McCurtain Gazette (Idabel, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 30, 1921 Page: 1 of 8
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McCurtain Gazette
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volume 15
idabel, mccurtain county, oklahoma, Wednesday, march 30
NUMBER 11
MAILING
money
WHEN vol HAVE A CHECKING ACCOUNT, YOV
CAN SIMPLY DRAW A CHECK I OR ANY REQUIR-
ED AMOUNT, AND ENCLOSE IT LIKE REGULAR
CORRESPONDENCE UNDER REGULAR POSTAGE
RATES.
'I HIS IS BUT ONE OF THE MANY FEATURES THAT
MAKES A CHECKING ACCOUNT DESIRABLE. OUR
OFFICERS WILL GLADLY DISCUSS WITH YOU ITS
M ANY OTHER ADVANTAGES.
The.
First National Bank
of Idabel
"OLDEST AND LARGEST BANK IN COUNTY."
COMIC OPERETTA
TO BE PRESENTED
ONE CITIZEN
SPEAKS AGAINST
BY IDABEL HI CHARTER CHANGE
"BUL-BUL" REQUIRES LARGE
CASTE-TWO LONG ACTS
AND MUCH MYSTERY.
SEES DANGER OF HIGHER TAXES
AND ABSENCE OF VOICE IN
GOVERNMENT
The story of "Bul-BuI" leads like There ig not a man, woman or
a moving picture scenario but those child but who can recall the bugle
taking part in its production at the blast that called our boys to the col-
school auditorium Thursday night will I ors in 1917, and then the war dogs
represent flesh and blood and not { were unloosed, and the entire world
| screen reproduction. The caste is aj plunged into the bloodiest war in the
large one, comprising some or t he
leading members of the Idabel High
School class.
The Caste.
I Director Miss Crain
Accompanist Elizabeth Kniseley
Stage Director Mrs. Price
Iamit, a well meaning but fussy lit-
tle monarch—Tracy Powell.
Bulbul, his beauteous daughter—
Winifred James.
Caspian, an amiable your
| —William Sanders.
Ida, the court chaperon—Grace
Bryant.
Lilla,
Baylis.
Alain,
Puckett.
Dosay, keeper
Odie Hendrix.
Justso, keeper of the
Box—William Guthrie. i
Soloist for Chorus—Lvda Williams.
history of all mankind. The cause be-
ing too much centralized power or in
other words, a one man government,
as represented by the Devil that sat
upon the then already rotten Throne
of that bunch of Putrid foul smell-
ing dump called Germany.
By this we do not mean that to vote
for the proposed change in our little
city government would plunge us in-
to a war or anything like it but it
would plunge us into higher taxes,
and unsatisfactory way of doing
things, and so long as the people rule
then contentment reigns supreme but
when you divest the people of the
right to choose whom their rulers shall
be then you create discontent and dis-'
cord.
Idabel is a progressive little city
J and we have a home-loving and a
Royal Cash contented people but, just as sure as
the sun shines and you take from
Lyda Williams.| them the right to say who shall rule
prince
-Grace
a friend to Bulbul—Leona
a friend to Caspian—J. D.
of the spectacles—
LARUE—MOORE
W edding Occurred Near This City
Last Sunday Morning.
Prince determines to see his future'
wife before the betrothal ceremony.
On reaching the outskirts 0f the city,
he disguises himself and his friends
as peddlers. The prince enters the
j garden first and meets the maids of
1 honor. After much persuasion, he
Esq. Pete Williams performing the is allowed to seek the princess who is
ceremony, < roaming disconsolately through the
The bride is a daughter of Mr. and' woods. The prince peddler speedily
j just that sure you will create dissat
Synopsis of Play. j isfaction and discord.
Iamit has betrothed his only child, i No one man government has ever
the Princess Bulbul to the Prince Cas- j been or will ever be a success save
pian and the prince is on his way toj and except in far off benighted Af-
atternl the wedding. The couple have! riea, where the rule is the war club
never met, and the princess vainly] a"d stinking cocoanut and the great
implores her father not to make herj high Mogul orders a kicking subject
marry a man she has never seen. The prepared for the pot for eating at the
evening rhea!. The principal is all
wrong to say nothing of the cost and
expense .and should the proposed
charter bi accepted by the people it
would mean a radical change in gov-
ernment And before any tax or pub-
lic debt could be changed permission
of some Plutocrat of Wall street would
have to be consulted.
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V/e Are Distributing
TWO CARS
Cotton Seed for Idabel Banks
These Banks Want You to
Plant Good Seed. Poor Seed
Wont Pay Debts
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IDABEL MILLING COMPANY
LEONARD G. HERRO.V. Manager
' 'SERVICE"
We are a home-loving people and
Mrs. R. E. Moore, and is a charming! wins Bulbul's affections, and endea-l the 0,u* wbo rules over us must be -
Raymond LaRue and Miss Ruby( young lady. The groom is a son of; vors to persuade her to give up Prince us and not some man with high
Moore, who reside about three miles. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. LaRuc and is a Caspian and elope with him. This thel faluting ideas that comes here with-
fcoutheast of this city, were united inj worthy young man. He is to be con-j princess refuses to do. They agree! out a dime in his pocket and does not
marriage last Sunday morning aboutj gratulated upon winning this young: to meet once more in the ball room' own 0|Je cent worth of property with-
1 I n'nl nnl> . t ♦ I* A L .. r.t 4> V. .. Jn J.. l.'f . L ' i A. _ .... It w> /mi.. « I •
11 o'clock at tb* home of the bride,: lady as a life partner
The Idabel
National Bank
THE NEW BANK. WITH AMPLE CAPITAL AND SUR-
PLUS TO MAKE YOU A SAFE BANKING HOME.
WE HAVE MONEY TO LEND TO FARMERS ON AP-
PROVED SECURITY. LET US HAVE AN OPPORTU-
NITY TO DISCUSS BANKING MATTERS Will:
YOU.
WE ALSO DESIRE TO CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO
THE CAR OF LONE STAR COTTON SEED WHICH WE
HAVE SECURED FOR PLANTING.
DIRECTORS:
R. D. WILLIAMS,
J. W. DeWITT,
IV. W. GORE,
H. C. PERKINS,
BARTON McLENDON,
L P. KING,
BERNIE HERSTEIN.
that evening to say good-bye. Una- in 0U1' town pays no taxes what-
• ble to part wtih the man she loves,' ever- and the people not consulted
j Itulbul hides him behind a curtain.
'! Consternation reigns later when the
j King and court learn that the prince
about the way their money is to be
spent.
So let every man and woman who
anj princess are both missing. All *,as the K°0(l of Idabel and her future
are still more horrified when Bulbul | heart go to the polls next Tues-
enters the ball room, a long cloak ov- (,av and vote NO.
er her gown, and announces that she: A CITIZEN,
will not wed the prince, but instead
the man she loves—a peddler.
Throwing aside the curtain, behind
which the prince is hidden, she ex-
i poses him to the full view of king and
: court. The King recognizes in the
! supposed peddler, the prince, and Bul-
■ bul is too pleased at the outcome to
be indignant at the prank played up-j .. ~
! on her. In the meantime, Ida, who ' TRAIX BROUGHT IN
has always had a lingering fondness USIT0KS FR0M DEQUEEN.
for the King, proposes to him under DIERKS AND GILLHAM
a promise he made that afternoon.'
and he is bound to consent. Alain and! Saturday night the Blue Lodge of
Lila make a third happy coup!e, and Llu' A" F" & A" M- lodPe at Broken
the three weddings are set for "Tues- Bow ,iad W0lk to do am! about 850
day at noon." i mc™ters of the order from Broken
Maids of Honor. i Bow and other towns alon* th(l T- 0
Lyda Williams, Lewis Latimer,! & E" ('amp in 10 aid in the work and
Nellie Montgomery, Mildred Smith,! c;iJ0y the evenir«- A special train
BLUE LODGE AT
BROKEN BOW HAD
SOTO HOLD
CENTRAL PART
OF GERMANY
REVOLT GROWS AND STRIKES
ARE INCREASING IN NUMB-
ER-REDS MASSING
Berlin, March 27.-The Communis-
tic uprising in Central Germany is
spreading, despite the optimistic at-
titude of the government, according
to advices received here Saturday'
n>ght. In several of the dispatches:
the situation was described as ser-l
10US.
At Hamburg the Communists were
reported to be holding the heights!
surrounding the city by means of
heavy concentrations of machine guns
While the strike has not obtained a
rea foothold in Berlin, general
strikes were reported from several
places in the Ruhr and Gelsenkirchen
districts.
JIalle. Germany, Mareh 27.—\ bat-
tle was believed to be impending Sat-
urday night at Eisleben, 20 miles
from here.
Communists were flocking to the
city and establishing a great camp in
the hills, northwest of the city. Safe-
ty police called for reinforcements
and prepared t0 withstand a mass at-
tack.
Hettestedt was filled with Com-
munists preparing to join in the ven-
ture. A small explosion in the rail-
way station there was charged to the
Reds.
In an encounter at Nietlen, police
claimed to have overcome a small
I ommunist force.
MUNICIPAL COURTROOM
BECOMES FLOP HOUSE
Oklahoma City, March 28.—"Stand-
ing room only" is the sign recently
| placed in the municipal courtroom
j here which has taken on the appear-
ance of a "flop house," where approx-
imately 100 transient unemployed and
"homeless" apply each night for a
place to sleep, and the city has no
J trouble at all in keeping a "full
: house."
The American mule has been out-
classed since the Germans started
balking.
SNOW AT AMARILLO.
Amarillo, Texas. March 28.—East-
er Sunday was very cold here and
over the Texas Panhandle, with sleet
falling through the day and night.
Two inches of snow was reported.
Call-
352
Absolutely wholesome milk
guaranteed. Free from disagree-
able taste of noxious weeds or odor
of onions.
Cows free from tubercular trou-
ble, by test.
They are fed pure, wholesome
food, and milks is pure.
I make two deliveries daily, to
any part of the city.
Milk Prices.
Sweet milk, by the gallon or more
60c
Half gallon . _ _ _ 30c
Quart ... 16c
Pint 8c
Butter, per pound 60c
Fresh Buttermilk daily —per gal-
lon 25c
In bottles on ice ... _ _ 30c
Half gallon 15c
FOR PURE MILK AND QUICK
SERVICE CALL 352
R. L. Pcbworth
Dollie Pyron, Elizabeth Hastings,
Kathleen Barnes, Mary Epperson,
Nictta Campbell, Mary Iliggs, Thel-
ma Higgs. Margerite O'Neal, Annie
V. Swan, Ona Scott, Dorris Nettles.
Peddlers.
Albert Herron, Hollis Luck, Raph-
eal Herndon, Homer Ingram, Rex
Busby, John Crain, Liston Coffey,
William Sanders, Russell Alexander.
Milton Puckett, Herschel Williams,
Morris Rachel, Man-in Smith, Elmer
| Freeman, Boudinot Attcrbury.
Court Ladies.
W ill Nell Shelton, Sleeta Turner.
Effie Harris and Alline Moseley.
"Bul-bul" consists of two splendid
acts, and you are going to miss some-
thing if you fail to attend this comic
operetta, which is to be presented in
its entirety by home talent.
The Bartlesville Enterprise ob-
serves that asking an Ohio man to
over the T. 0. & E. brought visiting
J members from De Queen. Dierks, Ho-
ratio, Lockesburg, Gillham and other
towns along the route. Or.e hundred
and seventeen Masons occupied the
coaches when the train pulled into the
station.
We are informed that this was one
of the largest Masonic meetings ever
held in McCurtain county, and great
enthusiasm in the work was manifest-
ed. Ira Rone, R. R. Gore, Claywood
Armstrong, E. P. Snead. Waldo Wat-
kins, J. E. Hall, Claude Tyler, Bernie
Herstein, Irl Nichols and Dr. R. D.
Williams went over from this city.
W. J. Marlow and Perkins Green
were given the Master's degree. Fol-
lowing the work of the order, whicfr
continued far into the night, refresh-
ments were served to members of the
lodge and their visiting brethren.
"If only we had some of Ihe food
our mothers used to cook for us, we
iff ,poH"cs is ,like, "ki"* « «oul<t not slop t. count the caloric
OUahoman to >tay out „f «,l. SRd vittnlin«~ the ToIsa WolM „„
serts.
The Bartlesville Enterprise ob-
serves that gossips let a woman
al«re when she begins to dre«< :ier
hair unbecomingly.
"Miami is planning a municipal
playground, well equipped aud locat-
ed," the Vinita Journal reports.
Lyric Theatre
THURSDAY, MARCH 31.
A Special Feature that has been shown al! over the
country for 25c and 50c—our prices are 10c and 25c. "UP
JN MARY'S ATTIC," is a clean, clever comedy with plenty
of pep and pretty girls.
Commercial complications of a carefree couple who
try separately to conceal their marriage amusingly,
shown with plenty of laughs and pretty bathing girls,
a cute baby and Teddy, the clever dog. who you all know.
The girl secretly married, hid her baby in The Attic of a
young ladies seminary.
Can't you see the complications? Well, they will
bring you many a side-splitting laugh.
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