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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-28

NAiAH 4
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
Chicago Market

Chicago, Sept 2S.-Alaterial declines
took place in the corn market today.
influenced chiefly by absence Of signs
that there had been any serious damage
irom frost Peace gossip was also "a
bearish factor
Cats in sympathy With Corn.
oats duplicated the action of corn.
Reports OF diminished acreage in Can
ada were ignored.
Provisions Breal, Sharply.
Sharp breaks that were Witnessed jn
the provision market seemed to result
from the weakness of grain. Fresh al.
'ances in the value OF hogs failed 10
check sellers.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-28

The steamship Vaterland Of the Ham.
burg-American line, now in the hands
of the government, is the largest vessel
aAoat The Vaterland measures $50 feet
in length, 100 feet in width, and is OF
$4,000 tons burden.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-28
NOTICE ToBRmGE CONTRACTORS

BE II Resolved: That the Board OF
County Commissioners OF Carter Coun.
ty. Okla, construct according to state
Hishway Department standards. the
following culverts:
All culverts OF more than . SQUARE
feet opening as specified by profiles
OF state Highway Sections @ and w.
The County Clerk will receive scaled
bids TO be opened az o'clock on the
on the Srd day OF oct. 1917.
Dated this 18th day OF Sept. 1917.
G.. W. YOUNG.
Chairman. Board OF Commissioners
Carter County, Oklahoma.
Attest:
CLARENCE HARRIS,
'Seall County Clerk. 2a.St.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-28

10y Childress contractor NJ Heald.
ton, and Art Dale superintendent of
the Carter oil Company have returned
from Tulsa. Mr.. Childress has sold to
the Carter people two strings Of tools
that viii be used for cleaning out pur.
poses. Mr.. Childress had twelve strings
when he began TO dispose Of them to
make ready TO 20 10 Mexico. where he
has a large acreage OF lands that he
viii put undor irrigation. He now has
only three strings and will soon be
ready TO bid farewell to the drilling
business.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-28

Lo, on Eighth avenue, northwest. half
block from car line. one block from
first ward school, lot 54x157. Price
$3.50 Cash or terms. Roy Alexander
owner Phone 169 or 1859. pa
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-28

More than 100000 persons are ill on
any day in the year and Of these jOO,-
600 are suffering from consumption, a
preventabe disease.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-28

John c. Keyes, on the Meyer farm.
in 2l1s1Ow, did not recover the tools
as reported. They have been gotten
hold Of but have not been pulled out
This well is on top OF a prolific gas sand
az 2245 feet.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-28

Have buyer for good OH production.
owners only need apply state your
proposition first letter Address Max a.
Blackburn. ilS HarrIsone Ave. ONaho.
''' CITY 'h.d. ADV.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-28

The Healdton field has 174O produc-
ing wells, ~ wells are drilling at this
time; 3S rigs are up and under construc-
tion; 43 wells We're completed during
September, four Of which were aban-
doned as dry holes, and the net gain OF
producing wells was 80. The daily pro
duction is from 10000 to $1,000 bar
rels. The amount of steel storage oil
in the iield is about l2OOO0OO barrels.
The net reduction of storage oil the
past month has been almost 1000 600
barrels -Four rehnerPs located near
tho fields have Deen completed and six
more are building or have material en-
route These renueries will have daily
capacities all the way from 500 barrels
20 5000 barrels and they do not include
the big refinery with 1900 barrel ca
uacity owned by the Doherty interests
AT Gainesville one new pipe line is
under construction into the field and
the demand for oil is becoming greater.
There could be no better evidence Of
TINS than the fact that one company
mas begun to pay premiums on It's
purchases.
Operations Near \OCOna.
Following four months survey by
Well known biologists Of the country
between Red River and the town OK
Nocona, Texas, several operators have
moved into that heIo The first well
IS drilling on the Oklahoma side of
the river by the south Boundary OH
Company and ON the Texas side the fol.
owing is a detailed report OF the oper-
drious. hendon 81 Anchor on Com.
pguy on the Lee Creushdw farm lour
miles northwest of Belcherviue went in.
to quicksand at 40 feet The big pipe
mas been set ana drilling resumed to
2sOO feet Big Six oil Company. ON
the Dunn farm five miles southwest Of
Nacona, has a tubular steel rig up and
viii Doe drilling 10y October Nocoua
Oh and Gas Company, on the j. T..
Lemons farm nine miles north OF No
coma and three miles south of tine south
boundary well, has @ rig up aud casing
on the ground and win DE drilling by
;he middle of October Beaver Valley
OH Company. on the SeWeu farm twelve
miles northeast Of NOcoua, has a rig up
ANA WA move iu tools next week
-Four In one oil Company on the Mays
farm six miles northwest of Nocona,
mas material on the ground for a rig.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-28

Douglas a Skelton 30 %. in section
2'lslOw in the walters gas field. which
is near the top of the sand has been
delayed by a boiler explosion
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-28
BUSINESS NEWS


FOR SALE.
Three choice lots ON Third avenu,
southwest, 55xi4O feet. north front To
be paved right away. Cash or terms
$3.50 each lot, Roy Alexander. owner
Phone 1853 or 1859. a-.-
WE WASH 10 SUIT.
We, wash. rs cents.
Dry wash, SiOO.
Rough dy g cents per TO-. an aat
pieces iroued and ready for use Let
us laundry your quilts and blankets.
An work guaranteed.
WHITE WAY LAUNDRY.
ga Phone ll3.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-28

Hickman oil Company ON the Hlck.
man farm in 1923, at the last report
was drilling at 2llO in blue shale This
we'll has passed the level OF the sands
found in that section.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-28

Mr. and Mrs 10y Childress. who built
one Of the best homes In the field. Just
south OF Writ, have purchased a de.
sirable lot on the south side OF Head.
ton and have moved their house to its
new location.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-28

Carter OH Company, on the Tucker
farm in section 1928, Is shut down ON
top OF a shell at 1900 feet
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-28

G, r. Stewart, Of the Magnolia Pc.
troleum Company has purchased the
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-28
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

fouNp-onc saddle. southwest of town.
Address lol East Broadway or phone
926. s(.g
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-28

FOR SALE - Hiudling 81 per load
Call lOi5 after o'clock. gS.2
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-28
OIL AND GAS NEWS

DR.. Won Keller home on c Street north.
west, and moved into the property yes.
terday.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-28

X. w. Leach, superintendent OF the
Nocona Oil q Gas Company, is here
today from Nocona Texas.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-05-18
Annual Sermon, Delivered
Before Assembly in Dal-
las, Texas, This Afternoon
Replete With Hope For
Christianity.
tBy Associated Press to The Bannerl

[By Associated Press to The Bannerl
Dallas, Tex, May 17-With "The
Church in Armor" for a subject and
the text chosen from the words Of
Paul in Ephesians GLIB: Wherefore
take unto you the whole armor of
God" Rev. John Abner Marquis, d.
d., moderator of the Presbyterian
general assembly and president of
Coe college, Cedar Rapids, Ia, deliv-
cred the annual sermon before the
assembly this afternoon.
"This is not a pacifist figure of
speech-a Christian armed to the
/ teeth-but there was good deal of
miitancy in Paul, as there is in his
gospel" DR.. Marquis said in begin
ming his sermon. "The weapons of
his warfare we're not carnal, but
they were none the less mighty and
none the less dangerous to foe.
christianity is not religion of
passive resignation; 1t teaches the
passive virtues, but it's emphasis is
on the active, strenuous ones. Our
Lords last messages are electric with
action and bristling with energy The
disciples were to go and preach;
work and battles were before them,
| they were called to the life of a SOL
| der, not of a recluse.
1T is the undoubted mission of
Christianity to bring peace into the
world, as it is to bring salvation and
! righteousness, but it is never taught
or intimated that this peace is to
come by lying inert in the path of
brute force or letting iniquity have
| it's way without protest and combat.
! On the contrary, it will come as the
result of conflict and struggle as hot
and fierce as in the trenches OF
France. 1t is the business of relig-
ion to make the world dangerous
place for evil and evil-doers.
There is an appeal to the church
in the world situation now which
gives peculiar point to the advice in
the text; it is situation the church
has never faced before and can only
be met when we are panoplied with
the whole armor of God"
Dr. Marquis said the church is bet
ter armed now than ever to make
herself of use to the world and be-
sides the whole armor of Cod
which the Ephesians had, has a base
and an equipment such as no other
generation of Christians ever pos
sessed. With capacious church
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-05-18
Maujcians of the Pen.

while w. w. Jacobs confesses that
he often sits, pen In hand, II whole
morning without putting "A solitary
word on paper, Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle has written n sto'y Of 1000
words without once leaving his desk.
Even such IA painstaking writer ns the
late Il. L. Stevenson had his spasms
of lightning work. In one of which he
completed his famous "Jekyll and
Hyde" story within seven days, and
Hall Caine wrote the first and last
lines OF his Life OF Coleridge" in three
weeks. While Sir j. NJ. Barrie counts
600 or 900 words good days work, u
II. @. Wells has often written 10000
words between breakfast ana bed, and
Mrs. L. r. Meade has produced 10000
words In busy day.
The late Andrew Lang, when In the
mood, has more than once writer
5000 words OF book between break
fast and late luncheon, and 1t is sale
that S. Il. Crockett wrote the last hal
OF 1.-THE Stickit Minister in forty
hours London Answers.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-05-18
CHURCH IS STRONGLY BEHIND.
i. 5. government, DECLARES
TAEPRESBYTERIAN MODERATOR

buildings, schools, men and money at
their disposal DR.. Marquis declared
the church in America is not failing
and that never in the history of any
nation has free church put itself
so cordially and so solidly behind its
government as the church in the
United States is doing now.
"She is realizing" said the speak
er, that the time has come when civ
ilization can no longer endure a half
autocracy and half-democratic con
dition. 1t is Freedoms hour. She
must either conquer or go back 500
years!"
After declaring that the world
will never get out of the influence
of brute force, with its blood and
slaughter, until new spirit controls
government as we'll as personal con-
duct, DIR. Marquis touched on labor
troubles and said:
"The same thing is true of indus
trial troubles that menace us almost
every moment. Difficulties between
capital and labor will yield to Chris
tianity If it is applied. The church,
then, has now-when the world is
aghast at its own failures-a fine
opportunity to reveal the full power
of Christ and to apply it.
In closing, DR.. Marquis declared
that momentous changes are coming
and said
eff we are worthy of Christ and the
hour in which he has brought us into
His kingdom, we can make the new
order His order. Our faith is that
this will be done"
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-05-18
BALL PLAYER NOW MAYOR.
Hickman Held American League Rec
ord For Hitting as a First Raseman.

Hickman Held American League Rec
ord For Hitting as a First Baseman.
Charlie Hickman, who holds the
American league record for hitting as
a first bascman and who for four years
held nn average OF higher than 300
with the swat stick and who In addi-
tion played at not less than seven diff
ferent positions while IA big Lacquer
and with seven different big league
clubs, was elected recently to the some
what distinguished position of mayor
OF Morgnntown, one of West Virginia s
most thriving cities, which boasts II
population OF between 1900 and 20
900 ana which Is the seat of West Vir-
glnia university.
Hickman started out playing baseball
there in 1896, went from Morgantown
TO Newcastle, Pa, In the old Interstate,
then for three years with the Boston
Nationals, two years with the New
York Giants, now as third baseman,
then to the newly organized Boston
American league team, then three
years nt Cleveland, where he played at
first base; then year at Detroit in
the outfield, two and half years with
the Washington American league team
half year with the Chicago White
Sox, back to Cleveland for a year, and
then three years with the Toledo
American association team, after which
he said goodby to the diamond game az
player forever.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-05-18
oquint ana lunoroulosls.

Squint is n sign of prcdispOsition Ia
tuberculosis, according to Dr, w. G..
Rivers, who writes to the Lancet an
nonncing II aud adding that the only
previous observation Of the kind In by
Homer, whose picture of Thersites,
croAs eyed he was, and hating moved on
legs
Ill paired; his gibbous shoulders o'sr hts
breast
Contracted, pinched II, '''
was. according TO DR.. Rivers, drawn
from a tuberculosis cripple OF soured
disposition"
Uiseredit,ng an AstroIoser.
A certain king, says n tale from the
Persian. asked an ustrol0ger, How
many years Of life remain to mey" The
wise man replied, Ten" The king
became very despondent and betook
himself, as one stricken with n sick
ness. 20 his bed. His yiZier. who pos.
scssed great wisdom. sent for the seer
and in the kings presence asked him,
"Iiow many years have You TO liver
lie replied. Twenty" The vizier OI
dered that he should that very hour be
executed I'm the kings presence. The
king was satisfied aud commended the
Sagacity OF his minister and no longer
attached any importance TO the astrol.
Oger's saying.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-05-18

Young Hickman, the Brooklyn's ex-
ira outflelder, Is said to be the fastest
runner in the big leagues, He is rather
short and thick set, but he can fly over
the ground when he gets under full
headway IIlckman's great speed en-.
abled him To get under II torrld drive
from George Burns bat in the four
teenth inning OF recent game, He
caught the bnll on the left field foul
line few feet in front OF the wooden
barrier and ended the game. Hickman
also sprinted so swiftly after Burns
tremendous drive In the twelfth that
he probably prevented home rum
which would have decided the battle
then and there.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-05-18
THE DEADLlEST POISON.
0urare, Whose Secret Is Known Only
70 the Abors of India.


The cranks who not so long ago
censpired to murder Premier Lloyd
George were going to employ curare,
the kind made by the Abor tribesmen
ef India, which is the deadliest poison
known to man.
1t is believed in London, where GU
rare has been extensively studied, that
its chief ingredients are snake venom
and certain Installations from decayed
corpses 1t IL even asserted that the
Abor tribesmen test the strength Of
curare by injecting little into Wig
orous tree. II all the leaves Of the
trees do not fall Off within twenty-four
hours the poison Ia considered ineffi,
cacious.
The Abors use curare In simple
primitive way. They dip their arrow
tips In the fresh poison. The slightest
scratch from one such arrow tip means
certain and immediate death
The English conspirators, 1t will be
remembered, planned to attack Lloyd
George I'm the Abor way, shooting Gu
air gun.
The last case on record OF curare
murder occurred In Vienna, where a
young doctor recently was sentenced
to life imprisonment for supplying a
young married woman with curare.
She touched the poison TO n scratch on
her aged husbands arm, and he died
in great agony.
Chickens are the only living crea-
lures immune to the deadly effects of
curare.-Detroit Free Press.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-05-18
BACK IN 'S7 They
KILLED The BALL
Records Show Fifteen Players
Batted Over 400.
cobb LAST To TURN TRICK

All Told, There Have Been Thirty. one
Diamond Artists Who Havo Hit For
400 or Better Since Big Show Was
orssnized-seven Have Been Re-
peaters.
What do you know about a baseball
season that produced fifteen pastimers
with batting average of 400 or bet
terr You guessed right. 1t happened
in the olden days Of big league pas
timing In the days Of which grand
father likes to tell how they picked
the pill.
Thirty years ago the National league
and the American association held the
spotlight in baseball, as do the Ma
tional and American leagues today. 1t
was then-in 1887, to be exact-that
the hardest hitting on record came to
pass In that year the American asso-
citation records showed eleven players
with batting average Of 400 or bet
ter. The players were O'Neil, Caruth-
ers and Robinson of St. Louis, Brown
ing and Mack OF Louisville, Lyons and
Stovey OF the Athletics, Bedford and
Orr OF the Metropolitans, Burns Of Bal
timore and Burch of Brooklyn.
The same season the National league
the 400 set, the players being Anson
Of Chicago, Ferguson OF Philadelphia
and Brouthers and Thompson OF De-
troit
Only once since the memorable sea-
son OF 1887 have there been more than
two 400 wallopers in one year. In
1894 Duffy of Boston, Thompson OF
Detroit and Delehanty and Turner Of
Philadelphia slugged their way into
the champion circle. Since 1912, the
last time Ty Cobb turned the trick, no
big time leader has hit for 400.
1t would seem that the National
league gave up the business of develop
ing 400 swatters when the American
league came into existence. The parent
organization hasn't owned 400 hitter
since 1890, when Ed Delehanty and
Jesse Burkett hit for the high mark.
Three American eaguers-Lajoie, Cobb
and Jackson-have turned In season )
batting card with an average OF 400 or
better
All told there have been thirty-one
pastimers who have hit for the 400 or
better since the big show was organ
iZed. Seven have been repeaters,
among them Ross Barnes and Jesse
Burkett, who stayed in the 400 set
three seasons, and Ty Cobb and Ed
Delehanty, Sam Thompson, Pop Anson
and Harry Stovey, with records of two
seasons.
Ty cobb Is the only present day
player who stacks up with the old time
sluggers. Ty may not be so wicked
with the bludgeon, but even GRANDPA
ther will have to admit that his bat
ting average year to year compares ia
vorably with that of the old boys.
Today 400 clouter is indeed rare
bird. Perhaps some pastimer of the
future will hit his way to fame, but In
all probability when Tyrus passes out
of the big yard he will take back to
Georgia the last OF the major leagues
| 400 batting marks.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-05-18
NOTICE TO
CONTRACTORS
Whole and separate bids will be receiv
ID up to l. o'clock tnoon) of
SATURDAY., June 16, 1917

by the Board of Education for the Bla-
denSburg Village School, District of Bla-
densburg, Knox county, Ohio: also known
as the Bladensburg Special School Dis
triCt, for the construction of a Semi-fire-
proof brick school building i'm accordance
with plans and specifications prepared by
Mason Bros, Architects. Peoples Bldg,
Delaware, Ohio.
Plans and specifications may be OBJ
tanned at the offices of the architect on
any working day up to the day and date
of opening bids or from the Clerk $. Il.
Harris Bladensburg, Ohio.
All bids shall be put in accordance with
the requirements of the Ohio school laws,
and blank proposal forms therefor may
be obtained from the architects from
the Clerk of the Board proposals shall
he enclosed in sealed envelope marked
Proposal for School Building and ad-
dressed to s Il. Harris. Clerk, Bladens-
burg. Ohio and shall be accompanied by
a certified check or bond in an amount
equal to 3 per cent of the total of said
proposal "A guarantee of good faith in
making same: said check or bond to he
made payable to s. II. Harris, Clerk, Bla-
denSburg Special School District.
Bids will be publicly opened and read
at the Grange hall in the Village of Bla-
densburg Ohio, at one O'Clock. p m, on
dav and date above given, viz, June 16.
1917.
The board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
Il. " HALL, President.
S. f. Harris, Clerk.
5-1S,25;6-1,SS
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-05-18
Hornpipes.

Hornpipe takes its name from wind
instrument on which are produced
tuneful strains as an accompaniment
for this country dance, which origi-
mated in England. Sailors hornpipe
is better known to Americans.
He-And did you suffer much when
You had appendicitisf
She-Suffer? l thought should new
er live to tell the tale
He-Ah, that must have been suffer-
ing indeed.--Philadelphi Record.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-05-18
THE WAY TO SUCCESS.

Il is the man who carefully
pegs his way up step by step,
with his mind becoming wider
and wider and progressively bet
ter able to grasp any situation,
perseverine in what he knows to
be practical and concentrating
his thought upon il, who is bound
to succeed in the greatest degree.
Alexander Graham Bell.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-05-18

German silver was not invented IN
Germany and does not contain any
one particle of real silver. 1t is really
an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc.
The word german is really corrup-
ton of the original word "germane,
which means related to- Therefore
1t is "germane silver" meaning IRE
lated to" silver. So with german
measles"
More than $4,000 students are taking
courses in agriculture In the colleges of
the United States.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-05-18
Enlistina a Golfers Aid.

al hung few rugs on the line yes
terday"
"Welif"
and told him 10 go out In the yard
and practice few golf swings on
them. Detroit Free Press.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-05-18

"Where are you going, Sandyf" said
one Scotchman to another,
''Doon TO the club" said Sandy.
"And wha' foorf"
"Just 10 contrndeect wee bit"
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-05-18

Paper was made from rags IN Nrao'l
more than ten centuries ago, the t't
being brought to Europe IA the i.."
teenth century.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-05-18
Wanted, For Sale, &c

WANTED-A competent woman
for general housework. Citizens 1877
Mrs. e. o. Arnold. 14d18S
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YOURS ELF.

The fate of the country does
not depend on what kind of pa
per you drop into the ballot box
once a year, but IL does depend
on what kind of man you drop
from your chamber into the
street every morning. - Henry
David Thorsau.