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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-05
P.O. RECEIPTS
SHOW INCREASE
INP0PULAT|ON
is SURPRISED AT
SHOWING MADE DURING WHAT
is USUALLY CONSIDERED DULL
QUARTER.

Postal receipts are considered the
best business barometer for any city,
and if such is fact, Ardmore must
be experiencing a quiet boom that
has caused inquiries from abroad.
The receipts of the local Office for
the salary year ending March 81
were $3O233.36. The nearest APP
proach to these figures was for the
year 1915, when the total reached
$2S,5SS14.
The biggest surprise Of all was the
fact that the total receipts for the
quarter ending March 81, 1916, eX-
ceeded by many dollars the receipts
for the last quarter of 1915, which is
so unusual that it caused the depart
ment to write, making inquiries as to
how it happened.
The last three months of the year,
which include the holiday season, are
usually the heaviest months with all
offices, but such was not the case
here this season. There was also a
healthy increase for the first quarter
of 1916 over the same period of 1915,
as follows:
For 1915 the total receipts for the
first quarter were $7,205.01. For the
same quarter just ending, the receipts
were sS,S50.5S, an increase of $1,645.-
81. The department states that the
increase in receipts this year indi-
cate a population Of 10000 people,
and the increase entities the post
master and assistant postmaster to a
raise in salary.
During the past year there has
been considerable expense added to
the local office. A free parcels post
delivery has been established, and
many other conveniences inaugurated.
For the past two quarters not box
has been available in the local office.
When the office moves into its new
quarters many other boxes will be
added.
Ardmore is evidently growing rap
idly, according to the post office re-
ceipts, and there is an indication at
present that the next quarter will eX-
ceed that just passed.
Another good business barometer
is the increase in the number of tele-
phones installed during the past year.
On March /, 1915, there were oper-
ated from the local exchange LOU
telephones, with approximately 100
rural phones connected with the
switchboard. On the first day of
March, 1916, there were connected
with the local office 1,76S phones,
with 135 rural phones installed.
The same rule applies to he diff
ference in the number of electric
lights. The increase in number over
last year is 1912.
Ardmore suffered some severe re-
verses during 1915. In the spring a
! cyclone passed over the south part
of the city, doing considerable dam
age. Then in September, the great
est explosion in the history of the
petroleum industry wrecked a large
part of the city and caused the death
of nearly half a hundred citizens.
From all this, Ardmore has arisen,
and business was never better than
it has been this season. The oil fields
are attracting many operators, who
are making their homes in Ardmore,
and good, desirable houses are always
in demand, with the supply nearly al
ways exhausted.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-05
Italian Minister Resigns.

Rome, April SIT is reported that
General Zuppeli, minister of war
has resigned on account of ill health
and that General Paolo Morrone, an
army corps commander. will be his
successor, and that General Alfieri
will be named under-secretary of
state. An unconfirmed report says
Victor Emanuel has accepted Zup-
pelli's resignation and already APP
pointed Morrone. Zuppeli is said to
desire participation in the active op-
erations.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-05

Paso, Tex. April 5.-More
troops are necessary for the
capture of Villa, who is belieV-
ed to be somewhere in an area
of six hundred square miles,
according to word from Per
shing, who is now leading col
umns in Benio, Juarez and
Guerrero regions.
Torreon dispatches today
place Villa at ninety miles
southwest of Guerrero.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-05
STEPFATHER KILLED BY SONS
TO AVENGE MOTHERS DEATH

Crowell Tex, April 4.-This morn
ing about II o'clock on the street
here Roy and Dick Isaacs of okla
homa City, brothers, shot and killed
Tom Sparks of this county. Roy
Isaacs was shot through the right
arm.
} District court is in session and
the Gsaacs are here as witnesses
against Sparks, who shot and killed
his wife, who was their mother, three
months ago. The men are in Jail.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-05
DEMOCRATS SWEEP CHICAGO
q Wards Carried in Windy City by
Democrats-t3 Republican.

Chicago, H., April 5.-The demo
Gratis carried twenty-one wards in yes
terday's aldermanic election here, the
socialists one, and the republicans thir-
teen.
There are thirty-fve hold-over alder
men, and with the new lineup the
democrats came within four votes OF
wrestling control Of the city council
from the republicans. One year ago
the democrats carried only seven
wards. and William II. Thompson, re.
publican, was elected mayor by a
large majority.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-05
FRENCH CONTINUE TTACKS
IN VAUX- -D0UAMONT REGION
NO RENEWAL OF FIGHTING WEST OF THE MEUSE RE.
PORTED TODAY, BUT ARTILLERY FIGHTING IN
LORRAINE.

aris Reports Repuse Of Germans by French Artillery and
Machine Gunfire in the Lorraine
Bethmann-tioweg declares in Reichstag that Germany
Never has had Intention of Making Aggression Against
the United States Canada, Brazil Now the Future
Italian Minister of War Resigns Account of Ill HEALTH
and General Paolo Morrone, Army Corps Commander
Will be His Sucessor-Unconfrmed Reports from Rome
Say King Victor Emanuel Has Already Accepted Re-
signation Zupellis and Appointed Morrone--Former
Said to Want Active Service with the Italian Armies.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-05
MAIN STREET WILL BE CLOSED

Traffic Main street TO Caddo will be
pended from 200 o'clock until 1OOO o'clock Thursday night
All automobiles and other vehicles p x the side
during the opening hours of the Spring Style Show
Officers will be placed at each intersection order is
violated / ask the cooperation of al! a' in the
of this order for the safety Of tn people, The
center of Washington Street be kept
BOB HUTCHINS, Chief of Police.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-05
Kansas CITY, Republican

Kansas City, Mo, April 5.-GeOrge
H. Edwards, republican, defeated
Mayor Henry L. Jost, democrat who
was candidate for reelection yes
terday in the most turbulent election
Kansas City has witnessed in years.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-05
Gerard Makes Inquiry.

Berlin, April Ambassador Gerard
today sent an inquiry to the German
foreign office concerning the sinking
Of the steamship Berwindvale of
Queenstown. London dispatches OF
March 29 say that the Berwindyale
was attacked by a German submarine
but not sunk.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-05

The French are continuing
their violent attacks in the
VauX-Douamont region today.
There has been no renewal of
the fighting west of the Meuse,
but several small infantry en-
gagements are reported in Lor-
raine, where the Germans were
repulsed by the French artil-
lery and machine gun fire.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-05
Entrain at LeavenWorth.

Leavenworth, Kan, April 5.-Twen-
ty-nine members of Company 3, signal
corps, entrained today for Columbus,
where it is thought they will be as
signed to active field service. The
company specializes on field wireless
Work.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-05

pavement dance outside of the tent
with the big band furnishing the
music. The pavement will be thor
oughly cleaned, washed and made
smooth for the dancers. All arrange
ments have been made to make this
event one of the greatest of the week
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-05
Naval Fight in Cattegat.

Copenhagen, April 5.-A naval en-.
gagement of some kind took place
Monday in the Cattegat, according to
dispatches received here from Kullen,
Sweden. Terrific cannonading was
heard during the day from the sea
and two hours later a German tor
pedo boat, badly damaged, was towed
past Helsingborg.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-05
Dodd and Pershing Confer

Washington, D. c., April 5.
Colonel Dodd conferred with
General Pershing at Providen-
cia Monday, according to Per-
shing's dispatch to the war de-
partment today. Pershing is be-
lieved to have gone south to-
ward the fighting front near
Guerrero.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-05
Villa Loses Forty-TWo.

Torreon, April 5.-Villa's band Sat
urday attempted surprise attack
on the garrison of the mining town
of Parsas, east of here, but Colonel
J. M. Gonzales, in charge of the gar
rison, dispersed the bandits, killing
forty-two and capturing a quantity or
arms and horses.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-05

Paris, April 5.-A dispatch from
Valencia says a Norwegian steamer
was seen thirty miles off the coast of
Spain signalling for help yesterday,
that a British steamer attempted to
give assistance, but was frightened
away, The fate of the steamer is un'
known.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-05
No Intentions Against Us

Berlin, April 5.-Chancellor
Won Bethmann-Holweg in the
Reichstag today declared that
Germany never has had any in
tention of making aggressions
against the United States, Can
ada, or Brazil, now or in the
future.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-05
Think Diaz in Mexico.

Washington, April 5.-The depart
ment of justice officials are now
convinced that Felix Diaz is not hid
ing in the United States but is lead
ing a large force in southern Mexico
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-05
Attention Presbyterians

Our annual congregation meeting
will be held at the church at 7:45 to.
night We expect every member to
attend. Will you be with us?
CHAS. C. WEITH, Pastor.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-05
MORE AMERICAN TROOPS NEEDED
FOR CAMPAIGN IN MEXICO
VILLA BELIEVED TO BE SOMEWHERE IN AREA SIX HUN
3 DRED MILES SQUARE AND p RE TROOPS MUSi BIZ
HAD TO CORNER HIM. =
Dispatches Today Indicate THAI Villa is Ets v N

Dispatches Today Indicate th.s Villa is Mile. sorhwe.,
Of Cuerero--Pershing Believed Puse. South Toward
Fighting Front Near Guerrero Now 'owing Confer,
Between Him and Dodd-Caranz, :, Defeat Band
of Villas Men Killing FCrty-Two of the tas and zap
turing a Quantity of Arms and Horses son Asks
Washington for More Motor Truck Compa 'e: Needing
at Least -Four More Which Would Give the Army Two
Hundred Seventy Motor Trucks in the Campaign IN Mex
co-Mcmbers of Signal Company at Leavenworth I'm
trained Today Columbus Where They Expected to
Be Assigned to Mexican Work. ~.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-05
GENERAL CECIL a. LYON
SUCCUMBS TO PNEUMONIA

Sherman, April 4-Brigadier Cen
eral Cecil A. Lyon died here at S:25
o'clock tonight. The funeral will
take place Wednesday afternoon, with
burial in West Hill cemetery here.
General Lyons death was caused
from pneumonia following an opera
tion for abscess of the liver. on
March 2S.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-05
WEATHER FORECAST

New Orleans, La, April O.
The weather forecast for Ok
lahoma for tonight and Thurs
day is unsettled.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-05

Ardmoreite want aos contain some
thing Of interest to everyone.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-05

Nearly everybody reads The Ard
moreite. Do you?
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-04-05
REPORTED TO THE HOUSE
House Committee Fsvors Bill for
Government Armor Plate Plant.

Washington, ID. c., April 5.-The
senate bill for a government armOr
plate plant was favoraby reported to-
day by the house naval committee. The
vote was 10 to 6.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-01-13
"Tl" FIXES ACH|AG'
SWOLLEN, SORE FEET
How "Tiz" does comfort tired,
burning, caI!oused feet
and corns.

Goodbye, sore feet, burning feet
swollen feet, tender feet, tired feet
Goodbye corns, callouses, bunions
and raw spots. No more shoe tight
ness, no more limping with pain OF
drawing up your face in agony. "Tiz
is magical, acts right off. "Tiz" draws
out all the poisonous exudations
which puff up the feet. Use "Tiz'
and wear smaller shoes. Use "Tiz
and forget your foot misery. All.
how comfortable your feet feel.
Get a 25-cent box of "Tiz" now at
any druggist or department store
Don't suffer. Have good feet, glad
feet, feet that never swell, never hurt
never get tired A years foot com
fort guaranteed or money refunded.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-01-13

it is costly washing. You can save
money by doing without eating-at
least cutting it down to stopping the
craving for food. You can eat candy
just before dinner and not want soup
and meat; but that is saving money
to hire a doctor. True economy does
consist in doing without some things
needless luXuries, but not in doing
without the necessities of life There
are many ways to save. but look out
that in saving at the spigot you don't
forget the bunghole.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-01-13
EASY To DARkEN
YOUR GRAY HAIR
You can Bring Back Color and
lustre with Sage Tea
and Sulphur.

When you darken your hair with
Sage Tea and Sulphur, no one can tell,
because it's done so naturally, so
evenly. Preparing this mixture,
though, at home, is mussy and trouble
some. For 80 cents you can buy at
any drug store the ready -to-use tonic
called "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur
Compound" You just dampen a
sponge or soft brush with it and draw
this through your hair, taking one
small strand at a time. By morning
all gray hair disappears, and after
another application or two, your hair
becomes beautifully darkened, glossy
and luxuriant. You will also discover
dandruff is gone and hair has stopped
falling
Gray, faded hair, though no disgrace
is sign of old age, and as we all
desire a youthful and attractive ap-
pearance, get busy at once with wy
eth's Sage and Sulphur and look years
younger.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-01-13
Why They Are Hard to Catch.

Pulex irritans (Which, by the way,
is good" and means the flea that pes
ters humans) can jump, according to
one Mitzmain, horizontal distance of
thirteen inches and a vertical space
of eight inches. Now, on the other
hand, that puny brat, the Indian rat
flea, and we have the word Of the
Indian plague commission for it, can
broad jump only pindling five inches
and kicks the bar off the uprights If
sent at a high mark of more than
three inches and an eighth.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-01-13
ACID IN STOMACH
SOURS STHEFOOD
Says Excess of Hydrochloric Acid
is Cause of indigestion

A well known authority states that
stomach trouble and Indigestion is
nearly always due to acidity-acid
stomach-and not, as most folks be-
lieve, from a lack Of digestive juices
He states that an excess OF hydro
chloric acid in the stomach retards
digestion and starts food fermenta-
! tion, then our meals sour like gar
bage in a can, forming acrid fluids
and gases which initiate the stomach
like a toy balloon. We then get that
heavy, lumpy feeling in the chest, we
eructate sour food, belch gas, or have
heartburn, tlatulence, water-brash, or
nausea.
He tells us to lay aside all digestive
aids and instead, get from any phar-
macy four ounces of Jad Salts and
take a tablespoonful in glass of
water before breakfast while It Is
effervescing, and furthermore, to con.
tinue this for one week While re-
lief follows the first dose, it is inn
portant to neutralze the acidity, re-
move the gas-making mass, start the
liver, stimulate the kidneys and thus
promote free flow of pure digestive
juices.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and is
made from the acid of grapes and
lemon juice, combined with lithia and
sodium phosphate. This harmless
salts is used by thousands of people
for stomach trouble with excellent
results.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-01-13

it does not pay for a carpenter to
stoop down to pick up nail, for the
time he wastes would buy two nails.
You often see men and boys in the
big cities dashing in front of autos,
lodging trolley cars and taking des-
perate chances with their lives to
save few moments time, and then
stop for fifteen minutes to watch
some gentleman in window adver-
tising corn cure. Be consistent!
1t never pays to buy something
simply because it is cheap If you
do not need it, it is dear at any price.
The woman who is eager for bar
gains and buys simply because she
cannot resist the temptation to get
a bargain has swindled herself. True
value consists in getting the maxi
mum return for the money spent.
Last summer woman bought six
baskets Of peaches that were spotted,
and thought she bought them cheap,
and her economical soul was exult-
ant; but when she found that she
had fewer cans than if she had
bought sound fruit, and the scraps
were useless for peach butter" and
in her anxiety to get them canned
before they spoiled she worked her
self sick, and let the syrup boil until
it crystallized, she realized that there
are some bargains that are not bar
gains.
When wave of economy strikes
the household the wife generally de-
cides to save on the table, which is
all very well, provided she knows
how But to pay cheap meats and
stale vegetables may be the poorest
sort of economy.
There are some cuts of beef as
nourishing as porterhouse at one third
less the cost; but to buy bone end
gristle for beef is to deceive yourself.
If the family eats no fat, buy lean
cuts. Pork chops can be had with
practically no fat or bone at all.
These are the loin chops. Rump
roast is all meat and no bone and
goes a long way because there IS no
waste. In the matter of clothing
costly economy can be practiced.
Two pairs of two-dollar shoes will not
last half as long as one pair OF four.
dollar ones Gingham costs more
than calico, but it wears longer and
looks better. 1t costs just as much
to make a dress of calico as of ging-
ham and the only difference is the
small saving in material cost, which
is overbalanced by the short wear.
A remnant is not cheap unless you
can use it.
It may pay woman to do her own
laundry, but if she breaks her health
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-01-13

Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured
By local applications as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure catarr-
hal deafness, and that is by a constitu-
tional remedy. Catarrhal Deafness is
caused by an inflamed condition of the
mucous lining of the EIstachian Tube.
When this tube is inflamed you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing,
and when it is entirely closed deaf
ness is the result. Unless the inflam-
nation can be reduced and this tube
restored to its normal condition, hear
ing will be destroyed forever. Many
cases of deafness are caused by ca
tarrh, which is An inflamed condition
of the mucous surfaces. Halls Catarrh
Cure acts through the blood on the mu-
cous surfaces of the system.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Catarrhal Deafness
that cannot be cured by Halls Ca
tarrh Cure. Circulars free. All Drug
gists, 75c.
FL. CHENEY & CO. Toledo, o.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-01-13

L|FEFOUND
ON EARTH
SCIENCE MAKES CLAIM THAT
SPONGE, APPLE, POTATO AND
OTHER LIVES NEVER DIE -
BOOK ON SUBJECT.

There is life, here, on this earth,
that is immortal, that never dies; so
biologists tell us. A book issued re-
Gently from the press of the Univer-
sity of Chicago tells of the latest OBJ
servations and experiments made by
science in its investigations or the
immortal life of sponges, potatoes and
apples.
The whole world mourned recently
when there died in France a man who
had achieved greatness and lasting
fame because of his observations of
insect life. He spent hours day after
day, year after year, lying upon his
stomach in his garden, or crouched
in one position, while he peered into
the foliage of a gooseberry bush,
watching the movements of wasp or
spider His whole field of observation
was confined within the walls of his
narrow garden, and the books he
| Nlblt u tdltN VI 81 ubN anu iA''n
and the like, and yet the whole world
was interested in what he learned.
The professor of zoology in Chicago
university, Prof. c. NJ. Child, who
has written a book that is being
much talked of, confined his obscr-
vations to such humble things as
sponges, potatoes and apples. But
he has called attention to some inter
esting features of their growth. Take
the potato, for instance. You wish
to grow a new crop of potatoes, and
YOU do not plant a seed you simply
split the living potato, you divide its
substance and place the different
pieces of itself into different holes
in the earth, and the living potato
becomes its own ancestor. The po-
tato you eat today at dinner may be
part of the very potato your grand
father ate 100 years ago.
And so with the apple; it is per
petuated by grating a piece OF the
tree upon a seeding, and that graft
ed twig. part of the very body OF
the parent tree, grows on into large
tree. and a limb of it, again, is graft
ed onto another seeding, and so on
and on for limitless thousands OF
wears, the original tree living always.
The sponge cell splits itself in two
and grows two sponges instead OF
one, and those two re-divide again
and produce four sponges.
The biologist scraped a small
sponge from a wooden pile of Mar
ragansett pier, cut it into small
pieces, squeezed the sponge cells
from each piece, strained them
through fine cloth, and put them all
into basin of water. Within an
hour the minute cells had collected
themselves together again and began
Immediately to build an entirely new
sponge like the mother sponge of
which they were originally a part.
These, and kindred facts, as they
are accumulated, may throw light on
the great mysteries of life and death.
Just how, it is impossible to see
But the great discoveries have fol
lowed the painstaking collecting and
comparing of facts that in them
selves seemed unrelated and often
trivial.-Kansas City Star.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-01-13
THRIFT TALK
vAR|OUSPLANS
FOR SAVING
YET SOME WILL SAVE AT THE
SPlGOT AND WASTE AT THE
BUNGHOLE IN THE PRACTICE
OF ECONOMY.

There is an economy that saves
at the spigot and wastes at the bung-
hole. To practice economy in little
things and forget it in the larger
ones is no economy at all. To walk
mile in order to save five cents car
fare may not be good policy, for the
time may be worth many times the
saving. 1t has been figured out that
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-01-13

Last December had very severe
cold and was nearly down sick in bed
| bought two bottles of Chamberlain
Cough Remedy and it was only a very
few days until | was completely re
stored to health" writes o. ]. Metcalf
Weatherby Mo. II you would know
the value of this remedy. ask any one
who has used it. Obtainable every
where.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-01-13
NOTICE OF HEARING FINAL

In the County Court Of Carter County
State Of Oklahoma.
The following named guardians and ad-
ministrators having filed herein their final
reports, il is hereby ordered that the
same be and they are hereby set for hear
ing on the 21th day Of January, 1916, at
O'Clock, a. m, in the county court room
of Carter County, at Ardmore Oklahoma
No. III st. Sookie Peter, Decd, Fred V.
Kinkade, Admr. Report filed 10, 26, 1915.
No. 747 st. Eli Postoak, Decd, J. V.
Holley, Admr Report filed II, s. 1915