The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-06

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nont citizens The gentleman who
rents the house is constantly receiv
ing something In barrels and has q
regular line of visitors who carry
suit cases. They enter with a iaunty
tread and depart with tagging foot
steps Since she has never called
upon him armed with q suit case
she can not swear what was i'm the
barrel and the travelling parapherna
/ liza. but If her olfactorv organs are
| TO be trusted. there fingers not the
| smallest doubt of what these con-
| tain. His line of callers are nOto-
riously OF a bbulous character and
! II is a blot TO our city that the com
mic sioners and sheriff have so al.
I lowed the whisky peddlers and boot
/ lcggors to override the town that
they can sandwich the Joints among
/ the homes of the best people in
| our city.
Another lady told Of a little red
store near her home which is a
regular circle for laundry wagons,
moving vans. delivery wagons. and
is visited frequently by a continuous
list ~ men who come out wiping
their mouths upon their haudker-
chiefs or sleeves. according to their
d, grees of fastidiousness.
Still another lady In another part
of town has neighbor a few doors
below who has been convicted Of
/ whisky selling once. appealed the
case. was convicted again and at
last released through the signatures
MnnVa
and Count Attorney Mathers. This
Reighbor is constantly receiving
trunks. but no visiting relatives ac-
company them. and 1t Is so extraor-
dinary for one to escape so lightly
that the suspicious of the ncighbor-
hood have been aroused. His line of
visitors were also rather suspicious
and of the variety who imbibe rath-
er freely so long as they can Sc
cure anything to imbibe.
Another lady told of whisky joint
and house of i'll repute in her neigh.
borhood which had been complained
of TO the policeman, but on inyesti.
cation IL was discovered that the
policeman in question was one of the
best customers.
These ladies are but few of
the ones who told what they knew
TO be true.
Those who have hidden behind
the excuse that they didn't know
affairs were so bad" will no longer
have this very flimsy excuse to
shield them.
Both women and mcn--and this is
no exaggeration tell you that
things have never been so bad.
viii the women sit still and
make no attempt to force their duty
upon the commissioners affirming
that II is mems work?
One commissioner in the presence
, of dozen or more ladies made the
rather ill-advised confession that an
, other commissioner had his hands
tied
, With the exception of one, they
all seem to have had their hands
, tied. and the sentiment of the la
, dies at this meeting was that they
, must get to work and do something
, at once or they would join theil
t voices to the clamor for recall
rather than allow another eleven
months for vice and wickedness t.
{ grow under their tutelage. With this
4 idea in view they called on Commits
I sioner owen, police and fire com
. missioner. TEsy were received very
pleasantly. and promised his help
4 He said iii he could get hold o
. some proof" but he didn't finist
!. for the proof kept coming in unit
!. he was rather over%tocked. Name
|. were called. addresses given. anC
q now II is 'up to" the commissions
!. to show whether he meant what NJ
n said or whether. like Kipling. "h'
was just having his fun with tn
d ladies'" The stage has been reached
+. when promises don't amount to tn
@ proverbial hill of beans"
y Commissioner Owens was urge
To use his influence in securing
q salary for the police matron Tn
T. matron worked one month and di
great deal of good. She also toll
n the police of a vast amount of ovi
that might have escaped their eye.
n. She visited the house of ill-fam
), across the track and forced on
II girl under sixteen to leave.
The women who run these dive
IL over there complain that the up-tow
n districts have been so invaded
ss women of this class that their re'
9. enue has greatly decreased-an NJ
H. just arrangement. they say. sine
:. they pay stipulated sum to the cit
each month. and the others do no
The office of police matron is on
of the most important in the who
city and why ii should have bee
abolished the ladies wish explaine
Mrs Kendall made most efficiel
and strenuous officer and was 9
conscientious in her duties as,
seems. the commissioners and she
in have been lax in theirs. in r
gard To whisky selling and lice
tiousness.
An organization was perfected
this meeting which is edlled II
Woman's Home Protective Associ
tion.
Officers were elected as follow
President--Mrs. j. 4. Madden.