Johnston Co., OK - The Wapanucka Press, July 1906 ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Mary Achterhof USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** The Wapanucka Press, 5 July 1906 JUANTIA ITEMS C. W. Jackson and family of Coatsworth attended services here Sunday. Miss Clay Statler and brother were here Monday from Byrne. J. D. Cameron of Sulphur, ahs been here this week prospecting and conferring with Judge Jackson on a proposition for the town. Doley White was ere this week making the boys belch up their politics. He found some Democrats, some Republicans, some Socialist and lots of Farmers Union men. Ben Crawford and I. E. Chester began putting up hay this week. The ice cream supper a the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Cummings Saturday night was enjoyed by all present. The young folks are loud in their praises of Mr. and Mrs. Cummings for their hospitality. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- WILSON NO. 2 J. H. Hathaway carried a load of hogs to Stonewall yesterday. The young people had an enjoyable time last evening at Mr. Monroe Davison’s to an ice cream supper. T. H. Hathawasy, Bob Henderson and others returned Thursday from a 10 day trip to New Mexico. They report the country to be a high looker, but didn’t look well enough to file on. It is generally understood that T. H. Hathaway learned the Mexican walk while there. He will give lessons at low rates – all come. Little Floyd Jeffcoat has been on the sick list this week, also Mr. Will Werther. O. E. Simmons made a business trip to Wapanucka Saturday. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- OLNEY ITEMS Olney, July 3 Mr. Burrows, Sr., and J. D. Baldwyn will start for Mexico on the 5th. Mexico fever is very high at present. We think if the boys would advertise home as much as Mexico we would have a Klondike of our own in the Indian Territory real soon. J. F. Bean was seriously injured last Sunday while out berry hunting by falling out of a wagon and being run over by both wheels. He has several bones badly crushed and is internally injured. Tho very low his injuries are not thought to be fatal. Deputy Marshal Bradshaw was in town Monday on business. Some of the boys went fishing the same day. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- LYNCHED AND BODY BURNED Negro confessed and Was Lynched by Mob of Citizens WILL INVESTIGATE Judge Dickinson Calls a Special Session of Grand Jury The negro who committed a criminal assault of Ira Robertson, near Womack, was captured Saturday night and after being taken back to the scene of the crime, was hanged a quarter of a mile from the spot. He confessed his crime and offered not resistance to the mob. By the time the negro was overtaken near Bradley Saturday night fully 400 men had joined in the chase, and soon after the capture the march to Womack began. It was nearly 3 o’clock Sunday morning when the Robertson home was reached and the negro brought before the girl. “That’s the one” she said at once, and the negro replied, “Yes, lady, I‘m the one.” The mob then proceeded with him a quarter of a mile east, past the spot where he had committed his crime and then a quarter of a mile to a large tree in the road on the bank of the Walnut Creeks, where a rope was thrown over a limb about eighteen feet high and one end knotted about the man’s neck. He was given an opportunity to speak and again confess his guilt and after a fervent prayer to God for forgiveness he was drawn into the air to die by strangulation. Before life was extinct the body was lowered to the ground, logs and brush were heaped upon it and the mass ignited. For a moment the body writhed, a few groans were heard and the flames completed their work. Two hours later the charred remains were buried under the same tree under the direction of the deputy marshal from Purcell, who had been thwarted in his effort to take the negro from the mob. Judge Dickerson has called a special session of the grand jury to meet at Purcell to investigate the lynching. This is the first lynching that ever took place in Indian Territory. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- KILLING NEAR RAVIA Last Saturday night, Jim Duncan was shot and killed at his home near Ravia. Duncan lived near Viola about five years ago and is well known in that community by the older inhabitants. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- OFFICERS MAKE RAID Deputies Leflore, of Atoka, Cassada and J. B. Dowell, of South McAlester, came down to Wapanucka last Monday morning and they together with the local force raided a number of places in town. At one place they found over two hundred pints of booze which was split in the presence of a large crowd of thirsty onlookers who had gathered to watch the work go on. One party was arrested and placed under a $500 bond to await the action of the grand jury. After disposing of the prohibition question the officers then raided a poker and crap shooing establishment up stairs in the Ellis building. This is where business picked up some more. The paraphernalia was piled up in the street and burned, The affair created quite an excitement among the thirsty set. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTES ALONG THE WAY Starting north from the metropolis of Atoka County Monday, June 25th, J. P. Ridley was the man who decided that he could farm better if had the Wapanucka Press each week and he was the first of quite a number. At Olney, where Mr. H. E. Mason and his good wife are running a fine little hotel, you will always find the Press, as at J. E. Bem’s, J. E. Workman’w. W. N. Almon’s, W. L. Lee’s, J. J. Davidson’s; at Oconee. W. D. Cook, Robert Newberry, L. A. Hilburn, Dr. Don Enfield, J. H. Guynes, R. A. Arnold, S. T. Lee, A. E. George and W. P. Jemison and at Hunton, O. E. Simmons. Ye scribe was the guest of H. E. Mason at Olney, Mr. Hampton at Oconee, and W. P. Jemison on his 2,000 acre ranch, near Oconee, and he certainly was treated royally. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- LOCAL NEWS A. J. Lowe was down from Kittie Monday. W. W. Golden was over from Ego Monday. J. F. Milligan was over from Viola Friday. P. K. Wall was over from Belton Saturday. T. C. Wallace left Monday for Ardmore where he goes to consult a specialist with regard to treatment of rheumatism. J. A. George one of the good farmers of Hunton community, was in town Saturday. R. M. Emerson and W. E. Brogden were over from Belton Saturday in attendance a the Masonic lodge meeting. Mr. Walter Fergerson, of Shawnee, was in the city Friday and Saturday, the guest of Miss Lucie Loomis. J. D. Dumas was over from near Ego Saturday. Crops in his vicinity are looking well just now. Corn is fine and cotton is blooming. Ada and Edith, little daughters of Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Loomis, visited Mrs. Mullins at Ardmore last week. Mattie and Cleo, the little daughters of Mr. and Mrs. B. L. O’Neal, spent the later part of the week at the ranch home of Col. And Mrs. R. McLish. C. H. Moran was over from Ego Monday. P. J. Ellis was down from the Byrne community Monday. A. R. Field and family were over from Ego Sunday. J. E. Gilmore and family visited Col. And Mrs. R. McLish Sunday at the ranch. A. Y. Casey was over from Wide Springs Saturday. H. C. Stone of near Juanita was in town Saturday. W. W. Patton and family are moving this week to Cordell, Oklahoma, where Mr. Patton will enter business. Their many friends here wish them well at their new home. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- COUNCIL MEETING City council met in regular session Monday night, all members being present except Aldermen Juhan and Attaway. Marshal’s report for June showed $28.50 collected in fines and occupation tax. Report of sanitary committee composed of W. A. France and O. J. Stamps, was read and accepted. The report recommended that the law governing the cleaning out of closets be more rigidly enforced; that the practice of throwing refuge into the gutters along the streets be stopped; that weeds on vacant lots be cut and that the rear of store houses be kept clean. Mayor Skeen gave proper instructions to the marshal to carry out the recommendations and he complimented the committee for its excellent report. The following bills were allowed: W. S. Johnson - salary - $50.00 W. L. Lee - hauling off dead animals - $8.00 D. Kennedy and A. A. Falk - election judges – each $1.00 Press - publishing - $5.00 W. Z. Gibson was appointed as a member of the cemetery committee to serve in place of D. Kennedy resigned. The office of alderman held by J. C. Attaway, was declared vacated and J. S. Morton was elected to fill out the unexpired term. Sanitary committee was instructed to investigate a pond which had been made in the creek at the crossing of First Street. Tuesday evening Miss Bessie Rudd entertained a number of her friends at the hospitable home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Barker. Games were played by the young folks, and refreshments were served, consisting of ice tea and cake. Everyone reports a very enjoyable evening. G. M. Powers and D. H. Smith attended a meeting of Indian Territory Farmers Union held near Tishomingo Monday. ============================================================================= The Wapanucka Press, 12 July 1906 OCONEE NEWS Oconee, July 12 There are many arrivals from Mexico the past few days. Among those who have come back are Robert Henderson, J. D. Aiken, Til Carter who says this country do them yet for a while. Sam Hampton writes back from there that he is all in for New Mexico and will be home soon. T. W. Golden is very sick. Considerable sickness in the country at present. John Vernon and wife of Ashland are visiting I. N. Gilliand and wife. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- JUANITA ITEMS Dr. E. F. Taylor has retuned from a trip to Kentucky. Mrs. E. F. Taylor, who has been sick for several days, is improving slowly. Col. R. McLish and wife were visitors in Juanita Friday. Mrs. I. J. Stockett and sister, Juanita Jackson, were shopping in the city Thursday afternoon. A. Y. Casey, from Hunton, was in the city Saturday. Messrs. Don and Cliffton Tate, of Cope, spent Sunday with friends here. Mr. C. L. Witte and family, of Wapanucka, spent Sunday in Juanita. Mr. Wallace and lady accompanied by a number of young ladies from Wapanucka were at the springs Sunday. Judge Jackson has just closed a deal with John Cameron, of Sulphur, to develop the sping at Juanita. He also sold the townsite of Juanita to Mr. Cameron. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- STORY OF RAVIA KILLING Will Waterson Kills His Father-in-law, James Duncan, at Ravia James Duncan, a farmer living near Ravia, was shot and instantly killed by his son-in-law, Will Waterson, Saturday night, June 30th. The particulars as best we can learn are as follows: Waterson who lives near Wapanucka, came to Tishomingo on the noon train, went out to the picnic grounds and from there over to his father-in-law’s home. Waterson had married the eldest daughter of Duncan and to this union a child was born. The wife died a few years ago and the Duncan family had been keeping the child. Later Waterson married a second daughter of Duncan’s, who he was living with at the time of the tragedy. The trouble came up over Waterson demanding possession of his child but as the grandparents had cared for the little one some time they had naturally become attached to it, and did not want the father to take it. After a few angry words had been exchanged, Duncan told him to take the child and go, not to come near his premises anymore. It is said that at this time they both became very angry, and that Duncan picked up a chair and raised it up to strike Waterson when the latter fired on him, the ball entering the heart, causing instant death. He then secured a horse and buggy belonging to Duncan’s boy which was hitched near the house and drove off. In a few minutes he returned with the horse and buggy and asked if the old man was dead. He was informed that he was. Then he said to the boy “That’s good. I intended to kill him.” He then left on foot and at this time the officers have been unable to find him. Deputy Marshals Bridges and Burton, drove over Saturday night and looked the country over but no trace of him could be found. Waterson was tried at the October term of court for the murder of Lee Harvey at a dance near Ray, but as there was not sufficient evidence to secure a conviction he was acquitted. Tishomingo News ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- OLNEY ITEMS Olney, July 10 U. J. Burrows of Tishomingo, was in town attending to business relative to the bank last week. Uncle Sam Hilburn came down from Oconee Saturday and brought all the girls he could haul. J. E. Workman is making some improvements on his store and residence. J. H. Brown and daughter, Patsie, are on the sick list this week. Master Joplin Rogers is quite sick this week. Mr. and Mrs. E. Plummer visited Lehigh Saturday. Mr. J. D. Baldwyn is visiting relative sin Durant this week. Mrs. and Miss Harrigan, of Detroit, Michigan are visiting relatives here this week. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- HUNTON NOTES Rev. McNeally and R. H. Addison were in Mosley neighborhood Sunday at which place Rev. McNeally preached. N. H. Addison and Wiley Dorbison sold Walter Terry a car of fat hogs a few days ago. T. J. Howard is on the sick list. Mr. Calhoun has the lumber on the ground for the erection of his store building. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- KILLING AT McGEE Pauls Valley, July 7 United States Commissioner Pfeiffer today tried Los Hart for killing one Ransom Coldwell out near McGee night before last. Coldwell came along about midnight and shot through a window and a few inches above the bed in which two of Hart’s little girls were sleeping. Hart seized his pistol and ran out into the front yard, hollared to the party stop. The party then turned his gun and shot at Hart. Hart fired in answer and killed his man who proved to be Coldwell, a party with whom he had never had a difficulty. Judge Pfieffer discharged Hart. The old trick of shooting into people’s houses in the Indian Territory must stop. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- TERRITORY NOTES The dead body pf Elgin Trippett was found hanging by the neck in a barn near Fitzhugh. It is supposed he committed suicide. W. A. Ledbetter, attorney for the Santa Fe and Frisco systems at Ardmore, has announced as a candidate for delegate tot he constitutional convention. Lee Cruce of Ardmore, R. L. Williams of Durant, Dr. Fite of Muskogee and J. J. McAlester of McAlester, are all out for governor of Oklahoma. At Kemp last Thursday night a man by the name of Dillingham was killed. Earnest and Pleas Hubbard are dead and Reuben Kirby fatally injured as the result of a family feud between the Hubbards and Kirbys. A pitched battle took place between the two factions at Going Snake Courthouse, five miles west of Westville, Monday. A horse was shot down from under one of the Hubbards during the fight. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- LOCAL NEWS P. W. Williams has begun the erection of a nice, up-to-date dwelling on the Ludlow farm east of town. Miss Lillia O’Neal is visiting in Durant this week. O. M. Workman and family left Sunday for a visit to his brother in West Texas. G. W. O’Neal of Kittie and Mr. Howard were in the city Tuesday. Bud Davis was over from Kittie Monday. He reports a good rain in that neighborhood. Mrs. G. L. Edge, of Wapanucka, arrived in Lehigh last Friday returning from a visit to Kentucky. Lehigh Leader L. C. Ball has put on a first class hack line in connection with the mail from Hunton and intermediate points to Wapanucka and return, and will carry both freight and passengers. Mr. A. A. Taylor is visiting her parents at Bennington this week. E. H. Castle left Sunday for a visit to his parents at Britt, Iowa. Miss Lillie O’Neal of Wapanucka was visiting here this week. Lehigh Leader The Press learns with regret that Robert H. Kimbrough has been sick for several days at his home near Ego. J. W. White, who lives out east of town in the Wilson community, brought in some grown cotton bolls this week. He has ten acres or more with grown bolls. Mrs. R. E. Wade left Sunday for Charles City, Iowa, in response to a message announcing the critical illness of her aged mother. Deputy Criswell arrested one Brad Jones Tuesday evening charged with stealing $62 from Baily Powers last October. Jones got off the train Tuesday evening when the officer nabbed him. W. T. Caple has built a new house on Main Street between the Post Office and the Wapanucka Hardware Co., in which he will open a first class restaurant in a few days. Mrs. Booker and daughter, Miss Bessie Carroll, of Caddo, visited Mrs. Harry Smith this week. Mrs. W. H. Ball and little son left yesterday for Corsacans, Texas, where they will visit with relatives and friends. ============================================================================= The Wapanucka Press, 19 July 1906 VIOLA NOTES Viola, July 16 Mr. W. A. Hollenbeck and wife are in Viola this week, looking after their interests here. G. F. Monk has moved to Viola and will open a business within a few days. Mr. Hendrick is now selling cold drinks and ice cream. In a fit of despondency John Sanders, aged 22 years, a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Sanders, shot and killed himself at the family residence in the north part of Ardmore. The weapon used was a shot gun and the contents took effect just above the heart. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- COPE DOTS Cope, July 17 Elder Chisham and daughter spent Saturday night and Sunday in Cope. He preached two interesting sermons while here. Mrs. Carpenter of Texas, is visiting her son W. A. Carpenter. E. D. Berry, the man who talks up the Press, was in our midst yesterday. C. A. Skeen made one of those old time Democratic speeches at Belton last Friday. A. Carter and family are visiting his father on the Washata this week. J. J. Thompson and wife of Wells Valley are visiting their daughter at Durant this week. O. D. White is on the sick list this week. Miss Emma Chapman of Viola spent Saturday night and Sunday with J. O. Feggett and family. Mr. Fred and John Ebish were Cope visitors last Sunday. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTES ALONG THE WAY Over at the little inland town of Oconee where the pretty stream, by the peculiar name of Clear Boggy, whirls and gurgles past, just stopping long enough by the way to turn the water wheel of the fine mill Mr. Hampton has there, was where ye scribe spent part of the past week and I was more than impressed with the fact of the friendly feeling the people of Oconee have for Wapanucka and her business and professional interest. Sam Whitesides, who is a progressive farmer, is one of the friends Wapanucka and the Press has there as is Newton Gilland. C. E. Alcom R. L. Henderson, M. S. Sandy, Sam Muldrow, R. L. Ray and F. P. McNeely are people who also feel that the best way to get the news is to have the paper come to their own home and they know that the proprietor of a newspaper cannot publish a good paper if he depends on the man who borrows his neighbor’s paper for his support. One of the saddest things that I hear in my rounds is “we are going to New Mexico to make our home,” and it would surprise you to know how many times I hear that. Going to New Mexico. What for? “To make a home,” they say. Rugged men they are mostly, who have fought the battle here, won out a living, and something more, stayed here under adverse conditions when statehood was away in the future and now when it is here, when they have gained the power to vote wise men into office to change conditions and give this new state and its people the same privileges and rights of any other state and people in this great country. They are being prevailed on to leave and what they leaving? One of the finest countries that the Stars and Stripes float over, with more acres of rich soil than any other state, with a delightful climate, with plenty of good, pure water in springs and veins, with the most central location for the markets of the United States and the best people any where. I have been over a good deal of country, saw a great many people, under a great many conditions and I emphatically state that there is more courtesy, more friendliness and kindness in the Indian Territory people of this section than in other state or place in the Union, and what are these people leaving all these good things for? They are going into another territory where water is a hard and expensive thing to get. In fact, it is the hardest thing there is to get where for hundreds of miles there is no water either above or below the ground as far as they have been able to discover, where for hundreds of miles there is nothing growing but an occasional cactus and they seem, in lots of cases to have a hard time; where is some places it gets so hot a fly won’t fly, and it never rains, and the ground look like an ash heap after a spring thaw in the country. Of course I do not mean to imply that all of New Mexico is like this but the part they want settlers on is; for most of it has irrigation plants or they propose to dig them, or extend them, onto it, and an irrigation plant is controlled by a man or a body of men and is subject to all the uses and abuses that human nature can command, and an irrigation system is an unending tax against your property, levied by the men who own it – not by the state. When men control water it has the tendency, like oil, as controlled by John D. Rockefeller, to go up in price, never down, and the concensus of opinion of men who have farmed or tried to farm irrigated land is that the system is good for the owners but bad proposition for the farmer. “At the end of the rainbow is a pot of gold.” It was always there, and the man who has made a success farming here may do so in New Mexico, but he is surer to continue on in success here where he knows conditions than he is in any new country. Hoping that more of us will stay here, and that all who may go to New Mexico will live to get back to the New State, I am, Yours Respectfully, E. D. Berry ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- LOCAL NEWS Mr. Higgs of Texas was her this week looking over the town. T. J. Cantrel was down from Kittie Saturday. A. Y. Casey was over from Wide Springs Saturday, shaking hands with friends and talking Democracy. Col. J. F. Shipley was over from Boggy Saturday. Col. Shipley is a man who never idles. He is always doing something. Walter Mitchel was over from his home near Coatsworth Saturday. Mr. Mitchel has been a reader of the Press almost since birth. He is a good farmer and a splendid citizen. W. P. Booker was looking after his farming interests near Belton Sunday. C. L. Galley was down from north of town Saturday. Galley is a hustler and has a good crop this year. E. J. Ball, president of the Peoples National Bank of Wapanucka, was in the city yesterday. Coalgate Courier B. F. Stroud of Wapanucka, was a business visitor in the city the first of the week. Coalgate Courier Mrs. Woods and children of Van Buren, Arkansas came Monday to visit her mother, Mrs. W. N. Barker. G. M. Stobaugh of Copeland was in town Tuesday. Mr. Stobaugh has just harvested a crop of barley which he planted this year as an experiment and he is well pleased with the result. J. G. Riley, J. T. Kelley, W. S. Johnson, Mr. Eaves and Mr. Culberson, took in the big meeting at Wilson above Hunton last Sunday. They report a most pleasant time. F. M. Jackson is having an addition built to the house in east part of town across the street from the residence of W. Z. Gibson. Prof. Buchanan will occupy the house. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Hollenbeck of Denison passed through the city Saturday evening on their way to Viola to look after their property there. It was the first time Mrs. Hollenbeck had been to our city. She was surprised to know that we had such a beautiful town. D. J. Allen, of Olney, was in Wapanucka Saturday on his way home from Folsom where he had been visiting relatives. Mr. Allen paid the Press office a pleasant call while here. He reports crops very good. D. J. Johnson was over from Zenobia Monday. While here he had the Press sent to Willie McClain, Matthiston, Massachusetts. Col. R. McLish was over from his ranch near Zenobia Monday. Capt. Plummer was over from Ash Flat Tuesday. He says that crops are looking fine since the rain. G. M. Stobaugh, who was in town Monday, had just returned from a trip to St. Louis with cattle. Hon. C. A. Skeen will be one of the orators at the Confederate Reunion at Ardmore July 26, 27 and 28th. Mr. M. T. Reynolds was in town Saturday from near Cope. Mr. Reynolds has a small cotton crop on the Roach place which it is said is the finest in the country. Will and Claud O’Neal are preparing to open a first class restaurant in the building on Main Street formerly occupied by J. F. Monk. Dr. Britt, D. A. Kelley and W. S. Wyrick are over at Atoka this week chasing fox with the boys over there. The editor of the Press expects to leave tomorrow for a two weeks visit to the old home in Georgia. During his absence the Press management will be in charge of Ed Clark, an all-round good printer and newspaper man. Any assistance rendered by friends in way of handing in news items will be appreciated. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- MARRIAGE NEAR BYRNE At the home of the bride’s father near Byrne last Sunday evening, Miss Pearl Moore and Mr. Will Taylor were joined together in marriage, Rev. W. P. Holland, pastor of the Baptist church of Wapanucka performing the ceremony. The bride is the charming daughter of W. T. Moore and the groom is the son of Mr. J. H. Taylor. They are both popular young people. They have many friends who extend their best wishes. ============================================================================= The Wapanucka Press, 26 July 1906 MARRIED Mr. W, T, Caple and Mrs. Parrie Lee Caple were rejoined together in the hold bonds of matrimony by Rev. C. E. Robertson, in this city last Friday. Mr. Caple is engaged is the restaurant and butcher business in this city and is a successful business man. Mrs. Caple is an accomplished lady, who has resided in Dallas the greater portion of her life, but has many friends in Wapanucka. The story of this marriage, or second marriage as it is, would perhaps read more like fiction than facts for only twelve months ago Mr. and Mrs. Caple were divorced by law, and the remarriage is the happy termination of whatever disagreement that may have existed between them. May they live long and happy. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- HUNTON NOTES T. J. Harvard is on the sick list this week. Mr. Addison and family and William Dodson and family left for New Mexico last Tuesday. Nat Addison will stay and sell out the crops and stock and then he will go. Elder Sears of Benton County, Arkansas, is visiting his sister, Mrs. Barnett, near Wilson. Miss Blanchard, of Roff, is visiting her brother, Nav. Wilson, ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- JUANITA ITEMS Ed Oxley’s new residence will soon be completed. John Wispool is putting lumber on the ground for his new livery barn. Abe Wolverton and Mr. Wagoner in company with several young ladies from Wapanucka were at the springs Sunday. Mr. Forister and wife, of Hunton spent the day at the springs Sunday. Col. Cups, of Viola was taking in the springs Sunday. Andrew Williams, of Wapanucka was at the springs Sunday. Young Miss West of Wapanucka was at the springs Sunday. Lon Jones and Miss Bessie Hancock were enjoying an outing at the springs Sunday. William Williamson and wife and daughter of Byrne were at the springs Sunday. Mr. Sutton and wife, of Stonewall were spending a few days at Juanita Springs this week. Messrs. Stroud and Bell were looking over Juanita Monday with a view to investing in some property. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- COPE DOTS Cope, July 24 Z. H. Tate wife and daughter returned from Mill Creek on last Saturday where they had been visiting relatives. Miss Minnie Butler returned with them. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Mickle visiting in Tishomingo on last Saturday and Sunday. One of their boys was sick, but they report him much better. James Sinclair, mother and Mrs. Docie Carans went to Hickory last Sunday. Mr. Terry, of Fort Smith, Arkansas is buying fat cattle here. Uncle Bob Kimrough, of near Ego, passed through our town Sunday. Mrs. James Carpenter, of Fannin County, Texas, who has been visiting her son, William Carpenter, of this place, started for home Saturday, her son and family going with her. J. O. Fegett has been on the sick list this week. Jack Young and little daughter have gone to Mill Creek to visit relatives. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- WILSON NO. 2 Ha, Ha! A wedding in our neighborhood. Last evening Mr. Tom Grimes and Miss Floy Blancett were united in marriage by Rev. Anderson. We all wish for them a long and happy life. We know Mr. Blancett is proud of his son-in-law, but Tom has been trying to make some old gentleman proud for the last thirty years. John Curly, an attorney of Lonoke, Arkansas, who has been prospecting ere for several days, left Monday for Ardmore. Charles A. Daney, a prominent Indian Citizen of Voca, was in town last Friday having cards printed announcing his candidacy for sheriff of Blue County. The infant child of Gus Moore, residing near Byrne, died Friday and was buried Saturday in the Moore Cemetery. Rev. Robertson of this city conducting the services. T. J. Ball and daughter, Nora visited relatives here last week. Mr. Ball was also in attendance at the Atoka County Farmers Union. Little Ada Ball accompanied them home. On Sunday night during the electrical storm Jasper Ridley, residing about five miles north of town had a valuable mule killed by lightening. Sam Bailey had a fine horse killed the same night. Mrssrs. J. W. Calhoun, postmaster, and J. A. George of Hunton, were visitors Saturday. Mr. Calhoun has purchased the lease and crop of Mr. George, and the latter will go the Romulus, Oklahoma, where he has secured him a home. A. J. Lowe of near Kittie, was a Wapanucka visitor Saturday. Mr. Lowe stated that he would leave today (Thursday) for Farmer, Texas, when he goes to improve a farm he purchased sometime ago. He reports prospects for crops very good. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIFFICULTY AT EGO Ike Springs and W. D. Hill became entangled in a difficulty at Ego Sunday evening over a game of dominoes, and as a result Springs is not expected to live and Hill has an arm bandaged up. From the best information we can obtain, it seems there was some dispute over the game, when Springs made at Hill with a knife lacerating his left arm in an ugly manner. It is said Hill gathered himself up an arm load of pop bottles and began bursting them over the head of Springs, fracturing his skull. W. S. Johnson and Henry Ince went out Monday and brought Hill to town. Springs was not arrested on account of his being unable to travel. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANELL – GOODWELL Married – Miss Cora Chanell and Mr. Aaron Goodwell were married by Rev. W. P. Holland, at the residence of Mr. Holland, in this city, Sunday morning. The wedding was a quiet affair, only the relatives and immediate friends of the young people being present. Mr. and Mrs. Goodwell will make their home four miles northeast of town. The Press joins their many friends in wishing them much joy and prosperity. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTES ALONG THE WAY J. J. Thompson, who lives on the Viola or Coatsworth road west of town, decided that the Press was a good thing for his family for he knows that it is a fit paper to take into his home, not being sensational, nor does it ever contain anything vulgar or pander to the lower element in any way. J. B. Chapman, C. F. Willis and R. L. Box of Viola, were additional subscribers. W. A. Carpenter and B. F. Worcester, of Cope. Also believe in the Press as it is to go to them for a year. J. C. Harris, who has bee in the Wells Valley neighborhood, is going back to Barnesville, Alabama, and takes the Press for a year, as does W. M. During, R. L. Newton and J. L. McMillan. Up in the Connerville district J. R. Jones, J. J. Menyard, G. W. Armstrong, H. J. Arnett and W. H. Evans are now subscribers to the paper, and it also goes to Mrs. E. E. Blair, at Carson, Texas and N. S. McCracken at Union, Texas. Ye scribe was at Connerville, Belton, Coatsworth, Viola and Cope this past week and is glad to report on the general excellence and condition of the corps in all these localities. Respectfully, E. D. Berry ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- LOCAL NEWS Mrs. W. H. Summitt of Atoka visited Mrs. W. M. Dunn last week. Duke McCully of Caddo, is visiting his uncle, W. P. Booker, this week. Mrs. L. B. Rutherford returned Sunday from a visit to Coalgate. H. D. Robinson is visiting his mother in Denton, Texas this week. Mrs. A. A. Taylor, of Wapanucka, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. B. Loyd. Benington Tribune Allan Cravat of Caotsworth, was a business visitor the later part of the last week. Alex Schmidt, exporter of logs and lumber and representing Theo Francke Erben, of Berlin, Germany, transacted business in this city last week. Dan McLaughlan, Dick Brown, Eph Sanders and Mr. Frazier of Coalgate, were business visitors Friday and Saturday. John Estelle, of Utica, is visiting F. M. Jackson. Mr. Estelle has bought property here and will move in the near future. The little daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Skeen has been quite ill this week. Dr. Y. M. Miller is on the sick list this week. W. E. Morris, of Fillmore, was a business caller in town Tuesday. Rev. C. H. Holland spent Saturday and Sunday with his brother here. J. W, Hickman spent Sunday with his parents six miles north of town. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Creekmore is quite sick this week. John O’Neal and wife, of near Bryne, were visitors in the city Sunday. Mrs. Pat Grigsby an family are visiting in Ada this week. Mrs. Witherspoon, from near Byrne, was a visitor the latter part of last week. Mrs. W. S. Wyrick and children returned last Thursday from a visit to McKinney, Texas. Mrs. M. E. Ausbrook and family moved to Wapanucka Friday from Hunton. E. J. Fannin, clerk of the U. S. Court at McAlester, was in the city Monday. S. L. Barnes, cashier of the Peoples National Bank, is on the sick list this week. Mrs. A. A. Taylor returned yesterday from Benington where she was visiting her parents. N. B. Clay, a young farmer of the vicinity of Copeland, called on the Press while in town Saturday. Miss Emma Hampton and sister, Mrs. Hickey, of Oconee, were visitors in the city Saturday. Joe Riley and T. W. Duke left last Saturday for St. Louis, where they go to purchase their fall stocks. Mrs. W. H. Ball and little son returned Monday from Corsicana, Texas where they visited relatives. Mrs. M. O. Hendrix and family of Hacket City, Arkansas are visiting B. F. Stroud, Mrs. Hendrix’s brother. A little daughter arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Walton Friday morning. Mother and babe doing well. A fine baby girl arrived at the home of Doctor and Mrs. Branham Wednesday of last week. Mother and babe doing well. Joe Simms and wife and Ira Turner and family of Jesse, visited relatives southwest of town the first of the week. Mrs. M. E. Montgomery of Aledo, Texas, is visiting her brother, S. N. Sparks, who resides three miles north of town. Mrs. K. C. Griffin, of Temple, Texas, is visiting her son, Rev. Holland, of this city, whom she has not seen for sixteen years. Green Hinchey and family, of Wynnewood, who have been visiting relatives in this city for the past week, left for Hunton Saturday. Hon. C. A. Skeen and lady drove to the picnic Thursday where Mr. Skeen made a speech. From there they drove on to the Skeen farm, on Blue and then to Roff. =============================================================================