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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-12-29
Watch Us Grow!

l. Profit, dealer in general merchan-
disc; I. Saub, the clothing man, and
viii Mount, the dentist, have all joined
the Huntington (W. Va) branch OF
the Club.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-12-29
Names Is Names.
Our Daily Special.

John Will IIollar lives at Winches
ter, Kentucky
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-12-29

Willie-Paw, what is banquet
Paw-Something that starts with
bullion and ends with bull, my son.
FL Jay FL.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-12-29
Chestnut

Florence Chestnut and Howard Leg
were married at Rariden, Ohio, this
week.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-12-29
Well. Welli

You might easily imagine that Miss
Icy Frost was a Boston girl But she
isn't. She lives at Portland, Ind.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-12-29

How can you tell a doxwood tree"
We asked old Woodman Shark:
That's very easy easy. son. said he
~ tell II by It's bark"
Luke MrI.uks
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-12-29
Intimate.

Dear Luke; saw this sign on a dis q
play of pink silk combinations, and en-
velope whatchacollets in store in
Oklahoma City, Okla:
INTIMATE GIFTS"
L. NJ. Nichols, Bris,ow, Okla.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-12-29

a Man With Horse Sense Never Ha,
An Unbridled Temper.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-12-29
Notice!. !.

II Noble Bean Of Springfield. Ohio
will drop in, the Club phrenologist will
give il the once over.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-12-29

I'd rather tell q dogwcod tree
Than q horse s-chestnW-say
No matte rwhst I told him. he
Would answer me, Neigh. neigh"
Newark Advocate.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-12-29

Miss Kathleen Moreland OF Bethany
college, Topeka, accompanied by Miss
Nara Booker and Master Charlie
Hurd, arrived in the city today and will
spend the holidays with her mother.
Mrs. Della Moreland.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-12-29
Out and In.

War is a crime" said Mr.. Stout
And trifles cause one to begin
When Rulers have falling out
The Subjects hear tho cry: Fall in"
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-12-29

Miss Deiphine Kelly OF Fl Reno Is
visiting Miss Maud Musgrove in thi,
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-12-29

Don't you think that we need a
mediation board TO settle the trouble
in Mexico" asked the Old Fogy.
NO" replied the Crouch What we
need most is an immediation board"
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-12-29
Does She2
Paw Has Been There.

Desire Senee lives in Norwood, OhIC
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-12-29

They tell us that he is a genial
cheerful gentleman. But W, II. kuss
maui runs the Granville Times al
Granville, Ohio.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-12-15

IN THE COUNTY COURT IN AND
FOR POLK COUNTY, FLORIDA
The Peoples State Bank, cor
noration, under thelaws OF the
state of Florida, vs.. Mrs. E. A.
Hooper and Ira I. hooper
Assnmpsit-Damages $4,000.
# appearing by affidavit of the
plaintiff in the above styled cause
that the defendants, Mrs. E. A.
Hooper and Ira T. Hooper, are non
residents Of the State of Florida, ana
that there is no person in the state
of Florida, service of subpoena upon
whom would bind said defendants
and that the age of the said defend
ants is unknown, but believed to be
above the age of twenty-one years.
It is therefore ordered that san
defendants appear in the county
court in and for Polk county, at the
office of the clerk of the said court
at Barlow, Florida, on the fifth day
OF February, A. d. 1917
It is ordered further that this or
der be published in the Lakeland
Evening Telegram eight consecutive
weeks. and that copy Of same be
posted within twenty days after the
making of this order, at the door of
the court house in Barlow, and that
copy thereof be mailed to the de-
PENDANTS at Akron, Ohio, their ad-
dress as stated by said affidavit.
Done and ordered this fourth day
pf December, A. D. 1916.
]. A. JOHNSON,
Clerk of the County Court
]. C. WILLIAMS,
Attorney for Plaintiff. 6O56
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-12-15
NOTICE

The regular annual meeting of The
stockholders of the First National
Bank of Lakeland, Fla, will be held
at their banking house Tuesday,
Jan. 8, 1917, at 10 a. M, for the
election of directors and the trans
action of any other business that
NAV come before the meeting.
All stockholders are requested to
be present in person or by proxy.
6O65 j. R. WEEKS, Cashier.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-06-08

The home being built at 6lO
East Eighteenth by j. b. Levy
is one of the finest in this en-
tire section of the country. the
estimated cost of the building
alone, without fixtures, was
placed at $4,000 and several
costing a like sum are now con
templated by the men who have
proven their faith in the pro
gressive spirit of Tulsa and who
are willing to bet" IA small for
tune in "A home that the won
dcrful strides made in the past
are but a beginning of one of the
most wonderful careers that any
city has ever possessed.
The number of buildings un-
der construction at the present
estimated to cost in the neighbor-
hood of $1,000 are many, but
among them are included that Of
Arthur Newlin, Twentieth and
Norfolk, which will be completed
at a cost of not less than that
amount, probably more.
Another is that being built by
Mrs. +. Il. ToIman, 1121 Carson
avenue, and still another by N. H..
Connor, Carson avenue, to cost a
like amount. Lon Hamilton is
erecting an apartment at ia
West Fourth TO cost $4,000 or
more and G. ID. Pierson is build
ing another apartment at 1l2
West Third to cost a like sum.
Rose Ramleau. 52l North
Boulder; w. V. Biddeson, SOP
East Twentieth; NJ. M. Groves,
Kramer and Dayton are all erect
ing homes to cost in excess of
81 900 each and Ross Grosshart,
224 South Maybell, is erecting a
modern dairy building to cost
$4,000.
G. S. Avery and associates are
building a residence on East Sew
enteenth to cost more than $4,000,
as is j. W. RObb, Of Boston and
Eleventh, who is erecting an
apartment house to cost approx
mately $1,000. The list of home
builders would not be complete
without mention of the modern
structures now being erected for
Culbertson on Boulder and
Fourth which will cost approx
imately $4,000.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-06-08
Tawieh Tow le to Co Up.

AZ glJ South Cheyenne the
Jewish congregation plan and
hayc begun tho erection of a
church building We ;oit''l 60 t o
which uill he in excess of S25 900,
and J.. AZ. AARON pn y North
Norfolk wDl erect v 'once to
cost more Sham 1900 Dan
Hunt at Eieht..r'h and Norfolk
win also build ul hos begun
ul. foundation r." ho to cost
more tlan $4,000.
Arue Fo> at - and y North
Denver g., hu.ll.ur a structure to
lc used %, % MOTEL. the first esti-
mat. ou construction alone being
u excess Of $4,000. In these
luillinvS the initial estimate is
rarely the ficure for which the
building can be constructed and
iu many instances at least an ad-
1itioual two or three thousand
lo'lars may be added before the
building is completed and ready
g.. furnishing
One huildinr. a laboratory, to
cost approximately $4,000, is be
inc constructed for Catherine
WRIGHT at go South Cheyenne
and the Britton Wholesale Groc-
cry company has begun the cree
ton of a building of brick. to be
used as a business house, to cost
more than $4,000. Another
building. estimated to cost like
sum. is being erected by the
Right Way Laundry at pa South
Cheyenne and at least a dozen
buildings are in the course of
construction which will cost $10,-
600 or $4,000.
One of these, the business
building erected by f. G. jenkins,
402 East Second. will cost ap-
proximately $4,000 and a like
figure is placed as the approx
mate cost of the home being
erected for r. M. Darnell.
Twentieth and Norfolk. Bill
Black, East Nineteenth, also is
having erected a home to cost
in excess of $4,000.
Set Record in Building.
Perhaps in no other city in
the entire southwest are as many
homes being erected as within
this city at the present time and
it is estimated by members of
the building inspectors force
that the approximate cost of
the homes under construction in
Tulsa at the present even exceed
the approximated cost of the
many modern office, hotel and
other business houses now being
erected.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-06-08

Tulsa IS now CONSTRUCTING
81 400 900 worth OF bunnp,
each of which is to cost 5000
or more
TIN. represents the greatest
porloi of hIItiup activity ever
known I'm the llstoN or the c.tv.
and stands "a, the browning pom
i'm municipal BUILDING ina thr ru.
tire southwest
While this Grand total of
huiIdmgs costing u ox..., 1f
5000 may seem a,toul,bue 70
could lc augmented by at least
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-02-18
w. N. McFADDEN, Secretary.

Rt Dcf RAIN In spirit OF
- - those who wish Angus
sale at Somervile, February dpurchase
the Nashville Chattanooga St. Louis Railway will make effective
applying
Rock inclusive and intermediate Somere
onfouh the cattle Somere
N. I. enactm notin
d. f. SMITH, Vice President L. P BEILAH, Agent
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-07-17
THE NAN WITH THE SPADE.

Dispatches from Petrograd told Of the Russians
taking as many as 10 lines of trenches succession.
in one sector OF the Austrian'line in Bukowina The
incident serves as a vivid reminder of the amazing
amount OF ditch-digging there has been in Europe
lately.
II would be interesting to know how many miles Of
military trenches altogether Every rod Of
battle front marked by excavations Each side has
its after of trenches roughly paralleling the
front connecting trenches and subterranean
approaches zg-zaggng away to the rear 1t would
probably be safe figure half dozen miles Of
trenches each side for every mile of front On that
the trenches the Russian front alone would
suffice, Il placed end end to go than half way
around the earth. France and Belgium. with shorter
lines elaborate ditch defenses There must
be of thousands trenches France And every
the battle shifts any theater of there
are new sets OF trenches dug.
Digging bitches years. and is still.
the occupation the male population of Europe
How easy simple il will be when the to
and subways and lay water mains and
gas pipes any Of the belgerent countriesl And it
has an eminently honorable pursuit although
we never used to consider so.
We shall probably ind ourselves hereafter treating
our own spade-welders with new respect when re-
feet that the grimy "wop" or "hunky" "dago" in
ditch probably gained by digging trenches
under shell fire.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-07-17
A SIDE SHOW OF THE WAR.

Every now and then there creeps into the news
little item about certain Gen. Tombeur who. under
the flag Of Belgium. is trying to wrest from Germany
colonial East Africa. From
time time Gen. Tombeur reports that he has
this that village with unpronounceable name
or is pursuing the Germans the direction of
that generally begins with Mp then riot
through the of the consonants.
What thing is this little side show of the
great Nearly all the troops both sides
negroes the natives of country they fight
ing for in order hand it over European
all about no knowledge of why they are fighting or
meaning OF the flags under which they enlisted
Probably most Of them are content TO indulge primi-
tive instin1t for battle and let it go at that.
Their white officers in almost equally strange
position. It takes days for Gen. Tombeur commun-
captures jungle villages the Belgian
Office. which, incidentally. is in Belgium but in
Havre France The information he receives return
Of the scantiest nature and he doubtless
only the vaguest idea Of how the great struggle is
proceeding in Europe
As for the Germans do know the name
Of their commander. No report Of his doings ever
leaks out except such contained in his oppo-
nents messages. Cut of completely from his native
land. his imagination has scope indulge in many
things And what shifts and devices these jungle
lighters may be resorting TO, One would imagine that
war there must be reduced medieval lines. with
ambushes and decoys, scouts spies and dues Let US
hope that side or the other there is fighter
with the gift of words tell in days of
this weird campaign in the land of the elephant and
the lion.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-07-17

be hung near a gas or electric light
In the darkness il shines just like
glow worm, disclosing the pres
ence Of the article which it is near.
Door plates, match boxes and
other things which are difficult TO
find In the dark. can also be illu-
minated in the same way with it,
The inventor has an article clipped
from an English newspaper saying
that an automobile painted with this
substance can be seen for a distance
of two miles on the darkest night
This feature should make it particu-
larly popular with the man who
habitually fails to light the rear
lamp Of his machine.
A peculiar feature about that
stuff is that if kept in total dark
ness for As hours. or Whereabouts,
the light will entirely disappear;
but the moment it is restored 10
natural or artificial light il will be
restored again and become as good
as ever. 1t is fed by light and will
absorb only enough to sustain it
from As to so hours. but will last
forever if given even an instant ex-
posture TO light after it has died
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-07-17
JULY II, 1916.
THE WICKED TOOTHBRUSH.

The London Chronicle Iaments violent attack de-
livered great national idol the toothbrush"
We have always supposed that the natio 1a idol of
the English people the bathtub but it isn't
sary bubble that point. The charges brought
against the British toothbrush the those
already familiar in America It is pronounced a
symbol of cleanliness but "hlthy germ ridden men
ace" And perhaps. whole, it deserved much
condemnation.
For years untold" explains the Chronicle we have
cleansed teeth with less intelligence than
maid notwithstanding the front steps Toothbrush drill
in our elementary schools an assault on the
first principles OF hygiene"
But dentist viii tell YOU that the abandonment
II the toothbrush would probably be greater calamity
than it's continued misuse. And any dentist will give
simple and explicit directions whereby the toothbrush
fulfill its proper function cleansing mouth
minimizing tooth decay and all the and diges
tive disorders that follow in train.
The wisdom of the toothbrush reformers may be
summed up simple rules: First keep the brush
clean; second scrub the teeth with it thoroughly
back and forth. up and down. outside and inside.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-07-17

diary far worse than pictured in the widest
boys then they must be having
Of pipe dreams and should be awakened as
gently and as expediuously as possible their own
good.
little Of the yellow stuff tints the tales most
attractvey too much not only soares the folks back
home compton FITS but has bad psychological
effect young soldiers Let's save some OF our
moly-coddling for the real hard times And we close
this friendly Gliding with the remark that the worst
hardships of the soldier boys aren't marker to the
woes Of the correspondent who doesn't send in this
same sensation stuff that
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-07-17
PAINTING m TOO YELLOW.

Allow gently point out-with all regard
for the admitted yearning Of the public for
sensation and its chronic prediction for heroicstha
some OF the Chicago newspaper correspondents down
Fl Peso way are rather serving il up over doses
For instance captain militia quoted giving
Of the arrival OF his command the border
under the lurid heading
Captains diary tells OF conditions far than
pictured in widest dreams"
Attentively scanning said diary. which covers the
period OF day-the frst-we find that the principal
entries are follows. 4:4s m-Breakfast Oranges.
d-boted eggs corned-beef hash. bread jam fresh
butter coffee.
12-Dinper. Beef stew stewed tomatoes freshly
baked bread. Jam and coffee.
u 10 2. m-Rest (El Paso's sissta period
supper Roast beef boiled potatoes stewed tonna-
toes bread. butter coffee.
Now don't doubt but the conditions the na-
uonal guard along the border are say least.
uncomfortable We know that Fl Paso country and
It's no land OF flowing milk and honey And we have
a presentiment. a huneh. strictly FL Paso-
esque. that before ctzen-soldiers home they
viii meet with hardships which will make pillow OF
devlshead welcome the flowers that bloom
in the spring.
But the eonaitionl as set forth in the aforesaid
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-07-17
WITH OTHER EDITORS
THAN OURS
HYPOCRISY TAUGHT IN
SCHOOLS.
CNew Republic, New York;

New Republic, New York;
Emphasis on wnat the child likes
instead Of what he ought TO like
would change the tone Of school or
colleges The average mediocre stu
dent under our present regime gets
an almost uncanny desire TO do
things right" Since success in
school depends on doing what the
teacher thinks is right, education
becomes on the child's part tech
nique of accurate guessing.
Anyone who has spent much time
in high schools knows how eagerly
children will pounce on any official
judgment concerning "A book or per-
son or picture or idea. The study
Of English classics in most schools
becomes a fostering bed Of hypoc-
risy And IL is often the intrinsi-
cally amenable who are the most
conscientious and who therefore
most hopelessly overlay their own
reactions with other peoples judg-
ments. The modern school recita-
ton has degenerated INFO a skillful
guessing on the part OF the child
say And this Is a symbol CT the
general attitude in school and out.
towards cultural things.
a laudable attempt has been
made in the colleges 10 teach the
student 20 think. but I wonder some
times whether II has proceeded very
far beyond ENCOURAGING him TO find
IDEAS and attitudes which he is ner-
suaded he ought 10 have.
For most college students IL is
already too late. Expression and
discrimination are the last things
which the primary and secondary
schools have been emphasizing The
boy and girl come 10 college with
no background OF taste or selection
and the old docility. the old uncon-
scious hypocrisy must dog them all
through their course. would make
large part OF the process OF think
| inz in school and college the dis
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-07-17
NOVEL LIGHT.

(Arizona, Gazette, Phoenix
The "age of wonders" will never
cease. The latest discovery 10 arouse
interest and curiosity is a new light
resem bling that of the glow worm.
but without heat. The Portland, Ore,
Daily Journal, announces that a
firm in that city is manufacturing
just such a light. While refusing to
disclose the substance which pro-
duces it, the firm will only say that
lit is not phosphate"
They state that when Livingston
was in Africa he discovered a min
eral which would illuminate the
night, and they are now employing
this for the convenience and benefit
of civilization. They have named
their product "eradium."
They manufacture several articles,
one Of them being a bulb which can
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-07-17

W. Scott Nearing, the professor who was made ia
nous by being discharged by the trustees of the Uni
versty of Pennsylvania account of his radical utter
ances had this to say to the teachers of the National
Education association;
You know that during the last is months
the newspapers of the United States without
exception. have been carrying of the
most scandaIous propagandas that has
been carried on; that they deliberately sup
pressing regarding the German side. They
been suppressing arguments and facts
deliberately putting forth facts that would
make for preparedness and make for war"
The refutation of this blanket arraignment by one
newspaper in the country would prove DR.. Hearings
charge false this newspaper furnish such
REPUTATION 1t opinion of the editor that many
hundred other papers throughout the United States
same fact it may safely be asserted
that great majority of American newspapers, in
Guiding nearly all the really influential part of the
nations press have striven more than usual TO
present European honestly and fully.
Many of them have expressed s;.ong preference for
editorial columns. is their right.
Some have enthusiastic perhaps in the size
their headlines handling a dispatch which
they realized would appeal to the majority of their
readers. for actual invention distortion and
suppression of news that accusation may be set down
as plain fasehood. either unreasoning preju-
dice or sheer ignorance.
It has been often by observing newspaper
men that the big metropolitan dailies like the New
York World and York Times which have been
particularly active in their criticism of German aims,
methods and during the have. out of
their way present facts and interpretations from the
German standpoint. too regarding every important
event. Their "scandalous propaganda" if they have
guilty a thing. confined almost
entirely TO their editorial columnswhich editors
own, with things best.
words. he reflects their attitude toward
what they have been pleased to call the "vernacular
press" That is the German-language papers And the
charitable thing that may be said of those
is that like Or. Nearing himself. they know a most
amazing lot OF things that
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-07-17
THE MELTING POT
Filled Today by Stuart H. Carroll


A fellow had feeling of
That slightly
He always kept of healing bottles the shelf
An amateur physician he whose himself
He OF medicine dead
Because the bottle didn't hold the stuff the label said
A maiden had a wedding papas residence.
Her high bright; expectations immense
capped certainly the life
Hufrah hooray, l the de Hunkos wife
irretrievably pledged
he everything his label had alleged.
When Gabriel forth upon the resurrection morn
To sleepers official
He o unbushingly engraved
behaved;
Andi be unfortunate. caamitous and tough.
any should tell him that the labels bluff.
A b