The Oklahoma County News (Jones City, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, July 23, 1915 Page: 1 of 12
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The Local and Personal
News from Hustling
Little Town
Choctaw City, July 21—Judge
and Mrs. J. B. Sessions of this place,
celebrated their golden wedding an-
niversary at their home here, yester-
day. The couple was married fifty
years ago in Illinois, and have lived
in and near this town for about ten
years. At the celebration yesterday
the marriage ceremony was again
performed, the Rev. G. G. Rupert,
of Britton, officiating. About fifty
of the couple's relatives and friends
were present at the event, and many
beautiful presents were given the
worthy couple. In the eveing they
were serenaded by the Choctaw City
band.
A letter from 8. H, Walton of
Choctaw, who is now at Medford,
says: “We had one week here
without any rain, and the farmers
sure needed it. Most of the wheat
is cut. Some is being mowed, as it
is down so bad that they couldn’t
bind it. I saw one farmer cut wheat
with an engine on his binder, when
the big wheel wonld go down four
inches in the mud. He had a big
board under the binder to keep it
from going deeper. Myself and
wife will be here awhile yet.”
The baby contest, held at
Vaughn's drug store, closed Sunday,
little Helen Moore, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Reed Moore being the
winner and was awarded the gold
ring. There were six babies in the
contest, and some were entered who
were not babies.
Miss Tattie Westmoreland enter-
tained her Sunday school class, Sun-
day afternoon. Ice cream and cake
was served and all report having a
very pleasant afternoon. She is the
teacher of the young people's class.
Mrs. Ezra Pennington and Miss
Lucile Rupert of Oklahoma City,
visited with their brother. H. W.
Rupert, last week, returning to their
home Friday evening.
A little child of Mr. and Mrs.
Martin, who live on the Brumme
farm, northwest of town, fell down
stairs Sunday and was badly bruised,
but not daugerously hurt.
Mr and Mrs. Alexander, Mr. Hu-
bert Brand and Miss Lessa Shirley
visited with Mrs. Alexander’s and
Miss Shirley’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Shirley, Sunday.
Mr. Jim Powers, Mrs. A.B. Crist,
Miss Bessie Moore and Misses Ethel
and Ida Hathaway attended church
at Dickson, Wednesday night.
Rev. L. L. Scott, a Baptist evan-
gelist of Oklahoma City, is holding
a revival meeting at the Star school
house near Dickson.
Miss Carrie Myers, who had been
yisiting her sister, Mrs. John Lind-
say, at Jones City, returned home
Tuesday morning.
There has been twelve car loads of
alfalfa shipped from here to date
and there will be several more yet.
Henry Brumme, who has been at-
tending school at Stillwater a short
time, returned home Saturday.
Miss Naomi Collier of Oklahoma
City visited last week with her uncle,
Wm. Collier, and family.
The Choctaw fruit growers' asso-
ciation received a car load of peach
baskets last Wednesday.
Mrs. Arthur Martin of Harrah
visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.
O. Litteer, last week.
Geo. M. Smith, the banker, was at
Jones City the first of the week,
buying some wheat.
Mrs. Harry Stubblefield is visining
her mother, Mrs. Howard, at Paden.
Chas. Miller has been quite sjck
with gall stones.
Miss Dot Dan, who is working in
Continued on Last Page.
ELI HODGES PUZZLE,
LIKE HARRY THAW
“The county officials do not know
what to do with Ely Hodge, now in
the county jail on a charge for which
he cannot be convicted. He is al-
most as much of a problem as Harry
Thaw,” says the Oklahoma City
Times.
“Hodge was arrested several
months ago on the charge of making
an assault on Lethea Gross, the
daughter of a farmer near Spencer.
He was tramping through the coun-
try and was employed by Gross to
work on the farm. The first night
he stayed at the farmhouse he crept
downstairs and took hold of the
little girl, sleeping in the same room
with her parents.
“After he was arrested Hodge ap-
peared to be insane, but the insanity
board found that he was not. He
was given a preliminary hearing at
Spencer and held for trial, but the
county officials do not believe he can
be convicted. The youth is said to
be half-demented and has no home.
According to his own statements he
has for years been wandering about
the country, dirty, ragged and un-
kempt. He cannot read or write and
is denslev ignorant on nearly every
subject.”
A BIT OP- PHILOSOPH’
KR-OM
>\VBT WEATHER TALK
JAMES WHITCOMB RIBBY
SOME NOTES ABOUT
THE RAILROAD BOYS
FROM 01
ANOTHER BOBBERY
OVER AT HARRAH
Ilarrab News: “Last Thursday
night some uuknown persons broke
into the stores of Henry Solts and
Walter Wilson. At the Soils store,
B. Oliver has a watch repair outfit
and had left several watches on his
work table. These were taken, but
aside from this nothing of import-
ance was taken. Entrance was gain-
ed in Solts’ by cutting a hole in the
pane! of the back door and unlock-
ing it. They left an old knife in
the store, which has been identified
as belonging to some young men,
who were seen here Thursday.
“Entrance was gained in the Wil-
son store by prying the hack window
up. The cash drawer was broken
into, but no money secured. Some
smoking tobacco, cigars and bananas
was all that Mr. Wilson missed.”
GRAIN, FRUIT EXHIBIT
AT HOUGHTON STORE
H. B. Houghton is offering prizes
for the best exhibits of grains,
fruits, an . other farm products, and
has an ad in this issue telling all a-
bout it. This is a stroke of enter-
prise on the part of Mr. Houghton,
and the exhibit promises to be a
large one. Bring in a sample of
your product to his store, and show
your neighbors what you can raise.
SCHOOL MERGER FAILS
BY A SMALL MAJORITY
Efforts on the part of sympathiz-
ers with the plan to consolidate rural
school districts No. 26, 27 (Britton)
and 28, were lost Monday, acording
to the office of Mrs. Anna Burks
Love, county superintendent of
schools, who received the results of
the ballot Tuesday. According to
the returns made to Mrs. Love, the
consolidation proposal was defeated
by only one vote.
t hain't no use to grumble
1 and cotnplane*
It’s jest as cheap and easy
__ to rejoice-
When God sorts out the weatheH
and sends rain,
W'y, rain's my choice.
Men ginerly, to all intents-
) Although they 're apt to grumble somc-
Puts most theyr trust in Providence,
And takes things as they come.
In this existence e, dry and wet
Will overtake the best of men-
Some little skift o’ clouds'll shot
The sun off now and then.-
And mayby, whilse you’re wundern whm
You’ve fool-like lent your umbrell' to,
7And want it-out’ll pop the sun,
i And you’ll bo glad you hairit got none!
WOMAN IS MOTHER
OF 17 CHILDREN!
Widow Near Choctaw City Applies to County
Judge for Pension
A widow, 39, mother of 17 chil-
dren, the oldest boy 20, an invalid,
the family practically destitute on a
hill farm two and a half miles west
of Choctaw City—a small two-room
log cabin for a house—these are the
pitiful circumstances related to
County Judge Zwick when Laura
Ramsey made application for a pen-
sion under the new widow's pension
law.
All 17 children were born in 21
years. The oldest child, a girl, is
21, and was born when the mother
was 18. There are no twius, trip-
lets or quadruplets in the Ramsey
family. The mother, although with-
out funds, is in good health. The
father died last November of tuber-
culosis.
Since the death of the father, the
family has attempted to make a liv-
ing on the rented farm. The farm
is not productive and the mother ap-
plied to County Judge Zwick for re-
lief. An early hearing on the un-
usual case is expected.
Until several years before the
death of the father the family lived
on the outskirts of Oklahoma City
and engaged in truck farming.
County Judge Zwick said that so
far aB he knew 17 children for a
mother of 39 was a record.
If the full limit pension were al-
lowed, Mrs. Ramsey would get $10 a
month for the first child under 14
years of age and $5 for all others
under 14. This would give the wid-
ow a monthly income of $55. Ow-
ing to the size of the fund, only
$8,000, for Oklahoma county, it is
improbable that Judge Zwick will
give the limit in any case where
there are so many children.
Jot- Mahaney, assistant chief dis-
patcher of the Frisco, was here from
Sapulpa, Sunday, ealliug on friends.
Mr. Mahauay was formerly an oper-
ator at Jones City.
Edgar Beckerdite went to Sapulpa
Sunday to take a job of brakeing on
the Cherokee division.
The extra gang that had been here
several weeks ballasting the roadbed
and repairing bridges, left last week
for the east end.
The switches at Munger and Greg,
west of Jones City, are to be length-
ened immediately. The running of
more anil longer trains makes better
passing facilities necessary.
W. M. Masters, the Frisco section
foremau at Jones City, has ordered
an up-to-date motor ear. Recently
he bought a motor to attach to the
hand car, but it did not prove satis-
factory.
E,R. Tolliver, who relieved Ageut
E. E. Beckerdite while the latter
was taking his fifteen days vacation,
returned to his regular position at
Bristow, Tuesday.
J. J. Cowden, agent at Headrick,
aud Mrs. Cowden, are expected here
this week for a visit with her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs, O. H. Driggs.
Mr. Cowden will be relieved during
his vacation by J. D. Beckerdite, of
West Tulsa.
Chas. Reushaw and family, who
have been living in the oil fields
several months have moved back to
Luther, where Cbas. has gone to
work on the Frisco section.
THREE FiNlO AT CITY
FOR CATCHING FISH
Romie Owens, Cornelia Hopper
and Mary Hall, colored, of Oklaho-
ma went fishing down on the Canad
ian river Saturday—that is, they in
tended to fish. A game warden
wandered down to the river at the
same place and finding that the fish-
ing party had no permits from the
owner of the land arrested all three.
Not a siugle fish had been caught
Thu three were put in the county
jail.
A fine of $20 each was forked up
and the three were released.
Live News of General
Interest From Differ-
ent Places
ROBBERY AT HARRAH
Harrah News: “A story is being
told on Joe Wyekup, a Polish farm-
er north of town, who asked a neigh-
bor what kind of seed the Germans
put in their bread. He was told
that it was caraway seed. Joe came
to town after some but forgot the
name and called for canary bird
seed. His bread was anything but
palatable, but Joe has been able to
siug quite well since then.
"This brings to mind a story that
is told on John Laaota, who bought
a sack of chicken rocks, thinking he
was getting flake hominy. He cook-
ed it for two days, and when it
wouldn't get soft, he took it back to
the merchant, and told him that his
‘flake hominy’' was no good."
DOUBLE HEADER PLAY-
ED AT HARRAH, SUNDAY
A double header hall game was
pulled off Sunday on the Harrah
diamond, between Luther and Dale,
and Luther and Peach Grove. Luth-
er won from Dale, 7 to 3. Peach
Grove won from Luther, 8 to 4.
The Peach Grove team claims to be
the fastest one in the Bush League,
and would like a game with the
Jones City Boosters.
BOOSTERSRE-ORGANIZE
At a meeting held last Friday
night the Booster ball club was re-
organized with Lewis Rice as man-
ager, Dr. Ira J. Wood as secretary-
treasurer, and Ernest Whisoand as
captain.
County Budget Larger
than For the Last Year
After several days hard labor, the
county commissioners Saturday
morning finished their estimate of
the budget necessary to carry on the
affairs of the county for the next
(1915-16) year. The amount which
the commissioners will ask from the
excise board amounts to $450,130,
divided as follows:
Salaries................$ 73,320
Courts.................. 64,300
Roads aud Bridges........ 110,720
Poor and lusane.......... 20,820
Widows and Orphans..... 8,000
Supplies................ 33,410
Separate Schools......... 48,550
Common Schools .. . ...... 6,000
j Poultry Premiums ........ 100
| Township Fairs.......... 2,500
| Contingent Fund......... 33,410
| Sinking Fund. .......... 60,000
The amount approved by the ex-
cise hoard for last year’s expenses
was 341,102, or more than $100,000
leBB than the amount asked for for
the ensuing year. Iloweyer, several
items, such as the widow’s pension,
$60,000 more for roads and bridges
aud general necessary increases make
up the difference.
Last year the amount estimated to
be received outside of the adyalorem
taxes, was $150,648.09. The act-
ual amounts received by the various
county departments proved, at the
end of the year to be only $63,377.-
35, or nearly 90,000 less than the
amount estimated. Upon this yeai’s
estimate, no such mistake is being
made, as $37,894 is all that the
commissioners estimate will be taken
in by the dividend producing depart-
ments of the county. Last year the
courts, as one instance, fell off $23,-
000 from tbe amount estimated that
they would take in, and other de-
partments fell by the wayside in the
same manner.
There is little doubt but that the
excise board will cut several of the
items proposed. For instance, it is
not believed that the full amount al-
lowed by law for the widows’ pen-
sions, $8,o0jQ, will be allowed, and
others of the budget, if last year is
to be taken as a criterion, will suffer
iu the same manner.
BEST CHICKEN STORY
GOMES FROM THE CITY
Here’s one for you. Z. C. Hard
in of Oklahoma City, vouches for it.
•‘I put a bauty heu od eight eggs
June 27. Mites ran her off the nest
on the tenth day, and no other hen
got to the eggs for the next live
days. During the remaining six
days the eggs were used for nest
eggs on the ground. Two of them
hatched out on July 18 from the
warmth of the sun. I then caught
the banty heu, gave her the chicks
and she accepted them. How is this
for summer in the sunny south?”
PARCEL POST PACK-
AGES NOW LARGER
Postmaster General Burleson has
ordered that the size of packages for
the parcel post shipment be increas-
ed to a combined length and girth of
84-in., which will permit the mailing
of standard-sized fruit and berry
crates. The old limit was 72-in.
length and girth and there has been
a widespread demand for its in-
crease.
The postmaster general also
authorized the establishment of
receipt system for parcel post pack-
ages similar to that employed by the
express companies.
FORECASTER WEEK
BEGINNING JULY 21
Issued by the U. S. Weather Bu-
reau, Washington, 1). C.
For the West Gulf States, includ-
ing Oklahoma: Overcast weather
with occasional showers and moder-
ate temperature are.probable duriug
the next several days. The latter
part of the week will probably be
fair and warta.
SCHOOL REPORTS ARRIVE
Reports on the recent county
school hoard meetings and elections
are being filed at the office of Coun-
ty Superintendent of schools Mrs.
Auna Burks Love, and it is expect-
ed that a report from each of the
county rural districts will he on baud
within a few days. The reports in-
clude the budge on school expenses
for each district, which will be
gathered together end submitted to
the county excise hoard for con-
sideration when it meets July Si.
The report also shows the name of
the uew school board member elect-
ed in each district to replace the one
who retired.
1453 ILLITERATES
A letter from R. H. Wilson, state
superintendent, addressed to County
Superintendent Anna Burks Love,
stated that 1453 persons in Oklabo-
mg county are unable to read or write.
Wilson says 894 of these are male
voters.
Wilson is writing every county
superintendent in the state in an ef-
fort to promote the establishment of
moonlight schools in communities
where illiteracy is most pronounced.
Moonlight schools are part of the
work Sirs. Cora Wilson-Stewart,
Kentucky educator who lectured at
the tbe Oklahoma normals, brought
into tbe stale.
COMMITTEE MEET P0STP0NE0
The democratic county central
committee will likely not call a
meeting for the selection of a new
member of the county election board
until the return of Chairman Allen
Street from the Frisco fair.
The chairmanship of the county
election board was made vacant
when the state board held that the
ousting of Rev. J. E, Discb and the
election of Charles Ruth was not
legal because a number of proxies
had been voted.
Disch will leave the city soon for
Chicago university and since Ruth
was not legally elected the place on
the county board becomes vacant.
LAWSUIT CONTINUED
Edmond Sud : “The case of The
City of Edmond vs. R. W Mon-
tooth, set for hearing in the Mayor's
court yesterday morning, was post-
poned uutil July 28. This ease is
the result of the Jewel Tea Co., of
Chicago, attempting to retail and
solicit sales of its goods within the
city limits, without having paid a
license tax under a city ordinance
recently passed. ”
Prof. D. T. Smith, principal of
the Luther schools for the past two
terras, will teach in the University
at Norman next term. They expect
to moye there next week.
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Keyes, Chester A. The Oklahoma County News (Jones City, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, July 23, 1915, newspaper, July 23, 1915; Jones, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc860191/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.