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-r"V' 1,' M fkhhtai Hi4 Joji j j j The BEAVER HERALD ".' A Oldest Oklahoma NawspaDBr Reoubllcan for Principle VOL. XXVIII. BEAVER, BEAVER COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1915. No. .152 Dr. Prices CREAM BAKING POWDER 5far4 rcara the standard Dr. Price's is free from alum or any doubtful orunwholesome ingredient. It is made from Cream of Tartar, derived from grapes, pure and healthful beyond any question. Do you feel satisfied that the baking powder you are using is absolutely safe and certain? Have you read the label to see if it contains alum? JUDGE CROW HONORED. Gov. K. L. Williams hns appointed Judgo W. 0. Grow, of this Judicial dls-. trict, to serve ns n membur ot the supreme court commission and lie will enter upon the discharge of his duties in that capacity the early part of this month, The appointment continues until January, it has been arranged to that the work of the commission will not Interfere with the discharge of court work In this district to any ap preciable oxtont, it being possible to takecaro of a great part of the supreme court work at the same time the regu lar court work In various parts of the district Is beipg performed. The Herald is pleased to note this additional honor which has been shown Judge Crow. lie is well able to sit as a momber of this high tribunal and his services will provqv valuable In the. commission. , m. Dr. J. A. Miller 'purchased a now Ford tho past week. We are in receipt ot an unsigned communication concerning the Sunset Beaver baseball game which was played on the Heaver diamond two weeks ago. Inasmuch as a complete report was given in this papor In the issue follow, ing the gome, we aro omitting the article submitted at this late date. Those sending In communications for publication should remember that it is ncoosBary for them to sign their name to hucIi solhat this olllco may know thu identity of tho contributor. Tho name will be with-held from publication, If requested, but it Is absolutely neces sary that all contributions be signed by the writer. DuriiTgthe trial Monday of the case in which an appeal was taken by the taxpayers from the action of tho Board of County Commlsrioners in awarding the legal aud job printing of the coun ty to the LaKemp Mirror when the Herald offered to do the work at a sav ing of $S(XJ .to the county, Claude T. Smith, who was appointed by tho com missioners to defend their action.con tended that county printing was not "nubile work." It seems that Smith and his followers consider It "private graft" from tho manner in fjtWhloh they have been handling It since Olio flrs of the year, but fortunately, r tho Court docs not take tho same view of It. PRINTING CONTRACT DECLARED INVALID The appeal from thu action of the county commissioners in awarding the public printing to J. W.Jioll, editor (7) of the LaKemp Mirror, at their January session, was heard In District Court Monday and the contract declared void. Judge Crow ruled that inasmuch as no notice had been given, us required by law, that tho Commissioners had no power to enter into a contract with Dell at that timo. f ' In tho matter of the designating of the LaKemp Mirror as tho olllolal paper to publish the commissioners' proceedings and other notices under their jurisdiction, it was found that no provision had been msde for transfer ring or assigning the contrast to a suc cessor and Inasmuch as the LaKemp Mirror ceased to exist when that paper was moved to leaver and. succeeded by. thq Democrat, the Court advised' that anothur olllcial newspaper also bo. designated. If there has been no ofllclal county newspaper in the county since tho La- Kemp Mirror coased to oxist it may DECORATION DAY AT BEAVER. The day dawned with' rain-lhrcaten-lug clouds hiding the blue of the sky and bringing worry to many faces, Aa the clock ticked off the hours the clouds became thicker, and it seemed certain that wo would have rain, and plenty of it. However, whan ten o'clock rolled around and it was time to start for tho cemetery, nothing surious had happened, and most of the people In town concluded to risk the trip, No'arrangeinents had been made for tho crowd to (jorm in procession, so everybody took his own road and his own time to get there. The threaten ing weather had prevented many poo- plo in the country from making the trip. Notwithstanding this handicap, the crowd at this Decoration sorvlce was quite large In fact much larger than was expected ; for when the crowdtfrom town arrived at the ceme tery It found scores of people already thoro and waiting. Tho services nt tho cemetery were short, but satisfactory. Tho task of Paint result in serious complications later decorating the graven had been at tended to thu uay before by a com mittee appointed fgr that purpoio, and they certainly had done their full duty with One artistic taste. The arrange ment of Hags and Mowers-was almost without u llaw, aud the quality, of the ilowers used for decorating the graves Was much superior to those used in years' gone by. There wero no ragged edges and thu grounds wero neat and clean. Tho members of the G. A. It. fool grateful and thankful to that com mittee for the care aiid labor they ex pended In the beautiful arrangement of the decorations. A goodly company of little girls in d.ouble lllo marched ahead of thu old soldiers present and strewed a pathway of Ilowers for thu old veterans to fol low. Altogether tho decorations were very satisfying; yet tho ranks of the old boys in blue were lamentably short only three files. AT THE OHUBCir. In the afternoon tho concluding ser vices were held at the Christian church. The house was well lllled with an ap preciable' audience. Tho orchestra rendered somo excellent musia, fol lowed by singing "America" by the audlunco. Wo would like to mention each and every piece of muslo and declama tion in tho entire program, forltwas alt excellent, but lack of space for bids. But wo cannot paBS without com ment the address delivered by L. L. Shaw, pastor of the Christian church. It was the eqtfal of the best Decoration Day addreis we ever heard, and we havo heard some of the greatest ora tors in the Union -deliver addresses with the same theuiu for their subject. It was. historical, statistical, piotur ique and eloquent. In' retrospect it brought to memory some of tho most stirring scenes of the great Civil War, as well as the chief aoiora thsreln. His words of praisa for the old Union soldier were uplifting and not fulsome and his words of esteem and commen dation to the old Confederate soldier for the courage aud manhood with which he worked to retrlevo his for tunes, when, on returning homo he found the Southland devastated, his home anu property destroyed, and with defvo. overshadowing all, ho re- lused to stay defeated, and went to work to rebul4 his home and his for tunes and Mt i state, was enough to lift anv old Confederate out of the Slough of Doipair, . ' Altpgether about everything per-, talnlpg to Decoration Day this year was a grand success and very enjoy able, I. S. D, on; The law provides that such a newspaper must bo designated by the Commissioners and their neglect or re fusal to do so, would invalidate highly Important county matters, where it Is necessary that legal notice by publica tion bo given. When "Auctioneers" McLaln and Uutlcdge acquaint themselves with thu ruling of tho Court in this cngo nnd with the matters that ho has advised concerning their "olllclal organ ot the democratio administration," (hey will probably find that they will havo to back up and in the future comply with tin', law, at least when making con tracts. It is all very wall to roward political friends and pay political debts but it should not bo done at tlio expense of tho county and the interests ot the county 'placed In jeopardy, either to reward those who aro for 'you or to chastise thoso who liavo tho temerity to oppose you, Whenever You Need n General Tonic Tnko drove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Toulc 19 'equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properticsof QUINJNK aud IRON. It nctsun the Liver, Drives out Malaria, l!nriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. SO cents. Bradley & Vrooinnn Paints nvo guaranteed to bo ono of the Highest Grado Paints mndo. My stock Is complete in House and Barn Paints, Varnishes, Wood fillers, Floor Paints, etc. Color cArds free on application. Wall Paper My stock of Wall Paper embraces grades from Jlvo, cents to twenty cents (pcr roll.'. In addition to stock carried, sclcctiong etui bo inado from several hundred, sanfples cm bracing all papers manufactured by tho' factory. FRED C. TRACY Beaver Oklahoma COURT ORDERS WARRANT PAID. The mandamas proceedings, which the editor of the Herald iustltuttd against I. I'. Frysinger, county treas urer, became ot his refusal to pay our warrant for publishing the delinquent tax list for 101 1, after the same had been regularly allowed and Issued by the Board ot County Commleslonarn, was heard in District Court Monday. Judge Crow promptly advised- tho county treasurer that he had lio lawful right to refuso paymont of tho claim and. orderod that tho same be paid. The county treasurer was alio advised that he ws,s assuming too much author ity when ho prosumed to serve as a board of county, commissioners and also n judgo and jury, in passing upon the legality of claim for which war rants had been Issued and refusing the, payment of such warrants. When claims have been allowed by tho coun ty commissioner's and the warrants drawn in payment therefor, show no defect upon the face, as in tho case of the Herald's warrant, tho county treasurer was ndvlced by the Court that it was his businoss to pay tho same, t Slnco Fryslnger did not want the Herald to publish tho tax list but was powerless to prevent it, ho teems to think that he is Scott Free to plunge tho county into as much expense as he sees fit, in order to defer the payment of our warrant for tho service. It will be remoiubered thnt, in the first place, aftor the County Commissioners had regularly ordered that the tax list be published In the Herald, that Frysinger delayed and refused to preparo thu same for publication until compolled to do so by an order from Distrio Judge Crow nnd then tho time was so short that it was necossary for the county to payout somo $100 00 In order to get the lists up In time, when It was tho 'duty of tho county treasurer to pre paro the lists without extra expense to the county. Then again, upon tho re fusal of Frysinger to pay the warrant after tho claim had been regularly al lowed hf tho -Board of County. Com mlssionerp, it was necessary for this (taper to institute mandamus proceed ings to compel him to do so. Judge Crow was holding court at Alva at tho time and it was llrst thought to bring the proceedings before him at that place. Frysinger rushed pell-mell over to Alva and charged the expense up to the county, the claim for which, was allowed 'by thu present Board of County Commissioners aud amounted to $11.01'. It was found that the case could not bo heard at Alva and the Herald's attorney did not go ovor to that place but Frysinger did not wait to find out anything about that.. Ho rushed over and charged the expense up to tho county. This together with the hiring of extra help to preparo tho tax list.for publication, keeps on piling up extra expense to the county because of the neglect and refusal of Frysinger to perform his olllcial duties, and the end is not yet. Notwithstanding the fact that Beaver county has a capable and upright attorney, duly elected by the voters to look after thu legal, In terests ot the county, for some reason Claude T. Smith appeared as attorney for Frysinger in this csbo, and we pre sume tho county will be called upon tc pay tho bill. All ot this exponse, together with the interost on the claim, will put the taxpayers to an extra ex pense of uearly $200 00, Is the oounty going to pay the expenfe of every dis gruntled ofllce-seekor and would-be politician who wants to vent his spleen against the Herald bacauso we have the back-bone to oppose their crooked ness? If not, it is getting about time to call a halt for just as long as we publish the die raid me arc going to publish tho netvi and if public ofllcials or anybody else aro. crooked and at tempt to loot and pilfer the public treasury, they may expect to find the Herald publishing the facts about their actions. Threats of libel and damage suits don't daunt us at all. Wo are able to backup all wo publish with the facts and the records and when we can do that, we don't stand much chance to lose. It Is significant that never once havo we failed to provo the justice of our contentions whtn compelled to resort to the courts for a square deal. That ought to prove to at least some, of tho people (and It does) that wc aro not asking or de manding anything but what we aro justly entitled t6 under the hnv. NEXT WEEK. June 0th, 10th and llh, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week will ba occasions of-apeolal interest to all persons interested in College educa tional work, .or evangelistic effort. Itev. 11. A. Dadlsman, District Super intendent, Will 5i with us and preach each evening at 8 p, m. All are in- Qvt JTUFF Too vmv a If JLW iriEKISsP5silif ilBsFm-agiLJ -V: '.AXKM'MH MK. CAMPERt v -, DOESN'T THIS PICTURE MAKE YOU WANT.TO. GO CAMPING? V -: . JUST REMEMDEK, WE HAVE ALL THE THINGS! -YOU NEED TO MAKE CAMPING OUT A COMFORT ) AND A JOY-EVEUYTH1NG FROM A FISH HOOK TO A FRYING PAN. GET YOUR OUTFIT FROM US. t Beaver Hardware & Furniture Company DEAVER. OKLAHOMA The Better Wajr to. Buy Groceries, Flour ?.r and Feed .V3 Is to go to tho place that makes a specialty of handling such goods. Our business is tho selling of. Groceries, Flour and Feed exclusively. Comu t us and Buy tho Bettor Way. Also .handle GARDEN SI313D and ONION SETS. Prompt Delivery. I. W. MOORE . CO., Phono No. 27" BEAVER, OKLAHOMA CITY MARKET W. Q. STRANATHAN, Prop. Fancy Groceries and Meats FresH FisH aniS Oysters Vegetables Fruit Celery Orders Dc)i.ed Promptly Bring in your Butter and Eggs Cash, for Hides and Furs Will Buy Your Fat Stock Beaver, Okla. FARM LOANS Are you going to need a new Loan i or are you going to increase the one you have? c I have a gotjd proposition which it will pay you to investigate. Either write or call at my office in Beaver. It N. LAWS0N, &. . J M 4 - ;- i. J U I I 'j 1 'a, u P o rtil IBLv- I &;",' .Ylted. F.E.LowIj, -- co