The Shawnee Daily News-Herald (Shawnee, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 163, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 20, 1917 Page: 4 of 8
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THE SHAWNEE DAILY NEWS-HERALP_
SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 21. Ml 7.
Shawnee Daily News-Herald
Entered as second class matter at
tie postofflce at Shawnee, Okla., un-
der the act of March 3, 1879.
^^oOGRAPh/i
<UNION
T1IE NEWS-ltEltALII I'lllLISUINCi
COMl'ANl.
Any erroueous reflection on the
character, standing or reputation of
BD iierson, firm or corporation which
may appear in the columns of the
News-Herald will be gladly corrected
upon its being brought to the atten-
tion of the publisher.
SHAWNEE AND TOM McKEOWN
Wl*en Congressman McKeown told
« friend that he had thoroughly cri
Joyed his visit to Shawnee Friday
night, and that friend responded that
Shawnee had as thoroughly enjoyed
having him here, there was more ex-
pressed than a more exchange of
gentlemanly courtesies Very natural-
ly the fine mind and Irish nature of
this '"eJt for a night knew and felt
the warmth of hiB greeting
here i course was pleased
j " hawnee people for spei'-
l-,' u'ish reasons were grati-
opportunity to thus early
■„>, t I "life McKeown's return from
i plendld work at Washington, to
evidence this appreciation by giving
him a big and enthusiastic audience.
They went to be pleased, and their
pleasure became a delight. While Bob
Alexander had to laugh when the con-
gressman said "Oklahomer" and
"Ruscher." It wasn't a laugh that any
one would object to.
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THE SHAWNEE COTTON MARKET.
The fleecy harvest of cotton con-
tinues to pour Into Shawnee, and
thousands of dollara daily are beii.g
paid to the farmers for their now
more than ever precious product, at
prices which in former years would
Lave been conslderad fabulous. At
itavlKht Saturday mornlr.g the cot
tor wagons began tc line up at the
various gins, and before noon crowd-
ed the adjacent streets.
' The affect of 'lit-: sreat prospr-'.ty
of the cotton (srweis. atfl tfcc large
-•mount of cotton marketed here, is
felt In all lines of business. Practical-
ly all of the money, at least prac-
tically all that dooB not go to pay off
(arm loans.—Is spent right here In
Shawnee All lines of trade profit by
the marketing of cotton here, to such
an extent that iB must appoar to even
the most obtuse business man that
money and lime spent In building lip
and maintaining the Shawnee mar-
ket Is money and time well Invested,
and sure to bring rich returns.
01], PROSPECTS.
Interest in other things has teni-
porarilv taken the notice of the peo-
ple from oil development in this
county, but one hopeful citizen who
has followed the progress of drilling
We will be pleased
to show you our line of
comforts and blankets.
THE LONGMIRE
DRAPER CO.
National Bankof Commerce
CAPITAL & SURPLUS $120,000.00 *
OKLAHOMA
Don't Let Your Dollars
be Slackcrs!
Have you a dollar that is a slacker ? Don t stand
for it!
Make it enlist. Make it join the great marching
army of patriotic dollars that are tramping to the front
to defeat the enemy to bring Peace and Victory to the
world.
Join your dollars to those invested in LIBERTY
BONDS to make the world safe for democracy.
Bring us your subscription,
details free of charge.
We gladly handle all
4 Sit On Savings 4
in oeveral wells very closely, Satur-
day ventured the prediction that with-
in a very few weeks there would be at
ieast two more producing wells in
the county. Work has ceased tem-
porarily at all wells now drilling, he
said, for one cause or another, but op-
erations will be resumed at once and
the tests completed. Those who have
been pron- King oil development have
not lost Interest, he paid, an1 there
are few oil leases to be bought now.
The present tests being drilled
"hould thoroughly try out the Pott,
county field. DrU'ing hs been hard,
however, difficult formations having
been encountered, and orogr ss has
t on slow. There is TjI, in spite of
the many dl ourugcmo; ls, «p.y dis-
position on the part of a single one of
• he drilling companies to cease cper
at ions. They are still bett ing that
there is oil and plenty of it under Pot-
tawatomie county's productive coil.
O
ALSO A PATRIOTIC RANKER.
The Security State Hank certainly
could with pardonable pride, and of
the commendable kind, have repro-
duced in the advertising columns of
this paper a letter its patriotic presi-
dent, Mr. F. V. Askew, is sending out
to his customers and other substantial
friends and acquaintances.
If Mr. Askew ever did in the old
days charge what is now called usu
rlous interest, -and it i unlikely that
a man of such patriotic impulses as
he at present evldencea ever did. es-
pecially much,—he assuredly will be
thrice forgiven since now he offers to
loan a considerable portion of the
assots o' his and Mr. Wallace's sub-
stantial bank, at 4 percent only, to
any one desiring to buy a four percent
liberty bond, which, in effect, means
a loan without interest.
—O
POSTAL EMPLOYES TO HELP
The Shawnee post office will be
closed at noon Wednesday,—Liberty
Loan day,—and the clerks and city
carriers, all of whom subscribed to
the first Liberty Loan, will tender
their services to the Liberty Loan
campaign committee.
O
A Shawnee woman says she hopes
her husband refuses to buy a Liberty
Bond, for then she will have a suffi
lent excuse to sue him for divorce.
CONGRESSMAN
McKEOWN'S PLEA
FOR LIBERTY BONDS
Excess
Heat
the battery is almost always caused by OVER-
CHARGING—-either by the car's generator or by
careless or incompetent station charging. In either
case it spells TROUBLE.
Let us examine your battery regularly (have it
watered free at the same time) and we will post yon
on its condition. If you have it charged here our
exacting care and experience eliminates the chance
of overcharging.
All makes charged and repaired.
\
Gould Service Station
Phone 270
215 N. Broadway
W. H. TAYLOR, Prop.
OIL GAS LEASE
We have 120 acres oil and gas leaee in Nowata County, in 23-27-
1G and have 5 offset wells. We are organizing a company to begin
drilling at once. For further information you will find the map at
Union State Rank in charge of J. E_ Fitzgerald. He Is authorized to
accept any payment for oil and gas stock Just a few sharos left, as
I am leaving tonight for Nowata.
IV. S. KNIGHT
(Continued from Pago One)
that if that was my bit for my coun
try, I would do it cheerfully." Sixty
percent of the volunteers were coming
' from the farms, he said, and less
than 2 percent from the large cities
"I did not want to let our patriotic
farm boys go,'1 he earnestly declared
"and let the idlers of the cities re-
I main in their pool halls and gambling
joints. If 1 were a candidate
governor of Oklahoma I would have
in my platform and would introduce
in the legislature if elected, a law
similar to the Maryland law which
provides that every man, whether he
is not worth a penny or is worth a
million, must do some work between
1) and 5 o'clock every day. and I
would enforce it as they do in Balti-
more where they put the idlers to
work on the roads. After a dose of
t Ms they either went to work or got
out of the state."
We can't win the war by bluffing
our way through. Germany and Aus-
tria are not excited about our calling
out a million men. They understand
the difficulties of transporting these
men to the battlefields, and of prbp-
crly equipping them for service. But
they did take notice when they
ileaftfed that tHfe "Uhltfed Stated Wi*
putting her men. her money and all
iier science into this war.
Mr. McKeown told of talking with
members of the French, British and
Italian commissions, from whom he
gained an idea of the tremendous im-
port of the war. He witnessed the
trial flight of an airplane from Nor-
folk to Washington carrying twelve
passengers, and expressed the belief
that America's appropriation of $640,-
000.000 for air craft Is money well In-
vested, as it will hasten the close of
the war. "I do not think 1 am re-
vealing a government secret," he
eaid, "when I say that 20,000 air-
planes equipped according to the lat_
eat government plans will take a sys-
tem of trenches In a day without the
loss of a man. The oth^r day when a
proposal was made to congress for
an appropriation to develop and dem-
onstrate a machine for utilizing free
energy, Uncle Joe Cannon, voting for
it told of a candidate for congress
who beat his opponent because the
latter, a member of congress, had
voted an appropriation to demon-
strate 'talking over wires', which the
voters considered at that time ridic-
ulous; that some years later he
(Uncle Joe) as a member of the ap-
propriations committee, had brought
ridicule upon himself when he had
forced through an appropriation for
Prof. Langley's heavler-thanji'.r fly-
ing machine, and then later had voted
money for a demonstration of talking
through the air; and now he was
ready to vote for anything." Mr. Mc-
Keown added that if the $640,000,000
worth of airplanes only saved a thou-
sand American lives they were worth
the price.
"Every mother and every father
who gives up a son is heavy of
heart," said the speaker, "and our
sympathy goes out to them." He re-
lated a story of an incident he had
observed in the office of the provost
marshal general. A youth who had
been refused as a volunteer because
ol a defective lung pleaded for per-
mission to enlist. Gen. Crowder in-
formed him that the army physicians
said that he could not live in the
trenches, with such a condition of
his lung. "Who wants to live in the
trenches?" he cried. "All I crave is
the privilege of dying in the trenches
of Franco for my country and my
flag." "As Julius Kahn. German.
American, said in closing his great ar-
gument for the selectivo draft: 'What
more can 1 do, what nobler end could
there be to my career than that I
died for my country?' What are you
going to do now for your country? I
you don't buy and pay for these $5.-
000,000,000 worth of liberty bonds, the
war is over as far as this country is
concerned."
Of the bonds issued. Mr. McKeown
said, $7,000,000,000 will be loaned to
the allies, which will practically all
be spent In this country, and which
will bo paid back after the war, as
no civilized nation has ever repu-
diated a debt. When war broke out,
we owed Europe something like $'
OOfr,000,000. This hH? hern <''it down
$5,000,000,000, and about $2,000,000.-
000 of farm loans would be called, did
not this country advance the allie3
money to prosecute the war on.
The new national army must be
equipped. "They are willing to lay
down their lives: are you not ready
to do your part?" he demanded "I
voted for every appropriation bill be
ause where life and limb are coiu |
cerned money must not be consid-
ered. This is not a "rich man's war
and a poor man's fight', thanks to
the selective service law. 1 saw the
drawing of the numbers in Wash-
ington, and 1 was glad that I hart
fought for that provision of the se-
lective service act that leaves the
matter of decision as to who shall be
exempted up to local boards. I have
never, and never shall, use my con-
gressional influence to secure the ex-
emption from service of any man."
Congress hag been trying, said the
speaker, to make the lot of the man
who enters the service of -his coun-
try, and the lot of his dependents, as
easy as possible. He cited the in„
surance bill and other measures
passed by congress with that end in
view. "I appeal to you." he said, "to
blood. 8tand by the greatest man in
their homes and their businoss
bathe the soil of France with their
blood. Stand by the greatst man in
the world today, Woodrow Wilson
Be patient and do your full duty.
Stand by the president who stands up
for you!"
Following the congressman's ad-
dress in which he was frequently in-
terrupted by applause, Mr. Brooks
read an Associated Press bulletin to
the News-Herald, telling of the sink-
ing of a homeward-bound American
transport with the loss of 70 Ameri-
can lives. "Thus" said Rev. Brooks, ''is
this terrible war being brought closer
home to us."
At the conclusion of Judge Mc-
Keown's address scores came forward
to express their regards and for thirty
minutes he was conversing with both
old and new friends.
At 10 o'clock Judge McKeown. ac-
companied by a delegation of friends,
all the guests of Mr. H. T. Douglas,
went to the City Cafe where they en-
joyed a turkev dinner. Those in the
party were: Congressman McKeown.
Messrs. H. T. Douglas. Kib Warren,
W. L. Blessing. Win. Hickey, A. J.
Cammack, Sidney Clarke, Chas. Dierk-
er. Joe Cobb. Harry Freeman. O. B
Weaver, A. G. Eaklns, A. J. Fluke, and
Chas. L. Brooks.
Mr. .HeKeown's Dates.
Judge McKeown returned Saturday
morning to his home in Ada. He will
speak in Okfuskee and Creek counties
Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday he
will attend the Champ Clark meeting
at Oklahoma City; Thursday he speaks
at Holdenville. Wewoka and Seminole,
coming to this county again Friday.
His dates in the county arranged by
W. L. Blessing, M. M. Henderson and
C. A. Knight are as follows:
Friday. Oct. 26: —
10:30 a. m.. Wanette.
12:30 noon, Asher.
3:30 p. m.. Maud.
Saturday, Oct. 27: —
11 a. m., McLoud.
2 p. in., Tecumseh.
7:30 p. m., Meeker.
Home is a
Happier Place
Aiter the Victrola
It creates a musical atmosphere that
is a source of delight to the entire fam-
ily.
It fills the mothers' leisure hours.
The husband drops his newspaper
while he listens to the music, or plays
it himself. _
Then the children dance to it.
Give the family that enjoyment and
pleasure at home they seek elsewhere.
There is nothing that gives more
pleasure WHY NOT ENJOY YOUR-
SELF?
Adam Scltaai Pianos
We are proud to announce we have just secured the agency for the Adam
Schaaf pianos and players, and will be pleased to show this wonderful instru-
ment to any prospective buys.
The Adam Schaaf piano has been awarded medal after medal at expositions
, for its excellent tone quality, its sustaining power, its well planned scale, its
excellent action, with easy, responsive touch, and its superior material and
workmanship. We will gladly arrange terms on pianos, player pianos, and
victrolas.
Come to see us.
The Longmire-Draper Company
Reliance Machine
Works
I. C. Wllklnisa, Fr.p.
AUTO OVERHAULLSW
ui
(taieral ■■chine 8k p W*rk
Phone 263 122 N. Beard
THE NEWEST
of the season in women's and misses'
coats are to be seen at a great sav-
ing at Frankel Bros. 14-tf
MONEY TO LEND—On farm lands,
low rates and pre-payment privileges,
prompt service. See or write us.
Lambard-Hart Loan Co., Shawnee.
27-lmo.
MOORE GASKILL UNDERTAKING CO.
Undertakers and Embalmers
Parlor 120 N. Bell Day Pone 371.
Night Phone, W. E. Gaskill, 850.
For Ambulance, Phone 365.
Motor or Horse-Drawn Hearses.
SECURITY STATE BANK
t Shawnee, Okla., October 20, 191/.
Dear Sir:
We feel that every depositor in this bank, in fact every man, woman and child in this community,
is vitally concerned in the outcome of the war. Our prosperity, our freedom and the homes we cherish
are at stake. * "w S
The Directors of our bank recognize that at the present time it is their duty to do everything in
their power to help the government rather than to make profits for the stockholders. Therefore, it
has been decided to make loans at 4 per cent instead of the usual 8 or 1 0 per cent, to any of our custom-
ers on new Liberty Bonds.
Won' t you allow us to send in a subscription in your name—the larger the amount the better
and we will advance you practically all the purchase money? For instance, if you decide that $1,000
is all you can afford, send us your check fos' $50 and we will buy in your name a $1,000 bond. We will
only charge you interest on the balance—$950, at the rate of 4 per cent per annum, just the rate the
government will be paying you on the bonds. As soon as we have received the bonds we will ar-
range with you convenient terms for the payment of the balance from future savings. We want you
to know that we will do everything in our power to assist you.
Please remember that you will not lose anything in interest, as we only charge you 4 per cent and
the government pays you 4 per cent. BUT THE GREAT THING TO REMEMBER IS THAT
WHEN YOU BUY A LIBERTY BOND you are doing a truly patriotic act, greatly assisting your gov-
ernment and saving the lives of your fellow Americsans.
We want you to understand that we are acting in this matter entirely from a patriotic point of
view. We could loan out all of our money at 8 and 1 0 per cent if we wanted to make profits only, but
the Directors of this bank believe that for the good of the people of the United States, this war should
cease with victory on our side, and they believe that nothing will heip that victory come so soon ai<
making this loan a tremendous success. Won't you help? It will cost you but very little^
The Liberty Bonds are better than gold. They are a first mortgage on the United States. They
pay you 4 per cent interest. In buying them you are not only doing your patriotic duty but are making
the best possible investment. We want everv customer of this bank to invest in some of these bonds.
We enclose an application blank, which please fill out, or, if you desire further information, we
shall be glad to furnish it on hearing from you. Sincerely yours,
F. V. ASKEW, President.
Security Slate Bank
Shawnee, Okla. October 24, 1917.
Gentlemen—Please purchase in my name Liberty Bonds to the amount of $
I enclose my check for $ in part payment. As soon as you notify me that you
have received the certificate I will arrange with you regarding my repayment of the
loan of $ which you will make me to cover the purchase.
It is understood that you are to charge me for this loan only 4 per cent per annum, just
the interest the United States Government pays me. The Bank is to make no charge for
its part in the transaction.
I also agree that if on account of unforseen circumstances I cannot arrange to pay
the balance on such terms as you will arrange with me you are at liberty to sell the bonds
and you are to return to me my balance due me. Yours very truly,
Amount of Bond Am't to pay with order
$ 50 $ 2.50
100 5.00
500 25.00
1,000 50.00
Amount of Bond Am't to pay with order
5,000 325.00
10,000 600.00
100,000 5,000.00
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