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MADI Li MARSHALL COUNTY OKLAHOMA ''''' Thursday February 5 1925 Number 36
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MIFF LEG--
GOES AFTER
STOLEil CARS
Ammoommwmp
Recover Six C r s---
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Wait With Bushed
Carfor Last
Sheriff Edd Long - and his
deputies are determined that
Marshall county shall not be
the rendezvous- for 'wet" or
stolen cars and as a result six
-cars have been recovered - and
- five persons arrested in con-
nection therewith since he was
sworn in as sheriff in January
The latest car to recovered was
a' fount! Monday bused in a pasture
seven miles west of Madill No one
was-with it so Sheriff Longand Deu-
r' titles Jones Glenn and Dickerson Went
to tho scene Monday' late and awaited
developments ' Dickerson stayed
with the car and til'other officers
' stationed themselves out from the
car- That evening about 7:30 Ma-
rion Johnson came - to the car and
started to get it Whelt he found Dick-
erson there awaiting him: Dickerson
' told him to consider himself under
tirrest but Johnsou about fauell and
started tik running but was soon pre-
Tailed upon to stop
- Mao Charged in Ardmore
Hiner Johnson was also arrested
in connection with this en r W liieli Wit
-said to have been stolen at Ardmore
- Sunday Charges were filed against
both Johnsons in this county for liar
ing possession of a 14 tolen car and
they were turned over to sheriff
Loudon of Carter county -where they
tte chargNi with stealing the car
Thirteen Arrested
Thirteen Men have been arrested
a nd cha Toed with vicating the pro-
hibition law sinee Sheriff Long came
into office Four st1144 amt still-
- Louses have been raided and four
persons arrested in connection there-
with Eightten Wen have been
ed in the month
Dr copeland Will '
Hold Week Meeting
In Kingston in July
— 1)r Theodore Copeland Dallas
yexas who closed the big month re
-rival at the Methodist Tabernacle
Sunday night hold a week's re-
- Yival in Kingston in' July 'according
to Rev Pickens pastor of the:Meth-
odist shurch there
The Meeting Will include thebe-
ginning and ending Sabbaths
The Kingston pastor dismissed olds
(Iwo vongregattion every Sunday in
order to attend t he l'PVi Val tiVre Ind
prvselit Pt 8hIIUSt C'Very service
JUNIOR RED CROSS
e WORKERS HAVE DAILY
- PROURAM IN SCHOOLS
' '
A report from the junior Ited Cross
chapter in the Madill public sellouts
was made by Mrs Martha Watkins
ellairman at the meeting held Nion-
day of th' 1udi1I lied Cross chap-
ter slum Mg- t he accomplishments
Made by the juniors in membership
and in observation of health rules
The south ward is 100 per cent in
Membership while two roonin in the
torth ward have all studets enroll-
d as members
- All moms having membership have
interest maintained by the distribu-
tion Of the calendar bulletins end
the Red Cross News The teachers
report quite an interest in the work
The south ward rooms have a heal-
th program which will be ontitmed
until sehool Closes with an Object In
teaching the child the blessings of
health and the adoption of rules of
living that will continue thruout life
Picture priziV by the Delphisns
to the first stxtb grades and by the
tighth grade to the junior high'svh001
stimulate tbe interest
Marshall County
- Raised btrgeit
Cotton Crop Evc-
Ilarshall county produced the tar-
&test i-otton crop in -its history In
1924 secording to the report of tile
eensus bureau this week made pub-
Me a closing period January — 23
1923 The county produced 1T078
bales in 1924
In 1923 the county produced oosa
bates and the lagest produced prior
to this year was when a production
of 13978 in 1920
NOTED AUTHOR OF
SOUTHLAND IS DEAD
George W Cabie author of a sioee
or Jnore well known books died at
his winter home at St- I-etersburg
Florida
He was St years old Dis bride
of but a year ago Wan with him at
the time orhis death:
Southern born and bred Coble
xvits one of the best known writers of
I he mouthiand
NEW CASES DISTRICT CIVIL
Sears & Boebuck Company i-s J
H Yow Abstract of Judgement
Tobc Whitley vs Ruth- 'Whitley
Divorce
Jesse 11 Hatchett vs D B Tal-
la ferro- et al Debt
H M Thompson vs Cornelia F
Thompson Divorce and Alimony
Jesse M Ilatchett vs A F Stan-
ley I County Treasurer Refund of
Ta zes
The American Investment Com-
pany vs Jeff Craddock et al Debt
and Foeclosure -
NEW CASES COUNTY CRIMIN-
State of Oklahoma vs Fred
Mutz Transporting Intoxicating
Liquor
- State of Oklahoma vs Gus Faulk
nor Fighting on the streets of Ma-
dill -
state of Oklahoma vs Bill (Ass
ct - al Possession of Intptleating
Liquor - -
State of Oklahoma vs Ionard
McKenzie Drunkenness
State of Oklahoma vs Fred
Blakely ' Selling Intoxica ti n g
Liquor 1- "
State of Oklahoma vs Fred Blak
ley Transporting Intoxicating'
Liquor
- MARRIAGE LICENSE
John Crabtree 70 Madill Mrs
Nannie Robertson 53 Madlil
I:A Click 24 Kingston Miss
O'Bera Bell 21 Kenefiek
NV C Hewitt 22 Lebanon
Florence Shelton 21 Lebanon-
BIG 110ISERY HEAD
COUGRATULATES THE
BUILDERS OF CITY
Reads The Madill Record Chamber
of Commerce Edition— '
Vision Displayed
Edward Fresehl president of the
lloleproof lIoisery company of Mil-
Waukee -Wisconsin has written
persmd letter to the Williams Store
In acknowledgementee a copy of the
chamber of commera:! edition of The
Madill Record reccivr4 by him The
bigholsery concern edvertised thrn
the Williams Store in the big illus
trated edition' that Is being walled
over-the United States' '
The Holepruof nolaery Company
carries a big Ansidefrout-page ad-
vertisement monthly-in the Saturday
Evening Post at an'-iexpenditure of
Peventl thousand doers for cachad-
vertisement Eresehl ' congratulates the
builders of Madill in his personal
letter to the Williams Store Ithdsays
that is significant in relation to
the achievement Avbich these build-
ers have crowded into the twenty-
fi yea rs
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MRS ELLIS PADOETT -
DIED MONDAY AFTERNOON
' Mrs May Padge!t 33 wife of Ens
Padgett Madill barber died at the
Tamily home la soutit Iai d ill 101F
day afternoonfiftei slOCit Illness
only - '
Funeral services -were' held in the
Christion church' in Oakland- Tues
day afternoon at 2:30 o'clok Rev
IL White 'pastor of the
Chnrch of Christ Madill conducting
the services Interment was made In
the Madill-Oakland -cetnetery
lowing the services
Mrs Patigett was born February
5 1802 and was almost 33 years Of
1We-311(41 she died -
- The deceased IR survived by a bus
band and one child
-Less than a year ago Mr and Mrs
Padgett lost their household goods In
a fire that destroyed the house in
whih they were living
FORMER MADILL PASTOR
- IS BUILDING CHURCH
-
Rev M A Cook pastorf the
ti -o
lvary Baptist church of Denison
Texss and former pastor of the First
Baptist church of Madill was In
town this week and reports that his
congregation is going to complete a
$60000 church in' south Denison
The Rev Cook has had fifty-one
ditions to his church since assuming
the pastorate
NICE WORK
The Messenger acknowledges
receipt of the Madill Itecods
'Chamber of Commerce Editi"
which passed from the - presses
about the first - It contains 56
patis Of descriptive data pertain-
Lag Lb Marshall County and is gen
orously patronizea by the busi
uess interests of the ettunti seat
Apart from the evident financial I
uce es s of the publication the
work of typograpy is excellent the
Edition 14 a worthy souvenir
Messenger congratulates Impson
& Floyd on their N plendid effort
it will greatly assist in putting
old Marshall In the limelight
Marshall County Alessenger
Successor to The Madill Times
MADILLMARSHALL COUNTY OKLAHOMA
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DALLAS F11111 SAYS
RECORD EDITIO1 IS
CREDIT TO MADILL
Says Madill Chamber of Commerce
Is Aggressive—Men
- Loyal
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A big wholesale dry goods firm of
Dallas 'DARN the- Higginbotham-
Ba iley-Logan Company thru 0 S
Doggers Manager says that The
Madill Record Chamber of Commerce
Edition speaks a great deal for the
aggressiveness of the chamber of
commerce and the business men of
the town who 'Shave so loyally sup-
ported this spiendid edition"
' 'The letter follows
Mr J I) Leeper -
Scott-Leeper Co
Oka ' -
Dear 'Mr Leeper:
Please accept my thanks for the
Chamber of Commerce Edition of
the Madill Record received by me
today with the compliments of your
firm
It is 'with- great pleasure that I
have eareully seanned this maga-
zine and find the faces of BO many of
my Madill friends therein - It seems
to me that this speaks a great deal
or the aggressiveness of the Madill
Chamber of Commerce and the busi-
ness men of that town who have so
loyally Supported this spienaid edi-
tion - -
I thank you very much for emem-
bering me with this copy I trust
that I shall have the pleasure of see-
ing you in Dallas market at an early
date and with kindest personal re-
gards I Fri
Yours very truly
Iligginbotha m-Bailey-Loga it co
0 S RoggeSS
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RED CROSS HEADQUARTERS
SAY ROLL CALL SPLENDID
Word from the headquarters of the
Western Division Of the American
Red Cross at St Louis Missouri
read at the meeting of the chapter
Monday afternoqu gives the local
roll callreeently made here as splen-
The letter to Mr A' A Kelley ac-
knowledged the-rceelpt of a cheek
fo $7050 for the national organiz:t-
Wm and a roster of the new officers
of the local chapter -
FORMER MARSHALL COUNTY-
FARMER RETURNS FROM -
! :COLORADO TO LEM HERE
Mr and Mrs W IL Scott and fain-
tly have returned to Marshall county
after a four years leaveof absence
an& will make their home out on
Route lt For the past four 3-ears
they have been living at Kendrick
Colt kra do -
''it halls too nmeh in Colorado"
paid M Scott 'I moved back to
3lars11al1 Nvbere I could make
a (op Ilad fine health out in Col-
orado but never made any erops:
Ilad the dActor in my house one
time but I knev- it because ht rode
thirty-five miles" -
KELLAM STORE PEOPLE
ARE BUYING IN DALLAS
01NtaaaMe$N
pr and Mrs Joe 'Kel laM Ntrs
Bettie Gilliam and 3IrsW '1oire
are In Dallas Te Xati thiS w(wk buy-
ing for the Joe Kellam he Mr
and Mrs Konam and
lett Sunday and M Moore Tnesday
MRS SMALL IS BUYING
MILLINERY STOCK IN DALLAS
Ms If E Smut left Sunday for
Ilus Texas where she is purchas-
ing her opening millinery stock
Mrs''Sinall will open her stock in the
'Williams Store tOdeany- The new
millinery will be an up-to-dale shop
of the latest in millinery Mrs
Small hos been with the Joe Kellum
Incorporated for the ' post - three
years
Archerd Teacher
Gets 422 Eggs From
26 Hens' hi January
7 (John -Lonergan)
Omar Brewster teacher at the
Archard school was In Madill Mon-
day and reported the very satisfac-
tory results he has been getting from
him flock of pure-bred Bull Orping-
tons Although there were only twen
ty-six bons and pullets in the flock
they inid 422 eggs in January which
ti4 better tl)an 14 eggs a day ranking
a production of nearly 53 per eent
Mr Brewster has been feeding
Liberty laying mash for more than
two months and is well satisfied
with' tho results For scratch- feed
be feeds wheat in the litter in the
late afternoon and t4 ea I t erm it in the
evening- where the hens can find it
when they come off the roost in the
morning During the cool mornings
be provides warm drinking water
and about 2:30 P M the flock in fed
r wet mash of table Pergps end moist
ened dry mash Dry mash in kept
before the flock at all times This
is similar to the practice that has
proved so successful in Dr Hart's
flock
Mr Brewster plans to continue
raising purebred Buff Orpingtons
and is mating his flock for the Lreed
ing sengtra
and Marshall County News - DeMocrat
mEmmLIwwffodmTdimmmiww
Thursday February 5 1925
MADILL WATER LIAll
TAKES COURSE
FILTRAT1011 SCHOOL
Says Madill Water Can Be Made
Soft as Rain—Other
- Needs
IaIiIt water can be made soft
as rain water"
—IV T Lewis pumpuian out at the
Mill creek reservoir returned Sunday
from Austin Texas' where he at-
tended the seventh annual filtration
schnol bringing back that statement
which would be hard on the soap
dealers and so gratifying to the mul-
totade of kousewives were it made
a reality
The course was a six days course
in eoulgulation sedimentation test-
ing' of water care and management
'0' the filter beds and other things
of interest to waterworks superin-
tendents and employees -
Good System here
°Madill has a good water system"
FUI's Mr Lewis - talked with
many water men from all over Texas
who were in attendance at the school
and learned much about water sys-
teins- elsewhere There is one ex-
ception to my statement shoot Ma-
dill's water system that could be im
Is too small If possible too we
proved Our &Alimentation basin
need some way to test the water
We' were taught how to test water
Madill water ealk be ntade as soft as
rain water" s
Softening Process
hi-order to make the Aladin water
soft Mr Lewis says a lime machine
is needed This machine would prob
abicost from $200 to $300 and The
lime to operate - - - -
Speakers a number of whom were
Univursity of Texas professors and
former governor James E Ferguson
Governor Ferguson's husband spoke
to the filtration- sehool A eourse
In chemistry as applied to th(' water
systent WIN taught in the short eourse
by the el mistry professor
'Afore than 201) water men nil front
Texas but four from Oklahoma were
In attendance at the school
Marshall County
Contributes $23885
To Salvation Army
Salvation-ArmY thrit
resents tive Captain ilobna n more
than doubled the amount raised in
county last year raising $2:3S85 as
Masha11 County's contribution ' to
the support of the service toInunan-
Ity The loeal advisory board assisted
Captain' Holman in evcry way pos-
sible to"ruise the funds in this coun-
ty Chairman George I Sneed as-
sisted personally in' getting Captain
Holtuati in touch with those whO
contributed -
The aimmats anti eniributors fol-
lows: -
- $2500 -
Guaranty state Bonk
National Bank -
SI000
1 Dr 1 I thistOn 'Alarshall County
National ithnkFirst National Bank
FliSt NationalAtanh of '1 iAgf411)
First State lii ak or KingslOti
Willis of Kingston First National
Bank of Woods-111e
$500
J04 Kkthilat Iime t'- IL- Wright
Farmers Co-operative Ass'n or King-
ston W N' Wiley of WTalvilliA B
B Mosteller of Woodville
$250
George S March' Scott-Leerer
Industrial Orfila Co Walton Land-
rum of -Kingston fad ill Record
Gny Jackson of Woodville W
MeCarley Madill O S Stanton Ma-
dill Barber & Parish Fred 11 Jones
J O Minter W I Dowell
(Continued on Page 8)
COUNTY AakNTS ARE IN
STILLWATER THIS WEEK
dolimimmimo '
W 11:- Martin:county farm demon-
strator and Miss Maude And
county home demonstrator are in
Stillwater this week attending the
county agents meeting being held at
the agricultural college They will
return the first bl:aezt week
BATTENFIELD WILL BUILD
TWO NEW BUNGALOWS SOON
It K Rattenfield Mt4i1L contrac
tor will build in the near future two
modern bungalows on the' 'north tdde
of the Frisco
Charlie Russell another Madill
contractor is also planning to build
a borne for himself near the Rider
home in southwest Madill
SAFETY FIRST IS 1
DISCUSSED AT FRISCO
MEETING AT SAPULPA
O F Nowlin 14)cal Frisro agent
attended -V meeting of the Frisco
officials and employees of this $ec
tion at Sapulpa Satuday
Various matters of interest to
the representatives of the railroad
were taken up for consideration
Safety first was discussed show-
ing that accidents from carelesa-
iess have lavn reduced approxi-
mately fifty per cent by n cam-
paign of education
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Marshall County
National Bank Is
- Newest in County
Presidea
L M0401101(1- Vice Preside 14-4
John Londram Cashicr
MPIMMION001
The youngest hank in Marshall
comity is the bank that takes Its
name filim the county—the Niar!
shall t'ounty National Bank
This Lank was (organized in 1918
in June of that year 'or live an done
half years ago
The present governor of the Fed-
eral Reserve Bank Dallas TexasB
A Nit Kinney was among the ((Elgin-
illeorPuvulfirs Ilia brother the
late lamem it McKinney for many
years the president of the I ninint
Naticand Bank of Durant later pres-
ident of the State National Bank
Denison Texaswas also among the
number The McKinneys owned
atoek in many hanks in Southern
Oklahoma - -
With the NicKinneys were such out
of-town -capitalists am P A North( of
Ada Hugh MIMI and J W Haden
of Textlet W IL Colby for many
years a groet7 merchant of Madill
beettnie the first president of the neW
Institution and has held that posi-
tion odnce that day John Landram
(fishier of the First National Bank
Kingaton he-ains the cashier of the
new bank and has held it since that
day James R MeKinney watt vice-
president and lit-tit4 NW OM president
when death Online(' him Later A
M MeLelland a local eapitalist'wfts
made viee president also
This personnel 1184 built the bank
of today with Hoe eapital and Kurphis
Pt $70000
The Marshall County National
Bank is a bank that Wieves in Mar-
shall comity and has backed every
Ii gitimate progressive movement in-
augurared to make it so
A few mottIhs ago Basil E Adam-
son son of a prominent Marshall
county farmer was added to the of-
ficials of the bank when he pur-
cluused the interel4 of M V 01h3
assistant cashiee
Mks Lois Gwaltmsy officiates as
teontitwfi un peg(' S
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Number 36
NEVI CHIEICIIES
FOLLOW WANE
OF REVIVIIIIST
Baptists and Methodists-
- Begin With Con
struction -
diMopilmiNi01 i
- Both the -Baptist and the
Methodist are beg inning
churches this week follow-
ing in the wake of the big re:
vival closed Sunday night at
the Methodist Tabernacle by
Dr Theodore: Copeland Dallas
Texas after four weeks of ser-
vices The Ditptlitt congregation will be--
gin work sooner thal the ninety day
period as planned and published last
wek They will either tear down
or sell their old ettnrch building this
week and immediately begin the C011-'
struction work on their new $25000
church More than $15000 has been
pledged by the congregation with
nhout halt the membership yet to be
solielted - '-
Methodists in Harness
-
A meeting of the members of tho
Methodist elittrch was held Monday
in the tabernaele before Dr Copeland
tuft HMI bnilding committee up-
pointed - -
Approximately $20000 has been -
pledged by the Methodists toward
the cottstruction of their $40000
church
Will Tear Down
—
The IlethOdiSt Nvill begin tearing
down t he church and adjt ining taber-
nacle as soon as the architects eom-
plete the plans that Will 'MVP an
outside rusetublence to the picture of
the proposed chum'" ImlAished in the
chamber of commerce cdition of the
Iteeord
The building committee of the
church ift composed of 'Alaimo Rice
C Wright W L Itaborn D P
Wl) !tin gi - and Mrs W N Tana fere°
The Nazarenes are comp'eting theiC
new roele church Just north of tht4
L Srptare When completed it will
be the best building in Niarahall row'
The Nazarenes have a membership
a a bout t h irty- five Donut ions
from the citizenship of the county '-
and persistent effort upon the part of
the builder John Trammell have-
enabled this congregation to bond this
beautiful building
New Day in Madill
"A new day has dawned in
is the Ay:1y a citizen put it this week
'We are now going to have churches
that will Iwspeak the' citizenship
who have here builded beautiful
homes n lid magnificent Inisines4
-
"11341i1l ppaple have hail to auala-
gizt for IhPir pial- worship"
$dd n nalla'r -
ANTIOCH BOY BREAKS ARM
- AT 'SCHOOL WIMNESDAY
Jr 12 sow of' Mr
iiI Sirv: Killian of (hp tiio Ii e41111-
mutiny suffered a:fracture of his
left n I'M NV(4i fl rt el110011- 10114
playing on the school gitids nt
4ktilifiela Mr and Nfs KIll I ii
brought the young fellow 10 town
following the accident and had itset
The H I'M was broken when the boy
was three wears of age '
—
GEORGE WILSON IS
CLAIMED BY BULLET
WOUND SATURDAY
Was Farm-Labor Leader in Ra(e for
United States Senator—
Spoke Here
eirge 1N'i1son Walton appointee
as president of the Oklahoma A &
M College died Instantly at his home
la Oklahoma City Saturday from a
bullet wound In the heart said to ba
eeeidentaly inflicted -
Walter Bention Justice of - the
Beite declared after an tvestigation
that "there is no doubt the shot was
aveldental" -
"Wilson was cleaning an autoniatle
pistol Benson said The parts ot
the handle were Mying on a bed Ito
had pulled a chair beaide the bed and
was working on the gun there There
Is uo doubt that the shot was aeci-
denial One shell had been stuck in
the gun and others were on the bed"
The bullet penetrated Wilson's
heart Ile did not speak atter bein
shot Ills wife and daughter hear-
ing the report rfin into the room and
found him dying On the floor
Nis NN'ilson sail that reports of
egnent robbitricts in thei city had
prompted Wilson to put the grin in
condition for use
The shooting occurred about 11
oclock but no report WWI made by
the authorities for about three hours
The investigaion at the home was
coueluded before announcement was
Wadi' that Wilson was dead
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