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Mangum Weekly Star.
VOLUME XXIV.
MANGUM, GREER COUNTY. OKLAHOMA. MARCH 7. 1912.
NUMBER 37.
THE REPUBLICAN
CONVENTION SCRAP
County Convention Met Saturday and
After Many Exchanges of Friendly
(?) Greetings the Meeting proceeded
to Break up in a Row.
ALUMNI MEETING
PATRONS' DAY AT SCHOOL.
W
I Uraswell and H. C. Renard from Ward
i 1 and L). R. Dial from Ward 3. C. A
One or the best hcme-talent per^ cut of ten delegates followed, but It
formances ever put upon the boards was found later that these fellows
In Mangum -in broad day light—-was' oiganized with a representation or
pulled off here Saturday in the prc-j fourteen. Thus was created a division
feeding at the County Republican' in the ranks or the republicans in
Convention. Greer county, where, all toid, they
Politics, contusion and fun followed1 muster only a mere handful!
one another in such rapid succession' W. «. Carpenter was made chair-
that every-once-in-a-whiie some fellow nian 0f the < bolting convention and
would bob up to ask "where he was! A. Broome was made secretary,
at" and the chairman would promptly They then tcOk a poll of those pres
rule him cut of order. WhiLe there] ent arid seated as delegates J
were lots of performers in the play,
yet it was plainly evident that some
of the actors forgot their "lines" and Person and A. H. Webber from the
upon being -coached" confusion al- <-'ourt House box, Garfield Todd from
ways resulted; and at one time the «*P Hill, R. C. Halwood from Hester,
storm became so threatening that | ^ E. Kelly from Jester, Tom Ke'ly
even the delegate from "Wild Cat"! 'n™ Shiloh, U. A. James from Pla..:-
lost his courage and could not be| view, W. D. Jackson from Dean. S. A.
found to answer to a.
quiet had bf.en restored.
The "Hoss Branch" gentleman from
Gyp Hill community was a warm num-
ber, notwithstanding his recent mi-
gration from the vine-clad hiils and
the snow-capped summits of Tenne-
see. His fruitless attempts to make
the chair "back up" only served to
show that he was acquainted with
neither the ''Willow Will" nor the
"Willow Wiays."
Zack T. Pryse, as County Chairman,
T' e High School Alumni met la Tuesday wan patrons' day at 'he
Professor Duff's office Monday n!*'it schools, and despite the fact tha' i.ie
at eight o'clock and the following weather man had dented and kept
business was transacted: his decree for a bad day. many of •!»«.
Officers of the society were elected parents found time ft r the opportunity
I as follows: Mr. Clarence McKinne>'if visiting the various room*, and <1*-
I president from class cr 'lMrs. Mea- parttnents of work. K peclully w.s
Idea's frcm class of 'uii, vice-president; the work doue by 'he manual tr.uu-
Mrs. Stulti from cla»s cf '00, set r, tng and domestic seh nee departing *•
jtary: Henry Gardiner from clrss of '10 enjoyed and appreciated, and the
treasurer; then class commute s mestlc economy girls prepared Frem h |
were appointed as follows: commU-J crullers or French-somethlng-ilke
tee on decoration and arrangment. American doughnuts, and hot choco-
Mary Powers, Daphne Dodson. Old late, and thtse were served In a de-
Northcutt. Leon Brown. Homer Heat llghtful and entertaining manner »oi
l.v: committee on program and Invl- tie patrons and visiters. Mrs. Mcln-
tat lens. Mrs. StultsE, Henry 3*rdlner,^ tosh has proveu her ability, both lq J
Mabel Hughes; committee On recen- the culinary and tewing art, and «<"■
tion and entertainment, Carlton are of the opinion that her pupils w*'l
Brown, Mrs, Meadows, Kate Powerhave little trouble in finding posit'ons.
Mabel MlcCcllister; committee on So every line of work impressed 'lie
menu, Dixie Young, Beatrice McCol- patrons, and they saw our school a1-
| lister. t It is, tlie best and moBt thoroughly
They also decided on the date or equipped high and grammar
the Alumni class play for the fifth of for a place of this size In the en;
April, and the date of Alumni banquet, state.
.v;ay tenth.
CITY ELECTION DUE
ON TUESDAY THE 19
Candidates Should get Busy, For To*
morrow is the Last Day of Grace to
get Your Name Before the Primary
Election on the 19th Inst.
roll call when' Broome and W. C. Shadden from Wil-
low and W. H. Carpenter from Era-
meret.
The "rumpers" selected as dele-
gates to the State Convention, which
'meets at Guthrie on the 14th inst., D.
R. Dial, W. it. Kelly, W. H. Carpenter
and VV. C. Shadden. Alternates S. A.
Broome, H. E. Oakes, A. H. Webber
and r. A. James. The regulars select
£d to attend this same convention at
the same time, to occupy the same
Seats and vote the same votes Geo. J
MteClure, John A. Trotter. Zack T
Mr. Cllfrord Jeffreys, cousin of Mr.
Vergil Tomme, has received an a;i
pointment as agent at Loveland, Okla
homa, for the Wichita Palis and
Northwestern railway, and left Wed
nesday morning to fill the position.
I Dr. Cherry and wife arrived in Man-
gum Monday. His household goods
are enroute. The Doctor's reputation
all over the country as a fine physl
clan insures him a large practice. In
fact, he is already getting patients.
The Doctor will office at the Border
Hospital.
DEMOCRATIC CITY THE PRECINCT CLUB
EXECUTIVE BOARD ORGANIRED SAT'D'Y
A MASS MEETING AT THE ASSEM-
BLY ROOM IN THE COURT
HOUSE ORGANIZED A DEMO1
CRATIC FIGHTING MACHINE. i
C. H. ARMSTRONG GATHERED A
CROWD SATURDAY AFTERNOON
AND PROCEEDED TO ORGANIZE
A DEMOCRATIC CLUB.
called the meeting to order and was pryse and Chas. H. Eagin, delegates;
fixing to run off with the whole show an(j j Messmore, A. F. Redburn, Frank
and dump it into the Taft hand wagon, j Eagin and Dr. Coilett as alternates,
when a "Rosenfelt" delegate set the The "rumpers" selected Garfield
brakes and brought the whole outfit j Todd, D. R. Dial and R. Curpfcey as
to a dead lock. A temporary chair-; delegates to the congressional district
man was demanded for the occasion ] convention.
and • the demand came so l'orceablyj The committee on resolutions sent
fjom the Roosevelt bunch that even c.ut by the "Regulars" brought in an
a Taft man was compelled to heed endorsement of the administration of
An aye and no vote brought 36 dele-j president Taft, also an endorsement
gates to the surface when 26 was all! 0f State Chairman Jl A. Harris and
the laws of the occasion allowed. Then! instructed for John A. Trotter for con-
\ two tellers were called for and a roll gress from the 5th district and fof
call of delegates began upon the can-1 Zack T. Pryse for delegate to the
didacy of Z. T. Pryse and W. H. Car*j National Convention from this con-
penter. the former representing the • gnessional district, but the delegation
Taft followers and the latter the, to the State Convention was sent un-
Roosevelt men. Pryse was declared instructed.
by the tellers to have received fifteen The "bolters" selected a committee
votes and Carpeater eleven. There-, of two consisting of U. A. James and
upon Pryse declared himself the sue-; g. A. Broome to report their action
cessful candidate and proceeded to; to the chairman of the Roosevelt cam
make a speech; after which he mount-1 palgn committee of Oklahoma and, al-
ed the driver's seat on the steam roll- 8<> to make the same report to State
er. He had gotten away down the chairman, Jim Harris.
road under the headway of a good Arter the separation of the sheep
speech and a good start when it seem- from the goats both families s,eemed
ed to enter the heads of some of the to get along most pleasantly. The
Roosevelt fellows that maybe he was only thorn left in the side of the regu
not entitled to drive the outfit at all. iars was in the person of insurgent
Here the trouble began. A recount h. E. Oakes, who would not follow
was demanded and the trouble maker ^is crowd out but chose rather to stay
was promptly called "out of order." 1 in teasing distance- of his Taft ene-
The machine would start again and mj€S anti democratic friends. In fact,
grind out a little business when the at one stage of the game, Mr. Oakes
trouble shooter would bob up again made an assault (intentional or other-
and throw sand in the running gear..; w-is(>) and an attempt to make a speech
Then another rag-chewing stunt, with but in so doing he forever lost his
a down and out call of "out of order." j caste in the republican ranks, for he
Every time the Taft machine was plainly* showed that he was more of a
stopped by a Roosevelt butinsky the democratic student than a republican
engineer of the outfit promptly brandy booster in that he was able to quote
ed the ailment as "out of order" and|Wj,cie paragraphs ver batim. from his
that explanation seemed to satisfy
the Roosevelt bunch, for they immedi-
ately subsided, which act invariably
restored order, and the procession be-
gan to march again.
political guide,
patron saint and
Grover Cleveland.
This being the occasion of the first
I rehersal of the republican show in
| Greer county this year, all actors did
Chairman Pryse then named two! exceptionally well, considering that
committees; one on permanent organ- fact. The manager has received
ization composed of C. H. Eagin. A. F. numerous requests to repeat the per-
Kedburn and W. A. Norris. One on formance and if it is finally decided to
Credentials, composed of John A. Trot- do so, a larger house and a bigger
ter. Jasper Messmore and Frank door receipt la guaranteed
Eagin. The former committee recom
mended that Pryse be made perma-
nent chairman and Dr. Coilett be made
permanent secretary. Report adopted.
The committee on credentials were
longer threshing out their troubles
and finally reported the seating of 25
delegates—Wild Cat having escaped
Here confusion broke loose again and
the snow-capped and vine-clad gentle
man from Tennessee made a rousing
speech and ashed as meny of those
delegates as desired fair play to march
out sad meet htm la the rorreyor'*
ffice | A surveyor should a* ways he
sMe to toll a fellow where he Is at I
According to the " regulars" a wait-
DR. P. P. ANDERSON MOVED.
Dr. P. F. Anderson nss moved his
dental parlors from the second floor
of the Jackson A Wilson building to
Lbs second floor in tne post office
building on the sooth side of the
squsre. where be sad Dr. Hall have
formed a partnership and will he found
ia the future by anyone requiring (As
services of up-to-date dentists.
Both these gentlemen are wsll and
favorably known to tfce tooth-aching
population of Maagnsa aad surreal
tag country tsd they wtil appreciate
a call ia their new quarter*.
A call was made Monday for a meet- Last Saturday afternocn following
ing of democrats at the assembly the republican mix-up at the assembly
room In the court house for the pur- room of the court house the democrat
l ose of electing an executive commit- ic hosts of Mangum assembled and
tee for the city of Mangum. The law under the direction of C. H. Armstrong
provides for such an organization of Oklahoma City, organized a precinct
which is clothed with certan legal Club. Not a Roosevelt club, nor yet a
rights and powers during e&ctionv ixtfb'panion of the "spade" or "hearts,"
not otherwise bestowed. but a live, wide-a-wake political orga-
Mr. T. S. DeArman was made chair- nizatlon which is destined to knock
man and G. W. Sims was made clerk, the "big stick" into smithereens.
Upon motion by B. L. Tiainger each| The meeting organized by electing
ward was allowed three men; the Harry Henry chairman and Floyd
twelve to compose the committee. McNeil secretary. Mr. Armstrong then
Those present from the respective stated the purpose and object of the
wards got together in as many groups meeting, and a permanent organiza
and the following persons were pre- tion followed with J. O. McCollister
sented to the meeting and elected to as chairman.
compose such executive committee for The intention is to organize a live
the city of Mangum; 'and working democratic organization
Ward 1,—F. M Caddell, Dr. T. J. in every voting precinct in the county
Lodson and N. B. Claunch. | and by that means enable every voter
Ward 2,—Dr. Ferguson, C. A. Stubbs to become fully acquainted with every
and T. A. Putnam. j issue to come before the people in the
Ward :J.—Rob't Jones, Rob't Pem coming campaigns to the end that en-
berton and Russ Jacobs. j lightenment all begets democracy.
Wlard 4—J. B. Norman, W. H. Dick- J. O. McCollister is the right man
ey and B. E. Davis. j in the right place and a larger demo-
No further business coming up the cratic majority may confidently "be
meeting adjourned. I looked for this fall.
w>
W,;o'd u thought it' Wie are right the third and T. P. Clay in the fourth
echo-.11 now u,) to our ey€8 ,n ano"ier red-hot expires and their places are to be flU*
city election and apparently nobody1 p(j
chrlng but the socialists. If it had i
. , , ... It will be necessary to rile your po-
teen possible tor these pestiferous
critters to have kept mum they could 1u€£t n(/t Inter than Iriday in order
have easily stolen a march on humanl-j to have your name go on the primary
ty and had everything their own way. j election ticket on the 19th inst. In
for both democrats and republicans j order to he able to run at the general
were sound asleep upon this election.; election oil the first Tuesday in April, t
We understand the socialists have a! Following is the law governing tha
'full ticket in the field already, and now' petition or application to be fii-ed with
the other fellows are exi>eriencing con- the clerk or the board or election in-
siderable difficulty'in rinding men with ' spectors requesting your name to ba
gall enough to go up against their) upon the primary ballot;
slate. j "Sec. 1011, or the election laws,
It is not just exactly known where says that, 'any elector may become a
the socialists got enough rellows to {candidate berore any political party
iTill all these offices unless they have tor it's nomination for any office here-
been doing the "colonizing" stunt toj in specified in any primary election
us, or have decided to temporarily go by filing with the county election
outside the red card brigade and draft1 ooard, not more than 20 nOr less than
a few; or still, it may be that some 10 days before the date of each pri-
of them woundn't object to hold three mary, a written notice, setting forth
or four offices. "Howsomever" that liis name, as he desires it to appear
may be, the fact is before us, behind upon the ballot, his post office address
us and above us and below us that and in cities of the first class, shall
they are out of the brush; clothed in give his street number and ward. H«
war paint and got blood in their eyes shall in such notice state the name of
and the only thing for the democrats the office for which he desires to be-
to do is to run or fight. ! come a candidate and shall give the
There will be one councilman in date of the primary and shall specify
each ward to elect; the terms of Fred the political party of which he desires
Switzer in the first ward, J. H. Sim- to be the candidate.' "
pson in the second, Emmett Winter H. M. Thacker is clerk of the Boar*
in the third and T. N-. Slaton la the er iftefetion Inspectors wkh whom It
fourth will expire and their successors will be necessary to file ypur retjueit
are to be named. Also one half of the for your name to appear upon th« prt-
school board will be to elect, the terms mary ticket Don't dslay in this
of K. W. Lansford in the first, J. Lead- ter for after to-morrow you will b*
better in the second, Lee Hawkins in too late.
NEGRO RUNS AMUCK
AND TWO GET SHOT
Cowan Ranch, Ten Miles South, Scene
of Double Tragedy last Sunday Night
—One Dead—One in Hospital and
One in Jail.
GONE TO THE STATE
SUNDAY SCHOOL MEETING.
OKLAHOMA CAME VERY
NEAR GETTINQ IT.
All bedecked in a special car, the Superintendent A. W. Duff hae r#«
Mangum delegation to the State Sun- turned from St. Louis, where he at*
day Schcol Convention, now in session tended the National convention 0(
at Guthrie, left Tuesday morning, school superintendents. He report*
thirteen strong. that Oklahoma made a splendid alioW'
The more enthusiastic ones tried lng toward securing the next convex
hard to gather a larger delegation tion, being second on the first ballet
but because of the very Inclement with nine candidates for the plte*.
weather, no more appeared for trans- The argument that by holding the eon-
portation. vention near Washington it would en*
Those who attended are as follows: able the members of the association
From the Methodist Church, Rev. to witness the inauguration ceremoa*
Sims, M!rs. J. O. McCollister and ies on March 4th, determined th« se*
daughter, t.Mabel, Mabel Broome, Pearl lection of Philadelphia over Oklahoma
Hoover, W. S. Bradshaw, Jeff Camp- City.
bell and Jim Hall. From tte Central At the regular meeting of the State
Christian Church, Rev Merrill, Mrs. Board of Education held Jaunary 10th
P. F. Anderson, Mrs. Meda Weathers- and 11th it was decided that as many
by and W. C. Terry. From the coun- members as could should attend the
try. Mr. J. S. Briley came in, notwith- St. Louis convention for the_ purpose
standing the bad weather, and joined of meeting some of the men o'f Nation-
the crowd at the depot. al reputation with a view of making
For three days these enthusiast^ a selection for this most important
Sunday School workers will be in position. Five members of the Board
what promises to be one or the best attended the convention.
conventions ever held in the state and.
no doubt, will return home more zeal-
ous and better prepared in their work.
STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING.
There will be a regular annual meet*
ing of the stockholders of the Colorado
Texas & Mexico Railroad Company,
The colored population in Greer
county has again broken loose and a
double tragedy has resulted with a
No
.Dr. G. F. Border returned Friday from
Kansas City, St. Joseph, and St. Louis,
where he had been to settle with the
possible third victim who may be call- railroads for which he has been act-
ed upon to pay the penalty of the law. ing surgeon in the state.
One Will Cawtnam, living with his On interview, Dr. Border states that
wife and mother-in-law at the Cowan be will herearter make his head-
Ranch. ten miles south of Mangum, quarters at Mangum and do no rail-
went on a rampage Sunday night and road surgery, except for the North
the melee that followed shot his Western, and Rock Island, at this
wife, inflicting what may prove a nacr- point, and that he will take up gener-
tal wound, and also shot his mother- al practice again ia connection with
la-law to desth on the spot. No cause bis local hospital work.
ia given for the merciless action of It * probable that he will move back
C'awtbam. and It looks as though h« into the Jefferson Hotel bulldlag in
was merely gratifying a beastly trial- th' future, as the building now
aal last tact occupied Is entirely too small to ac-
After comaittiag the foul deed bs cooaaaodais the people coming here
weat to the hoste of s uesrby colored from all parts of the state
neighbor where he was detaiaed ustH
iMnin Nelsoa aad Moafa—>ry ar^J Ha*e yos seea tbat Safety-Hatch la-
rived aad was taken la charge »ad *ahatar' Its a good one aad cheap
here aad lodged la JalL f too At Touag Bros ft Gutans. | *-
To My Customers and Friends; —
1 wish to state that I have discon-
tinued my hospital at Altus and havejt.eld at the general office of the Co.,
severed my connections with all rail- jn the City of Mangum, Oklahoma, on
roads, except the Rock Island and the the 21st inst. at 10 o'clock, A. M., for
North Western. I have discontinued the purpose of electing a board of dl*
the above because 1 found the work rectors for the ensuing year and the
called me away from my practice at transaction of any other business
Mangum too much, and I also found which may legaly come before them,
that making late trains was more tlr-J aft«r which the board of directors
ing on me than doing general town. wui meet and elect officers for tha
and country practice. For these reas-1 ensuing year.
ons I expect to take up general town.. stockholders of the Colorado,
and country practice again, and can TVxas ft Mexico Railway Conatrue-
be found at any time either at my tion Company will meet at the same
hospital, phone No. 6. or by calling time and place for the electloa of a
300, my residence phone.
Respectfully.
FOWLER BORDER.
board of directors, after which the d»*
i rectors will meet and elect officers far
! the ensuing year and transact any
other business whioh may be brought
' 1L
JOHN W. BLACKBURN.
Secretary R R. Co.
JAMES GATES.
t ]74t Sect Cos struct loa Ce.
CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH.
Instead of having preaching every
Sunday morning there will be preach-
ing every first aad third Sundays
both morning sad evening. Sunday j
school every Sunday at 19:00 A. U A few settlags of Goldsa Laead
All the meathers are urged to always Wyandotte Kggs for sale <*osd lay-
be present at all these services, aad sag. fine appearing, aad high afcr«wtaft
' Meads aad tfrssgsrs cordially invited- birds Phoas X*
mcculloh. ;*;tt * * toci«.
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