The Nowata Star (Nowata, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 25, 1918 Page: 6 of 8
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nOWATA WEEKLY STAR
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H W Blakealee has received a let-
ter from bis cousin who is now at
Camp Travis and who vUited him
here a few days last winter As he
will be in position to look after the
Newata boys to some extent and
wil( probably soon go over along with
tfceai to France many will be inter-
ested in reading it Captain Cook
has been twice promoted since visit-
ing here He has seen active service
ha Cuba and in the Philippine Is-
lands: Camp Travis Texas
July 14 1918
Dear Cousin:
Received letter am find that you
find plenty to do as the worst time I
ever have is when I have nothing to
do We are getting ready for a trip
over where I do not know I leave
for Camp Perry Ohio on Tuesday
the 16th of this month I go for a
month’s instruction small arms I
have just been appointed captain of
the 19th Inf Will have command of
the third company in the third bat-
tallion Company L If by any chance
you travel east and go by La Came
or Camp Perrq stop off I got ten
days leave at the end of the class
when I will join mother and on my
way back will try and stop fbr a day
or so in Nowata with you
The country here is hot and the
corn has all burned up We are
working very hard getting the new
men in shape I am officer of the
day and have lots to do All the men
are new and they do not know what
to do so they have to bo instructed
There are several men in the outfit
from Nowata but I have never been
able to find them When I do I will
let you know who they are and how
they are getting on Hoping to see
you in the near future I remain
Respectfully yours
W 3 COOK
S T Wilkinson of this city has re-
‘ reived the following letter from his
brother Henry who is now some-
where in France:
France Saturday May 1 Hth 1918
Dear Brother
I will write ou a few lines this
morning 1 his leaves me well Hope
ull are well at home I have a friend
who is coming back to the states and
I shall end this bv him His father
was accidentally killed o he has the
business to look after He will
write you ns we have talked over
things before his leaving He is a
fine fellow and was with me at De-
troit Mich Be sure and send the
home paper as often ns possible so
I can see how everybody is Well I
must close
Your brother
HENRY WILKINSON
The Star has received the follow-
ing letter from the six Nowata boys
vho left two weeks ago for Austin
Texas to take the university train-
ing: The Nowata drillers and tooldres-
sers: — As we were dubbed arrived
safely at Camp Mabry after an un-
eventful trip and of all the rookies
vou ever saw we certainly did bring
down the bacon We are now estab-
lished with 180 other Oklahoma men
in Company 11 Barracks 1 Camp
Mabry Austin Texas and will be
here for a course of training for nine
weeks The camp comprises a total
of 3500 men who are all students
without a rating We will not be
rated until we are assigned and we
have not the slightest idea to what
Lrtpch of the service we will finally
belong Camn Mabrv is made up
inmost exclusively of niained men
find if you could have seen us after
we arrived you could have readily
veen that we were married The
sorriest bunch of fellers imaginable
everybody lonesome and blue We
appreciated the lunch given by the
folks at home and before we reach-
ed Wagoner it was almost consumed
Our first night was one of compli-
ments as both the medical officers
nnd our Commander said we were
the cleanest bunch that ever hit this
camp We were the only bunch
from Oklahoma who carried
rit Bags We picked up a lot of fel-
li ws along the line and there was so
i mch weeping wailing that we al-
i lost forgot our own trouble We
were in Ft Worth three hours and
bad lunch with our old friend Van
b'oy John Sloan was over to see us
y esters dy and we look for John
Townes and Louis Sebring before
lung Our three weeks of lectures will
start next Monday — in the mean
time they are drilling the socks off
ef us Send us the Nowaia Star for
a couple of months and send us the
lill for same Remember us to every-
body and with kindest regards we re-
main Yours Very Trulv
CHESTER B ELLIOTT
HERBERT G BRINK
LEWIS BLACKWELL
JOE F CAMP
WALTER A BEAUBIEN
WADE KARR
EARL FLINT
CHAS A WHITFORD
Camp Travis July 11 1918
To our friends and neighbors of No-
wata county:
We enjoyed our trip to camp and
are still enjoying it We have met
up with many Nowata boys The
days aTe warm and the nights are
cool here We are enjoying army
life fine but we will enjoy it better
“over there” We are very thankful
for the kits the Red Cross gave us
A letter from anyone will be appreci-
ated LEROY LEWIS and
MAPLE TAYLOR
Co 58 15 B N 165 Depot Bri-
gade Camp Travis Texas
We thank the Nowata Star giving
them our best wishes
Chaplain John W Day formerly
of this city writes the following in-
teresting letter to Mr and Mrs L D
Brunk and family Chaplain Day is
now with 504th Engineers who are
now in the great battle being waged
in the Chauteau Thierry sector:
“Since I last wrote you I have seen
and talked with some real live Ger-
man prisoners The lot that our own
marines captured at Chateau Thier-
ry were sent here They came
streaming in under French guard a
week ago yesterday and they did not
seem a bit displeased at the prospect
of being held under American guard
I have been a bit interested in the
bunch especially in one of the Boche
who has been in the camp hospital
for about a week He talks a great
deal to the fellows there — and the
men are on the job practically all
day The poor devil leads a dog’s
life with them but he does not seem
to mind it overmuch I talked with
him yesterday and today — and from
his expression and words ho seems to
be a thorough going Kaiser hater
He tells us that the authorities in
Germany tell the people and the sol-
diers that there are a few thousand
Americans marching about in France
and England to encourage the peo-
ple of the respbetive countries He
said that two or three hours before
the Americans made their attack on
them at Chateau Thierry the officers
spread about the news that they
might see a few Americans among
the French troops opposite them but
not to worry about them because
they were put there just to hearten
the French soldiers And he said
that after the Americans attacked
them that they kept them penned up
for five days nnd when the soldiers
found out that the entire attacking
force consisted of Americans they
surrendered — about a thousand of
them Of course we enn swallow
that tale if we choose We do know
however that the Americans did sur-
round them and that they took about
a thousand prisoners after they had
killed a very large number of them
Our men have proved themselves to
be remarkable fighters thus far — let
us hope that they maintain their re-
putation throughout the scrap
“I had hoped to be up in the ad-
vance zone long before this but it
looks now as though I shall be here
for at least two weeks more One
of my duties here is reasoning with
the men about everybody not being
able to go in the trenches These
fellows are a perfect lot of blood
drinkers They want to get up and
end the scrap right how and get
back to the states The Kaiser
would’nt have time to whimper a
"Now I Lay Me” if he should ever
happen along the highway
“The prisoner I mentioned above
told us the first day he came to the
hospital that the Germans either had
to win the war or they would become
slaves: that’s the sort of stuff Hin-
denburg and W Hogenzollerm are
spreading about to keep the German
people in back working and the sol-
diers fighting This week the same
German prisoners says that he would
like to hang the Kaiser and all of his
crew: sounds fishy doesn’t it?”
Work of the 504th Engineers
Every day and night I'm thinning of
the thing I left behind
Yet I loath to put on paper things a-
running in my mind
But think I’ll feel better so I guess
I’ll take a chance
Ere the regiment is ordered to some
other place in France
We’ve laid an awful lot of tracks o’er
an awful lot of ground
And a meaner place this side of hell
know has ne’er been found
We worked in dust and scorching sun
in mud and driving rain
Till our arms and legs our eyes and
ears are yelling out in pain
But there is one consolation gather
close by while I tell
When we die we’re bound for Heaven
because we’ve done our bit in hell
We’ve built a thousand mess halls
for the cooks to stew our beans
We’ve stood a hundred guardmounts
and cleaned the camp latrines
We’ve washed a hundred million
mess kits and peeled a million
spuds
We’ve rolled a million blanket rolls
and washed a million duds
The number of “fatigues” we’ve
done is awful hard to tell
But there’ll be no blue in Heaven for
we’ve worn it here in hell
We’ve passed a million sleepless
hours upon our army cots
And worn a hundred thousand holes
in our army socks
We’ve driven a hundred million nails
and built a hundred camps
And brushed a hundred thousand
pounds of mud off our army pants
And when our work on earth is done
our friends will surely tell
That when we died we went to Hea-
ven for we’ve done our hitch in
hell
The slum and coffee we have caused
likewise the bully beef
We damned the gentle gust of wind
that brought our tents to grief
We’ve taken inoculations ten million
germs or more
And the vaccines scratched into our
arms have made them very sore
With all these things to get our goats
- we all are here to tell
When the order comes “go- to the
' front” we’ll give the Germans hell
When the final taps are sounded and
we've laid aside our care
And we do the last (parade) on
Heaven's shiny stair
And the bugles that us welcome and
the harps begin to play
We can draw a million canteen
checks and spend them in a day
It’s then we’ll hear St Peter proclaim
loudly with a yell
Make way for the 504th for they’ve
done their hitch in hell
PRI PATRICK DURKIN
E B Bender is in receipt of' the
following interesting letter from Joe
Titsworth:
Fort Sam Houston Tex
July 16 1918
If you want to know why dried
apples are so high aura can tell you
I think we have our share down hero
in the army We have they every
day Got so I like them The 309th
cavalry passed in review before
Major General Holbrook yeaterday
There ia going to be something doing
down here before very long but I
can’t figure out what it will be We
expect a new bunch of recruits in
here in a few days
I got a letter from the folks at
home and they said that it was re-
ported around there that I was going
to desert the army That sure tickles
me I guess that some of those No-
wata meddlers know more about my
intentions than I do Any old day
that I leave the army I will manage
to let them know ahead of time So
far 1have been treated like a prince
and that suits me to a T I have
gotten so that I can eat most anything
and can certainly do my share of the
work I see by the papers that the
Americans are giving the Germans
hell Good for them Just wait until
the 309th cavalry gets over there
They make us sing while riding our
horses now As a rule the dust is so
heavy that you can’t see thfe horse
next to you I was over to see Ray-
mony Bricker and the rest of the No-
wata boys last night They haven’t
gotten much drill yet but their time
is coming Some of the Nowata boys
have been transferred to Fort
Worth Tex They are beginning to
take the negro troops away now
They are using Travis more as a dis-
tributing center than anything else
new
Tell all the customers hello and
to cuss the kaiser for me I expect
it will be a long time before I see any
of them Tell Joe that if he wants
a good instructor for the Home
Guards that I am his man We are
beginning to get pretty good with the
manual of arms We are getting
more used to our horses now Our
riding is not hard but we have long
hours I sure must be gaining in
weight because I know that my feet
are getting larger My first pair of
shoes was 10 V4 Of course they
didn’t fit but I wore them just the
same
Well I mustn’t tell you too much
so will close for this time
A Soldier’s Prayer
Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
Grant no other sailor take
My shoes or socks before I wake
Lord guard me in my slumber
And keep my hammock on its- num-
ber May no clews nor lashings break
And let me down before I wake
Keep me safely in thy sight
And grant no fire drill tonight
And in the morning let me wake
Breathing scents of sirloin steak
God protect me in my dreams
And make this better than it seems
Grant the time may swiftly fiy
When I myself shall rest on high
In a snowy feather bed
Where I long to rest my head
Far away from all these scenes
And from the swell of half-baked
beans
Take me back into the land
Where they don’t scrub down with
sand
Where no demon typhoon blows
And where the women wash the
clothes
— Homer Thornton in the LeRoy
(Kas) Reporter
COFFEYVILLE man
KILLED BY TRAIN
Thomas B Hooper First and Cen-
tral one of the best known pioneers
of this section and a wealthy land
owner was struck by an incoming
Missouri Pacific freight train last
evening about 6 o’clock and died
instantly Mr Hooper was driving
his Ford car over the grade crossing
just south of interurban stop No 2
east of West Coffeyville when the
accident occurred being on the re-
turn trip from a visit to his daughter
Mrs Lawrence Kauffman who lives
less than a mile from the scene of
her father’s death He has just hail-
ed W W Tyler who was mending
a fence near the crossing when the
train crashed into his car evidently
not having seen or heard the ap-
proach of the train until it was upon
him though the engineer says he
blew his whistle twice as is custo-
mary Mr Hooper’s jaw was broken his
left cheek torn away and he also had
a fractured skull and his throat cut
but no bones were broken and there
were only two cuts below his should-
ers He died just as aid came and
the body was removed to Skinner’s
underetaking rooms The car which
was completely turned around and
thrown against a telegraph pole east
of the crossing was badly -wrecked
and the pole itself wrenched out of
the ground without being broken
About twenty years ago Mr Hoop-
er moved his family to the present
home at First and Central from the
homestead on the river in the Cedar
Vale district which he had taken
fortv-five years ago and still owned
at the time of his death He had
much property both in town and in
farm lands and the Cudahy refinery
and brick yards as well as other sim-
ilar industries in the town are built
upon land formerly owned by him
and he had a large farm at Sandy
Ridge in addition to his other prop-
erty — Coffeyville Journal
Try a Star Want Ad If you wish
to buy seB or rest ead get quick
reesita
OKLAHOMAN IN
CASUALTY LIST
By United Press
Washington July 24 — Private C
D Wells of Lebanon Okla was
severely wounded in action accord-
ing to-the casualty report by General
Pershing today The report contain-
ed the names of 108 Americans di-
vided as follows: Killed iiv action
20 wounded 48 taken prisoner 1
dead from other causes 38
LEMONS MAKE SKIN
WHITE SOFT CLEAR
Malw This Baauty Lotion For Few
Cents and Son For Youraolf
What girl or woman hasn’t heard of
lemon juice to remove complexion
blemishes to whiten the skin and to
bring out the roses the freshness and
the hidden beauty? But lemon juice
alone is acid therefore irritating and
should be mixed with orchard white
this way Strain through a fine cloth
the juice of two fresh lemons into a
bottle containing about three ounces
of orchard white then shake well and
you have a whole quarter pint of skin
and complexion lotion at about the
cost one usually pays for a small jar
of ordinary cold cream Be sure to
strain the lemon juice so no pulp gets
into the bottle then this lotion will
remain pure and fresh for months
When applied daily to the face neck
arms and hands it should help to
bleach clear smoothen and beautify
the skin
Any druggist will supply three
ounces of orchard white at very lit-
tle cost and the grocer has the
lemons
DAVENPORT IS NOT WORRIED
ABOUT THE BOAST OF ONE OF
HIS OPPONENTS IN THE CON-
GRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN
Only two weeks remain of the
Congressional campaign and yet one
of the leading candidates has failed
to state what he will do should he
be elected not even mentioning any
needed legislation the only thing he
states is that he stands for that which
the district has not got
He is running an article in several
of the papers that he is not a rich
man of course not All know that
he is not a rich man or his brother
would not be paying his bills and he
would not be complaining that cer-
tain financial interests had not put
up but $20000 nor would he be hav-
ing Rex Walker and several others
who are drawing their salaries from
the State actively campaigning for
him Yet poor man as he is he has
an expensive room for headquarters
and is running half and whole pages
in the Tulsa papers advertising his
candidacy each costing in the neigh-
borhood of $10000
Reports from the district are en-
tirely satisfactory to Mr Davenport
He knows the voters will not be mis-
led by the claims of one of his op-
ponents that he is going to sweep
the country Last Friday evening he
had advertised to speak at the Tulsa
Hotel at 8 p m When the hour ar-
rived no one had shown up Mr
Davenport being in the city at the
time in the interest of his campaign
attended the meeting 8:30 arrived
and fourteen of the faithful had
shown up in the Howard headquarters
Finally a meeting was started on the
street corner Mr Moss who is a
splendid fellow spoke to about 76
people who were guests of the hotel
and others spoke By this time the
crowd had come and gone until about
sixty remained It was indeed pitiful
to see the man who claims the splen-
did city of Tulsa as his home stand be-
fore the small crowd begging and
pleading with them to stand by him
A city of nearly 7000 people yet less
than 100 attended this meeting Does
this look like he was going to sweep
the district? Won’t this cause his
boast and egotism to gradually evap-
orate? Wouldn’t the ordinary candi-
date feel like withdrawing from the
race?
In this campaign as in the past
campaigns up to this time Mr Dav-
enport has conducted the campaign
along lines of the Principles of De-
mocracy and stands upon his record
while a member of Congress and
what he will trv to do for the dis-
trict if re-elected and upon his record
he submits his candidacy to the
voters Mr Howard says he is the
one who can be elected Mr Daven-
port says the Democrat who secures
the nomination will be elected This
statement is the best for Democracy?
Does Mr Howard mean that if he
does not secure the nomination he
will leave the ctiy and not assist on
election dav as he did four years ago
and he did not show up at all two
years ago If Mr Howard is as good
a democrat as he claims why did he
not take part in the campaign?
When did he ever win a race in a
closely contested section? Mr Dav-
enport is the only Congressman in
the statewho ever lost and redeemed
the District He lost the lat time by
269 votes and lost that in the city of
Tulsa going to the city limits of
Tulsa with the majority over his op-
ponent His many friends through-
out the district insist and believe that
he will win the nomination in the
Democratic primary easily as in the
past
(Political Adv) It
Do you get up at night? Sanol is
surely the best for all kidney or blad-
der troubles Sanol gives relief In
24 hoars from all backache and blad-
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remedy 35c and $100 a bottle at
the drug store
One of These Two Men
Will Be Governor!
The only issue in the present
t
gubernatorial campaign is the
three percent oil gross produc-
tion tax On this issue Judge
Robertson and W L Alexander
have spoken:
Robertson’s
00 Platfonn
"The only question
about which there is con-
troversy is the rate of tax
fixed under the law - of
1916 The question of
whether or not this arbi-
trary rate of three per
cent is unjust and inequit-
able too high or too low
is a question of fact that
can be adjusted by a com-
parison with the valuation
and rate of the tax levied
on other classes of prop-
erty When this com-
parison is exhaustively
made and the rate is
shown to be inequitable
and higher than the tax on
other species of property
in Oklahoma 1 have faith
in the fairness of the legis-
lature to readjust the
rate”
Judge Robertson has subse-
quently explained that he favors
this tax but desires an investi-
gation but for what purpose is
not stated Mr Alexander’s
position is specific— he says he
believes the present tax is fair
and equitable He is opposed
to reopening the question He
opposes a reduction and would
likewise oppose an increase
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Alexander’s
Oil flatfonn
“The three per cent
gross production tax on oil
is one of the essential
sources pi revenue I be-
lieve that the law passed
by the legislature of 1916
is fair and equitable and
I am unalterably opposed'
to any effort to reopen the
question or to lower the
rate The reduction of the '
gross production tax
would bring confusion to a
well established system in
the school districts town-
ships counties and state
- governments If reduced
it will demand a readjust-
ment and an increased
levy on all other property -to
meet the deficiencies
caused by such reduction”
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Norton, J. T. The Nowata Star (Nowata, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 25, 1918, newspaper, July 25, 1918; Nowata, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1713175/m1/6/?q=War+of+the+Rebellion.: accessed June 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.