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VOLUME XVII—NO. 22.
COMMERCIAL CUJB
IAS GOOD MEETING
"The Claremore Commercial Club „.w
met in regular session Thursday noon prove Claremore.
signed by the governor. He is glad
to get beck home.
Rev. Wagoner, the new pastor of
the Christian church, wes introduced
to the Club members and in a few
well choaen words offered his full co-
operation in helping*to boost and im-
at the Mason Hotel. Chairman F. E.
Keith presided and the following bus-
iness war transacted
Minutes of the previous meeting
wer read and approved.
A claim for |3 in favor of the
Claremore Messenger and another
for fl for stamps werer read and al
■
Eugene Wood, of the engineering
firm at Wood t Witten, of Tulsa,
was a guest of the club and reported
that the survey for the hard surface
road toward Verdigris and the paved
road to th« Oklahoma Military Acad-
emy had been completed with the
necessary specifications. As s«on as
the federal engineer has re-checked
the survey, the proposition will be
in a position for the letting of the
cofttnult for the rosd by the state
highway department. He also ex-
plained that it is absolutely necessary
that a 60-foot right-of-way be secur-
, ed before federal money can be ex-
pended on the same.
fji wa% stated that the Board of
.-Cou*^ Commissioners has begun
, .condonation proceedings against
. certain tracts of lsnd on the propos-
, ed\%hJ>of-w y where the owners re-
fused 't^onate same for road pur-
poses. The* proceedings will take
. popi# three weeks.
A Motion carried that the Highway
, committee of the Commercial Club
: raasrsr«2i*.a*9™*
before the preseat paving company1 __
gvtr eut of town so that the erity pav-
ing may connect with the hard-sur-
P. W. Holtzendorff was instructed
by President Keith to prepare reso-
lutions urging the Frisco railroad to
stop passenger train Number 9t west-
bound, due here at 8:45, at Claremore
for the convenience of the traveling
public who now have to wait at Vi-
nita.
There being no further business be-
fore the Club a motion to adjourn
carried.
CLARBMORE, OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1921
MOSQUITO AND FLY
MENACE IN CLAREMORE
Inside of County tlJO per yesr—Outside of County $2.00 per year
PUBLIC HEALTH BODY CBEROKEES CLAIM
ANNOUNCES PROGRAM . BIG LAND GRANT
FEDERAL ENGINEER
CHECKS HIGHWAY
W. B. PARKER HAS LOST
HIS EYESIGHT
Tux Chambers went to Tulsa Thurs-
day afternoon to visit W. E. Parker.
He report* that Mr. Parker is ex-
periencing considerable trouble with
his eye. The bullet from Hie English
air rifle sitruek the eye almost cen-
ter. Having lost the "sight, it is fear-
ed that he will lose the entire eye-
ball. The gun went off unexpected-
ly when Mr. Parker handed it to Tux
to remove a bullet that had caught
in the mechanism of the gun. An En-
glish air rifle will shoot through an
inch board. Had Packer been a lit-
tle farther away In all probability it
would havp killed him. Following the
shooting which took place at a frog
pond #t the W, R. Chambers home
on the sast edge of tew* Saturday
morning, April fi, Mr. Parker was
taken to a hospital in Tulsa.
(By Dr. J. G. Wtldrop)
Claremore has in the psst gained
some non-profitable advertisement
both locally and abroad through one
dangerous and worrisome ever-busy,
non-tiring little insect which is quite
familiarly known by ea^h and every
inhabitant of our city as the mosqui-
to, an insect with only one redeeming
trait, that is his impsrtHlity; for he
deals with one and all, the rich and
poor, the saint and the sinner, the
weak and the strong, regardless of
political or social belief alike.
Now if there be a resident of our
Bimetal U THE PB0GBB8S
Oklahoma City, April lb—Demon-
stration nursing forms an important
part of the 1921 program of the Oklu-
honin Public Health Association as
outlined and approved by the Nation-
al Association and nipde public to-
day. In nursing work the state asso-
ciation id adding to its .staff two or
three public health nurses who will
either aid county nurses where the
work is already established- or con-
duct demonstrations in unorganised
counties for periods varying from
two to six weeks. In this connection
town who is so favorably impressed haby welfare work, pre-natal work
Tth. ulS* ?' H9 *!!? T* and 301,001 infection will be carried
duct of this little insect visitor to on.
hold out any inducement in the least Campaigns will be conducted in all
for Its future return visit, no doubt ,>arts of the state and will include
if he Will «t once make application lean-up, anti-fly, don't spit and use-
at the board of health quarters he can your-own-eup campaigns, crusade
be secured a place of habitat in the week, medical examination and health
jungles «f Africa where he can be;week campaigns. Efforts to extend
more royally and satisfactorily enter- educational work in the country dis-
tained. j tricts will be mode.
Our city has seen proper tc issfce The sum qi ^,000 has been set aside
bonds and expend many thousands of for the activities of tha modern health
lollare in making preparedness to crusade in the schools. This amount
WAgo war against this hostile s:iemy; the largest ever set aside for the
now to reap tho benefit and profit of purpo in the state. The ten weeks
this expenditure every citizen musit ornament conducted from February
play the part of a soldier. • . if. to April 20 J# an important phase
The preparedness is complete and' ,f the onisade work bom* stressed
sufficient, but the city administration ! this year.
or commanding officers cannot win The state association has about 66
the fight alone and the vojuntary ac- county hea)tl> remittees ^ jtst sub-
tion of every citisep is expected, and units through the state, m addition
It is hoped there will be none to await! to 11 local associations with public
the penalty for non-action to Act as I health nurses on duty. Th« associa-
draft measures for them. The city tion anticipate* this year it will com-
j for the part two seasons maintained | plate organisation in every county of
ffct* road leading sooth towards Vcr-
digris. These two blocks} are in a
position se that the contract may be
let et-any time. The advertising has j Trade" Poltetes" wes timely,
done and the other necessary] ^ also a di9CU(4slon
"The Struggle for World Markets"
was the subject for discussion at the
last meeting of the Tuesday Study
Club. In connection with the sub-
ject, a paper on "Tariff and Free
a sanitary force to destroy the breed-: the state.
ing places and keep oiled all stag-j
nant whiJ the city itself is r* CARNIVAL COMPANY OFFERS A
sponsible for. Now the citizens must GOOD SHOW
do likewise and be responsible for;
their owp holdings and the fight will
Washington, April 9.—Claim to 14
million acres of land in Texas and
Oklahoma . including the cities of
Tulsa and Oklahoma City, and prac-
tically all of the Burkburnett oil field
was filed in the supreme court today
in behalf of the Cherokee Indian na-
tion, supported by a government pat-
ent issued by President VanBuren
and certified as authentic by the in-
terior department.
The claim was in the form of a peti-
tion for permission to intervene in
the Red River oil land case, an origi-
nal suit between Texas and Oklaho-
ma involving jurisdiction over the
valuable oil fields situated along the
common boundary.
The motion was filed by John M.
Taylor, of Claremore, Okla., a grand-
nephew of General Zacharay Taylor,
an attorney for the Cherokee nation.
He said the patent was discovered ac-
cidentally among the papers 0f a de-
ceased chief of the tribe.
Bearing the date of December 31,
1838, the patent gave to the Chero-
kee nation "forever" a tract about
600 miles in length through the Pan-
handle section, comprising in all 14,-
374,180.14 acres. Only the possibili-
ty that the statute of limitations will
nullify the claim prevents the Chero-
kee nation from having a "water
tight case," counsel- said- It will be
M. V. Smiley, federal engineer for
Oklahoma, went over tho right-of-
way for the proposed hard surface
road to the Oklahoma Military Aca-
demy and the road toward Verdigris
Tuesday and checked the plans and
specifications. He found everything
satisfactory except possibly one of
the abutments at the Cat Creek
bridge and one or two culverts that
will have to be widened and repaired.
Indications are that he will render
a satisfactory report to the federal
government and that the federal aid
money of $50,000 will be available in
a short time. In fact Mr. Smiley
said he thought everything would be
in shape for the letting of the con-
tract by the state highway depart-
ment within two or three weeks—just
as soon as the plans and speifiations
get the O. K. at Washington, D. C.
Mr Smiley was accompanied by
Eugene N. Wood and Donald Witten.
of the engineering firm of Wood &
Witten, of Tulsa, which made the sur-
vey and prepared the plans and es-
timates. Dan Patton, county engins-
eer of Tulsa county, and Bathurst
Smith, of his office,, also were in the
party which mode the inspection.
Mr. Smiley says the gov^pmient
hesitates to spend phoney on railroad
grade crossings and that between
Verdigris and tho Catoosa river
contended, it was added, that this! bridge there are two. He suggested
Statute does, not apply since the su- that this situation could'in all pro
prome court has held that it cannot
be pressed against the government
itself and that the Indian tribe as
bability be alleviated by taking the
right-of-way, instead of angling off
to tho Verdigris river and down the
wards of the government are possess-: bank as tho road now runs. The
ed of the same rights.
. . , _. "The Invader*' is the title of the
be a WOMSful one. The past sea-; play 8#lecte<, by Kafchryn Dft,e fof hfir
-procedure. . "A rfc.n Cltkanehip," «d a synwT ^ ******* ,m roveraOTts Icompany 0f excellent player, to pre-
A. Moore urged attention on OB ,<Xhe Xftx£ , P * complete was near a suceew,
sent to the people for the opening*
*!!£•* °f 2? CiW rl of *ere discuMed open
streets as well as the dirt roads of forum
the city. Htf said in the past prac-j ^ all thjB mAjteu |N or
tfcaUy all of the money for r<*dj ,w tb,ir ^
maintenance had been spent on the by . womftn.a club ^ ^
meat, eepecWly Foi tb street. He on matter, of natiohal interest which
advocated a flusher for the washing they he,p to decida ^
fit the paving system of the town.
Doubt Legal Status
Oklahoma City. April Doubt
that the Cherokee Indian nation can
lay claim to more than 14,000,000
aqres of land in Oklahoma and Texas,
as was done in a petition filed in the
United States supreme court today,
opening | because it has no official or legal
dircet route, he pointed out, would
savo more than a.mile of road which
would in a measure off-set the cost of
necessary fills if the road Is built on
down the Frisco right-of-way. This
alteration in the road, he said, would
make the securing of federal money
in the future much easier to get.
With the grade crossings it will be
extremely difficult, if not entirely
to-begin to wage the fight. Do not
Bert Sprangel, city light and water; (XAI'DE PEW-CLOTHES IS NAB-!permlt mny t*n<Jing or polluted wat-
superintedRent. replied by stating BED BY THE LAW "" "" ""— *
th* city was in fiver of buying a
flutter fot washing the streets but C!aude Carr wanted in Tuba waj ceBars- cJsten's, barrels and
ized and short in duration was exparU,ic Company, the big. feature attrac
en^*d; t , . . tion of the Stoughto* A Little Shows
This season, by beginning in time
and proper managing, there is no rea-
son why the Efforts should not b«j
awarded by a complete success. Now,
TODAY, not next moqth, is the'time
that open here next week for a week'
engagement. Miss Dale is a general
favorite with the theatre going peo-
ple and has selected the personnel of
her company with great care. They
^ attorney gener- > The pavement to the Oklahoma
al of Oklahoma He said, however,! Military Academy will be brick with
that it might be possible for Individ- concrete base, 18 feet wide, graded to
uaul descendants of members at the
nation to Support the petition.
The land in question, which includes
the cities of Tulsa and Oklahoma City
are ladies and gentlemen who are ca- i and practically the entire Burkbur-
a width of 26 feet. The road toward
Verdigris, 4 1-4 miles, will be the
same width and will be a gravel road.
Tulsa county is at this time planning
on bringing their hard surface road
The road
er do not allow anv emetv cans or Ti °'toten™tin* the P*rts "ot-1 nett oil field, has been patented by; to the Rogers county line. The road
wrblJ IYZnulLe ^ that all ^ A/T'u, °n° °f H R0Vernment sinc« the VanBuren | has already been brought to a grade.
barrels J wate- who, patent according to Mr. Freeling. If the purvey is at this time extended
to (Jate had never yet had auffkient arrested by Gene Haverfield deoutv i conUiner Bre either dry or t,gfhtl:'
fun^s in the read fund. A flusher of sheriff, in the colored section of the covwed- lf impoaslble *° get "d °\
'.line, then all future
WAt " ^ neighbor-; t0Wn Saturday morning. When
hood of M.500. Mr. Sprangel show- aswsted all he had on were a rain
Cd tha need of such a street cleaner, j coat> a ^ ^ B> v. D,s ftnd # ^ of
by stating it takes too much time shoe8. He wa8 wanted at Tulsa on a
and water to waah the streets with I burglary charge. He eluded three
the ho*. With a flusher all of thejnejfro policemen and made tor Clare-
paving could be washed in a single
eight and as often aa desired. The
City Affairs-committee of the Clab
was instructed to meet with the city
officials prior to the first Monday
night in July, when the new estimates
am made up, aad aeo if provision for
a flusher cannot be mad* in the new
J. B. Milam, of Chelae*, was a
guest, of tha Ouh aad whoa called
upon lor a tow remarks, spoke of the
deplorable condition of the Chelses-
Claremero reed. He said it was in
negro policemen and made for Clare-
more; arriving on a freight train. Of-
ficers from Tulsa came after him Sa-
turday afternoon.
NOTIFIED NOT TO SEND
ANY MORE INMATES
The Bogers county authorities havc
been notified not to send any more
nraatee to the Mpbaas' home at Pry
or, the state reformatory at Pauls
Volley and .the iasaoe asylum at Vinita
and Norman. Thia is duo to the fact
, , . that the legialature did not appropri-
such had #ape at thia time that it ate money for the maintenance of the
will soon cost as much money to re-
pair it as it did in the paat to build
it He urged the co-operation of the
Claremore people in trying to get
Jhe Board of County Commissioner* | LION8 CLUB TO HAVB WQV9L
state institution*. Inmates are being
received only at Granite and the state
penitentiary at McAlester.
!te give a little more attention to the
raad conditions in the county* "If
there waa a good road from Chelsea
to Claremore, many more Chelsea
people would viait your city," he
said- Mr. Milam alao mentioned the
fact that a new brick plant was about
to begin operations in Chelsea. This
plant will make buff building brick
reported to be y«ry fine.
Senator E. E. Woods made a few
* remarka to the Club. He aaid he had j MR. AND MR& FOYIL ENTER
onct thought that It would be a fine TAIN FRIENDS.
thine for ooe branch of the legisla-
LRCTURE8.
The Claremore Lions Club has
signed up for the Lions Club lecture
course of four numbers. The con-
tract was made through J. *C. Yoe-
dan, representative from Chicago,
who wad in the city Thursday. The
numbers are of the same quality as
Bill Bone.
turn to he republican and the other
4emocratie, that it would be a check
on each other, but that his theory did
pet prove eut in the last legislature.
Mr. and Mrs. Milo Foyil entertain-
ed with a 6 o'clock dinner Thursday
water, treat it with either a coat of
crude or kerosene oil each ten days.
All damp and marshy places, small
or large, nhould be drained and kept
as free as possible from shade to let
in the sunshine. Therefore, look well
to your weed patches. All cesspools
and surface toilets must be kept
cleaned as often as necessary to make
them acceptable to the, health rules.
The Fly—-tlw well known educbted
house pet It is so well educated that
when its feet are polloted with filth
or diaeaae it readily searches for
your food, face, nose, or mouth upon
which to cleanse them.
Knowing this to be the fact, where
is the citisen that would delight in
furnishing an incubator or breeding
place for SUch a dangerous nuisance
as the fly ? The fly will not multi-
ingo—the-plaee of hatchery for them
II barn cleanings, badly kept bam
yards, hog pens, garbage collections,
decaying vegetation, surface toilets
condition neceaaary for their existence
hut what in the coarse of time can b«
ply in clean aad sanitary surrouml-
what in tha course of time can be
overcome by diligent and persistent
efforts on the part of the citizenship,
in connection with the use of fly
trap*, a walters, fly papers, poison,
etc.
We have a qity ordinance requiring
all houses located within one hundred
and fifty feet of the sanitary sewer to
connect up with it which would re-
duce much of the fly risk and non-
f|Wh+r iattend the fir8t ni*ht wil1 he enter-1 He declined, however, to interpret the to tho* con ntv
ttgnti:. tained by a company of artists in a! law to show whether the Cherokee work on the right-of-way would only
production that will appeal to every patent does or does not rank the later be a step nearer a hard surface road
man, Woman and child in the audi-
ence. The firat night Monday, April
11, is ladies' free night
CHRISTIAN CHURCH TO HAVE
"DOWN TOWN" OFFICE.
issue,
Mr. Freeling said he had received
information that the supreme court
would hand down a decision next Mon-
day in the Red River qase.
to connect onto the Tulsa county road.
SUNDAY SCHOOL BOYS
AWARDED PRIZES
Sam B. Waggoner, the new minis-
ter of the Christian, church, has se-
cured Room No. 20 in the Bayless
MISS JEWELL TRIPLETT
CEIVES HONORS.
RE-
■ Dr. Bassman's ciass of fourteen
boys in the Second Year Intermediate
Grade of the Methodist Sunday School
Friends of Miss Jewell Triplett have been doing some very construc-
building opposite the Sequoyah Hotel,! daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Trip 1 tive work recently in writing essays
and has fitted it up to be used as a i lett, of this city will be pleased to 1 on the life of St. Paul.
church office and minister's sftudy. | hear that the faculty at Stephen? A 9hoit time ago each boy in the
This arrangement is made to make | College, at Columbia, Mo., lias re cla3s WBS requested to write a bio-
the church and minister more acces- cently elected Miss Triplett to mem- i K^phy of the great apostle and these
sible to the general public.Mr. Wag-1 bership in Phi Theta Kappa, the hon-'were to be judged-by a committee and
orary sorority at that institution. i Pr'ze8 awarded according to the mer-
Several years ago the faculty at jits of each respective paper.
Stephens College decided that some Dr- Bassmann offered a prize of
reoognition should be given to super- i W for the best essay. There was
; ior students, this superiority to be! a,8° a Priz® of for the second
BALL GAME AT FAIR GROUNDS j determined by scholarship, but not by jbest P®P«r> and the Brotherhood class
TOMORROW. scholarship alone. The students iof'ered '100 to every remaining boy
moral fitness and her interest in the 1 ^ the class who would prepare a pa-
goner can bo called by telephone by
calling No. 97, Ferrara's Real Eatate
office, until other arrangementa are
made.
sanitary conditions, if it were com-
plied with. Those in violation of this [noon after a short visit m Claremore
activities of the College are also con- j Per on the spe<$fied subject.
sidered. With this thought in mind, | The essays all showed careful study
an honorary sorority was organized., °" tlle Part of the boys and it was a
Thia sorority was later made into a difficult matter for the committee to
national organization and given the{reac,> a decision among so many ex-
name of Phi Theta Kappa. Only ten cellent papers. However, it was de-
per cent of the College students canjcided that Sammy George FeezeU's
be elected to membership in any one|Paper contained the most points of
year. i excellence, and he received the first
Miss Jewell and her twin sister Miss Prize- *--60 K°ld piece. Lerekov Hag-
Jewett both graduated from the *Brd received the second prize, $1.50.
RADIUM WATER CURED ECZEMA Claremore High School in the class 71,6 remainder of the class received
FOR RIM of 1920 and both are students this *L0° from the Brotherhood
"year at Stephens College. class.
R. M. Cannon, of Van Alstyne, Tex.. • At the Sunday School yesterday.
returned to his home Saturday after-1 CANVAS TO BE PUT ON FOR NEW A- w- Kelley made a very nice pn
There will bo a baseball game to-
morrow afternoon at the Free Fair
Grounds, beginning at 2:30, between
the Claremore team and the team
from Justus. The admission will be
25 cents. The people of Claremore
are urged to attend the game and
help get the Claremore team on its
feet. Claremore defeated Justus last
week in a close game.
. HP CHURCH | sentation speech and gave the boys
ordinance have had ample notice and]for a course of the Radium baths for their prizes and money. Sammy
evening tho following guests. Mrs. j time to have abated such nuisaiwe 'ecMaa. He received much benefit, in The Methodist people are planning , Geor*e Feezell, as first prize winner.
Ashley, of Spencer, Mrs. Dow An- j and violation but only a few havejfact was eored. Mr. Cannon is vice- a canvass to take place next week made s brief response thanking Dr.
"It proved to be a deadlock," he said, drews, of Foyil. Miseea Lose Ward1 complied with it. president of the First National Bank for pledges for a new church. A larg- Bassmann and the Brotherhood clas
flsaafor Woods said Claremore is one;and Mattie Kittrell and Mrs.' George Any progreasive citizen out for the]at Van Alstyne. er building i3 much needed by this for the interest they have shown in
af (hp heat kaown <4ties af ite She Skelton. betterment of Claremore will through; — growing congregation. The Sunday the clats of young boys.
in the Ittts hi fact the best known, — SWf civic pride, the bettermeiu of' I. F. Gick, editor of the Mound School and church membership have Work of this nature is very helpful
and that the fame of Radium water THREE IN JAIL HEADY FOR his family, his neighbor, his own city Ridge, Kan., paper, is here with his quadrupled during the present pas- and instructive, and the boys w ill
has qpread to all parts. He regret- P8N of which he is part, endeavor to make] father and mother for a few days.itorate and the old church buildingg is "ever forget the lessons of love, faith,
ted the fact that the legislature ad- There are three prisoners in the!as near aa poasible a perfect sanitary They are taking a course of Radium too small to house th« congregation. bed encc and endurance prcached and
Journed without providing funds for Rogers county Jail at present reedy condition around the place he abides,! baths. The mother is suffering from Some outside help wil] be given in practiced by this greatest of all apo-
the eeottanaace of the Oklahoma Mil- for the penitentiary, according to the voluntarily, without any compulsory j rheumatism while the father is af- the canvass and the plan is to go tleR- *nd of which they more thoroly
itary Asedswj, along with the other. Sheriffs office. They are: W. H. measures upon the part of the ad-1 flic ted with paralysis. over the top with the amount needed learned in preparing their papers on
state InatHutfens, but said some tri- Woods, a year and a day tor grand! ministration of the city. Let's all j Mrs. T. P. Gadberry. of Pittsburg, n a short time. 'The Life of St Paul."
umph waa gained by luck from the; larceny, Marion Pike, a year and a day get busy and have it said that Clare-1 Kan.. is visiting J A. Gadberry. of
toet that the bill for the maintett- for passing bogus checks, aad Hal more while not the largest city in the!this city.
anceef the Academy tor the balance|Montgomery, a year aad a day tor state, but from its appearance and. Cart Gadberry spent Friday in
of the fiscal year waa paaaed and grand larceny. sanitary<eondition oversites them all.'Tulsa.
John Lookout of Pawhuska, is New Parlor, Dinir t
spending a few days in the city on suites just received,
business. Furniture Co.
and Bed room
Nowlin-Feezell
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