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The Detroit times., 1916-06-06

YDSTON-Cob made running
catch OF Henrickson's fy 10 short
center Bush threw out McNally.
Lewis was called out on strikes. No
run, no hit, no error.
The Detroit times., 1916-06-06
Second Inning,
Third Inning.

BOSTON-Scott flied 10 Bush.
Thomas fouled TO Stannge. Bush
threw out Gregg. No run. no hit, no
error.
pETROIT-Henrick got He'll
mans nv. Burns stuck out Young
singled 10 certen. Stanage filed 10
Lewis. No run, no hit. no error.
The Detroit times., 1916-06-06
VIEW YORK BUTTER AND EGGS

NEW YORK. June 6-Butter:
Weak; receipts. 2s.56s; creamery ex-
ira. 40 30Ac: state dairy tubs. 24W
soc; imitation creamery nrsts. 25 a
26c; special. 3o& d5lAc. Eggs:
Steady; receipts. 33,szs; nearby white
fancy asa 20, o,Encarby mixed fancy,
~ q ~ Ac. fresh frsts, 22Q26c.
The Detroit times., 1916-06-06
Banks and Trust Companies.

to execute orders on the Exchange:
W. +. Moss g. Co. Carlyle a. Povah.
Geo. NJ. West e. Co. l.. T. Maccrone
& Co. II y. Mobile e Co. u T. scyz-
rill. Lynch g. Co. ". A. Hamlin &
Co. VIM A. Neer & Co. Sinclair &
Couls. Emmet l. Sprague, VIM. II.
Rose q Co, i. X. Pelton q Co, Joel
Stockard A Co, Bennett. Smith a
Co, w. r.. Reilly 4 Co, Matthew
Finn. A. w. wallace q Co. Lewis @.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-06
SURRENDER CLAUSE is A RIDDLE
(By c. NJ. Sarchet)

Dilworth, Okla, Nov. 1.-THE sur
render clause" situation, at the pres
ent time, has everybody guessing who
is connected with oil producing in
Oklahoma. 1t is the greatest riddle
in oildom. 1t has oil men generally
sidestepping, lodging and wavering,
while the oil lease men and brokers
!are completely in the air. one of
the most prominent of these said
recently:
"a lease with the surrender clause
in it has about as much standing in
the oil world in this state as has
counterfeit money or Villa currency"
In several portions of the state the
farmers and other land owners are
commencing to take advantage of the
surrender clause situation by refus-
ing to accept rental money when it
comes due and declaring that the
leases on their lands have expired,
thus holding tnat their lands are
again subject to lease. 1t would ap-
pear, right now, that the fellow, who
purchases one of these leases, is per
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-06
Oil Lease Cancelled.

Judge Ralph E. Campbell of the fed
eral court has handed down his opin-
ion in the A. ID. Horton VS. Amalga-
mated Oil company suit. This is a
case where Horton sued for the can
collation. of the lease on the p. & II.
or Amalgamated property consisting
Of fifty acres in section 1913. The
court cancelled the lease and it re-
verts to A. ID. Horton and his asso-
ciates. Mr.. Horton resides at Hay.
warden, Iowa. By some arrangement
made between the parties interested
the one-fourth royalty owned by Apple,
Franklin, Johnson and Gait becomes
working interest of the same per
centage. The tract now has seven
wells, and the owners plan to drill
ten more at once. It rs believed that
the Amalgamated or company will
not appeal the caes. This company
has a capital stock of siXty-One million
dollars.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-06
Mrs. Wesley Dead.

Mrs. Louisa Wesley, who inherited
the Rayson Wesley oil lands at Heald-
ton, and whose property has been in
litigation, is dead. She died last week
at her home in Idabel. Some more
litigation is expected to be started at
once, which will involve the Wesley
property at Healdton.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-06
Building Pipe Line.

About 10 miles of the Yarhola com
pany's pipe line has been completed.
All the pipe that will be unloaded al
Wilson has been laid and the pipe
is now being unloaded at Davis. The
same company is planning to build an
eight-inch line from Cushing to St.
Louis and an order has been made
for the steel for this line. The Var
hola is subsidiary company of the
RoXana Petroleum company.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-06

cause of the courts surrender clause
decision, and when the last rental
monies arrived they were immediate
ly returned to the leaseholder
Want Surrender Clause.
The oil man of course wants the
surrender clause in his lease if he
can got it. He does not desire to
hold on TO a piece of land and stand
the expenses Of the rentals should
the land appear to be undesirable
from a drilling standpoint The sur
render clause give him this right-he
can surrender a lease by the payment
of one dollar. II is held. on the other
hand, that the landowner should have
the same privilege.
As a rule oil men and brokers
claim that as yet the state courts
have not really passed upon the sur
render clause proposition, although
they admit that the decision recently
announced has had the effect of ty-
ing up everything in leasing way.
1t Is understood that in the case,
passed upon by the state supreme
court, the oil company had not drilled
the land in the required length of
time nor had the rentals been paid.
If this is correct, then oil men gen
orally agree that the company would
have no hold on the land.
II is believed, however, that a
straisht-out surrender clause decision
by the courts will be coming before
long The leasing representatives Of
one prominent company declared re-
Gently that his company has over
half million dollars tied up in leases
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-06
Now turn to the want ads.

O-~---~-~-~~-~-0---~-O-~~-~
in Oklahoma, and that they contain
the surrender clause, and that most
certainly these leases will not be lost
without very strong fight in the
courts, which would mean an attempt
at least to get action in the United
States supreme court If the decision
was lost in the lower courts. II is
also understood that one of the big
companies has thus far refused to
change the form of its leases, be
cause of the court decision, but is
daily taking leases on the old forms.
In this connection it is said that
the United States supreme court did
pass on the surrender clause PROPOSE
ton in a case appealed from the
Illinois state supreme court, and that
the highest tribunal upheld the clause
declaring that if the landowner made
contract, containing the clause, he
must live up to it. 1t is understood
that oil leases on Indian lands in
Oklahoma, approved by the federal
government, contain the surrender
clause.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-06

haps doing nothing else than buying
law suit, and for that reason it
is a difficult matter to dispose of
! such a lease.
In the Dilworth vicinity of the Kay
county field there are several i'm
portant leases which the landowners
have declared expired recently be
cause they have taken advantage of
the surrender clause situation by re
fusing to accept the rental money. In
one body, near Diworth, are nine
or ten quarter sections of land, close
enough to production to be valuable,
on which their owners declares the
oil and gas leases have expired be-
cause of the surrender clause. Thus
far, however, the landowners have
not been able TO get other parties TO
take lease on their farms.
Eliminating the Clause.
1t is learned that in numerous in.
stances the oil companies are cor.
recting their leases as rapidly as
possible by eliminating the surrender
clause provision. This is done in yari-
GUS ways. When the present leases
expire or the rentals become due the
companies are making new leases, in
some instances, and in others they
are taking receipts for the rentals
wherein the farmers sign declara-
tion that wipes out or annuls the sur
render clause in the leases.
Since the state supreme court first ,
passed upon the surrender clause
lease, now nearly year ago, the oil
companies have been writing leases |
without the clause. and one oil lease
broker says that one-half of the oil |
and gas leases now held in this state |
do not have that provision.
According to one Of the best known |
oil companies it is surprising how |
many owners of land under lease have |
offered to sign any new
lease agreeable to the oil operators /
and how few owners have sought 10
take advantage of the court decision.
1t is believed that many of those,
who are taking advantage Of the
decision, are such owners Of land as
who gave leases several years ago
on drilling contract, expecting that
they would soon get development and
later finding out that such is not
he case.
One case Of this nature recently
,ame TO light On the promise that
ne would drill within years time. ;
en- quarter sections Of land were leas-
ID by farmers to man who claimed
ne would drill. His contract provided
hat in case he did not drill that ne
would pay the landowners the sum
II twenty-five cents an acre rental
annually, and this he has done with
Dut fail during the past five years
Gradually oil development has drawn
learer TO these farms and the man.
yho holds the leases, has made no
tfort to drill Believing that they
re thus being held up the landowners
lave declared the leases expired. be :
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-06

Open for oil and gas lease. 2,200
acres of land in one body, in township
l north, range west, at Robertson,
Garvin county. Write offers to owner,
Hector Derdeyn, care First National
Bank, Pauls Valley, Okla. 1886
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-06

RoXana Petroleum company No. Z
Mullen in section 4-4-9 has been COM
pleted at a total depth OF 1864 feet.
The production is about 10 barrels.
T. F. Maloney was in the city today
from the fields.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-06
OIL and GAS NEWS

Mr. and Mrs. 10y Childress were
here today, taking in the circus.
L. II. Roger, with the Dundee Pc
troleum company is in the city today
from Madill
Gunsburg & Forman on the Couch
lease in section 19-4-3 have reached
a depth of 1870 feet.
J. T. Coleman has returned from a
business trip to Santa Anna, Texas,
where he has oil interests.
Dundee Petroleum company in 9
6-6 in Marshall county, has been drill
ing. The well is now at $50 feet.
The Evans & Boles well in 1854
ought to be at a depth of about 700
feet 1t was drilling at 625 Friday.
l-s - MAILS vi Nbi'idllf ltAhof -
here looking over the Ardmore oil dis
trict with a view or making invest
ments.
The Brodie well Tin 9-2-4 has been
drilled to about 27OO feet and has
been abandoned Emery Bros. had the
drilling contract.
Northheet Oil company in 9-5-4 south
of Ringing is shut down at 1000 feet.
The company states that deeper drill
ing will be done.
Hivick & Moler have entered into
contract to drill to a depth of 1900
feet in section 19-4-1 west, where
rig has recently been completed.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-06

Gunsburg & Forman No. IS on the
Mccoy farm in section 14-4-3 is drill
ing at about 900 feet No. II on the
same lease is at a depth of about 700
feet and a rig is being built for No. 16.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-06

Barcley custom-made corset at Ran
dolls. SO
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-06

Hivick & Moler have entered into a
contract to drill to a depth of 1900
feet in section 19-4-1 west, where
rig has recently been completed
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-06

Gunsburg & Forman on the Couch
lease in section 1S-4-3 have reached
a depth of 1870 feet.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-06

Dundee Petroleum company in 8
6-6 in Marshall county, has been drill
ing. The well is now ut $50 feet.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-06

Northheet Oil company in 9.5-4 south
of Ringing is shut down at 1000 feet
The company states that deeper drill
ing will be done.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-06

Mr.. and Mrs. 10y Childress were
here today, taking in the circus.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-06

The Evans & Boles well in 1854
ought to be at a depth of about 700
feet. 1t was drilling at 625 Friday.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-06

J. T. Coleman has returned from a
business trip to Santa Anna, Texas,
where he has oil interests.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-06

The Brodie well 'in 9-2-4 has been
drilled to about 27OO feet and has
been abandoned. Emery Bros had the
drilling contract.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-06

E. H. Roger, with the Dundee Pc
troleum company is in the city today
from Madll.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-06

L. C. Marrs of Coleman, Texas, is
here looking over the Ardmore oil dis
trict with a view or making invest
ments
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-11-06

cause of the courts surrender clause
decision, and when the last rental
monies arrived they were immediate
" returned 10 the leaseholder.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-20
STATE BOARD SITS
IN PITTSBURGH
Immense Value in New Build
ings Reported by DR..
Becht

All members of the State Board of
Education, including those recently
named to the directing body of Penn
sylvania's educational system. attended
the meeting of the board in Pittsburgh
to-day and the reports showed that the
cost of constructing and reconstruct
ing school buildings during the year
July l, 1915, to July l, 1916, amounts
to 5,500.000, and this amount covers
the cost outside of Pittsburgh and
Philadelphia only. In the former the
amount expended for buildings and
equipment was S1,S45,000 and in the
latter city $2,449,000 Thirty-one coun-
ties took advantage of the standard
plans for smaller buildings prepared
and distributed without cost to the dis
tricts by the State Board of Education.
The greatest building activity is shown
In Allegheny, LuZerne and WeStmore-
land counties.
The permanent state school fund
showed S240,0 invested in high-class
securities. This fund comes from
escheated estates and net receipts from
forest reservations. The income only
may be expended for the purpose of
promoting practical education and for
equalizing educational advantages
throughout the commonwealth. Sew
eral poor districts have been made the
beneticiaries of this fund.
The board discussed at some length
the problem of dealing with the mat
ter OF consolidation and making ade-
quate provision for the many small
schools that are scattered throughout
the state. According to recent report,
there are over 500 schools where the
attendance is under 10; Il number are
| reported where the attendance runs
from ) to Z; in on district there are 9
schools with the largest attendance at
% and the smallest 4.
Special attention was given to the
question of continuation schools. The
policy of the State Board of Education
in this special form of school activity
Is to have the emphasis put upon the
preparation of the pupil for immediate
service. The boards policy was eX-
pressed in a resolution THAT the con-
tinuation schools are to be considered
as industrial agencies and that their
activities should be so administered
as to promote Immediately the in
creased efficiency of the pupils"
The board also took action on the
preparation and publication of sum-
mary of the school laws in several for
eign ages-Italian, Polish and
Hungarian.
The board passed upon the agree
ment to purchase the Millersville State
Normal School. The contract calls for
the payment of S4,T25. This property
is valued at $500, ,161 and the indebted
ness to be assumed by the Common
wealth amounts to $4,000. Nfilersville
is the ninth school TO be purchased.
Negotiations are pending with Kutz-
town for the transfer of that property.
The value of the ten normal school
properties purchased and under con-
sideration is over $1,000 900.
The members present were William
Lauder, James NJ. Coughlin, E. S. Tenn
pleton, John p. CARRIER, Robert C.
Shaw. Marcus Aaron, Dr. Nathan c.
Schaeffer president, DIR. J. George
Becht, executive secretary.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-20

writes Worried" "He begged me al
ways to give him another chance. and
faithfully promised to keep every ap-
pointment in the future
Il gave him another trial and for
awhile he kept his promise. but now he
seems to have forgotten that he ever
made pledge to me. He processes to love
me and claims that If | were to know
why he does not put in an appearance
would excuse him. but when he does
make explanations the excuses he Of
him. but L doubt him."
The sanctity of engagements Is
thing too many people fail to realize. 1t
does not seem to come home to them
that when they say they are to be at
given place at certain time they have
pledged their word and that not being
there is actually dishonorable.
Probably your friend would not lie
about anything he regarded as vital,
and 1T does not occur to him that when
he tells you he Is going to come to see
you or to meet you at certain hour
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-20

and then fails. that he is lying to you.
No matter whether his excuses be gooa
or Ill. the point is they should be made
in advance, not afterwards.
Many men regard social engagements
lightly and those concerned with busi-
ness seriously. Quite right as far as
II goes. But. any obligation one as
pledge of ones word, whether it be
to meet friend at the movies or to be
present at a meeting of bank direc-
tors. the point is that ones word is at
stake.
When a man invites a girl to th,.
theater and finds that his sick mother
wants him to stay home or that his
employer needs him, it is right and
sane that he should choose family ties
or business advancement in preference
to pleasure. No reasonable girl ought
to allow her inclination for pleasur.
to make her interfere with filial duty
or the best interest of a man she likes.
No woman, be she reasonable or
otherwise, likes to have her own per-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-20
MISS ELEANOR ALLEN ANDERSON

Miss Eleanor Allen Anderson, II
years old. died from a stroke of pa
ralysis yesterday morning at her home,
212 North Third street. She was a
daughter of the late James Anderson,
a former member of the Pennsylvania
House of Representatives and a promi-
nent farmer of Cumberland county.
Funeral services will be held at the
home Wednesday morning at 10
o'clock and will be conducted by the
Rev. DR.. Lewis S. Nudge. pastor of the
Pine Street Presbyterian Church, as
sisted by the Rev. Thomas j. Fer
guson, pastor of the Silver Spring
Presbyterian Church. The body will
be taken to Silver Spring, where burial
will be made
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-20
Meanest Man Kept
Pigs in His Home

Columbus. Ohio. Nov. 2OS After
testifying. that her husband kept pigs
and chickens in their home, and that
he would not let her even sweep the
house because she would wear ont
the broom, Mrs. Mary Robson. of
Licking county, was granted a divorce
from Alva A. Robson.
Mrs. Robson testified that after her
marriage on November 80 last, she
went to her husbands home and
found the five rooms arranged in this
manner:
One room housing pigs, one hous-
ing chickens, one for an automobile.
one kitchen and another a bed
room.
Mrs. Robson testified her husband
would not permit her to use soap,
because IL cost money" She told
the judge her husband would not
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-20
0ED-TIME COLD
CURE-DRINK TEAF

Get a small package of Hamburg
Breast Tea. or as the German folks
call It. Hamburger Brust Thee" at
any pharmacy. Take a tablespoonful
of the tea, put cup of boiling water
upon 1t, pour through a sieve and
drink a teacup full at any time. 1t is
the most effective way to break q
cold and cure grip, as it opens the
pores. relieving congestion. Also
loosens the bowels, thus breaking a
cold at once.
1t is Inexpensive and entirely veg
table, therefore harmless.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-20
KEEP YOUR DATE
WITH HER, FELLOW
Beatrice Fairfax Has a Real
Crouch Against the Guy
That Breaks En-
Rr nEATRICE FAInEAx

81 have been going about with a
young man for the past four months.
We have quarreled several times and
once we went so far as to see nothing
of each other for weeks because my.
friend failed to keep appointments"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-20

take her to church Sunday in the
automobile because the gasoline for
the automobile would cost too much
money.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-20

ssonality valued so lightly that a man
lets her sit around waiting for him and
In lordly wise neglects to explain
The man or woman who makes an
engagement and fails to keep it. fail
ing also to make explanation, stamps
MN or herself as one who does not be-
lieve either In the sacredness of =
promise or the rights of another indi-
We should all form the habit Of iisv-
en1ng patiently to reasonable expIaua-
tions. We should never get into fi1e
iordly and selfish habit of falling to
ing the other person to sit and walt.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-20
p. o. S. OF A. CONVENTION

Waynesboro. Pa. Nov. 20. = The
county convention of the Patriotic Or
der Sons of America will be held at
Quincy on Tuesday and Wednesdays
November 2S-29. A fine program haa
been arranged
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-11
ORE RECEIPTS INCREASE.
Great Northern Properties Report
Made by Trustees.

Trustees Of the Great Northern Iron
Ore Properties report for the year ended
December 81. 1915. total receipts OF ST.
i3l.976. as against SS77.959 In 1914 and
H.133.sS9 In 1913. Total disbursements
OF the trust for administration and pay
ment Of beneficial interes, 10 certificate
holders were sSc5.392. leaving An un-
distributed surplus for the period Of
s30S.5s3. az against a surplus Of s53.-
ais for 1914. Undistributed receipts at
the close Of the year amounted to $4,-
i2s.css. as against $3.50. 7I5 at the End
o: 1914.
Following the policy heretofore de-
clared." the report announces. the
trustees are holding their resources for
the purpose OF financing the proprietary
companies. as the needs Of those COM
panies may develop
Receipts Of the properties from the
time Of the formation Of the trust on
December :. 1905. to December 81. 1915.
are shown TO have been sij.29i.353 and
the distribution To certificate holders
In the period $4,000. 900. Receipts OF
the proprietary companies over the same
period were s53.537.soi M d'shurse-
ments slS,974.2it. leaving an excess Of
1853. 649.