The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-19
ARDM0RE|TE
IS SHOWING
SOME SPEED
YOUNG ED GAIT HAS OtMoN'
STRATED TO THE RESIDENTS
OF MICHIGAN THAT HE CAN GO
SOME WHEN NECESSARY.

The following clipped from the Bat
| tie Creek papers of recent date show
that our young friend Edward Gait
can show the natives a few things
when necessary. He must have been
having some time according to the
! Following:
with band music and song follow
ing dinner party, about two score
sanitarium guests and town people
Joined last night at the Country club
in celebration of the birthday of one
of the most popular members of the
Younger set at the sanitarium this
summer-Edward Gait of Ardmore,
Okla
"The dinner party was for a few
intimate friends. The music after the
dinner was enjoyed by about three
dozen guests. Among them were
Senator and Mrs. Charles E. Town
send Jackson; Mr.. and Mrs. w. j.
Smith and son Wendall; Eugene Mar
key; Edward Gait, Ardmore, Okla.
Mr.. and Mrs. George B. Spencer, New
York, of the outlook" b. G. Tremain
/ Cleveland, of the Peerless Automobile
company, and the National Light COM
pany; Mrs. J. G. Estes and son, Cliff
ford; Mrs Emily WalkerHerr, Miss
| Rosamond Newton of the sanitarium,
Maurice Seaman Philip A. Kelleher,
Miss Love of Alabama, s. l.. Goldman
and daughter, Houston, Tex; Mrs. j.
A. Wheeler, Guthrie H., and Madame
Georgiana Carhart of Florida.
"Mr Kelleher and Madame Carhart
sang, Mr.. Seaman played and piano
solos by a young German, Carl Rond,
and solos and accompaniments by
Clifford Estes, aged 16, were features
of the evening. Mr.. Rond, who is a
mere youth, is waiting table and has
charge of the east dining room to
earn money to study music Young
Estes played difficult pieces at sight.
"The party went to the Country
club house in machines belonging to
various sanitarium guests
And another from the same paper
which says:
Dust eating and going on wild
goose chases are special accomplish
Iments of r. +. Huff of Texas, who is
here with his Hudson car to see the
Michigan scenery, while patient at
the sanitarium.
"Mr. Huff is loath to admit it, but
there are witnesses who know how
easily he bites-the dust or a practi-
cal joke and how savage he can be
when he hears, The joke is on you,
Huff old man.
Mr. Huff was lost, just plain lost
on a country road two miles south
west of Battle Creek. He knew not
which way to turn. The dust was
inches thick. Suddenly like a guard
ian angel, or otherwise, out of the
clouds came on Edward Gait and a
party of friends in an automobile. Mr..
Gait is the youth who recently became
fabulously wealthy by investing in
oil wells in Ardmore, Okla. He and
his partner, Roy NJ Johnson (brother
of H. L. Johnson of this city, former
ly of Battle Creek are also guests at
the sanitarium.
when Gait saw the plight of the
man from Texas and was asked the
way to the sanitarium, he said with
malice, Il am going to the sanitari-
um, follow me-"
so Huff followed. Gait went about
40 miles an hour. Dust ditto. Huff
followed. Dust increased and Gait
increased his speed-Huff did the
same, and soon he was huff in more
than one sense of the word.
Instead, however of going direct
to the sanitarium Gait and his party
went miles and miles out of the way
to Athens in a cloud of dust Final
ly after hours of dust eating" Gait
escorted the still following, but not
silent Texan-dust covered and irate
to the sanitarium, where the bath
room attendants had to remove the
results of the practical joke with
brushes, hot water and much soap.
Mr.. Huff's ruffled feelings are not
smoothed yet. When he knows the
story leaked to the press matters will
likely be even worse"