The Oklahoma County News (Jones City, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, August 27, 1915 Page: 1 of 8
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Official
Paper
of
Oklahoma
County
©ftCafioma County Hews
The County Newspaper With The Big Circulation
F ormerly
15he
Canadian
Valley
News
VOL. XV.
Entered at the Post Office at Jones, Oklahoma,
as second-class matter.
JONES CITY, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, AUGUST *7, 1915.
M. B. Keyes, Owner and Publisher
Chester A. Keyes Editor and Manager.
NO. 17.
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FI IK
SFPF.IM
The Dates Also Fixed
for Other District
Fairs
HENRY OVERHOLSER
HAS PASSED AWAY
At a meeting of the County Fair
Association held Saturday at the
court house at Oklahoma City, the
date for the district fair to be held
at Jones City was fixed for Saturday,
September 18.
Other district fairs will be held at
Luther, Spencer, Britton, and
Harrah, and the county fair will be
held at Edmond on September 22
and 23.
Every township in the county was
represented at the meeting with three
exceptions—Deep Fork, Choctaw and
Deer Creek. In order to make the
best showing possible with the appro-
priation of $2,500, it was decided by
the association that the townships
should be divided into districts, and
one fair held for three or four towu-
ships, it being considered impractic-
able to attempt to haye a fair at
each place.
When this question came up there
was quite a hit of discussion, every
member of the association being
anxious to have his township chosen
for the show. However, before ad-
journment everything was amicably
settled. It is proposed to spend
$500 of the appropriated sum on the
county fair and the remaining $2,-
000 on the district exhibitions.
In the selection of permanent offi-
cials for the association, J. O. Gray
of Britton was named as president.
An executive board was chosen ai
follows: William McMullen, Spring-
er township; J. T. Hunker, Wheat-
land; J. R. Blevins, Dewey town-
ship; Ray Fansher, Edmond; John
Oney, Hartzell township; W. C.
Jamieson was elected permanent
secretary.
Following is the list of dates for
the fairs and the places where they
will be held:
Edmond—County fair, Wednesday
and Thursday, September'22 and 23
District No. 1—Lincoln, Deep
Fork and Luther townships, at Luth-
er Saturday, September 18.
District No. 2—Edmond, Deer
Creek, Spring Creek and Britton
townships, at Britton Thursday, Sep-
tember 16. i
District No. 3—Hartzell, Springer
and Dewey townships, at Jones City
Saturday, September 18.
District No. 4—Choctaw, Elk and
Pottawatomie townships, at Harrah
Friday, September 17.
District No. 5—Crutcho, Boone
and Cass townships, at Spencer Fri-
day, September 17.
District No. 6—Council Grove,
Oklahoma, Greeley and Mustang
townships, at Wheatland Thursday,
September 16.
A meeting was also held Monday
morning for the purpose of making
further arrangements for the various
fairs.
EVENTS OF THE WAR
A YEAR AGO, IN NEWS
Henry Overholser,) in the early
days a commissioner of Oklahoma
county for six years, and recognized
as one of the best commissioners the
county ever had, died at his home in
Oklahoma City, Tuesday morning, at
the age of sixty-nine years. Mr.
Overholser had been ill since four
years ago, when he suffered a stroke
of paralysis. He was the father of
Mayor Ed Overholser.
Henry Overholser was closely iden-
tified with the early history of Okla-
homa City, and was associated in
many enterprises with the late C. G.
Jones. These two men probably
did more for that city than any oth-
er two men who ever lived in it.
They promoted the Frisco road from
Sapulpa to Oklahoma City and the
date of that road’s entrance into the
city marked the beginning of the
development of the metropolis.
Mr. Overholser was a prominent
Mason and the funeral services were
held Thursday under the auspices of
that fraternity.
WOMAN KNOWN HERE
IN TROUBLE AT CITY
Oklahoman: “A mere girl, who
gave her name as Mrs. Buchanan
and said she had been married for
four years, admitted Saturday after-
noon that she knew no way of mak-
ing a living except “stage work and
on the streets.” When Judge Miller
asked her if she would make some
effort to get other employment, she
declared that it was impossible for
her to support herself otherwise,
since she had worked as a hired girl
at Witcher and Jones City, and lost
her job at both places on account of
inexperience. Her fine was fixed at
$10 and costs, while the case against
her 15-year-old sister was carried
over until Monday.”
THOSE WHO ARE BLIND
ARE EDUCATED FREE
The State of Oklahoma has pro-
vided for the education of every
blind boy and girl who is, to-day be-
cause of blindness, prevented from
attending the public schools. Any
parent or guardian having a child
out of school on account of lack of
sight should write to O. W. Stewart,
Superintendent, School for the Blind,
Muskogee, Oklahoma, for informat-
ion concerning the Institution for
those who do not see. He will glad-
ly send catalog and give an answer
to inquiries of those interested.
DUG UP NEAR STAR
Gruesome Find May Result in Clearing Up a
Mystery of Several Years Ago-Officers
to Make an Investigation
While workmen were excavating
for a cellar on the Steve Pensoneau
place, near the Star school house,
southeast of Jones City, one day the
first of the week, two human skele-
tons were unearthed. The bodies
bad been buried five feet apart, and
the bones were fourd about two feet
from the surface. One was evident-
ly that of an adult, the other it is
believed was that of a person not
folly grown.
Mr. Pensooeau is preserving the
skeletons until be finds out what is
the right disposition to make of them.
The finding of these skeletons may
be the means of unearthing a das-
tardly crime, suspicion of which was
whispered around the Star neighbor-
hood seven or eight years ago. At
that time there lived in that neigh-
borhood a Polander who had trouble
with his wife. One day the wife
was missing, and the Polander told
neighbors that she had deserted him
and gone to relatives in the east. It
was said then there was a suspicion
that the woman had been foully
dealt with, but nothing went to show
that such was the case, and the mat-
ter was finally forgotten. The Po-
lander has since left that part of the
country and his present whereabouts
is unknown.
County authorities have been noti-
fied of the finding of the skeletons,
and an investigation will be made.
COMMISSIONER BLACK
HAS HEART ATTACK
County Commissioner B. W.
Black, who was stricken by an attack
of heart failure in the Lyric theater
last Thursday night, was able to at-
tend to'his duties again the first of
the week. Mr. Black was taken to
his home after the attack, and is r
ported to be about recovered.
TWO MAIL ORDER MEN
ARE RELEASED BY GOVT
A. C. King and P. I. Lockhart,
the Oklahoma City men who origin-
ated the scheme of sending parcels
through the mails 0. O. D. to per-
sons who had not ordered them, with
the idea of building up a mail order
business, Friday said they had aban-
doned the plan. This statement
came just after United Slates Com-
missioner James Twyford had freed
both from the charge of defrauding
by use of the mails, upon which
charge they were arrested a few days
before.
Although King and Lockhart were
declared not guilty of any intent to
violate the law, the operation of the
plan will be prohibited in the future
by the federal authorities
“The scheme is reprehensible,
said Commissioner Twyford, Friday,
‘but there was nothing in the ac-
tions of King and Lockhart that vio-
lated any section of the federal law
All they were doing was to sell
tides to people against their con-
sent.”
The plan was to buy a 25-cent ar-
ticle, put it in a package and send it
by mail C. O. D. to someone, with
charges of about 95 cents. Two
Harrah men, J. A. Todd and Wm
Daniels, received packages and had
King and Lockhart arrested.
A. C. Boman of Jones City re
ceived one of the packages, which
he accepted. Another package ad
dressed to R. J. Cozart was refused
County Road Building
to Begin in Short Time
has
The Oklahoma County News
arranged to run each week a new
feature, a concise review of the hap-
penings in the Great War, just a
year ago.
This feature will constitute an in-
structive and complete history of the
War. Cut the articles out for your
scrap book.
On an iuside page—top of column.
A RED TOP COUPLE
IS MARRIED IN K. G.
A letter from Kansas City announ-
ces the marriage of Mr. Van Aubert,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Aubert,
west of Jones City, and Miss Ruth
Judkins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Milton Judkins, also of the same
neighborhood. The couple left here
about two weeks ago, and the first
word from them stated that they
were married and were at the home
of Mr. and MrB. Roy Brown in
Kansas City. Their many friends
here wish them a happy married life.
The marriage occurred at Joplin,
Mo., on August 17.
The board of county commission-
ers in session Monday let the con-
tract for a lot of road machinery,
and work on the county roads is ex-
pected to begin in a few days. The
first work will be done on the 23rd
street road running east out of Okla-
homa City and passing through the
towns of Choctaw City and Harrah.
As soon as this road is completed,
work will begin on other county
roads.
County prisoners will be put to
work on the roads under guard, and
state prisoners have also been asked
for by the county commissioners.
Under the law state prisoners may
be furnished a county, provided the
county will guard and feed them.
This the commissioners have agreed
to do.
The regular road and bridge fund
of Oklahoma county this year will
amount to $111,000. The state-
county levy and the fund to be re-
ceived from the state automobile tax
will increase the amount to the
$140,000 mark. Last year less than
$50,000 was available for road work.
The highest figure in the past was
$75,000 for a single year's road
fund.
QSBURN’S RESIDENCE
DESTROYED BY FIRE
The farm residence of John T.
Osburn, two miles southwest of
Jones City, was destroyed by fire
Saturday uight, the house evidently-
having been struck by lightning.
The family were all away from home
for the night. A storm came up
during the night, during which there
was a wonderful electrical display,
and several loud claps of thunder
were noticed which leads to the be-
lief that lightning caused the fire.
The loss is about $700, covered by
insurance in the Contineutal insur-
ance company.
CRITICISM OF EMBRY
IS NOT WARRANTED
The Luther Register, under its
new management, seems to be peev
ed at several state officials, aud also
County Attorney John Embry comeB
in for criticism. But one fact can
not be denied. John Embry accept
ed the county attorneyship for the
purpose of putting the bootleggers
and gamblers out of business, and
what he has done to them has been
a plenty. Oklahoma county has
never been as dry as it is today, and
the gamblers are gradually hunting
other fields of operations. The News
is not in sympathy with the prin-
ciple of prohibition; however, us
have the prohibition law we believe
the law should be enforced. We
cannot see why any good citizen can
object to its enforcement. The non
enforcement of laws results in an
archy. We believe that all laws
should be enforced, and that is pre
cisely what County Attorney Embry
is trying to do.
BOY GETS JUDGMENT
IN A SUIT FOR LABOR
Lon Dorman, who brought suit by
his next friend, his mother, Mrs.
Josie Dormam, against Cy Seward,
was given judgment for $6.00 in
Justice Finley’s court, Saturday, by
default. The claim was a labor
debt.
Live News of General
Interest From Differ-
ent Places
MUST FILE 300 COUNTS
In a ruling made by Judge John
W. Hayson in the district court
Saturday it was held that where
udgment is asked for at the rate of
$1,000 a day for the renting of
property wherein an illegal business
is carried on, it is the duty of the
county attorney to make a separate
count in the petition for each violat-
ion.
The question came up in the P.
M. Holmes case, Holmes having been
sued by the county attorney for
$300,000, as the owner of a building
at the rear of the Lee-Huckins hotel,
where it was claimed that an unlaw-
ful business was in progress for 300
days,
Before the case can go to trial
under Judge Hayson’s decision it
will be necessary for the county at-
torney’s office to set out 300 separate
and distinct counts in the hill.
PRISONERS GIVEN TREAT
Santa Claus, in the form of an
advertising man for a well known
tobacco company, invaded the coun-
ty jail Monday and made the hearts
of the forty-odd inmates glad by
presenting each prisoner with a lu-
cent tin of smoking tobacco, a sam-
ple plug of chewing tobacco and a
book of cigaret papers. The coun-
ty allows the prisoners in the jail 5
cents worth of tobacco a week and to
receive such a store as was handed
out by the advertising man was con-
sidered a boon indeed. The same
drummer visited all officer at the
courthouse and dispennsed his wares
with a free hand, but nowhere did
he get such a reception aud so much
praise as at the jail.
Wanted:
Everybody to attend the Lawn So-
cial to be given by the Christian
Sunday school on the lots west of
the Boggs’ hardware store at Jones,
Friday evening, Aug. 27. Refresh-
ments—icc cream, cake, candy and
water melon—will be served, and
out-door games will be enjoyed by
all who desire to participate. Ev-
eryone invited to come early and
stay late.—Adv.
WESTOVER CAUGHT
GREAT MANY FISH
A. W. Westover, deputy game
warden, Tuesday filed in the state
game warden’s office a report of his
work in seining the overflow ponds
along the North Canadian river. The
report says that about 255,000 fish
were taken out of the ponds and
placed back in the river. The fish
would have died had the ponds dried
up, so this plan is adopted to save
as many as possible. Westover’s
force consisted of three men, and the
cost was $121.
The commercial club will meet to-
night to arrange for the holding of
the Fair at Jones City, September
18. All citizens of the town are
invited to oome out and co-operate.
Your Bank Account!
Have you a little money in the bank? If not, why not?
We will assume, in the first place, that you haven’t. Do you
know that you are depriving yourself of a feeling of security
that nothing else in the world equals? The workman with a
little bank account, say, just enough to tide him oyer for a
month or two, isn’t afraid of sickness or non-employment. He
is.a free man, and can look his employer and every other man in
the face without the fear that without the favor of that employer
or that friend, he would be reduced to desperate straits to make
ends meet. The bank account is the breeder of self-confidence,
of efficiency, of happiness. Rich men in their palaces, their
yachts and their automobiles are no freer, no more independent,
than the man with the bank account. Every great economist
bases his system of economy on the fundamental fact that it is
not what is made that is the foundation of fortunes, but what is
saved. A man has earner! in a year’s time, just what he has at
the end of the year. The rest baa gone for expenses, whether
for necessities dr luxuries. The net savings of the year are the
year's sole earnings. The hank account, however small, has a
peculiar way of mafcing a real man of its owner. It’s pretty-
hard to stand up straight jand defy the world with nothing to
back up your bluff'but two or three meals ahead. It’s a ten to
one bet that the man who is penniless and talks about the great
things he can do. is.a bob-tailed flnsher. Money may he the
root of all evil. # Certainly) it is the root of solid independence,
of character and golden haaipiueBS, even though you have a very-
small amount of it. i t" t
BLAGKFORDS FILE SUIT
TO CANCEL A DEED
Preston Blackford and Nannie
Reeves, heirs of the Harrison Black-
ford estate, have brought suit in the
district court against H. G. Boggs
for the cancellation of a deed made
by Preston Blackford to the defend-
ant, covering his interest in the
estate. The petition claimed they
did not understand the trade when it
was made. Mr. Boggs states that
the plaintiffs did understand the
trade when made, and that it was
made upon the proposition of Black-
ford, which was repeated several
times before the deal was completed.
LINDSAY WINS SUIT
AGAINST HARRAH GIST
In Justice Finley’s court Saturday,
John Lindsay was given a judgment
in the sum of $85 against the
Harrah school district The suit
was brought to collect on a warrant
issued by the school board of that
• I district in 1911 to a Miss Myers, for
J I teaching, and which had been assign-
• ed to the plaintiff.
LUTHER SIMS HURT
Luther Sims of Harrah is carrying
his arm in a sling a9 the result of an
accident with a 22-rifle Fridry. He
had been out shooting sparrows, and
in going through a wire fence the
rifle was accidentally discharged.
The ball struck Luther in. the palm
of the left hand and came out be-
tween the Joints of the fore and
middle finger. A doctor dressed it
for him, and reported that the
ball had went through his hand with-
out striking a bone.
SURVEYING FOR NEW ROAD
Surveyors for the Fort Smith &
Western railroad have been working
in Oklahoma county the past week,
which begins to look^ like that road
is soon to enter Oklahoma City.
There is a rumor that they may use
one of the other tracks in getting in-
to the City, and another report says
they will build their own line. In
the latter event the road will prob-
ably be built between Jones City
and Choctaw City.
j BOOSTERS WINNERS
! IN SUNDAY’S GAME
CANNOT MAKE TRANSFERS
Mis. Anna Burks Loye, county
superintendent of schools, has ad-
vised the various school boards over
the county that transfers of pupils
and taxes from one district to an-
other could not be made. The new
law, says the superintendent, will
not allow the transfers to be made.
Another injustice by a bunch of pin
head legislators.
The Boosters added another notch
! to their, stick Sunday when they
j cleaned up on the \\. H. fr. team
(from Oklahoma City by a score of 10 j
j to 1. The Luther learn is expected .
here next Sunday for a game.
REV. WOODS INJURED
Rev. Woods of uear Choctaw City
met with a painful accident a few
days ago. While piekiog peaches
he run a limb into his eye,' ami has
been su^ering much from the injury.
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Keyes, Chester A. The Oklahoma County News (Jones City, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, August 27, 1915, newspaper, August 27, 1915; Jones, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc859843/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.