The County Democrat. (Tecumseh, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, April 8, 1921 Page: 1 of 8
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The County Democrat.
E terod at the Tecumseh, Oklahoma, pontoffice. os second-class moil under the act of March 3, 1879.
VOLUME 27.
TBCUMSEH. POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, .APRIL 8, 1921.
NUMBER 28.
Remodeling Building For
An Up-to-Date Hotel
State News Items. City Council Asks That
The old two-story building
jfuown as the Neel-McCall hard-
ware building, and owned by J.
S. Miller of Dalhart, Texas, is be-
ing made into a neat hotel, with
the up-stairs large enough for 20
or 25 outside rooms, and possibly
a number down stairs.
The inside of the building is
completely torn out, and
was started
the cement floor, and will be made
new' clean
MESSAGE TO CONGRESS
Washington.—President Hard-
ing s message to the special ses-
sion of Congress probably will be
delivered by him in person. Al-
woi k j though Mr. Ilardirg is understood
a few ua^s ago on 111()j |iaVe reached a definite de-
! cision, lie is known to be favor-
to the top, with new ably inclined to the personal de-
furniture and equipment. , livery, a custom of the first Pres-
This is something that has been deld? wdlj?A "as rev*ve<^ by
, .. . President Wilson,
long needed m this city, and
6 I he message now is in prepara-
should prove to be a success from. tiou> but is not expected by White
the stand-point of patronage, as House officials to be complete un-
tLere are many here every day til Congress meets next Monday.
tLat would like the very best ho- ^ be devoted largely to do-
. . mestic questions, although refer-
te. accommodations. ence also will be made to the for-.
cign situation and the resolution
for separate peace with Germany.
CITY ELECTION VERY QUIET.
The city election passed off
Tuesday very quietly. There
was no opposition to any of the
candidates, and the following
were elected as our officers for
the coming two years.
Mayor, E. M. Newell.
Councilman, First Ward, B.
Bouclierie.
Councilman, Second Ward
L. Caldwell.
Councilman, Third Ward, J. W
Drake.
Councilman, Fourth Ward, Lon
Boyd.
City Clerk, L. C. Boyd.
City Treasurer, Claude Klapp.
School Treasurer, Miss Virginia
Smiley.
TAKES THIRD DEGREE
IN MASONRY AT ASHER
Last Saturday night the Te-
eumseh A. F. & A. M. Lodge ac-
companied. W. T. Shimp to Asher
where the third degree of Mason-
ry was conferred on the latter,
the noted Asher team putting on
the work. The Asher team is
certainly to be congratulated on
their degree work and Asher
Lodge should be proud of them.
After lodge, all repaired to room
below where an elegant spread
was enjoyed by all.
Mr. Shimp built the Masonic
building at Asher and it was his
desire as well as the members of
Asher Lodge, that he take his
third degree in the Temple that
he built. Those going on the trip
were: County Judge Clarence
Robison, Frank Douglas, F E.
lluett, Belia Gilstrap, Walter
Fox, Oscar Russell, Claud Klapp,
Jack Braly, Earl Aldridge, C. R.
Wright, Emmett Klapp, Dr. H.
C. Cowles, Les Boucherie, WTalker
McMahan, Knox Gardner, Carl
Boyd, T. F. Caudle, Robert Rob-
ertson, Prof. Dowell, Clyde Mc-
Mahan, Arthur Waren, Carlos
Reeves, R. M. Penny, Homer
King Wm. Werrell.
CARUTH ELECTED MAYOR
BY OVERWHELMING VOTE
Geo. B. Caruth, (Jemocrat, was
elected Mayor of Shawnee in the
city election Tuesday, defeating
Fiank P. Stearns, republican, by
597 dotes. The election was one
of the hottest that Shawnee has
had for some time. It was plain-
ly seen that Mr. Caruth was the
people’s choice by the yelling and
cheering of crowds assembled on
the streets immediately after the
returns of the election began to
come in.
NEWELL ELECTED CASHIER
OF HOME STATE BANK
Guthrie The legality of the will be plentiful during the bar-
Paving Bids Be Submitted
ASHER TO CELEBRATE
BRIDGE OPENING MAY C
At a special meeting of the dir-
ectors of the Home State Bank laud 1S sald to be worth $12,000,-
federal law prohibiting the sale vest this year, Claude F. Connal-
of Indian lands before deeds to ly, state labor commissioner is
them are in their Indian owners confident. Wages paid such lab-
hands, will be tested in the fed- orers will also be much lower this
eral district court here next term, year, Connally said. During the j
Miller Brothers of 101 ranch, near ; war farm laborers received $75 !
Ponca City, charged in an indict- a month and board, on an average
meut returned by a federal grand and this year the average wage er bridge has been set for May 6
jury, with securing Indian lauds wdl be $30, Connally believes, j and a big celebration and picnic
through filing false applications Perry—The annual county edu-'ls being arranged by the Asher
of patents and deeds, contend cational and athletic meet will be 1 citizens to be held on that date,
they have a legal Taglit to buy held here, April 22 and 23. Lov-1 * bey ure planning to have a mon-
ing cups are to be awarded the
winning teams.
Oklahoma City—Sergeant En-
cil Chambers of Post Field, Ft.
Sill, Okla., who established a re-
the case against the Incyans, cord in a parachute drop from an
maintains such a transaction is airplane a month ago, will try to
unlawful. The next term of fed-1 make a uew record here, April
eral court will open here during 17- Chambers was holder of the
May. No definite date for the record for three _ weeks. The
Miller case has yet been set. j present holder is Lieut. Hamilton The Teoumseh Ozark Trails
McAlester — Approximately "'bo dropped 24,400 feet at Cha- J boosters who went to Sulphur last
300,000 acres of coal and mineral nute field, Champaign, 111. (Monday to meet with the commit-
lands in the Chickasaw and Choc- Miami—Zinc miners who have ; tee there, report great interest
taw nations will be sold at an ear-: been forced out of employment j shown by Sulphur and neighbor-
ly date according to officials of because of market conditons, are j iug towns,
the Five Civilized tribes. The being cared for by a relief organ-
ization of Picher. More than 200
lands from Indians after patent
rights have been issued though (
not actually delivered into their
hands. District Attorney Peck,
in charge of the prosecution of
case
The people of this little city
will be pleased to know that
Broadway is to be paved, without
further delay. Plans and speeifi-
- I cations are now on file with the
The formal opening of the Ash- City Clerk, Carl Boyd, at Boyd
Bios, store, where any one who
w uld like to bid can get all the
information needed.
The paving proposition for this
city has had many ups and downs,
and for this and that reason, work
has never been started, but the
shape it is in now the paving must
be done or the city wil be forced
to pay the engineer for his ser-
vices just the same as if the work
was finished.
The City Council is to be fur-
ther commended for the work of
grading other streets over frhe
city. We hope street improve-
ment will continue until all the
streets have been placed in good
condition.
ster basket picnic at the bridge
site. Prominent spqpkers will be
invited, and there Will be plenty
of music, refreshments and ice
water.
DELEGATION ATTENOS
OZARK TRAIL MEETING
held last Friday, E. M. Newell |000- |have found temporary employ-
of this city was elected cashier of Chickasha—The Oklahoma ment as day laborers on state
the bank in the place of T. K. iBroom Manufacturers’ association roads in this county.
Davenport, who resigned his po- and the Southwest Broom Manu-: Henryetta—According to re-
sition for the reason that lie was 1 facturers’ association will meet ports here the Oklahoma-South-
njoving to Sulphur, Okla. to en- iu j°int convention here, April western railway company, which
6. Three hundred delegates are >s constructing a new line from
expected from each organization. Bristow to Oklahoma City, will
Trade conditions will be the prin- pass through this city, thus tap-
cipal topics under discussion. An ping the rich coal fields here-
el Ijorate program of entertain-; a bouts.
ment has been planned for the i Beaver—The Oklahoma Pan-
visitors. The program includes,, handle is to have a new railroad,
a war dance by the Comanche according to apparently reliable
blanket Indians, an Indian pony' reports here. The new road is to
race and badger fight. irun from Beaver, west, through
Enid—Boy scouts of Euid are Guvmon, Boise City and Garrett
|to “camp out’’ for ten days dur- and its western terminus will be
for McAlester domestic lump forjing the coming summer, at the Las Animas, Colo. It is under-
April, of $11.20, Henryetta deliv-|101 ranch near PoncaiCity. The stood here the new road will be
erj, $9.70 in your bins, with a ' camp will be in change of Thomas financed by the Santa Fe.
monthly advance of 25c, including H. Nelson, scout executive of Ponca City—A thirty-five acre
Enid. Applications for admit- water reservoir is being eonstruct-
tance to the camp are nqw pour-! e,l by the McCaskey-Wentz Oil
ing in. I company in north-western Kay
Oklahoma City barm labor (Continued on Page 8)
gage in business wnth his father.
The directors also elected Miss
Virginia Smiley to the position of
assistant cashier.
COAL.
For the information of those
who have to burn coal, might be
" ell to decide what fuel' you will
use for the coming year. The
coal operators have fixed a price
August, where the price will be
line for another raise. If you can
use wood, do so; the farmers
need the money.
Delegations were present at the
conference from Chandler, Meek-
er, Asher, Shawnee, Ada, Strat-
ford, Tecumseh, and other places,
about 125 delegates being present.
The Tecumseh delegation con-
sisted of M. M. Henderson, J. L.
Ross, R. A. Strauglian and Lester
Straughan. They drove to Sul-
phur in Mr. Straughan’s car, the
trip taking about three hours.
They had to return on the train
owing to the heavy rain storm of
last Monday night.
Miss Iona Goree spent today
(Friday) in Oklahoma City.
J. II. Hurst made a business trip
to Oklahoma City the first of the
week.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Butler of
Jackson, Tenn., spent Sunday
in the city visiting friends.
H. P. Patrick and Elbert Wil-
cox of the Mai'S Hill vicinity
were Tecumseh visitors Thursday.
350,000 BALES SIGNED UP
BY COTTON GROWERS
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Williams
and Mr and Mrs D. R. Ferree of
Macomb. visited in Tecumseh
Thursday evening. m
Central Oklahoma Poultry,
Dairy, Hog and Sheep Campaign
UNDER AUSPICES OF
Oklahoma State Agricultural College, in con-
nection with the Rock Island Lines
Will hold meetings at the following places in this county:
McLoud, Monday, April 11, Rink Theater
Shawnee, Tuesday, April 12, Convention Hall
Tecumseh, Wednesday, April 13, Court House
Asher, Thursday, April 14, Asher Theater
(ALL THE MEETINGS WILL BE HELD AT 1:30 O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON)
Everybody Is Invited to
tend These Meetings
At-
Oklahoma City, April 6.—In
the campaign which closed Sat-
urday night, the Oklahoma Cot-
ton Growers’ Association signed
up more than 350,000 bales of the
crop to be marketed through the
association for the next seven
years. This announcement was
made from headquarters of the
association here Monday. The
figures are based on incomplete
returns from about thirty of the
fifty-three cotton producing
counties of the st.a’e, and may be
considerably increased when com-
plete returns are in, it is stated.
Oklahoma cotton farmers have
thus completed a drive which is
unique iu the agricultural history
of the state. More than 5,000 of
the members themselves under-
took during the last week of the
campaign to sign up the baleage
needed to complete the 300,000
bale minimum needed before the
association could operate as a sell-
ing agency for cotton. They suc-
ceeded with more than 50,000
bales to spare. % *
The association is now an as-
sured fact. Immediate steps will
be taken toward permanent or-
g' nization, a board of directors
will be elected from among the
members and preparations will be
made to handle the 1921 crop.
From iucomplete returns Mon-
day, it seemed certain that fully
half the cotton counties have
signed up more than fifty per
cent of their production. Sever-
al have gone far beyond this fig-
ure, McClain county being in the
lead with over ninety percent of
its cotton in the association.
POLICIEiTisf?
CONVERTED BY MARCH, 1326
Washington. The War Risk In-
surance Bureau sent out a warn-
I ing recently to all former service
men that their war-time or term
insurance must be couverted into
I! permanent policies before March
j 3, 1926.
Passage of the joint resolution
j by Congress which construes cer-
tain war laws as though a state
of peace existed automatically
made effective provisions of the
War Risk Insurance act for the
conversion of war-time insurance
into one of the three permanent
• types, according to the bureau’s
I announcement. These provisions
I require the conversion within five
| years after the declaration of
| p ace, but the joint resolution
‘superseded the peace declaration
'in establishing the effective date
of the conversion privileges, of-
ficials explained.
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Henderson, L. P. The County Democrat. (Tecumseh, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, April 8, 1921, newspaper, April 8, 1921; Tecumseh, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc937491/m1/1/: accessed March 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.