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Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-21
Dragged Too Much.


farmer the other day took a plowshare
TO the blaeksmiths to be sharpened, and
while the blacksmith worked the farmer
chuckled and Dragged about sale Of hogs
he had Just made.
Them hogs was only eight months DID,
he said, and none too fat, nuther, but |
seen that the buyer was at his wits end,
and by skillful jugglin' l boosted up the
price on him just 500 per cent Yes. by
gum, l got three times more for them hogs
than / ulster get before the war"
The plowshare being done the farmer
handed the smith so cents
Hold on" said the smith, II charge 81 50
for that job now"
You scandalous rascal" yelled the
farmer. What do you mean by trebiin'
your price on me? What have you done II
for7"
I've done It," said the blacksmith, so 5
I'll be able to eat some of that high priced
pork of yours this winter."-Washington
Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-21
Pioneer Nebraska Woman
Is Inferred at GibbOn

Gibbon, Neb., Feb. 20.-(Special.)
Funeral services for Mrs. Emily S.
Osborn were held here Sunday. She
had been making her home at Council
Bluffs, la, and came here three weeks
ago to visit at the homes of her sons,
L. T. and T. w. Osborn. Mrs. Os-
born was one of the old Platte
county settlers, locating near where
the town of Monroe is now built.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-21
CHOBAR ON STAND
GIVES DETAILS OF
MANS MURDER

defense about $3.50 o'clock this after
non and under the direction of his at
torney, G. w. France, he related to
the jury the story of the murder and
how he left the Blender home.
He told of his suspicious Of Blender
and his wife and the reasons for his
suspicious.
Played Trick.
He said that on the evening OF the
murder, or about $50 o'clock, he told
Blender he believed he, would go to
Benedict in the Blender car, that he
took the car and, as Blender and his
wife thought. started for town, but
went only few hundred yards. when
he stopped, got out of the car and
walked back to the house and up to
the window of his wiie's bedroom.
He was convinced Blender and his
wife were together, so he went back
and got the car and brought it around
to the garage, went to the milk house
and got revolver, slipped back into
the house and, without word Of
warning, shot Blender in the head
near the ieft eye.
Tied Wife on Bed.
Chobar then told OF. his tying and
gagging his wife in bed, cutting the
telephone wire, getting the key to
the Blender desk from Blenders
pocket, with which he opened Blen-
der's desk to get map Of the coun-
try to guide him in making his get
away and the taking OF $40 or $l2
from Blenders pocket,
The accused told of his starting the
car and how he stalled with it near
Clarks, of his abandonment of the
car and making his way TO Clarks,
where he took train for Grand ISL
and and then on to Kearney., At Kear-
ney he started north across the coun-
try, tramped it up into Todd county,
South Dakota, and told ot his cap
ture there, where he hired out to a
ranchman. Chobar was still i'll the
midst of his story when court ad-
journed until Thursday morning.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-21
Treasurer Hall Advises
Hiqher Interest Rates
(From Staff Correspondent.

From a Staff Correspondent)
Lincoln, Feb. 20.-(Special. )-At
the next meeting OF the state board
OF educational lands and funds, State
Treasurer George Hall will recon-
mend that the interest rate on bonds
be raised from 5 to II per cent,
He believes that it will be just as
easy to dispose Of the higher rate
bonds as though they remained at the
present figures.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-21

The quick wit of travelling salesman
who has since become a well-knOwn prop
rietor. was severely tested one day He sent
In his card by the office boy TO the manager
Of large concern. whose inner office was
separated from the waiting room by a
ground-glass partition. When the boy
handed his card TO the manager the sales
man saw him impatienty tear 1t In half and
throw It In the waste basket; the boy came
out and told the caller that he could not
see the chief. The salesman told the boy
to go back and set him his card; the boy
brought out five cents, with the message
that his card was torn up. Thea the sales
man took out another card and sent the boy
back, saying Tell your boss / sell two
cards for five cents"
He got on interview and sold a large
bill OF roods.-Pittsburgh Chronicle -Tele-
graph.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-21
Emperor Bills Dentist
Returns to Ohio Home

An Atlantic Port, Feb l2-Arthur
NJ Davis Of Piqua, O., who was dem
tist for Emperor William of Ger
many, returned to America today on
a neutral steamship. He said he left
Germany on January y, having been
allowed to cross the border on a mil
itary pass personally signed by the
emperor
DR.. Davis asserted that the Rus
sian situation was the foremost topic
in Berlin when he left and the devel-
opment at that time had caused great
rejoicing He declared the food stu
alton in Germany was not so bad as
had beens reported.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-21
,Kearney Commercial Club
!, Calls Halt ON Experiment

!, Kearney, Neb., Feb. zO,-lSpecial.)
The Kearney Commercial club was
represented at a meeting Of the city
commissioners held Tuesday and
urged the latter to intercede on be-
half of the club to prevent the county
board of supervisors from using mile
OF government CONSTRUCTED road ex-
tending a mile south from the court
house, for experimental purposes. The
county board decided some time ago
to experiment with grayelng road
and settled upon the government
built mile OF road as the likely place.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-21
Man Who Was Shot Dead,

Grand Island, Neb., Feb. 20,-(Spe,
cial Telegram.) - James Kellogg
about 40 years of age, who was shot
by William Tell at the home of Mrs
Hamlin Sunday night, died today as
the result Of his injuries. All are col.
ored.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-21
West Point Educator
Takes CHARGE at Columbus

West Point, Neb,, Feb. 20,-(Spe-
al,)-Prof. c. Ray Gates, city super
ntendent OF the public schools OF
West Point was elected to the same
position at Columbus by the board of
education of that city Tuesday.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-21
Veteran Newspaperman Dies.

Wilmington, N. C., Feb. 20.-Ma.
jor = NJ. H. Bernard, founder of the
Wilmington Star, died yesterday after
a brief illness. He was g wears old
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-21

The prince wore royal robes and
the collar of the order of the garter,
He was introduced to the lords with
the usual ceremony. The peers in the
procession wore their Parliamentary
robes.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-02-21

London. Feb. 20.-The prince Of
Wales took the oath and his seat in
the House of Lords today. Queen
Mary and the princcsses, Mary and
Victoria, were present in the royal
box.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-02

ter Of the field. SO fast was the scor-
ing that the referees lost exact count.
one team kicked well over seventy
goals inside of thirty minutes.
Again the whistles blew and the men
formed files again. Everybody had
had good time, and was in a big
sweat. No one was hurt and everyone
was happy. The men put on their coats
and marched off to their quarters.
So ended the first hour of the great
interregimental held-meet that the Y.
NJ G. 4. conducted during the mems
first afternoon on shore. For the next
two hours the program was duplicated,
even larger numbers of men particpat-
ing than i'm the first hour The officers
were enthusiastic about the results.
They crowded around to receive more
definite Instructions as to how to man.
age such an affair
Dr. James II. McCurdy, director Of
Red Triangle athletics in France and
professor of physical education at the
international y. NJ. G. \. College, Spring
field, Mass, spent the following morn
ing telling the assembled officers of this
convoy how it was done and distribut-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-02
OKLAHOMAandT TEXAS NEWSNOTES
OKLAHOMA.

The city physician has ordered a
room closed in the Chickasha school
ON account of one Of the pupils showing
smallpox symptoms.
A street car motorman at Bartles-
vile was held up at the end Of his line
.itcr all passengers had left the car,
and relieved of his watch and chain and
nine dollars of the company's money.
on condition that the owners Of the
Victoria mine at IIenryetta would fur
nish them pure drinking water the
200 men who had gone on a strike
returned to work Monday.
Judge r. T.. Campbell Of the United
States district court at AIuskogee, in
structed the jury TO return a verdict
of not guilty i'm the case Of Abe Dan
Ginger, Kansas City wholesale liquor
man, who was on trial with w. B. Green
and Dud Moore of Tulsa for shipping
nto Oklahoma a carload Of whisky and
beer labeled Lime"
rank lurnef, elSnt years Olu, VI
Miami, climbed on a wagon and was
tying his sled to it when he fell and
was killed,
The city council Of Baxter Springs
has granted the Miami Mineral Belt
railroad the right to lay tracks through
certain streets Of the town, and trains
will soon be operating over the road.
Taverne, in a recent election, voted to
aplEopriate $4,000 for an electric light
rant.
On account OF the small salaries paid,
Il rural route mail carriers out Of
Blanchard have resigned.
Hobart Alexander confessed that he
lone had committed the theft of auto.
mobile castings at Sapulpa last week
thus freeing an alleged accomplice, Lem
lel Spicer. la
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-02
American Soldiers at Play in Northern France

ing instruction leaflets. During the sue
ceeding hours he, with Prof James Mai
smith, the inventor Of basketball, and
DR.. John Coulter addressed the men
and officers on Social Morality" and
Health"
Under such men as Doctor McCurdy
Doctor Meylan, Doctor Pest and sew
eral other noted physical directors, the
Y. NJ. c. A. has studied the problem OF
the army's need along the line of mass
athletics. Obviously the old-style track
meet for a few trained stars is out OF
the question, as is also the playing OF
such specialized games as football and
baseball. where relatively few men play
the game and that only after long prac-
tice together.
That the faith Of the army in the Y.
NJ. c. AS ability to meet the army's
need adequately is justified, was proved
in the first thirty.six hours of the men
on short which was turned in its hands
to direct. The Y. NJ. c. A., like the
army, has learned that it is group efii-
cheney, skin and stamina that alone
count i'm war
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-02
ARDMORE IN OTHER YEARS
From the Files of The ArdmOreite.

phur was thrown from his horse and
severely injured while out with a party
on wolf hunt, message from there
stated.
The cattle of BaTinger & Co.
stampeded and it was with difficulty
that they were rounded up.
The firm Of Alexander & Roberts.
who had been doing real estate and
fire insurance business, was dissolved,
Mir. Roberts retiring.
G. w. Baumbach, a former resident
Of Ardmore, committed suicide at Hote,
Lee in Oklahoma City.
The Rev. Mr.. Allen was conducting
a revival meeting at the Broadway
Methodist Church.
J. j. Parsons, who was distinguished
as the first person to receive a certif-
cate issued to a teacher in Carter
County, Oklahoma was to teach the
Criner school.
Mrs. Maggie w. Barry delighted Ard.
more with her lectures on literature
and drama.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-02
SONS.

Men in brown with marching feet,
Like 4 great machine moved down the
street,
And the shrieking Of fife
Led that river OF young life,
Soldiers bearing kits and guns
Mothers sons-mothers' sons.
Out of the crowd a woman pressed
Forward little from the rest.
That's him" she said, "the third one
there,
The third one with the light brown
hairr'
She caught my arm and then she
swayed
And whispered-I suppose she prayed
And still they passed with kits ami
guns,
Mothers sons.
-Everybody's Magazine,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-02
TWENTY YEARS AGO.

Vespers were sung at st. Philips
Church to celebrate the feast OF
Candlemas.
Joe Barall returned from Texas and
reported that he had bought a stock
of dry goods valued at $32 ,645 at ~
cents ON the dollar, the result Of q
rush to the Texas gold fields.
Invitations were issued by the Algon-
1uin Club to a german to be given
at Red Mems hall the next evening.
Special Commissioner Edgar Wilhelm
was holding court in the absence OF
Judge Bradford.
W. Z. Ryan and Miss Annie Floyd
We're married at the home of Judge and
Mrs. G. NJ. Campbell on North Court
street, the Rev. A. J. Worthy officiat-
ing.
Gertie Wigs was the Kindergarten
correspondent of The Ardmoreite.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-02
TALES OF L. S. TOWNS.

Swedesboro, n j.. has an annual
pumpkin pie day.
Atlanta has increased salaries Of 1,444
city employees
St. Paul will build eight new public
school buildings this year,
Milwaukee compels use of modero
danger signals at railroad crossings.
Philadelphia is expected to bar Ger.
man language teaching in public
schools
Washington is urged to permit op.
GRAFTON OF pawnshops hitherto forbid
den
st. Louis has G57 miles Of paved
streets, being one Of the best.pavec
cities in America.
Salt Lake city has adopted the
straight flvecent street car fare, the
public utilities commission having
abolished the four-cent fare ticket
Corpus Christi Texas, has voted $500
600 in bonds for building a seawaI, and
the legislature has passed a bill ceding
to the city hall all ad valorem taxes
Of Nueces County for a period OF fifteen
years to pay interest and sinking fund
charges on the bonds
New York City is rich and populous
Its budget for this year, some $23S,
OOO 600, is more by 100000 900 than the
expenditure Of Argentina in 1915, sS4,
100000 more than that of the com
monwealth OF Australia, slO7 1000 .OOC
more than that of Brazil and sll1,OOO.
900 greater than that Of Canada in 1913
1914
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-02
HOW TO WIN THE WAR.

Eat more cornbread rich and brown,
Eat kafir cakes without q frown;
Eat more war bread, save the wheat
And you will help the L. S. beat
Eat bunny stew and rabbit fry,
And cotton tails baked in pie;
Eat the rabits, save the meat,
And then the soldiers all can eat.
Eat more poultry, eat more eggs,
Buy more fish in cans and kegs.
If you can't buy hen then raise 'er.
And help the Sammies lick the kaiser
--Maysville News.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-02
TEXAS.

AmalGamation Of all the automobile
clubs in Texas will be considered at a
meeting of representatives of the clubs
to be held at Taylor Feb. and Z. Ie
is expected that more than 200 clubs
VIII be represented, which win include
representatives from Mexico,
A series of twelve practical demon.
strations in the control Of the sweet DO.
tato weevil will be conducted in Jeffer.
son county. The first was given
Wednesday, Jan. 30. The demonstra-
tons together with lectures on the
treatment Of seed potatoes will be given
by the government demonstrations agent,
j. c. Eisentraut, and Charles f. Smith,
entomologist of the extension depart.
ment Of the Texas A. & NJ. College.
unique box supper, in which the
boxes We're auctioned by name of the
states, netted a large sum for the Red
Cross Chapter at Idalou. The State
Of Texas" box brought the largest
amount.
=
Whitewright has secured a substantial
reduction in the cost OF fire insurance.
which will amount to a saving of moro
than two thousand dollars to the people
during the current year.
According to official record, there
were 1041 bales of cotton ginned in
Lubbock county from the 1917 crop Of
/ cotton, up to Jan. l, 1913. Up to the
same date in 1917, 1926 bales were
ginned.
Paul Shultz, retail merchant Of New
! Baden is the first grover in Texas to
have supply of staples, which are under
licensed foodstuffs, cut Off. Such action
was authorized by Food Administrator
Peden after Shultz had sold sugar in
100 and 200pound lots, disregarding a
letter from Peden advising that sugar
should be sold to individuals in quaint
ties not to exceed five pounds in towns,
and not to exceed ten pounds to coun-
! try customers,
All peanut dealers in Texas have been
ordered to secure federal license by the
| 18th of this month. This action was
taken following complaints that deal
ers throughout the state are speculat.
ing and boarding peanuts.
Following the action of the Carpen-
ters' Union, which bought 500 worth
of thrift stamps, the Painters and Pa.
perhangers' Union of Wichita Falls has
purchased 5000 worth.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-02
Naughty Neighbors.

Pacific Unitarian: How do you like
your neighbors?"
Not a Bit" said the woman who was
trying a little boys hat on. You see,
they don't like children"
How do you know"
"They hhrt Reginald's feeling dread
fully. When he throws stones at their
dog or plays the hose on their windows
they look real cross at him"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-02
NATIONAL FACTS AND FIGURES.

OF the GO5OO,OOO horsepower Of wa
te@ power ia the United States, all but
100000 horsepower is running to
waste.
There are SOOOO,OOO cases OF eggs
produced in the United States annually
or these, 12OOOOOO are placed in cold
storage.
The pack Of Alaska canned salmon
this year win aggregate 100000 cases.
valued at $4OOOOOOO, nearly twice the
value OF the record catch of 1916
About 44OOOOOO acres OF coal lands
in fourteen states, chiefly in the West
and in Alaska, and many water power
sources in nayigah!e and non.navigable
streams will be thrown open to private
development.
The number Of beef cattle in the
United States, which after long de
cline swung upward in 1919, still ad-
yances. There are 43,3OOOOO now, as
against 4O,S5O,OOO year ago, and only
4 little over $4,000 coo in 1919.
,o1n W. ol'7 ~ IT, o'aoa'
ooa' o'.,''' "'',. naa 80 w
ooo , ",'.''' 90 o '' We,
2OS,975 600; rye, G0I45,OOO; buckwheat,
l7460,O0O; Irish potatoes, 442,536,OO0;
'"'0' P'''''0'' '''''i'''O'
mere ",e '''o'e l'' ~ D'''seS VI
h"'nno"' !Ae largest IN existence Is
Jus ieet h's'l' lIS span Is SIX tltiies
a. E,''. .'s ''u' u '''e '"'u'"' "''uST
oi "B'','"' O'"! mas '''.ee h"'u, d
oi'"7eS '''"' are '''E''e' an" VI E'e@'e'
III 'ile NoIIu'
h!leu states produces more sea loou
Ihah any olher country Ine lotaI an an
H""' C"lc" pe'"s 'o'ueu aI SIoo'ooo'0oo'
cess OF ooo'ooO'OVV pouhus' an increase
ol ABOUT 44'ooo'Voo over 1870
More thah S7-'ooV'oOo worth oi Amerl
can e!eclrlcal goods were exported uur.
amount IN the history Oh lhe industry
y" average cIe'se III "'1e''uN'lce oi
lou' ''ee" per cent - '''e e"VC' VI III,
'''sI year ol t"e war upon colieseS "i''
universities throughout 'ne country
NO, e. ''''," ,o'VVo '.''e' ,',iU a." H., a.
'''e o'"'T' '''.ts' U1e ''l'',-Ii ~,
P.oi'es. ~ - e9'i'i''''eu ''''' AL = e'''s
VI o'ooo'OOV'000 seS - seN' o'e'
'''eSe ''''eS N''"u'''S'
,--. -,....
n''ey d" o'' ''''''O,' -, '',u ,-noo
''''se'' ~ ''u'''-''o ~ 'o''-Y,''','Vy
VI g50.o go d"n pc, o''p''o'' o w.
'''Vo''''V'OVV oNe ii'Oii''l ~ IN Wv
'' Se''s a,ioneS - e'' '''''''0'' las ~
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-02

Boston Transcript: The Plumber
believe that Wen all follow the same
vocations in the next world as we do
in this.
The Janitor-Nonsense What use
will there be for men of yoor vocation
where there isn't any water?
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-02
SHRAPNEL.

Another shot has been fired at Lenine,
the bolshevist premier These Russian
Reds who can't hit him with lead from
a gun should try catching him and
lamming poison down his goozle.
If these farm hands get much more
uppsh in their demands, we suppose
they soon will be demanding rose-petal
pillows and NUNS extra dry.
Senator Gore has introduced bill
tor dohydration plants in this country.
It is probable the Oklahoma senator
will, himself, be dehydrated by the Okla
homa voters when ;hey get chance to
build fire under him.
We thought trouble would come in
Germany when the beer gave out-and
we thinked a correct thunk.
More entente warships arrive at Nlad-
ivosto< Now, as Nladiyostok is on the
cast side Of the Russian empire and not
llr from Americas shore, don't be sur
r.isod if Won hear some new kind Of
rows from there.
And the German emperor has issued
orders to his officers and privates to
torture Americans when they are cap
tured This fact came to the knowledge
l,f American officers through papers
taken from cantlred Huns This must
Ie we suppose another evidence of
German okllltur"
More Greeks are to march to war in
| ,Ie allied cuuse Here's hoping they
the Golden age of long ago.
| What has become of the pirl who
rs4d to clone with the coachmau?
The grand duke Of Baden, Germany
refuses TO be taxed as is the common
|Lerd. This grand duke is about as dense
! niece Of human meat we have vet
/ heard about They Will tear his head
off some day.
/
Wasn't il a shame for those French
naval men TO call flock Of Hun U.
boats by wireless. get them punched
and then sink the entire flock When
the kaiser hears of this he will eat the
raint off the furniture in his rage
Hoover saws we are permitted to use
binder for cornbread. We have hiCh
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-02
WHEN THE DAY is DONE.

have eaten a bale
OF spinach and kale.
And I've never raised a row,
l have swallowed u can
OF moistened bran
And | feel like q brindle COW.
am taking a snack
From the old haystack
In the evening shadows gray.
And I'm glad you bet,
AT last to get
TO the end of a meatless day.
Washington Star