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VOLUME XXXII
CRIS-SMAN OIL
WELL FLOWS
183 BARRELS
Tubing Being Run
to Choke Back
for Produtcion
No 1 Crissman-104 closest to Ma-
dill of Pure's 24 locations in the
Veld southeast of Madill flowed 183
berries of oil in heads yesterday
The well located at ne ne ne 29-
5s-7e was having tubing run to-
day in preparation for choking back
for commercial production
The well was plugged back re-
cently from 5084 to 5074 feet in
the Bromide and has had continual
shows of oil 'It was believed water
trouble is now ellminated
The No 2 Metz-105 ne sw nw
28-5s-le was completed at 5001
feet in the Bromide It flowed 33
barrels yesterday was shut in for
17 hours and then flowed in heads
It brings the total of producers to
18 counting the No 1 Park College-200
in Bryan county a pumper
Of five wells drilling the No 2
Little-106 sw nw sw 27-5s-7e
Bryan county was deepest It was
below 4216 in the Viola limestone
th's morning
Next in depth is the No 3 Little-
106 sw ne nw Bryan county 34-
55-7e drilling at 3677 in the Bun-
ton Also in Bryan county is the No
2 Little-201 which was waiting on
cement to set on the seven-inch
casing run to 4862 feet It probably
will be the next well to produce
In Marshall county the No 1
Thompson-205 sw se sw 21-5s-7e
was drilling below 2472 in the
Springer the No 2 Thomas-202
sw se nw 28-5s-7e at 1120 in the
Pennsylvania and the No 2 Thomas-102
ne ne nw 28-5s-7e at 1-
033 in the Pennsylvania
Another new location the No 1
Thompson-206 sw sw sw 21-5s-7e
was rigging up rotary tools
Drunks Must Stay
off City Streets
Officers Warn of
Arrests and Fines
Drunkenness on the streets of
Madill must stop County Attorney
Jack Livingston and Sheriff Edd
Long warned this week
Long said that intoxicated per-
sons would be arrested placed in
jail and fined
Urkel Hargis constable arrested
Marshall Pelham Saturday Pelham
charged with disturbing the peace
paid a fine and costs
Glad to Help Out!
The Madill Record received a
letter of thanks this week from the
Madill high school girl who needed
employment recently Her parents
moved from Madill and she needed
a home in which to work for ha
board and room She applied to the
Madill Record and the paper ran a
small front-page story to tell of
bcr need
The following morning after the
paper was out George Duke high
school principal had six calls of-
fering a choice for the worthy high
school senior
SEEN
Joe Minter typing his system
is one finger of the left hand and
Iwo of the right and he can
really go Sheriff Edd Long
a cute one-year-old so sorrowful at
dropping her bottle of milk on the
sidewalk two cute freckled
youngsters playing on the sidewalk
Saturday Nick Beasley hurry
big to take in a western Young
Billy Don Huff taking his fighting
scratches like a man Dorsey Gib- 1
8311 Playing "friend in need" -
Reuel Little trying to get in the
bank after closing hours: and
finally succeeding Coach Feud-
ree "blessing out" Joe Collura and
George Turner for 11:15 p m side-
walk conversation : Uncle Ike"
Little hemo G3 year!: young almost
running through the rain and drag-
ging his cane employes of a
court house office crawling in a
basement window Mrs J L
Wall out for dinner downtown for
the first time in many a day
Mildred Cooper back at work
Roy Lockhart Jr eating what
again? Mrs Bessie Wilson and
Mary Jane Gary having a big laugh
Houston Kirtley trying oh so
bard not to let the flu get him
down again
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HERE'S OFFICIAL POPULATION
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Marshall county's population in-
creased 123 per cent from 1930 to
1940 census figures received from
the bureau of census Washington
showed this week -
The county figures are 12384 as of
April 1 1940 compared to 11026 in
1930 This represented an increase
of 1358 persons From 1920 to 1930
the county had lost 249 in 'Popula-
tion Madill's official count is given as
2594 as compared to 2203 on the
books for 1930 Kingston showed a
loss having 481 persons registered
In 1940 and 552 in 1940 On the
other band Woodville showed a
gain of 11 persons In 1940 the cen-
sus takers listed 364 persons and
353 in 1930
Change of population will be great
in those regions after the Red River
dam is completed however It is
reported that property around
Kingston is much in demand by
residents of Ayiesworth Woodville
Willis and other communities in
the dam area
The town of Oakland gained from
248 in 1930 to 311 in 1940
The final count of the sixteenth
census showed that Oklahoma had
a population of 2336434 a decrease
of 25 from 1930 The popvlation in
urban areas was 71 per cent Eta
contrasted with a decrease of 75 in
rural sections The census bureau
considers as urban areas the in-
corporated places of 2500 or more
Madill now is classed as an urban
area
Forty-eight of the 77 counties in
the state lost population during the
1930-40 petiod
The first census of substantially
the present area of Oklahoma was
taken in 1890 returning a popula-
tion of 258657 The population has
shown an increase at every census
since that time except the present
one The present count rpresents
337 inhabitants per square mile
the state total area being 69283
square miles
only 15 Report for
V D Clinic Monday
Only 15 persons reported to the
venereal disease clinic for treat-
ment this week according to Miss
Clara Mae Williams secretary at
the county health unit headquarters
at the WPA building The free clinic
Is held each Monday from 2 to 4
p m
At least 40 persons are known to
the clinic who should be receiving
treatment Miss Williams said
Free Wasserman test other ex-
am!nation and treatment is given
confidentially to any person who
applies to the clinic
Dr Clifford Moore in charge of
the three-county unit expressed
concern this week that more Mar-
shall county people are not taking
advantage of the treatments Coun-
ty Attorney Jack Livingston warn-
ed that arrest of persons ignoring
treatment would be made
Rotary Schools to
See Mason's Circus
Barry J Mason's circus will be
presented as a lyceum number at
1:30 January 24 at Madill high
school and as a program for the
weekly Rotary club luncheon M
C Collum city superintendent an-
nounced this week
Mason a western naturalist and
Mare Mason noted small animal
trainer were formerly with the
United States Society of Zoology
They present a platform full of
birds reptiles and monkeys
The monkey circus offers well-
trained Simians in a variety of
tricks climaxed by a tea party
There will be monkey ball players
bicycle riders tight rope walkers
tumblers and the like
TWO SHAY YOUTHS PLEAD
GUILTY TO DISTITIMING
PUBLIC CHURCH WORSHIP
Harold Faulk 19 and Charles
Milltr 17 both of Shay pleaded
guilty to a charge of disturbing
public worship county court of
George 1ft Sneed Monday morning
according to Jack Livingstontcoun-
ty attorney -
They were arrested Sunday night
after a disturbance at the church
service at Shay They were fined
$2:! with their sentence suspended
because of a first prosecution and
because of their youth
REV D L RILEY SPEAKS
IT ENON WORKERS MEETING
Mr and Mrs D L Riley attended
a conference of Don Workers at
Ring ling Monday Representatives
of more than 40 Baptist churches in
Marshall Carter and Love counties
attended
- Riley was one of the principal
speakers on the program
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Ammal Football
Banquet Monday
Business Men to
Entertain Squad
tusintss and professional men
will entertain the Wildcat football
squad at the annual football ban-
quet Monday night M C Co Hum
city superintendent announced to-
day The dinner will be held at 7
p m but a place has not yet been
selected
Robert "Doc" Erskine of the Uni-
versity of Oklahoma football staff
will again be honor-4 guest and
principal speaker Ha spoke at a
cimilar dinner for the Wildcats last
year
School students were selling
tickets at CM each admitting one
business man and one player
100 Farm Families
Make Mattresses
Applications Are
Still Being Taken
Representatives of farm families
from almost every community 11)
Marshall county will receive mat-
tresses made this week at the-1941
mattress project at the WPA build-
ing Almost 100 mattresses will be
completed by the end of the week
Miss Willa Dean Nicholson dem-
onstration agent who is supervising
the work believes
This year's mattress project pro-
vides that large families may re-
ceive as many as three mattresses
one allowed for each two persons
A low-income farm family may
make application for the mattresses
at the county agents' office at the
post office or at the Farm Security
or AAA offices at the court house
Women of the family sew the
ticks Sixty-five cents which must
accompany applications is used to
cover costs of mattress needles
twine and sewing machines The
tick material and cotton is fur-
nished through the surplus coin-
modities administration
Men of the family assist with
blowing the cotton into the mat-
tress at T A Chaney's mattress
renovating shop return the mat-
tress to the WPA room and help
with its tufting and finishing
Next week families who are en-
titled to more than one mattress
will return on scheduled days to
Madill
Tomorrow (Friday) farm families
from Lebanon Woodville East Lasi-
ter and West Lasiter communities
will make mattresses Thursday
residents of Bethel McMillan Ra-
bon and Powell were to work
Monday's mattress makers in-
cluded people from Oakland Cliff
and Madill Tuesday Antioch Cum-
berland and Linn Wednesday
Kingston Vireaverton Grantham
Oklahoma and Powell
Flowers for the Ladies
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The young lady shown above is Paula Ann Vandervort daughter
of Mr and Mrs Paul Vandervort as she received a souvenir carna-
tion and notebook from Basil Adamson vice president and cashier
at the First National bank's recent formal opening of its re-built
and newly furnished quarters In the background is Mrs Elmo
Tounsend bookkeeper who was on hand along with all other First
National employes and officials to welcome the many guests attend-
ing the open house
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MADILL MARSHALL COUNTY OKLA HOMA THURSDAY JANUARY 16 1941
MEETINGS TO
HELP EXPLAIN
SOIL Et ECTION
Conservation Will
Be Discussed All
Over This County
A series of meetings on the soil
conservation program are scheduled
for next week in various communi-
ties of the county' according to Dale
Ozment county agent
Paul Thompson Kingston and
Penny Black Madill vocational
agriculture teachers will assist with
the meetings It is expected that
representatives from the soil 'con-
servation service at Ardmore will
be present
The so 1 conservation election will
be held Saturday Jan 25
Ozment urges tenants and land-
lotis of the county to attend the
meetings in their community in
order to learn more about the soil
conservation program and election
All of the meetings will be at 7
p m except at Kingston commu-
nity building and Madill post Office
basement which will be at 1:30 p
m Ozment said
The meetings are: Monday Jan
20 Kingston and Weaverton Tues-
day Bethel and Willis Wednesday
Antioch Thursday Shay and
Powell Friday Madill and Leb-
anon Not All the Honest
People Are Dead—
A Muskogee preacher asked Bill
Ealdwin's forgiveness today for tak-
ing a knife from the Wacker store
here 10 years ago
Baldwin received a letter from a
Muskogee man which said that he
had become a preacher and needed
Baldwin's forgiveness for taking the
knife He added that he would pay
his debt when he became able
Madill National
Staff Re-elected
Stockholders Meet
on Wednesday
Madill National bank stockholders
met for their annual session Mon-
day morning and re-elected the
bank's entire corps of officers and
directors
Marvin Bryant is president of the
bank C P Strother vice-president
Mrs Zelma T Whiting cash-
ier Haynes Yarger assistant cash-
ier H B Wiggs chairman of the
board of directors and Leonard
Woody director
JOE B GOFF PAYS $2500
FINE FOR RECKLESS DRIVING
Joe B Goff Jr Woodville plead-
ed guilty in justice of the peace
court of W J Bell Thursday to
charges of reckless driving
He was fined $1925 and costs of
$S75 or a total of $2500
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The course of Madill's city affairs the coming year will be determined by the group above with the
exception of D A Jones who resigned as mayor and city commissioner to become county undersheriff
Standing left to right are Roy Lockhart city treasurer Ed Grigsby city attorney and Winston
Smith city clerk Seated at the table left to right are Chester Pate appointed by commissioners to fill
Jones' unexpired term Charles Vanderpool who will serve as mayor Dave Jones Bruce May city
manager and Fred Blalock city commissioner
BOARD NAMES
21 MEN FOR
SECOND CALL
20 Volunteers to
Leave January 23
for Oklahoma City
Orders to report for a year of na-
tional defense training will be issued
this week-end to 21 Marshall county
volunteers according to P L Yar:
ger county draft board clerk
Twenty white men included in
the comity's second call will leave
Madill for Oklahoma City at 9:15
a m January 23 where they will
receive final physical examinations
The negro Leo Garrett of Madill
will leave on Tuesday
Men Are Named
Volunteer white men selected for
training by the local draft board in
session last week-end are Fon le
Beggs Charlie Frank Beggs John
Franklin Smith Woodie Leonard
Scott Harold Chester Osteen Dee
C Grenawalt John Henry Shaw
Willie Freeman Austin Toney Syl-
vester Goodman Wilburn H Hale
Leonard Bruster Bill R Green
Johnnie Nelson Hopkins Alfus Elmo
Bench Robert Locke Alfred Ver-
non Davis William Henry Bridge-
man Maurice Kenneth Brock Lo-
vell Brown and Ancil Herbert Davis
Draft board members have warn-
ed the men to adjust their business
affairs in preparation for the year's
training but to make temporary ar-
rangements in event they do not
pass the rigid physical exam at
Oklahoma City
All Expenses Paid
The men will have all expenses
paid from the time they leave Ma-
dill Various instructions in regard
to "what to take" have been issued
Only minimum baggage should be
taken the rules say Private autos
are prohibited
Selectees are encouraged to take
athletic equipment and musical In-
struments Meanwhile the local draft board
had added two more names to the
list of more than 60 volunteers in
the county They are Troy Thomas
McKenzie of Aylesworth and James
B Cook of Woodville Both are 19
years old
Names of two registrants were re-
ceived this week They are Overton
Arthur Wilhite Madill his card re-
ceived from Norman and Clifford
Oscar Bryant who registered in
Jasper county Iowa
Unlicensed Drivers
May Obtain Permits
From 1 to 4 Friday
Highway patrolmen will be in
Madill from 1 to 4 p tn Friday
afternoon to give drivers' and
chauffeurs' license exams Wen-
dell E Wood in charge of the
local tag agency for Ray Stone
said today
The patrolmen have been here
each afternoon this week to
examine drivers who failed to
get their driving permits before
the December 31 deadline
Pick-up orders for persons driv-
ing without licenses go into effect
next week Wood said
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Banks Will Close at
Noon on Thursdays
Madill banks announced today
that they would close at noon each
Thursday beginning January 30
This vtill enable Madill National
and First National banks to operate
under the federal law "fair labor
standards act"
Most Oklahoma banks are plan-
ning to close at noon each Satur-
day officials here announced
The banks believe however that
closing Saturday noon would work
a hardship on merchants farmers
and others Most banks in rural
communities have elected to close
at noon each Thursday
BILL PROVIDES
FUNDS FOR ALL
SIX YEAR OLDS
Gary's Program for
Schools Is Aimed to
Correct All Defects
Provision for schools' receiving
funds on children enrolled from the
day they become six years old is
maae in Senator Raymond Gary's
school bill which was to come up
before the committee on education
Tuesday after passing two readings
In the state senate The present law
provides no fund for children who
have not reached the age of six by
September I
Gary said while on a visit home
this week-end that he had been
virtually assured that this part of
the bill would be passed whether
or not the entire bill was accepted
as drawn
The bill also contains provision
that county schools can file their
budget for the year whether the
entire county budget is ready for
filing or not This would eliminate
delay in receiving teachers' salary
aid
Gary who was county superin-
tendent in Marshall county four
years and who has been continually
active in school affairs was in a
position to observe all defects of
present school laws He said that
his bill was designed to correct all
of these defects
The bill will be held by the com-
tnittee on education until all bills
pertaining to schools have been in-
troduced Gary says that the bill
is not exactly pro-administration
but that it contains many of the
measures which Governor Phillips
advocates
Another feature of the school bill
designed to keep schools on a cash
basis is that it will make it im-
possible for schools to make pur-
chases unless an appropriation has
been made
The bill would cut the state's ex-
penditure a million dollars but
would in no way affect this county's
school aid Gary said It would eli-
minate primary aid entirely for all
schools and would provide strictly
for weak school aid All schools in
Marshall and Johnston counties
would continue to receive aid Sen-
ator Gary said
Mrs Joe Williamson employe of
Sharpe Dry Goods is ill with flu
this week
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County's Oldest
Man Dies at Lark
Funeral Service
Is Held Tuesday
Louise E Erwin 98 years old
who was believed to be Marshall
county's- oldest citizen died Mon-
day at his home in the Lark com-
munity Funeral services Tuesday
In charge of John W Pigg min-
ister of the Madill Church of Christ
were held at the Lark school
Erwin was a Confederate soldier
He came to Marshall county from
Texas in 1886
Surviving are three sons and one
daughter Jim W Erwin Lark Tom
Erwin Blanchard A B Erwin
Willis and Mrs Irina Mosco Fob
and a number of grandchildren and
great-grandchildren
Interment was at the Lark ceme-
tery with Watts Funeral home in
charge
First National
Elects Officers
Quintin and Reuel
Little Are Added
Roy Lockhart was elected cashier
of the First National bank at the
annual meeting of stockholders
Tuesday night Quintin Little and
Reuel Little were added to the list
of bank officers as vice presidents
Lockhart has been serving as as-
sistant cashier the past few years
B E Adamson has been vice presi-
dent and cashier and will serve now
as vice president
Other officers and directors of
the bank will remain the same
Adamson said Wednesday morning
W H Colby is president Mrs Mil-
dred Brillhrat vice president Ale-
tha Luttrell Mary Winifred Set-
liff and Evelyn Townsend book-
keepers and Ruth Battenfield as-
sistant cashier
Henson Opens
Laundry Here
Located at Hi-Way
Service Station
Luther Henson opened his new
laundry thti week at his former
cafe location adjoining his Hi Way
Service station' He has installed
machines tubs and a boiler for
help-yourself laundry service or hi
says the laundry will do washing
and finishing work
The laundry rooms with con-
crete floor will be kept dry and
warm Henson said With front glass
windows the quarters will be light
and pleasant he said The laundry
fills the washing machine and tubs
with water of any desired tempera-
ture and does all of the lifting and
emptying work Henson pointed out
Bluing is furnished and the cus-
tomer furnishes soap and starch
Mr and Mrs Wilton Cammon of
Ardmore spent Sunday with Dr and
Mrs E O May
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OFFICERS HERE
INVESTIGATING
THEFT REPORT
Two Youths Held
in Johnston County
Present Check Here
County officials here are in-
vestigating week-end activities in
this county of John Henry Bean
Mannsville and Fell J Mays Ard-
more who are held in the Johnston
county jail at Tishomingo in con-
nection with the injury of Dee
Smith Ravia city marshal
Melton Blackwell Simpson re-
ported to Marshall county and Ma-
dill officers Monday morning that
$29 had been taken from him dur-
ing Sunday night after he had been
druggvi by whiskey which he claim-
ed had been "loaded" He reported
loss of a $10 check made to him by
Jimmie Hartin and asked Hartin
to stop payment
Try to Cash Check
Mays and Bean presented the
check to the Madill National bank
for payment 'Monday morning
Sheriff Edd Long said they claim-
ed they had paid $500 for the
check and that "it had better be
cashed"
County Attorney Jack Livingston
said this morning that he believed
this county did not have jurisdic-
tion in the alleged "rollinr for the
money from Blackwell He said that
as far as he had been able to de-
termine the loss of the Black-
well money occurred in Carter coun-
ty at a road house on Highway 77
near Ardmore
The Ravia city marshal was im-
proving today from cuts bruises and
other wounds received in an alter-
cation about sundown Monday when
he attempted to arrest Bean and
Mays near Ravia for reckless driv-
ing Johnston county officers were
informed that Smith had been hit
over the head with a car crank his
gun taken and his car pushed off
Into a ditch
Bean and Mays had their side of
the story:
Mays Bean claims did not touch
the city marshal nor molest him
In any way Bean says he hit him
with his fist when he stopped them
because he did not know Smith was
an officer
Smith reported his injuries to
Sheriff Charles Gilliam Johnston
county who arrested the two south
of Ravia later Monday evening
Marshall county officers placed a
"hold over" order on the youths
Wednesday However before filing
any charges they were making a
thorough investigation of the af-
fairs Fell Mays is under a 40-year sus-
pended sentence for robbery in
Carter county In Marshall county
he was involved itr the robbery last
year of Rex Strickland postmaster
Bean son of Fred Bean is well
known in the three counties
Unaware of Blackwell's alleged
robbery which officers here say oc-
curred between midnight and 2 a
m Monday Brit Barnard Madill
police officer was a witness about
3 a m Monday for the wedding of
John Henry Bean 22 Mannsville
and Miss Charleen Warthen Ravi&
Fell J Mays was the other witness
The couple obtained a marriage
license about 2:10 a m from Ar-
thur Alsup deputy court clerk and
went to the home of Rev D L
Riley to be married The license was
returned fully filled in to the court
clerk's office here Wednesday after-
noon HEARD
That E W Gray has made barbe-
cue in Madill 29 years and eats it
every day that M E Ewing has
led songs for the local Rotary club
for 15 years and is still going strong
that George L Sneed had a
"record rush" day on filling out
draft questionnaires Monday
that Brit Barnard makes a good 3
a m marriage witness that
Bernice Snider's cat "Lucky" died
that Dr Rex Talley bad a birth-
day last week that Josephine
White can't tell the name of some
of her relatives that Leonard
Hines was injured last week
that someone let the air out of
Bob Holt's car tires while he was
visiting here Sunday that Hoyt
Brack spent the week-end in Ma-
dill that Francis Owens mashed
his finger in the car door last week
Mrs Steve Nichols telling
something she would do one of these
days when she gets old that so
many were In Sherman and Ada
Saturday night that M C Col-
lura is so busy he didn't have time
to have the flu Van Noy Powere
voice again after its sudden dis-
appearance that Mrs 0
Gamer is critically
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