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The Harrison times., 1915-07-03
Miss Meta Moore.

EDITOR TIMES:
Died, at the home Of her uncle,
Riley Thomason, near Burlington,
Boone county. on Friday the l7th
Instant, Miss Meta Moore, aged %,
The life of this Young woman was
50 praiscworthy and vet so pathetic
that / wish to speak Of it through
the Times.
Miss Meta and her younger sister,
Myrtle, came to the Masonic
Orphans Home aud School a little
more than five years ago, having
been sent here by Burlington Lodge,
By her loyalty to the Home and her
fidelity ia the discharge OF every
duty, by her excellent department
and studious habits she soon won a
warm place in the affections of those
in charge Of the home or in any way
connected with it.
Having an Unsuitable thirst for
knowledge she set her heart upon
being q teacher. She was permitted
to attend the BatesvilIe High School,
from which she was graduated in
1918 The year before her gradua'
tion she stood the examination for
teachers license, obtained a second
grade certificate aud secured a sum.
mer school in Boone county and
was most happy over the prospect
Of the early realization of her life
ambition,
But shortly before her school was
TO begin she suffered an attack OF
appendicitis, was operated upon in
a local sanitarium and was III bed
several weeks, Wien her health
was restored it was too late Tor her
to take the school and she had 60
see her cherished plans vanish away,
But this was only the beginning Of
her disappointments She planned
to teach the next year, after having
finished the High School course,
In the very early spring Of 1913
she was already looking forward to
graduation dav, when she had an
attack Of pleurisy which kept her in
bed three weeks and so soppcd her
vitality that she was told she would
be unable 20 return TO school This
second bitter disappointment was
quickly followed by the discovery
that she and her sister were both
developing tuberculosis-a disease
which had already carried of her
parents and several brothers and
sisters-and would have to bid
goodbye 20 all the loved ones in the
Home and he taken to the State
tuberculosis Snnatarium at Boone.
willie,
On April 2Oth 1919 the writer Of
these lines took her and Myrtle 70
Bonneville and placed them in the
Sanatarium, There Meta pcfsucd
her studies and made her grades and
was Included in the graduating class
. in June, although unable to be in
liatesyille at the time,
lust three months from the day
they left the Home accompanied the
body Of Myrtle, who quickly sue.
cumbcd t. the tuberculosis, to Burl.
| ington Tor burial, Atthisgrcatcst OF
/ all MettR's SORROWS she all but gave
" the fight for life, Vet, suffering
ri bhenrt.broken she brAyely ralli.
ed ard continued the fight, remain.
ing in the SauAtarium fourteen
months or until she was pronounc.
cd an ARRESTED IT, case, During this
time the Superintendent offered n
gold medal 60 the patient who
would write the most perfect
answers to 100 questions about
tuberculosis, propounded by him,
Meta won this medal against u
large number Of contes tants, |
mention this 60 show how con.
scicntiously she applied herself to
every task
The Harrison times., 1915-07-03

The Berryyille Progress SAYS
Promoters Of the railroad from
Springfield through to Harrison and
on south are again active and II
may be the road will yet he con,
strueted,
We are promised another bum
per crop for 1915, Suits Us, pro-
vided we can shave of the bumps
and make 1t ollcrops
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02
PLANS To HAVE
C0NV|CTS WORK
COUNTY ROADS
CITY TO CONFER WITH BOARD
OF AFFAIRS RELATIVE TO Sc.
CURING ABOUT THIRTY.

Mayor Mullen went to Oklahoma
City today to put before the state
board of affairs a plan that he has
for working about thirty state con-
victs on the roads of the county. He
will also confer with the state high
way engineer if he is successful in
securing the convicts so that all roads
will be built under the direction of
the department of highways.
The mayor has planned to have
them work the city streets as well, as
there could be an exchange of work
between the city and county of men,
teams and implements that would
make the trade equitable.
The mayor believes that if the coun-
ty will donate as much as thousand
dollars toward this work, the big oil
companies will come across hand
sOmely, and then the property owners
along the right of way would be asked
to contribute work as well as grain
and other stuff for the maintenance
of the prisoners by this means, the
mayor states that the burden on each
individual would be small and would
result in securing permanent roads
all over the county that are so badly
needed at present
When the mayor returns tomorrow,
he will call a meeting of the citizens
to confer with the board of county
commissioners now in session, and see
if a good roads movement cannot be
started here that will amount to some
thing.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02
TOWN LOT FARMER.
Stanley Hornbeck Makes Side Money
Out of His Fruit Crop.

Stanley Hornbeo.i is a city lot
farmer who makes money out of his
fruit crop He has a small orchard
on II street northeast, about three
blocks east of the Fraley Bros. Lum.
Der company's yard, and instead of
shipping he is selling to local people.
He gets fifty cents a bushel, and says
his advertisement in The Ardmoreite
has brought him a large number Of
customers. He usually in good fruit
years gathers 500 bushels, but says
he will not make quite so much this
year. The fruit is of the Elberta va
riety and is very fine. He is finding
a market at the orchard for all the
fruit his trees viii bear.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02
SOCIALISTS
DENIED Use Of
ASSEMBLY, HALL
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSION
ERS STATE THEY ARE NOT GO.
ING TO FURNISH A MEETING
PLACE FOR POLITICAL PARTY.

There is a bunch of sore socialists
in this city today, and the reason for
their perturbed feelings was because
the board of county commissioners
sat down on them fifth a heavy weight
this morning when they sent a COM
mittee to ask that the assembly hall
in the county court house be turned
over to them every Sunday afternoon
for religious meetings" The nature
of the demand startled the board Of
commissioners, but after the full sig
nificance was made plain TO them, con-
versation began at once, and was only
ended when their request was flatly
refused by unanimous vote of the
board.
"You want the room for religious
purposes. repeated chairman Talia-
ferro. well. this is the first time |
ever knew that socialism was re
ligion. I always thought it was dis
ease, and IS we are not allowing even
our own or the republican party to
hold religious services in the court
house on Sunday afternoons. We will
have to deny the 'Kumrids the privi-
lege Of doing So" whereupon the com
mittee withdrew to pass few resolu-
tions relative to their estimation OF
the honorable board.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02
SOCIALIST ENCAMPMENTS
Two Will Be Held in Carter County
- At Wilson and Ardmore.

Several socialists who are conduct
ing encampments through the south,
ern portion of the state arrived here
yesterday and left this morning for
Wilson, where a three-day encamp.
ment began i :norniLt.
In the party were Ado,ph Germcr.
who was in jail recently on Two oc.
casions in the co Grade strike dis.
trict; Dan Hogan, who was a candi
date for governor on the socialist
ticket in Arkansas Jennie McGehe
of Denver, Colo, and A. f. Blaokwell
of Ada, Okla. Following the Wilson
enCampment and in the order named
the following towns will be visited;
sulphur Ada, McAlester, Caney, Ard,
more. and Durant. The Ardmore
meeting will be held at Wilmington
park on the 10Th 2Oth and 21st Of
August.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02
MAYOR AF TER
TELEPHONE
COMP ANY
SAYS THE SERVICE MUST BE I'M
PROVED, OR HE WILL KNOW
THERE is SOME GOOD REASON
FORTS NOT BEING DONE.

Mayor Mullen who went to Oklaho
ma City today to confer with the
board of affairs relative to securing
state convicts for the county roads,
said that he was going to call on the
corporation commission and lay be-
fore them some facts relative to the
telephone service being furnished pa
irons of the company in this city. He
stated that for the past two months
complaints had been coming to his Of
flee so persistently from people who
want something done that he can no
longer delay putting the matter up to
the corporation commission and see if
some relief cannot be granted.
Mayor Mullen stated that so far as
he was able to learn, the people were
not kicking so much over the rates
charged as they were over the service.
He gave as his opinion for this that
the operating force was inadequate to
the demands and was going to urge
that the commissioners make an in
vestigation and give the subscribers
relief, if possible.
The mayor stated that he would
have something to report to the peo-
pie when he returned.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02
MUST OBSERVE
ROAD LAW OR
Be PENAL|ZED
DEPUTY SHERIFF STATED YES
TERDAY THAT HE WAS ABOUT
TO BEGIN CRUSADE AGAINST
CERTAIN ROAD "HoGs."

Deputy Sheriff Kendall stated yes
terday that he was going to begin a
crusade against certain individuals in
this county who so far have totally
disregarded the road law now in force
and effect. and from long custom and
selfish disposition have never given
any part of the road to any kind Of
a passing vehicle This custom has
been notorious in this county for a
long time and he states that he IS
going to have it understood that all
must divide the highways in passing
each other. OF else he is going TO
have an enlarged population in the
county jail.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02
CONSUL GENERAL SlLLlMAN AD-
vISES WASHINGTON OF RE-oC.
CUPATION OF CAPITAL.
MANY HAVE STARVED
Red Cross in Mexico City Wires That
There Have Been Deaths and Col
Iapses in Mexico City from StarVa'
ton - People Eat Grass.

Washington, Aug. 2.-Offcial con-
firmation of the re-occupation of Mex
leo City by General Carranza's army
reached the state department today
from Consul General Silliman at Vera
Cruz.
The American Red Cross in Mexico
City wires that there have been
deaths and colllpses from starvation
in the Mexican capital.
The Red Cross says that some
people in Mexico City are living on
leaves, grass, weeds, dead horses and
mules.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02
OFFICERS ARE
At WORK ON
THRESHER CASE
FIENDS WHO PLACED DYNAMITE
IN SHEAF OF OATS MAY BE
BEHIND BARS BEFORE MANY
MORE DAYS PASS.

The officers of two counties are
working on the dynamiting case,
in which a new thresher was blown
to atoms near Homer last week, and
one man killed and another severely
injured
The thresher belonged to a Mr.. Ross
instead of Harmon & Harmon, as first
reported. The delu man was tran
sient, who was working in the harvest
throughout this section and had his
mother and four small children with
him at the time of the explosion.
The dead man, j. C. Smith, was a
man of no wealth, and the neighbors
about the scene of the explosion
raised the money for funeral eXpen-
ses.
The officers have a clue as to the
identity of the guilty parties, and it
would not be surprising to hear Of
some sensational arrests within the
next few days. The feeling is in
tense about the Homer community
and it would probably go hard with
the party if he is apprehended there
now.
No reason is advanced for the de-
structiOn of the machine, other than
for revenge. Smith had no enemies
that are known and the other in
jured man, like himself, was a COM
parative stranger in those parts.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02
Heavy Cost to Germans.

Geneva, Switzerland, Aug. 2.-The
Tribune prints the following from it's
Innsbruck correspondent:
''The capture of Lublin cost Cen
.eral Wolrich 10000 men in killed,
wounded and prisoners. Four miles
north of Lublin, the Russians are dis
putting every foot of ground, while
covering their retreat. In an advance
of seven miles, with seven army corps,
'Field Marshal Won Mackensen lost
35OOO men,"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02
Booze-knife-Coroner

Idabel, Okla, Aug. 1.-Three farm
ers became involved in difficulty
near Haworth Saturday while intoXi-
Gated and when the smoke cleared
away, one Van Bibber was found cut
to death and others, Mcneil and Nc
Carly were jailed
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02

London, Aug. 2.-WhiIe there is in
creasing evidence that the Russians
are withdrawing from the Warsaw re-
gion, it appears that they still hold
that CITY, The Warsaw correspon-
dents here filed their usual dispatches
to the Warsaw papers today.
The Russians are still hoping for
the allies in the west to create some
diversion to draw off some Of the Ger.
mans from the Russian front. On the
French front last night there was
much infantry fighting, but no marked
gains or losses.
Fire Sweeps ConstantinopIe
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02
Villa sore on United States.

FL Paso, Tex, Aug. 2.-Foreigners
from chihuahua say that villa, in
addressing a gathering of foreign
merchants there Saturday, said: The
American government can go to tell. )"
To raise forced loan, forty-two Mex
ican merchants were jailed, their
property contiscated, and six executed
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02

Pauls Valley, Okla, Aug. 1.-C. M.
Randolph, one of the oldest residents
of this section of the country, was
buried in the old Whitehead cemetery
Sunday afternoon. He died of heart
failure Thursday. He was the father
of Mrs. E. NJ. Moore, who for several
years was an employe of the state
supreme court.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02
FOUR KILLED
AS BIC PLANT
SANK IN SAND
POWER PLANT OF BIG CEMENT
COMPANY AT HUDSON, N. ",
SANK INTO QUICK SAND-DEAD
WERE LABORERS.

Hudson, n. Y, Aug. -Four men
we're killed and four others injured
when the power plant of the Knicker-
pocker Cement Company today sank
II the quicksand here. The entire
building dropped out of sight below
he sand. All of the dead men we're
'aborers.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02

Dallas, Tex, Aug. 2.-The charges
were dismissed today against Wallace
Moore, accused of dynamiting his
fathers house in the Padgitt Saddlery
company case.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02
GERMAN REPLY
ONFREY CASE
IS RECEIVED
IN ADDITION TO GERMAN AN
sWER ON SINKING OF WILLIAM
FRYE ALSO ENGLANO'S SUP
ELEMENTAL NOTE.

Washington, Aug. 2.-The United
States today received the German note
on the Frye case and also England's
supplemental note on the restrictions
to neutral commerce.
The British note answers the Am
erican protest against the sending of
certain cases to the prize court.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02
UNCLll @4N'S
MARINES ARE
HOLDING CITY
PORT AU PRINCE UNDER CON
TROl OF AMERICAN MARINES
MOB TRIED TO TAKE PRISON.
ERS FROM MISSION.

Washington, D. c., Aug. "A mob
Saturday night in Port au Prince,
Hayti, attacked the Wesleyan mission,
attempting to seize a man who had
murdered a prisoner in the jail and
been secreted in the mission. His fate
is unknown.
The city is now under control of
the American marines.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02
RUSSIANS STILL HOLD WARSAW
ALTHOUGH EVACUATION IS NEAR
RUSSIANS STILL HOPING FOR ALLIES IN WEST
TO CREATE SOME DIVERSION TO DRAW OFF
SOME OF THE GERMAN TROOPS NOW ALONG
THE RUSSIAN 'FRONT.'

Including Hospital Filled With Wounded
Destroyed Last According Ar
Austrian Prisoners ta War;
Including ThiryEsht Officers Progress of Against Rus
SLAMS Being Heavy co. Lives esrmans-cermans
Lost Seventy TIL, T. Men Lubin
While Won Mackensen L. rty.FVe Thousand.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02

announced today. Last years crop
was more than 100000 bales.
Washington August 2.-The con-
dition of the growing cotton crop of
the United States on July 25 was 1873
per cent of normal, the United States
department of agricultures crop re-
porting board announced at noone to-
day in its third condition report of the
season. That condition compares with
S0.3 per cent on June rs, this year, 76.4
per cent on July 25 last year, 79.6 per
cent in 1913, and 7S.5 per cent, the
average condition on July 25 for the
last ten years.
The area planted to cotton and un-
der cultivation on June 25 this year,
as previously reported, was 31,535,OOO
acres, a decrease of 5,S7l 900 acres,
or 1871 per cent from that under cul-
tivation on June 25 last year. A con-
dition of 100 per cent of normal on
July 25 would be equivalent to yield
of 241.3 pounds of cotton to the acre,
the bureau of crop estimates has an
nounced
Weather conditions generally have
been favorable to the crop throughout
the month except in Texas, where
there was a lack of rain.
In the northern portions of the belt
the weather was too cool for rapid
growth during the first week of the
month and wet weather delayed prop
er cultivation, especially in Oklahoma,
Mississippi, and portions of other
states. The drought in Texas was
largely relieved, and the crop made
satisfactory growth in that as well as
in most other states of the belt. Boil
weevi continued to increase in Tex
as, and were reported from several
other sections.
During the second week of the
month moderately warm weather,
with local showers, over the central
and eastern portions of the belt ia
vored a generally satisfactory growth,
although the plant was reported as
still small in some northern localities,
due to cool weather, and the fields as
grassy in others In Texas and Okla
homa much clear weather, with warm
sunshine, favored cultivation and rap
i'd growth over the greater part of
those states, but in southern Texas
the absence of general rains for sew
eral weeks retarded growth. Boil
weevil continued active in many parts
of Texas as well as in Mississippi
and Alabama. Texas marketed its
first bale on July 9.
The tnlrd week found warm nights
throughout the belt with generally suf-
fcient soil moisture over central and
eastern districts. That greatly IA
vored cotton and good growth general
ly was reported. Dry weather pre-
vailed in Texas, but the plant was
standing the drought we'll and it was
said to be developing rapidly in Ok
lahoma and Arkansas. Cultivation
had proceeded satisfactorily and the
crop generally was very clean. Boil
weevil became less active in Texas
during that week. but they were re-
ported as far east as the Alabama
Georgia line and in western Florida
Georgia's first bale was marketed
July %.
Comparisons of conditions by states
follow:
VIRGINIA-1915. 70: 1914, 50: 1913,
ST.
NORTH CAROLINA-1915, IS;
1914 Sc: 1913, -
SOUTH CAROLTNA-19l5, -: 1914
70. 1913. 70.
GEORGIA-1915. 76: 1914. SO;
1918. 76.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02
WOMAN SHOT HUSBAND.
Houston Woman is Charged With
Shooting Husband.

Houston, Tex, Aug. Mrs. George
w. Wilkerson is Under arrest, charg-
ed with shooting her husband today,
probably fatally. She says she sued
him for a divorce and he refused to
remain away from her home.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02

Rank of Esquire will be conferred
at a special convention Monday eve
ming at $50. A full attendance de-
sired. Visiting members invited.
S. H NICHOLS, c. c.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02

| London, Aug. German subma-
'rines have sunk the British steamers
Clintonia and Fullgens. The latter's
crew was saved.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02
Another Steamer Sunk.

London, Aug. "A submarine to
|day sunk the British steamer Ben
|fortich. The crew was saved.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02
Many Austrian Prisoners.

Rome, Aug. 2.-The Stefanina News
Agency says, the Italians have taken
seventeen thousand Austrian prison
ers since Italy's entry into the war,
including 3S officers.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02

Athens, Aug. 2.-Arrivals here from
Constantinople say that five thousand
buildings, including the German hos
pitaI, which was filled with wounded,
were destroyed by fire last week.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02
GOVERNMENT REPORT ISSUED
TODAY SHOWS COTTON CROP
is rs PER CENT OF NORMAL.
POOR CROP HERE
Oklahoma's Crop Only Sixty-Nine Per
Cent of Normal, Having Poorest
Average Condition This Year OF Any
OF the States.

Washington, Aug. 2.-Ths years
cotton crop will be about 11,97O,OOO
bales, the department of agriculture
announced today Last years crop
was more than 100000 bales
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02
Russian Destroyer Sinks.

Berlin, Aug. "A Russian destroy
The cause is not known here.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02
POLICE RESERVES NECESSARY.

New york Today.
New York, Aug. 2-Police reserves
were necessary to control the crowds
at the Becker funeral today A plate
on the casket reading Murdered by
Governor Whitman" had been re-
moved and one simply giving the
date of his death substituted.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02

The Weekly Arrmoreite reaches the
farmer.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02

CONTINUED on Page Eight
Evening star., 1915-03-29

consistency demand that it should pay
the same proportion of the expenses of
the years of its Indifference and neglect
1t was shown in. 1874 that up to date the
citizens of Washington had expended
upon the capital in excess of the amount
appropriated by Congress about S13.3n.-
600 A balance should he struck. and
whatever sum is necessary to make the
expenditures of the general government
upon the capital equal to those of its
citizens for the eighty years of
the city's life should be credited to the
District. This act of equity is the more
necessary for the reason that the heavy
debt, to which reference has been made
guaranteed by the government. But con-
sttutinG in effect a mortgage of about
IS per cent. upon the assessed value of
private taxable property in the District
weighs heavily upon the citizens of the
capital. The indebtedness which bank
rupted Washington in 1875 is now in
creased more than tenfold. II Will be in
the distant future. if the time ever ONES,
when the city will be able to extingush
this debt. which meanwhile will rest as
an incubus upon the prosperity OF the
capital.