The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-03
TEXAS.

military establishment in the Unit
ed States is Miss Mimi Rooster, of
the San Antonio arsenal. Major
Harry B. Jordan, commander of the
arsenal, says that Miss Rooster is
the arsenals right arm" In doing
her work up to the hilt," ably, ef-
iciently, Miss Rooster has an
swered one of the questions as 10
whether women can be found to
take the places Of men who go into
military service.
Many trappers and fishermen liv-
ing near Orange, who have camped
along the Texas and Louisiana
banks of the Sabine River, have
abandoned their former pursuits to
engage in hog raising.
Mrs. Maude f. Griffin of Hous-
ton, recently appeared before the
United States inspectors of steam
vessels at Galveston and obtained
license as second-class pilot,
which gives her authority to handle
steam vessels under so tons. She Is
the first woman on the Texas coast
to get such 4 license.
With seven flying camps, Texas
is said to be the worlds greatest
field for training aviators. There
are six American and one British
aviation stations in the state. In
all the seven camps a total of SO
men have been killed in airplane ac-
cidents up to and early in Febru-
AIRY. The British camp has lost far
more than any of the American
camps. The high fatality record
among the British is said to be the
direct result of the more strenuous
system of practice and drill which
they use.
Patriotic citizens of Coleman en-
gagged two Pullmans to accommo-
date the 90 soldier boys of their
county who left recently for Camp
Travis, the cost being paid by pop
ular subscription.
"I cannot fight the kaiser with a
gun, but can fight him with a
hoe" is what Sam Williams, To-
year-old boy of Lancaster wrote,
when he applied for enrolment as
member of the Patriotic Garden
League OF Texas.
Lieutenant Jones of Temple, who
is now somewhere in France" not
flied his mother recently that her
valuable breastpin which she had
lost several weeks ago had been
found in France in a cake which
she had sent over there. The Of
hcer was giving a party and the
mothers cake was accorded the
place of honor. As the last piece
was being eaten one of his COM
rades found the pin, which Lieuten-
ant Jones recognized as being his
mothers.
AT a recent meeting of the Wich-
ita Union. members of 68l of the
International Brotherhood of Elec-
trical Workers, a meeting was ap-
pointed to purchase $500 worth OF
thrift stamps.
The Lions Club of Beaumont not
only is exerting every effort to OBJ
tain vacant lots for gardening for
the poor but is asking the city to
aid in the garden work to the ex-
tent of furnishing teams and men
to plow and disk the ground for
persons unable to pay for the work.
The Lions Club and Civic Club
of Port Arthur recently sold 1000
rose plant swithin less than an hour
after the sale started. The Lions
Club is taking charge of the City
Beautiful" plans and in addition is
interested in the war garden move
ment.
The Southwestern Telegraph and
Telephone Company had 70zT
miles of wire in its underground
conduits at Dallas on March |. The
company also has 25,754 miles of
wire not in use. A total of 1891
telephone poles are being used in
the city limits.