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OKEMAH OKLAHOMA THURSDAY OCTOBER 29 1925
VOLUME 19 NUMBER 41
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NEXT MONDAY
CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP
With this issue of the Okemah
x Ledger my connection with the paper
ceases the plant subscription list and
good will having been sold to Leader
Publishing company of Guthrie Ok-
lahoma Raymond Fields a native
Okemah boy being president of the
company It is my understanding
that they will continue the paper and
put on a daily edition
The writer established the Okemah
Ledger as a new business venture in
January 1907 and has owned and
controlled its destinies until today
The paper was warmly received by
the people of Okemah and Okfuskee
county from the beginning and has
had a generous support continuously
from that date and for this support
we now take opportunity to thank the
people of both city and county and
assure them we will not cease to be
grateful while life lasts
More than three years ago an eye
trouble incapacitated the writer for
several months and has never ceased
to annoy and hinder in caring for the
business and it was because of this
that we finally decided to get out of
newspaper work and get relief from
constant eye strain imposed upon us
and that is the principal reason for
this step
Again thanking our friends for
their long continued loyalty and
trusting that our successors may
prove to be the publishers needed to
aid in building up our city and coun-
ty and making them a better place in
which to live we step out with the
feeling that we are leaving a strong
and permanent business enterprise as
a monument to our years of work
Very truly yours
O C GASTON
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
With announcement of the sale of
the Okemah Ledger to Raymond
Fields and E M McIntyre of the
Leader Publishing Co the new own-
ers' intention to establish a daily
newspaper in Okemah was revealed
The new daily probably will make
its debut to Okemah next Monday
if the auxiliaiy equipment needed to
conduct a daily can be installed in
time
The daily will be known as The
Okemah Leader The weekly Led-
ger will be maintained and kept to
the standard that has featured the
weekly since its establishment by O
Gaston in 1907 -
The job printing department of
the Ledger will also be maintained
under supervision of an expert in
commercial printing
A strong outlay of news services
and news features comparable with
any in the state are announced for
the Okemah Daily Leader
An Associated Press leased wire
will be Hut Saturday to the Ledger
office for commencement of the
daily Monday
In addition the telegraphic Teport
of the United Press has been con-
tracted by the new daily
These are the two greatest news
rnese are me iwo greatest news
gathering services of America and
Save their correspondents in every
nook of the world and in every state
8nd Clty ° tb® "nlted
States
World United States and state
events will be flashed to the Leader
on the instant of their happening
assuring Okemah and Okfuskee coun-
ty readers very latest news
A stress win be placed on the mar-
ket page of the new daily and in ad-
dition to the market reports off the
Associated Press and United Press
wires local and state markets will be
carried
For features and comics the full
service of the Newspaper Enterprise
service ox ine rvewspaper rnrerprise
Association of Cleveland Ohio has
been bought by the Leader and will
provide the very latest news pictures
and comics for the new daily’s read-
ers The fun of Tom Sims the editor-
ial comments of Chester Rowell the
fireside poetry of Hal Cochrane the
“Out Our Way” drawings of Wil-
liams the “Salesman Sam” “Boots
and Her Buddies” “Freckles and His
Friends” and other comic strips will
brighten the new daily
Late sport news will be carried in
the daily
Wrth all of these great national
“atue3’j IfadLr8 ®8mn8
features
will be dominated by local news A
Strong staff of reporters wiU be
maintained to assure complete and
daily coverage of local events
A staff of county correspondents
will be kept to furnish news of other
Okfuskee county points
William Loftus has resigned as cir-
culation manager of the Oklahoma
News Oklahoma City to become busi-
ness manager of the Okemah Leader
The active editor of the new daily
is yet to be chosen
Fields
rmms will be editor-in-chief paperg for Great Communities" and be canvassed New trucks are be-
viding time between the Okemah' okemah was decided upon for its ing purchased and each will follow
t!8 °!anS5S?y £ad8r’ ' commercial and communfty strength
which McIntyre and Fields also own
and publish
Mcltnyre will be business executive
of the new daily and also divide hir
time between the two properties
Fields formerly lived in Okemah
and received his common and high
and the business future of the city
Community boosting will be the
cardinal principle of the new publi-
cation as editorial policy with latest
cleanest end most interesting news
told tersely its news policies
school education hota He earn here I m’Slth rth ' ff'ff “Sf 5!?“ “d
SJK arr1” ’ o k ’lh “p '
Mrs W H Fields and lived here un-1 P '
til leaving for school in 1915 Re- Mrs Earl Phelan 125 N Fourth pi
turning in 1916 Fields taught the street was taken to the hospital in bi
Pleasant Valley school for one term Henryetta today where she will un- and this fact coupled with our con-
then enlisted in the army at the out- dergo an operation Friday morning fidence in Okemah people to support
break of the World War in April Mrs Phelan is said to have been in a home industry of this kind are
1917 serving 18 months overseas poor health for some time ‘what led us to make the move”
Lyons-Quinn Pool
Being Extended
Wilcox sand producing area of the
Lyons-Quinn pool loomed strong
Monday when the Waite Phillips Oil
Indications of an extension to the
company found a showing of oil at
8490 feet at No 2 Jefferson in the
southeast of the northwest south-
east 13-11-11
The top of the lime was found at
8441 feet and a 4000000 foot show-
ing of gas was found at 3481 feet
At 3490 feet a showing of oil was
found The ’-inch casing is being run
now
This test is one-half mile north-
west of the Minnehoma Oil company
well which is the only producer in
that horizon The Waite Phillips test
found the sand several feet higher
than the Minnehoma and found ap-
proximately the same amount of gas
the Minnehoma well found and which
is now making 125 barrels of 44 grav-
ity oil daily
North Baltimore Area Into Spotlight
Again
The Independent Oil and Gas com-
pany apparently is getting a Wilcox
iroducer in the North Baltimore
ield at their No 1 D Jacobs in the
center of the west line of the north-
west of the northeast of 22-12-11
The top of the sand was found at
3508 feet and 3515 feet a showing of
oil was found and at 3519 feet there
was 300 feet of oil in the hole The
tools were pulled out and now the
big pipe is being pulled
( The same company’s No 1 Gard-
ner in the northeast of the southeast
southwest 15-12-11 has 400 feet of
oil in the hole in the sand at 3515 to
3522 feet The 5-inch casing is now
being run
The G and M Oil company is due Polls last Monday and stamped their library
to pick up the Wilcox sand in the approval of the move when they vot-1 In the basement surrounding the
next few nours Monday afternoon ed 1468 for and 172 against bonds main floor and on the second floor
at their No 1 Deer in the center of i for the purpose are rooms for Sunday school league
the south line of the southeast south-1 It is not decided just yet where the and other church activities
east 34-12-11 the last drilling depth structure will be placed Several lo- 1 The boiler room is equipped for
reported was 3550 feet The sand is cations have been suggested and the furnishing hot and cold air for the
expected to be encountered around people have been asked by the com- building
3565 feet Imissioners to offer any suggestion In the basement is also the cradle
The Josey Oil company had a little they might have to help decide the roll and beginners’ department es-
showing of oil and gas at No 4 matter It is announced that all pecially arranged for the comfort
fields in the center of the south line plans will be made and work will be and convenience of the little folk
of the northwest northwest 33-12- started on the building in the short-1 Perhaps the most effectively decor-
11 in the sand known as the second est possible time iated room is the Sunday school apart-
Deaner and topped at 2850 feet The I Following is a list of the 24 pre- ment for young married folks and
big pipe is being pulled cincts in the county and the total eligibles Reverting back to the main
The same company’s No 9 McCoy number of votes cast for and against auditorium a visitor is impressed
in the northeast of the southwest
northwest 83-12-11 found the first
Deaner Band at 2720 feet to 2780
feet and is drilling on down to the
second Deaner
Blakeley Test
The Blakely Oil and Gas company
topped the Deaner sand at 2706 feet
at their test in the southwest of the
southeast southeast '10-11-11 found
little showing of oil and gas at
2714 feet and are still drilling
On return from over-seas Fields en-
gaged in the newspaper business as
a reporter on the Oklahoma News
Oklahoma City He in succession be-
came sports editor political writer
city editor and managing editor of
the Oklahoma News I
Fields resigned from his place with
The News in June of this year when
he and McIntyre purchased the Guth-
Oklahoma’s oldest
j Tailv Lender
Lw80aDer and b
!iXT0fthisoai
iebed J £ the only native born
publisher of a daily newspaper in the
state having been born near Ada
iacame active pub-
paper Fields is be
—
newspaper field but has had wide ex-
perience in general business He is
a native of Illinois and had his first
experience in business there as a
Ford salesman in a day when the auto
sales game was in its infancy
McIntyre came to Oklahoma six
years ago He operated the Ford)
agency at Miami successfully for four j
years then went to Oklahoma City
SSMff SSS Te
' argest Ford agencies i the state
jjclntyre then for a time had the
and then
Waurika Okla agency
joined Fields in newspaper publica-
tion enterprises
McIntyre and Fields married Ha-
zel and Mildred Ballard respectively
daughters of Dr and Mrs M F Bal-
lard of Okemah
The stock of the Leader Publish
ing Co purchasers of The Ledger
is exclusively held by Fields and Me
Intyre and their wives The officers
of the parent company are Fields
president McIntyre secretary-treas-
urer and Mildred Fields and Hazel
jiMntyre vice-presidents These
four are also the directors of the par-
ent corporation
In the Okemah daily Fields will be
president and McIntyre secretary-
treasurer Loftus will be on the
Okemah board of directors instead
of Mildred Fields and Hazel McIn-
tyre The policies of the new daily will
strictly be independent and the ed-
itorial policies will be devoted to
community building
The Fields-Mclntyre newspapers
have as their slogan “Good News-
are not only sufficiently lighted but
properly lighted Most notable in the
lighting improvements is arrange-
ment of concealed lights in the ceil-
ing of the large auditorium These
are so arranged as to give a soft but
sufficient lighting gentle on the eyes
of both pastor and people
The floor of the auditorium has a
convenient bowled effect in common
with the latest impioved auditorium
architecture
The basement of the new building
is in itself as well equipped as the
main part of less pretentious
churches The principal room in the
basement is flitted for the accommo-
dation of 300 people It is a sort of
combination all-purpose room but is
intended mainly fori banquets and
other social functions
Adjoining the banquet room is a
spacious kitchen equipped with built-
in features and supplied with abun-
dant cooking utensils and tableware
Back and to one side from the pul-
pit is the pastor’s study splendidly
equipped for convenience and com-
Okfuskee county will have a new fort It contains among other
court house in the very near future things an olcb-time fire-place built
The voters of the county went to the a-la new-fangled style and a large
the bond issue
Okfuskee No 1
Okfuskee No 2
Creek No 1
Creek No 2
Paden No 1
Paden No 2 '
Paden No 3
Paden No 4
Castle “
Morse
Lester
Lincoln
okemah No 1
Okemah No' 2
Okemah No 3
Okemah No 4
Bearden No 1
Bearden No 2
Bearden No 3
Hickory No 1
Hickory No! 2
Weleetka No 1
Weleetka No 2
Weleetka No 3
PROCLAMATION
Be It Remembered that
seven years ago the combined ener-
gjeg an(j efforts of the patriotic peo-
pie 0f our fair land were united in a
titanic battle against the enemies of
civilization and that through the pa-
triotic sacrifices of our citizenship
the great war for democracy was sue-
ce3sfully ended and
pe It Remembered that November
th has been by Congress set aside
a3 a National holiday commemorat-
Now by authority vested in me as withheld
President of the Board of Trustees The new building is not absolutely
of the Town of Okemah State of Ok-1 fire proof but is practically so Six
lahoma I do hereby set aside and pro- exits are included in the structure
claim Wednesday November 11th 'so that in the remote eventuality of
1925 as a holiday and request that fire escape would be a simple mat-
the entire citizenship of the town of ter
Okemah pause in their labors and that "
all business houses close on that day MEDICAL ASSOCIATION TO
that the occasion may be celebrated
in the spirit in which it was intended
Dated this 24th day of October
1925
(SEAL) BURR RANDLES
President Board Trustees
Attest: J S PRICE
City Clerk
NEW LAUNDRY TO
BEGIN OPERATION SOON
Machinery for Brown’s new laun-
dry plant is expected to arrive here
this week according to George
Brown Jr manager If present
plans are not delayed the new plant
will be in operation about November
10
Work for the entire county will
a regular route
Several new
added to Okemah’s population to be
M E Church South
Almost Completed
Tho magnificent edifice for some
time under construction on North
Third street for the place of worship
of the Okemah congregation of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South
is nearing completion and it is ex-
pected that the main auditorium vill
be ready for services a week from
Sunday
The new edifice has many im
provements worthy of mention espe-
cially commendable being the light-
ing system All rooms of the church
with the Gothic effect of the ceiling
and the fact that arrangements are
made for the installation of electric
fans I
The feature of the church that is
perhaps most notable Is the beautiful
windows — some $2500 worth — (he
donations of member' and special
friends of the church Most beauti-
ful among these is one showing Christ
rescuing Peter- when the latter’s
faith fails him in his attempt to join
the Master walking on the waters and
another window depicting Christ at
' prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane
1 Among the donors of special win-
dows a visitor may find inscribed on
he various windows the following:
oy $cout troop No 2 Charles John-
on and family Joe 'B Anthony and
Ifamily To Mother Joel Johnson
Wm' Bonifield Wm B Grant In
i Memory of our Departed Comrades
Reynolds-Harjo Post No 123 Amer-
ican Legion In Memory of Marshall
Poorman Mother Mr and Mrs J S
Bearden In Memory of Nathan B
and Emmon Chism Mrs J A Kirch-
ner Mr and Mrs T H Ottesen:
short Moomaw family J T Johnson and
family VanWag’ner family Mr and
Mrs T L Bingham Mr and Mrs L
R Dobbins Tom and Billie Burke
S C Wilson and family Dr and Mrs
R Keyes Creed T Huddleston and
family Woman’s Misionary society
In Memory of Ural A Rowe the
Alathean Class C O White and
family Mrs G W Deer To Mothers
S A Duling and family Mr and
Mrs Robert Maddox Joseph Diep and
HOLD OPEN MEETING
The Okfuskee County Medical as-
i sociation will hold an open meeting
on November 2nd at 8:00 p m at
the Christian church
Dr F L Watson of McAlester will
make an address his subject “To
Establish Better Relations Between
the Public and the Medical Profes-
sion” Judge John L Norman dis-
trict judge and others will also make
addresses at this meeting
The expenses of these meetings are
being paid by the State Medical as-
sociation The public is cordially in-
vited to attend R KEYES
Secy Okfuskee Co Medical Ass’n
Schools Receive Money
For Poultry Raising
In order to create a greater inter-
est throughout the county in the rais'
M
in the county have been given an ap-
propriation to be used for the carry-
ing on of the work Appropriations
range from $10 to $50 said S E
Garrett county superintendent of
schools today
Estimates were submitted to the
county superintendent’s ' office and
where a district had failed to make
an appropriation the superintendent
added it
“It is a very fine work” said Mr
Garrett “and one that will pay the
county in dollars and cents to carry
on”
e m McIntyre
Secretary-Treasurer the Okemah
Daily Leader
BROADWAY
BEING PAVED
The Park Moran Paving company
started pouring concrete on West
Broadway early Monday morning
For several weeks the big steam
shovel has been at work removing
the hard surface and grading the
road down to the proper level for the
laying of concrete This work was
finished several days ago and the
steam shovel was placed at South
Fifth street at Broadway and will be-
gin work there soon
With favorable weather for the
work all the paving projects in Oke-
mah it is said will be brought to a
rapid close and the city will be able
to boast of approximately six miles
of new paving Probably the last pe-
titions of the present year were pre-
sented to the city council Bt their reg-
ular session last Monday night These
petitions asked for 18J4 blocks Bids
for these were ordered to be adver-
tised by the council
Rev W H Jenkin To
Be Pastor at Nowata
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Reverend W H Jenkin pastor of
the Methodist Episcopal church here
has received notification that he was
transferred at the general conference
to the church at Nowata Rev Jen-
kin and family are leaving this week
and he will preach his first sermon
in Nowata Sunday morning accord-
ing to present plans
The Reverend C A Erdman of
Bixby will take the place of Rev
Jenkin here as pastor of the local
church He was pastor of the church
at Collinsville before going to the
charge at Bixby He will deliver
his first sermon here Sunday morn-
ing Rev Erdman is a scholarly highly
educated man and an extremely able
minister
During the ministry of Rev Jen-
kin here the church has prospered
substantially His fine character
and impressive personality have made
him a friend to everyone His own
sincerity in his teachings his ability
to live as he taught others to live —
these things have been the chief fac-
tors in winning for him the distinc-
tion of having carried on a ministry
that has been successful in every re-
spect He has been pastor of the local
church for five years and each year
including the present one his congre-
gation has unanimously asked the
conference to place him here for an-
other year but this year the confer-
ence saw fit to send him elsewhere
Kansas City Man
Compliments Okemah
W H Roberts Kansas City branch
manager of the Willys-Overland cor-
poration is in Okemah today visiting
the Taylor Motor company local
dealers for his company Mr Roberts
is making a tour of the three states
Missouri Kansas and Oklahoma
which embrace the territory of his
branch office in Kansas City and is
visiting each dealer in these states
“I have never been in Okemah be-
fore” he said “and I have been
nursing a natural curiosity to visit
the place because of the many re-
ports I have heard about it being the
most remrakable little city in the
state Then the reports which Mr
Hathaway has been sending in regard-
ing sales records have substantiated
these reports in every way Now that
I am here I need no more proof that
Okemah is a real live little city”
These in brief embody the compli-
menting remarks which Mr Roberts
made concerning Okemah
REV WILLIAMS TO ATTEND
CONFERENCE AT HUGO
Rev B L Williams pastor of the
St Paul’s Methodist church south
here will attend the annual East
Oklahoma conference of the M E
church south to be held in Hugo next
Tuesday John M Moore bishop of
Dallas Texas will preside over the
meeting
This is the time when all Southern
Methodist ministers in the confer-
ence will be given assignments for
the coming year
Teachers Entertain
Parents of Students
The Junior high school teachers
gave a reception Wednesday after-
noon for the mothers of the students
in their building
The hour was set at 2:30 p m
but many of the mothers showed
more interest by coming early and
visiting the different rooms
gave them a chance to see what work
their boys and girls were really do-
ing and also some of their needs
At 2:30 the high school auditor-
ium was filled with happy mothers
he 11 Hf?il Unroof1 th display a emu oil Liinusey ice
w th® treef £enV company and Johnson Motor com-
ly moving in the breeze A hush 1 pany
r T7 when bol3 I A committee consisting of Fred
tl8°hn appeared trough and Mr Kretz was appoint-
to show their skill at archery A ied to investigate the question of the
fnrHnRnhinrnndHS?tInnedH n f r association furnishing maps to the'
8 -P?e°Ut8nd de postoffice department for the pur-
manded the reason for his presence i D0SG makim? Okemah a ritv nf the
a sword fight ensued but the gal- Fw ®iaaklnsf °kemah cty 01 the
iZVWBi1LfhrPrleBtrHndHbB0M ®obinhoKod I Ed Holmes pointed out to the as-
rimt f-ilnJiL6 ! to b®' sociation the fact that advertising
d After their depBrtureifor Okemah as a city has been
tbeAthrLtBwln ?wayed J°y- greatly neglected that other neigh-
t!aId nmedi?te-1 boring cities think enough of Oke-
wint0iw'm’tben'ma’s business to place signs at the
rinraW!£n£t!iCeib8eafc' Many jWj r ! vefy outskirts of this city advertis-
andde‘ I inZ their own To back Sp his sin-
f?ir Indlan 1 cerety Mr Holmes agreed to paint
wT he? were any sjgn for the cjty free of charge
anxmiis to show their talent at danc- if the city would erect it A commit-
-!“dd8"!y teen consisting of N D Harkey T
L Bingham and F M Streetman was
peared and only the slow beat of the
tom-tom was audible
It takes real management to fur-
nish a room when three suitors ar-
rive but one young lady showed her
skill by making furniture out of the
by covenn them
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i a!WayS is one
Ld ?ndfather’ ?aP-
5y 'Kr 8a m thelruolda?£ SU
P°ld I!?8
a beautiful accompaniment to this
picture
“Sweet Adaline” appeared in her
charming way making all wonder if
she could be real
“Old Black Joe” smoked away
with his pipe of clay as he stumbled
along with his can? Lonely bent
and gray he was
Two Spanish dancers slipped into
view and whirled to the lovely tune
of “Marcheta”
“I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles”
was very effective as an accompani-
ment to the little girl with her spool
and soapsuds blowing bubbles into
the air
Last of the musical pictures was
our beloved Statue of Liberty Her
Clm serenity as the stirring notes
of “Columbia the Gem of the Ocean”
wafted on the air
Everyone wondered what would
happen next when the six red-headed
girls appeared as head lights The
King entered roaring and storming
to announce his majastic self
are out It was also pointed out that
volunteers are ready to do the work
whenever the material is placed by
the county It was decided to attend
to this matter through the county
commisioners as soon as possible
A unanimous expression of thanks
to the Okemah Ledger was voted by
the association for the manner in
which that institution has helped in
the matters of the association print-
ing Court C&meragraph
Photographs Records
An interesting work is going on in
the office of County Clerk J R
Day through the use of the camera-
graph for preserving court records
The instrument was first used in
May of this year but was not at that
time the complete success it has since
Ip'il ' proved to be Less than half a vol-
tv niiuuuiivc sna ssicsjcsabiv sou AI1B
queen appeared in a graceful and l11?1 w?a c®mPleJed ®n
elegant manner Then the delicate ’"aV f’ack°A a"u Varlty ltl1 th?
little princess twisted in showing she ' ‘“tncacies of the machine allowed it
was not delicate in temper When to remaln ldle unt1 we®ks &g0
the prince arrived and asked for the ?!bf” f sojourner in the city ex-
daughter’s hand the king queen and its workings more fully cor-
princess were angered This caused T®ct?d lts temporary delinquency and
- - -it has since been working like a
charm
Four large volumns of court rec-
ords have now been photographed
and filed according to the loose leaf
system Three other volumes are in
partial completion
When the machine was purchased
in May some 3000 old records had to
be photographed before starting on
records of current date
There are today still 2000 old rec-
ords to be photographed and filed
But the machine is now working so
rapidly that it is thought three weeks
more will see the old records all
photographed and filed and the force
in the clerk’s office ready to start on
the records of current date
When the machine is at its best as
high as a record a minute is taken
care of In' one day of 5 hours and
5 minutes 156 records were photo-
graphed and filed with a force of
two By the old method two stenog-
raphers working eight hours a day
could copy and file only 30 or 40
records
A peculiarity of the machine is
that court records written in black
ink can be protographed in 10 sec-
onds while it takes a minute and a
quarter to photograph records where
purple ink has been used
murder in the heart of the prince and
he slew them all with a fly swatter
Thus ended the “Tragedy of Cannibal
Isle”
Nothing was more impressive than
the months of the year January
with her snow and ice February as a
valentine March with her kites flut-
tering April with her Fool May
displaying beautiful flowers June
and her bride and groom July with
her patriotism August doing a bit
with heat and fans September and
the school days October was real
“spooky” November with the Puri-
tans and December and our be-
loved Santa Claus
After the curtain fell Mrs Mae
Noble talked to the mothers getting
their cooperation for organizing a
P T A
The following officers were elect-
ed: Mrs S C Wilson chairman
Mrs J E McKinney vice chairman
Mrs Wheatley secretary and treas-
urer Mrs Massey child welfare Mrs
Frank Martin advertising Mrs
Burns ways and means Mrs Car-
roll Playground Mrs Ross library
We are sure this building will
show up as good as the others with
these able officers at the wheel
After the meeting was closed the
ladies were asked to move closer to
the well where delicious punch and
cakes flowed freely to about 200
mothers The punch was made by
the Liberty drug store cakes by
Cox’s Goodie Shop
The teachers Weaver Steeds
Carr Barnes Pitts Younger Fah-
nestock and Turner were assisted by
Mrs Mae Noble grade supervisor
and J A Estill superintendent
Root Knot Nematodes
Prevalent in County
Dr F M Rolf professor of botany
and plant life A & M college was
in Okfuskee county analyzing plant
life and investigating plant diseases
Friday
Dr Wolf found the “root knot
neamatodes” prevalent in cow peas
and cotton in certain sections of the
county This is one of the most de-
structive of plant diseases of the
south It is estimated that in certain
communities of Georgia it has re-
duced the cotton yield as much as
80 percent Light sandy soils are
the most susceptible to it Rotation
of crops not subject to the disease is
the only method of successfully com-
batting this malady
Only a few fields were visited
hence Dr Wolf was unable to say to
what extent the territory affected
might extend - -
MERCHANTS
HOLD MEET
The regular monthly business meet-
ing of the Okemah Retail Merchants’
association was held last Monday eve-
ning and a dinner was served by Cir-
cle number three of the Baptist
church Ladies’ Aid society Twenty-
inis eight members were present W C
appointed to investigate the cost of
erecting signs and to select suitable
places for them
It was recommended by S C Wil-
son that the roads passing the
ranches owned by Camp Brothers and
John Earnest be repaired Mr Wil-
i son stated that Camp Brothers have
been diligent workers on this road
i several years past but at this
me it needs some special attention
owing to the fact that some bridges
Alumni Beat High's
With Startling Score
A crowd went out to the fair
grounds Thursday to see the "Alum-
inums” do unto the 1925 eleven
whatsoever they would
The game had not progressed far
until it was evident that the “has
beens” were too much for the “isers”
They went through the lines with
ease and proved an invincible bunch
of use-to-be’s — entirely too fast for
this years grids
An attempt was made to keep the
score but numbers of three figures
are not in good taste in football
games and the count was abandoned
early with the general agreement
that it should be reported as “ ‘steen
to nothin’ ” favor of the metalic vis-
itors A spirit of joviality pervaded the
atmosphere much merriment was in-
dulged and as some correspondents
are prone to say: “A good time was
had by all”
Among the ’lumni 'leven were Sib-'
ley Huser Thomas Gettis Catlett
Autrey Parham Lockhart Raybourn
and Madison There were a few
others — in fact a feature of the game
was the frequent substitution of
players on the part of the “old
timers” '
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Gaston, O. C. The Okemah Ledger (Okemah, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 29, 1925, newspaper, October 29, 1925; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1862622/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.