Latimer County News-Democrat (Wilburton, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, July 4, 1919 Page: 1 of 6
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CONTINUOUS PUBLICATION Of THIWILEURTON NEWS AND THE LATIMER COUNTY DEMOCRAT -
VOLUME XXL
WILBURTON LATIMER COUNTY OKLAHOMA FRIDAY JULY 4 ll V ' m NUMBER
mi uni aiiti-
FICEBS AIID EIIVE
- JBEUMVAY
MORE VATS DYNAMITED ‘ ’
The World War U over and the
peace treaty ha been signed bnt
thla appliea to Europe not Latimer
County Here the thing hai jut start-
ed good Whipped out- in the Court
tome of the auti-dipper now pro
pose to resort to high-power rides
and the first engagement but fortu-
nately a bloodless one hat taken
pkce ' -'
At Peachland among those who
have refuted to' dip their cattle are
Bob and Rich Johnson and Ed Hen-
ning Tfiey it teems refuted to fol-
low the lead of law abiding anti-dippers
who gave up the fight when the
court failed to give relief On Wed-
nesday Deputy Sheriff D Wj Allen
- accompained by Ed Bute Harve Ar-
nold W P Booth and Simon Atoka
went to the Peachland community
and rounded up about fifty head of
cattle belonging to the Johnson boys
and Ed Henning and were driving
them to the vat Suddenly there ap-
peared from the woods near the
the Craig Hamilton house Bob and
Rich Johnson and Ed Henning arm-
' ed with rifles and two of ‘he offtTeri
were covered In disarming the meu
who were representing the law Sim-
on Atoka was struck with a fifle and
suffered a broken arm The officers
were told to leave the community
that they did not ppp-ue to have
their cattle dipped
The question will naturally be
asked why did not the officers light
With two of them covered at close
range hid a shot been fired by the
-remaining jqffickr£ R w-Would TiaVe
meant instant death for these run
men The officccrs without their guns
retired and thus ended the first bat-
tle between officers of the law and
resisters of the law Unless Latimer
v County is to he turned over to the
lawless those' who toke the law In
tlieii own hands there is going to he
a reckoning very soon Warrants have
teen issued for these men and ar-
rests will be mads' - )'
' Henning Well Known
Ed Henning came ipto the litne-
k light during the war when he was
brought before' the Council of 'De-
fense for not buying Liberty Bonds
and War Saving Stamps He was one
of the only two me a who defied the
Council and stood pat His ease was
reported to the authorities at Mus-
kogee but it was never pressed Hen-
ning got by in this and evidently
thinks he can get by 'in defying of-
ficers who are trying to do their du
ty In the initial round he got by
again but in a civil war the side
with the most guns men and money
generally win and we predict that
these Anti-Dipping-Gun-M'en will
‘meet the same fate of the German ar-
mies i
In this fight it is the duty of every
law abiding citizen to back up the of-
ficers to the extent if need be of
shouldering a gun to exhonorate law1
and order in Latimer County '
Mor Vatu Blown
On Saturday night four more dip'
ping vati kicked the bucket' Jhose
at McGeown’s McGee’s King’s and
Yaunish were dynamited These are
in Buffalow Valley This is nine vats
to be destroyed
W O W AND CIRCLE -
‘ - Monday night was one that wilt
long be remembered by the W O
W- and Woodmen Circle The Ladies
prepared a great feast and h!1 mem-
bers and a number of their friends
were invited Judge Jones and Atty
O’Malley delivered the principal ad-
dresses There was so qmch to eat that a
committee waa tent out to round up
the soldier boys who were delayed
h'ere on 41 account °t wreck and
the good Circle Women- had the
pleasure of feeding about sixty of
them It was indeed a great occasion
The W ' O W is one ‘of the fast
growing fraternsl orders of Wilbur-
"ton '
Misses Celia McCoilville and Mary
Clark arrived Thursday from Durant
to spend the Fourth and a few days
following with home folks lit WUbur-
TO SPEND BOND MONEY BY
CONTRACT - J
Noel Csirtri Gowao Township Com-
mlssiooof Soys If Boads Are Vot-
ad' Vela lo Road Caostswa-
tioa wm Bo RasoivW
' Noel CoIvsVd was in town this week
and in speaking of the proooaed bond
issue in Gowen Township for good
roads he said: “If this money it vot-
ed I pledge the people of my district
that not a dollars will be spent by in-
competent men The other Commiss-
ioners have agreed with me that this
work will be let ont by contract -to
meif who' can give bond and not a
dollar will be paid such contractors
until the work has been O Kd by the
State Engineer and Inspectors We
can profit by mistakes that have been
made In the past I will urge that
home labor be taken care of in this
road project but the thing uppermost
in my mind will be to get a dollar’s
worth of work for every dollar paid
out I think contractors under bond
working under the direction f com-
petent engineers and inspectors is
the best method If the people vote
this money I guarantee it will not
be mispent' '
EVERYBODY TO THE PICNIC
Wilburton is departing from the
usual ways this Fourth by staying at
home and' celebrating at the same
place The A O U W has made
great preparation for entertaining
the people and there will be many
attractions There will be three games
of base ball - with the McAtester
League contests and games ofvar-
ious kinds with valuable prizes Din-
ner will be spread on the ground and
there will be fire works at night
For information concerning the pro-
gram concessions etc see Dri T L
Henry The only suggestion we have
to' make is that every family should
take a Welt filled basket of eats No-
body should go away from the pic-
nic grounds-with-enremptyrMonmeh'
When you feed the people well at a
picnicfyou ‘ will always hear them
say : "It was a good one” ’
Sgm R Bussell arrived home Mon-
day night from Camp Pike where he
received hie discharge from the Army-after
serving nearly two years
He -was in France ten and one-half
months belonging to the 21st Machine
Gun Bn 7th -Division’ The 7th was
made up principally of regulars: Bus-
sell was on the firing line thirty days
in the Argonime Forrest He trained
at Travis and went from Clarksville
Texas We are alt glad to welcome
him back to the states and hope he
will remain in Wilburton for keeps
ARE YOU AN ASYMPTOTE?
Editor Itemizer :— Uan you tell me
how to spell the word p-on ounce!
“assimtote” and what it means - A
friend Of mine called me an assim-
oote and I want to kn iw whether
I rught to be pleased or insutled 1
7' -A SUBSCRIBER
The word' to which you allude in
all probability is asynitute It pro-
rcunced assimtote It has peculiar
’relation to “that whies is nit"
Now if you look in the dictionaries-
you will find a great deal writ-
ten about the word asymtotc When
you have finished reading the defi-
nition probably you will know no
more than when you started Asy-
mptote may be said to be the unat-
tainable injnathcui’tins Perhaps
:his explanation will put in your
nund a conception of the word First
we have the’crcle Picture that in
your mind Next we draw a Square
vithin the circle The square is smal
le-j than the circle InsUc the square
we draw an octagon That is smaller
thar the square and has twice the
number of sides of the square Now
in imagination we keo doubling up
till'-number oi sides of the octagon
j’ you fee though we get geome-
Irvatl figures with millions of sides
we can still double these up and we
never reach the circle which of
cause has ni angles You get'
cnve' that la constantly reaching out
hut never reaches 4tt objective That
an asymptote
There are certain prospective-'ad-vertiseri
we might consider to be
asymptotes If you asked one or two
of them how about it they might not
know what yon were talking about
but they’re it anyway The - apace
f after may also lie said to be a per-
fect fsympotf — conlinously ap-
proaching the realm of paid adver-
tising but never quite reaching it—
Dallas (Orel Itemizer ' '
PEACE TREATY IS
SIGHED SATURDAY
JEWISH
PARIS June 28— Exactly five yearn
ago today a conple of revolver shots
set the world afire !
It was June 28 1914 that a student
named Gsvrilo Prinzlp killed the Aus-
trian arehdnke Francis Fcrdisnd and
his wife in the little town of SeraUro
Bosnia' 1 ' ”v
Austria- Hungary then the proud
Hapsburg empire backed by the full
might of her ally Germany per-
emptorily demanded ' investigation
and apology under humiliating' cfj
cumitances from Serbia - hom she
accused of having plotted the double
murder Serblu refuted Austria leait
the 48-hour ultimatum and at its ex-
piration' the fames of war began to
leap scrota Europe gradually engulf-
ing the entire globe
WASHINGTON June 29-Word
of the consummation of peace was re-
ceived by the national capital with
scarcely a flutter of popular or offi-
cial’ sentiment - - ’
At the White House and the state
department the news aroused only a
quiet feeling of satisfaction that the
pre-arranged program hr the signing
at Versailles had gone 'through- In
congress there was but a momentary
demonstration and on the streets the
Saturday crowdi gave no show of in-
terest '
VERSALLIpS June 29-Dr Her-
mann Mueller and Dr Bell and about
50 members of the German mission
left Versailles at 8:30 o'clock last
evening going to the Noisy-le-Boi
station There they will boaid a train
on their return trip to Germany Forty-
German- secretaries will remain In'
Versailles to conclude the affairs of
the German delegation
VERSAILLES June 28--l'hc allied
note to the German delegation deal-
ing with ratification of the treaty by
Germany was delivered late- this
afternoon’ It is pointed out in the
note among other things that' with-
drawal Of the blockade of Germany
depends on ratification of the treaty
WILSON AND PARTY SAIL FROM
BREST
PrnMul Leave France’s Shorn on
U S StaasaCr Geogre Wublngaa
BREST June 29— President Wil-
son with treaty with Germany signed
sailed from Brest today on his re-
turn to the United States The U S
S George Washington carrying the
presidential party steamed from the
harbor at 2:20 o'clock this afternoon
WORLD’S BIGGEST WAR IN
FIGURES
August 2- 1914— War declared
April 6 1917— American enters
war -November
11 1918 — Armistice
signed
December H 191— President
Wilson arrives injt-ance
January 18 lSjlft— Peace Confer- r
ence opens at Versailles
February 14 : 1919— -League of
Nations covenant complete! ' -May
1 1919--German delegates '
reach Versailles'
May 7 -1919 — (Lusitani'’ Day)
Terms presented to Germans - -May
28 1919 — Germans reply to
terms “ ‘v
June 2 1919— Terms presented to
Austrians C ' 1 "
June 16 - 191— Revised treaty
presented to Gerlnani
June 23 1919— German agtee to'
sign treaty' i - - - ’
Juns 281919 — Treaty is signed
' The 'Durant' Commercial Associa-
tion have been bolding noonday
luncheons where they discuss the
needs of the town Thursday of this
week President Bennet of the Nor-
mal invited this association to be
the guests of the normal school At
this meeting the discussion will be
on the “Needs of this norms! school
and how best t6 secure them1 The
luncheon will be -held in the new
cafeteria' under the direction of the
domestic science department of the
normal The Durant Comipercial 'At-
sociatiopift a live bunch and will be
able todo the aormal school much
gaod
EISCIEQ IS IM
’ " 1 ' jJ v
On Monday night ut 9J0 the en-
gine of train No 2122 extra climbed
over 'they frog at the ' end of tjie
west switch in the Rock Island yardk
in Wilburton and took a tumble En-
gineer Shields stuck to his post but
Fireman Sanders Jumped from- the
engine' Neither waa aerjously injur-
ed but the position of the engineer
wss precarious until he extricated
himself from the overturned engine
The cars of the' trpin remained on
the track
As a result of the wreck passen-
ger trains 41 and 4J met here and
exchanged mail and paasengers This
necessitated the layover -in Wijbur-
ton’of 41 all night Tha wreck was
not cleared until nearly noon Tues-
day and the Motor east bound ‘was
the first to pats '
Passenger train No 41 had hi
passengers about 100 soldiers who
were enroute Jo' their -Oklahoma
homes from Camp Pike The Wilbur-
ton W 0 W Lodge and Circle which
were - entertaining themselves nd
friends surrounded the soldieA and
took them to the 'hall where they
were feasted and entertained until
a late hour The soldiers enjoyed
themselves immencely and some re-
marked that they really enjoyed the
wreck - ’ - '
DUNCAN BOYS BUYS MEAT
MARKET’
1 t
The Duncan Boys have purchased
the Pete Committi meat market in
the T B Winningham Store and re-
queued ut' to request you td'give
them a share of your business
TELEGRAPH STRIKE OFF
On Wednesday the Wilburton Tele-
graph Operators at the Rock Island
received orders from headquarters
to resume service on Western Union
Telegraph wires beginning' at 9:00
a m Day Agent Brown stated that
no information came as to the nature
of the settlement ' or understanding
Messages may now be received and
transmitted
WORLD HAS EYES ON U S'
PEACE ACTION
I
latarast Switched From Seat at Paslt
To WaaMagton
WASHINGTON : Jutie 29-Wlth
the signing of the peace treaty at
Versailles and the suiting of Presi-
dent Wilson from Brest the center of
the wofld’ important action shifts
from Paris to Washington ' ’
The signing of the treaty by the
plenipotentiaries of all of the great
powers other than the United States
practically means its ratification by
those powers It was not so jn the
case of the United States The United
States will not become a party to the
treaty until it shall have been ratified
by the senate and there ig aa yet
no certainty that it will be ratified by
the' senate at least without reserva-
tions which the other powers may not
be able to accept ‘
' To'-Walch Sana! ' '
- It is ’because of this uncertainty as
to the action of the United States oil
the treaty that the Interest of the
whole world will be fixed' on Wash-
ington fronf the time President Wil-
son presents the treaty to the senate
and asks for favorable action until
the senate shall have acted There is
no doubt' the signing of the treaty
yesterday and President' Wilson's
statement ' proclaiming it a “charter
for a new era of affairs in the world'
strengthened the senate opposition
Owing to -the declarations made
by ‘several senators who heretofore
were regarded as inclined to favor the
treaty that they would insist upon
sone reservations those ' who have
been consistently opposed to the lea-
gue Qf nations covenant arc more
confident than ever now that the res-
ervations will bfc made by the senate
which wU render the covenant practi-
cally innocuous
President Wilson's ' telegram- to
Secretary vTumu(ty yesterday ad-
dressed to “my fellow countrymen1
was much criticised by all opponents
of the league of nations as has been
all of President Willon’t statements
with reference of the league hake
been for its lack of definiteness
WILSON REFUSES BOOZE BAN
’ ' LIFT
Na Fawtr la Aat UatU Damabttlaa-
tiaa f Man la CatpUtod
-WASHINGTON
’June 29-Preei-dent
Wilson ' has decided he cenuot
legally lift the war-time prohibition
ban before the country goet dry at
midnight Monday but he expects to
do so as soon thereafter as his pow-
er has been - made clear by- the com-
pletion of demobilization -
Na Autkarity la Haade '
Its a cablegram made public leet
night at the White House the presi-
dent said he was convinced after con-
sultation with his legal advisors that
he had no authority to act at this
time
The message expressed nb opinion
as to the authority of the president
when he raised the ben to make his
action applicable’ only to beer and
wine t ' ' '
Secretary Tumulty gave out the fol-
lowing statement
The secretary ’to the president at
the White House tonight made pub-
lic the following cable from the pres-
ident with reference to war time pro-
hibition ‘ ‘ '
Teat of Statement
“I am convinced that the attorney
general is right in advising me that I
have no legal power at this time in
matter of the ban on liquor Under
the act of November 1918 my power
to take action ii restricted
' “The act provides that after June
30 1919 until tha conclusion of the
present -war and thereafter until the
termination' of demobilization' fth'e
date of which shallbe determined and
proclaimed by the president' it shall
be unlawful etc’
Impoaalbla to Aet
'“This law does not specify that the
ban- shall be lifted with the signing
of peace but with the termination of
demobilization of trodps and I cannot
say -Shat that- has bten accomplished
My information from the war depart-
ment is that there are still a million
men in the service under the emer-
gency call It is clear therefore that
the failure of congress- to act upon
the suggestion contained in my mes-
sage of the 20th of May 1919 asking
for a repeal of the act of November
21 1918 so far as it applies to wines
and beer makes it impossible to act
in this matter at this 'time
When demobilisation is - termin-
ated my power to act without' con-
gressional action will be exercised'’
-I “WOODROW WILSON"
S Boat Matt Go
Refusal of President Wilson to act
at this time means that the long arm
of the war time law will reach out
quietely at midnight Monday and
dose the' door of every liquor estab-
lishment on American soil
Next in public-interest to announce-
ment of the president’s attitude comes
the question— how soon will the army
be demobilised? There were strong
belief in solne quarters tonight that
this date would not be long delayed in
view of the sighing of the treaty the
action of congress in reducing the size
of the army and the effort of the gov-
ernment to bring back alt troops from
abroad just as speedily as it is hu-
manly possible to bring them
SECTION MOTOR ACCIDENT
Chat Crockett Suffers Broken Leg
John Tackat Injured '
On Tuesday while enroute to their
work the Panola Section crew's mo-
tor hand-car ran over an obstacle on
the track which jared some tools off
the car and in some way a crow bar
was ramed through" the floor' of the
railroad vehicle from beneath break-
ing -Chas Crockett’s leg ip two
places and injuring John Tacket both
section hands The men were taken
to the hospital in McAititerT
WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT -The
News-Democrat is in receipt
of an announcement pf the marriage
of Miss Aileen Greenlee to Mr Wm
F Clabes at Little Rock Ark pn
June 26th 1919: - -
The bride Is the daughter of Mr
and Mrs R H Greenlee of Red Oak
The couple will be at home at Alton'
Missouri' 1 -'V”
’ Mrs Lizzie Hate arrived Wednes-
day morning from' Medicine ' Row'
Wyo to visit her mother Kn
John Visit Mr end Mrs Coi We
been ' living in tM webt for
than two years
SIEVE ES1ZX AFTEt
Evangelist Steve Burk it armed to
the teeth and has 1 laid’ down a bur- 1
rage against the Devil and his co-
horts in Wilburton ’ i"
On Wednesday night the big re-
vival opened in 'dead earnest and
Burk made a wonderful appeal for
Christ and righteousness The at-
tendance ‘was good and when the
proposition was made to the church
members that they live closer to God
there was a great response JVhen
he called upon sinners to repent nnd
trust Christ' for Salvation there was
another response which proved be-
yond question that the interest in the -revival
on East Main Street is grow-'
ing and that there are great bless-'
nga in store for Wilbnrton people
who will lend their presence and cc- - -operation
In this revival "
When you hear Burk you are at
once impressed witp his earnestness :
Before hjs Conversion he wss a Unit-
ed States Marshal in the ’ Indian
Country during which time he met
and fought out-laws and desperadors
and to them he waa a terror In his
war on sin he fights Jnst' as hard
and earnestly Burk has a sermon on
fighting and it is one of his favorites
He loves s fighter Vic hates a coward
ThlC preacher has already let it ' be
known that there arc a lop-of cow- '
srds in Wilburton These cowards are
both in end out of the Church Burk
has little tnqrcy on the hlpocrite but
he thinks less of the man on the out?
side who points to the hipocrite aa
an excuse for his not lining up with ’’
the churcb and Christian people
Burk elso ttijnks mort of the back-
slider than' he does hf the man Who
neVei get into the jhurch fd it would j
be ‘possible to harkslide' '
"Wilburton NaU DaddUt bad Maas-'
’ ' -i’ aslat” V ' 1
“Above all things "Burk said"
“Wilburton needs 'daddies and mam-
mies” -“The influences of Joy riding ’
and- the dance halt are' sending Wit-’ -burton
girls to ruin and ta hell" said
the preacher- - - “Thi ' mothers - and
fathers are not doing their duty to-
ward these daughters and some day
there will be weaping and wailing on
their account " i -
-The ‘crowds are getting larger at
the ient every night There are good
signs of a spiritual uplift in Wilbur-
ton and you owe it to yourself fam-
ily and town to get' into this meeting
THOMAS RIDLEY HOME
Thomas Ridley arrived home Wed-
nesday from England where he re-
ceived his discharge from the Briu
ish Army after seeing two years ser-
vice in France Two years ago two-
brothers Thomas and William left
their home in Wilburton to joid the -British
Army to fight the Germans
Thy were immediately sent to the-
firing line in Flanders and s’oon the'
news came of the death of William
on the battle field and of the wound-
ing of Thomas The homecoming of
this brother is both happy and sad
He had to leave behind a brave bro-
ther — a comrade in blood and arms
Thomas was ' in the hospital five
months but was on the front again
several -times before’ the end came
At the - time of the signing of the
Armistice he was in a rest camp at
Amiens Ridley landed in N Y Sun-
day with 530 Americans who fought
with the British They were given a
great reception in the big city but '
Thpmas lost little time in buying a
ticket for Wilburton The "Orduna"
brought him across the Atlantic We
welcome him home v - -
SINGING CONVENTION SUNDAY-
Sunday afternoon quite q few sing-
ers from over the County represent-
ing the Latimer County Singing As-
sociation met at the Baptist church
in - a singing rally Leaders present
were Hughes ' Maddux: VYilljams
Darrah Bobanan and Pate Mrs- S
E Williams officiated at the piano
Rois McLish with hia-quartett of
girls was there and rendered two '
beautiful selections ’ x j
It was voted to Laid s--'1 J r’ -
ing rally st tVe V'
Jthe Sfcmad ‘
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