The Addington Journal 1904-Jun - Jefferson County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Nita E. 20 Nov 2005 Return to Jefferson County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/jefferson/jefferson.htm ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CaB.2ACI/788 Some Items The Addington Journal Addington, Pickens County, Indian Territory (Addington, Jefferson County, Oklahoma) M. B. CARLEY Vol. 1 No. 10 Thursday, June 2, 1904 Thompson Hardware Co. is the Pioneer H"D"W Company. Ice Cream Parlors, J. E. TICE, prop. MISS MABLE HAWKINS and EARNETINE STEELE, who have been visiting relatives in Oklahoma City returned home Saturday. MISS SUDDIE ADDINGTON who has been visiting her sister at Harrison returned home Wednesday. A Sad Death Come again has the death angel visited a happy home and taken from the husband and children, a loving wife and ever patient and affectionate mother and laid her in the arms of Jesus. MRS. W. P. SHORT died Saturday afternoon at the family home near Addington. Mrs. Short had been in delicate health for several months and leaves a husband and nine children to mourn her loss. The bereaved family have many friends who extend their heartfelt sympathy … The funeral took place Sunday afternoon at 4L00 at the church house. The funeral services were conducted by BRO. J. W. HUFFER, who made a very impressive and appropriate talk, after which a long and sorrowing procession followed the remains to the Addington cemetery. SHULTS-BRANDON On Wednesday evening at 8:00, R. L. SHULTS and MISS MAUDE BRANDON were married at the home of the bride's parents. Only a few friends and relatives were invited. After the ceremony, an elegant supper, ice cream, cake and some very fine fruit, was served. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. BRANDON who live only a few miles west of this place, also was acting correspondent from Texas school house community. She has many friends and acquaintances who love her sweet disposition and lady like manner. Mr. Shults is a nephew of PROF. A. C. SAVAGE formerly of St. Joe, Texas and his honorable upright way of doing business has won him many friends in this section. MISSES THOMSON Entertain MISSES GLADYS and GERALDINE THOMSON entertained their little friends Wednesday afternoon from 3 to 5:00. A very fine enjoyable time was spent by all present. Much is to be said to the credit of these young, but lady like hostesses, who are ever attentive to their guests. After an hour or more was spent playing games of the youngsters choices, they were then invited to the dining room where awaited them a table beautifully decorated, loaded down with goodies. The little folks then thanks their friends for the pleasant occasion and departed with light and happy hearts. Those invited: EARNESTINE STEELE, MARIE WAMBOLD, ALTIE/ALLIE BROWN, VIDELL CARLEY, BABE HOLLISTER, JOHN BAIRD, COLUMBUS ADDINGTON, GUSSIE BECK, JENNINGS WAMBOLD, RUSSELL CARTRIGHT. Territorial Notes FRANK SWACOSKI, living five miles from Mustang, has put in a private irrigating plant, costing $2000. With it he hopes to be able to irrigate his farm of 160 acres as well furnish water for his house, barn and feed pens. WILLIAM HILL, aged 70, and IONA HUBER, age 14, both of Medicine Lodge, were married at Wichita, Kansas last week. The bride's parents accompanied the pair to witness the marriage. Hill, it said, prior to the wedding, deeded his big farm and gave $1800 to the intended bride. JIM WALLACE has been committed without bail to jail at Ardmore on the charge of killing his wife near Wiley May 19. JOHN SCOTT, candidate for sheriff of Oklahoma County, was held up and robbed at Shawnee by ED BERRY and JACKSON DAVIS. The robbery occurred at the Rock Island depot. At police headquarters, where they were searched, BERRY gave up four diamonds which he had stolen from his employer, H. T DOUGLAS, of the Shawnee National Bank. News of the New State Lawton: J. K. BRLOW, an assayer of the Wichita Mountains, who has been located at Cache, died. Ardmore: A report comes from the western portion of the Chickasaw Nation that many cattle are dying there from causes unknown… believed that feeding upon oak leaves is responsible for the trouble… ¦ Lawton: L. H. HASKINS has been arrested for dynamiting fish in Cache Creek. Muskogee: ELIZA CHERRY has been arrested at Boynton, charged with the murder of her husband. City Officers DR. C. E. ELDER, mayor JOE HUFFER, recorder and treasurer H. L. WELCH, city attorney H. B CARLEY, city marshal Aldermen: J. B. PACE, J. C. SUTHERLAND, J. A FORMSBY, R. MCKENNEY, J. L. EVANS Texas School House W. L. BRANDON made a business trip to Temple. Mr. and Mrs. FRANK SAVAGE were shopping in Addington. Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM KING visited the home of W. T. BRANDON and family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. BRINKLEY spent Sunday with J. G. REINER and family. MRS. CASSIDY visited MRS. BRANDON Saturday. MISS GRACIE BRINKLEY visited MISS VIOLA SAVAGE near Hastings. MISS MAUDE BRANDON visited MISS VIOLA SAVAGE Saturday. MISS NOXIE SMITH visited MISS VIOLA SAVAGE Thursday. WILLIAM PETIT visited in Madden Grove Sunday. Wonder what is attracting his attention there. Seems as though MISS LIVELY is the attraction. R. L. SHULTS visited in this community Sunday. MRS. BRINDLEY, BRANDON, WILCOX, and WADKINS visited with MRS. WILLIAM CASSADY/CASSIDY Monday. Little ROY CASSADY who was quite sick last week is improving. MRS. THOMAS MITCHELL visited with MRS. FRANK SAVAGE Saturday. MRS. ANNIE DUNCAN of St. Joe, Texas is visiting her sister, MRS. A. G SAVAGE this week. Madden Grove BOB SMITH and MISS LENA LIVELY went to Rocky Ford Sunday to the baptizing. TOM JONES says there is a mistake about the fishing story of last week. REV. WILKINSON and wife took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. LIVELY Sunday. DR. PAYNE of Comanche was home Sunday with his parents and returned Monday. WEST TUCKER has a new buggy. MR. HAWHEE and wife took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. MICHAEL Sunday. GEORGE SMITH and wife spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. CAP LEE/LEO. GEORGE JONES is building a fine new house and things look as Mr. Jones is fixing for a cook. JACK HOVER went to Comanche and got a new binder. E. A BOURNE is painting his house. ROYAL ECKELS/ECHOLS of Oklahoma City is doing the work. MISS IDA STINER is staying with MRS. J. SPARKS this week. W. A. YATES has 25 acres of cotton in one section and 62 acres of oats and 40 acres in wheat. GRANDMA BRAND is still very sick and her many friends hope for her recovery. Local Mention TOM MANIRE's baby has been quite sick. SINGER BROWN was sick. DR. BAKER is painting things blue. REV. BAIRD preached at Lindale. JOE HUFFER was visiting at Duncan. MRS. WAMBOLD made a visit to Duncan. J. BIGBEE is on the sick list. W. T. BRANDON made a business trip to Lawton. AUBRY ADDINGTON is in the city this week. M. H. CARLEY spent Saturday and Sunday in Geary and Oklahoma City. MRS. KENNEDY and daughter HATTIE of near Waurika were in town shipping. The little child of MRS. QUILLEN is very sick with serious bronchial trouble. MAX RENIS and MISS FRE of Comanche spent Sunday with friends here. JOHN CAMPBELL and MISS COPELAND of Comanche were here Sunday. DELL BAKER and ALBERT HUFFER took in the meeting at Waurika Thursday. BILL WHITLEY filed up his hoe, spit on his hands and declared war on General Green (weeds). MARK ROBERTS is reported dangerously ill at the home of his parents. MRS. DR. SPARKS presented MRS. CARLEY with a basket full of fine tender turnip greens. EARL SMITH, who has been attending college at Beloit, Kansas has returned to the city and will spent the summer with his father, A. D. SMITH. MRS. HENSLEY was summoned by telephone to the bedside of a sick niece at Jacksboro, Texas. MRS. ASA NORRIS was in town Monday and says the Saturday rain beat up their crop badly. A. H. BERRY was in from near Meid post office Monday, buying twine to bind his wheat. MRS. JIM FORMBY has been sick this week. MISS BENNET, a blind woman, gave a good lecture at the church Sunday. JIM KEITH says during the rain Friday last a bolt of lightning came so near him as to knock his horse to his knees and burn Jim's lip. Close call. GEORGE and RAMSEY MCLEMORE and their teams were knocked down by the lightning Friday, but sustained no material injury. Mr. BOND of Duncan took his family to the dugout Saturday night during the rain, leaving a lighted lamp in the building, the wind blew open the door, knocking over the lamp, burning up his house and household goods. JAMES A. BROWN has moved his cold drink stand outfit to his building just east of his grocery store, after giving it a general overhauling and now has a neat clean place where he invites his friends. MISS MAUDE BRANDON of near Texas School House was in Addington and bought quite a bill of dry goods. MISS MAUDE will attend the Normal at Lawton. COL. GEORGE KYSINGER of Graham, Texas, an old friend of UNCLE GEORGE CAMPBELL, spent Thursday with Mr. Campbell. J. A. FORMBY and E. R. HIGHTOWER went to Belcher, Texas Thursday to attend the funeral of I. C. SWEARINGIN, an old friend of ours. The services were conducted by the Masons and were very impressive. FRANK LINDSAY called and paid us a dollar and feels sure he'll be the winning man to draw the ticket to the World's Fair and return. --------------------------------- Thursday, June 9, 1904 CHARLEY ARNOLD had the misfortune to get his arm broken by his binder while harvesting Monday. Z. T. LIVELY was in town Monday and brought several heads of wheat from his crop that measured 6 inches in length and has 4 grains to the mesh. Mr. Lively has many acres of this kind of wheat, known as Blue Stem Mediterranean. MART DIMERY of Beaver Crossing, Nebraska, a brother of MRS. EVANS, is here on business. Notice to the Public ED RICHMOND has been employed to do the scavenger work for this city. He will commence work in a few days. His pay for this work is due when a bill is presented. Cut with a Hoe One evening last week, HAROLD PACE accidentally cut his knee while in the cotton patch. He and others had just filed their hoes and as Harold went to raise up, his foot slipped, letting him fall on the hoe and cutting several inches across his right knee. JONES KEITH came up from Ryan Wednesday and brings the sad intelligence that MRS. BIRDIE RICHARDS of that place died suddenly. She has been doing some sewing Tuesday preparing for a trip to Amarillo, Texas to visit her sister, She leaves many friends and 3 or 4 children, she was buried beside her parents at Belcher, Texas. A Woman Killed A cyclonic storm passed through the neighborhood of Walters Friday evening, inflicting damage to life and property. The dead: MRS. THOMAS PAYNE. The injured; MRS. J. W. GILL, MISS BESSIE MORRITT, A. G BROWN, MRS. A. G BROWN and daughter, MRS. C. A MANN and two children, H. C MORGAN and family. … J. D. PACE reports great devastation by the Friday storm, commencing at CHARLIE KING 5 miles north of here. The storm tore up trees and the hail latterly beat the growing cotton to shreds, from there west of Comanche and on the JOHNSON farm destroying all crops, then left a scope of country near GEORGE VAUGHTS then came down on Woolsey, destroyed a great many buildings and ruined the crops in that vicinity. Railroad News A meeting of the committee on railroads was held last Thursday, June 2 and it was decided that committees on finance and right of way should be appointed and that an effort be made to see what could be accomplished, looking to the matter of getting another railroad for Addington. Committee of finance: B. H. HENSLEY, A. D SMITH, B. C. STEELE. Committee of right of way: J. D EVANS, W. A RYLES, J. S PRICE, G. J. KEITH. Fine Boy Born to Mr. and Mrs. JOHN MCKENNEY last Thursday, a fine boy. Mother and baby are both doing exceedingly well. Mr. Mc now walks about very proud and he has a right to be proud. Mud Ducks Last Saturday, while Cow Creek was overflowing, LEWIS HARVILL, ED CECIL, BOB CAMPBELL, SID PACE, ROY CAMPBELL, and TOM HARTZOG waded from the railroad crossing to the bridge near town and took a dive off the bridge and went down stream like a drove of mud ducks for several miles. Madden Grove MABLE PAYNE of Garfield County is visiting her mother, MRS. BOURNE. MRS. CAP LEE, MRS. LIVELY and MRS. SHAYLER took dinner with MRS. LIVELY Sunday. TOM JONES while on his way to Sunday school with his little folks, his daughter fell out of the buggy and was run over before Tom could stop the horse. DR. PAYNE is still very sick. SAM FARRIS and wife went to Hastings. MR. DAVIS and family had to build a bridge before they could come to Sunday school. DICK LIVELY and MISS LIVELY went to Oak College Sunday. TOMMIE JONES has a fine piece of wheat. D. MCDONALD went to Comanche. Mr. and Mrs. SHELBY have a new girl at their home, DR. HOWELL of Comanche attending. Hastings has passed a law not allowing farmers to fasten their teams to telephone posts. Hastings must be getting short on pin money. Farmers ought to come to Addington where the merchants are not too good to take you to dinner. Local Mention A. D. SMITH was in Oklahoma City. J. S. PRICE is at Tishomingo this week. H.L. WILCOX was in town. MRS JEFF CECIL is on the sick list. H. J. HENSLEY has been very sick. HARRY MORGAN of Waurika was in Addington. B. TUCKER says hail stones fell in his yard as big as scalloped squashes. MS. NORRIS who lives west of town is sick. MRS JAMES A. BROWN was on the sick list. MRS. TOM JONES of Comanche country was in Addington. During the storm, ARTHUR TUCKER and JIM SIRTY had their barns demolished. HAL THOMSON who has been in Addington returned home to Chickasha. REV. NORRIS who has been visiting his daughter in California for some months, returned home. JOHN CAMPBELL of Comanche was in Addington visiting at the corner of Turtle and Wall Streets. MR. BAILEY who lived in West Texas was killed by lightning Saturday. He has a sister who lives in Marlow. MISS MAMIE RUTLEDGE, JOSIE ADDINGTON, and AUBRY ADDINGTON attended the ball game at Comanche. During the Friday night storm, MRS. WAMBOLD had a large glass broken and wind drove the rain in damaging the carpets and furniture. A. J. MCNEIL of the Cotton Gin Company who has been living in Chickasha, was in town looking after gin interests. J. B. PACE says he has an irrigating system which covered 18 acres of his cotton wet of town--several feet of water. DR. A. A. ROBERTSON, the dentist from Duncan, will be here Monday and will stay a few days. You had better have that old tooth filled. The peculiar movement of the clouds last Friday night during the electrical storm caused the various dugouts of the city to overflow with excited people. BILL HARTZOG was elated over his prospects for frogs Friday night when his cotton crop got baptized, but now all his frogs are gone and Bill will have to depend on cotton. H.H. SHAYLER was shopping in Addington Monday. He says the rain storm did considerable damage to crops in his section. MR. PAYNE of Harrisburg was in town Wednesday looking for his boy who left home some days ago. He is about 17 years old and riding a small bay mare branded hood on left side. MR. LEATHERMAN has purchased the fine milk cow of JOHN EVANS. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Jefferson County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/jefferson/jefferson.htm