Luther Register. (Luther, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, February 25, 1916 Page: 1 of 8
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A Fearless Newspaper Thai Dares to Print the Truth—No Strings On It—Not "Hog-Tied ”
Ll THER REGISTER.
Luther. Oklahoma. Friday, February 25. 1910
Vol. XVII. No. 30
The Week’s Local Events Around Luther
A Plain Taik to the People of Luther
Ed Alward and Adam Meyer Henry Harris left Saturday I
were in Oklahoma City last night for Kansas City to take up
Thursday. a position as night watchman in
Otto G. Norman and wife and *be emP^°y °t son who is a
H E. Norman and family motor- c°>Uraotor in that city.
ed over to Jones Sunday. We have the tax rolls for Ok-
T. H. Ray and wife were visit- lahomtt anH Logan counties. Fay
ing with friends in Wellston your taxes at Luther State Bank.
Sunday.
Nathan Levine and Sam Blon-
stoin spent Sunday evening in
Wellston.
The people of Luther evidently
do not appreciate or realize the
real worth to the town of a news-
paper, judging by the patronage
extended the Register. The
Webb Family wants it distinctly
understood that unless the busi
the merchants—wake
i ness men-
Mrs Earl Richardson and Mrs.
Ethel Vorel attended the Grand i
Chapter of the Eastern Star : up ailU do more advertising and
Oklahoma City last week. They j acoord more job printing to this
. w w , L spent most the day Wednesday i paper- they wil1 he surprised
.1. M. Morgan was in Oklahoma at the home of the order in Dar. | some nice morning when they
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City Monday on business. lington
Mr. and Mrs. Emmons Close 1
who are guests of Editor and
Mrs. Webb and family, spent
Monday in Wellston, where Mr. j Mr. and Mrs. Jap Dunham en-
close is arranging to put on one ! tertained a large number of
of his high dive stunts. friends Friday night. The even-
Prof. J. B. Adams attended the was enj°ved very rauch by
Forbes Robertson play of Ham- al1 pre8ent’ The evenings pro-
let at Oklahoma City Saturday gra™ oonsi8ted of muaic botb
afternoon, returning Saturday V0Ra and instrumental.
Tom Ruble spent Sunday in
Oklahoma City.
night.
Mrs. W. H. Downs was in Ok-
Mrs. Til Sander in the country
is on the sick list.
Frank Baker of Oklahoma
lahoma City last week attending ’ *rank Liaker of Oklahoma
the Eastern Star Chapter. i C,ty and LouI8 ' orel and wife
i spent Sunday with Aaron Baker
Mrs. Percy Norman and son ; an(j famj|y
Wm. are visiting friends in town j
this week. They expect to leave Mrs. Chester Smith and 1 son
rub their sleepy eyes and brush
away the cob-webs from their
musty brains to discover that
Luther no longer has a newspa-
per.
What sort of a town will Lu-
ther be without a newspaper? In
event conditions go along as they
are now going, the town doesn’t
deserve to have a newspaper. No
town that refuses properly to
support a newspaper deserves a
medium of publicity. No town
that refuses to properly sustain
a newspaper amounts to a damn
in the middle of the road—not
even half a cuss word.
The two banks of Luther have
ever been the good friends of the
uiio went. ; uejr cajjoui iu leave .... ..... ucvii me ^uuu liieilUB OI me
for their home in Oklahoma City wei'B Sunday guests of Mrs. Mike' Register and the Webb Familv.
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the last of the week
Billy, the little s in of Mr. and
Mrs. Will Chiloott of Michigan,
arrived Monday to spend two
months with his grandparents
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. L. Harris.
The Chilooits will go to Califor-
nia for a two months visit.
Engel.
Mrs. Tom Ruble spent Sunday
with Mrs. Jap Dunham.
Miss Marie Vorel and the girls
of her class will enjoy a tennis
court this spring.
Mr. and Mrs. Ferrell arrived
here Wednesday from Nebraska.
Tom Huntington was on the Mrs. Ferrell has been quitr ill.
sick list last week. Bur), little son of Mr. and Mrs.
Mrs. T. IE Huntington enter- j Bert White has been quite sick.
tained about forty friends to din-: Lowell King and family have
ner last Thursday in honor of ■ move<i from Cushin^.to tlle Clyde
the OGth birthday anniversary of Bailey farm gouth of Luther
her sister Miss Sallie Cole. A
fine dinner was enjoyed at noon -John Huntington and family,
and it was indeed a feest fit fora ^rs 1 ptn llunl,ngton and child-
king. Miss Cole received a nice ren’ Mre- Pre89ley Phillips and
collection of gifts from her many I GeorSe Huntington were Sunday
friends who departed wishing her Rues*-9 °f Tom Huntington and
many more happy birthdays. family in the country.
The Literary Society will give One car load of Overlands has
a program at the school Friday j arrived and another coming,
night.
Mesdames
H. H. Brooks spent lastWednes
day with Mr. and Mrs. Avery
Walker in the country.
Mr. and Mrs. Barney Helms
spending more money with the
paper than all the other business
of the town combined (except for
a couple of months.) I hear
someone say “Well the banks
are able, and can afford to ad-
vertise.” True, very true, but
no more than the merchants.
The bankers know the wortfi of
a live newspaper to the town,
manifested. Grover Vorel is in
the paper each week, and sever-
al others for small monthly bills
of a dollar or two. All are ap-
preciated. Jake Loman and the
New York Store people have
done their part. So has Will
MoC’utchen, the druggist as well
as Dawson A Rogers, but the
amounts have been small.
The expense for paper on
which the Register is printed
rune around $25 u month; office
rent and incidental expenses
another $25. There isn’t that
muoh advertising in the paper
and the job printing amounts to
little. Subscriptions run some-
thing like $15 a month. Nothing
left for the Webb Boys who work
like Trojans, nothing left for Old
Man Webb and nothing for the
Madam Editor. That’s the situ
ation as it stands today.
Some fellow will say "If this
statement is true, how do the
Webb Family manage to get
along?” Old Man Webb will tell
you: His extensive acquaintance
with public men and the friend-
ship of ONE state official who
has given the paper more than
€200.00 worth of job printing,
Webb’s ability to draw business
outside of Luther from semi-pub-
lic and public men, hus enabled
the Webb family to “get-by.”
This phrase of “getting by”
never appealed to Old Man Webb
and it doesn’t go with him very
long, and isn’t going to last with
him here. It is either support
the Luther Register in the prop-
Over the County and ’Hound About
Hurrah Polander Gets
Back His Farm
Max Chartney, Polander of
Harrah, whose quarter section of
school land in Oklahoma-co was
sold on ground floor of the coun
ty court house in December while
he, through false information of
his interpreter, Max Graff, was
attending a law suit on the third
floor, will get his land b ick, ac-
cording to recommendation of
the attorney-general’s office Sat-
urday to the commissioners of
the land offioe.
while other business concerns , or manner or do without a news
rock along and profit by the paper—and this is directed to
drawing qualities of those who | the people of Luther. If the peo-
do a little advertising, taking pie of Luther say: “I don’t give
what come? their way as a mat- a damn whether the town has a
ter of ,course. i newspaper or not,” lam going
The Morgan store has been a t > hand you the retort courteous,
good patron: Lee Crossley who “Neither do I.”
is engaged in a business that To all who have patronized
grows by nicke's and dimes, has I the paper since the Webb Family
been one of the best patrons of have been in charge, for them
the Register, and he says it has Old Man Webb desires to say:
paid him. Mike Engel is a stay • “Thank you ” I will reserve
arrived ana anotner coming, er» ®nd ■ "'9 Lo\cd A Lovell, but; for a near future issue t say
call and let us demonstrate any their advfert'sing bills are ne- what 1 think about the business
cessarily small, yet appreciated , men win have mt patronized
because of the spirit and loyalty the paper.
Dave Walker and ™oriel ~Daw80n * RoR^s lurti
ber company.
Bill Hoefer was in town the
other day and stated that he
would leave soon for his new
Photos, Commercial Work I
Slap at Snobbery
I’he Rogisler is exjiected to
returned to their home at Osage \ home at Supply, Oklahoma,
last Thursday after spending | where he has traded for a farm
several weeks with Miss Maggie | near that town. Hoefer is a good
Helms. | citizen and will be missed from
... . ... the Luther country.
Miss Harriet Harris was the ;
guest of Dr. and Mrs. G. R. Nor-
man over Sunday.
Mrs. Laura Dana is having a
house erected on her lots in the
east part of town where her house
was recently burned.
Pringrey Will Recover
Al Pringrey, who was shot and
seriously wounded about three
weeks ugo at the Pringrey farm
near Wellston, a d who has been
in a hospital at Oklahoma City,
will reoover from his wounds, and
it is expected that be will be able
to return to his home tiiia week
No trace of Jake Henson th*
man who did the sh otingofWm
Pingrey and Ivan ' Stewart, and
Al Pringrey, has been discovered
although officers have kept up a
dilligent search. Henson, after
the shooting left the Beene of the
shooting saying he was going to
Ohandler to surrender, but he
hanged his mind if that was his
intention, and has disaapeared
completely to his former haunts
and friends. The tragedy shocked
the entire community and ap-
pears to have been entirely 'un-
called for.
Karnes’ Assailants Arc
Shown Leniency
If R. C. Guy and Roy Spencer
are model prisoners thoy will not
be prosecuted on charges of bur-
glury and robbery, Assistant At-
torney Charles Selby said Friday.
Guy was convicted of shooting
Deputy Sheriff Karris and given
a ten-year sentence in the pen.
Spencer plead guilty to the
same offence and was sentenced
to 10 years in Granite prison.
“If they are not good prison-
ers they will be brought back
and prosecuted on the two re-
maining charges,” said Selby.
Big Peach Crop Assured
l iilees late frost-i nip the peach
buds there will be a tar'© crop of
this fruit in this section. It is ad-
mitted that the buds were hurt to
some extent by the cold weather
in January, but not more than 25
per cent of the buds were in jur-
ed, and the outlook is gopd for
another bumper crop of peaches
similar to that of 1915.
Fruit growers are looking for-
ward to a fine season and a big
crop of apples, peaches and ber-
ries of all kinds, and unless
freezes catch the buds after they
have begun to swell and after
the sap in the trees starts to rise,
the Luther*Arcadia sections will
produce an abundance of fruit of
all kinds in 1916.
Overholser Modifies Order
After pretending to get hot in
the collar about police officers
belonging to the Moose lodge,
and issuing an order that all
members of the force who are
members of the lodge, turn in
their stars, Mayor Overholser has
modified his order, and it is not
likely that any member of the
polioe force will have to walk the
plank of dissmisemal because he
is a member of the booze selling
Moose lodge, recently raided by
county officials.
Overholser is given to spas-
modic reform, and then just as
suddenly oools off und permits
booze artists to ply their trade
right under the noses of his < ffi-
oers. He says the Elks lodge is
not selling booze, but this may
be taken with several grains of
salt. Other lodges serve whiskey
wines and beer every time the
members pull off a social function
with a banquet attachment. It
is only the poor, unprotected
bootlegger and booze joinlist
who oume under Overholaer’s
reform humor.
1 have closed the studio, so
will do outside work while I stav. ,
‘ Rive large space ( > entertain-
ouch as viewing, enlarging, ,
. , . ments and socials arid other semi-
copying, reducing, positives, i „ ■ ...
, . . .., , social doings, when neither the
lantern slides, commercial work, ... ......
........ , . ’ i editor or his wife is invited. The
kodak finishing and artistic postj Register is expected to lie like a
AttnrnRv H a rn cards and mounted work; any trooper about the “delightful af-
Pet™ in Lulhi !8,Zm ^ • "l r9 fi*Ure faiM’” but editor or hi? I an 18-year old lad to force a con-
haviL come down to 1 , k r?’’! Z ‘ y°U* bs:ter half are ^ “goodenough” j fession from him that he* had
his farm interests north of town" I (elTmT viewer'‘'^nd'^ph^o- [° bt?Xlended a,‘ invitation> j 8tolen ;l suit ,f clulhes shw3 the
‘j a pnoto less there is a mckie or dime to | brute instinct of the average po-
grap er. i be contributed. How’s that for| He® officei-.
consistency? | Young Wilson is in a danger-
Brutality of City Police
Force Shows up Bad
The action of three officers at
Oklahoma City last week in beat-
ing and bruising Loren Wilson
Ed Rogers returned last week
from a several week’s trip to
Dr. and Mrs. G. R. Atteberry I Glazier’ Texas’ where he visited
mni SnnHnv unih a brother and looked over the
Dental Notice
Dr. Hansen the dentist from
ous condition as a result of the
spent Sunday with the former’s a Drotner and looked over the Dr. Hansen the dentist from: Sunny Side Contest ■ whippings and beatings adminis
parents in the country. | country with a view of locating Chandler will continue to make I he contest in oratcry and j terei by the thugs under Chief
D Lu’her one day each week as he | spelling held at Miss Callarmaa’s Nichols and Mayor OverE leer in
has been doing for the past year ] school Friday, to determine th applying what is term ■ i ;h« third
1-or reference as to his ability contestants for township honors, d0gr°fi to for e confessions. The
and work, see any of the follow-Avis very interesting. A large uffioers responsible for such bru-
brT ™e" °f Luther: Lumber of bright impersonates Ulity de8erve t0 be *iven sirnilap
W. b Lovell, M. C. Engel, Lee; 'treatment and then forced to
H n , , jCrossiey.T.H. Ray, Ross Lov-'^6 .C°mpebnb:’ tbe winnerE serve ten years in the penitenl-
Benny Crossley fomerly of ell, j. M. Morgan, Paul Vorel,! be'"& McCraw for the ad- iap t fiar(J lab Tll0 lr, „.
uther has moved from Yale tow. H. McCutchen. Office !n | vanced grades and Mildred Me- ’ ,,-
parents in the country
Rev. T. M, Davis and wife and
Gwendolia Russell attended the
Epworth League Social at Jones
Friday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Cook of
Oklahoma City were guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Jap Dunham.
there. Mr. Rogers states that he
is well pleased,with the country
around Glazier and Higgins, and
will likely move his family to
that section of the Texas Pan-
handle.
Rev. Davis will have for his Oklahoma City and is clerking in
subject next Sunday night—“If' the old Brock store.
Al Jennings can come back why 1
can’t you?” Or “Beating Back.” The LaQies Cemetery Auxiliary
will meet Monday Feb., 28, 2:30
J. A. Ashton and wife spent p, m at Christian church if
Sunday on their farm with (^e weather will permit. On ac-
Lafe Couch and family. count of the bad weather (he
Jessie Couch is visiting his auxiliary has been delayed in
mother in Edmond; who is quite their preparations for erecting
sick. a chapel. They have nearly
George Taylor and family' left en°Ugh money rai’ed and hope
Saturday for Florida where they t0, begln WOrk 89 8O0n as danSer
will make their future home. 1° reezlnR *9 over.
W. IE McCutchen.
Nichols building.
, Wilson is enough to
Neal for the primary division. |makered blood run riot, but
The spellers who will compete watoh the maneuvers of tie
M. W. A’s to Arcadia in township contest to be held inkiger-up eld the
Fourteen members of the Mod* b'u^b®r» Maroh, 3rd, are OlaSae-
ern Woodmen order of Luther ?er* Pa'pb Catron, Lola Van- 0f the accused fficials if the
went to Arcadia Saturday night ^ant and Or\ille Roberts. The youth identifies them, and try to
where they installed 22 members ' Unty ,conb’3t w‘b be *n : besmirch Wil? n and prot -ct the
of the Lodge recently organized ! butna *n Apr*L real culprits. That is the way of
Edmond officials have issued
an order to owners of chickens to
pen them up or keep them in an
enclosure strong enough to pre-
vent the fouls running at large
and destroying other peoples’
gardens and flowers.
The Jones City town board
have ordered a re-advertising' of
the bids for the construction . of
the waterworks and light plant,
same to be open March 10. The
bids opened recently were all
considered to be too high, rang-
ing around $10,600.
Citizens of Spencer are assur-
ed by President Classen of the
Oklahoma Railway company that
an interurban line will be con-
structed from the capital to Spen-
cer as soon as the extension of
the interurban from Edmond to
Guthrie is completed.
L. \ . Manwell for a long time
a railway mail clerk on the Fris-
co has quit the service and mov-
ed to his farm west of Luther
where he will raise ’taters, punk-
ms, squashes and other truck.
Colonel and Mrs. \. X, Evans
of near Jones are the proud par-
ents of a new baby daughter.
Col. Evans is the well known
auctioneer.
- | the average reform official-
like particular :! tick together.
-they
there. A fine banquet wae given j
before the installation and the! If you do not
Luther boys are loud in their j brand of weather we are now be-
praises for the royal manner iejing favored with, let loose a'
which they were entertained. bunch of swear words. J expect to move to Yale Tuesday.
Mr. Ralph Allen and family
Owing to ihe shortage in funds
| the term of school at Choctaw
will be limited to seven months,
! the present term ending in May,
Anything you want in the lum-
ber line, we have it.—Dawson A
Rogers Lumber Co.
W. E. Lovell and mother were
in Oklahoma City Tuesday.
Mrs. John Rinehart has beers
quite sick the last few days.
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Webb, Anderson A. Luther Register. (Luther, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, February 25, 1916, newspaper, February 25, 1916; Luther, Okla.. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc853797/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 4, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.