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The Pulaskian., 1917-12-28

of the Big Maumelle. Oh! how de- lightful was it then to be on a small holly tree with so many of his kin folks that they kept it bent down until it grew parallel to the ground just high enough up however to be out of reach of old Brer Wolf As he thought of those good old days he resolved great resolution. Said he, "I will put in this entire day inviting every flock of my kinfolks I can find to spend the night with me here and I will tell them of the good old days, before the white men found our glorious Santa Claus Land"
 That night from far and near came the kinfolks of Gran Dad Gobler to visit him. There were just even two dozen full fioeks and enough of soli- tary old maids and bachelor and child less married couples (from the cities) to make another flock Listening to Gran Dad Coolers tales of the happy days of old. Towards daylight they rendered him vote of thanks and begged him to select one from each flock and one of the old bachelors to go with him as body guard to the scenes of childhood so dear to him.
 Gran Dad Gobler consented, but only on condition that he cause big snow to fall. So on Thursday, Decem. Der the sixth, there commenced to fall the biggest snow seen in years in this fair land of Pulaski, so early in the season, and the weather was colder than the weather man ever knew it to be before Christmas It was so cold that the Arkansas river froze over and people walked across it on the ice near the mouth of the Little Mau- melle.
 When the snow got so deep and the weather got so cold that Gran Dad Gobler was sure no hunters would be in the woods, he with his body guard of 25 goblers, (the biggest goblers in the mountains) started for the scenes of his childhood. Before starting, however, Gran Dad Gobler addressed his kin and said, We are going into the home of your fathers and many white men live near by it so I am going to cast about each of you an anti-bullet sphere. In this sphere no missile from the thunder sticks of men can come, so if one shoot at us none can hit us and we will all return safe to our dear ones"
 It was we'll for the 25 goblers that Gran Dad Cooler did so protect them for there lived on the north bank of the Big Maumelle a. poor renter who laised only five hundred dollars worth of cotton, three hundred dollars worth of corn, 25 bushels of sweet potatoes, some beans, peanuts and other things and some hogs to his part and he had a little baby girl named Lillian, and he had no meat so he said, q will go to the woods across the Big Maumelle and kill the baby a rabbit. He went and saw the 25 turkey gob- lers. He got close up to them and he shot and he shot at them and though he generally killed what he shot at, he could not hit a turkey, but he won dered why. When he found them the goblers had just finished their prepa-
The Pulaskian., 1917-12-28

beautiful hens. In my transformed state I could enter into the spirit of the occasion with understanding.
 When we arrived at the wonderful holly grove it's three or four acres of the most wonderful and beautiful hol- ly trees I have ever seen were all alight with thousands of the most beautiful subdued lights ever saw. It was fox fire and you know that keeps the foxes, wolves and other varmints all away so that the turkeys had nothing to fear There were thou sands of turkeys there, more than I ever saw before. They could not be counted, they could only be measured. Standing close together there were three acres of them. This article is getting so long that I am afraid the editor might not print it if I told all saw and I am so excited that I am afraid l might exaggerate a little bit, hut I must just tell you that they had lots of pin oak acorns which the little turkeys made their main dish,
 
 ory nuts so little sthat the turkeys could eat them whole and there were red haws and turkey berries for des- sert. The turkeys are very fond Of them, but oh! it was so Imaginable when the turkeys came to where the ground was all covered with red dog wood berries and started to eat them. Grand Ma Turkey was at the lead and told them they were not fit to eat, nothing used them but drunken old turkey goblers. "O,' said Gran Dad Gobler, what great times we used to have nere of Christmas Still House Creek takes it's name from the still that used to be up on Still House Mountain Away before Christmas each year we used to float down a bar i'll it up with the red dog wood ber- ries and a dram of these bitters sure kept us old fellows feeling fine for our spring work, but now prohibition has carried in Arkansas and the good old days are gone never to return again.
 But he lifted the cover of a hollow stump and believe me there was brought from some mountain still whole keg of cherry bark and dogwood berry bitters and what time we gob- lers did have until my sweetheart and the other old hens discovered us and put an end to our merry making. So you see the female species of turkeys and fairies are very much like the hu- man specie. The tale should not end here, but I guess the Wandering Fairy as she always does will tell Dorothy Grace Bruce Beck about it and we will yet get to read her version of the Turkeys Christmas tree which will be
The Pulaskian., 1917-12-28

rations for the greatest home coming of turkeys ever known. The hunter told about his experience and people told me about what a disappointment the hunter had met with over at the old turkey roost. When they told me about the wonderful turkey roost l put cn my rubber shoes, my overcoat and pulled my cap down over my ears and started to see it at once. You see they told me about it just as I finish ed my breakfast is the reason I acted so promptly. I wanted to get back in time for dinner.
The Pulaskian., 1917-12-28
lueh more interesting than my ac-

much more interesting than my ac- count.
 If you like fairy stories, the Pea Ridge Pod mans truthful accounts of what he sees in old Pulaski county and just across the line in. other coun- ties, send me one dollar care of The Pulaslzian, Little Rock, and you shall be able to read them all through 1918, the German Kaiser permitting.
The Pulaskian., 1917-12-28
A. w. MILLING TO FRANKLIN.

A. w. Milling, of Mabelvale, has been elected county farm demonstra- tor of Franklin county He is a na- tive of Denmark, has been naturaliz- ed and is thoroughly Americanized He is not only an expert agriculturist but also an eloquent speaker.
The Pulaskian., 1917-12-28
GRAND DAD GoBLER VISITS THE SCENES OF HIS CHILDHOOD, OR
 THE LITTLE TURKEYS CHRIST

{Written by The Pod Man for his little Pulaski county friends.)
 Last year at this time I was print ing the Pea Ridge Pod I bought holly and decorated the big front windows of the Pod office with it. This year I visited the old home of Grand Dad Gobler Gle, you know, is the Santa Claus of the little turkeys) where he prepared the nice things for the young turkeys stockings and Christmas trees. As positive proof of the truth fitness Of this story | have brought back an armful of the beautiful bright green leafed branches with liberal supply of the beautiful red holly Der Pulaskian office with request that the presiding fairy of that office de corate at least the editors window with them.
 Also last year l had a fairy editress who edited one page of the Pod each week She wrote such lovely fairy stories that they should be printed again and then put in a book. She was only seven years old when she com menced writing these stories and 1 have lots of them written in her baby ish handwriting and if you were to see them you would be right sure that she had just commenced learning to write. How she commenced to write them was the fairies showed her so much of themselves and their beauti, their beautiful and helpful deeeds that she just had to tell other children about them. When 1 quit printing the Pod she was over twelve years old and her stories had begun to take on d would be grown-up tendency and talk about sweethearts and beauxs. As to who she is I am going to leave you in delicious, malicious, mysterious doubt but her name is Dorothy Grace Bruce Beck.
 She wrote bne nice little poem, the Wandering Fairy. in which sine told me this most beautiful and wilful of all the fairies had been detailed by them to watch over the Pod and had taken up her abode in a rock fountain just across the street from the Pod office in a park. I must have left Si loam Springs when the Wandering Fairy was away from her post of duty and she has just found me or else she has been guiding me on my wander ings and has just now made herself known to me as my fairy guardian and this is how came to be led into the Santa Claus land of the turkeys.
 One day along about December 1, 1917, Gran Dad Gobler found a big holly tree in a deep gulch in the mountains south of the Big Maumelle, about twenty miles northwest of Lit tie Rock. It at once reminded him of his childhood days and home and he called up memories of the big fiocks of turkeys who roasted with him iu tho holly frppc On Ina roufb hanlz
The Pulaskian., 1917-12-28

old turkey roost When they told me about the wonderful turkey roost l put cn my rubber shoes, my overcoat and pulled my cap down over my ears and started to see it at once. You see they told me about it just as I finish. ed my breakfast is the reason l acted so promptly. I wanted to get back in time for dinner.
 Well, started from the Stewart farm and went east to the northeast corner, then turned south down a road along side of the east fence, crossed Still House Creek and kept along the road until it began to bear off to the east then I turned to my right and crossed Still House Creek again this time on one of the three big logs across it, close enough together to have been placed there for bridge and I suppose Gran Dad Gobler had crossed them many a time himself. After this I soon came to the Big Maumelle The banks were very high and very steep here, but l was in a trail and found it led to a going down place, but it was awful slippery, for the snow was just thawing. 1 took hold of a bush and slid and caught the next one and the next one and so on until I got down into the bed of the river There was a small drift in the creek here, but very little water. Above here though the Big Maumelle is like a good sized river and is thirty feet deep That's the reason I had to go such a roundabout way though the turkey roost was just across from the place I started from. Then when 1 got to the other bank I found it just as high and just as steep and heap slicker and slippery, and you know a person can't slide nor slip up hill, but there were canes growing along the bank and I caught hold of some of them and pulled myself up part or the way, then I caught hold of more and pulled myself higher until I got up, and then will you believe me, there was cane growing everywhere
 
 some not so high and some fifteen feet high. Such nice place for the cows to graze and still nicer place for the turkeys to hide and for the wolves to slip up on them. I went through the cane wondering what would come next and then came to a brushy strip, then I saw a few little scrubby holly trees with awful green leaves and awful red berries on them. Then the holly got thicker and bigger until I came to where there were nothing much but holly trees from twelve inches in dia- meter down, with so many green leaves on them that the sun could not shine through and the snow could not fall through and you could not see through into the tops of them and this is where the turkeys loved to roost in the old days.
 I looked around and walked around and drank in the beauties of this love ly Christmas scene, with the white snow on the ground in places, but none under the thick leaved holly trees.
 Now have told the truth and writ ten nothing but the truth about what ! have seen and you can see, if you are from Missouri, that it is the truth, for is not the arm full of holly I gath cred in the Pulaskian office, and is not the river Maumelle and the cane and the holly trees in all their calm green and red beauty still to be seen just at the rear of the Stewart farm house. but on the other side of the. river?
The Pulaskian., 1917-12-28

retraced my steps and again came to the place where I pulled up the bank of the Big Maumelle. I had one arm full of holly and every briar and every bush I had passed had tried to take it away from me, but 1 had got ten it safe this far and I must get it to it's destination, for is it not the proof of my visit to the turkey roost and of the turkey roost itself. I had a hard pull up the bank, but I was destined to get down easier. I caught hold of rattan vine and found a. "safer first" place to go down and started down. The vine did not break, but my feet slipped from under me. The soft, slippery stuff was not thick enough to soften the hardness of the hard underlying ice, rock or steel, but it was wet enough and muddy enough to dirty the seat of my pants when I sat down on it and it was hard enough when I hit it to make my head ache for half day.
 When I climbed over the Stewart rail fence I left mark that made 1t irok like a hog just out of wallow erossed there. "But never mind,
 2 sweet, small ovice say, it
 If when it gets dry" I
 Id I saw the beautiful
 being I ever saw, sitting
 ecting folds of corn husk
 corn stalk.
 said she, "am the Wandering faiF your protecting genii and Well" said I, q am awful glad to meet you, Wandering Fairy, and a 'nousand times grateful to you for your care.''
 Well" said she, f'here I am to transform you into a turkey gobler and to be your sweetheart while We visit the turkeys Christmas occasion Be sure to be here at dusk Christmas eve,' and with that she departed. l Christmas eve I was waiting at the appointed place and promptly on time came the Wandering Fairy. She touched me with her magic wand and i was at once the most wonderful turkey gobler ever saw while she became the most wonderful of all
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-06-20
Mu$s1la - ''sxar
FROM OIL AHoMA Stare COUNCIL OF DEFENSE

Oklahoma - awakening ~ the tact
that America is al war We showed
II when we flooded banks with sub
,CrrpuonS to the lbcrty loan m the
eleventh hour and over subscribed our
quota
We were asked merely 20 lend our
money last week, AT lair rate oi in.
'"rc>t and with the best security IN
the world behind it We will be asked
~ give soon We will give Of our
time and money We will give OF on
family and friends; many ot rs Will
give with our lives
We are fighting a defensive war just
as truly as il the TcuronS were already
devastating the trpld, OF Oklahoma in
stead OF the fields OF Alsacc Lorraine
Had Prussian science found a method
oi coping with the British navy Won
liiudcnburg'S generals might already
be plotting systematic destruction ior
America as they have plotted and eN-
ccuted systematic destruction over
Europe.
They have hoasrd that America VII
pay We mus, pay And We can either
pas the price ot victory AND freedom
or We ard our children will pay the
.nr'-c ~ defeat.
What We must do now is to shoulder
the task ot the struggle. throw the tull
weight oi our strength and resources
behind our government and stop the
ioll-of destruction and death lust rs
quickly as possible
The longer We wait TO do this, the
fewer Of our sons will return The
louder may be the cry oi women for
food
Those who can Join the colors now
should go. The regular army is calling
ior men The navy is calling Tor them
Even our own national guard IS IOO
men short oi war strength
But those who go to the front, al
though they make the greatest Sacri
icc light only half the battle Nations
are fighting now, not armies merely
The farmer IS fighting Tor his coun
try when he produces an extra buShe'
II grain. the mother when she saves an
ounce OF bread the laborcr when he
leaves task we'll done. the office man
when hls increased efficiency releases
another Tor the front, the factory OF
! the farm
Keep Business Going.
The war will not stop business Il
must not We must produce, tranSpor
and manufacture more than ever before
Half the world is depending on us now
and our future depends upon how wei
we supply them
Ftcrv days DELAY means 4 sacriiie,
eventually OF more lives and NOR,
money
america is raising SlOoOo0000 T..
thc Red Cross this week 81 Tor ever,
man. woman and child National ~
i,rcrs oi the Red Cross have alloue'
! $4,000 to Oklahoma.
Become member Yourself and ex
plain tr others the work Of the Re,
! Cross
Let's over subscribe the Red Cros
fund
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-06-20

The Pennsylvania legislature ha, ap
puprntcl money Tor q monument -
the Pittsburgh tonp' CLAIM n the de-.
lcn,e Of Fort MeigS Ohio, in the war
u' 1872
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-06-20

We asked the Young lady across the
wav if she favored withholding the in
come tax At the source and she said
She supposed the employer, could al
ford to pay It better than the salatied
men
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-06-20
MURDERS PROBED
BY GRAND JURY
Allen Killing and Negro Wom-
ans Death Investigated,
BOARD IS EX0NE GRATED
School Directors Are Cleared
Of All Suspicion

Two murders were investigated this
morning hy the Oklahoma countyprond
.luhy The murder, of Mr., VI. Is lIrll,
"A negro Woman Last night by ssx Nc.
talr. Rock -I,land railroai "Nortcr,
negro. va, the first taken up Nhcu
Mccain was questioned hy County A.
toucy Nclby last night he stated that
he Intended to Kill his wife, Callc Nc
Cain. because he thought she wa, going
with other men When he attempted to
shoot her. he SAID. She grabbed him
around the waist and the bullets struck
the Hill woman killing her almost in
Stanily Maude Edwards sister OF Callc
Mccain. cut the man with a pocket
knife
Allen Killing Probcd
The murder Of lame, Allen was also
Investigated during the morning Nrch
lIawku, and Al Hawkins arc charged
with thl, murder Marie Tlerce, Mrs
lame, Allen, Mrs, l,abell. DR.. NJ. ].
Bartlett and q g. Wlrglu, were the
wilncSSc, called
The grand jury yesterday afternoon
presented report To- Judge Oli'icld in
open court giving finding, in the probe
~ the Oklahoma City school board
scandal The member, OF present and
former boards against whom charge, OF
irregularities were made hy ! f. Porter
and T. W. Berry, were cNoncratcd The
grand Jury declared that the evidence
introduced at the hearing was insult
llclcul To support the statements made
hy the two.
Newspapers Raped
Ihc lnQulSltorlal body took occasion
to rap newspapers and patrons of the
school, IN the report The report de
clarcd that It was the iury'S belief tha,
1 % newspapers, patrons, grand Juror,
and others, mo matter how high their
motives would keep out OF schoo
board affairs, the schools would he bet
ter conducted
The grand jury announced that
number OF other motterS are to bc in
vcStgatcd before adjournment II IS he
llcvcd that the session will end durin.
the present week Although It IS ru
morcd that a number OF true bills hay,
been found, no indictments have beer
announced tO the court
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-06-20
"H0W TO MAKE LOVE"
WINS ROMEO S25 FINE

CHlCAGO.--Pctct KcliaS who came
from Greece two months ago, copied a
note from a book on How to Make
Love" the labor requiring an entire
day He handed the mi,'lye to Miss
Myrtle Strong, 6j22 Kenmore avenue.
She had him arrested. His explana-
ton ayailed nothing, for he was fined
SIS.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-06-20

institutions will be built this summer.
The agreement between the city and
the state called for water mains to the
property to be furnished by the city,
As the city has not funds to do the
work at this time, it is planned 10 u,e
state money, allowing the city to pay
for the construction and materials
cost when the institutions are in OPP
Grafton.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-06-20
CITY AND STATE AGREE
ON BUILDING OF PIPE

City Commissioners J C. Walton and
!. 6 Street appeared before the state
board OF affairs today for a conference
on the states financing the laying Of
water mains to the sites OF the Girls
Industrial school and the Union Sol
dierS home at Northeast lake These
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-06-20
DESTROY
OF VESSELS
Bay State and EIeIe Sunk;
No Reports ON Crews,

BOSTON, lunc 20 The Warren
liner Bay State. from Ro,lon. MAY ~
for Liverpool, has been sunk hy Ger.
man submarine Advice, TO the com
pauy toda, gave nothing regarding the
tate ot the crew oi the steamer.
The sinking OF the British steamer
ll,lc. presumably hy German ,uhma.
rnc. also was reported IN a cable mes
sage received today hy the Icyand line
from Captain Pierce her commander
The vessel LETT Ro,ton ON luuc x for
Manchester. England with a general
cargo. The message made no reference
to the crew.
The Elel, was under charter 10 the
cyland line and the cahlceram from
Captain Pierce merely stated vessel
sunk" officer, Of the line said the crew
ptohahl, had been saved. The ,hp
arrived here from AcNandria, Egypt.
ON MAY ~ with 1880 bale, oi Egyptian
cotton valued by port official, At more
than S5OOOO0O and took uut cargo
worth nearly GWOOOO. It was stated
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-06-20
DR0UTH CAUSING
HIGHER PRICES
Vegetables Advance Here.
Flour Drop Is Expected,

The continued warm weather and
lack OF rain recently has caused 4
shortage in the vegetable market in OK.
iahoma City according TO a local gro
Ger. This shortage has served to cause
m increase in prices
The reported drop in wheat futures
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-06-20


Th" Oklahoma national guard needs
I0O more men for war strength Many
communities have sent literally OF their
young men. Others have not done
their share
Every family in Oklahoma must
strive 'r produce It's own food this year
and next Let nothing waste. and above
all else save seed from the garden II
Your radl,hcs and spinach and mustard
and lettuce have more seed than VOL
can use next year, gather 1t all anv,
way, or permit Your less fortunate
ncighbor to do it. It's crime to
waste ANYTHING now Only SlackerS
will Do it
Plant iced crops after grain il the
condition Of your land will permit it at
all. II You haven't teams or labor or
seed to do it, permit some OF your
nelghhors to use the land Feed and
food will help win the war Patriotic
citizens should see 10 it that no land
lies Idle unnecessarily
Our day must and wrl come. the
day Of Germany's splcndor, the day oi
groaning and lamen,ation. Of gnashing
OF teeth and tearing OF hair in Lon
don and Paris, in Rome and Washing.
On. m all the capitals of the accurscd
OF God. prom Leipzig Nachricb,en
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-06-20

Unlike The present policy pursued ~
the United States, the British govern.
hcnt discourage the erection Ut flag
,aii' and the flying Of flags during
the war