The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-06-13

nOmd city,
Sept Acct, 4-oklahoma State Fair.
Oct. 26-PresidentiaI election, Mexico
Kingston is planning q $4,000 Meth
odist church.
Weatherford is offering Is cents per
pint for flies.
New pototoes sold for $3.50 per
bushel in Carter last week.
Delaware county citizens burned
their court house and completed the
first silo last week.
The Ponca Courier says Kay coun-
ty farmer has wheat six, feet high, and
the heads are well filed.
The Rush Springs Landmark says
hogs are getting SO valuable a man
no longer considers 1t uncomplimen-
tary being called hog.
A Hastings farmer was run over by
a binder; one lung was pierced by a
guard. He win recover.
The Gage Republican-Record tells
of neighbors who put in fifty acres Of
crops for friend, whose horses were
sick
A Bryan county man, on the eve OF
his trial for murder, dropped double
barreled shotgun and blew off one Of
his feet.
Natiello and his band have been en-
gagged to furnish the music for the
Seventh Annual Oklahoma State Fair
and Exposition.
The bodies of Walter Moore and
wife and 14-year-old daughter, who
were drowned while picnicking near
Sapulpa, have been recovered.
The Hastings Herald says that a
Jesse James show visited the town,
and that after the James boys had for
two hours robbed banks and trains,
The Coweta Times tells of a negro
preacher who converted the wife of a
deacon, who had $4OO, and then in
duced her to get the coin and elope
with him. He is now in jail.
The Miami Record-Herald tells of a.
local citizen who was a rider in the
ponyy express service of the Wells.
Fargo company between California
and Oregon
The Coalgate Leader tells of sher-
if who for the purpose of collecting
$4,000 taxes, levied on a freight train
that pulled into the depot. He got
promise but no money.
Roosevelt says he never drinks, ex-
cept on the advise of physicians, and
the Guthrie Leader calls attention to
the fact that he keeps five doctors
around him when away from home.
The Tulsa Democrat is authority for
the statement that over one thousand
oil and gas wells are now being drilled
In the Tulsa field, and that over twen-
ty thousand have been drilled.
Kansas is getting ready to send out
its annual call for harvest hands and
an exchange remarks there is lot Of
good material around its town that the
call, be it ever so loud, will never
reach.
Southwest Oklahoma is busy swat
ting the fly, swatting the mosquito
and swatting the grasshopper, with it's
right hand, and trying to sign recall
petitions and petitions for grand jury
with its left hand.
The Butler Herald is calling the roll
on the business men of the town, try
ing to seperate the sheep from the
goats, since the janitor of the COM
mercial club lighted up the room for
a meeting and no one appeared.
The Pauls Valley Free Lance adj
vises the legislative committee not to
commence another investigation, as no
one encored it.
The new instructor in civil engi-
neering in the University of Okla
homa, named for appointment by
president BROOKS, is Frank l.. Weaver
of Washington, D. C.
The Muskogee Phoenix is pleased
with the way in which Secretary
Bryan handled the Japanese situation,
and is strong for peace until the Pan
ANA canal is finished and in good
working order.
Chickasha was selected for the next
annual convention of the Oklahoma
Letter Carriers association and ]. E..
Westfall of that place was elected
president at the annual convention in
session in Oklahoma City.
William Pearson, the proprietor Of
a hotel at Sallisaw, shot his wife, at.
tempted to shoot his daughter and
then put bullet through his own
head while temporarily insane. The
shooting occurred at the residence Of
Pearson and next door to the post
office.