Cherokee County Democrat (Tahlequah, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 29, 1915 Page: 3 of 8
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CHEROKEE COUNTY DEMOCRAT, TAHLEQUAH, OKLAHOMA
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From Thursday's Arrow
Mrs. John Carding is in Hulbert
today 011 business.
Rev. V. A. Hargis went to Tulsa
today on business.
Mrs. Alice Moore is visiting her
son in Ray for a few days.
Mrs. J. B Crew is spending the
day In Muskogee.
The Catherine Drown Missionary
society will hold its regular monthly
meeting with Mrs. J. P. Duckworth
tomorrow afternooo.
The topic scheduled for discussion
is "India" and the following program
has been arranged:
Devotions Miss Wallace
Topical Leader Mrs. Reville
IMano Solo Mrs. Thurman Wyly
Book Lesson Mrs. Keenan
Mrs. Eliza Alberty is in Muskogee
isiting frlenus for a few days.
Henry Bagsby (single) is trans-
acting business in Westville today.
Misses Dona Latta and Besse
Evans of Park Hill are shoppers in
the city today.
(From Thursday'* Dally Arrow.)
The Wednesday Card Club met
with Miss Beatrice Markham Wed-
nesday afternon. Mrs. W. B. Wyly
substituted for Miss Markham and
won lirst prize for the highest score
and was awarded a pretty hand-
painted place. Mrs. Chuck Taylor of
Muskogee was the guest of honor
and was given a hand-painted plate-
Mrs. J. D. Wilson was awarded the
consolidation prize of a beautiful
bouquet of purple lilacs. A num-
ber ot, guests were present. Miss
Beatrice, assisted by her sister. Miss
Lucille, served a delicious one-course
luncheon.
(From Saturday's Daily Arrow)
Mrs. J. B. Crew was hostess to
the West End Club Thursday after-
noon at her home on West Shawnee
street.
Miss Caroline Myrie of Pawnee
was guest of honor and favored the
members with "The Rosary" in her
sweet contralto voice.
The program rendered was as fol
lows:
Cologne, the Cathedral City
Miss Duckworth
Frankfort, Home of the Roths-
childs , Mrs. Hastings
Response German State With
its Capitals
"A city can have no greater bless
ing than the presence of cultured
men with right ideas of what is
good and right."
A number of quests were present
and the afternoon was thoroughly
enjoyed.
Mrs. Crew served a lovely lunch-
eon in two courses.
LETTERS UNCALLED FOR.
Following is the list of letters re
malning uncalled for at the Tahle
quah nostoffice for the week end-
ing April 30, 1915:
Ladies.
Combs, Mrs. Martha
Bradley, Lillie (LD)
Mackey, Mrs. Harriett
McBride, Mrs. Ida
Palmer, Miss Mary
Gentlemen.
Blanchard, C. J.
Hollis, Orville
Rotrimble, D.
Respectfully,
A. B. CUNNINGHAM
Postmaster,
. WILL WORK CEMETERY.
There will be a working at the
Ross cemetery, Park Hill, Saturday
May 1st. All people owning lots are
requested to be on hand and assist
with the work.
W. H. HINTON, Chairman
S. W. ROSS, Secretary.
A. C. JUSTUS, Treasurer.
Joe Hicks of Ft. Smith, visited
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.
Hicks Sunday and returned home to
day accompanied by his two children
who have been visiting their giand
parents for several weeks.
POWELL HOTEL
J. G. GRIFFITH, Proprietor
Real Campaign Is
Taking Place of
Old Time "Clean Upv
"ANNUAL BATH" FOR TOWNS
TABOOED.
SOUTHERN COMMERCIAL
CONGRESS OPENS TODAY
Five Thousand Communities Wili
This Year Join "Clean Up and
Paint Up" Movement.
M
ORE ihan 5,000 cities and towni
Miss Nell Stapler went to Mus-
kogee this morning to be the guest
of friends for the day.
Judge J. T. Parks returned from
Oklahoma City today after attend-
ing a meeting of the Royal Chapter
of th Masons.
Mrs. W. W. Dawkins has received
news of the death of her father, C.
W. Wheeler, which occurred Satur-
day in Rouchell, N. Y.
"opening weeks" in the National Clean
Up and Paint Up" campaign, accord
ing to Allen W. Clark, chairman of the
National "Clean Up and Paint Up"
Campaign Bureau, St. Louis. Many of
these committees, Clark declares, are
thus breaking a,way from the old
established "clean up" or "annual
bath" idea and are striving to make
their improvement programs continu-
ous performances.
Files in the bureau's offices, whir • lother look this away, Ruth said.
GlltL, l«, PLEADS l oll FATHER.
CHESTER, 111., April 26.—To
plead for the liberty of her convict
father, Ruth Abbott, 13 years old,
ran away from her home at Staun-
ton, 111., and after a journey of more
than 100 miles, covered by foot,
wagon, train and boat, she arrived
here Friday while the board of par-
dons was in session and told her
story.
It was a stoy of the cruelty ot a
step-mother the mistreatment of a
lot of half sisters and half brothers
and the jibes of playmates who
knew that she was the child of a
convict. The desire to see her father
grew stronger each day, until, weep-
ing, Ruth went to the mines where
he had been employed and told the
miners of it. They gave her $8 for
'•ailroad fare to Chester, but her
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From Friday's Arrow
Indicate that the organization has in
reality become a national clearing
house for the dissemination of com-
munity betterment ideas, show that
last year more than 2,000 cities and
towns made an effort to "clean up and
j>alr. up." "This year," commented
Chairman Clark, "it looks as though
we would co-opeiate with more than
6.000 communities, in each of which
some live civic leader is trying tar im-
prove living conditions. Though a
majority of these campaigns will start
with an 'opening week,' a definite
program of activity, we know that the
bureau's success has been chiefly due
1 o the fact that we try to get away
from the old-fashioned 'annual «lean
up' idea that has become odious to
many civic leaders and an annual joke
The plans of the
She then set out afoot and was
assisted occasionally by travelers.
After appearing before the pardon
board. Ruth saw her father, Salmon
Abbott, at the penitentiary here.
Abbott was sentenced for the mur-
der of Emil Bawie, whom he allot
while Bawie was in a buggy with
Mrs, Abbott. Ruth is being cared
for by friends here.
Frank Cantrell is in Muskogee to-
day on business.
F. K. Little is transacting busi-
ness in Muskogee today.
Miss Ruth Blackburn is the guest
of friends in Claremore over Sun-
day.
Prof. W. J. Pack of Muskogee is
in this city today transacting busi-
ness.
Miss Callie Harris went to Salina In many cities
today to spend the week end with bureau call for continuous campaigns
her father. • that bring permanent results and help
Teesquautnee Ballard went to Ok- lorln worlh while civic habits."
mulgee today to visit his father
over Sunday. The Work to Be Done.
Mart Mathison and A. A. 'I aylor | rp^e worjf 0f ^e bureau this year is
are transacting business in Hulbert niore comprehensive than ever before.
Mn and°Jrlrs. Bud Knott moved Everything that will beautify, pre-
yesterday to their home in the coun- nerve, improve sanitation, reduce fire
try east of Park Hill. , risks, and better health conditions has
Eldo Smith went to Big Cabin to- 1 been carefully provided for. Among
day for a visit with homefolks, and the things which local "Clean Up and
will return Tuesday. | Paint Up" campaigners are doing th'is
Mrs. G. W. Gable and two sons
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Remodeled and Newly Furnish-
ed Throughout
Convenient Sample Room
Open
for Business
17th
April
Rates $2.00 Per Day
Special Rates by the Week or
Month
The Traveling Public Will Re-
ceive Special Attention
Exclusive Parlor for the Ladies
left today to spend the week end
with friends in Checotah.
Mrs. M. G. Raymond and son
Temple are spending a few days
with Mr. Raymond in Morris.
J. W. MoCollum, student of the
Normal went to Vinita today to
spend a few days with homefolks.
Misses Oklahoma Walton and
Geneva Turner are spending the
week end with homefolks in Mul-
drow.
Miss Helen Mathis, a student of
the N. E. S. N., went to her home
in Stigler today. She will return
Tuesday.
Geo. Fuller of Oklahoma City,
special agent of the Springfield, Mo.,
Fire Insurance Co., was in this city
yesterday.
Jno. Benson of Oklahoma City,
special agent for the Commercial
Union was in town today visiting
local agents.
Miss Fannie McNew left at noon
today for her home in Broken Arrow
to spend the week end with home-
folks and friends.
James Barter, father of Mrs. W.
P. Clemmer and Mrs. George Mc-
Gregor of this city, died at his home
in Springdale, Ark., at 2 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Clem-
mer and Mrs. McGregor were in at-
tendance at the time of demise.
They will leturn home Sunday.
Miss Minnie Casey, bookkeeper
for the local telephone exchange,
went to Westville this noon to re-
lieve the manager of the office in
that city who is ill.
Nelson Severe, Misses Grace Hanks
and Mabel Hudson left this noon
for Webbers Falls. Misses Hanks
and Hudson will return to Muskogee
Monday to sing in the chorus.
Mrs. T. L. Lane and family who
have been the guests of Mrs. A. A.
Taylor for a few days, returned to
their home in Foyil today.
Johnson Crawford of Choteau
who has been in this city visiting
his daughter, Mrs. Ab Owne, re-
turned home this morning.
(From Saturday's Daily Arrow)
B. F. King is in Muskogee over
Sunday.
year are: Cleaning the streets and
alleys, front yards, back yards, cellars,
rtables, attlcks; the removal of ashes
and rubbish; cleaning up vacant lots
of rubbish and weeds; eliminating
breeding places of flies and mosqui*
toes; planting and care of trees,
hedges and flowers; and the liberal
use of paint on everything that
needs it.
ANOTHER SIGN OF SPRING.
The hen stood on the garden lot,
Whence all but she had fled;
And didn't leave a planted spot
In the early onion bed.
With vim she worked both feet and
legs,
'And the gardner says "he bet
She was trying to flnd the kind of
eggs
On which the onion-sets."—Ex.
Don't you think, presumptuous
gardner,
She was busy in her head,
And thought that she could lay in
That scented onion bed?
Or maybe, perhaps, she thought a
think
Along a different route,
And worked her feet to gain the love
Of a little onion-sprout?
MAYOR GOES IN HIDING.
L SEARCH
IDDEN TREASURE
FOR
MUSKOGEE, Okla., April 2«.—
Three members of President Wil-
son's cabinet will attend the South-
ern Commercial Congress in Mus-
kogee this week. Secretary of Labor
Wilson and Secretary of Agriculture
David F. Houston are both on the
program and both have definitely an-
nounced that they will attend.
William G. AfcAdoo. secretary of
the treasury, and President Wilson's
son-in-law, accepted an invitation
several months ago to be on the
program. Mr. McAdoo underwent
an operation for append'citis about
a month ago and for a I me it was
feared that he would be unable to
attend the congress but it Is now
said (hat his physician will permit
him to make the trip. He will prob-
ably be accompanied by his wife.
Senator and Mrs. Robert L. Owen
came from Washington to open their
Muskogee home during the week of
the congress.
Former Ambassador Myron T.
Herrick, is another distinguished
visitor who will attend the congress.
He wjll be here during the entire
week.
The people of the southwest have
never before had an opportunity to
hear so many distinguished men and
womeu on one program. There has
never been a gathering of so many
famous personages in the Bouthwest
and may never again be such an as-
semblage. The Southern Commercial
Congress is worth traveling many
miles to attend. Special trains will
be run from most points in Okla-
homa and nearby states and every-
one should take advantage of the
opportunity to attend.
DENVER, Colo., April 26.—An
expedition headed by Representative
James O'Rourke and backed by
Thomas F. Daly, president of the
Capital Life Insurance company;
Thomas Henahen, Commissioner of
mines, and other capitalists, has left
Denver for the Navajo Reservation
search of a lost gold mine and
$1,000,000 supposed to have been
hidden by an expedition of Spanish
adventurers in 1G46.
Every member of the lost expedi-
tion except one was massacred by a
band of Indians while making their
way to Santa Fe after their dis-
covery. One survivor, Sanchez Val-
arde, finally reached Spain with pa
pers and maps describing the loca-
tion of the mine and the hidden
treasure.
These maps and papers were
handed down from generation to
generation until the last descendant,
Santarita Velarde, a woman, raised
enough money to come to Santa Fe
and take up the search. She em-
ployed an old prospector, Shortfoot
Jessop, to locate the mines. Jessop
was handicapped because she would
not give him only one map at a
time, but he located a cache, mark-
ed on one of the maps, that con-
tained $3,000 worth of placer gold.
Iu 1908 Santarita Velarde was
compelled to return to Spain, tak-
ing with her the remainder of the
maps. She embarked on a sailing
vessel, which was lost at sea.
The same year eRpresentative
O'Rourke met Jessop and from him
learned of the lost mine. Since
then the search has been continued
without success by Jessop and
O'Rourke, except in finding small
caches of gold marked on the maps.
The mine has never been located,
but the two searchers recently met
an aged Navajo Indian who claims
he knows where it is, and the pres-
ent expedition is pinning its faith on
his knowledge.
WONDER WHY'
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SPRING IN EUROPE. *
CHICAGO, April 26.—To escape
the thousands of job-seekers who
wanted "just a word" with him,
Mayor-elect William Hale Thompson
has gone into hiding, it was learned
Saturday, in a hotel room, the num-
ber of which was known only to his
closest friends.
Mrs. Frank Carding and son left
today for Pendal, Ark., to visit her
parents.
Misses Nina and Jewel McCollum
are visiting homefolks and friends
over Sunday.
Judge B. L. Keenan returned at
noon from a business trip to Oklar
homa City.
Among those going to Muskogee
this morning on the motor were
Mrs. Roy A. Wiggins, Misses Melba
Hadlund, Edmonson, jewel and Nina
McCollum, T. H. Pitts, C. C. Crad-
dock, I. Sherman, D. W. Wilson,
Waddie Hudron, and others.
Mrs. H. B. Teehee left this morn-
ing for Washington. D. C., where
she will join her husbar.d.
Lee Payne of Fort Smith, Ark.,
who was In this city transacting
business yesterday, left this noon
for Westville.
Marie Bird, who underwent an
operation for appendicitis four weeks
ago, left this morning for Kansas
City.
Mr. and Mrs. T. .T. Jones of Okla-
homa City arrived this noon to visit
their granddaughter, Mrs. H. B.
Jeffery. . ..
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Pugh, who
have been teaching in the Welling
public school arrived this noon to
enroll for the balance of the term
at the Normal.
Prof. J. N. Clark of the N. E. S. N.
faculty, left this morning for Blue
Jacket where he will deliver the
commencement address to the grad-
uating class of the high school in
that city Sunday.
The balmy Spring should
* stir up all men to labors sane,
> but over there In Yurrup
* they're planting men, not grain.
> The plow's unused and dusty,
:♦ with rust the hoe is red; the
:• cultivator trusty stands idle in
> the shed. Red is the stream
:• that washes its pathway to the
:• sea; they're planting men, not
:• squashes—what will the har-
:♦ vest be? They're planting
men!, not pumpkins', beneath
:• the bright Spring sky; they're
{♦ sowing poor dead bumpkins V
:• who fought and knew not why; ❖
:• they're planting men in fur- *
:• rows, among the clods and •«*
:• stones, and there the gopher ❖
;• burrows among the soldiers' •!*
bones. Oh, what a foolish sow- <•
> ing, in Europe's aodden plain, ❖
:• while here the crops are grow- ❖
Ing in sun and wind and rain! +
•:* In this fair land the farmer *
is sowing wheat with drills;
;• o'er there the gents in armor ❖
are planting men in hills; they ❖
* plant, the peasant's yard in, •>
the victims of their biffs, the *
common or the garden variety ❖
•:* of stiffs. Oh, Europe, old and
•> hoary, you ought to have more •>
sense; your agriculture gory, ❖
* that's now in evidence, is ❖
wicked, vain and foolish; the *
seed 1s out of style; the tools •>
you use are ghoulish, the crops •>
you'll raise are vile.—Walt Ma- ❖
son.
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Tahlequah has produced many
freaks of nature such as two-headed'
calves, one-legged chickens and a
five-footed cow, but Marshall, Mo.,
has produced a poet who undlsputed-
ly holds the title to the wonder
song.
It was composed and published
by a Marshall youth, and is titled
"I Wonder Why, I Wonder." But
restrain yourself. The worst Is yet
to come. Here are the first four
lines as given by the Marshall Demo-
crat-News;
"In the garden the flowers were
drooping,
As we strolled by the autumn moon.
Our hearts like the roses were
weeping
For we love but we parteth soon."
Doesn't it take you back, dear
reader, back to the days of—or,
rather, nights—when you used to
try to stroll by the autumn moon,
and never could quite get by it?
And note the artfulness with which
the poet omits trifling details, yet
suggests them. For instance, it is
clear the couple must have been
strolling in a conservatory—-where
else would roses be blooming in
autumn?
All right, 'impatient reader, here's
the chorus:
"I wonder why, I wonder,
For she says she loves me true,
But it seems I dream and ponder
Of the flowers as they grew.
Sn pure, so sweet and tender,
Just as she vowed she'd ever be,
Then blooming thus love drifts
asunder,
That's why Iwonder why I wonder."
There is more of it, and the rest
is equally good. Order It through
your music house if you want it all.
You will get your money's worth
every time you read it over. And
you will do some wondering your-
self. You will flnd yourself wonder-
ing, along with the young man, why
the fickle maid parteth with him.
Our guess it that she shook him
because he wrote poetry to her.
We lost several that way in our
younger days.
EVACUATE A TURK PORT.
LONDON, April 24.—The Daily
Mail's Sofiia correspondent in a dis-
patch dated Tuesday says:
"Fugitives from Enos say that
following a bombardment by the
allies the British landed a force at
Enos and the Turkish commandant
ordered an evacuation of the port."
Jl'RY READY IN' LAWSON CASE.
TRINIDAD, Col., April 24.—A
jury was obtained late Thursday for
the trial of John R. Lawson, inter-
national executive committee mem-
ber of the United Mine Workers ol
America, on a charge of murdering
John Nimmo, a mine guard, in the
recent coal miners' strike.
PRELIMINARY HEARING
POSTPONED UNTIL MAY 3
The preliminary hearing of Thou.
J. Pitts, charged with embezzlement
of United States mail, which was
get for hearing before U. S. Com-
missioner M. C. Reville Saturday►
April 24, was postponed until Moa
day, May 3.
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