The Wapanucka Press (Wapanucka, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, March 7, 1924 Page: 1 of 8
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WAPANUCKA JOHNSTON COUNTY OKLAHOflA MARCH 7 1924
NUMBER 42
i News Notes
From Clarita
Summer Term
Ada Normal
Fyworthians
Tske Outing
Sunday at the
Methodist Church
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J O SURRELL Pres
C D SMITH Vice Pres W I HOPPER Cashier
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The Woman's Missionary So-
ciety of the Methodist church
m et at the church Monday af-
ternoon March 3 Hymn f90
"Who IsThj Neighbor” read
by Mrs Payne
Leader Mrs Grant
Reports of ollicers and com-
mittees were made
A fine report was made by the
Social Service Committee
Roll Call Mrs Hedrick
Special Topic “The Superan-
nuate Campaign” Mrs Wolver-
tcn Missionary News by Mrs M
C Smith
Hymn ”0 Zion Haste” read
by Mrs Wolverton
Mrs Pa ye read a beau tiful let-
ter from Mrs Ilaberly express-
ing her appreciation ol the sym
pathy conveyed to hr in the be-
reavement in the death of her
mother by the beautiful flowers
b'ent her by the members of the
Society
CITY BAKERY
Butter Cream Rolls dozen
Parker House Rolls dozen
Cream Doughnuts dozen
Common Rolls dozen
Home Made Raisin Bread
Twin Loaf
Mother’s Cream Loaf :
CofTee Cake - :
Special Friday
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Baker Arrested
At Gainesville
L (i Raker better Unovn a3
Cyclone” Biker was arrested
! in (Gainesville Toe-by e ?nir "
ion a chaise of false swcarirg
(ge
and is now in jiil at that thee
lie is charged with sweating
falsely in procuring mirriige li-
emse to marry a sixteen year old
girl of this city He swore the
girl was Is-years of age when in
fact she was only 10 The young
girl was a student in high school
in this city and after school wa3
dismissed Tuesday he and the
young lady drove to Gainesville
where the license was procured
The girl’s father phoned to
Gainesville and had Baker ar
rested and went to Gainesville
immediately and brouSht tl e
girl home
Baker is a man of 43 years of
age and has been in the county
for several weeks making speech-
es for the Anti-Klan Association
He oas lived at different poin‘8
in the eastern part of the state
including Coalgate Achille and
Durant
It is said that other charges
have been or will be filed
against him in the courts at
Gainesville — Marietta Monitor
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and Saturday:
By I’rra SotcUl Corrwpondent :
The Clarita Girls' Basket Ball
team placed Bromide girls Fri
day February 29 The
score was 13 and 15 in fa-
vor of Clarita
Two members of the
Clarita Debating team
debated Thursday Feb
28thl 1 he question debated was
“Who was the Greater Man
Woodrow Wilson or Theodore
Roosevelt” Tne debaters were
Willie Bowers (neg) Jimmie
(all ) The judges were Rev
Pitt Rev Pickens and Supi Al-
len from Wapanucka
Clifton Worley Lake Patton
and Wesley Ray re-entered
school Monday after absence
on account of the measles
Mr Odii O’Neal who is at-
tending school in Litt le Rock
Arkansas is visiting folks in
Clarita
Rev Wilson of the Nazarene
ctiuich held a meeting from
Wednesday until Sunday
The Clarita High School has
received word from State Inspec
tor that they will get their cred
its for fourteen units
The infant daughter of Mr
and Mis Stanley Mildred died
Monday fiom bronchial i reu
monia following an attack o
measles The parents have the
sympathy of their many friends
in this bereavement
Mr Cusenbtrry and Mr Piet!
ner visited school Friday and
Mr l’littner gave us a very fine
talk and it was heartily enjoyed
by every one prs2nt
Mr Guess and :amilv of Cole-
man ere visiting in Claiita this
week
Mr Green and G W O’Neal
went to Connerville last week
w here Mr O’Neal preached
Thomas Morrison and Preston
Taylor of Sulphur are visiting
here this week
Zilla King was absent from
school last week on account of
illness
Mrs Bertie Armstrong left for
OkmulSde last week
Mr Henry Worley of Bromide
visited relatives here Sunday
Mrs C H Worley is visiting
relatives in Lehigh this week
The boys basket ball team
played two games last week one
at Coalgate Thursday score 40
to II in favor of Coalgate and
another game Fridav at Lula
scores 30 to 11 in favor of Clar-
ita Misses Helen Plummer and
Mary Auenzine were welcome
visitors at school Friday
Nazarene
Services
Rev Wade L Nelson of Cole-
man Okla of the Church of the
Nazarenes (not the Unknown
Tongues) will preach at the First
Christi n church or e block north
of the City Bakery on Thursday
nights before the fourth Surdar
in March
COME! COME! j
Yen have a cordial invitation Mrs Robert Mcore of Mu-ko-
j gee is here Rids week vbuing
The Milburn Chapter of the (her sUter Mrs W p Hopper
Eastern Star were here hut i While here h wju u?°d as a
night ard were entertained bv substitute in the !'! dorirg
the Wapanuika Chapter nd all tli ulsm c of -r e ot the n-g!ar
haul a very nice time teachers
Mr W A Allen
Wapanucka Ckla
It ha been definitely deter-
mined to invite you to be one of
the special instructors during
our summer term and we feel
that you will be interested in
helping to make this the best
summer session in the history of
the Instituted
We have at the present time
he largest enrollment of any
state teachers college in Okla-
homa and hope to establisa the
reputation of being the best as
well as the biggest teacher train-
ing school in the state
We shall offer every subject
listed in the Teachers College
bulletin thus enabling students
to prepare for two-year life
manual training home econom-
ics public school music and all
the countv certificates as well as
bachelor of arta and bachelor of
science degrees
Our summer session begins
May 26th and closes July 23th
We shall feature Rural School
Courses Junior High School
Courses Primary and Interme-
diate Grade Courses and cour
ses for those who wish to pre-
pare for teaching departmental
work in high schools Our de
oartments of Heme Economics
Industrial Arts Agriculture
Public School Music and Instru
mental Music will oiler excep
ticrl opportunities We have
row a well organized and tui-
cl'rit Commercial Dipartniti
which oilers shorthand tjp
writii g Lcck-kcer irgard otl tr
commercial subjects
Recreational ftatures wil Le
excellent A seven-day Chau-
tauqua ljceum attractions of a
high order ard musical programs
each week-end will help to drive
dull care away Among the ed-
ucational lecturers will be: U-S
Commissioner Tigert Dr Dean
of Columbia Dr Reisner of
Columbia Dr Harry Clark of
Nashville Dr Jewell of Arkan-
sas Honorable M A Nash and
others of equal prominence
Students will be admitted to
all these attractions without
charge other than their student
enterprise tickets
Your Friend
A Linschied
President
Milburn High
School Play
The Milburn High School stu-
dents came over Tuesday njiht
antertained our people with a
very much enjoyed school play
“When a Fellow Needs a Friend”
A large audience attended and
the play was well rendered and
full of interest from start to fin-
ish Thr re were numerous fea-
tures throughout the play that
were really interesting and for
the moment thrilling All tak-
ing part in the play were will
versed in their various parts and
made the play snappy and full
of spirit feme again youtg
temple
March wind-4 if Mo dry d'd
not daunt the Hnyvorth Leaguers
a3 they Lufied themselves after
four o’clock hurrviyg to and fro
getting their truck fixd up by
the boys and tne girls their lun-
ches They were chaperoued by
drs A A Wclvertod and the
following left town about 5:30
o’clock
Misses Novella Smi h Lvla
Smith Beulah Knox Eizibeth
Wolverton Grace Hunt Vinni-
learn Miss Cales
Messrs Alfred Wolvtrton
Norman Morton Clarence Davis
ufusAddy Uayne Fountain and
Carl Strain Their firs stop was
out on Delaware west of town
where they built a Hg camp fire
and prepared supper Wnich all
enjoyed very much
Then wasted marsh-mallows
and the high score of the toast-
ed marsh mellow eaters fell to
Beulah Knox and Novella Smith
Grace Hunt and Lyla Smith were
the voealiats of the crowd
Rufus Addy lei t his "rabbit
foot” at home and had the mis-
fortune to SDrain his ankle but
as the girls were all so sympa-
thetic he felt it was worth it
Jack Davts and Norman Mor-
ton didn’t Drove themselves
good runners so tney failed to
have fried rabbit for supper
1 he crowd then drove to Bro-
mide and drank water from the
various spring and one 1-cvcame
very near t eirg left vln 1
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to it qjire afier ti e U
a: It cf ci e
of the Bromide g-rs They tlr-:r
returned hcrre “hoarser” but
happy lr nt tuch a pleasant out-
ing Moral— Join with the Leaguers
for more good times to follow
Vinnie Ream was so quiet they
all felt teaching these days was
too strenuous for her
Don’t forget the prayer meet-
ing at the Methodist church ev-
ery Wednesday night The pas-
tor licked a quorum to work
with last Wednesday night but
there was a prayer meeting ja9t
the same Be there next time
Edison
jEleotric Lig'htis
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WE SPECIALIZE
Last Sunday was an unusually
interesting day at the Methodist
church on account os two spe-
cial services At the morning
hour Rev A C Pickens deliv-
ered a special discourse for the
Masons The local lodge at-
tended in a body and a large
ongregation of others was also
pietent Rev Pickens delivered
a masterly discourse wrich wil
long linger in the memory of all
who heard it Many interesting
and instructive features of the
principles of Masonry were
brought out and the origin of
the fraternity so far as its un-
derlying principles are concerned
traced back to the beginning of
time Many imsortant sugges-
tions vere mady as to how Ma-
sons could put a real living vi-
tality into the principles ol their
fraternity and be of benefit in a
world-wide sense standing side
by ssde with the fchurch in mak
ing the world better
At night Evangelist Saxton
of the Baptist cnurch and his
singer Mr Martin with his harp
came here on the one night evan
geli-tic tour and gave a one
mgrit sermon and song service
winch was very much apprecia-
ted and enjoyed by our people
It will be remembered that Mr
Saxon was here five years ago
ana held a series of revival ser
v res with One results and our
j ecple were pleaseJ to hear him
again His sermon was a strong
imennd deiii eied in a forceful
! manner I iCidentaliy he re
marked that “he was BA) per
cent American” as all HEAL
Christian preactvrs are
Mr Martir tis singer gtve
seme fine musicat selections on
the harp
The pastor Rev A C Picken3
called in his regular appointment
and gave the visiting preacher
the use of his pulpit Tne hjse
was filled to its utmost capacity
The Riley bankrupt stock ani
store fixtures were sold at public
sale this week to Mr Harrison
of Ada bringing $423000 The
real estate will be disposed of
later
Lights
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Grant, W. S. The Wapanucka Press (Wapanucka, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, March 7, 1924, newspaper, March 7, 1924; Wapanucka, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1714376/m1/1/?q=music: accessed June 26, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.