Drumright Evening Derrick (Drumright, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 297, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 16, 1921 Page: 1 of 2
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VOTE FOR H. D. RAY, INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR
Oliln niKtorl**!
tlrmnrirjht W Orrrirh
VOL. 5 NUM0ER 297
DRUMRIGHT, OKLAHOMA, WEDNESDAY, MAR. 16, 1921
DAILY 15c PER WEEK
VOTE FOR FAYE (Mrs. Oscar) McCOLLOUGH FOR SCHOOL TREASURER
DRUMRIGHT FIRMS REPORT TRADE
BETTER WITH PRICES STEADIER
STARR COMPANION CAUGHT
/WOMEN HELD UP ON STREETS
BY THREE HIGHWAYMEN
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Every Reason to be Optomistie Is Reports by
Leading Business Men in City; Prices Near
Bottom is Opinion.
SLOW AND STEADY WILL GIVE since the great drop at the first of the
BETTER CONDITIONS THAN year. S. G. Suratt of the Booterie sai^
SUDDEN DROPS he could notice a considerable im-
provement since the first of the month.
That business conditions are stead- His is another new store here, having
ily improving and that we are getting opened last November. Prices are now
back to normal steadily with prices steady, he said.
declining is the opinion of most of the' o
representative business man in Drum- BIG COMPANIES WILL SOON BE
right. The grocery stores show a' TAKING 100 PERCENT OF OIL
steady decline in prices and increase
in business, wh?le the mercantile es-1 Oilton, March 16.—From the fact
tablishments have no late decline in that some five or six of the big pipe
prices to report. Their big decline came line companies have announced within
at the first of the year. The bankers, the past week or two that they had or
although reticent in making any defin- would resume at once the taking of
ite statements, are agreed that busi- 100 per cent run of crude, has had a
ness is looking better and that the tendency to make things look bright-
prospects for the future is encourag- er in the oil fields, not only locally
ing. The" statements of the banks is but al over the Mid-Continent field. I
a pretty good index of business condi- iB not believed that drilling operations
tions, and they show an increase in will be resumed for some sixty to
business. j ninety days, but then it is believed at
F. M. Foster of the Drumright State the end of that period this phase of
Bank reports that the statements of (oil production will be resumed and
the bank shows an "increase in busi-1 with greater activity than has been
ness. He thinks that inside of sixty seen for a number of years. Very lit-
days the oil companies would open tie drilling is being done around here
up and resume operations. "We do not at present, but it is believed by the
want to see a change come too fast,''! first of June there will be practically
said Mr. Foster. "We want to see it as many outfits at work in this terri-
come gradually and steadily." The tory as there were some three or four
Federal reserve bank statements years ago.
show a great change for the better, >
he continued.
R. M. Hays of the First National
Bank said that the prospects for the!
future was good, although he could j
not make any definite statements as
Tahlequah, March 16.—Charles
Hrackett, arrested at Porum, a tew
days ago, is one of the three men al-
leged by Henry Starr to have been
his companions in the attempt to rob
the bank of Harrison, Ark., on the
occasion of which Starr was fatally
shot.
Brackett, who lived at the base of
"the Indian bift -ial mound," a few
miles southeast of this place until
last fall, is a brother of two of the
well known and respected farmers of
this section, but has been in trouble
on a number of occasions himself. He
is a man of peculiar appearance,
short of stature, "bench-legged" and
usually wears a broad sombrero and
high-top boots.
IGHT MAN IS
ROBBED LAST NIGH!
FRED HELEMS IS RELIEVED
FIREARMS AND MONEY
| Sapulpa, March 16.—Bold highway-
men Saturday night attacked Mrs. J. i
|C. Archibald and Mrs. F E. Snyder!
as they were coming down town and
| succeeded in getting away with the j
handbag belonging to Mrs. Archibald
j after having snatched it from her
■ grasp.
| The two ladies were coming down
j town and while on East Dewey be-
I tween Oak and Walnut they passed
I three young men standing on the
| sidewalk. One of the men reached
over and grabbed Mrs. Archibald's
handbag in which she carried her
puree while a second robber attempt
ed to grab the bag carried by Mrs.
Snyder. Both ladies screamed loudly
for help meanwhile struggling to re-
train possession of their valuables
Mrs. Snyder managed to break the
grasp of the robber who was tugging
GIRLS AS ILL AS BOYS STUDY
Students Show Great Interest in Finding How the
Wheels go Around; City Auto Men Co-Operate
In Instruction.
GEOGOLISTS MEET IN
TOMORROW
TULSA
PRODUCTION HOLDS UP TO HIGH
MARK
Production of Oklahoma and Kan-
Fred Helems, a teaming contra
of Drumright was held up at 8:30
o'clock last night on the Cushing ro
inside the Payne county line. Mr.
Helems was relieved of six-shooter
and a Winchester rifle as well as
in cash.
The hold-up was staged just this
tells a story of a horse-racing, julep
inside the Payne county line. Mr,
side of Euche creek by two mask
ed men. There is no clew as to theii
identity. Among the cash taken w."
a ten dollar gold piece which Mr.
Helms was wearing for a watch fob.
The bandits kindly let him keep the
rim the piece was fixed in. The police
here are on the case.
DRUMRIGHT WOMAN IS IN JAI^
FOR LARCENY.
to how soon we can expect normal
conditions. He thinks the oil business'week' The totaI output of .the tW0
will be opened up again in sixty or Bta,es averaged 354,600 ba/els daily,
ninety days j eomPai'e<l w!th 354,400 barrels the
C. E. Morris of the Guaranty State week Pilous. U was the fo"rth week
spoke in the same tone. He thinks the in ""^cession that production increas
sas increased again during the past Rosalee Staley, a Drumright woman
is in the jail here. She was arrested
yesterday on an old warrant for lar-
ceny In connection with the theft of
clothing.
graudal improvement will continue.
| ed. thereby showing that operators
Charles Peller of the Krfight'sare not showing the proper coopera-
Ladies Wear store reports a business,t,on in ,he shutdown movement,
advance of twenty-five percetn since 0
the first of February. The price of| FOR SALE
goods has not changed since the first i
of the year except that silks show aj One ? room modern house. Close in.
slight increase in price. "Prices have 315 West Broadway. Joseph S. Wester-
reached the bottom." says this Dmm-.heide and Co. 297-tf
right business man. — —
J. R. Keil of the Pure Food grocery
says that business is increasing
steadily. His business in the city is
now so he cannot give percentages,
but conditions look good, he says. A.'ot
FIRST VICTIM
Chicago, March 16.—Baseball claim-
ed its first fatality of the season Mon-
day when Joseph Mattloa, 13 years old
was struck on the head by a ball in
a game with playmates and died sev-
eral hours later.
at her bag, but the fellow who attack-
ed Mrs. Archibald secured her bag
after a struggle. All three of the men J
run west on Dewey and disappeared '•
down a side street.
Tulsa will be host on Thursday and
Friday, March 17th of the coming
week to the American Association of
Petroleum Geogolists. , Headquarters
I will be maintained at Hotel Tulsa, and
I peneral sessions will be held in the
auditorium of the City Hall.
TESTIMONY ENDED
AS HAMON TRIAL
NEARS ITS END
INDIAN MAKES GOOD AS PAINTER
Tulsa, March 16.—The Eirst Lndian
exhibit his paintings on Fifth avenu,e
in New York has come on Fifth av.,
and now bids fair to take a place in
the class of advanced painters, ac-|
cording to a story in a large New
York daily by Louis Bernlieimer, who
devotes extensive space to the ac-
complishments and struggles of F.
Overton Colbert, native Chickasha In- Ardmore, March 16.—-Introduction
dian and not to his early education at 'of testimony at the trial of Clara Ham
the Oklahoma A. & M. college at Still-
water according to the story.
Burnheimer writes there are sug-
gestions in New York that Colbert be
engaged to produce m'ural works to
RUMORS OF THREATS ^"O COUN
SEL AND JURORS IF VERDICT
IS "GUILTY"
DEPARTMENT IN NO WAY IS IN
COMPETITION WITH CITY
SHOPS
About a hundred and twenty-Awn
of the High School students of Drum-
right may be seen every school d«5
for a period of at least an hour and a.
half industriously working ou M
"busted" automobiles or repairitt
their own "whopies,''
They are members of the class In
automobile engineering which is new
one of the most important features
the newer education that has bee*
added to the system of education afc
followed in the_ Drumright Higfc
School. In addition to these boys thei*
is a baker's dozen of girls— girls 1*
automobile repair shop!—who ar*
taking courses in this department be-
sides a number of outside women in
the town.
Theer are two parts to the work, the
study of cars and the actual work on
them. For the actual work William SL
Rosamond, who is in charge of tli^
department, has procured a number
of cars from people in the city which
have been taken down and are studied
and worked on. There is a regular re
on for the alleged murder of Jake L.
Hamon ended at 10:23 o'clock this
morning and the court adjourned un
til three o'clock to permit Judge Cham, pa'r S',0P 'n addition to the Demon-
plon to prepare instructions to the Ftratio" room where he boys may be
adorn the state capltol at Oklahoma j jury. seen, a littFe the worse for dirt aa4
City. , i Each side was allotted certain hours Prea8e> underneath the old derelicts
The young Indian left college before for its argument and it was said that wor'<',1K away just like any other
he had finished Ji's course and upon
his own responsibility started west,
his journeys taking him to Alaska and
to Panama and then back to the state
of Washington. Here, the story says.
Colbert was "discovered" by an artist
of high repute, who encouraged the
young Indian to study art in the
School of Fine Arts at New York
where Colbert began a series of paint-
ings of Indian gods and it is his inten-
tion to give America "his expressions
of an art sprung from the soil of Am-
erica. born of its original forests and
its immense and sun-drenched plains,''
according to Bernheimer's article.
WHERE EVERYBODY GOES
WILL HANDLE
Ui
J. Fogaley of Fogaley Brothers grocery o
states that the price of canned fruits |U
is showing a decline at this time. The >
Q
drop in the price of groceries, he o
thinks, is about twenty per cent. The ®
same can be said of meats. "We are1 o:
noticing a decided pick up in business, >
since the first of the month,'1 said Mr. h"
Fogaley. Other gorcers gave even a w
greater drop in prices from the peak J u
of last fall. ' |
"I should say conditions are bet-
ter," said Philip Massad, of the Mas-
sad Mercantile firm here. He explain-
ed that prices have not dropped any
CUT FLOWERS
THIRD ANNUAL
CARNIVAL |
WIRT.WIND OF GAYETY
AT
t j
l FRANK HICKMAN
Announces the re-
moval of his law of-
fice to
{ Rooms 4, 5 and 6
in
| Perfection Baking
| Company
i- 4 doors north of Postoffice
. -2
Bennett Building
ZACKIE'S PHARMACY
WHERE EVERYBODY GOES
i
I SPECIAL TODAY
Golden Currant
Cake
Hot Bread and Rolls
daily at 11:00 A. M. I
HIGH SCHOOL
FRIDAY, MARCH
t 7 p. m. till Midnight
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if the court prepared the charges by h11™'11 mechanics.
the time court reconvenes, they will ^r' Rosamond, the man in charge
be gotten under way immediately of the department, is an army automo-
There is much doubt as to whether ,liIe ,nan who has lla 1 -v(!ars of ex"
the court will be readv with instruc l,er'ence in automobile and motorcy-
tions and it was thought probable c]e wor,(' He has ha<1 charKfi of molor"
that an adjournment until tomorrow cycIe shoPs in Fra>i<,p and the whooi
morning would be taken. at army headquarters San Antonio,
The court must charge the jury on Texa9' where tl,ere '3 11 $3 000'044
three points: murder, which upon automobile plant.
conviction will carry a sentence of The automobile men in the city
death or life imprisonment, first de- ',ave ,,one a 'ot 10 make the work In
gree manslaughter for which upor ,he class a success. Th y loan pans
conviction the penalty would be from of equipment for Vtu !y end* visiting
four years to life imprisonment and factory men down to the school t
second degree manslaughter with a lecture to the students and take stn8-
minimun fine of oen dollar. ents out in their cars teach thettt
Attorney General Freelhig announc t,ie Principles of operation. For test*
ed that the Fpecial prosecutor would Dyke's Automobile Encyclopedia and
make the opening argument and he 'l10 information supplied by about a
would close for the state. Attorney hundred and fifty manufacturers are
McLean of the defense announce! uspfl ae well as advertisements from
that three of the defense corps of magazines.
six attorneys would speak. The class of girls do not exactly
get down underneath and among the
Ardmore. March 16.—The court in machinery of a car will a hammer an#
the trial <-f < lara Smith Hamon for a cold chisel. They do. however, learn
the murder of Jake L. Hamon. ruled to drive a car and how to care for one
as ir.admissable a number of letters It is hoped, according to Mr
that Ha:"on had written to the de- Rosamond, that by next year therfe
fend .nt. The defense had its excep- will be machinery installed in the de-
lion noted and formally rested its
case.
The state began the presentation of
its rebutal testimony introducing Sam
Blair, the newspaper man who ob-
tained the interview with Clara at
fhihauua City, Mexico.
(Continued on last page)
| A Suggestion
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?.+ Knights of Columbus
? | St. Patrick's Dance '■
| I At Cain's Academy
III Thursday, Mar. 17th
The Knight's of Columbus,
Drumright council, with the "
endorsement of Herbert Hover's ••
secretary, wilt start a nation- I
wide drive for relief of the
suffering women and children ' •
of Ireland.
This dance is for funds for
t this purpose.
•£ Admission $1.50
f LADIES FREE!
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Neglect of Painting Means Decay
and at the present high price of lumber,
you cannot afford to neglect painting
your house or outbuildings—
We guarantee satisfaction in every
detail.
A. E. AYERS,
Wall Paper and Paints—Contracting
partment. Already $2,500 is investec
in tools.
It is the intention of the school a«
ministration to have an automobile
department that will be of service Ve
the city in general as well as to tire
j high school in patricular.
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A Few of Our
Saturday Specials !
Small Ny-ko Milk 5 cans....25c
•• Blackberries, No. 2 cans....23c
Head Lettuce, 2 for 25c
Bacon, per lb ;/39c
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s
i- Pure Food Grocery
I.
Penn. and B'dy. Cash and Carry
J. R. KEIL, Prop.
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