Pittsburg County Guardian (McAlester, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 28, 1922 Page: 4 of 8
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THK PITTSRI RG COUNTY Gl'AHDIAi
the > —tot". <f t!-« Us: f \t jirs, then cost $260,000 per year, while fines tvK•
let'~ out them out If * W« torr.v i !feted .unount to only ubout $ 1 00,001i
can get off th six or eTght years of In other words, there is a deficit of
tho k-nd of -or\ v convict# *tv put J150.000 per year that has to be paid I
Editor and Publisher throi gh in Ok a'io'vn then the t*o ' by the public. The fiddler, in all eases,
ef th - sta'e aie simplv ww#tinir must le paid.
money to -amnions j.irie« ami koe Such a system •« radically wrong
u::nes- * hanging around district The cost of prohibition erforcem n'
court tool- - This - not a Wrht )ue- l.oulj, lea ;, be paid by tho so wh.
non. It ne the • o 'o r^this state ma' e t neee -arv ; maintain a prc-
••• ive o iace and face hit ;:cn enforcement scheme. The pub-
SFRIOl SI V The tv t way to face lie ,man\ of whom not only do not
■ > SlVI'th pos :b 'ity of eli men- di'-.k any sort of liquoi !> t who ai°
i ■ aftei iurv of fair-minded men. violently opposed to the whol« liquco
with the KACTS before them, have bi sin.ss, ma-t pav these bill left ovi
acted on a ease. It not men good b the law infractors.
nonsens, to suppose that juries didn't The p!a:r. common-sen e thrrjr
know what the* were do'ng in a - 'I. is to revise the icvenue system
sessirsr punishment in the hundreds of make the fines H1GHEU.
• i v. „■ : . . , ! f„_ .u„ . „ .i . i, . , c8fes :n v'.,ich clemenev in ome form Then, another suggestion now pain-
Happy New War. hone-st Injun. for the past . n the intellectual s:de or otht.r has since been extended. It
'-0 ,, | of thebiain could (and would) cease ^ ln Ol'TRICHT IV^UIT t, v,
Wonder who Mr. Hay* has to offer,,0 function at the thieatie. But the wh '
.-ifieially, when clei
ncv is e\te,e' 1 in measure such a*
The Pittsburg County Guardian
(ESTABLISHED 1905)
FORREST A^GAKRETT
Published Every Thursday at
118 North Main Street, McAlester, Oklahoma. Phone No. 459
One Year ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS In Advance
Entered as second cla.<« mail matter March 1, 1917, at the postoffice at
McAlester, Oklahoma, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Any erroneous reflection upon the character or standing of any person,
firm or corporation which appears in this paper will be gladly corrected if
brought to the attention of the publishers.
, I N «'iouwi fct. —o-jail 4 lyoii
HOW JAr.N GREETS NEW YEAR JE of^Sl^f h",
| L. Thompson, Deceased. I at* ot°, l''
Cuatom of Oriental Countries U to "ty of McAlester, Coun<i- Gf p;.,
Give Special Performance# In burg State of Oklahoma. *
the Play Houaea. All persons havng claims against
'ta Rob' rt L. Thompson, deceased
THE Oriental methods of greeting mil?,''*., 0 pr( 'qent tbe same, with
the New Year differ greatly from !s£n"d fulv1'° lhe unde"
oura. In Japan, as well as In other j Administratrix ol' said d^cea^d'^
Oriental eom,tries, special perform-J029 East Smith Street, in theCitv
ances are given In the theaters. I McAlester, County of Pittsburg anrt
In the temples and shrines priests i State of Oklahoma, within four
and attendants entertain the people months of the date hereof, or the
with special dances. The Kagura, or will be forever bailed.
Sacred Dance With Music, is the fa- I^ted the 27th day of December,
hi "parole adviser" in letting public never was as coarse or as crude sonallv ami ■
Fatty Ai buckle nose back into the as many near-beer entertainment pr
movies? j ducers might have imagined. The makes th.
in r 'ii popularity is to fine the man
who buys outlaw liquor the same a-
the man who sells it. Frequently the
man who sells it can't even pav a fire
He belonirs to the shiftless element
U onu n aie now wearing, cor.-ets on
their ankles, says a fashion note.
When they net to wealing 'cm on their
toes, corset-lacing, as an art. will get
its first real boost.
After taking a look at the picttir*
o' the San Francisco nnl who offers
herself in marriage for $5,000, we arc
inclined to think she is about $10,-
000 too high.
i mind
tion —
Ti
gets its
not in s
highest delight
Usual opiates.
be
oriy; nial sentence appear who live hj their wits and their wild-
According to statistics, California
cities lead in the rate of suicides. It
is barely possible that, after reading
inanv who will que.-tion the
action of Will Hayes, head of the
movie business in America, in grant-
mi; i perm t to Fatty Arbuckle to r. -
i nter ti i motion-pictuie game a- an
•••'•■or. n > •. .. rj ml ch h*« Ha;, e.
a g t dow ii a out i n a par with th.>
a\e, g> state >. verror who doles out
panliins and i^tiolos to convicts, man\
ot whom shoul lemain in prison and
•ive oft their just sentences Ar-
buckle wh.- convicted in the public eye
of a h> inou offense aga:nst th<* • n-e
to have
The avo. ag p
knows that fe
thi v de e1 vp
tim
more
fhan i -• h'-h to pav the immen
a' is required to suopor
and barbarir
' ..lent in court trials Hut the man who buvs it. in mivt
■' defendants get what ca-es CAN* PAY FINKS. And he
uich less more. It is should be made to pay them. It is a*
e Ok'.ahhome people were taking disreputable to buy an outlaw product
re inteiest n their penal system as it is to make it.
Congress, it is said, will have before
it s"on consideration of a meesure tlm'
't- Abo'ish t1 pardonine and parole wits the same p^na'tiec on the user as
nower for
s'ate wor
! w years and see if the
i very revert to it.
<ENV' 'LE STIMULATION"
the lithographe<l literature on the ^1V1' -on. t , and -.iou I h..^ li«on
(loldcn Stat,- and coming face to face "'"de to suffer the proper p uiishin nt
with the real thing, the shock was too complete banishment fiotn the
much for them. trims.
on the producer of moon-ihine liquor
'f such a measure is eracted into a |
•aw, ow, perhaes both, w alcness.-s ir j
th" ,-vstem will be overcome. The cost
of mainr.n ning the enforcement ma-
chinery will certainly h^ me' by 'hose!
who a'e ro^nonsible for law—break-I
1 he Nowata County Communit'
Club lecently made a canvas of farms . ---
in the county and made an award of ")g: and it is quite possible that
dipl: mas to the ten best farms in the ^'hition itself would tome nearer
county. Grading was donp on the intr a r<alty than will ever be the
basis of appearance of the farm home where the ftn<> is assessed merely
A NEW YEAR'S CARD
Noir what la here
A. word of cheer
To herald In another year;
Mar all Its daya b« free of blame—
\ little nobler than your aim:
May all tta labors be confeat
A little better than your beat.
And all the Joys within ita acope
A little brighter than your hope)
" 7^' . , i; u \v,is„n i n j.. appearance of buildings, condition of agairvst the maker and not against tl^
If we can get down to a program ot «il on is no." -aid to be i j , ... j:,:'. ' " „r_, i ena-nm f
"""" TjP- ^*rsa -*'1 ***# ™f mf*"
and honest-to-God lov
the year 19211 wHI go down in hi
as the most prosperous year since
flood
story who beoonios sUte treasurer. Wilson mated thpr J11 K J'°a,r '} " '1"
e the!" "ow state superintendent of public ^d of th fftrms ,n"
inst ruction. He ran for governor but X®' X ^ oontcst-
*i, : . ncr« rs sensible PT.couracpmpnt-.
an an
e.oti-! these fino gentlemen pay the
fiddler. It's their Hance.
was defeated in the primary and later /• s'-nsible encouragement. Thieves, buriflartously inclined,
With a badirer furht tnd a hoc call "bfmpiore.l Walton't cau«-> It wa« 1P7P ,r Hl°D of farminK lnlf'r- ^rok(> ">to the office of Justice of the
anger-light and ,.1. , , ,)r ™.J ,twa est.-. How much better is this sort of Peace W. A. Treadwell, in the Arnote
i ng derelict in its duty
"nawgural progiam."
Lightning like that seen around Mc-
Alester Tuesday night kind of makes
a fellow dig back and wonder if the
insurance he took out at the last re-
vival meeting is still in force.
-o—
, , •«..t «- i w:■ . me rtiit-i iittu oe^Ji
distribution of •sugsr^; 7m-"" aT 0"ne ' ,pro"yslnK-<! of some political monte-1 deposited there in cases that had come
report from Oklahoma City puts it, | „ before Judge Treadwell. Th"y also
' v. iik in tho genera! election foi p ls 8 co-operation that is pried his desk open and rifled the var-
J. C. Walton gives him first call on I while. Farmers are just' like | ioug pigeon-holes, but apparently took
tho place if he wanto it" Some of ?£' ot,ier classes of business men— nothing further than the guns. En-
these days the public will'wonder how ', y aPPrc'at« more and profit more j trance is thought to have been made
it comes that, merely becau.se a man troiT1 -sensible estimate and oompuri-[ throvijafh a transom over one of the
upported someother man for some-lson °. they already have andjdoors
o — mw suineuuier man ior some- , , , —•'
After all, thereS one consolation thing or other, he is thereby entitled i e e pt.l suggesUons about pio
about the fellow who drinks the ma- something or other in the way i E jf.l '/ .9,^ initiative than
derr brand of moonshine booze: His a political remembrance therefore. _ ^ ,,, ,? thnftless policy of wait-
children can't follow very far in his i
tracks. He doesn't make many aft^r
he starts on the Iioo7,e route.
McAlester had a sane Xmas. There
was very little indication of wild booze
0 — and few disturbances of any sort. For
Say, listen: Your home town and a" of which the public may logically
your home neighborhood are the best untiring efforts of Jim
town and the best neighborhood in Dowell and other enforcement officers,
the world—if you are doing your part together with the watchful eye of
to make it that way. The good or Chief of Police MeCuily and his clean-
the bad in your community rs largely UP 8<l'|ads. On the day before Xnias
based on the viewpoint or the relation "M* enforcement and |K)lice officers
you personally assume. Anyhow, get s.P'Hed about 250 eallons of rotten
yourself right.; it will help a lot.
Ford has notified the Walton bar-
becue management that he will be too
busy to attend the January circus.
And just think, tt was to be the "Ford-
tVanon kick-off for 1924," in the very
words of the barbecue management
liquor, gathered up from Krebs, Ca
lion, Buck and parts of McAlester,
particularly the Fifth Ward. More-
over, when a drunk was located he
was promptly hauled in and put where
lie would l ave plenty of time to sober
up. These officers are to bo com-
mended for their efforts. It is no
ing, like birds with an open mouth
for something to drop in from some-
where through the avenue of "gov-
ernmewit he'p."
It would be fortunate indeed if we
could have more snn" stimulation and
personal inlcicbt—«nd loss hot a:r
and political buncombe—for the nna'
interests generally. And some dav
evry farmer that is worth while vil'
agree that this is right, if he doesn't
do so now.
Mr*. 1 W. I.ewsaw has sufficiently
recovered from a recent operation n'
?t. Marv's 'nfirmarv to enable her to
he removed to her home at Osage
Avenue aid C Street. -
KIDDIE, READ THIS:
Professional Directory
OF PITTSBURG COUNTY
I Arranged especially for the conven-
ience and information of all who dc-
; wire professional advice or service.
Looks like Henry is kind of particular sjm" thing to wipe the booze map
."bout th« kick off- he participates in. ^'<>an an'' Keep it respectably so, but
Or r-aybn hrV afraid it might be a
bump-off instead.
We aw a medium-sized turkey sell
the other day for $6.r>0. We can re-
member when a turkey as big as that
was sold from our-farm for $1.50 ■>tv1
the price looked like a whopper.
Moral: raise more syrkeys and fewer
belliake?.
McAlester ha- a bunch of offices that
« ill come as near doing it as the next
town. And the least the citv and com-
munity generaHly can do is to thank
them for it.
Th- -1 ate highway department
wants to be separated from the rest
of the state capitol. It wants a
building of its own. It is ripht in one
respect, at least: It should be separ-
Friends of "Charley" Haskell are fted from state capitol—separated
beginning to wonder wotinell's be- J" an ^ abolishment that would
become of the Haskell boom for pres. mace the functions it has assumed
ident that was hot-housed here two ™f* with the several counties of thn
years ago atvd that was supposed to "tale and rid the stale if an army of
have taken on a sort of perrennial ernp'oye8 and an expense bill that i-
life in Oklahoma by hi„ vbit to the ' <'"ing to he enormous. The sheriffs
state last October in the interest of can, c . a'nlv do as good a job as the
Jack for governor. It does look like i*, ,"1 fo'Jeoting the auto tax, and
there's more than
deck.
joker in the
It is said that II. O. Miller, of Okla-
homa City and vicinity, general man-
ager and adjuMer-innchief of the Re
construction League in Oklahoma, ha.s
suggested Henry Ford for president
and Jack Walton for vice-president in
1924. Mr. Mill# is just all time think- , —
ing up something funny for the news- ri"P of by private engineers and the
papers. in^' borne, as it should be. by each
county or district that build
if a few auto thieves are sen' to
penitentiary for ten years AND KEPT
THERE that long, there won't be any
trouble In discouraging auto stealing.
All the state needs in the wav of n
highway department is an engineer to
correlate the hard-surfaced load pro-
Vets: and if we ever get rid of the
nonsense and burden of so-called fed-
eral aid, this engineering can be taken
Treatment and Surgery of
tfye, Ear, Nose and Throat.
GlaRHes Fitted
21 t^aat Grand, McAlester
GRAHAM STREET, M.D.
EYE SPECIALIST
Gill Huilding
McAlester
When we rea<V of drunken devils ro*ds.
killing little children at Christmas ... .. r...
trees anil then read of judges who let Among the few sensible things ad- j it out and over for himself and then
A ten-vear old lad overheard a eon- |
versation about certain bills to be( L. C. KUYRKENDALL, M.D.
'T'd a:i 1 cone ived the idea cf mak-|
n" o'.it a bill for his own erv'ce'
So next moming he laid this state-
ment of account on his mother's
breakfast plate.
"Mother ewes Willie for ouTying
coal six times, 20 cents; for bringing
water lots of times SO ~ents; for
go:ng t<-n errands, 15 e nts."
One hundred of the prettiest girls
at the state university are said to
have entered a beeutv eonbest, in
which the ten mo't beautiful are to
be selected foi ll'e ln"auly rpieens of
the university. Picture? of all con-
testant- have. berr sent to the boss
of the Zeiirfield Follies, wh is to act
as the judge in the ca e. It's no crime
to be rood-looking, but it's little cre-
dit to be chosen for anyhting through
the Zeigfield standards of pulchritude.
His mother read tho bill but said
nothing about it. That evening Wil-
lie found on his plate the 75 cents
and also another bill which read as
follows: "Willie owes mother for his
happy home for ten years, nothin?:
for nursing him through a long ill-
ness, nothine-, total, nothing."
When Willie saw the seventy-five
cents he w-as pleas'd, but when he
read his mother's hill his e"es grew
dim and his lips quivered. Then he
took the money to h's mother, threw
his arms about her neck and begged
that she would let him do lots of
good j things for her.
j Mother's bill is rarely pre ented,
but it will pay <ach person to think
IIR. EDGAR PORTH
Dentist
Rooms 3 and 4 Hub Hldg.
Phone 372 McAlester, Okla.
Model Hldg. Tel. 1031
I)R. M. E. RAMBO
Prosthetic Dentist
17 E. Choctaw A. McAlester
pay it in love and service.—Selected
A SORRY PROSPECT.
Senator Oscar W. Cfnderwoofl, of
Alabama, one of the outstanding fig-
the manufacturers of moonshine whis- vocated by people w ho have some form
key off for $2fi fiine.s, w wonder if of connection with the legislative pro-
there won't be a more correct s t'le- gr^m of the next general assembly
ment of scores all cound in the here- '9 that by the educational commission
after. Somebody rs making a horrible survey board which was named by the
mistake in this world. 'a«t legislature to make a report on
T T° ' education in the state and recommend ; ures jn democratic ranks, will not as-
• ,eunLan ' ls "u,U!n« hls t?itil it ? a on t''° legislature.: pire to leadership in the next regular
in fall-breaking, careful crop plan- That commission has finished its work , session of the U. S Senate.
ning and more attention to pure- ar*i recommends the abolishment of Here is a man of the reallv big
bre ds of livestock for hii farm will nearly a dozen state schools of an
find that he built on a much more elementary nature. This should be
solid foundation than did the simple- 'lone, Kven some of the state normal
Simon who rested his success for 1923 schools should be abolished. Many
in the cogitations and ramifications of °f them are just local high schools
the "Committee of 21" or the com- for the towns in which they are lo-
mitte" of anything else. A year from cated, with a few departments for
now, well see who wan right, 1 really normal students. It is an out-
o rage for the state to have to maintain
Fatty Arbuckle, the movie comedian high schools for these towns. Let
type mentally and in statecraft,
man who has been a leader and whom
his colleagues have been glad to
clothe with leadership, but who now
says he will leave that job to some
hodv else in the next congress.
Evidently the reason is largely in
the fact that Senator Underwood
is not radical, not a political contor-
tionist who is able to see something
worth while in a blank. Men, real
men, like to be leaders only when
they have men of an equaliy powerful
who kicked himself out of public es-1 them nin their own high schools like
teem with a cook-tail party in a Los (the other towns of the state, and then
Angeles hotel, has secured permis- 'educe the normal schools to standard
sion from the motion picture censor- normal training schools, instead of j t~np'to "lead " "Thev' dT nof father
wX'Vm0^* 'rVhVrTn tr'nrn ^ i'" '7 any pride or'pl^ctom'tlTlea
!"'™t be worth while for state mining schools should be alol-; dershiD of men of mediocre talenti
h^^me^Wk^l^H -tudv m"dCntS Wh? ^ nor do they seek to wear themselves
hl« come-iback doe-m'v depend on the «o study mining engineering can I to a fra7ZlP trvinc to steer a minority
permission of Will Hayes or anyother do so at the state university. It is to a goal when nobodv in the crowd
moyul in picturedom. It depends on, to be hoped that the legislature acts : to know where or what the
the fraee of the nicture-loving public, I >n a positive, upstanding wav on this
and if that public doesn't give him question this session. Right action! The next eoncress will nrohahlv
it, okeh, he had a, well get a job as on this ''-would offsets lot of ^ T&o™ tCwilf
threatened erratics along other lines. | be almost feverish. Why should a
ai^ji I rn ~ man ofthe type of Underwood per-
AbMiHh Clemency. sonully desire to lead it anywhere?
It <. fPhAotro .ra )., ' , Tl' sflnest thingthe incoming legis- Yet, the fact that just such men
fj ffh t4rT!ln,f la " <an ,d? Wl" h« to take some [are not seeking leadership makes the
1^1 imn L Ji, °! k*" " P1 abolish the pardoning and outlook all the more uninviting and
and (imp comedy to things that have parolo powers in Oklahoma Either serioua.
mor* of the substance with which to that, or abolish the cost of maintain- o
nst and rejuvenata the brain. If en- Ing courta. If juries don't know any j PAY THE FIDDLER
oeveloplnf more about eallng out luatice than1 Prohibition enforcement in the east-
downward for a few years, aa it has they aret being given credit for under1 ern district of Oklahoma sain ™
a hasher for the rest of his life.
New Yorkers are enthuuiaatic over
Shakespearian productions this year,
Office Phone 1415.
Res. Phone 1515
DR CHAS. H. JONES
Chiropractor
Office Hours, 9 to 12; 1 to 7
5} East Choctaw
SALISBURY, M.D.
Painlew I>«irti*t
Extract Teeth Painless. No
ether, gas or chloroform.
Office Phone 127;
Res. Phone 1072
DR. NINA HART
Chiropractor
Women and Children's Dis-
eases a Specialty
11} East Choctaw
Business Directory
Phones 522
24} E. Choctaw
HELEN AINSWORTH
General Insurance
Honda, Loans
THE McMEHAN A CAM-
BRON PHARMACY
Complete Line of
DRUGS AND SUNDRIES
McMEHAN & CAMBRON
Phone 204
16 East Choctaw McAleatei
vorlte, for while It ls being given
prayers are offered for the continued Admini4tlatlix of the EstaS^of
happiness of the nation during tha j>obert , Thompson Deceased
coming yeur. This very old dance Is (M. & Mc) '
performed by young girls, while tha
priests are the musicians. All are In (Pub. Nov. 9-16-23-30, Dec. 7, 192*')
appropriate costume. NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE."
Another ceremonial, which has been Notice is hereby given, that in pur-
handed down for centuries, Is the Shu* °£>-an ."'der of sale issued out
Sal, or Dance of the Ancestral Sane- , ™,tl1'ct Court of Pittsburg
tuary. This ls given within the palaca v''"" ^VM. w..,omf' on 'ho.4-th day of
by the imperial family on January 3, Commerce'Trust Company" wa!plLin"
and it celebrates the founding of tha tiff, and J. S. Bomar, First State
Imperial house, centuries ago. H,-nk of Hartshorne and Annie Lee
| Bomar, were defendants, directed to
me, the undersigned Sheriff of Pitts-
j burg County, commanding me to levy
upon, and sell the following described
j property, to-wit:
West Half of Northeast Quarter
of Northeast Quarter of Section
29* Township 4 Noith, Range 16
i East,
to satisfy a judgment and decre? of
foreclosure in favor of said plaintiff
A.nd may each year b found, when paat, ] allj nffainst said defendants obtained
A little dearer than the laat. j and '3?a , aaid court on the lftt
—Arthur Oulterman In Woman'i Horn* day of February, 1922, for the sum of
Companion. j?141.00 and costs of $15.00, with in-
j terest thereon at 8 per cent, from
January 10th 1920. and 114.10 as a'
(torney fees, and c sta accruing; I will
I on the 11th d ;• of December, 1922, at
| thu hour of 10 o'clock A. M. of -said
day, at the front door of the court
house in the city of McAlester in
said county and State, offer for sale
and sell to the highest bldjer for
! ea^h, the said property, above de-
I scribed, or so much thereof as will
i satisfy said judgment, with interest
i Witness my hand this 4th dav of
| and costs, subject to prior mortgage
j of $600.
| November, 1922.
Wm. S. SANDERS
' Sheriff of Pittsb"rg County.
Our Semi-Annual
Half Price
Sale
Starts Friday, Dec. 29th.
In Our Suit Department
A Sale of Real Values
ptcloui
We will Sell at Exactly 1 half
of the Original Price
1-2 price on all SUITS
1-2 price on all COATS
1-2 price on all DRESSES
1-2 price on all WALSTS
1-2 price on all FURS
1-2 price on all fancy SKIRTS
1-2 price on all childrens'
Dresses
1-2 price on all KIMONAS
1-2 price on all NEGLIGEES
25 per cent discount
On ail SWEATERS
On all CORSETS
On all OUTING GOWNS
On all SILK UNDERWEAR
On all INFANTS' COATS
1-3 off on children')! COATS
Sale Starts Friday, December 29
At Eight O'clock 'A. M.
If Interested We Would Advite Not to Delay
Term of all 1-2 Price Goods are Cash; no Ap-
provals, no Returns, no Exchanges. Extra
charge for alterations
Gfapd Leadef
SUIT DEPARTMENT
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