Claremore Messenger (Claremore, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, May 9, 1919 Page: 1 of 4
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CLAREMORE MESSENGER
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M MILLION BOAD BOND
ISSUE DEFEATED TUESDAY
OKLAHOMA CITY, May 0.—That
the good road* bond issue has been
defeated by a two to one vote was
Indicated tonight when reports from
1000 out of 2600 precincts, in all
parts of the state, showed a majority
of more than 14000 against the issue.
Reports were slow In coming from the
west side of the state, due to a heavy
wind and rain storm, which crippled
the telegraph and telephone service.
Indications tonight point to the hea
vlest vote against the bond issue in
the eastern counties, although the
vote of most of the west side counties
piled up a comfortable majority ag-
ainst the measure.
Lincoln, Governor Robertson's home
county repudiated the measure by an
overwhelming majority, 181 for and
1101 against. Commanche, Senator
J. Elmer Thomas' home county, voted
266 for and 1788 against. Senator
{Thomas was one of the active opposi-
tion leaders.
With 1600 precincts yet to hear
from leaders of both factions tonight
admitted that the measure had lost by
a heavy majority.
SALVATION ARMY
ASKS FOR FUNDS
The Salvvtion Army is calling upon
the people of the United States for
fiiius with which to carry on their
noble woi'if. Maj. Pruuk Ertell of
Claremore hus been appointed ser-
vice chuirmuu for Rogers County. H.
O. Hurst of Claremore, secretary and
treasurer.
Kofrfis County is n>ked to give 16c
per capita.
The Hi'.vutiun Army is deserving of
the support asked. Its record during
the war is enviable, as was its record
before the war. Everyone should give
something toward the campaign for
funds.
Real Estate Values Increase
Jteul estate vulues in Clr.remuro and
Roger* County is certainly on the l is
ing tide. City property and the furm
lunds are changing hands every dav,
due to the great demand. This n:it
urally increases values considerably.
RAILROADS PROVE
BIG LOSS ro THE U. S.
WASHINGTON, May 6—The gov-
ernment's loss in operating the rail
roads for the first three months of
this year was $130 dollars according
to earning figures of the so-called
Cleaa 1, or the larger roads, reported
to the interstate commerce commis-
sion and compiled by the Bureau of
Railway Economics. During this per
iod the railroads earned for the gov-
ernment 40 million, while the govern-
ment was obligated under thu railroad
control act to pp.y the companies '.70
million dollars.
NO PASSPORTS
Mrs. J. J. Sanders is spending the
week in Baxter Springs, Kansas with
her sister, Mrs. Glasgow. Mrs. Glas-
gow and Mrs. Sanders were all in
readiness to leave the 24th for a sev-
eral months' sojourn with relatives in
England, or that part of the British
empire called Wales, but some mean
old man at Washington wrote down
here with the information that no pass
ports were being issued at this time.
In the meantime there are two cer-
tain men glad of the fact.
8th Grade Eiaminatlons,
The county examinations for eighth
grade will be held May 13th and 14th,
Mrs. A. K. Ross, County Supt.
Hit Ury Hole
i The off-set well from the big 1«>0-
barreler at Foyil wus brought in on
Monday and proved to be a dry hole.
The dry hole was bought in just one
location north of the big well. Five
rigs are now in operation within
short disU' ice of the well.
New Transfer Law
The County Superintendent may
/transfer children fiom a district of
one county to a district in another
county with the consent of the county
superintendent of the county to which
the transfer is sade,
Mrs A. K. Ross, County Supt
AUTO THIEVES ACTIVE
Sometime Saturday night unknown
parties stole Mrs. J. M. Scott's new
Buick Six from the garage at her
home on 6th and Choctaw. The oar
was locked but evidently those w ho
stole it had a key which turned the
trick which enabled them to get away
with it. The garage was not locked.
TAKEN UP, at my place one mile
east of Verdigris and 7 miles south-
west of Clernnore one be;' mare, 15
years old, about 16 hands high, blind
in left eye, one white hind foot, no
brands, was shod all round when she
came to my place. Owner can have
same by paying for thia ad and feed
for nuue. J. T. Brown Route 1.
SPECIAL SESSION TO
BE CALLED SOON
WAHINGTON, May 3.—An intima
tion that a special session of congress
will be called by President Wilson to
meet about June 1, is contained in con
fidential dispatches received here to
day from Paris.
It was suid in authorative admini-
stration circles that it was quite like
ly that if the Paria situation should
develop rapidly the special session
might meet even before Junel. In
that case the call for the seasion
would be by cable.
ROGERS COUNTY ABSTRACT
COMPANY CHANGES HAND
Laat week a deal was made where-
by J. L. Bowman and Harold Boyd be
come owners of the Rogers County
Abstract Company, purchasing same
from Webb Littlefleld.
Mr. Bowman for several years has
twen connected with the Central title
* Trust Company, while Mr. Boyd
baa been in the employment of the
Rogers County Abstract.
Mr. Littlefield will indulge in the
•0 gam mors extensively, a business
he haa been following oa a fair scale
and grown until found that it was ne-
eawarjr to dispone of the abstract of
flee.
INFORMATION FOR AUTOISTS
\ resourceful motorist whose car
has been stuck in the mud does not
always have to fall back on a pair of
mules to get free. For such an em-
ergency the United States Tire Com-
pany offers some suggestions that
have proven valuable.
The first calls for having stored
away somewhere in the car a stack of
old newspapers (mostly local papers,
they work better). When the car gets
stuck and the wheels refuse to take
hold, feed In some of the old papers
between the tires and the mud. Usu-
ally only a few will have to be work-
ed in before the wheels will begin to
grip anil the car start forward. This
method of handling a difficult situa-
tion is so simple and so uniformly
successful, that every motorist should
know of it and cany a pile of old
newspapers, unless he is equipped
with some other apparatus for such a
contingency.
Here is the other method suggest-
ed: Put the car in low, and if you can
not feed the gas with your foot evenly
so that the wheels Mill revolve slow-
ly, nut your emergency brake on. ')o
not put it on so that the wheels will
not revolve at all, but tightly enough
to keep them from revolving rapidly.
With the wheels turning slowly, the
maximum pull is delivered to them hy
having the car in low gear, and so
long as they turn slowly they can get
the benefit of the tremendous pawer.
Should this method fail, quite often
a slight push that would not much
more than move a baby buggy will
furnish just the added amount of pow-
er necessary to get the car going.
Arrive* Home
After eighteen months service witM
Uncle Sam's forces, which time was
spent in Honolulu,, Arthur Sanders ar
rived in Claremore Tuesday at noon.
Arthur was formerly employed on the
Messenger and after visiting around
for a few days will again enlist his
sen-ices with us. He says that his
experience is worth much but that he
doesn't care do do it over again for
awhile at least.
BARNES TO IMPORT
CANADIAN WHEAT
Ml? NEAKMiIS, May 5.—Julius ii,
Huriitw, heud of the United Stide?
giain <. rporation, who is holding con
ferencos with millers here today, in
flounced that the coloration has ar-
ranged for "a moderate importation
of wheat from Canada."
Mr. Barnes stated that the datails
would be announced shortly, and ad-
ded that the corporation "docs not
want to brine in an amount of wht-afc
that would endanger the balance in
the United States."
Mr. Karnes stated that a moderate
downward revision in prices of food-
stuffs is ani:«:ipnted, ant! added that
sufficient wheat is available to keep
the price of flour from soaring all >\-3
?12 a barrel. He added, howovei, flint
no radical revision could be expecicd
until the American export demands
are greatly led-ced.
heaiii. at Miami lute yestonlay.
Stephens attempted to put Borham
mder arrest after stopping his tar
pour the state line, The car is suid
to havo contained illJO bottles of whis-
ky. Borham ignored the officer and
tr'cd to drive away when Stephens
who wus aimed with a winchester
jumped on the running board. In the
struggle that followed Borham wnn-
Iheii the rifle out of Stephen's hands,
whereupon the officer drew his revol-
ver and find the fatal shot.
Borham wus the second man that
Hiram Stephens had killed in the past
H0 days, having killed a man in Paw
huska during a quarrel over the traf-
fic luws of the town. This affair oc-
curred the day following his appoint
ment as chief of police at Pawhuska.
As in the present case he was acquit
ted at his preliminary hearing.
Claud Woods Arrives Home.
Claud Woods of near Verdigris has
arrived home after a several months'
sojourn with the American forces
France, where he saw the hottest of
the hot.. Claud says he liked it fine
as far as it went, but satisfied it had
to go no further.
IN INDEPENDENT KANSAS
McPherson, Kansas., May 6.— Hercs
the way Canton does it.
Yes, it's left to the smallest of the
small towns with four hundred in-
habitants and one-fifty-six voters, to
establish a precedent in city elec-
tions. W. W. Musick, only avowed
candidate for mayor was defeated
Friends of J. J. Frick penciled his
fiame on enough ballots to give him
a majority of eleven votes.
TRAIN INJURES WAR HERO
PARSONS, Kiins., May 5.—After com
ing through the battle of the Argonne
safely, Ernest J. Bailey of Springfield
Mo., a member oi the 130th machine
gun battalion, fell from a train con
taining members cf the Thirtv-fifth
regient bound for Camp Funston, and
both of his legs were severed below
the knee, near here this morning, on
the M. K. A T. tracks.
The Justus Farm Council Meets
The Justus Farm Council met in
regular session last Thursday night.
There was a large crowd in attendance
and a very interesting meeting was
held.
We had good talks from several of
the members and quite a number was
added to our list.
New committees were appointed
and are getting our lodge in good
shape. There was much enthusiasm
shown, and will meet twice a month,
until we get in good running order.
Our next meeting will be Thursday
night May 15th.
An interesting program is planned
for the next occasion.
There will be several from here to
help organize a similar organisation
at Tiawah Thursday night. Every-
night. Everybody invitei' to attend
our meetings.
TEN FLYING FIELDS
ARE DROPPED BY I'. S.
W ASMINGTON, May 5.—Name* of
ten Hying fields, which will be aban-
doned as soon as the equipment c in
1* stored e'iewhere, were announced
today ! >• j e war depart >.er.t. They
include Ba. •tin, '.'all, C'arrutfcers, Love
Rice and Taliaferro fields, Texas; lib-
ens fielu, /rk., and Gertner field,
La.
"NO NBW8 STORY"
Sunday night Judge Campbell was
dawn fnn Nowata, registered at the
Sequoyah Hotel. Unannouced he
stepped from the peach of the hotel
where be met Sheriff Given and ash
•d the big sheriff to take him through
the eM Owl Drag Store which is lock
•d op by injunction, t^s the sheriff
with, taking him nil throwgh
• the different apartments of the tea-
flfL
After the visit we ashed the jwfcc
if he trnmd saythmg which w«mrid
•eke • goad am story. He tetd as
ke «nad astktag whtek weald he of
Sidewalk Exhibition
Last Saturday night, John Samp-
son owner of *he Lyric Theatre, and
L W. Brophy owner of the Yale, tir-
inc of the make-believe exhibitions of
the picture camera, decided to put oa
n teal honcst-to-goodnes fistic bout
oa the sidewnlk at the Farmer Bank
-orner. The affray left marks on
hoth <*f the fistic champions, and on
lookers are inclined to decide in favor
•4 Mr. Sampson as getting the best of
the deal.
Wamnr had H Ike Ja%e hnd been
waa net kept lnlii as tight as it
shMld ba. Aaotker knd it tknt the
New Bisldiata For CMy.
F. E. Keith, with his family is mov-
ing to Claremore from Chelsea nnd
will he pel iiisneat residents hire hav-
ing purchased the O. S. Wtbb prop-
erty on Sixth street. Mr, Keith is
president ef the Chelsen Nntnrnl Gns
Col, and hia company has large hold-
ings in the fields nenr Foyil, promi-
nent nming the kaldi^s being the 14
■siUiea foot gnawer tenngkt In asnae
few wwkn nan.
Prices On Corn Take Dime Slump
CHICAGO, May 5.—A 10 cent drop
in corn prices on the board of trade
today followed a statement by Ju'ius
H. Barnes at Minneapolis, that the
grain corporation, of which he is nres
iden*, has arranged for n moderate
importation of wheat from Canada.
Kansaa City Stork Market.
KANSAS CITY, May 6.—Hog prices
were np 26 to 35 cents today; sheep
25 to 50 cents; fat steers sold slowly
at wenk to 10 cents lower pric?s. ex-
cept yenrlings, and they were strung.
Stackers and feeders were in active
demand, also at firm prices.
TULSA AMBULANCERS
LEAVE CAMP MERRITT
FOR ARKANSAS MAY 10
TULSA, May 6.—According to a
telegram received Inst night from Sgt
James A. Brill, the Tulsa ambulanrers
will lenve Cuy Merritt on Saturday.
May 10.
Allowing three days for travel be-
tween New York nnd Cnmp Pike ami
two days for them to receive their
discharge at the latter camp, they
aid arrive home either Friday la\
16 or Saturday May 17.
Ahhongh mums to get home 'he
Hi nre teking ndvnatnge of ti. ir
enforced stay to nee nil tke sights in
napead Mew York.
Irvin Cobb Out For Dress
Reforms in Men's Clot hoi
NEW YORK, May 5.—Irvin S. C bb
returns from the war a sartorial al-
shevi*. Hi? is conducting—all by I in.
self—a crusade against modern r .is
culine attire. Having worn the c :n
iortaule army uniform for nearly .vo
years, Cobb's soul is filled at the s. .hi
of "long pants." He yearns for a re-
turn to the knee breeches of our for.
fathers.
Ho would make de rigeur for rucn
generally the roomy knickerbockers
of the golf course, and he moves to
amend the fashionable evening- cos-
tume by striking out the trousers at
the knee and substituting theiefor silk-
stockings and silver buckles.
Cobb believes that he has launched
his crusade at the psychological mom-
ent. He points out that several mil-
lion sensible young Americans, who
lu> e for two years been enjoying the
comfort, of short trousers, will prove
ready converts to his new style.
HIRAM STEPHENS AC-
QUITTED OF MURDER CHARGE
MIAMI, May 6.—Hiram Stephens,
a pronibition enforcement officer who
hot and kill eel William N. Borham of
Nownta May 1, was acquitted of the
harge of muider in the preliminary
HAVE YOU DONE YOUR PA'IT
Hy Edith C. Johnson
Will the women of Oklahoma per-
mit the Victory Liberty loan to be u
failure in this stute?
Never have they permited any
great public or patriotic enterprise
in which the honor of the state was
at stake to fall jnto the failure class.
With their new power as citizens
added to their old power as women,
it is unthinkable that they should
tolerate a blot on Oklahoma's bright
escutcheon.
Larly in the Victory loan cam-
paign, we believed the bonds would
be sold so easily and quickly that
t>ome of us did not do as well as we
could either in buying w selling. We
thought ot our old debts and our now
obligations, and we figured that some
other man and some other woman
would do their part and ours too.
Your county is behind its quota,
dear madame, not because your
people are not loyal, but because too
many of them figured it out this
way. 'ITiey were over confident, and
now your sfood name, as a county, is
at stake.
We Americans have invited the
world to look upon us as a pattern of
all the democratic virtures and of
voluntary beneficence. This being a
free country, as we say, we subscribe
to a war loan not because some
autrocratic power telU us w must
buy, but because we love our country
and nu buy liberty bonds of our own
free will and accprd. In this hour
■however, we must remember thut a
fuilure to subscribe the loan even
an upparent hesitation to do so would
be u heavy discount on our pretensions
and un indictment of our patriotism.
The biggest thing in the world to-
lay is for each one of us to do our
part. The men in our urmy and navy
have done theirs magnificently, nnd
the glory of their achievement* will
be told in song and story for many
generations to come. The govern-
ment has more than redeemed its
promise to cftoct a .speedy victory.
The question before the house is
have you done your part in tho
Victory loun
If you have not, don't let the sun
go down without buying every
Victory bond you can manage, or
without seeing that your hushand,
your friends and your neighbors havo
done likewise.
This is no time for us to fail our
government or our soldiers or let the
Germans who are watching us nar-
rowly. get the laugh on us.
The Haj less estate has presented
the local Baptist Church with the op-
era chairs from the Windsor Opern
House and the same are being install-
ed in the balcony of the church. They
will be ready for use next Sunday at
which time the Baccalaureate sermon
of the High School will take place.
Five federal officers, accompanied
by A1 Dykes of Chelsea, raided the
old Owl Drug Store last Saturday af-
ternoon. Some forty six persons got
caught in the raid, all in the act of
gambling.
Mrs. M. E. Chryst went to Oklaho-
ma City Monday morning to attend
the State Christian Church Conven-
tion, being a delegate from the local
Christian Missionary Society.
K. Glasgow of Baxter Springs, Ks.,
was down Monday and spent the day
attending to business matters. Mr.
Glasgow was formerly in the hard-
ware business in Claremore.
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Cloth# s
Stylepkis Qofhts
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AWP13Q.
L-uiS^-adetfie tut priced* nafanqief
The nidtl «hown here is a stylish
d*MRn for |«n* new. Yen rnai hr an
extreme or m csneervntivc .an .yen
like.
How do you
judge your clothes ?
The thing to look for
is character.
We conceive clothes
of character to mean
style of the better kind,
fabrics that serve, tail-
oring of character, and
values that excel.
You know our well-
known lines are char-
acter clothes.
Styleplus Clothes
Come in for your Spring suit.
We assure you that our princi-
ple of maximum value works
well for you and our personal
sorvice will fit you out as you
like-
This is the tore and we have
the clothes!
We alone aeU them here!
Walker Department Store Go.
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