Sequoyah County Democrat (Sallisaw, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, September 5, 1919 Page: 2 of 12
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Aa inspector of the state health de-
partment condemned several hundred
dollars worth of canned ojrstera found
in an Ardmore business establishment
last week examination ahowed that
sixty percent of the cans had air holes
and that sight percent of the contents
were decomposed
The state supreme court after a
recess of six weeks will resume its
tegular sittings next week
The state board of affairs has award
ed contracts for the construction of a
laundry building the the installation
of sewerage plumbing and heating at
the Langston Colored Agricultural
and Normal University Contracts
have also been awarded for repairs on
the administration building the con
s traction of a dairy bam and deep-
ing porches at the State Confederate charges etc are alleged The state I
Come 'at Ardmore
Nowata has new put in a bid for Col
locatloa sf the Oklahoma biurial
School for Cirls which is to be te-f
moved from Oklahoma City
Upon the payment of court eocUl
and other exponas amounting Ja &3
to more than &C38 Logan CUlp-t
ley fugitive from the stats after ea-
victlon of the prohibitory law Lai
been granted a parole One of £ e:a-
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ley must forever remain beytii tlsj
boundaries of Oklahoma
Do sens of letters are being k !d
congnending 'the blanket coc -t
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Tn begin with Velvet Tobacco in its jolly red
tin has a wholesome generous look to it Nothing
namby-pamby about it A red-blooded tin ftiil cf -'
red-blooded tobacco for red-blooded folks ' ” ' 1 ' r
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seasons while it mellowed in great wooden hogs-
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King of Pipe-land ’ No camouflage about it'
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fragrance of real tobacco— the incense to solid comfort
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ageing method can unpart You will never taste a
finer cigarette than the one you' rdl with Velvet
Fifteen cents a tin— not a cent more
Batter up!
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I future will bet the matter down for s
I forms! hearing at Oklahoma City
"Owen for President" was the slo-
I gan adopted by more than five thous-
and Oklahomans and former residents
of the stato at 'the annual Oklahoma
I reunion and picnic at Colorado Springs
I Claude Weaver Oklahoma City paid
la high tribute to Senator Owen and
I sounded what is really the keynote
(speech of the Owen campaign
That Owen ‘fs n national and not
a state character in public affairs was
I the meat of Ur Weaver’s speech’ He
(reviewed Senator Owen’s accomplish-
meats in the senate of the United
States and pronounced him one of the
(really leading members of our prin-
cip&l body of legislators The Farm
(Loan Bank legislation which Senator
Owen fostered and piloted to enact-
ittent is he said one of the biggest
ficial tressed it
In tits absence of Governor Robert
son who was in Salt Lake City Utah
attending the annual conference ef
governors Acting Governor Trapp re-
viewed the Second and Third Regi-
ments and stamped them as "the fin-
est body of citisen soldiery any state
can boast" Last week Governor Rob-
ertson visited the camp and reyiewed
the entire Oklahoma brigade
The encampment came to a dose last
Saturday afght and the members of
the Guard had ail reached their home
stations by Sunday night
The campaign against the high cost
oft living inaugurated by Governor
Robertson when he called the county
attorneys of the state together for a
Conference three weeks ago and the
subsequent organisation of state and
- county Councils of Defense is bearing
(matters of constructive legislation of fruit In Oklahoma City retail butch-
recent years -3 jers -who had been charging thirty-
Throughout the state “Owen for five to fifty cents a pound for "short
I President” clubs are being organised ‘steaks" are now advertising the same
in every county The members com-‘character of meat at twenty-five and
prise file representative -and active thirty cents ’a poundr-
men of affairs in their respective qom-i In the counties courts of inquiry
munifies qid are certain to accom-lhave been held and the suspicion of
plish much in the furtherance of the' profiteering has been established in
(Owen interestts The movement to ( many instances Fair price commlt-
secure Owen clubs in every community tees are being organised and Inquiry
(will bo prosecuted until the state is is being made into the cost arid selling
( thoroughly organized (price of necessities and comforts of
' ” ' 1 — - j life Much progress has been made
Nearly half a bullion dollars was ad- and in many parts of the state c-
ded to the assebsed valuation of Ok- cording to reports received at head-
ilahoma counties last week when the quarters great good has-been accom-
state board of equalization passed up- piished
on the returns of the assessors of the j Through the state marketlhg com'
(various counties The state board was mission a carload of sugar has been
(in Session Monday and Tuesday for distributed at cost plus the expense of
(the purpose of reviewing the returns ' bringing it to Oklahoma Sugar has
j tad hearing protests from counties been sold at less than f 10 a hundred
(that were not satisfied with the in-‘ whe heretofore the price at retail
( creases placed upon their returns Be- stores has been $12 to $14 County
tween 150 and 200 county assessors councils ef defense are rapidly round-
members of boards of county commis- ing into shape and the campaign of
(sioners and others representing piac- "pitiless publicity’’ is being prosecuted
(ticaily all of the counties of the state with Vigor
were present' at the hearings
'Prior to last week’s meeting the
state board of equalization had review-
ion of the Board the aggregate val-
uation of each county was too low
Certain flat increases on specific class-
ifications of property were decided
upon 'and in other cases the increases
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make your Abstract
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' 1 Collection fit corporation license
fees for six weeks July 1 to August
15 amounted to more than $136000
according to a report submitted by
that department of the state corpora-
tion commission Collections for the
entire year of 1918 were $204000 and
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vere equalized to the extent of strik- this was considered a remarkable in-
ing a fair valuation for instance onjcreaae on previous years which had
livestock in a group of adjoining coun-1 BhoweLRn average of $60000 a year
ties and applying increases that would for ten yeargi About 6000 Oklahoma
equalize the valuation corporations arc delinquent according
Through the two days of last week’s xo g statement from the commission
meeting protests both oral and writ
j ten were offered by many of the coun-
ties Examination of the condition t'hege concerns will be forfeited
and value of live stock land town lots
(and other classifications of property
were made by the board and n many
instances a compromise based upon the
(showing made by the county’s repre-
sentatives was effected
Nearly 100 producers of cotton from
all the cotton counties of the state met
at the copitol for the purpose of form-
ing the Oklahoma Cotton Growers’ as-
sociation M B Harris commissioner
For 1918 the aggregate assessed 0f agriculture of South Carolina at-
valuation of property in Oklahoma t8nded the meeting and outlined to
was in round numbers two and one- the growers the benefits to be derived
half billions of dollars The levy for ( from a closer co-operation of produc-
htate purposes was two and one-half j8r i order t form a statewide or-
mills Opinion is divided upon thsgnisation which is now in process of
question of whether the increased vat perfection a board of directors wae
uation is sufficient to make possible chosen to direct the work of organl
the maintenance of the same levy zatlon in the state The directors of
last year In tome instances the opln-the association are J P Connor
ion is expressed that the levy must be i Canadian W H Donahue ciileksshai
increased one mill others believe that B A McKinney Durant John A
half a mill will be efficient and in 'Whitehurst Oklahoma City P A
the opinion of tome the valuation has Norris' Ada Eugene P Oumm Ok
been raised sufficiently to permit the Uhoma City and F M Kirk Ft Cobb
levy to remain as before Three and
one-half mills is the statutory limit Twenty out of every one hundred
upon the state levy I residents of Oklahomn City who con-
— — ' j traded influenza during the epidemic
State offlclae who visited ‘Camp t fall fel victims of fit disease ae-
Robertson Ft Sill where 2700 offl- eordlng to a statement of Dr A R
cer and men of the Oklahoma Nat-1 Lewis state health commissioner
ional Guard are lif camp for annual warning the people of tho probability
field maneuvers are enthusiastic In 0f a recurrence of the epidemic this
tholr praise of the state’s citizen sol- fall Oklahoma City was fourth In
diory For the past two weeks the high death rates In ths entire country
members of the Guard have been en- fr Worth with a death rate of 81 of
gngod In Intensive training "Just each 100 afflicted was highest Only
such training as was given our sol- Philadelphia Cambridge Mass and
diers In the training camps to prepare ft Worth Texas had a higher death
thorn for tho titanic struggle which rata than Oklahoma City
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Johnson, C. B. Sequoyah County Democrat (Sallisaw, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, September 5, 1919, newspaper, September 5, 1919; Sallisaw, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1842410/m1/2/?q=July+5%2C+1922: accessed June 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.