Mangum Weekly Star. (Mangum, Okla.), Vol. 28, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 5, 1915 Page: 4 of 8
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Mangum Weekly Star
PUBLISHED BY THE
STAR PUBLISHING CO.
(CAPITAL STOCK $15,000)
HERBERT WILEMAN, Editor
Altered at the Postoffl^e at Mangum.
Okla?ioin« as Second Class Mail Mat-
ter.
Subscription Rates
One Year $1.00
Six Months 50
CAPITOL CONTRACT
SIGNED TUESDAY
After weeks of delay, the state
Tuesday finally reached an agree-
ment with the James Stewart & Com-
pany on the form of the capltol
building contract and the document
was signed late Tuesday afternoon
by Gov. R. L. Williams, the three
members of the capitol comml3lson
and John H. Frederlekson, western
manager of the construction company.
This means that the advance guard of
Stewart & Company'y army of skill-
ed workmen will commence Wednes-
day morning the huge task of com-
pleting the mighty $1 5000,000 state-
house in the short time of two years
allotted for the work.
When the conference of officials
meeting for the purposes of closing
the deal was called to order In the
capltol commission's offices In the
Patterson building Tuesday, represen-
tatives of the construction firm again
found a feature in the contract with
which they were displeased, and
threatened to cause additional delay.
Here Governor Williams put his
foot down.
_ "Gentlemen," he said, "we've got
to attend to this business right
here this afternoon. We've quibbled
aiound for more than a month now.
and I am not going to stand for any
more of it. Why. if we don't go aVieid
and get the signing of this contract
over there's no telling when we will
conc lude the b isiness. We agreed on
this contrnct yesterday, and there^will
net be any more fool'ng away time."
Points Agreed Upon.
After a few minutes the polim in
dispute were settled, a couple of new
pages were written under the direc-
tion of Assistant Atorney General
Smith C. Matson. Governor Williams
and Mr. Frederjckson then Identified
every page of the contract with their
signatures.
The actual signing of the document,
which has been looked farward to -30
much, then took place. Governor
Williams, the members of the capital
commission and Mr. Frederlekson i»f-
fixed their signatures at the close of
the long agreement—and the last pre-
liminary step toward the erection of
a magnificent capitol for the state if
Oklahoma had been taken.
With the formal closing of the con-
tract the work of the capitol commis-
sion, composed of W. B. Anthony,
Pat Goulding and Stephen A. Douglas,
is just about concluded, for the pres-
ent, at any rate. Fifteen days from
now. at the latest, the body will ad
journ subject to call of the governor,
who is ex-offlclo chairman, according
to the terms of the law covering the
erection of the building, enacted
the Fifth Legislature. The members
of the commission cease drawing a
regular salary and Will receive $10 a
day and traveling expenses when ac-
tually called in session.
Now that the contract has been
signed, it must be forwarded to New
York to be approved by the board of
directors of Stewart & Company, but
this, according to Mr. Frederlekson,
Is a mere matter of form. Work on
the structure will not be held up pend-
ing that action by the company'3
high officials, he said.
Begin Work Wednesday
"At 8 o'clock Wednesday morning
there will be from fifty to seventy-
live men in the emplo;- of James
Stewart & Company at the capitol
grounds, ready to begin their labors,"
he asserted. "The number to be em-
ployed. of course, will vary from time
to time, as different stages are reach-
ed, and also, will be •governed by the
success we have In securing mater-
ials when needed. A3 yet I cannot
tell just how many men we will em-
ploy on the building."
Mr. Frederlekson who will be In com-
mand of the building, brought with
him from Utah, where Stewart &
rompany Just finished the capltol of
that state, the heads of the different
departments. These will direct the
actual work and, In turn, will be di-
rected by Mr. Frederlekson.
The general contractor Is taking
charge of the building just about a
year after the work was started by
tbe capitol commission. Ground for
the building was broken in July, 1915,
bat it was after August 1 tbat the
Cut one These
Fine Boiled Hams
and taste the firm tender meat. Serve the
sweet pink slices for lunch or for tea and
everyone who eats it will say, with enthusi-
asm—"That's real ham." It is—fine with the
flavor ol hickory smoke, and even the fat
has a rich taste. The curing, from first to
last, is done in the Morris quality-way, and
the cooking is reduced to a science.^ Supreme
Boiled Hams are uniformly good, like all
.SUPREME
Food Products
Thousands of good dealers sell and endorse
these fine foods. Find the Supreme dealer
and you'll find a man who sells the best goods
of their kind. Buy Supreme Ham, Supreme
Lard, Supreme Eggs, Supreme Butter, and
Supreme Canned Meats, and you'll buy
foods that are guaranteed to be all that is
claimed for them—and more. Look for the
Supreme trademark. It will pay you —pay
you well.
"It'a Alway* Safe to Say Supreme"
Morris & Company
actual excavating for the foundation
was started.
According to the terms of the con-
tract the capitol must be finished
within 750 calendar days from the
time the contract was signed, or
slightly more than two years. The
legislative chambers are to be ready
for occupancy, however, by December
1, 191C, in time for the next regular
session* of the state's law-making
body.
may be obtained from the offices at
which the vacancy exists and where
the examination Is to be held, or from
the United States Civil Service Com-
mission, Washington, D. C. The ap-
pointee to this position will be re-
quired to furnish, maintain, and oper-
ate a modern motor vehicle with a
carrying capacity of not less than 800
pounds and a cubic capacity of not
less than 80 feet. Applicants must
file with their applications a state
polntment. Applications should be
forwarded to the Commission at
Washington, D. C., at the earliest
practicable date.
For information or application
blank address Herman Lipe, local sec-
Stewart & Company's reputation ment of the equipment they will be
"for speedy work is well known. The al>'e t0 Provide <tn the event of ap-
company built the Utah capltol In
fourteen months less time than was
provided in the contract. Its most
notable feat, however, was erecting
the general We3tinghouse buildings
in iLondon In two years after all the
great contractors of England an.lj1^8''^ Mangum, Oklahoma.
Germany said It could not be done !n j o
much less than six years. I w- M- Zimmerman came in this
Mr. Frederlekson expects to be able week from Bentonvllle, Arkansas, and
to finish the Oklahoma capitol sev- ls Setting his apple house in shape
eral weeks, perhaps months, before t for the fal1 trade. He will open up
the time specified in the contract. If , for business on North Oklahoma ave-
It ake3 longer than two years, the J nue* north of the square about Aug-
company will forfiet to the state $300 U8t 15th- an<1 wiu carry a S°od stock
MANGUM SOCIETY NOTES
(BY MRS. NELL 8TULTZ.)
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Stephenson and
family have returned fronl California
Miss Ol'n Hamilton is visiting her
brother, Leslie, at Lone Wolf.
• • •
Rev. R. E. L. Morgan made a busi-
ness trip tp Oklahoma City Monday.
• • •
Wilkins B. Garrett was in Willow
on business Monday.
• • •
Miss Pearl Burden left Tuesday for
a vacation visit with her sister, Mrs.
(ieorge Hager, of Memphis, Tenn.
• • •
Miss Eula May Staliings, of Terrell.
Texas, is the gij£st of Miss Irene
Hickerson.
each day.—Oklahoman
MANGUM MAN HONORED
of the b^st Arkansas apples. He
say3 the Arkansas frlut crop ls not
so large as usual, but the variety will
be greater. Other crops in that state
are good, except the apple crop.
Vpon his return from the San
Francisco exposition this week. Col.
B. L. Tisinger—for he ls now a col-
onel—found hero a commission from
Governor Williams naming him n
Lieutenant Colonel upon the gover-
nor's military staff; the appointment
carries with It enly honors, for there 1 . . . , , - .
is no salary, but Mangum and Greer ! *in desiring them for the sun, of
county people will be glad to know ! °ne hundred and fifty do,lars' th,s
that a Greer county man has been I °ff*r to hold KOOd on,y durlng the
season of 1915.
The Richardson Automatic Packer
NOTICE TO GIN MEN
Tn order to prove the value of tho
Richardson Automatic Packer, which
bas just, recently been patented, I
have decided to place same with .ill
Greer county man has bee:i j
honored with this appointment. j
MOTOR RURAL CARRIER EXAMI- ! is the safest' mo8t 8,mPle an<* Practl'
ATION I cal Packer on the market today.
The United States Clvr- Scrvke1 Thls Pa<*er ha3 been installed and
Commisison has announced an ex j thoroughly demonstrated In the Tina
amlnatlon for the county of Greer. I ,ey & Tucker Gin Company plant at
state of Oklahoma, to be held nt! Mangum, Oklahoma, and any one de
Mangum, on August 28th, 1915, to fill j siring to know more about this pack,
the position of motor rural carrier at ter- ,a requested to write to them at
Granite, and vacancies that may la- Mangum, or call at their gin in this
ter occur on motor rural routes from . c'ty and Inspect the machine.
post offices In the above mentioned Tlle Price offered for this season
county. The salary on motor routes Is just about one-third the regular
ranges from ,500 to $1,800 per an- price which this machine will be sol<l
num. The examination will be open ! for after this season ls over.
only to male citizens who are actuul- I' you are interested In securing a
ly domiciled In the territory supplied j packer for your plant that will pay
with mail by a post office In the for Itself in sixty days, in actual cash
county and who meet the other re- saved to you, and at the same time
qulrements set forth in Forms 2121 1 K've you better service, write me -.t
and 1977. Form 2121 may be seen once for particulars.
posted at any postoffice In the eoun- I Yours truly,
ty for which the examination Is held, I P. K. RICHARDSON. Inventor,
and Fprm 1977 and application blanks 7-0 adv.
♦ * •
Mrs. Bob. Miller and Dr. Bertha
l.ong left Sunday to spend a month
at Corpus Chrlstl, Texas.
* * *
Mrs. Tom Melton, of Fort Worth,
arrived Saturday for a visit with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Stubb3.
• * «
Jadge T. P. Clay and Percy Powers
were visitors in Sayre the first of the
week
• • •
Miss Laurabel Slaton has as ' her
guest Miss Murl Adams who arrived
Saturday from iLubboclf, Texas.
« « •
Mrs. T. TT. Gilliland went to Hollis
Wednesday to visit Mr3. G. W. Gil-
liland until the last of the week.
• • *
Mrs. M. M. DeArman left Monday
to visit relatives at Walnut Springs,
Texas.
• • •
Miss Lucile Chambers, of Atlanta,
Ga., is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. J.
H. Barr. ^
* * •
Mr3. Travis Hudson and son,/ of
Welington, Texas, are visiting her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. S. DeArman.
# * *
Mrs. Tlgin Stone arrived Monday
Tow Wellington, Texas,\ and is thtj
guest of Mrs. C. .\i. Stone.
Bob Cabiness ,of Houston, Texas,
is visiting at the home of h.s nepjew,
Louis Cabiness.
* * *
Mrs. R. D. Hiller arrived last week
from Ancho, N. M.. to keep house for
•er brotntis, Homer and '1 ravia Heav
.y, at tiie old home place.
Mrs. C. H. Hall will leave Sunday to
spend two months with relatives in
Colorado Springs, Denver and Pueb'.o,
Colorado.
• * •
Mrs. Trip Rogers was called home
from California Sunday by the serious
Illness of her sister's child at loae
Wolf.
• ♦ •
Mrs. S, D. Rude and daughter, Myr-
tle, left this morning for Clinton to
visit Mr. and Mrs. Porter Pruitt. Miss
Alary Wright joined them at Hobart.
Judge and Mrs. B. L. Tisinger re-
turned Monday night from California,
where they have spent the past five
weeks sightseeing.
* i
A. C. Cravey returned home Sunday
from Mineral Wells, Texas, where he
has spent the past month for his
health,
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Allen are vis-
iting the former's pjarents at Ryan,
Oklahoma, before going to Clinton,
Oklahoma, where they will make
their home.
• # •
Mrs. J. R. Hernelsen, of Alburquer-
que, N. M., 13 spending a few days at
the home of her mother, Mrs. E. E.
Pinkerton, before going to Oklahoma
City to vi3lt Miss Roxie Young.
* * %
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Booher went to
Oklahoma City Tuesday to vislt^ the
former's parents, before going to St.
Louis, Louisville and the Mammoth
Cave on their wedding trip.
• • •
Miss Grace Powers and Mrs. Nell
StulU and little dauhgter wefBs, In
Sayre the first of the week, the gu'ests
of Mrs. H. K. Speed whose friends re-
member her as Miss Jessie Harness.
• • •
Miss Annie Lou PoweH returned
today from Edmond, where she spent
the past two months at C. S. N. En-
route home 3he visited friends In Ok-
lahoma City and Norman.
» • •
Miss Willie McKlnney returned
Sunday from Edmond, wtiere she at:
tended the summer term of C. S. N.
Mis3 Emma Faulkner visited her
there for a week and returned home
w'.h her.
• • «
Mrs. W. I. Lowe and daughter, Miss
Violet, left Monday for a visit with
h«r father and slater nt Corpus Chrls-
tl Texas. On Tuesday Mr. Lowe,
TOILET A
LATHERS
INSTANTLY
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nant of Duncan, Oklahoma, started to
New Mexico, for a month's overland
motor trip hunting and fishing.
tending C. S. N. at Edmond, the past
year, came in Thursday night to vis-
it her cousin, Mrs. H. Mathewson this
remainder of trie summer with reia-
week. She will leave in a few days
for Hollis where she will spend tne
tives before returning to Edmond in
September. •
» » »
Complimentary to Miss LucIJe Pace
of Shawnee, Mrs. Lee Ewlng enter-
tained on Thursday night with a
slun^ber party. Other guests, were
Misses Norma Lee Pace, Mayme Wat-
kins, Eula Sims, Willie Shipley and
Daphne Dodson.
• • •
Hamer's lake was the scene of a
merry swimming party and chicken
supper Monday night when Mr. and
Mrs. John Tomme chaperoned Misses
Genevieve Brown, Gladys McCollister,
Ida McCandless, Sallie and Cre'ssie
Nelson, Lava Hoover, Olln and' Vir-
ginia Hamilton, Ruth and Grace Pow-
ers, Jess Watts an3 Messrs. George
• Hall, Zearl Lowe, Garnet Phelps, Leo-
nard Barker, Fred Cook, Lynn Nor-
man, Falrford Dodson, Pete Boyle,
Foster Johnson, Zeno Howard, Osier
McCree and John Whizuant, of Dun-
can, Oklahoma, who is the guest of
Zearl Lowe.
• * *
A number of young peo; lo, elia;;\r-
oned by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Donnel-
ly and Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Davis, en-
joyed a chicken fry at the fair
grounds Wednesday night. In the
party were M' My-tle Rude, Beu-
lah Cox, Genevieve Brown, Norma Le->
and Lucile Pace, Mary Hamilton, Wil-
lie Shipley, Delia Sanders, -Mayme
Watkins, Bess Watts, May Wilson.
Irene Hickerson, Eula May Staliings,
of Terrell,_Texas. Agne3 and Velma
Neel, of Boyd, Texas, and Messrs.
Sampson, Stone, Stroube, Jones,
Specht, Watt, Cocke, Northcutt, Burt.
Pace, of Shawnee, Woods, Latham,
Wasley, Baxter and Holland.
• • •
Mrs. N. B. Claunch was hostess
Wednesday afternoon to the Ken-
tucky Avenue Embroidery club. Pro-
gressive forty-two and fancy work
was enjoyed after which an ice
course as served. Guests in addition
to club members were Mines. Virginia
Lyles, of Fort Worth, who is Mrs. F.
C. Switzer's mother, A. C. Holland.
L. E. Maddox, of Jacksboro, Texas, J.
T. Howard, Roy Nanny, J. L. Carpen-
ter, G. W. Wlnburne, S. D. Rude,
James Modrall, of Nocona, Texa3,
and Misses Jeffie and Dixie Youn;;,
Nita Baumgardner and Dessye Steph- j
enson.
• • •
Thursday evening Hamer's lake"-
wa3 visited and swimming and picnic
supper enjoyed by Ml3ses Beulalr
Cox, Zana Guthrie, Ruth and Grace
Powers, Mamie Tucker, Ida McCand-
less, Gladys McCollister, Sallie and
Cressle Nelson, Vera and Opal Cad-
del, Bess Phelps, of Duke, Virginia
Hamilton, Lava Hoover, Allle Nor-
ton, Alta Sawyer and Messrs. Zeno
Howard, Garnet Phelp3, Zearl iLowe,
Foster Johnson, George Hall, Ivan
Cuningham, Lynn Norman, Fred Cook,
Leonard Barker, Falrford Dodson,
Pete Boyle, Henry Miller, Arthur
Holland and Marion Northcutt, as a
farewell courtesy to Miss Vera Cad-
del, who, with her mother, Mrs. F. M.
Caddel, left Wednesday for Denton.
Texas, where they will make their
home and Miss Vera will enter 'the
college of Industrial arts.
* • •
One of the most delightful of tho
summer parties was that given Tues-
day evening when Dr. and Mrs. Ney
Neel entertained fourteen tables of
players at progressive forty-two on
their l%wn in honor of their nieces,
the Misses Agnes and Velma Neel, of
Boyd, Texas, who are their house
guest3. Assisting the host and hos-
tess were Dr. and Airs. T. J. Horsley
and Mr/i. J. D. Curreathers. After the
fifth game had been played the play-
ers were classed according: to the
number of games won, and the game
resumed, resulting in Interesting
competition at the head and high ta-
bles, top score being made^ by Miss
Willie Shipley and Miss Nannie Cad-
del. At the close of the games an
Ice course was served to the honor
guest3, and Misses Shipley, Opal and
Nannie Caddel, Watkins, Hamilton,
Young, Norma Lee and Ldcile Pace,
Wilson. Terry, Brown, Sawyer, San-
ders, McCollister, Powers, Chambers,
Woods, Bowman. Hickerson, Camp-
bell, Staliings, Slaton, Adams, and
Messrs. Watt, Clark, Phelps, Van At-
ta, Latham, Miller. Holland. North-
cutt, Atkinson, Heatly, Chaffin, Bax-
ter, Stroube, Crittenden. Allen, .Tones,
Thackenr Mathewson, Rattan, Tittle,
Stone, Wood.
Call on Cicero Smith Lumber Co.
for figures on your bills, big or little,
we make the price. 7-2t adv.
CHILDREN'S DAY
OPENSTHE FAIR
The advantage of reducing the fair
period from twelve to eight days at
the ninth Oklahoma State Fair, Sep-
tember 25 to October 2, is noticeable
In the list of features and special
(ays' occuring daily during the event.
Every day will be a big day.
Opening day has been designated aa
"Children's Day and Traveling Men's
Day." - '
Have you ever attended on children's
(ay? Then you know what a riot of
laughter and frolic the children can
create. What they may leave undone
In tbelr efforts to start off the fair with
enthusiasm, the knights of the grip
will provide. Famous in story and life
lor their good-fellcw attributes, the
theer that a thousand of these peren-
nial optimists can generate, would
Infect a miillon glooms in twenty mln-
stes. An additional feature during the
flay that will please the children will
be daylight fireworks.
Then that football game between
Oklahoma University and Central State
Normal. Put 5000 college students on
the side lllnes of a football game and;
pou have a good subject for the anti-;
noise society.
To wind up the day's activities, mo-
torcycle races with crack protesslon-
*1 and amateur riders entered will add
» touch of speed full of thrills.
Surely it will be a big day. Don't
miss it.
Subscribe tor the Mangum Star
Mmcub, Okie Zearl, George Hall and John W)»l»-
"The Broken Coin"
Beginning on next Wednesday night,
August 11th, 1915,
The Palace Theatre
will start the celebrated photo - play:
"The Broken Coin" featuring Francis
Ford and Grace Cunard.
This serial picture Cost the management just twice the amount
of money as any other Serial ever shown in Mangum. Remem-
ber it starts
Wednesday, Aug. 11
Don't Miss The First Installment
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