The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1913-05-29
OKLAHOMA NEWS NOTES


mobiles over Bryan county.
Durant is endeayoring TO organize
farmers cooperative gin company
with a capital stock OF 10000.
Five hundred head OF cattle were
recently shipped from Pushmataha
county to Miller brothers ranch.
At Greggs, according to ne Temple
Tribune, a farmer lost a drove OF
forty hogs in a recent river rise there.
Jackson county farmers are arming
themselves with poison with which to
fight an anticipated invasion of grass.
hoppers.
Hobart Democrat says the Harris.
Day code, in section 1649, provides
that no women can be deputy county
officials.
The Lawton News says that FISH
have quit biting and that you can now,
with a clear conscience, attend church
on Sunday.
Lightning struck a Pauls Valley
house and did no other damage to the
window curtains.
Enid defeated Guthrie and Tulsa as
the next convention city for the Okla.
homa Pharmaceutical association in
the meeting at Lawton.
Although the local ball team has lost
nine straight games, the Durant Daily
Democrat refuses to desert the bleach
ers and says the team will pull out OF
the hole.
Bartlesville Enterprise is offering
SO to the first man in town who Will
whip a peddler, and remarks that as
the fine will be only $3.50 there will
be easy money for someone.
The Beckham County News, when
It learned the legislature had ad.
journed, requested the audience to rise
and please join in singing Praise
God From Whom All Blessings Flow"
Lahoma, with a population of 275,
has an even dozen automobiles in the
town. and claims to have the greatest
number, according to population, of
any town in the country.
The Sapulpa Democrat can't har.
monize the idea of the legislature
drawing railroad fare for mileage they
did not travel, with its refusing to pay
a SIS bill that appears to be justly
due.
Editor Hawlssns appeals to the peo-
pie OF Pauls Valley to muzzle the
dogs for fear some Of them will go
mad and bite him, which might give
some of his enemies an excuse for
shooting him.
The Carter Express takes Durant
to task for refusing to employ mar
Tied women as teachers in local
schools, and says that women with
courage to get married should not
be Disseminated against
Times-Democrat of Muskogee says
1t is perfectly right for congressman
TO conduct a mail course OF instruc
tlons on how TO obtain a federal of
fee, If he wants to. but in the mean
time the pie knife is getting rusty.
The Altus News, telling of local
bootlegger's method of making whis
key. says "He had one quart Of whis-
key, from which he would take two
ounces and make pint, by adding
something TO give it the hell-roaring
quality demanded by his customers
During a thunder shower a Gregg
citizen ran out OF a storm cave to
head off one OF his pigs that was run
ming away The thunder rolled, the
clouds looked big, the lightning flashed
and killed the pig The owner went
back into his cave
The Longdale News tells OF an In
dian who, with hrs pockets full of
Hostetters bitters and his stomach
full of whiskey taking the town and
going to another Indians home and
running everybody from the house.
The editor says the Indian is q gentle
man when not drunk.
Three brothers living in Bartlesville
we're injured last week. A finger of
one was torn off by bicycle chain.
the second one fell and fractured
leg, and the third one was cut in the
thigh while sliding down guy wire,
according to the Enterprise.
Miss Alice Robertson, a handsome
and accomplished maid. who has been
postmaster at Muskogee for the past
eight years turned over the keys to