The Choctaw Herald. (Hugo, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 14, 1913 Page: 4 of 4
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School Election.
There was very little interest in
the school election held in the city
Tuesday for the purpose of voting
an extra levy for the benefit of the
city schools. It was proposed to
vote an additional four mills for the
schools, three mills for the general
running expenses of the schools and
one mill for making sewerage con
nections at the high school build-
ing. There are now more than 500
pupils attending in this building,
and their health depends upon the
sanitary conditions of the building
Under the old law there were not
enough votes cast to pass the levy,
which required that a certain per-
centage of the votes cast at the last
general election be polled; but some
time ago the supreme court decided
that that law was in conflict withi
the constitution, and that a major-
ity of votes cast on the proposition
was sufficient.
At the election Tuesday there were
202 votes cast in the four wards of
the city, by wards as follows:
Yes. No
Ward 1 128 1
Ward 2 23 3
Ward 3 17 0
Ward 4 28 2
Total 196 6
MESSER NEWS.
We are having some cooler wea-
ther now, which is appreciated by
every one.
A good shower would be of great
benefit.
The holiness meeting at this place
closed Sunday night. Several were
converted and now belong to the
holy band. Praise the Lord for
sending Bros. German and McClan-
ahan to Messer.
The Campbellites are holding a
meeting here close to Messer. May
God be with them in their meeting
as he was with us- in ours.
Tulip, What has become of our
Sunflower—has it wilted away?
I see we have a Butterfly writer
from Speer; and I tell you, Butter-
fly, my chickens are pretty well
thinned out. You say Speer is im-
proving, and to come and take
view of the cars. You just come
to Messer and view us holiness
folks. Messer is improving, too.
AUNT DINAH.
ROCK KILL NEWS.
liews is very scarce this week, or
at least I have been sick and have
not heard anything new.
Bascom Colley has been very sick
the past week.
Grandpa Garrett returned home
last Wednesday after a two weeks'
visit in our neighborhood.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dennis, of
Texas, have been visiting friends
and relatives in our vicinity the past
two or thre^ weeks.
Mrs. Ed Avery is visiting her
mother-in-law this week.
Aunt Dinah, are you sick, too?
Sunflower and I have been on the
sick list for quite a while.
We have had some very warm wea
ther of late. More rain is needed
We had a severe wind storm the
4th, accompanied by a dash of hail;
very severe while it lasted.
The storm put all our phones out
of business; we haven't had any ser-
vice since.
What does a 40-horse power limo
usine come to when all but one of
the horses refuse to work and he is
the jackass down under the car?
Perhaps a parrot is some vain, but
as a rule he doesn't go around tell-
ing it that he is a bird.—Ex.
Sometimes even when a tired cook
has her hands in the dough she does
not realize that she has got a soft
thing.—Ex.
As a general thing, when a fat,
man has corns he tries to cure them
by sitting down.—Ex.
Wanted.—Man who understands
making sorghum, to take charge of
my mill. Call and see me or write
to me at once.
al4t2 GRANT WEBB, Hugo.
Thomas Woodson Dead.
Thomas Woodson, one of the best
known young men of the city, died
last Wednesday evening of tuber-
culosis of the jaw. Last fall he
had a tooth pulled and the disease
originated from the wound
He had been a long and patient
sufferer, and for several weeks be-
fore he died had not been able to
speak a word. He was a barber by
trade, and had worked for a long
time at the Palace barber shop. He
was 38 years of age, and leaves a
wife and two children. The body
was buried in Spring Chapel ceme-
tery Thursday .
W. L. Gaylor and wife of Bos-
well were in the city Monday en'
route to points in Texas on an ex-
tended visit. From Texas they
will go to the mountains of Colora- j
do to spend a few weeks.
Baseball Dope.
The season of the T.-O. league will
come to a close next week, and will
leave Hugo with the best all-round
team in the league. If we had had
our present line-up when we took
the team over from Wichita Falls
we would have been a contestant
with Paris and Denison for the hon-
ors.
The pennant will undoubtedly go
to Denison. That is sure. Deni-
son will not win it. That is also
sure.
Every team in the league has had
at one time or another within the
past few weeks protests against
Denison. The town has a good ball
team, but they absolutely take ail
the sport out of the game by the
A-ay they manage to get decisions.
Everybody loves a winner, and es-
pecially when the winner is game,
but everybody hates a piker, and
there is no sport in a game of ball
jr a horse race when the results are
planned before the event comes off
From recent occurrences fans are led
to believe that umpires have been
jought, and there are ample grounds
for the belief. This kind of ball
■vill wreck the league; not this sea-
son, perhaps, but if the same tactics
prevail at the opening of the 1914
:he league will never lie to play
jut the schedule.
The Denison team went home
from Hugo, and they, together with
Umpire Wilkerson, told stories about
their treatment here that would make
your blood curdle, and with-
out the semblance of truth—of high
handed robbery and bull dozing that
in reality never took place. They
the only bunch in the league that
stood between them and the coveted
pennant and told tales that would
put Baron Munchausen to shame.
Denison baseball enthusiasts took in
the stories and one of the Denison
papers covered its front page with
the dope—telling it, perhaps, as it
was told to them, and seemingly
without an effort to ascertain the
truth in the matter.
Then Hugo went to Denison Sun-
day to open a series. A few fans
attended from Hugo, through a de-
sire to see a real contest between
the two best teams in the league
The visitors and the team were
greeted on the streets and in the
grandstand with yells of "OutJ,
laws," "rough necks," thieves" and
jther epithets that we cannot put
into print, making an exhibition of
their moral and sporting qualities all
day long.
The game came off according to
schedule. Red Vitter was the um-
pire, and on three distinct occasions
indeavored to pass the game to Den-
son, and would have been success-
ful but for the team work and cool
letermination on the part of the
Hugo team to play the game like it
s written. We were on foreign
territory with all the chances in fa-
.•or of the home team from a base-
ball standpoint; the rooters were of
course aggressive, and this gives
•he home team encouragement and
?inger. Hugo won the game sim
ply by playing a game of high-
■iass, clean ball.
Monday Denison took the game;
i telephone message after the game
:onveyed the inteligence to Hugo
fans that the team had been robbed
>f the game and the totals bear out
he assertion. Hugo with ten hits
and one error lost by a score of 5 to
1, and in the middle of the game
Green, Hugo's fast short stop, was
iractically put out of the game by
>eing spiked all over by a Denison
runner, according to./ information
from a member of the Hugo team.
The score stood 3 to 2 in favor of
Hugo up until the ninth, when
rotten decsiion by Vitter, calling a
long foul fly a fair ball, netted Den-
ison three runs, winning the game
Other decisions all through the game
were reported that were just as bad.
This sort of sport is no sport at
all. An umpire can throw a game
any way he chooses nine times out
of ten. All the trouble at Hugo the
Sunday before was caused by just
such umpiring, and Hugo fans, af-
ter standing it as long as they
could, simply went out to the um-
pire and demanded a fair deal. Be-
ing given no satisfaction they took
the game into their own hands and
the umpire vanished, after applying
names to sevferal, for which they
would not stand. All they de-
manded was fairness and impartial
ity, and when they were told that
the umpire was running the thing
they stopped the game rather than
be "robbed on their home ground.
Denison has caused all of thedis-
sention the league has ever had, and
at a league meeting ten days ago
there were three protests against the
Denison team for playing dirty ball.
It is a case of pennant- at any cost
with the top-notchers, it seems, and
they are resorting to all the old
tricks of days when dirty ball was
the rule to win. When it comes to
earning the pennant Paris has earn-
ed more games than Denison and
they won them like true sports, yet
Denison will win the honors.
Hugo it not in the running; not
BARNYARD
HYGIENE
A LITTLE Babbitt's Pur'e Ly'e or
Potash and a lot of water applied to
coops, nests and roosts, eradicates vermin.
Used on stable floors, mangers and feeding boxes,
it keeps disease germs away from horses and cattle.
As a spraying solution, it kills the scale
and preserves your trees. Many use it
as a hog conditioner.
Be sure to get Babbitt's, the can of a hundred uses.
Highest in Strength, but not in Price. Only 10c.
Buy a dozen cans today. It is concentrated
cleanliness.
Valuable Presents for the Labels.
Write for Booklet showing many uses.
B.T. BABBITT, p.o.Bo*i,"6, NEW YORK CITY
hawk cbt along porTtPj-^-
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"POR TECHNICAL US£3
Jte diverse siot
low is.
a crown, it would be dry and hard.
YOU CAN NOW
BUY THAT
FARM.
Spiking the good players and buy- j Sometimes a road passes through
, ! what is called a cut. inis is a place
umP,rLes has won man>- a Ptn" where the earth has been dug oSt so
nant in the days of rowdy baseball, that the road can go over a hill with-
and came near ruining the national | out being too steep. The water that
the
game in all the big leagues until a
i few years ago President Ban John-
i son by a terrible effort stopped it
There is only one thing that Johnson, of this league will have to
prevents many a good farmer'us® drastic measures if the T.-O.
from OWNING his own farm
That one "tiling is MONEY.
But that is where I come in.
outlives another season. It is too
To Farming
Trade
GOING TO SELL FOR
ash
always flows quietly under
ground on hill sides is known as
groiind water. In road cuts such . , , .
water sometimes makes the road1 have opened a new store, to be
very muddy, and the road then needs j known as
what road builders call underdrain- j- > , •. _ ~
ings. A good kind of underdraining Knnclpv C Na / \Tnffl
i is a trench to go along under the side, LFvttkJivj ij llU U Ol/UI C
late now to talk of reform in team drain and about 3 feet deep and a1 it . >. .... .
methods for this season, but a league1 foot and a half wide. In this trench " Jones Building, on North
meeting to investigate some of the a P'Pe is laid near the bo"om and Broadway,in the rear of Uie First
games given to Denison would not WK ?° '^"i SUU' ba"k-
T i j -j , i *i_ i than an egg. When the trench is; WE ARE GOI]
be a bad idea, and at the meeting, completely filled with loose stones, I
notify every team that if they stay the ground water, instead of soaking! "l
in this league another season they tbe roadway, will stop among |
_ ♦ , i ... ta , ! the stones and flow down the hill
must play clean ball. Denison has throU);h the pipe
not a care for the future of the T.-1 To keep a road smooth and crown-1
O. as they intend to go into the: the best method is to drag it with 1
Texas next season, and wants to go a r.(?a^ drag. \ r,oac^ drag made
♦ e a "..easily with two halves of a loe that
there as the winner of the pennant has been spHt The , 6ho«,d be
in this league. That is the whole about 6 or 8 inches in thickness and1
secret of the devious ways employ- j about 6 or 8 feet long. The two1
ed by Denison. halves of the log are set 3 feet apart
with the smootn faces forward and
upright. They are then fastened to-'
gether with braces set in holes bored
through the log. A pair of horses
If you look at the ordinary coun-! m*y be used to drag the road and
.. , . , I try road after a shower you will see ; hitched to a chain fastened to the Tom Carlock who was in Hip citv
You come to me and pick small puddles along the wheel ruts] front half of the log. The road drag!„ j„„ „
I J I 'II anc* sometimes larger pools. This should move forward so that it slants 1 or t vo ago from Pecan Gap,
out your farm and 1 Will water stays on the road surface be- across the road in such a way that 1 r*Ports that there is considerable
Ipnrl vnn Vip mnnov to nav cause it cannot drain away into the a small amount of earth wili slide ; talk among the farmers of boll worms
' y P y side ditches. If you look closely you P«st the smooth face of the log to- but he has heard nothing of the boll
for it. wll see side ditches which have ward the center of the road, thus ti,.,- u .. .,
grown up with bushes and weeds in forming the crown. The edges of! ' considerable
far the logs will smooth out the ruts, jraln ln Carlock's section of the
. . —- r... road The best wav to drag is to begin at county, which doubtless accounts for
Come in and let US talk the that the rain watei does not drain (the side ditch and go up one side of the presence of the worms Taking
into them. That
The Repair and Maintenance of
Earth Roads.
and give you Bargains every day in
GROCERIES and GENERAL MER-
CHANDISE.
It will save you money to come here
before you buy.
Beasley & Co.
Boll Worms Reported.
p • L • >, many cases, and which are so far the logs
rajr enough proposition, isn Lj jrom tj,e tiave)ec] part 0f tj,e roa(j The best
itei does not drain! the side _
part of the roadway , the road, and then down the other. nrosnerKhi trln«rll Th #
where the wagons travel is called the ' In the next trip the drag should be sP^cts ln general the condition of
JIM THOMAS, ;
Longino Bldg., Hugo. Okla.
tarted a little nearer the center and croPs at this time is
the last trip over the road the drag than it has been for
may work close to the center itself. Advocate.
Small ridges of earth will be thrown
ln the horse track and smeared by
the round side of the log smoothly
over the road. The smearing of the
called
matter over.
That wont cost you anything traveled way. To prevent water
and may result in your personal j [^roalT should°be raisedTnthe «n-
D€tterment. i ter and should slope gently into
broad shallow ditches. It is then said
to have a crown. If it is 10 feet
from the center of the road to the
side ditch, the surface at the side
ditch should be at least 10 Inches
lower than it is at the center where
the horses travel. The road then
has a 10-inch crown. The rain that ro d is always dragged after it has
falls on a road properly crowned will | rained and not when it is dry. A
- run quickly to the side and not soak i good, strong pair of horses with a
even a leader in the second division,' 'nto surface or form pools. The well-built drag can drag about 3 or
hut a- ,u... I side ditches for surface water should i ' miles of road in a day, and it is the
but we expect to be in this same, ^ ,le, to the right of #nd best WBy to mainUin ' d roads In
league again next season, and want should be open at every low point, so every county gome farmer along
clean ball. This league is big1 that the water can run out of them ®ach 4 miles of road should own a
enough for us Hugo has no ill j 'nto neighboring brooks or streams, drag and drag the road when It rains
feeling toward „nv Hti™„ „r nl v ' f the d'tches merely collect the wat- #nd he would always find the road
J ^ ' ' ■* ; ter from the road surface and it can in good condition when he goes to
if Denison can not run away, largp pools will be market
real sport we • formed along the roadside, which
much better
years.—Paris
A. W'ayne \Vadlington, wife and
children, of Purcell, are in the city
earth by the drag is called "pud- this ""1 1 " "'K Luy
dling," and it tends to make the sur- ® guests of the Parents
fuce of the road smooth and water- *"• adhngton, Attorney B. C.
tight after the sun comes out. The Wadlington and wife. The younger
Mr. Wadlington is prosecuUng attor-
ney for McClain county, and one of
the prominent democratic politicians
of that county.
Mrs. Albert Biard is visiting rel-
atives in central Illinois.
er of Denison, and if Denison can not run away, Targe pools wiil* bp market. i visited
win the penant like a real sport we ' formed along the roadside, which j Owing to the fact that many rural ^berman Sunday,
are more than willing to shout with wi" Kr«<Jually soak into the soil be- schools were closed at the time when;
friends in
Dallas and
Dpnicnn h t Tor tu t ( neath the road and make it so soft the prize maintenance essay was an-j Dave Stovall was in
Denison, but for the good of the T.-jth,t the wheelg of W8 ^ cut nounced by Director Logan WaHer w WaS
O. league in the future some inves- j through the road surface and soon Page of the Office of Public Roads, i 00 lms week'
tigations should be made as to the i destroy it. It has been decided to extend the j
Sometimes water runs from land limit for receiving the essays to Oc-1 CHOCTAW COUNTY FAIR.
methods employed in seizins' the flat' Sometime* water runs from land '"n't ror receiving the essays to Oc-1
iinri w-.lkir.T an-av with i. o,.,i .hi- alonK the road into the road and tober 15, 1918. In additon to thai
j l r I forms a little stream down the wheel (fold medal given as first prize, twol
, . , , . , , . , . —— r, — The Choctaw County Fair and
should be done before the close of track or in the middle where the sliver medals will be given as second Farmers' Institute desei-ves and
the season. horses travel. When driveways intOitnd third prises. If a child who has .
the side submitted on. essay previous to the;6,1011,(1 have the hcart.y «upport of
. .,. _ SJ. , . „ ..... ...... channels ' Issue of thla notice should care to try i evefy citizen and business inititu-
men ^ ho^ ho Uke a g nie of ball ( for water frorn^the farm yard to run "gain, he is at liberty so to do, but; ti*
There is some misunderstanding in j _-l
regard to the subject of the essay. * better^ than, ever before,
The idea is to get the children to *nd. the onH-trs an^.' directors are
thinking how to better their earth now compiling tjie premium 'list and
roads with the material they have at catalog. •- • .
I An excellent medium of advertis-
Mr. and Mrs. Elzie Williams are is found ,n the
book, and each merchant
Fair minded citizens of Denison. janP yards are built across ...- — -— r--- — ---i ... ,
u-h, u,hr liw • r i n ditches it frequently form channels: Issue of this notice should care to try i every citizen and
who who like a game of ball for water from th), farm yard t# run „ealn> he ig >t llbert 80 do but tion
for the sport there is in it, compli- into the road. The pipes under drive- b? must be a pupil or a rural school. |
mented Hugo on her line-up and the ways become filled with leaves or
article of ball the team played, and ' 1°-l°-f
said that we had the best team in
run way. If the driveways that stop
Pi^ , the ditch water were rebuilt so that
the league—except Denison, of j no pipes were necensary and the
course. Hugo fans know this, and ^itcn could be left open, much trou-
are jelly losers to Denison or any''''e 'rdm RUr^*ce water would be
other team, when they really lose, j Sometimes
but
when we are openly robbed and do- the road cannot be drained by
liberately passed up to the other fel ^tc.hes a.'one- H **>• ™ad were built
,„v,„ . /-i i^K^er like a railroad embankment, i n,Knl> tne,r nrst "jrn.
low, no difference who the other fel- acrQg8 8Uch iow jan(j an(j ma(|e with our friend Grant Webb a grandpa.
this
pro-
road runs across low. , . ^ —.. uro
we certainly can anse a roar around or through a ,wamp where P*"""4* • ten and three-quarter fesHional man vgi jtg F
we are openly robbed and dc-1 the road cannot be drained by side [ pound boy. born last Thursday vertise his Winess shows that hp
This makes endores the fair and is lending his
aid to make it a complete aucces'f.
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Curd, Jesse G. The Choctaw Herald. (Hugo, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 14, 1913, newspaper, August 14, 1913; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc97706/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.