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OKLA. HISTORICAL SOC.
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The Guymon Herald.
VOL. 30.
The Guymon Democrat *u consolidated
The Guymon Herald March Ut. 1919.
GUYMON, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2,1920.
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPKB
«1.A« PKR YKAH.
NO. 40.
EXPERT SAYS MUST
DOUBLE BOND ISSUE
The fourth mass meeting of the
citizens of Guymon to consider still
another proposition for the better-
ment of the water and lighting con-
ditions, was held at the Court 'House
last night.. This meeting heard the
report of F. H. Kilburn, of the Ruckel
Engineering Companfr of Hutchinson,
who had been employed by the town
trustees to make an estimate for the
necessary additions and betterments
to the existing light and water plant,
to make it a suitable operating plant
for the city of Guymon.
Mr. Kilburn made three estimates.
The first of these gives the amount
of bonds it will be necessary to vote
in order to buy the present plant nt
a cost of $35,000 00 and add to it in
such a manner that the service will
be reliable and sufficient to get light
and water and give fire protection.
In this estimate he includes two new
Semi-Diesel engines, one of 150 and
one of 100 horse power capacity, new
switchboards, 12,000 gallon oil reser-
voir, two one hundred gallon per min-
nite deep well pumps, 20,000 feet of
water mains, plugs, valves fittings, al-
terations and repairs on buildings, r^-
pairiAg of old engines for emergency
use and many items too numerous for
us to mention in this isBue of the pa-
per. The total cost of this plan will
be 128,517.00.
The second estimate covered the
value of the Guymon Light & Power
Company's plant as it exists today,
and takes into account only such parts
of the plant as can be rebuilt and
added to to enable its use in the first
estimate. This takes no account of
the value of water mains under ,*our
inches in diameter and places a very
small value on the entire list of ma-
chinery in the power plant—only $1.-
500.00 He deducts from 25 to 50
per cent from nearly all the other
equipment of the company, to :'md
its actual value today. He states that
it would take $12,000 to replace the
standpipe today, and values it at $8,-
" 000.00. The total valuation thus ar-
rived at is $46,684.45. Then he
makes a final discount of 20 per cent
on this total, placing the present value
at $37,347.55. , x
The third estimate covers a plant
new in every detail to be of the same
effectiveness and capacity as the fi*st
estimate, and this would require the
voting of a bonded indebtedness of
at least $153,000.00.
After the reading of this report the
matter was discussed by a number of
citizens, and by an almost unanimous
standing vote, it was expressed as the
sense of the meeting that the Town
Trustees should take immediate
measures to call an etfection to* sub-
mit the first proposition to the people
of Guymon, and the call for the elec-
tion on December 28th, and the or<ii-
nance authorizing same will be found
elsewhere in this issue of the Herald.
We regret very much that we are
unable to print Mr. Kilbum's esti-
mates in full in this issue of the Her-
ald, but we received them too late.
They will be printed in next week'sjs-
sue. We also learn that the Green
Engineering Comparv of Oklahoma
Citv has representatives here today
makine an estimate and we may also
give this in our next issue.
METHODIST LADIES
AID SOCIETY MEET
About The Farmer and The Price of Wheat
— « MEETING AT BEAVER
When the war was on, the farmer
wa>- told that he must produce wheat
to save the nation, and he did.
When the war was over, he was
told that he must continue to pro-
duce wheat to save the .world from
starvation, and "he did.
During the war, the government
to^d the farmer what he should sell
his wheat for, and he did that too,
under protest.
Now, the war is over, and the gov-
ernment has renounced responsibil-
ity for the price of wheat, the brok-
ers have again assumed control, and
the farmers are still protesting.
When the wheat was fresh from
the harvest this season, the price was
$2.50 per bushel, but no one could
buy much of it, because the railroads
claimed inability to secure cars to
shin it in.
Now that freight rates have ad-
vanced, there are plenty df cars to
bring Canadian wheat into the Amer-
ican markets and force down the
price of good United States wheat.
To combat this condition, farmers'
associations all over the country, are
trying to hold their wheat for a
higher price. In order to do^ this,
they must have credit from their
bankers so they can continue to work
their farms and live.
The banks announce that they can-
not supply this credit, and many o"/
them are demanding that the farm-
ers must meet their obligations. Their
bankers excuse is good, for the
money he has loaned them belongs
to their depositors, and is subject to
the depositors demand. The depos-
its may be the property of the man
who owns the adjoining farm to the
one who wants his loan extended.
And there the%natter rests at this
writing. m
What are the'farmers going to doT
And what are the farming district
bankers going to do?
It looks very much like the farmer
who had borrowed the money was the
one who would have to make the
sacrifice—a broker was never known
to do a thing like that intentionally—
and that weakens the farmers' move-
ment.
The, broket's, elevator and mill men
have offered to advance one dollar
per bushel on all wheat stored with
them, the same to be sold at the hign-
est market price at the farmers m-
3traction on or before next March 1st,
The farmers' associations claim
this is an attempt by speculators >.o
get their wheat into storage, and out
of control of the farmers, and that
tftis would tend to depress the price
of wheat. They also want to know
how the grain dealers are so munifi-
cently supplied with the cash to ad-
vance on wheat, when the banks are
unable to loan money to the farmers
on their wheat.
The Herald gives the above simply
as a recital of the condition as it ap-
peal's in the big daily papers over the
country. It stands to reason that vhe
banks dealing with the farmers are
going to extend them all the favors
ttheir power, but -the farmer who
demand notes out will probably
be compelled to meet them. The
broker, grain dealer and miller have
money at their command, but are
not going to play against their own
profit. The fanners who are finan-
cially able to hold their wheat will
probably get a higher price if their
nerve holds out until the price advan-
ces. But it will be a severe lesson
to those farmers who short sightedly
held their wheat when they could
have sold it for a fairly good price, in
anticipation for a fabulous price.
The remedy for this condition must
be found if the1 country is to enjoy
prosperity. The political doctors are
suggesting embargoes, protective
tariffs, and all the old political sops
that have been offered for a century,
and proven only temporary reliefs
under such conditions. Gamblers and
speculators can arrange their affairs
and outgeneral all such schemes, it
has been proven times without num-
ber.
But the Herald believes the war
board has proven that there is a per-
manent remedy for this condition,
and that it is to be secured through
the establishment of a government
commission and jrovernment ware-
houses, the government advancing.*
nominal sum on the wheat put in ita
care* thus stabalizing the market,
and taking the farmers, the greatest
support the government has, out of
the hands of the speculators. This
may smack of paternalism, but the
day is fast approaching when men
who never produce ef handle the
farmera products must be divorced
from dictation of their prices.
PASSES RESOLUTIONS
Resolved, That we, the Panhandle
Section of the North-Western Okla-
homa Educational Association, in
regular session assembled in Bea-
ver City, Oklahoma, on this 27th day
of November, 1920, hereby request
theGovernor and the Legislature of
the. State of Oklahoma to give at-
tention to the following needs of the
schools of the Panhandle and the
State of Oklahoma.
1st. Whereas the people of the
Panhandle are remote from the other
parts of the state and because rf
poor railroad facilities, find it ex-
tremely difficult to reach the other
State Institutions,
Resolved, That we request that the
Panhandle Agricultural Institute be'
made a College of at least Junior
standing, issuing State Certificate*
on a par with schools of correspono-
HAD FOUR GALLONS
OF SAID ALCOHOL
According to a statement made by
B. W. Thomas, he bought four gallons
and one quart of alcohol from a Mex-
ican near Washington Park in El
Paso, Texas, for which he paid $40,
and he made no stops with it until he
got to Texhoma, where he was ar-
rested Tuesday. He states that he
has never sold any liquor, and drank
ve:y little, and that his object in buy-
ing this was to dispose of it at a pro-
fit, so that he could care for hip sev-
enteen year old daughter who is in a
hospital at El Paso; Texas, threatened
with tuberculosis. Thomas claims
that much of his life has been spent
In railroad work, in which he has ser-
ved from brakeman to conductor, but
that for the last six months he has
been laid Up with rheumatism, and is
unable to work. He is a man 52
years of age, and says his wife died
ten years ago, and'that his desire to
aid his daughter has led him into this
trouble. ,
Thomas was brought to Guymon by
the Deputy Sheriff Tuesday, and is
held in the county jail in default of
bond.
The Trail That Wins
Guymon must awake to the fact that Fe in Hansford covnty, Texas, will
simply being on a great national not sit ldly and allow herself to lose
simply being on a great national not sit miy ana
highway does not insure her the her proportion of this tourist busi U1B s„WIl VVWI. ...... ~ ■
travel of the tourists. The money - ness, and the road in Hansford county er>. member of the team have closely
left in the various towns by tourists is even better than m Texas county, ^^ered to clean athletics, and have
is not a small item these days. It and can be more easily maintained. proven that justice is the only policy.
P. A. I. HAS FINE
FOOTBALL RECORD
The football team of the Panhan-
die Agricultural Institute has jftst
completed at very successful peason,
losing only two games and one of
those to a college team. Throughout
the entire season Coach Haug and ev-
TOWN WITHOUT
LIGHTS PAST WEEK
A broken connecting rod bolt and
a bent connecting rod in the big en-
gine at the Guymon Light & Power
plant, are the reasons Guymon has
been without electric lights the past
week. The Company sent to Kansas
City to get an expert here to care for
the machinery, and he arrived Mon-
day Since that time Manager Smith
has been traveling between vhe
foundry at Tibi al and Guymen, and
, expert has been busy in an en-
d°avor to get the machinery to work-
ing, and the hope was expressed that
we would have light before time for
the Herald to be printed this week.
And we are all likewise hoping Man-
ager Smith has made every effort to
have the lights turned on as quickly
as jwssible
be the last meeting of the Society ATrirr7ruAAi ri TTK
before the Bazaar and the ladies are NEr r btliUUL,
urged to be present to help complete : WILL GIVE A PLAY
plans for it. , _
JSd "VfJt IS."0™ SI
%1n°L Sla? Si, DetmL Uth. The pl.y k
is not a small item these aays. it anu can .uv«* " n
has grown to be a source of revenue So all that is necessary to
recognized by the tradesmen in ev- prestige of routes is the ^pe'ation
ery town, and the'towns that are not of the towns to the ^theait and
on the highways are bestirring them- northwest on the DjCJD-and they
selves, and if they cannot get the big are all vitally interesM~-and suffi-
highways routed their way they are cient advertising. And don . over-
promoting projects of their own to look the advertising.
divert travel their way. And it is .
good business on their part, too. And while we are talking about
! this tourist travel, we want to sug-
Just as an instance of this, we gest that before the opening of an-
would call attention to the present other season, Guymon must estab-
effort to the east of us. The D-C-D llsh a fine camping park andproyide
Highway is routed from Canadian to it with water, toilets and other con-
Perryton, Texas, thence through Gray, veniences, including .shade. bhe
Oklahoma, to Guymon. It is an ideal. must extend true hospitality to them,
route, and has been getting a very and our garage and business men
large percentage of the travel from should have a glad hand and smile
the southeast to the northwest, not- for them on all occasions. We must
withstanding that parts of the road treat them so nice- tha* they cannrt
have not been kept as well as they h$p, saying nice thins* boutu^ A
should have been. Much of the tour- travelers good woTd wrji town trav-
ist travel from Louisiana, southern , els faster than most anything tosides
Arkansas, eastern Texas and south- scandal, and there is
em Oklahoma to the Rockies has been costs so little and can be canuid so
his way easily. The tourist expects to pay
. ' for what he gets but he does pot want
It is only natural that Booker, > buy a .grouch.
S-oven that justice is the only policy,
onorable mention goes to Jobe
Hendricks, Allen Tucker and Wayne
Sherb. for losing less than two min-
utes each actual playing time, out of
the whole season; to Isaac O'neal for
'playing thru a game with an injured
leg; to Jesse Welsh, for the skin h«
lost off his nose, and last, but far
from least, to Arthur Griggs, fot
playing an entire game with a broken
rib and not allowing it to show up in
his playing. The whole team deserves
credit for its excellent work and
manly conduct, they go together
Here is a table of the season's score:
0 P. A. I Alva 87
7 P. A. I Hooker 7
13 p. A. I Guymon 14
56 P. A. I Dalhart 0
'8 P. A. I - Hooker 0
18 P. A. I. Ottfmon t
21 P. A. I Dalhsrt 0
43 P. A. I. Elkhart 13
The next regulan meeting of the
Methodist Ladies* Aid, Society will
be held at the church Thursday af-
ternoon, December 9th. This will
be the last meeting of the Society
11 IS UIHJ Iiatuioi v VUV..V.,
Texas, a new town on the railroad .
east of Perryton, should want a1 The
divisjon of this dividend paying routes
travej. Her enterprising business There
farmers interest in these
should not be overlooked,
i neic is nothing that will more
greatly enhance the value of his prop
men h&ve a project. They have vis- greany cm" rr r~,~zn
ited the business men of Beaver and erty than a great highway in close
Forgan, Oklahoma, and Liberal, Kan- proximity to it. It is assurance of a
sas, with the result that each of these good road for his traffic, and helps
towns have subscribed to a fund to him even more than it does thetowns.
improve a highway and have it His interest is really so great that he
marked, diverting,a part of the D-C- should never permit bad stretches in
D travel via their towns. Such ac- a highway along his premises. A
tion on their part is only to be ex- I little watchfulness and aid on the
pecfied—Guymon would probably do 1 part of the farmers will pay him big
the same if she was in a likfe situa- dividends for his effort. His pride
tjon in his community should inspire nis
'active support.
ing grade in the state.
We further request that sufficient
appropriations be made'to
suitable buildings and othe
ment for ssid Institution. .
We desire to call attention to the
fact that this Institution has bee*
very much neglected in the past and
hat it is so over-crowded at the
Eresent time that the equipment of
be school should be doubled imme-
diately. . .
2nd. Whereas the number of
Rural Schools asking for state aid to
so large that it will be imposlble with
the present appropriations to jpre
each school the aid needed, therefore
Resolved, That we request the b*
islature to pass emergency legislation
appropriating a sufficient sumto
care in full for every school qualify-
ing for Baid aid:
3rd. Whereas many rural schools
are suffering because of loss of funds
transferred to the hi#h schools and
whereas many high schools find it
difficult to care for the studwwa
transferred from the rural schools,
Resolved, That we request the leg-
islature to give state aid to aeoredt-
ted high schools receiving students
from the rural schools and repeal the
law transferring the children to the
high schools and further providing
that said children entering said rc-
credited high schools shall not be
charged tuition for same.
4th. Whereas many of the schools
of the Panhandle of Oklahoma de-
siring to consolidate cannot receive
state aid because the school popula-
tion of 180 pupils is a requisite for
receiving such aid, therefore be it ■
Resolved. That the present law be
*o amended that such aidmay M
Just how much effect this has on
the travel through Guymon depends
_ x kaMalf TVio
the travel through uuymon aepenas Tourists, like everyone else, are
a great deal on Guymon herself. The supposed to know the laws and obey
road via ihis route is naturally good, them, but there is no doubt but what
and with fair care can always be the regulations for driving and park-
kept in passable condition. As much jng are vastly different in many
cannot be said for the new route pro- towns. 'In enforcing regulations of-
be "fT. xT^a" w'Ylrt, TVip nlav is jected east of us. It passes through ficials should be most considerate.
— — -A3" nl^ht' jeTnm!r«l and we promise a soil conditions that are the bane of a fine and costs may tickle officials
of the Executive Committee, or to unique and comic;a who attend.! autoists during wet weather. For a little, and still be a most Expensive
the President, Mrs. Ellison, or they pleasant evening t « ' i instance, the road from Liberal to iUXury for a town. Where no actual
may be handed in at this meeting. Adm-ss^on At) ana ou =• [Forgan has been a dread to traveling {isjnage is done, the stranger in the
—- —| muchTtS^And S&JTiTn'S
§f from Beaver south until the autoist jn driving will usually be appreciated
1 reaches the higher plains land they a traveler, where an exhibition of
= liavp iheir troubles. mitVinritv has the ODOOSite effect. A
HOOKER POOL HALLS
GO INTO THE COURT
k ■■
The owners of the Pool Halls that
were voted out of the town of
Hooker in the recent special election
there, brought their case before
Judge Sutton of the District Court
yesterday, praying for an injunction
against the enforcement of the ordi-
nance authorized, claiming that the
election was not legally held. At the
time we go to press, the court had not
acted on the injunction, awaiting fur-
ther citations and evidence that was
to be introduced.
ORGANIZE BUREAU
AT EUREKA SCHOOL
J. B. Hisey, County Agent ?oi
Texas county, reports the organiza-
tion of a splendid Farm Bureau out
le Hlureka School Distrifct in the
and having
(65) scholastic pupils
said district. '
6th. Resolved that the County
Truancy officer be paid a salary of
equal amdunt as the County Clerk
from the months \ of September to
April inclusive. ■
7th. Resolved that a copy of these
resolutions be sent Uk the Governor,
the State Superintendent, the «cre-
tary of the Oklahoma Educational
Association, the State Senator M._W.
Pugh of Boise City, Representatives
J. W. Steffen of LeKemp, and J. <*-
Denny of Guymon and the newspa-
pers of the Panhandle.
Respectfully submitted
W L. HENSON, Pres. P. N. O.
E A
O. A.' ANDREWS, Sec'y.-Treas.
P. N. O. E. A.
W. A. MARTIN, Pres. Committee.
R N. DUPREE, Member Commit-
MARY E. LAWRENCE, Sec'y-
at the Eiuretv-o ouiwvii W'O"
northeastern part of the county Wed-
nesday night. He says that theirs is i j "u
a progressive district with a consoli-! evenmg worsh p at 7 o clock
dated school employing three teachers, I day schoo1 at 10 ;%ARBY Pastor,
and affording a lyceum course i F- UAKi51' rasior-
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Services at the Presbyterian
Church Sundav morning and evening.
Morning worship at 11 o'clock and
• - • i-i- Sun-
authority has the opposite ^effect.^A Is
aumuiuy uaa me . =
S fine and costs may drive the tourist s
1 So we repeat, just how much ef- by another route on his next trip, and , g
1 feet this new route may have upon no telling how many P?™®® y | §
1 the travel through Guymon depends tourists may be influenced by the 01- ^
I a great deal upon Guymon herself, fended one, to pass un your town. ^
1 The roads through Texas county and Where there are no signs to instruct
= to the Texas line can be made ideal the traveler, he is always entitled lO _
I with'proper care, at very small ex- the doubt, except in'the case of fast | ^
| pense. Spearman, the hustling ter- or reckless driving, which is univer- J |
1 rninal town at the end of the Santa ally prohibited.
FIND ILLICIT STILL ISUYMONTEAM
IN SEWARD COUNTY j BEAT HOOKER
Every surplus dollar not actually hidden away is
earning money for some one.
Until you have a better, permanent investment for
your funds, a savings account at this Bank is the
ideal employment for them.
Don't let a single dollar lie idle. Put it to work
here.
MA** OUR BA"" V0UR 5ANK
The First National Bank
GUY MUM
Saturday night a complaint was
made by the Sheriff of Seward
county and search warrants made
out and the officers of the • ounty
left for the north part of the county
to search the farm of John Carrell,
for an illicit still.
Thanksgiving Day the local High
School team "locked horns" with our
neighboring school, Hooker High
School on the local gridiron. In the
earlier part of the game, thf Hooker
,u boys showed superior team-work and
' J outplayed the Guymon boys for a
% had ^ m*de i M"* ">
J&. SliM
DossMsion He was fined $100 and a remarkable defensive. During the
ghen a jail sentence of thirty days, second half straight football netted
Bill Morris who iryide the liquor the Ibcal boys two J^d'*ndT^
is from Kentucky. It seems he had n -•nal attack netted the third. The
good recipe for making hootch and guymon bovs educated t«e failed to
interested Mr. Carrell in his Pro- function, all three place kicks going [
position, persuading him to give him wild. The
permission to place a still on his of 18 to 1
farm. Morris was charged not only boys. On the whole it wa
with having liquor in his possession lean game and showed a
but with making it. His punishment <« true sportsmanship
was a $250 fiw snd sixty days in the HooVer. boys, let us
Safety
,k.t th. United
ar 1" worm VIUJ aiavj — 0 — 7
w>* has the same debt paying power as of old and when it cornea to
a WtTS lifti^^W will' *0 just as far as in the
cheapest period in our Fustory.
A man's personal profits are his savings and the «« JKSf
nn monev is in iust the same class as a business which is making
no profits; both are headed certainly toward ultimate failure unleae
radical change for the better is made NOW.
START A SAVING ACCOUNT TODAY.
This Bank offers many inducements to encourage Mvinp:--2S"
tection for your funds, a convenient location, four per cent interest,
ip^onal service that will please you and adeposiguarantee.
. ST-j t : k.^v. nr thp rhiMr*n These little Banks are
a personal service " • j'v- —
Individual saving bank* or the children,
ideal Xmas gifts for the litUe one
le game ended with a score 11
7 in favor of the Guymon II
The Texas 6ountw BanK
A HOME BANK
DEPOSITS GUARANTEED.
jail.—Liberal News.
k«re indeed good kwers.
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