Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-05-07
PROGRESSIVE SOUTH
MAIN MUSIC STORE
Jenkins ono of First to Recognize
Advantages OF This District
as Business boCauon.
HAS BEEN HERE NINE YEARS
Manager Cripc Always nt Front In
All Progressive Moves: Aids All
Branches of War Work.

One NJ the greatest music houses
In the southwest was among the
first Of the big Tulsa mercantile es-
tablishments to see the advantage OF
South Main as a coming retail dis
trict and to realize that It is to be
one Of the most popular business
sections Of the city.
II Is the jenkins Music store, witn
fourteen big hous@s In this section
Of the country--siX IN Kansas, four
In Oklahoma. three in Missouri and
one in Arkansas The name 'Jen-
kins" has Cme to he "A synonym for
everything in music. from the firest
make piano to the smallest instru-
ment. and the jenkins Music store OF
Tulsa is one Of the biggest and most
prosperous of the entire chain
Thirty-ninc Years Old.
The Jenkins stores began n Kan
sas city So years ago and expansion
has been steady with the passinr
years The Tulsa sNore was opent I
nine wears ago on East Third str"rt
and II has grown with the CITY until
now II is one Of the largest In Okla
homa. doing an immense business
and helping largely in elevatins tn
That the Jenkins management has
been justified in the judgment that
caused the removal TO South Main
is indicated in the increased volume
Of business done the past year The
store is growing a { rapid strides and
new customers are being added daily
10 the thousands already who have
come to depend upon Jenkins when
. he, Ia n n
II is impossible to speak Of the
Tulsa Jenkins store without the
name of the popular young manager
coming into ores mind Two years
ago ollie Cripe came down from the
parent store at Kansas city and os-
sumed charge OF the Tulsa business
He has become one Of the live yonng
business men Of the city OF course,
he did not have to come to Tulsa to
he a live wire because he brought
plenty of pep" along with him. buI
he seemed to Just fiji into Tulsa $
business life. controlled largely by
young men. and the famous Tulsa
spirit at once caught him and made
him an influence in the city's busi-
ness and civic affairs
Mr. Cripe is one Of the leading cluh
men Of the city. belonging to vlr'u1llN
every one Of the city clubs and he
sides is member OF the Apollo
music club, He takes an active ana
deep interest In everything affectnG
the interest Of Tulsa and is one OF
the most consistent attendants AZ
every luncheon given hy his cluhs.
Tuesday finds him at the Ad CLUB
Wednesday with the Rotarians,
Thursday he's n Lion and Satur-
day he's with the city club.
Aids In War Work.
One Of the finest things Of the
present WA work in Tulsa was done
a. his suggestion That was the col
lection and scndinG away to Tulsa
countN's soldiers in the army camps
Of 1900 NCtrola records to keep the
boys from getting lonesome and
homesick and make their camp lif-
attractive and pleasant. This move
ment, In which everybody in Tulsa
Joined who had Nictrola records in
their homes. was begun by the Sd'
Club after Mr. tripe urged II one
day in an address before the mem
hers.
In fact, nothing that will help Tn
Gle Sam or his soldiers or the Red
Cross or Y. NJ. G.. A. and other sim
liar organizations fails 10 get as
sistance from Sgipe. Whether sell.