The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-03-20
OKLAHOMA NEWS NOTES.
)sHAoowc OF COMING EVENTS

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SHADOWS OF COMING EVENTS
March IL, Charter election, Muskogee
April Bird Day.
April Examinations for fourth class
postmasters held at Cherokee, Cheyenne
Duncan, Gage. Madll, Medford, Okemsh'
i'oteau. Sallisaw, Stigler Taloga, Tex .
homa, Tuskahoma, Watonga. Waurike.
April Determinations for fourth class
bostmasters held at Beaver,
April DETERMINATIONS for fourth lass
postmasters, held at Fairview, ldabel'
April 14-Republican preferential State
Convention, Oklahoma City. -
April H. Republican convention, Okla
hOma City.
April 15-Northwestern field meet, Alva.
April Determinations for fourth class
postmasters, held at Ada Altus, AVA
Anadarko. Ardmore, Bartlesville, Blaek-
well, Chandler Chickasha, Claremore;
Clinton, Coalgate. Durant, Elk city El
Reno, Enid, Frederick. Gainesville, Tex,
Guthrie, Hobart. Holdenville Hugo
klngfsher, Lawton. Lehigh, liberal
kogee. Newtlrk. Norman. Nowata, Okla
hOma. Okmulgee, Pauls Valley, Paw
huska, Pawnee, Perry, Ponca, Purcell
Sapulpa, Shawnee, SLOAN Springs, ARK
saltwater. Sulphur, Tulsa Vinita. Wag-
Oner. Woodward
April 22-sons OF the Revolution, state
banquet. Oklahoma City
April 22.-Grand Chapter, r. A. NJ
Oklahoma City.
April 22-Lay,ng OF cornerstone. State
Capitol. Oklahoma City. ~
April 23.-Grand Council. r. 5. M
April 24-Grand Commandery. Knights
Templar. Oklahoma City
April 24-9n. County Superintendent
Association. Oklahoma City.
FL Reno.
Sept $40. Photographers convention,
Oklahoma City
Sept, 2s-oc;. 3, 1914 State Fair. Okla
October, Southern Commercial Con-
gress. Oklahoma City.
The bank of Arcadia was sold last
week by Judge Mitchell to T. E. Sui
livan of Oklahoma City.
For the, first time in six years, the
clerk of the Okfuskee county court
issued no marriage licenses during the
past week.
DR.. e. d. Cameron of the Baptist
church at Muskogee has accepted the
pastorate of the First Baptist church
in Claremore. The church is planning
a new building.
John w. Barbour, druggist of Nor
man, has announced his candidacy for
the democratic nomination for lieu
tenant governor of Oklahoma, subject
to the August primary.
Fire of. an incendiary origin de-
stroyed a large part of the business
section of Blue, little station on the
Frisco, seven miles east OF Durant.
The loss was only partly covered by
insurance.
Pledges amounting to $13,275 in the
ten days campaign for raising $50, 900
with which to build and equip the
Maddin building into a modern Y. M.
c. A. home for Muskogee have been
announced.
Clarence Ralston, cook, aged 40, was
the only victim of hotel fire at Mar
low, starting from an unknown cause
and totally destroying the Parks ho-
tel, a two-story frame structure OF
fourteen rooms.
Bertha Earl, 7-year-old girl living at
Gather, near Okmulgee, died there
as a result of burns received when her
dress caught fire from an open crate.
The girl was horribly burned and suf-
fered terribly until death came.
Clarence Seeley, an Indian, is dead
and his brother-in-law, Tom Hutchins,
a farmer, is in all jat Ardmore as a
result OF a shooting scrape. Hut
chins declines to make any statement.
There were no witnesses to the shoot
ing and but little is known regard
ing it.
The four brick buildings constituting
the Oklahoma School for the Blind at
Muskogee are nearing completion and
will be ready for occupancy about the
first of June. The largest of them
will be three stories and the others
two, all being rooted with slate. They
are being erected at cost of $85. 900.
Two of the three men charged with
causing the death Of Frank Pomeroy,
an inmate of the state asylum for in.
sane at Fort Supply, G. o. Ballard and
Silas Butler, appeared before Judge
Stein last week and pleaded not guilty.
They were bound over to the district
court, and their trial set for March %.
An earnest appeal to the cotton
growers of Oklahoma urging them not
TO bring in seed of low grade cotton
is made by w. d. Bentley, state agent
of the U. S. Farmers Cooperative
work, in letter addressed to Presi-
dent James w. Dupree, of the Cotton
Seed Crushers' Association.
The resignation of Judge R. L. Viii
liams as an associate justice OF the
state supreme court became effective
last week. His resignation has been
in the hands of the governor for sey-
eral days, and the appointment to fill
the vacancy caused by his resignation
has been rendered Judge Stilwell II.
Russell of Ardmore, but he has not
yet accepted it,
The scholastic census OF Bryan
county for the past year. shows most