Pittsburg County Guardian (McAlester, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 3, Ed. 2 Thursday, September 11, 1919 Page: 3 of 36
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Here's Your Guidebook
For The Rig County Show
"Meet mi at the blrawt comity
fall i itt.sburg County lias ever put
on!"
That's what everybody for miles
and mile- avouiui and out into sec-
t'oijs beyond the l.order of Pitts-
I We countv is --aying, for the Tenth
Annual Fin- County Pair, scheduled
for September -4, 2a, 2t>, - . at the
fail 'i ounds at McAlester, will be
the best the county has- over held.
I'or months no grass has Bl own un-
der the feet of anybody connected
with the making of the fair, and the
pouring in of exhibits the last Hi days
and the reservation of every availa-
ble foot of exhibit spare uy an.-;-DUS
exhibitors cinehes the fair as the
biggest and bi-l vet.
For weeks, too, a small aim> of
workmen have been eng-aged in im-
proving the fair i rounds and build-
ings- This year the visitor- will find
tilings much changed and many al-
ternation-; for the better. Thousands
of dollars have bren expended in re-
building the park fence, ro-woi'King
the grounds, adding new stock pavil-
ion , bandstand and educational build
ings, and at the same time overhaul-
ing the grandstand comple tely.
The attractions are believed to be
the best ever.
Of special importance are the fire
work-, aid to be the most dazzling
ever arranged for a county fair. They
will be put on each night of the fair.
The greatest feature, one that will
thrill the crowds through and through
is to "Sinking of the Vindictive at
Zebrugge," in the notorious "Hell
Hole of the Huns." This display al-
one will be worth coming for a hun-
dred miles to see, it is said- It will
picture in brilliant fire the work of
the Allies in throttling- the activities
of the Huns in the very den of their
deviltry during the darkest days of
the war.
TI: :i there will be the almost equal-
ly famous spectacle, "The Talcing of
(ireman Machine (iun Nests b> Amei
ican Soldiers," depicting the dash
ami gallantr\ of the best soldiers on
Karth. This will be supplemented
I . highly patriotic lire pictures of
President Wilson, "Blackjack" Gen-
e:al Pershing, and others. It is un-
questionably a superb fireworks dis-
i ly i. and will be put on every night
of the fair.
Auto laces of a hair-raising cliar-
acteer have been slated, under the
general direction of ^tanle\ Thomas.
Five entries have been made, include
ng the Buick, Maxwell Chevrolet,
Fold tiTid Dodge, and all cars that
are or, .ered have been especially built
for speed. The wheel-base has been
cut down, and every attention paid
to the building up of power, so that
the visitors to the fair may look for
something unusually spectacular in
the races. They will be gi\on Friclij
and Saturday afternoons, three races
eiicli day, with proper variations.
The Track lias been worked down
to a fine racing course, with the ends
oiled and oil spread in front of the
grandstand to kill the dust.
Among the entries and their driv-
ci. are the folowinjr: Bill Moon,
driving a Buick; Red Shafer, a Chev-
rolet; Leo Rice, a Dodge racer; Tim
Daniels Ford. There have been o
many applicants for the job at the
steering-wheel of the Maxwell that
a driver hail not been chosen at the
time of going to press with this is-
sue, but it is certain that the Lewis-
Biiggs Motor Company will pick a
fast one for their popular racer-
Then the "Wild West." will have
its inning, with a series of goat-rop
ing, steer-riding and broncho-busting,
every morning at 10:30 o'clock, during
the fair.
Athletis come in for a fair share of
glory. There will be a crack foot-
ball match In tween two of the best
bio-1! school elevens of the county.
Thi is .set for Thursday afternoon.
Spec'al days have been provided for
fair week, beginning Wednesday with
the Old Settler-. They will have right
of way over everything that day, anil
all ihe pioneers are expected to come
out and do as they please.
Thursday is Soldiers' Day, and
I nele Sammy's well known umtorni
is expected to be a big part of the
whole tiling on this particular day.
Friday is School Day, anil you can
wager youi last penny that there
will be school kids and school colors
and school yells enough to start a
young university or a whole herd ot
them on this particular day.
Saturday, in addition to being thet
last day (if the races, will be given
over as Labor Day.
And don't forgfet the fact that there
will lie the greatest livestock show,
particularly cuttle and hogs, ever
seen in Pittsburg County. So pro
nounced is intere-t in this phase of
the fair, according to President Shan-
non, that big exhibitors from other
sections, including Bruno Mayer, of
Stonewall, Oklahoma, with a ho ixl of
20 prize llerefords, and S. B. Jack-
son, of Oklahoma City, with a herd of
equally classy Shorthorns from one
of the celebrated stock farms of the
west side of the state, will be there.
For general entertainment there
will be the Frisco Amusement Com-
pany, with merry-go-rounds, ferris
wheel, airdome, etc, nine shows in all
and fifty or more concessions, on the
ground, equal to the best street car-
nival.
One of the be t feature will he 'ha
music, furnished by the Krebs Hand,
an organization that has won stati-
wide popularity because of its work,
It will play every evening during' the
tin -winks'displays, and in the after*
noons will give concerts beginning at
. :30 o'clock-
Special arrangements have been
made for the comfort of the women,
a small parked area, with fine shade
and well-seated, near the Woman's
Building, having been
Through the liberal!
arranged.
ity of a local bank-
free ice water has been provided
for everybody during the fair.
The street car company has kindly
agreed to install a full car service,
beginning Sunday morning, Septem
l.er 21. and continuing all the week,
until tiie last exhibit is hauled down.
All car.-, will stop at the entrance to
T 11 K F A 1 K CiltOl'NDS, and
the fare of s*ven cents, now in effect
fi i the run to Seventh Street, will be
granted for the run to the fair
grounds.
So, cank up, and let's go.
CAN \HI \N TURNS OUT
PUIZK LOAD OF COTTON
The community of Canadian last
week turned out the prize load of seed
cotton reported so far tlii ^ year. It
weighed 3,040 pounds and brought ex-
actly $:i49.70.
The load wa a double-decker, re-
quiring extra high "side-boards" to
contain it. \\ hen ginned it turned out
94il pounds of lint, which sold at 30
cents per pound, while the seed sold
at the rate of $65 per ton. The load
was bought by the Hutchinson Gin
Company, of Canadian.
This load of cotton brought more
for the eed alone than a similar load
would have brought, lint, seed and all,
when cotton was selling at fi cents per
pound a few years ago.
Cotton, according to Col, D. L. Roe,
of Canadian, will make nearlv three-
quarters of a normal crop in the Can-
adian community, which will put the
fanners on Easy Street, at, present
witton prices, especially when they
have all the stock feed they need rais-
ed on their farms, and some of them,
like M. W. Priddy, have hundreds of
bushels of com as surplus for sale.
County Fair Begins September 24th.
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Service any hour of the day, any day ot ihe
month, any month of the year and we
can save you money.
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Choctaw Power and Light Co.
McAhES I KK, OKLAHOMA
GENERAL OFFICES
THIRD FLOOR CAMBRON BUILDING
PUBLIC OFFICES
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CITY CAMPAIGN WARMS
AS ELECTION NEARS
Statement of Oklahoma National
Committeeman for Republicans, a
Warning To Democrats.
M. Next Tuesday, September 2,'i, is the
°* date for the city election. Two tick-
ather
Clear
Clear
Clear
cloudy
Cloudy
Cloud\
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His held
f. 1!. A.
than 50
fe-az Sta-
ple, Mr.
f Semin
irnily. of
relativ.
id fae. lv
f, Mr. -i.
Ie John
jer Med-
'{r.'is and
nd child-
children,
tmily of
y of Mr.
I. Gaith-
*k.
filer and
air Were
>.oma City Exchange.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES.
I nuittmiK
j new building is progressing nicely.
| Quinton will soon be usino- water
j from the tank, the pipes are ac-
,, . ~ , . , ross the south hill now.
Marriage license have been issued Miss Roberts of Kinta, is in this
the past week as follows: Robert citv goin(, to gchoo|.
Cheat and Fttie Adcox. Haileyville; | Miss Jeanetta Minvard. Miss Ver-
Geor.re Perdue. Ashland, and Olo. j,a an(1 Anis Fisher and Miss Mae
Stamps, Kiowa: John James and Lena Kussell motored to Crowder, Sunday.
Herron, Canadian; Mitchell Moore, j Herbert Cooper of Stigler, was a
and Fmantha Crow, Hartshorne; EJ-j visitor in Quinton Sunday. He mo-
of Geneseo. Kans., anis I tored over in his car.
Willie; Verba and Anis Fisher were
mer Brown
Manilla Loazenhy, McAlester
Jones and Genevieve Hereford, Halley \ thc Sunday guest of Miss Mae Rus
villo: Charles I). Carter and Azol]alt.,n
Grovs, Alderson; Hrvan Wells and
Rocklyn Voltura, McAlester: Ralnh
Sills and Anna McDaniels, Vinita; Ho-
mer Smith and Ola Haney, Savanna-
COMMISSIONER'S DOINGS
AT MONDAY'S MEETING
sell-
W;. H. Fisher was a business visi-
tor in Stigler last week.
F. G. Russell was in Quinton on
legal business the first of the week.
Everybody is invited to attend the
service at the M. P. Church
Young Woman Declares She
Was Abducted In Automobile
A case of considerable interest, in-
volving a possible abduction of a lo-
cal young woman and carrying with
it a number of features rather out
of the ordinary in the run of news
stories, is that of Mary Herd, who.
resides on the north side of the city, the men took her into the car at her
^ • . . - ? that sh.e was ku|- home was about 10 o'clock Sunday-
recognize those who g-ave her aid
there, at first.
After being brought to McAlester
she rapidly recovered, but remember-
ed nothing about riding in the Cald-
well automobile. The time she says
ets are in thc field. Every voter must
make a choice, or should do so. There
is is the straight Democratic ticket,
and there is the fusion ticket.
As Democrats, in making up your
mind how you are going 10 vote, tve
can't overlook calling your attention
Cloudy, to u statement of J J. ftf.cCraw, Re-
publican candidate for national com-
mitteeman from Oklahoma, featured
in the editorial columns of last Sun-
day'.^ Muskogee Phoenix, the leading
Republican daily newspaper of the
state. Here's what Mr. McGaw says:
"My platform is, "The Success
of the Republican Party in Ok-
lahoma and the Nation," anil no
man can truthfully charge that
I have ever, directly or indirectly
financially, or otherwise, contri-
bi ted to the success of any Dem-
ocrat as a candidate for any of-
flci. high or low, either in the
primaries, or at a general elec-
tion."
Here you have the official authen-
ticated, igned, sealed and delivered
n - age of Republicans in Oklahoma.
I! ail it, think i over, -ad then so*
T you can walk up to the polls and
vote other than a Democratic ticket.
The point i.- thi; Mr. MeGraw, rep-
resenting the Republicans of the
-late, sets out the platform to be
follow d by Republicans in language
thaf . ven a child in the third grade
co dd not mistake. He sends out the
line nty challenge that a Republican
must not vote for :\ Democrat for
• nv office either HIGH OR I.OW, in
: nv election oither PRIMARY oj-
CKVKT? AL.
ng- foil* Thi is inclusive. It takes in AT T,
C. Calli- elect on both CITY and oithervise.
rpose of And Mr. McGra-w is right. As a
ival that part n. he stands squarely on the
|a boys issue ci i party election. You
liil their 1 an't help hu! rvlmire the cold, tron-
< hont, liewini to the line of a man
like 'hi:. It rings through and
aughter, through with candor. It leaves no
jtshorno,' <h i bt a to where the repr tentative
of the Republicans of the state stands
and when lie expects evervother Re-
Gaither, publican to stand- There is no atmos-
jnday. i here, not the slightest hint, of com-
promise there.
Val here Awl, remember, this is the OFFT-
forceful CIAL i 'itform statement to Repub-
grife are licans 'n .' lahoma, and McAlester
d music, i; in Oklahoma.
We don't blame Mr. MeGraw. We
repeal, Wi â– > imire the challenging
e, vi^it- style in which he throws down the
. Nixon gauntlet. We like a fighter, whether
oolitical or otherwise. He's depen-
' dable in a pinch.
Alester, But, don't get away from the lesson
oute to we are trying to point: Tin ,-ituation
ie even-, in McAlester, where the lulling mus-
j ic of fusion is being discoursed to
i Democrats, with the assurance that
feasant "it won't hurt."
y- Put Mr. MeGraw down in McAles-
| ter and ask him to vote for a Dem-
f Pleas-' ocrat and his answer would be, what?
lieail over that indented paragraph
, above- Let Mr. MeGraw speak lor
uighter, himself
visitors' The Guardian has no animus eo-
, ward any candidate on either ticket,
| no charge that they are not good, ca-
Austin,: pable men. It is not talking person-
| alities or dealing in them. But, in
| the light of matter so recent and so
int was authentic as the above from Mr.
day. : MeGraw, and emphasized as it is by
the state's leading Republican paper,
Miss Ruby Lynch, of Guthrie, was we would feel like being kicked into
in Pittsburg, Saturday.
Mrs. D. C. Callecutt and Mrs. S. 0.
Van Hogan, were in Kiowa Satur-
day.
Mr. Munger, of Kiowa, was a vis-
itor here Wednesday.
Rev. T. J. Saxon and Singer Harris
and wife arrived here Saturday from
Muskogee. They enter into a revival
here beginning Sunday.
the Katy Cut if we didn't sound
warning to many well-meaning Dem-
ocrats who "might otherwise over-
look the real issue city, country, na-
tional and otherwise, now facing them
in Oklahoma.
Read over Mr. McGraw's statement
once more, then go and vote next
Tuesday. We believe the issue will
not need any further discussion.
Mr. and Mrs. Neal Hutchinson and
little daughter, returned this week
from a vacation spent with friends i
and relatives in Wilburton.
G. C. Little, of Pleasant Valley, was
in town Saturday.
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* DATES TO REMEMBER *
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★ A Little Calendar of Partic- *
* (liar Interest to the People *
* of Pittsburg County. *
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There was a very little doing at the
' the county commissioners,
out-'de of purely routine and clerical
stuff.
Commissioner John Pierce, who has
been very ill for tome time, was able Mjss Vf]ma phin;ppi anf| little sis
to attend the meeting-. I tor have recently returned from a
,C"''ooo '';i'°^oir bond in the sum j^t with frien(,R in their former
of S1.000 for tne Producers' State ,
BanV. of Hartshorne, was annroved. | °Hi ' Gamblp turned Saturday
• of Clarence Boatright as f ^ jth his A nts
.instice of the peace of Arch District .
,of Dow Town shin, was approved, as! • Johnson has resigned
was also that of Walter T,emasteer, as he). positjon at Cpurts Trading Corn-
School opened here Tuesday with *
full quota of pupils and teachers, ''
pany and accepted one in Fowler Bros
Store. Miss Vera Puckett, of Kinta is
now working in Miss Johnson's place-
Messers Charles, John and Jim
.Russell anil Mr. Frdi?
I rd to Blocker Sunday.
Sept. 24-27—Pittsburg County Free
Fair date; W. T. Hardy, McAlester,
creta ry.
Sept. 27-30—Date of the Oklahoma
Free
war to rVniiT/W roa(' to. Crowder. She told them
<3iJ t v. u . , „ ! -sbe was going to visit friends at In
rlnv i S\\7 Ifi! been marned Sun- dianola, and Mr. Caldwell let her
day to J. W orthington, an employ of out of the car when they came to the
1 ne yuinion un company are K'l- , gonTfor <thV''"lTrenTe," she"''declares ' "inroad" °f ^ ImHanola ami Crowd-
are having (T pi^T ^Xir°homr'! tSldTer'Sat h'er "bSthe^V ! "h°Jd tt0 the
romii brick'bunga^o\v.bU'1('inE " ^ ^
Miss Ela Gamble recently return- | ,avJ Jhe got^iiTto the'cai^an^he ^ ls said to have ha'! a ,aPse of memory
ed from a weeks visit in Muskogee, un'(.on. 'w.kinu- nevt in l ! °" . '"''.mer occasion. Those who re- j Rev. T. J. Saxon assisted by Mr. J.' OI ln«
where she has hern visiting her uncle. Wivl mm ♦ Is as nC cas,° t?11 a^e start" Harris and wife conducted the State Fair at Oklahoma City.
in' h' ah( cti™ I j 0,1 to ,Wa!k t0 ^'I'anoUi, became chapel exercise. , Sept. 29-Oct. 4—Oklahoma
nothine- f,..the „n,;|„u?T over-heated, after alighting from the State Fair, Muskogee.
Crowder, when* friends broughfher eon.mfo T' .this,-in'luc1p'1 the Mr. C-D. Little, of Pleasant Val- Oct. 6- -Next terms of district and
to a hospita' in McAlester, where she found on reaching Grower S,1° W8S ^ ^ j county court open.
ft i ,?Rr,of. nenes' I Others, and these include the offi- Judge W. A. Trea.lwell and A G , Oct. 28-^Annual Poland China sale
driv m uith h! Wife [n in* WaS f°''' wtl.° l''r working on the case, or Winningham will attend the reunion ' n ,°'SS' blced®r- ' IoA'Cnte['
hHe w.o .1 r o P a,ltonl°- somP of them at least, believe there of Confederate Veteran- at Atlanta, Doc' 1—Approximate date for clos-
;t° .ard ( '°7" Sunday morn-; is foundation to the abduction chanro. in October. Thev rarel' miss one of ,n caUlp dipping season.
wbA At, "v.°!'took a young woman and that she was probably told that
who Mi. Caldwell identifies as Miss her brother was hurt as a excuse to
Herd, walking along the road a mile o-et her into thr car, as she repeated
„ ";?Vth "f Mekko Switch. He said she rover and over the assertion that her
Pavton motor- n(?t appear to be unusually ner-, brother was hurt when she reached
vous, â– V,;!rathei warm and du tv Crowder. No arrests have been made,
on the case.
constable of the same district.
Contract for the plumbing for the
count' iail was awarded to Fred Srh-
nlze on two contracts, ono for $110
and another for a sliding contract of
to Si 75.
Ti e state cornoration commission
was asked to make a survey and as- j
sigmrient of costs of constructing an Wolf-hunting has grown 'q
under-raii cro«-:ny of the Katv rail-• quite an exciting experience in the
wa? south of Kiowa near the pros-. western part of the county and par-
ent overhead crossing. ticulnrly in the "region round ahout"
Tt w.?- also a.-ked to nyike an as- the city water-shed. To. date, 21 wol-
' rigr.iren' or cost! i] thi widening of ves have he"n bae-ged th's sea--"!!, it
the cm all adv ♦e'd-'shed -outh ' reported Tito champ'en wolf •Uapse. it i-, said, and for hour, she
too narrow i b< long sto Charley Dobbyns, of the "ve i out the condition she believed
the annua1
grey.
of T'-Vwa, but which
and dan<rerous for ordinary use.
Arpelar neighborhood.
'iom the walk. She got into their car but officers are nt wort
and rode a fa- north as the junction Examination of the girl V physicians
he with the -nduanola road. Th's would showed that no attack had been made
-'oir to contradict he-statement that ,i.| ,!(r t),e time of the al-
she was taken to within a short dis- legod abduction.
tance of Crowder by auto.
However, she did wander into
Crowder in a state of almost utter
collapsi
raved ii
her brother Joe to be in. She did not
reunions of the men in ,, ... „ .. „ .,
Lditor Butler, ot the Stuart Star,
was a pleasant caller at the Guardian
, office this week. Mr. Butler is no nov-
Rev \\ . 1!. Ailstock, former pas- ice at the job of running a newspap-
tor of the Baptist Church at \\ il- er, and is giving Stuart a.id vicinity
burton, but who recently resigned to a sprightly weekly. He was aceom-
accept the pastorate of the Baptist pained bv Mr. Bovett, a well known
Church at Coalgate, was a visitor business man of Stuart, They both
Miss Herd is ahout 18 years of age
and very comeh- lookimr. Her sweet-
heart, young Worthington, declares
thev will ho married as soon as she
recovers from the effects of her ex-
perience.
here for several days last week, the
gue. ' of friends in North McAlester.
He has proceeded to his new charge
at Coalgate.
report Stuart as pleased with the fall
outlook for business.
The citv of Antlers has voted to
grant a franchise for a 150,001 ice
and light plant for that city.
G. N. Jones returned from South-
western Texas Thursday, where he
has been visiting for the past three
weeks He says every thing down
there is in fine shape.
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