The Arapaho Bee (Arapaho, Okla.), Vol. 31, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, August 3, 1923 Page: 1 of 4
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THE ARAPAHO BEE
PIONEER NEWSPAPER OF CUSTEB COUNTY A WELCOME VISITOR IN EVERT HOUSEHOLD
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Arapaho Custer County Oklahoma August 3 1923
No 30
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A Letter From
Fort Sill
Fort Sill Okla
July 30 1923
C E Vaughan
Arapaho Okla
Dear Father: —
I arrived safely and passed the
examination and was vaccinated
for Typhoid fever I am feeling
fine and like it fine out here but
it sure is hot and we have a 73
pound pack to carry on our backs
besides our guns which weigh
eight and one half pounds and
believe me they sure kick hard
Youwillhavetoexeuse writing
Write often for it sure is kne -
some I am spending my last
nickle for this stamp so please
send me some money
Your son Albert P Vaughan
C M T C Company 4
Fort Sill Okla
Pave Anyway
They are going to pave in
Clinton Half of them said pave
the ocher fcalf said not to pave
The brass-collars decided in a
case like this the thing to do is
to pave So they will pave The
Anti-Pavers hired them a lawyer
and are re-organizing the city
government The VNolverial the
new paper not yet ' published is
carrying aloft the banner of Anti-
Pavers and changers of Govern-
ment They wdi have two aider-
men from each ward much more
honest and more brainy than
any commissioner that couKJ'bfi
rustled in Clinton The mayor
under the new tor m of govern-
ment will be a statesman and
not a wart as in the past
The dawn of a new day can be
seen painting the sky with rosette
hues out east of the Nance Park
frog pond in Clinton Watch tne
cusses grow
Shirt Tails
All heated up the Bee man
remembered seeing Indians going
around with their shirt tails out
We tried it In&ide of fifteen
our temperature dropped many
degrees A year’s subscription to
the Bee for the man who will
start a fad of wearing them out
this hot weather
Mr Anson of Stafford threshed
twenty bushels of yellow sweet
clover seed on his farm south of
that town last week
John Doerner Howard Black
and a Basket Bailer called yester-
day Business had been as dull
in the newspaper line as for a
wheat farmer with his wheat
stacked and no threshing machine
It was dry and awful hot aud the
cash receipts of the Bee would
hardly flag a ice wagon The
three lined up We braced up
It was a prospect We thought
we were sitting Jake Finally
one said “Ask him” Then the
leader inquired if we had Red
Buck’s picture
Prof W S Wilhite was here
and will teach the Samsville
school this year He waa here
with his brothers-in-laws John
and Joe Craven’s estate matters
'
Mrs Estella Hays' for many
years a teacher in our schools is
here visiting friends in this city
Her son is a student in the Kansas
University at Lawrence
AT IT AGAIN
Dick Mitchell is at it again1
This time he has the county buy-
ing the bank building here to be
used as a court house Dick
can't tell the truth any more
than a Jack-ass can help braying
when it gets lonesome There
will be no make shift court house J
bought to waste the tax payers
money and give Clinton a loop
h0je for another civil war breed-
jng county seat fight at the end j
Lj (-en yearSf Dick knows as does
everybody else that a first class
j cour(- jjOUSe will be built before
ten years is up and that this '
I wjjj mean for Clinton to find !
!some other way to make a living
besides grafting the farmers as
county seat of Custer county
A distinguished citizen of that
busted town has a plan whereby
bonds are to be voted to hard
surface a road half way to Arapa-
ho then stop there and build a
court house out in the country
This dream will also fail Custer
county is not going to build
Clinton any hard surfaced roads
or any viaducts across the Washi-
ta or any concrete culverts or
anything like that What Custer
county is going to do is to levy a
tax and build a hundred thousand
dollar ' court house right slap on
the middle of the court house
square at Arapaho Okla This
will be done as soon as thing &
get normal and the farmers are
caught up on expenses Arapaho
is not going to hurry this thing
along
Sit tighV audr-b’&c’d the salva-
tion of tne people Richard
H Little was in a truck driven
by a boy at Custer City Tuesday
They attempted to cross ahead of
the Orient passenger A shrill
whistle and the truck was hit in
the center and carried a hundred
or two feet Wm Little an aged
and retired farmer was danger-
ously injured The boy escaped
with just the right amount of
excitement
Ralph Hughes is home from
Pawhuska for a two weeks visit
with his parents and friends He
holds a very important position in
a bank there
Gosh is that so? Whei e sev-
eral residences are connected on
the small mains it is impossible
to get any pressure and often no
water The same thing is true as
to the light system The wires
are loo small to carry the voltage
and in many instances the wires
are exposed and much of the
juice is lost
The city is badly in need of
new wires and a loop system of
water works The property owners
of Shoe Boy Red Plume Maker
and Broadway Heights are unable
to secure enough water for do-
mestic use for the reason the
mains reaching those sections of
the city are too small and in
many instances the property
owners in those sections of the
city are on dead end mains
— Clinton Chronicle
Darnell is reported laid up with
a sprained back caused by trying
to flop every time the Governbr
flops on public questions
Dr C H Dean was here this
weekend haa put hia business
with the other Custer City doo
tors on a cash basis
For Economy
Judge E J Lindley and Atty
S L Darrah took their families
fora camping out excursion at
excursion at Dripping Springs
this week No accident except a
slight indisposition to the Judge’s
health
Judge told them the farmer had
some blessings not usually told
They could lay in bed an hour
later if necessary and the clock
was not punched as if working for
Henry Ford They had the best
of everything to eat first hand
and the law would not cure all
the former problems The boll
weevil worked on just the same
after the governor signed the bill
as they did before but the farmer
not satisfied at that
control the property of the one
who has worked away for him1
self till he becomes a tax payer
They seek to dictate his tax rent
and income from his own means
or labor
It goes to far and is going to
far The man who pays the
salary has but little if anything
to say about it He is ridiculed
to the rear as an old fogy behind
the times and is behind the times
being promulgated on him When
UKlanoma swings irom the fee
system to the clerks and salary
this state put the expense
almost wholly on the good quiet
hard working man instead of
those who should bear the ex-
pense Take our sheriff’s office
in Custer county It used to pay
$2001)0 per year in fees by those
who used the sheriff lias been
pnying -a like amount and the
John A Simpson president of ’ fees are negligible amount The
the Farmers Union addressed the' same is true OI the probate judge
Constables and justices of the
must cure many of his own ills
himself and not wait for the
statesmen and then when that
was done the market man would
come to him and say “What will
you take lor your wheat?
Sam Darrah told the farmer to
do his own thinking and beware
of the promises of the demo-
gogue and not blame the weather
and price altogether to politics
In other words there was not
much that could be done for
them except what they can do
for themselves This is not a
very present day popular political pan
idea but it is the good sound
horse sense plan mat has made
about 2'i of the farmers rich or
well to do while the other plan
has kept many of us poor
farmers at Dripping Springs He(
is in the fight of his life The Re-'Peace
construction League is trying to Let the farm demonstration
get control of the Union to oust business be made self supporting
its presen president But the and we will all be happy
Union i3 no: as red as some
things John Simpson walks
down the political avenue and
gives the committee of 21 broad
side after broadside over the head
with his sword
He claimed the committee of 21
were creating jobs not for the
good of the farmer but actually
for themselves with salaries at-
tached from the state In this
respect he showed the Custer
county Union how one of them
Wm Darnell had secured a posi-
tion at $1800 for himself
He paid his respects to Wilson
and said he would be compelled
to go to school two years before
he was eligible as president of
the A and M College One
farmer blurted out in the crowd
and asked if he could graduate in
two years That created a big
laugh
he called attention to one Laugh
lin who also draws a salary of
$1800 and comes out here and has
tried to help Mr Darnell organize
against the farmers The Job
Hunters worked log rolled and
pushed a bill through the legisla-
ture In their eagerness to get
the bill through they forgot to
designate any work or duties to
preform The head man gets
$2700 and an assistant $2400
Leahy and Griffith don’t give a
durn if the weeds are high in
front ot their places of business
Cowles and Colegrove don’t
give a durn if their conflabs do
disturb the whole town from its
mid-day siesta
Blakely and Bob don’t give a
durn who hear them argue a-
bout Walton
Watch these fellows going
T -around with bare necks and
r"--"® °f J°b hunters ! sleeves rolled up They are bid-
ding for sympathy and are the
last ones up in the morning
Men hard of hearing need not
be discouraged They can use
their mouths for ears and save
the neighbors a lot of annoyances
Lewis Sever is here from East
land Texas where he holds a posi-
tion in on oil well supply house to
visit-his mother and brothers
He also made several trips over to
Weatherford to see if the' Stirman
family was alright
Miss Cora Harding and her
mother are summering in the
mountains of Colorado
JOB HUNTERS
stration agent is getting up a big
line of petitions to have him re-
tained He even had a resolu-
tion put through at the Farmers
Union meeting asking that Custer
county retain this office and
this man This policy just means
one thing As a school farmer at '
$260 per month he is worth more
to himself than he is farming for
himself Office! Office! I can't
make a living without an office
Too many are working this
graft They scheme and think
i nothing else for year’s but try
to get appointed or
some public salary
General Grant’s policy that
men should wait till called upon
to fill important positions is not
keeping pace with the idea swing
on the Job Hunter's band wagon
HOME FOLKS
Walter Bledsoe made a speech
at the Farmers Union meeting He
has made this speech for many
years Many can repeat it It
funs like this The farmers
must organize and capitalize If
we don’t have the capital get be-
hind a man and elect him to con-
gress and have him him make the
money for us This is bound to
appeal very strongly to men and
women who could use a little
more money than they have or
those who have the flat populistic
political faith
Farmers Union
Frank Fillmore was out with
the farmers at “Drippings”
Thursday Atty W S Mills
made a speech there Wednesday
night
Mill’s said there was more
statesmanship in John Field’s cow
sow and hen arguments with
possibly a rooster thrown in than
all the wild promises of Walton
and the League He said farmers
were living too high and too fast
that a barrel of pork and some
flonr and some milk and eggs
would starve off the grocery bills
this hot weather Mr Mill’s ad-
elected to! vised selling off half of the farm
They areiaRh keeping half free of debt too
to 'many tarmers with cars who
should come to town with a pistle-
tailed mule hitched to a buck
hoard paid for and free of mort-
gage He approved the action of
the Excise Board of Custer coun-
ty in cutting estimates until it
made some tellows howl in agony
He said a busted county had to
retrench just like a busted indi-
vidual Ttie speaker pointed out
the fact that tne hign prices of
things a tarmer buys and low
prices for what he sells have to
equalize and must do so or the
whole commercial fabric will fall
Mills staled that nobody can long
be prosperous when larmers are
broke mat the farm is tne foun-
dation of all commerce and as in
a building it the foundation is
weak tne whole stiucture must
fall The emphasized the impor-
tance of farmers staying with the
Union ana concluded by telling
them that all eyes are on" the
farmer praying ttiat he
stand hrm until the dawn of
ter times is at hand
JEALOUSY
The meanest trait of human
nature is jealously It is worse in
men than in women and nothing
makes a man so jealous and
ripping mad as to see one his
age doing physical stunts he can't
do himself Lawyer Mills can
swim on his back on his belly
sideways and wrong end to It
makes the other old men jealous
Recently Lawton Griffith Hugh
Owen Charley Vaughan and B-
Colegrove stood on the bank at
Dripping Springs and watched
Mills swim They went away
mad Mills taught several ladies
to float and Lawton whacked his
cane down and said it was scan-
dalous Owen said he’d be damn-
ed Colegrove said “nothing to it
nothing to it” Then all left
Hiram Strawn and Squire Cole
grove met or rather gravitated to
a corner yesterday When one
heard the over he ran to get to
him quickly Hiram said he had
a couple of nest eggs hatching out
west and some guides came out
to tell him what to do He added
there were so many damned
crooks in Clinton that they could
not sleep in the round house at St
Louis Arapaho had furnished
many of them Senator Bert
Darnell passed and he commented
on old man Knox and from there
he argued the sheriff’s past case
from nine separate and distinct
angles Not one word he heard
would look well in print
Gus Shirley and Jake Applegate
were in town yesterday and have
the nerve ot old timers
Cut Them Down
The Excise Board did the right
thing in cutting all expenses to
the point where it makes some
squirm and others get clear off
the map Custer county farmers
are jxor just now Let us face
this fact and try to get on our
feet The first real need of the
county is a court house Until
tnat is built all other things
should wait We can worry along
without nard surface or even
gravelled roads We do not need
a home demonstrator or a county
agent so long as there is nothing
i growing to demonstrate on and
no work in the home a good house
wife cannot do
We do not need to pay a woman
we will say lo prescribe a remedy
for scours in calves while we are
poor Then again why hire a
county agent aud a home demon-
strator vno seldom visit tiie
county seat where all county bus-
iness is supposed to be transacted
It makes makes a tarmer feel like
puking up his breakfast to come
to tne county seat to see a county
officer ana have to drive on to
canton to look for him or her
The old shell of a court house
is a disgrace and a shame to tiae
county a menace to tne records
big money to restore them and
the torceu building of a new one
on top of all this expense
Lets retrench until times are
better Then lets build a court
house and do all the oilier things
a prosperous and progressive coun-
ty should do Until then slap down
on expense
COW CHOKED TO DEATH
Mrs J P Doerner bought the
John Hayhurst famous cow for
$50 The boys took her to the
pasture that night Hayhurst
thought it alright to collect in a
day or two The boy thought it
alright to leave me rope with a
slip noose on the cow’s neck for
the next day’s convenience The
next day the catching of the cow
was the easiest part of the whole
trade Much easier than paying
for a dead cow
Obituary
Wilbur Power a young man just
in the prime of life and a doubly
sad affair Lo leave a wife and fam-
ily at their age died and was
buried at Thomas Stomach
trouble had gone too far before
the operation He set a fine man-
ly and Christian example before
those he loved before he passed a-
way Attorney II P Phillips the
philosopher says the car the swim-
ing holes and moving pictures
cause much of the hard times and
bad morals He is not opposed to
them for they all have some mer-
its and do some good but argues
they start many on toboggan
slides that end in divorce courts
Mere Incident
The bell-weathers of the Red
horde passed resolutions calling
Walton’s flop a mere incident
Walton is reported to be having
night sweats over the incident
since somebody has pointed out
to him the effect it will have on
him being a senator
Reiner Gossman aud G H
Snow were in on township buid-
ness yesterday
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Lawton, Jesse Wilber. The Arapaho Bee (Arapaho, Okla.), Vol. 31, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, August 3, 1923, newspaper, August 3, 1923; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2307988/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.