The Rocky News (Rocky, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 20, 1922 Page: 1 of 4
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ROCKY, WASHITA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1922
NUMBER 411
THE EARLY FLY
“Th early bird catches the
vorm," is a favorite saving at
BAPTIST CHURCH j
Sunday School at 10 a. m.l[J[
Subject: The love of Joash for1
Indications of Hard, Cold Winter
tntf w
nonitfr
nr
’ •Lmere win ut singing at Lac
‘ ’ incl the aoil-j church Sunday evening at 3
ity of the insect to multiply; 0>clock, We invite all Who sing
its hind rasuli? in gieat nuro- ^ come.
Fred A. Ellis,
Church Correspondent;
SCHOOL NOTES
MISSIONARY RALLY
Mrs,
>l v l nt ^ God’s house. Scripture lesson j
nost nry tensnn cu >Tur.,% Kings, 11th chapter. Num-:
[t might also^ oe _ saui ^UI1iber present 138; collection!
squal emphasis and trutliiul-i52. *
ic.-s that. r vaiting a tly now! Preacliing at the usual hour.!
nenas a million less flies a Ht-1 Scripture lesson: 1 Cor., 2nd:
Je later on. |chapter. Subject: The Ilium:-'
Citizens of Rocs'- are °> ;rre! ration of God’s Spirit. Text,
Df the fact that the breeding Psalm 97.n; 1 Cor. 2:12.
proclivity-. ot tine nouse 11 y Evening service, scripture
are uno nailed m -tne insect ]esson> Matt. 25th chapter,
world. ’ c. that reason it siaoject: Watch. Text, Mail,
good judgment to start swat- 24-12-44.
ting before they have tlie 3 Y. P.U. subject, StewarcT-
ihance to Yeea. liiorysvm- sbip. Scripture lesson, Luke
ter, tanglefoot paper, and oth-, 19 fi 2-26.
er d...vices tor cutting dowir j»ev> e. D. Gregory preach-
the ianKs ot the dangerous ed ^be evening hour. Ini'*
pests snould fmd ready sale j mediately following the eve-
even this early, for they can! ning service was the baptismal
be used to greater adv antage ordinance. Three were bap?
how than they can later on,
when warm weather, fertile| There wi]] ^ singing at the
v. aori 01 ami tne a';1 "! church Sunday evening at 3
* I o’clock. We invite all who sing
oei s where there are -now but;
i few. !
It is the- first flies of spring f
that do the most damage, in
assui ing swarms later on. Get
out the fly swatter now and
practice up on killing them.
Rid the house of them as rap-
idly as they appear* If per-
sisted in, a daily attack will
insure comparative freedom
from the disease - carrying,
food-infecting ar.d baby-men-
acing destroyers. Make it your
business to kill the first fly you
see, and continue the practice
every day.
University., of Oklahoma
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Norman, Apr. 20—^Special)
—Six students of the Univer-
sity of Oklahoma wqfre pledg-
ed to Kappa Tap Pi, national
religious fraternity, actwrding
to announcement Thursday.
They are: Albert T. Brett,
Ponca Citv; John R. Cotteral,
Guthrie;’Claud L. Dean, Che-
cotah;' Loy L. Long, Rocky,
Virgil C. Nalley. Oklahoma
City, and John F. Stewart,
Okmulgee.
Those who attended the
Sentinel High School plav last
Wednesday night from Rocky . ... . _______________
were: Mr. Reven Beaty. Miss- Hill were visitors in our room; services Friday night, all day
Yinmo Beatv, Jessie Hobbs,I and for the Easter egg hunti nRutiHav Thp
Mamie and Allie Sanders. (Friday.
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OBITUARY
HOME-LOVING INSTINCT
Hattie M. Vandewalker was' The desire to own a home is
born May 2G, 1848, and dep irt- ore of the most natural m-
ed this life April. 17, l’1, of evf ry man, and no
She was married to D. Sh er if ho has spent his en-
when she was about 20 years v
of age. To this union were I
born four sons and two dan.. 11- ;
ters. One son died in Tc
in
4th and 5fl» Grades
* Verdie Wainscott, Harold
Sapdefs, Lois’Cook, Alma Ball,
Pauline Hopper and Jack Bra-
nam were issued a large spell-
ing certificate for having one
hundred perfect spelling les-
sons.
4 Velma \ Underwood, Vefrdie
Wainscott, Arther Canfibn,
Alma Ball, Vemice Dietrich,
Helen Greene, Ebno Jicha,
Lena McKee, Elmer Tierce,
and v Margaret Koper have
been’neither ^bsent nor tar-
dy durirtg thewnonfh of April.
* Elmo -Jicha has made the
highest average in the fourth
grade,- apd Lois Cook in the
iUSSS^sSSif-Tttk* Our
Raymond Brown hai befe» # M: u. Services Better T”
out of school two days; on ac- prayer fpr 'a Victory Con-
The Baptist church, the Rev.
E. N. Campbell will hold a
Missionary Rally here Friday,
April 21.
Programme
W. B. M. S. Rally Day, at
Rocky, Okla, April 21.
Devotioaa! services,
Stevens, Clinton.
Business Session.
Roll call of Societies.
Talk, ‘The Idea} Missionary
Society,” Mrs. Bond Butler.
1 Sentence Prayers.
Talk, “Campaign Achieve-
ments,” Mrs. N. Taylor, Senti-
nel.
Noon
OBITUARY
Little Geraldine Heller was
born July 31, 1920, died april
18, 1922, age one year eight
months and eighteen days.
Jesus said “Suffer little chil-
dren to come unto me for of
such is the Kingdom of Heav-
en.” We should not weep over
much for those who we know
are safe in the love and fel-
lowship of Jesus. Look not
down to the grave which re-
ceives your child’s body, but
up to the heavens that receive
its spirit. She cannot come
back to you, but you cpn go to
cas,
before Brother and .Sister
Shean moved to Oklahoma.
Another’son, Willie, and 0
daughter, Hattie, died a
years after the family moved
to Oklahoma. Bn .
in 1910. L. R: SSfean, with T
whom, most everyone in Wash*
ita county, wa&acquainted .1
who was judge of Washita hi
county for three terms, died vv
about two years ago.
Sister Shean died at Sent! .- 1
nel, Okla., in the home of her r
daughter, where she had live
for some time. Her death vrr
sudden and came as a shoe
to her loved ones and friend
. fe in a rented house he
,vs f.hat the rented house
never become a real home
he highest, truest sense,
f . nil/ can ever acquire
deep-seated regard and
nicii for a rented house
is naturally developed
te which They
icentive is there
: preserve or adorn
1. a a. rented house,
k . that any day
rd \n, order him to>
a 1
h ri
win
h or
ie place which
dm and his loved
very own, when
r.a ora has Lie right to raise
hi - rent or order him to move
out. then the place/ however
hum! le it may be, is-
She retired, feeling on re ’■ ir.d 1 home. Then every
usual, Sunday night. 1' a d member■ ot the family becomes
about 2 o’clock Me da mon Aspired ^with love for the
ing she became very sick. Ai-1 place in Which they live; they
ter receiving medical lid, she become interested in its adQm-
became better and talked fro - 1—L and beautifying; every
ly, but about 10 o’clock she tree and flower and shrub
grew worse and died sudd -d.. which they add to the place,
She simply fell asleep on thi ■' every new day they live there,
side to wake in the likeness of adds to the tender, loving as-
Christ whom she loved and j sociations entwined about it,
obeyed; until HOME becomes, one at
In early life she became a
member of the Church of
Christ.
the sweetest words in human
speech.
The season of home-building:
She was in every sense a As heie, Conditions have
true woman. She was loved shifted around to the point-
, , , , * ’ 1"~1 —’ ‘----’------‘Me for
witb-
w true woman, fene was lovea sniitea arouna to tne poi
her. Funeral services dearly by her family-, by her where it is again possible f
niAiu keld Wednesday afternoon .at neighbors, and bv the church, a man to erect a house wit
pevotional Services, Mrs. 2:30 o’clock from the. Baptist ghe carrier with her into out the chance of losing hea
T' ’ church. The body was laid to. Happy Beyond, a beauti- ily on the investment. So, t»
rest in the Lone Star cemew i?..i
tery.
Keen, Port.
Report of District Meeting,
Mra. Armstrong, CordelL '
Talk,' “Some Problems! of
LYe' Hoihe Mission Board,”
¥ \
count of sickness.
The Easteridegg hiint given
th$ second; third, fourthrtrtM
fifth grades by their teachers
was greatly enjoyed by the pu-
pils and little visitors.
Little Vena Whitesides,
Sarah Hljl,' • Geneva j, Massie,
Velma Hopper, Rosalie Green-
haw, Shirley Gatliff and Neil
Prayer tor
vention ip May,
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Greer Presbytery" of the
Cumberland Presbyterian
church will convene at Rocky,
Oklahoma, Friday, April,28th.
7:30 p. m. Every Cumberland
Presbyterian who can . are. in-
vited to attend. There will be
services Friday night, all day
Saturday and Sunday. The
:eme* fuj character. *an overflowing! the RLcky citizen who has for
j and -happy disposition, a tri- the past several years post-
+ L iv\ fTrvrl «1 • > /•! t n A I a4 I h A /IMA/lflAM AT n VWMST
" 1 m Jumphan.t faitii in God. and thej poned the, erection of a ne«r
Revival Meeting Closed g ardent )oye apd high .esteem jhpme on accpunt of the c««*K-
^ rhe^ reyfval’ at the Baptist-^ aac\ frA d -. tiou of the"lumber and
church’ «osed Sunday nignw >ghe ]eavt.s a daughter; Mrs. , market, we^ 'tan truly ex_
The meeting wafc.not altogethr Williams,'• df Senti/e',. Okla., the belief that now, right now;
wKaf wo wisht>n fnr vpt if .. ».t .. f.v a ... • i 1___^ ___
church closed Sunday mght
The meeting wafe.not altogeth, Wllliamg> 01 ^euu/.ea. uko.
pr what, we Wished for, ^et at an^ ^ son^John Shean, of Am-
was in. ‘many ways h gi’eat? arillo Tex a.grand son. Mark
mating. -Very large c^wds Curryv< of ^oky, itpa ipany
attended and .the interest was ‘ fnendk to mourn her loss,
fine. :The church is •Stronger., 1.1. .. ..inn.
because of the meeting! TheVeii
were three bi
Jicha, Miss
I, Mr. Joe
and-. Miss
is .the time he h^e. been wait-
ing for—the time to start
work on a home of his own—
the time to liberate himself
May *Go(j( ble.o thenyabun- from the clutches of a land-
darmy in,,thbir soito^,- and lord.' *
^ V4‘ r v• J"
may they..strive to that oneu —-—-r- • • •
great enrf-Hjtven. ;. l UBlES MISSIONARY
Prof. Luther Marshall, wife
and children of Carnegie
spent the Easter holidays with
Mrs. Marshall’s mother, Mrs.
Roxie Gorgas.
. public is cordially invited to appreciated by all
Velma Underwood won these moetinRS.
and Alma Ball second in the . t i? m:s?
Miss Emily Kleiner’s school
closed Friday. She war teach-
ing at Painview.
Little Leroy Cowles spent
the day Wednesday at Unde
Tuck Wilkinson’s.
penmanship contest at Cordell
Saturday.
Lily Samplev enrolled in the
fifth grade Monday morning.
She has been attending school
at Chickasha.
Rev. J. E. Bell, Missionary.
KICKED BY MULE
fhave ta^zed.sM;'e last ioAsolatiJm'bdh^bereaved at! SOCIETYdGIVE DINNER
. The servicp renderedthe Lorte Star cemetery, after j Ladies of the Presbyterian
-----Gregory irt reading. (tfie whioh the'-Eastern Star of.chui;ch served dinner at the
singing and other services was gentinu] y which Sister' church; Tuesday to members
Shean wa^ a member,-per-; and friends. It Was a work
formed a/ beautiful and im-jday, men working^- ;on the
pressive ceremony at the bur-;manse, the ladies cjuilting ana
ial.—Rev. S:.-C. Wall. [preparing to paper and paint.
“• | the church. About 100 ip ai-- ^
I took part in their bountiful ■
) dinner. Rev. J. E. Bell of
E. N. Campbell.
NOTICE
«• 4
Notice to th^ patrons of the
TRIP TO COLORADO
Miss Mary Devins spent
Tuesday night with her sister,
Mrs. Wesley Cowles.
Lee Haley, the son of Mr. Rocky Cemetery, better
and Mrs. Bob Halev of near known as the Grisson Ceme-
v.u^«o..«. Gotebo, was kicked by a mule tery, to meet at 9:30 Wedpes-
Cora May Curbow was ab- Sunday night and sustained day, April 26, to clean up and
sent from school the first of two broken ribs. Dr. Freeman see about fencing the ceme-
the week on account of bad vvas caned at once and gave tery.
eyes. Lee relief. He is reported to' S. Wilkinson.
Elbert Luttrell has been ab- be getting along just fine. I B. A. Dyas.
sent from school several days., —i- - 1 visit Mr and Mrs Chas" Gat-
We would certainly apprec- Among those who went to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pickerel ];ff G1'enwood Springs,'Colo.
iate the parents co-operation tbe mountains south of Ho- and Miss Nellie Pickerel re- _
in keeping up the attendance bart Sunday kodaking werei turned from Chickasha Sat- Mr an(j Mrs Kleiner’and
during this last month of Misses Ethel Cannon, Hazel! urday night, accompanied ?V daughter Miss Emily, and
school. We are finishing our j0slin, Mamie Morris and Fay , Lillie and Coey Sampley, sis- Mr® Bei:t Knuckles motored
m 4 a MAiMAiir o m J /*i ik r T D««maam I 4 am A4 Kma4L am a T 1V.T 1 m.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Gatliff; Marlow’ was with us and ex-
and children and Mr. Gatliff’s J nressed himself as being de-
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.lj lighted with the progress the-
Gatliff. of Indiahoma, Okla.. j church is making here. R-pgu-
left. Tuesday evening ! for a-lar meeting of the society Vri-
nleasure trip to Colorado.(day at 3 p. m. Every lady amf
XX • 1 _ 4L^.'m 4 Mi'A f L Air tirill L J.-, n MA AAvdiollir _
While on their trip they will
her friends are cordially re-
quested to be present.
Mrs. T. J. Sparks, pres-
Daisy Rodden, Sec’y.
_ . ,. ,-------------- - . _ T _ 0-1 • ____— -.....----, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hammons
school. We are finishing our joslin, Mamie Morris and Fay | Lillie and Coey Sampley, sis- Mrg Rert Knuckles motored and children of Oklahoma
„ j -au r- work- &oin^ to rev?ew.and Cox; Messrs. Louis Burson, ter and brother of Mrs. Pick- tQ Sentjnei Sunday afternoon City came in Tuesday evening:
.-s.si-s.as'» * ast^asss. isfcissif&Rs "*L — . taar *• ■**—istss issz a? 3
portant and the child cannot 0f Oklahoma City. Misses Jennie and Nellie - have not decided where they
do his best work if he is irre- * - Dyas, who are attending Earl ganders of Carnegie, win iocate just yet.
gular in attendance. 1 Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Dyas, R. school at the O. C. W. of came in FrMav and spent Sat-
n,.oo \ticaoa .Tpnnip nnd Chickasha. Okla.. snent the ___i A C
here last Friday evening.
Misses Leona and Ollie Ad-
ams attended the track meet
at Cordell Saturday.
Miss Mamie Sanders spent
Thursday night with Misses
Lena and Jess Hobbs.
gular in attendance. Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Dyas, h. school at tne u. u w . 01 came in prjdav and spent Sat- -
We are going to begin prep- a. Dvas, Misses Jennie and Chickasha. Okla., spent the urday and Sunday with A. C.! Uncle Tuck Wilkinson, Mrs:,
aration for the program tc be Xellie Dvas, Madge Flemister. Easter holidays visiting their Sanders, then went on to Cor-1, Ada Wilkinson, who have beet*
given at the close of school by Maud D’vas. Messrs. Carold parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. A. dell t0 vis.it wjth his brothers, visiting the past week at Ver-
the grades. j Burson and Flovd Hammons Dyas. Will and Hershall Sanders. non, Texas, retunied home*
- 1 went to Cinton Sunday to see -■ 1 - Sunday, accompanied by Mrs-
Lonnie Joslin, who has been; j. B. JacTtkm. who is at hos- Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Ligett ^Irs q l. Ligett and little Wilkinson’s mother, Mrs. U. B-
vav for some time at the U. pital for treatment. visited at the D. L. Burson daughter Joan of Hobart at-(Colwell.
...... home Saturday night andjtended the funeral of Mrs.
. „ I away for some time at tne u. pital for treatment
Miss Lillie Mae Kimball , g armv hospital at Houston. ( -
spent Sunday with Miss v era j TeXas, ‘returned Sunday. He —Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mosley Sunday.
Branam. . J underwent an operation while and baby motored to Mt. Park
I there. 1 ” ^—J—- —J ----4 Tr--4—
Mr. and Mrs. Sid Edmonds
of Sentinel spent Sunday at
the W. M. Branam home.
Mrs. Bessie Truett of Pauls turning Sunday evening.
Valiev, Okla., who has been
.Sheans and visited with her Dr. J. W. Tharp who is can-
a>m u«uj ™ ......... I mother, Mns. D. L. Burson. didate for Lieutenant Gover—
Saturday and spent Easter Miss Lillie Hammons, who Tuesday. nor, attended the Kiow’a Med—
with relatives and friends, re- is attending school at Edmond. -- icai Association at Lone Wolf!
A n___J________:__ C\U 1r* r>r\A»A ♦ fVlA r«^fA,. UaIi.I
Okla., spent the Easter holi-j r.Ir. and Mrs. S. W. Hopper Tuesday night,
i »ctiir> uivia. miu 1,00 days visiting her parents, Mr. and children, Mr. and Mrs. R. * —
j„„„i,foririsiting for iveral davs with Mrs. T. J. Cannon went to and Mrs. H. L. Hammons. D. Hopper and children wen
M.rii^i8«i^rkkodak,ngSundai
nesdav morn g. home Wednesday evening. - school at Edmond. Okla.. spent -
Hillmot_| - Bert K^f-kW Satur- the Easter holidavs visiting Mrs. Bert Knuckles visits
John Cannon went to Clin—
ton Saturday to visit hi» sis?*
iter, Mrs. Rose Pickerel. xrnAl
■ returned heme Monday nuoY
Mr. and Mrs. Cha^
'd t<
Hob;
msir
>Bduy mom-.
Emit Harley made a busi- dav n
Ir.ess trip to Gotebo Friday. dell.
th fri
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