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Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-03-06
FOR COUNTY WEIGH
Err BEN LEE (Re-election)


This paper is authorized to an
nounce the candidacy of Ben Lee for
the office of county weigher of Bryan
county (re-election), subject to the
action of the voters at the Demo-
cratic primary August 4, and Mr.
Lees announcement appears in Que
announcement column in this issue.
Ben Lee is native Texan, having
discovered himself in the Lone Star
state something like forty years ago.
About thirteen years ago he moved
to Durant where he lived for six
years, after which he removed to
Bennington. He served as deputy
county weigher from statehood on
until elected to the office of county
weigher in 1912. when he came to
Durant to attend to the duties of his
new position.
Ben is a thoroughbred Democrat
from the word go and not only
breaches Democracy in his politics.
but practices it in his every day bus
mess affairs with his fellowman. Ho
has heart as big as a wash tub
and never neglects to play the good
neighbor when occasion demands it.
Not only is he a big hearted, good
nan. but is a thorough business man,
and as county weigher the past year
and a quarter, has fully demonstrate
ed his ability along these lines. Mr..
ee has had more than six years act
i've experience in weighing for the
public and none can say he has not
made good. Mr.. Lee. believing that
he has dispatched the duties of his
office in manner satisfactory to the
public. asks reelection upon his rec
ord in office.
The writer knows Ben Lee we'll
and knows him to be man of good
principle and character and COM
mends his candidacy to the serious
consideration of the voters of Bryan
county.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-03-06
INTEREST IN BETTER SEED TEST

Letters beng received by State Su-
perintendent Wilson indicate that
the Interest being taken in the seed
tests and the Bird Day exercises is
increasing. Railroad and bank Off
cials together with the representa-
tiyes of the United State Department
of Agriculture, are giving their sup
port to the seed test movement. The
filst report of these test was receiv-
ed Monday by Supt. Wilson at Okla
homa City, from Miss Mary L. Spann
of Coweta, Okla. The report shows
that tyenty tests of corn and cotton
seed were made. Five of the corn
samples proved good and five med
ium, while one of the cotton seed
samples proved good and nine med
FUN. Ten farms were represented
in the tests made by the fourteen
boys and ten girls who made the
tests. The school has an enrolment
of sixty pupils.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-03-06
oKLAHoMA CROP REPORT.


The growing condition of winte;
wheat up to February 2 5 was 96 per
cent, as shown by the monthly bull
letin of the State Board of Argicul-
ture. Compared with this time last
year it is 121 per cent; compared
with 1918 the acreage planted to
oats is 10 per cent. There yet re-
mains in the farmers hands of 1913
crops: Corn 25 per cent. wheat IL
per cent, oats 81 per cent and cotton
10 per cent.
The following is the condition OF
live stock: Cattle, 81 per cent; hogs
81 per cent; sheep, 92 per cent; and
poultry, 90 per cent. OF fruits. the
following is shown to be the condi-
ton: Peach. Ga per cent; cherry. rs
per cent; apples, 80 per cent; straw
berries, so per cent; plums, "A per
cent; apricots, 72 per cent.
The soil condition as regards
moisture is 103 per cent and As per
cent of the land planted to spring
crops has been plowed.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-03-06
LEGISLATORS PLAYED
CROOKED ROULETTE

During the legislative session last
spring a luxurious gambling house
was maintained in one of the lead
ing hotels. Wines and liquors were
served free and there were couches
and easy chairs for tired visitors, and
livered servants to do the bidding.
Members of the Legislature. lobby
lists. politicians and visitors found
their way to the tables. Only Sc.
lect patronage was admitted. Some
times the winnings on the roulette
players would be big.
Men who frequented the place and
look back at what happened now re-
member that after all averages Were
struck the house winnings gradually
but surely ate up all the other win.
nings and the stakes as well.
| Several months ago the polio,
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-03-06
HOTEL MAN HAS HIS
EYES ON DURANT.
Would Furnish and Lease Modern
Hostelery of go TO 20 Rooms.---
Durant Good Hotel Town.


The Chamber of Commerce has
this week received a communication
from the steward and provision buy
er of one of the finest hotels in the
Southwest, who desires to furnish
and lease a modern 60 to 75 room
hotel in Durant, II such hostelry Is
erected. The gentleman, who IS
known to be a very successful prac-
teal hotel man, requests that his
name be not used for a while, until
the matter is more fully developed.
In his letter he expresses the opin-
ion that Durant is one of the bes.
towns in the state, and that another
hotel here built and equipped along
modern lines, would be a paying
proposition. He suggests the idea
that hotel of from so to rs rooms
would be large enough to accommo-
date the needs of the city for many
years. The st. Louis capitalist who
was here some time past, and who
seriously considers building mod
ern hotel here, contemplated hos
telry of 100 rooms. 1t appears now
that the only thing left for the Cham
Der OF Commerce is to find a site for
the people that will suit them, when
the hotel matter will become a reality
instead of a dream.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-03-06

raided this room and confiscated the
roulette wheel Several days ago
orders were given for destroying the
gambling parapharnalia that had ac-
cumulated at police headquarters.
When detective struck the rou-
lette wheel with heavy sledge ham
mer, the blow revealed an insulated
copper wire. Under each ball pocket
was a magnet Throughout the wood
work stretched a network Of wires,
under one edge of the table we're but
tons and attachments for batteries,
giving the dealer complete control of
the play There are several hundred
much chagrined roulette players in
Oklahoma.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-03-06
LABOR UNoINs MAY
ENJOIN STATE

Oklahoma City, March 4.-State
house circles were specializing Sat
urday on what the attitude of organ
lied labor in Oklahoma on the an
nounced plan of the state board of
public officials to utilize convict labor
to cruch granite at the Granite re.
formatory. for use in the capitol
building.
That the opposition of the labor
unions might take the form of in
junction proceedings was one of the
possibilities suggested. The Okla
homa constitution prohibits the use
of convict labor in competition with
free labor. and should the effort be
made to restran the use of the CON
victs, it would be based on this pro-
vision.
Chairman Lon Frame of the board
of affairs announced Saturday that
plans had been completed to utilize
the convicts. A rock crusher has
been installed at the reformatory and
side tracks laid to the quarries.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-03-06
LETTER TO TEACHERS.

1t is our desire to direct the atten-
tion of the teachers and pupils of the
public schools of Oklahoma to the
beauty and usefulnes of the bird life
around them. Too many children,
and sometimes older persons. do not
realize the value of birds to mankind.
and few of us realize the beauty of
these little creatures, The beauty
of our little feathered friends has
been interpreted for us by writer's.
Their usefulness and economic value
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-03-06
CIVIL sEEy4oE EXAMINATION.

The U. S. Civil Service has an
nounced that on April 4. 10, IL and
1S examinations will be held at many
places to fill vacancies in fourth
class postoffices. All such offices
where the annual compensation Is
more than $4,000 will be placed
under civil service. Durant is one
of the examination points, and on
the 18th of April examinations will
be held here. Postoffices to be thus
filled in this county are as follows;
Achille. Bentley. Bokchito. Calera
and Kenefick.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-03-06

DECLAMATIoN CONTEST.

Many attended the defamation
contest held at the First Methodist
church here Monday night when
selections were made TO represent
the S. f.. N. normal in the coming
triangular debates. The winners
were Howard Jarell. Morris Lively
and Clarence Crudup of Durant and
Marvin Shillings of Lebanon. The
judges were District Judge Hatchett,
Senator Mcintosh and Representative
w. A. Durant.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-03-06
PROF. MCINTOSH ANNOUNCES.
Head of Bennington Public Schools
a Candidate for County Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction.

The News is authorized to an
nounce the candidacy of Prof. r. X.
Mcintosh, superintendent of the BEN
nington public schools, for the office
of county superintendent of Bryan
county subject to the action of the
voters at the Democratic primary to
be held August fourth, 1914, and Mr..
McIntosh's card will be found in the
News announcement column this is
sue.
Prof Mcintosh was born in
Chickasaw County, Miss, April 18th
1884. He received his early school
ing in the public schools of Houston.
Miss, completing there his high
school course and two years in
Teachers Normal of Houston. He
then went to the Mississippi A. &
M. College for his academic work.
After spending three years in this
great school. his attention was at
tracted westward. hence some six
years ago he planted himself firmly
in Bryan county, to engage in the
great work of helping boys and girls
TO grow into an intelligent and hon
ored citizenship. Since coming here
he has done quite deal of profess
sional work in the Southeastern
State Normal located in his home
county. evidencing the fact that he is
not only energetic but progressive as
well. He has taught school some six
years in Bryan county with marked
success. Few men have established
themselves so firmly and favorably
in the minds of the thinking people
as has this man. He has the happy
faculty of meeting everyone in that
pleasant yet firm manner that makes
us feel at home.
we Lespeak for him in his career
as superintendent. one continuous
line of efficient and judicious ad-
ministratiNe acts. The fact tina. MIR.
Mcintosh spent over two years il the
county superintendents office as
clerk, adds materially to his other
wise splendid qualifications.
No man in Oklahoma will appre-
ciate more and labor more consicent-
iously to give to the people a COM
plete school system than will Mr..
Mcintosh.
In commenting upon his candida
cy the Bennington Tribune for last
week said;
''The professor since coming to
this city has endeared himself to our
people by his excellent work in our
school
"He is big, clean. wholesouled
honorable man. of unbounded ambi
tion and energy that has been de
voted to school work. He will b'
the next superintendent of Bryan
county and will make good there jus
as he has done in his past efforts.
"The editor of the Tribune take
pleasure III reCoillhehuihb MN " ~
people of Bryan county. We pledg
you that he is fully capable of an
will make you an A No. l superir
tendent."
The editor of this paper has know
Mr.. Mcintosh for several years an
can commend his candidacy to tn
consideration of the voters. He is
man unauestionably fitted for tn
place he seeks.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-03-06
KATY RENDERS PROPERTY
FOR TAXATION

The taxreturn of the Missouri.
Kansas and Texas Railway Company
filed with the State Auditor shows a
total valuation of the Oklahoma pro-
perty to be $22.1O9.O42. The same
property was assessed by the State
Board of Equalization last year at a
valuation of s29.24e.45e No new
mileage is shown.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-03-06
GANG or CHICKEN THIEVES.


The News has received communi-
cation from Bokchito. charging that
an organized band of chicken thieves
are operating in that community. The
writer says that his name should be
omitted from publication as "it is
used for noble purpose and cause. :"
The letter minus the name is YER
batim as follows:
Bokchito, Okla,
2-2S. 1914.
Durant Weekly News:
Out near Bokchito at Double
Springs a gang of chicken and tur-
key thieves has been operating for
the last two or three years and is
causing much annoyance to farmers
residing there it is time these ras-
calls are run down and given the full
extent of the law. IL is mostly a
colored neighborhood and with the
exception of few are all law abid-
ing citizens and appeal to the law to
help rid their neighborhood of these
thugs who ever it may be and would
ask the county on notifortation to
send blood hounds and take up the
trail and fine out the guilty one and
stop this menace. CITIZEN.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-03-06
JOE KEITH TO FED
ERAL OFFICERS

Joe Keith. who was captured in
this city on alse week witS )3umber
of bottles of booze, was turned over
to the Federal officers and carried
to Atoka. where he was bound over
under bond of $500. which he was
unable to make, and was conveyed
to Muskogee.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-03-06

has been explained by our scientists.t
These facts we have learned from our
textbooks In school, but In order that
our attention may be more forcibly
directed to the value Of protecting
them, we have designated Friday,
April 8, OF this year as Bird Day. We
earnestly request the teachers to OBJ
serve this day with an appropriate
program of exercises in their schools
bearing on this particular subject.
For the purpose of helping the teach
ers in this work. by the assistance Of
the state game warden's department,
we hace prepared a suggestive prog
ram which the teacher may supple
ment as the conditions in her school
require. BY all means the day should
be observed in some appropriate way
and the purpose and spirit OF it
should be to impress upon the minds
Of the children and the people of the
community the Importance of pro-
the bird life, from an economic. as
well as from the aesthetic stand
point.
r. II. WILSON,
State Supt. Of Public Instruction.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-03-06

Real Estate Extensive advertis-
ing in Texas and the North are bring
ing us cash buyers. List your land
with us, and we will sell it. A. B.
Davis Co., SO Main Street, Durant. w
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-03-06

For Weakness and Loss of Appetite
he Old Standard general strengthening tonic
RovE'S TAsTELESs chill TONIC. drives oui
alaria and builds up the system. A true tonic
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-03-06

" II. Nli%oO4Ns
State Supt. of Public Instruction.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-05-12

ed to the sides Of the boxes to sup
port the shelf boards. or you can nail
through the sides into their ends. Nall
strips three inches wide around the
bottom Of the lower box for a base
The end Of the writing desk box
should be screwed to the side Of the
bookcase, with its back even with the
back of the bookcase, and the top
about eight inches below the top OF
the book case.
Fig. 2 shows how the outer end OF
the desk is supported upon uprights'
These uprights should be three inches
wide and as long as the book case is
high. Before mailing them to the
desk. fasten the lower ends at the
proper distance apart with three-inch
strips nailed to their sides and across
the ends. This will form base uni
form with that around the bottom OF
the bookcase, and at the same time
will make a more solid support than
the two ends of the upright would. A
hoard may be extended from the TOT
OF this end support to the bookcase
base. BY fastening horizontal striI
between the two end uprights and an
other between the rear one = ana !n t
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-05-12
FAMILY AVOIDS
SERIOUS SICKNESS
By Being Constantly Supplied With
ThedforHs Black-D raught.

McDuff, Va.-"I suffered for several
years" says Mrs. ]. B. Whitaker, Of
This place, with sick headache, and
stomach trouble.
Ten years ago a friend told me TO try
Thedford's Black-Draught, which | did,
and found it TO be the best family medi-
cine for young and old.
| keep Black Draught on hand all the
time now, and when my children feel a
little bad, they ask me for dose, and il
does them more good than any medicine
they ever tried.
We never have a long spell OF sick
ness in our family, since we commenced
using Black-Draught."
Thedford's Black-Draught is purely
vegetable, and has been found TO regl-
late weak stomachs, aid digestion, re-
lieve indigestion, collie, wind, nausea
headache, sick stomach, and slmllaI
symptoms.
II has been in constant use for more
than 10 years, and has benefited more
than a million people.
= Your druggist sells and recommend:
Black-Draught. Price only 25c. Get
package to-day. NC Iza
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-05-12
Japanese NaperY.

Have YOU ever tried the experiment
of using Japanese napery, Mrs. Young
Housekeeper? OF course, you've often
seen the ten-yard bolts Of Pinch wide
coarse white cotton printed with
bird, flower or butterfly design In
Canton blue. But do you know that
one OF these bolts may be cut into
two sets of yard-and-a-h strips, and
that these placed-one lengthwise and
two crosswise on your diningroom ia
BILE do quite as well as the conven-
tiona cloth and are only half the
trouble to handle and to launder? For
breakfast and luncheon napkins may
be made from squares cut from the
bolt, and while these will not do for
dinner white serviettes 60 nicely with
the Japanese scarfing.
Different housekeepers have differ
ent ways of finishing the raw ends OF
the scarfs. They may be hemmed
like the ordinary napkin, hemstitched
or trimmed with short white cotton
fringe. After many launderings the
blue of the printing may fade a tribe
but 1t will never become shabby look
ing
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-05-12
CONSTIPATION SAFELY
AND EASILY OVERCOME
No Need to Risk Unpleasant, Often
Dangerous Calomel-Dodson's
Liver Tone Takes Its Pace

You can now protlt if you wish by
the experience of many people who
have found an easy, pleasant remedy
to take The place of calomel for con-
stipation, sluggish liver, etc.
Dodsons Liver one is best to take
instead of calomel and has brought
the brightness of health into many
households. 1t has none of the dis
agreeable and often dangerous after
effects of calomel
Lake Pharmacy and all reputable
local druggists, positively guarantee
to refund purchase price (50c) of
Dodson's Liver Tone in case you are
not entirely satisfied after using 1t
and as they will recommend this
remedy as strictly vegetable liquid,
containing nothing harmful, you run
no rishs of any kind in trying it
now.
Dodson's Liver one never leaves
| bad after-effects, but works easily
and naturally, without pain or grippe
and without interfering at all with
your regular habits, diet or occupa-
/, ton.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-05-12
DIAMONDS ON THE SURFACE
In Parts Of South Africa Precious
Stones Are Picked Up Much as
Common Pebbles.

To pick up diamonds on the ground
as you crawl on your hands and knees
is the newest way of acquiring great
wealth in South Africa. 1t Is In Da'
MARYLAND where recent valuable finds
are reported to have taken place. At
one spot, it is told, 20 negro laborers,
working under two white overseers,
picked up 10000 carats of diamonds
valued at more than 100000, in
three days, and at a point about 10
miles from Luderitzbucht, two white
men gathered 5000 carats, worth over
100000, in a single afternoon. Dia
monds have frequently been found in
the streets of Luderitzbucht.
The great mass of the diamonds OF
Damaraland are found in the narrow
valleys between the moving sand
dunes, on a granite surface, with its
carpet of three to four inches Of sand.
In these fiat places negro laborers in
bands of from 10 to so, with an over.
seer to every 10 or u men, crawl
slowly on their knees over the sand in
search of the gems, each one carrying
a bottle in which he drops them as
they are found. Fifty laborers will
thus scan about an acre day. One
feature of diamond-hunting in Damara
land that seems almost uncanny lies
In the circumstances that the same
| thoroughly searched area may be gone
over again a few months afterward
with an almost equally successful re-
suit as on the first inspection, proving
that these gems are shifting
The coast Of Damaraland is like nc
other part of the world. For SOC
miles the giant sand dunes, pushed
increasingly by the winds from the
southwest, are piling up at the water s
edge to the height of hundreds OF
feet, during the periods that the tide
is out, to be undermined and over
thrown when the sea returns. Some
of the largest of these dunes have
been known to move as much as
feet in "a hours.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-05-12

bookcase, as shown IN Fig. ., tho rUl
of the desk will make good book
shelf
The writing desk should be divided
of by vertical and horizontal parti-
writing paper, letters, and miscellane-
Gus matter. Cigar boxes. with one
lions into pigeon holes for envelopes,
end removed, and the covers nailed
on, will do excellently for the top row
of the pigeon holes shown in Fig. l.
Fasten together the cover boards OF
the desk box with two battens placed
near the ends, TO ra drop-leaf. Fit a
narrow strip between the bookcase
and the front end support, close
up against the desk bottom, for
hinge strip, and hinge the drop leaf
to this. The outer portion Of the drop
leaf must be supported by means OF
chains fastened to small staples driv.
en- into the under side of the desk top
and into the drop leaf battens.
Tack either a piece of oil cloth or
heavy wrapping paper over the inside
of the drop leaf, to cover the joints be-
tween the boards and make smooth
writing surface.
When you have finished the con-
struction of your desk, drive all nail
heads below the surface Of the boards,
then putty up these little holes, and
all Joints and cracks. If the boxes are
stamped with manufacturers trade
mark or other printing, remove 1t with
sandpaper-that is, in case you wish
to stain, shellac or varnish the wood
If you use paint, this will not be nee
essary. because two thorough coats
will be Opaque enough to conceal the
printing.
The desk stool in Fig. 8 has a soap
box seat, and the legs are construct
ed similar to the end supports of thu
writing desk Make the uprights
one and one-half inches wide and on
inch thick, and the base strips abou
one and one-half inches wide and one
half inch thick. Fasten crosspiec
between the base supports for brace
The top of the seat should be pat
ded with cloth or excelsior, and the
covered with denim, cretonne or in
itation leather. The covering mate
| rial should be brought down over tn
| sides Of the seat and be fastened wit
| tacks with large heads. Finish tn
| woodwork to match the writing des
| and bookcase.
| Copyright, 1918, by A. Nicely Hall)