The Guymon Herald. (Guymon, Okla.), Vol. 31, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 18, 1921 Page: 1 of 10
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The guymon Herald.
OKLA. HISTORICAL SOC^
n Guymon Hmld March LM. 191 .
GUYMON, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1921.
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER XT A Off
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The Guymon Chautauqua Course Begins August 28 and Lasts Seven Days
Will Investigate Big
Free Fair Attraction
County Supt. W. A. Martin, L. W.
Shields and County Agent J. B. Hisey
went over to Beaver City, in Beaver
County yesterday, to investigate the
HoltVmP Exposition Company which
is seeking a contract to furnish amuse-
Zhc funeral director
T
WORLD PETROLEUM
TO MAKE CHANGES
H. P. Hall, president of the World
Petroleum Company, with headquart-
ers at Blackwell, Oklahoma, ii a visitor,
menta for our Free Fair which opens in Guymon this week. While here he
October 18th this year. They are is making arrangements for the re-
giving an exhibition there all this moval of the storage tanks to the lots
week under the auspices of the Beaver purchased by the Company, and which
City Chamber of Commerce. They includes the building occupied by the
offer a substantial cash sum for the Willard Battery Station. This build-
privileges here, guarantee splendid at- ing is to be remodeled to meet their
tractions and none of them of an ob- needs, and the storage capacity of
jectionable nature. The Exposition the plant will be increased. A couple
Company offered to bear the expenses of up-to-date Ailing stations are
of the committee to make a thorough among the improvements planned,
investigation of their attractions and , Mr. Hall says that some reports that
system of doing business. he hears have been circulated about
—— his company are entirely erroneous,
MORE NEW HOUSES and are evidently fabrication! invent-
STARTED THIS WEEK ^ for trade purposes.
A new modern five room cottage ARE GETTING ANXIOUS
was started on north Main street this AB0UT IMPROVEMENTS
week for Chas. Waters, and an addi-
tion to the home of W. N. Bellinger, ^ town offlcialg ,nd the citizens
Recently while watching the quiet,
unobtrusive yet exact work of our
Iccal undertaker, the importance of
the profession was brought promin-
ently to notice. When not on profes-
sional duty he plods through life much
the same as the ordinary citizen, often
bending under burdens 01 responding
to the fun and frolic of life. But let
sorrow call him to the responsibility
of his profession and his self inter-
ests are effaced in his desire to render
his power, and he gently cares for
the dead. In the last hours of his
service to the bereaved his decisions
and actions must be with firmness and
accuracy though hia heart is filled
with sympathy and hia grief would
mingle with those who grieve but his
profession bids him tread the path
of elf control in his service to man-
kind. Continually thrown with the
greatest sorrow that could come to
mankind he masters the temptation
Local Train Service
To Be Discontinued
S. S. CONVENTION
HERE NEXT YEAR
service to those who grieve. He lifts to Wome sad or morose and though
from them every burden that it is the tender and affecting things of
possible to lift—every decision that i life may be pulling at hia heart atrlngs
it is possible for him to make. He | he walks among men with fortitude
comforts the living so far as it is in antf exterior creerfulneas.-
An Auto and Tractor
School for Panhandle
A new Rock Island time card Is
expected here within the next day or
two, to become effective next Sunday
Five Sunday Schools of Texas mowing. Several changes in tim.m
County were represented at the Con- «"* the local passeng^ offlc.
vention in Goodwell Tuesday night,information a. to just what they
Geo. Gear, and Mesdames Date Walt-1 • .... . .
ers, and Miller being the Guymon | There is very definite prospect how-
representatives present. G. E. Moore ™°{ curta.lment of local paaunr*
of Guymon was chosen County Chair- "\
and Joe Dean Secretary for the i the Golden State Limited trains Ac-
r 1 u; .u.„ I cording to rumor trains Nos. 811 and
C. J. Highley, Hooker, I JJJ Jg ^ ^ #f
man
ensuing year
F. L. Stewiirt, Tyrone, and Mr. Cook-
ey of Goodwell were chosen vice-presi-
dents.
State SupcrintenJent C. H. Nichols
made a splendid talk to the 30 dele-
gates present. Guymon was chosen
as the next meeting place. The ladies
of Goodwell served s sumptuous din-
ner lo the delegates.
Panhandle country will be using one
or more tractors, and the automobilea
will be so numerous that at least one
member of every farm family should
have a technical knowledge of these
■R I How sip v and B W Msvs are r. j," . . |" - ... ..7"' I carry an outlay of more than $2,000, great time and lobor saving machines.
cLtta .( 'Z <""y' i .nd' will «como4..i.n, . k*>.l«l«, I. .n th.t
The Pointer Auto and Tractor
School is an enterprise that is matur-
ing in Guymon. This institution is
to be housed in a specially constructed
to cost $1,200 is under way. Messrs. wner,lly are .jetting anxious about brick bui,di"*'
tage in the northeastern part or town. in)r the return of Superintendent
Marvin McLarty has decided to build whiteneck of the Green Engineering
his fine new home of brick, and the R. Companyto learn what is the cause.
B. Quinn home is enclosed. The work There j,ag been very little progress tn
on the new Allen store room on Main the work the past few days, and no one
street is nearing completion. A num- geems mj,le to give encouragement
ber of others have obtained estimates >bout the early compietion of the
for buildings, and the prospects for p]ant Neither of the engines have
Guymon's growth were never better. arrived and ^ople are beginning to
TWO BAND CONCERTS ^
DURING PAST WEEK the contract was made, and nearly
■ j twice that length of time has elapsed.
The band concert at the Public j The well being drilled promises tobe
School Park laat night was well attend- « good one, a good flow of water hav-
ed considering the shower that preced- ing been reached, but to make sure of
ed it, and the concert on the Court the supply, H will be sunk several
House lawn last Saturday night was f<*t deeper.
splendidly attended. The leader. Royal — •
Claycomb, is making even- effort to ANOTHER VETERAN
get a good organisation together and DIED LAST MONDAY
to give service. There is a pfrospect _____
of a number of new members joining I. A. Morse, a veteran of the Civil
the organisation in the near future. War, and for many years s respected
There will be another concert at the
Public School Park next Wednesdsy
be conducted on the same plan as the I to the city schools and the cost of
institutions of s similar nature in the
large cities, and Homer Pointer, the
promoter and technical spirit behind
the enterprise believes the institution
•will receive fine support from the
people of the Panhandle country, who
will appreciate the opportunity placed
right at their door, to secure know-
ledge of this nature. The time ia not
far distant when every farm in the
tuition and living makes it impossible
to obtain in msny instances.
Mr. Pointer's competence is so well
known in this section of the country
that it will assure the school recogni-
tion, and the enterpriae is receiving
substantial support from the business
men. It promistp to be a most import-
ant institution for Guymon and the
! Panhandle country.
GOOD ROADS CLUB
IS WORKING ROAD
The road leading north from Guy-
mon has gotten in such s deplorable
condition that the Good Roads Club
has employed two men this week to
IS COMING BACK
TO TEXAS COUNTY
The Herald la in receipt of a letter
from W. L Mcllroy, who owns a farm
eight miles north of Onvmon. but is
now in Canton. Ohio. He says he was
financial condition of the county, no
work can be paid for from this source,
so the Club has taken this step.
■ . / .k o - p I Marshal Jack Harriaon is working four
resident of the Pony Creek neighbor- . ...
hood, died at his home Monday, and the road th.s after-
night, and the people should turn out. ! funeral aervices were conducted at the noon-
get It in better shape. Owing to the a resident of Texas County from April
COUSIN OF LEEMAN
Baptist Church in Guymon. Tuesday,
and the remains laid to rest in the
MURDERED IN TEXAS "™ter> M°™ **
— an invalid for maty years.
Sheriff C. A. Leeman received word
the first of the week, that his cousin. J. W. JORDAN PLANS
Robert W. Jamea, was murdered near
Honey Grove, Texas. Two men who
afterwards plead guilty, employed J. W. Jordan, of the Jordan Motor
TO CHANGE BUSINESS
SEEKING TO LEARN
THE AVERAGE YIELD
Letters received from the state de-
partment of agriculture announce that
several hundred inquiries have been
sent to farmers over Texas County
to learn the average wheat yield por
acre. From what the Herald writer
WERE SIZING UP
WHEAT SITUATION
al. They now run to Dalhart, Texas.
The Golden State Limited trains,
Nos. 3 snd 4 will probably be set back
something under a half hour. It ia
probable that if the curtailment of .
local service is made that Nos. S and
4 will take on the local work between
Liberal and Dalhart.
EASTERN DISTRICT
COURT SESSION
Judge George M Frittr reports the
A specisl engine and coach, bearing biffett docket ever diip0M<j 0f i„ the
19th, 1905 to July 16th, 19C1. Since
leaving here, he has been in twenty
of the United Statea and a large part
of Canada, but finds few countriea
equt) to the Panhandle. He says he
expects to return with some western
land buyers in the near future,
Division Superintendent Greenough of
the Rock Island Railway, T. H. Wll-
helm, General Freight Agent, of Fort
Worth, Texas, A. Putmsn, Division
Freirht Agent, AmariUo, Texas, and
E. P. Kelly, Assiatant Manager, of
Fort Worth, was sidetracked at Guy-
mon for a coifyle of hours lsst Satur-
day while the officials interviewed the
elevator and business men sbout con-
ditions here. Superintendent Green-
ough gives us the information that
Texaa County has the greatest crop on
the Rock Island Railway this year, and
that their visit waa to deterimne how
**st to meet the requirements of the
shippers. They are wrestling with
the car shortage, snd the securing
snd spportionment of freight ears
is a big problem for thorn.
BUY SEASON TICKETS
FOR CHAUTAUQUA
The Chautauqua Committee held a
specisl meeting at the office of W. W.
Kennedy Tuesday night to prepare for
the ticket aale campaign that opens
today. The pricea of the sesson tick-
ets were finally determined as fl.50
for children frota (I to 16 years of
age, and 13.60 for adults.
Eastern District County Court this
week, the session lasting three daya.
S. M. Tabor and J. E. Gilmore wore
fined $60 each and sentenced to SO
days in jail by a jury, for manufac-
turing intoxicating liquors.
J. A. Gwinn, charged with selling
intoxicants, secured a continuance in
his case.
O. A. Sutton, charged with having-
intoxicants in his possession with on-
lawful intent was dismissed by the
states attorney, he believing the evi-
dence insufficient to convict
Jsmes to drive them to s neighboring Company, ia sdvertising his big im-1
. . . , . m i I r n l. rirn from tnr tlevtior in*n •n<i
towfi, and on th# trip struck him on plement and supply buiineta for tale 1
the head with an eight pound sledge this week. He plans to engsge in
hammer. The object waa robbery, another buainess in Guymon, but has
about three hundred dollsrs being re- not yet divulged whst it will be. Jor-
ceived from the murderers. W. B. dsn is a pusher, and has his westher
1/eeman, a brother of our sheriff, is j eye on some good opening, we will
the undersheriff there. I venture.
My epplicstion is boundless
-Thrift
Women who Really Want to Save
Right along with good housekeeping, good
buying and economical marketing in the
plans of the thrifty woman comes the
BANK ACCOUNT.
Women are beginning to realize more and
more the power of systematic saving.
Out of her allowance must be paid grocery
bills, meat bills, etc. also she should owe this
bank a stipulated amount each month-
begin this month—RIGHT NOW I
START AN ACCOUNT TODAY
The First National Bank
GUYMON OKLAHOMA
numerous fsrmers^ there hss been
very few fields that fell below 20
bushels per acre, and we believe a
ssfe estimate would be an average of
about 23 bushels per acre, over the
whole county.
COAL COSTS MORE
AND CARRIERS LESS
Laat Year, the Guvmon School Board
filled their coal bunkers with coal at
a coat of about $9.60 per ton. This
yesr, their coal is costing them sbout
$14 00 per ton; quite an addition to the
fuel fund over that of laat year.
However, this year they have effected
a *aving of about $1,600 in the coat
•f carrying the rural pupils to school,
and at the stme time believe they
have improved the service.
SOME CORN STALKS
WE WOULD SAY
Three com stalks, llfeet <1 inches
In height, each with two well devel-
oped ears of com on them, are on dis-
play at the Gdjrmon Land A Loan
Company Office. They grew thia year
on the Vanderwork farm, 10 miles
southeast of Guymon.
HEAVY RAINS HERE
SEEM DAILY EVENTS
Heavy rains seem to be on schedule
as daily affairs in this section of the
country. A number of drenching
showers the past week have delayed
plowing, throehing and wheat hauling,
and have served to keep the roads in
s deplorable condition.
ESTABLISHES A NEW
PIANO BUSINESS HERE
Royal Claycomb has decided to stay
In Guymon permanently, and. as will
be noted from his advertisement else-
where. is starting in business in a Has
with which he is thoroughly familiar.
He believes there la an opening for
the splendid lino of inctruments ho ia
introducing, snd will do his best to
build up a fine muaical business in Goy-
mon. Mr. Claycomb ia a splendid
musician, well known in this sectiou
of the country, a«d a musical aa4
social ssset for the community.
COLLEGE QUARTET
GRANDMA LANCASTER
THOMAS MKIGHAN IN
"CIVILIAN CLOTHES"
I Are you thinking of eloping? Have
you picked out the place to which you
plan to flee? If you havent, why not
1 try Havana, Cuba? It's • beautiful
spot and, besides, since July 1st, It has
had other attractiona. fio the elopere
, In Thomas Melgtian'a Paramount pic-
ture, "Civilian Clothe.", discover Thl.
picture, which la Mr Melghan's star-
ring vehleto, will he shown at the Royal
, Theatre. It waa adapted from the
popular stage play of the same name.
Pretty Martha Mansfield Is the loading
woman Thursday and Friday. Aug-
ust t6 and 16.
ARE EXTENDING THE
A & P HIGHWAY
Arrangsments have been msde for
the extension of the Atlantic-Pacific
Hurhway through Indiana, Ohio and
Wimt Virginia. Only two states, Cali-
fornia ai«d Virginia now remain in
which the line must be adopted before
the entire route from Los Angeles to
Wsthington, I). C. is officially select-
ed. Officers of the Highway who are
selrcting the route believe that the
Atlsntk-Pacific route when finally
adopted will be in many ways the most
dm irable oast and sroot line across the
cuntlaaat. ^
COMING TUESDAY PASSED ON YESTERDAY
The famous Southwestern Collsge Mrs. Julia 8. Lancaster, who for
Quartet of Winfleld. Kansas, is to be the past three years has made her
here next Tuesday, and is to give a home with her son, Mr. E. R. U -
concert at the Methodiat church that caster, died yesterday morning at 10:M
night at 8 o'clock. T^ieae are the same o'clock. She was 70 years of age aad
boys who were here last year, and had been poorly for some time. Mrs.
pleased their suditors so rreatly, snd E. E. Nocks, s daughter from Hooker
it goes without saying that they will hss arrived, but the date of the funeral
Ite greeted by a large audience. The will not be made until after the arrival
Epworth League will aerve ice r ream of two sons from Kanaas City. Tho
in the church parlor beginning at 7 Herald will have an obituary nest
p. m. and again following the concert, week.
mthm Stat* Behind
Us StatvBanki
FAIR BOARD MEETS
ON NEXT THURSDAY
There will be a meeting of the Texas
County Free Fair Board at the office
of Secretary W W Kennedy In Guy-
mon next Saturday afternoon A full
attendance of the board membera Is
anticipated.
MISS ALICE SIA)AN
BUYS FORGAN EAGLE
The laat weeks Issue of the Forgan
Kairl* announces thst Mtsa Alice Sloan
wh has been Ite acting editor since
A I Klmbell moved over to Beaver
I City, to taks charge of the Beever
Drm cral, has purchased the paper
enl plant fro..i Mr. Klmhall. This
' makee two papers In Beever County
conducted by Mleeee—Mle« Maude
iThnmaa being the other, and she has
| edited the llerald at Beaver City for
39MillionBushels of Wheat
Yearly in Oklahoma.
NOBODY KNOWS—
just how lon« bueinese will continue at high tide in Texaa county. Tho
majority of people will probably go along as naual, thoughtlessly aa-
•uming It will continue Indefinitely.
Ilie THOUGHTFUL FEW are going to uee their preeent opportunity
wleely, by preparing themselvee financially so that no change of con-
ditions will seriously effect them.
Old Fashioned THRIFT may seem to be a back number Just now, but
take our word for it, old THRIFT ie going to be mighty etyliah, and
the man with tho hank account ia going to be a LKAOINO CITIZEN.
At a time like thle we coneider It a privilege to offer the suggestion
that a bank account ia even more Important NOW than ever before.
We are alao pleased to be able to aay that THE TEXAS COUNTY
BANK Is In better condition to render you true eervlce now thaa
ever before.
Ite never too late to begin, and they dont make money In piecee too
small for ua to handle, nor do they make It In denominations too lar«e.
The T«xao County Bank
DEPOtlYS GUARANTEED. A HOME BANE
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