Drumright Evening Derrick (Drumright, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 244, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 18, 1922 Page: 1 of 4
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GLORIA SWANSON'S GREAT STARRING VEHICLE, "THE GREAT MOMENT" AT THE IDLE HOUR THEATRE SUNDAY AND MONDAY
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VOL. 6. NUMBER 244
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DRUMRIGHT, OKLAHOMA, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1922
FIVE CENTS A COPY
LATIN AND GREER AT OUTS
LOCAL BANKING
INSTITUTIONS IN
FINEST FETTLE
SHAWNEE TEAM
WINS DEBATE
OVER SAPULPA
Sapulpa, March 18.—-Shawnee high
school's negative team triumphed
over the affirmative team of Sapulpa
I high school in n central eoufereiw e
Report to Comptroller of Cur- j ^ "ere KrllUy' "rsui,,R tb" que8"
rency Gives Reason for
Pride in Their Strength
and Conservatism
The showing of the banks of Drum-
rushi. an published in the Derrick
Page* today is one of the most
satisfactory manifestations of hank-
ing security we liav« ever read. Pub-
lic attention has been attracted to>
banking conditions throughout the
country in an unusual degree. Drum-
right has every reason to feel a (lis
tisy! pride in the three banks of this
city as given in the statements furn-
ished the comptroller of the currency.
With deposits aggregatin a little
_*er one million four hundred tlioi
•and dollars, our banks report a cash
and readily convertible security re-
serve of more than half that amount,
and they add to thin other assets in
such amounts as only the. very strong
est hanks In the country retain for
the amount of deposits held. This L4*
a showing remarkable in its conserva-
tiveness.
Although this 1s the season of
spring buying and consequently de-
posits are less than i« normally the
case, owing to the fact that merchants
at this time have cash payments to
make, nevertheless the showing in
this item reflects well the relative
prosperity of out city.
Loans and discounts show that our
bankers have been wisely conserve
tive and have thus been able to pass
through the period of stringency with
assets in sucli a condition that every
need could bo taken care of.
Our banks, therefore, taken individ-
ually and as a whole, are in a super-
latively solid condition and fully
merit the confidence which their de- j
posit ors and the public in general re-
pos0 in them.
heedless to say, the condition of
fl e banks of a city are the most cer-
tain Indication of the strength, vitai
fty and prosperity of that city. Hence
it is that Drumright, reading the re-
ports of the local banks, has the full
est justification for the confidence
with which it envisages the future.
The past months have been months
of strain the country over, but tlm
dawn of prosperity is here and coin-
in g months will see a general awaken-
ing In all lines of business, in which
our banks can be relied 011 to contri-
bute their great share to the upbuild-
ing of Drumright and in safeguarding
the interests of our community.
YOUNG COUPLE
MARRIED FRIDAY
IN SAPULPA
Mr. Kuril I Harville and Miss Jose-
phine Tliiery both of Drumright,
warn married at Sapulpa Friday.
The young couple is well known in
Drumright, Mr. llarville is mailing
clerk at the post office and Miss
Thiery has hen living at the Sclraffer
camp, north of the city.
ion "flosolved thai the United State?
should own and operate the rail-
mads.'1 The debate lasted nearly two
hours.
DEEPER WELLS
WILL BE DRILLED
Blackwel, March 18.—It is now the
talk of many geologists throughout
the mid-contiucnt field that deeper
drilling wil be comenmced in the near
future in different sections of the
mid continent field, to test for deeper
sands. It is known that the mid-contin-
ent field is underlaid with Trenton
limestone and it is estimated that in
places it will not be found higher
than a depth of 6.0nu feet. The Penn-
sylvania fields produce to the Trenton
limestone, which is found at from
.">00 feet to 2,000 feet. Oklahoma has
production at «l,915 feet in the Ponca
City field. Newkirk field has produc-
tion around 1,100 feet and it is now
believed that larger production will
be found in the mid-continent field at
a depth of from 5,000 to 6,000 feet.
The National Union Oil and Has
company, drilling with a star ma-
chine on the Long farm, northwest of
29-28-1 east, expects shallow gas at
700 feet. Four years a£*> 70,000,000
feet of gas was found at 900 feet on
the north half of the farm.
WHEAT STOCKS
IN ELEVATORS
AT LOW MARK
Smallest Quantity on Record
in 10 Years, Reports
< Shows
■■■■■■■■■■■
I OUR BREAD
■
■ You buy it once,
B You'll buy it twice,
m CREAM BREAD'S the best
At any price.
■ It's made with milk,
® So pure and sweet—
■ Cream Bread's a splendid
■ Food to eat.
| PERFECTION
■ BAKING CO.
* Bakers of
■ CREAM BREAD
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Washington, March 18.—Stocks of
wheat in country mills March
in country niHAs and elevators March
I, were estimated at 72,564,000 bush-
els of the United States department
of agriculture. This is the smallest
quantity in the record on reports
made to the department for that date
during the past ten years, with the
exception of March 1, 1918, when the
abnormally low stock of 06,000,000
bushels followed the small wheat crop
of 1917.
Exports of wheat from the 1921
crop have been heavy and country
mills and elevators possess only nine
percent of that crop. This is the
smallest percentage for these stocks
in the same month in ten years. The
highest record is 10 percent.
Average wheat stocks in country
mills and elevators March 1 during
tiie past five years were about 81,-
ooo,000 bushels. Stocks this year were
20 percent less than the five year
average. Wheat stocks of this class
were as much as 155,000,000 bushels
in 1910 or 112 percent wore thau the
19J2 figure.
! CHICKEN I
| SUPPER
| This Evening from *
| 5 to 8 |
x . i
S Chicken Dinner $
| Tomorrow and other f
J good eats. £
t HENDRICK'S t
j CAFETERIA
OKLAHOMA OIL
SHOWED GAIN OF
2300 BARRELS
Daily Production in U. S. For
Week Averaged 1,429,200
Barrels
New Turk, March J8 —An Increase
of f 8,o0o barrets of pipe lino and
lank farm stor.ss of crude oil stocks
I ei t of tb« Kocky Mountains was in-
| dicated for February, according to
the weekly summary of the American
Petroleum Institute.
This Is a net chanue as shown by
rorty three representative companies
reporting to the institute.
It is estimate that the daily aver-
ago crude oil production in the Unit-
ed States for the week ending March
ti wa ^l,4i ,200 barrels, an increase
of 9,ISO barrels over the preceding
week.
Oklahoma showed a gain of 2,30'J
barrels daily.
CAMPAIGN HOT
AT MUSKOGEE
Muskogee, March 18.—With regis-
tration closed and candidates lists
completed, both sides are preparing
for a strenuous struggle in the a p.
proachlng city election. The primaries
for the eight counoiimanlc candidates
take place March 21 with the general
flection April 11.
Because of the outcry gainst his
recent boost in salary, R. Harrison
city manager, has reduced his pay
from $10,000 to $i*.,000 to leave the
city a clean-cut issue on the success
of the managerial form of govern-
ment, he says. All of the eight coun-
cilman who helped elect him to the
office are running for re-election,
while eight democrats are running
against them.
MAYOR'S PROCLAMATION
Whereas March 20, has been
set aside throughout the United
States as a day for national study as
to ways and means of relieving the
unemployed of the American legion
and all unemployed veteraus of the
world war. and
Whereas, to the undoubted worthi-
ness of this cause has been added as
a new incentive the proclamation of
the Governor of the State of Oklaho-
ma declaring for this state March 20,
1922, as American Legion Employ
ment Day, and
Whereas, in our own city there Is
much unemployment in the ranks of
the legion, which Is unworthy of us
as^community, unless we have pre-
viously exhausted all means of ame-
liorating tills condition, now. there-
fore,
1, \\f. E. Nicodemus. Mayor of the
City of Drumright, conscious of niv
duty in the present crisis, do earnest-
ly call upon all our citizens to co-op-
erate with the Legion on March 20,
and furthermore, that our efforts may
be more fruitful in success, 1 hereby
invite all our citizens who employ la-
bor of whatsoever kind, and nil our
merchants, business men. as well ns
the employers of labor in the field
about the city, to meet together with
the Legion officials on next Monday
evening at 7:30 o'clock, in the City
Court room, that the best means of
helping the unemployed of the Legion
may be discussed.
W. B. NICODEMUS,
Mayor of Drumright.
TurtMAO r paiidqci i
Thomas C. Campbell, governor of
Arizona.
EDITORIAL
REFORMING CRIMINALS
There is a popular iihpression
that the inmates oi jails and
prisons are as a whole a depraved
class, bent or crooked ways, and
that not many or limn can ever
be reformed, ATany employers
would be reluctant to give any
kind of a position to a man who
had been in jail, feeling that lie
had a bad streak about him that
would come out some day.
Yet Mrs. Maude Hallington
Booth, head of the Volunteers of
America, and an authority on
prison work, said in a recent ad-
dress that, she had known person-
ally more than 18,000 prisoners
who had finished their sentences
and come out straight men.
The greatest obstacle encount-
ered by released prisoners who
want to go straight, is the diffi-
culty they frequently encounter
iu obtainiug work. If such man
who really wants to make good,
finds himself rejected again and
again because of his record, ho
begins to think that society is de-
termined to turn him down. He
forms the conviction that he must
live in any way he can and if
society won't let him work then
lie must steal.
A man «f that type might net
he a suitable candidate for a
position of trust until he had
demonstrated a thorough change
of heart. Hut if he has made a
good record iu jail and shown an
industrious disposition and a do-
cile temper, there ought to be
plenty of chances for him to
make a fresh start.
Many prison inmates could be
reformed, if during their jail
terms they could be organized in
gangs tor work on a prison farm,
•'ails that have land attached
find that the experience of cult!
vating the soil is a healthful one
for such men. It seems to turn
their heads away from the crook-
ed path and brings them more in-
to harmony with the world of
honest endeavor. It teaches them
one of the basic In-
dustrial arts, and shows them
that when they get out they can
make a living. They will never
have any trouble in selling good
food products.
GET YOUR FORD TICKET
At ZACKIE'S PHARMACY
with each 50c purchase on any article bought
at this store
Drugs—Sanitary Fountain—Lunch
W. C. SILLS VICTIM
OF HIGHJACKERS
NEAR OKLA. CITY
Local Photographer Relieved of
Cash by Two Unidentified
Men, Who Escape
W. C. Sills, proprietor of Sills
ntudio in this city, was Thursday the
victim of a bold robbery a few miles
north of Oklahoma City. At about II
P in. as Mr. Sills wa* motoring
along at a leisurely gait tw() men, one
on each aide. Jumped up on the run-
ning boards of his car. and while one
of them flashed a blinding electric
torch in his eyes, the other covered
him with his revolver. They then forc-
ed him at the point of the gun to get
out of the car, and while one of the
lobbers kept the weapon pressed
against the back of Mr. Sills' neck,
the other expeditiously relieved him
of the money which he had upon bis
person. The victim, having been
blinded by the torch flashed in ills
•eyes until the criminals had time to
get behind him, could give little
more in the way of descriptive details
than that the men were Americans.
No trace of the robbers has been dis-
covered.
Situation Strained
tween Italy a n d|
Greece. Former in a
Sharp Note Demands
Complete Satisfaction.!
Shrewd Judges Look
l!t ST. PATRICK'S DAY
DANCE THRONGED
GREAT SDCCESS
Concern on
Happenings.
Recent
SALES CAMPAIGN
ON GREAT SCALE
READY TO START
American Gas Association to
Begin Work. Day of Better
Business Here is Slogan
Chicago, March IS.—Plans for tt na-
tion-wide campaign for the general
stimulation of business and th0 re-
vival of merchandising were made to-
day by the executive board of the
American Gas Association meeting
here.
A campaign will be waged In bdialf
of all business by the companies of
the country starting immediately and
the whole Industry will cooperate at
a unit in the program, believing tint
the psychological time has come for
the revival of buying in all lines. With
theg as companies conducting an ac-
tive campaign for more business, tilt)
cooperation of local chambers of com-
merce and other business men's or-
ganizations will be sought in an ef-
fort to promote more business in lo-
local stores and stimulate retailing,
wholesaling and manufacturing every
where.
A vigorous newspaper advertising
campaign will be conducted by the
gas companies, backed up by manu-
facturers of gas-burning equipment.
"The day of better business ts
here," said Oscar H. Fogg, secretary-
manager of the association. •'The un-
sold market offers unprecedented op-
portunities. And we believe that what
the country needs at this time is ail
aggressive nationwide selling cam-
paign which will stimulate all busi-
Hess and we hope that our plan may
be a stimulating factor in putting all
business back on its feel."
(By Associated Press)
Home, March IN.—What may de-
velop into an impasse within a very
short time is the chief topic of con-
veraatio) in diplomatic circles here
The state of feeling between Greece
and Italy is as sensitive ns can no
Following the war the large increase
iu Grecian territory was seen not
without a twinge of jealousy by the
]<atins, a jealousy which Greece was
tjulck to detect and resent. From
these beginnings things have advanc-
ed considerably. The Latins now look
on their Gred in neighbors as unwar
mutably cocky and the Greeks can't
understand what Italy has to justify
her in expecting to be taken so seri-
ously. .
In these circumstances the seizure
yesterday of by the Greeks of the
Italian steamship Ahbazia and other
recent incident shave Inflamed the
public: mind in the highest degree.
Today Italy sent a new and energetic
note, as it is styled by the Associated
Press, to Greece demanding the re-
lease of the ship and complete satis-
faction for recent happenings, by
which formula several exasperating
events of recent occurrence are cov-
ers.
The next day or two may, if shrewd
judges are not at fault, bring things
lo a very critical juncture between
the two nations.
TULSA SCHOOL
PLANS CONCERTS
BY RADIOPHONE
Tulsa, March 18.—Radiophone con-
certs will soon be a reality here if
radio amateurs al the University of
Tulsa are successful In tTieir project-
ed installation of a magna vox in the
university auditorium. An aerial has
alroady been erected over the main
building and wireless concerts are
'listened in on" by the students.
If the proposed apparatus is install
ed in the auditorium, the operate^
plan to invite the students and the
general public to attend a radio con-
cert snatched from the air. They plan
to hold their first open house when
some concert or special interest is to
he broadcasted.
A number of amateurs are also
working with wireless receivers at
the Tulsa'liigh school. Six Tulsa hoys
have received amateur wireless op-
erator certificates. Through the Hoy
Scout organization they are acting as
Instructors for other boys.
DR. NEAL AND MRS.
UPE WED AT
EL RENO
W. J. Neal, local physician and Mrs.
Marie Lipo were married in El Keno,
Okla., Thursday.
I)r. Neal is a well known physician
and surgeon who has beeu practicing
! in Drumright for several years and
Mrs. Lipe, the beautiful daughter of
, Mrs. C. II. Smith and is connected
1 with the Smith hospital of this city.
■ ■ ■ ■
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f BEVERLY JONES
| GEORGIA D.JONES
Dentists
112 E. Broadway
Phone 36
: CHICKEN -
J SUPPER I
m Saturday Night "
;■ at the old Norman a
■ Swaydan building. ■
■ Given by the ,
* Maeabee Lodge. ■
' supper ;
■ 50c B
H Served from 5 to 8. ■
Cushing, Oilton, Shamrock and
Other Towns Swell th«
Number of those Present
Thp dance held last night at Cain's
academy under the auspices of the
local council qf the Knights of Colum-
bus was attended by a largo crowd of
Drumright and out-of-town peopts.
The five piece orchestra furnished et-
cellcut music and those present had
never a dull moment throughout flie
evening.
The decorations in the colors of
Ireland and national colors won mticli
admiration and the flag of Ireland
free after seven centuries was gladly
hailed by all, in the realization that
no mau is worthy of freedom who
does not wish to see the land of his
sires free and independent.
The present dance was perhaps the
most successful yet given on a pat-
triotlc occasion by the Knight* of Col
umbus and much praise is dus the
arrangements committee and the
Indies who so tastefully decorated the
hall.
STATE HOSPITAL
OPENS ITS DOORS
FIRST OF APRIL
Located at Clinton Declared to
Be Best In Oklahoma
Oklahoma City, March 18.—The
state tubercular hospital at Clinton.'
recently accepted fromt ho contract-
ors by the bohrd of affairs, is the best
In the state and ranks with auy of
the southwest, according to Dr. A, !t.
Lewis, health commissioner. Dr.
Lewis Thursday announced the open-
ing of the institution April 1 and s*i4
that application will be received for
admittance at auy time.
Any citizen of the state is eligible
for admission, and may obtain appli-
cation blanks from Dr. J. R. Me-
Lauchlin, superintendent, at Clinton.
The application blanks, properly exe-
cuted. should be mailed to Dr. Mo-
Lauchlin at Clinton or to Dr. Lewis
at the state capitol. A charge of $1®
a week is made. If the patient is uu-
able to pay the county commissioners
or his county must pay. Dr. Lewis
said. One hundred patients cau tee
cared for comfortably, he said.
The hospital has cost $215,000, e*-
elusive of the ground which was do-
nated for the site. The eighth legists*
ture made the final appropriation nee-
••ssary to complete the work under-
taken from the preceding years. 4
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THE WEATHER \
Unsettled tonight. Thunder atoms
iu the eastern part of the state. Cold-
er iu the eastern and cuntiai part of
the state. , j. \
NEW BASEDALL
GOODS
:: ARRIVING DAILY
Everything for the
Ball Player at
UDEN'S
j! BOOK STORE
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