THE ELLIS COUNTY CAPITAL
Arnett - - - Oklahoma I
The Official Paper of Ellis County
COL E M BEUM Editor and Publisher
Entered at the Post-otliee at Arnett Oklahoma as net”
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State of Oklahoma 1
Ellis County I
Arnett Oklahoma Sept 2 1112
The Board of Count’ Commis-
sioners met in regular session in the
Office of the County Clerk on this
date all members present
As per advertisement in last
months proceedings the Board pro-
ceeded to sell at auction the old
SUBSCRIPTION — 1 year $1 6 men’s 50cta3 mon’s 25 ctalCourt House fixtures consisting of
stoves benches and District Clerks
Safe and received therefor the
of $9300 which amount was turned
to the County Treasurer and order-
ed placed to the credit of the Build-
ing fund
The Board hereby approve the
following monthly reports:
T W Sumpter County Clerk for
month of August 1912
O 11 Richards Register of Deeds
for mouth of August 1912
P F Bradshaw deputy Sheriff for
month of August 1912
F B Sumpter deputy Sheriff for
mouth of August 1912
Ray Sutton Sheriff for mouth of
August 1912
C II Holmes clerk county court
for month of August 1912
E Learnard clerk county court for
month of August 1912 Shattuck
Geo E Baker clerk county court
for month of August 1912 Gage
O E Null clerk district court for
month of August 1912
The Board hereby dis-a)low the
Petition of F G Bouton et al for
the appointment of County Stenog-
rapher The Board dis-allow the petition
of Jacob Weber et al for road dam-
loaf I ages in sections 23 & 24 twp 21
notrng 26 Damages claimed $10000
The Board hereby approve the re-
port of W M Christie County Sur-
veyor on the road survey in sec-
tions 23 & 24 twp 18 mg 25 W:
I M
The Board hereby grant the fol-
lowing bridge petitions:
Between sections 22 & 23 tw'p
17 N rng 22 W I M
Across Rock Creek between Sec-
tions 28 & 33 tw’p 21 rng 25 W
I M
The Board adjourned to Septem-
ber 3 1912
Jno S Latta Chairman
Attest: T W Sumpter
(seal) County Clerk
State of Oklahoma
The loafers are a pretty slick set of fellows They generally
around those who do not advertise and as a consequence they are
disturbed much by customers The loafers understand their business
better than some merchants
Next Monday the public schools open up Everything
garnished and in running order and all that are eligible are
Boys and girls be there the first day its the best day in all
don’t miss it but make the first days enrollment the greatest in
tory of the schools
The place that gives a man his living is entitled to his best efforts
to advance everything calculated to benefit the place and the community
No man has a right to live in a live town who seeks to enrich himself
and not actively identify himself with its interests To be classed as a
drone or chronic kicker and opposed to every measure believed to be for
the good of the citizens is a stigma that should attach to no man in the
corporation
One of our ladies invited a few’ friends in to dinner the first of this I Ellis County
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week The hostesses insisted that one of guests take another plate of
pork and beans ‘‘Why” he said “I’ve had two already but it’s really
such nicely cooked pork and beans I believe I will take another plate”
“Ma’s won!” exclaimed the little boy at his side: “Ma’s won! She said
she’d bet a dollar you’d make a hog of yourself if you came”
WHY THIS EFFORT?
Wiiy all this effort at getting an education? Why all this spend-
ing of money erection of buildings employment of teachers? What is
to be gained? Is it to make a scientist w’ho can go forth into the w’orld
and by his knowledge be able to control the elements and bring them
subservient to man? No not this
Is it to produce men and women who can go forth into the field of
Art and be able to chisel from marble or draw on canvas pictures as
grand as those of Michael Angelo or a Raphael? No not this
Is it to send forth men and wromen equipped with everything that
goes to make them intelligent who are able to answ’er every question as
to the construction of our universe and its age? No not this is the
end of true education
The object of the education of our country the object of the common
schools of our land is to produce men and women endow’ed w’ith every ele-
ment that will assist to make themselves and the world better Endow-
ed w ith every thought that will assist mankind in more thoroughly and
systematically w’orking out the end for which they wrere erected
You remember the saying of Ralph Waldo Emerson that the prime
object of education is to produce men and women That does not mean
walking machines that does dot mean intellectual machines but that
means men and women who have hearts as w'ell as minds who look bey-
ond the material things of this w’orld and look to humanity and to God
tor the elevation and betterment of mankind
The common schools of our country are its foundation stones boys
and girls today are attending the schools of our land who never will or
can enter any higher course According to the census of 1890 there
were over fourteen million boys and girls attending the public schools of
our land and not twro per cent of that number have ever graduated from
our seminaries and colleges in any one year Then how necessary is it
that the common school system of our country should be made better
How necessary is it that every person connected w ith the maintenance or
support of our public schools should be a man or woman thoroughly
equipped for the service and should give to it their best thought The
world today is seeking men and women who are honest ond upright It
will not make them honest to be educated It will not make them up-
right to be intellectual The training they receive must come from per-
sons thems Ives who know w hat honesty and uprightness means and who
will by precept as well as example instill this idea thoroughly into the
minds and hearts of their pupils
Arnett Oklahoma Sept 3 1912
Pursuant to adjournment the
Board of County Commissioners met
in the office of the County Clerk
on this date all members present
The Board find the assessment of
Wm Jolly on personal property
amounting to $179L00 in the Town
of Fargo for the year 1911 erron-
eous in that he wras not allow’ed the
full amount of exemption allowed
by law viz: $10000 The County
Treasurer is therefore ordered to I
cancel the tax charged to him on
the tax rolls and the County Clerk
ordered to issue certificate of assess-
ment assessing the property at
$7900
The County Treasurer is hereby I
ordemj to collect the original tax
and not the eualty on the East 3-4
of Lots 10 it 12 block 2 Town of I
Fargo for the years 1904-1905 &
1906 same lteing owned by A E
Fennimore and erroneously assessed
and sold for these years
The Board find the assessment for I
sum the year 1908 on lot 17 in block 5
and lots 15 it 17 in block 5 for the
year 1911 and on the west 50 feet
of lots 1 to 15 for the year 1900 er-
roneous and the County Treasurer
is hereby ordered to cancel the
assessment and tax on the tax rolls
all of said property being in the
Original Town of Gage
The County Clerk is hereby or-1
dered to issue certificate of assess-1
ment on the following projerty
Lot 17 in block 5 Original Town I
of Gage for the year 1908 Value
$2500 Lot 15 & 17 block 5 Orig-
inal Tow'u of Gage for the year
1911 Value $5000 West 92
feet of lots 1-3-5-7-9 & 11 and all of
lots 13-15 & 17 in block 6 Original!
Town of Gage for the year 1906
Value $2500 each The Clerk is
further ordered to apply the 1911
tax levies on the said property to be
placed on 1911 rolls
In the matter of road petition by I
the Township Boards of Grand &
Rawdon Townships presented and)
acted on by the Board of County
Commissioners in the June Proceed-)
ings should read closed instead of
condemned a9 no road has been con-1
demned
WHEREAS on the 9th day of)
January 1912 this Board designat-j
ed the First State Bank of Shattuck I
Oklahoma as a County depository
and that afterwards to-wit: On)
April 3 1912 said Bank qualified as
said County Depository by execut-)
ing and delivering to this Board its
depository bond w’ith W L Helton
Fred Becker Wm G Sears Gottfd
Longhofer and D C Ew'ingas sure-
ties for $2500000
That said bank has violated one I
i of the conditions of said Bond in
that it on the 3rd day of September
1912 refused and failed to pay draft)
of the County Treasurer of Ellis
County Oklahoma upon said bank
for the sum of money on deposit in
said bank belonging to Ellis County
whereby said Bank and the said sev-
eral sureties have become liable on
said Bond
Be It Therefore resolved: That
the County Attorney of Ellis Coun-
ty be instructed- to bring suit on
said bond against the principal and
all sureties thereon for the amount
of County’s depoeit in said Bank at
once
J L Cooley
II S Drake
II W Webb
W A Hargis
J Matt McGee
J C Proctor
A C Borthick
J R Armstrong
W II Fessler
Roscoe Graves
II S Thomas
J M Welsh
W J Duncan
II N Riggins
A M Harvey
J II Wallace
J A Coffield
J J Emmeraon
E T McDaniel
Wyley Walton
II M Legg
G W Weaver
N E Tallinan
C 11 Lalicker
C E Haun
A Bowen
S E Allen
W D Six
E M Guver
A E Fennimore
J R Bonar
C C Manso
W J Driskell
R II Elder
Ed Balderson
Elza Davis
J A Tangney
C J Nash
O G Gibbs
II II Shurtz
Gabe Tillmans
Chas Nash
Dolph Marrs
Lee Denney
Frank Nickerson
R E Davis
Fred Teaten
M A Moore
Walter Hull
II P Overshiner
B S Mitchell
R S Oates
J W Foster
A C Olliver
W G Sears
G A Chance
W F Adams
E C Sherman
J W Sharp
II II Patton
A F Brenecke
L II Long
S J Hendrix
W A Richardson
Chas Elliott
R O Glenn
Louis Zahn
Will Stephens
F M Vermillion
W S Holmes
Adam Kelln
M F Semler
Jacob Wanner
John Roder
David Kelln
C W Sherrill
N H Rogers
Dave Steinert
W II Holmes
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