The Comanche News 7 Sep 1908 - Stephens County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Nita E. 20 Nov 2005 Return to Stephens County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/stephens/stephens.htm ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DZB.2ACE/1111 Some Items The Comanche News Comanche, Indian Territory (Comanche, Stephens County, Oklahoma) Friday, September 7, 1908 Ice Trusted Busted El Reno, Ok., Sept. 3-- The ice trust in El Reno is a thing of the past…. Large Apple H. L. DEATON presented this office with a very large apple, measuring 13 inches, grown in the orchard of J. H. GAMBLIN who resides on his farm a few miles northeast of town. The fruit of most excellent flavor and shows what can be accomplished in this country in the matter of fruit growing. First Bale W. H. MEADE managed to pick enough cotton between showers last week to make a standard bale. He brought it in Wednesday afternoon from his farm near MADDEN Grove in Comanche County, as it was ginned at D. W. HARKEY's new gin. This was the first bale of the season to come to Comanche and was sold to H. A. HALL for 9 ½ cents and a premium made up by our businessman of $28. Died MRS. J. N. CRAIG at her home on the JOHNSON farm, three miles east of town, of pulmonary trouble, early Wednesday morning. Interment at the Comanche cemetery Thursday. Dangerously Hurt Mr. and Mrs. B. NIXON were here last week visiting their daughter, MRS. J. B. MAJORS and left last Friday morning. At Bridgeport they were to back to their home at Poolville, Texas. Mrs. Nixon had taken a seat in the hack waiting for Mr. Nixon when the driver stepped away leaving the team hitched to the hack and no one in charge. No sooner had he gotten out of reach of the team than it started to rung. Mrs. Nixon was thrown about in the back unable to get out and was badly bruised and injured that her life is despaired. Her brother, DR. NIXON of loco, left this morning for the home of their mother there they hope to arrive before death ensues. Long Distance All persons who are not leasing phones will be required to use a central office phone when using long distance wires. W.M. DIEHL Large Tomato MRS. G. W. MELLISH received from MRS. W. H. BROWN a mammoth tomato which weighted 22 ounces and measured 15 inches in circumference. Killed The two year old daughter of GEORGE BANDY living 5 miles west of Loco on the A. T. SINGER place was killed by a gun. He Gets Wise TOM GREEN, rural mail carrier, has a new remedy to make a balky horse go. When Tom's horse quits, Tom just props his feet up on the front of the hack and wait until the spirit moves the horse. In the meantime he will get wise to the doings of the surrounding country by reading The Comanche News. Diphtheria The little son of S. E. PARSON has the diphtheria. DR. BARTLEY is the attending physician. Bids Oak College School District wants a storm cellar 8 ft. x 20 ft., 6 ft. deep with door in both ends, substantially constructed. Also 12 cords of wood 2 ft long corded at the school house in piles 4 x 4 x 8. Lowest bid. E. V. EVERLY, A. S. PECK, J. F. FERGUSON, board. Local Columns MRS. W. B. GOODMAN is on the sick list. MRS. R. H. HUNTON and children are visiting relatives in Texas. TOM CHERRYHOLME, a stockman of Jack County, Texas is here on business. He is a brother of MRS. PETE STANLEY. MISS MINNIE WYNNE of Cement, who has been visiting her aunt, MRS. H. L. DEATON, has returned home. She was accompanied by MISS ROSA DEATON who will visit there for a few days. J. R. QUALLS, who lives in the Deer Creek community east of here , is waiting on certain young Miss who arrived at his home a few days ago. The neighbors say Bob actually fell out with the stock on the place because they couldn't call him pap. It's a girl and came to make happy the home of R.W. KING this morning. Rich says, “Ice or no ice, I'm going to stay with this baby.” He told someone that it weighed 38 lbs and now a lot of fellows are wanting to know of Rich if he weighed her on his ice scales. KARL HUNT, who has been visiting at Mineral Wells, came home last night. MISS LEE, who will teach in the high school here, arrived from Temple, Texas. MONROE CARTER of Comanche county has accepted a position at the Fair Store. P. B. "PAT" ROGERS of Lawton who came here for the past few days returned home. Owing to the fact that school begins next Monday, the high school building is being scrubbed and disinfected today. MISS MABEL LEACH, accompanied by her mother, left this morning for Fort Worth where she will enter the St. Ignatius Academy. MRS. BAXTER PENDLETON, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. PATTY, returned home to Altus. MISS CAMERON BOONE of Fort Worth has wired J. W. B. NICHOLS that she will be here Monday to take charge of the department of oratory in the high school. W. F. JOHNSON and son DAN of the Choctaw Nation were here yesterday looking after lands owned by them in the vicinity. MRS. WILLIAMS, who has been visiting relatives here, returned home to Geromino. She was accompanied by her mother, GRANDMA WEBB, who will visit there for a few weeks. A. P. SCHNEIDER of Ryan was here. STEVE BROWN of Rush Springs was here yesterday. P. H. PECK returned from Fort Worth. JIM HESS of Comanche County was here. CHARLEY BAILEY came home from Bowie. A crowd of young folks spent yesterday at the Indian camps on Beaver Creek. DADDY LOVEJOY and family spent the day with friends east of town. HOWARD GOLDEN came from Sugden and spent the day with his parents. JACK RAMSEY and ROY BODENHAMER spent the day with friends in the country. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. PURDOM and Mr. and Mrs. WARREN JEANES of Duncan were here yesterday. WALTER GOLDEN left for Pocassett where he has accepted a position for the coming season. HON. W. H. ADMIRE visited the Woodman lodge at Diamond school house last night. MISS BONNIE MASSEY is on the sick list. MRS. RUDD of Duncan is here visiting her daughter, MRS. S. E PARSONS. E. R. WORKS and wife returned from their summer's outing in Colorado. MISS RENA BUNCH returned from Fort Worth. D. S. LIGON went to Fort Worth and Dallas on business. BEN BAKER, traveling salesman for El Reno Wholesale Grocery Co., is here and quite sick. The News is very much indebted to J. M. LITTLE for some very fine, home grown red peppers. Our city marshal was soliciting yesterday for a widow south of town with a family in indigent circumstances. CHARLIE KING returned from Guthrie where he took his daughter who will attend school there this year. MISS TENNIE SLAYTON, who has been visiting the family of S. SLOAN for several months, will return to her home in South Dakota. MISS CORA BUNCH returned from Anadarko where she has been employed by the government as a stenographer. W. H. REYNOLDS has purchased a very fine Kimball piano from P. B. ROGERS, traveling salesman for Frederickson-Kroh Music Co. of Oklahoma City. W. J. GREEN is moving his goods in his building one door north of the News office. R. M. GOLDEN of Addington was a business caller and left an order for stationery. MRS. CATTERALL will go to Fort Worth to enter a hospital for treatment. HUGH COOK, who moved to Knox County, Texas last fall, arrived here to visit friends and relatives. He reports good crops and prosperous conditions in that country. A. N. FREEMAN was on the sick list. He ain't going to work any more for a week, at least that how J. L. HOUSTON thinks now. It's a girl, born Wednesday. ----------------------------------------------- Friday, September 14, 1906 Fishing Trip E. O. SLOAN, AUTIE V. CAMPBELL, RAY WALTERS, JOHN CAMPBELL, JACK RAMESEY, ROY BODENHAMER, PAUL YOUNG, S. G SHACKELFORD/SHACKLEFORD, DUMAS MASSEY, BILL DEATON, and R. A. BOGGESS spent Saturday and Sunday hunting and fishing at the Washington lake east of town. Judging from the boys' looks this morning they have had lots of fish, squirrel and squirrel--- Murder Near Oswalt Cheek, Sept. 11-- Late yesterday evening JIM MARTIN was shot and fatally wounded by ELDRIDGE GASOWAY, JOHN BANKS and BILL ATHELHOLT at Oswalt, a town about 3 miles from here. It seems that there has been some hard feelings among these men for some time past about some stock. Yesterday, Banks rode to the house of Martin and asked Martin to get on his horse and come with him as he wanted to straighten out the stock business. Martin was lying in a room on a bed and told Banks that he was sick and unable to ride a horse. Banks told him to come on that he wanted to fix up the difference between and be done with it. Martin told him that he did not want any trouble with them, but he would go with him. It is said it was with much difficulty that Martin mounted his horse, being so sick he could hardly stand. After Martin and banks had gone a piece from the house, Banks spurred his horse and rode ahead, told Gasoway and Atelholt that Martin was coming and they waited for him. Just as soon as Martin came into view, he was fired upon with the above results. Last night about 8 or 9, Martin died and all efforts to get the marshal's office at Ardmore pr! oved useless. The officers were telephoned this morning and it is thought they will be able to reach here this morning. Arrest Millionaires Tulsa, Sept. 11-- Deputy Marshal HANNA of Salpulpa tonight arrested BOB and MIKE GLENN and FRANK BUXTON for the murder of CHARLES E. HARPER three weeks ago. The Glenns are the owners of the Glenn oil pool, the largest in the world and are rated as millionaires. The crime occurred three weeks ago in Buxton's restaurant in the field after a row over a poker game. Downfall of a Hustler El Reno, Sept. 11--J. C. OSBORNE came here three weeks ago arrayed in royal raiment. He stopped at the KERFOOT Hotel, rode around in an automobile, bought SAM PEACH's railroad and leased BELLAMY's lake for pleasure purposes. He was arrested Sunday, lodged in jail, and left with the sheriff for Mangum today charged with obtaining money under false pretenses. No More Booze for Awhile The doors at Edgewood, the line saloon, were closed last night at 12:00, the license having expired. The proprietor, J. B. LEACH, hopes to open again October 2. The prohibitionist in the same township have made a hard fight against the renewal of the license and it is a question who will win out. Farmer Killed by Train Norman, Sept. 10-- WILLIAM HARTMAN, a farmer living north of town, was run into by a Santa Fe train last night and killed. Hartman was walking home and from the way in which he was found, it is thought he sat down on the track and went to sleep. A. M. BLALOCK of Comanche county is here. ED STANLEY who is at Mineral Wells is still very sick. JOHN HUDLOW has recently added several new buggies to his livery stock. A. W. SLAVER, our accommodating Rock Island agent, is reported on the sick list. F. A. BROWN is loading a car of hogs this morning for the Fort Worth market. The Deer Creek community is represented here today by M.D. BUTLER and CHARLES BOULWARE. TOM BEGLEY reports the carpenter work on the ice plant almost finished until the machinery is installed. W. M. BYRD of Comanche county left last night for northern Kansas to attend the funeral of his brother-in-law. TOM CHERRYHOLMES of Jack County, Texas, who is here to buy cattle, said, “It is strange how people will raise the price when they think you want to buy.” I. THOMPSON is building ten new stalls in H. L. DEATON's livery barn. Uncle Levi said he intended to have enough room to accommodate the horses for his ever increasing trade. JOHN HUNT, JOHN MYERS and A. R. TANKERSLEY went to Woolsey today to assist delegates from Sugden and Woolsey to choose a democratic candidate for the constitutional convention. W. B. GOODMAN was here from Ryan. Attorney GILBERT is here today as attorney for J. P. MILLER in his case of bankruptcy. MRS. MARTIN who has been visiting friends here went to Waurika today. SLIP FREEMAN who came over from Lawton will return. MR. PATTERSON of Frenton, Missouri, formerly a citizen of Comanche county, is here for a few days. MRS. M. U. CLARK is expected to return from Cleburne, Texas. CONSTABLE MCFALL of Duncan was here. MISS HATTIE WAYMIRE of Addington is visiting here today. Mr. and Mrs. CHELF of Comanche county are here. MISS BERTHA RIVES is rejoicing over the new piano. SAM FLIPPEN is here visiting his mother and sister for a few days. MISSES BELLE and ETHEL BOONE of Addington are visiting here. MRS. W. M. CROWDER of Weatherford, Texas is visiting Mrs. R. W. KING. Mr. and Mrs. JOE SPARKS of Comanche county are shopping here today. Mr. and Mrs. J. A . CAMPBELL visited friends in Comanche county. The Comanche Rubes played Waurika yesterday. The game stood 9 to 10 in favor of Comanche. H. W. DIXON left for Ohio on business. H. L. DEATON accompanied his mother to Rush Spring to visit her daughter. G. S. YATES JR tried to run over 1st baseman at Waurika yesterday and now has a displace kneecap. MR. UPHAM of Ryan, who has been visiting his daughter MRS. LEON GARDNER went to Oklahoma City. J. P. MILLER, formerly a citizen of Comanche, now residing at Pawhuska, is here visiting relatives. MRS. PAT CLARK returned from Cleburne, Texas where she has been taking treatment for rheumatism for several months. MISS BESSIE PAYN of Chickasha, who has been visiting here for several weeks, left Sunday for Duncan where she will visit a few days. She was accompanied by MISS STELLA MORRIS. MRS. J. C. PRINGEY of Kendrick, Oklahoma, has been appointed postmaster to succeed her husband, whose resignation was compulsory because of the office he holds as chairman of the Lincoln county republican committee. PATTY RAN made a business trip to Ardmore. EARL CLARK came home from Duncan. MISS LALLA LEACH who has been on the sick list is better. MR. FLECT of Fort Worth is visiting his brother-in-law, JOHN STANLEY. MRS. J. A MCAFEE who has been on the sick list is better. G. L. CROWE of Duncan was in town today. He was en route to Loco to do some stone work. R. L. GIBSON, president of the Bank of Sugden, is here today on business. MRS.J. B. LEACH who has been visiting relatives in Texas returned home. Dr. I. T. BOND has just finished weatherboarding and painting his house and now has one of Comanche's coziest homes. JACK RAMSEY is organizing a suit club this afternoon. This is a cheap way for several men to get a good suit made by good tailors. OTTO BROWN came in from Fort Worth, Texas this morning. He has accepted a position with the Western National Bank at that place and will return this afternoon to begin work in the morning. It is reported here that G. H. TRAMMELL, former manager for WILLIAM CAMERON Lumber Co. at this place but now manager for the MORRIS Lumber Co. at Chillicothe, Texas, will take charge of a lumber yard at Marlow the last of this week. T. J. SMITH went to Chickasha. L. D. WRIGHT of Ryan is here today. T. E. LILLEY of Duncan was here,. J. W. B. NICHOLS visited Duncan. There is a new girl reported to be at the home of GEORGE A. RIDDLES. GABE YATES who had his kneecap misplaced is able to walk today. BEN BAKER, traveling for the El Reno Wholesale Grocery Co., was here .\ SAM FLIPPEN returned home. ROBERT WILLIS returned last night from Scammons, Kansas where he visited friends and relatives. MRS. W. B. GOODMAN and little son HARLEY will leave for Ryan to visit relatives. MISS LILLIE LOVEJOY, who has been visiting friends and relatives at Bowie, Texas, returned home. MRS. F. A BROWN and children left for Chicago and other points to visit relatives. DR.. ERNEST L. DEEDS, ophthalmologist, recently of St. Louis but now of Duncan, is located at the Commercial for a few days. Lightning Destroys Wheat Crop Okeene, Sept. 12--HENRY LAUBAUCH, living ½ mile east of Roosevelt school house, lost a stack of wheat which was struck by lightning. During the same storm, GODFREY HENNERGARD, who lives in the same neighborhood, lost three horses struck by lightning. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Stephens County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/stephens/stephens.htm