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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1902
Page
7
Ardmore voters will decide Patton and Weave bond on October 3 while Muskogee barbers organize. Wewoka plans a lottery to dispose of lots. Lawton schools open with about a thousand pupils. Tahlequah hosts a Modern Woodman camp. Chickasha to hold a four day October street fair.
A Day County girl was arrested after hurling oaths at a person. She wrote down five distinct cuss words used during the incident.
Beaver County touts the lowest tax rate in Oklahoma, claiming taxes are lower than territorial levels. El Reno predicts forming an automobile club before Oklahoma City secures a meeting with the “blue demons.” Jim Gardner near Perry was thrown from his horse while returning from the thresher, suffering serious injuries.
At Nardin the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen will run a fair with profits funding a new hall. The W C T U territorial convention meets in Perry starting September 18. Cleo plans a three day strip opening picnic September 16 to 18. John W Clark of El Reno has been admitted to practice before the interior department in Washington. Ponca City schools board considers the school bond proposition. Ozark Central construction starts in Muskogee with the right of way displacing several residences.
A Dover livery barn owned by Rober Turner burned with nine horses, buggies, grain and belongings valued around 3500 dollars. Cause unknown. Nearby, Fred Beck reports an upland farm near Yukon yielded 6000 bushels of oats last spring and 1800 dollars from market. In Antlers, 16 year old Paul Clark died instantly from accidental discharge involving a man in the hands of another 16 year old, Lee Farbanks. Thomas Lilly digging a well near Durant found a ten foot deep site with a petrified old bible now on display in Durant.
Two Oklahoma City youths, Joe Wilson and George Moore, were arrested at El Reno on charges of purloining a saddle and a set of harness. Both are reported as 12 years old.
Report says Swift & Co and Armour & Co are negotiating to buy all major Texas oil mills and run them with meat packing interests. Public notices have announced mills already acquired, linking cottonseed oil production to lard and cattle fattening. Control of key mills is said to be moving into large meat packing firms amid unsettled ownership.
In Cleveland a two billion dollar railroad alliance forms between the Vanderbilt interests and the Pennsylvania system. The deal aims to dominate traffic from Chicago to St. Louis, the Great Lakes and Ohio River regions, and extend toward the Atlantic coast.
W. D. Oliver was accidentally shot near Alex, Arkansas. He and two companions tried to help a drunken friend home when the man, armed with a 44 calibre revolver, fired during a scuffle. Oliver suffered multiple wounds in the abdomen and leg as the ball ricocheted through.
Robert W. Billingsley and his 16 year old son were attacked by three wild cats while cutting corn on the bottom land eight miles east of Anadarko. The boy fled, leaving his father to fight the animals for nearly an hour. Billingsley killed one cat and wounded another. His right hand was lacerated and he suffered scratches on his head and shoulders.
Supreme Court ruling voids city elections in three new county seat towns. J A Bynum, defeated by John Herold last April, dons star and uniform to contest the marshal job. Herold, elected last spring, vows removal if not proper. both claim they deserve the post as controversy unresolved.
A two story frame Indian school at the Otoe agency twenty miles southeast burned rapidly destroying the main building, laundry, bath house and outbuildings with contents. About one hundred pupils and staff lived in the main building. the superintendent’s house survived.
The first patent filed for record in the recorder of deeds was for the town of Temple. The largest fee to date was for land in Waurika, with recording charges over $58. Fees accrue per page and per index as each lot is indexed.
The Murphy-McMichael land dispute, linked to two murders in Oklahoma City and costly court battles, is slated for further hearing as an appeal to the United States Supreme Court is filed. Attorney Clarke of Oklahoma City recently spent two days organizing testimony for the submission.
A Kiowa and Comanche country homesteader seeks a permanent injunction against Oklahoma Southern Gas Oil and Mining Co to stop entry for oil and mineral prospecting. The case tests land jurisdiction until patents issued and minerals prior to homesteader entry. It could affect about 5000 claims in the new country.
A collection of aphorisms on character pride and human folly. The speaker contrasts practical action with ignorance notes and laments on envy, friendship, religion, and self awareness. The tone resembles a moralizing 19th century editorial index of maxims.
A U S and Creek nation appraisal commission led by J C Williams H C Kensler D C Backerstock and G W Grayson visits Creek lands to set final values under the Dawes Commission plan. Maximum Creek land price set at 6 50 per acre. If allotments differ from standard values land or cash adjustments will equalize holdings.
Attorney General Bell may not pursue action against foreign corporations for failing to file anti-trust affidavits. Many delinquents have since submitted their affidavits to the secretary of state, citing delays and oversights as reasons for the lag.
A Baltimore News column offers wry aphorisms on human foibles and social behavior. It notes differences of opinion persist even in fiat and jokes about wealth, rent, and modern luxuries. The quips touch on patriotism, attention to others, and the limits of public virtue.
A jabbing notebook fragment mocks calls for wealth redistribution and utopian ideas. It jokes about a clash of “old” and “young” fools and parodies Christian Science solutions applied to literary and public notes.
In Kansas women often seek what they cannot find. The piece suggests that a girl accepting soda water from a young man and leaving with him is viewed as encouraging him. It condemns the effort some girls spend preparing to marry as excessive and shameful for a conscientious man to witness.
Miss Vera Scoffern, daughter of Mayor Scoffern, is chosen queen of the Chickasha Carnival and Street Fair to be held October 1 to 4 by a vote of 3 087 to 3 086 over Miss Kate Remington.
A Greensboro Georgia Presbyterian pastor Rev G Smith and elder M J Rossman endorse Peruna citing cures for catarrh and kidney issues. Letters to The Peruna Medicine Co detail family relief and encourage others to seek Dr Hartman’s free advice.
County Attorney Robert Robertson filed in district court appeals from county commissioners actions on August 22 to buy eleven steel bridges. Contracts split between Leavenworth Bridge Co and Missouri Valley for seven and four bridges respectively, totaling $12,000 with piers bulkheads and approaches. Taxpayers filed petitions supporting the challenge.
The South McAlester Capital reports a man in Indian Territory promoting compressed booze tablets. He claims the tablets contain all properties of whiskey when dissolved in water and may evade revenue laws. If embraced, demand at town pumps could surge.
The piece argues that people should do less for friends to avoid exhausting them with trivial demands. It contrasts reserved civility with relaxed treatment for casual acquaintances and notes the withering effect of venting irritations on close friends. It laments overfamiliarity and urges gentler, steadier courtesy.
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