The Adair Gleaner (Stilwell, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, April 27, 1923 Page: 3 of 6
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The American Legion will soon
open a contest to determine who
shall receive a new Ford Tour-
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ing car with starter all complete
Watch for
This space
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Employs nothingbut the best mechanics Uses
nothing but the best material obtainable All ma-
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JOE WOODOFF Proprietor
Think of Your
WIT in shape to protect this year's'
H f crop? Have you room to store
AAUUwve your Wheat and Oats?
These are matteis the farmer must look after
and keep up and we are in position to help
you-
' Everything you may need for repair work or
new buildings is always in our yard and can
be had RIGHT NOWJ
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Lumber Co
Mothers Know That
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Signature
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-Does it need
repairing?
Is your Bam
The postoffice at Delphlne Stepb-
eno county has been discontinued
Mall will be i sent to Duncan
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Nine new bridges to cost a total of
$63500 will be built on the Oklahoma
county road system during the next
few months
Mystery surrounds the death of Wal-
ter Crawford 45 years old Holiness
preacher of Kiefer who was blown
to atoms by nitroglycerin near here
recently
Strawberry and grape raising will
be done on a large scale in LeFlore
county thfs year If plans of the Le-
Flore County Marketing association
just organized are successful
Trucks will soon be maunfactured
again by the OK Truck company of
Okay Wagoner county according to
the management the sale of the com-
pany having been approved by the
court
Work on rebuilding the 100-foot
Rock Island railroad bridge over Sugar
Loaf creek near Monroe LeFlore
county which was destroyed by fire
recently Is being rushed railroad offi-
cials report
Another step toward the realization
of Muskogee county’s dream for a new
court house was taken when county
commissioners voted to order an elec-
tion to vote on a $350000 bond issue
for the project
1 Six inmates of death row at Me-
Alester rejoiced when the news was
given them that Governor Walton has
announced that he will not permit ex-
ecution of the death penalty during
his administration
Little damage was done In Ottawa
county by the recent hard freeze ex-
cept to apricots pears and plums ac-
cording to James Lawrence county
agent The peach buds were not open
far enough to be damaged i
The new state law Increasing the
daily pay of jurors from $2 to $3 will
hit Carter county finances hard and
will cost the county approximately
$3500 a year according to - figures
compiled by the district court clerk
Federal funds amounting to $£345-
82049 are available for road construc-
tion In Oklahoma according to the
latest figures from the federal bureau
of public roads which has charge of
the federal government's participation
In road construction
Distribution of Barnett’s fortune un-
der a trust whereby his white wife and
Bacone Indian college divide $1100000
is to be tested for Its legality In the
courts at Washington D C Harold
McGulgan of Coffeyville Kan person-
al attorney for Mrs Barnett announ-
ced Lot sales for Bowring the new
townsite on the Santa Fe branch
from Caney Kan to PawhUBka will
take place April 19 20 and 21 It has
been announced Arrangements al-
ready have been made for the con-
struction of a modern consolidated
school to be ready In September
With the killing of an unidentified
bank bandit and the capture of an-
other Harry Roher of Oilton and the
capture of the remaining pair of rob-
bers who secured $600 In a spectacular
holdup of the Mannford State Bauh
Is expecetd the famous A1 Spencer
bandit gang is facing extermination
Construction of the transmission
line of the Oklahoma Light and Pow-
er company to Pauls Valley from its
plant at Byng will begin In a few
days A right-of-way has been obtain-
ed and the material Is on the ground
Stratford Pauls Valley and eventually
Wynnewood will get electricity over
this line
Oklahoma City’s population bas
passed the 110000 mark according to
estimates made based upon 1923
school enumerations in Oklahoma
county Tulsa on the same basis has
made some gains In population Mus-
kogee a Blight gain and other leading
Oklahoma cities gains ranging from a
fraction of 1 percent to 10 percent
Oklahoma may yet have a represent-
ative on the boundary question If plans
of the attorney general and the com-
merce of the land -offices are carried
out That is possible in spite of the
fact that the United States supreme
court appointed commissioners to rep-
resent the government and the state
of Texas did not appoint one tor Okla-
homa Wild ducks by the hundreds have
been alighting and feeding on north-
ern Oklahoma wheat fields the past
week They remain on the ground
but a short time gathering a mouth-
ful of tfie green plants Then they
soar again returning later to tbe
ground for another feed On the big
wheat pastures of the 101 ranch sev-'
eral different flocks of ducks were
seen about a quarter of a mile from
tbe main highway '
Four spans of the new steel and rein-
forced concrete bridge across the Ci-
marron river near Kingfisher on the
Meridian highway are nearing com-
pletion The spans are 316 feet long
each and cover four-sevenths of the
distance across the river To com-
plete the bridge three additional spans
wijl be required These will he in-
stalled soon after the appropriation is
made for the coming fiscal year To
make the bridge crossable until the
additional steel Is put In a temporary
wooden structure is being erected and
trill be completed soon "
Two of the highest honors awarded
field artillery of the United States
have been won by members of th6
First Field artillery stationed at Fort
Sill -
More than 750 perstfns were report-
ed converted in the six weeks’ union
revival meeting which closed at Dun-
can recently Rev James Rayburn
was evangelist
John R Bradley of Alderson Pitts-
burg county Oklahoma who has been
United States ' consul at Cardiff
Wales has been assigned to Porto
Alegre Brazil as consul
Duncan is making extensive prepar-
ations for the entertainment of the
thirty-second annual convention of the
Oklahoma Press association which
convenes here May 11 and 12
Involving $1200000 the suit to set-
tle the heirship to the estate of Lucy
Beaver who died at Vinlta' In May
1922 will be heard in county court
April 30 It has just teen announced
i
Application of R M Games of Paw-
huska to organize the Amerclan Na-
tional Bank of Wagoner has been ap-
proved by the comptroller of the cur-
rency It was learned The bank will
have a capital of $50000 -
Lieut Lawrence JT post Fort Sill
Okla wlas slightly Injured and his
airplane was almost totally demolish-
ed when the landing gear gave way
when he landed with £ companion at
the capitol aviation field
To save the life of a-little girl who
ran suddenly from between two
parked automobiles just ’as the fire
truck was making a run George K’
Brown fire chief of Ponca City swerv-
ed the truck Into a row of parked
cars along the curb
-The April cream grading campaign
launched under the auspices of the
State Boarij of Agriculture assisted
by expert in dairy products from the
A & M College and some of the lead-
ing creameries of the middle west
will cover the entire state
Six student nurses at the University
hospital will receive their degrees as
graduate nurses from the University
of Oklahoma with the remainder ol
the graduating class at the univer-
sity In June according to Paul Fes-
ler superintendent of the hospital
Leonard Butcher 8 years old Is
dead at St Johns hospital Ft Smith
because he tried heroically but vainly
to save his little brqther Orville 6
years old from death under the
wheels of a Missouri Pacific freight
train 'hear Muldrow Okla recently
The sweet potato weevil Is absent
in the sweet potato growing sections
of the state according to official re-
ports of the State Board of Agricul-
ture It was discovered however in
an inspection of on-e hundred and eighty-four
seed beds that stem rot was in
evidence
Delegations from nearly every part
of southeastern Oklahoma have been
invited to attend the dedication of the
new Webbers ’ Falls bridge ' June 1
near Muskog-ee Work on the bridge
is nearing completion and the struc-
ture will be ready for use by the time
for the dedication
Russel G L6we was appointed as a
member of the state bar commission
by the supreme court He succeeds
Tom G Chambers sr who resigned
from the bar commission to accept a
position on the newly created supreme
court commission to which he was
appointed by Governor Walton
Three women received appoint-
ments as postmasters of fourth class
Oklahoma offices recently They are
Winnla Wood at Jumbo Mrs Jewell
Sells at Parker and Nannie J Hutch-
ins at Troy Rot Patton was named
acting postmaster at Ames a presiden-
tial postoffice and Benjamin T Davis
was named postmaster at Fox a
fourth class office
After two hours’ bombardment by
a yearling bull calf on the Big V
ranch southwest of Ponca City a new 1
automobile was converted almost into
a complete wreck The -car is thq E
property of -“Big Bill” Edwards foi I
pier Tulsa university football star and ’
son-in-law of W H Vanselous owner
of tbe ranch Edwards drove the car
Into the rang8 pasture and left it
while he was attending to some work
v I
With claims for $400000 finally hav-
ing been approved bv the state board
of education $250000 of the emer-
gency appropriation that was set
aside by the legislature for the relief
of weak schools remains to be divided
between the needy institutions ac-
cording to- figures complied by assist-
ant state superintendent of pub'ic in
struction Schools whose claims v t-
provided for by the $400000 may el-
tain their money as soon as voud' i
can be issued by the state auditen
- Charged with violating orders of tli-j
commi j'-lon regulating the distributin'' i
of oil and gasoline against the More '
Gasoline company of Muskogee aul
the Oklahoma Tire & Rubber company
of Okmulgee were filed with the cor
fcoration commission
Sixty-five calls for college graduates
to fill teaching positions over the state
ere received in one day’s mail by
the school of education at - the Un-
iversity of Oklahoma from h'ghschoo'
ond other Institutions recently k
cording to C E Benson anting dc:
of the school
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It pays to buy the “All Leather line”
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ope pair and be convinced' Once a
customer always a customer
Anything You Need in the
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We will be pleased to have” you come in
any time and' examine our Stock
©arson Mercantile Co
The Greatest Walking
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No other walking cultivator that we know anything
about has the distinctive and important ad vantages found in
using the John Deere It is much easier to operate does better
work and is built to give you extra years of satisfactory service
JOHN DEERE WALKING CULTIVATORS
The rigs on the DF and DQ cul-
- tivators swing level in all positions
and at alt depths This makes it
easy to swing the gangs and insures
uniform cultivation which is most
important
And you can adjust the depth of
cultivator accurately by means of a
tail bolt — it takes only an instant
to do it I
When lulling or laying by a crop
the tendency of the rigs to swing to
or from the row is entirely over-
come by simply changing the loca-
Be sure to see this Cultivator
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We have Shoes to
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fit the whole family
Bring them in and
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tion of the lifting spring In the yoke!
This is a feature that you will appre-
ciate hiehly
The racial lifting springs make
handling of the rigs easy When
down to working position the rigs
arc not influenced by tbe lifting
spring but when rigs are lifted tho
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easy j
Another point— you can adjust 1
the spacing to meet fill widths of J
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Atchley, J. S. The Adair Gleaner (Stilwell, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, April 27, 1923, newspaper, April 27, 1923; Stilwell, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1762684/m1/3/?q=del+city: accessed July 11, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.