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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-07-03
Both Bids Rejected.

DOlH DiuS rejected.
1t was determined that neither
bid submitted was what the mavor
and commissioners desired: that
the Edwards bid put off the pay.
ment from to 30 months and the
time OF payment OF the money or
the bid of the First National Bank
called for subsequent agreement
and that neither was responsive to
the advertisement. On motion OF
Commissioner Gardner, seconded
by Commissioner Carter, both bids
were rejected.
After the two bids offered had
been rejected, the bond were again
called into the assembly chamber
and told the bonds were for sale.
If they desired to bid on them. 1t
appeared they all wanted to do so.
and the matter was left open until
next Tuesday night, the mayor in
forming them that the city desires
4 bid on the bonds which would
give the city money in bank when
1t needs it. and that it was expect
ed TO all be expended within six
months or year, as the improve
ments for which these bonds were
issued are imperative and must be
made at as early a date as the
work can be performed.
The city engineer reported that
a sufficient number OF property
owners had signed the petition for
paving South Washington street
from First avenue to Third avenue
and the street will be initiated.
The regisnation of Stanley Horn
beck, as reader of meters in the
water department, was received and
accepted.
Another petition from property
owners on + street, northwest. was
presented asking that the grade bs
owered. On motion the petition
vas received and filed. The mayor
said this had been settled long ago.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-07-03

Following this there was lengthy
discussion of the paving of that
street. The mayor said f street
had given the city more trouble
than all the other streets together.
In fact, he said, this was the only
street over which they had had any
trouble. Ben II. Mason, of the
Ardmore Construction Company,
said his company is anxious to go
ahead and work on that street, but
is threatened with injunctions ii
they put in the sewer and If they
left it out; that there was objection
to the rock to be used that he want
ed to be assured he would have
enough water to complete the work
once started. The mayor said the
city engineer was the only person
from whom the contractor was to
take orders and told him to go ahead
with the work.
To Enforce Parking Ordinance.
Commissioner Gardner asked why
the ordinance prohibiting the park
ing of cars on the east side OF
Washington street from Main street
to Paradise alley was not enforced.
Il don't know said the mayor.
1--WE have a police force and you
are the police commissioner Com
missioner Gardner said he would
see that the ordinance is enforced
today.
The pay of two park keepers, at
SIS per month each, was overlook
ed in the bills allowed at the last
meeting and the same was allowed
last night.
Commissioner Wilson wanted to
know if the city had a weed ordi
nance. He was assured that there
was weed ordinance and that if
the people did not cut the weeds
from their premises, all he had to
do was to step into the police sta
ton and have a warrant issued
against them. The intention of en-
forcing the cutting of weeds in all
parts OF the city was expressed.
A resolution was adopted ex-
members OF the National
Guard company from the payment
OF street tax. The measure is not
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-07-03
AUSTRIAN OFFICERS
WHO FAILED ON THE
PIAVE ARE REPLACED

Zurich, July 3-Important
changes have been made in the Aus
tro-Hungarian command in the
Italian theater of operations. Field
Marshal Conrad Won Hoetzendorf,
who has been in command on the
mountain front, has been replaced
by Field Marshal Won Koevess, ac-
cording to Munich papers. General
Otto Won Below of the German
army has been appointed command
er-in-chief,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-07-03

of the Santa Fe, a proposition the
company has always opposed. 1t
was suggested that the passage Of
the ordinance proposed, before the
trial of this case, would bind the
Santa Fe as recognizing the exist
ence OF a street over and across its
tracks. The entire matter remains
in the same condition in which t
has been for many months.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-07-03

that when my baby came the doctor
said he never saw a women get along
any better than l did and / know it
was Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound that helped me. Mrs.
ERNEST BEEBE, 12i Wyoming Ave,
Watertown, N. Y.
Women who continually overtax their
strength until they get into such a
weakened condition should profit by
Mrs. Beebe's experience and try this
famous root and herb remedy, Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
For special suggestions write Lydia
r. Pinkham Medicine Co. The result of
its long experience is at your service.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-07-03

was IN very poor
health. / suffered
from a fem a lie
weakness so | did
not have strength
enough to do my
own work and could
not stand on my
feet for any length
of time. Lydia E.
Pinkham's V e ge-
t a b lie Compound
CORE tie d my
trouble and | i'm
nrovaI ~ ba.l+I o..
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-07-03
This WOMAN
KNOWS
She Proved that Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound Does Help Suffer-
ing Women

Watertown. N. Y.-"Last fall when
l was expecting to become a mother |
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-07-03
When Baby Is Teething

GROVES BABY BOWEL MF
ICINE will correct the Stom
and Bowel troubles. Perfectly ha
less. See directions on the bot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24

Herbert c. Hoover, Federal Food Administrator, is of the hope that he will be supported in his idea to feed the unfortunates of Germany who were in no wise responsible for the dastardly acts of their government The women of Germany have made an earnest plea to Mrs. Wilson to have food sent to the people of Ger many, who are on the verge or star vation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
HUN SCIENTISTS
 NOT RECOGNIZED

London. october sO.-A declaration that the central powers must renouncs the political methods which have led to atrocities that have shocked the world before the allied scientific so- cieites can have scientific intercourse with similar organizations in the ceE- tral empires has been adopted by the interallied societies conference here. This statement has been drawn up a3 a guide to scientific societies of tho Sllied nations which may intend to withdraw from intercourse with thoso of the central powers and to form new associations from which Germans and Austrians are excluded. The state- ment as adopted, asserts:
 The wanton destruction of prop erty, the murders and outrages on land and sea, the sinking of hospital ships the insults and tortues inflicted on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
POPULAR
 WITH THE AMERICAN
 DIVISION COMMANDS
First Became Popular When Ameri- cans Aided in Freeing Rheims
 of the Germans

| With the American Troops in France, October 25.-(Correspondence of the | Associated Press. .)-Dugouts are pop- I ular as homes for the staffs of Amerl- can army corps and divisions as their occupancy enables the officers direct | ing operations to be in close eommun- | ication with their regiments in action. The staff of the Second American division which assisted the French to drive the Germans out of Rheims, had it's headquarters in Suippes for a time. but when the push" moved forward and the Germans were forced out of Souain. it became difficult to maintain close liaison between the American troops and staff officers
 Souain was constantly under fire, so the Americans chose the alternative of a dugout. They went almost to Souain, and in the very midst of the desolation and destruction they bur rowed underneath the shell craters and gaping mine holes and built them selves tiny little underground house
 The rooms were so small that d dozen people would fill any one to suffoca-
 tion. but the house was safe and
 shell and bomb proof. Immediately
 the situation improved, for from the
 general commanding the division to
 the orderly and dispatch runner who
 hourly risked his life by going up to
 the front. all were Safe as long as in-
 side.
 The corps dugout. of necessity
 large and fairly pretentious affair, is
 rarity of rarities and, with it's cleo
 trieity. its running water. it's heating arrangements and the like, it is dis tinctively an American affair. The di- visional dugout on the other hand is an institution which all armies avail themselves of when convenient.
 Sometimes the real, genuine dugout is used as was this one in the shell. torn field of the Champagne where personal safety is virtually the only factor involved. In other cases, espe- cially in the Argonne forest and to lesser extent in the Vosges mountains both the French and Americans, and the Germans go in when possible for architectural effects and house them selves snugly in chalet-like cottages and bungalows which either meet the supply of houses that do not exist, or substitute for those that are inhabita- ble or nearly SO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24

| from a train but was recaptured. He
 escaped from the prison and swan
 across the Rhine river to safety in Switzerland
 The story has been told briefly in the
 Associated Press dispatches but it's de- tails are so filled with the spirit of ad- venture as to be well worth the telling. When the President Lincoln went to the bottom of the ocean Lieutenant Isaacs, who is from Cresco la, climbed upon raft Soon afterward the sub marine emerged and her commander demanded the captain of the President Lincoln as prisoner. The survivor told him they believed the captain had gone down with the ship, not that they were aware of that but to save, if possible
 the captain being taken prisoner.
 While this was going on Lieutenant Isaacs said, he lay on the raft with his stripes on his uniform but without success, and he was ordered aboard the submarine It was the U-90 and her commander, Captain Hemy, had re- sided in the United States and England and spoke English fluently.
 TREATED WELL ON SUB
 Apparently Kenny had been affected by our civilization, said the lieuten- ant of the Lincoln. I was told that I would tell him where he could find our captain or go to Germany myself as a prisoner. I could not conform to his first command and of course would not have had I been able to-"
 The young officer said that he was given good bunk on the submarine
 and four good meals daily, including meat, eggs and real coffee The fol- lowing day as the submarine was cruis- ing about seeking new victims she was sighted by two American destroyers
 While the destroyers were plunging toward us we were getting under water as rapidly as possible and finally stop ped at depth of 60 meters" said Lieu tenant Isaacs. When the depth bombs began exploding every German was at his station tense and pretty badly scared. Now and then Junior officer would sing out to the captain that a destroyer was about so far away to starboard or port as the case might have been. They were recording the positions with their listening devices Then would come depth charge. It is to describe just the sensation, but it seemed to me like a dog shaking a rat and it was anything but pleasant to be the rat. With each explosion a look of horror would flash over the faces of the Germans. for they expected every moment that one or the charges would be fired a bit closer and they knew their craft could not withstand it."
 Too many destroyers were in that area for comfort, so Kenny headed for the Kiel canal the next night. When off the Scandinavian coast Lieutenant Isaacs said he decided to attempt to swim to the shore when the submarine approached territorial waters With his life belt on, he was just slipping over the side shortly after midnight | when he was discovered by Remy him. self and pulled aboard.
 On at arrival at Wilhelmshav he l was kept three days on a submarine ,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24

Flgs.' and in few hours all the con. s'lpated poison. undigested food and sour bile gently moves out of it's lit- Iie bowels without gripping. and you have we'll playful child again
 Mothers can rest easy after giving this harmless fruit laxative,'' because It never fails to clean.e the little ones liver and bowels and sweeten the stom- ach and they dearly love it's pleasant taste. Full directions for babies, chil. oren or all ages, and for grown-ups printed on bottle. Remember nanrs California -'-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
Cured His RUPTURE

was badly ruptured while lifting a trunk several years ago. Doctors said my only hope of cure was an operation
 Trusses did me no good. Finally I got hold of something that quickly and com pIetely cured me. Years have passed and the rupture has never returned, although There, was. no operation, no lost time. no trouble. I have nothing to sell, but will give full information about how you may find complete cure without opera tlon, if you write to me- Eugene M. Pull
 len, Carpenter, SIS B, Manasquan, N. J. Setter cut out this notice and show it to save life or at least stop the misery of rupture and the worry and danger of an operation.--Adv. AA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24

fortunate enough to be caught in an eddy that swept me to the shore
 When able to walk I found a farm house and was warmly welcomed by the Swiss peasants. told them of Willis and asked them to send someone down the bank to look for him. short dis tance down the road the peasant met one of his neighbors who had come to look for me. Willis had landed much the same as I had, and was treated as I had been by another peasant and had sent messenger for me just as I had for him. Willis went to France and | assume has joined his command by this time'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
Escaping From German Prison, He Travels Far, Swims Rhine and Ar
 rives in Switzerland
TREATED WELL AND FED EXCELLENTLY
 BY SUB COMMANDER
Gives Details of How He and Other American Officers Eluded Guards in Baden
 Prison

London, October 30.--(Correspondence of the Associated Press. )-Here Is the story of Lieut. E. V. Isaacs of the Uni ted States navy, watch officer of the American transport President Lincoln when that vessel was torpedoed in the Atlantic on May S1 last He was cap- tured by the German submarine which sunk the ship. When off the Scandi- navian coast he attempted to swim ashore but was caught. On his way to
 8 prison camp in Germany he jumped
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
TEXAS ADVANCES
 IN OIL INDUSTRY

Dallas. Tex. November 23.-Under the spur of war. Texas in the last year, has effected a tremendous de- velopment of her oil industry Today there are in operation in this state 42 refineries, with a capacity of 27S,s00 barrels daily. They are capable of re fining double the amount of oil pre- duced in the Texas field last year. Fields of unsupported volume have been opened and made to aid in keep ing ships and army motors at top speed.
 In the coastal region where 10 re- fineries are in operation, the first unit is nearly completed of a big oil plant on the Houston ship canal It is in- tended to have & capacity of 10000 bar rels a day and represent an investment from ss.0O0. 900 to S10.000.O00.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
Child is Constipated! Bilious! Look at Tongue.
Hurry. Mother! Remove poisons from little stomach, liver and bowels with
 California Syrup of Figs"

No matter what ails your child. a gentle, thorough laxative should always be- the first treatment given.
 If your little one is out-of- sorts half sick. isn't resting, eating and acting naturally-look, mother! see if tongue is coated. This is sure sign that its little stomach, liver and bowels are clogged with waste. When cross, irri- tablAs feverish. stomach sour, breath bad or has stomach-ache diarrhea sore throat, full of cold, give a tea spoonful cf -CaIifornia Syrup of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24

prisoners of war have left a stain on the history of the guilty nations which cannot be removed by mere compen- sation of the material damage inflicted. In order to restore the confidence without which no scientific intercourse can be fruitful, the central powers must renounce the political methods which have led to atrocities that have shocked the civilized world"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
Stuttgart Girls Mobilized

Amsterdam. October 30.-Ten thou sand servant girls at Stuttgart, the capital of Wurttemburg, were mohil- ized recently to help unloading rail- road freight cars. Each has to give one day or two half days a week to this work. They are paid mems wages
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
RolsheYik Gives Honnr

Amsterdam, October 15.-The bol- shevik government of Russia has in- stituted military order flor va1or." Ii is tiny red flag. and the person on whom it is conferred is also given a certificate entitling him to wear it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
Flu in Mexico

Mexico City. November 2S-Spanish influenza struck Mexico hardest in the state of Guanahuato. Official re- ports state that, in one city of Con zalez, per cent of the inhabitants were afflicted and for three days. there were 100 deaths a day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
The War Roam

From the Peoples Home Journal.
 Crawford-"Everybody seems seeking an excuse to raise the price"
 Crabshaw-"Your wrong, old man. They raise 1t without any excuse"
Arizona republican., 1918-04-20

Lave tuitZ.
 Dave Fultz, best known as the head of the Baseball Players Fra ternity, prominent few seasons ago when the Frat was raising such a disturbance in baseball and famous in his younger days as a ball player and college athlete, has been recruit ed as an athletic director in the service of the Y. M. c. A. abroad
Arizona republican., 1918-04-20
Intoxication in Los AnqeIes

The Los Angeles Express laments the showing of thirty-nine trunks in the police single day. That says the Express is thirty-nin many for saloonless city Every drunk is too many in any city or town. The Express innocently thinks that the disgrace is imported from the unreforned suburban towns, which have not yet been comprehended within the sweeping limits of Los Angeles; that the drunk1 are primed in Vernon and Venice and come back to sober up off in the chemically pure city of An gele5.
 There may be good deal of imported intoxication in Angeles but is entirely inaccessible from within. While Los Angeles is saloonless it far from dry. The family liquor store flourishes, We under stand, where ones supply is limited only by the pacty of his purse and his physical ability to carry his purchase away. So if citizens of Los Ange les go as far as Venice they go for the ride rather than for the liquor.
 There are of course, some conviva1 souls who do not to drink in solitude and amid the sombe' surroundings of home They prefer the mahogany bar. drink is drink unless there is a foot rail Some people drink with both feet on tie ground. There others who require the incentive of a white aproned attendant across the bar and the of polished glass and silver These motifs arc now lacking in Los Angeles.
 But such eccentric persons comparatively few. If the liquor traffic would have had to depend ullOH lICT there WOQlQ not nave been tlod big enough for prohibition movement to form and maneuver in The great of drinkers do not care where they drink; whether they served with Black and White under gitterng, lights or whether Hebe of Ganymede meets them in darkened alley with bottle of Bootleggers Best. It's the alcohol they want, not the atmosphere or the aroma
 The mention of Vernon in the complaint of the Express awakens curiosity to why that district, surrounded physically by Los Angeles has not been included in the corporation; why that municipality is permitted to exist a separate entity when Los Angeles has been spreading its corporate limits over distant seas and lands. There was reason once why Vernon permitted. That was when a few years ago. Los Angeles began it's work of fpurf- cation The purest towns need cess pool or sewer; the purer they are the greater the need Vernon was needed as locus for prize fights and Sunday entertainments which Los Angeles felt constrained to prohibit within itself But state laws now regulate most of these things and there is no plausible excuse for the existence of Vernon as an immoral appurte- ment to Los Angeles.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-20
The Y. M. C. A.

We have before us letter written by MT d. M' Clinton national secretary of the Y. NJ C. A. who will address meeting in this city tomorrow afternoon. It begins with striking quotation from an American naval officer 'The Y. NJ. C. A. is equal to the best bateship afloat" The of the letter is given to adducing proof of that statement. gathered by MT. Clinton during stay at a French port with the boys of a patrol squadron with the American fleet in European waters.
 t is the clean-livng that the I. M C. A. inspires that makes it such valuable adjunct to the navy as it is to the army The really godly young man is more courageous young man. He has his conscience to satisfy and the coward cannot satisfy his con- science That goes beneath the surface and requires steadfastness at the core steadfastness that man- fests itself in emergencies. A may be patriotic without being godly but no man be godly without being patriotic.
 Then there is clean living, necessary adjunct to the highest efficiency in any walk of life and es- pecially in the life of soldier of the sea or Of the land Thus it is proved that the Y M C. A. is the equal of a battleship The value of battleship de bends upon it's crew just as the value of an army division depends upon it's personnel. Otherwise all battleships of the size and armament would be equal and all army organizations would be equal III effectiveness to every similar unit.
 When we have the war land and sea we shall have trumphed in large part through the eff ficiency of the Y. M. c. A which has been communi- cated to and permeated soldiers and sailors.
Arizona republican., 1918-04-20
SURE THAT GERMANY
 CAN BE STARVED OUT
(PhYSicaI Culture)

N1uySlCd1 CulluIeD
 The Germans, with their colossal military preparedness, failed miserably at one point. They had soldiers and guns galore but they were short of fat. No provision had been made in their domestic agricultural economy to pro- duce homegrown vegetable fats When importations were shut off and the quantities of live stock were re- duced as a matter of economizing grain food, the Germans both industrially and dietetically suffered acutely from fat privations. Their laboratory food scientists had told the military author
 es that carbohydrates were dietetic equivalents of fat Through the means of most painful experience the Ger mans found out the scientists had been mistaken. and smuggling fat into Ger many today is as profitable as ship ping whisky to Alabama the week be- fore Christmas.
 In America we have no such problem of the shortage of fats As a by product of our cotton industries we have an annual production of 150,000,- 900 gallons of oil and we have the soil and climate suitable for the production