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the choctaw herald
Vol. 6.
Hugo. Oklahoma. Thursday. May 4, 1911
No. 10
After Bridges
Comes Good Roads.
a meeting of citizens was held at
the offlceof W. E.SclioolerlaatThurs-
day flight to take some steps towards
Governor to Open
Office in Hugo.
Governor Dick Locke, of the Choc-
taw Nation, ■ as In the city last week
bulldh>K good roads In the county Wrhrht hnikM °'
Tliere was a large crowd of LZ! corQe'
men present and all were enthusiast.
for good roads.
A map was shown
with the proposed roads outlined up-
on It, one leading In each direction,
north, south, eastand west out of the
city, each supposed to be built for
n e miles.
The meeting was called to order
and W E. Schooler was elected chair
man of Good Roads District No.
ami W. B. Gill secretary. The pro
posed roads were taken up by the
ineetlng one at a time and discussed
then voted upon.
Several committees were appointed
to look after different parts of the
work, and It was decided to go to
work on the proposition and have the
matter put through to an election as
early as possible, so that It would he
possible to haul the present crop over
the roads
The twenty miles, It is estimated,
will cost In the neighborhood of$100,-
Wl, and bonds for that amount will
be asked of the voters of the district.
With the twenty-one steel bridge
and twenty miles of McAdarn road
Choctaw county wnj be well in ad-
vance of any county In the east side
of the state and our development will
be assured. With the thousands of
acres of new land coming on the mark-
et every year, It will only be a mat-
ter of a short time unMI the popula-
tion and valuation ,of the county will
be more than doubled. It will bring
the class of Immigration to the county
that we need most and will easily put
Choctaw county on a wonderful agri-
cultural boom.
and Duke, In which will be locat-
ed the offices of the Chocta w Nation
Governor Lock* will spen 1 a great
deal of his time in the city and Sec-
retary Bailey Springs will be In charge
during the absence of the governor
Hugo is tha logical location for the
offices of the governor, th« Indian
agent's office for this district being
located across the hall In the sa ne1
building. When Governor Locke was
first appointed a committee waited
upon hltn and asked him to establish
headquarters here, but at that time
he had never given the matter any
thought and could'nt then give a de-
cision. By having the office here
many members of the tribe will come
to Hugo who would otherwise not
come, as they continually have busi-
ness with the officials of the nation.
CITY FATHERS MEET.
The South's Problems
New Counoilmen Are Seated—$4,717.45 BUL ABow.d-1 * Ni,,i0n'S
Quit Claim Deed Not Signed.
The city council met in regular ses-
Hl-n Moday night with Mayor Jones
presiding and all members present
1 «* new members, Knoxand Hobeon,
took their seats, having already been
sworn In.
The minutes of the previous meet-
ing were read and approved.
The following bills were read and
approved.
Standard Plumbing Co
Baldwin Printing Co.
Blakeney-A lien Hdw. Co
Mrs. H. G.Evans and Mlsr Dalsv
Humphry attended the meeV >ig of
the Federated clubs at Durart last
week.
Messer News.
Ben Goldman was in Messer Tues-
day, in the Interest of bis Arm.
Dr. Askew, of Hugo, was in Messer
Wednesday on business.
The weekly spelling match was
held at the home of W W. Westb ook's
Messer wants bridges, court house
and jail by a b!g majority. Evidence
of progreaslvness.
Our farmers are now eating new
potatoes and squirrels. That's right,
stay in town and envy us all you
please. Wedoi't let a little thing
like that hln ler our appetite
The C. F literary sodety of this
place held a ver/ Interesting and
benefical meeting last Saturday night.
Everybody pleased and benefitted In
some manner.
We are very glad Indeed that The
Herald was not very seriousir Injured
by "Mr. Proimutv," of Idabel.
Crops are very good In this com-
munity considering the cool snap.
S F. Mauldin and E-quire Tupplt
were trying for the finny tribe last
Friday but liad the usual fisherman's
luck.
Jim Westbrooks. of Cody, was In
Messer Saturday visiting relatives
Success to the Good Road move-
ment and Tin Herald.
Curly
Compromise In the
Jumbo Mine Case.
The suits for damages against the
owners of the Jumbo mines, in the
northwest part of this county, grow-
ing out of the explosion that resulted
in the death of fourteen miners last
fail, was ended last Monday by a com-
promise between the attorneys on
either side, who met at Antlers and
perfected the terms of settlement.
Owing to the suit being in progress
the mines have been closed down for
several months, but now that the
matter has been adjusted, it Is gener-
ally understood that work at the mines
will be resumed at an early date -
Antlers American.
The Information.
In our article last week calling at-
tention to the fact that negroes are
not the only ones In the cltv who
ride bicycles on the sidewalk we had
no Intention whatever of casting any
reflections on either the police court
or the police department, but the
venerable police judge took exceptions,
nevertheless We may have been
mistaken as to the amount of the
fine of the negro, but the fact remains
that the negro was fined: now we
would ask the judge how long It had
been prevlons to this arrest since an-
Grand Leader
I'r. Wrlghj
Cornelia Bridges
Wright Lumber Co
Ed Reams
Will Todd
Bennett Printing Co.
Texas Transfer Co
Telephone Co
Charles Smith
G. BOrnard Co
J- M. Morton
Blesslnir A Co.
T. N. Byars.
It. S. Stone
H. D. Jordan.
Alderman Downing
Alderman McMillan
J N. Downing.
Alderman Lawlls
C. C. Clark.
Blakeney-Allen Hardware Co
D L. Swint.
Golden llule Grocery.
Frank Marks.
Ed Phillips
Bob Phillips
R- L. Jones
R L. Jones
Clark Echols
Clark Echuls
— Percy.
Alderman Henry
Alderman Shull.
Cade Lee
Cade Lee
Cade Lee
— San ford
A. Forshee
A. Forshee
— Treadwell
— Treadwu|l
— Durham
H C. Blanchard
C. E. Blessing
D. Nixon
W. L. Austin
eli to use then for paving:
Broadway from the .railroad to
Wade street.
Railroad street from Jackson to
Wade.
Crocket from Duke to Jackson.
Dewev from Jefferson to W±d<*
Duke Trora Crockett to LKjwey.
A petition from the residents oil
• 7-> J aS 8l'reet" Mk,"« sidewalks,
I tWh" but that
2.50 the cltv had no deed on a part of the
10 2 th?*..and"'e,r bluest cou'd not ut
10.35. this time be granted.
5 00 Ad ordinam-e
9 Koutn has n0 problems that
are not the nation's problems. The
South no longer seta Itself aoart from
the rest of the nation. Our destiny
will be controlled by all the ninety
million people of the ITnited States.
There Is no race question In tlieSouth.
w'lll'contTl.^c^e tl Tve I ward'VT" "'OVe 'M: l,i"
t'-ousand years ahead «r m,„ i.. i /ain ng an amendment to the
Commission Form
For Kansas City.
\ exed at the blocking by the cltv
council of legislation which he deems
necessary, Mayor Darius A Brown
announced last week that lie would
champion a movement to change tlie
cltv government to a plan similar to
the com mission- form. •
ord,n*n<*w*s presented, the
33.30 ( rules suspended and It was passed
providing for sewer connections.
A motion to adjourn was lost
An ordinance fixing the salary of
of the city engineer at *2<¥) per month
was read and passed.
Clint llenrt, on motion of Alder-
man Marks, was elected president of
the council.
The City Clerk was authorized to
advertise for bid's for the city books
by Bonded Auditing company.
H. C. Blanchaid, on motion of
Alderman Shull, was appointed city
engsneer
Alderman Marks mived tlie
city ask for bids for city printing
carries.
Motion by Alderman Marks thai
mayor have his appointments ready
infi'itl J"" meet'"K «*>
1M.OO oud was rulert out of order and Mr
.35 Marks appealed, afterwards with-
drawing Ids appeal.
The mayor and Mr. Marks at tils
Point had a tilt over the appointment
of several city officers and the ratyor
30 00
4.70
75.00
50.00
8.00
5.80
2.75
5 25
5.65
67.38
78.34
.'(4.50
2,781.15
25.00
12.50
12.50
40.00
12.50
8.50
years ahead of the negro in
the accomplishment of civilization
The negro himself will develop along
hi* own lines.
Our traditions are the same as those
of .New England -same In substance
different only in form. The smoke
from millions of factory stacks ins
not deadened the veneration of the
New Englander for his Puritan an-
cestors. The transition of the South
from a purely agricultural region In-
to an agricultural and manufactur-
ing region will not stille the love of
tlie Southerners for the heroic quali-
ties displayed by their fathers in the
struggle of figty years ago. To-day
the Southerner and the New Engend-
er rejoice alike that Grant and Lee
and that I, ingfellow and Sidney La
nier were great Americans.
12 50
55 l
55.00
75.00
15.00
8.35
The Right To
Inspect Meat.
A C'se involving the right of a city
by ordinance to require inspection of
slaughtered animals in addition to
the State inspection Is that of Buck
Garrett, ( hlef of Police of Ardmore,
appealing to the supreme court from
a decision of the district court of
Carter county in favor of the conten-
tions of Charles Kerner, an Ardmore
nn,)(t. ,. butcl'er. Kerner bought some anl-
notined tlie council tliat he would mals and had them Inspected bv the
city charter to be vote 1 on at the
next city election. That amendment
will provide that the upper house
aldermen, to I* named at the nest
election, be chosen for terms of t.vo
instead of four years. The lo ver
house aldermen ar s >v,w electe.l r ,r
only two years. Hence, if theanien I
merit carried, the ter.ns of all of tin
aldermen, those now in office and
those to be elected at the next elec-
tion, would expire at the same time.
Having done awSy with tli3 pres-
ent forms of the upper and lower
house, Mayor Brown woal I select
five aldermen for each house from the
city at larg^. T.Hs wjuld j practically
be a commission form of government.
The state constitution makes two
houses necessary, but It doe< not
specify thenumiier of members, nor
that they shall be chosen from «ar.ls.
,i „ roa)f* tl,e appointments for them to
Mm raU£ 11 N'**'ailed to do so, he
ti % I ,W„7. ,^t,nUR ,0 mlke **
U.M . until they were ratified.
Adjourned.
To Invoke Referendum.
It has become knowu that oppon-
mLW.™ th* 8,18 °f "PP1"0*'®*^
1.500,000 acres of school lands, sale of
which was authorized by an art of
State insoector on a farm outside the
city limits, but failed to have them
Inspected by the city Inspector. Pro-
ceedlngs were brought against him
by the city authorities and he wa&
fined in the county court, but secured
Clint Henry and wife attended tin
Allison-Redden wedding at Corsicana
Texas, I as", week Mr. Allison, the
groom, being a brothjr of Mrs. Henry.
Frank Whittler and Miss Nellie
Husky, both of Fort Towson. were
licensed last week to marry.
R. W. (Dal) Wilkinson has return-
ed from Parii wherj he was operated
upon for cataract of the left eye. He
was kept in a dark 100m for sixteen
days and returns hojne much benefit-
ted and able to see v 1th ti at j e.
Ice Cream Standard.
2.00! I >
50.00 jthe Third Legislature, w"Jre7.reDarinp : ma ''' a tMp t0 Mpavener this week to i no' less tUan 10 P" cent of milk fat
U>e referendum ami would i atUrn<1 lhe bedside of a llMJe niece, ja not " ore th#n three ounces of
fl>e State Board of Health has
a reversal in tha district court, which aJ Pted a standari for ice cream and
held the State Inspection «js sum-! deviations therifro r, board members
cient F rom this decision Garrett on >>'- will result in i rosecutions. Ice
behalf of the city appeals. . cream is described as being the frozen
; product of whole tailk and sugar, with
Jim Thomas, the real estate man, ior wlthout natural liavors: to contain
200 00it°'n*°l<etherererei.dum and would
15.75 j shortly have petitions ready for clr- dangerously ill.
43.K) | cu'atlon
24.81
pure gelatin to ten gallons of the Hn-
j ished ice cream.
Total
Alderman Marks asked
The sales , . lJM* lt*roe'1 fr°m the offlcere of i lf artllicial colors are used then it
-'.emergency claJT^I tel.l? the the Hugo BusinCollege that tl« j only be wit!, certified colors or
lcl' -"P^nds [ suspension of the institution is only IUle,r blends (seven colors defined by
.vv...a4l,nu since an- hill * , , — w Z.e|(i8l
other person had been lined for riding ! , J„ , °? ?f the Grand L«ad r be | ing of sufficient
"" 'fa! I" a ? , , r>ownlnS asked that the ! Detitions will
bill of D. L. Swlnt be laid out, but i until a vote I
both were finally paid. Fire Chief ured as worth
Henry explained that he had o k'd
tlie Swlnt bill for 1100 but not the «6
which was for bridles.
W 717 46 1 *-'*u
'.HI,:.,:!J«tl l„ multurt). In sucl, .n eveob tl l.i
on the sidewalk, and If It Is not true
that, as a rule, a fine of five dollars
and cost in his court does not amount
to II1 25? It is a notorious fact that
scarcely a day but there are persons
riding blcjcles on the sidewalks of
tlie city and In many cases pedes-
trians have to step off the walk and
make way for the riders. Ask any of
the residents on Jackson or Duke
streets. The honorable judge denies
that the negro waR fined; we saw the
negro arrested on Jackson street and
In the afternoon paper we noticed
that, a negro had been fined for riding
on the sidewalk. In his eagerness to
represent Tue Hkhai.d as making a
misstatement the Judge has probably
forgot the Incident. As stated in our
article we were not trying to defend
the negro - if he was guilty he should
have been fined-but we simply called
the attention to the fact that many
peoule violated the law every day.
and they do and should be fined. Will
Fire in the Store
of J. P. Dick.
About II o'clock Saturday night
Mr. Wilson, one of the e'erks In the
J. P. Dick titore, opened the door to
Mil a necktie, after thj store had
been closed for ao.ne ti , e, and was
staggered by the i-moke and heat'1 ie P'®ase look over his
from the roon. An al m v as at <*>rds" and tell the people the date
once turned in and tl)$ ire depart- °r'be last fine prior to the fining of
ment responded at on^r. a fter open- L1,lfc "*Kro?
Ing t lie doors the tirsine i >av they -
could not see the fire tor the thick j ilAZ
cloud of smoke, and as a c nseq,en e 1 1106 To 5(b
tlie .toe in on
110(1
!bonds
,n former Kev. Sexton, of Guthrie, state evan- Some towns In n . ,
lessees' orginl^tionlm n^kH'w arHvefhte^wetk ^ufoin 'winJtt 1 'ISl oriS^t!<UaenntstAm^'
— • ■'K; mat: 55
Woman's rinhc 'h Is"". Wi" 06 '"terdenomlna- enforce this order.
Ulllan S UUDS 1 tiorial an I all the peoule of the city
HPtt* \pvf re,l'iested and urgel to attend ~
iicic neAl I ear. and take an active interest in the n,e services by the Udks Aid so
work- jclety of the F'rst Christian church
Mrx w T .T~, ~ ! St Sunday night was well attended
Mrs. «. r. <lakes accompanied her and highly appreciated. Mrs
little son to Paris this week where l:c
"Mr. Swlnt made the harness and i
guess he wants his money." said Al-
derman Downing, "and let's pay him
and be careful in future."
Attorney Stephenson presented a
quit claim deed for the property up-
on which the city hall stands, also a
quitclaim from the Frisco for E. H. ! Mesdames DeWltt Vaughn FWc
Foster, which It was asked that the Phlppen, Burke. Birnes! MIssesGuth'
mayor sign tor the city. It was re-1 rid and Humphry were amoT th£*
Ul the cltv attorney and he j who attended t he meetinif of ri.
suggested that It be not signed as It , Federated clubs of th^ Foartli dis I * enLer the l,(^Pltal.
did not set out the facta in the case, trlct at Durant l.« week and U.ev I „• .
Motion by Marks that the head of speeded in landing tlie conv-ntlon I , ? ,,awkIns ol tlie city was
each department be made purchasing for Hul?° ne*t vear. Several otl^r l!*0^ SUU vU>! P^'dent of the
agent for his department. Carried. Ic,ties were In the race, but tlie IIUl..1 °\BS a"d correct,ons orifanixation
Mayor Jones notified the attorney ! '"d'88 carried the plum away last *eek'
for the street paving contractor that
the time for beginning work had pas-
sed, and the attorney explained that
the reason was a misunderstanding
between his companf and the cltv
engineer, arising from the kind of
curb. Engineer Blanchard was called
upon and described the different kinds
of curbing and the council on motion
Weddings.
Last Saturday morning Justice
Schwler performed the ceremony
making t. E Sturdevent. of Roxton
Texas, and Miss Ruby Hall, of Grant
man and wife. The wedding took
Gov. Dick Locke was in the city
yesterday on business.
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ed with s allots. Thee
Is damaged by wat r, and I
tingulsh-
Ire stock
almost a
column
County court
to several thoos ind . o lars i «'«'wpreswing.
( leve Spencer, i he burgl r who rob-' School Board,
bed the jewelry store on D ke mrwi : ti.,
1 rUoo at McAlester last w„>ek.
president and
of lleery adopted the straight curb. ' the offlce of county treas-
It was proposed to tap mains Ur#r •'"?"** UrtfB crj*a of specta-
liave connections made every 5o feet1, , ,y '"rt on the-afternoon
in the residence district and 25 feet' Iloltun. their future home.
in the business district and to faclli-'
tate the work of paving the cuntrac Judge Glenn was called to his offW
tors Is U> make the, i conncctij:!, | Saturday aftenioon to perform the
COS.t,a,| . «r ru"1 ; i« v unitin g J.N. Mc-
At this ju.i, ture |ke Helllgman ap 1 "ar and Mt*s |.i||le Adams. l«th of
reared .or the. iteta.l Men-lw,,Us „.|t ^clty.
sociation to ask I' the council would
consider an ordance prohibit Ing stores
using street.cryers on the cornersand
solicitors on the ctfrners. Mr. Gold-
- - . . ... ... . J .
Wif,the president of the socletv
announced that tlie ladles had arrang-
ed so that men could lie" ta'ren into
the organization by paving just half
as much dues as the ladies-5 c^nts
per month. A crowd of ten traveling
men were in attendance, all sitting
In the same section of tlie house, and
it is reported that all ten of them
Kave their names to tlie officers early
Monday morning and paid live months
dues in advance The ladies of the
church societies deserve great credit
for their untiring work and their ef-
fort to keep the churches on a busi-
ness hasis, and the fact that these
ten men joined the local Aid shows
w. R. McIntosh has sold his drug
store in Fort Towson and wil! come
to Hugo to reside.
Work on tlie new hotel on Duke
street is progressing, the excavations
for the cellar being well under way ,, — ouwws
Dug Eve ridge, of Grant, was in the I work ^ ' *|,prt!Ci*t« the
city yestei.lay. |
J. H. Bvwaters. of Paris, was In the
city last week looking after lite new
b«i dings In course of erection on
Jackson street.
pany was on hand L JJ£S'of the county from the
portion, and the argume^ "" A V~
the two creatad the merriment oZ
ev *iiinir t iic uiurinjf \%hi ^ completed and
everything arranged by Saturday and
m i"* HrSt' °ur cou"tr officials
. i* 10 everJbody, as
usual.—McCurtain Gazette.
W agons, draymen and small army
of helpers began this morning to
move the lurniture, books *
evening.
Concrete
blocks was the paving
Commissioners Ccurt.
The connty comissioners met Mon-
day in regular session, but adjourned
until next Monday on account of the
serious Illness rf the wife and mother
of Chairman John Husky, who had
to return home. Both "the mother
ana wile of Mr. Husky are very hi.
and it «as thought that the mother
would not survive.
Them was not much business tran-
sacted during the two or threo hours
tlie court was in session, but in the
session next week tlie final arrange-
ments for the building of court house,
jail and bridges will be made and otn-
er routine business attended ty.
Professor Lee was up fro.n Grant
Saturday
Attorney Warren made a business
trip to Durant last week.
Antlers won a hot game of ball
from the local team last Frldav af-
ternoon.
Mrs W. A. Fuilerton, of Oklahoma
Llty, returned home last Frldav after
a visit to Mr. an I >:re. E. • >. Haines
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