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OKLAHOMA CITY TIMES, 3r.”. DECEMBER 1923.
SIXTEEN
PLANT RUNS 200 Leonard Wood, Jr., Breaks
WATER SURVEY
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Engagement With Actress
GALLONS LIQUOR
OF RESERVOIR
DAILY; IS SEIZED
IS AUTHORIZED.
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paper at the drug store to quanfy
Fresh
Meat Dept.
Fish
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50c
and
16c
Oysters
25c
No. 2 Cabro Toma-
Every Day
15c
25c
street intake will be let January 15. repeated signals.
I had brought
up plans and xpeciti-
reritinder
d
presence of the watchman on board.
(jM
which he laimed was a quality in
Il4liF
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And McWhirter. In a deep
ill
what of the night?*
has
9 5
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CRITES
Intensify, all had
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Mliss Hbolores Grates and lonar Wiuil Jr.
crescent.
what might be either il
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, Mac wan ready to laugh at himseir.
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that the thing—w hatever it
the wiser. But, although it eluded in
Parole Revoked—The parole of Bob
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23,25,27 W.RENO
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COMPANY
800 Coins In Mayoress’ Chain.
GROCERY AND MEAT DEPARTMENT
Occupation
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called and he finds he has to live up
$1.75
Strictly
(A fiennine WVatrrmii Hlour, Gnarunteed tn Plense)
Fresh
Hardware Department
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Brown will be the superintendent Sun- I hackground for some of the scenes of
40c
th
35c
nt night.
aom
Song"
and up
Scarlet.”
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uperior
400
W. MAIN
Quick
Results
Country
Eggs Doz.
bow, another at the sern, and the
two vertical red lights, which showed
Grocery
Dept.
feeling that we had misread the sig
nificance of the crosss, or that the .
In reply to [
• unable to
er filled nicely into the program not
alone because of the cleverness of the
Beef Loaf.
2 lbs. for .
Randal May Re Bankrupt—Cecil M.
Randal of India nopolis, who listed his
of the
three
public when the couple realized that
married life and the stage might not
go well together.
puring 0 draw ।
rations for the
made any perceptible impression on
the silence and gloom of the Ella.
and that, rising xuddenly from under
me, had McWhirter in the air, and
almost overboard before I caught him.
No dazed were we by the onslaught*
! moat amazing feats of his career. For i
instance, he slides down a glacier to
escape an officer of the law at one
time, and another he throws a steer
up in the air. At first, he only brags
about the adventures he has had and
” Watchman.
Neither of us
discern
Mac was
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Fellowes,
1ulzi.
48 pounds Kansas Diamond
Flour. . ...................
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for ..
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called,
ba as,
The
her
the
flash
he was poring over the drawing,
named the paper at ohce.
"Ought to know it,” he said.
♦
terson believes.
Extension Contracts Let in January.
Contracts for lhe extension of the
Brisket Ba-
con. 1b. ....
. It swung almost shoul:
McWhirter. We looked I
r
Barnett was convicted in March, 1923.
He was sentenced for two years.
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11 Pounds Fine White Cane Sugar........$1.00
100 Pounds Fine White Cane Sugar......$9.60
second In meaningless humor which
was unlike anything tbs Orpheum has
hnd this year. n
"Bits of Wils"’ with lane and Harp- ,
Butter,
1b.....
— — ------— ------- ------—to his wild stories. His tales are said
money is involved in an Indian ward to be as fascinating as n fairy story
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have to do with his visit to the cir-
cus. L
That the circus episodes would re-
flect the true atmosphere of a circus
To Escape Officers
"Men in the law" is the thvilling
name of Jack Hoxie’s picture show
ing at The Liberty Friday and Nutur ,
day. In the role of Windy Watkins a
aw
10 pounds Fancy Delicious Apples......
10 pounds Fancy Roman Beauty Apples
10 pounds Fancy Winesap Apples......
•1 :
Phone Your Loss
to the
Oklahoman and Times
Walnut 3000
Level of flew Embankments
To Be Determined,
£
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Raiders Catch Moonshiners
Working in Canyon.
LARGE MINCE
PIES
Special
40c
I jakets."
But I had discovered something.
cane being briefed by C. W. King of and thrills and comedy are equally di-
tthe attorney general’s office Friday vided.
distinetly possible, and is made prob '
ably by the stars which he had paint 1
ed with tar on his sacrifiqial robe.
I Ser By The
TIMES
5 lb. box 0A,
Bacon ....... •VC
A ee‘
wb'
Burnett, Hughes county, convicted of
grand larceny issued by J. C. Walton Violin Wins Her
when he was governor, was revoked Anmiscinn tn 11 s
Friday by order of Governor Trapp Au-OIT IU U. O.
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Aw.d
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Compound,
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mscessmmse
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et one bearing
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capture end would not talk. I am tn ! 000 book., mape and picture, were ex:
clined to think ihm a shooting star, ported that, too, are in thia cin 05
nerhaps in a particular quarter of । iitile-thdught of export bualnex. .°
l th. henvens, was hl. siunal. This l« whit h thin country does WmKMI'"'.
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FRUIT CAKE
per pound
$1
re
X
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ENGLISH
PLUM PUDDING
per pound
$1
6 cup Aluminum Percolator 1. ...
2 quart Casserole Special........
Dry Goods Specials
we Mr re
3"
2g,t
a crude attrmpt to draw
iGdog or a lamb,
Let
Mrs. Simmons
Do Your
New Year’s
Baking
NEW YEAh s CAKES AND rAsrar
DHCOKATKD-TO OKDER
— all goes well, until finally bln hand in
. Huge Sum involved in Suit—Sav • ....
—iral hundred thousand dollar, tax
ip th. "Welch Revival
Though Your Sina Be
When I could sme, the deck near Then we were
! closing with a kicking, biting, scream-
ing phing. that bore me to the ground,
extinguishing the little electric flash.
Was —
us none
riding lights—a white one
There is a good deal to wax en
thusiastic about in Hie new hill at the
, Orpheum, thoughwwe seldom become
enthusiastic over audeville.
To be sure Claire Whitney and Rob-
, art Keane were best of all in a bit
of comedy which took a mean sock at
males as gossipers, but Charles Wil-
son, "the loose nut" was a very close
•Ik • late, purposely, to witness the pie- •
•Bov of Mine, "c which, like "Pen i turea M. V L
der-high on
> usual
in the
ior manufacturing plant (
idal to many of the large
main dam, and to the Thirty hinth her not under command.
"In this business it is difficult for । matinee. The privilege was granted
Se cAf ter Housed
y $USU3MI*U CO. 6 Marti Roberts Rinchart
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Irene Rich and Rocklifte
Dot Farley and Iawrence
3 'Sft ""tig»"At "m
il
Started — Opera- boastul cowboy, Hoxie performs the
Wesley Services- Rev. C E. Chapler
of Guthrie will deliver the Sunday
morning sermon at the Wesley Metho-
dist church. His sermon topic will be
"The Courageous Triplets.”
Katy Official Here—W. M. Fend,
-wick, general passenger agent for the
M. K. T. railroad, was in the city over
Thursday Inspecting conditions in the
vicinity surrounding the city and the
city office. He comes from St. Louis,
1 permission was sought <to "shoot" his
scenes during a Saturday afternoon
4
Eerope In ria> ing Cards.
American manufacturers of playin
cards are doing a good pusiness in
Hurope and eisewhere abroad these
days, in 1922 alone the United Statem
exported 7 800,000 pneks. Also 39,000,-
Y. M. C. A Plans Entertainmeni — A
church film, "The Stream of Lire," is
to be shown at I he V. M. C. A. at 7;30
o’clock Saturday night. The public is
invited. There will be no charges.
darkiks, which
seemed only to I
their effect on him.
wovk, so letting contracts on
11/
tions on the eleven mile link to con-
nect Oklahoma City by hard surfaced
road with Norman Friday morning
when a “work order” was issued by
Paul Nesbitt, state highway commis-
sioner. The link will he of concrete.
Ojou Neeq
\ dlNew Broom
WhatVeThink
Orpheum
fer
and I am not lacking in physical
sent. "Mr. Wood is the son of Gov Hiumorous incidents in the’ prune
What was the story of that fated
morning of August It? Read the last
instalmrnt tomorrow to find out--
•Explanations"
XXIX--The Thing.
T DESERVE no credit for the solu- _
l tion or the EIl. . mystery. I have under and around with • Erowin
a certain quality of force, perhaps.
.hi electric flash wilh me, and by Ils
aid We found a rope ladder over the
side, with a small boat at its foot.
Although the boat indicated the
Watonga Man Alleges Eankrupfe»
F. M. Paxton, a mec hanic at Watonga,
filed a petition in federal court Friday
alleging that he was bankrupt. In the
petition Paxton listed his total debts
at $11,674.26 and his total asxets at
475. The assets were claimed to be
exempt.
Reese to Preach- Rev. Ethelyn K
Reece will speak on "What of the New
Year" Sunday morning at the Divine
Science church, 1313 North Hudson.
Lee Robison will sing. Sunday school
will start at 9:30 o'clock, church at 11
p’clock. Another meeting is planned
at 3 o'clock Wednesday evening. The
Divine Science reading room will be
open from 10 to 1 o'clock daily, except
Saturday.
Frank Heal and Allan Cavan. Pete
Arrison is also appering these Inal
two days of the week in "The (host
City" his last serial, e
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reply to my surprise. "Sold enough
courage; but I have no finesse of In-
‘tellect. McWhirter, a foot shorter
, than I, round of face, jovial and
stocky, has as much subtlety in his
little finger as I have in my six feet
and a fraction of body.
All the way lu the river, therefore.
and the unit was moved, bag and
baggage, lo I Ue circus lot.
"Boy of Mine has an all star cast
that includes Henry B. Waithall. Ben
Gen. Leonard Wood of the Philippine
Islands and brother o Lieut. Osborne
C. Wood. The decision was made .
siniste reord extended to it time |
New Tear Program Planned- Sun
day will be a special day at the First
Presbyterian church in which New
Year’e thoughts will predominate. Rev.
lyde Howard. pastor, will speak on
"A Glimpse into the Future,” at 11
o’clock. An annual week of prayer
will be held from January 1 to 5. 11
Justrated lectures will be given.
When you lose something' insert an
ad immediately in The Oklahoman
and Times. Of course, the lady re-
covered her purse. One insertion lo-
cated both the finder and the purse
I he Oklahoman and Times are known
for the quick results they bring clas-
sified advertisers.
More than 950,000 horses and 345,*
ooojmules were shlpped abroad dur-
ingthe World war.
my small
me he had not suspected. He lounged
against the rail near me, and, in spite
of his chaff, kept a keen enough
lookout.
The barecas of water were lashed
Ladies' High-Grade Shoes, $0.50 and $7.50
value. only.......................... .99c
Buster Brown fine silk Thread Hose, pr $1.00
Children’s Hose, all sizes 15c pair, 2 for. .. .25c
CLOSED ALL DAY NEW YEAR’S
2 Dozen I
No. 252 -C
............70c
............45c
............40c
Dry Goods, Shoes, Groceries, Meats, Hardware, Furniture and Goodyear Tires
Gasoline Filling Station
John W. Hawley of Dallas
* a pi i urization of h
do not do still greater damage, Pat moorings. She carried the
gr It LI l ' --- r- 1 after the flashlight, could
>hel Holes and I wenty-rour anything in the darkness.
Hour’Servce Difficult. I pointing forward.
The Epworth leaune hold their watch (
aght service Mandax njht hg•
Strictly
Fresh
Country
Butter
gestec that the situation might be
disagreeable, were the man lo waken
and get at us with a gun.
We stood by the top of the ladder,
therefore, and made another effort
to rouse him, "Hey, watchman!" I
been called here with Mend, and the
two will select a third engineer, to
complete the board.
Mayor Curgili said Friday he will
abide by the decision of the three
engineers. Joe Patterson declared
that “any gump of qualified engi-
neers will agree on the best plan,
and I would be willing to het they
will not make any recommendations
that differ radically from the mom
mendalions of our own engineering
boa rd."*
State Buys Groceries- The state
board of affairs is buying a "few
groceries'' to tide the state instutions
over the quarter. "What will the bill
he? Oh, abourt $350,000," speculated
Charles Rhodes, chief clerk of the de-
partment.
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, goat!" he said sheepishly. “I thought
“It’s got my goat," he admitted,
"It smells like a tomb."
"Don’ be nd ass ”
’"I'Hin the light over the side, mid
Nee if we astened I hat boat. We
don’t want to be left here indel.
"niteiy." •
-6 I ii vviin IVI D-l i •
I saw something duck around the
disease was recurrent and of a curt-
oils nature. He thought himself a
priest of heaven, appointed to make
ghastly sacrifices at certain signals t
from on high. The signala I am not
sure of; he turned taciturn after his
rhe sermon wubjects for the services by the First National, and which
wil be "Closing the Records.'' for the comes to the Empressnext week. act, but because its better halt la ope
morning, and 'Turning From the Past"" The scenes were "shot" during the ot the most attrac tive women we *
____ R. E. Cartt and Mrs. Gor- i visit to L# Angeles of "the greatest have ever seen up the orpheum stage
England willsing the duet par ta show on earth" Ben Alexander, the; Amaranth Sisters and company and
and boy star, who was "Penrod" in "Pon | the Cordon-Lando company appeared
- ’ rod and Sam, was the hero of them in feature dancing. We arrived too
and a cross, Frum edge to edge It wus
smeared with blood.
Of what followed Juft after, both
McWhlHer ami l are vague. There
seemed to be, simujtaneously, a yell
uf fur "rom the Tigging overhead,
and the crash of a falling body on
sang lustily:
had my
gagement of Leonard Wood Jr. to
marry Misa Dolores Graves, an act
ress, ass been brukm by mutual cun
filed a petition in the federal court
clerk's office alleging that he was n
'bankrupt. In the petition Randal
listed his total debts at 14,399 58 and
his total assets, all of which were
elaimed to be exempt, at $56,
amidships. In the bow and stern
were small air-tight compartments,
and in the stern was also a small
locker from which the biscuit tins
projects may follow the two main
contracts within the shortest possible
time. In that way, virtually all of the
work will be under way simultane-
ously, it was pointed out.
A conference between city commis
sioners and outside engineers, called
here for a supplementary report on
the four engineers' plans, will he
postponed until January 7. as D. W.
Mead of the University of Wisconsin
cannot comp to Oklahoma City until
that time Patterson said.
Will Select Other Engineer.
was there, whimpering to itself,
searching for something — the sheet.
“I told you the place
Mining Drama to
Be Shown at Folly
William Russell in the role of a
young mining engineer who goes to
kustralla for a mine urchase, l« the ।
Attraction Friday and Saturday at the
Folly. There Ie plenty of apirited aci
ion in thia tale of struggle and in
trigie in acquiring the mining prop
rty. The mine is a valuable one and
I he heroine» uncle and drunken fl-
nue. are fighting to keep Rusnel
fom getting it.
Dorothy Devore, one of the newer
stars, la cast opposite Russel and
' others in the i ast are Lloya Whitlock.
"Shermah told of war but be
only knew part of it. He shoula
have gone through .the Christmnas
mailing rush," eight large size
army truck, sputtered as they
were driven from the elty poet-
office to the state capitol where
they will return to a life of
leisure.
One of the truck,, a three-ton
Liberty type, seemed to be the
leader of the group and unmind-
ful of the postal man who was
driving, stopped to give a Times
reporter an Interview before leav-
ing the dock.
"We were built for the govern-
ment during war time,. Then we
took a long journey over the wa
taro. From then on we bounced
• through shell hole, and pulled
mud. All of our sides carry the
mark, of bullets >■ mute testl
mony of our suttering.
"Then we were brought back to
this country and given a rest until
postottice officials startea using
ua for the delivery of Christmas
vackagen. From that time on un-
til now we have not had a mo-
ment’s rent. The shel holes of
France were bad but nothing In
comparison to the ruts we bounced
through on our way around the
city. Twentyfour hours is a long
time to work in one day, too. The
only question remaining In our
minds is how the men that kept
pouring the load on us when our
steel and iron nearly gave way
under it," the truck said as it
backfired and started.
In the meantime, engineers are pre rouse Ilie watehmah.
before the "sbo devil" of the Turner
line was drenmed in white and tinned ।
into a lady.
I was feeling underneath the bout,
with a sense of absurdity that Me
Whirter had put into words. "I only i
hope," lie nald, "that the watchman j
does not wake up now and see us.
1 He‘a be suatined in filling us with
lead, or putting us in ths straight.
• ’ operated before prohibition I
u.u which has heen providing a mini- i
mum of 200 gnllons of corn liquor a
day for city consumption, has been
seized on a government reservation,
seventeen miles northwest of Law
ton. according to a report received Fri-
day by Millard F. Meadows, federal
prohibition director. Five men were
arrested.
Officer)* rushed into a deep canyon
with drawn guns hnd surprised the
men before they had a chance to put
up a fgiht oi destroy any of the plant.
Meadows Mild. J
Grouped in a circle were five large
stills, four of which were in opera
tion at the time the raiders reported.
Around the stills was the water sup- .
ply as well as equipment to hide the
smoke from t hf furnaces and to run '
the mash to the stills. Arrange
ments for bottling the liquor and
packing it for shipment also were,
found.
Ready to run near the stills the of
ficers reported they found more than 1
1,000 gallons of mash. Though the ।
raid was made early in the morning, i
twenty-seven gallons of corn liquot
already had been run by the four I
stills, the officers said. The raider;
were led by C. L. Thourman, federal
agent.
Following the taking of the still .
the officers found two automobiles
The men arrested are J D. Camp
bell. Charles Boles, Cecil Scott, R. L.
King and H Sith.
day, Sunday nchool at 9:45 o’clock. । "Roy of Mine, ' which was produced
corner of that building; but I"think it
ws a ray from a searchlight on one
of those houseboats."’
“The watchman, probably,” I sal ,
u . . . ... ..... 1 c0l have escaped, end left
quietly. But my heart beat a little
•faster. “The watehman taking a . ... ,, . . .
. . . j , M i” the daikness, it did not leave. It
look at ua and gone for h a gun. '
McWhirter grew less gay.
deserted decks of the ship,
tragic history, her Isolation,
As I steadied Mac. It passed me. I
caught at it. Immediately the struggie
began all over again. But this time we
had the advantage, ad kept it. After
a battle that seemsed to last all ntight
and that was actually fought all over
that part of the deck, we held the
creature subdued, and Msc, Retting A
hand free, struck a match.
It was Charlie Junes.
That, after nN, is the story. Jones
wus a madmar a homicidal mania*
o the worst ' type. Always a mad
man, the homieidal element of his
“Mac." I sald, "some one has Men
at this boat within the last few min-
utee."
"Why?”
“Take your revolver nd watch
the deck. One of the barecas—”
• What's that’”
"One of the water barrels has been
upset, and the plug la out. It is leak-
ihg Into the boat. It is leaking fast. ,
and there's only a gallon or »o in the ।
bottom! Give me a light.”
The contents of the boat revealed
the truth of what I had said. The I
boat was in confusion. It’s cover !
had been thrown back, and this of
biscuit, ballers, hoat -hooks and extra
rowlocks were jumbled together in
confusion. The barecas lay no Ra
side, and its 2ug had been either
knoeked or drawn out.
Me Whirter was fur turning to In- !
spect the bout; but I ordered him
NEW YORK, Dec. 28—Her rendi-
tion of Sehumann’s Traumerei on hex
violin before a special board of in
quiry at Ellis island convncd the
authorities that Regina Kohn wus
ntitled to classification as an artini
and wuu her ndmisnion to the Unittd
States. She had been threatened with
deportatlon because the Roumanian
quota was exhausted when she ar
rived Monday on the Celtic, Miss
Kohn la a Hungarian but the part of
Hungary in which she always lived is
now occupied by Roumanla, and its
inhabitants are classified as Ron
manians under the immigration reg
illations.
Her case came up before the board
and Miss Kohn was informed by the
chairman that If se could play the
‘'Traumerei" well enough she would
be admitted as an artist if not, she
would be deported. Feeling aa if she
had "one foot in America, the other
in Europe,” as she expressed it, she
played the composition an artistically
on a violin she had wth her that she
was told she could enter at once.
Slides Down Glacier
LOST—Triple-fold cardo van purne,
"Hetty"" printed fnside, econtalns card
bearing "J. r. Thompabn" and one gold
Evershurp peneil: lont Chriatmas nlgir;
reware W. <•».
ORANGES RDoen 25c I ORANGES
; persons to marry happily,” Mr.
I Wood explained. "One uf us would
ha\e to sucrifice a career. When one
marries he would like to have a
home. Miss Graves is an actress and
has her career ahead of her. We
1 thought it all over and decided to call
the wedding off.”
Mr. Wood himself is in the theat
rical profession and now is promot-
ing the Washington Theater guild
He met Miss Graves about eight
months ago. Later Ms Graves lie
came a member of the Wood Play
ers, a stock company which recently
• losed an engagement at Lancaster,
Pa., after having played at White
Pinina. N. Y.
Miss Graves' home is In San Fran
cisco. She was graduated from the
American Academy of Dramatic Arts
Booth l’arkington story, centers
around the life of a typical Ameri-
iau buy, a pu t played by Ban.
a farm housekeeper.
W. 6167 816 N. Hudson
Norman "I.ink”
Guaranteed
Eggs, doz. ... 4 4C
The coffer dam will serve to atop humor, G ab, bag!
enough water for a summer supply, ’The Ella still lay in the Delaware,
If used fruagily, and if spring fioods half a mile or so from -her original
"That's fully, Mac," I sald, but I
Army Trucks On dbsnerebiowe""h.......monsbot
Mail Duty Find armuanasnx"nne by the
A , j yr , “My God.” he said. “What is that
NVew Work Hard
, it Was a moment before my eyes.
Bl CKINGHAM, England. — The on the port side to the approximate
next mayoress of this borough, will location of the cross. This being in
have presented to her n chain made , the neighhorhood where Mac had
from 300 “threepenny pleces," whh h thought he saw uomething mnve, we
were paid as a fine of ten pounds im approached with extreme caution,
pored on Couneillor Roper who re- Rot nothing more ominous was dis
fused to accpt the position of mayor, covered than the port lifeboat, noth-
Councillor Roper handed over these ihg more ghostly heard than the or
800 email coins and will have them • asional creak with which it rocked
made Into a chain for future mayor- in its davits.
esses. The liteboat seemed to be indicated
had been taken. I WAS about to
abandon my search when I saw some
( thing gleaming in the locker, and
reached in and drew It out. It ap
pea red to be an ordinary white sheet
but its presence there was curious. 1 1
turned the light on it. It was covered 1
with darkbrown tains.
Even now the mnemory of that sheet
turns me ili, I shook >1 out, and Mat . ,
at my eu lamalion, came to me it
whs nut a sheet mi sil, th.it #, not a 1
whole one. It was A •I0 ilar piece of
white cloth, on w hit h. gblai lc, were
ctiriots marks- a six p’Mled star prt
dominating. Ther we“. others A
as a stationery engineen." He .
writhed as was his habit over his
jukes, and then fell to work at the
drawing again. "A book," he said,
“and an ax, ami a gibbet or gallows.
Bag—that makes ‘bag.’ Doesn't
go far. does it? Humorous duck,
isn’t he? Any one who can write
ha! ha!' under a gallows has real
Mary Pickford.Gives
Many Christmas Dolls
Joy was brought Into a large num
be r uf homes this Yuletide by Mary
l’ickford who gave a way through va-
rious charity organizations sixteen
dolls.
For several years, in response to a
great many requests. Mary has been
presenting an increasing large number
nf dull as aa Christmas presents to Ut-
ile girls throughout the entire world.
। It was necessary this year to assign
one member.of her wardrobe staff to
1 ili< dressing of these dolls. The clothes
for ca« h were designed by Mary, who
also supervised their costuming.
As u Hile each is dressed to repre-
sent -mne film character that has
li ii purir * rd by the star. This year
ii. 'i of i he calls wert fur dolls garbed
> "lanita." They were clad in the
«-i it materials and even had hair
that was reul and most cases mar-
ei Hrd The doll that took the longest
journey this year was ^hipped to A US
11-i li.। m respsonse to a request from
the management of a bazaar for the
benefit of an orphange in Sydney.
WASIIN(lON, Dec 18 The Hi rod and Sat
submission to the supreme court — ■ -
ot the United State*. Circus Scenes in
Two Classes Formed -Two new Sun- New Empress Film
day sehool classes are being formed at A genuine circus, one of the big
the Second Methodist church. H. H. ' get and most f. mous, was used an a
Survey of the water reservoir to
determine the exact level to which
1 mbunkments must be raised for th**
• ity ‛wster supply was ordered Fri-
day by Joe H. Patterson commis
sioner of public property.
Til* survey a Imo will determina juut
how miicli water can be stored in the
bypass as1 an emergency supply
until the permanent improvements
provided by the bond issue are made
City Supply Direct From River.
The city's supply still is being
pumped directiy from the river, and
there will be no storage apact
whatever until a coffer dam, now in
process of construction. is completed
This work will require another thirty
days' time.
I thought rapi/ly. If Mac had
seen anything, I did not believe ft
was the watchman. But there
should be a watchman on board-
in the forward-house, probably. I
gave Mac my revolver and put the
, light ip my pocket. I might want
both hands that night. I saw better
without the flush, and, guided partly
by the bow light, partly by my
knowledge of the yacht, I led the
way across the deck. The forward
house was ciosed and locked, and
no knocking produced any indication
of life. The after house we found
not only locked, but barred acroax
with strips of wood nailed Into place.
The forecastle was likewise closed.
It was a dead ship.
No figure reappearing to alarm
him. Mac took the drawing out of
his pocket and focused the flashlight
on it.
“This cross by the mainmast,” hr
said—''that would be where?”
“Right behind you, there."
He walked to the mast, and ex
amined carefully around its base.
There was nothing there, and even
now* I do not know to what that
cross alluded, unless poor Schwartz—!
“Then this other one — forward
you call it, don't you? Suppose we
locate that."
All expectation of the watchman
having now died, we went' forward
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Gaylord, E. K. Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 34, No. 209, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 29, 1923, newspaper, December 29, 1923; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1951908/m1/16/: accessed August 15, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.