The Wagoner Tribune (Wagoner, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 8, 1927 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME VIII
WAGONER WAGONER COUNTY OKLAHOMA THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 8 1927
NUMBER 2
CITY PARK TENDER
KILLS CONSTABLE
Shooting at City Park Last Satur-
day Causes Death of A
B Lett
A1 Lett well known citizen
Wagoner died at the city hospi-
tal Sunday afternoon from the
effects of two gunshot wounds
from the hand of W M Brown
keeper at the city park
1 he shooting occurred Satur-
day morning on the roadway on
the south side of the fair grounds
The only witness to the shooting
was D W Lamb who in com-
pany with Mr' Lett had gone to
the race track to inspect it rela-
tive to getting it in shape for the
coming fair
They had ridden around the
track and had returned to the
stables when Brown the park ten-
der came up and noticed that
Lett had a revolver on his person
and according to Mr Lamb the
conversation was about in this
manner:
“What are you doing with that
gun on Al?"
Mr Lett replied that he had a
right to carry a gun that he was
an officer and had a commission
to do so This appeared to an-
ger Brown who informed Lett
that he was going to arrest him
for it and at the same time took
from his pocket a knife
To this Mr Lett replied: "You
are not going to arrest me” and
taking the revolver from its scab-
bard broke it showing that it
was not even loaded threw it to
the ground “and besides that I
am going to make you eat that
knife” and started towards
Brown but was prevented from
getting to him by Mr Lamb who
succeeded in quieting Mr Lett
and then tried to pacify Brown
by assuring him that Lett had a
right to carry a gun but if he
(Brown) was not satisfied that
Lett had a right to carry a gun he
could go to the city and if Lett
did not have a right to carry it
-'that he (Lamb) would swear to
the complaint himself and let the
law decide the matter
This seemed to assure Brown
and he walked away Meanwh'le
Mr Lett and Mr Lamb saddled
their horses and started to town
Near the entrance into the tourist
camp part of the grounds they
found Brown who twitted Mr
Lett with his threat to make
Brown eat thd knife and Lett
started to get down from
horse With that Brown began
shooting with a 45 calibre revol-
ver and fired three times one
shot striking the horse which
caused it to die and two shot
striking Mr Lett the first one en-
tering his shoulder and the sec-
ond one his abdomen
Mr Lamb hurried to town
and notified the sheriff's office
and officers Corgan and Reynolds
went immediately to the park and
picked ur Brown and placed him
in the county jail
Meanwhile word of the shoot-
ing had reached the city hall and
Cecil Beard of the fire depart-
ment and a helper immed'ately
set out for the park and brought
the wounded man to the city hos-
pital A call was sent to Dr Car-
ney at Fort Smith and with Dr
Perry an operation was perform-
ed during the afternoon Investi-
gation showed that the bowels
had been perforated in several
places and several inches of the
intestines were removed and it
was thought up to within a few
hours before the end came tha
th- patient might pull through
but death came shortly after 3
o’clock Sunday afternoon
On Monday morning a formal
complaint was issued bv the coun-
ty attorney charging Brown with
murder and the preFminary was
set for today
The shooting was one of the
most unfortunate affairs of its
kfnd that ever occurred in this
community Brown and Lett
were neighbors and each had n
family to support 1
Narrow Escape From Serious In-
jury While returning from Checotah
Labor day Mr and Mrs E H
Hatcher of Wagoner and Geo
Wandell of Porter Mr Hatcher
who was driving’ lost control of
the car in Muskogee and collided
with another car breaking a
wheel and stopping against a
post None of the occupants
were injured but it was consid-
ered a mighty lucky accident
Lower Cotton Ginning Rates Ara
Fixed by Board
Oklahoma
Gty Sept 6 — A
slight reduction in the price to be
charged for ginning cotton during
of'the neXt yCarWa8 made by the
state corporation commission to-
day when it divided the state in-
to three sections setting different
rates in each but making a state-
wide rate of $150 for bagging
and ties a reduction of 40 cents
Zone No was outlined by the
commission in the southwest side
of the state where production this
year is heavy It extends from
the Red river northward to El
Reno thence west to the Texas
line A rate of 25 cents per 100
pounds for picked cotton and
37 J2 cents for bollies and snaps
was made for this region by the
commission ' -
Section 2 extends from the Red
river along the Santa Fe tracks
northward to the Kansas line
thus taking in slightly more than
the eastern third of the state
The rate here is to be 30 cents
for lint cotton and 4212 cents
for bollies and snaps the com-
mission ruled
For the remainder of the state
including a strip through central
Oklahoma and the northwestern
part of the state the commission
made no set rate The gin oper-
ators will be allowed to fix their pays can be cared for but aI1
own prices the commissioners ( availablc 8pace will be utilize(J
said making them not less than From inforjTlation in ths har
m zone I and not more than in
zone 2 -
The rates as a whole are a re-
duction over those of 1926-27
Last year a rate of 30 cents for
lint cotton and 45 cents for bol-
lies and snaps prevailed
Baptist Revival Closes
The revival under the auspices
of the Baptist church had the last
service under the tent Sunday
night having in attendance the
largest crowd that has been as-
sembled for preaching service in
Wagoner for some time The
pastor is -well pleased with the
manner in which the church and
friends put themselves into these
services He has not enjoyed a
series of services quite so well in
a long time This is due to the
faithfulness of the members of
the congregation and the power
of God A large crowd witnessed
the baptizing Monday night
Some of the visible results are:
Received into church membership
his! by baptism 30 by letter 8 by
statement 10 other conversions
8 making a total of 54
The expense of the meeting
was well cared for The pastor
loves his church better and we
trust the general spiritual life of
the church and community has
been stsengthened
M E Ramay pastor
Home To-Night
A telegram received this morn-
ing from J A Wacker who with
Fred Kiesow attended the district
convention of the Kiwanis Club
at Corpus Christi last week says
that they will arrive home some
time to-night
Mr and Mrs Dixon Mason who
have been spending the summer at
Corpus Christi will shortly move to
Muskogee where they reside They
are expected to arrive Saturday for a
several days visit with Mrs Mason's
mother Mrs Fanny Opry
Miss Jeffie Edwards has returned to
Kansas City Kas to resume her work
in the schools of that city This is her
tenth year in the Kansas City Kas
schools
L H Million formerly proprietor
of a cafe here but now operating one
at Pierson- Okla is spending a few
days here on business matters
Miss Clarice Atterberjy of the court
clerk’s office has returned from a two
weeks vacation spent with her par-
ents at Tulsa
Misa Mary Hays leaves the first of
the week for Fayetteville where she
will attend Arkansas university
Mrs Fanny Opry has as a guest for
the week her daughter Mrs A B
Carney of Fort Smith
Mrs Wm Self of Fayetteville is
visiting her 1 parents Mr and Mr
Pierce Hays
J D Banks of Cravette Mo will
be the week-end guest of Miss Iwetn
Miller "
Mrs C D Sleeper who has been a
patient at a Muskogee hospital for
GETTING READY FOR
THE BIG FREE FAIR
Agricultural Displays Will be the
Best Ever Shown Here — A
Good Amusement Pro-
gram Also
As the time for Wagoner coun-
ty's free fair draws near the activ-
ity of those in charge of the ar-
rangements is being -speeded up
and the plans for four big days of
profitable pleasure for all who at-
tend are- fast maturing and
suming definite shape
While the fair committee is not
yet ready to announce a definite
program yet enough has been de-
cided upon that they have no hes-
itancy in saying that it will far
surpass in every detail the fair of
last year and set a pattern for the
fair committees of the future
The buildings are being repair-
ed and cleaned up and put in
shape and fences race track and
grand stand given attention One
of the problems will be to find
room for the many exhibits that
will be offered There is space
for but ten such displays and the
various districts have been noti-
fied that the first ten that make
application will be accommodat-
ed and the late comers will be de-
nied space
It is thought all individual dis-
information in ths hands
of ths lair board it is known that
the display of livestock and poul-
try will be especially large Many
of the exhibitors have been mak-
ing their preparations for months
and the best products of the farm
of Wagoner county will be here
in abundance
There will also be a baby booth
at the' fair which will be in the
boys and girls club building The
state bureau of maternity and in-
fancy has appointed Mrs Edna
Smith to have charge of the
booth See her and have your
baby registered She is a very
capable woman with a wealth of
experience at her command and
is willing to do all that she can to
aid the farm women This is very
important to every parent that
has a baby that has been born
since Jan 1 1927
In addition to the extensive dis
plays anticipated the fair board
has not neglected the amusement
end of the fair Of epurse there
will be a carnival — it would' be
hard to imagine a successful fair
without a carnival — and it will be
the best one ever seen here It
will be under the management of
George Campbell who has been
in' the arritisement usiness all his
life and he assures the board it
will be clean
There will also be a good band
in attendance all four days and
the: best free act ever put on at a
fair hire th:s feature alone cost-
ing $250
Two motorcycle race two
ho: sc races and a mule race will
be held every afternoon
Wlylo th J fairboard is primar-
ily 'n'-crefltcd at thi3 t‘me in mak-
ing the fair a success at the same
time thry are plan-vng the rein ty
exhibit to be shown at the fairs at
Tulsa and Muskogee Last year
Wagoner county got first at Mus-
kogee on its agricultural display
and this year they want to depuli-
cate that performance and also
capture first at Tulsa When the
fair here closes Saturday night
the best of the exhibits will be
taken to Tulsa and placed on dis-
play as a county exhibit and later
will be shown at the Muskogee
fair -
Everybody in Wagoner is plan-
ning to help make the fair a suc-
cess and see to it that all visitors
are made welcome and their visit
here both pleasant and profitable
First Cotton In
N C Stockton living on the
old Dr B ennett place in Choska
bottoms won the distinction of
bringing the first load of 1927
cotton to the Wagoner market It
was delivered here last Friday
and was sold to the Wagoner gin
at $750 A bonus of $20 was
given which had been raised by
personal subscriptions solicited
by a represintative of the Kiwan-
is Club
About $50 was raised the re-
mainder after the deduction for
the first bonus will go to the first
and second - loads brought in
from Wagoner's retail trade territory
CITY SCHOOLS NOW
DOWN TO REAL WORK
Large Enrollment — Classes Or-
ganized — To Organize High
School Band — Footall
Outlook Splend d
High school opened with a
rush this week In the four up-
per grades the enrollment has
reached about 235 During the
first month last year the enroll-
ment was 247 It appears the
enrollment this year will be some-
where around 260 by the close
of the first month
In the eighth grade the enroll-
ment is sixty Last year it was
50 at tbe close of the first month
It appears the enrollment this
year during the first month will
go to something like 30 over that
of the corresponding time last
year
We are told the enrollment in
the lower grades is just about the
same as that of last year
The excessive heat during this
week has made conditions rather
disagreeable for enrollment How
ever there has been a most ex-
cellent spirit prevailing among
teachers and students and work
of getting well started has moved
forward rapidly '
Because of the hot weather we
have been running on short pe-
riods this week
Classes met regularly on Tues-
day but only long enough for
teachers to make a record of the
class personnel Wednesday all
classes reported regularly for re-
citation and assignment
Football practice is beginning
to warm up in real football style
Everything seems to promise
Wagoner high the best team of
its history
Thirty men are showing up
for practice and trying to make
the team There is some likely
material in th squad and Coach
Baker should be able to find a
winning combination there The
men on the squad and their indi-
vidual weights are as follows:
Hayden-Gaylor 174 Geo God-
dard 158 Jud Posey 145 Ted
Kyle 170 J U While 155 Frog
Williams 1 40 Disney Boatright
170 Sid Orr 162 Lee Gaylor
150 Jeff Ring 173 Charles Prid-
gen 160 Fred Orr 145 Clifford
Stark 145 Alec Stark 140 Wal-
lace Smith 1 58 Roy Waldon
145 Ed Hudlin 138 Joe Young
1 60 Hump Olmstead I 7 8 Chig
C'lmstead 135 Jack Cooper 138
Glen Page' 160 Henry Tally 145
George Platt 155 Roy Brown
140 Fenton Lamb 135 Bill Bry-
ant 155 Willard Goddard 148
Hudlin 135 Bill Thomson 145
The schedule is now full and it
is a real schedule The schedul- edly make a splendid officer He
ing of the game with Vinita here j is an over-seas -'veteran' of"- the
for Sept 30 filled the list for the world war and is well versed in
season Coach Baker is feeling military affairs and will soon put
enthusiastic over the material Company A back to its former
he has reporting and we feel that j splendid standing
the coach is going to get results
of which we shall all be proud
The shedule is as follows:
A number of persons are be-
ginning to get interested in the
possibilities of having a high
school band Mr Lane has got
ten in touch with a man in Mus-
kogee who is thoroughly compe-
tent to develop a band His
charges are reasonable and there
ought to be a considerable num-
ber of gerson3 interested in learn-
ing to play and instruments as
they would be taught in this or-
ganization No previous experi-
ence will be necessary The
training will be done by the in-
structor as he meets with the
group He promises to have a
group Which be the middle of the
second semester can put on a
concert which will be a credit to
any town The personnel of the
band would not be limited to the
high school but would include
any persons in the lower grades
who are interested The chances
are there would be a considerable
number If you are interested in
a band start talking it up
Miss Crystal Gibson left the first of
the week for Moore Okla where she
will be employed as teacher in the
schools
Society' ty Superin-
The past week was spent in
visiting summer schools and hold
ing teachers' conferences
On Thursday we held a very
interesting conference in Coweta
for the teachers on the west side
of the county and on Friday we
held a similar conference in Wag-
oner for the teachers on the east
side of the county - Both meet-
ings were well attended with en-
thusiastic teachers
Friday we enjoyed a talk by
Mr Emerson from the Northeast-
ern college in regard to an exten-
sion class that is to be organized
this winter in Wagoner I am
sure that all the teachers derived
a great deal from the meetings
and I am mighty glad to see such
a fine energetic group of young
men and women employed for
the coming year
The accredited rural school is
being given much attention this
year and I am anxious that a num
ber of mine will reach the stand-
ard set for an accredited school
Any teacher interested in making
her school accredited will meet
in my office Saturday Sept 1 7
at 1 0 o'clock A representative
from the college at Tahlsquah
will be with us and instruct us
along the lines of ’ making our
schools accredited
1 have enjoyed visiting the
schools that are in session and am
looking forward to a bigger and
better year educationally for
our county A few of the schools
need attention and I am anxious
for the teachers and boards to
follow the instructions given by
Dr Joblin our county health su-
perintendent who is inspecting
the schools He has reported a
number of deplorable conditoins
to me and it is necessary that the
schools be cleaned up in order to
comply with the law
The pupils report cards have
arrived and we will be glad to
commission from a list of ten
mail them to the teachers if they names recently submitted to him
will drop us a card stating the j by the Legion executives commit-
number they need We also have I tee it was learned from an au-
new courses of study to be given thoritive source Governor John-
to the teachers If you need one
write and tell us and we will be
glad to mail it out to you
Mrs Jennie Higgins
County Superintendent
At a meeting here Wednesday
of citizens interested in retaining
the Oklahoma national guard and
Col Head G L Putsche was se-
lected for the captaincy who will
name his own corps of secondary
officers
Captain Put3che will undoubt-
Temple Band Coming
The Bedouin Temple band
drum corps patrol an dchanters
from Beduoin temple Muskogee
will visit Wagoner on the evening
of September 20 and give a free
concert on the vacant lot oppo-
site th First Presbyterian church
The event promises to be a very
pleasant agair
Second Load Marketed’
Sam Nathan negro a tenant of
the Blackladge farm near Porter
Thursday morning brought in the
second load of cotton this year
His load was very small but the
quality was good
' Rummage Sale
The missionary society of the
Presbyterian church will -hold a
two days rummage sale begin-
ning Friday Sept 9 rThe sale
will be conducted frdm a vacant
store on South Main street
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Boy L Mode 23 and Clara Cullen
20 both of Muskogee
DeWitt Howdeeshell 29 of Musko-
gee and Stella Carter 20 of Porter
D C Lenley 47 and Nora Free-
man 46 both of Wagoner
Albert C Husa 29 and Georgia E
Schred 26 both of Muskogee
James Robertson 38 and Velma
Williams 25 both of Little Rock
Ark
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Miss Mary' Rinehart will leave Mon-
day for St Charles Mo where she
will enroll si a student at Lindenwood
college Mrs Rinehart will accompany
her and spend a few days in St Louis
IMPORTANT NEWS ITEMS -
FROM THE DISPATCHES
Front Page Stories Boiled Down
For the Convenience of the
Busy Reader-
D C Stephenson former klan (!
leader appealed to the United
States court at Indianapolis in an f
effort to obtain freedom from the )
Indiana state prison at Michigan i
City where he is serving a life
term for murder of an lnd:anapo- !
lis girl The famous prisoner :
through Attorney William V !
Rooker of Indianapolis’ asked
Thomas Slick to grant a writ of '
habeas corpus on the ground that
he is held in violation of his rights
under article four of the fourteen-
th amendment to the federal con- '
stitution Attorney Rooker con-
tended that Stephenson is con-
fined illegally in that he was con-
victed by the “filing of an anony-v
mous paper brought by an un- -known
messenger and deposited
with the Hamilton circuit court”
at Noblesville
With flags of allied nations fly-
ing from her masts and vessels in
port blowing their whistles in fare
well the French liner Chicago
steamed out of port at Galveston
Friday afternoon with 420 Amer-
ican Legion members bound for
Paris and the Legion convention
Aboard the vessel were Legion
members from Texas Arizona
Oklahoma and Louisiana includ-
ing Walton D Hood Texas com-
mander and officials of the Le-
gion from southwestern states
The Chicago will dock at Havre
France and delegates aboard will
proceed to Paris to join other
Texans who left earlier in the
summer
Morton R Harrison of Clare-
more vice chairman of the sold-
iers’ relief commission will be re-
tained when Governor Johnston
selects the three members of the
ston has made public the list of
10 names submitted to him from
which he is to select ths members
Names of five democrats and five
republicans were placed in his
hands recently The names of the
democrats follow: Harrison W
L Eagleton of Tulsa lames
Hatcher of Chickasha Robert
Kerr of Ada John H Halley of
Oklahoma City Republicans: H
P Lorenz of Enid Ben Cook of
Ponca City Bruce Potter of Black
well Floyd C Dooley of Okemah
and Preston L Nichols of Okmul-
gee Senator Borah Idaho senator
and a receptive candidate for the
republican party nomination for
the presidency for 1928 says
that unless the coming congress
settles the farm relief question it
will be the leading issue in the
next campaign “Unless it is
settled" says the senator “it
will dominate the campaign and
any man regardless of party will
carry the country west of Chicago
who presents a logical proposal"
One man was killed and eight
others were badly injured in a
crash of two auto trucks on the
state highway between Oilton and
Drumright last Saturday
Wayne B Wheeler general
counsel for the Anti-Saloon Lea-
gue of America died at a hospital
at Battle Creek Mich Monday
from kidney ailment Wheeler’s
wife was burned to death at their
lake camp some weeks ago near
that point '
At last it is thought that work
on the state highway between
Guthrie and Perry will start at
once the last court obstacle hav-
ing been removed last Saturday
Funds have been ready for th’3
project for nearly a year
State oil land fund was increas-
ed by more than $200000 last
Saturday when that amount wan
paid into the state treasury Thi-i
money goes into the permanent
loan fund and for the aid of the '
rural schools This addition
brings the a amount of available
cash for loan purposes up to $1-
27355499
Bailey Browder a drug clerk
at the little town of Asher’- was
shot by bank bandits in an at-
tempt to prevent the escape of
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