The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-04-25
OKLAHOMA NEWS NOTES

A pipe line route is being surveyed
from the Electra Oil field in Texas to
the Cushing, Okla, field,
Fire Of unknown origin destroyed
several business houses and contents
at Geary, entailing losses estimated
at $4,000.
Pauls Valley will vote ON a bond Is
sue OF $4,000 with which to make
some needed improvements on the
Lee school,
The window frames have been set
up and bricks are being laid in the
construction of the Catholic univer"
sity at Shawnee.
A Chinese baseball team from the
Chinese university of Honolulu twice
defeated the Alya normal school ball
team in two games played.
The Hugo Husonian thinks the jury
there was "cinchy" because it grant
ed no awards of more than $1,000 out
OF all the cases it tried,
At sale of thoroughbred cattle, in
Watonga county, $4,000 worth of stock
was sold, one head at time, in two
hours and thirty-fve minutes,
All Protestant churches in Harris
horne have united in a great revival
meeting, and reports from that place
indicate the sermons are doing great
good
Commercial clubs in southern Okla
homa towns are purchasing approved
grades of cottonseed and distributing
it among the farmers of surrounding
territory.
While watching baseball game at
Manguh a small boy was struck by
foul ball, which broke the nasal bone
and fractured the cheek bone of the
youthful fan"
The editor CT the Kingston Messen-
ger thinks there is more pleasure in
reclining on his back than he would
enjoy by assuming the same attitude
under an automobile,
The Methodist revival meeting,
which had been in progress at Altus
for tWenty-three days, closed recent
ly with love feast" in which the
citizenship of practically the entire
town participated
Orchardists Of Pottawatomie county
are optimistic. They say the recent
cold spells aided rather than injured
the peach crop, as there were too many
blooms on the trees anyway, and those
not killed will make a fair crop and
bring good price
The business men of Chandler have
made arrangements to distribute free
tc the farmers of that trade territory
one hundred bushels of black-hull
white kafrcorn seed. Four hundred
farmers will each receive one peck
of seed, sufficient to plant five acres
of ground.
The Lincoln County Poultry Asso-
citation is making elaborate prepare
lions for their annual poultry show,
to be held at Stroud December 1, 2
and 8, and has secured the services
Of C. A. Enry Of Carthage, Missouri,
to score the birds.
The Armstrong Oil company has
commenced a test we'll on the MUIR
dock lease. seven miles southeast Of
NeWkirk. Much excitement prevails
in this territory and farmers are be-
ing offered fabulous prices for their
acreage,
A retailers association has been
at Ardmore with W. j.
Lane, president; A. B. Rawlings, vice
president, and W. G, Ditzler, treas
urer w. o. Atwell, who has been
secretary for a similar organization at
Coalgate, and who is trained in the
work, has been chosen secretary.
Enterprising business men of Eldor-
ado, have, organized a fair association
and will hold an agricultural and live
stock exhibition this fall after the
crops are harvested.
The Bull Moose party will have an
official organ in Oklahoma, with the
purchase of plant in Tulsa by a COM
pany headed by Thomas A. Latta, for
mer editor of the Gas Journal of that
city.
The First National Bank Of Stroud
distributed 100 bushels of the best
pure black-hulled white kair corn
seed obtainable for 400 farmers in
their trade territory-enough for each
farmer to plant about five acres of
kafir for feed.
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
letter to Altus capitalists from ]. 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.
A two-year-old Chickasha child drank
a portion of a can of lye, which had
been left within its reach. and it's