Mangum Weekly Star. (Mangum, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 1915 Page: 1 of 8
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Weekly Star.
VOLUMC XX
KIOHT PAOIt
MANGUM, QMM COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, APRIL 15trt, 1015.
KIOHT PAOK9
NUMBER 43
ONLY TWO MEN
ESCAPE CONVICnON
y
This week has been a hard or^e on
those charged with vtofctiona or the
prohibition laws in the county court
up to the close of court Tuesday ev-
ening every case submitted to the
Jury had resulted in conviction for
the accused party.
On Monday morning the court o|>en
ed with Judge Tnacker presiding and
the following jurors were empan'nell
ed to serve during the term: D. F
Hall, B. E. Campbell, Gat Crossland.
J. T. Vaughn, C. 'L. Frazier, Harvey
Holden, S. H. Tittle, H. D. Bennett,
J. W. I>ard, Ira Parton, J. W. Grif-
fin, W. R. Collier, D. L. Summers, J.
B. McReynolds, and W. H. Wasley.
Messrs. JV. W Paxton, R B. Snell. W.
H. Davis and E. H. McKissack wer£
excused from service, and Messrs.
W. W. Merritt, W. O. Byars and N.
L. Hansen, whose names had been
drawn to serve as jurors, were not
present because service upon them
had not been secured. They have all
left Greer county.
The first case called was that of
Bert Coxley, accused of selling liquor:
Coxley was not present when the case
^as called, and after being called
three times and told to come into
court, his appearance bond of $200
was declared forfeited to the county.
The case of Chambers was called,
and upon being submitted to the jury,
he was found guilty and given a jail
sentence of 30 days and a fine of ISO-
three cases were pending against
him and he plead guilty to one case
and the other was dismissed.
Blue' Roberts, charged with Felling
intoxicating liquor to W. B. McGuffin,
was found guilty by the jury and
drew a sentence of $50 and 30 days in
jail. In thi3 case it seems that Mc-
C.uffin had given Roberts the money
to buy the whiskey and that Roberts
bought it from another party and
gave it to McGuffin, not selling his
own whiskey. However, under the
' law as contrued, it seems he is just
as much guilty as though he was
selling his own whiskey.
The ca3es against C. H. Cowden,
a witness in the Chambers case, and
W. B. McGuffin, a witness in the Rob-
erts case, were dismissed: they were
both charged with transporting liquor
in violation of the law.
There Were t'nree cases pending
against" Tom Dodson, in which he was
charged with violating the prohibi-
tion law; one In which he wa3 char-
ged with assault and battery, an<Tstill
anothe£. charge of willfully delaying
and obstructing an officer. The char-
ges grew out of t'ne occasion when
Sheriff Henry started to arrest him
and he threw whiskey' in Henry's
eyes. He plead guilty to the charge
of transporting whiskey and the other
cases were dismissed.
Morris Lockherd was convicted of
having whiskey in his purpose for un-
lawful purposes Lockherd runs a
blacksmith shop on North Court
Street, and after some shooting iyie
night |during (January, the officers
entered the place and found four dr
five bottles of whiskey. Lockheru
produced evidence tending to show
that all the whiskey did not belong
to him, but the Jury thought he was
guilty and fixed 'nis punishment at 30
days in jail and a fine of $50.
rs Wednesday morning the case of J.
T. Garrison was taken up, in which
Garrison is accused of having sold
whiskey to one Jim Quinn. At noon
the argument on the case had not
been concluded, but it went to the
Jury shortly after noon. The jury de-
liberated upon the case a'l Wednes-
day afternoon and were unable to
reach a verdict and on Thursday
morning they were discharged.
The next case called wis that
wherein Eli McCartney was charged
with ordering whiskey in the name
of .Alvin Henry; the case was dis-
missed because of a lack of evidence.
Thursday morning, the work on the
criminal portion of the docket having
been completed, the civil docket was
taken up. and the Indications are that .
the work of the court will be comple- |
ted by the last of the week.
NEW BAKERY FOR MANGUM
CO. ATTY. GARRETT
EXPLAINS ATTITUDE
EDITOR MANGUM STAR: —
Will you kindly allow me space in
your paper to explain my position
with reference to teachers keeping
pupils in after ths school day wa3 out
and school dismissed?
In your statement in the Star ;i
few issues back, you quoted me only
partly correct: you said that I had
held that the school day began at 9
o'clock and ended at 4 o'clock, and
that a teachers could not keei^ a pu-
pil in after that hour.
This is what I held, and what I
still hold: "That as the law fixed
the school day at six hours, it meafll
six hours of school room work; that
after the day was out a teacher had
no right to keep a child in and make"
them study or do anything else."
Article VIII. Section 777G, Revised
Laws of t'ne State of Oklahoma, 1910':
School Month—A school taonth
shall consist o| four weeks of five
days each, of fcl-x hours per day."
Now if a teacher can keep a pupil
in after the school day of six hours
has been finished, why not, if the
teacher deem it necessary, require the
pupils to attend school six days In
a week or to attend ten hours a day
But the answer is: That would be
unreasonable. Well rather, but why
should pupils not study on Saturday
and teafchers teach on Saturday? Does
the clerk in the store, the laborer in
the field or any other cla33 of people
get off for five days in the weelc and
eix hours per day? No. It is just as
reasonable to lengthen the school da^
in one way as another.
I notice that the County Superin-1
tendent had a letter in the Stafof the
Star of the-ith inst., which the At-'
torney General, by Mr Smith C- Mat-
son, says a teacher may, under rules
and regulations, keep a child in af-
ter school hour3. He doe3 not tell you
it is law, but tells you to the con-
trary, that it is not the law, that law
does not take cognizane of such rules
and regulations.
This in no way conflicts ^ith my
opinion. I am trying to give the
teachers, parents and patrons of
schools of Greer county, what the
law is and what it authorizes, not
what rules prescribed by a teacher or
the school board might authorize.
Subdivision Four of Section 2342,
Revised Laws of Oklahoma, 1910,
reads as follows:
"When Force not Unlawful—When
committed by a parents or authorized
agent of any parent, or by any guar-
lian, master or teacher. In the exer-
cise of a lawful authority to restrain
or correct his child, ward, apprentice
or scholar, provided restraint or cor-
rection has been rendered necessary
by the misconduct of such child, ward,
apprentice or scholar, or by his re-
fusal to obey the lawful command of
such parent, agent or guardian, mas-
ter or teacher and tha force used is
reasonable in manner and "moderate
in degree."
If school cannot be kept ten hours
a day or kept on Saturday, making
six school day? in the week, because
the law does not authorize It. the
law does not authorise the keepinc
rf a child In after the school day's
*crl has been done. and this Is what
I hare held and shall still hold until
LIGHT COMPANY
ENDS DISCUSSION
If there ever was much hope of af-
fecting adjuitmeht between Mangum
Electric. Company and the city of
Mangum and the light consumers, that
hope was dissipated last Thursday
evening when Attorney John M.
Young, representing Mr. Key3 and
the Mangum Electric company with-
drew from the City Commissioners a
proposition he had previously sub-
mitted to them.
Some of our citzens have all along
been unfriendly to the proposition of
building a municipal electric light
plant; the city commissioners realiz-
ed there was some sentiment against
It and in order to unite the citizens
of Mangum and give those opposed
to the municipal ownership idea a
chance to effect a satisfactory com-
promise with the company, the com-
missioners called a conference of
busihessmen and placed the matter
before them.
This meeting wa§ held some two
weeks ago and a committee consist-
ing of Messrs. Jl C. Gully, C. P. Ham
ilton and D. R. Dial was appointed to
go to Lawton and confer with Mr.
Keys, head of the company; they went
and- liad the matter before him and
as a result of that visit Mr. Keys, to-
gether with his attorney, John M.
Young, came to Mangum last Thurs-
day and turned over to the committee
a proposition to be submitted to the
commissioners.
The city commissioners met at the
city hall at about 8 o'clock in an ad-
journed meeting to consider the mat-
ter; the council room was filled with
citizens interested In the matter,
some of them favoring a municipal
plant and some opposed to It. The
committee submitted Mr. Keys' propo-
sition. It wa3 an unsigned statement
and some of the citizen3 suggested
that as Mr. Keys was in the city he
appear personally before the meeting.
Acting upon this suggestion-Mayor
Border appointed a committee con-
sisting of Messrs. J. D. Curreathers,
C. H. Rutter and D. B. Trowbridge,
to locate Mr. Keys and invite him to
be present. In due time the Key3
party, consisting of Mr. Keys, Law-
yers John M. Young and M. H. Mills,
and Local Manager J. W. Chambers,
appeared.
On behalf of the company. Lawyer
Young submitted the following prop-
osition:
"The Electric Company will install
and operate 152 100-candle power
lamps as follows: 38 of these lamps
are to be around the square; 10 to be
in the first two block3 of North Ok-
lahoma avenup; and 76 lights to be
either on brackets or suspended in
the center of the streets upon wires.
Said 152 100-candle power lights to
be installed at the cost of the Light
Company, and the city to pay $3S0
per month for same on a ten-year
contract, or 25c per lamp additional
on a three-year contract.
"For residence use: - The Electric
Company will make a rate of 13c
per killowatt hour with l-2c discount
per kilowatt if bill is paid at the of-
fice of the company before the loth
of the month in which bill is render-
ed.
"For 3toj;e use and customers using
100 kilowatts:
1st 100 kilowatts, lie, with 10%
discount if paid by 10th of month:
2nd 100^ kilowatts, lbc, with 10%
discount if paid by 10th of month:
3rd 100 kilowatts. 9c. .with 10%
discount if paid by 10th of month
4tn 100 kilowatts. 8c, with 10%
discount if raid bv 10th of month:
5th 100 kilowatts. 7c, with 10%
discount if paid by 10th of month
6th 100 kilowatts. 6c. with 10%
DAY DEVOTED TO
CLEANING ALLEYS
Mangum business men have closed
t'n<ir doors and together with the
clerks and other citizens of Mangum,
have gone out and worked the county
roads: yesterday, however, they clos-
ed their doors and devoted the day to
cleaning the streets and alleys of
Mangum; every buslneis house In the
city was closed, and the greater part
of the people were busy on the
streets.
Though Mangum has earned the
title of being the cleanest town .n
Oklahoma, she Is much cleaner today
than she ever was before. All the al-
leys were visited by the men with the
team3 and wagons and all the tin
<ans, trash, etc., was loaded and car-
ried to the dumping grounds, and as
a result Manguim's alleys and streets
are cleaner today than they ever were
before.
It is something unusual for
business men to close their doors
and devote the day to cleaning up
their city, but Mangum people have
a great pride In the appearance of
. our city and probably no people are
I more energetic in cleaning up their
town that are Mangum people.
In years gone by, when our people
did not have the civic pride they now
have, Mangum was not very sightly
and her alleys were anything biit
clean; during those years we had^an
epidemic of typhoid- fever nearly ev-
ery summer;'since our people have
taken such an interest in keeping the
city clean we have had vety little ty-
phoid and it has taught them a les-
son; it pays to keep the city clean,
not only from a sentimental view, but
from the standpoint of public health.
A Thrilling, Amaz-
ing Mystery
A NOTED BOY
VISITS MANGUM
One of the best known boys In the
United States was a visitor in Man-
gum today; the young man we have
in mind is Temple Abernathy, son of
former United States Marshal Jno.
R. Abernathy.
Temple, who is now ten years old,
and his brother, iLouis, now 15 years
old, a few years ago made a trip
horseback from Guthrie to Santa
Santa Fp, New Mexico and return;
upon returning home to Guthrie they
went to New York and undertook to
ride horseback from New York to
San Francisco in sixty days, during
which time they were neither to eat
a meal nor sleep in a house; if they
made the trip within the required
time they were to receive $10,000.
They did not get the money though,
for they missed getting to 'Frisco
within the sixty day limit by ju3t two
days.
The older brother is now attending
high school in Frederick: Temple :s
out soliciting subscriptions for pa-
pers, hoping to win an automobile.
Temple is well known to many
Mangum people, among them Mayor
Border, whose guest he is during his
stey in Mangum. He is named after
the famous Temple Houston, a noted
lawyer of the early days and * son of
Sam Houston, first president of Tex-
ap.
He is an interesting little fellow,
polite and courteous, an-1 he deserves
any consideration that may be shown
him In soliciting subscriptions.
See the second Installment of the
"Twenty Million Dollar Mystery." at
the Woodrow Friday night. 43adv
What Is It All TEACHERS TO HAVE
About?
Can You Decipher
the Mystery ?
Watch This Paper and See
THE WEEK'S COURT
HOUSE HAPPENINGS
Every Greer county township that
has so far reported has shown a de-
crease in taxable valuation over what
it was last year, and from present in-
dications, the taxable valuation of
Greer county is going to be consid-
erably lower than last year.
This week Miss Emma Faulkner,
deputy county assessor, finished to-
taling up the valuations in Granite
city, Mangum, Rainey and Blooming-
ton townships. Granite 3hows a de-
crease of $24,968 over last yenr's val-
uation; the total valuation this year,
including real and personal proper-
ty, is $456,610.
Rainey township, one of the small-
est in the county, shows a decrease of
$8,439; the total valuation thi3 year
4s $ia0,484.
Bloomington tbwnship likewise
shows a decrease in valuation; this
year the totaf pf real and personal
valuation Is $595.74.3; last year it
was $617,188, a decrease of $21,445.
Mangum township shows a de-
crease of $37,101 over the 1914 val-
uation of $925,674, the total valuation
this year being $888,573.
County court being in session has
evidently had a depressing effect up-
on business in Court Clerk McCut-
cheon's office; up to Wednesday even-
ing only two new suits had been filed
in district court, as follows: G. N.
Hunter V3. K. S". Huggins, real estate
mortgage foreclosure; Anna Mabe-e
vs. Geo. M. King, cancellation of deed
and mortgage.
Not a single marriage license has
been issued during the past week,
an unusual happening.
Messrs. Walter Grimes and Charlie
Altom each paid fines of $12.50 in
Justice Wylie Show's court Tuesday
cn charges of fighting: Altom had
been living on Mr. Grimes* place and
they had a difficulty In which Grimes
received a slight knife wound be-
tween the fifth and sixth ribs on the
left side, and Altom received a blow
on the head with a breast yoke. Both
men had their wounds dressed, paid
their fines, and the matter was set-
tled. Neither of the men were ser-
iously hurt.
TO AUTOMOBILE OWNERS
I
. have established a gasoline sta-
tion in front of my store and 3oliclt
your patronage. J. B. NORMAN.
discount if paid by 10th of month:
7th 100 kilowatts. 5c. with 10%
discount if paid by 10th of month:
"Will make City of Mangum the
rate on power for pumplnr In accor-
dance with the power rate which Ok-
lahoma City now has. which Is as
follows:
"If you us* $255.37 worth of elec-
tricity. a rate of 2.321 cents per
kilowatt:
CARD OF THANKS
Allow us to thankfully acknowledge
the high respects, sympathies and
labors of love tendered us by our
many nighbors and frieuds of Man-
gum during the dark hours of sick-
ness and death of our companion "d
mother. The memory of those kind
expressions and deeds shall ever re-
main.
C. R. ROBERTS AND CHILDREN
•crtrd with the Mtarn Owl 1
Marker Is thu urt la*tatllai
c OM(4e4<* hafcaT outfit Ml Xflttl
IiIcm atww. sad win ha read
Ike yaMlr It tha latter part of f
taav week Mr. Morris wutfcad as
Mw t* the City Bah#*? Iw» for
tlta* a ad to ao sirs alter la
t optalca henrta la w way «a-
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about Ik* law aad la that nyialoa tha
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rales aad re«~*latt*a»
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If
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It WUt Be Worth Your
While to Watch
More Particulars Later
wait.
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Amatag eoatmrt ha* ctpirvd'
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aw'Ji far f a<ai the water aad tto
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INTERESTING MEET
Friday and Saturday, April 23 and
24th, are to be big days with Greer
county teacher*; the county teachers*
association will convene In Mangum
on Friday at 10 o'clock and will dis-
cuss various problems that confront
the teachers; in the afternoon L. C.
Stephens, representing Southwestern
Normal, and Dr. A. D. Young, repre-
senting the American Medical As-
sociation, will address them. While
Mr. Stephens has not Indicated upon
what topic he will talk, he Is an in-
teresting speaker and those who at-
tend are assured they will hear some-
thing Interesting.
Dr. Young represents the American
Medical Association, as stated before,
and will lecture upon the subject of
"School Hygiene." This i3 a very im-
portant subject, not only to pupils,
but to teachers.
A banquet for the teachers will be
served in the Gymnasium at the Cen-
tral school building on Friday even-
ing, at 8 o'clock. The banquet will
be prepared and served by the domes-
tic science class of the Mangum High
School, under the direction of the
teacher, Miss Corinne Jackson; in ad-
dition to the banquet a literary pro-
gram, consisting of reading, mu3ic
and speeches, has been arranged, and
surely no teacher will want to miss
this interesting occasion. f
On Saturday the school officers,
members of the district boards of the
county, have been invited to meet in
ses3ion with the teachers; an Inter-
esting program for this occasion has
been prepared, too. One feature that
should attract every school board
member of the county is the fact/that
Senator .T. L. Carpenter will explain
the effects of the new laws that have
been passed, in so far as they affect
schools. Several new law3 were pa?s-
ed by the recent legislature and Sen-
ator Carpenter will explain each one.
Belpw we publish the complete
program of the meeting, as issued
by County Superintendent Miss Kate
Terry.
Friday, 10:00 A. M. .
Baptist Church.
"Records I Have Found In My Dis-
trict"—T. R. McPneeters^ flert
Wade, D. L. King, Fred Watts,
Chas. Overbey,, J. N. Roberts.
"Records I Expect to Leave for the
Next Teacher"—Sackett Healey,
Mr3. T. R. McPheeters, Grover
Thompson, W. A. Covington, K.
K. Houston, Grace Mitchell.
"The Course of Study and My Year's
Work"—Pearl Rude, Daphne
Dodson, A. S. Coffman, W. T. Je-
ter, Jessie Houchens, Pearl Tom-
me.
"Tests for Promotion"—W. B. Gil-
christ, J. W. Wheat, Eugene
Smith.
"Directing to and Fitting Eighth
' Grade Pupils for High School-
Virginia Lee, Miss Jeffie Young.
B. S. Hawkins.
"Value of the Local School Rally"—
J. iL. Edgecomb, H. A. Jenkln3,
W. W. Wade, W. F. Dale.
Friday, 1:00 P. M.
Baptist Church
Glee Club—Mangum High School.
Closing Plans— C. E. Grady, Gran-
ite.
Solo—Miss Hall, Mangum.
Address—«L. "C. Stephens, South-
western Normal.
Music—Miss Pace and Mr. Cain.
Mangum.
Address—Dr. A. D. Young. Oklaho-
ma City.
Friday. 8:00 P. M.
s BANQFET
Central School Building
Saturday, 9:00 A. M.
High School Auditorium.
High School Orchestra.
Reading—Miss Florence Burden.
Address—L. C. Stephens. South-
western Normal.
Reading—Miss Dela Sander*.
Address—Dr. A. D. Young. Oklaho-
ma City. "**
Saturday Afternoon
Hich School Auditorium.
o Hiring of Teachers—<5. W.
Itrbns. Granite.
School Mrs
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Holmes.
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