The Ravia Herald Jun 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, 6 June 1908 (does not seem complete) LOCALS AND PERSONALS Misses Edith Merrill and Sue Parham are at Ardmore attending normal. J. H. Stegall and Orsie Tucker of the Reagan Campaign Committee, were callers at our office Monday. J. D. Brown, of Ravia, placed a solid dollar in the editor's strong box this week. Many thanks. J. M. Kitchens, a good farmer of this community, runs his figures six months ahead on our subscription books. One of the horses found in the possession of the captured horse thieves, that had been left in the care of Constable Lee Parker, is dead. O. R. Harvey, youngest brother of Mrs. R. T. Wilkinson, died at Deming, New Mexico, Tuesday, He leaves a wife and three children, besides other relatives to mourn his loss. The Herald joins the many friends of the family in extending sympathy. The Ravia Herald, 13 June 1908 TURNER TURNBULL'S DEATH REMOVES UNIQUE CHARACTER Guthrie, Oklahoma, June 7 - "In the death of Turner Turnbull recently at Caddo, the State and the entire Southwest lost a noted and picturesque character, for as chief of the vigilance committee back in the '70's he was mainly instrumental in clearing a vast tract of territory of horse thieves and murderers," said the old Deputy Marshal who himself has trailed with Turnbull on more than one occasion while searching for outlaws and robbers in the Wichita and Arbuckle Hills and along the winding courses of the Washita Blue and Red Rivers. "In fact, for many years Turnbull led a very eventful life," continued the old deputy, "and his name and those of his two brothers, Simeon and Daniel, are woven into the history of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations and of old Blue County in particular. As vigilants they organized for the protection of stock from the thieves that then infested the country, meeting out punishment, and to all such evildoers their names became a terror. Few men now living or dead contributed more toward freeing the country of desperadoes than did the Turnbull brothers. LOCALS AND PERSONALS C. L. Kilgore of Atoka was here this week on business. James Combs returned to his home at Shawnee last Sunday. Miss Lula Sharrock is attending the summer normal at Ardmore. W. M. Day, of Troy, returned last week from Atoka County, where he went as one of the election commissioners for that county. He says everybody worked with a vim but that there was no ill feeling between the different contestants for the county seat, which was won by Atoka, In Coal County Coalgate won over Lehigh, the temporary county seat. I. A. Herrin visited his father near Boggy the first of the week. Our townsman, J. B. Trewitt, brought in a radish to this office that was eighteen inches long and eleven inches in circumference. It shows what this soil will produce when given a fair chance. B. L. Combs returned from Denison, Texas, Thursday. He had to go quite a round-a-bout way to get to Denison, and on his return had to walk part of the way back. He says all the fun is taken out of travel when a fellow has to walk. Mrs. R. H. Ragan has returned from Hope, Arkansas, were she went before the "flood" to visit her parents and friends. Mr. Reagan is now happy, but he says Arkansas no longer holds the honor of being the only State in the Union in which people can be water bound. Mrs. Grace Pautsky, wife of Mr. J. A. Pautsky, died at their home west of Ravia Wednesday morning at 2 o'clock from an abscess. A husband and a seven year old son are left to mourn her death. She was twenty-seven years old. The burial took place Thursday evening at Ravia Cemetery, Rev. J. T. Arrington conducted the funeral services. The Herald extends sympathy to the bereaved father and son in their sad hour of affliction. H. H. Cobb sends The Herald to his father at Lee's Mill, Texas. Thanks Los Woods, of Russett, was in to see the editor last week. Mr. Woods and the writer were, for many years, citizens of Lancaster, Texas. We were glad to learn that Mr. Woods is doing fairly well, that he is married and has two bouncing boys, and is postmaster and druggist at Russett. W. A. McCall, of Province, Carter County, was in this county for several weeks waterbound. Mr. McCall left home on the trail of horse thieves about a month ago and succeeded in arresting one of them in Grayson Count, Texas, and the other one in this county, we believe. He also got the stolen horses back. Mr. McCall was in Ravia for two weeks and said he was never treated nicer in his life. He left a warm friend to our town. The Ravia Herald, 20 June 1908 COW KILLED BY LIGHTNING Mr. O. T. Allison of near Fillmore, was in Milburn Saturday and reported having a fine cow killed by lightning during the storm Thursday night. Milburn News LOCALS AND PERSONALS Contractor B. L. Combs left the first of the week for his home at Shawnee. Constable Lee Parker is expected home in a day or so from a two week's visit to his old home at Round Mountain, Alabama. W. H. Norris, who gets his mail at this post office, is a new Herald reader. Prof. C. M. Shaw, of Troy, who has had charge of that school for the past two years, was in to see us Tuesday. Rev. A. G. Eagleson, now with his family at Lore City, Ohio gave us an interesting letter last week. The Herald, as well as Mr. Eagleson's many Ravia friends, would be pleased to hear from him often. S. W. Chapman and wife left Monday. Mr. Chapman went to Sulphur, where he has accepted a position as secretary and treasurer of the American Promotion Association. We understand that Mrs. Chapman went to Chicago. Col. John G. James, of Roff, was here yesterday (Friday) looking after his property. G. W. Davidson, of Roff, has been here for several days doing some repair work on the James property. The many friends of Mrs. H. S. P. Ashby will be glad to learn that she is recovering nicely from her long siege with a broken limb as a result of a fall obtained at the entertainment by the ladies at the rock building several weeks ago. The doctor says the broken member is doing surprisingly well and that without any further accident she will be able to get about with the aid of crutches in a short while and that all indications now point to the entire healing of the limb. Mannsville News J. D. Brown has his brother's wife and children, of Walla Walla, Washington, visiting him. A. A. Chapman, who has been at Sulphur for several weeks for the benefit of his health, was not doing so well at last reports. The Herald published an interesting letter last week from the writer's old friend, "J.R.A." Mr. Abernathy first became one of our correspondents in February or March 1887, just after we had launched the Lancaster (Texas) Herald upon the troubled waters of journalism. That has been a little better than twenty-one years ago. Up to that time we were strangers, but one of the first copies of the Lancaster- Herald was sent him by a friend, and seeing from the newspaper comments that the writer was an Alabamian, and from the part of the State in which he had first begun his labors as an humble Methodist Circuit Rider, he had compassion on our feeble efforts to give the people a readable paper and came to our assistance with interesting letters and has been one of our valued contributors ever since. He and his good wife are now well advanced in life, possibly beyond three score and ten years, and the wish that comes up from the deepest recesses of our heart is that he and his excellent wife may be spared for many years to bless and comfort each other as they tread the sunset pathway of life, and that in the end God will gather them to Himself in that mansion not made with hands. SHOOTING WITH INTENT TO KILL News was brought here Wednesday evening from Troy that John Thomas Sullivan had been shot from his horse and killed; that Wes Sullivan's horse had been shot from under him and Sullivan probably killed, while a brother-in-law, Mr. Wilks, had been shot through the hand. The shooting was reported to have been done by unknown parties from an old vacant house near Pilgrim's church. Part of the report turns out to be true. Thursday we learned more about the shooting, but not what it was about. The Sullivans and Wilks went berry hunting, carrying their guns, so report says, and while on their return home, and in passing the home of the Quintons, they were fired upon. John Thomas Sullivan receiving seven buckshot in his back, which may prove fatal, while the horse of Wes Sullivan was shot from under him, and Mr. Wilks received a very slight wound in the hand from a piece of a glancing bullet. Messrs. Warder and two Quintons went to Mill Creek and gave themselves up, claiming, so report says, that they did the shooting in self defense. They had a preliminary hearing at Tishomingo Thursday but we never learned the results. ANOTHER GOOD MAN GONE Uncle Ben Freeze, an old time residenter of this vicinity, who has been sick for some time died at his home near this city Wednesday evening. Mr. Freeze is an old timer, having lived here 15 years and raised up a family. He was 77 years of age and well respected by everybody. He leaves a wife and eleven children to mourn his death. Interment was in the city cemetery with funeral services conducted by Eld. H. M. Hollingsworth yesterday evening. The many friends of this excellent family join us in extending sympathy in their sorrow. Mannsville News The Ravia Hearld, 27 June 1908 Two of Mannsville's oldest citizens, in the persons of Uncle Tom Halsell and Uncle Joe Mulkey, took dinner with their dl time friend F. M. Stilwell last Sunday. Uncle Tom has counted the frosts of 85 winters. These people all came to this country eighteen or twenty years ago and Mr. Stilwell, while not as old friends together with him once more. Time is fast telling upon these men and we cannot expect to have them with us many years longer and should appreciate them while here. They have wrought well in this life and their counsel is worthy of our consideration. Mannsville News SANTA FE WATCHMAN MURDERED AT CRUSHER Garfield Anderson, a track walker in the employ of the Santa Fe, fifteen miles north of here, was discovered murdered in the canyon yesterday by the construction crew of the Postal Telegraph Company, who were stringing wires in the cut. Anderson appeared to have been killed with a shotgun and in his hand was his revolver, evidence that he was aware of the attack. Charles Waltham, and two sons, Leondard and Charles, Jr., have been arrested charged with the crime. Anderson had been watchman for the company for several years. He has a sister, Mrs. Byrd Williams, living in Sulphur. Ardmore Democrat Crusher, Oklahoma, June 22 - Deputy Sheriff J. C. Brown, of Berwyn, in company with four deputies arrived here about 8 o'clock with blood hounds and took up the trail of the murderer of Garfield Anderson. The dogs directly found the trail and leaving the track went off into the woods about one hundred yards then came back to the track and starting north tracked the parties as far north as the water tank at Rock Creek, there losing the trail. Officers took the dogs through passenger train number 5 on the Santa Fe, then returned to Crusher again taking up the trail. After finding that Anderson has been shot with a No. 12 gauge shotgun and also a 32 calibre Winchester rifle, suspicion immediately rested upon R. S. Watham and two sons, Leonard and Charles, who were at once arrested by the officers and taken to Sulphur for an examining trial. Watham and his sons were living in a tent in the canyon, which was searched by the officers who found a No. 12 shotgun, also a 32 Winchester rifle. Foot prints measured in the sand correspond with size shoes worn by the parties arrested. The shotgun had been discharged. Watham claimed that he had shot a bird Saturday evening prior to the murder. Sand also found in the barrel of the gun is of the same kind as that along the embankment near the river. STAY WITH OUR OFFICERS Our constable, Lee Parker, has two suits on his hands as a result of doing his sworn duty. In the first suit, in which also appear the names of Sheriff Tribble of DeQueen, Arkansas, Tom Brown and Bert Keith appear as defendants, the sum of $15,000 is named as damages for kidnapping Nance, the young man captured with the horse thieves that Sheriff Tribble trailed form Arkansas to this county, and with the assistance of Parker, Brown and Keith, arrested three men and carried them back to Arkansas, young Nance being one of the number. Works, one of the other prisoners, who is now in jail in Arkansas awaiting trial on the charge of horse stealing, has brought suit against Constable Parker for a horse, two saddles and $30 damages. Both suits were filed by John Grisham, a Tishomingo lawyer. We understand the boot-leggers are threatening to sue him for damages for interfering with their illegal right to bring whiskey into Ravia and sell it. It is time that our law abiding citizens were getting together and giving Mr. Parker their loyal support. The way to do this is to organize a law and order league, thus forcing every citizen to come out and show where he stands. Let's organize and get rid of the thieves and boot-leggers. LOCALS AND PERSONALS A. G. Ward is not with the Sunflower Store. Mrs. Ada Neal and little son Eugene, of Arlington, Texas, are here visiting Mrs. Neal's parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Martin. George P. Rowe, of St. Joseph, Missouri, was here this week prospecting. Mr. Rowe is a lawyer and is seeking a location in the New State. J. R. Cole, of Austin, Texas has been here for two weeks prospecting. Mr. Cole is a lawyer, a man of family and has about made up his mind that Ravia is just the town he is looking for. Mr. Cole is a fine gentleman and we are glad to know that he will become one of us. Dr. F. J. Baum was at Ardmore the first of the week. La Roy Bennett's residence at Mill Creek was destroyed by fire Wednesday evening. Constable Lee Parker returned last Friday from a two week's visit to his old home near Center, Alabama. His father, H. M. Parker, accompanied Lee home and may make Oklahoma his home. J. H. Hall. Of the Norton community, was carried to Tishomingo Wednesday to be tried for lunacy. Mr. Hall is said to be a good citizen, a man of family, and his misfortune is much to be regretted. His mind seems to have got unbalanced on religion. This is the second time, we understand, that his mind has been dethroned. R. G. Guptill and wife are at Sulphur this week, where Mr. Guptill is surveying and platting an addition to that town for the American Promotion Co. Agent Ragan's mother went to Denison Thursday to visit her daughter, Mrs. Kingston, and also to join her husband, who has been in Denison since before the floods. Floyd Anderson and Miss Flora Mullennix were married last Sunday evening at Okemah, Oklahoma, and arrived in Ravia Tuesday evening. The Herald joins the many friends of the bride and groom in extending congratulations and best wishes for a useful and happy married life. TROY JOTTINGS W. C. Hooser made a trip to Mill Creek and Roff Monday. J. H. Norman and wife spent Monday night in Ravia. Grandpa and Grandma Griffin, of Stonewall, are visiting the homes of J. L. and Doc Griffin this week. F. E. Bennett and wife spent Sunday with John Lowry. J. C. Owen and F. Rowe spent Monday in Tishomingo courting. R. C. Kemp spent last week in Sherman on legal business. Our prosperous farmer, W. C. Hooser, reports his crop about cleaned out. He claims this summer is hotter than usual. Miss Emma Riddle is staying in Ravia at present. Miss Myrtle Fairchilds left Sunday for Amarillo, Texas, where she will remain awhile. Grandpa Hooser returned Saturday from a visit with relatives at Francis. Prof. C. W. Shaw made a trip to Reagan Monday. He is in the market for school desks and supplies. Misses Nora and Minnie Sullivan returned home from Ardmore Tuesday where they have been attending the Normal. NORTON ITEMS James Snider visited Mannsville last Saturday, remaining over until Sunday. He recently sold his corn crop to Berney Underwood; consideration $120 and two cows and calves. Mr. Snider says he does not intend to stay in this section of country much longer. Mr. Wadsworth will go to New Mexico by the first of the year. James Dotson is talking of going back to Arkansas. Pete McGehee says this season lets him out of here. Jeff Cherry says he is bound to go back to Texas. T. B Miner made a trip to Sulphur a few days since. Elder Thompson has been running a meeting at Norton for two weeks. Three of four professions to date. CARD OF THANKS After Mr. W. A. Payton had improved so that he could be up and about he wrote the following card of thanks to his many friends but it got misplaced and never reached The Herald office until this week, hence its lateness is appearing in this columns. Ed Herald Ravia, Oklahoma, June 17, 1908 - To my many friends of Ravia: I am going to leave you for awhile, and for aught I know may never see you all again, for you are aware that life is uncertain with one in my condition; and should I not return I would feel that I had not done my duty if I did not let you know that I appreciated your kindness to me. When a man is sick for awhile, and his friends contribute to his wants, he is led to believe that he has friends, but when a man is sick for such a long period of time, as I have been, and his friends continued to so faithfully take care of him, without a faltering step, it is proof beyond a doubt that he has many faithful friends. I cannot find words to explain my feelings toward them, but know that all who visit the sick and contribute to the needy will be rewarded by a greater power than myself. Whether I see you all again or not remember thee is a tender spot and a place in my heart for you all. With best wishes I remain your friend forever. W. A. Payton JOHN OXLEY DEAD John Oxley died at his home south of Ravia Wednesday evening at 1:30 o'clock of congestion of the stomach. Deceased was about thirty years old, the son of Squire Oxley and leaves a wife and two children to mourn his death. We understand that just before his death he tenderly hugged his loved ones farewell. The Herald extends to the bereaved wife, little children and parents its sincere sympathy in this hour of their sad bereavement. ORDER FOR HEARING PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN State of Oklahoma, Johnston County - In the County Court In the Matter of the Guardianship of Rachel Brown, a minor: Now on this 19th day of June, 1908, Machin Brown having filed in this Court his petition showing that it is necessary that a Guardian should be appointed for the person and estate of Rachel Brown, and praying that letters of guardianship issue to C. D. Bynum. It is ordered that said petition be and hereby is set for hearing on the 13th day of July, 1908, at 10 o'clock a.m., and that notice thereof be given by publication for three successive weeks in the Ravia Herald, published at Ravia, Oklahoma. Nick Wolf, County Judge, Date of first publication June 27, 1908 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Johnston County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/johnston/johnston.html