The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-09-03
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The Missouri Retail Merchants as
sociati0n, in session recently at Spring
field, Mo. voted to indorse any legis
lation at the next session Of the gem
eral assembly FOR reducing the high
cost Of living.
+ dn GTeal Britain watches with gold
or silver cases may not be transmit.
ted hy mail without registration, Up
h few weeks ago the same rule ap.
piled 10 all watches The rule now
has been amended SO that cheap wat
ches may be sent BY mail without be-
ing registered.
Municipal dance halls may be estab-
iished at Kansas City. Mo. The New
York ordinance, on which any plan
that may be undertaken in Kansas
City will be based. gives the mayor
power 10 license the DANCE nails, and
calls for the appointment OF com
mittee TO see that the regulations are
being observed
They take pains TO have "cOsm0poli
tan" Young men as attendants in the
hotels Of Switzerland. Tie young
men first have TO 90 abroad to learn
The languages and the hotel methods
OF other countries. They can thus
make you feel at home whatever lanc
you come from, and they do not have
10 be told whether IL Is tub ev
cry morning that YOU want or batl
on Saturday night
a Baptist clergyman at Syracuse
~ y, has plans for an apartman
house church. costing s2O0,O0O. Thu
first three floors are to be used fo
church purposes, and the other three
for apartments for Young men. Th'
clergyman who has conceived the ide;
OF this novel church is Rev. w. Nv
Dawley, and his congregation is salt
to be the largest Baptist congregation
in New York state outside OF New
York City.
4 Perhaps II Is not to be deplored
says the Congrcgationallst, that hous
es IN the United States are so large
lly built OF wood and less durable
than those In England. John Burn
the other day said that there are 800
900 empty houses in England ant
/ Wales because were built long az
that they have rot and canot be easil,
adapted to the modern convenience
which endow the community witt
strong men, enduring women am
healthy children
Tobacco Is government monopol.
IN France. Last month the price o
tobacco was advanced and there wa
i a striking decrease in the consuml
ton The receipts from sales OF tc
bacc0 during the month were $4,000
i less than in July. 1909 when the lowe
prices were In effect. Also, last mont
was the first OF new scale of large
prices in the postoflice department
/ Here there was a lowering of rate
and the receipts increased 100000.
Here's a new theory of the origi
of the word 'Yanke, writes til
Paris correspondent TO the Chicag
Daily News. 1T has percolated int
Paris, through the medium of vaEiou
newspapers. from an article recent
4 ly published in Holland by a Dutcl
+ professor According to this sayan
/ the word Yankee is much older tha
the war OF the secession or even o
the revolution. It goes back, says tn
professor as far as the Dutch occu
patton in the seventeenth century {
! the days when New York was know
tas New Amsterdam.
Now ii is argued that at the tim
of the Dutch-English wars conflict
broke out in America between tn
Dutch and the English colonists an
the former we're called by the latte
4 Yankees Ia word formed of two gin
zen names very common in Holland
Jan and KEGS, in the same way tina
the American now calls the Englisl
man John Bull, and that the Enc
lishman calls the American Br0the
Jonathan
1t Is also pointed ont that lar
and KEGS were theg iven names o
the two brothers De Witt, ilIustriou
statesmen. who, at that time. wer
conducting the government tof th'
Netherlands