The Weleetka American (Weleetka, Indian Terr.), Vol. 5, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, February 22, 1907 Page: 4 of 4
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The following mission program
I will be rendered at the First Bap-
hist Church Friday evening
iMarch 1st 7: 30 Hymn 270
L Scripture Reading Is 41: 1—20
py president of mission Society
Prayer by Rev W S Browning
Quaretett 8
The Entrusted Letter— By
jBishop Browining
Lesson 15 minuets from a large
nission map of the world by the
! pas tor
Hymn 274
Benediction by H B Catlett
Church Social
i
The special edition of the
ekmerican is being pushed by the
Ladies Aid Society with good suc-
cess thus far Help them boost
tVeleetka
I( There were no preching services
t the Baptist Church Sunday on
account of the illn ess of the pas-
or W B Toney He is much
mproved however and will oc-
cupy his pulpit Sunday
I1 The postoffice observed Sunday
Sours today on account of Wash-
ingtons birthday
A few more of those $1000
juits and overcoats for $500 at
Travis’s
If you are behind on your sub-
ecripton or wish to pay a year or
n)wo in advance hand your money
o some member of the Ladies Aid
2 Society or the Christian Church
)Vnd enable them to secure a good
commission
d Boots and shoes at wholesale
rnrices at Travis’s Cash Bargain
iblouse
The public schools were closed
"Joday for a holiday
A $300 hat at Travis’s for
200 A 150 hat at Travis’s for
ilOO
F W Casner owner of the
ight and water plants came
elown from Kansas City today
dr Casner is giving the town
jood service and his efforts
ippreciated
Ij See Travis for store furniture
cfnd fixtures
Ijg J N Jones returned Wednes-
day from a visit to Sulphur
Isa 10c outing now for 81-3cat
brd'ravis’s 7c outings now for 5c
ITht Travis’s
I1 Mr and Mrs Chas Myers
enntertained the Epworth League
l’t their home Thursday evening
ajandy was pulled during the
n(jvening for amusement while
f lll Cad a splendid time and pro-
1 thjounced Mrs Myers a very en-
id ertaining hostess
Over $4000 worth of general
Jnercbandise yet to be sold at
I Travis’s closing out sale Travis
cja putting you up to the whole-
iiale man on anything he has to
V sell
rre
ib We have n°t been authorized
3 gX) announce the play “Nevada”
jn:o be given at the Christian
gChurch for next week but it is
i02'hought from the progress that
pas been made in practice that
rCi t will be given about next Thurs-
fe jay night Look out for the date
eYou can’t afford to miss the
ithP'ay
mt Morning services: “The Low of
vethe Spirit of Life” Evening
ei service: Future Recognition
pr All are cordially invited to at-
ng tend these services G Worth-
ed ington Hilderbrandt
Rev Wm B Toney’s Sunday
subjects for Sunday Feb 24th
11 o’clock a m “Christian Doc-
trines of Sin” 7:30 p m "The
Atonement of Christ for Sin”
Sunday evening discourses on
Christ are still going on each
Sunday evening cnme and wor-
ship with us
j Jake Arnold editor of the
Yeager Record was here Wed-
nesday between trains
1 Mr and Mrs Black who live
in Oklahoma were here to at-
tend the funeral of Fred Lenon
A new lodge called the ‘‘Home-
steaders” is being organized
here this week
Mrs -Dessa Thompson was
called to her home in Cincinatti
Wednesday by the illness of her
— I husband’s sister
Al Hinds a prominent businet
man of Astoria 111 is here this
week visiting Chas Duehack and
looking over the country He
has been as far down as Browns-
ville but says that Weleetka is
the best little city he has seen
He will probably make some in-
vestments before returning home
It is now time for the small boy
to make his annual purchase of
tops and marbles
Mr and Mrs Albright of Kan-
sas City came Monday to attend
the funeral of the latters brother
Fred Lenon
The Okemah Ledger reports E
N Cofield and Fred L Strough as
being in that city last week
The Trinity League of the
Methodist Church gave a Valen-
tine box supper last Thursday
night The proceeds of the affair
were about $23
The person who has not had a
touch of lagrippe is decidedly out
of fashion
Miss Mildred Hardwick of Hol-
denville has accepted a position
in the postoffice under the new
postmaster W S Browning
S M Rutherford of Mus-
kogee delivered an address in
front of the First National Bank
Saturday
Mrs R L Mason of Weleetka
visited her sister Mrs Anna White
this week— Iloldenville Tribune
Geo Mittendorf is seeking a
twenty year light franchise from
the Okemka city council He is an
experienced man and if Okemah
wants a real lighting system they
would do well to make a deal with
him
Mrs Smitn of Van Buren
Ark is the guest of her mother
Mrs Morgan
W S Browning recieved his
commission as postmaster last
Saturday and took charge of the
office at noon Carl Browning
and Miss Hardwick are his as-
sistants Miss Clara Lawley has moved
her book and stationary store to
the Corner drug store
Today is Washington’s birth-
day Rev Strawn who is traveling
in the interests of the Benev-
olent Society of the Christian
Church preached here Sunday
C J Huddleston and wife of
Okemah were here Sunday
Mrs C B Bozzell who has
been the guest of her sister Mr3
B O Sims for several weeks
returned to her home in Kansas
Chy last Friday
Mrs Wm Blackman and Mrs
Edgar Blackman are the guests
of relatives in Shawnee O T
Miss Alice Hill and Etheland
Moore returned last week from
Tuskaloosa Ala
The Art Club will give a re-
ception to their husbands to-
night at the home of Mrs H B
Catlett Colonial costumes and
etiquette will prevail in honor of
Washington’s birthday
Owing to the illness of Rev
Martin of the M E Church his
pulpit was filled at the morning
service by Rev Buck and at the
evening service bv Rev Harp
There are a number of cases of
measles in town
John R Knapp went to St
Louis Saturday
Tate Douglass went to Kansas
City Saturday
M S Hughey the druggist
was able to attend to his duties
last Saturday after a couple of
weeks illness
The demand for residence pro-
perty for rental is constantly in-
creasing and fifty or a hundred
new houses would find a demand
Dr and Mrs Pemberton are
now at home in their new cottage
in the new addition
Mr and Mrs C L Ream of
Kansas City are the guests of
Mrs J M Pemberton
R C Woodward has purchas-
ed lots near the new school
house and expects jto build on
them soon
j r
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Who do you Want for
MAYOR?
In order to Stimulate Interest in
Municipal matters the American
gives everyone man woman or
child an opportunity to place in
nomination or to vote for their
choice for mayor Sign your
name it will not be used and if
you desire give the reason why
you think your candidate would
make a good official
BALLOT
For Mayor
MY REASONS
Results will be announced in the
American each week
Douglass-Wilson
Scruggs Douglass and Miss
Meda Wilson were united in
marriage at the home of Mr
and Mrs Hilton Douglass Mon-
day evening Rev Hilderbrandt
performing the ceremony The
American extends congratulations
to the popular young couple and
wishes them a long life of dom-
estic felicity
The Quorum Broken
There is some doubt as to
whether the convention will ever
adopt a constitution There has
not been a quorum this week
and delegates are continually
leaving with no intention of re-
turning One of the most prom-
inent members of the convention
is quoted as making the state-
ment yesterday “I do not look
for the convention to even adopt
a constitution So many have
gone home and the work is in
such shape that I believe the
convention will adjourn some
time in the next thirty days and
return the enabling act to con-
gress” About twenty delegates have
gone home for good ( on account
of the stopping of the pay of
those that are here do not go up
to the hall and there is consider
able doubt as to whether there
even will be a quorum again un-
less some measures are repre-
sented to induce the delegates to
return
It is rumored that the demo-
cratic state committee is at work
raising a campaign fund to be
used to pay the expenses of the
delegates who refuse to serve
without pay and that all who
will return will be placed on the
payrolls of the state committee
at the regular four dollars a day
—State Capital
Attorneys Fight
Tulsa I T Feb 19 -The
morning session of the district
court was enlivened by a person-
al encounter between H B Calley
and L M Poe prominent attor-
neys The two represented op-
posing sides in a case on trial
In his statements Poe charged
Calley with a falsehood and the
latter hurled a chair at his ac-
cuser Intervention by court
officials put an end to the scrim-
mage Attorney Calley was fined $100
and sentenced by the court to 20
daysinjail The punishment was
later reduced to a fine of $50
Subscribe for the American
C W Bass
G W Bass was born in Clark
County Ark Aug 25 1847
professed faith in Christ and
baptized into the fellowship of
the Missionary Baptist Church
in Clark County Ark 1873
Brother Bass lived for 24 years
a member of the Missionary
Baptist Church and was a lov-
ing father a devoted husband
and a humble Christian until
the time of his death which oc-
cured at his home in Weleetka
I T on the 16th day of Feb-
ruary 1907 Brother Bass leaves
many friends and relatives to
mourn his death but to his
friends and family we wish to
say God’s will has been done
so to bow the head in humble
submission will be peasing in
His sight He is at rest where
sickness can never come
Fred Lenon Dead
On Sunday morning at his home
a short distance from town oc-
curred the death of Fred Lenon
After an iilness of only about a
week he succumbed to an attack
of pnuemonia Funeral services
were held from the house Mon
day afternoon and interment
made in the City cemetery He
leaves a wife and two small child-
ren one of which was born Sun-
day evening but a few hours
after its father’s death Fred
Lenon was a straight-forward
honest and hardworking young
man courteous and fair to every-
one and in his death his every
acquaintance has lost a friend
To the bereaved wife and to his
parents and kindred the American
offers its sincere sympathy
Farewell! A little time and we
Who knew thee well and loved thee
here
One after one shall follow thee
As pilgrims through the gate of fear
Which opens on eternity
Yet shall we cherish not the less
All that is left our hearts meanwhile
The memory of thy lovliness
Shall round our weary pathway smile
Like moonlight when the sun has set
A sweet and tender radience yet
Pure Broom Corn Seed High-
est Bred Tennessee Evergreen
variety selected by the U S
Government for crop improving
Samples of the corn sent that
produced seed for those who
want qualities Price $500 per
bushel Pictures of the corn
can be seen with the editor of
this paper Remittance may be
made by usual way P O Ex-
press Order or Draft
V P Fanning
Seed Specialist and Broom Corn
Broker and Expert
L B 112 Oakland Illinois
Carson-Woodward
On last Thursday occured the
marriage of J W Carson and
Miss Effle Woodward Rev W
B Toney of the Baptist church
said the words which made them
one The marriage was a sur-
prise not only to their friends
but to their relatives as well as
the young folks "stole a march”
on them Mr Carson is a well-to-do
young farmer honorable
and industrious and in Miss
Woodward he has found a good
helpmeet The American wishes
them a lung and happy wedded
life
"Bond Elections Illegal”
Muskogee I T Feb 16-"All
of the elections held in the Indian
Territory to vote bonds for water
works schools and sewes since
the passage of the statehood bill
has been illegally held” declared
a citizen of this city today Con-
tinuing he said: "When the en
abling act was passed it contain-
ed a provision extending the laws
governing the holding of elections
of Oklahoma over the Indian Ter-
ritory and all elections which
have been held to my knowledge
have been conducted according
to the Arkansas laws as in the
past” He also said that he was
of the opinion that the elections
for municipal officers at the spring
elections would be held all over
the territory in the same manner
P G Kennedy was here from
Oklahoma City yesterday
Election Commission
Guthrie Ok Feb 19— The
state election commission was
designated this morning by the
committee on elections as follows
D N Robb Atoka Repub-
lican D E Ballinger Anadarko
Republican
John M Young Lawton
Democrat
J E Waynard Muskogee
Democrat
J G McClelland Pond Creek
Democrat
It is understood that John M
Young will be chairman of the
commission
Handed a Lemon
Washington Feb 19— Bird
McGurie received from Robert
L Owen a copy of the resolution
adopted by the constitutional
convention of Oklahoma Ter-
ritory asking an addition apjro-
Driation of $135240 Mr Owen
was designated by the conven-
tion to deliver a copy of the res-
olution to congress and the
president
Among the documents deliver-
ed to McGuire was a resolution
addressed to the president
Speaker Cannon Vice President
Fairbanks also various members
and senators
After sounding the house and
senate McGuire made the state-
ment that he thought it would
be impossible to secure any fur-
ther appropriations
‘I fail to find a single member
Republican or Democrat” he
said "who favors an additional
allowance”
Washington Feb 20— Repre-
sentative Wallace of A rkansas
offered in the house a resolution
requesting the secretary of the
interior for a statement as to why
he does not call for the resigna-
tion of Joseph F Swords superin-
tendent of the Platt national park
at Sulphur I T According to
the resolution Swords owns valua-
ble property near the government
reservation and he is advising
prospective citizens of Sulphur
not to purchase adjacent land be-
cause the governme1 1 intends to
add it to the reservation The
resolution also requires why
Swords is permitted to own lan 1
in the face of the regulations of
the interior department prevent-
ing other government officials in
the Indian Territory from doing
so
"Afraid of High Taxes”
Chickasaw I T Feb 19 —
One result of the new gerry-
mander of counties by the con-
stitutional convention is that all
of the the tenant farmers in
what has been designated Ponto-
toc county in the Chickasaw
nation are leaving the country
and going to Texas The reason
is these tenants fear the high
taxes that must of a certainty
be placed on lands in this section
of the new state and they are
unprepared to meet the new
condition J R Chandler the
owner of several thousand acres
land most of which is in a high
state of cultivation is absolutely
without a tenant This is only
one instance in many The same
is true of many other sections
of the Indian Territory where
the old county lines have been
disrupted
Highly Indignant
Ardmore I T Feb 16 — Hugh
Ledbetter one of the most prom-
inent attorneys of this section
and a loyal democrat is highly
indignant over the action of his
brother delegate Vi A Ledbet-
ter in voting against the "Jim
Crow” proposition with Haskell
and thereby practically defeating
the measure so far as the con-
stitutional convention is concern-'
ed
When he heard of the news
Mr Ledbetter expressed himself
in vigorous terms “I am
thoroughly disgusted” he said
"this is about the limit I sin-
cerely hope that the constitution
will be turned down by the peo-
ple of of the new state
and if it is not that Pres-
ident will refuse to issue his
statehood proclamation upon it”
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Moore, Lake. The Weleetka American (Weleetka, Indian Terr.), Vol. 5, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, February 22, 1907, newspaper, February 22, 1907; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1718783/m1/4/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.