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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-07-14

Miss Elizabeth johnson Of Corpus
Christi IS visiting her grandmother
Mfs Merchant
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-07-14

Casb paia TOR cIoan couon rag ~
nAily Express office.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-07-14

Mrs- Harry D Brownson entertained
Mrs. J S. Biackmon. sirs VIII Melton.
AIRS Edward T shees6g and Mrs E.
e Macarthur OF LisflsA, al dinner
Monday evening A t@estsr party to-
the sugg wcs enjoyed after the din
ner
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-07-14

Miss Sophia Kassel of Fit. Worth
ieft yesterday afternoon after a two
weeks yisit with chickasha friends
Alf and Mrs y e. Burton made an
overland trip with her as far as Okla
loma City.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-07-14
HOUSEWIVES, SIGN THIS TODAY

%@$+ > : = ; ; ,
HOUSEWIVES FOOD CONSERVATION PLEDGE
wn Join the serviee d. tood
hereby membership
Aiu.a t-atoa pcdsing myself the directions
advee ot the food administrator the coaduc household
insofar circumstances win
fsgued)
Number iamiiy------------, have a
IIave you garden2-------. Occupation husband -
cu 0ui this ana mail Foaa Adnastraor
Conscrvauon Division. Washington. d G.
CHICKAsHA DAILY EXPRESS
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-07-14

AIRS Jim Terrell and Mrs. Flynn
each made pajama coats ar headquar-
ters Thursday Other GARMENTS fiu-
ished were hospital bed shirt and
two pairs Of bed socks
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-07-14
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SOCIETY NOTES
; : ; ; : ; : ; : ) ; : :

Mr and Mrs Grin Ashton and
daughters Annlce md Audrey ana
iheir guests Mr and Mrs ]. c Cor.
niah and son John Of Oklahoma City
moiored % Medicine Park last sun.
day Mr aud airs Cornish returned
home Monday
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-07-14

The Pyihian Sisters have formally
organizes an auxiliary TO the Red
C.oss and have as their officers. Mrs
Myrtle Garner chairman Mrs Kath-
crime Temple vice chairman and Mrs
May LaBoon secretary and treasurer
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-07-14

Mrs A. G Aiken and Gen. T B.
Hogg Of Shawnee were the guests Of
MIS- J. s Blackmon during the reun-
ion
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-07-14

Mr and Mrs W G. Harwen had as
their dinner guests at the Early Mon.
day evening Mrs ]. M Mcintyre Of
New Orleans and pr and Mrs Harry
Ludlow
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-07-14
GIVE
Red Cross Headquarters al Carnegie
LibTaD-Phcne l452

Phone an news ror the Red Cross
column 70 AS.
The Home Culture club has turned
I'll an additional $40 70 the Red Cross
lund bringing the clubs contributions
ap TO s92
The Girls auxiliary TO the Red Cross
is planning a benefit dance TO be held
week from next Tuesday
One navy muffler knitted in blue
yarn has been completed by Mrs T.
J Marrs
party Of twelve Pythian Sisters
sewed at headquarters Thursday They
took a few of the unfinished garments
nome with them and when completed
their weeks work VIII show ten hos
pisal shirts and One paiama sait
Tie Girls auxiliary viii sew each
Thursday morning ID headquarters
Bliss 4 & Brown Of Ft. Scott Kan
saa. vas visitor al headquarters /
Wednesday she IS actively engaged i
n the Red Cross work in her home
citg
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-07-14

AIRS Emma Esnl os El Reno has
been ihe guest Of Miss Fay Smith dur.
ing The past week leaving for home
last night
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-07-14

AFs Rsford Bond, Mrs Harry Lud-
low and AIRS VIII Dwyer cut gar
ments Thursday.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-28
MARY BERRY

Mary Berry died in Mayfair, Nov
FL, 1852, at the age of ninety and, be-
sides being celebrated for her own at
tainments, was widely known as one
of the two wives of Horace Wal
wife was her sister, Agnes. OF
course, the term wife was applied
in only joking way. Both Mary and
Agnes Berry enjoyed the friendship
of the great Walpole and after the
latter succeeded to his fathers title,
offered his hand and coronet to Mary
Berry. She did not accept him, but
preferred to continue their friendship
as it had been. and it lasted until the
death of Walpole. Horace used to
call the two sister his two wives and
was constantly exchanging visits with
them when he was near, or letters
when missions took, him elsewhere
These two sisters are responsible for
preserving much of his correspond
ence which was later issued under the
title "Reminiscences of the Courts OF
George l. and H. On Walpole's
fathers were left the literary execu-
tors. with the charge of collecting and
publishing his writings. This task
was accomplished by Mr.. Berry with
the assistance of his daughters. The
latter for forty years after their
fathers death continued to assemble
around. them the literary and other
celebrities of London. Agnes, the
younger sister, predeceased Mary by a
little over a year.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-28
Sparks: Worlds Famous
Shows to Visit City

Four hundred people employed and
carrying over 200 foreign and do
mestic animals, is the statement made
by the agent for the Sparks Shows.
who was in town last Thursday maxi
ing arrangements for the appearance
eff this big circus here on Friday, Aug.
10.
The strange colony of people, hand
some horses, rare wild animals and the
golden caravans are scheduled to ar
rive. here during the early hours of the
morning OF the above date in their
own special trains from New London,
where they will exhibit the day before.
Circns day will begin with big
street parade at 1920 a. m. and two
performances will be given, the first
starting at 2 and the other at s o'clock.
The grounds known as the Barnum
circus grounds have been arranged for
by the agent and number of our
merchants will receive contracts to
furnish immense quantities of feed
stuff for both man and beast.
The Sparks World Famous shows
have been successfully established for
the past 81 years and bear a reputa-
ton second to none for the high class
exhibitions presented and the honest
manner they have of dealing with the
public-no gambling or grating being
tolerated or carried with these shows.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-28
ToDAY's ANNIVERSARIES.

Thomas Cromwell, earl of Essex,
was beheaded on July %, 1910. He
rose from an apprentice in a black
smiths shop to the highest dignities
of the British Kingdam, from the -pur-
suit of a most humble calling, to the
dignity of Lord Chamberlain of Eng
land. But. he fell a victim to the
caprice of Henry VII. On this date
in the year 1892, William Hackett, an
English fanatic in the reign of queen
Elizabeth, was hung and quartered
for blasphemy. On July %, 1894,
Macmillan Isidore Robespierre, the
sanguinary demagogue of the French
Revolution, was guillotined at the age
of IS. He rose from obscurity by
his talents, but the demon of destrncu-
ton seemed to sway his mind and
urge. him on to the most inhuman
deeds that ever disgraced man. Twen-
ty others persisted at the same time
as he did and by the same means.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-28
RED CROSS WILL
SPEND 100000
i'm JULY RELIEF

The Red Cross War Council has ap-
propriated $4,000. to be expended in
July for relief work in the Near East,
through the American Committee for
armenian and Syrian Relief. The Red
Cross will appropriate a like amount
for each Of the five remaining months
of this year il the work of the COM
mittee is not sufficiently hampered by
the Turkish government to make fur
ther grants inadvisable.
The American committee is the only
organization outside of the Red Cres-
cent Controlled by the Turkish gov
ernmenD which is allowed to admin
lister relief in certain portions of the
Turkish Empire. Its field of opera
tons includes not only Asia Minor
and those portions of Armenia and
Syria that are in the Ottoman EN-
pire, but it also includes a large sec
ton of Armenia now dominated by
the Russian army, as well as the Rus
sian Caucasus, Persia, Mesopotamia
and portions of Egypt and Macedonia,
into which refugees, Armenian, Sy-
rian and Greek base fed in large
numbers. With the exception of the
work being done by the Jewish Relief
committee, the American committee is
the only agency organized for afford
ing relief in this great area
The making of this appropriation by
the Red Cross is in accord with the
policy of the Red Cross to cooperate
with relief agencies IL the theatre of
war to he end that there shall be the
utmost aid afforded, while overlap
ping of effort Is as far as possible
avoided.
The appeal to the Red Cross for aid
estimates that there are 1900, 900 peo-
f~, A<,f1 d =
be prevented only by direct and con-
tinued help from, this American COM
mittee. These people have been ex-
lied from their homes and are in re-
gions where sef-support is practically
impossible. From one town alone
there is a call to provide for 10000
fatherless children. The estimated
number of orphans in another district
is given by the American consul as
10000. In the entire field the number
of orphaned children is estimated to
run into the hundreds of thousands.
In the Caucasus, the American COM
mittee has found it imperative to pro-
vide employment for women, many of
whom have lost their husbands, their
children and all their material pos
sessions. These women take wool in
the rough and make it into garments
for other destitute. -~
While it is true that the larger part
OF the American committees relief
has been given to Christians, this has
not been because they were Chris
tfans, but rather because they were
residing under Moslem rule and were
first to suffer.
OF the Armenians alone, nearly a
million were massacred or driven to
death in 1915 and the remainder -ot
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-28
COLD OF GERMAN
PEOPLE SEIZED
BY GOVERNMENT
Press Complains That Pleas
to Citizens Have Been
Unproductive.

Amsterdam, July 2s.-A frontier
correspondent OF the TELEGRAPH re-
ports that all privately owned gold
ornaments and jewelry in Westpha-
liza have been requisitioned this week
and must be handed over to the
banks.
The daily recurring public notices
printed in conspicuous type in Ger
man newspapers entreating the citi-
it their gold evidently is unproduc-
tive. The Weser Zeitung of Bremen
publishes renewed appeal com
planning especially that the well to
do public still fails to realize the stu
alton and insisting that all gold mus
be handed in. The newspaper cites
examples of members of the imperia.
and royal houses sacrificing their
gold and jewelry and says competent
authorities calculate that three tt
four million in gold coin is obstin.
ately boarded in Germany, while the
value of gold ornaments is estimated
lat a. billion marks.
The Weser Zeitung says, the public
often asks whether gold cannot be
loaned instead of given to the Ger
man Imperial bank. The answer il
no, because the law demands gold a:
a cover for paper money and that i
must be in bars or coin. The public
is again urged to yield jewels of al
kinds, which realize good price.
abroad and is most useful for credi
purpose there.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-28
IN REAL:
ESTATE IS SUING
FEMALE PARTNER
Trouble in Development of
Floral Park; Mrs. Flora
Deckand Defendant.

Trouble in the management of
Floral Park, real estate tract in
STAFFORD. has resulted in suit being
brought by George l. Cassidy, realty
dealer of this city against Flora L.
Deckand of Stratford. In papers
filed in the superior, court damages
OF $500 are asked.
Cassidy says he and the defendant
entered into an agreement to develop
the tract which contained So lots. the
deeds of which were recorded in
Stratford. This agreement was made
on August %, 1916. On June %
last Cassidy says he was notified by
the defendant that the agreement was
Terminated. and he was no longer to
sell land under terms reviously agreed
upon. Cassidy complains that Flora
Deckand sold a lot on the tract to
Joseph Deckand without knowledge
5or consent of the plaintiff.
The agreement is alleged to have
stated that Cassidy was to sell So lots
and none was to be disposed ofSfor less
than $3.50. He was to get a commits
sions of 20 per cent. and If he could
not sell % lots each year. the agree
ment would be called off The suit
is returnable to the September term
of court.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-28
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

The program for August at the
Brooklawn Country club includes:
Saturday. August 4th--Putting from
to 8 O'Clock. Dinner, price $500;
and Dance. o'clock Fourball Four
some Handicap to be one half of
partners combined handicaps. Prize
fof best net score. Is holes. Medal
Play.
Saturday. August 11th-Putting
from 4 to 6 o'clock Mixed Four
some. Medal Play. f1andisap. IS
wednesday, August f5thlTable
d,hote Luncheon. i, s.o'cieek, price
$3.50. Pivot Bridge ar LAS Scores
taken at 5 o'clock Prize offered by
Mrs e. n. sperry, s,.ss ~
Saturday, August 1sfh--Putting
from to s O'clock sz4a-,s
Saturday, August z5th-Futting
from to 8 o'clock. Dinner price
$500. and Dance. 2 aoreloek. Ball
Sweepstakes IS ! holes, !, handicap
Medal Play. @.s. IL
"Wednesday. August zeth-rable
d'hote Luncheon at A. o'clpek.. price
s1.5O. followed by OBSTACLE Putting.
Prize offered by Mrs. LIB, Powe.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-28
TAsHUA AND LONG HILL.

Through erroneous information IT
was stated that Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert
Eastwood were the parents of a. little
daughter. Such is not the case.
Mrs. Albert Heinrich has returned
from a visit I'M West Springfield,
Mass, with her daughter, Mrs. Charles
Winkler. Her granddaughter, Gladys.
who has been staying in Tashua since
Easter. returned to the home of her
parents.
The Misses Evelyn and Dorothy Sec
ley left Friday for Boardman's Bridge
where they will spend a week camp
ing with the Camp Fire Girls of Mon
roe.
Mrs. Albert Wildman and son OF
New Milford are visiting Mr.. and Mrs
Abraham Wi1dman.
j. e. Elliott is taking a two weeks
vacation which he is spending on his
farm on the Tashua road.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-28
PLAZA

The Plaza has a splendid program
which will be shown for the last times
tonight.
In it are included The Message of
the Mouse" a thrillingly dramatic
production in seven acts starring
nita Stewart in one of the best roles
of her career; the first episode OF
THE Fatal Ring" the new serial play
with Pearl White; the fifth install
ment of 1.-THE Battle of the Somme"
pictures, showing actual scenes OF
battle on the Somme front, and a de-
lightful and appropriate musical ar
rangement.
: Tomorrow nights program will
have as it's feature attraction Joe
WEIGH, the internationally famous
character, in 1.-The Peddler."
Dorothy Dalton in 1.-THE Flame of
the Yukon the greatest play of the
great outdoors that has ever been
produced, will be on the bill for the
first half of the coming week in con-
junction with an o. Henry Story, and
Mack Sennett comedy productions.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-28
SWISS PRIESTS SUFFER
TORTURES; WON'T SPEAK

Amsterdam, July Isles Nouvelles
of Maestricht reports that one of the
chiefs of the German espionage SER
vice in Belgium was assassinated last
Friday at Lommer, Belgium Limburg.
No trace of the assassin has been
found. A reward of 5000 marks has
been offered in notices posted every
where
The newspaper reports also that
seven Belgians we're shot at Liege,
July II including the Swiss curate at
St. Lambert's parish in Herstal, a
Swiss living in the same parish, and a
commissioners named Lejeune. The
priest is reported to have been de-
prived Of food on three occasions for
three days at a time in an attempt to
compel him to speak, and his assist
ant was tortured for the same pur-
pose. The Germans compelled them,
the newspaper says, to drink a drug
which affected his nerves, but they
refused to speak.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-28
THREE AUSTRIAN
CRUISERS ATTACK
BRITISH DRlFTERS
Examples of Great Valor
Disloyal by Boat
Crews.

Ottawa, Ont, July 2s.-An attack
by three Austrian cruisers on a line
of British drifters employed in
guarding anti-submarine nets in the
straits of Otranto on May 5 is des7
cribed in a London dispatch to ReuS
ter's Ottawa agency. The account OF
the engagement follows:
1.-THE drifters in eight divisions OF
about six boats each were formed
along a line running roughly east and
west. Each carried a crew of 10 men
and one small gun. In one case the
enemy appears to have acted with
chivalry toward the little craft, sig
Mailing to the crew to abandon their
vessels. The cruiser approached TO
within 100 yards of the Gowanlea and
ordered her crew to take to the boats.
Skipper J. Watt, shipping the
nets, replied by ordering full speed
ahead, and calling on the crew for
three cheers, commanded them to
fight to- a finish. They manned the
gun. and fired and retired with good
effect until a shot from the cruiser
disabled the gun. They hung on I'M
| der heavy fire, trying to repair the
fdamage, until the cruiser passed out
of range.
1.-The GowanIea then proceeded to
the assistance of the badly damaged
Leondia, which had four men killed
and three wounded, but whose skip
per, though three times wounded, re-
manned at his post throughout the
action.
Meanwhile the other cruisers had
| opened a devastating fire on the cen
| ter of the line.
THE crew on the Admirable aban-
doned their vessel only after her boil
| er exploded and her whole house
! had been shot away. Even then A.
Gordon a second hand, scrambled
| aboard with the evident intention OF
firing the gun single-handed. but was
| killed.
| THE Girl Rose, Cora Y. Haven and
| Selby were not abandoned by their
crews until the boats foundered. The
| crew of the sinking Taits on taking
to the boats discovered one of their
number to be missing. They return
ed to the vessel through a heavy fire
| to search for their shipmate. Second
! Hand Joseph Hendry of the Serena
remained on, board until the ship
sank, rather than be taken prisoner
He was picked up an hour later. TIL,
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-28
SPY SYSTEM OF
GERMANS IN U. S.
TO BE ROUTED OUT
Scotland Yard Suggests the
Cooperation of
Z Citizens.

London, July 2S-The most effec-
tive method of combating the Ger
man espionage system in the United
States is to be found in cooperation
between the public generally and the
police, according to opinions express
ed, to the Associated Press by high
officials of Scotland Yard.
From the first days of the war
English police and military agents
who have had to do with the gather
ing in of German spies have received
masses of information from citizens
regarding suspicious persons, and
through this cooperation have been
enabled to. arrest many undesirable
and dangerous persons who other
wise might have been at large.
Since the entry of the United
States to the war English officials
and officials of the United States De-
partment of Justice have been closely
cooperating along these and other
related lines, and the American
agents have been furnished with
much information, not only in regard
to persons but in regard to methods
of catching those who are working
for Berlin.
The compact wireless apparatus,
easily moved about and within con-
tanners that disguise its real nature,
is to be especially guarded against,
Scotland ! Yard feels. Considerable
difficulty has been found here with
the wireless. and the police now en-
p1oy an Instrument through the use
of which these enemy instruments
are detected. = - =
Scotland Yard is intensely inter-
ested in the work that is done in
the United States to discover how the
Germans found out when American
ldestroyers were due in English wa
tiers and how they discovered the
location Of the ocean rendezvous of
the transports bearing the first
American continent. Obviously, the
English officials says, German spies
are in a position to become familiar
with secrets in Washington, and they
are anxious to- render any assistance
that they can toward wedding them
out. 81
Wholesale internment of Germans
will not solve the problem. England
has not interned all her German resi-
dents, but the police are absolutely
sure of the connections of those al
lowed to remain at large.
There is q general feeling in Lon
don that the execution of the first
lspies caught would go far in the Uni
ted States toward persuading others
Germans as well as neutrals, that
such work is extremely hazardous
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-28
STREET HEARINGS.

The Board Of Appraial of Benefits
and Damages has fixed August 8, at
1880 o'clock, as the time for the fol-
lowing hearings: Pacific street, Wayne
street, Unquowa Hills, Ellsworth
street Harpor o., ayenus, Arthur street,
sewers; Hayes street building line;
Summer street grade and layout:
Ellsworth street grade; Harbor. avenue
layout and Arthur street layout.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-28
TRIES TO FORCE
CONNECTICUT CO.
TO AGENT FARE
Battle Precipitated by City
of Waterbury On In SUI
perior Court

New Haven, July S-Judge eager
in the superior court yesterday heard
the application of the Connecticut
Co. for dissolution Of an injunction
obtained by the corporation counsel
of Waterbury to restrain the company
from disseminating the sale of rs
trolley tickes for 81 under an alleged
agreement of some years standing.
Vice President +. Punderford, as a
witness, speaking of trolley company
revenues, said that he did not think
a six cent fare would chow proper re-
turn if costs of operation continued
to increase. He said that it has be-
come difficult to obtain men, the
company securing the country for
them. Out of $50 applicants only 25
were acceptable. The four cent fare
rate, it was claimed, dated from the
era of horse cars. The hearing con-
tinues. :
The court reserved decision.
Later the Connecticut Co. gave out
statement reviewing the action, say
ing in art that at the hearing sit was
clearly developed that such cheap
rate transportation lis not in effect in
any other part of the country and
that a five cent fare is not. unreason-
able, and lin fact, that upward of so
companies throughout the Un1Ied
States that originally charged a five
cent fare are now charging six cents
and even seven cents; that in the
state of New York 80 companies are
now planning to make an, increase, to
a six cent fare, and, furthermore.
that with the tremendous increase in
the cost of performing transportation
service, it seems quite clear that the
six cent fare is coming throughout
the entire country and Connecticut
cannot hope long to escape an in
crease in the cost of riding"
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-28
Parade of Drafted
Army In Chicago

Chicago, July 2S.-A movement
for a parade on August 4 of the 50,a
900 men called into the new national
army in Chicago by the draft has
been started.
According to tentative plans the
prospective soldiers will be COM
manded by the 1000 reserve officers
now in training at Fort Sheridan.
The invitation issued to all man in
Chicago whose numbers come within
those called for service says:
ION August the citizens of Chi
cago will do honor to the men who
will constitute Chicago's first quota.
in the national army