The Altus Weekly News. (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 21, 1917 Page: 1 of 8
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THE ALTUS WEEKLY NEWS,
D*<roMd to th* laMTMU 01 Alius and Jaofcmn County
VOL. XVIII.
ALTUS. JACKSON COUNTY. OKLAHOMA. JUNE 21. 1917
NO. 17
A Billion to Help Busi-
ness and Farming
The fundi gathered into the Federal Reserve Banks
now aggregate over $1,000,000,000. This vast sum was
not accumulated to earn profits for' private interests
Its purpose is to assist its member banks, of which we
are one. in helping tbe farmers and business men and
to make general banking conditions as sound as possible.
If you are pot yet one of our Pepositors and getting
Ha benefits and protection, drow in and talk it over with
ua
The only Government Depository in
Jackson County
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
By J. A. Henry, President
It must not- We must produce,
transport and manufacture more
than ever before Half the
i world is depending on us now,
'and our future depends upon
how well we supply them.
- Every day's delay means a
sacrifice eventually of more lives
and more money.
WATER CONDI-
TION SERIOUS
1
OKLAHOMA
IS AWAKE!
Oklahoma ia awakening to the
fact that America ia at war. We
showed it when we flooded banks
with subscriptions to the Liberty
Loan in the eleventh hour and
over-subscribed our quota.-
We were asked merely to lend
our money Isst week, at a fair
rates of interest and the best
security in the world behind it.
We will be asked to give soon.
We will give of our time and
money, we will give of our fami-
ly and friends. many of us will
give with our lives.
We are fighting a defensive
war, just as truly as if the Teu-
ton were already devastating the
fields of Oklahoma instead of
the fields of Alsace-Lorraine.
Had Prussian science found a
method of coping with the Brit-
ish navy, von Hinderberg's gen-
erals might already be plotting
systematic destruction for Amer-
ica as they have plotted and ex-
ecuted systematic destruction
over Europe
They have boasted that Ameri-
ca will pay. We must pay. And
we can either pay the price of
victory and freedom or we and
our chilrren will pay the price of
defeat.
What we must do now is to
shoulder the task of the strug-
gle, throw the full weight of our
strength and resources behind
our government and stop the
toll of destruction and death just
as quickly as possible
The longer we wait to do this,
the fewer of our sons will return.
The louder may be the cry of
women and food.
Those who can join the colors
should go. The regular army ia
calling for men The navy is
calling for them. Even our
own national guard is 700 men
short of war strength,
But those who go to the front;
although thev make the greatest
sacrifice, fight only half the bat-
tle. Nations are fighting now,
not armies merely.
The farmer is fighting for his
country when he produces an
extra bushel of grain, the moth-
er when she saves an ounce of
bread, the laborer when he leave
a task well done, the office man
when his increased efficiency re
leases another to the front, the
factory or the farm.
The war will not stop business-
Foartk of Joly Celebration
Arrangements are being made
to celebrate the Fourth of July
on the fair ground There will
be patriotic speaking, and other
exercises from 10 a m. until
noon. In the afternoon there
will be racing, beginning at 1:30
p m. and other amusements.
At 8:30 p. m- there will be
moonlight races and other
amusements, rounding out a day
of joy and pleasure. A large
crowd is anticipated, and a gen-
uine big day is hoped for
Sduth Maia to be payed
At a meeting of the City Coun-
cil Monday night, the petition of
a majority of the property own-
Something like three months
ago, The News sounded a warn-
ing about the indiscriminate use
of the water in the reservoir.
That the use of it, for lawns,
washing automobiles, etc .should
cease, and that it should be con-
served for only toilet and domes-
tic purposes.
No attention was given to the
warning, but the indiscriminate
use was permitted, until there
was no water for any purpose I
This put the city in s serious'
condition. The hazard of fire
has been greatly increased itoilets
cannot not be used, barber shops
have no water for baths, and we
are simply up against the worst
condition in the history of the
city.
Some water is now being
pumpt out of what is known as
the Cage Beach pool in the north-
ern part of the reservoir. But
THE BANK OF
SAFETY AND SERVICE
Every depositor of this bank is protected by
the
Depositors' Gurintee Faad
of the State ol Oklahoma: and
We guarantee to give service unequalled
in this part or the State.
If you are not already a customer of this
bank we invite you to become one and get the
SAFETY and SERVICE you are entitled to.
Altus State Bank
Anus, OKU.
HONOR ROLL
List of subscribers to Liberty Bonds re-
ceived through City National Bank
Williamnon-Halsell Frasies Co.
City National Bank
Frank Monroe Berr>
Lee Kiefer
Emorv Morgan
Bert 0. Holt
' Gay M. Harris
Elmer Harris
J. E. Fowler
« Fred Hanna
Lucian Bell
flfo. C. Wright
A. R. Hanna
Win. J. Morris
Miaa Pauline Svdnev Clute
Mr§. 8. H. Jones
W. J. McDaniel
A. 8. J. Shaw
J. E. Whittle
W. T. Maples
Jno. R. Daniels
M. E. Rogers
James Little
Geo. W. Calwell
H. H. Eaton
George Nesbitt
A. L. Ingle
Isaac Kinney
C. 8. Williams
J. Ben Rasoell
E. M. Fox
J. D. Keith
Ererett Petrv
Sadie J. Gilbert
Dr. M. J. Beets
M. L. Cowan
James M. Moore
Mrs. J. M. Moore
J. T. Hoover
Harry J. Turrier
J. O. Carter
J. W. Wilson
H. Lieberman
B. C. Shipley
C. C. Hightower
Ina Raines
John Findiev Raines
U. G. Mills
E. F. Nesbitt
R. 3. Nicholl
H. H. Creed
J. W. Patterson
Dewitt Fears
Claude Davis
Ben Scheiuchio
. W. Walton
J. C. Hall
Clifford Pendleton
Carl Nesbitt
A. H. Smith
W. M. Bowman
Addie Fowler
Raymond Kimbell
Edw. Douglass Kimbell
H. T. Kimbell, Jr.
Richard K. Kimbell
Dr. Jno. M. Bowman
Mrs. Jno. M. Bowman
Total Amount Received - - $14,450.00
■MSL. City lfatisssl fiaik S
C. C. Henry. Cashier
E. H. Hightower. Asst. Caahier.
J. 8. Wood President
C. C. Hightower, Vice President.
FreshChocalates
When you get "hungry"
for Chocolates, you say where
cap.I get it-fresh from the
factory. Tke answer is—
The
Troutman & Gosselin
Variety Store
Received by express and kept
in Ice Cooled Refrigerators and in
the most sanitary way. They are
most delicious and special values
40c Pound
era on South Main street, pray-
ing that South Main from the in-
tersection of the atreeta at Cam-
eron's lumber yard to the north
line of the Frisco right-of-way
be paved, was granted. It calls
for a pavement 70 feet wide,
with a four inch concrete baae
and top of two inches of bitulith-
ic, with proper curbing, etc
This kind of pavement is the
same kind heretofore used in
Altus and has proven to be good.
Mr. Sadler Dead
John L Sadler, tged 86. living
six miles east of Altus, died ol
cancer, June 12th. Tbe remains
wen interred in lbs Frauds
cemetery. Rev. Hooper conduct,
ed-tbe funeral servfeea.
J. D. Littlefield of Route 5 wss
trading in the city Saturday.
N. R Stroud, wife and daugh-
ter were visiting relatives sad
friends here the first of tbe
week. Mrs. Stroud and daugh-
are enroute to Shaw, Georgia, to
visit her sister, Mrs. Evans.
this pool was never completed
or cared for and it has several
feet of mud in it.
The manager is now laying a
pipe to the two wella of our first
water system, which will afford
some water daily. The water
tower has been filled and a suf-
ficient supply of water ia being
impounded to meet an emergen-
cy or fire. But there will be
none for domestic uses.
Mr. Reed, the State Highway
engineer baa been employed by
tbe Council and tbe Commercial
Club to try to ascertain wbers a
future water supply may be had.
The Newa again warns tbe
people that it ia bsTsrdous to
depend on any single source of
water for the city. We must
have a dual system. A system
of wells and a rsaervoir, and as
longss this|neglected, is ao long
will we pass through juat auch
calamities aa the one now upon
l.
Tbe N«wa again aaysthat had
tbe City Councila, for tbe past
six years further developed the
wella upon the land purchased
of Resenbaum. that the calamity
now upon the city could have
been averted But for six years
the back of the hand has been
turned against that source of
water, and now we are paying
the penalty for such inexcusable
neglect., There are members of
the Council, even the Mayor, who
have been in office for more than
two years, who have never visit-
ed that source of water, have
wholly neglected it, until our
title to the land has been called
in question.
Had the money, expended for
the Beach pool, been expended
at the Rosenhaum place, there
would have been for years more
water, the best in the state, than
is daily used by tbe city, flowing
into the reservoir, or impounded
and we would not now have a
water famine in Altus. We know
that many have been led to be-
lieve that there is not a sufficient
supply there for the city; but
there is and can easily be devel
oped, a sufficient supply which
would have averted our present
calamity, and nothing less stu-
pidity, neglect and almost crimi-
nal carelessness have brought
thislcalamity upon the city.
The people of Altus must
awaken to the condition con-
fronting us We must have an
abunt supply of water, or the
city's growth will stop and in-
stead of growing, will go back-
ward. The fact is we must have
a permanent continuous and
abundant supply for all purpose
for all time, let tbe cost be what
it may, and our people should be
ready to acquire it
FROM WILSON'S
FLAG DAY SPEECH
The great fact that stands out
above all the rest is that this is
a people's war, a war for free-
dom and justice and self-govern-
ment amongst all«the nations of
tbe world, a war to make the
world safe for the people who
live upon it and have made it
their own, the German people
themselves included and tbat
with us rests the choice to break
through all these hypocriees and
patent cheata and maka of brute
force and help aet the world free,
or else stand aside and let it be
dominated a long age through
by sheer weight of arma and the
arbitrary choices of self-conati-
ted masters, by the nation which
can maintain the biggest armies
and the most irresistible arma-
ments-a power to which the
world has afforded no parallel
and in the face of which politi-
cal freedom must wither and
perish.
Through all sorts of channels
peace talk has come to me, and
in all sorts of guises, but never
with the terms disclosed which
the German Goverment would
be willing to accept.
H. A. Harmon of Route 1.
Headrick, was in the city on
business Wednesday. Hia crop
waa hail out two weeka ago, but
he replanted and is pushing his
work to yet make a crop.
THE PLACE TO BUY
Our line of Furniture is complete in every depart-
ment.
We have studied to know the needs of the people*
and have endeavored to carry thoae lines that mast the
demands of the people. We can furnish each room in
your houae,' from pantry to parlor, and at prices that
are reaaobable.
Mr,
Gsrdtakfce,
enll, i
ton Gibbons has purchaaed the interest of Mr.
will bs pfaifcd to Mvs his friends
soar stock and gat prices. You will receive
I fair dialing.
Th<
STORE
W. H. BURNETT, Mgr.
iture
Saitk Site sf Spue. Altai, Okla.
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Orr, J. P. The Altus Weekly News. (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 21, 1917, newspaper, June 21, 1917; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc276826/m1/1/: accessed March 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.