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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-30

Statistical returns relating 10 the cOf-
fee trade Of the United states show
the record-breaking figure Of l,3i9.S7O.-
S02 pounds a. the quantity imported in
the twelve months ending June 80,
1gl7-and amount which maintains the
1OO. 900 900 pounds a year increase that
has marked the American imports Of
coffee since the outbreak OF the war In
Europe
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-30
PRODUCE.

Kansas City. Oct. 3o.-BUTTER. Eggs
and Poultry: Unchanged. POTATOES:
Firm. s135WI.50
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-30
Helpful Hint.

New Haven Journal He 0ust en-
gaged)-D Darling. | simply can't kiss you
enough.
She (practicallyl--We WHY waste
any time In talking abou; IL?
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-30

list for the las, per cent of IN" quot"
for Carter county. 80 ma TO hhVe'r ~
readiness when the call IN made
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-30

The aiasons Of Ardinore will give a
reception Friday night in honor Of the
Rev. c. c. weith. Otis Smith and Roy
NJ johnson. who have recently had the
thirty-third degree conferred upon them.
The domestic science class of the
High school served lunch 10 the Rotary
club at noon today In the domestic
science rooms Of the High school.
Al the regular meeting OF the Ladies
of the Leaf yesterday afternoon. it was
voted to divide the club of forty mem
bers into two sections. one of which
will meet on the two Mondays of each
month on which the regular club is
not In session. to sew for the Red Cross
Mrs. Homer Adams WAS appointed chair
man of the first division and Mrs. Gil
bert Presneli chairman Of the second
division.
Mrs =. j. cullinan gave birthday
dinner last night for her husband Their
guests were Mrs. Emily Fowlkes. Miss
Elizabeth Myers, and Breuil Hamilton
Mrs. Val Mullen. Of Winchester KY
is in the city.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-30

Last year ihei United States mined
500 .p0O. 900 tons o. coal the greatest pro-
duc,i1a cvr~ witnessed IN the world. and
oe liis amount W. wasted jG099.OoO
.cns a. - rer cent. through Inefficient
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-30

United states last year made 3.000.-
900 900 cigars and SO.OoOOO0 900 cigar
cites.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-30

Women in Sweden are forbidden from
wearing high shoes.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-30

Coleman. in Berwyn by Berwyn Drug
Co, in Wilson by Jno. Tidmoro, in Writ
by Miller Drug Co, in flealiton b!
Smith.AicKnight Drug Co, In Tussy 10y
jackson X Tussy and in HoNbar 10y j.
n. coz tAdvJ
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-30

The Eastern star will serve dinner
at six O'Clock tonight to Ardmore Ma
sons and the following visiting officers:
+. Is. Ashbrook Of El Reno, grand high
priest of oklahoma; i. +. Higgins, Of
Ft. Worth, grand high priest Of Texas;
O. a. Shutter Of III Reno. grand treas
urer OF Royal Arch AIasons; James 4.
Scott, OF Muskogee, grand secretary. and
c. NJ. Burnett, OF Newkirk, grand lee
turer. The Eastern Star chapter served
last ni,,ht N the Blue lodge members.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-30

Archibald Bond. special assistant
United States attorney filed before judge
Campbell this morning motion for q
new trial in the case Of the United
states ys. John and +. w. Skillern. J
W. Ballentyne and W. Scott Ander
son, In which an Indian oil lease wa
involved. Judge Campbell overrulet
the motion.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-30

The following suits have been filed
in district court clerks office: Maggie
Benton vs.. Willie Benton, for divorce
and custody of child; Leila Ritchey VS..
Joe Ritchey. divorce; ]. ID. Thomas and
May Thomas have been divorced and
the custody OF their child given the
father He now asks for an injunction
to prevent May Thomas, the mother
from interfering with his possession Of
the child.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-30

Representatives of Smith < Whitney
of Dallas. Texas. manufacturers Of
pumping machinery, were in the city
today comforting with City Engineer
Watson and Fire Chief Reeder re-
qarding the extension of the water and
lighting service of the city. Additional
fire fighting apparatus is also being
contemplated.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-30

The Fourth Ward Mothers Club viii
hold "A meeting Friday night at seven
thirty at the Fourth Ward school. DR.
Walter Hardy. Senator Fred T.. Tucker
and Walter :. Gilbert, secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce. Will speak and
a musical will also be given. The
members Of the club will serve refresh
ments.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-30

The contemplated calling OF L. $.
grand jury at Chickasha in November
has been reconsidered, owing to the
length OF time the district attorney and
deputy may be engaged at Ardmore in
trial OF draft resisters. a special grand
jury may be called later AZ Muskogee,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-30

The Philharmonic club will meet to-
morrow afternoon at the home of Mrs,
Ran Webb. 25 ID street southwest. The
business will begin at $3.50 O'Clock and
the program viii be taken up at 4
o'clock
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-04
s'BRIDGEPoRT" NEW
NAME FOR BRESLAU

Washington, June 4tsecretary
Daniels announced today that the
names of the seized German ships as
signed to the navy had been changed
as follows:
Geier to Schurz; Breslau to Bridge
port; Kie1 to Camden; Leibenfels to
Houston ;Saxonia to Savannah; Vo-
gensen to Quincy; Nicaria to Pensa-
cola; Odenwald to Newport News;
Hohenfelde to Long Beach; Frieda
Leonhardt to Astoria; Andromeda to
Bath; Rudolph Blumberg to Beau
fort; President to Kittery; Locksun
to Fulfport
Most of the new names of the ves-
sells are of coast towns and cities
which have some connection with the
navy The Geier, the gunboat in
termed in Honolulu, is renamed for
Carl Schurz, the famous German
American soldier.
Liebenfels, now the Houston, was
sunk in Charleston harbor when the
United States broke off relations with
Germany.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-04

policeman and identify the guilty per-
son. If there are military authorities
at hand he will tell them. If there
are neither police nor military au-
thorities nearby he will notify the Of
ficials in charge of the registration
place.
sour nation is at war, and anti
registration advice is treason. Severe
punishment awaits those found guilty
Of advising against registration. The
state calls upon its young men to re-
port at once if anything of this kind
takes place in Connecticut tomorrow.
There's one other final word I
want to say to the young men Of the
state: We are to attempt tomorrow
the gigantic task of registration
None of usrknows from experiences
what is to bs-tlone. We are guided by
explicit Instructions from Washing
tpn.i But there may be some slight
delays. We must all be patient and
cooperate as much as possible with
the registration officials All who can
do 1t should go to the registration
places as early in the day as possible.
so that the machinery may not be
clogged in the last hours.
"I am confident that Connecticut.
true to her traditions, will meet the
requirements of the nation in tomor-
rows registration day in loyal, con-
secrated, and patriotic spirit and re-
main the leader among our states
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-04
"ANTI-RECISTRAT|0N ADVICE is
TREASON" DECLARES H0LC0AAB IN
LAST WORD OF ADVICE TO PEOPLE

Hartford, June 4-Gov. Marcus H.
Holcomb in statement to the press
today advised the young men Of Con-
necticut to report promptly to the
police or military authorities If any
are at hand, any attempt to dissuade
them or others from registering to-
morrow or to persuade them not to
fulfill this obligation of citizenship.
There is no reason to suppose that
we will have any serious trouble in
Connecticut when the young men of
the state present themselves for reg
istration,'' said the governor. Our
sons and brothers between the ages of
s21 and 81 are prepared to go to the
registration places in their home
wards, voting districts or towns and
answer those questions which the
government has designed to secure the
information it needs.
"But we would probably be too op-
tfraistic if we did not expect few
scattered attempts to discourage men
from registering: It is likely that here
and there the paid agents of our enc
mics or their hirelings or a few fee
BILE towards who lack the backbone
to face a fight may carry the1f. propa-
ganda to the registration places.
"Every young men who is true TO
himself to his state and to his coun-
try will help meet this condltlon. II
he is approached with a printed sip
or a. whispered word avising agalnse
registration he will notify the nearest
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-04
PETR0CRAD threatened BY SAIL 0RS
FROM KRONSTADT GARRISON; WANT
REELECTION OF COUNCIL DELEGATES

the whole provisional government,
particularly for abolishing the death
penalty which they characterized as
premature.
On visiting the Gutuyeff island the
correspondent found that a vast fire
had been burning for some time. A
large quantity of sulhpur was attire.
There was evidence of a violent ex-
plosion. Windows at a considerable
distance were broken. It appears that
at O'Clock in the morning the ice
breaker Cranienibauna, instead of the
Kronstadt warships, arrived off GU
tuyeff. 1t was flying the red flag. On
it were sailors and workmen who
were singing the hymn of the Boil
shevild extremists. The ice breaker
steamed up and down the wharf, took
on board a party of Petrograd work
men and departed.
Simultaneously seven large cases of
phosphorus on the wharf fgniteld. The
fire extended to a quantity of salt,
causing a violent explosion, after
which the stores Of sulphur caught
fire and were consumed Mo one was
injured and buildings close by were
undamaged, except for the destruc-
ton of glass. Inquiries show that It Is
altogether improbable that anyone
was connected with the fire. official
investigators on the spot suggest
spontaneous combustion of the phos-
phorus exposed to damp and heat.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-04

Petrograd, June sailors from the
Kronstadt garrison which recently de-
clared it's independence of the, central
government, arrived in Petrograd
early today with the announcement
that warships at Kronstadt would
come to Petrograd Immediately and
land men to make demonstration. La
ter it was reported that sailors had
landed on Gutuyeff island, port of
Petrograd,< and begun am attack. "A
visit to the Gutuyeff showed that the
story of the landing and attack was
untrue. However, it was sufficiently
alarming to provoke great excitement
in the city and cause the dispatch to
the scene Of a military force.
Petrograd wtited today for the
threatened demonstrations by the
Kronstadt warships, and as the time
passed with no such incident the an
nounceTnent of the sailors who reach
ed here last night came to be regarded
by a, majority as merely boastful talk.
The Kronstat sailors who came here
said the demonstrations would he for
the purpose of bringing about new
elections of members of the council
of workmen's and soldiers delegates,
whose present members were denoun-
ced as bourgeois. The sailors also de-
manded that former Emperor Nicholas
be handed over to them. At street
meetings they expressed dissatisfac-
ton with War Minister Kerensky and
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-04
REMINGTON co,
PLANS DOUBLING
ITS PRODUCTION
9Four Thousand a Day" Is
Slogan Now at Big Plant
In East End.

Rumors that the Remington ARMS &
Ammunition Co. plant will be turned
over to the use of the United States
government Januany 1, are denied to-
day in official circles where it is said
authoritatively that no such infor-
nation has been authorized by the
home office at New York.
1t is known that for some time past
leading aeroplane experts of the gov
ernment and private concerns have
been in this city inspecting the plant
and discussing the possibility of
manufacturing aeroplanes on a gigan-
tic scale for government use. No deal
has been closed, however, which will
turn the Remington Arms & Ammuni-
| ton company from its present output
| of arms.
w. B. Ferguson, production and eff
| fic1ency engineer at the Remington
Arms Co., has announced his resigna-
| ton to take effect about June Is. It
is intimated that he will leave to take
charge of ship construction work for
the United States government. For
merly he was connected in similar
capacity with the Brooklyn navy
yards.
His passing from Bridgeport marks
to a certain extent the elimination OF
the efficiency engineer as a class from
the Remington plant which Is now OPP
Grating on a strictly commercial basis
and where the organization is being
built up on mutual assistance lines be-
tween the workmen rather than the
former system where efficiency lead
ers dictated the motions that were to
be made by workers irrespective OF
their own originality. Clinton e
Woods, noted efficiency engineer was
among the last production engineers
to resign from the company's service
The slogan -Four Thousand a Day
has been adopted in the big plant
Signs in prominent red letters have
Ibeen posted throughout the factory
bearing this legend. The production
is now 1900 rifles and every man II
the shop is inbued with the spirit ot
hustle. It is planned to clean up th'
allied rifle and bayonet contracts ir
jig time.
The Bridgeport plant is making
about 1000 bayonets for rifles pro
duced at the lion, Eddystone ant
Winchester plants.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-04
Near SUICIDES
Mother
MAKES CHARGES
Octave Cont Accused o1
Using Coercion in Pro
curing His Bride.

Another rift appeared today in the
matrimonial lutte of Octave Cont, of
274 Brooks street, who tried to kill
himself last Saturday, because his
bride Of one month had been taken
by his mother-in-law to the home of
the latter. Cont, according to the
police, went to the home Of his moth
er-in-law and disturbed the Sabbath
peace by trying to recover his IA year
old wife
Wearing a bandage about his neck.
which covered about six stitches in
his throat, taken after he has slashed
himself with razor. the sentimental
Cont presented a pathetic spectacle.
He was charged with breach of the
peace and his case continued until to-
morrow morning. From his place in
the dock he pleaded his love for his
wife, but asserted If his mother-in-
law wouldn't allow her to live with
him he would go back home to faith
er.
The mother-in-law now maintains
That she was made to sign her daugh-
ter's marriage license as a, result OF
coerc1ve measures employed by Cont.
Ihe latter she now asserts threatened
her life if she did not acquiesce to his
wishes and the usual charges and
counter charges are being hurled by
each aggrieved side.
Tomorrow morning another chapter
IN the romance, perhaps not the last,
will he concluded when Judge Fred
eric Bartlett disposes of the case.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-04
HoWLAND co. TO
PAY DEPENDENTS
OF FIGHTING men
Employees Who Enter U. S.
Service Will Be Assisted
For Two Years.

The following announcement, post
ed in the Rowland Dry Goods Co. to-
day is self-explanatory. The patriotic
lead Of the company is expected to be
followed by similar moves on the part
Of other mercantile houses and manu-
featuring establishments:
To our men what must register for
military duty
We believe that as you go to reg
lister and offer yourself to your coun-
try, you should know the sentiments
and intentions of this company with
which you are connected.
1t is our intention, for SO long a
period as is feasible, to see that our
men called into active service are
kept upon practicallyythe same financ-
cial level as they now occupy.
To insure this we shall, from the
time man is called and actually en-
ters upon service in the army or navy,
place him in either of two classes.
Glass / will include all married
men. The wives of men in Glass 1
will be paid monthly during the term
of such mems service total sum
equal to the present total monthly pay
of their husbands less the amount
paid to such men by the government
for service in the army or navy.
Class 2 will include all single men
The company will pay to the mother
or next of kin of such men as are in
cluded in Class a monthly amount
equal to one-ha1f the difference be-
tween said mems monthly pay and the
amount paid to such men by the gov
ernment for service in the army OF
navy.
This plan applies to men who vol.
unteer their services as well as those
called to service under the special act
of Congress.
1t is our Intention to continue the
payments outlined above for two
years, or until the close of the war
| but the company reserves the right tt
discontinue them at any time wher
such action may become necessary.
THE ROWLAND DRY GOODS co
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-04
Automobile He
Sent Doesn't Return

Fred Chagnon, of 857 Main street,
member of the Bridgeport Trans
portation firm, reported to the police
today that two men, whose identities
are known to him, and with whom he
has speaking acquaintance, went to
the Blue Ribbon garage, In Fairfield
avenue, Saturday night, at about IL
o'clock and borrowed his auto.
He expected yesterday they would
return but when he called at the
garage, the car was still missing. To-
day he asked the police to locate them
and the auto. The machine bears the
license number 1903 d.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-04
BRITISH CAPTURE
POST NEAR CHERISY

London June 4-The British have
recaptured the advanced post near
Cherisy taken BY the Germans setur-
day night. The following statement
was given out today: ~
'.The post southwest of Cherisy
mentioned in the communique yester-
day, which remained in the enemy's s
hands at the conclusion of the fighting
in that neighborhood, was recaptured
by our troops last night. Hostile
were repulsed during the night south
, west of La Bassee and in the neigh
borhood Of Neuve Chapelle. The
enemy's trenches were entered by us
east of vermeI1es."
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-04
five KILLED IN
Mine EXPLOSION
in CUMBERLAND

Nanaimo, B. c., June 4-Five men
were killed and much damage was
donei to No. 6 mine of the Canadian
Colleries in Cumberland by an ex-
plosion yesterday from an unknown
cause.
The victims were members Of a
survey party mapping out work for
the week. The mine is under the
town of Cumberland. which was Sc
verely rocked by the explosion.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-04
FACTORY LEVELLED
BY BIG EXPLOSION

Paris, June 4-All Paris was awak-
ened about o'clock this morning by
a powerful detonation, followed by
several small ones. A factory in Au-
bervilles, a suburb, had exploded with
such force that nothing was left of
the structure of the factory itself,
while the roofs of nearby buildings
were carried away. Other damage Of
consequence was done in the neigh
borhood but no casualties have so far
been reported.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-04
Hold Demolished Position
Gained From Germans for
18 Hours, Only Retreating
in Face of Counter At
tacks BY Overpowering
Weight of Men.
British Recapture Advanced
Post Near Cherisy Taken
by Germans Saturday
Paris Admits Loss of Ad-
vanced Positions on the
Salient Near Friedmont.
{From q Staff Correspondent of Tire
Associated Press-)

(From q Staff Correspondent of Tire
Associated Press.)
On the French Front, in
France, June 4-The fighting
which waged yesterday about
the electric power station
southwest of Lens was as in
tense as any since the begin
ming Of the battle of Arras, con-
sidering the number of troops
involved. Canadian troops were
in the thick of it, first and last.
They gained the runs of the cleo
trica1 works shortly before o'clock
Sunday morning after a splendid dash
in the moonlight, and it was not until
nearly 8 o'clock Sunday night that
they were finally driven back to their
original positions under the press
ure of German counter attacks in
which an overpowering weight of men
was employed. The works were held
Is hours against the concentrated
German artillery fire.
One difficulty with which the Cana
dams were confronted was the fact
that in preparing the attack on the
works their artillery had reduced the
buildinxN % effectively and had SO
obliterated the trenches dug about
them that Practically all shelters were
eliminated. While the objectives
eventually were lost. the enterprise
was not without compensation, for
112 prisoners were taken and it. and
valuable identifications were obtain
ed. The prisoners reported that at
leAsk three different German reef-
rnents engaged in the first fighting and
the counter attacks.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-04
WILSON'S. NOTE
TO new RUSSIA
is Delivered

Washington, June President
Wilson's communication to the new
Russian government Oil the war aims
Il tho United States has been "elv.
cred in Petrograc ny Ambassado or
Francis, but will not be publishes 4
in this country or in Russia for day
or two while the state department
is clearing up what are officially
characterized as matters of detail -
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-04

ants were arrested and their identity
are withheld pending their arratgn- 4
ment today before a United States
commissioner.
1.-The charge against them at pres
ent," United States Assistant Attor-
neq Knox said, " is OF competing
with the government by carrying mall
in opposition to the government" INF
Knox added that the charge might
be changed to treason.
Two of the men are Sa1d TO be
American born and the third a natur-
allied citizen of Sweden. Examina-
ton of a quantity of mail seized 'by
federal agents showed transmission OF
information by steamer to Mexico and
thence possibly by wireless to eGr-
many.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-04

The police refused to disclose the
identity OF the fourth prisoner, or to
discuss the facts leading to his arrest,
federal commissioner.
The three men already arrested
were said, when the fourth arrest was
made, to be only minor figures in the
conspiracy the government believes it
has uncovered, to transmit important
military information to Germany.
Apparently the government officers
hoped they could uncover an explana-
ton of how Germany knew in advance
of the approach of American destroy
ers to the British coast so that an
Irish port could be mined Statements
of where and when the three defend
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-04
BRUGES RAIDED BY
BRITISH AEROPLANES

London, June Am air raid on
Bruges' is reported In an official state
rnent by the war Office this morning.
The statement says:
isThe commodore at Dunkirk re-
ports that bombing attack was car
ried out on the Bruges wharves and
canals last night with good re-
suits"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-04

No successor will be appointed to
the late examiner of liens, James P.
Kelly, at tonight's meeting of the
common council. The required 10
days notice of the election has not
been given and the matter will be
deferred until the meeting Of June 1S.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-04
ARTILLERY BATTLE
LASTS INTO NIGHT

Berlin, June 4. via London-The ar
fillery battle in the Wytschaete salient
on the Belgian front increased yester-
\day to the most extreme violence and
aontinued into the night, says today's
army report
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-04
TAKE THREE OFFICERS
OF G-oMAN SHIP

New York, June 4-Three officers
from the German prize steamer Farm,
interned at San Juan, P. r., and taken
over by the United States in April,
arrived here today on Porto Rico
steamer as prisoners.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-04
PLANS
FOR REGISTERING
ARMS co. WORKERS

chief J. J. Farmer, of the Reming-
VI fire department, in charge of the
registration of the employees of the
Remington Arms Union Metallic Cart
ridge Co., liable for military service.
has completed elaborate arrangements
{Continued on PAGE 81