Adair County Democrat from Stilwell, Oklahoma • 1

eh a Uhi Hlstoriical Society "hi ii 1 t) HI iS mm mi AKD-SENTINEI i (i FIVE CENTS A COPY OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN AD AIR COUNTY OKLAHOMA SLOO A YEAR Volume 28 Tk Stilwell Oklahoma Thursday September 15 1927 CA'SIUI HArWOfl UinriM tour Number 32 'A Stilwell Princess Sings On Steel Pier The Column High School News How The Invisible Government Works Lake Placid Courtly dub The late Victor Herbert was writing an Indian opera for the Princess It was incomplete at his death Atlanti- City Daily Press sorrow In fact we are not awake to its myriad fascinating mysteries until overtaken by some deep distress it is then that discover We know that outsiders will be conducting affairs for the unborn progeny if the citizens decide to sell anu the light plant Some of the future han lhc bcauy of Ianuac-offspring may be buying power Then we begin to read th from a company with established ln lhe brooks and learn to interpret local interests That will not be half the of the winds It must go bad as saddling bonds on Stil- be only acute physical pain that can posterity But the highlinc rendcr normal being really weary will not be considered seriou-dy But the highlinc ered seriou-dy we more in the lines on limpid streams and austere visaged rocks message be only acute physical pain that can render normal being really weary In poverty and in bereavement we The new company located here wiil pay 2J)00 or more taxes a year Ww wivip ihavi "1U we are informed and the city will lending a responsive nature be ingot the benefit of this spired by the expostulations of the vs miio wiiihiu a vs ktiv 'Vv i i i fcco: Ifii T'A grV Coolidge Sent to Kick Hills as Soothing Syrup to Ruined And Bankrupt People Senator Owen in a splendid lettjcr inviting attention to liow the invisible government manipulates and advertizes the President says: the president of the United States was sent an exhibit of rural innocence to the Black Hills of So Dakota with great public prestige at great public expense and with enormous to present to the ruined west the picture of a genial and ingenious fisherman making the most engagaing gestures of using worms to catch gudgeons with wearing a ten gallon hat and cowboy chaps as an antidote and social soothing syrup for the bankruptcy inflicted on the farmers stockmen and business people of that vast country! The photographic sections and the columns of the press have horn full of such political claptrap What a patlictic picture of the presidency while a iqillion ruined people wept in the Mississippi vailey to whose immediate relief he denied every GREEN ITEMS Miss Imogene Fleig is visiting her grandmother Mrs Mary Brown in Wcstvillc this week Mrs May Storkey of Greneland Ark spent Monday with Jaunita Cates The pupils of Green School are busy this week preparing an educational exhibit for Jhe county fair Walter Whitmire is- working in Watts thil week Leon CorntasscI visited Roland Snipp Sunday Henry Madeweil has just harvest-from this community to a farm near Lincoln Chester Whitmire visited Charlie Fleig Sunday Mrs Fleig has returned from Robcrty Oklahoma Henry Madewel lhas just harvested his tobacco crop which from ail reports made a good yield Mrs Edith Spencer of Broken Arrow is spending the week with Mrs Henry Black Henry Black Cates and Walter Whitmire will leave for Broken Arrow this week Students AS A MATTER OF INFORMATION Members of the city board have investigated the matter of local street jights and found 80 to be in operation The company proposing to buy the power plant agrees to provide 107 street lights for The A Chapel exercises conducted by the Seniors were held Wednesday Sept 14 After devotional excrcbes an excellent address entitled World is Looking for was delivered by Rev' Haygood of the First Baptist church Following Rev address an unusual progrma was rendered by the members of the class The piano polo by Richinanin-off played by Mrs' McAnally and the vocal solos by Mrs Lynch and Prof Tompkins were especially enjoyed After the program the student body thoroughly enjoyed an interesting and humerous talk entitled Always Come by Mr Jacques dc Castillo of New Orleans La whose musical comedy Love will be produced on the high school stage Monday night Sept 19 Visitors at chapel thig morning were Messrs Burch Mathis Carroll Reasonover and Yoe Mr -Yoe outlined his plans for the organization of a high school band Pressing On We with our lives before us Had best keep pressing on Do as the great mariner Sail on sail on and on Oh youth keep pressing forward all obtain That we may The prize of life eternal The greatest goal to gain Who knows the possibilities That each one life may hold? The lines of attainments Have never been foretold We make our own destinies As we live day by day By the will with which we tackle Our daily work or play if we keep pressing forward With all our might and main We will have the consolation Our lives wee not in vain Some deed or thought behind us May help some one to fee The prize Life Eternal And gain the victory Written on Rev talk delivered at the last chapel The A Pirates Trounce Wattg The Pirates opened the football season by overwhelming the Watts eleven 46-0 The game was evidently the Pirates' from the start however the Watts team kept fighting to the end Excellent sportsmanship was shown by both teams Only once was the Watts team to the 20-yard line The Pirates only used two straight line formations Our boys are going fine and working with a determination to win the A championship StilweU plays Muldrow next Friday the 16th and all go to the game and it The A Championship" Atalie Unkalunt Soloist With Wheelock Indian Band In Atlantic City Graduating from Thomas college of San Antonio Texas Prin cess Atalie went fp the Conservatory of music Boston university where she specialized in psychology and journalism and to the Emerson college of oratory for dramatic training Then came the war and for one year she 'served in the A at home and overseas Her entertainments made a tremendous impression But it was not her Shakespearean readings that endeared her to her public it was the charm of her personality and her simple sincerity of manner and above ail the exquisite voice with which she rendered some of her own Indian folk songs and legends Princess Atalie has a definite aim in life Her personal triumphs would mean little to her if they did not carry with them the ultimate good of her cause She is mainly concerned in forming an understanding relationship between the white man and her own people She understands that not only can the Indian derive great benefits from his white brothers but that the white man owes a great deal to the red man' To accomplish ail this Princess Atalie perform- wonderful work by direct contact with the Indians on their reservations Sh- visits the bead workers and tells them what it means to preserve the -primeval arts' of their ancestry! She goes even further and helps to market the handicraft and gives recitals of Indian the proceeds of which she gives to their schools Princess Atalie is still surging ahead No amount of pressure brought to bear has swjrved her from her ideals With Indian integrity with courage and perfect poife she goes her purposeful way Her beautiful vofce is everywhere acclaimed and her gradousnesg of manner endears her to all who meet her No one has a better right to be called "A First Daugher of America an organization of which she is founder and president Indian children are still clipping news items of their idol Their books are becoming thicker and thicker as their holds aloft a banner of Toward In return they give her their gratiude und devotion and strive to uphold the standards of this wonderfully gifted girl-princess Atalie Unlilunt Princess Atalie has made appearances with the Boston Symphonic orchestra for seasons at the MMANMMWMMMMIMMMWimUW pay roll The town will not he threatened with a water there will be no for her sole dependence that might break 50 or 100 miles away and leave us in darkness and at the mercy of tyic firc demon should he start on a rampage In the absence of an alternative if we could do no better we should have to consider a line would not reduce our indebtedness one penny Constituting a liability without an asct necessitating consignment of the present local light plant to the junk pile minus aught to offer in return except it provide a scrap iron sale to accrue to the welfare of the unborn babes The fanner must look to his own brain for the solution of his problems Out of his own mind must mnie some plan whereby a unkin may be formed that will mean what the name signifies Of course such must be non-partisan otherwise 'it would be foredoomed to disruption and it must be a nation-wide association with a national head Then there could be state units these to be divided into county units The thns "combining 'their strength would know no superior ngiong the numberless other divisions ol human society There is a sort of national confederation but it is rather an executive head without a complete body which is without actual power because it does not get strength from the fqot the individual farmer the dirt farmer as a' number of the xmnty group failing to have sinews that start from vhst would Le the source of power that would gain srengtli as it extended throughout the various body members to the ultimate integral of force' jhe farmer the first man in the land but he has been imposed upon until he almost were the last If he should devise a scheme to control production on the farm and say to the country Just what he would or would not produce he would have the country on her knees to him as soon as that project materialised Civilization and prosperity began with the plow When the plow stops the country will have to stop The South and West may say to the money fest: We are bigger than the rest Combined they can short- ly show Wall street how absurd is position The manufacturer is telling the farmer how much he wants instead of the farmer telling the manufacturer how much he can have It is a stultifying arrogance from whatever angle it may be that of the East in its atti tude towards the South and West i- niay commune with the ca- parisoned forests and fields and vernal green and the autumnal gold It is alleged that evil impulse can Wilt Sllluiv tHII lie indulged and a man may become conscience stricken and forfeit sclf- respect that the penalty of this is unfailingly utter misery only temporary Yet may he fail to remove the spiritual from the soiled fle(h Minds inhabiting hovels in abject degeneracy have evolved immortal gems of thought clearly convincing that the spirit that abides in a contaminated tenement may hear the songs in the trees and discern good in everything The mind becomej more reflective in shadows than it is In the sunshine and is thus farther removed firm sordid affairs though the flesh is a slave of them New in Stilwell The First National bank in keeping with its progressive spirit has donned a new autumn suit of paint with new Interior decorations The taillier was none other than Purdy whose brush was true to form jn this accomplishment Mitchell lias' purchased the grocery in Checkertown which was operated by HilL Tommy Mitchell is in charge of the store and will -conduct the business as manager A new store in town is the Star Cash store south of the Whitaker-White hardware firm groceries flour and feed with Arthur Ray manager an experienced and popu lar salesman in this line FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH The Sunday school begins promptly at ten The teachers and officers ought to be there at least ten minutes before the first song Make it a point to be in the training service The meet at 7 ni and promptness in beginning and closing is appreciated This is the training servile of our church' Here we learn to do by doing Hrcre is where we learn how to do things Come and joip one of our live un- fans There will be preaching both morning and evening by he pasor The morning service will be espec ially helpful to Chrisians generally while the evening service will be evangelistic Your presence will greatly help The pastor hopes you wiU bring your friends und intro- duce them at the close of the serv- Wc are to have a meeting Ix-gin- ning the fourth Sunday in Scptem- her The pasor will do the preaching and the home folks will do the singing HAYGOOD pastor Renew your subscription TIRES TUBES AND ACCESSORIES a i i i i Obituary Mrs Ruth Johnson Mrs Ruth Johnson the wife of Lafayette Johnson passed away at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Sixkilclr in Stilwell Oklahoma September 6 1927 Buth Slxkiller was born on the Sixkiller farm near Watts February 17 1903 where she grew to young womanhood She was married to Mr John on on January 20 1924 She and her husband continued to make their home in their childhood community She had poor health for gome time and when her lag sickness became so serious she was brought to the home of her parents so they could help minister to her needs and comfort Mrs Johnson wag a Christian having joined the Green Valley baptist church on a profession of faith at the age of fifteen years She talked to the family about her going and asked them to pray and aing with and for her She leaves to mourn her departure the husband and the baby SteL la Mae the parents Mr and Mrs Sixkiller three brothers Joe Wil Ham and Hiram two sisters Mrs A1 Sannon of Sand Springs and Miss Minnie All of these were present at the services in the home at Sil-wcll and at MosCs-cemetery where ihe hist service' was held and the body laid away to await the regur-recion day Many other relatives and ncighLork ana'l'riehdj both In Stilwell and the old home community attended the services For Use family the writer wishes to express their hear felt appreciation to the membership of the first Baptist church for the floral offerings and many other kindnesses ihown during the sickness and death of the wife and daughter and and to their neighbors and friends' vjho also in many vijays showed their Chrstian sympathy a'id kindness in help rendered and for floral offerings Haygood pastor CHRISTIAN CHURCH Sunday SchooL Communion and sermon Subject for morning Song of Two Christian Endeavor 8:45 Harold White leader Evening 7:45 'Subject Sermon on the Mounlj A cordial invitation to all visitors' Renew your subscription now Oklahoma TO PAY CASH? AND SEE $100 1Q 100 10 SOAP Jo 25 25 40 55 20 30 WE SELL Joe Brown Leslie Cash Grocery ice StilwiN DOES IT PAY TRY IT 14 lb PURE CANE SUGAR 15 lb CHOICE RICE Mr Farmer you feel some degree of humiliation at the manner in whidi you are being made a ents-paw for the money changers? Therc are many beautiful things In life especially in the midst of 'CON GASSES AND OILS MOTHERS CHINA WARE OATS 35c or 3 for lVi lb MONEYBACK COFFEE 7 BARS SUNNY MONDAY 6 BARS and SOAP 3 CANS MERRY WAR LYE Genuine Batteries For $1000 And Your Old Battery Absolutely none better Pugh-Bishop Chevrolet Co Phone 175 Stilwell Okla OKLAHOMA SPECIAL BROOMS CityFillingStation and City Tire Company 5 GAL COAL OIL 25e K- BAKING POWDER 35c CALUMET BAKING POWDER VULCANIZING A We have the only Greasing Rack in the City and do Up-To-Date Greasing ED and CLEBURNE WOODRUFF Pay Cash and Save the Difference -vV'VWta- WfrT.