The Okfuskee County News (Okemah, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 18, 1920 Page: 1 of 8
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PIG CLUB DAY
BIG SUCCESS
Banquet at Armory Music by
Band and Orchestra and
Good Addresses
The Pig Club banquet at Okemah
Tuesday was an Unqualified success
notwithstanding the fact that some of
the speakers who were expected were
unable to attend and the further fact
that County Agent Kissick was dis-
appointed in receiving the full number
of pigs expected Only 28 pigs were
delivered whereas it was expected
that 35 would be available for delivery
to the members of the pig clubs of the
county However the remainder will
be supplied in the near future and the
delay will not be of any consequence
A large number of boys from all
parts of Okfuskee county were in at-
tendance Most of them were accom-
panied by one or both of their parents
Three girls who were members of the
Pig Club were also in attendance
The Citizens Concert Band furnished
music for the occasion and the quality
of the music rendered elicited much
favorable comment from the visitors
The boys are making splendid progress
under the leadership of Prof E D
Moore
The banquet was given in the old
Armory building and was served by
the ladies of the M E Church South
The expenses were borne by the Oke-
mah Chamber of Commerce and the
Breeders’ Association of Okfuskee
County It is understood that the
Chamber of Commerce gave the boys
and girls of the Pig Club their dinner
and that the Breeders’ Association
gave the dinner for the parents of the
boys and girls and also the old mem-
bers if the association A great many
citizens of Okemah not members of
these organizations partook of the
dinner at their own expense and en-
joyed the excellent music furnished by
Bethel’s orchestra during the dinner
hour
It was the first time many of those
present ever had an opportunity to
hear Okemah’s splendid orchestra and
all such were agreeably surprised The
selections were good and the execution
was first class This orchestra con-
sisted of Miss Gladys Lively at the
piano Jenks Bethel violin Prof E D
Moore comet Paulyte White trom-
bone Jennings Burk second cornet
with J H Hinds orchestra leader The
last selection rendered the medley
“Breezes from the South” was splen-
didly executed and caught the fancy ot
all present
After the banquet County Agent E
A Kissick opened the program with a
short talk and introduced the speakers
The first speaker was J A Black of
the Co-operative Live Stock Develop-
ment Association of Oklahoma Cify
Mr Black explained the plan of the
endless chain nig proposition The lo-
cal bankers finance the plan They
pay for the pigs which are delivered
to the club members The club mejn-
ber who has received a pig takes care
of it until he raises a litter of pigs
When the pigs are eight months old
the club member turns back two pig3
which are put up and sold and with
the proceeds the banker is reimbursed
Mr Black was followed by P H
Lowery who spoke on the subject of
“Boys’ Club Work” Mr Lowery told
of one boy in the state a member of
the corn club who had raised 117
bushels of corn on a single acre of
land He also told of another boy who
had made $1100 last year as a mem-
ber of the pig club Another boy be-
longing to the calf club made $800
The next speaker was J A Wilson
director of Extension Division A & M
College Mr Wilson is a good speak-
er and he discussed a wide range of
subjects He called attention to the
fact that a suit of clothes which cost
the consumer $60 contained wool
which brought the grower only $527
He appeared to think that the cause of
the great unrest of the masses at the
present time is due to organized cap-
ital on one hand and organized labor
on the other He claimed that these
two classes had the great middle class
at its mercy While Mr Wilson
showed that the difference between the
price the wool grower received for
the raw wool which went into a suit
of clothes containing about three and
one-half yards of cloth and the price
the consumer had to pay for the fin-
ished product was $5473 he failed to
show just what part of that amount
was received by labor for converting
the raw material into the finished suit
Had Mr Wilson traced the history of
the wool from the time it left the
hands of the producer until it reached
the ultimate consumer and named the
part of the price received by the labor-
er the manufacturer the wholesaler
1 and the retailer it would have been
much easier to fix the responsibility
for the present high cost of living
Mr Wilson also pointed out that a
hide for which the producer received
$12 when manufactured into a set of
harness cost the consumer about $150
The program was closed by an ad-
dress by a local speaker V T Stock-
ton president of the Okfuskee County
Breeders’ Association Mr Stockton
'made a very interesting and appro-
priate address
After the conclusion of the program
the boys and girls of the pig club re-
ceived the pigs These animals have
been referred to as pigs but they were
in reality good sized hogs They were
gilts about a year old which had been $8733128 M A Swatek & Co bid
bred and immunized from cholera j $8281250 The contract was accord-
Part of the gilts were thoroughbred- jngly awarded to M A Swatek & Co
j Durocs and part were Poland China The estimate of Engineer Baker for
j S°me ° the club members preferred this work was $8286020 From this Okemah Owing to an excess of busi-
one breed and some the other They t -will be seen that the contract was ness at this meeting no definite action
were all fine specimens of their partic-
ular breeds but as individual pigs the
( Durocs appeared to have the advan-
tage The affair as a whole was a pro-
nounced success and great credit is ’ amount of $12211253 with the city gas from their line presumably from
due County Agent Kissick for his un- and another bond in the same amount the Spring Hill field where it is
tiring efforts on behalf of the boys wt the state to protect it from any 'claimed there is an abundant supply of
and girls of the county in their club sujta which may arise for damages gas
work as well as in every other line of 1 arising out 0f the performance of the I It is also understood that the rate
his work as county agent contract asked will be 48 cents per thousand
7 I Under the laws of Oklahoma a plan cubic feet for domestic use and a rate
DECKER’S MACHINE SHOP for gtreet paving js provided for - of 20 cents for factory use There are
INSTALLS NEW MACHINES thereby the city does not have to is-'a number of intermediate rates the
Decker’s Machine Shop which is al- sue bonds- s is the plan adopted 1 price depending on the amount of gas
ready the best equipped institution of by Okemah The contractor issues his used
its kind in this section of the state has own bonds and sells them himself and The proposition has been called to
just received a new shaper machine thus provides the funds for meeting the attention of the Okemah chamber
which has wonderful possibilities It the expenses of the work and paying of commerce and this organization of
has a stroke of 17 inches and is ar- tbe contractor These bonds run for business men will co-operate with the
ranged in such a manner that it can en years and are paid for by the prop- city council and every detail of the
be used for cutting key ways inside of erby owners whose property adjoins proposition will be gone into before
wheel hubs shaping cylinder heads ( tbe Paved district in ten equal annual final action is taken
smoothing surfaoes etc It fills a long
felt want in the nig machine shop on
the hill and under the control of Mr
Decker and his expert machinists a
great amount of satisfactory I work
can be accomplished with it
Mr Decker has two other machines
on the road now a new radial drill
and a 72-inch lathe and while the ' Okfuskee county is now being de- to under rim and lower casing to shut
shop backs up at nothing now it will veloped for oil in a pretty thorough 0g sait water which is being done
soon be in a position to handle any and manner and the showing in every sec- q j
all kinds of machine shop practice tion is very promising Last Tuesday n
both quickly and accurately ’
WATER AND LIGHT EX-
TENSION WORK PROGRESSING
Work on the water and light exten-
sion is progressing rapidly consider-
ing the obstacles with which Engineer from the tanks to the well The well tional well
The Humphrey’s Drilling Co of
West Virginia is recting a standard
steel riar in SW cor 24-11-10
I Baker has to contend New pumps flowed yesterday although there is
! have been installed both at Greenleaf about 400 feet of open hole badly
and the river station ’ caved They have run their 6-inch
These new pumps have a capacity of casing and are now ready to clean out
two and one-half times the old nuini's and set same which will have to be
The pump at Greenleaf will fill the done before they can drill in This
tank at the standpipe in eleven min- showing is of an extra good grade of
pteg oil and the well has every appearance
I The work of excavating at the ffl- of being a good one
! tration plant has ben completed and Kingwood has a rig up in NE 29-11-the
workmen began pouring concrc' 11 where they spudded in Monday
Tuesday Work in all other lines of and are now working at a depth of
I the department is making progress about 200 feet
LITTLE BOY DIES Work is at a standstill in 5-11-11 at
OF PERNICIOUS MALARIA® depth of 2450 feet in salt watEr-
The Kingwood-Newman well in 16-
Hamilton Burris Like the little son 11-11 is making an average of 60 bar-
of Mr and Mrs Silas Like died Fri- rels a day on the pump They have
day after a brief illness of pernicious their pipe line in operation from the
malaria The little boy was born on well to the Bookertee station
August 5 1916 I The rigs are on the ground and two
i The funeral was held Sunday at 10 of them are up on the offsets to the
o’clock services being conducted by above well and drilling in this par-
Rev J S Price pastor of the Presby- ticular section will begin in earnest
terian church Interment was in High- within the next few days The King-
land cemetery wood is drilling in the offset directly i
I Mr and Mrs Like have the sincere south) across the load from the Hil- nesses if not principals in the tragedy mitted to probate without protest
sympathy of the entire community in derbrandt well and have- transferred Brown was stabbed in the head and I By the terms of the will John F
their bereavement the tools to the new rig 'left side in a fight after one of the Jones is named as executor without
- — IT "A I The Paden well in 17-12-6 is report-1 men held as suspects is said to have bond- The property of which the de-!
CLEANING UP AROUND 1 1
I THE COUNTY JAIL
ed to be holding up in good shape t resented obscene observations by Mar- ceased died possessed is inherited half
flowing occasionally and is estimated garet Dean when the two women and and half by Mrs Sadie Jones and John
Sheriff Stockton has been cleaning to be good for 300 barrels when com- j their escorts entered the negro dive Jones
up around the county jail and making pleted Old Mystery in 8-12-6 has Attorney Montgomery said yesterday This property consists of a half in-
some improvements A warehouse has (been re-opened and a further test will that some time today he would con-! trest ’n the Okemah telephone sys-
ibeen built and the ground cleared off be made by going as deep with it as tinue to question the two women con- tern the town residence and some
east of the jail This plot will be they did in the No 2 Great expecta- cerning other of their friends who pve- smaH tracts of Iand in the country
planted in Bermuda grass and flowers tions are held out for this test and ceded the party to the roadhouse It is coNTR 4cYfOR LATERALS
The changes so far made give the interest is running high around Paden certain he declares that when the vie- WILL BE LET TOD Y
place a more cheerful appearance Many locations have been made in tim with his friend Darner and the two ‘
Sheriff Stockton will whitewash the this section and mnterial is on the t women entered the building the Dean The city council will let the contract
jail and says that he intends to see ground for the first l-'g to be erected woman swore at one of the men for the construction of lateral sewers"
that it is whitewashed once every six in NE SW 17-12-6 which precipitated a general fight at 3 o’clock this afternoon A number
months so long as he remains in of- The wall north of Okemah is down which resulted in the fatal stabbing of of bidders from out of town are pres-
fice 930 feet in Salt water and will have Brown a returned soldier ent
Contract Let for
v
Paving 4th Street
' ' c j
Successful Bidder for Paving Broad-
way Files Boiids with City
and State
The city council held a busy session installments The amount of these in-
Monday night and quite a volume of ! stallments is simply added to the taxes
business was disposed of Bids were ' of the property owner
received for the paving of Fourth
street and a contract was awarded
The bidders were Park & Moran of
Okmulgee and M A Swatek & Co of J
Oklahoma City Park & Moran bid
let at just $4770 below the estimate
of Engineer Baker which considering
the size of the contract is remarkably
close figuring
Swatek & Co filed a bond to the
the Iron Mountain company struck the
sand in their well in 30-11-11 just
south of Clearview at a depth of 2680
feet Work was stopped at the rig
and all hands were put to building
tankage and a 6-vnch flow line laid
'N S Sherman & Co of Oklahoma
City to whom the contract for the
Gas Franchise Asked For
At this meeting of the city council
Albert Hammitt of Okmulgee applied
for a gas franchise for the city of
was taken on the proposition Monday
night ’
It is understood that Mr Hammitt
Is representing the Kingwood people
and that it is proposed to bring the
s u
& Bradstreet have completed a
very important well in the northwest
northeast 28-13-11 which is good foi'
20o barrels naturaL Top of the sand
ht 2542 feet and they are only seven
feet in which shows it to be an excep-
construction of the sewer mains was
awarded filed a bond in the amount of
$6192475
part of the county
The larger of the two stills a dou-
ble still made wholly of copper had a
distilling capacity of 40 gallons of
whisky a day The worm which passed
through a nine-foot tank of cold water
was of rolled copper and was made in
a single piece The smaller still a 20-
gallon capacity was also made of cop-
per The stils were found on the banks
Tulsa Okla vmrch 16-Incidents of the Deep Fork river near “Wild‘
surrounding the fatal stabbing ot cat " 18 miIes southeast of Okmulgee
Merle Brown at a roadhouse on North iFourtefn 50-6an°n barreIs of mash
Peoria avenue shortly before daylight I were also found and confiscated- Ac-
Sunday morning are being slowly de-! cording to the sheriff warrants have
veloped by the police and the county been issued by federal authorities for
attorney the two girls who accom- the arrest of the men who are known
panied Brown and W W Darner to I t0 have operated the stills and arrests
the negro roadhouse and “choc” beei j wil1 be made tomorrow
BERRY JONES’ WILL AD-
MITTED TO PROBATE
A & M TEAM WINS AT
SOUTHWEST STOCK SHOW
Oklahoma A & M College has just
cause to be proud of the success of its
stock-judging team at the Southwest
American livestock show held at Ok-
lahoma City March 1-5
In the inter-collegiate judging con-
test the A'fi M team with a total
score of 3074 points won first honor
and was awarded $5000 cash prize of-
fered to the winners of the contest
Texas A & M College was second its
total score being 3045 points
The individual scores made by the
Oklahoma team are: R F Kiefer first
651 points Orman Nash third 639
points W B Forrester sixth 602
points H Garlock seventh 594 points
W J' Beck eighth 590 points
At the International Livestock Ex-
position held last November at Chi-
cago where eighteen of the leading
agricultural colleges of the United
States and Canada were represented
the judging teams from the Texas
State College and Oklahoma A & M
College won first and seventh places
respectively It was asserted at that
time that the Oklahoma A & M team
would have made a far better show-
ing but for the fact that its team had
been greatly weakened because of two
of its strongest men did not accom-
pany it to Chicago The success of the
team in defeating the winning" team of
the great international show tends to
prove the correctness of the claims
made at that time
This fine showing made by the
judging team together with the many
winnings made by the livestock from
the college were outstanding features
of the show and go far toward estab-
lishing the reputation which the col-
lege has gained as being one of the
leading institutions of its kind in the
United States ’
Much of the credit for this excellent
showing is due to Professor W L
Blizzard head of the Department of
Animal Husbandry at the college who
coached the judging team and also di-
rected and supervised the fitting of the
cattle hogs and sheep that were ex-
hibited by the college
TWO STILLS CAPTURED
IN OKMULGEE COUNTY
Okmulgee Okla March 15 — After
trying for several months to locate the
stills believed to be responsible for the
large supply of whisky in Okmulgee
county Sheriff Henry Tucker and
Deputy Sheriff Broddus today brought
t okmugee two of the iargest and
best equipped 8tiU3 ever seen in this
FARMER SHOT'
BY HIRED MAN
Man and Woman Arrested and
Held in County Jail Await-
ing Result of Injury t
William Anspaw a farmer living
two miles east and one-half mile south
of Okemah was shot and perhaps
fatally wounded Saturday night by
Jackson Hood his hired hand
Anspaw was standing in his yard
when shot from an upstairs window
by Hood The weapon used was a 38-
calibre revolver The shot struck
Anspaw in the right side about the
region of the eighth rib and ranged to
the left and downward
Dr R Keyes and Dr H A May
were called to the home of Anspaw
and after a brief examination of his
injury decided that an operation would
offer the only chance to save his life
He was taken immediately to the hos-
pital at Henryetta and an operation
was performed when it was found that
the ball had penetrated the intestine
making six large perforations ’ The
ball lodged somewhere in the lower
part of the body but was not definitely
loc&ihl The perforations in the in-
testines were closed and the wounded
man rallied from the operation but
still very little hope for his recovery
was held out by the physicians as it
was feared infection would take place
There are two theories as to the
cause of the shooting It is the “eter-
nal triangle” again if the theory of the
state is correct County Attorney Ben
C Ballard went over to Henryetta and
briefly interrogated Anspaw after the
operation From this interview and a
few known facts the state will pro-
ceed on the theory that jealousy of
his wife and Hood accounts for Ans-
paw’s actions on the night of the
tragedy
It appears that Anspaw left home
Saturday after telling Hood and his
wife that he was going over about
Checotah after a load of cotton seed
and that he would not be at home that
night Instead of going to the place
named however he never left the
neighborhood but a short distance He
returned to the vicinity of his home
somewhere near 11 o’clock Leaving
his team about a half mile from home
he walked the rest of the way and
went into his yard where he was shot
Anspaw states that when he was
shot he cried out: “O Jack you’ve
killed me!” He says that both the
front and back doors to the house
were fastened and that neither Hood
nor his wife opened the door to let him
in the house but that he broke in at
the back door However after he got
into the house Hood started immedi-
ately to Okemah for the doctors
After the county attorney had in-
terviewed the wounded man Jackson
Hood and Mrs Gertrude Anspaw were
arrested and lodged in the county jail
to await the result of Anspaw’s in-
jury before a formal charge is filed
against them
As soon as Hood and Mrs Anspaw
were arrested they retained the law
firm of Huddleston Hockensmith
Stephenson & White for the defense
The theory of the defense will be
that Anspaw has been in poor health
for some time that his mind is some-
what affected and that he is really
suffering from paranoia which ac-
counts for his actions on the night of
the shooting It is claimed by the de-
fense that Hood had no knowledge of
the identity of Anspaw when he fired
the shot It is even claimed by the
defense that before leaving home Ans-
paw gave his hired hand a revolver
and told him that he had noticed sus-
picious characters prowling around
the- premises and instructed Hood in
case any traspassers should appear on
the premises to shoot them
Anspaw and his family moved from
the neighborhood of Checotah to this
community about the first of the year
They have four children the oldest a
boy of ten years of age and the young-
est only two years old The children
are now being taken care of by W N ’
Williams a neighbor Anspaw is
about 45 yars of age- his wife is 32
and Hood is said to be about 28 years
old
Reports from the Henryetta hos-
pital Wednesday afternoon were to
the effect that Anspaw is mending and
hopes are now entertained cf Ms recovery
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