The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-05-23
OKLAHOMA NEWS NOTES
Edmond wants cheaper water.

A Lamont man awakened at the
usual hour one morning last week to
find his wife dead by his side.
The Bromide Herald apologies for
last weeks Issue of the paper, saying
one of the force got married.
The Ell Reno Democrat believes the
fire which came near destroying its
water plant was of incendiary origin.
Goodwill citizens celebrated with a
bonfire news that the legislature had
appropriated $4,000 in aid of the Pan
handle Agricultural school.
A Wetumka fisherman tails a new
kind of fish story. He conSsses that
he set out 100 hooks in the Canadian
river and did not get a bite.
Cracksmen blew the safe of the
Wheatland postoffice, II miles south
OF Oklahoma City, and got away with
$500 in money and $50 in stamps.
Wheat fields are recovering from
the setback received at the hands OF
the chinch bugs. These little rascals
were driven out by the recent rains.
According to the Taloga Advocate,
nearly every house in the town Is &C.
cupied by patients who have come to
the town to receive treatment from To-
cal physicians.
A fve-inning baseball game between
a girls team and a boys team was
played at Alva, the boys being re-
quired to handle the ball entirely with
the left hand.
The Haworth Herald frankly ack.
nowledges that the devil edited last
weeks issue of the paper in the alb.
sence of the angel, who was in Bar
tlesville attending a convention Of
angels.
The Anadarko Democrat wants the
marriage license and good health
bill" amended to provide that the
applicant be able to stand flat-footed
jump his length, pay his grocery bill
and whip his weight in wildcats"
That those who marry in haste can
repent at leisure is exemplified in the
Lawton man who within few weeks
after being granted a divorce married
a second time and is now serving o
one-year sentence in Jail for his haste.
General headquarters for the third
district of the Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific Railroad company, including
the system south Of Caldwell, Kan.
in the states of Oklahoma, Texas, Ar
kansas, Louisiana and Tennessee, will
be moved on June Is from Fort Worth
Texas, to Ell Reno, Okla.
That newspaper man who had faith
in pulmotor being able to bring back
to life a man hit by lightning is only
eualqed in faith by the one who went
into a strange restaurant, ordered o
Square meal and had faith that some
one would pass by from whom he
could borrow the money with which
to pay for the meal.
A six-shooter, target rife and
meat ak were used by negro and
white man at Webbers Falls in an
effort to settle an argument over 80
cents, and the white man was left for
dead where he fell, A "passer-by"
thought him dead, and, upon returning
with help, saw the wounded man row
ing boat across the river.
]. L. Burke Of Hobart, was appoint
ed by Governor Cruce to succeed
George H. Bloom on the state board
OF embalmers, Blooms term having
expired April /, Burke's term extends
for three years. The other members
of the board are L. T. Walters of Ada
and John NJ. Draper Of Oklahoma
City.
At Roby carload of pine lumber
caught fire and an engine was at.
tached to the burning car and a quick
run made to Hugo, where the local
fire department was called out to OK,
tinguish the flames.
The young ladies' Of Terlton organ.
lied baseball team and played the
local boys an 18-to-18 game.
To ascertain the most ancient game
INDUCED in by the human race. the
BartlesVille Examiner recently con-
Quoted lengthy recearch, and found
that playing hands was known before
Hoyle was ever thought Of.
BY majority of 1874, Guthrie voted
to deed the convention hall and site,
formerly used as state capitol to
the Methodist University, providing
the university raises an endowment
of $25O,OOO within the next three
years.
The county commissioners or Gar
field county have refused to call an
election for the purpose of voting on
the free fair proposition, holding that
the 1,472 nameA on the petition were
not 80 per cent Of the qualified voters
Of the county.
Boys OF Cornish provided themselves
with tin pans, bells and horns, and In
the dark Of the night stole up on