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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-10-02
Spencer Resigns.

w s. Spencer rendered his resig-
nation as water commissioner to
mayor Osmth. last week. Mr.. Spen
Ger has arranged to move to Colo
RADIO gNgsx st1.ss Nj sfFssgsSgFs
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NOTICE.

Owing to failure aof wa er supply
at the ltering plant, sise city will be
unable to furnish filtered water.
Would advise against using filtered
water for cooking or drinking. -
Guthrie City Water Works.
WE EA1, AT ELkS CAFE.
Good place to cat.-Matchetts cafe
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-10-02

The Cooked Food Exchange has
changed hands 1870 East Oklahoma
avenue. Mrs. IIlman, Proprietor
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-10-02

Tickets Going Fast
Since the people of Guthrie have
become to realize that the lecture
course this year is one of the very
best they are buying season tickets
fast and the house will soon be sold
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-10-02
Passing Of Airdome.

Galen Grow ii tearing down the
oirdome c'nSIIarrison avenue gar
age will be erected II will be occu,
pied by Rhodes and Jennings.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-10-02

Smart Set
Miss Viola Allender entertaine,
the Smart Set delightfully."- Satur
day afternoon There wree six tl
bias at Five Hundred Mrs. G,leI
Crow won the first prize and Mrs
Hugh Scott the consolation Delight
full refreshments concluded thu
games The club will meet in tw,
weeks with Mrs William Barrick.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-10-02

p. D. G. Girls Meet
/ Miss Helen jenkins was hostess
TO the Phi Delta Gamma Girls, Sat
urday, at her home on East Harrison
avenue. Five Hundred was played
during the afternoon Miss Iva Fife
won the prize. An ice course was
served. Miss Alice Spencer leaves
this week for Colorado where she
will reside in the future, and as
token of love. and parting gift they
presented her a beautiful spoon with
the Greek letters of their society en-
praved in the bowl She was a char
ter member, and is president at this
lfime. II is needless 10 say she VIII
lbe greatly missed by her chums she
lis leaving behind
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-10-02

Miss Tulsa Price is expected to ar
where she has been very Ill follow
ing an operation for appendicitis
with which she was attacked shortly
after her entrance to the Methodist
hospital for the nurses trainin
course She expects TO remain al
home until completely recovered a..
Jer wtlch she will return TO Gutn-
rie.-TuIsa World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-05
About New Books a,,d Authors
~
-. 8! -

these little known wonders. The book.
despite its sound scientific basis, is
filled with the same romance and
witchery of the north as are the pic
torial representations of the region.
Critics now and again have been ac-
cused of causing the death of their VIC
tims-the revie wers, for instance, who
are said to have done Keats to death.
But never until the publication of that
extraordinary document by a Sing Sing
convict, has a murderer turned critic
His brief and slangy descriptions of the
books in the prison library are so much
to the point that they form quite part
of the literary small-talk of the day.
Here is a quotation from his COM
mentary: :" The Idiot "A House Boat
on the Styx, Coffee and Repartee' by
John Kendrick Bangs. Johnnie with
the hirsute name is there with the fun
fest, and sends over a line of funny
bone ticklers that are hot from the
pepper" Then there is this on 'Trilby,'
by du Maurier: Chocolate creams
have nothing on this. even if it is a
tri7e mushy at the finish. Trilby was
a bird for fair, regular pippin'
Mrs. Humphry Ward the English
novelist loves America almost as well
as her native shores. although her
latest book. THE Case of Richard
Meynell' to be brought out in the
fall by Doubleday. Page & Co, deals
in part with the characters of her
early novel Robert Ehmere." When
she made her visit here in 1908, Mrs
Ward met Mrs. Charles Schaffer, au-
thor of several books or flowers. and
they travelled together into the Cana
dian Northwest, only to part at the
little station whence Mrs Schaffe1
started on an expedition of exploration
for a lake only known to the Indians
hitherto. The lake was found and
duly reported to the Geographical So
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Mr.. Bowser had begun wrong He
saw his mistake and put on his hat
and took a walk around the block.
When he returned he smiled at the cat.
said he had rather be home of an even
ing and then added:
Mrs. Bowser. you have read and
heard that impure milk is the cause of
more sickness and deaths than any
other known thing"
YES. something OF the kind"
~ Impure milk Stays its tens of
thousands yearly It Is worse than
cholera or yellow fever. 1t claims its
victims from among kings as we'll as
peasants. We cannot tell what minute
it will claim us
"Well?"
Something must be done. Some
thing is being done, but the problem is
far from being solved. This city paid
out half million dollars last year TO
guard its milk, and vet 1t was only
partly successful. It is acknowledge
by the whole world that some different
tactics must be adopted"
II am willing to leave the matter to
the scientists" said Mrs. Bowser.
Yes, I know you are, but I am not
I don't propose to be swallowing ter
thousand germs of typhoid fever Will
every spoonful of milk. The scientist.
are moving along certain lines. I an
going to move along others. The wor1t
has never heard of Powser's Tn
equaled. Unparalleled and Absolutell
Germ Proof Milk, but 1t ia going to be
fore many weeks have parsed"
Then you are going into the dair!
business ?"
YES. in a way It 10 about tn,
scheme I wanted to talk with you
You may be able to give me a hint o
two. In fact. will go as far as to sa.
that I shall value your advice"
This was such a concession on tn
part of Mr.. Bowser that Mrs. Bowse
laid aside her book and said she would
listen and be glad to oher any pointer
She could.
VERY we'll" he replied. I'VE star
on the assumption that the milk from
a healthy COW is absolutely pure whei
first drawn. There can be no germs.
No
The pail must have been sterilizei
before milking"
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Professor Albert Bernhard Faust.
the head OF the German department
at Cornell university, has just been
awarded the Loubat prize. which is
given every five years by the Royal
Prussian Academy Of Science in Ber-
lin. The prize consists OF 1000 marks
or about $3.50. and was awarded to
Professor Faust for his scholarly
work entitled 1.-The German Element
in the United States" published by
Houghtou Mifiin Co.. for which the
author had already won = prize of sew
eraI thousand dollars. The Loubat
prize was endowed by Joseph F. Lou
bat of New York City in 1883. 1t is
awarded every FIVE years alternately
for work on American archaeology
and American history, so that a book
on either subject is in competition
with all books written on the subject
during the preceding ten years. The
last award to a work on the subject
of American history Wss made ten
years ago to James Ford Rhodes for
his History of the United states From
the Compromise of 1880" A German
edition Of Professor Faust's book is
about to be issued by prominent
Leipzig publisher.
A number or interviews with Mrs.
Pryor have been published since the
appearance of her novel "Ths ColonePs
story" Perhaps the most interesting
IS that in the Boston Globe. Il don't
want to give the impression that I am
boasting II would be shocking to me
she told a reporter. according to this
paper, when 1 answer your question
as to how 1 work. I am an attend
ant many hours of the day upon an
invalid relative and ! think out my
ideas when I am sitting by the bed
side. Then at night 1 dc my writing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-05
Crippled Athletes Win.

One-armed and one-legged boys are
taking honors these days IN athletic
contests around New York, and the
medical wiseacres are looking at one
another suspiciously and wondering If,
after all, some of their pet theories
are not out of date.
AS for the Staten Island Public
Schools Athletic league it is proud,
and it says so, of William Alfred Sned-
iker, the 13-year-old one-legged school
boy of West Brighton, who on Satur-
day threw away his crutches and after
inches high. None of the wo-1egged
boys present could surpass the per
Torrance. He equaled the leagues
record.
Young Snediker wore the colors of
Public School No. 10. He weighs a bit
over 90 pounds. This was not his first
victory On May % this year he
cleared a bar 4 feet 2 inches from the
ground. He lives in Cherry lane and
graduates this month.
Then there is Eddie Carroll of Pub
lie School No. of Queens He is a
one-arnled youngster. o. Saturday at
Celtic park in the Queens Public
Schools Athletic league championship
games ne made a. running broad jump
and leaped II feet 9 inches. This was
10 inches better than sny previous
mark He was nightly cheered. He,
as well as Snediker. is within the 100
pound class
One-legged skaters ana bicyclists
also are winning laurels.-New York
World.
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Eastman tGhiyesa) that it is the most
remarkable Interpretation ever written
of the religious life of a people now
passed, with the single exception of
that relating to the ancient Jews as
found in the OLD Testament. Mr. East
man is a native Sioux Indian who was
born IN the far northwest fifty-two
years ago, but was educated in New
Hampshire and graduated from Dart
mouth college where he also studied
medicine.
Irving Bachelor, in naming his latess
book Keeping Up With Lizzie ap-
parentIy has enriched the language by
one of those slang phrases which be-
come good usage in due time. To eX-
press the idea of extravaganza, CT
foolish emulation Of ones neighbors,
super education, and kindred pitfalls
that are distinctly of our own time, I.
is doubtful If Keeping Up With
Lizzie could be improved upon. The
phrase is read and heard in such wide
ly separate spots as the pulpit and the
sporting page of the newspaper. Only
an American could have invented
keeping Up With Lizzie" but it is in
teresting to speculate on how an Eng
| Iishman would express the idea. THE
Inherent Vulgarity of Pursuing Nam
mon possibly. The Frenchman would
undoubtedly put 1t: La Chase Avec
Lizzie aux Limites de Luxe"
Something of the grandeur and the
mystery Of glaciers is expressed even IN
the more or less common pictures o.
them. which to the alert mind suggest
infinite possibilities. The subject OF
glaciers is a big one. and one which
strangely has never been adequately
presented. In his characteristics OF
| Existing Glaciers, published this week
William Herbert Hobbs, professor OF
geology in the University of Michigan
gives the first exhaustive treatment OF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-05

represents the Twenty-first district of
Illinois, was born in Ireland April
1, 1852 Mr.. Graham was a mem
Der of the Ballinger- Pinchot investi-
cation committee. and is now chair
man of the committee on expendi-
lures in the interior department. The
other Illinois twin" is James Nc
Kinney, who comes from the Four
teenth district.
J. l.. Hartman. a new member
from Pennsylvania, was born in that
state on June IS. 1853. On the same
man of the house committee on IL
brary, was born in Texas.
on March 10, 1855. e w. Town
send, who represents the Seventh
New Jersey district, was born. He
became noted before he came to con-
gress by writing "Chimmie Fadden''
and other novels, plays, books and
short stories. On the same day Everis
A. Hayes. a Republican insurgent IN
the house, was born in Wisconsin.
The year 1863 was particularly no.
table in that two pairs OF congress
sional twins were born. On March
"a Charles A. Kennedy, one of the
stanch standpatters of the house and
the only one left on the Iowa dele
cation. and Claude Kitchin, of North
Carolina, one of the best of the Dem
ocratic tariff orators, were born. Or
J
youngest twins in the house came
to light They are c. D. Carter, Of
Oklahoma and S. II. Dent, jr., OF
Alabama.
Three members of the house were
New Years day babies. S. w. Gould
of Maine, was born January 1. 1851
C. b. Randell. of Texas. in 1857, and
Fred C. Stevens. of Minnesota, in 1861
Thomas Parron, of Maryland a new
member. was the only Representative
to be born on Lincoln's birthday, Feb
ruary II John z. Baker, of Califor
MIA; Michael Donohoe, of Pennsylva
MIA, and George w. Rauch, of In
diana, all Democrats. were born OF
Washington's Birthday. February %
George ". Prince, of Illinois, was borI
on March 4, inauguration day. He wal
sworn in as q member of congress il
the Fifty-fifth congress on his birth
lday. ". c. Houston. of Tennessee: P
NJ. Bell. of Georgia, and N. E. Kendall
of Iowa. helped their parents celebrate
St. Patriek's day Charles H. Burke
of South Dakota, was horn on Apri
fools day. No member of the housl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-05

was born on July or Christmas day
The oldest member of the present
house is Gen. Isaac C. Sherwood, a
Democrat. representing thu Toledo,
born on August 10, 1895. Former
Speaker Joseph G. CanIC n OF Illinois.
is the second in point OF age. having
been born on May Z, 1886.
Four members of the house have
been born since $780, at which time
Gen. Sherwood and former Speaker
Cannon had attained the age of 45
years. They are Sidney Anderson, of
Minnesota. and r. J. Bulkley. of Ohio,
born in 1880, and 3. p Harrison and
w. F. Murray, Of Massachusetts, born
in 1891. The latter is the youngest
member of the house Of representa-
Washington Cor. New York
Evening Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-05
BoWsER SOLVES IT.
He Has a Plan to Give TIE Public Pure
MIX.

Mr.. Bowser was uneasy. He got up
and he sat down. He walked to and
fro, and he stood and looked out Of
the window. He lighted his cigar and
then let it go out. He Was undergoing
a great mental struggle and Mrs. Bow
ser knew it. but she wasn't going to Of
fer her help until asked. He held off
for a quarter of an hour and then said:
Mrs. Bowser. there are times when
you are quite sensible"
Thank YOU" she replied.
Nov and then your advice has been
good"
Thanks some more"
you needn't be sarcastic over it.
Woman was not born to advise man.
She hasn't his brains. she hasn't his
perception: she can't grapple with
problems. It is that now and then she
can offer an idea that he has over
looked"
Then man hadn't better consult
her"
He does not as a rule
Il am glad you are not going to con
suit me this evening, as I have an in
teresting book"
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and I get up several hours before the
others in the morning to work. I
don't work every day" she continued.
but l am very fast writer when
begin. I do all my own writing, only
having the completed manuscript type
written, although that is not neces-
sary. In the case of my novel I wrote
il over three times. I am my own
critic because the judge is so indul-
gent, he admires all do and will not
find fault with it." When Mrs. Pryor
was asked why she waited so long be-
fore she began to write fiction, she re-
piled. Il was too busy before. I had
q family of seven children and 1 was
also much interested in society.
used to have eleven teas on an after
Moons program but after a time I got
tired OF that. My health is not really
robust and other cares have weaned
me almost entirely away from society"
A book valuable to artists. Materials
of The Painters Craft" by Prof A. P.
Laurie, has been issued by the Lippin-
colts. 1t starts with the earliest times
giving an analysis Of the Egyptian pig
ments and mediums. the famous classi-
cal methods and finally the later inter
esting discoveries in art as far as the
seventeenth century, when oil of vari-
Gus composition was the acknowledged
important medium. A large amount Of
information. formerly scattered in
many places. is found in this single
volume together with discoveries re-
sulting from the various analyses and
experiments carried cut by the author.
OF particular interest are the accounts
Of advancement in wall painting, fres-
Goes and in the preparation of pigments
which. in the earliest times, we know
consisted mainly of chalk. charcoal,
clays and vari-colored ochres.
1t has been said of 1.-The Soul OF the
Indian" written by DR.. Charles a.
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Iciety of Philadelphia. The little pam
phIet recording the facts and a few
photographs of the lake were sent to
Mrs. Ward as one interested. In few
weeks back came a note enclosing this
request: May l carry the closing of
my story Lady Merton TO your lovely
lake? The coming of your pamphlet
gave me the inspiration for the closing
chapter" Consent was given. of course.
Lady Merton was published and
Lake Rialigne under the title of Lake
Elizabeth. first became known to the
world at large.
Yesterday John Lane Co. New York,
published William ]. Locke',s new nov
Ell 'fThe Glory of Clenentina," and,
owing to the fact that it contains more
of the popular qualities than are usu-
ally associated with the writings of
that noted author, it is believed that
its sales will be greater than Of any
of this authors former books. The
advance orders to date exceed those of
any of his previous novels and al
though a very large first edition was
printed this. it is anticipated, will be
exhausted within two weeks of the
publication day.
Ernest Thompson Seton Chief Scout
of the Boy Scouts of America, and au-
tor of Rolf in the Woods" just pub
| lished by Doubleday, Page & Co, soon
will go on a lecture tour. His subject
will be the Boy Scouts. Seton is gen.
orally loath to talk of himself and the
reason may be found in Rolf in the
Woods into which tho author has
written the character of S: Silvanne, a
kindly trapper, miller and village mag
istrate. who discourses much homely
philosophy. One of his sayings is
when it comes to personal feelin' and
| jedgin' man can't handle his own
case any more than a delirious doctor
kin give hisself the right physic."
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MADEkO OzVA
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~ see"
The mixer must have no germs
about him"
mo-
1.-THE milk must be go. to the con-
sumner with no chance whatever for
impurities to creep in. If anything
happens after that 1 am not to blame
for it, Are you in accord with me thus
far. Mrs. Bowser?"
Perfectly"
II am glad of that. The next step is
to secure five hundred families to take
Bowser's Unequaled. Unparalleled and
Absolutely Germ Proof Milk. Not more
than two quarts sold to any one family.
Under no circumstances will dealers or
grocers be supplied"
Il follow you" said Mrs. Bowser.
''Then I purchase 100 cows of the
very best breed. Each COW is groomed
with all the care given a racehorse.
She is provided with a clean white
cover on which will be emblazoned:
'Bowser's L. L. A. a. G. p. M Do
you get that?'
II do
There are to be 100 milkmaids-
one to each COW They are to dress m
pure white. None of them must wear
false hair. Between each ones should
ers will be the same letters as on the
! cow-covers. I shall strive to secure
blond milkmaids as they have milky
/ COnlDleXlQnS.
Very clearly
THE milking is not to be done in
stables. Twice a day each COW is to be
led by her milkmaid to the house of a
customer and MIXED RICH. at the front
door and the milk passed in. Where's
your germs in that scheme?"
There can be none
mot a germ, Mrs. Bowser-not the
! hind leg of a germ. That sight of d
beautiful blonde milking a beautiful
cow on the street is going to be greater
than d full-page advertisement for
Bowser's Germ-Proof. Customers will
be added by the hundreds. I shall
have to have 500 cows inside of three
months. Absolutely pure milk. Mrs.
Bowser. and the question is solved I
got the idea a month ago and have
stuck right to it. What do you think
of it as a whole? ?"
II think very favorablv. but I should
! like to ask you a few questions"
LAS many as you will"
what will the cows cost?"
Fifty dollars a piece
And how much a week to keep
them? ?"
q haven't figured on that. but not
over 81 apiece"
/ "And the wages of tho milkmafds %
Il thought about IS apiece a week. -
And what price per quart for the
milk?"
"Ten cents 1 figure that each COW
will return a profit of 81 per week.
That's $500 per week to start on. When
I get up to 500 cows I have an income
of $4,000 per week without lifting my
hand. Am 1 a schemer? Am 1 a
lfinancier? Am I a back number? I
give the world Absolutely Pure Mix,
and ! make $4,000 a week while doing
it. What?"
TT see''
But what's the matter with you?
What are you stranglipg that way
for ?"
And Mrs. Bowser fell from her chair
to the floor and made a strange gurg-
ling noise in her throat. The frighten-
ed Mr.. Bowser bent over her and was
about to call the cook when he made q
discovery. Mrs. Bowser was choking
with laughter! She was laughing al
him-at his scheme-at his cows-ai
his milkmaids-at his income per week
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NatLvitx Of Congressmen.

There are six pairs of members Of
the house of representatives who had
the same birthdays.
Julius Kahn. of California, was
born in Germany on the last day of
February, 1881, while David z. Fin
ley, of South Carolina, chairman of
the house committee on printing, first
saw the light in South Carolina.
The oldest pair of twins" in the
house come from the same state I'll
linois), but one of them was born in
Ireland while the other is a native
nlinoisan. James NJ. Graham, who
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at Bowser's Unequaled Unparalleled
and Absolutely Germ-Pr Milk! He
had raised her head s.nd now he
dropped it to bump on the floor and
walked out of the house, and it was ?
0 clock next morning when he came
softly back. He had been crushed to
earth under his own milk-pails.-
Copyright, 1911. by Associated Liter
arv PreSs)
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A King VINO Led Home

set the world to talking. but Paul
Mathulka, of Buffalo. N. Y, says he al
ways KEEPS AT HOME the King OF
all Laxatives-Dr. Kings New Life pills
and that they're blessing to all his fam
ily- Cure constipation. headache, fndiges-
ton, dyspepsia Only Zoe at Campbell
DRUG CO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-09
WOmen's Linen Suits
Special at $12.5O, SIS, $l8

tailored linen suit of cool tobacco brown in new
pony model shArtwaist. Wouldnt
the Immediately admiration knowing ex
actly weather Suits Of just that de-
scripton awaiting at the Other linen suits
white blue and natural shades with nlaid black sat
plain with side button skirts plain
pace backs Belfast linen $12 3d. SIS and $1s. See win
dow display.