The Headlight (Carmen, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, October 10, 1913 Page: 1 of 6
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VOL 14
CARMEN ALFALFA COUNTY OKLAHOMA FRIDAY OCTOBER 10 1913
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VIEW OF LAYING CORNER
THOUSANDS HERE TO VISIT
OKLAHOMA IO O F HOME
- Rain and hail yesterday afternoon did not overcome the desires of
visiting Odd Fellows to ' view -the magnificent Oklahoma Odd Fellows
Home Autos and carriages plied between the depot ’ and town and the
Home-and many walked prefering exercise after a ride ’on the train
It is estimated that more than two thousand people went out and
viewed the Home jwhile comparatively lew were beaten out by fear of the
weather The special train from Oklahoma City shortly after noon brought
937 visitors including the officers of the Grand Lodge and many notables
Owing to the short time the train leaving between -four and five small
opportunity was given for any entertainment features- The Home’ was
opened in an informal reception the visitors being shown over the insti-
tution by the Home residents under the direction of the Superintendent
and Matron Mr and Mrs St Clair ‘
Thew new wing just completed increases the capacity of the Home to
150 which number may be comfortably cared for At present there are
seventy-one residents In the six years 'of its establishment 'there has
been but one death in the Home Absolute cleanliness and perfect sani-
tary conditions are maintained- The Home is conducted as one big family
The children are well fed with plenty of good' wholesome food neatly
clad and educated and fully developed to useful men - and ' Women" They
are a happy lot and many of them were overjoved when friends from
their old home greeted them yesterday ? - -
Carmen had little time — about two days — to prepare 'for this event
and was unable to do many of hospitable stunts for which the town is
famous The ladies of the Baptist and Christian churches served meals
and none were turned away - hungry The band furnished music The
town was tastily decorated and the doors of Home were open
COLEMAN GETS PATENT FOR
AN ELECTRIC AUTO VEHICLE
Last week" Rev A Coleman of
Carmen returned from Washington
D (i where he-had been putting
through a patent -He returned
with blue prints and copies of des-
cription of his invention and expects
in a short time to receive patent
letters from the government The
invention is a’ motor drive for autos
and other vehicles together with an
electric generator and steering gear
and other details ot car construction
He uses a former patent of hi3 in
the worm gear coaster
Drawings of both inventions were
spread before the editor lat week
and explained in detail There is
no doubt but what Coleman has a
big thing in his idea of auto power:
He solves some problems that have
baffled mechanics - for years The
worm gear coaster" besides being
more powerful than a chain or cog
drive is capable of application to
both axles and’supplemented by elec-
tric power from a generator pro-
duces the ideal power in all respects
It is the plaiv of Rev Coleman to
construct a car and demonstrate his
invention before seeking to interest
capital in its manufacture In this
manner he expects to secure the
greatest possible support of capital
and the more quickly get the ma-
chine on the market
The Carmen band left Wednesday
for a four days’ job at Fairview at
the fair They -play some of tne
music that Sousa does and some that
Sousa doesn’t dare to
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By UNCLE BILL and '
AUNT JERM1AH
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Mr and Mrs Sayre returned Mon-
day from Fair Valley where they
went Saturday to attend their niece’s
funeral
- Mr and Mrs Ed Rhodes and fam-
ily called atrMrs Bprd’s Sunday
Mr Locke Cole is working for Mr
D E'Rhodes this week -
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STONE APRIL 26 1907
Misses Minnie and Beulah Sayre
Stella Jack and Lillie Cole visited at
Mrs Rhodes’ Sunday afternoon
Mr and Mrs Charley Haltom and
family visited Mrs Haltom’s mother
Mrs Bay Sunday ' '
- Mrs A E Martin and Mrs Frank
Harris called on Mrs J W Sayre
Tuesday afternoon
- Mr-Newton'Wadkins visited Mr
J W Sayre Tuesday night
Mr: and Mrs J W Savre went to
Alva Tuesday evening and returned
home Wednesday morning
As Jerrie Murray was running af-
ter cattle-Saturday his horse slipped
and fell and caught his foot under
the horse and hurt it badly
Mrs John Haltom returned from
Wichita where she went several
weeks ago to undergo an operatisn
She is getting along nicely now
Mr Cole and family visited at Al
Haltom’s Sunday
Mr John and Alva Shroff called
on their brother Ben Sunday
Mr Raymond Budy staid at Mr
Frank Thompson's Saturday night'
Mr? Lock Cole visited Mort Mc-
Cray Sunday
Mr Raymond Budy called on Mis
Cora Farley Sunday
- Scotty Shroff wa3 in Carmen Mon-
day on business
Mrs Frank Thompson is on the
sick list the past week
Mr Earnie Vealey started seeding
broomcorn Monday
Mr Bennie Shroff called at Mr
Ranzo Davis’ Monday
- Alva Shroff called on Al Haltom’s
Tuesday 'night -
Charley Haltom has-been hauling
wheat to Hopeton recently
Lope Star-school started Monday
with an enrollment of 23
Frank Thompson and ScottieShroff
were in Alva Wednesday -
Mrs Doty and Mrs Al Haltom
went to Hopeton Tuesday to attend
lodge
Mr and Mrs Van McCray called
on -her parents Mr and Mrs Doty
Monday
Mrs Nellie Starbuck and’ children
visited her sister Mrs Fred Ging
Thursday last week
Mrs Shroff visited Mrs Thomp-
son Wednesday
Mr Fry of near Avard is baling
hay at McCray’s this week
Joe Knauff called at Frank Thomp
son’s Sunday
OF THE gT
By CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY
Copyright 1912 by
- PROLOGUE
Here's a tale of the sea and
the treasure isle of long hid
gems and bad men’s guile of
perils on land and wave well
met ' spite storm and mutiny's
awful threat
The way of a man with a maid
is told as they voyage the seas
in quest of goldthe man so
brave and the maid so fair For
her sake naught he will not dare
From English fields to south
sea shore their path' they follow
'whiter billows roar but it leads
them 1 safe to their goal at last
with their love and their treas-
ure tightly clasped
CHAPTER I
Wherein I Bait the Duke Over the
Dead ' '
I CANNOT sny that I was greatly
- surprised when I stumbled across
the body of Sir Geoffrey In the
spinney which Is not for a mo-
ment meant to convey the Impression
that I was not shocked I bad expect-
ed that Sir Geoffrey would come to
some such sad end therefore I say that
I was not surprised But as 1 stood
over him In the gray dawn looking
down upon him lying so quietly on bis
back with the handsome sliver mount-
ed ivory handled dueling pistol which
had done the damage still clasped in
his "right band I wns fascinated with
horror ‘
Sir Geoffrey had carefully put his
bullet through his heart It wns less
disfiguring and brutal less hard on
those left behind less troublesome
more gentlemanly His sword lay un-
derneath him the diamond hilt pro-
truding I guessed that be was glad enough
after all that the end had come for
there " was not that look of pain or
horror or fear which I have so often
seen on the faces of the dead but his
features were calm and composed He
bad not been dead long As I bent
over him I noticed that be had some-
thing In his left band A nearer look
showed It to be an envelope— I drew
It away and saw that It was addressed
to Mistress Lucy Thrusting it In the
pocket of my coat I rose to my feet -At
that lnstnnt I heard steps and
voices - Now 1 had nothing on earth
to fear from anybody The death of
Sir Geoffrey wns too obviously a sui-
cide for any one to accuse me even
if there had "been any reason on earth
for bringing me under suspicion The
letter which I carried in my pocket
addressed to Mistress Lucy would un-
doubtedly explain everything there wns
to explain Something however mov-
ed me to seek concealment I am a
sailor ns you will find out and can
act quickly In an emergency by a sort
of Instinct
Sir Geoffrey lay on the side of the
path through the spinney and beyond
him the coppice thickened The path
twisted and turned From the sound
of the footsteps I judged that men
were coming along it I Instantly step-
ped across the body and concealed my-
self behind n tree ttunk in the leafy
foliage of the undergrowth- I could
see without being seen and hear as
welt
I did not expect that any of the
guests of the castle would make their
appearance at that hour The foot-
Bteps stopped Two men one of whom
had been pointed out to mo ns Baron
Luftdoo In the lead followed hya n
Being a' True Account of Certain
Strange and Wonderful Adven
tures of Master John Hampdon
Seaman and Mistress Lucy
Wilberforce Gentlewoman In
the Great South Seas
Cyrus Townsend Brady '
other who-was" strange to me sudden-
ly appeared - A voice which I recog-
nized as Luftdon's at once exclaimed
In awestruck tones:
“By gad he's done It! Here's a pret-
ty affair!”
“Oh I don't know” said the second
“it might be worse!” -“Worse
for him? Great heavens
man he's dead!”
-‘Worse for ns”
“What d’ye mean? I don't under-
tdnd"-:"'- -
“He might have shot himself before
We plucked him”
“Oh 1 see!” - -
The two stepped a little nearer The
first speaker Lord Luftdon one of
the young bloods who bad been hav-
ing high carotise with Sir Geoffrey for
the past week at the castle bent over
him
“Well” continued the drawler non-
chalantly — ns for me I hated them
both but the latter speaker the more
if possible for reasons which you will
presently understand — “this relieves
me greatly"
“What do you mean? After such a
night as we had to come upon — this Is
enough to unsettled any naan”
“Pooh pooh man you’re nervous!”
“Well I don't know ho Wit relieves
you And after all’s said and done
Wilberforce was a gentleman a good
player and a gallant loser”
“Exactly and he lost his all like a
gentleman”
“And you got It at least most of it”
“Patience nay friend you had your
share”
“I don’t know but 1 would give it
back to have poor old Geoff with us
once again” said Luftdon with some
beat
“That la a perfectly foolish state-
ment my buck” returned the other
“Somebody wns bound to get it Wil-
berforce has been going the pace for
years We happened to be In at the
death that’s nil”
“Well hpw does it relieve you
then? Do you think Wilberforce
would have attempted to get you to
support him?”
The drawler laughed
“Of course not This”— he pointed
to the dead body— ”Is proof enough of
the spirit thnt was in him But of
course I cannot marry the girl now"
“You can’t?” '
“Certainly not Her father a bank
rupt a suicide”—
“But the castle and this park?”
“Mortgaged op to the hilt Speak-
ing of hilts”— he stooped down and
daintily avoiding contact with the
corpse drew from the scabbard the
diamond hilted sword-“thls belongs to
me It’s worth taking - You remem'
ber bo staked It last night on the last
deal”
“Good God man" protested the
first speaker “don’t take the man’s
sword awHy! Let him lie with Ills
weapons like a gentleman”
“Tut tutl You grow scrupulous It
seems We will provide" "a cheaper
bivdge of-hls knighthood If necessary
“And about the girl?”
” ’Tis all off”
"You will have some trouble break-
ing your engagement with her I am
thinking”
“Not f To do her Justice the girl
has the spirit of her father -A whis-
per that I am disinclined to the match
will be sufficient”
“Aye but who will give her that
whisper?”
"We will arrange that some way
Truth to tell 1 am rather tired of the
Contlneed on Fag Two
BILLUPS SCORES MURRAY
FOR HIS “NEGRO EPISTLE’
Bill Murray’s letter to Oklahoma
people placing a prejudicial stigma
upon Senator Gore in the matter of
the appointment of a negro has pro-
voked a scathing reply from Richard
A Billups newspaperman of Cor-
dell and a prominent Democratic
statesman Billups addresses his
letter to Murray and sends copies to
the newspapers of the state Inas-
much as the Headlight printed the
letter of Bill Murray it is but fair
to present herewith the response of
Mr Billups
Cordell Okla Sept 23 1913
Hon W H Murray
Washington D C
Dear Sir:
Your letter or in other words
your “negro epistle” of the -20th
addressed to the Cordell Beacon ’of
which 1 am president has been hand-
ed to me for action
We decline - to publish it for the
reason that I am now and always
have been opposed to such “mud-
slinging” political tactics '
As you very well know I have al-
ways been - your friend and have
supported you every time your
name appeared on the state ticket
but if you conceive it to be your
duty to spend your time while a
member of congress muck-raking
the character and name "bf Oklaho-
ma’s blind senator our friendship
must come to an end and my humble
support so loyally giyen in the past
withheld in the future
The east side of this state has a
senator in whom the people have ex-
pressed the highest confidence and
assure you the west side has a
senator in whom the people have
and will continue to repose their
most sacred confidences i
As a blind penniless boy from his
youth Senator Gore has fought his
way upward and onward until the
Senatorial ' toga ' now adorns his
worth form and is a pser if not the
superior of any man that sits in
that sedate and august body we ex-
pect to fight for him in the primary
as soldiers never fought before his
record entitles him to the nomina-
tion again and that too without op-
position and you should be one qf
his loyal supporters
Your actions in the recent past
must be the outgrowth of jealousy
in Presidential appointments in Ok-
lahoma but I am firmly impressed
that you are too great a man to let
this malady entirely overcome you
The “woman deal”-having died in
its ignoble and inglorious birth the
negro appointment is npw brought
forth and held up as a “great crime”
and thus you hope- to play on the
passions of the people and thereby
prejudice them against ’ Senator
Gore the appointment has been
withdrawn and Mr Parker a bril-
liant young Indian: scholar has been
appointed in his place and the people
are satisfied and why not drop the
matter did you know that had the
friends of Senator Gore withheld
their votes from you in the primary
you would be on your farm instead
of the gilded capitol at Washington
surely you have becoma bereft of
reason much power has made you
mad your “negro epistle” sounds
more like a “swan song” than bugle
call you have mistaken the sullen
groans of the disappointed politic-
ians fer the mutterings of the peo-
pie
Now I have written plainly to you
because I have been your friend
and have known Senator Gore 1 all
my life I knew him when he was a
poor penniless lad in Missippi with
patches on his pants and 1 have
viewed his splendid advancement
with inexpressible pride and uncon-
trollable emotion and when I read
your muck-raking article' it stirred
anew within me a resolve to put al)
my energy all my strength and all
my soul into his candidacy for re
election and I say to you that when
the votes are counted his home sec-
tion the great Democratic south-
west part of this state will respond
as one man in his favor and in con-
nection with the other parts of the
state proclaim him their choice for
Senator I hope you will Eee the
error of your way and cast no fur-
ther calumny on Senator Gore
Truly Richard A Billups
County Court Report
CRIMINAL i
State vs Ben Doughty chargee
with assault and battery
‘ MARRIAGE LICENCES
David Young Jr 35 and Kattrinles-
bet Young 19 both of Carmen Roy
A Collings 24 and Mary Dickson 16
both of Byron Elzie C Stewart 21
and Blown Huff 18 of Burlington
CORP COMMISS
WINS IN COURT
Express Cos Must Refund Excess
- Charges Is Decision of the
Supreme Court
The greatest victory that any state
commission for corporation control
has ever scored in litigation with
express companies was won on Tues-
day when the supreme court of Ok-
lahoma sustained the express rate
order of the Oklahoma Corporation
Commission The case involves ap-
proximately $600000 -in excess col-
lections for express made by the
express companies which under the
ruling of the court will be return-"
able to the shippers - With the
freight victory of last fall this gives
back to the public approximately one
million dollars collected by railroads
and express companies contrary to
the orders of the corporation com-
mission ’
The express rate order was issued
by the commission June 11 1909 It
was appealed the the supreme court
the companies giving bond to indem-
nify shippers The case was re-
manded twice to the commission for
further evidence and the bonds of
the companies increased from tiriie
to time as the fund in controversy
increased The original order in-
volved a reduction on an average of
about 25 per cent in the express
rates then in effect The commission
on rehearing modified its rates on
milk and cream ’merchandise and
money shipments to the extent that
the reduction as last presented to
the higher court is approximately 21
per cent
The decision of the court written
by Justice Williams and concurred
in by all the justices sustains the
corporation commission on all con-
tentions including the rate schedule
as last determined upon by the com-
mission Thus not only do shippers
secure a refund on shipments mov-
ing between points in this state
while this order has been pending on
appeal but secure the reduced rates
J:or the future effective at a date to
be announced in a few days The
commission has complete reports on
all transactions involving the rates
in controversy and shippers are not
required to file claims
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Bell Township Items jj
Mr and Mrs C T Murrow visit-
ed at Isaac Murrow’s Sunday
May Paris and family visited home'
folks Saturday
O A Lanman was the looser of
two fine milk cows Monday on green
alfalfa
Mrs- Bergner and Noah called on '
Mrs Dora Drake Sunday evening
Bennie Swroft and family have
moved to the Potts place
Mr Bergner and Mrs Thatcher
went to Guthrie to attend grand
lodge during this week
Harry Vore is sowing wheat on
Elston place this week
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' Prarie Chapel Items jj
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Mrs Telford spent Monday night
at Stansfield’a
Tom Brown and wife visited at C
F Vaugiin’s Tuesday
The rank growth of alfalfa is
proving fatal to some cattle causing
bloat D S Westfall lost a calf
and Ed Harvey a cow recently from
this cause
Mrs Flo Halverson went to Alva
Monday "with several others of the
Eastern Star and on account of the
rain didn’t get back until Tuesday
’ G J Roberts went to' Cherokee
Monday but had the misfortune to
break his car so returned Tuesday
on the train
Mr Stanfield helped Mr Telford
load his car for Idaho Tuesday
James Berry’s visited at Chas
Emery’s Sunday
Will Oakley and family visited at
J W Oakley’s Saturday “
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Salter, Frank A. The Headlight (Carmen, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, October 10, 1913, newspaper, October 10, 1913; Carmen, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2084230/m1/1/?q=coaster: accessed June 12, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.