Henryetta Daily Standard (Henryetta, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 134, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 11, 1923 Page: 1 of 6
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VOLUME I NUMBER 134
Henryetyta Okmulfee Couaty Okla Tuesday September 11 1923
“THE PEOPLE'S PAPER”
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HENRYETTACOAL
DISPLACES OTHER
Coal Mined Locally Dlijlarirg
Old Time Me Alester Fuel
90 pet: com in State
Henryetta coal Is displacing McAU
Piter coal In Oklahoma ninety percent
and If the prelent difference in price
continues the bulk of the commercial
coal sold in Oklahoma during the
coming winter months will be Hen-
ryetta coal Is the statement of one
of the prominent coal men in Henry
etta
“I have a letter In front of me In
which a dealer says that he is getting
orders from consumers for tonB and
tons of Henryetta coal” ho continu-
de “McAlester coal has been sold thro- j
oughout this territory for the past 40
years and it was for a long time that 1
the retail buyers thought that McAl-
ester coal was the only coal in Ok-
lahoma that would burn The dealers
and consumers have come to realize
late years that there is but very lit-1
tie difference in Henryetta and Mc-
Alester coal and with the present dtf- j
ference In price I predict a very good
year for Henryetta coal”
Henryetta lump is now at a new
low figure since the war Henryetta
lump can be purchased at the mines
for from $375 to $425 while the I
present price of McAlester lump is1
$750 Government analysis are said i
to show that there is very little dif-
ference in the number of heat un-
(By Halted Press) I
BERLIN Sept 11 — "Passive re-
sistance has not been declared off
Such BtOTies are pure nonsense Ger-
its in the two conls and that the nlany wm nPVer capitulate” is the
burning qualities are practically the lpclnratlon ‘t the 0erman foreign
Mmc- office here In referring to reports
Other Henryetta operators report bat Germany had ordeTed a cessa-
that they are getting good running I tJon of res8tance to French occupa- ’
time and are selling lots of coaltlon of th0 Ruhr i
considering the time of the year ( jje rpp0rt that Germany was to
send emissaries to France to make
terms was also indignantly denied
COOUDGE THINKS
SIGNS HOPEFUL
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— ( t:an puliation Look Better
President-Not Been Ask-
' cd to Help Europe
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r-a-Th e
European situation looks “more
- ' hopeful” to President Cooiidge it
was stated la hie behalf at the-cap-
' ltol Adminiatratlon spokesmen de-
dared that Ameirlca was yet unap
proached by foreign representatives
regarding participation in the
pa rations discussion
re-
City Will Have
Dairy Inspector
Mayor Orpni)orff Will Ask the
' Council id Pass City Ordi-
nance Making New Office
Mayor J- W Orendorff expects to
present to the city council an ordi-
nance providing for the means to
employ a dairy inspector as the
state law provides
There are In the vicinity 25 or
30 dairymen who own and milk
from to to 40 cows and means can
be found to1 have these men bear a
limited proportional amount to re-
imburse a competent man to make
the required inspections The State
Board of Agriculture hav agreed to
tend one of tbeir state officers over
heTe to help the local Inspector line'
up this work
TAX LEVY SO
BYSTATEBOARD
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Levy This Year Will Be Three
and Quarter Mills State
Hoard Says
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OKLAHOMA CITY Sept 11—
The state tag levy for the fiscal year
has" been set at three and a qaurter
mills at a meeting of the state equ-
alisation board here
The ’levy Includes a quarter mill
for road work The achool levy is
the same aa last year levy being a
half mill which 1 the constitutional
requirement ‘
' Governor Walton waa hot present
at the meet lo gw hen the tax was set
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AMERICAN DAY
Sunday September 1$ will be
Amerloan Day and will be ao ob-
served at the Methodist church when
Rev John Aberpathy wltl deliver a
discourse at‘li:00 o’clock A M ’
' Bov Abernathy Is President of
the Oklahoma Methodist College at
Tulsa and waa formerly a resident
of Okmulgee county acting ae pus-
(or of the Methodist church at 4k-
Bulges tor -many years He In known
as sepeaker of morlt and has many
(Honda ns Renryetta
Police Character
Had Commission
Deputy Sheriff Pulls One of
Waltons Police Out From Un-
der Railroad Car
Sunday morning about 1:00
o’clock as Deputy sheriff Oeo
Duties was making an investiga-
tion of the railroad yards ho
found a party concealed under one
of the cars and dragged the
man out and ‘shook hint down”
The party proved to be Jim
Mennefee and he carried a big
Colt’s six-shooter which was
taken from him Later the man
produced a commission from
Governor Walton as a special
officer and demanded his artil-
lery Mennefee Is k police character
here and the officers were some
what nonplussed to find such a
man carrying a commission
from the governor
GERMANY DENIES
ASKING TERMS1
Foreign Office Declares That 1
Passive Resistance Will
Be Continued '
Sept 11 — Chancellor j
jstreseman of Germany and the
I French Ambassador Margere have
rtarted negotiations in an attempt
jto find the general basis of a settle-j
ment of the Ruhr reparations prob
1 fiienv us IH0 num icpAintiuun
Iem aPcor(jing to aemi-officiaily con-!
firm&tion m
Germany is believed to be ijip-
Iproaching the announcement pfnl
definite offer JnJhe hopeaof ending
' Yriltf t ary occupation according
‘to Murgere
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JVftf f If) T S17 Ifl j
DOLLAR DAY IS
AGAIN POPULAR
Merchants Offering Special Ar-
ticles For Modest Sum of
One Dollar Only
ajjlEyes
Am On
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Tomorrow the merchants of Hen-
will hold another Dollar Bargain Day
sale which will be participated in by
most of the enterprising merchants
The first Dollar Day sale was held
last week and a brisk trade was en-
joyed by most : of the merchants
This week good results sre expected
as more merchants are taking part
in the sale '
Merchandise of quality and season-
ability has been selected by each
merchant from his atock and the
price reduced to the uniform price
of One Dpliar Several of the stores
are listing a number auch bargains
The thrifty buyers can no doubt
find plenty of bargains that appeal
to their needs for the modest sum of
one dollar
The advertisement of these enter-
prising merchants will be found ln
this leans o fthe Dally Standard Of-
ferings from nil classes of stores and
alt kind of merchandise are offered
These Dollar Day sales have become
regular weekly events and if well
patronised will gala favor and popu-
larity Si
M M Phyne' manager of the oil
and gaa department of the Eagle-
Pletier Lead and Bias cam pan y la la
Tulsa today eat basin
f f -
Walton Seems
Round of Battle With the Klan
Grand Dragon Jewett Orders Klan to Abide by Decision of Gov-
ernor in Laying Aside Masks and Gowns— -Klan Holds
Unmasked Meeting in Creek County
(By TJalted Press)
OKLAHOMA CITY Sept 11- The
governor is the victor in the first
round against the Klnn as the result
of the decision of Grand Dragon
Jewett to dispense with masks end
uniforms at the Bristow meeting
Thh meeting scheduled for t’oni-
manche county tonight will he allow-
ed to bo held if the clansmen nrej
peaceable and unmasked and unrob-j
ed according to county officials I
The governor declared his determ
ination was unchanged in his fignt
to prevent tlie appearance of masked
nun wliich would bring troops if
not attended to by County authorities’ !
A delecation of Tulsa citizens is at I !’’'1H5r 'cf'lorin? thp roads nnrt erect- oiiglnatois of the caravan idea that COull have takn the signals as benr-
a uei ga ion or tutsa citizens is at inK temporary barracks for the ikmulmv sent a large crowd over K dpon their own course and have
th capitol for a conference on the
situation in Tulsa county Investi-
gators there are continuing sporadic
arrests resulting in an Increase of
evidence being accumulated
No date can possibly be set for the
"evneuntion" of the county accord-
ing to Governor Walton
OKLAHOMA CITY Sept 11 —
Rowing to Governor J C Walton’s
edict against masked assemblages
state officials of the Ku Klux Klan
Issued Rn order hero early last night
forbidlng klansmen in Oklahoma to
hold masked parades or meetings
The decision of the klan officials
to aliide by the executive’s decree
wns announced by N C Jewett
grand dragon of the Oklahoma
Realm of the klun
it came when preparations were
under way by Governor Walton to
use troops If necessary to prevent a
series of klnn demonstrations sched-
uled over tlie state this week the
first of which was advertised for
Bristow last night
' Adjutant General B II Markham
bad been instructed early in the day
to hold guard units in readiness for
movement' to the counties in which
the klan parades were planned
"Tlio klan Ib for law and ' order
first laBt and all the time Because
of this fact any parade or masked
meeting of any kind in the state of
Oklahoma absolutely Is forbidden”
said the- statement of Grand Dragon
Jewett i
Masked assemblages - were placed
under the ban ‘ by Oovernor Walton
on tho ground that they would lead
to disorder and riot In forbidding
the apearance in publio of masked
men Governor Walton in a state-
ment issued Saturday asserted that
the trail of floggings and other mob
outrages in tho state led to masked
organisations He named the Ku
Klux Klan aa being responelbie for
virtually alt the mob’ activities la
Tulsa county which Is under martial
law v" i
Claude Whitehead of Hartshorn
Okla is la tha city visiting with
honefolks this week
With The Rising Sun
to Win the First
JAPAN BUSY WITH
REBUILDING PLAN
Armies of Workmen Swarm
Among Ruins Bring Order Out
of Chaos That Reigns
(By United Press)
TOKIO Sept 11 — Order is begin-
ning to emerge from the earthquake
and fire disaster here The city is a
beehive as an army of workmen nrp chants
homeless thousands
Another array is removing the de-
bris bringing to light the bodies of
additional victims Hundreds of
bodies are yet believed to be hurled
from sight under the wreckage
Official count of the bodies is run-
ning high
TAKAMAH Neb Sept 11 —
Slight earth tremors lasting for
thiry seconds followed by two ahocks
were felt here after midnight last
night The possibility of thunder
causing the quakes is discounted by
observers here
8AN FRANCISCO Sept 11— Di-
rect radio communications have
heed reestablished with Tokio foi j fnP Aaron claims he is the father
the-first time since the earthquake I of 3n (lldrPni 27 of whom are still
ten days ago The Radio corpora-1 lvjnK James has been married 46
tlo nof America announced that due
to the congestion no code message
would be handled
WASHINGTON Soptj 11— Early
returns from Red Cross chapteis
throughout the county showed a to-
tal' contribution to tha Jap relief
fund of $4854000 Forecasts were
that the fund would pass the five
million mark before night
Knights of Derrick
New T ulsa Society
Oil Men Orsrnize Social Society
to Assist in Entertainment
- At Oil Congress
TULSA Sept 11 — Plana for the
orgaalvation of "The Knlghta of the
Derrick” a social society for oil men
were launched here at s meeting of
the pageants and parades committees
of the International Petroleum Ex-
position tad Congress which will he
held her October 8-14 v s
' Tho bow organisation will be mod-
elled after the Veiled Propheta of
Bt Lonle the Priests of Pellea at
Kanaa City the Ak-8sr-Ben of
Omaha and the Sons of Sea Jacinto
at Baa Antonio but with th ono tm-
portat4tferee— it will ho lator-
nation: ) la Its character
HUNDRED CARS TO
JOIN IN JUBILEE
Hedryetta Citizens Expected to
Make Big Addition to the
Jubilee Crowds
The Heniyetla “caravan” to the
fair at Okmulgee will meet at the
foot of Cummings street Thursday
(at 1:30 p m according to an an-
nouncenient today by E H Francis
one of the committee appointed by
the Ketall Merchants Association
jwlio are in charge or the party
1 Mr Francis stated that while no
definite attempt lias been made as
vpt lo solicit cni8 for the journey lie
i was sure that little difficulty would
be expei lenced and expr-’t that at
! least ion ears would visit Henry
i tin’s 1 1 lendlv rival '''
I It was pointed out by Wm Sey-
mour secretary of the Retail Mer-
Association who were the
i to the King Koal Karnival and thnt
Henryetta should not be lacking In j
friendly spirit nml should have an'
equallv as large n crowd leave hero
for Okmulgee as Okmulgee sent to
lieniyettn
WIKLI 0000 MILKH
WITH HIS BABIES I
James I stlie only one of the 27 chll -
dren who has ever been in troublehas bpp hPeia Ma dogs at lnigel
Aaron James negro living near here iatplv and have be( n known to bite
declared in blaming the misfortune I a numbpr of (igs that will develope
on the faet hiH son was named for ablp8 la Ibe next sevetal weeks"
the famous outlaw Jesse was n(j PVPry precaution should be ta-
c barged with violating the prohibl- kpn to prevent them from biting and
tion law-and his aged father paid the inoculating school ehildien with this
dread disease”
Dr Mi Kinne told of several ex-
periences in the past that had not
only proved painful but expensive
from mad dogs
Mayor Oiendorff stated that tlie
“nroken Link" in the highway be
tween the end of coming street and
the paved road was to lie sui faced
with an asphalt and chnt mixture
STEIN that would no doubt prove success-
- 1 iful in fixing the holes along that
PARIS Sept 11 The Germans I '°al nml nls° lnv tlie dust that was
have Invaded Paris “ boutco or n great (leal of annoy
ance to the people living along the
road
Mr Francis called attention to
the Okmulgee county Jubilee and
the fact that the Henryetta repre-
sentatives who were going to at-
tend should meet at the end of Cum-
mings stieet Thursday afternoon at
1:80 o'clock
Mr J E Buckner and Lee Boers-
tter as the guests of John Orendorff
both made short talks -
Anthony Kubllus Pcout Master of
Troop No Two of tho Boy Bcouts
made a report of the xoys camping
trip on the Illinois river
The Club adjourned to meet again
next Tuesday noon
GERMAN INVADE PARIS
ARMED WITH HEAL
Read Dally
Standard
WANT ADS
j Rumor of Death of Red Leader
! — Soviet Overthrow is Denied
Germany Dispatch Says Trotsky Russian Military Dictator Had
Been Assassinated iand Soviet Overthrown But Russian
Embassy Denies Report-Rumors Still Rife
By United Press
BERLIN Sept 11 — The Russian Embassy here denied the
report that the Soviet government had been overthrown and Leon
Trotsky murdered The rumor is current here but the denial by
the embassy has tended to discredit the report
LONDON Sept 11 — The Berlin corespondent of Central
News forwarded a report from Moscow unconfirmed stating that
Leon Trotsky Soviet war minister had been murdered No de-
tails were given
DIVERS SEARCH
HULKS OF SHIPS
Trying to Find Bodies of Sailors
Drowned When Seven Navy
Ships Go Ashore
Br United Press
I OS ANGELES Sept 11 — Dorp
sea divers are prowling through the
surf around thu battered hulks of
tlie seven naval destroyers of I’omt
Agruella seanlilng for bodies of the
sailors believed entombed there
So far only three bodies have been
recovered
WASHINGTON Sept 11 — Lack-
ing even the barest official explana-
tion of the loss of seven firs'-das
de-trovers on the California const
! navv offiiials Monday night ton-
l tinned to withhold judgment on "lint
they termed the most -everp reace
tune li'ow the navy has ever mi“-
taim i!
Although regulations prescribed
that (very (ffort be made to forward
immediately names of dead and in-
jured in such cases no such list hal
been received at the department up
to a late hour Monday night Tbo
initial dispatch from Admiral Rob
!non commanding the Pacific 'I el
m'ormed the department that spe
olflc orders had born issued tor the
preparation and relay of this list
tlie duty being assigned to Captain
Eilwnrd H Watson commanding tlie
wrecked squadron
The theory advanced in press dis-
patches that radio operators on the
destroyers were thrown off their
reckoning by shore signals intended
for the Reno was declared by offi-
cials in the department to be doubt-
ful Leaving out of nil considera-
tion they said the material differ-
ence in location oi the stranded mail
steamer and tlie destroyer group
“position signal-' invariably are u(l -
dressed specifically to I h ship w inch
lias requested tin in Tins was held
to make it Improbable that all of
1 the operators
naval vessels j is a “Hoosiet tup” “caught lots of
fisli and saw lots of scenery and had
a good time” is tlie manner in whicn
lie describes lint ti ip
! “There Is no town in tlie west that
jinn rompnio with Henryetta ” lie de-
I clnrcd "We think we are having hard
jtimis Ik-io w lien we should see the
eonilil mil otlK-l places ale ill and then
we would teulize that wo arP not so
bad off after all ”
All dngs in Henryetta should be j all the supposed hard times
con ailed or muzzled” I ln Hfnryetia is just a mental condl-
acted if concert although one might
have done so
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LFCTCS JTA UZZllTlg
imuneized
said Dr McKinney
i'fore the Lions riub to day “There
Mr! and Mrs L F Potts who live
on a farm near Henryetta with
their son Mr 0 A Potts and Mra
Potts and two children nr apendlng
a weeks vacation in Arkansas near
Calico Rock
OKMULGEEDRAWS
JUBILEE CROWDS
Many Henryetta People Visit'
Big Mid-Continent Show at '
The County Seat
Manv Henryetta people attended
t lie Mid-Continent Jubilee and county
fair at Clmiiipeo yesterday and last
night Each day a feature program
of wild xvet lodco stunts proves the
1 lug amusi mi nt
The Jubilee opened yesterday with
a lug parade in the morning fol-
lowed by a rousing program of en-
tertainment On Thursday night Hie
Toint of Mirth" a royal pageant of
fun is to lie staged at the Hippj-
d i nine theatre This stunt promises
t Ik one of the best of the jubilee
aintist ments
Ihmsday afternoon Henryetta
people are going in a caravan to take
part in the jubilee flore than a
hundred automobiles are being pledg-
ed to carry local people and return
the visit of the Okmulgee boosters
here during the Koal Karnlval
This is a big week In Okmulgee
and those who are attending report
everything going smoothly for the
visitors amusement
SAYSHENRYETA-
LOOKS THE BEST
Carl J O'Hornett Returns fr-m
Summer’s Travel Still Boost-
ing Home Town
' Tliiie is no better city between
heir and Ios Angeles with exception
ol Kansas City than Henryetta” ac-
eotding to r J O'Hornett who lias
lju - t tctuiiud tioni an extensive trip
I to the roa-i and other points
Mr O lioirn-tt lias been gone for
several months on what he described
tio-i Thnte i-t no real cause for It” he
''onrlui ‘l-
WILL RESUME THE
WEEKLY DINNERS
Chamber of Commerce will Hold
First Luncheon After Sum-
mer Weather Thursday
I The regular weekly luncheon of
tho Chamber of Commerce will be
j resumed Thursday of this week ac-
i cording to an announcement by I)
1 C Eastiu secretary
Tho luncheons were discontinued
during the hot summer months
Mr Eastiu urged that all memb-
ers of the commercial body be pre-
sent at this meeting as a number of
vitally important matte) s would he
taken up and discussed
540 ACHE OF POTATOES
KIMBALL Neb Sept 11-— Frank
Cunningham known as the wheat
king of Western Nebraska la making
elaborate plans this year to become
the potato king of the state Cun
ningham has planted 540 acre with
potatoes With a fair yield he ex-
peots 60000 bushels which at even
90 cents a bushel would bring him
$45000 Despite tha fact that pota-
toes were sold at low prleax laat
year and even ted to hogs Cunning-
ham believed this would be a good
potato year and entered th Ventura
for the first time 1
- Phono 41 whoa yea hear o ( a aavt
item we thank yea i -
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Fellows, Carl H. Henryetta Daily Standard (Henryetta, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 134, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 11, 1923, newspaper, September 11, 1923; Henryetta, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2328499/m1/1/?q=del+city: accessed July 2, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.