Cherokee Weekly Messenger. (Cherokee, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 7, 1916 Page: 1 of 8
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C L WILSON Editor
CHEROKEE ALFALFA COUNTY OKLA THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 7 1916
Volume 20 Number 5
ATTEMPT ASSAULT
TO DO BODILY HARM CHARGED
AGAINST C C MERCER
Last Monday evening Frank Loe-
ser well known grain dealer of Am-
orita appeared before County At-
torney Harry Kirkendall to swear to
a warrant charging C C Mercer de-
pot agent at Amorita with attempt
assault That evening Sheriff Dun-
can and 'Deputy Dick Highfill went
to Amorita and brought Mercer to
the county seat His bond was fixed
at $1000 which was immediately
given
Mr Loeser claimed at times that
he had gone to the depot to send tel-
egrams and not finding Mr Mercer
there had lost considerable money in
grain transaction Mr Mercer did
not think that these statements were
true said he wanted to scare Louis-
er which it seems that he has done
and especially last Monday after-
noon Some time ago a suit was
filed in court against the Western
Union Teleghaph company by Loes-
er as the result of the service he
alleges he received at Amorita and
this with other minor troubles led
to the difficulty It is claimed that
while the two men were in a butch-
er shop Monday afternoon Mercer
picked up a cleaver and started tow-
ard Louiser Several parties who
were in the market at the time as-
sisted Loeser in making his escape
and he immediately come to Chero -
kee to swear to the warrant
TERRY FOUND GUILTY
SENTENCED TO ONE YEAR
STATE PENITENTIARY
IN
Irvay Terry whose trial came up
in this term of the District Court
was found guilty and sentenced to
one year in the state penitentiary at
McAlester -Terry' was charged
taking an automobile belonging to
C F Granberg at the time he was
employed in a garage operated by
J F Hunsinger Terry took the
oar some time last fall and it was
several months before he was lo-
cated but he was finally found at
San Angelo Texas and brought to
Cherokeej He has been in the coun-
ijr jail ' since ' that time which" ' has
been about five months At bis
- trial he claimeAlhat he took the car
as wages owecTTnm by Hunsinger and
that he was a silent partner with
him while other evidence stated that
he was not The jury in this case
was out longer than expected and
was composed of the following jur-
ors: M L DeFever L T Nixon J
R Allen W T Russell C M Bran-
son B G Lecrone Harry Gambill
R A' Jobes II M Tidwell J G
Cassidy R V Azbill and T E Roy
CIVIL CASES
In the case of the Midland Sav-
ings and Loan Co vs Oma J
Neighbor on foreclosure of real es-
tate mortgages the case was con-
tinued In the case of Fred Geis vs H F
Fisher for recovery ofmoney the
case was settled by an agreement
resulting in a judgment for the
plaintiff for $5000
The case of the Gerlich Bank vs
Sam McLain et al suit on promis-
sory note resulted in judgment for
the plaintiff It was settled by an
agreement after the jury had been
selected and the plaintiff was rest-
ing its case
In the case of Alexander Plumley
vs J L Bussart appeal from J P
court was settled by an agreement
and the plaintiff received judg-
ment In the matter of F M Matthews
vs Thomas Osborne appealed from
J P court it was settled by an
agreement with each of parties pay-
ing one half of the costs and the de-
fendant paying the plaintiff $2000
The case of Murry L Coppock vs
Kansas City Mexico and Orient R
R Company is being tried today and
as we are ready to go to press it has
gone to the jury
In the matter of Walter Stewart
vs The Town of Goltry for recovery
of money the case was continued
Immediately following the case of
Will Froggatte vs W M Mclntire
appealed from J P court was start-
ed
Opened Shoe Shop — L P Mc-
Connell has gone to Lambert where
he has opened up a shoe shop at that j Woodmen cemetery
place
CHEROKEE SCHOOLS
OPENED MONDAY
SCHOOL OPENED WITH LARGE
ENROLLMENT
Last Monday the Cherokee school
opened with an exceptionally large
enrollment The High School hav-
ing an enrollment of 146 students
and the grades 361
Monday being Labor Day there
was not much done only the enroll-
ing of the grades the High School
students having enrolled Saturday
Tuesday the teachers and the pupils
started their work in earnest and
things look bright for a successful
year The corps of teachers for the
grades re as follows: Miss Madden
primary Miss Bone first grade
Miss Mangus second grade Miss
Loomis third grade liss Talley
fourth grade Misses Crilly and Dail
fifth grade Misses Davis Stein and
Mr Campbell have the sixth seventh
and eighth grades ' These three
grades are in a department The
teachers in the High School are:
A G Bowles superintendent Mr
Deming principal who handles the
manual training Prof Waddle
science Mrs Higginbotham German
and Algebra Miss Hoag English
Miss Denison English and Latin
Miss Waring history and Miss Mil-
ler domestic science
Following is given the number of
1 n eac ra e
Primary 49
First Grade 20
Second Grade 51
Third Grade 38
Fourth Grade 37
Fifth Grade 50
Sixth Grade 40
Seventh Grade 33
Eighth Grade 43
High School
Freshmen 55
Sophomores 28
Juniors ‘ —S5
Seniors L 28
Post Graduates 1
ATTEND ASSOCIATION
The Salt Fork Valley Baptist As-
sociation which comprises all of
Alfalfa county and a part of Grant
Woods and Major counties "helT
their annual meeting of the associa-
tion at Alva last week A big dele
gation of messengers from the
churches of the association were
present and for the fLst time in the
past six years each church was rep-
resented At the meeting the pres-
ent Missionary Rev H E Hogan
was again elected Missionary for the
coming year Others elected were
as follows: Rev T G Netherton of
Alva Moderator E T Devin o
Cherokee Clerk and J A Cross-
man of Fairview Treasurer The
next meeting will be held at Pond
Creek
A full delegation of messengers
from the local church were present
Those representing the church were
Mrs F M Burroughs Mrs J W
Davault Mr and Mrs George Mul-
linix Mrs Stella McGee Mrs L T
Lancaster and Miss Jessie Crilly
Visitors from Cherokee were Mr
and Mrs J W Fisher Mi’s C
Bowles and Mrs Walter Thompson
The minutes of the association are
in this office to be printed and will
be published in book form about he
first of next week
MRS JOHNSON PASSES AWAY
Mrs George Johnson who had
been critically ill at her home in this
city the past week passed to the
Great Beyond this morning shortly
after ten o'clock
Mrs Johnson had been in poor
health the past five or six months
and became suddenly critical only
about a week ago from what is called
blood clot neuralgia All that med-
ical skill and tender hands could do
to resist the ravages of affliction
were of no avail Our community
is cast with gloom the grim hand of
death enters a happy home and
claims as its toll one of our most
noble women leaving a bost of sor-
rowing friends and heart broken
husband and children who are de-
prived of God’s greatest handiwork
— a mother
Arrangements have Leon made to
hold funeral services at the resi-
dence Friday morning at 10 o’clock
and interment will be made at the
Obituary will
appear next week
Cherokee Okla Sept 5 1916
The Board of County Commissioners
of Alfalfa County Oklahoma met in
the County Clerk's office at Cherokee
Oklahoma as per adjournment at 9
o'clock a mv with all members pres-
ent The following county officers’ re-
ports were approved: Carl S Dunning-
ton County Treasurer Hank Duncan
Sheriff J W Kackley Court Clerk
and Henry Summers County Clerk
Following is the financial report of
the County Treasurer:
MONTHLY REPORT OP
STATE OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY OF ALFALFA as:
I Carl S Dunnington County Treasurer of Alfalfa County do solemnly
swear that the above report Is true and correct and that the several amounts
and funds as shown are now on hand and are public funds held by me as
County Treasurer and no portion of the same Is borrowed for the purpose
of being counted CARL S DUNNINGTON
(SEAL) County Treasurer of Alfalfa County Oklahoma
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2nd day of September 1918
HKNKY SUMMERS County Clerk
j 1
The calendar of claimft was ' next
taken up and claims audited as fol-
lows: SALARY FI" X D
A I- Highfill salary amount al-
lowed $'i000
Eugenia Wood salary amount al-
lowed $4000
S V Cox salary amount allowed
$7500
Carl S Dunnington salary amount
nWowed $14166 ‘ '
l’ortia Gardner' stenographer for
County Attorney amount allowed
$1250
il C Kirkendall salary amount al-
lowed $15833
C r Noble salary amount allowed
$5000
Geo L Halstead salary amount al-
lowed $7500
W s David salary amount allowed
$17672
L T Lancaster salary for July and
August amount allowed $5000
Hank Iluncan salary amount al-
lowed $15833
Henry Summers salary amount al-
lowed $14166
Pearl Davault salary amount al-
lowed $7506
J V Higginbotham salary amount
allowed $11667
W 11 I'llgrim salary amount al-
lowed $2000
G J Roberts salary and mileage
for July and Augutamount allowed
$8523
H It Herold salary and mileage
amount I (lowed $4297
K I lung salary amount allow-
ed $4 16 A
COURT KU X II
Cherokee Republican printing court
assignment amount allowed $2400
J V Kackley salary amount al-
lowed $14166 v
Lola R Davault salary amount al-
lowed $750
F M Gust In salary amount allow-
ed $15833
Lola Davault transcript for District
Court amount allowed $1700
Geo W Partridge defense of Ervay
Terry amount nllowed $2500
9lKI5(i FUND
William Young land sold in error
amount nllowed $310
I X Shafer taxes paid in error
amount nllowed $1000
WIDOWS AND ORPHANS COMPEN-
S4TION FUND
Ellen Neal widows compensation
amount allowed $600
Emma Bodenheimcr widows com-
pensation: amount aliowed $500
Charfotta Summers widows com
pensation amount allowed $700
Marne Snapp widows compensation
amount allowed $700
Florence Bench widows compensa-
tion amount allowed $800
Emma Noble widows compensation
amount allowed $900
Bertha McConnell widows compen-
sation amount allowed $600 v
Jessie Kemp widows compensation
amount nllowed $800
Mildred Higgins widows compensa-
tion amount allowed $600
SUPPLY FUND
’ I'rsel Finch printing ballots
amount nllowed $500
Geo I Barviartl & Co supplies:
nmount allowed $1790
Alfalfa Ice Co ice amount allowed
$1000 -
News Dispatch Ptg and Audit Co
supplies: amount nllowed $2530
City of Cherokee light and water
amount nllowed $1483
L R Smith supplies amoupt al-
lowed $3070
Cnrl S Dunnington money advanc-
ed: amount allowed $500
Pioneer Tel and Tel Co rent on
phones nmount allowed $1800
Co-Operative l’uh Co supplies
amount aliowed $1420
J W Kackley supplies amount al-
lowed $1300
Warden Company supplies amount
allowed $2420
Alfalfa Jce- Company Ice amount
allowed $1000
H C Kirkendall money advanced
amount allowed $425
MeCormte Mnther Co supplies
amount allowed $3000
Henry Summer money advanced:
amount allowed $1000
J W Higginbotham money advanc-
ed: nmount allowed $2017
The Cherokee Messenger supplies
amount allowed $9575
W M Welch Mfg Co supplies
$28 SO disallowed
Cherokee Mercantile Co supplies
$3390 withdrawn
t'herokee Mercantile Co supplies
$2523 withdrawn
10011 AND INSANE FUND
Cherokee Cash Sore merchandise
to poor: amount allowed $525
H Fr-cder M P service to poor
amount allowed $1450
W K Anderson merchandise to
poor amount allowed $1200
Anna Parker care of poor amount
allowed $2400
Mrs A J Slaton care of Ella Digh-
ton amount allowed 41600
B Meador merchandise to poor
amount allowed $1022
T H Leonhart merchandise to
poor amount allowed $600
C H McCully merchandise to poor
amount allowed $1200
J W Wood care of Clifton Fisher
amount allowed I46S0
J W Mills merchandise to poor
amount allowed $1800
Alice Maypole care of poor amount
allowed $12250
THE COUNTY TREASURER
Dr J M Ouume service to
amount allowed $7150 $3000
lowed
Dunn & Eaton merchandise to poor
amount allowed $2600
K F Linden & Co merchandise to
poor amount allowed $2800
A I Highfill cash advanced am-
ount allowed $1312
Anna Richards care of John Sims
amount nllowed $500
-" CONTINGENT FUND -
C M Branson cash advanced $1050
disallowed
Austin Devore coyote bounty am-
ount allowed $500
J Vf Moorehead service on County
Election Board amount allowed $860
W H Mahoney servise on County
Election Board amount allowed $660
W K Kirby coyote bounty amount
allowed $100
H Clay Fisk service on County Ex-
amination Board amount allowed
$3000
Roscoe Wold service on County Ex-
alii
amination
$2100
Arthur Parkhurst Agricultural Sta
tistics nmount allowed $965
Fred W Benson registering voters
amount allowed $420
D U Ford salary amount allowed
$3500
J Ik Hiatt agricultural statistics
amount allowed $575
Cherokee Cash Store merchandise to
prisoners amount allowed $374
0 J Smith salary as Secretary of
County Election Board amount allow-
ed $5420
K V Cox cash advanced nmount
allowed $2404
L It Smith merchandise to prison-
ers amount allowed $2160
J W Gray sprinkling streets am-
ount allowed $500
Pioneer Tel and TeL "Co toll calls
amount allowed $4215
L T Lancaster money advanced
amount nllowed $960
Hank Duncan hoarding prisoners
amount allowed $5540
Hank Uuncnn cash advanced am-
ount allowed $4315
C N Smith M D service to prison-
ers: amount allowed $2600
W E Forrester salary as County
Agent: amount allowed $4166
J W Higginbotham Normal Insti-
tute amount allowed $15000
Cherokee Messenger publishing
County Estimate amount allowed
$8850
J W Higginbotham member Ex-
amination Board amount allowed
$2100
Cherokee Messenger publishing
Commissioners Proceedings amount
Allowed $5700
H O Stout registering voters am-
ount allowed $465
T C French registering voters am-
ount allowed $475
Clias E Solf coyote bounty
amount allowed $600
J H Pobertsdli coyote bounty
amount nllowed $100
COUNTY It 0 41) CONSTRUCTION
FUND
F F Llmlen & Co tent amount al-
lowed $1780
Boardman Company road machin
cry amount allowed $31000
Long Bell Lumber Co wire amount
allowed $13440
Illinois Concrete Machine Co con-
crete mixer amount allowed $40000
C T Boone foreman of county road
amount allowed $2700
J D Howard A- Co road scrapers
amount allowed $1200
C Clark road work amount allow-
ed $1100
J I) Adams & Co road machinery
nmount allowed $38200 $6996 disal-
lowed Main Clark road work amount al-
lowed $1200
R Froggate road work amount al-
lowed $3400
R Cowells rood work: amount al-
lowed $3400
1en Holden road work amount al-
lowed $1700
H Huckles Toad work: amount al-
lowed $1700
Joe Melone road work amount al-
lowed $3400
) Barrett road work amount al-
lowed $3400
Joe Gibson road work amount al
lowed $3400
K Riley road work nmount allow-
ed ISOi)
It Sluth road work amount al-
lowed $3100
George Finley labor on county
road amount allowed $3400
R Sanborn road work amount al-
lowed $3500
T W Gray road work amount al-
lowed $135o
Loyd Sanbourn road work amount
allowed $3500
Bonne road work: nmoui allow-
ed $3500 ’
John Jarvis ro:ul work amount al-
low ed $2825
on iiire five)
'SELLS MORTGAGED
PROPERTY-GUILTY
SENTENCED TO THIRTY DAYS
IN JAIL AND COSTS
D P Hill who was charged with
selling mortgaged property and
whose case was heard in this term
of the District Court was found
guilty and sentenced to thirty days
in the county jail and fined the costs
The jury was out for some time and
was composed of the following: J
F Tucker F J Dixon W E Low-
enburg L P Croxton J F Bruce
P E Barret H M Tidwell T E
Roy R V Azbill M L Defever C
M Branson W T Russell
DEATH OF MRS EARL BIGGER
Word reached Cherokee yester-
day morning of the death of Mrs
Earl Bigger at her home in Attica
Kansas Mrs Bigger was formerly
Miss Mollie VanZandt of this city
and had many friends here who were
saddened to learn of her death The
remains were brought to Cherokee
today for burial funeral services be-
ing held at the residence of Mr and
Mrs W S Bigger this afternoon
The sympathy of the entire com-
munity is extended to the bereaved
relatives during their sorrow
Obituary
Mary Eliza Van Zandt was born
March 18th 1887 to I C and Cala
donia Van Zandt in Polk county
Missouri where she spent her early
childhood days She moved to
Cherokee with her parents in 1908
On March 6th 1910 she was mar-
ried to Earl J Bigger to which un-
ion were born --two boys Earnest
March 17 1911 and Edward Janu-
ary 26 1913 Her mother one
brother and one sister preceded her
to their future home beyond the
grave
She leaves to mourn her loss her
husband Earl J Bigger her ‘ two
sons Earnest and i Edward her
father I C Van Zandt her step-
mother Celectia Van Zandt two
brothers Edward and Amintis two
half brothers Ross and Bailey three
half sisters Vernie May and Opal
and a host of friends All were
present at the funeral except one
brother who is in Missouri -'
Mary or Mollie as she was more
intimately known to her friends was
converted in her choldhood days and
later joined the M E church at
Wellington Kansas in 1914 She was
of a high Christian character a
dutiful and loving wife and moth-
er REV PEARCE BACK
Rev C F Pearce returned last
Friday from an extended trip east
The first part of his trip was spent
in a lecture tour through Kansas and
Iowa in the interest of the National
Free Tubercular Sanatorium Asso-
ciation of Alamogordo New Mexico
From Chicago he went direct to
Atlantic City New Jersey' at the
expense of the Heralds of Liberty
whose home office is at Philadelphia
It will be remembered that Mr
Pearce earned as a bonus prize a
round trip ticket all expenses and
a hundred dollars in cash for writing
the most business of all in the Unit-
ed States who were thus engaged
Mr Pearce wrote $6700000 more
than any other man and was enter-
tained in Atlantic City and in Phil-
adelphia as the guest of honor
From there he went to New York
Brooklin Coney Island Baltimore
Cincinnati and St Louis
He states that he saw President
Wilson as he came to the Capitol to
address both houses of congress on
the railroad strike proposition It
would seem from his conversation
that he saw a majority of the his-
toric places and made good use of
the trip from an educational stand-
point At Washington D C he visited
and investigated the tubercular hos-
pital which is supported by the city
of Washington for the tuberculous
of Washington Returning to Cher-
okee he lectured at the Christian
church on the “White Plague’’ last
Sunday night He will continue to
devote some time to this work
Left for School — Miss Hallie
Clark left Wednesday for Wichita
where she will visit before go-
ing to Lawrence Kansas to enter
the University
WAGE FOUND NOT GUILTY
NOT
GUILTY OF
INCEST
ATTEHPT
John W Wage a carpenter of
Carmen and who was charged with
proposing improper relations with
his daughter Mable was found not
guilty by a jury His two daugh-
ters were the principal witnesses
against him It is thought by some
of the people of Carmen that the
case was a planned affair while
others thought him guilty Mr
Wage took the case very serious
and during the trial broke down and
cried like his heart would break
After the verdict was given he was
somewhat releaved and phook hands
with the jurors and thanking them
for their decision He returned to
Carmen Tuesday evening The jur-
ors on the case were: M 0 Jack C
B Hankey J O Carter E A
Field J R Allen L T Nixon Har-
ry Gambill E A Gibson B G Le-
crone M M Tullis Charles Brooks
and Charles Curran
SENTENCED ONE YEAR
FOUND GUILTY OF IMPROPER
RELATIONS WITH DELLA
PETTY
Elbert Powell who was charged
with improper relations with Della
Petty of Helena was found guilty
by a jury and sentenced to one year
in the pentitentiary
When the charge was filed against
Powell the same charge was filed
against Walter Maypole The cases
were tried separate and the case
against Maypole was dismissed on ac-
count of lack of evidence
The case caused considerable
comment in and near Helena and it
was thought for a while that other
cases of a like nature might be filed
in court charging otherppeopl it
Helena with serious crimest '"'- 1
The jury was out a considerable
length of time on this case
MILLER TO LEAVE LAMBERT
Will Go to Norman to Enter the
University
Floyd Miller who ha§ been the
professor of the Lambert schools for
the past two years and editor of
the Lambert News for the past year
will leave the first of next week for
Stillwater to visit his father From
there he will go to Norman where he
will enter the Oklahoma University
Mr Miller has made a reputation
for himself as well as for the school
since he has been in Lambert and
has also given the people of that
prosperous little city a "paper that
they may well feel proud
xooooooooooooooox
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ADDITIONAL JURORS
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Thirty additional n ames
were drawn to be added to
the jury for the ensuing term
of District Court Owing to
a large number being dis-
qualified and a large number
being held for the past two
weeks part of which were al-
lowed to go home the follow-
ing jurors were added:
John Freiden Cloud
L H Burr Cherokee
Joe Fisher Beard
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