LOCAL ITEMS 
The Anadarko Tribune 
January 2, 1919 

ATTORNEY and MRS. J.W. REECE of Stillwater, Okla., with 
their merry youngsters, MISSES EULAH and LENORE, and 
MASTERS ROBERT and WALTER, passed a happy Yuletide at the 
Reece homestead with Mr. Reece's mother and sister. 

MISS DOROTHY GIBBS, little daughter of MR. and MRS. H.C. 
GIBBS, who are returning to Anadarko to live, enrolled 
Monday morning in the first grade, West building. 

MR. and MRS. S.S. ARN left Sunday for St. Louis to visit 
their son. They expect to be absent for two or three weeks. 

CHAD McKNIGHT and E.T. COOK paid for the two rabbits which 
they got Tuesday by walkng five or six miles on ice points 
and wading through fields. But they'll think nothing of 
that when they become accustomed to real walking! 

W.P. SNYDER returned home Tuesday from Edmond, Okla. where 
he had accompanied the remains of his wife for interment. 
He left his two little daughters, WILMER and EARLINE, there 
with his mother. Mr. Snyder intends to go to Edmond 
Saturday of this week and bring the girls with him on his 
return here. 

CAPT. J.H. HARVEY arrived here Saturday from Hume, Mo., 
where he had been living for some few months with 
relatives. We get it on the side that the captain is quite 
glad to get back to Anadarko. They all do it - nearly all - 
go away only to return. Wonder if that feast on the 
occasion of the installation of Post and Circle officers 
the second Friday afternoon of this month could have had 
anything to with hurryng back the captain? He can't plead 
ignorance of this coming event because he got The Tribune 
in Missouri, the same as at home. 

J.R. ELDER was in Monday from his home south of Verden and 
sent his subscription ot this paper another year ahead. Mr. 
Elder informed us that there was a period at Verden last 
week when neither sugar nor kerosene was to be found there 
at any of the stores. His son-in-law is in the army. Mr. 
Elder feels now that the war is over, that he ought to be 
permitted to come home to till the farm that is in such 
great need of his presence. This is not a complaint. It is 
a sensible suggestion. It comes from a soldier who aided in 
saving this country, thus enabling it to save the world 
from destrucion by the Hun in the world war that is just 
over. Mr. Elder has been a liberal buyer of government war 
securities. 

MRS. ADDIE COATS, mother of REV. J.W. COATS, was taken 
quite ill Saturday night and up to Tuesday morning, her 
condition was not improved. 

D.W. BRACK went to Oklahoma City Monday to look around. 

A.E. BALDWIN is one of the kind of men who don't wait to 
ride behind a team if the team isn't hitched up and ready 
to start. On this basis he walked into town from his farm, 
three miles out, one of the rough mornings the latter part 
of last week. It is this readiness to act on the spur of 
the moment, combined with a judgment that it is safe to 
follow, that has made Mr. Baldwin a marked man in the 
affairs of this city and in this section of Caddo county. 

O.O. MORGAN is working in the county treasurer's office 
this week. 

MR. and MRS. B.F. BLUM and daughter, MISS EDNA, returned 
Sunday from a visiting trip to Guthrie and Crescent, in 
this state. 

JAMES BOMAN, son of MR. and MRS. BOMAN of this city, 
arrived home Saturday from the Presidio, San Francisco, 
where he had been discharged from the military service.

MRS. A.M. VAN ORDEN, late of this city, but now living at 
Shawnee, Okla. arrived here Christmas with her two small 
children, ELOISE and ARCHIE, for a visit with friends. They 
were the guests of MR. and MRS. WOOD DAVIS. Mrs. Van Orden 
called on The Tribune Monday morning and arranged for 
regular visits of this paper at her home for the next year. 
Mr. Van Orden is in France. It has been tentatively agreed 
between him and Mrs. Van Orden that she is to go to France 
to meet him and accompany him home if arrangements to this 
effect shall turn out to be practicable. She had not yet 
leanred when this time will be.

We don't aim to be understood as stating that COUNTY 
TREASURER ELLISON preferred to stay in bed at home Monday 
to working in his office. He really was ill. Yet it seemed 
kind of odd that it happened on just about the busiest day 
of the year in his office. He knew, though, that the work 
would be done just right with MR. WARD and MRS. W.W. 
WATERMAN at the head of affairs.

CASHIER WATERMAN of the First National Bank and his 
daughter, MISS WANDA, went to Oklahoma City Sunday evening, 
returning home Tuesday morning.

MR. M.E. HARRIS, manager of the State Orphans' home at 
Cornish, arrived in town Tuesday, departing Wednesday 
afternoon. He received considerable encouragement here in 
the way of funds for the promotion of the interests of the 
institution. Mr. Harris called our attention to the fact 
that in one year while Judge Hume was in office this county 
averaged one orphan a month for the home and many others 
have been sent from Caddo county. The principal building at 
the home was destroyed by fire a year ago last July. The 
intention is to rebuild as soon as the state gets over the 
stress of the world war.

Her friends in Caddo county will be glad to read this: 
Boylers Mill, Mo., Dec. 28, 1918 - The Anadarko Tribune, 
Dear Sir: Please send my paper to the above address. I left 
Washington, D.C. after the war closed and am spending the 
winter with my relatives here - an ideal place to visit. 
Thanking you for the favor, I am - Yours truly, GEORGIA M. 
WEAVER

OSCAR DIEHR, a former prominent citizen of this city, but 
for some years living in Oklahoma City, came to town Monday 
for a stop of a day or two. He was looking after property 
matters.

C.E.L. FENNER, civil war veteran, and who has a son wounded 
in France, called Saturday and handed in a dollar and a 
half to carry him as a subscriber until in January, 1920. 
He also brought us a letter from the boy in France which 
finds its way into this week's edition of The Tribune.

CHARLES W. KNUPP arrived Friday with his discharge from the 
military service at St. Sault Marie, Mich. He was at work 
Wednesday collecting for the Stephenson-Browne Lumber 
company. He, as will be recalled by many of our citizens, 
married a daughter of MR. and MRS. B.C. LOOMIS of this city 
last spring or summer. Mrs. Knupp is a faithful employe at 
the Postoffice book store.

H.E. HORWEDEL was in Saturday from his farm, eight miles 
west of Lookeba, and advanced his subscription another 
year. Mr. Horwedel yet has his broomcorn crop of last year, 
and is not a sufferer from the bad crop condition of the 
last year. He states that flu is worst in his immediate 
neighborhood than it has been before. The entire family of 
E.R. SHAW were prostated by it.

L.E. BURR of the Cement - Cyril oil field vicinity informed 
us, while in town Saturday, that he would like for his 
paper to be sent thereafter to Edmond, Okla., to go out on 
rural mail route 2. Mr. Burr got $4800 for leasing three 
forties of his farm in the oil field. This enabled him to 
buy the farm onto which he is about to move, four mles 
northwest of Edmond and twelve miles north of Oklahoma 
City. Mr. Burr has one more forty in the oil field to 
lease. MISS NELLIE BURR, his daughter, will complete her 
school, three miles southwest of Anadarko in the coming 
May, before joining the family in their new home. Mr. Burr 
and his family are people whom we are sorry to lose from 
this county. They will be a decided acquisition to their 
new neighborhood.

H.O. BRUNKAU, who is well and favorably known in the 
Gracemont region, writes thus from Kingfisher, Okla.: Dear 
Editor: Please send The Tribune to Chase, Ks., hereafter. I 
have bought a farm there and am moving there now.

The N.T. PLUMMER family were all in town Saturday, 
accompanied by JOEL OLSON, a soldier from Fort Sill, who 
had spent Christmas with them. He left that day for his 
military station. MISS VIRGIE PLUMMER and her sister have 
engaged light housekeeping quarters at the Brack place and 
are attending the public school.

J.H. SHEARIN, who moved here recently from Muskogee county, 
Okla., has rented the C.C. LeMASTERS farm near LaCrosse and 
expects to move thereon about the first of February.

MR. SCHOONOVER was in Saturday from his farm southeast of 
town and subscribed for The Tribune to go for the next year 
to his brother-in-law H.R. WALKER, who gets his mail on a 
rural route out of Carnegie. This is a Crhistmas present, 
and, diffident though we be, the guess is here hazarded 
that it will be duly appreciated.

MRS. M. LACER, mother of FRANK, SID and other children in 
and near this city, awoke Thursday morning of last week to 
find herself very ill. The trouble was the bursting of a 
blood vessel in the head. The magnitude of the injury had 
not yet been ascertained Monday afternoon. She had been 
beside herself with pain, and it was with difficulty that 
she was regularly kept in bed. Mrs. Lacer, with her husband 
and MR. and MRS. C. ALDRICH and other friends were 
Christmas guest at dinner at her son Frank's and is said to 
have felt well until she undertook the next morning to get 
out of bed and was unable to do so.

MRS. G.M. FULLER and little daughter arrived home Saturday 
morning from Hot Springs, Ark., looking as though they had 
got just what they had gone there for - restoration to 
health. The little girl, who had been suffering because of 
a run-down condition, was looking especially fine. Mr. 
Fuller was ready to take them out home, and they were on 
the way there in a few minutes after the arrival of the 
train.

If our information is correct, all the teachers in our 
public schools were on hand Monday morning to begin their 
work, with the single exception of MISS CHASTAIN of Butler, 
Mo., who, it is understood will not return. MISS 
WESTMORELAND, whose illness it was feared would not permit 
her to be ready for work by Monday, was here and ready. The 
school attendance is stated to us to be about normal, which 
may be said to be going some, when we look back to the 
condition here just a brief while ago.

T.O. MOORE, a prominent citizen of Cyril, was in town 
Sunday. He told W.W. WATERMAN that Cyril was deep enough in 
oil to justify the statement that she would soon have a 
refinery. Business men who are interested in the refinery 
near Lawton are taking stock in the Cyril refinery. It 
looks more and more as if the Cement - Cyril oil field is a 
tangible thing.

The Washita BEALLS are doing some ringing these days. There 
called on The Tribune Monday the head of the family, W.E. 
BEALL, accompanied by his son J.E., who was at home on a 
furlough from Camp Travis, Texas, intending to return to 
his post next Monday. FRED, another son, is also at home 
from Camp Travis on a furlough. CLYDE, yet another son, who 
was also stationed at Camp Travis, was discharged from the 
military service Dec. 2, and is living at home. Clyde's 
discharge came from his belonging to a branch of the 
service where there was a general muster-out of the men. 
The time for the muster-out of the others is not yet, but 
is likely to be 'most any time'. J.E. has a $300 a month 
job awaiting him whenever he is ready for it. It is oil 
field work, with which he is familiar by reason of eight 
years of service. The other two brothers are also manly 
men, and are ready to make good in civil life whenever the 
opportunity occurs. The father left his wife and youngest 
son, FRANK, in bed at home Monday with the flu. He had 
returned home Saturday from waiting on the family of his 
brother in Comanche county, eleven miles south of Apache. 
The family of nine persons were all down with the flu. He 
stayed with them eleven days and left them improving.

It was a queer spell of weather which succeeded the rain 
here Tuesday morning some time after midnight. It settled 
down to sleet and kept it up until well after daylight. The 
sidewalks, covered with the sleet, were not bad for 
walking. As the day wore on, the weather continued to grow 
colder.