The Osage County News (Pawhuska, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 18, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 28, 1920 Page: 3 of 8
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THE OSAGE COUNTY NEWS, Friday Dwwhw 81, 19*0.
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Published m ovary Friday. $2.00 Per Year
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Have you paid your taxes?
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Have you made your New Year’s resolution?
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Let’s make 1921 a banner year for Pawhuska.
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Can you realize that you must write 1921 to-
morrow ?
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The New Year will be here to-morrow, and we
havo had1 no snow.
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More than one Pawhuska woman is happy be-
cause she did her hinting early.
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The man with a swelled head suffers a lot less
than those who have to live with him.
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Many a woman who is compelled to ride in a
Ford wishes bustles hadn’t gone out of style.
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There are several young fellows in Pawhuska
who need to make a few New Year’s resolutions.
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No matter how hard you work to earn your
money the public will always talk about your "good
luck."
Sometimes we feel sure that the man who holds
the mortgage on the automobile Is the real aristo-
crat.
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There Is always room for improvement—and it’s
about the only room you don’t have to pay any rent
for.
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Now they’re smugging liquor over from Canada
in airplanes. It comes high no matter what way
you get it.
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It remans for an Iowa newspaper man to dis-
cover that “Grin A Bearit" are the successors to
old "Tom & Jerry.”
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When you run across a man who is always
quarreling about something, you run across a man
who is growng old.
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Now they’re going to shut off immigration for
one year. That’s something like locking the stable
after the horse is stolen.
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Now comes a Chicago man with this quarry:
"If the women do form a third political party will
their emblem be the spare-rib?”
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One Pawhuska man's lot is about as bad as
another’s. A bald-headed man saves on haircuts but
has to spend the money for hair tonic.
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"Speaking of spark plugs,” said a man to us
yesterday, "nothing beats the old-fashioned kind
that could be driven with one hand.
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There are resolutions and resolutions, but you
can’t make a better one than to resolve to read your
home paper regularly each week during 1921.
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A girl wishes to marry because other girls do
and she doesn't want to get left, and a man often
marries because he gets tired of boarding ’round.
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People everywhere are complaining of hard
times. The Packard agency sold four Packards in
one week, just before Christinas, one for nearly nine
thousand dollars. That does not look like hard times
In Osage county, does it?
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From the number of people who spent their
Christmas time somewhere else, we take it that
times must be reasonably good, for the trains wore
crowded to the doors at this time. Standing room
was even at a premium.
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Oars Smith gave horeelf up and will be tried
for the murder of Jake Hamon. We are wondering
how much certain writers and others who are et the
bottom of the rot that haa been published In the
newspapers will make out of the notoriety they
have given the affair?
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Now Is the time for everyone to start thinking
ef the good they are going to do for Pawhuska this
epring. A knock will retard a thousand boosts. Let’s
get tho boosting spirit and forget about the knock-
ing. It will benefit all If Pawhuska growe this year
like she should. You can help and it’s up to you
to help. Your business demands it.
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Pawhuska Is without paving, our waterworks /
plant is incomplete because the bond buyer haa re-
fused to take over the balance of the bonds We
wonder who is to blame for tho whole affair? A
certain undercurrent, working through Its agents is
responsible for the hotdtng back of one of the finest
cities In the country. It has ever bean thus, and un-
til this certain element that never has known the
■leaning of "doing things" makes up itse mind to
come along and help do things, Pawhuska will ever
be kept from making the best ef tho opportunities
that are daily offered 11
THE CRIME WAYS
For the past several weeks an alarming crime-
wave, reaching from coast to coast, has been sweep-
ing the country, and about all one finds on the front
page of a metropolitan paper these days is a recital
of bank robberies, hold-ups, houBe-brealdng and oth-
er crimes. No one appears to be in a position to
account for it. It seems to be a sort of contagion
that is fast spreading to many who have heretofore
' id the pale of suspicion.
Quite a few of the smaller towns of the coun-
try report robberies and hold-ups, too, so it would
not be amiss for citizens of Pawhuska to be on their
guard. Not that we have any of that kind of ‘talent’
among our citizens, but in this day of fast trains
and thousands of autos the chance of escape afford-
ed a band of robbers is far greater than ever before.
It is an easy matter now for a gang to travel over-
land by auto, robbing small towns where the popu-
lace has become unsuspicious through long years of
tranquility and neighborly understanding. They
make their escape quickly and before their work is
discovered they are either safely hidden in some
nearby large city or have passed on into another
section of the state.
It doesn’t reflect upon those living near you to
lock your doors at night and neither does it show
bad judgment to keep the auto and your spare tires
under lock and key. For this unusual crime wave
is just as apt to strike this community as any other,
and the old "stitch intime” proverb still holds good.
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USUALLY THE CASE
We read In a neighboring exchange recently
where the son of a highly respected family had been
arrested for embezzlement He afterwards confess-
ed to taking the money of his employer to buy finer
presents for his sweeheart than the other young men
bought theirs, and in detailing the life of the lad
the paper said: “He had since childhood been pamp-
ered by his parents and his every wish accorded to.”
It is a case in which many Pawhuska parents
should be interested, especially those who have grow-
ing children. It is hard to refuse them the things
they want aa they approach manhood or womanhood,
and yet there is not a parent in this broad land but
who knows that such indulgence creates in the boy
or girl a selfishness that will cause them sorrow
later in life. Self-sacrificing, learning to do with-
out and be contented, is the best habit that can be
instilled into the young. Giving them everything
they ask for only means that when they reach the
point where something is refused them they will get
it by some means, be those means fair or foul.
Nothing safeguards us more than having the
ability to do wthout many things we’d like to have.
Nothing spoils one more quickly than to get that
which is wanted without any effort or exertion.
Honestly earned rewards are the only ones worth
having, and when the growing boy or girl is made
to realize this the way is paved for them past many
heartaches for both themselves and their parents.
RICH EDITORS.
There is a story now going the rounds of the
rural press of this country to the effect that the
editor of a small-town paper in Tennessee recently
quit the newspaper game with $200,000 to his credit
iir the bank. And right at the close of the story
appears the statement that he got the $200,000 when
a wealthy aunt died and couldn’t think of anybody
else to leave the money to.
And that concluding paragraph might be added
to every case in which a small-town editor is report-
ed to have gotten rich. For, we don’t mind being
frank with you; when it comes to a rich editor,
“there ani’t no sich animal,” A child is born in the
neighborhood and the editor gives the loud-lunged
youngster and the happy parents a send-off and gets
$0.00. It is christened and the minister gets $5.00,
and the editors gets $0.00. The editor blushes and
tells a dozen lies about the beautiful and accom-
plished bride, when the child grows up and marries.
The minister gets $10 and a piece of cake, and the
editor gets one dollar that has long been owing him
on subscription. In the course of time she dies; the
doctor gets from $15 to $100, the minister gets an-
other $6, the undertaker from $160 to $600—the edi-
tor prints an obituary two columns long and a card
of thanks, and, if he is lucky, he gets 50c for the
card of thanks.
Now you can see why the only way for an edi-
tor to get rich is for a wealthy aunt to die. And
even then there’ll probably be a hundred relatives
turn up at the funeral that he never saw before or
heard of.
The paving Injunction suits were dissolved by
Judge Wilson, but we are no farther along toward
paving the mud holes In Pawhuska’s streets than
we were a year or two ago. The Osage Journal
■till insists that we can do without paving, because
they don’t believe that the present city administra-
tion Is competent to handle the proposition. That
may be true, but they have all along willingly con-
sented to have an advisory committee selected from
among the business men of the city to help oversee
the job. They would have Pawhuska’s business
conducted along the lines of their own, we suppose.
Even then, we doubt very much if Pawhuska’s inter-
ests would be greatly benefitted.
The Kansas City Star contained an articlo in
ita Sunday issue that laid much stress on how badly
the Hamon forces were defeated at the recent meet-
ing held In Oklahoma City. Mrs. Hamon may have
been defeated for national committeeman, but there
are those who will long remember the work and the
money Jake Hamon gave to carry the state Into tho
Republican columns.
A Happy New Year
May Peace, Joy, Health,
Wealth and Happiness
be yours throughout the
New Year.
The
Citizens National Bank
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Count over your unpleasant experiences In life
and you’ll find that your friends havs "stung” you
tan times where your enemies havs hurt you once.
Happy New
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May the New Year conain for you and yours all
the Happiness and Good Fortune possible to be
showered upon anyone.
We Thank you most sincerely for the good will
extended toward us in the past and we hope we
may be able to serve you in the year to come.
Bank of Commerce
W. O. DILDINE, Cashier ED. T. KENNEDY, President
CARL SODER8TROM, Asst Cashier
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