The Weekly Democrat-Chief (Hobart, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 1918 Page: 1 of 10
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WEEKLY
I
Official Paper of Kiowa County. Largest and Oldest Bona Fide Circulation oi any Publication in The County.
VOL xvm.
HOBART, KIOWA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1918.
No. 2.
HON. J. B. A. ROBERTSON
, J. B. A. ROBERTSON
OKLAHOMA'S NEXT GOVERNOR
Hon. J. B. A. Robertson received the biggest vote ever
given a gubernatorial candidate in Tuesday's primary, defeat-
ing all six of his opponents by a plurality now estimated to be
between 20,000 and 25,000 votes.
PERFECT PLAN FOR
THE F,
chattel mortgage on the crop plant-
ed.
In ojrder to give applicant a basis
for temporary credit, to assist in ob-
taining' the seed, the Department of
Agriculture will promptly investigate
I all applications, and as soon as ap-
proved the Federal Land Bank will
. issue a statement of approval to the
FederaJ Finances Available to cffect that the money will be ad.
Drought Stricken Wheat vaneed when the crop is planted and
Country—Reserve Banks to once communicate with the Federal
Hnndip Proiprr nnd mort«age are executed and de-
f rojeci . livered The machinery of the Treas.
j ury Department and the Department
| of Agriculture for this work is al-
Washington, Aug. 7.-The following in existence and will be put
statement supplementary to that is- «> motion at once and no substan-
sued July 29 was given out today by « uH if the mterest-
the Treasury and Agricultural De- ed communities do their own part
partments explaining how loans will Pr°1T1P V1
LANDSLIDE FOR R0BE0ES0N AND M'GLINTIC
estimated at 8 to 1.
McClintic apparently has carried
every county, and in the counties
Half of Precincts in state Give counted on as Miller strongholds, the
Him Lead of Almost Two to present congressman is running
One—Alexander Probably Is ahead ill each of them. He carried
Second and Murray Third Altu., Miller's home town and is
leading in his county, Jackson. In
Harmon, Greer and Tillman McClin-
tic is running far ahead. In Kiowa
„„„ . .. ,, . county his vote will be almost 3 to
With returns from practically half •,
of the state received at Robertson's 1 er*
headquarters in Oklahoma City, make Incomplete returns from all coun-
no change in the earlier returns re- ties m the seventh district, give Mc-
ceived Tuesday night, when his nom- Clintic and Miller the^followingjote:
ination for governor was certain by
one of the biggest pluralities ever
HON. JAMES V. McCLINTiC
given a candidate for governor.
The winner for second place is be-
tween Alexander and Murray, with
the former leading. The other four
candidates received only a scattering
vote.
McKeever and Golobie on the re-
publican ticket are running a close
race for the nomination for gover-
nor.
In Oklahoma City little interest
centers in the otherr races on the
state ticket, except in the headquar-
ters of the different candidates.
Senator Owen received an over-
whelming vote for re-nomination over
Galbreath. In many precincts Gal-
breath received a very small vote and
in some none at all.
Art Walker is claiming his nomin-
ation as corporation commissioner
over J. H. Johnston; Leecraft for
state treasurer, appears to be a win-
nerr .
J. H. Whitehurst, on the face of the
returns, appears to be the nominee
for state board of agriculture.
M'CLINTIC RENOMINATED
In the congressional race in the
seventh district, where Jjm McClintic
was opposed for re-nomination by
Claude Miller of Altus, the former is
winner by a majority, conservatively
McClintic Miller
Kiowa . 756 298
Jackson - 1365 467
Harmon . 640 257
Greer - 893 168
Washita 315 100
Beckham . 726 287
Ellis 235 138
Dewey - 285 141
Tillman . 817 349
Custer . 754 291
Ro<rer Mills 418 186
Tom Johnson of LaTvton, for su-
preme court justice, is leading Ruth-
erford Brett in Kiowa county.
The county election board is making
the official count, but at press time
Wednesday afternoon had comppleted
only seven precincts. The status of
the vote on republican and socialist
candidates in regard to the percent-
ages of voters voting is unknown,
but party members appeared to take
little interest in the election-and onlv
HON. THOMAS A. EDWARDS
Banks wishing to assist their com-
munities in this matter should at
be made to farmers in certain drouth
stricken areas from the President's
special fund. The areas now under the necessary certificate and note
consideration are those in the north- an °, ieir 18 nc ■
The plan is to assist only those
who have exhausted their resources!
No loan will be made to any farmer
who has unincumbered real or per-
| sonal property sufficient to secure
The. money will be advanced as a a ,oan of $300 In such cases coun.
in cases of necessity upon'the t banks are urged) as a matter of
crop of wheat or substitute grains :public
service, to render assistance
planted. No loan will be made in ex-1 anJ avail themselves of the facilities
cess of $3 per acre, and none financed; of the Federal ReServe Banks and the
beyond one hundred acres. There- j w.u. Finance Corporation, which are
fore no loan will be made in excess j , d to render support to such
of $300. Notes given will bear 6efforts
west and southwest where two suc-
cessive crop failures have resulted
from severe drouth and winter- kill-
loan
per cent interest payable in the!
southern districts Octobe^ 1, and in i
the northern districts November 1, j
1919.
Each borrower will be required, as
a part of his contract, to agree that,
if his yield is seven bushels per acre,
or more, he will pay into a guaranty
The Federal Land Banks of the! fun(j a surn equal to 25 per cent of
district embracing the affected areas the amount loaned him to cover any
will be designated ap the financial
agents of the government to make
and collect the loans. They will ex-
pect the co-operation of local banks
in the taking of applications, forms
of which will be supplied on request
as soon as t hey can be printed
Banks and other local agencies as-
sisting will be asked to contribute
their Services for the good of their
several communities.
The determination of the question
of making each loan will, in the first
instance, rest with the Department
oi Agriculture, \vhich, through its
various agencies, assisted by farm
loan associations and other local
farmers' organizations, will investi-
gate each application.
Applicants must agree to use seed
and methods approved by the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, and the money
will not be advanced until the crop
is planted and a representative of
that department certifies to the Fed-
eral Land Bank that the applicant
has completed his planting in proper
' manner and with proper seed. Upon
the receipt by the Federal Land
Bank of such certificatae, appli-
cant will be required to give note and
losses that may occur. * If the
amounts so contributed exceed the
actual loss by the government, the
excess will be returned pro rata to
the contributors.
J
ffiUI GRAFT BILL TO
EE RUSHED T
RENOMINATED FOR CONGRESS
( Jim McClintic, representative in congress from the sev-
y, enth Oklahoma district, who carried every county and county
a few votes were registered in the seat tov#n in the eleven counties of his district in Tuesday's pri-
various precincts. mary over Claude Miller of Altus.
All the present county officers, " ~
candidates for re-nomination to their, sought the nomination over J. I.
respective offices, were again the, Griffith, the present county proseeu-
choice of the democratic voters at the tor, were there contests. Carpenter j
polls in the primary Tuesday. I and Griffith were seeking the nomin-1
In only two races, where E. L. Fry ation for the fourth term, and both
of Mountain View was contesting carried the county. Carpenter is
County Judge John Sam Carpenter, about 300 ahead of his opponent and
«nd J. R. Hunter of thus city, Griffith is leading Hunter by about
200.
Four candidates were in the race
for representative to the legislature,
with two to be nonlinated. Apparent-
ly R. R. Fitzgerald and Dr. W. G.
Woodard have been nominated over
H. P. Gearheart and W. J. McCollum
although only scant returns have a1-
far been canvassed.
Enough returns have not been tab-
ulated to give the returns in the
county commissioners race from the
south end, where Bill Burton and A.
H. Rogers were contestants for the
honors.
In the first commissioner's district
J. E. Watson seems to be the winner
over T. Gooeh. There was no contest
in the east end distrirct.
Members of the county election
board are now making the official
canvas.' The total vote on each can-
didate will be published when the en-
tire vote has been canvassed.
Congress to Receive Commit-
tee's Recommendtions on Re-
Convening Monday — Regis-
trants Available in September
LIBERTY LOAN AND
THE SAVINGS BANKS
NOMINATED FOR A SECOND TERM
Renominated district jud?e of Kiowa, Washita,
and Blaine counties in Tuesday's primary
Custer
CLRREATHERS RETURNS
J. L. Curreathers of the Curreath-
ers Mercantile Co., returned Tuesday
night, from his semi-annual buying
trip to the central markets. While in
the market Mr. Curreatln-rs selected
the' fall and winter stock* for the store
here. He reports a delightful trip, £
but says the drought is extending in £
scope, and that last Sunday in St. ♦
Louis was a scorcher. +
i
$
Judge and Mrs. J. R. Tolbert Wed-
nesday received a cablegram from j +
their son, Raymond A. Tolbert, who j +
has been in France several months,;^
stating that ho had met his brother, j ~
James R. (Bon) Tolbert, and both j ^
were well and feeling fine.
Make Your Money Earn +
BROTHERS MEET IN FRANCE
8 Per Cent
Short time guaranteed
second real estate niflft-
gages to earn you eight
per cent, payable semi-
annually
7 Per Cent
First mortgages on city
property to earn you sev-
en per cent, interest pay-
able semi-annually.
© Per Cent
First farm mortgages to
earn you six per cent, in-
terest payable annually.
3 Per Cent
'ertificatcs of deposit,
three to five months, five
per cent; six to twelve
months, six per cent.
Loans and
Deposits.
4 Per Cent
Sr-a!l savings accounts at
four per cent, computed
semi-annually.
Loans and
Deposits.
City Supt. T. E. Bartlett, went to ♦
F"irst National Bank of Hobart. Oklahoma
SCOTT & BLACKMER, Real Estate Loan.
The effect of the Liberty Loans and
the War Saving3 Stamps on savings
banks' deposits has been watched
with keen interest by economists and>
financiers The experience of Eng-
land was very encouraging; in the
year 191(5 the English small deposi-
tors purchased billions of dollars of
war bonds and at same time increas-
ed their deposits in savings banks over
$60,000,000,000.
The belief is entertained that the
result in America has been very sim-
ilar to that in England, and that de-
spite. the purchase by the American
people of some $10,000,000,000 of Lib-
erty Bonds and $500,000,000 of War
Savings Stamps, a very fair propor-
tion of v/hich were purchased by sav-
ings banks depositors, savings banks
deposits have increased.
Full reports have been received from
the savings banks in New York State.
They sh<5w a decrease in deposits for
the last year of only $8,000,000, But
an increase of §1*,252 depositors. The
loss in deposits is insignificant: the
increase in the number of depositors
very significant. With increased
cost of living and other war condi-
tions, the decrease in deposits might
well be expected; the increase of de-
positors shows that the saving habit
is greatly growing in our country.
Washington, Aug. 7—Both houses
of congress are cxpected to re-con-
vene next Monday in order to con-
ider the passage of the new draft
law which is expected to bring about
the registration of more than 13,000-
000 American men between the ages
of 18 and 45 years. It is planned to
have the registration on September
Weekly registration of all men be-
coming 21 may be necessary aftar
September 1. Crowder declared in a
letter to Secretary pf War Baker
which Senator Chamberlain submit-
ted to the senate.
Crowder said he saw no other way
to provide the necessary men for iho
September call of 200,000. He de-
clared there would not be more than
100,000 men left in class 1 by the
first of September. He urged im-
mediate action by congress on the
new man-power bill to provide for
later calls.
Crowder's letter also revealed the
fact that the war department was fig-
uring on draft age limits of 19 to 40
and changed its mind when Crowder
showed Baker that these ages would
not produce the necessary m vi.
Under the enlargement plan Pro-
vost Marshal General Crowder esti-
mates that 2,398,845 more men avail-
able for fighting service, will be ob-
tained. These figures were contain-
ed in a report drawn by Crowder and
submitted to the senate by Chamber-
lain.
These "effectives" are divided as
follows: Between 32 and 45 600,236
men; between 18 and 20 1,797.609.
Total registrants between 32 and
45 Crowder estimated, should num-
ber 10,028,973 and between 18 and 20
3,607,671.
Chickasha Tuesday afternoon.
BOARD RECEIVES CALL
The Kiowa County Exemption board
has received a call from the adjutant
eeneral's office, to supply seventy
selected men, who will entrain be-
tween August 26 and 31 for Camp
Pike, near Little Rock, Ark.
HELD FOR PETIT LARCEN Y
t Aba Regan was arrested Thursday
morning by City Marshal Lindsay,
and turned over to the county authori-
ties on a charge of p?t:t larccny. It
is alleged he stole a razjr from the
Frisco section house, which vas the
property of Charles Bla5s:r.rame.
When arraigned before Judge Car-
penter he plead not guilty and was
held under a $100 bond for trial
August 5. In default of bond he was
remanded to the custody of the
sheriff.
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