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Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-10
the town wide open. I'm just going to

the town wide open. I'm Just going to
live and let live
Training his guns, which were smok-
king by this tine, toward his Democratic
opponent, Mr.. Shank declared:
1--WE got twenty-five or thirty ready to
get on the stump and go after him on
the rent prohteering business. We've got
something on him and If he keeps on
wanting TO start something guess we'll
have to go after him when the campaign
opens"
Becoming more serious Mr.. Shank said
that he is not against the big corpora
lions, that he is not against business.
I'm for the ut Titles. I'm for business.
We've got to have them. You understand
that. And the utilities and business gen
orally have got to have money enough to
run on. I'm business man myself and
l had to raise the salaries of my en-
ployes. 1 had to raise the storage rates
myself. The gas company, the electric
companies, the street car company, the
water company, all of them have go to
have money enough to operate on with
out going Lroke, but by George, there's
no excuse for raising their rates right
now, when everything else Is coming
down."
The man who works, generally needs
some one to help him look after his in
terests, said the nominee, but "the fellow
with four or five hundred thousand dol
lars can take care of himself and every
body else If you don't watch him"
Zone fellow came to me the other day
and said: Lew you're little too friend
IL to the laboring man. l said to him,
NO I'm not. I Just believe in the poor
man getting what's coming to him Just
as l believe the employer should have
what's coming to him. want them both
to have O fair chance"
He said he was going to try to solve
the traffic problem and that he was
not going to permit this thing of the
mayor and city employees JOY riding
around in city automobiles. They must
be used for city business only, he said.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-10

union held meeting the other night and
decided to petition Mr.. Ralston ito
change the donkey emblem to a white
mule"
'Ralston! l heard him make a speech
the other night and I want to tell you
that if conceit were consumption he'd be
a corpse.
Meeker and Big Jim Casey did, but tell
me what Ralston ever did %
A voice somewhere of in the crowd
piped out:
HE raised the rents
The crowd laughed.
ONE RAISED RENTS,
OTHER BOUGHT COAL.
I'm tell you what he did on the west
side" continued the speaker. He did
just what you said he did and now I'll
tell you what Shank did. He bought
some coal for a poor old woman over
there whom 1 know"
Stating that he had an opportunity
as city attorney to observe Mr.. Shank's
acts as mayor very closely, Mr.. Reilly
said Mr.. Shank was the first man to
make the street car company pave be.
tween its tracks, that he caused track
elevation to be started, that he put In
more sewers than any mayor before or
since, improved more streets and did
heroic relief work during the 1913 flood
He possibly used poor grammar, but
every time he uttered something 1t had
behind II a constructive thought
I'VE seemingly have forgotten one OF
the greatest things Shank ever did
When he came into the mayors office
indianapolis was cursed with the shame
OF an avenue Of sin. When he came IN
be looked at that thing, grounded as
it was in the history and the very vitals
Of not only this city but every other
municipality in the country And
Shank then and there put the iron claw
down into the mire, picked up that
thing. dripping with sin as 1t was, and
cast it out. l don't mean that Shank
utterly blotted out sin, that Shank
blotted out the scarlet woman That
thing was a problem before the Pharoahs
and 1t will be here until the sands OF
the desert grow cold, but / do say that
Shank abolished the avenue Of sin.
If Shank never does anything else
in his life, this thing alone should make
him worthy of your earnest support
when Shank did that he dealt a death
blow to the red light districts Of the
United States. Immediately after he
struck that blow Martin Hyland, his
chief of police, began to receive letters
from citizens Of Chicago, Detroit, Cieve-
land. all over the country, asking how
it was done and when it was explained
these other places followed.
Compare that with what Boyd Rails
ton has done.
And now I'm going to tell you why
the underworld IL not for Lew Shank.
1t Is because when he struck the blow at
the avenue of sin he struck body blow
at the keystone Of the underworld"
After several others had spoken the
crowd kept calling for Shank.
III | do all that this gangs told you
I'm going to do youll have to keep on
voting for ME for thirty years because
it all simply can't be DONE" said Mr..
Shank as he took off his coat.
IN
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-10

1t is being advertised around on the
trees and barns that Atlas Peck will
make public address at the Wild
Onion school building Friday night At
las Is right good speaker, but his main
fault is that he always has something to
say in conclusion three or four times
before he concludes.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-10

The Mail Carrier has made the demand
that after his death, if he is ever thought
Of, he must not be referred to as the
late mail carrier"
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-10
Seeks to Stop City
From Repairing Street

A suit asking that the board of works
Of the City of indianapolis DO restrained
from improving lockwood avenue from
Maple. road to Forty Third street, has
been filed before Judge T. J. Moll Of
hyperion Court, Room .. by Amelia Bettge
FOrtieth street and lockwood avenue.
The plaintiff alleges the board of works
ordered the improvement contrary 70 the,
statutes and ignored rcmonstrance and
proceeded with Its plans to improve the
avenue. It ia alleged the cost of the i'm
progement will exceed fifty per cent o:
<Ae appraised value Of abuttini; prop
drtv .
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-10
PASSENGER DIES
IN FALL OF PLANE
Machine Hits Air Pocket and
Dives to Earth.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Sept. 1O.-william A.
Hensel passenger, was instantly killed
and A. G. Brown, pilot, was seriously
injured here today when an airplane went
into a nose dive at an altitude of 100
feet and crashed to earth.
The machine ran into an air pocket and
Brown was unable TO control it.
The plane WIS a total wreck.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-10
NO GRAFT
PROMISES SHANK.

PROMISES SHANK.
There's not going to be a dollar Of
graft in my ad ninistration, =" he promised
prompting cheers. That does amount TO
something. Jewett already hrs reduced
taxes a million dollars and I'm not even
in the chair"
Il is great trouble to be a mayor. the
nominee said. There's never a meeting
out here that some fellow doesn't ca..
me out and tell me what job he has
picked out. Yes, and the ladies do it too
One lady told me the other day that
she wanted the comfort station. told
her that 1t was all right with me, but
she had better see my wife about It."
He said be was going to choose good
men for his boards and other appointive
positions. IF they don't do right we'll
just fire them
Women, he said. are going to get some
good JOBS. why one of them asked me
for the dog pound the other day. So
far as I'm concerned she can have It.,
too He is particularly interested. he
said, in having woman aid in running
the market house
~ always was and am interested In
that market house. It's just about one
OF the best in the country and we want
to make 1t the best and better"
Better care of the streets continuance
of the policy of compelling the street
car company to pave between its tracks
more cars and better service from pub
lie utilities all around are things he iu
tends to fight for, he said. These are
things he accomplished as mayor be-
fore. he added.
"Just compare my accomplishments
with those of any other mayor and see
If Lew Shank was not as good as any
nf m Ia
made mistakes, and Of course l made
some. they were mistakes of the mind
and not the heart.
"Who was it who went right down
into the flood in West indianapolis and
did what he could Who was It who
went down to Tomlinson Hall and tried
to get Jobs for these hungry men shovel
ling snow while Mrs. Shank helped feed
them 2"
Lew Shank" came a chorus from the
audience.
UPHOLDS POOR
BEER DRINKER.
Growing reminiscent, Mr.. Shank told
how the ministers used to come to him
and tell him that they were drinking
beer and dancing down in the little shack
of somebody or other. He said he al
ways told them: YES, and they're drink
ing beer and dancing and eating over
in the hotels and getting full and falling
into fountains, and If. they're going to
do it inS the hotels they're not going to
be stopped down In the poor DEVILS house
Its no disgrace to be poor. but it's
darned inconvenient sometimes" he said.
THE only difference is that the one eats
porterhouse about that thick and the
other eats pork chops.
Now this doesn't mean that I'm GO
ing to turn the town over to the boot
leggers. either I'm not ting to turn
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-10
RALSTON NOT
BAD POKER PLAYER.

"Ralston's not the worst poker player
know" Shank exclaimed. I've seen
some worse, but he's pretty doggOned
rotten. Then he goes around talking
like Lew Shank is immoral. Well just
let him keep his own skirts clean and
stay out Of my back yard. He'd better
lay off of me-"
Mr.. Shank went back to the police de-
partment. stating that if he is mayor he
Is not going TO permit the expenditure OF
$50, 900 a year, Just to gather information
for New York advertising agency. If
they want their information let EN- pay
for getting it themselves. l don't in
tend to have $4,000 spent just TO have
thirteen slips made out every time some
fellow gets pinched for backing his car
into the wrong alley"
Stating that he had been mlsquoted
several times upon the point, the candi-
date reiterated his statement that the
policeman who keeps his district clean
est and yet makes the fewest arrests is
the one who is going to get the gold
medal at the end OF the year. Get me
right now. I said the policeman who
keeps his district CLEANEST and makes
the fewest arrests"
Too many people are hailed into city
court unJustly, he said citing the in
stance OIL BOY VINO was picked up IN
an east side restaurant by a patrolman
who had IL In for him" and compelled
to lay in Jail two days under $1,000 bond
upon a vagrancy charge until he. (Mr
shank found out about 1t and got Judge
Walter Pritchard to let the prisoner out
upon promise that he (Mr. Shank)
would be responsible for him.
Dixson II. Bynum, city claim agent and
assistant city attorney, was temporary
chairman. Robert Il. Dalton presided
permanently. Clinton III. Given. Omer
L. Newman. W. s. Henry. colored. and
Ex Judge J. NJ feathers were other
speakers. Mr.. Dalton introduced Mrs
VI. Il. Speliman, wOmen's city chairman
J. Herbert Hartman. nominee for city
Judge: John w. Rhodehamel nominee
for city clerk and Walter W WISE Ben
II. Thompson, Lloyd d. Claycomhe and
John L. King. eouncilmanlc candidates.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-12
COURT PROVIDES A WAY
FOR PACKERS TO SURRENDER
ALL THE BY-HOIDINGS
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Continued from Page One)
approved the plan, il was only in
cumbent upon me to see that the law
was not violated by any of the psrti-
culars. | was glad TO find that such
was not the case and thereafter approve
the plan"
The properties, stock in which are TO
be sold by the two companies, are;
Sioux City Stockyards Company, st.
Paul Union Stockyards Company, st.
Joseph Stockyards Company, TT. Worth
Stockyards Company, Denver Union
Stockyards Company. Kansas City
Stockyards Company, ST. Louis National
Stockyards, Union Stockyards Com
pany Of Omaha, Limited, Bourbon
Stockyards Company, Louisville, Ky.
Newark, n. j., Stockyards, Milwaukee
Stcckyards Company. Brighton Stock
yards Company, Brighton, Mass. Port
land Union Stockyards Company, North
Portland, Oregon, the Cleveland Union
Stockyards Company. Sioux City Ter
minal Railway Company, st. Paul,
Bridge and Terminal Company, st. Paul,
Mimi, st. Joseph (Mo) Belt Railway
Company, Fort Worth Belt Railway
Company. Kansas City Connecting Rail
road, and East st. Louis Junction Rail.
way Company.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-12
OPERATIONS IN TEMPLE.
TON-TROOP IN SEC. s5. 4S-sW
STARTED AGAIN, BAILING NOW

An erroneous report In Yesterdays
Ardmorete carried the Templeton well
on the Anrbrister farm in section 10,
4s-ew as getting ready to resume drill
ing operations. This should have read
the Tenpleton well on the Troop farm,
in section %. The Templeton-Ambrister
was abandoned some time ago at 1880
feet.
I.ucian and Budd Hoard of this city
have purchased the equipment OF the
Templeton oil Corporation on the Troop
farm in section 2j, 4s-sw and have com.
menced drilling operations In the well
which was shut down some time ago at
a depth Of below e3OO feet. The hole Is
now being bailed and the Hoard broth
ers believe that all the water will be
eliminated within the next few days.
The former operators believe that tho
water is coming from sand at 1925
feet and that when the 8 5-S inch cas-
ing is lowered to the bottom of the hole
the water will be shut off. When the
well was shut down the casing had
been run to a depth OF e3lS fect
The Templeton corporation had shut
down on account OF lack of finances
ana their lease had automatically ex'
pired. states an official Of the cor
poration.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-12
CITY LEAGUE SEASON
OPENS APRIL 18TH;
BYLAWS ADOPTED

Preliminary arrangements for the
1921 season Of the City League clubs
have been completed, and all will be
in readiness TO go as soon as the
schedule is set. No effort will be
made to compile the dates of games,
states President Tom Frame, until the
schedule of the TO League is an
nounced. The purpose of this plan,
he explains, is to prevent any con
flict with the games which the TO
League will play in Ardmore, as the
City League clubs will use the TO
local grounds for their games.
The City League season will open
April 18th and close June 10th. Ten
games for each team will be the
schedule.
The bylaws OF the league have been
drawn up. Olin Wolverton has been
elected treasurer OF the association.
The managers OF the teams which
comprise the league will be permitted
to draw not TO exceed 500 for equip
ment at the beginning OF the season,
this equipment to be turned in to the
league officials after the season closes.
The president of the league will fur
nish four balls for each game on
schedule, the balls to be divided equal
ly among teams playing. Each team
must turn in list OF names not TO
exceed 20 members before April 18th.
1921. ?
All members Of the teams, com.
posed of Elks, Dokeys. and American
Legion men, must be in good stand
ing with their respective organizations
and must be residents of Carter
| county.
professional ball players, or those
who have played professional ball in
the past twelve months, are barred
from the association.
! Any team has the privilege OF oS
tanning new members If agreeable with
the managers of the teams, Thiss does
not conflict with the 25 members
originally turned in.
| Admission to all City League games
will be % cents
President Frame announces that dur.
| ing this week practice Of the various
teams will be held as follows Tues
| day, Elks: Wednesday, Legion; Thurs
| day. Ardmore-Akron
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-12
REPTILE COLLECTION
SENT TO AMERICAN
MUSEUM, NEW YORK
BY LOCAL BOY

Gerald Holt, freshman Arrlmore high
school, who recently sent a collection
Of reptiles to the American Museum of
National History. New York City, has
ceceived acknowledgment from those
in charge of that department in which
the hope is expressed that more ma
terial be sent to the institution.
Young Holt has been interested in the
collection OF reptiles and other species
of this kind for some time, and through
.he encouragement of G. H. Woodruff
principal Of the high school, sent in his
collection. At present the two are co,-
lecting a variety Of lizard species which
they expect to send to the museum with
in the next week or two.
Following is the letter received by
Mr.. Woodruff relative to the reptiles
We are certainly much indebted TO
YOU and Mr. Holt, the collector, for
your magnificent series of very rare
snake. Sonora Semiannulata. All but
two specimens in the shipment belong
10 this species. The snake in sepa-
rate container was a King Snake, Lam
propeltis Getulus HolbroolSi. The small
est uniformly colored specimen in the
lot is representative OF peculiar tribe
OF snakes, Opistoglypha. characterized
by an enlarged posteror fang. Opisto-
glyphs are poisonous but not to man.
The species seems TO be- Tantlla Graci-
lis
II is very probable that we shall have
something technical to say in regard to
your series of Seemiannulaia. 1t is
not known that the species is so var.
liable in color We shall. OF course. send
you some reprints II we decide It ad-
vsable to publish q note on your ma
torial.
hope you will continue TO send us
material as the season progresses You
are situated in a very interesting re-
! gion, zoologically.
Very truly yours
g. X. NOBLE, A. NJ
Assistant in Charge Department oi
Herpetology.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-12
HENRIETTA MANAGER
PHOTED ARDMORE
TEAM DURING 1917

Manager Crittendon. OF the Henry
eta team of the Western Association,
which is in this city playing the local
TO team. was manager Of the Ardmore
tea moi Western Association during the
1917 season Crittendon succeeded Man.
alger Spear here after the team had
been transferred from Paris, Texas, to
this city. At the time Spear had re-
signed 10 accept a position with shelton
Tyer. Spear is now manager OF the
Drumright baseball club.
Mr.. Crittendon is wcll-known in this
city and has a host of friends here. He
is a ciean-cut manager and is popular
in baseball circles. In the Heuryetta
team of the Western Association he is
plotting one Of the fastest ball clubs
in Class d leagues. Yesterdays per-
formance of the Henryetta baseballers
on the local grounds displayed an ag-
Gregation OF players who are full Of pep
from start TO finish, and are capable
DlayerS.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-12
BEPRETTy! turn
GRAY HAIR DARK
Try Grandmother's Old Favorite Recipe
/. Of Sage Tea and Sulphur

Almost every one knows that Sage
Tea and sulphur, properly compounded,
brings back the natural color and lustre
to the hair when faded, streaked or
gray. Years ago. the only way to get
this mixture was TO make it at home,
which is muSsy and troublesome. Now.
adays, by asking at any drug store for
"Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound"
you will get large bottle Of this fam
Gus old recipe, improved by the addition
of other ingredients, at a small cost.
Don't stay gray! Try it, No one can
possibly tell that you darkened your
hair, as it does it so naturally and ev-
enly. You dampen a sponge or soft
brush with it and draw this through
your hair, taking one small strand al a
time; by morning the gray hair disap-
pears and after another application or
two your hair becomes beautifully dark
glossy and attractive.--Adv.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-12
Secretary Barron
Says Road Work to
Start Probably in
Next Two Weeks"

James Barron. secretary Of the
Chamber of Commerce who was i'm
Oklahoma City yesterday on busi-
ness with the state department stat
ed today that work ON the Lone
GrovcHealdton highway would start
probably within the next two weeks
barring further complications.
Some changes had 10 he made in
the plans and as the state highway
department is out of funds and no
prospects OF their getting any in the
near future, the county commission
crs Of this county had to guarantee
the payment of $500, necessary to
make the changes.
As soon as they are complete the
contractor is ready TO begin work,
as,d according to advance informa-
iiOn the work will he done with a
rush once il has been started.
ID. q. NcCulley, county engineer
is in Oklahoma City, with the high
way department assisting in max
ing alterations in the plans.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-12
COLINE OIL COMPANY
BUYS HALF INTEREST IN
PARSONS-GANT PROPERTIES
CONSIDERATION $1,000 900

For a consideration Of one million
dollars, the iColine Oil Company
this morning acquired the interests
OF Parsons and George in the Far
Cant holdings located in the
Duncan fields. II is believed that
the Coline Company will have
charge Of the properties.
The lands involved cover llI0
acres in sections 80, 30, 81. 32. and
30, 1n-Sw; section %. ln-9w; and
section 6, Is-Sw. The total daily
production Of the holdings at the
present time reach 2OOO barrels.
There are three producing oil wells,
one gasser, and II drilling wells on
top of the sand or i'm close pr0xl-
nifty thereto.
The oil produced on the leases Is
Of . high grade, containing 80 to ~
per cent gasoline. Is per cent kero-
sene and 10 per cent gas oil.
1t is very probable that the Coline
Company will construct pipe line
from the Parsons-Gant properties,
through Velma, Milroy. Graham.
Fox, to this city, and that the oil
will be run to local refineries.
Barney Feagin, Of Tulsa. Walter
Cant, Of Oklahoma City. and Dorset
Carter. president Of the Coline Oil
Company and other Interested part
les were In Ardmore today partici'
paaing in final arrangements Tor
the deal.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-12
HENRIETTA DEFEATS
ARDMORE TO Al;
MEET AGAIN TO-DAY

Five consecutive errors by members
OF the Ardmore TO team at the start
Of the game with Henryetta yesterday
afternoon permitted the coal miners to
tally two runs and form the nucleus Of
lead which was never overcome by
the local boys The game ended with the
score Of Al.
Cassidy, first man up for Henryetta,
was struck out. He was followed by
Henniger, who reached first after 10
seph hah failed to handle his infield
bingle. Thomas reached first on Rey-
nolds' error. Robertson, heavy hitting
Indian. got on the bag on Young's error
in center field, and Henneger came in
home, followed by Thomas, who scored
when Pemberton juggled the ball
Ardmore tailed its lone score in the
third inning when Kierce scored on
Pemberton's two-bagger.
Henryetta scored a run in the third
when Cassidy crossed home plate on
Robertsons hit to left field for two
bases. in the eighth session Robertson
scored when LeMaster hit hot groun-
der TO Joseph, which was too hard to
/ handle
Werntz, Ardmore, pitchei a. good
game throughout the entire nine in
nings, for although he was hit for sew
en- bingles, and walked four men, he
had seven strikeouts to his credit Mil
/ Ter, Henryetta, was hit for six wal
lops. walked one man and had four
strikeouts.
Smiley Pemberton, Ardmore catcher,
again welded a wicked bat yesterday,
when he hit the pill twice, once for two
bases and one single.
Young played a good game in center
field with four putouts to his credit.
/ Thomas, Henryetta center fielder also
had four putouts.
In the fifth inning, Pemberton was
caught mapping on first. However, he
redeemed himself in the seventh when
he nailed Henneger who was trying to
steal second
Kierce, Ardmore left fielder. drew ap-
planse on pretty catch of Harris low
fly in the fifth inning.
The teams meet again today. The
game will be called at $3.50 p. IN.