Cushing Independent. (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 9, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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CUSHING
Volume VII
Cushing, Payne County, Oklahoma, July 9, 1908.
Number 31
YALE BABY BALL PLAYERS
Refuse to Finish a Game Be-
cause They Havn't the Nerve
to Loose Gracefully.
The Yale ball nine came to
Cushing Tuesday auatensively to
play ball, but as subsequent
•vents showed to do the baby
act. They are a big healthy,
manly looking set of fellows, but
how deceitful are appearances!
The Cushing boys were in splen-
did form and "played ball" so
effectually that up to the first
half of the seventh inning the
score stood 7 to 0 in their favor.
This was just to much for the
visitors and seeking a way out of
certain and ignominious defeat
they attacked the decisions of the
umpire, and failing to bulldoze
him out of just and fair rulings,
refused to finish the game and
kid like "took their doll rags and
went home." We givo it here as
our opinion and that of every
one who is acquainted with L. H.
Owen, the umpire of thia ill fated
game, that his decisions could
not be otherwise than fair. The
sterling honesty of the man
-would not permit him to be un-
fair even in so little a thing as a
ball game. The Yale boys arant
to return here for two games
next week, on Tuesday and Wed-
nesday, and they may if they
have the "nerve" to be men in-
stead of kids.
Old Soldiers, Attention!
There will be a meeting of the
old soldiers of Cushing and
vicinity at the park pavillion at
2 o'clock Saturday, July llih.
Matters of importance which just
now claim the attention of the
public and in which the old sol-
diers are vitally interested from
a personal view point will be
discussed. Every old soldier in
the oommunity should be pres-
ent at this meeting.
For a Sunday School Excursion.
There is s movement among the
Sunday school people of Cushing
toward a general picnic and ex-
cursion of all the schools com-
bined, perhaps to Maramec, to
be held about September 1st,
The idea appears to be a good one
and it will likely meet the ap-
proval of our people and be
carried te a successful con-
clusion.
An A. M. E. Church Organized.
Rev. A. K. Young, of Lang-
ston, was in Cushing, Sunday
and preached two interesting and
able discourses for the colored
people of this vicinity. Rev.
Young also officiated at the or-
ganization of the St.James A. M.
E. ohuroh of Cushing, with him-
self as pastor in charge and E.
Jackson as secretary of the con-
gregation . The organizatien
has bright prospects for future
Success and a healthy growth.
We understand that a contraot
has been made by the colored
people for the purchase of the
L. H. Owen brick building on
Main street and that it will be
used by them as a church house.
They will have preaching ser-
vices en the first Sunday in each
month and a Sunday school will
be organized soon. Solicitors
will go among the people to
solicit funds to help in the work
of the St.James A. M. E. churoh
of Cu8h;ng,
A Jolly Fourth of July Dinner.
One of the jolliest and happiest
crowds of Cushing people as-
sembled the Fourth of July,
was perhaps the company of
"stay-at-homes; which con-
gregated at the room over the
Trading Company store for a
six o'olock dinner and season of
social enjoyment. There was
of course an abundance of good
thing to eat, besides the dis-
position on the part of all pre-
sent to have just a genuine good
time. Participating were:
Messrs. and Mesdames E. J.
Douglass, Guss Howerton. John
Good. G. W. Wray, F. E. Cullison
F, M. McLaughlin, Wm, M. Rob-
ertson, H, T. Carver, Robert
Shoemaker, H. F. Canada, Mr?.
Osger and daughters, of Ripley.
CUSHING AT STILLWATER.
Shot Himself with a Toy Pistol.
Sunday the 14 year old son
of Henry Crouse, living east of
Cushing, shot himself in the foot
with a toy pistol and a 22 caliper
oartridge. Dr. MoHenry and
Cunningham dressed the wound
and aside from being quite pain-
ful it is not considered at all
serious.
An order has been received by
tha agents of the Santa Fe and
Katy railroads at this point di-
recting that hereafter oar loads
of merchandise may be trans-
ferred from one road to the other
at this point over the Common-
wealth Cotton Oil Mill Company's
switch. This is quite an im-
portant item to the town as will
be shown to parties shipping car
load lots in ana out of Cushing.
A Large Number of Our People
Celebrate at the County Seat.
—The Ball Games.
Cushing, or a considerable
number of her citizens celebrated
the Fourth at Stillwater, and
many remaining there until Sun-
day evening. The visitors re-
ported a-, reasonably enjoyable
time, their entertainment being
along usual lines of 4th of July
celebrations, with nothing extra-
ordinary to the credit of Still-
water. Among the Stillwater
contingent we note the follow-
ing and there were perhaps others
whose names we have not learn-
ed: Messrs. and Mesdames L. H.
Owen, J. D. Barkwell, H. C,
Manning, and Wm. Mansfield,
J. T. Dung n and sister, Miss
Fern, Misses Blanohe and Mag-
gie Harmon, Misses Viva Bone-
brake, Eunice Walker, M. J,
Harvey and Ethel Taylor, Mes-
dames Bessie Cramer, Katherine
Kennedy, 8adie Shaw, Chas,
Humphrey, sr., C. C. Daugherty
and E. R..Green; and C. E.
Still, Floyd McLaury, Shtrman
Garman, Ralph Pilgrim, Quincy
Lewis, Walter Colvin, and P. P.
and Dave Scott.
The Cushing ball club played
two games at Stillwater Satur-
day and Sanday and principally
owing: to the atsenoe and siok-
ness of their pitchers were de-
feated in both games. The In-
dian pitcher went to Shawnee
failing to return Saturday, Dan
Whaley, got out of a sick bed and
went into the box. For Bix in-
nings he held out and the soore
stood 1 toO in favor of Cushing,
then his strength failed and the
game was finised 6 to 1 in favor
of Stillwater. Sunday's game
was a repetition of the other ex-
cept that Cushing failed to get
even the one tally. Following
were the Cushing players in
these games: Ed Collins, Adrian
Franklin, Dan Whaley, C. C.
Daugherty, E. R. Green. Geo.
Dungan, M, Hover, Roy Knowles
and Fred Smith.
Town Trustees Meeting.
Monday nip-ht being the regu-
lar monthly meeting night of the
Town Board of Trustees and a
quorum failed to appear, an
adjournment was taken until
Wednesday night,
Wednesday night the following
members were present: W. A,
Huffman, L. H, Owen, S. P. Al-
ios and Geo. Michel.
A number of bills were allow-
ed. Mr. Michel made a plea for
the better enforcement of the or-
der restraining dogs, and the
marshal was instructed to enforce
the "mad dog" proclamation to
the letter.
A communication from the
county olerk in answer to an in-
quiry on the subject conveyed
the intelligence that $122.96 of
taxes, on railroad assessments,
belonging to the town had been
paid over to Union township and
a further sum of $19.40 was yet
in the hands of the county. The.
town olerk was instructed to
make a demand on the township
officers for the sum.
Ordinance No. 68, and ordin-
ance relating to the collection of
poll taxes was put upon its final
passage.
The town marshal was, on mo-
tion, instructed to enforoe Or-
dinance No. 30, an ordinance re-
lating to the outting of the
weeds.
The balance of the meeting
was given over to the subject of
more and better side walks for
the town and ordinances Nos. 69
and 7§, both relating to the build-
ing of side walks were passed.
The board adjourned to meet
again next Monday night,
PERSONAL AND LOCAL.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Griffith
and children are at Roosevelt,
New Mexico, for a few weeks,
stay.
Miss Anna Rippi, of Fairfax,
who has been visiting for the
past two weeks, returned home
yesterday.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. H. S.
Stowers, who live across the
Cimarron, on Monday, July 6, a
daughter.
Mrs. Nancy Cofield, of Weleet-
ka, is the guest of her parents, J
S. P. Bryan and of her sister,
Mrs. W. H. Williams.
John Arnold of Cushing, Indian
farmer, was in town last Friday
and made this office a .pleasant
call.—Perkins Courier.
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The Alpha Bible class of the
Christian church will give a
'*sweet sixteen" social at the
park pavillion on Friday even-
ing, IJuly W**1' Everybody
from 6 to 60 years of age invited
to participate. Refreshments
will be served.
Married, at the residence of the
bride by Judge C. S. Gibson, G.
W. Farney, of Kingfisher, and
Mrs. Sarah McCanddless, of
Cushing, on July 5th, at 4 o'clock
p. m. Mr. and Mrs. Farney
have gone to Kingfisher where
Mr. Farney if engaged in farm-
ing.
The Baptist ladles' aid society
will serve a general supper on
Friday, July 17th, on the lawn at
th e home of Mr. and Mrs. H. T.
Carver. Supper served from 5
to 7 p, m. Everybody invited.
The six year old son of P. V,
Comer, living northeast of town,
accidentally fractured both bones
of his left fore arm Tuesday. Dr.
Manning reduced the fracture
and the little fellow will soon re-
cover.
• The proprietors of the Okla-
homa string of Leader Stores
have reoently opened an es-
tablishment at Littie Rock, Ark.,
and are already doing a big bus
iness in that city.
Last Thursday afternoon the
members of the Eastern Star
lodge went to the country home
of Mrs. John Brown for a social
hour. Refreshmants were ser-
ved.
Any family living within a
radius of 10 miles of Cushing not
now receiving the Independent
can get the same free for three
months simply by calling at the
office and requesting the same.
All papers stopped if not espec-
ially ordered continued. This
offer is only good for two weeks.
This is no joke. A Shawnee
grocer advertised in the News
for a boy and the next night his
wife presented him with twins—
two boys. It pays to advertise,
James Kennedy is putting in a
water pipe line from the public
well west of the stone block to
his livery barn south of Laugh-
lin'f implement store.
L. D. Gaunt is building cement
walks around his residence.
They look like an oasis in the
desert. Would there were more
oases.
Saturday a "Katy" freight
train was wrecked a few miles
south of Agra and si* or seven
cars went into the ditch. No one
hurt.
Miss Beryl Hartwell visited
Stroud Sunday.
J. H. Bellis is at Jennings on
business today.
A. E. Smith visited in Shaw-
nee over 8unday.
Miss Ruby Luse has been siok
the past few days.
J, W. Call and family visited
Stroud friends over Sunday.
Cushing is absolutely the best
town of its size in Oklahoma.
The Independent prints all
the local news while it is news,
H. L. Laurenoe, a Yale mer-
chant, is in the of hands of his
creditors.
The oolored citizens of Cushing
expest to organize a local Ma-
sonic lodge.
Delbert Whipkey and Miss
Kate Hixson celebrated the
fourth at 8troud.
W. D. Hartwell left Monday
night on a trip through north-
•astern Oklahoma.
Misses Mary Woolever and
Berdie Stewart, of Agra, yisited
in Cushing last week.
Mr, and Mrs.T. J. Hughes hied
themselves to the oreek on a fish-
infi excursion Saturday.
The Farmers Union of Payne
county has purchased a cotton
gin at Perkins,
C. S. Culbertson and family
spent the Fourth in Cushing,
guests at the John Foster home.
Robert Wooderson arrived here
a few davs ago from Arkansas.
He expeot that his mother will
come from Missouri soon and
they will make their home here.
Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Gaunt and
Miss Mattie Griffith spent the
fourth at the pleasant oountry
home of Thos. Hopkins,
Messrs. and Mesdames L. C.
Garman, Grant Shoup and Lon
Hicks went to Maramec to cele-
brate the Nation's birthday.
Mrs, C. L. Lyons, of Oklaho-
ma City, is visiting her sister,
Mrs. C. E. Warren, and other
friends in and around Cushing.
Butler and Hopkins are get-
ting out rook for the foundation
of a big new residence whioh
John Goss will build on his farm.
I am selling DeLavel cream
separators and ask NO settlement
in advanoe. You are welcome to
a trial on your farm.—J. D.
Karr.
Mrs. Ida Eitzmann and child-
ren, Ernest and Anna, leave for
Nebraska today, where they will
spend the summer visiting re-
latives.
E. A. Anderson is h#r this
week from Davenport risfting
Dr. Manning. Mr, Anderson
was formerly conneeted with the
Davenport Leader.
Mr. and Mrs. G, E, Shannon,
who for the past week have been
visiting at the home of G. W-
Craig, have returned to their
home at Riohmond, Calif.
There were many fishing and
outing parties among our peo-
ple on the fourth, the particblars
of whioh we have been unable to
learn.
A. H. Wright, of Ashdown,
Ark. has accepted the position of
foreman at the Commonwealth
Cotton oil mill. He has moved
his family here and they will oo-
eupy the Ingham residence pro-
perty.
A 1# oent sooial will be given
at the W. A. Huffman home on
Tuesday evening, July 14th, for
the benefit of the Presbyterian
Sunday School. Everybody ia
invited to come and spend a
pleasant evening.
Primary election officers have
been named as follows in this
section of the county: Union
township precenct No. 1, inspect-
or, W. J. Cooking; clerk, A. E.
Winget; judge, E. G, Cruzan;
Union township precinot No, 2,
inspector, A. Riley; olerk, A. C.
Alexander; judge, B. F. Mas-
ters; Cushing inspector, C, S.
Gibson; olerk, C. W. Dutton;
judge, O. R. Lilley; Indian town-
ship, inspector, C. A. Smaltz;
clerk, G. L. McLaury; judg«, L.
Kirtley.
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