Claremore Progress. And Rogers County Democrat (Claremore, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 21, 1916 Page: 1 of 12
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Claremore Progress.
AND ROGERS COUNTY DEMOCRAT
VOL. XXIV
CLAREMORE. OKLAHOMA, THUR8DAY, DECEMBER 21, 1910
NO. 47
new superintendent deliv-
ers excellent address here
a
We Wish Our Customers
and Friends a Very Merry
Christmas and a Glad and
Prosperous New Year.:.:.:.
THE
NATIONAL BANK DF CLAREMORE
OKLAHOMA RATION!AL BANK OF PIONEER TELEPHONE EMPLOY-
SKIATOOK ROBBED EES ALL SMILES
The Oklahoma National -Batik of
Skiatook was robbed at 2:10 Wednes-
day morning by three men, who enter-
ed the bank, placed two charges of
nitroglycerine and blew the vault to
pieces. Twenty-seven hundred dollars
were secured by the bandits, who
drove >n the town and out again in a
big car. The robbers have not been
caught, and are being sought by a
posse in the Osage Hills, to which
they fled.
_On account of the recent robberies
of the Centralia, Alluwee and Vinita
ban!;s, the banks of this section are
not carrying any more money than
is necessary to do bustness with, and
this fact accounts Tor the small
amount of money in the vault of the
Skiatook bank at the time it was
robbed.
If it is the same band of men that
is doing these robberies, they di-
versified this time, in that instead of
entering the bank in broad daylight
at the noon hour; holding the cashier
up a the point of a gun; scooping up
the cash and then locking the official
in the vault while they got away, they
chose the night time for this raid, at
which time it was necessary to blow
the vault to get the treasure. The
result, however, was the same—they
got the money and then got away.
BOYD RESIDENCE CATCHES ON
FIRE
Just prior to the noon hour Friday
the fire department was called to the
F H. Boyd residence on Seminole
between Fifth and Sixth. Mr. Boyd
had been underneath the bath room
Friday morning thawing out the
water pipes with burning newspapers
and it is supposed that the blaze go|
its start as a result of this expedition.
The flames crawled up the side of the
bath room, which is located at the
Southeast,corner of the house, be-
tween the weatherboarding and the
walls of the bathroom until the attic
was reached by the fire, which threat-
ened to prove serious until the depart-
ment arrived and extinguished the
same. Damage to the amount of ap-
proximately $150.00, Is reported.
Everywhere in the various Pioneer
Telephone Exchanges of the state, no
i doubt smiles are in evidence today,
I for the telephone employees of this
: state are to receive soon in cash $77,-
f>50.00.
The extra rash payment, indepen-
dent of salaries, is to be distributed
to certain classes of employees of the
Pioneer Telephone and Telegraph
Company to aid them tn meeting the
present abnormal high cost of food-
stuffs.
Manager Frank Elrod, of the local
exchange, stated Monday morning
that the distribution is not a profit
sharing scheme but rather in the light
of a gift from the company. Em-
ployees who have been in the service
more than one year and who are re-
ceiving $.'{,000.00, or less, per year,
will receive the equivalent of three
weeks' pay, while those of the same
■class, who have been in the service
three months, or less than a year,
will receive thfe equivalent of two
i weeks' pay.
Employees receiving $3,000.00 and
under $5,00(1.00 per year, will also
participate in the payment but not in
the same proportion as those receiv-
ing the lesser pay. This distribution
is intended, said Manager Klrod,
to help those employees whose mar-
gins between income and necessity,
are narrow. Mr. Elrod also states
that the distribution will effect nine-
teen employees of the local exchange.
Bl<; TRICK <;OES OVER EM-
BANKMENT
The Jones automobile truck of Col-
Iins\ille, while on a trip to this city
Sunday, with part of Mack R.
Shank's household goods ran off the
embankment of the river hill west of
the Verdigris bridge on the Collins-
ville road at :: o'clock. On the truck
was Mr. Shanks' paino, which was
badly damaged, as also were the oth-
er goods and the truck, while one of
the Jones boys sustained a Irroken
leg which was set by !>r. M. H. Cor-
don, of this city. The truck rolled
thirty feet.
j OFFICERS APPREHEND NEGRO
MURDERER HERE
Lewis Sanders, negro, wanted at
Tahlequah for the murder of another
negro by the name of Parris, on Au-
gust 1st, 1916, was caught at the
OIL WELL ON TAYLOR FARM
CAUSING *11 CH TALK
Has the mystic hand of fate at last
touched Claremore and brought with
it that magic fluid which builds com-
munities in an incredibly short
Will Harris, negro, residence, on Cat , time, which stimulates trade; which
t reek Monday night by Deputy Sher- makes prosperous the whole commu-
iff Charley Jenkins, of Tahlequah, and nity ?
City Policeman Lon Boone, of this This is the >?ist of the oil talk on
iClt?" i. • I the streets of Claremore brought
Jenkins had gained the information about by the bringing in Sunday even-
that Sanders was in Claremore. He ing on the John M Taylor place an
came here and, in company with Mr. oil well, judged to be from a fifteen
I Uoone, about 0:30 Monday evening, to thirty barrel well.
went to the Hurris residence, where The well i located in the se of sw,
, it was thought'Sanders was staying. :;-21-15 and is owned by Reese, Bru-
When the officers arrived the mur- ner and Green. When the drill pene-
derer was preparing to leave, and, trated the oil sand, it is reported, the
had the officers been fifteen minutes oil ruse in the well one hundred feet.
LHt!rL- W"U,d hav,; been K°nt'- He wel1 haR not >'el been "ho' but
had his coat on and had seated him- upon the arrival of Mr. Keese, from
' s,"'f [urla llttIe R°°d-bye chat, during Kansas City, Mo., this will be done,
which the officers put in an appear- The full extent of the quantity of oil
ance and placed him under arrest. He will then be ascertained.
was taken to Tahlequah Monday night Possibly no happening in Clare-
by I ndersheriff Jenkins. more for a score of years has caused
more talk than has the bringing in
FIRE EXTINGUISHERS TO BE of this well. Many have thought that
PUT IN SCHOOLS there was oil in the vicinity of Clare-
—— ; more but to find out definitely has
Fire extinguishers are soon to be done much to stimulate local interest
placet! in the city schools, according in the oil game, for all know what oil
to Fire Chief S. J. Turk. About does for a town, and even though this
eighteen in number are to be installed well may not prove a gusher, and
and they are to be placed in the most , possibly will not. other wells will be
advantageous places in the various sunk and the field developed, during
buildings. When the extinguishers which process other and better pros-
arrive, Chief Turk signified his in- I pects might develop.
tentioo of going to the buildings and At present Thomas Green, a resi-
instructing the teachers and pupils in ^lant of our city, who Has shown an
their correct use. He willralso super- undying faith in the oil future in this
intend the fire drill practice, teaching county and near neighborhood of
each child how to use the fire es- | • laremore, says two more locations
Greatest DOLLAR-for-DOLLAR
Automobile Bargain
At the noon-day luncheon of the
Board of Directors of the Claremore
Commercial Club Thursday of last
week at the Sequoyah Hotel, a dis-
tinguished guest was entertained, W.
C. Morse, the new Division Superin-
tendent of the Iron Mountain rail-
road, who now fills the position for-
merly held by C. B. Wildman, who
has teen transferred to another di-
vision.
Mr. Morse proved himself to be a
likeable man and immediately won
gr himself a place in the hearts of the
' laremore people. seemed well
' pleased with Claremore and those
Claremore people who had the honor
i of meeting him seemed well pleased
with him.
As the luncheon drew to a close,
Mr. Morse was asked to make a few-
remarks. He arose and delivered
himself of a talk which will long be
remembered by those who had the
opportunity of hearing it, and, for the
benefit of those who did not have this
opportunity, it is reproduced as fol-
lows:
"Our present system of govern-
mental regulaion of common carriers
had its genesis in the abuses of the
past and is based largely on principles
of repression, correction and punish-
ment rather than on constructive
principles, this in snarp contrast to
the spirit which governed the plan of
bank regulation which was born of a
spirit of helpfulness and encourage-
ment intended to build up and make
adequate for the people its system of
national banks.
j We are confronted today with the
j question as to whether it is desirable
to continue the present policy of cor- J
rection and repression or whether the
time has not come to introduce prin-
ciples of helpfulness, encouragement
and constructiveness into the system
| of regulation.
The real interest of the public is to
be assured of safety and sufficiency
of transportation facilities rather
than in rates, a'though the rate fea
ture must also necessarily be super-
vised, this hypothesis or premise is
illustrated by the sentiment of the
country last summer when it was
menaced by the prospect of an entire
suspension of transportation, when
^business would have been wjlling to
pay almost anything to get their
goods to market and again in the
present car shortage when the busi-
ness of the public is seriously men-
aced through failure to obtain cars.
The present systems are adequate
• > protect the public against exorb'-
ti .« rates but are not adequate to
in ure the public sufficient facilities
fo present and future requirements.
Less than one thousand miles of new
railroad has been constructed in the
L'nited States during the past year,
less than any year since 1848 except
the period of Civil war, and yet the
cost of living daily advancing, owing
to a shortage of supplies which might
be remedied by opening up new areas
of production. We can get an idea
of the inequality of transportation
facilities at a time when railroad
building has nearly stopped by mak-
ing some comparisons. New Jersey
has 31 miles of railroad per one hun-
dred square miles of territory, while
the average for the United States is
eight and one-half miles. In the state
of Idaho there are only three and one-
third miles, a little more than one-
tenth that of New Jersey. A vast
part of the state containing an untold
wealth in agricultural and mineral
lands is as yet untouched on account
of awaiting the pioneer of progress,
the railroad, for that matter we don't
have to look beyond your own state
of Oklahoma and her great sister
state. Texas, to appreciate the need
of new railroad mileage. This leads
to the consideration as to whether
railroad credit is as good as the pub-
lic requires. It is impossible as you
know for railroads to earn enough to
supply the necessary new mileage;
they must be provided with credit
and investors cannot be coerced but
ANNOUNCEMENT
We have the
Rogers County Wholesale
Distributing Headquarters
—for—
BEVO
"The Drink Triumphant
A temperate beverage and non-
alcoholic
E. H. LIGHTNER & CO.
With Peoples Ice& Cold Storage Co.
must be attracted. Among other
conditions affecting railroad credit
are the following:
The European market is no longer
available and probably will not be for
many years to come on account of
the war.
Railroad revenues are not controll-
I ed by investors but are fixed and
limited by governmental authority
and not by one but by several govern
mental authorities which do not rec-
ognize responsibility for returns to
investors and are entirely unco-ordi
nated, and sometimes in open hostili
ty to each other as to rate control.
Railroads cannot control and the
government cannot and does not limit
the expense account.
The present system is too often
seemingly hased on a policy of re-
pression and correction and not on
helpfulness and encouragement.
Other competitive lines of invest-
ment offer superior attractions.
The railroad business is too often
largely controlled by political instead
of business considerations, due in
part to the dual system of regulation.
The railroads are the main arter es
of commerce and so far as moving
freight and passengers are concerned
know nu state lines. They are in
truth and in fact interstate instru-
mentalities of commerce and must be
so regarded before they will be able
to render the service the public
should have. This means federal su-
pervision and regulation except for
minor local matters, and those over-
jealous of state's rights should seri-
ouslv consider the trend toward gov-
ernment ownership (which will be
government calamity if it ever
comes', when all power of the states
over the roads will disappear, and
this seems to be inevitable unless an
• ■\pert governmental body similar to
the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion is arranged for to provide rea-
sonable and uniform regulation which
the railroads desire. What we need
to solve the railroad question is more
real individual thinking, rational
thinking, in a patriotic, national way.
Federal regulation of railroads is just
necessary and reasonable as fed-
eral regulation of our national bank-
ing system. The matter of transpor-
tation is second only to agriculture
and in considering this nation-wide
question we must look beyond the
horizon of our town, city, county and
state and for the real truth which
broods over and beyond old customs
*'• rauat Keep op
™ the marcu cf proRvt**. ■
bessie lamberson granted
divorce—m a n y wits esses
District Judge W. J. Campbell
granted a divorce to Bessie Lamber-
son Wednesday morning in the dis-
trict court from her husband, G. A.
lamberson, on the grounds of habitu-
al drunkenness. In her petition she
asked not only for an absolute divorce
but $:i,500.00 alimony. Prior to the
trial a compromise as to the property
rights was reached and she received
instead of the amount asked, $.{,500. -
00, the sum of $200.00.
The following witnesses, all resi-
dents of Oolagah, were here in con-
nection with the case: W. A. Scruggs,
C. F. Brooks, Mr. and Mrs. J. t. Pitts,'
Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Carlstrom, Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. White, Mr. and Mrs.
L. H. Snarr, Mr and Mrs. T. G. 4y-
mer, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Snarr, Mr
and Mrs. O. A. McClarv, Mr. and
Mrs. ti. Vynatt, M. L. Hicks. Mrs
Smi'h. Mrs. Monta Price. L. C.
Jcnes, r. >1 ' a-nberson, Joe H n-ln,
J. J. Buster, E. L. Tate, Mr. and Mrs.
0 W. (.'■ vet, Mr. and Mrs. a.
Schmoy, Mr and Mrs. w. F. Robert.
A. B. and Fred v hisenh.int, Mrs. H.
A. Coal, R. W. Tunnell, Mrs. Sarah
Lamberson. M. L. Reed. Frank Dow-
el!. F Wofford. I. W. w. Beck,
K. L. Denny, C. C. Denny, Miss Jessie
Lyttle, of Muskogee, and others.
Several of the above-named person*
paid the Progress office a visit and
rememlwred us with some subscrip-
tion money, while the Progress list
also contains some new names as a
result of the Oolarah people's visit to
Claremore, all of which we appreciate.
Thanks; come again. Next time may
your visit be of a more pleasant na-
ture.
II. H. MaVemson, Attorney Fran':
Ertell and Attorney P. W. Holtzen
dorff were among the Claremore folk
having business in the city of Tulsa
Tuesday.
capes. This training may come in
handy if a bad fire ever breaks out
in any of the buildings, for the chil-
dren will then be in a position to
empty the burning building in a rapid
manner and with safety to each per-
son. By installing the fire extin-
guishers, the various buildings may
be saved by bringing the extinguish-
ers into play _before the department
arrives to take charge.
are to be drilled at once. The out-
come of these wells will lie watched
with interest not only by the oil men
but by the entire citizenship.
The oil found in the well on the
Taylor farm in being shown around
the city by those interested in the
well. Several bottles of the fluid are
on display at various places in town,
one being at the First National Bank.
Outing Flannel
27 inches wide,
light colors only, yd
8 l-3c
THE 11TH HOUR
SHOPPERS
Calicoes,
both light and dark,
per yard
will find a large and varied assortment of
SENSIBLE GIFT!
SID Will
I A.MS PREACIIF.D
MEN ONI.\
TO
Evangelist Sid Williams, of Texas,
spoke to men only at the Baptist
Church Sunday afternoon at the three
o'clock hour. In the course of his re-
marks he censured tne picture shows
for the class of pictures shown and
said that each town should have a
ensorship board to liar out unfit pic-
tures.
He spoke also for a time on heredi-
tary diseases which descend from the
father to son, even to the third and
fourth generation. He did not beat
about the bush, but. speaking in plain
words, he showed the dangers of lead-
ing unclean lives, and pleaded for
men to establish a higher standard by
which to live—to give to the woman
what is demanded of the woman—a
clean and spotless life.
As in everything else, the bank rob-.
bing business seems to lie so profit-'
able that there is developing competi-
tion.
COMMUNITY SINGING Sl'NDAY
AFTERNOON
A real old fashioned community
singing will be held at the Windsor
Opera House Sunday afternoon be-
ginning at o'clock promptly. This
singing is for no certain church, no
certain clique or no certain class. It
is for all. Everybody is cordially in-
vited to attend and aid in the singing
of good old fashioned songs of cheer
so dear to the hearts. This singing
will be in honor of the municipal
Christmas tree which will be erected
on Third street at its intersection with
Missouri avenue. Come to the sing-
ing and raise your voice in praise at
this the Christmas time. Remember
the place, Windsor Opera House; the
time, Sunday; the hour, three o'clock
in the afternoon. Be there.
H. B. and W. B. Pearson, two of
/■olagah's enterprising citizens, were
business visitors in our city Tuesday,
and called at the Progress office and
lad their names added to our sub-
j script ion list.
And in our basement salesroom you will find a
wonderful line of Toys, Dolls and Fancy China
We Sell For Less, Why Pay More?
Our Mid-Season Sale of ladies' coats and suits is now
going on. Every lady's coat and suit in our house is
We still have a big stock of bed comforts, and'
cotton and wool blankets at last season prices
Walker Department Store Company
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Kates, W. C. Claremore Progress. And Rogers County Democrat (Claremore, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 21, 1916, newspaper, December 21, 1916; Claremore, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc181633/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.