Harrah News (Harrah, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 29, 1914 Page: 1 of 8
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Volume 5
The smallest weekly newspaper in Oklahoma County, but not tne worst.
HarrahTOklahoma County, Oklahoma, Thursday January 29,1914
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Number 1
A PAGE OF LOCAL NEWS
News Items Of The Week
Gathered For Our Readers
Henry Schofield was a business visit-
or at the City Tuesday.
Percy Scott was an Oklahoma City
visitor Saturday and Monday.
W. L. Young: and Uncle John Ander
son were Oklahoma City visitors Mon-
day, returning Tuesday.
Earl Jones is home this week, as the
bridge gang he has been working with
is taking a lay off.
Vance Yager has gone to Muskogee
where he has gone to work for his
uncle.
The News is prepared to print your
stock bills, also receipts, and notes.
Get our prices.
I Judge H. L. Brown, north of McLoud
was a business visitor at Oklahoma
City Thursday.
B. Oliver was in McLoud last Thurs-
day selling some ginned cotton. Mr.
Oliver says that he made $10 on two
bales, which is a good days wages.
Mrs. J. C. Woodard and Miss. Elsie
Suits were here Saturday and Sunday
visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
COMMUNITY CO-OPERATION
COPYRIGHTED FARM AND RANCH- HOLLAND’S MAGAZINE
Natural advantages do not'm ake • a
great state or a great nation. Some
of the richest countries of the globe
are inhabited by some of the most
worthless and most dissolute peoples.
In semi-tropical climates where fruit
ripens and falls ready to be consumed,
the natives are so lazy that they won’t
even shake the trees to make it drop.
Their few wants are easily supplied. A
brush arbor will do for a shelter, a
loin cloth for clothing, bananas and
cocoanuts for food. They prefer to
lead lives of indolence and ease rather
than possess themselves of the many
good things they might have by small
exertion.
New England is naturally one of the
most bleak and baren sections of Ameri-
ca. It was settled by English Puritans
who were industrious, frugal and thrif-
ty. They made the most of their own
resources and then branched out to
trade with the outside world. We all
know the result. New England be-
came rich and powerful and has wield-
ed a tremendous influence on American
life and manners from the beginning
to t h e present time. Suppose the
earley settlers o f that section had
spent their time in bewailing the fate
which has cast them on that rugged
and inhospitable coast instead of on
the fertile shores of Louisiana or in
By f-uch a course
A NEGRO MURDERER
LYNCHED AT NBBLE
A Negro Robbed A White Mao
And Then Shot Him; Taken
From Jail And Tynched
w. A. Chaffin, state manager of the
Kellog Cornflake company of Oklahoma
City, was held up and robbed by a
negro named Dickerson, within a block
of his home on West Tenth street Sun-
day night about 7:30. The negro took
Chaffin's overcoot and ,$4 in money,
and after walking off a few steps,
turned aqd delibrately fired a load of
community in tne entire oouuiw*^ No. 4 shot into his victim. Chafha
that could not be vastly improved > crawied to his home, and his wire, a
■xl:_ vA«r i f the people . ., * ____informed the
own. lives and have bred a race of
weaklings who wohld have soon dis-
appeared from the view of men.
There are many towns and com-
munities here in the Southwest that
fail to accomplish anything because
they haven’t the right class of citizens.
The prevailing note is one of doubt
and pessimism. No enterprise can be
started that is not already doomed to
failure according to these gloomy pro-
gnosticators. And for this very rea-
son most of the enterprises do fail for
they are talked to death before they
can be got under way. I dare say
there isn’t a small town or a country
community in tne entire Southwest
within the next year i f the people
would only work together for the com-
mon good. - And a majority of these
same towns and communities might be
absolutely made over in a few years
time if there was the proper spirit of
cooperation among their citizens.
You had as well quit talking about
the weather and wanting to move;
just get down to bed rock and go to
bride of one month, informed the
police. The wounded man was taken
to St. Anthony’s hospital where he
died a few hours later.
TKehegro was arrested early Mon-
day morning as he was attempting to
pawn the overcoat he had taken from
his victim. Fearing a demonstration
Henry Soltsj
Mrs. C. A. Woods returned home sun-kissed Texas. - -----■-
Tuesday from an extended visit with ; they might have easily wrecked their
her daughter, Mrs M. B. Moore and -------- ----- "
family, at Ft, Smith, Ark.
iust eet down to bed rock anti go to | ms vilu.... .
work*and try to make your communi- the officers slipped their prisoner in
ty one of the favored spots. It you an automobile andi hurried to Purcell,
can’t get the neighbors to work to- where he was confined in the McLain
gether for the common good, start at . ..
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help some, and at least convince others
that you are in dead earnest about the
proposition. ___________
Uncle Joe Hornbeck was taken to
the City Tuesday to undergo an opera-
tion for an abscess on hfe face. He
was accompanied by Dr. G. R. Griggs.
FOR SALE: 50 bushels good alfalfa
seed, mammoth variety, well matured
call, W. E. Sweeney.
Lewis Woods has purchaased somfe
lots from R. .J. Navarre, and has also
purchased the Curry house on north
Holden avenue and will move it onto
the Navarre lots’ The lots are located
just south of Navarre’s house.
The News warns a correspondent in
the Dewey, Home Valley, and White
Turkey, School districts. Stamps and
stationary will be furnished.
E. R. Ragland has been appointed
clerk of Elk township to fill the unex-
pired term of Henry Palmer resigned.
W. T. Clark and John Glamser are
the other members of the board.
Mrs. Edith Lumsted came down Fri-
day morning from the City to visit
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Rad-
ford. She left Sunday for Sherman,
Texas., where she and her husband
have decided to locate.
Rev. E. B. Wilborn missed the train
Sunday morning and failed to fill his
appointment here. The pulpit was fil-
led Sunday night by Bro. J. D. Lewis.
The residence of Fay Grimes, occu-
pied by the Pennington family was
discovered to be on fi r e Saturday
afternoon, and it was only due to the
effective work of Mr. Scott, Mr. Price
and several others that the building was
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Barn Near McLoud Burns
Last Wednesday night the barn of
R. B. Helm, a half mile south of Mc-
Loud was distroved by fire. The fire
originated near a door entering the
loft and was dicovered by one of the
family while yet in its early stage,
but not in time to save the barn. The
loss includes about 2000 pounds of cot-
ton seed and five or six hundred bus-
hels of corn.
The Ragland Drug company have
installed a brand spankin new $1,000
soda fountain. It is certainly a beauty
and Mr. Ragland says he is now amply
able to take care of his fountain trade.
Jury Decides For Navarre
In Judge Clark's divison of the dis-
trict court last Friday, a jury gave L.
M. Navarre a judgment for $9‘o again-
st R. J. Lanyon. The judgment also
wipes out a $600 debt, which Navarre
is said to have owed Lanyon. The
decision Friday ended the fourth trial,
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by a mob about five o’clock Tuesday
morning and lynched at Noble, a few
miles north of Purcell. Dickerson had
recently come to this state from Louis-
ana, and had served a term in the
penitentiary there for the murder of
a white man.
the verdict was not signed by the
judge. The second trial resulted in a
hung jury, and the third time Lanyon
won. Navarre was granted a new
trial and was given a judgment as
above stated*
Valentine Wickens Dead
............ . , | Valentine Wickens, father of Mrs.
decision Friday ended the fourth trial, ^ ^ HuUsh djed at his home at Pur-
the first being in Navarre’s favor, but uk,a^ on jan 20, after and illness-
of several weeks. He was 80 years
old and was born in Sussex, England.
He came from that country when he
was 17 years old. He leaves five child-
ren to mourn his death two girls and
three boys as follows: Philip and Liza
and Mrs. Walter Housh, who live at
Choctaw, and Lee of Oklahoma iy
and Mrs. Cary Pierce of Purcell. T he
___A Wed-
The News tells the news.
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ROtD WO® SHOULD BE DONE HOW, SAYS COUCH 5SCS2=r~“ *
. .___i with recru-
saved. The lire waa caused
atovetdpe getting too hot.
By Eugene Couch.
That there has been more miles of
road built in Oklahoma county and in
Elk township, during the present win-
ter goes without saying; no doubt more
than ail other years combined for Elk
township. It is indeed pleasing to see
the interest that is manifest along
progressive road building lines.
The road problem lies at the very
foundation of all true success, local,
state and national, and the people are
awake everywhere as never before.
Let us let the good work go on in
Elk, first by completing at once, every
good road project that is pending, and
second, to provide for the maintain-
ance of all roads that have been grad-
ed; this can be done best by the syste-
matic use of the King road-drag after
each rain of any consequence.
wasj While the cost of dragging a road
by the | is equal to only 10 per cent of the cost
! of building the fame; it is equally ms-
portant and should be dona with regu- j ^ ^ chiWren of srhool age
larity throughout the year. j of.COrding to the school
It is also vitally important that what j in this district, accor K
we expect to do in the way of road enumeration just completed by Clerk
building, should be done at once, be- W. T. Clark.
cause of the rush of spring work that Otto jager and John Stella left last
will soon be pressing upon us. Thursday for Little Rock, Ark., and
Whatever is done should be done f nding a few days there, ex-
within the next thirty days, projects ^ tQ to Minnesota in search of
unfinished then will go oyer undone . ‘
until next winter, and with those i ’ J f
bumper crops at hand-which are al- j Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rruta
ways in prospect-shall we neglect few days ago for Oklahoma U y.
«hl opportunity. ! where they will make their home and
A word to every one who shall drive ! where Frank has secured a position
over any improved road. Keep in the with the Oklahoma Paper Co.
middle of 15 feet of roadway, but do pauljnc Jorski bas been laid up the
not follow in the ruts; there can be Ugt few davs frora injuries sustained
no ruts where the wheels of one ve- j iast Wednesday in an accident at the
hirlo does not follow that of another. DeBclt gin. He got too close to a
hide does not ronow * | d w3„ knf>cked down, and when
The admonition to all is, whatever-, ^ ^ uneonscious. Part of
ycu intend to do in the cause o, <»ood _ £ron^ teeth were knocked out and
Roads, do it now. [fee w-a3 eitherwise bodly bruised a|>
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