The Okemah Ledger. (Okemah, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 5
OKEMAH OKLAHOMA THURSDAY AUGUST 24 1911
NUMBER 31
' GOV CRUCE DOES NOT
WANT STATE SLANDERED
A feature" of the recent prohibi-
tion campaign in Texas nas iust
come to light involving Colquit of
Texas The former is quoted as
lo'lows in a re e t tpeech at Aut n
"If you cloise up the saloons iliere
' you xv ill open up a mineature jbar
roio'm in neaerly every home in
Austin I know that becausee I
"have teen )to Oklahoma sshere pro-
hibition has (been tried ho sooner
than you enter a hospitable home
there than you are asked to have
a drink Instead io'f a man serving
you the good housewife mixes the
toddy and puts the mint in it
In anwser (to this speech Giov
Cruce has written Rev G V Ridley
of Athens Texas “I am loath to
ibelieve that Governor Colquit ever wte tarmers and already the
used the language “luted o I movement is gaining gnound and
him If he did he certainly gross w jjj doubtless prove a great
ly misrepresented the good people j benet to that community Many
of Oklahoma anid I ink placed a wje landowners are taking kind-
very low estimate on the citizen- j to the idea because of their
ehp of Austin Texas negro tenants their land has not
I have been m hundreds yes a(jvall(e(j in value as in other
thousands of the good homes of coimm unities andl are lending their
'Oklahoma and have yet to enter a98i3tance to the movement 0
the first home m which I have
ibeen invited to take a drink of any
fiort oif : intoxicants I have attend-
ed many many banquets given in
this state since oromibition went
pinto effect and Miavev yet to at-
toto effect and
Ttend one where any kind at intoxi-
' cants were served "
These misrenresentations of
- - misrepresentations
conditions in Oklanoma are made
to interest the good citizenship of
Texas adversely to prohibition I
speak advisedly when I say that
-C5 per cent of the ibest icitizenship
of Oklahoma- those who believe
in good morals and good govern
menit without jegard
filiations or reglious alignmentare(
heartily in favor of istatewidepro-
hih’"Oi‘ and what opposition there
is to it in Oklahoma comes large-
ly from that gang of laV-foreakers
that exists in every community
‘who are willing to destroy tne
home and trade upon the virtue
of hn innocent womne of the few
- — - uy sjiruer ui me vsui Lumet
dollars they can make tout of He Qoainy Exciise Board at Okemah
tiaific I
"I do mot know what Texas will
do and am taking ito active t a-t in
that campaign but I "am gro t ing
very tired of these oontinucd elan-
das and calumnies being heaped
upon my stale I repeat that 1 00
not believe that Governor Colquit-
made the statement that is at-
tributed to him and shall not be-
"lieve it until I have further proof
than a mere newspaper report
given in the midst of a heated
1 arraign”
NOTICE OF
I ELECTION
I" Notice is hereby given that an
election will be held through out
each of the herein after numbered
respective school districts in Ok-
fuskee Counity Oklahoma on Fri-
To whomit may concern day Sept 1st 1911 at two o’clock
That thirty days after the p m or said day to vote upon
appearance of this notice in (the the question of whether or not
V Okemah Ledger I will apply to there shall be authorized the levy-
the Governor for Parol Pardon
commutation of sentence
Respectfully
HENRY COFFEY
First published Aug 24 1911 4t
Highest price paid for eggs
L Rebman Okemah
Miss Ola Patterson was a guest
0! her mother at Prague Okla
Sunday
Miss Edith Harman of Muskogee
i3 here this week the guest of
friends i
Berry Jones returned home from
------ - with
L
Ada Tuesday after a visit
his brother in that city
G R Smith and Rev Marster3 of
north of Paden were in Okemah
Tupsday on varied missions
ntotdVokla lar?ivediSh“r2 luirdty
t relatives in this
for a visit wun reiauves in lnls
city
Highest price paid for egg3 L
L Rebman Okemah
When your clothing needs clean-
ing and repairing -fib Almond &
Petty Yerby’s old stand Phone
2CS " -
Dr J W Board who left here for
a visit at Appleton City Mo is
now at Hope N M making a visit
with a brother -
V A Boggs and son HeroCd
went to Muskogee Okla Tuesday
where Mr Boggs had some 'busi-
ness matters to look after
Mrs S F Smith and children
who made a stop off to visit
relatives in Kansas on tho way
"home from Manitou Colo ar-
rived home today
P J Bowen and John McKinzie
of Welty merchants of that city
were in town Wednesday enroute
to Fort Smith Ark to ibuy their
fal stock of goods
Merchant G W Collins of Okfus-
kee was in town Wednesday and
reports that hi ssectiion of the
reports that his section of the
county is prosperous but with
some complaint abo”t the cotton
At a meeting of the ex-confed-
erate soldiers with W T Harper 1
1 half (2 1-21 mills
School DitrictNo 27 five (5) mills
I School District No 23 three
(3V mills
School District No 29 three(31
mill s '
School Distibt No 39 three )S( mills
School District No 31 two and one
half (2 1-2)1 mills
School District No 32 two (2Y mills
School District No 35 five (5? mills
School District No 36 three mills
Sihool District No 37 wo and
half (2 1-2)1 mills
School District No 39 three (3) rails
School District No 41 five (5f mills
School District No 42 one (It mill
School District No 43 five (5) mills
School District No1 47 one and one-f
one-half (1 1-2) mills
upon the dollar upon all of the
taxable property of said respective
school districts which said above
named respective number of mills
shall be in addition to the levy of
five (5) mills regularly allowed by
law
Said election will fee held as is
now provided by law for elec-
tions in school districts at the
regular voting place in each of
the said respective' schcol districts
Done 'by order 'of the Okfuskee
Monday afternnoon W T Harper Countv Excise Bo-ard at Okemah
and J F Farrer were elected as Okfuskee Counity Oklahoma this
delegates to the state meeting of
the ex-confederate roldisr? wh'ch
will be held at Ardmore Okla
Sept 7 8 and 9 DJ DoSsey and
‘j H Arnold were elected as alter-
nates -
M B Flesher has retired as
ca h'e- O'" the State Bank
and will devote his time to land
buying and has been succeeded in
that institution by Perry Howeth
Mr Flesher has been in bad health
for several months and' hopes that
the out door work will straighten
him up Mr Howeth 'the k new
cashier has been employed in '
the ’bank tor severs! months as '
"book-keeper and is well imlormed I
"in the banking business J
WANT MORE WHITE PEOPLE
AND NOT SO MANY NEGROES
1 t
There is a movement among the
better citizens in the west end of
the county find in the city of Paden
who believe that their community
has advanced ahead of the negro
tenant with his log cabin and his
mule to that of better homes and
a good class 57 farmers and they
are effecting an organization
among themselves to eliminate the
negro from that section of the
country and in their "stead get
located a good desirable class of
white citizens
"This organization are locating
white farmers that come into their
community and are getting the
land owners to rent their places
NOTICE "OF SPECIAL TOWN
i ELECTION
Notice is hereby given that an
eiec-tijorrL will be held throughout
incorporated' Town of Okemah
on
upon
the Incorporated' Town of Oh
oicfngkee County Oklahoma
I Friday Sept 1 1911 to vote
the question of whether or not
there shall be authorized the levy
Ing of a tax tor the defraying of
the current expenses of jsaid town
for the fiscal year "of 1911-1912
amounting tof two)2( mills upon the
dollar upon all taxable property
wMch said two (21
mUls ©hall loe in addition to the
jevy c five mills regularly
ai0We(j ’hyiaw and make the total
amj0unt l0l7 ievy f0r eaid purposes
6even (7
Said election will be held as i3
now provided by law for elections
in incorporated towns - at the
regular voting places in said town
Done by order of the Okfuskee
Okfuskee County Oklahoma this
18 dayfjf August 1911
The Okfuskee County Excise
Board of Okfuskee County
Oklahoma
By W A HUSER Chairman
Atteist
W T Harper Secretary
SPECIAL SCHOOL
ing pf a tax tor the support of
the common schools of each of the
several respective school districts
for the fiscal school year of 1911
and 1912 amounting to a3 follows :
School District No 3 four (4) mill s
School District No 4 one one!-half
I (1 1-2)1 mills
School District No 5 three(3) mills
School District N06 two and one
I half (2 1-2) mills
'School District No Tfive (5) mills
School District No 13 two and one
half (2 1-2) mills
four and
School District No 14
one-half (4 1-2) mills
" ’ — 1 'T-
SchtMl District No 21 live (5) mills
School District No 23 two (2) mills
Schia:)1 No 26 two and one
and
the 18th day of August 1911
The Okfuskee County Excise
Board of Okfuskee Counitv Okla
By W A HUSER Chairman
W T Harper Secretary
NOTICE
Sealed Bids will be received at
my office in Okemah Okla until
2 o’clock p m’ Friday Aug 25th
1911 for the printing of callot3
and furnishing of supplies for
tax levy elctioini3 to 'be hid n the
townstof Boley Paden andpk?mah
Okla on Sept 1st 1911
Specifications on file in my
office in Okemah
vAV SKELTON
Sc’y County Election Board
FOR GOOD ROADS IN
OKFUSKEE COUNTY
What is more inviting to capital
and from what source can the
farmer derive more pleasure and
profit than GOOD ROADS? is a
question that has not as yet been'
answered
If you are the owner of a small
trucki-farm or if your own farm
containing hundreds of acres or if!
you own a doll rack a peanut
stand a shoe-shop a blacksmith
shop or a mercantile establishi-
ment of great magnitude or If
you are a lawyer a doctor or
engaged in any other profession
good roads will enhance "Y the
value of your property v andl
increase the volume of your''busi-
ness while poor roads will have
the opposite effect "‘
Okfuskee County has already
equipped itself' with bridges cross-
ing the principal streams of the
County to convenience those who
were compelled to cross the
streams in marketing their pro-
ducts Now why not all get to-
gether and provide good roads to
correspond with the bridges to
convenience those who live in the
“hills’’ and mountains? Under the
Jaw road-districts comprising not
Jess than eighteen miles square
can be created and bonds can be
voted for the purpose of im-
proving the public highways
Under this plan the corporations
can be required to assist in im-
proving our roads by paying their
just proportions of taxation
Very respectfully submitted
C E GUTHRIE
1 Secretary Okiukee County Good
Roads Association
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank those who so
kindly helped us through ttye ill-
ness and death of our little baby
boy Of which kindness ’ tyvas
greatly appreciated 1
MR AND MRS FH GAMBLES
YOUNG MAN SEVERELY
STABBED IN A FIGHT
Chas Horton residing sduth-
west ol'Okemal wa3 severly stabb-
ed in the hip Sunday aiterncon
in a fight with Eli Ely also resid-
ing in that community The fight
was Baidtohave been the result of
standing trouble and pccu?ed' on
the road between the Street farm
and Okemah Horton was brought
to town and his wound dressed
by Dr May The wound is in the
I’leshy part of the hip and is a
knife depth and about two inches
in length
TAKING TESTIMONY IN
IMPORTANT CIVIL CASE
Testimony in an important civil
action that of J D Keaton vs E
T Smith was taken here this week
before T H Wren special referee
The suit involves $ 250000 worth of
co'ttoin Dr rather the commission
on the same The taking of testi-
mony occupied nearly three days
and twill be transeibed by Miss
Virginia Bell who acted as court
stenographer A decision will not
be made until the record ' is
completed and the referee has
time to go over it— Weleetka
American
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
Commencing Sunday August 27
1911 the general delivery w indow
at the Po'st Office will beopenfrom
J!:00 p m to 3:00 p m on Sundays
and holidays
P J Becker Postmaster
The citizens of Hughes county
are protesting to Governor C'ruse
against issuing to Clayton Bruner
a negro 'horse thief who was sent
up from Hughes county under a
ten year sentence a pardon
Bruner having given notice that
he would iseek a pardon
Bruner is known in' the eiouthern
part of Okfuskee county and the
citizens will be satisfied to
see Bruner serve out his term
Bruner had the reputation of
being a “bad man” and was hard
to catch at his crimes and at the
time iof his last capture had inf his
pois'sessiom two stolen horses
CRUDE OIL FOR BOLL WORMS
After having successfully ex-
penninted with ' crude oil as a
preventative for boll weevil Henry
Plaster a farmer living near
Purcell Bays that he has at laBt
found a remedy that is infallible
The method which Mr Plaster
employed £3 tn take a gunny sack
saturated with O'l attach it to the
cultivator in a way that it will
tbs n iw Oi cotton as the
cultivator 'is driving along the
row The odor of the oil drives
millers and other insects from the
oof ton and they will not come
back as long as any of scent
is left' Many of tne farmers in
that vicinity have began trying
the experiment and are plpasea
with Iresults If it can be found
to Ibe effective farmers will not
be 'bothered any moire with the boll
weevil
FLORIDA
If you are thinking any thing
about investigating our land pro-
pnsitioip in Florida get ready to
jo frofm here the ath of Sept to
oin an excursion party
O D BRAS agent
Phone 3 shorts 201 2wks
L IP Caldwell returned home
Friday after a few days in Okla-
homa City looking after business
interest in that city
T B Wortman who resides
northwest of Okemah is making
arrangements to move to Still-
water Okla next month tem-
porally where he will put his sons
m college Mr Wortman will have
a big public sale September 20 and
will sell off a large portion of
his personal property Geo Stone
will farm the Wortman place for
the coming year
B F Harmon of Muskogee
Okla former cashier of the
Citizens State Bank of Okemah
has returned to this city and is
again connected with the Citizens
State -Bank in capacity as Vice
President rt dhe institution The
citizens of Okemah welcome Mr
Harman back to Okemah and are
pleased to see him in business
here again Mr Harman’s fam ly
will join him later ip the year
E E Taylor and daughter Mrs
Tims of 'Paden were in this city
Monday attending to probate busi-
ness in the county court connect-
ed With the estate of the - late
Baden Tims Mr Taylor reported
tfnJaft' atsiom residing in the pan-
that a son residing in the pan-
handle region iof Oklahoma arriv-
ed at iPaden Sunday night having
buried his wife -only a (ew days
previous
Mr and Mrs J S Bearden of this
city and Quincy Taylor of Bearden
returned home Sunday after ’an
auto trip to Caney Kansas where
they visited relatives for several
days MrsShults Mns Bearden’s
sister and mother of Dr Shults
came back with the party for a
visit here J S says that he has
had several experiences With his
car but some gasoline that run
down his arm while he was tight-
ening up a leak gave him such a
run for his money that he had to
take off hi3 shirt to get air
W B Gray pf Allen Okla
a cousin of the late Henry Gray of
this City was murdered by a man
named Frank Edwrards on Wednes-
day August 2 and hiis body hauled
around Cm a wagon for two days
and then thrown into a thicket
where 4t was found by some boys
Gray twas returning from Texas
with a team and leading an extra
horse He had sold some property
in Texas and it i3 supposed
Edwards ikilled him to get possess-
ion of the money and team The
team Kvas sold at Pauls Valley
ID '
Where Edwards was’arrested
Jake Woods of Paden was in
Prague Tuesday While in town
Mr Wools made Ihe fiecod o fi e
a friendly visit He says that the
organization refered to in the last
week’s issue of the Record is an
organization for the betterment of
the ci izenship of Okfu'kee county
and that the members sign a
pledge to imoit rent or sell land to a
negro that 63 Within a mile of a
whte family 10 an Indian family
That the organization is not only
at Paden but all over Okfuskee
county and that it’s for the pro-
tection iof the white citizenship of
the county against the further en-
croachmment of the negro and to
retard if (possible negro immigrat-
ion into xhe country
That the hot weather of the last
of last week and the first of this
has been very injurious to the
growing cotton is the general
opinion of the cotton growers j
The excessive heat has caused the'
new blossoms that set on during 1
that time tO' wilt and fall off ex-
cessively N C Chesser who
resides west of town on Greenleaf 1 S
creek was in town Monday and1'!
with a bunch of friends (in discuss- 5
'ing the situation said that the
blooms were coming off badly fin
his neighborhood Mr Chesser
thinks that (before the government
employes who make ther cotton re-
ports for Oklahoma send in their
next reports they should size up
the situation thoroughly and not
make the estimate too large as it
twill tend to keep a lower price
on cotton and that the farmers
should have the benefit of the
doubt
The citizens of Our neighboring
town of Paden werq rejoicing
Tuesday when the directors of the
Okfuskee cOunty High School clos-
ed a contract with Geo Fletcher
for the erection of a $20000 build-
ing The contract price the low-
est of fourteen bidders was $19
85100 The building will be a
concrete store and brick sl'ruc-
ture and will be on ©of which our 1
coupty will be proud of The
building Will be a two story
it uiturs tn 1 basm n: 0 x3S fet
and the contract calls for piping
for water and wiring for aleotric
light: The directors J B Piovn-
ter J D- Nelson and !R 'B Jones
of Okemah C M Swan of
Bearden and Dr C C Bumgarner
Stesen Nichols and H C Burdick
met in Paden Monday and cipened
up the bid3 and found three
bidders 'within $9000 of each other
and adjo' rned un:il Tuesday when
they met in the County Superin-
tendents office and received new
bids for the three Low men The
Paden directors favored second
low man the vote 'being a tie ber
tw'een the low man and the second
low man Mr Nelson the chair-
man of the board of directors
cast 'his vote for the low man and
he was awarded the contract
Cosustru diom work cn (he Vu lding
will 'be commenced within the next
few days
FOR SALE
Sptin of black mules 16 hands
high 5 years old no blemishes
BURR RANDLES
’ ' 1
HE
DID NOT LIKE
l
to ask for a receipt— it looked
too much like doubting the
other man’s honesty The
other man was very busy at
the time and forgot to give
him credit for the amount
-paief— it had to 'be paid again
Ever have that experience?
All the trouble all the worry
all tlie unpleasantness would
have been avoided had the
payment been made by chech
instead of cash
Why not place your money in
this bank and pay all YOUR
bills by check?
It is ihe ONE safe way
CITIZENS STATE BANK
of Okemah the only bank in
operation under the GUAR-
ANTEE LAW
W HfTDill made a round of sev-
eral of his cotton farms Sunday
and found them in spledid con-
dition Mr Dill estimated that
two-thirds of the cotton on the
farms that he examined was open
and that the yield would be about
two-thirds of a bale to the acre
which insures him of a splendid
yield
The six months old baby son of
Mr and Mrs Felix Gamble died at
their home in this city Sunday
night at 12:30 o’clock after a
brief illness The funeral ser-
vices were conducted by Rev J L
Mathews at the Baptist church
Monday afternoon and ithe inter-
ment was made in the (Highland
Cemetery
M L Shipp who resides west
of town and Lewis Webb of Bear-
den returned home Friday after
a months trip through several
Canada provinces and the north-
w estern states They both en-
joyed the trip and seen lots of
good country but decided that
they were right now in the heart
of God’s country
We Xnoaxi BSoney
We do our own inspecting and close loans
promptly You can ’ pay off a part or all of our '
h
i
I ITS A PRETTYEESTOO
t TO IETJT SO VHYNOT
put rcJXiNJrHE Rank
IT WILL BE SAFE THERE
AND COME IN MIGHTY
HANDY
The man you may seek business associations
with will ask you first how old you are next how
much money you have
If you have no money he will seek further
Make OUR bank YOUR bank
THE OKEMAH NATIONAL BANK
is
t
I
t
Joe Allen iof Canndn Texas is
here this week visiting old friends
and imakingf arrangements to move
to this city Mr Allen resided in
Okemah about two years ago and
has finally come to the conclusion
that this is the country for him
He is an old neighbor of W J
Payne when they both resided in
Texas '
Prof Geo Wilson Superinten-
dent of the Okemah City Schools
who has 'just returned home from
a trip through the western part
of the istate is busily engaged in
laying his (plana for the coming
term of school and will endeavor
to make the coming term an ex-
ceedingly profitable one for the
Okemah students
Sunday evening a negraf who
violated and shot a white woman
near Durant Okla was shot by
a poisse and his body afterwards
burned the same hour almost a
negro Who murdered a policeman
at iCoastville Pa was killed and
his (body burned by a mob The
negro criminal receives tfye same
treatment in one section of the
country that he does in another
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