The Shawnee Daily News-Herald (Shawnee, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 334, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 13, 1919 Page: 4 of 8
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THE SHAWNEE DAILY NEWS-HERALD
Shawnee Daily News-Herald
Entered as secuml class matter at
the poaiofflce at Shawnee, Okla., un-
der the act of March 3, 1871#.
Red Jacket rivaled. In their day, the steam, and set out on her return
fastest steamer afloat. Built for voyage, as per schedule, on 1.
speed, with an almost unbelievable The attempts and achievements o 1
spread of canvas, they could and did these early pioneers were of coarse,
make the voyage between New York the one great subject of eon versa -
— an(1 Liverpool jn little over thirteen don and debate on both side* of the
THE NBW8-HERAL1) I'lBMSHI.X; day* Indeed, in the early days, the A tan tic. And so history, today
COMPANY.
Otis B. Weaver, Owner.
Editorial and Bushiest* Office
rhone 278.
(.'Ircualtlon Dept. 121.
learner engines it bad. and the be.-t but repeating itself, only, today,
that could be devised but it was al days have become hours. Indeed, the
ways a full rigged ship as well Thus passage of the Atlantic, during the
the Savannah, which is general!• 400 years or so that men have been
recorded as the first steamship to making it, has been steadily cbang-
cross the Atlantic, used steam only iug, as far as the method of reckon-
At ltllSS THK ATI.A VI H .
Since that day. Aug. 3. 14U2, on
which the great Christopher, with his
three little ships, the Nina, the Plnta
eighteen days out of the twenty-flv *
occupied in the voyage. That was in
181&. and K was not until fourteen
years later that a steamship, the
Royal William, crossed the Atlantic
entirely under her own steam. She
-ailed from Quebec, and
London in seventeen days.
ing is concerned, from months to
weeks, from weeks to days, and now
to hours.—Christian Science Mon-
itor. b
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COBLENZ. Saturday. May 10—The
reached team of the sixth division won the
'urious- soccer championship of the third army
6:25 for Panta Valley. M mectin
a Joint committee of the I.etail
hunts Assn., Shawnee Rotary
and Lions Club will be in
this evening at 7:30 td
rangements for their rteepton
entertainment while here.
MIRLLKR TO WICHITA.
B> Wnciated Fm«,
ST. JOSEPH. Mo . May IS.—Ar
Mueller, first baseman of the St
cph W-Jttern League team for the
three seasons, was release - b
the Wichita Club.
FIELD DAY AND
PICNIC AT PARK
and the SuU Marll ventured forth • stabllahed fact, and a tablet record- hat., been the longest nuccer nam. WEDNESDAY P.M.
ly enough, although this is a well- here today in what is believed
from Palos Into the "Sea of Dark-
ness" on the voyage which was to
end in the discovery of the New
World navigators have been f triviig
to shorten the time of gettic across.
Jt took the admiral hims*) < onsld-; the Si rim
erably more than two months to
make the passage, and. great sea-
man that he was. be shortened it all
he could. Some hundred and thirty
years later, the Mayflower did no;
greatly improve on this time, but as
the years went by. and the lanes be
came better known, and the dVmanti experiment of
for speed Increased, the shipbuilder voyage from Rngiand to
ing this crossing is to be found in ever played. It took the boys of the
the Parliamentary Library at Otta- s**th three hours to take the champion
wa, the place of honor as the first from the fifth dviislon by a scor^
vessel Jo cross the Atlantic under * lo 2.
her own steam is frequently given tc
REORGANIZATION OF
N ATION 4L GI'ARH.
To be sure, the Sirius
had a much better press at the time
than the Royal William. Even in
those days the inspired paragraph ^ Associated Press.
was not utterly unknown And «- WASHINGTON. May 13 -Approval
in The Times of I n.lon eighty-one of ,he "organization cf the Natlona.
vears ago there appeared, one day, a (,uar^ along 'he same lin^s as ex-
klnd of advance notice telling o. u.ted b<,,ore the *r«' *ar *as «"
i -team Press*d today informally by Secre-
America * lary Baker- Tho war department, he
built hi, ship, more and more for h.d commenced; and how. "i' few "• -building of
.peed, uo.il in ,he days of the tl*d before, the St George Steam « •" ■ '« P" the van-
George, the transports could make Packet Company s powerful steam
their way aero... with a fair wind. * ip SIHus. Lieutenant Rab.rU, R « ' -*' « P
inside of a month. So matter, stood X, commander, bad Mled off Ea-t for
at the time of that great revolution >-®ne stairs en rout* for Cork and
ir the way of the sea the Introduc-' York The Sir'us." the para-
graph continued.'"is a vesae! of 700
ions, with engines of horsepow-
er; and has been fitted up in a mo*t
splendid manner It is expected that
she will complete the voyage in fif-
Wednesday afternoon the annual
field day and picnic of 4he Shawnee
high school wIII be held at Benson
Park. There are thirty-one events
on the program for which prize? are
offered by local merchants The af-
ternoon promises to be full of pleas-
ure for the high school students ana
their friends.
Muskogee high has called off her
game with Shawnee, to have been
played Saturday at Muskogee, and re-
fuses to meet Shawnee anywhere.
NOT ALWAYS PROPERLY SANE
Scientists Assert Few People Have at
All Times Full Command of Their
Mental Faculties.
Many people think that the expres-
*iun "temporary insanity" is merely
«>•<! by a jury wishing to save rela-
te pain, but numbers of doctor*
who have made a study of mental dls-
•ts emphatically declare it Is no
idle term.
"r.e doctor has stated that tempo-
rriry insanity is a condition of double
consciousness, not dissimilar to ep-
"♦•I sy. A person normally quite sane
have attacks of temporary aber-
ration lastfng little more than a few
minutes, especially after long bouts
of l ard, continuous mental work, be-
ing particularly liable If Insomnia su-
pervenes. •
Crimes have been committed in the
early morning when the perpetrator
has not really been properly awake,
find has been horrified to find what
he has. d. n*. This is a frti<* case of
tempoitty inwinlry, but It fc **npara-
tivtjly rape, and a ianj\ in normal
hen|ty wi.'ild d<>t In thfef way.
A spiffliiiw M Vnefrfirt diseases has
stated that he knew a case in which
a person was insane during a certain
time of each day, and that others have
been known when the patient was
quite normal at ordinary times, but
suffered from a temporary fit of mania
regularly once a month.
TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1919.
DR. VAN HALTEREN,
Osteopath
Mfht and Hay I'bone 26.
Only Licensed Graduate In
Shawnee.
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DR. T. C. WILSON,
Chiropractor
Phone 816
ZVj W. Main. Shawnee
Get a Chiroprartic Examination
for any Pain or Physical Ail-
ment. Locate the cause.
Wonderful Health Remedy.
OSTRANDER & HUNT
Ror Real Estate
Phone 327
Room 6, State National
Bank Building.
T. H. HALTOM
Shawnee's
LEADING JEWELER
Fine Jewelry and
Diamonds,
Expert Repair Work
108 E. Main St.
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tion of steam.
It vu not a complete revolution
of course, for not only did the sai-
ing ship valiantly bold her own.
evea in the matter of speeu. for the
oas states to supply the same unit
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in
Prance.
Two More British Crews
Arrive at St. Johns, Nfd.,
For Trans-Atlantic Trip
Try a WANT AD
News-Herald
in the Daily
Ant few ;a . but inch lamou, ♦** > «r« confident are her
flipper* « the Dreadnaacht and the owner* of ibis that they have al-
■ ng out
Films Developed
ROLLS, AWT SIJK, liir
PACKS, ASY KI1E, lie
PRivrs
or smaller. 4c; 3^x3^
and up to 4x5, Sc. Postcards, 6c
aarh.
Remittance must accompany
order, or we will ship C. O. L>
We do not sacrifice quality for
spw.l I^et our film expert give
you better results.
We are Eastman Kodak agents
and carry a full line of Kodak
supplies in stock.
Owl Drug Co.
6 K Wain St. Shawnee, Okla.
By Associated Press.
ST JOHNS. Nfd., May 13.—Two
aviation parties contemplating a trans-
Atlantic flight in Bolton and Paul
from New York for the return voy- ,4nd Vickers-Vimp planes, both of
age on the 1st of May She carrier British make, arrived here today. If
out from London twenty-twa first was thought probable that the Brit-
class passengers, but this number Ishers. whose planes were expected to
will be considerably augmented a* reach here in time for a flight in June.
Cork. She does not take out any!would use lhe ground to be vacated
goods, being intended for a passen- *>>" Hawker and Raynham.
ger ship only."
As a matter of tact the good ship
actually sailed from Cork with a
complement of only six first-class pas
aengers. AH the others were ren
dered so doubtful as to the expedi
ency of prosecuting the adventure
further, by their experiences during
the run down the Channel, that thev
forfeited their passage money and
decided to trust to the wind Tlu
1 Siriils, however, duly arrived in the
Hudson, although not without adven-
ture. In spite of the fact that she
| carried 450 tons of coal, a great
quantity In those days, being load-
ed down almost to the water's edge,
she ran so short of fuel before she
sighted Sandy Hook that she had to
burn every spare yard and spar, and
even rosin, of which she carried a
considerable quantity. But she
reached New York, under her own
D
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ery stack u p
with that which comes
to your desk? We print
the kind that makes a
good impression.
Job Printing Dept.
The News-Herald
Forming Artificial Pearla.
Pearls were valuable as gems In
China as early as twenty-two centuries
before our era, nnd the Chinese had
worked out n plan for the artificial
formation of pearls about 700 years
ago, which they,have carried on ex-
tensively. Large numbers of oysters
ar - Collected and tile shell gently open-
ed to allow the Introduction of vari-
ous foreijm shbstances which are in-
serted by means of a forked bath I too
Mirk. These pellets are generally
tnatle of prepared mud. but may be
hone, brass or wood,, The oysters are
then placed In shallow ponds connect-
ed with canals and are nourished by
tubs of night soil thrown In from time
to time.
Some time later, from several
months to two years, depending upon
the slue of the gem desired, these oys-
ters are taken out of the shell, the
pearls removed and the body of the
auimnl eaten as food. Millions of such
X>earls are sold annually In China. The
most valuable are either round or pear
shaped.
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FILMS DEVELOPED
Per roll 10c
Film packs 15c
Prints 2,/2x^l/4 or small-
er 4c
Larger sizes up to and in-
cluding post card size 5c
Crescent Drug Co.
Phone 21 Elks Bldg.
Private money to lend on real
estate, either farm or city. Lib.
eral terms.
( IIAS. K. WELLS, Lawyer.
Flks Bldg. Phone 5M
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AIRPLANE HERE
NEXT FRIDAY,
ALL AFTERNOON
BOSSI.KK I MU KT \KINU CO.
Xotor Ambulance.
Lung Motor Sen Ice.
Illgh Cla^.i Service
Phones— Parlors—
Day 272. 208 N. Bdwy.
Night 315
The Chamber of Commerce has
been advise! that a U. S. recruiting
officer will be aboard the Oklahoma
City booster train which will arrive
here Friday e'venlng. and that all
Friday afternoon a U. S. aviator will
circle Shawnee distributing recruit
ing office literature. The gas for
the use of the plane has already been
shipped here.
The Oklahoma City boosters will
arrive here about 6:25 Friday even-
ing from the north via the Santa Ft.
and will leave Saturday morning at
Common Sense and
a Savings Account
Ninety per cent of our financial wor-
ries arc caused by the habit of walking on
the edge of our incomes; by failure to
leave a margin between income and outgo.
Those who leave the creation of this
margin to an increase in income will prob-
ably continue to have financial worries.
1 hose who adopt the sure way of de-
creasing the outgo; of spending less than
they earn and banking the balance are
sure to arrive.
For putting by a surplus you can't beat
common sense and a savings account with
The Security State Bnak
of Shawnee, Oklahoma.
DEPOSITS GUARANTEED
GUILD BROS.
Insurance
Real Estate and Farm
Loans.
102% E. Main. Phone 860.
\will Ml— MM HI ■! ■! I ■ ■ I 4
DR. EDGAR E. RICE
SURGERY.
GYNECOLOGY,
and CONSULTATION
Flks Bldg.
Practice Limited to
HOURS: PHONES:
1 l"to 12 Res. 282
£ to 3 Office 2&4
7 to 8
Reliance Machine
Works
J. C. WILKINSON, Prop
Al'10 OVKKIIAI Lmi
and
General Machine Shop Work
Phone 263 122 N. Beard
PHONE
9/1
SHAWNEE TRANSFER
COMPANY
I I 2 West Main
Prompt and careful serv-
ice. New motor equip-
ment.
CALLUS
Adding Machine and Typewriter Supplies
We do all kinds of repairing all work called for and delivered.
Kihbons carbon paper, oil. etc., for all makes of typewriters and
adding machines. Parts for any make machine furnished. We
carry a coaiplete line to give you ttrsfrclass mttIcc. tine price to
everybody, i leaning and ollliii? our specialty. All repair work
done In mechanic with eight years' experience. Ynu are flic judpc
— if we don't please you. we ask no pay. Let our mechanic look
out your nwu liine that Is free. Here to* staj a home company,
with a determination to see Shawnee build.
HAWKINS & ELKINS REPAIR SHOP
Room 10, State National Bank Bldg.
Phone 433. Shawnee, Oklahoma
DeLuxe Tailors
STEAM DYEING,
CLEANING and
PRESSING
We handle accordion
pleated skirts.
Phone 1631. I0E. Main
Wiltard
Hotel
I. D. HEWLETT, Mgr.
Good Meals
35c
Good Rooms
50c and 75c
Rates by the Week.
301 East Main.
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Insurance
Conservative Loan Co.
A strong home company ready to render
prompt and efficient service on the very best
terms.
Dodge Brothers
MOTOR. CAR
CENTRAL SALES COMPANY
12.1 .NORTH ltKI.L ST.
GASKILL UNDERTAKING COMPANY
FUNERAL DIRECTORS,
AMBULANCE SERVICE
120 North Bell Street— Office Phone 371
Night Phones 850 and 546.
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