The Lexington Leader (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, September 10, 1915 Page: 3 of 10
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THE LEXINGTON LEADER
THE WEEK'S NEWS
NEW WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION
LAW IS NOW IN
EFFECT.
OTHER NEWS OF THE NEW STATE
WOMAN HELD FOR HATCHET CRIME STATE FAIR FEATURES
WILL SURPASS ALL
Police Charge Widow With Province
Murder at Muskogee.
Little Incldenta and Accldenta That
Co To Make Up a Week'a
Hlatory of a Great
Commonwealth.
Oklahoma City.—The much-heralded
workmen's compensation law, gener-
ally regarded as one of the most Ira
portant acts of the Fifth legislature,
became operative in its entirety
Wednesday, September 1. Compensa-
tion for all accidents which occurred
after midnight Aug. 31, in the differ-
ent forma of employment enumerated
in the act, are subject to adjustment
under the terms of the law.
The compensation provided for in
the act shall be payable to persons
engaged in the following employment,
which is defined by the act as "haz-
ardous":
"Factories, cotton gins, mills and
workshops, where nmenmery is used;
printing, electrotyping, photograving
stereotyping plants, where machinery
is used; foundries, blast furnaces,
mines, wells, gas works, water works
reduction works, elevators, dredges
smelters, powder works; laundries,
operated by power; quarries; engi-
neering works, logging, lumbering,
street and interurban railroads not on
gaged in interstate commerce, build
tngs being constructed, repaired 01
demolished, farm buildings and farm
improvements excepted, telegraph,
telephone, electric light and power
plants or lines, steam heating or pnw
er plants, and railroads not engaged
in interstate commerce. If there be
or arise any hazardous occupation or
work other than those hereinbefore
enumerated it shall come under this
act.'
Schedule of Compensation.
The schedule of compensation for In-
jured workmen as provided for in the law
In as follows:
"1. Perinaniyit Total Disability—In
case of total disability adjudfjecl to be
permanent; 50 r.ercentum of the average
weekly wages shall be paid to the em
ployee during the continuance of such
Muskogee.—Charged fftth the mu
der of her husband, W. B. Province j
the suburban grocer killed in his store
at midday on August 11, Mrs. Prov- ;
ince, the widow, was arrested on a ;
warrant sworn out by County Attorney |
Fred P. Branson.
The arrest of Mrs. Province came |
only after officers had pleaded for
days with the county attorney to take
this course and alter a sensational I
identification of the hatchet used to
kill the grocer—the hatcliut which
Mrs. Province swore before the cor-
oner's inquest, did not belong to the
store.
OTHER YEARS
The entertainment features secured
for the coming State Fair at Okla-
homa City, which opens Saturday,
September 25, and closes Saturday,
October 2, will make you glad you
came. No expense has been spared
to secure the best to be had and an
outline of some of them follow:
Ruth Law, premier aviator, will
make flights daily, from Monday to
Friday.
Auto races on Wednesday and Sat-
urday. Eight events each day. Total
purses offered $5,000.
Four harness and running races
Several days ago Former Deputy i daily on Mon(jpyf Tuesday. Thursday
Sheriff W. L. Robbins telephoned an(j pr|(jay an(j q. trotting futur
oranson stating that his 14-year-old for a purSP 0f $it000 feiture of
poy had played with the Proviuce boys i<aces on Thursday.
tor a long time and would probably
be able to tea whether or not the
hatchet belonged at the store.
lironson secured two old, rusty hat-
cheis anu the hatchet found alter the
murder. He put the three hatchets
together in the waiUe basket of his
oiuce. When young llobbins was
brought to the ollicw, l3ranson asked i works. And for the first time, this i
total Usability, not exceeding 500 weeks
Loss of both hands, or both feet, or both
legs, or both eyes or any two thereof,
shall, in the absence of conclusive proof
to the contrary, constitute permanent to
tal disability. In all other cases pernia
xient total disability shall be determined
In accordance with the facts.
"2. Temporary Total Disability—In
case of temporary total disability,
percentum of the average weekly wages
•hall be |>aid to the employee during the
continuance thereof, but not in excess
of 300 weeks, except as otherwise rro
vided in this act.
"3. Permanent Partial Disability—In
oase of disability partial in character
but permanent in quality the compensa-
tion shall be 50 per centum of the average
weekly wages and shall be paid to the
employee for the period named in the
schedule as follows
'Thumb—For the loss of a thumb, six
"First 'Finger-—For the loss of a first
Unger, commonly called index fitiga'
thirty-five weeks.
"Second Finger—For the loss of a sec
and finger, thirty weeks.
"Third Finger—For the loss of a third
Unger, twenty weeks.
"Fourth Finger—For the loss of a fourth
finger commonly called the little llrigw,
fifteen weeks.
For Thumb or Finger.
"Phalange of Thumb or Finger—The
loss of the first phalange of the thumb
or finger shall be considered to be equal
to the loss of one-half of sueli thumb or
finger, and compensation shall be of
one-half of the amount specified. The
loss of more than one phalange shall
bo considered as the loss of the entire
thumb or finger; provided, however, that
in no case shall the amount received for
more than one finger exceed the amount
provided in this schedule for the loss of
liand
"Grea Toe—For the loss of a great
toe, thirty weeks.
"Other Toes—For the loss of one of
the toes other than the great toe, ten
weeks.
"Phalange of Toe—The loss of the first
phalange of any toe shall be considered
to be equal to the loss of one-half of
said toe, and the compensation shall be
one-half of the amount specified. The
loss of more than one phalange shall
considered as the loss of the entire toe
"Hand—The loss of a hand, 200 weeks.
"Arm—For the loss of an arm, 250 weeks
"Foot—For the loss of a foot, 100 weeks,
"Eye—For the loss of an eye, 100 weeks.
• "I^eg—For the loss of a leg, 175 weeks.
"Loss of Use—Permanent loss of the
use of a hand, arm, foot, leg or ey<
shall be considered as the equivalent of
the loss of such hand, arm, foot, leg or
•ye.
"Amputations—Amputation between th
•lbow and the wrist shall be considered
as the equivalent of the Ions of a hand.
Amputation between the knee and the
ankle shall be considered as the equivalent
of the loss of a foot. Amputation at <>r
above the elbow shall be considered as the
of the arm. Amputation at or nbove th
Vnee shall be considered as the loss of
leg.
"The compensation for the foregoing
specific injuries shall be In lieu of all
other compensation except the benefits
provided in section 4 of article 2 of this
act
him if he could swear positively that
he had seen a hatchet on tho Prov-
ince place.
"I can,' said the boy, "and I would
know it."
Well, if that is so," said Branson,
pulling the hatchets from their hid-
ing place and laying tnem on the
iioor, "tell me if all of these or any
of these is the hatchet you have se^u
and il so point out all or any you have
seen on the Province place."
"This is the one," said the boy,
ithout a second s Hesitation, as
eached uov>n and picaed up the hat-
chet which was t'cuiid by Olivers in
the stole ai\.er Province Had been
murdered.
Three adults also have sworn posi-
tively that they have noticed a hatci.it
at the Province place, but none have
made such a positive identification as
the boy. To oh set this testimony
here are statements by at least two
people that there was no hachet at
e Province store.
Ever since tlis day of the murder
many officers as well as detectives,
especially employed on tne case, and
many people living near the Province
home have requested Branson to ar-
rest the woman, but he has stood tirm
in his refusal.
Mrs. Province was brought to the
justice court of W. G. Miller where
seh has been arraigned, pleading not
guilty.
Negro Is Given Quick Sentence
Muskogee.—LeRoy Gatewood, the
negro boy who admitted an attpinpt
make an assault upon Mrs. Franklin
Porter, prominent society woman, was
sentenced to serve thirty years in the
state penitentiary by District Judge
R. P. DeGraffenried. Gatewood waa
rushed to the penitentiary half an hour
after being sentenced.
Oklahoma University vs. Central
State Normal on opening day in an-
nual football game. Fifty-mile motor
cycle race for championship of south
west will follow game.
The Night Show will include five
acts of headline vaudeville, Makovsky
and his famous band and Pain's Fire-
WHEN YOU
NEED HELP
either for the Stom-
ach, the liver, or
the bowels, you
really should try
H05TETTERS>
Stomach Bitters
Its tonic qualities sharpen
the appetite, aid digestion,
and keeptheliver and bowels
daily active. For over 60
years it has been helping
people to promote and main-
tain better health. Try it.
SI II—I IHIWIIITTTTT^
COURTESY OF OLD TIMES
Manners Were Important When Wash-
ington Lived, but We Have No
Time to Be Polite.
Amon* the manuscripts preserved in
the state archives at Washington to I j# Hard, A Womao
an old copybook written when he J
IN ALL 0118
NEIGHBORHOOD
Who Does Not Rely Upon
Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg-
etable Compound.
LOSSES SURELY PREVENTED
by ('utter'* Blacklea Pills, l/ow-
rlofil, treHh. reliable, preferred by
plockni *n, because thny
iof vaccine* fall.
IMHWud UwtlmoDlala.
10-dote akie. RlMklei Pills $1 09
50-dns* Dkge. Ularklef Pills 4.0#
I's.t any Injwtnr. but Cutter'* bent.
The superiority of Cuttor products In due to over 16
yearn nt apaHallzlnir In vteelnei and sarums only.
Insist en Cutte«li nnotitalnaLla, ordei direct.
The Cuttai Laboratory, Berkeley, Cal.. ei Chicago. III.
BLACK,
LEG
year the Horse Show will be added.
Two hours of entertainment every j
night.
The Great Patterson Shows will fill
the Midway with their twenty amuse-
ment enterprises.
Fraternal drill teams from all sec-
tions of tne state will compete on
Monday, September 27. The Auto
Show will have on display 50 or more [)oeS Not Stick tO the IrOI)
1910 models in the big Auto building
DEFIANCE STARCH
is constantly growing in favor because it
was but fourteen years old by the man
for whom the city was named. Most
interesting of all the memoranda Het
down carefully in the boyish handwrit-
ing are what George Washington
quaintly called "Kules of Civility and
Decent Behavior in Company and Con I
versation." And one of these rules is:
"lie not forward, but friendly and
courteous; the first to salute, hear and
answer, and be not pensive when it is j
time to converse."
If as a boy he studied such max- j
ims, do you wonder that Washington
was all his life noted for his fine man j
ners? The rules of courtesy were
thought to be a very important part
of a gentleman's education in the ,
eighteenth century. A man was con- j
slderrd ignorant and ill-bred if in his , There ;9 8carce)y a neighbor around me
intercourse with the world he omitted who does not use your medicine. "—Mrs.
certain little acts of politeness. What j j p Johnson, R. No. 4, Box 30, Prince-
gentleman of the old school ever per ^n, Illinois.
mined himself to remain seatedI when Experience of a Nurse.
ladles were s am mg or " h" ' , Poland,N.Y.—"In my experience as •
their presence without first asking pei- <* r
t i i nurse I certainly think Lydia E. Pink*
" , u a n„. hrnn's Vegetable Compound is a preat
When they were inu m « medicine. I wish all women with fe-
cestors were brought up to believe that maK, troublos would it j took lt
due respect to the host and ",s ' when passing through the Change of
demanded that each guest make h m- , wj^ great results and I always re-
self as agreeable as possible, hence j commen(j Compound to all my pa-
<he quaint maxim copied out so care- jf i ]{now 0f their condition in
fully by the young George Washing- ^jrr;e_ I wjU gladly do all I can to help
ton: "lie not pensive when it is time j others to know of this great medicine."
to converse." The man at the present | —Mrs. Horace Newman, Poland, Her-
Princeton, III. — " I had inflammation,
hard headaches in the back of my neclc
and a weakness all
caused by femala
trouble, and I took
Lydia E. Pinkham'«
Vegetable Com-
pound with such ex-
cellent results that I
am now feeling fine.
I recommend th*
Compound c.nd praise
it to all. I shall bs
glad to have you
publish m y letter.
And the Tractor Show. New fea-
ture this year. Interesting enough to
be entertaining, as well as instructive.
A dozen or more tractors giving daily
demonstrations.
These and nnnv oth^r features will
delight and entertain and instruct you
when you come to see the most exten-
sive and complete State Fair in Okla-
homa's history.
and it wilt noi miurt the finest fabric for ,Jay ,00 of,pn takeB the attitude that J kimer Co., N. Y.
laundry purpose sit nas no equal. 16 oz.
package lOc. 1-3 more starch for same money
DEFIANCE STARCH CO., Omaha, Nebraska
To Open Sardines.
When a box of sardines is opened, it
should he drained of its oil at once
and the fish turned out.
\\i:i ivi *
Are. Pa rtii
K.. (i.\ l.\ •
f>Ai?K£R'S
HAIR BALSAM
toilet preparation of merit.
« , 6 to r«'iieate iliindruir.
For R^«toriiig Color ami
auty to Gray r Faded Hair.
6i". ami at 1'rUfculKta
lly made Sells lik<> wlUl-
iars ti . II. \ Oltkr , >.,21 AVK.
ION, TEX.
To Cut Bread.
When you wish to cut thin slices of
bread, heat a steel knife over the fire
to do it with.
Carrying Them Out.
Youth (with tie of the Stars and
Stripes)—I sent you some suggestions
telling you how to make your paper
more interesting. Have you carried
out any of my ideas?
Editor—Did you meet the office boy
with the wastepaper basket as you
came upstairs?
Youth—Yes, yes, I did.
Editor—Well, he was carrying out
j your ideas.
OR. KAILEY AGAIN HEAC3 C. V.
eterans and Daughters Held Con-
ventions at Ada.
Ada.—Officers of the Confederate
Veterans Association were elected
D. M. Haley of McAlester, was re
elected commander-in-chief for ths
Oklahoma division. The brigadier
generals are: T. D. Turner of Okla,
homa City; T. B. Hogg of Shawnee;
W. P. Francis of Elk City; H. H
Allen of Davis; Thomas D. Bard ol
FOB MI
FEDERAL LAW PERMITS OKLA
HOMANS TO KILL WILD FOWL
TO FEBRUARY 1.
Appropriately Named.
"Why do you call the baby Bill?"
"He was born on the first of the
month."—From the Buffalo Express.
Washington.—With the approach of
the open season for shooting the wild
fowl, the United States department of
agriculture is warning sportsmen that
the federal regulations as amended
October 1, 1914, wiil be strictly en
The Least of Two.
"Your money or your life!"
"Take me life; I'm savin' me money
tor me old age."
When It Is.
"Pa, is marriage a failure?"
"Usually, my boy, if a man marries
for money."
he is conferring a favor by accepting
an invitation: and expects to be j
amused and entertained without con-
tributing anything.
Old-fashioned courtesy taught that
deference must at all times be paid to
age. A hundred years ago little boys
and girls wore told to "miud their
manners" if perhaps the "dominie or
the schoolmaster or anyone of position
or authority spoke to them; and the
small lads would bow deeply and the
tiny maids would curtsy most re-
spectfully.
Such airs and graces, pretty though
they were, would be out of p'ace in
our more strenuous times. Yet there
is no reason why our young people's
manners should not be as good, If of
necessity less formal, than those of
our ancestors.
If children are taught to be deferen-
tial to their elders, to be polite and
generous to their playfellows, and are
instructed in all the small courtesies
of the table and drawing room pre-
scribed by etiquette, they will have
been given a heritage by their par-
ents that will be of inestimable value
In after life. For a thorough acquaint-
ance with the fundamental rules of
good breeding gives an ease of man-
ner that can be acquired in no other
way; and it helps wonderfully in the
fight for success we all must wage.—
Rehoboth Sunday Herald.
If you are ill do not drag along until
an operation is necessary, but at wica
take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Com pound.
If you want special advicc write
Lydia ID.Pinkliam Medicine Co.,
(.confidential) Lynn,Mass.
If a fair woman is fair to her women
friends she must use a very excellent
hair dye.
All women demand the admiration
of men, but only a limited number
command it.
It is a painful paradox but true that
_ utluucl „l±l a man who means everything to a girl
Choctaw; J. J. McAlester of McAles I (orce(j. Some misunderstanding has j niay mean nothing.
ter; T. F. Brewer of Wagoner. j arjgen from tho fact that the various ,
General Hailey has not yet mads Btate laws do not always conform to
his appointments. J the federal regulations. This is re- j
The Daughters of the Confederacy j garded as unfortunte, but In such j
also elected officers for the next yoar. ! cses the deprtment must insist upon !
Mrs. Lutie Halley of Ardmore wa= the observance of the federal regula- ■
elected president; Mrs. Michael Con tions.
Ian of Oklahoma City, first vice pres- Federa' regulations divide the ;
ident; Mrs. F. W. Purdy of Tulsa, united States into two ones. Zone
second vice president; Mrs. Mable An j^0 (])e breeding zone, includes the ■
derson of Pryor, third vice president; Btutes 0f Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, Ne- :
Mrs. Ella Deweese of Hugo, fourtt , kraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana. Ohio,
vice president; Mrs. J. H. Gill, re i Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and
cording secretary; Mrs. Viola Crislei • „]i 8^ates north of them. Zone No. 2,
of McAlester, corresponding secretary i ti,0 wintering zone, include all states
Mrs. J. D. Wilson of Tahlequah, treas j 60Uth 0f those named.
urer; Mrs. Claude Plato of C hlikash.i. | regulations prescribe the sea-
son as follows for Zone No. 2, in \jhich
Oklahoma is located:
A train of thought isn't much good
to a man who is too lazy to generate
steam for moving it in the right direc-
tion.
Putting His Foot in It.
Niece—I do think you are clever,
aunt, to be able to argue with the
professor about sociology.
Aunt—I've only been concealing my
ignorance, dear.
Professor Iiilks (gallantly)—Oh, no.
Miss Knowles. Quite the contrary, I
assure you.
Not Warlike.
"Would you go to war if your coun-
try called you, Mr. Jobbles?"
"I might, and then again I might
not."
"What do you mean by that?"
"If the first call sounded like a
mere invitation, I would wait to b«
sufficiently urged."
Superhuman Feat.
"A summer girl has endless trotv
bles."
"What's the problem now?"
"How to look brown and tanned on
the beach and alabaster in the ball-
room at night."—Louisville Courier
Journal.
Crumbs of comfort are satisfying
only when there are enough of them
to make a square meal.
Of course there is more than one
good reason why the match-making
mamma should be called Mater.
You can't very well dodge tho toll
gates on the road to Success.
Where the Vacuum Was.
Bill—He's got a new idea for a vao-
uum cleaner.
Jill—Where'd he get it?
"Out of his head."
The United States imported mor
than a billion pounds of coffee last
year, a record exceeded only twice be-
fore, in 1904 and 1909.
Some men manage to make a little
noise in the world by rattling their an-
cestors' bones.
registrar; Mrs. Charles Archer ol
Chickasha, historian; Mrs. Brad field el
Antlers, recorder of crosses: Mrs. S
P. Ross of Ada, custodian of flags:
Mrs. H. R. Hester of Muskogee, chap
lain; Mrs. R. M. Jones of Muskogee
children's auxiliary directory.
Zone No. 2.
WATERFOWIj—Oct. 1-Jan. 16. Er
ceptions: Delaware, Maryland. Dist-
rict of Columbia, Virginia, North Cat^ 1
olina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, 1
Nov. 1-Feb. 1; Florida, Georgia, South j
Carolina, Nov. 20-Feb. 16; Missouri,
Kansas, Oklahoma, Arizona, Califor-
nia, Texas, Oct. 15-Feb. 1.
RAILS, COOTS, GALLINULES— j
Sept. 1-Dec. 1. Exceptions: Tennessee,
Utah, Oct. 1-Dec. 1; Missouri, Sept. 15-
Jan. 1; Louisiana, Nov. 1-Feb. 1; Ari-
F1RST BALE BROUGHT TO DURANT
Merchants Pay the Usual $100.00 Pre-
mium.
Durant.—Durant received its first
bale of cotton when E. J. Carraway
of Kemp brought in the bale and
claimed the $100 premium offered by
the merchants of Durant. The bale
weighed 420 pounds and brought 9V4
cents in the lint. Carraway picked
over eight acres in order to secure
the bale.
NORMAL SCHOOL HEALS NAMED
J. B. Eskridge Will Be President 01
Weatherford; A. S. Falkner, Durant
The state board of education has
agreed upon A. S. Falkner, at present
a member of the faculty of that insti
tution, to become president of the
Southeastern State Normal School at | ona_ California (coots) Oct. 15-Feb. 1.
Durant, and J. B. Eskridge of Chick WOODCOCK—Nov. 1-Jan. 1. Ex-
asha will be n^me f'.^'^rmiliwest, ceptions: Delaware, Louisiana, Nov,
Griffith as president oftheSouthwes, w,st Virginia, Oct. 1-Dec. 1;
ern State Normal School at Weather ^ ^ ^ y
ford. !
About two years ago Eskridge was SHORE BIRDS—Black Breasti d
relieved of the presidency of the stata and Golden Plover, Jacksnlpe, Yellsw-
girls' college at Chickasha. ' legs—Sept. 1-Dec. 16. Exceptions:
W. H. Echols, formerly superlnten- I Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Nov.
dent of city schools at Durant, will : 20-Feb. 1; Alabama, Louisiana, Missis-
he placed in the chair vacated by Prof, sippi, Texes, Nov. 1-Feb. 1; Tenuos-
Falkner, who, incidentally, is to re j see, Oct. 1-Dec. _[6.
ceive no increase of salary.
First Bale of Cotton In Ardmore.
Ardmore.—The first bale of cotton
from this season's crop to arrive in
Ardmore was brought by Lee Sim-
mons, a farmer living six miles south-
east of Ardmore. So far as is known
here, the bale is the first one of the
present season's crop of cotton raised
In Oklahoma to be placed on the mar-
ket. The bale will be sold and a pre-
mium given by the merchants to the
grower. The cotton crop in Carter
county is late but fairly large.
Local Cotton 50 Per Cent Off.
Fifty per cent decrease over last
year is the prediction of local cotton
buyers for the coming season which
will open three weeks later than
usual, the first bale not being expect
ed until well in September against
August 26 of last year. None would
express themselves as to the range of
the market; and as to how competi-
tive it would be, the consensus of
opinion was, that any prediction was
purely speculative as in view of the
European situation, the unexpected
might happen at any time,
Start
Children
• io School light
After the vacation rest, school children should quickly settle down to the task
of learning. Do your parti
Parental responsibility does not end by sending them to school. I he child must
be equipped with mind and body at their best.
And here the right food plays a most important part.
Growing children need energy; the right kind and lots of it. And energy comes
from well-nourished nerves and brain.
Grape-Nuts
—a food made from wheat and barley, contains the vital mineral salts—Phosphate of
Potash, etc. (grown in the grains) which directly act with other food values to build
up body, brain and nerves.
Statistics prove that much of the "backwardness" of some children is due to
faulty nourishment.
A morning dish of Grape-Nuts and cream is good alike for the bright scholar and
the backward pupil. The latter needs the nutrition; the former will progress
sounder physical and mental health because of it.
"There's a Reason" for Grape-Nuts
—sold by Grocers everywhere.
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