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The Chandler News-Publicist
Official Paper for Chandler City and Lincoln County—Ha* a Larger Paid Circulation Than Any Other Two County Papers Combined
VOL. xxvu.
(HANDLER, LINCOLN COUNTY. OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY, .11 NE 21, l»IH
<1 MHFR 41
Our Soldiers’ Letters
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I-nun (apt. \V. <i. III'Ikm*.
France, May 21. 19X8
Dear Father:
With Eleanor gone. 1 will have to
write you more regular 1 aoi feel-
ing (In**, anil have not been over-
worked as yet, though 1 ani not get-
ting as much sleep as 1 did in the
back areas
We are haviug wonderful weather,
really hot for France, aud not a cloud
in the sky fo/ a week past. These
moonlight nights are not appreciated
in this part of the world for the
nights are one long series of air
raids, bombs, etc., but we are drop-
ping five or ten to Fritz’s one. so we
should not worry. The artillery is
also active these nights I have a
tine place to sleep, good bed and a
good mess, and 1 ride nearly every
day in the rear. This country cannot
stand dry weather, and the roads are
very dusty, ami the gardens are suf-
fering. We had strawberries from
southern France yesterday for the
first time. They will ripen here in
two or three weekv Had a chance
to get some good cigars the other
day. had been out for a week or two,
smoking is almost universal in the
army, but cigarettes never satisfy
me. aud I am in no danger of that
habit.
Thursday a m Had to leave this
and attend to the p. m sick call, aud
of late, we have had a bridge game
every night, so will finish it now
We get up at 7 (more or less) and
have breakfast when we please I
usually then have my horse saddled
and ride around the back areas,
through the woods aud fields, some-
times calling on m> frieuds iu other
organizations, then 1 make my sani-
tary inspections, kitchens, billets,
etc., which finishes the forenoon
After a 12 o'clock lunch 1 have until
3:45 to do about as 1 please, catch
up whatever work is necessary, and
look after the sick call of six com-
panies from 3:45 until 1 am through,
then dinner at *; p m and bridge
or reading until bed time. 1 have
emergency calls at any or all hours,
but am having it quite easy at this
place.
At some places, I have it much hard-
er, but that is an average sample of
my day’s work. It ought to keep me
healthy, to say the least. We are al-
ways in range of heavy artillery, and
they occasionally drop bombs around
us, but we grew accustomed to that.
If you have a good family in the
house, why don’t you go to N. Y.
this summer? It will be lonely for
you there. It is hard to count on
when I will return, but hope to by-
fall, but I may not get a transfer.
With love.
W. G. BISBEE.
Capt. M. O R C
From Carney Dean.
M. O. T. C., Group E. 10,
Fort Riley. Kans..
Dear Mr. Nichols:
I told you 1 should write when we
got settled but failed to do so. We
were all kept so busy that some im-
portant matters went begging with
others.
Several fellows have be^n assigned
permanent places from our barracks
but I do not know just those from
Lincoln county. If you will send me
a list of the 109 fellows sent here
I may be able to get the addresses of
the others if you care for them The
fellows themselves v ould like to
know where each other is and a paper
sent to the address given w'ould reach
them even though they were moved
to eastern camps soon.
Only about two-thirds of the men
have been assigned places. Here are
a few:
Provisional Ambulance.
Company B.
Cochran, E. N.
Holloway, John E.
Dallas, Ross L.
Marak, Peter P.
Patterson, Henry B.
Evacuation Hospital No. 20.
Virgil M. 0
. Lloyd W. i
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myself and all the other dentists of
Lincoln county, that you give this
letter space iu your columns. I feel
that the public should know and that
the dentists deserve that they know,
in just what manner those of us who
are associated with the ' Prepared-
ness League of American Dentists"
are doing out bit
The ratio of deutisis iu the army
is one to a thousand men. This in
peace times was suttlcieul to take
are of the men, but it can be readily
seen in our present streuuous time,
w hat w ith calling men to the service
hurridly. and subjecting them to the
exposure incident to vigorous train-
ing that even one dentist to a hun-
dred men might be inadequate to
meet the demand for their services,
especially if ninety-five of that hun-
dred iiappeued to have toothache at
the same time.
To prevent suffering aud to assist
the army dentist, the Preparedness
League of American Dentists was or-
ganized and dentists all over the
country were asked to contribute
their time, services aud material to
attending the dental needs of the
boys before they went to camp This
league was at once recognized byv the
surgeon general’s office and all ex-
emption boards were asked to co-op-
erate in this work. Since then a
dentist has been placed on each ex-
emption board and the work has been
thoroughly carried on. At preseut
every man w ho goes to camp is given
a chance to have his urgent dental
needs atteuded to. aud a great num-
ber of them have been saved consid-
able pain and misery by this patriotic
service, entirely free of cost to them-
selves.
Lincoln county has "gone over the
top" in this service. Every dentist
has worked faithfully at the work as-
signed to him and hundreds of boys
have been made dentally fit. and have
gone away reasonably assured that
they could stand exposure to the ele-l
ments without suffering dental ills.'
A great many seem to be of the)
opinion that the dentist is receiving i
compensation for his work from the |
government, or that pay for it will
be deducted from the soldier’s first
month's pay. Such is not at all the
case. The dentists are contributing
this as a patriotic service and there
are no strings attached whatever.
At present Lincoln county is a
hundred per cent efficient in this
work, every dentist in the county
being engaged in it. The organiza-
tion will continue to take care of the
men as they are called To the fol-
lowing named dentists I am ir.:!^bted
for cheerful and able assistance in
this great work: Doctors G. Louwien
and S. .1 Draper, (’handler; W. J.
Vinette. VVeilston. E. R. Shaw, Tryon;
S. M. Petit, G. E Zinn, Prague.
Very truly yours.
DR. G. R. HANSEN.
County Director Preparedness League
of American Dentists
MB8. GILSTR IP V < IN DID \ l I
ON KK1M IH.ICAN STATE TICKET.
June 15th was the first anniversary I prepared to care for all demands tor
of the Liucolu county chapter of the 1 relief aud assistance. 9
American Red Cross, and calls to I Another feature has |een the work
uiind au eventful year iu the history j of tae .auteeii and gilt box commit-
of our county. The results attained I tee. Every Lincoln epunty soluier
are wonderful and speak volumes fori boy has beeu remembered and given
the zeal aud euergy that have beeu ; a oox ot good things 4s a token of
put forth. The committee on exteu- goou luck and good willies trorn the
sion begun last summer and carried : notuc folks. Miss Lydu Martin has
the banner of the Red Cross to all a* ted as chairman of this committee
parts of the county aud resulted in I and has devoted mail) bouts ot hard
the organization of mueteeu active work to the cause,
working branches. These branches | The surgical dressings committee,
have demonstrated the efficient work under the leadership ot Mrs F. A.
of this committee under the leader- j KtUenhouse. has enrolled i* o:g mem-
ship of Manager 11. C. Hruut, they bership and completed and snipped
carried the second w ar fund to a big j thousands of articles of surgical
success by raising over |30,000.00 lit dressing*. This committee wilt prob-
contribulions. The chapter member- ably be called upou for more service
ship increased steadily and during J during the next tew mouths thuii any
the Christmas membership drive,
headed by the committee lead by W.
L. Johnson, a total of nearly &.000
members was gained.
The work of the chapter has beeu
administered by an executive com-
mittee, with the following officers,
president, Mrs. Geo. Boggs; vice-
president, Mrs. H. B. Gilstrap; sec-
retary, Mrs Lucy Adams; treasurer,
H. \V. Harris These officers have
also acted as officers of the Chandler
branch and have devoted constant
and earnest attentou to the work and
welfare of the chapter
One feature of chapter work that
is fast growing in importance is the
home service aud civilian relief.
This work in the hands of the com-
mittee under the management of H
\V. Harris is perfecting a roll of all
Lincoln county soldiers and will be
other branch of the work
The surgical dressings departments
of tiie branches have furnished 1053
muslin dressings and 4637 8 gauze
dressings, a total of 47431.
The work in this department and
also in the knitting department rep-
resents iu reality only about six
months work, as the chapter was
not able to get supplies when needed,
and for weeks at a time the workers
in surgical dressings aud knitting
were compelled to stop. The demand
for surgical dressings especially will
be heavy during the cotniug months
and that department will make every
endeavor to obtain the necessary sup-
plies for workers.
Mrs. F L. Burt, chairman of the
knitting department, has every rea-
son to be proud of the faithful work
«rs of the knit and purl, and Is
pleased to turnish a report of her
department as follows:
The figures given represent the
work of ail the oranches in the kuit-
tiug department during the past year,
uiiu cheerfully refute any claims that
knitting is a lost art.
319 Sweaters
128 Helmets
176.’ Socks
55 4 Wristlets.
7 4 Scarfs.
1x2 Wash Cloths
3019 Total kuitted articles.
The Junior Red Cross department
was iiot thoroughly organized dur-
ing the year, but under the manage-
ment of Mrs a E Patrick that fea-
ture of the work will soon take the
important part that is its right, and
all of the school children of the couu-
ty will be enrolled and given au op-
portunity to do their share of the
great work for humanity.
The sewing department of the
chapter has probably called for moro
work, more time and more earnest
sacrifice on the part of Red Cross
workers than any other department
as it has required constant study and
application The sewing department
has been under the supervision of
Mrs. E W. Htft't. The women who
enlisted for work in this department
have given many hours each week of
devoted labor, but the following table
showing the results by branches will
show that they have made good. In
addition to the 12312 articles pri>-
duced, the sewing department of the
Fallis white branch and Chandler
branch furnished 7000 gun wipes
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Fallis (Col.) -
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Union _______
Wellston-----
Midlothian___
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Sparks ______
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99 196
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A Chandler lady will be the repub-
lican nominee for the very importantj
office of commissioner of charities
and corrections and. if the voters of
Oklahoma can he informed thorough-
ly as to her qualifications and her
ability, she will be elected by a hand-
some majority.
The lady in question is Mrs. H. B.
Gilstrap of (’handler, wife of Major
Gilstrap of the 142nd infantry, now-
stationed at Camp Rowi<*. but who,
within a few months at most, will be
fighting the boche in France.
When first importuned to allow
her name to be placed upon the re-
publican ticket, for*the primary elec-
tion, Mrs. Gilstrap refused, but later
consented, with the understanding
that she would not he expected to
devote any time r » th impaign.
Mrs. Gilstrap is now. and lias since
the beginning of the war. been de-
voting every moment of her spare
time to Red Cross work and f^els
that she must continue so to do.
Her husband. Major Gilstrap, is
rated as one of the most capable and
Total «*c\\«h| article* 12312
of the German power It was the
growing fear that if the liberties of
Enrop- w**r** conquered by the jungle
spirit of the Prussian monster, ‘ the
day"—the reckoning day—would
come for America as well
He knew the sense of fear and was
willing to acknowledge it. He knew
the horrors he might face, but was
willing to face them. His was the
spirit to conquer fear in a righteous
tausf
1 like to think of this young man
as typifying the attitude of the thou-
sands of young men already "over
there" or destined to follow them. I
like to think of his attitude as typi-
cal of America in this war. Shall we
who are left behind fall to respond
to the inspiration of their fine ex-
ample?
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THE l Alii. TO AMERICA.
Copyrighted
by E. G.
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Pipp
(Editor’s Note: The News-Pub-
licist has secured the exclusive right,
for this section, of the Pipp Syndicate
War Articles Mr. Pipp has recently
returned from a several months tour
of the warring countries and his ar-
ticles are written from the view-point
of an eye witness The first of the
series follows. I
What 'word can be given to the
father or mother who has seen a son
march away#to war? %
What c&n be said to the parent
•i ; !;-• ><•« until daw
wondering how it all would end?
over war when we are in the con-
flict. ®
We are not a people who must de-
ceive ourselves into the thought that
war is % mere game when the in-
struments of play are rifle and bay-
onet. machine gun and bomb.
He is best armed who knows his
task. «
Ours is a people of that stem met-
tle that can look grim war straight
in the face and buckle in for that
long, hard winning fight that will
beat him down.
It must be so for we have entered
auu there is turning back
Our penile may not have*:.- u
unit for e
ami must
subjects away from the Prussian
sovereign, aud. finding the rulers
still very much inclined toward mili-
tarism. prescribed limits to their
army, to which Prussia agreed be-
cause she had to.
The agreement was that Prussia
should not ha\e an army of over 42,-
000 men Prussia lived up to that
agreement to the letter, but—
Even in that early day she showed
her ability to wriggle out of au agree-
ment that was distasteful to her. and
she did not live up to the spirit of it.
She did not maintain an army of
more than 4 2,000 men at any one
time—that is an active army—but
she kept men in until they were well
trained; then they went out aud oth-
ers wem in for traiuiug. aud ao it
was until a very large portion of
the male population was drilled and
ready for action should necessity
arise
The military policy instituted then
has been maintained to this day, as
has the policy of the rulers of bend
ing their morals to their persoual de
sires and. taking the other half of
the step, violating agreements iu let-
ter as well as iu spirit.
That Prussian military spirit did
not subside or even lie dormaut.
Wh**u others thought they had it
paralyzed, it still* thrived In 1848,
it had become so strong that many
Germans themselves rebelled agaiust
it and left the country rather thau
submit to its advocates Hundreds
of thousands of others left later.
Iu 1871 it was even stronger, and
it was then that Germany reaped the
greatest harvest of Its policy, wrest-
ing Alsace aud Lorraine from France.
And it is this same military spirit
that the world facea today.
Stronger* more arrogant, grown
selfish, cold and brutal, militarism is
trying to fasten itself on the remain-
der of the world, to the profit of one
nation that, became an armed camp
It is the fruit of this uiiliturl*m
that one sees everywhere along the
fighting front iu Europe, the militar-
ism that menaces America today as
it menaces every European couutry
that has fought and is fighting to
prevent its spread.
To understand fully ail that his
war means to use and the problems
America lias to face -serious prob
lems, more serious thau mauy of ut
have realized—we must consider the
situation in four important phases.
They are;
What is it going tm take thorough-
ly to whip Germany?
How much of it can and will Eng-
land do?.
How much of it can and will
France do?
How much must America do to
1 ii th«* Job?
We cannot understand what it is
going to take to whip Germany un-
less we get something of a notion of
what there is left of Germany to whip
and the method of fighting our men
must face.
in studying war conditions I had
gone into England first, where 1 had
observed ill the various activities,
with the view of watching both men
and materials from the recruiting of
the men, through the training in all
branches, to the battle front and
hack through base hospitals, hospital
ships aud into the general hospitals;
also the manufacture of munitions
from the factory to the front and
hack to the salvage plants
This brought me to the British
front the week before the German
offensive of 1918 began. Driving
through all the larger cities north of
the Somme and about 75 small vil-
lages, stopping at scores of places
of interest. 1 had the opportunity
of observing all tiie lines of British
Red Cross Activities
•I*-1 By Mrs Lucy Adams) —
From Wellston has been received
25 comfort kits completely filled.
I
defense aud to get something of an
n - ring tie war, but we ar- ^understanding of the terrible sa- riflee
ohtmu* a unit tor pus.’iiug r). i an army must make in an effort
'*
* walked through the trenches
the British and German can-
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• Provisional Amt
mlance
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Prescott, Robert H.
Evacuation Hospi,t
al No. 18.
latter
Boggs. John E.
Ito ho
niaign,
Greenwood. Preston
F.
Holland, Wattie.
Inman, Jesse F.
NYestover, Eacho E.
York, Earl E.
Ambulance Company No. 18.
Campbell, James F.
Clark, Robert Jesse.
1 cannot promise if I can get ad-
dresses of others but will try if I, . .
am not assigned to lepve barracks M1*, ,
f«u a w**U or o. Pi!
and for several years was post-
r at Chandler. Both he and
Jilstrap enjoy a wide acqualnt-
throughout the st.ite and 0
mil • !. 1! v
r support in the coming cam-
The newspaper men of the
I s»ate, especially, will support the can-
! didacy of Mrs. Gilstrap.
1 TilK TVI'II M. AMKItllTlN AM)
Till: WAR.
I'know a young man who as a vol-
I unteer In the fighting service of the
*
I France. When lie enlisted, he was
number of questions by one
in trut
ty loan,
cribed
tall l.t
b*
will
art it
And
If v
our tr
our h -
e have
of free
M a
Tiie president of the United Sta
I must say
ing was like
comrades foi
three battles
lations). B
and under
made thini
I say ho
nee jind Li
the most i
eight haira
hall,
I f you u
Kindly give
as the folk
our parting this
paying good-bye
we had gone tl
(typhoid serum
ing closely assi
a thoughtful sc
s pleasant for us.
lestly that our Tulsa
incoln county bunc
congenial bunch c
that ate at th*
morn-
to old
irough | ,
jnocu-! ‘
r
loved him.
Did he realia
The presld
ul t Iff- govr
oma, ha
clamatic
e of Ok-
k
Friday f
What met
wage can go
to him
or j
peace
As <
her. whe
> lias spoke
■ cb.»f
rful |
it i
uust be so for tin
is IS lii
ore than j and o:
>rds » hen
tears wore v
-•lling, \
vho i
lor the life of u
i ualio
u. This! fense
- seen tie
empty chai
ir, who
war lor keepiug
pure
liked into
silen<< where
once tli
Ol alienations,
amour l
(Others
l , ' f
°«
ey who h
;• a mil
•r
•4
ns to risk
'lie struj
complain
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i j
e night th
ilon i stuur
lights.
ung j
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tables.
A
r husba
md.
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i. hand, and
she pres
A
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The husband had offer
s, how stands it
** 1
s in t he e,
arly days of t
he war,
but J
> a nation? win
tu.-; how ^ '.g
- rej' cted
§
unfit.
But 1
Baud.
s it with the stu
w—now 1
in gland neei
is- men
to
ill they have m<
Ip hold th
y
what ii
[in has one
i bad eye I
ie can h
England, proud i
s oi the helmei
gun with
What if
Which means
then sot
is and tr
tion with
out
A considerable supply of natural
gray a > k yarn of excellent quality
has Ju*t beeu received.
In aplte of the extreme heat Mrs.
Wagoner, in (barge of the hospital
garment department, reports excel-
lent turn outs thta week.
Mrs James Hart, chairman of the
Agra chapter. was in Monday and
brought IS bed jackets, 39 under-
shirts. and 60 operating caps, made
by that branch. A great deal of
work is beiug accomplished in the
territory under the Jurisdiction of
the Agra branch Working units
have been organized in Columbia,
Soonervllle and Falrview school dis-
trict- for the convenience of many
of the members who cannot get into
town these busy days and much work
is being done
The Goldstein department store
this *eek donated 60 dozen buttons
and 6 dozen spools of thread to the
central work rooms
A number of Sparks ladies. Mrs.
D W (’oilier. Mrs. (* H. Urary. Mrs.
W. J Helms. Misses Estelle Collier
and Veva Helms were headquarters
rlsitoi Thtj brought In
40 suits of pajamas completed by the
branch at Sparks
Mrs George Hancock of Tryon,
was a caller at headquarters Tuesday.
Five colored boys left for Fort
Riley, Wednesday The Donglas
branch of the Red Cross supplied
boxes containing lunches and many
little conveniences to each of these
boys.
The auction sale Saturday after-
noou netted a total of $18.20.
■See notice of the Red Cross sale
of registered cattle in another space
iu this paper.
Mrs Love's Suuday school class
of the Christian church, made the
button bags for the comfort kits
which are completed last Thursday.
A class in home service study from
the regular manual prepared by the
department is being organized under
the direction of Mrs. Boggs and will
meet at Red Cross headquarters Fri-
day night.
C E Fillman, chairman of the
chapter at Midlothian, was a Chan-
dler visitor Saturday. Mrs. W. E.
Beatty has been appointed chairman
in charge of the Junior Red ^’ross
work of the Midlothian chapter.
Mrs A. Castleman. chairman of
the knitting at Kendrick, and Mrs.
E H Pascoe were visitors at head-
quarters Thursday.
Mrs. Mason from the Stroud chap-
ter, was in Friday bringing a layge
box of surgical dressings made by
the class at Stroud. It contained
3650 dressings consisting of 4x8
'impresses and 2x2 and 4x4 wipes.
A box of knitted goods containing
4 6 pair of socks and 10 sweaters has
Just been received from Wellston.
Agra has sent in a shipment of
Knitted goods this week’ consisting
of 5 sweaters. 3 pair of wristlets and
one helmet. ® $
Miss Anna Wilson, who is spending
[the aumirur b<r* with her father.
Judge ClwH
Id the k'
to
ell fire
onstant
mils (Iv-
lin non
. Evei
Iu B
socks for our c
summer.
• • -
Mrs. B. E. Frei
twelfth sweater,
Wilson, Sr., has join-
< class and will knit
county chapter this
• ell is knitting her
averaging one a
rganization of the
hese she has made
yarn
And
Hu.
class
Mrs.
Sam
Mrs.
d<>ad h
barbed
i
tranded
wire,
[loti Harris and Mrs Lo'
nTse Fleming.
Ml these ladies will km
s
nr
A shipment of knitted
%
r un tin Lincoln countv
■ chapter this
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DENTISTS AID IWTIUOTK
Mr. f. B. tflch
Chandle
Dear Sir:
I am going
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Nichols, L. B. The Chandler News-Publicist (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, June 21, 1918, newspaper, June 21, 1918; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc911636/m1/1/: accessed April 15, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.