The Afton American (Afton, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 14, 1917 Page: 1 of 8
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AFTON OTTAWA COUNTY OKLAHOMA THURSDAY JUNE 14 1917
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FISHT
TOO
WHEN YOU
BUY A US
LIBERTY LOAN BOND
Your Call to the Colors
This is your call to Enlist Not in the Army or -Navy
perhaps but to enlist your dollars to help
your Country in this war Your Call is to
Bug A Libertg Bond
for $50 $(00 $500 $1000 or more according to
' your ability’- - - ' '
If you haven’t the money right now to pay for a
“Bond we will accept $100 down for a $50 Bond
or $200 down for a $100 Bond and the balance
in payments of $100 or $200 weekly and deliv-
er the Bond when the last payment is made
These Bonds are the best investment in the
whole world and pay interest at 3 1-2 per cent
per annum half yearly -'
This is a test for your patriotism— Come in and
-buy a Liberty Bond today
'A ' p ° 1
v "Deposits Art Guaranteed":' -- -
The Farmers ’ State Bank )
“The Bank Which Gives Personal Service- '
Crops Looking Fine '
In This Section
Wheat and oats continue to look
good with every indication that
this country will harvest the lar
gest crop in its history The oats
are looking especially fine and
harvest will commence in a very
few days' 1
Wheat is filling out well and
the grain promises to grade heavy
this year So far the crop looks
fine and a very few weeks will
see it it the stack
Corn is backward May having
been the coldest May for twenty-
six years The crop has been well
cultivated however and the warm
weather is causing it to grow rap-
idly - -
This is the year that the farmer
will make some money if nothing
happens for the price is bound to
be good
Post Office Yeg Gets
: Two Years In the Pen
Postmaster F M Reed Jr and
his assistant’ Mrs Lutie Davis
were summoned to McAlister the
first of the week ' as witnesses
against O’Hara the man who wbs
arrested for robbing the Afton
postoffice O’Hara pled guilty to
passing forged money orders
stolen from the Afton office and
was given two years in the feder-
al penitentiary His sentence is
considered a light one
The Soldier Boys
Have Pictures Taken
: Unable ti Get Lumber
More than 118 mills are under
construction near Picher Work
on many of them has been stopped
because of lack of material Lum-
ber and other material is being
hauled in trucks from Miami and
Galena to keep the work going
Four lumber yards in Picher are
said to be unable to handle the
buiness and two more yards prob-
ably will be open in a short time
About fifty residences and store
buildings have been started in
Picher A common remuik
that a new building is
every day— Joplin Globe
All of Afton’s soldier boys seem
to have taken a day off last week
and had their pictures taken They
have had their uniforms issued
them and learned how to wear
their new soldier clothes and are
sending their pictures home
Billy McCoy and Carlos Jackman
send their photos from Ft Douglas
Utah and look swell in their new
uniform Herbert Glass sent his
picture from Ft Logan Colo He
and Earl Vanwinkle are stillatthe
Colorado post
Johnny Frazier writes that he
is drilling eight hours a day and is
the first one in line at mess call
Orin Cunningham is expected to
get a furlough for a few days to
visit home folks
Aaron Woody who is at Ft
Omaha Neb has been promoted
and gets a $10 increase in pay
The boys all seem to be getting
along nicely and like army life
BouttkiBinJ
The band boys have organized
and engaged an instructed but
they need a little financial assist-
ance The instructor costs $3 a
week and the boys would like
the citizens to help out on this
They are willing to give their time
buy music etc but feel that the
town should bear a little of the
expenses A band is a good ad-
vertisement for a town and the
boys should be helped
Junior Lrajue Notes
Tbe Junior Leaguo met with
LudelaRoseborough 03 leader and
had a very good meeting There
were six in attendance and five
brought Bibles Lyle Cunningham
was the only boy present and we
thank him very much We are al-
ways glad to have visitors Every-
one that is a member of the league
is should be present next Sunday as
started Miss Gretchen has something to
tell you Reporter
0 T Inspectors Pass
Through Alton Tuesday
President Harvey of the Ozark
Thailand party passed through
Afton Tuesday on their inspection
trip over the trails With Mr
Harvey were the vice-presidents
of the Trail from Missouri Arkan-
sas and Kansas and a representa-
tive of the good roads department
of the government The party was
met a few miles out of town by a
committee-of Afton citizens and
escorted into town
The inspection party was taken
as far as Narcissa and then re-
turned to Afton for dinner It had
been intended to go on to Neosho
but the trail from Narcissa to Neo-
sho was not ready for inspection
After dinner Col Harvey and
party left for Monte Ne Ark to
rest a day as they were worn out
Grant Victor piloted them over to
Grove on their way home
A number of Afton citizens took
dinner with President Harvey and
party and President Harvey made
a short talk after dinner He said
that the party had been out twelve
days and had averaged 180 miles
a day a fact that showed how
wonderfully the roads had been
improved the past year He told
of the Amarillo convention and
how the Trail would be selected
there Other members of the par-
ty gave short talks
A party of Trail boosters from
Claremore and Vinita accompanied
the party to Afton
Frisco to Take Off
Many Passenger Trains
The Frisco Railroad Company
has asked permission of the Mis-
souri Public Service Commission
to remove from its lines in South-
ern Missouri passenger service
aggregating fifteen hundred train
miles a day The commission
probably will grant the request
Alexander Hilton traffic mana'
ger fortbe company said it
was a move made necessary’ by
the troop Movements over the
country He told the commission
eighteen engines were required to
move one regiment from New
York to the Mexican border Am
other argument Mr Hilton advam
ped was that the call for volunteer
rainmen for service in France had
taken many of the best enginemen
ie said his company had been
asked by the National Defence
Council to mobolize all its equip-
nent The company he said had
een given permission in Oklaho-
ma to discontinue thirteen hundr-
ed train miles Application has
een made in Kansas to take off
850 miles— Kansas City Star
Call Bond Election
for July 12th I
u
Thursday afternoon aftef hav
ing ofipe voted down the proposi-
tion to call a bond election for the
purpose of voting $400000 worth
of bonds to build concrete roads
the cdunty commissioners met a'
gain ahd reconsidered the matter
and voted to call the election July
12th County Commissioner Fuser
of this district voted against the
proposition but the other two
commissioners were for it strong
pressure having been brought to
bear on them
Ordinarily the American would
be for this bond election for we
are an ardent apostle of good
roads - but we believe common
sense Should govern in public ini'
provements as well as private ones
With the present price of both
raw material and labor it is a cer-
tainly that we will only get $200-
000 wdrth of roads for $400000
Cement an important ingredient
in the faking of concrete costs
about twice the ordinary price
right now Labor is high and be-
fore the roads can be commenced
the selective draft army will have
been called and thousands of lab-
orers will be under arms making
the securing of men very difficult
WOW IS tltt TilM
voting of these bonds seems to
have originated in Miami where
some of the business men want
concrete roads leading into that
town to offset Joplin’s move the
latter town being engaged in build-
ing concrete roads into Miami’:
trade territory But Joplin is not
issuing bonds for that purpose
the money being raised by private
subscription
A Loan of the People by
the People ahd for
the People
Placed in your hands is an opportunity to give
life to your belief in the right of men and of
nations to lead free and peaceful lives
Your country offers you a part in aiding in the
greatest struggle for liberty that the world
has ever known If you buy a Liberty Loan
Bond you will be aiding just 3s surely as if
you carried the colors of the United States
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If you are not able to subscribe for a large ’
amount you can buy a $5000 bond
We will count if a privilege to enter your sub- ’
scription for a bond
First National Bank
AFTON OKLAHOMA
mem
to Prepare Exhibits
IT
Afton township should have a
first class agricultural exhibit at
the free county fair September
18 to 21 We have' the stuff
growing to make an exhibition
that Will open the eyes of both
tome people and visitors and the
The Whole matter should be I only thing necessary is to get the
postponed until a more oppor- exhibits iin shape
High Price of Coal
is a
tune time and the way to post-
pone it is to vote the bonds
down
Niv BiiMinf Cianiicri - -
Phil Keefe is making the cem-
ent blocks for Starbuck & Son’s
new garage The foundation for
the building is completed and the
walls will probably commence to
go up next week
The Buy Hu Diet Tkinp
l Fred Lamm of the Lamm Hard-1 ducts
ware Co has as a motto “always
busy” and he lives ’up to it" Yet
Fred is never too busy to write an
ad changing every week He is a
good illustration of the fact that
if you really want anything done
you have - to go to a busy man to
get it accomplished Some of these
people who are always handing
Now is the time for the farmer
to begin to pick out the products
he intends to put on display Pick
out the best of your wheat and
oats look over your garden pro-
duce and can up the prize pro-
Dpn’t overlook this as we
want Afton to take first on every-
thing in’ the way of farm products
this year
Allees They Cawgkt Se fish
Pet Dawson alleges that Satur-
day night he went out to John
w o Gray’s place on the river fishing
out the old stuff about being “tolMurther alleges that he ahd
busy" to write an ad should take “
Fred for an example
Kefisei ti Jtii the Any
Ernest Terry and Lawrence
Burks were arrested last Saturday
by Marshal Davis on a warrant
charging gambling The Terry boy
made his get-a-way before he
could be apprehended but the
Burks boy plead guilty and was
given thirty days by Judge Tucker
The boy made his escape before I this’pffce'where"they wlllbe duiy
he could be taken to Miami Judge tested for eating qualities This
Tucker offered to turn him loose I jg pply fair as the mental strain
nn1 4 iirknt La aai t1-i nlm if rial Cl I !i' t i
John took twenty three of the
finest kind of cats out of the trap
next morning and further depos-
eth that he and John ate the
whole mess for dinner the fish
being flanked with huckelberry
pie
We want to serve notice now on
all fishermen that fish stories
without the fish grade No 3 up-
land To get an A No 1 grade on
fish stories at least three two
pound cats will have to be left at
and do what he could for him if he
would join the army but the boy
refused to consider enlisting
involved in writing fish stories
without having the actual evidence
before one is tremendous
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Sim Speed Nerchant
We don’t know whether we will
go riding any more with Grant
Victor or not Grant is all right
but he is careless about his gaso-
lene He will be ambling along
at about 35 miles per when he
suddenly thinks about going home
and then he steps on something
inside that big Buick and you find
yourself a mile or two down the
road and note that tbe car has
run over a couple of jack rabbits
and a Ford before you knew what
had happened Grant’s to careless
And Stamps Gstng Up
F M Reed Jr Afton’s popular
postmaster was here Saturday af-
ternoon looking after business
matters Mr Reed is for good
roads and feels that the county
good roads bond issue should car-
ry despite any unfavorable con-
ditions regarding the matter and
other taxes It is a vital necessity
to have geod roads through out
the county and is urged by the
government to insurelthe continu-
ation of sufficient mail carriers
from all offices— Afton included —
Record Herald
Fixing Up tke’Nill
M T Cox closed his mill down
this week and sent the rolls off to
be reground Morgan is prepar-
ing for a big crop this year and
wants everything in first-class
shape to handle the trade
Town Clerk Jud Allison submit-
ted some figures to this office on
the present cost of coal for the 1
light and water plant that are
very interisting and also shows
that it is going to be a matter of
some - difficulty to operate the
plant at all
Coal for the plant now costs
$410 a ton delivered The plant
uses from 130 to 150 tons a month
making the fuel bill run between 1
$500 and $600 a month : This is a 1
very heavy increase in operating j
expenses The miners wage scale I
for this district now -calls for $207 t -per
ton for digging and it looks
like they- raise the-5 scale every i
thirty days Freight rates pre also
said to be scheduled for an ad-
vance
We can reduce the fuel bill 'to
some extent by altering the furn-
ace so that slack can be burned
under the boilers and this will
have to be done if the plant con-
tinues to operate with the pres-
ent schedule
Cfuliui tin Anesweit
The county commissioners who
are sitting as a board of equaliza-
tion have adopted the plan of
having the mayor of every town
in the county select a committee
of three men to help them equal-
ize the assessment of each town
For Afton Mayor Crowell selected
Geo 0 Shepherd M A Painter
and F M Crowell Sr When the '
town of Afton is reached these
men will assist the commissioners
in going over the records
The board is trying to correct
the inequality of assessing the
mineral land in the north end of
the county being listed as agricul-
tural land It is said that mining
land worth several thousand dol-
lars an acre is assessed as agricul-
tural land and valued for taxation
at $22 an acre The board will
try to have this corrected as it
should be
A Trie Fisk Story
Grant Victor and a party of
friends went down on Grand river
last Friday and Grant brought
back as fine a catch of catfish as
we ever saw ranging from a half
pound to five pound in size We
know this to be a true fish story
because we not only saw the fish
but Grant thoughtfully presented
us with a mess so that we could
have the best kind of proof Peo-
ple who want fish stories publish-
ed should always leave a sample
of the catch at the news paper of-
fice and then the editor can write
a truthful discription with his con-
science at ease
Hu A Flit Tin
Elmer Collins the garage man
s traveling with a flat tire this
week having stepped on a nail
ast week and punctured the in-
ner tube and casing of one of his
feet For a time serious conse-
quences were feared as the wound
became infected but Elmer is all
right now and will be able to
wear a shoe in a few days
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