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Calumet Weekly Criterion
Published >t 217 North Harvey Street, Oklahoma City. Okla., by The Suburban Newspaper Publishing Company
vol 3. NO. 1(.
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.OKLAHOMA, TIM HSDA\ . XOYEMIiKK 24. HMO.'
*1.00 I'Kli YK\R.
CLARA THOMPSON,
Local Editor.
Saturday is
Come. Kelly's.
Demonstration Day. ; PLACE WHERE PITT LIVED
, . ; Mr. Rob Hardey is on the sick list
I'. B. Thompson is done busking "is [ tliis week.
Bill Boyer
Sunday.
Mr. H. H. Deskins returned home
was a Calumet visitor Thursday night.
- Colorado Potatoes, $1.00 per hushel,
at Gatz Bros.
Only 34 days more until Christmas,
(let busy.
Todd Jones is visiting in Clinton,
Oklahoma.
Bro. Watkins preached here last
Thursday evening.
a Geary visit-
Clara Thompson was
or last Saturday.
llrs. Guy Clayton visited with her
mother, Mrs. Andrews, Saturday.
Rev. Johnson preached at tlie Meth-
odist church last Sunday morning and
evening.
Miss Ida Gappa, of 131 Reno, visited
home folks Sunday.
Miss Dixie Car) spent Sunday in 131
Reno with home fr .'ks.
Mr. and Mrs. FreO Uoevers went to
El Reno Wednesday.
Dr. Richardson and Will Dixon were
in El Reno Wednesday.
Lounge Bollinger was an El Reno
visitor the first of the week.
Miss Susie Petree is visiting friends
and relatives in El Reno this week.
Misses Bertha Lamons, Kate Tabor,
Hro. Wood preached at the I'resby
terian church last Sunday morning and visited friends in El Reno Tuesday,
evening.
Miss Fanny McWhan spent Sunday
Eliza Andrews and Clara Thompson with home folks from 131 Reno.
returned home Saturday evening trom
a visit in Geary.
Noted English Statesman's Homo
Where It Is Said Britain Really
Lost America.
London.—North End Place, which
was recently sold at public auction,
should be an object of great interest
to Americans. Perhaps if William
Pitt, earl of Chatham, had not re-
tired to this fine old-fashioned resi-
dence, but remained at the head of
Ilia political party, the Boston tea
duties never would have been imposed
and the English flag might now bo
living over the whole North American
i continent,
| In 1767, when the great statesman
| was seized with an unaccountable i'l
I ness, he shut himself up in this house.
Ills last days here have a wonderful
resemblance to the closing chapter of
Stevenson's story, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr
Hyde." To the consternation of his
ministers. Pitt did not put In an ap
pearance when parliament met. Oc
RAISE FINE DATES
Palms Thrive in Sun of Southern
California.
WINNING THE RECORD FOR ALTITUDE
Miss Florence Cevers, of 101 Reno, is
visiting Miss Ollie Will this week.
There will be prayer meeting: every
Thursday night. Everyone come and
bring some one with you.
There was a box supper four miles
north of ""here last Saturday night
which was well attended. The amount
realized was $22.50.
Mr. W. W. Jackman went to El Reno
Wednesday to meet Hon. Dick T. Mor-
Messr. Dan Zimmerman and
Kelly were business visitors
Reno Tuesday.
Miss Nell IJevine, of 131 Reno, attend-
of Calumet, visited j ed the Menz and Boever wedding near
t El Reno from Sat- Union Tuesday.
vlio is teaching
Christina McClain
school northeast
with home folks
urday until Sunday. •
The Misses Montye ktlgore and
Mr. and Mrs. French Laughlin are Odessa Garrett were business visitors
the proud parents of a baby boy born in El Reno Thursday.
on Friday. Both babe and mother
etting along nicel>.
Tile pie supper which was held at
the old Calumet school house south
-1 i,d east of here was well attended and
all had all of the pie they could eat.
The amount collected was $28.00.
Mrs. George Stearns and daughter.
Miss Sadie, have returned from Wichi-
ta, Kans., where they have been for
their health and visiting with Mrs.
Pevorce.
It' you have any hair work you wish
to have done, such as hair puff oi
switches made, leave your order with
Mrs. S. A. Thompson. Bring your hair;
vou will find her at her residence just
a little south of town on the left hand
side ol' the road. Reasonable prices.
Call and see her or phone No. 2 I alu-
met line.
There was Sunday school in the new
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Jackman and
daughter, Miss Birdine, returned from
Oklahoma City Thursday.
Mr. Henry Dyche, of Cogar, wife tradj
ing with our enterprising mer^
in Union Saturday.
Mr. .Turd Smith and two sons Lus-
ter and Jesse were 131 Reno visitors
Tuesday.
(> . a
ill ' ; / '
v ) fj.
Ira
Y.W/A
Where Pitt Lived
Demonstrated That Conditions
Coachella Valley Are Favor-
able to Development of
First-Class Fruit.
I/os Ai K«'les. Cal. -The date Indus-
try in California promises to become
a great factor in the fruit markets of
the world, for ii has been proved that
the conditions in the Coachella val-
ley are more favorable to the devel-
opment of the date of first quality
than of any other country where the
date is grown, it has also been deiu- |
onstrated that a much larger per i
rentage of first quality dates can be j
produced from the seed than in the j
Saba ran cases.
In planting tlie date seed plant In |
rows thirty leet apart, placing the j "
seed about eighteen Inehes apart in j plants should be at least thirty feet
the row. thus planting about one ' apart each way when twelve or tlf-
thousand seed to tin- acre. During | teen years of age, they will have fifty
he first few years any kind of crop ! i^ood plants to the acre to dispose of.
an be cultivated between the rows. , but when one considers the prollt to
When the palm is three years old it j be derived from the iirst offshoots,
i begins to blossom. At this time the I which may be expected from a five-
i process of thinning begins, and the j year-old plant, one will be tempted to
male plants can be taken up and sent j leave the plants fifteen feet In the
o the city to be planted as or*ia row for a few years at least. A con-
jart/YjrO/Yf /15C£r/Y0//VC
NEW YORK.- Among the notable feats at the international aviation
meet at Helmont park was that of Ralph Johnstone, who established a
new world's record for altitude. In a "baby Wright roadster" of only
36 horse power he reached a height of 9,714 feet, exceeding by 528 feet the
height attained In France on October 1 by Henry W. Wnymalon of Holland.
Johnstone has been Hying only since last June.
mental trees. Prom this time until
after the fifth year the thinning and
rearranging in rows must be properly
attended to and. according to best au-
thority, growers may expect at least
one hundred plants of the best quality
of dates out of the one thousand
seeds planted to the acre, and as the
servntlve estimate places an average
of four offshoots to the plant five
' years old, and Jin average of one off
j shoot to the plant a year for the next |
I five years. The offshoot always bears |
1 fruit identical with the parent tree, i
I In this way the parties who plant the
I iirst seedling orchard will be in line I
Remember, the
E. church every
Rev. Garrett.
big revival at the M.
night conducted by
Miss Florence Zimmerman is visit-
ing the home of her sister, Mrs. Leo
Kilker a few days.
caston ally he would drive about llantn
tead Heath in a closed carriage but
no*%of his time he spent completely
secluded in a tiny room at til. top
of the house All his meals were con-
veyed to him through a hole in the
wali| closed by a door on either side.
Hewefused to see any one. even his
own attendant, who never would e sn
the hatchway to shove in the food
unless the door was closed on the
other side of the wall.
The house is a fascinating old struc-
ture, with various modern additions,
situated 400 feet above sea level in
FINDS QUEER TRIBE
Dutch Explorer Tells of Wild Folk
in New Guinea.
Mysterious Mountain People Who,
With Their Pigs, Live In Little
Huts Raised Ten Feet From
Ground.
tlie home of his daughter,
Goodrich, Sunday.
Mr.
Methodist church last Sunday and the I Nebraska, where he will visit relatives
following officers were elected for tlu
rest of the year: Organist, Clara
Thompson; Superintendent Bro.
Blagg. Organist for church, Mrs.
Olapp; teacher of primary class, Clara
Thompson; boys' class, Mrs. t lapp.
intermediate class, Marie Weigh; M-
ble class, Bro. Thompson; secretary
and treasurer, Ruth Rankin.
The new school house is nearly com-
pleted. it lias the roof on it"and the
carpenters are building the belfry now.
This house is two stories, which about
thirty-two feet high. The school house
is built of brick and has four rooms,
and one large room up stairs for en-
tertainments. Miss Barbara Erbar is
teacher of the primary room; Miss
Grace Warren is teacher of the next
room; Miss Combs is the principal.
This house will seat about four hun-
• dred pupils. Aboul one hundred are
going to school now. The cost wilt he
about four or six thousand dollars.
This line school house will he ready
for use the Iirst of the year.
Union City News.
Thanksgiving post cards. Kelly's.
Two bunches celery, lac. Kelly s.
Mr. Keen was in El Reno Thursday.
1'. \V. oil, 5 gal. for t f c, at Gatz Bros.
Three quarts cranberries, Kel-
C. P. Goose, of El Reno, visited tht most beautiful suburb of London.
Its interior abounds with rare oak pan
eling and quaint staircases. With its
magnificent views over 1/mdon and
its upt-o-date conveniences, Pitt house
is an ideal home, to which the rather
gruesome memory of Pitt only adds
a. piquant historical association
erman Clipper left Sunday for
during the winter months.
Mrs. Geo. Goodrich is visiting
home of her parents in 101 Reno,
and Mrs. C. F. Goose.
immediately afterwards to undergo
ceremonial washing.
j "These people lived in little huts,
; all of which were raised about ten
feet from the groe:. I, access l « ?ng
I obtained by a notched pole. These
' little huts we found to be divided into
two, one half being used for domestic
animals mostly pigs. which pre-
sumably, also climbed the rough lad-
1 der and the other half by the people
London Mr H A Lorentz, a Dutch j themselves. These natives are not
xploier, the first white man to pene- i ,fWarfs. We noticed that some of the
women liitd the middle linger of the
left hand cut off.
"We had no means of discovering
the meaning of this, although It was
clear that the mutilation was made
during youth Many of the men, too,
had the upper portion of one of their
to reap a rich harvest for their sur-
plus offshoots, for the imported off-
shoots will be very expensive for sev-
eral years to come, besides, after
transporting the offshoots on the
backs of camels across the burning
sands of the Sahara desert to the
ocean liner, lying upon the docks at
both ends of the line, then transport-
ed by rail to the indicated farms, the
plants will certainly be considerably
weakened, and will require a year of
tender nursing. Even though the
plant.' cost $2f each, and not more
than one-half survive the rough treat-
j nicut, there yet remains a fortune to
the one who engages in the date busl-
I ness in this favored location.
ears removed. Unlike all Papuan
I tribes 1 have met they were entirely
I tree from skin disease. None of whom
I wore a stitch of clothing. While the
tribes on the coast never smoke, these
mountain people grow tobacco, which
they smoke in their pipes.
story
a<i
trate into the mysterious central snow
range of New Guinea, lias returned to
Europe with i
ventures.
The explorer dis<
ous mountain frlbe
pigs, lived in little
ON THE ROOF GARDEN.
Mrs. Jesse Newiand returned Sunday
from Chickasha, w fife re she lias been
visiting friends a few days there.
Rev. Geo. Wood went to Curty Sat-j
urday to till his regular appointment!
at that place.
Mrs. Maud Lamphin was
at the G. W. Cooper home
part of the week.
the guest
the latter
Five days more of the Linen Sale.
Kelly's.
Mrs. Bertha Ninman was in El Reno
Tuesday.
Garrett at the church to-
Mr. E. Needham went #n Ok'.ihoinn j
City Wednesday to visit his son Ev-
erett, who is working in a ha' k at that
place
The big revival meeting which is j
being held at the M. E. church conduct-
ed by Rev. Garrett, is being well at-
tended every night and if you haven't ,
been you had better go. It will do you
good to hear Rev. Garrett. A hearty |
invtiation is extended to all.
Miss Edna Arnold, who is attending j
high school in El Reno, spent Saturday j
and Sunday with hom folks near Un-j
ion.
Mesrs. Cy Greenwood, Joe Green j
wood, Clias. Greenwood, ('has. Liobler.'
attended the opera in El Reno Monday j
evening.
The little Misses Syble and Ryble
Lamons returned to their home in Ei i
Reno after a few day^ visiting with
relatives in i'nion.
voice
telephone
How so
Us alwa
Ionz di
overed a mysteri
who, with their
huts raised ten
feet from the ground, into which both
the people ami the animals climbed by |
way of notched boards.
Doctor Lorentz says:
"Suddenly we. came across a se
eluded valle\ which, t.o our amaze-
ment. w«" fount to l e thickly popu- !
lated. We wen walking in single file
through the twilight shade of the.
great forest when we heard mysteri-
ous <alls. Suddenly a unaII band of
savages, all armed with bows and ar ;
rows and stone axes, ran out from the j
jungle. The> approached us with
hands outstretched, offering us sweet
potatoes as a sign of friendship.
"On our arrival in their village the
people performed a curious ceremony. 1
by which they made us blood brothers i
They sacrificed a pig and smeared
each of tib on the forehead with the
creature's blood This proved a some
what awkward ^Mention in the case
of our Mohammedan soldiers, but at
niv • artiest request the) agrc<d to sub-
mit provided that w« allowed them
bo, Cii 'ev«d for C?L
New York. Frank <\UlghictUa, er
years old, has had his first square
meal in three days. A big Maltese
has been his pet for years. Three
days ago the cat was taken by the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals The lad began pining
in such an extent that he could not
eat His family was on the verge of
summoning a doctor, when the cat
turned up. How It escaped the so-
( iety agents is unknown. The sight
of his old companion was a tonic for
the boy, who ate with hiB family for
j the first time in three days.
Says World is Going Mad
r. Forbes Winslow, Lunacy Expert,
Takes Pessimistic View of Future
— Pace Is Rapid.
away of!
Seed Crops in Demand.
Seed crops of sweet coin, garden
peas and beans of good quality are in
ever increasing demand, and the quan
titv needed yearly has become so
large that the seedsman in obliged to
have the major portion of his stock
for him by others
Fire Horses <%Corne Bach99
Hear Rev
night.
McGregor Horring ws
Tuesday.
in El Reno
Miss Ida
Wednesday.
Mr. C.
Tuesday.
went to El Reno
Brown was in El Reno
Mr. Emmet Petree. Clias. Petree, I
George Garrett, Luster Smith, attended I
the big government lot sale in El Rneo j
Tuesday.
II. F. McGuire who lives on the old |
Johnson ranch five miles east of I'n-,
ion is visiting at the home of his old
friend, S. (). Cowden.
Mr. Keeley and daughter-in-law, and
little daughter left. Saturday for j
Greenfield. Okla., w here they will join ;
Mr. Artie Keeley.
§rowu
is reported im
Mrs. Nellie Im-
proving rapidly.
Mr. and Mrs. Desbrlch wen
Reno Tuesday.
Mr. John Armour and son. ('has . Mr.
Joe and Clias. Greenwood, Pete Snalr,
attended the ' iu lot sale which was
|.]1 put on the market Tuesifny in El Reno
bv the government.
Could Take Her Choke
H« iresh Tell me I nil N r tin
your love or vour reason promi
to marry me"
Arthur .lust as \ou Mo der
Meggendorfer Hlaetter
Good Tip.
"How .iid vou manage to k'-
last cook so long
"She got interested in a sen.
o one of the imighzim I take
Animals in Denver Department for
Ten Years Run Away From Life
of Ease on Ranch.
story of Larry and
which were tor ten
station of Make
Eighteenth and Nine
k ill appeal to all lov
! with the decadence of our youth, near
j proximity to a nation of madmen.
"Ily comparing the lunacy statistics
j of 1 sr 9 with those of 1909, four de-
Londot According to Or Forbes j , Hdcs having Intervened, by reflections
Wlnslow, w ho acquired international are Sad indeed. A terrible but real
celebrity by his sedulous insistence on curse Is In store, and an insane world
his theory tha* lack the Ripper" was looks forward to me with certainty in
a homicidal maniac, the world is go- ; the not far distant future.
'ing mad. 1 ",n out of 11 population of 22,
Doctoi Wlnslow considers that the : 2n,209, there were 5:5,177 registered
rate of progre!- to that consummation lunatics In England and Wales, there
is shockingly rapid In a book of renii* j being one lunatic in every 418 of total
nlscences published recently this ex I population, whereas In 1909, out of a
pert in criminal lunacy says: population <>f 35,756,616, the nutfibar
llv a simple arithmetical calcula- I of registered lunatics was 128,787, ma-
tion it can be shown the exact year king on an average one lunatic in
insane per every 27X of population. So that in 40
me We in years an enormous increase In lunacy
approaching, ' is seen Surely a dreadful future for
nations still unborn to have to cope
with.
"These are the facts, and sad to re.
fleet upon. They must be accepted.
Tin y cannot in any way bo chal-
lenged."
Doctor Window's phraseology Is
sometimes unhappy, s when he
writes, for instance:
l have breathed the atmosphere of
lunacy for over sixty years,
conclusions I arrive at are p€
in the extreme."
when there will I
sons In the world
England are gra
more
A fanner living about tw
from Denver was the buyc
hom and the night lie w
nty miles
of the
lit to the
fin
-tat ion t
art ol
•ver
i get the animals the
r fir man sank I*arry
led away with drooping
and the
> iiulstlc
a rn
at the 111*
i or Mexic
Arm neal
business
Wed
Mr. John Mitchell went t<
Tuesday.
Kl Reno
41 Went, Vi'T ;i m
47 Went. 12:55 l>. nt.
759 West, a. m.
4N East. 3:« .' p. m.
770 East, N:58 p. m.
42 East. 10:43 p. m.
Remember, nt the M. E Epworth
League Sunday evening C. R. Brown
leader, at 7 o'clock. Services at 8;
everybody invited.
houses
torn
Mr. August Meyers, living southeast
Ol I'nion, pim lmned n trad of Oie k.>v imo
eminent land that was gold In Kl Item j .. , ,
Tuenc'iij The land In situated west ol
Kl Hoik
In the laiHer eltie
nesdaj nlnht many
assaulted and I heir
wrecked The American flag «
down, spai upon and torn to pieces.
The outbreak Is due to the lynching
of a Moxli in In Texas for the murder
if a. ranchman's wife. The trouble has
i national afTJlr and
Mexican otlicials will be asked 10 make
niiundH.
ptreet betwi
teenth streel
ers of horses
Moth tin horses were large, white
animals with black spots. They were
the pets of the boys at the station.
Kor ten years they had run to every
Are In their district anil they had
learned to answer the call of the
gunn* wltb almost much Intelll
neno as the firemen themselves
They were never moro delighted than
when they were in the
making their way. full
the streel, their bodies quivering with
the excitement and joy of the run.
Hut Larry and Spot were not young
when they were put upon the lire
wagons, and so. after ten voars of
hard service, they began to show their
age and had to be sold. The firemen
when they saw that they must patt
with their old animal frlendr. were as
Kiid as If two of tbe boys wert leaving
, them.
ny a fireman w ho had
station for years, and
i listen for the nicker
who felt a bit lone-
harness and
speed, down
and Spot were
heads
There was n
been around ti
who had come
of the creatur
some that night
Larry and Spot however, were not
ready to give tip their old friends, and
the next morning at daybreak the men
were awakened by the stamping of
hoofs outside of the flrehouse. One of
the men sneaked down to the front of
the station. There a strange sight con-
fronted him. Larry and Spot were
standing at the entrance with their
noses over the chains, waiting to be
| admittc <1
Some of the firemen, when they were
♦old of the incident by their comrade,
n il down to the entrance ami petted
the horses. Larry and Spot were ad-
mitted and the firemen communicated
with the farmer who had purchased
the animals. lie arrived later and
( took the horses back to his ranch.
Woman's $5C,000 Windfall.
liondon. A fortune of $50,000 and
considerable property in Devonshire
has come unexpectedly to married
woman named Angle, living in hum
ble circumstances in Bristol. It is
stated that while Mrs Angle was re-
siding In \merit i a relative died at
Barnstaple, leaving he
Attempts to trace hei
incuts failed until a fe
friend informed her o
tune
his property,
by advertlse-
. weeks ago a
her good for
Ninety Pound Sponge.
London. \ consular report from
the Hahama islands describes what Is
termed 'Mho world's biggest sponge
It Is perfectly round and is six feet ir
circumference and two feet in dl-
amteter When taken from the water
It weighed betw . n eighty and ninety
pounds.
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