Durant Weekly News, 1921-01-28

There liny, been nothing of u start startling; - ling; startling; nature transpired In the legisla legislature - ture legislature during the last week. The stream of bills being Introduced still cqntlnucs but there has been no final action on any really important measures. On Friday sixteen bills were Intro Introduced - duced Introduced In the House and nine In the Senate. In Committee of the whole, the house passed three bills which will be put on the calendar for final passage later Sixteen new bills were Introduced. lleport of employes' committee adopt adopted, - ed, adopted, fixing the Hularlcs of house em employes - ployes employes Standing committees reported, ro ro-commenrilng - commenrilng ro-commenrilng the passage of bill No. 57 by Knight, relating to the pay of school district clerks, and No. 70 by Disney empowering municipalities to establish public playgrounds, and recommending that the house not pass bill No. 71 by Corman, providing for the state to establish a printing plant to publish its nun school books. A minority report on No 71 recommend recommended - ed recommended that It puss. In the Senate among the bills intro introduced, - duced, introduced, were three by Senator Mcl'hcr Mcl'hcr-rcn: - rcn: Mcl'hcr-rcn: ,No 118, b Charles K. .Mel'herrcn of liurunt, relating to the protection of crossings nt the grade of niilroads and public hlghivti.vs. conferring addi additional - tional additional Jiiilsdlction ii u i the corpora corpora-lion - lion corpora-lion tntiimlssion No 2J. by Chillies C Mi-I'licrien of Intrant, relating to tax rc-sulcs and procedure therein No li'ii. b CharltH i: Mel'hi'i ren of Durum, making a supplemental appro appropriation - priation appropriation for the i ngliieering division of the highvvn.v ilepaitment and declaring au emergenej. On Saturda) the House was tin- mil) branch of the legislature' uliiili was ill session and It was the flist time th.it either luamli hid held a Saturday

Impnrtume. (Julie a number of bills were reported out of their committees hut no action was taken on any of them Two important matters err under consideration In the Senate Tuesday; the Appropriation hill and the Ware Warehouse - house Warehouse hfll The Appropriation hill waa Intro. lui nl in the Senate Tuesday by Davidson of Tulsa, acting for the ap appropriations - propriations appropriations (ommtttee of both hofhecs, who Tuesday morning completed bud budgets - gets budgets for Judicial, executive and legis legislative - lative legislative departments of the state The hill follows the governor's budget closelv. lulling for totals of i!,!HH,-!i.-i .'..' and .1.083.:i:"l . respectively, for the .viars I,.i2.! iiml liU.'l. The S, ii. He also began oiisideiutlon of the bin providing for a warehouse hj mIi in for Hie state and appropriating two million dollars foi the next two .vents to he placed in a levnlvlng fund iindei juiisilli tlou of the hoard of ug ug-ilculture, - ilculture, ug-ilculture, which prnctlcall.v adminis administers - ters administers the project. dm mI.i.v the Senate was cnlei-

CITY'S SUNDAY. SCHOOLS HAVE BIG ATTENDANCE I.aat Nunday Haw 1,093 Men, Women And, Children In Attendant-? At The Various Monday Nrhoola All records for Sunday School at attendance - tendance attendance were broken last Sunday when 1,606 persons atcnded the various Sunday Schools of the city. This waa an Increase of 254 over the previous Sunday and an Increase of 750 during the last month. Had the day been fair the attendance would have doubtless have been great greater, - er, greater, as It K Jt Is a record of which the Sunday School workers may well feel proud. The following Ih the attendance In the various schools and the in Bible schools flaptist 416 First Methodist 461 Presbyterian 344 Christian 30S Grace Methodist TO East Side Presbyterian 28

much warm weather at thla time Is the last thing that the fruit raisers want. Those who are In a position to know say that the fruit has gone through the winter so far In fine shape and every Indication Is for a bumper crop, provided that warm weather followed by a freeze does not put the kibosh on the fruot as Is did last year. While the, present cold snap has been of sufficient Intensity to stop the de de-v - v de-v elopement of the blossom buds of the fruit trees. It haa not been of suffi sufficient - cient sufficient Intensity to cause any particular discomfort; In fact since the change In the weather everybody la feeling more snappy and fit, for the weather Is much more seaaonble.

III'IIN MM.KO IN ARKANSAS Henry l.owry, negro charged with tho murder of O. T. Craig and hla daughter at Nodena ChrlBtmas day, was burned to death by a mob shortly after sis o'clock Wednesday on the levee near the Craig plantation. The negro was taken across the Mississippi rlwer at five o'lloc) by Ihe crowd which took him from officers Wednesday. He was to have been lynched Immed Immediately - iately Immediately on arrival, but a disagreement urose ns to whether to hnng or burn him

ding was treating the eighteenth Amendment In a reckless and carefree manner which was endangering the pence, and dignity of the Statu of Okla Oklahoma. - homa. Oklahoma. The officer met Madding in tho mad south of Bennington ami the lat latter - ter latter proreeded to bring his artillery In Into - to Into action, the only damage Inflicted being to the horse that Itlsnei was rid riding. - ing. riding. After eight of the said projectiles Illsner got his machine gun into action