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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-24
CHURCH
 HONORS LADS IN BLUE AND KHAKI
All Are Given Testaments, Including Red Cross
 Workers

Young men in kahki and sailor uniforms and women of the Red Cross, now in the nations service, attended a patriotic meeting in their honor in the Peoples Presbyterian church on Laurel avenue, Sunday morning when copies of the New Tes- lament and Psalms, bound in kahki, were given them. The church was also presented with a large Ameri- can flag by the Sunday school.
 The Rev. Henry A. Davenport, pas tor of the church, preached from the text, The People That Know Their God Shall Do Exploits.' He com pared the standing of the United States in science, industry. education and civilization with the past, and dwelt on the meaning of the war.
 These are the. profoundest mo- ments of the nations life, when the country's blood is hot and the crisis is on," he said. This is the hour of conservation, the time sof plain living and high thinking. In crisis like the present it is treason for a man to express freely his own per- sonal opinions against the coun- try
 MT. Davenport thought the nation should deal harshly with manufac- turers that charge the government ex- tortionate prices for their work, and that men should be put in prison who squeeze poor people," by raising the prices of food commodities. "All labor should be consecrated to the country's end."
 The speaker said that the American people were undergoing a personal crisis. It is not simply the nation that is being tested. You and I are being put to the fire, and it remains to be seen whether we shall come through. It takes men to fight, to be patriotic; buns can't fight. Pro- gress in civilization is made by sacri- flee of our best"
 God is guiding the nation in the determination to help make democ- racy safe among peoples of the world
 he said he believed, and expressed his
 conviction that an adequate means
 would soon be found for successfully
 coping with the submarine menace. The American flag. unfurled at the service was a gift from Miss Keough's Sunday school class, and was pre- sented with patriotic remarks by the SuperlnIenueHt, WdilST D. I1diAil16 ton. It was hoated to the breeze b1 two young women of the school amid the singing of My Country, 'Tis O. Thee" by the congregation.
 Sundays sermon was MT. Daven | ports last before his vacation, ant he announced the name of these clergymen who are to preach in hi absence: July 29, the Rev. Edward Dawson of Passaic, N. J.; August 5 the Rev. A J. Chamberlain of strat ford; August 12, the Rev. A. V. s Wallace of Hartford, N. Y.; Angus 19. the Rev. s. S. Hayt of Watertown N. Y; August 26, the Rev. M. D l Kneeland,. D. D., of Boston. Mass. ant September 2, the Rev. c. W. Simp l son of this city.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-24
PLAZA

To be entertained without exertion was our wish for last evening and we had it gratified at the Plaza where we went to see the new screen star Olive Thomas in "Madcap Madge'. We're for Olive every time when It comes to picking screen favorites ana we were happily disappointed last night to discover that the new find" of the picture men was talented and winsome young creature. we have learned since that she was ssfound,'' starring in the Midnight Froiic'' where the bright lights burn and immediately placed under con tract to show those wonderful teeth and dancing eyes to the movie loving public. 'Madcap Madge." her first starring vehicle on the screen is positive work of art. It is amusing exhilarating, clean, and, in many in- stances, intensely dramatic.
 The programme included several other features of merit, among them an o. Henry story which everybody appreciates for it's quaint humor; .sThe BertyaI of Maggie" Keystone two act comedy and another Triangle comedy.
 The press agent had been laying so much stress upon the musical pro- eramme in his advance notices that we made it our businessr to pay at tention to that end. We were really surprised. It was, splendid and we smiled as we watched the expressions of changing emotion on the faces of those around us as the music was cued or fitted to the ever changing action of the pictures.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-24
PORT JEFFERSON
 MATINEE TRIPS
 POPULAR SPORT

Those who have only a moderate amount of time at their disposal or take their vacation on the day at time plan,'' it is a foregone conclusi on, so those who have tried it say, that the trip across the Sound on the steamer Park City, .on any week day or Sunday afternoon, is full of satis- faction The sail is most enjoyable and just long enough.
 The steamer leaves the wharf at the foot of Fairfield avenue at 80 D. m It takes just one hour and 30 minutes to cross the Sound each way. The time allowed at Port Jefferson is am pie to view this old ship-building town The return is made leaving Port Jefferson at 4:3O T m
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-24
 STEEL & RUBBER
 TIRES IN VOGUE
U. s. Tire Company at Work [ On Demountable Solid
 Tires

Many automobile and tire industries are volunteering their services to the government and are arranging to manufacture motor trucks and acces- sories according to government stand ards. James Newton Gum, president of the United States Tire Co.,, an- nounces that one of the many gov ernment services being erformed by the company is the manufacture of the standardization of the Demountable standardized steel fastenings.
 :. Standard specifications for 1 1-2 ton and ton gasoline motor trucks have been issued by the Quarter masters Department says Mr. Gum, designating :. among other items the standardization of the steel fastenings for Demountable Motor Truck Tires, These standards were prepared by the Motor Transport Board of the War Department in a {. cordance with the recommendations ol the Truck Standards Division of the Society of Automotive Engineers.
 Advantages of standardization in connection with the Motor Transport Department were quickly recognized by the United States Tire Go. All though. extensive alterations in factory equipment were necessary to meet the requirements. the United States Tire Co. promptly arranged to manu- facture this tire in it's factories.
 ''In it's report the Society of Au- tomotfve Engineers states that the standardized steel fastenings.
 Solid Truck tire equipment for mi1i- tary trucks is probably another mile stone in the work of that society. and while this standard is limited for the present to purely military vehicles the system is so rational that it is probable that the same practice will spread into commercial applications as we'll"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-24
Ocean Steamship Rates
 Will Be Decided by England and America

Washington, July 23-Regulation of ocean steamship rates between the United States and Allied nations has been agreed on in principle by the American and British governments.
 France and Italy have signified their willingness to accept the princi- pie. Negotiations probably will be opened with Japan on the arrival here of the Japanese mission headed by Vice-Admiral Takeshita.
 Negotiations are now proceeding between Chairman Denman of the shipping board and Counsellor Polk of the state department, designated by President Wilson to represent the government, and British admiralty of ficials, to devise a program to make the .regulation effective and bring down present prohibitive rates.
 President Wilson's deep interest in tine negotiations was reflected in his appeal on July II to the business in- terests of the country to give their gid freely and unselfishly toward win ming the war In his statement the president said:
 Let me turn for a moment to the ship owners of the United States and other ocean carriers whose example they have followed and ask them if they realize what obstacles, what al- most insuperable obstacles they have been putting in the way of successful prosecution of the war by the ocean freight rates they are now exacting.
 .They are doing everything that high freight charges can dd to make the war failure. to rnakenit ifnpossi- ble. I do not say tfiAte they realize this, or intend 1t. x1 The fact is that those who have fixed war freight rates have taken the most effective means in their power to1 defeat the armies engaged against Germany. When they realize this we may, take 1t for granteds count on them to re- consider the whole matter. 1t is high time. Their extra hazards afe cover ed by war risk insurance" sFa
 While details to bring down soaring rates, which in many Instances have reached almost prohibfdve heights, are yet to be announced, 1t is under stood that the present negotiations contemplate reduction of rates in many instances and the inclusion ulti- EA&tely of all vessels flying Allies flags in any quarter of the globe
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-24

Sometimes they are exposed to the fire of the enemy without protection or weapons.
 Many former ambulance drivers are joining the French army. Preston Lockwood, 8 Chicago newspaper man, was an ambulance driver for yer until he learned French. Ihen ne entered the French artillery school' and he soon will be ready for the front. He says he knows 20 other voung Americans who gre doing the same thing.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-24
DR. HAISELDEN LETS
 ANOTHER BABY DIE

Chicago, July 24-Dr. Harry J. Haiselden, whose action in allowing the Bo1linger baby to die on the ex- cuse that it was defective aroused nationwide outcry last year, has per naitted another infant under h1s charge to succumb.
 He announced that the child was foredoomed to 'idiocy and refused to do anything to save it.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-24

The really anxious men will not be those who are called by the first draft but those who are afraid they will be taken the next time.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-24

The vacation travellers kick 1T the train is delayed so that baggage can be, carefully handled, and they kick if the baggage is banged around so the train can go on time.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-24
SOCIAL AND PERsoNA1

Miss May E. C. rfcponald of the Southern New Engfand Telephone Co.,. is spending her Vacation with relatives at Niagara Falls and Buffalo. NY sstD afs9
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-24

Cheer -up, for it will De hotter still . little later. T
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-24

FLORAL BOUQUETS
 AND DESIGNS. JOHN RICK & SON.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-05-06

TO CONTRACTORS Sealel
bids will be- received at the office OF
G. +. Enloe. director OF Board of
Education OF Consolidated School
District No "a, Fillmore. Johnston
county Oklahoma, until eleven
o'clock a. m, Monday, May IA. 1917,
for the erection and completion OF
additions to the present two.stor',
concrete school building, OF the
aboyenamed district as per plans
specifications and details prepared
for same by j. b. White, Architect,
Ardmore Oklahoma.
Each hid shall be accompanie !
with a certified check in the sum of
100000, same TO be made payable
to c. +. Enloe, director OF SAID
Board OF Education, and to be for.
feited as liQuidated damages. should
the successful bidder fail TO make
good and satisfactory bond as called
for in specifications and required by
law.
Plans, specifications and details
can be had at the office OF ]. b
White, Architect, Ardmop Okla.
homa, or at the Office OF G. +. Enloe
Fillmore, Oklahoma.
Board Of education reserves the
right to reject any or all bids.
c. +, ENLOE Director.
=. c. CHANEY. Clerk.
RALPH CLARK Member
ar,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-05-06
MADE EVENLY DARK,
LONG, LUSTROUS
La Creole Hair Dressing

win bring back to all your gray or
faded hair its youthful, original dark
color and leave your hair fluffy, clean.
full of life and mstcr La Creole is not
dye. but rcyiycs the color glands
Absolutely harmless and impossible to
detect; without odor or sickness.
Hair can be washed or curled without
affecting the restored color Sold by
druggists everywhere or sent prepaid
for 81 by Van Vleet Drug Co., Mem.
phis, Tenn. Guaranteed to darken all
your gray hair so evenly that not even
a trace of gray shows Stops dandruff
and falling hair and promotes its
growth. Give La Creole trial. Has
been used for past 30 years by ladies
and gentlemen to restore all their gray
hair to original dark color, luster
freshness and fluffiness-Advertise.
ment.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-05-06

FOUND Bunch OF keys on string.
Owner call at Ardmoreite office 43
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-05-06

FOR SALE have bought 100 fee
frontage on West Main Street, south
front, good neighborhood, convenient
place to live and some day will be
business property, will sell half at
reasonable price j. G. Hester at
Coopers Garage.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-05-06

FOR SALE Choice lot, very dcsirably
located southwest is offered at a
bargain Also three modern G-room
bungalows. one is now ready t,
move into r.. G.. McKiddy l2lia W
Main st. Phone 30. 6.3
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-05-06

WHY PAY RENT WHEN YOU CAN
own your own home? For sale. G.
room house, one block from pave
ment, 100000.
Six.room house, $l,600.0O; one s.
room new bungalow, Sl,S0000.
have some nice vacant lots for sale
II you have anything for sale, list II
with me. am in the market for
some nice vacant lots or close In
property. If you have a loan com
ing due, will renew same for you
J. f. McCarty phone 1861 l6.1m
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-05-06

FOR SALE-A modern broom house
7O2 Broadway, n. +. If you wan
an ideal home, don't overlook this
See Bob Hutchins, Adams Bros.
Simpson Realty Co, Guillot & Hall
or phone 977. VIII take a car in eX
change and give terms to suit
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-05-06
EMPLOYMENT WANTED

EMPLOYMENT WANTED by a good.
experienced family, ready to work.
Want position on farm. Address 92i
Caddo St, Ardmore, Okla.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-05-06
PERSONAL

OHIO WIDOW, worth $4,000, would
marry. Mrs S, Messenger, Box 5S4,
Los Angeles, Cal 25.S4
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-05-06

FOR SALE-Fiye houses in northwes;
Ardmore Three j.room houses; one
Groom; one Groom All thoroughly
modern. Cash or easy terms. j. f.
Kee 922 Woverton ST., y. w. fl
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-05-06

FOR SALE-You can buy a "Poulter
home in southwest Ardmore. new,
modern, Groom bungalow, cash or
monthly payments. Phone Poulter
& Sons. 1ot
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-05-06
LIVESTOCK
One 90 per word each insertion.

TEN HIGH.GRADE HOLSTEIN
CALVES, one well marked bull, four
weeks old Twenty-one dollars crat.
ed Order at once Burr Oak Farms,
Whitewater Wisconsin, Box 4.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-05-06

FOR SALE New Sr0om. 2-story mod.
ern house best neighborhood, south.
west $4,000. Only $1,000 cash, b1l-
ancc like rent Address g. care
ArdmOrelte. 33
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-05-06

FEMALE HELP WANTED

FIVE Bright capable ladies to travel
demonstrate and sell dealers. $500
to $4,000 per week Railroad fare
paid. Goodrich Drug Co.. Dept. 6S1,
Omaha, Neb. l-S5
LADIES to help us i'm the sale of silk
hoisery With a little effort on your
part you can keep yourself in fine
silk hosiery New plan Write for
particulars National silk Hosiery
Company iS7 East Main st, Colum.
bus. Ohio 29.s4
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-05-06
REAL ESTATE

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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-05-06
LOST AND FOUND

LOST Headlight off Chalmers car.
Reward for return to mayors office.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10

Above, Harvard
decks itself in
khaki and turns
out its regiment
to be reviewed
in the stadium
byGen. Clarence
r. Edwards, of
the Department
of the Northeast.
Photo q international
rum ScrutCc
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10

The Spring
festival at
Mount Hol-
okeCollege.
The view
above shows
the audience
gathered at
PageantField
to watch the
folk dancing.
Photo
7. {. HdiCkcs
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-26

the French; and then, when they had
worked down, and had that long talk
ing time at the bottom Of the set, he
said boldly, little pale, she said, as
she told me the story, years after:
"And what do you hear from home,
Mrs. Graff?"
And that splendid creature looked
through him. Jove! how she must
have looked through him! "Home!l
Mr.. Nolan!!l I thought you were the
man who never wanted to hear Of
home again!" and she walked directly
up the deck to her husband. and left
poor Nolan alone, as he always was.
He did not dance again.
cannot give any history Of him in
order; nobody can now; and, indeed,
l am not trying to. These are the ira
ditions, which I sort out, as l believe
them, from the myths which have been
told about this man for forty years.
The fellows used to say he was the
''Iron Mask" and poor George Pons
went to his grave in the belief that
this was the author Of "Junius," who
was being punished for his celebrated
libel on Thomas Jefferson. Pons was
not very strong In the historical line.
A happier story than either Of these
have told Is Of the war. That came
along soon after. 1 have heard this
affair told in three or four ways, and,
indeed. it may have happened more
than once. But which ship it was on
I cannot tell. However, in one, at
least, Of the great frigate duels with
the English, in which the navy was
really baptized, it happened that a
round shot from the enemy entered
one of our ports square, and took right
down the officer Of the gun himself
and almost every man Of the guns
crew. Now you may say what you
choose about courage, but that is not
a nice thing to see. But as the men
who were not killed picked themselves
up, and the surgeons people were car
rying OF the bodies, there appeared
Nolan, in his shirt sleeves, with the
rammer in his hand, and, just as If he
had been the officer, told them off with
authority, who should go to the cock
pit with the wounded men, who should
stay with him, perfectly CHEEKY. and
with that way which makes men feel
sure all is right and is going to be
right And he finished loading the
gun with his own hands, aimed it, and
bade the men fire. And there he
stayed, captain Of that gun, keeping
those fellows in spirits, till the enemy
struck, sitting on the carriage while
the gun was cooling, though he. was
exposed all the time, showing them
easier ways to handle heavy shot, max.
ing the raw hands laugh at their own
blunders, and when the gun cooled
again, getting it loaded and fired twice
as often as any other gun on the ship
The captain walked forward, by way
Of encouraging the men, and Nolan
touched his hat and said:
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-26
A Babylonian Epic.

In the midst of it all, man in Phila-
delphia, a professor, is calmly trans
lating q Babylonian epic. He has be-
fore him certain tablets which were
buried In MesePetamian ground thou
sands of years ago, upon which, in the
time of Abraham, certain queer cone
shaped characters were inscribed. Not
many years ago the key to these char
acters was discovered, in the form OF
an inscription in two languages. one
of which was known, and the meaning
of the queer characters slowly
emerged The Philadelphia professor
has discovered that the tablets bear
an epic poem. He is translating the
epic and finds it to be the story Of the
way in which half-barbarous chief
tain, named Enkidu, was redeemed
from a career of tyranny and violence
by the love of woman. And day after
day, while the papers are full Of woes
and wickedness, and the drums of war
beat on the streets, Indifferent to all
the uproar this patient man goes on
translating into good English the poem
of Enkidu and his love.
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-26

dances" were, and started OF with
"virginia Reel" which they followed
with ''Money-Musk," which, in its turn
in those days, should have been fol-
lowed by 1.-THE Old Thirteen" But
just as Dick, the leader. tapped for his
fiddlers to begin, and bent forward,
about to say, in true negro state, "The
Old Thirteen gentlemen and ladies |"
as he had said, "'Virginny Reel If you
pleasew "'Money-Musk, If you
please!" the captains boy tapped him
on the shoulder, whispered to him, and
he did not announce the name Of the
dance; he merely bowed, began on
the air. and they all fell to, the off,
GERS teaching the English girls the
figure, but not telling them why It
had NO name.
But that is not the story I started
to tell. AS the dancing went on, No
Ian and our fellows all got at ease, as
I said, so much so that it seemed quite
natural for him to bow to that splendid
Mrs. Graf, and say:
81 hope you have not forgotten me,
Miss Rutledge. Shall have the hon
or of dancing?"
He did 1t SO quickly that Shubrick.
who was by him, could not hinder
him. She laughed and said:
II am not Miss Rutledge any longer.
Mr.. Nolan; but I will dance all the
same" just nodded to Shubrick, as II
to say he must leave Mr.. Nolan to her,
and led him off to the place where the
dance was forming.
Nolan thought he had got his chance.
He had known her at Philadelphia,
and at other places had met her, and
this was a godsend. You could not
talk in contredances, as you do In
cotillions, or even In the pauses Of
waltzing; but there were chances for
tongues and sounds, as well as for
eyes and bushes. He began with her
travels, and Europe, and Vesuvius, and
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-26

discussion in the reichstag on the pro-
posal to limit the kaiser's powers and
proceeds:
'This interesting letter went on to
state that the abdication Of the Ger
man emperor was mentioned at HON.
burg at a recent meeting of the sover
eigns of Germany and Austria and that
in government circles and in public
reconstruction of an elective federal
empire is openly discussed as an alter
native to a German republic, which for
many reasons appears more difficult Of
realization"
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-26
Turned a Little Pale but Plunged On.

of man-of-war ball that was not. For
ladies they had the family Of the
American consul, one or two travellers
who had adventured so far, and nice
bevy of English girls and matrons, per-
haps Lady Hamilton herself.
Well, different officers relieved each
other in standing and talking with No
Ian in a friendly way, so as to be sure
that nobody else spoke to him. The
dancing went on with spirit, and after
a while even the fellows who took this
honorary guard Of Nolan ceased to fear
any contretemps. Only when some
English lady-Lady Hamilton, as I
said, perhaps. called for set of
american dancers" an odd thing hap
pened. Everybody then danced con-
tredances. The black band, nothing
loath, conferred Us to what American
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-26
Which Was Which?

Jimmy's mother had told him to stay
near the window and watch for the
bride and groom and come and tell
her when he saw them coming. After
waiting for some time his patience
was rewarded, but he forgot to run
and tell his mother. When they were
quite near he suddenly remembered
and called out Justify: Mamma, here
comes the bribe and the gloom
Christian Herald.