Claremore Messenger. (Claremore, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, July 18, 1913 Page: 2 of 8
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The Claremore Messenger
CLARK SMITH. Publisher.
CLAREMORE. OKLAHOMA
OKIAHQMA NEWS NOTES
SHADOWS OF COMING EVENTS.
July rh ui ugu« at Blackwell.
Aug.« Kiowa. < 'ominanche. opening
teiebratim at Hnhart and 1-aw'on.
Aug 18-22—oklahoma Btata Federattoa
•r I-abiT Convention. Muekogee.
Sept It -15— Kuan spring* Carnival.
s j>t. 16-It—Puttaaatomla County fair,
Shawnee
Sapt it—Celebration ®f opening of
Cherokee Strip at Perty
gept ta-Orl 4 Oklahoma Siata Fair
Fair*" ,8*0c, s "ores Snow at BtalO
Oct #-n -Muskogee Fair
Oct. 1C-1R—Peanut Carnival. Puncaa.
Presidential election. Mexloe.
County Falra.
11-18—Tillman County Fair. Fred-
Wka,' ®'1,—Osage County Fair. Paw-
Ml—Northwestern Oklahoma
Fair. Woodward
Sept, 10-13 - Kingfisher County Farm-
er* Institute and Fair. Kingfisher
Sept. 10-13- Greer County Fair. Mse-
gum.
dark?' 1S-1J—Crddo County Fair. Ana-
PurreM County Fair.
CUy11 Beckham County Fair. Elk
Bept l«-lt—Blaine County Fair. We-
Sept 16-20-Pawi.ee Fair. I'awnee.
Hallett few nee County Fair,
Me/Kstsr'Pittsburg County Fstr.
Shawnee*Pot|awat°mle County Fair.
Sept IT 10—Sterling Fair. (Sterling.
Sept 25-27 — North Lincoln County Fair.
Agra
Oct. i-«— Jarkenn County Fair. Blair.
14-li—Tulsa County Fair. Bmkea
Epitome of the
World's News
Little Stories of the Week's
Happenings In All Nations
The Garber Sentinel says only three
gallon* of celebration arrived at the
local depot the day before the Fourth.
The Muskogee I'hoenlx telle of a
party of young ladlee enjoying a slum-
ber party In the belfry of a local
church.
The Duke Times la wondering what
"Jedge Hooka" thinks of the railroad
agreement to establish the two cent
faro in Oklahoma.
The rherokee Republican thinks
that Mr. Bunn. who annotated the
Oklahoma reports, has turned out to
be a kind of a rat biecult.
Not to be outdone by a Kansas City
Jury that brought in a verdict for
both the plaintiff and defendant, a
jury at Collinsville brought in one in
favor of Its own foreman.
That superior court judge who in
being boycotted by attorneys clearly
has a case of "restraint of trade'
against the offenders.
The Hugo Husonian says that if you
have an Idle moment and you do not
know what to do with it. just go out
and tell some visitor that southeatt
Oklahoma Is the garden spot of the
world.
Commenting on a story that there
are 125 cimes of spinal meningitis in
Bartlesville, the Examiner says it is
news to the people of Bartlesville, hh
thi re has never b<-en hut oiih case in
the town since its organisation.
A Blaine county boy. with a 22-
raliber rifle, went after the cows.
While stooping over the weapon was
discharged, the bullet entering the
boy's stomach inflicting a wound
from which he died
The Pnnca City Democrat doesn't
think the ball gam** between the home
team and W infield. Kan . will be very
irterestlng Says that l!lark«ell beat
W infield. and that l.eing so, it follows
that any other team that can stay
awake during the game can defeat
Wlnfield
A committee rrom the Muskogee
commercial club procured a list show-
ing ten men were on the payroll at
the city waterworks, and slipped
down to the plant to see what they
were doing The Times-Democrat says
the committee found one man on the
job. and he was sitting under a shade
tree reading a newspaper.
The Alius Democrat tells of a local
family going to a show one night,
when by remaining at home they could
have witnessed an illuminated one.
The house burned dowu during their
absence.
Andrew Carnegie savs thai any man
who sets against this republic will go
broke, and the Muskogee Phoenix adds
"and to the Insane asylum, too. if
the case Is properly handled "
The Okmulgee Democrat Is author-
ity for the statement that Sister Flor
entlne Bradley. () s. B. for over thirty
years a Benedictine nun. will leave
the convent for the first time In that
length of time to visit her aged mother
who lives at Okmulgee
William T Dsbbs. believe! to havn
keen murdered, suddenly appeared at
his home in McCurtain county Inst
week after an absence of cne year
To further cloud the m$l"cry i.|fu«
Davis, shortly after babbs disap-
peared. confessed to havlnc assisted
la robbing Dabbs and. after uitlng
hie body to pieces, threw it in the
river. Davis le now in the penlt- n
Mary
Twelve coyotes were pulled from
their den. according to the Carnegie
Herald, by means of fish hooks at-
tached to the end of a pole
The Wellaton Newa tells of • girl
drinking three swsJlowa of a glass of
fly poison under the Impression It
was water. She Is still alive.
The Clinton Counly Democrat says
It is a fact that fence posts last longer
If placed In the ground Inverted, or In
the direction opposite to thai In which
I he wood grew. Says It la the sumo
as when you Invert a child to spank
M. the memory clings longer.
FOREIGN.
General Villa Is camping with 2,000
men on the Casas Grandes river, ten
miles southeast of Columbus. N. M.
Dr. Robert Bridges has been deslg-
nated by Premier Aaquith aa English
poet laureate to succeed the late Al-
fred Austin.
Six thousand native black workmen
from three of the large gold mines 'n
the Rand Joined in the labor upheaval
of South Africa. '
Francisco Martinez, aa American
citizen, manager or an American-
owned ranch at Columbia, Coahulla.
has been arrested as a spy.
Roumanian troops occupied the Bul-
garian city of Sllistria on the right,
bank of the Danube. They were not
opposed by the Bulgsriana.
Having failed in her hazardous coup,
Bulgaria ia now showing herself anx-
ious for peace. No formal armlatice
has yet been arranged, but hostilities
ate virtually ended.
Federalists snd constitutionalists in
loahuiia have arrived within striking
dstance of each other between Panuco
and Candeia. forty miles east of Mon-
clova, and a battle Is expected soon.
Miss Kitty Marlon, a su forage t, who
waa sentenced July 3 to three years
penal aervltude for setting fire to the
stands of Hurst park race course, was
released from prison on license to be-
have herself.
A fine of |50 or one month's impris-
onment was orddered at Newport.
England, on Mrs. Margaret Haigh
Mackworth. daughter of the "coal
king," David A. Thomas, for setting
fire to a public mall box.
Jack Johnson, negro pugilist, ar-
rived at Havre on board the Corin-
thian and immediately on landing an-
nounced his determination never to
return to the I'nlled States He aaid
he would, in the future, take up bis
residence In Paris.
Arthur llammerstcIn is said to have
engaged Bvelyn Nesblt Thaw at a
weekly salary of $4,000. This is about
ten timea as much as she was paid
(luring her engagement in London.
She will make her first appearance
August 3 at Paris.
Many of the gold miners of Johan-
nesburg refuse to return to work. At
a meeting, militant leaders delivered j
flerv speeches to the 3,000 assembled,
and a resolution declaring that the
strike was still on and condemning the
strike leaders was canted
In a skirmish at the village of Zara-
gesa. twelve miles east of Juarez, .">00
federals, commanded by General Inez
Salazar, drove too constitutionalist*
ol the Ortega command ba< k several
miles and took possession of the vil-
lage Salazar captured 4,000 rounds
of ammunition, wagons, horses and
equipment
Jacob Oppenlieimer, termed one
of America's most extraordinary con-
victs. w as hanged at the Folsom. Cal.
prison. Though he had killed two
men. it was not for murder that Op-
penheimer gave up his life. His crime
was an attack on a fellow prisoner
and was the first caae In this country
of a felon being executed for sjmple
assault.
Jealousy prompted Frank Bailey, a
vaudeville, actor of Atlanta Ga.. to
shoot and kill his wife and teammate.
Made Edwards, of Denver, and to
commit suicide at Kansas City.
DOMESTIC.
Jack London, the writer, is la a
hospital at Oakland. Calif., preparing
to undergo an operation for appendi-
citis.
Figures ss given by the counly
clerks on shipments of liquor during
Msy. show Kansas is consuming liquor
at the rate of a million quarts a
month May is the first month under
the new Mahln law requiring the car-
riers to make reports to the county
authorities of the names of consignees
receiving liquors and the quantities re-
ceived.
On petition of the officers of the
company and the chief creditor. XV P.
Hepburn was sppointed receiver for
the Leetonia Steel company at Lisbon.
Ohio. The company, capitalized at
12.000.000. had made the First-Second
National Bunk of Pittsburg its chief
depository which has failed.
Two men were killed and between
twenty and thirty persons injured In
a rear end collision of Iwo trains on
a roller coaster at Palisades Park in
New Jersey, across the Hudson river
from Uptown, New York.
la sympathy with the striking
rooks and walters, ill union bartend-
ers In the hotel and cafes concerned
at St. Louis, walked out. George O.
Miller, business manager of the Bar
tenders Cnlon. said the men would
refuse to take orders from negro
walters brought here to replace the
striking while men.
Two Rochester. N. Y.. men who
•warn t osbore from the wreckage of
a sailboat on Lake Ontario told of
the drowning of four oompanlons. all
residents of Rochester, after a lea-
hour fight against death.
Herbert Johns waa held without ball
on the charge of murdering hie lt-
year old sweetheart, Alice Crlspoll, st
W'ilkesbarre, Pa
Two men were killed and two others
seriously wounded in a fight at Cham-
paign, III., between tbe police and Il-
licit liquor sellers.
Charles 8. Mellen has resigned the
presidency of the Boston and Maine
railroad, and is succeeded by Morris
McDonald, vice-president
Clarence Crosby, IS. or Toledo, waa
Instantly killed when he fell 600 feet
from his balloon, at a Sunday school
picnic at Bowling Green. Ohio.
Seizures of whiskey were made in
Portland, Augusta and Bangor, Me.
The raids were the most important in
Maine since tbe passage of the Webb
law.
Grand Treasurer Edward Leach of
New York was elected grand exalted
ruler of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks at Rochester. Denver
gets i be next reunion.
Gov. Colquitt has called a special
teasion of the Texas legislature for I
July 21 to pass a law for direct elec- !
tion of senators, and certain appropri-
ation bills.
Mrs. John M. Martin of New York I
was robbed In Paris or jewelry valued
at $32,000 at her hotel on the Place
Vendome. She had left the Jewels
wrapped in a handkerchief on a table
in her suite.
Christian Endeavorers are arriving
by trainloada from all parte of the
world for their twenty-sixth interns-
tlonal convention at Los Angeles.
Railroad men estimate that nearly
40,000 will attend.
Governor Sulzer sent to the New |
York senate for confirmation the ap-
pointment of James M. Lynch or Syra- i
cuse, president or the International
T.>p>ographical union, for state labor
commissioner.
A petition on behair of four Georgia '
banks, asking ^>r a receivership tor (
tbe Kentucky Refining company, a
$<*,00,000 corporation located at Louis-
ville. Ky . was tiled In the lTnlted
States district court there.
Ninety-four per cent of the members
of the Brotherhood or Rsilway Train-
men and or the Order or Railway Con-
ductora out or 76.6H3 participating In j
a strike vote in the wage dispute with
the eastern railroads are in favor of '
the strike.
Clark Strickland, vice president; 1
W. S. Grove, cashier, and W. J. Den- ,
I iton. assistant cashier, of the defunct
| Valley Sa\ing bank. Little Rock. Ark.
I were arrested, all charged with accep'.- j
tug deposits after they knew the bank
to be insolvent.
Judge J. H. Harrod. one of the best-
I known citizens of Little Rock, waa j
Instantly killed. He was run down !
| by an automobile driven by J. E. j
Madding of Pine Bluff. Ark. Joseph I
. ('nates, a 13-year-old boy, was also j
I sexerely Injured.
This year's heavy export movement
of gold to Europe was resumed after
'a lull or several ueek*. with the en-
gagement of $3,000,000 ror Paris. This
> makes a total thus tar this year of
j $38.000.0d0 for Paris and $61,385,000
lor all countries.
Col. Timothy J. Sheehan. pioneer
j civil war veteran and Indian fighter,
died at hla home in St. Paul. He waa
j 78 years old. Col Sheehan was com-
mander In the famoua defense of Fort
j llldgeley, Minn . in 1862. when the
[fort was besieged by Indians tor elgh-
I ty-slx dsya.
Resolutions seeking to interest the
| governors or four ststes In a projected
highway of 1.500 miles In length were
adopted at the closing seaaion of the
Ozark Trails association at Monte Ne,
Ork Convicts in Missouri. Ksnsaa
and Oklahoma and Arkansas could he
employed to psrtlallv build the road,
the association believes, and the gov-
ernors or the tour atatea are asked lo
enliat the aid ot their reapectlve leg-
islatures in aecurlng that labor.
THE WEEK'S NEWS
BOORD OF EQUALIZATION COM-
PLETES WORK ON SIXTY*
SIX REPORTS
NEARLY ALL COUNTIES INCREASED
Three men were reported killed and
property damage estimated at $60,000
was done by an electric storm at El-
gin. 111.
Two alsters were almost Instantly
killed, another was fatally Injured and
their brother may die rrom Injuries
received at Toledo. Ohio, when a De-
troit. Monroe and Toledo traction car
struck sn automobile In which they
were riding. The driver or the csr
also was seriously hurt. The deed are
Julia and Gertrude Delaney and Kath
erlne Delanev la dying rrom concus-
sion of the brain.
With oil wells now well under way
at three polnta on the gulf coast east
of the Mississippi, an Intereatlng de-
velopment in the extenalon of petrol-
eum territory la a possibility. Thst
there Is a great parent pool of oil
under the Gulf of Mexico from which
tributaries extend Into the mainland
la a theory accepted by many. Great
gushers have been found around the
perimeter of tbe gulf from Tabasco to
Terrebonne Parish. Ixuilslana. but
rrom the Mississippi river eastward
to Florida and aiuth to the Keys
there has been no Important find or oIL
The dangerous thing known to avi-
ators aa a "warm glr current" la held
responsible for the Instant death ol
Lieutenant Ixiren M. Call of the avia-
tion corps of the second division of the
United Statee army at Teaas City,
Texas.
On Beth Land and Pereenal Property;
Kay Gets Only Deerease
—Other News of the
Capital
The state board of equalization haa
completed Its work of equalising tbe
assessments on land and personal
property in all but sixteen counties,
which have not Bled their assessors'
report with the state auditor.
The land values, as returned by the
assesaors In twenty counties were
raised by the board from 5 to 331-S
percent and similar increases were
made in the returned personal prop-
erty values in eighteen counties. In
only one county was Hie value of
land reduced, that being In Kay coun-
ty where a 6 percent reduction was
tnade. The average value of land per
acre in Kay county as returned by
the assessor and from which must be
taken the S percen t decrease w as
$34.86.
The board will meet again on July
23 to hear complaints or tbe different
counties whose vslues have been In-
creased. A total or sixty-six counties
were passed on by the board.
The following shows the Increases
made by the board in the different
counties and the estimated average
value of land as returned by the as-
sessor, to which tbe Increase must be
added:
In Different Counties
Beckham county, 16 percent, $10.51;
Bryan county, 10 percent, $13.75;
Canadian county, 10 percent, $23.76;
Coal county. 30 percent, $9.68; Cotton
county, 331-S percent, $14.41; Craig
county, 20 percent. $16.76; Ctaster
county, 10 percent, $16.73; Hughes
county. 10 percent. $10.73; Logan
county, 10 percent. $20.57; Love coun-
ty, 10 percent, $12.49; Marshall coun-
ty, 20 percent, $11.01: Murray county,
10 percent. $11.98; Muskogee county,
6 percent, $25.28; Pawnee county, 10
percent, $16.53; Payne county, 10
percent, $18.16: Pottawatomie county,
10 percent, $18.1$; Rogers county,
10 percent. $14.60; Sequoyah county,
20 percent, $11.27; Wagoner county,
10 percent, $20.75; Washita county,
6 percent. $21.35.
Increases made In personal prop-
erty showing the values returned by
the assessor and to which must be
added the increase are:
Canadian county, 15 percent. $2,-
758,470; Cleveland county. 10 percent,
$1.328,8f>l; Coal county, 5 percent,
$1,405,299; Creek county 6 percent,
$4,706,772; Custer county. 10 percent,
$2,838,776: Garfield county. 10 per-
cent, $3,942,680; I.ogan counly. 25 per-
cent, $2,583,584; Major count*. 10 per-
cent, $1,662,044; Murray county, 5
percent, $1,152,707: Noble county. 10
percent. $1,642,167; Nowata county.
10 percent. $3,355,324; Ottawa coun-
ty, 6 percent. $1,876,611; Payne coun-
ty/ 10 percent, $2,403,046; Pottawat-
omie county, 10 percent. $3,282,795;
Tillman county, 6 percent. $1,748,711;
Wagoner county, 10 percent, $1,905,-
•40.
Washita County Increase
In Wsshlta county the only Increase
In peraonal property was made ou
horses, mules and hogs which were
Increased 10 percent above the value
placed by the assessor.
In Cotton county the total value
of horses, mules and cattle was in-
creased to $463,966. msking the aver-
age value of cattle $27.10; mules,
$87. 2 snd horses, $74.63.
In all counties not mentioned above
the assessments stand as fixed by the
assessor with the exception of Choc-
taw, Delaware. Jackson. McClain. Mc-
Curtain, Oklahoma, Pittsburg, Push-
mataha, Roger Mills, Seminole and
Woodward counties, which have not
yet filed tbelr reports with tbe board.
MURDER AT SUNDAY SCHOOL
Dlscu_s4on Ovsr Teechlng Methods
Causes Two Osatha.
Tahlequah.—Matt Sanders, a prom-
inent Cherokee and a former sheriff
of the Cherokee country, was fatally
Mabbed and Harry Sanders, his son,
was shot to death at Dykes Chapel,
a rural church about live milca south
of this city But day morning. The
crime was due to a quarrel that arose
over the manamegent of a Sunday
school claas.
Henry and Will Johnson, brothers,
arc missing. The audience followed
the participanta to the church-yard,
where they found the elder Ssudets
lying on the ground, gashed, slashed
snd stabbed in a number of places.
Young Sanders, who had been shot
through the stomach, died a few min-
utes after being found.
Bad blood baa existed between the
Johnsons snd Sanders before the
trouble In the Sunday school claws.
Tom Johnson and Tom Sanders, mem-
bers of these families, were killed
some years sgo.
•OY USES UNWRITTEN LAW
14-Year-Old Lad KIIU Another Young-
.. ster Who Abueed His Sletsr
Stigler.—Sam Albright. 13 yesrs old, 1
two hours earlier adjudged Inssne af- j
ter attempting to assault 11-year-old ,
Lena Scantlln, was shot and Instantly >
killed at the railroad station by Jen- .
nlngs Scantlln, 14 years old, brother 1
of the girl.
Barefooted and wearing knee trous-,
era, young Scantlln had trudged three j
miles from his father's fsrm to the 1
station where Albilght and his aunt
were waiting to catch a train on tbe
orders of the county judge. Without
a word he walked up to Albright and
shot five times. The first shot sev-
ered the jugular vein and Albright
died Immediately.
Fully 200 people witnessed th«
shooting. Friends spirited the youth
out of town, but he has been recap
tured. Feeling in Stigler runs high
against the Scantlin family.
Skidoo Ladles or Enlos Gets You.
McAlester.—With rererence to the
split skirts aald to be the fashion and
vogue in some of the northern and
eastern cities. Mayor Enloe stater
that he had no objections to a di
vided skirt. But when a dress was
so fashioned as to show the limb ol
the wearer, when of the feminine per
suasion, in parading the streets and
public places, the wearers of split
skirts or dresses will have to either
stay at home, or stay off or the streets
and out or public places, or be sub-
jected to arrest for indecency.
OIL STRIKE IS FATAL
Contractor Fatally Burned in Explo-
aion of Unexpected Large Flew
WASHINGTON.
Secretary Bryan told the Inn !*#•
propria!loo committee that It waa *|.
tally Important to appropriate llo.ooo
towards expenaee of the International
Opium oonsfMS at The Hague.
Shot By Watchman, Disturber I* Dead
Mangum.—Ben Martlng. Mexican
candy peddler, who waa shot by Night
Watchman Bob Burton, died. Burton
waa called to arrest Msrtlng who was
drunk and disturbing his neighbors.
Buying Oil Leaess at Porum
Porum—A number of oil men hsve
been buying leasea in the vicinity of
Porum. In some Instances they hsve
paid $2 an acre bonus. One new der-
rick Is completed and drilling haa be-
gun. Porum ia expecting an oil boom
and land has already advanced in
price. The crop, this year will be
heavier than last year's crop of wheat
and oats. The corn looks good la the
timber and bottom lands and cotton
la In a thrifty condition. There have
been three ehowers in three week*.
Cushing - The unexpected striking
of a heavy flow of oil In the I^nyton
sand on the Salen Folsom lease
proved fatal to the drilling contrac-
tor. J. M. Strosnyder. The I^ayton
sand had been cased out In the well
and the contractor was drilling on
down to the Wheeler sand hut the
oil and gas In the Layton sand be-
came so plentiful that it broke
through between the strings of cas-
ing and blew the head off. saturating
all of the workers with oil. Before
the fire could be turned out under the
boiler the escaping gas had exploded,
burning Mr. Strosnyder fatally and in-
juring four others seriously. Stro-
Snyder's home was in Nevsda, Mo.
Coal Chutes Burn
McAlester.—Fire of unknown origin
destroyed the Rook Island's coal
chutes at Haileyville, together wltb
one flat car. The structure burned
rapidly and the fire department was
unsble to stop It. I,ous $8,000 to
$10,000.
Kills Wife and Sslf
Holdenville—James Byers. a white
man, shot and killed his Indian wife
and then killed hlmseir at the home
of bis father-ln-lsw. George Brooks,
four miles north of Holdenville.
Bailor Blew Up— Man Dead
Alva.—John Crane, who was fright-
fully burned and scslded In the ex-
plosion of a threshing machine en-
gine northwest of Alva, died in the
hospital here from his Injuries.
STATE BREVETIES.
Drilling at Lawton
Lawton.—The work of drllllns for
oil by the Texas compsny which re-
cently Identified Itself In tbe local oil
field, has been started on tbe Thorn-
hill farm 12 miles northwest of Law-
ton.
Husband Held Fsr Death of HI* Wife
Bartleeaille.—Aa a result of the
mysterious death of Mrs Sarah Pol-
Ins. her husband. Jeff Poling, lo being
A girl Is being held In the Wstonga
Jail, charged with dealing In "wet
horsee." Three young men called to
pay their respects to the young lady
and requested of the sheriff permis-
sion to enter the hostile. Once in-
side the sheriff cloeed the Jail door
snd Informed the young men to con-
alder themoelveo under arrest as ac-
complices.
A prees dispatch from Tecumseh
tells of a allison attempting to bo a
school director, a socialist and a
promlneat politician, but growing
weary throw dowa the "white gnan'a
burden" aad went to the asylum.
Tbe city marshal of Butler. Okla..
to highly Indignant because the city
ooaaell suggests that in view of tbe
fact there are ho arrests to make.
n
Delicacies
TANGO
kHMItoilto
The Wretchedness
of Constipation
Can quickly be overc
CARTER'S LITTLE
LIVER PILLS.
Purely vegetable
gently on the
fiver. Cure
Bflkwrnno^
Head-
ache.
Diisi-
Bess, and Indigestion. They do their doty.
WALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRKX
Genuine must boor Signature
HAD SOME WAY TO TRAVEL
Thirsty Msn Had Not Thought of Poe-
ei bill ties When He Made Con-
tract With Guide.
After North Carolina voted to be s
dry state its citlxens became very sas
plcious of strangers.
One day a commercial traveler went
up to an old negro fh a little town In
the eastern part or the state and satd
to him:
"Say. uncle, If you will lead me to
some place where 1 can get a drink
1*11 give you two dollars."
Tbe old darkey looked him carefully
over, accepted the two plunks, and
•aid: "All right, bosa, just foller me."
He led ihe thirsty one through the
town, on through the suburbs, into the
country, and then started due west.
Arter they had traversed about five
miles In silence and still nothing In
pight, the man asked:
"Look here, Mose! Where are we
going arter this drink?"
"We's gwine over into Kentucky,
boss; we can't get nuthln' in dis state."
—Judge
Many a spinster realties that girls
are wise who marry while yet in their
teens.
Tbe eye Is sometimes more eloquent
then the tongue, yet few of us prefer
a tongue lashing to an eye laah.
Having a raft of friends Is the oaly
thing that keepa some people afloat
The holy bonds of matrimony
sometimes merely indicate a merger
held for lavoatlgatioa. Mrs. Poling ho be street commissioner or run the {
rushed from the bouse with bee throat | pump station, thereby becoming uns-
hoe throat I pump station, thereby becoming
J tal «• wall aa oraaaMntal
A Sweet,
Crisp,
Delicious
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coin, perfectly cooked aad
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U as ally salts direct (tom
packais with cream aad
Or. vriatta Tsarfaa
a saucer of be* banim-
ikea add the cream asd
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tot ToBstfcs sold by
CrsBgra ssbiiwIisis.
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Claremore Messenger. (Claremore, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, July 18, 1913, newspaper, July 18, 1913; Claremore, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc178518/m1/2/?q=coaster: accessed June 5, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.