The Okemah Ledger. (Okemah, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 15, 1918 Page: 1 of 8
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Entered at the postofficc at Okemah Ind-Ter January 31 1917 lor transmission through the mails as second-class mail matter
E A GASTON Business Manager
YQLUME 12 NUMSER 3
OKEMAH OKLAHOMA THURSDAY AUGUST 15 1518
SUBSCRIPTION $150 PER YEAR
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' THOSE NOMINATED
FOR STATE OFFICES
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The incomplete election returns in-
dicate the following democrats have
been nominated: Gpvernor J B A
Robertson lieutenant -governor M
&Xrapp aecretanr of -state Joe S
Morris auditor Frank Carter at-
torney general S P Freellng treas-
nrttr A N Lcecraft examiner and
inspector Fred Parkinson commls-
v aioner of labor Ctaude Connatly in-
surance commissioner A L Welch
' -chief mine inspector Ed Boyle
- president board of agriculture
nfan Whitehurst sorporation
1 jmatisstoner - Art L Walker
iirto of criminal court- oi apoetls
i-j Y't Matson clerk ‘of suprene
ipurl Williapt L Franklin" AH dem-
ocratic congressmen were renom-
inated and Auditor Ef B Howard
was nominated in- the First ‘ district
defeating James Davenport his near-
r est opponent by a large plurality C
K Hyde was the nominee 'without
opposition in the Eighth district
S ft is impossible to tell who has
b£ep nominated for commissioner of
nn1 iMeoilsnna atl rtf’ lm
Been nominated ior comnusnoncr v
charities and corrections all of the
T headquarters -and even the election
Ward having no ' tabulation H u
Sadler of Norman William D Mat-
S v-rescnt 'incumbent and Mrs
Kknel Bassett all claimed victory
The republican nominee for gov-
n Kirkham ofLawton for
Ilutenant ’governor There ' was no
ether 'contest on the state ticket
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ghrong republicans
ALLOTMENTS MAY '
y i APPEAR SMALLER
t ‘ ' - 7 -— — — 7
-Oklahoma dependents of enlisted
f drafted men should not worry in
else their allotment allowance checks
'from the bureau of war rk'insrr
''4 5 nmoimt- or If the
ante are reduced in amount or if the
' checks should he slow in coming The
July allotments are not payable un-
tif August- and the Aijgust allot-
' ments are not payable gjitil Septem-
’ ‘ 'her ‘
- - The reduction in amounts is due to
a -change In the ruling ' Hereafter
Ibe bureau will pay allotments only
v When they carry with them govefn-
' mpnt family allowances gad then on-
ly)in the amounts requir'd tb supbprt
sich allowances! All other alfot-
' dgats will -be paid by tb' branch of
- military-w naval seryice- in
V wLkh the mad is 'enlisted The mm- and fuel dealer placed an ad in the
' SWh mo" whbe paid by &irulast week caHing ittention to
' fteTwtr riik-Insurance: bureau fe- the-government’s admoifition to buy
rhltss'oF'Hu pay received by the coal now "for next winters oonsump-
jted mr Should an army man tion The result Was quick and sat-
V fotfinsWhca (Wish to allot half hii isfactory for within a few days there
f before the excess will be paid was born to Mrs Basolo a charming
1 Lvthh wak department throd&h the 8-pound baby girl - Its name Will be
1 r — — Teresa Mary and it is pleasing to
- ' Quartermaster 'general
- in! 4(ohl' should
Dependents
m communicate with
ihe-hOme 'service sections of the
America ti Red Cross '
REPUBLICANS
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UNLOAD GEISSLER
- At a meeting of t the ' republican
state Central committee held at Ok-
lahoma City Monday Arthur Geissler
chairman of the committee who had
been for some time under charges of
disloyalty was - ousted from h of-
fice by a vote which lacked but three
of being unanimous Mr Geissler
protested that the committee - was
protested tnat me cuimuiaw -
without authority to remove him and
I atm AsM f a
wnuyuv y ------ -
r threatens to appeal to the courts
The dlose relations Geissler has
maintained with the socialist orgam-
zation for several years have been
' very distasteful to many oi the re-
publican leaders as well as voters
and while he may not be actually dis-
loyal himself many of his socialist
friends have gained such unenviable
notoriety in this particular that a
'' shadow was naturally thrown over
Gdissler’s reputation for loyalty
which the republicans felt would be
too heavy a burden for the party to
1 carry through the campaign
One of the three votes against un-
seating the unfortunate chairman
was cast by his brother who repre-
’ sented Cotton county on the commit-
tee - " ' t ' '
-rRSTBALcEo?ratf s MARKETED
' H B Rogers who lives on Capt
G H Lindsey’s farm 12 miles north
’ -t Okemah marketed the first bale
of Okfuskee county s 1918 crop of
cotton Tuesday morning
This cotton a field of 14 acres was
-planted the 15th day of April and
for Rogers says he expects to get
about five bales in all off of the
field The bale sold Tuesday morn-
' ing weighed 1580 pounds in the seed
‘ and was -sold for 11 1-4 cents per
pound bringing $7L This is equal
to about 32 cents in the lint
The hot dry weather is causing cot-
'ton to open early and it will be but
a short time until the crop is coming
?n with a rush The big trouble is
anticipated to be in a shortage of
pickers ‘ '
COUNCIL TO A"comHC brafT
Th registration I OJi“hom bJ!
- between the ages of 18 and 21 and
- the med- between the ages of 31 and
vears for the coming draft will
doubtless be' authorized by congress
wiU be conducted in the niost expe-
1 ditious manner In a joint letter to
' -county councils throughout the
state Major lugene M-Kerr of the
adjutant generals office and cnair
man J M Aydelotte of - the state
Muncil have urged each county
council to appoint a committee of
three active men to confer with the
local exemption board to arrange for
and superintend this registration
crUbe'undcrthe JS'o(
county and district registrars- -
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Instructions just’ received
call for registration for mili- R
tary service on August 24 R
II 1918 of all young men becom- Sfs
ing 21 years of age since Jufic R
R 51918 R
R ‘ - Every such young man in R
R Okfuskee county is therefore R
R warned to personally appear R
R at the headquarters of the lo-
R cal exemption board at the of- R
R fice of John L Norman rooms R
R 9 and 10 McIntosh building R
R in Okemah Oklahoma be- R
R tween the' hours of 7 -o’clock R
R in the morning and 9 o’clock R
R in the evening on August 24 R
R 1918 for such registration R
R - Okemah Okla Aug M 1918 R
R LOCAL EXEMPTION BOARD
R For Okfuskee County Okla R
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OKLAHOMA TO MAKE
ITS W S S QUOTA
Reports of increased activities in
of Oklahoma which
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counties — — XT —
ed to make the prate on National
War Savings day indicate that this
‘te will soon reach the goal of
forty-seven million- dollars q War
inSfs Stamps pledged ’
Thousands of persons who failed to
so ns OI means are suoscriDins ioi
I1® $f !imit and ths ha mater
a!y - ' 1
I The Oklahoma committee has is-
gued another app‘ea as follos
I “Oklahoma has not failed bo far in
any war activity Keep up the fight
until every person has pledged his or
her limit Reports arc encouraging
we hope to notify Washington
(oon that - our ‘ quota has been
pledged - 7 ! -
“The sales of Stamps during June
Were almost as great as for the entire
months of the year preceding An
equally good record is expected when
the July report is received Keep up
the payments on your pledge and you
will help the government and at the
sapie time have something in 1923"
FORMER OKEMAH GIRL -
WELCOMES BABY TO HOME
ary and it is pleasing
state that both the little one the
first born to the couple and the
mother are enjoying each other’s
company to the utmost Who will
be the next to advertise in The Sun
—it brings results
Mrs Basolo was formerly Miss
Gladys Shero of this city ’
&HOOT1NG UP IN EDGE OF
1 OKMULGEE COUNTY
It was reported on our streets
Tuesday that a young man named
Walter Myers had been shot through
the body tlyee times by a hold-up
man at Youngstown in the edge of
nniinltf n KAll f nitiA At tptl
ma vuii6wn m — o-
Okmulgee county about nine or ten
miles from Okfuskee Sunday night
The story here was that several
young men were engaged in a game
of cards when three hold-up men
suddenly stepped out and ordered
them to hold up their hands Myers
is said to have run and was shot by
one of the robbers He was able to
give the officers a description of one
of the highwaymen and a man named
Phillips and another man whose
name we did not hear are said to
have been arrested Myets’ condi-
tion is said to be dangerous
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ROBERTSON’S PLURALITY
TO BE MORE THAN 23 M0
Official returns from the late dem-
ocratic state primary from 68 coun-
tics givo J B A Robertson 21 205
majority over W- H Murray for the
democratic nomination for governor
Unofficial returns from the other
counties show that when the final
figures are received Robertson will
have more than 23000 or four times
the majority received by any other
candidate for governor in a demo-
cratic primary
The count in the 68 counties which
had reported up to Tuesday evening
gave Robertson 41373 votes Murray
20168 and Alexander 18906
The counties not yet in were Gar-
ter Garfield Kingfisher Oklahoma
Osage Pottawatomie and Tulsa
HEW CH0SSweleetka
The school board of District 31 let
the contract for the construction of
two school houses last Saturday
One 'was for the public school at
Weleetka to be built of stone and
containing two rooms The price was
$3000 This is one of a system of
unit schoolhouses that the board has
decided upon for Weleetka
The other building will be of wood
and will be located about two miles
north of Weleetka
No bonds will be-dssued for these
buildings 's the district has the
money on hand to pay for them
NURAL WOFORD OVERSEAS
Sam Woford received a postcard
Tuesday morning from his son Nural
J Woford of the 268 Aero squadron
that be had arrived safely overseas
IT Word was greatly pleased to
‘learn this news
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OUR CREEK INDIANS - ' -
BECOMING FULLY MODERN
No longer can any one say that our I Dan Willis colored of Wcleetka
Okfuskee county Indians ’ have not who has figured in several court
absorbed the finer (?) points erf-otir matters in the last two years was
civilization because the divorce suit brought to jail Monday 'and the
of Dave Wind against his wife charge against his name on the books
Phoebe Wind contained all of -the is “drunk" but it seems that there
elements for a sensational article in are behind this' common complaint
some of the great sheets which cater some other matters that may be hard
to that-ort of news features ' I for Dan to explain satisfactorily to
Recently Dave brought a sutffof a court
divorce against his' wife Phoebe! Several weeks ago Dan secured an
who he married in 1905 under v‘he 'automobile at Wcleetka and drove io
Creek custom charging herewith tlearview where he proceeded to
cruelty and that she perpetrated a ill up on 8ome kind of Bootleg
fraud upon him Dave claimed he booze and when he returned to the
married Phoebe under the impres garage Wcleetka he tooted his
Sion that she was a maiden and since born for jome one to let him in It
alleges that she had been -taarrled wa in theP night antl no one comitK
PhIhB°Uwa‘1' Wr Dan took a tunning lunge at the door
a° tlaims that Pheobe was very wjtj bis auto broke the door down
and wrecked his auto and 'two or
facts and alleges that Davewai Jj5SEen2he he
guilty of living in adultly having ®"dt fuj“ th K whcre he
il :k nnnti- nnmon strucx tnem i s -
It was Andy Parson s garage and
Andy does not approve o‘f Datvs con-
duct in the least -and is likely to see
that full justice is done
' THE RUSSIAN THISTLE
Has it made its appearance in your
locality ? - -
It is not a thistle at all but it is
a bad weed just the same It looks
more like a low dwarf pigweed or
purslane covered-with spines The
leaves end in slender needle-like
STOCK AGENTS TO - 4 prickles and are parrower than
SHOW 'AUTHORITY those of the tumble weed which it
’ ‘ — - — J somewhat resembles
“Has ' your company the permis- - The Russian thistle is an annual
sion of the capital issues committee land if prevented from going to seed
to sell this stock” should be on the would disappear without further
lips of every man and woman in the spreading for this reason also it
state of Oklahoma who is approached could be easily kept out of cultivated
by oil mining or other stock agents ground But on account of its sim-
If they say yes make them produce Rarity to other weeds it might read-
it This was the warning sent'odt iy be overlooked ' '
by the state council of defense two So far only one specimehThas been
weeks ago and on receipt this week sent in to this station and it is ap-
of a similar' caution from x Asa £ parently not at all common ip the
Ramsey chairman of the district state If you see anything suspicious
committee of the capital issues com- like the above description please
mittee at Kansas City letters VreCe gend it in It will help if we can keep
addressed to all county councils ask- elose tab on it— Chas O Chambers
ing them to give the matter wide
publicity Chairman Ramsey says:
"Any company that is on the square
and above board need have no fear
of having its affairs passed on by
the capital issues -commitee”
Advice from Mr"' Ramsay also
stale that the -dlstricj' committee pas
urisdiction over all issues from $15-
unsuKuuu v
XX) to $100000 while the cupitaHssues
' ' t f f
committee at Washington has? juris- KMen Rudd v -diction
over all issues over $100 006 f j '“What jve mean
but applications' in all-cases -'should ” ‘
be made through the district commit-
tee s
RAGWEED AND WORMWOOD
Ragweed and wormwood are two
of the most common weeds found in
most parts of Oklahoma They are
the weediest kind of weeds There
are two kinds of each The common
small ragweed is- well known to
everybody The large one is 'Iso
known as horseweed and is espec-
ially rank along the streams grow-
ing sometimes 12 to 15 feet high
The two wormwoods both look like
ragweed One of them is very fra-
grant and is called sweet fern but
B
that does not keep it from being a
weed All of these besides being
noxious weeds evidently help to
caue hay fever They all spring
from seed of which they produce an
abundance hence they should be de-‘
stroyed before the seed matures
This' would materially lessen the
crop next year Now is the 'time to
do it The federal bureau has been
making inquiry about them — Chas
O Chambers A & M College Still-
water Si
FOOD OFFICIALS AND
MERCHANTS IN MEETING
Gentlemen : —
I wish to express my heartfelt ap-
Tuesday the food administrators predation for your loyal support and
and the merchants of Okfuskee influence in nominating me as your
county held a meeting in the court candidate for the office of county at-
room to familiarize both the mer- torney and I will do everything in my
chants and the officials with the food ‘power to merit the confidence placed
laws The meeting was attended by in me I will give everyone a square
a Mr Howard from the state food deal and do everything I can to make
administrator’s office I a good county attorney and I ask
Quite a large number of merchants the co-operation of the officials ana
attended the meeting and a very in-
teresting and instructive session was
The meeting was called by Miss
Johnson of Weleetka county food
administrator for Okfuskee county
AEROPLANE PASSES OVER
TOWN LAST SATURDAY
Last ' Saturday forenoon an aero-
plane was observed passing over
this city from west to east by a few
of our people The machine wa very
high but could be heard plainly by
those familiar with the noise of
these machines but was almost too
high to be seen plainly
It was going rapidly and was in
sigh oply a short time i
NEW ASSISTANT ' M-V
COUNTY ATTORNEY
County Attorney T S Hurst has
appointed Ben C Ballard democratic
nominee for county Attorney as his
assistant and Mr Ballard has moved
into the office with Mr Hurst and
will take part in the prosecution of
all cases This course will make Mr
Ballard familiar with the work of the
office when he takes charge the first
of the yean
CRUMP CARRIES HUGHES
- COUNTY BY GOOD VOTE
The official vote in Hughei i !'
on district jadge is as folhus:
Crump 1178 and O’Bannon 371
O’Bannon got a good vote in Holdcn-
ville Wetumka find Yeager
NEGRO JAILED FOR
DRUNK AND DISTURBANCE
A & M College Stillwater
B Y P U PROGRAM AUG IS
Subject— “What Do we we Mean by
Salvation? What must I do to be
saved?
Leader- Effie Brown
Introduction leader ‘
Scripture lesson Acts- 1625-34
V1 — n JJ an b
by salvation"
Howard Taylor: 2
"Wrong Roads to Salvation" Elsie
Brewer - - ’
We arc not saved by ordinances
Paragraph 2 under Roman II Mon-
roe Lambeth
“The only Savior" Tommy Lam-
beth “What we mean by repentance and
faith" Jeff Petty c
Poem “Results enlarged by God
Mrs Mayme Brown
CASH ESKRIDGE IS NOW
DEPUTY COUNTY TREASURER
County Treasurer Jo Dooling has
a new deputy Cash Eskridge having
given up his position as deputy
court clerk to accept the place in
Miss Dooling’s office The change
was made Several days v ago Mr
Eskridge is a fine accountant and
wu make an efficient man in his new
position
Mrs Gay Woodard who has been
assisting in 'the court clerk’s office
has been promoted to deputy clerk
and jt js expected that Miss Clara
Wallace will succeed Mrs Woodard
as assistant
TO THE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS
the entire citizenship of the county
during thft next two years in making
tlje administration of this office a
success Yours respectfully -BEN
C BALLARD
C C WHITSON DESIRES
TO THANK VOTERS
Commissioner-elect C G Whitson
asks the Ledger to express lus
thanks to the voters of the Second
commissioners’ district for the splen-
did vote given him in the primary
election which secured for him the
nomination and asks for the support
of all democrats in the general elec-
tion in November Mr Whitson says
that his quality for making a good
commissioner is equal to his running
qualities and he feels that he can give
Hie people an excellent administra-
tion and we are sure he can
LIGHTNING FIRES A
VALUABLE HAY CROP
Tuesday evening during the rain
storm that came up lightning struck
and fired Jack Musgroves hay crop
three and one-half miles east of Ok-
fuskee and about $600 worth of hay
was burned
The hay had been recently harvest-
ed and is a total Joss
BAPTIST REVIVAL GOING
ON AT FENTRESS
' Rev! J R Taylor of the Okemah
Baptist church opened a revival at
the Fentress phuich Monday night
of this week and will continue one
week
PLOWING DEPTH FOR WHEAT STATE UNIVERSITY
DOES GO® WORK
lahoma agricultural experiment sta-1 NQRMAN Aug 12 — The war ds- 1
tion at Stillwater show 7 tat-S-inch partment upon investigation of the
plowing to be the most ptyMitable military work conducted last year at
depth for wheat We conduced- an - the University of Oklahoma under
experiment on the depth to plow and the direction-of Capt G B Dudley
plowed from 3 to 9 inches deep and U S A (retired) professor of mji
one part was disked 5 inches ‘deep itary science and tactics and Majors
The plat disked 5 inches yielded on R C Terrell commandant has issued
an average of ten bushels while the an order establishing a unit of the -
Clat plowed 7 inches deep yielded 16 student’s army training corps at the '
ushels per acre There was a gain university to begin with the opening
of six bushels per acre by plowing lof the fall term on September 17 ’
7 inches deep I The following telegram has just
We also conducted an experiment been received by Stratton D Brooks -on
the time 'to plow The early president of the university : ‘ - -'7’ - ‘
plowing in the middle of July yielded “Your institution having satisfied' ’
five bushels more than land plowed the prescribed conditions a unit of
in September and that plowed in the the student’s army training corps
middle of August yielded two bushels will be established therein by direc-'5’-more
than that in September This tion of the secretary of war An of-
was an average for five years- ficer of the United States army will
If land has not been plowed more be detailed to your institution at an
an 4 inchesjdeep-for a number of early date and will upon arrival pro--j
-j: i : i cee(j wjtjj organization of-your unit
Rifles uniforms overcoats? and other?
equipment will be shipped to you x
soon upon the basis of figures al-A ’ -ready
furnished by you
(Signed) H P M’CAINf —
“Adjutant General”" 7
This student’s army training corps
gives the student an opportunity t6
complete his college course even
though ‘be has reached the draft age
Any student who is enlisted in the
Tiliman student's corps must register after ’ ’
'he reaches the draff age Upon stmt-
Ice’- Ma- n® on k‘a Queationnmr® that he is
cnrnarauun - ’ V I already In the militaryservice’of 4he
Board of County Commissioners of United States he will be placed an v
Creek county vs Board of County tomatcal by his local draft board '
Commissioned of Okfuskee County Jn Class V-D as provided by the®—
District Court rv?1 rel ations The
d£r£-CUlVer VS Mi"erVa CVeHd-Xo
Isabeile Henry vs William Henry ££ ‘
Martha Foster and Jimmie Foster the statement that “at least W-Pt-
Niffie Grant et al suit on bond
Sarah Durant vs Nelson Durant
divorce t ' -
Marriago Licenses V
H I Ellison 35 Weleetka) Grace
Allen 20 Weleetka "
Hubert Smith 23 Castle Beatrice
Brown 19 Castle
Doyle Lowe 21 Boley Lillie if ay
Coit 19 Boley ' 1
Roy Niemeyer 24 Okemah i Minnie
Velma Smith 19 Bearden 1 '
ANOTHER RECOUNT OF j
PRIMARY BALLOTS
Wednesday Wheeler Moon tii KL
B- Castle candidates for the demo-
cratic nomination for county as-
sessor in the democratic primary de-
cided to' ask for a recount of the
ballots cast for that office and the
work of recounting began Thursday
afternoon ' ‘ -
The returns show 433 votes for
Mr Hill 398 for Mr Moon and 394
for Mr Castle The recount - on
county treasurer showed ajj -variation
of a total of 22 yotes from the certi-
fied returns and Messrs Moon and
Castle felt that there might be the
same or equivalent errors in the re-
turns on assessor
-When he learned of the recount on
the assessor’s race J A Dunagan
who was in the race for sheriff
against Berry Jones asked to have
the -votes on their race recounted
Mr Jones consented without a for-
mal affidavit and we understand the
count will be made at the same time
the count of the assessor’s vote is
made The vote on the original
count stood 689 for Mr Jones to 566
work is such that the needs of ‘the
service e g for doctors engineers
chemists and the like are such as to
make that course advisable i -Competent
officers and non-commissioned
officers will be assigned to
the various institutions to carry on
ciation of the generous support tje work 0f military instruction
given me by my many friends in the pour members of the university fac-
late primary and assure them that jty and 39 students are now rqceiv-
such an expression of their appre- jng specai training at Fort Sheridan
ciation of my efforts to serve them
is the strongest incentive for future
efforts to make good I uave no
feeling of resentment against those
who saw fit to support my competi-
tor but ask their support in Novem-
ber and assure them that they will
be given the best service in my
ow Very jqNES
SIX REGISTRANTS CALLED
FOR SPECIAL SERVICE
List of white men called to report
to local exemption board on August
14 1918 for entrainment to Fayette-
ville Ark on August 15 for special
course in university of Arkansas in
auto mechanics :
1917 Class
Opie Bearden Okemah
1918 Class
Case Paden
omer Ben Houk Okemah
Wallace Raymond Glasscock —Paden
Lee Roy Woggstoff Tulsa
Walter Riley Ayres Weleetka
SOLDIER HELPS FRANCE
IN HAY FIELDS
J Bi Roden of Seminole Cit“ ' as
in town Monday looking afre- s me
business affairs and says he hao re-
ceived a letter from his son ry
Roden who is in France with ths
American army and Roy says mat he
had been assigned for a few fteexs
in the hay fields to help the French
farmers save their hay crops and he
felt at home doing that sort of work
Roy says that labor is very scarce in
France
NOTICE TO MEMBERS
OF WOODMAN CIRCLE
The regular meeting nights of ‘the
Woodmen Circle is the second and
fourth Tuesday nights of each month
and every member is requested Lo
remember the dates and be present!
students who will graduate from all
American colleges and 'universities'
Enlistments in the students’ army
training corps therefore while it does
not hold out any promise of an of-
ficer’s commission is at the present
time the plainest road leading in that
direction” 'V -
A further statement is to the effect
that “should congress lower the age
of liability to immediate -military-service
men of the new ages not af-'
ready enlisted may find difficulty in
entering the service otherwise than
through the1 draft boards In view of
thts possibility- all men expecting' to-
enlist at all in the student’s army
'raining corps would do well to enter
promptly’’ i
The boy who enlists in this Corps
will be a member of the army of tne
United States He will be provided
by the war department with uniform
and equipment but will be on fur-
lough status and will nqt receive pay
He will undergo regular military
training as a part of his course dur-
ing the college year will attend a six
weeks camp for rigid and intensive
military instruction ' with private's
pay and will be subject 'to the tail
of the president for active service at
any time schould fhe exigencies of ‘
he- military situation demand it The ‘
policy of the government however
will be to keep members of this corps
in college until their draft i age---
reached and the war department '(rill
er to order such melt to
even after 'their
have the power to c
'continue in college
draft age is reached whenever thir
Ilhno’is and these men will supple-
ment the officers assigned by fhe
war department
The importance of this plan for
combined military and collegiate
training if we are too meet in the fu-
ture the urgent needs of the army
for highly trained men is so great
that the war department earnestly re-
quests the colleges councils of de-
fense and other patriotic societies
to co-operate in bringing it to the at-
tention of the young men of the
country and in urging them to do
their part to make it a success
LOSES 20 ACRES HAY BY FIRE
Webb Thompson of Mason was in
town Saturday and reports a good
shower fell in that section oi the
county last week and put about a
foot of water in his stock pond La
week he had 20 acres of hay meadow
to burn over The fire wqs supposid
to have been started by some boys
dropping a cigarette stub along the
road side They fought ou: the 'lire
and saved a portion of the mellow
MAY HAVE GOOD FLOW OF
GAS ON M’KERNON RANCH
The drillers at the Gillespie test on
the McKernon ranch west of Castle
have been at work for the past few
days trying to case oil the water
from the flow of gas in tne well'
and measure the flow of gas - The
drillers seem to think they have en-
countered a strong flow of gas
— —
OKEMAH PUBLIC SCHOOLS
TO BEGIN OCTOBER 1
It is understood that the Okejnah
public schools will not open ‘this
year until about October 1 and thet
when the term opens school will be
held six-days in the week
Six day a week sessions have been
becoming popular in all parts of the
country
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Gaston, O. C. The Okemah Ledger. (Okemah, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 15, 1918, newspaper, August 15, 1918; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1862216/m1/1/: accessed July 8, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.