VOLUME XVIII
PRYOR OKLAHOMA THURSDAY AUGUST 26 1925
NUMBER 26
Hunt For Man After
Fracas At Salina
A young man whose name is Stev-
ens U still at large having “hit the
brush" following a fracas at Salina
Saturday night August 8 In which
Haskell Halfbreed of Salina was
aeverly injured
Those who witnessed the affair
aay that Halfbreed was one of a
crowd on the outskirts of a tent meet-
ing at Salina and shortly before the
meeting came to a close young
8tevena came up and without any
provocation threw a rock at Half-
breed the missile hitting him on the
aide of the head slitting the ear
shell The impact of the rock knock-
ed Haskell down and in the ensuing
confusion Stevens and another young
fellow broke and ran toward the
Grand River bridge Halfbreed was
brought to Pryoy and the wound was
treated it was declared that had
the rock struck him an inch higher
he would have been killed instantly
There seems to have been a feel-
ing of enmity between the two young
men although friends of both are
keeping their mouths shut so the
real motive actuating the attack is
still mystery A writ has been
issued out of Judge Crouch's court at
Salina and the general impression
is that young Stevens is still in the
locality but at the present time he
has not been found
BIRTH REGISTRATION IS
URGED BY HEALTH DEPT
e
A campaign is now being conducted
in Mayes county for a complete reg-
istration of births and deaths as a
basis for more accurate vital statis-
tics The campaign is being super-
vised by the state department of
health in an effort to carry to every
parent in Oklahoma the importance
of registration
Oscar C Noble of Sallisaw con-
nected with the bureau of Vital sta-
tistics visited Pryor Friday and in
an interview with this paper gave the
Information that Mayes county is
making a splendid showing in the
matter of registration
The United States Census Bureau
requires a report from each county
with an average of 25 births to each
thousand of population during the
year This is the minimum At one
time Mayes county had an average
of M and last year it was reported
to have had 28
"It is difficult to impress upon peo-
ple the importance of registering
births" Mr Noble said "We lose
no time in registering our blooded
calves pigs and even our dogs but i
we are perfectly willing to let the
birth of our babies go unrecorded"
Many people ask Mr Noble why
it is necessary to record births
They seem to regard the whole pro-
ceeding as “nonesense” But is really
an important matter not only to the
government but it ia a matter of
justice to the child itself said Mr
Noble Continuing he said "Every
day there Instances on record whrre
a person loses his claim on a val-
uable estate simply because he is
unable to produce a birth certificate
Every child has a right to this pio-
lection "The time for a birth to lie record
Contractor Earl Johnson of this
city was the successful bidder for
the erertion of the new school build-
ing at Spavinaw Mr Johnson was
j ! i i- i i u kne of seven bidding for the job
r although m bid of $725000 w
but even if the child is a yeur old
or more you can still haw the re-
cord made You may either rnte ifi(atiolm
direct to the Bureau of V ital Ma- I
Unties at Oklahoma City or go to
your nearest local registrar"
The State Health Department is
doing all within its power to bring
this matter to the attention of the
general public and thus overturn
the spirit of indifference toward a
vital matter
Following is a list of the regis-
trars in Mayes county:
Pryor R L Terry
Ailair Dr I C White
Choteau H V Grant
Locust Grove Mrs E S McCoy
Salina Louise Griffith
Strang Roscoe Carlton
Spavinaw William H Bell
"JUDGE" BENNETT CALLS
H A Bennett Justice of the peace
from Spavinaw was a pleasant call-
er at the Kepublhan office Wed- r
nesday inquiring for a copy of the be had by all
Republican dated July 30 which hr
declared contained an article about LEONARD REED IS
him with reference to his alleged 1
activities as fish warden st Spavinaw
Alhough the article referred to men-
tioned no names Mr Bennett seem
to think he was the person the arti-
cle had reference to snd It Is report-
ed that he was planning to sue the
Mayes County Republican for libel
or slander or something of thut sort
At last report however the manage-
ment has been served with no paper
THEY MERE GOOD SPORTS
A regular old fashioned “chira-
vari" was staged Tuesday night en-
gineered by Dutch Whitaker and
Kollin Ailair and the rest af the
fellows the '“victims" being Mr
through
and Mrs -Bill McCullough The
newlyweds were paraded
Main Street riding in m two-weeled
cart drawn by a horse following
whr)i cam a procession ol cars
raising a big hullabaloo ' After
Bill and his wife had been refresh-
ed with a limeade apiece the horse
was unhitched and Bill was purxuad-
ed to furnish locomotive power
Bill and his wife proved to be the
best of sports and a plica red to be
enjoying the fun as much as anybody
CLAIMS RECORD WITH A
54 YEAR OLD RAZOR STROP
' J M Merritt of Salina Is the
latest claimant to the Mayos County
Republican’s "Razor Strop Champ-
ionship” Mr Merritt has - in his
possession a razor strop which has
been in use for fitty-four years
having been purchased in 18fi8 in
Louisville Kentucky
Mr Merritt has passed his 75th
birthday and has used this one strop
since the time he bought it He also
claims the distinction of having never
been shaved by a barber in his life
A previous claimant of the champ-
ionship was Ralph Campbell of Pryor
who has a strop he has used twenty-
nine years
Another claimant was J W Malone
of Pryor with a strop he has used
21 years Mr Malone says he also
has a razor that he has used for 21
years and the same razor was used
two years in a barber shop before
he bought it "And they both do
good work yet" he says
Thus far the record is held by
J M Merritt of Salina witjt a 54
year old razor strop Who can beat
this record?
Young Boy Charged
With Housebreaking
Ieslie Brooner age 17 was arrest-
edTuesday by City Marshal Austin
Whitaker and is being held pending
his trial on a charge of having en-
tered Sears' Cash Store The Jeffer-
son Highway garage and Ralph
Campbell’s Jewelry store on the night
of August 17
The Sears’ Store was relieved of
several pairs of shoes and some small
change The Jefferson Highway
Garage lost between $4 and $5 in
money The Sears’ Store was en-
tered from the rear and exit was
made through the front door En-
trance of the Jefferson Highway
Garage was effected through the
front window a pane of glass hav-
ing been removed The Campbell
Store was entered through a rear
window although nothing thus far
has been missed from that place
FARMERS AT DAWKS
f MEET FRIDAY NIGHT
M B Eberhard W T Litten and
Wm Kiesel will be the speakers at
I a Farmers' Meeting to be held to-
morrow (Friday) nihbat thq Dawes
school house beginning at 8 o'clock
Mr Eberhard and Mr Kiesel are
temporary president and secretary of
the Mayes County Tax Payers League
and Mr Litten is the principal speak
er Instead of holding a big mass
meeting to organize the Tax Payers'
league the plan adopted is to hold
meetings in the various school dis-
tricts and organize from the "grass
roots' up Considerable interest has
been manifested in the organization
and it has been taken up with enthu-
siasm wherever presented
PRYOR CONTRACTOR LANDS
SPAVIN AW SCHOOL JOB
not the lowest it was the only one I
that complied strictly with the rules j
Owing to alterations in the origin-1
al plans the completed job will prob-1
ably cost a thousand dollars mure j
than the price specified M T liar-
tnan tnepnee aperuieu a i nar-
dfn Muskogee is the arrhiUrt
Work will begin ‘immediately this
paper is informd
COLE FARMERS MEET
TOMORROW EVENING
A rousing meeting of the Farmer'
Union local at Cole northeast of
Pryor will be held tomorrow (Fri-
day) night This will be an open
meeting for social fellowship and
will tie attended by farmers and their
families
Outside speaker on this occasion
will be Earl Witt superintendent of'
w --
the Whitaker State Home and Sam
F Campbell of Pryor Twenty gal
Ions of ire cream have been ordered
for the “party” and a good time will
SUED FOR DAMAGES
Leonard Reed has been sued in J
District Court for alleged damages
by W C Woods and wife In thei
information It is slated that the car j
driven by Reed struck the rear of
the buggy in which Mr and Mrs
Woods "and two chijiiren weTe riding j
on the evening of July 12 on the j
road near the John McCoy home !
south of Pryor Actual damage in'
the sum of $100 are asked and ex-
emplary damages in the sum of $l
000 also
TWO IN SAIIN4 P O CONTEST
A Civil Service examination will
be given In Pryor Saturday for the
purpose of filling the position of
postmaster at Salina The present
purpose
r
postmaster C K Lindsey will he '
an applicant to succeed himself
the other candidate being Undrr-
sherifT T Wyman Thompson
The British have raised the price
of rubber enough to pay their an -
nual debt installment to the United
States and why doesn't Italy do the
same by boosting the cost of Spa-
gbettl?
Tourist Arrested For
Carrying A Pistol
L B Jahn of Altus was arrestod
Wednesday morning by Foster Fisher
deputy sheriff on the Grand River
bridge between Choteau and Loii-i
Grove and brought to Pryor ‘jt
trial on a charge of “carrying pis-
tol” Jahn stated that he was with a
group of vacationists and the gun
had been carried in the car H
says they got out of the car and
were standing on the bridge and
he was holding the gun in his hand
when Fisher came along and placed
him under arrest
Complaint was issued by County
Attorney Powell and Jahn was tried
before Judge Caves Wednesday af-
ternoon He was let off with the
lightest fine possoble $2500 It
was reported that the entire party
of tounss were highly indignant and
stated they were victims of a techni-
cality Their opinion of May
county is said to be not the st
favorable!
WAGONER KIWAMANS
MEET WITH C t
About a dozen men from Wagoner
members of the Kiwanis Club of that
city came to Pryor yesterday noon
and attended the noonday luncheon
of the Pryor Commercial Club The
delegation was headed by Bob Mo-
Guire president of the Kiwanis Club
of Wagoner who outlined the work of
that organization telling how it de-
velop a spirit of good will and fel-
lowship Judge Watts spoke at some
length "spreading the Kiwanis gos-
pel" and several other visitors also
spoke
The meeting was presided over by
Earl Witt acting nhairman of the
Commercial Club Mayor Thus J
Harrison gave an address of welcome
Senator Harve Langley gave an
account of the Farmer-Commercial
Club tour to Springdale
MERRITT BOUND OVER
TO DISTRICT COURT
Beecher Merritt charged with hav-
ing driven the car which struck Miles
Donelson near Radium Springs July
3rd was given his preliminary triul
term of District Court U "£“'
The charge against Merritt wa-4"1 ’
Assault with Dun vermin U’mboiw U Uf)0n hmeK dmJnucter
auk un uaniferou weapon iif f nm v -i— a
Witnesses for the state wre question-
ed but the defense witnesses were
not railed County Attorney Pawell
directed the prosecution and Harry
Seaton represented Merritt
IT’S DRY IN NEW MEXICO
Mrs May Bassett one of the Re-
publican’s most faithful and reliable
subscribers semis in her renewal
from ‘way down in New Mexico
She lives at Venus N M and says
that section of the country has suf-
fered terribly from the drouth this
year This is the fourth year of
extremely dry weather and she says
it is too dry there this year to even
plant anything A rain which fell
the 4th of July was the first rain
they had for a year "This certain-
ly in a desert compared with Okla-
homa” she says
CYE GOT IN A HURRY
They tell a good one on Cye
Samuel Pryor's versatile hardware
merchant and ex-mayor Cye went
on the the trip to Springdale with
te rest of the gang last Friday lie
wait ea(f(r beKjn crun )in the
lusdlllili o lopped hi car
when he esme to the first likely look
ing vineyard crawled over the fence
and fell to work He is said to have
gotten well underway when his cone
psnions sized up the situation snd
I he was appraised of the fact that
1 he had made a serious mistake “Hi
thr Cye” they yelled “come out of
that You're eating poke berries”
DAVID CUMMINGS DEAD
David Cummings prominent citl-
of Adair and post master of
(that city for a number of year
under tne Wilson Administration
died at hi home Sunday after a
lingering illness The funeral was
conducted under the auspice of the
Masonic order Monday many of the
Masonic brothers and friembi being
I present from Pryor
R RBEK COMMITS SUICIDE
L S Beaver for eighteen year
i barber at' Vinita where he was
ctive in churrh and rivit affair
committed suicide Monday morning
rutting his throat with a razor
Despondency on account of il health
jf rue attributed for the rash
survived by his wife
NOTICE
All students who wish to take
post graduate course in the local
' "'8' mhool during the coming school
yer enroll at on with Mr C arter
j Principal or Mr M ilkerson Supt
Daisy Marion of Kansas City is
a new subscriber to the Mayes County
Republican this week
Clay Robbins of near Choteau’ was
! a pleasant caller at the' Republican
office Monday afternoon
I -
No subscription taken for less than
I nix months— Subarrlbe now
Start Ball Rolling
On Marketing Plan
A joint committee of farmers tnd
business men will meet shortly to
formulate plans for a big mass meet-
lug of farmers interested in fruit snd
truck growing in Mayes county The
Committee of farmers will be com-
posed of M R Eberhard President
of the Mayes County Farmers' Union
Frank E Woods southwest of Pryor
Roy T Conn south of Pryor and
Frank L Huggans north of Pryor
The committee appointed by the Pry-
commercial club is composed of Harry
Seaton T C Bowling and C L
Samuel
The appointing of the joint-committee
was a suggestion coming from
the farmers who went on the Spring-
dale trip Friday It was proposed
that some actioi) be taken immedi-
ately while interest was aroused and
while enthusiasm Is at its height
The purpose of the committee is to
make plana for a big meeting at
whMi farmers will be asked to
pledge acreage next year definitely
to fruit and truck crops After the
acreage has been secured an as-
sociation will be formed to affiliate
with the Ozark Marketing Asaoria-
tlon FIRST COTTON SOLD
IN PRYOR TUESDAY
Harrison Wilson living southeast
of Choteau brought the first load of
cotton to Pryor this year The cot-
ton came in Tuesday morning and
was unloaded at the gin owned by
the Mayes Mercantile Co
The load wegher 1790 pounds and
?Mr Wilson received eight cents per
pound for it The load was brought
in fully ten days earlier than was
expected
A premium of $25 was given to
Mr Wilson for having brought in the
first cotton A purse was made up
by the business men of Pryor in the
sum of $50 Of this sum $25 was
to go to the man bringing in the
first load $15 to the on bringing
in the second and $10 to the one
bringing in the third
licking" to Bill Kinsey also of near
Locust Grove Sunday night follow-
ing a religious meeting at Iron Post
school house
A warant was issued by Judge
Adam Glenn of Locust Grove for
the arrest of Kowbotham Monday
and after a trial he was fined $100
and costs on a charge of fighting
PLACE BIG ORDER
FOR NEW FORD CARS
The Mayes County Motor Com-
pany has placed a big order for the
1926 Model Ford cars 250 of the cars
having been requested from the fac-
tory W T Gooldy says he could
place about a dozen of the new cars
now if he could get them
Among the recent purchasers of
car are W C Large and I E
Addington both farmer living near
Salina who purchased Ford Trucks
SCHOOL KIDDIES TO
TAKE IN STATE FAIR
The State Fair in Oklahoma City
1 making preparation for a bom-
bardment of school children of Mayes
county County School Superinten-
dent Lelia Morgan has just received
5300 free school childrens tickets
good for School Childrens Day at the
State Fair Friday October 2nd As
soon as school opens these tickets
will be distributed to every teacher
in the rural and city schools in this
county who in turn will pass them
on to the school shildren 700000
free tickets have been aent out by
the State Fair to all the achool child-
ren in the state
Preparations are being made by
the State Fair to entertain 50000
Oklahoma school children on Friday
October 2nd Last year over 30000
were present on School Childrens Dsy
Almost every county in the state I
was represented In the 1924 fair j
Many counties sent from 500 to 1000
Realizing the importance of School
Childrens Dsy the State Fair has
secured many special attractions pur-
posely to amuse and entertain Okla-
homa school children A deluge of
circus stunts animal acts fireworks
shows snd special features will be
in Oklahoma City to greet the young
visitors A daily baloon ascension
has been secured especially for them
Without a doubt present indications
are that the 1925 Stale Fair will
break everv attendance record in its
19 year history Plana are being
worked out to accomodate a quarter
of a million visitors this year Hun-
dreds of entries from almost twenty
states are being received daily With
many new features added to this
surpass any
Oklahoma along
amtsement and educational line
program it will
offerH lB 0kli
The George D Hope Lumber Co
of this city 1 selling the cement for
construction of a school house st
loot upon which work began this
week
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MOTOR BOAT RACES
ON SPAVINAW LAKE
Plana are under way for a motor
boat race to be held at Spavinaw
Lake in Mayea county on Labor
day September 7
Three races are to be held The
first will be over a distance of three
miles The race is open to outboard
motors rated not above three horse-
power The second race is over a course
of two and a half miles and is open
to motors not rated above three
horsepower
The feature race ia over a five-
mile course It ia a free-for-all open
to all outboard motors not rated
above three horeapower
While only uniform boats may be
used in the first two race any kind
of boat may enter the last race
Prizea are to be awarded
Rule for the race are set by the
Missouri Power Boat association
and dealers and professionals will
nut be allowed to compete for prizes
Greedy Pryor Ginks
Gobble Gobs of Grapes
MMW
Returning from the Farmer-Commercial
Club tour to Springdale last
Friday most of the men who made
the trip have been talking about very
little else than how many pounds of
grapes they consumed while in Ar-
kansas The party left early Friday morn-
ing for Springdale They found here
an enormous crowd here attending
the annual grape festival To show
their hospitality every business house
in town had grapes which were dis-
tributed free to the ' visitor Each
visitor was given three baskets of
grapes to be mailed to frienda and
relatives
The trip was an eye-opener to all
who went and they came back filled
with enthusiasm for the cooperative
marketing idea as has been carried
out in and around Springdale Can-
ning factories were visited a well
as the grape Juice factory of the
Welch Grape Juice Company
BAILEY HEARD FROM
W T Bailey the Pryor grape and
strawberry grower was in the city
this morning on his way home from
attending the grape festival at
Springdale i Arkansas and a visit
at Monett and Neosho Missouri Mr
Bailey went to Springdale with a
delagation from Pryor last Friday
but found that one day was not suf-
ficient to get in touch with the
grape industry so remained two days
at Springdale He says that about
20000 people were there for the fes-
tival and over six tons of grapes were
riven nway to the visitor Mr
Bailey is of the opinion that East-
ern Oklahoma has even better pos-
sibilities for rrape culture than
Arkansas and Missouri This year
an acre of grapes on his place east
of Pryor sold for more than $500
He went out to John Wise's home
this morning to look it over — Vinita
JoumaL
IT WAS TOO HOT
It was too darned hot to shoot
last thurxday but some fairly decent
scores were made nevertheless
Judge Brewster is better at "shooting
’em" from the bench than from be-
hind the traps but his friends say
he ia pretty good at squirrels Mr
Whitaker will catch up with her hus-
band one of these day and then
there’ll be some real shooting The
score best out of 25 target follows:
Austin Whitaker 21
Homer Dunham 20
C C Hiittenmeyer
Dr Jones )9
John Duffield 14
Rollin Adair 14
Eddie Kelsey ”13
Mrs Austin Whitaker 11
Leu Chitwood g
Judge Brewster 5
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To start reading the new story "Sinner in Heaven” which
to now only beginning A few copies of last week's issue
containing the first chapter of thia absorbing narrative nrw
still available
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To know that in no bother paper ran they obtain as much
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features state news and- pictorial news
Tulsa Water Line
Spouts A Geyser
A roar that could bo heard half
m mile was the signal lending to the
discovery in a break in the Tuism-'
Spavinaw water line at a point six
miles southwest of Pryor at about
11 o’clock Tuesday night Investi-
gation showed n column of water
14 inches in diameter was spouting
about 20 feet in the air in the form
of a regular geyser
James LeMaster who was on duty
nt Spavinaw Junction a half mile
east of the leak reported the matter
at once and representatives of the
Tulsa water department went imme-
diately to Spavinaw and turned the
water off
Meantime a big lake had formed
over the manhole and water in great
3uantities had flowed down n gully
R McKenzie of Pryor represen-
tative of the Lock Joint Company
got busy yesterday afternoon and be-
gan to pump the water from over
the manhole so that the damage
could be repaired
It ia the general opinion that some
one seeking to secure water for
stock had loosened the bolts holding
the manhole cover with the inten-
tions of letting some water flow out
It ia supposed that he loosened one
bolt too many and the pressure of
the water did the rest
During the repair period whkh
will probably last another 24 hours
the city of Tuism will receive water
through the high pressure reservoir
from Mohawk Lake
“REVENGE IS SWEET
SAY EARL AND DUTCH
This is n tale of peppery water-
melon a baseball game and a lone-
some ride on a train
Characters: Rollin Adair city clerk
"Dutch" Whitaker and Earl Mc-
Cracken It all came about because of a
practical joke Rollin played on Earl
and Dutch some time ago It seems
that Rollin had a watermelon upon
which Dutch and Earl cast covetous
eyes Knowing they planned to get
the melon from him Rollin took it
to his office plugged it and loaded
it good and heavy with red pepper
Act 2 In due season the two con-
spirator came in posession of the
melon cut it in two and dug deep
in the luscious fruit Why say more?
Tis too sad to repeat Suffice to say
say that Earl and Dutch shed some
crocidile tears and could hardly speak
they were so overcome with emotion
— and pepper
Act 3 Aug 9 Earl invited Dutch
and Rollin to join him in his car
for a little trip te Adair to attend
n ball game The boya being ‘broke’
Rollin good naturedly dug down in
his jeans and brought three gallons
of gas and a quart of oil for the trip
Reaching Adair they found an ad-
mission was charged for the game
So Rollin dug up for that Then
while the- game was at its height
Earl and Dutch sneaked back to the
car and beat it
Act 4 A lane and forsaken Rollin
hied himself to the Katy depot after
the ball game just in time to catch
the train for Pryor Arriving the
first persons he saw were Earl and
Dutch sitting in the car ready to
give him the merry "ha-ha"
Kollin has issued no threats but
the two boys are keeping a watch-
ful eye for a reprisal However it
is thought that a truce will be de-
clared — for a while at least
FUTTRKLL TO HAVE
BIG JERSEY SALE
An auction sale of Jersey cattle
will be held at the A F Futtrell
farm one mile west of Salina on
the old George Grace farm Wednes-
day September 9 Mr Futtrell has
a fine herd of Jerseys and this event
will be of unusual interest to farm-
ers interested in good cattle
Jewelry and watch repairing
We do high grade work and we
charge reasonable prices
Hiittenmeyer Jewelry Store