The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-17

female members OF our pariy. Tom
you really think that Hades must be To-
Gated some phc near hereg she re-
piled uuaesitat1ngly that she thought
IL was )n another occasion one OF the
ladies s.ScomDanine The Agvocate man
p,lssed a prominent Illinois delegate in
the ailse of the auditorium where the
meetings were in progress; both were
sWeltering with the heat and In answer
TO some remark she made upon the sub
ject in passing he promptly replied. Tin
an emphatic undertone, as the meeting
was In progress,) I'VE are going TO meet
IN Alaska next February" II certainly
seemed that such an arrangement would
be as sensible as meeting IN Guthrie IN
June. But then Oklahoma naturally
wanted us TO see their growing crops
and We had 10 50 there In the summer
~ order TO 90 a.
friend IN Guthrie who has resided
there since the onening sixteen years
ago, told ms that IL remained that Lot,
only more SO, until October but ihNt
the residents became accustomed 20 ~
after few seasons and did not mind IT,
However, they do not attempt 70 STIR
around there in the beat Of the day as
we do IN the north. Many OF the well
to do peopie-and there are a good many
such in Guthrie--go away foy the sum-
ner, ana those who remain take their
meals sat one or the other OF two very
nice private boarding houses and have
as little work as possib,e carried on in
their homes These same friends told
as also that when they leave theif
homs for two or three months Ia the
summer ti Is considered better 10 rent
them furnished than 70 close them, as
tho dust Is 50 very prevalent that II
penetIatcs every creNice and puts things
IN srious shape before fan brings the
rturn Of the house wife wish her iA-
Guthrie Is a nice town Of abount 49,
600 people. This Is a conservative este
mate-many claiming more II Is mod
u
etc A stret car system nad been in
stalled just three weeks before our ar
rival and the driving horses, which were
many and valuable were having tho
the new animal; they had already made
the acquaintance Of the auto, but fhis
new creature was a source OF much
terror so some Of them.
Guthrie has several educational in
sttutions one Of which interested uE
tho outskirts Of the town 10 which The
pupils FROM the country are brought.
From six 10 eight hundred pupils are ac-
cofnmodiatcd and the corps os Instructors
ly Think how much better instruction
these pupils from the country districts
arc gftmg on account OF said consolidh-
tion. We shah learn after a while that
the older settled states DO not have a
monopoly of ne god things. Though all
Nehraaknns are Justly proud OF our rec-
ord for the smallest per cent of llitcracy
Of any state IN the Union there are few,
Il ans. concolidated schools within our
bordors yel Sslahoma has theni and
she's onls sixteen y mrs 0.di
Gufhrie has a beautiful Carnegie IT,
hlary She was fortunate Ia number
sne among her citixena a Mr.. Ramsey
a man Of some influence, who chancec
10 be born ia the same town as the Ereal
rhflont nthropief. Mr. Raldso< arele Nj
Carnegie and 10. the Gift for the library
and thousand dollars s1r books be.
usual
~ the hotels n Guthrie could not pos
eIhly accoumodate the large crowd q
neRfrnrcr people <aitercd there lh1
clilsens opened their homes ana enter