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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-10-01
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To ARDN0RE
LEE CRUCE EXPRESSES GRAFT.
TUDE TO NOBLE-HEARTED OIL
MEN FOR THEIR GENEROSITY
IN ARDMoRE's DISTRESS.

The Ardmore offices of the Roxana
Petroleum company announced this
morning the gift of 81 900 to the relief
fund of the city.
Treasurer Lee Cruce was visi5ly
touched today when he spoke of the
generosity of the oil companies. Mr.
Cruce said "It seems that almost
every citizen has distinct loss of
his own to bear, and while many citi-
zens have given to the fund, and
some have been moved to a greater
generosity than their means would
justify, still the needs of the city
could not have been met if the oil
companies had not come to our res
cue. None know quite so well as
the members of the relief committee
just how much these companies have
done, and without their help there
would have been much suffering
They themselves cannot ever know
Just what good purpose their money
served"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-10-01
RELIEF COM.
REGISTERS VIC
OR0US KICK
WANT AUTOMOBILES AND DRlV.
ERS TO ASSIST THEM IN PRES
ENT WORkDR. WElTH HOPES
TO GET RESPONSE.

The relief committee has registered
kick against the owners of autos
who, they say, are slow in offering
their services so that the needy ones
in the outskirts of the city may be
visited and their wants attended to.
DR.. Weith stated this morning that
one or two loyal women in the city
were always on the job with their
machines and were always ready for
any emergency; they need more, and
feel that those who own machines
could at least offer to serve for a few
hours each day until the present con.
dition is alleviated.
DR.. Weith stated that the really dis
tressed persons, both white and black.
were most patient and the relief COM
mittee had not a single case to regis
ter wherein one person was found to
be asking for something to which they
were not entitled.
The relief fund has grown to ap-
proXimately $4,000, with contributions
coming in all the time. Many who were
rendered homeless Monday when their
all was wiped away, will have to be
provided with new homes, and many
will have to be provided with the ne
cessities of life all the coming win.
ter. DR. Weith states that he hopes
it will not be necessary to remind the
public again that their assistance is
wanted NOW, and especially hopes
that the question of automobiles will |
not have to be raised again. Several |
have registered who want jobs, they |
are willing and anxious, but so far no !
one has made a demand upon the !
for laborers, they have J
some good men available and a word
sent to the committee will get them.
Things are beginning to run more
smoothly now. and every member is
ioing his best in order that all suffer
ng may get relief.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-10-01
Ardmore, Friday, October I, 1915.
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REBUILDING HAS BEGUN

The reconstruction period has al
ready begun in Ardmore, and on the
side streets, away from where the eX-
plosion spent its worst fury, carpen-
ters, glass filters and sheet metal
workers are already busy.
On the main thoroughfare, however
where the withering blast spared no
thing, much will have to be done be
fore some buildings again are ready
for the occupant Dozens of once
substantial buildings will have to be
torn down, and doubtless on the same
spot will stand bigger, better and
stronger buildings.
For, after all, Ardmore is to become
"A Greater Ardmore, and why not?
Ardmore is situated in all logic N
one of the most likely places for
big town on Gods footstool, Sur.
rounded, primarily, by a rich farm
ing country, she was made by this
alone. And now has come the open.
ing of great oil and gas fields, and
on top of that the positive assurance
that we have near us one OF the rich
est zinc and lead fields in the United
States. Opportunity and all of her
followers are camoring at the gates
of Ardmore, and she will arise from
her ruins bigger, better, stronger and
more full of ambition than ever ne
fore.
And more than that, Ardmore is in
Oklahoma, and is full OF Oklahoma
people. If not born in Oklahoma, they
got the fever before they had been
in the state forty-eight hours.
And that is the reason, and reasons
that Ardmore will now be "A Greater
Ardmore."
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-10-01

Yesterday afternoon, the city com.
missioners granted the Santa Fe Ry.
Co. permission to constructe a tempo.
rary freight depot just east of the
old freight depot, and as soon as prac.
ticable, the Santa Fe expects to build
modern brick or stone freight house
which will have few equals in the state
The citizens of this city expect to
treat the Santa Fe in all fairness and
the city officials feel assured that the
railway company expects to pay for
any damages that they have incurred
and the mayor requests that we 20
about this in a calm, businesslike way
and at no time should we act too
hastily.
VAL MULLEN, Mayor.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-10-01

Neuralgia of the face, shoulder.
hands, or feet requires a powerful
remedy that will penetrate the flesh
BALLARD'S SNOW LINIMENT DOS.
sesses that power. Rubbed in where
the pain is felt is all that is necessary
to relieve suffering and restore nor
NAL conditions. Price 25c, soc and
$lOO per bottle. Sold by Bomar Drug
Co.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-10-01
LIST OF BUILDINGS WHICH
HAVE BEEN CONDEMNED

The following buildings have been
wholly or partially condemned by the
board of inspectors:
All the block between the railway
on the north side of Main street 10
Caddo
Wilmington Hotter.
Hardy building
Randol building.
Rose CroiX hospital.
The inspectors are at work in the
block from Mill street toward the
Wilmington hotel this afternoon. TIE
mayor states that it is the opinion
of the inspectors that many of TIE
buildings on the north side of Main
street, between the Hardy building
on Caddo and Main to Randol build
ing on Mill and Main, are safe, and
owners will be permitted to resume
business as soon as they can clean
away the debris and make repairs.
All the churches of the city were
inspected this morning and pro- I
nounced safe. The mayor will issue |
4 proclamation advising the people to
attend church services Sunday morn
ng. Tomorrow morning one hundred
men and twenty teams will be put to
work by the mayor, cleaning up the
iebris from the streets and hauling
{ away.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-10-01
R|NCL|NC ROAD
WILL INSTALL
NEW TRAIN
EXCLUSIVE PASSENGER SERVICE
TO OIL FIELDS-JOHN RINGllNG
IMPRESSED WITH PEOPLES OP.
TIMISM.

John Ringing, of the Oklahoma
New Mexico & Pacific Railway com
pany was in Ardmore Monday wher
the explosion occurred and he suffer
ed the same fright and nervousness
! in common with the citizens of the
city. After looking over the ruins yes
! terday, he said he had never seen
| quite as much destruction wrought
| anywhere else, and was impressed
with the hopefulness and with the en-.
ergy of the people of this city. He says
that the ruined district will be built
much better and larger and more
modern than the old structures and
out of the disaster some good will ac-
crue to the city.
In speaking of the Santa Fe people,
Mr. Ringing said that in all the bust
ness world there are no two more
generous men than President Ripley
of the Santa Fe, and the general man.
ager, f. G. Pettibone. He says, the
company will make a thorough inves.
tigation of the affair on its own ac.
count, and if it is liable, people will
be treated more generously than they
expect.
Mr.. Ringing now has a large force
ballasting his line of road and putting
it in most excellent condition. The
new passenger station on North Wash
ington is nearing completion and is
one of the most modern structures of
the kind in the state. This new build
ing will be used Jointly by the Ring
ling road and the Frisco. Mr. Ringing
is also arranging to install a regular
passenger service on his road be-
tween Ardmore and Ringing. Hereto
fore only mixed trains have been run.
ming, but the freight traffic is so
heavy that the passenger traffic has
been delayed, and for that reason new
equipment will be here at once for
the purpose of installing an exclusive
passenger train, which will reach
Ringing and intermediate points.
Mr.. Ringing is impressed with the
vast amount of work that is going on
in the oil field and with the amount
of building which has been done in
Ardmore in the past two years. He has
unbounded faith in the people of the
city and the disaster of Monday has
served to tie him in closer bonds of
friendship to Ardmore and its people.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-10-01
GOVERNMENT GAS MEN
viii Report to Federal Bureau Of
Mines on Ardmore Explosion

w. f. McMurray and ]. o. Lewis of
the government bureau of mines ar
rived here yesterday from Muskogee,
for the purpose of conducting an in
yestigation OF the cause Of the Ard
more explosion last Monday after
noon which cost the city so far as
many as i3 lives and a property loss
of one half million dollars. These
men are engaged in the work of gas
conservation in the state of okla
homa, and have come here in re-
sponse to instructions from the gov
ernment, and their report will be
made to the bureau of mines in
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-10-01

using Chamberlain's Tablets | had
been suffering for some time with
stomach trouble and chronic constipa.
ton My condition improved rapidly
through the use of these tablets. Since
taking four or five bottles of them
my health has been fine" writes Mrs.
John Newton, Irving, n. Y. Obtain
able everywhere.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-10-01
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
DEPEND UPON YOUR LIVER

That sluggish liver with its sluggish
flow Of bile is what makes the world
look so tark at times. DR.. Kings New
Life Pills go straight to the root of
the difficulty by waking up the action
of the liver and increasing the bile.
Dr. Kings New Life Pills cause the
bowels to act more freely and drive
away those moody days" 25c a bot
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-10-01
FLOW ERs
EVERY HOME NEEDS A FAITH
Full COUGH AND COLD REMEDY

When seasons change and colds ap-
pear-when you first detect a cold af
ter sitting next to one who has
sneezed, then it is that a tried and
tested remedy should be faithfully
used. 81 never wrote a testimonial
before, but | know positively that for
myself and family, DR.. Kings New
Discovery is the best cough remedy we
ever used and we have tried them all"
soc and S1.00.
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snvigoratIng to the Pale and SickIv

The Old Standard general Strengthening tonic
GROVES TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives ON
Malaria enriches the blood and bniids up the sys
en- tttie tonic. For adults and children. SOs
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-10-01

FOR GENTLEMAN - A desirable
room. Close in. Telephone SS2 SO-3
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Drink pure distilled water, delivered
anywhere IN city. Phone orders to 615
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-10-01

FOR RENT-House on A street and
End Ave-, N. w. Phone $40. wal
ter Thompson. ZO-u
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FOR RENT

FOR RENT-Two modern fye-room
houses. Telephone 3ij. ~
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HELP WANTED
LOST AND FOUND.

WE HAVE BEEN GREATLY IN
NEED OF CARS TO ASSIST US IN
VISITING CASES OF DISTRESS. If
you HAVE A CAR THAT is NOT
ABSOLUTELY NEEDED, TENDER
1T TO US. WE NEED 1T.
c. c. WEITH,
Chairman Relief Com.
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LlVen up your buslness-try the
Want Ads.
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FOR RENT-7-room modern house
on C street, southwest. Phone 225.
Julius Kahn. 6-lm
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FOR SALE-My residence in Sulphur.
or will trade for Ardmore property.
d. j. Kendall. See |. r. Best. 1.3
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FOR RENT-My bungalow and home
N. Washington street. Mrs. Mat
thews. Phone blue S47. 12lm
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FOR SALE

| SELL AND RENT TyPEWRITERs.
G.P. Selvidge. 10 w. Main. Phone 23O
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-10-01

VAL MULLEN, Mayor.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-25
OLD RESIDENT HERE

William Howell. one of the early
settlers of this locality, came in from
Nevada the first Of the week and
visited some of the farms he used to
own, and then went to Mackay.
Mr.. Howell took up claim below
Snake river bridge in 1884, in COM
rany with Dave Banks and remained
on it several years. 1t comprised
what is now the property of L. H.
Fink and ]. p. Hutchinson. Later
he purchased what was known as
the Carrot place just west of the
bridge where the Van Akin and Yost
families live. He took up land at
Tilden, near what is now Springfield,
and later moved to Lost river, and
for the past IL years has been in
He was in company with his son,
Bert, who lives at Mackay, and they
went out on Thursdays train.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-25
PROSECUTIONS AT BOISE

Last week Attorney General ]. H.
Peterson was on trial charged with
completely in the O.. " Allen embez-
element, and the state failed to make
its case. The wonder is that the
grand jury indicted him and that the
prosecuting attorney allowed it to
go to trial. The evidence showed
simply that Peterson was in debt to
State Treasurer Allen when Allen
was found to be an embezzler of the
public funds. Nothing was brought
out at the trial to show that Peter
son knew it was state funds that he
borrowed of Allen. On the con-
trary it was shown that care had
been taken to keep Peterson from
knowing that fact.
When Peterson was indicted last
winter on the flimsy showing or mere
suspicion, the papers all over the
United States published the matter
and mentioned in connection with it
the fact that the state treasurer had
already plead gully to the charge and
that Peterson was an accomplice in
the big steal Now that Peterson has
been acquitted of the charge, it will
receive slight mention in Idaho, and
little IL any notice outside of the
state. The people of the country at
large will still carry the idea that
both the treasurer and the attorney
general of Idaho were criminals, and
it will hurt the state accordingly.
For years to come when Peterson's
name is mentioned in other states,
somebody with slight familiarity with
Idaho affairs will remember the name
and something about the charges and
will turn aside to ask, isn't he the
man that was mixed up in the big
treasurery steal in. Idaho?" In that
way an undeserved disgrace will fow-
low him, and Idaho will receive some
detrimental advertising. Thus do
mans enemies besmirch the good
name he was born with and which he
seeks to maintain by clean record.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-25
MACKAY BRANCH

Mrs. Alex. Brunette, of Mackay,
has been visiting this week with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Adam
Eson, at Blackfoot. Her sister, Mrs.
M. A. Hoover, of Jerome, has been
with them too.
F. M. Leland was called to Cali
Ifornia the last of the week by the
illness of his wife. 'at|t
j. H. Greene and wife and son,
Donald, we're down from Mackay the
first of the week visiting with the
Tregos at Sagehurst.
L. L. Miles has purchased the SELL
ing right for the Cox bookkeeping
system for farmers, for Custer county,
and left Tuesday overland to take up
'the work of selling the books.
|. w. H. Clayton is working for Fred
Gertsch at Arco, and spent Monday
in Blackfoot.
The Arco people had good roads
day last week and parties went out
along the roads leading to Blackfoot
and HALEY and threw out the loose
rocks. They went as far as the
county line on the Bingham side, and
are planning to erect guide posts.
J Cody Powers, a blacksmith of
Mackay, went to Pocatello, Saturday,
and met Miss Francis Martin from
Greeley, Colorado, and they were
married and will live at Mackay.
Attorney w. A. Lee went out to
Mackay, Monday
Miss Anna Bascom came down
from Chilly, Wednesday, and went
south.
Miss Elva Hits. of Mackay, left
this week for Stratford, Ontario, Can
ada, to visit her fathers people.
Chairman J. G. Bona, of the board
Of commissioners of Bingham county,
went out to Arco in his car Saturday
in company with Secretary
of State Barker and State Engineer
Booth. who we're looking over the
state highway. They were met at
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-25
HONOR OUR FLAG

Never within the memory of the
present generation have the people
of this country had so much to be
thankful for and SO much to make
them love the flag as at this season
and Fourth of July. With so much
of the world at war and its people
suffering from hunger and pestilence;.
with the fearful prospect of the
Wholesale murder and destruction
continuing until civilization shall be
set back for centuries; with the
things of barbarism inflicted upon
them for the past ten months and
Gods promises seemingly reversed,
the people of those troubled nations
suffer on while the conviction grows
that il the United States. can only
keep out of the struggle it Will be
the privilege of Old Glory to bring
about peace when peace is possible,
and that perhaps enough blood will
have been spilled to convince the
leading nations and rulers that peace
at any price should be sought for
when this struggle is over.
Under these conditions so favorable
to US and so full of possibilities for
the future, every American should
feel a deeper love for his flag and
the national colors. 1t should mani
fest itself in our celebration at Black
foot, and as each one trims and de-
corates for the occasion it should be
expressive of love of country and
loyalty to the president.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-25
PRESS CLUB IN TOWN

Three members of the Eastern
Idaho Press club were In town Mon
~ afternoon on their way homo
from meeting at Mackay. The peo-
pie of Mackay made preparations for
big meeting Of the scribes, and It
is reported that there we're only nine
persons in attendance, representing
some six or seven papers. a
In two years the club has dwindled
from about 40, and the management
ought to be convinced by this time
that something more is needed to put
life into it than what has been adj
ministered.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-25
A MATTER OF EMPHASIS

A few years ago Chicago man
was invited to visit st. Anthony and
address their commercial club on the
subject, Whats the matter with St.
Anthony" The people there had
been in the habit of using the express
sion with emphasis on st. Anthony.
The Chicago man took to it with
the emphasis on Matter" and used
the falling infection after St. An
.thony. He looked the town over care
fully. noted the loose papers blowing
about the streets, observed that they
eventually got into the river or the
alleys or in between the buildings
where they lay and gathered dust
and dampness and eventually fell
to decay. He observed that cart loads
of tin cans and ashes and litter of
many kinds were dumped by property
owners just over their property lines
and left there. He observed that
there was no sewer system and that
there was fearful breeder of stencil
and flies at the rear of almost every
home. He learned that the town had
suffered with typhoid pestilence on
different occasions, and more pestil-
ence was in the making according to
signs.
BY the time he got around to the
meeting he was prepared to name
some of their worst troubles and sug-
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-25
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Good C1othes-


gest the remedies which he did, and
thought he was doing them some
good and comforting favor which
they would appreciate. When he was
through his audience was ready to
go home and home they went He
had entered the building a popular
idol; he walked out despised by
large number, respected by a few
an, Stunned by the majority. 1t was
just matter of emphasis. They
were willing to pay him to say some
nice things about the town and it's
prospects, but for couple of years
they dispised him.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-25
1925 REWARD

Stolen from A. w. Quigley. at
Wapello, near Blackfoot, Idaho, May
rs, 1915, one Harley-Davidson motor
cycle, number 696SK, on left side of
engine, full equipped 1915 model, lat
est improved eight horse power, has
electric light and electric horn.
Reward Of $25 for return OF. prop
erty and $50 for conviction of guilty
party. q
Notify A. H. Simmons, sheriff,
Blackfoot, Bingham county, Idaho.
" adv. 46-3
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-25

George Ferris, or Arco, went to
Pocatello, Wednesday, and expected
to return home today.
Arco by D. v. Archbold, of the Jen-
kins Bank of Mackay, who took them
ON to the Copper City. c. F. Hill
lizard of Blackfoot accompanied the
party.
Sam Mulville came down from Oar.
lington the first of the week. He
had been there farming for three
months. 5ea
Charlie Powell came down from
Mackay, Monday.
William Howell, an old resident OF
Blackfoot and Lost river, visited
Blackfcot this week in company with
his son, Bert.
Miss May Richardson, of Darling
ton, came to Blackfoot, Wednesday
20 w. R. Robinson and son, LeGrand,
of Pocatello, took a fishing trip to
Lost river the first of the week.
Mrs. s. X. Paxton, of Mackay, re-
turned Thursday morning from Salt
Lake, where she went to attend the
wedding of her daughter. Mrs. Arthur
to Mr.. W. s. Manse, OF Kansas City.
MRS. Sydney Roberts, of Mackay,
has been visiting her sister at Butte,
and returned home Thursday.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-25
BRALEY BUILDING LADDER

G. l.. Braley left Wednesday morn
ing for the headwaters of Salmon
river to build a fish ladder at the
Sunbeam dam, about ten miles from
Custer
Mr.. Braley said he expected to be
gone couple of weeks, and would
be obliged to take off his coat and
work many days, some of the time
in the water. He expected to get
more or less of his skin wet, and
has decided to book it as his annual
bath.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-25
STAKE PRIESTHOOD MEETING

On Sunday, June 81, 1915, the fol-
lowing meetings will be held in
Blackfoot:
The regular meeting of the high
council will be held in the Progress
hall at 10 o'clockia m.
At 1880 p. m. in the upper room
of the Stake building there will be
a meeting of the bishoprics through
out the stake, members of the high
council, stake presidency and ward
clerks.
At 1880 p. m. in the lower rooms
of the Stake building there will be a
r4eeting of the Sunday School Union.
At 1880 p. m. there will be a meet
ing of the high priests quorum in
the Blackfoot First Ward meeting
house.
At 8 p. m. the regular monthly
meeting of the priesthood of the
stake will be held in the Blackfoot
First Ward meeting house.
At 3 p. m. there will be meeting
for all workers in the Y. L. M. I. A.
in the north rooms of the Blackfoot
First Ward meeting house.
At 3 p. m. there will be meeting
for all workers in the relief society
in the upper room of the stake build
ing.
At 8 p. m. there will be a meeting
for all workers in the primary asso-
citation in the lower rooms of the
stake building.
The people throughout the stake
are earnestly urged to be in attend
ance in Blackfoot on the above Sum
day, SO that every one Of the alb We
meetings may be fully attended, and
It is sincerely hoped that each ward
will be strongly represented
JAMES DUCKWORTH,
HEBER G. c.. RICH, ~
NOFEAR DAVIS,
r Stake Presidency.