The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-05-09
OKLAHOMA NEWS NOTES

theater.
May day exercises were held by pub
llc schools throughout the State this
week.
Exchanges are commencing to re-
port the death Of hogs, from eating
cockleburs.
Bryan county has organized horse
show association with twenty-six vice
presidents.
Eighty-two building permits have
been issued in Tulsa during the month
just closing.
A spot five miles north of the city
has been chosen by Enid for the first
prospect oil we'll.
Marshall and Bryan County Medical
Associations held joint meeting May
6 at Aylesworth.
In its first report to Judge Hatchett,
the Creek county grand jury returned
thirteen indictments.
Many heart was broken in Broken
Bow last week when more than $1,000
worth of fine liquors were emptied into
the gutter.
Ed. Num- of Lawton was fined $1,000
and sentenced to prison for two years
for whipping with blacksnake whip
an orphan employee.
Tulsa Democrat iaments that one
of the penalties that city must suffer
for its great growth is the abolition
Of its circus grounds.
Activities Of suffragists in school
politics is given as cause Of the resig-
nation of two members of the May,
Harper county, school board.
Petitions praying that theaters be
permitted to open Sundays, signed by
500 persons, were filed with the city
commissioners of Bartlesville.
Alva youngsters we're treated to a
sight last week, excelied only by cir
Gus, when real live negro walked the
streets Of the Woods county town.
Robbers blew the safe in the store
of Tom Allen at Blue and escaped
with $S5 in cash and $65 in checks.
Nothing else in the store was taken.
The first crop of alfalfa will be
ready for harvest soon. Reports from
10 fn Opp
1t will be much heavier this year than
last
In Kiowa people who have wells
and cisterns have been tapping the
local water company's water mains
and filling up for the summer. The
company serves notice the practice
has to stop.
While the choir was singing an an
them in the Musokgee Episcopal
church recently, someone entered the
choir room and made away with a
spring hat owned by one of the men,
bers. Two gold pins went with the
hat.
A. G. Gray of Cheyenne has been
elected superintendent of the Masonic
Orphans Home at Darlington. Mr..
Gray has been resident of Cheyenne
since the opening and served as reg
lister of deeds and county clerk of
Roger Mills county. He also served
q term as grand master of the state
OF Oklahoma of the Masonic lodge.
An Oklahoma editor gave out the
Information that he knew secret
that did not rebound to the credit of
O certain citizen and under particular
circumstances would publish an &C.
count of the affair and name the indi-
vidual The next week he received
two hundred letters, vowing dire
threats against his life,
Vol. |, No. l, of the Tupelo Tribune.
published every Friday by w. j. Ang-
lin, Is at hand. According to Editor
Anglin 1t is to be the best paper in
the best town in the best county in
the best state Of the United States"
An information was filed against
Mrs. Mary E. Rose of Muskogee, who
conducts the Ohio rooning house,
charging her with being an accom-
plice with Mrs. Laura Reed in setting
fire to house at 329 North N street
In which Mrs. Reed resided. 1t Is
claimed that Mrs Rose employed the
transfer man who hauled the goods
from Mrs. Reeds home a few hours
before the house was set on fire.
Active development OF the big
dolomite quaries at Creta, Is miles
west of Altus, on the Frisco railroad,
in the near future is promised in a
letter to Altus capitalists from J. C.
Drew, of Dallas, president of the
Southwestern Quarry Company, which
purchased the properties there three
years ago at cost Of 100000, the
deed at the time being the largest
ever filed in the records of Jackson
county.
Coleman, Johnston county, is consid-
ering proposition for a waterworks
system, with deep wells as the source
of supply.