Miami Record-Herald (Miami, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, April 9, 1920 Page: 3 of 8
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FRIDAY APRIL 9 1920
MIAMI RECORD-HERALD
PAGE THREE
SNOW AND SEVERE
FREEZE KILLS ALL
EARLY FRUIT HERE
Morale of Farmers and Orchard-
ists Who Expected Big Crop
t is Hard Hit
MERCURYG0EST021
JlUzznrd of Mid-Winter Intensity
Keeps Easter Promcnadera Close
to Fire and Little Finery is
Shown
The damage caused the fruit trees
In Ottawa county as a result of the
snow and the hard freeze Sunday
Is email compared to the loss the
county wlir sustain In years to come
as the freeze coming late as it did
wilt have a tendency to blast the in-
terest farmers and others had in fruit
cultivation according to James Law-
rence county farm agent
MY Lawrence said Monday morn-
ing that he believed the peach crop
to be entirely destroyed and the ap-
ple crop greatly damaged as a re-
sult of the freeze and cold winds
which swept the entire county all day
Sunday He said the apple bade ere
Bomewhat tougher than the other
fruit buds and that they might have
escaped without permanent injury
Strawberry plants were also damaged
to an extent but the farm agent said
strawberry plants are of a "come-
back”' nature and that if it warms
up again this week they will come
out
"Last year Ottawa county produced
a bumper fruit crop” the farm agent
said "Ottawa county is not a
fruit county to any big extent but
what fruit there was last year yield-
ed a big crop This gave farmers
and others great enthusiasm Last
fall a large number of young orch-
ards were set out ' The freeze and
snow coming so late In the year
will do the county more damage In
years to come than it will do this
year as it will tend to discourage the
farmers who began fruit cultivation
last year on a btgger scale than they
ever did before” r
The freeze extended virtually to
every section of the middle west and
south according to reports received
here In the big fruit country located
in the Ozarks forty miles southeast
of Miami the damage was big
The snow and freezing temperature
Sunday resulted in few persons ap-
pearing on the streets of Miami garb-
ed in their new Easter togs Every
person in the city had purchased
either an entire new Easter outfit or
a new hat or shoes or suit but the
cutting wind caused them to remain
at home 1
Weather Forecaster Vincent said
the thermometer Sunday registered
as low as 26 above At 6 o’clock
Monday morning it read 21 above
BANKSASKTHAT
K 0 & C OFFICERS
BE REMOVED NOW
The Fidelity National Bank and
Trust Company of Kansas City
brought suit Saturday in the federal
court at Muskogee to have Frank
Hagerman B Haywood Hagerman
and Alexander New removed as offic-
ials of the Kansas Oklahoma and
Gulf railroad better known as the
Kenefic road and which runs through
Miami
The petition charged that the Ha-
germans New and members of New's
law firm in Kansas City are prepar-
ing to drain the railroad company in
the matter of fees salaries and pref-
erential claims Frank Hagerman
had charge of the reorganization of
the railroad and is known as "coun-
sellor to the court” B Haywood
Hagerman a son of Frank Hager-
man L president and one of the trus-
tees of the road and New is a trus-
tee and former receiver The road
first went into the hands of receiv-
ers in 1913 and December 13 1918
the road was reorganized under the
direction of Hagerman who was ap-
pointed by Judge William C-Hook
of the I'nited States supreme court
Frank Hagerman has complete con-
trol of the road at this time the pe-
tition charges
The Kenefic road known original-
ly as the Missouri Oklahoma' and
Gulf railway was promoted by Wil-
liam Kenefic and was to extend from
Kansas City to the Gulf of Mexico
It was financed chiefly by foreign
capital most of which came from
France In 1913 the road got into se-
rious difficulties and a receivership
was asked for At the present time
314 miles of the road is In operation
running from Baxter Springs Kan
to Denison Texas
J C Rosenberger and J D Bower-
cock brought the suit for the' Fideli-
ty National Bank and Trust company
Neither of them makes any comment
on the case Henry C Flower Les-
ter W Hall and George T Trembia
officials of the bank are trustees toi
$690 000 In receivers’ certificates
BRIGGS SAYS HE -WAS
NOT AUTHOR
OF RESOLUTION
James Briggs county clerk said
Tuesday morning that the word "dic-
tate” used in the headlines over the
article published yesterday which de-
tailed the action of the r board of
rounty commissioners in declining to
"onsider a’ resolution presented by
Briggs had cast an lnferrence at him
but he did say however that John M
Fuser member of the board from the
southern district did use the word
"dictate” when he said "he was not
in favor of dictating to brides and
grooms who should marry them”
Mr Briggs said the purpose of the
resolution was not to dictate to any-
one The resolution was presented
for the consideration of the board to
have the three dollar marriage fee
which goes to Justices of the peace
revert back into the county funds in-
stead of going to the Justices
'Mr Briggs said he did not prepare
the resolution as was stated He said
however that the resolution came
from another source and that he had
one of the clerks in bis office copy It
He said that the court clerk told
a falsehood if he Baid that he
(Briggs) had Informed him that he
(Briggs) had written the original
resolution Mr Briggs ' said that
County Judge C S Wortman wrote
the original resolution
Lon Lampkin Justice of the peace
said Tuesday morning he did not
know how much he collected in fees
for marrying couples during the
month of March The marriage rec-
ords tor March show that Judge
Lampkin performed nine marriages
Justice J W Kieft thirteen and Judge
Wortman four The fee collected by
the county judge reverts back to the
county r
Justice Lampkin pointed out that
Justices of the peace are given the
right to perform marriage ceremo-
nies by law and that he believed that
all justices were entitled to their
share of the fees if persons signified
their desire to be married-by a Jus-
tice j
Justice Lampkin said tha$ be had
conferred with County Court Clerk
Karl M Sweem and had suggested
that it did not look Just rigLt to call
the justices to the clerk's office to
marry persons that if thd couples
desired to be married immediately
that they could be sent to thb various
Justices offices or the county- court
Judge Lampkin said it wouibe a dif-
ferent thing if the justices had offi-
ces in the courthouse building
Lampkin said that the Justices are
entitled to some of the marriage fees
because in many felony anc misde-
meanor cases a justice cannbt collect
any fee from the defendants He
maintains an office for which he pays
rent pays for his fuel and ight and
other expenses and if he ig to exist
he Is entitled to extra feesj '
He said the county allows a justice
for criminal work performed for the
county $200 a year or abojit (16 a
month Justice Lampkin said he be-
lieved he was entitled to ran even
break j
Many Quitting Oil
Fields in Texas
Says ColWilbur
Boom Towns Overrun and Cost
of Living is Too High ti Make
Money — No Place to JSend
Teams j
Col Harry Wilbur Miami- auction-
eer returned to Miami late Monday
afternoon from a three week’s trip
throughout Texas The coonel got
back too late to cry the t Tegular
monthly sale but he had a message
which he brought back to he Otta-
wa county farmers from Texas
The colonel said he visited some-
thing like sixty Texas towns and his
trip to the Lone Star state was to
see if it was the great country It had
been declared to be He said he was
disappointed —
In Ranger Wichita Falls (and oth-
er towns he said the people were leav-
ing them in great number as the
towns are being overrun jHe said
merchants pay as high as four dollars
a front foot for rent
He said that there are jiundreds
of teamsters idle and 11180 want to
get out of Texas and ship their teams
to other sections He said teamsters
earn from fifteen to twenty-dollars a
day but that the prlce-of feed and
their living expenses is so great that
they don't make much Thb colonel
said that any Ottawa county farmer
who figured on sending teams to the
oil country should change their mind
and keep them here at home
I ’ i
Husband Divorced j
J A Foshee was granted k divorce
from Bessie Foshee by Judge S C
Fullerton in the 'Ottawa county dis-
trict oourt Saturday afternoon Tho
couple was married it 'Kingman
Kan’ January 16 191 amd lived
together until April 6- 1919 The
husband claimed his wife was too
friendly with other men
TO VOTE ON BONDS
FOR SCHOOL HOUSE
HERE ON APRIL 20
m j
Other Improvements Content
plated in Issue yoters Will
be Asked to Approve
IN BASEMENT NOW
Present Buildings Overcrowded and
Not Adequate to Care for Immed-
iate Needs of City Board Mem-
bers Point Out
The Miami board of education at
the regular monthly meeting held
Monday night approved a resolution
to request the voters of Miami to ap
propriate $60000 in bonds far the
construction of a new school house
and to make needed improvements
and additions on others
The board set Tuesday April 20
as the date for the holding of the
special bond election Plans for the
new building and for the improve-
ments are not yet made but they will
be devised within a few weeks If
the bonds pass the board contem-
plates building the new school house
and the additions and Improvements
during the summer so that the
schools will have adequate facilities
to care for the school children next
September
Miami is in need of more school fa:
cllltles and it has been discussed va-
rious times during the past 6 months
the advisability of asking the voters
to come to the rescue of the school
system and vote bonds to make the
Improvements
It is planned to build the new
school in the southeast section of the
city which Is without school facili-
ties Children living in that section
are forced to walk fifteen or more
blocks to school
The schools were so crowded at
the beginning of the September term
that It was necessary to use the base-
ment of an uncompleted church
at A and C streets’ notheast to
house the overflow from the Persh-
ing school The building was said
by officers of the United 8tates pub-
lic health service to be unfit and dan-
gerous but the board had no alter-
native but to continue the use of the
basement of the building
ADDITIONAL DATA
ASKED ON ESTATE '
OF RICH INDIAN
A D Bennett and W M Thomas
attorneys and D C DeVllliers who
was appointed special administrator
for tjie estate of the late Harry
Whltebird Ottawa county Indian
who died about three months ago
leaving an estate of $1000000 re-
turned Saturday from Washington
where they had been for a week en-
deavoring to have the department
of the interior approve the Whltebird
will and have Mr DeVllliers made the
permanent administrator
Mr Bennett said the department
requested additional data He said
he discussed Indian affairs with sev
eral congressmen and senators while
in Washington and said the law-
makers favor lifting the restrictions
from the lands of competent Indians
next Spring Twenty-five years ago
the Indian department made an or-
der that at the expiration of twenty-
five years the restrictions were to be
lifted from the lands of competent
Indians
However there is some little ag-
itation that the department extend
this period as it is claimed many of
the Indians although competent can-
not oversee their holdings without
the assistance of the government
DIVORCE ON CRUELTY
GROUNDS IS DENIED
Following the introduction of tes-
timony to prove her allegations for a
divorce against her husband Ed
Geouge a former Miami grocery
clerk attorneys for Mrs May Geouge
asked that the action be dismissed
The couple were married Septem-
ber 28 1917 and lived toge'her over
a year She testified he cursed her
and beat her and threatened he- life
The court ruled that as the wife con-
tinued to live with the husband until
he left her that she had condoned his
actions and that he would Jony a
divorce on the cruelty grounds
BOY SCOUT CAMPS
FOR JUNE PLANNED
Captain H B Durant Boy Scout
leader in Miami said Saturday ar-
rangements have been made to hold
Boy Scout patrol camps and a big
scout camp in June or July
The scouts are to be taken to camp
by patrols and stay a day or so and
later a camp lasting several days will
be held ' 1
Children who have worms are pale
sickly and peevish A dose or two
of White’s Cream of Vermifuge will
clear them nut and restore rosy
cheeks and cheerful spirits Price
35c Sold by Jackson Drug Co
County Fair Dates
September 22 to 25
Board Decides
The Ottawa- County Free Fair As-
sociation I to hold the fair this year
on September 22 to 25 Inclusive ac-
cording to an announcement made
Monday morning at a meeting of the
officials and directors of the organi-
zation The board also voted to hold
the fair In Miami for the next two
years
C J' Frlbley at Miami was re-elected
president of the association and
James Lawrence county farm agent
was again selected as secretary
The following were elected mem-
bers of the board of directors Joe
Valley Tom Overly Nellis Sporlln
Leo Dohogne and Joe Lemaster
The executive committee of the
board is to meet April 19 and make
arrangements for the publication of
the fair catalogue
Pleas Not Guilty
to Whipping Child
Judge C S Wortman In the Otta-
wa county court Monday morning
heard the pleas of several persons and
set their trials before juries for
April 26
Monday was a regular day of the
new term but no criminal cases will
be tried until the Jury reports late
this month
W R Baker charged with assault
entered a plea of not guilty He is
charged with having chained his lit-
tle stepdaughter to a bed post and
beat her Other cases set down for
trial April 26 are the state against
Bill Grace Virgil Campbell wife and
child desertion Harvey Lemaster
wife desertion ’
TWO ARMV TRUCKS
FOR ROADS ARE LOST
John L Speer county surveyor
has sent a tracer In an endeavor to
locate two trucks loaned by the war
department to Ottawa county and
hich were shipped from Oklahoma
City almost three weeks ago
Two of the trucks consigned to
Alton have arrived at that place but
the Miami trucks apparently have
been lost by the way
Woman Causes Arrest
T B) Striplin of Miami was ar-
rested Friday night by Deputy Sher-
iff Ed Lee and Is charged by a young
woman with being the father of her
child He furnished bond
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INTERURBANCAR
FORNEWUNETO
DISTRICT HERE
H B Cobban general manager of
the Northeast Oklahoma Railroad
Company announced Saturday that
one of the five big interurban cars
which are to be put Into operation be-
tween Miami and Plcher this sum-
mer has arrived
The car was purchased from a
traction company at Nashville Tenn
and la 52 feet long and haa high-
speed motors The other cars pur-
chased from Detroit St Louis and
other eastern cities are expected here
any day
Mr Cobban said Saturday that
Miami residents should visit the dis-
trict and see the Improvements be-
ing made by the line
MONDAY SALES
TOTAL $2032
Stock farm Implements and farm
articles and other articles sold Mon-
day at the monthly sales day brought
a total of $203290 according to W
Irl Brlte secretary of the Miami
Chamber of Commerce
The total amount of money deriv-
ed from the sales Monday was not
as big as the sales day In February
but there was a larger crowd in at-
tendance and more articles were put
up for auction
Complains Autoists
Kill His Chickens
J A Phillips a farmer living about
two and one-half miles southwest of
Miami on the old Afton road was In
the office of D H Cotten county at-
torney Tuesday morning and com-
plained about the high mortality rate
among his chickens caused by mo-
torists who apparently took delight
in seeing how many chickens they
could run down and kill
Mr Phillips said so many chickens
are being killed that it is high time
the county authorities took action
FATHER FAILED TO
CARE FOR CHILDREN?
J M Breaver was arrested Monday
on a charge of child abandonment He
was arrested on complaint of Catho-
lic sisters who have charge of a home
lor children located near Sunnyside
It is alleged he failed to provide for
the care of three or tour children who
are Inmates of the home
Every Housekeeper
Will Welcome This News
When it seems as if the high cost of living was ever
going up and up isn’t it like a ray of sunshine to
heai of a saving in cost?
Every housekeeper will welcome the news that
owing - to scientific methods ot production with
PURE PHOSPHATE
DR PRICE’S
Baking Powder
is now sold at about HALF the price charged
- when the powder contained Cream of Tartar
t
V 4
When such a saving in cost is supported by a name
famous for 60 years it means something which no
thoughtful woman can afford to overlook
HERE ARE THE PRICES
' V S
25 c for 12 oz
15c for 6 oz
10c for 4 oz X'
FULL WEIGHT CANS ' N
The Price is Right
-Not Cheapened With Alum — Leave No BitterTMto’r Afwa WBo!cotws
BUSINESS MEN OF
AFT0N BUILD PART
OF NEEDED ROAD
Workers Taken to Scene of
Day’s Activities in Motor
Cars and Dinner Served at the
Gray Farnv— Funds Donated
Hats off to the business men of
Afton and to the farmers living in
that section of the country who ap-
preciate the value of high-class roads
Afton had a road working day
Friday and the way the dirt and
rock flew on a half-mile stretch be-
tween the John Gray and the Nichol-
son farms was a caution The good
roads boosters of Afton almost one
hundred Btrong met at 7:30 o’clock
Friday morning at First and Main
streets and they were taken In auto-
mobiles to the rocky stretch which
could not be graded on account of
the rock Each business house at
Afton furnished one man each
At noon dinner was served at the
Gray farm The men bad worked
like Trojans all morning and each
put away a giant size meal Women
from Afton and the surrounding
farms supplied the “eats” and the
noon hour was a sort of a Jollifica-
tion To date a total of $394 has been
raised for the Afton Chamber of
Commerce good roads fund and the
boosters (town in that section of the
country propose to have one of the
finest systems of good roads In this
section of the state when the cam-
paign is completed
The following hare donated to the
road fund:
Adelman Hardware Co $25' Crow-
ell Mercantile Co $25 F W Drewell
$5 Dawson Brothers $25 E C
Gross $250 Storm’s Store $5 Lee
Judd $1 W W Painter $10 George
Morris $1 First National Bank $25
Farmers State Bank $25 John Bar-
bee $150 J L Cunningham $250
F M Reed $1 Doc Brown $5 H
Johnson $2 M W Lloyd $5 E A
Lamm $15 J J McGuire $5 C W
Livingston $25 E D- Mitts $10 W
M Painter $5 Allen Scott $5 S J
Tyler $250 Wm Braught ' $2 50
Geek Lumber Co $15 A R Smith
$1 C P Fillebrown $5 J T Hess
$5 R H Harper $5 Afton Drug Co
$10 J V Harding $2 Frank Wil-
liams $1 R A Judd $2 M A Tal-
lon $5 Dr French $3 J T Hukill
$5 O T Garage $3 C E Starbuck
$5 J T Stice $5 W M Palmer $5
L W Troutt $5 J F Owsley $5 J
F Irby $260 J M Hudson $5 M T
Cox $5 H C Ballard $250 Tom
Spencer $260 P L Troutt $1 H
G Hudson $250 Troy Cheek $5 J
B Koch $1 Ames Motor Co $5 O F
Rains $5 W V Bowles 50 cents M
J Sandmlre 60 cents Lipscomb
Grain Co $10 James iM Regan $5
Kelsey Hall $5 D L Isby $260 Joe
Johnson $260 Dawson Pharmacy $5
Ralph Dawson $250 Total $34910
Mason is Prosecutor
In Murder Case in 4
Delaware Count jr
Ollle Mason Miami attorney who
had charge oX the prosecution of the
casef the state against Earl and
Vida Blanchard convicted of the
murder of Charles Strieker and sen-
tenced to serve life terms In the state
penitentiary left Monday for Dela-
ware county where he Is to be spec-
ial prosecutor for the state In the
trial of Sherman Stogstll charged
with the murder of Tom Slxkiller
Sixklller was killed last year In an
altercation He was shot In the back
while sitting in an automobile
NEW ROAD SECURES
FORMER FRISCO EXPERT
A S Abbott for the past several
years master mechanic tor the Frisco
railroad with headquarters at Spring-
field has accepted a position as su-
perintendent of motive power for the
Miami Mineral Belt railroad and the
new Oklahoma Southwestern railway
according to an announcement made
Monday morning by J A Frates Jr
rice president and general manager
of both roads
Mr Abbott said he will move his
family from Springfield to Miami
He assumed his new duties Monday
morning
Walter Baldwin who until recent-
ly has been employee as court sten-
ographer left Sunday for Oklahoma
City Wichita Falls Texas and other
paints on business - -
J S Cannon and wife of Welch
were called to Miami Monday morn-
ing on account of the illness of their
son Walter Cannon who is reported
to be In a serious condition
How is Your Complexion?
A woman should grow more beau-
tiful as she grows older and she will
with due regard to baths diet and ex-
ercise and by keeping her liver and
bowels In good working order II
you are haggard and yellow -yout
eyes losing their lustre and whites be-
coming yellowish your flesh flabby
It may be due to indigestion or to a
sluggish liver Chamberlain’s Tab-
lets correct these disorders
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