Chickasha Daily Express (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. SIXTEEN, No. 284, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 26, 1915 Page: 1 of 8
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United Press Association.
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All the Local NcwslETcry
Day in The Daily Express.
VOLUME 8IXTEEN.
CHICKASHA OKLAHOMA TUESDAY OCTOBER 26 1915.
NUMBER 284.
Dai
MEMBERS
OF BOARDS
MEET TOO
Session Will Be Held Saturday Fol-
lowing Convention of Teachers;
Directors are Notified and
Promise to Come
BETTER EDUCATION
WILL BE BOOSTED
Prominent Speakers Will Talk to
Pedagogue;; Concert at Col-
lege and Banquet Part
of Program
The coming meeting of the Grady
County Teachers association to be in
session in this city during Thursday
and Friday October 28 and 29 prom-
ises to he one of the most interesting
meetings of Its kind ever held in this
county or perhaps in the entire state
County Superintendent Shepard to
gether with his assistant Miss Zlnn
has worked bard and arduously to
make the association's gathering a suc-
cess and the efforts put forth in this
direction promise to be most satisfac-
tory of results.
The program promises great interest
to all teachers and shows the efforts
looking toward the tetter education of
the young people of Grady county be-
ing used by the county's educators to
be earnest ones.
Prominent speakers will address the
county educators upon subjects of vital
educational interest the teachers will
be entertained with a special lyceum
number to he given by the Treble Clef
club In the auditorium of the Okla-
homa College for Women on Thurs
day evening and will be entertained at
an elaborate tanquet provided by tho
members of the Epworth league; the
rim of successfully conducting moon-
light schools will be formulated and
everything possible done to make the
associations' meeting one of pleasure
as well as one of Instructive merit
On Saturday the program vill close
with the holding of the first annual
meeting of the members of the school
boards of Grady county.
Mr. Shepard stated this morning
that there were approximately 260
school board members in this county.
Ho said that he had written to each
of these advising of this meeting and
that practically every one of the num-
ber had written him signifying the In-
tention of the writer to be present at
this meeting. All teachers will b
urged to attend the sessions of the
members of the various "boards of
school directors? of the couuty and
take part in and have a voice In the
deliberations of the Joint bodies.
Another Important feature of the
coming event will be the holding of
teachers' examinations while the as-
sociation Is In session. The regular
teachers" examination will be held
Thursday and Friday October 18-29.
The complete program of the teach-
ers' meeting is as follows:
Thursday Morning.
Knrollment.
Visitation of city schools.
Thursday Afternoon.
1:30 Roll call.
1 : 45 Invocation. Rev. J. A. Olds.
2:00 Address of welcome.
2: 10 Response Catherine Griff cth.
2:30 President's address A. E.
Wlckizer.
2:50 Mouth Condltons As It Af-
fects the Child in School Dr. A. C.
Crose.
3:10 dreamer's 8Htem of Penman-
ship C. E. Webb.
3:30 The Value of the Grafonola
K. H. Russell.
3:50 Agriculture In Our Schools
O. C. Cooper county agent.
4:00 Duties of the Woman Agent
Mrs. Mattle Coryell. .
4:00 Announcements Supt. M. H.
Shepard.
Thursday Evening.
8:00 Treble Clcff club Auditorium
O. C. W.
Friday Morning.
8:30 Roll call.
8:35 Relation of the School Board
to the School Pres. G. W. Austin O.
C. W.
9:00 Moonlight schools: Mow to
Organize Pert Jackson; How to Se-
(Contlnnert on Page Three.)
LINER SAFE AFTER FIRE.
Uy United Press.
CHARLESTON S. C Oct. 26. The
Mallory liner Colorado -which caught
fire yesterday afternoon was towed
Into the harbor here today after the
blaze had been extinguished by tugs.
Part of thTcargo of six thousand balos
of cotton was ruined.
BECOMES ROYAL ARCH MASON
Congressman Scott Ferris will re
ceive the degrees tonight which will
make him a Royal Arch Mason. The
degrees will be conferred by Mr. Fer
ris' home chapter at Lawton.
DETAILS OF
NEW PLOT
REVEALED
Gompers Places Before President
Alleged Scheme to Tie Up
Munitions Plants; Gov't
Starts Probe in N. Y.
By United Tress.
WASHINGTON Oct. 26. Samuel
iM. Gompers president of the Amer-
ican Federation of Labor today placed
before President Wilson the details
of a new gigantic plot which he alleges
has been made for the purpose of
tying up factories In which munitions
of war are made.
According to the Information given
to the president by Gompers the al
leged plot was worked up by German
agents and It was proposed to foment
strikes on a huge scale In order to
cripple the munition plants that are
making supplies for the allies.
By United Fress.
NEW YORK Oct. 2. The federal
government today took complete
charge of the Investigation of the al-
leged conspiracy to blow up trans-
Atla&tlc vessels carrying munitions to
the allies.
Robert Fay alleged Prussian army
lieutenant who confessed Important
details of the plot and Walter Scholz
his brother-in-law were turned over
to federal authorities by Magistrate
Rander at Weehauken N. J. They will
be arraigned before a United States
commissioner in New York this after-
noon. Paul Daeshet the third man ar-
rested was not turned ever to the fed-
eral authorities. His attorneys
waived bis rights and he will be given
a hearing hefore the federal district
court of New Jersey.
DIST. COURT
CONTINUES
District court re-convened yesterday
morning with Judge Will Linn on the
bench following their recessing from
Friday the jury was on hands and
the regular routine of the court waa
taken up.
The case of E. F. Short vs. H. Blair
suit on a note was called and the fol-
lowing Jury impanelled to try the case:
J H. Elgin James Hoover. H. S. Mc-
Danlel C. McCormlek R. E. Edmond-
sen tf. A Boswell George DaBhner P.
W. DeBois A. S. Gray W. A. Collett
D. E. Emerson J. L. Rasberry.
Late In the evening the jury re-
turned a verdict for the plaintiff in the
sum of JGOO and attorney's fes In the
sum of $fi0.
The trial of the casfl of Mrs. Lula
Owen vs. the Knights and Ladies of
Security was taken up and the follow-
ing jury empanelled: 1 M. Chase S.
Fitzpatrlck J. H. Eisenhour G. A.
Hale D. C. Dais C. Meyers G. H.
Rogers J. Mutz J. p. Manley B. .
Hayes WVlmm and T. McGarvin.
Motion for t new trail in the matter
of the State v. Fender Polk passed
and to be re-submitted Saturday Oc-
tober 30.
All damage suits pending In the dis-
trict court against the Rock Island
railway company set for trial today
have heen continued for the term.
These suits are four In numbpr and
the amount of damages claimed win
approximate between $30000 and
f n.'i.ooo.
CABINET
OF GREECE
RESIGNS?
Report Reaches Rome But is Not
Confirmed; Taken to Mean
War Party Has Upper
Hand at Athens
PROBLEM OF FOOD
PRESSES GERMAN!
Chancellor Calls Meeting of Al
Parties to Consider Situation;
French Resist Desperate
Counter Attacks
By United Press.
hums. Oct. 26. Reports from
Athens say the Zaimi cabinet has re-
signed but the Greek legation here
was uDalle to confirm the news. If
the report Is true it Is taken to mean
(he triumph of the Greek war party
and that Greece will Join the allies Im
mediately.
Break With Allies?
By United Press.
LONDON Oct. 26. The Central
News agency hints that a diplomatic
break between Greece and the allies
will result if the operations of the al
lies in the Balkans are interfered with
by the Interpretation of Greek neu-
trality made by Athens officials.
Venice Is Bombarded.
By United Press.
ROME Oct. 26. Three Austrian
aeroplanes bombarded Venice again
today.
Discuss Food Problem.
By United Press.
COPENHAGEN Oct. 26. According
to Information coming form Berlin
Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg called
a meeting of representatives of all
parties in the Reichstag for
Wednesday to discuss the food proo-
lem. The calling of this meeting is
taken to indicate that the food situ-
ation is serious.
French Relisting Attacks.
By United Press.
PARIS Oct. 26. The French forces
are resisting desperate German coun-
tre attacks to retain possession of La
Courtalne a highly important point in
front of the kaiser's second position
in the Champagne region.
While the German and Austro-Hun-garian
campaigns In northern and
eastern Serbia are heing carried out
according to plan despite fierce
Serbian resistance and the Bulgars
who crossed the Timok and hold the
town of Prahovo are separated from
the Germans who crossed the Danube
near Orsova by only a few nihVs in the
south things are not going so wed for
the Invaders. In the latter region the
French troops have joined hands with
the Serbs and according to French ac-
counts have Inflicted a severe defeat
i on the Bulgarians at Krlvolak forty
miles north of the point where the
Salonlkl-Nlsh railway crosses tht-Scrbo-Greek
frontier.
This success places the Bulgarians
who reached Istlp Veles and Uskup
in rather an awkward position for a
further advance of the allied army
would seriously threaten their flank.
In fact unofficial reports state that the
advance of the French who are being
closely followed by the British has
already caused the retirement of the
Bulgars toward Strumnitsa.
The first desire of the Germans
however is to open a route through
northeastern Serbia and Bulgaria to
Turkey and this is on the eve of being
accomplished.
On the other hand military writers
here do not believe that the position
of Serbia is so desperate as has been
painted. It Is serious of eourso but
they point out that the Serbians have
many natural defensive positions in
the mountains In which they can hold
out for weeks: that with the British
French and other members of the
quadruple powers carrying out their
determination to help Serbia by rush-
ing reinforcements to Salonlkl and
other points the Bulgars will have an
extremely warm reception and that
the Germans and Turks being fully
occupied elsewhere will not be able
to sund them much help.
(CiMitltmed on Page. Throe.)
PRESIDENT WILSON
President Wilson is shown In
hMCen!n0 layiD8 exerclse8 at
-r...B u miil6m)u iwionai
of the Civil war.
SESSION IS
CLOSED BY
TEMPLARS
With Grand Commmder Present
Sir Knights Hold Triennial
Conclave and Sit Together
at Festal Board
The triennial district conclave of
Xnighis Templar held In this city
came to a close last evening shortly
before midnight.
Most interesting sessions were held
n the Masonic hall during the after-
coon and evening and an elaborate
banquet was served at the Royal
hotel during the time lntervonlng be-
tween the sessions.
Among those present fiom out of
Chickasha were: Grand Commander
James A Scott of Muskogee; C. A.
Maddin L. B. Ritter and W. A. John
son of Lawton B. J. Vaughn of Alex
John Coyle of Rush Springs E. R.
Humphrey of Vernon Texas.
At the Royal hotel forty covBrs were
laid but owing to the time card of
the train service between Chickasha
and Purcell no one was present from
that commandery so that only thirty
Sir Knights re-assembled in the tem-
ple and conferred the orders of the
Red Cross and of the Temple upon
C. U Widney.
During1 the evening session ad-
dresses upon interesting Masonic sub-
jects delivered by Grand Commander
Scott by Sir Knights Ashton McKenzie
and others. In conferring the orders
upon the candidate for Temple honors
W. C. Matthews presided during thc-
work In the Red Cross R. A. Klm-
hrough in the order of the Temple
while owing to the lateness of the
hour the Order of Malta was com
municated by E. Hamilton.
It la not known where the next con-
clave for this district will be held.
The Grand Commandery which will
hold its annual conclave in Oklahoma
City during April next will set the date
and name the place for the conclave.
In the matter of the attendance of
the Knights at the conclave just past
it was stated that about two-thirds of
he entire membership of DeMolay
Commandery of Chickasha were pres-
ent. This members of the order con-
sider a fine showing when the fact Is
taken Into consideration that members
of this Temple are scattered all over
the world. "Members of DeMolay
Commandery" said Mr. E. Hamilton
this morning "will be found In Ore-
gon Missouri Kansas Manila and
Honolulu."
WEATHER FORECAST.
For Oklahoma.
Tonight fair cooler in extreme east
portion. Frost tonight.
Wednesday fair and wanner in west
portion.
Local Temperature.
During the twenty-four hours ending
at 8 o'clock a. m.:
Maximum 7S
j Minimum 42
LAYS CORNERSTONE
. 1 I
the accompanying picture oinciating at
the hEe memorial amphitheater now
cemetery as a tribute tn thn Wn.
CITY HALL
GRAND AND
GORGEOUS
"Some" Flower Show Presented by
Floor Coverings of Offices;
Rare Collection of Roses
in Mayor's Room
Of all the grand sights of word or
pen the grandest are these "the city
has carpets again." (Try that on your
cornstalk fiddle.)
No- this may not jingle and sway
and sWing with the rhythm of true
poesy nor possess the proper number
of feet or yards nor have the exact
metrical scale but truth is stranger
than poetry and this Is the truth. If
you do not telleve It just breeze
around to the city hall today and drop
in for a short chat with the mayor and
a word with Treasurer Clark and a
whisper Just a whisper with Curley
Reynolds of city clerk fame. And
while you are chatting with the mayor
and passing the time of day with the
treasurer and whispering of how much
it cost Curley for H19 Phillies to drop
the pennant Just "give a look" at the
floor coverings of their several offices.
Say! Talk about your roses. You
never saw roses as compared to the
roses you will see when you drop Into
the office of the mayor of the city of
Chickasha; roses red and roses blue
roses bright of every hue. Big roses
little roses; roses with and without
thorns without leaves without odor
but roses just the same.
Now all these posies and roses are
iritc-i woveu into the fiber and made a
part of the warp and woof of the mys-
tery and dust-capturing coverings
which now cover the accumulated to-
bacco stains which have decorated
the floors of the offices of the mayor
the treasurer and the city clerk since
the city hall was in the swaddling
clothes of Infancy.
On the mayor's office floor to. take
the matter up in detail will be found
a rug or carpet. If you like that homely
and old-fashioned name better of all
the gorgeous hues of the most en-
trancing rainbow that ever gladdened
the roseate heavens at eventide. That
rug la something doing every min-
ute of the time. It Is absolutely so
noisy that the night watchman at tho
city hall has to go home to sleep. It
has woven into and made a part of It
euough roses and lilies of the valley
and blue belles and violets and dog-
wood blossoms and cape jassamines
and dog fennel blooms and snowballs
and peonies and nigger heads and
clinging vines and twigs and broken
bows and poison ivy and moss and
brambles and what not to stock the
scenery of half the landscape gardens
in the "Great Commonwealth of Okla-
homa." In Treasurer Clark's department the
scenery upon the floor Is of a more
modest cast of countenance. Hie
treasurer evidently wanted somemlng
of a neutral color something that
would not Bhow tobacco ashes should
such chance to be. spilled upon the
floor-covering at some time during the
day while he should be absent from
the office.
In Curley Hpvnolds' department
things are of a little more brilliant
hue than thoso in the department of
Interior but not nearly so emblematic
of the cattle of Jacob as they are In
the chief executive's department.
Curley feels that his carpet was
made just loud enough to sooth his
feeling's and just dull enough 1 j har-
monize with those feelings every time
he thinks of tho ten bucks which znl
down In defeat when the Phillies went
to pieces.
On the whole the manner In which
the three offices are now fixed out In
fashionable attire reflects great credit
to the present city government so
competent art critics say.
FEAR VILLA
WILL SHELL
THE TOWN
Foreigners and Natives Flee to
Douglas; Raiders May Attack
Troop Trains; Mexican
Conditions Improving
By United Press.
WASHINGTON Oct. 26. Foreign-
ers and Mexicans are fleeing from
Aguas Prieta to Douglas Ariz. fearing
that the town will be bombarded by
the Villlstas according to dispatches
received by the state department to-
day. It is expected that the entire
civil population will abandon the
town.
Officials here express apprehension
that the troop trains that are moving
five thousand Carranzlstas from Eagle
Pass across American soil to join the
garrison of General Calles at Agua
Prieta will be attacked by border
raiders and dynamited. American sol-
diers are patrolling the border to pre-
vent such an attack.
Except along the border the state
department reports Indicate Improve-1
ment In Mexican conditions. Througn
train and telegraph service from La-
redo to Mexico City has been re-established
for the first time In two years.
OFFER VILLA
BIG SUM TO
CLEAR OUT
By United Press.
EL PASO Oct. 26. According to re.
ports current here today Carranza
will try to buy off Villa. Carranza is
said to feel that the end justifies any
means to restore complete peace !n
Mexico.
Reports say that a quarter of a mil-
lion dollars will be offered to Villa to
leave Mexico Immediately and that
George Carothers special agent of the
state department is taking the offer
to Villa.
In addition to the money Carranza
assured Villa of complete amnesty
later and w ill permit him to return to
Mexico with every guarantee of
safety. A position in the Mexican
army may even be offered to him in
the future it is said.
LITTLE TROUBLE
AT LIGHT PLANT
A slight accident to the machinery
which generates the "juice" for the
street lights on what is known as the
"Western Electric" circuit put those
particular lights out of commission for
the greater part of the night.
The accident occurred shortly after
the lights were turned on and could
rot be remedied until this morning.
Owing to the brilliancy of the moon
and the fact that ehe greater number
of the lights on th'.a circuit are In the
business district where the reflection
of the lights from the numerous store
windows llnhted the main thorough
fares during the hours when lights
wers mostly needed very little incon-
venience was experienced by the gen
eral public.
The management of the Chickasha
Gas & Electric company has seen to it
that the disarrangement of the rr-
chlnery has been adjusted and the
lights will bo in full force this eve-
nine and tliHMmhout the entire niht.
WAR FAILS
TO HAMPER
FREE TALK
British Bobbies Gather About Nelson
Monument and Listen to Spieler
Berate the Bloomin'
Government
"THREE CHEERS FOR
AMERICAN BACON
Product of United States Packery
Makes Hit Among Belgians
Who Become Big Boosters
of Side Meat
By WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD.
(U. P. staff correspondent.)
LONDON Sept. 8. (By mall.) Tha
as hasn't killed free speech in Eng
land. When an Englishman wins a
right he holds to It.
Here's a scene at Trafalgar Square
last Sunday.
A huge crowd gathered around Nel-
son monument; a tall man with an
iron grey beard standing on the his-
toric plinth a banner either side of
him his strong voice fills the square.
You crowd up to hear hira.
! One banner reads "These police-
man were fined for trying to start a
policeman's union." Graves MPa
and Smith It appears were the names
of the unfortunate coppers. Another
banner says "What about war bonuses
for policemen and prison warders?" .
The man Is talking about oppressed
policemen! Being an American and-
coming from a land of free and eman
cipated policeman you laugh.
But this thousand persons listens In-
tently to the woes of the "Union of;
Policemen and Prison Warders."
"They won't let us have a union"
he shouts. "England Is In the midst
of a great war with a country that is
ruled by tyrants. But I want to tell
you that there are no tyrants in the
world meaner than the men who gov-
ern the police department."
He points a long arm down White-
hall which is the Pennsylvania ave-
nue of London as much as to say:
"Who will go down Whitehall with
me and blow up police headquarters?"
On the same spot where he stands
the suffrage riots were iftarted; from
this same place thousands of English-
men at different times In English his-
tory have massed their way down
"Government avenue" to the office of
some unhappy erring official. As he
talks now a score of policemen are
standing by to see that no one inter-
feres with hla free speech.
He may curse the government all he.
pleases even though the government
is knee deep in war.
For an hour he talks about the woe
of the unhappy policeman. Not a word
does he say about enlistment or Eng-
land's need for men.
Then he roll up hla two banners
climbs down off the plinth and goes
away.
American Bacon There.
LONDON' Sept. 6. (By mail.) 1
Three cheers for American bacon!"
"Lardo Americaine" the French call
it but by any other name It is as
appetizing. They did not know of
bacon before the war. That Is not by
that name.
The Belgian rnlief commlteee has In-
formally let the packers of Chics go
know thats the Belgians and the
northern French war sufferers have
become enthusiastic -boosters of this
by-product of the American hog.
Each new consignment of bacon that
reaches tho Belgian or French relief
stations is taken quickly by the war
sufferers.
The head of one of the big American
packing companies now In Europe
says:
"American packers are getting bet-
ter advertisement for bacon hers In
Europe than they are at the world's
fairs.
""..Tien the war Is over and th
people In northern France are ahle to
tell the people in southern France
what they think of American bacon
I think the French will add another
delicacy to their cusine."
Mr. .nd Mrs. F. R. Gregory havo
gone to Naples. Okla. to makes their
noire
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