The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-06-20


Oct. t-A-.Iackson County Fair, Blair
oct. 1i-.6-Tulsa County Fair, Broken
Arrow.
A New Mexico judge sentenced a
man to the penitentiary for LOG years.
Citizens of Old Jay propose to build
a concrete court house by popular sutS
scription.
According to the Alva Times, the
bug world is holding mass meeting
In that city.
Newkirk is to have a white way"
and has the money ready to pay for
Il when completed
"Oil Fever over One Hundred" &C
cording to the pulse of local citizen,
says the Laverne Leader.
The Howe Star mentions the fact
that cider joints" in the town pay
tax Of 5000 per year each.
The Pauls Valley Free Lance wants
municipal ordinance passed declar-
ing bill collectors a nuisance.
The Kenefck Dispatch boasts that
every business man in KeneHck car
ries an advertisement in that paper.
The Prague News says that the
home team was defeated by Okemah,
because the boys could not catch, run
or bat.
A band of sharpers recently went
through Pawnee county, vctimizing
farmers of 5000 each, selling county
rights on an alleged farm necessity.
The Durant Democrat tells OF 4
year-od child walking into an uncov-
cred well and drowning while its help
less mother loked on.
"The whole id world is invited
to attend" says the last line of a
notice, in the Duncan Eagle, of a com
ing picnic by the socialists.
A feature Of the graduation week
at the University of Oklahoma Will
be the annual meeting of the Okla
homa alumni of the University OF
Michigan.
The Vlnita Leader tells Of seventy
seven farmers of Craig county, who
went to the home of woman whose
husband had recently died, and plowet
sixty acres Of corn twice for her.
The Ripley Bulletin published notice
of a former citizen having his head
cut off by train, and to the ambar-
rassment of the editor. the man turned
up in town with his head on his
shoulders.
The McAlester News.Capital says 1t
pays to advertise in that paper, and
as proof refers to the fact that a real
estate man turned into the office
"farm.for.sale" copy, and the linotyper
who set the ad bought the farm.
The Porter Enterprise sees no cause
for immediate alarm because there
are some, counterfeit SIS bills in circu-
lation, but says that when counterfeit
nickels commence to circulate it runs
some risks of being cheated.
The fourth quadrennial national con-
clave of the Brotherhood of American
Yeomen, at Oklahoma City, compli-
mented the convention city by unani'
mously electing Miss Charlotte Steph-
enson to the position Of supreme chap
lain Of the society.
The editor OF the Hooker Advance
is Justice of the peace, and has just
solemnized his first marriage cere-
| mony. He devoted half column to
telling about the marriage. One year
for now, he will be billing" them down
into three-line paragraphs.
The Durant Democrat tells OF a
local citizen hlccoughing for twelve
days, and after doctors and trained
nurses had dispaired Of saving the
mans life, he recovered when three
ice-cold bottles Of beer were given
him. Hot as was the weather last
week three bottles of ice-cold beer
would have restored life to an Egyp-
tian mummy
The Tulsa World says that socks
are being worn by the women these
long, hot days, and an exchange is
looking for some "brave-hearted mere
man who will establish style for Of
fee men to wear filmy, silk kimonas
during the summer" g.
That there is no hard feeling be-
tween the nelghboring towns of Dun
can and Comanche is indicated by the
Duncan Eagle devoting quarter OF a
column of a writeup Of Comanches
mamoth peanut mill and then adding
'if Duncan had any git up, it would
build similar one"
When stranger drops into town,
jolly him. Tell him it is a great little
city-and so it is. Don't discourage
him by speaking ill of your neighbors.
Lead him to believe he has at last
struck place where good people live.
Cheyenne Star.