Rush Springs Landmark Mar 1913 - Grady County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Mary Achterhof 4 Nov 2007 Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== The Landmark, 1 March 1913 A DOUBLE CELEBRATION February 22 was Mrs. Rockhold's birthday and George Washington's. It was also the regular meeting of the Culture Club at her home. Program: Roll Call. Maxims of Washington. Some facts about Washington, Mrs. Rockhold. Poem, Washington's birthday, Mrs. Kiernes. Ode to Washington, Mrs. Bentley. Unsophisticated George (humorous verse), Mrs. Childress. After the program there was music, instrumental and vocal. Old time songs were sung by Mrs. Bentley and others. There were three gentlemen present - Dr. Bentley and Messrs. Kiernes and Rockhold. While they took no part in the program they enjoyed the delicious chocolate, angel cake and nut gelatine served by the hostess. Thy also offered toasts to the hostess and to the memory of Washington. Ladies from town felt amply repaid for the long cold drive and left wishing the hostess many happy returns of her birthday. ACME NEWS George Randolph, A. A. Fatherree and Mont Bruner were transacting business in Acme Saturday. Joe Combs, the barber, is sure kept busy waiting on his customers Saturday mornings and evenings. Joe Combs has organized a singing class at Acme. Will meet every Saturday evening. Everybody invited. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Johnson entertained quite a number of young folks at their new home Saturday night. All report a real nice time. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Fields a fine boy. Mother and baby doing fine. Henry Mileur left last Thursday for South Texas to do some plastering for the Acme Cement Plaster Company. He will be away some six weeks. R. F. Dempsey came up from Marlow Saturday to be with his family over Sunday. Ralph Talley made a flying trip to Rush Springs Saturday. NOTICE State of Oklahoma County of Grady, ss Notice is hereby given that on the twenty-first day of February, A. D., 1913, A. B. Wright filed in the County Court of Grady County, and State of Oklahoma, a petition praying for Letters of Administration to be issued to A. B. Wright upon the estate of John A. Williams, deceased, late of the County of Grady and State of Oklahoma; and pursuant to an order of said County Court on the third day of March, A. D. 1913, at the hour of 9 o'clock a.m. of said day, that day being a day of the regular January term, A. D. 1913 of said County Court, has been appointed as the time for hearing said application, when and where any person interested may contest said petition by filing written opposition thereto on the ground of incompetency of the applicant or may assert his own rights to the administration and pray that letters be issued to himself. Witness: N. M. Williams, Judge of (seal) the County Court of the County of Grady, and the seal of the court affixed the twenty-first day of February, A. D. 1913. N. M. Williams, County Judge. SPRAY FROM THE SPRINGS Mrs. Leka has returned from a lengthy visit to relatives in Stillwater. Home Improvement Club meets with Mrs. Kiernes next Thursday. J. C. King, one of Rush Creek's live young farmers, renews his subscription to The Landmark. Miss Hall gave the Domestic Science class of the school a demonstration on Wednesday of how to set a table. Hon. Scott Ferris' friends at Lawton entertained him with a Home Coming banquet the past week. Mrs. J. A. Lee, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Burton, at Pryor Creek for the past two months, will return home tomorrow. Mrs. Dan Jackson left Saturday to visit her relatives at Braggs, Oklahoma. Dan accompanied her on the trip to see her through safely. H. P. Ellis of Chickasha accompanied by his wife took advantage of the holiday on Washington's birthday to visit friends and relatives in Rush. The Embroidery Club met with Miss Hall last Thursday. The ladies are doing some beautiful work, and were, at the close of the session treated to a collation. J. M. Jones, the grocer and furniture man has just received a consignment of freshly packed seed from the Great Northern Seed House at Rockford, Illinois. Good seed bring good results. The Landmark, 8 March 1913 RICE & CO. This new firm is now a candidate for public favor, having purchased the stock of good heretofore owned by John Bailey. The propose to enlarge the stock with new goods and do a general merchandising business. HOME IMPROVEMENT CLUB. The club met with Mrs. John Kiernes on March 6. Subjects; Home dressmaking, Mrs. Marshall; Value of good poultry, Mrs, Shillin; Meats and their substitutes, Mrs. S. E. Lee; Making the spring garden, Miss Burleson. ACME NEWS Road Commissioner Strickland is making quite an improvement on the road just south of the schoolhouse by moving two big sandhills. Rev. Denny of Rush Springs preached a good sermon Sunday night. God crowd out to hear him. W. L. Hall is putting out a barrel of onion sets for the Acme market next summer. J. B. Cox made a business trip to Chickasha Monday. Mrs. Henry Hovis is visiting her folks at Purdy this week. Carl Johnson and wife visited at Marlow Sunday and Monday. Harry James left Saturday for Oklahoma City. He will be way for several days on business. Joe Dempsey and wife are visiting in Oklahoma City this week. W. L. Hall and L. W. Steger took a load of produce to Rush Springs for Ralph Talley Saturday. B. R. Thompson, one of our southside farmers, was transacting business in Acme Monday. Sam Fields is on the sick list this week. SPRAY FROM THE SPRINGS J. S. Jones left for Colorado last Monday. Harry Roland, of Lawton, came to Rush on Wednesday to visit his mother, who was seriously ill. Mr. A. N. Murphy orders The Landmark sent to her son-in-law at Mountain Park, Oklahoma. Ernest Crittendon is again at home, having been temporarily absent at Duncan. R. S. Cox, wife and Miss Fowler were visitors to Chickasha on Wednesday. W. H. Salling, of Braggs, Oklahoma is another new subscriber to The Landmark. Miss Ada McCormick is in Marlow this week visiting her friends, Mr. and Mrs. Hill. Misses Ora James and May Mileur of Acme were in Rush Saturday. Mrs. Huntley, Sr., is expected home after spending the winter with her daughter in Fort Worth. Mrs. Ed Rice has purchased the millinery stock of Mrs. D. H. McCarthy. Mrs. F. C. Balkely, of Oklahoma City, was down on a visit the first of the week. Mrs. J. F. Burros, accompanied by Susie Bailey, visited her uncle, J. W. Bailey, who is quite sick. Everybody in Rush knows Sam Cox. In regard to his candidacy for City Treasurer nothing need be said in furtherance of same. He possesses the necessary qualifications, has been a faithful guardian of the town's funds and what speaks louder than words in this grafting age, is that he has done his work gratuitously, not charging the per cent allowed him by law for handling the town's money. He will be elected by a big majority. Dr. Hampton has enclosed his garden with a wire fence. He seems determined that should he be absent from home during the sultry weather that his neighbors' horses shall eat up his corn crop this year as they did the previous one. Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Jackson, of Rush Springs, Oklahoma, came in Saturday for a visit with Mrs. John Stalling. Mr. Jackson returned to his home and business Monday by way of Claremore. Braggs Bugle Miss Mary Davis was hostess to the Embroidery Club last Thursday. The ladies enjoyed meeting together; also the delicious refreshments served by the hostess. A. N. Murphy informs The Landmark that contracts for six hundred acres of melons have so far been signed up for with the Gifford Company. Miss Lottie Bailey, who is teaching at Star school house, spent Saturday and Sunday in Rush with her mother. Joe Warren is now absent at Mineral Wells, Texas, where he went to receive benefit from its curative waters. Infant child of R. D. Elliott, who resides south of town, was buried in the cemetery on Sunday. George Kannal has received another carload of fine modern furniture, which he is selling at reasonable prices. The Landmark, 15 March 1913 CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP The Montgomery Bros. have sold their gin property in Rush to Mr. A. H. Davis, of Gracemont, Oklahoma. Under its new management it will continue to be run as an independent gin, free from trust control. It will in future as in the past receive warm support from the faming element. Mr. Davis comes highly recommended as a gentleman and business man and will give satisfaction to all former patrons as well as new ones. CULTURE CLUB Met with Mrs. Bentley last Saturday afternoon. Program: Roll call. Beauty spots of the world - Naples - The blue grotto, Mrs. J. L. Coyle; Egypt - Obelisks at Karnak, Mrs. Hampton; Rome - The Ferrum, Mrs. Kiernes; Norway - Its Fjords, Mrs. Cox. Hostess and leader, Mrs. Bentley. SPRAY FROM THE SPRINGS Mr. Leftwich is now occupying the Leka house. Cashier Newton and wife are now domiciled in the Padget house, having purchased same. Mrs. Ed Williams, of Washington-Acme, was in town shopping Saturday. E. W. Dent, W. M. Huntley and Miss Pearl Smith were visitors to Chickasha on Wednesday. R. H. Callahan, one of Bailey's best citizens died last Saturday and was buried at Erin Springs. Mesdames Rockhold and Kiernes spent Saturday night in Rush and took in the Singing convention. John H. Williams, one of The Landmark's good friends on Little Rush, renewed his subscription this week. Treasurer Cloud and Claude Lindsey, of Chickasha, were guests of Ed Dawkin's family Sunday. Mrs. J. A. Lee is again home on Little Rush after a prolonged visit to her daughter at Pryor Creek. Dr. Finley reports a sick child at Ben Coleman's and a birth at Mr. Dorwin's home. H. B. Johnson, of Grady County, as usual carried off a batch of prizes at the Fort Worth stock show, winning prizes on his black yearlings, white face two year olds and calves. The Landmark, 22 March 1913 ORANGE BLOSSOMS Married on Sunday, March 16, 1913, by Justice of the Peace Turner, Mr. Clifford Williams to Miss Mabel Wheeler. If they inherit the cleverness of their parents their journey through life will be smooth sailing. ACME NEWS Carl Johnson and wife went to Chickasha Sunday, returning Monday. Mrs. Henry Hovis has returned home from an extended visit with her parents at Purdy. Mrs. Sam Fields is home again from near Rocky Ford, where she has been staying with her parents the past month. Jim Horn is talking of moving his family to Acme. They are at Lawton at present. George Thomas, of Norge, is loading several cars of corn at Acme this week. Ralph Talley and W. L. Hall made a flying trip to Rush on Tuesday. Something surely is going to happen. Harry James and L. W. Steger both have gone to farming. Mrs. Roland Dempsey is visiting at Marlow this week. Joe Coleman was transacting business in Acme Tuesday. Mrs. Bible will conduct prayer meeting next Sunday night. Everybody invited to come. INSAME ASYLUM AT NORMAN A recent census gives the number of its inmates as follows: Males - 163 farmers, 87 laboring men, 12 bookkeepers and no newspaper men. This brings to the front the stereotyped story of a newspaper man visiting an asylum, when one of the inmates asked what they put him in there for. Thinking to have some fun replied, "Publishing a country newspaper." "You're not crazy," replied the inmate, "just a d-d fool; that's what ails you." SPRAY FROM THE SPRINGS W. L. Green is among the new subscribers to The Landmark. R. E. Richardson, of Chickasha, spent Monday in Rush on a business visit. Mrs. S. R. Glover was called to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to her sick mother last Wednesday. J. M. Jones has a limited quantity of extra fine Spanish peanut seed. Best on the market. Jeff Tidwell, who resides southwest of town, is a live wire farmer. He did his plowing in the fall, catching the moisture. Has about a hundred chickens hatched out in an incubator, raised a fine crop last year and expects a much better one this year. Ernest Dawkins and Ed Beeson came up Saturday on a visit to their parents. Both boys have "made good" since leaving Rush. Ernest is an employee of the Texas Wholesale Drug Company in Dallas while Ed is railroad agent for the Rock Island at Newark. The last two meetings of the Embroidery Club were held with Mesdames Herring and Jim Jones. Each time the club was entertained with refreshments, Mrs. Jones adding music. Agnes and Stella Hill, who are attending the Convent school at Oklahoma City, returned home Wednesday to spend Easter with their parents. Rush visitors to Chickasha this week: Ed Beeson and wife, Miss Francis Jolly, C. W. Harper, W. W. Kinnard, E. L. Taylor and Walter Jones. As we go to press we learn of the death of Florence B. Crofford, Tucumcari, New Mexico. A more extended notice will appear next week. The Landmark, 29 March 1913 TRIBUTE TO MRS. FLORENCE B. CROFFORD Mrs. Crofford died in Tucumcari, New Mexico, March 4, 1913, where she spent several years for her health. Previous to that time she had lived at Ninnekah, Little Rush and lately Chickasha. She was born in Mississippi, her father being a wealthy planter - a descendant of the Huegonots; was a faithful wife and mother and leaves a husband, three sons and one daughter; was well educated, a woman of talent and culture, which she used for the highest good; and untiring church and club worker, a regular contributor to several prominent magazines, and won quite a name writing of Indian affairs. Mrs. Crofford won a prize offered by a New York paper for a short story, the scenes of which were laid at Ninnekah. Two years ago she published a booklet of poems called "Songs of the Southwest." She was an energetic and ambitious woman. The days were too short and her strength too weak for all that she wished to accomplish. While she dreamed dreams she was not an idle dreamer, but worked to make her dreams a reality. If, as some hold, that we progress from one world to another, we believe that she will reach the seventh Heaven, for her wagon was always hitched to a star. We love to think that her lofty ideals are realized, that her ship is safe in port, and that she is free from the storms and trials of life where, with angels and archangels, she will have an eternity of joy. The annexed verse is from her little poem "Ship of Dreams." "And with you close beside We will drift out with the tide From that beach where wraiths abide. We will live the dreams that died, Live it on the sunlit slopes Of the land of Phantom Hopes. Bear us thither, Ship of Dreams." SPELLING BEE An Easter luncheon brought out a big crowd. Misses Bell and Lela Wegner chose the spellers; Prof. Herring was pronouncer. Those taking part were Missionary women, club women, a preacher, a doctor, an ex-legislator, school teachers, a few business men and school children galore. There was much fun and the crowd a good matured one. Receipts were something over $20.00. SPRAY FROM THE SPRINGS Mrs. George Kannal has been quite sick the past week. Mrs. H. P. Ellis of Chickasha visited her parents on Monday. Ross Cox, of Chickasha, spent Sunday in Rush visiting friends. Visitors to Chickasha this week: W. G. Dobbs, George Hall and P. P. Worsham. Mrs. Jim Jones entertained a few young people with games and music last Saturday night. Mrs. R. S. Cox has been quite sick. Her mother, Mrs. Seney, and sister, Mrs. Langham, came from Duncan to be with her. Murray Huntley came down from Oklahoma City to spend Easter with his parents and friends. Mrs. L. N. Barbee was called by telegram to Wortham, Texas, on March 17 to attend the sick bed of her father, Rev. J. S. Bays, who died on the 25th inst. The unexpected occurred to J. L. Coyle last Wednesday morning. While making a sudden turn with his mail wagon the wheels went into a ditch covered up with snow, upset, and in straightening up the vehicle the horses became frightened and ran amuck down the street. He took the matter good naturedly and did not indulge in any unseemly language. Ed Beeson and wife have returned home after a brief visit to friends and relatives in Rush and Chickasha. While here he renewed his subscription to The Landmark. J. A. Murphree writes us that he has located at San Bernardino, California, having moved from "Bleeding Kansas." Mesdames Chism and Graham of Marlow were guests of their sister, Mrs. George Hill at the weeks end. Fannie Camp and Elmer Bailey son of Hodge Bailey, won the honor of entering the Grady County Spelling match to take place at Chickasha. A. H. Davis, of Gracemont, Oklahoma, was in town Monday. Mr. Davis is the gentleman who purchased the gin property from the Montgomery Bros. and will remove his family here in a short time. LOST PACKAGE Lost, on March 26, between schoolhouse and east line of corporation limit, a package of casting for John Deere Corn Planter. Return to J. L. Coyle AN EASTER EGG HUNT Little Flossie Murphy gave an egg hunt Saturday to her little girl friends. A general good time is reported. CULTURE CLUB Mrs. Childress was hostess and leader of the Culture Club last Saturday. Program: Roll call and quotations from the Bible: "City of Jerusalem," Mrs. J. L. Coyle; "Women of the Bible," discussed by club; Songs - "Holy Night" and "But What Must It Be There," Mesdames Bentley and Childress. The ladies were served white and black cake, buffet style. There were three visitors present, Mrs. Z. R. Moss of Little Rush and Misses Christine Glover and Lottie Jones, who favored the ladies with several piano solos that was much appreciated. ACME NEWS Everett Cooper and Tom Dempsey were visiting in Marlow Sunday retuning Monday. Carl Johnson had a fine pig to get out of its pen last week and strayed off. Anyone finding same will confer a favor on Carl by reporting same to him at Acme. George Swyhart and A. A. Fatherree were transacting business in Acme Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Ruff was visiting in Ninnekah last Saturday and Sunday, returning home Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Ott Miller was visiting in Rush Springs Sunday with Mrs. Miller's parents. Jim Horn and Carl Johnson were out hunting hogs Tuesday for Carl. L. W. Steger's oats is looking fine since the late rains. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html