The Norman Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 26, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 1, 1921 Page: 2 of 4
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BLACKIL BLACK BEAR.
"1 ma sii/," said Btucklei the Illnek
lli'.ir. "iii tl for that reason I nni not
foa:'.l ofton. I l;eep tn myself. I
iloi.'t care to talk t" [icoplo, nnd as I
ilnn't ni::i:;ino thcy'ic so anxious to
tali; to me, I keep ury much to my-
self.
"Jt is a way we all (lo, we black
bears.
love tlio quietness of the
wood.-, tlic stlllnrss and the peace
of our o'.vn soi-: ty. We like to eat
berries. Imt we don't want to do our
'.ciiy pic, i,; !nun with a whole lot
of other creatures."
••That's so." said Mrs. lilackle. "But
there ate plnces we will do our mar*
l.ctliii.' whi're other creatures wouldn't
t*:ire to trade 1
"\\Y cat yellow-jackets and wasps
a.id int^s, and we ^ro to yellow Jack-
ets' i.csts and have a flue old time get-
sin-; ,;<HHiies. other creatures would
be xliing nnd miss the koimIIck!
"Yes. we know more about market-
itiK tiiiin litany creatures do, for we
know wlint is good, and a lot of oth-
ers don't. They don't think yellow
All Growing Up.
eat. My, but
jackets are nil
they're foolish."
"But let u3 not worry," said lilackle.
"for it will mean that there are ail
the more for us.
"Well, Mrs. lilackle, you dlil as all
the Mrs. or Miss Black Bears did this
spring. You slept Inter than any of
the Mr. Black llears did. You like to
sleep tve'i more than we do, for you
alwnj's go to bed earlier, too.
"1 t'ei up In time to have some
skunk enbbtigo leaves In the very
early sovittst, or the late winter, f
It was still very cold.
••Am! too, I had a little meal whe
I swallowed some of the quills of the
porcupine leader and they didn't both
er me. That Is where a lilack bear Is
stii ith'r to other animal
"lie can cat things like that which
would be very bad for the digestions
of most folks.
"We make ourselves strong by
sleeping so soundly, rolled up in hie
balls.
"Anil we're good fighters when w
have lo he. We know how to defend
ourrt-lves and our own.
"And you know how to train th
cubs."
"Ah yes," said Sirs. Blackle, "thev
are all growing tip now, but I have
watched them since they enme, j
little blind things, with little hair and
oh. such tiny cubs as they were at
lirst.
•'How I did look after And
1 taught, them never to let anyoni
know the sort of hole they would
steep in when the winter came,
taught them they must never let any-
one know' the sort of home we make
and the kind. To die rather than give
up the secret Is the tiling!
"And one tnusi tell the young hears
this for thev Oo not know so well as
the older bears that this is most tin
porta nt.
"Tlicy have to be taught. And they
have to be toiil that they must so
hide themselves that no one will wake
them up in the winter time because
no one will have found them
"I've looked after them since they
were little brown tilings. Now the
coats are fine and black.
"I've shown them, too, how we leave
messages and directions and rules for
each other on trees, making all surts
of signs on the trees which a bear can
understand.
"Yes, we must all do things in (be
Black Bear fashion, for our fiis'ilona
have been tried out by black bears for
years unil years, and they've been
found to be very good.
"Creatures who change their fash
Ions and their ways from year to year,
waste a great deal of time, so w
black bears think. For when they
could be marketing and getting good
things to eat they ure thinking
what they shall wear this spring or
this summer, or this fall
"And they don't have so much time
for sleeping. Tlie.v can never give up
a whole winter to resting as we can
They haven't the time p
"Ah, the ways ol' the black bears
are best. They are the v . ys which
have been tried out and found to be
good. At any rate they've been found
that way by all black bears.
"Yes," said Blackle, "and thev al
ways will be thought tile 1 t way* |
that there are, though > in Slit n't j
agree with tis. They haven t even the j
good taste to like eating yellow jack-
ets, delicious, tempting, appetizing
wasps!"
"I'uor dears," said Mrs. Black.e, j
"poor dears."
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!N MEMOHIA. RELIGIOUS STUDENTS MEET
The Death Angel knocked at the! Representatives of .Norman Sunday
door of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Rose *choo! Masses attended the state Stu-
' Wednesday and took away the two <'"<« olunucr as-ociaUon al Stillwater
! ■ i ar old daughter, Hmma Ruth. | recently and came hack with Virgil
\Y, not dear parents for your i Datifsherty elected vice-president of
.ittle one. She has gone lo a happy.tlR" organization. Miss Laura Mauk,
: home where no tears nor sorrows missionary home from Japan, and Dr.
! II. C. Gossard, southern secretary for
i "Viaor up dear parents and don't be| 'e Y. M. C A and former mathc-
sad for she is resting and you should | '""tics professor here, spake during
| he glad. |,hc convention.
! Her dear little form is out of your, datkftk-i?c ptuibtt
sight, but two little cherub wings | NORMAN PAINTERS EXHIBIT
:i .... hover in Heaven's golden light. plenty original paintings by twen-
! lie prepared to meet your little ' QkW>oma artist., several of whom
!, rr m that bright and celestial home. | "C Norman painters, are now on dis-
' She i- in our Savior's care, so meet l'lay in the university library building
! „„r ovcr thcrc | under the auspices of the art depart-
r No more parting no more tears,1 "lent, it was announced last week,
anil spend with her eternal years. I I'rof. Oscar It. Jacobson has three
I h ELL \ ER.W'l ICS BALL.' canvasst's 'n l'1,s Ralph l>.
I Shead and Mi>'s Estellc R. ALmon
IOK1NC STICK-UP CASE c .c] have two, while Miss Edith
DISMISSED AFTER HEARING' Mahur 1. is contributed several
I sketches.
for a case.!
' Insufficient ground;
(u.j.vid.criiiK that tlic play of holding Up
( ' ii I ndicott three weeks ago was
| realiy a joke as protested hy the
• •. T. V. Harrison and Denuie Ber-;
;:t, were dismissed in the prelimi-j
nary held Saturday.
j Mthough the young men had takeni
! .>i'.:ing from Endicott, linotype opcr-1
.'t'■«•: the university print shop, said
| t<> have !u n stopped late at night on '
j his return from work, it was at first j
j suspected that the affair had not been i
| commenced as a joke. Since the hoax-1
ing pair each remained in the county i
! jan over a day before bond was made, j
j it was considered in the preliminary
•1IC PLAY OF THE SEA i> lore Justice of the Peace Grigsby
that the "joke'' had gone far enough, i
. so the case was dismissed.
i i tin- !>est pictures of the j
:h'..s far i- "Thr Scuttlers," in :
Wlilinm l arimn ;;p>pcared ye-.
tor the ti.'st time lure at the
; lifi.tre. "The Scuttlers" pre- |
M :s Hess Hutchinson re'.urnod to
her home in Oklahoma City Mon-
day afternoon, after a visit with Mr.
and Mrs W . S. Campbell.
NEW AND SECOND HAND
Furniture
Why pay the exhorbitant
prices for furniture when you
can get it here for less?
We have both new and second
hand furniture at prices you can
well afford to pay.
t'omc in and sec what we have.
Let us tell you how we will ex-
change new furniture tor your
old. '
W.I. WARREN
210 West Mnin St. Phone 307
AT THE LIBERTY
VrtNUM THE HERO IN
Strike
cigarette
Publishers Report of the Condition of
! THE NORMAN STATE BANK
cf Norman, Oklahoma, Feb. 21, 1921
R-sources
| i o hs atfd UlrcounU $70,706.2.^
J Ovi,1drafts .. if«l and unsecured NONE
| Storks, bond-', warrants, ctc.. 62,245.94
! S rurilics with Banking Board — 1,800.00
' Rantltit house 4,800.00
I Furniture and Fixtures 1,800.00
! Due from banks 86,527.02
'• <'hecks and other cash items —.... 276.12
Cash in Bank ..... 4,411.86
place on
e Pacific,
t nes on a
etec-
PISTOL SHOOT BY WIRE
A telegraphic pistol shoot with five
1\. (). T. C. marksmen competini'
against a team at the Alabama Poly-
technic college, Auburn, Ala., will be
staged March 5, announced Major C arl
\. ilaihr. Scores of the teams and of
the individuals cjmposing the:n will
be wired for slow fire and rapid fire i
work at 15 yards and at 25 yards. 1
■nl , :• lory of th< st-.'i and fiives the
ipular 1;o\ star a fine opportunity
play the hero.
Mi--; di" the action take
)oard a sliip far Out in 1
d there are al-o 'stirring
sert island.
! ', rnuin enacts the role of
■c for l.l.;yils, who, disguised as a
■ •non .''ii.ir. i-- commissioned to
run down suspicious that a captain
<fiittlilig bi*- ship:, for the insurance.
In the <u-t arc Mif-s Jackie Saun-
III., Ii l-M-l: I AI avail, ti. Raymond I |.'(.)R RICXt—Furnished room with
,xr, \iti;tir Mi:1' 11. Harry Spingli-r. ] board. Phone 459, 301 Hast Gray,
lanuel Ojeda, l.ric t'ranr. "Kewpie"; 2o-Jt*
'.- :i, I'h.ii r Delorrz and Al 1're-j *
Kilt. Mi c'.o good work. )
The photography of "The Scuttlers" i
It. ii,i*!i! 1. th- -nes at sea being
TOTAL $232,567.17
LIABILITIES
«• -i11 Slock Paid in $20,000.00
1'ndivided Profits, less expenses and
taxes paid 905.07
Individual deposits subject to
Cheek 167.740.07
Savings deposits 5,067.96
rime certificates of deposit 36.536.52
Cashier's checks outstanding 1,408.55
Its toasted
The Newman club will meet Wed- j
lie ;!ay evening at 8:00 o'clock, at the j
K. ( House, 535 University Boulc-j
vard. All Catholic students are in- J
vited, whether members or n<-t.—Sec. I
. Q
TOTAL $232,567.17
-talc of Oklahoma, County of Cleveland,ss
f. 'v I\. Hi:nes Cashier of the above nam
cd bank do solemnly swear that the above
l.ileimnt is true to the best of my know
! ledge and belief, so help me, Cod.
K. K. HIMRS, Cashier,
i S,:!>-.ciibctl and sworn to before me this
j J5tli day of February, 1921.
Bichnrd W. Sea wri'jht.
1 V v con.mission espircs January 19, 1924.
JOHN W. BARBOUR
R. S. BARBOUR, Uircctors.
articularly ood,
• !'•(' • < . We-! viv wrote the story, 1
I'aul II. Sloanc wrote the scenario
i ! <!t)rdon Edwards directed the
dure.
M' « \V. he slier : avc a surprise
. |!'«! . p; : • M< ndav evening for
r daughter, Virginia, at their home,
542 Chautauqua avenue. The evening
spent in :amcs and dancing and
its eli".- li'-ht refreshments were
! to Hetty Kir',.. Ruth luce, Mat-
Shives and Helen I logan and
s; . Harrell Bailey, l.asgow Pled-
Dave I'ri:e. Hal Muldrow and
ndell W'etUngeJl
11 Ida Baldwin and her sister,
J. A. Wagoner, of Parsons,
is, ah gutsts «m" Mrs. l-ahlwin's
: ! t i, ?.ir-. !". S. Davis and Mr.
vi . at their home, 711 Jenkins
Have that Suit
Cleaned and
Pressed
I'ring it here wlur. you will
get quick service, and the work
will be thorough.
The most modern methods of
(leaning and pressing and per-
sonal attention makes our shop
popular with the business man.
Star Brand Clothes made to
your measure. Spring samples
ready for your selection.
Bon Ton Cleaning
Company
C. M. GOSSETT, Prop.
117 East Main St. Phone 497
With Risinger Barber Shop
New House for Sale
II lb-
home
tew six ro.mi house
;d basement- we
A nice modern
illy $t 500.
u should st the ar
of this house—it :
Call 23 and we will take you
McDaniel & Matthews
li, \\ Estate, Loans, Insurance
'1 Ha Main Norman, Okla.
% Pho 'c 23
Plumbing for
the New Home
For convenience and |ilcas-
urc in your lioine you should
consider your plumbing now
now and ^et tlie liest.
We will gladly help you
with your plans and give you
estimates of the cost of
plumbing and fixtures for
your new home.
CITY PLUMBING
COMPANY
114 West Main Phone 18
There's More to Oils
than the Price
Ask Your Dealer for
Acree Oil and Gas
- Acree Oil Co.
302[ z East Main
Phone 570
f ?
ror
An Electric Incubator.
l.'ttlk Garden Seeds and 5 Cent
Packages.
Field Seeds of all kinds.
the
Kansa Flours
cn the market.
Feed of all kinds.
Market Price for Chickens am
All kinds of Poultry Keinedie
E;
F
JONES
PRODUCE
MAKE THINGS MORE
PLEASANT IN THE
HOME
Take advantage of the econ-
omical electrical appliances
which you can get here. What
is more convenient, economical
and saving of labor to the house-
wife than is an electrical wash-
ing machine, iron, a sw ' er,
toaster, percolator or tli nrmv
otii-r things we have that will
make the home more pie.. : nt?
your home isn't u
advantage of these
, of doing thing-.
in<: we'll tell you
•• in we can do ti
\ - :• and just what
■d to
1:1 v
ork
E. W. Crallc & Co.
Jas. D. Maguire
EVERYTHING IN HARDWARE
Established 1S89
Dealer in STANDARD LINES
YAI.E I.OCRS AND BUILDERS' HARDWARE
BAIN WAGONS, SUPERIOR GRAIN DRILLS
CHARTER OAK STOVES AND RANGES
OLIVER PLOWS AND CULTIVATORS
CHAMPION' MOWERS AND BINDERS
KEEN KUTTER EDGE TOOLS
BLACK HAWK CORN AND COTTON PLANTERS
BLACK HAWK AND OLIVER RIDING LISTERS
NEW PERFECTON OIL STOVES
AMERICAN FIELD FENCE
GLlDDEN BARB WIRE
AND GENERAL HARDWARE
Kill That Cold With
I- hA
P
r*OM^
\ Coido ar" Danpiroiw
i Ltnndard remedy handy for the hrst sneeze,
i cold 24 hoars — Rftlievca ^
clays - bxcclleut tor Headachc
Quinine in this form docs not affcci the hoad—Cascara is best Tonic
Laxative—No Opiate in Hill's.
ALL DRUGGISTS SELL IT
FOR
Cold^, Coughs
Netrlcct
Take no chant« Keep ti"..
^ Breaks up
Grippe in 3
Publishers Report of the Condition of
THE SECURITY STATE BANK
No. 12^9
of Norman, Oklahoma, February 21, 1921.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts $292,475.56
Overdrafts, secured and unsecured - ~
Securities with Banking Board 5,000.00
Stocks, Bonds, Warrants, etc. 213,331.48
Banking House 11,191.30
Furniture and Fixtures 3,000.00
Hue from Banks 77,481.82
Checks and other cash items 558.77
Bills of Exchange 56,462.56
Cash in Bank - 9,139.02
Total $068,680.43
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock paid in $ 50,000.00
Surplus Fund - 22,000.00
Undivided Profits, less expenses and taxes paid 4,580.79
Reserved for Taxes 3,550.82
Individual Deposits subject to check 391,288.16
Savings Deposits 6,013.88
Time Certificates of Deposit - 154,930.67
Cashier's Checks outstanding 3,716.11
Bills Payable 32,600.00
Total - $668,680.43
State of Oklahoma, County of Cleveland, ss.
I, R. W. Hutto. Cashier of the above-named bank, do sol-
emnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of
my knowledge and belief, so help me, God.
R. W. HUTTO, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 25th day of February,
1921.
(Seal) DENVER RUXYAX, Notary Public.
Commission expires Oct. 30, 1924.
Correct—Attest:
C. H. Bessent, L. C. Giles, H. L. Muldrow, Directors.
RECAPITULATION
Resources:
Loans and Discounts —$292,475.56
Overdrafts 39.72
Banking House, Furniture and Fixtures 14,191.50
Cash Resources:
U. S. Bonds and Certificates and other high grade
Warrants and Bonds 218,331.48
Bills of Exchange 56,462.56
Cash in Bank and Due From Banks 87,179.61
Total $668,680.43
Liabilities:
Capital Stock
Surplus
Undivided Profits
Deposits
Bills Payable
$ 50,000.00
22,000.00
8,131.61
555,948.82
32,600.00
Total $068,680.43
The above statement is correct.
R. W. 1IUTTO, C ashier.
We appreciate our friends. We have plenty of money to
take care of our customers' legitimate requirements. It costs
you nothing to have your deposits guaranteed with us. and in
addition w« give our depositors the advantage of a strong insti-
tution backed by a list of stockholders whose integrity is be-
yond question.
OFFICERS
C. H. Bessent, President Win. Morgan. Jr., Vice-President
Stratton D. Brooks, Vice-President -
R. \V. Hutto, Cashier Denver Runyan, Asst. Cashier
DIRECTORS
C. H. Bessent Stratton D. Brooks L. C. Giles R. \V. Hutto
T. E. Clement 11. L. Muldrow, J. W. Sturgis
Protect Your Money
By Depositing It in
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Carrying money around in your pocket or hiding it in
your home is not safe nowadays.
A DEPOSIT BOOK
is the safe way in which to protect and account for your
money—100 times safer than carrying it in your pocket
or hiding it in your stocking at home.
For Protecting Its Customers This Bank Pays For
BURGLARY INSURANCE
Open an account today and receive the benefit of this
protection.
Member of Federal Reserve System
Report of the Condition of
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
No. 5248
of Normans Oklahoma, as made to the Comptroller of
the Currency February 21st, 1021.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts $ 700,480.34
Hills of Exchange 32,738.12
Overdrafts 4,720.00
1'. S. lionds and Government Securities 118,016.60
Stock in Federal Reserve Bank 5.KK).(K)
Banking House and Lots 22,693.31
Furniture and Fixtures 5,00000
Other Real Estate Owned 1,700.00
Interest Earned but not collected 1,500.00
Warrants and Securities S108.400.12
CASH AND EXCHANGE — 164,724.40 v 273,220.61
Total $ 1,165,178.97
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock
Undivided Profits, net
Circulation
Bills Payable with Federal Reserve Bank
Notes re-diseotinted
DEPOSITS
$ 100,000.00
70,000.00
14,704.84
50,000.00
37,145.00
46,278.47
817,050.66
Total $ 1,165,178.07
The above statement is correct.
E. II. STUBl'EMAX, Cashier.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Largest and Strongest Bank in Cleveland County
Capital and Surplus $170,000.00
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