Latimer County News-Democrat (Wilburton, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, February 20, 1920 Page: 1 of 8
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ALL HOME PRINT— SUPREME IN LATIMER COUNTY
CARLTON WEAVER' Publisher
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CONTINUOUS PUBLICATION OR THE WILBURTON NEWS AND THE LATIMER COUNTY DEMOCRAT
WILBURTON LATIMER COUNTY OKLAHOMA FRIDAY FEBRUARY IMA
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OVER FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS PAID
FOR 38 H06S AT COUNCIL HILL FARR
SUFREMUS
We have a young boar named Supre
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Who’i ai good aa hia name im
pliea
When you have the good luck to
aee him
You can count on a great surprise
He’a long and he’s stretchy— he
stands up straight
Steps out like a soldier who knows
that he’s late
He’s as smoothies a feather— has a
wonderful bone
Has a back like a rainbow which
gives him tone
You all know the “Phenom”— you’ve
' heard of his Rep
The "Phenom” is his dady — hence hit
world of Pep
Fashion Maid 3d is his dam you see
This Boy’s got the ‘ breeding—
you can’t tell me
Vtv Welch
The News-Democrat editor went to
the Welch hog sale Tuesday It was
a hummer Before we say a word
about this great sale we want to tell
you people of Latimer county that
the Welches are putting Latimer
county on the map mighty fast The
Council Hill farm is not only a mon-
ument to animal husbandry in Okla-
homa but it is an institution of
which Latimer county should be
proud — big proud if you please The
Council Hill farm is a palace inhab-
ited by hog aristocracy One of these
Polands on this farm would pay no
more mind to a Latimer county range
hog than Lady Astor would pay
mind to a native woman of Hoten-
Tot If there is any such animal as
an aristocratic hog the Welches have
scores of them
There is no telling how big hogs
are going to be made to grow When
we walked into the Council Hill hog
ranch Tuesday we saw at llast a
foot of Orange Model above a board
fence which was tall enough to keep
a hog penned up We walked up to
this animal and the top of his back
struck us several inches above the
waist line and the writer is five
feet nine This animal is one of the
new acquisitions to the Welch herd
He cost the Welches $750000 and if
there is a hog in the United States
that is worth that much money
Orange Model is hat hog This ani-
mal is sure to increase Council Hill’s
reputation and he insures the success
of the next sale
The Welches never do things by
halves In order to accommodate
‘ those who wanted to attend the sale
a special train was chartered and
nearly a hundred people attended
from McAlester and points near
’ there This special arrived at Red
Oak about 11 :30 and returned imme-
diately after the sale About sixty
or seventy-five Wilburton people
were in attendance - A number of
these were farmers living close here
and while only one of them bought
' they all perhaps built hog air cas-
tles and the visit down there no
doubt inspired some of them to plan
gregtgtw things m the way of the
swine industry for the future
We cannot resist the temptation to
say right here that the accomolish-
ments of the Council Hill farm in the
county and Latimer county would
come out of the kinks in the cattle
industry just like the hat already
come out of the kinks in the swine
industry
We have disgretted from the sub-
ject ' in a way but this is good
preaching and we want you to get it
Royally Entertained
The afternoon was given to visit-
ing the many departments and ad
miring the many fancy animals in
the Council Hill herd At the noon
hour Mrs Welch assisted by a doz-
en young ladies and Mr Littlefield
served the five hundred or more
guests with a delightful luncheon
Four tables were arranged in the
large hall and dining room ahd the
crowd was handled in great fashion
At one o’clock Col Fred Groff of
McAlester calle the sale' do order
and after making i fcve rtmarks pre-
Frfptf' of - Lincoln
Nebr who -took charge of the sale
and directed the offerings
Before he presented the first animal
he paid a glowing tribute to the
Welches for the part they are play-
ing in developing the country and
his words of commendation were
greeted with applause
The sate was opened by the iiifro-
duction of Suprcmus the new and
youig pride of the Council Hill own-
ers Twenty-three sows offered in
this sale are bred to this young
aristocrat Welch considers this ani-
mal one of the greatest herd males
in the southwest Council Hill Bus-
ter Texas champion sold by Welch
and bought back by him was next
presented These animals drew ap-
plause from their admirers
“Bring on Buster’s Maid" shouted
the auctioneer They brought this
superb animal into the ring and in-
stantly a dozen men were bidding for
her She brought $150000 and was
purchased by Gilliam & Sharp
Stacey Moore of Keota took Lib
erator Queen 2nd for $120000 and
Claud Dunlap of Red Oak took the
next and third highest for $105000
Liberator Queen 3rd is her name
Claud Dunlap intends to build up at
R O a great herd of Polands and he
expects to use this lady as his foun-
dation She is bred to Council Hill
Buster
Green Stovall of Red Oak took
Hancherdale Queen 2nd at $70000
She is bred to Council Hill Buster
Wallace Colvard got the only other
animal that was premitted to remain
in the county Josephine Buster a
dandy lady sired by the first prize
junior yearling boar at the National
Swine Show in 1919 She is bred to
son of the holder of the"' world's
record average Colvard most stole
this animal He paid $31000
Following are the purchasers the
name of the animals acquired and the
amount each brought
Buster’s Maid Gillam &
Sharp Checotah Okla $150000
Liberator Queen 2nd Stacey
' Moore Keota Okla 120000
Hancherdale Queen 2d
Green Stovall Red Oak 70000
Miss Bob Wonder P R
Allen McAlester 50000
Miss Knox 2nd N W
Looney Dustin Okla 42500
Select Mistress Jack Jones
Dodsonvillc Texas
Burton Texas
Timm's Wonder Girl PJV
Allen McAlester J
Liberator Queen 3rd Claud
C Dunlap Rad Oalc 105000
ChiefY Maid Gillam &
Sharp Checotah 22500
Princess Ppt Q J Wert’
Llmeftone Gap -i' 21O0C
Chief Defender’i Choicest '
H E Myers Gardner
Kan ‘ 22500
Another Princess Stacey
Moore Keota Okla— ' 30000
Wonder Girl Ray 1 King
Wolf City Texas 18000
Welcherdale Queen San
Boy Stock farm Keota
Okla 18000
Timm's Best Ed Jackson
Atokah Okla 11000
Timm’s Queen Moreland
Stock farm Keota Okla 21000
Orphan Beauty J R Rob
erts Brownsville Ark 12500
Disher Queen Lon Alexan-
der Childress Texas 30000 1
Zelma Belle Jack Jones
Podsonville Texas 70000 1
Lady Fred J E Walls
Ohla : — -51000 1
Bonnie Model Orange P R
Alleq McAlester 45000
Josephine Buiter Wallace
Colvard Wilburton RR 31000
REVIVAL MEETING
TO BEGIN AT M
I1T0N liiilARC
Y 3 !
The revival meetings will begin at
the Baptist church Mrctt the 7th or
the first Sunday In March as has
been announced from time to time
This we hope to b and old fashion
revival sent down from the good
Lord one that will yrake us all up
and set us to living in the right way
Oh how many of us need it It will
take us all to do what ought to be
done in this way A few will but fail
If all who love the Lord will get in
ernest about this matter we can
make a much different town and we
will be better folks
Total 41514500
These are the prices and the total
tabulated by the News-Democrat
man who was present at the sale
but according to a statement from
Mr Welch after the sale the total
should be $1587450 or an average
of $41775 for the thirty-eight ani-1
mals sold On account of confusion am evnM y°te a look at the folk
and the clerk beimr too bnsv 0 are ‘° ead ln these meetings
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and the clerk being too busy td
check records with us we are giving
the detailed tabulation as made
from our notes
Welches Fleeted
Mr R A Welch senior member
of the Wei & Son firm stated to
Rev Mr Saxon is a’ fine freacher and
a strong man in revival meetings
He will sure ring your number Bet-
ter be ready to answer You will
know that he is in town He has a
good hold on the Lord and the Lord
the writer that he was pleased with I ??ves a 8?od bo'd on men’ Mr
the result of the sale and that her11 and wifear artists in their
wanter the News-Democrat to thank rJor’ Mr‘ Harris is not only a fine
the people of Latimer county for nBer' an eftctive worker' Mrs
the splendid support that they had !Plendid -flustelannnd
given the Council Hill farm in its obe sp'r‘’
endeavors in this and previous sales fl 'emember tke date March the 7th
Chas Parks acted as clerk of the ready' Pu other things aside and
1 lets have a meeting one and all
sale
A C WILLIAMS PASSES AWAY
A C Williams age thirty-seven I
years died at his home on C avenue
Feb 14th at 5:30 p m The deceas-
ed was employed at New Five and I
ten days previous to his death he
stuck a small pidte of coafn the
palm of his hand He took his Dock- I
et knife and picked it oittX and
thought no more about it Hi re-
ported for work the two days follow-
ing but the small injury ou hfs hand
gradually became inflamed and grew
worse On Saturday he called a phy-
sician and it was discovered that
blood poison had set in His condi-
tion grew rapidly worse until Satur-
day evening when the angel of death
came and called his spirit away
A C Williams was the son of Mr
C W Haskins Pastor
-S1NGBB
JP HAPPIS
MUSKOGEE
OKLAHOMA
swine business is an index of what
could be accomplished in the county Queen Big Joe Bud Bickle
in the cattle industry were it not for Big Bob’s Princess P R
the county being infested with the Allen McAlester
fever tick Just west and north of Yankee’s Maid P R Allen
us there are men who re doing in’
the cattle business what the Welches
are doing in the swine business The
reason there -are not some Welches
in the pure bred cattle business in
Latimer county is because we have
too much opposition to tick eradica-
tion Yes a right smart opposition
More than twenty vats dynamited
last year Through government in-
vestigation and assistance hog col-
ery has been removed as an obstacle
to breeding pure bred swine If the
anti-dippers will let the state and
federal government have its way for
a while longer and will co-operate
instead of hindering' it will not be
long until you will see farmers in
Latimer county attending pure bred
cattle sales held in Latimer county by
Latimer county stock raisers and
farmers More and better cattle
means more revenue and more re-
venue means a lighter tax rate It
would not be long until we would
have a couple of creameries tn the
McAlester
Sun-Kist James Nolan Mc-
Alester Giant Lady James Nolan
McAlester 1
Timm’s Seminole Maid J P
Matthews Wister Okla
Lady Big Bob G O Wolf
Dallas S D
Mouw’s Big Knox W H
Smith Madisonville Tex
Hill Croft’s Best Ed Jack-
son Atokah —
Model Blue Valley George
Mancrief Canadian Okla
Sievers' Wonder E M
Bond Addington Okla
Council Hill Princess 2n C
J Wart Limestone Gap
Chiefs Choice Oscar Cart-
er Bonanze Ark
Council Hill's Best Ed
Jackson Atokah '
Chiefs Princess R E Tom-
linson Detroit Texas— J
A Wondeiyj W H Keil
550 00
21000
77500
47500
40000
21000
17500
55000
17500
35000
27500
18000
26000
32500
25000
25500
What Others Say
From Evangelist Saxon's Pastor:
j w t1 t ssj'ir” — i’i'i I 11 think you ar the line of
and Mrs T J Williams well known
family ip Wilburton He resided in V wh"h y°“ Ca"ednd for
Wilburton for fifteen year nir y°t qualifications
about ten year ago was married to h°pe tbat y°“ m?y be gv'n phy5cal
Mis Carreb Duncan To this union strength ad spiritual power to go
on for years”
A N Hall
was born two daughters Misses P "
Jaunita and Maxine These survive L Frat Bap“‘ ahurDch’ Muakogee’
the husband and father T? Cor’ Sec’ 0kla' BaP‘‘ Con4
The Wilburton lodge of the A O ‘ sems t0 me that you have ‘Pe
U W held services at the home ca! gfts aa an va"8eht I trust
Sunday morning and quite a number and pray tkat tke ord W1 make
- ' - 1 you a power for good I shall give
of 'the members accompanied the
body to Hartshorne where inter-
ment was made Rev M C Hayes
you all tlie support that I can I
believe in independent evangelists
ment was made Kev M C Hayes
pastor of the Wilburton Methodist yo“’ who 5tand for the
" I of the Kingdom” F M McConnell
Oklahoma City Okla
church officiating
A C Williams was considered
mighty good citizen He was hon
est industrious and everybody who
knew hiih held him in highest esteem
The many friends of the ’family ex
tend a profound sympathy tothe be
reaved family and relative
MAD DOG IN TOWN
Wednesday morning - x mad dog
made life miserable for 4own 'dogs
on and near Main street but was
finally killed A number of dogs
were bitten and the people are
warned to keep their canines tied up
or put in a safe place U would be
the wi$?-dea to kilt your dog if
he was bitten Wednesday morning
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W K Edge main street restaurant
man was a business visitor in' Ft
Smith Friday W K say there is
a great boom on there that despite
the prediction of some that prohibi-
tion -would hurt business the town
is enjoying unprecedented prosperity
sl- ' Vi r its
PIANIST
MrsHADpiS
MUSKOOEE
OKLAHOMA
To any who may be concerned:
I takle pleasure in recommending
the Saxon-Harris ‘evangelistic party
I have personally known Evangelist
Saxon and Mr Harris for a number
of years Mr 'Saxon L a preacher
of splendid ability ' As an evan-
gelist he has bad unqsual success
He is loyal to all'pf the' work of the
denomination Wherever he has
gone the church has been blessed
the jost have been saved and the
community has received a moral an-
n''v : ’
M3 Harris is possessed of a pleas-
ing personality He has a splendid
voice and it quite efficient as a di-
rector of chorus work Any church
or community may count themselves
fortunate to secure thi party for
evangelistic services Sincerely
W W Chancellor
Supt of Enlistment Okla City Okla
From the Worker
To the Brethren: ”
We were reared near Muskogee
and have been doing ' evangelistic
work for years having enjoyed the
distinction of holding some of the
greatest meeings in the south We
do not pick the easy places but will
go anywhere to win a souj help a
pastor or strengthen a church We
carry Bibles and a general colportage
library We will have the best gos-
pel tent in the state with a seating
capacity of one thousand We put
tn-a strpng campaigh mid-stay until
the victory is -won- -
v VYours fo Serviced
Saxon-Harris Evangelistic Party
AMERICAN LEGION
John R Livingston Post No 128
There will be a meeting of the lo-
cal post Wednesday evening Feb
25th at the W W Knight real estate
office All members are requetmzV)
be present It is desired that the ‘
NEAR FEUD OVER
ELLIOTS E3i:GIK6 :
! ARKANSAS DOGS
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Bill Elliott received a shipment of
eight hunting hounda from Arkan-
sas the first of the week Bill claims ' '
these hounds caught all the wolves
in Arkansas and that he will now
use them to clean up this county in
that Hibbard's Thomas’ Orfs ' and
Davis' hounds have utterly failed to
do the job
As soon as tf e News-Democrat edi-
tor heard of this boastful claim of
Bill Elliott and the disgraceful rt-
flketion on Latimer county bred and
born hunting hounds we hurried to
other prominent dog owners and
wolf hunters and asked them for a
statement They all talked freely'
Ben Thomas f "I am aurpriaed -that
a man of Elliott’s standing would bfe-
little my dogs -The state bf Arkan- -'- -sas
nor Sny other state fn fhi Amer!-'''1'
can union never produced a dog bet- ‘
ter than old Bess You can take
the best one in Bill’s pack and mine
will run rings around him He will
catch and eat a wolf before this Ar-
kan saw pot hound could pick up a
trail"
Bob Hibbard : “Bill may have some
good hounds but the trouble with
bringing dogs fn from another state
is they will get lost Chances are
that the first hunt will lose Bill (ev-
en or eight of his pack They are
easy to get turned
stay If you do not get
will later on
now 1
Just as
around and
chances are in three days two of
h them will be lapping water out of
local post take action" jn the Jight Bivef one wiu be wimming the
the American Le (ion Ynsking be- 'fnd tbre offour others
fore the American cong ( demand- n !fback yard ° tb f°r-
ing a bond bonua of $5(j00'per month ransaw You take
“V wou hounds t
- - v tege Nation and
bed up that part of Oklahoma of
’ ’Jves tigers and mountain lions'
' iu cannot tell me that a dog born
Arkansaw can hunt wolves with
hounds in Oklahoma I saw his
dogs Monday There is not a win-
ner in the lot Yon can tell by the
way their ears hang They no
doubt have a good appetite and : I
noticed three of them looked like
they would make good moolight rab-
bit dogs I hate to see a good man
go wrong but this man EUiott has
gone” - ' ' '
Vince Davis : "All the suckers are
not dead vtk i 1 could have let Bill
have eight of my culs and could have
saved him some money and he would
have madqbettesr deal My advice
to him is to take a minute descrip-
tion of evry one of these dogs and
have the News-Democrat print at
once a thousand circulars for these
dogs are sure to get lost when they
get out on the trail of a native Ok-
lahoma wolf These wolves are ac-
customed of playing with good dogs
like mine and these Arkansaw pro-
ducts will be playthings for them”
After having interviewed these
men the writer returned to talk to -Elliott
about what these bid Tiunters i
had said We showed Bill a copy of
the interviews and when he had fin-
ished reading he said "Weaver will
you interview me?" Sure said I
“Then tell the world that they are
liars every one of them and that I
will bet on’e of my saw mills against
Orf’s whiskers that these blooded
dogs of mine can out trail out sing
out fight anil out kill the best eight
dogs in their combined aggrigation of
pot hounds Why Weaver here are
these men they have been hunting
wolves in the county for fifteen years
and anybody will tell J-ou that there
are more wolves ip Latimer county
today than there has been since the
Civil war 1 propose to rid the coun-
ty of wolveit and I have the dogs to
do it- Tell them to take th4t end
smoke it in their pipe’
Mrs Ike' Baer attended the Re-
publican convention at McAlester
Wednesday'
FRANCE HONORS
LATIMER COUNTY DEAD
Ben Thomas post commander of
the John R Livingston post No 126
is in receipt of a French memorial
death certificate for the following
deceased soldiers who resided in La
timer county :
Richard Nolan John Livingston
John D Guffey Chilles Sumpter
Sterling Hunt and William McCor-
mick Beside a fitting and appropriate
illustration on the certificate there
appears the following inscription:
“To the memory of those who died
for liberty during the great war
For those who devoutly died for
their country it is right that the
people come and pray at their
tombs Homage of the Republic of
France and the president R Pon-
caire” ’
These certificates will be awarded
to the parents of the deceased heroes
LEGION TAKES JSTANV—
ON SOLDIER SUPPORT
WASHINGTON Feb 18-Land
settlement in all states for former
service men federal aid to encour-
age their purchase of either rural or
city homes vocational education and
adjustment of compensation based
on length of service were recom-
mended today by the legislature
committee of the Americah Legion
which has been in session here three
days Each veteran wilt be given an
option of the four plans
The program wilt be energeically
urged upon congress it ' was an-
nounced and "the American legion
does not hesitate to state that it
expect definite action within the
sixty days”
POSE AS LEGION MEMBERS
OKLAHOMA CITY Feb 5-A bill
making it a criminal offense for any
person to wear an American Legion
button in Oklahoma without proper
authority will probably be pre-
sented to the proposed special ses-
sion of the legislature when it is
convened the adjutant general’s of-
fice announced here today It was
stated Senator Dan J Davidson of
Tulsa had promised to draft the bill
and father Its passage
The reason for such legislation it
was announced is that it has been
found by the United States district
attorney’s office that young men
have been wearing button in Olrii-:-homa
City who have been unable te
get a tiny discharge button and they
tyave obtained legion e mblema to-
serve their purpose
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Weaver, Carlton. Latimer County News-Democrat (Wilburton, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, February 20, 1920, newspaper, February 20, 1920; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1754868/m1/1/?q=+%22Latimer%22: accessed July 11, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.