Luther Register. (Luther, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, December 10, 1915 Page: 1 of 8
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A Fearless Newspaper Diet Dares to Print the Tru»h-No Siring On l(-Not “Hofi-Tied ”
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Anderson A. Webb, Editor
Luther. Oklahoma, FriJay, December 10, 1015
Vol. XVII \o.
The Week’s Local Events Around Luther
W. I. Davie and family were "Too Pore to Take Paper
guests of Mre. W. E. McNutt I always feel sorry for the
Sunday afternoon. man who lives in any town where
Guy Ferral trane acted business there is a looal paper published
at Oklahoma City Tuesday. and is not a subscriber to his
The Cooner-Arthur damage h°me paper' Thia reraark is
suit called Monday at Oklahoma prorapted by the discontinuance
City was postponed to a later th'8 Week °f his subscription to
date. i Register by a local oitizen
Editor Webb was looking after : "h° 118 engaged in business in
business affairs at Arcadia Tues- I “Uther> glving 418 his rea80n that
day, | he was “too pore to take so
T, i? tv. r • , many papers." Great God!
rr. i7“w. Z?. >»» ■'*-! ”
er, Tuesday night w., . v,rv w, holne plw
pleasant affair. There were | is in the head instead of in the
about 30 present. In the contest pooketbook. This self-same citi-
pnzes were awarded to Miss zen will either borrow or swipe
ida Brisooe and Mrs. J. A | the paper or mooch from the sub-
Ashton. Seven new members scribers by asking thsm every
were enrolled. The Leaguers week to find out what’s in it. I
decided to give a box supper and 1 repeat here what I said to this
watch-night social at the hall man: Any man who lives in a
New Years Eve.
Avery Walker was in the City
Tuesday on speoiat business.
Mrs. H. E. Norman is on the
sick list this week.
Mrs. Will Adams and son
Graden of Oklahoma City visited
her parents T. P. Smith and wife
first of the week.
Dr. G. R. Atteberry was in
Wellstonon business Wednesday.
John Rinehart visited his father
in Evansville Wednesday.
Do you want a farm loan at a
low rate of interest, for 5, 7, or
10 years? See or write A. M.
McClure.
The Ladies Aid will hold a
‘Baby Fair” New Years day.
town where there is a paper pub-
lished and does not take and pay
for it,is a d—d poor oitizen. And
it’s a fact, too. I know of two
in- Luther.
President’s Message
The message of President Wil-
son which he read to congress
on Tuesday will be found qn an
inside page of the Register. It
deals almost entirely with his
preparedness program, calling
for a vast inorease in the army
and navy.
One of the strona parts of the
message is the “boquets and
brickbats” whioh the President
tosses to that- class of foreign-
Americans who are proving their
disloyalty to this country
Soaking the Sucker
Last week an itinerant watch
peddler paid Luther a visit, and
from the volume of business he
transacted with the innooents of
this little city and community is
proof positive that all the suckers
are not dead yet. He left among
the denizens and citizens of this
little community about $200 worth
of cheap watches, sold at fabu-
lous prices,guaranteed to be solid
gold, best movements, eto, trad-
ed brand new watches and cases
for old, receiving the difference
in cash, and then decamped for
greener field in search of other
suckers. Now, we have a sneak-
ing suspicion that the boys who
traded their perfectly good cases
and watches for something said
to be better, those who bought
timepieoes of said i. w. p. will
not like the appellation of “suck-
er,” but that is the most appro-
priate name we know to apply.
Barnum once said that there is
“A sucker born every minute.”
If Barnum lived in Luther and
Quail Hunter Busy
Since the opening of the quail
season this seotion has been
visited by several parties fr m
Oklahoma City and other points
and the town chaps have put in
considerable time perforating the
ambient atmosphere with bird-
shot trying to bag a few birds.
Jake Loman is one of the most
persistent hunters around Lu
ther, and he has made several
incursions into the woodlands,
fields and meadows, but as the
editor hasn’t seen any fruits of
his hunting, he is inclined to be-
lieve that Jake has fallen down
on his reputation. Mike Engel
is another Luther gent who
tramped over 40 square miles
one day last week to be finally
honored with a lonesome bird or
two. Then Mike remained in
bed a day to recuperate. Other
local sportsman are busy every
day, but with various and doubt
ful results so far as bagging any
number of quail is concerned.
A bunch of Oklahoma City
Over ilie County and ’Round About
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had noted the way the boys hnnters composed 0f C. W. and
grabbed the bait thrown out by ! w. T Bonfoeyt Jim Sullaney, .1.
the itinerant watch vendor, he S. Coate9) A, c Plage und Gen
would have thrown up his hands Mou;8> put in three or four daye
and uttered a new adage some- around Luther ,a8t week wiU)
thing like this: “Oh, Lord; there
are two and three born every
minute instead of one. Yes,that
is what Barnum would have said.
The watch peddler took away
with him about $200 of the hard
earned cash of tho Lutherites.
, t. , , uci o. 1UUV worn ut'UJC
They haven t woke up yet but with a fine bunch of bipd but
thmr ill m h n n l 1 .. 1.. .. « «
good success. This pai ty came
to town each night and put in
their time eating, and playing
pool at Lee Crossley’s plaoe, and
contrary to the usual oomplexion
of city gents, acted like gentle-
men while here. They went home
Booze Building Owner
Is Soaked $2,000 Worth
A verdict of $2,000 against
James K. Perrine, owner of the
building at the southwest corner
of Robinson and Broadway, was
returned in favor of the state by
the jury whioh tried the case in
District Judge Clark’s court at 11
o’olock EYiday morning, after
several hours deliberation.
This is the first of the “penalty”
cases filed by County Attorney
John Embry to be tried, and is
the second time that a verdict in
favor of the state has been given
on a like charge in Oklahoma
county. The amount asked by I
the county attorney was $300,000!
or $1,000 a day (the maximum
penalty) for a period of 360 days,
during which time it was alleged
that the Billingsley brothers used
Perrine’s building, with his
knowledge for the purpose of
selling and storing liquor. When
Sam Hooker was county attorney
he got a judgment against the
owners of the building in whioh
tho old Southern club was located
for $500. The case was appealed
and affirmed by the supreme
court.
oaoy t-air iNew Years day. w uiu cuuntry at a
Watch for bills giving portioulars cri‘!‘’al *n th? history of the
j natron, He does’nt mince words
Mrs. Calla Huff visited her ! in calling that class traitors and
husband in Drumright Saturday i c°wards to the country of their
and Sunday. (adoption. The message although
1 lengthy,'is well worth reading.
Dr. G. R. Norman made a — . ... __
business trip to Tulsa first of the Sullivans Move to Capital
Week. ^ From the Arcadia Observer
For rent—Farm of 160 acres Tom Sullivan moved his fam-
for rent, 2-2 miles southeast of j ily to Oklahoma City Thursday.
Luther—See Roy Lay for par- < Mr. Sullivan will remain here
ticulars.__until the cotton season is over.
Raske-f Rail ^6 reRret to lose this estimable
S«t,rf B -n f , . fami|y-a* ^th Mr. and Mrs.
Saturday here wd be played Sullivan are popular with every-
ft basket ball game between the nnp h«in<» am™ m, r ..
basket, hall teams ,.f the 1 °.n belng among the foremost in
our
they will when their timepieces
turn a sordid, streaked yellow of
dull brass, and the little innards
quit working entirely, Of course
it is none of our business, but as
a news item we have to chronicle
the incident and then quietly
have a few fits of laughing.
There is no school like the
sohool of experience. “Ain’t it
so?”
basket ball teams of the Arcadia church and social^ LTol
and Luther schools on the cam
pus of the High School grounds
at Luther. This will be a warm-
ly contested battle and one that
will be worth while to witness.
Came will be called at 2o’clock
in the afternoon. Come out and
boost for your favorites
little city,
To Rural Route Patrons
A few suggestions about rural
mail delivery: The application of
the Golden Rule can be employed
to a great advantage in increasing
The ! the satisfactory delivery of the
game is going to be a jimswinger daily mail. In this connection I
as well as several other things of would mention a few ways in
an interesting nature. whioh patrons can assist the
Public Sales little or no inconvenience
D. W. Dean will have a sale at patrons,
his place 4 and one half miles First by keeping mail boxes in
Konnt;e°?7ethmi^°L^::eoodfape and pr°P- P>a-9.
burg, auctioneer, O, M. Cole, j 8econd> by purchasing as large
clerk. ’ : a supply of stamps and stamped
Ed Rogers will sell a fine lot of! envelopes as convenient, at one
Btuff on Dec. <-lst at the Will ■ time, and in oold weather avoid
Lovell farm, 2-2 miles south and the practice of placing small
1% miles west of Luther. Col, i „n!na g ma
Billy McCorkle, auctioneer, A ^ms and postal cards on the
C. Couoh clerk. bottom of the mail box. (Try
Edmond Folks to Colorado
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Haynes,
long time residents of Edmond,
recently returned from a trip to
Pueblo, Colorada. While there
Mr. Haynes purchased a half
section of fine land and will lo-
cate in that state some time next
yeir.
Jake and Mike and other local
sports are playing in bad luok
this season—at least we presume
they are, as the Register editor
hasn’t seen a dad-blamed quail
carried in by any of them, and
will persist in believing that they
are poor marksmen until present-
wi-.h a mess of quail.
Cotton Burns at Harrah
Wednesday of last week fire
destroyed the cotton house of the
Red gin, owned by the South-
western Cotton Oil company at
Harrah, with about 8 tons of
seed cotton stored in the building.
Hard work was required to save
the gin, which caught fire several
times during the blaze in the
cotton house.
Bill Hoefer Visits Tonkawa
William Hoefer of Luther, Ok-
fahoma, is attending to business
in Tonkawa. While here he met
Father Carmichael, whom he
knew up in Kiowa, Kansas. They
are enjoying talking over old
times. Mr. Hoefer is a oontri
butor to the Luther Register, the
paper that Anderson Webb is
making famous.—Tonkawa News.
Do You Love Flowers?
Don’t be too anxious to sow
flower seeds for next summer’s
growth until you have studied
what you want to have in your
garden and how you are to ob-
tain the best results. We suggest
that you who read this nolioo
read also Miss Van Benthuysen’s
article in the “Home Beautiful”
department in this issue of the
Register.
The Law-Making Mania in Oklahoma
The fact that Oklahoma is burdened with a vast number of
senseless and useless laws, does not deter in the least from continual
agitation to regulate this or that, enact new laws to remedy old ones
and patch up old and obsolete ones to further enhance the burdens
upon an already overburdened people. The agitation at this time
among certain elements for an extraordinary session of the Okla-
homa legislature is selfish. Always politics, and yet more politics
carrier and lighten his work with If ever a statc was afflicte(1 with a surplusage of laws, it i> Okla
(little or no inconvenience A,ul c''er>’ two years more and more useless and unenforce-
able laws are placed upon our statute books. It all makes us weary in
a certain part of our anatomy.
Christ laid down an ideal rule of conduct in these words: “That
which ye would that others should do unto you, do ye even so to
them." Blackstone defined law as a "rule of civil conduct prescribed
by the superior power of the state.” Prior to Blank-stone's day
Justinian said that all laws could be compressed into one sentence:
“Live honorably, hurt nobody and render to everyone his just
dues.”
I homas Jefferson’s ideal of government was one in which there
were enough laws to “prevent men from injuring each other and
otherwise leave them free.” To such an extent have we departed
from this ideal of Jefferson’s that our usual method of reform is t
Harrah Loses Bump Store
The general store of H. A
Bump at Harrah has been closed
and the stock moved to Oklahoma
City and consolidated with the
Bump store on Main street in that
city.
Annoyed Society Girl
Stays in Asylum
C. F. Fentress, who was au-
judged insane by the Oklahoma
county insanity board after he
had annoyed Miss Caroline Col-
oord.sooiety girl and daughter of
C. 1- Coloord, by following her
about is incurable, aooording to
j olfioials of the Norman asylum
where Fentress is now oonfined.
Fentress is doomed to confine-
ment all hia life, the authoriti s
said, This announcement was
made after a thorough examina-
tion had determined that he was
a viotim of paranoia.
“I dont mind it for it seems
like 1 was going to highsehool,”
Fentress said of his first 10 days
stay in the asylum.
Money In Peanuts
Last spring John Moore of
Harrah planted a small tract of
1 md 52x200 to peanuts. On this
small garden spot he gathered 25
bushels of the goobers. The
vines made about a ton of hay.
Second Crop of Potatoes
On his frrm one and a half
miles east of Harrah, Tom S^-w
raised 200 bushels of late potatoes
on two acres of land, 'they are
of the Early Triumph Tarietv
planted from hia first crop. Foriy
one potatoes weighed forty lbs.
See ‘‘The Hoodoo.”
City Library Patrons
Read 10,375 Books
Ten thousand three hundred
seventy five books were borrowed
.Yom the Carnegie publia Mhi— r.
during November as in. • •.
<y tlie monthly report is-. •
Saturday. This is h re-
breaker in circulation. A j
> inks of fioti m reoeived m..-.t
tention at the hands of Ok:-»-n i.
City readers, there being 7,520
copies of literature and fioiior.
loaned. History, travel anrt bi-
ography came seoond with 822
volumes.
Th-- 11 . idoo, Friday night.
Elect Wellston Postmaster
Saturday
An eleoton will be held at
Wellston Saturday, in whioh only
democrats, patrons of the office,
will vote for their ohoiee for «,
postmaster. Congressman Mui
ray agrees to recommend the one
who receives the largest number
of votes.
, wvuun Vivt ni ------y 1 l j
Ira Alward, living just across Peking pennies with oold fingers) ........ ...... . ,,, 1C1W11II „
the road from Ed Rogers, will In sending out all classes 0f “pass a law.” The result is that in every state comprising the forty
rpII a Inf. nf fi n a hnraaa u Lrcov mail iron ahonU ~i — , I iMtrlii m fhp TInii.-i n-o ..........i. . ’: :. . r i - ,
Negro Is Held For
Assault on White Girl
Amos Kaser, negro, charged
with criminally assaulting Luei e
Sollinger October 27, was bound -------- -
' i ded Masonic lodge at i
i' lesday night.—Arcadia Obsor*
.1 A Linn. A. H. Crabi), C. I
Baker and Charles Aabury at-
ver.
-----—------- —- will - - B ..... — ‘ HOJOCS ui
sell a lot of fine horses, a jersey mail you should also remember
cow, ohickens, fat hogs, sow and | that the name and address of the
pigs and various artioles of farm u
implements on Thursday Dec. 17. fe"der 8hpuld be written on same
Col. Evans will auction the ln8ure lta return if unclaimed
stuff and A. C, Couch will act as In carrying mail from one box to
clerk.
eight in tlie Union wc have a multiplicity of laws, providing for tlii
and prohibiting that; every citizen of the United States is presumed
to know- all of these laws. It is also a legal presumption that every
citizen know-s how the courts of the different states construe this
awful, jawful, lawful jargon.
Every few years new laws are piled on the books and more
officials are created to enforce the laws. The army of inspectors,
commissioners, etc., grows in size as the width of the statutory vol
time increases until, as the Democratic national platform says, taxe-
Every rural community should are kcpt and dle purchasing power of the people's t• >i 1 w in-
take pride in cooperative work duc.jd' business, after all. is nothing more or less than the activit-
incident to supplying people’s needs. This being the nature of bttsi
110SS. it ncork Vf*rv fpvv Inwu tr» tintrifw.r Iff nnnrof;.,., I ♦ ..1, ..1.1 1
another on the route the postage
is the same as though it were
mailed at the office
Walker-Brooks
Avery Walker and Miss Gladys
Brooks of this city were married ____
Wednesday at Oklahoma City, to maintain the roads'In the inc,de"t to supplying people’s need This being th.
As the Register goes to press the possible condition and no better IeT' " T7 *7 ,a" s ‘0.hamptT its h 'b'’uld
.. -1 . r ; nonunion ana no better the maximum of freedom with gist enough aw to “prevent men from
couple are still in the city, and index to the welfare and standing injuring each other.” ^ 1
no partieulars as to the event of a neighborhood can be found We submit that Oklahoma hi too much invested in it- law-
can be obtained here, other ih^n th n in the condition of the roads Nrxt >’ear therc will be an election and a lot of v. < 11-meaning f dks
the wedding took place. Mrs. The oarrrier desires to give bette wil1 Pr°Posc additions to the law already on the bonks.
Walker is the daughter of Mr. service and also to see' heft «• a,tcrnative respectfully suhnvt' that it w<-uld be better to el--.
members of the legislature pledged to the repeal of about nine-tenths
of the laws which now encumber business and its conduct.
and Mrs. H. II. Brooks.
< roads along his route.
bond Monday afternoon by justice
of the peace Donnell, who __
- at High School audi-
ium this Friday night.
of the preliminaty hearing last | ----——- - -■ —
Saturday aftemoc- Urovedale Greetings
(Route 1 out of Jones)
The defense presented eight
witnesses Saturday who declared
that Kaser wae at work at tin- Ed Harrell and family spent
time of tha assault, b it their Sunday with Abel Bryant and
testimony differed as to the timel family.
uwrence spent Saturday
state presented thr..... - night with Ralph Harrell.
nii - lid they saw Ka er in it-il spent Sund-"\
in 1 Earl Kime.
the assault was oommitt mrston spent Sai.ur*
, . . night with Raymond ■arrelb
few minutes before. Kaser was ,___ . a ,
Mr Stephens ate Sunday d»n-
ldentmed as her assailant by the m-r with Georgs Clark and famil.,,
'ri-___ Dont ferget the speaking at
WtJKton Minister Dead hard ciark visited
R®v R- •'• HaJ ty rooming with Mrs. Abei
the Methodist church of Wellston ! Bryant.
• one Robert Bryant spent evenic^
day this week after a brief illness j with Marion Ewing.
Mr. Haines lately assigned to the Mr. an ! Mrs. Abel Bryant :«
.At week that tb •
t 7 Earl Drennm •• .
many friends m the sho-t time he vbnC ,rado< ^ ,,, ,
been there. He leaves.. ffering from a bi i
family. caused by a fall.
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