Cimarron Valley Clipper (Coyle, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 28, 1919 Page: 3 of 4
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Cimarron Valley Fair
Guthrie, Sept. 10, IT, 18, 19
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4 Big Days Chuck Full of Educational and Entertaining Features
From the present outlook this is going to be the biggest and best Fair
ever held in Logan County.
More entries have been made up to date in some departments than
have ever been made before.
COME! Tel! your friends about it and ask them to come.
Tuesday
Guthrie Day—Harnsss Races auu Running Races,
will be pulled off on this day.
The best races of the Fair
Wednesday
Educational and County Day—On this day all school children of the ( ounty
will be admitted free of charge. At 10 o'clock A. M. a demonstration in Cap-
oniziag will be given and following that a demonstration and lecture
working with and caring for bees. Don't miss them.
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Thursday
Derby Day—On this day there will be nothing but ruunihg races, and loveis
of ruoniug races cannot afford 10 miss this day. At to o’clock there will >>e
given a demonstration and lecture on Cheese making.
Friday
Auto Day—and there will be nothing but auto races this day and there will be
some fast going as PliilTraband says that he has received letters from some
of the fastest Dare Devil divers in tlie coutnry say ing that they be here and
take part. At 10 A. M. there will be given a lecture and demonstration in
spraying and pruning, by Mr. Nesbitt, of the State Board of Agriculture.
Vast Historical Pageant,
The Star Attraction of the Fair.
This pageanant is Oklahoma's contribution to the Victory Pageanants being
staged throughout the Unite 1 States and shows all of thi interesting t vents in
Oklahoma from the sixteenth century to the present time.
The Pageant is not only interesting from an amusement and historical point
but also a great education il event. Three hundred people, Indians, Horses,
and Sympony Orchestra. Admission Adults .50 Children .25 Every evening
at 815
For any information, write R. A. Hiilenbeck, Mgr. Cimarron Valley Fair.
\!\m COUNSELS CAUTION
URGES A TRUCE IN WAGE-
RAISING
Tolls Railway Shopmen Effort Should
Be Centered on Reducing Costs
of Living
Washington — Postponement of the
settlement of wage demands until nor-
mal economic conditions are restored
was announced by President W ilson
as the policy which the administra-
tion will pursue in dealing with such
questions, panicularly those affecting
railroad workers
The president announced also that
it was neither w'ise nor feasible at
tli*s time, when the most important
question before the country is a re
turn to a normal price level, to at-
tempt to Increase freight rates to pro
\ide funds for higher wages.
‘ We ought t. postpone question of
title sort until we have the oppor-
tunity tor certain calculations as to
the relations between wages and the
cost of living, the president declared
in a statement to the public explain-
ing his decision as to wages. "It is
the duty ol every citizen to insist
upon a truce in suclt contests until
intelligent settlements can be made,
and made by peace and effective com-
mon counsel
citizens oi
operate iu
HUGO WOMAN IS
MARRIED IN JAIL
« Hugo. — The- til si manias*
evei held nets iu jail occurred
m the City Hall, when Maggie
Bailey, an inmate of the Jail.
, . ancy, was
married to M P. York, an out-
side! by Rev. Mr. Stroud, of
this city. A number of the in-
mates of the jail a reporter, two
policemen and a few rounders
witnessed the unusual proceed-
ings.
CARMEN LOST LABOR AID
Strike Ended; Cars to
Outsiders.
Be Operated
Muskogee.—The centrul labor union;
at Muskogee ended the street'
i at strike which lias been in effect
Since May 30, by withdrawing their)
support from the carmen’s union. The
i at - will now be operated by members
outside the carmen's union and united
j • out the city Will advise!
ail union men to patronize the com-(
pan>
I Tiie cat men agreed to accept one|
contract drawn l>> the national organ-)
•ace and eirecuve cum izer of the amalgamated street cat;
l appeal to my fellow Lien's union, and then repudiated the]
, . | nt to < , and < h ed the organizer,
tint upon and main- Lnd theh own attorney of selling out.|
taining such a truce
Mr. Wilson’s statement was issued
in connection with the decision of
himself ami Director General Hines on
An arbitration board was then se-l
i ; by tlie unions, the traction,
com pan;, and the governor. The
board made it findings, compromiz-
dcinand? tv lailroad shopmen for a 25 j jnt the difference between the coin-;
per cent advance in wages but tlm , ,n, anj the men, and the men wont
general policy pronounced covers also-to work for one week and struck
again.
the wage demands of other hundreds 1
of- thousands of railroad workers
which are pending before the director
general or about to bo presented. It
is to he expected that other un. sis
trying to obtain more pay will be
asked as the shopmen, to play their
part witlt other citizens in reducing
the cost oi living by foregoing a
temporary advantage which would
add to transportation costs.
The decision of the president and v.umuuv, mime
the director general was announced ) street car union,
to a committee ot one hundred, repre- '
senting the shopmen. In reply to
their demands for a 25 per cent in-
crease, the shopmen were asked to I
accept an adjustment of their pay to
the basis of ten hours pay for eight
hours work, which they contended ,
was given other employes and denied
Tli-- central labor union of Musko
(i" then made an investigation and
succeeded in obtaining further con-
ci sion: from the company. The
union men of the city approved tltej
i untract as a fair one and indorsed)
It. President Jess Green, of the cam
men’s union, then repudiated labor’Bj
action by refusing to go back *o wotk.
| Labor leaders promptly voted to
withdraw further support from the
Big Bond Issue Voted at Perry.
Perry. Bond for extending and
improving water, light and park aye
turns ot Petr, totaling <200.000, were
i.mieil by a majority of more Ilian
Tiie bonds provide J1 *16.
Jive to tine.
was given other employes ana aemea 100Q fo) water work8 improvement and
them when 1 lamBon law became prnctleaUy tailing a new System!
effective. This means an advance ol
tiie basis pay from 58 cents to 72
cents an hour.
COMMITTEE STILL TALKING
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TO ORGANIZE THE FARMERS
New Combine Scheme Proposed at
Clinton Meeting
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Clinton.—Plans for federating the
farmers unions of the nation, and
the establishment of national head-
quarters at Washington, D. C., were
discussed In the principal speech here
by A. A. Elmore, president of the
Washington state farmer’s union, au
the first annual meeting of the Okla-
homa Farmers Union. * •
According to the plans now under
way, an organization similar to the
labor federation will be formed, and
a representative of the farmers in-
cluded as a member of the president's
cabinet. Bonds to the amount of
ILUt.nOO wilt he floated to maintain
headquarters and a permanent or-
ganisation a building lias already
peen purchased near tli,e capitol at
Washington and is being used as the
lampot ary headquarters. The feder-
ation is to be called the National
Board oi ?arm Organizations and a
temple of agriculture will be erected.
John Simpson, of Weatherford, was
re-elect'd as president of the state or-
ganization.
city.
She charges that she was cut off
with a bequest of $100 from the estate,
which is valued at more than a mil-
lion dollars. Captain York, was the
o vner of extensive timber lands and
owned valuable oil leases in Okla-
homa. York left his widow a trust
fund of $40,000 to be administered
during her life by her son, Jobe T.
York, of Memphis, Tenn., and a
daughter Mrs. Mary Y. Triggs, also
of New York, another daughter was
given $500 and. the remainder of the
estate after a few minor bequests was
given the son and Mrs. Triggs.
SHE GOT SO TIRED OF HIM
After 15 Years As Common-law and
Four as Regular Wifa. *
Hartshorne.—Mrs. Susie Krokovlcs,
after living with her husband, John
Krokovics, fifteen years as his com-
mon law wife, married him in 1915—
and then brought suit for divorce
within a year. The plea war granted
last week by Judge H. L. Melton, dis-
trict court, the suit having been post-
poned at various times for various
causes since its filing, Oetobei‘^2, 1916.
The Krokovics are Austrians. Mrs.
Krokovics came to America to join
her sweetheart after his emigration
years ago and was assured by him
that marriage vows were unnecessary
In this country. Krokovic is a miner,
and Is helpless for life from an acci-
dent sustained about a year ago. Xhe
judge granted alimony of $7.50 to the
woman Extreme cruelty was the
grounds for divorce.
Configuration of trees in the vicinity
of the channel of the Red river will
decide the limits of the bank of the
stream to be contended for by the
government in the important oil land
suit now pending according to W. A.
Durant, who conferred with a party of
several government experts in Oklaho-
ma City, who are on their way south
to begin their investigations In the dis
puted area. Durant says the experts
are confident that a study of the trees
will prove the southern limits of the
old river bed, which is in dispute be-
tween tbe states.
Burglar Killed Girl, Officers Believe.
Chlckasha. — Officers investigating
the death of Miss Adel Brock, believe
that she was killed by a burglar
hidden in the house, contrary to the
first theory advanced that she killed
herself. Miss Brock was found dead
on a bed at her home near here Sun
day afternoon, a bullet hole through
her heart and a revolver near her
right hand. A note, supposed to have
been written by the girl, stated that
Senate Holding a Peace
All Its Own.
$10,000 fm public parks, and $84,000
lot light plant improvement. Till*
will mean that the worn oul plant now
on hand will be completely replaced,
by a now and modern plant. A gen-
eral celebration was held after th«
Conference, ballots were counted.
Washington.—Extending the scope
of its public inquiry regarding the
peace treaty, the senate foreign re-
lations committee, announced a sched-
ule of hearings that promises to
occupy most of its time for the next
tw-o weeks ami to lead into tlie in-
tricacies of political and territorial
problems in several parts of tlio
world.
The disputed questions to ba
touched upon in the eight-day ached-
[ ule in connection with the disposition
ot Fiutne, of the Aland Islands and
~ STATEHOUSE BREVITIES'"}
Much Building For State
More than $800,000 worth of con
struction work at stale institutions,
authorized by the last general assem-
bly i: now in the hands of contractors
and before August is out the last
building appropriation provided for by
the 1919 genetal assembly will have
bee n advertised, according*!o tiie state
board ol affait statistics department.
CH f lume, ui u.o .............- Here is a list of the construction
of the German colonies in Africa and work in progress at state institutions
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WHEAT BEING FED TO HOGS
• it was coming sooner or later
Poison Used for Baking la Fatal.
Tahlequah.—A mixture of arsenic
and lime used as baking powder,
proved fatal to A. Smith Moore, well
known farmer, six miles south ot
town. Some time ago Mr. Moore used
the mixture in killing potato bugs,
placed what was left in a baking
powder can and set it in a cupboard
Several days ago a daughter-in-law, on
a visit, made bread Tor the family,
uslfig the poison through mistake.
Five of the family were soon critically
ill, and after a few days’ suffering, Mr
Moore, 70 years of age, died,
the claim ot Ireland for Independence.
On the list of witnesses are represen
tatives of the Italians, Jugoslavs,
Hungarian-Amoricans, Greeks, Irish
Lithuanians. Ukrainians, Esthoniaus,
Letts and American negroes.
Under the arrangement at \e time
to be devoted on work on amendments
to the treaty this week will be reduced
from three days to two, Thursday
having been set aside to hear the
negro deleft lip on the question of
the African colonies.
Eart Central Normal school, train-
ing building $99,940.
College for W omen, Chlckasha, dor-
mitory and president’s home $140,018.,
Central State asylum, Norman, $167,-
600. #
Tonkawa, i thudding Wilkin Hall,
$89,583. i
Sulphur industrial building and resi-
dence for president, $51,536. (
j T. Conway, cf Okmulgee, convict-
'd on a charge of embezzlement pre-'
(erred by the Wichita Falls Motor!
SENATE AMENDS TREATY company in December, 1918, and sen-i
w ______ fenced to serve three years at McAl-1
Peninsula to ester, was parolled^ by M. E. Trapp,j
Restores the
Shantung
China.
Washington.—An amendment to the
peace treaty providing for the res-
toration of Shanfttng to China instead
of deliverying to Japan was adopted
by the foreign relations committee ot
the senate. It was the first direct
action by the committee on the
treaty.
To many minds it is believed that
this action spells the defeat of the
lieutenant-governor.
Formal investigation of the ice busi-
ness all over the state by the corpora-
tion commission may result from thei
scattered complaints from a score of;
small towns in as many counties, re-|
garding shortage and high prices)
which were considered informally by
the commissioners.
A writ of mandamus, compelling F
C. Carter, state auditor, to grant a sal-
DAUGHTER ATTACKS WILl
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Millionaire Lumberman Left Her Only
One Hundred Dollars
Tine Bluff, Ark.—Mrs. Charles* Nel-
Farmers
Claim Corn Price i*
High For Profit. ,
Ponca City.—By feeding his wheat
tn hogs, with the corn cysp in K„>
county practically a failure, farmers
got more for the wheat than by sell-.
Fine Huh, ArK.—airs. vu»n« ing It at the ruling price of $2.0; a
son, of Louisville, Ky., daughter of the bushel, according to Albert Savage,,
late Capt. J. B. York, wealthy lumber wh0 Uves near Blackwell, who says
man announced here she would flic that both he and his son will each feed
suit at I label Olfla., to break the will vheat to a carload of bogs, which are
91 her father, whief* is filed In that now bringing around 22 cents a pound.
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Sinclair Companies Consolidated.
New York —Consolidation of all the
Sinclair oil properties in the United
States and foreign fountries was
agreed upon at a series of director*
meetfhgs. Stockholders of the Sin-
clair Oil and Refining Corporation
Sinclair Gulf Corporation and Sinclair
Consolidated Oil Corporation, will bo
asked to confirm the action of the
directors at special mootings called
for September. The new co.poration
will be known as the Sinclair Consoli-
dated Oil Corporation, operating under
tiie laws of New York Btate.
0 ouui Ol uw warant t0 Thomas K. Owen, a jus-
u™” r™s»d, w’ r*
gust =,r
be able to accept tho American ^ ^ March 10_ 1919> salnries 0f tho
even i, the treaty should ^Tmonth of So Tyoafbul
bo finally ratified alter slgong rcerva- g a ^maintained that Owen was
lions on. American questions shal (0 the paasage of that
;s:. 'sisx&z sxx, ■» ** •» -«« - ■*
nations will refuse to accept it. old 1 ate. .. .. ^ „
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Wandell, Clarence F. Cimarron Valley Clipper (Coyle, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 28, 1919, newspaper, August 28, 1919; Coyle, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc913788/m1/3/: accessed June 30, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.