The Oklahoma County News (Jones City, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, April 1, 1921 Page: 1 of 20
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Woman Healod
Dy Prayer '
V OKLA CITY— Mrs Elizabeth
7 - Farrell living at 1320 West First
street has been healed after be-
ing a cripple for two years dur-
4ng which time she was unable to
walk Her healing was the 7-
- - suit of prayer by the meinbers of
1 the Nazarene church at a meet-
ing held last - Wednesday night
' Mrs Farrell says -
Mrs Farrell has been -a mem-
ber' of the Nazarene church since
- 1911 having joined at Bowie
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Rev John W Oliver pastor of
) the Church of the Nazarene says
the case of Mrs Farrell is the
most marked case of Divine heal-
ing he has ever seen He said
he failed to preach a sermon at
his church Sunday : because of the
v-" testifying of Mrs : Farrell and
the congregation’s rejoicing
County Leads -In
School Count '
Oklahoma county led the state
- in numerical gain of school child-
ren listed -this year in the
scholastic enumeration over those
last year according to figures an-
nounced Saturday by R H Wil-
son state superintendent of pub-
lie instruction The county's
s : A gain was 4057 w -There are 697-
- 283 school children in the state
according to the count a gain of
24180 over last year The enum-
- oration Was taken on January 15
: It includes all persons from 6 to
21 years old
Tulsa county leads the state in
total number of school children
With 80895 Oklahoma county
is next with 27897
OKLA CITY— Confessions
were obtained from four persons
held at police headquarters for
1 counterfeiting according to Lee
Mullenix Bertillion expert --
- C O McNeese and his brother
Claude McNeese and the wives
of the two men were arrested in
' a West Grand avenue - rooming
house hy a police squad led by
C W Wilkie captain
They are alleged to have con-
fessed to floating a large number
' of counterfeit $5 bills in the city
Their method is alleged to have
been to raise - $1 bills to $5 bills
Five of the altered bills are in
posession of police and many
others are believed tv have been
circulated -
Y The McKinney -school house
west of Edmond burned Tuesday
night of last week' It is not
known just how the fire started
but as it is one of the schools in
the consolidated school district
and as there has been a bitter
fight waging against consolidated
schools in that district it is the
opinion that the school house
was set on fire The school was
advertised to be sold last Mon-
day at auction -
Jim McCoy of near Choctaw
the boy who disappeared follow-
ing the stock show at Oklahoma
City returned home one day
last week -He Was just taking a
look over the country and - says
there was nothing for his folks
to be anxious about
-Edmond Enterprise: “A tele-
gram from J F Rahmann in
Florida stares that Dr J W
Comp is critically ill and that he
is being brought to his home in
Edmond”
According to the government
cotton report for March 21
17880 bales of cotton had been
ginned in Oklahoma countv to
that date compared to 12319
bales to the same date in 1920
CHMIIS INSTITUTE
LG02E NMOIIES CITY
A Lodge of Rebekahs was in
stituted Wednesday evening at
Jones The Instituting Officer
Mrs Belle Black and a teacher
from Oklahoma City came to do
the work of initiating and start-
ing the new lodge off properly
Officers of-Jones City Rebekah
Lodge No 179 are as Hollows
Noble Grand MrsFaris Vice
Grand Mrs Walker Secretary
Miss Ambler Treasurer Mrs
JH McEwen Chaplain Mrs
R L McEwen Warden Miss
Wilson Conductor Mrs Meals
The new Lodge starts out with
a membership-of twenty odd and
prospects for quite a number
more All - Odd Fellows and
their wives -and daughters are
eligible : to membership' The
Lodge meets every -Wednesday
evening j
COUNTY MAY SELL
CONUS DELOY PAIt
Without Governor Robertson's
signature house bill No 222 has
become a law The bill permits
the sale below par of ' Oklahoma
county’s road bond issue of $750-
000 which Was voted almost a
year ago and which has remain-
ed unsold because brokers would
not pay the par value required
by statute’ ! -
The bill provides that they
play be sold for as little as 93
cents on the dollar -At the min-
imum rate allowed by the bill
the Oklahoma county bonds will
brings $697500 -
FRUIT: CROP KILLEO
DY EASTER STORM
Easter Sunday - Was a : cold
rainy miserable day Rain fell
most of the day and Sunday
night the thermometer got down
to below freezing and Monday
morning it was evident that the
fruit crop had been destroyed
There may be a few peaches in
he more favored spots but they
will be scarce indeed in this sec
tion Pears plums 'and other
early blooming fruit is also ruin-
ed There may be some apples
CATCHES GRAY WOLF
AFTER A LONG CHASE
L K Montgomery southwest
of town went on a wolf hunt the
other night and his dogs ran
down and captured a large grey
wolf on the Albert Crawford
arm after a chase of two and a
lalf hours Mr Montgomery
las a pack of si hounds and
they take a chase every few
nights ' and have some great
sport He recently sold one of
lis dogs for $75
2 COTTON MEETINGS
HERE AND AT7C-
A meeting of the Oklahoma
Cotton Growers’ association will
e held at Jones City Saturday
April 2 in the afternoon and
at the 7C school house at night
f you want to join the assoc-
iation they will take your note
payable in October so you do
not have to have the ready mon-
ey to become - a member All
cotton growers are urged to turn
out and join
Elmer Groves Noble 'Grand
and E C Tanberg Secretary of
Jones City I O O F Lodge
went to Tulsa -last Friday and
Saturday to attend the Oklaho-
ma Conclave of Odd Fellows’
All degrees of Oddfellowship
were exemplified there being a-
out 250 candidates :
J Mrs C A Keyes entertained
a number of little boys Monday
evening in honor of the tenth
)irthday anniversary of her son
Chester Games were played
refreshments were served and
the little folks had a fine time
AtKffllEtBSiqEBMKS
sEYEnLEn TGCiuTO dye c::eo pjileiads take
a i:eg dy cefg 31s a CITIZECS
Local officers and citizens were
instrumental Satusday and Sat-
urday night in rounding up what
is alleged to be one of the most
desperate gangs - that has ever
operated in the state As a re-
sult seven of the gang are in the
county jail facing charges of rob-
bing railway cars of merchandise
The names they gave when jail-
ed are ar follows: L E Hender-
son C W Smith Leroy Miller
W J Reynolds Mack McGrane
Tobe Robertson and JF Lienau
The captures were made in and
near Jones City Saturday and
Saturday night '
The-officers ' who assisted in
the round up weft Deputy Sher-
iff Hop Kama 'Deputy Frank
White Deputy Crossley Detect-
ive Jack or the Frisco : and C J
Walker John Edgeman B C
Walker Dave Austin and John
Lindsay -
Saturday ' morning trainmen
on the west bound passenger
train reported that several boxes
of merchandise Iwere lying along
the track two miles east of Jones
City evidently having been
thrown from a freight t train
Seetioq Foreman Walker -and his
men were ordered to go and get
the merchandise and bring it in
to town but when they reached
the place - the' goods had been
moved A search was then’ be-
gun and-the goods - were found
hidden in a ditch ’ on the Ellen-
wood farm The railroad men
kept a watch on the place during
1 he day for anyone who might
come to take the goods away
ut no one showed up
During the day two strange
acting men were seen about
own and in the afternoon when
hey started to leave walking
vest they were followed by
Charles Walker and John Lind-
say iwho questioned the men
pretending they were hunting a
itray horse- One of the men
‘ater came(into town where he
LOOK DP— SEE SOMETHING -
The best and surest way to bring prosperity back again is for
everybody to believe it and talk about it v -
Growling and grumbling does a lot of harm and no 'good It
produces nothing but further cause for complaint
The rays of the sun may be peeping through the clouds that
seek to obscure it but we can not see it as long as we keep looking
at the mud beneath our feet
Look up and you will see something
When a person finds that he does not fit in with a certain cir-
cle of acquaintances the wise thing to do is to flit out again A
roper adjustment can "always be found elsewhere
Unde -Sam’s First
Ttie United States government has completed lie first passenger steamship
at a cost of eight and-one half million dollars The Ilawkeye State as the boat
Is called left on Its maiden voyage from the Baltimore harbor recently with
a millionaire passenger list for San Francisco and points In Hawaii At the
right la Charles W Stevenson captain of the vessel
iWas arrested then Walker and
Lindsay went a mile west of town
and arrested the other - These
two Who gave the names of L
£ Henderson and C W Smith
were taken to the county - jail
that evening ' Miller to whom
these two tried send a message
was arrested in the City and
failed
’ The stolen goods which ' con-
sisted of twelve : cases of ciga-
rettes were left in the cache on
the Ellenwood farm Saturday
evening officers being - stationed
nearby to nab anyone who might
appear to take’ them away A-
bout eight o’clock a 'car was
heard approaching and stopped
near the cache Soon signals
were heard and the officers by
answering were able to come up
to the men and placed them
under arrest searchiag them and
removing their weapons Later
two other men who had come in
a second car were rounded up as
they made their way toward the
stolen merchandise It is evi-
dent that these four were un-
aware of the arrest of the two
men in the afternoon The men
arrested in the afternoon are be-
lieved by the officers to be the
ones who threw the goods - from
the train and were waiting un-
til evening until their com-
panions came to take them away
-A week before a similiar stunt
had fceenpulledoff at- the1-same
place when $1500 worth of
merchandise was thrown from a
train and the robbers got away
with it on that occasion
Officers believe the men ar-
rested Saturday are the gang
that have been robbing cars on
all the roads - leading - from the
City for several months Thous-
ands of dollars worth of goods
have been taken but not much
headway was made in -running
down the robbers until Saturday
' The officers and local men de-
serve much credit for their part
in rounding them up
Passenger Liner
THE SFENGER NEWS
OF THE PAST WEEK
- (Special Service) '
SPENCER March 30r-Mrs
Sim Dyer and children and Miss
Grace Cole of Oklahoma City
spent Sunday witlh WH Tharps
Miss Alta Lane and Rev Bond
spent Sunday with John Eng-
land's '
Mrs K J Wilson and : Mrs
Hughes Were in Oklahoma City
shopping Friday r
Mrs Parnell of Duncan Okla-
homa spent a few days last week
with her parent
Mrs R V- Williams spent
Tuesday evening at Mrs Blacks
Mrs Ray and Mr ' and Mrs
Frank White of Oklahoma " City
spent Sunday with Marion
White's
Mr ES Poole and family Mr
Bob Pendley and family Mr I
A Rhodes and family - Mr Carl
and John Seaba and Mr Wilcox
and family of - Oklahoma City
spent Sunday with BA Rhodes
Mrs Lula Ralsey of Oklahoma
City spent the- week end with
home folks
Mr and Mrs Ed White Mrs
E S Poole and Miss Sophia
Rhodes were in Oklahoma City
shopping Friday
Mr and Mrs Jess Stone and
daughter Irene spent Sunday
with Ed White's -
Born to Mr and Mrs IB W
Black a girl March 27 Y"
Mi and Mrs S B Lair and
children spent the yveek end with
relatives
Misa LucUa Wilson who go
ing to school at Chickasha spent
the week end with her - parents
OBITUARY
Arthur' Emerson Cole'- was
born April 22 1887 near Neo-
desha Kansas died at Webbers
Falls Okla March 8 -1921 and
was laid to rest in Fair Lawn
cemetery March 10 He was
the son of L D and Sunie F
Cole He grew to manhood on
a farm near Arcadia r June 19
1918 he was united in marriage
at Belen New Mexico to Miss
Manuela Chaves who died Nov
25 1918 He leaves a father
mother three ‘ brothers and
three sisters to mourn his death
one brother and two sisters hav-
ing preceded him to the great
beyond -
STATE CENTER SCHOOL ROTES
There iwas a large attendance
at the Musical Entertainment
Friday night March 25 The
program was enjoyed by all
present
Be sure to read the ad in this
week’s paper regarding the
Cameron Male Quartet Iwhich is
to be at State Center Saturday
night April 2nd This will be
an unusually good number The
Iirogram is not composed entire-
y of vocal selections but is inter-
spersed with instrumental num-
bers readings snappy dialogues
etc
The boys are going to try out
for the athletic meet Friday
afternoon April 1st Winners
here will represent State Center
at Edmond April 16
Una Wilson Freda Clark
John Curry Haley and Joe Ross
Dunaway will represent State
Center in the intellectual con-
tests to be held in the court
house at Oklahoma City Satur-
day April 2nd beginning at 9
a m
v New Store
We are opening up a ’ new
Grocery Store in the room just
east of the Jones Mercantile
Co’s store and expect to be
ready for business by Saturday
of this week We cordially in-
vite the public to give us a call
RICE’S CASH GROCERY
HERE THERE
EVERYWHERE!
LATE tm ITEMS FROM VAR-
IOUS FOISTS COtfEfiXO
VARIOUS THIX3S
Prof B S Haug former prin-
cipal of the Jones City schools
now serving in like capacity at
Elmore City has been employed
as superintendent of the Choc-
taw consolidated school for next
year Prof W F Goff now
superintendent of the Choctaw
school will we understand teach
next year in the Edmond Norm-
al Y
Mrs Earl Haines of Blackwell
arrived last Thursday evening
for a visit with her sisters Mrs
A W Deal and Mrs Fred Proc-
tor and her father M M Fall
Mrs Millie Willman who for-
merly lived south of Jones City
but who has been living several
months in Oklahoma City has
filed suit for a divorce from her
husband Ed Willman Accord-
ing to her petition Ed was real!
cruel to her -
The premium lists for -the
county fair and the free township
fairs will soon be distributed says
County Agent' ’ Donart who is
secretary of the association -
Mrs Blair Jamison received a
message last Friday - saying her
husband was seriously sick at
his home at Moorecroft Wyo
She left that night for home T
Payne Rice has rented— the
building: just east of the Jones
Mercantile Store and will put in ’
a stock of groceries
Jim McEwen is figuring on
starting a grocery store
A marriage license has been is-
sued to Joe Stromski and Annie
Rominski both of Harrah
Ed Willman has bought the
John T Osburn tract of 10 acres-:
south of town consideration
$2000 Y
The management of the State
Center Lyceum -Course have :
made arrangements with : the
Bobbie Theater to hold a second
show Saturdav night after the -Lyceum
number In this way
those who want to go to the lec-
ture and also see the serial at the
Bobby theater may do so— Adv
Cecil King who went to New
Mexico several weeks ago for
the benefit of his health has left
that state and gone to Arizona
where he will file on a home-
stead The Easter program at the :
Union church Sunday night was -well
attended considering the
bad weather The program was
reported good r -
’ : Branigin & Sons and Sam Dun- -ham
shipped a mixed car of hogs
and cattle to the Oklahoma City
market Monday ’
MUSICALE
Saturday evening April 9th at
8:15 p m a “Dramatic Art and
Musical Recital” will be given at
State Center Jhis recital will
be composed of piano vocal and
violin solos Duets and readings
also have a place on this pro-
gram —
Those taking part are as fol-
lows: Miss Elberta Simmons and
Mrs Elvira Mahaffey- pianists
Miss Leota Tomer Mr Earl
Norris and Mr John Lanman
vocalists
Mr Milton McCullough and
Mr Bryon McFall violinists
Miss Viola Duck and Miss
Margaret Krahl readers
There will be an admission fee
of 25c for school children and
35c for adults - Fifty percent of
proceeds for State Center School
Tickets on sale next week in
Jones and State Center com-
munity Watch for later announce-
ments— Adv
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Keyes, Chester A. The Oklahoma County News (Jones City, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, April 1, 1921, newspaper, April 1, 1921; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1749925/m1/1/?q=Amanda+Montgomery: accessed June 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.