The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-07-13


the most important services to the
individual of town or city Is the
dispatch and delivery Of mail. There
has been established here city
delivery, with drop boxes placed at
certain locations in the town tor
the convenience OF our citizens so
that they may send out mail with
out having to take it to the post
office.
In addition to the usual horse
drawn rural route deliveries in this
community the government has
within recent date established two
automobile routes, one OF which
covers distance OF 81 miles, the
other 2o-mile route. Another
step toward facilitating the move
ment Of mail to and from this COM
munity is the contract with a trans
fer company under which the gov
ernment pays $500 4 year for trans
porting the mail by automobile
from the main line of the Santa
Fe at Davis to Sulphur, and tor
taking the outgoing mail from
Sulphur back to Davis in the same
way, which gives probably twelve
hours faster mail service.
The parcel post system and the
postal saving bank are other val
liable adjuncts to the postal serv-
ice. War savings certificates are
sold at every postoffice and money
deposited draws 4 per cent interest.
compounded quarterly. Thus ey-
cry $4.l2 deposited will bring the
depostor S. at the end of five
years. The limit any individual
may deposit under this system Is
ST 900.
The government has represent
ative in this county to gather up
cotton statistics and furnish rec
ord OF same to his department, 1t
is his business to keep a correct
register OF acreage planted to cot
ton, the number Of bales ginned and
all other data pertaininv to the
cotton product. The government
also assists the county to maintain
a county farm demonstrator. whose
business it is to teach the farmers
advanced methods in farminf and
stock raising. Under the Smith
Lever bill the government pays this
demonstrator half OF his salary and
the county pays the other half.
Under the provisions OF this bill
also comes the work of DR.. Dixie
B. Tucker, expert on rural santa
ton. Doctor Tucker is paid joint
ly by the national government and
the state, and it is her duty to
teach the people OF rural districts
sanitation and hygiene.
Recently she attended a confer
ence in Washington, where she
heard men from all the nations of
the world, except the Teutonic al
lies, talk on rural sanitation, many
of them referring to their work as
rural work in towns of 10000 toI
$1,000 inhabitants. After three
days Of this she made them talk
on real rural work, where it is nee
essary to ride sometimes miles from
railroad station to reach a small
community where ofttimes the
meaning of the word sanitation is
equal to TX" in an algebraical cqua
tion. One OF the health journals
thought enough of this talk to de
vote considerable space to it.
The national government has
singularly favored Sulphur through
the establishment OF one OF is
Il national parks. Platt National
Park is the nucleus around which
the town is built. and is really its
principal asset. since. as resort, IT
brings many visitors.
This park was established for the
free use OF the people of the Unit
ed States, and the government
maintains it.
About three years ago the gov
eminent appropriated SlOoOOON
for the building OF post roads, and
roads likely to become post roads
in the state of Oklahoma, the money
to be available for expenditures for
a period of ten years at the rate OF
about 100000 per year until ex
pended. 1t was at first understood