The Guymon Herald. (Guymon, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 19, 1917 Page: 2 of 8
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Condensed Statement of tha Condition of
The City National Bank of Guymon
GUYMON. OKLAHOMA
at the doaa of businasa November 17, 1916:
RESOURCES
Loans & discounts $102,803.17
U. S. Bonds
Municipal Bonds
Federal Reserve
Bank Stock
Furni. & fixtures
CASH
6,500.00
2,100.00
900.00
2,162.75
150,346.01
$264,811.93
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock I 26.000.00
Surplus and profits 13,960.12
Circulation 6,500.00
DEPOSITS 219,361.81
$264,811.93
L
Tk* resources .nd facilities of this banking iaatitutioa Jsre at
Ik. command of tho.. desiring a progress.™ T > conserve bank-
OFFICERS Irwin E. Cameron, President; Edward T. Guymon,
Vice-President; Charles Summers, Vice-President; George Russell
Gear, Assistant Cashier.
"K t U Out of War." I the Kn*li8h Lutheran church,
Ust fall a la rife list of sentimental- arose and declared his loyalty to the
ista voted for President W.lson be- United States in these words: 'My
cause they said "he kept us out brother is a chaplain in the German
of war." After reading his recent army in Belgium, my father and all
message to «• ongress. what do you I my relatives are German and live in
think now? The President was right Germany, but I know my brother and
in hit war message. He would have 1 my father would say, 'You have
been right at any time that he might adopted a different country and must
have deemed proper to have delivered be loyal to that country, and its
it during the last year and a half, cause, for our family never must
President Wilson did not state the bear the stain of the name of traitor,
case any stronger than the situation While the crowd cheered, he contin-
demanded. But the laugh is on the ued: "The German-Americans will
-kept us out of war pfople.-Waton- be loyal to the.r adopted country.
ga Republican.
The Mineral Oil Woll.
John Skelley was in town Tuesday
and tells that the oil drillers on sec-
tion 22 in the neighborhood of Mex-
homa, will resume drilling in a few
days. The delay was occasioned by
the delay in the shipment of the 12 i
inch pipe which got sidetracked some-
where but landed at Texline. The
wagons are on the road now from
Texline. The well was down 700 feet
when they were compelled to quit,
owing to the washing of the dirt down
below the first 500 feet of casing
which threatened several times to
bury their drill.—Kenton Record.
Man Injured By Mad Bull.
Sunday evening about 6 o'clock
when Will Kreiger went to his barn
lot to feed his stock he was attack-
ed by a mad bull which dashed at
him knocking him down, rendering
him unconscious. After the mad
beast had knocked Mr. Kreiger down
he made an effort to paw him and
hook him but owing to the fact that
he had on a large yoke, he was un-
able to get his head down far enough
to reach his victim. Mr. Kreiger's
father-in-law, Mr. Thomas, was a
short distance from the scene and
his attention was attracted when he
ran to Mr. Kreiger's rescue, carry-
ing with him two rocks with which
he hit the beast and ran him off. Mr.
Kreiger received two broken ribs and
was severely bruised about the face
and handa and about the chest. At
last reports he was doing nicely.
Tear* and Cheers.
There were tears and cheers at a
patriotic meeting in Kansas City
They always have been. The first
regiment to answer Washington's call
in the Revolution was a German regi-
ment."
Accident on Railroad.
Friday at noon time as Mr. W. F.
Forester, of the Lieb country, was
crossing the railroad in his wagon, an
engine, caboose and three or four
freight cars, driven at full speed,
came down the crossing without
whistling or ringing the bell. Mr.
Forester didn't see the train, on ac-
count of it being obstructed by some
building, until he was practically on
the track. In his excitement at be-
ing in such danger, he thought he
could whip up his team and pass be-
fore the train caught him. He was a
little too late however, and the engine
hit the back end of his wagon, com-
pletely demolishing it, and throwing
Mr. Forester on his back to the
ground. Mr. Forester received a very
severe nervous shock and some ser-
ious bruises. Dr. LaMar was called,
but could not tell just how serious
the injuries might be.—Texhoma Ar
gus.
woman, choking, "but—I can't vote
for war." Thunderous, hysterical ap-
plause from pacifists and pro-war
sides of the house, alike greeted this
frank admission—woman's first of
ficial voice in the house. One had to
I yell and applaud to jam down the
j lump in his throat, wrote one corres-
pondent, but ' iSe lady from Mon-
tana" had slipped out a side door,
grief-stricken. She heard little of
ithe ovation.—Capper's Weekly.
They Got 720 Pound* of Nails.
At a meeting of several of the mo-
torists the other day, they decided to
give the boys of the town 10 cents
a pound for the nails that they pick-
ed up off the streets of this city.
There was a large number of boys
got busy right away and they soon
had gathered 720 pounds. Just think
of it, 720 pounds of nails on the
streets of this city. Is it any wonder |
i that the motorists have punctures?
And they did not get all of
them. The boys made some good
money ihat Saturday,.and they did
the motor car owners a lot of good.
One nail picked up in a tire cos's
all the way from 25 cents to the price
of a new tire. Why not get the boy^ j
out again and get a few more of |
these pests and save the price of so
many punctures, as well as new cas-
ings. We would like to see some of
the other towns along the road doing
the same thing.—Bucklin Banner.
patriotic meeting in —* t>
when the Rev. Andreas Bard, paator I stand by my country, said
When Mitt Rankin Voted No.
When the lower house of congress
was voting on war with Germany, the
clerk drawled out the list of names,
recording members' votes. Solemnly
they answered. Some voted huskily.
Miss Rankin's name was reached. The
first woman was to vote on war. Amid
an embarrassing silence, weeping,
she advanced half way down the aisle
from her seat. A storm had ripped
thru Washington. Even in the close-
packed chambers and galleries the in-
termittent rumbling of thunder could
occasionally be heard. "1 want to
this
Another One.
Last Saturday evening Jeff Hol-
land's little boy was playing out in
front of the house, in the street,
when a car from one of the garages
came along at a high rate of speed,
struck the little fellow and ran over
him, breaking a collar bone and in-
juring other bones and bruising him
badly. The only wonder is how the
boy got out alive. The driver of the
car claims we understand, that he
didn't see the boy in time to stop and
his breaks wouldn't work. Isn't it
about time these fool excuses for run-
ning people down should stop? If a
man would drive a team of good
trotting horses through the streets
the fast gate these cars are running
he would be arrested and heavily
fined and would serve him right. But
because it is a car nothing is said
about it. The speed limit is too high
Twelve miles an hour means a mile
every five minutes. That is faster
than the speed of the fast distant
runners. It would take a mighty
good runner to get out of the way
of a car going that gait, if it got
any ways close to him before he no-
ticed it. We hope the city dads will
reduce the speed limit to not exceed
eight miles per hour on the streets,
and six would be better. A mile even
ten minutes isn't such bad going.
And put whatever law there is in
force. It is a common sight any day
to see cars rushing along the streets
at 20, 25, 30 and even 45 miles an
hour. Either enforce the law or re-
peal it.—Beaver Herald.
BEAVER BOARD
FOR BETTER WALLS & CEILINGS
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So ltd tfulu
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llir bu«l4 fou
At First or At Last?
Sooner or later you will Beaver Board that room.
The one question is whether you will do it at first or at last.
While a surprisingly large amount of Beaver Board is used for the
purpose of covering over worn-out lath and plaster walls, you
never heard of anyone putting lath and plaster over Beaver Board.
When a Beaver Board wall or ceiling is up, it's up to stay.
Why not have your Beaver Board room at first instead of at last
and avoid the extra job and extra cost?
Beaver Board is a lumber product built up from the fibre of clean white
spruce. It comes in sturdy, durable, handsomely-turfaced panels without a
crack, knot or blemish It will last a* long as the building in which it is used.
It resists heat, cold atiJ sound better than lath and plaster. It is completely
sanitary rnd easy to apply. Warping is prevented by a special patented
process whicv no othtf wallboard is licensed to employ.
Let's talk it ovci.
Star Lumber Co.
An American Firat.
A certain German citizen not a
thousand miles away is reported as
saying: "I am a German by birth,
but when I came to this country*. I
left Europe for all time. This is my
country. I am here. My property
is here. My family is here. I have
six children in school. They are do-
ing pretty well. I am doing pretty
well, financially. All that I have is
here and I made it all here. When
Germany, my former country, makes
war on the United States, she make
war on my home, the borne of my
| children my property, and the prop-
erty of my children, and if war
comes. I am for the United States,
and if needed will fight for her flap.
When I came to this country, I had
nothing. Now I am well-to-do. Why
should I sympathize with a country
that I have left to find a better one
nd did find a better one."—Shattuck
Monitor.
"The persistence of some of the
extreme pacifists in the United
States, now that the country has
really launched itself into the war,"
says an exchange, "is comparable to
that of the man who saw, at a little
station in New York state, one of
the first locomotives used in railroad-
ing. It is related that, after viewing
the strange contrivance with a criti-
cal eye, the observer referred to in
sisted. 'They never can start her.' As
the engine moved more or less eas-
ily away, the skeptic, still critical,
asserted, with self-satisfying finality,
'They never will stop her'."
"I Know, Because I Saw"
One of the moat terrible indict- (
ments of a civilized nation ever
launched was that publicly made be-
fore the members and guests of the I
Canadian Club, in New York, on Mon-
day night. Bays the Christian Science i
Monitor. The speaker was no mere
layman repeating the gossip of the
clubs or the questionable reports of
political organizations. He was the 1
ex-Ambassador of the United States >
of America, speaking with a full sense
of his responsibility and out of a
knowledge gained with his own eyes. |
It was in sort, from the experience
acquired during his visits to the pris-
on-camps, in Germany, where the men
of the Allied armies taken in battle
are confined, that Mr. Gerard spoke,
and his words should be given the
full publicity intended for them, in J
ordar that the world may understand
something of the conditions in which
the United States has entered the
war, as the Pre ident pointed out, in
vis great spee h to Congress, in hopes i
of preventing the repetition of them
in the future. f
"I want to teh you Canadians to-
night," Mr. Gerard snid, "some of the
things I saw your fellow-countrymen
endure in the German prisoner of
war camps," and, he added, "I know,
because I saw." Then in perfectly
simple and direct language which had
no need of embroidery, he told his
tale. He hail read one day in the
papers that a number of Germans in
a certain town had been sent to
prison, and their names printed in
the North German Gazette, that they
"might be exposed to shame, and their
falsity made known to generations of
Germans to come." When he read
that, he was. he said, rejoiced, be-
cause he felt that at last some of f
these people were to be punifhed for
maltreating prisoners of war. He told
the United States consul in the town,
therefore, to make a report to him
on the subject, and, when he re-
ceived the report, he found, to his
astonishment, the circumstances were
these. A train-load of Canadian
prisoners had been shunted into a
siding in the town. The men were
starving and had no means of quench-
ing their thirst. Some of the towns-
people had given them food and
drink, and it was for this ministra-
tion to the needs of the prisoners of
the Fatherland, that the culprits had
been sent to prison, and their names
held up to execration by the govern-
ment.
This, however, was far from all
Mr. Gerard had to say. He told how.
when typhus broke out in a Russian
prisoners' camp, the custodians sent
for the English and French prisoner
and, with the brutal jest that "Allies
ought to stick together," flung them
into the jaws of certain death in the
infected camp. So demoralized, in-
deed, were the very children, by the
brutalities they daily witnessed, that
he had seen little boys with bows and
arrows tipped with nails, marching
about the camps, "with German sim
plicity and kindness," shooting these
arrows into the defenseless prison-
One other story Mr. Gerard
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told, as bad as any of these. It was
the story of a certain camp in which
the guards had trained sheep dogs
to bite the prisoners as they went
through on their rounds, and it was
rarely, the Ambassador added, that
they failed to bite some prisoners.
This particular case was, however, too
much for Mr. Garard. He complain-
ed direct to Berlin on the subject,
and then when, after a long interval,
no notice was taken of his complaint,
he addressed himself direct to the
commandant. "I told him," he said,
"that I was a very good pistol shot
and that I felt like going out. and
shooting some trained dogs, and see-
ing what they would do about it."
The hint was taken. Shortly after-
wards the commandant was removed
Such was the story Mr. Gerard
told the Canadian Club of New York
almost simultaneously with the pub-
lication of the more terrible report
of Mr. Sharp, the ambassador of the
United States to the French Republic,
on the subject of the wanton destruc-
tion of the evacuated districts in
northern France, and on the very
evening of the day on which the most
terrible report of all, that of an of-
ficial of the United States, in Bel-
gium. who had witnessed the methods
by which the people of that Kingdom
have been dragooned into the slaver}
of forced labor, through the argu-
ment of the whip and the machine
gun. was given to the press These
three ?tatements have been made by
officials of the United States, two of
them ambassadors to great powers,
and all above suspicion; and, reading
them, one is led to wonder why there
should be any longer any hesitation
in accepting the most terrible dis-
closures in the awful report of Lord
Bryce on the original Belgium atro-
cities.
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Denny, J. Q. The Guymon Herald. (Guymon, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 19, 1917, newspaper, April 19, 1917; Guymon, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc274178/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.