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Successor to The Tthleqaah Arrow and Herald
TAHLEQUAH, OKLA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1917.
THIRTY-SECOND YEAR—NUMBER 52
DISTRICT COURT
PROCEEDINGS
State vs. J. W. Gibens.—Defend-
ant waives assistance of counsel.
IJefendpnt arraigned, pleads guilty.
Sentence passed Iintil Sept. 10.
State vs. JacK Love.—Defendant
waives assistance of counsel and
pleads guilty. Sentence suspended
until Sept. 10.
State vs. Ike Suflivan.—Defend-
ant files demurer, demurer overru
ed. Defendant excepts and enters
plea not guilty. Both sides an
liounce ready for trial. Jury called
State vs. Jeff Ballew. -Jury re-
turn verdict of guilty and fix penal
ty at 99 years in state penitentiary
Defendant excepts. Sentence set for
Tuesday Sept 11.
Stata vs. Win. Lilard.—Defendant
arraigned and pleads not guilty
Both sides announce ready for trial.
Jury empaneled, trial had and Jury
retire to deliberate.
State vs. Carl Ridgell,—Defendant
files motion for continuance. Motion
overruled. Set for Monday.
State vs. John Howard'.—Defend-
ant present in person and by Attor-
neys Reed and Hughes. Defendant
files motion for continuance. Motion
overruled and jury called. Jury em-
paned and sworn.
State vs. Wni. Liilard.—The jury
in this cause returned1 a verdict uf
guilty of giving liquor to a minor
and assess his punishment at $50
fine and 90 days in jail. Sheriff
ordered to take charge of the De-
fendant. Defendant sentenced to
the serve 30 days in the County jail
and to pay a fin of $50 amdi to stand
committed until fine otid costs are
paid Defendant allowed $1 per day
-'or each day served in jail.
State vs. John Hicks, defendant
called three times in open court and
answered not. Adjudged in default.
Bondsmen called.
State vs. Bert HicKs.—Defendant
waives arraignment and pleads not
.guilt.- V
State vs. Lawrence Stephens.—
Defendant files demurrer, demurrer
overruled, 'defendant pleads no;
guilty.
State vs. Don Mankiller,—Defend-
ant arraigned and pleads not guil-
ty.
State vs. Chas. Clark.—Defendant
arraigned and pleads not guilty.
State vs. John Howard.—Jury re-
turn verdict of guilty of assault with
a dangerous weapon as charged and
assess punishment at one year in
the state penitentiary Tuesday, Sept
13, set for sentence.
' State vs. Ike Sullivan.—Jury re-
turned into open court with verdict
of guilty of obtaining money by
use of a bogus check, as charged and
assess punishment at imprisonment
in the penitentiary for the term of
12 months. Thursday, Sept. 13 at
9 A. M., set for sentence.
State vs. Rex Sansing.—Defendant
waives arraignment and pleads t •
assault and battery. Upon recom-
mendation of County Attorney, plea
accepted and defendant fined $100
and stand committed until fine and
costs are paid.
State vs. John Howard.—Defend-
ant sentenced to the State peniten-
tiary for the term of one year and
one day, sentence to begin this date.
Defendant given 90 days to file case,
10 days to suggest amendments and
C days to settle. Supersedeas bond
fixed at $2000.
AN I. \\. \\. DEFINED.
Since the war broke out between
Uncle Sam and the German Empire,
we find a certain class of men try-
ing to (destroy the Government of the
United States and all material things
therein. They are gone m&d, it
seems, because we are going to fight
the Germans and they are trying to
do everything possible to cripple
Uncle Sam in order to keep him from
doing effective fighting against the
Kaiser. They seek to make traitors
out of the ignorant and to destroy
the property that others have accu-
milated. Hence comes the question
resounding througout the world:
'What Is an I. W. W? N  man up to
the present time has ever given an
answer. Being a student of men
and governments and organizations
of men, I undertake to answer thai,
momenteous question. For any oth-
er Information we can turn to (he
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias and
find a ready answer, but as to the
definition of an I. W. W. the Lexa-
cographers are as Ignorant as the I.
~ W. W. himself. Since I have by
I toilsome study found out what an
I. W. W. is, 1 feel that duty compels
I me to -answer this question and lead
j a groping world out of darkness in-
to the light of day. An I. W. W.
is a 33rd degree socialist. He is t'ie
highest socialist in the world, and
right here I may say that in all oth-
er organizations the higher you get
the better man you are supposed to
be; but in the socialist party the low-
er down you get, as a man, tlit
higher in socialism you climb. Tile
great Masonic Lodge has degrees of
Masonry. The Free and Accepted
Mason, The Royal Arch Mason and
the 33rd degree Mason. The social-
ist has by toilsome march climbii
higher and higher degrees until the
perfect Socialist shines forth whi'h
the world has denominated an I. W.
W. When s man gets tired of work,
probably been skinned a few times
by reason of inability or like of en-
ergy to take care if himself, when his
liver gets out of order and won't
eliminate the bile from the rotton
system and the nerve is all gone-
when the malaria has caused slug-
gishness and laziness; when a man
feels that the support of his wife
and baby is a stupendous task which
Atlas would wisely decline and
leaves them to work for their owe
chops as/^'ell as his; when a man
gets to where there is no good in
him and not much barm in him'
when he is purely negative, nothing
positive about him when he won't
do anything good and not much
harm; when there is no action, pure
inertia controls his system and ho
begins to howl about his lot in the
world and strongly intimates that
the government ought to feed him;
when he makes sickly tirades about
rents, interest and profits; Then hj
has entered the first degree of so-
cialism which I will denominate the
free and accepted socialist of the
free and easy socialist.
When this same man has taken
a dose of pills and the liver takes
a little bit of laziness out of him
and begins to make fun of the Bible,
with Owlish wisdom decline to ac-
cept any form of religion because
he says it enslaves the race, abuses
the preachers and deacons in the
church, rebels against the idea •(>{
having to marry in order to have a
mate, learnedly of talks of "Econo-
mic Determinism," advocates State
ownership of Soup houses to feed
those that are to small or to lazy
to work, when he tells how nice it
is to appropriate what all men of in-
dustry earns to feed the pusilani-
mous nest of the red flag order, teh
us that the U. S. Flag is no more
than his old shirt tail, tells us that
the rich instituted! marriage so that
they could be sure that they would
hand down to their own blood the
property they accumulate, when he
argues that this marriage enslaves
women because she has to give birth
to her husbands child, when she
might love another man better, and
when he cries for the freedom of
such women, he is then a royal arch
socialist. Then comes the highest
degree of Socialism. This same
mans liver has made nauseated and
he begins to vomit the foulest filths
in the thought of man into the face
of a helpless world; when he fluent-
ly speaks of Jesus Christ as a bas-
tard and damns him because he
obeys the rulers, when he tries to
destroy his own Government that
has fed the lazy whelp ever since
his advent in the world, when he
sees he cannot eat up everything
others have made and burns wheat-
fields, barns anl orchards, when a
beautiful hay meadow gives off
foul odor to his hellish nostrils;
when he tries to promisciously dis-
seminate disease germs in something
he can peddle, to kill innocent babes
and trusting Mothers; when he
poisons well and drinking tanks, to
kill friend or fo?; when he racks his
brain for cowardly means cf deal-
ing death to unsuspecting people;
when he stirs up strife between
peaceful neighbors and scatters dis-
cord wherever his unholly foot has
tradi; when he is too cowardly to re-
bell himself but tries to get the hon-
est working people to do so and then
hide his rotten carcas where Uncle
Sam cannot find him; when he
damns the marriage relation and
howls for the right of promisclous
love, so that women can select the
Daddy for her own children and
wants the State to feed1 the bastards;
when he calls his own wife a concu-
bine and tries to make every home
In the United States a house of pros-
titution, every man a whoremonger
and every woman a prostitute, then
he Is the highest socialist In the
world and) has reached the ultimate
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The
Maiv with Money
has his famijy
protected with money
in the Bank,
v.
Doesn't it mcke you "sweat blood" to think what
would become of those you love, and who are dependent
on you, if you should die penniless?
That doesn't happen to the man with money. He
has done his duty. He saves his money and puts it In
the Bank where it is safe from fire, burgiurs or his own
extravagance.
Put YOUR money in OUR bank.
We pay 4 per cent interest.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
TAHLEQUAH, OKLAHOMA
aim of his unholly organization, and
which we, for distinguishing purpos-
es, have denominated the 1. W W.
A man can no more become at once
a 33rd degree socialist than I could
live in heaven without a change of
garment, it is such an awfu! plunge
hellward that man to live and make
the awful dive he must have stop-
ping places, surrounded by the foul-
est stench that ever pervaded the
lungs of man and after remaining in
such filth and slime for certain
lengths of time he is reaidjy to make
the second plunge but again no hu-
man can stand a plunge yet so deep
in degridation, he must have anoth-
er resting place on the Roya! Arch
pool of filth and slime. Here after
his soul is steeped in all that God
detests, after he has been tpught
rottenness in all its cankering form
amdi his mind ' becomes a reeking,
seething foam of putrifactiin, he is
ready to plunge as deep in degrada-
tion as hell itself and if he cannot
jump into hell at one leap and pull
all creation in with him, he is dis-
satisfied. It used to be lb* belief
that every time a man died his soul
departed and went into seme child
just being horned. At tnat time
there were as many deaths as births
and there were no socialist. Since
then medical science has decreased
the death rate and increased tin
birth rate and there began to be
more births than there were deaths
and some children had the misfor-
tune to be borned when no man
diied and socialist sprang forth.
When a man first starts out to
be a socialist, he reminds me of the
old Seprent, when he looked up on
the mountain's topmost craig apd
saw the soaring American Eagle
perched thereon and he wished to
emulate the great American bird.
He unwound his dirty body and be-
gan the slow ascent, leaving filth
and slime on every leaf and h >wer.
He wiggled on and he wiggledi up,
and he wiggled back down into the
dirty pool in which he was born anil
in which God Almighty, intended
that ho should sit.
Respectfully submitted,
L. C. McNABB,
Sallisaw, Okla
FIRST OOTTO.X
The first load of cotton brought
to Tahlequah this season ws
brought yesterday by Frank Brock,
of near Cookson. The loadi weighed
1,50§ pounds and brought $113.10
together with a premium of $31.75
made up by Tahlequah business men.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Services at All Saint's Church will
bo resumed next Sunday. Rev. Allen
Jacobs will conduct Morning Prayer
and will preach. The service is at
10:30 A. M.
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The Provident Habits
of animals and insects are
the result of instinct.
Should not the reasoning faculties of
The Human Mind
teach mortals to profit by the example
and put aside a part of their earnings to
provide for a period of idleness(c used by
sickness, accident or loss of employment?
START A SAVINGS ACCOUNT AT ONCE
We Pay 4 Per Cent Interest On Savings
THE FIRST STATE BANK*
DEPOSITS GUARANTEED
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A correspondent Is wanted In each
neighborhood In the county. If your
community Is not represented we
want it to be. Write or call at the
office on the north side of the square
for further particulars.
Gray are in charge of District No. 7
and Mr. Henry Ward of Tahlequah,
and Mrs. Florrie Smith are presid-
ing in No. 15. All are artists In their
chosen lines.
.Mr. Jeff Paden, who has been
quite sick is slightly improved.
MOODY ITEMS.
The Schojl TJoard has made qullo
an Improvement on the school
ground in clearing the bushes off
and making other necessary improv-
ments.
Miss Lola, Fanning dismissed
school Wednesday to atfend the
teachers' training course, at Tahle-
quah.
A reception was given by the com-
munity Thursday night at the Pres-
byterian church for our soldier boys
who leave soon to enter service. Pa-
triotic decorations were in evidence,
patriotic songs sung and. splendid
talks, made by Reverends, Colhoun.
Palmer and Messrs Howard and
I'ugh. The young men honored on
this memorable occasion were:
Marvin Chambers,
William Robinson,
William Evans,
Van Paden,,
Ernest, Terrell,
Charles Danes—Haddock.
Rev. W. L. Anderson and wife
from Peggs, visited at the home of
W. S. Ghormley Saturday and Sun-
day.
The infant child of Grover Chan-
dler died on Spring crock, Saturday
R. F. Marler attended the general
Baptist association on Tiners Creek
fdom Thursday to Sunday.
Lake Oxford, from the
river, is visiting relatives
vicinity.
Illinois
in thU
The revival at Liberty, is growing
in interest to professed Sunday.
The A. H. T. A. Had their elec-
tion of officers Saturday. K. T.
Brackett was elected president, ant
Mr. Harny Herrin was elected dele-
gate to the annual convention which
will meet at Wagoner.
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Jeff Cake of St. Louis, Okla., and
Troy Sansing of Pitcher are enjoying
short visit with home folks.
W. E. Duncan is suffering from a
sprained ankle.
Mrs. W. D. Jackson, of Ft. Smith
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Mark
Whayne.
'Uncle Bub" Naves is quite sick
at his home near here. Dr. J. M.
Thompson is attending him.
The County Singing Convention
was held here Sunday. A large
crowd was in attendance and a very
enjoyable day spent.
Howard Miller and Mr. and Mrs.
Morgan, of Wallville, came Monday
in their car for a short visit with
Mr. and Mrs. Lee McClendon.
Mrs. W. C. Hinton visited Mr. and
Mrs. Ross Daniels in Tahlequah
Monday.
Miss Lelia Smith is ill of typhoid
fever.
Rev. and Mrs. J. P. Thornjberry
and children of Lincoln, Ark., re-
turned home Wednesday after a
short visit with Mr. and Mrs. H. A
Pugh.
Berville Dause suffered a very
painful injury Saturday when th"
saddle girth broke and his horse fell
on his foot.
^Ir. W. D. Griffith was kicked in
the head by a horse Thursday morn-
ing; his injuries, though not thought
to be serious, are very painful,
Mr. T. T. Sansing is quite sick
at his home near here.
Miss Ida Rich, of Llndoln, Ark.,
came Monday for a visit with Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Watson.
A series of meetings Is being held
by Rev. J. P. Palmer, assisted by
Rev. Atkinson, of Welling, In a
large tent erected for the purpose.
Much Interest Is being manifested.
Both schools opened Monday
morning with a good attendance and
prospects for a banner year'* work.
Drover Howard and Miss Senora
A marriage of much Interest oe-
cured Friday in Springfield, Mo.,
when Mr. Horace Dossett, of Ken-
tucky, and Miss Daisy M. Kirk, of
Pennsylvania, were quietly married.
Both are valuable employees of the
Cherokee Training school. Their
marriage is the culmination of sev-
eral years' friendship. The Arrow,
with their many friends, wishes
them a long happy lite of prosperi-
ty.
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We have had plenty of rain
this vicinity.
Mrs. James Tyner, of Miles, re-
turned home Saturday after several
weeks visit with her mother, Mrs.
W. W. Young.
The Box supper at Crittemden fast
Friday night was very nice. The
proceeds were to buy provisions for
the school ground.
Miss Annie Tipton and Mr. Grady
Eller were married Sunday.
W. W. Young has returned home
from thrashing near Vinita.
Mrs. Josie C. Sartin visited W. W.
Young's home Monday. S f
They have organized a Literary
at Crittenden, which will be once ev-
ery two weeks, on Friday night, be-
ginning last Friday night. Every-
one is invited.
Bill Stephens has purchased a new
car.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Martin were
called to Talala Saturday, oil ac-
count of the death of Mr. Martin's
sister, Mrs. Elsie Sangster, which
occured Saturday morning.
Mrs. Dora Lowrey went to Mus-
kogee last Saturday to visit relative?
for a few diays.
Messrs. Williamson and Cornell-
ous are building a nice four room
house on the Neeley farm.
School opened at Woodall Sept.
3rd, with an attendance of thirty-
seven pupils. Prospects are good for
a fine school this year. The board
were all present Monday morning.
Miss Lucy Lowrey left Saturday
for Muskogee, where she will attend
school the coming year.
Major Steeley and W. P. McKin-
ney were In Muskogee last week.
The school board has purchased
new brooms, buckets, dippers and
drinking cups for the school house.
We hope these will not be cariitd
away.
"Uncle" Jack Roberson has a bad-
ly swolen hand and arm.
Dan Lowrey and family came
home from Collinsville last week.
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Our school Is progressing nicely
and the children seem to like the
new teacher.
Mrs. May Davis and Mr. Ella
Dlckerson vls'ted with Mrs. Turner
Alfrey Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Youngblool
visited with Mr. Tom MedUns fam-
ily Sunday.
Howard Youngblood and Robert
Combs hag come back horn* from
Marrls, Okla., where they have been
at work for the last five weeks. The
boys say there is plenty of work at
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