Oklahoma State Register (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 35, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 1926 Page: 1 of 8
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SECTION—“B”
11.50 Per Year
GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1926.
VHIRTT-F0TH YEAR. No. 28.
'Local Refinery May Operate Again
LEGION ELECTS OFFICERS.
riURF. THERE’S A SANTA CLAUS
By A. a CHAPIN
i?Wi TflAOC'
next
OIL SITUATION
CITIES SHOULD CO-OPERATE
IN NATIONAL ADVERTISING
IS UNCHANGED
•ad
low price of cotton
Although the
iTAX ROLLS BIOT JAM A.
announce* that th* tax roll* win ho
1 without any penalty attaching.MBS. HUMPHREYS DIES.
Holiday Offer
7
cow.MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU - IS THE WISH OF STATE REGISTER PUBLISHERS
Name
Address
7‘
SERVICE FIRMS
WANT REVOCABLE
PERMITS ISSUED
LESS COTTON IN
1927 WILL BE
SLOGAN IN STATE
past
state
Ard-
The famous British museum waa
founded by lottery, 8600,000 being
to be subscribed
business men of
preeent time Mr.
available and ap-
Gas And Electric Company Give Up
Franchises And Make Applica-
tion For the New Permits.
Enclosed find 12.00 for which send the Okla-
homa State Refiater for Two Years from date.
Two Hundred Dollars In Prines to be
Given Formers Who Produced
Most Cotton On Five Acres.
In order that the national adver-
tising campaign of the Sooner state
which is being sponsored by the Ok-
lahomans, Inc., be as efficient as pos-
sible, every city in Oklahoma should
co-operate.
The campaign will bring hundreds
of thousands of inquiries to the exec-
utive secretary of the Oklahomans,
Inc., and ail those names will be re-
layed to the cities and communities
which have the opportunities which
appeal to the various persons.
Branch offices of the Oklahomans,
IncM will be established at all cham-
bers of commerce, throughout the
state. A city which has no chamber
of commerce, will of course, get some
of the new-comers; but the live, wide-
awake organisation will be able to
"cash in" on the leads better than
those cities which have no chambers.
Caustic Comment and Otherwise
About Niblack’ii Plan for Gover-
nor's Mansion in Guthrie.
Two hundred dollars tn cash, to be
given away as prise* in a cotton pro-
duction contest inaugurated by the
Guthrie Chamber of Commerce, co-op-
erating with L. J. McDonald, county
agent, will be ready for distribution
on January 1st, according to Loren
Hutchina, secretary of the C. of C.
Some of the farmers in the contest
have made their returns on produc-
tion, but there are several to still be
heard from. Hutchina and McDonald
Cold weather, which has been hold-
ing the state in its grip since Sunday
night, has retarded drilling* in the I
test* in Logan county and there are
no material changes to report this
COUNTY ON DEAL
TO SELL PLANT
Mrs. P. W. Humphreys, ninety-five
years old died at her home here Tues-
day. Mrs. Humphreys was one of the
old-timers in Guthrie, living here
about thirty years.
Services were conducted at the First
Christian church by Rev. Kilborn
Thursday afternoon.
year, and this is but an evidence of the in-
creasing betterment of the race.
With a backward glance over the records of
County Treasurer Fred L. Wenner
and the county commissioners have
been negotiating tor a month with
representatives of a company operat-
ing half a dozen refineries in the
southwest to tak > over and operate
the old Pioneer lietinery north ot the
city which wan taken over by the
county last spring for 88,000 back
taxes and it is understood that an
agreement has lx en reached and the
deal will lie do. ed before tlie first
of tiie year.
As a part of the consideration for
the property the company agrees to
rehabilitate und operate the refinery
at an early date.Cold Weather Retards Drilling
Nothing Exciting Occurring
Anywhere in County.
MILL CASE BACK
TOSTATE COURTDIVERSIONS OF A JURY.
The oldest Juror on the Fall-Do-
beny case is 44, the youngest 23.
Their average age 1* lea* than 32.
They virtually are prisoners, being
required to sleep in the court house,
always closely guarded and forbidden
even to read newspaper*. Naturally,
this makes the time hang heavy on
these young fellows. Someone sneak-
ed in a pair of dice. These have been
worn almost smooth with th* num-
bers fast becoming obliterated. An-
other diversion is singing. They have
organised a glee club.. The court
ought at least to provide them with
crossword pussies.
Henly, army aviator, connected
with th* company here, aad designer
ot the plane, made trial flight The
plan lew perfectly and did not need
any adjusting or altering Croat the
original plan, said Glenn. Tested
alongside of the commercial plane the
company also owns, ft proved super-
ior in maneuvers and climbing ability.
The company will build several
more for sale and expect* to market
them cheaper than the average com-
mercial plane.
The plane was built and assembled
here, with the exception of the motor,
propeller and wheels.
PAPERS IN STATE
MAKEFEATUREOE
NIBLACK STORYC. OFC. TO PAY
COTTON PRiffSGUTHRIE BANKER 18
FEDERAL BANK DIRECTOR
Ned Holman, president ot the First
National Bank, was recently appoint-
ed a director in th* Federal Reserve
Bank of Oklahoma City. Tuesday be
attended a meeting of thp directors of
the bank in the city.
A. AND M. COLLEGB FAB.
MEB8 8H0BT C0UB8B8
Of more recent vintage was the in-
Mated petition voted upon Novem-
ber 2, which sought to Increase th*
salaries of state legislators from |6 a
day to |10. This, in the opinion of
many, might possibly have carried
had it not contained the added pro-
viso that the present regular term
period of sixty days be increased to
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ed with them in their bereavements and con-
soled them as best we might This is as it
should be. It is such things that the spirit of
Christmas teaches us. It is the lesson brought
to us by the Man of Gallilee nineteen hun-
dred and twenty-six years ago.
During 1926 we have grown better individ-
Aially and collectively; we have evinced a
greater degree of tolerance, of human kind-
known, especially It thia ptaa it
coupled with a movement to reflate
th* 1927 cotton acreage 38 1-8 par
cent.
I ton Growers association to turn over
their field organisation, office aad
' warehouse facilities without asking
| the producer to sign a seven year con-
tract or charging him a membership
fee, merely charging him the mini-
mum handling cost, chargeable to
other pools of a similar character.
"Oklahoma la the flrat state to get
into action on the holding pool, the
organisation having already received
over 40,000 bales and there la no rea-
son why your cotton should be forced
on the market. This organisation to-
gether with your local banker trill be
able to take care of your loan re-
i qulrementa, advancing to you from
sixty to seventy-live per cent of th*
i market value of your cotton, ft baa
’ been thought that a movement ot tMa
> character throughout all th* cotto*
states would not only have a tendamgr
to stabilise the price ot cotton bat
cause a favorable reaction when th*And now comes another queer angle
in the Pioneer Cotton Mill case one
in which th* county is divided against
itself.
Following a meeting with a groap
of business men Wednesday ot last
week, who sought a lower valuation
for the mill, the county commission-
ers agreed to their proposals and
dropped the valuation from 8330,000
to 880,000. This was done over the
protests of the tax ferret who insti-
gated proceedings to collect back
taxes, and the county attorney.
Now the tax ferret attorney, R. W.
Stouts, and County Attorney George
Partridge, have filed a brief with th*
state supreme court, checking up to
the court th* proposition of whether
or not their mandate on th* valuation
shall be Inal or whether the county
haa th* right to lower the valuation.
The hearing will be simply a test
to determine point* of law ao that
the county can legally proceed with
the case. No such case ha* been be-
fore the supreme court in th* state’s
history.
Tax Ferret and County Attorney Seek
to Have Supreme Court Overrule
Commissioner's Reduction
In Valuation.
Many Interests Join in Acreage Re-
duet Ion for 1927.
Care at calving time. Feeding th*
dairy heifers. Herd management
Barn work and feeding.
January 23—Buildings aad equip-
ment. Mineral feeding problems, and
raising dairy heifers.
Other Short Course*.
Soils and crop* short courss, Jag*
nary 34 to 30.
Fruit growing short course, Jan-
uary 31 to February 6.
Bee keeping short course, February
to 13.
Farm engineering short course,
February 14 to 19.
1926 we find every good reason for believing
this Christmas season is to be the best we
have ever enjoyed. We know that those
blessings, faith, hope, love, peace, that were
brought to the race with the dawn of the
Christian era are with us today in greater de-
grep than ever before. We know we will re-
ceive a greater number of hearty Christmas
greetings, a greater number of friendly
Leasing excitement around Mar-
shall, that followed the Marland strike
north ot ‘that town in Garfield county,J
continues high, but there is no fur-|
ther development at the wall. Water
has been struck and the driller* are
going deeper in an effort to pick up
a richer sand. If this is not success-
ful it Is announced that the well will
be plugged back to the first sand
where it is hopeful that a 260 battel
well can be produced.
The Bailey teet Just south of the
townsite of Lovell, in section nine, is
down below 2100, with th* rotary drill
going on down steadily. The Bryan-
Emery test, to the east is down to
3500 feet and will now standardise.
Around Pleasant Valley leasing
prices are increasing because of a lo-
cation to be made by Marland, Just
across th* river in Payne county. The
Bailey teat la thia section i* still drill-
ing with no new development*.
Other tost* ar* plugging away, with
no reports of any importance. Ex-
citement to the south, aa th* result
of the Cromwell test near Oklahoma
City, Is losing it* high pitch, du* to
delay in drilling on various pretext*.
OKLAHOMA STATE REGISTER,
Guthrie, Oklahoma.
The low price of cotton presents
the South with a major problem, the
solution of which is being undertaken
by a South wide plan to take off the
market Home four million bale* of
cotton for an indeterminate period
and to reduce acreage.
Oklahoma's part in this program la
represented by the promotion of a
finance corporation organized by the
committee of ten appointed by P. A.
Janeway, president of the Liberty Na-
tional Bank of Oklahoma City, which
corporation is to be capitalized with
two million dollars, one million of
which was subscribed by Lew Went*,
oil operator of Ponca City and match-
ed by one million
by the banks and
Oklahoma. At the
. Wentz's million is
proximately >800,000 haa been sub-
| scribed by the banks and is now in
i the hands of the committee.
“The original plan of setting up an
independent organisation composed of
hundreds of receiving agent* in every
cotton town in Oklahoma,” says Bo-
gene Gum, secretary ot the ftklahnma
Bankers association and chairman dt
the acreage reduction committee, "to-
gether with the difficulties Involved
In securing competent stapling and
ITH 1926 drawing rapidly to a close we
can look back over its twelve months as
they have passed in this community,
und we find in them much that we will wish
to remember, and but very little we will want
to forget
The Christmas season of 1926 brings to us
a record of twelve months of community
peace, of community good will, of community
prosperity, and an increased community hope
for tne dawning year of 1927.
During 1926 we have enjoyed our neighbors,
our friends; we have laiighed with them in
their hours of merriment, and we have griev-
TAKES TO THE AIR
Th* Harned-Glenn Airplaa* Com-
pany tested the first of several planes
, i which ft proposes ot build here, last
of such discussions that nothing real-I Saturday, and was well pleased with
Ifi la ever done about it. In 1923 when ; its performance, according to M. D.
the Walton administration was Just Glenn, of th* company.
coming la (herd was much discussion,
aad some of WaHoa’s close Mlowers
went so tar aa to introduce la the
legislature a measure providing for
aa increase la the salaries of all etate
GeedUitll Jan. 10th 1937
THE STATE REGISTER *O AA
• For Two Years For ww* w
By sending two dollars and the attached Cou-
pon to the OKLAHOMA STATE REGISTER
you will receive the paper for 2 years. This of-
fer is good until January 10th, 1927, after which
time you will have to pay the regular price of
$1.50 per year. Send in your order now and
save money.
Short course* at tne A. A M. Col-
lege begin January 8, with one week’s
work in poultry, January 3 to 9, fol-
iowad by a oae wrok course la Uro
stock, January it to it
The short course la dairying and
dairy fanning comes during th* week
of January 17 to 28.
Program *f Dairy Famlag Skert
Course.
January 18—Registration and get-
acquainted. Dairying in Oklahoma.
Breeds of dairy cattle. Study of dairy
type. Feed mixture*.
January 19—Starting the dairy herd.
Cattle breeding. Selection of the
breed. Selection of the cow. Test-
ing milk. Study ot pedigrees.
January 20—Record keeping. Cow
testing associations. Advanced regis-
try. Breed Judging. Touting milk.
January 21. Feeds for dairy cattle.
Selection of the herd tire. Feeding
for milk production. Herd manage-
1 meat. Machine milking. Farm work
raised to purchase the coUection of and feeding.
Sir Haas Sloan*. January 22—Feeding the dry
OKLAHOMA STATE REGISTER
' ™ PLACES SERVICE ABOVE PARTY POLITICS, FRIEND OF SCHOOL LAND LBSSBfi.
OLDEST PAPER PUBLISHED COM TINUOUSLT IN OKLAHOMA -----• -
Gordon Blerer, Guthrie attorney, j
was unanimously chosen to succeed;
Raymond Fields, as post commander
of the Le Bron Post, American Legion
| at the annual election of officers
Thursday night.
Tim Dooley was named v.ce-com-
rnander and G. L. Hambay, adjutant
to succeed himself. Paul Carey was
chosen finance officer; Rev. H. B.
Morris, post chaplin; "Happy" Mc-
Clure. sergeant-at-arms, and Sidney
Ham, historian.
Everett McMillan waa elected ser-
vice officer.
An executive committee was select-
ed, composed of IMst Post Commander
Fields, LeRoy Axtell, Lester Housh
and Theodore Kellogg.
One of the outstanding accomplish-
ments of the post during the
I year was the securing of the
convention for Guthrie at the
more session.
Attendance of the convention
year, based on the last convention, is
estimated at 5,000.
One of the important matters to
come up during Blerer’s term will be
the department of Oklahoma conven-
tion to be held next July or August
in Guthrie.
The Guthrie Gas Company and the
Public Service Company, two separate _
corporations, operating under twenty-1 grading and available bonded ware-
five year franchises, and supplying house facilities proved to be such a
Guthrie with gas, electric light and problem and cohsumed so much time
power, have surrendered their char-J and expense that the eonftnittee
ters to the city and have made appll- [ thought it wise to take advantage of
cation to the state corporation com-1 the offer made by the Oklahoma Cot-
mission for revocable permits.
The revocable permit Is provided for
by state law under house bill No. 4,1
around which such a fight waged in ■
the Nineteenth legislature. Operating (
under the new permit, the franchise
of any public utility company is In-
determinate, depending on service
rendered. The permit can be revoked
at any time on Just complaint of in-
adequate service.
No opposition is expected to be
voiced against the issuance of the lo-
cal permits. Hearing on the gas com-
pany permit is.set for December 21st.
The Gas company franchise would
have expired in 1928 and that of the
light and power company In 1949.
Practically all cities of any size In
the state now have.their public utility
companies operating under the new
permit.
C. of C. prises, the cash added to what
they receive for the cotton will make
ready ther* haa been considers ble edi- B bl< defence In the pHTO and in a
tonal discussion of the ratter of pro- raearorg w)n make up tor possible
vjffing Governoi Johnston aad bis sue log, n thg MIlte,t BcrgBte.
cessors with an executive mansion, as 1
well as comment urging that he and GUTHRIE-BUILT PLANE
Ids successors should receive com-
pensation more commensurable with
th* dignity of th* office.
' In the past ft has been th* history
The press of the state—sarcastical-
ly, complimentarily, and affluently—
th commenting on the idea contained
in Leslie Niblack’s article in the Ok-
lahoma Stat* Register two week* ago.
All ot which is mighty good publicity
for Guthrie, regardless of whether
they say something good or not aer
good.
Niblack, In bls article, suggested
that Guthrie provide Governor John-
ston with an official mansion to be
uhed during his coming term of office,
uaed during his coming term of office,
ish gubernatorial mansions, to the
discredit ot Oklahoma up to date.
Relating past incidents relative to
a governor’s mansion that ended in
disrepute or failure, Niblack suggest-
ed, that in the event the legislature
which is soon to convene failed to
make such provision, Guthrie offer to
the new governor an official home.
That such a move was not as im-
passible as it sounded, Niblack men-
tioned the fact that Guthrie, connect-
ed with th* capital by a paved road,
waa only forty-five minutes from the
Capitol by the motor car route.
Mntkogee, Tulsa and Oklahoma City
paper*, aa well aa smaller dailies and
weekly papers of the state reprinted
the article and commented on it. Har-
low's Weekly devoted much space to
th* general idea, quoting similar com-
ment from the Chickasha Express,
McAlester News-Capitol, Madill Rec-
ord and others.
The Niblack article was reprinted
in full and was preceded by the fol-
lowing comment:
For the last several years the ad-
vent of a new administration and a
new state legislature has brought on
discussions of two important subjects ur<eg thBt BlI records be turned in so
particularly. These are: the matter the prlgeg mBy be paid according to
of Increasing salaries of state officers, Mhedule.
aad, the question of providing Okla-
homa's chief executives with a home ’ hag ^m^hat discouraged contest-
in the capital city, for them to occupy antg they ghould plck out their five
afr the state's expense, during their Bcra plots, for if they win one of the
tenure in office.
The present is no exception. Al-1
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Golobie, John. Oklahoma State Register (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 35, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 1926, newspaper, December 16, 1926; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1597367/m1/1/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Oklahoma+-+Logan+County%22: accessed July 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.