Sooner State Press (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 11, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 27, 1920 Page: 2 of 4
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PACE TWO
SOONER STATE PRESS
SOONER STATE PRESS
Continuing the University and Editor
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE OKLAHOMA
PRESS ASSOCIATION
Published weekly by the School of Journa-
lism of the University of Oklahoma in the
interest of the newspaper editors and pub-
lishers of the state to whom it is sent free
of charge
Entered as second class matter at the post-
office at Norman Oklahoma and accepted for
mailing at the special rate of postage provided
tor in Section 1103 Act of October 3 1917
and authorized August 2 1918
Wi ILAKD H Campbell Editor
Grace E Ray Assistant Editor
A FEARLESS OFFICER
1 ' '' 1 i
No more sincere tribute to a fel-
low officer of the law could be given
than written by O A Cargill Okla-
homa county attorney in memory of
his friend Kirby Frans former Taloga
editor who was killed by a moon-
shiner last week Cargill wrote of
Frans:
"Poor Kirby Frans 1 Citizen of
the first order officer of unfeigned
my personal friend
"I am touched beneath the heart’s
£iantle and am overcome with
frenzied emotion Words fail me
and I dare not dwell upon the scene
of his untimely death lest reason fail
and indignation riot
"Intrepid officer was he — stricken
down now when he was ever found in
the front line of duty — where the fir-
ing was thickest — on the battle field
of his country that he loved and
revered — he boldy laid his life upon
the holy altars of American law and
order and fell in battle the hero that
he was in life
“By the grace of the God of our
fathers the unfathomed reverence
for my country’s honor and the
crushed heart for my own beloved
friend — his life shall not have been
snuffed out by an assassin’s bloody
hand in vain”
Former newspaper associates of
Kirby Frans will indorse without
reservation these words of apprecia-
tion and will unite in a more deter-
mined effort to rid Oklahoma of those
law violators to whose conscienceless
vengeance Frans fell a victim
UNIVERSITY ALUMNUS
WRITES IN MAGAZINE
(Continued from Page 1)
Except for a period of service in the
navy during the war Christmas has
worked on St Paul papers since 1915
He received his degree at the university
in 1913 and afterward attended the Uni-
ersity of Missouri school of journal-
ism At Oklahoma he was editor of
the 1912 Sooner and of the 1913-14 Uni-
versity Oklahoman the student news-
paper which preceded the Oklahoma
Daily
SLAIN OFFICER WAS
ONCE TALOGA EDITOR
(Continued from Page 1)
“ ‘I am going to buy a case of beer’
he said ‘If you print my name I am
going to whip you’
“ ‘Since you are here you might as
well whip me now and save the return
trip’ Frans replied ‘because I surely
am going to print your name’
“The Jiarber explained that the lick-
ing should not come properly until
the overt act had been committed
Immediately upon the visitor’s depar-
ture Frans checked up the latest names
at the dispensary and found that the
barber already had bought the beer
Name Published
‘‘In the next issue he published the
name and thinking that the hostilities
might as well occur in the barber shop
as anywhere else went down to the
beer buyer’s place of business
"The barber left h‘s post at the sec-
ond chair as Frans sat clown Walk-
ing over razor in hand he said in tense
voice: ‘You printed my name Why
did you do it?’
“ ‘I wanted to see if you were a
liar’ leplied Frans
"The time for warfare was at hand
But it didn’t come The barber pos-
sessed both caution and a sense of
humor His angry flush was replaced
by a grin ‘I de’n’t think you’d do it’
lie said
"The next man in the barber’s chair
was Frans
"While under the law rather liberal
allotment of broze of the ailing was
allowed many citizens found this in-
sufficient “Fictitious names began to appear —
names never heard before in Taloga
or Dewey county
“This obvious deception added
strength to the editor’s contention that
the law was impotent
Booze Business Wanes
"So great did public interest in the
Advocate booze list become that the
dispensary business began to suffer
From a column a day the ‘roll of hon-
or’ as the list was called shrank un-
der the drying light of publicity down
near to nothingness
"Soon operation of the dispensary
be came unprofitable
“And about a year after the cam-
paign began certain baggage wagons
moved up to the back door of the
‘Agency’
“They carried away all that was
mortal of the Taloga dispensary mov-
ing the wet goods to fields more favor-
able and less public”
BRONSON AND NICHOLS
DESIRE A CITY EDITOR
The El Reno American E S
Bronson and N A Nichols proprie-
tors is in need of a city editor J
Bryan Dickinson who has been city
editor for the past two months has
submitted his resignation in order to
devote his time to magazine writing
He will however remain until the
vacancy is filled
"The place is one of the best in
the state” says E S Bronson “From
it in the past few years have gone
several men who arc now in busi-
ness for themselves"
WILLARD CAMPBELL AND
FLORENCE FURMAN MARRY
Willard H Campbell editor of
Sooner State Press and Miss Flor-
ence Virginia Furman were married
Wednesday November 24 at the
home of H L Muldrow in Norman
About a hundred guests including
Mr and Mrs Henry A Campbell of
Omaha Neb and Henry M Fur-
man of Ardmore were present at the
ceremony which was performed by
Rev T H Aszman of Norman
Afterward Mr and Mrs Campbell left
on a short wedding trip to Kansas
City'
Mr Campbell whose home ori-
ginally was in Anadarko is a gradu-
ate of the University of Oklahoma
class of 1920 and has been instruc-
tor in journalism at the university
since his graduation He volunteered
for service early in the war was com-
missioned first lieutenant in the signal
corps and served on the Mexican
border in France and with the army
of occupation He is a member of
Beta '11 eta Pi and of Sigma Delta
Chi journalhm fraternity
Mrs Campbell i$ a daughter of the
late Judge Henry M Furman and re-
ceived her degree from the university
in 1918 since when she has been as-
sistant librarian at the university
She is a member of Pi Beta Phi and
of Kappa Delta Pi educational fraternity
NO MORE SECRECY
SIGMA DELTA CHIS
VOTE IN ASSEMBLY
(Continued from Page 1)
Burroughs Adding Machine company
Detroit first vice-president H H
Herbert Norman second vice-president
F M Church editor of the Cadillac
Mich News retiring national presi-
dent was made a past national presi-
dent and K C Hogate national sec-
retary was awarded the Chester C
Wells memorial key for his services
to the fraternity during the past year
"The most successful convention the
fraternity ever held” was the way
Secretary Hogate described the Okla-
homa meeting Delegates and officers
alike were emphatic in their commen-
dation of the way the convention had
been tntertained and all expressed
themselves as agreeably surprised at
the evidmee of progress journalistic
and otherwise t be noted in Oklahoma
SHOP TALK
Muskogee newsboys were the guests
of Judge Robert L Williams at a
Thanksgiving day' feast of turkey and
trimmings Judge Williams estab-
lished his custom of entertaining
newsboys when he was governor and
although he was absent in Arkansas
this year at Thanksgiving the dinner
was given just the same
Bruce Bairnsfather English car-
toonist who won fame through his
cartoons depicting life in the trenches
during the world war will give an
entertainment consisting of drawings
and readings December 0 in the high
school auditorium in Oklahoma City
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Campbell, Willard H. Sooner State Press (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 11, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 27, 1920, newspaper, November 27, 1920; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1766980/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 27, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.