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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-19
Russia to Send Large Number
of ReinforCements to Aid In
Beating Off Won Mac
kenSen's Forces.
SEND sTRATEGIsT
All Other Major Operations Are
Halted Temporarily-Greece
Is Awaiting Outcome of
Dobrudja Campaign.

Bucharest, (by wireless to London),
Oct. liking Ferdinand of Rumania
announced today that he will person.
ally AXE supreme command of the
Russian and Runanian armies.
Considerable Russian reinforcements
are expected to arrive in Rumania. A
commission Of French officers, which
will include General Berthelot, u well
known military strategist, also is COM
ing to Bucharest.
Rumanian troops in Pennsylvania
have not only made successful stand
against the Teutonic armies, but have
recaptured previously lost ground in
some sectors, the war office
A total of more than 15, 900 prisoners
has been taken by the Rumanians on
the various fronts in their war opera
tons to date, the statement adds.
Berlin, (via London). Oct. TO-
Troops Of the central powers have
gained ground in the vicinity of the
frontier passes of Budzenland, in Tran
sylvania, says today's German official
statement. Three hundred Rumanians
We're taken prisoner and six machine
gun We're captured.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-19
BIG PRIZES OFFERED
SUCCESSFUL DRIVERS
Resta Picked to Win Chicago
Automobile Classic-Fast
Time Predicted.

Chicago. Oct. 16.-Fifteen thousand
dollars in prizes will be distributed to
those Of the 81 automobile drivers who
come within the prize list of the great
at the Speedway today, The rae Is
ove a distance Of $50 miles. Several
drivers made the circuit of the two
mile bowl in tuning up trials" at a
cate Of more than 100 miles an hour.
The drivers participating are: Resta.
DePalma. Aitken. Rickenbacher, Klein,
DAlene. Henderson, Calvin, Hughes,
Lewis. Rawlings. Burt, Henning, Blu
zane, Wilcox. Gable. Milton, milford.
Vail. Chevrolet and OstWeig.
Resta is picked by Chicagoans to win
In view of the fact that he has wor
every event staged in this city during
the current year.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-19
WILSON CAN FORESEE
NO RELIEF FOR GUARDS

Long Branch, N. j., Oct. 14.-Presi-
dent Wilson in a letter to Governor
Whitman. of New York, sem October 8,
and made public here today. declared
that the emergency which caused the
serding of the militia to the Mexican
border ~"unhappi!y still exists He
added, however, that he believed con-
ditions in northern Mexico are improv-
ing and that sin the near future" it
probably will be possible to do more
than has been O to relieve the en-
barrassments under which organized
militia regulations have necessarily
suffered"
In his letter the president paid a high
tribute to the character of the militia
ren Of the border and denied that any
organization were being kept there to
perfect their military training.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-19
HUGE WAR RELIEF
FUND IS PLANNED
Americans Plan to Raise $780,.
100000 to Aid In Caring
For French Orphans
100000 In Need.

New York. Oct. ia fund of $780,
100000 will be necessary to put into
effect the plans of the American society
for the relief of French war orphans.
This enterprise, incorporated yester-
day is described as the most gigantic
philanthropy ever undertaken. 1t is
proposed to raise this vast sum in the
United States.
Leaders in business, finance and So
ciety are promoting the movement.
The directors today that
the attempt to care for the war orphans
of France already reported to number
200, 600 is intended as an expression of
Americas gratitude to that country for
her aid in the founding of this republic
at the time of the American revolution
and of this country's sympathy for tho
suffering the present var has brought
upon France. The organization expects
to care for them at least is years if
necessary.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-19
Battling" Nelson to be Done
Ouer' to Win Back Lost Bride
'Hedgewish Bear Proposes to Become Ball Room Dandy to
Regain the Love of Fay K ing, Who Objected to His
Cauliflower Ears and Got Divorce.

nose was slit and reset in plaster of
Paris so that it will be perfect Gre
cian,' and his lips were nodded to con-
form with Cupid's bow.
The romance of The ISattler'' and
his wife was short lived. They met,
he wooed and won her, but loves
young dream quickly vanished, and
Mrs. Nelson sought Il divorce. In eX-
PLANTATION of her action she said she
loved her husband, but that she could
not e the thought of looking at his
cauliflower ears at the breakfast table
every morning the rest of her life.
Bat admitted that he nae no come
back
But the "Hedgewish Bear" as he was
known in the palmy days of his career,
has been thinking it over the past two
years and decided that all was no. lost.
For didn't the fair Fay admit that she
loved him? While there vas love there
was hope. Therefore the proposed
physical transformation.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-19

Chicago. Oct. 16.-Battling Nelson,
once a rough and rude looking pusi-
list, is regenerating himself into a
Greater Bat Nelson beautiful, pol
ished, elegant. He has started to build
himself anew. and to accomplish this
he has engaged a staff consisting of a
beauty doctor, a social tutor, a mentor
of department and Il dancing instruc-
tor. When this job is finished he is
going to Denver to electrify Fay King,
the girl %cartoonist, who was once Mrs.
Nelson, and-weil who knows what
might happen?
Nelson was until a few days ago the
self confessed holneliest ma on earth.
In the pursuit of his art he had both
ears crushed out of shape, his nose
knocked iopsided and his lips badly
pushed aSheW.
Recently he underwent the first of
a series of operations. The ears were
lanced and reshaped. His boomerang
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-19
French Driven Back, But
Recapture Lost Ground

Paris. Oct. 16.-The Germans de-
livered a strong attack last night on
Ablaincourt, south of the river Somne,
and reoccupied part of the village as
we'll as trenches northeast of il, ii was
officially announced here today. The
French Immediately launched Il counter
attack.
North of the Somme the French made
progress on Maiassise ridge, north of
BouchaveSnes.
BY this move they r%ecaptured all the
ground which had been won by the
Germans.
Berlin, (via London). Oct. 16.-The
battle between French n German
troops for the town of Ablaincourt,
south of the river Somme, has been re
vived with German successes, says the
official statement issued today by the
German army headquarters staff. The
Germans have gained a portion of
Ambos wood and ave taken 400 pris-
OncrS.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-19
WHEAT MARKET UPSET
BY SUBMARINE RAIDS
England Piling UP Huge Re-
serve, Taking American and
Australian Crop.

Chicago. Oct. 14.-Submarine hostili-
ties have taken first place in the atten-
ton of the wheat trade and have
caused prices during the last week to
average decidedly lower. However, all
but a 1@1M cents of the severe decline
which took place on Monday had been
wiped out when the market opened this
morning.
Before h U-53 began her exploits on
this side Of the Atlantic. wheat prices
We're plaifSy on the upgrade. Peace ru-
mors had been denied and the Argen-
tine drought was growing worse and
worse from day to day. All this was
temporarily forgotten when the UNDER
sea boat turned loose. Just Az cents
a bushel was clipped from the value
of wheat in the furry which ensued,
but the recover from the shock of the
unprecedented happening off Nantuck-
ct began almost at once, and was in
terrupted to a serious extent only once
afterward when dealers were for d time
bewildered by announcement that
Great Britain had purchased IS, 500, 900
bushels of wheat in Australia n
would send steamships to the Antipo-
des to provide transportation for the
grain.
Yesterday the situation was cleared
when word came from presumably
good authority in Winnipeg that the
idea Of the immense purchases in AUS
tralia was to build up high reserves Of
wheat in Great Britain, where the gov-
eminent had taken over the entire
business Of the Importation Of wheat,
but with 10 intention Of stopping the
requirement of supplies in the United
States and Canada. On the contrary,
it was added that current needs Of
western Europe would continue to be
filled chiefly from America.
Prices in coarse grains have been
relatively small, corn gaining a little
and oats FILLING off. Provisions have
ranged moderately higher. with lard
yesterday touching the topplost point
for many years.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-19
Political Golf.
From Life.

The common people, as grains of sand,
were the tee, and the statesman was the
ball.
''Why," asked the grains of sand, care
we crowded together just to make al ele-
walton for you, and to send you off or
your junkets?"
The driver was big BUSINESS, n the
midiron was the foreign vote, and the
mashie was the labor union, and the put
ter was the press.
why complained the ball bitterly to
all four, ''do you knock me about so un-
mercifully and put me in a hole at last?'
But the boss was the player, and he wa
the only one that scored.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-19
SUIT AGAINST
MARRIED CONDUCTOR
Abba, L., Widow Says She Was
Induced to Bring Action
Against Her Will.

Des Moines, Ia, Oct. 14.-Mrs. Lelia
Orr, of Abba, a widow, who brought
suit against Herman Bellman, a Mil
waul<ee conductor, for $4,000 damages
alleging that he promised to marry her
and that later she discovered he had a
wife and children, today dismissed her
action.
She alleges in an affidavit that she
was induced to bring the ease against
her will by the ~coaxing of Atty. II. II.
Sawyer, attorney for the Iowa Anti
Saloon league, and another lawyer.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-19
FOOD CENSOR MAY QUIZ,

London, oct. 14.-In a speech in the
reichstag, Herr Won Batoki, president of
the German food regulation board. in
timated an intention to resign, in dwell
ing upon the action of some dealers IN
Withholding their stocks Of potatoes in
expectation of higher maximum prices,
according to- a Reuter- dispatch from
Amsterdam toGay.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-19
GET TRACE OF VILLA.

a Antonio, Tex, Oct. 14.-t'rar
cisco Villa was at Pedernales. with f.;
command of considerable size from
September 80 to October 2, accord.n'
to word received at General Funston!
headquarters today. Pedernales is Oh
the Mexican Northwestern RAILROAD
about 35 miles east Of Guerrero.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-19
THREE PERSONS HURT
IN WRECK OF TRAIN

Watsonville, Cal, oct. 14.-The
fast coast route Southern Pacific train,
The Lark" north bound from Los An
geles tic San Francisco, was 1itched at
Aromas, seven miles north of here. at
1850 o'clock this morning. when the
rails spread. Two Luggage cars, two
Pullman coaches and the dining car
overturned. One woman and two cooks
We're injured.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-19
CHEROKEE GIRL, STUDENT
AT AMES, BADLY INJURED

Ames, Ia, Oct. 14.-While returning
from a sorority rushing party last
hight in an automobile carrying seven
college girls, Mildred Moore, Of Chero-
kee, Ia, first year student at Iowa
State college, was seriously injured
when the automobile collided with an
l~nterurban car. Mr.. and Mrs. c.. E.
Moore. parents of the girl, arrived in
Ames today. Physicians say the girl
will recover.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-19
MEN HOLD UP
CASHIER; GET $4,000

Chicago, Oct. 14.-Three men held
up the cashier of the McGill-Weir-
sheimer company, an advertising firm,
today, and escaped with $4,000, the
concerns weekly payroll.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-19
JEROME TRAyERs WILL
MARRY DORR!S T!FFAM'

Nev.burg, N. Y, Oct. 14.-The mar
riase OF Miss Doris Tiffany i.
Jerome Dustan Travers;, Of tltst
Montciair, former amateur soii Ca
pion will take place at The First i'ie
byterian church zero this even az ~
o'clock.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-19
Victory In Defeat.

Defeat may serve as we'll as victory
To shake the soul and let the glory out.
When the great oak is straining In the
wind,
The boughs drink in new beauty, and the
trunk
Sends down a deeper root on the wind
ward side.
the soul that knows the mighty grief
Can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows
coIne
To stretch out spaces in the heart Of joy
Edwin Markham.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-19

Work has been begun in Egypt on a
project for draining and reclaiming H.
10000 acres of land, one Of the greatest
and costliest tasks of the kind ever at
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-19

A German patent has oeen granted
an American inventor of a taking n
chine connection for dairy machinery.
the noise Of which,. he asserts. Is SO
mo%Hotonous it impairs the efficiency NJ
buttermakers.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-19
Germans Deny Poisoned
Sweets Were Captured

Berlin, (by wireless to sayyille) Oct.
16.-"rhe British fMireless service
states hat German sea planes which
attacked Constanza, Rumania, recent
ly, dropped poisoned sweets and
bombs infected with. cholera bacilli,"
say the Oversease News gency "Tha
shameless and meanness of such state
ments can be surpassed only by the
credulity End stupidity which the
British attribute to heir allies"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-19

Switzerland yearly produces 5000, 00'
pounds OF sugar.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-19
SMALL CRUISER SUNK.

Berlin. (via London), Oct. 1.-THE
small French cruiser Rigel, butt as y
submarine destroyer. was sunk in the
Mediterranean on October 2 by two
torpedoes fired by a German suhma-
rine, it was officially announced here
today.
German submarines on October 4, the
admiralty statement adds, sank the
French auxiliary cruiser Calii;l. with
the Serbian and French troops on
board, bound for Saloniki. About 1909
WEI drowned.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-19

The statement referred to evidently
is an official Russian announcement OF
October IL, which said that aeropianes
which attacked Constan2a dropped
poisoned sweets and garlic infected
with cholera baccilli.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-10-19
King Of Greece Fears
Conquest By Germans

London, Oct. 16.--"When a hig!, Dip
lomatic parsonage besought King Con-
stantine to change his policy says the
Daily T~elegraph's Athens correspond
ent, 1.-The king replied:
81 prefer to lose my throne rather
thar endanger Greece. am convinced
that in Is days Rumania will exist no
more. If Greece went into the war.
then after the conquest of Rumania,
the irresistible German forces would be
directed against Greece and she would
share the fate of Serbia and Rumania."
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-01

to the official plat Of said city said
lot measuring fifty 500 feet front on
West Main street and extending back
To q depth OF 2iO feet, being the same
property described In the mortgage
recorded in Mortgage Record II, page
90. records OF Carter county okla
hOma
Said property will be sold as the
property ol the defendant, J. NJ. Col
son. to satisfy a certain judgment rem
dcrDd iu said above entitled and num-
bprDd cause ON May 10, 1916, In favor
of said Scott Halliburton company %
corporation, and against said j. M.
Cosuu as principal, and said Moman
puiott as endOrscr, ON which there
remains due and unpaid six hundred
and cightyninc ana 35-l00 dollars
C$6Sg35l with interest and all costs In
said cause incurred, including the costs
of advertising
Dated at Ardmorc, Oklahoma, on
this llth day Of November. 1916.
BUCK GARRETT,
Sheriff Of Carter County, Oklahoma.
1880
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-01

and all property owners Interested.
against any loss or damage by reason
of negligence or improper execution
of the work in sum of 80 per cent
of the estimated cost of said improve
mrnts. said contractor will also be
required to execute an additional bohu
in the sum of 80 per cent OF the esii-
mated cost OF said Improvements
conditioned ON the maintenance OF
said improvements in good condition
for a period of five years from ana
after the completion and acceptance
of said work. said bond in each in
stance to be subject to the approval
of the mayor and commissioners.
The contractor to whom said work
may be awarded shall receive in pay
ment for said work, street improve
ment bonds at par. issued and secured
as provided by the laws of the state
of Oklahoma; provided that in case
the property owners shall elect to
pay cash for said improvements as
they may do under the laws of Okla
homa. then and in that event the cliy
rcserves the right to pay for said i'm
provements in cash or part cash ana
part uOIhH.
All proposals for construction OF
said improvements will be considered
by the mayor and Board Of Commis-
sioners of the city of Ardmore, Okla
at a meeting to be held at the session
chamber in said city AT S o'clock p. m.
on the 9TH day of December 1916, and
the contract will then be awarded To
the lowest and best bidder who Will
undertake to perform the work, FUR
nish materials, execute the bonds and
construct said Improvements accord
ing to the resolutions aforesaid, and
plans and specifications filed in the
office of the city clerk of the City
of Ardmore, and comply with all other
terms and conditions of said resolu-
tiOn.
The mayor and commissioners re-
serve the right to reject any and all
proposals that may be received, If for
any reason the same shall be unsatis-
factory.
G. H. BRUCE,
| CSeaD City Clerk.
CFirst published Nov 10, 1916.
1910t
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-01
pROCLAMATION.

Proclamation is hereby made that
on the llth day of November, 1916.
tho Board of County Commissioners OF
Carter county oklahoma, adopted
resolution as follows:
RESOLUTION AND ORDER
BE it resolved, that the Board OF
County Commissioners of Carter coun-
.tv. Oklahoma deems it advisable to
issue bonds of said county in the
amount of Two Hundred Thousand
Dollars ($20O,000.O0), with interest al
the rate of per cent per annum; tho
purpose for which the money derived
from the sale of said bonds to be
FUSED as follows:
For building and constructing per-
manent state roads.
Said bonds shall become due and
payable in twenty-five equal annual
installments, the first of which shall
be payable one year, and the last OF
which shall be payable twenty-five
years from their date.
The number and location of said
roads Is to be as follows:
Road No. Sec. G State Highway,
ArdmOre to Lone Grove.
Road No. Sec. NJ State Highway,
Lone Grove to Wilson.
Road No. 3.-Sec. A State Highway,
Ardmore TO Berwyn.
Road No. 4-Sec. II State Highway,
Ardmore to Springer.
Road No. Sec. II State Highway.
Miles /, 2 first half of g.
| Road No. Sec. + State Highway.
Miles ], and 3.
| Road No. Sec. ID State Highway,
miles |, 2 and 3.
Road No. S.-Sec. X State Highway,
| Lone Grove to Woodford.
! Road No. .. beginning at section
corner common to sections %, %, 70
and n, thence south 2 miles on sec
tion line to section corner common
| to sections "a and 35, all sections In
ITwp south, range east.
! The above minutes were read aloud
adopted by the board and signed by
! the chairman and attested by the
county clerk, this 1lth day OF Novem-
/ Der. 1916.
| On motion duly made and seconded.
/ the board adjourned.
J. Il. TALIAFERRO,
| (SeaD Chairman.
Attest: S. w. TYER, County Clerk.
BY b. W. DUKE, Deputy.
16-1m
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-01
NOTICE OF PROPOSALS FOR
STREET IMPROVEMENTS

Notice is hereby given that in pur-
suance of a resolution adopted by the
Board of Commissioners and approved
by the mayor of the City of Ardmore,
Oklahoma, on the 25th day of October
1916, proposals will be received at
the office of the city clerk of the City
of Ardmore until 4 o'clock p. m, on
he 5th day of December, 1916, for fur
nishing the material and performing
the work necessary to improve the
following streets and portions thereof
in the City of Ardmore, in the manner
and subject to the conditions follow
ing, tOwit:
That portion of Fourth avenue,
from the west line of Wash
ington street to the east line of b
street northwest, including alley
crossings and street intersections.
Said street shall be improved by eX-
cavatng grading, paving and draining
the same, the pavement proper to be
constructed of reinforced concrete
four inches in thickness and twenty
feet in width with a concrete gutter
twenty-four inches wide and a con
crete curb six inches thick on either
side thereof. Said Improvements to
be constructed in accordance with the
detailed plans and specifications pre-
pared by the city engineer Of the City
Of Ardmore, and on file in the office Of
the city clerk OF said city.
All bids shall be submitted in seal
ed envelopes and plainly marked in
ink on the outside. and each bid shall
be filed on or before O'Clock p. m, on
the 9Th day OF December, 1916, and
shall be accompanied by certified
check drawn on some bank in the City
Of Ardmore in the sum Of $500 The
contractor TO whom the contract for
said improvements may be awarded,
will be required to execute to the City
of Ardmore a construction bond con
ditioned according to law for the full
and faithful execution OF the work
and the performance OF the contract
and for the full protection OF the city
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-01
NOTICE OF SHERIFF's SALE

State of Oklahoma, County of Car
ter, SIS.
In the District Court within and for
said County and State.
Scott-Haliburton company, cor
poration, Plaintiff, VS.. j. NJ. Colson
and Moman Pruiett, Defendants. No.
304l
Notice is hereby given that l. the
undersigned sheriff of Carter county,
Oklahoma, pursuant to an execution
and order of sale issued out of the
district court of Carter county, Okla
homa, in said above numbered and
styled cause by the clerk of said dis
trict court on the 1lth day of Novem-
Der. 1916, | will, on Tuesday, the
18th day of December, 1916, at the
hour of two o'clock p. m. at the front
door of the court house in Carter
county, Oklahoma. city of Ardmore,
Oklahoma, offer for sale to the high
est and best bidder for cash in hand,
and sell without appraisement, the
following described property and real
estate situate in Carter county, state
of Oklahoma, towit:
One fOur.room house and lot In Ard
more, Oklahoma, the same being the
east side of lot eight (S) block three
hundred thirty-seven (337) in the city
of Ardmore, Oklahoma, and according
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-01
Notice of Application for Parole.

l George, f. Keller, will on the goth
day of December, 1916, make applica-
ton to the governor of the State of
Oklahoma for parole on the grounds
that | have been sufficiently punished.
Witness my hand this the Goth day
of November, 1916.
2O.lm GEO +. KELLER.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-01
couoh Medicine fOr chlIdren.

Mrs. Hugh Cook, Scottsyille, n. Y,
saws: About five years ago when We
were living in Garbutt, n. Y, doc,
tored two of my children suffering
from colds with Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy and found it just as repre-
sented in every way. 1t promptly
checked their coughing and cured
their colds quicker than anything |
ever used" Obtainablc everywhere.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-01
Explaining the Ceremony.

II is from the Boston Traveller, and
is supposed to have been spoken by n
clergymans small son, whose older
brother was to be confirmed mt church
ITS like this" quoth the youngster'
the bish' is going to put his mltts on
brothers hean.'
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-12-01

HE SANATORY, union shaving par
lor. Nothing but high-class union
artists to do your work. Individual
hot water towels for every customer,
with all electrical devices used in
best regulated barber shop. 81
Caddo ST. Dick Cheek, Prop.
25-lm