Waurika News-Democrat 4 Sep 1925 - Jefferson County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Nita E. 13 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/777 The Waurika News-Democrat Waurika, Jefferson County, Oklahoma Friday, September 4, 1925 Cornish Gleanings by W. C. HOGAN Mr. and Mrs. HAMP HARWELL of Wichita Falls, Texas are visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. HARWELL and other relatives in Cornish. An oyster bed more than 30 feet underground was discovered by parties while digging for water. It is said by those making the find that the bed was about 4 or 5 feet deep and that many kinds of shells were found, but the majority were oysters… DR. BURGESS reports a small son of Mr. and Mrs. JOHN PRUNER of Ringling fell from a burro and sustained a broken arm. On Wednesday August 26, BENNIE WILLIAMS and MISS VIOLA POLK, both of Fox, motored to Cornish where they were united in holy bonds of matrimony in the presence of friends as witnesses. After the ceremony, the bridal party motored back to Fox where they will make their home. And then on August 30, comes ALVA SMITH and MISS DEREN BENSON, both of Healdton, and they found their way to the deputy clerk's office in Ringling and procured a marriage license and motored to Cornish where they were soon made one in the presence of several of their friends as witnesses, and they, after Mr. Smith paid the "cost," motored back to Healdton where they will make their home. We notice UNCLE JOHN BAYLOR of Atlee among his friends on the streets of Ringling a few times lately and are glad to see him looking so well. Many months had passed without seeing him, as he has been under the weather. J. C. DRISKILL was a business visitor in Ringling. ROY DANIELS, son of Mr. and Mrs. JIM DANIELS of the Atlee community, while chopping with an axe Tuesday of last week made a miss-lick and split his left foot and has made regular trips to the doctor daily since. On Wednesday of last week, BUCK EVANS and two others, a MURDOCK boy and a young man named BURGESS were badly shaken up when the car they were riding turned turtle. Addington The SMITH brothers, BOB, GROVER, and LIAM, all of Lubbock, Texas, reached here Thursday for a visit with their brother, JOHN SMITH whose home is near Addington. T. H. DIMERY and son JOE who have been visiting with relatives in Beaver Crossing, Nebraska returned home and report a good time and crops good in Nebraska. MRS. R. V. COLLINS of Fort Worth spent the weekend with MRS. J. L. SMITH of this city. A. J. LEWIS and family motored to Rush Springs Sunday to visit relatives. W. F. PARKS and wife, with their daughter, MISS ELLIE of Waurika, were guest of the BOHN home Sunday. MRS. A. C. WHITTLE of Graham, Texas was a guest of MRS. J. R. SPEARS last weekend. N. H. KING and wife, with MRS. SAM JONES, visited with relatives in Marlow. MRS. A. A. STONE and family of Lubbock, Texas, S. M. WALTON, and family of Stephenville, Texas were guests of P. A. WALTON last week. MISS ANNA SWARTZ left for Hastings where she has accepted a position as telephone operator there. MRS. W. C. BRUMMETT will take her place at the local switch board. DR. HENRY G. CARSON and MR. SCHAFER of Pawhuska called on A. K. GOSSOM fro a short visit Tuesday. DR. CARSON is a brother of MRS. GOSSOM and is in this section looking after oil interests. W. E. CONNER of Wichita Falls was here looking up oil interests. He has been very successful in the oil business. MISS AMY GREEN who has been visiting MRS. LANATTE of several day returned to her home at Enid. PROF. E. D. PRUET was in town Tuesday and stated that school would start Monday, September 7. Riverview CLYDE and MISS BEATRICE KING entertained with a dinner Sunday at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. WILKES KING, honoring their cousin, MISS GLADYS HOLLAND, who will soon leave for her home at Guymon. After a delightful dinner was served, the guests enjoyed some music and singing, later the guests motored to the railroad bridges with their kodaks. Those present were MISSES HAZEL MAYO, RUBY BEAVER, OPAL VEAVER, SARAH KEELE, RUTH DUNN and MESSRS. GLENN BULLARD, CARL WALDROP, LELAND WINTON, D. T. MAYO, LESLIE STOTIE, RAYMER QUALLS, ROBERT QUALLS, W. T. MIDDLETON, WILBUR ECHOLS, ROY ECHOLS, AVON BRANTLEY, EVERETT BRANTLEY, and OLEN BEAVER. Two other social events of interests were the play parties given by Mr. and Mrs. ROY KEELE Thursday and Mr. and Mrs. ERNEST CRUTCHER Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. FLOYD ROARK and Mr. and Mrs. C. R. WITT of Frederick were visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. C STONE and Mr. and Mrs. R. M. WITT. They left their homes on the 19th of August for Galveston where they spent the greater part of the their vacation. They also visited Mr. Witt and Mrs. Roark's mother, MRS. FOUNT PIPER at Houston. They left here for home Tuesday morning. WILLIAM SHAW, a partner of the Shaw Brothers Dairy of Fort Worth, was here on business. Mr. Shaw brought of his factory made ice cream with him and gave some to Mr. and Mrs. W. P. CRUTCHER and Mr. and Mrs. L. B. ECHOLS. MRS. G. R. QUALLS is spending a few days at Randlett visiting her daughter, MRS. ROY PEACOCK and family. Mr. and Mrs. JOHN TABOR and family and MISS NORA and WILLIAM TABOR of Waurika spent a few days last week visiting Mr. and Mrs. BUD MIDDLETON and family. Mr. and Mrs. WILL WYATT and family of Childress, Texas visited his brother, J. L. WYATT and his family last week. HENRY ROBERSON spent the weekend with his parents at Wilson. Spear's Chapel Mrs. ED DENNIS called on MISSES LUDE and FRANKIE FULLER Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. IRA DEASON and family spent Sunday the home of LEWIS WATERS. MISSES LUDIE and FRANKIE FULLER visited relatives in Texas. MRS. JESS SEWELL and MRS. T. J. SMART visited Mrs. Fuller last Wednesday. BOB COLE's sister and family of Fort Worth are visiting. MRS. J. T SMART visited with MRS. DORENCE REED Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. REED made morning calls the homes of BOB COLE and TOM SMART Monday. UNCLE BUD REED, WILBUR REED, and T. J. SMART were business visitors in Waurika Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. DORENCE REED were shopping in Ryan Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. PETE DENNIS spent Saturday evening with his brother Mr. and Mrs. ED DENNIS. REV JIM GOULD of Ringgold is holding a revival in this vicinity which is being well attended. MRS. ALICE ROBNETT, an old neighbor of this community, spent Monday with MRS. J. E. ENGLAND and attended church. Mr. and Mrs. PERCY REED called on MRS. BOB COLE Sunday. T. J. SMART and DORENCE REED have been busy the last week repairing storm damage on Dorence's barn. W. P. REED also repaired a barn for BOB COLE which was storm damaged. Buy Waurika Baked Bread. Call for and use Waurika bread, it's the best. MRS. ASHINHURST'S BAKERY, Phone 52. C. D. SNIDER for staple and fancy groceries. Free delivery. Phone no. 394. Ready for your ginning. The Custom Gin. HERB LAND, manager. For upholstery, call Auto Wrecking House, "The house of a million parts," Phone 66, E. G. BURGE, prop. Personal Mention MRS. JOS. T. DILLARD and her sister, MISS KATHRYN ROBINSON spent last week with their aunt, MRS. MARY HICKS at the Hicks Ranch near Fort Worth. Mr. and Mrs. E. B CLAY of Amarillo, Texas are visiting her sister, MRS. J. T. DOSS and ROY DOSS this week. Mr. Clay called at the News-Democrat office and reports that crop conditions are fine in his section with an exceptionably fine feed crop. FRED HOHLER of the HOBLER Variety Store was stricken with apoplexy Friday night of last week and was in serious condition for some time. He has since rallied. C.A MARTIN was taken to the hospital at Wichita Falls suffering from blood poison in his hand. Mrs. Martin was called to his bedside Wednesday afternoon and reports there is danger of losing the hand. The wound first developed from a burn which became infected from paint as Mr. Martin did some painting about the house and barn. CHARLEY THOMPSON, who was so seriously injured in an automobile wreck near Temple last week and who was later brought to the hospital in Waurika, was able to go to his parents' home at Hastings Wednesday. MART MITCHELL Is Remembered in J. D. SUGG Will MART MITCHELL, aged and respected Negro of Waurika, and one of the most familiar figures about town, was remembered in the will of the late J. D. SUGGS, filed for probate at San Angelo, Texas last week. MART was left the income from a $5,000.00 bequest for the term of his natural life and a mortgage on his home in Waurika was also extended during Mart's life time. Mart was an old time employee of the Sugg family and had rendered them much service. He was a little disappointed in the terms of the will as he has expected to have the legacy left to him absolutely and this was one of the provisions of a will made by Mr. Sugg in 1915, but the later will made the change as it did in many other provisions of the first will. Mart was the faithful employee of the Sugg brothers for many years and herded cattle for them all over this part of Oklahoma. Mart says that when he first went into their employ, that they did not have much money but that though the pioneer years of this section, their holdings gradually grew larger and larger until they became two of the richest men of the Southwest. There has been a story current around her for many years that the Sugg brothers would leave Mart a good legacy and he still believes that there was something wrong when he was not remembered in the will of CAL SUGG, who died some years ago. The rumor was also current that the legacy would come because Mart save the life of one of the brothers at one time, but Mart says this is an error. The old Negro states that this story probably came from the incident in which he probably saved the life of R. L. GIBSON of Sugden when Gibson was a small boy. This was in 1877 when Mr. Gibson was just a lad. He hen lived at Spanish Fort, Texas and was visiting his uncles on their Oklahoma ranch. BOB was out riding with Mart on the ranch, when his bronco came to a sudden stop and threw him off catching one foot in the stirrup. The horse was a wild one and it was Mart's presence of mind to cut the saddle girth and release the boy that saved his life. ROBERT L. GIBSON of Sugden and each of his children were left $10,000.00 and in addition, Mr. Gibson was given the 16,000 acre HAINES ranch in Iron County, Texas. Mr. Gibson is a nephew of the Sugg brothers. The will filed for probate in Iron Co. court names his nephews and nieces as the principal beneficiaries after special bequests and all debts and taxes are paid. The estate was estimated to be worth between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. The will appoints JUDGE E. S BRIANT of San Angelo, business manager of Sugg's West Texas properties, as independent executor without bond. Judge Briant had been appointed temporary administrator in Oklahoma by the probate court of Grady County. Sugg's will was executed Feb. 2, 1915 and codicils were appended in April, 1921 and July 1925. He left the O. H. Triangle and 7 D ranches in Iron, Sterling, Reagan and Tom Green counties, embracing approximately 280,000 acres and all livestock on them to his nephews, CALVIN and A. A. SUGG, and MISS ELLA SUGG, a niece, all of Los Angeles, sons and daughters of CALVIN SUGG, a deceased brother. Other bequests are to MRS. BELL MCCOWN of Fort Worth, a niece and her children, the Sugg Theatre building in Chickasha and $5,000 each; to MRS. NELLIE MCCOWN of Cotton Plant, Arkansas, a niece and to her children, the Twin Mountain ranch of 10,000 acres, a few miles west of San Angelo and also stock in the Occidental Oil Company at Belton, Harlett, and Granger, Texas and $5,000 cash. The Fairview Cemetery Association at Gainesville, in which Sugg was buried, will received $5,000 as a permanent maintenance fund, his nephews STEPHEN, GIBSON, and TILLMAN Sugg of Lubbock and WILLIAM SUGG of Wellington, Texas and each of the children of William Sugg will get $5,000. Sugg left to FRANCES M. DAUGHTERY of Gainesville 200 shares of the capital stock of the First National Bank in Chickasha and 10 shares of stock in the Gainesville Sanitarium, to MISS HATTIE GREEN of San Angelo, all his stock in the Central National Bank at Chickasha, 476 shares and two brick buildings on East Beauregard Avenue in Chickasha, one of three stories, the other o a two story structure, to the two sons of BEN F. CAMPBELL of Dallas, 165 shares of the capitol stock of the Southern Life Insurance Company of Dallas, to MISS NELLIE HARPER of Sanger, Texas, all his tock in the First National Bank of Gainesville, 1227 shares to CASSIE BROWN of Ryan, a niece and her daughter, KELLY MAJOR, $25,000 each. The daughters of MRS. ENLLIE MCCOWN of Cotton Plant, Arkansas, a niece, will received for life the Sugg Bank Building in Chickasha which revert t the estate upon their deaths. All the indebtedness of A. B. BLACKWELL to Sugg is remitted. A. A. DEAVORS, long a Sugg employee, will draw for life the interest from a $5,000 fund to be invested for him, the fund reverting to the estate on Deavor's death. The Kozy Theatre building in Chickasha goes to J. D. LINDSAY of that city for life, reverting to the estate on his death. JOHN SCARN of Chickasha received the cattle feed pens there, which will also revert to the estate after his death, and JOHN YEARY of Chickasha gets 160 acres of land adjoining Chickasha. All the residue of the estate, after all bequests have been paid, obligations met, will be converted to cash and will be divided equally among Sugg's nephews and nieces. Business Opportunities For sale--second hand Ford touring car, good shape. L. B CLIFTON. For sale--about 400 bushels of good seed barley, see A. O. WEED, 4 miles west, 1 mile north, ½ mile west of Waurika. For sale on account of bad health, A well equipped restaurant, clearing $300 per month. JOHN GARIBALDI, Ringling. Strayed from my place, 5 miles west of Ryan near the Irving school, a light bay mule, heard of headed north. A. T GREEN of Route 2, Ryan For sale, farm 6 miles south and 4 miles west of Waurika, 80 acres, well improved. See or write T. W. WILLIAMS, Iowa Park, Texas. For sale or trade, late model Buick touring car, good tires, engine in good shape. RAY MATTHEWS. For sale--650 concrete blocks, 60 benches, 12 squares of corrugated iron. ED CREW. Rooms for Boys--room and board for boy for 1925 and 1926 term of school at Norman. Close in location. MRS. E. L. WILSON, Symmes St, Norman For sale--cockerels, Black Jersey Giants, Dark Cornish Games, Anconas. JEP STALLINGS at Asphaltum. Legal Notices In the estate of GENERAL ANDREW KING, a minor, by guardian, JOHN HEPSIN, the guardian of General Andrew King, HOLLEY and HOLLEY of Stigler, Oklahoma. Notice of Sheriff's Sale ABBIE CARGIL, administrator of the estate of ABIGAIL D. UPHATO vs. R. E. BROWNING, FLORENCE BROWNING, W. K. CONNER and J. R. MASSEY Notice State of Oklahoma to W. W. ELY, WALTER R. WHEAT, B. P. BAILEY, JACK LOVELL City Loan, C. V EASTERLING For monuments, see F. C. MARMADUKE L . C. BEEBE for federal farm loans at Hastings Guaranty Abstract Co. at Waurika. F. C. LARGENT, pres. DR. J. D. HARTFIELD, dentist. Phone 13. For monuments, see REV. H. H. BOWLES. For general concrete work and house moving. G. W EDWARDS, phone 322. Waurika Abstract Co., D. H. STONE, pres., at Waurika -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Jefferson County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/jefferson/jefferson.htm