davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-05
W. c. of c. Dance

Society was we'll represented last
evening at the dance given by the
Woman's Chamber OF Commerce, at
The City Hall. About fifty couples
danced a program OF twenty numbers.
TO splendid music furnished by Adler
orchestra.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-05
Social Circle Entertained

oOCI at OTTCIt EHtcT td1Hcu
The Social Circle of the Presbyter-
ian church will meet on Wednesday
with Mrs. H. l.. Miller at 2 o'clock.
Each lady is requested To bring her
needle
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-05

Mrs. D. NJ. Tibbetts and Miss Helen
NcElhinney returned last evening
from Oklahoma City, where they were
the guests of Miss Louise Watson Tor
several days
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-05
Rallv Day Tomorrow.


Prairie Schooners Moving.
Earmars report more prairie
schooners moving than LOT ssFsiA'
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-05
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
Q q g T Q r q

sPlRELLA coRsETs FITTED IN
vcfte OWN HOME. PHONE llS.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-05

Miss klnk Hostess
Miss Nell Kllnk gave seven
o'clock dinner last evening, at her
home on West Cleveland avenue to
the members of the Phi Delta Gam
ma club. Autumn blossoms were used
rs table decorations A five course
repast was enjoyed by the following
guests: Misses Ethel Douglas. Rnth
Walton, of St. Louis. Kate AIillikan,
Matte Clare Gano, Eleanor Post,
Helen jenkins, Iva Fife, Lenore
Burke. Ellen Bronson and Nell Klink.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-05
b y a q 3 e q = y z. e q a 3 e
y
s. FRESH TOPICS OF
q THE TOWN

iO'N -
!. y
~ ~ q y = e q g =. = e q q e =
Kay County Will Be With Us.
+. e Clark is here today from
Newldrk. Mr.. Clark says there is no
doubt about his part OF the county
being for Guthrie in the coming cap
ital fight
Rally Day Tomorrow.
The West side VI. r. Sunday
school will have a rally day service at
10 o'clock tomorrow al the church.
A special program has been prepared
Arthur Failed 70 Tell About This
Arthur Swank came ont from Guth-
rie Saturday for a visit over sunday
with his wife and Coyle friends. SAT
nrdav night the bows proceeded 10
entertain" Mr.. and Mrs. Swank IN
manner benefitting newlyweds. Mr.
swank proved to he equal 10 the oc
casion. and treated in satisfactory
manner Clipper.
Prairie schooners Moving.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-05
Miss Stewart Honoree

Miss Stewart Honoree
Miss Alice Tallman invited a few
friends in on Friday, to meet her
house guests, Mrs. +. f. Stewart, OF
Missouri. Several hours were pleas
antly spent in needle work and con
versation, followed by delicious
luncheon The guests We're: Mines.
Stewart, Louis Bronson, Hagney, Ly-
man Knighton, Elliott Lyons. jim
Rucks, Webb Baker, Tallman; Misses
Dessa Matchett, Leila Mcpherson Els
ther Beland, Beulah Cavolt, Bess Ga
no and Alice Talman.
The Auction Bridge club will meet
on Monday with Mrs. Fred Barde,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-05
Kay county win Be With Us.

:. ~ m 3 y = g q $ 3 3 e E8 q
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-05

Our Deep TORIC LENSES conform
TO the natural shape OF the Eye there
by giving the wearer a much greater
field OF vision We highly recommend
T0ric Bifocal Lenses. aud our prices
are very reasonable on this class OF
work. We are esneeially prepared
for the examination Of ehiljrens eyes,
and our advice will cost YOU nothing.
CAN and see as at
m W. OKLA. AVE. GUTHRIE, OKLA
CROOK OPTICAL COMPANY
q TOMEIfiSTS
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-05
Friday BRIDGE Club

Friday Bridge Club
The members OF the Friday Bridge
club were entertained by Mrs. Henry
Braun at her home on East Mansur
avenue During the afternoon. Mrs.
Cbas. Seton made top score.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-05

3 n q q 3 ~ 3 q p ?. 2 =. 9 y
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-05
MARSHALL MATTERS

!. n q 4 q a Il v 4 q a u e a n /.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-05

Tulsa claims TO have buildings II
process Of erection representing an
aggregate yame Of $5000o0.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-05

Three new oil wells have caused
much excitement at Gotebo, and OH
men are flocking to the town.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-05

Tulsa has awakened TO the fact
that il has 4 law forbidding The sale
OF intoxicants.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-05

All deeds covering Guthrie's offer
OF property 70 the state for capllai
purposes have been filed
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-05

DR. Conrad has filed suit against
Policeman Rose for refusing Mrs
Conrad drink at Mineral Wells
park
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-05
OF LOCAL MOMENT.

i m n 4 u y q q q & y y m q
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-05

Russian oil man named Samuel
Rabinovitz, located at Tulsa, wants
10 change his name to Samuel Travis,
Can you blame him for that.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-05

Cotton is rolling into the south
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-05

The Chandler oil prospect we'll IS
down 1900 feet.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-07-05

THE VISION IN THE CAVE
With only a sleeping mastif for
a companion, l sat before my
blazing hearth and drowsily
smoked my faithful meerschaum.
/ was bachelor of some 40 years,
and as l sat watching the puffs
dispense in the atmosphere, /
contrasted my lot in life with that.
of my married friends.
"How much happier am" l
mumbled to myself, than they.
They are constantly worried
with the tri1ing, problems
brought up by youthful activity,
and, worse than all, must yield
the household scepter wholly or,
at least, in part, to she who years
before promised to love, honor
and obey while Ina, hal am
sole lord and master of my little
domain. Peaceful and quiet in
my little study, 1 can drift away
after the hours of business into
sweet oblivion without some lit
tie urchin to pull my struggling
locks and ride my knee"
At the very thought of placing
myself in their position l laugh
ed, and settled deeper in the cush-
ions of my large armchair.
Gradually the fire died down
and misty shadows fitted from
the darkened corners of the room
and frolicked among the chairs
and tables which now assumed
weird and fantastic shapes. I'm
co,,ecio,,e11y /, -, ,,ei+i -, 'f.o.,, 49,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-07-05

depressing influence over me, and
without any reasonable motiveI
decided to enter the aperture and
explore the gloomy recesses be-
yond. By dint of strenuous ex-
ertions and after snagging my
self many times on the projecting
rocks, l succeeded in working my
way into mammoth subterran-
can room.
Although a murky, black 81
lence filled the cave, and damp,
unpleasant odor permeated the
air, an invisible but invincible
power impelled me onward.
Down the edge of what seemed to
be pit l laboriously picked my
way, all the time cursing my fate
and wondering why 1 went.
After descent of probably a
hundred feet l came to water.
With a staff which had secured
in some unaccountable manner, /
measured the depth and found it
to be about waist-deep.
An uncanny dread possessed
me, but l did not hesitate to de-
scend into the cool, placid pool.
With my staff l explored the
sides of the pit, but found they
gave way on every side at the
waters edge. Stricken with the
most abject fear and yet con
trolled by that resistless power,
l wandered out into this subter-
ranean lake, taking care to pro-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-01
AYHAWKER JOT.S

Some corn planting has been done
this week, reports the Wellington
Monitor Press-but in its Thirty
Years Ago" column.
AS the Russell Springs Leader de-
scribed a recent happening in its vi
cinity: Kenneth league got throwed
off his horse Monday, as it was very
muddy where he lit, no serious injury
was done.
Gale McCamon has a relic in the
shape of a wooden horse collar which
is 80 years old, reports the Florence
Bulletin. 1t was made by his great
uncle out of white birch root. Mr..
McCamon was using it on his horse
Sunday while cleaning off the side
walks.
Rivalry between the Smith County
Journal and the Smith County Pioneer
is carried to such an extent that the
former always spells the name of their
home town Smith Centre while the lat
ter is equally insistent on spelling It
Smith Center.
All kinds of storms seem to have
put in their appearance in Kansas
during the past few weeks. For in
stance, the Wellington Monitor
Press reports a severe hail storm In
its vicinity on Wednesday, the 27th,
and some of the hail stones, as might
be expected, are reported to have
been as large as hens eggs.
H. Hilbert asked us last week if We
wished to circulate a nomination pa
per- He said he had circulated three
and that he refused to circulate any
more because he could not afford To
neglect his checker games. He expects
to put in as much time as possible
during the bad weather playing check
ers so when the weather opens up he
can begin pitching horse shoes.-Corn-
ing Gazette.
One of the merchants at Hazleton
has just had a fine big awning put
up 1t extends across the entire front
of his store. And now he is getting
suggestions through the columns of
the Barber County Index that if he
will have a row of comfOrta BILE seats
placed in front of the store and far
enough back to be in the shade, he
will come nearer fixing things up as
they should be.
The 1O-year-old daughter of T. c.
Skinner, northeast of Peabody, while
chasing n rabbit Friday. noticed under
the snow along a hedge what she al
first thought was a coyote. Upon dig
ging the snow away she found tive
Rhode Island Red hens which had been
missed by the family since the big
snow. and had therefore been under
the snow for two weeks without food.
They were weak and thin but after
they received some care they revived
and resumed active association with the
farm fock.-Peabody Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-01
ADTERT Using TALKS
By WILLIAM c. FRREMAN

Spencer Trask & Co. have been persist
ent advertisers for ten years or more.
they believe that bond house can ad-
vertise profitably by using educational
copy.
Recently fifty of their representatives
from all parts of the country went to
Canada to look into Canadian investments.
1t is the habit of this firm to thoroughly
investigate everything they handle before
they undertake to sell II. That Is the
keynote of their success People have
confidence in them
Mr.. Charles L. Scovil, advertising man
ager of the firm, gave an address on ad-
vertising, which l wish every bond house
in the country could have heard Here
are some extracts from his speech;
Every business man is keenly interest
ed in anything that contributes to the
growth and expansion of his particular
enterprise. This is why advertising is
coming to take it's place in the front
rank of all modern business institutions.
1T is no longer a question as to whether
or not advertising pays. The known re
dence conclusive of that fact, and it has
been demonstrated that good advertising
accomplshes, at least, three things:
''1st-It is productive of direct, trace
able results.
''9nd-Tt serves to famiiarize the public
with the firm, institution or article adver
tised, thus establishing for the sales or
ganization a feeling Of good will on the
part of the public, the value of which is
known to, and appreciated by, all sales
men.
''srd.-It is of material aid in holding
existing customers, who being human,
prefer to do business with concerns that
give public evidence of being abreast OF
the times. And in this connection II is
well to remember that no concern can
afford to take the position that it has
first claim the business OF a customer
No matter how loyal he may be, a GUS
toner never ceases to be good prospect
for a wide-awake competitor
These three factors. taken together
not apart from each other-consttute the
basis for sound judgment as to the value
of any form of advertising.
Coming now 10 the business Of invest
ment banking, which is in reality the con-
servation of surplus funds, the surplus
funds of other people.
Have we, or have We not. an interest
ing and instructive story to tell the
public: the great mass of people in our
ence between a stock and bond invest
ment; a high-grade investment, or a spec
ulatiVe investment? We certainly DO nave
much to tell them, and which, II told
right, and backed up by Conscientious et-
fort is bound to result in great good for
the investor, as well as the growth ana
expansion of our entire organization. You
know, as / know, that the individual IN
weston field in any section OF the coun-
try has as vet hardly been scratched, ana
that there is plenty of good. steady, busi-
ness coming to us all, II we only nave
the good sense to see it, believe II and
work for it,
all of the people know all about stocks
and bonds and mortgages and other In
AS matter of fact they do not, and
an inteIlizent educational ADVERTISING
campaign, will reap mighty rich har-
vest.
(To be continued)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-01
Sees Future Food Famine.

within twenty years TINS country
will be obliged to import food now
grown. in plenty in this country, and
inside of fifty years we shall not be
able to feed our people, unless We
adopt an entirely different system of
farming declared Howard H. Gross
of Chicago, president of the National
Soil Fertility league, at the Raleigh
population is overtaking produc-
ton. and either we shall have to be-
gin soon to provide means for increas-
ing our production, or shall have to
change our system of living. This is
the only country in the world where
all the people eat the same kind of
food. 1t matters not whether a man
be a millionaire or labOrer-he has
an ample supply of all the good things
of life The workingman as we'll as
the capitalist has meat three times
man who works in the factory is glad
to get meat once a week. In the
orient the laborer never eats meat,
but subsists mostly on rice. While we
have a vast country, some of it per-
haps virgin soil. the time is rapidly
approa ching when our soil will be eX-
hausted of its fertility, and then we
shall have to begin to replenish it.
Just think of it! The countries of
Europe have had their farms under
cultivation for hundreds of years
States. yet the average wheat produc
ton in this country is only 14.3 bush
els to the acre, while he production
in Germany is % bushels, in England
80 bushels, in Belgium 81 bushels and
in Denmark 40 bushels. At this time
81 per cent of our corn is consumed at
home, and 81 per cent of our wheat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-01

Tt is not a difficult matter to figure
that within twenty years at the most
we shall consume all of our wheat
and corn and other cereals, and shall
have to buy from abroad. And then,
unless we get a move on ourselves, we
shall not be able in so years to feed
our people.
THE department of agriculture has
been doing a great work. 1t has pub
lished and is publishing vast amount
of valuable literature, but great
deal of this does not get to the peo-
pie who should profit by it. For
many years the agricultural depart
ments of Europe were unable to get
real results from the work of their
scientists and experiment stations, and
it was not until they began sending
men into communities and keeping
them there to teach the farmers bet
tiers methods of cultivation that they
solved the problem. The result has
been that all over Europe the farmers
are producing upon soil that can not
compare in fertility with that of this
country, many times larger crops than
we are in the United tates."-Wash-
ington Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-01
says UNCLE CAV

1 babe goodby long ago the hot
flush of youth, and it has been many
years since 1 have laid hand upon
, another in anger, but one of these days
I'm going to commit assault and bat
terry. And it will be upon the person
of the man wha habitually extends
comfort in the following fashion:
why. hello, old mani Down on
your luck? Don't worry-don't wor-
ry. There's Smith whose house burned
down last night, Brown has lost his
wife, Jones's creditors have closed him
out, millions are defying of hunger in
China and the bubonic plague is sweep
ing away millions more in India. Cheer
up, cheer up! You're so much better
off than some folks.''
l am a mild man, but I have had
that sort of thing dinned into my
weary ears a thousand times, and I
have never heard it but that I have
ha visions of new-made grave and
my motive we'll enough to return a
verdict of justifiable homicide.
When L have trouble 1 am unhappy.
and L have never been able to extract
any comfort from the fact that my
neighbor was in trouble too
1 am not envious and it gives me
no satisfaction to know that my mis-
fortune pales into insignificance beside
the Misfortune of others. I only feel
worse, through sympathy.
never expect TO attain that degree
OF vicious and unreasoning spleen
when / shall want others to be unhappy
because l am not in good spirits, and
when L shall pet SO much joy out of
the thought that others are in poverty,
sickness or death that L can forget the
Affections from which 1 suffer
Even in ny merriest moods the
thoughts of millions going to death for
lack of food or medical attention give
me pang and I don't care to have
some slant browed pest of limited men
tally remind me of such horrors when
my own affairs have brought me down
to sackcloth and ashes.
do not find myself Capable of rev
cling in woe. I love happiness and
sunshine. I am willing to fight nv
own battles without assistance, If need
be- try to keep troubles to myself
and If you do not ask about them
you'll not be burdened with them. But
one thing 1 do insist upon-don't take
me Tor the kind of cross grained, en-
vlous' malicious, splenetic old vuIture
who can't be entirely happy unless he
is constantly reminded that others are
in trouble Bah, you hookworm,-
Copyright, 1912 by w E Williams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-01
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
rFrom the PhiladeInhia Record

From the Philadelphia Record
Even the LATEST criminal gets tired or
arrest
Spring has come, but it's occasional re-
lapses make one doubt that it is the
handspring.
Belle-"Shes in the social whirI, isn't
she?" Delle-"Oh, my. yes. You know
she is Daughter of the Revolution"
D1nk-'So you went to the opera last
night. Did you understand it?'' Gink-
Nav [ only got bare idea of things
Dolly fixes her hair frightfully. Why,
it's a perfect burlesquer' II think So
too. Any one can see 1t is a take-off.
Housewife-"My poor, poor man. You
say you feel insanity settling on you
every night?" Hobo-"Yes. mum. You
see. 1 sleep under crazy quilt
Il hear Maybelle is going to get a di-
and she has good grounds, too. He spends
all his time flattering other women.
Blobbs-"Jack is queer fellow, ism :
he?" Slobbs-"I should say So He talked
to me steadily for two hours telling how
women waste their time gossiping.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-01

was deeply hurt on" she repeated,
you've told and you promised not to
tell" She put her hand into her dress
and pulled out small linen bag, op-
ened it and shook Ave shining dia-
mond rings into her lap. Each was
tied with different colored ribbon.
Keep mine.'' cried Henry Blaine,
savagely, as she held II toward him.
Il don't ever want to see it again"
And the other boys echoed, Keep
them
NO. said Pansy. sadly, Il could
not marry any of you now. 1 thought
that you could be trusted with Sc
cret, but 1 see that you can't
This was so manifestly unfair, Sc
preposterous, that it simply took the
boys breath away. Had she been a
man they could have answered her;
being woman-and Pansy-they act
ually began to feel guilty.
One by one they skunk up to the
sofa and received back their diamond
rings, then Pansy opened a note that
had fallen from her dress when sne
took out the bag. Il suppose" she
murmured, that I'll have to marry
Arthur Dering now
She began reading from the note:
My Dearest Pansy: 1 shall be back
in Houston Center on the 18th of April
But no, L won't read you when it's
to be, because that is a secret and
you might tell
She stood up, and the boys, aghast
at this latest piece of information.
unwound their legs from the rungs
of their chairs and fled silently out.
All but Philip Grantwood; he remain
ed, for though his pride told him tc
leave this perfdious woman, his feet
refused to move.
'Pansy," he cried, sternly, when
they were alone; aren't you ashamed
of YOurSelf2"
Poor little Pansy wilted at once, and
large, unmanageable tears began tic
trickle down her cheeks. She came
over to Philip and buried her face in
his coat sleeve. Yes she sobbed,
Il certainly am. But it was so much
fun to have all those rings And 1 didn't
think anybody'd ever find out
Philip surrendered shamelessly to the
enemy. Don't cry he begged. ten
derby, and then the same old ques-
ton. "Pansy, dear. will you marry
me?"
From his coat sleeve came a rnuf-
fed answer. Yes, Phil, tomorrow if
you say so.''
Not much" retorted Philip, blithely,
you don't catch me trusting you un.
til tomorrow. Wen go and wake up
the judge and get a liceLce and then
And, by the way he added. jealousy,
you're not to answer that Dering
mans letter.
NO" came meekly from his coat
sleeve, Il won't. I'll let You answer
it"
Philip snatched it up from where
1t lay on the floor and was about to
throw it into the fire, when it fell
open and its contents were disclosed
Miss Pansy Borden 1t read, for
making one dress, $3.50. To Miss
Jemimah Slazey, modiste. '-(Copy.
right, 1912, by Associated Literary
Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-01
TAFT AND TEMPERANCE.

Rev. DR.. Stunz, formerly in the
Philippine ISLANDS, made an interest
ing statement at Baldwin, Kansas, a
few days ago about Taft when gov
ernor of the Philippines. Said he:
When William H Taft took the
oath of office 1 with others called on
him and asked for relief from what
had permitted 1873 saloons to be
opened on the streets of Manila. 1
was there and lived there. Then three
weeks from the day we called we got
unanimous order by the civil gov
ernor raising the license from two TO
eight hundred dollars Per year, and
giving US a Sunday closing law. one
that closed the saloons on Sunday. 1t
compelled every one of 1873 saloons to
move off into side streets and down
in the alleys and in inconspicuous
places of the town.
THE first chance that this man had
to strike the liquor evil he struck it
vigorous blow and they published
the account of it the next week and
called him names that I will not re-
peat in the sanctuary of God. All of
the people on the face of the map of
Kansas ought to know that-on the
face of righteousness and truth.
Within three months we asked for re-
lief of the conditions that followed
the canteen.
The canteen was closed and if you
people in America ever let the can
teen be opened you ought never have
forgiveness in this world or in any
other world. Then the people said
it was worse than ever, for saloons
were located upon the post Within
six weeks a telegram was sent Then
came the order that all saloons within
two miles of every post on the island
should be closed.
THAT one law closed 500 saloons
and sent two American breweries into
everlasting bankruptcy. 1t was a vic
tory for righteousness and William
Howard Taft sent this order broad
cast and used all his official power
to enforce it,