Harrah News (Harrah, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 2, 1913 Page: 2 of 12
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The Harrah News
J. A. TODD, Ed. and Pub.
HARRAH, OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA NEWS NOTES
FARMn
GARDEN
METHOD OF STOPPING LEAKS
Ponca City entertainer! the Kr.v*
County Sunday School association.
At a meeting held at Guymnn the
Texas County Poultry association was
born.
Judge Wade Stanfield of Sapulpa
has the oil fever and wants to quit
his judgeship.
The Okmulgee Development com*
pany Is a new organization at Okmul-
gee to boost the town.
The town of Alen is excited be-
cause a number of oil men have been
viewing the country thereabouts.
Miss Kite, formerly secretary of the
Northwestern State Normal school at
Alva, died of paralysis at Sulphur.
A. A. Harder has launched the Pro-
gressive Star at Red Oak, in Latimer
county. It is a neat, eight-page pub-
lication.
Bennington Tribune says Durant
will pass the 10,000 mark In popula
tlon next year, if its people keep up
their present lick.
Sheriff J. P. Lamison of Medford
sayB the state orphanage at Pryor is
one of the most useful eleemosynary
institutions in the state.
Frang B. Long, Indian agent at
Tulsa, resigned to engage in the oil
business. Is succeeded by George M.
McDonald of MuBkogee. •
Muskogee having voted $150,000 for
park bonds, now purposes a bond
issue for city hall, market place, parks
and a boulevard system.
The oil mill at Wapanucka is a
great benefit to that town, paying out
$13,000 a year in wages and swelling
the tax roll by $100 per month.
Harold Gray, formerly of Guthrie,
now of Seattle, Wash., recently passed
the Cecil Rhodes examination and will
take a three-year course in law at
Oxford.
The Choctaws and Chickasaws have
$1,352,814.38 to their credit, held in
trust by the federal government. This
money is laying idle in the banks of
St. Louis.
A Mexican attempted to murder a
policeman the other night at Ponca
City, but the case was not given much
notoriety there because the newspa-
pers couldn’t put the hombre’s name in
print.
The sale of unallotted land in Pitts-
burg county, the whole area with the
exception of about two thousand acres
having been sold at good prices, aug-
urs well for the sale of the segregated
land, which as a rule is worth many
times as much as the unallotted land.
Jim Lemon, the new representative
from Grant county, announces that he
will introduce a bill to make the steal
ing of chickens between suuset and
sunrise a felony. Walter Ferguson
thinks this an outrage against the col-
ored brother, who has already been
Jim-Crowed and grandfather-claused.
But what could one expect from a rep-
resentative named Lemon
S. C. Porter of Chster is the only
survivor in this section who partici-
pated in the battle of Gettysburg. He
will go next summer to the scene of
that memorable fight to assist in the
exercises commemorative of the 50th
anniversary of this battle. It is to be
a national affair and arrangements are
being made for each state to send it*
surviving veterans of both armies at
the expense of the state. Mr. Porter
had many thrilling experiences and
bair-breadrh escapes in the war.
tit
Hand, Foot and Nose of Common Mole*
The strength of these little animals is
marvelous. They will heave up the
surface of a path trodden so hard
that repeated blows of a pick will be
needed to break the crust.
Ordinarily the mole makes his way
through the soil as a root does, or a
stake when driven by the blows of a
sledge. The earth is not excavated,
but simply crowded aside. When the
ground becomes very hard, of course
the mole is obliged to excavate the
passageways and push the loose dirt
out through the openings of the roof
of his tunnel.
The mole keeps at work all through
the winter in places where the ground
is not frozen too hard. He works
more frequently in the morning and
evening.
Moles do very little harm to the
roots of grain, grasses or vegetables,
except iu pushing the soil aside, and
they live principally on the white
grub, earth-worms and beetles.
Ho thus proves himself to be a
friend to mankind, because grubs are
the greatest scourges of grass and
other valuable plant roots.
CONSTRUCTING A COLD FRAME
Detailed Instructions Given for Put-
ting Together Quite Useful Con-
trivance for Winter.
To make a cold frame drive 2x2
stakes well In the ground three feet
apart, In two rows six feet apart, run-
ning east and west. On the Inside of
the south row nail a board 8 inches
wide and on the Inside of the north
row nail a similar board 12 Inches
wide. See that the top edge of each
board Is level and true. If the bed Is
made 24 feet long It will require 3x6
sashes.
Nail a board against each end. al-
lowing the upper edge of the board
to project 2 inches above the side-
boards and slope them. Cut up 1x4
strips in pieces 5 feet 10 Inches long
and nail these every 3 feet across the
bed. flat side up. and flush with the
upper edges of the sideboard. Spread
well rotted manure inside of this
frame, spade and pulverize the earths
deeply and you have a first-class cold
frame
MOLE WORKS DURING WINTER
Little Animal Keeps Busy Where
Ground Is Not Frozen Too Hard—
His Strength Is Marvelous.
(By T. H. SCHEF’FER.)
The mole, like the pocket gopher,
is more or less active at all seasons
of the year, but it Is during the rainy
period, when the soil is moist, that
I his work is pushed most vigorously.
| Shallow runways are then rapidly ex-
tended In all directions and old run-
ways repaired.
When a mole makes up Its mind
to go In a certain direction, nothing
but concrete or stone will stop him
Concrete-Waterproofing Work Is De-
scribed by Correspondent of the
Engineering Record.
The method of stopping leaks In
concrete, described by a correspond-
ent of the Engineering Record, con-
sists In plastering the wet, leaking
surface of the concrete with water-
proofed mortar. The mortar Is kept
from being washed away by suitable
bracing against a properly constructed
gasket.
Assuming that a leak Js to be re-
paired in a basement wall. Fig. 1,
one foot or more above the floor, the
loose material should be scraped or
dug away, leaving a saucer-shaped
cavity as large In diameter as neces-
sary. If the holes through which the
water ie leaking are large enough
they can be stopped with plugs cov-
ered with patches of burlap driven in
tightly.
The form is then prepared. In case
the diameter of the saucer-shaped
hole is six inches, a board, A, Fig. 2,
two inches thick and eight Inches
square, will be required. A one-
fourth-inch twisted-burlap rope, B. is
tacked on the board and the latter
nailed to a brace C.
Enough one-to-two mortar, water-
proofed, Is prepared, to which has
been added, just before leaving the
mixing box, bichromate of soda to the
amount of one or two per cent of the
cement This is added to make the
mortar quick setting. The mortar Is
placed on the board in a cone-shaped
mass and then thrust quickly and
firmly with a twisting motion Into
the cavity. The brace is driven Into
place at the same time. The process
is illustrated in Fig. 3. The twisting
motion aids in forcing the mortar Into
the smallest crevices and drives away
such parts of the mortar as may have
been squeezed out between the con-
crete and the gasket.
A very simple application of the
method is shown In Fig. 4. A more
difficult application, but not imprac-
ticable, Is one where It is desired to
As Usual.
"Did she tell her age?**'
"Partly.”—Judge.
NOT FIT FOR T. A OIKS
Public sent intent should be against it, ana we --
Mere it is, there can be no reason why ladies about
have to suiter with headaches and neuralgia, ea-1
pecialiy when Hunt’s Lightning Oil give* ancn,|
prompt relief. It is simply a question of getting pa
Iadlesto try it. All druggists sell Hunts Lightning
OU in Uk* and 50c bottles. Adv. •
No Prudent Loan.
“Don't you want Miss Freezem to
lend eclat to your function?”
“No; we’re not borrowing trouble."
Concrete Work.
plaster large areas. A little experi-
ence and patience makes the matter
easy.
A good waterproofing mixture Is
made as follows; Concentrated lye.
one-third pound; powdered alum,
three-fourths pound, which should be
mixed In one gallon of water at least
one hour before using. All of this
mixture is used to one sack of cement,
and is poured In at the same time as
the water used to temper the mortar.
As a summer tonic there i* no medicine
that quite compares with OX1D1NE. It not
only builds up the system, but taken reg-
ularly. prevents Malaria. Regular or Taste-
less formula at Druggists. Adv.
Its Materials.
*,I am building a lovely castle In
Spain."
“What of? Gold bricks?”
WHEN BI BBERS BECOME! NECF.SSART
And your shoes pinch. Allen’s Foot-Ease, the
Antiseptic powder to be shaken into the
shots, is just the thing to use. Try it for
Breaking ir. New HhocB. Sold Everywhere,
25c. Sample FREE. Address. A. S. Olmsted.
LiRoy, N.Y. Don’t accept any substitute. Adv.
A married man has reached the bot-
tom of the ladder when he begins to
brag about his wife’s relations.
Regular practicing phvsicians recommend
•nd prescribe OXIDINE for Malaria, be-
came it is a proven remedy by years of ex
perience. Keep a liottle in the medicine
chest and administer at first sign of Chill*
and Fever. Adv.
The man who refuses to see the
error of his way has just that much
ftirther to travel back.
Saskatchewan
160 acre
Your
Opportunity
is NOW
In the Province of
Saskatchewan,
Western Canada
Do yon desl re to get a
Free Homestead of 1 GO
___ ACRES of that well
known Wheat Land?
The area Is becoming more Untiled
but ho less valuable.
NEW DISTRICTS
h;. re recently been opened up for
Battlement, and into these rail-
roads are now being built. The
day will noun come when there
will be no
kin 1 irfree Homesteadln*
A Swift Current, Saskatchewan,
farmer writes: “1 came on my
homestead, March 1900. with about
Sl.OtO worth of horses and machin-
ery. and Just R!5 in cash. Today I
have 9u0 acres of wheat. 300 acres
of oats, and 60 acres of flax.” Not
l,ad for six years, but only an in-
stance of what may be done In
Western Canada In Manitoba,
Saskatchewan or Alberta.
Send at once for Literature,
Maps, Hallway Rates, etc., to
G. A. COOK.
125 W. 9th STREET. KANSAS CITY. M0.
Chnadlau Government Agent, or
address Kunerintendent of
liuniigratiou, Ottawa, lutdt.
1
Thorough Farming.
See to it that today's work is done
so well that It won’t have to be done
over when tomorrow's work ts In
progress
Carden 0**
Farm Notes
Have you a good crop rotation on
your farm?
Success in farm work depends large-
ly on knowing how.
A silo Is kept air tight so that the
silage will not spoil.
Sorghum hay properly cured is a
good roughage for horses and cattle.
Mach garden soil seems to need
lime, and probably a complete ferti-
* lizer.
Fence comers full of dead weeds
make fine hibernating places for all
kinds of bugs which will get busy with
| rour crop In th* spring.
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