The Helena Star. (Helena, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 30, 1921 Page: 1 of 8
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HELENA STAR
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VOLUME 16
HELENA ALFALFA COUNTY OKLAHOMA THURSDAY JUNE 30 1921
NUMBER 27
WAR HERO LAID TO
REST AT GOOD HOPE
Mortal Remains of William Benja-
min Cano Attended by Loving
' Hands Ends Last Eartbly
Pilgrimag
CANO POST AMERICAN LEGION
IN CHARGE OF SERVICES
The mortal remains of William
Benjamin Gano received Tuesday
evening by the family here were
laid to rest in Good Hope cemetery
Thursday afternoon with military
honors The funeral services were
held at the school building the
stage on which the casket rested
being banked with flowers the
casket draped with the colors and
the American Legion post in
charge It was most impressive
and beautiful and did full honor
to the brave lad who gave his life
along with thousands of others
that the honor of our country
might be upheld in a fitting man-
ner Will Gano was beloved of
every member of this community
who knew him personally for his
manly qualities and his intrepid
service to his country in which he
lost his life Gano Post Ameri-
can Legion was named ial his
honor Elder Jeff Morgan-of
Dodge City an old friend of the
Gano family preached the funeral
sermon and the American Legion
post here had charge of the cerej
monies the remains being laid
away with military honors Prac-
tically every ex-service man in the
community was present in uniform
and reverently followed the re-
mains to its last resting place
A short but impressive address
was made at the grave by Chaplin
Leroy A Curry of the Carmen
post By request of the request
of the mother Mrs R E Gano
the matter of firing a salute" at
the grave was omitted Taps were
sounded by Lawrence Smart over
the color draped casket The fu-
neral services were held in the
high school auditorium where
Will attended school and received
his diploma as a graduate It was
a sad home coming and depicted
the fortunes of war as other in-
stances of this nature has done
with increasing emphasis
Will Gano was leading his men
to battle in the St Mihiel drive
when he met his death being laid
low by a German bullet His re'
mains were given careful burial
by his men where he fell and the
grave was plainly marked Later
they were taken up and transfer-
ed to an American cemetery from
which it was taken for shipment
home
William B Gano the oldest son
of R E and Bertha Gano was
born October 1 1895 on-the claim
where he grew to manhood He
enlisted in the U S' service Sep-
tember 7 1917 June 1918 with
his Company sailed for Europe to
service for the U S government
crossed the channel J uly 4 While
serving his country in the great
world war was killed in action
September 22 1918 being -22
years 11 months and 22 days old
The remains were shipped from
France and arrived at Helena
June 28 1921 The casket was
taken to the Gano home where it
remained instate until Thursday
afternoon The funeral service
was conducted by Elder Jeff D
Morgan of Dodge' City Kansas
The remains were laid to rest in
the Good Hope cemetery With
father mother brothersl sisters
and many relatives the communi-
ty join in sympathy
Hearing on School Suit
A hearing on the suit for posses-
sion ot the school building by Ora
Brewer and George Kneeland was
lad before Judge Roberts at Enid
yesterday A demurrer had been
filed by the school board thru their
attorneys McKeever and Moore
asking that the suit be dismissed
owing to the fact that the plain-
tiffs who brot the suit in the name
of a certain development concern
which no longer had a legal stand-
ing with the State Corporation
Commission owing to the fact
that they had failed to comply
with the state laws in the matter
of reports and dues to the state
The demurrer was sustained by
the judge and the matter now
stands as it did before the suit
was started The attorney for the
plaintiff had already secured a
continuance until July 12 on cer-
tain alleged grounds but when
the case was presented to the
judge by the members of the
school board they were ordered
to appear when the demurrer of
the school board wa3 sustained
Does this end it? It does not!
Plaintiff has some twenty or thirty
days in which to file an amended
petition They will take full time
to do this and the thing will be on
again Mr Harris of the school
board says this thing looks very
much to him like a perpetual law
suit
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160 acres Ellis Co creek thru
place immediate possession $20
per acre $1000 will handle
8 room housj Modern furnace
garage cave large basement well
fruit Price $5000 $1500 will
handle
Watkins & Watkins Phone 148
7 rooms modern cement cave
sub-irrigated large barn double
garage lot 90x175 ft Price $4000
Terms
6 rooms water lights gas in
house shade and fruit lot 100x150
$3000 Terms
Watkins & Watkins— Enid
$om
SUES
To Occupy Chair of Music
"My boy Bennie Is lazy but 1 must
say he Is smart" declared the must
dan
“Is be going to follow In Ills father's
footsteps'’’
“No' I learned to play the trombone
and I’ve got to inarch about eight miles
ever time there’s a parade Bennie
Is learning the burp so Uiey will have
to let him sit down”
The Wagea of Cln
“Brethren I" exclaimed the prenchet
as he came across a portion of Ids
Dock engaged In pursuing the goddess
of chance “Do yo’ all kuow It’s
wroug to shoot crups?"
"Yus pahson" admitted one parish-
ioner sadly “an b’lleve me All’s payin’
fo’ mail sins”— The American Legion
Weekly
Evening Well Spent
"Did you tind Uie lecture Inform-
ing?" C’Yes" said Mr Crlpplns “I don’t
know yet what the lecturer was driv-
ing at but lie cleared up one impor-
tant point- for me"
"What was that?"
“I learned how to pronounce Czecho-
slovakia" A Long-Distance Worrier
“la Mr Gawping a public-spirited
citizen?"
“I don’t know about that" said Mr
Gadspur “He can overlook more
evils here at home and express more
Indignation In a ‘letter to the editor’
about conditions In central Europe
China Yap and the South seas than
any other man I evrr knew”
Time and Tide
Waits for No Man
The above statement is true
in many ways but we are apt
in the time of health and while
we have a position to forget
that it may not always be so
and that old age is sure to
come A few dollars in a
sound institution like ours will
scarcely be missed now and
may mean more than you can
tell in the future START
WITH US TODAY
We Appreciace our Friends and
Customers
FLOUR
I now- have- plenty of Red
Star Flour on hand Call or
telephone your orders
Cal Connor
The Star has a good farm of 320
acres good land well improved it can
sell on very attractive terms This
place has a good 4-room house each
room being 16x16 cement cave 11x17
barn 40x50 35 foot to the comb with
room for 70 tons of hay 20 horses
granary room for 6000 bushels of
grain 160 acres fenced with woven
wire balance with barbed wire 3
wells with good water 250 acres of
groing wheat Price $35000
Notice to Tractor Owners
We are able to makeNimmediate
shipment of tar in barrel lots of
42 gallons used in lubricating
tractor gears at a price of $800
per barrell F Ol B Enid Send
in your otder today for quick de-
livery— Oklahoma Gas & Electric
Co Enid Okla 26-3t
Miss Marie Ramsey of Sentinel
Okla is here for a visit with her
cousin Miss Georgia Ballard for a
few weeks
Sam Turner left last Thursday
evening for California where he
will visit with his mother for
month or so
B F Major and family with
the exception of Eddie Pettus
have returned from a two weeks
trip up into Kansas and Eastern
Oklahoma They found some mud
and plenty of rough roads
A Queer Job
The dentist's Job la rather queer
He pulla mid many a groan '
The teeth o( others to obtain
Employment (or tile own
High Times
“Oh mamma 1 Come here quick P
“Well well Mabel what Is It?"
“Lookee I Papa's found a quarter to
his vest pocket I” v
To That Extent
“Brown Is an optimist Isn’t he?"
"Well yes in a sense— he feels that
he might be a lot worse than he Is'
The Treasure
Under the Oak
By KATE EDMONDS
® Hit by MoClura Neweptper Syndicate)
Billy North wondered If all chil-
dren had at one Ume In their play
days burled a tin box containing the
heart's most treasured possessions
Billy had been about the world a
good deal since those days In Ills own
life and nnw he hud returned to the
old homestead The hrownstono
dwelling where ns a Tittle hoy he
had speut hla childhood was the place
where Ills travels ended
He hoped now to stay forever In
that pluce called home Billy had
roamed so long and so excitedly that
nothing In the world seemed any
belter than an anchor In the way of
the old house with Its many fond
memories He loved the large old
rooms with great yawning fireplaces
In each He loved the bit of flagged
garden Ini the rear and he Intended
turning it Into a veritable fairy gar-
den The Ideas he hud picked up In
various parts of the globe were
etched In hls brain and ready to re
produce themselves In tliut Bqunre of
garden with Its high stone walls and
Its single spreading oak tree
It was while he was spading up
around the roois of that same oak
preparatory to carrying out a dreti
lltr seat he had seen In a garden
In London that Billy found hls burled
treasure
That old tin box flung Billy
straight hack through the yonrs until
he was a lanky hoy of lelvr
summers The box was rusty und
enrlliynnd the contents musty hut
Billy was as excited as If tlm old
broken knife were a famous diamond
end the mildewed note a queen’s love
missive Also there were a broken
dolt' und five marbles The note
however brought n swift laugh to
Billy’s lips Scratched on a hit of
Alate as If with' heart's blood were
the words “I love Dulsy I will al
ways love Daisy"
Billy sat long and amusedly gar
Ing at the treasure ! (
“Daisy I Daisy I Oh Daisy Rogers
a freckled-faced little Imp who lived
next door" laughed Billy '
He remembered now having no-
ticed that the great house occupied
“Hello Billy!” 8he Called
twenty years ago by hls first love
was now an Interior decorator's studio
and was called the Dragon From the
number of cars parked against the
curb Billy Imagined the Dragon to he
most successful hut he couldn’t help
wondering to what part of the globe
hls little dove had flown
And because Billy was a bit ro-
mantic and partly lust to see If there
would be an answer he decided to
put an advertisement In the papers
He Inserted It In all the dallies:
“Whereabouts of Daisy Rogers want-
ed once living at 9 West Forty-ninth
street" '
After that Billy went on with hls
landscape gardening both In hls own
property and that of others Billy
was rather well known In that chosen
profession
Sundays he saved for hls own
garden and on that day Billy In
old trousers and flannel shirt enjoyed
working out hls schemes In tliut small
hack patch of property The tin box
--4 Mnc on hls library table — he
kept It there to anuse special menu
with Many a yam of boyhood days
had been unearthed from other heads
hy that hurled treaanre
Billy waa working a great lion's
head In plaster against hls stone wall
when he felt a hang on Hie side of
hls head He glnncod about for the
attacking party suspecting a small
hoy such is himself hnd boon hut
was unsuccessful
Good-naturedly he again hent over
the plaster This time an apple hit
him squarely on the top of the head
Hls movement was too swift for the
miscreant for she was caught red
handed or perhaps red-headed for
undoubtedly the head In the upper
window next door was red— a fiery
tousled red
Billy gnzed upward and the pen
little fare In the window smiled down
at hint
"Hollo Billy I" she called
"Daisy I By all that’s holy I Do
you still live there? Come down -this
minute I I hnve something to show
you” no still gnzed unbelievingly
ut that head with Its mop of red hair
For Billy had called It a mop twenty
years ago and 8lmmelessly he still
called It a mop albeit a burnished
coppery wonderful mop
“You used to he a red-headed little
freckle-faced Imp I” shouted Billy
“And you still arc a long-legged
tow-haired— youth I" flung Daisy "And
don't disgrace the neighborhood -remember
I am a dignified Interior
decora lor— so stop shouting your
flattering remarks I sin coming down
to see what you are doing"
“Spitfire— same as ever I" grunted
Billy him! dashed through to the front
door hardly realizing that twenty
yeara had gone alnce he and Daisy had
played together In those old gardens
Daisy rushed through the front gulps
and Into Billy's studio In- much the
same state of mind as Billy Het
Imtlk smock was of coppery silk that
matched her wonderful hair
When they drew near one anoth-
er there was a breathless moment
In which each hesitated before - the
hand clasp o moment In which each
devoured the other will) luingry eyes
that took In each detail of the other’s
growth
‘Yon still have a fcV freckles across
the bridge of your nose" Billy found
himself aldo to sity though hls voice
shook o trifle Her eyes were wide
and gray and Intelligent
“And you still have a growl Hit
your voice" laughed Daisy but that
her childhood pal had developed lido
a splendid fslr-iinlred dear-eyed giant
was printing Itself Into the recess of
her heart
"Come here" Billy said swiftly and
dragged her In much the same way
ns twenty years ago he had dragged
her Into the library to see hls latest
treasure "I found this In the gar
den under the onk tree" he said and
watched her closely
"My doll— that you stole from me'
she cried and touched the broken toys
with fingers that shook Next she
saw the knife and then the slate
This she carried to the light that
streamed In from the French windows
lending Into the hack garden and Billy
entne and stood Close beside her
“I love Daisy” she rend "I will al-
ways love Dulsy" she half turned to
Billy tlipn quickly away "I— I— what
silly things children think to do” she
said and her voice trembled
Billy was silent a long long mo-
ment while he contemplated the fluff
of that glorious coppery mop and the
white curve of neck for Daisy’s back
was toward hltn
“You know Dnlsy" he said slowly
"I am not so sure It's— silly I have
never been In love— perhaps "
Dnlsy flnshed about her eyes glow-
ing "lillly North— don’t you dare
tell me you love me— the very first
time wo meet I" The light In her eyes
was not anger “I am not given to
falling In love either" she added
"I hnve known you exactly twenty-
two years Miss Red-Head" laughed
Rllly “since you were a freckle-faced
Imp of five summers I have that
slnte as witness— pretty good test of
faithfulness Isn’t It?” He deliberately
turned Daisy so that she hud to look
at him- "I will dare tell you I love
you whenever I want to ' In fact I
will probably shout It over the back
fence”
There was a trailing sweetness
about Daisy’s laughter
"I think I will rush right home and
— listen " she said
DO IT NOW
Send us the price of a year'i
subscription if you are In arrears
John Do on Rampage
“John Doe’’ ran amuck Monday
afternoon and got himself landed
in jail at Cherokee He tried to
sneak a jug of wine into the back
door of the batcher shop here and
after using indecent language to
oth Roy and Art because they
tried to make' him vamoose he'
drew an ugly knife and made the
threat that he would carve them
Art promptly bit him with his fist
which angered him still more and
Art hit him again to keep him
from coming jn after them From
the back door he ran around to
the front and effected an entrance
at the front door Several custom-
ers were in the shop at this time
out he managed to get in and se-
cured a hold on a clever and was
starting in to make a rough house
when Art hit his arm and ‘he
dropped the implement lie kept
up his tirade of abuse and finally
Art took him by the collar and
dioved him to the door and kicked
him into the street Tom Blaklcy
came up and got him took him
before Justice Major where he was
committed to jail in Cherokee At
list reports he had not sobered
sufficient to give an intelligent ac-
count of himself and was still in a
tupor the next morning It is
raid that he hud been observed at
various places in town for the past
few days and always in a trouble-
some mood It is supposed that
he came with the harvest hands
?ot next to some corn juice and
pioceeded to get outside of it
Conundrum
1 If Carl Nelson had two
Fords instead of one would the
distance between two given points
te greater or less 2 Would the
chance for argument be increased
tr diminished Send answers to
Conundrum editor care Star
Movleland
"I hnve Just seen a million picture
showing the hmdlug of the Pilgrim
Fathers"
"On the New England const ch?"
"Presumably on theNeW England
coast but I suspect this particular
landing was mode’ on the coast of Cali-
fornia" Or a Juno v
First Girl— I’m sure y-u can’t call
him handsome Hls nose Is too big hls
eyes the wrong color and he has i
weak chin
Second Old — Goodness I You expect
a man to he a regular Venus
Privileged Creature
"Your efficiency expert Is gone?"
“Yes and he left nn aching void"
"How so?" j 1
“He’s the only nmn we ever hnd
around here who dared to reprimand
our beautiful blonde stenographer for
being late" j
Expensive Water Power
“Yes" said Hie defendant lu a crim-
inal case “my lawyer certainly mnde
t strong plea for me He even wept"
"What was Jils bill?" asked the
other man
"Well as neqrly as I can figure It
out he charged about $100 a tear"
PUPPY LOVE
She I love him because he’ to
affectionate
He And you gat mad when I'm
too affectionate
Nevef Again
She smoked Just one-
No more for Bet—
Bhe calls It now v
A "slckarette"
Careful Chauffeur
Applicant— You advertised for
careful chauffeur?
Motorist— 1 dUL Are yon one?
Applicant— YaU bet I should r
quire my pay lit advance
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Watkins and Sons. The Helena Star. (Helena, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 30, 1921, newspaper, June 30, 1921; Helena, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1726777/m1/1/: accessed July 5, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.