The Shawnee Daily News-Herald (Shawnee, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 98, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 31, 1913 Page: 1 of 7
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rOLUMB XIX.
THE SHAWNEE DAILY NEWS-HERALD
Regular altcrnoon Associated Press and special full Saturday night reports, direct by leased wire.
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NUMBER 98
ONLY HOPE TO NEW OIL ILL
FLEE ACROSS
THE BORDER
MEXICAN REBELS ARE CLOSING
IN ON FEDERALS—BORDER
PATROL WEAK
BY ASSOCIATED 1'llESS
Presidio, Tex., Dec. 31.—It was the
opinion of military experts that the
battle of Ojinaga would be decided
within the twenty-four hours, and that
thee only chance for the federals to
escape a merciless extermination,
should the rebels pour in, was pre-
cipitate flight across the border.
Short of Troops
Major McNamee, commanding the
American border patrol, had less than
a thonsand men at the fordable points
along the river to handle unprece-
dented situation that would result
should the federal army of 4,000 men
start a disorderly rush across the
border.
Lack Ammunition
The federals are reported to be
short of ammnuition, while ther eb-
els appeared to have an amples up-
ply. Ortega's forces continued clos-
ing in on the federals.
B. Eensley went to Maud to con-
tract for an oil well to be drilled
within five miles of that place. If
this is done it should mark another
epoch in Shawnee's oil development.
Abandon Seminole Will
The Prairie Oil & Gas company has
abandoned their well north of Semin-
ole at a little over 2,500 feet. Oil
was found at 2,300 feet and gas at
2,500. The indications were, how-
ever, that the well was wrongly lo-
cated,, and should have been a short
distance east or west of where it
was drilled. The Prairie company
has made a new location at Paden
in 8-12-7.'
Delmar Well
In spite of the bad roads, drilling has
continued on the Delmar well though
it has been with diffir.uity that coal
was delivered there. The well is al-
most to the depth at which oil is ex-
pected.
THE FRISCO
DY ASSOCIATED PRESS.
;'t. louis, Do - -A compromise
,ig *emer;t by v.hich the strike of
tclo^raplicrs on the Furc. was avert-
ed was signed at u>>p. The agree-
ment r ay be teiminated by cithep
nut ly . :i thirty (lays' notk«
WILL INVOKE
FROM OLD TO NEW
DY ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Calumet, Mich., Dec. 31.—Federal
intervention under the amended Erd
man act has been asked as a means
of settling the copper miners strike
by the Western Federation of Labor
A telegram calling attention to the
possibility of such action was sent
President Wilson by O. N. Hilton
chief counsel for the federation.
HOW TO BE HAPPY
AND HEALTHFUL
ON $9 PER WEEK
DIFFICULT PROBLEM IS BEING
WORKED OUT IN NEW
YORK
SPecial to News-Herald.
Washington, Dec. 31.—How to be
happy and healthy—fed and ciothed—
on $9 a week if you have a family of
five! Such is the problem which
social workers have started to solve
at Neighborhood House, in which
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson is interested.
There they have a "model home" and
there the girls of the poorer sections
of the Nation's Capital are taught
the scientific principles of how to
EXPERIENCE MEETING
At the Methodist church, corneer
10th and Beard, there will be an ex
change of experiences of the past
years. It will be an interesting and
helpful service for all who will come,
It will be at the regular prayer
meeting hoar, 7:30.
Misses Viola and Minta Lee who
have been visiting H. B. Crist and
family on South Broadway returned
home today, accompanied by Leonard
Crist. •
make both ends meet—on nine dollars
a week—with five in the family.
The home is a typical Washington
alley home, except that it is clean
throughout. Cleanliness is the first
precept that the instructors instil in
to the minds of their young pupils.
Housekeeping under difficulties
the gentle art that these social wor
kers are teaching—and teaching
from the kitchen to the garret. Thus
far the course has dealt mainly with
the food problem, but later the ques
tion of clothes will be considered—all
on the nine dollars a week.
(EDITOR'S NOTE—Interviews, giving greetings
from business men of the city, who have been kind
enough to furnish The News-Herald with them, will be
published Friday.)
Secretary McDonald of the Chamber of Commerce
has this new year's message for the people of Shawnee
and Pottawatomie county:
"The encouraging business conditions that have
prevailed in Shawnee during the year ending today have
encouraged us to undertake larger and better things for
the year just dawning. The Chamber of Commerce will
be more active. We promise you that, because we are
determined it will be. <
"The Chamber of Commerce is going to make its
scope of activity wider and be an institution of service
for all the 'Shawnee country.'
' We have been able to accomplish much for Shaw-
nee and Pottawatomie county during the past season.
Our exhibits of county products have won great renown
throughout the southwest and we feel this is an accom-
plishment to be proud of.
"The Chamber of Commerce stands for advanced
business methods and improved farming methods. It
will be out aim, amongotlier things, to foster these dur-
ing the coming year.
"You should be proud of Shawnee—it is the best
town in 'Oklahlioma."
ARE HOPEFI'l
Wallace Estill, Jr., president of the
National Bank of Commerce returned
today from Kansas City. While there
he had occasion to talk with several
of the bankers. They all expressed
themselves as being optimistic for
the coming year. Kansas City bank-
ers and business men are asking the
government to locate one of the reg-
ional reserve banks at Kansas City
and believe they have a good show to
get it. Dr. Johnston, who is pre-
sident of the National Reserve bank,
is being urged by his many friends to
seek the appointment from President
Wilson as chairman of the federal
reserve board. The outlook for the
coming year in all lines of business
is very good.
NIP PLOT 10
KILL HUERTA
. o 'CIATED I'HI.SS.
tov. '«?/ "^ty, Die. 31.—An al-
Icfc'od p c Vy> "... iM'.ate Iluerta dur
-in/ the Ne. U reception was
CxuhtraKd by tin a*rat of two
vYxioMv Seer it i. li « said the
plotters planned to enter the home of
Huerta at the same time the officials
came to offer New Year greetings.
SCOT CLANS
WILL GATHER
WILL HAVE A FAREWELL PAR-
TY FOR McDONALD FAMILY
AT G. W. TACKETT'S
This evening at the home of G. W.
Tackett on North Tucker street the
Scot Clans will bid farewell to the
McDonald family, who are leaving Ok-
lahoma. There will be a genuine
Scotch entertainment, with singing
and dancing, and a Scotch supper
will be served. A large number of
the Scotch people of this vicinity
will participate.
ENTERTAINED
HER S. S. CLASS
Mrs. C. H. Smith entertained her
class of young ladies of the First
Presbyterian Sunday school, on Mon-
day afternoon. The class is com-
posed of Misses Grace Givens, Edith
Graf, Elizabeth Anderson, Elsa Kran-
nig, Helen Owen, Hazel Schlehar,
Marie Karr, Josephine Kittridge, Ab-
bie Brown, Mary Wyant, Pearl Wil-
son and Mollie §tooksbury.
After the election of officers for the
ensuing year, which resulted in Miss
Elizabeth Anderson being elected pre-
sident, the hostess produced a most
formidable book of "Resolutions," the
guests being informed that each one
must turn over a new ldttf. Much
merriment was caused when it was
found that each leaf contained a res-
olution to at one furnish some part
of the entertainment for the day,
which they did, some under protest,
but to the enjoyment of others.
A most elaborate three course lun-
cheon, in which the color scheme—
red and white—was carried out, was
then served by the hostess. All
voted this the most enjoyable of the
many parties given for the class dur-
ing the year.
Mrs. A. O. Millsap of Konawa who
has been visiting her daughter, Mrs.
C. R. Harryman, here returned home
today accompanied by Miss Annie
Rowland of this city.
Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Skipworth who
have been visiting M. A. Daugherty
and family, and Mrs. Skipworth's sis-
ter, Mrs. M. E. Butts, returned home
to Denison today.
Mrs. Rosebush and daughter, Miss
Marion of Tecumseh are spending the
day in Oklahoma City.
Mrs. C. H. Delafosse and Miss
Clemminfe Delafoose of Corsicana,
Texas, returned today after a visit
with Mrs. Delafosse's daughter, Mrs.
J. O. Odell
"ins BUSINESS
M. H. ERNEST WILL THEN MOVE
BACK TO SHAWNEE, HIS
LONG TIME HOME
M. H. Ernest has returned to Wi-
chita Foils, Tex., to colseu p his
business, having sold his cigar factory
there, preparatory to moving back
to Shawnee, which continued to be the
home of his family while he was en-
gaged for a year in business in Wi-
chita Falls. This has long been Mr.
Ernest's home, and he will receive
a warm welcome back.
BY ASSOCIATED l'llKKS.
New York, Dec. 31.—Ehinelander
Waldo, for nearly four years police
commissioner of New York, has re
signed. His resignation leaves the
city without a civilian police head un
til Mayor Mitchell, who takes of-
fice tomorrow, can name one.
MILITIA TO
BY ASSOCIATED PllKSS.
Chesterton, Md., Dec. 31.—A bat-
talion of the Maryland National
Guard, arrived her today to protect
James Paraway and Norman Mabel,
confessed murderers of James Cole-
man, a wealthy farmer, threatened
with mob violence.
EIGHT DEAD
IN NI FIRE
11%' ASSOCIATED PREaS
New York, Dec. 31.—Five men and
three women were killed in a tenement
house fire on the crowded east side.
Fifteen were injurd, four seriously,
by jumping from a fire escape. Gus-
sie Mazin, nineteen, after assisting
her father, mother and five brothers
to escape, lost her head and return-
ed to her room, where she was found
dead.
Mrs. O. B. Sewell of Edmond re-
turned today after a visit with her
1 mother, Mrs; 8, A. .Johnson in Twum*
'seh.
FHOHOCK'S LECTURE
ANOTHER GOOD AUDIENCE AT-
TEND WHITE CHURCH
LAST NIGHT
"Were the priest and the Levite go-
ing up to Jerusalem, or were they on
th way to Jericho? If th former,
they were going to Temple service,
and to touch a dead man would be
to become defiled so that hey would
not be able to serve in the Temple.
Unquestionably, Jesus taught that
they did not do the proper thing in
passing by the robber's victim. The
lesson finds its biggest meaning if
it means that to show mercy is bet-
ter than Racrifice. In other wordw,
the Nelp you render to the needy is
more acceptable to God than it would
be to pray instead of help."
The preachere at the Old White
ch. rch, last night, told his congrega-
tion, "The questions is not who is
brother to you, but to whom are you
brother."
These lectures are settling the
fact that a good audience can be gath-
ered week nights to listen tod irect,
practical addresses on living ques-
Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Nolan of Mc-
Cpjnb returned today after a visit
With Mrs. Ida Conway on North Mar-
kfet.
Wr , E. Owen of Stillwater who has
been visiting her daughter, Mrs. John
Rain, on North Douglas, left for a
visit in Oklahoma City this morning.
The Episcopal Guild will give a
New Year's party tonight at the Par-
ish house.
W. Gray on Konawa has returned
from Ogle, New Mexico, accompanied
by his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Alice
Gray. His son will follow late?
for future residence.
W. P. Wood of the Wood Produce
company was a business visitor to
Oklahoma City today.
S. N. Hainer of Kansas City who
has been visiting friends here, return-
ed today.
tions. Another such address will be
given at the big Watcl Night Meet-
ing tonight. Shop men, doctors, law-
chants, clerks, carriers, bankers, far-
mers, their wives, daughters and
yers, judges, teachers, preachers, mer-
their sweethearts, made up the con-
gregation.
Primitive Man Dreamed a Dream—It Has Come True!
[By LOURIE KELLER]
Lying on the rocky floor of liis cavernous domicile, in a bed, fashioned
of skins and leaves and the down of wildfowl, Primitive Man dreamed
a dream. He was soaring upward! He straightened out his limbs and
exploded the reserve energy of his system and felt his body shoot into
space. He stretohed forth his arms and could feel the coo! air rushing
beneath him as he sped through the tenuous ozone. Wonderful!
Supreme Bensation!
The awakening came, but the memory remained. He imparted it to
his descendants. Centuries came and went and men continued to dream
The Dream! In the meantime the necessities of life and the ambitions of
of Mrs. Man made progress necessary.
Man is a creature of the soil. He conquered it and made it do
wonderful things. The sea lay before him, and he set his rude craft
afloat and sailed its restless, pulsating bosom. He subjugated the world
to his dominion, but the air remained forbidden. The poor humble soil
creature looked at it and longed to make it respond to his will. Wise men
of hi« tribe came with long, mysterious contrivances and these they turned
upon the sky, jabbering among themselves and makiug certain calcula-
tions, but they remained aground!
The twentieth century dawned ! The. hopes and dreamings of Man
became centered in two youths—brothers—in a little Ohio town. They
had dreamed The Dream! But they had something else—they were
imbued with the twentieth century spirit! That meant action; that
meant achievement! And they did the unheard of—they flew!
Another generation and Man will no longer dream of flying. Itr is a
reality now. The age of action and achievement has dawned!
Let's all be twentieth centurions. Let's act—achieve—accomplish!
If we conduct our businesses in the same old lines the constant contact
will wear ruts, and ruts are dangeroiiB.
No one thing has characterized the twentieth century more than the
growth of advertising.
There are many other notable characteristics of the age in which we
live. System is one. That means doing things after mature deliberation
and doing them right.
President Wilson showed himself a twentieth centurion when he
pronounced the attitude of the United States toward Latin-America as
being one of "morality, not expediency."
Another important twentieth century shibboleth is fair, square
dealing—and FAITH IN GOD! You've got to have it!
If you are not in a legitimate line—if you a'e not in tune with things
—find something else. Be creative! Have a definite policy and work it
out!
Old Father Time is u paradox in human construction. He is the only
known bald-headed person whose last lock of hair is in front. After he
has gone there is no place left to hold him by. It is necessary to sieze
him by that forelock as he advances on you, and do it quick!
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