The Daily Ardmoreite. (Ardmore, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 59, Ed. 2 Sunday, December 14, 1913 Page: 1 of 24
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VOLUME TWENTY
ARDMORE OKLAHOMA
INDUSTRIAL EDITION
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The city schools of Ardmore are the
prldu not only of our city but of the
entire state as well. The process
that has been made in our public
schools is little short of phenomenal.
Fourteen years ago the 2."th day of
last September the public schools of
this city were opened for the first
time. At that time the board of edu-
cation did not own a single school
building nor school ground and the
equipment they had was bought on
credit. At the end of the first month
the total enrollment was 705.
Today the public school property of
the city is worth $300000 and the to-
tal enrollment is practically 2100. The
city owns four of the most modern
ward buildings and one of the best and
most modern high school buildings in
the entire country. During the past
three years the board of education has
placed sanitary drinking fountains In
all the buildings and sanitary steel
dosTs for all the teachers. They have
built a new $100000 high school build-
ing an 1 equipped it with the most
modern equipment found in schools.
They h:ve provided the equipment for
the domestic science department com-
mercial department and manual train-
ing department. They have not only
devoted their energy to the equipment
of lit schools but they have also giv-
en a great deal of attention to the
course of study and the Kind el' work
done by the schools.
The course of study lias been thor-
oughly revised so as to be in accord
with the most modem ideas of educa-
tion. One year lias been added to the
high school course making four years
above the eighth grade. In order to
meet tlie demands for practical in-
struction in the schools they have es-
tablished an excellent course in man-
ual training one in domestic science
and a commercial course. In addition
to this.the public schools have a su-
pervisor of penmanship a supervisor
of drawing.a supervisor of music and
a supervisor of physical culture. Ard-
more is one of the few- systems of
schools in the state this hr.s a super-
visor of physical culture. The board
cf education believes that it is the
duty of the school to look after the
physical welfare of the pupils as well
as the mental ani in addition to or-
dinary physical training given in the
schools there is a systematic course
of plays and games given the pupils
of the schools.
The schools are occupying for the
first time the new $100000 high school
building and already have began to
make this building the center of the
community. It is the meeting place
for four different ladies' clubs. 1; is
also th meeting place of two musical
organizations of the city. In additon
to this there is a Federated Mothers'
Club which meets here- from titm- to
time and furnishes an evening of mus-
ic and social intercourse. Also there
is a class of married ladies in the com-
munity to study domestic s-r-i -nee here
under the regular teacher of this sub-
ject in the hih school. There is an
excellently r quipped gymnasium which
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will soon be opened certain evenings
in the week to the young men of the
city who work during the day and
have no opportunity for physical cul-
ture otherwise. The auditorium is used
for the lyceum course and any other
special concert and entertainment that
have for their purpose the education-
al welfare of the people. The Civic
Club holds its regular meetings in the
high school auditorium. It is planned
to open the library two or three even-
ings a week to the public as soon as
arrangements can be. satisfactorily
made.
In athletics the Ardmore schools
stand in the front ranks among the
schools of the state. Ever since the
Carter County Association was organ-
ized the meet has been won by the
Ardmore high school. For four years
in succession the high school has won
the meet at Durant. In li12 the high
I school won the state championship in
I track athletics and aside from the
stale school of technology wuu the
championship again last year. It is
i understood that the athletic cominit-
I tee will award the cup to the local
'high school. Amang the Huh school
'students there are some very line ten-
1 nis players who won the singles at
i Durant last ear and played in the fin-
1 als of the stale i t. Athlet ics in
'the high school have alwa.vs been
cl"nn and wholesome and the ii.tire
' student body taKe a. iively interest in
j till the athletics.
However the schools do not devote
attention to athb-ies to the detriment
of the literary education neither have
their victories been confim d to athl-'t-!
ics. Last year the high school won
the "Lynn Store" debating cup thus
they have the distinction of being the
! state champions In debating. The rep-
' resetitatives of the school also won
first place in declamation and second
place In oratory. Two literary socle-
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;:is h.ivo been organize! among tli"
iiisli school students jn which thov
are -tivon praettc throughout the year
it one of these things. Already the
r.valry botwoiii these is very keen
and it is expected of the high school
students that they will give a hotter
account of tin inselvcs next spring in
these contests than tit -y have cut
done before.
One of the gr. ntest cooperative
l'i fees in tin? Ardmore schools is the
organization of the Mothers Clue.
There is a Mothers Club in each of the
ward schools and a Federated Mothers
Cluli composed of all the mothers in
the city whiih meets tit the liiiili
si heel. A' their meeting they discuss'
matters of interest to the tiacliers to
the pupils and to the school. They be-
come nai lit ii v tb tie ! aehor and
Mho teacher with them. liv this mean
! an understanding an I sympatic
I springs up between parent and ti .n V v
which is very beneficial to 'he in Id la
school. Whenever the s. hool .ni-I-ttnything
that the board .if cduiit'.i
its not ahle to provide these o.vliliers
j Clubs always come to tic rescue and
supply these tilings. Last year the'
j domestic science department was in-
! iroduced ill the grades. It was nec
essary to have equipment in each of
the ward schools before the subject i
could be taught successfully. The
Mothers Cluhs came forward wth thei
funds and provided this equipment.
inis year nupenmenueiit lurnarus i-si
introducing a systematic course in pic-1
ture study which provides for the stu-
dy of one picture a month in each
of the eight grades. In order that this;
may be done successfully it is in-ce0-sary
to have the best prints of these
masterpieces of art. This will be nine
to the grade and seventy-two to the
buildings which means an outlay of
something like flTiO.OO The Mothers'
Clubs have generously and enthusiast-
ically set about to provide the funds
for securing these pictures. Snperin-
ti ndent Uichat'ds says that he knows
of no force that means quite so mucl
to the public schools of Ardmore as
this working force that is found in
the Mothers' Clubs of the city.
The activities of the public schools
are many-sided. One of the most grati-
fying activities of the high school is
the publication of the school paper
"The Criterion." This paper is edited
and managed entirely by the student
body. It is published three times a
year. The hist issue which is publish-
ed in May is the "Annual." This pa-
llor as published by the high school
has been pronounced as being one of
the best high school papers in the
I'nited States.
State Superintendent Wilson visited
these schools luring the past week and
inspected the high school ami the
j grades' very can-fully. He said that
i ii had been three years since be was
; in Anliiioi'e and that in that time the
! Ardmore schools hud made mole prog-
' t'oss than any o'le r schoc 1 svstem in
tie- stale
Kvry (eli.eu is justly proud of our
I puidie school and wi- should continue
to give them the most liberal sup.
(port possible in order that 'ley may
' eintinue to make the rapid progress
tl'ev have made in the past.
Superintendent Richards' statistic-
al report for November I fit.:
i I herewith submit the following re-
; port upon the work of the schools for
the month of November:
j The report of the schools is as fol-
lows: The total enrollment'was lCGo:
the number belonging at the end of
the month was lU'T: the si 'erage daily
HIGH SCHOOL
(J. 1!. WHITE
.' ' iid.itice was I 1 1 it : : hero w ci e s".-
nt. . . 11". ease. oi tardin- -. 11
.i. of truancy. :! c.isi s of .-. r; oral
. i 1 1 men: . at'.! one s;:.-p "ston.
i'le- total enrollment of -he ipt'fi -.t
schools is as follows: Frankltii.
I J. Was i n. ton ".'.I; Lincoln. ':!
.1. tteison. ::ii; High 2::T.
The number belonging at the end ol
the month was: KrauUl.n. Ilo
Washington .'IL'L'; Lincoln -tie: .1. ffer.
.. p. .'71; limb eL.;
'I'll- average daily attendance of
t!; schools was as follows: Frank-
in. ;ts7; Wii.shing'on Lincoln.
.letTcrson. 12: HUh. 2 1 vs.
The absentees were distributed as
ell.ws among the different schools:
I'lanklin. Washington 1"2; Lin
coin. I.'.U; .left' rson "t'.J; huh. 111.
There w. re :i.'i cases of tardiness in
I i iiiKlin: s in Washington: 12 in Lin-
coin . L'I in .lelTeisnn t'.d in lliub.
There were three cases of tru.inc
it: Franklin . none in Washington. I in
Lincoln ; T in Jefferson ; I in I liith.
There were S cases of corporal pun-
ishment in Franklin; ' in Lincoln: s
in Jefferson none in High.
There was one suspension in Washington.
Ardmore's Churches
CHURCH HISTORY.
Origin and Progress of the Ardmore
Churches.
The Chistian religion is .he mighti-
est factor in our modern civilization
and the Christian church an essential
part of every civilized community. It
is questionable whether a city could
be builded in this day without church
es; for all agree that to make a place
good to live in it is necessary to have
churches and religious organizations.
Where the Supreme Heing is not rec-
ognized and worshipped is not an at-
tractive place for a man to make his
home. Advertise a town as being
free from churches and you are toll-
ing its death knell. People "ill not
settle where they and their children
cannot hear the Word of flod expound-
ed and be under the beningn influence
of the church.
When a town can point with pride
to good church buildings and boast
of a wholesome moral and religious
sentiment among her citizenship she
has a powerful and convincing Induce-
ment to offer settlers. Multitudes are
looking for just such a place to make
their home and invest their money.
The people of Ardmore have rec-
ognized these facts. The religious
idea was manifest in the pioneer set
tiers who very early established places
for wurship: soinetim. s Hi school
building somet in. s a hall: soinlimes
a dug-out. Soon modest st ruct up's
were ereci.d fir the purpose and
these have graduallv boon replaced
by more pretentious ones until now
virtually -v ry eiiiigi-egatioii in III"
city is w.ll house 1. Fury Sund.iv
throngs of our lu st people Mud their
way to the various churches where
they worship their Creator and enjoy
the Christian fellowship there afford-
ed. The spirit of cooperation among
the church is strong and beautiful
heart to heart and hand in hand tin y
are working for the moral and religi-
ous good of the city.
At present there are six denomina-
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The City of Ardmore
LOCATED IN THE CENTER OF A
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WEST Secretary
A treveler from the north or east
via the Hock Island Frisco or Santa
Fe railroads whose ticket reads
AUDMOltK gi ts his first impression
of a modern city when he alights
at the Fnion Station.
Look at your map anci you will see
that Ardmore is 100 miles south of
Oklahoma City the same distance
north of Fort Worth Texas on the
main line of the Santa Fe from Chi-
cago to (lalveston ; the ti rniinal of
the llaileyville branch of the Uock
Island the Frisco and the Oklahoma
New Mexico and Pacific railways.
Ardmore is the capital of Carteri
cicinly and the distributing point for
a section of country that reaches
out in till direction from fifty to
one hundred an-1 fifty miles. Twenty-
eight yours ago. where
Ardmore now stands lb
tie- city oi
long-homed1
Meet- roamed
up to bis l.t
undisturbed in graoi
oi s. The climti'e i ;
winters are mild and
' ciimble; (he
op. n. atid the
le.'iche zero.
snow and bu'
temporal H'e
There is bill
bloiu
littl"
few llu'.s of freezill
vveatln r in winter. In summer lie'
ti mperatiire ri tu bes a high point til
times but tlie air is fn
from lei-
luid.ty aifl tbi.t condiiion with the
prevailing south wind makes lie-
cisy endurable and I in- nights almost
invariably cool The elevation of
the city is '.wo feet. Ardmore is tie-
healthiest most sanitary city in the
state: there is not a better place'
to live nor a better people than its
'citizen's. The future development into
ia larger important commercial city
is not prophetic; it Is CKHTAIN.
The directory census of 1012 gave
the city of Ardmore a population of
II. 1127 about two thousand have
J-ei-n added during the last year.
The main business district and a
number of residence streets are
pavi d with lime asphalt which is
laken from our asphalt mines only! Irish potatoes of the finest variety
three miles from the city. This j Peaches pears appb s plums grapej
quality of asphalt is said to make and in fact all fruit adapted to this
Ihe best (laving in the world. Our! climate produce large yields of the
water supply is from a beautiful ar- finest variety.
tificial lake covering two hundred' The extremely low prie- that theso
acres with an average depth of j lands can be bought for makes Ard-twenty-five
feet with a watershed 'more and Carter county an ideal
cf l.loO acres which is covered with) place for the investor and home-
natural prairie grass thus keeping builder.
the water clear and pure. Natural:
gas is supplied from the Wheeler
oil fields twenty miles to the west.
Kb ctricity is fiirni.-ln 1 for domestic
and commercial purposes from the
most mod-.rn and up to date plant toj
be found in any city in the south-!
west. Factories: Ice nui'tress. as-
phalt paint candy cigar two ice
c ream brick ; iatit niaehfrte shop
i ; : c . 1 1 rn slaughter house pl:irin?
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MOItK ('('MM ICKCIAL VLVV.
FERTILE AGRICULTURAL
GREAT TRADE AREA.
SEC-
Ardmore Commercial Club.
mills (two I job printing offices
weekly newspaper (two) dally news-
paper. Ardmore has: Heat and light
plant flour mill two steam laun-
dries two cold storage plants cot-
ton seed oil mill .three telegraph
companies telephone exchange two
express companies concrete and
plumbing construction company
sanitarium five lumber yapJs a sala-
ried fire department all retail lines
dry goods clothing ' millinery hard-
ware groceries and drugs are well
represented and fine stocks displayed
three hotels and numerous boarding
houses Carnegie library a live com
mercial club retail merchants' as-
sociation opera house uirdome ami
time moving picture shows two
parks. Our twelve church buildings
of the various denominations are
modern and up to date. The different
fraternal orders are till represented.
We have four waul school building.;
i hal are second to none ami a cett-
tral high schol buili"iig that has Just
been coinplele-l at a cost of onu
hundred thousand dollars. With the
recent development of the new oil
fields in the we stern part of our
county which now promise to be tin
largest fields in the southwest thero
is every reason to believe that
within the next five years Ardmore
will have a population of at least
twenty-five thousand.
Agriculture has ever been the dom-
inating industry an-.I has given to
Ardmore the record of being the
largest inland wagon cotton market
in tin- world; having marketed from
wagons alone in one season 52.00O
bales of cotton. The fertile valley
of the Washita river is the home of
alfalfa yielding from three to fivo
cuttings per year. The creek bot-
toms and prairie grown corn cotton
wheat barley oats kaffir corn milo
maize feteritu peanuts sweet and
To Discuss Marketing.
Dallas Texas Pee. 11 The fif'.h
annual convention of the Texas In-
dustrial Congress o;ened her- to-
clay
ift
Th" marketing cf farm proii-
will be one of the principi-
subjects for discussion. The prize.;
ofei'i-d by the congress to li.- dis-
tributed at this convention are not
for the latg-st ret profit.
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Easley, John F. The Daily Ardmoreite. (Ardmore, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 59, Ed. 2 Sunday, December 14, 1913, newspaper, December 14, 1913; Ardmore, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc153805/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.