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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-06
OPEN RECRUITING
STATION HERE is
STATEMENT MADE

That an army recruiting station viii
be opened in Chickasha next week
was the announcement made this
morning by Ernest r. Smith, who IS
to be in charge Of the station.
Mr. Smith, who was in charge OF
the recruiting station here before it
was closed Sept. Z, 1913, BY order Of
the war department, left this after
noon for Oklahoma City, where he
will enlist for recruiting duty.
Before leaving for the state capi
tal where he will confer with Col
Smith, Of the U. S. army recruiting
division, Mr.. Smith rendered his res
ignation as patrolman on the city po-
lice force, in which caapcity he has
been acting since February 2hd. Mr..
Smith is veteran" army man hav-
ing served in the u. S. fighting ma
chine for approximately six years.
After the issuance of the order to
close the local recruiting station Mr..
Smith was sent to Jefferson Bar
racks, Mo. He was later sent to
Camp Greene, N G., and later to
Camp Pike, where he was discharged
on January 9th. He had served sew
eral years in the army before assum-
ing charge Of the Chickasha recruit
ing station. Included in his military
experiences was service on the Mexi-
can border in 1915
Mr. Smiths re1ignation from the
city police force becomes effective
March 18TH. He will return to Chick
asha Friday evening, E
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-06

Conner, Schow, Slusher and Owsley
was appointed to represent the
Chamber OF Commerce. and to act
with the committee from the Retail
Merchants association to formulate
plans for the trade excursion OF
Chickasha. 4. t-
j. w. Owens, county farm agent
made. plea to the business men,
urging them to get behind the cot
ton proposition in Chickasha and use
their influence with, the farmers to
get them to /. plant, the, ( high grade
seed that has been arranged for
here.
There is not enough pep behind
the proposition to put it over now"
said Mr.. Owens. "a thousand bush
els of the seed are now here, but
the farmers are not taking to it as
they should. Fam advised THAT some
trash, supposed to be cotton seed
will be shipped in here from Lock
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-06
POSTPONE DIXIE
STORE OPENING

Fixtures having failed to arrive as
first contemplated, and the opening
of the Dixie store has been post
poned, was the statement made this
morning by Chas. ]. Miller, member
of the firm of Miller & Levine, pro
prietors of the store now being es-
tablished here. Initial plans were
TO oHn the store for business on.
Saturday .1,u..y u,
SWe have put off our opening,
bat expect to open our doors for.
business three days after the arrival
of our ifixtues,p Mr., Miller says.
Our stock, consisting of the lat
est styles from the eastern markets,
are now in Chickasha. The only
thing is keeping us from opening
our Chickasha store, is the fixtures"
he said
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-06

The West Burk Dome Oil Company has 3715
acres in the famous Bu1'kburnett field.
part of our holdings is about 1-2 miles
from the largest we'll in the Burkburnett
field which is now producing 2,100 barrels of
OIL daily; approximately the same distance
from the Hammond Art, also the Marine hold
ings which sold for half million dollars re-
Gently
We expect to begin drilling within the next
70 days. Get busy and secure some of this
stock for opportunity which leads to fortune
knocks but seldom in life You will regret it !
later if you fail to actanows I &<
The men managing this company are well
known in Chickasha and vicinity
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-06

Should we be successful in sign
ing a contract with the Oklahoma
Natural, it will be our policy to
make all necessary enlargemnts and
extensions to our gas distributing
system, so as to cover the City of
Chickasha adequately. The prospect
appears very hopeful and we certain
ly would be pleased to be able to
announce a contract. We realize
that you are working very hard to
obtain this natural gas service for
Chickasha, and we also appreciate
that the citizens of Chickasha are
most anxious to obtain natural gas
service, and therefore, it occurs to-
me that if there are any citizens
who feel that we are not doing all
that we can do to obtain natural
gas supply, or that feel that they
could expedite the matter through
personal interview with the gas
company officials here, we would be
very glad indeed to have them come
to Tulsa and interview the gas COM
pany, and do anything else that they
think would be in the interests of
obtaining a speedy solution of this
problem.
Very truly yours,
F. w. INSULT,
President.
In the absence of L. c. Hutson and
Ed F Johns, committee on the Ce-
ment road, a report was made for
them to the effect that they had
seen the county commissioners and
that money was available and would
be forthcoming from the commits |
sioners to put in considerable wv ork |
on the Celhent-Chickasha road Il
oVInCthis connection, Mr Brown re-
ported that ARTICULATION a width right
ofway had been secured from thed
crossing at the Frisco railway vest
Of the country club, following the
railroad southwest to the outskirts
Of Norge.
A committee composed of Messers.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-06
you CAN'T READ 'EM
BUT WHAT. OF THAT

LONDON, Feb. 12.-By mail)-
The visitors books at the Hotel Maj
estic and the Hotel Astoria in Paris
should be worth their weight in
gold to the autograph fiend.
Celebrities from all over the world
have signe dthe books stand as last
ing proof of the ilIegibility of the
handwriting of great men.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-06
POSTPONE PRELIMINARY.

The preliminary hearing of Min
ME Colbert and Mary Hanson, two
negro women arrested yesterday fol-
lowing a gun fight between the two
parties, has been postponed until
March 18th. The case was set for
10 o'clock this morning before NJ.
p. Bunnell, justice Of the peace.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-06
Short Stories
of the +TOOn


E4tsrtain Macabees
The Members Of The Woman's
Benefit association of The Macabees
win lie entertained tomorrow after.
noon beginning at 2;SQ at the hall,
according to announcements made
this morning Talks by some Of the
prominent members OF the organiza-
tion viii Failure the meeting, All
members are urged to be present.
official In Capital
Mrs. Edna 7. Watkins, court
clerk, is transacting business in Ok
lahema City She left yesterday eve
ing and viii return this evening or
some time tomorrow Miss Matte
Falcomb, deputy clerk, IS in charge
# the office during Mrs Watkins
absence.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-06

trying to palm it Off on Chickasha.
Il urge the business men here TO
talk with their farmer friends and
get them to use this cotton seed
we have selected. 1t is high grade
and the price is high, but it Will
mean the salvation of the county
from the standpoint of cotton
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-06

hart, Tex, and sold ITO the farmers.
county farmers owe some debts and
they need something to pay those
debts. They won't get it if they
plant this Lockhart trash. Texas is
doing everything in her power to
get that class of cotton out of the
state. 1t is no good and they are
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-06
S0L0NS HOPE WILSON
WILL CALL SESSION
BY United Press.

~ united Press
Washington, March 6.-Because of
the serious railway administration
situation, some members of congress
still hoped today that the president
will call an extra session of con-
gress.
Democratic senators were firmly
of the opinion that an extra session
would not be called any earlier than
May, ss W@Ery
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-06
Burkburnelt is Showing GOOD
cial to Fort Worth Record.

Special to Fort Worth Record
WICHITA FALLS, Jan 25.-Oil
sensations broke so big and so fast
Friday end Friday night in the
Wichita fields that the excitement,
which had become hecticsin th64last
three weeks waxed into mad hys-
terra of plunging on leasing acre
age and stock purchases. 81 n n
The scramble started with the re-
port published in Friday mornings
papers that a fifteen-foot sand had
been found in the Burk-Waggoner
we'll at 575 feet in Block "a. Red
River Valley lands, six miles north
west of Burkburnett townsite and
{ five miles from hitherto furthest
west production Of the Humble and
Hammond Art companies on the
HerndOn and Fisk tracts. This re-
port precipitated plunging in the
territory northwest of Burkburnett
for distance of ten miles and stuff
close in around the Burk- -Waggoner
west at fabulous prices.
Next came notification of the re-
% port that the Humble WELL a mile
and half northwest of Burkburnett
townsite, on the Herndon land, came
in earlyszF'riday. The deep mud re-
sulting from recent deluges made
the roads impossible for long
stretches, but this did not deter ex-
cited lease hunters from wading
over soggy fields and through pools
knee deep to reach that section for
personal investigation. The Humble
well was flowing By o'clock Fri
day morning it had made 600 bar
rels by noon, 900, and by night
1900.
Next came the report that the
Hammond-Art well had hit the sand
and was standardizing half "a mile
northwest of the Humble we'll.
Ihen the Hammond-Ray we'll on
the Chenault tract, mile and
quarter northwest of the townsite,
came in Friday Afternoon; estimat-
ed to be good for 1900 barrels.
Leases northwest of Burkburnett
shot up $1,000 at a clip as the
hours passed and by Friday night
Block so, north of the Hammond-Art
q Wen, was being sold at $4,000 an
acre, with several owners holding
Nout for $4,000 an acre.
Among the lucky owners who drew
direct benefit were J. c. Wharton
anu f. C. Hall of the Johnson Drill
company, Wichita Falls, and their
two associates, e. F. Pumphrey of
Fort Worth, and L. E. Jones Of
Wichita Falls, owners of thirty-five
acres in the southeast corner of
Block a. half mile north of the
Hammond-Art we'll They have
derrick up and will start drilling
soon.
Thirty days ago this northwest
land was selling at $1,000 an acre.
Probably the luckiest outfit in get
ting IN early was the Healdton Oil
q Gas Company which operates in
the CARRIER field in Oklahoma, It
bought twenty acres northwest of
Burkburnett month ago for S24.-
600 and now it is valued at 5000. 900
for the land alone 1t Is located in
Block go. Many of the owners in <,
that section are refusing to sell on
any terms under S25,OOO per acre.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-06
official In Capital
MANY NEW LocA-
TioNS IN FIELD
Continued from page -

station in Cement and will be moved
% the location as Don as possible.
The Caddo No is located and
work is under way toward getting
the wen started. They are located
IL he sE-sWNE or 26-6-iO. The
cQnpany's NO. is estimated at a
strong 200 barrel Wen
The Knox OH company Shas made
tqeatlon and will sdrin soon in the
MEME Of 1863,
"A location has been made by
parties not yet definitely known in
the MEME OF 800.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-06-27
PERSONALS

Terry Pritchard, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. T. H. Pritchard of this city, re-
turned last night form IL months ser
vice overseas with the 351st Baking
company, which has been stationed
at Allerey France, at one of the larg-
est base hospitals. Young Pritchard
is the last Of three sons Of this fam
lily to return safely home after SER
vice overseas. Mr.. and Mrs. Pritch-
ard and Miss Kathleen Pritchard
went to Memphis last night to meet
Terry.
Gilbert G. Carnahan and Ragland
Fitzhugh have been in Hot Springs
for couple of days.
Sheriff Currin M. Nichol went to
Little Rock on business yesterday
Larry Clemmons, planter, of Ak
ron, Ohio, a former resident of this
city, is here for visit with his
brothers Charles and A. C. Glenn
mons.
Emmett Sanders. of the Armour
plant at Shreveport is in the city
for vacation visit with his mother
Mrs. B. B. Sanders and family.
J. C. Smith has returned from a
pleasant vacation trip of ten days
in St. Louis and Cincinanati.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-06-27
COULDN'T RAISE
ARM TO HIS HEAD
Hasn't Had Sign of Rheumatic
Trouble Since He Took Tanlac-
Has Gained Thirty One Pounds.

Il have actually gained thirty
pounds en- three bottles of Tanlac and
l now feel like a new man in every
way. said j. T. Hawkins. residing at
365 johnson place, Memphis, Tenn,
some time ago.
Il was just rackcd with pain from
rheumatism for a whole year until |
couldn't hit a HEX of work and was
Just up and down, mostly down, all
the time. My Joints would swell and
cramD so | couldn't raise my arm to
my head-c couldn't comb my hair
and when | stopped over to tie my
shoes, the pain would almost make me
cry out loud. | got in such a shape
that | couldn't eat anything without
suffering aftcrward and nothing |
tried in the way Of medicine helped me
any at all.
Il only weighed one hundred and
eight pounds when ] started taking
Tanlac and now | weight one hundred
and thirty-niue My joints don't hurt
any more and | can bed over ane use
my arms at work with as much ease
as | ever could, can eat anything
| want and as much as | wish and feel
like a new person all the time"
Tanlac is sold by leding druggists
everywhere. For sale by Central
Pharmacy. adv.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-06-27
NOrtOn-Wheeler
Company Move
Offices Here

The headquarters of the Norton
Wheeler Stave factory, operating
stave plants at Benton and Pine Bluff
and with a sawmill at Roe, will be
moved to Pine Bluff, where all bust
ness for the various branches will be
transacted.
Offices for the headquarters of the
company have been opened in rooms
415-416 Citizens Bank building. Head
quarters have been maintained at
Benton in the past.
The Pine Bluff branch of the Nor
ton Wheeler Stave factory was estab-
lished three years ago, and between
SO and rs men are employed by the
local plant.
A. G. Wheeler, president of the
company has resided here for some
time, E. R. Norton will move to Pine
Bluff shortly. He has purchased
from Mrs. j. R. Martin, the home al
1877 Olive street, now occupied by
DIR. Simmons. Mrs. Norton, and the
two children, Misses Martha and Rosa
mond, are now at Colorado Springs
Colo, but will return to Pine Bluff
early in September.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-06-27
MRS. c. +. LEvERENz
EXPIRES Ar HOME
HERE LAST NIGHT
Death Comes to Widely-KnOwn
Woman in Home Where She
Was Born.

Mrs. Charles f. Leverenz, expired
last night at S:15 o'clock at the Lev
erenz home, 1917 West Barraque, af-
ter an illness of several weeks.
The funeral will be held Saturday,
but arrangements are being deferred
pending advices from relatives.
Mrs. Leverenz was a daughter of
the late Major and Mrs. N. T. White,
and was born, reared and married in
the home where last night she enter
ed the everlasting sleep.
The White family was among the
pioneers of this section and its mem
bers were distinguished for their
Southern chivalry and refinement.
Besides her husband she is surviv-
ed by two sisters, Miss Emma White
of Pine Bluff, and Mrs J. A. Reid, of
Alexander Bay, New York; two ME
ces, Mrs. Elson Hall, of Morrilton
Ark, and Mrs. H. B. Kennedy, OF
Pittsburg, Kan, an aunt, Mrs. N. l.
Roberts, of Pine Bluff, and other rel
atives here and elsewhere.
Mrs. Leverenz had been i'll for al
least six weeks prior to her death
dDOuC UWO WcehS dSo. DIG was IdhcI
to St. Louis, where an operation was
performed in the hope of saving hen
life. Her condition gave no cause
for hope, and upon the advice of ply
sicians, she was brought back to the
home of her childhood last Saturday
Mrs. Leverenz was lifelong mem
Der of the Episcopal Church, and Of
the United Daughters of the Confed
eracy She was closely identified will
social and civic organizations, taking
leading part in the patriotic worl
during the war.
! Mrs Leverenz was educated in thu
public schools of this city, and a
Christ's Seminary at Nashville, Tenn
She. was widely known in Pine Bluff
where her friends numbered legion.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-06-27
A. BLUTHENTHAL.
STORE TO MAKE
IMPROVEMENTS
Work Starts Soon on Altera-
tions, Including New
Front.

The Adolph Bluthenthal store, loca-
ted on the southwest corner of Main
and Second for q years, is soon to
undergo extensive alterations and re
repairs, with view Of improving the
methods of handling goods and in
creasing the efficiency of the service
Contract for the new front and in
terror alterations has been awarded
to Charles Royce, who expects tc
start work on July Is.
In order to make room for the work
men, Mr.. Bluthenthal announces he
will dispose of goods at greatly re-
duced prices during a ten-day stock
reduction sale beginning Saturday June
%. An advertisement in this issue
of The Graphic gives new concerning
this opportunity to score on II. G.. l..
The repairs planned include new
front which will increase the present
window display space of the store
seven times. There will be two sets
of show windows with a tiled prom
enade between. The promenade will
be laid with new design of the lat
est tile especially designed for mod
ern store fronts. The bulk heads Of
the windows will be finished in a
glazed tile of contracting color that
will bring out the wonderful colon
scheme. There will be large show
windows extending along the Second
avenue side of the store, which will
be very attractive. There will be a
side entrance on Second avenue that
will be very attractive also. The
show windows are something UNI
usual in the way of light and the
ceiling will be the ceiling of the
store proper, which gives a lighting
system impossible to get any Other
way.
The windows were designed by one
of Mr. BluthenthaPs own statesmen
L. w. Reid, who has been with the
firm II years.
The interior of the store is to I'M
dergo a complete change from the
front to the back, in the way of fix.
lures, which when completed, will be
one of the most complete west of the
Mississippi river.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-06-27
Narrowly Escape
Execution for
Owning Liquor

Nogales, Ariz., June 26-Two Am
erican citizens were saved from ex-
ecution today at Hermosillo by the
prompt action of American Consul
Dyer, at Nogales, Sonora.
Jose and Ramon Reynaldo, sons of
Jose Reynaldo, senior, an American
resident at Douglas, Ariz., were or
dered executed for alleged violation
of the liquor laws of Sonora. Con-
sui Dyer learned of their American
citizenship in time to telegraph Gen
P. Elias Gales, military governor
who released the Americans from GUS
tody a short time before they were
to have been executed.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-06-27
U, S, SENDING
AGRICULTURAL
TOOLS ABROAD
Large Consignments of Imple-
ments for Macedonia are
UnlOaded at SalOniki.

Saloniki, May T By Mail. Large
consignments of American agricultur-
al machinery has been unloaded here
for use in Macedonia. The motor
plows are badly needed on account OF
the dearth of horses and oxen which
the Bulgars carried off with them. In
the last six months the American
Red Cross has been instructing
Greeks and Serbs in the use of mod
ern farm machinery and American
methods of soil improvement and now
farmers are being given the oppor-
tunitely to buy implements at adj
vantageous prices.
King Alexander Of Greece is much
interested in American farming mach
inery. Recently a very large consign-
ment of agricultural machinery and
implements arrived in Athens from
America. The consignment compris-
ed all classes of power achinery and
considerable number of motor
plows. King Alexander viewed these
plows at the Athens Botanical Gar
dens. At his request two or three OF
them were set to work in an adjacent
field. attracting from first to last his
special attention. Later these Ameri-
can machines and implements were
exhibited at the Zappeion, the large
exhibition building n Athens used
during the war as hospital There
they were visited by landowners
farmers and the general public.
The Greek government shipped q
number of these motor plows and 9TH
err implements to Eastern Macedonia
Thessaly to be used for the spring
cultivation. In addition thousands OF
ordinary American plows are. being
shipped into Macedonia. To pull
these plows the Bulgarians finally
agreed after much discussion to de-
| liver seven hundred draught animals
per week to the Greeks in recompense
for the tens of thousands of animals
taken by the Bulgarian army in
Thrace during the war.
Owing to the fact that farmers
throughout the Near East cultivate
only small tracts, small size Ameri-
can machinery is in greater demand
than the heavier machines, with the
possible exception of harvesters. On
" large owners can afford the large
blowing tractors.
The American Red Cross has
brought in about 300 American farm
wagons and later these wagons and
the many small American automo-
| biles now being used in the Near
East will be sold to the farmers. The
Near East is in greater need of means
of transportation and farming mach
merry and American are now meeting
this demand.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-06-27
BISHOP IS POOR
ON SALARY OF
$4,000 YEARLY
After Paying Taxes and Keep
ing Up Two Great Residences,
He Can't Keep Even.
Correspondence of Associated Press)

Correspondence of Associated Press)
London, May 26.-The Bi.llop of
London,( DR.. Ingram with a salary
of $4,000, finds that he cannot keep
up both of the residences which go
with his position, and proposes to
rent or sell his town house. The
Bishops town house is situated in st.
James Square, about the most aristo-
cratic area of London. 1t was once
the home of the Earls of Warwick
and the, church bought it some two
centuries ago.
The other residence is Fulham Pal
ace, which is across the Thames from
the suburb of Putney, where the
Oxford Cambridge boat races start.
The Bishop explained to diocesan
conference that $32,500 of his income
went for income tax, super-tax, NUM-
cipal taxes and insurance. That left
him only $17,50O to maintain these
two establishments and to keep mo-
tor, and the minimum of ten servants
absolutely needed for Fulham Palace
alone.
"You must see," he said, "it cannot
be done. You ask your wives. Pessi-
mists have told me would not hei
able even to keep Fulham Palax {.
going, but I intend to make great
effort before parting with historic
possession of the church for 1900
years."
The Bishop is in the same boat with
numerous others of the clergy. They
are appointed to position with a
certain salary, "and living. The civ
ing" is residence often larger than
they can maintain on the salary, SO
that it constitutes a liability rather
than an asset. Several important
church Officials have closed their
houses during the war, and lived in
less expensive quarters.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-06-27
BURTON WITH ROSENBERG

Willie Burton, who has been the
junior member of the firm, Bloom and
Burton for over year, will sell his
interest to A. M. Bloom and on July
1, will become connected with the
establishment of S. A. Rosenberg on
Second avenue. Mr.. Bloom will man.
age the soda, cigar, and confection-
airy department under his own name
in the future.
Mr.. Burton will have charge Of the
soda department at Rosenbergs for
the present, but later, when the book
and stationary department of Rosen-
bergs is moved to another department
Mr.. Burton will be taken in as a part
ner.