The Oklahoma County News (Jones City, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, May 25, 1923 Page: 1 of 12
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VOL XXII
JONES CITY OKLAHOMA FRIDAY MAY 25 1923
' Chester A Keyes
Editor and Owner
No52
uu LATE NEWS
OF INTEREST FROM
OVER THE COUNTY
WHO WHEN WHERE
WHAT? COLUMN ’0
DOPE ’ATS RED HOT
Happenings of General
Interest From Many
Sources
NEW BOARD WILL
' APPOINT FARM SUPT
OKLAHOMA CITY — Ap-
pointment of a new superin-
tendent and matron for the
county poor farm will be left
to the incoming county com-
missioners Ed Richards and Ed
Shelden it was announced on
Thursday
“We don’t want to put in
someone to serve from now un
til July and then have another
change when the new commis-
sioners take office” Ben Black
chairman of the present com-
mission explained
C H Littler superintendent
and Mrs Bertha Morris ma-
tron resigned Wednesday of
last week following complaints
of club women that conditions
at the farm were bad Com-
missioners said they had no
fault to find with the farm of-
ficials Mrs Linnie Sugg housekeep-
er at the farm has been men-
tioned for matron
STRANGE BIRD CAUGHT
NEAR TOWN OF HARRAH
HARRAH — Frank Partridge
in charge of the construction
work of the light plant just
north of town caught a loon or
great northern diver - in the
Horseshoe lake the other day
Th huge bird was injured when
caught and died a few hours
later The body has been
mounted by a local taxidermist
This bird a freak member of
the duck family was more than
1500 miles from its usual home
when it landed in the lake here
its home being in the lake reg-
ion of Canada It is one of the
wildest of American waterfowl
and is rarely seen near civiliza-
tion It is believed the- one
captured at Horseshoe lake is
the only bird of the kind ever
seen alive in Oklahoma
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TRIAL OF TOM HEINY
COMES UP IN JUNE
OKLAHOMA CITY— Indicti
ments against Tom Heiny coun-
ty registrar returned by the
grand jury last September
have been set for trial June 6
7 and 8 by County Attorney J
K Wright
Heiny was charged by the
grand jury with three separate
offenses Two indictments
were for procuring wrongful
issuance of registration cer-
tificates to two different per-
sons and tne third was for de-
stroying records of registration
The grand jury was called for
the purpose of investigating al-
leged fraud in registration for
the primary election last sum-
mer Federal indictments were dis-
missed ' ’ ' '
NO MORE SCHOLARSHIPS
FREE TO AGGIE COLLEGE
County agricultural scholar-
ships will not be given for two
years because the f legislature
failed to make the necessary
appropriation Earle C Al-
bright secretary to the presi-
ent of A & M college wrote to
County Superintendent Ida M
Hale
Two scholarships have been
given in each county in the
past They were for 8100 each
and entitled the winners to ad-
mission to any course they
wished to take at the Stillwater
school
Tallant Elected Director
American Poultry Ass’n
EDMOND— W C Tallant
one of the state’s foremost
poultry judges has just re-
ceived notice that he was elect-
ed one of the directors of the
American Poultry Association
This association is perhaps one
of the biggest in the world and
we are proud to learn that this
honor was conferred upon an
Edmond man
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Earl Carruth Breaks '
Inter-Collegiate Records
EDMOND — Earl Carruth
Central’s crack sprinter broke
the 220 yard dash at the invi
tation meet at Norman Earl’s
record was twenty-one and one
fifth seconds which beat the re-
cord of Ed Gallagher made in
1908 lowering Gallager’s mark
by two fifths of a second
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Crops Washed Out and Flooded Over a Large
District— Residences and Out Buildings
Blown Away By Gale— Highways
and Railways Damaged
Almost unprecedented rains or at
least the heaviest in years did in-
estimable damage to crops' and
property in the eastern part of Ok-
lahoma county Monday evening and
night Nearly three inches of water
fell and the storm was accompanied
destructive wind in mahy districts
Crops on the hill farms were badly
washed and in many instances com-
pletely ruined Crops on many bot-
tom farms were ruined by being
covered by water and silt The dam-
age in the east part of the county is
difficult to estimate but it is enor-
mous The heaviest part of the rain fell
just east and north of the North
Canadian and Deep Fork divide Jn
the Deep Fork basin the damage to
crops was extremely disastrous es-
pecially in the Luther and Arcadia
sections The North Canadian val-
ley suffered severely but not as much
as the Deep Fork country
Dewey and Elk townships seemed
to Buffer most from the wind which
in places assumed the nature of a
cyclone In other places it was a
straight wind
In the old Grovedale district the
derrick at the Shaw test well was
Bill McEwen Given
Four Months In Jail
Bill McEwen of Jones City
was sentenced by a jury in dis-
trict court last Thursday to
3erve four months in the coun-
ty jail
McEwen was charged with
assault with a dangerous weap-
on upon E C Tanberg Jones
City justice of the peace It
was claimed that on April 4 af-
ter McEwen had been fined by
the justice for being drunk
McEwen appeared at the jus-
tice’s office and demanded that
the money he had been fined be
returned to him When this de-
mand was refused McEwen hit
Tanberg over the head with a
hammer
V McEwen has filed motion for
a view trial
Jones Womans’ Club
Holds Good Meeting
The Jones Woman’s Club was
entertained in the home of Mrs Sid-
ney Hart with Mrs W F Goff
assisting hostess on May 10th Mem-
bers of the club responded to roll
call with their favorite cake
Plahs were- discussed whereby we
might have one hundred percent club
membership exhibit in the County
The cake trimming demonstration
given by Miss Craig was very in-
structive During the social hour the hostess
assisted by Mrs Bedford served
dainty refreshments consisting of
sandwiches salad cake and coffee
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Rev Baniel Wolfe will preach each
second and fourth Sunday at 8
o’clock at State Center AH are in-
vited to attend these services
Yea He’s Real and
Queerest of Monkeys
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Here's one ot tne queerest of all
members of the monkey fsraUy the
long-nosed monkey of Borneo This
specimen Is alike in every aspect to
Uie average or common variety of
monkey except for the extremely long
nose
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blown down A tenant house on the
Mattie King farm was moved from
its foundation and Billy Babb’s
garage was blown away A wind
mill at W H Allen’s was wrecked
The roof was blown from the farm
house of Bob Mackey '
In ' the Kickapoo Flat the wind
reached its worst The farm resi-
dence of Will Bowling was reduced
to splinters and the family had a
miraculous escape Mr Bowling was
struck by flying timbers but was not
badly hurt His little daughter was
seriously injured but it is thought
rihe will recover
In this same neighborhood the roof
was blown' from the Chancey home
and from a hay barn belonging to
Mr Mohlmann
Northwest and west of Jones City
there was much wind The barn on
the M H Higdon farm was complete-
ly wrecked and a part of the roof
of - the residence blown away The
large farm barn of J H Goff was
badly damaged Part of the roof on
the Milt Judkins home was blown a-
way A large barn on the Eckroat
farm wasmoved from the foundation
Nearly a mile of Frisco track be-
tween Jones and Luther was washed
out and traffic was delayed for near-
ly 24 hours
A culvert at the fill over the lake
east of Jones was washed out and
travelers were obliged to detour
south several days It has now been
repaired
Same Identical 12
Tried Two Cases
Fred Proctor who was serv-
ing on a jury in the ' district
court last week reports a pe-
culiar occurrence On a certain
case twelve jurors were finally
selected to try the case which
they did rendering their verdict
diet and were discharged from
the case Empaneling of a
jury for another case was then
taken up and it happened that
the Bame identical twelve men
that served on the first case
were finally selected to try the
second case
It was said by court attaches
that that was the first time in
the history of the district court
that the same identical jurors
lad been selected to try two
cases
Well Known Officer
Answers Final Call
James T (Jim)' Brown 66 years
old known throughout the west
as a peace officer for more than
twenty years died Tuesday evening
at the home of his uncle Jesse Butler
in Oklahoma City
Brown was born near Macon Mo
in 1867 Seventeen years later he
came to Oklahoma with his parents
He taught Bchool for Beverai years
and it was while teaching at Choc-
taw that he met his - wife Zona
Butler one of his pupils She sur-
vives After giving up teaching Brown
become a peace officer and was for
years a terror to evil doers He was
assistant chief of police at Oklaho-
ma City two years In late years he
had been witn the federal prohi-
bition enforcement office
Brown admitted that he had killed
nine men but his friends know that
the number was more than twenty
Brown said he never killed a man
who was not trying to kill him
Here’s Fish Story
That’s Vouched For
Here’s a fish story vouched for by
B Price southeast of Jones City
and Harry O Baldwin hia neighbor
Tuesday morning B went out to
look at his cotton field and lot and
behold! he found the ground covered
with fish He gathered up a lot of
them and took them home and then
went back and got a lot more and
gave them to hia nelghobora
The firfh were of tne carp species
and weighed all the way from one
pound to pound and a half each
They were rained down by the
heavy downpour of Monday evening
Price and Baldwin believe -
Boy Breaks Arm '
Cranking a Ford
Pete Ledinskl son of Mr and
Mrs M Ledinskl had the mis
fortune to get his right arm
broken Monday while crank
nig a Ford car Dr I J Wood
attended him and he is getting
along all right
News From Around
of Town of Choctaw
(Special Service)
CHOCTAW May 22— The two oil
derricks which are going up in the
vicinity of Choctaw on the Ramsey
leases gives quite a bit of encourage-
ment to the real estate owners in
this locality Mr Ramsey has the
reputation of a thoroughgoing and
sucressful oil developer and this
makes the situation look prety good
to those having investments or de-
siring to make them here It is
likely that real estate will take on
more life and that quite a good bit
of it will change hands in the next
few months -
Work on ' the bridges acrosW the
drainage ditch near Choctaw is mak-
ing good progress This work will
bring a number of new people to
Choctaw while it lasts which will
probably be all summer
Choctaw Union Sunday School be-
gan yesterday to prepare for a spe-
cial Children’s Day program Mrs
Julia Cunningham the recently elect-
ed superintendent is taking hold of
the work in a way to bring new
life into the Sunday school
The young people are arranging to
have a singing school this summer
and will - meet Monday night for a
Anal decision A gentleman from the
Wright’s Station community will be
the instructor
Mr and Mrs R A Chubb and Mr
and Mrs J S Guion of Oklahoma
City apent Sunday with their friends
the Dorris family Sunday
Mias Mabel Taylor is home for her
summer Vacation Mias Taylor
tauht at Moore this year
Misa Vira McGinnis’s school at
Waterloo has closed and she is home
for vacation
Prof and Mrs' Reed and Miss
Beulah Stubblefield were up at Ok-
lahoma City Thursday niht
Rev J A Dorris made a business
trip to Oklahoma City Friday
Mrs Dixon of Sulphur is visiting
her parents Mrs and Mrs Jas T
Wise
Mr and Mrs Hoyt of Oklahoma
City paid a short call Wednesday at
the home of Rev J A Dorris "
The first section of the May flood
seemed to be falling in Choctaw vic-
cinity Monday afternoon which will
sureiy test out the efficiency of the
drainage canal There was over an
hour of heavy rain fall accompanied
by quite a bit of electrical disturb-
ance Mr and Mrs J M Blanton and
little daughter Bettie of Oklahoma
City visited Mrs Blanton’s mother
Mrs Ware and her sister Mrs Ar-
thur Kusler last week
Mr and Mrs Geo Anderson and
Leonard and Helen Anderson were
in Oklahoma City Tuesday of last
week on business
Mrs Lemmie Wright was elected
Noble Grand for the ensuing term
in Choctaw Rebekah Lodge NoU2
and Mrs Huldah Mitchell to the
chair of vice grand
Miss Childs spent a few days last
week with Miss Beulah Stubblefield
ard Mrs ItcedA I
Rev Einsel of Oklahoma City
pastor of the M E church here clos-
ed his pastorate at this place with
last Sunday night’s sermon Rev
Einael will go to Jenks Okla where
he will take up a pastorate
Mrs Adams ia spending a few days
with her daughter Mrs Eugene
Couch thia week Mrs Adams is on
her way to visit other relatives in
Arkansas
Henry Westmoreland is visiting
his parents but will return to Gal-
veston to his ship in a few days
With the Sick
Mr Ralph Davis who has been
working with the Swatek Construc-
tion Company for some time came
home Saturday aick and Dr Wood
of Jones reports that he has the
Erysipelas in his face
Mrs Cochran who has undergone
an operation for appendicitis at an
Oklahoma City hospital stood the
No Answer Yet
It is now 8 weeks since the
local coal dealers were given an
opportunity to furnish a reas-
onable explanation of why they
charged $1400 per ton for coal
when the same grade was sell-
ing at $500 per ton at the min-
e's As no reasonable explana-
tion seems to be forthcoming
the only conclusion that can be
reached is that the profiteers
were' working overtime when
they charged such prices
operation well buf at last report ’was
threatened with pneumonia which her
friends hope may not develop
Mrs L G Ragains who has been in
feeble health since she got up from
the flu in the spring has been quite
sick again the past few days but
is a little better today
Miss Hipsie (Auntie) Artberry is
able to be up and about the house
again though she is very feeble
Jones City Team
Defeats Elmwood
The Jones City team of the County
baseball league by winning the
game with Elmwood Sunday made
their standing 667 and tied them at
the top with five other teams in the
league
The 'game Sunday was played on
the Elmwood diamond and resulted
in a score of 12 to 2 in favor of Jones
The score by innings was as fol-
lows: Jones 001 300 080—12
Elmwood ' 100 000 001 — 2
Summary: Errors O’Brien 3 G
Snider Faris 2 Talley Two-base
hits O’Brien E Mollman Home
run Adams Stolen bases O’Brien
E Mollman Bases on balls off
Adams 1 Rabstejnek 3 Struck out
by Adams 10 by Rabstejnek 7 by H
Snider 2
Other games by county league
teams Sunday resulted as follows:
Stephens 6 Harrah 9 Spencer 8
Moore 6 Britton 5 McLoud 4
County League games will be
next Sunday as follows: ' Harrah at
Jones Britton at Spencer Choctaw
at Stephens Elmwood at Wheatland
Moore at McLoud
Former Spencer Man
Dies at The City
SPENCER MAY 21— Miles Jud-
kins former blacksmith of this place
died Saturday morning at his home
in Oklahoma City after an illness
of six weeks He was 66 years old
Funeral services were held in the
Methodist church here Monday after-
noon the Rev Wallace officiating
Burial was in the Kolb cemetery
Miles Judkins was born December
22 1866 in Ward County Iowa and
was 66 years -4 months and 27 days
old at the time of his death He had
been a resident of this county since
1890 most of the time living about
Spencer Several months ago the
family moved to Oklahoma City
where on January 6 last the wife and
mother passed away
Deceased leaves four sons and one
daughter to mourn his loss One
on and one daughter have preceded
him to the grave He also leaves
three brothers and two sisters as fol-
lows: Lafe Judkins of Seattle
Wash Milton Judkins of near Jones
City Peter Judkins of Indiana: Mrs
Ida Tuck of Topeka Kas and Mrs
Mary Simpson of Skiatook Okla
The relatives and friends have the
sympathy of all in their sad loss
The News wants to publish
all of the local news but if
someone does not tell us about
it how can we print it ? Tell us
what you know I
Red Top News
Of The Past Week
Rev Burrows of Oklahoma City
spent Sunday at the home of Mr
Thomas
Mrs Craun visited Sunday with
Mrs Nyswonger
Mr Fred Reynolds assistant coun-
ty agent called at Mr Mackey’B Wed-
nesday afternoon
The Newsome boys spent the lat-
ter part of the week with home folks
Elbert Groves spent Sunday in
Spencer
Mr and Mrs Oney and Mr Goug-
ler and family 'spent Sunday at the
Lewis home
Grace and Paul MapJtW spent Sun-
day at 'Mr Roage’s oi tne Sunny
Side district
Mr and Mrs Groves spent Sunday
with Mr and Mrs Elbert Edwards
Inez Thomas spent Sunday with
Fanny McKinley of Witcher
Mr and Mrs John Cassady of Ok-
lahoma City visited Sunday with her
parents Mr and Mrs Stinson
Helen Oldham and Donaoise Piekie
called at Mackey’s Saturday
Mt George McCoy and family
visited Sunday at Mr Manning’s of
Witcher district
Mr Newsome and Mr Mackey
called on Mr Bynum Sunday
Mr Rodgers of Witcher visited
Sunday with Mr Craun
Mr Bynum and family visited Sun-
day with Mr Hays and family
John Stinson and Kermet Mackey
spent Sunday with Roy Groves
Gas Tank Explodes
Causing Excitement
The explosion last Friday morn-
ing of a carbide gas tank at the Deal
Motor Co caused quite an excite-
ment untii it was learned no one
was hurt The tank seemed to have
a weak spot in the bottom and when
it gave way the tank soared to the
roof and knocked a hole through
Ira Deal was working with the gas
nd J H Widener and Will Oldham
were spectators All were badly
scared but unhurt
ONLY SANE SURVIVOR
Charles lluril’ the only sane sur-
vivor of the recent Cherry mine dis-
aster near Chicago Others who were
brought out nit vo from the mine are
now in Insane asylums When the
black damp explosion occurred In the
mine 892 miners were' Instantly killed
and Harris with seven others was en-
tombed for 14 days Two of these
eight died upon reaching the air when
rescued and five1 of them are now
Insane Harris Is now in Atlanta On
searching for his brother Ned Harris'
who recoutly retired as one of the old-
est engineers on the Southern railroad
Latest News Items
Concerning Various
Things
Mrs James Karns who has
been visiting relatives in Cali-
fornia for several weeks is ex-
pected home in a few days
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John A Simpson state ' president
of the farmers’ union was to have
spoken here Monday night but did
not get here on account of the rain
He will speak here at a later date
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Mr and Mrs ' John Edgman
and children left last week for
Missouri where they will visit
several months
Mrs Joe Edlin left Monday night
for Dearborn Mo in answer to a
telegram stating her mother had
died Mrs Edlin has the sympathy
of all in her sad loss
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Mrs Earl Haines of Black-
well arrived the latter part of
the week for a visit with her
father M M Fall and other re-
latives -
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Mr and Mrs Geo R Rice of Glen-
coe came the first of the week for a
visit with their son Payne Rice and
family
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See Harry Branigin for Sor-
ghum Seed $400 per 100 — Ad-
vertisement ‘
Mrs E E Beckerdite returned
home the first of the week from a
two weeks’ visit with her parents
Mr and Mrs T J Rhyne at Durant
B S Zbzblowski who lives on
the Stevens farm in the old
Star district is enjoying a visit
from his mother Mrs Kather-
ine Zbzblowski and his cousin
Lucy Melewski of Chicago Ills
They expect to visit here sever-
al weeks
' eke -
Willie Jones returned last Friday
evening from a few days visit with
his sister at Sand Springs
Frank T Jordan north ot
town who had been laid up
with malaria several weeks was
able to be in town Monday
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Harry Branigin was called tar the
City the first of the week to do jury
service but he was excused
Ruby Handley spent Sunday
with Vera Malone
Chas Faris and Bill Jamison were
at Choctaw several days painting
the Morgan gin
See Harry Branigin for Sor-
ghum Seed $400 per 100-— Ad-
vertisement “Shorty” Davis of Choctaw has
been suffering with a case of ery-
sipelas i
Rev Franklin of Jones and
Rev Arthur Wallace of Spen-
cer exchanged pulpits for Sun-
day night
Miss Aldine Raines came out from
the City and spent Sunuday with re-
latives The Edmond health crusade
closed there last Wednesday
with more than 500 children
taking part in the closing exer-
cises John W Hayson former district
judge was elected president of the
Oklahoma Bar Association at a meet-
ing Saturday night
See Harry Branigin for Sor-
ghum Seed $400 per 100 — Ad-
vertisement Ag M Beckerdite of Stillwater was
here this week visiting his son E E
Beckerdite and family
Hardy Jones of Okfuskee county
was here this week visiting his
brothers Joe and Willie:
Mr and Mrs D M Beaty were
out from the City Monday
Grandma Ragains of Choctaw is
reported quite
Art Goodwin left the first of the
week for California
The Rev A B Carpented will fill
his regular appointment at the
Christian Church Sunday morning
and evening Every one welcome
NOTICE
Choctaw Consolidated School war-
rants of the eeriea 1928 are now
payable up to No 110 Interest
tops with the date of thie notice -May
21 1923
wm McGinnis
Treasurer
(Pub May 25 to June 8)
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