Adair County Democrat from Stilwell, Oklahoma • 1

THE STANDARD-SENTINEL FIVE CENTS A COPY OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ADAIR COUNTY, OKLAHOMA $1.50 A YEAR XXI The The Sentinel Standard Est. 1904. Established Consolidated 1898 1910 STILWELL, OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1921. The Adair Absorbed County June Republican Iva J.

Rider, pretty Cherokee girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Rider of Muskogee, is rapidly gaining popularity in New York City musical circles.

Miss Rider who was born and reared here and graduated from Central High school, has been studying music in New York for the past four years and is now in concert work there. She was with the entertainment division of the Y. M. C. A.

in Europe during the war and sang for the soldiers in France, Germany and Italy. Previous to going to New York she attended finishing schools at Dallas and in California. Miss Rider recently gave a most interesting recital in New York at the home of Margaret Widdemer, the author of "'The Board Walk," and several books of fiction and poems. Miss Rider wore a gown of a million mirrowed spangles over gold cloth caught at the side with henna colored tulle sweeping into a long train attached with flowers. The first half of the program consisted of "'Carmen" and "Madam Butterfly." -Muskogee Times Democrat.

THE ART CLUB IVA J. RIDER The members of the Art Club met at the home of Mrs, Burch Saturday afternoon to reorganize and elect officers. Mrs. Carlson was elected president; Mrs Lillian Fletcher, vice-president; Mrs. Arnold, secretary; Mrs.

Shaw, reporter. The club will meet with Mrs. Arnold Feb. 18. and with the various members each alternate week.

"Eats" helped to complete a very enjoyable afternoon. MARRIAGE LICENSES C. W. Benge and Mrs. Bessie Seabolt, Stilwell; Gabe M.

Morris, Watts, and Miss Maud Davis, Siloam Springs; Thomas E. Burgis, Verona, and Mary E. Wells, Walls; Ridge Benge and Ada Milton, Obie; James Cochran and Lizzie Acorn, Stilwell; Ben Scraper and Lizzie Chuculate, Lyons; George Harrison and Cecil Tuell, Stilwell. POULTRY FANCIERS TO MEET SATURDAY The poultry breeders and fanciers of the county will meet at the county agent's office in Stilwell next Saturday at 12 o'clock noon, and will organize a county branch of the Oklahoma State Poultry federation. Chas.

M. Smith, extension poultryman from Stillwater, will make a talk. The breeders of Stilwell are going to give a lunch to the visitors at 12 o'clock. Immediately following, and before the crowd separates, Mr. Smith will talk and the business of organizing will begin.

VALENTINE SOCIAL The Home Mission of the Methodist church again announce that they will give a Valentine social Monday night, Feb. 14, in Legion hall, in the basement of the court house. The committee on entertainment has planned an interesting program, including songs, drills and tableaux. Refreshments will be served at a reasonable price. Admission price 10 cents.

Everybody invited. LOTTIE BLAKEMORE Miss Lottie Blakemore. daughter, of L. D. Blakemore, was married in Joplin last week to Mr.

A. E. Dorsett of Illinois; after the marriage the couple left for a visit to Eldorado, where Otto Blakemore joined them for a brief visit. Miss Lottie was a popular young lady and she has many friends in Stilwell, where she was reared. She had lived in Joplin about two years, meeting Mr.

Dorsett in that city. NEW CHIEF OF CHEROKEES At the recent meeting of the Keetoowahs and Night Hawks, Levi Gritts of Muskogee was elected chief of the Cherokees. Mr. Gritts was formerly a resident of Stilwell and he is well known in Adair county. He is to be congratulated for the newly bestowed honor.

STATE GUARANTY A SAFETY LAW FROM STATE RANKIN ROBBERY "Supposed the bank were robbed who hid his money away out of the circulation. That used to be one of the favorite arguments of the man in Today, with the most modern cages and Vaults locked by the inventive genius of the world, the bandit has an almost impossible task. Should he succeed society is organized to catch him. But "suppose the bank were is an argument that can't be used against a State Bank. For suppose this bank were robbed today of all its cash and currency.

The STATE GUARANTY LAW would 'operate so that, every depositor could be paid in fuil tomorrow. Come in and let us tell you more about the DEPOSITOR'S GUARANTY LAW. Depositor has ever Lost a Dollar in a State Bank in Oklahoma." First State Bank STILWELL, OKLA, NUMBER 52 SILT BY CASSIUS HAYWOOD Any pretended sympathy for the negro is only matter to make more trouble for him where he is more nearly equal in population with the white people. There is no real sympathy at the source of this pretense; it is wholly a masquerade with an eye single to the black man's vote. It behooves the black man to exercise more wisdom than those seeming friends who would bring only disaster upon him.

$55,000,000,000 is a sum larger than the average individual is in a habit of considering. Well, it was not intended that any one person should ponder such an amount; it is for the contemplation of sixty-five million people. And the Allies had better not be too sure of favorable conclusions. Soviet Russia looks very red to Germany just now. Emerald Isle is not so verdent at the present time.

France and Great Britain are not sole masters of the European situation, by any means. Just what Uncle Sam is going to do seems altogether a different matter. The most he has got allotted out the war is the grounds for graves for his thousands of boys who sleep in Flanders fields. And some day nothing will remain there to mark their resting place. If David Lloyd George thinks he is a Charles why Charles I met his Cromwell.

If adviser Gen. Foch thinks himself a Napoleon, Napoleon- -met his Waterloo. says America could afford to pay ten billions for peace. If peace is worth this much to the United States, what should it not be worth to France and GreatBritain to nip, ere it blows, the carmine bud of another Old World conflagration. One is in duty bound to obey the law; but there is a wide difference between obedience to law and endorsement of a law.

And most assuredly every citizen has a right to criticize any law whatsoever. Saint Paul commanded, or rather admonished. the people to obey he taught rebellion, he would have, brought, no doubt, terrible suffering on them. But he endorsed nothing of the grotesque tyrant. You are not a law breaker merely for denouncing a law, unless free speech is abridged and democracy ceases to be democracy.

And abridgment of speech and democracy are impossible at the same time in the same country. Arthur Brisbane says there may be times when it seems wise to "stretch" the constitution and curb freedom of speech. But that is entirely opposite the purpose of the instrument and the intent of its framers- -to safeguard the inalienable rights of the people in the hour of stress. If the constitution were a thing of elacticity, a loose thing, not absolutely inflexible, it the were necessarily nothing and more a waste valuable of paper on which it is written. And no law ought compel a man to say a believes thing is righteous which he outrageous; he must not be coerced words of praise.

These should entirely be voluntary if we would have a better country in which torlive. And deference to things inanimate, insignia, symbols, or whatnot; is as relic of savagery. a species of feticism, and, when compelled, a more dangerous and debased form of idolatry than was the worship of Moloch. Man is in honor obligated to naught save God and woman to take off his hat. For in woman's labor is man brought forth, and to God alone is his conscience answerable.

The tariff shall soon cease to be a question between the two great parties. This Chinese wall that were round big business is crumbling, crumbling rapidly, and no power can delay the process; nothing can be found strong enough to support such a wall against the people. Its former supporters no longer argue for it; its present sup. porters can do no more than plead for it. And rest assumed that whatever success.

with which their pious Meet will be temporary, only PROCEEDINGS OF STATE LEGISLATURE The bill to aid rural schools in the state has passed the senate, and no doubt will pass the house by a strong majority. Before any district can avail itself of the benefit of the law it must have voted the full constitutional limit of fifteen mills, and make showing that they can not finish the term of school. To date, the records in the state superintendent's office show nine districts in Adair county have proper claims for participation in the fund of $185,000, the amount asked for by these districts is $4,227.90. If there are others entitled to participate, better hurry your claims to your county' superintendent, as payment will be made upon the showing made and approved by her. An important bill which will pass is one giving the supreme court original jurisdiction to hear and pass upon the legality of the state tax levy of 1 1 2 mills for state purposes for the present fiscal year.

An early decision is urged in this case, as the farmers and small taxpayers have already paid their taxes, and that too without protest, while the big corporations and organizations of wealth have not paid, and if they do pay, it is under protest, and the taxes will be refunded in case of an adverse decision, while the farmer will not, as he failed to protest his tax payment. In passing it might be well to say that but little hope for an adverse decision is held out, as oil has dropped $1.50 per barrel within the last two weeks, and will very materially decrease the state's revenue from that source of income. CHRISTIE SCHOOL NOTES The following pupils came to school on time every day last month and were awarded "'The Perfect Attendance Certificate." Mabel Jones, Mildred Leak, Elbert Leak, Gladys Rains, Daisy Christie, Raymond Sigman, Kate Trickett, Eugene Hanraham, Fay Brannon, and Tiny Walters. The pupils who received the "'Perfect Spelling certificate" were Vola Grantham, Mildred Leak, Vivian Ketcher, Raymond Sigman, and Tary Brannon." Some of the pigs of Christie community are grunting their satisfaction of the new troughs made for them by the Vitalized Agriculture class. Eight pig troughs are completed.

The ten milk stools just completed are even more popular than the pig troughs. In these ten families there is no longer "who must milk," but "who may milk" The class is ready to begin making the ten bread boards, they've promised These will be finished during the remaining four weeks of school. The boys and girls of this school who have attended regularly during the past six months are progressing nicely. They are determined to work even harder this last month of school than they did in preceding ones, for they realize the difficulty of getting in seven months the work that should be mastered in nine months time. This last month of school work is the most important of all, for it will be the gathering time as well as for the exploration of new fields.

The work done this last month largely determines the standing of the pupils for next year. Every child is going, to do his part to this last month, the best, THE FORK OF THE ROAD That's where we are today- we folks who raise cotton and those other folks who are living among us and doing their business with us. Which road are we going to take? The old road is rough and hilly and winding. There are frequent toll gates. At its end is a speculator blocking us off from the spinner beyond.

On it we see debt and poverty and despair. We see wives, mothers, children slaving in the cotton fields, broken in health and spirit. many little boys and girls going without shoes all winter long all because we cannot haul our cotton all the way to market over this old road and get a just price for it. And there is another -The Oklahoma Cotton Growers' association. This road stretches straight and smooth from our farms to the cotton mills.

At the end is the spinner ready to pay not only what the speculator has been paying, but the profit that the speculator made as well. With this additional money we can get out of debt, provide for our families the things they are entitled to have--a comfortable home, warm clothing, wholesome food, good schooling for their children that will fit them to be useful and happy citizens. Now, which is the better road? The Department of Agriculture Market commission, the Oklahoma A. M. college, the 80 thousand Californians who are using the new road all say that it is the one to follow.

What Do Yo Say? Geo. E. Dayis, County Agent. BEAUTY CONTEST The promoters of the school annual held a beauty contest in the school recently to increase funds, Miss Leta Mae Woodruff wearing the laurels of the result, Miss Elaine Whitaker was enshrined under the next halo. Miss Ruby Clyde Shannon was wreathed with third honors.

Photographs of these fair young ladies will adorn the pages of the annual. TO START SERIES OF NOONDAY LUNCHEONS County Agent Davis is starting a plan that has been proving successful in other counties. This is to have special meetings of the farmers, such as breeders associations, meet at twelve o'clock, have a light lunch served at the place of gathering, immediately followed by the business meeting, Usually, the cost of getting up the lunch is ascertained, each one paying his proportionate part. The first of these meetings to be held will be next Saturday, February 12th. At this time the poultry breeders around Stilwell will furnish lunch free to all visitors.

DATE OF INCOME TAX MAN A deputy collector of internal revenue will be at Stilwell Feb. 26th and 27th to assist the taxpayers in making their income tax return. This service is without charge and anyone desiring assistance may secure same by calling on the deputy on the above dates. THE DOCTOR The doctor uses his skill to defeat disease, which is an enemy of life. We send for him as soon as this enemy is seen, Why not We lose our lite because of disease, but we lose our soul cause of sin.

Those that are attracted by everything else on earth rather than by Sunday worship, and that never come to Sunday-school, are in very great danger. You had better make tracks toward the Methodist church than make so many excuses. We want to be of service to all. Why not come next Sunday? 0. S.

Snell, Pastor. FRUIT GROWERS TO MEET The Adair County Farm bureau has arranged with W. L. English, Agricultural agent of the Frisco, and D. F.

Fisher, Horticulturist for the same railroad, to have one of their big fruit meetings at Westville on Monday, February 23. Westville is planning to give' a big dinner to the A ATTENTION FOURTH LIBERTY BOND HOLDERS As a member of the Federal Reserve Bank we have been notified by them that their stock of permanent fourth Liberty Bonds are now sufficient to retire all bonds of this issue on which the interest coupons have matured. If you hold bonds of this issue or of any other issue on which all the interest coupons have matured, bring them to this bank and we will have the exchange made for you without charge. We have the necessary blanks for surrender of these bonds, and will be pleased to attend to all details for you. And in the meantime your bonds will be insured against loss.

Always At Your Service "The Old Reliable" The First National Bank OLDEST. BANK.IN THE COUNTY boo. 4.