Mountain View Times (Mountain View, Okla.), Vol. 26, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, June 6, 1924 Page: 1 of 8
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Volume XXVI, Number 5.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1924.
Established April 28, 1899
OF ARMY AFTER BRIDGE IS NOW
The following story appeared Asserting that everything
in the Oklahoma News Tuesday necessary had been done with
and relates to Mr. Me A tee, who the exception of securing one
lives just across the river north piece of land, and that the com-
of town, and who owns proper- missioners were now waiting
ty here in town; for the first of July for the fis-
After retaining more than a cal year to begin so that they
score of lawyers, spending more cou^ use the money, Ed Zell-
«MAnAft a ner, president of the Chamber
than $10,000, and waiting near- Qf Commerec, told that body
ly 60 years, John H. McAtee, 80 on jag^ Monday night that their
of Mountain View, has at last long cherished hope for a new
received his honorable d i s - high water bridge over the
charge from the U. S. army. I Washita river north of town,
John Maupin, Oklahoma City was in s!,ape tobe °u"
, , .’ commissioner, Mr. Neal, and
lawyer, obtained the discharge rpom sappjngton, the Washita
by getting a special bill through county commissioner, have both
congress. The bill was signed been over the ground thorough-
by President Coolidge a few ly, with their engineers, and re-
, ntrn suits are aS al,ove* The new
„ ' road will run straight north out
For 60 years, Private McAtee of town cr09sing the rai)road
of the Missouri Federal Militia, just west of the depot, and a
was down in the army records bridge large enough and long (
as “absent without leave!” The enough to withstand any rises
case was without precedent. ^ riVer w^l be built.
u *, .. , , .4.1. ' Not as many were m attend-
McAtee enlisted with Com- , ,, / . ,___.
. ance at Monday night s meet-
pany K, of the 6th Regiment, jng ag generaiiy are> but about
Jan. 9th, 1862. In the fall of thirty-five were present, and
1863 his brigade, 600 strong, some real good was accomplish-
had the misfortune to turn up ed.
at Nosho, Mo., about the same -0-
time as Gen. Joe Shelby, thej A drunken man last Satur-
noted Missouri Confederate day caused a great deal of ex-
cavalry leader. citement for a short time when,
Shelby had only 200 men, but sifter being arrested by Rufe
that meant nothing in his roar- Lewis, who started to Hobart
ing young life. He swooped with him, he jumped out of the
down on the Yankees and cap- car, narrowly escaping death,
tured the entire outfit. He was considerably bunged up
Then the general paused to as it was. Later in the day,
scratch his head, and smoke his after sobering up somewhat, he
Missouri cob pipe. Despite much entered a plea of guilty here
figuring pro and con he was un- in the local court.
able to decide bow 200 men, ev- -o-
en Southerners, would be able Miss Hedwig Schaefer, who is
to keep 600 prisoners. attending school in New York
“You Yankee officers tell your city, recently was permitted,
men to pack up their things and with two of her friends, to vis-
get back home.” the general it Ellis Island, near that place,
finally ordered. on a pass secured for them by
After all, they were all Mis- Jim McClintic, our congress-
sourians. The arrangement man.
seemed satisfactory. \ -o--
Private McAtee, youngest Frankie, “Shorty”, L:‘ndsey
man in his regiment, went home was here the first of the week,
with the rest. Months passed en route to her home at Erick
and he received no order to re- from an outing at Medicine
turn. Park. She spent the night as
The war ended and the rival the guest of her brother, Bob
armies came marching home.In Lindsey. She was accompan-
1868, having received no dis- ied by a Miss Rooker.
charge, he applied to the war ---«>-•
department. ' In the ball game here last
He was informed that he was Sunday between Mountain View
listed “absent without leave.” and Apache, our boys were forc-
That started the legal fight that ed to take the short end of the
lasted until 1924. score. It was a good game,
Lieutenant William N. Per- though, and the crowd that wit-
kins, one of Private McAtee’s nessed it got their money’s
officers, made affidavit that Me- worth.
Atee was never called back into -0-
action “because his ad '-ess was Misses Clara Baysinger of
lost.” Hinton and Thelma Wingo of
“He was a good soldier,” tes- Oklahoma City, are guests at
titled the lieutenant, in 1911, “a the Times home this week, they
general favorite, the youngest returning here last Sunday
in his company and the baby of noon with our daughter, Letrice
his regiment, and never flinch- who had spent the week before
ed at any duty detailed upon with friends at Hinton.
him. I know he is entitled to, ---0-
an honorable discharge.” | Skip Reed came in from Ok-
Even with that, the war de- lahoma City Tuesday evening
act. for a few days visit with rela-
the tives and friends here. He is
A man named Allbright was
killed and another man was ser-
FINE: ALL OTHER
From an actual survey of the Acel C. Alexander, Collector
crops around Mountain View Internal Revenue, for the
Momla Tn'a'lMMer e™Iosionat'this year' one is plea8ed t0 notc the^Mng^^thm^or
an°nofl weVtm'miles'^th of,the Pro9pectR; they are beitter payment^*Jme0ImhTnata»-
Gotebo. The accident hap- tM® year than they have been ment of Federal Income Taxes
pened about 11 o’clock Monday fh® laa^ several years. West aa affected by the new Income
morning. From, what the ed- town, the wheat and oats are Tax jaw:
itor can learn, it seems that the 8°mething wonderful, as is also jf aj the time you filed your
two men were waiting for the the cotton and com. The same Federal Income Tax Return for
boiler- to get up enough steam thing is true of these crops east, 1923, you paid three-fourths of
to go to drilling with, and that north and south. Barley has the amount of tax reported, no
the pop-off valve was not work- j b®en cut* an<l made a wonderful further payment will be due. If
ing, thus causing them to raise y-eld- In some localities the at the time you filed your in-
too much steam. It is said cotton has had to be replanted, Come tax return you paid one-
that the force of the explosion due to the cold weather that ^ half of the amount of tax re-
blew the boiler two hundred has prevailed for the past sev-1 ported, one payment will be due
and seventy-three steps from oral weeks. In other sev,«,!ons, until September fifteenth. If
its foundation, only touching the cotton is away up and doing at the time you filed your re-
the ground twice. We under- fine- AH *n aH» ft l°°^8 Hk® turn you paid only one-fourth
stand that Mr. Albright was a the farmers are going to stage of the ajnount of tax reported
married man, and thatf his wife ® come-back this year with a you must pay, on or before
.....geance—and we hope they June fifteenth, one-half of the
do! amount paid by you when you
survive him.
SILL ROMANS OILS
If:
filed your return. One-half of
the tax duq from the tax-payer
this year must be paid by June
fifteenth.
! The common house fly has
been responsible for a pink boll
jworm scare in certain sections
of Oklahoma this spring, ac-
cording to Prof. C. E. Sanborn,
i entomologist at Oklahoma A. &
and two children
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CARD OF THANKS
i
We wish to thank the many
friends and neighbors, and es-
pecially the American Legion, |
for the most loyal assistance |
during the illness and death of
our husband, son and brother,
and may your reward be a home
in that Great Beyond, where no
sorrows are known.—Mrs. Mag-
gie Romans, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac William T. Romans, more fa- M. College at Stillwater.
Romans, and family. miliarly known as “Bill”, died Within the last few weeks,
- —0-- at the family residence in this farmers who have been having
A. H. Stephens, from out the city last Monday afternoon, af- trouble in obtaining a stand of
Cowden way, called at The ter a lingering illness extending cotton have been inspecting the
Times office Monday, and re* over quite a period. His re- cottonseeds closely, Sanford
newed his subscription to the mains were laid to rest in the points out. As a result, the
paper.. Oakdale cemetery Tuesday af- farmers found many peculiar
--o-- ternoon, the services being con- insects either before or after
Dr. W. L. Russell is in Chi- ducted by Rev. Young of Gote- the seeds were planted,
cago, with his son, Lowell, for bo. The following is a brief “Since the germination of
treatment for the boy. Friends outline of Bill’s life: cottonseeds has been exceeding*
of this boy in Mountain View He was born in Warm coun- ly poor, the blame has been put
certainly hope that some cure ty, Tennessee, on December 14, on insects—one in particular,”
will be found for him. 1899, and in 1900 his parents Sanborn says. “The common
-o- moved to Texas, where he resid- house fly has been found in
Mr. and Mrs. L. T. McAtee ed until 1908, when they again various localities in a stage of
and children were here Wednes- moved, this time to the vicinity development on or in decaying
day afternoon and night, the of fountain View, where he re- \ seeds. Under this peculiar
guest of relatives. They re- mained until his death. j habit, it has been ‘identified’ by
turned to Lawton Thursday. I On March 28th, 1920, he was some farmers as being the
-a.---- united in marriage to Miss Mag- dreaded pink boll worm.
E. O. Flood has gone to Hot gie McCloud. To this union! “The deviation in the devel-
Springs, Ark., for a vacation, were born two children, one of opment of the house fly is rath-
He will be gone two or three whom passing away when only er peculiar, inasmuch as it gen-
weeks. a few days old. The other, a erally develops to the best ad-
_o__ little girl 7 months old, survives vantage in manure. Speci-
H. E. Breeding, liquidating him, with/his wife, father and mens sent to the department of
agent of the Bank of Mountain mother, three brothers and entomology of the experiment
View, returned here Monday, three sisters, all of whom live in station at Stillwater, however,
after spending a couple of or near Mountain View,
weeks in Oklahoma City and at He was called to the colors
Stroud on business. in the last draft, and while in
-0 the service was stationed at
Mrs. A. H. Hathaway left Camp Cody. His health be-
have thus far been bred in a
manner into the adult stage,
which gives conclusive proof
that it is the genuine house fly.
“It has been stated that in-
last Sunday afternoon for Ten- gan to fail him last fall; in fact festation was present in the
nessee, for a month’s visit with the first breaking down of his sacked seed before being plant-
relatives. health possibly was caused from ed in the fields. It is doubt-
-0- a relapse of the measels, which ful, except in extreme cases
Tom Tidmore left Tuesday affected his kidneys and one of where flies may have entered
for North Alabama, and will his ears. Te wa 1 ?•>)<£ to the sacks for protection from
and friends for hospital at Sulphur in March, cool weather and, on finding
where he remained until about warmth and possibly some de-
fy- three weeks ago. Realizing cayed seeds, deposited their
that the end was near, he de-' eggs thereon,
sired to come home, and it was “Under normal conditions, it
his request that he be sent here, is certain that a house fly would
Friends of him and the entire not deposit eggs on normally
family join the Times in extend- healthy seeds. Even if such a
ing condolence: 1 habit were prevalent, the lar-
-o- I vae would not develop in dry
visit relatives
a while.
on
partment was unable
Attorney Maupin got
job last December. He wrote now on his annual vacation.
more than 100 letters to sena- --o-
tors and congressmen. He had Miss Catehrine Johnson of
a special bill introduced by Sen- Sentinel spent the last week-
ator J. W. Harreld. 0 end here, the guest of Misses
And now, at last, the bill is a Ruby Gale Marrs and Irene
law. , Parsons.
Mrs. Bob Newman left this
week for Parsons. Kan., to vis-
it relatives for a time.
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Several citizens have been in
Hobart this week, being called
as witnesses in some cases in
court at that place.
-0- the guest of her daughter, Mrs.
i Fishing seems to be extra Frank Osmon and family, here
good in the river just now, as the past winter, left last Friday
catfish weighing from two to for her home in Texas.
five pounds, and even larger, . -o-
are offered for sale most every Mrs. W. W. Francis and two
Mrs. Irabell Blevins, who was cotton seeds, and it would mean
the destruction of the species,
to a certain extent.
“Another insect which is
more common in stored cotton-
seeds is the dark meal worm.
“The pink boll worm has
day. A number are putting in children were here the past never been present in Oklaho-
their time fishing. .week-end, the guests of friends, ma,” Sanborn says.
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