The Altus Times Democrat (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 21, 1922 Page: 1 of 16
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The Altus Times Democrat
Vol- XX.-No. 37.
Altus, Oklahoma, September 21, 1922.
‘First in the Southwest
CIT Y FILES SUIT
paving will be completed in few days
CITY OE ALTUS
SUES TO SECURE
LAND NEAR HERE
Filed Against John Roberts; to
Build Dam or Lake for
Water Purposes
is NECESSITY
Plaintiff Alleges It is Necess-
ary to Build Such a
Dam for Use
_______
Suit has been field by the city of Af- ‘
tus against John Roberts for the pur-
pose of securing a tract of land upon
Roberts property to build a storage dam
or lake for public use of the said mu-
nicipal corporation for public water-1
works^ purpose of sufplying various
residents and inhabitants of said city j
of Altus, it is alleged in the petition.
The City of Altus, plaintiffs, further j
alege that it is a public necessity and,
the general public welfare of the citi-.
zens and inhabitants of said City of
Altus, and it requires construction of
said lake or datn for said purposes.
The petition further alleges that the
said real estate so desired to be used
by said City of Altus, is owned by the
above named defendant—the defendant
being legal holder of legal title thereto
and the land is located in Jackson coun-
ty, less than two miles from the city
limits of the city and more particularly
described as follows:
“A parcel of land in the southeast
quarter of Seqgion Eight, Township two
North, Range Tewenty West.
Beginning at a point of 661 feet north
of stone marking the Southeast corner
of Section Eight, Township Two North
Range 20 West, and on East line of
said section, thence north along the
east line of section 661 feet.
How Would You Lik
To Wear A Goatee?
Already there can be seen local
men who would have a hankering
to enter politics: the latest is a
freak bet, or bets, the first being
beween a republican and demo-
crat. These two have arranged
that if the republican nominee
is elected governor, the democrat
will wear a mustache and goatee
and vice versa.
Another bet has been made be-
tween the two party members,
that if Fields is elected the dem-
ocrat will carry the republican
around the square in a wheel-
barrow and the same with the
republican.
There will be many more of
these freakish bets made before
the election day arrives, as there
are some o fthe “politicians
wanting to make certain bets now
but can’t get them called.
WALTON’S- DATES BUSINESS PROVES
CHANGED: SPEAKS BETTER SATURDAY
HERE OCTOBER 5, THAN DURING YEAR
Is Forced to Fill Dates In Other
Parts of State at
This Time
Merchants AJ1 Pleased With
Days Results and Look
For Continuance
Will
MUCH BETTER IS MOSTLY CASH
Be on Eve of Election; Farmers Buy'Most of Goods
Walton Wants Farmers
to Attend
With Cash, State the
Local Merchants
JOHN HELDS IS
DISAPPOINTING TO
SOME REPUBLICANS
Could Not Deliver; Is Not Con-
vincing Enough, Say
G. O. P.’S
FLAYS
September 28th has been ; According to the local merchants here
'canceled as the date for J. C. S'""',h'
i j during that day was the best for the,
W alton to address the Voters entire year; that the people from the
here, but will come on October (country bought in large quantities.
nernrdimr to a telegram One merchant especially was plelased
Dtn, accoicling 10 a leiegirtiu jth {he way business turned out and.
reaching the Times-Democrat .states he is confident this will be the
office from the Democratic j
State Committee. 'a business as was last Saturday,” dc-i
Walton is scheduled to' speak this merchant. “Such days as:
Saturday, if they continue will make us I
in Eldorado at one O clock that all feel mighty .good. The people
afternoon and at Olustee at fought in large quantities and this
i soon ran up into money. They did not
four o’clock and Altus that eve- haVe so much chargeij as has been the
ning at eight o’clock. The case during the past, and our store
reason given for the cancelling “Possibly the reason the people are
Of the first date was on account buying more lately is caused from the
u # . cotton crop. As is nown during the lat-
of his having to be in other ler part 0f the summer ptoplle did riot
parts of the state at this time. kt*ow iust how much cotton would be
Walton Wins in
Straw Vote Taken
According to William Wyman
of the New Process laundry, a
straw vote was taken between the
two nominees for governor, Field
and Walton, on the Frisco pas-
senger train Sunday afternoon.
Sixty-three votes \v<?re cast, and
out of the sixty-three Walton re-
ceived forty-five and Fields
eighteen, which evidences to the
voters how the race is going.
Bill states practically all on the
train that afternoon were busi-
ness men and not farmers, as the
talk by some of the republicans
here say that all the business men
will vote fo rFields. However,
this will prove as a contradiction.
This is what is being carried
out all over the state as the time
draws nearer for the general
election, and everywhere Walton
is being shown in the lead.
Wyman states it seems to be
Walton everywhere, and he feels
free to say that Walton, will in
all probability be the next gov-
ernor of the state of Oklahoma.
WORK OF LAYING
ASPHALT HALTED
FOR A FEW DAYS
However his coming here on Octo-
ber 5th will be much better for the
voters as it will give them an opportun-
made, but since the yield is fujning out
much better than was at frist thought,
they have a better feeling and are more
inclined to turn loose some of the mon-
i,T of "getting away from their work, •?> ‘he> have been holding One of the
WALTON and this is exactly what Walton wants, farmers of this county told me Satur-
__WAL'Un He wants to tell the fanners what he day h.s cotton would make around a
...... ________ thence Democratic Nominee Comes In wil1 do !.or„th,T'iA Hem^-rat here he
west and at right an^s t0 egfutlT'wi f°r Much DisCUSdion By ^ates,''after learning of Walton's dates
let Republicans j being change*that.it wiU be the mean- W>ocal groc
of beginning, containing five acres( ... . . 5], .n'orc tb ot- tbe election iers state people bought with cold cash
more or less | J<’h" Fields, republican candidate for it will be on the ev.: of the ™ Ld bought in largeL quantities than
The plalintiff, City of Altus. further governor, spoke here last Thursday i October 5 h u oters t0 at- ’
alleges in the petition that it is neces- i night to an audience of hearers estimat- making it pos. ible to
sary to appropriate said tract of land ed to be somewhere about fifteen hun- tend. __ -
for the purpose set forth apd that plain- dred; this amount being the capacity j Northwestern Telephone company
tiff has made diligent effort tn good of the auditorium. J ne • r
■faith to secure by purchase from said Ben Crawford, who, during the pri- at Shattuck. has purchased the lines o
defendant said tract of land for the mary stumped this part of the state in tbc Supply Telephone comoanv. ami
half hale per acre,’ stated the mer-
chant. >
Not only are the dry goods mer-
chants pleased with the days business,
detendant sain tract ui y ..... j
purpose, but defendant, the City of AI- the interest of Thomas H Owens, dem-
tus alleges still refuse to convey said ocrat, introduced the speaker,
tract of land to plalintiff for said pur- Fields at once let in on the demo-
pose at any reasonable price therefor or cratic candidate. Jack Walton and the
permit plalintiff to use, occupy same present governor, J. B. A. Robertson,
for this purpose. accusing them of abusing the confidence
Therefore, the plaintiff asks the court oi the people of Oklahoma. Hus was
to appoint three disinterested fee hold- what had been done by the present gov-
ers of said county as commissioners eronr. however, but flayed Waltlon as
who shall he selected by the judge of being an exponent of socialism, and
the district court, who arc not interest- Fields called upon the o^ bundred
ed in any like question, to inspect said per cent democrats to disregard the
propery and consider injury to which party and vote for him. assuring them
{he owner will sustain by reason of he was the man; that if Walton was
taking and appropriating the land for elected governor the state would go to
waterworks purposes, and to assess ruin. , .. , . ,
damages which said owner, the defend nc denounced the idea of a state
ant will sustain by such an appropria- owned hank He denounced nearly
ti„n of the land and that the plaintiff everything the democratic candidate
32 ssft
- * *""Jed bv sera
the Supply Telephone company
the two systems are to be merged, mak-
ing this company the largest independ-
ent telephone company in the state.
has ever been done. They also are in-
clined to believe that their businesses
will show an increase druing the re-
mainder of the year.
With cotton coming in forcing the
gins to run up into the night, and cot-
ton bringing a fairly good price, gives
the farmer an opportunity of buying,
and which in turn makes the business
much better for this part of the state.
Due to Delay of Material
Causes Delay in Com-
pleting Job
START THIS WEEK
Contractor Says Work Be Re-
sumed This Week and
Finish Few Days
Work of laying the asphalt on East
Broadway was halted for the last few
days on account of not linving enough
asphaltic material to complete this
street and only work that has been done
has been the grading of the remaining
streets, and laying of concrete.
Contractor Ward stated Saturday,
however, that in case the asphalt arrived
here this last Monday, which it did,
just as soon as the material could be
mixed it would be laid and East Braod-
way would be completed.
“Nothing will halt us from going
ahead with our work,” said Waid. “We
expect to start Monday and will work
until we complete this job, which will
not take much longer.”
North Main street is now closed to
— traffic, the concrete base having been
c , , laid last week. East Walnut has been
Edwin Dabney Speaks to Thous graded and work of laying the concrete
ands at Fairground 5ase is being done this week This
at Frederick street as well as North Main are much
| a /■'•I p iX[ IV/TANI different looking than before, and the
lllai> same can be sai(] o{ all for that matter.
Flahnpv Tnvp<?tiVflfp<! Rprnr.l nf Juit‘ whether owners on streets not
uannej investigates Kecora ot named in the contracted! want paving
Walton and Finds a :----1------- *—* - — — - ---- r
VOTERS URGED TO
SUPPORT WALTON:
BLAMES G.0. P.’S
Clean Record.
V* ill un. wmiovi^niii n am |>a>
is not known, but according to some of
the council members it will be saving
__ to them if they have the work done now.
Special to Times-Democrat. while contractor is on the ground;
FREDERICK, Okla.,— lack Walton, otherwise, they will find that when they
whom he opposed in the primary, was do *'ant Pavmg the contractors will
. . , , _ ’ want so much they cannot afford to
recommended to the voters of Tillman-pay for (be srnall amount of paving
county as a man worthy of their conti- that would be done,
dence and of their suffrage in his race Contractor Ward has told several of
for governor, by Judge Edwin C. Dab- *«’ re*Mt"ts owne/s he would suggest
ney of Altus, in an address to a large J*iat * le£ ^ave done now while he is
audience at the fair ground Thursday. 1freJas can save **?cn] TTJone>’* Some
At the same time Dabney, while hav- *be owners have kicked out of the
ing no harsh words for John Fields, de- harness and preter to do without, it is
dared that Mr Fields’ candidacy repre- sa!,; „ , . . .
sented the efforts of the Republican W«t Broadway, while this street is
regime in the United States to perpet- d‘ffere™ from the others will be just
,,, ■ -____ iuate itself in power and laid at the a >out best looking of them all. It
_ . . f i door of the Harding administration of !s so arranKed that it could be mado
Thp Altus Times-Democrat today invites a careful scrutiny (which Fie]ds is the represcmative in «"“> a boulevard very easily, and if
, , ... holipvinff that in them will be found Oklahoma, responsible for thedeple- resident owners will take care o
Of Its advertising pages, believ ing tnai in mem tion of values of property, the shrink- this street like it should be done, then
^omethine more than passing interest to every reader. j -n prjces Gf firm products, and the iav£ reas.jn to prod
sometning more uw v IS fa?lurc of banks both in Oklahoma and According to the resident owner’s plan.
• * 41 ^ r'U. «. here lt ,s stated, they expect to set out some
In the business and social life of every community the int - \.Jack WaltDll is a clean man;* said shrubbery along the curbing as well a*
‘ ‘ having trees set out in the center. This
READ THE ADS
ill u* e uu^iiivoo ^ . 11 jack * * a —.. —,— - —,
of each individual are more or less interwoven with tne tbe speaker. “I have investigated and
., . | I know. He is honest and he is one of
interests of the community as a \snoie. the most gracious men I have met. He is
a man of the people. If he should be
The firms who advertise through this paper are, in almost elected governor, the poorest man in the
I ne lirnifc wnv . fVi f orp Hp State would have as ready access to nis
si: ::::: —-
Cityof Altus.
CLEERE HAS NEW
PLUMBING SHOP
taken out of business and instead busi-
ness put into the government (no ap
|P Fields then brought forth what he
would propose if elected as governor
'and this would he the tavoring of co-op-
eration among the'farmers (Fields is
already an advocate of the Oklahoma
Cotton Growers Association) and the
will extend to the Orient station.
HOBARTDiSTRICT
CONVENTION HOLD
HERE THIS MONTH
i jacK v*anon is a gmm man. nr is a Hobart District Endeavor Convention
, .. ,___, arp milliner tncpther to member of the First Christian church of will be held in Altus Sept. 23-24 Chris-
This paper and the local ad\ertl.e . a p g K Oklahoma City—an actve earnest, work tian Endeavor is going forward in the
r thi^ a bimrer and better place in which to live. XOU can ,ng member. You will find him there Hobart District, but it is our aim to in
maRt 1 * .. . , , __A_____everv Sunday morning. His parents'crease our strength more and more each
, ___Vnnr banker in Oklahoma. He is open and
as good values as some one in an outside town or city. ,IO r above board. He believes in a fair deal
home merchant: figures just as closely on his stocks as any one beu.^-
pIhp and it is he that stands by you in time of need. ujtb their sorrows and distress.
i “Jack Walton is a good man. He is a
|| AC PAA n PI AfC Cotton Growers Association^ and^the make this a bigger and ^ .......- crease ou. sue......... .... ....... _ .
HAO Uvl/U 1 LAvLl business men, that he do your part by readllVg the ads and pat g are members of the same church. He year. A fine program has been arrang-
..... the using of plenty of milk, mtt . RS_• _eritv of this city and communnity depends upon now has two little girls Both of these chil- ed and several fine speakers will appear
good old dumplings <^lhe farmer, The prosperity OI tms City a J h . d J this dren attended the McKinley public on the program, and much time will be
i.ir “A cow. a sow and some chick- ^ attention you pay to the local merenants aus in mis L ____„„,,i _____ „,;u
said Fields, is what is needed
paper.
W C. Cleere, who has been in the an
plumbing business here for quite a table
while is a business getter. Not only ens," - (
this hut he has proven to the public most in this state.' ,
that in his line of work, he will at all Fields told the crowd if elected he
times give the best in service, and this wold get “that mess straightened out.
more than anything else is the reason aiul start a new He said the people
for h» jvtt'ng so much o fthe plumb- had seen enough of this kind of an ad-
mg business. 'ministration. .___ • .
Cleere in order to take acre of the That Gallon is a believer in the
growing trade has bulit him a new rights of the colored race the same as
plumbing shop, where one can he able! 0f any rare, to the free library '** Dk-
to find the v«fy best in plumbine fix- < labottt* City, wiAi the assertt«m ot the
Hires, and while the Times Democrat r,pul’ican nominee, telling the crowd'
representative jdid not have the oppor- that if htey would mvistigate the rec-
tunitjr of visiting this establishment, the!orris in CH.Uh.*ma City they wowd find,
people who have visited his plaice have where Wait«»n had proposed this should |
< otnmended it, and have spken in very |»f d*«ne for the colcaetl race of that
hilth terms of what Clel^re will be city. And, he further made the state-^
aMe to do and has done. 'ment that Vfcalt«m had this tune
The reason this representative of the things “wrong.” regarding the race
Times Democrat failed to see the own Unction. Walton, Fi-Ids declared, hid
rr, was o narcount of his being awav accustd him oi trying tc> pull the negrn
looking after his work However, in vote and in reply to the accusation,
«wv!er to make known wh*t the shoo Fields stated Walton wa* the one whs
• rwtsists of. the representative will call was trying to pull the negro vote and
And then write a stosr of what Cleere n<4 Fields; that this time it would not
has done during his business life in ht sa d he cpwhlIrani would Have the
t Ittis and what will be done to the fu-
r*r* • (Continued to page 8)
I always read the ads. to see
What Home Town Merchants offer me.
No coin of mine jioes out of Town,-
Each ad I read, both up and down,
And find my Home Town Merchants store
Won’t soak my wad-and even more-
I save in time and don’t pay freight
He always gets my orders straight.
The goods are right in price and weight.
From feathered hats, to cakes of ice.
I thank my stars for geting wise
And trade in stores that advertise.
Right here at home I spend my kale,
No better goods are sold by mail.
I prosper now. so does my Town.
Thanks to these Merchants of renown.
_______ _ loth of these chil- ed and several fine speakers will appear
dren attended the McKinley public on the program, and much time will be
school in Oklahoma City until several spent in conference work, which will
years ago whe none of them suffered be a great help to all.
an tlnness which left her afflicted. Since | We especially invite all the young
that time both have attended the nri- peoplle of the tow to attend the con-
vate school of Mrs. Pollard—and Mrs. vention and also the older people, be-
Pollard is a Christian woman, a mem- cause everyone will find lots of helps
l>er of the Presbyterian church and a ;n solvig their own problems. It i»
teacher in the Presbyterian Sunday ou, aim that we cover the youg peo-
»chooI.” _ I pie’s work of the church and we kno-v
Continuing his descussion of Mr. Wa! that everyone will profit by attending,
ton as a man. Mr. Dabney said that he Come and help us make it a success.
was a Mason, an Odd Fellow, a Wood- -
_.. and a Knight of Pythias. TO SUCCEED GENTRY
“T mention these things to show you
ym lack Walton stands among the Soa of Preseat Manager Will Act As
I people who know him. as a reputation' AssiUat Slated,
of slanderous statements that have been) With the leaving of O. L Gentry,
I made about him I am telling you what who has been assistant manerr of th«-
T know,’ said Dabney “Jack Walton ha* I ong-Hell lumber company. Ray Light,
been mayor of Oklahoma vny three son of the present manager, F. M.
Years Both ot the other candidates is Light, will hcriafter be the as>r^,an
the Democratic primary live in Okla-.manager. ^
•Foma City—and Walton got more votes. With the going of Gentry to IVuca
than both of them put together in Okla-'City where he will take a like position
noma city. Whit higher commendation Mr Light, the manager, stated he re
could you ask tor a man from tbe pco , grrtud very mwh ,hal 'jL T*Yrr*
------ mg; that He Had always filled the po-
(Confirmed to page 8) (atbou tn a capable manner
man
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