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ELK CITY NEWS-DEMOCRAT
VOLUME XX_
WHO’S WHO IN C. & A.
By Mri. DM1* Young
ELK CITY. BECKHAMCOUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10. 1922
FREE TICKETS GIVEN TO
COUNTY SCHOOL CHILDREN
BY OKLAHOMA STATE FAIR ]
MRS. ELIZABETH CASH
In “Who’s Who in the C. & A.”
those who hove done something; for
humanity are named. The subject
of this sketch, Mrs. Elizabeth Cash,
came with her husband and her small
daughter in the first great rush in
'89 where they established a home
near Guthrie. The “.Westward Ho!”
that brought them from old Ken-
tucky to Guthrie again urged them
to the C. & A. at its opening in ’92.
Here the daughter Susie drove the
first stake in the town of Arapaho.
On the banks of the Washita near
the Texas line they located a claim
where they lived said Mrs. Cash
twenty years when Mr. Cash who was
a Union soldier in the Cival War
died. “Then I was ready to quit—
what more did I have to live for—
but there was Susie and her children.
Why, I’ve been grandmother twenty-
eight years, and I’ve always helped
take care of my grand-children and
now I do what I can to help take care
of these two boys’’ as a two year old
youngster sent her button box and
contents rolling across the floor.
“I tried living at the Soldiers’
Widows’ Home in Kansas, everything
was awful nice there, but I couldn’t
be near Susie and the children, so
I canu back to Cheyenne. This is a
nice place to live, there are so many
nice people here.” A flock of frying
chickens flew around the door and
Mrs. Cash asked, “Do you know where
I can get some corn to feed my
chickens? They’re not doin’ a bit a’
good on kaffir com.”
County Superintendent Gets Supply
of Mein Gate Admissions
Every school child in Beckham
County can visit the Oklahoma State
Fair and Exposition at Oklahoma
City absolutely free, on “School
Children’s Day” this fall. Miss Anna
Dudley, County Superintendent of
schools, has just received from
Oklahoma City 7,299 tickets good
for admission to the main gates of
the Fair on Friday, September 29,
which has been set aside for Okla-
home schpol children and teachers.
These tickets will be given away on
applicatiton to the County Superin-
tendent or school teachers.
WEDDING BELLS
Winburn—Brewer
Miss Mary Winburn and Lloyd
Brewer were married at the bride’s
home near Grimes last Sunday after-
noon, leaving soon after for Col-
orado, where they will spend their
honeymoon.
The ceremony was performed by
Rev. McQuerry, the Baptist minister
at Cheyenne, in the presence of the
relatives of the two families. The
bride was dressed in white silk crepe
de chene and the groom in dark blue
serge and they made a fine looking
couple.
The bride is the eldest daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Winburn and is
a charming and accomplished young
lady, being the teacher of the pri-
mary department of the Grimes
school for two terms. The groom is
a son of the late Gus Brewer and has
been with his mother on
where he. and his bride will make
their home as soon as they return.
He is a fine young man and we be- weil wmle
speak a happy and prosperous wed- Wichita Fa11« win „ p .y \tom
ded life for them. The Blackburns of • two „„„‘®f,eet a rl« about
CONSERVATION HAN MEASURES
WELL; 4 MORE TO BE DRILLED
NUMBER 15
RULES GOVERNING THE
FOUR BALL GAMES AT
| BECKHAM COUNTY FAIR j
Plan Determining Which and When
Teams Are To Play
GAS FOR ELK CITY
AND SAYRE
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*
*
The Barker Oil Co., have $
a proposition from capital-..#
its who are willing to form
a corporation and take over
the present well if fran-
c,!*ei.can bo ,e'ured from
Elk City and Sayre. .This
means cheap fuel for us in
the face of the coal short-
age and this news will be
received with joy by all „ur
people.
thJhn c°nservation man measured
the Barker well near Sayre and
8ays ^6r/n ll twelve million^feet of
gas and 40 barrels of oil
He ordered it shut in, and as it is
now a smaller casing will be placed
wh.ch will permit the separation of
gas’.‘he *as coming up
through the outside or larger casino-
while the oil will come through the
RmEd?toPip<?e aind flo7int0 tho tanks-
Editor Seeley of Sayre tells us
be \tf«rtOrfm<?re We ? are exPected to
be started in a short time, the
Barker Oil Co., to drill two, the first
the0 !°Cnted ROuUth and east of
'er and has while the other “wilMne west* of^he
the farm, I present well the
less than three weeks we expect to
hear the news of a 5,000 barrel well,
which is expected by those who seem
to understand the situation.
W. E. Lilly (Big Lilly) of Perry-
ton, Texas, a man well known by
our people came in Tuesday from a
survey he made of the prospects. He
has an instrument, the only one of
its kind in the world, which will lo-
cate oil in fields of ten barrels or
more. He was at Sayre several
days and says the anti-cline is to the
northeast and believes plenty of oil
will be found in this anti-cline, part
of it at a depth of 1,800 feet.
He also went over to Canute and
reported “they have the oil all
right.” and says the structure goes
northwest. If he is right Elk City
will be splendidly situated between
these big oil fields.
Mr. Lilly showed us a ‘ doodle
bug'1 like many use m locating oil.
He said Mr. Brown who located the
well at Sayre with a “doodle bug”
lived at Pampa, and died the day
the uoll came in at Sayre.
The instrument Mr. Lilly uses is
of brass and he did not tell us just
what it contained but when it works
as it does where there is oil, it
“revolutes” around and each revolu-
tion means ten feet. He said he
just about went to sleep counting
the revolutions at the Rita well for
it is so deep, but it acted when it
OFFICIAL RETURNS
PRIMARY ELECTION
Through the kindness of Edit
.wLhss. 1P?
snst ssrsz^sgr^X-
drawing two will play the second
day. The two winning teams of the
first and second days will play the
third day. Winning team on third
day will play team drawing blank on
the fourth day. The winning team
on the fourth day will win the ten
suits made for said team.
All players mist be in good stand-
ing and qualified to play with their
respective teams in all games dur-
ing the month of August in the
schedule of the Sunday School
League.
The above suits are to consist of
trousers, shirt and cap.
present well while a party from "0/th^esA?f-the minute,
ODD FELLOWS TO HOLD
ANNUAL COUNTY MEETING
The Odd Fellows will hold their
Annual County Meeting in Elk City
next Tuesday, August 15th, at which
time Grand Master, W. W. Osgood
and Past Grand Master, R. H. Scho-
field, will be present. From 3 to 5
p. m., the Odd Fellows will hold a
closed business session; 5 to 7 p. m.,
barbecue, basket supper and picnic
at Tourist Park; 7 p. m., open house
at the Hall. All Odd Fellows are
urged to come and bring their
families. Two big fat yearlings
will be babecued and you are asked
to bring a well filled basket, so there
will be plenty for everyone to eat,
and a good program has been pre-
number of years while holding down jm, waitine for’ a „b st?pped dnll-
a claim and feel a special interest in drill^g «?i„ Vm.H.l6* •*”£ started
*l! .and ™ th"nri.Tn,nfSelYpen^
seems to be no reason now why they
will not soon reach their goal and in
they ever may enjoy,
happiness.
peace and
DEATH OF YOUNG CHILD
Little Zola, the two year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Dysart died Monday night of sum-
mer complaint. Funeral services
were held Friday afternoon at the
home an interment was made at the
Farrlawn cemetery. The bereaved
parents have the sympathy of all in
the loss of their little one.
Ripple—Thacker
The wedding was kept a secret for
a week, but we can announce now
that Lawrence W. Ripple and Miss
Lexie Thacker both of Elk City,
were married Thursday, July 31st,
1922 by Judge R. W. Jones.
Both are school teachers, and
among our best young people, each
having drawn a prize in their choice
of a life companion. Lawrence and
bride were graduates last year in
well oil can be secured at 4,000 feet.
Mr. Lilly has been interested in
this work for forty years and made
it a deep study. He has been with
noted geologists from the east and
tis knowledge of the land here has
ml. of untold benefit to them.
The drilling operations in the
Barker and Rita fields will be watch-
ed with interest by our people
MRS. VERNA BLACKBURN ON “OUTING TRIP’”
le5MPaanyd MrTw S rain' JMrs’ Hewlett said he even
«. ss&ttr - *
i beavy’ rain forced us to stop a^t* Vega*)
Santa Rosa, N. M., Aug. 8 1922 if3??8’ ,^e f°und fairly good
Dear Home folks:— * ’ 1 fbelter close beside an old garage
SSi l felt as if
MEW JEWELRY AND GIFT SHOP joins“their ho*offriends in
just east oTVe8 V<£Sf Milling iff"* ^ heartie8t COngratula-
Shop fitted up and will soon open up
a jewelery and gift shop. This will
be something new in Elk City and
£a^rL^t.,sg!r,lE!^rl4 »tZ*2rt£s. t
The young couple have moved to
Mayfield, where Mr. Ripple will
teach in the Beuna Vista school.
May the choicest blessings be upon
them in their travels through life
together, and the , News-Democrat
we bespeak a successful business for
L. D.” who has a host of friends
to join us in wishing him success un-
bounded.
THRILLS AND LAUGHS
IN "REPORTED MISSING”
SeJznick Company Has Combined
Varied Forms of Screen Enter-
tainment in Big Special.
The much talked of picture, “Re-
fflS' ®°“es *be Story I had a gradual Increase" i7the‘aver-
Selznick fdtb and 15th. This | age attendance each month. Other
i picture, in which Owen reports were equally as good and
tk i nJS f*-8 really ,one °f were an inspiration to the members
tnose super-productions we hear so present,
much about but rarely see. It is
CONGREGATIONAL MEETING
The First Christian Church held a
Congregational meeting on the beau-
tiful lawn at the R. L. Reid home
last Friday evening. After a busi-
ness meeting in which various re-
ports were given, punch and wafers
were served and all enjoyed a social
hour. Japanese lanterns lighted the
lawn and made it a most delightful
place for a social gathering.
A report showed that the Bible
school of the Christian church had
a,fewerdlngi,t0 your recluest to “write
a few lines because everyone will en-
r‘?ad,"g y°ur letters,” then Mrs
Heard said just before I left “of
course you will write—there will he
Plenty to write about.” be
left^there>Ura>-b~ma in Elk City- We i-he trip. Vega is a very
we had just one room you may be
Uw,fe ,were very thankful for
wetShe ter for everything was pretty
™e "ext morning Mr, White yell-
menLdare«->faCTef the east’ while the
men dress. It was quite an ex-
tn®re promptly at 6~'o’dock to'wn- ThVre is a good
sharp Saturday evenin- u j scho°l bui ding and a ouaint wB,
delightful drive toTheefer Tela* .VM°<V bu*t ^Whte'
So many people had been ’ talking 1*"°/ *.th® “A&moT Aftar such
dry weather that we were surprised i ff°°d raln )hat ,we felt sure it mu
to
way-
». id,
there was no sign whnt.evov J telegraph Mr. VanAuken but the
full of the type of thrills which have
made motion pictures the
most popular entertainment.
county*in^the^Second
Broom Corn Sheds
Don’t think because it is dry that you wont need a
shed for curing your broom corn. There is sun damage
as well as rain damage.
Put as much quality in your broom-corn as possible.
With a short crop, quality will count stronger than ever
“Think on these things.”
Elk City State Bank
J. G. SCOTT, President. J. t. BEALL, Cashier
historic places we noticed
Rutlf HallWCra^eethwas°bornWhein
gp wururtoT^is
years°ESX^
__ . - ., , VanAuken but the
' «°”t 11
than
Ssht'01 »
They
close.—Verna.rUShing me’ 80 must
Thro*. „Ne,'!kirk' N. M„ Aug. 8th
Three nights on the road and have
MRS VINYARD DEAD
Mrs. W. A. Vinyard died last night
after months of illness and suffer-
ing from Bright’s disease, aged 51
years, 7 months and 19 days. The
funeral services will be held this
afternoon at 4:30 at the M. E.
Church, South, Rev. Heisel, offici-
ating. Interment at Fairlawn ceme-
tery.
Obituary next week.
FATHER DIES SUDDENLY
Mrs. George R. Grubitz received
word last night that her father, A.
Huetteman of St. Louis, had dropped
dead at nine o’clock from heart
trouble. She left on the early morn-
ing train to attend the funeral.
UNDERWENT OPERATION
W. R. Faifer, leader of the band,
untierwent an operation for —'endi-
citis Sunday morning at the Elk City
Hospital.
Aafon Warren living southwest of
Elk City underwent an operation at
the Tisdal Hospital last week for ap-
pendicitis.
-Mrs. J. F, Moorhead underwent a
major operation at the Tisdal Hospi-
tal Tuesday morning. Her son who
has been sick for a number of weeks
from fever was able to be in town
last week.
Miss Laura Carmichael went to
Duncan yesterday to see her brother
who had to undergo an operation.
CRADLE ROLL
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ham-
mond of Lawton, a nine pound boy.
Mrs. Hammond was formerly Olive
Rader of Elk City.
Governor
Walton___ 01C7
Wilson_____
Owen______{HI
Walton’s plurality_____ g7g
wStSSf B“rd •' A,ri""*2"
Miller_______
James A. Wilson________ oro
P. G. Wilson_______ ioc
Gardner ___________~ :fS
Whitehurst’s plurality_______1236
M ni 5°nfrre“ 7th District
"S ----------
Looney---------------77" 402
McCIintic’s plurality________17e3
,, Supreme Court
Crow*0"-------- 2168
934
lhe
W’,h tt. exception , pnncl„r. | =
“r I” Elk City. We rtlfprebebly
be in Santa Fe tonight if it doesn’t
th the moon in harf raTns ‘h ^h°0* h.ouses- Terribly
stars in Texas |S. both «venmgs but br/ht
of a puncture in i^18 mprning. We are 327
camped on the
rain again.—Verna.
At Wheeler we
ball diamond and it was "a'’dandy
nlace. Coleman wanted to stay um
llSgamey K ftern°0n and 8e® the
u game, but we over-ruled him
mnerfet?trtfedDate Sund®y morning and
made it to Pampa for Sunday School
though we were a bit late. We
StaStawo’fc T67 in the Christian
Sunday School but discovered after
we entered that it was the M E
Dlavtao Wf .a7’,sed Mr. White of
Playing a trick on us. They were
very cordial and we enioyed being
there. We met a Mr. Reed. Secret
tary of the C. of C„ and he spoke
MrSCGihh Mtk Hedlund- Mr- Reid and
fc i SC'* ,0 '°s
A few miles out of Wheeler we
passed old Fort Elliott. A marklr
beeHe ^here “ u"*3® St°°d- At M«-
beetie I remembered many of the
'B!v“y f!th^ told when Mobeetie
tile,r tvadmg post, long ago
when they lived at the P. O. Ranch
^Canadian. One story I remem-
ber distinctly One of the cowboys
had gone to town and was bringing
home a few groceries. He had taken
?°.fr®ely o{. the “elixir of life” and
7ed th® sack of eggs to his saddle
n. Needless to say he had scram-
h.ed when he arrived home, but
that didnt worry him in the least,
bSthThim.0 hBPPy t0 ,6t anything
We had another puncture on Sun-
d8v and stopped a couple of hours
in Amarillo to have our tires patch-
ed. Almost the first person we
saw when we drove into town was
Mr. Francis, and he was with Cole-
man all the time we were there.
The first town out of Amarillo
was Bushland. This was not far
from a ranch Mr. and Mrs. White
once owned and where they lived for
a couple of vears.
We hadn’t gone far from here
•hen it began to look cloudy and I the paper and also subscribing for
Mr. Hewlett began worrying about the News-Democrat for
FATS VS. LEANS
A ball game a week from Friday
™ifedSt h8tH 8t 4:3u p- m ’ has been
f,? ed „between the “Fats” and
aiLeeanS' Tbe Payers and reserves
Fasts:—Rev. E. D. Hamilton, W.
E. Corn, W. A. Ballard, F. W Con-
wnyi Snoddy. W. E. Allen, Dr.
E. S. Kilpatrick, Wm. Snyder, Joe
Fmiitk|n’ L’ ^ J?icks- Judge Janes
Emmet Scannell, C. M. Briggs, J. N.
Cook, Jack Steele and J. P Scott.
Leans:—E Y. Bradfield, Dr. J. E.
Standifer, S. L. Shore, Dr. Rone, C.
S. Gilkerson, W. L. Blackburn, Dr.
Lee. E. C Willison, M. J. Graham,
Wm Hunter, W. C. Thomas, J. C
McElyea, W. C. Jones and E. C.
Searcy.
on.- Rule*
This game will be played under
Queensberry rules as near as is
practical, each player will be per-
mitted to bring one dog if they de-
sire. Cats will not be tolerated by
order of committee. Anyone that
cannot stand the sight of blood is
asked to park at the ice plant. The
congregation will not be allowed to
make remarks about the players.
Any one claiming to get their
moneys worth may get same re-
fiinded, but I doubt if they get it
The National Guards will be present
to protect those that should be hurt.
I ne Mayor has promised to close all
the lumber yards not later than
eicrht o clock on day of the ?ame.
The proceeds of this game will be
used to banquet the Sunday School
hall teams. Any player that eats
with his knife will be charged ac-
cordingly.
CAMP FIRE GIRLS RETURN
The Camp Fire Girls returned
Saturday night from Medicine Park
where they had been for a week.
Besides the chaperons given last
week as being with the Camp Fire
Girls, Amos Williams was with them
the most of the week. The girls say
he is just dandy to have along for
he knows just how to make things
go. Miss Gunter who had been at
Stillwater the past summer at the
A. & M. College was with them and
she had been taking lessons in
swimming. She instructed the girls
and they all learned how to swim.
A CARD FROM IRELAND
When Aunt Alice was at Parkview
Sanitarium in Kansas City last fall,
we met a little Irish lady evangelist,
of whom we spoke of in our write-up
of the place. Tuesday we received
a card from her written at Gorlol-
oughan, Mueskillen, Co., Fermamagh,
dated July 26th and mailed 27th.
She says: “My sister and I sailed
June 17th, landed in Liverpool June
28th. Visited a few places between
Liverpool and home. Found all the
folks very well, and rather peaceable
considering. Has been cool and
rainy so it is hard to save hay.
I shall try and send you a few Irish
recipes as I promised. Even tho’ its
enjoyable here, yet I am lonely for
U. S. A.
The card showed a picture of
Donegal Square, Belfast.
Harrison’s majority__________1244
D State Senator
SS*a-~~------------1||g
Hickok________7777777” 2(To
Reed’s plurality______7777104
, Representative
Finley------------ 1860
.oeeson____________ 1 qqo
Finley’s plurality____________ 438
County Attorney
Speed ----------- 2167
Gilkerson ____________ 21ft8
Speed’s majority_____________flj
" County Clerk
Canavan________ 81 ws
Nicholson_________777.77. 7*
Canavans majority__________2348
Sheriff
Green --------------- 1522
£°rk--------------------- 10?6
Reneger -------------------- 8f4
Green’s plurality____..._____ajfs
County Treasnrer *
Neeley ................... 2023
Ivester_______________ 19*
McKinney____________” 1128
Neeley’4 plurality777771. 731
County Superintendent
Dudley’s majority___________8?6
County Assessor
Perkins-------- 2032
Inman____________________ 2023
Perkin’s majority__________1___Yg
County Commissioners \
District 1 ’ '
Carmichael_________________597
Price________________771 7314
Price’s majority_________71 187
District 2
Lewis ____ 730
Walker____________________
Lookingbill_____________ * 494
Maloy ----------------7. 91
Richardson___________________7
Lewis’ plurality____________3 231
(Richardson had withdrawn frdm
race week before the election.)
District 3
McGuire______________ 484
Gray ------ 7771 4tf7
Everett____________________ 4^5
McGuire’s plurality___________77
Recount for Two Office* *
Mr Seeley says:
“Completion of the official coiitit
of the votes cast at the recent pri-
mary election developed the fact
that the races for county assessor
and county attorney had been very
close, these figures showing G. G.
Perkins with a majority of nine ovjir
M. L. Inman, for county assessor,
and Oscar Speed with a lead of four-
teen over Frank Gilkerson, jbr
county attorney.
In the two instances above men-
tioned the defeated candidates asked
for a recount of tbe entire counfy,
contending that the closeness of the
result rendered it possible that mis-
takes might have been made whi,ch
would change the results.
This recount is now in progress,
and will probably be completed sotpe
time today, and what the outcome
will be remains for the county elec-
tion board to say.”
Dr- A. A. Huntley, who recently
moved here from Sweetwater was a
caller Tuesday, leaving his card for
a year.
NICE SHOWER
Elk City had a nice shower last
Saturday morning, but it was not
anything like we needed, though it
cooled the air* off considerable. Hope
we can add “Later—More Rain.”
Several want us to put in an ad
for rain so here goes:
WANTED—A good rain, one
that will give the ground a good
soaking, start up feed crops,
help the cotton, help the wheat
ground, and make the neaches
and anules larger.
The above was written Monday
morning. Several people said they
got caught out in the shower Satur-
day morning but enjoyed it. Some
one remarked that the chickens
would not even run in out of the j
rain. It was enjoyed by all. j
PARENTS, IS YOUR BOY A
RUFFIAN—BETTER KNOW
HIS WHERE ABOUTS
Do you know wkere your boy is
every evening, or does he run wild?
Or are you one of those parents who
believe that your child cannot he
guilty of wrong doing. Some nigfft
if he should come home lim^iru*. full
of gun shot, would you consider it
worth while to keep tab on him? ’
A number of farmers near Elk
City have been reporting destructive
raids on melon patches and gardens
the past few days and have been iAi-
successful in running down tjie
raiders. So they have banded to-
gether and declare that hereafter,
if necessary to protect their proper-
ty, they will shoot the marauders.
In such times of drouth and
scarcity of all vegetable products it
is indeed a shame that there is in
the community boys so devoid of
training and character that they will
wantonl" destroy melons and vega-
tables which are so valuable. Better
watch your boy.
One Who Knows.
TELEGRAPH OFFICE OPEN
ONE HOUR EACH NIGHT
Commncing the 15th of this month
the Western Union will he kept open
from 8 to 12 a. m.; 1 ♦- 6 p. m. and
from 7 to 8 p. m.
R. W. Brooks and family started
Wednesday for an auto trip poiifts
in Texas to visit Mrs. .Brook’s rela-
tives. They will be gone two weejks.
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