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The Other Fellow's Experience- When properly utilized- I« the Stepping Stone over the Slough of your own Troubles.
T"17 ALTUS TIMES-DEMOCRAT
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TIMES-DEMOCRAT, VOL. 17, NO. 38 SECTION A—EIGHT PAGES
ALTUS, OKLAHO MA, SEPTEMBER 25, 1913.
OFFICIAL CITY AND COUNTY PAPER
Notice To Subscribers
If you have renewed your subscription and
find your paper marked again this week
with notice of expiration, pay no at-
tention to it, as there have.been so many
renewals the past week that this office has
not had time to give everyone proper cred-
it. To those who have not paid up, this
issue contains a final notice, and this is the
last copy you will receive unless your sub-
scription is renewed before the next day of
publication.
OZARK TRAILERS
HERE SATURDAY
Chamber of Commerce Urges Citizens
To Open Their Homes as Lodg-
ing Places for Visitors
^ That Night
I he delegation headed for the Ozark
Trails Convention at Koswell. is due to
arrive in Altus about 6 p. m. Saturday.
A delegation from the chamber of com-
merce in" this city will meet them at
Headrick, and the band will be out to
welcome them on their arrival here.
.Mayor Hickman will make an address
when the visitors have assembled on
the square, and other speakers will be
heard from.
!l is very important that hotels.room-
ing houses and private homes that can
accommodate some of these .guests noti-
fy Secretary Morris of the Chamber of
Commerce at oncc how many persons
they will have room for, price of rooms
and whether men or women are de-
sired, as there will doubtless be some of
the latter in the party. In the present
crowded condition .when rooming houses
turning away numbers of people
e.-ery night, it is going to be a prob-
lem to find accommodations for .he big
trail- delegation that i-. expected, and
the citizens should take as many as
possible for the night, and in that way
-Operate with the chamber of com-
merce to the end that all the visitors]
may be comfortably Housed and senti
i. :i the• r way next morning with pleas-1
ant memories of their stay in this city.
THAN PRIOR 10 WAR
United States Railroad Administration
Washington
Walker D. Hines .Director General
of railroads, has authorized the fol-
lowing statement relative to the freight
car situation.
Current discussion of car shortages
and related questions makes it impor-
tnat to bring to the attention of the
public the fact that, contrary to what
seems to be the public assumption, con-
ditions in this respect are substantially
more favorable than they were in re-
cent years prior to the war.
On'August 1. 1917. the total car sur-
pluses reported throughout the country
were 43.481 "cars, where as on August
1. 1919. the total car surpluses were 107.-
900. The total number of unfilled car
requisitions on August 1. 1917, was
77.257. where as the total number of
unfilled requisitions on August 1. 1919.
was only 19.271.
The number of freight cars in ser-
vice and not withdrawn for repairs on
, J tily 1. 1917. was 1.983,000. The number
of freight cars in service and not with
<lrav. n for repair on July 1. 1919. was
2.005.000.
The very fact of unified control of
all the railroads has tended to concen-
trate the comments upon any inability
to perform one hundred per cent of
the transportation required, but the
foregoing figures show that the situa-
tion during and at the end of July. 1919,
was very much better than in the cor-
responding period in 1917. It is believ-
ed this fact, ought to be borne in mind
by the public in appraising the existing
car service conditions.
The extent to which freight car
have been repaired in recent months
has been the subject of some comment
The number of freight cars repaired
and returned to service by months dur-
ing the present calendar year has been
as follows:
January — — — --- 2.027.992
Februarv — — — — 1,747.146
March - 1.953.225
April 1.897.698
May 2.039.001
lime 2.013.097
July 1.790.097
On account of the fact that the Fourth
of July came on Friday this year and
of the proportionately small amount of
work done on the following day. the
falling off in the number of cars re-
paired in July as compared with June
is clearly explainable The number of
car* repaired in May and June kept
fully up to the number repaired in
January, although in May and June
many shops were still working on short-
er hours than in January
Much stress has been laid on the in-
crease in the percentage of cars witli-
alrawn for repairs in the recent months
up to and including July. The fact is
that this increase in the number of
car- withdrawn for repairs has not been
due to a falling off ill the number of
ear* repaired but has been due to a
number of complex factors which
have arisen from the conditions
resulting from the war. from the
exceptional pooling of cars during
unified control, and Irom ques-
tion- ari-ing between the Railroad Ad-
ministration and the railroad corpora-
tion-. The emphasis which has been
laid u)k>ii the percentage of cars with-
drawn from service for repairs is. there
fore, misleading and doe- not give
correct idea a- to the number of ci
actuall# in service The number
WINNING HONORS
AT LAWTON HIGH
Alice Chappell, daughter of Mrs.
Odell Hounfhcjll. now living at Lawton,
sen-!- tiie Times-Democrat the follow-
jn:' clipping from the Higli School
iiuu - in the Lawton News which shoe's
Ui'j! young ladv to be a popular niem-
l4rr 'if the freshman class of the Law-
f< .1 high.
" ! here was certainly a commotion in
the high sch6ol Friday afternoon when
t* l polls were open for the election.
The halls were crowded with students
who were anxiously awaiting their
turns to vote. They patiently waited
tin. returns, when it was announced
tbc.t Catherine Spicer had been, elected
idr editor-in-chief and Wilbur Harper
for business manager of School Life,
the .,chool publication to be issued in
October. Everyone was well pleased.
"Willie Cox. of the junior class. Dor-
othy Wilson, of the sophomore class.
aH Alice Chappell and Park Saunders
of the freshman class, were elected as-
sociate editors. It is certain that with
such capable editors on the staff and
Slicli a student body to back them that
th' : :h School will be able to put out
a weekly this year that will be well
w -rth reading."
-Mr. and Mrs. Glover Fuqua ahd Mr.
Mrs. Tom Elliott motored to Sny-
V on day evening and took the night
ii '.<> Oklahoma City to attend the
The total, number of volunteers since
enlistment up to the 1st of March to
Sept. 6th is 110.047. with enlistments
coming in at the rate of 20.000 a month.
John D. McGraw of Hollis. Okla..
was the only man to enlist at the local
recruiting station during the past week.
McGraw enlisted in the Quartermaster
Corps for one year.
Musicians wanted for the 2nd Cav-
alry band at Ft. Riley, Kansas, the 2nd
Cavalary band is in need of musicians
on every instrument, including violins
and piano.
Overseas enlistments are still open
for one or three years with your pick
of the following branches for the A. E.
F. Europe. Infantry. Medical Dept..
Engineers and Sigual Corps, for A. E.
1". Siberia, infantry medical dept.. or-
dinance and signal corps.
The Signal Corps is in urgent need
of young men jwssessed of a common
school education or better, who are
interested in. or who give promise of
being able to acquire one of the trades
listed below. Radio operators. Morse
Through Efforts of Chamber of Com"
mere® Motor Car will Connect
With Through Trains at
.Snyder
PUTS HOW HOUSTON POST
COMES TO HAVE
NEW RIVAL DAILY
Through the persistent efforts of the
Chamber <•." Commerce at Altus we are
now advised that additional passenger
train service over the Frisco railroad
is to be given this section.
A few week- ago the Jackson county
Chamber of Commerce sent its secre-
tary to Oklahoma City to confer with
i'risco officials at a meeting held in
the traffic rooms of the Oklahoma City
Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Morris
made a hard pull to have a new pass-
enger train put on the Frisco between
here and Oklahoma City. He Was in- k"M"
formed that the matter would neces-
sarily have to be put up to the Rail
toad Administration at Washington.
The railroad officials said that oossibly
telegraph operators, able to use type- a motor car mikht be put on between
writer, telephone and telegraph linemen j Quanah and Snyder which "would give
telegraph operators, telephone repair- j Altus and vicinity much better service,
ers electricians, switchboard operators | However, the Altus sectary said he
and cable splicers. For full particulars could not promise that this would be
applv. write or phone lT. S. Annv Re-' satisfactory to the people m this com-
cruiting Station. Altus. Okla. j munity.
The matter has dragged along with
Mr. and Mrs. W
son motored to Oklahoma City Tuesday
and will spend the week there attend-
ing the fair.
He Fed the Birds, Too
The Harmon County Tribune man.
in describing his sensations in.an air-
plane ride says that after riding on his
i le a .! on his head and on his back
and then looping the loop, the first time
he had a chance to say a word to the
aviator he asked him if he had a slop
jar handy.
C. C. Mangum v i-ited bis family here
last week and returned to Fairview
Tuesday morning. Mr. Mangum and
family spent Sunday with J. F. Hill
and family at Friendship.
OPENED HERE
All those interested in cotton and
grain markets will be glad to know
that T. W. crazier, who is a rnemt>er
"f the New Orlean Cotton Exchange,
ha- opened a local cotton exchange in
this city, over the City National Bank,
with private wires to all important
exchanges. H. & B. Beer are corres-
pondents and all trades will be con-
firmed to traders by H. & B. Beer.
This company has a similar exchange
at Lawton, and is now opening one at
Chickasha. George Dillon, of New Or-
leans. lately of lawton, will be in
charge of the- Altus exchange.
AERIAL FIRE
PATROL EXTENDED
Tl)e airplane forest fire patrol con-
ducted in the National Forest in Cali-
fornia by the Army Air Service in co-
operation with the Forest Service of
the United States Department of Agri-
culture ha-, been extended to ct .r a,
portion of the forest in Oregon. Head-
quarters have been established at Sa-
lem. Oreg.. and the operating squadron
for the present will onsi-t of live of-
iicers and seven enlisted men operating
eight airpfenes. The city of Portland
h;v- donated a landing field and will
construct a hangar. Patrol routes in the
Oregon and Santiam Forests are now
being worked out.
< of the army aviator.- in the fire-
patrol work recently made a successful
flight to tin floor of the Vostmite Val-
ley. To make a landing the aviator had
to vain an altitude of 11.000 feet and
spiral dowi between the walls of the
canyon which are 5.000 feet high and a
quarter of a mile apart. The landing
was difficult because of high, tret - and
wires. This exploit was of much interest
to forest officers, a.- it is thought to
have been a step toward the more ex-
tended use of airplanes in forests, where
landing places in the mountains are
comparatively few.
cars
bad
<u>.
1. 1«3
tuallv in
rder cars, inci
I lily I. 191".
uce. not including
eased from 1.963,-
,, ZObS.OOO an Ju'>
Call Field Become^ Apartment Center
Kemp & Kell have bought Call Field
at Wichita Falls, and will convert the
aviation buildings into apartment
houses. They can furnish quarters for
2.000 people, and thereby relieve the
congestion in their town. The street
car system will be extended for half
a mile and Call Field become a regu-
lar city addition.
Mrs. J. A. McCord and Mrs. J. A.
McCord. Jr.. went to Oklahoma City
Tuesday to attend the fair.
O. Hill and babv|*hf i'^r service between here and Ok-
* lahoma City. >»ut now the Frisco an-
nounces that relief is to come. While
this section will not now get the passen-
ger trail, an extra motor car each way
daily will materially relieve the situ-
ation so far as passenger traffic is con-
cerned between here and Oklahoma
City. Tl'.c motor car will connect with
trains at Snyder which will make it
much more convenient to get to and
from the state capitol.
The following letter i- self explana-
tory :
Oklahoma City. Sept. 2t. 1919.
Geo. G. Morris. Sec. Chamber Com.
Altus. Oklahoma.
Dear Sir:
Referring to our recent conversation
with res]>cct to additional passenger
train service, am now- advised Wash-
ington has approved a schedule pro-
Mrs. Roy Ivy. of Amarillo. who if
visiting her mother. Mrs. W. H. Evans
at Martha, spent Tuesday in the city
Mr. ami Mr:
lahoma City. <
this week.
. J. Ben Russell, of Ok-
cere visitors in the city
M. A. Ainmons. a former resident of
this city, now of Arkansas City. Kan-.,
is here this week looking after three
dwelling houses iu the west part of
town which he still owns.
Houston is to have a new daily
morning newspaper in the near future.
Arrangements are now about complete.
TJie history of this move might be quite
interesting. The Houston Post was
started about 35 years ago by R. M.
Johnson and associates, among them
being Col. Watson, a man of means
and ability. Col. Johnson was made
editor of the paper and Col. Watson
business manager. The paper pros-
pered. It was always conducted as a
strong stand-pat democratic organ,
st-' ding for Thomas Jefferson and tak-
Your liquor straight. So Me years
go Col. Watson died. In his will he
provided that the newspaper property
of which he was owner of a majority
stock, should be managed by his friend
Col. Johnson, until his son. Roy Watson
should reach his 20th birthday when
the young man should come into the
possession of the property. Two years
ago this period was reached and Roy
Watson was elected president and gen-
eral manager of the paper. For one year
Col. Johnson was continued as editor.
He still retained his old alliance with
the liquor cause and this course did
not suit the new owner and manager.
Last January a meeting of the stock-
holders was held and Col. Johnson was
voted his full salary for life, with no
duties to perform, and Roy Watson
was made editor and manager. The next
morning in a lengthy signed editorial
the paper right-about-faced on every
position it had formerly advocated and
came out strongly for prohibition, suf-
frage and modern reform policies. It
was a great jolt to Col. Johnson, who
had always pursued the other policy.
Mthough he was still to draw full sal-
ary he chafed because he could no long-
er air his opinons. and because the
paper he had helped for so many years
to build up. was now to repudiate every
political question he had advocated. As
a result lie will now at his advanced
age try to put on a strong morning
Mrs. Amos C. Williams returned Fri-
day from a visit of several months with
her mother in Chicago. Mrs. Williams,
who is one of Altu..' most accomplished
musicians, continued her study of
voice while in Chicago.
Pete McKinney. who travels for an
Oklahqfna City hardware house, was
in Altus over Sundae.
WORKING IN BIG
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
James Monroe Roach Post, Local Order
Of American Legion, Will Do
Its Part in World's Work
SPECIAL TRAIN FOR
DAY
To a-jo nnmo-iate the large number of
people who desire to see and hear Pres-
i h't Wilson at Oklahoma City Fri-
day. marry of whom cannot afford to
take the time which it usually takes
to make the trip to the capitol city
and return, the Frisco will run a speci-
al train which will leave Quanah with
three coaches and buffet at 5 a. m. Fri-
day morning. Two coaches will be add-
ed, at Altus, and the train will leave
here at 6:40 a .m.. and at Snyder two
more coaches will be put on.
Returning.the special will leave Okla-
homa City at 10 p. m.. reaching Altus
at 4:43. Reduced rates are now in ef-
fect. good until September 29.
viding for motor car service leaving ■. , , - ..
Snyder 7:4? a.m .arriving Altus 8:45 a. l*1*r to again advocate these policies
m. Leave Altu.- 9:05 a. m. Arrive Quan-
ah lljO" a. m. Returning, leave Quan-
ah -''40 p. m. Arrive Altus 4:20 p.m.
Leave Altus 4:45 p. m.. arrive Snyder
5 :45 p. m.
This service will. I understand, be
installed Sept. 28th.
Yours trulv.
H. C. CON LEY.
\t his a«;e he will find the work exceed-
ingly burdensome. The fact is the old
gentleman is mow in an ideal attitude,
a good salary for life with no duties
if perform. Two idbrning newspapers
■ ill not be fonnd an easy proposition
Memphis Herald.
Changes of Residence Property
PICKED UP TOO
MANY THINGS
W. Y. Blair has bought the Nick
Coker place on West Broadway and is
installing water and lights, side walks,
ite.. and making it a modern residence
H. H. Blanton has bought the old
Fowler place, and will remodel same
and occuply it in a short time.
Quanah Officers Bring to Justice Driver j J'' cottage occupied by Amos C.
Y - - 1 Williams. 314 North Lee. has been sold
Of Ford Carrying Texas and
Oklahoma Numbers
last week
and Mr. and Mrs. Williams, also the
Y I.. KimhalK who are residing there,
arc sear chine for a new location.
The milk
Love laugl
it* weather e
human kindness
in May and June. 1910. was fully up to
the normal number of cars repaired.
the Railroad Administration gave in-
structions on June 20th. 1919. that all
car forces be increased to the full
standard measure of 48 hours t>er week
and that additional shifts be worked
where the additional employes could
be obtained and where they could he j City Marshall Wardlaw
economically used. The showing na- notified of the theft of a pair of
turallv expectcd from the putting into| fine blankets and a valuable bathrobe, .. .
effect of these instructions was hamp- taken from a car. says the Quanah Tri-I ~ ™ unt» " ,s curuieti
cred in July by the intervention of prac-j hune-Chief. His suspicions centered on
ticallv a double holiday, and. of course la yom",- man. Orvill, Tate, a stranger ,
»a. tmporariK prevented in \ugust! 23 vears old. who had been riding about"
bv the strike of a large number of shop town for i couple of days in a l ord,
employes Conditions having now lieen' '.hat had .> Texas and an Oklahoma ■
restored to normal, it is expected that number
these instructions will promptly show His suspicions becoming a certainty, j
a most favorable result be lock»rf the young man up in jail
In addition to this, the Railroad Ad- and finding the stolen blanket
ministration i> rapidly getting the bene- the Oklali
tit the service of a largf number of ber» on .1
new ear- constructed during Federal On Moi
oI Mr. Mam
at locksmiths
e on the dollar
but keeps
"The world is -hoj to' pieces." shouts
i exchange Bird shot, or booze?
control hut
introductii
Okla
th«
the
ified j
tnim -
An
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But "America
bettc one
all
excellent s lo-
ot" the Time"
ar. a
owed
I
he Railroad Admim-tr
I
abilitv
On the
ntrary. cxtrairdi-
put forth to »e-
to agree «
*n to the i
nahilitv ha
August 1
: the«c car
e. and they
the rjitf
ailroad
of the
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house.
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in injury
a- caused
than an
i> any busi-
the loss of
other one
to Hooker bv an
■ifcerr
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The American Legion of Oklahoma i.-
being organized in Jackson county and
is participating in the big membership
drive now' on in every r-tate. A large
number of members were secured dur-
iug the fair and UiO names have been
enroUed '-The local f*>.» will lie known
as the James Monroe Roach Post, hon-
oring the memory of James Monroe
Roach, of Duke, the first Jackson coun-
ty boy to' fall at the front. All honor-
ably discharged soldiers, sailors and
marines are eligible to membership and
in the pre.-ent drive each member is
expected to get at least five more mem-
bers.
Permanent officers have not yet been
elected, and will not be until the close
of the drive, in order to give the full
membership equal chance to participate
in the election.
The importance of the drive is shown
in the following telegram from the
state chairman ,
Oklahoma City. Sept. 18. 1919.
A. R. Hanna. Altus. Okla.
James Monroe Roach Post. No. 44. the
•Vmerican Legion of Oklahoma, Altus.
Okla.
Big membership drive on in state.
Posts expected to extend themselves
to the limit in securing members. Na-
tional headquarter- demands from state
headquarters daily telegraphic reports
on state membership drive. You must
make daily telegraphic report to this
office. We can't fail in Oklahoma. Our
strength in National Convention de-
pends on our membership.
Ross N. Lillard.
An important part of the immediate
work of the Legion is to agitate in fa-
vor of legislation known as the Sweet
Bill which has been introduced in Con-
gress. which amends the War Risk In-
snranve act and proposes four changes
of importance in the present law. as
follows:
1.—An increase in the period of auto-|
matic insurance. (This amendment au-
tomatically insures any person who en-
tered the service prior to November 11.
1918. for 120 days after entrance in
the active service.)
2.—An increase in the basis of awards
in compensation cases to $t>5 when dis-
ability is total and temporary, and to
$100 when the disability is total and
permanent.
3.—An increase in the class of bene-
ficiaries of insurance to include uncles,
aunts, nieces, nephew-, brothers-in-law.
sisters-in-law.
4.—The payment of converted insur-
ance. at the election of the insured,
either in one lump sum. or in 36 or
more installments.
It is believed by the National Ex-
ecutive Committee of The American
Legion that the proposed amendment
should pass and that in addition tiler
to the law should be amended as fol-
low- :
1.—To permit lump sum payment
for term insurance as well as for con
verted insurance, and to place term in-
surance exactly on the same basis, as
to payment-, as converted insurance,
thu- enabling a man who cannot now
afford to convert his insurance to have
the same advantage as the man who is
able to immediately convert.
It is repuested that each local post of
Tht \mer«car» l esion write ,t« Con-
gressman and also its I'nited States
Senator, urgtnit the passant of tlu
Hill and also urging that the law
DYE STUFFS IN
COTTON INDUSTRY
The making of dyestuffs is one of the
key industries of the world. Broadly
speaking it is a new industry in the
United States and before the war we
had indifferently allowed to be record-
ed in our industrial and scientific his-
tory the record of submission to the
overlordship of Germany in dyes. The
establishment of the British blockade
late in 1914 first brought our depen-
dence on Germany for dyestuffs forci-
bly home to both cotton manufacturers
and the general public. It has been esti-
mated by the government that probably
two-thirds of the cotton goods made in
this country require color, and that we
manufacture five times as much cotton
as wool, and twenty times as much wool
as silk. It i>. therefore, to be expected
that the future of our dyestuff manu-
facturing industry will have considera-
tion at the World Cotton Conference, to
be held at New Orleans in October.
The fact that during 1913 twenty-
three cotton manufacturing companies
used 10.289.030 pounds of dyes and
chemicals valued at $1,240,444 and that
the same firms during the year 1916
used 9072.734 pounds valued at $>'),-
2"8.o33 conveys a fairly clear idea
of the iinjKirtance of the topic. Although
as between the years 1913 and 1916
the total quantity used was nearly 12
Iter cent greater. A question of such
vast importance as our future depen-
dence on Germany for this vital raw
material and the record of progress
made towards complete emancipation
from the foreigner and its maintenance
will be an added inducement to many
manufacturers to attend the World Cot-
ton Conference.
BABY BURNED TO
DEATH AT BRINKMAN
One of the saddest accident.- we have
ever known occurred last Friday when
the little three year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. R. Tyler of Burkburnett and
grandson of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. De-
Armon of near here was burned to
death. The Tyler> were living in a tent
near some oil wells and the fire started
when Mrs. Tyler attempted to light the
oil stove. The air was full of gas and
fumes from the oil and when she struck
the match, the whole inside ot the tent
burst into a blaze. The older son ran
out of the tent and escaped without be-
ing burned and the mother, although
badly burned, escaped death by running
and jumping into a firing near the tent.
But the mailer son must have jutni ed
on the bed when his clothing caught
fire. He was still alive when help ar-
rived but died soon after. The body was
brought here Friday night and after
tuneral services at the Baptist church
Saturday afternoon, the little one was
laid to rest in the Brinkman cemetery.
The parents have the deepest -ympa-
thv of the entire community m the lo»»
of' th^ir little -=on
i the same ba-|
Wngh
| t*»e maiont
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