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OKEMAH OKLAHOMA THURSDAY MARCH 13 1913
NUMBER 8
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NEWS FROM THE
OIL m GAS FIELD
' more oil i
fl On Pharaoh in 2-11-10 the dril-
lers are down 200 feet and making
rapid progress ‘
The McIntosh well down south in
' J3-10-9 we understand are down
about 300 feet with a hole full of
fresh water '
i The Graves well 1 in 8-11-10 still
have their drill hung up and have
sent after more machinery to get
their drill out -
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The Haskfell-Flesher well in 24-12-9
and moving right along and
have been drilling all week' They
were doipi 1200 feet Monday
' — '
Friday the drill lodged in the
Graves well 8-11-10 and the dril-
lers think that the casing has been
jamed and it will be necessary to
remove the casing before the drill
Can be dislodged '
Reports come in from the Has-kell-Flesher
Well 24-12-9 from the
drillers’ Monday that the drill had
passed through a shallow oil sand
and that the sand contained oil
The well is down 1100 feet and
the prpspects are excellent Salt
water was found at a depth of 1050
' feet in this well while north of
town in the Schock well salt writer
was encountered at a ' depth of
1300 It is expected that if the
depth of the salt water is any in-
dication gas will be brought in in
about 200 feet ’
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Russell et al t)ieey Mcrfac sec-
ton 21-11-10 location
i Weleetka Development company
building rig on James Hill section
11-10-11 '
Schock et al moving in to stan-
dard rig at 1200 feet on Wm Furr
farm section 21-11-12 to drill deep
test'
Burr Oil and Gas company 'Cora
Harris section 29-10-11 drilling at
about 65Q
Galiigan Christiab et al Hannah
Robinson section 1-11-11 drilling
below 1175 feet’ had 15 feet of sand
at about this depth and M barrel
hawing - ’ t
Moffit and Gaithlng drilling at
1725 feet Lhcy Field section 24J
11-11 dry all the way ' "
Moffit et al' Lee Holmes sec-
tion 22-11-11 spudding
Oalligan' et al on the Hannah
Robinson section 1-11-11 were
down to 1175-feet Friday and thru
15 feet of sand at about that depth
in which they got showing for a
11 barrel well
w Moffat et al’ are' spudding in on
the Lee Holmes section 22-11-11
White and Sinclair are shipping
tools to their rig on the Teke al-
lotment 'section 8-12-11
The Monitor Oil company— Haw-
kins Section 1-10-11 pumping five
i inches in a 250
! Beired and company Nelson Du-
tant section 135-10-11 drilling at
1500 feet r 1
"‘THAT FELEeTW
: - LOOKS LIKE ME”
Will Sm!th a Bolev negro from
a co-incident of names and looks
languished awahile in the' county
jail Saturday until Sheriff John A
Johnson ariived here to1 look him
over- Smith has a brother in jail
and came up to see him and while
W M Atterberry undersheriff was
husy seen his brother once and
then came back twice more' and
the third time was no charm for
him The undersheriff eyed him
over asked his name and turned
him loose in the run-around to talk
to his brother while he looked up
the darkey's name and description
The names were the same as want-
ed in Sequoyah county and descrip-
tions were similar so Bill left the
darkey stay in Jail Sheriff John-
son came in Sunday from Sallisaw
Okla but the negro was not the
one wanted
arrested”ifTsemInole
COUNTY FOR HORSE STEALING
John Kitchens a well known
-character- who has lived in the
vicinity of Keokuk Falls and Pa-
den for the past seven or eight
yehrs is in the Wewoka county
jail under charge of being an ac-
complice of Eddie Brown who
ritole four head of stock from J
E Carson of Paden Kitchens was
arrested by the sheriff of Seminole
county after Brown had made his
confession to Constable Boulware
and will be tried in Seminole coun-
ty soon
mrs"ma1Tpearson
Mrs Mary Pearson of this city
died Wednesday noon at the home
of her son- W H Pearson on Mil-
dred Heights after a lingering ill-
ness of several lyeeks The body
will be shipped Thursday to Troy
Ohio for interment Mrs Pearaon
has made her home in this city
for the past three years with her
son who is interested in the S-W
‘Nursery Mrs Pearson was 72
years old rind had made many
warm friends here
PADEN LOCALS
From The Paden Herald
Jessie H Wright was taken to
Oklahoma City on Monday of this
Wjeek where an operation was per-
formed for ulcer peritonitis We
are informed that the operation
I Was successfully performed Dr
Blesh performed the ‘operation Dr
Rollins of this place 'accompanied
Mr Wright to the city
Allen Cash went to Okemah Sun-
day night but as his trips are so
i frequent since he got to be com-
missioner that we are almost in
the notion to stop chronicling hiB
trips to Okemah and tell about it
'when he doesn’t go -
Quite a large crowd met at A
G Rogers to sing last Sunday
iflght Besides the singing the
crowd was entertained about thirty
minuteB by Harry Moore with his
harp accompanied by Mrs Rog-
ers on the piano- and Harry had a
fine harp and plays well and 'ev-
erybody enjoyed the music very
much
On Friday evening the Harvest
Home Festival which had been
previously advertised was held at
the home of Mrs Bowden' Tims
Owing to the inclemency of the
weather a large number were kept
at home but upwards of fifty peo-
ple ventured out and were amply
repaid for their-venturing out
I The evening was spent in numer-
ous parlor games the children be-
ing assigned to the upper rooms
while the adults were given free-
dom of the lower part of the house
and from the manner in which each
one entered into the games of the
evening was a caution
I A short program was given as
follows : Piano duet by the Misses
Leon and Cecil Crain which was
heartily enjoyed by all This num-
ber was followed by a recitation
by Miss Mildred Kern which also
brought forth hearty applause
Then Mits Mamie Dovell rendered
a very'pretty piano solo to the de-
light of all present after which
Miss Inez Ellis delivered a rich
monologue which was so enjoyed
by the delighted audience which
encored until she returned to the
room with another number equal-
ity a rich This number was- fol-
'lowad by another piano duet by
Hisses Alma and Audry Kern who
'delivered this number in a superb
Ber after which' luncheon was
iincea and from the manner in
which each' participant took hold
of the- good things for the- inner
man we - presume It ' was a most
fitting final to the evenings enter-
tainment and'at a late hour the
guests departed for their several
homes voting Mrs Tims a most
royal hostess ‘ '
WELTY NEWS
- Lewis Moon ia having a
house built
O W Green of Wpitywas called
to the bedside of his brother who
is sick
Martin Burnett has purchased
some corn and ia busy hauling it
home this week
J C McMillian of Okfuskee was
on the streets of Welty this week
Spring is opening up We can
hear the frogs holler but look out
—there may be more Ice yet
All the farmers aret busy sow-
ing oats
Berry Jones manager of the lo-
cal telephone exchange is figur-
ing on putting ''in a new switch
board up hem
The oil men are busy around this
part of the -country They think I
there is oil in this part of the
country
Pink Hartle has been on the sick
list this week
We have Sunday school every
Sunday morning at the Rock Creek
school house beginning promptly
at 10 Everybody invited to come
out and attend I
D W C Stiles is getting to be
quite a cow boy 1
-The Kid I
DANIELS-GALLOWAY
W R Daniels of Quinton Okla
and Miss Carrie Galloway daugh-
ter of Mr and Mrs J M Gallo-
way of this city were united in
marriage Monday evening at 7:00
at the home of the bride’s’ parents 1
in this city The ceremony wasj
performed by Rev' J H Woodard
of the Presbyterian church and was
witnessed bv relatives and a feW
friends and neighbors '
Mr and Mrs Daniels left on the1
night train for Idaho whrire theyl
will locate and make their future
home A large number of friends
were down at the station and gave
them a jolly send-off amid rice old
shoes and signs saying “We are
just married” etc
' HAD NO STAMPIaT HSHING
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From Cushing Citizen’
The government at Washington
is still unable to cope with the
situation at the Cushing postoffice
or rather it does not seem to
realize the magnitude of the busi-
ness done here It does not 'rea-
lize that Cushing has ceased to be
a village but is a city and a live
one
For more than 24 hours the Cush-
ing postoffice has been without
stamps of any denomination and
patrons used 15 cent stamps for
mai ing letters Even post" cards
had run out yesterday This is
only another evidence of the ad-
vance that Cushing has made as a
business center
THE C 0 D FEATURE TO BE
ADDED TO THE PARCELS POST
t
The C O D feature will be add-
ed to the parcel post service-July
1 according to an order received
at the postoffice this week The
new feature will' not apply ( to
amounts over $100 A flat rate of to begin at 2:00 p m the evening
10 cents to cover the cost of col-rlseft(ion -at 7 30 p m
lection will be charged the sender j Omitting the musical numbers
whenever collection Upon delivery hich will give variety and add
18rm?8ired“ S much to the entertainment the
The new feature will add little piogram j8 substantially as fol-
to the competitive value of thei0W9 -
system agaifist the competition of (Numbers are substituted for the
the express companies Most of the names of the contestants)
The new Men’s Movement prom-
ises good things for church and
-- — — Sunday school Boost the move-
latter charge nothing for collection Afternoon program 200 to 300 ment boost the church boost the lt n this case and I will giv
on delivery of sums up to $5000J p mj: Sunday school— boost I you the court’s decision but if w
Over that amount 10 cent! is charg- Spelling— Written Class 1 — 6th -
ed for every $100 collected grade and below pp 109-148 in
Like the greater pare of the par-- Doub’s Speller
cel post system the effectiveness! Spelling— Written Class 1 — 7th
of the C O D feature is material— grade pp 150-196 Doub’s Speller
ly reduced by the- flat rate at-'gpeiiing-Written Class 3 - 8th
Am 1 A A A M AaMl MM m1 m Mj ° A m -
tached to it A 10-pound package 'gradei pp
valued at $40 sent from KamtaSj Speller '
City C O D by express to CMoa--Spelling-Written class 4 High
go costs i 70 cents The same pack-- School any words in Doub’s Spel-
age sent C O D by parcel post I jer
would cost 72 cents j Oral to determine county repre-
It would cost a farmer or-mer- 8entative at state spelling contest
chant 10 cents plus the P0®-1® (Details as to eligibility and man-
!to send a 10-cent package C O D'
parcel post
BUCKEYE NEWS
We are having some rainy weath-
er at present
People are having the very best
of hqalth in our neighborhood
Most all of the farmers have their
land turned and their oats sowed
and are listing for cotton Some
of us have gardens out and plant ' Beginning 7 -30 prompt -V'lJ
Select readings Class 2" 6th-' 7th
’ and 8th grades No 9 No 10
Select - readings Class 3 High
School No 11 No 12 -Orations
No- 13 No 14
DEBATE
Aff leader No 15 15 minutes
Neg No 16 15 minutes
Aff No 17 15 minutes
Neg No 18 15 minutes
Aff closes No 15 5 minutes
Music and social time while judges
deliberate -Decision
of judges
At least one piece of instrumen-
tal music will be furnished by
Weleetka Okemah is fortunate in
having splendid musical talent and
the- program will be amply suppli-
ed With -music both vocal and in-
strumental - '
The names of the contestants are
up v j r — T-VVM
The ’ school is making’- good nw-
der the management of FroL- -Davis
and Miss Brooks' PastohL F
Caasler conducted chapel -service
Monday morning ‘
Sunday school is- well - attended
every Sunday about 75 scholara en-
rolled also a number of -Visitors
J H Smith ia our superintendent
and a good one - ''
We have preaching each Sunday
by our pastor Rev J F Cassler
We enjoyed having with us Fri-
day Saturday- and Sunday Rev S
H Owens district 'superintendent
of the Pentecostal Church of the
Nazarene of Altus Okla --He has
about 75 churches in his district
to - look after and is the busiest
mrin we know of in Oklahoma
Prof and Mrs Irick of Castle at-
tended church here Sunday
We are glad to report that Miss
Ombry Griffith is improving in
heqlth She has had a long siege
of slow fever
The young folks have a Sunday Jceive silver medals except that the
evening prayer meeting Quite q champion speller in the grades will
number of them hive ben attend- receive a gold medal and have his
ing Last Sunday evening Miss expenses paid fo- the state con-
Josie York conducted the service
Rev L H Daniel and family are
arranging an evangelistic tour
through Arkansas Louisiana and
tst L J
Admission free Everybody in-
vited NOTE— No provision has yet been
Tennessee They will be gone made as to the number one school er and all CQme out and worship
about two years We regret tojmay enter in the high school spell-1 with us both morning and even-
see them go
The school board has been hav-
ing some work done in the way
of putting out trees digging a
cistern and placing a fence around
the grounds We are' sure it w
The cl-iss in Physiology used one
of the basement puppies in an an-
stamY Why not do things right? i atomical demonstration Monday
We have & new Sunshine gaso- The Bixth grade entertained at
line lamp in the school house One chapel Wednesday They Rebated
more installed' would make the the question “Resolved that city
nights real sunny days life is more desirable than coun-
Miss Davis has a small class in try life” Affirmatives Henry
music and her students are mak-i Thomas and Earl Shoffner Neg-
ing fair progress lative Gladys Shoffner and Etta
Are you coming to Buckeye on Martin The negative won the de-
Easter Sunday? cision
' J H Smith and J M York wei-e It often takes Three or more fail-
elected camp meeting committee- ures to make one good success
men for this place this summer The House of Representatives
They know how to arrange for a had an interesting call meeting on
camp mee ing The evangelist has Tuesday afternoon The regular
not been named yet meeting is Monday evening Mar
Last Sunday was missionary day 17th
here andf we had a' good sermon Popularity has its penalties and
on mission work and $1750 in cash obscurity its compensation -
was given This neighborhood is The boys are doing good field
in for all the good it can do and practice and they hope to win
it gave last year to worthy causes honors this year
over $500 It would love to beat
that this year
There are several of our boys
and girls going to efiter the cot-
ton and corn contests
Mrs Pettit and Mrs Logan spent
last Friday with Mrs Lowrimore
Mrs A G Logan and Miss Hazel
of Okemah were here last weta Chandler Okla to prosecqle a ne-
visiting relatives and friends gro who stole some hats from them
Success to the Ledger and its which were at Fallis being shipped
many readers here The darkev was arrested in
Buckeye Ike Oklahoma City ptddling out the
' hats and the chief of police no-
ORIENTAL PUBLIC SCHOOL “I
The Honor Roll of the Oriental selling hats bearing their trade
Bchool week ending March 7 mark v Mr Standley did not ap-
Lester Hopwood
Roy Yerby
Brooks Nichols
Cleo Ray
MISS BARKLEY Teacher
THE OKFUSKEE COUNTY
FINAL LITERARY CONTEST
The Okfuskee County Final Lit-
erary Contest will be held at the
high school building in Okernh 1 rainy day but we had 84 present
Friday March 14 in the afternoon which is encouraging for such bad
and evening the afternoon session weather Our preaching services
TIIE CHURCH OF CHRIST -In
Okemah
Bible school at 10 a m
Preaching at 11 a m
There will be the regular services
196 to end Doub’s next Lord's day morning Bible
ner of oral competition to be pre-
scribed later by the committee)
Reading— from book: 310 to 420
Class 1 6th grade and below No
1 No 2
Class 2 7th and 8th grades No
3 No 4 I
Essays— No 5 No 6:
430 to 53(1
I Recitations grades Class 1 5th
grade and below No 7 Nq 8 -EVENING
PROGRAM
left off of the program intention-
ally The winners in the high school
contests will receive gold medals
(the winners in the grades will re-
' cm! a ail (tan m Arl n 1 a av iant that IVtO
ing
SCHOOL NOTES
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A number of our students are
'preparing to enter the athletic and
and literary contest at Ada May
3rd
DON’T LIKE THEIR SALES AGENT
T E Standley went over to
predate the fact that the darkey
load become a selling agent for the
j store without their permission and
I was keeping both principal and
commission of the sales
4 445H4 r HHH'
AMONG THE CHURCH PEOPLE
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FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday School 10 am
Roy Horton Superintendent -E
S BENJAMIN Pastor
Palm Sunday— next Sunday We
observe Passion Week beginning
with Palm Sunday with a special
service each evening at 730 Sat-
urday evening excepted -Easter
Sunday we have a special sermon
oh “The Resurrection in the even -
ing our Easter program by the
Sunday school will be given This
will be a No 1 In every respect
Special music is being prepared
by the Sunday school pupilB and
arrangements are being made for
the most elaborate decorations we
have ever had Plan to come to
all these services you can
Last Sunday we failed of our 110
at Sknday school because of the
were well attended all considering
Seven new members joined the
- Epworth League last Sunday night
Wken the men get to boosting
not disparing the splendid efforts
of our ladies things will Bure move
—
sehool at 10 sharp and preaching
at 11 u
i We are very anxious that both
these services shall be well at-
tended The evening services will be an-
nounced at that time Come let
us reason together
E M GARNER Minister
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
One block south of postoffice
Sunday school 1000 am
Judge John Caruthers Supt
Preaching 11 am
Preaching 730 pm
Junior Y P S C E 300 pm
Prayer meeting Wednesday night
at - 730
Good music at each service and
your presence ia greatly appreci-
atea- andBtrangetsare welcome -
JOHN H WOODARD
Pastor
FIRST M E CHURCH SOUTH
One block north of postoffice
Sam F Chambers pastor
Sunday school 950 amijprovldlng for the holding of terms
J M Howeth Superintendent
Preaching Service IX am
Preaching 730 pm
Morning subject : “The Gospel of
Power and Assurance”
Evening subject: “The Soul af-
ter Death”
All are invited to attend and
hear the themes above-mentioned
discussed
Rev Chambers will preach in the
East Side school house at 3:00 p
m Let all the people in that part
of Okemah come and hear an ev-
angelical sermon
BAPTIST CHURCH
Sunday school 945 am
C B Conner Superintendent
Preaching II am
B Y P U 6 30 pm
Preaching 730 pm
Hoping for good weather next
Sunday we invite our friends to
take advantage of the oppn weath
ling Good music will be furnished
'for both services
E J JAMESON Pastor
PROGRAM FOR COUNTY r w n
INSTITUTE OF WCU ” Tuesday the home of Haney Scoit
was made in readiness for a big
Indian celebration of the inaugu-
ration of President Wilson the
“southern president” as the In-
dians call him Scott lives about
half tvay between North Fork and
Hickory Ground and all the In-
dians of that neighborhood gath-
ered at his home where they spent
the day in feasting and dancing
miss leoTosse"y¥tertains
Miss L id Drssey entertained the
Weslpy Adult Bible Class of the
M E Church South at her home
Tuesday evening The class meet-
ing was opened early in the even-
ing for business and after the
close of the business Bession the
enjoyment of the evening began
and each and every one were kept
busily engaged in some entertain-
ing games
One of the interesting features
of the evening was a game called
“Have a Bright Idea” Miss Leo
entertained delicious candy during
the evening
NEW COUNTY HEALTH OFFICER
Dr H A May ' received' notice
Friday that he had been appointed
as superintendent of health of Ok-
fuskee county and the other day
the county commissioners appoint-
ed Dr May a member of the in-
sanity board Dr May succeeds
Dr J W Board in these positions
Mr and Mrs C M Lambeth are Dr May will fill those offices sat-
the proud parents of a baby born isfactory to the public and la a
last week man who will do his duty-
Following is the program to be
held at the M E Church South at
Okemah March 14 1 :30 p m
Devotional Mrs Poynter
Welcome Address Mrs Chambers
Response Paden
Song by Okemah
The Mission of the Institute ‘
Mrs Abbie B Hdlerman
Winning the Children for Tem-
perance a— Through Scientific Instruction
Mrs Cammie Thornton
b— Through the Sundav School
Mrs Clugh
c— Through the Lj T L
j Mrs J M Galloway
"Song by Okemah
National Constitution Prohibition
Mrs J C Dovell
Round Table conducted by
Mrs Abbie Hillerman
Alcohol and Nursing Mothers
Mrs Deatherage Mrs Bowles
’ Discussion
Lecture at night bv Mrs Hilleman
EVENING PROGRAM
Music
Prayer Rev Benjamin
Special Music - Okemah
Lecture Mrs Abbie Hillerman
State President W C T U
Temperance Doxology
Aaronic Benediction
MRS M L DAVIS
Chairman
COULD NOT TAKE ADVANTAGE
OF ERROR HE PUT IN RECORD
The Sunday’s Oklahoman report-
ed that the criminal court affirmed
the conviction of W F Jones of
Weleetka convicted by Ex-County
Attorney J C Wright about two
years ago at the term of court
at Weleetka on charges of violat-
ing the probitition law
C ' T Huddleston represented
Jones and appealed the case to
1 the higher court on the ground-s
that a county court was not legal-
ly established there because of ir-
regularities in the notices and that
Jones could not be legally con-
victed in that court Jones was
working at a drug store in We-
leetki at the time of his nm-st
and was at a time when Sheriff
Dunagan was having so much trou-
ble breaking up boot-legging ' at
that town Jones was fined S230-
and sentenced to serve 90 days in
Jail Ex-Judge W A Huser im-
posed the fine -'
In an interview with Roy Hook-
ensmlth relative to the Criminal -Court
of Appeals decision upon the
Jones case and also touching W'e-
leetka as a county court town
Mr Hockensmith said “I he ques-
tion was not taken up in the case
the court refusing to consider
e
we
ever lose a case in that court
the action has been filed there we
will test out this point”
In part the decision of the high-
er court is as follows :
“Tie record shows that the de-
fendant filed an application for
transfer to the county court at
Weleetka which dmmitting the '
formal parts is an follows: ‘W F
Jones the above named defendant
being duly sworn upon his oath
states that he resides nearer to
the town of Weleetka in Okfuskee
county than he does to the town
of Okemah in Okfuskee County
Oklahoma
Wherefore he prays this honor-
able court to make an order trans-
ferring the above entitled caue
pending against him to the coun-
ty court of Okfuskee county held
at Weleetka In Okfuskee county
Oklahoma Signed W F Jones:’
Acting on this affidavit the court
made aq order transferring the
cause to JWeleetka for trial where
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hr-cu -wa-ti-ie " ’
The only error assigned that Is
argued in the belief is : ‘That the
action of the court in the empan-
neling of the jury and trying said
cause in the Town of - Weleetka
Oklahoma is null and void-
And it is argued that the act
of the county court at weleetka is
unconstitutional: for the reason
that the notice required by Art
5 Sec 32 (94 Williams) of the Con-
stitution was insufficient
It was not until the defendant
had been tried and convicted that
he raised this objection The cause
was transferred on the defendant’s
application and he will not be
heard in this court on appeal to
question the ' action of the trial
court in granting his application
It is our opinion that the appeal
is wholly without merit The judg-
ment is therefore affirmed”
The defense of Jones was’ made
under the theory that the court
at Weleetka was illegally estab-
lished and a legal conviction could
not be had there and Jones’ case
was moved there for trial for the
purpose of taking an appeal on
that ground but the higher would
not let him escape from justice up-
on a technicality which he him-
self sought to create
INDIANS CELEBRATE"
WILSON S INAUGURATION
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