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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-09-22

J. Robert Gillian left this morning
for Alya, Oklahoma, where Ire goes to
look after some private business. He
will make the trip in his Ford roads
ter.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-09-22

Ben Simpson who was waylaid and
shot a few miles northeast of town,
Wednesday night, died at the Hardy
Sanitarium last night, without making
a definite statement.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-09-22

". F. Warren stated this morning
that in his opinion with perfect wealth
or. local cotton receipts this season
would reach the 1900 bale mark.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-09-22

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The grand jury adjourned this
morning until Monday. It IS the gen
eral prediction that the jury will ad
journ next week.
". +. Warren stated this morning
that in his opinion with perfect wealth
or, local cotton receipts this season
would reach the 1000 bale mark.
Ben Simpson who was waylaid and
shot few miles northeast of town,
Wednesday night, died at the Hardy
Sanitarium last night, without making
definite statement.
]. Robert Gillian left this morning
for Alya, Oklahoma. where Ire goes to
look after some private business. He
win make the trip in his Ford roads
ter.
The new Pennington wholesale gro
Gerry building on east Main street,
is rapidly nearing completion. Squires,
the electrician has the contract for
the wiring
Mr.. NJ l.. Leisure, general manager
of the Products Manufacturing Com
pany Of Oklahoma City, who was in
the city for a few days on business,
returned to his home yesterday.
DR.. Ammerson of Milo was in the
city yesterday on business. DR.. Am
morson states that crop conditions in
his locality are very good and the
for n record crop never bet
ter Cattle are also doing well.
The jury in county court were dis
missed yesterday morning after clear
ing the entire docket in civil cases.
Judge Champion is greatly pleased
with the work accomplished during
this session.
The plans for the new telephone
have arrived and work will
begin within a short time. The Stiles
Company have the con
tract for erecting the building, Ken
nerly, Spragins 4 Lewis will do the
wiring and furnish the plumbing.
Many of the oldtimers went to the
for their mail this morning
and finding the doors barred, stood
for a moment wondering what had
until they realized that
The new building was being used for
the first time today.
Judge Keller of Marietta was in the
,ity yesterday afternoon on business.
Judge Keller who is a member of the
.totp lppiglotiIrp stated that Love COun-
~ was enjoying an unprecedented sea
son of prosperity this year, owing to
he abundant crops and TIE prevailing
nigh price of cotton.
Mr. and Mrs. w. c. Dewitt and
heir two sons have returned from a
visit of more than two months, which
hey spent in Iowa, Wisconsin, Kan
;as, Missouri, and Iowa. They were
accompanied home by Miss Margaret
Recs, a sister of Mrs. Dewitt, who
will probably make her home in this
,ity.
Cotton was selling on the streets this
for 1850, with quite lot
offered The total wagon receipts up
10 date are approximately 2.3OO bales
There Is a discrepancy of estimates by
different cotton buyers. Fount Duston
,,ts tho 6pura ot 5OO Max \Vpstbaiu,-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-20

.-a railroads. In fact European bus
interests expect it to be so,
are already making inquiries
~ illiam S. Kies, vice president OF
the bank, in discussion of the article
from which the above quotation is
taken, says:
with the right kind of cooperative
effort between labor, capital and our
government, it will not be an impos-
sible undertaking for America to make
foreign market big enough to alb
sorb every pound and every dollars
worth of the full capacity which we
have got for virtually no expenditure
of the ordinary capital of the country.
If the manufacturing and investment
public will rise to the opportunity
we can not only draw permanently
increased income from what we gain
ed so cheaply, but we can push the
national productive ability to still
higher level. There has never
before been an opportunity such as
the present one for leaders of indus
try and careful investors to utilize
the surplus and momentum of high
peak business activity in this country
in continuation of prosperity. Ordi'
narily, reaching the height of an in
dustrial wave has meant the limit OF
safe use of capital in industrial
development and a general contrac
lion of both business and financial
opportunity. If this country has
reached point where it can find
proEtcble use of surplus productive
?c'ivity by lending It abroad as capi
| tai fer foreign Investment (and it has
reached that roinD, we can develop
industrial efficiency beyond even the
high point up to which we have al
rec dy organized"
These authorities look for a demand
fer machinery. structural steel, ce
ment, building material and other lkt
products "sufrcient to make up fol
any possible drop in the special pro
Guction fer Europe. and a big ant
s~rn means OF employment for the
manufacturing rlants and the invest
~'ent cHrital which our high-peak wal
'ir1c activtios has built up" Indeed
/ this demand is already making itsel
felt. Several large manufacturing cor
porations, facing a greatly increased
demand for their regular line o
product" have declined further mum
tions orders, and dismantled the spec
ial plant and machinery employed il
filing them. And the capacity o
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-20

this dismanJed plant. and the laboy
employed in it, is now devoted to
permanent work that, as matter of
fact, also pays better" Thus the
substitution of regular business for
war orders is already under way.
1t also appears that the war bust
ness was, in the main, handled on a
sound basis. The added plants were
paid for out of profits, so that the
high prices were not capitalized. The
war plants could be scrapped with
out a dollar of loss. Some of the
companies could have declared divi-
dends of 40 or 80 per cent But they
did not do so. The profits have been
put into permanent improvements
which will hereafter mean reduction
in costs of normal production" In
many cases floating Indebtedness has
been entirely wiped out, and bonded
indebtedness greatly reduced. "The
y
so we are told, 'in a stronger financial
position and able to produce more
economically than ever before" Op-
portunities for enlarged commerce are
opening on every hand. The question
is one of improving them. And there
will be no better market than that
which will offer itself in Europe after
the war is over. We have the capi'
tai, the workers and the goods-and
the best equipped plants in the
world. Mr.. Kies says that this coun
try was never before in anything
like the strong industrial position as
regards well constructed plants able
to turn out great volumes of product
at low unit costs, as now."-lndianap
oils News.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-20
The S~inu OF the Pendulum.

Bears and bulls alike were surprised
at the governments report of the
Aug. l condition of the cotton crop.
A condition of 1913 was the second
lowest August report in a business
lifetime. Taking the official estimate
OF acreage, and allowing / per cent
for abandonment, the indicated crop
at this date is but 12.9l6,OOO bales of
lint, exclusive Of linters.
A month ago the report showed a
condition of s1.1, indicating a crop of
1926, 900 bales of lint. In few
minutes after publication of that re-
port. cotton. dropped $3.50 a bale. In
an analysis of the report published
in these columns July 4. it was point
ed out that cotton always begins to
deteriorate after the first of July;
that the bolls could not Gil unless the
plant were well fed, and the south
had ecanomized on fertilizers, and
that no farmer would say that known
conditions justified the expectation in
dieated in the report.
The pendulum has begun to swing
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-20
A New Calendar.

"Why not adopt a new calendar?
asks the Rev. II. p. Hames, a Spo-
kane minister.
And to show that it is not an idle
question, Mr.. Hames has figured it
out carefully, and proposes that on
January /, 1922, the world (by com
mon consent of the inhabitants) adopt
the one he has made up. His unique
proposal calls for Is months OF 2S
DAYS each, the unlucky one to be
termed Holiday" and to be sand
wiched in between June and July.
That would accomodate 364 days Of
the year. The extra or 965th day is
not counted in any month but pre-
cedes the first day of January as
New Years day.
He also has arranged to take care
of the extra day on leap year. He
would have this fall in the new month
of Holiday, between Saturday, Holi-
day 14th, and Sunday, Holiday 18th,
and he proposes to call it Leap Year
day and treat it just as New Years
lis treated. Under the Hames per
petular calendar system each month
would begin on Sunday and end on
Saturday.
Some of the advantages which he
ascribes to the system are:
Each month has the same mum
Der of days-like school month.
The same date in each month falls
on the same day of the week.
A printed civil calendar for each
month will not be necessary, as the
days of each month are identical with
those of the first month.
The calendar is good for all time
to come, and, like Bill Nye's railway
guide, will be just as good two years
ago as it was next spring
Holidays, anniversaries, etc, are
easily fixed or transferred.
1t will facilitate business calcula
tions. A month will mean 2S and not
80 or 81 days. Wages by the week
fortnight and month are readily ad
ljusted without even referring to the
calendar, which is easily committed
to memory.
This calendar could, by genera
consent, be adopted Sunday, January
1. 1922, without disturbing in the less'
the present calendar.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-20

backwards cotton did deteriorate in
July. August is the most dangerous
month of growth. Unseasonably hot
and dry weather Will cause a greater
shedding of the bolls. The soil does
not hold commercial fertilizers as
farmers Of the north are accustomed
to see it retain the articles from the
stables. The heavy rains in the east
ern belt must necessarily have larch-
ed off much of what has been used.
II would seem so, when South Carolina
falls points in the month, Georgia
u. Mississippi 20, and Alabama %.
On paper, the crop and carry-over
now indicate a supply of 16,4l4OOO
bales, but the crop has not yet been
baled There is the uncertainty of
weather to be met. Meanwhile, do
mestic consumption is at the rate of
100000 bales: the European Wis
ible supply is not large, even though
the loosenng up of freight rates per
mitted exports to increase beyond
early estimates-6,0 100000 bales being
the outgo. Consular reports show
that Germany and Austria have no
cotton for civil use, and probably but
little for military purposes. 1t is pos
sible another crop may be harvested
1NVyt
knows. Manufacture OF ammunition
is credited with taking above 3,OOO,'
coo bales year, and Lloyd-George
says Britain has not reached one-third
her possible expenditure OF ammuni
ton.
One can balance these facts and
draw his own conclusions as to the
future of cotton.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-20
Good Manners Help.

A merchant who returned from Eng
land just before the war broke out
has been voluble ever since on the
manners of the children he happened
to meet abroad Apparently Ameri-
can parents and schools do no. lay on
good manners the emphasis that they
receive abroad Yet good manners,
like the gold at the foundation of all
money, are current the world over
Emerson noted this:
"Give a boy dress and &C ,omplsh'
ments and you give him the mastery
of palaces and fortunes wherever he
goes. He has not the trouble to carr
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-20
After the War.

The Two Americas, published b.
the National City Bank of New York,
estimates, from such data as is avail
able. that the demands after the war
on the productive capacity of Europe
and on its remaining supply of capi-
tai, will be in excess of $4,000 100000.
1t says:
Every laborer. every tool, every
dollar used to rebuild houses or roads
or to rehabiltate agriculture, sub
tracts directly so much from the re-
sources of men, material and capital
for quick restoration of the manufac,
turing industries. 1t seems reasonable
to expect that American industries
will be called on to do very large
amount of the rebuilding of factories
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-20

or own them: they solicit nim to enter
and possess"
"AlI your Greek" Chesterfield wrote
to his son, "can never advance you
from secretary to envoy, or from en-
yoy to ambassador, but your addro $,
your air, your manner. if good, may
"The difference between a well-bred
and ill-bred man is this" Samuel John
son said. zone Immediately attracts
your attention, the other your aver
sion. You love one until you find rea
son to hate him; you hate the other
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-08-20
60 THE AUTOMOBILE 90

until you find reason to love
Civility, polished manners
much to a youth in his first pc
Kansas City Star.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-11-10
CALIFORNIA |S
CONCE EDED To
PRES. WILSON
CHAIRMAN ROWELL
MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT
No Chance of Overcoming
Lead on Face of Returns
The Statement.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. O.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Nov. O.
Except in the event Of some except
ional happening, President Wilson has
carried California, conceded Repubu-
can Chairman Rowell at S:25 p. IN. to-
night.
MIR. Rowell conceded the state after
reviewing returns showing L plurality
Of 2,970 for Wilson with only As scat
tered precincts of the state incom-
plete.
These returns showed a. OF IS coun-
ties in the state completed. In all
but ten counties in the state returns
had been back-checked and corrected.
The possibility Of error was thus re-
duced to a minimum.
Efforts. continued through the night
to bring in the few remaining isolated
precincts, two or three TO the county in
most distances. Ono precinct on the
border Of Lake Tahoe might be miss,
ing for days, it. was said. The tclc'
phone was broken and all efforts 10
communicate from Placerville, 40
miles away, were fruitless. ConceS'
sion of the state for Wilson on the
face Of the returns altered III no way
the determination Of both parties to
keep a sharp watch on the scTi-offt'
Cld1 CuuuL US COullIS SlClhS anu NLIS
final official county by the Secretary
of State. With a plurality of less Than
5000 in more than 100000 votes. diff,
ference OF one vote in each precinct
might change the whole result.
At $50 D. m. the Democratic State
Central Committee telegraphed TO the
two chaimen Of the speakers bureaus
that we can positively assert that
President Wilson has carried Califor-
MIA BY 1000"
The telegram was addressed 10
Homer S. Cummings, New York. and
Chas. F. Horner, chairman Of the
speakers bureaS in those cities. The
telegram read:
After repeated communications
with every county in the state we can
positively assert that President Wilson
has carried California by 1000
Roweil Makes Statement.
After making the statement 10 The
CONTINUED on Fage Ten.)
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-11-10
PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON
WILSON NON
LEADING IN
NEW MEXICO

SANTA FE, y. Nick. Nov. 9-Iae-
turns from 527 OF C3S precincts in New
Mexico give Hughes S1.054; Wilson
SO OILS. Twenty three precincts in So
corro County. not previously reported,
reduced Wilson'S lead 10 1861. Only
two precincts in Socorro have not re-
ported.
SANTA FE, n. NJ, Nov. 9-Returns
from '4S0 of 6SS precincts in New Mex
ico give:
Hughes 29,25l: Wilson 31.SS5.
These are revised figures received
from county clerks.
These also include precincts in all
! but one of the twenty-siX counties. Re-
turns Of the Il precincts in Socorro
County, the clerk announced, had been
locked in the ballot boxes. The clerk
! of Roosevelt County, q precincts, gave
no figures but announced that Wilson
, had carried the county by 1925. Socorro
and Roosevelt Counties were not IN
! cluded IN the lS0 precincts tabulated.
The remaining missing precincts are
scattered throughout the more remote
sections Of the state. Additional re-
turns, slowly filtering in. gave no in
dication Of any change in the general
trend
Because Of the sparse population
, scattered over large area. much OF
i which is without railroad and wire ia
cilities, many county clerks were un-
able until late today to secure precinct
figures and completed their unofficial
tabulationS.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-11-10

NEW YORK. Nov. 9-ConSresslonal
election returns which were nearly
completed tonight assure President
Wilson. in the forthcoming admins
tration. i Democratic Senate, but, with
five districts still undecided, the best
that the Democrats could claim at
midnight was I plurality ot tour votes
in the House.
Upon the basis Of revised returns
the Democrats have elected 10 mem-
bers Of the House and the Republl-
cans 2l1. In addition there have been
elected one independent, one Socialist
one Progressive and one progressive
ProtectiUniSt. Four districts III west
Virginia, two OF thrlu norlually Demo
cratic and two Republican, and one
district in New MEXICO. are still unde-
cided. Ii these districts do not cnange
tho Democrats will have III and the
Republicans 214, u plurality OF only
three. AS there will be four members
of other minority parties working
majority for the Democrats Is lmproO-
able unless some Of the minority mem-
berS should choose TO cast tne!r lot
with the administration forces.
The Senate. according 10 latest tlG-
ures, will consist of - Democrats and
~ Republicans. a majority OF twelve.
The Democratic majority III the pres
ent Senate is sixteen. the only deVel-
opment in the senatorial situation To-
day was the strongly Indicated election
of \. A. Jones. the Democratic candl-
date in New Mexico. who WAS leading
his Republican opponent. Frank A.
Hubbell, by majority which Demo
cratic leaders regarded as safe.
An unusual feature of the result IS
the election OF the first woman to
Congress, Miss Jeannette Rankin, Re
publican. apparently having been
elected in Montana.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-11-10
GUARDSMEN VOTE ON
THE BORDER WILL NOT
AFFECT The RESULT

CHICAGO. Nov. 9. Guardsmen
from two of the five states now
classed as doubtful. voted on the
Mexican border. These were the men
Of Minnesota. estimated at about 21D0
and Of North Dakota, which had one
infantry regiment on the border.
New Hampshire. California and
New Mexico guardsmen. outside their
own states did not vote. New Mexico
guardsmen who happened to be sta
toned in their own county in their
own home state could vote. West
Virginia guardSmrn could not vote.
Guardsmen from more than dozen
states. including the solid south. voted
but in most Of these states the result
was so decisive that the border vote
was not an important factor. In only
a few cases were figures on the
gaurdsmen vote available at the
border.
Returns from guardsmrn' voting
available thus far from official
sources in their home states did not
indicate that the soldiers had voted
in a manner radically different from
the trend of the vote in their home
states.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-11-10
HUGHES DECLINES
TO MAKE STATEMENT

NEW YORK. Nov. 9--Word that
California had been carried by Wilson
on the face OF nearly complete unor-
ficial returns WIS carried 10 Mr.
Hughes shortly before he retired TO-
night. He declined 20 comment on
the situation After communicating
with national headquarters members
of MIR. Hughes staff said that the
question of a recount would be con-
siderCd tomorrow.
New York. Nov. l-When intormad
thar President Wilson had carried Cal
ifornia, VIM. Il. Wilcox. chairman Of
the Republican National Committee
said:
II have nothing TO say" Chairman
Wilcox refused 10 make any further
comment.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-11-10
Estimated.
JUDGE bENNET Tt
DIES SUDDENLY
|NNEST0N HOME

SrcciaI Dispatch TO tho intelligence.
WESTON. w. Va, Nov. 9.--Hon
William George Bennett. aged 81
years. prominent member OF the legal
fraternity of West Virginia. and who
was highly honored in Masonic circles.
is dead 1T his home here. Death,
which occurred last night. was due 10
heart failure. Mr.. Bennett fell 10 the
floor while sitting in his library. and
did before medical assistance could
be summoned
Judge Bennett was candidate for
the Democratic nomination for gov
ernor in 1892, being defeated by a
close vote by VIM. a. NacCorklr, al a
convention in larkersburg. He WAS
elected circuit judge in 1889, for a
term of eight years. and was reelected
in 1898. He was nominated by The
Democrats for justice OF the State SUI
premc court OF appeals in 1900 and at
the general election received IL thou
sand more votes than any other man
on his ticket.
He was al extensive breeder Of
blo0ded cattle and standard bred
horses, and was director OF me
American Trotiing Register AsSocia-
ton.
He was 4 prominent Mason. the
higheS hOnOfS ny ever! DIallClI vi Md
sonry having been conferred upon
him.
At his death. Judge Bennett be-
longed to The following fraternal or
ganiZatiuns: William q. li"nn"It
Lodge No. 4G. Ancient. Free and &Yc-
cepted MasonS, WalkrrSvillC. w. Va;
Weston Lodge No. Ii, and past grand
master of the Grand Lodge Of West
Virginia.: grand high priest Of the
Grand Royal Arch Chapter and grand
commander Of the Grand Commande:y
CT West Virginia. He was also an
. Elk.
The funeral will take place Satur
.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-11-10
CONSTITUTIONALITY
ELECTORAL VOTE IN
KANSAS QUESTIONED

TOPEKA. kans., Nov. 9.-Charles
T. Session, Republican State chairman.
announced today that legal counsel
had been engaged to investigate the
constitutionality of the electoral vote
in Kansas. He would not say wheth-
er or not the vote would be contested.
1t vas claimed at Republican head
quarters that the voters cast their
ballots for the presidential candidates
rather than for electors. The, vote
for electors this year was made Tor
the group instead Of for Individual
electors, as in the past. Republicans
say that this manner Of voting was
unconstitutional
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-11-10
HUGHES MAY HAVE BUT
SEVEN W. VA. ELECTORS

CHARLESTON. W. Va. Nov. 9--If
Charles T.. Hughes carries West Fi.-
gina he may have only seven elcctor-
ial votes in West Virginia instead of
the eight with which the state is
credited. This developed today when
it became known that officials in 4
number of counties neglected 10 place
the name of S. A. Scott on the ticket
as candidate for elector. Scott was
named by the Republican state com
mittee when j. w. Dawson. who had
been nesninated by the state Republi-
can convention, resigned from the
ticket
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-11-10
C0RNNFI PROBABLY WINS
OVER ROBINSON; LEAD 968
CUTS
CORNNE:L.LL. LEAD
With the Returns Complete in Many
Counties Election of Democratic
Candidate is Probable.

On the face of returns received by
The lntrligencer up 10 this morning,
John ]. Cornwell, Democrat, probably
has been elected governor Of west
Virginia. The vote. as far as it has
been completed, gives Cornwell -. 1873,
Robinson, 1927, il plurality. of 96S for
Cornwell.
Gradually as the returns came in
tate Yesterday and last night, Judge
Robinson cut down CornwelpS lead
until il is now below the thousand
mark. A few precincts are yet 10 be
heard from.
THE GovERNoRSH1P.