The Alva Record (Alva, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 24, 1928 Page: 1 of 12
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Historical Socictr
VOLUME 27
ALVA OKLAHOMA THURSDAY MAY 24 192S
NUMBER 21
RESUME OF
FIRST STATE
GEOLOGICAL
SURVEY
Conserve
Resources
They Urge
Even County Officers
Like Their Fun Record
Representative Finds
And A R Jacob and Minnie Hamil-
ton are in Best Position to Know
EDITORS NOTE: This i the first of
a serif written by Fred Bard for the
Kansas City Star in 1900 covering
the geological survey being made of
this state at that time
Kansas City Star June 19 1900
ITS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Geologists Appear at Chamber
of Commerce Luncheon
Tuesday
iMADE FIRST
The Party From The University is
Now in Logan and Noble
Counties
ORLANDO Okla June 19— The
members of the Oklahoma Geological
Are Covering Route Traveled
28 Years Ago
Conservation of Oklahoma’s re-
sources and soil fertility was the key-
note of Dr Charles W Gould’s ad
Whenever the local 'county agents
are away on badness they leave no-
tices tacked on their desks telling
when they will be back I
Some of the officials mound the
court houe like a little fun away
from the hum drum of a day’s busi-
SURVEY no-e and when a Record reporter!
dropped into the county agent’s of-1
fice one day he saw written under-
nentii the notice on A R Jacob’s
ldcsk “turn off your lights when you1
! leave You mu-t be working for the
'light company Signed county com-!
' mi-ionei” !
When Jacob left Ia-t week on tl e
poultry tour he left a note saying
lie was
To Gather
For Rally
Saturday
4-H Club Buys of County Meet
at Herod Hall in
Aitcrnoon
v T 1 dress to the Alva chamber of com-
Vw mr ! morce in their luncheon at the Fir-t h(- would be back Saturday
l ie " 'h'T ' Raptirt church Tuesday evening Roy hardly out of the office when another
Had'cll professor of English at the ‘ hy-lme yas added “we thought the-
state university followed up Dr ! county hired you”
Gould’s talk with a humorous recital i Monday morning both A R Jacob
of the present tour and the geological and Minnie Hamilton homo demon-
survey made by himself and Dr stration agent were at their desks A
Gould twenty-eight years ago couple of the county officials looked
in the neighborhood of Orlando and
Terry The party will go to Still-
water the latter part of the week and
from there go south through Potta-
watomie county and then west by
way of Purcell of the Wichita moun-
tains and Greer county If time per-
mits work will be done in the west-
ern counties as far north as Reaver
and the return trip will be made past
the salt plains of the Cimarron river
and the Glass mountains
The party consists of Dr A II
Van Vleet director and zoologirt
C N Gould geologist Paul J White
botanist and Roy Iladsoll general as-
sistant The object of the trip is to
make a general survey of the geo-
logical formation nlants and animals
of Oklahoma Especial attention will
be paid to the probabilities of gas
oil and coal in certain portions of the
territory Fossils minerals and rock
specimines will be secured for the
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up in Indian territory The exact
translation of the word is “red man’s
museum' ' o f "the “university oT OUa-1 f ountry ” Piece by piece the Amer-1
homa The plants collected will be Iniian paw hl3 land taken from
placed in the University Herbarium I hm M the ever increa"mff number
The botanical and geological speci-j otT'v“ e mcni o !
mines will form the basis of future! Land "'a3 lthor uthAA 7°n ”
exchanges with other institutions their pra-p or bargained fiom
i- - - i President Coolidge received the first “Ruddy” Poppy at the White
Dr Gould and Mr Iladsoll are two in and saw both of them present and House today from Mrs William Hamilton Rayley acting national chain p-
of the four men who in 1900 made ca° ia for S t‘?17 J lain of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars The “Rud-
the first geological survey of the vJcll bota oa the Jot)- I1 dy” poppy is one of those made by disabled veterans in hospitals Mrs
state of Oklahoma A fair crowd at- wash I had a camera said one of( payey lost a poni Lieutenant L II Rayley in France duiing the World
tended the luncheon I thT?i - I War The president was also presented with a living poppy which was
Gould the first speaker opened All of this was just m fin because brougbt especially from Relleau Wood France
his address by touching on Okla-j Jacob and Hamilton are tvo of the Z !
homa’s resources and her possibilities! busiest officials at the co’-rt house
of resource development Oklahoma and the nature of their V iines con-
is only at the threshold of natural rtantly calls them away from their of-
dcvelonment he stated I fices
Name Translation Given j ’
Oklahoma is truly an Indian namej 1 HH
and it was given that name by the I 111 f 1111
tribes that one by one were cooped AVi - u
BASKET LUNCH PLANNED
to Hazelton
For Reunion
Decoration Day Exercises Are
Planned for Wednesday Here
Program Committe
Salutes Will be Fired
of the Cemeteries in the Vi
cinity
‘c RrcdNatmAii Get Diplomas
On Saturday
Decoration day plans are now prac-
The party is travelling with team 1 U1'r!1 at ridiculous prices Ty treaty u II U !l'callj' according to Corda County Eighth Grade Exercises’ At hoc
camp outfit and saddle ponies and a"d for Punhment m al eged con- Barber County tO Hold HomC' Ke l ey chairman i of the program com- £ wiU
will remain in the field until the fP'yaeios the coming Celebration All of the firms around the
opening of the University in Septem-TKir land holdings until they weie
her A report of the progress of thUerded toother in what was then
woik will he submitted to the Gover-1 ca' od Indian Ternt
nor later in the year” I Loavinsr the tragedy of the Amer-
June First
square will hang flags out in front1
of their places of buOne-s and flags
!will be placed all around the inside! Commencement PVrcios -
of the square 'eighth pfiadt ruial scliool will be held five of charge whib the local Kiwarus
Free Refreshments To Be Served
By Civ ic Clubs
More than tlnce hundred and fifty
4-H club hoys 1'iom all over the coun-
ty will limit in Aha Saturday for the
annual county rally for that oigani-
zation acconlmg to A It Jacob coun-
ty agent V it Si approximately 500
hoys and gills engaged in this work
more than two thirds of that number
are expected he staled
Opening exorehes will he held in
the morning at Herod Hall before the
eighth guide graduation exercises
with Russell Van Dunkirk county
pre-ident Thelma McRride county
song leader and Ora Van I’ukiik
county yell leader in charge
The remainder of the program for
the morning is 9:15 to 9:45 Model
Meeting lto-e Valley Center 9:45 to
10:45 Model Me ting Avard Center
10:30 to 12:00 Model Meeting Grad-
uation Exercises 12:00 to 1:00 Ric-
nic on the lawn
Free Refreshment at Noon
Various club throughout the coun-
ty will give model meeting demonstra-
tions in the afternoon beginning at
one o’clock the graduation exercises
of the eighth graders taking the re-
mainder of tin time from 10:30 on
The dubs to give demonstrations are:
Canron Center Star Center Valley
Green Center Union Center Freedom
Center Fairy Center Rod Rird Cen-
ter Lookout Center Garnet Center
noon all of the dub members
id their lunches on tin cam-
pus Each member is expected to
bring his own sandwiches or anything
ele they wi-li The city chamber of
for commerce will serve ice cream cones
-- Several citizens of Alva and - eivmu iruuie ruiai :
ican Indian Gould then took up thecini lan to attend the o!d timer’s' Ceremonies for the day are to be- at Horod nin here Satuuki'yat 10 :30 1 club is to furni-h ice cold pop
The Kansas City Star Thursday July nmnufaeture agneu ltuu s ai nd mmei- Hazelton Kan-fm atu i°° sharp "hforl clT A '" the morning according to Mrsl 4-H club woik all oyer the county
20 lt00 Jal of the state Oklahoma h one of dm c tin to oe nc m at iiazuton man thor nt thp monumi!lt tor tbe coun county supm intendent has increas d steadily by leaps and
’ 1 the best balanced sates in the union sas June 1 Old timers from all tv’s World War dead in the center j 'FV0Jfnt u the pio-t am- j hounds 019000 were regularly en-
I he stated producing a half billion over southwestern Kansas and north- 0f the court lion paik A short up- r Duet rollel in dub woik in this country in
dollars in profits in each I western Oklahoma and other pioneers propriate ten minute address will he r- i " i xr -(t ! l'fW while officials expect the maik
Three Factor Seen of this part of the country who have J delivered and at 9:30 a firing ld j tl ( to h hooded to 050000 by the end
to will fire a salute I sy ma’d( tbe I-’Iair— Graduate jiianolof this year due to the maiked in-
Newly Developed Resources From a
Profitable Industry A River
That leaves a Crust of Salt
Along Its Banks
partment but he went on to say we gather there on that date
Following the exerci-es the local
mud do three things in order to Each family is expected to bring faitVr of the Anmncan Legion rm-m- lyilr'1''1 YlMllh’Kiq't'-'1! ! u'n'riiUunia n-' ' " lllt( 1 1 ‘
rdr ha-kets and gather for a regular bers will form in line in front of Ho-' ie‘Max AiganbiUit Himganm Kap
maintain that high standing their
First we must conserve the soil old fashioned get together meeting j tel Rell
Meet To Be Annual local hoy
Home Coming Association under hack of
Ok
aminin
in the neighborhood of Watonga ami i
at the salt springs on Salt creek in the soil the fertility they ta e f organized
northwestern Rain county Salt is Tact year Quoting figures from the planned that the home coming should cars w
found in such quantities in that part state department of agriculture hebe an annual affair
of Oklahoma that the making of Salt! aad that the soil loses 1 e of its for-
for commercial purposes lias himom0 1 tdity eacli year -
a profitable local industry At one Though this section of the state im Rarber county and everyone is ex- the country’s heroic dead will he car
-i-- I does not notice the effect so greatly porting to have a good time ried on by the committees
! 1 Ll A n - n i (I J J 1 t 4a Si s 4 A rt M -
1 1U"U I'"" Vl' Haniet Rudy mldre- Rev J W- rr
The 31!-aal co' ‘L “h Rurkett presentation of diploma i Tp f-’nff'nt
y scout troop will line up E(lna’Fah rece-donal Four j JL 1 ClClUI IV1L1I
the legion The parade will irwl itT:Thnm-othv and'
Meet Tuesday
Rauh Has Highest Mark
Edna Rauh di-trict 11 had the
Here the parade will break up and a'simav(°riged hfi-lVel-
ill be ready take them on °u
to the A O U comet uj At fra(ion 0f a point behind
10:30 lY)eSfonSqoTiiS-a!4rsof while Edith Schwartz1 was a dom
third with 93 1-3
Union Center claimed the he-t at-
tenilarico record with an average of
Allis'Chalincrs Movies Shown
At Hotel Bell in
Afternoon
sold to farmer and cattlemen
(Continued on page four)
TWO THOUSAND
POPPIES SENT
TO AUXILIARY
To Be
Sold on City
Saturday
Streets
Two thou-and poppies have been
offered
State Resources Scorned ' A (TfOPmOllf MomiS
We have scorned our own natural ( LUIlLlll iVit-cUlJ
resource to go to other states for our
supply he intimated Giving as ex-
ample the manufacture of glas in'
this state he took the case of a plant
he whited where the only material
from the state ued in the manu-
the legion leave for Antelope cemo- -V Valley Grmn' 83 held the o’clock with a -uics of moving pic-
tary this side of Avard and at 2:00 noVof tbVyounge-t adu’ates over tuns being si own to the gathered
I they are to fire a salute there From £ " f ff v”a)5 i ah-rs and fanm-is of the Mcmity
EiffV NOW T imn!ltlM0 tlley 0 t0 flaona where after ’nutrict 41 h(fd di-tinction of interc-ted in traetoi Pi i'tuivere
1 HlV i 'LW a short cei oniony a salute will he i: b he--t plavgcound aiuiar- shown of the Alhs-Glmlnu-i s tiactor
I fired at 3 :30 Ttus at the lea-t expene The aver-! and aho of her pha- s of manufactui e
of the hu-ne- houses of the I sch00l3 for O J Thoma branch manager of
light rate agree-
facture was coni
jilenfiful in
neighboring state he said
All of our salt is shipped in while
we have va-t fields of salt that could
Glass sand is more 1 mean fifty more white way lights for
1 age attendance in county schools
win city plan to clom all da decoation WM 93-33
n J
laid around the square some time ago T v!ln
electric light conduits were laid along Corps and the G A R circle While
American Legion Auxiliary will al
n the day’s progran
here as well a the Woman’s Relief
fart thinning ranks
Aliis-Chalmers Wichita was pre-ent
Woods county now ha3 55 model at the meeting tog ther with Mr
schools
Reeves factory man fiom Milwaukee
Wiscon-in
Following the im tmg in the aftcr-
be refined right here at home Gyp-ml placesKrt at inten-al forGm
Graduates Are Listed
Following is a list o fgradnatoa who
will receive their diplomas in the ex- noon dinner wa ”vd fo !
ercies Monday Thoe marked with tor dealers at tie Until Ldl dn n
1 1 an atiisk () are honor students with room Thomas and Leew weie ttm
They will "he i an avere°e of ninety or above principal speakvt--
head of the pro-
Tom Ilowell Alva 1 Purpo-e of tie- inm ting wa to Pio-
AmP-i-on In ne Alva: An lmr mte sale in tin tmntory 1 ml
dom Parnes Lily Avard Wenninger hianch nmnagei hu
Ellis Er
Rt 1 Rarntt Faiah Mae Farry
Harriot Frt 1 AKa Diunhi
Alva Parriftt Lector Aha Kt
GlvcsPIano RcciI
the hip n J chcr of tioo sick up I At Auditorium Friday !i“‘S Zr-
Rill Witt reporter 101 th( UUalioma it Kch The matter will h 1 '
dropped in the event no agreement is
reached
-tated
Lookout Bandits
tie scarred veterans who are in the
government homes and hospitals of
the state
The sale is conducted not only as a
means of making money for a worthy
cause but in commeroration of the
men who offered the bert that was
in them and to stir the public’s mem-
ory of the hoys now sleeping in L lan-
der’s field
Booths on Square
Thoe poppies are made in the hos-
pitals by the veterans themsi Ives and
it gives’ them an interesting and pro-i
fitahle work for they Pr 4 Pail1 j N-wkiik who wa
each flower they mako laa"' N youthful bandit went
Believed Caucht DcMolays to Hunt
Treasure Tonight
To Address County
Medical Society
Haines gave a delightful pi mo recital 7eiihia J Waynoka Rt 8 I‘i
g at the Alva high 1 Alfred Lookout Rnuzid-m Mabel
Dr Henry C Rick
terio'ogi-t will addr -s
state hac-
the Woods
'in Avard county medical society in th ir reg-
ion! Ruck alar meeting here next Tue-day ac-
Alleged to he the two who several
weeks ago looted the Lookout post
office of $ 1000 Linzie 20 and Helm
25 youth of Rrot ction Kan-as are
Friday evening
school auditorium Each number was Aline Rrickmnn There
well rendered and at the dose of the Rradley Dorothy Freedom -
program the dinlomas were awarded Lewis D Wajnoka Rliss Eileen cording to O E Tempi in I he tas
Little Mis Nora Dean Arganbright Lookout Rogg Vein Dacoma Rudy W1l he open to people of tm county
gave a group of clever readmes that Harriet Loui-e Dacoma Ijuimidge 1 Hr Rick’ mc'-age “Imniuniza-
DoMoIavs of the city together with were highly enjoyed Cde-ta M Alya Rt !) Ru-h Cmtis ton” i
girl fiiends will engage in a big tn as- The follow ing pupils rect ived tluur Capron :Ru -h Roljyr A tna Kan- mormn
to clijiloma : Tt'ncluT’ s coui -f1 Uuth 11- ComidMlI
to he (hdiM red Wedne-day
to the stud nts of the C(d-
rivedom lego sumnur se--ion in II m I Hall
being held at A'hlnnd aw-aiting the ! pppdmTfbth'nhm! ” Thehoy mYsticklerVjoin'D ChiikTvy Fran- ('’hanber'' Clifton Axard Cknk This talk is al-o op n to the ut P- o
nrvivd of f-deial officer Mr John
held up hv the will met at the Masonic hall
1 - Poio an interesting program oi
i'Mnnl wlmie an intere-ting
1 uuuii ui I'nmm' n viit in ”'nlnlliu
derived from the sale of the poppie- lfd thp Uo games wul he earned out
by the Auxilaiies over the nation is“m'1tJ(1 i al-o on the bdl a special orche-tia Doug as Ludj
ci W( hh Jo-eidine Haines John-on Florence Fr edom Corni h Eueyne pi
1’niver-ity of mn-ic study John I) Freedom ( o'hin' J'""' AJya
Mu-ic Ciaik Pm-othy Haiiie l’aiker Nina
c ‘ ' committed the rohheiy r
again ued for welfare wo So Tbrv WUY nrv t(I in A -1 land laHfi tl“ o-ion
They
jafhr they had laid up a poker game
and on making bond on that i barge
were imnudaitely icairc-ted on the
federal count
each red poppy worn i sieniticant of
a-'i-tance given the di-ahled veter-
an Rooths on the square wul proxide
a chance to buy a poppy for M mor-
ial day The Auxiliary is e-pecinlly
giateful to the hu-ine- im n for the
juivha-e of wneaths for window dis-1
play More than a hundred have been
sold
At a joint meiting of the Li-cior Giant stock reduction ale being
and Auxiliary Tuesday night plan caui“d on by Weinnch Clothing com-
were made for Memoiial day An in- pany will cloe
The hunt will carry the seeker by BACK FROM TOUR THROUGH
sign to all parts of the city the sue- ARKANSAS AND MISSOURI
ceful f itie receiving a piize not County agrt Jaco i
annonmid After C e 1 unt there w id ’ mm t alien agent
h a leg rtonk fry in Haiti Id’s
wa -t of the city
-on Marti Aha CoulEr Ella Mae UNITFD RRETHFRN CHURCHES
Avard: Oou-e Thmman Avard HOLD PICNIC IN CONJUNCTION
Ciu-inh'iiy Viol t Avard Cru-in-i — —
b' "V Chua Miie Galena Sundiy schoo of Aiat and e
Cumm:n- Di v Winch -fer Ih tl ary and D'-crena chart h held a
Cummin Mnble Winche-ter: Tun- joh t pivnc edo-dny (nmg
Uali Raul no Alva Rt 9: Cun- Inmlus wire lroujit in lu-k ti and
rirr nam
turned Saturday ftom a 15'i9 nincEnm Clan le Alva Rt 9 Coury tie party w’t to AhW
I 5 '
1210N V
PALMERS BUSY GOING
OVER PARKING MARKERS
pjttu have been hu-y the pa-t
I'll! k toll u"'i - - -
r :! tiii' through Aik:na and JR-- M-utha Fnidoni Ciomwi n An and i ca-t of t1 ' lur r v’uui
sou i i The tnp wa the tour mad' Forty: David mi Rt Re Freedom — -
' STORES TO CLOSE ON by -late poultiy run teg tl r w th I)aphl Liwvi- I'm dom : Dilley
MEMORIAL DAY HERE countv agmt ami farmei irtm(rt- Pu'v Ca”mn: D--g-rt Kt nn ta
il in 'poultry Freedom Dunning liuw n-l A!v a ht
1 The following stortrt will do -e on Fumi going fiom Woo! court y s: I alev I ld'l Alam: Iahy Anna wmk eomg ovm t'! parkin
Decoration dav: J C IVnny com vv v Mr ami Mr Wm IMei Mr R He Ahne hk!- L Ira Alva m dl”r ot rt-t :’4
thi Saturday" Sales pany Wwnrirh Clothing company and Mr George I arris and Lli Lt I Lhresman A h a ht 1 the t r a n — 4°Ui)n Ke pliL-
teivsting talK wa given bv Dr Temp-1 continued to be rather heavy during J tt mercantile company Tanner Schaefer xt 1 'T’ run r'lnore" Miriorio in' front Tf the jo-t office and tie
hn anil’ an enjoyable duet was sunglthe la-t part of la-t week and the brother clothing company Marrow The trippers enoount i md -on MarjCho -'t VA and the name of the
bv Maxine Punning and Raulint fn-t of thi week Price of every vari ty store Reed store comuany heavy roati according to Jacob and (amon Iim ‘ ’ ! i b('irr rairt-'d o:t the cut bs
Tcmtihn Refreshments were served article in the house have been slashed E W Tanner company Pear's they had to make many d tours rn the Lish Eva laj ' " t s ” ‘
at the close of the meeting 1 say managers I booterie and People’s store Oiarks (Continued on paet tour)
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