The Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, September 1, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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RieGranrte tn ter prise.
VOL. XII
(iranitc. Greer County, Oklahoma, Friflxiy September I, 1911
NO. 17
4
'.EGISLATORS
'FOR SESSION
But Governor It Trying to
Ascertain the Opinion oi
I the Taxpayers.
jhigh eouittfli now. Hp don't
■ need ti xpccial M it«ion.
Jasper MeMnwr* to h*-l with
u *|>ec*ial SfHMiun. Taxe* nr#
1 hitch enough now.
I'. Flynn Don't tee the need,
of it.
T. W. linker A *h rt session
j might l>e WneftcUl, but that is
two manv questions to tnckle
j now.
K. S. Hugging—They ought to
a'xnit th#* state
EXPLODING DING DONG!
CARTRIDGE SCHOOL BELL!
Probly Dentroys Sight of 9- Tcachers an 1 Scholars Will
Year-old Thomas Lackey Begin Their Year's Work
Wednesday Morni.g. Next Monday Morning
■Recently Gov. Cruce asked the . ' ' ' ..I®*1118" .°U , " Tom. the 9-vem-old .-on of Mr. Promptly at u o'clock next Mor.-
Mbinion )f the members ofthei f0" 11 8 >cu *' 8 R (and Mr*. W II Lackey, waajday morning the 1911*12 sesaion
•tf i • legislature in regard to a! \ ?' , dangerously hurl Wednesday of the Granite public schools will
ttecial session. He finds they j ' ' " l|unk we ^ j morning when s shotgun shell, i begin. and teachers and scholars,
favor it by about two to one. iikJi | with which he was playing ex- J after a long rest, will get down
Sfte Governor is now endeavor-, '' , j ploded in his hand to work in earnest. The session
to ascertain the views of the i aj U " <>r 8 ">n ft The hoy had found u shell and Monday will be devoted to the
tan payers on the subject and has j . extracted the shot from it. He! worle of classification, and all
^■lres.sed an open letter to every !jo *| jj* j e^a" cr ' lMcia Bes* | then applied a match toil, when ' pupils ure requested by Suparin-
^yspaper man in the state ask- 8 ! the powder flashed directly intoitendent Coffman to bring their
ing their assistance in the mat-l . ,0"'. 1 .1 "" a ! his eyes, burning one of them j promotion cards on that day.
ter. The Governor's letter is as ■ , . 11 e J° |S0 badly that it is doubtful if he i The new superintendent arriv-
jBlows; 8 "ow' ; ever recovers the sight of it. ed this week, and is now busv
(Star Sir: JTZ.^Z T>, T"ra had hecn ,rar"e<1 b hi i * '««* «v«ythin,: ready for the
^TOcently 1 aent a letter to each j. _ . . >r '""'Kc:a mother to thn>w the dangerous) school opening- Mr. Coffman
lemberof the Legislature, in | :^,s thing away, but like many boys j impresses one favorably from
I of his age, he thought he knew [the very beginning of his
arsiton and publication of a news-
paper involves much mental ami
physical labor mm well as an cutlay
of money. One who acct*| t* the
paper bv continuously taking it
from tne jiost office receives a
benefit and pleasure arising from
such labor and expenditure a* Things are Moving Along
fully as if he hud appropriated Fast at the State Refor-
any other product of another's matory These Days,
labor, and by such act he must
LOOKS LIKE
BUSINESS
be held liable for
; tion price.
the subscript
BIRTHS.
To Kev. and Mrs. S. F. McCaf-
fitv, Monday, a girl.
; To Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Cober,
Saturday a girl.
To Mr. and Mrs. George Green,
Sunday, a boy.
HAND CRUSHED
the
legislation a3 I care to.
r I A. F. Schwartz There
following
I fti H Th \* L' I A I*"•" iiivwitsr# cuiu u
Dc you believe the public good jM. ' fP ,n^ . a? nee K must suffer the consequences. iof the Missouri state normal, has
lemands a special session? . ew ,0" * 4,0 e ®api o que®- ; Nunnery was called at | had seventeen years experience
What time would you suggest j j^e state btf r V 't^'ted*^ °n°e attended t*le injured j in school work, and is the holder
^vhich appeared
^questions.
somt questions that should be I more than mother, and now j acquaintance. He is a graduate
It* most convenient for the mem-,.
ers of the Legislature to have a
tailed session should one be de-
termined upon?
Should a special session of the
■ Legislature be called, what pub-
Ilic matters do you consider
■ ohould be submitted for its con-
I sideration?
I I am trying to ascertain what
I the people of the state desire in
n the matter of a special session
I and in response to my letter to |
J the members of the legislature,
jl find thai about two thirds of :
Ithem favor a special session. |
■ The exact figures to this date in j
■ favor are 63. opposed 31, unde-!
■ cided.'i. The following subjects Thirteen Bales Marketed Up
■ have been recomended .for lewis- to Yesterday Noon at Gran-
■ laUon. ite this Season.
■ Reapportionment; capital; pro-j
■lubition; inheritance tax; taxa- . .
pion; banking: r tgage tax: , Cotton is beginme-to come in-
■highways; distri. f :rt ateno- ^""l!" «"'?* aharp'J; now'
Igraphers; and a fe , other mat-!and, ^ end 0t the
■jgj.g j -aid that the season will be on
Up to noon
boy, and gave it as his opinion j of five life state diplomas. He
6 vc It ao IU.> */jJiiuwii : ui u V V III*' 5UIIC' • 11 IJIOll lllS. rle
I tion°in \'ongressOPei repreben [ that it was doubtfull indeed if j was superintendent of the schools
Phil Raemer—I don't Ihink it
i matters what kind of report you
send the governor, they are :ro-
ing to have a special session any-1
way.
(J. VV. Wiley 1 can't say that!
1 see any special need of a legis-!
lative session at this time.
COTTON IS
"COMING IN
the s^fht in the right eye ever
returned. The left eye was also
badly injured, but it is not
thought io be so bad that he will
lose the use of it.
The boy's father in speaking
of the accident, said Lhat he had
little hope of him regaining the
sight in his right eye, as the en-
tire eye hud taken on a inilk
white appearance before the doc-
tor arrived and bound il up.
Miss
grade.
Miss
Kiade.
Mist
grade.
Miss
I Will you please do me the I j" "a™st- Up to noon jester-
[kindness to answer as briefly as day th"e had been th,lrteen baies
ipssible the questions submitted fef111' G,ra"''e «• •«*> .
k,ove and also give me this ad- 0f thuef Pa"' Si"tt0" had boL,Kht
six bales, paying 4 cents per
ftional information?
Pteace ascertain a nearly as
[you can whether or not the tax-
payers in your community favor
b special session. I know of no
Ibetter source upon which to rely
|J'or this information than the
newspaper men, and am address
b rig a letter similar to this to each
[newspaper in the state.
This question with me is not a
political one in anywise. My
views are pretty well understood
[but I will not permit my indivi-
Iduai convictions to stand in the
jway of the will of the people, if
can ascertain what that is.
Yours truly,
Lee Cruce, Governoi.
I pound for the staple in the seet
Two were bought by B. C.
j Caddell, one by V. S. Harrington
[and tne remainder were ginned
at The Farmers' gin, but have
not yet been sold.
The market hovers around 11
1-2 cents, but the general opinion
in the market centers is that the
goverment crop report, which is
due today will place the condi-
tion at between 67 and 77 and a
sharp advance is looked for.
AJ1 of the gins at Granite are
practically ready for business.
The Farmers' gin has already
! ginned several bales. Tinsley &
jSlaton started up yesterday with
six bales in the house to gin, and
New Manager Here.
(J. L. Allen, of Mangum, has
been seleCtgd by the company
as manager af the Granite Grain
company. There are few men
in Greer County who antedate
Mr. Allen, he having come here
twenty-one years. In the early j&rade.
[days he was a building contrac-
tor. The Greer county jail and
a number of other old buildings
in Mangum were built by him.
He is an experienced man in the
grain and coal business, and the
company is to be congratulated
on securing the services of a
man like Mr. Allen.
at Ochelata, Okla., for two years,
and has successfully conducted
four teacher Normals in Okla-
homa.
The remainder of the corps of
teachers has been assign"d by
the school board as follows;
Mell A. Nash, principal of the
hij h school.
Miss -Itilia Jones, Seventh and
Eighth grades.
Miss Huldah McMillon. Sixth
gradr;
Sackett Healy, Fifth
Lula Hedley, Fourth
Ijcna Cabincss, Third
Lena Card well, second
Mrs. Jessie Brown, First grade.
Miss Alfretta RickeF primary
grade.
This is the assignment as made
by the school board, however the
superintendent is authorized to
make any change that he thinks
will add, to the efficiency of the
work.
BUSINESS CHANGE
| Incompliance with Governor J Caddell and the Pctt's gin will
truce's request the editor of The | be ready for business the coming
Enterprise interviewed quite a week.
tiumber of our leading tax pay- While the crop is short, the
ers and if their opinion is any,j general opinion is that the splen-
iriterion, there will be no special | > ain of la«t Sunday will greatly
tssion. They expressed them j improve conditions, and with the
selves as follows. igood prices promised farmers
■ Dave Kirby-Too much expense, will yet be in better shape than
■ttached to it.
■ Geo. W. Briggs -1
think they
better stay at home.
M David Hand—Let them stay
it home. We have taxes enough
low.
S. C. Cabiness
was belie-, .d a week or two qgo.
Austin Bros Mo - irg
Austin Bros ure busy this
WRONG J. C. EVANS
Uncle John Denies Stork's
Visit to his Home.
The Enterprise is in receipt of
the following; ♦
Granite, Okla. Route 2
Editor Granite Enterprise;
Wc deny the coming of a baby
girl to our home Sunday, as we
saw in your paper last week. It
has been 23 years since our last
baby girl came. Respectfully,
J. C. (Uncle Johnnie) Evans.
No Uncle John. It was the
home of another J. C. Evans
that the stork visited. The
young couple only arrived in|company at Granite, and will
Greer County from Tennessee | handle everything in the school
last tali, and are Jiving on the K. j supply line
C. C./X farm three miles east of! He is busy this week with a
town, and. as this is their first | forcu of dcrks Retu thi
i Be"tly Wlthi opened up for the big rush w),k-h
will come Monday, when school
open.-. lee his advertisement on
another page and make our
W. R. Veale Buys Bookstore
of W. W. Drehmer.
W. R. Veale this week bought
the stock of books and stationery
of W. VV. Drehmer, located in the
postoliice, and is moving it to his
own store.
Mr. Drehmer has resigned his
position as assistant postmaster
and will leave for Elk City to ac-
cept a position as book keeper
shortly.
Mr. Veale has secured the
agency for the Oklahoma book
Superintendent of Construction
J. W. Ryder has wot things going
in fine shaj.e at the State Re-
formatory, and a visit there will
! be worth your while.
A force of over 100 men are
now at the work of excavation
for the buildings, which are to
be 70x365 feet, four stories in
height. Another force of fifty
men are employed in getting out
the stone for the building, and
as soon as the rock crusher and
- "7 ^ '-wh-rr^rhr^a
land raintully Injured. arrives, actual construction will
S. M. Scott, a bridge carpen- begin on a big scale.
ter in the employ of the Rock j Another force of men are at
Island, had his hand crushed to work on the warden's residence,
a pulp while at work on the; and the remainder of the 319
North Fork Bridge Tuesday : men are employed at farm work
j morning. The accident was and other miscellaneous jobs
j caused by a heavy piece of bridge j around the institution.
j timber falling on his hand. The j Farming is being carried on on
injured man was rushed on a a large scale this year. Over 500
special train to the Border Hos-1acres are planted in cotton.
| pital at Mangum, but at this which has been cultivated in a
writing we have not heard how j scie tilic manner, and the crop
I he was getting along. | is looking first rate at this time.
! Considerable land is also devoted
| to feed crops and vegetables,
which, considering the dry sum-
mer, arc doing well.
The institution has 110 head
of hogd that are kept in good
|shape irom what 'hey got on a
1 . . sma11 fieId of alfalfa and the
Seven Feet in Big Tank on swill from the kitchen.
Granite Mountain Now It is Warden Reed's hope to
Gives a Good Pressure. make the reformatory self sus-
taining from the farm, and with
Councilman A. L. Elliot with!an ordil,ary crop year next ycat
a force of men this week corn-;'10 vv'"
pleted the big cement reservoir,
WATER IN
RESERVOIRS
at the new city well and the
water was turned into it from
the deep well.
Two small pumps are used to
pump the water into the reser-
vior, and when it is full the big
pump is started, which puts the
water in the tank on the hill at
the rate of about 400 gallons per
minute. The pump was run
forty minutes Monday afternoon,
and when it had exhausted the
reservoir, there was seven feet
of water in the tank on the hill.
The council opened bid slast night
for another well to be dug near
Headquarter School Notes.
The summer term of the Head-
quarter school closed Friday Au-
gust 25th.
Good interest was manifest-
ed on the part of the pupils
throughout the school.
Below are the names of those
who made a general average of
90 per cent or more, on all their
studies in the final examinations.
Hattie Marbut, Ruby Spann,
Sherman Fitzgerald, Annie
Spann, Pauline Bratton, Judson
Spann. Merritt Fitzgerald. Elza
Hogg, Gus Spann, Lucy Allen
the present well, and with the!and Minnie Leffel. Reporter,
two it is believed that Granite I
will have an abundant supply
them. E(
Auto Accident.
Messmore Bros, this w eek ie-
ceived news of a serious accident
to the famil;. of their brother-in-
la-.' Mahlon Lichtj of Morrill
selections at once
Must Fai fcr Facer.
Kan. Mr. I^icht: and family I«kmg a paper out of the cost
week moving in to theu new loca- wcrc auto rid,h^T vlKn the ma- office makes the recipient liable
„..x • . . T-T.... i chine turned turtle pinning the for the bill. O. D. Austin, 'a
occupants underneath. Mr.! Butler, Mo., publisher, sent his
Lichty w is badly briji ;UJ. while ! paper to Charles Burgc. The
business i
ot pure white sulphur water for
all present needs.
City Piumber T. T. Pavvson is
busy this week connecting up
the Farmer's gin. Tinsley & Sla-
ton gin and the Potts gin with
the city mains. The council has
also made arrangements to fur-
nish the Caddell gin with water
for the use ot Mr. Caddell's well.
Messrs. J. L. Jones, C. L. Mc-
Geehee and J. M. Fulton arc al-
so having water connections put
in at their cottages on the east
side this week, and a large num-
ber of citizens will do likewise
when satisfied that the city
furnish the water.
tion nex:. to Gooch Hardware
It is important I C?mpany; Their new &ods are
|hut the state be redistncted n * ^ j™ v ^n up lor business h:s da'J#hter, who visited latter paid for it twice and then
Elected by the state at large. I
|am opposed to a . ;.c aJ re.isi in.
[ Caa Maitho . - faxut ur
Tc My Friends and Fatrcns.
I wish thank . ou one and all
for the liberal patronage ji\en
in the past and to announce that
I have .:old my book and station-
ery business to Mr. W. R. Veale,
Dynamite Outrage.
Last Sundays Kansas City
papers contain a graphic account
of .he dynamiting of two brick
buildings of Louis Roubideaux,
of Kansas City. Mr. Roubideaux
is a brother-in-law to Messrs.
Jasper and Eli Messmore, of
Granite. The contractors who
were constructing the buildings
for him employed non-union la-
bor, and the outrage was the re-
sult of labor troubles. The ex-
plosioon shattered a large plate
giass window on the opposite
sidaof the street in which a lady
and her baby had been standing.
can They had just stepped back, and
thus escaped death by about two
seconds
I when they open up for uuoiuess (, . .
! tomorrow tbey expect tohave' 1 0 ere
> something that will interest uiv i
buying public. Watch for an- , a,nr-d so
nouncenu t ot Jfccir luj: /all:Tha re'U 'uiti
cvciUiv Ui ilu* Uii Wccu. ca-jcu v. ur. i-.j -n
the I re dercd uncoiefeious and re- ordered it stopped. But thej
cour? ot appeals holdi that mere
for several b. u
"•juries.
acccj '.anceof th-. i aptr creat a
a habdiiy. li ad«L: The ;ji*ep-
P. F. Brooks, senior member
of the firm of Brooks £ Sons, is
reported dangerously ill this
c..v UUO.UC-., tu «n. veaie, t 'A'eek- Relatives have been sent,
and trust that you will give him . *or and the attending ph'.sieiao,
the same patronage extended to , Dr. Austin holds out ba: liitle
me. I have for sale one 4-ft hope for his reco v r •
cigar case, one 5-ft candy case.
one 14-ft wall case, and one cath .
register, wr «:h I %• jih to dispo e An ^4n0i5 raaa has oeen sent
of before Sv.j:. It R' ^pectfuily, iad for encour^ing his m'oJier
VV. W. Dfehmer. m-la v to commit suicide.
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Charles E. Hill and Sons. The Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, September 1, 1911, newspaper, September 1, 1911; Granite, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc280473/m1/1/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.