The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-09-25
Buy a bale.
Better still-buy two bales.

Better still-Duy two bales.
Building operations in Okmulgee
now total S175,OO0 and the city claims
to lead the entire state.
Ponca City and Cherokee held cele-
brations on, the 21st anniversary of the
opening of the Cherokee strip.
The Thomas cheese factory is just
in receipt of an order for forty cases
Of cheese to be shipped to a Denver,
Colorado, firm. The cakes are to be
white and no artificial coloring will
be used.
Alton last week Joined the ranks
Of the real progressive towns in the
state by voting an extra levy for
nine months term of school. Only IS
Of 252 votes were cast against the
proposition.
At meeting of business men OF Sal.
lisaw, held in the rooms of the Salli-
saw Bank and Trust Company, a ware
house association was organized and
committee appointed to secure ar.
ticles Of incorporation.
Farmers from the southeastern Dor.
ton of Carter county have organized
to build roads. The county commits.
sioners have offered to furnish what
tools the county has and the chamber
Of commerce has agreed to furnish
lumber for culVerts. The farmers
will take their teams and do the work.
Active and practical road building is
also being done west of Ardmore.
Eighty quarts of nitro glycerine ex-
oloded when an automobile driven by
Carter Thompson, oil well shooter,
struck a stone culvert three miles
east of Okmulgee, and all that has
been found of him are three fingers
and four toes. Thompson, who had
been shooting oil wells for forty years,
was on his way to shoot a well and
was carrying the explosive in the auto
mobile with him.
The state reunion OF the Grand
Army of the Republic was held in the
Mineral Wells Park, Guthrie, last
week, presided over by T. H. Seward.
John Golobie, w. H. Hornaday, Mrs.
Kate McWeathy, of the Women's Re-
lief Corps, and Mrs. ]. w. Whitfield, Of
the L. Of the G. A. R., delivered well
come addresses, which were responded
to by Rev. ]. w. Garner, of Perkins,
Mrs. Eunice NJ. Munger of Oklahoma
City, and Mrs. Mable E. Provost, of
AlYa.
A commercial club with twenty-five
charter members has been organized
by merchants of Davenport and farm
ers living near town. The club has
taken up the work of solving the cot
ton problem for local growers and
arrangements have been made for
them to hold cotton for better prices.
In accord with agitation favoring es.
Enlistment of warehouses throughout
Oklahoma for the storage of cotton,
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail-
way Company has decided to lease
such portions Of its right-of-way as
may be necessary or advisable for
warehouse sites and to adopt such
other measures as will contribute to
relieve the situation and work to the
best interests of all concerned.
The business men and bankers Of
Antlers held meeting for tS pur-
pose to taking steps for the erection
of cotton warehouse, and it was de-
cided to build. The proper commit
tees were appointed to procure the
site for the building and funds for
same. All of the committee are &C.
tive and it's only question of short
time before the building will be ready
for the storing of cotton.
For the second time within a month.
the fraternal orders of Sapulpa were
raided. United States Deputy Mar.
shals Frank Jones and Sam Clay of
Tulsa, conducted the investigation.
NJ. S. Hines, who owns a farm
twenty-five miles northeast of Hugo.
has placed on exhibit at the chamber
Of commerce rooms six stalks of rib
bon cane averaging eighteen joints to
the stalk, and seven feet in length
He has two acres of this cane and it
is estimated that he will make 800 gal
Ions of syrup II the frosts hold of for
several weeks,