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The Carter Express.
VOL. 15.
No. 2
CARTER. BECKHAM COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY, FEB. 29, 1924.
GEO. W. CAIN. EDITOR.
Looking good never counts ai
much as making good.
Some people postpone Opening
a bank account until ‘‘the sign
is right”. The better way would
"be to open the account first;
then the ‘ SIGN WILL GET
RIGHT”.
Your yesterdays have all faded
into the land of the setting sun.
Hadn’t vou better make good
use of today before IT becomes a
‘ has-been” too?
Any dealings with YOU will be
in line with that principle.
First National Bank
SLOGAN—THERI?IS NO SUBSTITUTE
FOR SAFETY.
BOYS OFF FOR
WEATHER-
FORD
dr. asbu r y
DENTIST
SAYRE. OKLA
the two former gentlemen. The
Dixie will now be under the
management of Mr. Johnson.
Mr. Guthrie resides now at Nor-
man. .
Mr. Jackson informs us that he
has not yet fully decided as to
just what he will do in the fu-
ture.
Business Change
A business deal was made here
last week wherein Mr. F. F.
Johnson and Mr. J. L. Guthrie
becomes owners of the Dixie
The Carter High School Basket St°re- Mr- A' R Jac*son favin«
Ball Team left for Weatherford sold hm mterest m the store to
Wednesday afternoon to contest
in the Southwestern Tourna-
ment to be held there on Thurs-
day, Friday and Saturday of
this week. Following is the
team lineup: Fred Lathy, Tollie
Henson, forwards; Elmer Mcln-
turff, center; Frank Waldrop.
Elmer Carter, guards. Subs:i-
tutes: VirgiTSmilh, Bill Morgan,
Vernon Rowsey.
The boys were accompaied to
Weatherford by Prof. Peacock,
Landie Copp, Doyle Smith and
others. More of the Carter
people will go later in the week
While it is clear to everybody
that the Carter boys will have to
do some mighty good pla.v ing to
win out down there still we
know that the boys are capable
of just that very thing so we are
cannot help from believing that
they have a real good chance of
carrying off the honors. If
they should fail to win, which of
course is not impossible, we
still make the prediction that the
team that beats them will realize
that they have been in a basket
ball game.
CARTER BOYS WIN
IN BOTH CLASSES
Erick High School Girls
and Elk City Grade
Girls Win Trophies
Mr. J. H. Waggoner of Elk
City was down meeting the Car-
ter folks the latter part of last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. LaMont who are
here from Canada visiting at the
J. C. MacKenxie home, visited
relatives at Erick last week.
Gene Poarch and family were
here from Weatherford last week
visiting relatives.
Robert Ross and wife are mov-
ing into their pretty new home
The Beckham County Inter-
scholastic Basket Ball Tour-
nament for 1921 has pass-
ed into history. Friday and
Saturday were big days for Car-
ter in different ways. It was the
first time that our school had
been honored by the County
Tournament being held here and
which brought large crowds of
visitors to our city during the
two days and nights that the
contests were taking place. But
the best part of the occassion for
Carter was that both of our boy’s
teams won first honors in the
finals on Saturday night, both
teams being awarded silver lov-
ing cups. In the girls’ contest
Erick won out in finals in Class
‘‘A’’ and Elk City in Class “B”.
and New Liberty Class ”A’’ girls
in which game Carter won.
The night session opened with a
by game between Highway and
Erick Class “A” girls, which
was followed by a game between
Carter and Highway Class “A”
boys. H gliway forfeiting the
game at the beginning of the
second half. The closing game
for Friday was played between
New Liberty and Erick, Class
“A” Erick winning.
The only final game that was
played before Saturday night
was the game between Delhi and
Elk City Class ”B” girls in
which Elk City won as above
mentioned. At night the first
game was between Carter and
Highway boys in Class ”B”,
the Carter boys winning the cup
in this con'-tst. Second the Delhi
and Erick girls in Class ”A’
in which Erick won the honors.
The closing game of the tourna-
ment was between Carter and
For Sale or Trade
Hupmobile (Touring Car
sale or trade.—M. Copp.
Twe Sld»« of Body Don't Match.
The human body la not built
eynmietrloally. One-half of the face ll
not exactly like the other half. If a
line la drawn separating the two
halves of the physique, well-mnrked
differences nmy be noticed between
them. The sculptors of Classic times
recognised this anomaly, and repre-
sented It In yielr statues.
Venus of Milo, for example, has an
asymmetrical face, that Is, one In which
proportions are not consistent. Moo*
■ persons have heavier bones on the
right side than the left. The two sides
of the face vary. The eye sockets In
both face und skull are of different
! size. The face usually seems to be
shoved over toward the right side.
The ears are usually of different size
and differently modelled. The shoul-
ders are not of the same height, and
are removed varying distances from
an Imaginary dividing line drewr
through the center of the body.
Watar-Drinking Habit.
"The habit of drinking water In mod-
erate quantities between meals," soys
Health,’“contributes to henlth, and In-
dicates the fact that those who go
abroad for the purpose of Imbibing the
waters of mineral spring^lght profit
by staying at home and difhklng more
water and less whisky. Wnter Is the
universal solvent of nuture, and the
* chief agent In all transformations of
matter. When taken Into an empty
stomach It soon begins to pass out
through the tissues by an osmotic
process Into the circulation to liquefy
pifete solids, whose excretion from the
system Is thus facilitated. Very few
people think of the necessity of wash-
ing the Inside us well as the outside
of the body, and he who would be per-
fectly healthy should be as careful
about the cleunllness of his stomacb
as that of his sklix*
Numbering German StQdente’ Hair.
Professors who (according to a dis-
patch from Berlin) recently counted
i the hairs orr the heads of on entire
j class of men and women in Munich
; university, must hove been endowed
i with remarkable patience. The ar-
duous research disclosed that the
men had from 40,000 to 50,000 hairs,
the women from 00,000 to 70.IXW.
Counting at the rate of one hair a
second. It would take one professor
more than 10 hour* to number 70,000.
Mr. A. L Finch was down at
Oklahoma City visiting his son
Harold and family last week end.
Ed Davis was called to Oklaho-
ma City the latter part of last
week to serve as a federal juror.
this week. Mr. McClung is put- Both of these teams were award-
ting the finishing touches to the
interior decoration at present.
Erick Class “A” boys. The
Carter boys went in this game
to win and easily did so although
ed silver loving cups
The first game of the Tourna-
ment was played on Friday I Erick did some good work. The
morning immediately after the Carter boys are just simply
drawing. Highway and Delhi faster and they certainly do
Class “B” boys opened the tour- good team work. The score in
V. L. Castleberry ar.d family between the Class ‘B’ girls of
have their large new bungalow Highway and Elk City, Elk City
nearly completed out on their, winning the game. In the after-
Conley Clancy returned a few
days ago from a prospecting and
sight-seeing trip to Phoenix, Ar-
izona. He made the trip out
there and back on his motorcy-
cle.
Pat York of Murphy’s Gin, a
candidate for sheriff of Beckham
mpp^nir Thp Carter1 fllte and^ “ament with a snappy little game I the Class “B” boys game was
SS,™?    i* wMd. tho Delhi boy, were i)8 to.?. Crter.wd i. CU„ "A",
fending the tournament.    Ieiinlinated. The next game wa, 2? to 9. Carter.
The Carter people showed
their hospitality in entertaining
the visitors while here and hope
faVm" wesVof town.~It will "be a!“oon Carter Elk City Class ’; that all visiters enjoyed them-
beautiful and well arranged “B” boVs P'ayed first in which1 selves while in our little city,
home when finished. E. C. j Carter won by a large margin. Mr. Keller, Coach of the
Woods is overseeing the c a r-1Then the Carter and Delhi Class g. vv. T. C team at Weather-
Pentor work on tha bnildmg. j    ford, was retaree sad be make, .
} Delhi Class ”A” girls were the Bood one as he understa“ds the
Come to Sa^ftfhave your “ext contestants, Delhi winning. | *ame and seems to be as fair as
Dental work done.—Dr. Asbury Tbey were followed by Carter is possible for a referee to be.
For Sale
Good alfalfa hay, 75c per bale,
4 miles east of Carter. •
L. F. McCubbin.
Dr. SPENCE
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist
Glasses Fitted
Office Over New Bank
Sayre,Okla.
POLITICAL A1OTJEMENT
We are authorized to announce
the following candidates subject
to the action of the Democratic
Primary.
For Sheriff, Beckham County,
J. H. DUNBAR.
For Tax Assessor, Beckham Co.
G. G. PERKINS
For Sheriff, Beckham County.
J. P. (Pat) YORK, Of Murphy Gin
For Sheriff, Beckham County.
E. M. GREEN
For Treasurer, Beckham County
E. C. SIMMONS.
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