The Warren Dinner.
At the hospitable home of Mr.
and Mrs. J. H. Warren and Mrs.  
■Triplett, Christmas day, was a Parker.Reed Nuptiall.
pcene of enjoyment long to be re-1 Sunday afternoon> at ,wo 0.cl0ck a
membered. The occasion was to the home of the Uj,3
do honors in the way of an elab- He, Ja, Alfrpd Noble officiai Q(._
family. Santa Claus was there
too with tokens of remembrance
for all. Togo to such homes is
to want to go again. Cheerful-
ness and kindness reigns within
and the doors always open to in-
mates of hovels and palaces alike I
A GUEST. J'Miss Orme Hostess.
I Miss Mary Orme was hostess
Tuesday evening at a six o'clock
dinner to twelve guests who en-
joyed the hospitalities of
Hugo Tuesday, where they will
main until the first of the year, when
tne new Mrs. Thomas must go back
to Texas lo finisn her term of school.
They will make Hugo their home
and Mrs. Thomas will be hospitably
welcomed by Hugoans.
the
Orme
hour.
home until a
The affair w as
, , . ; "urea .\uoie omciaiing, oc-
orate and bounteous repast, giv-! c,irred )he marriaKe of ,, v, Pcrk
en, in part, as a reunion of the 'and Miss Edna Heed. The Kr mm is late
Warren family. Some friends a farmer and stockman at Kent, choc-1oneof the most enjoyable of the
were the fortunates in being in- taw county; the bride, the daughter t holiday season and the guests de-
cluded. It was a six course din- of Ml an(i Mrs- K- E- Heed> the clared their voung and affable
ner of the richest viands prepar- J 1hostess a t|U'en Hugo-.
ed in epicurean style, consisting Tho bride has been a tsa. i.cr m ti,. many entertainers.
of everything essential to a gen- inhoois of Kent, and is very popular1  
uine banquet. Such as fresh '-"'long a wide circle of acquaintances j ln Honor of Mlsses Works
And Fox.
plum pudding and some twenty- "'! cf whom spcak '' hira in u,e best Mr' Ml"8' °
fivo nv  aU" -a. terms. Present to witness the ceremo-
°r thl*y °ther. thln*S ^0 ny and hear the solemn words were:
numerous to mention, served Cabe E. Parker ami Wife an.l little
in a ni08t dainty and gracious H''n; Misses Lucile and Georgia P-ir
manner by the hostess assisted i ker- sisters of Gabe and J. W. Parker; i °rated in hol,y and mistletoe, the
>dv Miss M.Vholc 1 ^.^1 i. i Mrs. John Dener, Tubby Walker and1 T°r ®cheme being red and Breen-and
I and I throug"out dinner the same idea
j s g. Caviness, from Caviness, Tfjts
H. Biakeney charmingly entertained
at six o'clock dinner in honor of the
.Misses Bennie Works and Helen Fox.
The dining room was beautifully dec-
orated in holly and mistletoe, the
* toy Miss Nichols from 1 o'clock j Mrs" John Dener' Tl!
tr> A n rv, m,„ t li j; • i wife. Miss Katy White, W. aa. a.,u ,
gmnn ?' The table fairly s G Cavjness from CrvJ I prevailed. Dainty X-mas favors were
groaned under the luxuries and j j. T. Reed and wife. The newly-weds' Mr' and Mrs" D- A- Stova)1-
Senner Visits Sherman.
Victor Senner, the popular undertak-
Bridge and Forty-Two. er for the Hug0 Furnlture company, is
Last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. A. J.'at Sherman' Texas. where he is the
weir very charmingy entertained the | hJ,8 ,m°the^' *nd is a,lso look'
members of the Pioneer club, and, ""
riage. Senner is extraordinarily popu
lar in this section of Oklahoma and
his oncoming marriage is looked upon
I • "ecu oiiu win;.  li" newij-weas
the partakers groaned because v ill make their homo on .he Parker
of the fact that they were not J fi rm near Kent, Choctaw county.
able to even sample all, knowing I
such opportunities seldom pre-|
sent themselves. But few peo-!
pie are capable of accomplishing
the wonders that Mesdames Trip-
let, Warren and the affable J. H.
Warren.
The dining room was beauti-
fully
and holly intermingled with I ler and Mr. d. a" sVovaiT'T Miad j x"m*$ Hop>
sparkling spangles carrying out course was served at the close of the1 . eVening the y0ung and mar"
an artistic color scheme resem- Ka,nes The quests were: Messrs rled men °f S0Clety wiU entertain
bling the ancient Hanging Gar- Mesdames Sam Landow, u. G
Reception for Mr«. D,
German.
An elaborate event of next week
will be the reception given by Mrs.
II. G. Phippen, complimentary to Mrs.
"D. J. T. German.
To Spend Winter In Muskogee.
Mrs. T. C. Humphry and daughters,
Misses Daisy and Kate, leave the
latter yart cf the week to spend the
remainder of the winter in Muskogee,
Oklahoma.
To Spend The Winter
In Florida.
Mrs. T. M. Walton and daughter,
Miss Bettle, leave soon after January
1, to spend the winter in Tampa, Fla,
ASK PRIVATE TRIAL
FOR REV. RICHES0N.
three tabes of forty-two. The house
decorations were red and green and
in the living room was a beautifully
decorated Christmas tree, that held
i , ... . .. x ja Sift for each guest. High score for
decorated with mistletoe I t„e evening fell to Mrs. Chester Mil-
salad I
as one of the feature events of the
coming season.
den suspended from the ceiling
overlooking the long extended
table with an Egyptian pyramid
of choice fruit standing out in
prominence in the center.
Those present were; Mesdames
Geo. Burger, and John Warren
Messrs. Jno., R. K. and Robert
Warren, Short, May, Robert Lee
and Dr. Lee; Misses Nichols,
Warren and Lee and the genial j H)lace- The newly-weds arrived
Phippen. D. J. T. German, Vaughan,
D. A. Stovall, E. A. Burke, O. A. Sim-
mons, Graves Shull, A. A. McDonald,
Chester Miller; Misses Helen Fox of
McKinney, Tex., and Elizabeth Dean.
David Thomas Married.
David Thomas, a member of the po-
lice force and a Hugo pioneer, went
seven miles southeast of Paris, Tex-
as. where, he was married, Sunday
afternoon, to Miss Olive Bailey, a
popular young school teacher at that
with an elaborate hop at the Shull-By-
waters hall. Music will be furnished
by the Lowenstein orchestra of Ard-
more, Oklahoma.
Complimentary to Miss Fox.
Mr. Courtney Lambeth entertained
at dinner, Sunday, at The Webb, com-
plimentary to Miss Helen Fox, of Mc-
Kinney, Texas. The guests were Mr.
and Mrs. D. A. Stovall.
Tea Pouring.
Friday afternoon from 2:30 until 5
o'clock, Mrs. Thomas Martin Hunter
GOOD
AFFNER
Boston, Dec., 27-With the
trial less than two weeks away
the Rev. Clarence V. T. Riche-
son, charged with the murder of
his former sweetheart, Avis Lin-
nel, public interest in the case
was increased considerably by
todays developments.
One of these developments
was the appearance of Rev. E.
G. Horr, president of the New-
ton theological institution, where
the accused clergyman prepared
for the pulpit, at the office of
District Attorney Pelletier. No
statement is given out but it is
believed the district attorney
questioned Rev. Horr as to his
knowledge of the engagement of
Richeson to Miss Linnell.
An attempt to have a private
trial of the accused was made to-
day with the filing by a local at-
torney of a petition for the in-
coming legislature to enact a
statute which would cause the
exclusion from the court room
of all persons including newspa-
per reporters, not connected with
any case which involves the de-
cency and morals of the commu-
nity. As the legislature con-
venes January 3rd. rapid action
in adopting the proposed bill
would make it effective in the
Richeson case.
Three hundred summonses
were issued today for the special
jury panel.
Bartlerville, Oklahoma, Dec.
26—(Special)—The body of a
man supposed to have been mur-
dered, was found in the embers
of a barn which was burned in
the west part of the city Satur-
jday. The barn destroyed was
j the property of W. Wolcott, a
| grocer, and the contents includ-
|ed a large amount of feed and
| two teams were lost.
In searching the ruins as soon
as possible after the fire, char-
red bones, a part of a skull and
boot heels were found. The
searchers were sure the bones
were those of a man and placed
same on a stretcher and carried
them before a justice of the
peace where they were viewd by
physicians who pronounced the
find remains of a human body.
No money or jewelry was found
near where the body was con-
sumed.
Police officers working on the
case incline to the belief that a
murder and robbery was com-
mitted and {the body placed in
the barn after which the fire was
started to conceal the crime.
It is reported that an oil man
from Collinsville, who had been
in the city on the previous day,
has not been seen since the fire
and it is barely possible that he
was the victim.
-Mrs. H. A. Varner Is in Paris, Texas,
visiting relatives.
Miss Daisy Humphry went to Paris,
Texas, this afternoorf.
Mrs. R. D. Wilbor is spending the
holidays in Paris, Texas.
Ted Bagby is spending the holidays
at his home in Clarksville, Tex.
Miss Helen Fox of McKinney, Tex.,
is the guest of Mrs. D. A. Stovall.
Mrs. R. D. Wilbor and children are
in Paris, Texas, for the holidays.
Sir. and Mrs. H. E.
spending X-mas week
dence, Kansas.
Ernest are
in Indepen-
WATTERSONON ROOSEVELT
Louisville Editor Declares His
Election Would Be a Step
Towards Absolutism.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 27—"If
Roosevelt is put in the White
House in 1912, we will never get
him out again except feet first."
This was the statement of Col.
Henry Watterson, editor of the
Louisville Courier-Journal, in
commenting on the republican
situation.
Mr. Watterson expressed the
belief that the long looked for
change of parties was at hand,
but he has not declared hischofce
for the democratic nomination.
Colonel Watterson said that re-
publicans could not elect either
Roosevelt or Taft, and said the
election of the former president
would be a step toward abso-
lutism. •
PRISONER LAUGHED AT
VERDICT OF THE JURY.
Lawton, Ok., Dec. 23.—(Special)—
Still feigning insanity as a defense,
which a jury in the district court re-
fused to believe. Jesse Fletcher, found
guilty of the murder of Jesse Bark-
low the youthful husband of his own
niece, laughed when the jury's ver-
dict was read in court this afternoon,
fixing the death penalty for his crime.
"I don't understand what they're go-
ing to do to me and don't care," he
said.
From the evidence of Lorene Bark-
low. Fletcher's niece and whose hus-
band Fletcher killed, the murder was
an atrocious one. The girl wife of
Barklow heard the fatal shot, and,
rushing to her fallen husband, was
met by Fletcher, holding the still-
smoking shotgun, who said to her:
"You don't need to go down there.
I've killed him, and his brains are
scattered on the ground."
The trouble leading to the tragedy
dates from the time when the girl, in
opposition to the wishes of her par-
ents and Fletcher, eloped with Bark-
low to Texas and married him.
We wish to thank our many friends and customers for their
patronage during the past year and will appreciate a continu-
ance of same during the New Year. At this time next year, we
hope you will find a fat balance to your credit in the bank of
Prosperity and Happiness.
Health To All
The Home of Hart Ti'
Schaffner & Marx
Good Clothes zi r1 "'n '
The Home Of
Edwin Clapp
Good Shoes
_WESTFALL GIVES BOND.
Indicted Sapulpa Banker Furn-
ished $10,000 Security on
Christmas.
Guthrie, Okla.. Dec. 27.—
Frank S. Westfall, the Sapulpa
state banker who is being prose-
cuted on nine indictments by
the state banking board, was re-
leased on $10,000 bond Christ-
mas by Justice Howard. He left
immediately for Sapulpa, accom-
panied by his wife, who returned
with him several days ago when
he was extradited from Arizona.
Westfall had tried to make bond
in order to spend Christmas in
Sapulpa. He has retained two
Guthrie attorneys to defend him.
Frisco Had Wreck.
One of the Frisco trains was wreck-
o.l north of thia city at four o'clock
Friday uftemoon, doing heavy monet-
ary damage, but costing no life.
JORDAN FULSOM CAUGHT
AND NOW IN JAIL.
Jordan Fulsom, a negro wanted at
Fort Towson for disposing of mort-
gaged property, was arrested Friday
night by I'ndersheriff Mead Harris
and put in jail. Fulsom was enroute
to Fort Smith; where there is no such
drought for joy-producer as prevailss
ip Eastern Oklahoma, but went into
a resaraunt for a lunch when the dep-
uty nabbed him and put him into
the bastile.
Fulsom had a legal round in the
recent session of the district court
and had been disagreeing with the of-
ficials over the rights of personal lib-
erty. he construing that the selling
3t mortgaged property and jumping
of bonds were not violations of the
law, as they were not specified in the
enabling act nor mentioned in the
ngs of the state board of equali-
zation.
After Jan. 1st, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbor
Davis will be at home in the Hum-
phry cottage.
The Misses Ethel and Mamie Bear-
den, of Fort Towson, are spending
the holidays with their grandmother,
Mrs. Carrie Davis.
Lindsey Phillips, of Sherman, Tex-
as, was the guest of Judge and Mrs.
T. C. Humphry yesterday .
Mrs. A. A. McDonald and daughter,
Mary, left this afternoon for Paris,
Texas, to spend several weeks.
Miss Julia Bryant, stenographer in.
Superintendent Hohnsbeen's office,
went to Purcell to spend the holidays.
The Misses Corinne and Mary Biard
of Paris, Texas, are guests of Mrs.
Will Biard, 1114 South Kirk street,
during the holidays.
Miss Bennie Works, who has been
spending the past four months with
her sister, Mrs. J. M. Willis, will
leave the first of January for her
home in Clovis, N. M.
Dr. and Mrs. Miller have returned
from Headrick, and will resume their
residence in this city. Both have
many friends to welcome them back
to the state's growingest city.
Christmas, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Mont-
gomery very charmingly entertained
with one o'clock dinner. The follow-
ing guests were present: Mr. and Mr.
C. H. Nichols, Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Mc-
Donald and Miss Daisy Humphry.
Dr. H. L. Wright and family are
back from Philadelphia, wnere they
spent several months. Dr. Wright is
much pleased with conditions, but is
the same active, energetic man who
wants to put booster shoulders on
the top push-button for still greater
things in Hugo.
SOUTHERN WOOLEN MILLS
HAD SERIOUS TROUBLE.
Fire caused by a gasoline explo-
sion in the cleaning department of
the Southern Woolen Mills, caused a
severe loss to that Institution and
ruined not a few suits of clotheB. The
tailors and Mr. Notley, proprietor, suc-
ceeded in extinguishing the blaze be-
fore the building could be damaged
to any extent, but all of the tables
were piled high with the Christmas
clothes to be cleaned for the holiday
time, and many of those, with a large
number of suit pieces were destroyed.
Mr. Notley was unable to ascertain
the amount of damage that had been
done, but resumed work with five tai-
lors immediately, that his holiday
work might not be delayed if it be
possible to prevent same.
EARLESS MUMMY IS
IDENTIFIED AT LAST.
Chickasha, Okla., Dec. 23.—George
Robinett of Granite has identified the
earless mummy which has been in an
undertaker's shop here for four years,
as the body of his brother, who dis-
appeared in 1907. and that he has
never heard of him since.
The body was taken from a box-car
when it was found that ooth his ears
had been snipped. No clew has ever
been found that would lead to the
apprehension of the person guilty of
the killing.
Licensed To Wed.
Marriage licenses were issued to
Rayford Walton, age 1'4, and Miss Ad-
eline Brewer, age 13, both of Sawyer;
Steve Hateman, age 25, and Miss Moi-
lie Metts. age 23, both of Ft. Towson.
The Waldreit application for a mar-
riage license was in again from Fort
Towson. but the grandfather of the
would-be bride had interposed an ob-
jection. and the license cannot be
issued without withdrawal of said ob-
jection.
Thursday afternoon Mrs. J. H. Kel-
lar will entertain with bridge, in hon-
or of h*r daughter, Miss Pauline,
who is home from tfie Kidd-Key col-
lege of Sherman, Texas, for the holi-
days.
GREENS BROUGHT
SUIT IN COURT.
Thomas and Lathia Green, who had
freedmen title to some Choctaw coun-
ty property and who have had sult/n
the justice court against Jim Thomas,
have brought suit in the district,/ourt
to cancel a deed given Thomas. The
matter has been aired before, the
freedmen now asking a doed be set
aside, which the lower cfurts could
not pass on under the stateutes.
Sues to Correct Deed.
Mrs. S. L. Wright has brought suit
In the district court to correct a deed
to Borne real property. The petition
was filed today.