Drumright Evening Derrick (Drumright, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 312, Ed. 1 Friday, January 12, 1917 Page: 1 of 4
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JANUARY 12, 1917
I3ntiuri0ljt
VOLUME TWO. NUMBER 312.
DRUMRIGHT, OKLAHOMA, FR1D
Santa Fe to Extend
From Tulsa Here;
Now Negotiating
Apollo Club Form Marine
Has Meeting Corps Reserve
There is every probability that the
Santa Fe railroad will extend its line
from Tulsa to Drumright. Although
nothing definite has been decided it is
known that conferences with this ul-
timate object in view are being held
between officials and citizens of the
towns and cities which would be toch-
ed by the proposed extension and it is
believed that the company will be in a
position to make a definite announce-
ment within a few days.
If satisfactory arragements can be
made it would be the object, it is be-
lieved, for the railroad to begin ac-
tual work at the earliest possible mo-
ment. It is known that officials of the
road were in conference with citizens
of Sapulpa and Shamrock, two points
which would be touched by the exten-
sion. Several of Drumright's citizens
were in Chicago this week conferring
with Santa Fe officials and something
definite of what has been done will be
learned upon their return. It is prob-
able that a bonus will be asked from
Drumright, Sapulpa and Tulsa, if a
satisfactory arrangement can be made
between these places and the railroad.
Shriners Hire
A Special Car
A large delegation of local Shrin-
ers expect to attend the big conclave
which will be held in Guthrie, begin-
ning January 15th., Monday. Ar-
rangements have been made with the
Santa Fe for a special car from this
point. The Shriners' special will leave
here Sunday morning at 5 o'clock.
Start 'Em Young
In This Country
Sapulpa is makinp a bid for the dis-
tinction of having the youngest bank
cashier in the United States and puts
forward Herbert H. Kinniard, elected
this week to the position of cashier of
the Bank of Commerce, of Sapulpa.
Kinniard's age is given as 23 years.
They claim that makes him the young-
est cashier in Oklahoma and probably
the youngest in the United States,
where no relative of the official holds
stock in the financial institution.
We haven't made a canvass of the
bank officials of Drumright, but off-
hand, and without investigating the
ages of the local bank officials, the
name of Frank Simmons, assistant
cashier of the Drumright State Bank,
comes to our mind. Mr. Simmons is
the same age as Mr. Kinniard. Prac-
tically all the officials of the Drum-
right banks are young men. They have
been successful as officials of the
banks and the banks have been suc-
cessful with them as officials.
The Neighborhood Club has out-
| grown its name and has adopted the
i title of the Apollo Club. The club met
Wednesday afternoon at the home of
I Mrs. Harry Shipman and the first hour
was spent in fancy work. At three
o'clock the vice-president called the
meeting to order and an extremely in-
teresting business session was held.
Committee on by-laws reported and
arrangements were made for the pro-
grams for the next two meetings. The ' The standard of efficiency of this
life of James Whitcomb Riley was the trained body* of ex-marines will be
subject at the meeting and each mem- maintained by a short period of train-
ber of the club read a paper on Riley, ing annually, for which the reservist
Deprice Shipman rendered a solo and will be well paid. In time of emergen-
Agnes and Deprice Shipman sang a cy the Marine Corps will be able to
duet. The next meeting will be with expand its first line with a highly
Mrs. C. G. Williafhs, Januarv 17th. trained reserve.
Washington Jan. 12.—The mobile
military forces of the United States
have been greatly augmented by the
Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, a newly
formed organization composed of
trained marines who have returned to
civil pursuits. Hundreds of these "ex-
soldiers of the sea" are applying at ^
Marine Corps recruiting stations thru- f
out the country weekly and adding TTV \y r-n f^OlintV
their names to the enrollment lists,! J- vJl Illt/l vVHull j
according to local recruiting authori-
ties.
Travel De Luxe On
Sinclair Special
Into Drumright
Judge Is Dying
CARD OF THANKS
We take this opportunity of ex-
pressing our sincere thanks to our
many friends for their kindness and
sympathy shown to us during the re-
cent sickness and death of our be
loved daughter and sister, Esther, and
also for the many beautiful floral of-
ferings.
Mrs. M. E. Wheeler and children.
H. S. Girls Team
Play Here Today
There will be a fast game of indoor
basketball played in the Third Ward
(East Side) School anight when the
local high school girls team meets the
girls team of Shawnee High School.
The game is scheduled for 8 o'clock.
Both teams are very fast and the
game should be one of the best of the
season.
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
Newspapermen
Meet Today
Sunday services: S. S. at 9:45, Lon
Childress, superintendent. Preaching
at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Morning
subject: "Where are the Mine?" Eve-
ning subject: "Preparedness." Junior
League at 2:30. Epworth League at
6:45.
I The world's greatest detective was
I depicted last night at the revival as
I the Holy Spirit. For He arrests every
sinner, convicts him at the bar of his
own conscience and makes him plead
Oklahoma are I guilty before his better manhood. "My
session of the ' spirit shall not always strive with
Consolidation Of
Phone Companies
Is Now Complete
There may be men who traveled in-
to this oil country by the box-car route
and .went out millionaires. Stranger
things have happened. But when
CAPITAL comes to look over this
field it comes in a manner befitting
its position and the party of eastern
bankers and officials of the Sinclair
Oil & Refining corporation, which will
be in Drumright next Tuesday, is no
exception to the general rule.
The local agent, Harry (J. Haas,
has received the routing for the "Sin-
lair Special," as the train bearing the
>il magnates and eastern capitalists
i designated. The special carries ten
ars and is made up as follows: One
That Vic Decker, former county;
judge of Creek county, who was re-
cently suceeded in office by Judge J.
V. Frazier, is in a serious condition I
and has but little chance for recovery
! is indicated in a letter written by him
' from Los Angeles, Calif., to Sapulpa
j friends. In the letter the former coun-
' ty official states that he underwent an
x-ray examination and that the phy- baggage ear, one dining car, one Pull-
sicians advised an immediate opera- man, composite, one Pullman lounge
It ion. car, four ten-compartment cars,'one
Judge Decker wrote: "Perhaps by ten-compartment car, one Pullman
or prior to the time you receive this private car.
'you will receive a telegram from my The party will reach here Tuesday
wife informing you of the result, if January 16, at 8 a. m., and will leave
fatal. I am dying slowly of starva- at 3:15 in the afternoon. The day will
tion, as there is something that presses be spent in Drumright and surround-
the intestines and in the doctor's opin- ing field.
i ion, it may be a cancerous growth." | o
Boy Scalded;
Injuries Fatal
Raymond Pitcock, two-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Pitcock of Ti-
ger, died today of injuries received
Wednesday when he fell into a bucket
of scalding hot water. Mrs. Pitcock
had placed the bucket of water on the
kitchen floor and the little fellow, who
was playing around the floor, lost his
balance * nd toppled over into the
Although local telephone officials
have received no official notification
of the transfer, it is learned on good
authority that the Pioneer Telephone
& Telegraph company of Oklahoma,
has passed into the hands of the
Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone
company which has absorbed a* num-
ber of other companies. Manager Kel-
ton of the local oflice of the Pioneer
company, stated today that he had re-
ceived no official word of any change
in ownership of the company, but had
heard rumors to the effect that the
consolidation had been effected.
The Southwestern has headquarters
at Jefferson City, Mo. The new com-
pany organization, according to a
Jefferson City dispatch, means a sale ,
, „ . e ,17 rftft .i ti morrow afternoon from the family
of the amount of $17,500, all to be j
consolidated under the name of the ; resl encc*
Southwestern Bell Telephone com- j o
pany, and consolidated with the Mis-
souri & Kansas companies.
The organization includes these
companies: The Southwestern Tele-
graph & Telephone company, its hold-
ings in Arkansas; the Pioneer Tele-
phone company, its holdings in Ar-
kansas; the Pioneer Telephone & Tele-
graph company of Oklahoma, and the
Southwest Telegraph & Telephone
company of Missouri.
Today in a letter received in Sapulpa
! from Mrs. Decker, she states that the
operation was made and was success-
ful so far as it went. She states that
another delicate operation is necessa-
ry. Judge Decker is admitted to be in
a very dangerous condition.
Sapulpa Takes
Back R'y Bonus
scalding hot water. He died today, in
Owing to the failure of the Sapul-
pa & Oil Field Railroad to extend its
Got Any Babies "ne fro™ "ap"'Iia: v;u shamrock, to
J Drumright by the first of the year the
VA11 Oon Qi\orn9 city of Sapulpa took back a bonus of
•I- ' JU V_>ctll • $21,250, which it has offered for the
> j completion of the road. At a mass
meeting held in Sapulpa last night a
Detroit, Mich., Jan. 12.—Prestige committee was appointed to see if
of the poodle suffered a blow here to- j the various projects which want the
.. <• u *i * .u u 11 day when it was learned that the de- money, can be brought into an agree
spite of all that the physicians could * . j . , . . *
do. Funeral services will be held to-
Bristow State
Bank Is Sold
mand for babies in Detroit exceeds ment as to how it is to be apportioned
The publishers o f
holding their first day's .
regular meeting of the Oklahoma | man" is according to the Scripture,
Press Association in Oklahoma City hence, to trifle with and resist the
today and the reports from that city Holy Spirit is to endanger the soul,
indicate one of the largest meetings Today, if you would hear his vo.ee,
in the history of the organizations, harden not your heart
which are being held in | Three questions will be the basis of
will be con- the sermon tonight. Come tonight,
stay home tomorrow night. Remember
your church offering for
January 14th., next Sabbath. Don't
The sessions,
the Lee-Huckins Hotel,
tinued tomorrow. _ |"
A diversified and interesting pro- to bring
gram has been arranged and includes
papers and addresses by some of the
leading publishers and editors of the
state. The topics under discussion are
those of vital interest to newspaper
men and printers. The meeting is con-
fining itself strictly to business and
the "junketing" features have been
eliminated for this session.
become delinquent.
Any one of the belligerents would
agree to peace—on its own terms.
ooo
Possibly from now on, "Rumania
for the Rumanians!" will be the Rus-
sian war-cry.
IDLE HOUR THEATRE TODAY
A MUTUAL MASTERPIECE
The Qualiiy o! Fate
The Biggest Dramatic Offering of the Season. Gertrude Robison
and Alexander Gaden
the supply. Information came from
the headquarters of the Michigan
Children's Home Society, where it was
declared babies given over to the in-
stitution are taken away by women
with an unsatisfied mother love, al-
most before they can be unwrapped.
Representatives of the county fair as-
sociation, hospital board, literary club
and park association all demand a
part of the money. The commercial
club is insistent with a demand for
$10,000 for the purpose of procuring
new industries.
NEW BRICK BUILDING
GLORIOUS WAR
The First State Bank of Bristow
has been sold to H. H. Barker, form- One of the most desirable building
erly cashier of the American National sites in the city, the lot between the
Rank at Sapulpa, it is learned today, jpost office and the First National Bank
The bank was formerly the property . on Ohio avenue, has been snapped up
of the Jones brothers, oil producers, j and will be the location, of a new
of Bristow, who recently disposed ofj brick building to be erected in the
their holdings in the south part of the near future by Drumright & Metz.
Drumright field. The consideration is Plans for the new building have not
2,400 Bbl. Well
South of City
The gushers continue to spout in
the Drumright field and one of the
best recent completions in the entire
Mid-Continent is reported today. The
Gypsy brought in No. 11 on the Jack-
son-Barnett, just southeast of the city
limits, Thursday afternoon and the
well is making 2400 barrels, natural
The European war has been going [ said to have been $30,000. The First j been completed, but it is learned that
on for two or three years—we forget [ State Bank is capitalized at $25,000. j it will be modern in construction, of
which—and, we regret to state, not a Barker will assume control of the ^ brick and probably two stories high.
single czar, kaiser, crown prince, war bank at once. j Work is expected to start soon on j
lord, or any other heaven-appointed o the new Lewis building on the site of now. The well is in the deep sand and
ruler has been killed. The only dead ESTHER FRANCES WHEELER j lt>e recent fire at Broadway and jf it holds up to production will sus-
sovereign reported was old Francis | Pennsylvania. The Stubblefield Fur-. tain the record of this prolific farm
Joseph, who died of old age, in a fea- Esther "Frances Wheeler, daughter niture company has already contract- for the biggest producers in the entire
ther bed. Byron wrote: of Julian T. and Mildred E. Wheeler, j et* f°r room in the new structure. j field. The big 20,000-barrel gusher,
"War is a game that, were the peo- was born in Jay county, Indiana, Jan-
ple wise, kings could not play at." j uary 1G, 1902, died January 8, 1917,1
The war lords take part in battle aged 14 years, 11 months, 22 days.
NO COUNCIL MEETING
like the Mexican general, who ex-
claimed:
"March on, my gallant soldiers.
Your noble officers will follow you,
this afternoon."
Wonder if the kaiser and the sultan
exchanged Christmas cards this year?
She, with other members of the fam- There was no meeting of the coun-
ily, came to Oklahoma from Indiana cil last night as planned, owing to I
two years ago this month. She was
preceded to the spiritual world by her
father and two sisters. She is surviv-
ed by her mother and sister, four
brothers and a host of relatives and
friends.
' i X
THE BIGGEST SERIAL OF THE YEAR
The Sequel to
The Diamond arom Hie Sky
ADMISSION 5c-!Oc.
MATINEE-EVENING
STRAND THEATRE TODAY
(UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT)
Merry Minsirel Maids
POLLY PRIMROSE AND HER COMPANY
ALL GIRLS: COMEDIANS, SOLOISTS, BUCK-AND-WING
DANCERS
Special Scenery and Costumes of Beauty—Big First Part and
Strong Olio
SPECIAL TODAY
William Fox Feature
THEDA BARA In "UNDER TWO FLAGS"
A Masterly Picturization of Ouida's Internationally Famous Novel.
Scenario by George Hall.
the fact that a quorum was not pres-
ent. If the members can be gotten to-1
which was the astonishment of the en-
j tire joil world, was brought in on this
I tract about a year ago.
WANT RIG BUILDERS
George M. Wilson, manager of the
gether a meeting will be held late this j Long-Bell Lumber company, reports
afternoon for the purpose of passing j that he has positions for three rig
ordinances incident to the sale of the builders, in the Yale field. Apply at
public improvement bond issue. I the Long-Bell office.
ADMISSION 10c-20c-30c.
MATINEE-EVENING
PASTIME THEATRE TODAY
"The Newest Theatre"
Don't Miss the Best Tabloid Aggregation Touring the State!
The Girls From Joyland
A Beanty Chorus—Bright, Clever, Snappy Dancers
ON THE SCREEN TODAY
His Brother's Keeper
A Powerful Drama in Three Acts
ADMISSION 10c-20c.
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