Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-16
City NelCs in Brief

HUGH KING. jr. has returned from a
trip to New York.
W. L. DIcKrr i. n New York on sew.
eF"l days business trip.
DIR II. D. IRvAN and DR.. W G. Lennon
left last night for Joplin, Mo
FOR DIsREGARDiNG scarlet fever
quarantine at his home at Fifth and Grant
i Alex Hemple was fined IS in the municipal
court Friday by Judge Duncan.
J. L, PARKER Of Bixby has enrolled in an
automobile training school in Kansas
mobile mechanics.
FITz EsPAGo,. charged with introducing
liquor was held for the federal grand jury
by the United States commissioner yesterday
He made bond OF $1,000.
| JUDGE NJ. A. BRECKINRIDGE OF the su.
perior court granted divorces yesterday TO
Mamie spooner from W. H. Spooner and 10
Nora Collier from l.. T Collier
EARLY discovery OF a blaze in the Reed,
Carriage works At 10 East Archer prevented
I a, possible destructive fire last night Ths
blaze, starting near the. furnace doors, was
quickly put out by tn, firemen.
WILLIAM CURTIS SLAUGHTER, banker
and real estate man of Milburn, OKLA spent
Friday in Tulsa ,,, visiting at the sSmc Of Nj
driving thru in his car from Miami TO Mil
burn
| WILL FOWLER, arrested on a gambling
charge few nights ago in the -Erankll'.
rooms across from the city jail was fined
! $40 for vagrancy in the municipal court Fri.
day. On the previous day he was fined for
gambling.
THE ANNUAL short course of the extea.
sion department OF the state A. 4 NJ college
will be held December 27 to January 3, Miss
| Jessie Shannon, county. home demonstration
agent said yesterday. Miss Shannon will at.
/ tend.
! THE COUNTY exemption board was mott.
fled yesterday TO send four OF the remsid-
ing men accepted for national army service
on December 10; The four are George A;
and Hugh NJ. Lonsey..
MARRIAGE licenses were issued ,yester'
day to Charles Charles Esick % and Edith Hewnra
Bixby and C. W. Kerr, Farmersville Texas,
and Eva Laurence Snyder, Tulsa.
federal court yesterday awarded George II
Wsring Of New York s3,445.G0 in his suit
tow. The suit arose from transactions be-
tween the two. Waring is a cotton broker.
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WILLIAM ToBIN returned yesterday from
visit with relatives and friends in Kansas
City and st. Joseph Mo Mr.. Tobin de-
| clared that while en- route TO Tulsa he saw
| several detachments OF German prisoners OF
war under heavy guard being transported 10
internment camps.
ANNOUNCEMENT was made by Secretary
Rayson OF the Retail Merchants association
yesterday that Christmas day would be OBJ.
served by the stores OF Tulsa as usual, all
dry goods. shoe, ready-to-wear and furnitur.
shops remaining closed all day and clothing
that grocery stores and jewelers. will close
at noon.
IN A STATEMENT issued Yesterday by the
Retail Merchants association the purchasing
public is again asked to assist the merchants
OF that organization and their assistants in
handling the rush Of Christmas shopping by
! planning their shopping early The public
is asked TO do all possible shopping in the
morning.
LIEUT.. FRANK A. BALCERKIERWIZ left
yesterday for Camp Pike, Ark, where he has
leave of absence with friends in Tulsa. Lieut.
enant Balcerkiewiz, who formerly stu
dent of Henry Kendall college, where he was
star of the 1914 football team, attended Okla
homa university before entering Camp Stal.
ley, Leon Springs, Texas where he was com.
missioned last month
MAYOR J. II. SIMMONS, chairman of III,
local exemption board, yesterday received
from Secretary II. II. Rogers OF the district
| exemption board the names OF nine men,
whose claims for exemption had been denied
by the local board but In which cases the
district board saw fit TO overrule the lower
board and grant the exemptions. Those ex'
/ empted were Neal Sutherland +. W. shoupc,
b. F. Mcnamara, John Brown and j. c.
Hutchins