The Helena Star (Helena, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 26, 1923 Page: 1 of 8
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THE HELENA STAR
VOLUME 18
HELENA ALFALFA COUNTY OKLAHOMA THURSDAY JULY 26 1923
NUMBER 30
DOE TO turns
GOT TOO POPULAR
!
Why tfouple Returned to Kitchen
ette Apartment
1751—
IS3G
Scot Taught
Madison Thrift
President James Madison often re
fcrred to the lessons of thrift taught
him when a youth by Donald Robert
son a Scotch schoolmaster
Thrift and banking go hand in hand
Thrift means banking Banking means
thrift
Thrift and banking are national slo-
gans today
See us at once about -your banking
One Dollar Starts an Account
Farmers National Bank
J 0 WATKINS Pres E B HARRIS Vice Pres C 0 NEU30N Cashier
HELENA OKLAHOMA
NOTICE
The next regular teachers’ ex-
amination for Alfalfa county will
be held in the office of the county
Superintends on Monday Tuesday
Wednesday the dates being July
30 31 and August 1
Charles Wolfe Superintendent
Community Church
Rev J J Jones Pastor
Attendance at both the Bible
School and preaching sevice last
Sunday showed considerable gain
Our aim for the attendance at
the Bible School for next Sunday
is-one hundred and we are count-
ing on every member to enlist
others to meet with us and share
in the study of God’s word
' Bible School 10 a m
Preaching 11 a m
Bible Study and Prayer 8:30 p m
Service Thursday 8:30 p m
' Choir Practice Thursday 9:15
Your presence desired
The Girls Auxilary of the Bap
tist Church spent Thursday at
Carmen The following members
were present: Faye Putnam Edna
Gibson Tresa Fetzer Ruby Clark
Thelma Ford Velma Werner
Lavlet Packard Mildred Dewitt
and the two chaperones Mr Keal-
iher and Mrs Bickford After a
pleasant swim the girls partook of
a lnnch of sandwiches cake and
fruit and started for home stop-
ping at Taps to take a another
swim Finally after a day of hilar-
ous good time they returned home
Pauline Holten is now in Port-
land Oregon and writs she has
a splendid time -
Jess Tar’s will move to town
directly after their sale
Mrs Slaten was the guest of
Mrs M R Eakins last’Thursday
and Friday
The “Home” children went
plumming last Thursday They
picked and gathered-eight bushels
Roy Gibson and family are
moving to town
Mrs Small who for the past
two years has resided with Grand-
ma Wagoner has gone to visit her
son at St Louis'
RARE OPPORTUNITY FOR
STOCKMEN
Stockmen from Oklahoma and
surronding territory are just be
ginning to enjoy the fruifs of
their labors For years they have
worked toward the end of estab
lishing a co-operative live stock
commission firm at Oklahoma City
which would handle their stock
get good prices and pro rate all
earning above expenses back to
the shipper
Farmers and stockmem with
the help of the ' National Live
Stock Producers Association es-
tablished the Producer: Commis-
sion Association at - Oklahoma
City July 2nd The t Producers
have just closed their third weeks
business July 16th to 21st aud
showed a gain of six times the
amount of business handled the
previous week'
Shippers from all over the
country are consigning their stoek
to the Producers at Oklahoma
City and are dropping in to get
better acquainted with their or-
ganization They are enthusiastic
over the service and prices re-
ceived and fepl to the last man
that their organization is going
over the top as it has in other
terminal markets in the country
A dollar is a dollar now days
and stockmen know that the Pro-
ducers have refunded 30$ of the
commissions paid at every termin
al market where they have finish-
a year’s business They know
hat what can be done at other
markets can be done at Oklahoma
City and thatswhy they are boost-
ing the Producers and consigning
:heir stock to their organization
By Producers Commission Asso-
ciation Sue Young is visiting with her
aunt Grandma Young 1
Ed Sparks left last week for
Kansas where they will make
their home in the future
Professor’s Explanation of Rich
ness of Mid-West Soil
: a
A
Arai Which Show Poorer Crops
lieved to Have Been Protected
From the Ice Floee
Farmers living In the -fertile valley
of the Middle West may attribute their
rich crop yields fat swine and excel
lent butter to the fuct thut more thun
50000 years ago their acres were cov-
ered with Ice suys an Associated Press
dispatch from Chicago
This Is the gist of the Hading of Prof
William II Haas of the geology de-
partment of Northwestern university
who has made a study of the subject
concerning his observations upon Ohio
Comparing the glaciated section of
the continent and the driftless area
Professor Haas found that the soils In
the two differed In the glaciated land
the soils are more diversified and of
better quality he states
"With this asset It Is little wonder
that the farmer Uvlng In the zone which
aeons ago had been covered with lee
should find himself better oft than bis
brother of the driftless area" says
Professor Haas’ "This area covers
some 10000 square miles and embraces
northwestern Illinois a small part of
Iowa southwestern Wisconsin and
Minnesota" -
The geologist In explaining the ac-
tion of the Ice and why thut portion of
the earth’s surface touched by It should
yield to man an abundance of crops
said that the pressure exerted hy the
glaciers 50000- years ago crushed the
rocks and mixed the dirt ns they rolled
southward hence the many-soils
“It is remarkable'' said Professor
Ilaas speaking of Ohio "to notice
how suddenly the tall corn will end
and be neighbored by stunted stalks
and shriveled ears - '
“AH’ this is on account of the fact
that hundreds of centuries ago some
rocks of a particular hardness able to
withstand the onward sweep of the
lee flqlds -from the North deflected the
fields thus leaving the area which the
rocks appeared to protect unglaclated
That In my opinion at least accounts
for those 10000 square miles of com-
paratively poor soil or ns we geol-
ogists say the driftless area"
Professor linns stated that the de-
marcation between the healthy grain
and the sickly stunted grain was so
distinct ns to form a‘ well-defined line
showing the boundary between the
glaciated and non-glaeluted land
Professor Haas explained that many
authorities do not hold to this view
professing themselves unable to ac-
count for the driftless area others he
said went so far as to question the
existence of thq so-called driftless area
The Northwestern professor declared
that the glaciers accomplished tlnee
great effects: they cut down the -hills
and filled In the valleys they ground
up the boulders and thirdly mixed
the rocks
"Comp’ny” Wa All Right but It It
I Possible to Have Too Much
! of a Good Thing
I
I He liked "comp’ny" and hie young
wife was also fond of having folks In
Life was much less monotonous whom
friends were around But they Uvod
In a one-room apartment with a mys-
terious disappearing kitchenette and
when they were both at home the
place wns thronged They had no
space to give over to entertulnlng vis-
itors One evening- says a writer In the
New York Sun and Globe theu Invited
a couple In for some bridge and when
)
A
it
A
r
AV’i'L
Mrs Speece Alice Rowe Ver-
nice and Mrs Bard spent Friday
in Enid
Billy Musgrove is doing repair
work on Mrs Pierce’s residence
J W Raymond and wife spent
Sunday with Charles Hubble’s
Transplanting Insects' Heads
A remarkable experiment lias been
tried at the biological research labors
tory of the Vienna Academy of Scl
ences by Dr Walter Finkler who In
order to solve certain problems con
nected with the correlation of body
and soul cut off and exchanged the
heads of Insects duly narcotized The
head having been lifted out of the
thorax socket was severed from the
trunk by a simple stroke of the scis-
sors and transferred to another Indl
vldual treated in the same manner
The blood thus escaping which by
the state of nnreosis was reduced to
a minimum -Immediately closed the
edges of the yound and without any
seams or other means of fixation
merely In virtue of Its natural ad-
hesion kept the head In the position
most suitable for hqaling— Scientific
American
they pivoted the visiting lady whs bad
ly trampled After that lamentable
experience they gave up the Idea en-
tirely and spent all of their spore time
longing for the day when the Incoming
shillings would be abundant enough to
provide commodious quarters
"If we can only get ourselves ade-
quately housed” said the wife “we
can entertain our friends to our hearts'
content”
The husband finally dislodged the
necessary raise In salary With no at-
tempt to conceal their Jubilation tbey
selected an apartment with four
rooms a kitchenette and a bath A1
most hilariously they announced fre-
quent house-warmings Their many
friends flocked to offer congratulations
And after the first period of celebra-
tions had ended the friends continued
to come They dropped In without In-
vitation or provocation From their
own Cramped quarters they Issued con-
tinuously to share In the spnclngs of
the fortunate ones The famine of
1 comp ny" ended The young man and
his wife were Inundated with lt Sev-
eral vain efforts were made to stop
the Inrush But the friends calmly
overlooked all hints and faltered not
Early one Sunday morning as the
last of a large delegation qf self-invited
poker players had departed the
husband spoke There was a trace of
exasperation In his voice
“When we lived where we couldn't
cKtertain we wanted ‘coinp’ny’ all the
time ' he said "Now that we are In
position to entertain we have It all the
time whether we want It or not Our
friends drop In ns if this were a sub-
way station They seem to think I’m
the commissioner of parks and play-
grounds Just because we have more
square footage than they have they do
their romping here The only differ-
ence betweeen our home and the puh-
He library Is1 that we-allow smoking
and serve refreshments I’m through
The -young wife checked every state-
ment And soon thereafter although
the multitude of friends bemoaned
their act they moved back to their for-
mer location They decided if crowd-
ing had to be done they would do It
themselves They elbowed each other
around and saved money And when
they felt as If they needed "comp'ny"
they rode a local train through tiie
East side subway during a rush hour
and attempted to get off at Thirty
fourth street
Checks
Convenience
A checking account
your command enables
pay bills without leaving your
to send remittances anywhere
the least effort on your part
And every check when
' celled and returned to you
the end of each month is an
unquestionable receipt
Open an ac-
count with us
NOW
at
you to
home—
with
can
at
Safety -Honesty -Courtesy-Service
Helena National Bank
E D WELL Pres E R S P J VL AB ARGER Cashier
' Wifely Supervision
"I dunno why women want to nag
so” complained Mr Wombat
“What’s wrong now?” -“There’s
always something wrong
Either I'm home too late or I’m home
too early Maybe I got dandruff on
my coat collar or soup on my vest
It’s this that and the other My wife
Is always finding some flaw”
"They mean It for our good old
man” advised his sagacious friend
"A wife wants her husband to appear
at his best To keep him so is a labor
of love"
"Will It always be that way?"
"I fear so Even If you were an
angel your wife might well find a
feather misplaced now and then"—
Yonkers Statesman
Mark Twain's Missouri Park
In the memorial park at Florida
Mo where Mark Twain was born we
suggest that plenty of those “slippery
ellums" that Mark's group of young-
sters knew be planted They are the
ulmus fulvu which Mark’s boys didn’t
know and would have scorned under
such a hlfalutin title If they had
As this memorial park grows In
beauty' and umbrageousness and In In-
fluence hy the gifts and endowments
from Mark Twain admirers we hope
to see the statues of Huek Finn and
Tom Sawyer rise there of Aunt Polly
and the other homefolk characters that
appeal to the sentiment of Western
people among wliorti the genius Sam-
uel Clemons grew up
Mark Twain’s birthplace wili In
time become one of the greatest of
literary shrines for It Is now brightly
clear that he is one of the American
Immortals
RED’ CROSS LIFE SAVER
TO BE AT CARMEN
On Thursday August 2 Captain-
Law of the Life Saving
Corps of the American Red Cross
will be in Alfalfa County having
been abtained under the auspices
of the County Red Cross Chapter
Captain Law will spend the
morning at Cherokee where he
will meet with the Bov Scouts
and other organizations that are
special y interested in this line o
work At both Carmen and Cher-
okee he will talk on First Aid anc
Resusscitation
In the afternoon Captain Law
will give demonstrations at the poo!
at Carmen Everyone that can pos-
sible attend is urged to be present
Many are of the opinion that
lakes and rivers are so scarce in
this section that there is little rea-
son for gaining this expert know-
ledge Statistice show that mos
of the fatalities occur in just such
sections Ignorance exacts a fear-
ful penaltry Captain Law has
a message for us that we can ill
afford to miss Lets show him
that this educatiorfhl campaign is
agpreciated by the people of Al-
falfa County
What Next 7
After a physical examination by the
school nurse Jane appeared from the
mysterious examination room with a
pronounced limp
“Hay what’s the matter?" inquired
Peg her chum anxiously
“Well thut nurse in there said I had
tonsilitis a crooked spine and pyor-
rhea and I thought I might as well
limp too" replied- Jane nonchalantly
Successful Woman Salvager
Mrs Margaret Goodman the only
woman marine salvager in America
was originally a- journalist hut she
wanted thrills and so she took to her
present occupation She first became
known some five years ago when she
salvaged valuable copper and iron
from a vessel which had been sunk In
Lake Michigan for more than half a
century She succeeded where men
had failed Several lives had been
lost and hope given up when Mrs
Goodman decided to try her luck
Japanese "Bean Town"
Dairen a Japanese city in Manchu-
ria according to reports is the port of
whnt Is becoming the greatest bean-
raising country of today The product
also used in making soy-hean sauce
and soy-bean oil is exported to various
markets The soy-bean sauce is fa-
miliar to patrons of "Chinatown” restaurants
DFMAND FLAG RAISED
The day following a speech
made by National Commander
Owsley of the American Legion
in which he said that a flag
sholild fly every day from every
school house the high school
students of Trinidad Colorado
demanded afhg be raised at their
school building and declared a
strike untill the county officials
saw to it that a flag was raised
Immediately -thereafter citizens
and merchants of -Trinidad had
provided flags for every school in
the city
Cord Young has resigned bis
position as engineer at the Light
Plant ‘
The Ladies bf the Methodist
Church served lunch’ at Mony-
hun’s sale
Methodist Episcopal Church
R- E HARVEY Pastor
Two fine services last Lords
day with a good antendence at
both services Next Sunday will
be announcement that every mem-
ber of the S S will be interested
in We plan to have our annunal
picnic next week the day and
place to be announced Sunday
S S io a m
Worship a a m
EL Myrtle Bolder y leader 8 pm
J- L 8 p m
Duet by Miss Helen and Hazel
Green for the morning service
You’re welcome
Notice: All boys 12 years of
over who wish to join the Boy
Scouts report to Rev R E Har-
vey at once
The Senior Class of the First
Church of Christ gave a farewell
outing party for Alda Batman
Wednesday evening of last week
The class members who partiepat-
ed were: Fern and Mayme
Tuxhorne Myrtle Willhite Blanch
Sturgeon Rosa Young -Dqrtha
and Helen McCall Muriel Varner
Joe Farguson Ivan Daugherty
Morris Ruley Kenneth Castel
Thrall’s and Lowery’s constituting
a Swimming Brigade - After the
splashing in the water lemonade
and cake were served and the
party returned home declaring
they had enjoyed a splendid time
Mr and Mrs Nash were chaper-
ones of the party
Will Coleman’s and J F Spra-
gue s left Monday for Colorado
via Elkhart where they will visit
a few dsys
Jim and Albert McCutchan and
amilies spent Sunday at the
lome of Roy Conyers
Roy Robertson Harry Main and
Bill McCuthan’s went fishing Sat-
urday They caught 8 one pound
fish and one 3 pound channel cat
The following were all pleasure
seekers at Taps Lake Thursday
evening of last week: Loyd Ruleys
C M Brewers Ersel Stolabarger’s
Joe and Grant Couch’ Dick Van
Wye Mildred Pittman Elmer
Immel Shep Gano Clint Thomp-
son Mr Gano Mrs Bell Leroy
Van Wye Edith Couch Vivian
Kline Clint Jacobs and Holland
Wagoner
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Cowgill, W. T. & Cowgill, J. F. The Helena Star (Helena, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 26, 1923, newspaper, July 26, 1923; Helena, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1726884/m1/1/?q=aRCHIVES: accessed June 10, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.