Waurika News-Democrat (Waurika, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, November 12, 1920 Page: 1 of 12
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VOL XX
WAURIKA JEFFERSON COUNTY OKLAHOMA FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12 1020
' NO II
CHAIRMAN'DILLEY NAMES
RED CROSS DBIVE WORKERS
The annual membership drive for
lbs Americas Red Cross will be con
ducted for the period from Novem-
ber 11 to 2 and Chairman W T
Dilley for the Jefferosn county chap-
ter in this week naming his workers
for the county The Red Cross did
iv great work during the war and its
work in time of peace is no less im-
portant' Every person should take
membership during this drive
Mr Dilley states that if there is
any other person in any community
who will work during the drive be
will be glad to appoint them to a
place on the committee
The following is the list of work
era announced by Mr Dilley:
J T Means— Waurika
C 0 Morris — Sugden
Mrs M 8 Sharp — Ryan
U Q Marshall — TerraL
J F Timberlake— ' Wrays Chapel
Mrs J A Walker— Fleetwood
Mrs O W Seay — Oscar
Mrs Stanley Grayson— Woodrow
W A Kakin — Courtney
Jessie Evans— Grady
J C Allen — Atlee
A E Watford— Ringling
Mrs Jep Stallings — Asphultum
A L Kellnr — Belleview
Mrs Kellio B Major — Opie
8 E Prince — Claypool
- Miss Dimery— Addington
O E Uurlin — Madden Grove
N 8 Figley— Hastings
Mary Tabor— Deer Grove
Mrs Loy Stout — Independence
Mrs E M Bond— E B Ranc h
Mrs I’ruther— Linwood
Mrs E J Ilurrrw — Banner
W C Hogan — Cornish
Rny Silvey — Mud Creed
D 8 Brown — Chupel Hill
RYAN BAPTIST GUESTS
OF WAURIKA CHURCH
Rev Anson Campbell pastor of
the Ryan Baptist church together
with about thirty members 'of his charge of the registration and the
congregation were guests of the ' conference closed with a joint ban-
Wsurika Baptist church Sunday 1 0“ct by Phi Pi Kappa and Kappa
morning Rev Campbell preached I Delti Pi ednratioual fraternities
at the 11 o’clock service after which! Prof Shipp reports the Waurika
dinner wns served to the visitors in
the Sunday school rooms of the
charch
Rev Campbell preached a most
excellent sermon and the day was
thoroughly enjoyed by all in attend-
ance CHIROPRACTOR LOCATES
IN WAURIKA THIS WEEK
James A Elliot D C a graduate
of the Chiropractor school at Daven-
port Iowa and who has been located
at Hennessey arrived in Waurika
and has opened offices in tbe Hunter
building over tbe Palace Clothing
store The Chiropractors were win-
ners in tbe referendum bill veted on
at the election lns't Tuesday which
sought to make them stand aa exam-
ination before tbe state medical
' board Dr Elliott expects to con-
duct 'sn extensive advertising cam-
paign ’ MR AND MRS F C MAXWELL
JOIN NEWS-DEMOCRAT FORCE
Mr and Mrs F C Maxwell for-
mer owners of the Cotton County
Democrat published at Walters ar-
rived in Waurika Sunday to accept
i positions on the News-Democrat
Both Mr and Mrs Maxwell are ex-
perienced newspaper people having
been in tbe newspaper business in
Oklahoma forthe past several year
They sold tbeir newspaper at
Walters a little over a year ago and
i nntil recently conducted a job bffice
in Arkansas The News-Democrat
is glad Mr and Mrs Maxwell have
returned to Oklahoma and that they
are associated with the News-Democrat
They have been at Walters
the past several weeks looking after
business matters
MADE DISTRIBUTING POINT
P R Beaty traveling represents
tive for tbe Uarkrider-Kieth-Kooke
company of Fort Worth informs us
that his company has leased a build-
ing in Waurika and has mads this a
distributing point for their products
Mr Beaty points out- that this will
enable them to sell goods cheaper as
it will give the same freight rates os
given to tbe Fort Worth grooens The
company plana to ship a solid ear
load of oranges here for the Christ-
mas trad a
Before you commit suicide oes the
Salvation Army It has an Anti-
8aieida bureau and it may help you
to get t new lease on life and aee
tha brighter aids of things
SUPT SHIPP ATTENDS
HIGH SCHOOL COMFERENCE
City Suerintendent Shipp return-
ed Sunday afternoon from Norman
where be had been to attend a con-
ference of city superintendents high
school principals and teachers He
also attended the tpg foot-ball game
between Oklahoma and Kanins uni-
versities Saturday afternoon
8upt Shipp reports a most inter-
esting meeting and states thnt he
was particularly 'interested in the
discussions on visual instruction in
schools Representatives of the
picture machine manufacturers were
in attendance at the meetings and I- Walker chnirman of the comtnis-
snperintendents of schools where '0" planned to resign immediately
tbia method of instruction has al-
ready been introduced gave interest
ing reports on the success of the
movement Mr Shipp feels that the
moving picture machine for the
school has come to stay and wants
to prepare himself to meet the
proposition in the most intelligent
wny
The conference also passed a
resolution favoring an amendment to
the eonstitution of the state remov-
ing the limit of’ five mills that may be
levied by boards of education andceed W- D Humphrey resigned was
the limit of ten mills that may be beaten byE R Hughes republican
voted for school purposes The res- Oklahoma City The gossip was
olutioiu further stated that the pres-
ent financial support of education
was regarded aa a positive menace
and that immediate action would
that Echols was slated to be chair
man of the commission when Walker
quit
"The third member of the commi
make these increased levies possible 'on ' Campbell Russell the stormy
for the school 'year 1921 and Ptrel of the -Robertson admuustra
tion If Walker should resign ivus-
sell would be the ranking member in
pbint of service Whether the gov-
ernor would consider having Russell
as chairman of the commission is
doubtful since a large portion of
hin lime in office has been devoted
by Russel! to heckling Governor
Robertson
“At the state house the trend of
comment is that Walker will not quit
the corporation commission Walker
yesterday would not confirm the re-
ports of bis pending resignation’’
boys and girls at the university an
getting along fine and was greatly' T“yor formerly a teacher in our
impressed with the splendid school school but now a student in
spirit at the university
Supt Shipp also mafte some inves-
tigations on the matter of a new
high school building for Waurika
Ho talked over pluns and costs with 10npr
the universitv authorities and says
that he thinks thak the local school
board w-ill have a definite plan to
submit to tbe people of tbe district
early in the new year
A new high school building is go-
ing to be an absolute necessity if
Waurika is to maintain her affilia-
tion with the university or even to
serve tbe young people of the com-
munity as it should Everybody
should interest themselves in the
matter and begin at once to assist
in - arriving at the best solution of
the situation
PROBE ON COTTON
SINNERS’ PRICES
Investigation of the prices being
charged by cotton ginners in all parts
of the state was ordered Saturday
by tbe state corporation commission
it was announced byP E Glenn
secretary
C L Daugherty wn appointed by
tbe commission to make a tour of tbe
cotton belt He will interview farm-
ers in every locality and make an in-
spection of the ginn
Orders for the investigation were
given following a hearing Friday in
which the commission fined four gin
ners in amounts ranging from $1 and
costs to 25 It was shown that gin-
ners had been charging $225 for
bagging and tieing aher the commis-
sion bod issued an order fixing the
rate at $200
It was announced that a general
hearing on ginning rates will be set
by the commission within the next
few days It was predicted that the
hearing will be held early in Decem-
ber Request for tha re-openlng of
the ginning rate question has been
mode by hundreds of farmers in all
parts of the state since the disas-
trous slump is the cotton market "
MRS’OAWSON WINS
Mrs P F Dawson waa ths winner
of ths $500 cash prixs offered by
Mrs Betty Atkins in her recent sale
to ths person who would guess the
nearest to the number of electoral
votes received by Cox and Harding
Mrs Dawson’s guess for Harding
was 40 2 and for Cox 120
very close to the exact n amber
CAPITOL WONDERS IF
WALKER WILL RESIGN
Monday’s Oklahoman carried the
following story concerning the ru-
mor that Art Walker is considering form two yeare ago is the new re-
resigning from the corporation com- j publican governor of Tennessee one
nSinsion : h of the “solid south’ states that has
“Gtrtsts of the republican landslide always been heretofore immemorially
in Oklahoma are showing np aronnd democratic
He wan a candidate in 1886 run-
ning against his brother Bob Bob
defeated him “Air is now 72 His
election was not expected bnt he
Waged an active campaign traveling
over the entire state with his fiddle
in )he same way he and his brother
campaigned in 1886 The fact that
he was “Bob’s brother” helted him
Democrats explaining the defec-
tion of Tennessee blame to a large
extent the vote of the negroes who
turned out in larger numbers than
ever before end voted the straight
republican ticket
Tennessee bat not been republi-
can since 4868 when the “Carpet-
Baggers” ruled with the assistance
of the newly enfranchised blacks
The election of “Alf” Taylor
marks the realization of- ambitions
long ago defeated He ran against
bis brother Bob in the famous cam-
paign which was known as the “war
of the roses” The two brothers
while opposing each other maintain-
ed their friendly relations "Alf”
wore a red rose and Bob a white
rose They toured the state play-
° year ago but Gov-
TAYLOR AT A' A M
The News-Democrat is in receipt
of a letter from Prof Charles Ray
the electrical engineering school at
Oklahoma A & M college ne states
that be is getting along fine with his
work and is getting his share of tbe
passed out ny the school
ibuving been elected to membership
'in tbe National Engineering society
The Guard of St Patrick Tbe Ameri-
can Institute of Electrical Engineers
and tbe Masonic Social Fraternity
and has also been made a corporal
in the cadet corps v
Prof Taylor in the future will see
thnt the News-Democrat is furnish-
ed with all of the A & M news of
interest to Jefferson countians
HONE FROM NAVY
Archie Clyde McCnrry son of Mr
and Mrs R M McCnrry of the Clay-
pool eommbnity and who has been in
the United States" navy for a num-
ber of years camp in last week to
spend n 30-day furlough visiting
his parents and friends He has been
in tbs navy for eleven years and
this is tbe first- time he has been at
home for' seven years His parents
had not heard from him since the
close of the war He has been sta-
tioned at Constantinople -
MARTlN-VELAU
Harry A Martin of Sionx Falls
South Dakota and Miss Louella
Velau of the Heatings community
were united in marriage at tha Velau
home Tuesday afternoon tha Rev
Wheeler of the Hastings Methodist
church officiating Miss Louella is
the youngest daughter of Uncle Joe
Velau and grew to womanhood in the
Hostings neighborhood The young
eonple expect to leave Friday for
Sionx Falls whare they expect to
make their future home
NEW RESIDENCES
Contractor C E Phillipe has abeut
completed his work on the Dawson
theatre building and is pushing the
work on three- new brick and tile
resideneee in Harper’s addition He
has under construction a brick veneer
residence for W 8 Huddle and Miss
Alice Hnddls and a tile and otuoco
finish residence for Dr J L Derr
REVIVAL AT GRADY
Rev J H Bearden of Ryan i
nonnees that he will begin a revival
meeting at Orndy Tuesday Novem-
ber 16 Tbe pnhfie at large it invited
to attend the uervicce AQ who sing
Bhs was sire urged to corns and help in the
staging
CHAUTAUQUA LECTURER I
WINS IN GOVERNOR ? RACE
"A1P Taylor who lectured in
Waurikn from the Chautauqua plat-
ing their fiddles as a part of their
attempts to win votes Alf played
his fiddle again this yea and the
memory of Bob is credited with hav-
ing won him many votes
LATE ELECTION RETURNS
MAKE BUT FEW CHANGES
The late election returns make
few if any phunges in tbe results as
given in last week’s News-Democrat
Oklahoma waa engulfed in the re-
publican landslide nnd saved but three
congressmen out of the wreckage
Charley Carter of the second district
Judge Swank of tbe fifth district and
Jim McClintic of the seventh dis'
trict
The state' senate remains demo-
cratic thanks to the fact that one
hnlf of the old members hold over
The lower house of the state legisla-
ture is republican by a majority of
10 or 12 and the next sjieaker will
be from this party Some of the
most active candidate! for Bpeaker
on the democratic side were caught
in the landslole and will not even
be members of the house
The only states carried by the
democratic candidate for president
were those of the solid south minus
the states of Tennessee and Oklaho-
ma Harding's electoral vote will be
slightly in excess of 400 tbe largest
on record save that for President
Wilson in tbe election of 1912
Judge Frank M Bailey member of
the supreme court from this district
was also a victim of the turnover
and was defeated by Judge Nichol-
son of Sulphur Judge Bailey ran
ahead of the ticket in this county
but being voted on all over the state
was defeated with ths rest of the
ticket
The democrats will have very few
members in either house of congress
outside of the solid south which will
give the republicans more than a two
thirds majority in both houses In
fact the G O P has been given com-
plete control of the reins of govern-
ment G 0 P DECLARES WAR
ON SAMUEL G0MPERS
War on Samuel Gompere is de-
clared and expression of sentiment
in favor of the “open shop” as a part
of the republican legislative program
is made in a statement issued by tbe
republican publicity association of
which Johnathan Bourn jr is chair-
man ”
“The unionism which Mr Gompere
proposes” suys the statement “is
exclusive monopolistic nnd domi-
neering His policy is one of rule or
ruin His plan-if successful would
be destructive of the independence
of the individual and mark the end
of competition and rivalry which are
the stimulation of nil industry and
production”
MUD CREEK SH00TIN8
Complaints have been registered
against the 8unday banting nnd
shooting in tha Mad Creek bottoms
One man from that neighborhood
was in Tuesday and told n reporter
for the News-Democrat that action
would he taken if the p radio in oon-
! tinned -
JIM HOPSON AGED M DIES
- SU00ENLY AT FAMILY HOME
Jim Hopson aged 84 year who
has been a resident of Waurika for
the past several years died suddenly
at tbe family borne about 10 K)0
o'clock Thursday morning of last
week Mr Hopson though advanced
in years always had something to
do and was a familiar figure on the
streeta of Waurika He had done a
fall day’s work the day prior to his
death and had just finished a hearty
breakfast before taking suddenly ilL
Heart tronble la attributed a the
direct cause of hie death although
his advanced yeare were a handicap
in overcoming his illness
Jim Hopson was born in Dublin
Ireland on tbe 12th day of August
1837 coming to America in the year
of 1849 He enlisted in the Union
army in 1863 and served two years
locating in Hopkins county Texas
at the close of the war In 1868 be
wns united in marriage to Miss Bai-
lie Williams sad to this union four
children were bom four of whom are
still living namelyj B W and Fred
Hopson of Waurika Mrs Fannie
Wright of Waurika anji J L Pop-
son of Tyrone Oklahoma All of
the children except J L of Tyrone
were present shortly after death and
the latter arrived in time for the
funeral Deceased Joined the Chris-
tian church early in life and remain
ed a member of that denomination
nntil the end
The family moved to Waurika In
J908 and have resided here contin
uously since then Mr Hopson wds
a man of moderate circumstances
but in bis death he left a treasure
thut will live on and on — that of a
good repntation and an honorable
upright eitizerT
Burial was in the Waurika ceme
tery
STYLE SHOP MOVES TO
NEW STITES BUILDING
Jones and Stowe proprietors of
tbe popular Style Shop have moved
this week to the new Stiles building
just to the west of the Stnard hotel! Scott Ferris who was defeated in
and east of the Empress theatre The his race for the United States seo-
Style Shop has long been a most atorship in the recent election:
popular place and the proprietors' My Dear Friends and Gentlemen:
now have a splendid location Thcyl We went down with the rest — fight-
have been busy this week moving
ing neder the banner of democracy
start’-' g squarely upon the platform
ste-'- stly’with the party for a
caU'V that was just For such a
defeat there are no pangs of sorrow
or remorse To have fought other-
wise would have been tb break faith
To fight as we did was to keep it
All hail to you and to the other
good friends in Jefferson county All
hail to the two handled thousand men
- end women loyal democrats tha
D P Sturgeon moved hi real es- they are who went down with me T4
te nnd insurance office the first of maVe myseIf fa '07ky of them
shall be my task
With great respect and friendship
I am i
Very sincerelv yours
SCOTT FERRIS
and placing their furniture and fix
tures and are now ready to take care!
of their customers They have one
of the neatest' and best equipped
cleaning nnd pressing end tailoring
establishments to be found in this
part of the country
DAN STURGEON NOVES
TO McGRAW BUILDING
tate
the week from the building north of
the conrthonse to tbe room formerly
occupied by tbe Style Shop in the
McGraw building Mr StuTgeon
now haa one of tbe best locations in
the city and has fitted np a peat and
attractive office room He will ap-
preciate a call from friends and any
who may need anything in his line
LAND MOVES
J M Land proprietor of the
Waurikn Electric Supply company
has- moved his stock of fixtures to
ie east otfice’room of the new Daw-
son treatra building and ianow open
for business at hia new" locution
where be hue oue of the newest and
most Complete lines of everything in
the electrical line
MRS MORRISON ILL
Word was received here thnt Mrs
W hL Morrison n former -resident
of Waurikn but now residing at
Fort Worth is seriously ill Partic-
ulars were not given in- message
received this week furtherthan that
for awhile she waa dangerously ilk
Her foymer class members of the
Wesley close of the Methodist church
forwarded n bouquet of roses to the
Morrison home early this week as a
token of the esteem in which nhe is
held
’ HAND -TAILORING SHOP
A party-from Comanche ban taken
n lease on the west front office room
in tho new Dawson theatre building
nnd will open n hand tailoring es-
tablishment there in the near future
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Henry J Martens of Sionx Falls
South Dakota nnd Mias Laella
Yelau of Hostings
J XL MeBroonr and Miss Hand
Wilson both of Addington
C E Wainocott and Mias Crania
Bose both of Wanrikn
ARMISTICE DAY PARTLY
OBSERVED IH WAURIKA '
November 11 his been declared a
legal holiday in every state in the
Union but the fact that it was a
day to be ’observed was forcibly
called to mind by “Tonng Ameri-
cans” in Waurika Wednesday nigfci-
Dozens of them swarmed the street
and conducted a celebration all tbeir
own
Th’e banks and mgny business
houses were closed Thursday but -no
program bad been arranged and
the day wai observed in Waurika in
a quiet way It bad been planned’
some time hark to have a rousing
celebration in Wanrikn November 11
but the continued dry weather and
the apparent ' unsteadiness of bust-
ness conditions caused it to be post-
poned The day will likely be made a big
annual event hereafter in Waurika
COLDEST SNAP OF SEASON
KIT HERE WEDNESDAY
Wednesday with its cloudy misty
day was the coldest snap so far this
season Thursday morning broke
“fair and warmer” although the day
remained cooler than usual Tbo
second killing frost of the season
fell Wednesday night but the pre-
dicted freeze did not materialize at
least not sufficiently to do any ma-
terial damage The frost will be of
benefit to eotton it is said in that
it will kill the foilage and allow the
fruit to mature
Cotton has been coming in slowly
tbia week owing to the heavy rain
Monday The weather has been
cloudy for tbe past several days
Thursday bring the first clear day of
the present week ' Continued cold
and clear weather will be greatly ap-
preciated as it will allow eotton
picking to go forward more rapidly
JEFFERSON COUNTY HAS
v A GOOD REPUTATION
Ernest Ray was at Cbickasha last
week doing service on the grand jury
in the federal court The jury hod
under investigation laW violations
from all parts of the state and re-
tained a number of jndMtments two
of which were from this county both
for running stills ' ' ’
Mr Ray states that Jefferson coun-
ty has a repntation all over the state
for being tho cleanest county in the
state from the standpoint of-law en-
forcement -
PROGRESSING WITH BUILDING
Material has arrived Tor the filling
station being erected by W H
Gresham on Sooth Main street and
work will now be rushed ns much aa
possible Mr Gresham has the con-
crete driveway completed and work
on the building is now under way
The etationas going np on the corner
sogth nnd across the street from tho
News-Democrat office and when
completed will aid greatly to the ap-
pearance of the south part of Main
street
SUNDAY LID ON
A petition wns circulated last week
asking the atores and picture shows
to keep tlleir doors closed on Sun-
days and we are informed that' nil
have agreed to close In fact wo
were 'informed thnt it wns unanimous
that his step should bo taken nnd
nil were agreed on tho advisability
of dosing up on 'Sundays— Coman-
che Keflex
-
Has your coal bin been filled or
only might hart been!
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