Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-11-22
News of the State

| shortly be logged and otherwise care
fully inspected, with view OF select
ine and presenting to the cross-state
traveller the very best, shortest and
most attractive route possible. The
| working slogan adopted 10y the pro-
moters OF this short line is: Hard
surface by December /, 1871"
ARDMORE-A -Ardmore, like all we'll
regulated cities. has a society which
takes care OF the needy ard worthy
| urfortunttes who might chance to be-
/ come I'm want or distress within her
, gates. The society is known as the
! Ardmore Benevolent society. of which
! Mrs, julius Kahn is president and
Mrs. Curtiss secretary. The object OF
| the Ardmore Benevolent society is as
above stated, and no one who is
! worthy and unfortunate need g.
hungry If they apply to the officers of
| the organization.
NORMAN - A model dirt road,
graded according 10 the directions OF
the best road eXpcrls and drug in the
manner in which they drag the reads
in Kansas is TO be one of the features
OF the first annual good roads week,
TO be held at the University of OKLA
homa on January 1t, according To
announcement just made by Prof. j.
l. Tucker, consulting state highway
engineer who has charge Of the con-
ference.
LAW1ON -- Cameron Agricultural
school, 'he Sixth district school, raised
a small patch of cotton this year, the
students doing all the work, piowing
and picking This week the students
reaped their reward, Tor a. G. Farley,
president of the school, sold to the
Gift gin almost three bales of cotton,
bringing the sum of S295 net. This
money will be turned into the farm
ID, which is used for improvements
on the school farm. BESIDES the cot
ton, the students have raised large
quantity Of corn and kaffir this year,
which has all been put away for seed
for the coming season.
RINGLING-I three days to Ard
more by the turkey route. Gilbert
Palmer, captain of the Boy Scouts,
traversed it. In front of him were
1,lOO fat turneys treking to slaughter,
that the particular people may he feu
that which accompanies cranberry
sauce on Thanksgiving. These turkeys
We're gathered from farms over the
wide Ringing trade territory by the
Creel Grain company and their being
driven on foot TO Ardmorc was an
incident as unique as it was inter
estinG.
CLARE.MORE-The celebration of
the opening of the new Frisco depot
at this place Friday was NOT held, OF
account of the inability of the rail
road officials to attend. The failure
to celebrate, however, does not de-
tract from The fact that Claromorc has
just completed two of the finest county
seat depots in the state, the Frisco lust
now completing beautiful concrete
California style depot. with flat roof,
ana the Iron Mountain i'm the summeL
celebrated the completion of fine red
pressed brick depot both of them
with all modern conveniences.
COlLINSNILLE-The Independent
order of odd Fellows and Rcbeklhs of
Collinsville have arranged with the
lodges at Owasso and Skiatook for
big Thanksgiving supper to be given
in the city han here. odd Fellows of
Collinsville Will meet at the city hall
on Thanksgiving morning at o'clock
with guns and plenty of ammunition.
They viii 20 to the Usage hills and
divide into companies of four for the
purpose of killing rabbits. Wild meat
Will he the only meat served at the
supper. The Robekahs have agreed
to prepare the rabbits foi the supper.
hNGLING-I high-laced oil field
boots, corduroy pants. woolen shirt
ana a western hat, Il. $. Galloway of
Waterloo, Iowa, formerly singing evan
gelst with Billy Sunday is getting
experience as an oil operator in Okla
homa lie smellod last week over the
first oil on his boots that came OUT
of his first well and said he liked the
business. Hereafter sun Drowned face
skin and cailoused, chapped hands win
not matter with Galloway, Tor his
company has six thousand acres of
| likely territory surrounding the luca-
tion Of the first we'll.
BRIS1OW-Th highest price ever
paid for cotton in Muskogee was re-
ccived yesterday bv Fay Lyndc of the
Lynde. Bowman x Darby CO. Mr..
Lynde sold six bales of cotton at 22
cents per pound, OF a total Of S631
for the six bales. That this price was
above the market IL admitted, and II
was because the cotton was Of little
better staple than the average run of
cotton. The cotton was the Mebane
variety. grown on the Lynde, Bowman
< Darby farm 6Ist across the Arkansas
river in Wagner county, and was
ginned at their own gin at Porter.
MALESTER-Pete Derichwlcr. 10
years old, is dead, and John Berry,
Is, in the county jail charged with
of Dcrichswiler a mile northeast OF
McAlester Saturday. The boys were
! friends. Berry says he shot At a rabbit
ana hit Derichswiler. The load Ell
tered the boys back.
COLIi\SNILLE - An insufficient
amount Of power has made it neces-
Sary for the commissioners TO instruct
the business manager Of the city OF
Collinsyille to investigate the -possi-
hility of enlarglng the power plant.
The city owns and operates the high,
and water plants through the husi-
ness manager, who is employed bv the
three commissioners that are elected
by popular vote.
ktSA - Enraged because Manager
Nicholson fired two men, one on the
day shift and one on The night shift
one thousand men have gone on II
strike at the Husa Smelling company.
The strike was declared this morning.
Manager Nicholson has closed down
the works.
MALES1ER--The king of Trails"
is the name of a new transcontinental
highway from Winnipeg to gulf coast
points, which has been logged along
the same route as the jefferson high
way through oklahoma. 1t is beng
promoted by citizens of states which
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