Roger Mills Sentinel (Strong City, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 25, 1918 Page: 1 of 8
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’
A Y Owen Editor
The Paper is Democratic
ROGER MILLS SENTINEL
Read it for $150 year
Job work a Specialty
Volume Twelve OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER - Strong City Roger Millls County Oklahoma Thursday April 25 1918 LARGEST BONA-FIDE CIRCULATION Number 12
VI
Buy Coal
- This Summer
Ada Okla— Six essential reas-
ons why coal consumers should
get their supply stored early
this summer are given by P A
Norris Federal Administrator
for Oklahoma
‘Dealers and consumer of coal1'
says Mr Norriss “should buy
early for these reasons”
f‘ “First Summer 1 reductions are
now in effect and the consumer
can save money by buying at
this time Dealers who want to
store coal and sell rext winter
C can make more profit than by
nV waiting till winter to buy”
! “Second Consumers who lay
in their coal this summer will be
protected against probable suf
f ering next winter ”
“Third There may not be en-
ough coal next winter Okla-
homa coal is needed in the many
cantonments in the Southwest
( Our shortage last winter was
partly due to the demand of
'Fort Sill Camy Doniphan Camp
Bowie and other camps in the
'marketing territory of the Okla
homa mines For various rea-
sons it is not practicable for the
camps to put in enough coal
' during the summer An urgent
cal) for coal from the camps is
V certain-and the needs of the
’ soldiers must be supplied' Dom-
estic consumers can hardly ex-
pect to have their orders filled
next winter when the govern-
ment needs the coal if the)
have failed to provide for their
needs when mines need orders
to keep them running
“Fourth The mines must be
be kept busy There is plenty
of coal in the ground to supply
every demand Labor and ship-
ping facilities arc probably suf-
ficient to take care of the coal
provided every mine is busy
every day and no cars are busy
this summer deelers and con-
suniers must send in their orders
early
“Fifth We must buy to hold
labor In the South west con-
sumers have been accustomed
to buying only when the need
for coal is urgent 1s a result
mines have been forced to close
down in the summer and the
labor often drifts to other fields
Coqsumers in the Southwest
therefore for self protection
should order now and keep the
labor here
f Sixth: The labor supply may
decrease As the big battle
rages in -Europe it becomes
more evident that America must
put in the men and material for
winning the war We must de
liver the knockout blow This
means that millions of young
American men may go to war
thereby decreasing the number
of miners If we are to have a
supply of coal to meet every
need we must put forth every
effort to get this above the ground
and into tin bins of the dealers
and consumers before these
young men are called
From Liberty
Loan Committee
April 15 1918
Mr S Jackson
Chairman Liberty Loan
Committee Roger Mills County
Cheyenne Oklahoma
My dear Mr Jackson
congratulations on go-
ing “over the top” The little
town of Roll is to most highly
commended
Sincerely yours
Chester H Westfall
Oklahoma Director Speakers’
Bureau
“Who Is Unpatri-
otic?”yes Who
Is Unpatriotic?
The Strong City Herald of
last week had a two column ar-
ticle headed ‘‘Who is Unpatri
otic” in answer to our little ac
count of the tarring of William
Madison Hicks The article
charges that we tried to connect
the Herald with the Hicks affair
but we do not need to make
such an attempt as the appeal
for funds over Hick’s name
clearly made the connection
several weeks ago Can another
paper in the country be found
that published Hick’s apaeal
for help-then why the Herald?
No we did not intend the ar-
ticle to stir up dissension among
the people of the county nor was
the “slur” cast at any political
party There was nothing in
the article but a statement of
facts and if this statement
pinches any one they evidently
fear the connection with the
Hicks affair
We have refrained all along
from mentioning articles that
have appeared in the Herald that
are a blight upon the fair name
of our county In another
column we copy comment made
by the Sayre Standard on one
of these articles Why does
not the Herald answer some of
thesd attacks? - We do resent
i
the undersirred reputation
which we are gaining from ar-
ticles appearing in a paper pub-
lished in our own county and
our home town
The Herald says it’s our duty
to cement all the factions of our
country against the common
enemy That is true but this
has already been done as far as
possible and now there are just
two classes— they are Ameri
cans and Kaiserists Our duty
as ' the Sentinel sees it is to
protect the Americans and fight
the Kaiserists
War was declared a year ago
and the boys on the front are
not to do all the fighting the
enemy are amongst us and our
duty is to meet them Yes
there are some unpleasant
things happening but “War is
Hell” and Hell it must be to
every Kaiserist enemy even
though he pose as President of
Worlds Peace League
The Herald says a large per
cent of the people of this coun-
ty believe Hicks is innocent and
want to contribute to bis de-
fense We deny such slander-
ous statement and call upon tfie
Herald to produce the goods
Who has this subscription list?
After proclaiming to all the
world that a large percent of
the people of Roger Mills coun-
ty is in sympathy with Hicks
and believe that our government
has indicted him out of pure
malice it is justice to the small
per cent the Herald produce the
names or at least the number
of the contributors and prove to
our neighboring counties that
we are what you say we are
Did the Herald Publishing Co
contribute to his defense? Don’t
tell us any more that our people
want to contribute to Hicks’s
defense
Hicks could have contributed
laterally to his own defense
if he is innocent by using his
influence to put the people he
has misled in the right In-
stead he goes about the country
living off of the farmers and
prejudicing them against the
war and the government The
Kaiser would rather loose ten
divisions on the Wester front as
to see our Third Liberty- Loan
oversubscribed Just scr would
Hicks Yet when he can finer
no place to-stop long enough to
remove the coat of tar am1
feathers he appeals to the veri
government' he has asfaile&to
protect him ' This be did at
Taloga when he asked the Slier
iff to put him in-jail to xrotect
him from further mistreatment
- Hicks is very consistent as
sailing the government one day
and asking-its protection the
next Yes just about as con-
sistent as the Herald - We art-
assailed on the front page of tfie
Herald becansowe said “Hick?
received what was coming
to him” Yet on ‘the sixth
page the Heiald has an
article headed "Well— Bick
Gets His! Kumrid ' William
Madison Now Wearing Tar and
Feathers” ‘ Aside from ’ the
statement of the fact that Hicks
appealed for -aid through the
Herald there is little difference
in our account and the one on
the sixth page of the Herald
No we don’t favor mob violence
and we want Mr Hicks to have
the samesort of lair trial that
we would have if we were in-
dicted for obsttuctirg the law§
of our country and we believe
he will get it We know he
doesn’t work any harder lhan
the editor of the Sentinel and
we’d swap pocket books with
him sight unseen We don’t slur
any loyal American living but
we can’t concientiously make a
bed fellow of the fellow-who
wants the same thing the Huns
does Yes we believe that the
Red Cross Y M C A and
Liberty Loan badges are signs
of loyalty but we realize also
that they may be cloaks for
Hun spies just as the devil him-
self can wear the sanctimonious
look of a saint We don’t want
to be misunderstood but we
can’t compromise our position
with any Hunish sentiment
We don’t believe the people -of
our county nor those of our
neighbors have for a minute
mistook our position
The Sayre Standard in the
issue of Oct 18 1917 gives
their opinion of some articles
published in the Herald which
is as follows:
Two weeks ago we called at-
tention to the publication known
as the Strong City Herald a
Roger Mills county paper in
which the week before there ap-
peared some musings of the
“Old Kuss” They were very
degrading and the character cf
the article should have riled the
loyalty of the citizens of that
county Now the Herald has
given publication to an extreme-
ly traitorous letter from the
Roll Socialist local in which the
government is flayed for every
action it has taken in the affairs
of the great war -
The letter states that WilSon
has taken one-third of the in-
come of the wheat - farmer and
that they as a body abhor the
war that while the industrial
Kaisers of Wall Street are wol-
lowing in wealth the farmer is
only allowed to extract a meager
pittance from the wealth of the
nation and that they will have
to deny themselves of every con-
venience in order to exist until
the next crop comes
These slander nimreds and
chronic howlers would be in the
same state of mind if they-received
40 cents for their cotton
$509 for the bushel cf wheat
They h ave sense enough to know
that such rot as is in their let-
ter will never reach the notice
of our Matchless Leader to mar
! Roll News
The weather has been real
coi ) and the fruit was in danger
-f being damaged
Miss Maude Penny is recover-
ing from a very serious case of
pneumonia
- Martha McDougal is sick with
thc'Rfuasles
Vm Mouser and wife of Chey-
euie ' was mingling with the
6cowd at Roll Saturday last
Mr Albertris is visiting at
E L McKinney’s
There was a dance on Wednes-
day night at Wilford Beavin’s '
Although the weather- was
ve: y cold and disagreeable the
Red Cross Sale was well at-
tended and very liberally do-
nated to The sale of ’articles
and cash donations amounted to
$$$9 and expense forhuction-
tr $250 which leaves a net of
$88 10 for which the committee
withes to thank all The foP
: Low ing is a list of the donations
W H Pankey and S N Elliott
each one bushels corn
J II Merritt G W Mont:
goi ery and J L Ivy each one
pig-
Mrs Dickason a trio and Mrs
Hillman two white Plymouth
Rpckhens
'Mrs Call two hens
‘ W M Anderson kaifer seed
Ray Redden 2 horse collars
-Vm Murphy 2 doz ggs
J M Parker ham
- Mrs Dora Springer 1 setting
Plvmouth Rock eggs
McDougal cake' -J
E White Iron bdHstead
Mesdames Jas King $100 of
sugar Pearl Redden tablecloth
and corsetcover Fauna McFar-
land crocheted yoke Mattie Ivjf
pair towls Amber McFarland
towls with crochet Bertha
Sehertzer crocheted collar Call
Penny Swimley and Sehertzer
canned fruit
Mr F S‘ Young canned-fruit
Mrs A H Farmer $1 00 ’ Hi
E Thompson $100 Jas Platt
50c H F Sehertzer $5C0
Mrs Maude Hicks has been on
the eick list and her sister Letty
Lusher has been telephone oper-
ator 1 1 ‘ '
Mrs Willa White has just
closed' a successful term of
school at Pleasent View
one single thought of his but
they rely on giving it publica-
tion in some dirty newspaper so
that the minds of their co-workers
in sin will become poisened
against the morals of our gov-
ernment and the nation
They are traitots Such is
degrading to society and to our
domestic safety If their fol-
hwing could be’ recruited to suf-
ficient proportions they would
carry out the loathsome desire
to overthrow our government
While such will never be the
case still a bublication like the
above mentioned is a stain upon
the loyalty of western Okla-
homa and should be stamped
out before more harm is done
The best way for the condi-
tion to be remedied is for the
people who are nearest the
source to do away with a news-
paper that will give its columns
to such traitorous roL The
business men of that county who
are enjoying liberty and the
freedom of our flag should not
support such a medium and in
the end ye progressive editor
would have to pick up his crap
heqp and with the brand of
Traitor stamped upon him go to
a detention camp and live with
his brother constituents of the
Kaiser:-Sayre Standard
Council of De-
fense Meeting
The Strong City Council of
Defense will meet at the Baptist
Church in this city on Friday
night May 3rd
The program committee has
arranged the following program
for this meeting:
Song— Star Spangled Banner
by choir and audience
-The purpose of the defense
counsel by Floyd Wheeler
Oration by Elsa Kendall
Solo by Lucile Kendall:
Our Present Duty by T M
Rennolds
Song— America by choir and
audience
My Country by A T Burge
The Red Cross
The Red Cross of Strong City
has made a shipment of the
'following supplies:
Strong City Branch
Refugee:
3 hoods 12 baby blankets 72
dipers 54 baby shirts 15 bind
ers 6 caps lOpinafors 12 dres
-ses 12 gowns 10 chemise 10
pair of drawers 12 pair bootees
3 doz safety pins 2 cans talcum
powder 3 comforts pillows and
slips
Hospital Supplies:
10 patient shirts 10 pajumas
10 handkerchiefs 10 wash
cloths
Military Supplies:
10 sweaters 1 helmet 1200
gun wipers ‘ ‘ '
Three Corners Auxiliary
Hospital supplies
3 dozen patients shirts 50
washcloths 20 handkerchiefs
Refugee
9 shirts 5 nightingales
New Site Auxiliary
Hospital supplies
10 shirts 12 washcloths
Refugee
12 night gowns
Call for membership receipts
at Mrs J P Johnson Junior
Red Cross pins at Mrs Byars
F A BEAVIN
FOR COUNTY CLERK
The Sentinel presents for the
consideration of the democratic
voters of this county this week
the narnebf F A Beavin as a
democratic candidate for the
nomination of County Clerk
Mr Beavin is a pioneer citizen
of 'this county having home-
steaded near Roll some 17 years
ago he is now serving the peo-
ple of this county as county
clerk this being his first term
He has given the people of this
county satisfactory service and
has filled the office with honor to
himself and to the democratic
party No one can question the
ability of Mr Bervin and we all
know him to be qualified to
perform the duties of the coun-
ty clerk’s office He is well
liked and is a genial and ac-
comidating officer always on
duty a'nd is glad to serve you
Mr Beavin is a native of
Kentucky a democrat of merritt
a ‘good neighbor and a true
friend and can be depended
upon as rendering the county
good service The democratic
voters of this county can make
ho mistake in cheoseicg Mr
Beavin as their nominee for
County Clerk
He asks jthat you consider his
candidacy at the August pri-
mary Gold Plume Coffee the kind
you used to buy at J P Johnson’s
Durham News
t i
The school election held - last
Tuesday at Durham to conspli-
date four districts in this irijdi-
date vicinity carried with qfily
seven votes against it All j are
greatly eleated over our fujnire
schooling facalties
The Red Cross program at
the church house Tuesday night
was well attended The admit-
tance fees amounted to mpre
than $1600 The Red Croiss
held an aporn and bonnet sale
in the afternoon that neted them
a nice sum
v
T C Moore former County
Superintendent of this county
was in town Tuesday meeting
his friends at the voting for
consolidated school
Emery Noblitt returned home
from Pampa Missouri He will
be a farmer this year ’
Miss Minnie Asher spent Sun-
day with Ruby Potter v '
Chas Whitson was called to
home town Monday to join the
Army
Jim Foster the sailor boy that
has been visiting friends and
relatives here left Wednesday
for Oklahoma City ' V
Rural Carrier Examination '
The United States Civil Ser-
vice Commission has announced
an examination for the County
of RogerMills Oklahoma to be
held at Strong City at 10:30 a
m on May 11 1918 to fill the
position: of rural' carrier-at '
Durham and vacancies that
may later occur on rural routes
from other post offices in the
above-mentioned county The
examination will be open only
to male citizens who are actual-:
ly domiciled in the territory of
a post office in the county arid
Who meet the other require-
ments set forth in Form No’:
1977 This form and application
blanks may be obtained from
the offices mentioned above or
from the United States Civil
Service Commission atWashing-
ton D C A pplications should
be forwarded to the Commission
at'Washington at the earliest
practicable date
During the' continuance of the
present war the commission
ill in accordance with the re
quest of the Post Office Depart- ’
ment 'admit wnmen to rural
carrier examinations upon the’
same conditions as men
By’ direction of the Commission ’
GARBER PETROLEUM CO
The Garber Petroleum Co is
a new company which has just j
been nrganizeed by home men
Mr John Curtis of Crawford
and J M Daughterly of Ham- -mon
are agents for this new
company and the incorporators
of this company are home men
Thgy heve a lease on 80 acres
of land in the rich Garbers field
which is testing second best in
the world With the record for
the entire field being 85 per
cent producers and not a dry
hole on the Anticline but all
wells on the structure proving
paying propositions they see
no possible ‘reasan why they
should fail to make good
They are selling stock for the
purpose of raising money to de-
velop this lease See their
terms on another page of this
week’s Sentinel
Rounds & Porter Lbr Co for
shingles cement plaster and
all builder's materials
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Owen, A. Y. Roger Mills Sentinel (Strong City, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 25, 1918, newspaper, April 25, 1918; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2046681/m1/1/?q=Birth+of+a+Nation: accessed June 8, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.