The Supply Republican (Supply, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 29, 1920 Page: 4 of 8
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“Ii speiiis too bad to draft you out,
IloliHi,’' lu'Kon Doris Vail, in a ooaxltif?
tj'tio. “Imt you know Tuesday is my
day at tlte *•;mI
"Don't mind trie, donr," I Mon quick -
]y replied. “I'd love to stay here in
your room and just read and ho lazy.
You've entertained me to death since I
cuttle here.*'
The ftirls were In the gray and rose
elt 11 up' room t hat I >orls' mother let
In r Imve for her own. They had laid
their Urenlefast and wore piiUliiK on
tin'll- sport olotlies for an hour of
K"lf.
Suddonly Doris looked tip from the
ti.sk of litolnj: tier hoots. "I have It—
I'll borrow Conoviove'e uniform and
you shall la* a real canteen worker I
It’ll ho lots of fun. Will you?"
Melon dotmirmd. She was not tiitieh
Intei’i'stoil in oaaieenhif! at least on
tills side of the Atlnullc ocean. All that
life hold of real interest to her at pres-
ent dwelt in a uniform somewhere In
I ranee, and In cause the said Home one
had no dependents and had no nllot-
jrients for the country to pay. he
seemed to ho one of the chosen few to
have to remain on foreign soil. Helen
hnd not oven heard from him for
weeks. The sight of soldiers who had
loon fortunate enough to got home
would only make Iter home lonely.
"I really would rather stay tit home,
Pci'is,” she said. “Iteally."
"Oh, that’s too pokey. And besides,
we need you, 1 Jim happened to re-
member that Meinvieve won't tie home
till tomorrow, and you shall take her
place and wear her uniform. It's n
Appeared in the Doorway.
duck of a blue overall with black pat-
ent belt and white frilly collar and
cap."
Melon saw Mini she would hare to go.
1'erhnps 11 wouldn't he so had. “All
rigid. I’ll do my best, hut do leave me
in the pautry to make salads and don't
make me wait on table.*’
"We’ll see about that. dear. You're
far loo pretty to he poked off In a
pantry."
Doris waved off the flattery and
donned her hat. "Hurry. Helen, If we’re
going to have any golfing before we go
to this canteen place. Where It) It, any-
way?"
"Oh, across the island a hit—over at
Hempstead, near Field 2."
"Wherever that may be.” mumbled
1 loria. who enme from the middle West
and to whom Long Island meant' very
little.
At three o'clock the two girts were
rmatly attired In their blue canteen
aprons, and with two other workers,
were being driven in a comfortable
o'osed car to the bungalow on Meadow
street, w here soldiers and officers found
r-'st and recreation as well as good
h<>ine-cooked meals,
When they stepped into the big
lounge Helen could not restrain an ex-
clamation of enthusiasm. "How won-
derfully pretty, Doris.”
Doris knew that her guest would fall
in love with the place once she had
ec n It. “Yes—we think it Is most at
t net ivC."
"Attractive! I should say It was.
I've never seen anything so perfectly
arranged and so prettily decorated In
it:.: life. And every big comfy chair
lias a table beside it with a hook and
a drop light. Isn't the scheme of blue
and yellow effective?” And Helen <
raved on, moving from one corner to
another of the canteen and exclaiming
anew at every turn. From the blue
bowls of yellow flowers to the blue and
yellow soft pillows that made the big
lounge look invitingly homelike, she
was enthusiastic to her utmost. i
After a while, whpn the workers hnd '
arranged the tables, attended to tin-
cutting of the bread and filling of the
water glasses, a stray soldier or two
dropped In for an early dinner or a hire
of extra food.
Helen worked as If she had Wen
brought up to just this sort of house-
vwk nnd made a charming and deft
wl lives*.
When there wax a lull in \tm work
the girls sat together In the pantry imd
ufe a sandwich or folded paper nap-
kins and hnd u good time together.
“One of my soldiers ale four eggs,”
laughed Doris.
“And I had a boy who had two plates
of that meat pie, aud yon know how
much Elise puts on for a portion. I
nearly passed awsy when 1 took hN
order for a second portion.
"Oh. 1 hear some one in the officer's
room now! Who'll go? You go. Helen.
You haven’t worked so hard," splil
Doris, pushing her friend forward.
Tho officer's room was Just off the
hlg dining room and had a door lead-
ing directly Into it from the porch.
Doris, being a regular worker, kro-w
that there came to that room occasion-
ally a fat and grouchy major whom
they all disliked to wait upon. There-
fore, in Helen's ignorance—or Inno-
cence—she had taken advantage of her
and the girls were *11 laughing quietly
about it.
Helen was gone so long that they
began to wonder what was keeping
her.
“It must have been the major, and
he’s explaining Just how long he wants
his toast toasted and Ids eggs boiled.”
remarked Doris.
“It’s taking a long time tonight,”
added another girl.
“Suppose yon Just happen out that
way—and look," said another.
“Let's all go,” whispered Doris. "We
car pretend we're fixing the tables."
They all started In the direction of
the officers’ lounge and looked care-
lessly In.
There was no fat, grouchy major.
There was no Helen 1
The girls looked at each other. "I
certainly heard some one go in therp,”
Doris said.
“And—your friend Helen?" question-
ed one of the girls who had envied the
newcomer her prettiness.
“T—1 rant Imagine,” began Doris.
"Oh. listen I”
"Yes I hear voices!" exclaimed two
of the girls in unison.
Out on the porch, dimly lit from the
yellow lights within, they heard
Helen's voice. Then they heard a man
speak.
Doris felt It her duty to go to the
door. She hud hardly expected Helen
to break the rules Mils way.
‘•nil —a—Helen,” she culled softly.
.hist then Helen, flushed and happy,
her eyes sparkling like twin stars, her
dimples coming and going, appeared In
ihe doorway, arm In arm with a hlg
khaki-dad captain, with overseas
stripes nnd a wound stripe—aud an
equally beaming face.
"It’s—It’s Bob, Doris—Oapt. Robert
Huverford, Miss Doris Vail," Helen
managed to explain.
Introductions followed, and the cap-
tain explained that he hud Just arrived
from Franco, that lie had sent a tele-
gram out to Ohio to Inform Helen of
his coming, nnd he hnd Just wandered
Into this attractive canteen for a hit
of 'supper, being ton tired to eat with
the fellow officers at camp.
“And the little canteen worker who
■nme to wait on you prvved to he
i our fiancee?" Jaughed Doris. "It sounds
lust like a story, and I can hardly be-
ieve il Is real. Uirls, shall we let
Helen eat will’. j! ami we’ll all wait
on them?"
And Elise. the ci/dt did herself proud
>n the extras she added to the plates
if the two lovers who had found each
Olier so romantically.
“Faith, and lie jabbers. I was young
myscr once," she said when they told
her.
Youth's Supreme Sincerity.
t'hildren and fools tell the truth,
ml few of us can comfortably en-
dure flip candid eyes of childhood,
iveil upon us in amazed surprise nl
our social insincerities. It was a
Itllcl and not a courtier who saw
Imt the king, strutting amid his court
n the garments made by the wicked
magician, had nothing on. Our chil-
dren. beholding us in our undraped
moral ugliness, speak out as is the
witless way of their world. Luckily
children forgive us our sins of misun-
derstanding. forgive us even our inept
attempts to understand them by med-
dlesome supervision and vain cate-
chising. We know in our truest rao-
ments that we can hardly show the
best that Is In us to anyone else, be-
cause' It Is too p reel on* for display,
just as we have a sure test for our
best deeds In that we give ourselves
no credit for them, seek no reward of
public fame or Mr. Carnegie's hero
fund. Yet-we expect our children to
wear their hearts upon their sleeves.
Lear's dumb Cordelia remains for nil
lime the type of youth's sacred and
silent sincerity.—Exchange.
Oath of Allegiance.
Tho oath of allegiance which nnt-
.rnlixed citizens of the United States
take before receiving their second pa-
pers admitting them to full citizenship,
is as follows: "I hereby declare on
oath that I absolutely and entirely re-
nounce and abjure all allegiance and
fidelity to any foreign prince, poten
late or sovereignty and particularly t<
—(the ruler and the country from
which he came), of whom I have here-
tofore been a subject: that 1 will sup-
port and defend the Constitution and
laws of the United States of America
against nil enemies, foreign or domes-
tic; and that I will bear true faith and
allegiance to the same.”
Covered Bridge* Going..
The limiting factor In a great many
roads extensively used lias been an-
tique bridges, built In the days when
Itght buggy trntfle was the rule. Grad-
ually the state departments are over-
cotoing (bis handicap to travel by re-
placing these structures by solid con-
crete spans. In 1917 $47,290,796 was
expended in this w«jr In the United
State* _; >
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The following renewals and
subscription have been received
the last few days.
Alvin Darnell
Supply
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V W Lacour ,,
P. B Zerby
W V Burgess
D P Stong
H D Siieger
M W Nighswonger ,,
L T Gillen water - ,,
J 0 Gillenwater ,,
.1 W Miller
VV H .lessee ,, '
Arthur Jackson ,,
A F Reed Woodward
C E Sharp Lumber Co.
C E Jones ,,
M L Phillips Buffalo
Roy Tunnell Kibby
Gluts. Munson ,,
A. A. McNeil Dunlap
Mrs. M [) Brewer Dayton, 0.
S. P Johnson Woodward
Mrs J R Litz Two Buttes Colo.
EIGHT-MILE ITEMS
The weather is fine again after
the cold spell,
W. O. Benger and family and
Mrs. A. N. Benger were shopp
ing in Woodward last week.
Seme of the farmers are busy
this week, having their broom
corn seeded.
asked to raise more than her
share and they objected. At
this point in the proceeding,
Jake Hamon, who was wearing
the loudest crimson silk shirt I
ever saw on a white human,
arouse and strode down the cen-
ter aisle of the auditorium in his
9fiirt sleeves and in stentorian?
tones announced that any part
of this money that Texas doesn’t
Roy Drake has been busy (he
past week hauling sand to plaster
the school house.
Mr. Smith closed school Iasi
Tuesday and went to attend ex
imination at Woodward-
Arthur Hanly visited hF
cousins at White Dee.'-, Texas
last week.
W. I. Taylor has bought
iroperty in Fargo, and willmov
in a short time.
Lawerence Taylor bought wliai
is .known as the Henry Kirk
school quarter from Mrs. Pugh
The Greenwood ladies server
>ie and cake and sandwishe.
Ust week at the Ben Smith sale.
Mrs Chas. Fall is quite sicl-
this week.
Mrs, Tom Smih and grand
children spent last Friday am
■iaturday with her daughter Mp
>fick Ware of Fargo.
Some purebred Duroc Jest\
>oar pigs for sale.
W. B Jeasee
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Marland Says Hamon Weakest
Rich Man in State on War Aid
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(Tulsa World, Jan. 25, (1920)
Special to the World.
Oklahoma City, Jan. 24 -Jak-
lammon was ‘ about the weal.-
\st rich man in Oklahoma whei
it came to giving up his mone
to our soldier boys,” is a charg
nade yesterday by E W. Mai
land, Ponca City oil magnate
a letter to J. J. McGraw,
whose place as national commit
teeman Hamon is seeking.
Marland’s letter w?s written
from Mexico City, where he ts-
m a business trip, and the lette
eveals for thfc first time som
inside history of the manrn*
which Oklahoma raised $2.CbO,
J90 for the United War Worl
irive. The letter follows:
"When I arrived at Mexico Cii)
tnd got the first Oklahoma pap-
ers I have seen in two month:
read that Jake Hamond was
s ill runing against you.
I never thought Jake wou'ri
stay in the race so long; sureli
some one is kidding Jake. Isn’
it a shame what some men will
do for mouey ?
But I’ll bet that Jake fools tin
cidder in the end. I remembet
i iw he fooled me once and at a
me when there was no kidding
going on. It was when I was
Chairman of the United Wai
Work drive.
At the big meeting at San An
;onio, all the southwest states
:o arrange ways and means tc
raise money for the welfare
work in France, the questi >i
arose as to a division of the
quotas among the several states
?art <f the Texas delegati >> jfR
thought that Texas was lirinrj jflft
want to raise, Oklahoma will of
course. That statement was
all right and the state of Okla-
homa afterwards made good by
giving $2,000,000. But that is
where Jake fooled me I thought
he would help me raise that
money, but when the time came
he was the hardest man to find
I was ever after, and when found
finally contributed such s small
amount that the finding was not
worth the time taken. Jake
was bhe biggest, noise at San An-
tonio meeting and was about
the weakest rich man in Okla-
homa when it came to giving
up his money for our soldier
boys.
You will remember something
about this because you were on
the job all during the campaign.
I took him seriously once and
you must expect that others will
be fooled by his noise for a_
while, but I am really surprised;
that he has lasted so long in thej
the race against yo.u
Rural
TRACTORS PLOWS
ey
It will soon be time to commence that Spring
Plowing. I have a RUM LEY OIL-PULL
Tractor and Plow Out hr, Let me show it to
you.
Terms or Gash
1 have a Steam Threshing OutfitFor Sale.
Dick Cooper
SUPPLY
OKLAHOMA.
$500
For Sale
$50G
Paid Advertising
Information Wanted
Anyone who can supply the
address of the following soldier
hoys and will advise the Harper
County Honor Roll Co., Buffalo,
Okla.:
Blubaugh, J. F.
Bolder. H. VV.
Cathey, Guy B.
Croy, M. O.
Crawford, Oscar
Cook, 0. J.
Bilbert, Richard
Harper, O. S.
Herron, Allison
King, J. J.
Mears, R. F.
Marsolf, Clarence F.
Snow, F. F.
Sumpter, Silas S. \
Williams, Clarence*A. jj
Webb, Fred. \
Or if these are related to you
tnd you can furnish their record
of service, a photo, etc. for pub-.
lication in the coming book,;
‘Harper County and its War*
Record”, we will appreciate it.
Either send us this data at
early date or leave it with near-
est newspaper. I
Harper County Honor Roll Co.
Buffalo Okla.
Will sell the residence properly on east Broad-
way, known as the “Breeding Property” for
$500, if taken before Feb., 1, Inquire at
The Republican office, or write
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B. D. Proctor, Route, 4
WOODWARD OKLAHOMA.
T. A Young bought the Harve
Washtnon property this week.
Consideration $900. |
Gasoline
Coal Oil
P & O
2-Row Cultivators
COM
Good Alfalfa Hay
Farmers Cooperative taiciatiiiD
OFFICE PHONE 37
RES. PHONE 50
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Mayfield, J. W. The Supply Republican (Supply, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 29, 1920, newspaper, January 29, 1920; Supply, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc847990/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.