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Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-05-15

that ought to include every father
and mother, is invited and urged to
attend these meetings. They will
get much good out of them and lend
encouragement to the officers and
teachers, upon whom the burden
rests.
Will II. Evans Of Bonham, Texas,
has written that he will attend the
convention again this year. Brother
Evans Is one Of the biggest and best
Sunday school men the State Of Tex
as has ever produced. and will add
much strength to the convention.
c. II. Nichols, Miss Nichols and
Mrs. Dowis, all OF the Oklahoma
State association will attend our
convention this year and they will
bring us a message and a helpfulness
that will be an inspiration to the
convention.
Any Sunday school anywhere in
the county that wants a member of
the association to visit them and
speak on the work before the date OF
the convention, June 18th, and 18th,
should notify w. B. Morrison, sec
retary, at once and he will arrange
to send you a speaker. If the associa-
tion can be of service to your school,
don't hesitate to let that fact be
known; remember, the association
is inter-denominational, and is work.
ing for the interests of the boys and
girls-your boys and girls-the SER
vices of the association are free for
the asking-use it.
BRYAN COUNTY SUNDAY SCHOOL
ASSOCIATION.
w. B. Morrison, sec.; ]. b. Hickman,
pres.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-05-15


elusive.
Road and bridge. 20 to ss inclus-
i've.
Court warrants, ss5 to 700 inclus-
i've.
Poor and insane warrants, 101 to
$50 inclusive.
Township Warrants.
Township No. 2, 8, 9 and 10, old
series.
Township No. 6, all.
Township No. z, all.
Township No. 8, to AZ inclus-
i've, old series, and 1, and 2, new Sc
ries.
Township No. 10. S5 to II, in
elusive.
Township No. IL, 33 and "a.
GEO. II. HARRISON,
County Treasurer.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-05-15
REST ROOM POPULAR.

A large number of ladies from
other parts of the county visited the
Ladies Rest Room which was for
mally opened for the reception Of
visiting ladies last Saturday. Free
refreshments were served the visit
ors by the Bee Hive, and all who
cared for amusement were given a
free ticket to the Opera House for
the afternoon performance.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-05-15
Items y

Mr.. and Mrs. B. A. Mckinney re-
turned Monday noon from two
weeks visit in the East. While
away they visited with Gabe Parker
in Washington, d. c., and took in
the sights of the capital city, after
which they visited New York City
and other places of interest.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. c. Hatchett left
Monday afternoon for Nashville,
Tenn. where they go to attend the
Southern Baptist convention. After
the convention is over they will take
a trip to Washington, d. c., Phil
adelphia,. New York and other points
of interest in the East before return
ing home.
Mrs. VIM. Scarborough has let a
contract to. Messrs. Hallmark, Ba-
ker g. Jackson for nice seven-room
bungalow and bath with connecting
porcbes. This building will be
erected on Sixth and Pine and will
be modern in every respect.
Saturday a court of inquiry was
held at Bennington, as a result Of
which two negroes we're arrested
and brought to this city and placed
in the county jail, one charged with
selling booze and one with gambling.
Miss Edith Gragg has been re-
elected to her same position on the
faculty of the Tulsa public schools
for another year. She is graduate
of the Southeastern Normal of Du-
rant, and the past year is her first
year since graduation and her first
experience at teaching.
Prof. e. F. Proffitt. formerly a
member of the faculty of the Nor
NAL school here, but now a. resident
of Oklahoma City. was in the city
several days this week on business.
Mr.. Proffitt is now representing a
Chicago book concern.
G. A. Ramsey of Colbert was in
the city this week on business and
paid the News pleasant call. Mr..
Ramsey is now legally constituted
member of the state board of agri-
culture according to a. recent decis-
ion of the supreme court of the
state.
The Chickasha Express gives a
double column head on their first
page to story about Judge r. L.
Williams campaign speech held in
the city hall of that place last week
According to the Express, Judge
williams is receiving much encour-
agment in that section of the state
Miss Myrtle Merritt was in Box
chito Tuesday where she went in
the interest of the retailers ascocia'
tinn, OF which she has been assist
ant secretary since the first of May
Mr.. and Mrs. ID. T. Whitlatch
who have been visiting the family o.
the formers brother:kW. T. Whit
latch, of this city, leftsMonday fol
their home in Lafayette, Ind.
Mrs. John Work is seriously i'll a
her home on Third and Cedar streets
with acute stomach trouble. Mrs
Pugh, of Denison, Mr.. Works sister
has been with them for several days
A trained nurse has also been witt
them for the past week looking af
ter the welfare Of Mrs. Work and
the four month old baby.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Ryan of Ben
nington were In the city Monday af
ternoon enroute home from Pitts
boro, Mo-, where they had been t.
attend the funeral of the latter
father. After reaching this cit.
yesterday they found that thei
home at Bennington and its content
had been completely destroyed b,
fire a few days ago. /,
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-05-15
CALL FOR COUNTY
AND TOWNSHIP WARRANTS

The following warrants are now
payable at the office of the county
treasurer:
County Warrants.
Supply warrants 1877 to III in
elusive, old series, and to 81, new
series.
Contingent warrants, to SO in
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-05-15
KENETICK GETS RURAL ROUTE.

The postoffice department has
this week approved rural route num-
ber one out of Kenefick, service to
commence as soon as the rural route
appropriation becomes available on
June first this year. The route is
twenty-four and half miles long
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-05-15
TO CHANGE A. s. NJ. PRESIDENT

1t has been learned here from a
reliable source that the new board
of agriculture will make a change
in the presidency of the agricultural
and Mechanical college at Saltwater.
The position pays a good salary and
educators are already making an
active campaign for the place.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-05-15

AGENTS Wanted to sell Searle's
Non-Alcholic Flavors in tubes. Saves
80 per cent. Minimum remunera-
ton $4,000 per week. Write quick
for territory. General Sales Com
pany, Anderson, Ind. wi.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-05-15
DAUGHERTY GETS CONTRACT.

Elks lt MuslSogee Man Have Job OF
Building New $4,000 House,
Construction will Commence at
Once.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-05-15

FOR SALE: Boisd'arc posts and
Boisd'arc timber for all purposes.
See or write M. L. Harris. Brown,
Okla.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-05-15

and will serve one hundred families.
The salary attached to the position
of carrier is S1,100 a year.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-07
TOWNS I'M POLAND SEIZED

Berlin, Aug. 5.-The German border
troops from Lublinitz, Silesia, after a
short skirmish with Russians, took
possession of Czaenstochowa, Russian
Poland.
Bendzin and Kalisz, Russian Poland,
also have been occupied by the Ger
mans.
Czaenstochowa is a city of some So
900 inhabitar is situated on the River
Waethe near the Silesian frontier
Bendzin is a coal and zinc mining
center. 1t has a population of slightly
over 10000, about half of whom are
Jews.
Kalisz is the capital of the province
of the same name 1t is the most west,
erly city in Russian Poland. It's popu-
lation is 10000.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-07
FRONTIER ATTACK BY UHLANS
ENDS IN DEFEAT AND DlSOR-
Derby EXTRAORDINARY DEAD
ARE LEFT ON FIELD.
ATTEMPT MADE AGAINST
FRENCH ENTERTAINMENTS
Victory Celebrated in Streets of Paris
Crowds With French, English
and Russian CoIors March
ing Singing Patriotic
Measures.

Paris, Aug. Sin a sharp engage
ment at Petit Croix, French troops
scored a victory against the German
advance guard which attempted to in
wade France and possibly march on to
Paris. While the French forces were
entrenched just beyond the town they
were attacked by corps Of Uhlans.
They were not only repulsed, but the
German soldiers were moved down in
countless numbers, by the machine
guns of the French army.
Retreat in Dis 'er.
After charging a hal ven times,
the Uhlans retreated in d order, leav-
ing many dead on the field. The
wounded, it is said included a num-
Der of officers. The French suffered no
losses in the engagement, it is claim
ed here.
Attack Advance Guards.
The s. enc of the fight is a customs
post on the Lorraine frontier. The Uh-
lans participating in the attack com
prised the advance guard of the Ger
man army that was advancing from
Metz with Nancy as the objective
News that they were en- route had
been brought to the command of the
French customs guard by an aviator
who reconnoitered from the outposts.
The French plan of action was careful
ly outlined.
The Uhlans, confident because of
the trifiing resistance encountered,
charged at top speed
Guns Cut Loose.
The French fire was withheld until
the Germans were well within range
and then the murderous machine guns
cut loose. The front ranks of the Uh-
lans Withered, but there was no halt in
the charge. The French defenders
poured heavy rifle fire into the
charging men, aiming at the horses,
some of which fell and threw the
whole column into confusion.
The fire was SO deadly that the Ger
man commander ordered a retreat but
quickly reformed his forces outside of
cannon range and later made a second
assault. Like the former, it failed and
full one-fourth of the attacking force
was either killed, wounded or captur-
ed. Among the prisoners are said to
be several officers.
News of this, the first victory to
French arms, was quickly circulated
throughout this city. The streets were
quickly filled with rejoicing men and
women. Impromptu professions, with
French, English and Russian colors
entwined, were formed. The crowd
marched to and fro in the streets
singing patriotic measures and after
ward visited the homes of the mem
bers of the cabinet to cheer them.
News of further fighting is expected
momentarily. French aviators operat-
ing from Nancy have mapped the en-
tire German advance in front of
Longwy.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-07
PREACHING That UpIifts.

The world seems pretty bad place
to most of us at times. There are
so many things which take the heart
out of our optimism, that Seem to
make it a meaningless hope rather
than any solid reinsurance. But the
kind of preaching that comes from
somebody who is better than we are.
some life that lifts up the standard
of human worth and reveals what it
may be made to stand for-such
preaching is likely to answer the cry
within us for something that is true
and genuine and ependable.-Haver.
hill Gazette.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-07

talked or the daring Of the American
woman; who but q Frenchwoman
would have dared what she had this
night? The taxicab! She laughed.
And this man was wax in the hands of
any pretty woman who came along!
SO rumor had it. But she knew that
rumor was only the attenuated ghost
of Ananias, doomed forever to remain
on earth for the propagation Of mac
curate whispers. Wax! Why, she
would have trusted herself in any sit
uation with man with those eyes and
that angle of jaw. 1t was all very
mystifying. Follow him; see where
he goes" The frank discussion, then,
and the calm dismissal were but a
Woman's discrimination. And he had
gone to Flora Desimone's.
The carriage stopped before hand
some apartment house in the Avenue
de Wagram. The unknown got out,
gave the driver his fare, and rang the
concierge's bell. The sleepy guardian
opened the door, touched his gold
braided cap in recognition, and led the
way to the small electric lift. The
young woman entered and Familiarity
pushed the button. The apartment in
which she lived was on the second
floor; and there was luxury every
where, but luxury subdued and
charmed by taste.
She threw aside her hat and wraps
with that manner of inconsequence
which distinguishes the artistic tenn
permanent from the thrifty one, and
passed on into the coy dining room.
The maid had arranged some sand
wiches and bottle of light wine. She
ate and drank, while intermittent
smiles played across her merry face.
Having satisfied her hunger, she
opened her purse and extracted the
banknote. She smoothed it out and
laughed aloud.
"Oh, if only he had taken me for a
ride in the taxicab!' She dubbed
again with merriment.
Suddenly she sprang up, as if in
spired, and dashed into another room,
a study. She came back with pen and
ink, and with a CELEBRITY that came OF
long practice, drew five straight lines
across the faint violet face of the bank
note. Within these lines she made lit
tie dots at the top and bottom OF
stubby perpendicular strokes, and
strange interlineal hierogiyphics, and
sweeping curves, all of which would
have puzzled an Psychologist If he
were unused to the ways of musicians.
Carefully she dried the composition,
and then put the note away. Some
day she would confound him by re-
turning it.
A little later her fingers were NOV
ing softly over the piano keys; melo-
dies in minor, sad and haunting and
elusive, melodies that had never been
put on paper and would always be her
own; in them she might leap from
comedy to tragedy, from laughter to
tears, and only she would know. The
midnight adventure was forgotten, and
the hero of it, too. With her eyes
closed and her 1.-THE body swaying
gently, she let the old weary pain in
her heart take hold again.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-07
CHAPTER III.
The Beautiful Tiqress.

Flora Desimone had been born in a
Calabrian peasants hut, and she had
rolled in the dust outside, yelling Wig
orously at all times. Specialists de-
clare that the reason for all great
singers coming from lowly origin is
found in this early development Of the
throat. Parents of means employ
least to smother these infantile pro-
tests against being thrust inconsider-
ately into the turmoil of human be-
ings. Flora yelled or slept, as the
case might be; her parents were
equally Indifferent. They were too
busily concerned with the getting of
bread and wine Moreover, Flora was
one among many. The gods are al
ways playing with the Calabrian pen
insula, heaving it up here or throwing
it down there; il terremoto, the earth
quake, the terror. Here nature tink-
ers vicariously with souls; and she sell
dom has time to complete her work.
Constant communion with death
makes for callosity of feeling; and the
Calabrians and the Sicilians are the
cruelest among the civilized peoples.
Flora was ruthless.
She lived amazingly well in the pre-
mier of an apartment-hotel in the
Champs Elysees. In England and
America she had amassed a fortune.
Given the warm beauty of the south
ern italian, the passion, the tempera-
ment, the love of mischief, the natural
cruelty, the inordinate craving for at
tention and fiattery, she enlivened the
nations with her affairs. And she new
er put a single beat of her heart into
any Of them. That is why her voice is
still splendid and her beauty unchang,
| ing. She did not dissipate; calcula-
| ton always barred her inclination
rather, she loitered about the Forbid
den Tree and played that she had
plucked the Apple. She had an ex
ample to follow; Eve had none.
Men scattered fortunes at her feet
as foolish Greeks scattered floral of
| gods-without provoking the sense OF
reciprocity or generosity or mercy
She had worked; ali. no one would
ever know how hard. She had beer
crushed, beaten, cursed, starved. THAI
she had risen to the heights in spite Of
| these bruising verbs in no manner en-
larged her pity, but dulled and initiated
| the little there was of it. Her menta
| attitude toward humanity was child
| ish; as, when the parent strikes, the
child bliadly strikes back. She was
determined to play, to enjoy life, tt
| give back blow for blow, nor caring
| where she struck. She was going t.
press the juice from every grape. A
thousand odd years gone, she would
have led the cry in Rome-"Bread ant
the circus!" or "To the lions!" She
would have disturbed Neros compla
cency, and he would have played al
obbligato instead Of solo at the burn
ing. And she was malice incarnate
They came from all climes-her Low
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-07
Accept No Code MESSAGES.

New York, Aug. 4.-The Western
Union Telegraph company announced
the following: Under current regula-
tons all European messages must not
only be written in plain English or
French language, but must bear full
address and be signed in the full name
of the sender. Messages with abbre
Waited code addresses will not be pass
ed by the censors This likewise ap,
plies to messages for the British West
Indies and islands beyond"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-07
Failure of Artificial Food.

That it is possible to live on artf
fetal food, or at least on the concen
trated extracts of certain staples, Ia
common belief. and it has even
been predicted that some day our
diet will consist of tabloid food. One
might live for a short time in that
unsociable way, but recent investiga
ton Of diseases like beri-beri, scurvy
and pellagra, which are almost GER
tainly caused by deficiency In the
diet prove that such a life would be
one of disease and could not ta0
lonG.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-07
Chicago 'Change Stays Open.

Chicago, Aug. 3.-Armour's millions
rescued the wheat trade from panic.
Ii. stead of chaos resulting from a set
clement day in the midst of war
market, with possibly scores Of firms
embarrassed, and a virtual certainty
tnat bankruptcies, few or many, would
ensue, the Chicago Board of Trade
was enabled to maintain the record of
never having closed. The chief reason
was that rs entangled firms and indi-
viduals on change were freely given
aid ey Armour & Co.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-07
Want Wilson to Settle War.

Brussels, Aug. 3.-The international
bureau of peice sent an appeal to
President Wilson to offer his media
ton in the European conflict The
bureau also asked the German en-
peror to use his efforts to sattle the
controversy, reminding him that the
twenty-fifth anniversary of his reign
had been celebrated amid peace. Presi-
dent Poincare of France, Emperor
Nicholas of Russia and Pope Plus
were among others appealed to in the
interest of peace.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-07
American Tourists Trapped.

London, Aug. 4.-Hundreds of ma
rooned Americans are arriving tonight
from the continent. All are anxious to
get home, but few have been able to
secure accommodations. They report
hundreds of Americans still in France
and Germany and absolutely unable to
get away from these nations. Ac-
cording to the stories told by the
Americans arriving here the Euro
peans have taken advantage of their
plight 70 gouge out of them every pos
e dollar.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-07
GREAT BRITAIN WILL KEEP FRENCH
COAST CLEAR; GERMANS ARE ROUTED
= II i 4 Il 4 q y
WAR CRISIS AT A GLANCE.

. Great Britain declares that the
Germans shall not modest the
Is French coast, also that the kaiser's
n troops must respect neutrality of
Belgium.
German ambassador in London
implores the British empire to
= stand aIoof from war. The Brit
4 ish, however, remain neither bel
y ligerent nor neutral. The final de-
: cision appears to rest with the
8 public which cIamors for war.
= Belgium rejects Germany's pro-
posal to join her in a pact and per-
y nit a passage of German troops
y across Belgian territory against
= France.
French and English join in great
+ demonstration in London in favor
= of war.
herman liner leaves New York
without passengers. Is believed
to be taking fuel to cruiser karIs-
= ruhe, supposed to be lurking near
. Sandy Hook.
%
3 Germany wins the first two ma
* val battles against the Russian
y fleet. The first was near the Al
. and islands in Russian waters, and
= the other at the Port of Lbau.
y
German troops are repuised in
y France and hundreds moved down
x by machine guns.
II = -
= Congress authorized the issu-
= ance of more than 81 100000, 900 in
* new currency by banks to meet
: any situation created in America
* through the European crisis.
+ x = y
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-07
To BRING Americans Home.

Washington, Aug. 4.-Consuls in Eu.
rope have been instructed to have
orders for transportation home for
Americans honored by European agen'
cies. Relatives here may deposit funds
with American agents of the transpor.
tation companies.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-07
Ship With Millions Safe.

Washington, Aug. 5. - The liner
Kron Prinzessin Cecilie, bearing mil
lions of gold bullion, reported in dan
ger of capture by British cruisers,
reached German port yesterday. Dis
patches to the state department did
not name the port of her arrival.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-07

to wage war, the foreign secretary left
an impression of doubt.
That doubt may reflect the mind of
a cabinet not wholly unanimous, and
the Interpretation drawn by many is
that Sir Edward Grey's speech was a
hint to Germany that if she will keep
her soldiers off Belgian soil and her
battleships away from the coast of
France that will be the price of Great
Britain's armed neutrality.
Promise to France.
The promise to France to protect
the French coast with the British
fleet, Sir Edward Grey said, was sub
ject to the approval of parliament Be-
yond that tribunal it apparently was
intended to be subject to ratification
by the court of last resort-the people
of the United Kingdom and the en-
pire
Sir Edward recalled that he told
France at the time of the Algeciras
crisis that Great Britain would prom
Use nothing to any foreign power un-
less it received the whole hearted sup
port of public opinion"
The solemnity and dignity of the
house of commons when it met was
worthy of the occasion, which was one
OF great moment IN the history of the
empire. The hall was crowded with
members of the chamber Peers and
bishops who filled the galleries were
grave and silent The united front"
of the nation which the leaders
pledged their parties when the house
last met, found expression in two or
three incidents.
Cheers for Churchill.
Winston Spencer Churchill, first lord
of the admiralty, has bitter enemies on
but when he entered the hall he was
received with a roar of cheers from
his opponents, paying tribute to him
as the head Of the navy.
1t had been expected that the prime
minister would be the spokesman Of
the government, but Sir Edward Grey
was chosen for the task because of his
more intimate acquaintance with
Great Britain's connection with the
Triple Entente.
Sir Edward Grey's strongest pas
sages commanded more cheering from
the opposition than from his own side
Of the house. When he related that
the German foreign minister had de-
clined to state his country's intentions
toward Belgium, there was an angry
outhurst with cries of "Trickery."
Patriotic feeling reached the climax
when John Redmond, the Nationalist
leader, rose to pledge the loyalty of
Ireland and to say the present calam-
ity might have one happy result. Mr.
Redmond was given great ovation.