of it'
affairs and interests of all—Depositors, Stock-
holders and the general pubh'c.
ii Minimi tin Minium urn HiiiiiMiii ii i inn i iiiiinimiiiii ii
"IN THE HEART OF MCALESTER"
Choctaw and First
MELVEN CORNISH EEN MILLS
President Vice-President and Cashier
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