The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-05-30
OKLAHOMA MEMS NOTES

Durant business men are organizing
a boosters club that will go in auto
mobiles over Bryan county,
Lawton will entertain two conven-
tions this week; the master bakers and
the druggists being in session.
Durant is endeavoring to organize a
farmers cooperative gin company
with a capital stock Of $4,000,
Five hundred head of cattle were
recently shipped from Pushmataha
county to Miller brothers ranch.
Hobart Democrat says the Harris
Day code, in section 1919, provides
that no women can be deputy county
officials.
The Lawton News says that fish
have quit biting and that you can now,
with clear conscience, attend church
on Sunday.
Lightning struck a Pauls Valley
house and did no other damage to the
house or contents than to burn the
window curtains.
Enid defeated Guthrie and Tulsa as
the next convention city for the Okla
homa Pharmaceutical association in
the meeting at Lawton.
P. OByrne, gold miner Of Cold
Springs, states that the Brown reduc-
ton works, installed at cost Of $40,-
900, will open for work in few days.
Although the local ball team has lost
nine straight games, the Durant Daily
Democrat refuses to desert the bleach
ers and says the team will pull out Of
the hole.
The survey of the Quanah Sey-
mour, Dublin and Rockport railroad,
better known as the ''Middlebuster"
in northern Texas, is completed from
Quanah to Graham, Texas.
Bartlesville Enterprise is offering
$40 to the first man in town who will
whip a peddler, and remarks that as
the fine will be only $3.50 there will
be easy money for someone.
The Sapulpa Democrat can't har-
monte the idea of the legislature
drawing railroad fare for mileage they
did not travel, with its refusing to pay
a SIS bill that appears to be justly
due.
The Times-Record of Fort Smith,
Ark, tells of man who drank two
ounces of sulphuric and one ounce
of nitric acid and says he survived
because of being accustomed to drink
ing Oklahoma squirrel whisky.
Editor Hawkins appeals to the peo-
ple of Pauls Valley to muzzle the
dogs for fear some of them will go
mad and bite him, which might give
some of his enemies an excuse for
shooting him.
The Longdale News tells of an In
dian who, with his pockets full of
Hostetters bitters and his stomach
. full of whiskey, taking the town and
going to another Indians home and
running everybody from the house.
The editor says the indian is gentle
man when not drunk.
Times-Democrat of Muskogee says
it is perfectly right for congressman
to conduct mail course Of instruc-
lions on how to obtain federal Of.
flee, if he wants to, but in the mean
time the pie knife is getting rusty.
Through the fundamentally of Rep
resentative Claude Weaver, General
Leonard A. Wood, chief of staff of the
United States army, has promised to
send several companies of infantry,
artillery and cavalry to Oklahoma
City the coming fall for maneuvers
during the state fair.
Miss Alice Robertson, a handsome
and accomplished maid, who has been
postmaster at Muskogee for the past
eight years, turned over the keys to
W. H. Z. DIoW0IJ urnubOLu6 anu az
complished bachelor. She invited him
to dinner. He accepted and they ate
and Observation-Disclosures Sayings.
The county commissioners OF Gar
field county have refused to call an
election, for the purpose Of voting on
the free fair proposition, holding that
the 1,472 names on the petition were
not 80 per cent of the qualified voters
of the county.
DR.. d. M. HALEY, who has the en-.
dorsement of the Oklahoma veterans
for commander of the trans-Mlssis.
sippi department of Confederate vet
Grams, was newspaper reporter from
1857 to 1860 on the Baton Rouge AID.
vocate.
Promoters Of an electric light sys-
tenn in Quinton have deposited $1O0
with the city treasurer as a guaranty
OF good faith, and say that in the
event work is not commenced within
sixty days from the date of the fran
chise the city may keep the entire
amount.
A copperhead snake bit the foot Of
q 10-vear-old sphnol how. ond bts