The Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 18, 1915 Page: 4 of 8
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CONSTITtTION COMPANY
Thfne is still an echo of Swan son
county to be beard in the legislature.
#i«4 a .Shepier
SheJper. .President ** Mrr 'hose buildir.tr plan* for the Feder-
al building in Lawton show sorr.e
Secretary
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER. buildir'*-
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Strange how popular the American
"l*M •""rio* ^ ^ lag u becoming witb foreign nations!
« But will it last?
Sew hate arc harbingers of spring.
getting
The senate ffUibaster
fierce.
What is the matter with
men's booster club?
youn;
* 2 oat
refl .?loa oa tU cUrii
BUkb4.bg or rfrpout! d of w j person
JLm or r-yrpor*HoB which m*j appear ta
tkj f'tiLBi of cbc Coovdtat^oo win t* Turkish capitol it will be
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t'O-r i-wr«rt*d «ix/n lu tetLg br-,uafct to
« trtertlfB of tb* MLttan,, "
u fuua rius matter, at tb«
Ml> "><* at Ltoi o. ualaboma. tiader /-t
• I • «. !> I ;«7k
If Russia succeeds in seizing the
some jolt
for the chief gobbler.
Cotton exports are above normal.
If it continues to whoop it up the
war may in time surpass in violence
'-▼en the traditional family jar.
Devol is
lights.
aoon to have
When a fellow tells you he "would
electric not be rich if he could,'- it's a safe bet
tie is on a still hunt for easy money
Henry Ford will find it more diffi-
cult to make good men out of bad
than he did to make millions out of
making an auto.
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Mst papers in the state, and as a real1
newspaper it is among one of the
best.
both of them either better or worse
to live under.
Business is a continual struggle
and in its conflict everyone should
have a free hand. But he is a poor
business man. be he farmer or city
tradesman, who thinks he can buy
amounts levied since statehood
amount to 116,945,776.90, the total
amount paid is 114,072,471.09, leaving
the amount due and delinquent as
$2J"S3,305-81. The surplus revenue on
July 1, 1914, amounted to $1,216,-
113.83. *
tradesman, who thinks ne can buy
h opriations out of .he public away froni heme all he needs without
building fund for each of the state in- !hurtinjr hiaseJf For ne doeg so
atitutions since statehood also «re'doeg the other fe||ow and the resu|t ^
given. This amount, which Ukes in j ^ impoverishraent of the whole ,0.
o ■" of the W' .tutions, totals *3,712,-; cajjty
Th. u l. 19" 6.33, but does not come out of the: c . . ...
The Muskogee Times-Democrat ofjbonded indebtedness „f the Hate as i M'd ^ " *
that city „ getting to be one of the the obligations rest against the prop-' P°SSib'e 10 frt>ni the C°D-
r -" rf . ., . itinent of America the f..i:iual stubble,
• of t"e schools and institutions. I , , „ ,
• grasse-, leaves and all that should de-
j cay back again into the soil, for three
s ,VS THE MERCHANT TO THE year: in succession, the continent
FARMER. 'would become a barren waste. 1
ARE ALLIED
SUCCESSES
ALONG LABASS E-BE T H U N V
ROAD; VIOLENT BOMBARD- *
MENT CONTINUED
The railroads
aqaure deal.
Reno il trying
vorce buainess.
are asking for a They're stil counting election
j turns over in Comanche county
-r'd now the municipal elections are
> recover ita di-1 JP°n them.—News-Capital.
Now is the time for good
quit knocking.
Feterita and Sudan grass are sure
crops any dry season.
There i room at the top in almost
^ every line of business, and no line is
better and present* a greater field in
o°m st the top than farming.
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'owners act on the misconception that icliamed today.
The Federal grand jnry will con
vene in Guthrie next week.
A mighty dangerous combination is
gun and a bottle of booze.
| '-"ok out for the bag worm in your
i trees-it may ap. ir to be only a
ad leaf rolled up but oil examina-
tion you may find it a pod full of
worm egg*.
The investigation of the
department is on at Oklahoma City
The legislature promises to make a
fine record for order and economy.
' itizens of Tulsa offered the kids
10 cents per gallon for bag worms
insurance gotten out of trees in he city, and 20
j gallons have been turned in already
The kids nothing like them.
The special grand jury ordere^
Judge Jones on petition of the
quired number of petitioners and j We have the spe
which convened on Feb. 8th made a j "atalogue of Sears Roebuck that came
' " ' v,e e 'J'-'d'arged last j in the mail, spread before us. We ad- Pa)'s them to buy from some con-
' ' m" ' were found.'mil that we looked it over and it was cern far away, just because this Can-
ary cases presented but not enough | rather interesting to us. And we made >ern can sell to them a little cheaper
ev, ence to warrant any bills. jup our mind that if it was interesting at first cost. For when freight, mail,
o— | to us It must be interesting to the time, interest on money, home credit,
HOME OWNERSHIP BILL. :fanner—and you may be sure he gets mutual farmer-merchant interest, and
I begins to look as if the Home " And !t S*ve us an idea. It is this: all the elements of neighborly life
Ownership Bill will become a law and There '* no use abusing these mail are considered they have not bought
that the state will i8SUe bonds at 5,ord" houses. The thing to do is to cheap; they bought dear. A pcrman-
per cent inUrest and loan it to thos- ^ince the farmer that taking ent continuation of this policy would
who desire to purchase homes at 6 /everything in consideration, he can destroy the town and return into a
per cent Interest. If the bill passes, it 'buy as cheap at home, buy safer on desert waste the farm near it Thev
-ooHirr 1the dr "f thelTnal *Xaminati0n 0f KOCd- than W0u,d both ^ undeveloped
- Office to rut this meas- s'ght-un-seen, and that it is to his fin- jungle of Africa or South America or
ure in operation. As the School Land -ncial interest to buy of merchants 'former Oklahoma
Department is now handling $50,000,-j *h,t directly and indirectly buy ofj Civilization and prosperity of re
h.m, and who along with him pay the regions and communities rise by uni
taxeo that makes the condition of son.—Ex.
DESPERATERESISTANCE
1 rom the Russians is Encountered by
Austro-Germans Near Tilsit and
in Bukowina.
By the United Press.
i -™iu ucti«ne a uarren waste. j PARI!, Feb. 15.—The defeat of the
! Something like that happens to the |^rmans in th;ee-dSr battle in Lor-
.raine and allied success along La
implement very farms of a community whose j Basse-Bethune road i3 officially
r.llt ai, 4 l .. a f ivi" ti C* v*c o />♦ am t k n m ■ —i & — a. - . _ « l a . 1 ■ n — j a. _ j _
Violent bombardment continued
Belgium and Soissons.
The Constitution is in receipt irf a
beautiful invitation to attend the
I'anama-Pacific exposition, which we
should be glad to do, if we had the
•- coin of the realm • in sufficient quan-
An aged white woman was brutally tities. 1^.9P
assaulted by a negro near Perry last1 - '5WBK
The white slavers are having a hard
time in the Federal court at Guthrie.
000.00 of property a few more mil-
lions apparently will not make v«/
much difference. Under the operations
of the home ownership bill, the bor-
rower pays the interest tnd a part of
the principal each year. It is modeled
something after the building and loan I
association plans.—Chandler Tribune. '
By the United Press.
BERLIN, Feb. 15.—Von Hinder
bergs army is encountering desper
ate resistance from the reorganized
Russians near Tilsit.
Also in Bukowina the Russian,
were reinforced and furiously attack
ad the Austro-Germans.
TOWNSHIP OFFICERS OF COMANCHE COI NTV. OKLA.
week.
There is one perfect xpeciman of foodstuffs during next
republican legislation brought
from dear old territorial days.
The world will be sending many
millions of dollars to America for'
year or two
over Arc we preparing to rtap our own
lul share of this rich harvest? Plant
• j - grow—harvest-sell!
It will take more than a fashion —o
•diet to make all women wea. '.heir The Myers Drug Company of St.
skirt** 12 inches from the floor.
This paper is here to publish the hands of a receiver the first
HOW LONG.
Does the United States senate re-
alize the effect produced on public
opinion by its childish and idiotic per-
formances over the ship-purchase
bill?
■ This is supposed to be a govern-
ment that rests on the consent of the
governed—in short, a government by
popular majorities. The two houses of
congress are supposed to deliberate
Louis, one of the largest wholesale ,hC" ^ De, b"«,fion over
• -■ itho kill in question ended in lie sen-
0. F. Putney ....
G. W. Brown ....
J. M. Lodes
W. E. Hubbs
Frank Hankins . .
Geo. C. Stabler ..
drua houses in the west, went into the '
of the
ate weeks ago, and was succeeded by
news and is not taking dictation from week. Plenty of assets but inability to'"" atU'mpt on the Part of the nwnor- j IX('
BROWN TOWNSHIP-.
I Trustee
Clerk
Treasurer
( HANDLER TOWNSHIP
Trustee
Clerk
Treasurer
CROSBY TOWNSHIP—
I Trustee
' Clerk
I Treasurer
j HULEN TOWNSHIP—
I N. Ives
I £le,k w. H. Miller
j INDIAHOMA TOWNSHIP- Br°°kcr
ST. J-D- p°o.
Treasurer
LAKE TOWNSHIP—
T rustee
Clerk
Treasurer
LAWTON TOWNSHIP—
Trustee
Clerk
Treasurer
u V" DCC^rty R- 2. Fletcher
H. L. Brooks Sterling
W. B. Monsey Fletcher
R 3, Elgin
Apache
R 3, Elgin
• ■ • R 1, Geronimo
Geronimo
Geronimo
. R 3, Lawton
Letitia
„ ., , Indiahoma
Roj'Hawkins Indiahoma
INDORSE CITY MANAGER PLAN.
JEFFERSONCITY.-By a unani
mous vote, the house committee on
municipal corporations reported for
passage the bill empowering third
and fourth class cities to adopt the
city manager form of commission
government if they so desire.
SNAP SHOTS.
Joshua, Jermeiah or Johnathan.
Several corporations of the state
have appealed from the tax valuation'in the course
of the state board of equalization.
Our republican exchanges are tell-
ing us that the republican party it
again united in this United States.
o-
^ hickasha is trying to unravel a
hog mystery—somebody hus been j American freeman,
awiping hogs and butchering them.
collect past due accounts.
Said Speaker Clark the other day
of a public address:
If I had one prayer for the Ameri-
can people which I knew would be
answered it would be that every
American citizen should be suffici-
ently educated to read the ballot on
election day and then sufficiently
courageous to cast it as becomes an j
ity hitherto successful—to precent j
the will of the majority from prevail-
ing. This means contempt for demo-
cracy, contempt for the constitution1
of the United States, contempt for
popular opinion.
The minority senators o;ight to
COI.N TOWNSHIP
...A. J. COOK
S. Scliell .
Ray Shroyer
.. .G. Weber ...
■ • Fred Heinz . .
• . E. B. Rust . .
..J.J. Folk ....
Indiahoma
Apache
... Mount Scott
Lawton
Lawton
I-awton
Lawton
. . W. E. Lawrence
. • Wm Merritt ...
. .C. S. Ulrich
. J. A. Woodson .
. Walter Farris
Tinney
R 5, Lawton
R 5, Lawton
Chattanooga
Faxon
■'* Hamilton Chattanooga
W. A. Penick Meers
W. a jjeHey M£«
Cache
With wheat and beef soaring, we
will have to go back to hog and hom-
iny, the food on which America was
built.
o
Hon Lewis Hunter was home
Sunday from the legislature. He is
doing good work and making a good
record.
Mr. Moncrief has received an order
for Sudan grass from Arkansas, as a
result of his advertising in the ''Old
Reliable.'"
Many readers get the ship purchase
bill mixed with the old ship subsidy
bill that the republicans tried to en-
act a few years ago. The difference is
I iy gieat. In this case the govern-
j ment own the ships and get the
over money, while in the former case the
government was to pay the money to
private owners in the form of a sub-
idy. This one is in the interest of
the people, while former one was for
privute monopoly.
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Trustee
Clerk
Treasurer
MANGAN TOWNSHIP--
Trustee
Clerk "
Treasurer
McMASTER TOWNSHII
Trustee
Clerk
take cousel with themselves Thi< U' Treasurer
an age of small economies,
dexes, efficiency systems and effiri- : £,erk
ency engineers. No bricklayer in the! QUA NMl^OWNSHIP—
1 nation could hold his job who behaved i Trustee
as Henry Cabot Lodge and Reed' Treasurer '
Smoot and Wesley L. Jones are be- RICHARDS TOWNSHIP-
having. How long shall this infernal I CleTk^.!!!!!!!!'!.!
nonsense in high places preseume on1 Treasurer
•• •*- •'«- Lo::!Mcs7ow!is",pr ,.Boh<n
Republic. | Clerk p j nve • • • • Meers
zella ''TO^NSSIP- ;:!; ^
• • ■ C. M. Clair.gan
H. C. Butler .
R. Kern
Jess Hancock
.. . B. O. Banks . .
.... W. H. Cox ..
... • J. F. Geist ...
.... Vic Sparlin ...
... .J. P. Brown ..
C. M. Wolcott
Cache
R 1, Cache
Cache
Cache
Cache
Cache
R 1, Fletcher
.... Fletcher
Fletcher
Meers
It is mighty hard to ke*;. a bach-
elor from associating a kimona with
sick headache.
If the price of meat continues up-
ward, pretty soon it will be only the
rich who can afford gravy on their
battercakes.
An expert shopper is a ladv who
can avoid buying anything iy con-
vincing the shop ?irls that nothing la
good enough for her
If she thinks less of the Golden Rule
than of an engagement ring, she's a
regular girl.
Tillie Clinger says there is a man
who works in her office whose wife i«
so fat he takes cold very time she
spends a night away .Tom home.
Mrs. Peavish says she doesn't re-
gret that she married for love, but
she wouldn't mind cashing in some
youthful ideals for some mature
money.
Tango is derived from the Latin
word "tango"—to handle.
Selfishness is a ravenous appetite
that can not be satisfied.
The person who has no friend*
should hurry up and make some. He
can do it.
Good literature is not merely some-
thing to make young women weep.
HOW TO MAKE A CHILD
CRYING.
STOP
The Missouri supreme court soak-
ed the five big packers $25,000 each
for violating the anti-trust law. Is
that why meat Is so high?
President Carlton of the Western
linio.-i T 'egraph company says that
1!>1> wii .• i.n--.s the greatest era of
piospcrity ever witnessed in this
country.
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Officers at Perry discovered a "dug
out'' miller a shack occupied by u
colored family, which proved to be a
regular store house of new merchan-
dise.
I he Oklahoma Press association is
making a determined effort to get
enough advertising spece contributed
by Oklahoma publishers to build an
editorial home nt Medicine Park near
Lawton. This is a fine place for the
annual meeting of the association
The bathing and fishing there are fine
and Mount Scott is mountain climbing
enough to satisfy any reasonable per-
son. The scenery is just as good as
can be found in Colorado an<T the ex-
pense is but a trifle in comparison
Treasurer
FINANCES OF STATE.
According to a statement made by
State Auditor E. B. Howard, the
bonded indebtedness of the state will
be paid within a period of five years
if the present rate of retiring these
isues can be ke)>t up, says the Okla- ' ♦ ~ *
homan. The figures are contained in !
Schnman
• R 1. Lawton
! WanU\
MARRIAGE LICENSE FOUND.
with what a stay in Colorado costs.—
Vinita Leader.
Th< re is a bill in the legislature to
permit, nn increase in city levies for
taxeH over the state. We anticipate
the average tax payer thinks the limit
ia high or.ough now.
VALUE OF A MAN.
A Tulsa woman has been offered
$25,000 to release her husband to an-
other woman.
Mere man is seldom valued so high-
ly by juries when he gets killed or
crippled by accident on railways or
in other ways.
All this raises the question of the
value of "mere man.''
X ,
A marriage license issued to Alex-
ander C. Fletcher and Miss Anna
Duffy has turned up in the state su-
perintendent's office at Oklahoma
a supplement t0 the report made by | ''OR SALE-6 White Orpington cock-' 'jl' S* !" 8 tube
the auditor's force on the general tax', .I'*"*' oAlbert Marxs°n. Apache. Ok- '„_j retUrn adllress on
tax lahoma, R. 0.;I,awton phone K X 52. '? mailed in that condition, so that
2-18-d6tp . went to that office. Interested part-
|ies may locate the license by ad-
! FOR RENT—160 acres, 125 plow 'dressins: H°n. R. II. Wilson's office at
- ! Oklahoma Citv. •
situation, which was requested by
concurrent resolution of the senate.
"There have been, up to the pres-
ent date, $225,000 worth of these
bonds retired," said Mr. Howard.
"There is now in the state treasury
$012,630.60 on hand for this purpose.
The actual original bond issue was, in
all, $2,451,500. Of this, $225,000 has
been paid, leaving a total of $2,226,-
500 outstanding. With the present
sinking fund deducted, there is now
but $1,613,860 outstanding. There
should be no difficulty in retiring the
whole issue within the next five years,
which would be three years under the
promises made by the party."
Aside from the showing of state
bonds actually issued and retired, the
supplement also shows the revenue!
levied each year since statehood,
amount collected, amounts delinquent
and surplus revenues.
condition, 35 pasture, all
See T. M. Runnells, First
Bank.
part.
National
2-18d2t wltp MET THEATRE BUSINESS SOLD.
SALE—Single Comb Rhode1 W' C- War(ien. of Amarillo, Texas,
Island Red eggs, from prize win- an experienced man in the motion pic-
ssc-AirvssE *sas-2r:TS. rrt b"
B Avenue. 2-!7rid\ 1 d the theatre business of the Met
The Constitution welcomes Mr. War-
EGGS FOR HATCHING—From pure ^6n t0 the C'ty tnd trusts that he wi"
bred WHITE ORPINGTON, $1.25 !"ake a suct-ess ol tfle business. There
per 15, $3.00 per 45. F. P. Ayco'ck 512 '* 8n °PeninK in I-awton for high class
Euclid. Phone 709. 2-16d6t wltp va'jdcville and a theatre conducted on
progressive lines.
WELL DRILLING.
LEFT THERE A BOY;
WRHTriR,?Eu A MATURE MAN.
■ H. Chft, the large gin owner.
has returned from a business trip to
Little Rock. Ark. Mr. Clift crossed
the line going to Arkansas the sanu,
y of the month that he crossed it
in leaving the state twentv-eiirhl
one wanting years a,o. He left there a l>eardle.
arged with pos- '""'i:'* """* Sn°ula write him t bov and returned hi* h • f- .
brought here and Sterling. He will do your work at grey He saV, th t LlT ? ^
lv pvonimr vprv Inw o m ^ .. . ^* a>s tnat Arkansas is dc-
WANTED — Single man wants to
make share crop, everything must
be furnished. Reference given and j
&5K,- cic™ okiT- W2-f8witV*T; TCaldwel1 of sterlin* has a
J "lst class modern drilling machinery Ut
COTTON COUNTY PRISONER |f°'" We" drillin ' with all equipment |in
' | necessary and any
drilling done should
In the March Woman's Home Com-
panion appears a department called
The Exchange in which readers give
•suggestions which have developed out
or their own practical experience. A
Massachusetts woman tells as follows
now to make a child stop crying:
"it often happen* that little child-
ren especially those that are nervous
or highly strung, are dosposed to
keep on crying when they get started.
When you wish a child to stop sob-
bing get him to take a good drink of
[cold water. It almost always will stop
the sobbing immediately."
LIGHT HEARING IS
SET FOR THURSDAY
The Corporation Commission hear-
ing is now set for Thursday Feb. 18th
in Lawton to investigate the light
m H8 T Lr°n- ™S ch3"Ke -a,
made by the Commission on account
of Mr. Keys getting back .ron, the-
east, sooner than expected.
ADM INISTR ATION AHEAD.
By the United Press
WASHINGTON, D. C Feb. 16._
The initial test of the administration's
■strength ,n the House on the ship pur-
chase, showed 181 in favor and 126
against, on the motion limiting debate
on the gag rule.
Robert Burns, charged
— —... sessing liquor, was brougnt nere and "c w'" ao your work at . "" " ••
The toUl |£U' ,n Jail Thursday evening from verv low figures. See T W Caldwell 1 I S*'Vj Arkansas is
/Cotton county by Sheriff Holman. j at Sterling o p " Ve'°Pm,f raPid,y its " >>• natural re
J *' ^-18w4t sources.
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