The Messenger. (Earlsboro, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 23, 1914 Page: 1 of 4
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Consolidation of the Wanette Press, The Messenger, and the McLoud Press.
Vol. 2, No. 50.
Earlsboro, Oklahoma.
April *>:L 1014.
OKLAHOMA NEWS NOTES
shadows of coming events.
April 23—Grand Council, R. & S.
Oklahoma City. ,, . ,
April 24—Grand Coinmandery, Kni&lui
Templar, Oklahoma City. , ,
April 2 I-2.j—County Superintendent
Association, Oklahoma Citv.
Apiii 28-30—aiate Library Association,
El Reno.
April 28-30—Scottish Rite Convocation,
Guthrie. .
May l—Shrine Ceremonial, Oklahoma
City. -
May 5-8—Confederate Veterans Re
union, Jacksonville, Fla.
May 8-9—State Editorial Association
Ardmore.
July 6-Aug. 1—A. & M. Cotton School,
Stillwater
Sept, s-9-in—Caddo county fair. Binper.
Sept. 8-lh— Photograpneis convention,
Oklahoma Cttv.
Sept. 22-Oct. 3, 1914—State Fair, Okla-
homa City.
Oct. 7-17—Dry Farming Congress,
Wichita
October—Southern Commercial Con-
gress, Muskogee.
Strictly Moctern. Rates 75c to $1.50 per day.
Shawnee’s Best Hotel.
THE NORWOOD
Norwood Hotel Company, Proprietors.
Shawnee,.......Okla.
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VAUDEVILLE
3 ‘ Big Time" Feature Novelty
Acts 3
Come to the Saturday Matinee
Every Saturday. Only
10c at Matinee 10c
Sfarts at 3 o’clock.
Sluiwiioe’s
Family Vaudeville Theatre.
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“LtJCILE LOVE”
“Ouf Mutual Girl”
and all the Best Stars in the
Movies at the
ODEON
Shawnee's Best Motion
Picture Theatre.
Your visit to this city is not
complete without a visit to the
Odeon.
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HUBS
Do you want value received for your money?
SURE YOU DO!
and
That is what our store stands for. Let us sell you
your Clothes, Hats, Caps, Shoes, Shirts, Socks, Und-
erwear, Neckwear etc.
Your money’s worth or your money back.
We keep your suit pressed, FREE.
HALLEY-WHITE OLD. 00.,
Security State Bank
Shawnee, Oklahoma
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We buy SALE NOTES, and always have
money to loan to responsible fanners at
a reasonable rate of interest.
W. S. Search. President; ' F. V Askew, Vice President;
C. R. Wallace, Cashier.
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Our advertisers will save you money. Patronize them.
Shawnee, Okla.
Two banks of Tecumseh have com
bined deposits of $185,000.
Tillman county’3 second annual
poultry show will be held in Freder-
ick December 14 to 19.
Thomas l’ryor, 35 years old, shot
and killed his wife and fired a bullet
into his own brain at Ardmore. The
couple separated several weeks ago.
C. M. Fecheimer, a Chickasha at
torney, died as the result of having
fallen from the roof of tlie First Na
tional building into the alleyway be-
low.
John Jenkins, of Hickory, was kill
ed by Dick Eli ott, his stepfather, who
say3 that he shot Jenkins after the
latter had attached him with a knife
Elliott will plead self-defense.
Sunday evening, while all Chlcka
sha was at church, a thief entered t.ht:
First National Dank building, forced
the doors to three dentist offices and
procured a total of over $300 worth ol
gold.
For threatening to behead his 13-
year-old daughter with a butcher
knife, Will ‘'Hinton, proprietor of a
rooming and boarding house at Tulsa,
was sentenced to jail for forty-five
days.
W. F. Kelly, Crowder postmaster,
chargd with killing James Ba-es,
city marshal, is in the hospital suf-
fering, doctors say, from a fractured
skull, the result of the blow from
Dates’ gun.
McAlester’s new $35,000 Carnegie
library was dedicated last week. Hen-
ry P. Robbins, formerly editor of the
News-Capital, now editorial writer on
tha St. Louis Globe-Democrat, deliv-
ered the principal address.
F. W. Holmes of Sayre was elected
president of the Oklahoma Retail
Jewelers’ association at the Oklaho-
ma City convention last weak.
Holmes was secretary-treasurer of the
organization during the past year.
The city council of Altus has re-
ceived a proposition from D. J. Waugh
formerly a well known democratic
politician of Oklahoma, representing
an oil and gas syndicate of Tulsa, to
pipe natural gas to that city If given
a franchise.
The Colonial Knickerbocker Trust
Co. of New York lias underwritten
five and a half million dollars in two-
year notes for paying off receivers’
certificates and current debts and
taking the Orient railroad cut of the
receivership.
Florists who gathered from all sec-
tions of the state formed a permanent
organization at Oklahoma City known
as the Oklahoma State Florists and
Ornt-Ruiai Ho: L:uUn. ijts associa-
tion. J. V/. Furrow of Guthrie was
elected president.
Johknston county, capturing 76
points, far outclassed all other eoun
ties in the grammar school meet at
CLARKE’S SEED STORE
Clarke & Keller.
We are ready to supply your wants for Field
Seeds of the very best stocks. Our stocks of
Sweet Clover, Alfalfa, Millet, Cane, Cotton Seed,
Texas Red Oats, Garden Seeds are the best in
the state. Place your orders early to secure the
best. “Root’s Beekeepers Supplies.” “High
Grade Fertilizers.”
Phone 140. Shawnee, Okla. 208 E. Main.
Jack Haywood. Cull Snellings.
Reebie Barber Shop
Haywood & Snellings, Proprietors
When in Shawnee call and see us. All kinds of first-class barber work.
"T*he Greatest Values Ever Offered in
$15.oo and $20.oo Spring Suits for
Men in Serges, Worsteds and Cassimeres.
“Xtragood” Suits for Boys at all prices.
_____________Our Motto:______________
“Your Money’s Worth Every Time.”
DICKSON CLOTHING COMPANY
4 East Main St. Shawnee, Okla.
Ada, under the auspices of the East
Central Normal school. F’ontotor
county was second with 26 points and
Pottawatomie county third with 2.
After watching Fred R. Jones, e
veterinary of Atoka, ,Okla., for sev-
eral weeks under suspicion that he
was an agent for white slavers, St.
Louis police arrested him at his room
after he had escorted a woman from
the union station to a rooming house
under guise of offering her protec-
tion.
There will be no election on the
proposed recall of Commissioner ol
Public Safety R. II. Warren of Law
ton, as the Law and Order league,
which was agitating the recall move
ir.ent, faded to secure the necessary
15 per Cf'nt of the voters to sign the
the petition. Only 133 signatures
were secured, while 195 were neces
sary.
Adjutant Ceneral Frank Canton re-
turned lo Oklahoma City from Tulsa
after having directed the return home
of the stale troops called to Tulsa to
prevent book Tr-'k'r" on *v-c «(««
OnPrints to o|**c^ *r> fJqvf
Cruce immediately '/ter arriving
home. General Canton said ho was
treated courteously and that be had
no complaint to make, that he was
Drs. Gallaher & Stooksbury,
SPECIALISTS
Eye. Ear, Nose and Throat
Third Floor, Mammoth Building
Shawnee, - ... Oklanom.i
pimply carrying out the instructions
of the governor.
Setting forth thirty-nine errors m
the trial of W. R. Wainwright of V,
kogee and his subsequent convictii ■
on a charge cf embezzlement, attor-
neys for Wainwright filed an appe; i
in the criminal court of appeal ..
Wainwright, former treasurer of Mus-
kogee county, was convicted of on ->
bezzllng $7,500. He was indicted bv
a grand jury. As a result of the tri. 1
he was convicted and sentenced to
serve fourteen years in the state pe •
itentiary at hard labor and to pay
fine of $15,000, both of which he ob-
jects to doing.
ITartshorcc’s two banks show a«*-
oi approximately
$7:0,000.
Eighteen banks of Alfalfa cotm\v;
have combined deposits of nearly Am
million dollars.
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Resch, Francis X. The Messenger. (Earlsboro, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 23, 1914, newspaper, April 23, 1914; Earlsboro, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc860554/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.