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ages IN transit, things would he
enacted that were Poe 10 come
back from the spirit world he
would see food for poem that
would put the Raven" forever
on the shelf. There is "A strange
ness about how things will act
on this particular night. How
out houses will turn over. farm
implements and old wagons in
front of blacksmith shop wait
ing for repair will get move on
themselves, gates jump off their
hinges summer chairs climb tele-
phone poles, family ponies. cats
and dogs, EXCEPT bull dogs.
change their CT ,r and how an
old wheat drill that only "A pair
of the best farm horses could in
duce to move would be seen
roaming around on Main street.
and seated on the seat box a
number of spookies singing I'VE
wont go home till morning"
But such is HolIowe'en and such
it has been to our dear Gthers
and mothers and if an old wagon
should get so gay as to jump on
top of a house, it is nothing
more than used to happen in the
days of the long ago.
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Mrs. j. G.. Thurman of near
Fredonia who was removed to
Walkers Sanitarium at Evans
vile last week, at which place
she underwent a very difficult
operation in which one third of
her stomach was removed, is re-
ported improving rapidly. This
information comes from DR..
Walker to DR.. I. Atchison
Frazer of this city.
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While Sunday night was hal
lowe'en on account of the Holy
day and the church going habit
Of our citizens. the spooks pat
off their roaming until Monday
night. Even TO those who had
been sufficiently burdened with
the tolls Of the day to feel to
want to go to their rest early,
could see in the very air and
from the moaning Of the wind,
that COLLINS fair as well as de-
mons damned, would in all
probability leave their several
footprints in the many streets
and the magic wand would be
welded in front of many homes
before they melted away in the
smoke and vapor at the APP
proach of the hour when the
great spook called them to their
rest. And they were not wrong,
for early as eight-thirty, Mar
shall Canaan as well as many
others could see spirits fitting
from place to place and that
from the sounds emenating
from Foh's novelty store, THE
Mine" and the shapes and Wis
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The Kentucky Cumberland
Presbyterian Synod met here
last week from which our town
has received benefits in more
ways than one In the coming
together of so large body Of
consecrated men and women,
ministers and laymen, from all
parts of the state there are
many lessons to be learned and
one can have a better idea of
what the religious world for
Christs sake is doing and bear
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ing witness to their work, but
fits us the better for living the
remainder of our lives. Every
town should be proud to invite
the converting of all such relig
ious bodies and the best well
come you can give them is but
small pay for the good you get
out of it and the reward it
brings in after years.
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Bro. Miller reminded his flock
that he thought a donation in
order for missions and in but a
few minutes S155. % was raised,
and this was after this same
congregation had recently raised
more than $4,000 for the same
purpose.
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y Notwithstanding the order to
keep children at home and the
small attendance at Sunday
school, the collection at the M. E.
Sunday school with but 70 pres
en-. was above $500 and at the
y p.ijt church with so much to
flank God for at home, good
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One Dollar the Year in Advance.
Card From Hon. Jno. W. Blue

To the voters Of Crittenden
county:
Il am a candidate for the Of
flee of county Judge, subject to
your approval and shall great
ly appreciate your support If
you deem me worthy. On &C
count of the limited time before
the election | will not have an
opportunity of seeing you all
and take this method of an
nouncirg my candidacy.
!. w. BLUE.
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LOST

Somewhere between Marion
ana Repton one snacth block
Oct H. 1910. Finder please re-
turn to Marion Milling Co.. and
be rewarded.
SILAS GUESS
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failed to heed it. it is natural to
believe the dread diptheria
might have entered several
homes with fatal results.
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FOR RENT

a cottage on main street. lust
North Of Dupuy residence.
NELLIE WALKER
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Go to DR.. Crawford, the Den
list in Marion Bank building.
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Dbe Crittenbtn aetore. prsa
N. E. GAINES Editor and Publisher.

Entered as second-clsss matter February 9th
OF at the postodice at Marion. Kentucky under
ne Act Of Congress Of March ;, 1870
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vacation on the coast of North Carolina, they began
practising with gliding machine. and by the summer
of 1893 had added sixteen horsepower gasoene motor
to their glider In December of that year they made
four successful flights the longest eight hundred and
fifty feet in ftynine seconds against twenty mile
wind The next summer they solved the problem of
lateral stability and succeeded in making a complete
circle the air In October 1905, they made circular
fight of twentyfour miles in thrtyeight minutes
a field near Dayton They the first to solve
cessfuly the problem of flight and achieve the conquest
of the air.
In December, 1907, the signal office of the War De-
partment issued advertisements for aeroplane for
military purposes. The requirements in brief that
the machine could be quickly and easily assembled and
taken apart for transportation in army wagons. 1t
should be capable of being assembled and put oper
atng condition in about hour should be designed to
carry persons having combined weight of three
hundred and fifty pounds speed of forty miles an hour
in still air, and carry sufficient fuel for flight of
hundred and twenty-five miles. AS result of this adj
vertisement Wright brothers offered machine, and in
September 1908, during the preliminary trials at Fort
Myer, Orvie Wright made record fight of one hour
fifteen minutes and twenty seconds before alghting
On September II broken propeller caused the machine
fall killing Lieutenant Sefrdge and badly injuring
Orville Wright. The experiments were postponed until
the following summer, when, in July the Wright ma
chine fulfilled the requirements of the test and
ceped. This machine has been used for instruction
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purposes for the officers and of the signal corps;
but owing to the failure of Congress to provide funds,
practically progress has been made in this most i'm
portant adjunct to the art of war
1t is hoped that Congress will the necessity of pro-
vding in the immediate future sufficient money to
tabish training school of military avators and of pro-
vding both machines and operators This establish
should be located somewhere in the West where
conditions of both terrene and atmosphere suitable
and at the time remote enough to make diff
cult for the crowds of curious people who frequently
endanger only their own lives but those of the ava
through their curiosity and at the time far
enough away to preserve such secrecy military
sity ofttmes imposes An ideal place for this purpose
could be found the Lano Estacado in Western Texas.
The first official record for mile fight in this country
made by Glen H. Curtiss in the June Bug in July.
1908, when he won The Scientific American trophy.
In France aeroplaning had been taken up with
thusiasn and great progress made. While no flight be-
fore the beginning of 1908 exceeded eight hundred and
fortytwo yards Farnam before the close of the year
covered twenty-five and half miles at Chalons and
Wilbur Wright December l8 at LIE Mans remained in
the air for hour fftyfour minutes and twenty-five
seconds covering distance of sXtyone miles, worlds
record which he held for sometime.
Beginning of New Era
THE year 1909 will go down to posterity the
beginning of in the art of aviation. The
records made show advance in lengths of
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fight heights and eats of daring In this country Curtss
flew for sixtyseven and half minutes July, and at
the official trials at Fort Myer Orvile Wright remained
in the air for hour and twenty minutes, covering
fifty miles with passenger. Curtiss the Bennett
speed contest Rheims, bringing the this year
to this country Blerot made his historic Channel
flight July %, making distance of trty-one miles
in thrty-seven minutes. Farnham made duration
flight of four hours seventeen minutes and thrty-v
seconds. covering hundred and thirty-seven miles
Orvle Wright Latham and Paulhan reached attitudes
exceeding fifteen hundred feet.
The events of this year fresh in the memory
that almost needless to recall the feats
of Paulhan from London to Manchester Curtiss from
Albany to New York, Hamilton from Governors Island
to Philadelphia, Rolls crossing and recrossng the
English Channel without aighting. During recent
aviation meets the mile point in altitude has been passed
by the skilful and daring Brookns.
The achievement of these wonderful feats has been
due not much to improvements in the design and
driving mechanism of aeroplanes to the increased
skill and confidence of aviators. While there in
herent limitations to the aeropane the future will prob
ably increase in the weight of the machine, in
creased driving power, with consequent increase in
speed, duplicate motors, gyroscopic control
other of automatically preserving lateral stabil
y, and vertically lifting propeers which will enable
the aeropane to rise directly into the air and when in
the air permit the speed to be reduced that trust
Continued page II
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By Charles G. D. Roberts
Drawings by Charles Livingston Bull

A THOUGH in the open clearings it full
n noon-the of early September, hot and
blue and godenhere in the lofty ases of the forest
it all cool twilight Such light glimmered down
through the thickeaved treetops OF mellow,
shadowy brown and translucent green, changing from
the the other mysteriousy the eye shifted
its backgrounds One tall trunk long ago shattered and
broken off just below the by stroke of lightning,
stood pointing bleaky toward round opening in the
leafy roof, reaching upward thin foaged half dead,
gnared, and twisted arm.
In the outer shell and coarse strong bark Of the
stricken tree life fingered tenacousy but its heart
fallen to decay. Near the base of the round hole
gave entrance through the shell of live wood to cham
Der in the hollow heart The chamber had yet another
entrance beneath knot higher up the opposite side
of the trunk. Through these two holes filtered dim,
warm light. just strong enough to show huddle of
small ruddy brown furry shapes sleeping snugly at the
bottom of the chamber.
The forest still and soundless dream, under
the spell of the monday heat But presently the silence
was broken by the approach of heavy footsteps,
cracking they crunched the dry twigs muf1ed
and dull they sank into beds of deep moss. They
plainly human footsteps; for other creature but
would crudely and heedlessly through the
forest quiet Everyone of the wild kindred, from bear
down woodmouse would move with furtive warness,
desiring always without being seen either intent
upon some hunting, socitous avoid hunter.
Down shadowy corridor of soaring trunks came into
view two figures, tall heavy shouldered lumberman
carrying and slim boy with light rifle in his
hand 1t the umberrnan booted and long stridng,
who made all the noise The boy in moccasns stepped
lightly Indian his eager blue eyes searching every
step surprise secret of the urtive wood folk
NEAR the foot of the blasted tree he stopped looking
~ up. Il wonder what lives in that hole up there.
Jabe?" he said
The lumberman peere1 upward critically "Jiminy!
Eff that amt likely lookin squirt tree! he answered.
Squirrel tree" echoed the boy las if every tree
wasn't squirrel tree, wherever there's squirrel
roundi"
"Ay but there's squirt Is an squirls You'll Sec,
orted the woodsman, and, swinging his he brought
the back of it down the trunk in three four sound
ing strokes
Sraghtway dark little shape appearing in the hole
beneath the branch, launched itself into the air. 1t
looked like leap of desperation there tree
within reach of any ordinary quadrupeds leap Yet the
daring little shape plainly that of quadruped, not
of bird. 1t followed instantly in lightning
cession, by six seven Others equally daring and all
went sailing away different directions, across the mys-
teriously Swallowed air. They sailed on long downward
SAINTS with legs spread wide apart and connected
each side by furry membrane that they looked like
kind of grotesque oblong, toy umbrellas broken
loose in breeze The boy stared after them with
exclamation of wonder and delight trying to keep
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them all once; but in a moment they had
disappeared, gaining the shelter of other trees and
eifaClng themselves from view if by enchantment.
All but one! AS the flying squirrels aeropaning
from their rudey assaulted CITADEL the wOOdSman had
dropped his snatched up bit of stick about foot
long and hurled it after OF the gliding figures The
woodsman is unerring shot with the hurled Az the
pike pole the billet of wood but up there in the
decefu transparency of shadow and gmmer the little
aeronaut was sailing with elusive speed The whirling
missile almost missed its mark. 1t just caught the out
spread furry tall which serving rldder and bal
to that adventurous fight The tail tough and
flexible, gave way and took injury. But the tiny
aerOplanSt his balance rdely DESTROYED, plunged head
long to the ground.
"Oh-h-h!" exclaimed the boy with long drawn COM
miseraon. But his curiosity strong for his pity
he raced forward with the woodsman to capture and
examine their prize.
There was no prize to be found. Both had seen the
flyer cometo earth Both had Marked with expert eyes,
the point of his fall but there nothing be
but softly disappearing dent in the cushion of
moss.
well I'll be ggered!" said the woodsman, lingering
his stubbed chin and scrtnizng the treetrnks
with narrowed eyes.
Serves right" said the boy. I'm glad he got
away l thought you'd killed him, Jabe"
Reckon / just blowed him over, responded the
woodsnan. But, we know where they hang out,
We kin ketch alive in cage trap, if we want to git
to know somethin of his an customs en- what?
When we've killed of these wild critters after ALL to
my mind he amt nterestin' than ladys fur
boa"
A the two man creatures disappeared down the
fsing vstas of the forest the soft dark of the
fvlng squirrel disproportonately large and prominent
with vagueness of depth which made them all
pupil stared after them mildly from the refuge of high
crotched branch. Unhurt, even unbewidered by his
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him again. A member of little known branch of
the flying squirrel family the flying squirrel of Eastern
Canada he nearly foot in length, some two
inches longer than the flying squirrel, from
whom he differed also very sharply in color his retiring
brown and gray being in marked contrast to the buff
and drab and pure white of his lesser but famous
cousin Buff and white would have been conspicuous
livery in the brown Canadian forests that his
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-13

4 business that would offer her tai
ents broader scope and those
| people down there are eagerly wish
ing for her success in her chosen
field. She is not disappointment
to her friends
\ story is told OF her which H.
! lustrates her method of dealing and
how some people attempt to make
against her merely because she is
a woman. \ wealthy lady residing
in the town of Gainesville gave
$4,000 into her hands to invest for
her The investment was made. In
due time the croaller approached
the Gainesville woman and told her
the Oklahoma City investment was
not worth the money. The Texas
woman became frightened and wrot e
Miss Johnson of the matter Miss
Johnson Immediately wrote the Tex
as woman Offering her 5000 for her
bargain and 1t was accepted. In just
three weeks to day Miss Johnson
sent newspaper clippings to the
Texas investor showing her the
property had been sold at a clean
profit OF one thousand dollars. Miss
Johnson has built up n remarkably
good business, she is using the pa
pers OF the state for the purpose
of giving publicity TO ner bargains
and she says real estate is more re-
munerative and more pleasant than
school teaching.
Any person who desires to have
anyone look after investments in Ok.
lahoma City certainly could not do
better than to have Miss johnson
do that work. She is always wide
awake to every opportunity. she
never forgets the little customer
for the big one, all are treated alike
and her knowledge of real estate
values is being sought by all care
full people who so to Oklahoma City
to invest their money.
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LEFT SCHOOLROOM
FOR REAL ESTATE

There are just as many avenues
open in the world OF business as
there are to men and no matter
what trades or professions the wom-
en- have turned their attention to
they have made a success. The bus
mess woman is more attentive to
business Than a business man. She
is uniformly more successful
These truths are no where bet
ter eXempifled than in the case
of Miss Jess johnson of Oklahoma
City. who left the school room
where she taught for years and
entered the real estate business.
She was success as a teacher
The board, the pupils and the par
ents OF her school children regretted
to see her leave the town of Min
eral Wells for a larger city and for
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more rural telephones and better
roads. The farmers are coming, thou
sands Of dollars are being spent on
the country roads, some rural teIe-
phone lines have been built and 9th
ers are in prospect. As soon as the
population meets the demand Of the
law, rural free delivery of the mails
will be inaugurated.
There should be one thousand new
farmers in Carter county this year,
there should be one thousand new
farms cleared and put into state
Of cultivation. Abundant profits await
the man with the AK and with the
plow.
The conditions are here that will
result in the doubling of the value Of
the soil, the man who buys now saves
half the price of his farm.
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Notice Of Sale.
In the District Court of Carter County
State OF Oklahoma.
II is 25-1S.

In the District Court of Carter County,
State OF Oklahoma.
Ardmore National Bank, plaintiff, VS.
Mary II. Written and Thomas G.. Whit.
ten, defendants.
Notice is hereby given that by vir-
tue OF an order of sale issued out OF
the district court Of Carter county,
state Of Oklahoma, in the above styled
cause, directing me to levy upon and
sell lots One, two, three. four and five
in block thirty-seven, according 10 the
official plat of the City OF Ardmore,
Carter county, Oklahoma, to satisfy
said execution or order OF sale which
said execution or order OF sale was
duly levied upon lots one. two, three,
four and five in block thirty-seven in
the City Of Ardmore, Carter county,
oklahoma, owned by the defendants
herein.
Now, therefore, by virtue OF the
power vested In me as sheriff OF Car
ter county, Oklahoma, and by reason
of the levy of said execution. or order
of sale, notice is hereby given that /
will, as the Sheriff of Carter county,
Oklahoma, on the 31st day OF October,
1910, between the hours of . o'clock
and ( o'clock y. M, at the court house
door in Ardmore, Carter county, Okla
homa. expose TO sale, for cash in hand
to the highest and best bidder. the
following described real estate:
Lots one, Two, Three, Four and
Five in Block Thlrty-Seven in the City
OF Ardmore. Carter County, Oklahoma.
Said real estate has heretofore been
duly appraised by thre. disinterested
free holders of Carter county, Okla.
Given under my hand. this the 3Oth
day of September 1910.
]. II. AKERS,
Sheriff Carter County, Okla
2-9-l6-2S-30.
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Virginia Bivens, Alice Margaret Brown
of Shawnee, Ca herine Lytle of Sapul
pa.
At the request of the convention,
Miss Alice Margaret Brown, who was
wearing an L. T. L., medal recited for
the convention the speech that won
the medal 1t was sad little story
and was recited so beautifully that
scme of the delegates could hardly
keep back the tears; and all of them
agree that if the judges in that medal
contest had given the medal to any
other child, their good judgment
would have been questioned by every
member Of the convention.
Mrs. Hammett, who has a way of al
ways doing the right thing, presented
Margaret with a big, white rose as a
token of the appreciation of the con
yention.
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Every year a large number OF poor
sufferers whose lungs are sore and
racked with coughs are urged to 90
to another climate. But this is costly
aud not always sure. There's a bet.
ter way Let DIR. Kings New Dis
covery cure you at home. 1T cured
ne of lung trouble" writes w. r
Nelson of Calamine, Ark, when all
else failed and ! gained Il pounds
in weight. It's surely the King of all
cough and lung cures" Thousands
owe their lives and health TO 1t. It's
positively guaranteed for Coughs.
Colds, LaGrippe, Asthma, Croup--all
Throat and Lung troubles. soc and
Sl.00. Trial bottle free al Ardmore
Pharmacy.