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Sherman took possession Of At.
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uuveiling Of q monument OF
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REAL ESTATE.

FOR REAL ESTATE, LOANS and
insurance, see E. E. Guillot, No.
9 North Washington street, Ard.
more, Okla. Phone s32-L. 15-1m
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LOST AND FOUND.

Springer road, mud chain
for automobile. Owner call at Ard
moreite office. 1-3
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Hco-Hoo. the new cigar, cents, a;
your dealers.
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HELP WANTED
POSITION WANTED

EXPERIENCED GROCERY MAN -
Wants position. Best references.
Address Ras Chance, Tishomingo,
Okla. 31-S
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FOR RENT


FOR RENT-Roouing house, 81 rooms
cz-,-sIly located 4 Eddleman- ZI-f
FURNISHED 4room cottage, also
Housekeeping rooms, Is Fourth Ave-
y y. Phone Red 4sI. z-lm
FOR REST-Ny home furnished .
rooms. SO y. Washington. Phone
Red 5s4 Mrs. / " Folsom. 2-r
FOR REST-Two or three furnished
rooms for light housekeeping, mod
eru. Phone blue SCI. 3l-S
House FOR RENT, close in be-
tween D and z, on Third Ave, y. W.
Apply c. 4. W-hitehurst. Sl-5
FOR RENT-Nicely furnished bed
rooms az 221 North Washington.
Phone AS. Mrs. Buck Garrett. 3O-tf
FOR RENT-My bungalow and home.
y. Washington street MIS-. Nat
thews. Phone blue s47. 2s-6
FOR RENT-sept l, on Nor,a Wash
ington street, q 5-roon modern
house. Phone 760 Red 1S-tf
FOR RENT OR SALE-The Bleak
more house on Hargroye St, y. w,
5 rooms and bath; near street car.
? Foy 30-6
FOR RENT-Close in, rooms for light
housekeeping, or the entire place.
207 Secopd Ave, y. W. Apply Mrs.
2 Wallace. 2s-6t
FOR RENT-FIye-room modern house
al 333 G ST, S. ". Newly painted
and papered. DR.. D. q. Johnson.
Phone 1s4 29tt
FOR RENT-Two furnished light
housekeeping rooms, modern, 604
West Main. Phone lie. Mrs. W
P. Roberts. 29-lm
I BOARD AND ROOMS-Rates reason
able; everything new and modern.
New brick corner First and Mil
Phone 500. 16-tm
FOR RENT-The first Of September
business brick, the best part Of Cad
do Street. Also plenty OF dwellings
/ See r. T. Dallas. Gin
! FOR RENT - Thoroughly modern
apartments, new, never been occu
pied, excellent winter quarters, rea
sonable. Star Cash Grocery. Phone
2g1. 29-t
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LIVESTOCK

FOR SBRVICE-My fine Jersey bull.
Will call for cows. L. P. Hall.
Phone 366. 22-1m
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MY FINE JERSEY BULL Will MAKE
season at my barn on West Main
street. Will call for cows. Phone
blue $50. Will Cardwell. Ain
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FOR RENT -Rooning -cuse, 81 rooms
centrally located \ Eddleman- ZI-ti
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4-rOom cottage, also
housekeeping rooms, Is Fourth Ave
y. u. Phone Red 4sL z-lm
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FOR RENT-The first Of September
business brick, the best part Of Cad
do Street Also plenty Of dwellings.
See r. T. Dallas. 6-lm
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-09-29
RUSSIAN LOSSES AMI
BUREAU A

Samuel G.. Blythe, in the Saturday Eve
ming Post.
The reason why Russia lost so much
ground she had taken earlier in the wal
the reason for all those heartbreaklng
retreats in May and June of this year
was not deterioration In men. The reason
was lack of ammunition. .
Often Russian soldiers. without rifles.
were held in readiness: and when a SOL
der with a rifle was killed or wounded
that rifle was given to a man who STOOD
waiting without one, and ne was pusned
into the gap. M did nnt ba naa n= rniiiiions Of of
And in that condition you find the rea-
son for the insistent question: What of
Russia? There they ~are-brave, simple,
honest Russian soldiers; and in Petrograd
the bureaucrats are clubbing over details
themselves, holding off on pretexts of one
kind or Notwithstanding. uncertain.
changing from day to day, altering specif-
cations. exacting tribute, d~elaying-delay-
ng-deiaying II you mentor any NUM-
zion of war. any medical supply, any Item
of transportation or equipment. you will
OF course. it is beyond human resources
that. in this short time, they should have
enough. for they did not begin to p a
until after the war began.
That is not the point. The point is that.
through their own inefficiency or worse.
they have not nearly SO much as they
earth. save Germany and her allies. is
trying to help the Russians.
why the best artillery they have Is
Japanese artillery, manned by japanese
gunners-men who fought them to the
death 10 years ago-and Japanese experts
in all lines are assisting them. Precious
munitions and medical supplies lie in
countless tons at A~rchangel and Vladi-
vostok while contracts that mean victory
over by grating officials. The Russian
bureaucracy is making its last stand. and
the singing soldiers are retreating and
being slaughtered by thousands because
of it.
The older generals in this war have
been largely failures-not all, but in big
\ killed unnecessarily and man. q position
was lost that might have been held: but
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-09-29
HOW FLUFFY SAVED TooDLEs.

Just o and me-and we can live II
a house in the woods all by ourselves.
and some dwarf will give us nice ap-
pies and nuts and l can ride the ponies
when / get big"
Toodles looked UP. at the sky. It
was growing suddenly cloudy. Heavy
masses. We're piling up over the hugo
crest of old High Knob, that reared
foothills. Down the wooded sides of
the mountain crept Che shadow.
Toodles looked ahout for signs of q
home in the woods like boys always
found in fairy books, but it was grow
ing night. and there was nothing to
valley shone i'm the setting sun and
Toodles could have seer the windows.
of his mothers room blinking In the
light-only he did not know which
house it was he had left, for the many
farms at his feet all LOOKED alike
Under a big rock he saw a hole hol.
lowed of the earth. "Oh, Fluffy.
he exclaimed. that is just what we
want-a nice cave" And he ank down
to rest on the ground, which was COW.
up around his feet. Soundly the two
! slept, while the sun sank to rest and
| the darkness settled over the mighty
mountains. Down in the farm houses
below twinkling lights shone out, but
the boy n dog slept on.
But Mrs. Walton at home was wild
with grief. for night was come and
no sign of the child. All over the
fields people ran with lanterns calling.
men on horseback rode up III lanes.
neighbors searched the orchards and
meadows. but no sign of Toodles or
] Fluffy. So a party of men started up
the mountain. For hours they looked.
but found nothing, and presently turned
to go home. Then out on the still night
air they heard the shrill barking OF a
/ dor For. IL o60vo tha3r hoodc
THAT is the boys dog" cried one OF
the party. II am sure the child is with
him-hasten."
Following the sound the men ran
toward the big stone. under which lay
Toodles still asleep. and as they drew
near Fluffy came leaping to meet them.
why, here is the boy!" exclaimed q
man, taking the child in his arms. So
down the mountain they trudged, till
Toodles was placed in the arms OF his
weeping mother, and Fluffy dancing
about the two.
"If it had not been for Fluffy I would
never have been found" laughed
Toodles, smuggling up tight to his
mother.
THAT is true exclaimed Mrs. Wal
ton. and we will have to give up the
idea of a flat. We will keep our house
as long as Fluffy lives, SO he can have
a nome with us"
Perhaps you may some day see a boy
of 4 and a white dog in the park. And
If you do, ask the child if he is no.
coolies and get him to tell you about
how Fluffy saved his life.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-09-29

Copyright. 1915, BY the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
Fluffy vas a small. white dog be-
longing to Tiny Toodles. and Toodles
was the pet name of a big. chubby fell
low about four years old. Fluffy slept
pretty saucer that stayed right under
played together.
OF course, Toodles was not his real
name-that was Frederick Walton-bu;
Toodles seemed to fit him exactly, so
Toodle it was to all the family.
In September the Waltons went up
in the Blue Ridge mountains of Vir-
ginia to live near a place where there
was a big ranch OF ponies. There were
hundreds of acres OF land where dozens
of the shaggy colts and fat mothers raj
about grazing. So Toodles had the
time of his life. sitting on a big rock
In the. field watching them feeding or
wading in the creek. One day when
he came in to dinner his mother told
him that when they went back to town
1t would be impossible to keep Fluffy,
as the family would give up their house
and take a flat. You know they will
Walton, sadly.
We leave for town tomorrow con-
tinued Mrs. Walton. so 1 think it
best to give Fluffy to some kim per-
son here in the ne%ighborhood before
we go. l will see o it this after
noon, and. you may take him down to
the stream after dinner and build
houses in the sand"
After the meal was over ToOdles
started off with his pail swinging on
his arm. and at his fat. brown ankle.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-09-29

far over and above all causes for these
disasters was the lack of ammunition.
The Russian army organization, per ;se.
is right. 1t is the Russian administrative
organization that Is wrong. If you give
the Russian army an adequate supply OF
munitions there is no. army in the world
for nc army has better potential raw ma
terial, and no other army !. know of has
the added incentive of such intense re-
ligious f~ervor-unless 1t is the Turkish
army. :. /.
Armies in the field cannot make shells
or guns or powder; nor:cars armies in tho
feld-or their leaders-make arrangements
for securing these naedfuls. That must
be done by the administrators; n there
the lapse in Russia has come. If the Rus
slams were forced to retreat from: their ad:.
vanced positions-if they lost Przemysl
and Lemberg, and other places. their valor
tories can be given to the German force
of arms. or all the blame be laid on the
Russians in the field who lost. A good
share Of it rests with the chaffering.
Competent Officials in Petrograd; with the
bureaucrats: with the survivors. of the
bribe taking and bride soliciting.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-09-29
What Could be Done in u. S.
With Billion Allies Want

What $1,000 OOO OO-the moun III allies want to borrow in Americas
would buy:
$780, 900 automobiles. or me for every MAJ, woman N child in
2OO0OOOOOOO pounds of uga
2OOO0OOOO barrels of flour.
1OOO0OOOO 100 1O-cent ciears.
O0OIO0O0 pahs OF bal Shoes.
13333,334 % at. $5 each.
100000 horses al 800 each.
22OQ0OOO bales of cotton at 10a cents a pound. Which Is more collo'
thar tmsc country raises.
10000 aeroplanes at $4,000 each. asl .-1
4O0OOO0OOO dozen eggs at 20 cent a dozen.
4OOOOO 900 mns Of clothes at $5 each
5555555550 pounds Old dressed ribs of beef at the present market price,
10000 10000 caves of bread.
$780, $4,000 gallon of asolne.
200OO00 00 pairs ofl Gen's shoes.
4OOOO O0O airs Of socks.
100000 pianos.
800 OOO 300 mems shhtsa at 50 each.
2OOOs mari at 100000 each.
1866 666 tons of soft coal
Will keep S3333,334 families for one week ats SIP, or Will keep 1.6O2b6s
families for one year at $l2 per week.
Will pay for 100000 boys college education for me year..
Will by homes for 100000 at $4,000 apiece
This sum of money will be used up b. III British government in 81 lays
HI war costing SIT SEQ 1000 each "a hours.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-09-29
Riaht and Wronq.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Prof. Thoma T. Loundsburg said at
Cambridge in a talk on English:
"But precision can be Carried too
far. The ultra-precise.' even when log
ically right, are really wrong.
IAN ultra-precise professor went into
a hardware shop and said: .
Show me a shears. please.
"'You mean a pair of shears, don't
you?' asked the dealer.
No said the professor. Il mean
what / say. j mean a shears.
1.-The dealer took down a box of
shears.
:..Look here. professor he. said.
aren't there two blades here? And don't
two make u pair
".Well. you've got two legs. Does
that mako you a pair OF men?-And. the
professor smiled at the dealer trump
antly through his spectacles.
He was logically right: but, really
he was wrong
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-09-29

toddled Fluffy. A pretty picture they
made on the bank piling up sand and
sometimes making boats of bark to
float down over the rocks. But pres
entity the boy grew tired. Sitting down
with his arm aroun the dog, he be-
gan to cry.
II can't let you go, Fluffy, ] love yo,
too much,' he wept. Il am not goin.
home at all. l am going to u away
The Huttig news., 1915-07-31
Made Point for Defense.

Of Sir Thomas Egerton, who was gifted with quick perception, this story is told: "A poor woman had been in- trusted with the care of large sum of money by three farmers, who told her to keep it safely until they ap- peared together to claim it. Shortly afterward one of them went to her and, representing that he came at the direction of the other two, he received the money and forthwith disappeared. The other two brought action to re- cover the whole deposit. Egerton hap pened to be in court during the trial, in which an intimate friend defended the woman. Seeing that the case was going against his friend, Egerton vol unteered to speak as amicus curiae. Permission was granted. Emphasiz- ing the condition on which the money was left in the woman's care, Eger- ton said: Tt is clear that the plain tiffs cannot recover. because it is to the three appearing together that the defendant agreed to deliver the money. Where is the third? Let him be pro- duced" Thus Egerton saved the day for his friend.
The Huttig news., 1915-07-31
The American Calf.

Deer hunters are forbidden to Kill lawns in most American states. There are laws to protect the baby seal. Game fish under a certain size have their lives insured by official regula- tion. How does it happen, then, that the American butcher goes on slaugh- tering the American calf, slashing at the throat of the nations meat and dairy supply, without audible protest From any quarter? The heifer calf's place in our system of table economy Is not a matter of guesswork or the ory. The calf that is eaten as veal never develops into beef, nor can it continue the race of it's valuable kind. It is a contention of experts that a very definite reason for our dwfndling beef supply is the unrestricted slaugh- ter of very young heifers.-Philadel- phia Telegraph.
The Huttig news., 1915-07-31
THEMIsTOCLES

When Themistocles was asked by his host at dinner party to enter tain the guests by playing the lute, he replied that he could not play the fiddle, but that he could make a small town great city. We have in this nation many politicians who are good "fiddlers," but they cannot make a small town a great city. We are over run with orators who can play upon the passions of the people, but they can't put brick and mortar together. We need builders.
 Let those who hunger and thirst for power understand that the highest glory of a statesman is to construct, and that it Is better for a man that he should build a public highway than that he should become Governor of a state, and that he start blow than that he become the author of a law. The true test of statesmanship is the blow and the hammer, so let those who would govern, first build.
The Huttig news., 1915-07-31
IT WAS A COLD DAY
BY ELIZABETH ALLEN.

Isn't this lovely winter day!" re- joiced the hostess as the young wom- an with the extra fine lynx furs came in.
 "Oh, by all means!" agreed the young woman with savage politeness, as she made for the open fireplace. Still, you can talk till you're black in the face about the joys of snow and ice and ruddy cheeks and all the rest of that rubbish, but as for myself give me a thermometer that is climbing to the top like new-rich family on the social warpath. You might throw in a few palm leaf fans and case of sunburn into the bargain-I'll take them all!'
 What has happened?" inquired the hostess. You are so violent, dear" who had just come in, hurling her huff at the Pekinese spaniel and dashing her gloves into thicket of Boston fern. I'm a mild ethereal zephyr compared with what I'd have to be if I expressed the sum total of my emo tions! In fact, have so many emo- tions that I feel like the person who lives in a two-by-four flat with folding beds squeezed into one corner and has her grandmother's mahogany four poster bestowed on her! I've got to move, that's all! Violent! Come here, Chow, and let me bite you!"
 Leave that poor, innocent dog alone!" ordered the hostess, hurried ly. 'Is your new velvet dress spoiled, or what"
 The young woman sank into a chair and groaned as she regarded the fire. Worse" she related. Beyond the limit of the impossible! You know Winston Wilder, don't you-the one we all call Winnie because he looks like 1t? Why, once when we were hav- ing conundrums somebody asked. Why is Winston Wilder% and the answer was, Because he was out when the fool-killer called!' I don't know why any of us have tolerated Winnie all these years except that he is gen. natural conceit.
 Then, too, as TOT mySel1, l alWayS was interested in counting the six hairs of his mustache and seeing if by chance there were seven, but there never were. I think he has those six glued on, and even they are kind of pink. He isn't even decorative at tea, because he insists on talking and that shrill voice of his sends every one home. We have accepted him as one of the drawbacks to existence We'll, when Winnie appeared yesterday aft ernoon and said he had come to take me skating he seemed so sure about it that I went. Besides. I had nothing else to do and I like to skate and I thought I could forget he was along.
 We had lovely time at first. until
The Huttig news., 1915-07-31

noticed that it was frightfully cold. When get chilled my face always be- comes so frozen that the muscles won't work and I can't talk. It's just as though they were set in wise. didn't know it had happened until Win nie began to propose to me-"
 "Proposei" shrieked the hostess.
 Well. perhaps you wouldn't call it proposing if you are finicky about werds," admitted the young woman who had dropped in. Rather he be- gan to inform me that he had decided to marry me. It never would occur to Winnie to ask a girl about a little thing like that-his idea is that she would hurl herself at him in hysterical tears of joy should he but mention that she had chance to get him. AS soon as realized what he was doing turned upon him with a chilling sen tence on my lips--where it stayed. couldn't get out word, so l sawed the air wildly and protestingly with one hand.
 CT know what I have said has startled and overcome you remarked Winnie as he grabbed my hand and pulled it down, but try to be calm! Try to control yourself! It isn't so strange when you come to think of it you are very attractive girl if you aren't beauty and never would mar ry for money anyhow. I want my wife to be girl who has been brought up frugally, so she won't expect dia. mond tiaras and ten servants to wait on her. A woman's place is the home, making things cheerful for her hus- band, don't you think?'
 'T made some strangling, guttural sounds and Winnie beamed at me soothingly. I knew you thought so,' he said You can trust to my judg- ment I knew you cared for me, dear, even though you were at such pains to conceal it. The knowledge that you did so was what first touched me it would have been unmanly to sptrn your affection!'
 q stopped short at this and pound ed on the ice with one skate and glared at him and waved my hands and tried to talk and my face simply wouldn't work.
 "'Poor girl!' Winnie said, still sooth ingly. I shall take you home to recov CT from the excitement of the mo- ment I'll have our engagement an nounced at once
 T live only two blocks from the park, you know, and between rage and horror I cried all the way home and the tears froze and pulled out my long est eyelashes, and I thought I'd die. I almost pushed Winnie down the front steps as I rushed inside and when I got my face thawed out tried to telephone him. I've been trying ever since and he's not at home or in his office or anywhere and can't stand another minute to have him dare to think Pm engaged to him! won't have it!
 What on earth are you laughing at? You are heartless, brutal. unsympa- thetic friend, that's what you are!"