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oKoLoNA. MISSISSIPPI THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 27 1871
Our Soldier Boys.

We publish below a Roster OF
Honor Roll. of the men of Okolo
ma and vicinity, who have enlist.
ed in the army and navy of the
United States, since the declara-
ton of war. We believe this
Roll will compare favorably with
any portion of our State per
capita and we know it will as to
quality. It's an evidence of the
loyalty and patriotism of our
community. There are no slack
ers here. There are no traitors
amongst u.s. who would stab the
United States in the back.
This Honor Roll will be kept in
the Okolona library, as a heritage
for future generations of Okolo-
ma citizens to refer to with pride.
We have tried to have it COM
plete, but will cheerfully make
any proper corrections or addi-
tions.
H. B. LACEY.
Prest. Library Association.
ROSTER.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
DR.. A. F. Wicks, 1st Lieut..
DR.. E. @. Withers.
Sidney Glass.
J. T. Mckinley.
]. G. Luper.
UNITED STATEsREGULARs.
Floyd Johnson, Private.
ENGINEER CORPS.
Clyde Staples.
NATIONAL GUARDS.
Joe Nix, Private 1st Miss.
Joel Gale 0'Neal, Private 1st
Miss.
George E. Allen, 1st Lieut.. End
Miss.
W. Clifford Chandler, Sergt.
End Miss.
Harry McEvilly, Private End
Miss.
Milton A. Caven, Private End
Miss.
Luther Abernathy, Private End
Miss.
Herman Cole, Sergt. End Miss.
Earnest Conner, Private End
Miss.
Robert King, Sergt. End Miss.
Robert Brewster, Sergt. End
Miss.
Harry Wortz, Private End Miss.
Paul B. Berry. Sergt. End
Miss.
John Dale Sansom, Sergt. End
Miss.
Arthur Prather, Private End
Miss.
Eugene Prather. Private End
Miss.
ARTILLERY.
Robert Allen Dean, Sefgt. Bat
terry F.
John Kyle Lyons. Corporal
Battery F.
Edward Smith, Private Battery |
F.
Avis Smith Private Battery F. |
Hosea P. Herndon Private
B lttery F.
Harry Boyles, Sergt. Battery F
Thomas Pogue. Private Bat
terry F.
AVIATION CORPS
VIM. G. Morrison.
Clanton Sansom.
Ray Whiteside.
COAST ARTILLERY
Claude Woodin.
MARINE HOSPITAL CORPS
A. 7. Stovall, Jr.
Albert Richardson.
Jeff L. Rubel.
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The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-09-15

!, There is man in Duluth who,
during the past fifty years, has
seen the lowest sinks Of immoral
ity in Paris, London, New York
and Chicago, to say nothing OF
score of lesser cities. He recently
said:
"In all my life, in all MY trav.
els and in all my many expert
ences, I never have seen anything
as low, rotten, vulgar, disgusting
and morally demoralizing as the
burlesque performances at the
Savoy theatre.
With thanks to the News Trib-
une, the Rip-saw here reprints
that portion Of the Grand Jury's
report as published in the morn
ing paper, Friday, Sept. IA, viz:
"Your grand jury visited the
Savoy theater on Monday eve
ming, Sept. 10, 1917, and found
that the moving pictures were
fine, but the vaudeville which i'm
mediately followed, was, to say
the least, of a very low and de-
grading nature, and totally unfit
for women and children to hear,
says a section Of the report Of the
Septemer grand jury filed yester-
day with District Judge H. A.
Dancer. The report is signed by
H. j. Pineo, foreman of the jury.
"Reviewing the performance
witnessed by the grand jurors
Monday, the report devotes sew.
eral paragraphs to the action and
dialogue Of the vaudeville por-
tion of the program
Continuing, the report reads
"'In short, the vaudeville part
of the show, from beginning to
end, was along this line, and was
entirely unfit for women, girls
and young boys to either hear or
see.
+" 'The only women present last
evening were those that were on
the stage, and the piano player,
but your grand jury is reliably
informed that on Saturdays this
place is crowded with boys and
girls in their teens, and the songs,
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would certify that trackage for
assessment and county auditor
Halden, being ace high on the
board Of equalization, would
knock it off, thereby saving the
payment Of a goodly number of
dollars in taxes by the down
tordden public service corpora
tion.
It came to pass that assessor
Scott was away; that deputy Ja-
coby was in charge Of the office
and that a brand new reporter
"covered" the city hall for the
News Tribune.
Deputy assessor Jacoby, with
malice afore-thought, gave the
new reporter a somewhat sensa-
tional story about that stretch OF
500 Line track and it's ability to
get off the tax rolls. In some
way, the reporters article passed
the various desks in the News
Tribune editorial rooms. It ere
ated some Juror the next morn
ing.
Down to the city hall came
county auditor Halden and then
the local attorney Of the 500
Line, seeking to learn how the in
side information got out and how
to counteract it's escape. When
assessor Scott returned, he hard
ly knew where he was at but he
stood pat on his deputy's indie,
pendent action.
Some fears have been expressed
that the Rip-saw would run out
of true stories from the life and
official transactions of the dear
old King Of the Courthouse
There is no danger Of that. Those
stories are legion. 1t would take
a book as large as Webster's full
grown dictionary to hold even
the best Of them. Then, too, SO
long as Konge Odin remains on
the courthouse throne he will be
making history all the time, ably
aided by his faithful old prime
minister. When you get to tell.
ing stories Of the dear old King
you hardly know when or where
to stop. just one more, dear old
| citizen.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-09-15

Konge Odin overlooks no bets.
Many a rubber tire has been worn
from the wheels of county We
ihcles as they toured the hinter-
land on political missions among
the natives. Many a gallon of
gasoline has been burned up on
political trips that benefited the
King Of the Courthouse and his
friends more than the plain peo-
pie who pay the taxes that buy
the gasoline.
One time the janitor in the
courthouse who ordinarily did up
the bundles Of election supplies
for the rural voting precincts was
sick, away, or off on some special
mission. Another chap was
brought up from the basement of
the courthouse and commanded
to help the King get off the sup
plies.
In every package Of election
supplies was placed a generous
bundle of election cards, public
ity dope and all that, boosting
and booming the one and only
Odin Halden for county auditor,
but, strange to relate, not a sin
gle card, pamphlet or leaflet,
boosting some other official was
enclosed, not even a card Of G.
H. Vivian who is a fellow COM
missioner on the board that con-
trolls the management of the mar
ble-lined courthouse.
The foxy old King went on the
principle that "There wont be no
core in this little apple.''
A little story Of how and why
some of the Big Interests feel un-
| der "great obligation" to Mr.
Halden was told in the presence
of the Rip-saw's head sawyer the
| other day.
It seems that the 500 Line built
a track in 1910 that ran from
Eighth avenue West to West Du-
futh. The track was On a strip
that had been condemned and on
which various buildings stood
here and there, but said track
was not used.
Each year city assessor Scott
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-09-15

HVen the Grand Jury Of the
kindly old county of St. Louis has
found out that the Savoy theatre
at No. % East Superior St., Art.
Abelson, manager, is a moral
smut mill.
The Rip-saw knew this months
ago and told the public about it.
The city commissioners knew
about it. Commissioner Silber-
stein knew all about it for he con-
fesses that he told the manager to
"tame down" his performances.
The long and short Of it is that
the cheeky Son of Jerusalem who
manages the joint "needed the
mazuma" and Onkel Bernard evi-
IDENTIFY was willing to wink and
wiggle and smirk while the rotten
place was running.
Mayor Magney was told Of the
filthy place. He slipped in there
one evening. He hardly had
seated himself before a runty lit
tie attache Of the joint saw him,
hoped up, ran out and gave the
alarm. For the remainder of that
performance. nothing worse than
"prunes and prisms" came out of
the ordinarily foul mouths Of the
actors and actorines.
Then came street rumors that
the place had been fumigated,
morally, and that nasty stuff had
been 50 effectively expurgated
that even respectable women and
children could attend.
According to the report Of the
Grand Jury and some personal re-
ports, that street information was
entirely false: Just a short time
ago, a Rip-saw friend was there
and found that the performance
was as filthy and rotten as ever.
One stunt was that in which cul-
tured, Observation-Disclosures very
much refined actress took q teIe-
phone receiver and attempted to
give an exhibition of a stallion in
a livery barn.
It made the old goats howl with
laughter. =.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-09-15
BOOZE and BEER BANISHED BY BALLOT

Four years ago, if the Rip-saw
mistakes not, the county commits
sioners clamored for bigger sal
aries. Good old senator Adams
was given the task of bringing
about bigger pay for the compla-
cent commissioners.
There was little meeting of
the commissioners to discuss ways
and means and to figure out
which senator or representative
should be seen by this commits
sioner or that commissioner.
"How about Borgen?'' inquired
one Of King Odin's tame pets.
"Just leave my dear old Nor
wegian friend Anton to me-" ex-
claimed the King Of the Court
house with that bland smile and
that kingly wave of the royal
hand.
The commissioners did so and,
thereby, the beans were nearly
spilled. They found out that the
more they left the "dear old Nor
wegian friend Anton" to his
King, the more stubborn and off,
ish he got. They had to call off
the King and put a commissioner
in charge Of representative Bor-
oan
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-09-15

sayings and jibes cannot do any.
thing else but leave very bad
impression on their minds.
90 The grand jury recommend
that the vaudeville features OF
this theater be closed, and the Ii
cense for vaudeville be re-
voked. ,"
In that news article, the News
Tribune further said, viz:
commissioner Silberstein said
last night that the grand jury re,
port will be given careful consid,
Grafton.
"'I have tried in every way to
keep vulgarity out of the vaude.
vile performances Of the the
aters,' he said.
"'I have warned the proprie
tor of the Savoy more than once
tc "tame down" his perform.
ances. 1 intend to look into this
matter very thoroughly. We will
probably take the matter up al
the council meeting next Mon
day.
"Art Abelson, manager Of the
Savoy, said last night: 1T was
contrary to orders that any dia.
logue, such as the grand jury re.
ports, should have taken place
Once in a while an actor takes oc-
casion to say something of his
own accord, not a part Of the
manuscript furnished by us. In
the present instance we have dis
charged several members of our
company for such action.
"'We have acceded to the re,
quests made by Commissioner Sill
berstein and the chief Of police
with reference to the show after
their visit on several occasions. 1t
is our aim to present nothing but
clean entertainment. , -
Citizens who are wise in their
generation declare and believe
that both Commissioner Silber.
stein and Manager Abelson speak
in a Pickwickian sense in the fore
going statements.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-09-15

Tuesday, September 4, county
auditor Halden and a bunch Of the
county commissioners were arrest
ed for contempt Of court. The
complaint was made by P. A. Nc
Eachin Of Hibbing and the war
rants were issued by Judge Mar
tin Hughes Of Hibbing. Septem-
Der %, at Virginia, county auditor
Halden and the bunch of county
commissioners will be required to
appear and show cause why they
should not be punished.
Aside from county auditor Hal
den, the county commissioners are
involved as follows, viz: Alex Fra
ser, T. H. Little, Walter S. Swan
strom, u. S. Grant McMahan, R.
S. O'Neil, Charles Penttila and
Joseph Becks. The alleged con-
tempt was committed when some
of the present members Of the
board were not yet commissioners
and had no thought Of 50 being.
+, The complaint alleges that on
December 81, 1912, Judge Hughes
lordered the construction Of ju-
dicial highway in townships SIS,
Sc and 81, on the line dividing
Itasca and st. Louis counties. On
January 6, 1913, the order was
served on the county of st. Louis.
On January 4, 1913, the order also
was served on Itasca county. The
township Of Stuntz was served
with the order on January 10. The
township Of Nashwauk, Greenway
and Goodland, in Itasca county,
were served on the same date. The
road never has been constructed,
as ordered. Mr.. McEachin's allie
cations are, viz:
! That the county Of st. Louis
and it's board Of county commits
sioners as a board and as indi-
viduals are guilty of contempt OF
court in this proceeding in that
they have disobeyed the order OF
the court in the following respects:
: That the board has failed to act
! together with the town board OF
rGreenway to determine the method
of building the six miles of high
way described by the court order;
that the county board and town
of Greenway have failed to build
any part of the road; that the
county board has failed to act to-
gether with the town of Goodland
and has failed to build any part
of the road in that territory.
When Mr.. McEachin made COM
plant, Judge Freeman's term OF
court was in session at Virginia,
therefore Judge Hughes asked
him to issue the papers called for
but, after celebrating several
days, he declined to do so and
"passed the buck'' back to Judge
Hughes who then signed the order.
G. E. Adams, special county at
torney, is expected to represent
the county and it's officials who
are charged with being in con-
tempt Of Judge Hughes court. 1t
already has been reported that he
has outlined defense for county
auditor Halden, therefore the
King of the Courthouse may not
have to 60 into durance vile, as
has his contemporary, Car Mich
olas of Russia, and as all loyal
Americans hope will be the fate
of Kaiser Wilhelm.
If Konge Odin does not punish
Judge Hughes for lese majeste,
it is not impossible that, when
His Honor runs for reelection to
the district bench, the royal IN
cumbent Of the throne in the
marble-lined courthouse will dec
crate him with one Of those dead
ly Double Crosses.
Stranger" things have happened
in the political history Of kindly
old St. Louis county.
Vhe Mesaba Ore, published st
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-09-15

Hibbing by C. M. Atkinson, in
Inmates very plainly that the fail
ure to build this road and there
by comply with judicial order
may have been a sort Of punish
ment inflicted on the residents
of that part Of St. Louis county
because they failed to vote in the
past in accordance with the COM
mands Of the Courthouse King.
Such things as that have hap
pened in dear old St. Louis coun-
, ty, as many citizens can testify.
Talking about methods Of the
Courthouse King brings to mind
some Of the tricks practiced
around election time. In various
campaigns, many members Of the
county auditors force have been
commanded to 60 forth to make
medicine and doctor certain
| symptoms over the old county
that looked dangerous to the well
fare Of the throne. These servi-
TORS had to git up and 60, un-,
der penalty Of dismissal, al
| though they frequently had to
campaign against personal friends
and personal convictions.
To take the place of absent
members Of the regular staff, the
city was combed here and there,
even to the extent Of getting stu
dents from the local business col
leges, picking out those, who
seemed to have many friends and
kinfolks. They were set to work
and encouraged to work politics
out of office hours.
CHOW you do your best while
here and, perhaps, Mr.. Halden
will be so pleased with your work
that a steady position will be
given you," an auditorial straw
|,boss would say.
The poor, unsophisticated flies
in the Old Spiders web usually
would work like Trojans. They
also would labor hard with all
their personal friends and kim
folks, thereby expecting to fur
ther their chances for a perma-
nent job in the dear old court
house. -, t-..,.--,.l.-.
After election, the Courthouse
King is represented as calling in
his deputy and saying:
"Fire this bunch and get the
old clerks back to work. [ am
going to st. Paul for a week."
The straw boss in the auditor s
office would fire the substitutes
and put the old force back to
work. The substitutes would be
surprised, disappointed and even
sore. They would await the
Kings return and then ask him
how it came that no job was given
them.
"Now, old man. the Court
house King would say, with that
bland, soothing smile Of his, II
have been away a week at St.
Paul and I know nothing Of what
has been going on here. I'll look
into this matter. Just leave it
to me-
In due course the poor sucker
would come back, only to be told
that Konge Odin had been too
busy to look into the matter but
that he would do so.
"Just leave that to me, old
man," he would exclaim, with
a royal wave Of the kingly hand.
After a few times of that, the
poor sucker would charge up his
time and efforts to experience
and never show up again. For
the remainder of his life time,
however, he would have a decor
alton Of the deadly Double
Cross to show his friends.
l =
i When it comes to- campaigning.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-09-15

Old John Barleycorn has been
banished from st. Louis county
by a majority vote of about 3,625.
With the discredited citizen will
60 his younger brothers, beer and
light wines. The people passed
sentence at the election held last
Monday, September 10.
The white man brought John
Barleycorn to st. Louis county
when there were no political Or
CARNATIONS and when the Indians
and moose trod the trails. He
has gone from bad to worse,
through the long years, until his
presence no longer can be toler-
ated.
Six months hence, after three
fair trials by the voters, the re-
jected old citizen will have to
pack up in all st. Louis county
and move to Superior, where he
will endcavor to walk on both
sides Of the street at the same
time and pose as that city's most
popular citizen.
There was nothing doubtful
about last Mondays victory for
the dry people. Every single city
and village in St. Louis county
went dry. The most enthusiastic
dry advocate hardly expected a
result so sweeping.
Duluth cast about two-thirds
as many votes as at the municipal
election last spring. The spring
vote was over $4,000. Only 1861
votes were cast last Monday. Of
those, the dry side received 1868
and the wet side 1886, giving the
dry cause a majority Of TOT. The
dry percentage of the entire vote
was not so high as in the spring
election.
The city Of Virginia went dry
by a vote of 2 to 1. There were
LII dry votes cast and 578 wet
ones, making majority Of 593
for the dry cause.
The time of the council meet
ings at Virginia, for many weeks,
has been taken up heavily with
business and chickering's over sa-
looms. The people then decided to
end that unsatisfactory condition.
There are. forty-two saloons in
that city but their lease Of life is
only six months.
Bull, the noisiest wet village,
perhaps, in all St. Louis county,
went dry. Hibbing, the Richest
Village in the World, went dry.
Winton, with seven saloons, cast
only seven wet votes, not even
the bartenders standing by old
John Barleycorn.
Up at bonnie little Brookston,
where the people hate unsuccess-
fully battled against booze for
years, the vote went against the
saloons. Chisholm, although claim
ing dull times because of the In
dian lid, proved place Of much
principle by voting out the saloon
in the entire county.
As these lines are written, the
canvassing board has not quite
finished it's work, therefore the
foregoing figures may be changed
a trifle. But the outcome cannot
vary many votes in the entire
county.
There were the usual features
and incidents of the campaign to
cause amusement, disgust or even
anger. The Doodle wagon of the
breweries was judiciously run
over the ranges and through the
city but no great flood Of money
was let loose. Financial stimula-
ton was passed out through the
spigot, rather than through the
bung Of the brewers barl.
Full page advertisements ap-
peared in nearly every paper in
the county, boosting the wet
cause. Some Of those advertise.
ments pointed out that if ths
county went dry, it would be i'm
possible to ship booze into the
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-09-15

A few of the directors of the
Duluth Commercial Club some
time ago expressed the opinion
that, the eaitor--of the Rip-saw
should be arrested and the paper
suppressed. These Hidden Hands
are very sensitive, touchy and in,
tolerant members of the body
polite.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-09-15

No one ever really believes esti-
mates of the Polk Directory ar
lists as to the population Of Du-
luth but the generosity shown in
handing out figures makes a
genial, kindly feeling all along
the line.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-09-15

county because of the federal
laws. That one argument seemed
to be expected to stampede the
boys to the wet side. 0 1t failed to
move them.
Many crocodile tears were shed
by the wet managers over what
the poor miners on the iron
ranges would do for their beer
and light wines, with red liquor
for a chaser. 1t was pointed out
that they were accustomed to
such drinks in the old country
and could not be contented with
American coffee and st. Louis
county water. The voters seemed
to feel that if those poor miners,
who came over here for American
high wages and a higher plane of
living than in the old country,
could not endure the loss of their
stimulants, they could pack back
to the old country.
The Virginia Trades & Labor
Assembly came out as body in
support of booze but no favorable
results Of that act can be seen.
The wet cause was handled in
the name of the st. Louis County
Citizens League. Just who the
men were in that organization,
there is no published evidence but
the man in charge Of the Doodle
barl is suspected of being a
prominent member of the legal
department of one of the local
breweries.
The heaviest credit for dry re-
suits naturally belongs to the
County Dry Committee, with
headquarters at Virginia. There
was city organization in Duluth
and Duluth patriots probably
made up in cash contributions
what they failed to secure in local
results. Among the County Dry
Committee were the following,
viz:
G. E. Hendrick, chairman, F. L.
Smith, DR.. G. w. Bray, w. G.
Mitchell, E. N. Edes, NJ. A. Muir
ply, w. H. Harvey, Fred John
son, Frank Crassweller, Guy E.
Warren, Conrad Mattson, w. L.
Smithies, Elmer F. Blu, w. S.
Moore.
State senator Richard Jones
had charge Of the practical work
Of the committee with headquar-
ters in Virginia. He worked night
and day and added heavily to his
former reputation as an organizer
and worker who gets results. If
ally man in the dry organization
more than earned his salary,
senator Jones was the one.
Under the law, the county will
60 dry just six months after the
date of filing the certificate of
election by the canvassing board.
That board undoubtedly will fin
ish it's work this week. If the
certificate Of election is filed
today, then Old John Barleycorn
will have to move out of the coun-
ty March Is, 1918. The members
Of the canvassing board are R. S.
O'Neil, president Of the board Of
county commissioners; j. O.
Walker, deputy county auditor;
James A. Wharton and Austin L.
Lathers, local lawyers.
Through this vote Of the peo-
pie, the popular song with the
tipplers henceforth will be:
Good bye, beer and whiskey!
Farewell, rock and rye!
We will meet you in Superior,
Now that the County's gone dry.