The Okfuskee County News (Okemah, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 3, 1918 Page: 4 of 8
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THE OKFUSKEE COUNTY NEWS
AN OPEN LETTER
Okemah Okla Jan 1 1918
To the Democrats of Okfuskee County
Oklahoma Gentlemen:
I The first year of my term as County
Clerk of Okfuskee County is past and
it is a pleasure for me to present a re-
view of the record for your considera-
tion The amount of fees earned by the
County Clerk indicates the amount of
work that is done in the Register of
At 12 o’clock Friday all lines of railroad in the United States Dee8 department for the year and
my fees total $770888 which is more
passed into the hands ot the federal government and are now being pban bas ever been earned in any year
operated by the administration at Washington This was a stu- since the two offices were consolidated
pendous step a monumental undertaking yet the task was accom- and is $75884 more than was earned
plished with scarcely a ripple and if a train missed schedule time in the year 1916-
j The township bond issue of $98000
it was not due to the change from private to publuf- ccmtrol but to which hf)a bee‘ entirply 1imIpr my ad
Some Other cause j ministration and is complete in every
The government assumed control of the railroads purely as a detail except paying out the balance
war emergency yet it is even now predicted by men high in poli- of the money has doubled this part of
tical and financial circles that the transportation systems of the the work of the offiee- as the bond is-
i sue is equal to the amount of money
country have passed forever from private control If government dishursed by the county in a year
operation of the railroads is good in an emergency the people may j There has been more miles of high-
reason that it will be good to prevent an emergency and certainly ways opened to the public the past
the sentiment in favor of government ownership of the railroads 'ear tlan under any full term admin-
is rapidly gaining ground at the present time Whether this sen-lst!!atl0"°j the
x One-third of all the entries made in
timent continues to grow will depend in a great measure on the sue- 'the estray recold in the ten years of
cess of the present venture statehood was made the past year
It is probable that in order to serve the needs of the army More hunting licenses have been is-
that the general public may not be quite so well served as under sue(1 llurin£ the past year than of the
the old system as every facilify will have to be conserved pas two Pievious ycais-
I have made room in the fire proof
senger train service may not be as convenient in all parts of the vaUHs for every permanent record
country as heretofore and the general public may have to make I have had one-fourth of the nu-
sacrifices in many ways for the good of the army but the people i merical indexes transcribed into a per-
are patriotic and will make due allowance and will probably under- manent systematic and orderly sys-
stand clearly that the inconveniences to which they will be sub- ‘the public?
jected are due to the exactions of the war emergency and not to the ‘continue the work until completed
change from private to public control of the railroads j I have secured a plat book and will
If the government operation of the railroads proves a success soon have an official plat of every
after making due allowance for the greatly increased demands on t°wn in the county of record a thing
- that has been needed since statehood
the transportation facilities of the country it is not at all unlikely 0ther changes in the gystem of do
that it will soon be deemed cheaper for the government to buy the jng the work has reduced the number
railroads outright and that government ownership as well as gov- of permanent records accumulating in
ernment control will be an accomplished fact
o
Jerusalem is at last in Christian hands and the preaching of
Peter the Hermit has been vindicated During the twelve hun-
dred years in which it has been in the hands of the Moslem it would ness have under the busy and prosper-
be hard to estimate the lives sacrificed in the attempt to wrest itous conditions of the country
from him It should never again be desecrated by his presence I whlle the "'ork of the office has in-
rp XT ’creased we have used less deputies
to say nothing of his control The Holy City should revert to its than formerlyi having used the third
rightful owners and the entire territory of Palestine with it They jdeputy but four months of the year
should have a free hand in rebuilding a Jewish nation if they so In addition to the regular work of the
I County Clerk’s office I have been a
q I member of the Board of Registration
Since the overthrow of the Romanoffs things have happened ?nd °p th! °eal "ar boaul 0k'IE
kee County seven and one-third
so rapidly m Russia that the average editorial writer is forced to ' months during the year which hi-
keep a stock of effusions on hand to insure getting the right “dope” consumed a vast amount of my time
and even then a lot of perfectly good editorial efforts have been and in June and July my entire office
dumped into the discard If things over there ever stay “put” for orce devoted sixteen days entirely to
twenty-four hours on a stretch we may have something to say of ithj "°lk t’e R:Kistlaion Boaid
J J In my campaign I promised to use
tnem jail borne deputies to unite the County
' ! 0 7 i Clerk’s and Register of Deeds offices
A colored lady who recently came over from Boley to do some j 0ne that I would use every energy
shopping boarded the train here at the station on the return trip to do the work as economically as con-
and as the conductor came through for the tickets the lady handed sistent with efficiency
him a bunch of postage stamps with the remark: “I didn’t take no 1 llave been Rl'eatIy hancl-
i a i i 1 tt i i capped in my administration of-the
time to git a ticket cause my old man he says Uncle Sam owns 1e office by serving on the war boards
railroad now and so take dese stamps — it’s all in de fambly”
o
General Pershing has sent the American people a message
that contains a volume in a sentence of three clauses He says
“Germany can be beaten Germany must be beaten and Germany
will be beaten” To every word of which every red-blooded Ameri-
can will shout “Amen !”
o
The kaiser is quoted as saying that all he wants is justice and
the allied world is of one mind in the determination to see that he
gets it — and in full measure The probabilities are however that
his kaisership won’t recognize the article when he sees it coming
o
The President said: “I hear criticism and the clamor of the
noisy thoughtless and troublesome” And he could not have more
fittingly described them if he had searched the dictionary for ad-
jectives o
We would modestly suggest to Mr Hoover that the food of-
fenders are not all among the high-ups There are a multitude of
the smaller fry who need looking after and that badly
o
With all the loss and damage growing out of the war it is en-
couraging to know that those congressional salaries have suffered
no curtailment at the hands of the income tax collector
o
It might be well to suggest to other beautiful young heiresses
that the gun method is not always the safest in disposing of an
objectionable husband or ex-husband
o
A news item informs us that women’s dress styles for 1918
will effect a 25 per cent saving in material Wonder now which
end they’ll economize at this time?
o
Ex-Czar Nicholas is said to have escaped from Siberia In-
teresting developments are possible should he decide to make an
effort to regain his lost crown
o
An accurate statement of this country’s war aims is not of
nearly so much importance as the accuracy of the aims of the boys
in the trenches
Married men should take warning from the fate of a grocer
in this state who dropped dead as he handed some money to his
wife
o
We wouldn’t mind paying two prices for everything we buy if
we didn’t have a sneaking notion that the second price is graft
o
Mt Popocatapetl and Villa are bidding for notice in Mexico
We’re betting our coin on the volcano
o
The food hog has given place
out and pen him
to the food hoarder Dig him
(
l
the office to be taken care of for all
time to come
The fact of the matter is that the
work of this office has increased in
proportion as all other lines of bust
which was all unexpected I submit to
you that I have done the work and
carried out my pledges in lull faith
and that if I deserved the first nom-
ination which I received at the hands
of the unterrified Democracy of Ok-
fuskee County that I have earned the
right to a second nomination on my
record which I will ask at your hands
formal announcement of which will be
made in due season
Yours truly
CHAS R DIEHL
ROAD FIGHT ON IN
OKMULGEE COUNTY
Okmulgee Dec 28 — One of the bit-
terest contests in the history of the
state is foreseen in Okmulgee county
as the result of the letting of the con-
tracts Friday for the new county sys-
tem of hard surface roads The con-
tract for paving forty miles of road
was let to Western Paving Company
of Oklahoma City at a rate of approx-
imately $22000 a mile The new roads
are to be of bitulithic construction the
asphalt to be used being known as
Warrenite a patented product sold by
a Boston concern
The Western Paving Company was
the only concern that bid on this kind
of a road as previous to the opening
of the contracts the commissioners
had allowed it to be understood that
they favored concrete or brick roads
The roads are to be paid for in cash
from funds raised in a bond issue for
$800000 and it is expected that one
million dollars in all will be spent
The chamber of commerce the good
roads associations of the county and
every other civic organization in the
county favored either brick or con-
crete roads and until the bids were
opened were lead to believe that the
commissioners also favored these
types For that reason most of the
contractors that bid on the roads di
not bid on bitulithic roads and the
Western Paving Company had a clear
field when the commissioners an-
nounced that they had decided on the
bitulithic type
Every organization in the county
protested the letting of the contract
and asked for ten days’ delay but the
commissioners refused to grant any
delay and the contract was signed
MEMBERSHIP OBTAINED IN
COUNTY CHRISTMAS DRIVE
Puden and Vicinity
Paden 265
52 Springs 63
Shady Grove 23
Pettiquah 41
Grant 31
Garden Grove 142
Van Zant 108
Bethel 101
North Canadian 46
Midway 62
Total 882
Castle ' 98
Okemah and Vicinity
Ok’emah 687
Battle Creek 6
Pleasant Valley - 68
Trenton Miss Brook 14
Trenton Mr Wright 20
Pleasant Oak - 53
Glen Wood 18
Mountain Grove 57
Sunset 81
44 Lester 33
IXL 17
Banner 100 j
White Rose 72 :
Welty Miss Duke 35 j
Welty Miss Sahm” 99
Oriental 44 I
Morse 65 j
Okfuskee 47 1
No 38 8
Micawber 106
Rock School House 61 1
Iron Post 40
Bearden 157
Bigham 32
Mason 60
Reed School House 12
Lone Star 31
Fentress 37
1363
Boley and Vicinity
No — minority B J Floyd 118
No 42 W H Peters 108
No 7 Mattie P McRiley Ill
No 43 U S White 98
No 13 Boley W S Peters and
Ann’e Sharp 77
No 13 Boley S L Hargrove— 58
No 18 N J Johnson 32
No — minority M S Rice 50
Camp Neighborhood O W Bell 13
Clearview and Vicinity
No
37 Clearview Neva B Thompson 121
35 B W Warren 23
41 M T Hunter 53
197
566
63
102
124
’ 48
Weleetka and Vicinity
Weleetka
Bird Springs
Oak View
Hickory Ridge
Spring Hill
Total for the county 4798
Mrs D F Farhney of Lawton who
has been the guest of Mr and Mrs
S C Wilson of this city returned
home Tuesday
Louis Fulson who has been attend-
ing school in Oklahoma City was the
guest of friends here during the holi-
days She returned Sunday
NEW SUPERINTENDENT WATER
AND LIGHT DEPARTMENT
A E Finuf has resigned as super-
intendent of the city water and light
department his resignation taking ef-
fect January 1 The board 'of trustees
has appointed William Burnett as Mr
Finuf’s successor Mr Burnett has
been connected with the water and
lights department since the installa-
tion of the system in this city and is
thoroughly familiar with the duties
of the position to which he has been
appointed
In the County Court ot Okfuskee
County Oklahoma
Frohate No 90
In the Matter of the l'Ntnte of William
Arpolka a minor Walter 1 Ithea
CiuardlHD
XOTICR OF SALK OF ItKAL BHTATK
Public notice is hereby (riven that
pursuant to an order and decree of sale
made by the County Court in and for
Okfuskee County Oklahoma on the 1st
'lay of January 1918 the undersigned
Walter F Klieu us the guardian of the
estate of William Arpolka n minor will
at 10 o'clock a lit on the 19tli day of
January 1918 at the front door of the
Court House at Okemah Oklahoma sell
at public sale to the highest and best
bidder or bidders and subject to the
confirmation of said sale by said County
Court all of the right title claim In-
terest and estute of the said William
Arpolka a minor in and to all of the
following described real estate and
premises lying and situate in Okfuskee
County Oklahoma to-wit:
The North Half 1£ ) of the
Northwest (quarter ( lt ) und the
Hast Half ) of the South
east Quarter ( 14 ) of the North-
west Quarter ( 14 ) uf Section
(Hi) Township eleven til)
North Itimge Ten (10) Fail
I R & M
Said sale will he on the following
terms and conditions tn-wlt: Casli up
on confirmation of said sale by the
Court and the execution of proper deed
of conveyance
This the 1st day of January 1918
WALTKIt F HIIKA
fiiianlkin of the estate of
William Arpolka a Minor
K Hl'Seit Attorney
Jan '1-10-17
SUPER-FOUR
y
1918 MODEL $845 FOB Chicago
It has been my great desire to secure the agency for a
real farmer’s car By that I mean one that i3 especially
adapted to country roads and all kinds of weather In
this I have succeeded as 85 PER CENT OF ALL BIRCH
MOTOR CARS RE OWNED BY FARMERS Then
too the Birch is a car that any man can be proud of
When you buy a Birch you buy complete and lasting
satisfaction It gives you faithful and unfailing service
everywhere and at all times and is one of the most
bpautiful cars on the market If you need a car you
can afford one and a GOOD one and I will be glad to
show you just why you can get the greatest amount of'
CAR SERVICE by buying a Birch
fiirch Light Six $955
F O B CHICAGO
AND BEAR IN MIND THAT THE BIRCH HAS THE
ESSENTIAL QUALITIES OF POWER SPEED
STRENGTH AND BEAUTY
W J MUSGROVE Agent
Route 3 Box 36
SOUTH HAS MORE CORN
THAN IS NEEDED
Washington Jan 1 — A review of
business conditions made public by a
committee of statistical experts of the
United States chamber of commerce
says that with the exception of Texas
and Oklahoma Southern states have
raised more than enough corn for their
own needs and are in position to help
ship it
Taking up the changed conditions
in the south the review points to the
conditions caused in certain sections a
year ago “by boll weevil excessive
rains and the fct that negroes the
staple agricultural laborers were
leaving by thousands for the east”
Today it says the reports from these
sections are “optimistic beyond ex-
pression” Abundance of Feed
The enlarged acreage of corn which
has been of excellent grade except in
j Texas and Oklahoma the report says
has proved sufficient to ship and there
'is an “abundance of other feed for
I livestock so that stock-raising is be-
'coming more and more an important
adjunct of farming the territory sau''i
of Mason and Dixon's line”
Regarding diversification of crops in
the south the review says: “The pro-
duction of peanuts from Virginia along
the Atlantic coast into Southern Geor-
gia and across into Oklahoma and
Texas is becoming a matter of great
import the product running into many
millions of dollars”
Cotton as Far as Tampa
Cotton it points out is now being
raised in a moderate way as far south
as Tampa Fla “Rice and sugar cane
crops were not as large as in some
years past” the review says “but
brought higher prices An unprece-
dented drouth in Texas hurt cattle-
raising and has not been entirely re-
lieved but it has served to give impe-
tus to efforts to raise goats and sheep”
TRANSACTIONS IN OKFUS-
KEE COUNTY REAL ESTATE
J S Bearden et ux to Leroy
Shults W2 NE4 20-10-9 $1600
Nancy O Wibking et con to J C
Berridge lot 1 block 111 Weleetka
$500
J D Busby to N L Eaton lot 3
block 37 Fixico Tract Okemah $600
A R Novotny et ux to G B Ald-
ridge lots 17 and 18 block 33 Paden
$600
E B Hunt to G B Aldridge lots
1 2 3 4 5 6 block 43 Paden $2000
Walter E Havens et ux to J H
Simmons E2 NE4 10-12-7 $5000
W C and Effie M Bridges to He-
ber Strain W2 SW4 16-10-9 $2750
W C Bridges et ux to C E Han-
ner E2 SE4 17-10-9 $2750
Robert 0 Deming et ux to Frank
1 R G M
Otis and Mary Otis SW4 S2 NW4
'27-10-9 $8250
Ethel L Diamond to Mabel F Leon-
hard NE4 SW4 N2 NW4 SW4 N2
S2 NW4 SW4 33-13-7 $1
Douglas Edward Thomas et ux to
1 J T Glasscock beginning at center of
Sec 17-12-7 running S 468 feet or to
Ft S & W Ry thence nlong right-of-!way
in NW direction to intersection
of 1-4 Sec line of 17 and right-of-way
I thence E to place of beginning (3a)
‘ $70
G P McNair et ux to C W Kel-
ley et ux lot 4 block 154 Johnson
Add Boley $550
T W Blackman et ux to W L Mc-
jBrayer NE4 SW4 33-11-11 except
" S & W Ry $1400
Ft
I Same to H J Singleton SE4 SW4
133-11-11 except Ft S & W Ry
$1400
C P Fine et ux to Eugene A
Moore lots 16 and 17 block 16 Cas-
! tie $599
Quash Johnson et ux to Ben'll Bal-
: lard SE4 SW4 S2 NE4 SW4 3-11-9
! $1000
George R Sesher Wm Spdrleder
John N Taylor et ux to Rose C
! V'nieler W2 NW4 29-12-10 1st par-
1 't leserve minerals upon NW4 NW4
2 1-12-10 $2000
i Tarry J Walker et ux Parker E
Gihson et ux to G R Williams G C
! Williams and Billy Williams NW4
SW4 E2 NE4 16-12-10 $20000
J A Barrington et ux to J B
Coffman lots 7 and 8 block 64 Fix-
ico Homestead Okemah $900
O H Douglass et ux to Dave Car-
rethers SW4 28-11-11 $1600
Claivrce T Fletcher et ux to J C
Lowery lot 2 SE4 NW4 30-11-10
$2000
Douglas E Thomas et ux to R F
Joggers beginning at SE corner of
Sec 17-12-7 running 80 rds north
I thence 80 rods west thence S 22 rods
to road along N side of Ft S & W
Ry thence SE along said road 84
rods to place where road intersects
with section line run W thence E 18
rods to beginning (28a) $158125
Samuel Baker et ux to J H Eu-
bank S2 SW4 16-11-9 $1
Ruth Stiles et con to J H Ward
lot 1 block 14 Dills Add Okemah $1
Wood Smith et ux to W T Fath-
eree and Eula SE4 NE4 Sec 22 SW4
jNW4 Sec 23 S of Ft S & W Ry
Twp 10 N Range HE
Oil and Gas Leases
Mary M Scott et con to O H Dou-
glass and M S S2 S2 SE4 Sec 3
N2 N2 N2 NE4 NE4 10-10-11 term
5 years $1
T E Standley et ux to Gypsy Oil
Co N2 SW4 33-11-9 end 1-20-21 $80
Frank Mitchell et ux to L Median
S2 NW4 36-12-10 term 5 yrs $160
John G Bakhaus et ux to The Kana-
wha Oil Co NW4 33-12-9 5 yrs $80
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