The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-01

Agra.
Oct 1-4-JacRson County Fair, Blair.
oct 1l-16-Tulsa County Fair. Broken
Arrow.
los in the shade at McAlester.
Maud was LOG degrees hot one day
last week.
Beer is now quoted at six-bits a
bottle in Bartlesvllle
Muskogee officials spilled 1000 gal
Ions Of beer into the sewer
James L. Admire. postmaster of
Fairview, Okla, has resigned.
Democratic candidates for govern.
or are bobbing up fast over the state.
There has been 100000 worth of
wheat shipped from Davidson this
year.
Sidney Suggs has been stumping
Arkansas in the interest of good
roads.
Exchanges are commencing to tell
of sparks from engines setting fire to
grain stacks.
Twins were born to a couple at
Kingston, aged 16 and II years re.
spectively.
Stigler ladies gave a picnic and
raised $119.O5 for the improvement OF
the local cemetery.
Since a carload of booze was found
underneath the ground in a McAlester
mine, half the towns in the state are
agitating setting up derricks and drill
ling.
Mistaking his comrades head for
the back of squirrel, Cecil Wood.
ward of Hinton shot but only slightly
wounded Hugh Carlyle, while the two
were out hunting.
Excavation for the cement work OF
the new city water tower and the
city hall building for Forgan is pro-
crossing rapidly. The waterworks
are being put in by the city at cost
of $4,000
The foundation and basement Of
the $4,000 consolidated school build
ing for Forgan has been completed
and masons have begun the laying OF
the brick walls. This will be the fin.
est school building northwest of
Woodward.
Actual work has been started on
the Ardmore-Waurika road. and forty
teams have just been put to work
grading the new Ringing road.
Watika Herald gives this graphic
description: "E. Holden a farmer liv.
ing southeast of town, was struck by
lightning during a storm. and killed
instantly. He was raking hay at the
time Of the accident, and the lightning,
hitting him on the top of the head,
ran down his back in two streaks,
cutting his clothes as If they had been
cut with knife, broke his neck, and
then split the rake in two, causing
the horses to run away"
Arnett Leader tells OF about five
hundred people attending the Fourth
of July picnic, and one Doctor" Briles
appeared with two alleged vicious
horses. After explaining his horse.
manship, his steeds were grabbed by
the ears, saddled and bridled. The
doctor then rode the horse in true
wild west fashion, and offered $50 to
anyone else who could ride the wild
horse A plowboy called his bluff
and, after the doctor backed down,
rode the horses for So, donated by the
audience.
The Quinton News tells of three
ladies' driving out to pick berries and
as the result of runaway one sus-
tanned leg broken above the knee,
another was injured about the hip
and the third injured on top of the
head.
man was found asleep in a field
near Purcell says the Republic, and
upon being questioned said he was in
search of his wife, who died two
months ago. He says that following
her death he saw her rise and depart
from her grave, but as yet has been
unable to overtake her.
The sixth annual convention of Ok
lahoma Title Men at Guthrie closed
with the election of Alvin F. Pyeatt,
Pauls Valley, president; R. C. Burns
dale, Guthrie, vice president; E. A
Wilson, McAlester, secretary-treas-