The Cherokee Republican (Cherokee, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1918 Page: 8 of 16
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I H£ CHEROKEE REPUBLICAN CHEROKEE OKLAHOMA
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The Cherokee Republican
SUCCED1NG THE CHEROKEE ORIENT AND DEMOCRAT
IS MADE PRESIDENT
PVT LEWIS GAMMON
ALFALFA CO SOLDIER
DIES OF PNEUMONIA
(Continued from first page)
ALFALFA COUNTV’S FAILURE
llsh people were glad to see the
Sammle coming '
Today is the fourth of July for
the French people so we all cele-
brated together today We can
hear the big guns fired on the
front They sound like thunder
away off How Is everybody at
home? Did yon have a good crop
of wheat this year? guess you
folks had a hard time getting help
to take care of it How are my
girls getting along Tell them hello
for me I got tired of the water
before we got across but did not
get seasick I hope it won’t be
long until we can come back We
have been drilling pretty hard since
we have been here Tell the rest
of the folks to write to me Some
of you must write to me every
week Goodbye
July 19 1918
Dear Sister:
Will answer your letter 1 received
yesterday Was awful glad to get
it I am well and feeling fine
Hope you folks are still well We
have been drilling very hard now
for some time as of course we have
to if we expect to make good sol-
diers The people here in France
have not begun to harvest yet the
season is so far behind ours I sup-
pose nearly all the boys' from around
home have gone by this time I got
the money that Ethel and Oscar
and Clema sent me before I left
Camp Travis and I ias sure glad
to get it I was just about broke
We can still hear the big guns
at the front but listen I don’t want
you folks to worry about me T
am going to try and take care of
myself and will surely come home
I AM GOING TO DO MV DUTY
TO MY COUNTRY AND TRUST
EVERYTHING ELSE TO MY GOD
FOR MY SAFETY
Tell all my friends hello for me
and write when you can because I
a manxious to hear from homo
Good bye good night and God Bless
you
Sept 5 1918
Dear Sister:
I received your letter yesterday
and was glad to hear from you 1
am still feeling tine I haven’t
been sick a day since I have been
in the army I think that is do-
ing pretty well don’t you? Lula I
have been up to the front line
trenches and we made it fine None
of our boys got killed or wounded
in my company
The night we went in the Ger-
mans shelled the road we came in
on but did not have our range as
they always shot over us We can
hear the bullets singing over our
heads in every direction We also
have air raids every day and can
see the Germans shooting at our
planes and when their planes fly
over us our guns take a shot at
them We bring down one every
now and then They have also giv-
en us a few light gas attacks but
we have always been ready for
them as we keep our gas masks
with us all the time We are in
the trenches for a week and then
went back aw’ays to rest up I do
not know when we will be called
upon to go back into action again
I am not writing this to scare you
but just wanted to let you know
that I have been in the big fight
That is what we came over here
for
“Mildred said in her letter that
Oscar and Robert had got them a
new car I sure wish I was there
to help them use It I would love
to be there Christmas we would
have a good time wouldn’t we?
Tell my Lambert girls that I have
not forgotten them You said In
your letter that you dreamed I was
home I wish your dream was true
Maybe It will come true some day
You folks must not feel hurt be-
cause I do not write oftener as
sometimes I do not have the paper
I wish you would as often as you
can as I surely love to hear from
home Give my love to all tbo
folks Goodbye
Your loving brother
LEWIS GAMMON
Money placed at Interest works
wsatksr Bay War Savings Stamps
lay and Bight la wet sad dry
Alfalfa county failed badly In
the fourth Liberty loan Its quota
w'as $825600 It subscribed $500-
000 Had every other county made
the same showing Oklahoma would
have been disgraced
Whether Alfalfa county's allot
ment was excessive we don’t know
Presumably its assessment was fixed
on the same general data by which
assessments elsewhere were fixed
Among such data bank deposits are
an Important item — perhaps the de-
termining item Judge by the in
crease In bank deposits Alfalfa
county is one of the most prosper-
ous in the state
As Is well known there is a large
German element in Alfalfa county
From that tact an unfortunate and
an unfair deduction might be drawu
It may be that Alfalfa county's
citizens of German birth or extrac-
tion subscribed to the loan gener
ously The failure may not be due
to them But suspicion Is apt to
point Its finger at them just the
same
Some recent remarks of Otto
Kahn the New York banker are
pertinent He declared that
Americans of German birth or an-
cestry have been most cruelly
wronged by the Germany of kals-
erlsra and kultur Their reputa-
tion has been smirched They have
lost the esteem which was once
theirs "A great burden has been
placed upon us” said Mr Kahn
"We’ve got to do more than our
share It does not suffice that the
American casualty lists from France
are sprinkled with German names
That is a fine proof of our loyalty
but we must meet every test that
comes answer every call that Is
made and answer In most convinc-
ing terms”
It is to be hoped that the sub-
scription to the loan In Alfalfa
county will prove that Its citizens
of Germanic origin met the test in
that decisive way that they are
not at fault for the stigma now
resting upon that country — Daily
Oklahoman
Friends In this county of Mr
Ray Mullinlx formerly of this city
who was for several years cashier of
the Farmers Bank at Lambert will
be glad to know of his rapid rise
In bis bulsness since he moved to
Hobart Okla some months ago
He s61d his interests In the Lam-
bert bank and purchased slightly
over a fourth Interest in the Farm-
ers and Merchants National Bank
of Hobart which has a capital of
$5000000 with $1000000 surplus
and which is considered the larg-
est bank In southwestern Oklahoma
Just lately Mr Mullinlx bag been
elected president of this bank at
a salary of $300000 per year and
has an excellent board of directors
'q-ith whom to work Hobart Is a
fine town with a population of
5000 and while situated in the
section of the state which has suf-
fered drouths recently the splen-
did rains which they have gotten
this fall insures a great wheat
crop there next year Mr Mullinlx
writes that the largest acreage of
wheat ever put out in that county
has been planted this year an$ that
it is all looking fine The many
friends here of Mr and Mrs Mulll-
nlx will be glad to learn of tbeir
splendid good fortune Mrs Mul-
llnix is a daughter of Mr and Mrs
Abner Sartln of route one
'UNIRED WAR WORK
CAMPAIGN TO WORK
SOON IN ALFALFA CO
(Continued from first page)
CARD OF THANKS
We wish In this maner to ex-
press our thanks to our friends
for their sympathy and help at hte
time of the death and burial of our
loved one Especially do we desire
to thank the members of the Hel-
ena Chapter of the Red Cross for
their helpful Interest In our time
of great sorrow
Mr and Mrs J C MAHIEU
Mr and Mrs W F COULTER
Dist 57 and 58
Alex Walker Cherokee Okla
Dist 62 and 63
Chas Powell Jet Okla Dist
49 50 64 65 66 67 68 Con No
4
W L Metcalf Helena Okla
Dist 69 and 70
D M Gass Carmen Okla Dist
71 and 72
Chas Orlever Carmen Okla
Dist 73 74 75 76 77 73 and 79
L H Stephens Aline Okla
Dist 92' 93 94 95 96 97 98 j
and 99
T P Green Helena Okla Dist
80 81 82 88 89 90 91 100 and
101
A E Moseley Goltry Okla! Dist
83 84 85 86 87 102 and 103
M R Clopper Amorita Okla
Dist 16
Guy Cromwell Manchaster Okla
Dist 35
Seth Cook Cherokee Okla Dist
53
Misses Margaret Pagel and Inez
Lemon of the hospital spent Monday
of this week visiting In Enid
Mrs Charles Titus left this week
'nr Fort Bill Okla where she goes
to join her husband Lieutenant Ti-
tus who Is stationed at Post Field
in the Aviation service They wU
make their home there until Lleui
Titus Is transferred
Jess Robbins well-known farmer
living near Helena was here last
Friday looking after business Mr
Robbing stated that the wheat is
coming up very fast in his com-
munity and that the recent rains
would Insure some fine pasture
1 Word received by bis parents -Mr
and Mrs Hank Duncan from their
son Llndley Duncan who enlisted
I In the government service this sum
! mer and who bas been stationed at
iFort Worden Washington states
jtbat they have started east and
IwlU probably leave for France in
j the near future Among the boys
from here who left with the bunch
were Harold Grossman Harry Pol-
lock Clifford Godfrey Darrell Lot-
ton and Charley Weeks The date
of their departure from camp will
not he known but all write to
relatives that they are sure of be-
ing sent over
THE TIRE HOSPITAL
Cherokee’s Tire Hospital is the place to get
anything in the tire line v
OLD TIRES MADE NEW
and the best of tires on the market for sale
Ve handle the Kelly-Springfield Tires No
better tire made We alsohave other
makes
FREE AIR
Give us a call
HEATH £ BOLES PROP
1st Door West of Republican
Mrs A’ J Titus returned Tues-
day from Stillwater where she has
been visiting with her daughter
Miss Edith who has been ill with
Influenza She Is now almost en-
tirely recovered
Mrs John Blue and Mrs Ross
Patton are expected home this
week from College Station Texas
where they haye been with their
husbands who are in training there
The boys have now finished with
their course in the Texas Univer-
sity and will be transferred to otb-
er camps in the near future
In addition to the duties of the
office Glenn Hinkle County Clerk
has served without any compensa-
tion since the war started as Sec?
retary of the Alfalfa County Ex-
emption Board As a war official
he has devoted a vast amount of
his time or rather his overtime to
this Important work He has
served without salary waiving his
claim for payment when other mem-
bers over the state were being
fired for seeking to drag huge
sums out of the government A
vote for Hinkle Is a vote for a
faithful public official
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Care of Your Clothes
The foregoing editorial from the
largest paper In the Btate should be
corrected as to detail and facts
A later correction was made In
the news columns' of the paper
showing that Alfalfa county sub-
scribed a larger amount than the
one credited In the editorial The
fact that the quota was not sub-
scribed is an unenviable record
which we can but hopo to wipe "out
in the next war effort
However justice should be done
certain communities In the county
and the opinion not permitted ' to
stand tbat Germanism was any
large contributing element There
were but five communities In the
county which subscribed the quota
Two of the five were Goltry and
Burlington' both of whoch are iden-
tified as German settlements The
greater number of Germans live at!
Goltry and Burlington than in any
other portions of the county The
record shows that there was a gen-
erous and substantial oversubscrip-
tion at both of these places
Select them carefully wisely — Buy them on a business basis
i - r
There’s not going to be an over-production of cloth this year you prob-
ably know ‘that That is for civilian use — Uncle Sam has most of the
country’s looms going on O D So you are not going to buy as many ’
clothes as usual nor have as many to choose from What you do get
you want to get good and take care of it when you get it
OBITUARY
Cletus Florent Mahleu was born
on the farm where his parents still
reside on the first day of February
1896 and died at Camp Oglethorpe
Georgia Sunday Oct 13 1918
aged 22 years 8 months and 12
days He leaves to mourn his loss
father mother four sisters one
brother and other relatives besido
a host of friends for he was uni-
versally liked by all who knew him
Cletus was ever a home loving boy
and until his country called him
to serivee on the 22 day of last
July had always been at home And
since his absence his almost dally
letters and little remembrances sent
to the home folks proved that his
thoughts were of them and his
chief concern that they should not
worry And we doubt not that his
wish as he neared the valley of the
shadow of death was tbat the loved
ones would not let their grief for
him darken the home
Mrs Ed Talley of Driftwood re-
turned Tuesday from Carmen where
she spent last week visiting her
sisters Mrs Ayres and Mrs Leon-
ard Halstead Miss Thelma Hal-
stead came borne with ber aunt to
spend a few days
Try as hard as you can to make your
-1
clothes go as far as they can it’s
good business and good citizenship
to
Right now we have good clothes a
e
plenty the kind you will like to
own and like to take care of We
anticipated our season’s wants on a
very large scale months ago result-
ing in very full stocks and at prices
that compared with today’s markets
are historical
New fall styles at their best You won’t find as many nor as much
for your money later on
$25 2750 $30 and $35
Cherokee
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Ferguson, Walter. The Cherokee Republican (Cherokee, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1918, newspaper, November 1, 1918; Cherokee, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1723061/m1/8/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.