The Canadian Valley News. (Jones City, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, January 8, 1915 Page: 4 of 8
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News.
Dr. C. B. Taylor of Spencer ban
been appointed by tbe board of
oouuty commissioners as county
health officer. He will move to
Oklahoma City so as to he nearer
his duties.
Harry Stubblefield a n d Mies
Bennetts Howard, a popular young
couple of Choctaw have been united
in marriage.
Jess Butler of Choctaw has been
appointed bailiff of the county court
under Judge Zwiek.
E. Howard who has been living
near Choctaw, has moved to Paden,
the new oil town in Lincoln county.
M Cornelius, new county clerk,
Monday named 1 V. Cruce and
Wesley J. Peshek deputies in his
office. His elections were approved
by the board of sounty commission-
ers.
Attorneys for W. H. WatliugUm,
charged with embezzlement of $75,-
000 from the Bankers’ Mortgage
Loan company, filed a motion in the
district court Thursday, asking that
the indictment be quashed. It is
contended that the original iudict-
insnt was dismissed in 1912 and that
six terms of court since that time
have passed.
County Treasurer George Baker
has announced the appointment of
H. N. Kinney to the position
chief clerk in his office, in place
Chas. MeCafferly, who resigned
become first assistant in the office
tbe secretary of state.
D. B. Welty, attorney at law and
former member of the legislature,
has announced that be will be a
candidate for mayor of Oklahoma
City. He is a democrat Welty
gained great fame in the last legis-
lature when he attempted to put
coco-cola out of business.
SOME LITTLE TINY BITS
OF LOCAL HAPPENINGS
The Jones City schools resumed
Monday after a ten days vacation.
Mrs. D. M. Beaty has been en-
joying a visit from her mother, Mrs.
Baum, who lives at Kausas, Okla.
Miss Izorah Lindsay and brother
Glen, who spent the holidays here,
returned Sunday to Edmond to re-
sume their studies.
Bib Higdon is having a new resi-
dence built on his farm southeast of
town to replace the one recently de-
stroyed by fire. C. M. Brown is do-
ing the work.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Harroun,
from Fairbury, Neb., haye been here
severul dayB visiting her sister, Mrs
J. H. Widener, and fumily, two
miles east of town. Mr and Mrs.
Harroun like this country fine, es-
pecially the climate, and may con-
clude to locate here.
It is reported that a proposition
lias been made to Roseville people to
drill a test well there and that the
deal is likely to he put through
Rossville is about fourteen miles east
of Jonee City.
Here is a Money Maker! My ice
10 THE SEAC0AS1
Newspaper Man Is the Unbidder Bru„g*,,.
your military transport, after sev-
eral false starts, Anally makes up its
mind to go on—at a crawl now—but
unfortunately, at Saarbeek, which is
suburban Brussels, your free ride to
the point Is cut short by a conscien-
tious Landsturm sergeant who search-
es the train, and politely points out
that the document you produce Is
good only for transportation to Brus-
sels. And you Become for the first
time a victim or war, for there are no
longer watting taxicabs or horse cabs,
and there is nothing to do but walk to
Guest of the Army Com-
manders.
NEW WAR SONG IS WRITTEN
Popular Tuns Is Dedicated to Prowea#
of Big Guns—Many Little Boys
Ran Away With the Troop*—
Help Sent to Feed Starving
People of Flanders.
Berlin.—Bucking the ttne of Pros
sian militarism or prow ling around tbe
back door of the front is a game ot
chance aud akill which any America:
of average nerve can play to good an
vantage aud at little expense, travel-
ing mostly as an unbidden guest on
tbe super warlords' military trains
and transports. 1 have lust returned
from a week of wandering through
Belgium to the coast of the North tea
and am able to give prospective tour
house is for sale at a Money Making j >•'* some suggestions as to how- to
Price. Speak or you will be too |
late.—S. C. Shenemaa.—Adv.
3« 3
There will be a call meeting of
the Men’s Brotherhood of Joues
City, Friday evening. Jan. 15, at
7:30 p. m. iu the M. E. church. l>o
not forget the place and dates. All
men of the town and community are
cordially invited to be preseut.
W. A. Jones, Pres.
A fellow by tbe name of Muzell,
who was at Jones a few days ago,
posing as a veterinary, was arrested
at Harrab the first of the week on
the charge of practicing without a
license. Deputy Karns made the
arrest.
Your initial equipment should con
slst of an emergency passport, which
It takes a long time to get at Co-
logne.
Considerable Latitude Given.
This document gives you consider-
able latitude. "Good for 30 days.”
It I
At 6 a. in. that place Is deader
than New York below the dead Hue.
You walk through miles of streets
without sighting a military patrol or
even a policeman, till you come to
the heart of the city. Your daytime
Impression of Brussels under the
German occupation will be of swarms
of racing military with motorcars full
of husky officers for whom war seems
to mean one long joy ride.
Country Under Water.
It takes you six hours to get from
Brussels to Antwerp by military
trains As you near your destination
you see whole stretches of country-
side still under water, where the des-
perate delenders tried to check the
German advan-« by flooding ore ra-
tion* H look* like pictures of the D«y-
ton flood lu 'rent of the Hotel Ter-
mtuus. by the main railroad station,
you come upon an old friend fallen on
evil dnys- n London motor bus. shorn
of its old advertising glory and paint
ed gray by the Germans.
Many little straws you see on all
sides point to the fact that the Ger-
mans intend to sit tight in Antwerp.
Their occupation has a look of pro-
spective permanency
Curiously enough, you see mostly
American flags here. The Belgian red
yellow black is banned, the German
flag is flown sparingly; the Stars and
Bessie McCjuiulen, a domestic of
Oklahoma City, was found wander-
ing aimlessly about Britton, Sbe
was taken before tbe sanity board
and sent to tbe asylum at Norman.
8. J. Ensley bas returned to bis
home at Harrab from Kansas, where
be had been called ou account of tbe
death of his father.
Amel Bourlou has moved his
family to the Ira Coucn farm in the
Kickapoo flat, Mr. Couch having
moved onto the farm of his brother,
A, C. Couch.
There were 989 births in Oklaho-
ma county during 1914, and 072
deaths.
Sheriff M. C. Binion took eight
prisoners to the penitentiary at Mc-
Alester Saturday. They were Robert
Allen, term, life for the murder of
P. B. McReynolds; George Davis
and George Young, five years each
for horse stealing; C. C. Colton, two
years, forgery; Krnmitt Lawson, two
years, burglary: R. W. Nero, two
years,shooting with intent to kill:
Jim Perry, two years, burglary;
James Johnson, oue year, burglary.
The annual New Year s hunt at
Luther was a success, although not
as much game was brought in as on
some former occasions. A total of
529 rabbits, 12 owls, 1 crow, 3
hawks and 1 skunk was the result of
the day’s sport. The captains were
Mart Clark aud Spear Crossley, the
former’s side having 4270 points and
the latter’s side 3340.
NEWS FROM THE
RED TOP DISTRICT
Frank Oldham spent Tuesday
night with Mr aud Mrs Jack Bennett
Willie Emma aud Rosa Jilge spent
Sunday with Mr and Mrs Adolph
Jilge aud family
Lester Judkins made a business
trip to the City Tuesday
Jeau Steusou aud John Cassady
spent Sunday afternoon with Gussie
Jilge
Mr and Mrs Cleave Stetom spent
Saturday night with Mr and Mrs
Anderson
Mr and Mrs W S Deal spent New
Years with Mr and Mrs Lester Jud-
kins
The Watch Party given at the
bcIiooI house Friday night was well
attended and all report a fine time
Mrs Oscar Deal spent from Wed-
nesday until Sunday with her pareuls
Mr and Mrs Milton Judkius aud
family
Bob Trotters are moving this
week back to their old home place
Eva Judkins spent Suuday with
Maysie Arends
generously allows you to go to Brus-
sels and back, using either "your own
or a hired automobile." and further
says that “the use of military trains,
whenever possible, is also allowed on
presentation of a railroad ticket"—
which last opefts up the possibility of
a "free ride" as nobody thinks of ask
lng you for a ticket to Brussels and
you could not buy one if you tried to
—at present.
From now on you increasingly
realize that a state of war exists
somewhere in the neighborhood, for
you leave Aachen in a third-class
car, whose hard wooden benches are
mostly occupied by loud lunged sing-
ing, cheering Boldiers bound for the
front—two score of them, belonging
to a reserve company of a heavy foot
artillery regiment of the famous
Guards corps—"the Iron corps of
Brandenburg."
The heavy artillerists are singing a
song that sounds like American rag-
time, but yet isn’t. The words run
(Americanized) as follows:
Stripes are everywhere in evidence.
fuse cigars. Help comes unexpectedly
in the form of a rival patrol of ma-
rines—four strong. The under officer
commanding proves to have two
brothers in America. Hussars and
marines debate your nationality.
Germans Have a Canal Fleet.
In Hie morning you see an interest-
ing example of typical German thor-
oughness—a large cabin motor launch
flying the German flag aud belonging
to the new canal fleet.
Under friendly eBCort you reach the
Holland border at the quaint town of
Sluts.
This hospitable little province of
Teelnndish Flanders is still paying
paticutly for the support of a large
number of Belgian refugees. Rev. J.
H. I’attlst, secretary of the relief com-
mittee for West Teelandlsh Flanders,
showed me through his church (dating
from the teuth to the sixteenth cen-
tury), where 400 refugees—men, wom-
en and children were sleeping bedded
ou straw.
OFF TO FIGHT RUSSIA
Sing the artillery now a song!
Victorious, proud she marches along.
Every true German her praises now sings
Toyful in East and West It rings.
LATE INTELLIGENCE FROM
AROUND GROVE DALE DIST
(Refrain)
Hurrah! hurrah! tile heavy artillery!
Hurrah! hurrah she sure can shoot, by
gee
Hurrah! raise your glasses! this toast
give:
‘Prosit! The artillery shall live!”
With cannon fire we’d first begun;
Then came the heavy field howitzers on.
But they weren’t enough by a very long
sight.
Mow with two-and-forty centimeter guns
w«* fight.
December was the coldest in 1914
of all years, except one, since the
establishment of the weather bureau
at Oklahoma City in 1890, according
to tbe niouthly meterological bullet-
in issued by J P. Slaughter, section
director of the bureau. The mean
temperature for tbe month was 81
degrees—tbe same as recorded for
December, 1909. The normal for
the month during the last twenty-
four years has beeu 38.0 degrees
Although precipitaliou during the
month amounted to 2 74 inches, one
inch more than normal, the year
closed with a deficiency rainfall
amounting to 11 33 Inches. Of the
precipitation in December, 9.1 incites
of snow accounted for most of it.
No snow remained ott the ground at
tbe end of the month.
Harry Thurston and family spent
Sunday with Ed Harrell aud family
Ralph Harrell spent Saturday
night and Sunday with Ray Wood
F.arl Wood spent Sunday with
George Foster
Tim Lewis spent Sunday and Sun-
day night with Homer Britton
Harlin Cheuvront and Norman
lVndley entered college at Stillwater
last Monday
Ralph Alien lias been sick for the
past week,
Beulali Maxey and Cleiumie Peud-
ley spent Sunday with Ethel Mc-
Ewen
Ed Lewis spent Sunday with
mer Britton
Ho-
with
STOP THAT COUGH -NOW
When you catch Cold, or begin to
Cougb, tbe first thing to do is to
take Dr. Bell’s Pine-Tar-Honey. It
penetrates the linings of the Throat
and Lungs and fights the Germs of
the Disease, giving quick relief and
natural heaiiug. “Our whole fumily
depend on Plne-Tar-Hofley for
Coughs and Colds," writes Mr. E.
Williams, Hamilton, Ohio. It al-
ways helps. 25c. at your Druggist.
Joe Lowell spent Sunday
Robert Bryant
The Oyster supper at Mr Abbott’s
was attended well, about 6U were
present
Ralph Harrell spent Sunday even-
ing with Ralph Cheuvront
Clifford Babb spent Sunday with
Claud Peudley
Jake and Eurl Kime spent Sunday
with Robert Harrell
Henry Zieltiy will move from tbe
Rhyne farm to a farm near Hurrah
Hazel McEwen is spending a f
days at Bristow
Mrs King and R L McEweu visit-1 trenches at
od tuc oCii'Aji Wednesday njOfu.ug . (bay hit] run OUL"
At High Pressure.
The heavy artillerists and 1 were
urned out into the night air on the
’lelgian border as tbe passenger train
went no farther, but here a bewilder-
ng choice of transportation facilities
offered. I found another train.
The block signals and switch lights
rad all been wrecked by the retreat-
ing Belgians, and the Germans hare
not had time to replace them yet, but
in spile of the fact that he was run-
ilng without signals, the engineer
opened up the throttle wide. In mat-
ers military the Germans have uc
julred almost the American habit of
nigh prrsBur" and speed.
Liege war reached in an hour. Here
you pass your tint tiainload of prlg-
,lior- bound for Germany, it is a
itring of third-class carriages lighted
..y oil lanterns, and. if one may Judge
from their khaki uniforms, the pas-
sengers are English prisoners of war,
mostly sleeping. Then you have a
procession of hospital trains—all full;
theu more prisoners—the bulk of the
heavy west-bound traffic through Bel-
gium consists of prisoners and
wounded. • . V
You can stnell Louvain a mile away.
You would know where you were,
even if you did not see the moonlit
ruins about (he railroad station,
where your military transport makes
i long stop.
Here on the platform among the
yoldlera on guard you see a youngster
of about twelve armed—field gray,
with a miniature spiked helmet, car-
tridge belt and bayonet. He Is evi-
dently the mascot of the Landsturm
battalion garrisoned at Louvain. You
ask a soldier about It, and he tells
you an Interesting story.
Boyi Ran Away to War.
"You would be surprised," he says,
"to know how many boys ran away
from home to go with the soldiers.
Many eluded the watchful eyes of the
authorities and slipped aboard troop
trains, the soldiers often helping them
to stay hidden, and so actually
reached the front, where some of the
boys have rendered good servlet I
know of one who received the Iron
cross for bravery under fire in carry-
ing ammunition to the men in the
critics! tuOuieui when
More than half of the inhabitants
have already returned. More of the
stores have reopened. Business in
many lines is beginning to go on
again as ususG. Hackmen again try
to cheat you. The German ci"!l and
military governments seem to be run-
ning smoothly and efficiently. On the
whole, Antwerp is now disappointing
to tbe sensation seeker.
Zeppelin Attack on London.
The German military government
is intrenched in the Municipal build-
ing, next to the Hotel Antoine, which
is also pre-empted by the new gov-
ernment. Here, doing desk duty, you
will meet an officer with a hard-luck
story with a moral. "No, thanks, 1
don’t dare smoke." he says. "I con-
tracted a weakness of the heart Zep-
pelinlng. 1 was commander of a Zep-
pelin for a year and a half, during
which we negotiated 142 flights, aggre-
gating 14,000 kilometers. Just my hard
luck that I can’t command one of the
Zeppelins that will visit London." As
to the date of the "visit" he will haz-
ard no opinion, but "there will be more
popular rejoicing over a successful
air attack on London than over the
fall of Paris,” he adds. It is a signifl
cant phenomenon that you can’t talk
with any officer or common soldier
five minutes without having him
switch to the all-absorbing theme of
the Zeppelin attack on England. It
seems to be almost a national obses-
sion, and the people are waiting pa-
tiently for the "blood red letter day,”
confident that it is coming.
Germans Justify Their Presence.
Whenever you meet a high German
officer on Belgian soil a good way to
lead off is to ask him how he justifies
hlB presence there, and so when you
are ushered into the presence of his
excellency Von Frankenburg and
Ludwigsdorf, adjutant and right hand
man to the military governor, General
von Huhne. you ask him about it. too.
His answer is so typical of the Ger-
man point of view aa to be worth re-
peating.
“Oh, we Justify our presence in two
ways,” he says. "Firstly, we knew
that Belgium’s neutrality would be
violated by our enemieB if we did not
‘beat them to it,’ and if any further
proof were needed it was furnished by
papers found in the archives at Brus-
sels. Secondly, self-defense. Germany
is not engaged fh a war of revenge,
but it’s as if you went along a lonely
road and were fallen upon by a band
of highwaymen. They say we began
this war. It would have been the
stupidest moment for Germany to
Btart such a war, because the allies
were bo united, when no political or
other question was between them.”
For the next 26 hours the “fog of
war” settles around your movements.
When it lifts again it finds you
sauntering along the towpath of a
canal to the north of Bruges, nose
pointed in the direction of the distant
thunder of the big guns toward the
coast. Unfortunately at a turn of the
road you run into a patrol of Death's
Head Hussars—five Btrong You know
they are Death's Head Hussars by
the small silver skull and bones on
. tk* front of the shakos.
You Are an Englishman!
The leader eyes suspiciously your
Piccadilly derby and sterling silver
mounted cane and then announces
unequivocally: "You are an English-
man." You lead off with your emer-
gency passport, then you play your
whole suit of red-Bealed American
diplomats and consuls, then your
purple Prussian eafcles (but you have
none permitting you to walk along
this canal)! You offer your photo-
graph in evidence and ransack your
pockets for more documents, produc
lng successively a letter from o
prominent membor of the relchstag,
a letter of introduction to General von
Bulow. an unpaid tallor'B bill, etc. but
Dwtiii’a Heau Hussars have no sense
ft humor on patrol. They even re-
PROGRAM
Choctaw Township
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION
To be Held at
M. E. CHURCH, CHOCTAW CITY
Sunday, Jan. 10, 1915
10:00 A. M.—Song Service.
10:80 A. M.—Union Sunday School.
11:30 A. M.—Lesson Reviewed, Mrs.
Gilliam, Co. Teacher Training
Supt.
11:50 A. M.—Closing.
12:00 M. —Lunch and Social Hour
Young Polish sharpshooters about to
leave Czenstochowa bidding their
friends and relatives good-by.
14 WOUNDS; OTHERWISE 0. K.
Sturdy German Defender of the
Fatherland Thought He Was
Not Badly Hurt.
Berlin.—The report of the following
incident was sent to the Berliner
Tageblatt by a physician:
"In the royal surgical clinic in Zie-
gelstrasse there arrived a new trans-
port filled mainly with severely
wounded men, moat of whom had to be
carefully carried to their beds. One
sturdy defender of his country clam-
bered without assistance out of the
wagon and approached the physician
who was receiving them.
” 'Well, my man,’ said the latter,
'you were not badly hurt?’
“ ‘No,’ the man in the field gray an-
swered, ‘only three blows on the head
with the butt end of a rifle, ten bay-
onet thrusts and a shot through my
chest. Nothing else.’ ”
BABY SLEEPS WITH BEARS
"Big
Daggle Play,” All Lost Child
Says of Hit Remarkable
Experience.
Flfleld, Wis.—Kept alive for two
days by association with two bear
cubs and their mother, Baby Ball, the
two-year-old son of a settler north of
here, was found late at night recent-
ly, asleep In the underbrush and,
though starving, was not suffering
frem exposure. The searchers saw
the sign of bears near where the child
was found, and old woodsmen de-
clared that the babe was kept alive
by sleeping with the cubs and their
mother.
All that the child can say la: "Big
doggie play; baby hungry.”
NO ORDER, JAIL SHUT TO HIM
Oregonian Who Made Trip to Prlaon
Alone la Sent Back for Com-
mitment Papers
Salem, Oregon.—R N. Gibson, sen-
tenced from Multnomah county to
serve from one to five years in the
penitentiary for obtaining money by
false pretenses, was refused admit-
tance when he arrived at the prison
unattended.
He had been authorized by Sheriff
Word of Portland to make the trip
alone, but had forgotten to bring his
commitment papers.
He was told to return and get them,
and started for Portland again, ex-
pressing chagrin at the delay.
1:30 P. M.—Opening Song.
1:85 P. M.—Business Sessiou
2:00 P. M.—Song aud Praise Ser-
vice, conducted by Dr. Stewart.
2:15 P. M.—Review of Last Year’s
Work, by 0. It. Hisel, Co. Sec’y
8:35 P. M.—Talk ,bv Our County
President, Jesse Vandenburg.
3:05 P. M.—Song by Choir.
3:10 P. M.—Organizing and In-
creasing our Teacher Training
Force, Mrs. Gilliam, Co. Teach-
er Training Supt.
4:00 P. M.—Closing Song and Ben-
ediction.
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