Ellis County Capital (Arnett, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, February 14, 1919 Page: 1 of 8
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Poift ALL 1UNDS OP INSURANCE see James Hdslam West Side Square Arnett Oklahoma
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Official Paper of Ellis County Devoted to the best Interests of all the People in the County
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"arnett Ellis county Oklahoma Friday February i4 1919
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RED CROSTO AID IN
SOLDIERS DISCHARGE
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Red Cross Headquarters has is-
sued the following instructions to all
Chapters:
' ' “Frequently a home Service Section
is asked by the relatives of an
listed mrin to forward ( through the
Red Cross a statement of facts in
dicating that the man should be dis-
charged' '
“In no ' cose should " the Home
Service Section comply ' with such a
request The War Department
states that it desires the Red Cross
to continue to act only upon request
from the man’s commanding officer
“Home Service Sections should ad-
vise the relatives that such statements
should be sent in directly to the man
so that he may present them to his
commanding officer The Home
Service may assist relatives in the
preperation of such statements
They may be in affidavit form al-
though this is not required In no
case should the- statements be writ-
ten on Red Cross letterhead nor
should any Red Cross representative
sign or witness them
“Upon receipt of these statements
from k the man - his commanding
officer may request the Red Cross to
investigate which request should be
complied with as heretofore”
Hereafter it will ' be impossible for
the local Red Cross to assist in pro-
curing discharges of soldiers except
when called upon by the soldier’s
commanding officer and in accord-
ance with the above instructions
FOR sue
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“ 4 Shorthorn 'milk cows f
2 Red 2 year old heifers ’ " '
6 yearling steers
15 Poland China gilts' wt 50-80 lbs
' 1 3 year old horse
French Coach Stallion’ for sale or
- ' trade weight 1600
‘ Cosh or time on bankable note—
L E Ballard Grand Oklahoma
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ROUGE OF TAXPAYERS TOKIET ASSESSOR
Notice is hereby given that I will
meet the Taxpayers subject to ' taxa-
tion for the year' 1919 at 'their usual
voting place in the following precincts
on the dates opposite:
Woodrow Township Precinct No
1 February 17th '
Murdock Township Precinct No 1
February 18th 5
Jefferson Township Precinct No 1
February 19th‘ ' '
Athens Township Precinct No 1
February 20th ‘
Ivanhoe Township Precinct No 1
February 21st
Rock Township Precinct No 2
February 24th -
Oleta Township Precinct No 1
February 25-26th
Rock Township Precinct No 1
February 27 28th and March 1st
Those who are liable to taxation on
both personal and real estate will
please meet me at the above places
and dates opposite Respectfully
L M Cooley
County Assessor Ellis County Okla
WRITE TO d V McCLIHTIC FOR SEED
Jim McClintic Congressman from
this district requests us to inform the
people that helms a supply of cotton
and field seeds which he wishes to
distribute to those wanting them
These seeds have been ’ tested ‘ for
germination and are the best variety
adapted lo our section of the country
Write Mr McClintic and state what
you want and- we are sure you will
receive your seed promptly '
A cool head and warm feet make a
"safety first” combination that is
hard to improve ’ ' - I
LABELS TO TELL
QUALITY OF SEED
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One of the most important pieces
of legislation which has passed through
both houses at the present session of
the legislature is the “pure seed” bill
which probably will he in shape for
the governor’s signature this week’
The new law is to go into effect
July 1 by special provision made in
the measure ! - ’
One of the sections of the bill re-
lating to garden seed on -which' a
fight was made in both the house and
senate fixes provisions for the label-
ing of packet seeds ’ This section fol-
lows: i
'Every lot of beans lettuce radish
cabbage watermelon canteloupe and
other garden and truck seeds which
are sold offered or exposed for sale
when in bulk package or other con-
tainer shall have affixed thereto in a
conspicuous place' on the exterior of
the container of such seed a plainly
written or printed in not less than
18 point type tag or label in fhe
English language stating:
(a) True and accepted name of
such garden or truck seed - -(b)
Approximate percentage by
weight of purity as defined in Section
2-b of this act '
(c) Approximate ‘ percentage of
weight of weed seeds '
i (d) Approximate percentage of
germination Of such garden and truck
seed together with the month and
year said seed was tested - :
(e) The full name and address of
the vender of sudh garden and truck
seed ' ' '
--“(1) If grown in this state the
words ‘Grown "in"’ Oklahoma’ and if
imported into thi3 f state the name of
such state from which it was import-
ed” - i
The administration of the pure seed
law is left with the state board of
agriculture The state'board is author-
ized to maintain a seed laboratory
and to appoint a state seed analysist
and such inspector and assistants as
may be necessary to i carry out pro-
visions of the act — Oklahoman
GOING HIM ONE GETTER
The oldest good story is the one
about the boy who left' the farm and
got a job in the city He wrote a
letter to his brother who elected to
stick by the form telling of the joys
of city life in which be said! --
"Thursday we auto’d out to the
country club where we golfed until
dark Then we motored to the beach
and Fridayed there”
The brother on the farm ' wrote
back: ' ’
“Yesterdayed we buggied to town
end baseballed all ‘afternoon ’ Then
we went to Ned’s and pokered till
morning Today we muled out to
the cornfield and geehawed untal sun-
down Then we suppered and! piped
for a while After that we staiircased
up to our room and bedsteaded until
the clock fived” — San Francisco Ar-
gonant t
PERSHINGS CRUSADERS' at
the Cozy Wednesday night Masrcfi
5th ’ Y
Beauty hints for gjirls— Stear ning
the face over the mothers wash tub
once a week clearifies the compaction
Wringing clothes make the arm
plump hanging them out enlarges
the bust measure stooping and
lifting the clothes ’makes the waist
line small Hurrying to and from
the stove In preparing meals aiVK
poise and dignity to the bearing-
The young lady who will obsi ?rve
these hints will soon pick up st lme
worthy young man who is look ing
for a good wife— Exchange
Germany has killed the goose -the
markets of the world that laid the
golden egg of prosperity for that -empire
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MEET ME AT ARNETT
FEBRUARY I7TH 1919
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You are urgently requested to
attend a public meeting in Arnett at
the court house February! 17 at 10:-
30 A'M at which' time we will have
with us a committee of speakers from
the A & M College to assist in the
organization of a County Community
Farm Council as I understand it this
is a nation wide movement' and' the
ultimate aim is to get all local busi-
ness' interests to cooperate more close-
ly with the farmers in improving their
live stock farm crops ' and all rural
community improvement in' general
and to Bee that the farmers get every
cent their products are worth when
placed on the local market -
This is a move in the right direct-
ion and it should be encouraged by
every farmer stockman and business
man in the county by being present
and taking a part in the discussions
of a movement that will be of some
benefit to every man woman and
child in the county s -
Be on hand promptly at 10:30 A
M Monday February 17 and bringa
neighbor with you and spend a day
in your own interest
- F F Parker
Emergency Demonstration Agent
COZY
SATURDAY
NIGHT i
FEBRUARY 15
Chapter 3 of the
‘‘Great Secret”
“The Hidden Hand”
and
William S Hart
IN
“THE GENTLEMAN
FROM BLUE GULCH”
A stirring western
drama
Doors open 7fi0 p m
Show starts 7:15 p m
Slow time
8500 MORE SOLDIERS
SAIL HOME FROM FRANCE
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Washington Feb 8— The battle-
ship Kansas and five V transports
bringing 5C0 officers and nearly 8000
men were announced by the war de-
partment today as having sailed from
France
Among the units on board are the
116th engineers (41st division) a
battallion of the 368th infantry and
a battallion of the 35lst field artillery
(92nd division) and the 42nd coast
artillery '
' Washington Feb 8 — The war
department announced today the fol-
lowing' organizations assigned to
early convoy home: Sixteenth twenty
eighth and 266th aero squadrons
signal corps casual company base
Jjospitals No’s 7 and 43 of the sixty-
ninth balloon company and bakery
company No 328
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Mrs Troy’ Jenkins who has been
visiting her sister Mrs O C Denton
here and her mother Mrs Wm Mc-
Cormick of Gage for the past two
months left Tuesday for her home
at Cochise Arizona
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The Capital $150 A 'ear
LETTER FROM YW CA
SECRETARY IN FRANCE
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' " Allerey Saone et Poire France
December 27th 1918
Dear Ones All:—
I owe so many of you letters that
again I am going to resort to the du-
plicate system to get a few off You
will forgive me I am sure if it means
a choice between getting some ' word
from me and not getting any at all
We are at the very busy and happy
season of Christmas now and tho you
may be wondering what we have here
to -take it happy I assure you it is
all that to us who have the privilege
of doing for others I can see how
some of the boys may feel it a dreary
season if they do not get in on the
fun of preparing things for others and
haye no chance to see any women
whom they know and especially if
they do not get any letters from home
as is the ease with so many of them
That usually happens to boys who
have been in the hospital a long time
and whose mail continues to go to
the army division to which they were
originally nttached It really does
not take much to make us happy the
most important thing is the need of
being busy about something that
counts Yesterday the camp was
all in gloom and over a rather funny
incident too when one considers that
we are all grownups you know our
American custom of decorating with
evergreen at Xmas when we are where
we can get them in the U S well the
french forests are lovely and tempt-
ing very -luxuriant ’ growths of trees
and vines and the average American
does not realize that they are here
because 'they have -- been- carefully
guarded and even planted where ‘ they
were wanted or France would not
have had any trees by this time No
one 1ms told them for instance that
France has the most wonderful
system of caring for her trees and
re-forestation that is followed by any
nation not even excepting Germany
or that when our engineers cut down
for us at the front France gave per-
mission only because the very life of
the nation was at stake and then
only on condition that certain rules
for cutting be followed so that each
tree would grow up again and would
not be a dead stump Well true to
the American way of ' getting Xmas
decorations wherever we found them
all the hospitals got busy in the same
way and the patients set to work and
made wreaths and other decorations
of mistletoe evergreen and English
ivy Tilings were getting very Christ-
massy and beautiful when some boys
accidentally got into some ones ever-
green nursery and the French author-
ities made objections and soon there
was an order out to take down all the
evergreen stuff They all felt pretty
badly but I suppose it ought to be a
lesson to us Americans both by way
of conversation and by way of having
regard for the protective laws of other
nations It’s kind of funny when one
hears some of the remarks tho you
wouldn’t really suppose that grown
ups could mind a small thing so much
As one of the boys remarked “We
did’t realize that w'e valued the little
things that were being done for us so
much unti we found we couldn’t
have them 'We take things for
granted tod much” Now our chap-
lain is commissioned to go out and
get decorations for anyone who wants
them and he is to buy from the
French The Y M C A has pro-
mised us decorations for our nurses
mess hall tree and for the tree in
our Red Cross hut for the toys and
the chaplain has gone to get them
today
(To be continued next week$
Bert Lile son - of H N Lile of
west of towrf is here from Carlisle
I Kansas visiting his father
PIE SUPPER AND ENTER-
TAINMENT AT HARMONY
Last Friday night the pupils of the
Harmony school gave a pie supper
aqd entertainment the proceeds from
which were given to the Arnett Chap-
ter of the Red Cross
The entertainment which consisted
of songs recitations and dialogues
was good and well rendered Much
credit is due their teacher Miss
Vivian Vandeventer for the excellent
program and the manner in which the
pupils rendered their parts A cake
was voted to the most popular young
lady Miss Elsie Pierce winning the
cake
The proceeds from the' sale of the
pies and the votes on the cake netted
the Red Cross $1514
NO BONEHEAD "PLAYS GO
When Casey Jones drives the ball
over the right field fence for that
needed home run in the ninth inning
does Casey throw down his trusty
bat tip his cap to the cheering
crowd and “beat it” for the dressing
room?
It would be just as big a “bone-
head” for Unale Sam to retire from
the game after his doughboys have
knocked the germ out of the Germans
as it would be for Casey Jones not to
run out the “homer” that won the
victory for hi9 team '
And you can bank son it that
Uncle Sam isn’t going to make a
bonehead play He is going to
garner that Victory and bring home
the boys who won it
' The Victory Liberty Loan is going
to do the work
MILLINER! OPERINO - v
Mrs Frank E Hecox will have
her spring opening of ladies' misses
and children’s hnts 1 on Saturday
March First Mrs Hecox will have
a nice and nifty line of millinery and
you should see 1 her line of goods be-
fore purchasing Remember the date
Saturday March First '
Don’t fail to' see the first official
war picture PERHING’S CRUSAD-
ERS at the- Cozy Wednesday night
March 5th
AMERICA TO BANISH -ALL
ALIEN “REDS”
New' York Feb 11 The foreign
er who is in the United States solely
for the purpose of creating trouble in
industrial centers is due for deport-
ation The power of the arms of the gov-
ernment surveillance movement was
not realized until last night when it
was made clear (hat the deportation
of undesirables is sanctioned in a
broad sense by the recent amend-
ment of the immigration act
The whole question cf deportations
it is admitted awaited the burden
that had been put upon shipping
space It is now found that object-
ionable aliens can be sent- back to
their own countries and this is to be
done
It was learned that the sixty-six
undesirables bound for this port for
deportation is the first group mark-
ed for deportation It is understood
that the federal authorities are en-
gaged in a campaign that will rid the
United States of its anarchists ni-
hilists bolsheviks and general trouble
makers The process of gathering
the malcreants is understood to ex-
tend from coast to coast Agents of
the department' of labor are in charge
of the weeding out while agents of
the department of justice are working
in co-operation '
The movement for the deportation
of the undesirables is understood to
have begun soon after the armistice
with Germany was signed
RETURNED AFTER
THIRTY YEARS
Some thirty years ago William
Weast disappeared from his home at
Carlisle Illinois every available effort
was mode by the family to find some
trace of the father and husband but
all eiforts proved futile A few years
ago the family moved to Thomas
Oklahoma and about two weeks ago
Mr Weast returned to Carlisle only
to find that the family had moved
Just where Mr Weast' has been all
these years remains a mystery only
he reports that he has been in Okla-
homa for the past seven years
Mr Wenst is the father of Mrs
Howard Leslie and is now 87 years
old Mrs Leslie reports that when '
the father returned it was one of the
happiest reunion’s of tw-o old people
that was ever witnessed ' - '
SHOOTS SELF THRU HAND
Glen Crossman son of Mr and
Mrs Alva Crossman who live two
miles northwest of town shot himself
thru the right hand withfti 38 calibre
revolver Sunday Dr Beam was
called and dressed the wound and
reports the boy to be getting along
nicely
PRESSNELL’S WEATHER PREDICTIOIS !
—
1 Between mid-winter and early
spring the warm weather from about
January 6th to about February 2nd
was similar to the summer weather in
the last week of March 1907
That was followed by winter
weather in April and May
The reaction to real winter men-
tioned in last weeks forecast has hot
set in at this Vriting (February 10dt)
I think it will come between Febru-
ary ICth and March 4th
The outstanding fact is that it is
absolutely certain to come before
April 1st Sometime last summer or
fall I said that commencing with
1919 or 1920 we would have a series
of from three to five years with rain-
fall similar to 1902 to 1906 inclusive
I am now able to be a little more
definite — Commencing with 1919 we
will have a series of four or five years
with raiufoll similar to 1902 to 190G
inclusive
However I think 1920 will be
better than 1919 Alva Pressnell
E J Raefsr’i Poultry Tooio
' ' “more Eaas” !
Makes Layers of Loafers
1 Box $100 3 boxes for $225
GUARANTEED TO GIVE SATISFACTION
- OB' TOUR MONEY 'BACK
MATTHEWS PRODUCE COMPANY
Arnett Oklahoma
Phone No 40
WANTED— Good girl for 'general
house work good wages and good
home for girl who will do work right
J L Killion Arnett Oklahoma
The Intermediate Cl sss met at the
home of their teachsr Mrs J M
Grimes February 9’ 1919 The
following officers were elected: Presi-
dent Fern Beeman Vice President
Beatrice Kimzey Secretary Violet
Halline Social Committee Ray
Bruce Sam Truitt Fern Beeman
Beulah White Those present were
Fern Beeman' 'Beatrice Kimzey
Violet Halline Ray Bruce Goltra
McCall next meeting to be held
March 1st — Reporters '
PERSHING’S CRUSADERS is in
7 reels and is put out by the U S
Government don’t fail to see it At
the Cozy Wednesday night March
5th
Tears may secure justice but a
strong fist is often jnore effective in
securing one’s rights
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