The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-02-25

An Anadarko man butchered hog
that weighed 800 pounds.
There are 1883 students enrolled in
the Chickasha public schools.
A marketing organization of farm
ers is being formed at Shawnee.
A report of G. H. Bruce, secretary OF
of the board of education shows the
school population of Ardmore to be
2,403.
Twenty-one tracts of Indian land will
be sold at the Kiowa Agency, Anadar'
ko, February 10.
The Miami city commissioners are
considering selling their light and
power plant to a private corporation
The total assets of the funds of the
state school land department at its
present value amounts to $4O,OOO,OOO
General Percy Daniels, former lieu
tenant governor of Kansas and dis
tinguished veteran of the Civil war,
died in Bethany, suburb Of Oklahoma
City.
Fire of unknown origin, completely
destroyed the highschool building in
Tecumseh. The loss is estimated at
$4,000; insurance s14,5OO. The struc-
ture was erected five years ago.
According to Harry F. Sinclair,
there is a total of $9,0OO,OO0 a month
being paid out for oil in the central
Oklahoma fields at the present time
and the price is gradually advancing
The funeral of P. H. Steel. grand
instructor of the Odd Fellows grand
lodge of Oklahoma, who died at Co.
manche, was held at Chickasha and the
body was inferred in the Odd Fellows
cemetery.
Governor Williams issued procla-
nation designing Sunday, February 20,
as Fathers Day." and called upon the
people of Oklahoma to interest them
selves in full and appropriate obser-
walton of the day.
Edgar Watts, age II, is dead, Clark
Moss, age l6, is seriously wounded,
and Prof NJ. c. McDarment, athletic
director, is in Jail as the result of
shooting ARRAY that took place in the
high school at Wagner.
An old.fashioned rabbit hunt was In
dulged in by every man and boy in and
around Mulhall a few days ago. Over
1000 rabbits we're killed. and the
farmers wives and townswomen serv-
ed a great rabbit banquet at night.
V. Zollers, for many years president
of Hiram college, at Hiram, Ohio, died
at the home of his daughter in War
rem, Ohio, last week. After leaving
Hiram DR.. Zollers was at Enid, where
he was at the head of Phillips Univer-
sity.
BY the death of w. r. Kelly, at Crow.
der, last week, an old political fight in
which two deaths occurred was ended.
Kelly killed James Bates, former city
marshal, in quarrel in the postoffice.
He was tried once, but the jury dis
agreed.
the production Of crude oil in the
state of Oklahoma for the year 1915
amounted to 123905,30 barrels &C.
cording to a report Of Corporation
Commissioner w. D. Humphrey to
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of oil was lower last year than now, a
general estimate is a dollar per gallon,
making the total amount value of Ok
lahoma liquid wealth considerably over
$129 10000 600.
The valuation Of property in Wood
ward county has advanced more than
half million dollars during the past
year as is shown by the tax rolls of the
collector.
Nearly 700 persons secured positions
through the state free employment
bureau in the month of January. The
exact count was 6S5. In January, 1915,
the total was 1888. Architects, civil
engineers, laborers and farm workers
were aided The office fills business
and professional vacancies as success
fully as it cares for the demand for UNI
skilled and semi-skilled workers.
On March II the rural school CO.
operative council will hold in the audi
forum of Northwestern State Normal
school at Alva a meeting of particular
interest to teachers and to board mem.
hers of rural schools of northwestern
Oklahoma,
President Wilson has committed to
two years the five-year sentence i'm
posed last December on w. P. Phillips,
an officer of the Vinita National bank,
for making false entries in report to
the comptroller of the treasury. The
bank suffered no loss.
A new fiVe-passenger automobile
will be presented by Mayor Ed Over.
holser of Oklahoma City to the boy or
girl less than 10 years old who pro.
duces the most money from the cultiva.
ton of garden on a 25x140-foot city
lot during the coming summer.