Tishomingo Weekly News Feb 1905 - JohnstonCounty, Oklahoma Submitted by: Mary Achterhof 4 Nov 2007 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 Tishomingo News, 1 February 1905 A FINE BARN J. M. Vestal has moved into the new Lucas Livery Barn and Wagon yard on Kemp Ave. and the most commodious and elegant quarters of any livery business in the country. He will have a camp house, an office and a nice waiting room, well furnished for ladies, who have to wait for the hacks. Every accommodation will be provided and Mr. Vestal has adopted very strict rules with reference to drunkenness and profane language among his employees around the barn and every courtesy will be shown the lady patronage. He will also cater to the wagon trade and has plenty of room to shelter everything. A TAX COLLECTOR SERIOULY INJURED Chickasha: H. T. Kirby, who can here several days ago to collect taxes from the merchants of this city, was shot in an accidental manner. R. B. Hughes, a traveling man, who was sleeping with Kirby, was arrested after the shooting, but was released after an examination before Judge Payne. The evidence brought out indicated that the shooting was purely accidental. The two men engaged in a good natured scuffle over the revolver with which the shooting was done. The weapon was discharged, the bullet passed through Kirby's abdomen. The condition of the wounded man is critical. His home is at Ardmore. A MINISTER BRINGS SUIT South McAlester: The Rev. E. T. Higgins, formerly pastor of the First Baptist Church at Wilburton, and later at Ponca City, has begun an action against Louis Rockett, a well known citizen of Wilburton, for the sum of $10,000. The charges upon which he filed his suit are libel and slander. W. H. Hill has been held to the grand jury at South McAlester. He is charged with breaking into a Rock Island car. LOCAL AND PERSONAL Jim Moore left Monday for Ft. Smith, Arkansas, and will go on the road for Thatcher Medicine Co. Prof. E. B. Hinshaw of Bloomflield was in the city Saturday. A. J. Chapman was here from Ardmore yesterday. Arthur St. Clair went to Purcell yesterday on business. Leslie Maggard is visiting in the city. Will Looney is now at home with his parents. Mrs. J. E. Ellis and children are visiting the old home in Greenville, Texas. Will Chisholm of Duncan is the guest of relatives in the city. Miss Lollie McSwain left Saturday for school at Bloomfield. W. F. Bourland was here from Petersburg, as the Chickasaw member of the board of teacher's examiners. Frank MacMacken has sold the furnishings of his hotel and leased the building to a Mr. Glasgow who is now in charge. Can you use a good First Class Clerk or Bookkeeper, married and good habits, A-1 references. Six years Agent and Operator. Grant Irwin. Hon. Henry M. Furman was in the city Sunday. Atty. S. T. Bledsoe of Ardmore was here Saturday on business and stayed over Sunday. Born - To Mr. and Mrs. Chester E. Naylor, Monday, a fine boy. That's the first boy and Chester is the biggest man in town. D. W. Baldridge a prominent merchant of Connerville was in the city yesterday. George Burris visited relatives in Stonewall last week. George W. Matlock of this city was acquitted of the charge of Arson at Ardmore, last week. He was charged with burning a house in which he lived that belonged to Westheimer & Daube. The testimony failed to make out against him and the jury was peremptorily instructed by Judge Dickerson to write a verdict of not guilty. Robert McClain and son of Scullyville, in the Choctaw Nation were in the city several days last week completing their filings. Mr. McClain lived in Tishomingo when he was a boy and is now a prominent citizen of the Choctaw Nation and is sheriff of his county. The Tishomingo News, 8 February 1905 C. B. Burrows, President of the American National Bank, Vice President and Secretary of the Southern Trust Co. system of banks, was in Coalgate looking after business interest several days last week and this week. BIG LIVERY BARN COLLAPSED The new Lucas Livery barn on Kemp Ave. from the heavy load of snow on the roof and not being yet completed, collapsed this morning. Damages result which approximate $1,000. Ernest Lucas was caught in the building and received severe bruises about the head, we understand however his injuries are not serious. LOCAL AND PERSONAL Dixie Colbert came down from Sulphur on business Sunday night. Judge S. Heard went to Muskogee yesterday. Deputy U.S. Marshal, J. H. Bridges returned Monday from Kansas City, where he went with a batch of prisoners, who where sentenced at the Ardmore Court. J. T. Sadler has been slightly indisposed and confined to his room for a few days but is at his post again. Prof. and Mrs. P. B. H. Shearer gave a dinner last Sunday, at which covers were laid for Mr. and Mrs. Stobaugh, Mr. and Mrs. Sadler, Mr. and Mrs. Bailey, Judge and Mrs. Garrett and Rev. Downing of California. The dinner was luxurious and served in courses. As the late house the guests departed complimenting and thanking the host and hostess for such a treat. A Guest Herman C. Shultz spent a couple of days on business in Gainesville and Ft. Worth, the latter part of last week. Mr. Shultz is Vice President and Acting Cashier of the First National Bank of this city and under his management, that institution has made rapid strides in progress, the past year. Robert Thompson, to whom the Pennington bridge contract was awarded is quite sick. Mr. M. White and two children have been sick for several days. Attorney J. W. Morris returned from a business trip to South McAlester Saturday. J. L. Smith, President of one of Ardmore banks was here on business yesterday. TAKEN UP - At my place on Bullard Prairie, 2 horses, a sorrel and a by, one had a halter on, branded -X. Taken up Tuesday morning, January 31 W. Evans, Tishomingo, I.T. Miss Bonnie O'Farrell visited in Ardmore Saturday and Sunday. Grove Chace of Chagris was here on business Friday. Guy P. Cobb was in Ardmore Saturday. Attorney Hyde of Wilburton was here Friday. Jim Rodgers of South McAlester was here Sunday. Val Peers of Gainesville was in the city Friday and Saturday looking after business interests. On March 1st free mail delivery will be established in Chickasha, with two carriers. Deputy United States Marshal Bradshaw arrested Jim Faught of Coalgate on a warrant charging him with the killing of an aged woman in Pulaski, Tennessee. The Tishomingo News, 15 February 1905 CARD OF THANKS We, the undersigned wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to those who assisted us during the sickness and death of our wife and daughter. J. D. Easterling, Mrs. L. L. Osmon. W. A. Chisum of Reagan was in the city on business Saturday. Mrs. M. G. Scott, formerly of this city has been appointed postmistress at Belton, vice, C. F. Ebisch former postmaster, resigned. J. A. Shannon was in Ardmore Friday. W. B. Pyeatt of the Fisher visited relatives in Ardmore Saturday. E. S. Wolfe, and Indian of Filmore was tried upon preliminary hearing here, before Judge Gullett Friday and bound over for $400 bond in default of which he went to Ardmore jail. The charge was selling booze. LOCAL AND PERSONAL Walter Craig went to Ardmore Friday. Guy Price went to Ardmore Friday. Mrs. N. G. Hutsel of Ada visited with the family of Chester E. Naylor last Thursday. Fryer Brothers handle good coal. Mrs. J. R. Mauldin left yesterday for Madill, where her husband has purchased an interest in a barber shop and they will make Madill their future home. When you want Coal ring no. 167, Fryer Bros. will answer. Gov. Johnston was called to Denison on business Monday. From there he went to Muskogee on business with the Commission. Ben H. Colbert went to Muskogee on business Friday, returning home Sunday. Slim Coyle has inaugurated quite an innovation for this latitude, in putting away a summer's supply of ice. He has cut already and put in his ice house, 20 tons of ice, from Pennington Creek. Sunday the coldest of the season. The thermometer registered 5 below. Mrs. J. R. Miller of Nocona, Texas, is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Pruett and her brother P. J. Pruett. John Fuller left Friday evening for his home in Greenville, where he will spend a few weeks with parents. Bob Godwin returned the first of the week from Texas points. Mrs. B. B. Wilson of Forrest City, Arkansas, is visiting her brother H. C. Fogg, since last week. Hon. J. T. Blanton of Pauls Valley was in the city on business Monday. Claude Herron of Whitewright, Texas, arrived in the city Sunday to visit with friends. Lost - A large pair of gauntlet gloves, covered with brown wool. Finder return to this office and receive reward. Maj. W. C. Wells after spending a few days with home-folks left Thursday evening for Stigler and Keota. Attorney W. H. Walker spent most of last week on professional business in several towns in the Choctaw Nation. W. M. MILLER - FOR CITY MARSHAL W. M. Miller announces himself as a candidate for City Marshal subject to the consideration of the voters of the city. Mr. Miller has been Deputy City Marshal for the past 16 months and being an older man than the city marshal, he has naturally taken the load and his virtually had the responsibilities of the office since he became Deputy Marshal. As an officer, the people in this city know him almost as well as do we, however , we have known him for nearly ten years and have never known him in any position than a like one to which he is now aspiring. At the time Mart Miller was appointed marshal when his predecessor, resigned, it seemed, would stay with the office, no one would have it for any length of time, until they would resign. The Millers have won the reputation of "stayers," they have stuck to the offices and done their duties, when it seemed no one else could be gotten to do it. Now the "older head" of the two faithful servants of the city, is a candidate for the office. We believe he has a record in this city to justify us in commending him to you as absolutely worthy of your support. He has, on all occasions, done his duty as he saw it, and no man ever deserves censure great credit for doing his duty. If you want a marshal that will execute the law, and make no distinction between his friends and those who are not friendly toward him, you can find no man more worthy of your support. F. W. Porter, brother of our postmaster, has been granted a franchise for the construction and operation of an electric light plant in Madill. Mr. Porter will begin the work at an early date and the plant is to be in operation in eight months. W. C. JORDON - FOR CITY ATTORNEY In the proper column will be found the name of Prof. W. C. Jordan as a candidate for City Attorney of the Incorporated Town of Tishomingo, subject to the will and choice of the voters of the city. Prof. Jordon was born in Tennessee in 1867, is the son of Dr. G. M. Jordon of Triune, Tennessee, an old confederate soldier who fought the battles of the lost cause with and under Gen. Forest, during the entire four years. Prof. Jordon attended the literary department of Vanderbilt University and took a law course there also. He read law in the office of Simkins and Neblett, Corsicana, Texas, was examined and admitted to practice there. He has also been admitted to the bar in Tennessee and Oklahoma and upon presentation of his license from other states was admitted and sworn in here in Tishomingo, during the last October term of court. He has been engaged in teaching for 15 years in the states and territories above named, holding first grade certificates wherever he has taught, and written statements from every school board, with which he has been associated, that his work has been eminently satisfactory to themselves, pleasing to the people, morally pure and mentally elevating to the children. He was Superintendent of City Schools at Morgan, Oklahoma, two years before coming to Tishomingo; he organized and graded our present system of schools in the city and the admirable manner in which they have been conducted, the progress of the pupils and the fellowship and warm friendship between them and himself speak more praises for him than we could find language to express. If elected we believe he will be as conscientious and painstaking as the legal representative as he is and has been in seeing to the well being of our schools and the general welfare of our children. We commend him to the voters of the city as a gentlemen in every sense of the word, highly capable for the work and the duties with which he asks to be burdened and will in our opinion make a good, faithful and conscientious City Attorney. A NEW LAWYER IN THE CITY Hon. W. M. Parham of Nashville, Tennessee, arrived in the city last week and has located here permanently for the practice of law. He comes to the Indian Territory with a splendid reputation as an Attorney and a gentleman; he brings with him strong letters from prominent members of the Nashville Bar, and court officials, all of whom praise him for his integrity as a man and for his ability as a lawyer. We bespeak for his success from the beginning and extend him a cordial welcome to citizenship in our city, and into the folds of Indian Territory democracy. He has opened an office in the O'Brien Building. The Tishomingo News, 22 February 1905 MABEL ADAMS DEAD Nora Mabel Adams, the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Adams, died at the home of her parents Sunday afternoon, from pneumonia. Her illness was brief, and she was sick only about eight days, a part of which time, her illness was considered dangerous; the attending physician spared no time nor efforts to break the dread malady, which they succeeded in doing; twice or three times, but in each instance it seemed to return with renewed vigor and over came her at time stated. The sympathy of the people of this city for the bereaved parents was expressed by the attendance upon the funeral service at the Adams' home and the burial at the city cemetery on Monday afternoon. It was no doubt the most largely attended funeral that ever took place in the city - the attendance not only showed the respect and sympathy of the people of the city, but love and admiration for the sweet little girl to whose remains they were paying their last kindly respects. Mabel was a good girl, fourteen years of age and we are sure no child in the city had more friends. The News joins a host of friends in expression of condolence to the sorrow stricken family. Dr. L. K. Truscott arrived in the city, with his family, from Maud, O.T., to make this their home, Dr. Truscott has the appearance and manner of a gentleman, in the true sense; he comes to us with a splendid reputation as a man and a physician. He has a wife and four children, with whom he is at home in the north part of the city. We extend Dr. Truscott and his interesting little family a cordial welcome. FIRE AT MADILL Madill - Fire damaged the hardware and harness store of Edward Smith, located on the west side of the square, to the extent of $3,000. The loss is covered by insurance. Nowlin Bros., had some coffins and caskets in the same building, which were damaged to the extent of $200., also covered by insurance. The loss on the building is $500. A some pistols and knives are missing, it is believed a burglar entered and set the place on fire. LOCAL AND PERSONAL W. H. Murray was in Durant on business last week. Guy P. Cobb went to Muskogee Saturday. Mrs. Charles Boyd is suffering from an attack of LaGrippe. Gov. Johnston went to Denison Monday evening. Mrs. Minnie Bailey and children came up from Denison to attend the burial of Mabel Adams, Sunday. Ed. Butler went to Gainesville Monday. Born to Mr. and Mrs. . M. Butts, on last Wednesday a fine eleven pound boy. Sol Lewis is at market in New York. G. W. Bingham was away the first of the week, on business in Haileyville and other towns in the Choctaw Nation. Walter Ragan of Gainesville was here yesterday. Rev. J. J. Lovett and wife leave us this afternoon for their future home, Jackson, Missouri. Mrs. Dudley is sick since Sunday. Misses Florence and Shellie Lawley of Emet, are in the city. Dr. Moss is visiting in Pauls Valley. "Butch" Irwin writes us from Cooper, Texas and requests us to send him the News in which of course we take great pleasure. John Thompson, son of Robert Thompson, to whom the Pennington bridge contract was awarded, arrived overland from Mt. Vernon, Texas, to assist his father in the construction of the bridge. Miss Tommie Harris is visiting in San Antonio, Texas. S. P. Boyd was in Ardmore Thursday. R. H. Simpson was in Muskogee on business Friday. J. G. V. Redmon went to Terrell, I. T. on business last Saturday. Miss Nettie Stobaugh visited her brother, Dr. Stobaugh, at Mansville, Saturday and Sunday. J. H. Eastwood went to Wapanucka on business Friday. John Robertson purchased the J. W. Shears residence on East Main, last week. Attorney J. B. Moore of Ardmore was in the city Friday. Col. Lester was in Madill and Ardmore on business the latter part of last week. Marshal Colbert left for Washington on business mission Monday. W. A. Borah was in Muskogee Friday. H. L. Mulrow returned from a business trip to Muskogee Saturday. Harry Bridges came over from Ardmore Saturday afternoon and spent Sunday with his family. Judge J. J. Truscott of Olustee, Greer County, O.T., is the guest of his son, Dr. L. K. Truscott and will in all probability make this his home. CONFESSED TO BURGLARY A Hobart Man Turns Over $400. Worth of Stolen Goods Hobart: Harry Smith was arrested on the charge of having burglarized the Dixie Store. He has confessed to the charge and turned over $400 worth of goods to the officers. It is believed Smith had a confederate, and the authorities are making a close search of him. WOODVILLE NOTES Mr. Warren of Brinson, Georgia visited his brother J. K. Warren of this place the first part of the week. Miss Alyne Summit left Tuesday for Wynnewood, where she will attend college. Rev. W. P. Holland of Tishomingo filled his appointment here last Sunday. We have organized a Joseph W. Bailey Literary Society. Dr. J. A. Jones has been called to Weltston, Oklahoma, to attend the bedside of his little child who is dangerously ill. Charles Cockburn is suffering from rheumatism.