Wooten Wholesale Grocery House
You can bay anything in the Grocery line from us, in large or small
quantities and SAVE. the Freifiht. '
By giving us your trade it is not necessary to carry a large
supply of_ any one article, for you can buy just as cheap in
small quantities from us. Our stock is complete, and we
want you to call and inspect our store
WOOTEN
Wholesale . . .
Grocery
SHIPMENTS OF
HARDWOOD FROM
IDABEL GROWS
The shipment of hardwood from
Idabel is growing in importance and
is one of the town's most valued as-
sets. Great quantities of this native
timber is being piled up on the rail-
road right-of-way awaiting shipment,
and the industry gives employment
to a large number of men and teams
anj serves to distribute considerable
money in Idabel and surrounding
country. The supply is great, close
in and helps to bridge over the dull
times between crops.
SOCIAL AND
CLUB NEWS
The Hustlers class were entertain-
ed Friday evening with a "Plain
Clothes Party" in the parlors of the
Methodist church with the hostesses,
Misses Ruth Harbison and Irene
Bookout and Cleo Mitchell. Ok!
fashioned games and contests were
indulged in until a late hour. The
hostesses served lemonade and sand-
wiches.
Those present were:—
Misses Rubye Howell, Zula Butler,
Lois Russell, Juanita Martin, Ethel
Scott, Wilma Harbison, Gertrude Ho-
well, Ruth Harbison, Irene Bookout
and Cleo Mitchell.
Messrs. Robert Love, Bill Tyree,
Emmett Bookout, Ralph Griffin, Leo
Herndon. Charlie Hanson, Clinton
Bloodworth, Robert Martin, Wesley
Jones, R. Moreland, Tom Moreland,
Mr. and Mrs. Leighton Coffey, and
Mrs. 0. N, Bledsoe.
1 happy social occasions are being
planned for summer, besides this, the
: class is wide awake on every move
! possible for the good of humanity.
; Much good is being accomplished by
| this organized class.
: BANDITS GET $10,000 LOOT IX
RAID ON ILLINOIS BANK
$40,000 PURSES
AND PREMIUMS
More than $40,000
>remiums
Mis. Agnes Jefferson has just p:>r-|of county, with postage prepaid, at
chased a nice auto and is making a 'least fourteen days before the hear-
trip to Idabel April 1. and Goodwater of said Petition.
near Broken Bow to attend a big I IT IS FURTHER ORDERED. That
meeting. Master Perry, her son. is ? ^ of t!?,s order Pushed for
i two successive weeks in the McCur-
tain Gazette, published in McCurtain
Mr. Waits had the misfortune to | bounty, Oklahoma.
' J. D. PARKS.
re offered in running the car for her.
and purses for the Fif-    
teenth Annual Oklahoma State Fair lose several head of hogs and cattle, I(SEAL)
Summit, 111., April 1.—Three ban-
dits robbed the Summit State Bank
this morning of $10,000. The loot
was cash taken from the cash trays
and money drawers of the cashier
and from the safe or strong box,
which the cashier was compelled to
open* The robbers escaped in an au-
tomobile which awaited them out-
side. |
The Good Samaritan class of the!
Presbyterian Sunday School held
their semi-annual election of officers
April 3rd. and the following were
-elected:
Mrs. R. C. Oldham, teacher.
Mrs. Edgar Bartlett, assistant
t cache r,
Joe B?eW*ler, president.
WilUtvl Aubrey, vice president. i
Mrs. 3. "E. Hall, secretary and treas-!
urti'.
The meeting proved a very enthus-
iastic one, and much interc:< i.- being,
manifested in the class. It is grow-
ing rapidly and now has a larre rrem-
berehip, and is growing in m>nber:
and enthusiasm every week. Many
RESTAURANT MAN
CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY
WITH SIX O'CLOCK DINNER
Houston Pvron is the owner of the
Piedmont Cafe, ar.d like all other hu-
mans has a birthday once a year. The
twentieth came to him Sunday and
Mr. Pyron celebrated the event by
giving a supper, inviting Miss Bessie
Moore, Miss Lucille Cheek and Claud
Wade to be his guests.
The event was a delightful affair
and his young friends showered him
with good wishes for his continued
business success.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Bids for the erection of a one room
school house in district 25 will be op-
ened on Friday, April 15, 1921, at 2
o'clock at the First National Bank in
Broken Bow. All bids must be ac-
companied by a certified checks for 5
per cent of the bid; successful bid-
der shall make surety bond for the
entire contract price. Plans and spec-
ifications may be seen in the office
of the County Superintendent or at
the house of the clerk of the school
board, H. E. Cain, near Mountain Fork
Ferry.
MACK R. PHILLIPS,
County Superintendent.
and Exposition to be held this year at
Oklahoma City, September 24 to Oc-
tober 1.
Not only have premiums been in-
creased materially and many new de-
partments added, but General Mana-
ger I. S. Mahan promises an amuse-
ment and racing program second to
none in 1921 fairdom. The planting
of evergreen and the building of sev-
eral rew driveways, together with
the renovating and re-locating of the
swine barns and poultry and other
buildings, have greatly enhanced the
fair grounds which cover more than
160 acres.
NEWS ITEMS FROM
MOUNT HERMAN
and Mr. Chapman lost a mule. The
latter had just bought and brought
home the mule and it died right now.
The writer and all the neighbors
sympathize with our neighbors in
their ill luck.
Several Mt. Herman boys and girls
will be promoted this term ar.J they
are rejoicing over it in as mu.:h as
they have labored very hard for ad-
vancement.
Most patrons have complied with)
the compulsory school law, but some i
have not as the law makes sickness
the only legal excuse. At least that
is our understanding of the law. If i
any one is too poor to send the law'
provides for them on proper complaint!
being made and no one has complain- i
ed that we have heard of.
C. J. STEWART.
County Judge.
M. D. Deck and G. W. Daney, Attor-
neys.
HEMSTITCHING
1 am prepared to do hemstitching in
my home in the Skelton building on
Central Avenue. First class work.
Price: 10c and 15c a yard. Mail or-
ders given prompt attention.
MRS. W. R. JONES
IDABEL. - - OKLAHOMA.
(ImoApr)
Health never better. A doctor
would starve here if depended on
practicing medicine for livelihood.
The weather is not so springlike as
when we sent last communication. Up
till Easter we had ideal spring wea-
ther, but our Easter come in with a
bluster and frost that we fear caught
our fruit and sent our hopes of abun-
dant crop, glimmering, notwithstand-
There have been no weddings since
North Adams. Mass., March 28.-
Admission t« Notre Dame Roman
Catholic Church here "is strictly for-
bidden to women and young girls
wearing short skirts, low-necked or
transparent garments, as well as
immodest apparel," by order of the
pastor, the Rev. C. H. Jeannette.-
The notice, signed by him, was
posted in the vestibule of the church.
(First published in the Gazette
April 6, out April 20)
ORDER FOR HEARING PETITION
TO SELL REAL ESTATE BY
GUARDIAN.
Probate No. 2201
In the Matter of the Estate of Hen-
ry Thompson, a miqor, Jimmie
Thompson, guardian.
On this the 4th day of April, 1921,
comes Jimmie Thompson, as guar-
dian of the estate of the above named
ing the prospect was, indeed, promis-! ward and filed herein fcis petition to>
sell the real estate of said minor de-|
scribed in said petition for the rea-
v. v < sons 'n sa''' petition stated. And it
New Year s evening when Miss Sissle .appearing to the Court from said pe-;
Jefferson and Simeon Jackson were!tition that it is necessary that said
married, at the home of the bride's jreal estate or some portion thereof;
mother, Mrs. Agnes Jefferson. Both b.e so,<l {"r thu reason in said peti-
are deserving young people and we j^T ^ORDERED, That said pet J
wish them all kinds of good fortune, tion be and the same is hereby set,
Messrs. Sanders and Dickerson are down for hearing on the 3rd day of
each clearing and putting in new! May, 1921, at the hour of ten j
ground. o'clock a. m. of said day, at the coun-
\i, i- w n: i , ,, itJ court room of McCurtain Countv, I
Mrs. ' W. Dickerson and Mrs. oklahoma, at which time and place!
. halley \erner, each have another the next of kin of said minor or any!
heir; the former a fine twelve pound person interested in said minor's es-j
boy, and the latter a fine girl, wp may appear and show cause, if j
heard. any ^ey 'iave- w*>y an order should,
rw. . : ll „ .p. not be granted for the sale of so much
i l i' u '. 8' Thos. )0f t|je rea] estatc 0f saj<i minor as is;
Lloyd, had the misfortune to lose one necessary for the reasons in said pe-
of his horses the other day. The gen- tition stated.
tleman hail recently rented land of IT 1S FURTHER ORDERED. That
Mr. Fox and moved. We heard >hst f,'°Py °.frth,s1 ordef ** postp'1 UP in
. , . , . „ three public places in the countv, one,
he was plowing and a dead tree fell of which shall be at the Court House,
striking his horse and breaking his where said hearing is to be he!d, and1
neck. The man is placed in a rather n ('°P>' personally served upon the
hard shape for a crop as he had b"t nt,xt of kin of said ward aiding in
two ponies and was pitching -   the county, and a copy of same b
for the two.
No. 11913.
crop
mailed to all other persons interested;
in the estete of said Ward residing out:
Treasury Department
...Office of...
Comptroller of the Currency
Washington, D. C., January 14, 1921.
Whereas, by satisfactory evidence presented to the un-
dersigned, it has been made to appear that
"The Idabel National Bank'}
in the City of Idabel in the County of McCurtain and State of
Oklahoma,' has'complied with all the provisions of the Statutes
of the United States, required to be complied with before an
association shall be authorized to commence the business of
Banking;
Now therefore i, John Skelton Williams, Comptroller
of the Currency, do hereby certify that
"The Idabel National Bank"
in the City of Idabel in the Coanty of McCurtain and State of
Oklahoma is authorized to commence the Business of Ranking
as prooided in Section Fifty one hundred and sixty nine of
the Revised Statutes of the United States.
In testimony whereof witness my
-w hand and Seal of office this fourteenth day of
j January, 1921.
I \ JOHN SKELTON WILLIAMS,
^Comptroller of the Currency.