The El Reno Daily Democrat (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 31, No. 280, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 15, 1922 Page: 2 of 4
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THE EL RENO DAILY DEMOCRAT
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farmers over the county In great
or number tlian perhaps ever before
are xtiu'kiuK their grain this year
ami have begun ploughing as soon
an the shockoil grain is removed
from the land. The vast amount of
(♦tacking this year is worthy of note,
tor in many instances the wheat is
scarcely worth handling at all,
County Agent West has advocate I
stacking and early ploughing and it
is to be hoped Hint those farmers
who are trying this method for the
ftrsi time this year wili keep a rec-
ord of their work, so that by harvest
'iiue nest year some Interesting da
may be gleaned.
One other matter that the coun
agent has advocated, and one that
every farmer should realize, is tli•
care to be used In seed selection in
Planting the wheat this year. Good
.seed is Important as every fanne
knows. The El Reno mills will an i
lyze your seed free of charge to test
the milling value of the wheat, an ;
the A. and M. college at Stillwat
(Will test the seed for purity and
^germination It is not too late to
.secure these testn. and It iH far he'
lev to delay the planting, than to go
ahead and plant poor seed. No farm
er should sow seed unless he is mo-
tive that it Is good. If he is a mem-
ber of the Southwest Wheat drov-
ers association he can swap when'
,bushel for bushel for like grade. Tli
mills desire good wheat, the fanner
Bella his wheat to the mill, the ti
operation of the miller and the farm
er In seed selection, should be bene
ftcial to both.
Prospects at this writing are Jusi
a little brighter for the settlement
of the nalion wide coal slrlke. How
ever, if the strike is settled shortlv
It will take a considerable length of
time before sufficient coal is produc
ed to meet demands. Consequent!)
it is very reasonable to presum
that ther'e will be a coal shop'.ag<
tills winter. Such being the pron
pect, every consumer of fuel shoul 1
make an attempt right now to secur.
as much wood as possible to at lea -
partially solve his fuel problem tin
winter. Along the north and Sou 1
Canadian river is an abundance 0
dead timber, gathered and sawed, it
would help greatly to take the phut
of coal this winter.
Men who are out of employmen
or fanners along the river, seemim
ly could make fair wages by gathe
ing this wood supply now. There .
no question about the demand latei
when cold weather sets in.
Babe Ruth limy be the "King o1
Swat" but It was up to El Reno to
produce the "Ponzi" of the national
pastime.
The average farmer has his da>
pretty well taken up with the or I
nary duties of the farm, and bearl 1
that fact in mind we desire to a
that the work of many farmers ad
jacent to El Reno in cutting tli
weeds along the highway that bound
their farm is highly complimentary
A well kept Barm Is the best adver
tiseinent of the Industry and energj
of the owner.
We have never been able to llgup
out how a stranger finds it the eas
est matter in thte world to cash a
worthless check in El Reno, and oui
own checks are given the once and
twice over and then some. Must be
because the other fellow is a stran
er and thus has that advantage.
Time Called on the Ma>or.
Most people who meet Mayor <
Davis of Terre Haute are iiii|u->
by his husklness. lie Is proud of
strength, and tells stories galor<
the tests to which it was put hie I,
the da.vs when people used sn,,.
stead of furnaces
Then Davis was a popular mui
his home neighborhood. In 1
spring and late fall he received
Invitations to the raising and
Ing of stoves, even to the one I
tended one morning on n da> I d
"April the First." After lia . in .
told a neighbor wisl.ed li
help take down a s'mt it
rushed there and :■* h
take down the pipi a- -. n- 0 ■
moving 1 lie stove 'i 1 .
period to remind I I 1 . •
"Hill I would le;\o I'o|
down In 11 feu mile 1 1 i ■
called time." he I.J fct,H at the • il l
the stori.
DERIVATION OF GRASS WIDOW
Term Probably Is Corruption of Grace
and Comes From Middle
Age Usage.
How dirt the term "&ras8 widow"
11 rise? The >< st popular derivation,
according to l'earson'i Weekly, is
that "gra.sH" is a corruption of grace,
the proiiounciation of which. - iu the
Latin, Is grahsc.
In tl <* .Middle Ages widows were
said to lu* "under CJod's grace" for a
.war after their husband's death, at
the end of which period tliey mi lit
properly, if they wished, remarry, ami
so a widow in gruiv meant a new
widow.
About the same time the wives of
the marriages that were, in exeep
tionul cases, annulled hy the church,
began also to he spoken of as widows
of grace, in the rather different sense
that they owed their virtual widow-
hood to the "grace" or favor of the
church. So, then, a grace—pro
nounced grass widow came to mean
a wife, called a widow by courtesy.
Another explanation is that, exactly
as we now refer to a sham party in a
business transaction as a "man of
straw," so an unmarried woman with
a child who explained her condition
by mention of a supposedly dead hus-
band. was contemptuously spoken of
us a "widow of grass."
It is in this sense that the phrase is
commonly used on t lie continent,
whereas In Ibis country the term gen-
erally means a real wife temporarily
living away from her husband.
KNEW HOW TO RUN HIS CAR
Motorman Resented the Help of the
Truck Driver, and Then
Repented.
A street car approached a busy
downtown corner, the motorman
clanging his gong. A truck driver
stepped from in front of his machine
parked near the track. He waved re
assurlngly nt the motorman and
raensured with his hands to signal
sufllcient clearance.
The motorman resented the truck-
man's role of traffic director, lie
growled his resentment to a platform
passenger.
"I don't need nobody to shpw me
how to run a car. I been runnln' one
long enough to know when I can get
by."
He clanged angrily toward the
next corner where other trucks were
parked.
"I suppose some fool will step out
here to tell me how to run my car," he
snapped. He glanced contemptuously
at. a truck as his car glided toward it.
Hut there was no "fool to give di
rections this time and. to the very
great astonishment and chagrin of the
motorman who knew "how to run
'em," his car sideswiped the truck.—
Kansas City Star.
A Kind Wish.
When Jean went to her little neigh-
bor's to visit she often talked to the
grandmother of the house. "I have a
grandmother, too," she would say,
"but she's in heaven."
And she and the grandmother of the
house were good friends until one day
the grandmother was cross. She
scolded the two little girls for leaving
the screen door open, for walking in
a flower bed and dropping crumbs on
the floor.
The two youngsters sought refuge
on the porch. Grandmother started
to follow them there a little later, to
try to make up. She realized the
necessity of doing so, for when she
reached the door she heard Jean say,
"Ruth, I wish jour grandmother was
visit in' my grandmother today."—In
dianapolis News.
YONKERS H/S THE CUCKOO
Citizen Complaint That the Birds Are
Somewhat Too Attentive to
Business.
A proud but truthful resident of
Yonkers admitted that there were a
lot of cuckoos there, lie wasn't proud
of the cuckoos, particularly. As far as
cuckoos are concerned, his pride is
strictly civic. If one must have
cuckoos, he prefers the Swiss kind,
which are vocal only when wound up
and then only at: Intervals.
The Yonkers cuckoo doesn't have to
be wound up. The imported eight-day
cuckoo is a piker beside the Yonkers
cuckoo. The Yonkers cuckoo stays
awake half the night waiting for the
dawn and each has the same pride in
being the first to salute the earliest
gleam of the sky that a fanner's wife
has in getting her washing out before
a neighbor's line is strung.
From the moment that the night be-
comes faintly luminous until about
0:Ur a. in. the air Is tremulous with
' cuckoos. From 9:?J5 to 10:05, the
cuckdTis knock off for lunch. Then
they're at It again until dark. They
yelp "cuck-oo" nt every resident of
Yonkers they see ami even at strang-
ers from Pcckskill. When the street
is utterly deserted they murmur
"cuck-oo, cuck-oo" .lust for practice.
I'anaru ' nal is the only undertak-
ing ever attempted in America which
may he compared In magnitude or
boldn< • of conception to this en-
gineering project, which will trans-
form an empire of waste into a re-
gion of productivity.—World's Work.
A Field for Profitable Operation.
In the northern part of Texas one
can ride overland for six days without
ever being out of sight of the candel-
IIla plant—a weed from which a very
high grade wax is made. Huge for-
tunes await the men who will develop
the Industry of wax making. As yet
only six factories are working. The
cundelilla plant grows from one to
three feet high, and as many as 5,000
sterns come from the same root. It
flourishes in the poorest soil, and re-
produces Itself annually. The cost of
labor is low, and the supply of ma-
terial Incredibly vast. The wax is
made by boiling and steaming the
weed. The crude wax Is refined and
used In making candles, phonograph
records, polishes, varnishes and even
linoleum. And from the fibrous waste
a good quality of paper Is turned out.
Novel Burglar Alarm.
As a protection against burglary or
theft, an alarm signal, described In
Popular Mechanics Magazine, has been
devised which is adaptable to many
uses. Tn size, it Is only a little larger
than a big watch, which it resembles.
It Is loaded with ten blank cartridges
which are fired by a fuse on the Inside
of the device. In case of danger it Is
only necessnrv to release a safety
catch on the face of the device and
drop or throw the signal, keeping hold
of the finger ring, from which the
alarm Is released when flung.
Daily Short Story.
Tiberius Smcaerwhiflle, the book-
keeper, was trying to shine up to the
new stenog.
She wrote a letter for him.
"For that," he burbled, "I will give
you your choice of a package of clga
rettes or a nice kiss."
"I don't smoke cigarettes," said she
haughtily.
Then he didn't know what to do.—
Louisville Courle.--Jw.mal.
BIRD DOESN'T HAVE TO FLY
Washington Specimen Uses the Street
Car as His Particular Means
of Transportation.
Now that spring is here, it may in-
terest bird lovers to know that at
least one bird has solved the problem
of transportation without the use of
wings.
Birds nre fatuous for their migra-
tions, but hitherto they always have
used wing power. Now comes along
one local hird who gets himself from
place to place with scarcely the flap
of a whig.
This bird Came riding down Penn-
sylvania avenue about eleven o'clock
one morning last week. He was
perched on the roof of a street car
coming from Georgetown.
When the car stopped at Eleventh
street the bird alighted, and walked
gravely up and down the platform,
lie was a fine, big fellow, with a black
body and a blue head, but did not look
like a blackbird.
After surveying the post office de-
partment for a bit, the bird flew over
to a car about to leave for Mount Ver-
non, and established himself on the
roof.
When the car pulled out. the bird
wns with It.—Washington Star.
Robin Gets the Worm.
Robins are growing fat on worms In
Lafayette square.
The -t.iss there must be literally
alive wi'li worms, for no robin seems
to have any difficulty whatever In pick-
ing up the best kind of living.
You will see one of the birds hop
along, then suddenly reach down.
He begins to pull.
Up comes his head with a worm
dangling to his beak, one end of the
worm held tenaciously by the robin,
the other clinging fast to mother
earth
Bracing himself the bird throws his
entire weight in one final heave. He
then consumes half the worm, and
files a^ay with the remainder.
The performance does not strike
one as cruel, for both bird and worm
are operating under the laws of na-
ture. Washington Star.
What do you think is the predomi-
nating element of the great Clouds
which float high above our heads In
the sky? Water? No; dust, the little
motes that we may see dancing in any
sunbeam. Without dust there can be
no clouds, and without clouds rain can-
not fall.
Most of Hngland's rain comes from
the hot seas on the coast of America.
Here water rise* into the air In the
form of steam, whose tiny particles
adhere to the little dust-specks, or
motes of which the atmosphere is full.
If it was not for the motes the steatu
would simply fall back again at eve-
ning time when the temperature
dropped. But as it is, each mote at-
tracts a certain number of vapor par-
ticles, and retains them. Tn this way
great clouds an* formed which are
carried eastward over the seas by the
wind.
So long as there is no great fall in
the temperature they will continue to
be clouds; for water-vapor is lighter
than air and will not sink in it; but
should the temperature lie reduced rap-
idly, the particles of vapor begin at
once to condense into drops of water
far heavier than air. The motes can
no longer sustain their burden and
rain begins to fall.
CHICHESTER S PILLS
W THE DIAMOND ORAM). A
Take no other. Ilujr of to_.
l ru(Kl«t. AsWfnfeilI.rrtVH.TFHS
DIAMOND It RAND I'll.lH.fr 95
yeira known u Best, Safest, Always RellaMc
SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE
Real Home phe.e.
Henpeckke—My wlt'e ami I spent
the week-end with Mr. and Mrs.
Gnaggs.
Flubdub—Did tk«y make you feel at
home?
Henpeckke—They certainly did.
They scrapped like the deuce all tht
time we were there.—New York Sua.
FRANK TAYLOR,
Court Clerk of Canadian Couuy,
Oklahoma.
(SEAL)
The World's Greatest Dam.
Plans have been made to build a
dam on the Colorado river which will
hold back a volume of water equal to
two years' flow of the entire 1,800
miles of rushing river. The dam is
to be 700 feet high, approximately
the height of the Woolworth building
in New York city. The dam will form
a reservoir with an area of 200 square
miles and an average depth of 3f>0
feet. This body of water will consti-
tute Ihe largest artificial lake in the
world. One western railroad system
Is already planning to operate a fleet
of steamers to carry tourists over tills
man-made lake to the Grand canyon,
the wonder spot of Apieri< i The
A Diplomat.
A small boy was asked to dine at
the home of a distinguished professor,
anil Ills mother, fearing he might com-
mit some breach of etiquette, gave
him repeated directions as to what he
should and should not do.
I'pon his return from the great oc-
casion she questioned, "Richard, did
you get along at the inhle all right?"
"Oh, yes, mother, well enough."
"You are sure you didn't do any-
thing that was not perfectl... polite ard
gentlemanly?"
"Why, no nothing to speak of."
"Then something did happen. Tell
me at once," she demanded.
"Why, while I was trying to cut the
meat it slipped off on the floor. But
I made it all right."
"What did you do?"
"Oh, I ,1ust said, sort of carelessly,
'That's always the way with tough
meat.' "—Harper's Magazine.
(June 2S. July 0. 13, 2ft)
STATE OF OKLAHOMA,
Canadian County.—ss:
In the District Court in and for said
County and State.
In the matter of the application of
the Reno Fox Oil Company for
an order and decree of courl
granting the dissolution of same.
Notice Is hereby given to all persons
concerned:
That the directors of the Reno Fox
Oil Company, a corporation, organiz
ed and existing under and by virtu?
of the laws of the Staite of Oklaho-
ma with its principal place of busi-
ness in the City of El Reno, Canad-
ian County, State of Oklahoma, did
on the 27th lay of June. 1922, present
to the District Court of Canadian
County, State of Oklahoma, its duly
verified, written application for the
dissolution of the Reno Fox Oil Com-
pany praying the District Court of
Canadian County, Oklahoma, for an
order and decree of dissolution of
said corporation; that the court af-
ter full consideration of the written,
verified application of the Board of
Directors of said corporation made
[ and entered its order directing the
Court Clerk of Canadian County,
State of Oklahoma, to file said writ
ten, verified application and to causa
notice of the filing of said applica-
tion to be printed in the EI Reno
Daily Democrat, a newspaper print
ed, published and of general circula-
tion in Canadian County, State of
Oklahoma, notifying all persons hav-
ing claims against said corporation
or in any manner interested therein
to appear and file in said Court any
and all objections any or either of
them may have to the dissolution of
said corporation on or before the
29th day of July, 1922, to the end
that such objection, if any there be.
shall be fully considered by the court
before making any order or the
granting of said petition or applica-
tion so as aforesaid filed by the
board of directors in this court; that
this notice is given in pursuance of
an order of the District Court of
Canadian County, t^ate of Oklahoma
duly made and entered in this pro
ceeding on the 28th day of June,
1922, and of which all creditors,
stockholders, or other persons who
may be affected by an order, judg
ment or decree of the court granting
a dissolution of the Reno Fox Oil
Company are required to take notice
and govern themselves accordingly.
STATE OF OKLAHOMA,
Canadian County.—ss:
In the District Court within and for
said County and State.
No. 6315.
John Kossuth, Plaintiff,
vs.
Miriam S. Springs, Luna Edith Had-
ley, if living, and if dead her un
known heirs, executors, adminis-
trators and assigns; R. C. Terrell,
and the heirs, executors, adminis-
trators. devisees, trustees and as-
signs, immediate and remote of
Tillie Terrell, Deceased,
Defendants.
The State of Oklahoma lo:
Miriam S. Springs, Luna Edith Had
ley, if living, and if nead ner un-
known heirs, executors, adminis-
trators and assigns, R. C. Ten 11
and the heirs, executors, adminis-
trators, devisees, trustees and as-
signs, immediate and remote of
Tillie Terrell, DeceaseC:
You will take notice that you and
each of you have been sued in the
district court of Canadian County,
Oklahoma, wherein John Kossuth is
plaintiff and the parties above nam-
ed are defendants, wherein tl.e
plaintiff seeks to quiet the title ro.
and remove clouds from, the follow
ing described real estate, situated in
Canadian County, Oklahoma, to-wit:
Lots 18 and 19 in Block 53.
in the City of El Reno,
and to exclude you, and each of you,
from any right, title or interest in
and to the above described real es-
tate, and you must answer the
plaintiff's petition filed herein, on or
before the lftth day of August, 1922,
or said petition will be taken as true
and it will be decreed by the Court
that you, the defendants herein,
have no right, title or interest in the
above described real estate, and the
title of the plaintiff therein will be
quieted as against the defendants
herein.
Given under my hand and with
the seal or my office tiiia 28th day of
June, 1922.
FRANK TAYLOR,
Cju t Clerk.
J. N. ROBERSON,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
(SEAL)
- REAL ESTATE
—INSURANCE
THOS. JENSEN
103 1-2 NORTH BICKFORD
—FARM LOANS
Phone 377.
AWNINGS
of all kinds—Call Smith Tin Shop,
102 North R. I. Phone 208.
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
Democratic Primary Aug. 1
Justice Supreme Court—
MATTHEW J. KANE.
THINK!
FOR JUST A MOMENT, PLEASE CONSIDER THE COMFORT,
CONVENIENCE, ECONOMY AND ADAPTABILITY OF YOUR
ELECTRIC SERVICE!
Your Willing Servant ready to do your tasks, light
your house or fan you with Cool Breezes, day and
night.
AND THE AVERAGE DOMESTIC CUSTOMER PAYS US BUT
7 Cents Per Day
add up your nil is ANn see what you pay for this
service.
no YOU BUY
ANYTHING CHEAPER?
OKLAHOMA CAS AND ELECTRIC CO.
N. I. GARRISON, Manager
El Reno Division
For Congress—
ELMER THOMAS
For Sheriff—
PAT II. STEPHENS.
T. C. SHACKLETT.
A. T. ANDERSON.
J. C. DAGGB.
For County Clerk—
0. E. BROSS.
I County Assessor—
II WM. (BILLY) MORRISON'.
I ROBERT RRETZ.
For Court Clerk—
FRANK TAYLOR.
County Treasur
CLYDE MATTHEWS
County Commissioner—
District No. 1
CARL MERVELDT.
J H. THOMASON.
J. M. KENNEDY.
District No. 2
J. B. DEARDORFF.
C. A. SNIDER.
District No. 3
H B. McCANN.
W. H. LILLY.
Republican Primary, Aug. 1.
For Sheriff—
.1. L. LIVELY.
JOHN STANLEY.
! For Treasurer—
JULIUS WEBER.
County Assessor—
CLIFF C. THOMPSON.
FRED BOLTON.
County Commissioner—
District No. 1.
JOHN LORENZEN
(DOC) W. J. KEHRER.
District No. 2
A. T. LITTLE.
o
District No. 3
tVlI.L LEICHTON,
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