The Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, February 3, 1911 Page: 1 of 10
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Granite Enterprise.
VOL. XI
Granite. Greer County, Oklahoma, Friday, Febiuary 3, 1911
NO. 39
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2 SERIOUS
ACCIDENTS
Team Runt Away With Stalk
Cutter--Child'® Skull
it Cruthed.
Albert Nelson, a 17-year-old
boy who works on the farm of
Ollie Adamson, three miles east
of Grnnite, was badly injured
Wednesday afternoon when the
team he was driving ran away
and threw him under the blades
of a stalk cutter.
When the young man fell from
the machine, his feet and legs
were caught by blades, badly
cutting them and chopping a
piece out of the shin bone. He
was otherwise bruised up by the
wheels of the implement.
Drs. Wiley & Nunnery were
called and attended the boy's
wound1-", and he is reported as
doing as well as could be expect-
ed, considering the fearful in-
juries he has sustained.
So far as The Enterprise man
could learn, the young man has
no relatives in this section, he
being employed by Mr. Adamson
as a farm hand.
SKULL CRUSHED.
Four-Year-Old Child of Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Carey Injured.
Thp little four-year-child of
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Carey, living
seven miles southwest of town,
was severely injured Friday by
a sulky plow toppling over on
him. The little fellow was climb-
ing on the implement, when his
weight overbalanced it, causing
it to fall on him, crushing the
right side of the skull badly.
There being no one at home at
the time except the biy's mother,
it was quite a while before med-
ical attention could be secured.
Drs. Wiley & Nunnery, however,
reached the bedside of the little
sufferer as soon as possible, and
after performing the operation
of raising the skull, the little
fellow began to improve, and is
now reported rs ''ong nice'.v,
with a good chance for recovery.
"Ground-Hog Day"
Yesterday waa the day known
to folklore as "ground-hog day,"
and according to that authority,
we may look for forty days of
winter yet, as it was a beautiful
sunshiny day here. Those versed
in ground-hog ways say that
when the sagacious little animal
comes out of his hole on the 2nd
day of February and the sun is
shining sufficiently strong to cast
his shadow where he can see it,
he immediately goes back, where
he remains for six weeks, thus
prognosticating that many more
days of winter.
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.
Iliirh School department Friday.
By efficient campaigning the
Puller party in the Lyceum elec-
tion carried the day.
An effort it being made to or-
ganize a chorur. If you can ting
come out und help.
On last Saturday night Granite
High School made a record in
basket bail of which they are
proud, although Sn reality it may
have been a technical defeat.
The Gotebo team has played a
full schedule all winter, having
had daily coaching and practice.
Our boys had never played before
and had yet their first experience
before them. Just wait a week,
Gotebo!
PUBLISHING
COMPANY
Organize and Will Build a
Handsome Home for Ittelf
on Main Street.
The Baptist Worker Publishing
Company, with a capital stock of
$4000 has been organized at Gran-
ite, and will open up for business
at once. The officers are J. W.
Solomon, of Reed, president; T.
A. Sheriff of Lewis, Vice Presi-
dent; R. B. Gooch, of Granite,
Treasurer, and J. W. Hawkins
of Granite, Secretary.
It is the intention of the organ-
izers to remove the publication
of the Baptist Worker from Man-
gum to Granite, and to establish
a fully equiped publishing house
for the printing of books, pamp-
lets, minutes and etc., for the
Baptists of this section. Rev.
A. Nunnery, editor of the Bap-
tist Worker will be manager, and
assisted by a corps of able field
workers, he will enlarge the
paper and make it one of the
best denominational papers in
the state.
The company has been donated
a lot on Main Street by B. C.
Caddell just south of his gin
office. The contract for a build-
ing will be let today, and it is
the intention of the company to
begin construction next Monday.
The building is to be of stone,
25x50 feet, and wjll be a hand-
some addition to the already
large number of substantial
business homes on Main street.
MUST HAVE
MORE ROOM
Warden Clyde A. Reed Tellt
Governor Cruce of Some
of the Needt.
! Corsica na and bought 50 earii of
the prize-winning com, which
, will be given to the boyt of these
i clubs. Good need corn is as nec-
etsary as good culture in making
a big yield, and many of the boyt
are nol able to pay the high prict-s
Sopt. Holley S.y. the Light f"'1 for Premium corn The
Pl.nl Will Shortly be on Feedcr" n<1 Show ''
_ . _ . primarily for the encouragement
a Paying Batit.
PUTTING
IN LIGHTS
With 220 inmates in the state i
of livestock raising in the South-
west, but the management recog-
A number of our enterprising njj,eg mat the foundation of stock
Work on the new buddings of
refo^tory,l0C.t^.tGr.nUe.|c|tteen.'MUkinK.dv.|itw.of|^J7;;^"J^^'~d"5^ "hTwlz8^ ®n™'r™td .iUtal
and 600 inmates in the state pen-1 r^nt^tinn nftheo,tv Coun-Imore corn meanH more cattle and f
BUILDINGS TO
START SOON
Work Will Begin Next Mon-
day on New Brown Brot.
and Schwartz Buildingt.
itentiary eligible to enter the in- L, in making arrangement to hog8 0f u"^bTter quality The H,'"Z? Tf!ebui,di^8
rtitution, butwho cannot | hlv, wiring done at actual coal I March w t„ J8, J,
trie plant. Messrs. Holley and
Trammel are very busy at this
time, and have already wired the
following buildings within the
past two weeks:
Chris Huber's Hardware Store,
Sunday Services.
Rev. Martin, of Noble, Okla.,
will preach next Sunday morning
and evening at the school audi-
torium. Everybody ic invited to
attend these meetings. The sub-
ject for Sunday evening may be
"The Invisible." Come out and
hear Bro. Martin's sermons and
lectures which have been so well
received elsewhere.
The Entertainment.
The entertainment last Tues-
day evening at the High School
auditorium, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde," by Mr. Jess Coffer, was
well attended and greatly appre-
ciated. Mr. Coffer greatly plear-
ed the large audience as un im-
personator and shows great tal-
ent as such. He is a young man
and has a great future before
him.
terial here to do it with.
Mr. Holley says that bills for
light service for January amount-
ed to $196, and he estimates that
•with the additional customers re-
cently put on, the bills will this
month run up to over $250, which
will make the plant a source of
income, instead of an expense to
the town.
The council recently employed
Mr. Gurney Trammel, an exper-
ienced electrician, to do the work,
and ordered supplies, so that all
who wish it, can have their build-
ings wired at actual cost, and by
this means a great number of our
people are now using lights who
would not do so otherwise.
tion°in whfehma^yari8 intent- pubUc'builuinJs committee had ! Remember these nights are per- by a Kansas City firm called the | W. Vaughan has taken charge
mitted until facilities for caring
for them are provided, Clyde A.
Reed, warden of the Granite re-
formatory, consulted Governor
Cruce Monday with the view ot
interesting the chief executive
in the needs of the reform prison.
Warden Reed submitted a let-
ter of some length for Governor
Cruce's perus d and consideration
in which he goes into the minute
details of the needs of the insti-
tution over which he is presiding.
He favors the legislature appro-
priating at least $500,000 for the
erection of suitable buildings and
their equipment at Granite. In
support of his recommendation,
Warden Reed gives a list of states
that maintain reform prisons for
law breakers between the ages
of 16 and 25 years. Out of prob-
ably a dozen states mentioned not
one of the number has expended
less than $750,000 for the erec-
tion and equipment of such in-
stitutions, while Massachusetts
spent $2,000,000; New Jersey,
$1,500,000;New York, $2,000,000,
and Illinois, $1,000,000.
In concluding his letter to Gov-
ernor Cruce, Warden Reed says:
"The Granite reformatory is a
reformatory in name only." He
lays particular stress on the state-
ment that Granite is an ideal lo-
cation for a state reformatory,
due to its elevation, water sup-
ply and natural drainage.
Bills have been introduced in
both branches of the present leg-
islature calling for an appropria-
tion of $500,000 with which to
build and equip a state reforma-
tory at Granite, but there seems
to be a disposition on the part of
some of the solons to reduce the
amount of the appropriation
named in these bills. Warden
Reed is very anxious to have the
legislature appropriate $500,000,
and is taking all legitimate steps
towards influencing the legisla-
tors to pass the bill as introduced.
The object of the state reform-
atory is to provide a place of re-
straint for near criminals, where
they can be instructed in a man-
ner culculated to make them use-
ful, law-abiding citizens when
the terms of their sentences have
expired. It is a sort of school
for males under 25 and over 16
years old who have been caught
in the toils of the law for the first
time. The movement originated
with some of the older states
several years ago, and statistics
from those states where these, when her child is in danger a
reform prisons have been mam- I Woman will risk her life to pro-
tained for a sufficient length v f teet it. No great act of heroism
in order to induce the people to tended by many „f th, boy, „( j ^TbuM ing Adjourn -
use lights from the town a elec-1 £he corn clubs. -
ing, and the estimated cost of
iwnniMre 'each is about $2500.
WEDDINGS. two gentlemen from Sapulpa
t ' have already contracted for the
Coffey-Mitchell. [buildings, and say they want
A romance dating back to I them by April 1.
Frank Wifeman's dry goods store j school days in "Old Kentucky" i Work is progressing nicely on
and the residences of R G San-1 culminated Sunday in Granite,i the Smith and McRee buildings,
didge J. B Jonts, Eli Messmore when Miss Dell Mitchell, of Col-1 the concrete foundation being in
and Jasper Messmore. Several umbia, Ky., became the bride of j already, and the stone and other
others will be wired as soon as Mr. Sale Coffey,a prominent bus- j material is now being placed on
these gentlemen can get the ma- j mess man of Blair. The happy the ground.
couple were schoolmates at the
old home in Kentucky, but Mr.
The four new buildings are all
of the same style, and will be a
Coffey left there seveal years ago I handsome adornment to the east
"Old Cap" it Dead.
"Old Cap," one of the big spot-
ted horses, who has been an im-
portant member of the J. B.
Jones family for the past sixteen
years, is dead. The faithful old
animal appeared as well as ever
when Mr. Jones fed him Satur-
day night. Hearing a disturb-
ance in the stable about three
o'clock Sunday morning. Mr.
Jones went cut and found "Old
Cap" dead, while his mate in
the adjoining stall was moaning
and otherwise exhibiting almost
human signs of grief.
Big Meat Bill.
How would you like to have
George Brown stick a meat bill
at you amounting to $351.79 for
one month's supplies? That is
just the size of the bill he was
making out for Warden Reed
when the newsgatherer dropped
in on him Wednesday. Mr.
Brown says that is about the av-
erage bill furnished the reform-
atory monthly since Brown Bros,
secured the contract for furnish-
ing meat to the institution sev-
eral months ago.
time show that the plan i« meri-
torious.—Daily Oklahcman.
Warden Reed Hopeful.
Warden Clyde Reed returned
from Oklahoma City Monday,
or risk of life is necessary to pro-
tect a child from cr«>up. Give
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
and all danger is avoided. For
sale by W. R. Veale.
to seek his fortune in the west.
Miss Mitchell came to Granite
some months ago to visit her
aunt, Mrs. Dr. T. J. Nunnery,
and while here again met Mr.
Coffey, and the wedding followed
Sunday as a result of the old
schooldays friendship. The wed-
ding took place at the residence
of Dr. and Mr3. T. J. Nunnery,
Rev. A. Nunnery performing the
ceremony. Only a few friends
and relatives witnessed the af-
fair, and after the hearty con-
gratulations of these, the newly
wedded couple left in their auto
for Blair, where l hey will be at
home to their friends.
Cox-Murray
Mr. John F. Cox, of Brown-
wood, Texas, and Miss Leila
Murray were married Wednesday
morning at 11 o'clock at the home
of the bride's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Murray, two miles
southwest of Granite. The
groom is in the postal service at
Brownwood and has visited here
several times, making many
friends who wish the young
people a pleasant voyage through
life together. The ceremony
making them man and wife was
pronounced by Rev. S. F. Mc-
Caffity. and after a bountiful
w7edding spread, the young peo-
ple left on the afternoon train
for their future home in Texas.
Interesting Announcement.
Cards are out announcing the
marriage of Miss Mvrtls, daugh-
ter of Rev. and Mrs. M. T. Allen,
to Mr. Charles A. Sessions, both
of Granite, which interesting
event will take place at the Meth-
odist church on Thursday, Feb-
ruary 16th. There are few bet-
ter known young people in this
section than Mr. Sessions and
Miss Allen, and they each have
the best wishes of a host of
friends, who wish them all joy
and happiness to be derived from
a mated future.
There will be pictures only on
and reports matters as looking j Tuesday .Thursday and Saturday
fine for the feformatory appro- nights at the Electric Theater,
priation. He states that the I Something special each night.
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G. W. Wagonsellcr has an im-
provement on the olJ fashioned
side of Main street, which has
been vacant so long.
Mr. Smith this week let the
contract fop the tile flooring in
his building, which will be a
beauty. The work will be done
by an Oklahoma City firm, and
the price is stated to be 67 cents
per square foot.
Work on the new Oddfellows'
building is also going forward in
a most satisfactory manner. The
walls are almost completed, and
the handsome polished columns
which will adourn the front of
the building is already on the
ground. It is the hope of the
builders to have this handsome
structure ready for occupancy by
the first of April, and, judging
by tne progress already made,
the hope will be realized.
PLEASANT VALLY ITEMS.
Health of our community is
good:
School is progressing nicely.
Our esteemed friend. Bud Hall,
surprised the community by get-
ting married to Miss Ona Kerbow
last week. The writer wishes to
extend to them his heartfelt
sympathy.
Misses Monia Carothers and
Ollie Morris spent last Thursday
night with Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Morris.
Messrs. Bert and Fred Jones
spent Saturday night and Sunday
with their sister, Mrs. Daisy
Scott, of Willow.
Mrs. C. A. Dawson of Eastern
Texas is visiting her son and
family, A. W. Dawson.
Mrs. J. W. Carothers is on the
sick list this week.
Miss Ruth McGavock and Dock
McGavock spent last Saturday
night with M. W. Carothers.
J. W. McGavock spent from
Friday evening to Sunday in
Mangum.
Jack Scribner.
Barber Shop Sold.
Crowley Vaughan has sold his
Barber shop in the Cox building
• The basket ball team will go to
Gotebo February 11th to show
the people there what a Granite
team can do after a week's prac-
tice.
Never before in it's history has
the library been used so exten-
sively. We wonder why?
Mrs. Regian took charge ofthe m ... —, . ... , - .. , . , ., ..
seventh grade this week, Mrs. ecj just now. Chamberlain's agreed to report the Granite re- mane j jump spark coil, and it is claim-unit for hi*n^ a he judge i swell
Black having substituted until i Cough Remedy has won its great formatory appropriation bill out Help from a new source is of-led that it will furnish 100 times'known in Giamte as a skilled
her arrival. j h,y. without amendment. The bill as ' fered to the boys' com cor.te>t more electricity than thecr linaiy j workman in his line, and will no
method of getting a stark for ion Main street to J.F. McMillion.
gasoline engines that is a reach.! Mr. McMillion buys the shop
It is a new invention put out} as an investment and Judge J.
reputation and immense sale by
I ib> remarkrble cure of colds- It;v
quitelpan always be depended upon.
-Mrs. j j.'uf by W. R. Veale.
Miss Hedley has been
tick since Wednesday.
Black is substituting. the picture shows 011 each
Messrs. Wilev and Sandidge. Tuesday, 'Ihursday and Saturday
of the school board, visited the nights.
ntroduced calls for $500,000 for clubs,
buildings and $140,000 for
B C Rhome, Jr., secre-1 coil furnished with gasoline en-1doubt keep up the established
„ain- ! tarv and m; n ger of the Nation- gines With three .fterie* it reputation of this popular shop.
taicance, and Mi. Retd i? hope- al Feedris and Breeders' Show will fur- i h tin
ful that it will pass without any at Fort Wotth, went to the Texas gine that r quii
grent reduction. Corn Growers' convention at with the old c
1 e; -! Crowley says he has not decid-
-ries ed ju>t what he will do yet. but
expects to reman: 10 Granite.
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Charles E. Hill and Sons. The Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, February 3, 1911, newspaper, February 3, 1911; Granite, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc282239/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.