The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-16

4. "A. montgomery, OF T1shomingO,
was in the city today on business.
j. F. Reynolds, of Weeetka. was a
Sunday visitor.
Judge Alexander Gulett, of Tishc.
mingo' was transacting business here
today.
Carl Russell, county demonstration
agent, is spending week with his par.
ents at Warner, Okla.
| ID. j. Kendall of Sulphur, is in the
city today visiting with his son, Horace
Kendall.
w. S. Gilbert, secretary Of the Cham
ber Of Commerce, is i'll at his home on
Bixby avenue S. w.
c. w Thomas, of Niblack district,
was in the city today and reports good
showers last night that enlivened mat.
ters in that vicinity.
Robert Simpson OF Lone Grove, was
transacting business in the city today.
he reports that the rain OF last night
will be OF great benefit to farmers IN
that locality.
Farmers who were in the city today
report that the rainfall of last night
was Of incalculabe value to this sec.
0 "a A.
rally damaged, but the rain of last
night will revive 1t.
The large brick garage under con.
struction for S. A. Apple at the corner
Of b street and Second avenue. S. w,
is rapidly bearing completion and will
soon be occupied. The building has
been so planned that it can in the tu-
ture be converted into an extensive
office building or business house.
The crash of shattered glass on north
Washington street this morning alarm.
ed many people. A large transom in
the store of Kennerly, spragins Lew.
is was responsible for the scare. The
catch holding the transom became loos.
ened with the result that II swung TO
with great force.
G.. w. Young, county commissioner,
has promised the people in the Mary
Niblack section Of his district that a
good road will be built at once in order
that the crops Of that section may be
marketed in this instead of elsewhere.
The commissioner proposes to build a
hard surface road, work on which be-
gin next month.
VIII Whitson, county commissioner
was in the city today experimenting
the assembling OF road scrapers and
drags that will be put in use on the
roads Of the county Immediately. Roads
will, after their permanent construction,
be dragged by farmers living along the
highways
Peaches in this section are going to
be disappointment, according TO state
ments Of growers who were confident
earlier in the season that a record.
breaking crop would be grown. Tho
orchards about Provence seem 10 be
bearing the best quality and the owners
will have no difficulty in disposing NJ
their crop.
On Friday the temperature at the
Ardmore weather observatory register
ed 1O7 degrees with a minimum OF 70
Alva, in the broom corn belt, reported
ia. and Mangum reported lO9. The low
est registered IN the state was 9S at
Okemah Yesterday the maximum reF
istered here was lO1 with a minimum
Of Ga, drop OF 81 degrees. The rain.
fall was 20 Of an inch.
Five army recruits were forwarded
from the Ardmore station yesterday.
Their names are. William Woods and
Levi n. Creasey, both Of Writ; Benia
min X. Cowling, Marysville; Cleland Ly.
lee. Fox; and William Hesse. Tulsa.
Corporal William a. Bradley, Of the
army station, will go to Durant tomor.
row TO work the remainder OF the week
In the interest OF recruiting.
Ray Peterson, II the Palace Garage
has rented two west rooms In the new
Won Weiss building on West Main
street which he viii use as salesrooms.
The west and north fronts OF this build.
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.
LosT-In Rock Island yards, card case