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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-31
RICHMOND TRANSFER SECTION
COLORADO GRAND CANYON
GREATEST THING ON EARTH
Something That Is Worth Seeing,
mud the Way to Get
There.
OTHER NEARBY WONDERS
Richmond Transfer Company in Po-
sition 10 Give Information as to
Where 1t All Is.

The greatest thing in the world"
That is large phrase and an over
worked one, and hardened travellers
do not take il lightly upon the tongue.
Noticcably it is most slibly in use
win those but lately, and for tho first
timo wandered beyond their native
state or county, AMI rs every province
has its own local brag Of biggest
things. the too credulous tourist will
ind a superlative everywhere. And
supcrlatives are unsafe without wide
horizons of comparison
Vet In every sort there is, Of course,
somewhere the biggest thing in the
world" OF its kind. 1t Is a good word,
When spoken III season and not abused
III careless ignorance.
believe there is and can he no dis
iiutc that the term applies literally to
several things in tho immediate region
OF thc Grand Canyon of Arizona. AS
have more than once written tand 1t
never yet has been controvcrted), prob
ably no other equal area on earth con-
tains So many supreme marvcls OF 50
many kinds-so many astounding
sights. many masterpieces OF ma
lures han1iwork. so vast and conclu-
sivc an encyclopedia of the world
building processes. so impressive monu-
mcnts OF prehistoric man, so many tri-
umphs Of man sim in tho tribal rela-
llpl-~stS WHAT nave Caileu the SouIl-
western Wonderland. This incindes Il
large part OF New Mexico and Arizona,
tho area which geographically and
cthnographically we may count as the
Grand Canyon region. Let me mention
few wonders.
The LARGEST and Ivy far the most
beautiful OF all pctrified forests. with
several hundred square miles whose
surface * carpcted with agate chips
and dotted with agate trunks two TO
four feet III diameter: and just across
one valley a buried forest" whose huge
siliciiied-not acatized-logs show their
ends under fifty feet of sandstone.
TIL" largest natural bridge in the
world-20o feet high. over 500 feet
span. ana over 500 feet wide, up and
down stream aud with an orchard oil
its top and miles of stalactite caves
under Its abutments.
The largest variety and display of
gcologica!ly recent volcanic action in
North America with siNty-mile lava
flows. l,5oo-foot blankets OF creamy
'ufa cut by scores of canyons: hum
dreds Of cratcrS and thousands OF
square miles of lava beds. basalt and
cin9crs. and SO much volcanic glass"
tpbsidianD that il was the chief tool
oi the prehistoric population.
The largest and :he most impress
siVe Villages Of cave dwellinEs In the
world, most OF them already abandoned
'When the world seeking Gcnoese"
sui led,
The peerless and many storied cliff
dwcllinrs-castlcs and forts and homes
IN the face of wild prccipices or upon
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20

body. and Rev. 4 A Brooks Of Hast
ings. Neh.. ard was followed by a
reception to the friends OF the bridal
.otu1le "a. which three course
luncheon was served by the members
of the brides club Mendelssohn :
Wedding March was played By Miss
Gladys Dougherty of Topeka. and her
little niece. Josephine Natter, OF
Fredonia. was ring bearer. Mr.. ana
Mrs. Brooks will be at homt to their
friends during the summer at bN2
North Elm street
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20
Demonstrating "sun Gold" Flour.

Miss Lillian easier of Oklahoma
City. is in Hugo demonstrating the
excellent qualities of sun Cold flour'
made by the Guthrie Mill & Elevator
company. Miss easier will 80 into
the homes of nearly all of our citi-
zens. showing the qualities of the
sun Gold flour When she calls al
your home. given her your courteous
consideration. Watch for her hoe
taw Herald
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20

There will be a conference of the
pfohibition workers of the state held
at the city hall, Guthrie, Okla. 1les-
day. June 23d. at D. m. Every work
er in the state is requested 20 ne
present BY order of the state con-
mittee.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20
7. p. Gore Files For v. S. Senator.

United States Senator Thomas p
Gore filed with Secretary Joe Morris
of the state election board Friday as
candidate for the democratic nomi-
nation to succeed himself. The filin-
papers were received through the
mails by Secretary Morris Fridar
morning
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20

Supt. and Mrs r. D. Brooks arrived
home Yesterday from 'Neodesha, KAN
where their marriage took place on
Wednesday evening. June nth al
the home of the brides mother. MIS-
Martha Natter The ceremony was
performed By two of Mr. Brooks
brothers. Rev NJ. c Brooks of Pea
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20
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PERSONAL AND LOCAL =

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NJ r Mover is here from III Reno
today on business
T.. e.. Cress Perry attorney. IS here
TODAY ON legal business.
l.. o. Jones is here today from
Rmeline on oil business
Attorney Erlxon returned yes efaaN
fr1n cn.line and saltwater
Miss Vera Kelly has returned home
after "a short visit 20 Seward.
Clovis Randells left th's afternoon
to spend Sunday with his father in
Tulsa
J.. II. Slaton. one of the leading
farmers OF north Logan. was in
Guthrie today. We are desperately
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20

association Of business colleges. WITH
the assistance of State Supt X, VI
Wilson, law is to drafted for
attention OF the next Legislature pre-
venting the promotion of so-caped
business colleges which take up cpl
lections and move to the next state
over night
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20

The following pupils gave reci'a'
al the Hager studio last evening
Jennie Whitcomb. Mabel killousn
lNalyia Spence. Margaret Crites
Marion and Martha Ewing, Leila anu
Ira Bird. Mildred Atwood. Abbie pe'-
wiler Viola Knebel, Leila Jones MAJ
euerite Humphrey. Dolores OsrosNS
Virgil Harris, Audrey Bird, Louise
Gregory, Terry Helm, .juanita hitter
busch, Herbert Glover and a-eta WIZ
lkerson.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20

Carl Leonard OF this city was 0ne of
the successful applicants at the re-
cent law examination before the bar
examiners at Oklahoma Citv. Pc
studied law in the Erixon offices dur
ing the last four years.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20

member after which piano trio
was beautifully played by Misses
Jesic Douglass. Susie Bfannon and
Amelia Glasscock The club VIII
meet next week with Miss Mary
Long
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20
McBrine Makes Bond.

viii X. McBrine. charged with
raising state warrants and claims Is
succeeded in making the necessary
$4,000 appearance bond and McBrine
has returned to his family at okla
homa City Dr. Blesh is one of the
principal snreties.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20

Mrs. ]. A. Rexroad was hostess 10
the Mistletoe club yesterday morning
at nine thirty and spent the mornihs
with fancy work until eleven O'Clock
when a. luncheon was served by the
hostess and her mother. Mrs. a. NJ
Bennett. The special guests were
Mrs. T. D. Taylor, Mrs. Gerald flt1-
gerald of Springfield Mo. and MISS
Dessa Matchett
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20
See Swearengen for Photos
HN gM II N ss x " IS VI y " q v
OF LOCAL MOMENT. =
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Rev Williamson OF Guthrie, con
ducted services at Twilight SUNDAY
and remained here for few days TO
visit friends -Kingfisher Free Press.
Wanted every man. woman, nov
and girl in Guthrie to see thos" heaa-
tiful Boy Scout posters at Harrison
and Division and onposite Nienrf
Bakery-Ford Poster Adv Co.
Logan county lost mighty good
citizen when Jim Lowell died. he
was a nobleman of nature.
AL Leer. candidate for county cierh'
went to Lowell today TO attend the
funeral of his old friend. James
Lowell. who died there this morning
Taxes are due and the penalty viii
90 on next week.
Candidates are complaining OF the
bot weather-the farmers are not
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20

Mrs. lane Phelps was hostess to
the Kimono club Yesterday afternoon
Miss McCleiland received the guest
prize. Mrs +. j. Fitzpatrick the clun
prize and Mrs. Jack Morris. consola
ton prize. 4 luncheon was served
after the games. lss "
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20
Mann s.Iect President JuIy ist.

The state board of education VIII
hold another meeting July lst al
u,b;cb time a successor to President
H. II Connell Of the A. 4 NJ college
VII he selected.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20

The e |. Y. girls spent Yesterday
afternoon at needlework with Miss
Ethe. Liebhart. A. four-thirty re-
freshments we're served to the club
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20

The Cathoiie Ladies viii give an
iae cream social June -. AZ Ms An
derson's. 5l7 f. Cleveland.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20

Brand new oliver typewriter for
sale. price s55. latest model; ha'
never been used. Apply at 'sssier
Office
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20

Mrs c. W Virden of Kansas Guy
Mo is the guest of her sister, MRS
James Baxter. This is her first Vis''
TO Guthrie since her marriage anu
her many friends here will remember
her as Miss Lillian McGreeor
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20
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TOPICS OF TOWN =
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The state board OF equalization VIII
moo, 1ul, Is. IN take NJ kicks on
tax assessments.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20
Hottest Day.

Saturday. June Goth, is declared the
hottest day of the year. At ~
o'clock the thermometer registered
los.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20

pr. +. c. Adams, Dentist, Suite /. z
q snnrlocs Building. Phone is.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20
Ice Cram Social.

The Catholic ladies' viii give an ice
cream social at The home Of Mrs.
George Anderson on Wednesday even
ing
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20

Profs FARRELL and Hamilton OF me
csnital CITY business College are IN
oklahoma CITY attending the siaf
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20

in need Of rain. said Mr. Slaton, the
corn crop is ruined if We do not get
it'
Mrs. ". A. Sutherland and son,
william. are spending the week with
Mr. Sutherland in Cushing
Mrs. Effie Dawes who has bser Wis
ting friends at Fl Reno. returned to
her home IN this city Yesterday.
Mrs. II. ". Twinan Of Wewoka. is
2 guest Of the lone hotel this week
She taking the mineral water
baths
W. C.. Ashton will spend the week
end with the VIM. Sexauer. Mr and
Mrs. Ashton will return home 10
Oklahoma City Monday.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20
Announce Birth of Son.

Mr.. and Mrs T. S. Pickup an
nonnce the birth of son on Thurs
day. June 18th
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20
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r PERSONAL AND LOCAL. u
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Miss Edith Mays who has been
s,,ending the year with her sister,
Mrs Green. and attending school. has
gone to Tulsa for visit before re-
turning 10 her home In Kentntcky
Mrs. T, F. McKennon went 10
Nayina today to spend Sunday win
her sister.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20

Dr. r. c. Adams, Dentist. Suite l. 3.
3 spurlock Building. Phone 10.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20

Mrs Floyd Calvert and son fioYo
Jr and Miss Lois Kellogg have fe
tnrned 10 Nowata after visiting 'iie''
parents. Mr.. and MIS-. waiter heiio7'-
Mrs Kellogg accompanied them 10
Edmond where they spent the oaH
Yesterday
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20

Candidates are complaining of the
hot weather-the farmers are not
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20

Taxes are due and the penalty win /
20 on next week.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20
Bide "a Wee Club Meet.

Bide a Wee Club Meet
The Bide- a. Wee club met yester
dav with Mrs. George Speer ana en-
loved an afternoon at fancy worn
after which an ice course was served
10 Mrs Jack Brooks of Oklahop'
CITY. Mrs. Page, Mrs. J. W speei'
Mrs J. a. Milne. Mrs. James HeP-
hurn Misses Rosland and Margare'
Stratton With this meeting the c'"o
adjourned until fall
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-06-20

Hold Semi Monthly Meeting.
The Amicitia clubs SEM -mohthiH
meeting was held Yesterday atte'
moon at the home of Mrs. Dreyer on
East Villas. The usual hours We're
devoted to fancy work and a dainty
two -course luncheon was served The
special guests included: Mesdames
Campbell, Mcclure and Ellis. Ihe
club will meet in Two Weeks WIZ"
Mrs John Heath
Miss Rosie Lindenmann ls V'sl 'hT
friends in Kinsfisher-
Evening star., 1914-11-12
'Niscepareo"s FRIDAY Values
Yelling Remnants

\ lot OF remnants OF Neilings in
lengths from q to IL yards. shown
in black and colors, will be sold at
prices averaging less than hall regu-
lar. Choice, per length 1OC
25c, I5c and .,.......... w
Main Floor.
Evening star., 1914-11-12

trict of Columbia since 1891. He has
been engaged in the practice of law
here for ten years and is well known
in his profession. He has had several
cases arising from the changes in
grade in the plaza neighborhood and
and is familiar with the
subjects which the commission will
have to handle.
Evening star., 1914-11-12

which he still claims as his official
home. He has been a resident of Wash
ington since 1904. with the exception
OF nine months spent in Virginia as an
attache of the press bureau of the
jamestown exposition.
Mr.. Mason has been gagged in
Evening star., 1914-11-12
Every Woman
Cam Use

and ought to use occasionally. a
proper remedy for the headache,
backaehe, languor, nervousness
and depression to which she NAV
be subject. These troubles and
others are symptoms of debility
and poor circulation caused By in
digestion or constipation.
Evening star., 1914-11-12
PLAZA COMMISSION
NAMED BY PRESIDENT
Board to Settle Claims of Property
Owners in Capitol Park Will
Organize at Once.

Guy Mason. 4 newspaper man; A.
Coulter Wells, a Washington lawyer,
and w. W. Spalding, clerk to the House
District committee. have been named
by the President as the commission on
awards under the Union station plaza
condemnation proceedings. Their COM
missions were signed by the President
last night.
The commission Will assemble this
afternoon in the House office building
and Immediately organize. The CHAIR
man will be selected by the commls-
sion Its laborS are expected to extend
over three or four months.
In view of the great need of many
property owners for prompt settlement
of their claims. all dispatch will be eX-
ercised. The commission intends first
to take up those undisputed cases ap-
proved under the consideration given
by Congress and the courts and dlS-
nose of them with the least possible
delav.
Evening star., 1914-11-12
Will Be Paid $40 Day Each.

The President has fixed the COM
pensation of the members of the com
mission at $50 a day each. Their eX
penses will be arranged by the COM
mission, which will also decide whether
to employ the services of q clerk or
stenographer or both.
Guy Mason is Il native of Indiana
and was born in the house next to the
home of Vice President Marshall Most
of his life was spent in Elizabeth, N j.,
Evening star., 1914-11-12

newspaper work, and is at present in
the Washington bureau OF the New
York World.
W. w. Spalding is a kentuckian who
has been employed by Chairman John
son of the House District committee
under the authority of a general in
vestigati resolution. Mr.. Spalding
Evening star., 1914-11-12

More than 5000 drivers and conduc-
tors Of London omnibuses are now at
the front.
The Washington herald., 1914-05-03
IDA Hustled HARPER ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

all the council delegates in Rome to attend For three
whole days the big auditorium has been placed their
service by the exposition board and on the opening day
the governor of California will lead grand voters
march of men and women walking side by side from
all the States where equal suffrage prevails. Who could
have foreseen it FIVE years ago-a Council of Women
Voters representing ten States and Ter
rtor and after the November elections-obody dares
to say how many The president and leading spirit is
Mrs Emma Smith Devoe, who was president of the
Washington Suffrage Association during the brilliant
amendment campaign of 1910 when every county the
State was carried two to in its favor DR.. Cora
Smith King, residing in the National Capital who
State treasurer in those exactng days when was
much harder to get the money than to expend it. now
is treasurer of the new organization.
Miss Jane Addams is vice president. and the hon
orary president is the great suffrage pioneer of the
Northwest Territory, Mrs. Abigail Scott Dunway of
Portland, Greg, over eighty years of age and ac-
corded public honors by the city and the State after the
women enfranchised in 1912. The objects of the
council officially announced significant of the new
spirit which enters politics with the advent of woman
suffrage:
To educate women voters in the exercise of their
citizenship. To legislation in equal suffrage
States in the interests of and women of children
and the home. To aid in the further extension of
woman suffrage in the United States.
1t is hoped that during this exposition conference an
international organization may be formed with
bers from all the countries where vote. Each
of the States and Alaska represented by vice
president, either the wife of prominent official
a woman who has achieved prominence for herself.
There are indications already that this will be one of
the most popular congresses during the exposition
Federation at Chicago.
Not the least of the interesting events which we lose
BY expatrating ourselves for the is the biennial
The Washington herald., 1914-05-03
She Discusses Meeting Of international
Council of Women IN Rome,
Beginning May 4.
By IDA HUSTED HARPER.

On board the Koenig Albert-only year ago wom-
were journeyng from all parts of the earth, even
from far-of New Zealand and Australia, to the great
congress of the International Woman Suffrage ALI
ance in Budapest and now from far and wide they
converging on Rome for the International Council of
Women. Could there be stronger contrast than be-
the two cities the emerged from sem-civl-
ization but recently time is counted in human de-
velopment the other representing the oldest civilization
in history? And to both there in these two
ceedng years the first great conventions of they
have seem
Never had Budapest such revelation, and before
the meeting ended the entire status of women had
changed in the opinion of Hungarian What will
be the effect on the Italians is yet be and the
experiment will be watched with keen interest AS we
look the waters sparkling in the sunshine and
shimmerng in the moonlight we know that near on
the Atlantic they could quickly be reached by the spark
of the wireless other ships bearing coun-
tryvomen and sisters the Great Lakes and
the ST. Lawrence; and in the long distance coming up
through the Red Sea and down the Mediterranean
those from Australia, Japan, and India.
Object of Two Bodies.
There is vast difference between the Suffrage
Alliance and the council although many prominent
women in all countries equally interested in both
The alliance stands for the definite purpose-to
obtain for women the ballot. symbol of power. On this
The Washington herald., 1914-05-03

of the Federation of Womens Clubs which will meet
in Chicago in June. That city is preparing for this
it does for of the big political conventions to
which it has so many times been host. 1t will be
unquesionably the largest convention of women ever
held The federation has passed the million mark in
membership, it is said, and besides the thousand or
more delegates and aternates there will be an
immense number of visitors, running up into the thou
sands. The allabsorbing question is what will be done
regarding suffrage The specter has appeared regularly
for years, growing difficult suppress every
biennial At the last one held San Francisco in an
equal suffrage State it believed that the adoption
of favorable resolution inevitable and it would
have been if it had got before the convention
This prevented by the clever maneuverng of both
retiring and incoming presidents assisted by the anti
might split in the organization
There has been good deal of progress however
within the last years. Women in four States have
been enfranchised, and in all where amendment
pagn is progress the State federations have in
dorsed it. The opposition of the Southern women
has always oeen used club, but nowhere in the
country has the increase of favorable sentiment been
so marked lately among the women of the South.
Chicago itself the present time is the very storm
of the municipal election will be in the air. II will
quire remarkable generalship to keep resolution from
the convention and if there is Endorsement at
this June meeting then all signs fail and if this largest
organization of women in the United States should
declare in favor it would give an immense impetus to
tke movement
The Washington herald., 1914-05-03
Outlines Proposed Plans at Panama Ex
position and Federation Of Women's
Clubs at Chicago.

halls be addressed by members of the Cabinet Sena
tors and Representatives Every season that alurins
promise is made but it never materiazes. Theater,
and halls are to be had by paying for them and thu
sursgists would furnish the audiences The difficult,
getting very cautious about speaking against woman
Suffrage After next falls elections it is doubtful
any can be found so rash. The "ants" will have I'd
draw their talent from the ranks of those without
political ambitions. We shall miss their daily bulletin,
with hair-raising quotations from suffrage leaders,
and the denial from these leaders in the next DAYS pa
pers We shall miss the humor of situation where al
the fifteen judges of the Superior Court of Los Angelo,
unite published statement to the good results Of
woman suffrage and the general satisfaction with il
and little Annie Book from that city assures com.
mttee of Congress that it is dead failure and is goins
to be repealed
There many more things that regret to leay,
behind but the distance lengthens begin to ooL
forward and backward" and think of the wide ex.
perience awaiting in the that lies before u
We only get true of proportion and value,
by comparison. Our work doesn't of such won.
derful importance when learn that people all ovei
the world doing the kind and doing it better
But after the first shock of the discovery over ther,
comes deep sense of solidarity and sympathy with thu
workers that sustans for all the tasks thereafter
And the second sautary lesson is learned when 20
back home and find how remarkably well everybody ant
everything got on without But even this has il.
compensation in the joy atseeing there is still vacan,
place and the satisfaction of getting snugly into il
once more!