The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-15
OKLAHOMA and TEXASNEWSNOTES
OKLAHOMA.


Mrs. John Baxendale of Krebs is he.
lieved TO be the fastest knitter in the
United States if not in the world. She
has the distinction of having made n
regulation army sweater in five hours
and iifty-fivo minutes. Mrs. BaXendale
learned the art of knitting in her girl
hood. She is siXty.two years of age
and the mother of six children.
A community welfare campaign is
being waged at Ada. Children as well
as adults are actively participating.
The Chickasaw Pioneers Association
viii hold its annual celebration at
Ringing this year beginning July .
and continuing for three days
The commissioners Of Logan County
have turned over to county director or
war gardens, Frank Dilenback, 900 va
cant lots in Guthrie to be used for
gardens. The plan is to allot two lots
to each family, they in turn to ad-
vance fifty cents each as a guarantee
that the lots will be cultivated.
Oklahoma babies born in 1918 are to
be enrolled in the army Of war savers.
Merchants throughout the state are
posting signs in their stores reading:
1--WE are going to present every 1918
baby with a war savings stamp. The
plan is purely one of patriotism on the
part Of the merchants and the parents
are not obligated in any way.
One hundred and seventy eggs is the
record made in January by twenty-five
black leghorn hens, the property of }.
II Hood Of Drumright, secretary Of the
Creek County Poultry Association. The
eggs sold for seventy-fve cents per
dozen.
A call has been issued by the young
mems Democratic Club of Waurika for
a county convention of club members
to be held there today
Grady will shortly celebrate the thir-
tieth anniversary Of its existence as a
town. The postofiice was established in
1883, and the first package of mail that
reached the town came from Spanish
Fort, a village on Red River that sue
ceeded a military outpost established in
the sixteenth century by Spanish ex-
plorers
The fifty young women who will re-
ceive degrees or certificates in the va
rious departments Of Oklahoma College
for Women at Chickasha in May will
wear no frills or furbelows on this
important occasion, as the limit to
the cost Of the dress Of each will be
S1O.5O. This is according to an edlct
issued recently by the college presden,
to the parents of the students.
During the year 1917 fire destroyed
in this state fifteen mills and elevators
causing a loss Of s1O7014S2; thirty
eight warehouses and factories with a
loss of $21l 3S492; 1879 stores of various
kinds, causing a loss Of $6140S3.45; /;
twentythree office buildings, equipments
and supplies to a value of $40S, ,5S6; (;
eighty-two cotton gins, congresses, cot
ten seed houses and oil mills, with a
loss of $6O4,776; hay and grain in the
stack, S3135G32; the loss on oil tanks,
oil refineries, oil, derricks and drilling
tools for the year was $2025,20714.
Cotton County claims the record of
being the first county in the state to
complete its work in the second draft.
There are 1,126 registered men in Cot.
ton County.
After nearly thirty years of happy
married life Mrs Anna Cox has filed
suit for divorce from her husband, A.
G. Cox a grocer, i'm Tulsa.
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