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VOLUME XXIV.
CORDELL OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY. Dec, 21 1916
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FARM LOAN MONEY
Did You Ever Ask
DORNEY}
About a Land Loan*
BETTER
DO IT!
Do You Want to Buy? BETTER SEE
a Piece of Good Lantl1 D 0 R N E Y
Office, Akers Building, : H. C. Dorney
Cordell, Oklahoma.
Christmas-^
If your Sweetheart should a$k you for some
token of friendship during the Holidays
what would be nicer than a
Nice Box of Nice Candy ?
We are especially well equipt in this line to
satisfy everybody. We have
Liggett's Chocolates
in neat boxes of various sizes. ''Liggetts is
f  the best" all candy buyers will tell you. v\ e
.also have
Chase and Fenway
celebrated candies put up in packages that
make them very desireable for the holidays.
Shonld you desire something other than candy,
we would be pleased to have you come in and
look our stock over. It will require no particular
effort on jourjpart to find just what you desire in
the gift line. Our stock is full of gift suggestions
IRA. B. TAYLOR, The Rexall Store.
You ftre Not Too Late
To Join a Christmas
^ I Savings Club
T. i.HiililiwmnMiiiiinillwii;iilIllll1llllHIHIH 'WIIH:mmi nlll' '"'" 
If You Att Now—This Week
If you have wailed—if things have .
delayed you—if you want* money for
next Christmas-then you still have
time lo join our Christmas Savings
Club—for we hove extended the time
for joining a short while longer
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2c Class pays • ..*25.50
5c Class pays $63.75
farmers national bank
Coi ti >,
Oklahoma
May Broaden Credits.
Cordell high school, long a ful-
ly accredited institution with the
University of the State of Okla-
homa! may gain full credits with
practically every institution of
higher learning in the Central
West in the near future. 31anks
on which to make application for
affiliation with the North Central
Association of State Universities
were recently received by Super-
intendent H. T. Flaugher from
the state school inspector, Prof.
A C. Parsons who has charge of
Child Labor Day In Schools |
A letter has been sent by State)
Superintendent o f Public In-,
struction, R. H. Wilson, to all
the school superintendents i n ]
the state asking them to cooper-
ate with the National Child- La-
bor Committee by having a speci-
al child labor program on Child
Labor Day, January 29. The fol-
lowing is the text of Superinten-
dent Wilson's letter:
My attention has been called to
the program which is being pre-
pared by the National Child La-
the interests of the association in bor Committee and I havejndors-
Oklahoma and on whose recom- jjj this plan with the understand-
mendation Oklahoma schools are jing that these programs are to
admitted. I be rendered in the school as a
Prof. Flaugher said: "This, pirt of the regular program. I
if it materializes, will be the | do not believe we can do any
greatest accomplishment that our tiing at this time that will do
high school could make. It is an | more to aid society, good schools
honor that only a few of the best and good goverment than to a-
of the state's high schools have
had extended to them. There is
dopt a program that will impress
upon the public the imDortance
Iiau CAICHUWU W U^Ult bUb puuiiv
only one condition that I fear mr y of providing for the children as
prevent our admission this year:
that is the rather crowded condi-
tion of the high school building.
There is no suitable study hall
and hardly enough room for the
laboratories, library and recita-
tions. The high school has grown
to such proportions that it has
more than filled the building.
With the eighth grade, there are
two hundred and twenty-eight
pupils enrolled in a building that
was not designed to handle a
school of fcore than three-fourths
of that size. The enrollment in
they grow to manhood and wo-
manhood. I hope you will lend
this society your support in your
community in bringing this more
clearly before the public b y
means of an appropriate program
at the proper time as suggested
by them."
Child Labor day is observed
every year b v thousands o f
churches, school?, the Y. M. C. A
and Y. W. C. A., women's clubs
and many other organizations.
This year the National Child
Labor Committee has prepared a
the high school proper is now 172, special program adapted to use
and it will easily reach the 180 j in the schools and it is this' pro-
mark this year, an increase of | gram the Oklahoma schools will
about twenty over last year. At I use. It takes up five big products
the beginning of the second seme-
ster it is probable that the -e will
be from twenty to twenty five ad
ditional students.
in the manufacture or distribu-
tion of which children have a
part—coai, cotton, glass, buttons
and newspaper,^—and traces the
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5 j At a conference ofvalT of the j process of production from the
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state universities held in Okla-
homa City recently, a resolution
was passed which provides that
no credit will be allowed to stu-
' dents for work done in any high
'school not accredited with the
j state university. Since Cordell
j is the only accredited high school
J in the county, this in effect will
j transform it into a county high
! school and attract greater num-
j bers of students from the small-
| er cities of the <*>unty" and the
' rural districts. Domestic science
j and manual training laboratories,
I and the normal training class for
teachers which have attracted
many outside students this year
will probably bring more in the
future and the extra money de-
future and the extra money d
rived through tuition will be _
great help in running the school "
Jail Breaker Recaptured
W H. Moore, one of the three
Custer county prisoners who e-
scaped from the Washita county
jail where fcfcey were temporarily
confined while the Custer county
institution was being rerrodled
late last summer, was taken into
cusitody by officers in Carson
City, Kansas last week, He was
returned to Arapaho to answer
to a charge of operating a confi-
dence game, entered a plea of
guilty to the charge and receiv-
ed a sentence of two years in he
! penitentiary.
[ Moore's capture was due to a
j hotel fight that lodged him in
j the Carson County jail from
! which he escaped to be retaken
! in Dodge City a few days later;
I and to-the efforts of deputy sher-
iff. t. R. Strong, who, learning
of of the arrest of a man who
answered the description of the
jail breaker, 'notified Custer
county officials. 
I flave Moved.
I The Christian congregation
I now hold services in the up stairs
i rooms over the Murdock auto
II1 sales «.roora, having sold their
| church house to A. A Peck who
H'is moving it to his farm in sec-
raw material through t^the fin-
ished product. It shows for in-
stance. how young .children are
employed in the cotton fields
picking the cotton long before it
arrives at the mills where more
young children are employed
manufacturing it; into cloth, how
the newspaper is made which the
boys sell in the streets, and how
the coal is formed which other
boys help to mine It is expected
that t he program will prove most
interesting to children and help-
ful to adults who wish (to know
more sbout the ways in which
children are employed.
High Shoes.
We received a letter the other
day from Earl Wy'he, a former
resident of this place, but now
of Detroit, Mich. He quotes a
few prices. He says: "Eggs
are 5 cents a piece, turkeys 40
cents a pound, butter 50 cents a
pound, flour $1.50 for a 25 pound
sack, potatoes 60 cents a peck,
cabbage 5 cents a pound, milk 12
cents a quart, coal $10 per ton."
He says that ladies shoes have
gone up to $20 and $25 per pair.
Wages, he says, is 50 cents an
hour, 9 hours constituting a day's
work, but that it takes all a man
can earn at that to live. There
are some pfaces where the H. C.
of L. is worse than in Oklahoma.
Just think of paying $25 for a
pair of shoes. It would be cheap-
er, to permit your women folks to
stay at home.
Christmas Shopping
Saturday of last week r s a
very busy one with r,ur mer
chants, especially tb j who ad-
vertised holiday goods. 1 h e
crowd was not as large as has
been in town on former Satur-
days ,put those here seemed to
have come for a definite purpose
and were attending strictly to
that purpose. Our merchants
have advertised extensively and
there is none of them but feel
well repaid for the expenditure.
Another feature of the busi-
ness done by our successful mer-
chants is that they always have
the goods they advertise, know-
ing that the only way to hold
trade is by honest advertising.
The merchant who advertises one
thing and then attempts to sub-
is not long a merchant, but is out
of business. Every year brings
more proof that advertising pays,
not only in an increase of busi-
ness but in an extended trade
territory that keeps on widening
out until it extends well beyond
the county limits.
There were people from thirty
miles distant Saturday buying
goods and most of them carried
out larpre bills upon which they
claimed to have saved much more
than the cost of the trip.
Progress Sold
H. E Castleberry tormer ed-
itor of the Dill Progress, was in
t ie city Saturday. He has dis-
posed of- the news to E. H. Bev-
erly, of Carter, formerly publish
er of the Willow Times, who has
assumed charge and will con-
duct the affairs in tne future'
Mr. Castleberry has moved his
family to Shelly, where he is at
present teaching a terra of
school, finding that he is better
at teaching the young idea how
to shoot than a conducting a
paper without any mechanical ex
perience. Here is hoping success
will follow Mr. and Mrs Castle-
berry in their new home
GRATITUDE
NINETEEN HUNDRED
AND SIXTEEN Will
soon be oi)e of history.
It will without a
doubt be recorded
as the most prosperous year in the history
of our country. While practically the whole
world is engaged In an unprecedented
strife, we, as a nation, should be extremely
thanKful that we are at peace.
Not only are we grateful for this fact
alone, but for th3 splendid growth our banK
has made the past year. Friends and cus-
tomers have made possible the position we
now occupy in this county. To them we
are very thanKful.
It shall be our aim to serve you better
in the year to come.
MAY PEflCE, HAPPINESS AND PROS-
PEEITY reign with you in the year "1917" is
our sincere wish.
T ^ET oTtT RELIABLE
Cordell National Bank
\ W.O.Callaway,Cashier. J.M.Armfield, Pre«.
Better Marketing.
J. E Payne, the Frisco demon-
stration agent, ^as in town Fri-
day looking after the interests of
his department. He seems to be
taking hold of the work in his de-
partment in a new way, passing
the old way up as being but little
use to the farmer or the Frisco
either. His suggestions as pu' -
lished in the papers in this terii-,
tory contain much that is of val- i
ue to the farmer if he will read
and act Upon them. The road at
this lime is trying to perfect a
marketing scheme in order that
the consumer may get it direct
from the producer, cutting out
the middleman altogether.
Best McAlester fancy lump
coal enough to keep Jack Frost
from fooling with your latch-
string.
J. W. Douglas, Phone 222.
Ship in Hay.
An attempt will be made to
ship in some prairie hay to be sold
here. That may be good news
for the fellow who wants hay,
but it does not speak very well
of this county in an agricultural
way. Rough feed should be rais-
ed here in sufficient quanties not
only to feed all the stock here
but there should be more stock.
This county must come to it soon-
er or later and this spring would
be a good time to begin.
Branching Out.
C. H. Murdock has rented the
Harrel building for a term of five j
years 2ind w'll occupy both floors. |
The upper floor will-be used for
repair work. A firm from Hobart;
will have charge of this end of!
the business. An elevator will |
be put in for the purpose of lift-
ing cars to the upper floor, and
the lower floor used for new cars.
A suit of office rooms will be fixed
up in front and the entire build-
ing put in tip top shape for the
purpose intended. Carry is meet-
ing with excellent success in
handling the Dodge cars and is
going to secure every conven-
ience for owners of that popular
car.
Fisher to Move
W. I. Fisher, proprietor o f
Fisher's Variety Store, a few
days ago concluded a contract
with R. A. Billups which will
give him possession of the store-
room on the south side of the
square soon to be vacated by Ode
Cain and Company. Mr. Fisher
expects to move his stock during
the early part of the month of ,
January.
We have sufficient McXlester
lump and nut coal in storage and
enroute to supply your fuel needs
but you'd better not wait too long
before malting a order. Oklaho-
ma City Mill & Elevatoi Co.
IT PAYS
TO FIGURE WITH
W. M, COPELAND
CORDELL. OKLAHOMA
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FARM LOANS
SEE HIM—SAVE MQBifeY
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NO WASHING MONDAY
Gather Up Clothes Tuesday
Afternoon and Wash on
Wednesday
ONLY ONE WASH DAY NEXT WEEK
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Smallpox a Benefit.
It is not often that you will
find a farmer who will own that
the smallpox was a benefit to
him. Yet we heard of one the
other day who said that during
the time he and his family were
quarantined he was able to get
all of his fall work done. The
quarantine order kept him from
getting out and the other fellows
from getting in and there was
nothing to do but work. It strikes
us that a siege of smallpox occa-
sionally might make some of the
farms produce better.
America"* Greatest Star
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Supported by HENRY KjOLKER.  
A MOTION WV« NOVEL « cent g0wngf amid DCW SUP
IS moving It W ma   
"'ons where he will make a barn i   . ,. .
I - cut of it. The new church house See our magazine combination
i will be started riyht away and tour magazines and The $ 1 50
completed as rapidly as possible* •>«'^Id-Sentmelfor:..... I
"A PERILOUS LOVE"
Chapter Three of Gloria's Romance
Another chapter of the
million-dollar Rupert Hughes film
novel, Gloria's Romance, is —
here. Bewitching Billie^
Burke is shown in magnifi-
rvmCt HWCHEf""* cent gowns, amid new sur-
roundings, entangled in
more unusual adventures. Gloria's Romance is
unfolding like a fairy tale. Mystery, love and
hate begin to make their presence felt. The
story grows more absorbingly interesting with
each new chapter. The production is elab-
orate, the acting superb. You can't afford
to miss it. See chapter three, with a full
| synopsis of what has gone before. J
BEGINNING AT THE
At The A-muse-U
Monday Night, December 25
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