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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-03-18
STATE SUNDAY SCHOOL
CONVENTION ELECTS OFFICERS

El Reno. Okla. Mar. lS.-rhe state
Sunday school convention closed last
night with the reelection e ID. $.
Wolfnger. Of Hobart. as president.
Enthusiast sessions Tuesday marx
ed the beginr ing of the twenty-frst
annual convention, for which nearly
40 out of town delegates were reg
istered. fnt more than 1000 were 'n
the city late Tuesday night. Favor
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-03-18

Z Kennedy. taa other candidate was
only sixteen Yates behind the winner.
James l.. Garrett won the Demo-
cratic nomination for mayor. The
Official figures give Garrett 972, J.
II Wyand 100 and Tom p. Smith COG.
For east side commissioner II. r.
Nicholson received Sll Earl W. Smith
$40 and j. b. Kennedy 795. For west
side commissioner. ". y. Patterson
received 1858 to 1896 for John III. Dill
his only opponent eandidates on
other tickets had no opposition.
The mayoralty and east side COM
missioners races were the closest
since the commission form of govern
ment has been in progress.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-03-18
GARRETT WINS MAy0RAlTY
RACE AT MUSKOGEF

Muskogee. Okla Mar. fS-When
election returns were officially check
ed up for the third time Henry F.
Nicholson was proclaimed the Demo-
cratic nominee for commissioner by
a majority Of one vote over Earl W
smith dark horse in the race. John
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-03-18
LOGAN COUNTY GRAMMAR
SCHOOL FIELD MEET.

SCHOOL FIELD MEET
l. The meet will be held on the
grounds Of the Cimarron Valley Fair
asso iatlon in Guthrie, the last Sat
urday in March.
2. Prizes " Il be awarded to win
ners Of first, second and third prizes
Guthrie pupils will not compete for
these prizes.
9. All boys and girls enrolled in
the common schools first eight
grales) Of Logan county are el gible
to enter
4. No contestant shall compete in
more than five events
| 3. Those who desire to enter
should have their teacher send their
name to Miss Margaret Dcolittle,
! County Superintendent. Guthrie. two
weeks before the meet comes Oft.
/ Teachers should send contestants
name. year, month and day OF birth,
number of school district, and events
contestant desires to enter. A school
may send any number of contestants
6 All names must be in at least
gins.
Z. The following is the list oT
events:
Glass A-Boys who IN day OF meet,
are fifteen years of age or over. 50
yard dash; 100 yard dash; 22O yard
dash; 440 yard lash; 1-2 mile run; I
mile relay race, running broad jump;
stand ng broad jump; running high
jump: pole vault; 12 pound shot put:
tug of war; lifting 80 pound weight
to shoulders
Glass B-Boys who, on day of
meet, are under fifteen years of age.
80 yard dash: 100 yard dash; 22J yard
DASH 440 yarl dash; 1-2 mile relay
running bread jump: stand ng broad
jnmc; running high jump; pole vault;
pound shot put, tug Of war, lifting
% pound weight to shoulders.
Class C-All girls. 81 yard dash;
100 yard dash; 100 yard walk 300
yard wals; lifting % pound we ght
to shoulders raising overhead y |
pound pair dnmb-bells: 20 yard hop |
ping contest: ting OF war.
BADGE or RIBBON CONTEST.
Ribbons or badges viii he
awarded to an who can equal or
excel the records given below:
Glass A-Boys fifteen years IF age
Or over. 220 yard run, 2S seconds.
.u'l-up Cchinning). 9 times: running
nigh jump. feet inches.
Class Boys under fifteen years
If age. 100 yard dash. IA seconds;
lull-up (chinning), times; standing
road jump, 6 feet inches.
In order tc win a ribbon or badge, {
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-03-18

Chronic Stomach 7rosble Cured
There is nothing more diseonrag-
'0r than chronic disorder Of the
ter1ach Is II not surn-lsing that
7'7n suffer for wears with enah IN
'lmnuf when permarent cure IS
~i'hin their reach and may be had
'Hr trifle7 "about eHe wear aga 3"
rvs P y Peef. Of Wakelee Mich
bought naokage Of Chamherlain's
r~hlefs and sinne using them have
'sh narfecf'y well I had previonslv
fsed snr nnnber of different mcGi-
NJ brt none Of them were Of any
7sti1g Benefit For sale by all deal
-re
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-03-18
coed Example to Fcacw

Coed Example to Fc',cw
Landlord-Good morning, sir In
dropped in TO see il its convenient
for you to pay your rent.
Tenant-Glad You called. ! want
to complain about the doors; none o.
them will shut
I.A-New house, you know, sir-takes
time to settle.
T.---Ah, then ] guess I'll follow the
house example Good day sir Fall
agar. .---Boston Transcript
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March is trying month fof the
very Young and for elderly people.
Crou-. bronchial colds. lagrippe and
pneumonia are to he feared and
avoided. Foley's Honey and Tar is
q great family medicine that will
quickly stop cough. check the pro-
gress of a cold. and relieve inflamed
and congested air passages II Is safe,
pure. and always reliable. For sale by
all druggists.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-03-18

Evcrv urpunl he'd delinquency =.
q Family ~ d-linouencies.- Spencer.
Faith. fanatic 'ti,h. once welded fas
To some dee --eeto- ). hues Il -
the last Moore.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-03-18

For ever in mans bosom will mans
pride
An equal empire with his love divide.
Il. E. L.
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Mother Gray's Sweet Powders

For Children
Relieve Feverisnness, Bad Stomach
Teething Disorders. move and raeu-
late the Bowels and are a nleqsan.
remedy for Worms Used by Moth
ers for q wears Thew never fail At
all druggists, 25c Samrle FREE. ADJ
dress, Allen s. Olmsted, .LeKoy. \. Y
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There will be a reception on z iday
evening at the Baptist parsonage for
the new members Both old and new
members come out and get acquainted
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chamber Ms Tablets For Cons pa
ton.
For cOnstiDation. Chamhe-f - s
Tablets 9~e excellent. EASY = q e.
r''7 and IN effect Give r
2 trial Fer s.ir by all dealers
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Fortune brings in some boats that
are not steered Shakespeare
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Open Season.

OptTT Ocd~OFT
The kids like winter,
AS you may know.
There are no signboards
Keep Off the Snow"
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nations should not exceed sever
minutes in length.
LOGAN COUNTY TOWNSHIP
SPELLING CONTEST
Tuesday, Mach 10. 1914
Tarbox, D strict No 3. Dcsda Por
ter, Marshall, chairman: Districts
Nos. 96, 81. !, 8, 4,
Lowell. District No 6, d L. Me.
landy, Lovell, chairman: District,
Nos. 5, 6, rs.
Crescent, District No, 10, ]. G
Harkins, Crescent, chairman; Dis
tricts Nos. 3, 10, 10, 13, IA,
Pleasant Valley Distr ct No. 10
Marie Griffin, Guthrie, r. D., chair
man; Districts Nos. IT, IS, 49,
Navina, Consolidated District No
1. Elva Whitehead, Navina, chairman
Consol dated District No /. 81. 90, 90
Hubbell, District No. 26. Rub,
Smith. Orlando, chairman; District
Nos. "a, %, 26, 27.
/ Rose Hill, District No 30, Blanch
Wilder, Crescent, chairman; District
Nos. 2s, 20, 80, 81,
Lone Star, District No 80, Mrs
Helen Pru EFT, Guthrie, X. d., chair
man; Districts Nos 80. %, "a, 3d.
Iron Mound, District 80, Clar
SEVERN, Guthrie, r. D., chairman
Districts Nos. SO, 81. SO, 80.
Seward, District No 40. Ada KinS
Seward, chairman; Districts Nos. A.
AZ. 43 y
Orlando, District No A. NJ. Fl
Bonar, Orlando, chairman District
Nos A, As, 46, A.
Muhall District No 40. +. |
Johnson, Mulhall, chairman; District
Nos. As, ~, 80, 81, 52.
South Riverside District No. 81
Gladys Walton, Guthrie, chairman
Distr cts Nos. 81, So, 56, 81, 5s.
Pleasant Hill, District No. 81
Grace Lee Neher, Guthrie, chairman
Districts Nos. 49, 6l, G..
Charter Oak District no. 60, Glady
/ Madden, Guthrie, chairman; District
Nos. SO, 64, 60, &c. rs.
Pleasant Valley, Distr ct no. 6S
Earl Walters. Guthrie. r. d., chair
man; Districts Nos So, G7, 6S, 60.
Coyle, District No s4, Bee Crystal
Coyle, chairman; Districts Nos. Sl
II, CT.
Meridian, District No. Is, E. f
Gibln Meridian, chairman; Districts
Nos. 70, 73, n, -, 76, H. 50, 80
%, SO.
/. Each school is entitled to not
more than contestants.
.. Previous winners in township
contests, who are still doing grade
work are eligible to enter.
3. No student who has passed the
Sth grade examination or is doing
9Th grade work can part cipate in
the contest.
a. A committee to be selected by
the teachers in attendance, will act
as Judges and settle all questions
that may arise, and their decision
hall be final
>. First trial shall be written, 100
words TO be selected from Common
Sense Speller, beginning with Part
II The pupils receiving the highest
grade will be declared winner. II no
one wins. those who tied for highest
grade will be given a second trial OF
90 words. to be written. If at the
end of the second trial no one wins,
the Judges may decide as to further
written or oral method to close the
contest.
6. The teacher whose pupil Wlhs'
lni also the cha rman will notify the
winners name. address and number
)f district.
Z. The winner in each township Is
Eligible to enter the county contest
which will be held at the county |
office March 2sth at
0:3O a. m.
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Home Baking is Sinplified by
the Use of X C Baking Powder

With make things moist and
lghtand fea.hery wholesome eble
baked
a
AV2 0x& hardly get out the whole will fall
not like the old fashioned baking double
acting and continues until
s:' ass'sa vsss ;;s % ''s; &
every guaranteed
nEI Food ard please We
VIi PUN back with
~ IE&%& baking powder used
ncudea order
have solving this vexing Living problem
Hr aEEmsxHSs
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= contestant must equal or excel all ,
thee records qf tho class he belongs
TO- Winning the dash and pull-up
viii not enttlo the contestant to d
rib on. Al three must be made.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-29
MRGAz NOR GzNZE NE W<4zyE" E5ozE
C6NzHZSUXONIS 70 Z2zE EHOSEZN4L5ZZATEL LGEN
ASAGKAs NK SoL2EER5. .52lREZzS:

from a hotel In Paris; gets few stories
from wounded Tommies and so on as a
foundation, but they're pretty imagina-
tive too.
- These fairy tales the English people
have to read are pretty imaginative. but
they have one advantage: they pass the
censor all right.
Apart from the lack OF lights, Lon
don's rather more normal now than 1t
was Q few weeks ago, it seems to me.
One gets accustomed to things, Of course.
The theaters have been pretty busy and.
in a quiet way. people have been enter
tanning each other, II only to exchange
Views on the one and only subject. and.
Of course. all the charity and relief move
ments have brought the people together.
1t is pleasant to sew and knit in com
pany, and there have been one or two en-
tertainments. Positive crowds turned up
for Pavlowa's matinee for the British
and Russian Red Cross, and she danced
more wonderfully than ever for the
wounded. or was It just that the good
cause made her halo seem . shade or
two brighterf
The French players are coming soon.
too, for q season at the Ambassadors
Theater, and they're sure to have big
ger welcome than ever. We're very
French in London Just now; heaps Of
French people about; Kensington gar
dens bubbling over with chic baby Pa
risians and their picturesque nanas. By
the way, the French blood in Toutou's
veins is coming out very strong now. He
takes the keenest interest in the little
visitors from across the channel, and his
morning promenades along the baby
walk are a perfect orgy of tail wagging,
joyous barks and fierce friendly rushes.
And as he always wears . 'normous
bow Of the French coIors these days,
when It isn't Russian, or Belgian. or
Servian, or japanese, or sengalese, or
African, he gets petted and patted q
great deal more than is good for a nat
urally vain dog.
Talking about France and fashion, We
haven't got on so badly, have we, with
out our usual supplies from Paris and
Vienna? I'm very depressed about the
new line Of the skirt; 1t does give one
such a bell-like appearance. It's very
far from youthful. But like the waist
The Washington herald., 1914-11-29

We are not their wives or tailors.
The only way Humanity can help ar
lists is to remain Independent and work
uneonsciously.
We need the inconsistencies of hu-
manity-their stupidity, animalism and
dreams.
We believe in no perfectibility except
our own.
Intrinsic beauty is in the Interpreter
and Seer, not in the object or content.
We do not want to change the appear
ance Of the world because we are not
Naturallsts, Impressionists or Futurists,
and do not depend upon the appearance
of the world for our art.
We only want the world to live and to
feel its crude energy flowing through US.
Blast sets out to be an avenue for all
those vivid and violent ideas that could
reach the public in no other way. Blast
is created for the timeless, fundamental
artist that exists in everybody.
The Man in the Street and the Cen
tleman are equally ignored.
Popular art does not mean the art Of
the poor people, as It Is usually sup
posed to. 1t means the art of the indi-
viduals.
But It is nothing to do with 1.-The
People"
Blast presents an art Of individuals.
This is sample Of a blast from
Blast:
Blast First (from politeness) England.
Curse its climate for its sins and infec-
tions
Dismal symbol, set round our bodies,
Of ef1eminate lout within.
Victorian Vampire, the LONDON cloud
sucks the TOWNS heart.
A 1000 Mile Long, 2 kilometer Deep
Body Of water, even, is pushed against
us from the Floridas, To Make Us
Mild.
Oficious Mountains keep back Drastic
Winds.
So Much Vast Machinery to Produce
The Curate Of "Eltham"
Britannia Aesthete
Wild Nature Crank
Domesticated Policeman
London Coliseum
Socialist-Playwrfght
Daly's Musical Comedy
Gaiety Chorus Girls
Tonks
CURSE
the dabby sky that can manufacture no
snow, but can only drop the - on -
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up brilliantly in spite Of the earlier in
structions so Loyalty followed by London
in general, and, curiously enough, they
are all under German management.
We're a guileless people, but perhaps
we're getting a bit less gullible after the
recent lessons, though when an alien II
caught in the most fragrant treachery We
give him at least six months hard labor.
But the darkness of our London nights
is nothing to the darkness of our days.
so far as illumination from the seat of
war is concerned. The censorship was
frightened up again last week, and quite
extraordinarily dull little lessons in ge-
ography were practically all we get from
the "of1icial news experts" The one
thing we want to know about chow the
war is going) is the one subject they
carefully keep of.
And as the correspondents, they say,
are being kept back from the battle front
farther than ever now we have to depend
chiefly upon their imaginations-ando our
own. Bill knows one Of them, and he
told me that he writes all his thrillers
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ALAS T .

II stands In fat, black letters
- three inches high diagonally
across the cerise cover of a big fat
book. n is the title Of the latest Eng
lish wild men" publication which is in
tended to be issued every three months.
BLAST is the very. very latest, abso-
lutely the last, word In everything. 1t II
SO advanced that It wont recognise Fu-
turism as even q second cousin. Futur-
ism bores the editors Of Blast, they as
sert They absolutely will not seek to
make men wear trousers with pink and
purple patches 10 their promise.
Nevertheless a. contemptuous as Blast
of the futurists' biggest bombs. It's chief
love IL for the Vortex. The Vortex rep
resents for Blast all there II Of worth in
this otherwise contemptible world.
Everybody Is going to be converted into
a Vorticist II Blast has its way.
From the Futurists Blast has bor-
rowed the manifesto habit. There are
manifestoes in Blast as wild, decided and
unintelligible as any manifesto the Fu-
turists ever turned loose. There are
poems also-wild-eyed, halting, Futur-
istic poems with' nearly as many mean
ings as a reader can think of putting
into them. There are q series of short
stories, quite wonderful in their foggy
mystery.
Also, there is a play, or rather, about
a dozen pages Of words labeled "A
Play" The only thing about It which is
understandable is its title-"Enemy Of
the stars" 1t has no connection with
anything that follows 1t nor has what
follows connection with anything else.
The Illustrations, Cubistic and Futuristic.
nicely illustrate the unintelligibility OF
the text.
What Blast is, what It loves and hates
and what It is going to do. is more or
less signifed by the introduction.
LONG LIVE THE VORTEX!
Long live the great art vortex sprung
mp in the center Of this town!
We stand for the Reality Of the Pres
ent-not for the sentimental Future, or
the sacripsnt Past
We want to leave nature and men
alone.
We do not want TO make people wear
Futurist Patches, or fuss men to take to
pink and sky-blue trousers.
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, } = = BLAST! ! ! = =
in a drizzle like . poem by Mr.. Robert

in drizzle like . poem by MFR. Robert
Bridges.
CURSE
the laNt air that cannot stiffen the back
of the Serpentine, or put aquatic steel
half way down the Manchester Canal.
But ten years ago we saw distinctly
both snow and ice here.
May some vulgarly inventive, but use
full, person, arise, and restore to us the
necessary billiards..
Let us once more wear the ermine of
the north.
We believe in the existence of this
useful little chemist in our midst
France Is blasted for its sentimental
Gallo gush, sensationalism and fussi-
ness, for its aperitifs, its seductive
salon pictures, its economy maniacs and
because Is Is the claptrap heaven of
anatiye German professors and the
Mecca Of the Americans.
But there are blessings also for Eng
land, for its ships and sailors, its ports
and its cold, magnanimous, delicate,
fanciful, stupid people. The hairdresser
receives a blessing because he attacks
Mother Nature for a small fee. and
France after the 'Fblast'' she received is
blessed for her bushels of vitality. home
of manners, depths Of elegance, female
qualities, and its females.
samples are sawed on:
WOMEN BEFORE A SHOP.
The gewgaws of false amber and
false turquoise attract them.
Like to like nature" These agglu-
tinous yellOws.
L'ART.
Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white
cloth,
Crushed strawberries! Come, let US
feast our eyes.
\ The suffragettes, the militant ones OF
England, also come in for several words
OF advice more or less comprehensive.
TO SUFFRAGETTBS.
A Word of Advice.
In destruction as In other things, stick
to what you understand. We make you
a present Of our votes. Only leave
works Of art alone.
You might some day destroy q good
picture by accident.
Then!-
But be good gfrlsl
We win love yoaI
The Washington herald., 1914-11-29
ZZE EFEEcT OF NzE
W4R ON ZAE
NHzZONrS

the usual order OF its day at the big hos
pital at AIdershot. The King looked nice.
in service khaki all the time. and the
Queen and Princess Mary, Of course.
wore coats and skirts Of most undiluted
severity.
But 1t takes a lot, you know. in the
way of unbecoming clothes to obscure the
charms Of the Queen.
BY the way, hear that, after all. the
court is going to Sandringham some time
soon. The King needs a change badly.
also the coverts are very heavily stocked,
and, when all is said and done, I suppose
1t is representative, isn't 1t, to let the
guns that are only bringing down birds
remind one Of guns that are bringing
something down besides birds.
When we got back to London we
couldn't help noticing that 1t was grow
we shan't have much more light in the
streets, if any. than you have in your
country lanes. From Hampstead and
other high places around the city the
only lights o. London" one can see now
adays are the great searchlights that
sweep the sky every night for the Zeppe-
Inns.
They do say that there really was one
over Dover last week, hear; that the
stricter orders of last week, which re-
duced US to state Of dim shadowness
beyond the memory of m-well. of you
and me, anyway-were not altogether
unconnected with the behavior Of certain
of the smartest hotels
Three in particular went on lighting
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bits, Just a. the Victorians were, round
our nscks and knees and wrists and the
hsms Of our skirts.
OF course, belovedest, II you couldn't
tell In any other way Jou would know
By our clothes that the military men are
doing something. Really, you can't tell
some Of US from q really soldier when
We get all dressed up In our military
toys.
In Piecadilly the other day I saw one
Of our little society ladies looking too
cute for anything. She had q regular
Tommy Atkins hat on. different from
the real thing only In the higher crown
and a long tassel hanging saucily down
in front. You couldn't tell her cape
from the regular officers covering only
that the material was awfully more eI-
pensfve.
s'pose you saw that the German
women are to be made in Germany as re-
CARDS their clothes in future? But l
can't see the German crown princess in
homespun clothes, can you. Her things,
Ike her sisters, the Queen Of Denmark,
are always Paris when they aren't VI
snna. You remember the very Partisan
hat, all aigrettes, with which the Danish
Queen fairly startled her London hosts
only last spring? And now the crown
princess has gone to the front to accom-
pany her fighting husband. / do hope
she II not dressed as a colonel-in-chief
for the occasion. These uniforms which
the royal ladies wear are singularly un-
becoming even to the most beautiful.
No, l don't think there's more than
one duchess at the front just now
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dare say the authorities aren't altogether
sorry. for, however splendid the work
they may do, they have to be watched
over and protected from possible mishap
with a care which 1t isn't considered nee
essary to take with nurses and other wom-
en- workers less in the public eye. The
Duchess Of Westminster, of course, has
taken her faithful wolfhound with her
and a copy Of Longfellow's poems, and
Sir Thomas Upton was her pilot across
the channel. The duke, by the way. 10
very busy carrying dispatches and rush.
ing about as he loves to in his motor.
He is over here pretty often, and was
seeing a man about a Maxim gun as q
mascot for his car on his last visit.
For all of US. though. these are days
when
II we laugh at any mortal thing
'Tis that we may not weep,
aren't they? The angel of death is 50
busy reaping, and it's such a splendid,
such q tragically youthful harvest that
he's gathering in! They say war cleanses,
washes away the clogging mists Of peace,
and I suppose It does-With tears. But
oh, dearest belovedest, wish it need
never have been. don't you? So many
broken hearts. so many lonely homes,
such anxious days, such bitter nightsI
And one can do so little; one can do, in
fact, nothing at all-that's the hardest
part Of 1t all, isn't It? Out there in
France and in all the seas of the world
our men are doing splendid things for Us
who sit at home so safely. Yours,
EVELYN,
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CURSE

the fabby sky that can manufacture no
snow, but can only drop the - on -