The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, November 9, 1917 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 25
MANCHESTER. GRANT COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1917
NUMBER 24
ITEMS OF INTEREST
ABOUT THINGS AND PEOPLE YOU KNOW.
J. Q. Robinson was a Hutchin-
son visiter last week.
Carl and Arland Brewer were
Anthony visitors Friday.
Joe and Emma Cotterill were
shopping in town Monday;
Lleyd Morris accompanied Gil-
bert Parka to Enid Saturday.
A. Ladsman is visiting at his old
nme in Peoria, III. this week.
C. M. Smith and Hade Simmons
were Attica visitors last Friday.
Mrs. E. Mayo went to Wakita
,a?t Saturday to visit her mother.
Mies Kathryn Boyar was an An-
thony visitor Saturday and Sun-
day.
SOLDIERS WftlTE HOME
| Somewhere
Dear Father 4 Mother:
Paadon my writing etc.
This is the morning of my first
night in the trenehea. I am lying
Mr. and Mrs. 0. F. Morrison are in my bedding roll and using my
in Qibbon, Oklahoma, this week mess kit for a table. It rained all
visiting with a cousin at that place, last night and ia cold and windy
this morning. However, I have
good heavy underwear and sox,
flannel ehirts,fur lined coat and
gloves, so you see I keep fairly
warm. Imagine it will be quite cold
this winter. We have excellent
SCHOOL NOTES
Anthoay Republican
Mr. and. Mra. I. L. Simpson and
baby, Mrs. J. H. McLean aid Mrs.
Fred. Matthews, all of Gibbon Ok-
lahoma, were guests of Mr. and
George Buckley and wife spent
Sunday at the country home of
Chas. Warnock.
L. 0. King and family arrived
S turday for a few days’ visit at
Henry Schmidt’s.
Dr. Hamilton reports the birth of
a 10 pound boy to Mr. and Mrs.
O. Hess Saturday night.
Miss Clara Melcher returned Mon-
day from Medford, where she has
been visiting two weeks.
Mrs.H L.Feterson, mot'ier ofMrs.
Ross Helms,and children were Sin-
day visitors at the Helms home.
John Gideon and wife were in
Anthony Saturday, on business
connected with the Lynch estate.
O. M. Daniels of Towanda is here
on business. He reports the Mer-
riman and Botkin families getting
along nicely.
Lonnie Frazier called at this
office Saturday and had us send
the Journal to his brother Rufus,
who is at Camp Funston.
M. C. Thomas and two children
and sister Mrs Davidson of Man-
chester were in Anthony Saturday.
Anthony Bulletin.
Born to \V. H. Hess and wife
Nov. 6th a girl. This makes the
23rj grandchild of E. A. Wood and
wife, all the grandchildren living.
Orvil and Florence Williams oi
the \\ aldron neighborhood passed
through here on the way to Black-
well Saturday for a few days’visit.
Mrs. Roy Roach returned from
Florence Friday, where she hasbeen
for two weeks staying with Mr.
Roach’s sister, Mrs. W. A. Laugh-
lin.
Claude McAdams, a former Man-
chester boy, came in from Wichita
Saturday and spent Sunday with
friends, returning to Wichita Mon-
day.
C. W.
turned
week’s
Smith.
Dark.
I'risbie of Kingman re-
home Friday after a
visit at the home of .1. W
They also visited Charles
Mrs. Ed Brown on North Jw.lngs * ’ , haVe eicellent
Friday.—Aathoav ailtl “°k”' Had beei
and luke warm coffee for breakfast.
W. M. Russel, wife and daughter, 1 havft but one cigar left so will
Helen, motored to Anson, Kansas Qece88*r'*y have to stop smoking
Saturday evening to visit Mrs. Rus- until 1 can Ket more. Tobacco is
sell’s sistar. They returned by way 9u'^e a comfort here. Wish you
of Wellington and visited there a c0u'J send me a box of Roi Tan
part of the day Sunday. cigar*.
i Lloyd Russell
Mel Henderson of Springs town-
ship put in the highest bid and won | Camp Travjg Q(,t ^ 1(m
the graphonola at the Eggleston Mr. Harry Donahue.
Music store last week H:s bid was Hello, how have you been gerting
70.00. We congratulrte Melon his I a,0DK? I am fine, and hope you are
good fortune of securing the Graph- ^he same 1 am drilling every day.lam
onola—A nthony Republican. If M a 1 "ent swimmlnllD the
" I stream flora the artesian well. We
Tf ftnimno „ . jump in head first. Some of the boys
I anyone borrows a stamp were so scared they could’nt swim.
made a speech,enlisted in the army, We get our first machine gun this
bought a Ford, sold a dog, lost his week
poeketbook, gone on a hue, broke 1 sure am havinK some time down
bis neck, committed suicide, bought here With the half breed Mexicangfrls.
away, come back home, changed I groes here now.
course, cut class, been in a fight, lam the fastest foot racer in my
got licked, its news. Send it in to camP- I came out second in the track
the Journalism class.-Universitv meet of aboutmen- 1 Put the box-
Kansan ing gloves on a hundred times since I
have been here. I put them on with
... . . one guy that got my nose and the next
i ♦ Pleasant evening was spent night with a guy that weighed 190
last Saturday evening when Miss pounds. I hit him and knocked him
Lena Elbie entertained a crowd of Mown and they had to fan him to
young people. Wafers and fruit Whenever we put on the gloves here
juice wers served. The following ?J" * ^ we every
“ , ug night. I have been hit awful hard
were present: Misses T airy and Lee- but not been knocked out yet, It
la Morgan, Ida Jensen, Rose Pierce, takes a man to knock me out. No
Eleanore Wycoff, Nida Thrasher, boy can do 11 yet-
and Ruby Antle; Je se Chasey Jas- 1 am going to send jou a picture I
per Dart, Martin and Thomas Jen P*?taken one evening when I came
„ , , in from marching. If a man has any
en,Milla>d Morgan,Carl and Punch crooks in his back we straighten it
Brewer, Clarence Pierce, and Mr. for him down here
and Mrs. Jess White. | 1 was surprised when Joe Happ
told me to come over to his barracks
A few weeks ago a warning was I and wbat do you think I found?—a
published with reg„rd to that p„- S «Z
1(11 ar abomination, the Chain I asked Joe who sent them and he said
Letter. This warning came from Saffold Thornill. 1 sure thank them
Washington. The nuisance has whoever did send them,
reached Anthony. The public can- When mal1 t'mecomes we just make
not he urged too strongly to do ev- a FUD ,I°r ethe "l0*™ and llsten for
, , • our mail. Some of the boys get a cake
ciythng possible to stamp out this every day and we have a stag dance
thing. There should be some way of every night. Sometimes when I get
prohibiting these things from the to feeling awful blue a boy will come
mails. Failing that everyone js | alon* ar>d say, “Come down and help
. . , . . , | me eat a cake and some apples I just
urged to prevent its going beyond got from home," and maybe some
themselves. Have no fear of the
miserable threat contained in the
letter. It is quite harmless. If we
cannot pray for the work of the
Red Cross without a promise and
a threat attached, our pravers are
not worth much.—Ex.
times 1 get a letter that will cheer
me up
As it is nine o'clock, I will have to
go to bed
Elmer Collins.
The Sophomores held their sec-
ond class party at the home of Mrs
Cecil Luebekman Thursday even-
ing. As on all former occasions, the
party progressed with its usual a
amount of hilarity and all departed
at a late hour, reporting a very fine
time.
The Sophomore pennant seem
to cause some people a lot of paiD.
This pennant was placed upon the
wall of the High School room not
to indicate the presence of the
Sophies this year, but to preserve
the memory of their class in M. H.
S. in future years. We hardly think
that the work of the Sophomores
will be found lacking even com-
pared to that of the Juniors.
Clarence York and Virgil War-
nock, the self-appointed mice catch-
ers of M. H. S. got ^busy Monday
morning and discovered one of
these monsters inhabiting the waste
paper basket. After much shaking,
pushing, punching, and kicking
they finally induced thu mouse to
forsake his abode. The moase, ter-
rified by the beligerent look of
things, beat a retreat, closely fol-
lowed by a posse of Sophomores
and Juniors and the two. At the
time of writing the enemy is still at
liberty,having escaped down a ven-
tilated shaft. We know no one will
be able to sit still until this creat-
ure is safely captured.
Frank Engel was absent Monday
afternoon and Tuesday.
Virgil Warnock was absent Mon-
day afternoon.
The Freshies tried to let the other
classes know that they are in
school, Tuesday, by writing Freshie
on every stick they could find.
The color of the wood alone an-
nounces your presence, Freshmen,
without anything on it.
Mrs. Cecil Mishler, of Waldron,
passed through town Monday. She
had been visiting her husband at
Braman. He is unable to get a
house for his family to live in.
laken up Oct. 29th 1 black mare
mule and 1 brown horse mule.
Owper may have same by paying
for this notice. Mrs.M. E. McClafflin
Mrs. Henry Mishler of Roze!,Kan.
visited her daughter. Mrs, Pearl
Parks, east of town. Mrs. Mishler
will be remembered by many peo-
ple as thpy ran a restaurant on the
south side of main
early day
The call for men at this time is
greater than was ever before known
Pawnee Times- Democrat- Thelf th® d,ff"eDt !"?es of labor' a,ld
, lue we hear great complaint from farmers
slogan ^ Every farm should have all over the couutry because of the
a name” is being promoted in ma- lack of necessary help on the farms,
ny rural places. The idea is that it but whlJe this condition exists, there
makes farm life seem dignified to are men ln every community that do
the young people and leads them f®0? e*Cept £ ,alk
. • , i • , , l°ud and long about the conditions
to prize the home place instead of that exist and say what should be
running off to other towns. Rea- done in this or that matter and at the
ders of English books must have 9ame time they are not putting forth
noticed how country places over one sit)K1« iota °f effort even to help-
there have pretty names tending to ,n* lhe'[ wlves,or ,heir PareQt9 or
y ‘ u wnover is so unfortunate to have to
make them seem attractive and liv- support them. There should be a law
able. In this country naming enacted whereby men of this type
country places used to be consider- could be put up and sold by the state
ed hifalutin. People that did it were t0 whoever woulc1 buy aud let the pro-
regarded . pre.en.ioue, it
sound absurd if they choose some
high sounding name having no rela- E°—operative harvesting must
tion to natural features. But if a reduce the demand for harvest
country house nestling under oak hands to a minimum declares the
trees calls itself ‘ The Oaks.” there Oklahoma State Council of Defense,
is nothing spread-eagle about it.
Anyway lots of sound business
farmers believe it has advertising
value and are doing it. No doubt
it does make the young folks think
street in an j the home place amounts to
; than they had realized.
aud farmers should plhn now to
take care of next year s crop. Es-
pecially those who live in districts
where wheat is not the only crop
should protect themselves bv arran-
The Seniors are going to order
their plays soon.
A certain Sophomore is sporting
a ring. Wonder whose it is.
The basket ball team will begin
practicing the latter part of the
week. We hope to have a winning
team this year.
Some of the Seniors were for-
tunate enough to be allowed to at-
tend the Sophomore party Thurs-
day evening. %
The Literary Society wilLmeet Fri-
day afternoon.
Rachel Long is reporter for this
month.
Cbalmet Warnock. Nida Thrash-
er, and Paul Thrasher were absent
from school the last of the week.
George Mingle was absent from
school Monday and half of Tuesday
of this week.
Mary Zeigler enrolled in the
Stb grade Monday.
Audra George drew a fine map
illustrating the scene of The Lady
of the Lake.
Lena Elbie and Eleanore Wycoff
visited the three lower rooms Fri-
day of last week.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
HAPPENINGS OF TWENTY YEARS AGO.
James Clary has put a new stable
for winter use.
F. G. Bradshaw and wife made a
business trip to Anthony Tuesday.
Hank Lewis shipped several car
loads of cattle to Kansas City Wed-
nesday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. George of Har-
per were here over Sunday on a visit
to their son, C. C. George.
Adam Schwarz, the best tinner in
this part of the country, put the tin
roof on R. H. Fox’s new store build-
ing this week.
A1 Goodheart and Mies Belle Heel,
sister of J. W. Heel were married re-
cently at Dorrance, Kansas, and ar-
rived here last Friday on a few days’
visit with relatives.
Benj. Wirlck, G. W. White and
Chas. Fielder have all recently paid
subscription to this paper.
Mrs. Bonine, wife of Wm. Bonine,
died of consumption Tuesday at the
family home two miles southeast of
Manchester. The deceased was weil
known and highly respected in the
community, being a member of the
Burchfiel family, old residents of the
southern part of Harper county. She
leaves a husband and several small
children to mourn her departure from
this life.
For the past three years the people
from the strip were compelled to go to
the state to husk corn to get money
to live on. This year people are com-
ing here from the state to husk corn
and are finding plenty to do. Our
people are always ready to help.—Jef-
ferson Rustler.
A. Brazier says his brother Dave,
who has gone to Colwich, Kas, for the
winter, is in very poor health. Dave
likes the Journal so well that his
brother A. says he cannot see him do
without it, so he gave us a dollar to
start it going.
James Clary was around treating
the boys over the arrival of a new girl
at his house Wednesday night.
George Schutz has ceiled his house,
built a porch and otherwise improved
his farm. Mr. Schutz is now trading
in horse flesh, having made several
trades the past week.
B. A. Bowen went to the state last
Friday.
Mrs. Charley Gore started to Ash-
land, Clark county, last Wednesday
on a visit.
Robt. Mingus, Chas. Gore and Chas.
Eckerd are fencing in 800 acres of land
for pasture.
Miss Katie Bowen is teaching the
school in the Moore and Cromwell
district this winter.
Miss Clara Melcher, who hold the
N W of 3 28 8, came down from Wich-
ita to spend the winter on her claim.
Old Settlers Celebrate
A dinner was given at the home
of W. C. Long 4$ miles eas1 of
Manchester on Monday Nov. 5,1917
in honor of the old settlers of that
neighborhood, and also to celebrate
the commencement of drilling of a
3500 foot test well for oil and gas
on Mr. Long’s farm.
A number of those present were
old settlers who made the race for
homes at the opening of the strip,
and judging from the bountiful
dinner prepared and served by the
eood wives of those old settlers
they certainly have been very pros-
perous. Those present were:
Messrs. Stetson, Leviek and Fow-
er: Messrs and Mesdames J. F. Gil-
lespie, F. H. Smithhisler. C. W
,ong, John Long. Robert Biffle,
Frank Rife. Lotes Lvdick. C. W.Al-
ley.Abe Slaughter. Clem Livengood,*
l. H. Stormont, W. Aldridge, Bert
jOng. P. C. Smith of Wichita. M.C.
Thomas, Joe Pope, R. Friedline.
J. C. Long and their families.; Miss
Ruth Culbertson of Kento, Ohio;
Messrs. Barnes. Carl Stoner, Ed
Baer. G. W. Guthrie, J. Palmer,
Stroud, Lee Montague, E. Mores,M.
Allen, Earl Jones, I. E. Thomas
bew Morgan, Clint Roach, and N.
G. Guthrie.
more | ging now with thiir neighbors to
' help in the harvest field.
Hooverizers
No second helpings.
One meatless day a week.
One wheatless meal a day.
Stop all four o’clock teas.
Stop all eating between meals.
Stop all eating after the theatre.
Stop catering to different appetites.
No butter in cooking: use substl
butes.
Order meals so as not to have too
much.
Personal marketing instead of by
telephone,
Stop all refreshments at parties,
dances, and the like.
Stop before thowing away any food
and ask, "Can It be used?.’
No young lamb, no young pigs or
ducklings, no young meat of any kind.
Kosedale Items.
Miss Elma Burdue came home from
Dodge City, Kan., last Wednesday,
where she has been visiting relatives
the last month.
Mrs. Laurel Scott and Miss Iona
Burdue were Anthony shoppers last
Friday.
A very large crowd attended the
meeting at Rosedale Sunday night.
Mra. J. A. Jacobs went to Anthony
last Thursday on business.
Miss Grace Fielder visited with Miss
Wilma Eggerman last Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rather of
Driftwood attended church at Roee-
dale Sunday night.
Jim Scott shipped his cattle last
week. Laurel Scott went to Wichita
with them.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Hess the
proud parents of a new baby.
Red Cross
The ‘Red Cross had a good turn
out last Friday. Eighteen were
present and as a result a great deal
of work was accomplished. We
have started the blindages now, and
because there is a demand for sur-
gical dressings, this work will be
pushed as rapidly as possible.
If any one can knit we would be
pleased to have you call at the
work room Friday afternoon to
learn on whet conditions the yam
is taken out and to receive instruc-
tions from our instructor, Mrs. E.
A. Wood. Knitters are needed and
we especially urge that you do this
much for your “bit” for your
country.
The comfort bags were finished
last Friday and the Packing com-
mittee met Monday afternoon and
sent 'comfort bags to the following
boys: Lieut. L. B. Russel, Chester
I. Woodring, Sam’l McMullen Brant
Morgan, Harvey W’illiams, Elmer
Collins, and Lester Beattv.
The wise farmer will locate and
purchase his field seed now before
the outside market has had time to
gather in any surplus Oklahoma
may have. Next year’s demand
for forage crop seed will be greater
than ever before, the defense coun-
cil believes. It is urging farmers
to obtain now not only field seed
but garden seed where possible.
D. W. Jeffries and family of An-
thony and Mrs Pearl Barner and little
daughter of Oregon made J. C. Jones
and family a short visit Monday even-
ing.
Miss Bertie Jones spent Sunday at
the Burdue home.
Misses Edythe and Glennis Fulwid-
er spent Monday night with Mrs.
Ch'. les Warnoek.
Quite a number of Harper people
were down Sunday to attend the ser-
vices,
D. W. Warnock ?,nd family and
Charles McManaman took Sunday
dinner at the Frank Hendrixson
home
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Phillips, W. E. The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, November 9, 1917, newspaper, November 9, 1917; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc496738/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.