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THE CRAIG COUNTY GAZETTE
BUY A HOME IN CRAIG COUNTY PUBLISHED IN THE EASTERN OKLAHOMA PLAYGROUNDS THE HILLS OF A MILLION THRILL!
VOLUME 25
NUMBER 14
PRICE PER YEAR, $1.50
VINITA, CRAIG COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1926.
FRISCO FILES INJUNCTION SUIT
Amusing Incident of the Floods in England
COUNTY AGENT NOTES
WEDDINGS
R. &
DALE PEACE POST NO. 40
BIG CXRIN SCHOOL NOTES
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made
in the (fame
TURNER FUNERAL
GROVE WOMAN ENDS LIFE
back
the
drink and t Rood entertain-
Bring all your Ex-Service
Dont forget the time and
Bertram returned Saturday
from the West. His mother
been quite sick at Hutchinson
DELAWARE CO. GETS
$63,934 FOR ROADS
cemetery, 1.17
cemetery, count
Vinita sinking
Vinita, sinking
Local
Craig
in every nine in the
meets with an accident
is the
Upon
of the
little
from
sister.
Simp-
Mra. Rowena Sleight who has been
visiting her daughter Mrs. J. R. Ken-
reigh and family the past two weeks,
left Wednesday morning for Parsons,
and front there she will go to Chicago
to make her home.
fast he al-
to stop the
Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Crombie were
here from Ketchum, Wednesday. Mrs.
Crombie taking the train for Tulsa to
be at the bedside of her sister who is
serious'y sick.
and
here
her
Mrs.
ap
big
Chicago, Oct. 13,—Lloyd Vincent of
Arnett is Oklahoma's 1926 champion
dairy caif club member. This is re-
vealed in the announcement made here
today by G. L. Noble, executive secre-
tary of the national committee on boys
and girls club work that young Vin-
cent has been awarde 1 the free trip to
the National Dairy Show at Detroit.
Oct. 8-13 by the Blue Valley Creamery
Institute.
The right to represent Oklahoma at
the foremost exposition of America’s
oairy i.-dustry was a- arded Vincent
on the recommendation of the Okla-
homa Agricultural and Mechanical
College after he had proved to have
the hest all round dairy club record.
At Detroit he will mingle with the
champions of other Middlewestern
states, including those of Illinois, In-
diana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mich-
igan, Minnesota. Missouri, Nebraska,
North Dakota, Ohio and Wisconsin,
who will also be the guests of the In-
stitute during their stay at the Dairy
Show. More than 250 boys and girls
from every section of the Union will
attend the Exposition this year as ex.
hibitors of club calves and as memb-
ers of 42 judging and demonstration
teams.
In addition to participating in the
many club judging and demonstration
contests, all the boys and girls at the
Dairy Show this year will make de-
tailed studies of the many different
exhibits of dairy cattle, dairy products
dairy machinery and dairy methods
that will be on display. A good part
of each day's activities will be devot-
ed to recreation. A special feature
this year will be the parade of the
champion club calves in the big live-
stock arena each evening.
VINITA HIGH WINS
CONFERENCE GAME
IMPORTANT CHANGE
IN PHONE SERVICE
(HOOSE OKLAHOMA CHAMPION
CALF CLUB MEMBER
In the American Egg Laying con-
test at Kansas City, where 31 pens of
Barred Rock pullets are contesting,
at Kansas City, for the month of
September, a pen of dark barred rocks
belonging to H. E. Boggs, of Vinita,
was among the five highest pens. At
the end of October the hens will have
been in the contest a year. For the
eleven months they have layed 994
eggs and in September layed 79 eggs.
French Bros., of Canada, are leading
the contest with a pen that has layed
more than 1200 eggs. One pullet in
their pen has layed 305 eggs in 11
months.
Mr. Boggs pen of pullets are of fine
quality or they would not have classed
among the five highest.
at Vinita for a
and has many
wishing him and
ODD FELLOW AND REBEKAH
PICNIC
As the saying
smile, down
out with a
The Odd Fellows, Rebekahs and
their friends of Craig and Mayes
counties will participate in an old
fashioned picnic, one half mile South
of Strang. Thursday, October 21, 1926.
The Centralia band will be there and
Hon. J. S. Davenport and Dr. W. H.
Biekers noted and eloquent speakers
will deliver addresses. There will be
eighteen kinds of fantastic racing and
old time picnic sports, under the dir-
ection of Chas leathers.
Don’t forget to bring well filled
baskets full of yellow legged chickens
and corn pone.
It will be a glorious day of enter-
tainment and rest and every Oddfellow
and Rebekah is urged to come and
bring their friends.
Weaver Harmon, assistant post-
master of the Vinita postoffice, re-
turned from Grove, Monday, where he
has been assisting in the postoffice
for a few days during the absence of
the regular postmaster whose father
Mr. Patten, of Vinita, is very sick.
VINITA PEN ONE OF FIVE
HIGHEST. IN CONTEST
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVEN-
TION GOES TO WELCH
HOWARD TO SPEAK
AT BIG CABIN
FARMERS COOPERATIVE
LOAN COMPANY
CRAIG COUNTY NOT INCLUDED
IN STATE PROJECTS
VINITA 2ND IN VERDIGRIS VAL-
LEY CONFERENCE
Oklahoma City. Oct. 12—The new
long distance schedule which went in-
to effect October 1, offers several new
features which will be of great ad-
vantage to users of long distance ser-
vice, according to R. J. Benzel, general
manager of the Southwestern Bell
Telephone company.
‘‘The foremost of these advantages,’’
Benzel stated, “is the extension of the
‘collect call' privilege, or reversal of
charges, to include station-tostation
calls. Formerly this practice was al-
lowed only on person-to-person calls,
and anyone wishing to have the
charges for the call reversed would
have to pay the higher person-to-per-
son rates. After October 1, advant-
age may be taken of the lower station-
to-station rates. This will mean quite
a saving to those who are accustomed
to placing collect calls, particular-
ly to the traveling salesman who calls
his home office daily, and to the boy
or girl away at school. This privilege
will be allowed on all calls, whether
placed during the day or during the
evening reduced rate periods.
Another change mentioned by Ben-
zel is the addition of one and one-half
hours to the evening reduced rate
period for station-to-station calls. On
October 1, reduced rates start at 7 P.
M. when there is a discount of about
25 per cent of the day station-to-sta-
tion rates. This period lasts until
8:30. 'At 8:30 P. M. a reduced rate
period begins and continues until
4:30 A. M. During this period there
is a discount of approximately 50 per
cent of the day rate. While the old
midnight discount period is discon-
tinued, this new schedule, with its
earlier starting hour and longer dura-
tion, will be more convenient to the
public and will enable the telephone
company to give better and more rapid
service.
Benzel said the above changes com-
bined with rate reductions, to certain
points, which were also effective Oc-
tober 1, will effect a saving of approxi
mately $200,000 to the telephone users.
Mrs. Pearl Hardy, wife of John
Hardy, committed suicide at her home
at Grove, Tuesday. She ended her
life by drinking carbolic acid, after
she had put her five children asleep
for the night.
It is said that she became despond-
ent over domestic troub’es. Burial
was made in the Southwest City Mo.
cemetery.
Awards of Oklahoma’s largest high-
way contract letting, held at Oklaho-
ma City was announced at thp state
highway commission offices Wednes-
day. The cost of the program totaled
$2,564,745.76.
Awards were made on 37 miles of
paving, 136 miles of grading and
drainage, 25 bridges and two bridge
repair jobs. The successful bidders
were announced after the commission
had spent Tuesday afternoon and Wed
nesday morning tabulating more than
7,00(1 items on which more than 700
contractors bid.
Craig County is not in the list of
those to receive state aid, A project
to grade state highway No. 6 through
Craig County was advertised to be in
the list of contracts to be let but was
evidently withdrawn. Delaware co-
unty, one of the counties that has al-
ways cooperated with the State High-
way department, will receive state aid
to the amount of $63,934 according to
the list of contracts which were let
Tuesday. Seventy two contracts were
let. amounting to 2'v million dollars.
Mrs. I. R. Dingham returned from
a few days visit, at Council Grove, Kas
Wednesday. Mrs. Dingham saw the
devasted flood district of Kansas am
says the loss to farmers of that sec-
tion is pitiful.
of the conference.
Knight, quarter back, and littliest
man on the team deserves consider-
able praise for his good head work and
handling of the team. Knight is
another sportsman and has as much
grit as the bigger men have. Altho
some big men have come his way he
has never hesitated to stop them.
All the line men come in for their
share of the glory and a lot of glory
is due them as they are the men who
stop the opposing team and give their
backfield men a chance to do some real
playing. Sooter, center, played an
excellent game. Edmondson and Arch-
er did good team work and Abel and
Adair played guard and did some real
playing, while Pfaunkuche at tackle
made the opposing team know he was
not asleep. Fluke the left end did his
share of the good playing and gets
his share of the credit.
The second team played Afton and
were beaten by the score of 47 to 0.
The Vinita team goes to Delaware
Friday where they will play Delaware
on her home ground. This is the first
frame the boys have played away from
home this season and we are looking
for them to get the Delaware scalp.
A. H.
morning
who had
Kans, recovered and was able to go to
Ca'ifomia, where she is now visiting
a daughter. He went to San Francis-
co, where he was in the plant of the
Mergenthaler Linotype Company for
several weeks learning the mechanism
of the linotype and studying the late
models of typecasting machines.
At the annual meeting of the Craig
County Sunday School convention, in
Vinita, Friday. Welch was voted as
the meeting place for the convention,
for 1927. A number of Sunday Schools
were represented at the meeting and a
very interesting session was he’d.
Mr. ad Mrs. J. S. Peter and Mrs. A.
D. Taylor, state workers, were pre-
sent and brought some important
messages on Sunday School work.
Mrs. Chas. Wammack and Mrs. F. G.
Cowan gave excellent talks and J. F.
Murphy told of the history of Sunday
School work in Craig County.
The following officers ivere elected
for the ensuing year:
P. B. Vandament, Pres.; R. A. Blake
Sec.-Treas.; J. F. Murphy, member
ol executive committee. District Pres-
idets, Welch, J. B. Grindle; Bluejacket
John Smith; Ketchum, Chas. Cohea;
Big Cabin, J. W. Keeter and Centralia,
Nolih Harrison.
Seek to Enjoin County Assessor and
Treasurer From Extending Tax Levies
Last Thursday the St. Ix>uis-San
Francisco Railway company filed an
injunction suit against the county as-
sessor and the county treasurer seek-
ing to enjoin them from extending
upon the tax rolls of Craig County
certain tax levies for Craig County
and certain political subdivisions
thereof, claiming that said levy is il-
legal and void and by reason thereof
if permitted said plaintiff would be
compelled to pay on its valuation the
following amounts:
Craig county, county highway fund,
2.75 mills, $2,587.07; township No. 7,
road fund, .12 mills, $60.41; town-
ship No. 5. road fund, .09 mills, $21.51
Vinita, library and
mills. $108.18; Vinita
2. .32 mills, $29.59;
1und. 20.7, $1,913.88;
fund .82 $75.82; school district No. 41
general fund, .15, $12.36; school dis-
trict No. 65, sinking fund, 1.8, $212.85;
school district No. 44, general fund.
21 $19.17: total, $5,040.84.
Some time ago the M. K & T. filed
ar injunction suit seeking to enjoin
the levies for the county highway
fund, Vinita library fund and Vinita
cemetery fund.
These suits are based on the Camp-
bell Russel] bill adopted at the pri-
mary election in August. The county
attorney has filed a motion asking
that the suit of the St. Ix>uis-San
Francisco be dismissed for the reason
that it was not filed within 30 days
from date of the publication of the
certificate of the excise board of
Craig county. Oklahoma. The motion
will be heard October 29 the next re-
gular motion day. The Katy injunc-
tion suit has also been set for hearing
on that day. *
No. 4889. Harry Hunt, by his at-
torney, E. H. Brady vs. F. W. Harsh-
barger et al. Foreclosure.
No. 4890. St. Louis and San Fran-
cisco Railroad, by their attorney, Ad-
dis A. Brown, vs. Mack Carselowery,
as county assessor. Injunction again-
st certain tax levies.
No. 4891. J. W. Lyon et al vs. T.
W. Whitaker Abstract of judgment.
No. 4892 The Big Cabin Lumber
Co. et al by their attorney, J. W. Bash-
ore, vs. D. L. Neece et al.
No. 4893. Harry B. Burpee vs. J.
D. Cox et al. Foreclosure.
NEW CASES IN Xi
DISTRICT COURT
- ROE—BRADY
Wright Roe, manager of the
R. Lyric theatre, and Miss Ruth Brady,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Brady,
were married Wednesday night by
Rev. C. C. Morgan of the Christian
church.
Mr. Roe has been with the Grand
and Lyric theaters
number of years
friends who join in
•Mrs. Roe much joy.
You are cordially invited to attend
the American Legion Smoker held in
Vinita. 7:30 J>. M., Friday October
22nd., at the Elks Club rooms, over
the Post Office We guarantee you
the time of your life. with plenty to
<at and
ment.
friends,
place.
A buuioroiiH aspect of the confuaiou caused by the Hooded 1 names, in England. was afforded by the lltth
Balling canoe which made Its appearance In the flooded Maidenhead Streets and rnaneuicred for Its position Ir
traffic.
E. B. Howard, democrat candidate
for congress, will speak, at Big Cabin
Tuesday October 19, at 7:30 p. n<.
Everybody is invited to attend.
One person
United States
every year, and one out of every ten
deaths is chargeable to accidental
causes, according to an analysis of a
newly completed survey made public
yesterday by the officials of the Re-
construction Hospital, Central Park
West at 100th Street. The survey
figures show that there are upward of
12.000.000 accidents every year in this
country, 23 every minute and 1.380
every hour.
Annually more than 100,000 per-
sons lose arms, feet or hands as a re-
sult of accidents. In New York City
alone there are some 36.000 cripples—
half of them under 16 years of age.
There are between 2,500.000 and
3,000.000 industrial accidents every
year, resulting in an economic loss,
computed on the basis of a day’s wage
of $4 of considerably more than a bil-
lion dollars.
Applying this same ratio to all ac-
cidents in the United States would
make an economic loss annually of
more than $5,000,000,000.
the
the
the
the
Skiatook
Mrs. Louella Simpson
daughter. Junia, were
Morris. Sunday, to visit
Mrs. P. B Vandament,
son is principal of the schoo's, at Mor.
ris.
Attorney Addis A. Brown wa* a
business visitor, in Miami. Wednesday
We have a good Girls Glee Club this
year and we have the material for
just as good a boys Glee Club.
Mr. Comer’s room has a new Bask-
et hall.
New seats have been provided for
the study hall.
The Sophomores have a good Geo-
metry class this year.
An e’ection for “Better Schools”
will be held Nov. 2.
Grade cards will be given every six
weeks to both the grade and High
school students.
The Sock Supper was quite a success
The proceeds were $37.55. Cornelia
Blount got the cake for being the
most beautiful girl present.
Our school has new equipment to
guard against fire.
We have new equipment for the
Science hall.
PERSON IN 9 HURT
EACH YEAR; 23 ACCIDENTS
MINUTE IN NATION
The Booster Conference Football
game played Friday October 8th be-
tween the Skiatook Bulldogs and the
Vinita Hornets was one of the best
games of the season and was won to
the tune of 13 to 0 by Vinita.
The Skitook game was the best for
several different reasons. One was
that it was a clean sportsmanly game
all the way through. Second, the op-
posing team cannot go back and say
the referee was in favor of X inita. Of
the 100 yds. in penalties, Vinita took
her share of 85 to Skiatooks 15. Skia-
took received her 15 yard penalty in
the last quarter of the la»< half while
Vinita started out with a 15 yard pen-
alty the first down of the first quarter.
Third, there were only three substitu-
tions during the whole game, two to
Skiatook and one to Vinita, all being
made in the last quarter.
Both teams were in the pink of con-
dition and were on their toes from
beginning of the game. Altho
Bulldogs lived up to their names
Hornets had them bested both in
air and on the ground,
tried 5 passes and completed one for
a 10 yard gain while Vinita only tried
two and completed the last, where
Goodpaster, the star right end, made
his 25 yard run for a touch down.
Goodpaster is to be complimented
upon his good playing as a right end
man. The writer has seen some big
Football games but none, has he seen
a more clean, sportsmanly, right end
man than Goodpaster,
goes, “he goes in with r
with a smi'e and comes
smile.
The next Star player
was Sippy the little left half back who
made the spectacular broken field run
of 85 yards for the second touch down.
Sippy is another player who is a real
sportsman in the Vinita backfield.
Sippy is not a big man in size but what
he lacks in size he makes up in both
speed and grit. Sippje started his sen-
sational run when a drop kick was
tried by Skiatook and was b’oeked by
Vinita. This made the hall open for
either team and Sippy was the lucky
man to nab the pig skin. He caught
the ball on Vinita’s 15 yard line and
making a broken field run of about
25 yards through the center of Skia-
tooks line and then had a clear field
for Sippy was making yards to Skia-
tooks feet.
The next player of mention is Cass
the Vinita Fullback who did some fine
line plunging and freak playing. Cass
has the honor of 80 rds. in 4 downs and
were made through the center of Skia-
took* line. Cass is the big man on the
Vinita team and always makes a hole
where ever he hits the opposing team.
Cass, captain of the team, is also a
clean player and is liked by every one.
Although not considered
ways get* there In time
opposing team.
Sumner the right half
big footed man of the tenr.i.
this man falls th" hig share
punting as he is »■•luidered one of the
best kickers and consistent players
ATTENTION ALL
EXSERVICE MEN
The funeral of Ivan Neal Turner
who passed away at St. John’s
hospital in Tulsa Wednesday morn-
ing at 9:30 o’clock took place this
afternoon at 2:30 from the hom» of
D. E. Meek, Seventh and Tahlequah
avenue, this city’, the laxly having
been shipped to Vinita for interment.
The service was conducted by Rev.
E. H., Casey, pastor of the Metho-
dist church. Burial in Fairview
cemetery, Klingel and Rogers funeral
directors, in charge.
Deceased in survived by his wife,
and two brothers residing near Adair,
The father passed away only a few
weeks ago at the family home near
Adair.
The largest single farmers Cooper-
ative in the world is the Farmers Co-
operative Ixian Busiess transacted
thru the Federal Land Banks. The
Bank that takes care of the farmers
business in this section is the Federal
Land Bank at Wichita Kans. Farm-
ers now own all the stock in this bank
and elect their own officers and trans-
act their own business and they are
making a paying business of it too.
They have more money than they
can lend and are making loans that
never come due at 6 per cent interest.
The regular semiannual payments re-
tires the loan in about 32 years and a
farmer may pay off his loan any time
after five years and have the benefit
of whatever reductions he has
on the principal.
Since the organization of the
Dian Association, farmers of
County have borrowed approximately
$92,000 and they own approximately
$4,500 in stock in the bank at Wichita.
Kans. They get dividends just as
stockholders of other banks. Next
Monday the local directors will meet
and disburse the dividends for the
past year. These dividends will
amount to 8 per cent on the stock held
in the Bank at Wichita.
There has been one foreclosure in
ten years of business of the local as-
sociation known as the Craig County
National Farm Loan Association.
There has been a genera) impression
that judgment against one member of
the Loan Association is a judgment
against all members who have loans
but such is not the case. The only
thing that is involved is the stock held
in the Federal I^and Bank. If the
hank failed entirely the most that
could be involved in any loan would be
15 per cent of the loan on the memb-
ers farm. There is no danger that
the business will ever fail.
It takes a little longer to get a loan
thru the Farm Ixian Association than
thru the other loan Companies as there
is no one who makes a living out of
attention to the business. The As-
sociation is not seeking business hut
tries to take care of the business as it
comes. Most appricants have to be
rejected because the borrower asks
more money than the Bank appraisers
will approve. The local Association
has made it a practice to discourage
such applications thereby saving
applicant unnecessary expense.
Few farmers have learned to
preciate the importance of the
,oan business they have built.
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