The Mooreland Leader. (Mooreland, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, April 6, 1923 Page: 4 of 8
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THE LEADER MOORELAND OKLAHOMA
I
LAND LEADER
wished 1903
nnoebelen Editor
AND OKLAHOMA
every Friday at office
Main and Second St N
Vand Oklahoma
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The Mooreland Leader
DrTBurke Triplett DrTEDixon
DRS TRIPLETT & DIXON
Physicians and Surgeons
Calls answered day or night
Office Phone 113
H S COCKERILL M D
Physician and Surgeon
Office lower floor Cockerill Building
Calls answered day or night
Telephone No 33
A H ANDREW
Feed Sales and Breeding Barn
Good Service Guaranteed
Mooreland Oklahoma
W G DUGGER
Draying
Hauling of all kinds done carefully
and promptly
R J KNITTEL
Undertaker and Funeral Director
Licensed Embalmer Furnished
Mooreland Okluhoma
C I- LAMBERT
undertaker and Licensed Embalinei
Funeral Director Calls answered
promptly
Moorelund Oklahoma
DR R G OYLER
Dentist
Office over McDonald's Drug Store
Woodward Oklahoma
’Phone 1515 on Line 6
For All Kinds of
BUILDING SAND
Delivered on Short Notice
A Hawk
MOORELAND LODGE A F & A M
NO 387
lX Meets the 1st anil
3rd Wednesday nite
°f each month
AWA II A Seaton W Si
' C W Wilson Secy
MOORELAND
CHAPTER NO 227
O E S
Meets the 2nd and
4th Friday night
of each month
Airs L C Wilson
W M
Mrs Bertha Rutt-
man Sccy
Mooreland Lodge No
258 A II T A meets
first and third Thurs-
days of each month
John J Bouquot Pres
F A Matrow Secretary
looreland Lodge I 0 F No 229
Meets every Tuesday
night
J L Kay N G
A W Crawford Sec
Morning Star Lodge Rebckah No
100
Meets every Monday
night
Myra L Miller N G
Mrs S S ModlinSec
MOORELAND TIME TABLE
West Bound: —
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JNo 14 at 1:35 a m
Local freight both
east and west daily
A L Nation Agent
MOORELAND PHARMACY
Clair Schnocbclen proprietor
EVEfiTS OF STATE
WIDE INTEREST
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED FROM-
ALL PARTS OF OKLAHOMA '
WHEAT GROWERS GETS PAY
Payment of $500000 To Be Distributed
Among the Farmer Members
In Pooling Plan
Enid Okla— Payment of approxi-
mately $500000 to members of the Ok-
lahoma Wheat Growers’ association
making the third on wheat pooled
since June 1922 has been started ac-
cording to John Manley secretary
Fifteen cents a bushel on all grains
of wheat will be paid on all wheat
delivered This payment brings total
payments to 85 cents a bushel on bas-
is No 1 wheat Final settlement
will probably be made In June
With the completion of the third
payment a total of more than $2
500000 will have been paid to Okla-
homa members since June More than
3250000 bushels of wheat have been
delivered by the farmer members
WILD DUCKS RAID FIELDS
Northern Oklahoma Wheat Fields Be
ing Destroyed by Flocks
Ponca City Okla— Wild (lucks by
the hundreds have been alighting and
feeding on northern Oklahoma wheat
fields the past week They remain on
the ground but a short time gathering
a mouthful of the green plants Then
they soar again returning later to the
ground for another feed On the big
wheat pastures of the 101 ranch sev-
eral different flocks of ducks were
seen about a quarter of a mile fiom
the main highway
MONROE BRIDGE IS BURNED
Blaze Caused by Sparks From Engine
Trains Detoured
Monroe Okla— Work of rebuilding
the 100 foot Rock Island railroad
bridge over Sugar Loaf creek near
Monroe I-eFlore comity which was
destroyed by fire lerently Is being
rushed railroad officials repoit
Tile bridge is supposed to haw been
set fire by sparks from the engine of
passenger train No 44 Trains are
being detoured by way of the Frisco
railroad to Fort Smith
WANTS NEW COURT HOUSE
Two Issues Will Be Placed Before Citi-
zens At Same Time
Muskogee Okla— Another step to-
ward the realization of Muskogee
county's dream for a new court house
whs taken when county commissioners
"oted lo order an election to ue ol a
R'SOonu bond Issue for the project
At the same time commissioners
also voted to call an election lo vote
bonds for the erection of a modern
poor farm building lo replace the old
frame structure destroyed by the fire
recently
ARDMORE CHOLERA FOUGHT
Farm Agents To Vaccinate All Hogs
Of Carter County
Ardmore Okla— To stamp out chol-
era among hogs (if Carter county J
C Putnam farm agent nid his assist
ant George Dyer are condacting a
vaccinating campaign They already
have completed their tour of the east-
ern district
According to Dyer thousands oi
hogs have died from cholera during
the past year In Carter county alone
New Cimarron Bridge Delayed
Kingfisher— Four spans of Hie new
steel and reinforced corctete bridge
across Hie Cimarron river near King-
fisher on Hie Meridian highway are
nearing completion The spans nre
316 feet long each and cover four sev-
enths of the distance across Hie river
To complete the bridge three addi-
tional spans will be required These
will be installed soon after the appro-
priation is made for Hie coming fiscal
year To make the bridge crossable
until the additional steel is put in a
temporary wooden structure is being
erected and will be completed soon
Seven Mares Given Fort Reno
El Reno Okla —Seven tlioiouulibred
mares have hern added lo Hie gov-
ernment i (“mount station at Fort
Rvno as a result of a gifl by Miss
Annita M Baldwin owner of the
Santa Anita ranch in southern Cali-
fornia and daughter of the late
"Lucky” Baldwin race horse owner
Miss Baldwin donated the government
live thoroughbred stallions one pure-
bred Arabian stallion and seven thor-
oughbred niaies
Given Highway Contracts
Madiil Okla-Two fedeial aid road
projects one In Marshall county anil
the other in Johnston county have
just been awarded the Madiil Con-
struction company Work will begin
soon on Hie Marshall county project
The contracts call for a harJ-surlaced
road from Tishomingo to Ravia In
Juljnston county and from Madiil
north to the Johnston county line In
Mai shall (ourty The latter is tin
second project for Marshall county
Color Vies With White
With color sounded strongly lu every
collection of blouses the all-white cos-
tume blouse finds Itself hard put In
vying with them One collection In-
cludes several good nil-white numbers
which achieve their distinction in the
use of soutache bruld combltied with
luce
Irregularity of Brim
The new straw huts shown in some
of the shops dlspluy a charming Ir-
regularity of brim Often they are
ELUDES AN ARMED POSSE
On Bandit Slain Ons Held After
Holdup Of Stats Bank
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Tulsa Okla— With the killing of an
unidentified bank bandit and the cap-
ture of another Harry Roher of Oliton
and tine capture of the remaining pair
of robbers who secured $600 in a spec-
tacular holdup of the Mannford State
Batik is expected the famous A! Spen-
cer bandit gang is facing extermin-
ation Surrounded on a wooded hill four
miles east of Mannlord two bandits
one said to be Al Spencer were
thought to be surrounded but it later
developed dial the bandits had evaded
the posse of 150 armed men
TO TEST BARNETT'S FUNDS
Action of Guardian To Be Fought
Directly in U S Supreme Court
Muskogve Okla — (Special)— It’s
coming to a showdown on the estate of
Jackson Barnett wealthy Creek In-
dian who with his wife fled overnight
from their primitive home near Henry-
etta a year ago and came to Musko-
gee where they since have resided
Distribution of Barnett's fortune un-
der a trust fund as announced recent-
ly whereby Ills white wife and Bacons
Indian college divide $1100000 is to be
tested for its legality In the courts at
Washington D C Harold McGuigan
of Coffeyville Kan personal attorney
for Mrs Barnett announced
PASTOR’S DEATH MYSTERY
Blast Takes Life of Holliness Preach-
er Clothing Found Near Big Hole
Kiefer Okla — Mystery surrounds
the death of Walter Ciawford 45 years
old Holiness preacher of tills place
who was blown to atoms by nitroglyce-
rin near here recently
Crawford who was pastor o ftlie Kie
for Holiness church sent his wife
ahead lo the church stating Hint he
would follow in a few minutes Just
at sundown the village was shaken
by a heavy blast about three-quarters
of a mile away Investigators found
small snaps of Crawford's clothing
near a hole in the ground made by the
explosiou
NEW LAW HURTS COUNTIES
Increase of Juror Pay to Deplete
Court Funds
Ardmore Okla— The new stale law
increasing Hie dally pay of jurois from
$2 to $3 will hit Carter county finances
hard and will cost Hie county approxi-
mately $35(iO a year according io fig-
cres compiled by the district court
Clei k
Only a small portion of the $10000
ailoted for court expenses last year
remains lie points out and Hie jury
fund in Hie district court is ex-
hausted No trials will be held until
rext September
ST PECAN GROWERS MEET
Second Annual State Convention Held
At Ardmore
Ardmore Okla— O K pardon of
Ardmore was reelected president of
the Oklahoma recan Growers associa-
tion at Hip second annual meeting in
this city recently
Other officers elected Include Stan
ley Brown vice president and C E
Ringer secietary-lreasurer Direc-
tors elected are: Doc Coffey Wilson
Newman C I- Dyer C G Gill Ira
Hudson Walker Colbert J R Riddle
Darden Ringer and Brown
Bankers Feel Good Effects
Oklahoma City Okla — Realization
by bank patrons that bankers are not
the cold blooded enemies and tools
of Wall Street which they have beec
pictured and Hie understanding by
bankers that t hey are on a par with
minisleis and newspapers as the guid-
ing force In his community has been
the greatest benefit derived from the
campaign of education for the past
vear in fourteen central stales F B
Brady of Kansas City told Hie repre
senatives of fourteen associations at
Hie Harkins hotel recently at their
aunuul meeting
Yellow Bridges Wa-n Ponca DriverX
I’onca City Okla— A steel bridge
with reinforced concrete abutments
and floor sixty feet long and pnin'ed
a bright yellow is being erected under
the supervision of I A Cann county
commissioner over the Eols d'Arc
creeli six miles north of Ponca City
The material lias arrived and is being
hauled out The biidge replaces one
that was destroied when struck by
a speeding automobile seveial mouths
ago
Univerity Wins Debate Tour
Norman Okla —Three utiaimous de-
cisions and one loss is the record of
Hie University of Okluhoma debate
team consisting of Angus Woodford
1 Oklahoma City and Anicce Moussa
J Kielis In its forensic invasion of the
I Pacific coast Hie fiist extended tour
made hv t he university The unani-
mous decision over the I'niversity ol
Denver March 23 added a large per-
centage to the two already obtained
over the universities ol Arizona ard
I Nevada The Sooner team lost to the
University of Southern Caiilornia
wide III some part hut If so the buck
la likely to turn up shurply or one
side resolve Itself into a fluted hit with
perhaps part of the brim rut out en-
tirely leaving a triangular gash
through which a pretty earring may bit
seen
Styles In Veils
Spanish lnce and clinnHIly are both
popular now for veils The contrast-
ing colors are not so much used as for
merly and practically ail the new
styles are In one tons
NEWS ITEMS FROf1
All OVER KANSAS
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Happenings of More or Less
Interest Gathered From
Many Sources
WANTS ITS ACTIONS PROBED
Public Utilities Commission Asks Leg-
islative Committee to Make Thor-
ough Investigation of Its Work
Topeka — The Kansas public utili-
ties commission bus asked the special
legislative investigating committee to
make an investigation of the work
and expenses of the commission dur-
ing the last two years Last summer
the state auditor N A Turner gave
out numerous statements in which he
asserted that the commission was
wasting the state's money in going on
"Junketing trips’’ which were not nec-
essary The committee Is no con-
ducting an investigation of the state
auditor for alleged improper use of
state funds in keeping them in a bank
in which he is a director
The letter of the commission sets
out that in the last two years It has
been working hard in the interest of
the public in this state and that it has
accomplished much and at the lowest
possible expense Tho commission
asks that the investigators go into all
of the records relative to the work of
the commission
The Kansas commission has been
an extremely active body It contin-
ually has been fighting for better ser-
vice and lower rates from ail the pub-
lic utilities of the state
"The activities of the commission
have covered a wider range in the last
two years than at any time in the his-
tory of the commission’’ said the let-
ter to the legislative committee
One of the outstanding features of
the work of the commission was the
fight begun by Kansas In 1921 for a
reduction In the rates on grain and
grain products After the Kansas com-
mission started this fight twenty-one
more states joined in The reduction
obtained amounted to 38 million dol-
lars a year In the states affected and
to more than 6 million dollars to Kan-
sas Dr S J Crumbine secretary of the
KansaR board of health has sent out
a warning to the local health officers
that whooping cough was spreading
In the state The warning called the
attention of the health officers to the
quarantine regulations regarding
whooping cough and directed them
to see that the laws were enforced
The letter expressed the hope that the
ravages of this disease among chil-
dren under 5 years old and particu-
larly those under 2 years to whom
the disease is particularly dangerous
could he prevented materially this
year There were eighty-five deaths
from whooping cough last year The
board directed the local health offi-
cers to file complaints aguinst viola-
tors of the quarantine regulations
Governor Davis has appointed Ches-
ter M Routledge of Hutchinson state
architect for a term of two years He
succeeds R L Gamble of Topeka w ho
has held the office since 1918 Gamble
resigned recently Governor Davis
also named Dr E T Kubin of Me-
Therson secretary of the state board
of veterinay examiners
For the purpose of stocking western
Kansas with wild game the 7000-acre
farm of the Fort Hays Experiment
Station owned by the state has been
set aside as a game preserve Ship-
ments of quail and partridges have
been received In the last few weeks
and released
A new relic has been added to the
exhibits of the Kansas historical so-
ciety It Is the "vetoingest pen in
Kansas” Governor Davis used the
pen in signing the veto messages on
sixty-two bills which he sent to the
legislature in the recent session No
governor ever vetoted so many bills
as has the present governor and no
bill was ever passed over governor's
veto until the present session Of the
sixty-two bills vetoed by the governor
the legislature passed thirty-one over
the veto so that the governor and the
legislature split fifty-fifty
Robert McFarlane 38 years old
prominent farmer and stockman com-
mitted suicide by shooting himself
with a revolver at his home a mile
west of Newton recently Financial
difficulties are said to have worried
McFarlane
Edward Wrinkle a miner was
killed nnd two other men were se-
verely injured In an explosion in the
Chubb lead and zinc mine at Treece
The blast occurred when a drill pene-
trated a "loaded hole”
Mrs O B Loewen 29 years old
died recently from burns suffered
when her clothing caught fire from an
open gas stove She was the wife of
the mathematics teacher In Ottawa
University Burial was at her former
home in Newton
The third first degree murder con-
viction in a week was obtained in
Leavenworth when a Jury found
“Flunk" Murray a rarolpd convict
guilty of killing Eddie Estelle also
out on parole The killing occur: ed
at a road construction camp
Mrs OUo B Loewen wife of Tro-
fetaor Loewen of Ottawa University
was burned dangerously th° other
morning when her clothing was ig-
nited by a gas stove in her home
W W Eberhart a neighbor who ran
to her rese also was painfully
burned
Miss Georgia Buck Neodesha won
the first place In the fifth annua)
piano contest held at Bethany College
in connection with the Messiah fes-
tival Lee Green of Mankato Kas
received second place
PREPARE FOR STATE BONUS
The Application Blanks Will Be Ready
for World War Veterans Soon
After April 12
Topeka — Application blanks for sol-
diers bonuses will be in the hands of
the various 'county boards for distri-
bution to World-War veterans as soon
after April 12 as they can be printed
it was announced after a recent meet-
ing of the state compensation con-
mission A resolution instructing Ad-
jutant General Rahn and Maj Carl
White the newly appointed state bo-
nus director to prepare the applica-
tion blanks and other forms was
adopted These forms are to be sub-
mitted for approval at a meeting of
the commission called for April 12
In the meantime Major Whiio whs
authorized to visit other states wher
bonuses have been or are being paid
to make a survey of their bonus ma-
chinery White announced that be
will leave Sunday for visits to Mis-
souri and Iojva Missouri has finish-
ed paying bonuses and Iowa is now
in Hie midst of doing so
Members of the board emphasize
the fact that the keynote of its delib-
erations is co-operation and that every
possible effort Is being made to avoid
any delay whatsoever in putting into
full operation the bonus paying ma-
chinery’ Governor J M DqvIb announced
two appointments — In fact reappoint-
ments — recently to offices already
filled by Republicans who hope to
hold them for about two years linger
Ho named M H Rice of Delphos for
the membership on the statu public
utilities commission held by Jesse W
Greenleaf and Lee Goodrich of Par-
sons to succeed John II Craw ford as
judge of the industrial court Both
Greenleaf and Crawford were estab-
lished In their respective positions
through senate confir-aatlon of their
original recess appointments by ex-
Governor H J Allen two weeks ago
At the same time the senate rejected
the appointments made for these two
positions by Governor Davis
The Farmers’ Union of Kansas has
purchased the entire output of the
Kansas penitentiary twine plant and
wants to buy 1 million pounds addi-
tional it the plant can turn it out by
harvest time The uuion has pur-
chased 2li million pounds of twine at
9 cents It is to bo sold exclusively
to Kansas farmers through the union’s
co-operative market and buying organ-
ization The price is 1 cent below
the wholesale price offered by the
corporations manufacturing twine E
L Barrier member of the board of
administration said thet the prison
was preparing to operate an overtime
shift in the plant '
The Kansas supreme court has Is-
sued an order for the K K K and
the state to deposit $300 each to pay
the expenses of the commissioner and
stenographer in taking the testimony
in the ouster suit against the klan
It is expected that evidence will be
taken in several cities of the state
w'here the klun has been organized
The ouster suit was brought to drive
the klan out of the state
Ross Johnson real estate dealer and
Insurance agent of Hartford was
found dead in his motor car the other
night at the edge of town Heart dis-
ease caused bis death He is survived
by his wife and seven children
Fred Chapman 45 years old a bach-
elor farmer who lived near Robinson
was killed by a freight train while he
was walking on the railroad track the
other day
Willie Waffle 22 was smothered to
death when a ditch he was digging in
sand for an apartment house caved In
at Pratt recently He leaves a widow
William Thomas Dunn a special
student in journalism at the Univer-
sity of Kansas drowned in the Kaw
River recently Dunn and Franklin
Devore of Independence Kas weut
canoeing on the river and it Is believ-
ed the cauoe upset when they tried to
hoist a sail
Fire which started when an oil
tank exploded burned three buildings
at Madison In Greenwood County re
cently causing a loss of $50000 and
probably the life of Harvey Martin
taxi driver who was in a garage
where the fire started
Sallna will cast a ‘‘sentiment’’ vote
on April 3 according to a derision
reached by the city commissioners
At the regular city election on that
date citizens will vote on the question
of whether or not the city shall own
its own water plant
Thomas Pierson a miner was killed
by an explosion in a small mine in
Mulberry the other afternoon Five
other miners were Injured The cause
of the explosion had not been deter-
mined The state executive committee of
the American Legion auxiliary at a
meeting In Topeka decided to hold
the next state convention in Kansas
City Kos June 7 nnd 8 Plans to
raise $5000 In unit pledges to carry
on hospital work for disabled veter-
ans and (or welfare purposes in the
families of veterans were approved
The Kansas public utilities commis-
sion has issued a call for a Btdi'wide
conference of business interests April
16 to discuss the proposed plan for
consolidation of the ratlroads
Prof A M Paterson for nine years
associated with the department of an-
imal husbandry at the Kansas State
Agricultural College has resigned bis
pcsition to become assistant secre-
tary of the American Royal Livestock
Show in Kansas City lie will assume
his aew duties April 15
The appointment of Judge Silas Por-
ter who retired from the Kansas su-
preme court last January 8 after sev-
enteen years on the benlh as referee
In bankruptcy for Kansas was an-
nounced recently
WM BKECKNER
General Blacksmithing
Oxy-Acetylene Welding Cs
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Office in Cockerill Building west side Main Street
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NOW is the time to PAINT
Here is the place to buy it
PAINT your house now Paint will add
value as well as beauty A coat of
Cood paint is your best insurance policy
against repair bill3
And in order to make sure of the best re-
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found that Du Pont Paint looks better
wears longer and because of its covering
capacity and long life is very economical
Come in and look over samples and get some
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