The Ralston Tribune (Ralston, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, April 20, 1917 Page: 1 of 8
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THe Ralston Tribune
Entered at the Pott Office at Raltton, Okla.,
at Second Clatt Mail Matter June i 23rd, 1917.
Ralston, Pawnee County, Oklahoma, Friday, April 20, 1917
Volume I Number 44
CIVIC LEAGUE
IS ORGANIZED
Ladies of Ralston Form Body
To Work witk Chamber
of Commerce.
The ladies of the town held a
a very enthusiastic meeting: at
the-Opera House, Tuesday even-
ing: and proceeded to organize a
Civic League.
The following officers were
< elected and installed:
Mrs. &. D. McBride, president
Mrs. Ora McCague, vice pres-
ident
Mrs. R. F. Shields, secretary
Mrg. W. W. Brooks, treasurer
The Civic League will be aux-
ilarary to the Chamber of 'Com-
merce, and its aim will be to
make Ralston a better, pleasant-
er and more beautiful place in
which to live.
Yeomen to Make Good
F. L. Brown and Clyde Lowry
who represented the Ralston
Yeoman Homestead at the state
conclave at Shawnee, ask us to
make the following statement:
“The Shawnee Homestead are
to be congratulated on their
many efforts to please the large
number of Yeomen assembled
there. Our part will be ex-
plained by a report taken from
the Osage Journal. *
We earnestly hope all the Rals-
ton Yeomen will ccooperate in
making this a meeting long to be
remembered, and another in-
stance where our prize-winning
degree team bring home the hon-
ors accredited to the winners.
“Manager Brians also stated
that* he would offer a neat sum
of money with probably first and
second prizes, so both would re-
ceive remuneration."
The following is the article
from the Osage Journal:—
The regular quadrennial state
Conclave of Brotherhood of
American Yeoman has just been
held at Shawnee.
W. A. Daniels, correspondent
of Pawhuska Homestead No.
2650 was a delegate from this
lodge. Mr. Daniels says Shaw-
nee royally entertained the dele-
gates. He also reports that at
the Conclave a* challenge was
issued by Ralston Homestead's
officers and drill team to put on
the Initiatory Degrees and Floor
drill work against any Home-
steads officers and drill team.
District Manager H. B. Brians of
Dewey, accepted the challenge
for * Bartlesville’"'Homesteads'*
officers and drill team and ar-
rangements were made to hold
the contest at Pawhuska some
time in June or July.
H. B. Brians, district manager
will he in Pawhuska in about
three weeks and will endeavor
to obtain a large clan for adop-
tion at that time.
To Report State Convention
G. M. Simpson, who was a del-
egate to the State Sunday School
Convention at Enid last month,
will give a detailed report of the
meeting, at 11:00 o'clock next
Sunday morning, at the Chris-
tian church. All persons inter-
ested are invited to be present.
Ray Hedges visited at Fairfax
Tuesday night.
Have Eulogized Dog
Shakespeare, Izaak Walton, Jona-
than Swift, Alexander Pope, Oliver
Goldsmith, Robert Burns, William
Wordsworth, Sir Walter Scott,
Charles Lamb, Lord Byron and
many others have paid warm trib-
utes to the dog, some in verse and
others in prose. Here is one by Cu-
vier, the great French scientist and
naturalist. He said: “The dog is the
most complete, the most remarkable
and the most useful conquest ever
made by man. Every species has be-
come our property; each individual
is altogether devoted to his master,
assumes his manners, knows and de-
fends his property, and remains at?
tached to him until death; and fell
this proceeds neither from want nor
constraint, but solely from true grat-
itude and real friendship. The swift-
ness, the strength and the scent of
the dog have created for him a pow-
erful ally against other animals, and
perhaps necessary to the establish-
ment of society. He is the only ani-
mal which has followed man through
every region of the earth.” Another
great naturalist, Button, said “It
may be said the dog is the only ani-
mal whose loyalty will stand trial;
the ouly one who always knows his
master and the friends of the fam-
ily ; the only one who, when a stran-
ger comes, knows it; the only one
who knows his own name and recog-
nizes his master’s voice; who, when
he has lost his master, cries after
him; who, on a long road whiHh he
has only followed once, remembers
and reasons the way; finally, the only
one whose natural talents are plain
and whose education always turns
out well.”
Final Notice of Assessment
All parties who have not yet
listed their property with the
County Assessor are urged to do
so at once.
% I * e
If it will be more convenient
for you, just list your property
and mail me a copy at Pawnee
and will return you a duplicate.
Be sure and place your list with
this office before May 1, 1917*
As the legislature has passed a
law placing a fine of $1.00 on
those failing to list their proper-
ty before that date.
Do it now.
4t T. O. LONGMIER
154 Sold
W. E. Selby has sold 154 Nat-
ional and Monarch stoves iii
Ralston and vicin ity. Each one
is an advertisement for these
standard makes. You will make
no mistake in following fhe good
example set by these 154.
Birthday Party
A number of friends and
relatives were entertained at
dinner at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. John Holder Tuesday.
All present report a very
pleasent affair.
Good Rain
The country was blessed by a
good rain the past week, that
have been of inestimable benefit
to the growing crops.
CloMing Out
All trunks and suit cases. Get
one before they are gone.—W.
E. Selby. tf
Miss Lela Gates visited friends
in Pawnee the first of the week.
Trade at Ralston.
’77s the Star Span-
gled Banner, Oh,
‘ Long May It Wave
Notice to the Public
Owing to conditions we have
raised the price of weighing to
15 cents, and have employed a
man eeoecially to take care of
the scales. So fhat we will be in
position to care of all such work
promptly.—Long-Bell Lmb. Co-
Mrs. J. O. Cales returned
Monday evening, from a visit
with relatives at Niotaze, Kans.
Miss Glenna Jones has been
quite sick this week, but is now
able to be back at work.
Ward McCggue and Ray Brown
were Pawnee visitors, Monday.
Roy Huse and mother made a
trip to Fairfax, Tuesday.
C. S. DeHart spent Sunday and
Monday in Pawhuska.
Mr. Jay was up from Pawnee
on business Tuesday.
T/ade with home merchants.
FAIR VIEW ITEMS
Lavinia Wehr visited Nellie
Wheatley Sunday.
James Curtis lost a fine mare
one day last week.
Alice Garner of Pawnee spent
Sunday with home folks.
C. P. Beck who has been quite
sick is able to be up again..
Mrs. R. L. Wheatley and Misd
Alta Boyle have the measles.
Mrs. Dona Beck visited her
parents F. N. Garner and wife
Tuesday.
Leatha Fisher of Ralston is
spending a few weeks with S. S
Beck and wife.
C. A. Evanhoe and son Carl
are doing carpenter work near
Fairfax this week.
Robert Hainey and wife of
Oklahome City are visiting his
sister Mrs Joe Panther.
Felix and James Lynn of Bel-
ford were callers at the home of
Bill .VanDusen Sunday evening.
Andy Panther and wife and
son M ichael ard Jcsie Evanhoe,
visited Pat Lynn and family at
Belford Sunday.
Misses Mollie and Rosie Pan-
tner gave a picnic Sunday for
their little friends. Those present
were. Misses Beaulah Fulps,
Fsye Garner, Emma Misener,
Viola and Alta Gibbons, Mary
Evanhoe, Mollie and Rosie Pan-
ther. Messers Roy King,
Anthony Panther, Walter and
Willie Gibbons. After spending
a most enjoyable day in the woods
they all returned to their homes
Thanking their young hostes a
for a very nice time.
Alligator la Latest Fad
Geraldine Farrar’s cousin, Miss
Amparito Farrar, started it—the
wearing of alligators.
I And now a whole lot of New York
women have taken up the fad, the
Boston Post states.
When a certain New York society
woman came down Fifth avenue,
leading a pet pig, everybody thought
the absolute ultimate had been
reached.
But not so. Now the fair women
of Gotham are wearing the alliga-
tors. Yes, sir, real, live crocodiles
with ringed bodies and horned tails.
They’re regular man-eating alli-
gators, of course—and a footrule
would overlap them by at least three
inches; but alongside the chameleon
of old they put up a real terrifying
appearance, although they can’t
change color as did those pets of a
few years ago. The most fashionable
variety is the species that is ringed
with gold stripes from the end of his
snout to the tip of his scaly tail. The
women insist that they are real
pretty and most satisfactory pets.
They don’t make any noise and none
of them has as yet evinced a dispo-
sition to make a meal off an ear or a
finger.
The ’gators made their first ap-
pearance at a hotel function and im-
mediately caught on.
Loved Attic is No More
In moving back to town the fam-
ily suddenly discovered that their
new house had no attic. Consterna-
tion reigned. Worse, they next woke
to realize that modern houses have
no attics. Where once the attic
bloomed, they have a spare chamber
and a whole suite elite for the cook,
with dormer windows, electric lights,
open plumbing, plastered walls and
wallpaper patterned with pink roses.
The ajiartmcnt-hou.se fiat is as bare
of an attic as it is of that other an-
cient and honorable institution of
family life, the woodshed where the
strap hung.
Say what you will, the loss is seri-
ous. In the attic children could
have things their own way and drive
nails where and when they pleased.
In the attic theatrical performances
were not interrupted by parental
censors. In the attic Arabs raided,
Indians scalped, and Eliza crossed
the ice (realistically impersonated
by a collection of calf’s-hide-covered
trunks).
Where will family history collect
now that it is evicted from the attic?
Not in the basement. That is occu-
pied by the janitor.—Boston Globe.
More Boys Born
Birth statistics for London seem
to show that nature has begun to re-
store the bulance of the sexes which
is being disturbed by the war. Dur-
ing the past 13 weeks 13,329 boys
and 12,637 girls were born. This
gives a proportion of 1,017 boys to
1,000 girls, which is seven more boys
than the average for England and
Wales before the war. Compared
with the same quarter of the year
in 1913 the London figures are re-
markable, for the proportion then
was only 1,012 boys to 1,000 girls
In the 1913 quarter there were more
girl babies than boy babies in seven
of the thirteen weeks; this year the
girls exceeded the boys in only one
week. The popular belief that war
increases the male relatively to the
female birth rate is therefore being
borue out.
If you know something of in
terest. call Phone No. 3.
I still have a large li ne of hats
50 per cent discount on every h«
until the entire stock is closed
out,-Mrs. J. E. Eyler 2t
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tion witk Wichita Weekly
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Intense interest has been
created in the circulation cam-
paign being conducted by this
newspaper and the Wichita
Weekly Eagle in the announce-
ment that to those of the am-
bitious workers who take an
active part in the campaign and
who do not come in for one of the
big cash prizes will he paid a
cash commission of ten per cent,
upon all of the subscription
collections turned in by them.
Thus no one can work in this
contest without being rewarded
for the part they take in it.
If you have not already entered
your name as a candidate in this
contest, do so at once. Send in
your name to the Manager of the
Bank Account Campaign direct
to The Weekly Eagle, Wichita,
Kansas, and get the necessary
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means much to you to start at
once, for the campaign will last
eight weeks beinning Monday
April 23rd, and ending Saturday
June 16th.
It is easy to take subscriptions
for this newspaper and the
Wichita Weekly Eagle, for the
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and you will have no trouble in
having them pay up their sub-
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Start out on the double quick for
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Vote Schedule
The following will be the num-
ber of votes allowed in the Tri-
bune-Eagle Subscription Cam-
paign:
$2.00 Club................8,000
2.50 Club...............12,500
3.00 Club...............18,000
3.50 Club...............24,600
4.00 Club...............32,000
4.50 Club...............40,500
5.00 Club...............50.000
5.50 Club...............60,500
6.00 Club...............72,000
Subscription rates to The
Wichita Weekly Eagle limited to
3 years, $1.00; 5 years, $1.50.
In making up “clubs" com-
bine these rates with The Tri-
bune's rate of $1.00 per year.
At least $1.00 payment to the
Weekly Eagle must be included
in each “club."
Subscriptions to The Tribune
accepted for from one to five
years.
Patronize Ralston merchants.
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Browning, Orrin L. The Ralston Tribune (Ralston, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, April 20, 1917, newspaper, April 20, 1917; Ralston, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc908202/m1/1/?rotate=270: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.