State Sentinel (Stigler, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 8, 1914 Page: 1 of 8
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‘THE PEOpUe’s'pAPERT
STATE SENTINEL Established 1900
IIASKEL COUNTV LEADER Established 1909
STIGLER OKLAHOMA JANUARY 8 1914
VOLUME §
NUMBER 41
LYCEUM COURSE
ON THE I7TH
CHILDREN MIST
'ATTEND SCHOOL
PHEHBGE
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HAS SERVED AS DEPUTY IN COURT
HOUSE SINCE STATEHOOD
U Whitlock who this week an-
nounces for Sheriff is possibly one
of the best known men In Haskell
County he having beerf a office dep-
uty since statehood and having
met most of the taxpayers of the
county In his capacity He was the
office deputy under L D Allen dur-
ing his term of office nd since has
been In the Treasurer's office
Mr Whitlock is well qualified in
every respect has a thorought knowl-
edge of the duties of the office of
Sheriff and understands the condi-
tions In Haskell County He has
many friends among the farmers of
the county as well as the business
men we will give him a hearty sup-
port for the place
Aside trorn his ability In his office
work the courteous and friendly
treatment Mr Whitlock has at all
times given the citizens of the county
has made him many friends and sup-
porters o
Judge Brown went to Muskogee
Monday on legal business
— — — o —
Attorney E O Clark made a busi-
ness trip the first of the week to Mus-
kogee o
Mrs G W Pope returned Satur-
day from’ Fort Smith w here she made
a short visit '
o
Mrs Clyde Etter and son Clyde
Jr arrived here Sunday from Dallas
Texas for a visit with her husband
Clyde Etter
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HAD BIG GUN
Calvin Orr who resides near town
was arrested on the street Wednes-
day by City Marshall Hickman Orr
had concealed on hla person a big
“Hog Leg” He was arraigned before
Justice Crews charged with carrying
a concealed weapon and plead guilty
and was given a fine of $2500 and
the cost which amoutned to about
$3700
o - —
$10 AND
' Last Saturday night while the
show was In progress at the Lyric
Theatre one Zack Wornlck walked
up to the ticket window and asked
MIbs Emma Klnsworthy the young
lady selling tickets to give him
change for $1000 producing a bog- j
ua ten-dotlar bill While Miss Kins- I
worthy was counting out the change (
Wornlck grabbed the money and
made bis escape In the dark The
bill left by Wornlck was a whiskey
advertisement and looked something
like a $1000 bill on one side He
had tried to get It cashed several
times on the street and had approch-
ed several parties
Wornlck la about 18 years old and
la said to be of unsound mind and
subject to flu On thla account Mr
E P Mathea proprietor of the Lyric
Theatre did not prosecute him but
allowed his father J M Wornlck to
pay back the amount the boy bad
stolen and the cost amounting to
$1650 and the case was dismissed
The Lyceum numbers booked with
the Mutual Lyceun Bureau of Chica-
go will be given one on the 17th day
of January and a second on the 31st
of January
The Stlgler committee this year
choose six numbers four of which
were to be sent by the Claxler Ly-
ceum Bureau and two by the Mutual
company mentioned above
The committee chose M L Cotton
as manager of the course who made
all arrangements for the coming of
the first number which was Mies
Rense By errors In booking the
company failed to send Miss Rense
Then they wanted to substitute other
numbers for all but the Rounds Or-
chestra and finally the Rounds Or-
chestra wrote that they could not fill
the date so the company was asked
! to withdraw Its contract which they
have done The other company Is
holding us to their contract and their
first number “The Avon Sketch
Club” will be here on the 17th of
January
At that time the committee will be
glad to have the holders of the sea-
son tickets discuss what to do about
the other numbers on the course
No one regrets more than those
who have done the work getting up
the course the failure of the first
numbers to appear
STIGLER COMMITTEE
o —
Wade Denton formerly district
clerk of Haskell County but Who has i
been residing at Kansas Oklahoma j
for the past two years Is here this i
week on business matters and mlngl-
i lng with friends Mr Denton Is cash-
i fer of the First State Bank of Kan-(
sas
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ATTEMPT
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Jim McDaniel of Cowlington
Earl Baker of Bokoshe and a young
man by the name of Springer also of
Bokoshe were arrested last Thursday
at Bokoshe by City Marshal J H
Gray and Constable M Young on
charges of attempted robbery Their
preliminary hearing was held Satur-
day before Justice Baker Woodward
at Bokoshe and Jim McDaniel was
held to the district court of LeFlore
County In the sum of $200000 Earl
Baker and Springer were released
The deal was of a high handed na-
ture and the circumstances in the
case are as follows: Jim McDaniel
was at one time cashier of the Far-
mers State Bank of Cowlington but
sold hla Interest some time ago to
Tom and Chas Overstreet and was
succeeded as cashier by Tom Over-
street The Overstreets are promi-
nent people of that locality and deal
extneely In cattle Jim McDaniel
being part Indian owns considerable
land in that locality He was well
acquainted with the business of the
bank and while at Bokoshe Wednes-
day ef last week put In a telephone
call to the First National Bank of Ft
Smith representing himself as Chas
Overstreet He requested the bank
at Fort Smith to send him $200000
on the evening train which that bank
agreed to do but the money did not
come until the next morning When
the money arrived the station agent
took It to a local bank In Bokoshe
which notified the bank at Cowling-
ton that there were $200000 there
for Mr Overstreet Mr Overstreet
thinking something was wrong went
to Bokoshe and located the party by
the telephone call which was put In
from the livery barn of Earl Baker
o—
A H Hendrix cotton buyer re-
turned the first of the week from
Shreveport La where he spent the
holidays with relatives and friends
THE STUDENTS ARE ENTHUSIASTIC IN THEIR WORK AND UNDER
THE ABLE MANAGEMENT Of SUPT M L COTTON AND HIS
ABLE CORPS OF ASSISTANTS JIIE STIGLER SCHOOLS
ARE THE BEST EVER HAD IN STIGLER
The students came back to school
after the two weeks vacation ready
for work Monday morning January
5 a very Interesting Chapel service
was held
Prof Cotton gave the students
some of the good advice of which he
posessea such an abundance He
told them that the best and surest
way to spell “success” is with four
letters and these four letters are
“W-O-R-K” The High School Debat-
ing team have Just won the debate
with Salllsaw the first stepping stone
to the State championship and the
debaters gave talks about the trip
All three of them spoke especially
of the superiority of the Stlgler
School the order In class-room and
pn play-ground the spirit of the stud-
ent body they found far better than
any of the schools they had visited
This certainly speak well for the
faculty of Stlgler It shows that they
mean business and are receiving the
hearty co-operation of most of the
student body
County Superintendent W C
Shelton who made the trip with the
debators and who was one of the
judges gave a splendid description
of the trip and the debate He also
spoke of the superiority of the Stlg-
ler schools Ills talk was enjoyed
very much by everyone G A Hol-
ley Treasurer of the School Board
was also present and gave the stud-
ents an excellent talk If they would
put Into practice things mentioned
and quit the habits he advised them
to quit they would all be better moa
and women
The school has a splendid start fcr
the New Year but it Is your duty as
patrons of the school nnd citizens of
Stlgler to “keep the ball a-rolling“
The students and faculty are glad
to welcome the new students Damon
Gay Air la Rattree and Tom Combs
and hope they will give fresh life to
the schoot and assist in making it the
very best In Oklahoma
The next debate In the series of
State debates will be held January
the 30th The Stlgler and Checotah
teams will meet In this section The
Checotah team won State Champion-
ship last year Stlgler was defeated
by them and lost out of the race ao
It will be like the meeting of “two
oid friends" The Stlgler team Is
working and working hard It la not
their Intention to stop this year be-
fore the goal Is reached
The same question “Resolved that
the legislature of Oklahoma should
be reduced to a single branch com-
posed of not more than twenty-five
members to be paid a fixed salary
and to be In continuous session or at
such times as will enable them to
perform fully the duties of the legis-
lature" will be debated Stlgler has
the negative aide The place of the
COUNTY “RADS” HOLD A LONG SESSION
The Board of County Commission-
ers met Monday In regular session
with all members present — Janies
Bowers R M Muncy and W F
Hammons '
Commissioner W F Hammons was
elected chairman of the board for the
ensuing year
C F Smith was appointed consta-
ble pf Machlre township to serve at
the direction of the board
C M Randall was appointed road
supervisor for road which was for-
merly district No 2
John Martlndale was appointed
road supervisor for what was former-
ly road district No 4 Brooken town-
ship J II Lipscomb was appointed rotd
supervisor for what was formerly
read district No 3 Brooken township
A B McCoy was appointed road
I
debate la unsettled Checotah has the
choice of place
If you are Interested In school
work of the best opportunities for
yoq to see what the students are
doing Is on Friday afternoon Go and
spend the afternoon In the class-
room with them before rjcess and
after that listen to the program that
will be rendered In thla way ycu
will be more capable of Judging If
you care to pass Judgement on the
work and on the school at a whole
don't criticize unless you have at
least listened to one class recite
The following program will be ren-
dered on Friday January 9:
8ong Society Roll Call Answer-
ed with quotations from Shakespeare
Question Bfix Pauleve Counterman
Plano Solo Ella Rose Declamation
Robert Huckalbee High School Not-
es Zema Stambaugh Violin Solo
Jessie Sims Prophecy Andrew Hol-
ley Debnte — Resolved that socialism
Is a good form of government Affir-
mative Wilbur Holleman and Will i
Hurst Negative Jim Anderson and
Vlte Booth: Chorus Cleo Cotcher
Sue Bench Lucy Murphy Wiona
Johnson Irene Johnson and Bessie
Bower Reading Nellie' Stratton
Plqno Solo Iva Folsom Dialogue
Enjle Stambaugh and Ruth Bench
a i — T I' 4am C!ma a n 4 C f Kv4
Plano Duett Ester Sims and Sibyl
Callaway Declamation Jewel Chad-
wick Essay Winnie Graves
Come and If you are a knocker i
you will leave the building at four!
o'clock a booster If you are neither
I'knocker or booster come you wlllj
fall on the right side of the fence if
you are a booster you will come ard
enjoy yourpelf you have that right
The High School has organized an
Orchestra consisting of seven pieces
two cornets three violins a claronet
and snare drum They will render
two numbers between the Acts of the
play that Mrs Merrill's class are
going to give at the Auditorium on
tommorrow night (Friday) January
9th
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Sunday morning Jan Jltli 1011
Sunday School 10 a m G A
Holley Superintendent Young peo-
ple 6:15 p m Miss Sutton Presi-
dent Prayer Meeting Wednesday at
7 p m Choir practice following
Prayer Meeting Wednesday evening
Preaching at 11 a m and 7:15 p m
by the Pastor Morning Theme
Who Rules Your Home?” Evening
Theme “The Bondage Of Sin” All
are Invited A welcome like your
Mother’s Good Music
W T SCOTT Pastor
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The Home fission Society met on j
Wednesday afternoon with Mrs Bob
Blakely
supervisor of road district No 1
Brooken township
Raymond Gotcher was appointed
clerk of the county court to succeed
Oren Richardson resigned at a sal-
ary of $75 00 per months
Reports of all count yofflcers for
the months of December were approv-
ed It was ordered by the board that
a bounty of $250 be provided by the
county for each wolf hide of each
wolf actually raptured and killed In
Haskell County and that the amount
will be paid upon presentation to
either of the county commissioners
State Sentinel was given the Com-
missioners proceedings to publish for
the months of January February and
March
George Cook wa appointed Justice
of the peace of the dlstrlot ef Stlgler
The New School law which became
effective January lat 1914 makes It
the duty of any parent or guardian
to compel any person under his con-
sol as children or ward over the
age of eight and under theage of 16
to attend school 66 per cent of the
number of days that school is main-
tained In the district
It Is the duty of the teacher and
board to find If any person Is absent
from school without a proper excuse
and If ao to advise the county super-
intendent or that fact -It then be-
comes the duty of the county super-
intendent to aivlse the county attor-
ney who may file complaint In any
justice court of the county
"Our attention Is often called to
the fact that boys and girls are ab-
sent from school on very trivial mat-
ters For a boy or girl to lose a day
from school unnecessarily Is nothing
short of criminal I would urge the
teacher to report promptly alt esses
of violation of the compulsory law
The training offered by the public
schools Is practically the only heri-
tage a poor man has It is then too
bad for this heritage to be wasted be-
cause a boy is left an orphan or be-
cause he Is the son of and Indifferent
parent who feels that because he has
no education h!s boy needs ndbe Ed-
ucation Is economy The boys who
attend school today will be educated
men of tomorrow The boys who are
Idle today will be the uneducated
men of tomorrow
I sincerity hope that there will be
no occasion to file complaint against
any patrons £f the schools of Haskell
County
Very Truly Yours
WILL C SHELTON
SPECIAL
THORSDAT
A special election will be held in
Stlgler next Thursday Jauuary 15
for the purpose of submitting to the
qualified tax-paying voters of the
town the proposition of voting $12-
500 in bonds to be used in sinking
wells and to Improve the present
waterworks and sewerage system
If the election carries the money
derived from the sale of the bonds
will be used as follows: $6500 of the
amount will be used to take care of
the sewerage $6000 for waterworks
purposes $2000 to build a sedimen-
tation basin and treating plant to
purify the water In the dam $2000
to buy meters to put on all consume a
and $2000 to be used In drilling test
wells
The proposed test wells will be
drilled northeast of town on the J
S Stlgler land and it is raid that $2-
000 will be sufficient to drill three
wells The engineer who was here
recently recommended to the Board
of Trustees that the first well be put
dow-n 500 feet The deepest well In
town is at the light plant which la
280 feet and this well has a fine vein
of water
A septic tank Is to be built In the
west part of town for Bewerage pur-
poses in a new location as the one
a present is near T H McClInton'
feed lot and will have to be abandon-
ed and filled In
The water heretofore has been bad
and unfit for domestic purposes and
the purpose of the bond issue is to
put the waterworks and sewerage
system in better shape
o
B J Spring a prominent citizen
of Klnta was a visitor to Stlgler the
first part of the week
Clyde Culver whose home Is at
Bokoshe but who has been working
at Tulsa for the past several months
was seen In Stlgler the latter part of
last week
IN THE
RACE
WILL Hty RACE FOR ASSES-
SOR OF HASKELL COUNTY
This week Frank Prentice an-
nounces his candidacy for the posi-
tion of Assessor of Haskell County
Frank mgde the race against Louis
LeFlore and came within a few votes
of winning the race last time Frank
Is well known to the people of Has-
kell County having been raised la
this part of the country He Is thor-
oughly competent and efficient a
young man of Integrity and a first
class business man Some six years
ago Frank lost his right leg In a hay
bailing machine near Garland where
he was engaged In farming After
this he hal to change hla profession
and came to Stlgler and accepted a
position with T H McClInton buy-
ing cattle and handling the stock de-
partment He has held a steady pos-
ition with McClInton during the past
six years He U possibly one of the
best informed men In Haskell Coun-
ty as to land and stock values and
would undoubtedly make a fair and
impartial assessor both for the coun-
ty and the farmers of the county
Frank’s candidacy is subject to the
action of the Democratic party he
having been a warm believer In the
prijujples of the party all his life
Frank will make a strong race as he
has many good friends over the coun-
ty and is In every way worthy of the
place
o
CASE DISMISSED
The preliminary hearing of Alvin
Fincher of Keota charged with raps
and Incest was held Wednesday be-
fore Justice Crews and the case was
dismissed for lack of evidence H
C Watts also of Keota charged with
the same offense his 13-year daugh-
ter being implicated Is still in Jail
having failed to make bond which
was placed at a $100000 in each of
the cases
o
Miss Mattie Pope returned home
the latter part of last week where
she had been spending the holidays
with relatives and friends at Clarka-
vllle Washita and other points in
Arkansas
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THE NEW
To the County Superintendent
County Treasurers Teachers and
School Officers:
The new school law which became
effective January 1st 1914 makes
the county treasurer the custodian of
the school district funds Under the
provisions of this law the county
treasurer will pay the warrants Issu-
ed by the school district clerk against
the funds of the district It Is the
wish of this Department that all war-
rants be placed on a cash basis and
bring par under the operation of thla
law It Is possible for the county
superintendent to make arrange-
ments whereby this may be accom-
plished I suggest that the county superin-
tendents and county treasurers make
arrangements to apply to thla prob-
lem chapter 12 of the Session Laws
of 1913 whlah provides for the In-
vestment of the sinking funds in the
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Milam, C. D. State Sentinel (Stigler, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 8, 1914, newspaper, January 8, 1914; Stigler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2028711/m1/1/: accessed May 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.