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The Benson signal., 1916-12-23
Will the Schoolmaster Supplant
the Lawyer in Craftsmanship?
(New England Journal Of Education)

All Illlo Iiy VI Sletl tllilS II etIlolOl
nations it will not be impossible to
have the schoolmaster supplant the
lawyer in craftsmanship. Among
the positively great men in Con-
gress. among the foremost literally,
with their legislative experience,
are Congressman Kelly of Michi-
gan, who was state superintendent;
Congressman Aswell of Louisiana,
former state superintendent and
president of the state normal school;
Congressman Abercrombie of Ala
bama, who was state superintend
ent and president of the state uni
versity, and no men in the 1ninori
ty party have outclassed Congress
man Frank B. Willis, professor in
Ada Normal University, and S. D.
Fess, president of Antioch College.
Take DR.. Fess as all example.
1t is his first term in Congress and
in the minority, yet he is ranking
member of the committee OH En-
rolled Bills, member of committee
Oh Insular Affairs, member of COM
mittee on Education, member of
National Vocational Educational
Commission appointed by Presi-
dent Wilson to report a plan for
federal aid to vocational education,
and was selected to represent Con-
gress at the Independence Day
celebration at Philadelphia, July
fourth, where the president spoke
for the nation.
On the anniversary of the birth
of Lincoln the House invited DR..
Fess to give the address of the oc-
casion. The House of Representa-
tives particularly honored DR.. Fess
by ordering by unanimous consent
that his address be printed as a
public document Over $4,000
copies of the address were dis
tributed.
These schoolmaster Congressman
represent both of the leading politi
cal parties. The eminently heroic,
wise and brilliant Governor Ferris
of Michigan is schoolmaster first,
last and all the time, and Congress
man Frank B. Willis was the only
man in Ohio except DR.. Fess who
had any prospect of returning his
party to power; i'll Pennsylvania
there was not the slightest hope of
his party returning to power with
out Superintendent Martin q.
Brumbaugh as a candidate, and
these two empire commonwealths
have schoolmasters as gubernatorial
candidates.
In the National Arena, two of
the most eminent representative of
the United States at Foreign Courts
are professors from Princeton and
Williams, while the schoolmaster
president is a world figure in states
manship.
These facts, striking as they are,
do not furnish the only suggestion
that the schoolmaster may supplant
the lawyer in craftsmanship In
this age of freakish suspicion, law
yers of distinction have very gen
orally been attorneys for interests
and men with which the public is
out of sympathy, or have been al
most fanatically opposed to them so
that, in either case, they are not
available, while the schoolmaster
who has demonstrated his capacity
for leadership has public conf
dence, and is not handicapped by
prejudice.
The modern schoolmaster is as
scholarly in his preparation for his
profession as is the lawyer, and he
is likely to be a more widely read
man than the lawyer during his
active life. Why shouldn't the
schoolmaster be a statesman?
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Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-06-16
LEGAL ApvERTIsEaENTs
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manding me to sell, after due and le-
gal appraisement, the following de-
scribed property. lying in Bryan
County, OF the State Of Oklahoma, to-
wit:
The So of Sw4 Of Section a;
SEA of SEA; VIZ OF Sw4 of
SEA; and SEA of Sw4 of SEA OF
Section 4; NE 4 of Nw4; and
NJ of Nw4 cf Nw4 of Section
o, all in Township South.
Range 12 East of the Indian
Base and Meridian,
to satisfy a Judgment and decree OF
foreclosure in favor of the said plain
tiff and against the said defendants,
and to further satisfy personal
judgment against Cordelia A. Gray
and Ransom E. Gray for the sums OF
$4,000, with interest thereon at
the rate Of ten per cent per tnnum,
from December %, A. d. 1914. until
paid, the sum OF s231.00, with In
terest thereon at the rate OF ten per
cent per annum from December 22nd,
A. d. 1914, until paid, the sum OF
$500 and the further sum of S330,
as attorneys fees, to be taxed as
costs herein, for the sum of $500 as
costs of said suit and expenses ac-
crued in said action, and for all other
costs to accrue in said action, will,
on the 5th day of July, A. d. 1915,
at the hour of 2 o'clock D. M, of said
day, at the front door of the District
Court House in the city of Durant, in
the County of Bryan, and State of
Oklahoma, offer for sale and sell to
the highest bidder for cash. the said
property above described, or so much
thereof as will satisfy the said judg-
ment with interest and costs.
Witness my hand this 31st day OF
May, A. ID. 1916.
JOHN A. PHILLIPS,
Sheriff of Bryan County
! Oklahoma.
BY DAVE WRIGHT,
Deputy Sheriff
CHAS. c. PARKER,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-06-16

list insertion May 10. 1916.
5th insertion June is, 1915.
State Of Oklahoma,
County Of Bryan.
In the District Court in and for said
County and state.
Mrs. Mary Mcclure, ..... plaintiff
VS.. No.2362.
G. M. Ferguson and
Lue Ann Ferguson -. Defendants
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ES-
TATE
Under Special Execution and Order Of
Sale.
Notice is hereby given that in pur-
suance Of special execution and err
der OF sale issued out of the district
Court in and for Bryan COunty. Okla
homa, on the 18th day Of May, A.
D., 1915, in an action wherein Mrs.
Mary Mcclure vas pisiatiff, and c.
NJ. Ferguson and Lue Ann Ferguson
we're defendants. directed to me, the
undersigned Sheriff of Bryan Coun-
ty, Oklahoma, commanding me to
levy upon and sell the following de-
scrlbed property, to-wit:
Lots 1, 2, 8, 4, s, 6, z, s and 9,
in Block %, in the Incorporated
Town Of Kenefick, Bryan County,
Oklahoma, according to the offiei-
al plat or survey of the said town,
to satisfy a judgment and decree Of
foreclosure in favor Of the said plain
tiff and against said defendants, OBJ
tanned and made in said court on the
18th day of November, A. D., 1915,
for the sum OF S2S7S6, with inter
est thereon at the rate Of ten per
cent per annum from December 1st,
A. D., 1914, until paid, and 5000
attorney fees, and all costs of said
action, will on the 21st day of
June, A. D., 1916, at the hour Of
1880 o'clock p. m. of said date, at the
front door of the Court House in the
City of Durant, Bryan County, Okla
homa, offer for sale and sell to the
highest and best bidder for cash the
said property above described, or 50
much thereof as will satisfy the said
Judgment, interest, attorney fees and
costs.
Witness my hand this the 18th
day of May, "A. D., 1915.
JNo. A. PHILLIPS,
Sheriff of Bryan County
Oklahoma.
UTTERBAGK and MACDONALD,
Attorneys.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-06-16
HERE OPPOSING ADOP-

TION OF SECTION 12-A.
Prof F. f. Proffitt, formerly a
member of the local Normal faculty,
is here this weeek fighting the adop-
tion of Campbell Russell's Section
IRA of the constitution. which
amendment proposes to throw all
school taxes paid by corporations in
to common fund and disburse them
equally among the State school dis
tricts. 1t has been charged that Rus
sell is to get fees from the school
districts thsu benefited, should the
thing carry, and 1t has been estimat-
ed that he might earn 100000 by it's
adoption. 1t is known that Russell
is publishing and distributing all
over the State fOur-page paper de-
voted to tho adoption of the section.
The paper is received by this office
and carries no advertising, nor ap-
parent means of revenue. Prof
Proffitt in commenting upon the
matter, said:
"It is to be hoped that people who
are interested il having good schools
will not overlook the importance of
voting for the repeal of Campbell
Russell's 12-A amendment to the
constitution. There are ia school
districts in Oklahoma which could
not under the provisions of this
amendment maintain their present
school standards on levy Of fifteen
mills-the maximum levy allowed by
the constitution. There are 25,163
children living in these districts. Two
such districts having 1S9 children
are in Bryan County. Can any good
citizen vote for a measure that will
surtail the already limited education
al opportunities of 25,836 little chill
dren of Oklahoma?"
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-06-16

ernor r. l.. Williams and George
Henshaw, Of the Corporation Com
mission, who handled the Durant
case for the depot, have also been in
vited.
The program for the occasion has
not been fully decided upon, but will
include the customary speaking feat
menu has not beenq--dy;mS i1Stat
ure, interspersed with appropriate
music. Just who will serve the
menu has not been decided upon yet,
nor has the detail OF the menu, but
the committe plans to make it the
most elaborate affair ever served in
the city, and that in itself means
that it will have to be some feed.
This fight for a union depot com
menced back in 1909, unless we have
our wires crossed, and on several oc.
casions appeared won, only to be lost
and a fresh start taken. Last year
the dope went out again, just as be
fore, that the thing was settled and
that the depot would be built before
certain time. but it was thought tc
be the same old story, when, 10 and
behold, materials and workmen were
sent on the ground and the depot was
built No need to dwell on details
of the station, as that was comment
ed upon in the last issue of this pa.
per, save to say that it is dandy
better than many of us expected to
get and up to the expectations oi
the most critical
In due time the committee will an.
nounce the menu, the formal pro
gram, the number of plates to be
laid and so on, and when and where
the necessary credentials to admit
may be secured.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-06-16
COOPERATIVE DELIVERY OF
GOODS BEING PLANNED

One or two local business people
have gotten their heads together and
will formulate plans for a proposed
cooperative delivery service for local
grocers and dry goods men. The
plan is the result of the fact that
each business house operating a sep
arate delivery service results in a
duplication of work and waste of en-
ergy which it is believed may be saw
ed in handling the thing with all
merchants working together. De-
tails have not been worked out, but
the plans of other cities where the
thing has proven successful are be-
ing considered.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-06-16
CALoMEL DYNANnTEs A

SLUGGISH LIVER
Crashes into sour bile, making you
sick and You lose days
work.
Calomel saliYates! It's mercury.
Calomel acts like dynamite on a
sluggish liver. When calomel comes
into contact with sour bile 1t crash
es into it, causing cramping and nau-
sea.
II you feel bilious, constipated,
and all knocked out, just go to the
druggist and get a fifty-cent bot
tie of Dodson's liver Tone, which is
harmless vegetable substitute for
dangerous calomel. Take a teaspoon,
full and if it doesn't start your liver
and straighten you UP better and
quicker than nasty calomel and with
out making you sick, you just go
back and get your money.
If you take calomel today you will
be sick and nauseated tomorrow be-
sides, it may saliyate you, while II
you take Dodson's Liver Tone you
will wake up feeling great, full of am
bition and ready for work or play
It's harmless, pleasant, and safe t.
give to the children; they like It
advertisement
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-06-16
Whale e. Cox Co.
Real Estate, Loans, Insurance and Surety Bonds
Durant, Oklahoma
AN OPEN LETTER

Read this letter through may
saving OF dollars o you.
If you contempt ate making farm loan, a
on city property, do energy looking
for to give better deal, you cannot
find
We Will give good service, al own
inspections we know land values and there delay
in closing loan wi tn
We make loans easy payments--lons terms and
whereby your any interest pay
time, and stop
Our interest is due year a time
that is most convenient to the borrower.
When you want a loan Swrite a letter, call us
over the phone or call and
Transact your business home men and
will never regret
Respectfully,
Whale Cox Company.
Office in First National Bank Building
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-06-16
DEPOT BANQUET TO BE
HELD ON JUNE %.

Plans are now being completed by
the Durant Chamber of Commerce
for the holding of one of the most
elaborate banquets ever held in the
city, to be given in the main waiting
room of the new union station on
Thursday night, June 22, and in
commemoration of the completion Of
the station and the long drawn out
fight, covering five years or more,
which it took to get the station. The
invited guests for the occasion are
w. E. Williams, general manager of
the M. X. & t.; ]. A. Frates, gener-
al superintendent of the Frisco, and
several other railway officials. Gov
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-06-16
sELL FRIsCO Avn AUCTION.

The st. Louis and San Francisco
Railway Company's property will be
sold in St. Louis soon at public auc.
ton as ordered this week by Circuit
Judge SanbOrn of st. Louis, A min
imum price of $45,000.000 is fixed
by the court A reorganization com
mittee will probably bid in the prop
erty.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-06-16
ORDER.

OANOEsAhs
Now. on this, the 5th day of June.
1915. the same being the day on
which the petition for the sale OF
certain real estate is set for hearing
came the said executors in person
and by their attorneys and filed here
in their proof of posting and mailing
copies of the order of this Court, set
ting said petition down for hearing,
which said proof of posting and malt
ing is in due, legal and regular form.
But the Court finds that the order of
this Court was not published in the
manner required by law, on account
of the fact that the Durant News, the
newspaper to which said order was
given to be published, made an error
I'm the publication of said notice. And
1t appearing to the Court from the al
legations OF said petition, that it is
nesessary and for the best interest OF
said estate and all persons interested
therein, that a sale of the lands and
premises described in said petition
be ordered for the purposes and on
the grounds stated therein:
1T is BY THE COURT ORDER
ED, that the hearing of said petition
be contiued from this date until the
3rd day of July, 1915, at the hour Of
ten o'clock a. m, in the County
Court Room. in Durant. Bryan Coun-
ty, Oklahoma, of which hearing said
executors will give notice as required
by law.
j. L. RAPPOLEE.
County Judge
Hatchett & Ferguson, Attorneys.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-06-16
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS

will be taken as true and judgment
rendered in said action against the
defendant in favor OF plaintiff, for
the sum of S1O7,55. on said promas-
sorry note for s1O7.55, dated August
1st, 1914, and $19.45 interest to date
and s12.70 attorney fee, and that the
attachment herein had will be sus-
tanned and that the said property lew
led upon hereunder will he sold and
the proceeds of said sale thereof will
be applied, first to the payment OF
said indebtedness under and by yir-
tue of said chattel mortgage, as
aforesaid, and the said amount re-
naming after payment Of said mort
gage indebtedness, will be applied 70
the payment of the amount owing to
plaintiff as aforesaid and the costs OF
said acton.
JNO. AUSLEY,
Justice OF the Peace.
Y. WINFIELD SCOTT,
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-06-16
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RAILROAD TIMETABLE

The following schedule OF
trains in and out Of Duraat is
published gratis as informa-
for readers OF the News, and,
while care will be exercised in
an endeavor to keep 1t up to
date, its accuracy can not at
all times be guaranteed by
this paper:
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-06-16
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LIST insertion June 16, 1916.
5th insertion July IA, 1916.
State Of Oklohoma,
Bryan County, to-wit:
In the District Court in and for Said
County and State.
June Term, 1916.
Viola Holland ...........Pl Plaintiff
VS.. No. 1920.
John II. Holland ..... Defendant
THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO
JOHN III. HOLLAND:
The defendant, John II. Holland,
is hereby notified that he has been
sued by Viola Holland, and must an
swer the petition filed by the plain
tiff on or before the 29th day OF July
1916. or the said petition will be TAX
en- as true and judgment for absolute
divorce and restoration Of maiden
name will be rendered accordingly.
WITNESS my official signature
and seal this the 18th day OF June
1916.
w. A. JONES.
Court Clerk
LACY GRIMES, Deputy
Utterback & Macdonald,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-06-16

1st insertion June 0, 1916.
Srd insertion June 2Srd, 1916.
STATE OF OKLAHOMA, !
County of Bryan,
In the Justice Court Of John Ausley,
Justice of the Peace in and for
Calera, Oklahoma:
II. l.. England nd....,...... Plaintiff
VS..
r. A. Harber. ........ Defendant
NOTICE BY PUBLICATION.
Said defendant, r. A. Harder, will
take notice. that said plaintiff. H. L.
England, did on the 27th day of May,
1915, in the Justice Court, before
John Ausley, Justice of the Peace at
Calera, Oklahoma, file suit against
this said defendant for the sum of
$139.10, being the amount owing up
on certain promissory note execut-
ed by defendant to plaintiff. with in'
terest and attorneys fee as provided
therein and in said action an at
tachment was issued and levied upon
certain property of defendant and
that the amount claimed upon a chat
tel mortgage, secured by the attached
property, was by plaintiff paid to the
First National Bank of Sterrett, Oklo-
homa, in the sUm-of $71.I0, and that
the plaintiff has been subrogated to
all rights of said corporation therein
by reason of said chattel mortgage.
and that said defendant must answer
this action on or before the 18th day
of July, 1916, or plaintiffs petition
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-06-16
JNO. AUSLEY,
Justice OF the Peace.
Y. WINFIELD SCOTT,
Attorney for plaintiff

1st insertion June 16, 1916.
3rd insertion June so. 1916.
Tn the matter OF the estate of Patrick
w. Howe, deceased, Jas. II. Nc
Kinney ct al, executors.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-06-16
First insertion June 2. 1916.
Fifth insertion June 80, 1916.
NOTICE OF SHERIEE'S SALE
OF LAND.

OF LAND.
Notice is hereby given that in pur-
suance of an order of sale issued
out of the District Court of Bryan
County. Oklahoma, on the 31st day
of May, A. d. 1916, in an action
wherein the Northern Assurance
Company of Michigan, corporation,
is plaintiff, and Cordelia A. Gray,
Ransom Z. Gray, William S. Murphy,
Utterback & Macdonald, a co-part-
nership composed OF w. E. Utterback
and d. s. Macdonald. the Conserva-
tive Loan Company, a corporation,
Goldman Grocer Company, a corpora
tion composed of Abe Goldman, Ben.
F. Goldman, Louis Goldman, Law
renee Goldman and Alfred Goldman,
Pittman & Harrison Company, COR
poration, and Baldwin Piano Compa-
ny, corporation, are defendants, dl-
rected to me, the undersigned Sheriff
of Bryan County, Oklahoma, COM
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-06-16
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Frisco Railroad
NJ, o. & q. Railroad
fCoufbboundN
INorthbonndl

9 No. 6 ...... 9.15 a. IN.
o No. 10 .... 4:5O p. M.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-06-16

1st insertion June 0, 1916.
Srd insertion June 23rd, 1916.
STATE OF OKLAHOMA, !
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-06-16

Hatchett G Ferguson. Attorneys.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-12-22

the threshold of this genuine If dingy
place of worship in Oak street. HIS
beard grew until it reached his waist
In q cascade of silver. He lost the
prison pallor, and flush of health
came to his cheeks. Until his friend,
the preacher gave him the job as JAM
tor of the mission he slept on the
wharves, crawling between bales of
freight of all sorts, like the Son of
Man, uncertain of anywhere that he
might call his own for the casual SUM
Der of the harried fox.
Remorseless mutation brought death
to Gottlieb's preacher friend. He asked
Jerry to take up his work.
you see, SIR" the old convict ex-
planned, I'm a two termer, and the
bulls always keep after me. I'd get
the whole mission pinched if l did any
thing else but clean up the place.
That's my job, sir. I'm the janitor."
1t was in the late fall when this hap
pened. Gottlieb felt the hands of his
friend grow cold. He left the body as
a nurse came and made record for
her report of the transition of the
evangelist. He went to a window and
looked out into the fleecy, tumbling
sky. He told himself that he would
meet his friend again some time, some
where, somehow He had come to be-
lieve in the promises of God.
"Well, Santa Claus!' voice sounded
in his ears. "Why not come down.
stairs with me and have cup of teal"
The nurse had come to offer, as best
she could, her sympathy.
A little, paunchy dominic, with round
checks and diploma from semina-
rial institution, endeavored to take up
the work.
One day the mission doors were
locked, and Jerry Gottlieb stood on the
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-12-22

dead friend of the mission had trans
mitted to him would serve the thief
well. He was very hungry and very
cold, but one lesson had been driven
into him along with the lesson Of faith.
1t rang with hope, and his dead friend
had ever had it ON his lips. From the
book of Isaiah 1t came:
Fear thou not. for am with thee;
be not dismayed, for l am thy God;
will strengthen thee; yea, l will help
thee; yea, will uphold thee with the
right hand of my righteousness"
Another temptation came to him, this
time from the sly, sandy mustached
person who had been ever at his heels
since his release from Sing Sing, the
headquarters detective whose business
it was to watch those who had sinned,
had paid for their sin and who might
be expected to sin again. The detec-
tive wanted him for stool pigeon.
Gottlieb, alias Santa Claus, as he was
now known to the police, refused, was
arrested as a vagrant and sent to
Blackwell's island for thirty days.
"When you change your mind" his
shadow informed him, "send me word"
There was no change of mind and
Gottlieb served his thirty days, a
month of somewhere to sleep and some
thing to eat He came out on the eve
of Christmas and once again started
his hunt for corner to lie In and
chance to pay for it, He managed to
earn a dime that morning by helping
an overloaded home going shopper get
aboard an elevated train with his bund
les. He invested half of his capital in
shoestrings-ten pairs. The retail price
is 5 cents pair.
The laughing holiday swarm from the
skyscrapers, all burdened with Christ
mas gifts, all gay with the spirit of the