The El Reno American. (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 21, 1923 Page: 4 of 8
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f1 - YTbsX tbt lax folia (or Canadian
f ' i county wro being prepared last year
5j V tbo Lock Island and Frisco railways
filed lajvncttons against the board of
i V ' rv qMmtlOB to prerent the certifies-
( - & "7 °T tbo valuations to the assessors
i 1 ‘v m tbo' ground that they were being
'Kvt assessed at an unjust rate Accord-
V '£ ' r ingly the tax rolls were delayed the
i j county authorities were rendered pow
erlesa to pay current bills the schools
la townships traversed by the railways
were barred from paying teachers'
salaries and other township bills in
SI Reno the board of education was
forced to pay interest on the teachers'
salaries for several months and the
county itself was required to pay out
more than 9800 interest on warrants
Issued between the time of settlement
and the time when the tax money be-
j gan to come in
At thd end of the long drawn out
battle a compromise was effected in
which the Rock Island valuation was
lowered from $480()00uu to 942000'
000 As a result of the successful
outcome of the fight the railroads are
preparing to stage the same fight
again this year and the same paralyz-
ing effect upon all county city and
3 school routines may be expected The
- railroads demand th&t farm property
be raised or that the railroads be low-
ered - -
While the compromise of the case
last fall provided temporary relief to
a more or lees distracted state it was
" "deplored by most thinking people who
saw that it would only be the start of
an annual clash between the rallwiv
attorneys and the state board of equal-
' Jsation with the possibility of bring-
ing a number of other corporations
into the squabble this year
With the board of equalization and
tbe attorney general’s office cognizant
of tbe fact that the controversy is
ahead these protectors of the inter-
1 ests of the Btato should gird them-
selves in readiness to do battle to
the railroads and when the fray ac-
tually starts should not quit the field
of conquest until the day is definitely
decided for all time in favor of either
the people or the railroads
The railroads have openly been
gathering their ammunition in the
form of statistics from the tax rolls
and it is certain that they will not
commence the fight until they are
prepared to the fullest extent As far
as can be learned the state has done
nothing in preparation and a victory
for the railroads would not be sur-
prising under the circumstances
v Canadian county and the other coun-
ties of the state involved cannot af-
ford to go through tbe experience of
last fall again and again Indefinitely
' If both sides are prepared when the
case comes up it can be settled quick-
ly even if carried to the federal courts
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' " THE SHAKE-UP
The El Reno Railroaders are now op-
erating under a new management a
wholesale resignation of tho old of-
fleers of the board of directors and
the dismissal of the munneer being
events of a meeting Satuiuiiy night
The old officers performed their du-
ties in a very satisfactory manner
and it will be a blow to the club to
be deprived of their experience
’ The El Reno club is thlB year facing
the test of ascertaining whether El
Reno is capable of supporting a league
ball team The managers state that
the expense is approximately $100 per
day or 12600 for the season The
- question is general especially among
' the - business men “Is it worth the
cost?”
! Heretofore the business men have
borne the greater part of the burden
of the club in tbe belief that it was
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FRANK MEYER
f"1 111 kail Waadaon El Reno
good rwniiii U the city Bat la
spit a ’ iil of the good accruing it
U doc ol of whether thin support
will ha continued Indefinitely The of-
ficers mast advertise and stir np en-
thusiasm in such a way that the gate
receipts will pay the hills without the
necessity of periodic calls upon the
bard-run merchants
The supplying of a winning club is
usually the prime necessity in get-
ting satisfactory gate receipts Until
the slump preceding the ahakeup El
Reno was forging ahead only a few
laps behind the leading Duncan Oilers
and she is still in second place In
this reaped the club has tbe qualifi-
cations to draw a full grandstand
daily A little more general adver-
tising and the co-operation of the en-
tire citizenship la needed If the mer-
chants must pay the entire bill it ia
not worth tbe money If the general
public will get the baseball spirit and
fill the grandstand it will be a splen-
did investment for the city
El Reno has the reputation of hav-
ing the lowest gate receipts In tbe
league For the remainder of the sea-
son let’s try to correct this If we
can’t then the franchise should be de-
livered to some city which la better
educated along baseball lines
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IN THE WAKE OF THE FLOOD
Aa a result of the heavy destruction
wrought by the North Canadian’s
greatest flood Canadian county now
faces the gigantic task of repairing
every bridge vliich spans tho stream
throughout its course in the county
Since the new channel limmed out by
the mighty force of the currents Is
more than twice its previous width
these bridges must be lengthened in
almost eery case
If the Job of reconstruction ia to bo
made permanent at least one addition-
al span will be required at most of
the biidges This meuns that eveiy
cent of money which tho county can
scrape together during the present
year will have to be applied to the
bridges while the culverts will be neg-
lected Dans to divert a part of the
advalorem taxes for the construction
of a short stretch of paved highway
will probably he laid on theahle for
the year Other highway improving
will necesarily remain at a standstill
However once the lengthened
bridges are in place it Is quite prob-
able that they will never again be sub-
jected to so severe a test as was ex-
perienced during the past two weeks
and future generations may benefit
from this fact
A movement has already been
launched for the construction of an
entirely new bridge north of El Heno
and since a span of between 200 and
800 feet will he required considerable
expense will be involved Some talk
has been heard of a suspension bridge
According to the county engineer the
present highway line in that section
Is almost a hundied feet to the east
of Us correct loeatkm as error havtsy
keen mads when U wos laid oat If
federal old Is secured on th proposed
span It wiU be necessary to place It
on the correct location This will en-
able the county to use the old bridge
until tbe new one is finished
The erection of the plUng approach
at this point will be only a temporary
expedient and another heavy rise will
tear it away again For this reason It
is very important that the budget for
the fiscal year beginning July 1 carry
an appropriation for tbe new struc-
ture No other bridge In tho county
carries such a heavy traffic as this
one and it ia an urgent matter that
the county commissioners provide for
the new span while federal aid for half
of tbe building coat can be secured
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WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT
MAKE?
Governor Smith of New York en-
joyed a manufactured prominence for
several weeks in a matter that means
really nothing at all New York State
had and has an absolute right to mod-
ify or abrogate any law made by it
It has abrogated the prohibition er-
I forcement act made by it The act
was no good anyway It was never
enforced It never would have been
enforced had it remained on the book
for a thousand years The principal
causes of the recent eruptions in print
were the desire to make Governor
Smith’a action a decisive blow at tho
Constitutional provision regarding
liquor and secondlv to enhance his
importance as a Presidential candidate
— or to be perfectly honest not a enn-
dldnte hut a name with which to trade
state delegations noth these efforts
have failed Governor Smith did not
j aet with the directness nnd decision
of a statesman and what New Yotk
does In Iho question at issue makes
no difference whatever If the Feder-
al Government desires lo enforce the
prohibition lnw in NcwYorklt can do
so but such a course would probably
he unpopular except with the small
' American colony residing in New Yoik
City The American colony in New
I York like the American colonics In
other foreign cities woud doubtless
ho glad to keep on loyal terms with the
Government of the United States —
Dearborn Independent
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A DISCREDITABLE RECORD
I There Ib nothing creditable In the
j performance of the Governor of Okla-
I lioma In using the state’s militia for
i the purpose of installing the new
president of Oklahoma Agricultural
college Some governors seem to have
an idea that the national guard is a
sort of personal army for tho gover-
nor and that they should call it Into
action on every trifling occasion but
never yet has the slate’s military
j branch been uspd to install an ohjec-
i llonable officer of a slate Institution
1 A populist governor of Kansas once
used the militia to try to keep Repub-
tan rf Iks ter'atatxre oat
of tbo btato c&tuol bot tbo majority
of tbo militia were Reps bl leans so
tboro was some slight evidence of neg-
lect of tbe governor’s extravagant or-
ders Tbls half-baked Oklahoma states-
man has taken tbe prise for foolish
misuse of his powers over tbe state
militia and be brings tbe state Into
disgrace by bis procedure
He may be a Democrat but if be Is
there is something wrong with him
He must belong to old Gore’s gang
He does nothing except make his office
ridiculous since his inauguration Tbe
idea of presuming that a state educa-
tional institution could succeed with
a president of the type of this fellow
Wilson with the open hostility of the
student body is ample evidence that
the governor is too small for bis Job
Students frequently have suffered
from waves of folly but these students
seem to be right
How long is the term of an Okla-
homa governor anyway? Oklahoma
people probably are asking the same
question quite often nowadays — Daily
Capital News Jefferson City Mo
REPORTS BUSY YEAR
Officers of the Women’s missionary
society of the Christian church In
making their annual report for the
year ending on June 30 state that they
have raised 935100 during the year
for flowers and other expenses a part
going to the state and national head-
quarters At present there are 73
members with a young women's circle
of 30 members and a little Light Dear-
era’ division of 17 members They
havo set aside Good Friday for their
annual memorial set vice The offi-
cers of the nocletv are Mrs V E
Young president: Mrs C E Bruce
secrelniy Mrs W L Bradley treas-
urer: and Mrs L F DePoister vice-
president and mother of the Circle
gills The division lenders are Mrs
A J Sparkes Mrs Maude Tilley Mias
Etta B Farris and Mrs C N Shiller
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Fleet “A Eg rac rafly- tad
tation Baa sis Bratton "Good Night
Papa Mm Gem Haworth spoke oa
“Why Every Young Mother should
Belong to tbo W C T UL" Mrs Keen
gave tbo welcome to tbo mothers of
tbe White Ribbon recruits Addition-
al guests were Mrs L EL Harrow of
Beatly Kans Mrs J F Bullard Mrs
EarL Hahn and Mrs Etta Mae Den-
nis The hostess assisted by her
daughter Alma Mlse Stanley Mrs
Ines Carl end Mrs G M Stone serv-
ed delicious refreshments The WC
T U will meet in the home of Mrs
Lincoln Davis 1011 South Hoff on
July 3d
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Forster-Craver
Mrs M E Craver announces the
marriage of her daughter Jewell to
Claud R Forster which took place
Thursday afternoon at 9 o'clock In
the home of the bride’s sister Mrs L
M Voss 619 East Park Place Tbe
rooms were decorated with nwA and
other garden flowers a color scheme
of pink and white being carried out
Mrs Voss who wore an afternoon
dress of pink organdie and carried an
arm bouquet of pink roses was the
bride’s only attendant Mr Voss act-
ed as best man for Mr Forster The
bride was gowned in white flat crepe
and wore a corsage bouquet of sweet-
ADDITIONAL SOCIETY
W C T U
Mrs Earl Van Fleet was a delight-
ful hostess Wednesday afternoon when
Bhe entertained the W C T U Bou-
quets of sweet peas adorned the
rooms After a short business meet-
ing four new members were pledged
Mrs E O Johnson read from the
Bible and all sang The program was
on rhild welfare and white ribbon re-
cruits Mrs W B Keen superin-
tendent of that department was in
charge Fourteen children were pres-
ent Miss Etta Fariis gave a talk on
“Women’s Own Job— the Child” Mrs
E O Johnson on “Spiritual Training
of the Child In the home” Mrs Inez
Carl “The Training of the Child in
the School:’’ Mrs D O Sims “The
Training of the Child in the Church”
Recitation by Loreata Bratton “Drink-
ing a Home” recitation Alma Van
Our Harvest Sale of Groceries
Is Still in Full Swing
CRUSTAL WniTEl'l A
BARS OF CRYSTAL WHITE SOAP
2 PACKAGES SEA FOAM FOR
—SOME SPECIAL FOLKS-
45'
GALLON FRUIT
No Cooking — Easy to Serve
Prunes
Pumpkin
Peaches
Loganberries
Apricots
Pineapple
“The sweet tooth" of
be taken care of
Blackberries
Pears
Red-pitted
Cherries 86c
R B M Straw-
berries $125
those hard-working Harvest Hands must
Folks we especially
recommend
Townsend’s No 2
COFFEE
for Harvest
Only
33c
per Pound
Canned Apricots
Large size (2J)
regular 20c seller
Our price—
15c per dozen $170
Canned Peaches
Large size (2J)
regular 20c seller
Our price —
15c per dozen $170
48-lbs
HUMRENO
FLOUR
5 lbs Dark 26c
5 lbs White 28c
5 lbs Mary Jane 28c
KARO SYRUP —
10 lbs Dark 48c
10 lbs White 52c
10 lbs Mary Jane 52c
Prieta quoted 10 par cant laaa than wholeeale market
No 1 Stbtfe
Phone 51
No 2 Store
Phone 531
heart roeea Rv W B Vose C El
Eeao read the marriage vows la the
p resea oe ot only the Immediate rela-
tive aad a few lntlmata frleada After
the ceremony an informal reception
wee held when the bride cat and serv-
ed her wedding cake Mrs Forster Is
a recent graduate of the central high-
school After a brief honeymoon spent
in points of Interest In Oklahoma Mr
and Mrs Forster will be at home to
their friends In Mustang Okie where
Mr Forster Is connected with tbe
Mustang State bank — Oklahoman
PRAIRIE HAY CROP for sale-Inqulre
quire of County Asaeasor Wm Mor-
rison It
While tbe Osage Ind'ans of Oklaho-
ma are idly wallowing In the Inherit-
ed wealth of oil lands the Blackfeet
tribe of Glacier National Park reset
vatlon today has achieved a reputation
for thrift that brings to its 3000 mem-
bers high compliments from the Indian
Department So much wheat was rais-
ed last year by these Indians that the
government built them a 65000 grist
mill to grind their grain for them
This Is first time In the history of the
United States civilization of the In-
dian that a tribe has become self-supporting
through its own thrift
THE CXCOY
A clergyman taking occasional C -7
for a friend In a remote country
lab was greatly scandalised on ob
serving tho old verger who bad been
collecting tbo offhrtory quietly ab-
stract a fifty-cent piece before present-
ing tbe puts at tbs altar ralL
After service be called the Old man
into the veatry and told him with some
emotion that bis crime bad been dis-
covered Tbo verger looked puzzled for a mo-
ment Then a sudden light dawned
on him
"Why sir you don’t mean that old
half dollar of mine? Why I’ve led off
with that for tho last fifteen years!"
An aviator glided 25 miles against
a forty-nine-mile wind with bis motor-
developing less than fifteen horsepow-
er Twenty-five horse power had pre-
vlously been required to maintain tbe
plane In the air Tho test wss made-
between Washington D C and Dajr-
ton Ohio In a Sperry messenger tho
smallest ship ever flown successfully
The aviator estimated that he gained
30 miles an hour by patterning his
flight after buzzards observed on the
trip In taking advantage of air cur-
rents "
OBLIVION!
Defined at “The State oFBeing
Blotted Ogit From Memory”
It is rather peculiar but true that when a
person drifts on from day to day merely
holding his job and doing no particular
good for himself his family or his com-
munity he becomes one of the great
mass and sinks into oblivion
You can be a person of importance! You
can do good and noble things for your-
self your family your city! You can have
your name cherished by persistent efforts
to do good by working hard to gain suc-
cess and by that never failing asset of a
bank account If you have hesitated in
starting one-begin saving now and open
an account with us
We pay 4 per cent Interest and Will Start any Account
with One Dollar
Citizens DZational 3$anh
Si Slerto Oklahoma
H T Smith Pres - - A T March V-Pres
J Y Taylor Cashier
Buick
SERVICE
Hudson
Essex
We are still maintaining service for the above
automobiles with ADOLPH MESSENGER
in charge’ of our mechanical department
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We will endeavor to give prompt and courteous
attention with absolute guarantee of all parts
and service rendered
El Reno Motor Co
Phone 1 1 20
21 1 -2 1 3 S Rock Island
SALES AND SERVICE
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Bronson, E. S. The El Reno American. (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 21, 1923, newspaper, June 21, 1923; El Reno, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1785315/m1/4/: accessed July 7, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.