Claremore Progress. And Rogers County Democrat (Claremore, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, December 26, 1913 Page: 1 of 8
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claremore
Progress.
AND ROGERS COUNTY DEMOCRAT
vol XXI.
CLAREMORE. OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 86. 1913.
Ho. 47
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INVENTORY
SALE
THREE DAYS ONLY
December
27,29 and 30
1913
SATURDAY
MONDAY
A NO
TUESDAY
Sale opens
at 8 o'clock
Saturday
All Holiday Goods Go At
HALF PRICE
Nothing reserved! Every article of Toys, Dolls,
Fancy Goods, Toilet Goods, China, Glassware,
Novelties, etc., reduced 5Q PER CENT
Select what you want and pay us only one-
——— half the regular price =—=—
(NO REDUCTION AT OUR CTANOY DEPARTMENT)
Hew York Holiday Store
Ti
BUILDING SAFE
There was considerable of u scare j
at the Claremont building Friday j
night after the entertainment (riven I
by the school. The landing in the |
center of the building wan heavily i
loaded with p<M>ple. when it sank down
about two inches.
An investigation Se* irday morning
by Supt. Hester, members of the
school board and an architect showed
that the support for the landing was |
about two inches above the rock foun- i
dation and the extra weight caused \
it to sink to the rock foundation, but i
otherwise the whole structure is in
perfect condition and no fear need
lie entertained at all of iU safety.
The one trouble arose from the con
tractor's neglect to place the neces-
sary wedging between the joist and
the stone foundation which should 1
have supported them.
DRAGGED SIDEWALKS
The city employed rather a:i
unique method of cleaning the side-
walks of snow. Monday mornin:r|
they had the sidewalks in the business j
district on Third street dragged with'
a wooden drag, which was drawn by a
horse. The method was a good o'ie ,
and did the work. The business men ;
should offer John Chalfont a vote of j
th nl:« for his thouchtful'wv 1
UNIVERSITY (.'LI B TO BE HERE
Claremore will he one of the cities
visited by the <ilee ("tub of the Uni-
versity of Oklahoma on its annual
holiday tour, which thin year will take
the varsity musicians to the principal
cities in the eastern part of the state.
The concert in Claremore will be given
in the Windsor Opera House on the
evening of January 2.
Other cities which will lie visited
by the Glee Club are Tulsa, Muskogee,
Tahlequah.'Wagoner and Vinita. Con-
certo will lie given on the consecutive
days from December 2!) and 30, when
the club appears at the sessions of the
Oklahoma Teachers' Association at
Tulsa, until the evening of January 3,
when the musicians close their tour at
V inita.
The <«lee Club at the University of
Oklahoma has this year reached a de-
gree of excellence hitherto unattained.
Under the direction of Mr. George
William F. Schmidt, instructor in
voice, a membership of thirty men
has lieen built up, and the ciuh as a
whole runks high as a collegate organ-
ization. At a recent concert in Nor-
man, the University community was
very favorably impressed with the
musical training displayed.
Taylor Eldridge, of Tiawah, spent
Wednesday in the city on business-.
POULTRY
afcDAY
We will have j Poultry Car in Claremore
near Frisco Depot on Monday, Dec. 29th,
and will pay in cash fall prices.
Hens 14V lh- YoungRoosters 9c Ih.
Ducks 9c Ik Old Roosters .. 5c lb.
(ieeae 8c lb. Turkeys ..i 12c lb.
Guineas, per doz..$3.00 I'igeona, per doz. 76c
Bring us all the poultry you have to spare. We give
you honest weight, fair dealing, and we lead in. high
prices Wishing every reader of the Progress a Merry
Christmas and Happv New Year, we nre
Respectfully,
Smith & l^reuger
LEASANT EVENING AT THL
CLAREMONT.
| The exposition of work by teachers
j and pupils was most gratifying to
i the many |>atrons who reviewed the
I work at the Claremont building last
I Friday night. The regular afternoon
| session of the school was in progress,
and in spite of the confusion incident
to the large number of visitors, the
tenching and recitations were both re-
markably good. Aside from the old
routine, however, there was much to
interest in the innovations that have
been put in this building this year for
the first time. The type-writing,
telegraphy, printing, manuel training
and domestic science department.-,
were demonstrating what they had
learned.
Visitors were shown the report
cards, made by the pupils, and were
told that the entire printing for the
school is being done in this depart-
ment. In the manuel training depart-
ment, articles such as tables, seats
and racks made by the pupils were on
exhibit. The domestic science depart-
ment had a good exhibit of dressed
dolls and fancy articles, all made by
the children. Girls in the rooking
class assisted the teacher in serving
all the visitors with substantial evi-
dence of what they had learned. A
short program given at great disad-
vantage on account of lack of an as-
sembly room, was given by the older
pupils.
Written w™rk in the common
branches was attractively displayed.
Exhibits such as this mean much
hard work for both teachers and pu-
pils, and the large attendance of pa-
trons prove their appreciation of the
effort.
STATE SCHOOL MAKES GOOD
So far as we can remember, never
was there such a good get-together
crowd at the Eastern University Pre-
paratory School as there was on Fri-
day. It was the last M-hool day of
tiie old year, and to commemorate Uie
occasion President Bayes granted the
students and faculty a half-holiday.
Ily previous arrangements, Misses
Wallace, Rucker and Brooks prepared
an excellent program of eighteen num-
bers# to which the business and pro-
fessional men and friends of the j
school were especially invited. The .
Christmas tree was one of the special'
features, at the end of the program, |
and Old Santa provided for every '
teacher and student.
The students and teachers had l>een I
working unceasingly for over a week
on exhibit work for the State Teach-
ers' Association, which will be held
at Tulsa on December 20. .10 and HI.
This work was on display all day
Friday, and the visitors realized more
than eve* in the history of the State
School that we have right here in our
midst one of the best schools in the
state of Oklahoma. Over a hundred
prominent men and women, well ac-
quainted with school work, and
staunch friends of the school, it is
said, visited the school during the day
and every one expressed at the won-
derful progress made. Committees
met the visitors at the entrance and
showed them around from cellar to
garret. Among the many exhibits
enjoyed by the guests may be men-
tioned the Manual Training, Printing,
Prnfting, Model School, Mathematics,
I.nnguuge, History and Civic.*, Agri-
culture, Botany, Physics and Chemis-
try, Art, Commercial, and Domestic
Science and Art. At noon the many
visitors and faculty were treated to a
sumptuous three course luncheon in
the parlors of the Domestic Science
department, under the direction of
Miss Stone, and the girls, together
with their teacher, deserve much
praise for this tine display in Home
Econmic-s.
In passing, we wish to suggest that
such gatherings as we had on Friday
at the State School, are the very
things which will make the E. U. P.
S. a greater school, and incidentally a
| greater Claremore. As a rule, the
| people who knock the most against
' the schooU are the very ones who
iknow the very least about the schools,
midb or out of thfein. What we i.aed
; is more of this get together spirit.
l.el the business ami professional
• men, parents and friends of the
schools, and teachers and students,
get together of tuner. In this way
only can we understand one another;
and thus, and thus only, can we hope
■for better schools, better homes, bet-
ter for everything that is good, high
and noble.
The following program as given in
the school audntorium, filled to its
capacity:
Gypsy Rondo Hayden
Bessie, Ethel and Richard Hammett
\non
We take this opportunity of wishing our
friends and customers one and all
A Happy ana Prosperous New Year
and assure you it shall be our pleasure to
give you better service and greater
values as the years go by.
NOWLIN-PEEZELL FURNITURE GO
WE ARE TO HAVE A NEW DEPOT
According to an order from the cor-
poration commission of the state of
Oklahoma received by L. S. Robson,
city attorney, last week, we are to
have a new depot >oon. Some time
ago the city of Claremore was given
a hearing before the corporation com-
mission regarding the need of a new
depot at this place. L. S. Robson, in
a capable way, presented the petition
of the city for the new depot to Col-
onel Watson, of the corporation com-
mission, at the district court room
and so convincing was his argument
in favor of the erection of the same
that Colonel Watson assured him at
the time that he would take it up with
the rest of the corporation commis-
sioners of the state and that they
would get action on the matter as
soon as possible. The result of Mr.
Robson's fight for the new depot was
obtained one day last week when he RIG WELL IN OWASSO DISTRICT : GIVE US THE OLD FASHIONED
received an order from the corpora- ' Mallory & Lewis completed another GIRL
tion commission for the new depot to lug well in the Owasso district, their Backward, turn backward, oh time,
be erected immediately. ! No. 4 starting off at the rate of 40 1 in your flight ,
In a letter from Colonel Wat- barrels per hour when drilled in. It Give us a girl with skirts not so tight,
son to Mr. Robson, the city attorney i.-t located along the line of the Ar- Give us a girl whose charms, many or
was informed that the claims set forth rowwood farm between two other > few,
in the cose of the city against the cor- good well of the same concern. The : Are not exposed a la peek-a-boo.
poration commission, as to the needs j Cem Oil company is spudding in to-1 Give us a girl, no matter what age,
of a new depot at this place, had been day on Nos. 2 and 3 Ellen ParrU and Who won't use the street for a vaude-
investigated and found to he correct, also on No. 3 Lucy Parks, which is | ville stage.
The claims that the present one was located in the northeast corner of the j Give Uf a girl now plainly in view;
unsanitary, too small, and that the 10 acres on which the same firm has ] Dress her in skirts the sun cant shine
passenger and freight traffic must all about 1,400 barrels daily from two na- through.
go through the same window, was tural wells which are about a week ! Give us the girl of the days gone by,
brought out. In fact the claims for a ' old. j With plenty of clothes and pur* as the
new depot as set forth by Mr. Robson The Cem company is shooting its sky.
were so convincing that the corpora- N'o. 1 Jene Cox; it offsets Mallory ft Give us a girl who believe* in her
tion commissioners saw the need im- Lewis' No. 2 and was a gasser with a maw,
Xnd counts her word God's greatest
law.
Give us the girl who loves her dad.
And won't desert him for the first sim-
pering cad.
But turkey-trot capers and buttermilk
glides;
Hurdy-gurdy twists and wiggle-tail
slides;
And all such bunny-hugs, all—on the
level—
Are products of hell, inspited by the
devil
O let us feast our eyes once more
On the old-fashioned girl from the
days of yore!
Backward, turn backward! and grant
our request
For 'God's richest blessing—but not
undressed!
mediately that they hid investigated little showing and the company has
the matter and then it was not long been trying for a week or more to kill
until they had readied a decision the gas in onled to gel a shot in the
which will give to Claremore a depot hole.
which they may well be proud of. | a well is being sunk in Section lfi.
Too much credit for the securing of township 22, range 15, on the Mrs.
this new depot cannot go to Mr. Rob- MacAndrews' place. It has been sunk
son, who was untiring in his tight for to u del.th of 1571 feet when a show-
the new depot and who received for jII(r of oil was struck and operations
his reward success of his undertaking *t.rc suspended for the present,
in which this city stands at the pre*- -
ent time in much need. FIRST I'ICTLRE OP CHRISTMAS
Colonel Watson assured Mr. Robson TREE
that the new depot would be erected B. L. West, superintendent of the
as soon as practible and possible, county farm, north of the city, was in
which will be in the near future. town Monday and paid the force at
When we secure the new Frisco de- the Progress a visit. He had in his
pot we will expect the Iron Mountain possesion which he displayed to the
J to follow suit and then Claremore will editor, the first picture ever taken of a
be well equipped with railroad faciti- Christmas tree at the eexreises in
j ties which are essential to make a Claremore, which was by the way the
*,oodl«># and keep it food'' lint Christmas - tree ever -erected on
Lem ParrU, of Chelsea, spent Sat- ' Christmas tree at the exercises
urdny in the city on business and vu- city. Th# picture wa
iting friends
MARTIN MAKING GOOD
I The following is a clipping from one
taken in the t'1e Collinsville papers which shows
year of 1S 0 at the old Presbyterian ,hat ,,nrry Martin is not only making
hurch, during tie pastorate of Rev. a success of his picture show here but
Sunday Morning at Home
Thelma Harmon ...
Va!>e Arabesque Lock
Grace McCutheon
Angel's Serenade Braga
Sexette
The Very Best Kind of a Christmas
Tree Van Dyke
Edna Hester
Perriot Seybold
Edna Huffman Cora Poole
i Theressa Flippin Beulah Taylor
| Old Billy Pyrnelle
Edna Huffmann
Jolly Roger Hadley
Floyd Poole
! King of Boyville White
Irene Bartmess
Hark, Hark, the Lark Schubert
Elizabeth Southard
J Love Affair of Tom Sawyer Twain
Vivian Kershner
Madrignl Chamitiade
Roses
Iien7.n
COURT HOUSE WEDDING.
Againg the wheels of justice were
stopped in the district court room Sat
urday morning for a brief time in or-
der that Judge Brown might perform
the marrjage ceremony of J. W. Bickle
to* Miss Nora A. Odd. both of Verdi
gris. It was rather odd, but it hap-
pened Just the same. The news that
another wedding was about to be
"pulled off" in the court room spread
through the court house and when
Judge Brown stood up to perform the
ceremony the room was crowded.
Judge Brown, in a few well chosen
words, joined the lives of these
two young people, for better or for
worse. The necessary papers were
made out following the ceremony, so
tlat the couple could catch the
10:40 for their home in Verdigris.
Progress joins their many friends in
• .-tending congratulations.
Jake Lipe, of Sageeyah, spent Mon-
Jay In the city on business.
Childe
Singing
Abt
I laskam
Schubert
Everywhere
Dorothy Godbey
The Man in the Shadows
Gwynne Jennings
March tirotesque
Beta Kaessmann
Rest
Sextette
Cupid and Dickey
Beulah Smootz
March Militair
Esther Theeson Olive Theeson
Alice Gerard Ruth Sullivan
Ch istmas Tree
At the Piano Miss Rucker
Vij'nn Obligatto Mr. Ryan
A HANDSOME BOOK
The Johnston Abstract and I^onn
Company have presented the iner
chants of the town with a handsomv
leather hound book for valuable pa
pers which aside from being a thinn
of beauty is also very useful in many
ways. It contains a place for every-
thing, an envelope for a business
memorandum, an envelope for life in-
surance policies, one for fire insur-
ance policies, one for contract*, one for
notes and mortgagee, on* for deeds,
one for the last will and testamen. of
the owner of the book. In fart it is
the most complete book of its kind
that the editor ha« ever seen. an.l it
jptee without saying that the mer-
chants of the city receiving one of
them appreciated the same as an in-
dication of the appreciation of their
patronage by the Johnston Abetract
and Loan Company.
Mr. McKickers. of Nowata, spent
Tueadny in the city on business.
\ FALSE ALARM Jack, and the syperintendency of Riley j th t he '•« likewise at Collins-
Tile alarm that the Claremore Acad , [ville:
emy was on Are was turned in at the Th<? picture shows not m.ny white , "The Lyric Theatre, under the pro-
fire station Monday «^eiung at fifteen #t the exercises mogt all of the prietorship of Harry Martin, is coming
minutes after six. Tl e team was con)rre.ration pregent being Indians. right to the front. Harry Mason,
quickly hooked and the long run to whjch ( . easy exp|ained M there were , who operates the machine at this
the Academy building was begun n<>t many white pe0ple jn this coun. house, is an operator of eight years
thrnuph the heavy streets. The roads at thj|t time j experience in Kansas City, and jrood
were so luid as a result of the recent - pictures and good operating combined
snow that the team was brought to a nRE DEPARTMENT CALLED OUT are making this a popular play house.
walk most of the way. It was impos- The Claremore fire department was j
sible for them to go faster. When >alie(1 out Monday morning to the BOYS GOT THR PAPERS
they arrived at the Academy building depot. When they arrived at The most notable r. trriage licenses
it was discovered that instead of the ,(,e gcene Df the lire it was discovred issued by Clerk Brown in the last
building being on tire, one of the ,|wt a caboose on an east bound train thirty days were the licenses of Lige
*toves had been left turned too high wns ablaze, the fire probably havinir McCracken, age 25, of Claremore, to
and some person seeing the reflection |,een e„uf e-d by the overturning of a Miss Kate Painter, age 28, of Afton,
had turned in the fire alarm. What jitove. The department quickly ex- and E. II. Lightner, age :i0, of Clare-
the lire boys said when they saw that tinguished the flames. The car had more, to Miss Beryl Minyard, age 20,
they had been called out on a fake ,.ausrht on fire while it was standing ' of Claremore, which were issued Wed-
| alarm would not do to put in print near t|le mj)| but the train men see- ne.iday morning. Ed was inclined to
| and we think that they were exactly jll(f t|ult it W.U!! ablaxe pulled it near think that it took quite a little rod
i right, for the door to the building wa< ti,e depot, within easy reach of the tape to get the necessary papers and
'open and it would have been a small department. ' while Hurley Brown was Ailing out
i matter for the person whd turned u« Kaiston Story, fire chief, who has the papers Ed shifted from one foot
the alarm to go inside and investigate be.'n very ill with appendicitis, jump- to another but he was excusable.
a litUe instead of rushing to a t«le- ^ out of bed and drove the team to
1 phone nnd calling the fire depart met the flre We tru<it that thjs move ! Arthur Hurd, of Talala, spent Wed-
i out. They should bear in mind that not-prove injurious to hitn in his con- nesday in the city doing some of his
the two fire horses are required to dition. Christmas shopping.
pull something near two ton each run | E# D. Myers, manager of the
I they make and their load would far ; Mr. and Mrs. Parker, of Talala, Campbell Hotel at Nowata, spent
exceed that amount over the roads in passed through the city Wednesday en- ; Wednesday in the city on business and
their present condition. We would rAute to Chelsea to visit with friends, visiting friends.
suggest that before a fire alarm U ^~
sent in to the department that p" in-
vestigation lie made which in many-
case will avoid the turning in of to
many false alarms.
BREAKFAST FOR THlT NEWLY
WEDS TO BE
Mrs. W. E. Loucks entertained a
few of her young gentlemen friends at
the pnrbjnaire Tuesday morning to an
eiv lit o'clock breakfast. Those pres-
ent were Richard Wills. F.. H. Light-
ner, Lige McCracken and '.Vayne Ross.
Each guent found his place by the use
of place cards which contained a fit-
ting verse of poetry exactly fitting
the case of each respectively. After
the fun of reading the place cards had
subsided a little, a delicious breakfast
consisting of Pennsylvania scrapple
and hot waffles was served to the hun-
gry gentlemen. To say that they did
justice to the spread would be putting
it mildly. It is thought that if.some
of the wives to be had have been pres-
ent and have seen the husbands to be
devour the food, they might have fore-
seen a task before them. Mrs. Loucks
was assisted in the serving by her
mother, Mrs. Dixon.
WINTER
HAS JUST COMMENCED
WILL BUY FURS AND HIDES
I will buy furs and hidos, copper,
brass and rubber at the highest mar-
ket price. 1 am located on South Mis-
souri avenue. A. H. Litchenburg 138
Mrs. Craner, of Talala, spent a few
hours in the city Wednesday on busi-
nass in the county treasurer's olflcc
paying her taxes. She was on her
way to Skiatook to viait with her
daughter, Mrs. Broady, and huaband.
WE have three months of cold weather before
us. Our stock of Winter Goods is still
complete, but during the next thirty days we will
have many small lots and odds and ends to close
out cheap. It will pay you to visit our store often
for when we mark anything down the reduction
is legitimate and the saving will be very pleasing.
Ladies' and Misses' Coats
Suits and Furs
We have a few left but will not have long. Some
of our Coats and Suits are marked down
to less than half price.
Lood over our broken sizes and odd lot Shoe Tables
and you will find some real bargains.
WALKER DEPT.STORE GO.
The Store That Saves You Money
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