McCurtain Gazette (Idabel, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 68, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 19, 1921 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 15
idabel, Mccurtain county, oklahoma, Wednesday, october 19
NUMBER 68
HDERAL RESERVE
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SYSTEM
Plan Now
for 1922
ILOUIS SHARP
IS IN JAIL HERE
1—Are you going to plant an all-
Mr. Boll Weevil is with us
cotton-crop next year?
What about a well bred brood sow ? Do you have one ?
How about some high g^ade poultry ?
Some good milch cows would help out a lot.
Out of the above, you would have ham and eggs,
chickens, milk and butter.
Can you say so much for an ali-cotton-crop?
■Come in and
The First National wants to help you
lets talk it over.
.. The...
First National Bank
of Idabel
The Bank With Two Kinds of Inter-
est, 4 per cent and HUMAN
C. A. DENISON President
H. C. MORRIS Active Vice President
WALDO WATKINS Cashier
RICE R. GORE Asst. Cashier
R. M. DeWITT Asst. Ca3hier
IS SAID TO HAVE KILLED HIS
GRANDFATHER AT RUFE
LAST SATURDAY
Saturday morning near Rufe, Mr.
Sharp, aged 69 years, was killed by
his grandson, Louis Sharp, the wea-
pon used being a baseball bat, with
which the elder Sharp was struck
three times on the back of the head.
It is alleged that the old man was
trying to kill his wife, the boy's
grandmother when the lad interfer-
ed. As soon as news of the tragedy
'was received in Idabel, officers from
here went to Rufe to investigate,
with the above results. Louis Sharp
was arrested and brought to Idabel
and placed in the county jail.
TWO ARRESTED
For Making "Choc" Beer
day Afternoon.
Last Sat
1 wo arrests of "Choc" beer mak-
ers were made in Idabel Saturday af-
ternoon by City Marshal Epperson,
Constable Jack Touchstone and Jus-
tice Pete Williams. The first one
was Thomas Kerley, whose house
near the Frisco railroad was search-
ed and 20 gallons of "Choc" beer were
found, Kerley was arrested and placed
in jail, and was taken to Hugo Tues-
day and turned over to the federal
authorities.
The other was Lillie Williams, col-
SIX BIG SALES
WILL BE IN FULL
SWING IN IDABEL
THREE OF THEM OPEN FRIDAY—
EVERYBODY'S CHANCE TO
SAVE MONEY.
Woodroof Bros, were the purchas-
ers of the bankrupt stock of the Hub
which was sold in this city Monday.
This stock of goods was well known
to the buying public of Idabel and
McGurtian county, and every one
knows it to be a high class stock of
goods. Immediately after the deal
was closed they began moving the
goods to their store, and have added
it to their present stock. They are
preparing to put it on sale, together
with their other goods, the sale open-
ing Friday morning. Woodroof Bros,
by their extensive advertising in the
Gazette, the best advertising me-
dium in McCurtain county and their
J square dealings with the public, have
built up a good trade, and made
[many friends with the buying public.
You will also remember Mr. J. F.
Sanfprd, of Minneapolis, Minn., is
here'conducting a sale for 0. N. Bled-
soe, and the sale has been in progress
for about a week. Mr. Sanford
if> an experienced salesman and ad
writer and is attracting attention from
the buying public. Mr. Bledsoe is one
of our pioneer merchants and con
SUPERIOR
in Every Way
Majesty
IDABEL MILLING COMPANY
LEONARD G. HERRO.V, Manager
time on it was simply a question of
hew many .scojes the Idabel boys!
would make. Every length of gain
you could imagine from line plunges,
end runs, and forward passes was
made.
The following men did the scoring:
Herron, three touch downs; Clark
four touch downs; Barnes, five touch
M'CURTAIN COUN-
TY COTTON AS-
SOCIATION MET
IN THIS CITY MONDAY AFTER-
NOON—DECIDED TO MARKET
OWN COTTON
The McCurtain County Cotton As-
FIVE ARRESTED
D. C. Mooring, specialist in horti-
culture from Oklahoma A. & M. Col-
INCTVV I DAin ,e*e' StiIhvater> is spending Tuesday.
Ill JllLL ImlU weJnesday and Thursday of this
week with our county agents giving,
700 GALLONS SOUR MASH AL- instructions to the club members on'
LEGED TO HAVE BEEN I strawberry culture at the differentI Was Arrested at Broken Boh
FOUND WITH STILL. (Iubs' ! Saturday.
— —• iuciuhiim anu con- downs; Durrum, two touch downs*
tinued bad health is forcing him out!Taylor, two touch downs; Williams',
of business. Road their ads in the I one touch down, and Herndon scored
Gazette. " safety. The last touch down was -
M i" Her possession 6 \.
gallons of "Choc." She was arrested i'\here th,s week conducting the big j forty-five yards. ma Cotton Growers Associa-
and was fined in the Mayor's court e of J' C> JoPlin- He is a most, A total of seventeen touch downs tion met at the court honse in coun*
. Monday morning $50 and costs. courteous gentleman and is putting j and one safety was scored by Idabel ty agent Alvin L- Edmiaston's office
There was not a dull moment. fori™ a/al.e the, people can read about.jfer a final score of 116 to 0. last Monday afternoon. The presi-
our city officers Saturday night and . P °.ne o{ the ,av&estj The boys journey back to Huge
Sunday, as the city jail had exactly P* °f merchandise in the city and]Friday to battle fast Hugo team
one dozen new inmates during that] y expect to make a clean up onj
twenty-four hours. Most of the (this Sale' Reafl their ad in this Pa
arrests were made for drunkenness,1 per*
some for "Choc" making and one or v«„ n Z j- L ^
iou will see from reading the Ga-
zette today Moris Wisenfeld, one of
our leading merchants has an ad' ty'
setting forth bargains.
two for petit larceny. Our officers
are working over time in the enforce-
ment of their duty, and the people of
Idabel are behind them, in the good
work.
BRIT CLEMENTS
says bargains, he means bargains. He
also has on a big sale at his Broken
Bow store. Read his ad.
charge of the meeting and proceeded
immediately with the business of the
meeting as soon as the house was
called to order. Plans were discussed
■Burial, for the future' actions of the organi-
zation on the best solution as to how
w ~ . , , t0 put the cotton on the market, and it
When Moris ii. h Wl"™.11" dl€d, * the '« - « the luminous opinion if the
* " home ,n th. e.ty tot Sntorfv body th.t Z tot ,v.y „s to mar-
Died
W. M. WILLIAMS
in This City Saturday-
Took Place Sunday.
Hugo, Oct. 17.—Five men, charg- W. B. Hopkins went to Valliant
. W'th. 07I""P and 0Perating an< Saturday night to assist with the
illicit distillery, were arrested at | singing in a protracted meeting at
Wright City Saturday, tried here be-! that place. Mr. Hopkins will go to
fore U. S. Commissioner C. C. Ham- j Valliant each night during the meet-
mond, and bound over to the action ing to lead the singing during the
of the federal district court. meeting, but will be at his studio
Officers allege that besides the through the day.
still which gave evidences of having
recently been in operation, 700 gal- D .
Ions of mash were found Brady Pickles, who has. been ill
The men arrested were: for 8everal days at the Marshall
Grover Thomas, alias "Iron Handle I *oominK House- was carried to his
Pete," J. Henry Smith, G. S. Black-! f*°me at CIeburne, Texas: Tuesday by!
well, Ode Corely, and Marion Harr.j ™t>rother->n-1aw, H. G. Rodgers, ofj
Officers in the raiding party were- w^° came to ^abel to ac"!
Henry Oates, enforcement officer,'Company Mr* Pickles home-
J. D. Harris, of Pushmataha county, —— r
enforcement officer, E.. D. Fuller, Messrs. Herman Dierks and Bob
deputy U. S. Marshall. B. A. Pender-j Sutherland, of Kansas City, spent
night of paralysis. Interment took, ket "their own cotton.
place at the Canfield cemetery Sun- Pians were also discussed for put-
nasto. oJT v Uf■ L" Mathews' tin* contracts on record in the coun-
When it rains it pours, so it is with: rLn). ,6 .6 1S rotestant ty, and a committee was appointed
Last' advertising. The Gazette has all! , , .Uf*'ng services. The to confer with the different banks of
| kinds of advertising this week. Nowi f en a lesldent °f this the county as to just what their at-
Icomes L. H. (Hall) Allen, the jeweler, ArL„ T"-' Comin jhetre ^omtitude would be on the subject. There
'-J - - " ' • * • • - Al\kansas- He 18 survived by a wifewas good attendance at the meeting
and grown son and daughter, toand every one who was there was
whom the Gazette extends sympathy, benefitted by the meeting.
■ *-<• ". ^ nan; amuii, me jeweier,
The sheriff's force made a raid onj and F. S. McKay, druggist, both will
put on an Auction Sale beginning
Friday morning with McKa and Sat-
urday with Allen. No excuse for not
buying at this time.
the Clements livery barn at Broken
Bow Saturday morning and thirty-
gallons of "white mule" were found.
Brit Clements, owner of the barn, was
arrested and brought to Idabel along
with the "white mule." He -was al-
lowed bond for the sum of $250, which
he made and returned to Broken | Lecl ured at the Bismark Front
Bow. There were some other places; day Night,
at Broken Bow that were searched the
GRANVELL JONES
same day, but the officers failed to
find only the above mentioned goods.
Fri-
the
,/!
LBERT MELTON
| tyied iff This City Saturday—Burial
Was- Had at Denisnn Cemetery
•' — "• vi rkitnsas viiy, speni
~raft, enforcement officer, and Dep-, Sunday in our city the guests of Mr
uty Sheriff Hood. (and Mrs. J. M. Craig. Mr. Dierks
■ — was on his annual inspecting tour of
D. W. Wilson was an Idabel visitor his big mills at Broken Bow and
from Haworth Monday afternoon. Wright City.
LOOK!
At our ad on page four
of this paper.
REMEMBER we are go-
ing out of business and,
regardless of what you
can buy for at other places
we are selling for less.
0. N. BLEDSOE
Granvell Jones, who is with
Redpath -Horner Lyceum Company,!
of Kansas City, was in Idabel Sunday i
en route from the Bismark front'
where he had given a lecture on Fri-
day night to the employees of the
Choctaw Lumber Company, and oth-
ers. Mr. Jones was well impressed
by the conditions that exist between
the Choctaw Lumber Company and
its employees. He spoke very highly
of the personal interest that is
^,v . ie, and the many
Sunday afternoon by Rev. Albert A. I K°od things that are being done by
Puckett, pastor of the First Metho-:<he company for the direct benefit of
church. The Melton family *heir fellow-workers. While in this
Albert Melton, age 17 years, died
in this city Saturday afternoon, after
an illness ef twenty-three days with
typhoid fever. The funeral was eon- 1,1 im' personal interest t
ducted at the Denisori cemetery last s^,ovvn to everyone, and the
• i f i /> n„M L.. T) 1 II j a i ('(lOil thln</c f hot o *« i kni n<v , 1
The New
Bank
came to Idabel from Little
County, Arkansas, a few weeks agoj
and have been living in a tent on the
West Side of the railroad in this city.
The sick boy lias been cared for by
the good people of Idabel, and all
through his sickness had every com-
fort which could be given him under
the circumstances. At the cemetery
there was an abundance of lovely
flowers provided by the ladies of the
town. The lest of the family have
also received some help from the
city. The people of Idabel are as
good and big hearted as are on earth
when it comes to a case of this kind,
and they have never been known to
j fail to respond to the call for help
from anyone whether sick or well
who is in destitute circumstances.
River I county Mr, Jones was the guest of
1 his sister, Mrs. W. H. Chandler, and
family, of Holly Creek. He was ac-
companied to Idabel Sunday morning
by Mr. Chandler and his two sons.
Rex and Harold, and by his
daughter, Mary.
little
Mrs. C. P. Powtll left Monday for
Quinton, where she goes as a dele-
gate from the Methodist Protestant
church of this city, to attend the An-
j nual Conference which convenes there
from Wednesday until next Sunday
night. Rev. M. L Mathews, pastor of
the M. P. church of this city, and
George Hume, of Goodwater, arc also
attending the Conference. Haworth
and Hugo sent a large delegation,
and they all met at Hugo Monday
'night and went from there in a,body.
IDABEL AND BOSWELL
Played Football at Hugo last Satur-j
day Afternoon—Idabel Won.
The Idabel High did not play Val-
liant as was announced they would
last Friday. But instead met the Bos-
well team at Hugo. This was their
only chance to get a game so they
went there on Saturday. This game
was played at a financial expense
since there was no crowd to see the
game. The game was not scheduled
till Friday evening and no advertising
was done. Yet the High School
feels like it was worth the money any
way with the exception of the fact
lmt instead of a football game wa
had a track meet with very little op-
position.
The game began with the Boswell
boys kicking to our boys. We receiv-,
etl and advanced the ball to their par- j
ty yard line. Then hy two long end!
runs Herron went across their goal i
a touch down From this I
H-
line
TIk- Idabel National Bank, Capi
tal and Surplus §60,000.00 soli
cits the business of Farmers and
Stockmen. Start an account and
grow with us.
New equipment and prompt and
efficient Service.
R. D. WILLIAMS, President
J. W. DeWITT, Vice President
BERNIE HERSTE1N, Cashier
MRS. H. GIBSON, Assistant Cashier
N. W. GORE, Director
L. P. KING, Director
H. C, PERKINS, Director
BARTON R. McLENDON. Director.
W heA you can use a Bank, put us
to Work for you.
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