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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-04-11

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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-04-11
TIME FOR BOSS 10 GET BUSY
Paddy's Earnest Warning Seems to
Have Been Justified by the Facts
of the Case.

Paddy was out of work, and passing
works he saw a notice which said a
stoker was wanted.
OF course, he could use a spade, so
he applied and got the job. 1t seems
the man who held the job before was
sacked because he lost time, and nat
urally his mates wouldn't tell Paddy
how to go about his fresh job.
The boss told him to watch the pres
sure gauge, and If he wanted to know
anything he was TO go and ask the
boss.
For while all went well. Paddy
shoveled the coal on, and the gauge
registered full pressure; and he
worked away until the safety valve
started blowing off. Sull he worked
away, and the steam still escaped
through the safety valve.
Paddy, not knowing what was the
matter, ran to the boss, and said:
Boss, If you don't be coming to
this boiler, the boiler will be coming
to youl I"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-04-11
Mikes Foolish Question.

The talk topic at recent social
session turned to the propensity that
some people have for asking foolish
questions when this happy little In
cident was recalled by Harry Fox, the
well-known actor.
One Sunday morning last summer
the weather was so exceedingly hot in
Pats happy home that he took himself
out to the back porch for his Sabbath
shave.
While Pat was performing the op-
Grafton of amputating his bristles his
next door neighbor Mike sauntered
out on the back porch adjoining.
"Shure, Pat" pleasantly remarked
Mike, leaning on the partition railing,
"how comes it thot yez air Shawn on
the outside this mornin'?"
"Begorra, Moike, an how can OF
help it?" responded Pat, his eyes mer
rily twinkling through a mass Of lath-
er. "Do yez think for wan minute
thot Oi'm inedY'-Philadelphia
Evening Telegraph.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-04-11


A well-known athlete says that on
entering a Turkish bath one night he
found a stranger struggling in the
swimming pool. There was nobody
near, and the man was evidently IN.
able TO swim, having jumped in prcb.
ably without ascertaining whether the
water would be above his head.
The athlete swan to the assistance
of the struggling man. Grasping him
by the hair, he towed him to the side
of the tank and assisted him to hang
on until he recovered his breath.
What were the first words uttered
by the rescued one? Did he stammer
out thanks to his human preserverf
No. The human mind is a curious af
fair. AS the half-drowned man strug
gled back to consciousness, memories
of an old Jest seemed TO fit through
his brain, for he said:
Lucky for me l wasn't bald.
headedp
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-04-11
CAUGHT OSPREY IN FIsHLINe
Remarkable Feat That ls Credited to
a Member Of the New York
Fire Department.

How a fisherman lassocd and cap
tured an osprey, or flshhawk, with q
hand fishline, is told by correspond
ent Of the New York Sum- A number
OF fishermen were on board, he says
and we were anchored with lines out
in every direction. ! was fishing from
the starboard side Of the top deck,
near the stern, when suddenly it made
dive for n bergle that was floating
on the water a short distance from the
boat, between two lines, but nearer
the line Of Mr. John Woods of the
New York fire department.
Mr.. Woods tried playfully to throw
his line over the bird, and somehow
he actually succeeded in looping the
line round its left wing in such a man
ner that 1t could not escape.
The hooks did not catch at all. for
they were far beyond, but the osprey
was securely lassoed. II was at once
an exciting and ludicrous task to reel
in the big bird. 1t struggled despe-
rately, and had 1t not been for the
length of line beyond it, with a ten
ounce sinker at the end, 1t might have
been necessary to reel 1t down from
the sky instead OF up from the sea-
When it was brought to the deck and
found itself in the strong but not un-
kind hands of a group of fishermen, 1t
seemed frightened, angry and disgust
ed but strange to say, it did not fight
its captors.
Someone suggested killing 1t, and
one man urged sending it TO an ayl-
ary; but above all the other voices
heard a self-appointed counsel for the
prisoner, pleading for its liberty with
an oratory effective if not classical:
"Aw. let the poor fellow got" And
so, on reflection, said the jury.
When the bird was set at liberty,
none the worse for its strange adven-
ture, 1t shot straight down among the
lines again, got the bergle it started
out to get, and then leisurely flew
away.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-04-11

One should have some unattainable
ideal, something to do in life which
can never be finished; some engrossing
avocation and a development of mind
and soul that we can summon when all
external resources fail to keep us
young and vigorously enjoying our
youth. Cultivate a good disposition.
serenity and poise. Most of the worry
is about something that never hap
pens. If you do these things, while
you may not attain eternal youth. you
win very materially affect your future
and you viii add not only to your days
Of life but viii make them more COM
plete, increasing your capacity for av-
ing and for enjoying existence to the
very end.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-04-11
WISE AND OTHERWISE

"If" is a little word that spoils
some big plans.
II man is your friend he
doesn't have to tell you he Is.
Men always hope they viii not
meet any Of their creditors In
heaven.
The more expensive a thing is
the easier it is to get along with
out 1t.
Occasionally a girl discovers
that young man after her own
heart isn't after it at all.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-04-11

Subscribe for the DslIz Express.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-04-11
Theatre
FEATURE HOUSE |
L O N light
THE FEATURE HOUSE
THE FEATURE HOUSE
TONIGHT
-SKINNER's DRESS SUIT"


-SKINNER'S DRESS SUIT"
A perturbation of the Saturday Eve
ming Post story by Henry Irving
Dodge.
Wild, the foremost photoplay critic
Of the country has this to say OF
"skinners Dress Suit" "Here is a
case where the author has gotten down
TO human fundamentals and given you
IN the intimate little touches OF hu.
man life with the result that you feel
that you know these characters so
well that you pass over.the possibly
improbable events on the finish sim
ply because you appreciate the hui
man manner in which these incidents
are registered"
The plot has to do with young
man who promised his wife to get a
raise, and when 1t was refused by the
boss he lied to his wife and told her
he had gotten 1t, taking the additional
"ten" per week from his personal ac-
count to hand it in. at home. The
faxed increase caused wife and
hubby to buy new clothes which
brought social success and afterwards
feeling of self-respect, although at
the same time making employers quite
suspicious of their cashier They
send him to St. Paul to see a lost Gus
toner while they checked up his
books. Through the use OF some
strategy, working on the social aspira-
tions Of the customers wife, the cash
Ter landed the order while the bosses
learn that his books are o. X. When
he returns he is made salesmanager
and later, a member of the firm
The production wins you from the
start. 1t is absolutely human with
out q single false note. e
VAUDEVILLE
THREE DIXIE GIRLS
Singing and dancing trio.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-04-11
Good Shooting story.

A farmer tells story Of his shoot.
ing. Says he: Il was very much trou-
bled with these winged thieves (the
birds), for they made terrible havoc
among the corn. l put scarecrows up
till ! was tired, so l rook my gun,
loaded with powder and pellets, and
you should have seen the quantity /
brought down in one day. One morn
ing my boy rushed indoors and yelled /:
Dad, hundreds OF birds among the
corn l took my gun, put in the pow
der, but could not find the shot, so /
thrust in handful of tacks and off /
ran. Getting to the corn / yelled pret-
ty hard, and up flew the birds into
a tree. Being excited, fired, and be-
hold every bird was nailed to the tree,
with their wings Tapping as If flying
Struck with the sight, ! stood watch
ing them, when the blessed things
pulled up the tree and flew away with
it, leaving me in disgust"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-04-11

Uncle Hiram from Podunk, was
taken by his nephew into a downtown
hashery for lunch.
II guess I'll have some coffee and
sinkers," said the nephew.
did you say sinkers3' asked the old
man.
Il sure did, uncle"
well" said Uncle Hiram, as his eye
fell on a spaghetti eater. II reckon I'll
have a mess of fshfn' lines like that
there feller is eatin' out Of q bowl.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-04-11
The Chickasila
Iron Works

We have added new and up-to.
date machinery TO our plant and
are able to do any
Machine and Foundry Work
We make a speciality of Sash
Weighs, Structural Iron Work
and Job Work. Blacksmith Shop
in connection. See the Nix Corn
Stalk Cutter which we mapufac-
ture.
CONRAD BROS.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-04-11
ToDAY's PRICES
IOC l5C
INTERESTING ITEMS
New York details % fremen to give
fire drills in public schools.

New York details 25 firemen to give
fire drills in public schools.
To read the newspapers intelligent
ly a man must have a vocabulary of
at least 2,0o0 words.
Turkeys derived their name from
the fact that they were imported first
into Europe through Turkey.
South America took about four times
as much coal from the United States
IN fiscal year 1916 as in year prior to
the war.
Hazel White, aged eight, visiting her
aunt Mrs. Nellie Trefthen, at camp
in Milton, n. H., caught nine fish one
night
Two English physicians are expert
menting with "A parasite with which
they hope to externinate the flies Of
their country within a few years.
Corn crops in England and Wales in
1915 totaled S,4S9,930 acres, 24S,044
more than in 1914, and the largest
acreage since 1898.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-04-11
Machine and Foundrv VOL
CONRAD BROS.

The highest spot easn Price win be
paid for some clean cotton rags deIiv-
cred at once to the Daily Express OF.
hoe. s-s1u
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-04-11
TONIGHT

Mutual and General Movies Make
Time fly
A crackerjack variety show today.
6-Reels--6
The Flying A Film Co presents j
Warren Kerrigan in
"AN ARTISTS INTRIGUE"
A pretty romance Of the south.
with OR WITHOUT"
2-Reels-2
A Vogue comedy featuring Paddy
Mcclure.
"REEL LIFE"
An educational film showing 20 sub
jects,
STICKING THE SLICKERS"
A Mutual comedy.
HAM AND BUD"
1.-THE DEADLY DOUGHNUT"
It's a scream. See it sure.
Music by Kozy Orchestra.
William Russell in five
reel feature. "The Strength OF Donald" +"
Friday Pearl Of the Army.
saturday-"The Wifeless Husband?"
Is Marriage Sacred?
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-04-11
BAD COUGH FEVERIsH7 eRIPPYa

BAD COUGHf FEVERIS1G GRIPPYY
You need DR.. Kings New Discovery
to stop that cold, the soothing balsam
ingredients heal the irritated mem.
branes, soothe the sore throat, the an
tiseptic qualities kill the germ and
your cold is quickly relieved. Dr.
Kings New Discovery has for 4S years
been the standard remedy for coughs
and colds in thousands Of homes. Get
bottle today and have it handy in
your medicine chest for coughs. colds,
Group, grippe and all bronchial affec-
tons AT your druggist. soc.
1m-d-w
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-04-11

WANTED-Clean cotton rags At the
Daily Express office. Highest casl
Price paia
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-27
LAURALTON HALL GIRL
 WINS SCHOLARSHIP IN MUSIC UNDER FRIEDHEIM

Miss Mildred Knowles a music pupil at Lauralton hall, Milford, has succeeded in winning scholarship which entities her to receive instruc- tion from Arthur Friedheim.
 Last spring Miss Knowles gave a public recital at Lauralton hall. Her program consisted of Is pieces, in- cluding the G. Minor Saint-Saens con- certo, all played from memory.
 The friends of the talented young woman expect for her great future success her untiring application de- serves.
 AS is well known, MT. Friedheim is the great exponent of Liszt of whom he was friend and pupil. He was born in St. Petersburg (Petrograd) where at the age of eight, in his first public appearance, he astonished his audience by his wonderful inter- pretation of Fields A Major concerto. In 1894 MT. F'riedheim played and taught in America. Later he taught in the Royal College of Music. Eng land, but resigned in 1904: His opera, Die Tanzerin," he wrote to his own hbretto.
 Miss Knowles was a pupil at Laural- ton Ha:; until December, when sifs left to receive instructions from MT. FriedheimI She was graduated last June from the music department but returned last September t0 try for the scholarship.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-27
GERMAN PATROL BOATS HOLD UP
 NEUTRAL SHIPS

Copenhagen, April 27-German pa- trol ships are continuing their activi- ties against neutral shipping in the Skagerrak Recently the Scandina- American liner United States was halted and examined. Yesterday the Norwegian passenger steamer Haarfagre, plying between FrederiAs- hven, Denmark and Christiansand. Norway, was seized and taken to a German port @e.t
 The German official announcement of a safe conduct for neutral steamers leaving British ports on May is re- garded by the Norwegian press as repetition of the bogus offer of last March. nullified by impossible condi- tions. Ship owners accepting the German safe conduct would have to guarantee that their boats would not traffic with Entente countries. No Norwegian ship owners have accept ed the German offer. .t~
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-27

line.
 Captain Charles Day has been at
 his home in the Center for about
 three weeks disabled for sea duty by
 blood poisoning, resulting from an
 arm injury. He is now recovering. Dan Beard, author and illustrator. has returned to his farm near Libra ry Corner, coming from his other
 home at Islip. L.SI. He has still an-
 other in Pike County, Pa. The Bedding Center unit of the
 local Red Cross has received an ad-
 dition to it's mechanical outfit in the by the Singer Mfg. Co. Later returns Georgetown have brought the pro-
 ceeds to $1S2.
 Miss Fanny Gorham, until recent ly superintendent of cnIldren's
 home in New Haven, is at her home at the Center. She will enter upon another position after an extended vacation. Joseph Kratky, of Builder McCol-
 lam's force, is out of commission in consequence of a shoulder dislocation
 due to taking a violent header from
 his motorcycle.
 Robert Ferry, lately with the Ridge
 store, has taken an engagement as
 chauffeur for Mrs. c. M. Thompson, one of the Pleasant Valley summer colony.
 Rev. Raymond Cunningham and
 wife left on Monday for a trip to Washington, D. C., to be absent about ten days.
 Walter Lilley and family have l moved from the John Candee place to the Tom Brown place in Easton, prop erty owned fby the water company. 1 Dog owners are reminded that Mon day next is the last day for taking
 out licenses if the penalty of paying
 an extra sum is to be avoided 1 B. M. Bradley and mother removed this week from their home on the
 Ridge to their cottage at Fairfield l Beach.
 MT. and Mrs. J. W. Teets came from
 New York on Tuesday to occupy their
 summer home at the Ridge for the
 season.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-27
GOLF SEASON FOR THE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT IS STARTED

New York, April 27-The metropol- itan golf season was ushered in yes- terday with an 1S-hole qualifying round on the Lakewood Country club course at Lakewood. N. J. There was a race for honors to lead the field on the days play between Philadelphia and New York players. The result was dead heat between Dr. A. T. Haight of Massapequa, and Moran H. Maxwell, the sensational young Aroni- mink star, of Philadelphia. Both re- turned cards of 79, which was three strokes better than the next best player, who was Percy Platt, of Mon- mouth.
 Conditions were anything but fa- vorable, as 1t was raining most of the day. The players wore heavy sweat CTS and rain coats. The weather however. did not dampen the enthu- siasm- of the hundred or more golfers
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-27

ditional surrender" and, as the two
 words begin with the initials of Grant, 1 they were immediately applied to him, and became the battlecry of the Fed eral army. "1 propose 10 fight it out on this line if it takes all summer" !"
 was another declaration of Grants
 which aroused his followers to new l enthusiasm.
 To those young men who are soon to receive their baptism of fire, the following confession of the great Gen. eral is. apropos:
 When I led my troops into the first battle I would have given any,
 thing then and there to have been
 back in Illinois, but I had not the
 moral courage to retreat and con- l slider what to do. I kept right on. The place where Harris, my oppon-
 ent, had been camping. was still there,
 but the troops were gone. My heart
 resumed its place. It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him.
 This was a view of the situation I had
 never taken before, but it was one that never forgot afterwards From
 that event to the close of the war I
 never experienced trepidation upon
 confronting an enemy, though I al-
 ways felt more or less anxiety. I nev- CT forgot that the enemy had as much
 reason to fear my forces as I had his"
 In speaking to Gen. Wilson, Sher-
 man once said: Wilson, I'm a great deal smarter man than Grant; see | things great deal more quickly than he does; I know more about law and
 history and military science and near ly everything else than he does, but I'll tell you where he beats me, and beats the world-he doesn't care a d-- for what he can't see the enemy doing, and 1t ScareS me like h-!"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-27
Fly Myers Had Six Trials Before He Was
 Able to Make Good

Fly Myers. the Brooklyn outfielder, is twenty-eight today. Harry was born in East Liverpool, Ohio, which he still calls home, on April 27, 1889. He was playing with Connellsville, Pa, back in 1909 when he was given his first trial by the Dodgers. He was used in only a few games, and in 1910 was turned over to Rochester which shipped him off to Sioux City. Myers batted .345 for the Sioux, and was recalled by Brooklyn.
 The 1911 season had barely started when Fly was given a ticket to Tor onto, but the Leafs couldn't use him, and he then went to Mobile. He started in 1912 with the Dodgers, but was again sent off to Sioux City, but was recalled in August. In 1913 Fly was with Newark, but in 1914 he was given his sixth trial with the Dodg- CTS. That time he stuck.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-27

 SURRENDER" GRANT

While the youth of the United States is again preparing to uphold the glory of the Stars and Stripes on the battlefield, the few survivors who wore the blue of the Union more than half a century ago will celebrate to- day the birthday of their great chief tain, Ulysses Simpson Grant. Now that passion and prejudice born of have died out, the South as we'll as the North realizes that in Grant, America had one of the great est of modern soldiers; and North as we'll as South pays tribute to the great skill of Lee, who surrendered to Grant at AppomattX. If the United States could. now produce two such leaders as the doggedly persevering and dauntless Grant, and the brilliant and resourcefu1 Lee, there would be no reason to fear the strategy of a Hindenburg.
 It now lacks but five years of a century since Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio. He started life as Hiram Ulysses Grant, but when preparations were being made to send him to West Point, he noticed that his trunk was marked in large let ters with his initials, s'H. U. G. Fear ing the "spoofing" of his companions. because his initials spelled hug he reversed the order of his names and marked his luggage ''U. H. G. Ar irving at West Point, he discovered that the congressman who had ap- pointed him was under the impression that his name was Ulysses Simpson Grant, Simpson being his mothers family name. Grant uncomplaining- ly accepted the name under which he was enrolled at West Point, and thenceforth was Ulysses Simpson Grant.
 In 1862 Grant became known in the army as Unconditional Surrender Grant. Tn dispatch to Gen. Buck | ner. a Confederate general who hat proposed an armistice, Grant declar ed that his only terms were "uncon
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-27
BRIDGEPORT MASTER
 BUILDERS BANQUET

Members of the Bridgeport Master Builders Exchange met at a ban- quet last night. They were address ed by George E. Crawford, president of the Chamber of Commerce, Build. ing Inspector Daniel M. Rowland and T. J. Pardy, president of the Build ers's organization
 The need for building better, more substantial and architecturally pleas- Ing structures was discussed. A. H. Skllhngs, secretary of the Worcester. (Mass.) Builders Exchange told of the growth of that organization.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-27
JOE RIVERS, MEXICAN BOXER, HAS STRUCK THE
 DOWN GRADE AT LAST

New York, April 27--Joe Rivers is through. The once ferocious little Mexican has come to the point in his cafeer when a crack on the chin can't be sneezed at as in the old days of his 20-round struggles on the Coast.
 Johnny Harvey knocked him out at the Pioneer Sporting club the oth- CT night with punch that Joe would not have noticed in his best days. Joe met the hardest hitterg in the light weight class on the Coast and came through unscathed, as a, rule. Youth fighting youth-will be served
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-27
New York Bakers Will
 Raise Price of Bread

New York, April 27.-The price of bread will go up here nextt MonGay The Ward Baking Co.,, one of the largest manufacturers, yesterday ar1- nounced that the 10 cent loaf would be reduced to weigh two ounces less than heretofore and would be the cheapest size. The cent loaf will be withdrawn altogether. Other big con- cerns are expected to follow suit.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-27

The idea of a longer luncheon period for school children, which is being az ttated by the Parents association, has the indorsement of physicians, among whom are several specialists in chill dren's diseases.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-27

A freight car carrying barbed wire consigned to the European battlefield went over the bankment of the Mo- hawk near Schenectady, when a hot journal burned out. s}5'