Beckham County Democrat from Erick, Oklahoma • 2

A I bi 1 It 1 1- 1 I 1 THE ERICK DEMOCRAT i 1 GATHERING AT PONCA WORLD Nous Fo Eight persons five Boy Scouts' a OKLAHOMA NEW 32nd Annual Convoation to be held ig scout executive and two scoutmasters SENATE RATIFIES were drqwned recently in Michigan Lake about ten miles northwest of 7 June 9th13th ii FROM ovER STATE Dowagiac Mich when a steel motor THE PAST liEEK boat whies they occupied foundered PACT 61 TO 21 AMF City- Two districts are ERI( Ponca inthe rough waters -of the lake "Over the top" and resignations are Bli tVENTS OF INTEREST TO ALL received each day from the various Four men were killed and property ONLY CHANGE IN ARTICLE districts throughout thtate the Events from amage estimated at $100 wa 000 a i 32nd Annual Christian Endeavor con- caused by a boiler explosion on board IS THE "NO ALLIANCE" 0 I 1 OF THIS STATE or vents of Genratnteres vention to be held in Ponca City June All Sections Put Into Short the ferryboat Omar Conger at Port AMENDMENT 1111 1 11UTIIDRIZE BANK BUILDING 9-13 Indications now are that the Concise Paragraphs Huron Mich reeently The boiler 'cow- toe Tine be artan es aupplied DI A 1 Ilend convention will be the biggest was thrown 250 feet into a house the American Legion sew Service) and best of the entire list thus far I 'fr 4 4 SUPPLEMENT TREATY LITER 4 Governor of Federal Reserve Gives onseenee 'if Mid in the state Adoption of the 40-hour week as a GUIDES BIG HOSPITAL PLAN lee -4-" -Authority to Advertise for Bids Pre-registration of delegates is be- NEWS FR9M VARIOUS CAPITALS permanent policy in all plants of the neIneesnenens '1 i Final Vote Representing Four More c000ena- on Oklahoma City Building ing urged by the Ponca City conven- Ford Motor Company has been an- William Pierce Minnesota Legicte Mr Austin i don committee and banners are be- I nounced Under the new plan the than Necessary two-thirds Record Commander Keeps Vow Made Grainola am now absolute I Oklahoma City Okla----Authority to ing altered as indictmenta for the en- Brief Mention of What Is Transpiring ly free from the feminine trouble from be closed Saturday and ed After Twenty Attempts to while Caring for Wounded 5 advertise for bids and to go ahead lire districts to register before tee In This and Other Countries Sunday and about three thousand men Qualify by onc and obtain this Prescription of ed by the bank at the corner of Rob- there one day An exhi- tween Greece and the Turkish nation- he Reservation 55 in which 1 suffered together with annoy Al 5 my recovery to Doctor Pierce 1 immediately with the construction of convention McAlester won Banton of the Globe added to the force The wages re- A silent vow made four years age nervousness and I certais Favor- nly owe its proposed building was given the and Vinita will be awarded Ban- main the same lie by a soldier at a French debarkation ite Prescription 1 have taken only athnreehbaoltetlegsaibnuetd am 9 sound and Mwres11 Oklahoma City federal ieserve bank ner No 2 Washington-The four-power Pad- to aa accomplishments was the ratified Wash- 4" a point will soon be in a telegram from Jo Zack Miller Arrangements are being made with Peace Notes By a unanimous vote of its 116 treaty the center of controversy realized by the governor of the federal reserve bank the owners of the 101 ranch which The Greek government has accept- tee of the United Mine Workers of members the general policy commit- over sa erection at Roch- Minnie Austin of Kansas City The building to cost is but nine miles- from City mp 1 si fe ester Minn of If you're nervous or troubled like $45000 will be erect- for the entertainment of the Christian ed the proposal made by the alliel America directed district union "ill- the senate with no reservation ex- great memorial Mrs Austin go to your druggist at foreign ministers for an armistice be- 1 cept the "no alliance" declaration pro- 'nee- posed by the foreign relations cons ter re i I I i a approximately i Dr Pierces in tablets or liquid Write i lusen and Third street beton by alis eal" cowboys probably will The reply to the 1 ts propose of strike 'als to ask all non union men to join hospital mittee and accepted by President se Pierce now corn Dr Pierce in Buffalo for free Orders to go ahead with the work be a feature of the ranch visit the ministers however contains tee That a number et prominent St Harding ender of the The only reservation to the Pacific ilk Jamerican Legion confidential medical advice Send be IM followed the visit of Oklahoma City nical reservations on the military con- ter If you desire a trial package tablets Louis business men have been threat- bankers to Washington where the PLAN EXTEVE HIGHWAYS set ditions ened with death in anonymous letters treaty adopted by the senate reads: in Minnesota's anatter was brought up before the fed- demanding money was made known "The United States understands that first district did eral reserve board Hugh John- Forty-six men were killed and 109 i Caddo County Planning An Extensive by police recently following an at- under the statement in the preamble not have the (ni- Highway System president of the Flist National wounded on the German side in even': tempt to blackmail Danforth or wider the terms of this treaty portunity of risk- bank and Hogan president of hour the World War raged according force no alliance no obligation to president of a milling company out there is no commitment to armed ing his life in hi Headaches the Farmers' National bank and of to an estimate arrived at by General of $15000 i country's defense He was stationed 5 the Oklahoma City Clearing House as- Anadarko-With a road bond issue on Altrock statistician This esti- join in any defense" at a French port and it was his duty sociation made the appeal of $750000 proposed Caddo county is mate was made from a study of offi- Robert Crowe state's attorney and The final vote of sixty-seven to to meet and receive the Red Cross Are Usually Due planning for one of the most extensive cial records Invaluable assistance in carrying other law enforcement agencies twenty-seven representing a margin trains from the front bearing the to Constipation through plans whcreby work could highway systems of any county in the moved recently to rip the "for sale" of four over the necessary two-thirds maimed bodies of American soldiers tie started on the bank building was state The four-power Pacific treaty the tag from Chicago juries Evidence of was recorded after the opponents of The sufferings of those bleedlne edWhen you are constipat- there is not enough lent in Washington by senator tsar- The proposed hard surfaced system center of controversy over accom- crippled men left an indelible mark ty unsuccessful attempts to qualify wholesale-epurchase of juries whicb ratification had made more than twen- on his mind He vowed that he would lubricant -produced by xeld Johnson said includes plans for four highways plishments of the Washington arms later returned verdicts of "not guilty" your system to keep the i Bids for the building -will be re- across the county two extenditie from conference has been ratified by the or disagreed was in the hands of senate action by reservations or never forget them and that he would food waste soft Doctors eived up to April 18 by Chicago the not th to the south and the other United States senate with no reserve- authorities Cro amendments distasteful to the acimite ee announced never cease to labor for their wen prescribe Nujol because 1 architects who prepared the Plans and east and west One of the north and tion except the "no alliance" declare- istration fare its action is so close to specifications Daniels said smith roads would start at Bridgeport Lion proposed by the foreign relatioes The average increase in the cost of e----- An American Legion memorial bospi- this natural lubricant Stories May be Added extend south through Hinton Binger sommittee and accepted by Presideet coal at the mines since 1914 has been Irreconcilables Die Hard tal whose doors will be perpetually Nujol is a lubricant-not open to any ex-service man from ang 105 per cent according to replies to Dying hard the irreconcilable ele- a medicine or laxative- part of the nation is now under way so cannot gripe Try it I ly with the work and to carry out The other would start at Hydro ex- a questionnaire sent from Chicago to ment which had opposed the treaty on Two members of the Bulgarian cabi- with William Pierce guiding tht today "We expect to go ahead immediate- Giacemont Anardarko and Apache Harding 1 our plans which have been delayed tend south through Carnegie and Al- nearly four hundred consumers with the ground that it established an al- net have resigned as result of die approximate 000 te '1neeen eeveral months" be declared "The den i th an approximate annual consumption hence between the United St project The $509 needed States 1 rf ferences in the ministry over the erect two 100-bed wards and to estab NEW 'building at first will be three stories of 12 million tons of soft coal Great Britian Japan and en ance ell 1 i government's determination to elimi- dsh a Mayo clinic IVIII be raised large I i In height and will have an ample Oklahoma Homesteads Open forced thirty-three roll calls dering i nate three letters from the Bulgarian Southwest ly by the showing of patriotic mottos 1:::) basement It will be so constructed a four and a half Imurs session set Guthrie-During the past few alphabet which was announced sev Rickey's St Loeis Cardi- 9 ctures throughout Minnestoa undel that additional stories can be added aside for final action on the resolu- months a number of homesteads have eral weeks ago nals major league baseball players he auspices of Legion posts IteTe' tenire'Vje a 'when they are needed The bank will tion of 'ratification They madetheir been added to the vacant lands in turned firemen when a 2-story frame occupy the entire building as it will Oklahoma by the failure of parties to With the arrival of spring- tradi- best showing on a proposed reserva- stand' the Baptist used sanitarium nurses' um auat Houston clue "conferences" affecting their in- quarters for 'S STRONG FOR LEGION MEN prove up in the five-year statutory tional season of war rumors of war don to invite outside powers into Pa- Plans for the building were tied up by the department one in Beckham ring to reports of imepnding conflict nit- ure period There are twelve cancellate ns and unrest in Russia-Moscow is stir- Texas caught Much of the fur- several months ago when layer of Youngstown May Cak DID PAIN DISTURB i ht fiwas savedre terests mustering thirty-six votes for on the Ex-Soldiers to Clean Harding governor of the federal re- the proposal to fifty-five in Opposition 5 Iwo in oods two in Blaine two in with Poland Finland Ruenia pas- I serve board issued an order stopping Kingesher one in Major and four in sibly involving Germany and keentu- Fire which broke out at Duncan the building of all federal reset-ye YOUR SLEEP? i Alfalfa illy France Ok in a jewelry store in the heart CON PARRISH LOSES FIGHT Seorge Oles the eccentric mayot a banks proposed or under construe- Up Town of the business secten totally de- Youngstown who was elected T' Texas on the night of March CeSS in governing 0 pain and torture of them i lion The order followed the intro- A Belgian lieutenant in uniform was stroyed the jewelry store and a bar- Texas Statesmen Loses Life from in- inst fail on prob matism can be quickly relieved ment It brings warmth ease and by an application -of Sloan'e I duction of a bill in congress whech proposed that no fcrieral reserve bank sresolat lid eve 'reel 5 II 0 0 504 i wreerser shot and killedthe other day by tow 1tek young civilians while riding in a ing ber shop occupying the same build- juries Sustained in Auto Crash ibly the most Liniment be built without authority from con- 7 illi comfort and lets you sleep soundly 1 irie---s- eg aAt b3 tramway car between Ruhrort and Wichita Falls Texas-Congress- gress itself tt an ilti 0 a 0 a rE I 0 0 Waisum in the occupied area near til'11eicirupereseVillitiet platform Always have a bottle handy Mr and Mrs Lawrence Smittl man Lucien Parrish of the thir- a successful can- apply when you feel the first twinge aeseeeeeL-1-eese-eeeS-eeseeeseneeeeg Dusseldorf Germany and Mr and Ales August Buite all teenth Texas district who was injur- didate is meeting 4101- if penetrates without rubbing POWER LINE FOR SKIATOOK Slight Cut Made in Electric Rate of Kansas City have in all probabil- ed in an automobile accident near with more sue- 1 tired aching muscles sprains and i New electric light rates containing uilt to Supply Oklahoma Towns The conditions under which the ity been lost at sea together ivith Roby n' It's splendid to take thepain out of Hera-Power Transmission Now Being reparations committeeowill grant Ger- strains stiff joints rnd lame backs Airs Dickson of Memphis Tenn 13 died here after a game fight for his city than a slight reduction from former ache- For forty years pain's enemy Ask many a part moratorium have been the fifth passenger on board the fly- life some predicted en dules have been fixed by the corpora- boat Miss Miami which left Representative Parrish was a can- Beneath his odd renee'-s- ee ourneighbor announced They include perfect am leg Electric company At all druggists-35c 10c i1410 lion commission for Ardmore Sapulpa Skiatook-Construction of a high- tonomy for the reichsbank and new Miami Fla recently for Bimini for- ideas and his sen- took to Pawhuska now is under way -''-s Beg-es Bristow Bixby Boynton didate for the democratic nomination power transmission line from Skia- legislation to prevent evasion of Ger- ty-five minutes away sational manner I' 1 It Drumright Basket Jenks Kiefer to the United States senate and was man capital the legislation tJ be 1 oa 1 Mounds and Slick The Oklahoma Gars' on a speaking tour when an automo- ge I th cur- ompany supp les ready for application upon a fixed Several 'buildings within the walls bile containing him and a companion of I ng Charles Page of Sand Springs has them to the pub- g-sr ee contracted to furnish light and power date of the Texas state penitentiary at tic Mayor Oles seems to possess went off a bridge He sustained a th Linittlent Pains rent over the line from Pawhuska Huntsville including the prison kitch- fundamental American ideals that holoollimmomma i fractured jaw in 'addition to other se- 5 The rates are effective as of March 5 Avant and Barnsdall also will re- The Ardmore rate under the new Secretary Hughes has challenged ens laundry chapel library commis- make for good government I 15 vere ceive power from this line Another the allied powers to demonstrate sary and chaplain's office were de- He is making a rather thorough job schedule is 1278 cents a kilowatt hour Jae was brought to a hospital here branch will be made to Vera Collins- whether America is to share equitably re stroyed by fire recently The fire Too for the first 50 kilowatts a month 1 where attending physicians did not of the business of cleaning up Youngs- ville Ramona and Ochelata The Skia- in awards under the Versailles treaty originated in the kitchen town "If I have to I'm going to call theseafter at the rates of 19 cents for or whether the allies are to maintain regard his condition as serious For on the American Legion to turn out took line will be completed in sixty the next 150 kilowatts 10 cents for the exclusively for themselves their first several days he showed marked im- Gov A Robertson iif 'Oklahre end back up the police force" he said days next 300 8 cents for the next 500 7 In mortgage on Germany provement but later his condition wol ma submitted to arrest at Okmulgee get this cleansing job done and cents for the next 1(01 6 cents for a charge of accepting a bribe to was complicated by an attack of cere done right" on FORCED OFF ROADS CLAIM the next 3000 and 5 cents for all over Washington permit operation of the Guaranty brat meningitis Oles places a great deal of mil- Death only a matter of short time- E000 kilowatts dence in the ex-soldiers He employs Don't wait until pains and aches The danger to Eastern Europe from State Bank of Okmulgee while it was Farmers Want Road Fixed So They Sapulpa rates are 12 cents for the epidemics attendant upon the preval- in an insolvent condition The gov- ALBANIAN REBEL IS SLAIN them in the departments of the city become incurable diseases Avoid Can Keep out of Ditch first 100 kilowatts each month 11 ence of famine in Russia is rapidly ernor immediately made bond of $5 government and'sps that their work is painful consequences by taking cents for the next 100 9 cents for becoming serious according to a re- McAlester-Farmers who do not the nevi 1(0 7 cents for the next 200 port compiled by the League of Na- lost that restless feeling and are if 000 for his appearance at trial Sentence Death Passed and Carried satisfactory "The boys seem to have out Immediately GOLD MEDAL drive automobiles have requested that 6 cents for the next 500 and 5 cents tions health committee An army airplane occupied by Cap- anything more auxioes to perforna 0 $1500000 on highways it will also The same rate applies in all the An investigation has been instituted ing to take the air for a return flight from Duraneo states that an extraor- served" lie asserts' while the county is spending its for all in excess 100e tam Doyle and a mechanic attempt- Rome-A Stefani agency dispatch their full duty than men who neve grade and repair the gutters and ditch- other cities It is 12 cents for the by the interstate commerce commis- to Kelly Field fell at Eagle Pass dinary tribunal convened at Shiak te 4P ei a es along the sides of the highways fist 100 kilowatts 11 cents for the sion according to a regent announce- Tex and was destroyed by fire The northeast of Durazzo had sentenced PICTURES OF THE WORLD WAR They maintain they never get to It 4-q't 100 10 cents for the next 100 9 ment into the reasonableness of 'Jr- men extricated themselves from the to death by hanging Captain 13jram- The world's standard remedy for kidney travel on the road but spend most of eents for the next 100 7 cents for the tually all rates on coal in the western wreckage only an instant before the their time in the ditches trying to next ZOO 6 cents for the next 500 and part of the United States gasoline tank exploded Hardest Fighting Do Not National Remedy of Holland since 1616 giani captain of the Gendarmerie for Fifty Photographers on Job but Views livenbladder and uric acid troubles-Ma complicity in the recent uprising in 0 keep out of the way of 5 cents for all in excess 4- Albania and that the sentence was America's new budget plan will Foreign carried out immediately Look foe tho mom Gala Medal on wow ben Tell the atom Throe sizes all and accept we imitetten KAY COUNTY WHEAT GOOD Wind Brings Green Bug save the government 1 billion dol- During the Civil war photography members of the Oklahoma county and the entire tars this year That is the convic- The convention was a new art Only one luau was On le men had the gift of second sight teish republican army held in Dublin Phillips Goes to Holland Few Green Bugs and Bg Rains -ielp tion of Representative Martin Mad- central wheat section of the state lies recent' decided to confirm its alleg- Brady happened there would be fewer cases of love at den of Illinois who as chairman of Washington-Wm Philips of Mae- to be around' when a battle was tought first sight Put Grain in good Condition in territory covered by a current of lance to the Irish republic to main- sachusetts at present minister to house appropriations committee mit ee has the job-Brady if the battle would be photographed- wind traveling from Texas northward i Ponca City-Wheat conditions gen- is the belief of agricultural officials ne -seendin charge of all the mo tain the army as the army of the re- elolland was named under-secretary otherwise not But photography dur- AS SURE AS DAWN BRINGS A NEW DAY bills of the federal government public under an executive committee of state by President Barding to sue- lug the recent war was no such hit- stelL14 1 erally throughout this and adjoining This makes the infestatien of green of sixteen members and to enforce ceed Henry Fletcher who has been and-miss proposition Bow the World counties are excellent according to bugs an immediate and serious prob Administration officials are con- a drastic boycott on Belfast selected as ambassador to Belgium war was caught on negatives is told CASCArditgoQUININE 1 Laird Kay county farm agent lent they say Leland Harrison of Illinois was nam- 40eile vinced a coal strike cannot be art- in an article in a recent number of the 4- Only a few of the many wheat-grow- Late reports of green bug infesta- a 1 -s of this section have re- tion have been cause of no little I' ed President Harding and his coed- Leaders of the Russian soviet gov ed assistant secretary of state American Legion Weekly 041L mg rme IfttlagraakThatorbkland PIM net after working to bring miners ernment have been summoned to The very first ship that wen over er on enee before April 1 when the present which may arise in the-event of the Detroit-Adoption of the forty-hour movie man And from that time not ported the presence of green bugs worry on the part of Whitehurst who and operators together for a confer Moscow to consider the situation Ford Adopts 40-hour Week carrying General Pershing also ttlts e4fake 211145-ertThnItirrel4 oes-50e With moisture throughout the re- terms this "regular green bug weath- cat niainder of this month as forecast scales expire have given up all hope death of Nikolai Lonine the premier week as a permanent policy in all a single importain engagement went to withstand any bug menace Laird the wheat plants will be a condition a Cattle Quarantine Established which is said to be regarded as a pos- plants of the Ford Motor company ise enesnapped" When our army was at IF YOUR doing his beat to conserve your i A quarantine against certain coun- The 4 billion dollar soldiers' bonus sibility in the near future announced by Edsel Ford presi- VETERINARIAN 1 reported conceacra tot ties of Texas and Arkansas has been bill has been passed by the house by dent of the company photographers And for every photog- the height of its operation it had 50 WALTERS FOR MANAGER established by the state department an overwhelming majority It now There were seven murders in Bel- Under the new plan the factories goes senate were fate Ireland and three along the Ty- be closed on Saturday and Sun- in the laboratory ready to push our svil something The Cutter Laboratory aericulture to stop shipments of th it ft i fast I rone-Fermanagh border the other day day and about 300 men will be ad- negetives through rapher In the field we had three men urbo Laboratory that Know Hoat" regarded as uncertain The vote was cattle "Splenetic" or "Texas" fever Berkeley IBA License) California I Walters for City Manager by an 333 to 70 or 64 more than the two This was In addition to the five killed tied to the force Although the photographs extant at- I Overwhelming Majority is prevalent among the herds in the third majority necessary in the McMahon affair ford a remarkable history one of the 1 4- ts i counties against which the quarantine Ohio Pen Loses "Repeater" disappointments has been that even HAR RAI gAm Walters-By an overwhelming ma- was Placed according to A White- Domestic The United States as well as Cen- jority citizens of Walters indorsed hurst president of the board of agri- A Cen tral News dispatch from Ven- tral Europe must be on guard against Columbus Ohlo-Ohio penitentiary the best of the battle pictures do not gee- dtemoveoreseros-stessaatirde lost one of its champion convict "re- show the real danger because most of s' Boma to Grey and Podia The city manager plan of government culture Inspecition by a duly anal- ice says that a recent 'tidal wave in- the introduction of cholera and typhus Walters when they nominated sup- orized inspector of the bureau of ani- Undated the through immigration city the water rising to roug rem was peaters" when Robert "Baidy" Turner the hard fighting was done at dawn ese IT soetnITdMrfretirFitt: of 7 was returned to Missouri state prison before the- light was good enough HINDERCORMS 1 porters of the present administration mal industry of the state is necessary a depth of more than three feet in gees says a warning issued by Dr A to serve a sentence broke by escape During the whole we there never as candidate for city office at the pre before shipment can be made or cat- some of the public squares Schlesinger of the German Red Cross in 1918 it inotton picture made of band-to-hand rstelmesteereOZAgearz Arsisrittelie as iesee see yore ee leg segteegtsesigotet tie permitted to enter the state fighting by the American troops The ene All State Banks In Good Condition Responsibility for deficits Incurred A lockout affecting more than a Italian army posed some pictures but COAL CARNIVAL IN JUNE Good conditions among the state by the postoffice department in the 1 million men and presenting the Heller to Explore South America this was never allowed by American banks is shown by the reports which baidling of the mails is attributed gravest Industrial crisis In England New York-The advance party of generals 'S enryetta Preparing For King Koal have thus far reached the office of the largely to the parcels post system ac- I since the mine strike a year ago and the scientific expedition which is to be ititradriliN Karnival June 12th-14th Henryetta-Active work for the eve for a report cording to data collected by the Joint the threatened general strike by the Feed the Needy Day and Night state bank commissioner on the call headed by Edmund Heller Theodore of all the banks at the postal commission which has been fronts the nation triple alliance at that time now con- Roosevelt's companion on his African On day and night shifts Legionnaires PWG TOBACCO end annual coal exposition here Juno close of business March 10 Roy Wei- conducting a nation-wide investigation 1 hand out one thousand "coffees and 12 13 and 14 will be started when cett commissioner declared Otto the cost of handling of all classes triphas left New York for Peru The ou jobless iclit rom ghnuts to ess ex-so rs of mail matter Owen MacMahone a salOonkeeper party was sent out by the Field Mus at 31arks-in-the-Bowery New York Known as New Orleans contractors arrive to "While reports so far received are and three of his sons were murdered eum of Chicago and will seek new city Cold hungry and forlorn the men start construction of floats for the scattering and a tabulation of the con- King Koal Karnival tLtion of all the banks cannot be Earth shocks were felt in tho other morning when an armed specimens of game birds and plants line up to wait their turn for the hot 'that good kind" southeast Missouri southern Illinois 1 gang force an entrance into big rest- Mr Heller himself will sail early in drink and the' good old "fried-cake" s- At the same time rehearsing by the made for many days enough reports ee northern Arkansas western Kentucky- dance at Belfast Another son and April to join the expedition in Lima Women ot the Legion Auxiliary have you chorus of 500 persons who will sing have come in to reflect a better con- th and northern Tennessee the oer MacMabon's bartender were badly The party plans to cross South Amen ebarge of the relief work during the corouation songs at the crowning of dition than many have believed An will know why da l' No serious damage was reported wohnded by the intruders ca through its wildest parts by iii Wing Koal and his queen will begin exist" said Walcott 0 -N 1 A (t -di kommo OKLAHOMA NEVIS FROM OVER STATE EVENTS OF INTEREST TO ALL OF THIS STATE AUTHORIZE BANK BUILDING Governor of Federal Reserve Gives -Authority to Advertise for Bids on Oklahoma City Building Oklahoma City to advertise for bids and to go ahead immediately with the construction of 'its proposed building was given the Oklahoma City federal teserve bank In a telegram from Jo Zack Miller governor of the federal reserve bank of Kansas City The building to cost approximately $450o00 will be erected by the bank at the cornet- of Robinson and Third street Orders to go ahead with the work followed the visit of Oklahoma City bankers to Washington where the snatter was brought up before the federal reserve board Hugh Johnson president of the Fitst National bank and Hogan president of the Farmers' National bank and of the Oklahoma City Clearing House association made the appeal Invaluable assistance In carrying through plans whereby work could tie started on the bank building was lent in Washington by Senator Johnson said Bids for the building will be reTeived up to April 18 by Chicago architects who prepared the plans and zpecitications Daniels said Stories May be Added "We expect to go ahead immediately with the work and to carry out our plans which have been delayed several months" he declared "The 'building at first will be three stories In height and will have an ample basement It will be so constructed that additional stories can be added -when they are needed The bank will occupy the entire building as it will stand" Plans for the building were tied up several months ago when Harding governor of the federal reserve board issued an order stopping the building of all federal reserve banks proPosed or under construction The order followed the introduction of a bill in congress whech proposed that no freleral reserve bank be built without authority from congress itself POWER LINE FOR SKIATOOK 1-rgh-Power Transmission Now Being Built to Supply Oklahoma Towns of a high-power transmission line from Skiatook to Pawhuska now is under way Charles Page of Sand Springs has contracted to furnish light and power over the line from Pawhuska Avant and Barnsdall also will receive power from this line Another branch will be made to Vera Collinsville Ramona and Oche lata The Skiatook line will be completed in sixty days FORCED OFF ROADS CLAIM Farmers Want Road Fixed So They Can Keep out of Ditch who do not drive automobiles have requested that while the county is spending its $1500000 on highways it will also grade and repair the gutters and ditches along the sides of the highways They maintain they never get to travel on the road but spend most of their time in the ditches trying to keep out of the way of KAY COUNTY WHEAT COCO Few Green Bugs and Big Rains -lelp Put Grain in good Condition Ponca conditions generally throughout this and adjoining counties are excellent according to Laird Kay county farm agent Only a few of the many wheat-growing farmers of this section have reported the presence of green bugs With moisture throughout the re-- niainder of this month as forecast the wheat plants will be a condition to withstand any bug menace Laird reported WALTERS FOR MANAGER Walters for City Manager by an Overwhelming Majority an overwhelming majority citizens of Walters indorsed The city manager plan of government of Walters when they nominated supporters of the present administration as candidate for city office at the pretuary COAL CARNIVAL IN JUNE Itenryetta Preparing For King Koal Kernival June 12th-14th work for the eecond annual coal exposition here June 12 13 and 14 will be started when New Orleans contractors arrive to start construction of floats for the King Koal Karnival At the same time rehearsing by the chorus of 500 persons who will sing corsuation songs at the crowning of Wing Koal and his queen will begin GATHERING AT PUN CA 32nd Annual Conveetion to be held June 9th-13th Ponca Two districts are "Over the top" and resignations are received each day from the various districts throughout the state for the 32nd Annual Christian Endeavor convention to be held in Ponca City June 9-13 Indications now are that the SInd convention will be the biggest and best of the entire list thus far held in the state Pre-registration of delegates is being urged by the Ponca City convention committee and banners are being offered as indictments for the entire districts to register before the convention McAlester won Bannt-r and Vinita will be awarded Banner No 2 Arrangements are being made with the owners of the 101 ranch which is but nine miles-from Ponca- City for the entertainment of the Christian Elideavors there one day An exhibition by "real" cowboys probably will be a feature of the ranch visit PLAN EXTENSIVE HIGHWAYS Caddo County Planning An Extensive Highway System a road bond issue of $750000 proposed Caddo county is planning for one of the most extensive highway systems of any county in the state The proposed hard surfaced s3stern includes plans for four highways across the county two extendin from the faith to the south and the other east and west One of the north and smith roads would start at Bridgeport extend south through Hinton Binger Giacemont Anardarko and Apache The other would start at Hydro extend south through Carnegie and Alden Oklahoma Homesteads Open the past few months a number of homesteads have been added to the vacant lands in Oklahoma by the failure of parties to prove up in the five-year statutory period There are twelve cancellatV ns by the department one in Beckham two in Woods two in Blaine two in Kingfisher one in Major and four in Alfalfa IT lltit um 454 1 tatIPI 'it5 4 ti mot I ono 0 ri-T-T-----7----1-1 0 rt I 11 0 0 Slight Cut Made In Electric Rate New electric light rates containing a slight reduction from former schedules have been fixed by the corporation commission for Ardmore Sapulpa Beggs Bristow Bixby Boynton Drumright Basket Jenks Kiefer Mounds and Slick The Oklahoma Gas 8: Electric company supplies the current The rates are effective as of March 15 The Ardmore rate under the new schedule is 1278 cents a kilowatt hour for the first 50 kilowatts a month theieafter at the rates of 12 cents for the next 150 kilowatts 10 cents for the next 300 8 cents for the next 500 7 cents for the next Ern 6 cents for the next 3000 and 5 cents for all over E000 kilowatts Sapulpa rates are 12 cents for the first 100 kilowatts each month 11 cents for the next 100 9 cl-nts for the nevt BO 7 cents for the next 200 6 cents for the next 500 and 5 cents for all in excess 100e The sante rate applies in all the other cities It is 12 cents for the fist 100 kilowatts 11 cents for the It tq't DO 10 cents for the next 100 9 zents for the next 100 7 cents for the next 700 6 cents for the next 500 and 5 cents for all in excess Wind Brings Green Bug Oklahoma county and the entire central wheat section of the state lies in territory covered by a current of wind traveling from Texas northward is the belief of agricultural officials This makes the infestaticn of green bugs an immediate and serious problem they say Late reports of green bug infestation have been cause of no little worry on the part of Whitehurst who terms this "regular green bug weather" Cattle Quarantine Established A quarantine against certain counties of Texas and Arkansas has been established by the state department of agriculture to stop shipments of cattle "Splenetic" or "Texas" fever Is prevalent among the herds in the counties against which the quarantine was placed according to A Whitehurst president of the board of agriculture Inspecition by a duly authorized inspector of thP bureau of animal industry of the state is necessary before shipment can be made or cattle permitted to enter the state All State Banks In Good Condition Good conditions among the state banks is shown by the reports which have thus far reached the office of the state bank commissioner on the call for a report-of all the banks at the close of business March 10 Roy 'WMcltt commissioner declared "While reports so far received are scattering and a tabulation of the condtion of all the banks cannot be made for many days enough reports have come in to reflect a better condition than many have believed An exist" said Walcott 4 THE WORLD NEWS FOR THE PAST WEEK Events of Genbral Interest from All Sections Put Into Short Concise Paragraphs NEWS HUM VARIOUS CAPITALS Brief Mention of What ts Transpiring In This and Other Countries of the Globe Peace Notes The Greek government has accepted the proposal made by the allied foreign ministers for an armistice between Greece and the Turkish nationalists The reply to the proposal of the ministers however contains technical reservations on the military conditions Forty-six men were killed and 109 wounded on the German side in hour the World War raged according to an estimate arrived at by General von Altrock statistician This estimate was made from a study of official records The four-power Pacific treaty the center of controversy over accomplishments of the Washington arms conference has been ratified by the United States senate with no reservation except the "no alliance" declariLion proposed by the foreign zommittee and acceptad by Preside-It Harding Two members of the Bulgarian cabinet have resigned as the result of differences in the ministry over the government's determination to eliminate three letters from the Bulgarian alphabet which was announced several weeks ago With the arrival of traditional season of war rumors of war ind unrest in is stirring to reports of imepnding conflict with Poland Finland Rultiania possibly involving Germany and kyentually France A Belgian lieutenant in uniform was shot and killedthe other day by tow young civilians while riding la a tramway car between Ruhrort and Walsum in the occupied area near Dusseldorf Germany 44 The conditions under which the reparations committee will grant Germany a part moratorium have been announced They include perfect autonomy for the reichsbank and new legislation to prevent evasion of German capital the legislation t) be ready for application upon a fixed date Secretary Hughes has challenged the allied powers to demonstrate whether America is to share equitably In awards under the Versailles treaty or whether the allies are to maintain exclusively for themselves their first mortgage on Germany Washington The danger to Eastern Europe from epidemics attendant upon the prevalence of famine in Russia is rapidly becoming serious according to a report compiled by the League of Nations health committee An investigation has been instituted by the interstate commerce commission according to a recent announcement into the reasonableness of irtually all rates on Coal in the western part of the United States America's new budget plan will save the government billion dollars this year That is the conviction of Representative 'Martin Madden of Illinois who as chairman of house appropriations committee has charge of all the money-nending bills of the federal government Administration officials are convinced a coal strike cannot be wrened President Harding and his cabinet after working to bring miners and operators together for conference before April 1 when the present scales expire have given up all hope The 4 billion dollar soldiers' bonus bill has been passed by the house by an overwhelming majority It now goes to till senate where its fate is regarded as uncertain The vote was 333 to 70 or 64 more than the two-third majority necessary 1 1 Domestic A Central News dispatch from Ven- I ice says that a recent tidal wave inundated the city the water rising to a depth of more than three feet in some of the public squares I Responsibility for deficits incurred by the postoffice department in the haidling of the mails is attributed largely to the parcels post system according to data collected by the joint postal commission which has been conducting a nation-wide investigation into the cost of handling of all classes of mail matter Earth shocks were felt in southeast Missouri southern Illinois northern Arkansas western Kentucky and northern Tennessee the other day No serious damage was reported -1 ERICK DEMOCRAT Eight persons five Boy Scouts a scout executive and two scoutmasters were drqwned recently in Michigan Lake about ten miles northwest of Dowagiac Mich when a steel motor boat whiel they occupied foundered iuthe rough waters -of the lake Four men were killed and property damage estimated at $100000 was caused by a boiler explosion on board the ferryboat Omar Conger at Port Huron Mich re-ently The boiler was thrown 250 feet into a house 4 Adoption of the 40-hour week as a permanent policy in all plants Of the Ford Motor Company has been announced Under the new plan the be closed Saturday and Sunday and about three thousand men added to the force The wages remain the same By a unanimous vote of its 116 members the general policy committee of the United Mine Workers of 1America directed district union 41- Icials to ask all non union men to join the strike That a number cf prominent St Louis business men have been threatened with death in anonymous letters demanding money was made known by police recently following an attempt to blackmail Danforth president of a milling company out of $15000 Robert Crowe state's attorney and other law enforcement agencies moved recently to rip the "for sale" tag from Chicago juries Evidence of wholesale-purchase of juries which later returned verdicts of "not guilty" or disagreed was in the hands of authorities Crow announced The averagp increase in the cost of coal at the mines since 1914 has been 105 per cent according to replies to a questionnaire sent from Chicago to nearly four hundred consumers with an approximate annual consumption of 12 million tons of soft coal i Southwest Braz3h Rickey's St Loilis Cardinals major league baseball players turned firemen when a 2-story frame building used as nurses' quarters for the Baptist sanitarium at Houston Texas caught fire Much of the furniture was saved Fire which broke out at 'oDuncan Ok in a jewelry store in the heart of the business sectm totally destroyed the jewelry store and a barber shop occupying the same building Mr and Mrs Lawrence Smitti and Mr and Airs August Bulte all of Kansas City have in all probability been lost at sea together ith Airs Hickson of Memphis Tenn the fifth passenger on board the flying boat Miss Miami which left Miami Fla recently for Bimini forty-five minutes away Several 'buildings within tho walls of the Texas state penitentiary at Huntsville including the prison kitchens laundry chapel library commissary and chaplain's office were destroyed by fire recently The fire originated in the kitchen Gov A Robertson Of Oklahoma submitted to arrest at Okmuigee on a charge of accepting a bribe to permit operation of the Guaranty State Bank of Okmulgee while it was in an insolvent condition The governor immediately made bond of $5- 000 for his appearance at trial An army airplane occupied by Captain Doyle and a mechanic attempting to take the air for a return flight If) Kelly Field fell at Eagle Pass Tex and was destroyed by fire The men extricated themselves from the wreckage only an instant before the gasoline tank exploded Foreign The convention of members of the Kish republican army held in Dublin recently decided to confirm Its alleglance to the Irish republic to main tam the army as the army of the republic under an executive committee of sixteen members and to enforce a drastic boycott on Belfast Leaders of the Russian soviet government have been summoned to Moscow to consider the situation which may arise in the-event of the death of Nikolai Lonine the premier which is said to be regarded as a pos sibility in the near future There were seven murders in Belfast Ireland and three along the Tyrone-Fermanagh border the other day This was in addition to the five killed ln the McMahon affair The United States as well as Central Europe must be on guard against the introduction of cholera and typhus through immigration of Russian refugees says a warning issued by Dr A Schlesinger of the German Red Cross A lockout affecting more than a I million men and presenting the gravest Industrial crisis in England since the mine strike a year ago and the threatened general strike by the triple alliance at that time now con-'fronts the nation 1 Owen MacMahorn a sal6onkeeper and three of his sons were murdered tho other morning when an armed gang forced an entrance into his at Be4fast Another son and IMacidabou's bartender were badly wounded by the intruders SENATE WINES' PACT 61 TO 21 ONLY CHANGE IN ARTICLE Is THE "NO ALLIANCE" 'AMENDMENT SUPPLEMENT TREATY LITER Final Vote Representing Four More than Necessary two-thirds Record ed After Twenty Attempts to Qualify by Reservation four-power Pacific treaty the center of controversy over accomplishments of the Washington arms confeience was ratified by the senate with no reservation except the "no alliance" declaration proposed by the foreign relations committee and accepted by President Harding The only reservation to the Pacific treaty adopted by the senate reads: "The United States understands that under the statement in the preamble or under the terms of this treaty there is no commitment to armed force no alliance no obligation to join in any defense" The final vote of sixty-seven to twenty-seven representing a margin of four over the necessary two-thirds was recorded after the opponents of ratification had made more than twenty unsuccessful attempts to qualify senate action by reservations or amendments distasteful to the administration Irreconcilables Die Hard Dying hard the irreconcilable element which had opposed the treaty on the ground that it established an alliance between the United States Great Britian Japan and Ft ance forced thirty-three roll calls during a four and a half lmurs session set aside for final action on the resolution of 'ratification They madetheir best showing on a proposed reservation to invite outside powers into Pacific "conferences" affecting their interests mustering thirty-six votes for the proposal to fifty-five in opposition CON PARRISH LOSES FIGHT Texas Statesman Loses Life from injuries Sustained in Auto Crash Wichita Falls Lucien Parrish of the thirteenth Texas district who was injurf cl in an automobile accident near Roby Texas on the night of March 13 died here after a game tight for life Representative Parrish was a candidate for the democratic nomination to the United States senate and was on a speaking tour when an automobile containing him and a companion went off a bridge He sustained a fractured jaw in addition to other severe injuries He was brought to a hospital here where attending physicians did not regard his condition as serious For several days he showed marked improvement but later his condition was complicated by an attack of cerebral meningitis ALBANIAN REBEL IS SLAIN Sentence Death Passed and Carried out Immediately Stefani agency dispatch from Durazzo states that an extraordinary tribunal convened at Shiak northeast of Durazzo had sentenced to death by hanging Captain Bajramgiant captain Of the Gendarmerie for complicity in the recent uprising in Albania and that the sentence was carried out immediately Phillips Loss to Holland Philips of Massachusetts at present minister to was named under-secretary of state by President Harding to succeed Henry Fletcher who has been selected as ambassador to Belgium Leland Harrison of Illinois was named assistant secretary of state Ford Adopts 40-hour Week of the forty-hour week as a permanent policy in all plants of the Ford Motor company is announced by Edsel Ford president of the company Under the new plan the factories will be closed on Saturday and Sunday and about 3C00 men will be added to' the force Ohio Pen Loses "Repeater" Columbus penitentiary lost one of its champion convict "repeaters" when Robert "Baldy" Turner was returned to Missouri state prison to serve a sentence broke by escape in 1918 Heller: to Explore South America New advance party of the scientific expedition which is to be headed by Edmund Heller Theodore Roosevelt's companion on his African triphas left New York for Peru The party was sent out by the Field Museum of Chicago and will seek new specimens of game birds and plants Mr Heller himself will sail early in April to join the expedition in Lima The party plans to cross South America through its wildest parts AMERICAN' 0111(0110 Copy tor 'nue Department anpplted the American Legion New Service) GUIDES BIG HOSPITAL PLAN William Pierce Minnesota Legiot Commander Keeps Vow Made While Caring for Wounded A silent vow made four years age by a soldier at a French debarkation point will soon be great lu zed by the ly erection at Roch- ester Minn of a hospital HiI r- intern Vi tome now corn k0 wander of the Jpnerican Legion in Minnesota's ai first district did not have the op- portunity of risk-Mg his life in his country's tlelense He was stationed at a French port and it was his duty to meet and receive the Red Cross trains from the front bearing the maimed bodies of American soldiers The sufferings of those bleedine crippled men left an indelible mark on his mind He vowed that he would never forget them and that he would never cease to labor for their welfare An American Legion memorial hospi tal whose doors will IA perpetually open to any ex-service man from any part of the nation is now under way with William Pierce guiding th project The $500000 needed tt meet two 100-bed wards and to Wats ash a Mayo clinic will be raised large by the showing of patriotic motiot oictures throughout islinnestoa undet he auspices of Legion posts STRONG FOR LEGION MEN feyor of Youngstown 0 May Cali on the Es-Soldiers to Clean LI TOWn Sorge Ole the eccentric maynt Youngstown who was elected 'fist fall on prob- tidy the most unique platform i--- tver presented by a successful can- 'oak 0 otor didate is meeting Tbai- with more sue- t--- 1 cess In governing city than 'AX-- fit some predicted Bentath his odd K-4- soo ideas and his sen- sational manner I' 1 them ipresenting tohe pub- ha -1 lic Mayor Oles seems to possess the fundamental American ideals that make for good government He is making a rather thorough job of the business of cleaning up Youngstown "If I have to I'm going to call on the American Legion to turn out slid back up the police force" he said 'We'll get this cleansing job done and done right' Oles places a great deal of confidence In the ex-soldiers He employs them in the departments of the city government and'saiys that their work is satisfactory "The boys seem to have lost that restless feeling and are if anything more auxions to perforna their full duty than men who served" he asserts PICTURES OF THE WORLD WAR Fifty Photographers on Job but Views of Hardest Fighting Do Not Tell the Story During the Civil war photography was a new art Only one man was on the If Brady happened to be around' when a battle was fought the battle would be otherwise not But photography during the recent war was no such hit-and-miss proposition Bow the World war was caught on negatives is told In an article in a recent number of the American Legion Weekly The very first ship that went over carrying General Pershing also carried a movie man And from that time not a single Important engagement went "unsnapped" When our army at the height of its operation it had 50 photographers And for every photographer In the field we had three men In the laboratory ready to push our negatives through Although the photographs extant afford a remarkable history one of the disappointments has been that even the best of the battle pictures do not show the real danger because most of the hard fighting was done at dawn before the light was good enough During the whole war there was never a Motion picture made of hand-to-hand fighting by the American troops The Italian army posed some pictures but this was never allowed by American generals Feed the Needy Day and Night on day and night shifts Legionnaires hand out one thousand "coffees and doughnuts" to jobless ei-soldltrs from Rt 311111min4he-Bowery New York city Cold hungry and forlorn the men line up to wait their turn for the hot drink and the' good old "fried-cake" Womes of the Legion Auxiliary have ebarge et the relief work during the A Mrs Austin Orainola am now absolute '3 free from the feminine trouble from which I suffered together with annoying nervousness and I certainly owe my recovery to Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription I have taken only three bottles but am sound and well and have gained 19 Minnie Austin If you're nervous or troubled like Mrs Austin go to your druggist at once and obtain this Prescription of Dr Pierces in tablets or liquid Write Dr Pierce in Buffalo for free confidential medical advice Send 10e If you desire a trial package tablets Headaches Are Usually Due to Constipation When you are 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