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ARNETT LEADER
Leading Paper of Ellis County Devoted to the best Interests of all the People in the County
VOL XIV ARNETTELLIS COUNTY OIOiAIIOMA FRIDAY MARCH D 102JJ NOB7
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CAPITOL NEWS FOR I COUNTY SCHOOL NEWS CAGE BANK WILL
CAPITAL READERS BY OUR SUPERINTENDENT REOPEN SATURDAY
COMMISSIONERS HOLD iPork BARREL WINS
REGULAR MEETING! IN HOUSE FIGHT
POINTS OF INTI ST BY
COUNTY AGEN MARKS
The meeting of the depositors
of the Farmers State Bank of
v
ntur-
The be announced later Any pupil I depositors and Deputy State Bank
of school ago attending school in j Examiner Patton come to an
about the Capitol now is when I Bie count-V and not enrolled for I agreement whereby the depositors
As I have not written anything
for publication for two weeks I
thought it might lie interesting to
the readers of the Capital to know
what has been doing during that
time The main question asked
will the Ninth Legislature adjourn hih scho°l work nor has won
And what will have been its first medal in the contest entered
achievement when its members I ener Be contest Gold and
depart from the Capitol and their silver medas wil1 £iven' Spell-
records left behind them mg words will betaken from
I can answer these questions by Book Two of the adopted Text
saying up to the present time that! Penman6i‘ wiH Jud£ed b the
very little constructive legislation
has been enacted The reasons are
that every state department and
every institutian in the state have
for some cause seen fit to ask for
from three to five times as much
money for the maintenance of their
departments and institutions as has
liere-to-fore been allowed them
the result is that appropriations
ask for by the state departments
Creamer System
A meeting of the Executive
Committee of the County Teach-
er’s Association has been
called by the President to meet
in the office of the County Super-
intendent on Saturday March
loth at 2 P M to make plans
for tho Second Meeting of the
Association
The Annual School Meeting
are to leave 25 ier cent of their
deposits in the bank for a period
of two years if necessary ' The
bank will probably reopen Satur-
day providing the plans made at
the meeting are carried out We
are informed that the depositors
and citizens are strictly in ari ord
with the agreement made with
the Lmnk Commissioner and are
signing up to protect themselves
as well as the bank should another
crisis arise in the affairs of the
brnk
BUYS MANY STOCKERS
D 1 Moser cattle and
and institutions totals nearly fifty I wiB be bed tllis vear on the I buyer of Arnett has shipped
million dollars Therefore the
problem facing the Ninth Legis-
lature is how to pay a fifty million
debt with a twentyfive million
income
The officers in charge of every
department and institution claims
that his department or institution
is the main one in the state and
absolutely refuses to have a thin
dime stricken from the appropri-
ation as submitted These officers
are writing and telegraphing over
the state to the constituents of
every member in any way interest-
ed urging them to stand pat on
the appropriation requested
For example:— The State Health
Department is asking for the four
hundred and twelve thousand
dollars which is about five times
the amout appropriated two years
ago for this department Every
doctor in the state has been asked
either write of wire their repre-
sentative to give his support to
this appropriation The Govern-
or’s office has asked for an appro-
priation of one hunred and sixty
thousand as against fifty thousand
two years ago so you can see that
this is a question for the members
of the Ninth Legislature and not
their constituants to settle The
course to persue if you have any
confidence in your representative
is to write and tell him to use his
best judgment or else figure out
some way for him to pay a fifty
million dollar debt with a twenty
five million dollar income
As your representative from
Ellis county I cannot find any
way to make one dollar do the
work of two and there cannot be
pressure enough brought to bear
upon me to cause me to vote for
appropriations to exceed the rev-
enues of the state as I know that
the people of Oklahoma especially
my part of it are 'paying all the
taxes they can and care to pay at
the present time
Bills to be threshed out and
which are going to take up a great
deal of time are: — the Department-
al Bills the Institutional Bill7 the
Banking Bill State Pinting Plant
Bill Cement Plant Bill Road and
Highway Bill and 268 other bills
which are now on the calander so
if anyone should ask you when
the Ninth Legsslature will adjourn
just tell them that you do not
known
Yours Respectfully
E M Bfum
of March Blanks for posting
notices have Ijeen mailed out to
the clerks and other necessary
supplies will be sent out in due
time
Transfers: Patrons desiring to
make application for transfres
should write direct to the office
for blanks for that purpose We
request that all applications for
transfers be made to this office at
least five days before the day of
the Annual Meeting This
should be done in order that an
appropriation may be approved
at the Annual Meeteng for the
payment of the transfer fees
Applications are legal if made by
June the first and will be decided
at my office oh June 10th
Blanks for team reports of
teachers and report of eighth
grade pupils have been sent to
all teachers of Rural schools
The date and places of holding
the Eighth Grade examinations
will be announced as soon as the
dates are received form the State
Superintendent
Arthur Walker Co Supt
hog
C50
head of stock hogs out of Ellis
county during the past two weks
These hogs are being shipped to
a Serum Compony in Missouri
The Board of County commis-
sioners of Ellis county met in
regular session in the office of
the County Clerk on Monday
and Tuesday of this week with
all members of the board J A
Logan chairman L I Marshall
and A C Olfver present Noth-
ing of special interest came before
the meeting other than paying
the regular monthly' claims and
minor matters with the exception
of the awarding of two bridge
contracts including the Mitchell
bridge at a cost -of $610000 and
the I’arvin bridge at a cost of
$400000 Both contracts were
Oklahoma City Mar 8 — After
a bitter fight over the institutional
appropriation bill No 485 with
passage likely some time Thursday
the end of the Ninth legislative
session seemed to be near
C S Brice McAlister was aid-
ed by Murray' F Gibbons speaker
of the house in his fight to have
the $10100000 appropriation car-
ried in the original bill cut
James C Nance Marlow led the
fight to keep al items of the bill
exactly as they were reported back
by the committee He was vic-
torious in nearly every' fight
Those favoring economy could not
THE UNIVERSAL TRACTOR
let to the Boardman Company of Lk thft combined ht of the
Oklahoma City The vrel contingent
The university salary budget
was cut from $775000 to $700000
but the university building pro-
gram for more than $00oo0o
seemed likely to go over Action
on the $200000 medical building
was deferred until Thursday
A fight to locate this building at
Norman instead of in Oklahoma
City near University' hospital was
seen brewing
Items approved Wednesday in-
cluded the following: $100 (XX) for
a natural science building $100000
for a pharmacy building $73000
for a journalism building and
$140000 for gymnasium and
equipment All these would be
located on the campus of the Uni-
versity of Oklahoma at Norman
All items in the building pro
grainvwerequestiuned but eacl
measure including the natural
science building and journalism
building found warm supporters
A proposal by Wesley E Disney
of Muskogee that a flat 20 ier
cent reductian be made was offer-
ed but was voted down
C N Metts and John Nuttall
two of our cattlemen of the Ioland
country were business visitors in
Arnett Wednesday
B P Zimmerman and son W
O of Beaver cyunty were down an reports
last Saturday' to accompany Mrs 1
Wright who has been visiting with the last edition of the Capital out
Mr and Mrs N E Hutchens of from ’under the band of his new
this place to Beaver county hat and that the hat fits very
Mrs Wright is a daugliAefcs'sf hreely since- the arrival of the
Mr Zimmerman new pupil at the Mosshart home
t as oxv
Van Boone ranchman of
Dalson county Texas spent the
week in this section looking for
a location in Ellis county Mr
Boone is dealing with G E
Davison for part of the Davison
ranch
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF ELLIS COUNTY
I am closeing my books March
31st and all of you that have not
rendered your property for
taxation for 1923 Please do so
before that time to avoid the
penalty that is required by law
for failure of rendering your
property for taxation So don’t
forget this If you can’t come
in person just make out a list of
your property' and the Township
and School District that you are
situated in and mail it to me and
I will assess you and mail you a I
copy'
I am now checking up those I
of you that have failed to render
your assessment and by you
sending it in it will save you and
the County futher expense
Respectfully Yours
Harrv C Shields
County Assessor
J TTnugate of Kansas City
Missouri" spent last week visiting
at the home of his brother-in-law
J M Bowles of west of Arnett
Mrs Will McCartor of Gray'
this state who has been quite
sick with pneumonia is reported to
be much better by her father J
M Bowles of west of Arnett
Mrs A L Cresswell of north
of town was called to Leastyurg
Missouri last week to be at the
bed side of her sister who was
not expected to live Mrs Reba
Rucker who has been working
at Gage came- home to care for
the child during Mrs Cresswell’s
absence
This coming Saturday the Ellis
County Fat Stock Show will lie
held at Gage I expect at least
four times as big a show as we
had last year and I would lie
pleased to have just as many'
visitors to see the swell finisned
beeves and hogs as passible It
will be worth your while to see
them The boys and girls bad
signed up for about three car
loads of hogs but as feed ran low
and prices ran high many
abondoned the race and sold and
I do not blame them under the
conditions but we will still have
a good show The citizen of
Gage cooperating with the hog
buyers there well make March
the 10th Hog Day and special
inducements are being made to
get as great a number of liogs
sold on that day Bring a load
of your surplus hogs on that day
and see the show and be with the
crowd
XXX
On May 15th I will cease en-
rolling clul) members It is hardly
possible that I can visit any more
schools' and invite boys and girls
to join' If you want to join write
or call and get an enrollment card
right away While there are
more club members this year
than usual there are fewer pig
breeding club members yet this
is realy the best year we have bad
for some time for this Pure
bred sows and guilts can be
bought at about a fifth of the
price of former years and with
most excellent chances of the pig
I'being a real good price this fall
There are a number of men who
will sell bred gilts at as low as
$25 and take notes even at that
price It is the time to get in
XXX
Poultry clnb members should
Arthur Thomson the genial
manager of the Arnett Light and set two settings of eggs as early
Power Company returned Friday as possible as it is the early bird
from Tonkawa Oklahoma City
and other points in the Eastern
part of the state
Miss Pauline Eggleston daugh-
Iter of Austin Eggleston of near
Bishop this county is spending
the week in Arnett with Mr
land Mrs Floyd Freeman Miss
Eggleston has just recently re-
I turned from San Antonio Texas
I where she has been spending the
winter
Reduce
Your
Production
Costs
Farming like every other business must cut
down the overhead
It is not a question of being able to afford a
Fordson it is a question of being able to con-
tinue farming on the old too-costly basis
The farmer’s problem is not all a sales problem
it is also a production problem He must cut
down the cost of production
The Fordson does more work at a lower cost
and in less time than the old hand methods
Let us give you the proof Write phone or
call today
W N MITCHELL Dealer
Arnett Shattuck & Gage Oklahoma
win the prizes Remember
should have two settings
and you should get your eggs
from Standard breeds and from
a careful breeder Last year many’
were disqualified at the show An
enterprising business man of
Shattuck offers a setting of Rhode
Island Red or Barred Plemoth
Rocks to anv club member He
does not raise these eggs himself
but gets them from the best
breeders in the county Several
breeders offer a reduced price on
eggs to poultry’ club members
Valley' View School went to I The report books have not came
Union Graded School No 3 lastU’et but wd send tbem 118 seen as
Friday for a spelling contest and I they come In the mean time
two basket ball games watoh the Extension News for
In the Spelling contest Thelma aQ5T directions or hints about the
Fox Doris Fox and Lucein Bybee I club work
were the winners for Valley' View
The oiiening basket ball game
was played by the second teams
of Valley’ View and the Union
Graded - School The Union
X X X
While Sudan grass seed is high
I still recomend the planting of it
for grazing purposes You can
greatly reduce the seed cost by'
I Graded boys won by a score of planting in rows and giving one
13 to 4 The League game or two cultivations You get
between the two ’schools was not I enough extra grazing by planting
so exciting in the first half as the m rows and cultivating to pay
last The score for the first half or tbe work- por f°raKe cr°P
was 12 to 4 in favor of Valley 1 woud recomend the Darso the
View Although the Unionlseed cbeaP’ makes the best of
Graded boys gained and tied the ba-'T is easily harvested and in my
V i-i judgment is the very best forage
score at the third quarter the we now know
score at the end of the game was — —
17 to 20 in favor of Valley View Our good friend William
The people declared this to be Vincet was in town Tuesday trad-
the best League game of the I ing and meeting his many Arnett
season and they expressed satis-1 friends This is Mr Vincent
faction at the courtesy shown them first trip to town since he re-
by tbs Union Graded ( District turned from California some
Valley View is still leader of the weeks ago he having been confin-
League having lost but one game ed to his room with a very pain-
and won four ful swelling on one of his feet
The next league game will be
at Allmon between Eeum and
Allmon Schools — Contributed
However Mr Vincent is looking
hale and hearty again and we are
glad to see him about onoc more