The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-02-20

Nedry MaSOnS nave recently erect
ed a new hall.
Two banks of Fairvlew have COM
bined deposits of $lS5,000.
Frederick will have a seven.day
chautauqua beginning July 2.
From three to FIVE carloads of poul-
try are shipped each week from Gin
ton.
The dedication of the new law build
ing at the University of Oklahoma
will take place March 4.
W. p. LeGrange died at Cement
from injuries received when his team
became frightened and ran away.
Harry Waddington of Hugo has left
for St. Petersburg, Fla, where he will
! enter the Benois school of aviation.
A convention of the Southwest Holt
ness association and National Rescue
Workers association was held at
Frederick.
Sixteen carloads of corn were ship
ped from Lookeba in the month of
January. Several cars of livestock
also were shipped.
The city council of Kingfisher has
passed an ordinance prohibiting the
showing of moving pictures that might
in the least suggest immortality.
Nearly one thousand Masons of
| Oklahoma, representing practically
every county in the state, assembled
in McAlester for the grand lodge.
More than one hundred men closed
up their places Of business or deserted
their regular employment TO work the
roads leading into Garvin one day last
week.
Secreted in cave on the banks OF
Red river, eight miles southwest Of
Marietta, a band of alleged counter
letters was arrested by Sheriff Coch-
ran of Marietta.
The secretary of the interior has
issued an order freeing all of Tillman
county from the cattle quarantine, the
tick having been entirely eliminated
in this county.
For the first time in the history of
the republican party in Muskogee
county, no negroes were named on any
committee at the party's county con-
vention last week.
Because the citizens of Fort Smith
voted to keep the saloons open the
women's clubs of eastern Oklahoma
are about to launch boycott against
the Fort Smith merchants.
Five hundred and sixty.six pints of
whisky was captured by United States
Special Officer Ed Brents at Ada. Il
was shipped in trunks and checked to
Ada from st, Joseph, Mo.
Billy Mics and Bob Miles, brothers,
were fined $500 each and sentenced to
serve six months in Jail by jury in
the county court at Tulsa when con.
victed of operating liquor joint.
Trial of the $4,000 damage suit
instituted in the district court of Okla
homa county by Mrs. Minnie F.. Bond
against United States Senator Thomas
p Gore is on at Oklahoma City.
Zinc and lead valued at 1881
were mined in the Miami district last
week.
Henryetta has voted $4,000 in
bonds for buidin additional schools
necessitated by the growth of the
town. An election has been called for
February II to vote $4,000 in bonds
for the improvement of the water.
works system.
Judge r. C. Allen of Muskogee
left hurriedly Off Washington and 1t is
openly states that he is slated for the
position as Creek national attorney to
succeed M. l.. Mott, republican, and
further that Allen and Mott have
agreed on terms.
All the old officers, w. s. Ambrose,
McAlester, president; D. F. Solliday,
Oklahoma City, vice president; L. A.
Browder, Pauls Valley, secretary.
treasurer. were reelected by the ice
mems state association at Oklahoma
City. The executive committee, as
approved by the members of the as
ISOLATION, is composed of E. w. Hill,
Shawnee; Carl Glitch, Oklahoma
City; w. H. Thompson, Chickasha R.
s. Truelock, FL Reno, and Mr. McClin-
took, Bartlesville.
The second trial Of Mrs. Laura M.
Reuter-, which resulted in the acquittal
of the woman of the charge of com
plicity in the plot to murder her hus-
band, a Tulsa attorney, will cost the
county OF Tulsa not less than $4,000.
General T. H. Seward of Tulsa, sec.
ond in command of the Grand Army
of the Republic, has advices that Com
mander-in- Cfief Washington Gardner
will spend Il day in Oklahoma in
March and has called meeting at
Oklahoma City, where the members
and friends will meet and confer with
their chief.