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The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17

Mrs. Emerald Mash, stenographer in
the Bystander Office, will leave Satur-
day for a two weeks visit and rest with
her sister, Miss Granett McGhee, in
Chicago.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17
St. PauI's A. M. e. Church
Second and Center

" Rev. S. L. Brit, D. D., Pastor.
1O:45 a. m.-Preaching.
1890 p. m.-Class meeting.
/ p. m.--Sunday school.
$50 D. m.-Christian Endeavor.
500 p. m.-EYening worship.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17
Union Congregational Church.

Union Congregational Church.
Tenth and Park SITS.
Rev. H. E. King, pastor.
II a. m.-Morning worship.
1915 p. m.-Sunday school.
Christian Endeavor at 6:15 p. m.
Lieut.. nj. H. Thompson, president.
Evening services at 1880 p. m.
Mid-week prayer meeting Wednes-
day.
Everybody invited at all of these
services.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17

Mrs. Cyletha Hutchinson entertained
the Carnation Club Monday evening at
her home, 77s 10th st. Luncheon was
served
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17

Mr.. l.. c. Stewart of Kansas City,
Mo-, is now located in the Y. NJ. G. a.
work at Camp Dodge. He arrived here
this week.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17

Mr.. and Mrs. Scott Stewart of Ogden,
Utah, are visiting for week with their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. McCraven
749 10th St.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17
Justice VIM. Baily Of Buxton, iowa,
spent Thursday in our city on business.

Editor Thompson and son Nelson
spent Saturday in Perry and Scandal,
Iowa, on business
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17

For Sale or Exchange for smaller
property, seven room house on Six
|teenth street, near school. Reasonable
|terms. Address 1926 w. Sixteenth
street, city.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17
FOR SALE OR ExCHANGE-On,

|six-room house, electricity, gas and
water, one block from Clark street
car; corner lot. Price, $2,25o.oo. Win
take one-third in trade of real estate
|or a good auto. Terms for balance.
h 800 Ascension street, or phone Drake
6sO8 J.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17
CITY LOCALS

For Sale-Seven room house on Six.
|teenth street, near school. Reasonable
|terms. Address 1926 w. Sixteenth
street, city.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17
AsBURY M. E. CHURCH.

Worshiping temporarily in Masonic hall,
18th and Center SITS.
Rev. F. D. Woodford, Pastor.
Residence 844 18th st.
1000 a. m.-Sunday School.
1l:00 a. m.-Preaching.
1900 m.-Class meeting.
$50 p, m:-Epworth League.
1880 p. m.-Preaching. s --
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17

Bethel A. M. E. Church
Sixteenth and Fillmore StS.'
Rev. HI. A. Perry, Pastor.
II a. m.-Morning service.
1890 p. m.-Class meeting.
100 2. m.-Sunday school.
$50 p. m.-ChristiaE Endeavor.
1870 p. m.-Evening worship.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17
Union Baptist Church
Sixteenth and Mccormick.

Union Baptist Church
Sixteenth and Mccormick.
Rev. J. H. Reynolds, Supply Pastor.
$3.50 a. m.-Sunday school.
IL a. m.-Preaching.
CT NIB. Y. p. u.
8 o. m.-Preaching. ' O.
First A. Nj. E. Zion Church.
Rev. E. S. Hardge, Pastor.
511 S. E. Fourth St.
1880 a. m.-Preaching.
100 p. rn.-Sunday school.
6:3O p. nv. c. E. Society.
8 p m.-Preaching.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17

Mrs. Fife Watkins, who is very sick,
much better.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10
"wHEN DREAMS COME TRUE"

when Dreams Come True" musi-
cal comedy Of romance and youth
which will be the attraction at the
Palace Wednesday night, is from the
pen of Philip Bartholomae, composer OF
Little Miss Brown" overnight Very
Good, Eddie" and other successes; the
music is by Silyio Helm.
This is the fourth successful season
for this delightfully."- tuneful musical
comedy and, like wine it seems to inn
prove with age. "Whcn Dreams Come
True" is in three acts, the first show.
ing the deck Of an ocean liner az sea,
the second the living room i'm the home
OF an American millionaire and the third
the ballroom in the same home.
The company is large one of eNcep-
tionally clever singers and dancers, in-
cluding a dancing and singing chorus.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10
STANDARD OIL
BUYS 45 PER CENT
OF MAGNOLIA STOCK

The Oil Trade Journal OF New York
has announced that the Standard oil
Company of New York has purchased
45 per cent OF the outstanding stock Of
the Magnolia Petroleum Company CON
summating one of the largest transac-
tions in the history Of the oil industry.
The Journals account Of the sale in
cluded the following comment
"rhe interests acquired We're all but
a small part Of the holdings Of the late
John D. Archbold estate and a consid-
cradle part Of the stock Of Henry c..
Folger Jr., president Of the Standard
Oil Company New York;.
"The importance Of the deal is two
fold. The Magnolia Petroleum Company
secures ample cash TO meet the require
ments OF a rapidly expanding business
and obtains close working aftiliation
with one Of the countrys biggest mar
keting and shipping organizations. The
Standard Oil Company New York; at
the same time becomes directly inter
ested in n great petroleum producing
and refining organization firmly in
trenched in the rich oil fields of okla
homa, Kansas northwest Texas and
Mexico.
AT a special meeting Of the stock
holders of the Magnolia Petroleum Com
pany held in Galveston Jan. IA, the
Magnolia company increased its author
ized capital from $30,OOOOOO to $6O,OOO -
900. OF the old authorization S22 900 600
was outstanding and the company Of
fered to stockholders an additional S22,.
100000 at par, subscription payments to
be made forthwith or by notes extending
over a considerable period of time BY
this arrangement all of the new issue Of
$22,000,00 becomes fully paid up Feb
/. 1918.
"An amendment to the bylaws also
was adopted, providing that any stock
OF the company owned or held for a cor
poration should be nonvoting, but should
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10
AT the Theat@rs This Week

Theaterguors are offered an unusually
strong list OF attractions this week. The
bills OF the week include not only good
photoplays, but one Of the best known
musical comedies OF the season and also
farce that comes highly recommended.
The road shows will be seen at the
Palace and excellent vaudeville Is prom
ised at the Princess.
At the Palace.
This afternoon June Elvidge will be
seen at the Palace in '1The Wrong Way"
Monday night the farce comedy, 'Mary's
Ankle" viii be the attraction. Tues
day afternoon and night "iove Letters"
starring Dorothy Dalton, will be shown,
The story Of Love Letters tells
Of the struggle Of young wife to keep
her husbands confidence. A few old
letters, written during her girlhood days
are used by Raymond Moreland to black
mail her, and her attempts TO regain
them lead her into all sorts Of diricult
situations, including being accused or
Moreland's murder, with her own hus-
band as the prosecuting attorney. We'd
nesday's attraction is the musical com
edy. when Dreams Come True" Thurs
day Theda Bara, in "The Darling OF
Paris" featuring this well known actress
in an altogether new role, will be shown.
FRIDAYS attraction will be William $.
Hart in -The Bargain" Saturday Viola
Dana will be seen in The Winding
Trail
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10
FIRST FIRE ALARM OVER
NEW SYSTEM PROVES FALSE

The first fire alarm over the new sys.
TEN, now being installed came In at
$40 o'clock last night from box 81,
but was false alarm The alarm came
into the station all right and the depart
ment reached the box, which Is located
at the corner of b street and Second
avenue northwest, without delay, but
there was no fire. A woman residing
on the corner where the box IL located
said she saw "a man pull the box and
then walk away. She did not recognize
him. The police viii endeayor to locate
the offender and he is likely to receive
a heavy fine, as u severe penalty is
provided in the ordinance ~-|n3iting
the sending in OF false alarm.
There are to be thirty boxes in the
circuit. tVenty-one OF which have been
placed and connected, and work on the
remaining nine will be completed tomor-
row.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10
At the Princess.

At the Princess this afternoon Wini-
fred Allen will be seen in For Nalor'
which tells what women can do for
their country, even at home. Most OF
the scenes were taken in Toronto, all
though it is quite difficult task TO
get permission 10 take pictures on cana
dian soil In the thrilling action iu
the trenches, the picture was taken at
Camp Borden, so miles from toronto
where the boys learn the art of warfare
before leaving for the front. How MeiIA
does her bit by inducing her brother To
volunteer and tho sacrifice she uhder-
goes, makes an interesting picture. Ih'
Midnight Follies close their weeks en-
gagement this afternoon when they VIII
present one Of their best turns. IiaI
Wittles' Broadway Girls will open
weeks engagement Monday and the
photoplay will be The Scarlet Car the
picturization of one of Richard Harding
Dayis' best known books, featuring
Franklin Farnum. Tuesday William
Russell will be seen in THE Sea Mas
ter" Wednesday "The Sudden Gentle
man" starring William Desmond as an
Irish lad, who was left heir to iiVe NH
lion dollars, will be shown. Thursday
afternoon and night, The Bottom Oh
the Well" a strong drama of romance
mystery and intrigue, featuring Albert
T.. Smith, will be shown. one OF the
thrilling scenes shows the capture Of am
American smuggler by a British war.
ship. Friday Jane Eagle will be seen
in The World and the Woman.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10

one of the blades and inflicted such a
wound in his throat that it bled freely
and required the attention Of the city
physician. He had told the chief of
police earlier in the day that if he did
not get morphine he would kill himself
His son, Jim Austin, was taken to the
county Jail yesterday to be held for the
federal government, it having been
learned that he probably is a Stacker.
The county would not hold him without
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10
"BONY" AUSTIN TRIES
SUICIDE IN CITY JAIL

"Bony" Austin. serving a sentence Of
thirty days in the county Jail for the
theft Of an overcoat. cut his throat with
a safety razor blade shortly after dark
last night. Another man in the jail
had a safety razor and "Bony' secured
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10

his home in Bakersville, y. c. accord
ing TO a dispatch received here today.
Mr.. Prichard, brother Of United States
circuit court judge, j. G. Prichard, OF
this city, was d personal friend Of
Colonel Roosevelt and the two enjoyed
many hunts after bear and other game
in the West
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10

This is an age OF beauty. Unsightly
faces filled with plmples, discolorations,
blackheads, etc, are nothing but un-
healthy faces due to blood impurities.
Cleanse the blood with Stuart's Calcium
Waters and the facial blemishes disap-
pear.
Stuarts Calcium Waters are more.
active in the skin where they cleanse
and clear the blood driving out all
poisons and impurities. And you'll
never have good complexion until the
blood is clean.
No matter how bad your compilations
is, Stuart's Calcium Waters will work
wonders with it, You can get these
little wonocr-workers at your druggists
for so cents a package
free trial package will be mailed
If you send the coupon below.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10

a formal commitment, and the chief
was compelled to take him back to the
city Jail, where he was lying near the
door last night crying out for morphine.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10

ROOsevelt's Hunting Partner Dies.
Ashevllle, n. c., Feb. 9.-George X.
Prichard, former doorkeeper of the
United States senate, at one time big
game hunter and sheriff of Michael
County, died yesterday, aged ninety, at
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10

Read it in The Daily Ardmorelte first.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-10
sMARYS ANKLE

"Mary's Ankle" a cfcT'c- "-'ee com
edy by May T'ully will be the attrac'
ton at the Palace tomorrow night. The
piece is direct from its three months
successful run at the Bijou Theater,
New York. The play win be interpreted
by the original New York company
including Amy Leah Dennis, Bert Leigh
May Wallace, James Hester, Edward
Butler. Louise Sanford, Donald Mac
Leod Gertrude Mann. Royal Cutter ana
others.
The plot of the piece deals with the
escapades of three impoverished young
men, one Of whom pretends ne IS going
TO marry certain Mary Jane Smith
in order to get, from his relatives, much
needed wedding presents, An actual
Mary Jane Smith appears as the young
mans patient and learns of her part IN
the plan. one situation follows an
other in rapid succession, and the whole
is embroidered with some Of the fun
niest dialogue heard on the metopoil'
tan stage in many months. The New
York Globe said that "'Mary's Ankle
was as good farce as The Boomer
ang.' or Turn to the Right is comedy
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-09-19

Watering a plant or a garden space
by sprinkling is usually more harmful
than helpful, inasmuch as it induces
the growth, up in the moistened area,
of fine feeding rOOtlets that should be
deep in the ground, says WOman's
Home Companion. These, reaching in
a network near the surface for the
moisture, find themselves exposed to
the fierce and baking heat of midsum-
mer whenever the moisture dries out,
and dry out it will. They are unable
to bear this scorcking, being extremely
tender and demanding cool earth
around them, and the result is either
death to the plant or so weakened and
miserable a condition that it might as
we'll die.
This surface watering by hose or
hand bears no relation, of course, to
a thorough saturatiOn as a system of
irrigation makes possible. But unless
such system is installed, 1 would
urge every gardener in the country to
pin his faith to the cultivator and his
own industry Herewith, rather than
to any method of watering by hand.
Certain things may be "watered in"
when transplanting; but otherwise,
eschew the hose and watering can.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-09-19
/. HOME - Z
TOWN. - =
HELPSR
PRACTICAL CLEANUP DAY
How the People Of an Iowa Town I'M
proved the Roads Leading Into
the Place.

In Farm and Fireside a writer
says:
"When the town of Mitchellville,
H.. with a population Of 900, decid-
ed on a general cleanup, woman
arose in meeting and promised the
help of the women in every way pos
sible. She suggested that perhaps
about all they could do would be to
cook q picnic dinner. WhereupOn one
man arose and gave it as his opinion
that inasmuch as Iowa was in fair
way to have equal suffrage shortly
and the Mitchellville women had been
insistent upon it, he, for one, thought
the women ought to work alongside
the men ON cleanup day. And work
they did!
"While other towns were content
on such occasions, to remove the un-
slightly ash heaps that disfgured back
wards and otherwise make more pre-
sentable the general municipal ap-
pearance, the Mitchellville workers
decided there was no reason why every
able-bodied man and woman should
not nut in ten good, solid hours work
on the roads leading into the town.
"Roaos, they argued, were a coun-
try towns principal asset, as with
out them the country trade, which
kept the town prosperous, was not
Forthcoming. What if there were
an ASH heap left at night, would 1t
not be better to have a few miles
of good roadway all completed, so the
farmers could come in with produce
and go back with their wagons and
automobiles filled with all sorts OF
store goods?
$50 men and women alike OF
Mitchellville worked all day long,
though the sun was hot and the work
was hard. Today the Mitchell7ille
speedway, six miles long, is monu-
nent to the efforts Of the men and
women Of Mitchellville who decided
that a cleanup day should mean some
thing more than just idle talk and
newspaper publicity"
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-09-19

"Do you believe in luck?"

"Do you believe in luck?"
"Of course. do" replied Senator
Sorghum. "And I have great respect
for 1t. The only trouble about luck Is
the way some people use it for a cam.
outage when they're dealing off the
bottom of the de':k."
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-09-19
ADDED TO NATIONS WEALTH
Home Gardens Have Been Of Great
Benefit Both to the Country and
to Communities.

The campaign so persistently con-
Quoted last spring and summer to en-
list families In the home garden move
ment can be said to have been an ex-
traOrdinary success. The estimate that
$3.50. 100000 worth Of produce has been
raised in war gardens in the United
States this year and that housewives
have canned at least 400 100000 jars
OF vegetables and fruits is impressive.
The figures, of course, cannot be any
where near exact, but there can be no
question that the total amount Of food
stuffs produced has been enormous,
and they are probably not excessive.
All of it was q clear addition to the
wealth and resources of the nation.
} Thus, labor and land that had for
merly gone. unused brought practi-
cal benefit to the laborer and the ma
ton. The investment has paid so
well that it ought to be repeated on
q more extensive scale next year. Hum
dreds Of families who never had a gar
den before have enjoyed fresh vege-
tables from their home yards this sum-
mer. Many of them have learned some
thing of the art of gardening and have
become keenly interested in it. All
have benefited physically from inter-
esting work in the open air.
These need not be advised to plan
for a bigger garden next year. But
those who, through prOcrastination and
Incidence, failed to realize the profits
of gardening this year should start
making plans for next spring now.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-09-19
SCRAPS

A diamond factory for the employ
ment Of disabled soldiers has been
opened at Brighton, England.
More than 100000 women are at pres
ent working the land in Great Britain,
compared with 81, 900 last year. ,.-
Girls employed in the British NUM-
tion works In some districts cultivate
the waste ground around the hostels.
MINIS Of the United States are To-
Gated at Philadelphia, Pa. San Fran
CISCO Cal, and Denver, Colo.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-09-19
Four O'Clock Breakfast,

"Are you going to take any summer
bOarders this year?"
IF any comes along I'll take EN-"
said Mr.. Cobbles, ''but one thing has
got to be distinctly understood"
"Yes?'
"Me an my hired man are goin' to
he powerful busy this summer. There
amt goin' to be but one call for break
fast, and that will be at 4 a. m."-Bir-
mingham Age-Herald.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-09-19

day and, in addition, this peace-loving
nation must never again bear the great
penalty Of being wholly unprepared to
meet an unexpected violation of Its lib
erty. Young men and women trained
to promote their own welfare and that
of tLeir communities and the nation
should also be qualified to respond
PROMPTLY to the call of their country in
it's hour of need"
Mrs Philip North Moore of st. Louis.
president National Council Of Women
u S. A., which includes leading great
organizations of women, says:
"The wa~ has caused us to take
stock of ourselves and has thus reveal
| ed our deficiencies. Constructive
thought and determination to urge fun
damental changes supremely vital to
our welfare should supersede former
| assurance and self-cOnfiGence.
1.-THE physical survey and the won
derful regenerating capacity OF the
training camps have suggested rapid.
comprehensive and democratic method
as a model upon which to prepare
ing for all young people.
"The highest aims for America can
be realized if the nations leaders pre-
pare adequate Selective courses OF
study. development, discipline and
service, and the federal government
furnishes such courses to all.
II heartily indOrse the plan"
The committee has received express
sions of approval from prominent
women in all parts of the country.
These include suffrage leaders, busi-
ness women, officers of fraternai and
patriotic societies, writer's and profess
slOnal women.
Leading Women Express Views.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. president
of the National American Woman Suf-
frage association, wrotes
II am very glad to be one OF the
founders of the movement for federal
training and agree with all points
made by the committee.
Like a searchlight the war has
pointed out all our weak spots. We
are a brave people and strong. There
is nothing which we will regard as i'm
possible to do. While it is a tragic
price to pay, the war will leave US bet
ter informed and more alive to the
needs of our country than before"
Mrs James Lees Laidlaw, acting
chairman of the New York State Wom-
ems Suffrage party. expressed her
views in the following statement:
ITO inform our electorate and our
prospective electorate; to give them
the tools of citizenship; to equip them
to use these tools to the full efficiency
of citizenship in a Herculean task, but
completely possible one.
"Let the great plan of federal train
ing once be made operative and I be-
! lieve great army of citizen workers.
men and women, will rise to cooper
ate"
Mrs. Frederick Schoff. president Ma
tiOnal Congress of Mothers and Par
ent-Teachers' association and director
home education division United States
bureau of education, Washington, said:
"EducatiOn for citizenship is of vital
Importance if the ideals of the found
ers of our country are to be maintain
ed. With hearty approval I pledge CO.
operation in the idea and suggest that
| committee be formed to consider
what definite measures will be most
practical and effective for realization
of the desired purpose"