McCurtain Gazette (Idabel, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 93, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 12, 1921 Page: 1 of 9
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McCurtain Gazette
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volume 14
idabel, mccurtain county, oklahoma, Wednesday, January 12, mi
number 93
OFFICERS WERE
ELECTED FOR
ENSUING YEAR
by the first national and
american national
banks at meeting held
tuesday.
financial aid-to any farmer who would
not agree to such a reduction.
Action on this resolution was tak-
en at a meeting of farmers at Shoats
Spring on last Tuesday, when farm-
ers representing seven unions and a
membership of 400 met for discussion
of various subjects appertaining to
their welfare. C. G. Wililams as
president of the organization and W.
S. Lee as secretary and treasurer
signed the resolution.
Just what light the bankers regard
this resolution in could not be deter-
mined, but it is understood that such
action meets their Approval since they
have manifested an interest in the
movement for the cotton acreage re-
duction.
* Nearly every banker in the county
was present at a meeting at the
Webb hotel for a dinner after which
discussions were had on the cotton
situation and other matters pertain-
ing to the farmers and bankers.
At a stockholders meeting of the
First National and American National
Banks in this city Tuesday afternoon
the old officers of each bank were re-
elected for the year. The First Na-
tional officers are as follows:
C. A. Denison, president.
H. C. Morris, vice president.
Q. Herndon, vice president.
Waldo Watkins, cashier.
R. R. Gore, assistant cashier.
R. M. DeWitt, assistant cashfer.,
Directors:
C. A. Denison, W. J. Whiteman, Q.
Herndon, J. M. Craig, J. W. Costilow,
Waldo Watkins and H. C. Morrw.
The officers for the American Na-
tional Bank are as follows: '
R. C. Newton, president.
J. B. Goolsby, vice president. CAUSED BY FAILURE TO COL
W. L. Neidermeier, vice president.
F. B. West, cashier.
Directors:
C. C. Flake, John C. Head, John M.
Tyler, Ed M. Spencer, Wade Stevens,
R. C. Newton, J. B. Goolsby, W. L.
Neidermeier, F. B. West.
THE WRIGHT DRY
GOODS COMPANY
IS BANKRUPT
CHOCTAW COUN-
TY FARMERS TO
REDUCE COTTON
LECT OUTSTANDING AC-
COUNTS AND THE REDUC-
TION OF PRICES.
REV. M.H. KNOX
HAS RESIGNED
FROM PASTORATE
NEGROES ON THE
WAR PATH LAST
SUNDAY NIGHT
of the first presbyterian and several of them were
church of This city— lodged in the city jail
will preach farewell
sermon sunday
Rev. M. H. Knox, wh0 has been
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church in this city for some time, ten-
dered his resignation at the. morning
services hist Sunday morning, and
will preach his farewell sermon next
Sunday morning. He states that he
has made no definite plans for the
future, but that he and Mrs. Knox
will leave immediately for a visit to
relatives in Kansas City, Mo.
Rev. Knox has made many friends'
in this city, and we deeply regret
losing him and his charming wi e as
citizens.
REV. S. S. CRAIN
PREACHED HIS
FIRST SERMON
; as pastor of the first bap-
| tist church to a large
assemblage of church
going people
TO SOBER UP.
For a short time Sunday night the
negroes on the West Side made the
residents of that side set up and take
notice. A general free for all fight
took place at the home of Curlcy
Green, booze was flying in plentiful
quantities. One woman was so
drunk she had to be carried to jail
with a large bunch of other negroes.
Such conduct should have the full
benefit of the law and a few worth-
ies# negroes mad* to go to work.
The county attorney has been en-
couraging law enforcement and here
is a good chance to begin and fill up
the public roads and streets with a
few of this worthless class that in-
habit the city of Idabel.
BRIDGE PARTIES
GIVEN IN HONOR
OF MRS. LASSITER
THE HOSTESSES BEING MES
DAMES BARTON R. McLEN-
DON AND JOE G. GRIFFITH
The Wright Dry Goods Co., a mer-1
cantile company that has been doing
business here for about four years, I
I went into volunteer bankruptcy this |
| week after suit had been filed against
them for a large bill owed a shoe
house. j Rev. S. S. Crain preached his open-!
| This company had an asset of about ing sermon Sunday morning at 11:00 ; The Bridge Club was entertained
,$40,000 and the liabilities were about o'clock at the First Baptist church to last Friday afternoon by Mrs. Barton
the same. Mr . Wright has been the .a large congregation, of all denomina- R. McLendon, in honor of Mrs. Lassi-
| manager of the business since the tions. Rev. Crain is a good preacher t£r, of Clarksville, Texas.
I store was moved here from Ft. Tow- and delivered an excellent sermon j The home was decorated with red
AC R E A G E THIS YEAR—ASK'son and is an excellent gentleman. Sunday. We are glad to have such roses and ferns. The prize, a set of
HAVING JUST
PAID OUR TAXES
(Which ran into four figures)
We feel like we have an interest in the community.
We are glad we can help to support the schools and up-
build our county.
CAN YOU AFFORD TO TRADE WITH US SO THAT
WE WILL CONTINUE PAYING THESE TAXES?
would you rather buy elsewhere and
build schools and courthouses for other
towns?
IDABEL MILLING COMPANY
LEONARD G. HERRO.V, Manager
'Always Boosting'
Rachel James, Idabel.
V. S. Williams, Idabel.
Mrs. M. G. Monroe, Hope, Ark.
Mrs. S. S. Mosfes, Hope, Arfc.
Geo. W. H. Tawbald, Cihcinnatti,
Ohio.
Mrsf Harry Nickels, Idabel.
J. D. Parks, Idabel.
D. G. Flenniken, Cooper, Texas.
C. M. Cabiness, Shults.
J. T. McClimons, Idabel.
Cooper Willingham, Idabel.
C. E. Pittman, Idabel.
G. 8. Harper, Idabel.
J. H. Hudson, Idabel.
Ella Kahnheimer, Cardington, O.
R. C. Kirk, Cerro Gordo, Ark.
W. A. Kirk, Cerro Gordo, Ark.
W. A. Wauhop, Bokhoma.
Frank Wimberly, Idabel.
Mark Willis, De Queen, Ark.
J. A. Litchford, Haworth.
Dr. R. D. Williams, Idabel.
COLORED FARM-
ERS OF OAK GROVE
WILL GROW TRUCK
A TRUCK GROWERS ASSOCIA-
TION WAS ORGANIZED WITH
TWENTY-ONE MEMBERS
bankers to refuse to aid
those who will not cut
acreage
Hugo, Jan. 9.—Choctaw county:
farmers have voluntarily agreed to
reduce their cotton acreage one-third
He has made friends here ever since;an able minister locate in our city|sherbet glasses, was won by Mrs. Ira
! he came to Idabel and the people will j and the good people of Idabel extend j Rone. Mrs. Lassiter Ws presented
ex- i with a rose jar. A dainty luncheon
iwas served to the following ladies:
Jdesdames N. C. Campbell, H. G.
Ross, J. M. Craig, H. M. Rirkpatrfck,
|C. P. Baker, Lee .Morgan, Thompson,
lira Rone, J. Randall Connell, A. G.
jPhillips, Wade Stevens, F. B. West,
jRabt. Pierce (Ashdown); J. R. Whit-
thorne, Jeff D. McLendon, Barton R.
McLendon, Lassiter (Clarksville).
receive this news with regret. la welcome to Rev. Crain and
Mr. Wright has made every effort! cellent family.
any honest mtn should make and his
failure is not any lack of his business y p || am niiAn
qualifications or dishonesty. Thous- K Aj K HA I NHIII'
ands of merchants throughout the * *
country are in the same shape of Mr.
Cotton acreage for 1921 must be
reduced. The slogan, "McCurtain
(County Must Feed Herself," has re-
dacted favorably on the colored farm-
ers of Oak Grove settlement in school
{district No. 63. On the night of the
6th inst 18 men and 3 women met at
their new church and organized
I themselves as a Produce Club. They
FROST PROOF AND WINTER CAB-!plan to grow 15 acres of truck. They
BAGE PLANTS. 'will co-operate with the Idabel Truck
Association. M. P. Paschal was elect-
or more for the coming season and:Wright.
last night laid before the bankers of j It is to be hoped he will get his
the county a resolution calling on;business affairs in good shape and,
the bankers of the county to refuse [open again in our city.
AND GIFT AND
BABY SHOP MOVE
j Large and stalky, ready NOW to
ship. All varieties' Sent by parcel
post at 40c per 100. Send money
jwith order.
E. L. WHEELER,
ed president. He insisted that the
members grew more truck and food
staff and Tet cotton go. He stated
further that members must break
their lands early and thorough and
Prairie View State College, Prairie use manures, if they would hope to
View, Texas. realize the greatest results along
(5Uanl2)
; their new line of effort.
Plant Less Cotton
"When every farmer in the South shall eat
bread from hi$ owit fields and meat from his own
pastures and disturbed by no creditor,' and en-
slaved by *o debt, shall sit amid his teeming gar-
den, and orchards, and vineyards, and dairies, and
barnyards, pitching his crops in his own wisdom
and growing them in independence, making cot-
ton his clean surplus, and selling it in his own
time, and in his chosen market, and not at a mas-
ter's bidding—getting his pay in cash and not in
a receipted mortgage that discharges his debt,
but does not restore his freedom—then shall be
the breaking of the fullness of our day."—Henry
W. Grady.
"Let McCurtain County
FEED HERSELF'
...Thi...
First National Bank
of Idabel
McCurtain Comity's Oldest Bank
| The K. & p. Hat Shop and the Gift
land Baby Shop have moved their
stocks into the building recently va-
cated by the Southern Oklahoma Ab-
stract Company and the Western Un-
ion Telegraph Co., who now occupy
the building just north of the Mason-
:fic Temple. Mr HalU manager of the
abstract* company, is having the
building remodeled and arranged so
that it villj^ oneiof the nicest and
most convenient in' Ibe «Hy.
Mesdames King will be -more con-1
veniently situated in their new quart-1
ers as they are closer up "to the busi-i
ness center of town.
into the building recently
vacated by the south-
ern oklahoma abstract
company
A few ladies were enfcertained atj
bridge last Saturday afternoon by;
Mrs. Joe G. Griffith in honor of Mrs.,
Lassiter.
The house decorations consisted of,
cot flowers and ferns. Mrs. M. J.!
Mueller was presented with an em-
broidered collar and cuff set, as the j
prize for high score. The guest prize j
was a beautiful lunch set.
An elegant luncheon was served to
the following:—Mesdames Jeff D.
McLendon, Barton R. McLendon, M.
J. Mueller, Ira Rone, Wade Stevens,
A. G. Phillips, R. R. Gore, Chas. P.
Baker, H. M. Kirkpatrickk, John M.
Craig, J, H. Crook Lassiter.
NEW SUBSCRIBERS
AND RENEWALS
SAM J. LOGAN
A Well Known
Indian Died at EI Paso, Texas,
January 7th.
i Sam J. Logan, a well-known In-j
jdian of Tom, died at El Paso, Texas,;
| on the seventh of this month and:
was buried at Bynum cemetery near
iTom on the 11th inst. Mr. Logan was
! bom near what is now Janis in March,
11891, and had resided in that section;
i of the country all of his life. Hei
{went to El Paso last September on'
| account of ill health. The fuijeral ^
j sermon was preached by Rev. Lewis
i Cooke, of Tom.
ESTRAYED.
The McCurtain Gazette has receiv-;
led the following new subscribers andj
renewals this week:—
McCurtain Coonty Frank Wimebrly, Idabel.
C. E. Yencer, Idabel.
J. M. Post, Idabel.
J. A. Andrews, Idabel.
T. G. Carr, Idabel.
J. C. Lawson, Idabel.
Mark Wilis, De Queen, Ark.
Joe Waltuch, Broken Bow.
Mrs. Sam Coleman, Idabel.
J. B. Sims, Mooringsport, La.
Carrie Brown. Millerton.
J. B. Burk, Garvin.
Mrs. J. L. Adams, Fort Worth, Tex.;
C. P. Be villi July.
Mrs. E. E. Crump, Idabel.
Ed Williams, Idabel.
Miss Mamie Lee Epperson,. Paris,
Texas.
Rev. S. S. Crain, Idabel.
| W.^ O. Kaniatobe, San Francisco,
OWING to delay in se-
curing safe and fix-
tures our bank will not
open Jan. 5th as announced.
Will announce opening in a
few days.
The Idabel
National Bank
One brown or mouse colored mole,
weight 900 pounds, scar on hip cans-.
ed from burn, had big grass rope on;
when she left my home, 12 miles north j
of Broken Bow, Thursday, January;
6th. I will pay (10 reward tor her rs- i
covery or any information leading U>|
(2lpdl2J)
W. H. MAY,
Broken Bow. OkJa.
i Calif?
G. A. Spaulding, Ardmore.
M. J. Qualls, Idabel.
C. T. Bernet, Kullituklo.
Charles Quade, St. Louis, Mo.
J. J. Jones, Hooks, Texas.
Flax Kaniatobe, Idabel.
O. H. McLendon, Moultrie, Ga.
G. P. Robertson, Livingston, Texas,
fc. M. Harris, Foreman, Ark.
KirTt Webster, IdabeL
Temporary Banking Room
with Perkins & O'Neal
R. D. WILLIAMS, President
J. IK. DeWITT, Vice-President
BERNIE HERSTEIN, Cashier
MM MOSELEY.Ass't Cashier
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Old, W. J. McCurtain Gazette (Idabel, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 93, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 12, 1921, newspaper, January 12, 1921; Idabel, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc99805/m1/1/?q=mccurtain%20gazette: accessed May 4, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.