Durant Daily Democrat (Durant, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 81, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 7, 1920 Page: 3 of 8
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Comfort Slippers for AH
No one is too young — no one too old to
receive Comfort Slippers for Christmas If
there’s any one of your family who hasn’t
them Well— you know what you can give
them
Ladies’ Comfy Slippers in Old Rose
Lavendar Blue Pink and Different Colors
$185 to $245
Onyx Hose
— Allover Luce and Net Styles
— Fancy designs in openwork
— Allover Chantilly Lace Designs
Black — White — Cordovan
Priced only $100 $125 $150
We carry a complete line of Boys’ and Girls’ Shoes
L & W Up-Stairs
Shoe Store
OVER FIRST NATIONAL BANK
HOMEPC
TOWN
MELP5E
State Nutrition
j Clinic Institute
I Hold Ten Day Session
STKKUVU HTAMI’Eil Kl'NMVU 1 officer He Is almost as well known
Foil CHIEF OVEH IX Hl’GO Jin Durant as be is In Hugo and baa
WILL HAVE CITY MANAGER
'D
“AFTER I HAVE GROWN OLD SHE COMES
ALONG WITH HER BEAUTY AND INSULTS
ME BY PARADING” SAYS MRS HAMON
Copyright 1920 United Press
Ardmore Okla Dec 6 — Mrs
Jake L Hamon widow of the late
multimillionaire oil man and repub-
lican national committeeman Satur-
day gave her first statement about
Clara Smith
Her statement was made while
packing her baggage preparatory to
starting to Oklahoma City
Assaito'ng Clara Smith as “one who
to have sent her to him”
Mrs Hamon intended to buy
mourning clothes she said upon her
arrival at Oklahoma City She- had
been unable to buy suitable apparel
In Ardmore
The diary mentioned is one being
sent out for publication by the Ch
cago Herald and Pxaminer Hears
newspapers and was said by that pub
lication to have been secured from
Montreal’s Experiment In Government
Will Bo Intorooting to Many Com
mealties In the United It toe
That American cities havo do
monopoly in political misgovernment
is shown by the record of Montreal re-
marks the Pittsburgh Dispatch Twelve
years ago the old-style council of two
members from each of the 81 wards
provoked a scandal and investigation
that led to a recasting of the form of
municipal government Ever since the
ward politicians have been trying to
get back and to restore their discred-
ited system which was at first sup-
planted by a smaller council of one
member per ward without authority
over money matters and a body of four
appointed commissioners with the
mayor as the fifth Two of the new
commissioners and the mayor were
soon charged with practices akin to
those of the old system and the com-
missioners were removed and the
mayor reduced to a mere figurehead
while charge of the city was given to
four newly appointed commissioners
their chairman being empowered with
managerial anthorlty The politicians
naturally made the most of this Im-
position of an appointed city admin-
istration by the provincial govern-
ment and recently the prime minister
named a committee of leading Mon-
treal citizens to draft a new chnrter
on a representative basis This body
has now received the report from its
sub-committee favoring a council of
nine members elected at large the
election of a mayor by council and the
appointment of a genuine expert city
manager
Sterling Stamper one of the beat
known peace officers in Southeastern
Oklahoma has announced that he
I will be a candidate for chief of police
of Hugo at the election to be held
next March At present Mr Stamper
nourished children In Oklahoma byi9 States federal marshal and
the establishment of nutrition cijn! recognized aa fearless and efficient
DETROIT VALUES ITS TREES
came along with her beauty and pa-jciara Smith’s trunks when they were
raded with Mr Hamon” the widow opened in Kansas City
of the millionaire said
“ I have lived with Mr Hamon be- Oklahoma U CagerS
tween “the four walls’ and no one '
could be kinder than he If he was
cross and ugly to Clara Smith it is
1)6081186 she must have provoked his
wrath by doing something which she
should not have done I have lived
with Mr Hamon 22 years and much
longer than she and I should know
1 have always been kind to Mr Ha-
man and have never but once asked
him to get up at night and care for
the children and that was when Ol-
ive Bell was ill with diptlieria
“Taking care of children and liv-
ing In a tent and trying to assist a
' 'husband made me old and It would
make her old I have always been
opposed to kicking a person when
“he is down and that is exactly what
she is doing
"After I have grown old she comes
along with her beauty and gives me
insults by parading with Mr Hamon
If the world knew her as she is they
would not continue to flaunt her
name and her pictures before the
public
"I can bear the hardships of it
all if they will call her by her right
name of Hamon
'She gives her age as 27 when she
Is really 32
"Asfor the diary being published
laving been written by Clara' Smith
she never had the ability to write a
xiiary in that fashion It is the work
of some unscrupulous newspaper
writer to gain a reputation and to
gain money Furthermore the pic-
ture whi :h has been published does
not resemble the Smith person for
she is now much older and much
worse looking than when the picture
was taken 1
"I was once young myself but as
one grows older she grows uglier I
do not see why the newspapers per-
sist in using the name Hamon in con-
nection with her She has no legal
claim to that name She went
"Weatherford Texas and went to Mr
Hamon’s nephew telling him that Mr
Hamon had sent her there for his
son to marry her Mr Hamon’s neph-
’ ew would do anything for his uncle
and married her without Question
She secured a divore later and co
sequently has no right to the name
She was a designing person At
time she married Mr Hamon’s nepb
w Mr Hamon and I and our daugh-
ters were stopping at the Waldorf
Face Hard Schedule
In Missouri Valley
Norman Dec 7 — With the laying
aside of football togs for the season
of 1920 athletically inclined schools
colleges and universities have begun
to think of the indoor basketball
courts and the schedules of the has
ket ball teams According to the
schedule given out out by the ath-
letic authorities the Oklahoma uni-
versity basketball tossers face the
hardest schedule they have ever gone
up against Besides the Missouri
Valley teams played by the Sooner
football - team Nebraska and Grin
nell have been placed on the O U
eager’s schedule thus rounding out
the hardest season ever faced by an
Oklahoma basket ball team The
following is the basketball sche’dule
for the Oklahomans according to the
athletic directors
Jan 7 — Oklahoma Aggies at Nor-
man Jan 8— Oklahoma Aggies at Nor
man
Jan 14 — Kansas Aggies at Man-
hattan Jan 15 — Kansas Aggies at Man
hattan
Jan 21 — Missouri at Norman
Jan 23 — Missouri at Norman
' Jan 31 — Nebraska at Lincoln
Feb 1 — Nebraska at Lincoln
Feb 2 — Drake at Des Moines
Feb 3 — Drake at Des Moines
Feb 4 — Grinriell at Grinnell
Feb 5 — Grinnell at Grinnell
Feb 11 — Washington at Norman
Feb 12 — Washington at Norman
March 4 — Kansas at Norman
March 5 — Kansas at Norman
TEXAS POLICE Tinh'K CLARA
HAMON ESCAPED ON TRAIN
San Antonio Dee 7 — The sheriff’s
office is hinvestigating the report
that Clara Smith Hamon sought in
connection with the death of Jake L
Hamon is hiding at a ranch house
twenty-eight miles south of San An-
tonio Little credence however is
put in the report According to the
best information that the authorities
route to South America and investi-
can get she escaped into Mexico en
gation disclosed that a woman was
in San Antonio ten days ago is be-
Newspaper Pays Tributs to Thought-
fulness of the Early 8ettlrs
Who Planted Them
If a woman’s crowning glory Is
her hair a efty’s is Its trees De-
troit la particularly fortunate In the
preservation of its splendid tree-
lined corridors and It Is a proof of
(he thoroughness of earlier citizens
that they saw the beauty which nature
had provided and carefully preserved
It for the glory of the metropolis to
come
Imagine for one 'minute Second
boulevard or any ofiier prominent
thoroughfare of your acquaintance
stripped of Its curtain of leaves and
boughs! It Is too harsh even to con-
template If you could view the city from the
top of one of Its tallest buildings you
would obtain an even more Impassive
lesson In Just how much of Detroit
Is sheltered and enhanced by Its
trees
The department of parks and boule-
vards declares rescue work Is Imper-
ative to save the elms It Is a matter
on which every citizen can unite The
work should be done and doubtless
will be done with the Indorsement
and eager co-operation ' of every citi-
zen For Detroit to permit her hand-
some trees to perish would be nothing
less than a crime against the bounty
of nature — Detroit News
ca throughout the state announce-
men was made today of a state-wide
Nutrition Clinic Institute which will
convene for a ten day session at Ok-
lahoma City December 13 to 22 The
Institute will be attended by home
demonstration agents home econom-
cs teachers and public health unr-
ses No charge Is made for the
course of Instruction the expenses of
tho institute being defrayed by the
Oklahoma County (Chapter of tho
Red Cross the Southwestern Divis-
ion of the Red Cross and the exten-
sion department of the Oklahoma
A & M College
Mrs Gertrude Gates Mudge noted
nutrition expert supervisor of nutri-
tion health service for the New York
County chapter of the Red Cross
nrd directer of the Morning Side
Center in New York City at which
students from Columbia University
receive their field work in nutrition
service will conduct the institute
She will he asisted by Miss Mary
Arthur director of the bureau of nu-
trition service for the Southern Di-
vision of the Red Cross Miss Martha
McPheters of the Oklahoma A & M
College and Miss Efale Brown dir-
ector of nutrition service for the
southwestern division of the Red
Cross in St Louis
The clinic will be on practical lines
adapted to the needs of Oklahoma
Fivegroups of children selected from
different living conditions and one
group of young business womeu will
be used In the practical demonstra-
tions Preliminary work of weigh-
ing and measuring these children has
been done by the Oklahoma City
nurses and the physical examinations
will be condupted in co-operation
with local physicians Miss Alma
Gaubatz itinerant nutrition worker
for the southwestern division will
have charge of preliminary work
with the children and their mothers
pr evious to the arrival of Mrs
Mudge
Students attending the institute
expenses are financed by local chap-
ters of the Red Cross will give two
nutrition classes a week upon their
return to their respective communi-
ties and those attending whose ex-
penses are financed by other agen-
cies will do nutrition work in Okla-
homa for the Red Cross by special
arrangement It is expected that
registration at the instiute will be
heavy due to the unusual opportuni-
ty for stuy under the direction of
Mrs Mudge who is recognized as an
authority on nutrition
many friends who wish him success
in his race Lane Miller who has been
on the police force of Hugo for sev-
eral years is a candidate for chief
and others are making eyes at tha
Job Thus there will be plenty of ma-
terial for the people of Hugo to select
chief
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SsiSEaaliW&Wif
For a M: iiT’7 Musical Christmas
Make your Christmas a merry musical one
Round out year Christmas joy and add that festive
note of Yuictide cheer by getting a Columbia
Grafonola
Spend only a few minutes in our store Hear this
beautiful instrument play the latest music dances
gongs and Grand Opera selections Then you will
understand why the Columbia Grafonola is the most
wonderful Christmas Gift
We’ll be looking for you so be sure to call
and let us demonstrate how you too can have
a merry musical Christmas
Liberty Music Store
117 N 3rd Ave
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Help Us Grow
This bank has doubled in business in the past 18 months due
to the fact that the citizens of Bryan County have placed con-
fidence in our institution by doing their banking business
with us We appreciate this confidence and shall at all times
strive to merit the same
Deposits Guaranteed
THE FIRST STATE BANK
Keep on Planting Trees
As an asset to any piece of proper-
ty a tree or trees can not be overes-
timated The moment a tree Is plant-
ed the value of a piece of property Is
increased As Mr Kennedy says to
the boys “time goes on Just the same”
so why not plant some trees The
tree-planting campaign that Is occupy-
ing the attention of the country right
now has taken on many phases and In
each of these phases the value of the
property Is being Increased whether It
be a school yard or a “Road of Re-
membrance” such as Is being planted
with memorial trees In many parts of
the country A properly planted road
means better transportation to or from
or between towns That all means
better business better living condi-
tions and a better country — Sheldon
Ridsdnle In National Property Owner
Preparation of Annual Lawn
The annual lawn which is neces-
sary In some cases preparatory to the
making of the permanent lawn may
be made by seeding with Italian rye
sown either In fnll or spring at the
rate of two bushels per acre When
properly cared for this will make a
beautiful green six to eight weeks
from seeding It is imperative that
this grass be cut when It has reached
height of three to four inches other-
wise the lawn will be unattractive
Find Old Roman Tombs
Four Roman tombs built In the
third cerjjury and containing golden
objects urns glass work pottery and
bones have been found in a gravel pit
near Heerien in Dutch Limburg
Many of the things are of great scien-
tific value and further excavations are
being made
Now '
lieved to have escaped over the bor-
Sstoria in New York City so it would der on board of one of the inaugural
have been impossible for Mr Hamon trains en route to Mexico City
Killing Flies With Formaldehyde
To kill flies with a solution of forma-
lin or formaldehyde In water the
method Is: Put a teaspoonful of for
maldehyde Into a quarter of a pint of
water and expose In the room This
ouantltv vn Cie
HERE VVE ARE PETE! Weu
Camped once more in the plumb centre of cur
old stamping grounds — rubbing elbows with the
roaring racket and running flush into more electric
displays blazing posters and smashing signs thJt
sound the joys of Camel Cigarettes than you’d
ever believe could be jammed into one town!
When I hit Broadway this p m I’d said the
Reynolds folks had transplanted “Camel City”
right up here!
It seems like all New Yorkers have adopted
Camels as their own personal brand! And Pete
since this is the original speed town it’s only what
you expect when you see ’em carry a package of
Camels in each coat pocket If their right hand
is busy they dig out their left hand deck — they
just won’t lose time getting a Camel lighted!
That’s the gait around here old thorobred!
And Peter the New Yorker has his own A-l pet
reason why he’s so keen for Camels For instance
Doc Marshall will bet his car on Camels quality
against any cigarette in the world! Bill James
says to me — “ Shorty there never was mild mellow
body like Camels” And as for Dan Boggs — he
s spills it that Camels are the only cigarette free
from any unpleasant cigaretty aftertaste or ciga-
retty odor! And he knows! Frank Frazer will
tell you it’s Camels wonderful Turkish and Do-
mestic blend! And all of them are right!
And Pete old proof-of-the-pudding — you tell
’em that Missouri hasn’t anything on little old
New York when it comes to that “show me” stuff
1) on cigarettes or anything else !
Sincerely
tukkisJ I vcmlstk r
3 LE NO - -
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