The Ravia Herald Apr 1908 - Johnston County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Mary Achterhof 18 May 2008 Return to Johnston County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/johnston/johnston.htm ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== The Ravia Herald, 4 April 1908 James Nairn, a freshman in the University at Norman, has accepted the appointment to Annapolis proffered him by Senator Gore and will leave soon to take the entrance examination. The Oklahoma supreme court has refused a writ of mandamus asked by Adam Cline to force Mayor Bridges of Chickasha to call a city election, to elect all officers under the Arkansas statutes, which governed the city elections in former Indian Territory and held that the law does not apply. The opinion holds that the Oklahoma election law as carried over in the schedule of the constitution, and as modified by the Brook bill, now applies. At Sulphur Sheriff Henry C. King was exonerated of the charge of perjury in his preliminary trial. Ross A. Sweet, a business man of Enid, has filed a damage suit against the Daily Oklahoman at Oklahoma City in the sum of $10,000 for an article published in that paper detailing a stabbing affray. WOMAN USED BAD CHECKS Elk City: Mrs. Lena Askins, who has been placed under arrest at Chickasha charged with passing bogus checks, operated for several days in Elk City and has been brought back to this county for trial. Mrs. Askins deposited a check for $300 in the State Exchange Bank, and one for $150 in the German Exchange Bank. Each was drawn on the Midland Bank of Texas. She made several purchases in the town paying for her merchandise with checks drawn on the local banks. Next day it was learned that the Texas checks were bogus, and a reward of $50 was offered for the woman's arrest, but she had left town. LOCALS AND PERSONALS C. F. Updegraff, of Randolph, was here Thursday. J. W. Leeper is doing jury service this week at Tishomingo. Born, in Ravia, March 27, 1908, to Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Powell, a fine boy. John A. Anderson has been doing jury service at Tishomingo this week, George Tidwell has been improving his home place in West Ravia this week. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Friend, of Milburn, were guests last week of their granddaughter, Mrs. Ralph Clark. W. M. Moore, the road overseer, had hands at work Wednesday opening up a public road straight through to Randolph. R. A. Weeks, of Ardmore, came over Sunday morning, returning home that evening with his wife and baby, who had been here for more than a week visiting relatives. J. W. Craig, Mr. Campbell and Jess Hays left this week for the Hugo country after a bunch of cattle. They go overland and will be about twenty days making the trip. John Duncan left Tuesday night for Hugo to buy the cattle. J. R. Chitwood was a Dallas visitor the first part of the week. Joe C. Shaw, of Milburn country was in Ravia last Saturday. T. C. Miner sends The Herald to Pete McGehee, Ravia, for three months. Seward Barnes is home from Winfield, Kansas, where he had been for the past three months. N. B. Fields sends The herald six months each to P. J. Fields and G. W. Woodard, McKenzie, Tennessee. Thanks "Uncle Dan" Coffey sends The Herald to his daughter, Mrs. Willie Hill, who lives and is teaching school at Neinda, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Harrison, of Milburn, who where married at Tishomingo last Sunday week, were here guests part of last week of Mr. Harrison's sister, Mrs. Ralph Clark. "Uncle Dan" Coffey returned from Ardmore Thursday in the best of humor, the Ballast Company having raised his wages ten dollars per month. "Uncle Dan" says he hasn't anything to divulge this time, but remarked that the skies were beginning to brighten. Born, in Ravia, April 1st, 1908, to Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wilkinson, a bouncing boy. A Frisco train killed Mrs. Hathorn's milk cow Monday at the trussel south of town. Dr. F. J. Baum sends The Herald to his father, J. H. Baum, on Route 1, Leonard, Texas. Bud Norton, who was taken very seriously ill with pneumonia some days since is, we are glad to state, improving. A. J. Malcom, of Mannsville, President of the Johnston County Farmers' Union, was in Ravia Wednesday en route to the county meeting at Viola, held Thursday and Friday. Mr. Malcom is one of the solid, substantial farmer citizens of the county and an honor to the organization of which he is president. Mrs. M. E. Robertson and baby Elizabeth returned this week from a pleasant visit to Mrs. Robertson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Byrd, Daingerfield, Texas. She was accompanied as far as Greenville, Texas, by her brother, H. G. Byrd, who was on his way to Los Angeles, California, where he goes to pluck one of the choice flowers of that state. Mr. and Mrs. Dan H. Ward had a family reunion last Sunday in honor of their daughter, Mrs. Weeks, who had been here for several days visiting her parents and other relatives. All of their children were present except one son, who lives in St. Louis, Missouri. The following families, being their married daughters and son, were present: Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Pate and two children; Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Ward and child and Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Weeks and baby. Charles W. Kimball, of Parsons, Kansas, was here Monday prospecting. Mr. Kimball is looking for a location to put in an electric light and water plant, and was pretty favorably impressed with our town. Contractor Combs has a bunch of men at work on the Farmers' Union Warehouse, and they are making fine headway. The building will be 100x140, with a storage basement 24x120, to be used for storing perishable products. Your attention was called to the livery ad of D. H. Ward. The public will find him courteous and polite and his rigs and drivers O.K. When you want to go driving with your best girl or make a trip to Tishomingo don't forget Dan Ward. Prof. Hamilton and Finley and Mr. Lanham, members of the Kingston brass band, came up Tuesday and gave our boys a few lessons, practicing with our boys until the arrival of the 11:05 train that night. They played several pieces on the street, and with credit to themselves. The boys should be encouraged, morally and financially. It is a sure sign of rain, and a hard one, when T. B. Miner comes to town. A few Saturdays ago he was waterbound in Ravia, and he was here again last Saturday and we almost had a cloud burst. Suppose we petition those in authority to build a bridge across Mill Creek, between Ravia and Norton. ITEMS FROM NORTON Fishing seems to be getting good. Peter McGehee, Jim Snider and T. B. Miner went ovr to the lake one day last week and got a nice string of fish. Some of our Norton boys while coming out from Ravia the other night, considerably tanked up on booze, ran their team into a barbed wire fence badly crippling and cutting the horses. Say, Bro. Green, Mill Creek got past wading again. T. B Miner went to Ravia Saturday and did not get back until Sunday. Pete McGehee caught a 20 pound cat fish Saturday morning. Wasn't that fine? On last Sunday Mr. John Harrison and Miss Elsie Flack surprised their Milburn friends by driving to Tishomingo where they were united in marriage, Rev. Holland of the Baptist Church performing the ceremony. From Tishomingo they went to Ravia for a few days, guests of the groom's sister. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Flack and is a young lady of rare beauty of both face and mind, and is capable of filling the home she will adorn with happiness, and will make a true helpmate for the husband she has chosen. The groom is from one of our best families, he has been raised from childhood in this neighborhood, and no young man stands higher in the estimation of all as a high minded energetic young man than he does. The News joins their many friends in wishing them much happiness, and a good share of prosperity. Milburn News The Ravia Herald, 11 April 1908 LEFT $1,500 ON CAR SEAT Shawnee: John Cutliff, cashier of the Shawnee-Tecumseh Electric Railway Company, left a package containing $1,500 on a car going to Tecumseh when he left the car at the office of the company in East Shawnee. The package made the trip of seven miles to Tecumseh lying on a seat and was recovered from the car without mishap. The car was in a crowded condition during the entire trip, but the package was not noticed by any of the passengers. LOCALS AND PERSONALS T. W. Lytton was a Mill Creek visitor Monday. J. D. Kirby, who lives at Sulphur, has sold his interest in the telephone exchange here to J. B. Mosely, a banker at Hickory. J. E. Covey had the misfortune to run a nail into his foot one day last week, making a very painful wound for a few days. C. E. Merrill and Dr. J. M. Johnson returned from Guthrie Tuesday morning. They will make a full report at the meeting tonight (Saturday) at Guptill Hall. You want to be there. T. W. Lytton has sold his lease on the Morse Cottage Hotel to M. L. Moore. Mr. Moore is from Roff here, but has lived in Johnston County many years and is said to be a splendid hotel man. We wish him success. Miss Loula Sharrock and John Merrill were before the county board of school examiners Thursday and Friday. W. F. Ford passed round a paper last week which was pretty well signed, raising funds to send W. B. Capwell to Hot Springs, Arkansas. The sum of $16.75 was subscribed. Mr. Capwell left this week for Hot Springs. His wife is here. They have been unfortunate in this life, and now old age finds them penniless and he is cripple from disease. Our people have been generous with the, and the wife that is left behind we believe will not be allowed to suffer for any of the necessities of life. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Ravia returned Tuesday from Howe, Texas, where they visited their daughter, Mrs. Lou Davis. Mrs. Davis and her brother, Edgar Green, accompanied their parents home. Prof. Hamilton, of Kingston, was here Monday to instruct the band boys that night. We learn that the boys have engaged his services and that he is likely to move his family here. The old Ardmore road, which was recently closed by Mich Bonner, across whose land it passed, has been ordered reopened by that gentleman. Dr. Johnson and Mr. Merrill, on their way to Guthrie stopped off at Ardmore and explained conditions to Mr. Bennett and he gave an order for the opening of the road again. This will prove a great convenience to people living in the country west of Ravia. Rassie Norris, aged 13 or 14 years, son of Mr. James Norris, died at Ardmore and his remains were shipped here for burial Monday, the interment taking place that evening in Ravia cemetery. Mr. Norris brought his son home from Arkansas three months or so ago for treatment, and he was carried to Ardmore and placed in a sanitarium, where we learn he was successfully operated on several weeks ago and a tumorous growth removed from his bladder, but consumption set in and in his weakened condition he fell an easy victim to this dread disease. The Herald extends sympathy to the bereaved father and relatives. The Ravia Herald, 18 April 1908 LOCALS AND PERSONALS Mesdames Merrill and Ragan were Tishomingo visitors Thursday. Miss Mabel Baden visited Madill friends last Saturday and Sunday. Miss Winnie Harrison of Milburn, is here visiting her sister, Mrs. Ralph Clark. W. C. Holland and W. S. Webster were in the interior several days this week. Charlie Pittman and T. J. Burns were in from the Troy country Monday. J. H. Anderson represented the Ravia Odd Fellows at the Sulphur meeting this week. Miss Bernice Jernagan, of Milburn, who was here visiting Mrs. Ralph Clark, left Thursday for Kingston to visit a sister. L. F. Beard and Col. Tolliver were up from Madill Saturday. A. J. Malcolm, of Mannsville, was here Thursday on business. Dr. C. N. Caton is improving his residence property in the west part of town. Dr. Stallings, of Tishomingo, passed through here Tuesday en route to Sherman, Texas. Dr. J. M. Johnson made a flying visit to Ardmore this week. Lige Deaton, of the Rock Creek country, was here Thursday. Contractor B. L. Combs visited his family at Shawnee Tuesday. T. B. Hooser sends The Herald six months each to J. C. Hooser, route 1, and A. N. Hooser, Clarksville, Texas. Claude Love was called to Nebo this week to the bedside of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Conway, who is not expected to live. Orbie Sharp wants your vote and support for street commissioner. He is out after the place and wants you to know it. The Ravia Herald, 25 April 1908 A NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH During the thunder storm Monday evening the family of W. H. Fairchilds, who lives in West Ravia, narrowly escaped death. The house was struck in two places and damaged in three. One bolt struck the rock chimney, knocking off part of the top of the chimney and scattering the rocks around generally, some of them, being thrown into the garden and one to the middle of the street. This bolt passed down the chimney until where the house and chimney came together, and then it seemed to have passed down the wall of the house, tearing the paper off the wall over the mantel and knocking off the wooden jam of the fire-place. Mr. Fairchilds was setting with his chair against the window casing and the fire jam, and was knocked unconscious, as was also Mrs. Fairchilds and Mrs. Craig, who were in the room. Mr. Fairchilds escape is marvelous, as the jam was torn loose that his chair was against. The other bolt struck the roof of the house, one prong of It seemed to have passed across the roof of the house on the tin valley and down the wall on the west side of the dining room, while the other prong passed down the east wall of the some room, both walls being damaged and the planks struck splintered. The safe, on the west side of the dining room, was also struck and damaged. This room is quite small and Mr. Fairchilds' son had just entered the room and was standing at the dining table when the lightning struck, and his was a narrow escape, yet he was less shocked than those in the other room. The damage to the building was much, not over $25 or $30. About the same time the frame store building of Andrew Nanny, just west of the Fairchilds' about a block, was struck but no serious damage done beyond a hole in the roof and ceiling. Near Ardmore twenty head of cattle belonging to Robert F. Scivally were stolen and driven out of reach of the officers a few nights ago. It is believed that a gang of thieves has been operating in this section for some time, whose base of operations is believed to be in the Arbuckle mountains. TEN THOUSAND FOR HUSBAND'S DEATH MacAlester: Mary Fisher has been awarded $10,000 damages from the M. K. & T. Coal Company for the loss of her husband in the Wilburton mine explosion of April 30, 1905. Two other suits are pending. FROM NORTON A case came up in Justice Brownlee's Court on the 14th against Thomas Middleton, charged with carrying concealed weapons. The case, on motion of defendant, was continued until last Saturday, the 18th. Never learned how it ended. Berney Underwood was in Mannsville one day last week. LOCALS AND PERSONALS J. W. Scrimshire was at McAlester on business the first of the week. W. M. Moore attended the W. O. W. Camp at Mannsville Monday night. M. D. Chitwood of Fenton, Louisiana, was here this week visiting his brother, J. R. Chitwood. T. B, Leslie sends The Herald to his wife's mother Mrs. S. A. Wilkison, Adamville, Tennessee, for six months. C. S. Mudd sends The Herald three months each to J. M. Waddill, Seymour, Texas and W. H. Main, Stephenville, Texas. R. V. Baxter, of Sherman, Texas, was here the latter part of last week looking after his property. He was favorably impressed with Ravia's bright future. N. B. Fields sends The Herald three months to Ed Poier, at Tishomingo. Ed Gray and a young man from Caddo left Sunday night for Colorado, to try their future in that state. O. L. Beard was over to Oil Springs a few days since to figure with Andy Hutchins, who is going to build an eight room residence. Ralph Clark and wife were called to Milburn last Friday on account of the death of Mr. Perry, father-in-law of Dr. Clark, Ralph Clark's brother. They returned home the fist of the week. John Duran, business manager of the Roff Eagle, was in Ravia last Sunday. Mr. Duran formerly lived here and it was here that he first got printer's ink on his fingers. He is doing well at Roff. S. E. Dean and W. S. Moody, Trenton, Texas and Dan Lagasse, DeQueen, Arkansas are new Herald subscribers. Miss Allie Beard and Miss Mabel Reeves came in last Saturday from Kingston to be with home folks over Easter. James Combs came down from Shawnee last week to help his father on the Farmers' Union warehouse. Jim is a fine young man and we are glad to have him with us again. W. S. Webster is announced in this issue of The Herald for mayor, or as known under the law, town justice of the peace. Our citizens all know Mr. Webster and that he is a good citizen, competent to fill the place. J. R. Chitwood came in last Sunday from Arlington, Texas where he purchased a stock of goods and had been for several days running a cost sale. He has closed out the stock in a lump to another party and is down there now closing up the deal. J. W. Downey has sold his home in Ravia to W. A. Barnes; the consideration was $600. It is a beautiful, well situated place and convenient to business. Mr. Downey will move his family to Bromide, where he owns property, just as soon as the roads get in a passable condition. They are excellent people and we dislike to see them leave, but wish them well in their new home. Me. Downey is there now getting things in shape at that end of the line for the moving act. J. D. Ravis tells the editor that Mrs. Newell, the wife of a tenant farmer living on his place, found seven dozen and eight eggs under one hen. It seems that Mrs. Newell had set the hen some days previous to finding the eggs, and on account of the nest being where she had to climb to get to it had not examined it before since she put the setting of eggs under the hen. The eggs found were over and above what the lady had put under the hen when the hen was set. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Johnston County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/johnston/johnston.html