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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-11-17

Guthrie Lodge No. 2, X. OF p. Meets
every Friday night in Masonic hall, ~
East oklahoma avenl q.
G. 70 DUNNICA, G. c.
L. s. PAGE. X OF r. & s.
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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-11-17

Oklahoma Encampment No. }, J. .. Q.
+. Meets every wednesday, night Al
1880 O'Clock, at Odd Fellows han.
r a. MEynrrE. c. p.
p k. ABBOTT. Scribe.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-11-17

Guthrie Chapter ", No. 8, r. A. NJ,
Meets the first and third Friday nights IN
eact month at A, r. q A. NJ. han. Visit
ing companions always welcome.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-11-17

Guthrie Lodge No J. A o. ~ W.
Meets every Thursday nlghi In the new
Masonic hail. on East Oklahoma. Visit
ms brothers welcome
+. IT. RUrHvAN, NJ. w.
W. J. LEATHERAiAN. Recorder.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-11-17

Guthrie commandary Knights Temp
lar Meets second and fourth Monday
nights in each month az their asylum in
A. r. 8 A. NJ hall. Visiting Sir knights
always welcome
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-11-17

Hartranfi Post No. 8. c. A. r.. Meets
on FIRST and third Friday In each month
at 1880 ,. M. IN odd Fellows hall
;. a. TAFT Pos Com.
NJ. L. MOCK. Auiutant
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-11-17

Guthrie Lodge No. as B. p. ..
Meets the second and fourth Tuesdag
nlSl.A Of each month In Eg ham
H. W. PENTECd ST. r =
J. FOUCARr. Secretary.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-11-17

woodmen OF the World. Guthrie Camp
No. g. Meets every Tuesday AT 7.so 10.
M. IN the woodmen hall over Spencer
hardware store. Visiting Woodmen
welcome.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-11-17

l. o. r.. NJ Meets every Tuesday night
In X. OF r. ham Visiting chiefs always
welcome.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-11-17

Co a. First Rcgt Okla. ~ o. Meev-
every Wednesday night at 7.sc in Arm
nry hall, 100 West Harrison ave
@. q. DUNNICA. Captain
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r. A. A. Guthrie Council No. "a.
Fraternai Ala association. Meets evcrr
"wednesday night IN odd Fellows has
corner Houison and Broad. viBiiN .
momhers sdways welcome.
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Guthrie Commandery No. Kniehtn'
yemplar Meets every Wednesday eycu-
Ink at 7.3o at their Asylum Ia The Ma
sonic Temple. Visiting Sir Knights al
ways welcome.
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FRANK ,. sARnER. sachem.
II. c. BARNEY. Chiew Of Records
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Some Of Facts m orms
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T. =. HILLINUS Noble Grand.
H. y. srROUGH, Secretary.
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Guthrie Lodge No. 3. I. o. o. r., meets
every Monday nieht at 7s0 clock at
odd Fellows hail. corner Harrison and
Broad.
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Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-24

chops an cream, stead o. condensed
milk for the coffee. Then for lunch we
had lobster said an cold tongue, an
charlotte ruche, an as for dinner!-I
had to go out in the pantry an let my
belt out envy night.
Dunno wear on earth the dude put it
all, as he wasn't bigger'n II spider any
wears, an looked as if he'd never had
a square meal in his life. But he didn't
balk at nothin' an packed it all away
somehow. There was soup an fish
envy night, an big hunk o. meat that
ma spoke of as Joint" or "roast" an
choking Wensdy an turkey Sundy
Then Liz she brought down some of the
silver pin trays offern her bureau that
she'd won at euchre parties an filled
EN- up with salted ammons am olives
an she an ma acted like we had 'em
envy night, though the first time they
was on the table didn't kno what they
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-24

talSin' it altogether. You see, we had
much better things to eat than we have
other times an used our bes china for
breakfast. Ma said before he came:
We'll have to put our bes' foot fore
mos if anYthing's to be done with
him." an our best foot seemed to mean
our bes' plates an bes' grub. That
wasn't so bad, for L came in for the
grub, too.
Ma said it would never do to have
different kind of food on the table for
me, as that might give it away that we
wasn't accustomed to it, so mebbe I
didn't eat vile he was here! You bet l
did, cause l knew I'd go back to drum
sticks soon as ever he left, an I have,
all right. Wen ma said with her COM
p'ny voice: Robert, what part of the
CHECKING can l offer yOu?' l spoke up
bold, KNOWN it was my only chance,
an said: Breast, ma-am" an pre-
tended not to see the look she Civ me
cause L didn't say drumstick. But, say,
struck on drumsticks. I bin gettin'
EN- ever since / was a kid, an
thought if | could use that dude to get
some of the breast it was the time for
me to do it.
The way they fed the dude was great!
Hot cakes for breakfas', with all the
maple syrup you could eat, an lamb
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-24

the supposition being that he exclaimed
L Slip In a window of the chapel
at Lullingstone, Kent, the seat of Sir
J.. I'll. Dyke, Bart, may he seen the
armorial bearings of Sir John Peche
which consists of two peach trees bear
ing fruit. Upon each peach is imprint
ed an old English e, the whole being
surrounded by a wreath.
According to some authorities the
"lys" In the royal arms of France are
play on the name of Louis, anciently
spelt Logs. The arms of Spain exhibit.
quarterly, a castle and a lion Il pal
pable pun upon the united provinces
of CASTLE and Leon. Birds and ami
mails figure In numerous coats-of-arms
where the name of the bearer can be so
indicated, and make an interesting
study. The house of Pelham, for ex-
ample, displays three pelicans upon it's
ccats-of-arms, and their crest is
peacock. The Bacon family escutcheon
depicted boar, and the Lambs, three
lambs. Perhaps one of the best of the
hundreds In this category is that of the
Wylies which bears fox. meaning
willy. Count Floric of Spain has a sun
flower upon his shield, and Delsie of
Scotland, daisies. The coat-of-arms of
Miles Standish of New York is purely
play upon the name and consists OF
three standing dishes. The crest is an
owl with a rat in it's talons. William
Etner Wheelock, of Morristown, New
Jersey, displays on his shield three
Catherine wheels. The Carter family,
of Philadelphia, give another example
of the simpler heraldiy in three cart
wheels.
Taste for heraldic lore is beyond
question growing in this country Even
railroads, as well as hotels, have their
symbolic devices. If great deal of
taking" is being done, that is moth
ing new under the sun. A woman died
in England not long ago who had de-
voted a whole lifetime to unmasking
false claims in heraldry. Her investi-
cations proved that intruders and
forgers We're far more common in the
Middle Ages than they have ever been
i'm modern times, and that in almost
countless cases. Their pretensions fin
ally were accepted.
There are British mobiles today who
are descended from rich burghers of
the 18th, 18th and 14th centuries who
bought their armorial trappings as un-
blushingly as the American new-rich
buys his. 1t was TO dispute the claims
OF pretenders that the Heralds col
lege-which still eXists-was started
in 1883 by King Richard III Most of
the mischief had already been done
and a fruitful field of controversy lay
open to the authorities of the college
"a field which has been cultivated
with great assiduity for more than
four centuries.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-24

was, an weather they was to be 'et or
given away as prizes. / watched what
the dude did an wen / see him takin'
'em up between two of his fingers like
they was dirty or somethin an begin
catin' 'em | leaned over an helped my
self an ma an Liz didn't dare say a
word, though l saw 'em lookin dag
gers at me, an they tole me afterwards
that those that wasn't used could go OH
again.
Ever have anybody at the table you
was tryin' to catch? It's bully, all
right for the kids. It's the on'y time
they ever gets enough to eat. l owe
that dude somethin' even if | did have
to say Elizabeth an trousers.
Nome; ma said it wasn't swell to
have dinner in the middle of the day,
so we had it at 7 o'clock at night. In
the middle of the day it was lunch
ma made me call it luncheon; 1 s'pose
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-24
6eo=St d.S1oa-

They fixed her up in the black dress
gowned, they called tina had Wen
she was in mornin. with wife cuffs an
one o. my rundown collars. But J.
wisht you coulder seen Delia's face!
If you ever saw a foolish face comm
out o. finery 1t was Delia's, an she
didn't know what to do with her hams
neither. Her apern was all er time
comm united, an her cap was forever
crooked. Then onct, Wen she went
into the kitchen to wash the plates for
the second course, she forgot an came
back with her kitchen apern on over
the other an ma almost fell in a
faint.
1 heard her tellin' the dude in a low
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-24
IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF. YORE

greeting by a bottle of extra dry
Mumm and platter of cracked ice. And
then one wandered forth into the Or
ange groves and amongst the fig trees
and heard the mocking birds and lin
nets caroling in their full-throated
gladness, almost believed ones self
in Paradise
What pity that such Elysians do
not last forever! Col. Kewen was COM
PEELED to mortgage his splendid home
to Capt. Hollenbeck, the builder of the
Hollenbeck hotel, for $2S,000. 1t passed
afterward into the hands of a Mr.. May
berry and / believe is now the prop
erty of Henry e. Huntington. In all its
changes 1t has been richly freighted
with local memories.
The Stoneman place, Los Robles. i'm
mediately adjoined Ell Molino to the
north. / noticed, by the way, that a
portion of this ranch sold the other day
for $300000 1t was purchased origin =
ally by Stoneman for a mere bagatelle
in 1871. This distinguished Federal
general was stationed here before the
war and returned shortly after its con-
clusion.
In Stoneman's Time
In the old days, long before the
Gringos had made much impression on
Southern California, Stoneman was
stationed here and w 6 hail fellow
well met with Gen. Winfield Scott Han
cock, Gen. Bankhead Magruder, then
young officers in the United States
army; DR.. John S. Griffin and other
we'll known early Angelenos. Stone
man never seemed to get ahead in his
financial affairs, though for while his
political prospects were quite bright.
Elected railway commissioner, he
Il he loIa .Nr;n
pedient of getting up and moving to
reduce the railroad rates. This ingeni-
Gus plan at length resulted in his
nomination for governor by the Demo-
Gratis and his election by the biggest
majority ever given to a man who ran
for that Office in California.
This fact resulted from the circun-
stance that his nomination was really
engineered by the railway people. AS
he failed to make good on his railway
pledges, when his term of office came
to close there was not man in the
state who desired to see him reelected
and he disappeared from California
politics as quickly as he had entered
them 1t was peculiar circumstance
in Gen. Stoneman's career that he was
a failure in everything he undertook.
AS a cavalry leader he was compelled
pointed governor of Virginia in re-
construction times by President john
son he enacted the same role. AS gov
ernor of California the windup of his
career was preposterous and has been
reckoned as about the deadest failure
in the gubernatorial annals of the
state. The Stonemans were not known
as contributing much to the gayety or
hospitality of the Ridge" The noble
oaks from which the ranch took it's
name, and u luxuriant and lovely rose
bush which clambered quite to the top
of one of the tallest of en- made the
place favorite resort of visitors.
Old Don 6enito Wilson
Old Don Benito Wilson was a nota-
BILE figure on the ridge" OF him and
his gracious hospitality l have given
a sketch In a recent issue Of The Her.
aid But not so as TO his son-in-law
J. de Barth Shorb, whose handsome
mansion occupied noble crest Of that
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-24

that's swell too-an' we didn't have
the bell rung any time Della came to
the door an said, Dinner are served,
ma am" an say. you oughter seen
her! Ma an Liz fixed her UP with a
cap, the foolishest little scrap of a
thing you ever saw, with black bow
offern mas bonnet pinned to it, an a
apern that went over her shoulders
like overalls, all trimmed around with
fancy business. Ma bought two the
day before the dude came an handed
'em to Della tellin' her she mus be
sure to keep 'em done up proper. as
Miss Elizabeth's young man was
comm an was accustomed to evvy-
thing swell at his home in BROOKLYN.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-24

voice later on that she'd have to dis
charge that mlsrubble maid, she was
4 so ignorant, an she was sure she had
Il lived with common people, an all the
time / knew she'd be on her knees
beggin' Della to stay--had I oughter
say stop? You see, we was out o.
1 girls all las summer an ma N Liz
had to do evvything themselves
yesm the night the sociable met here
| they wasn't the sign of a girl in the
! kitchen an ma an Liz sent some of
the dishes twict over to save washin'
That one you had had Already bin in
to minister's wife an some one else.
Mother thing Ma was most particular
about wen the dude was here was to
call Della the maid stead o. the girl or
the help That's swell too, did you
know it? Well, it is-Delia didn't like
it a-tall as she said she were mar
ried woman with two children But
| Ma said twas all right, that they was
married maids as well as any others.
| oh, yesm, plenty o. 'musement. Ma
had the pianer tooned before he came
an Liz played an sang every night.
| ] amt so sure of LIS singin'. Sounds
to me pretty much like our ole swing
! squeakin' in the win, but Ma says /
aint a judge O. music, an p'raps amt.
| Anyways, l saw the dude lookin' on IS
if he had pain once or twice and wear
| Ma thought it were the rich food. had
my own ideas bout the singin'. Don't
see wy girls want to sing anyhow
They look awful funny with their
mouths hangin open an sayn' words
they'd never use in reel life. The night
fore he left Liz sang How can l
leave thee?" an it was about the limit
She said to Ma, "If that don't fetch
him nothin' will"
Did it? Well, you see, Liz said she'd
ruther die than tell you about it, so
thought I'd save her the trouble O.
dyin'. No. ma'am. they didn't catch
that dude, leastways they haven't yet
Ma thinks it was because the meals
wasn't swell enuff, but Liz feels sure
it was because I slipped up on Mania
once or twice an didn't get outer the
room quick enuff wen he was just 60
in to propose. But. honest, | never
heard him even tryin' to propose or
woulder vamoosed quick enuff betcher
life. They can have their own ideas,
but I think it was LIS singin' what
queered it.
Well, anyway, 1 amt sorry he's gone.
We had a picnic for week an we
wont have such feed again unless they
brings in another dude, but l can call
'em pants again, an oh, here comes
Ma an Liz; they'll be awful glad to
see you an to think L saved 'em the
trouble of givin' you the news
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-24

house with torches and lamps. AS we
approached the house we realized that
we had to cross Il wide and deep ditch,
across which We're laid a couple of
swaying planks. AS my friend was
a sturdy Englishman, weighing two
hundred and twenty-five pounds at
least, / concluded that L were wise to
essay the crossing first, and my fat
friend was probably not averse to
watching the result of the experiment
l made safe though hazardous deliv-
cry and was shaking hands with the
Kewen family when, mother of Moses!
what a splash! The great advocate
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-24

was in the ditch, from which he was
dragged with infinite difficulty by the
servitors of the household, assisted by
the doughty Col. Kewen himself.
But what mattered such a misad-
venture when the noble hospitality of
that southern household was to follow?
Mrs. Kewen had for years the reputa-
tion of being the best housekeeper in
Southern California. Her formal func-
tions were things to linger long in the
memory of the epicure. But she could
never be taken off her guard. Let her
guests come when they would, the
barnyard would be instantly in requi-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-24

sition and feast fit for Lucullus
was awaiting the hastily renovated
toilet of my friend of the submerged
board bridge.
Not w. C. T. v. Affairs
In those days in Southern California
entertainments were not arranged
like those now planned by the Wom-
ans Christian Temperance union,
and we feasted high and long-long
enough to allow leighton to forget all
about his drenching. We were awak-
ened in the morning by the chivalrous
colonel, who reinforced his CHEEKY
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-24

IOroeu MN opportunity of coming
out west where he made a fortune,
married, and paid thousands of dollars
to get into Society"
From an advertising pamphlet sent
him by professor in heraldic research,
he got an idea that his family pos
SeSSed a crest and a coat-of-arms, and
for $4,000 was happily enlightened.
According to the professor the ances-
tors coat-of-armS bore "an azure gull,
displayed argent and three sea waves,
or, with bar dexter" The crest was
sea gull, holding "a fish in its talons.
All this was like Chinese to the pur-
chaser until the professor explained the
origin by a pretty story of the days
when hawking was the sport of kings
and the nobility. An ancestor, he
said. was the kings hawker, and saved
the life of Her Majesty's favorite hawk,
which was in a desperate struggle with
n gull, by cleverly piercing the gull
with an arrow without injuring the
hawk. He further flattered his client
by referring him to the poem, of THE
Ancient Mariner" and limiting that
there was some evidence to show that
it was one of his ancestors who "shot
the bird" for revenge upon pirate
crew which had captured him while
in the execution of his duty to his
king against their nefarious trade.
The professors victim believed this
story implicitly, and died happy in his
belief.
Many Such
Scores of such instances have been
recorded. many of them even more
glaringly ridiculous. There is one
feature of heraldry, ancient and mod
ern, which has bearing, not always
noticed, on present-day tendencies.
The fact that so many genuine armo-
rial bearings are represented by puns
or by playing upon the family name in
design, renders the business of FAX
ing" in heraldry very easy, and lends
to it plauslbility which often hood
Winks even the not oVer-credulous.
Many of the best families of today
those of whose right to armorial bear
ings there can be no question-haVe
eliminated, for the sake of simplicity,
the complicated part of their coats-of-
arms. This leaves many Of the coats
of-arms of our twentieth-century gem
try as mere examples of the old custom
of depicting in design puns upon their
names or their ancestors callings at the
period when the right to bear arms
was granted
The Pun
And fearful puns, for the most part,
they are The Abbot of Ramsey s
arms, for instance, bear a simple de-
sign of a ram i'm the sea. Islip, Abbot
of Westminster, has upon his shield
the picture of n man falling from a tree
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-24
TRADING IN ANCESTORS IS POPULAR

Yes" said a new-made millionaire
who has sense of humor, II find on
figuring it up that L have paid for es-
tablishing my pedigree about $500 a
head; and some of the old chaps we
unearthed weren't much to brag about,
either.
The 'searchers' on the other side
charged me five pounds every time
they consulted parish register and
good many consultations were found
10 be necessary.
/ paid some pretty stiff bills, [ can
tell you; but, of course, it's a pleasure
now to know who L really am, and
my Wlte enjoys the use of my new
coat-of-arms."
Perhaps nowhere in the world-not
even in Philadelphia--is the heraldry
hunt keener than in New York city.
An authority said not long ago that
there are only 40 or so American fam
lies that are in any way entitled to
the insignia of nobility, but you cam
not get the average American who has
made money to believe that. He is
sure that among his ancestors he shall
find somewhere coronets and Norman
blood. and when he hires genealogist
to study his lineage, woe be to the
searcher If he does not discover at
least a baronet or two.
The story Is told of a wealthy manu-
facturer of that city who went to an
honest and very thorough genealogist
in London and asked him to dig out
some distinguished ancestors. The
searcher tried to do so, but failed in
every particular. The American sim
ply didn't have any noble blood. He
couldn't help it, of course; he was
born that way
But he showed his native ignobility
by refusing to pay the Investigators
blll and by going to another man who,
in some mysterious way, discovered a
connection with one of the most hon
ored families in England. The manu-
facturer now sports one of the finest
carriages in New York with n coat
ot-arms in red and yellow,
A Fishers Panel
Another good example Is that of a
man whose forebears as far back as his
great -great-grandfather could remem-
Der his grandfather's stories had been
poor iisherfolk ON the coast of Devon
shire in England. one descendant of
the race of fishers came to this coun-
try with his parents lifty-three years
ago. His father died when he was six
years old leaving him and his mother
in poverty. His mother died few
years later, and the young man had
TO get along as best he could. He
picked up precarious livelihood I'm the
cutters of Chicago until chance ar