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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-09-18
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Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1913-09-05
FAIR DIRECTORS BOUGHT SITE
Third Annual Event Likely To BE
Held In sour Own
Fair Grounds"

The directors of the Bryan County
Agricultural and Live Stock Associa-
ton, preparing for one of the biggest
fairs in the history of the association,
last week purchased the forty acre
tract of land known as the Tom Cox
land, which lies about two hundred
and fifty feet south of the Frisco
railroad tracks, opposite the Durant
Nursery. This land was purchased
several years ago by a number CT
parties for the very purpose for which
it has been bought by the association.
The gentlemen purchased the land
and have held 1t for the purpose CT
disposing of the same to be used as
a fair grounds. The property is ideal
for fair purposes, coming as it does
to the line OF the city limits. there
by being in close promoxity to the
city. Water mains run within a short
distance of the property and will be
extended to the grounds. The pur-
chase price was $125 per acre.
1t is understood arrangements are
being made with Street Commissioner
George Roberts, for him to put the
grounds in condition for the holding
OF the third annual fair in October.
A large force of men will begin the
improvement work in a few days.
The directors Of the Bryan County
Agricultural and Live Stock Associa-
tion are men who are going to see
that a great fair is pulled off here
this year, and they are making the
right start when the secure a home
for the fair Give them your help and
co-operation. and they will give US a
fair this fall that Will rival any in
Oklahoma.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1913-09-05
THE VALUE OF FETERITA
ASA DROUGHT RESISTANT
GRAIN SORGHUMFOR OKLA.

of practical value but has many points
of superiority over both of the more
familiar grain sorghums-milo and
kaffir. We have received news from
every section of Oklahoma that feter-
ita has withstood the drought of the
past thirty days and in practically
every instance, has matured where
kaffir and milo are complete failures.
We challenge the enemies of feter-
ita who write with their prejudices
instead OF their brains to contradict
this statement, after making a thor
cugh Investigation of the merits of fe-
terita, compared with milo or kafsir
in Oklahoma this year. We are SO
confident that feterita has been more
successful than kaffir or milo this
year, that we agree to furnish five in
stances where feterita has been more
successful and profitable than milo or
kaffir grown under the same condit-
ions, for every one instance that can
be offered where kaffir or milo have
been more profitable than feterita.
We have no hesitancy in stating that
We believe that the PERSISTENT fight
on feterita has cost the farmers of
Oklahoma a million dollars this year.
Feterita is the one crop that will beat
the hot winds and drought, by matur-
ing thirty days earlier than kaffir and
fifteen days earlier than milo,
Feeding Value of Feterita
The feeding value of feterita as
grain and forage is equal in every
way to kaffir and we believe it to be
much better on account Of the grain
being larger and much softer than
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1913-09-05
TO ENCOURAGE BUYING TICKETS
katy WIN Charge Excess Fare When
Same Is Paid on Trains
Ruling IN Effect

In order to encourage the purchase
OF passenger tickets instead of pay
ing cash fares on trains as is the
habit with many people. the Katy has
adopted a ruling calling for an ex-
cess over ticket fares where the fare
is paid in cash on the train. The
ruling is now in effect and the orders
of w. s. st. George to auditors and
conductors are as follows:
ITO conductors and train auditors
and for information Of agents:
Except from non-ticketing stations
collect an excess amount in connec-
ton with all fares paid on trains FOR
interurban trips in Oklahoma as fol-
lows:
when she ticket fare is less than
soc, collect 10c more than ticket fare.
when ticket fare is from SOC to
$149, inclusive, collect 25c more than
ticket fare.
when ticket fare is from SOC to
collect soc more than ticket fare.
From children collect one-half Of
the gross train fares charged adults.
For example; Where adult fare is
4Oc, excess train collection 1Oc, total
5Oc, the child's train fare will be 25c.
Where adult ticket fare is s1.3O, total
$1.55. child's train fare will be 7sc.
etc"
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1913-09-05

So much discussion has been raised
concerning the new grain sorghum.
feterita, that the State Board of Agri-
Feterita is a grain sorghum from
British Egyptian Sudan. 1t is va
culture has issued the following:
riety OF urra differing from the white
durra called Jerusalem Corn" in
having erect heads. black glumes or
hulls instead of greenish white, near
ly smooth instead of very hairy, and
seeds slightly flattened instead OF
much flattened, as in the case of pure
white durra.
We have obtained and distributed
seed TO selected emonstration Farm
ers of Oklahoma and have recon-
mended 1t as desirable crop. Our
main reason for propagating it as a
grain variety was because 1t is some
what earlier than the common va
rieties of black hull kaffir and be-
cause the heads are entirely erect and
therefore more satisfactory to harvest
with a grain header than is dwarf
milo or standard milo in which part
of the heads are pendant or goose
necked. The grain OF this durra or
feterita is much softer than that of
milo or kaffir. 1t is however, much
more drougth-resistant
This department has decided to re-
commend feterita, in preference to
either dwarf milo or blackhull kaf-
fir where these can be grown. As
stated, it is earlier than the common
varieties of black hull kaffir which
has been heretofore grown in Okla
homa and peighboring states.
When IT vis .irst introduced into
the state. many irresponsible stories
were circulated concerning the plant
and some newspapers and farm jour-
mails, not having correct information
about it, drew on their imagination
and printed mis-information that has
left the impression on the minds ot
many people that feterita Is like some
other much heralded crops-of no
practical value.
The results obtained on the State
Demonstration Farms and at the var
ious secondary agricultural schools
and experiment station. and by others
who have given it thorough trial.
all tend TO prove that it is not only
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1913-09-05
COLLECTING PAVING TAX

The city clerk and an extra man to
help him are both busy now collecting
the paving tax on the six paving dis
tricts within the city, and before the
task is completed. the total collection
1t is estimated will run somewhere in
the neighborhood of $35,000.00.
Property owners pay for paving in
ten equal annual installments, togeth-
er with interest on the deferred pay
ments. The Main street job from the
Katy tracks to Third was the first
job laid and the fourth annual payment
is being made on that job, while on
the paving from Third avenue to Fifth
on Main street, the third payment is
being made. The new Second avenue
pavement is now paying its second an
nual installment, while the first pay
ment of ten per cent of the total
amount is being collected on the pave
ment on Third avenue from Evergreen
street north. On the Third avenue
paving between Main and Evergreen
and the Evergreen street job, the Sec
-, ond payment is being made.
The collection coming as 1t does In
the dull season of the year when
money is not as plentiful as at some
seasons. Is working hardship on
many property owners.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1913-09-05

James Thorpe, Oklahoma Indian.
the champion athlete and member Of
the New York National league base
ball team, today announced his en-
gagement to Miss Margaret I. Miller,
q Cherokee Indian, of Otoe. Okla. The
wedding will take place in October.
Thorpe will take his bride on a hon
eymoon around the world as he Will
be a member OF the New York team on
its globe girdling tour
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1913-09-05

and financial strength of the country" I"
Supporting an amendment he had Of
Tered to the tariff bill, proposing a
10 per cent tax on all trades where
the seller did not actually own the
property sold. Mr.. Cummins backed
by several other Republican Senators,
delivered a vigorous criticism of stock
and produce exchange operations and
urged that Congress do its utmost TO
discourage or prohibit fictitious trad
ing. which he characterized as "gamb-
ling"
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1913-09-05

Kansas City. Mo-. Sept. 4.-Frank
Hastings. manager of the s. NJ. 3.
ranch. Stamford, Texas. where 10000
head of cattle are now held, brings
the encouraging word to beef consum-
ers that che cattle shortage as 1t now
exists in the United States will be
overcome in the next few years. He
says Texas, the natural breeding
country of the world. will be prom
inent factor in the reconstruction.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1913-09-05

The city police force aud the Mayor
will soon inaugurate campaign
against the weeds and filth that many
citizens have allowed to accumulate
on their premises, and as there Is a
city ordinance making this offense a
misdemeanor and finable offense.
every case that can be found will be
prosecuted. Next week, probably. the
police will canvass the city and all
persons who have allowed the weeds
to outgrow everything else on the
place will be likely summoned to ap-
pear before the police Judge to explain
why he should not pay fine.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1913-09-05

Announcement was made this week
by Messrs. w. L. and J. G. Colvert
that they had sold the Durant Ice
Cream and Creamery Company to w.
M. Jensen, of Coolidge. Texas. Mr..
Jenson assumed charge of the husi-
ness yesterday. He will be assisted
by his brother. James Jenson. These
young men come to Durant highly
recommended.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1913-09-05
LAND FOR SALE

1 have fifty-two acres of sandy loam
land a quarter of mile east of Ca
lera, Oklahoma, all in cultivation.
with good house. barn and fine well.
which will sell right and on terms to
right party. VIII take good work
team as part payment. Inquire at
First National Bank, Kenefick, Okla.
w2t.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1913-09-05

Washington, Sept. 4.--"Short sell
ing" on the New York Stock Exchange
the Chicago Board of Trade and on
cotton, produce and stock exchanges
generally was attacked by Senator
Cummins in the senate as one of the
greatest vices" OF the day and as "a
menace that threatens the industrial
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1913-09-05

engagement has more than doubled,
and the encores demanded evince the
reason for the increase" Such re-
ports have been received from all the
cities in which this band has ap
peared.
The solo work Of Miss Olive Elsom
Scharf, whose picture is shown on the
right and Joseph c. Ramser, whose
likeness appears on the left, will be
big features OF each and every con-
cert given at the State Fair.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1913-09-05

summer at the Fontaine Ferry Park,
Louisville, Ky. During his engage
ment there the newspapers were high
in their praise of him. The Times of
that city had in its columns: ma
tiello, the celebrated bandmaster and
composer, is showing the patrons Of
Fontaine Ferry Park how good music
should be played. His band concerts
are the best ever heard within the
history OF that popular resort. The
attendance since the opening OF his
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1913-09-05

Nashville, Tenn. Sept 1.-Two
drivers and two mechanicians were
killed. three others were injured and
several narrowly escaped death when
four of the six high powered automo-
biles, contestants in the Labor Day
speed arces. we're piled in a heap at
the State Fair Grounds here last Mon
day.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1913-09-05

Labor Day was quiet day in Du-
rant this year, no celebration Of any
kind having taken place, and all bus
mess and works Of every kind, except
the postoffice, the banks. and the
newspaper offices. worked same IS
usual.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1913-09-05

Wanted-salesman to sell lubricat-
ing oils, house and barn paint and
specialties. Big profits. Champion
Refining Company. Cleveland, Ohio.
Sept 12-13t.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1913-09-05

For Weakness and Loss of Appetite
The Old Standard general strengthening tonic
GROVES TAsrELESS chill TONIC. drives ou
Malaria and builds up the system. A true toni
and sure Appetizer. For adults and ehiIdfen. 81.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1913-09-05

kaffir and can be fed to good advan-
tage without being ground, which is
necessary 10 obtain best results with
kaffir. or course any grain is bet
ter ground than to be fed whole.
This. Department has prepared
bulleting entitled THE Value of Fe-
terita as Drought-Resistant Grain
Sorghum" which will furnish all in
formation, including planting. har-
vesting and it's value as an ensilage,
ETC., which will be mailed on request. -
Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture,
Demonstration Farm Department.
BY ID. s. Woodson, Superintendent.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1913-09-05
RUB-MY-TISM

Will cure your Rheumatism
Neuralgia, Headaches, Cramps,
Collie, Sprains. Bruises, Cuts and
Burns, Old Sores, Stings of Insects
Etc. Antiseptic AnOdyne. used in
ternally and externally. Price 2Sc.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1913-09-05
Malaria or ChiIIs & Fever

Prescription No. 006 is prepared especially
for MALARIA or cHlLLS q FEVER.
five or six doses will break any case, and
;ffaken fher W foric fhH Feser 7,Ill nor
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1913-09-05

The foremost concert band of the
country will furnish the music at the
seventh annual Oklahoma State Fair
and Exposition. Oklahoma City, Sep
tember 23 to October 4, 1918. 1t is
the famous Natiello Band consisting
of thirty selected musicians and re.
nowned soloists. This band is recog
nized everywhere as a musical organi-
zation OF the first order.
Bandmaster Natiello has played all
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-04-29
HAVE CONFIDENCE IN FUTURE
Present Generation is Optimistic as
TO the Doings of Those Who
Are to Fellow.

II these is any one thing which more
than another distinguishes this gener-
alton from all those generations of
which we have record it is that the
people of this day are vastly more
interested in the future of mankind
than they are in the past. And they
are excessively optimistic about it.
Where once a lot OF fuss was made
about the achievements and the high
character of the ancients the talk
now is of the wonderful folk still un.
born and of the marvels it is taken
for granted they will perform. There
Is less tendency on the part of mature
persons to presume that their great
grandchildren will be without sense
and a greater tendency to avoid tying
the future up with constitutional re
strictions, statutory custom and lega.
cies Of responsibility.
An admirable illustration of this
state of mind is indicated by the
words of the New York clergyman
who informed his congregation the
other day that human existence so far
has been the might of life' and that
dawn was just breaking for the real
morning of humanity's kingdom" The
gentleman may be wrong or he may
be right. There is no scientific in
strument SO far devised which will
foretell the days to come. But such
talk, we believe, is of incalculable
value. 1t helps great deal in the
work of throwing off such traditions
and habits as bind us rather than aid
us.--Toledo Blade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-04-29
City and Farm Life.

A great deal is SAID and written
about the rugged old farmers of
eighty" but they look more like a
hundred while there are scores of
men in the city who step off quite
briskly to their Offices, keen of in
tellect and active of body at eighty,
as many younger man has learned in
attempting to deal with them. And
the city man Of eighty looks about
sixty, while the average farmer of
sixty looks more like an octogenarian.
Taken all in all, physicians the coun-
try over have agreed that their obser-
vations lead to the conviction that the
country man does not average one bit
healthier than the city man.-Chicago
American.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-04-29
HUMAN BEING AS A FACTORY
Writing In Atlantic Monthly, Gerald
Stanley Lee Made a Remarkably
Comprehensive Comparison.

A human being is kind Of factory.
The engine and the works and all the
various machines are kept in the
basement, and he sends down orders
to them from time to time, and they
90 the work which has been con
ceived up in headquarters. He ex
poets the works down below to keen
on doing these things without his TAX
ing any particular notice of them,
while he occupies his mind, as the
competent head of factory should,
with the things that are new and diff
ferent and special, and that his mind
alone can do the things which, at
least in their present initial forma-
tive or creative stage, no machines as
yet have been developed to do, and
which can only be worked out by the
man up in the headquarters, himself,
personally, by the handiwork of his
own thought.
The more human being develops,
the more delicate, sensitive, strong
and efficient, the more spirit-informed
once for all, the machines in the base
ment are AS he grows, the various
subconscious arrangements for dis
eliminating, assimilating, classifying
material. for pumping up power, light,
and heat to headQ udrters, all of which
can be turned on at will, grow more
masterful every year. They are found
all shaving away for him, dimly, down
in the dark, while he sleeps They
hand him up, in his very dreams new
and strange powers to live end to
know with-Gerald Stanley lee, in
the Atlantic.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-04-29
RAVEN AT0NES FOR OLD SIN
Since Middle Ages One Of Its Kind
Has Been Confined In eaxeay
az a Punishment.

There Is a new raven In the cage
of the historic raven OF Merseburg in
Prussian Saxony. The number in sue
cession of the new bird Is not record
ed. but 1t occupies place that has
held raven since the middle ages,
in consequence of the contrition of a
certain knight of Merseburg who con-
demned to death an innocent man.
Thilo Won Trotha was the lord of
this section In the middle ages. One
day he missed fsom his room some
jewelry, accused q man servant Of
stealing 1t and had him beheaded in
the courtyard Before his decapitation
the condemned man proclaimed his in
nocence and said that he would reas-
sert it after death by raising his arms
above his shoulders. Tradition says
that he did so.
Some months later the missing jew
els were found In ravens nest. Thilo
Won Trotha thereupon ordered that for
all time a raven should be kept in
the courtyard, and the raven just put
into the cage Is the successor of that
first birG. The arms Of the Won Tro-
thas have a quarterirg showing a
headless human trunk with the arms
raised.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-04-29
COLLEGE Education.

The college girl graduate sits with
her dimpled chin resting in the hol-
low of the whitest of hands. She is
thinking great thoughts as she looks
with unclouded eyes into the future.
The wisdom aud culture of the CEN
turtles have for four years been at her
disposal. Intelligent instructors have
nodded her character and have turn
ed out another finished product. The
world will receive a new impetus from
her philanthropic efforts. She rises
with yawn. She speaks:
Some of those back numbers at
home will sit up and take notice when
/ get off the train in this new pannier
skirt suit of mine Suburban Life.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-04-29
White Men in the Tropics.

White governments encourage emil
grafton to their vacant territories. AT
the same time, they wish to people
these dependencies with colonists of
their own race and fear encroach-
ment from a colored one. In some
places the bogeyman is yellow, while
In others he is the negro. North Aus
tralia, where the mean temperature is
tropical and the annual rainfall as in
Florida, contains only $4,000 in
habitants, 10000 of whom are natives.
The problem of the white mans
adaptability to tropical conditions is
in a way skin deep, since it depends
on his ability to Withstand tropical
sunlight, and this makes the yellow
man a formidable competitor. All
races, inclusive of the blond, retain in
the cells of their skins traces of the
brown pigments of primitive man,
which in races other than the white
appear more noticeably in the hair
and eyes. No race whose skin is in
capable of resistance to sunlight can
survive in a tropical climate.-Har-
per's Weekly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-04-29
The Reciprocity In II.

There is one very important phase
of the new tariff bill that has not re-
ceived much attention-its reciproc-
ity features.
In the new bill there is clause
giving the president very broad
authority to negotiate reciprocity
treaties with foreign nations in goods
made dutiable under the act. That
is trading edge is established that
will so far to aid i'm the extension of
Americas foreign markets.
Reciprocity has become a settled
and very desirable policy of this
country. 1t is as consistent with a
low tariff as with high-in fact
more so. BY it those articles upon
which a duty is imposed by foreign
countries are accepted by that coun-
try under favorable terms i'm return
for this country'S accepting such
country's goods dutiable here under
favorable conditions.
Reciprocity means that the surplus
of this country'S products may find
favorable markets in countries that
need them. In return the surplus of
other countries in demand here can
come in under favorable terms. That
is the trade and friendly bonds be-
tween the high contracting parties
are strengthened and trade flows
along lines natural TO it instead of
being confined by arbitrary and arti-
fetal lines. With such clause the
foreigi markets of the United States
are pro cted.
That makes q strong clause in the
bill, one that should receive as much
approval as is given the reductions In
the major portions of the measure
Milwaukee News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-04-29
Rose-Water Athletics.

1t is possible that the riddle of the
Polish temperament is humorously re-
yealed in the following story, which
was CLEANED from Mr. Edmund Gosse's
volume of literary "reminiscences en-
titled 1.-TWO Visits to Denmark"
A professor from the University Of
Cracow visited Cambridge. The late
Prof. Henry Sidgwick showed the
guest the youth of the place disport-
ing itself on the cricket field and in
the boats.
The Polish visitor made no com
L1ent, and was indeed so reserved that
Professor Sidgwick felt obliged to
say:
you have nothing like this at the
University of Cracow?'
"At the University OF Cracow," the
professor replied, I'VE hygienate with
the bal masque" (masked ball) -
Youths Companion.