Sooner State Press (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 40, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 22, 1929 Page: 3 of 4
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A special edition of ' 24 pages was
'published by the Wewoka Times-Dem-ocrat
Sunday June 16 Miss Jessie
Faye Childers is managing editor
Jesse G Lorton Springfield Mo
brother of Otis and Eugene Lorton
of the Tulsa World died recently of
heart disease Jesse G Lorpn was a
veteran railroad man and was a re-
gional director of food and fuel during
the World war
A verse prophesying the world war
written before the war by Eva W
Cross of Edmond was published in
the Oklahoma County Post Britton
May 24 The author was business man-
ager of the Union-Pilot Collinsville
Ilk) at the time the poem was written
Vacationless for 30 years H P Wet-
tengel editor of the Fletcher Herald
and the Hinton Record will visit his
old home in Illinois during the sum-
mer according to a recent story in the
Anadarko American - Democrat His
family will accompany him
Walter M Harrison managing edi-
tor of the Daily Oklahoman and
Times was to be a guest of the Sul-
phur Chamber of Commerce on Sat-
urday June 8 Harrison and his family
were expected to spend several days
in the Platt National park
H H Herbert director of the Ok-
lahoma school of journalism addressed
the Kiwanis club at Denton Tex on
Tuesday June 18 on “How Denton
Appears to a Newcomer” Herbert is
teaching in the College of Industrial
Arts Denton during the summer ses-
sion The Wewoka Daily Times - Demo-
crat's plan of paying three cents for
each personal item brought to the of-
fice is meeting the enthusiastic approv-
al of the staff and publishers accord-
ing to Miss Jessie Faye Childers man-
aging editor Richard Elam and O H
Lachenmeyer are publishers
“Is the Control of an Editorial Page
Private Property or a Public Trust?”
is the title of a discussion to be given
by Carl Magee editor of the Oklahoma
News Oklahoma City at the annual
convention of the Arkansas Press as-
sociation at Fayetteville June 27 and
28
The memory of David P Marum
editor of the Woodward Democrat
who died April 13 was honored in
a special memorial edition of the
Democrat issued May 31 Pierce Mun-
sey was editor of the edition The pa-
per is being published by the Wood-
ward Publishing company
“The Trainwrecker” a paper pub-
lished at Pond Creek in 1894 is de-
scribed in a story carried in the Grant
County Journal Medford June 13 as a
reprint of a story from the Enid Morn-
ing News The paper was printed on
reddish-pink paper and was devoted
largely to the fight between the resi-
dents of Pond Creek and Enid with
the Rock Island railroad over the lo-
cation of depots and stations A copy
of the first edition of this journal
printed July 4 1894 was preserved by
George Tucker who lives near Enid
Richard Lloyd Jones editor of the
Tulsa Tribune sailed June 15 with
Mrs Jones their daughter Florence
and their sons Jenkin and Richard
for Bergen Norway Later in the
summer they Will tour Germany Switz-
erland France England and Scotland
returning to Tulsa about September 1
The man of 50 is a confirmed op-
timist and knows the world is grow-
ing better Byron Norrell associate
editor of the Ada News told mem-
bers of the men's literary societies of
Peabody college in reunion at Nash-
ville Tenn June 6 according to the
Guthrie Leader
The first issue of the Democrat-
American which is the combination of
the Sequoyah County Democrat and
the Sallisaw American under a single
masthead was delayed owing to the
entire page being “pied” without sal-
vaging one paragraph The East Ok-
lahoma Publislyng company is owrner
cf the consolidated paper
Charles Elkins Rogers a graduate
of the University of Oklahoma in 1914
and a former reporter for the Tulsa
World received mention in the May
issue of the United States publisher as
the recently appointed secretary of the
schools of journalism association Rog-
ers is head of the department of jour-
nalism in Kansas State Agricultural
college Manhattan
A picturesque old log hut situated in
a wooded grove near Romulus was
built by Graham Burnham newspaper
writer and illustrator who wandered
down into the Pottawatomie county 25
years ago according to a story in the
Tecumseh Oil Record edited by Rube
Gears Burnham lives near Hot
Springs Ark and was a recent visitor
to Asher
John W Mee of Oklahoma City was
recently elected editor of the board of
student publications of Northwestern
university Evanston 111 Mee has
served for three years on the Daily
Northwestern When a student in Cen-
tral high school Oklahoma City Mee
was associate editor of Sooner Spirit
student weekly He was graduated with
honors in 1926
The Maysville News edited by W
E Showen began its twenty -third
year with the issue of May 29 The is-
sue carried the following: “ we
stoutly hold that our newspaper serves
its town as well ?s any other news-
paper does— and for many years to
come we will try to merit the confi-
dence and good will of the citizenship
whose loyal patronage is responsible
for any success the News has attained
L H Roberts of Stewartville Mo
who with his brother A M Roberts of
California succeeded their father in
1886 as publishers of the Eufaula In-
dian Journal was a recent visitor in
Eufaula Roberts who is now 75 years
old is president of the Inter-county
Telephone company a quarter of- a
million dollar concern in Missouri Rob-
erts gave a copy of the Indian Journal
published in 1886 to R B Buford
who is the present publisher
“Ten Years With the Madill Record”
is the title of the first installment of
the history of this newspaper which
appeared in its columns on June 6 Hi-
ram Impson editor gives the history
of the town week by week as shown
in the Record files from June 5 1919
when he first became editor thru De-
cember 1919 A review of the year
1920 was printed the next week The
June 6 issue of the Record was the
beginning of the twenty-first volume
of the paper
“Snap Shots” the column usually
written in the Altus Times-Democrat
by Hutton Bellah editor was written
for the issue of June 9 by Miss Ruth
Smith University of Oklahoma jour-
nalism student who has just begun as
a reporter on the Times-Democrat for
the summer Miss Smith took the op-
portunity offered by Bellah’s absence
to write the column in which during
the previous week he had been giving
her much friendly razz for being a
“cub”
“The Times -has had plenty of bath-
ing beauty contests and promises to
participate in no more pageants of
pulchritude” This is the statement
made in an editor’s note prefacing an
account of the recent contest at Gal-
veston written by Sigrid Arne of the
Oklahoma City Times staff Miss Arne
accompanied Miss Margaret Lynch
Miss Oklahoma City to Galveston and
endured with her the trials of whay she
termed “the world’s biggest publicity
stunt”
An airplane trip to New York City
to visit the plant of the New York
Telegram will be awarded by the Ok-
lahoma News Oklahoma City to the
best journalism student graduating
from Oklahoma City university next
year Scholarship personality and gen-
eral promise of professional leadership
will be the basis for the award which
will be made with the granting of the
first professional degree Three years
of practical experience on the staff of
the News is required for the degree
Carl C Magee is editor of the News
In the same issue in which a full-j-jage
advertisement of Montgomery
Ward's store opening appeared in the
Shidler Review Frank S Nipper edi-
tor and publisher printed the follow-
ing item on the front page according
to a story in the Kaw City News: The
Review has 372 inches of advert sing
space to sell each week It is offered to
the merchants of Shidler first If they
do not want to use it we will sell it
to those who will Shidler cannot re-
tain its trade volume when its mer-
chants refuse to advertise and invite
the huving public to do its trading
here”
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Sooner State Press (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 40, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 22, 1929, newspaper, June 22, 1929; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1824572/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.