The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-01-02
Two Miles on Chickasha-Cement Oil Fields
Highways Did Not Yield Readily
to Treatment
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MEN UNUSED TO MANUAL
LABOR ACT AS VETERANS
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Biggest Days Work in Road Building Ever
Accomplished in Grady County and
Everyone is jolly

with the exception of two miles
we ought to be able to get the entir
eleven miles in reasonably good shap
today" said c. M. Hollingswortf
commander-in-chief of the campaign
in progress on the Chickasha- Cemen
Oil Fields Highway, this morning pri
or to his departure for the scene o
operations for the second days ses
sion of the road building bee
"Of course, there will be lots O
dragging to do and many other finish
ing touches, as well as few eXcep
tionally bad places which will require
more attention but the heavy part ol
the work will be completed today" he
added. 1--WE are very much pleased
with the manner in which the yolun
teers responded and the splendid ser
vice rendered by captains and pri
Yates, both from the city and from the
country
a Big Days Work.
1t is " agreed that January
| saw ~ transaction of the biggest
days business in the road building
line ever recorded in Grady county,
Dut to some delay in the arrival OF
men, tFams and equipment on several
miles, the work did not get well I'M
der way before noon but everybody
kept busy till the close of the day.
This morning number of workers and
the leaders of the expedition from
Chickasha joined farmers along the
line in the completion Of the work. A
number OF itinerant laborers were en-
ployed with funds contributed by
those who were unable to spare the
time to give personal service.
All Captains on Duty.
According to the official report of
Gen. Hollingsworth, all the captains
were on duty yesterday From the
city these were M. f. Courtney, T. H.
Dwyer, l.. G. Hutson, j. e. Schow, w,
H. Donahue, VIM. Inman, Roy Smith
Herb Powell, j. A. Temple, J. A. Rob
inson, Edgar Cowan, Prof. Morrow
and r. A. Thompson, of Ninnekah.
From the rural districts came Cap
tains Payton, Geo. Rider, Rile Doss,
H, A. Bloss, Webb, Nelson, B. Thomp-
son and Geo. Thomas, the Norge mer-
chant.
Barring a shortage Of scrapers
here and there and an occasional ar
gument between captains seeking to
"swipe' each others men or equip
ment, the first days operations were
carried out without a hitch. Near
hostilities were threatened when Capt
Donahue commandeered a tractor
which had been assigned to Capt
Schow but after some negotiations the
argument was settled without any
break in diplomatic relations. Incl
dentally, Capt. Schow made the Off
cial announcement this morning that
every man who failed to report to him
would be required to pay the price Of
a days labor.
Worked Like Veterans.
On some parts of the road it was
necessary to use powder and dyna-
mite to blast out the rocks while in
other places axes and grubbing hoes
we're brought into requisition to re-
move stumps. The doctors, business
men and others unaccustomed TO
manual labor handled picks. shovels
and scrapers like veterans. Plenty of
good humor was used in lubricating
the muscles Of the volunteers. Late in
the afternoon when Dr. W. A. Liver
more drove past gang,- going out to
bring a load of workers back to town,
Dud Roland yelled, DOC, you'll have
to cut out a dozen or two appendices
tomorrow" and the doctor answered,
eyes, and all of them will be in the
back"
Marking Guide Posts.
Included in the gang going out today
were a number of the high school boys
who did valiant service yesterday.
While the work was in progress
yesterday, John Crib, in a car driven
nv VIM Rpinheimer want nvar fha