The Guymon Herald. (Guymon, Okla.), Vol. 30, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 1921 Page: 1 of 10
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The Guymon Democrat w&a consolidated with
rhe Guymon Herald lfnrch lit, 1919.
GUYMON. OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 13,1921.
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
#1.50 I'Kll VKAR.
no. 46.
to grade ten miles
of
)e ten miles 11
d-c-d highway | j>Q q n ^ecf(on L{nes Through Big Ranches
s a lengthy discussion I MSa *_ . "
i: , ftStf ■ ,— ■
first national bank
stockholders meet.
There was a lengthy discussion |
about the grading of the ten miles of
the D-C-D highway west from the east | It is „eneraiiy conceded that one of
Texas co.unty line at the meeting of :the greatest darwbacks to the develop-
the Guymon Good Roans Club last|ment 0f Texas county has been the
Monday night. Carroll Wilmeth, who ]ar?e tracts of land held by ranchmen,
has graded some fine road for the and fence(j jn without regard to sec-
County Commissioners, has been tion lin€g It is also conceded that so
■sought by them to grade this stri^Mf j0I,^ as ranchmen are allowed to main,
road, and to get it accomplisheq^^^l^ajn these great stretches of land Un-
as soon as the conditions will r
He was present at this meetini
ft that time said it would be
srible for him to grade the road
ing the winter season for the am
the Commissioners were willing
>«r fence, they will not be disposed
to break them up into farms and
ranches. Guymon, more than any
l other town in the Panhandle has suf-
, Ifered from the existence of these
,.°, ranches which extend for many mile9
nay. namely $100 per mile. .T. W. from two gides of the town. There are
Jadan was appointed a committee to | hly speaking, 130,000 acres of
take Mr. Wilmeth out to see the road, her natura! trade territory absorbed
to be graded Tuesday, and at last re-k,, o„„v, Pat
ports he had not decided what he
could do the work for, but from what
w4 can learn, it is tought he thinks
the work will be worth $150 per mile
To get the work done at an early date,
it will be necessary for the Good
.Roads Club to make up the difference
cost per mile above what the Com-
I missioned have offered to pay. The
I Club has determined the work must be
done as quickly as possible, and a
special meeting of the Club will pro-
bably be called when the cost of the
work is ascertained.
a guymon justice
is 85 years old
by such ranches. For instance, one
who wants to go to the western part
of the county has to make a detour
a club committee
will aid trustees
four miles to the north, or follow the
county roads to Texhoma and then
double back to the north to teach his
destination. 'Ranchmen have no law-
ful right J fence in section lines, and
wherever a citizen of the state finds
them fenced in, it is his privilege to
cut the fence and travel the section
linos at his pleasure. Of course the
citizens generally are not disposed to
exercise this right, and as -*a result
have allowed the commdn welfare of
the county to suffer.
The opening of these section lines
will be of great advantage both to the
town of Guymon and Texas county as
a whole. It will mean that these great
ranches will be turned into farm
tracts, that the population will be
multiplied, and that the assessed val-
uations of this land will be greatly
increased and add much to the wealth
of the county. While some of this
land cannot be considered farm land,
there are parts of every section that
can be tilled.to advantage, and as a
who'e, each section will make a valua-
ble dairy farm. The valley lands are
among the very finest of the now
famed lands of the Panhandle. If the
section lines are opened, the value of
thf land as a ranch is destroyed, and
the inclination of capitalists to main-
tain them will cease. They will adopt
the only feasabie plan left them, and
put the land on the market, netting
many times the revenue from its sale
they would otherwise realize. The
question of opening these section lines
has been talked over many times, but
no action determined upon, and no
progress made.
The question came up for discus-
sion at the meeting of the Guymon
Good Roads Club Monday night, and
it was voted the sentiment of the Club
that the onening of these section
lines should not be longer delayed.
County Judge George M. Frittz, who
is also president of the County Board,
was present, and expressed the belief
that official aid would be extended
the movement. Messrs. John W. Jor-
dan, J. R. Paine and John G Gray
were appointed a committee to confer
with the County Commissioners, and
inaugurate whatever measures they
might deem necessary to have the sec-
tion lines opened.
At the meeting of the Guymon
Good Roads Club Monday night, the
type of engine to be purchased for the
new light and water plant for Guymon
was discussed at considerable length.
Taboo Fake Ad Plans
A justice of the peace, 78 years of
nge, seemed such an uncommon thing
[that it was made the subject of a
special news dispatch sent out by the . _ _
nuhlicity man of Vinita, Okla., a city | &>ve any suggestions they might have
in the eastern part.of the state. Out | for their aid, and asked that the Club
in this great country of wheat and [ appoint a committee to work with
i-afir production, where we have a i them in determining this phase of
high altitude and principles, and | their wo^k. President Dale appointed
plenty of zephyrs, that is no distinc- j Messrs. G. E. Moore. J. B. Hisey, Geo.
tion to srte^k of. Our Justice of the | Gear and Drs. Licrhtner and Langston
neace and Police Judge here in Guv- on this committee.
mon will soon celebrate his £5th birth-' ——
day. and he walks several blocks and TM OKT.AWOM A PITY1"
climbs to the third story of the court j
house to piss judgment on the law) . L'.U.JNli f>QND DEAL
violators almost any hour. And .
Justice Ater thinks he is good for a Town Trustee W. W. KenvMv u in
number of years to come. Ok'shoma City this week, looking af-
ter the approval and sale of the L'frht
THE POWF'R PLANT watf>r and,town parJ< bonds that
TI4n r, t nor r\ a t r " ere vote^ the "oec'al' election on
HAD CLOSE CALL Member 28th. The Town Tru«^e«s
* have assurance thnt +he bonds will be
On las' Thnrsdnv afternoon, just !lken Par h* th,e bonding compan-
afto>* the Herald had been put in the pS' ar~ ^'e '-^derstand that :he
mail, the fire alarm was sounded. aW f:ee" Conduction Company of Ok-
the fire truck made the run to the C ty have been awarded the
Guymon Hght and po^er plant, which ™ntract ** the engineering work on
<eemed ?H ablaze. There was1 a high *>•«>The Trusty Will
■wind, and waste being burned just to jGret improvements under way mst
the east of the building, ignited some *s Q™ly as possible after the bonds
waste oil and the flemes were carried I avs "een P'aced.
to the loft of the building. It took the
At the meeting of the Good Roads
Club Monday night the subject of the
forms of advertising that should be
It seemed that the majority of the | patronized by the business men of
Ti, Guymon was discussed. Every little
oil power, but no one seemed to feel ,:, . , , ,
confident of their knowledge ofsuchl^hl,e some faker comes along and
matter?. In all probability, the Town I the business men out of a sum
Trustees will visit various cities in-1 sufficient to grade quite a stretch of I This plan has been adopted by com
vestigating the effeciency of the dif- r°ad. iust for the reason that there is. mercial organizations all over the
ferent types of engines, and Mayor n0 united plan on the part of the bu3i-1 country, and has effected a saving of
Gray and Trustee Jordan, who were ness men, who do not want to turn \ thousands of dollars to the business
present. asked that the townspeople
down any worthv person or enter-1 men each year. It is hoped that every
prise. The Club voted that when1 s'ich . business man of Guymon will reli-
soiicitors come to town hereafter, they gioUsly observe this plan.
fire department about a half an hour
to extinguish the flames. The ma-
chinery escaped yerious njury, but
wring in the loft of the structure had
to be replaced' before the light ser-
vice could be continued. Th;s was ac-
complished in time to give the people
lights Friday night.
rfdfcorattno the
old court house
ROCK 1st and will
aid enterprise
-County Agent J. B. Hisey is in re-
ceipt of a letter from C. A. Hunter,
leveling Freight ^"ent of the Rock
Island railway, in which he states he
will be in Guymon in the near fu-
ture, to confer with him relative to
the culture of Honey Dew Melons in
Texas founty. .He is very much in-
terested in this enterprise and wants
to see it developed here. Any farm-
ers interested will do well to con-
fer with Mr. Hisey at an early date.
offers use of a
mad stone free
Notwithstanding that the walls
are crumbling1 fnd the county records
are unsafe in the old structure used
as a court house, the building had
gotten in suoh a miserable condition
that the County Coaamrr.issioners
could stand it no longer, ar.d are hav-
ing the court room and occupied of-1
fice rooms reca^ciinined and reoaint°d.! E. B. Mitchell, who is located in
The rooms, with the exception of the j the old Claycomb Seed Store building
floors, will present a much better ap- j on North Main Street is the owner of
pearance for a while, if stormy j a mad stone, and authorizes the Her-
weather does not beat in too much i aid to say that in case (anyone has
dampness. The Court Stenographer I need of the use of same, it is at their
and the Court Clerlfwill also be pro-[command without charge. This is a
vide8 with chairs similar to those af <renerous offer that we all hope none
forded the jurors hereafter 'will have need to accept.
AYR HIT, PROSPECTS | KINDERGARTENERS
A RE encouraging
J. E. George, of Liberal, was a Guv.
seems like most
mad dogs ever
County Health Officer, Dr. Daniel
iS. Lee informs the editor of the Her-
should not be patronized unless they ltnat the ravages of hydrophobia hi
presented a note of approval of their the eastern part of Texas county are
plan from the Secretary of the Club. I JLea''y a problem to contend with.
In case the Secretary did not want to j Cattle and horses as well as dogs are
take the responsibility of making such V|ctmis of the rabies, and the fa^m-
a decision, the matter is to be referred ! ^ ™e having to kill off their live
to « secret committee that has been ^ ' "a? "ec.om,e a^cted So
appointed to make such' decision. | far as we have heard there have be$n
- a few dogs killed, and a-number are
being confined that, were supposed to
be biitten by mad dogs.
Marshall Jack Harrison thas had a
busy week of it taking care of the
strav dogs about town, the number of
whuh it would be hard to approximate.
He has dispatched quite a number,
eid there remain many more that he
"ill disnatcb «Bs fast as he can handle
he work. Dr. T.ee savs he will issue
^der for the killing of every dog run-
ning at large that is not muzzled.
The annual meeting of the stock-
holders of the First National Bank
was, held in the offices of that In-
stitution last Tuesday afternoon. The
old officers and directorate were re-
elected without exception, the person-
nel being as follows:
President, Gottlieb Enz.
Vice-President, S. C. Tyler.
Cashier, Ernest Klooz.
Assistant Cashier, T. F. Wright
Directors, Gottlieb Enz, S. C. Tyler,
C. A. Nash, C. E. Woods and Ernest
Klooz.
Mr. Enz has been with the First
National Bank of Guymon since 1914,
first serving as chashier, and later be-
ing promoted to the presidency. Er-
nest Klooz claims seniority in service
the bank, having been connected
with the institution for nine years, hit*
first service being in the capacity of
bookkeeper. Mr. Wright was also a
bookkeeper and only lacks two week*
of having given the Bame length of
service to the bank that Mr. Klooa
tas.
J. E. George, of Liberal,
was an attendant of the meeting,
presenting the interests of Liberal
stockholders. Mrs. Josie W. Jones,
and daughter, Miss Gwenfred, of
Hansford County, Texas, also at-
tended the meeting.
10 shopping
We have heard of the sayipn* about
mon visitor Tuesday, coming down to thC^)Id woman who lived in ajihoe find
attend the meeting of the stockholdefs ; had so many children she d'dn't know
of the First National Bank. He what to do—this was exactly true of
spoke quite enthusiastically of the oil j Miss Myrtle Shattuck when we saw
prospects hew drilled by the Amer-jher coming down the street Thursday
icfui Fuel, Oil & Transportation Com-irnortiin.g conducting twenty-ihree lit-
oany. He says that thev are making,tie kindergarteners to the Citv Gro-
splend:H wosTess with their great ro-1 eery Store. Mr. Gene Hitch ex-
t.^ry drill, which is the largest andjnlaiped to tfeem the nnmes of articles
finest piece of drilling machinery he found in the store. I am sure these
ever saw. They have made remark-j little people know a great deal more
able progress through the qirck sand, | -il^out geonraohy now. Upon leaving
«nd are now down about 1300 feet.;the «tore they were ea"h nresented a
Gas from the well No. 1 has been, snmll s^ck of candy. Next they went
oiped to this prospect for fuel is J to L. E. Latham's store where they
burning under five big bowers, four of iweog each given an empty box—•those
yh'i<*h are.cop^tantlv required for th^ffco^*?' ato1 to be-ur?d-in making fur-
operation of the drill. He says that
every necessary machine for progress
seems to be at hand for this develop-
ment work. And one of the ihost en-
couraging items to him, was the ar-
rival of a big oil storage tank, which
w«s being moved out to the prospect.
Within three months he hopes to see
a good oil flow developed, and then
the financing of all the other prosnert*
in this section of the country will be
waives prelimin-
ary and gives bond
Thos. Renfrew, charged with the
'aroeny of the Duer automobile at
Hooker, waived the preliminary that
was set for January 12th, and gave
bond for his aopearance at the May
term of Di§trict Court. Renfrew was
one of the men brought back from
ArkansHs recently, where the car and
its purloiners were detained.
the committee is
getting results
The Good Roads Club Committee,
"onsigting of Messrs. McDaniels,
Youtsler and Gromer, are getting
niture in th^ department They then
went around the corner to McLartv's
store where they purchased several
kinds of material with which they exr
nect to make a new wardrobe for June
Elizabeth, the new doll.
Before leaving there Mr. McLarty
gave each a big red aople.
> The little people then returned to
their room at school. They will never
forget this trip which was very edu-
cational for them.
rep. j. q. denny is
on 7 committees
We note in Wednesday's papers
that Representative J. Q. Denny has
Veen placed on seven committees by
Speaker Schw&be of the House. These
are. Public Buildings, Municioal Cor-
porations. Retrenchment and Reforms,
House Exnense and Public Accounts.
Judicial Restricting. Enrollled and
Engrossed Bills and Dentistry.
rig rfductions
AT McLARTY STORE
The Herald is nrintinfr a page ad
for the McLarty Store this week, in
which they announce some sweeping
solendid results in their solicitation reductions, in some instances the pri-
for an additional fund and specials — J J — * +1—
for the 1921 premium list of the Pan-
^indle District and Texas County Free
Fair Thev have not been tuwred
down by a business man vet, and have
only partly completed their canvass.
The most satisfactory way in the world to get
ahead, the greatest pleasure you can secure from
success, is in the starting and growth of the Savings
Account.
You can never realize the ease with which you will
acquire a competence in that way until you make the
start.
You can start an account here without effort, and
it will serve as the foundation for your life's happi-
ness, life's success.
ma*£ OUR BA*K YOUR eANK
The First National Bank
a d-c-d meeting
at camrick school
A meeting «of the farmers of he
r,amrick School District to cons'der
the work of improving the D-C-D
(highway has been called to meet at
the school house, one mile west and
♦wo south of Sutton's Store on next
Tuesday night. This is a matter in
which the farmers of this section of
fhe countrv are vitally interested, and
♦here should be a big turn out.
getting after the
bad check artists
County Attorney Mark F. Adams
has one bad check artist who operated
in this county under a heavy bond for
appearance at the next term of dis-
trict court, and is making an endea-
vor to stamp out the practice of over-
drafting that has assumed unusual
prooortions in the county. It is anti-
cipated that a few fin s and possible
iail sentences will make this avocation
less popular.
4 good opening
for a bus line
The editor of the Herald hes he*rd
it remarked a number of times by
travel'ng men that some enterprising
:ndivid"al should start a bus line cov-
ering the inland territory between
Elkhart, Kansas, Guymon nnd Soear-
m?n, over the route of the D-C-D
Virhw^y. They say that numbers of
Raveling salesmen would s°1l their
jitneys and patronize such a line run
^n a reo-ular schedule. Besides, there
is a daily inquiry .in GuymopJjy ijry
turmiften{ travelers who seek convey-
ance to these towns. We believe that
there is a good business opening for
someone over this route.
seward oil co.
elect officers
^Members of the Seward-Connty Oil
&*" Gas Company met at the offices of
the treasurer. W. 0. Woods, in the
Miller building this noon, and elected
officers for the ensuing year.
Those . elected were Ezra Shorb,
President; Frank Summers, secretary;
W. O. Woods, treasurer; R. E. Colvina
assistant secretary, and the board of
directors are Chas. Summers. Dr.
Morrow. J. C. Mahoney, J. E. George
and G. E. Worth.
two guymon boys
on varsity team
Rhotan and Quinn are.two Guymon
boys that are playing on the Univer-
sity of Oklahoma Basket Ball team
this season. Fired by winning the
Missouri Valley conference football
championship, ihe Soomers are confi-
dent of copping honors in the basket-
ball line.
ioe dean is new
club secretary
Joe Dean, of the D. & D. Furnishing
Company was unanimously selected
as the new- Secretary of the Guymon
Good Roads Club at a meeting of the
Directors of thqj; organization last
Saturday night. Mr. Dean seemed to
be the logical man for the place, and
as soon as he could be reached by
Dhone he had to accept—they wouldn't
let him say no. He is centrally loca-
ted in is piace of business, and if you
are not a member of the Club, and
your conscience must necessarily be
hurting you if you are i^ot, stop in
there and give your dues for a quar-
ter or longer It will make you feel
better to know you are doing your
part for thfe welfare of the town and
?'->unty.
traders receive
big oil tank
A big oil tank has been recently
received at the Liberal station by the
American Fuel, Oil & Transportation
Company, for use at the Traders well
No. 1 or No-. 2. .Tfeifthig «vr.U is tpn-
tirely too roomy for wish washing or
anything of that kind and a whole
lot of fellows believe it is for the pur-
pose of holding something that goes
in connection with the oil wells.
It has been rumored for sometime
fhat tanks were being shipped from
California to the oil prospectors there,
but many held the idea as a sort of
rumor. However, one big tank, what-
ever it may be used for, is in Liberal
now and will be taken to the place
where it will do the most good ag soon
as it is deemed necessary.—Liberal
News.
dumber prices
go down again
The fifth cut in lumber priccs in
the past year took effect Tuesday of
this week, and lumber can now be pur-
chased about eighteen per cent
cheaper than it could a week ag t.
This cut also affecig cement, which is
down ten cents per sack. Lumber
dealers are of the opinoin that bottom
prices have been reached, and th"t
; those who are contemplating building
' '-an safely go ahead with their work.
If it was not for the additional freight
rates, the price of dimension stuff
would be almost what it was in pre-
war times
ces being dropped to on-fourth the
war time prices. This. Mr. McLarty
says, is to show the farmers that he
- going to take his proportion of the
losses they are havintr to take on their
wheat and kafir. The farmer makes
i possible for their store to exist, a"d
*or this reason they are to get the
r«vk botton prices at this cash raising
■ ile.
A car load of
wallis tractors
The Jordan Motor OM Company |
received \ car load of Wall's tractors
Wedne«drv. and they are being un
loaded today in the local yards. Three
of these Have already been sold to the
Denny Motor Company of Boise City,
in Cimarron county, and will be de-
'ivered overland.
"romance hunters"
at high school
The members of the Exoressiofi
Class of the Guymon High School are
to gHre a play in the school auditorium
♦onigiht. entitled, "The' Romance
Hunters." This promises to be a
moot ent< rt«inine production, and
has the added interest of being pro-
duced by our young peoole, which
should insure a good crowd.
the legion dance the model store
tomorrow night going out sale
The Hqjs of the Delius-Bratton Post Mr. S. D. Sakranko. of the Model
GUYMON, OKLAHOMA
of the Airprican L?«"cn will give their 1
"eguter femi-monthly dan~e at the
ftanre*- Hall tomorrow. Fridsv nigh*.
The boy* assure the be«t of order w'll j
be main'ained. and they intend to |
rrake th?se events sucji parties °s w^ll j
be reSembered with nlensure by the ■
vtv bert people. While thry arc a
pub'ic function, thev are eoni'-rted
on the fines of greatest respectability.
re, gavs tlret cost of goods i« a
iOT consideration in the big "Go-
Out Sale" he ad ®rt;sine in th:«
of the H«
**oti of hi
•his. he is
1. I ne major ron-
moving of a laree
k, and in o*-der *t ->
;ne prices that will
• lw whole* to
'• war prices are at
Par-Excel lent Service
and 100% Safety
Dimes are Baby Dollars. Call and
get a Savings Bank.
We want to help you save. 4 per cent on time de-
posits.
We are glad we are living in the most favored sec-
tion in the good old United States. Texas county
third in Agricultural products in Oklahoma. What
do you think of that?
Quit talking hard times, lets all get busy and make
1921 better still.
We are always at your service and appreciate your
business.
"NO DEPOSITOR HAS EVER LOST A DOLLAR IN A STATE
BANK IN OKLAHOMA."
The Texas County Bank
DEPOSITS GUARANTEED.
A HOME BANK
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