The Rocky News (Rocky, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 1, 1921 Page: 1 of 8
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Okla. Historical Sock-tv,
THE ROCKY NEWS
VOL 17
ROCKY. WASHITA COUNTY. OKLAHOMA, SEPTEMBER. I 1921
NUMBER 8
IK WEEK'S NEWS
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HAPPCNINGS GATHERED FROM1
ALL 8ECTION8 OF 8TATE
ROCKY TO HAVE 24
HOUR LIGHT SERVICE
PROTESTS AUTQ F,NES
Officers Make Arrssta On Technicali
l ties, Autoiets Tell Association
Officials.
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Oklahoma City.—Many complaints
are being registered by amoists in
regard to fines imposed for fail-
ure to have -1921 licenser), Recording
to Edgar T. Efell, secretary of the Ok-
lahoma Association.
Bell said that most complaints
are based on the declaration
that officers are arrest ins autoists cu
technicalities. that car owners
who have been unable to oblaia new
plates are being arrest&d and fined
who arc-here from other states, or
along with others who really have
violated the law.
Autoists arrested are tried before
justices of the peace and when they
get through they find it has cost, them
about $35, it,was said. The minimum
fine, assessed by justices of the peace
in Oklahoma City, as a general rule,
is $25, while court cos.s amount to
approximately $10.
The arresting officer is paid 25 per-
cent of file fine in addition to the
regular fee in such a case, according
to officials of the slate invnwr.y de-
partment, who added that «t> defend-
ant can he denied t’te privilege of bail.
EXPECT A COAL FAMINE
Hundreds of Oklahoma Miners Out erf
Work, it is Claimed.
At a meeting of the town
council Tuesday night, a con*
tract was let for the equipment
necessary to give Rocky a 24-
hour light service.
I A 56-cell Willard storage
battery and a direct current 15
K. W. Western Electric dyna-
mo was purchased. With this
equipment installed and some
repairing done on the engine,
; Rocky should have a first class
lighting system. The new
j service will be operated on the
WILMAT FREEMAN AND
JERRY LONG ENTERTAIN
Last Friday at 6 o'clock Wil-
mat Freeman and Jerry Long
entertained a few of their lit-
tle friends at the home of Mrs.
tHXIK STORE BUYS 'BAPTIST CHURCH SHOW-
ROCKY’S FIRST BALE ER THEIR PASTOR
T. M. Wall, a farmer living
near Center school, brought in j Last Friday evening a few
the first bale of cotton ginned friends met at the home of A.
this season. The bale weighed C. Sarders so they could all go
Jno. Hanna. They played all 530 pounds and brought 17Mi'at once to the parsonage to
kinds of games on the lawn, cents per pound, Mr. W*»!l re- surprise their pastor’s family.
Refreshments consisted of ceivea a premium of $24.00, Rev. Campbell, with an old
lemonade and strawberry icd making-a total of $165.65 that fashioned “pounding.” Those
cream. Those present besides he received. This bale was present were: Jno. Burrow
Mesdames Hanna, Freeman ginned free by the Chickasha and family, Mr. and Mrs. Paul
and Brooks, were: Susu Mur- gin. Walker, Olin Bolding and wife,
chison, Stanley Brooks, Paul- - Grandpa Bolding, Mrs. Fannie
Misses Fannie and Rachel Watts, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Gat-
Rasor, Miss Nettie Bell and liff, Virgil Hazelton, Barb
mven case lacks fuhos
Fifty.
tl I
Rad river bourn*
unpletod at Du-
Tylar. Unit**)
Many old tlm-
eauaty warn questioned.
Miner Mead. who rwa a ferry acrosnj
(ha Rad River Ip 1888. was question-;
at. and said that the river had chsn*-'
ad hot little where his ferry warn.
Mrs. Elisa Yerron, Iadian woman.'
who had lived on the river since 1869.*
said that the river bank was now aj
■die north of the old channel. W. H.t
Damall, another oltf Indian, had ob-1
served three cut offs in bis time giv-f
In? land to Texas.
S. P. Freeling, Oklahoma attorney
son HammonsT’ Wiimat and’Joslin’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.!family. Mr. and Mrs. Sam *«ner£-
Charles Freeman, Ida and,Orman. ! Walker, Vince Hobbs and fata- ZTZ1 USTS Zsl‘22
Neil Hill and Jerry Young. i - dy, Mesdames John Hanna, Ida!)ei whei.e it again returned to-
-L- ! Mr. and Mrs. Will Land of Dennis Brooks, Willie Dyas, okiahomu city to finish the case.
The Weatherford Chamber Hobart spent Saturday night Joe Jicha and Mr. John Can- The nurunt chamber of commerce
of Commerce passed through and Sundav with Mrs. Land’s non. tendered the attorneys and the ret-
our city Monday morning with parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bob -- °"'t‘ ,bf Red.
A. C. Means and family,!?- band on a booster trip for Pickerel, before starting Mon- Elbert Devins and family, T. over by \\T\Ver!'r.ct Vresidenti
John Swarts, Chas. Kleiner I the Southwestern normal day for Los Angeles, Calif., C. McKee and tamil\, Johnnie 0| tj1(. i >ura.n t Rotary club. Mr. Free-
and his brother, Gust, of Kan-'school. The band played a few their future home. McKee and family, Lee Gallo- im ., took a out a the past legislature’
ine Hopper ,Pearl Jermain,
Billie Sparks, Rubie Davis,
Pan§y Wilkinson, Otansy
meter system. The council | Smith, Ethel Mae and Jack
ihopes to have the new machin- Harley, Opal, Lowel and Wil- Butler Tuesday to visit Mrs. jard ^tnmih , Ear! Burrow and
ery installed and ready for op-
eration by October 1st. Let’s
all co-operate and help the
town council make this new
move a big success. Boost for
the new light system.
Grover Ford, Mrs. Earl JoslinjTierce and family. Mack San-
and children went by auto to dors and family, A. C. Sanders
'sas, Oscar Ford and familv, J. I tunes and President 0. H. Bur-
i A. Burson and familv, Clif ris made a short talk. The new
Lambari and family,' Tomlpep and enthusiasm will make’of Dill City, Mrs. C. B. Mullins
| wry and wife went to Sugar for allowing but ?:s/»wo to licht the*
Mr. and Mrs. Claud Mullins creek fishing Saturday. oa:ie' 'vlli,e Texas B,,ve itB attorneysi
! $150,000.
1*^...*..^ v ,i- •, -------- i---------------- ——.........-1 ,r. , c, , ,1 C. M. Curteon, attorney general off
-\iorts and familv, Olen Bold- ? better school tor the south- and children, Mabel and Perry;; jyil^es Gladys banaers and Texas, said that he and his attorney*
ing and • familv Coleman west part of the state. :of Oklahoma City, visited at Vaughn Campbell visited las had received courteous treatment.
Bunch and familv, John Wain-! - the home of W. J. Basket Sat- week in Cordell at the home o:! and were pleased with the invest!**-
- *7-- -- v TT LA r t.nrr/AtMr Mi)..- lOll. John S Iflnfn •ifaslBfimt nttm
scott, Freeman Hollowan, C. Mrs. Claud Walls and son, urday.
M. Bolding and family, Howe Leon, Miss Nettie Underwood
Stigler, “Fat” Bradley, Post-,and niece, Effie Underwood, of;
Mrs. Rov Hammons and t
Rev. E. D. Gregory and Miss! t,on- •r,)1‘n S. Fain, assistant attorney
Nora Bell Sanders.' : f.t'Derr‘1.01 th* Rni,cd stnt»- ***** °“
th.e value of friendly settlements oft
master Dillbeck and others Houston. Texas, Mrs. Roxie children, Lowell, Opal andi Walter Massie and family
_____i /**! • _ n j 1 l /v v /-.t i vtT'i n/r ta v m tv ' n n /I v% i nnn ilto v vn i f Vi Q y
national disputes.
LOW PRICE ON BROOM CORN
went fishing Saturday, and re- Gorgas and son, Chester, spent Wilson, Mrs. Dr. I. S. Freeman ,and niece, Otansy Smith.
I port catching about 150 pounds Monday at the home of Mrs. [and children, Wiimat and Alton, Texas, visited Mrs. |
[of fish. iWalter Whitesides. 1 Charles, went to Clinton Tues- Massie’s sister, Mrs. Bob Hew- j a very Little Demand For This year'd
McAlester. Okla.,—That an unusu-
ally severe coal shortage' will strike
Oklahoma as well as. other parts of
the country this winter is the predic-
tion of Muskogee coat nm who have
been studying the non-productive sitr
umtcq in the c:ic.es.
It MH 15tUX*}.0/of
miners are oin of work throughout
tne country and hundreds in thin dis-
trict. or approximately one-fourth of
the entire number of men employed w
this industry.
At a time of the year when coni
should be produced in large quanti-
ties to meet the demands of the
winter months little is being produced
coul operators say.
•-- i Mrs. C. C. Bondvand daugh-(day.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Basket ter, Esta Mae, of Sran Marcus, I -
ind daughters, Misses Jewel Texas, on their way home from! Prof. Durham and wife,
and Ruth, visited Thursday at,touring California and Colo- Misses Esther, Elsie and Ver-
Mountain View in the home of rado, stopped off here to visit ina Lee Henshawe attended the
Mrs. T. S. Lamb, sister of Mr. Mrs. Bond’s brother and fam-; teachers institute at Cordell
Basket. ily, T. E. Wilkison, a few days, this week.
W. J. Basket and family at-1 siq; ip ajrnb | Dennis Brooks went to Ho-
tended the Gotebo fair Friday, uaaq snq ’ Xa|UE^ bart Monday.
aid, near Dill, Sunday.
Mrs. Dr. I. S. Freeman and
sons Wiimat and Charles vis-
ited at the home of Dr. W. H.
Freeman Monday, returning
Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hanna
went to Hobart Sunday.
Buyers Maintain
Marlow.--Despite the small crop in,
this district, brooincorn is selling here,
at record low prices. The five car-
load:) which have been brought to Mar-
low. brought only $3o to *9^ a ton, it
ia claimed.
Marlow buyers maintain that b
factories are loaded with stock an,
are not needing the 1921 crop. Bi
corn always has been said to be
dangerous crop ewceftr for a few ywln)
during the war period.
PLANS PAVING HIGHWAY
Thirty-four Mitce of Jofforaon Road
to bo First Project
Pryor, Okla.—Move is on foot to
pave the entire Jefferson highway
through Mayes county, a distance of
thirty four miles. In addition to this,
many branches of the btghwawy will
be paved, it is expected.
There is an enormous bed ol fine
gravel just ea6t of Pryor thut would
supply sufficient gravel for the entire
roadway through the county. Some
gravel work already is under way on
roads leading to the Grand river
bridges.
The Jefferson highway is graded
through the county and concrete cul-
verts and bridges are in.
f
Death Warning By Okevnah Man.
Sapulpa.— Certain Okemah inter-
acts threatened to assassinate
Judge Lucien B Wright, district judge
here. If be did not bane down a deci-
sion in the now famous Lets Kolvin
lease case favoring these interests,
according to testimony brought out
at the hearing before Referee Robert
M. Rainey, appointed by the supreme
court to take testimony and submit
bis recommendation on the petition of.
oil companies to have Jndge Wright
disqualified from further participa-
tion in the Koivin hearing.
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* Vinita Coal Leaaaa Bought
Vintta, Okla.—Nearly $75,009 pasaad
Den the Central Coal and Lumber
onnpaay. through it* attorney, W. u
Curtis, to the owners of coal lands
nerthweet of this otty. in payment tor
teases and ooal right* This in the
third trip of Mr. Curtie to this city,
much larger sum having been ex
Haded for leaaaa an Use toe termer
trips. Much tenting tan boon dene.’
MffMont to convince the ueal Inter-
sou that an extensive anal field lien
M the northwest part of this
JUST ARRIVED
THE NEW FALL LINE OF
Hart Schaffner & Marks
_Suits_
Ladies Suits, Dresses
CoatS and Millinery
a
All the New shades & Materials
PRICES RIGHT
Come in and See these Lines
____
Sayre. Ohla.—FMrntehvng enewr the
aoet direct rooter to AjtertUo sad the
panhandle of Texas, the bridge re-
oently ooapleted ever the North Ptarfc,
of the Red River, to being ared ex-
tensively by motorists The satire
bridge was befit wit tea •*—agbt
(ays after the old bridge wan wieeh-
*d by floods tbe middle of June. The
bridge ia on the Postal highway.
The DIXIE Store
ONE PRICE STORE
ROCKY, OKLAHOMA
Hugo to Establish Crsamsry Btatioaa
Hugo, Okla.—Creamery (tattoos are
to be established in Hugo and tswna
nearby during the curly part ot Sep-
tember as a final offorfi to (UnulgUi In-
terest among farmers aad livestock
raisers in marketing milk, bwttarfhl
and butter.
El Rone Drink Prioso Cot
K1 Reno. Okla.—Normalcy, in all il
glory appealed in Bl Reoo thin wa
when all of the soda fountains rodi
ed the price of drinks to tbe prawn
nickel basis. The war tax ou all drtnl
and ice ervam concoctions in
paid by the dealers.
Told to Quit Squabbling
Oklahoma county wllll have ti
squabbling about the route ft
raod west and buckle down to
neon if it wants to get federal a
the entire $750,000 bond issue, <
nor Robertson declared.
Adjutant Ooeoral To Fort till.
Charles F. Barrett, adjutant
oral and Major Karl Partorwon, _
burning olBoer. were in Port 9iil tl
last of last wsek. The last units
the Oklahoma national guard
hold an encampment this sumt
were seat home from Fort Sill.
Governor Signs Expiration
Forty-eight expiration pardons
the a tats penitentiary aad tw
eight expiration pardons from
state reformatory at OranMe bat
boon written this amath by the ps
doa sad parols clerk, with the
al of
Myers To Hear Industrial
Commissioner H. C. Myen
Ok 1st
dact s snHss of 1
the titty, starting
MeAlesler. August
eases will bo
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Fantamas, Tom. The Rocky News (Rocky, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 1, 1921, newspaper, September 1, 1921; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc936721/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.