The Chattanooga News. (Chattanooga, Okla.), Vol. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 1, 1920 Page: 4 of 4
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The News
MRS. LUCY L. EASTON. Pbh,
Entered its ssconil class matter Feb
'ru«ry 27, 1905, «t the Postoffice af
'CkaUnnooifs, Ok is , undet the Act of
CVingresg March 3 1878.
"Subecription Price $1.00 Per .-ear
Advertising Kates Made Known on
Application.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The News is authorized to an-
nounce the following candidates
tfor office snbject to the action
of the Democratic primary,
•on Tuesday, August 3, 1920.
For United Stages Senator—
HON SCOTT FERRIS
of Lawton, Okla.
For Congress, G district
J. ELMER THOMAS
BEN HENNESSEY
JUDGKCHAM JONES
IFor Sheriff
(J. B.) JOE CLARK
W. P. (PIKE) PIERCE
W. E. NIX
J. A. COOTER
SIM SHEPARD
m mmm mmmmmammmamaaum
For County Treasurer
EDGAK P. BLEDSOE
CM.
Cisli Grocery
Lum Canada JAGK HOWARD
Cliattanooga Okla
For County Assessor
F. M. MARPLE
For County Superintendent
E. L. BUTLER
f"orCo. Com'r Western Disct.
J. C. PIERCE
REPUBLICAN
>For Sherifl
Col. G.
H. FRAMPTON
TILLMAN COUNTY
For Comity Superintendent
CLAY KERR
COTTON COUNTY
For Court Clerk
C. M. ROBBfNS
Let's Get Busy.
We are just starting on a new
•decade. The census recently
taken gives Chattanooga a pop-
ulation of over 500. A town of
its size, doing the amount of
business it does, should have
both eyes open ar.d be alive to
the civic improvement necessary
to make it attractive. Now is
the time to get busy, Sidewalks,
crossings and lights are the first
'needs to be filled. Let's not go
another decade without them.
There are gaps in the sidewalk
■ on the north side of Main street
that for some reason have been
permitted to remain so. These
should be closed up mpking the
walk complete for the two blocks
on that side
Where plank walks and cross-
ings are used they have become
worr. and dilapidate; and beside
Ibeing unsightly and out of date,
in places they are somewhat of a
menace to unwary feet. These
should be removed and replaced
by substantial walks and cross-
ings, and other crossings put in
where needed.
Lights are almost of as much
•importance as water, and in this
regard Chattanooga is lacking.
Lights serve as both convenience
and protection. A town un-
guarded and in darknrss affords
splendid opportunity for robber-
ies, and a number o!' these
been committed here
WHY SUGAR CS HIGH
Confectioners, fruit tanneries
and honsewives are menaced by
sugar prices that will be restrict-
ive on industries and increase
living cost.
Owing to his illness and being
engrossed with international
matters the president failed to
ask congress for authority to
buy the Cuban crop of 1919-'20
when it could be had for 6 1 2c.
The Sugar Equalization Board
appointed by the president asked
for authority to buy the 1919 '20
Cuban crop which would have
insured sugar to the consumer
at about 11 cents a pound,
The Food Control bill, known
as the Lever act, under which
the Cuban crop of 1918 '19 was
bought, is in force until peace is
declared and promulgated by
the president.
The McNary bill passed con
gaess last December and extend
ed the life of the Sugar Equali
zation Board until December
1920, and under that half the
Cuban ':rop could still have
been bought.
That alone would have enabled
the goveanment to control the j
price ot suear and insure an eq 5
uitable distribution: but the ad
ministration believed sufar prices
had reached the peak and would
decline.
On top of this the legal de!
partment of the government tn
formed the Louisiana sugar
planters that they could charge i j i i rT i
18 cents a pound for their cane!***f5 311(1 WOOU'WOrk. MorS6Sh(X>/ing' cl
sugar wifhout running the risk • -n n x t
of being prosecuted. SpSClcllty. r_j. M. IjGG, Prop.
The Cuban cane sugar pro
ducers at once decided that if
we were willing to pay 18 cents
for American cane sugar there
was no good economic reason
why we should not be willing to
pay as much for Cuban cane.
This is not a political argu
ment but a statement from the
reeords in Washington and ought
to satisfy anyona why our indus
tries and the consuming publiT
mnst pay prohibitive prices for
sugar. —Wichita Stockman.
Good Cooking Clean Food Sanitiry Rootfl
POLITE ATTENDANCE
THE
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B usiness
For
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A F E
We Ask «) Coiitinuation'of your
This CAPE will Continue To Be Headquarters
Hungry Humanity.
ROBERT PUTKAMER Propr.
ICE GR.ILAJI € OLD
Drinks
W" DAVIDSON BROTHERS OLDSTAND
THE MMM RESTAURANT
I In the Fender Building is now open
. for business. We will give you the
~~ ; best the market afforis.
lilC Old SEEL I awllop IS HoW on account of the scarcity ot help we will serve
JMHBHBBinaEnBiiiEmi m
open for general Blacksmith
a > e ! taxing
With good tionaj
street lights and lights in all the
business houses the danger from
these midnight marauders would
be greatly lessened
Now if Chattanooga desires to
'increase its population and busi-
ness more in the next ten years
than in the ten years just past,
'it must put on its progressive
attire and go to pushing. Put
■in the necessary improvements,
•clean up the streets and give the
town a more attractive and
(business like appearance
Destructive Tax-
ation Policies
Daniel Webster's argument in
the Dartmouth college case, that
the power to tax is the power to
destroy, has never been success
fully met.
The deliberate purpose of the
Single Taxer, who would place
all taxation upon land .values, is
to make land undesirble and
worthless.
Then the state becomes the
universal landlord and under the
Single Tax theory collects suffi-
cient rent from land to run the
government.
The indirect effect of excess-
ive high taxes, or millage against
property that is more or less i
confiscatory, is identically the!
same.
Hence in California the people j
will seek to limit the power of!
initiating new taxa ion mearures!
by requiring twenty-five per
cent petitions.
The people of California sought
to limit the power to tax prop-
erty to one dollar on the thous-
and in (he constitution but in
vain.
The taxation profession have
found ways to circumvent this
and today Californians are pay-
ing the highest per capita in the
nation.
The people of Oregon sought
to limit t xation increases by
bodies with a constitu
amendment forbidding
over 6 per cent a year.
But an unlimited power of
A. Mo GRIMES
PHONE No 92
Dealer in Light and Heavy Hardware
New & 2nd Hand Goods
Tin work and Plumbing
Call or Phone Us Your Wants
Just to Make It Unanimous
Every democratic county official disclaims all connection or
knowledgcof a purported tetter, signed by "A Comanche County Dem-
ocratic Official," containing a veiled nltnck on Scott Ferris, published
Wednesday morning in the Lawton News. All but two democratic
county officials were interviewed Wednesday concerning the purport-
ed letter. Those two were out of the city on that day. Everyone of
those seen denied absjftutely any knowledge of the "faked" com-
munication.
just to make it unanimous, however, the Constitution today in-
terviewed the two who were absent from the city on Tuesday. They
were ('•. J. Japp, county surveyor, and I. F. Colley, county weigher.
Both Mr. japp and Mr. Colley, like all the other county officials de-
nied absolutely having ever seen or heard of the purported letter.
Thus the published communication which showed on the face of it, its
origin, is shown beyond the shadow of a doubt to have been "faked"
in its entirety.
meals farmer style.
AV« tire not experts*at the business? but will try
and fill your needs. We solicit a share of
your business.
HO WARD & W E ST:
Scott Ferris Club
Holds Meeting
First Held by Club During
The Campaignq
A publ'c meeting under ihe
auspices of the Comanche county
Scott Ferris For Senator C'ub
will be held this even-
ing at 8 o'clock, officers of th*.
club announced Monday. This is
the first public meeting during
the campaign. Every citizen of
I,-iwton and Comanche county is
invited to-' attend the meeting,
which will be held on the court
house lawn.
Southwestern Sing-
ing Convention
i The next Southwestern Sing j
ing Convention will be held in;
Chattanooga on the second Sun
I day in this month, July 11, and |
' the niftht preceding. There will 10. D. Branson wpnt to Mt. Park
be all day singing on Sunday j Sunday to visit relatives.
J and dinner on the grounds.
VALLEY VIEW
(Too late for last week)
We got a light shower of ain
last week which was badly nefd-
ed and proved very beneficial to
crops. Most eveeyone has his
wheat and oats cut.
Mrs. Cagle has been ill but is
able to be up again.
The dance at Mr. Smith's Fri-
day night was enjoyed by a big
crowd
Mrs. Joan Atehison is visiting
her daughter, Mr.-. Edna Palmer
of Burkburnett this week,
Mr. Pete Oxford an Miss Es-
ther Winn attended the show in
Loveland one night last week.
Mr. Henry Cann was a Chat-
tanooga caller Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Atchiscti
and famsly, Mr. and Mrs. Ster-
ling Atchison and Mr. and Mrs.
The Sixty-sixth
the United States,
A number of classes will be in
Congress of j Z M Stroud and bride return- attendance and a pleasant time,'
recently ad- ed Saturday night from their *s promised to all. Don't fail toi
Ga"
Smashes into "
Plate Glass Window
journed, made appropriations to
the amount of $5,000,000,000 to
cover government expenses for
the fiscal year beginning July 1,
1920, and to meet the deficiency
for the year just ended. This
is some of the aftermath of the
world war. No relief from high j business scenes,
taxes in sight for many years,
wedding trip to Oklahoma City. | "ome Chattanooga axpects j ou; . Saturday afternoon when try-
Monday they were receiving the rt|'d will welcome you. ling to buck up and turn in front
congratulations < f friends and The program will be published , of the Nelms dry goods store,
Judge was passing aronnd the j uext week, J Mrs. Robert Brown lost control
cigars. i °f her car which jumped the
! one
t ,| Pete Cope, former manager of; curb, taking the corner post of
f n ernoon Preti(in ef] the Black elevator here, is again (the awnity? with it, and struck
0f Chattanooga^. busy and Cnattanooga. Thi„ litne he the corneV of the store con-
: both the east and west'bulmess is«rb"yi"f oats andf 8,,aRin* hand* ^ ,sma8h.inf the
! blocks was parked full of cars Wlth °'d ac<luaintancefi- plate r ms window Ihe shock
A few years ago when a home an(j pe(n)|e thronged the street?! S- C< HlInt of C:'lu:Tlb,y' Mo • d he enK"ie aild vvhile con-
in either town or country could Rn(] storeg. The merchants
have been bought at a reasona-
ble figure, many a yoing man
or man with a family working
on a salary and living in rented
apartments, instead of invesning
his savings in a first payment on
a home, preferred to invest in in
a Hord car. Tod>y, although he
may be getting larger salary,
the home is out of his reach be-
cause of the great, ail vance in
property values and the high
cost of living and rentals.
all
arrived here Monday evening to siderably shaken up and un-
had an exceptionally good trade '°°'< after the grain ciops on his
aud the picture show enjoyed a *w0 'l,rms 'n vieioity. .
nerved, Mrs. Brown was unhurt.
fine patronage.
Mr. L. P. King of Oklahoma
: City, who is interested in the
j First National Bank here, is in
town this week assisting in get-
ling the bank under way.
The threshing seeson has be
Misses Alma and Vestal Mc-
Daniel and Mose Murphy went
to Lawton Sunday to attend a
ball game.
On the day Judge Stroud was
married last week some sacri-
legious cuss tied crepe to
initiative by the Oregon legisla
ture has swamped this 6 per' are no-.v making stock-
cent limit and lumped state tax ,n>rs ^ar'3 that reiail at $200
levies from 3.23 to9 31.-Wich :aPair- Ought to be a miUage
ita (Kan.) Daily Stockman. j guarantee with 'ein when they
Miss Joie McDaniel, after a
two weeks' visit with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. E J. Mc-
Daniel, left Sunday for Oklaho-
ma City to resume her duties
;w.itu the Perkins Grain Co.
cost so much
If you want to be rid of the
fl es get some of HALLER IN-
SECT POWDER at Puttkamer's
restaurant. The same that was
sold by Davidson Bros.
who are not supplied with the
necessary storage places will be
compelled to stack their grain
and wait to thresh until the
railroads can furnish cars.
Sunday afternoon a passing
clovd sent us a sprinKle of rain,
and a few minutes later another
cloud favored us with an almott
imperceptable sprinkle of hail;
and the sun shone all the while-
But contrary to the old saying it
didn't rain next day.
To Prevent Fading.
Here is something the women
folks might like to know:
To prevent summer fabrics,
such as ginghams, lawns, cali-
coes, etc., from fading, dissolve
the ^ve cents wnrth of sugar of lead
in a buckeJu. of lukewarm wa-
This. perhaps, was to de- ter" then p,,t the * ods int0 h-
note that the Judge had joined , ,
the -silent majority." <>r ,four hours W,i^ out, drv
and press in the usual way and
the colors will never fade. This
process serves a double purpose,
as it also shrinks the material
Mrs. A. J. Bundy entertained at the same time.
the Ladies Aid of the Union
Church Wednesday afternoon, j Unipn Mervices weie held at
Mr, C. Campbell, a Rock If- the Christian church last Sunday
land station agent arrived here morning and nignt. This build-
gun, but because of carshortage1 (loorl<n"1' his place of busi- ,
it is expected that many farmery | ness"rh,s; pe,r ,wa,s !° de; allowing them to stand for three
The Fourth of July falls
Sunday this year which will put
off celebrations until the 5th.
Tuesday to relieve D. C. Haskin,
resident agent, for the next
sixty days.
ing lias been refitted for the pur-
pose and these services will be
conducted there regularly.
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