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ELK CITY NEWS-DEMOCRAT
SUCCESSOR TO BECKHAM COUNTY NEWS AND ELK CITY RECORD
VOLUME XVIII
ELK CITY, BECKHAM COUNTY. OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1921
NUMBER 37
C. OF C. WILL HAVE
ANNUAL MEETING
OUR PAPER REPRESENTED
stT mate EDITORS MEETING
W. L. Blackburn, manager of the
News-Democrat attended the mid-
year business meeting of the state
- | ouuors last Friday and Saturday at
m. ~ UKlahoma City, ihe newspaper men
The Chamber of Commerce will nave many problems and tnese “get-
have a big meeting Friday night, Jan- together meetings” are always help-
uary 14th, at 7:30 P. M., for the ful.
election of officers for the coming A trip f0 Norman to visit the
year, also to discuss plans for the University and asylum was enjoyed,
year’s work. fne party went on a special car and
y' ' : were met at Norman with autos by
- | the business men who took them over
the city. At the University they
were piloted over the various rooms cular farm crop,
ELK CITY MAY GET CANNON
In reply to the Secretaary of the jmrnittJe
Chamber of Commerce in regard to kindly CXpiained "the “different de-
seeming on of the big guns bought partments and showed their guests
during the war. the War lJepanment tVery courtesy.
writes that a 3.2” gun, model 1885- The e(]jjors saw that moI-e room
97 is now at f ort^ Kiley, Kansas, t.nd j was needed to care for the students
•oif co as ^ was shown they had
CHICKENS AND EGGS
During these strenuous times when
coiton, reed stuff and stock are at
rocn bottom prices, the price of eggs
and cnickens has held up and nas
nought tne groceries for many of our
farmers, oui readers like to hear
about the success of their neighbors
in raising chickens, liow much have
your chickens, eggs or turkeys
Drought you this year? Write and
tell or phone us about it. Or per-
haps you may be very successful in
raising garden stuff or some parti-
raising fine
stock. If so, tell us. We are very
fortunate in having many successful
farmers and stockmen around Elk
City and we are so proud of it, we
kvant to tell it to every one. We
have a broom corn king, very near
growing lour city and we should like for him
to tell us how he has been so success-
ful in raising that crop.
This department will be interest-
ing to all, but more especially to the
farmer, who, is always anxious to
learn new and better methods in
farming and raising live stock.
is available for donation. _
weighs 829 pounds, and is 90.62 pain's’"“having“started Tn 1906-06
inches long exclusive of carnage. | with G00 enrollment and in 1920-21
The work of getting the gun will increasing t0 3,9x4. Statistics show
probably be taken in charge by the .b!t the iargest number of the stu-
Amencan Legion of Elk City. I dents ave children of the faimers,
Wouldn’t such a gun look fine on ncarl 800 being ftom homes of
the Library lawn. ; farmers, cattlemen, etc, while the
I next largest number, 340 came from
NOT MOVING : homes of merchants, 145 from homes; an EGG STORY
The report has been circulated * fror^the! W. A. Rayfield has thirty-six
that F. W. Snoddy would move his !a y s'f dity . s te white Leghorn pullet3, nine months
office to East Broadway. This re- I h™ea oteditprs ana j old. that up to January 11 had
port is not true. Mr. Snoddy will | ^ fncrease of some building al-1 laid 812 eggs which averaged 47c a
maintain his present office over the necessity. The students are jDecember they laid 296
News-Democrat a-s advertised in this. eggs, and in the first ten days in
and last week’s issues of the paper. j^it™d laid 186 ^ Who can
|departments needed much worse. The, PfIe‘r;cejved a fine Lcghorn rooster
by th'e Ents hitheirhoarding W. T. Noblett of Lone Wolf,
j homes. P. F. Pierson of Altus, was
! pilot for our party and was very nice
j to us, explaining everything fully as
we visited each place. The trip to
the asylum shows that it is in fine
shape, immaculate order and very
1 sanitary..
l A visit Saturday to the University
Hospital at -Oklahoma City was
another special trip. A luncheon was
served to the guests. The State
j University Hospital is part of the
school of medicine. This hospital is
'now rated in class “A” which denotes
a first-class school. From its open-
i ing there has been a standing order
I that no poor person, unable to
/ I>W
/RIFHTH’S
last Saturday which was hatched
from the eggs of a hen that aver-
aged 284 eggs.
Mr. Rayfield fed his hens each
day and it only cost twelve to fifteen
cents a day to feed the whole flock
of thirty-six hens. He takes equal
part of grourid oats, shorts, corn-
meal and tankage and feeds them
four pounds of this a day. He nas
a little kaffir and maize in straw for
scratch feed.
Does it pay? We say it does.
The picture that almost
cost D. W. GRIFFITH and
Company their lives, is
masterful blending of Love,
Drama and Comedy, with a
mysterious Dancing Beauty,
the quest of white men dere-
lict in the South Seas.
Clarine Seamour, Richard
Barthelmess and Creigton
Hale are the principals.
Story Theatre
SPECIAL
Tuesday Jan. 18th.
10 and 40 Cents.
pay
a doctor bill shall be turned away,
under no circumstances. In order
to maintain the high standard of
the school of medicine, and to serve
to greater advantage the people of
the state it is necessary that a medi-
cal building be constructed and the
legislature has been asked to make
an appropriation of $500,000 for the
same. Since the opening of the hos-
pital more than 4.000 citizens of the
| state have been cared for and more
| than half of these have been unable
to pay hospital expenses.
WIDF-AWAKE NEWSBOY
Arno Shafer, the representative of
the Oklahoma City Times and Okla-
homan, is one of our bright boys.
Every morning about 5:30 he with
his pony “Shorty” and cart,, also his
dog “Watch”, which he calls his
i “pal,” start out to deliver nearly 150
i “Times.” Later in the day he de-
I livers Oklahomans, besides some
| Texas dailies. Of course he goes to
school and altogether ne is kept busy
I throughout the day. but you never
see him without his happy smile. He
is full of business and treats his cus-
tomers with courtesy. They are al-
ways glad to see him and bespeak
i great success for him in the future.
He gives credit for his success to his
j father who “backs him up” and who
i is a true companion to him.
i Arno was wearing his new rain
i coat and can, Saturday, during the
snow, which he recently won for in-
crease of subscribers. He also has a
’ kodak wen in the same manner. We
are proud of Arm and expect to hear
ci- h’m '■limbing the ladder of success
to the top rung.
IN TRAIN WRECK
Miss Lee Peterman had a narrow
! escape last week, when the train
j van off the track and was wrecked
l near Chickasha. Many passengers
| were seriously injured, but Miss
Peterman was only badly shaken up.
She was enroute to Bradley, Okla.,
to visit her brother, H. A. Peterman.
CHICKENS AND EGGS
BRING SUM OF $902.65
Mrs. Charlie Zollman started last
spring with two hundred hens. On
the 1st day of January she had sold
$600.86 worth of eggs and the
chickens she had sold brought her
$301.80, making a total of $902.66.
And these chickens probabjy lived on
shattered grain that Iwwuld other-
wise have been waasted. Isn’t that
remarkable? What have your chick-
ens ar.d eggs netted you this year?
OSCAR STOVALL DEAD
After several week’s illness of ty-
phoid fever, Oscar Stovall passed
away at his home in Oklahoma City
last Friday afternoon, January 7th.
Mr. Stovall will be remembered by
many Elk City people, as he was a
former resident here, being foreman
at the freight depot of the W. F. &
N. W., also before that had been in
the picture show business and for
several years was City Marshal here.
About twelve years ago he married
Miss Kate Scannell who survives
him.
Funeral services were held last
Sunday afternoon at Oklahoma City,
conducted by Rev. H. C. Williams,
pastor of the University Place Chris-
tian church. Services at grave were
conducted according to Masonic
ritual by Siloam Lodge No. 276. In-
terment was made at Rose Hill ceme-
tery.
Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Scannell of
this city have been at the Stovall
home for a couple ot weeks. His
step-mother is seriously ill in that
city. Another brother-in-law. Geo.
Fisher, is at death’s door at Manitou,
Colorado.
GRIMES INTERESTED
IN GOOD ROADS
THANKS GIVEN TO
ELK CITY DONORS
A crowd of Elk City road boosters
accepted an invitation from the
Grimes community and attended a
good roads meeting at the Grimes
school house last Thursday night to Oklahoma^ City, Okla.
discuss the problem of working the T , January J, 1921
road from here to the Texas line. dudge R. S. Andrews,
After enthusiastic talks by E. S. Re- ^ayre, Ok‘aho™a-
pass of Crimes and W. B. Hedlund ^r: AI?,drews:
of Elk City, an agreement was reach-1 Vv1 you convey our thanks
ed whereby the road was divided into , donors of the 65 pounds of old
four divisions and Elk City agreed to clothing received at our office an
work the first twelve miles, Berlin ] December 22, marked “Elk City”.
;the next nine miles, Grimes the next I ^his adds $32.50 to your county
nine miles, and Meridian the last Quote;
WILBUR McCLEARY DEAD
W. McCleary died in Oklahoma
City last Friday, aged 46 years. He
will be remembered as being inter-
ested in the oil business here for
several yars, and that he patented
an instrument to locate oil.
THE FAIR PROPHET
- I. L. Hoover suggested in his let-
ter to leave the date of the Beckham
County Fair to O. L. White, if they
would have good weather during the
time. He has been consulted and
after due consideration, submits the
following report:
“If the Beckham County Fair
wishes suitable weather for its ex-
hibits, it should set its date for Sep-
tember 28th te October 1st. How-
ever, the possibility of something un
expected happening and to make
assurance double sure, a very few
dollars invested would insure no rain
during those days.
O. L. WHITE.”
eight miles intersecting the Fort
Elliott Highway at the Texas line.
Crimes organized a goad roads
Club Thursday night, with C. F. Ves-
sels, commissioner of Roger Mills
county, president, and Mr. Douglass,
secretary. Ben Brooks, E. S. Repass
and Mr. Eads were appointed as an
executive board. During the meeting
$915.00 in work was subscribed for
the Grimes division. - ,r. hunter of the Elk City Steam
It was a very enthusiastic meeting Laundry took an active part in this,
and the Grimes people are determin-j 1 thank y°u all. as county chairman,
ed, if passible to locate this Highway for tais X'fP to a worthy cause.
Very truly yours,
GRACE PEAK,
Acting Office Sec’y.
Sayre, Okla., 1-10-21
Elk City News-Democrat:—
Sirs:—Will you please publish the
thanks to the donors of the 65 lbs.,
of clothing for the Near-East relief,
donated from Elk City, Okla. I think
Mr. Hunter
through their community, and we
have no doubt they will be first to
get their division in first class condi-
tion and it is the opinion of our road
boosters that this will be a large j
measure help to swing the route;
through Berlin and Grimes.
Elk City men attending the meet-j
ing were; W. B. Hedlund, W. E. j
Corn. Guy Woodman, Chas. Johnson,!
W. H. Hewlett, E. C. Willison. Mike!
Hawkins. R. L. Reid, W. O. Hock and
W. W. Blackburn.
Yours truly.
R. S. Andrews,
County Chairman.
TURKEYS BROUGHT $361.
H. Borger recently sold $361.00
worth of turkeys to the Snyder Pro-
duce Co. We asked him how much
it cost him to raise them and he an-
swered “comparatively nothing.” but
we didn’t call him a profiteer for we
know from experience that they
didn’t just “grow” without lots of
care and attention. But who can
beat it?
STILL IMPROVING ON MAIN ST.
The cathedral glass also ceiling is
being placed in the awning in front
of the building now occupied by the
Elk City State Bank, and it is going
to help make the block on the east
side complete. The bank is also fix-
ing up things on the inside and they
will have a place of business that
will be a pride to our city. Mrs.
Gus Wann of Guthrie, recently
wrote that she guessed that they
would not know Main street now.
That’s the truth.
HAPPY SCHOOL CHILDREN
School started Monday, and you
should have seen how happy those
youngsters were to go to the new
school building; just made you wish
you could be young again too.
There is one new teacher, Miss
Anna Deardon, of Britton, who will |
teach “Seventh B.” Miss Deardon I
taught two terms at the Ft. Dodge,
Iowa, and comes well recommended.
Miss Eunice Lehne resigned from
“Seventh B” and is teaching the Fifth
grade, the one Miss Milligan taught
before Christmas, but who resigned
to be married, which event occurs the
15th of this month.
NEW GROCERY
H. B. Pullen is opening a new
grocery store in the Gilkerson build-
ing formerly occupied by the B'u'
City State Bank. See
ment elsewhere.
Elk
announce-
PUBLIC SALES
Don’t fail to read the big ad >n
this i sue about the sale of B. H.
Taylor on .January 18th.
j. F. Hasley also has an ad in th!s
week. His sale will be on Wednes-
day, January 19, at his farm five
miles southeast of town.
N. H. Sledge of near Canute, will
have a big sale Thursday, January
20. See his big ad.
W. M. Magill of near Canute, will
also have a sale on January 27
Watch for his big ad next week.
POST OFFICE BUNCH READS
THE “FOR SALE” COLUMN
If you think it does not pay to ad-
vertise in the News-Democrat, you
just put in an ad and let us make a
mistake in it and you will see that
the "For Sale” column in this paper
is read like a continued story—so if
you want to sell anything just try it.
Last week in correcting the ad
given by Mrs. Mansur, one line was
taken out and another substituted
MOTHER DIES
C. H. Phillips received word the
pa3t week of the death of his mother,
who died at Yakima, Washington,
last Thursday. She was 86 years
old. Mr. Phillips visited h.er this
TEACHER AND PUPIL MEET
AFTER TWENTY-FIVE YEARS j
John A. Simpson, president of the
State Organization of the Farmer’s
Union, was greeted by a good crowd;
both afternoon and evening last Fri- i
day, despite the weather had turned
real cold. He was listened to atten-!
tively and was able to tell of the in-1
creasing interest in this organization. I
At present they have 337 locals in
Oklahoma with 15,000 male members.
As the women and young girls take i
an active interest ir, the work, it is1
shown how rapidly they are coming
to the front in looking after their J
OUR FIRST BABY
To Mr. and Mrs. Roy Utley, a ten
pound baby girl was born on Sunday,
January 9th. They live ten miles
southeast of Elk City. Mrs. Utley
was formerly Miss Nora Sullins, and
ir. a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
Sullins. Hello, Grandpa Sullins.
HEFLIN—BECKHAM
Mardo Heflin and Miss Cormie
Beckham, both of Foss, were mar-
ried in Elk City last Tuesday morn-
ing, Rev. O. E. Palmer, officiating.
BAPTISTS ARE HAPPY
Every night last week we heard
hammering at the Baptist church and
our curiosity was aroused. We looked
through the window one evening and
saw Rev. Hamilton with a nail apron
on and his face covered with dust.
A number of business men were
there working too.
Later we found they were build-
ing a gallery in the back of the
church to make private Sunday
school rooms. There are seven sep
MOST IN QUANTITY AND QUALITY
We put Quality Bread in Elk City. Your patronage
will keep Bread of Quality for Elk City.
TIE BKMDWAI EAIElf
and CONFECTIONERY
WE KEEP THE QUALITY UP
at the post office were very anxious
to know just what Mrs. Mansur had
for sale. And we are just as anxious
to know where those cockrels and
hens went to We’ll give a quarter
to the first one finding them in
another part of the paper, of the 6th
inst
QUALITY!
Spark plug quality you’ll find—
If you keep us folks in mind.
ROWand A
" I' l/fut) doctcn /uujb
rip HERE we go—talking about
I ourselves again. We can’t
x help it. We want every auto
owfier who reads this ad to be
glad he’s had a chance to read this
shops one creed. Our goods are
square, our prices fair—so we
don’t care. Go on and criticise
the way we advertise.
R. O. WARD
Elk City, Okla.
South Main Phone 406
HOYT LITTLE MARRIED
own interests. They expect to have j
30,000 male members the coming Probably the first wedding cere-
year. mony performed in 1921 was that of
Mr. Smpson made them see the Mr. Hoyt Little and Miss Elsie John-
benefits to be derived in the farmers t,0n, two well known young people of
.being organized, by telling them what Strong City.
they had lost in the past. Take for The young people have been rear-
instance in one case, the loss by not
having proper warehouses for weath-
ering the cotton, which was $6.00 a
loale. That js why he and others are
so anxious to get proposed ware-
ed in this county and have a wide
circle of friends. They have each
won the friendship of all in their
home community and have each
figured prominently in the social life
house bill passed. Not only will that 0f Strong City.
$6.00 be saved, but insurarce will be, The young couple decided that they
less and then if cotton was sold to-1 wanted to be the first couple to be
gether he believes it would bring at married in Roger Mills county in 1921
least $10.00 more a bale. The farm- so they waited until after midnight
ers are not asking for a donation in when they drove to the home of Judge
the appropriation as they expect it as -awa am aaaqAv auuajtaio u; UBUia|i^.
a loan at five per cent interest to be mony was performed just after the
paid off in ten years. da\yning of the New Yeaf.
They are also asking for better
rural schools and do not believe it
the proper time, this year, to make
big appropriations to the big state
Mr. Little is a prominent young
man of Strong City. Miss Johnson
is the daughter of Mr, and Mrs. J. P.
Johnson who recently rcnved from
L. O. Grim and Miss Sarena Taylor arate class rooms in that gallery.
Down on the main floor, they had
arranged movable rods, curtains be-
ing on same to divide the classes
there.
There are tin boxes for each class
to place collection and report. The
aisle i3 curtained off so when the
Secretary or any one assisting him
go around the church, the attention
of the scholars will not be diverted
to them. Eight young boys are drill-
LUCKY ESCAPE
Claude Robinson cranked his car. ed in taking down the curtains when
! vkic.h was • lunuirg in ihe middle of lessons are over They have twenty-
1 .he street ia front of Ihe Diamond one classes in the Sunday School
j“C” store, Saturday. The brake was The men’s Bible class meets in the
: not working extra und the car started Baraca rooms.
| p without Claude and started direr Rev. Hamilton has vision of gel-
! nto Ihe Diamond “G’\ over the curb leries on sides of building which will
I tub just as it hit the store Claude was increase the seating capacity 150
bin-to get in and stop it. It broke more. He is always ready to do/his
the sign in front same and only part when it comes to the work, and
lacked the hundredth part of an inch he has made many friends during his
o1' bursting one of those big plate short stay here. We bespeak a great
glass.
year for his church this year.
Star.
TO OKLAHOMA CITY
Mrs. Guy Herring left Monday
night for Oklahoma City to atter.'’
the musical festival there this week.
She is a delegate from the music
Club here.
schools especially for gyms, which, Strong City to Roll.—Cheyenne
will bring burdens of taxation to help ~
a feyr. Mr. Simpson said the school
books from first to eighth grade cost
the people of Oklahoma $6.00 more
oer scholar than they did in Kansas.
He thought $3,000,090 in eight years
would be quite a saving for school
books in this state if they had free
text books.
It was the duty of the farmers not
to allow the members of the legisla-
ture to forget them, which so often is
the case because the farmer himself
allows it. He did not blame others
for asking for increase of salaries or
for more buildings—a farmer would
take fifty cents for his cotton in-
stead of less if he could get it.
The Farmer’s Union was an organi-
zation to look after the farmers wel-
HUTCHINS—TAYLOR
Joe L. Taylor and Miss Ollie Lee
Hutchins, both of Leedey were mar-
ried here at the home of the bride’s
sister, Mrs. John Hale, on South 7th
street, justice of the peace, R. W.
Jones, performed the ceremony
JOINT INSTALLATION
___________ — The Odd Fellows and Rebekahs
fare in every way and by being united I had one big meeting last Thursday
they could receive recognition --J :
night, when each order installed
their officers for the ensuing year.
J. L. Snyder had charge of the in-
stallation.
The Chamber of Commerce Band
and
consideration for the things , they
needed and desired. *
At the close qf the night address
by Mr. Simpson he was greatly sur-
prised vdien one of his scholars of I was present and entertained the
twenty-five years ago, made a little!large crowd present with a^number
sneech. 1 M. H. Rovse was a pupil of \ of excellent selections.
Mr. Simpson in Nebraska at that | An elaborate supper was served,
time and this was their first meeting, and all who were there say it was
since then. The tribute Mr. Royse1 “some feed.” Everything imagin-
naid Mr. Simpson was cheered and able was on those tables. This was
they enioyed very muen meeting each a “red letter day” for these organi-
other after these twenty-five years. zations.
Ground Floor,
No Stairs to Climb.
ELLIOTT & MEEK
The Straight Chiropractors of Elk City, Okla.
2nd Door South
of Post Office
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