Cyanide Gun Controversy Spurs Settlement Of Forty-Year Feud
A state predator control meeting in Oklahoma discusses the cyanide gun controversy between professional trappers and wolf hunters. A six month truce for hunters and year round use by trappers aims to ease decades of tension, amid rising predator kills and farm losses across counties.
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4B Ranch Lodge
Oklahoma
Washington
Texas
Norton Minor
Oklahoma Predator Control Program
Jack McPherridge
Dale Armitage
Bowring
C. L. Jones
Cushing
Minor
House Fish & Game Committee
Wolf Hunter’s Association
WMU 75th Anniversary Marks Daylong Rally
Twelve churches in the Banner Association joined Ada Ross area WMU units for a First Baptist Ross celebration of the organization’s 75th birthday. The event featured era fashion, historical skits, a baby nursery, an antique room display, and a luncheon with lavender and white decor.
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Banner Association
Woman’s Missionary Union
First Baptist Church
Velma Griffith
Iva Burleson
Roff
WMU
Anita Aycox
Jerry Queen
John Roy Harris
Beulah Hathaway
Vernice Lucas
Jean Nabors
Louise Yeargan
Mary Laseman
George McComas
Rofs
Nabors
Southern Mission Board
Hill
Allen
Fellowship Hall
Brydie Coston
Callie Simpson
Anna Hayes
Ida Hendrix
Rosa Tinsley
Margaret Clampitt
Ida Potts
Ollie Laseman
Ethel Reed
Barbara Bardin
Judy Queen
Fifty four years since Ada mass lynching remains a guarded history
On April 19 1909 four men J B Jim Miller Jesse West Joe Allen and B B Burwell were hanged by a masked mob in Ada Oklahoma after the Bobbitt murder case. The event followed a town feud and a dramatic courthouse raid with guards overpowered and no indictments issued.
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Oklahoma
Morelock
Ada
J. B
Jim” Miller
Jesse West
Joe Allen
B.B. Burwell
A. A
Gus” Bobbitt
U. S
Allen
West
Pottawatomie County
Canadian River
Canadian
Tex
Bobbitt
Lawrence
Bob Ferguson
Ferguson
Ada Evening News
Cleveland
Jim Miller
Oscar Peeler
Miller
Texas
Fort Worth
Hicks
Oklahoma City
Pontotoc County
Burwell
Peeler
Power Company
Nestor
Goynes
Lee West
Terrell
Judge Terrell
L. T. Walters
el Paso Morning Times
J. B. Miller
the Times
Tennis Court Draws Allen Residents and Plans More
The Allen park committee raises funds and volunteers to build a second tennis court after high demand. A film fundraiser chapter supported park lighting and future improvements while local schools use the court for physical education.
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Allen
Allen Chamber of Commerce
Harve Butler Jr
L. C. Cozad Jr
Dale Kimbrell
Leon Kidwell
Virgil Guy
Guy
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McCarty
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