Harrah News (Harrah, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 30, 1913 Page: 1 of 13
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HARRAH NEWS
Volume 4
Harrah, Oklahoma County. Oklahoma, Thursday January 30, 1913
Number I
A PAGE OF LQCAL NEWS
Short Items Gatherd From
All hurts of the County.
A. C. Hale was a business visitor in
tbe City last Thursday.
. Mr- and Mrs. Oscar Pipher were
Oklahoma City visitors Monday.
Albert Waner of Augusta, Illinois,
M here this week, visiting his brothers.
Otie, Ed and Arthur.
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Clarence Soits bas returned from
Iowa, where he bas been working for
several months.
Many farmers in this vicinity began
plowing this week, and getting ready
for another crop.
FOR RENT; 80 acre farm 2 miles
south and 2 west ofJHarrah. Address
H. E. Prosser. R 1. Moore, Okla.
Ross McBryde and family of Okla-
homa Citv, came down Saturday for a
visit with Jess Kernaghan and family.
Arthur Keusler, who was accident! !y
shot two weeks ago, while out hunting
with Arthur Frisby. near Choctaw, has
about recovered.
B. F. Delaney left Monday for Mays
County, on a trip of business and
pleasure.
Mrs. A. Coryell left Tuesday for
Oklahoma City, where she will make
her future home.
R. R. Housh is down from the City,
visiting his son Walter and family, and
Porter Ragland and family.
Get in with the satisfied crowd by
using EL RENO'S BEST FLOUR, at
11.26 per sack. Adv. 3t.
Homer Price reports that some one
broke into his cellar a few nights ago
and carried away about fO quarts of
canned fruit
Buy EL RENO'S BEST FLOUR.
Satisfaction by the sack full. Sold by
Baber A Hiatt. Adv. 3t.
J. T. Hughes was a business visitor
at Oklahoma City Tuesday.
We insist on your trying a sack of
EL RENO'S BEST FLOUR, as we
know a satisfied customer is our best
salesman. Adv. 3t.
B. B. BLASS IS BEAB
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Former Resident of Htrrak
Died Friday in Shawnee.
Owen Hiatt returned Monday from
his trip through southern Texas. He
seemed to be well pleased with that
country.
GET ACQUAINTED OFFER- Send
your name with post office address and
we will send you Post Paid, 25 Ever-
bearing Strawberry plants Free.
Banner Nursery Co. St. Louis, Mo. Adv.
The house of representatives adopt-
ed a resolution Monday, S4 to 4 to im-
peach State auditor Leo Meyer. The
charges against Meyer are perjury, in-
competence, and neglect of duties.
The county assessor has announced
that on February 1 his deputies will be
prepared to furnish any information
desired bj tax payers regarding the
1912 assessment.
H. C. Stahl was here the past week,
from Ohio, looking after business
matters. Before returning he ordered
the News sent to him.
Mis* Fay Burke left Sunday morn-
ing for her home near Edmond, after
spending several weeks here visiting
relatives and friends.
The woman who insists that you eat
pie with a fork, is often the one whose
pie crust requires a butchers cleaver
to break it.
Mrs. Nonea and son Emitt returned
Friday from Cushing, where they have
been visiting their son and brother,
John Hanea, for several weeks.
B. F. Miles and Trave Williams went
to Shawnee Saturday evening, to rep-
resent the Harrah M"sonic lodge, at
the service held for B. B. Glass.
The new steel bridge at the Under-
wood crossing northwest of town, has
been completed, and the roatl is again
open for travel.
J. F. Moore was called to Norman
Monday, to attend the funeral of his
aged mother. Early Monday he re-
ceived word that she was seriously ill,
and he left on the morning train, but
she was dead when he arrived.
Styles Ralph, the negro who was ar-
rested last week, charged with steai-
j ing 800 pounds of cotton from K. Sk
ropski, was tried in Justice court Tues-
day at Oklahoma City, and bound over
to the district court. He was released
on 3500 bond.
A bill has been, introduced in the
! legislature, which, if it passes, will re-
Last Thursday after he had been ac- quir® *be clerk of each city, town,
quitted of a charge of murder, and ! ^o^^ship, and school district, to publish
promised to leave the state, Hugh Dix- in 80,116 newspaper, where he resides,
on was arrested on a charge of gam- 8 montb*y itiraized statement of each
gam-
bond.
charge
blrog. He was unable to make
and has since been in jail.
Homer F. Richards, alias Blue Rich-
ards, and Julia Williams, were arrest-
ed at Pueblo, Colo., a few days ago,
and is said to be wanted in connection
with Jones City bank robbery.
Williams Younkman & Co will have
a Public Sale on Friday the I4th. They
will sell horses, mules, cattle, hay,
wagons, buggies, harness, and farm
implements. It will be the largest
sale of the season. See the bills
week.
and every claim allowed. The state-
jnant must specify the amount of the
;laim, the amount allowed, to whom
allowed, and for what purpose said
claim was allowed.
The sad news reached here Satur-
day of the death of Breckenridge B.
Glass, a former resident of this place,
who died at his home in Shawnee Fri-
day afternoon of peritonitis. He had
been ill for about two weeks, and last
Wednesday showed alarming symp-
toms. He was taken to a hospital, and
an operation was performed Thursday
evening.
Mr. Glass was in the prime of life,
being only 82 years ef age. He cans
to this country from Kentucky, in the
fall of 1902, and located in MeLoud,
where he was in business several years.
A year er so later he bought out the
telephone system here, and ran it un-
til he sold out to B. F. Delaney Jan. I,
1909. He heloed organize the Masenia
lodge at this place, and was its first
Master.
After leaving here Mr. Glass engag-
ed in the banking business at Shawnee,
and at the time of his death wss assist-
ant eashier of the Shawnee National
Bank. Te mourn his loss he leaves^
besides hundreds of friends here, at
Me Loud and Shawnee, his wife and’two
children. The remains were shipped
to George town, Kentucky, his old
home for interment.
Some girls inherit their complexion
from their mother, while ethers get
them's from their father— if he hap-
pens to keep a paint store.
WANTED: Good live m*n to handle
oursewing machines at Harrah. Good
libera! commission payed. Singer Sew-
ing Machine Co. 16 N. Harvey, Okla-
homa City. F. W. O’Bo won, Mgr. Adv.
Trave Williams returned Thursday
night from Guthrie, where he was at-
tending the Masonic lodge. Trave
came back a thirty-second degree Ma-
son.
Prof. Reams of Oklahoma City, is
here this week, teaching music to a
class of about twenty-five young peo-
ple. All are enthusiastic about it,
and the town will soon be full of mus-
icians.
Grandpa Byus, an aged farmer living
northeast of town, died Saturday night
after an illness of several months. The
funeral was held Monday, and the re-
mains wen* laid at rest in the FerriU
cemetary. He was '<8 years old.
According to the report of M. Cor-
nelius, newly installed register of
deeds, 120,000 instruments of all kinds
have been filed in the register of deeds’
office in the last two years. Cornelius
estimates that 80,000 of the instru-
ments filed were warranty deeds and
real estate mortgages and the remain-
ing 40,000 were chattle mortgages.
During the two years, the receipts of
the office were 181,481.55, and the tot-
al amount of expenses 823,887. :4,
eaving a total balance on hand of
$28,094.41.
There is a great deal of dissatisfact-
ion at the court house among the depu-
ies and clerks, whose salarier were
cut by the county commissioners at
their last meeting. Deputies who form-
erly drawed $125, per month for their
services, will only draw $100 in the
^____future; those who were paid $100 per
next mon,b> will only get $90 hereafter.
This item alone will probably save tha
county $10,000 in a year.
The editor made a trip to the City
Saturday, and on the way up we ob-
served that a great deal of spring
plowing has been done. In the bottom
near the city, practically ail of the
ground has been plowed. One of the
first things we did after arriving there
was to take in the poultry show. It
cost us a dime, but it was worth the
the money. There we saw all kinds
and breeds of chickens. Being some
what of a poultry fancier, we enjoyed
the show very much.
Feeling a hungriness, and thinking
that bananas would satisfy a ravenous
stomach, some one broke into Baber A
Hiatt’s store Sunday night, and ate
about one dozen choice bananas. The
glass in one of the side
to the front door was
where the bunch wss
damage was about $5.
THE NEWS FROM STAR
By Special Correspondent
Sanders Hanson is suffering with m
rising on his neck, this week.
The Chancellor family spent a pleas-
ant day with the Loyd family Sunday.
Mr. Whitford disposed of several
large fat hogs last week Jat the City,
for a good priee.
We had a nice crowd out at Sunday
School Sunday. Brother Clou j’will
preach next Sunday afternoon at 3 o-
clock.
Hanson and family spent Sunday
with Charlie Loyd and family, near
Choctaw.
Grandpa Chancellor and family spent
Sunday with John Fowler and family,
near Peach Grove.
News is scarce this week. We ant
not doing much but keeping fires and
doing chores.
windows, next
broken, near
hanging. The
Singer Sewing machine on east terms.
Hugh Dixon, the young man who
shot and killed Will Coffey in Dewey
township, on the night of December
was set free by Judge Carney of; J. F. Nickel and son Earl, who live
the district court last Thursday. The southwest of town, were arrested early
judge gave him a lecture and advised last week by detectives, who charge
him to seek better company in the : them with the murder of John Jones,
Wash Jones has started a second-
hand store. Find his ad elsewhere.
Geo. M. Fowler was among the
farmers that were in the City Tuesday
as witness against Styles Ralph.
Easter comes early this year, tha 23
of March being the day when we will
feast on rabbit eggs. It is said to be
the earliest Eaater in 66 years.
Miss Bessie Dougai, formeriv of Me-
Loud and Shawnee, and well known to
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future. Dixon said he would go borne j « wealthy farmer of that neighborhood. | many of our readers, bas filed suit
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Write or call
City, as the company has no represent-
ative at Harrah. f. W. O'Bowor,
Mgr. Afbr,
to hia parents in Arkansas. His
quittat was the result of a motion
ac-, e«dy in November. W. W. Pierce
by j and son Frank were arrested a few
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c., company at Oklahoma . Aseiatant County Attorey George Zim-1 days after toe crime was committed
ompany no rcDreicnt* ^ t ____* - - - * * ■ •
merman on aceount of the evidence in
the ease which indicated seif defence
on the part of the defendant.
upon circumstantial evidence. The
detect!vee claim to have a strong chain
’ of evidence against Nickel and Son.
the superior court of this county, for
$15,000 damages against Ewers White
of Me Loud. Miss Douglo charges
White with libel and slander. C. W.
Mullins of Oklahoma City has filed a
similar suit against White.
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Todd, J. A. Harrah News (Harrah, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 30, 1913, newspaper, January 30, 1913; Harrah, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc937579/m1/1/?q=del+city: accessed June 5, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.