The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-03-26

The First National bank al Nc
Alester, capitalized at 100000, has
deposits of $S04,724.75.
Mrs. Henrietta Younger Rawlins,
youngest member of the noted Young.
er family Of Missouri, died at Ardmore,
aged 81 years.
After being turned down by the
Senate, President Wilson gave re-
cess appointment to Otis B. Weaver,
a newspaper man, as postmaster at
Shawnee.
Yancey Lewis, formerly federal
judge of the central district of Indian
Territory, died at his home in Dallas
last week. He was So years old and a
native of Texas.
The postoffice at Kiefer was robbed
last week, the safe blown open with
a charge of nitroglycerine and be-
tween $3.50 and $500 secured by two
masked men who escaped on horse.
back.
Thirty-five farmers living south of
Blackwell have agreed to build a
main gas pipe line into the farming
district, from the city of Blackwell,
and by means Of smaller pipes, pipe
gas into their farm houses.
Fifty bushels of bag worms were
collected in Lawton by school boys.
The First State bank of Erick, cap
italized at $4,000, has deposits of
$172,992.3S. Erick is in Beckham
county, on the west side of the state.
Robbers blew open the safe in the
office of the postoffice at Krebs. They
secured $19.S3 in money and $345
worth of stamps. In the debris, $500
worth of stamps and $55 in money was
found by the authorities which the rob-
bers overlooked.
]. E. Speake, farmer OF Woodford,
Carter county, sold his entire cotton
crop of thirty-five bales. The price
received was $685. hundred which
netted the farmer approximately $1,000.
Mr.. Speake is among the few farmers
who were able. to hold their entire
crop for better price.
BY enlisting the support of the small
boys of the town, the ladies of the
Progressive club have just cleaned up
Hartshorne. Picture show tickets were
given on every fourteen empty tin
cans assembled on the main street of
completed city wagons hauled them
off. 1t is estimated that 10000 cans
we're collected and dumped outside the
city limits.
County commissioners of Kay coun-
ty plan to take advantage of the law
passed by the legislature, giving COM
missioners the authority to purchase
forms for concrete silos to be loaned
to farmers who will build silos. The
object of the legislature in passing the
bill was to promote the use of the silo
and as it is very popular thing among |
the cattle raisers and farmers of this
county already, the commissioners
will, as soon as possible, get the new
forms to working.
Mrs. Della Padgham, wife of Fred
Padgham of Guthrie, swallowed car.
bolic acid and died at once on the
street near the drug store where she
had purchased the acid. Her husband
and ten children, the oldest II, sur
vive. Poor health is believed to have
caused Mrs. Padgham to take the acid.
st. Patrick's day was set aside by
the business men of Carmen as road
working day, and business houses were
closed and every able man in the city
spent the day working the roads sur
rounding the city. About 65 men, d.
vided into squads, worked on the roads
coming into the city from all direc-
tions.
The Usage Tribal Council, in q body
is attending the Usage oil lease hear
ing being held in Washington. Pres
ton A. Shlnn, former local attorney
for the Osages, accompanied the coun.
Gil members to Washington. The
hearing is for the purpose of determin-
ing whether the Foster oil and gas
lease, covering the eastern portion of
the Indian lands in Usage county, shall |
be renewed. The Osages are asking !
a large bonus and royalty of one.
sixth of the oil produced.
BY the use of split-log drags, as the
roads are drying w. P. Meade, street |
commissioner of Blackwell, puts the
streets of that city in a serviceable
condition in very short time. The |
Commercial Club also owns twenty of |
these drags and they are loaned out |
to farmers in the surrounding terri |
tory, to be used in improving the coun.
try roads. BY this system the streets
in town and the surrounding roads are
in a good condition now, despite the
fact that they have been soaked with |
more than seven inches of moisture
during the past four weeks.