The Cherokee Republican (Cherokee, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, July 6, 1917 Page: 1 of 8
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RESULTS IN DEATH
Carmen Boy Alights FromMov-
ing Machine Keith Hoge
Jenning Victim
'
A fatal automobile accident which
resulted in the death of Mr ICeith
Hose Jenniigs occurred last Sunday
afternoon at Carmen
v Mr Jennings had been entertain-
ing at the home of his foster parents
Mr and Mrs Jennings of Carmen
three of his friends Claude Callen
Ray Hensley and Mr Burdock dur-
ing the forenoon of last Sunday In
the afternoon the party secured a
five passenger Ford car and went
ont for a joy ride in the countryThey
returned to town about half past one
in the afternoon driving the car at
a very high rate of speed as the car
neared the Jennings residence young
Jennings decided that 'he wanted to
stop there for a while the other mem-
bers of the party either did care to
stop or did not understand his re-
quest Seeing that the car did not
slowf up as it passed the house MA
Jennings vdimbed out on the running
board of ‘ the car and said that he
was going to jump off The young
men in the car thought that he surely
was joking as the car was then go-
ing nearly forty miles an hour con-
sequently they did not slacken the1
speed of thee ar kny While he saw
still standing on the running board of
the car is ran qver a side walk cross-
ing which being slightly raised caus-
ed the car to jump in the air and jar
loose the hold Jennings had on the
car He fell headlong to the ground
and rolled nearly thirty yards after
striking the ground- The boys in
the car did not notice his absence
until their attention was called to it
’ by someone' standingon the side-
walk they immediately returned and
assisted the young man in the car
took him to his home and called the
doctor Mr Jennings did not at that
tipie appear to be very badly hurt
as he was able to walk into the hause
unassisted when the young men took
him home
The doctor made an examination of
him and did not notice any serious
‘ injury save some few badly bruised
places About five o’clock he lost
consciousness and 'when the doctor
‘ was called the second time he dis-
I covered after making a more thor-
1 ough examination that the portion
-of the 'skull covering the brain had
been fractured resulting in a concus-
sion on the brain which caused an
accute meningitis or inflamation of
1 the brain which very speedily result-
ed in death ' The young man died
about two o’clock last Monday morn-
ing just thirteen hours after the ac-
cident -
- Walter LOwetv County Attorney
and Sheriff McCrady held a coroners
inquest last Monday night over the
body There were over thirty wit-
nesses examined at the inquest and
the coroners jury finally returned a
verdict of "accidental death caused
by falling from a moving car”
The youngf man driving the car
Claud Callen was fined ten dollars
for speeding the other two men were
each fined five dollars for being dis-
orderly This tragic accident was a shock
to the entire ' community although
no fault or blame can be directly im-
puted to any 'specific person or per-
often young men lack that control
and moderation over their little es-
capades which would be conducive to
their own safety and those of their
1 companions
KeithHogeJennings was the adopt-
son of Mr and Mrs Jennings of
Carmen Oklahoma was twenty-four
years old and enjoyed a very wide
and extensive acquaintance among
the young people of Carmen and sur-
rounding vicinity He was a very
popular young man well liked by all
that knew him the entire community
regret the loss of this young man
who has met an untimely death and
their entire sympathy go out to his
foster parents who have taken him
into their hearts so much so that he
was at their own flesh and blood
Pay your Red Cross obligation at
the Bank of Chtrokee
Mr and Mrs A J Titus received §
telegram on Sunday from their son
Charles Titus who was one of the
first Cherokee boys to enlist in the
service of Uncle Sam after the call
came for volunteers and who has
been in the Officers’ Training camp
at Eort Logan H Roote for the past
two months saying that he had just
been married 'at Little Rock Ark
to Miss Martha Smith of Kaw City
Okla Miss Smith spent the winter
here where she was employed in the
Alfalfa County National Bank and
she there demonstrated her ability
as a capable and progressive young
lady She is a member of one of the
finest families in the state and is
prominent in the social circles of her
home city While in Cherokee she
here with universal respect and ad-
miration Mr Titus is foo well known
in this county to need any sort of an
introduction to the readers and his
eager answer to his country’s call
gave him more than usual promi-
nence in this locality He is a gradu-
ate of Columbia University of Mis-
souri where he finished in the school
of law and where he recieved his
first military training Beforo his de-
parture for Fort Logan he was em-
ployed as assistant post master in
the Cherokee office
MRS LOVELL IN CHARGE
Mrs Charles Lovell with her usual
magnanimity when any public good
is in question has voluntered to take
charge of the Red Cross room during
the three afternons of the week when
they are opened Mrs Lovell was one
of the first women of the town to
concerq hersjelf with the organiza-
tion of a local Red Cross chapter
and since the beginning of the work
she has given unstintingly of her
time to helping the thing along Her
offer to take charge of the room is
one which shows how much interest
she is taking in the Red Cross work
because it will mean that every
Wednesday Thursday and Friday
she will give her afternoons to oevr-
seeing the sewing which will go on
at the headquarters Mrs Lovell’s
sacrifice seems more important when
one stops to remember that she has
no son nor any relative in the Service
of Uncle Sam Her generosity is
greatly appreciated by all the citizens
of the town and especially by the
members of the local chapter
FARMER HAS BAD LUCK
Chas Mclntire well known farmer
of the vicinity northwest of Amorita
has had some very bad luck
luck this spring Last Sunday night
his home was destroyed by fire in-
cluding a considerable portion of his
household goods The fire was dis-
covered shortly after midnight but
too late to save the building It is not
definitely known what caused the fire
but it is thought that spontaneous
combustion of chemicals contained
on some clothes which had been used
to soothe the burns on the little boy
who was badly scalded one day las:
week by falling into a tub of hot
’water To make matters worse the
child’s condition became critical and
the first of the week it had to be mov-
ed to the hospital at Aline where an
operation is to be performed Mr
and Mrs Mclntire have the sympa-
thy of the entire community in the
loss of their home and the unfortun-
ate injury of the little boy— Amorita
Herald v
Archie Hinzy spent several days
of this week visiting in Kiowa
ALIVE AT GOLTRY
Enthusiastic Interest in Red Cross v
Work at Goltry Oversubscrib-
ed Their Portion
Goltry a splendid little town in the
southeast corner of Alfalfa county
made a more than generous contri-
bution to the Red Cross fund at the
close of the campaign last week
Practically all of the work of rais-
ing the fund -was completed in one
day A F Mosely well known
banker is on the Goltry list for one
hundred dollars and previous to that
he -had given $25 to the Cherokee
chapter' The following is a list of
the contributors at Goltry:
Bauer John' $1000
Boese Ben J $100
Brewer W L’ $2500
Bugbee Ella $500 '
Bugbee Geo $V00
Chadd B E $500 '
Chadd Mrs D $2500
Chadd C W $2500
Coffield J A $1000
Crampton P R $300
Collar Adda M $200
Dempsey VV E $500
Dettle Mrs Ann $1000
Hulsey C M $1000
English Ora $500
Falk Clara $400
Garwood T J $500
' Gallery J E $100
Goodman John $13)0
Guthrie L S $500
Guthrie C T $400
Hulsey R B $1000
Hakel Jos F $500
Hakel E F $500
Hartman W P $2000
Haskins W N $500 "
Hockett A L Mrs $100
Huyck E L $1000 -Hungerford
R E $200
Hungbrford Cht $2000
Hulsey C B $2500
Janes A C $100 1
Jehlicka ohn $1000 1
Kisling C E $100
Kisling Walter $100: 7 -
Krier Peter $100
Krier Paul $300
Krier Albert $1000
Krier Anna $500
Krier Mrs P $100 " ' "
Hollander Gus $10 00
Lawellin Flo L $500
Lacey A $500
Lott Barney $2000
Mackey Henry $100
Marley W T $1000
Madison C $500 ’
Mahaffey P C $1000 ‘
Mahaffey T C $500
Mahaffey L V $100
Milacek James $1000
Milacek Lillie $500 - 1
‘Milacek Christina $250
Milacek Valentine $400
Moseley A R $10000
Moseley A E $10000 '
Mutersbaugh S $500
Murphy Laurence D $100
McCulley J M $300
BIG HARVEST SUM
The harvest hands who spent last
week in the fields of this locality cul-
led for their labor the approximate
sum of $600000 which was the amount
checked out of the local banks for
labor This is the estimate given by
the local’bankers but the sum would
be greatly swelled if the amount of
cash taken out of the smaller banks
in surrounding towns for the same
purpose were counted up A great
deal of money has beerf spent in
Cherokee as last Saturday night and
Sunday a number of the local busi-
ness men had a tremendous run of
work The town was crowded Satur-
day night and all men who sell cold
drinks reaped a harvest themselves
Most of the wheat has been cut and
a number of transient laborers left
Monday on their northern route fol-
lowing the wheat harvest
SIGN THE FOOD PLEDGE
Mrs Housewife have you signed
the food pledge? It will be run in al-
most every paper in Oklahoma from
July 1 to 15 The purpose of the plan
is first to see to it that every family
is fed well and as inexpensively as
possible second to eliminate the
food baron third to conserve cer-
tain classes of food for the soldiers
and furth’ to find out just how much
feed we must keep in each state and
how much we can export to our
Allies
Nelson W C $2500
Nelson Ludwig $100
Norris G V $100
' Penman George $500
Pecha Frank $500
Pecha J J $500
Pecha Gust $100
Pecha Ludvik $1000
Pekrul Rinhold $500
Pekrul Gust $1000
Pekrul Henry $200
r Plisek John $500
Plisek Joe $100
Plisek Adolph $100
Plisek A E $1000
Plisek Frank $500
Preston G W $1000
Pugh W H $500
Quinn Joe $1000
Rhodes T A $10000
Santee Dessie $500
Sanders Frank $200
Scarlett Norah $500
Scarlett C G $500
Searle Harry $500
Sedbrook Frank $500
Sedbrook Mrs A L $100
Sedbrook W M $100
Selby T $100
Severein A J $1500
Severin F J $1560 '
Snyder C A $100
Storms H J $1500
Stokesbery Al $500
Stokesberry P $1000
Van Father $1000
Vance Sam $100 '
Wayman J E $200
Welker F E $700
Wright W S $2000
Zrust Jos J $25$’
Augustine Al $100
Becker P A $500
Bell Elizabeth $100
Bradley Ida $500
Daugherty F $200
Gilbert Jessie T $500
Heath O B $600
Preston J F $800
Schmidt D'P $200 -
Trask Volncy $500
Turner S D $1000
Vance W B $1000
Van Wye Hazel $100
Voth H R $500
Wayman E E $500
Whitman W R $1000
Wethington S A $500v
-Haskel John $1000 '
Lott Ralph $500
Porter J E $1501
Hotaling G W BA
McSparin I S $500’
$LM FOR NEW WHEAT
The first load' of new wheat market
ed in Amorita this year brought $23C
at the Peebles grain elevator Wednts-
day Charley Stewart well known
farmer of the vicinity northwest of
town brought the wheat to town Mr
Stewart states that the grain is mak-
ing twenty bushels to the acre He
has contracted to sell 1500 bushels of
ihe crop to the Peebles Grain Com-
pany The first load testtd 61 yi
pounds James Maltbie another well
known farmer of that comniuni’v
is also marketing new wheat this
week vl’ich is turning out well and
testing 61 and 62 pounds— Amoritq
Herald '
ATTRACTIVE ADVERTISEMENT
In another place in this week’s is-
sue will be seen the initial publica-
tion of an attractive series of ad-
vertisements from the Pickrell De-
partment Store The designs are from
the Outcault Advertising company
the creators of the famous ‘‘Buster
Brown” series The Pickrell adver-
tisement will be a regular featurt
of the paper each week and will al-
ways be found in the samep osition
Each advertisement will be an attrac-
tivt message of interesting store new-s
and will give information relative to
the weekly offerings of this big de-
partment store
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT
SENDS ANNUAL LETTER
Prof Charles Wolfe who assumed
his duties as County Superintend-
ent of schools on Monday of this
week has sent the annual letter to
the different school boards which
contains not only instructions but
a great deal of good advise regard-
ing the present duty of patrons to-
wards rural schools Following is
the letter in full:
To the Officers and Patrons of Our
Public Schools)
The purpose of this letter is to
make a few suggestions for the im-
provement of your school and to in-
struct you in the procedure to be fol-
lowed in conducting your annual
meeting
The Annual Meeting
The law provides that the district
board shall meet at least five days
before the annual meeting for the
purpose of preparing the report of
the clerk which shall be read and
submitted to the voters of the dis-
trict for their consideration and ap-
proval A copy of said report must
be sent immediately to the county
superintendent Please see that this
report is 'sent at once
Elect at this meeting a Director
who sahll hold his office for three
years Many men seem reluctant to
serve on the school board Why not
elect one of the women of your dis-
trict? Some of the most efficient
school board members of 'Alfalfa
county are women In case the di-
rector should succeed himself a tem-
porary chairman should be elected
by the electors present to preside
during the election Under Section
46 of Article 5 of the Cchool Code
this temporary chairman is empow-
ered to administer the oath of office
to the person elected to fill the posi-
tion of Director
The eshbol board is required to
make an estimate of necessary ex-
penses for the coming school year
immediately after adjournment of
the annual meeting but this should
be discussed by the patrons before
adjournment and if you fund that a
5 mill levy on the last valuation will
not bring the amount needed then
you should vote on allowing an ad-
ditional levy In making your esti-
mation do not forget to allow five
dollars for a school district poultry
show as provided by the last legis-
lature Btter Schools
Is your school house in good ie-
pair? Do you 'have good drinking
water? Is your school well equipped
with necessary supplies? Look care-
fully into these details Your chil-
dren deserve the best Look well
after their iterests by giving them
well equipped and sanitary buildings
good drinking water and playground
facilities
You now believe that the heart
and soul of any school is a well-trained
teacher Your belief is well
founded but have you a well-trained
t acher in your school? If not why
not? There is only one way to keep
a well-trained teachef and that is to
pay her well to treat her kindly and
to co-operate with her in making the
school the very best possible What
the rural school needs is a trained
leader not merely a teacher and
that teacher-leader should remain in
a district more than one year ’ or
even two years
Did you know that we have not
but one or two modern rural school
buildings n the county and that your
building can be remodeled with but
little cost? If you contemplate such
consult with me for specifications
The War
Evidence is not wanting that the
war with Germany will create new
and difficult problems in education
and impose heavy burdens upon
American schools It appears that
general education preparedness is
necessary School boards must take
steps to reduce in no way present
school operations They njust con-
tinue with strict economy to’ extend
the school systems to such extent as
the war may prove necessary The
present is certainly not the time for
panic-stricken economy If we are
in any way to recover the losses
which will come from the withdrawal
of several million young men from
the ordianry avocations of life it
will be so much the more necessary
to train quickly and efficiently the
young people of school age to take
the places of those who are gone
THREE PRISONERS
BREAK OUT OF JAIL
G J Smith Embezzler Leads Two Othe
Prisoners to Liberty Through Bent
Bars— No Trace of Men Yet
Some time early Thursday morning
three men escaped from the county jail
the most important prisoner being C J
Smith indicted for embezzlement of $98
from the Davis Sewing Machine Co at
Byron last year Smith fled shortly after
bis arrest was located this spring at
Chattanooga Tenn and was brought
back by Sheriff McCrady Several days
ago he was ill and the county physician
said that he had symptoms of typhoid
so be was allowed to sleep in the corri-
dor for several nights on account of his
physical condition instead of being lock-
ed in the small cells He was evidently
the leader of the escapade and be took
with him Ed Wenn and Thad McCardle
who were arrested for gambling at Car-
men several weeks ago The men escaped
through the bent bars which were in
bad condition since the L W W outbreak
some time ago The men slipped out
without the slightest noise and were in
their stocking feet as the prints of their
feet conld be teen the next morning
where they1 had jumped to the ground
So far no news of their whereabouts' has
been discovered
AUXILIARY AT GOLTRY
Patriotic Sunday as endorsed by
Pres Wilson and outlined by the
International S S Association was
observed on July 1st by (he Cumber-
land Presbyterian Church of the Lib-
erty Congregation near Goltry A
splendid service was held in behalf -of
the Red Cross movement National
Partiotic songs were Sung scriptur-
al readings were Romans 13:1-7 and
Psalms 24 and 48 These were fol-
lowed by readings on Washington
and Lincoln At the eleven o’clock
service Rev McCord delivered an ap-
propriate address after which the
members contributed! iberally to the
good of the cause Ninety-five dol-
lars were paid in full with promises
of more to come The largest con-
tribution was made 'by Mr G E
Thornburg in the sum of $2500
A large audience was present des-
pite the hot weather An auxiliary
to the Cherokee Red Cross associa-’
tion will be organized in the near
future
Contributions given were: C E
Thornburg Goltry $25 S E Brach-
er Nash $5 Mrs Nellie Bratcher
Nash $3 W G Wilson Goltry $5
J C Tarr Nash $4 Mrs J A Lacy
Goltry $1 Mrs Minnie Tarr Nash
$1 John Crain Goltry $5 Mrs John
Crain Goltry $5 O H Dittner Gol-
try $5 Mrs W G Wilson Goltry $5
J O Carter Goltry $10 Mrs Nora
Carter Goltry $5 J W Caster Gol-
try $1 Miss Celia Wilson Goltry $3
Sam Patton Helena $5 Mrs Pearl
York Nash $4 Mrs S L Patton
Helena $2 Mr Blue $1
Word received last week from
Clifford Allen son of Mr and Mrs
Charley Allen of Vining who is in the
navy on the U S S Wisconsin is
to the effect that he has received a
promotion and is now drawing the
sum of forty dollars per month and
all expenses
Miss Lena Kinchelo accompanied
by her brother Stanley of Arkansas
City came in last wek for a visit with
Mr and Mrs A D Kinchelo They
are the children of Mr and Mrs H
L Kinchelo formerly of this city and
have anumber of young friends here
who are making their visit pleasant
Misses Reba and Dorothy Gould
entertained last Friday evening in
Miss Lena’s honor
Why not lengthen thhat short term
of eshool a month or two? We should
strive to reach a minimum of not lets
than 260 days The town schools of
the United States as a whole are in
session 466 days longer every year
than the rural schools This' dis-
crimination against the farm boy and
girl in free school privileges is not
just or wise
With best wishes for a successful
school year and pledging you my
services for progress I am
Sincerely wours
CHAS G WOLFE
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Ferguson, Walter. The Cherokee Republican (Cherokee, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, July 6, 1917, newspaper, July 6, 1917; Cherokee, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1722622/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.