The Democrat (Beaver, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 19, 1918 Page: 1 of 6
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Beaver, Beaver County, Oklahoma, Thursday, December 19. 1918
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CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
Jewelery and Cut Glass.
Fountain Pens.
Books.
Cameras.
Silverware.
Toys.
Candies and Cigars.
And many other articles.
Something for every n ember of the famity.
Just come in and see what we have for presents.
DAVIS DRUG COMPANY
Corbett Nicholson Nuptials.
A pretty home wedding occurred in
our city Wednesday, December 11th,
at 8 o'clock p. m., when J. I. Corbett
was united in wedlock to Miss Mildred
Nicholson at the home of the bride's
parents, Dr. and Mrs. E. 0. Nicholson.
The house was beautifully decorated
for the occasion, which was attended
by only relatives and a few close
l'riends, those present Ouisit'e of tl «
immediate family being, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Smith and Mr. and Mrs. James
Crabtree. Rev. J. E. Perkins of the
M. E. Church pronounced the brief
ceremony.
The bride is one of the best known
and most highly esteemed young ladies
in this community, having lived here
the past three or four years and ob-
tained an extensive acquaintance. Pre-
vious to taking up her present position
with the Panhandle Dept. Store, of
which Mr. Corbett is manager, she
taught school with excellent success.
Last year she was employed at Mocane.
The groora hps been a resident of
this community for only about a year,
but during this time has made many
friends. As manager of the Panhandle
Dept. Store he has built up a splendid
business. He is very popular among
his business associates and other
townspeople,- being manager of tie
Beaver County Band, and also head of
the Lyceum Course.
A host of friends will unite with us
in extending congratulations and well
wishes for a long and happy wedded
life.
To show their appreciation and inter-
est, friends of the bride and groom
,r.,Vo 11 '■! :>rivari Thursday night
land, deeming this not sufficient, the
band serenaded them the next night
and escorted them down to Jeff's Place
in an old wagon, where the treats were
l again in order.
While Wilson was producing re-
sults, Roosevelt was only producing
| idle remarks.. While Roosevelt was
| saying he couldn't, Wilson was prov-
! ing that he could. The part that his-
I tory will ascribe to Roosevelt for
helping to win the war will by po
means be an enviable one. Roose-
velt did everything he could, in ev-
ery way he could and every time he
could to obstruct the President's war
program as an abslructionist and false
prophet. Roosevelt is a howling suc-
cess with the accent on the '"howl-
ing."—The Alva Pioneer.
_ ., . R A. MAPLE, Vice-President
W. E. HOCKER, President
FIRST STATE BANK
FORGAN, OKLAHOMA
Prepared to Extend Every Courtesy Consistent with
Sound Banking. Deposits Guaranteed.
O. H. CAFKY, Cashier
C. W. McKEAN, Asst. Cashier
UNFORESEEN EVENTS
are liable to sadden an otherwise hap-
py holiday-fire may sweep away your
savings of years. Consolation, though,
if your property is insured through us,
in one of the soundest insurance com-
panies extant. Good plan if you would
sleep soundly Xmas Eve to see us this
day about insurance on real or personal
property.
St. Paul Agency
I have the best Farm Loan proportion in Beaver county
See me before closing any loan
H. N. LAWSON Oklahoma
By Herbert Kaufman
You're the man who drove the |
fairies out of their dells; the gnomes ■
hide as you enter the woods; the
squirrels won't talk to you; you don'i
understand what the wind says a'
night; and you can't even «ee he lace I
of the man In the moon.
You weren't content to have the
butterflies flutter past In th" nun-
i^ht; you cnutfht tlttim, to Ud tbo
spangles on their wings ant the mo-
ment you touched the gaure all the
ourple and the K< ld rubbed off and
they died In your hands.
Yini ><'t a snare fo' ttv' rainbow. |
•ind .• r:er you'd trapped it in your
or.-.m it stopped being i i.vtnho'v and
|u> t turned into a haze rf c iloreJ
iKhts.
Oh. the fortunes and tortunes
vou've lost—all your dreams—all
vour faiths! You've sold your birth-
rights. And now you're alone, and
miles and miles away from homo.
You set forth in the wrong direc-
tion through the gate of years—down
the path < r tears. Why. already
there's grey In your hair; so how ca'
you know about Santa I'laus?
You wenl hunting for him. Just a
you searched for the pixies and elves
and of course you couldn't find him
because doubt blurred your «>< s
Your name is on his "blacklist. H'
never stops at your chimney.
At which, you probably shrug you
boulders, and sniff and sneer ai
want us to Ihink that he doesn't e:
ist. But —
Way down in your heart (in a tit-
le lonesome corner which belonged to
\ forlorn boy who got lost Inside of
•oil) volt know that Christmas is real.
that there is a Santa Claus, and that
ie rides over all the world in a sin-
gle night—in a wonderful sleigh that
simply can't be emptied, no matter
'low many guns and drums and horses
and dolls and locks and books he
takes from it.
You've heard the bells on his rein-
leer when they champed on the gab-
ies as he wheezed and puffed and
squeezed down the tight old chimney
olace. (You never could understand
how he managed to get through it.
because it wasn't really a chimney,
but just a hole, no bigger than a
stove pipe. But the chimney didn't
pinch at all- you believed that he
would come, and faith widened the
way for him.)
He always brought the very things
which vou wrote, too. Mother helped
you with the letter—and you and she
composed it. She guided your hand,
and even suggested what to ask for.
But you sealed the envelope all by
yourself, and mother took it with her
the next morning, because she knew
the exact letter box from which he re-
ceived his mail.
Where are your sneers now! You
know you'd give half the world to go
back tonight aud crawl upstairs to
the bed room under the eaves and
wish things again—half the world to
sleep at home one more Christinas
Eve.
No boy ever truly slept on the eve;
but vou pretended to with all your
might and main. And when mother
and father tiptped into the room and
stood beside the cot you peeped
through one half-opened lid and won-
dered why he kissed her. And once
a moonbeam slipped in and fell on
her face and you saw tears on her
lashes.
And as it grew later, and the wind
howled and howled and the branches
of the old locust slapped against tbf
window, you moved over and pinched
brother to keep him awake, as you
i had promised.
It. seemed that a whole year of
nights before you heard the sleigh
bells. Mv! You lay still and squeezed
l your eyes shut and you gave a snorty
I snore, for fear Santa Claus might
| come upstairs and catch you wait-
I ing And you didn't move again
| until you heard father lock his door.
Then you crepfc down stairs. The
parlor was dark; but the stove was
red-hot and its glow showed the
ghostly row of stockings on the
mantel. The big lump in the bottom
of yours was an apple—you knew
(hat. without touching it; he always
stuck an apple in the toe; and the
thing slicking out was a jumping
jack, which he'd put in the top foi
good measure, without your even
I asking for it. (He must have had
plenty of jumping jacks, to be so
I liberal with them.) ,
And over in the corner stood th<-
tree. You never did figure out how
he got it down the chimney without
smudging the angel with soot.
The angel stood at the very top,
! and she had silver wings that glist-
ened like snow, and all over the
branches were golden whirlmajigs
! and glass balls and red-striped pep-
permint canes and cornucopias with
pictures pasted on them, and festoons
of pop-corn and chains of red and
blue and green and yellow and white
paper. The toys were spread around
on the floor.
Your gun with a bayonet was rest-
ing against a "real-skin" horse, and
on the other side was a soldier set
mounted on a big red card with gold
edges.
Sister's doll, which could open anu
shut its eyes (just as she asked), was
resting as comfortably as you please
in a blue rocking chair that was
meant to be used.
And the baby's shoo-flv had a rat-
tle and a closed box on the tray that
hung between the heads of the dapple
grays.
NEW si lis AND RKNEWAL8
A. A. McCurdy. Beaver
H. A. Busing Meade. Kans.
H. R. 1 Midget. Monte VUta, Colo.
Chan. Waas, Billings
O. S. Miller. Liberal, Kans.. 3 yrs.
Minnie A. Sprague. Elmwood
Mrs. C. W. Sublette, Tuscon, Arl«.
1'. H. Everhard, Wichita. Kans.
John A. Swallow. Oate
Viola Brake, Balko
() C. Shearer. Balko
W. H. Douglas. Logan
J. L. Still, Liberal, Kans.
L. M. Bowden Ixtgan
G. A. Swain, Madison
H. C. Kenagy, Whittler. Calif.
C. L. Rogers. St. Louis, Mo.
Paul W. Haver, Englewood, Kans.
J. D. Adams, LaKemp
J. N. West, Dombey
J. G. Krouse. Beaver
Elizabeth Lawler, Liberal. Kans
C. C. Campbell, Elmwood
M. R. Bllstrup. Logan
Roy LeeKlnney, Lorena
G. P. Anderson LaKemp
H. H. Gaede, Lorena
Adam Walters, Pawnee
A. B. Cllne. Gray
W. H. Danlelson. Reaver
Claude McCune, Elmwood
Mrs. Nellie Stouder, Aurora, Colo
8. R. Arnett, Lorena
H. J. Welch, Elmwood
H. Verhflst. Forgan
F. E. Nichols, Forgan
J. O. Judd, Jr., Beaver
Farmers State Bank, Knowles
Sam Kallail, Towanda, KanB.
H. DeWltt, Knowles
W. O. l>ane Madison
B. F. Green, LaKemp
G. W. Powgrs, Gray
C. E. Colvin, Balko
Will Mason, Beaver
T. J. Holland. Mlnneola, Tex.
W. T. Finley, Liberal. Kans.
T. D. Duble, Riverside
J. W. Maple, Wilmore, Kans.
A. P. Owen, Lorena
M. E. Homman, Beaver
John Baker, Englewood, Kans.
Art Puinn. Beaver
Mrs. O. A. Parham, Beaver
W. F. Lang, Beaver
J. A. Lancaster, Balko
J. S. Settle, Balko
Walter Taylor, Boyd
H. C. Mitchell, Beaver
G. F. Beck, Logan
H. H. Strasburg, .Beaver
John E. Swaim, Stillwater
R. E. Judd, Tulsa.
Through all the highway®
and by-way# of the New Year
may you find success and
happiness at every turning.
This is the wish we send to
our many friends and pa-
trnns at the begii i ing of a
new and portentous year.
LONG & LAWSON
Beaver and'Forgan, Oklahoma
Deaths of the Week.
Dee. lOtb. Infant daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Guy Bennett, age 2 days.
Interment in Clear Lake cemetery De-
cember llth.
Dec. 14th.-Clara Hiebert, age Si
years and 6 months, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank J. Hiebert of Elm-
wood, died of pneumonia. Interment
in Mountain View cemetery, Dec. 14th.
Dec. 10th.-William F. Lindow, age
50 years, 9 months and 25 days. Inter-
ment in Beaver cemetery December
16th, Rev. Carson officiating.
Dec. —. Mrs. Fred Just, of near
Balko. Funeral December 17th. In-
terment in Balko cemetery.
ANOTHER CASUAI/TY
Chas. Hill of near Gray Is In re-
1 ceipt of a telegram from the war de-
partment notifying him of the death
of his brother, Luther Hill, who died
of wounds received in action in
France on November 6th. This was
only five days before the signing of
the armistice and seccession of hos-
tilities.
Luther Hill lived in Beaver county
two or three years and had many
friends in the vicinity of Blue Mound
where he was employed. He was a
fine young man and an industrious
worker and the news of his death
will be deeply felt by those who knew
him.
THE CASK OP MR. WALSH
As Christmas will soon be here and
our lady readers will need a little ex-
tra money, we reproduce the following
from an exchange;
It appears that a Mr. Walsh, of
Kansas City, became somewhat in-
censed because his wife, whom he
had not given any too large an
amount of a weekly allowance, went
through his trousers pockets one
night and extracted the more or less
muniflcient Bum of one dollar and
ninety five cents.
We do not have complete records
of the case but Mr. Walsh proceeded
to chastise his better half. He would
inform her that the money in his.
trousers pocket belonged to him. He
would tell her in plain terms that his
money belonged to him o' nights as
well as of days. And he would give
her to understand that she must leave
his purse alone thereafter or suffer
some dire calamity.
But the Mrs. Walsh was not to be
bluffed. Certainly not;
After her husband had admin-
istered a little punishment upon tier
she sought the courts.
And now Judge Fleming—he will
be a favorite with the women folk
from now on—fined the trate hus-
bahd the sum of one hundred dollars
and costs.
But that was not all. The Judge
called the husband up before the
bar—the bar of the court a Ad in-
formed him that the wife am' the
court hangers-on that "a wifu 1 t.8 a
right: lo a share of her husbi id's
earnings whether he gives it to her
willingly or she has to remove it
froi i his pockets after he has re-
I tired."
In many households this will be
considered a history making decis-
ion. Many women will look upon
it as superior In real importance to
the Dred Scott decision or the Dan-
bury hatters case.
And it will not be allowed to go
down Into oblivion for woman after
woman, wife arter wife, will remind
husband of It for years and years.
Just listen a little and you are apt
to hear It.
Entertained at 500.
Monday night was most delightfully
spent by members of the Five Hun-
dred Club and a few guests at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Davis.
The house was beautifully decorated
with Christmas bells and streamers,
and five tables were filled. Refresh-
ments consisted of whipped cream des-
sert, cake and coffee. On each plate
as it was served were two little burn-
ing tapers, and on Mr. DaviB's were
twelve, making fifty in all. This was
in honor of Mr. Davis, it being his
birthday, and it was a com-
plete surprise to him as he had for-
gotten all about the matter. The
guests dispersed just before the lights
went out.
Card of Thanks
We desire to express our sincere
thanks and appreciation to the friends
and neighbors who so kindly assisted
during the illness and death of our hus-
band, son and brother, and also those
who gave flowers.
Mrs. H. S. Grikfy,
T. S. Griffy and Family.
Forget the Red Cross Roll Call
and you will be lonesome.
Balko State
Bank
CAPITAL STOCK $10,000
Deposits Guaranteed
You had no business to touch that:
got a good scare when an impudent i
red-no&ed Jack, with carrot-colored
whiskers popped up and shook his cap
in your face.
Besides all these gorgeous gifts
from Santa Claus were two handker-
chiefs for mother and carpet slippers
for father and the "Sanford and Mer-
ton" that Aunt Theresa sent you, and
the drum from Uncle George.
They don't make drums like that
nowadays. The new ones haven t
anything like the right sound.
You couldn't wait until you had
slipped the tape around your neck
and pulled the sticks from the sides
—and then—"Rub-a-dub-dub- . . . ."
Why, it isn't the drum at all—it's
the steam radiator sounding "Taps
calling you back—back over the.
Road of Years—back to now.
But you're lonely and wistful, and
you want to stay and hear the sleigh
bells ring—you want one more real
Christmas.
The things you can buy in the shops
are all wrong. You can't get any
fun out of them.
Christmas gifts don't count if they
aren't brought down "the chimney.
WE INVITE YOUR BUSINESS
H. E. MoKEEVER, C.bi.r
No Money Sense
You often hear the remark that "So-and-so ja
very well educated and quite competent but he hasn't
any 'money sense'."
And it is true that a man may be ever so we
educated and. still not be able to successfully con-
duct a business. He is shy on business training and
business experience. We maintain that the best way
to get in touch with the business world is by doing
business through a bank, thereby becoming familiar
with all business methods and touching elbows with
business men, because nearly all business men con-
duct their business through the bank.
Deposits Guaranteed
Bank of Beaver City
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