The Leader Tribune (Laverne, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1922 Page: 2 of 10
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TUI LAVERNI LEADER-TRIBUNE, LAVERNI, OKLAHOMA
Motor Jam in Chicago When Street Car Men Struck
Terrific Jinn of meter vehicle* ut “the busiest corner In the world,’
the first ilny of the strike of street car and elevated employees.
State and Madison streets, Chicago, on
SHE ASTOUNDED LONDON
Pleasant Duty for General Pershing
Staid London folk stopped and
stared, Bobbies held up the traffic.
Piccadilly seethed. And the enuse of
it all was Miss Mnrgnret Campbell of
Atlantic City. She wears a golllne
suit, has bobbed hair and wears horn
spectacles.
tf ALTON PLURAL TY
NEARS 30,000
WILSON CONCEDES THAT
RETURNS AVAILABLE IN-
SURE MAYOR WINS
FIELDS WINS In A WALK
Winner of Republican Nomination
Runs up a Total of H,530 Vote*
Against • 2,469 Total of Hit
Only Opponent.
Oklahoma City.—With Mayor Wal-
ton's plurality for the nomination
nearin'-' the 30,000 mark, chief Interest
lots centered In the rare* for other
places on the ticket, with spirited con-
tests waged for several nominations.
With 2,234 precincts reporting,
Walton was leading by 27,067, the
vote being; Walton, 00,846; Wilson
63.779, and Owen, 61,772. The may-
ors lead Is being iacreased aa the
late precincts report.
Returns front 577 precincts showed
John Fields with a total of 16.530
voles. Republican tabulations arc be-
ing made last all over the stale. Fields
Is so far in the lead the race la Inter-
esting only as a criterion of republi-
can st length in the stale.
Here Is the statement of H. H. Ed-
wards, Wilson’s manager:
“Sufficient returns from Tuesday’s
election have been received to indi-
cate the nomination of Walton. From
the opening of the campaign until It’s
close we conducted Mr. Wilson’s cam-
paign to an eye to the good of the
democratic party and in the interest
of good government. Mr. Wilson,
personally and all those who have au-
thority to speak for him. carefully
adhered to this policy.
"I want to take thla opportunity to
thank those who have been our
friends in this campaign, those who
have stood loyally behind Mr. Wil-
son's candidacy by helping this com-
mittee to so support Its affairs we
are not forced to apologise for any-
thing we have done in the candidate’s
behalf."
VITE 02 NKRMTMUL
MIHE Hf COUNTIES
HER AILMENTS
ALL GONE NOW
Adair ....------
•Alfalfa ......
Atoka .........
Jloaver ______...
lift kliam ...
niallif _______
It i y;i'ii _______
f Htlllo -------
('aiiiulian ___
Carter ----...
Cherokee ____
Choctaw
Cimarron _____ 11
Cleveland
Coal ----------
Con mm he ----
Cotton ________
Craig ........
Creek _____...
•Cunter ......-
Del ware ______
•Dewey ___...
Kills ..........
tJarfhld ......
Garvin _______
Uiady ________
•Grant ....____
•Greer ........
Harmon ------
Harper ...____
•Haskell ......
Hughes ......
Jackson ....__
Johnston .....
Kingfisher----
Kiowa ........
laitlmer ______
LeFIore ......
IJncoln ______
Ix>gan ....____
L-ova .........
•McClain .....
IfcCurtnln
McIntosh _____
MSSSian—
Musk ogee ____
Noble ........
Nowata ______
•Okfuskee ____
Oklahoma ....
Okmulgee ....
Osage ......__
Ottawa ------
Pawnee
Pav
General Pershing giving the Distinguished Service medal to MaJ. MDflftel
,T. O’Brien of the adjutant general’s office for “exceptionally meritorious and
distinguished service as officer In charge of the officers’ division, A. 0, D.,
G. H. Q., A. K. F.” Major O’Brien as an enlisted man was Generni Pershing’*
sergeant major and chief clerk on the punitive expedition Into Mexico. He is a
native of Ireland and first served In the Sixty-ninth New York Volunteer Infan-
try during the Spanlsh-Ainerlcun war.
In Memory of Heroic Chaplains
IN IABORATORY COSTUME
OLD TIMERS REGAIN LEAD
Nsarly all the Congressional Recta la
Be Battled Soon.
This bronze meinorlul tnhlei, by Miss Hnst-hkn l’ueff of Boston, was uit
veile I on the will! of the third llnor of the Massachusetts statehouwe In Beg.
li Is in the memory of Bay Stale clergymen—Catholic and Protestant—
vvl i, died In service ns chaplains during the World war. One of the figure*
is that Ilf Father John It. DeValles, Catholic priest of New Bedford, und the
otliei is Itev. Walton Danker, Protestant clergyman of Worcester.
I,r. S. Morgidis of Nebraska and l>r. i
Schaffer. Slate University of Texas, |
photographed In their "Informal"
clothes ni the Carnegie laboratory for
oceanic and corul research on Logger
1 lend, one of the Florida keys. The
went her Is so hot there that the doc- i
tors are forced In strip to the waist
In the fashion shown above.
Floating Bar Found in the Potomac
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Plttphurgh
•Pontotoc
Pot« wnlomle .
Pushmataha •
•Hogerw ______
Rog«r M.____
•Seminole ....
Sequoyah ....
Stephen* _____
Texas ....____
Tillman ...
Tulsa _____
•Wagoner ,
Washington .. 34
Washita ..... 33
•Woods ...... 32
Woodward ___ 34
Total
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Mrs. Stisnasa Helped by
Lydia EL Ptokhtm’s Ve*-
411
220
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128
8410
125
854
741
551
353
0HO
250
1,152
140
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870
515
104
037
1411
225
184
112
877
610
250
4100
250
60
666
MO
520
03
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551
185
287
314
340
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755
500
327
611
812
2,332
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8,115
411
287
113
79
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1.28ft
1,534
640
635
500
251
920
1,270
157
878
889
9841
658
154
439
604
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485
331
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1413
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3,012
87ft
1.7*17
1.488
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1,007
67
010
047
1.306
780
838
• 74
1)43
27
425
247
600
1,170
1. A4A
600
1,304
4418
421
1.317
880
9*10
54*1
446
43ft
1.133
701
4ft2
946
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1,055
1.488
1.505
608
136
652
640
1.062
1,36ft
243
7#
018
7.280
831
337
21*6
160
1.1*141
2. A10
2.506
1.229
857
758
716
1.756
451
140
80
466
1,172
43ft
156
1.022
353
1411
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nest end it times wu
obliged tostiy off ma
feet. 1 doctored with
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1,211
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family physician
tad ho finally said he
could not understand
my case, so f decided
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51
225
120
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1,109
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238
838
881
400
8111
704
1.389
210
108
301
379
479
1,823
341
89
709
4.418
1,329
370
128
303
1.132
1.431
1,879
731
378
1.014
427
M2
830
310
229
1.383
2.429
820
m
M9
328
290
to try LydiaE. Pink-
ham’s Vegetable
Compound. After 1
bed When the first
bottle 1 could sea
that Iws» getting
bsttsr. 1 took several
lottle* of the Vegetable Compound and
used Lydia E. Pinkham't Banstive Wash
and I am entirely cured of my ailments.
You may publish thla letter if you
wish. "—Mr*. MARY SHERMAN, Route 4
Lake, Mich.
There is one feet women should con-
sider and that is this. Women suffer from
irregularitiestnd various form* of weak-
ness. They try this and that doctor, aa
well as dffferent medicines. Finally the*
take Lydia E. Pinkham’s Compound,
and Mrs. Sherman’s esptrisneeis simply
another caae showing the merit of this
well-known medicine.
If your family physician fails to help
you and the same old troubles persist,
why isn’t it reasonable to try Lydia £.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound t
12.837 2,234 51,772 M.S4S *3,7*8
All Friends.
There Is a certain distinguished
Judge, who, In the days when he wns
practicing law. was once engaged In
u cuse before Judge Christian Kohlsaat,
of the federal court. There were two
other federal .bulges In Illinois—
Judges Juntos Hump^ey uml Peter
Orosscup.
The lawyer wns cubed to the bench
by Judge Kohlsnnt, who eddressed hint
thus:
"Sir, I understand that you have :
been referring to me as ‘f'lirls’ Kohl-j
snnt."
"I'll bet I know who told you that I” j
exclaimed the lawyer. "It *ns either
Jim Humphrey or Pete Orosscup I"
—Milwaukee Sentinel.
A Cuckoo.
A Philadelphia paper, running a "na-
ture und science" series, queries its
readers l "Have you seen this bird—
the yellow-hilled cuckoo?” To which
a number have replied; "Yes, many
a time. Huhltut, restaurants, buying
meals for women." The paper non-
chalantly supplements this Informs*
tion with the following: "Mr. Cuckoo
M a rather shiftless sort of futher and
hnsbsnd."
Looks like a houseboat, hut looks are deceiving, for when the revenue
men swooped down upon this Innocent-looking craft In the Potomac neur Wash*
Ington they found It was reutly u floating bar. The owner wns absent, and
remained absent.
SCRAPS
Seventy-three tr'ps across the Ps-
dfle Is the record of Otis A. Poole, a
ten merchunt of New York.
Timber lands IB Canadu are being
niig>i>ed with the help of airplanes st
less cost than ground work of alral-
tur accuracy.
U
St, Paul's cathedral Is said to have
been built without an oath being ut-
tered.
A fact little known by the laity Is
that most so-called tustos are renlly
"smells,”
Christine Hughens was the first to
concelvo the Idea of applying n panda
lum as a regulator to ■ stock In lC jfi
Oklahoma CHy.—With but about
Iwo exceptions, winners in the demo-
cratic and republican contests In the
eight congressional districts of the
state seem to be rather well establish
ed.
The probable winners are:
Democrats,
First District -E. B. Howard.
Second District---W. W. Hustings.
Third District—Charles Carter.
Fourth Dlstrlot—Tom McKeowa.
Fifth Disirict— F. U. Swunk.
Sixth District—Elmer Thomas.
Seventh District- Jim McC'lintio.
Eighth District—Zack Harris.
Repubicant.
First District—T. A. Chandler.
Second District- Alice Robertson.
Third Disirict—Pliilas Jones.
Fourth District—J. C. Pringey.
Fifth District-J. S. Twyford.
Sixth District-1,. M. Gensman.
Seventh District—R. N. Linville.
Eight District— M. C. Garber.
Seventh district, democrats: 172 pre-
cincts out of 327, McClintic 12,050
Tush 1,403; Looney 1,345. Republt
cans: 24 precincts, Linville 231; Roe
189.
The three cornered fight for the re-
publican congressional district nomi-
nation In the first district continues.
With 133 out of 277 precincts heard
from, James S. Twyford was leading
II. S. Stone by seventy votes. Close
behind them was Perle Dunham.
The tabulations included almost the
Whole of Oklahoma county and seven
ty-eight precincts outside the county.
Miss Dunham was leading in the out-
of-the-couuty voting at the time with
Stone second and Twyford a close
third.
Chandler Takas Lead.
Howard continues to guln In the
democratic race In the fii'Bt congres
sional district over Thompson, Chand-
ler and Scbwnbe, republican candi-
dates In the same district, also are
having a close race with Chandler
leading.
Laughlln le Surprlee.
Laughlln’s strength came as a sur-
prise to political followers
After a seemingly see saw fight In
the democratic congressional race In
the third district, Charles D. Carter,
Incumbent, begau pulling away from
his chief opponent, J. B. Laughlln,
and st last reports Carter was leading
by 1,328 votes and was gaining In al-
most every new precinct reported.
Tabulations compiled from 182 pre-
cincts out of 425 In the district gave
Carter 9,675, Laughlln 7,747 and Cart-
right 8,893.
Figures on n majority of tbs races
follow:
Flrit district, democrats: 111 pre-
cincts out of 448,' Howard 6,467;
Thompson 3,298; Kitchen 1,370; Lone-
gran 368. Republicans: 247 precincts,
ChnStdler 6,626; Scbwnbe 4,489; Small
1,191.
Hasting* Lands Strong.
Beeond district, democrats; 117 pre-
otnets out of 364, Hastings 13,187;
Stewart 6,011; Winn 1,289. Rtpubll-
earn; 141 praolnota, Robertnon 2,017;
riach 1.117.
SHORT LEADS THE FIELD
FIGHTIN6 EVERY INCH
Darnell Running Trapp Closo Rae* fee
Lieutenant Governor,
Befogging ths Jury,
"Smart lawyer you ltnve."
“He Kevins to be," said Mr, Cobbles,
"but 1 don’t know whether lie’s the
mnn to help me with my lawsuit or
not."
"What’s the matter with him?”
“Oh, lie’s powerfully sharp, hut 1
don’t see any use of quoting famous
Greeks and Homans and a lot of other
people 1 never heard of before simply
because a train ran over my Jersey
cow."—Exchange.
To Insure gllstenlng-wldte table
linens, use Bed Cross Ball Blue In your
laundry. It never dlsapisilnts. At all
good grocers.—Advertisement.
He Get* Full Benefit.
Huhhy—I can’t understand why you
should always show such n menu and
cranky disposition In tl,ie morning.
Wife—At what oilier time should I
show It, nin.v 1 ask? You’re not here
during die rest of thedny.
Art s the power of man's soul work-
ing outward.
Oklahoma City.—Fighting his way
Inch by Inch, Attorney-General Short
is Increasing his lead over Robert
Burns und E. P. Hill. Short's friends
say that the votes already tabulated
■ re a good criterion, believing that he
will continue to pile up votes until
he will be definitely In the clear. The
vote stands. Short,57,919; Burns, 44,-
421, and Hill, 41,111.
'William Darnell, league candidate,
threatens to pass Ed Trapp, Incum-
bent, in the race for lieutenant gover-
nor.. Darnell has been steadily forg-
ing to the front, and, while Trapp’s
vote lias been coining in consistently,
other candidates, like Tharp, Ross,
IJIlard und Simpson, ure hurting
Trapp by dividing the vote. 1,382 pre-
cincts gave Trapp 23,589, Darnell 20,-
106 aud Tharp 13,530.
Frank Carter, with 38,301 vote*
from the 1,441 precincts counted, was
running Well ahead of Campbell Rus-
sell, who, with 18,678, seems to be
the only other man in the race for
corporation commissioner.
R. A. Sneed Is setting a terriBc
pace for secretary of state and the
veteran commissioner of confederate
pensions is conceded to have tile,
race and gone with It. With 1,047 pre-
cincts In, Sneed had 33,366, Murray
14,672, Kendle 9,574, Riley 8,998 and
Hives 7,573.
8tra!n Keeps Gaining.
Joe H. Strain, league candidate, al-
though coming up fast for state treas-
urer wll hardly overcome the lead
now held by Shaw if he holds to Ills
present stride. With 1,267 precincts In
Shaw hud 39,166, Strain 27,556, Lou- I
than 19,898 and Barrowman 12,639. j
Mabel Bassett iB running away from
the field for commissioner of chari-
ties and corrections.
Morgan and Andrews are running
close together for the republican nom-
ination for attorney general. With
621 precincts in, Morgan had 6,939
and Andrews 6,386.
Beak Leading Blair.
White leads for president of the
board of agriculture on the republican
ticket, 412 precincts giving White,
7,042; Soucek, 4,269; frommer, 3,876,
Beck lends Blntr for secretary of
state. The vote standB Beck, 1,710;
Blair, 1.676; Ludwlck, 1.291, and
Slack, 1,160, with 244} precincts re-
ported.
Short is moving ahead for exam-
iner and Inspector. With 261 pre-
cincts In It stands, Short, 2,461; Arm-
strong, 2,016, and Wheeler, 1,669.
Returns from 26T precincts qb
labor commissioner , gave Long 2,662.
Bishop 2,116 and Mnldt 682.
MaWllllsms Is Leading.
Newberry is mainUiag aa early
lead tor the republican nomination for
secretary of state. Returns from III
precincts gave Newberry, 1,822;
Kaesland, 1,120; Rolllton, 722; Bat-
lanes, 222. and Amblar. ML
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