The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-11-13

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struck near Ada by the Buckhorn Oil
Company. The flow was found at a
depth Of 1880 feet and seventy feet in
the oil sand.
The Dornick Hill Country Club is
spending $4,000 in building a club
house near Ardmore. The club aspires
to the ownership of the finest golf
links in the state
One car Of horses was shipped from
Hugo last week, destined for Europe.
Horse buyers are still in Choctaw
county looking for horses to make up
another shipment.
e. W. Wilcox for several years man.
ager Of the Minnetonka Lumber Com
pany at Norman was found dead in
his barn with a bullet hole in his head
and revolver beside him.
One hundred and forty families are
due to arrive in Okmulgee as the re-
suit of the opening of a glass factory,
and there are not sufficient houses for
the accommodation of the people.
w. E. Fryberger, proprietor of a
department store in FL Reno, has re-
sponded to the buy-a-bale of cotton
movement by purchasing forty bales
of the staple from Canadian county
farmers.
Contract has been made for the ex-
tention of the Choctaw warehouse, To-
Gated at Hugo, which ultimately has
a capacity of $500 bales of cotton. At
present the capacity of the warehouse
is about 1000 bales.
The Magnolia Pipe Line Company
has announced that it will run $4,000
barrels of oil week from the Heald-
ton field. The oil will be run in six
days and the pipe line employees will
rest on the Sabbath
Henry P. Williams, formerly of Ok
lahoma was shot and killed near Lock-
hart, Ore, by Peter Clark, who has
made his escape. The killing was the
elimination of dispute between the
two concerning $3.50 which Clark
claimed was due him.
A large acreage of wheat has been
sown in Choctaw county this fall COM
pared with the acreage sown last year.
Local business men procured the seed
wheat which was sold at actual cost
to the farmers. About 5000 acres of
land has been seeded.
Poteau is taking on new civic life as
shown by the opening of the Lapel
bottle works, and the construction of
a $4,000 depot by the Frisco railroad
company, material for which is now
on the grounds. The bottling works
will employ $50 men and cost 100000.
officers of the Eastern Association
Of Congregational churches of Okla
homa elected at the Muskogee meet
ing for the ensuing year are: Moder-
ator, Rev. P. w. Jones, Vinita; scribe,
Rev. Clay o. Cakes, 0ktaka. The next
meeting of the association will be held
at Vinita.
On account of the State Teachers
association at Oklahoma City last
week and the home coming of all
former centralites, the senior class
atthe Edmond Normal gave a recep-
ton to the members of the faculty
and to the alumni, in the domestic
science rooms of the institution.
Summer Hallowell, 10, was instantly
killed at his home In the western part
of Logan county when a shotgun was
accidentally discharged, the charge
taking effect in the young mans head.
The gun was muzzle loading weapon.
Investigation of the origin of the
fire which destroyed the school house
at Randlett last week has revealed
that the fire was caused by an ex-
plosion from artificial gas or from gas
oline used by some person with in
cendiary intent. The new Randlett
school building was destroyed by fire.
The building cost $4,000 and was in
sured for $500. School is now being
held in the various churches in the
town.
Officers elected by the Eastern Ok
lahoma Anti-Horse Thief Association
convention at Sallisaw are as follows:
P. A. Fox, of Coweta, president; A. A.
Paterson, Ketchum, vice president;
H. A. Harrison, Checotah, secretary.
The executive committee elected for
the following year is composed of
John H. French Collinsville; Ross
Daniels, Tahlequdh, and Campbell
Russell of Warner. I. H. Long was
elected chaplain
More than twenty McCurtain county
farmers will practice diversified farm
ing during the coming season as re-
suit of the low price at which cotton
has been selling this fall. Wheat is
being sown, both for pasture and grain
purposes, most of which is being seed
ed in small tracts, and in land that was
but recently cleared Of timber Nc
Curtain county is out of the defined
wheat belt, and the sowing of wheat
is in the nature Of an experiment with
many Of the farmers, who have ar
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