The Cordell Beacon (Cordell, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 4, Ed. 2 Thursday, August 7, 1919 Page: 3 of 7
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R. J. CONAWAY_ ARRESTED
Another Chapter in Failure of Logan
County Bank.
Guthrie.—A warrant was Issued her#
(or R. J. Conaway, former president of
the Ixgan Cotmty Dank, charging
forgery and embezzlement, sworn out
by Fred O. Dennis, state bank com-
missioner. He was arrested and
balled.
The Information charges that Con-
away, while president of the Logan
County Dank, forged the name of
Robert Stanbaugh, a farmer living In
the eastern part of Logan county, to a
note for $102.60 and placed the funds
to the credit of the Conaway Farm,
corporation, in his bank. The second
count charges htm with the embezzle-
ment of the money.
The Ix>gan County bank was closed
by the state bank commissioner
January 30, because of alleged mis-
management of the funds and secH-1-
ties, nit hough It was stated that the
failure ol the bank did not involve
any criminal actions on the part of
Conawa>. The bank was taken over
by Tulsa financial Interests, and
opened F ebruary 1 un3er the name of
the Security State bank.
OEVlSEO KMO 8REJJA0E ROLES
to Serve Children With Little
Savings Banks.
John T. Wayland, Director of Sav-
ings for the Tenth Federal Reserve
District, has issued the following state-
ment:
1—At the urgent request of the
Treasury Detriment and In order to
simplify distribution, the hand gren-
ade savin?* bank* will be distributed
bv couimertfal banks and trust com-
panies Instead of through County
Chairmen and County Superintendents
as previously outlined.
2—One grenade Is to be loaned by
any ban* U> any child under 18 years
old who will sign a thrift agreement
similar to the accompanying form.
$730 EACH FOR OSAGES
Another Bonus Payment Coming to
Indians Soon
S—The grenade shown here la to
be used as a savings bank for illoney
earned during vacation, and may b«
brought periodically to the bank th4
Issues It, where It will be opened, the
money counted, and Thrift or War
Savings Stamps given in return for
the contents.
4—The grenade is to become the
permanent property of the child only
after he has been regularly enrolled
as a member of a savings society and
Pawhuska,- Kach Osage Indian will lias bought at least one War Savings
receive a bonus pajment of 740 dur- Stamp, face value $5.00. at the ban*
Ing the coming week, a total of more, Issuing the grenade. Child must buy
than $1,500,000 beinK distributed. The One War Savings Stamp if under ten
payment comcs from oil antl gas roy-
alties. Three payments to the Indians
have been made during 1919, amount-
ing to $1,800 pev capita and the $740
payment will raise the total per cap-
ita to over $2,500 since January 1.
Thought Friend a Burglar.
Weleetka.-- Awakened suddenly by
noise in the house, Walter Fieldi __
grabbed a shotgun and fired at a dim I qUe8t contestant to
years old, and Two If ten years or
older.
5—The bank Is to fill out and give
the child (If a school child) a certifi-
cate of bis summer savings in order
that he may present same to his teach-
er and get credit therefor in the War
Savings Society now or hereafter
organized In his grade.
6—While it Is optional with the
banker. It is suggested that he re-
rite a letter or
form he saw going through the room
Wicey Moffett, a young man who wa«
! visiting the family, fell dead with s
load of buckshot through his stomach
Fields is an Indian living near North-
folk, Mid Moffett was staying at hli
home. Moffett had gotten up early
and Fields, being suddenly aroused
says he shot before he was thoroughlj
awake, thinking the young man wai
a burglar.
essay on how the grenade bank was
won. A few of these letters might
furnish the thrift impulse to many
other children of the county.
The following Is the form of ths
Thrift Agreement to be signed by the
pupil giving his or her age, grade,
school and prostofflce address:
THRIFT AGREEMENT.
I accept this Hand Grenade Savings
Bank, loaned by the
27 Suits Against Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City.—Oklahoma City li
the deiendant In twenty-seven damage (Name of Bank)
suits (tied by property owners who re with the understanding that I will earn
side or own land along the North money during vacation, keeping all the
Canadian river, which forms the pree money that I can save in Uie grenade,
ent outlet for the sewage ffftm th« I will bring it to the bank to be opened
city. The suits are for $5,000 eack from time to time before school opens,
and aggregate $135,000. The petition! and wllh Invest my savings In Thrift
all allege the city is maintaining •{ and War Savings Stamps. I under-
nuisance by permitting the sewage t« stand that when 1 have aaved enough
empty into the stream and claim dam j to purchase War Savings
ages tor pollution of the stream an«J|8Ump and have been regularly
'unhealthy
and offensive
arising from It.
Man Dragged to
Ardmore.—The dead body of Luthei
Stephens, a discharged soldier, wai.
found In the public highway near Mil |
Iburn, lying beside the mule which had .
' t\i* > */> ilnotk
condition! enrolled as a member of a Savings So-
ciety, the hand grenade becomes my
personal property. Otherwise It still
remains the property of the bank. If
I do not earn toie grenade by October
I X, 1919, I will return it to the Bank.
HOLDING BONOS IS THRIFT.
dragged him to death.
| Belling Liberty Issues for Less Than
Thsy Are Worth Is the Height
.1 of Folly.
Tulsa Must Be a Big Town.
Tulsa.—b. P. Park, 78 years old. ol
Tulsa, met his brother, Samuel Park'
80 years old. <>f Tulsa, on Main street , ,
It has been 49 years since the brother, Bond changes hands for less than the
have seen each other. For 11 yean1 mark«'
D F Park liaj lived In Tulsa whih ■on.ethlng for
Two things are true when a Liberty
r less than the
One person is
than Its
Samuel has lived in Tulsa for the pas. j « «•:
three years. During that time neithe, I «nf a bargain, one Is a chump, the
knew of the other's presfnee la th« ol,'er '* fortun" e
city As tb- result ol the chanc, > ou may argue the one Is forced to
meeting, the two brother, departed11- Possibb true, but his banker will
for Crowder, where a family reunlo,j >«* him near* Uje amount oflis in-
, , . . .. , vested capital on his bond, or will show
1" 10 * h*1^ j him a way to get the highest possible
Pottawatomie Yield 61.000 Bushel, of ^ >a,e and purchM#
of Liberty lionds shows one thing
plainly, that virtually all the Liberty
Bonds thai are sold are finding their
.. ... wav Into the hands of thrifty i>ersona
8tininole county touching on th«l £ r„ult„. that tlie bond„ ar8 ,e„ing
northeastern part of the county will| fm |m lhan (helr roa, value TheM
Fhawnee.- The wheat yield of Pot
tawatomle county will be approximate
ly 65.000 bushels, and the wheat sold
In Shawnee firm the little strip ol
brin, the yield up to about 100.000 ac #gerH ho,d the bomU untl,
cording to K V. Mashburn of Ui« tuHtv wben th„y wl„ b„ at 1>ar, and
Shawnee Milling Company. The qunl " Rl P0MldPrab,y ,bov, par
ity Ib the best in the state. The te>y
shows the wheat to be from fifty-elgll
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k'M
grasshopper?
if there is a more decided example
to M*ty one pounds to the bushel, com than (he Treasury I)ppart
pared with firtj-four to nilysevei washington would like to
pounds to the nushel of ihe wheat it know of u
the western part of the county.
Picher Murder Cleared Up. "Extravagance rots character: train
St. Loui*. Mo.- In . enpotise to th« yon'h • «" w
pleas ol his 17-year-old wilt who ad hand, the h 'h t uf saving money, while
vised hhn to get it off his mind, Wai R stiffens the will, also biighteni the
Imo A Miort. 24 years old. confessed energies if >ou would be sure that
at police headquarters that he shol y°u are beginning right, begin to
and killed a inut in Picher, Okla.. ii •«*•" Theodore Roosevelt
November, 1917. The wife. Mrs. I'nnsj
Short, whom Short married when sin
was 14 years old. sat on chair op
posit.' Short !..• he recited the im i
dints <ii the killing and Interrupted | "•
every once In a while to stralghiet<
hlui on some point he had forgotten
He htm liefn taken to Picher. i
— ! Remember the story of the ant and
Because thp hostilities are over, do
not shift into careless standing, but
thrift forward into wise saving Bay
SAVE AND HAVE!
Nothing Is more agreeable to a wo-
man than favorah'e mention of the
man she Is to marry, but bo careful
what you say shout him after she
gets blrn
Men nover seem to worry much
about their reputations until they're
sued
A stubborn husband Is always mar-
ried to a peculiar wife.
grasshopper* The ant worked and
saved The end of each day found
him with a little more added to what
lie huil the day before. The grass
hopper danced and sang and flddted
his time away Winter came: the ant
had plenty The grasshopper had
nothing; he had not saved. lie went
to the ant and asked for help. Said
the ant: •'While I worked, you fooled
your time away \ou can dance now
for all I care."
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"Those boys didn't know what retreat meant. And, pep7
Sav, every mother's son charged as tho' he was the whole
American Army. It was the proudest moment of my life,'
-the«friendly tobacco
Broken Bow—Construction begun on i let are 20 oil well tigs, 10
two story brick building to coat $20- houses. 2 bungalows, a large
ooo. building and 3 four-room cottages.
Blackwell to have new chnrch. the Tulsa—First National bank to
finest in the state. To cost $50,000. ground for a modern three story
Broken Arrow—Tulsa county of- ner business block. The farmers
Muskogee ciaims the highest state I fers Broken Arrow If it paves Main joined the building em. Contracts M
of advancement In her million dollar | street to bring the county road from for many grainerles and new
pchool institutions over any city In; the northwest corner of the town up barns
Vnieric a
bills and furnish automobiles and
chauffeurs and mechanics and the rest
of it. Tax payers Just delight In see-
ing those making their living off the
state properly uphold the dignity of
their oositions
to the section line to the Intersection Tulsa—Excavation for the coa
of Main street. Plans and specific*- tion of the Centenary Methodist chmre
tions of this calls for the expenditure begun
of $16,500. Quinton—Work begun
Tulsa—Among the recent contracts 000 hrlck high schol.
Dont kl a Slick Jtran
band vou his „ ,
Get- Rich-Ouick
i
■ \ 'if- - Mm.
oiWe just mopped 'em up"
More than 32,871,000 tins of Velvet Tobacco were sent to the boys in
France—enough, if placed end to end, to reach 2340 miles or nearly from
New York to Brest. How much it helped them, their friendly letters testify.
Velvet makes friends easily—because, like true friendship, it has been
allowed to ripen naturally. For two years, Velvet ages in wooden hogsheads,
and when it comes out it is just right—no kick, no bite, no harshness.
You and Velvet—Lcgin that friendship now.
Son a Velvet Cigarette.
Are yon an ant-person or a grass-1 Gustavus Swift buys millions of
hopper-person. Some time are you every year.
going to have to ask for help and will The business, even before Oustavus
someone tell you to dance, or will you Swift tnrned it over to his sons, had
be Independent? grown far greater than his most ex-
it you save now. you'll have later travagant dreams had pictured It. But
on. Save and have! Put up some- without the $18 cow. whose purchase
thing each day. Let the end of every price he had saved with extrem# dit-
week find more Thrift Stamps on your fleulty, he might never have got start-
card. At the end of every month be ed on his road to success.
able to show more War Savings Have you an opportunity fund saved
Stamps pasted on your certificate.
Buy 1919 War Savings Stamps. Show ,
that you have enough sand to hold on An optimist is a fellow who can say i August 1st
to the slippery dollar Lend your no matter Where he Is kicked off. I ed at a cost of $200,000 and $56,000
monev to the Government at four per "This is my station." 1 ''a8 l,een upended for furniture
cent Interest, compounded quarterly. Eufau;a-$25.000 worth of water
and see it grow. Would it be too much to refer to a bonds were voted for the purpose of
Tnke stock of yourself! What are man who crosses the Atlsntlc in a' extending and repairing our present
you worth? Will next New Year's dirigible as a baloonatic? t water system.
day find you worth more or less? ;
Which will you be; *- —' — - «•" nruiru#
Oklahoma Cltv—Oklahoma's
I state hospital which will be known as
the New University will be opened
The building was erect-
Oklahoma City—Promotion fees of I
OKLAHOMA INDUSTRIAL REVIEW! over 15 per cent Illegal under new
An ant or
1 law.
July 28. -Natural gas won a big vie- Tulsa -$28,000 worth of iroprove-
tory in the federal courts that gives nients in postal service is due.
it a flat price of 35 cents per 1000 feet Oklahoma City—The American Law
Vacations are things that you go on ftt (he gateway of Kansas City. Mo., j yens Oil * Gas company has the dis-
Because other people do it ! a|ul a gBtPWay prjce „f 32 centg for' ttnellon of receiving ihe first permit
And if you didn't your friends might towng nearer the go,,*.* 0f supply in to do business In Oklahoma, which
think I oklahoma. The court rules that nat- has been Issued by the capital Issues 1
i Ural gas Is doing an Interstate busi- commission, which administers the .
1 ness and cannot be regu'ated locally blue sky law
| or by state utility commissions. l awton detentiou home purchases
Hobart—City to Increase water sup- Infirmary building at Ft. 8111.
> ply and establish electric plant.
Shawnee- Burnet township has vot
, ed $70,000 for good roads.
Tulsa main stop for airplanes from many are in<T?n*d to critlcixe
Kansas City to Ft. Worth. action.
Muskogee claims spending $4.00<i.- Poteau school bond Issue for $61.-
000 a year on "glad rags" of which ,M,U carried
the men get one-third Tulsa 75 precincts give 2 271 votes
Oklahoma City—Oklahoma Uas & for $S.0W,«<m water works bond Issue
Electric company gulned 1200 new| Walters A K A A. M. erecting a
first six mouths of j two story brick
1919 1 building
Muskogee $7,000,000 to be spent ' I'onca City—Central State Bank or-
hy railroad* entering city In Improve-
ments.
Shawnee Catholics start work on
new $S0.00« academy Work on new
Baptist university will begin soon
Muskogee Phoenix Frank Carter®
state auditor, lias refused to pay the
THE POINT OF VIEW
You can't afford to.
They're like automobiles that way.
It has come to be a sign of poverty
Not to own an auto, that Is
Except to the bankere
Who know that the stxe of a man's
bank account
Quite often Is in inverse proportion
To the site of his car.
But if you got fun out of a vacation
Go ahead and take It
And if yon get fun out of an auto.
Buy it Nobody yet has been able
To acquire a mortgage on the future
Don't place too much dependence on electric custome
a bright hereafter
If It la to be at the expense of
blight NOW
Woodward Cjtjr Over 200 people
r-ut off from the electric light
plant and sonie of the people, but not
this
HE HAD THE lit.
Fitly years ago, we are told. Git*
tavus F. Swift bought a cow for $18
Swift was a young fanner on Cape ^ ho„^hoW of ,n of
Cod. whose stony pastures probably f|(.ja| ln,,vtnK to Claremore where hi
offered one of the most difficult areas
in the United 8tates for anyone to
make money on.
Nevertheless, Swift, who needed a
Is to become head of the new mili-
tary academy The official has a
clear caw and should collect that
$151.00 even though it's necessary to
cow badly to found the fortune he organise his militant youngsters and
dreamed of, found a row ho could march on the capltol. Of course the
buy with It. state should pay for moving Its of-
Today Swift & Company, packers, ficlals. Not only that, hut It should
who carry on the business founded by pay their servants and ttltdr rusollne | $225,000 high school building
ganized here.
Tulsa—$120,000 in permits to build
was sum total yesterday.
Tulsa At least $100,000 worth of
new school buildings will be started
this month in accordance with Tulsa's
$200,"0o building program. $45,000
worth of residences and apartment
houses on file on the building Inspec-
tor's desk. Permits to build Included
twelve residences, two apartment
houses and eight private garages
Tulsa votes $5,000,000 for 55 miles
conduit to supply mountain water.
Idabel—Contract let tor new court
house for 122.0(H)
Drumright Work under way on new
The woods are full" of smooth, plausible men who
Hrouml peddling most enticing schemes. -They h«v
gold engraved certificates and a convincing line of talk. Bttl
they are swindlers. If they had something that was any good
you could get it from your banker—or you couldn't get it •!
all.
Put your money in our bank; we will cheerfully advise
you how to invest it safely.
That 's our businesa.
We pay 4 per cent on time depogiU.
COME TO OUR BANK
State National Bank
W. F. TAYLOR, President
I. L. HULL, Cashier
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Anderson, A. W. The Cordell Beacon (Cordell, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 4, Ed. 2 Thursday, August 7, 1919, newspaper, August 7, 1919; Cordell, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc269546/m1/3/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Advertising%22: accessed June 30, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.