The Vici Beacon (Vici, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 6, 1919 Page: 1 of 8
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A Tri-County Weekly Newspaper For You
VOLUME 0
VICI DEWEY COUNTY OKLAHOMA February 6th 1919
$150 per year
NUMBER 8
IIOWDY KODKS
Beginning with this issue the
Beacon will be under a new
n anagement who with the co-
operation of the public will a1-
tempt to give you the best thing
possible in the line of a small
town rewspaper
We have been asssured of the
full support of the advertisers of
tLv tiwn and while the subscrip-
ting list is not as large as desiied
-1 hat e plans to be put in effect
mi the near future that is expect-
ed t handle l at
The past standard policies f
the paper will be maintained so
far as possible and while plans
$re ' !‘p ing thick and fast in the
atm is here surrounding the new
editor and his staff you may
feel assured that none will be
putin effect until it is known
they will be a decided success
We are aware of the fact that
‘next to running the -goven ment
the average person is particulars-
adapted or is otherwise capable
of knowing just how a newspsp
er should be run
Now you will have a chance
tt demorst ate your ability for
we are frank to admit that what
we don’t know about the news
paper business wo '- — -ke
much larger volumn than a high
gchool dictionary and when ever
you feel so inclined you are ’at
‘perfect -liberty to d rop in and
take charge pay up all past - due
accounts and proceed to get some
experience '
We shall attempt at all times
to tell all the good things and
'none of the bad however if in
the course of nature and hunan
events it will take a little bad to
accomplish some good we shall
expect to do our duty regardless
' We realize that to suit all the
people all the times has been a
subject for discussion in time of
the past but if it is humanely
possible to do so you are assured
of our best intentions
If however through a typhog-
raphical error mis-statment
wrong information or plain bone-
head we incure the displeasure
of a reader kindly come to us to
adjust the matter
Just call on us in the place
where the crime ( if any ) was
committed and state the nature
Of your complaint then we ' bo h
will retire to the rear of the
largest press where the ink is
kept and start proceedings
If you succed in smearing more
ink over our features than we
do oij yours you get the best of
the argument we apologize and
everything is lovely again
It might be well to mention a
few of our personal beliefs at
this time so all may know just
what to expect from the new
management
First of all we believe in a
here-after hot or cold like a hot-
el bath just as each individual
wills or requires owing to their
particular mode of living
We believe in the strict en-
forcement of all laws both civic
and moral and the application of
the Golden Rule in each and ev-
ery instance
We believe President Wilson
te be the greatest man alive to
day and in the present matter
under discussion at the peace
conference we trust he shall con-
tinue to be the guiding power
and that the successful culmin-
ation of all plans pertaining to a
League of Nations may be as-u-ed
We belieue in better prices for
the farmers products and a re-
duced price on farm and labor-
ers necessities
We believe in good reads at any
expense for ihey shall cease to
become an expense if once built
in substantial manner -
We believe in world prohibition
and trust it may soon be assured
We bebeve in longer skirts
and higher v aists for women
and fuller pocket books for men
Last we believe in a curfew
bell for the boys and girls of this
town
Politically speaking while we
vote the same ticket as does all
true democrats this paper shall
remain non-political as in the
past Strictly neutral that’s us
all over
We want your friendship not
your votes and you want the
news not our political opinion
and it is to be our chief aim in
life from this time on to give
you ju3t what you want in the
line of local reading matter
The services of Harry II
Holmes will be retained as man-
ager of the mechanical depart-
ment and no pains will be spared
to handle your job printing with
correctness neatness and dis-
patch X
All matter will pas3 through
the hands of two parties proof-
ed and corrected before printed
and thus eliminate all errors so
far as possible
In conclusion' we will state
that a cordial invitation is extend-
ed to one and all to call and get
acquainted and you will be more
than welcome
Rcbt H Speck
Schubert Sexette Coed
The Lyceum number Monday
night “1 he Schubert Sextette”
was particularly pleasing to the
music loving people of Vici
Their program included sever-
al difficult numbers and drew a-
bout the largest crowd of any
this season
With generous support for the
next and last number of this
years course the guarantors will
be more than pleased
Watch for the date of the next
number which comes this month
The Maude Stevens Concert Co
New Issue of War Saving Stamps
-The 1919 issue of War Saving
Stamps have been received by
the local post office and are now
on sale
Unredeemed pledges for the
past issue may be taken up with
this issue which will mature a
year later
The new stamps are smaller
and a slightly different color' but
are otherwise the same
The Government needs the
money for plans that will mater
alize during the period of the
next ten years
LOCAL MENTION
R H Miller was upon the
streets again Tuesday after hav-
ing entertained the "flu” for
the past couple of weeks
Mr George Baxter of Alva
came in Saturday for a short
visit with Mrs Baxter teacher
in the primary department
The cold snap after the rain
Saturday has frozen the roads
and makes traveling somewhat
a jolty proposition
' Butler fat took a decided
slump last week and has fallen
off in price almost half in the
:ast mot th-
Ray Clark formerly of this
plree but who now lives in Enid
bai been visiting with his moth-
er and Lr ther here the last few
days
Mrs Wes Dick is reported as
being seriously i 1 as a a result
of a relapse fiom the flu also
Kenneth t small son of W T
Baker is very sick as a result of
the same disease
i
T C Lem-irf J F Wheeler
EM DeWald and A O Yeat-
man left the middl of the week"
for Ranter Texas where they
expect to add their bit te the in
tercsts of the oil industry
- The stock and good will of the
Vici Garage was transferred
Tuesday J A Jones ittiring
and C II Bohnert assuming
charge Mr Jones will remain
here until after school closes and
future plans are as yet undecid-
ed Prank Simpson of Neosho
Mo formerly of the Cestos
neighborhood wss in in town
few days last week and took
advantage of the opportunity of
placing six bits worth of con-
fidence in the new editor
C 'H Cofer arrived home
Tuesday after a two months
trip to the state of Washington
in the interests of the Mex Okla-
Kan Oil Co Charley reports a
flourishing business and a plea-
sant visit with relatives at Walc-
kerson Wash jmd other points
Elmer Traver son of Mr and
Mrs E M Tra ver is home with
an honorable discharge in his
pocket Elmer h i s been station-
ed the past several months at
Camp Custer Michigan as Aid
to his uncle Capt Perry Traver
who had command of the milit-
ary hospital at that place
J A Jones : now wears the
Btar that distinguishes the city
marshall from other common
folks From thistimeon we shall
walk the straight and narrow
path and avoid violent contact
with the above mentioned gent-
leman and incidents pay our
dog tax and shut up the wander-
ing hens
Lnn Morrow rick From Overseas
Mr and Mrs H M Johnson
received a letter 'the latter part
of last week containing the in-
formation that Lum Morrow had
received an honorable discharge
and had returned to Campo
Colorado with the impression
that they were still living in
Colorado
It seems that it has been some
time since Lum had received a
letter from any of the folks and
was not aware that Mr Johnson
had moved back here
While but meager details are
to be gotten at this time it is
learned that he accredited him-
self with morethamthe ordinary
amount of activity on the field
of action and as a result was the
recipient of a few of Kaiser
Bills compliments in the forn of
at least two shrapnel wounds
one in the left brest and one
in the left thigh
The writer remembers Lum
as fr m a small lad to a grown
man and can readily see why the
war came to such an abrupt con-
clusion when he together with
some two million) more like him
went into action
While many others came thro-
ugh it all without a scratch Lum
is exceedingly fortunate if the
wounds he received are not a
serious incovinience from this
time on t
' Back Freni' The Legislature
Representative C W Trimble
came home from the capital the
latter part of last week return-
ing Monday
Mr Trimble reports the notor-
ious road bill yet in the const-
ruction stage The proposition
as outlined by the Senate com-
mittee places Vici as one of the
towns through which the road
will pass
It seems however that even
the sum of fifty million dollars
is insufficient to build the road
through all of the seventy four
counties in the state
Most of the towns in the west-
ern part of the state have a de-
lagation in Oklahoma City to as-
sure their share of the road
funds
It is entirely possible that this
bill may not be passed at this
session of the legislature
We feel confident that the re-
presentative from this county
will see that not only Dewey
County but Vici as well as the
other prominent towns will pro-
fit if the road is built
A New Crain Company
A new business concern known
as the L O Street Grain Co
dealing in grain feed seeds
coal and livestock opened up for
business at the old Vici Grain
Co’s elevator February 1st
These people have a main of
fice at Woodward with branch
offices in most 'of the larger
towns in western Oklahoma
We bid them welcome and call
your attention to their advertis-
ing in this issue
Harold L Street is manager
with Clifford S Keller as assist-
ant of the new institution
Church To Hold Wheatless
And Meatless Day
By Saving Fifteen Cents Per Week
Per Member for Next Three Mon-
ths Methodists May Go Far
Over Top on Great Drive
The war isn’t over yet judg-
ing from the fact that members
of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South will in the maj-
ority of their homes observe a
wheatless and meatless day each
week from now until May 4 the
date of the closing of the chu-
rch’s eight day drive for $35
000000 The drive which j is
the culmination of the great
movement of the church known
as the Centenary is being made
in order that the work of thj
church may be put on a busness
basis— unpaid ministers given
salaries more adequate to meet:
the cost of the times — churches
and schoo's ere ted — medical
educational and evangelistic mis-
sionaries sent into the foreign
fields— and assistance given to-
wards the rebuilding of democr-
acy along Christian lines The
goal set is a high one and mem-
bers of the denomination will
make many personal sacrifices in
order to see it over tlie top— the
wheatless and meatless day be--mg
one of the first definite sac-
rifices to be made
v The movement for a wheatless
and meatless day was started by
Herman C Jones of Savannah
Georgia! Mr Jones estimates1
that the saving of five cents
worth of bread and ten cents
worth of meat by every one of
the 2200000 members of the
Southern Medhodist Church
will result in a fund of $85800
000 -instead of the $85000000
asked for the church
The observance of a wheatless
and meatless day eaeh week in
the homes of M E Church
South members is not obligat-
ory t is altogather a matter of
personal sacrifice for the cause
and is thrown squarely up to the
individual member of the church
to set aside as he or she selects
More Soldier Boys Back
Nine more soldier boys of lh!s
place have secured an honorable
discharge and are back to take
up civilian life again Burton
Williams Ralph Tomberlin
Ralph White Lester Beck Glen
Kellogg Hurley Gregory Wane
Mitten Geo Cowan and Walter
Mathewa
Tney all appear to be perfect
specimens of good health and are
not to blame if there were not
enough "square heads” to gv
around
More Steam
We have had steam engines
steam caliopes and other steam-
ing implements of instruction
and destruction but Vici now has
a full pledged steam operated
cream station
The Beatrice Creamery Com-
pany are installing the above
mentioned outfit for Ray & Sons
this week
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Speck, Robert H. The Vici Beacon (Vici, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 6, 1919, newspaper, February 6, 1919; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1978088/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.