The Carter Express. (Carter, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, August 23, 1918 Page: 2 of 8
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THE ROLL OF HONOR.
Pvt. Albert Patrick, Tulsa, killed
la action.
Pvt. Wm. Ketcher, Watta, killed In
action.
Pvt. Clyde J. Poster, Kildare, mis-
sing in action.
Pvt. Henry Zemp, Morrison, missing
In action.
Pvt. George S. Harless, Barlsboro,
missing.
Pvt. Lewis G. Hein*, Rosston, mis-
sing.
Pvt. Homer V. Van Meter, Maud,
missing. t
Pvt. Thomas J, Hendrix, Church,
wounded.
Pvt Walter C. Adams, Marlsboro,
missing.
Pvt. Shelby W. Ely, Foss, missing.
Corpl. Stanley Elliott, Elgin, killed
in action.
Pvt. Claude E. Pickering, Alva, mis-
sing.
Pvt Clyde F. Shaffer, Crescent, mis-
sing.
Pvt. Walter Q. Shaw, Shawnee, mis-
sing.
Sergt. Roland F. Hess, Bartlesville,
missing. '
Pvt. Charles Hendrickson, Earls-
boro, missing.
Pvt Joseph C. Whitley, Tecumseh,
missing.
Pvt. Clarence G. Carlson, Oklahoma
City, missing.
Pvt. Clemens J. Gramling, Boxley,
missing.
Pvt. William N. Huff, Ponca City,
(marines) died of wounds,
Serg. Will R. Martin, Tulsa, wound-
ed.
Serg. Wm. S. Folsom, Westville,
wounded.
Serg. Lacie S. Woodward, Muldrow,
killed in action.
Pvt. Morris W. Gray, Texola, died
of wounds.
After giving her three sone to tb«
allied armies, Mrs. Mary Anne Smith,
of Ellis county, has entered a bus!
ness college at the age of 66.
Dr. Samuel Judson Porter, pastor
of the Plrst Baptist church of San
Antonio, has beon Invited to become
pastor of the First Baptist church of
Oklahoma City, to succeed the Rev
H. H. Hulton, resigned.
C. B. Ames, state food adminis-
trator, ordered the Bartlesville Baking
Company closed for one week. The
bakery was found guilty by Judge
Ames of making bread lacking 14 per
cent of the required amount of wheat
substitute.
Judge Nick Wolfe, a pioneer citizen
of Tishomingo, died there after
short Illness. Judge Wolfe was one
of the first practicing attorneys In
that section and held at various times
the office of U. S. commissioner and
county Judge,
FIRST BALES.
Marietta—What' Is believed to
the first bale of cotton marketed
Oklahoma this season was sold
Marietta by R. E. Givins. The price
paid for the cotton was 32% cents a
pound. Marietta merchants gave Mr,
Givens a cash premium of $50.
Julius Carden, 44 years old, noted
Oklahoma and Arkansas bank robber,
was shot and instantly killed by a
trusty guard on the Arkansas state
convict farm at Tucker, Ark., last
week, when he attacked the guard
with an axe.
John Dulaney, a rancher of near
Ardmore is dead, a bullet hole in his
head. Ollie Bailey, a farmer and
stock trader living nearby is accused
as the slayer. Bailey shot Dulaney on
Broadway, In the heart of Ardmore,
as a result of a quarrel.
Mildred Taylor, 14 years old, and
Aubra Taylor, 10 years old, children
of Harry Taylor, and Dwight Dove,
their cousin 10 years old, were drown-
ed in Black Bear creek, near Pawnee.
They were wading when they stepped
off Into a deep pool of water,
C. H. Everest, president of the
Guaranty bank of Oklahoma City, gave
bond of $5,000 last week for his ap-
pearance to answer an Indictment
charging him with using the malls
to defraud, returned against him as an
out-growth of the prosecution of E. H.
and E. J. Green for their high financ-
ing of oil stock propositions, the “War
Baby," "Oily Derick,” and “Quick
Action" promotions.
SOLDIERS’ SWORD
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If We Fail in Our Duty Boys in
Franoe Cannot Achieve
Victory.
LOAN MONEY TOUNCL£SAM
Buying Liberty Bonds an Investment
In Llvee of Americano “Over
There” and an Insurance for
Safety of Our Country.
STATEHOUSE BREVITIES I
MILL PRICE8 ARE FIXED.
Chandler—Cecil Grider, a farmer
living at the northeast corner of town,
marketed the first bale of cotton here.
The cotton ginned out 37 percent,
making a 470 pound bale. Merchants
made up a premium of $55. The hot
weather has cut Lincoln county's crop
nearly 50 percent.
Durant—The first bale of cotton pro-
duced in Bryan county this year was
sold here in the seed for 11% cents
per pound. The cotton was produced
In the northwest part of this county
and there was something more than
1,500 pounds in the load. The Durant
Commercial Association awarded the
grower, Ike Gatkin, a prize of $50
cash. This makes the cotton bring
14% cents per pound.
Muskogee—The first bale of cotton
grown in Muskogee county was
brought to the city by Jim Pierce,
Fort Gibson, who held the record for
eleven years for bringing in the first
bale.
Rev. W. J. Hartfield, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Drum-
right, has handed in his resignation
and will go Into evangelistic work.
A new record price for hogs at the
Oklahoma City stockyards here was
set by owners of Miller’s ranch near
Tulsa when they sold forty-eight hogs
for $20.05 a hundred. The forty-eight
bogs brought $4,414.51.
George McGehee, 55 years old, Is
dead at his home near Rush Springs
and a man named Fuller is in the cus-
tody of the Grady county officers as
the result of a shooting affair that oc-
curred on McGehee’s farm two miles
south of Rush Springs. The shooting
is the outgrowth of a feud between
the men over a crop settlement. Ful-
ler was a tenant of McGehee’s.
The Sons of Confederate Vetrans
are asked by Brant Kirk, Oklahoma
division commander, to meet and or-
ganize ca; >.ps for the purpose of send-
ing delegates to the national reunion
of Confederate Vetrans to be held In
Tulsa from September 24 to 27. Or-
ganization papers will be furnished
members who apply for them by let-
ter. Only one cent a mile will be the
railroad fare charged the veterans
and their families and 100,000 visitors
are expected to attend the sessions of
the reunion.
The revised scredule of wheat mill
regulations and prices now in effect
was announced by C. B. Ames, state
food administrator. The prices are
for carload lota sold at the mills and
the schedule provides three divisions
one for the miller, another for the
wholesalers and jobbers and a thirt
for retailers.
The bulk price per ton of 2,000
pounds at the mill in carloads shall,
according to the regulations, -in no
case exceed 38 per cent of the average
cost to the mill of one ton of wheat
at the mill. The cost of wheat shall
be the average cost as shown by the
previous month’s records of the mill,
including all buying expenses.
The miller Is permitted, under the
regulations, to sell In less than car-
load lots to wholesale dealers in feeds
and to add a sum not to exceed 50
cents a ton to the prices.
Individual deposits of state banks
fell off more than $6,500,000 since the
last call, as reflected in the report of
the state bank commissioner, which
shows conditions on June 29. The re-
port previous to June 29 showed
banks had $105,077,239 while the latest
shows $98,364,988. The resources of
all banks shows a falling off of about
$4,000,000.
The state board of equalization met
and fixed the levy for next year at twe
and one-half mills. Two mills is the
general levy, one quarter for common
schools and one quarter mill for roads,
the same as last year. The total state
valuation was found to be $1,400,-
000,000. The board adjourned until
Aug. 15.
Work Is well begun, according to
Max Cunningham, state engineer, oh
the 438 road and bridge contracts in
which portions of the state’s fillion-
dollar state-aid road fund are involved.
The improvements provided under the
state aid plan range from some gmded
dirt roads, in the northwestern part of
the state, to a $35,000 concrete bridge
in Tulsa county. Other large projects
include $45,000 of gravel road in Mus-
kogee county and $50,000 of gravel
and concrete roads in Oklahoma coun-
ty.
W. G. Ashton, state labor commis-
sioner since 1914, has resigned to be
come special field agent for the fed-
eral employment bureau and travel in
Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming and Ok-
lahoma. Ashton was assistant labor
commissioner two terms under Chas,
L. Daugherty and is near the end of
his first term as commissioner, C. E.
Connally, who has been Ashton’s as-
sistant and who was nominated for
commissioner next term, unopposed,
has been appointed to fill out the un-
expired term,
By CORRA HARRIS,
(Author of “A Circuit Rider's Wlfo,"
“Eve’s Second Husband,” Etc.)
During the Thrift Stamp campaign
in July, 1918, a prominent citizen was
sent Into a backwoods farmiug com-
munity to arouse the people, and if
possible sell Thrift Stamps. He was
not expected to have much success
with the sale pf stamps because the
people were very poor and Illiterate.
The effort was to be chiefly educa-
tional.
The speaker found a dingy company
of farmers and their wives waiting
for him In an old field schoolhouse.
He began his address with argu-
ments for the support of the govern-
ment reduced to the simplest forms.
No one seemed to listen. The men
stared straight ahead as if they had
something else on their minds. The
women fanned themselves and looked
out of the windows. He changed his
manner of speech to an Impassioned
appeal; no one was moved. He
paused perspiring before making a last
despairing effort. But before he could
go on a tall, gaunt farmer stood up in
the back of the house and waved his
hand beseechingly:
"Mister," he said, "If you are done
talking, give us a chance at them
Thrift Stamp* so we kin sign up and
get back to the field.”
He gave them the "chance.” They
bought nineteen hundred and fifty
dollars’ worth of stamps, although
there was not a man among them who
owned property to the amount of two
thousand dollars.
"We own this land," the farmer said,
addressing the prominent citizen grim-
ly as he passed up the last pledge card,
“we own all this country. The govern
ment at Washington belongs to us;
we made It and It Is ours. The army
In France Is ours, too; they are our
sons. We sent slxty-two boys there
from this district, and I reckon we
know It Is our dnty to work for them
and take care of them while they are
busy whipping them Germans."
This is the best, most serviceable
and intelligent definition of patriotism
I have heard since this war began.
Victory at Any Cost.
This is the most expensive war ever
known, still beyond our Imagination
to conceive of. The enormous destruc-
tion wrought by the submarines, the
terrific sums spent for war materials,
the loans to our allies, none of these
things account for the Incredible ex-
pense. The real explanation is that
civilization demands that It shall cost
everything. Never before has any na-
tion spent so much to Insure the health
of Its soldiers, never before have such
provisions been made to safeguard a
great army morally. More Is being
spent to equip hospitals, provide am-
bulances, nurses and doctors to care
for the wounded than whole campaigns
cost in former wars. Never in the his-
tory of man has such provision been
made to Insure widows and orphans
and soldiers from the after effects of
wounds and poverty. Formerly when
a man entered the army to fight for his
country, his country took his life, and
that was the end of it if he was killed.
Now the government pays, and pays
enormously, for every man who lives
or dies In this struggle. All this is so
because as a nation we have developed
a sense of JusSce and honor that re-
gards any and every expense as sec-
ondary to the one tremendous obliga-
tion to its citizens.
Our allies were compelled to fight
Germany to preserve their very exls-
;ence, but we chose to fight her when we
might have made a shameful treaty
with her that would have Insured a
shameful peace, because we are not a
craven grasping nation, but a nation
ouilt apon ideals, and it costs more to
preserve an ideal than it ever costs to
preserve peace, because you cannot
buy them—you must achieve them.
Nothing stands between the world
and this catastrophe but the American
people, their honor, their onergy, their
fidelity and their wealth. Our troops
in France are only the sword arm of
the nation. We, the people at home,
are the body and life of that army.
If we fail at all, they must fall en-
tirely.
We are about to make another loan
of alx billion dollar* for war expense*.
It is not a gift, but an investment we
make in the lives of American soldiers
and an insurance we take out for the
safety of oar country.
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and cream sauce.
Tender—Delicate Sliced Beef
'THE’ tender delicacy of Libby's
Sliced Dried Beef will surprise
you. The care with which
choice meat is selected, the skill
with which it is prepared, give
it the exceptionally fine flavor.
Its uniform slices will please you,
too. Order Libby’s Sliced
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One for Each.
Mrs. Houlihan—Wan divorce would
be no good; 01 want two av them.
Lawyer—What do you mean?
Mrs. Houlihan—Molke do be livin’ a
doohle lolfe.—Boston Evening Tran-
script.
The man who takes up a lot of your
valuable time is seldom able to take a
hint.
Gold brick purchasers are born
often enough to keep the manufactur-
ers from going out of business.
Packers’ Costs
and Profits
How much do you think
it costs—
1. To dress beef, cure hides, and
prepare all the numerous by-
products ?
2. To cool the meat for two or
three days before shipment?
3. To freight it to all parts of
the country in special refrige-
rator cars, iced daily?
4. To carry it in hundreds of
branch houses, each with its
refrigerating plant?
5. And to deliver it to the retailer
—sweet and fresh —in less
than two weeks after dressing?
Swift & Company did all this
for you in 1917 at an expense of
less than 2V2 cents per pound of
beef sold, including an average
profit of Va of a cent a pound.
Figure for yourself how little
effect this cost and profit had
on prices you paid for beefsteak.
Swift & Company, U. S. A.
Nautical Terms.
A New York bride and groom began
their honeymoon by making a trip to
one of the southern ports my a coast-
wise steamer.
The young womi», who took a lively
Interest in the passengers, said one
day to her husband:
“Did you notice the great appetite
>f that man opposite us at dinner?”
“Yes," said her husband, "he must
be what they call a stowaway.’’—Har-
per's.
Heard of Baitill* Day.
Eve—Jealous?
Adam—Yes, Nobody makes our fall
a holiday.
Yourj
Eyes!
A Wholesome, Cleoasiaq,
Refreshing and Realist
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ness. Soreness, Granula-
tion,itching and Burning
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Cain, George W. The Carter Express. (Carter, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, August 23, 1918, newspaper, August 23, 1918; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc956541/m1/2/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.