Wheatland Weekly Watchword (Wheatland, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 34, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 8, 1910 Page: 2 of 9
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program was rendered and music
furnished by the band. The tree was
handsomely decorated and loaded
with presents.
Misses Bonnie and Donnie Mauldin
who have been visiting Mr. Crist’s
family In Choctaw during Christinas,
returned home Tuesday evening.'
Mr. Ed Dreeaaen and wife and lit-
tle sister in-law. Miss Daisy Franklin
of Mustang, spent Christmas with Mr.
and Mrs. P. H. Dreessen. They re-
turned home Monday afternoon.
Mr. George and Mrs. Goodwin of
Oklahoma City visited Mr. George’s
daughter, Mrs. P. R. Simms Sunday.
Mrs. Haines, Mrs. Brunes, W. E.
Moore and family were down from
Edmond to visit J. M. Richards and
fnintly during Christmas.
Dr. and Mrs. Nail and little niece,
Delpha Ripple, left Friday evening for
Crumb, Texas, to spend Xmas with
the doctor’s brother and will also
visit at Ft. Worth.
A. T. Ash and family and Clarence
Jones and wife stopped here Monday
evening for a short rest They
enroute to Shawnee. Okla.
Mr. Lauren sen left Monday after-
noon for San Francisco, Calif. He
expects to buy a farm near that pi
and move his family there in
near future.
P. H. Dreessen shipped a car of
thoroughbred cattle to Emporia, Kan.,
Monday.
The Literary Society met last
Thursday night and rendered a
le excellent program. Qu
It resolved, that Foreign
should be Abolished,” was
and decided in favor of the
tlve.
Miss Minnie Bruce of Oklahoma
City spent Christmas with the
at home here.
A. C. Janacek went to Oklahoma
.. City Wednesday to have some dental
Resting WQrk done
E. -H. Brand transacted business in
Oklahoma City Wednesday .
The library room of the school
house is undergoing repairs and will
soon be in first class shape for the
new library.
Mrs. Akin was shopping in Oklaho-
ma City Wednesday.
We are vary thankful to receive
any news items from the people.
Ji>o„ Nichols and wife of Comad,
lnd., und sister from Mr. Ayr, Ind.,
arrived here Thursday of last week
to visit Jacob Nichols and family.
Dr. J. L. Womack and daughter,
Effle were Oklahoma City visitors
Monday.
Mrs. P. H. Dreessen and son George
and daughter, Mrs. Rogers, went to
Seward Tuesday to take a look at
their new farms at that place.
Thomas Donoghue made a business
>rd, Lu-1 trip to Oklahoma City Wednesday,
aymond
Ziinple.
Stev :e
PRIEST TRIES T8 REFORM
BIIR8UR WHO RUBBED HM
CLKRQYMAN, Hll.D-UP IN HOIM,
pleads in Vain tfitH bandit
TO RSFSNT HID SIND.
Chicago.—When Jean VaUeaa stood
st the bedside of Bishop Muritl altar
bis theft of the prelate’s silverware
the situation was no mors dramatic
than the scene enacted in Chicago
when e burglar entered the room of
Rev. John P. Dors In the personage
of the Roman Catholic church of Our
Lady of Lourdes, 4860 North Ashland
avenue. Two other homes in Ravens-
wood were visited supposedly by the
same burglar. A man has bean ar-
rested and Identified ns the burglar.
He is in Jail awaiting trial.
The burglar, fumbling In the pockete
of the wststcoet that hung at the
heed of the bed, awakened the priest
CRRPENTEirS JAWS
miirspG
MASSACHUSETTS MAN CAN FULL
SPIKES FROM BEAMS WITH
HIS TSSTH.
SKULL AtSO IS LIKE IRON
Salaries* Granite Sleeks an the Tap
ef Hie Heed and Late Hie Frtowde
Break the Stone wMh a Sledge
’I
Richard
White,
rs: Bon-
ungherr
Jas. A. Cowan made a professional
trip to Oklahoma City Wednesday.
B. F. Rudy was a Norman visitor
Wednesday. , . . ..
Miss Effie Womack will start Jau. j Again addressing the burglar, he said:
“Why dldn t you come in the day-
"I'm i Burglar.” He said.
Fathei Dnre, half sitting up, switched
on the electric lights. As he turned
toward the burglar a revolver flashed
in his face.
The intruder was more than aix feet
tall, heavily built. His face was black,
but he had the features of a Caucas-
ian.
"What do you want?” said the
priest.
“I am a burglar.”
“What is your name?”
“Never mind that. Shut up, I tell
you. It’s your money I want. And
turn out that light if you want to
wake up in the morning.”
Father Dore switched off the light.
Boston.—Several months ago Wlll-
lnm A. Besudetto, • prominent builder
of Worcester, rtpetved n cell In hie
oMce one morning from a youag man,
who applied fir a Job. Asked what
he could do. Charles BohmMt (this Is
the wisard’s same), said that he had
done a llttfta aarpentertag. He wae
hired at $1.66* day as a helper.
Beaudetto had several houses la
process of constructloa aad Schmidt
was asaigueo to one of the carpenter-
ing crews. He went to work as one
of the ordinary laborers aad gave per- -
feet satisfaction, although he dM not
claim to be nn expert workman.
One day, several weeks after he had
gone to work. Schmidt was on the top
floor of one of the new hensee. A
carpenter who was at work near him.
in trying to pull a spike with his ham-
mer, broke off the head. The spike
was driven two-thirds its length Into n
heavy beam. The carpenter tried ev-
ery way to pull the spike out aad
failed. Schmidt noticing his fellow
workman’s 'predicament came over.
“Whet’s the trouble?” he asked.
"Can’t you pull tt out?”
“No,” said the workman, “nor any
one else.”
“That’s easy,” said Schmidt aad
getting down on his hands and knees,
he seised the spike in his teeth,
humped up his back sad save a tag.
Out cams the spike.
This was the first time, according to
tigbiftldL that he ever exercised this
power outside of his own house. The
carpenter, dumfouaded, rushed down * ? ••
stairs with his. story. To prove that
the other man was not stretching the
truth Schmidt had to do It again.
At once he was the hero of the Job.
For the amusement of his fellow work-
men Schmidt pulled spikes with his
teeth. He bit them in halves. Every
kind of test was invented to try his
ability. So far, although these tests
have continued almost daily.
Schmidt, who la still drawing his
$1.60 a day as a carpenter, will allow
any one to take a sledge hammer and
drive three of the heaviest aplkes to
■ vs-
lst to Praughan’s business college to
take a full business course.
Mr. Amelia Rogers and daughters
lift Wednesday afternoon for Mus-
tang. Okla., to visit a few days with
; her brother Ed Dreessen.
Graham i Last. Friday night while the people
i east of Moore were enjoying a Christ-
Ohariie 1 mas tree at the Robersoa school house
trie and : some one entered the home of Walter
j Wyat and stole his revolver and killed
|,a> ; his dog. and left. They also entered
'Reward tl,c home of Mr. Johnson, but Mr.
ithful in ! Johnson happened to be at home and
Chanie opened fire with a sho* .gun but failed
id Wil-I to hit the mark. Two boys were ar-
Lucile ^ rested on suspicion anil brought be-
Murray, I f°r*’ Judge Courtney, but proved an
Emma alibi and werc released.
Anna A- J- Smith transacted business in
en Gra- Oklahoma City Wednesday,
le Jung- w- w- Hinkle siient Xmas in Okla-
i lioma City.
be com-1 Wm. Cottrell, Bat Dreeseen. Bur
nd faith- i Percival. Kdd Hartwlck. Wm. White.
If of the Tom Beasland -and Glen Wasson were
: Oklahoma City visitors Friday after-
■ noon.
i Carl Dreesen made a business trip
to Oklahoma City Thun day of last
| week.
Erma Petts of Edmond visited Jno.
Payne and family Thursday and John
and wife and son accompanied her
home to spend Christmas.
Mrs. Mae Le.verich was i.i Moore
Monday.
Chas. Milton of Oklahoma City
spent Christmas with his bro’her,
Elmer, here.
Jno. Hall was absent during Xmas
and from appearances we judge he
lartwTck had a g00d time> !jUt for official rea-
sons he refuses to inform U3 of his
inlay af-
contlnue
n., on a
t Clirist-
i to Mr.
lecember
rted bus-
dr. Bam
time. 1 would have given you money
at the front door. You will find two
dollar rolls of nickels in the top dress-
er drawer. Take it.”
With his dark lantern the burglar
found the money and turned to go.
The priest again switched on the
light, and the man Btopped In the
doorway.
“Turn out the light, and shut up.
will you?” he growled.
"Don’t you know that you are do-
ing wrong, my man?” asked Father
Pore. “AH will be well if you will re-
pent.”
“Aw. rut it out," was the reply.
“Don’t you try any of your funny busi-
ness with me.”
“PIoufo don’t disturb any other
members of the house,” said the
priest.
“1 won’t.” the burglar said gruffly
and left the house.
The door of the parsonage, accord-
ing to Father Pore’s custom, was un-
locked. Fifteen minutes before the
burglar’s appearance there a man an-
swering his description had ransacked
the home of Attorney Robert Mansell,
4622 North Ashland avenue and
frightened the members of the family.
Soon after the burglar left the par-
sonage an unsuccessful attempt was
made to enter the home of Louis
He Seized the Spike in His Teeth.
be obtained into a beam. The spikes
must be driven in close together so
that he can get the heads of them all
Kalk, 4SS0 North Ashland avenue. Mrs i jn his mouth. He then gets down on
Kalk and her two daughters, awaken- ; his bunds and knees, braces himself,
ed by a noise at the window, frighton- seizes the spikes in his teeth, and,
ed ti»e burglar away. ; crouching as if for a spring, he begins
to puff. The muscles of his jaws and
k Christ,
s. Lester
Unexplored Arabia.
The announcement that the British
Royal Geographical Society of Copen-
hagen is fitting out an expedition to
explore “the countries round the Per-
sian gulf” will surprise many who im-
agine that there is little ot the earth j
_ w-hereabouts on that day.
neck bulge out in big knots.
One day at a test of his back
muscles, and incidentally the quality
of his skull, he had two or three car-
penters lift a 50-pound stone and bal-
ance It on the top of his head. Fol-
I lowing his instructions, one of tho car-
J. A. Cowan made a professional
ark Me- triP to Norman Tuesday.
Tlieo. Hasmann was a Norman vU-
outslde the polar regions which now j ‘ tQok , sledg; hammer and
needs exploring As a matter of fact, £ h , down severa, time8 on the
the interior of the great Arabian pe-|": K .. ..
ninsttla is still waiting to be discov-
sick list Iitor Tuesday.
J. Fvonek and wife and baby lett
Tuesday for Tiffen, Texas, t.o visit
friends and relatives.
Mrs. Joseph Muer and Virgil Hinkle
by the ! were in Moore Tuesday,
he M E. | Geo. Leverich made bis sister, Mrs.
was Farris, an Xmas present of a flue
nice milk cow.
owd that
lining in
’hristmas
ered. and not even the poles offer
such almost Insurmountable obstacles
to those who seek them as the un-
known laud lying around the Persian
gulf. Some portions are, doubtless, as , , .. . ......
B . 1 . , ’ . , ’ Was the force of the impact that the
void of human beings as the frozen w . ... _.,.u _____L
apexes of the earth, and will probably
big granite block.
"Harder,” yelled Schmidt; ‘harder
—give It to *er good.”
Swinging it over his heud the car-
penter brought the sledge down with
a bang that sent sparks flying. Such
always remain so, for the heat ex-
perienced there is fatal to almost
•very kin«* of life.
rock split and fell with a crash to the
floor In two pieces. Schmidt apparent-
ly none the worse, went hack to work
with the rest of tho men.
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Browne, T. Wheatland Weekly Watchword (Wheatland, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 34, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 8, 1910, newspaper, January 8, 1910; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc936537/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.