The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-12-05

Jan. 12-Sale OF Choctaw and Chicka-
saw lands at Poteau.
Jan. 15-Sale of Choctaw and CHICK
asaw lands at Wilburton.
Jan. l7.-Sale OF Choctaw and Chicka-
saw lands at McAlester.
Jan. 2s-sl-State Poultry Show. Enid.
Sept. 22-oct. 8, 1914-state Fair, Okla
homa City.
Drilling has begun on the Mer-
chants Oil Co. we'll at Oklahoma City.
Nearly 1000 square miles of clean
territory will be recommended to go
above the quarantine line about New
Years.
One hundred and fifty Muskogee
women have pledged themselves to do
their Christmas shopping before De.
cember 15
The fifth annual session of the
Northeastern Oklahoma Educational
association will be held at Muskogee
this week.
In the past season, $4,000 bushels of
wheat were marketed at Amorita,
bringing to the farmers of that section
more than $4,000.
Farmers in Geary trade territory
have marketed 10000 bushels of corn
there this season and received approx
imately $4,000 for it.
]. d. Vevlin pleaded guilty to the
charge of arson in the district court
at Arapaho and was sentenced to five
years in the penitentiary.
T. B. Gill, proprietor of the Dur
ant book store and a we'll known
citizen ended his life by shooting
himself through the head.
According to statistics recently COM
piled 662 persons have been graduated
from the university of Oklahoma, on
whom 70S degrees have been con-
ferred.
Charley Bowers is held in the coun-
ty Jail at Cherokee on a charge Of
killing j. French and fatally wound
ing George French in row after a
card game.
The new Baptist church was dedi-
Gated at Hennessey free of all in
debtedness. 1t is one of the most
beautiful and commodious churches
in the state.
Casee Banoe has been arrested at
Pocatello, Idaho, and will be returned
to Shawnee on a charge of stealing
diomonds from a pawnbroker, whose
clerk he was.
Mrs. Ada Woodward, under life sen.
tence for the murder of her husband,
Sherman Woodward, is now lowering
between life and death at Lawton, fol.
lowing an operation.
Wakita has been selected by the
Grant County Poultry association as
the place of holding the 1913 show,
according to Medford Patriot. The
show will be he'd in December.
The case of William McBrine, for
mer warrant clerk in the office of the
state auditor, and accused of embezzle-
ment of state funds, will not be tried
until the December term of the Logan
county district court.
John Begley, real estate dealer of
Howe, was acquitted by jury in the
district court on charges of criminal
assault in the first and second degree
and incest. His 17-year-old daughter
Gertrude was the prosecuting witness.
At the time Begley was arrested, the
case created sensation.
w. E. Gill, president of the North
western State Normal at Tahlequah,
rendered his resignation to the state
board of education to become a can.
didate for the democratic nomination
for state superintendent of public in.
struetion. His resignation was ac-
cepted by the board effective Decem.
Der 1.
''Kafir mullins" is the latest addition
to the menu card of the Rock Island
railroad dining car service.
The trial of j. G. Lindsay, charged
with numbering ]. Y Schenck, edi-
tor of the Democrat, will be started
on December Is, at Sulphur.
Since the first of January, Temple
has paid to the farmers of the sur.
rounding country more. than 100000
for farm products and by the time the
year closes this sum will be increased
to more than 100000.
The Garfield County Farmers Mu.
tual Insurance Company, the first com.
pany organized under the new state
law providing for mutual insurance
companies among farmers, has com.
pleted all preliminaries of preparation
and begun writing insurance.
Employees of the Perry postoffice,
including rural and city carriers to
the number of about twenty, gave a
farewell dinner to Charles L. Watson,
the retiring postmaster, and a well
coming reception to w. e. Merry, new
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