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Herald
Semi-
Weekly PUBLISHED TUESDAT AFTERNOON AND FRIDAY AFTERNOON — COVERS OKFUSKEE COUNTY LIKE SUNSHINE
"All the ways of a man are clean in his
own eyes but the Lord weigheth the
spirits" It
4-H County Fail to Be Held in
Okemah September 18-21 It’s
County-wide Plan Now to Attend
THE PEOPLE’S PAPER
VOLUME I
OKEMAH OKFUSKEE COUNTY OKLAHOMA TUESDAY AUGUST 15 1933
NUMBER 20
Okemah
LAKE GAN
BE BUILT
OKFUSKEE COUNTY’S OPPOR-
TUNITY IS AT HAND— WHAT
WILL BE DONE WITH ITT
QUICK ACTION NEEDED
All Over the State Plans for
Building Lakes and Flood Con-
trol Are Being Worked Out
Public sentiment in Okfuskee
county is strongly in favor of
building a lake and flood control
project on Buckeye creek
When built this dam would be
the means of saving thousands of
dollars each year to the farmers
along the stream below the pro-
posed dam site by stopping the al-
most annual overflows that wash
awav and damage growing cros
Whether or not this dam is
built is a matter for the people of
the county to decide One thing
is sure and that is f we pass
up the present opportunity we
will help someone else to build a
dam to impound surface water
and help them pay for it
Condiitons are such at the
present time that federal mcney
can be secured if a proper show-
ing is made for the building of
this flood control project which
will take care of unemployment
in Okfuskee county for at least a
year and the work completed
without any extra cost to the tax-
payers The Herald is in earnest about
tis matter because it believes the
work is needed not alone for la-
bor but for the protection of the
farmers of that end of the coun-
ty besides it would afford a
pleasure spot for the populace
which now is forced to go miles
in order to obtain a place to fish
swim or boatride and these sports-
men will afrord an income suffi-
cient to care for the keeping of
the lake without further expense
By all means let us forget sel-
fish motives and get this flood
control work to a running start
Below are the names of a few
people that are favorable to build-
ing the dam for flood control pn
Buckeye about 6 miles from
town:
Joe Miller W C McIntosh
Roy Parham C 0 Derrick C F
Cheatwood C H Challacombe
H C Chalacombe Wes Kennedy
Luke Musgrove Ed Nichols D
S Campbell Otis Cargile C H
Witham Justice Gaston Chas
Diehl T L Bingham J3 I Hen-
drix J S Meador J T Johnson
"J D Dawkins Bob Smith A F
Nolen A Dunham H A Love-
lady A B S Bontty J Walter
Long A B Webb Fred Hollings-
worth Dr F H Hollingsworth
F W Eakens Dr J L Moyse
Mrs J A Kirchner N H Har-
key Harrison Box T H Wren
Dr D S Henry A A Hill S C
Barron R C Taylor M J Guest
Henry Aberson W A Morgan
R B Hodges Bennie Hill John
iFoglesong R F Grissom E G
George C C Walker A R Cox
Roger Standley Earl Lowrimore
Claude Porter C L Overall
Mayor Luther Roberts H F Wea-
Ver Carl Meaders Dr H K Max-
well W A Ratterree M L Frerich
J A Thompson H M Barnett
J B Boykin W A Wilson L E
Wilson C G Cavender Chas
Hatley John Pare C A Hope J
W Krumme president of Farmers
Union Sterling Camp president
farmers Holiday association
JJroadway Domino
Parlor Closed
A temporary injunction was is-
sued Thursday in which County
Attorney Nash asked for the clos-
ing of the Broadway Domino Par-
lor operated by Orval and Pierce
Morgan with Vernon Pierce as
an employee
The injunction was granted on
showing by the state that ' gamb-
ling and drinking was permitted
ill the building The -losing of the
place is a climax to a series of
complaints lodged against it
Cuba-Win Two Short Games
The Cubs played a three-inning
game with Mason Friday the
score 9 tp 0 The same afternoon
the Cubs crossed bats with Bear-
den for six innnigs winning 8 to
3 Swizer pitched the full nine
innings for the Cubs
SAYS FARMERS ARE
BACKING THE HERALD
James F Ault of the Buckeye
country was in the Herald office
Saturday and told us the farmers
in that section were enthusiastic
about the Buckeye lake proposi-
tion We were mighty glad to have
Mr Ault tell us this as it hear-
tens us to keep up the publicity
until the people of Okfuskee coun-
ty get behind the building of this
lake and flood control project and
make it a reality
Mr Ault says there is enough
timber on the land to supply the
needs of the people of the county
for a year and the project would
take care of unemployment for a
like period besides saving for
production many acres of valuable
land that now is subject to over-
flow Such a lake as is proposed
would be elf supporting from the
beginning in Mr Ault’s opinion
Okemah’s Line-up
For Tournament
Following is the line-up for
Okemah in the baseball tourna-
ment being sponsored by the
Chamber of Commerce:
F Watts Bob MicMahan Jim
Morris John Armstrong Mart
Henderson Russell Lipe Whitey
Archer Wilson Payne Leon Bel-
cher Andy Swayze Snip Martin
G W Hamby Jack Dixon Wal-
lace Holman and Ben Childers
Sunday Okemah played Wood-
ardville and the score was 8 to 4
in favor of Okemah who made 12
hits and 7 errors to Woodard-
ville’s 3 hits and 2 errors Mor-
ris pitcher for Okemah struck
out eight men and Baker for
Woodardville fanned seven
Armstrong Lipe and Belcher
each made a 2-basehit Gregg of
Woodardville stole two bases and
Tryola was credited with one sto-
len base
The game was played in two
hours on the Dill diamond
Tomorrow’ Game
Wednesday Toonerville will
meet the Lone Star Braves on the
Dill diamond at two o’clock and
the second game will be between
Haydonville and Paden at four
o’clock
These two games should be well
attended as all the teams have
reputations as being good ball
players
Maanger John Paul is anxious
that all former players whether
their names appear on the list of
tournament players or not show
up for ' practice this evening
Thursday and Friday at 5 o’clock
Some good players were left out
of the tournament games because
they were too light or did not
have enough expei ience and Mr
Paul is anxious that all show up
for practice just the same as be-
fore the tournament assignments
Bob McMahan is credited with
making a 3-base hit scoring two
runs in the last half of the 8th in-
ning Okemah Man Dies
After Short Illness
Death followed a short illness
for Charles A Gibson Sunday
when he passed away at his home
at 601 North Ninth street Ty-
phoid fever was assigned as the
cause of death
Gibson was born in Texas in
1905 and has made his home in
Okemah for the past eight years
and for the last five years has
been employed at the Banner
Laundry
He is survived by-his wife Mrs
Lucille Gibson and two daugh-
ters Helen Lucille and Janice and
one son Bobbie'
F'uneral services were held
Monday at the Highland cemetery
at 4:00 p m with the Rev W
0 Moore of the Pentecostal Holi-
ness church officiating Burial
was in Highland cemetery
PENNEY RAISES WAGES
ABOVE N R A MINIMUM
C A Hope man: ger of the Pen-
ney Company told the Herald man
this morning that his company
had raised the wages of all em-
ployes with a year or more ser-
vice 5 to 7 per cent above the N
R A minimum and this raise does
not include the bonus plan in op-
eration Mr Hope also stated that 4 new
salespeople have been added ma-
king a total of 15 regular or part
time employes at the present
Mlanager Hope was optimistic as
to business in the near future
“fact is” he said “business is
better now”
With the pretty Morelia Oldham twenty-year-old blond beauty of Charlevoix presiding as queen assisted
by her court of honor the national cherry festival was celebrated by natives of the northern Michigan fruit
belt This year's crops of cherries were the largest raised tn many years and thousands of visitors front
till over the country were on hand to Join the festivities The photograph shows Senator Arthur Vandenberg ol
Michigan crowning Queen Morelia as Gov William A Comstock and the maids of honor look on
W N McCULLEY
PRAISES THE HERALD
Is Heartily In Favor of Okemah
Building A Lake on Buckeye
District Ranger W N McCulley
paid the Herald office a very
pleasant 'visit last Saturday and
had us add his name to our fast-
growing list of readers
Mr McCulley said he had been
reading the Herald once-in-a-while
and wanted to compliment
us on the bright newsy paper we
were issuing He especially said
he liked the stand we were taking
on the lake project and that he
didn’t see why Okemahans did not
get busy and back us up on this
matter
He spoke of the various laks
around us and especially called
attention to cur nelghb ring
town of Wetumka Mr McCulley
says that this lake cast only about
$65000 and hat thz revenue thev
are obtaining fom fishing per-
mits and the revenue they will ob-
tain from hunting permits when
the duck season opens up will
more than maintain tho lake
Besides the revenues cning in
think what such a resort means to
the citizenship of that community
in the way of pleasure recreation
etc
Mr McCulley says the state is
going to turn him a large number
of prairie chicken and quail this
fall to run loose in this section if
the people here will cooperate
vvith him in helping to take care
of and protect them The birds
are being trapped now by -the
state for that purpose
COURT OF INQUIRY
BEFORE JUDGE COCHRAN
A court of inquiry was held be-
before Judge Cochran Monday
to investigate alleged liquor and
gambling violations in Okfuskee
county
Evidence was heard and will be
used at the proper time by County
Attorney Nash in ridding the
county of these vices
“A Citizen” Expresses Himself About
“Big” Water Control Project
I have been watching with in-
terest the many “big” water con-
trol projects proposed in various
sections of the nation In each
instance I note that the idea is
to plan the largest project pos-
sible The purpose seems to be
to secure to themselves the larg-
est expenditure that reason will
permit I have this to suggeat:
From many years of study of
some of our largest water courses
I have learned that there are only
two ways to control flood-tides
viz: Spreading or impounding the
wter The latter is the more
practical and effective to my way
of reasoning Instead of these
mammoth projects of the large
water courses of our nation I sub-
mit that the logical effective
economical and permanent way to
control our water courses is to
begin impounding the head wa-
ters of tributaries of our larger
streams the most formidable
first then the lesser ones in turn
All County Road
Ileeting Thursday
EACH TOWN AND TOWNSHIP
IN COUNTY TO HAVE
DELEGATE HERE
$125000 TO BE SPENT
Meet In Attorney Phillips’ Office
Thursday Night To Organize
Permanent Committee -
A meeting was held last night
in the' ofices of Attorney L C
Phillips and road matters affect
ing Okfuskee county were taken
ap for discussion
Representatives from the va-
rious towns of the county were
there and it was decided to hold
i county-wide meeting at the
same place Thursday night of this
week for permanent organization
The mayor of each of the towns
f the county and cne man from
each of the 11 townships will
form a committee to arrange for
meeting which will select a
le'egate to represent the town or
township at the meeting to be
held at Mr Phillip’s cfiice Thurs-
day night when a permanent or-
ganzation will take road matters
in hand
By government appropriation
Oklahoma is allotted over $9-
030030 for roads within the state
and this vast sum will be appor-
tioned to the various counties
Okfuskee county’s share will
amount to about $125000 and it
is up to this county-wide commit-
tee to work out and submit de-
tails for a road program to be
carried to a successful ' teimina-
tion Miss Grace Ratterree had as
her guest Sunday Clair Cedar-
burg of Shawnee
until all of the tributaries of each
of the larger streams have been
impounded When this has been
dona the water courses will be ta-
ken care of If in any instance
the impounding of tributaries do
not prove sufficient control it
would be no great task or outlay
of funds to do the impounding
needed Also there would be no
flood-tides from tributaries while
the work was being done elimi-
nating delays and possible loss of
time and property
By this procedure of flood con-
trol there will be established small
units throughout the nation the
set-up of each being practically
the same which could be rapidly
put into operation Such projects
would be at or near the homes of
the employed without the incur-
ring the expense of leaving their
homes and maintaining them-
selves on these mammoth central-
ized projects that are being urged
and contended for by our large
centers of population As I un-
OPEN SEASON ON
PRAIRIE CHICKENS
Begins October 2 Doves Septem-
ber 1 Ducks October 16
Here you are Mr Sportsman
Get down and clean and oil up
that old shotgun and get ready
to have a good time burning up
powder and throwing lead but be
sure that you always have your
hunting license with you They
are as necessary as your powder
and shot pouch if you want to get
along peaceably with the rangers
The state fish and game de-
partment will have open season
on prairie chickens beginning Oc-
tober 2
The dove season opens Septem-
ber 1 and duck season October
16
Mr McCulley district ranger
says that it is very probable that
sportsmen may have a chance to
hunt deer this season as the de-
partment has notified him that it
is likely that they will have an
open season on them The deer
have been protected in this state
since 1921
LOTS OF PEOPLE
AT LAST CHANCE
Rev G W Ray tells the Herald
that th" Baptist meeting now in
progress at Last Chance is at-
tracting great crowds and the in-
terest is growing with each meet-
ing On Sunday morning there were
four confessions with many addi-
tions to date
Brother Ray estimates the Sun-
day night crowd at around 1500
people The meetings will con-
tinue Visit Hot Springs Arkansas
Mr find Mrs Joe Mooney of
Sasakwa left Friday for Hot
Springs Arkansas where they
will spend a week or ten days
Mrs Mooney took her sister
Mary Lena with her Mrs Moo-
ney is the daughter of Mr and
Mrs Clyde Lovelady of Okfuskee
derstand the purposes of the Act
it is to distribute employment as
widely as possible throughout the
nation and to as many unemploy-
ed as possible The plan I have
been observing and which is so
strongly urged defeats the pur-
pose the Administration had in
m'nd as I see it
Leave the impounding of the
water courses to be projected
when the low ebb c in e? in the
commercial world to take care of
the unemployed thereby keeping
an even employment of the people
and their purchasing power
This is no time nor occasion for
centralization of funds being ex-
pended by the gvernment for em-
ployment J The widest distribu-
tion to the greatest number pos-
sible should be the a'm and ob-
ject of every one who is trying to
help Centralization has been the
main factor in bringing upon us
this distressing commercial con-
dition in which we now are
A CITIZEN
LONE STAR SCHOOL'
HAS A BIG DAY
Patrons of Lone Star School
District No 30 had a big day
Friday They gathered for the
purpose of cleaning up and beau-
tifying the school grounds and
enjoying themselves generally
A barbecued dinner was served
oa the grounds and from reports
was enjoyed by all
In the afternoon games and
other sports were indulged in and
of special mention was the ball
game played between the fat and
the lean women We are not in-
formed which side won the game
Ledger Bryan is principal of
the school which rates as one of
the county’s best
Mrs Viola Griffith county su-
perintendent expressed her re-
grets at not being able to play
ball on the fat women’s side
Maybe the score would have been
different who knows?
Sued For $100000
Breach Of Promise
Peter Micco rich Indian living
near Boley has been sued for
breach of promise
Ella May Frank a resident of
Seminole county in her petition
fled yesterday claims that she
and Micco entered into a verbal
contract of mairiage on the 14th
day of last January and that the
nuptial ceremony was to be per-
formed in McAIester and again
on the 15th of February this
yearr they were to meet in Fort
Worth Texas where they were to
be married but for soma reason
not divulged by the petition the
ceremony was not performed
making them man and wife
The petition relates that on the
15th of March 1933 Micco re-
pudiated his former contracts and
married Fannie Lasley much to
the chagrin of the plaintiff who
asks for $100000 damages and all
costs to be assessed against the
defendant Micco
Gas Tax Check
For July Here
County Treasurer Thurman re-
ceived this morning a check for
$249613 from the State Tax Com-
mission being Okfuskee county’s
share of the gasoline tax for July
This money goes into the county
highway fund
A check for $173 was also in
Mr Thurman’s mail and repre-
sents the motor vehicle license tax
due this county for July Oke-
mah and the other towns of the
county share in 15 per cent of
this amount and the balance goes
into the emergency relief fund
REGISTRATION DAY
AT JUNIOR COLLEGE
City Superintendent W P Hop-
per calls attention again to all
students who are interested in en-
rolling in the Okemah Junior Col-
lege that registration day will be
on Monday August 21 at the high
school building from 9 to 4
The guaranty fund has been sub--scribed
and there is no further
doubt about there being a Junior
College in the Okemah school sys-
tem The committee handling the en-
rollment has been working with
much success and the College will
open with near 50 students
All interested persons should
get in touch with Mr Hopper for
any desired information without
delay
BOLEY BANK PAYS
THIRD DIVIDEND
The leceiver of the Farmers &
Merchants bank of Boley has
been authorized by State Bank
Commissioner Barnett to pay a
dividend of 10 per cent to deposit-
ors Something over $18000 will
be paid out on this dividend
This is the third payment made
so far and a total of 55 per cent
has been returned to depositors
including the 10 per cent now be-
ing disbursed
We understand a movement is
on foot to organize a new bank
at Boley
WE GET THE FISH
C H Challacombe C C Counts
and E E Parsons were fishing at
the Wetumka lake last Saturday
They caught about 18 pounds of
bass and crappie
The senior editor was remem-
bered by Mr Challacombe with a
nice lot of his catch and dined
sumptuously on bass Monday din-
ner Thanks if there is anything we
enjoy more than fish — it would be
more fish
4-H FAIR IN
SEPTEMBER
— -
TO BE HELD FROM 18 TO 21—
MANY EXHIBITORS AND EX-
HIBITS FROM COUNTY !
FREE TRIP STATE FAIR
Boy Making Largest and Best
Showing Will Get Full Week
At Oklahoma City Fair
Okfuskee county is going to
have a fair srd you may depend
on it
September 18-21 is the time
So make your plans to attend'
and bring in a full set of exhibits
Attractive cash prizes and nice
gold lettered ribbons will be
awarded the winners
A special award will be gi 'en
the boy who makes the largest
and best individual exhibit Th'j
boy will also reecive a free trir
to the State Fair "at Oklahoma
City September 20 to 30 which is
the week following our Okfuskee
County fair
We plan to have instruction in
judging on the last two days of
our county fair and hold judging
contests after the instruction The
boys who win in these judging
contests will be given fee trips
to the State Fair We are allow-
ed to take te boys with lodging
and meals free for a whole week
at Oklahoma City so get busy
and bring in your best exhibits
and take part in the judging con-
tests The best exhibits from our fair
are to be taken to the State Fair
to compete with other counties in
the state for first honors An en-
try and prize list will be issued
about September 1st Watch the
papers for news and we will also
try to mail each club member the
list Let’s show the citizens of
Okfuskee county what a fine fair
we can have The Okfuskee coun-
ty Board of Commissioners have
agreed to finance this 4-H fair
and let’s show them what we can
do
Contests of various kinds will
be held in connection with the
fair and on or about September
1st a full announcement of events
and prizes will be distributed Get
your pigs calves young poultry
corn cotton grain sorghums leg-
umes and vegetables nuts and
fruits located and keep them in
good shape for winning the firat
prizes
W B Gernert expects every
boy in 4-H club work in the county
to exhibit one or moie displays at
this 4-H fair which we are expected
to make successful and fully
worth while Can I count on
YOU?
W B GERNERT LEAVES
SATURDAY ON TRIP
W B Gernert and family left
Saturday noon on an extended
trip that will take them to Mis-
souri Illinois Ohio Pennsylvania
and-Washington D C
Mr Gernert is combining busi-
ness with pleasure on this trip
They expect to visit with rela-
tives and friends and then go to
Washingon where Mr Gernert
will spend some time with the va-
rious governmental departments
that have to do with his work as
county agent
Charged With Abandonment
Aubrey Munds is charged by
his wife Altha with abandon-
ment in a warrant sworn to before
Justice Gaston on August 11
Munds was arraigned and plead
not guilty and his preliminary is
set for August 21 He gave bond
for $1000 for appearance on that
date
JUDGE J L NORMAN AND
GRANDSONS TO CHICAGO
Junge John L Norman mid his
grandsons John Norman Dew and
Jess Dew Jr left today for Chi-
cago where the Judge will visit
a brother and the party will also
take in theCentury of Progress
exposition while there
Judge Norman will be back and
on the distret court bench about
September 1
Mrs Jessie Whistler spent the
week-end in Oklahoma City visit-
ing with her sister Miss Ruth
Dillon who is ill She is reported
to be improving
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