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Vol 14 No 26 ' Ringwood Major Co Oklahoma Thursday April 9 1914 Established July 1901
Methodist Church Notes
April 5ih was h good day over the
work Pont or Ailed hie appointment
lit Concord to it well fl led houtte there
wee also a cood Sunday School at Con-
cord Sunday morning our cburcli at
Concord seem to be moving along
nicely The evangelist Pro Rum-
haugh and the singer Pro: Ilenphlll
eetue Sunday and commenced special
services Sunday evening at Walthall
1 1 he house was crowded aud there was
liurdly standing room The singer
seems to understand his part of the
service aud 1 believe we will have a
gnod meeting The weather since
Sunday bus been bad fur tbe time of
year and make It slow about getting
star i id but tbe fight is on and we
hope and pray that mauy souls will
fie horn Into the Kingdom of God We
don't know bow long we will continue
l-ut until we are salt-fled we have
done all we can do and ourconsclenee
wliafl be clear April 14lh Pro Rob't
Morris will talk here on the Anti
Saloon League proposition at 8 p ru
They say ho is a very able man he
lias been at uiir church at Concord
and tliet speak very highly of him
I'reiu-hiog service at Kingwnod April
loihll m Sunday school at 10 a
in each Sunday Junior League next
Sunday at II a m Every bod v cord ni '
It invited in nil servlci s Pastor
Spring Poetry'
Sprirg poetry nude Its appearsn "e
to this paper I -let week This Is a
sure sign of spring It was written
by our M o out respondent aud is
about the average When this spring
business ges lulo the blood especial
I) In Oalthom t it Certainly makes u
I eis ni feel port le' "’The feeling Is
different In cliff rent Individuals
Some have an extra do-e of energy
and get out and dig In the dirt whl'e
some just mope around and ca'I It
spring fever Some have small pox
mid some th mumps and measels
w bile others write poetry Most all
'of us manage to pu l thru If we sur-
vive I he Incipieul stages and exercise"
the usual precautions
Classified Ads Bring Results
'1 lie nx ad verl ised as being found
nnd left t I Ills oillce last week was
today clalmej by Ilia owner lie wa-
not a subset leer hut he paid for toe
nd and placrd his name nn our sub-
siwlpr Ion list Heteirnedof tils ax
in-log found through one of our nub-s-rlhers
and lie Is feeling all right
The little jds do the work
George Egbert’s to N M
last weih Ceorgn Kghert and
family left for Cliama N M where
It Is stated tiny will remain perhaps
fur a ye ir unless they dcede they do
out like that country They nre
leaving a good farm to try their for-
tunes in the western states uod f
lliey decide (o uiake that country
I her future 1 -me the guild wishes of
the Lader Is wi'li fliem They have
been In these psrt a good many ) ears
In fact more the opening of Ibis
country l settlement and they will
Ibid many change In their new home
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W L Ccrwin Candidate for County
Treasurer
This week wn am prmcntlng the
name nf Walter I Corwin of Fair-
view tv a caodTjle for nomination
fr county treasurer on the Republi-
can ticket We believe Mr Corwin
Is iis well known a must any other
per non lliit could ei-nie nut who lias
not before aspired lo political honors
In the county Wa lire slight y an-
iiiiilntod with hint pertonaliv and
h-llevo him to bn all right for the
place to which lie ssplr' Mt Cor
win U in the live l vk business at
I'lirvlew nnd It is undo a nurrea of
t lie business -
Most blue Mo nil tyt can be traced
tif T’hk SatutJay night
A Surprise Party
Monday was Mam Christian's 18th
birthday hut because of the revival
meeting at Walthall Ills friends sur-
prised him no Saturday evening
Sam having beeo away from home for
some lime came home to visit bis
parents elatera and brothers As lie
drove Into the yard ho beheld a crowd
of laughing boys who enjoying his
embarrassment led him loin the house
where he found the table covered
with good tilings to eat
Singing playing and the perform
arice of several marvelous iricka were
the source of much enjoyment The
guests were: Mr ind Mrs Wm
Baird Mr Hid Mrs W ) smith and
Clyde and Jesse Mr Ilarmao Lois
Frances Alvin 'Wesley Goldie and
Marvio Mrs L Is’irchcr Elix-t Willie
Juhu and Kdward Gladys Ruby and
Frosty llutclicrafi Eva Beulah and
Claudle B it man Kiwio and Edgar
Frey John Bertha and Jasper Julies
Franlt Marsh Fa Wright ahd Liovd
Kuo ns At a late hour they all went
'home wislilug Sammle a blight and
happy birthday and many more to
come
(Joe Of the Guests
Surprised?
Well I guess so You have all
heard tin old saying “old and ugly
and without friends’’ but on t-il ur
day April Fill this being my ‘Itttb
birthday I realiz'd 1 was Mill old
and ugly but not without friend 1
was away from home helping my
Irtcad Mrs Bury with some sew log
and when I returned home at the
noon hour whatshoulc I Hud but the
house tilled with ebeerfullue-s and a
table decorated w it h white boqiiet
Of fl si rs and lut of gHJ things lu
eat hut the best of all was my friends
that surrounded the table and the
furly tlve names if the friends that
was upon quilt thicks also on the
table These could not lie present
but they bud not taken tins m an tier
of reminding me oi their renieiu-
branre These friends live In dist
anoe home In Kansas New MexicOj
Idaho Muntaoa and Nebraska 1 al-
so received some other nice present
There were thirty seveo present and
tlu-y left In the evening with many
k Ind wishes so 1 will close this by
thaokiug you all for your kind re-
membrance Mrs S S Stepp
Another Fairview Newspaper
It is Reported that there is to be
another newspaper lo Fairview soon
It Is presumed tills new sheet has
been pul upon Fairview for political
reasons but It takes money to make
the mare go We will veil him the
Kmgwund Leader cheaper than he
can hut in there aud he wnl have a
whole loan all to himself
Charles Cottar Returned
Chai les Cottar returned last week
from bis African hunting trip loaded
down with tiophiea K la presumed
ha will now settle dow n lo Ames uni II
tile hunting seasoo opens in Africa
agnln at least He Is an aggres-lve
Individual and we predict that If he
would lorn his attention tu affairs lu
Mexico that revolution would speed-'
lly coiue to an end Charles has been
down there and knows those gu
Literary -
The Ringwood literary had a very
successful meeting ill tlio school
house last Friday eveniug The usual
program was cairted out quits sue-ns-fully
and thedebate was a usual
a warm number The question ot
rounilidaled schools wav very ably
discussed by but I) sides thus f(r con-
solidation being Jettr Teague aud
Klgar 'Wright while tlio opposite
wtis handled by Ur Mansur and Adhle
manning Tbe decision was given to
the latter The Urat meeting off the
the 17lh will be a literary one entire-
ly the debate having teen abandoned
tor this night There set ms to he no
abatement If the Ituetest so It is
lively the meeting will continue
er-ry two weeks indefinitely
Mrs Sharpless Dead
Word has just b-en received here
that Mrs Sharpies? of t Ills place died
at N’orman Tuesday evening She
had been lo poor health for some
time In fact since the death of tier
husband some months ago and was
taken to Normao for treatment but
to nn avail 1 1 ' Is presumed the re-
mains will be brought back here and
that Interment will be made at Era
cemetery which Is on their old home-
stead but no definite funeral arrange-
ments have beeo announced at this
time f
IATElt
Elmer and Emmett Sharpies left
Tuesday for Norman on hearing of
the death of their mother there and
will return "tomorrow with tbe re-
mains Emmett Hod wife were mov-
ing from their place out west near
I'arkrnan and bad traveled as far as
F'airview in wagoo arid ft was there
they got the word of the death of
t heir mother Eitner and wife are
living at F'airview and it was from
there they made tbe start It has
been Qve weeks since Mrs Sharpies
was taken in Norman during which
time she had grown t steadily worse
and the end wa not unexpected In
termeDt will lake place at New Era
Fridav the iXict time lint having
been fullv rf terni'ned hut it will be
cither n I l r tu or at 1:00 p m
Easter Outing
Easier Sunday di versons will he a
gathering of the young Tula at
Stauffer park where they will- boat
ride play tenuis romp and rut up
We want to waru Stauffer that lie
will have a job rn hi hands to keep
them out of niPlit(fAia tills Is the
first outing of the season and they
will be like a lot of colts turned out
(0 grass for the first time
Diploma Examination
The Annual Examination for Com-
mon School Dipl iila will be given at
the follow ing p iiccs on Tnursd ly and
Friday April Kith and liili:
Cleo Ihst No 4 Mr Maude Sbtl-
niate conductor
Rtr-gwood Diet No 261' Elite Moore
conductor 0
Menu I)it No 71 Corrine Terry
conductor
Ames Dist No 200 Bertha Moore
conductor
Isabella Dist No 123” Titos F
Wright conductor
F’airview l)ist No 84 Grace Curl
conductor
Dane I)lst No 286 F’red Linden
conductor
Chester Itisl No 3? Mr B C
Jagger conductor
Conner School Dist No 217 Joe
Ritchey conductor
liistrlcl No 157 Augu-ta Speclit
conductor
The extniinatlon will begin at 8:30
A M I'aper will lie furnished from
1 Ins ofltre hot pupil will he expected
to furnish pencils or pen and ink
Respectfully
T E McLain County Supt
Base Ball
The bise ball season opened In
Rtngwnod last Saturday with game
between two Ringwood tejms tbe
first and second It was a five Inning
game and wa played with consider
able v tin the score being 1st team 20
2nd team II The line-up waa a
follows: First team Ray McQuIlkio
c Harry Terry p Elmer Ogle
Ben Laliman lb Claire Headrick 2'
Adlie Manning 3u Floyd R rt -t
rf Lelatd Fuller If IJenrt F I o
Second team Lloyd Watkins c dan
Ib'ihii p A lb ()!a Wall lb & p
Whip Logan a s Ji t'nruli 2’ Bill
May 3b llariy Uoruh if I’aol Bury
cf Lester Dittmeyfr If
If we ever do have to take
charge of tiiugM in Mexico we had
belter give Texas the contract
Letter from Mrs G B Scott
Topeka Kan
April 71914
To the Ringwood Leader ' and
friends:— As 1 promised so many of
our neighbor and friends that we
would let them bear from u I will
drop a few line to tbe Leader We
left homo March 1 went far as Helena
stopped over night with Geo Oakley’s
oext day Geo and family accompani-
ed us a far a John Oakley's near
Jet then next morning we bid them
adien and started 00 our journey tu
Topeka Kuos went through some
pretty country arouod Medford Ok
we thought Kind Creek the prettiest
little luwu we ever saw In Oalahoma
at Mulvane Kao we stopped for a
short visit with mv Uncle' S G
Thompson whom 1 bad not seen for
22 years from there on through tbe
weather wa rather cool but we all
kept well and so heraty and as It wa
our first overland trip we enjoyed It
In spite of the cold bad such good
roads must all the way passed' many
beautiful country homes aud reached
Topeka the J2 at duoo Topeka is' a
fine city but we hurried on as It Was
camping time and Grandpa's was
only four mile north and BP hour
later he met us at tbe gate and we
found a good warm dinner wailing
for us
The children were like young colt
1 urot-d out Tor eit-rclse and 1 think
by evening they had seen lo every
room In Graodpa's house from base
tueot to attic aud bad made a close
count of bl aneep and young lambs
which attracted Ibeir altenliou We
put up at Grandpa Scotls a few days
unit! our house was finished plaster-
ed and ' VY- havef a-snog
little cottage just a few step from
Indian creek on the East aod a big
apple orchard op the West tbe
gruuud I Covered now with blue-
grass The tall tree here and no
underbrush look so Different to roe
from our tree lo Oklw
Grandpa hs just used tbe last of
lit apple ami potatoes from bis
cellar from last years crop aud bl
big bay mow is tilled with timothy
aud alfalfa hay they counted them
pour crop: here too
The wheat look due now we have
some potatoes planted will plant
about two acres mure bve made
some gardt-o It has rained so much
here fur the past two weeks and I
raining at present Geo ha been
plowing between showers the soli
here is very black aod heavy aod Obi
the mud 1 thought I would go wild
but they tell me I’ll get u-d to It
just like we all did to the sand but I
think It worse than od 0 far
Now I must sav that the Ring-
wood Leader don’t reach u uotll
Monday and bow anxious we are for
it la like gelling a big letter from
home and I hope the people out lu
the slick wool fall to send in all the
new We mi the Oakland Iu-m
so mucti and I hope they wont fall to
get lo 00 lime la the future
Wishing all success aod a prosper-
ous year
Mr Geo B Scott
Teachers’ Examination
The Regular CJmrli-rly Flxauuoa-
tloo fur teachers' certificate will be
held lo F’airview on Thursdav F'rlday
aod Saturday April 23 24 25 F’xam-
liisllun will begin at HnVIock
Read Article 14 of the New School
Law
R-sfectfuMv
- T E Mct-ain Co Supt
The VMitul waiting policy
Cannot li- -jiersisfcil in very much
longer — the baseball season has
opened
Mexican federal are fighting so
determinedly ns to arouse the sus-
picion that they are trying to cut
llieir xvay to Kurt Bliss and three
good meals a djy1
A Cold Snap
Tbe cold snap of last night and thw
night before haa-s esulted In consider-
able damage lo the fruit crop In thi
sectloo f Report In tbe dally paper -this
rooroing state that It was the
coldest spell for Hie same period la
April for many year It la rather
too 000 to definitely state the dm-
age fruit and other growing stiff baa
sustained but It la safe to say that It
la considerable Tbe government
thermometer at Enid registered as
low aa 26 degrees Wednesday morn-
ing which seemed considerable cold-
er no sccount of the balmy weather
preceediog It Most of those we bave
talked with about the matter setm to
think all grow Ing at uff ha beep In-
jured more or less
Town Board Meeting
Tuesday evening witnessed a rath-
er stormy meeting of the town board
The matter wbicb caused the troub'e
wa tbe town wind mill The strung
wind Suoday night got into tbe thiog
and rended it 0 much so that it wa
rendered useless and a new wheel bad
to be purchased The contract waa
awarded to Wright and the work of
replacing the old wheel xod head with
a net one and before tlie week I out
a new wheel will grace tbe old tower
aod the town well will again be on
the Job
The Southwest Trail ’
We have on band for free distribu-
tion aiuoog those interested lo irriga-
tion a hundred copu-s of tbe South-
west Trail me Kick Is'aud rail roe 1
publteaHon" -Th papet-at ’-'
more reiri fx prfl infuiuaatluo aboiac
tbia subject than you have' Imagined
there could be told in so small a space -as
a paper of tbi sixa Every contri-
butor Ij ao expert In ills particular
Hop and the statement made there-
in can be depended on a betog true
and Correct There is a mas of In
formation about pumping plain
their cost different kind to suit
every purpose cost of raliog water
from great depths and a cumber u"
article showing actual result aod
how they were obtained Come in
and get t our copy bef jre t bey are ml
gone You wil: appreciate tne Infor-
mation It contain Dolt the m-x"
time vou come to town or if you will
seud us vour name and a stamp we
will mail it out to you
Ringwood Produce Markets
Rmgwoud market corrected every
Thursday looming
Adolph lurcher of Wichita Kan i
came In today fur a week visit hiui
hi mother uf this place
The BANK of FliNGWOCD
will make you a cheap farm lon
aniTtvill close it up iu short itre
for uu Xve them
There will lie an all dav teruj rai a
meeting at the MellmiBt chain
Sunday April 19 It At noon a o
kel dinner will be :n the
evening a program has 1-rri airaig-I
I'logram will ba oiiI-ImJ’ iu f
next
It takes a bright -suany easier t -put
a crimp in the claims that
peach crop of the country has t e- 11
destroyed
It take Solomon totcll vchsili-
er home of the New Spiin bwta
arv fur men orou'etuv
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