Rush Springs Landmark Dec 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, 6 December 1913 SCHOOL NOTES Lizzie Camp has entered the eleventh grade. The Blundell boys have returned to school after an absence of several weeks on account of sickness in the home. Mr. McNabb talked to the school Monday morning in the interest of the Boys' and Girls' Agriculture Club. Some of the boys who entered the contest are: Evan Mayo, corn; Clifford Hill, Kafir; Claude Haynes, corn; John Brooks, corn; Clyde Blundell, corn. Mrs. Ada Woodward, under life sentence for the murder of her husband, Sherman Woodward, is now hovering between life and death at Lawton, following an operation. SPRAY FROM THE SPRINGS Mrs. John Kiernes is visiting her brother in Kansas City. M. J. Collins and wife entertained Mr. and Mrs. Bullard, of Chickasha, with a quail hunt. Messrs John Coyle, J. A. Slaton and Mrs. S. M. Jolley were visitors to Chickasha this week. Mrs. Rucker of Minco, formerly of Rush, was a guest of Mrs. Ed Coyle this week. R. F. Lindsay, of Chickasha, was down the early part of the week on a visit to his sons Blufort and Hardy. E. I. Williams made a business trip to Fort Worth this week. He is rated among our live and enterprising farmers. Earl D. Evans will take charge of the Rush Springs Telephone Exchange on January 1, 1914. he is an experienced electrician and will see that everything works smoothly along the various lines. Elbert Cast, whose family resides seven miles southwest of Rush Springs, is the champion corn grower of Oklahoma, having raised 100.8 bushels of corn per acre. The price is a trip to Washington, D.C., where he will have a chance to rub against President Wilson and other officials. Elbert is only thirteen years of age. His success proves beyond a doubt that if the proper method is pursued, the country adjacent to Rush Springs is the best part of Oklahoma. The Landmark, 13 December 1913 ACME GLEANINGS Rev. Allen, of Rush Springs, preached an interesting sermon at Acme the fifth Sunday in November. Text, St. John, 21 chapter, 15, 16, 17 verses. Subject "Love." The Literary was reorganized several days ago with Henry Mileur, president, Charles Beeson, secretary, Stanley Coleman, treasurer, Joe Mileur, editor, and Ralph Talley, sergeant-at-arms. William Abnathy was in Chickasha on business last Saturday. Tom Dunn has moved from Kansas to Oklahoma and is preparing to build on his farm west of Acme. Mr. Ruff and wife and L. W. Steger and family were visiting George Randolph and family last Sunday. Bertie Coleman has his lumber on the ground and will move to Acme as soon as he gets his house built. Joe Dempsey and wife made a flying trip to Oklahoma City last week. Mr. Storm, of Chickasha, was in Acme to see his little daughter, Ettabell, who is living with Mr. and Mrs. Bible. Mr. Cape, with h is four sons and one son-in-law, is now moving to Ada, Oklahoma. William Abnathy leaves for North Carolina in a few days to spend Christmas with home folks. Sam Fields has moved back to Acme. CULTURE CLUB Mrs. Ernest Crittendon was hostess and leader last Tuesday. Program - Quotations from Milton; The last of the Elizabethans, Mrs. Bentley. The Puritan movement, Mrs. Cox. Seventeenth Century Lyrics, Mrs. Childress. The Restoration, John Bunyon, John Dryden, Mrs. Crittendon. The next meeting will be with Mrs. Hampton January 6, 1914. DROVE OF CATTLE It looked like old times in Rush on Wednesday when C. W. Harper was driving through town a fine bunch of seventy-five or a hundred head of white face cattle, transferring them to a new pasture. Mr. Harper proposes to make a specialty of this breed in the future. SCHOOL NOTES Miss Riggins, teacher of the fifth and sixth grades has resigned. Miss Mary Rosington will take her place. Mesdames E. Crittenden and Childress visited the school Friday afternoon. Dr. J. H. Engles, a prominent physician of Newkirk, Oklahoma, committed suicide on Tuesday. He took off his right shoe, placed a shotgun on the floor with the muzzle in his mouth and pulled the trigger with his toe. SPRAY FROM THE SPRINGS Carmen Hampton visited home last Saturday. "Pat" Beeson has recovered from his recent illness. Homer Crittendon is home from Fort Worth where he attended business college. Dr. Newton attended his son during his recent illness which was quite serious. R. L. Glover paid a business visit to his old home at Sulphur Springs, Texas. Oscar Simpson, county attorney, was a guest of J. S. Jones Tuesday. G. W. Hill shipped six cars of cattle to Kansas City last Saturday. Cashier Newton, of the F. & M. Bank, and his little daughter, who have been seriously ill, are able to be up and about. A. C. Bumpers killed a hog on Wednesday weighing 460 pounds. Nineteen gallons of lard was rendered from its fat. Judge N. M. Williams and A. Melton, of Chickasha, spent last Saturday hunting quail near Rush. Dan Jackson is absent at Braggs, Oklahoma, where he went to accompany his wife and child home. At the meeting of the Grady County Medical Association at Chickasha Dr. Hampton was elected second vice-president. E. W. Hovis is a new subscriber to The Landmark while Pete McGuire, T. P. Whybark and J. A. Murphree, of San Bernardino, California are renewals. The convict, Chester O'Mary, from Hugo en route to the Granite Reformatory, who escaped from the train when near Chickasha while the guard slept, was arrested yesterday near Rush Springs by Deputy Marshal Walter Jones. The prisoner had been convicted of stealing $50. and sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment. W. E. Cook was so unfortunate as to have his house and furniture destroyed some three weeks ago by fire. Fortunately he was well insured in the company of Home and New York , of which company A. N. Murphy & Son are the agents here. Loss paid in full, $788. Miss Mayme Dawkins who has been for some weeks visiting relatives at Dallas and other points returned last Saturday. She reports that it took the train two hours to go seven miles in the flooded Trinity bottom. W. D. Sanders, wife and son, of Weatherford, Oklahoma, and Mrs. Millican, brother-in-law and sisters, of Mrs. J. W. Wigham, en route to San Antonia, Texas, to spend the winter, stopped over a few days in Rush. Mrs. J. A. Slaton attended the funeral of her niece, Mrs. Pruner, who died in New Mexico and was buried in Chickasha last Wednesday. The Landmark, 20 December 1913 T. O. Murphy, among others, visited Chickasha on Tuesday. Agnes and Stella Hill and Mamie Coyle are home from the Convent at Oklahoma City for the holidays. I P. Prickett has renewed his subscription to The Landmark; also Henry Wise, and we would be pleased to see others do likewise. NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE In the Matter of the Guardianship of Susan Anna Woolery, a minor Notice is hereby given in pursuance of an order of the County Court of the County of Pushmataha, State of Oklahoma, made on the eleventh day of August, 1913, the undersigned guardian of the estate of Susan Ann Woolery, a minor, will sell at public sale to the highest bidder subject to confirmation by said court, on Monday, the fifth day of January .D. 1914, at 10 o'clock a.m. at the front door of the county courthouse in Chickasha, Oklahoma, all the right, title and interest of said Susan Ann Woorley in and to the following described real estate situate in Grady County, State of Oklahoma, to-wut: Lot 5 and North 19.95 acres of Lot 6 and NE 1-4 of NW 1-4 of Section 30 and SW (10) ten acres of lot 14 of Section 29, all in Township 8 North and Range 7 West of the Indian Base and Meridian; and W 1-2 of NE 1-4 of SW 1-4 and SE 1-4 of SW 1-4 and Lot 8 of Section 19, Township 8 North and Range 7 West of the Indian Base and Meridian. Said real estate will be sold on the following terms and condition, to-wit: Cash upon execution and delivery of deed. Dated the fifteenth of December, 1913 James Woolery, Guardian By Dudley & Arnote, his Att'ys Dr. A. S. Riddle, of Chickasha, now holding office as a deputy in government employ, recited his speech on pure marriage before the women's convention at Tulsa and got a set of resolutions endorsing same. SPRAY FROM THE SPRINGS After confinement to his bed for a couple of months W. T. Foreman is now convalescent. Rush Todd, of the Antrim Lumber Company is on his regular visit to Rush. Mr. Seney, of Duncan is erecting a new residence on his lot opposite the Methodist Church. Ernest Dawkins writes his mother from Dallas, Texas, that he will spend the coming week at home. Mrs. R. H. Denny spent Monday in Rush en route from Comanche, Texas, to Fort Cobb, Oklahoma, to join her husband. Her visit to her old home seemed to have agreed with her. Murray Huntley is now holding a position in the County treasurer's office at Chickasha. Like most Rush boys who have accepted employment elsewhere he is "making good." SPRAY FROM THE SPRINGS Miss Mary Turner visited friends in Chickasha last Friday. H. P. Ellis, of Chickasha was a Sunday visitor. Mrs. H. N. Mullican, of Chickasha visited her people here last week. Mack Leverett, of Purcell, is over on a visit to relatives here and hereabout. Dan Jackson, wife and child, are again at home from their trip to Braggs, Oklahoma. Mr. Smith, of Oak Grove, was a Sunday guest of Prof. Schiemann and wife. Rev. A. H. Dickerson, of Remlin, was on a visit Tuesday to his father-in-law, M. M. Turner. The Landmark, 27 December 1913 The killing of Col. J. T. Selby, of Tuttle, an insurance man and auctioneer the past week at that town by an Assyrian merchant named Charley Bashara, was a sad affair. The killing took place over a trivial matter, nailing a board over a narrow alleyway. SPRAY FROM THE SPRINGS E. E. Platt, of Chickasha was a business visitor on Tuesday. R. R. Lindsey, accompanied by his son Lawrence is visiting B. O. Lindsey and family. Mrs. Montgomery and her daughter, Birdie, visited Comanche during the holidays. Miss Hattie Hammond, one of our school teachers, will spend her vacation near Duncan. Mr. and Mrs. Sessum, of Mangum, are visiting their parents, Rev. Allen and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Beeson had as Christmas guests H. P. Ellis and wife of Chickasha. Ernest Dawkins, of Dallas, and Murray Huntley spent the holidays with their parents. Mrs. Fox, of Sapulpa, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Green during the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Perry, of Coalgate, are spending Christmas with Dr. and Mrs. Bentley. Miss Montgomery and Mrs. Wyatt visited Oklahoma City last week. John and Ellis Bentley, who have been at Sacred Heart Catholic School are spending the holidays at home. Joe Slaton, Miss Ethel Harper and Miss James, of Acme, attended the Lillian Russell performance at Chickasha last week. S. M. Jolley, one of our west side farmers, left for a visit to his old home in North Carolina last Saturday. E. W. Dent, late cashier of the First National Bank, left Monday night for Los Angels, California, where he proposes to locate permanently. Rush Springs boys and girls attending school in Texas and Oklahoma who are spending the holidays at home: Harvey Williams, Ollie Beeson, Harry Caywood, Cornish Mayo, Lela Wegner, Fanny Camp, Juanita Curry, Agnes and Stella Hill, Carmen Hampton, Nettie James and Pearl Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Dawkins entertained at dinner Christmas day Louis Mullican and sister, Miss Alda and The Landmark family in honor of their son Ernest's visit. John A. Dixon, one of our farmer friends who has been a constant reader of The Landmark for the past seventeen years, renews his subscription to the paper. A LITTLE ONE CALLED ABOVE It was a sad Christmas to Charles Coyle and wife to have to give up their first baby, a little girl, that came almost as a Christmas gift to stay only a few days and then was called to a better home. "Let the little ones come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of Heaven." The Landmark extends its sympathy to the young parents. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html