The Gate Valley Star (Gate, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 7, 1921 Page: 4 of 8
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THE VALLEY STAR. GATE, OKLAHOMA
Happenings
The late rains virtually assure a big
wheat crop in the southwest.
The much dreaded green bug seems
to have an appetite lor alfalfa instead
of wheat this year.
A tick-free Oklanoma before the
year ends. This Is the goal set by the
department of agriculture.
Muskogee raised nearly $1,000 for
the starving Chinese in a drive, Mrs.
H. M. White, leader, announced.
The Henryetta Huiiaing and Loan
Association will apply for a state char-
ter and enter activity in the building
campaign.
Concrete will be
Kingfisher streets, i
a joint meeting of city
commissioners.
A $1,000,000 municipal improvement,
campaign will be under way at Dun-
can within thirty days, Joiin Ewell,
city manager, announced.
c. C. Hightower of Blackwell has
received his commission as first lieu
tenant, chapalin of the First field ar
tillery, Oklahoma national guard.
Members of the Oklahoma Farmers'
Co-operative association are debating
whether to buy a mill centrally located
or to buy mills In various localities
Between five and fifteen barrels of
radishes are being shipped out of Ida
bel daily by the Truck Growers' as
socliition. W. L. Neidermeiert", presi-
dent, said.
MARKET CONDITIONS
-%■
used in paying
was devlded at
and county
Two mail sacks were stolen by
three hi jackers who shot William
Douglas, mail carrier and robbed five
of his companions of a diamond ring
and ?600 at the Pershing depot.
Henryetta's seventh lumber yard,
the fourth to locate since Dec. 1, 1920,
will be established here soon. The
Missouri Lumber company has obtain-
ed a location and will ship in a com-
plete stock from its mills in Texas.
Wilson will have several blocks of
paving laid within the next three
months, according to present plans.
The newly organized chamber of com-
merce has raised the necessary
amount of money from the property
owners. The contract for two blocks
of the paving has been let.
A campaign for funds for the Salva-
tion Army has been started in Noble
county. A call for contributions to-
ward their maternity home, to be built
in Oklahoma City, and for general
sorvicc work has been madtj, and ap-
proved by resolution of the Perry
chamber of commerce.
Statistics compiled by C. E. Griggs,
city engineer of Tulsa, showed that
eight cities in Oklahoma had paving
projects carried out in 1920. These
were Altus, Bartlesville, Durant, Enid,
McAlester, Miami, Oklahoma City, and
Wagoner. The eight cities had a to-
tal of 20,776.7 square yards of pave-
ment laid.
Steps are being taken to affiliate
the Home Economics club of the Ok-
lahoma College for Women with the
Oklahoma Federation of Women's
clubs. The purpose of the movment,
leaders of the organization said, is lo
bring the students into closer touch
with the club women of the state in
the study of home economics. •
Oklahoma towns and cities are
booming. Nearly every place is
building. Most of them claim to be
in the greatest building era of their
history. The boom has been given im-
petus by falling pri# >s of materials
and labor added to the demand for en-
largement following the war, authori-
ties in nearly every community be-
lieve.
Investments of money received from
the Sale of restricted Indian lands are
not exempt, from taxation, United
State District Judse Robert L. Wil-
liams, held in a decision handed down
on the case of the United States
aeainst the board of commissioners of
McIntosh county, Oklahoma.
Newt Ashcraft, garage mechanic of
Ardmore, charged with first-decree
murder in connection with the d«ath
March 16 of Charles Dixon, also a
garage worker, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to life imprisonment at the
state penitentiary at McAlester, by
Judne T W. Champion, in the district
court at Carter county, her*. The trial
lasted about twenty minutes.
Survey is being made by the county
engineer and his staff, of the proposed
hard-surfaced roads to be built in Ok-
lahoma county in connection with the
project now under construction. The
road west of the city is to start at the
intersection of Grand boulevard and
Nineteenth street, running west about
three-quarters of a mile, then angling
to Putnam City and west to the coun-
ty line, according to plans in the of-
fice of the county engineer.
Dairy Product*
«hnWnte,i D,uu tV',h excG-ljt at Chicago have
imstutem ,;,!('y toward recovrey the
V hii-h r i't B ,in Ett8ter'> markets
fa r' than a week ago; pricea Chlca-
u r., ^' . Vn<;ha',K,,<i following both a<1-
mu,, v ''t'clliit-.s. Closing prices, 9!4
v V-k < "hicago 44 1-2;
In*,i V',,H 47 J-* '- Hosto" 47t'- Trad!
lsh h.Vtt *up£,ies only moderate. Dan-
o(hftp pi available in liberal quantities;
h vi 'l ie. Late arrivals Danish
have shown such excellent quality that
linn h',"(lc'N domestic feeling competi-
<IuM • .. , Markets weaker ; < business
•i ne lacks confidence. Prices av-
WlsAnnL V1 thu" week aB°' 8al,'s Mt
•it ' ' Primary markets being made
5 .5, n,''V'.: twins TJ i-4(•; daisies 24 l-2c;
vm n ' A(lHiHi,t'8 longhurna 25c;
>oung Americas 25c.
Hay and Feed
J&HH steac|y t0 strong on light re-
i „( ,l0P,F,,ll"s' Offerings low grade
hay ample. Country loadings light. Prai-
lnwAi'X'. i S in Omaha heavy; quoted at
prices because of decreasing de-
good r ^lf;Vf;- lecelPtM small; demand,
good for better grades. Demand Kansas
|. v,/,,ndpJlJy l,y dealers and
ilKht i.'i' • dipping Vlemund generally
lruat' c-uttiiiu demand alfalfa poor,
('h Ml "i i soutln'astern markets un-
cr tinged, prices holding firm, quotwl;
..V,""," 0, ;K'T M-mphls #LT, Chicago;
f.5 Philadelphia; $20 Kansas City; No.
- timothy Jjim.no Memphis, $20 Chicago,
ti' 'Vl"-S:,s (; No. I alfalfa S27 rui
Memphis Chicago; .f2<) Kentucky* No.
«n"ro/V Chicago, $lii Minneapolis,
Omaha. Peed: Wheat feeds very
weak; quoted |a to ff lower than week
i w,4ten<lency toward still lower
/ Demand of hand to mouth char-
acier W estern mills seek deferred ship-
ment business; all grades and kinds. Cot-
tonseed meal down fl ; linseed meal
, ''llmu«t no buying in evidence, ex-
po t demand falling off. Hominy feed
lower in sympathy with corn. Gluten
reed prices Him. 1'reduction, stocks and
ieccjpts corn feeds ample; pastures fur.
nisiiing grazing in many sections. Quot-
eu: Hinn lji21, middlings .$20.50 Minneap-
oils; bran $30, middlings $20.50 Philadel-
phia: linseed Jneal'$40.50 Puffalo; $40 To-
ledo and Minneapolis; 36 per cent cotton-
seed meal $25 Memphis, white hominy
fewI $22 Chicago; No. l alfalfa meal
$lS.oO Kansas City, $20.50 St. Louis.
Happenings of
fbe Legislature
Saturday
Grain
. Although due to economic condition!
and favorable crop reports sentiment in
the trade was bearish the past week, the
market was steadier than for some time
and except for corn decline* were about
offset by advances. During the latter
part of week 1,500,000 bushels wheat sold
for export, principally to Greece. Domes-
tic demand cash corn much improved.
Chicago cash market, No. 2 red winter
wheat 12 1-2-14 l-2c, over Chicago May;
No, 2 hard same premium; No. 3 mixed
corn 5 1-2-5 3-4c under May; No. 3 yel-
low 5 1-3-5 3-4c under. For the week,
Chicago May wheat down 3-4c at $1.41
3-S; May corn lie at 63 7-8. Minneapolis
May wheat up l-2c at $1.37 1-2. Kansas
City May down ] l-3c ut $1.35 1-2. Win-
nipeg May 3 l-2c high or at $1.78 1-2. Chi-
<-ago March wheat $1.53 3-4. Minneapolis
flour trade dull; wheat demand keen;
No. 2 dark cash 18-32c over May, Cana-
dian 40c over. Country receipts very
light. Kansas City 'hillling and export
demand fair; No. 2 hard cash 14c over
Kansas City May.
Fruit* and Vegetables
Potato prices made further decline of
5-10e per 100 lbs. at northern shipping
stations the past week, closing 85-90«
sacked, Chicago carlot market down 15-
25c ut $1 -$1.10. New York round wt*ite
held at $1.40-$1.50 bulk. New York cold
storage Baldwin applies generally steady,
city wholesale markets at $5-$6 per bii.
Northwestern extra fancy Wlnesaps most-
ly $3-$4 per box consuming centers. Firs!
car Texas yellow bermuda onions mixed
No. 1 and 2 brought $4.50-$5 per crate
Pittsburgh Mar. 25 compared with open-
ing level around $6.50 a year ago. Buieau
of crop estimates release shows general
•eduction acreage bermuda onions Cali-
fornia, Louisiana and Texas. Total plan-
tings this seuson 14,028 acres compared
with 18.556 acres last season. Produc-
tion 5,007 cars forecasted compared with
estimated production 8,642t cars last sea-
son. Florida celery down 25c per crate
In city markets at $2.50-$3; Philadelphia
weak and lower at $1.50-$2. California
celery $.V$5.50- per crate Chicago;' $6-
$6.50 Kansas City. Louisiana, Klondike
strawberries in '-'4 tit. crates 35-38e per qt.
New York ; 45c Pittsburgh. Consuming
markets range $3.75-$4.50 per L'4 pint
crate. Louisiana F. O. H. markets slight-
ly weaker, closing around $2.50 per crate.
i'nriot shipments weak ended March 25:
Potatoes 2.485 cars; bo\ed apples 352
barreled apples 613; cabbage WO; celery
284; lettuce 4! T"; onions 250; sweet pota-
toes} 260. Shipments week ended March
18: Potatoes 3.767 cars; boxed apples 335,
barreled apples 815;; cabbage 408; celery
400; lettuce 516; onions 412, sweet pota-
toes 275.
Livestock and Moats
Chicago livestock prices showed mixed
advances and declines the past week.
Light hogs advanced 35c, medium* weight
lost 35c. Pe. f steers showed slight de-
dines. Butcher cows and heifers gener-
ally steady with moderate advances on
top grades. Peeder steers fully 25c low-
er. Veal caves down $1.25-$2. Fat lambs
and yearlings up 50c-75c; fat ewes 25c-
50c; feeding lambs steady. Mar. 26 Thl-
cago prices: Hogs, bulk of sales $0.25-
$10.75; medium and good beef steers $8.25-
$0 00; butcher cows and heifers $.V$0 50-
feeder steers $7.50-$0.25; f«t lambs $S 25
$10.85, feeding lambs $7.25-$0 25- year-
lings $7.50-$0.50 fat ewes $5-$6.50. Eastern
wholesale fresh meat prices averaged
about steady. Certain grades of veal
lamb, mutton and pork loins advanced
$1 per 100 lbs. at some markets but those
advances were counterbalanced In most
Instances by equal declines on other
fades. March 25 prices good grade of
JiSaiL: vr«l $H'-$21; lamb
f'm'tton $12-$15; light pork loins
heavy loins $17-$2t).
Cotton
None today.
Tokio Homes Bum In Fire.
Tokio.—The whole city of Tokio was
imperiled recently by the geratest
fire with which it has been visited in
a decade. The conflagration destroyed
1.000 houses in the Yotsuya district
involving a loss estimated at 25,000,-
000 yen, (normally about $12,500,000).
Thousands of persons were made
homeless, and 133 persons were in-
jured. The burned buildings included
three hospitals, a bank and several
large business houses.
Gold Coins Reappear in Denver.
Denver, Colo.—For the first time in
five years Denver bank tellers \f?re
passing out to the public gold coins
along with the silver and paper
money. At the banks it was said gold
would come into its own again espe
cially in the west, where for so lone
it was the most popular circulating
medium.
Governor Robertson on
signed the following bill.
Senate No. 241, making appropria-
tion for the state board of medical ex-
aminers, and declaring an emergency.
Since the beginning of the session,
Goveror Robertson has vetoed three
bills, all of them last week. They are
as follows:
Senate No. 31, amending section
227, revised laws, relating to trusts
and pools. '
Senate No. 341, creating a new judi-
cial district to consist only of McCur-
8tain county.
Senate No. 7, abolishing township
government in certain counties and
coferring the duties of township offi-
cers on county commissioners.
Governor Robertson on Thursday
signed the following bills:
Senate Ne. 312, abolishing the su-
perior court of Muskogee county, and
declaring an emergency.
Senate No. 404, reapportioning the
counties in the ninth and seventh ju-
dicial districts.
Governor Robertson on Wednesday
signed the following bills:
House No. 355, authorizing the as-
sessor of Woodward county to appoint
certain deputies, and declaring an
emergency.
Senate No. 141, permitting the issu-
ance of preferred stock by corpora-
tions, and declaring an emergency.
Governor Robertson on Tuesday
signed the following bills:
Senate No. 127, creating the posi-
tions of custodians of the Grand Army
and Confederate memorial halls at
the Capitol and declaring an emer-
gency.
Senate No. 158,'making deficiency
appropriation of $5,000 for salaries
and maintenance of Panhandle A. and
M. college fit, Goodwell, Texas coun
ty, and declaring an emergency.
Senate No. 304, transferring $4,-
423.25 of unexpended balances rfrom
former appropriations for paying
maintenance and salary costs at the
state orphanage at Pryor, and declar-
ing an emergency
Senate No. 240, conferring upon cit-
ies having population between 3,400
and 3,500 the right to construct dis-
trict sewers.
Senate No. 374, fixing the salaries
flf county officers of Nowata county,
and declaring an emergency.
House No. 28, providing for a
ihresher's lien upon grain and seed.
House No. 47, creating an addition-
al Judgeship in the eighth district, em-
bracing Carter and Love counties.
House No. 233, relating to the pub-
lication of initiative and referendum
petitions.
House No. 508, providing for the gift
of forty acres of land to the federal
government for use as a site for a
hospital for soldiers and sailors.
Senate No. 204, relating to relief and
pension lunds for fire departments.
Senate No. 44, relating to visitation
of schools by members of the school
boards and to the furnishing of sup-
plies to teachers, and declaring an
emergency.
Senate No. 31, amending section
S227, revised laws, relating to trusts
and pools, prohibiting discrimination
in price of articles sold in different
parts of Jhe state.
Senate joint resolution No. 13, au-
thorizing the use in perpetuity of the
Grand Army and Confederate memor-
ial halls in the capitnl.
Governor Robertson on Monday
signed the following bills:
Senate No. 89. appropriating $50,-
000 for state aid to union graded
and consolidated schools districts, and
declaring an emergency.
Senate joint resolution No. 8, sub-
mitting a constitutional amendment
raising the limit for tax levy in sup-
port of district schools from 15 mills
to 25 mills and increasing the limit
of aggregate taxation from 31Vi to
41M> mills.
State aid to schools amounting to
$317,000 for this fiscal years is pro-
vided in house bill No. 406, which the
house of representatives in committee
of the whole Saturday recommended
for passage. The bill is drawn with
the purpose of enabling every district
:n the state to maintain a nine months
school. As originally introduced, it
carried $502 000 but it was reduced
when up for consideration a week
ago. Authors of the bill are I. L. Har-
ris of Oklahoma county and T. F. Cum-
niings of Caddo county. The bill is
the most extensive state aid measure
considered by this legislature.
C onversion of the armory at the Uni-
versity of Oklahoma into a gymnas-
ium is provided in the bill recommend-
ed for passage by the house Saturday
It carries $20,000 appropriation. It
must pass on final roll call before te-
Ule senate- APProPriation
of $50,000 to erect a new building at
the institution for the fee51e minded
-o- ls Pr0T'ded in house bill No.
>2« recommended for passage.
M. E. Trapp„ lieutenant governor,
charged with corruption in office, was
vindicated by the senate Thursday af-
ternoon by a vote of 27 to 16 on mo-
tion to quash. The upper house has
been sitting as a court of impeach-
ment since Monday.
"If I were a member of this court
I should sustain the motion of the
lieutenant governor to quash the arti-
cles of impeachment with the excep-
tion ofarticle 8," Chief Justice Harri-
son said. "The clerk will call the roll.
The senators voting to quash will ansr
wer 'ayer* Those opposed will ans-
wer 'no'."
Senators Briggs, Brown, Clark, Cor-
' wright, Cordell, Coyne, Davidson,
Dearmon, Draughton, Fleming, Harri-
son, Hensley, Hill, Holloway; Ingra-
ham, Johnson, Lillard, Mrs. Looney,
Lynch, McPherrefy Morton, Nichols,
Pugh, Ratliff, Simpson, Spurlock, West
and W. H. Woods: "Ayes."
SenatorsBriggs, Brown, Clark, Cor-
nett, Durant, Frye, Glasser, Golobie,
Harvey, Horner, Land, Leedy, Sher-
man Wallace, Wells and E E. Woods:
"No."
And thus the court held grounds on
which nine art'icles of impeachment
voted by the house of representatives
were based unworthy, held with at-
torneys for the defendant who had
charged political conspiracy and held
against an argument that alleged
transactions of the lieutenant gover-
nor in bonds in Adair, Creek and
Seminole counties brought the office
of the second executive of the state
into corruption, and the chair and
gavel-of the presiding officer of the
senate were returned to him.
"The filing of these charges agaftist
Lieutenant Governor Trapp will have
a wholesome effect on county bond
issues," predicted R. H. Matthews,
chairman of the house committee of
prosecutors, after the decision of the
senate. "I believe this proceeding will
put an end to the illegal practice of
taking judgments against counties
when no indebtedness exists in order
that funding bond issues may be made
to obtain money without a bond elec-
tion. That much has been accom-
plished, beyond a doubt.
"We have no complaint against the
court of impeachment. The decision
was upon a question of law only. The
defense did not attempt to contradict
the charges during the time the case
was pending in court.
"The court held that the acts of
which we complained were not of
fenses until after a court should have
cognizance of them and obtained a
conviction. We held that the acts
were offenses when they were com-
mitted, whether a court recognized
them 9r not. Upon that question of
law the case was decided.
For the second time senate bill No.
285, by R. L. Davidson of Tulsa, pro
viding for the submission to the elec
torate of the state of the question ol
whether or not there shall be a consti-
tutional convention, lost in the senatf
Thursday afternoon.
The boxing bill came out of com
mittee in the senate so amended as tc
be virtually killed, according to its
sponsors. This measure has been plac
ed on special order for 10 o'clock Fri
day when its status will be decided.
Money bills occupied the house of
representatives Wednesday as they
have occupied it for the greater part
of the time the last two weeks. Final
roll calls were taken on nineteen ap-
propriation bills, and fourteen of them
were passed. The bill for mainten
ance of all state institutions for the
next two years, carrying $9,848,027.
was passed by a vote of sixty-seven to
one, with twenty-four absent
University Hospital fared badly at
the hands of the house. The two bills
for building a nurse's home and laun-
dry, both of which had been approved
by the house in committee of the
whole Tuesday, were defeated. New
buildings for the University of Okla
homa and for A. and M. college also
were cut off.
Late in the afternoon the appropria-
tion for the new tuberculosis sanator-
ium at Talihina, LeFlore county, was
lost, the vote being forty-six aye, eigh-
teen no, and twenty-eight absent.
Forty-seven votes is necessary to con-
stitute a majority: Because of the
large number of absentees, which en-
dangered the passage of bills to which
even slight opposition appeared, the
house adjourned.
Total appropriations of $9,484,027 for
salaries, maintenance, equipment and
repairs at all state institutions for
the next two years is provided in the
general appropriation bill which the
house of representatives in committee
of the whole considered Tuesday and
recommended for passage. The bill
calls for expenditure of $367,376 more
than the original bill reported out by
the appropriations committee and
$929,235 less than the recommenda-
tions of Governor Robertson in his
budget.
The bill includes appropriations for
thirty-seven institutions. Every state
institution now in operation is pro
vided for. No appropriations are
made for the tuberculosis sanatoria
at Clinton,
WOMEN WHO
CANNOT WORK
Read MrsXorley's Letter and
Benefit by Her Experience
Edmund, S.C.—"I was rundown with
nervousness and female trouble and suf-
fered every month.
I was not able to do
any work and tried a
lot of medicine, but
got no relief. I saw
your medicine adver-
tised in a little book
that was thrown in
my door, and I had
not taken two bottles
of Lydia E. Pink-
ham's Vegetable
Compound before I
_J could see it was help-
ing me. I am keeping house now and
am able to do all of my work. I cannot
say enough for your medicine. It has
done more for me than any doctor. I
have not paper enough to tell you how
mach it has done for me and for my
friends. You may print this letter if
you wish." —Elizabeth C. Corley,
care of A. P. Corley, Edmund, S. C.
Ability to stand the strain of work ia
the privilege of the strong and healthy,
but how our h arts ache for the weak
and sickly women struggling with their
daily rounds of household duties, with
backaches, headaches, nervousness and
almost every movement brings a new
pain. Why will not the mass of letters
from women all over this country, which
we have been publishing, convince such
women that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound will help them just aft
surely as it did Mrs. Corley?
Vaseline
Reg U S.Pat OfT
Carbolated
An antiseptic
sores, etc.—
A necessity
where there
are children.
AMMD SUBSTITUTES
StaU Street NewYorb
The Leopard Spots.
On a crowded Broad Ripple street
car a mother was attempting to inter-
est her son. The lad had a little
wooden toy leopard in his hands
"What are all those round things
on your leopard, dearie?" she asked.
"They's life savers, mamma," he en-
lightened her. - Louisville Courier.
Journal.
MISSOURI FOLKS TESTIFY
Tina, Mo.:— "I think that there are ne
medicines on tha
market to equal Dr.
Pierce's. After out
baby girl came my
wife was in a weak-
ened condition and
could not regain he?
strength. She took
seven bottles of Dr.
Pierce's Favorite
Prescription and got
well and strong. Sha
says that she just
could not get along
without it.
"I have used the
.. ^ 'Pleasant Pellets' fo
constipation for years—am never without
them.
"I always recommend Dr. Pierce'e
remedies."—WM. E. REYNOLDS, Route 1.
Dr. Pierce's medicines contain no alco-
hoi and are sold by alL good druggists.
pH 10 cents to Dr Pierce's Invalids'
Hotel In Buffalo, N. Y., for a trial pack-
age of any of his remedies or write for
free confidential medical advice.
Ever-Present Help.
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her aid whenever she needs them."
"Yes, they are volunteers, so to speak."
To Insure glistening-white table
linens, use Red Cross Ball Blue in your
laundry. It never disappoints. At all
good grocers, 5c.
Confident.'
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Jack." "I don't have to, I can win in
a walk."
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