The Guymon Democrat (Guymon, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 6, 1917 Page: 1 of 8
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The Guymon Democrat
Vol. XI.
GUYMON, TEXAS COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6.1917.
NO. 3*
THERE IS AN ADVANTAGE HERE
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Thousands of dollars' wofrth of choice merchandise in C ten's and Boys' Suits, Pants, Shirts, Hats, Shoes, Gloves and Work
Clothing offered for fall and winter wear.
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You will want to fit out the school children with good, substantial shoes, and in our stock you will find none better or more
substantial. We carry the famous Buster Brown shoes for children. 4
New Silks in stripes and plaids. Ladies' collars. Up-to-date neck wear. Ladies' Dress Skirts, Silks, Serges and Novelties.
Ladies' Millinery. Latest New Style Hats. Ladies' Queen Quality Shoes. None better.
Latham Dry Goods Company
RED CROSS ITEMS
| has not come yet. But as soon as it THE SOLDIER BOYS' INTEREST
arrives the knitters will be notified.
Sneed1 The Guymon chapter has bee "One per8on at home for every
Mrs. R. B. Hayes transfered from the Mountain Di- ° gr°*8' , fhe °bject of *
Mrs. Byrd Rogers vision and has been attached to the moye™n\ sterted among county
I. E. Cameron Southwest Division with headquar-,C0UnC,1f. °f ?fc"8e the 8ta e. or"
-|- ters at 1617 R. R. Exchange, St. Kan Mtlon- Each county counci1 18 to
Chairman* Mrs. L. B. Sneed has re- Louis, Missouri, With Geo. W. Lem-
turned from a month's vacation and mons as division manager.
is again ready to resume her duties. >1.
TEACHERS RECEPTION
Directory of Officers
Chairman Mrs. L. B.
Vice-Chairman
Secretary
Treasurer
get into communication with every
boy in the county who goes in the
draft, and if possible with every one
She reports that while away she visi- The junior Red Cross is open to ! !'h? h*S ™lunteered; ™e council will
ted at Fort Sill and that the work all school children in the county. fmd Whether ®rL"ot the 81°ldl\r ,ad
going on there is wonderful, and if The membership in the junior Red someone at home on whom he can
we could all only see the time being Cross is to be by schools. When-
jriven over to this work, it could not ever there has been placed in the
help but inspire us here to do more, local school fund an amount equal
depend to furnish him with the news
of the community, and on whom he
can depend to attend to whatever
We who are only giving a short time to twenty-five cents for every pupil ^us'n®8 ,n^erest he may ieave be-
each day could not help but want the school becomes a School Aux- ' 8 ,Ve * per"
to do more for the comfort of those iliary of the Red Cross and is en-
son, the county council will find a
brave men who are not only devot- titled to display a red cross banner, rnan or woman to volunteer for th s
ing the whole day now and in the end at the same time every pupil becomes servic® or e u*a Ion 0 *he war,
perhaps may give their lives' for us. a junior member and is entitled to °r J? Prevented by other service.'
Mrs. Sneed also mentions that there wear the membership button.
is sixty acres of concrete floor being
placed to serve the aviator corps.
AT THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
.More supplies for sewing have been
received by the supply committee and
The address of the county council
j executive committee is to be furnish-
j ed each lad, so that he can send re-
quests of any k'nd to them while he
i is in training camp or on the batt'e-
ACCIDENTLY SHOT
Next Sunday, September 9th Bro. field It will be the duty of the county
Mrs Baird chairman wishes it an" J' L Haddockwil> a?ain be with the council to meet the soldier lad s re-
nounced that a meeting will be held church in Guymon and also to his ap- quests as far as possible.
every Wednesday afternoon in the P°intment out at Eu,a Saturday
basement of hte M. E. Church, where ni*ht> 0win* to sickness in his
instructions will be given any sew- family h* was unab,e t(? be with the
ing done. Everyone interested in church at his last appointment.
this is urged to come. Dont wait Preaching will be as usual at the The Guymon friends of Miss Win-
for a special invitation for every
one Sunday hours morning and night to nie Shriner were ghocked
on last Sat-
is needed in this work. Iwhlch everybody is cordially invited. urday morninjf when they learned
| Members come and bring your friends of her tra?ic death at her home flt
Only a few have called for the for both these meeting.. Texhoma on Friday evening^. The
Red Cross Buttons. You are entitled Sunday school at ten o clock, ghriner household was composed of
to one of these if you are a mem- Th? superintendent will be pleased Mjss winnie> a si|ter an(J brother
ber. So call on Mrs. J. D. Hood and to have every teacher and schoIar in Their home is in the out-skirts of
get your button. i their claa8es- Now that the sum" town and for some time their flock
lmer ^cations are over with a great of chicken8 had been bothered by
Some finished work has been re-' man>' ancl ^e day schools started it Qn this particular evenin"
turned. Mrs. Ballenger has handed is exPfct,ed the a e"dance will show ono wag seen circIins, over the ^
in a knited sleveless jacket. Mrs. a marked increase from now on. and the brother secured his gun and
Booth a muffler and Mrs. J. M. Hop-, VTv i *.v rni-pru hastened into the yard. He sighted
kins has returned two pair of socks. hfcSBllfcKlAfl CMLKLH the hawk and pUj]ed the trigger, but
- - ' for some unaccountable reason, the
Some of the auxiliaries have not The usual services will be held next gun, which was of the breech load-
called for any sewing yet. If you Sunday at the church both morning ing variety failed to go off. He then
are interested and want the work and even:ng. The subject at each broke the gun and was working
call on Mrs. Baird at any t'me or will be the Gospel. with it, trying to locate the trouble
arrange to meet at the church on A Cordial invitaiioh is extended when of a sudden the gun was dis-
Wednesday afternoons. | to all. Hours: 11: A. M. and 8:00 charged, the load entering the side
On next Friday evening, September
7th at eight o'clock P. M- there will
be a reception given by the parents
and friends of educat on to the teach-
ers of Guymon school. An interest-
ing program will be rendered and a
general good time may be expected.
' Parents, I want you to meet the
teachers of your children. Get ac-
quainted with them. Talk with them.
Help them by your presence and en-
courage them with words of good
cheer and fellowship. No one aside
from the parent is so closely associat-
ed with the lives of our children as
are teachers. They are with them
«!x hours of each school day. They
itimulate them to endeavor, they
teach lessons of wisdom they urge
I them on to better things.
I Let everyone come and help to
ipa^e this meeting a grand succss.
I yours for educational progress,
S. W. Black.
City Superintendent of Schools.
MATERIAL BEING
PLACED ON GROUND
TO LEVY OCCUPATION TAX
The city council is contemplating
the placing of an occupation tax on
the businesses of the town in order
that revenue may be produced so
CITIZEN SOLDIERS
Herbert Franklin Garner, Sidaep
Fredrick Dafforn, Harry Cook Can-
will, Chaa. William McCarney aai
John Leroy Shirley composed
as to carry on the necessary expenses ' first call of five from this point
and make improvements vitally need-
ed. City Clerk W. F. Lofgren in-
forms us the occupation tax is to be
made, and while it is the desire of the
board to have the burden as equitably , r« -— — ——
distributed as is pouibt*, imposing no j <2 of the Texas county continent
unjust burden on no one. They want will take the'r departure. October
the businness men to be with them at ; 3rd is another date set for the boy* ta
a meeting held at the city hall next move forward.
leave for the cantonment work, go
ing on Wedneaday morning to San
Antonio, Texas.
A second call is for September 19,
at which time forty per cent or :
Tuesday night.
TO HOLD A COUNTY FAIR
The county examining and ragia
tration board are to be commanded
for their work all the way throogh,
which has been an ardious on* kept
up in shape with little or no frictiaA
to apeak of.
Citizens gathered Tuesday night in
public meeting to do honor to the
The long delayed shipment of ma-
terial is now beginning to arrive
for the new school building. A
string of wagons and teams are busy
moving the brick from the cars to the
building site north of the old school
building where excavation work is be-
ing arranged and the construction
work will then begin. The new build-
ing is being looked forward to with
great anticipation by the faculty and
pupils and the congested condition
experienced at the first few days of
school in some of the rooms would
indicate that it is needed. There are
more families moving to town for the
advantage of the school this year
than ever before.
THE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
The yarn t that has been expected
IP. M.
George T. Clark, Paator.
YOUR CHILD
Will Make Faster Progress in
His Studies
If you provide him with the necessary supplies that
every student should have.
Those offered here are strictly in keeping with the
modern mathod of teaching and are endorsed by
the school faculty.
Now is the time to make your selection of all school
supplies and to get your books.
Remember this is Ileadqureters for everything
for the School Boy and Girl
F. D. Hood Drug Company. ,
State School Book Agents.
of his sister, who was in the door-
way. Death came within twenty
minutes to relieve her suffering.
Miss Shriner held a position as
i sales lady in the Model store of this
: ''ity a counle of years ago, and will
1 *>e remembered kindly by all who
knew her.
MERCHANT'S MATINEE
A good program at the Dime every
Saturday afternoon, get your tickets
from these merchants:
Garst Music Store
J. I. Henson.
R. B. Outnn.
Cty National Bank of Guymon.
City Garage.
S'ar Mer. Co.
Chas Summers & Sons.
W. E. Eutsler.
Frank D. Hood DrugCoi
F'rst National Bank
The Model
Guymon Democrat.
The Herafci.
Texas County Bank
DuBose Drug Store.
T. G. &T. L. Gray.
Oscar Montgomery, The tire Repair
Man.
Variety Store.
•T. F.Carter, The Dodge Ma"..
H. Smith.
Clork Bros.
i S. J. Bonner, Bakery and Groccry
The 10th annual session of the
Texas-Cmarron Baptist Association
was held with the Texhoma Baptist
"hurch from Thursday evening, Aug.
30, to Saturday evening Sept. 1st, in-
clusive. We had about 18 old chur-
ches and three new ones represented i
by visitors also by the people of the
town. Bro. T. O. James, of Guymon
was re-elected Moderator. Bro. D.
H. Neeley, of Goodwell, elected
Clerk. Bro. C. P. Man of Tyrone re-
elected Treasurer. These three breth-
eren filled the'r respective offices ad-
mirably. |
A most splendid and harmonious
spirit prevailed throughout the en-
tire meeting. It was concluded that
this was one of the best sessions in
the history of the association. |
We paid our retiring missionary.
Rev. W. A. Robbersoi. in full, and
contracted with our new missionary,
Rev. A. V. Pendelton, for another
year, fixing his salary at $1,300. I
The Texhoma people entertained
the association roally. The next
session of the body is to convene w'th
the Baptist church at Boise City,Okla-
homa. A?ust 1918.
Rev. W. A. Strickland will preach
for the church here on nexi Sunday
morning and night, every one wel-
come.
J. H. Agee.
It is quite likely that a fair some-
thing after the order of the county
free fairs will be arranged. County
A^en, Shim.it ,„d County „Jr; ST," ".ZT
Superintendent StulU with other (o|low^ b ,
doing some work to that end. Oc- At th. _
tober 25, 26 and 27 ha, been suggest-1 morninR . ,ar|fe crowd MiembW *
ed dates for holding the fa.r. Fur-;witne„ the departure of five „ ^
re^Ppme, r.TYu C°mC UP a' a"d cheerful patriots a.
at the Gqod Roads Club that meets at have been gee„ ,eavi from
the court house Monday n.ght. of Uncle W(J dom,jn on t||.J
TUDOR ACOIIITTFn 8i°n t0 8erVC f°r h>m in
ILDOK ACQUITTED BW,ngt «Kaiae«lom". Whatever tfca
va t a v , ... ■ j• , future may have in store for tkaak
Kid Tudor charged with a.d.ng har- there wi„ be . ]jv| remembrJ^
tT* amL/T 3 fr Jas® in the hearts of many Guvmon ,
who escaped from the county ja.l for the mtle bunch leavi J
rrsr."; "we" - r -
rr "r j-ii" «• pttw,;,*4
zzjz sirrsrs zr:Jr?rv r rs
•«l itted both times. Gle.,on I"™. ",h<,7 *° '"te
jresentrf Tudor while County At. ' eountrr.
y*7,y* "" " """" BACK FROM HAWAII
~ I Tuesday William A. Pauley son af
School opened Monday with a much! Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Pauley of tfcia
larger attendance than usual, and city stepped from the train a
others are expected to enter as charged sold er of the goverranaat,
soon as fall work permits. Both Mr. Pauley came from San Frannac*
teacher and pup 1 seem to be glad where he deceived an honorable
school has begun and are eager to. charge, having left Hawaii aana
beg.n the years work. The weather, months before where he waa in
being ideal, and with Professor a hospital. Paralysis was the causa
Black s leadership we predict this to of his having to leave the army. Be
be one of our most successful 'school, was in the field artilcry and Itol
year8 | keen one year at that station.
ViViV¥¥ryVVVVViAAAAA/>''
Two weeks of hot weather follow-
ing the season of rains the first of the
month has had a tendency to fire up
fnme of the growing crops of the far-
mers. A rain now would a'so aid the
sowing of wheat.
AT WANSEITS
Our 10th Anniversary Sale closes Saturday
night, September 8th. Everyone should take
advantage of these prices while they last; es-
pecially the ladies Hand Bags. Think of it
leather advancing and good Hand Bags on saie
at only
98 CENTS
98
The Dishes will be awarded at 10 P. M.
Saturday Night
The Rexall Store
W. L. Wanser
Guymon- Oklahoma
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Baxter, C. S. The Guymon Democrat (Guymon, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 6, 1917, newspaper, September 6, 1917; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metapth351560/m1/1/: accessed March 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.