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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-04-30
In The Center of the Gushers

IF YOU HAV t. certainly know this time that the different
oil
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-04-30

DR.. Cummins. SIC Kills Bldg
Phones 385 and 5542.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-04-30

Mrs. C. I Mattin, OF Topeka, kan
has been elected president OF the Ma
tionaI Military SisterhoOd.
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list DISTRICT COURT.
p. r.. Price, PRESIDING.
r. Armstrong, trustee, VS.. Nina
rurberTile. trespass 70 try ute1
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Dr.. e p. Byers, Dent sos Martin Bid
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-04-30
Imperial Oil & Development
Company's Emphatic
Statement

The names Of the gentlemen printed
below are all stocSmen, and directly as
sociated with the above company, and
in coming before their friends in the
same line of business, they want it dis
tinctly understood in the beginning, that
they are in no way, shape, manner OF
form identified with this company, or
any other company, from an oil promo
ton standpoint. They are associated
with this company as President and Di-
rectors, because they know OF the Won
derful opportunities and possibilities
which are Offered to honest, and square
oil companies, which are organized speci-
fieally for the purpose Of producing oil,
and for no other purpose, and that they
know positively that the Imperial is an
oil company Of this kind, and that this
company's holdings cannot be surpassed
as TO quality; and further, the holdings
are large enough to warrant their in
vesting heavily in them; and that their
locations are equal to the best Their
money IS up, and their names are at
stake, and they can guarantee TO their
friends in the stock business an honest.
fair and square oil proposition.
r. R. Walcott, Stanton, Texas.
W. C. Houston, Stanton, Texas
FL. A. Houston. c. NJ Houston.
o. Y. Houston. Chas EbbersoL
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Ell PasO-Burkburnett
Oil Company

FL PAsO. TEXAS.
Capital. s1s5.OO0oO. shares. $1,000 Each.
Fully Paid and Non Assessable.
J.. o. Crockett. President J. r Benton Treas.
r. c. Ware.
Office, 81 First National Bank BIDS
FL Paso, Texas. Phone 2Gf7.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-01-16
PASSED INTO REST

On the evening of December "a
1918, Mrs. Winnie Ethel Redd passed
away, after a short illness Of pneu-
monia, following the influenza. Her
death occurred at the home of her
sister, Mrs. H. ]. Holman of Guymon.
All that loving hands could do was
done to save her from the monster
Death, but it proved of no avail. Her
two sons, Keefer and Jay Redd, were
in military training at Fort Sill, and
did not reach home until after her
death, their delay being caused by the
snow blockade. Funeral services
were held at the Holman residence,
December 81, after which the body
was taken to Brookfield, Mo-, and laid
to rest by the side of her husband,
whose death occurred fifteen years
ago.
She leaves two sons, Keefer and
Jay Redd, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and
brothers and sisters, Mrs. H. ]. Holl-
man, Guymon, Okla; A. T. Pittman
and Miss Clara Pittman, Liberal,
Kansas; D. A. Pittman and Mrs. j. B.
Clemens, Linneus, Mo-; Verne E. Pitt
man, Leola, South Dakota.
Mrs. Redd had lived in Liberal g
little over year and during that time
had made many friends here.
Her Christian character expressed
itself in an exemplary life devoted to
the service of others.
The passing of this consecrated
Christian woman brought sadness to
many in this community who knew
her as a true woman and devoted
mother and sister.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-01-16
LET THE EAGLE SCREAM

Last week the Hun came to our
town. We are little suburb, vii
lage community, few miles out OF
the city. We have had our Liberty
Loan and our Red Cross drives and
have talked proudly about "going ov.
er the top" We have eaten bran
bread and saved sugar and been rath-
err boastful about our stay-at-home
sacrifices. We have had our village
heroes-an officer promoted on the
field of battle, private decorated
by the general for valor. The Of
fetal envelope has come to our
homes, and then blue stars in our
service flags have blazed into gold.
But even death had not really made
the war concrete thing to many of
us-it was something half realized,
a shadow by day, an oppression by
night, a blur on the familiar outlines
of life.
Last week khaki-clad boy of TWEEN
ty-one CROPPED his way back to our
town-blind but undaunted. And
thru his blindness we have learned to
see many things clearly. There is no
sentimentality now about the Hun in
our town; no without repent
ance-and-atonemen talk; no re-
moteness about the battlefields; no
SNUG satisfaction over our per-
sonal savings and sacrifices. We know
why our Army, that since it took the
first step forward has never taken one
backward in retreat, is called "this
mans army" 1t is a mans army.
Nothing could sum it up better; moth
ing finer could be said about it. Yet
last spring an American woman nov
elist who was a looker-on in Paris
wrote an article picturing our provin-
ciality in the death struggle, our sim
pie optimism at the eleventh hour,
our fundamental lack of seriousness.
1t seems that among others she had
talked with a roughneck doughboy
who could not speak Bostonese, who
was really quite too American-and
what would the cultured poilus think
of us? Oh, dear! Besides, it wasn't
any use-nothing was any use-the
Germans had us all licked and even if
they hadn't we were headed for the
Stone Age and raw meat. No more
open plumbing, jazz bands or best SELL
ers-we were on our way back to be-
ing trilobites in the primeval slime.
But while the stuff was on the press
our provincial roughnecks did some
pretty little bits of fighting and made
the world safe for best sellers. 1t is
true, perhaps, that we got in at the
eleventh hour, but it is also true that
shortly thereafter it struck twelve
for the Allied cause.
Our achievement at home has been
marred not so much by our early
stupidity and blundering-gross and
inexcusable as they were-as by the
attempts of some men to make polite
al capital out of them. The bluder-
ers and profteers must be brought to
book, but not by politicians for par
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-01-16

tisan purposes. There is little diff
ference between those who have made
money out of war and political prof.
teers Of any party. Perhaps the boys
will have something to say about all
this when they get back.
In their anxiety to damn the Demo-
Gratis and the President-and even
his best friends do not hold him to be
above criticism-some men have
gone to the length of minimizing and
depreciating the whole American ex-
patriates, ribbon-chasers and observ-
ers who were too far away to COM
prehend the true significance of
events, or so near that they lost all
perspective on them. But we have
seen no reflection of this in the at
titude of the Allies. Men who have
fought side by side with high heroism
are too broad-minded for this civilian
meanness. They have generously
recognized the Importance of Ameri-
can help and the valor of our army
Nor have the leaders and the press of
the Allies withheld one word Of the
pIdlSc uuC W IuclI OWu dIHleS VI
sought to minimize their national
achievements, though they, too, have
had their blunderers and their prof.
teers.
1t has long been charged against
Americans that they brag. But on
the whole our press is rather more
given to playing up our worst than
our best side. Still we do brag. So
do the British, the French and the
Italians--each nation in its own pc
culiar racial way, though good deal
of this European self-appreciation
that has come to our attention is quite
American in its directness. 1t is right
and proper that the Allies should ex-
press pride in their men. They have
suffered all things and done big
things. And any American who does
not brag about our mans army is not
worth fighting for, let alone dying for.
They have made it possible for US to
hold up our heads before the world
and, adapting the old Roman Drag, to
exclaim "Civis Americans Sum"
Let the Eagle Scream.
Saturday Evening Post
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-01-16
MRS. HENRY DIES IN LIBERAL

News of the death of Mrs. A. E..
Henri at Liberal Wednesday at IL M.
came as a great shock to her many
Guymon friends. 1t was known here
that Mrs. Henry had been seriously i'll
the latter part of September and that
on October l she was operated on in
the Liberal hospital for appendicitis.
1t was reported at that time that her
case was serious one, but news came
from time to time that she was slowly
improving. While convalescing nicely
from this malady we understand she
contracted influenza, later suffering
from numerous assesses about the
head. The last report given out to
Gufmon friends and Published in the
Pratt paper was that she would be
able to move to her home by Decem-
Der 10, hence her sudden demise was
not expected.
Mrs. Henry was the wife of the dis
trict superintendent of the Liberal
district of the M. E. church. Rev.
Henry was pastor of the Guymon
church for five years, leaving here five
years ago last November, so the fam
lily was well known and greatly be-
loved here. Her maiden name was
Miss Roberta Harvey and she and
Rev. Henry were married some Is
years ago. Beside her husband she
leaves two children, a son, Vivian,
aged IL, and daughter, Helen, aged 6.
The funeral service was held in Lib
eral today, attended by large con-
course of her friends from Pratt, yuy-
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-01-16

mon and other places where the fami-
ly was known and esteemed so highly.
The remains were sent to her former
home near Baldwin, Kansas, for buri-
al. The Herald joins the Guymon
people in extending to Rev. Henry
and children their most heartfelt sym
pathy at this time of their greatest
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Herald.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-01-16
First published Dec. 10, 1879
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior
u. S. Land Office at Dodge City,

Kansas, December 18th, 1918.
Notice is hereby given that Maude
E. Dobson, of Liberal, Kansas, who
on March 18th, 1917, made Home
stead Application Serial No. 012421,
for NEA Sec. 10, VIZ SEX, NJ
SWA, Section 8, Township 81 S.,
Range 81 W., 9th Principal Meridian,
has filed notice of intention to make
Final Three Year Proof, to establish
claim to the land above described, be-
fore the Register and Receiver of the
U. S. Land Office at Dodge City, Kan
sas, on the 23rd day of January, 1919.
Claimant names as witnesses: Mary
M. Aker, Liberal, Kansas; Laura M.
Wood, Of Liberal, Kansas; Charles W.
Shore, of Kismet, Kansas; John N.
Kneeland, of Kismet, Kansas.
Not coal land.
R. R. WILSON,
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-01-16

SHOE REPAIRING at Burke Shoe
Shop at new location on W. End St.,
first door west of Overland Garage.
Gan old face in a new place" 33t4c
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-01-16

AN OLD FACE in a new place
Burke Shoe Shop on W. End st. first
door west of Overland Garage. 33t4c
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-01-16
Picture The Home

The safest place to put your money is in
real estate. Robbers cannot steal it, fire
cannot destroy it and you cannot lose it
thru the failure of others.
"HistOry Repeats Itself"
The land in Southwest Kansas has in
creased in value more than 100 per cent
in the past five years. 1t will surely do it
again. The increase in value more than
pays the interest on the investment and
the products of the soil pay you a profit.
The Tomahawk., 1919-10-23
CHAPTER XII,

Young George paid his respects to
his grandfather the following morning,
having been occupied with various af.
fairs and engagements on Sunday un-
til after the Majors bedtime; and top
ics concerned with building or exca-
vations were not introduced into the
conversation, which was q cheerful
one until George lightly mentioned
some new plans Of his. He spoke of
his desire to extend his proficiency in
driving: In fact, he entertained the
ambition to drive four-in-hand. How
ever. as the Major said nothing, and
merely sat still, looking surprised,
George went on to say that he did not
propose to go In for coaching just
at the START" he thought 1t would be
better to begin with q tandem. He
was sure Pendennis could be trained
to work as q leader; and all that one
needed to buy At present, he said,
would be Comparatively inexpensive
q new tran and the harness, of course,
and . good bay to match Pendennis." !"
He did not care for q special groom ;
o0e of the stable0en would do
The Tomahawk., 1919-10-23

TIERS house. Lights were burning over
there, upstairs; probably his newly
arrived uncle was engaged in talk with
the Major.
Georges glance lowered, resting cas-
ually upon the indistinct ground, and
he beheld some vague shapes, unfa-
miliar to him. Formless heaps, they
seemed; but, without much curiosity.
he supposed that sewer connections or
water pipes might be out of order,
making necessary some excavations.
Not greatly disturbed, he pulled down
the shade, yawned, and began to un-
dress, leaving further Investigation for
the morning.
But in the morning he had forgotten
all about 1t, and raised his shade, to
let in the light, without even glancing
toward the ground. Not Until he had
finished dressing did he look forth
from his window, and then his glance
was casual. The next instant his at
titude became electric, and he ran
from his room, plunged down the
stairs, out of the front door, and, upon
a nearer view of the destroyed lawn,
began to release profanity upon tile
breezeless summer air, which remained
unaffected. Between his mothers
house and his grandfather's, excava-
tions for the cellars of five new
houses were in process, each within q
few feet of its neighbor.
It was Sunday, and so the workmen
implicated In these defacings were de-
MED what unquestionably they would
have considered a treat; but as the
fanatic orator continued the mono
logue, a gentleman in flannels emerged
upward from one of the excavations,
and regarded him contemplatively.
"Obtaining any relief, nephew?" he
inquired with some interest. "You
must have learned quite a number d
those expressions in childhood %
long since I'd heard them I fancied
they were obsolete"
"Who wouldn't swear?" George de-
manded hotly. "What does grandfa-
ther mean, doing such things?"
my private opinion is." said Am
berson gravely, "he desires to increase
The Tomahawk., 1919-10-23

At this point the Major decided to
speak. "You say one Of the stablemen
would do?" he inquired, his widened
eyes remaining fixed upon his grand
son. '1That's lucky, because ones all
there is just at present, George. Old
fat Tom does it all.''
"Oh. that will be all right, sir. Ny
mother can lend me her man."
"Can she?" The old gentleman
smiled family. II wonder-" He
paused.
"What, sir?"
"Whether you mightn't care to 60
to law school somewhere perhaps. I'd
be glad to set aside sum that would
see you through"
This senile divergence from the topic
in hand surprised George painfully. Il
have no interest whatever in the law. y
he said. II don't care for it, and the
idea of being professional man has
never appealed to me. was speaking
of driving tandem"
II know you were," said the Major
quietly.
George looked hurt. II beg your
pardon. OF course if the idea doesn't
appeal to YOU" And he rose to go.
The Major ran a tremulous hand
through his hair. signing deeply. Il
I don't like to refuse you anything,
Georgie," he said. II don't know that
often have refused you whatever
you wanted-in reason-"
"You've always been more than gen
erous. SIR" George interrupted quickly.
"And If the idea of q tandem doesn't
The Tomahawk., 1919-10-23
EVERYTHING IS $3.50 UNSETTLED"

ANDERSON has made fortune IN 1879 when other
then Major Anderson LAID out 2ooaere with roads
built himself magnificent mansion City had
Wilbur
be
with the
fam q
looking duck whom he been pokng much
Bgburs and he is to erect factory and build hsssss
engaged Isabel threw him Of
cotlon
almost engaged"
The Tomahawk., 1919-10-23

Man Hao never Appealed 70 Me-.
appeal to you, why-of course" And
he waved his hand. heroically dismiss
ing the tandem.
The Majors distress became obvi.
GUS. "Georgie, I'd like to, but-but
I've an idea tandems are dangerous to
drive, and your mother might be anx-
ious. She"
mo, sir; I think not. She felt 1t
would be rather good thing-help to
keep me out in the open air. But If
perhaps your finances"
"Oh, It isn't that so much" the old
gentleman laughed uncomfortably. II
guess we could still afford new horse
or two, II need be-"
II thought you said
The Major waved his hand airily.
"Oh, a few retrenchments where
things were useless. And If you want
this thing SO very much"
''1t's not important enough to bother
about, really, of course"
"Well, let's wait till autumn, then.
said the Major in a tone of relief
''Wc'll see about 1t IN the autumn, II
you're still in the mind for It then
You remind me Of 1t, along in Sep
tember-or October. Well see what
can be DONE" He rubbed his hands
cheerfully. "We'n see what can be
done about it then, George. Well
see."
And George, in reporting this con-
versation to his mother, was ruefully
humorous. I'm fact, the old boy
cheered up 80 much," he told her,
you'd have thought he'd got a real
load cff his mind. OF course know
he's anything but misery; still can't
help thinking he must be sailing lot
of money away. I know prices are
higher than they used to be, but he
doesn't spend within thousands of
what he used to, and we certainly
can't be spending more than we always
have spent. Where does it all 60 to?
Uncle George told me grandfather had
sold some pieces of property, and 1t
looks a little queer. I have a faint
suspicion, not that he's getting miserly
not that at all-but that old age has
begun to make him timid about money.
There's no doubt about it, he's get
ting little queer: he can't keep his
mind on subject long. Right in the
middle of talking about one thing he'll
wander of to something else; and ]
shouldn't be surprised IL he turned
out to be a lot better of than any Of
US guess"
Isabel had q bright idea. '0eorgie
Instead Of q tandem wouldn't 1t inter-
est you to get one Of Eugene's automo-
biles?"
II don't think SO. They're fast
enough, Of course. In fact, running
one of those things is getting to be
quite on the cards for sport, and
people go all over the country in 'em.
But they're dirty things, and they keep
getting out of order, 50 that you're
always lying down on your back In the
mud and"
"Oh, no." she interrupted eagerly.
Haven't you noticed? The way they
make them now you can get at most of
the machinery from the top. I do
think yuu'd be interested, dear"
George remained Indifferent. "Pos-
sabay-but I hardly thiak - I klQ1
The Tomahawk., 1919-10-23

gerated color to him, by the Lord,
but you're q little witch" George
| cried.
"George, do let Pendennis trot
again."
II won't!"
She clucked to the horse. "Get up.
Pendennis! Trot! Go on! COM
| mence!'
Pendennis paid no attention; she
meant nothing to him, and George
laughed at her fondly. "You are the
exclaimed. "Are you going to drop the
almost and say we're really engaged7"
"Oh, not for years! So there's, tho
answer, and let's tros again."
But George was persistent; more
over, he had become serious during
the last minute or two. II want to
know" he said. II really mean it,
Lets don't be serious, George" she
begged him hopefully. Lets talk Of
something pleasant"
He was little offended. "Then It
isn't pleasant for you to know that
want to marry you?"
| At this she became as serious rs he
could have asked; she looked down,
and her lip quivered like that Of
child about to cry. Suddenly she put
her hand upon one of his for just an
instant, and then withdrew 1t.
"Lucy!" he said huskily. Dear.
what's the matter? You look as IL
you were going to cry"
| Her eyefids lfickered, and then she
looked up at him with a sad gravity.
tears seeming just at the poise. zone
reasons because have feeling thas
it's never going to be-"
"Why?"
"It's just feeling"
"You haven't any reason Or"
"It's just a feeling"
"Well, If that's ALL" George said.
reassured, and laughing confidently, u
guess won't be very much troubled"
But at once he became serious again.
adopting the tone of argument. "DOn't
you care enough about me to marry
me?"
She looked down again, pathetlcxlly
troubled. EYES,"
"Well, then, why in the world won't
you drop the 'almostT"
Her distress increased. "EverythinS
is-everything-"
"What about 'everythingY"
"Everything Is $3.50 unsettled"
And at that he uttered an exclamn.
tion of impatience. If you arenI
the queerest grill What is 'un
settledY"
"Well, for one thing" she said, able
to smile Mt his vehemence. lyon
haven't settled on anything to do. Al
least If you have you've never spoken
of it."
AS she spoke she gave him the
quickest possible side glance of hope
full scrutiny; then looked away, not
happily. Surprise and displeasura
were Intentionally visible upon the
countenance of her companion; and
he permitted significant period Of
silence to elapse before making any
response. Lucy" he said finally, with
cold dignity, haven't you perfectly
well understood that I don't mean ia
60 into business or adopt profess
sion?"
II wasn't quite sure" she said
gently. II really didn't know-quite.'
"Then Of course it's time did tell
you. You know yourself there are
lot of people in the East-in the South
too, for that matter-that don't thinA
we've got any particular family or po
sition or culture in this part of the
country. There were one or two In
my crowd at college; their families
The Tomahawk., 1919-10-23

his income by building these houses to
rent"
"Well, in the name Of heaven, can't
he increase his income any other way
but this?"
"In the name Of heaven, 1t would ap-
pear he couldn't"
ITS beastly! It's q damn degrada-
toni It's q crime!"
II don't know about its being q
crime" sid his uncle, stepping over
some planks to Join him. 1T might be
. mistake, though. Your mother said
not to tell you until We got home, 50
a. not to spoil commencement for you.
She rather feared you'd be upset"
upset! oh, my Lord, 1 should think
1 would be upset! Hes in his second
childhood"
"welL I thought. myse1, II W,s .
mistake. I wanted hin % pot - IN
The Tomahawk., 1919-10-23
r. Have a Feeling That Its Never
Going to Be-"

had lived on their income for three
generations, and they never dreamed
there was anybody in their class out
here. I had to show them a thing or
two, right at the start, and I guess
they won't forget It! Well, think
It's time all their sort found out that
three generations can mean just Al
much out here as anywhere else"
"But what are you going to do.
George7" she cried.
Georges earnestness surpassed
hers; he had become flushed and his
breathing was emotional II expect
to live an honorable lfe," he said. II
expect to contribute my share to shari-
ties, and to take part in-in move
ments."'