Local notes and town happenings in Hart area
Rain brings cheer as fuel costs rise and new developments unfold. A subscription school opens at the schoolhouse while Public free school starts October 6. D E McGee attends monument unveiling. lease transfers, new bank in Richey building, Primmary Goods Co. auction, and various family visits and social calls are reported.
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Hce
D. E. McGee
Johnson County
Woodmen
L. L. Edwards
Watson Sealy Place
Billie Cuffee
Francis
Allen
Blacksmith Perkins
Richey
Primmary Goods Co
James Edwards
M. C. B. Coffee
H. R. Hochstrasse
Center-Lanham Happenings and Local News Bits
Rain on the 10th ends five month drought. cotton picking paused while turnips sowing begins. Pontotoc could be supplied from this area if the crop prospers. Mr. and Mrs. Stone welcome a baby girl. Farmers may look to Messrs Carl and Bud Garret and Mr Norvis for fodder. Wetumka’s C G Pharaoh visited Ada with his daughter and J D Gaar to see Mrs Gaar. R L Saunders was in Ada on Saturday. Miss Ethel Gaar visited home then returned to the Normal with her father, who serves as a junior at court this week. Semper Idem.
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Mrs. Stone
Carl
Bud Garret
Norvis
C. G. Pharoah
Wetumka
Ada
J. D. Gaar
Semper Idem
Egypt Items: Social Calls Recap
Mrs. Marcum called on Mrs. Treat Monday morning. Miss Clara Agee called on Mrs. Per due Monday evening.
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Mrs. Marcum
Mrs. Treat
Death Angel visits community as Grandpa Parker passes
The obituary notes the death of Grandpa Parker from lung hemorrhage. He was a Civil War veteran and his remains were shipped to an Arkansas burial place. The item also records a string of local notices including births, visits, and upcoming school and church activities, with various residents’ movements and health updates.
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Grandpa Parker
Ark
Rain Delays Winter. Local News Snippets Mix
Weather turns cool with rain as Deputy Buckholt and R M Burnett capture Henry Dusterdick and move him to Pauls Valley. Cotton transported by Dave Troutmaff to Roff. Death of infant of Mr and Mrs J R Minser. burial at Hart cemetery. sympathy offered. Harry Beal visits sister Mrs W G Walls. Deputy Sheriff Hood active in Hart. Johnnie Southerland and mother from near Prairie View spend Saturday night.
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Buckholt
Pauls Valley
R. M. Burnett
Hickory
Henry Dusterdick
Dave Troutmaff
Roff
J. R. Minser
Hart Cemetery
Harry Beal
Coalgate
W. G. Walls
Sheriff Hood
Hart
Johnnie Southerland
Near Prairie View
Light Ridge Notes Weather and Local Happenings
A week of good rain eased drought in Light Ridge. The McCoy family attended a burial at Ing Ridge cemetery Monday evening for George Hilliard. Roff visited his brother Monday night. Dalley’s younger son Austin shows improvement. Tom Davis and his daughter suffer typhoid fever. Tipton courted at Ada Tuesday. H Coffey tears down an old barn for a new one. A story from Galway Bend ends with a big boy visiting Saturday evening.
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Tom McCoy
George Hilliard
Ing Ridge Cemetery
Roff
Austin
M. R. Dalley
Tom Davis
Tipton
Ada
H. Coffey
Galway Bend
Minor Seeks Majority Rights in Pontotoc County
In the district court of Pontotoc County Oklahoma Worley Buckelew applies through his next friend M L Buckelew for a decree conferring majority rights to enable him to contract and transact business as if he were of age The petition is filed September 3 1913 with first publication September 2tw
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Worley Buckelew
M. L. Buckelew
Pontotoc County
State of Oklahoma
Notice of Application for Majority Rights in Pontotoc OK
Ralph McMillan and Claude McMillan minors by their mother and next friend Mrs Ivy McMillan will file in the Pontotoc County District Court on October 4 1913 a petition to grant them majority rights. The petition seeks authority for each minor to contract and conduct business as if legally of age.
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State OF Oklahoma
Pontotoc County
Ralph McMillan
Claude McMillan
Ivy McMillan
Singers Meet at Summers Chapel Pontotoc Co Singing Convention
The Pontotoc County Singing convention gathers at Summers Chapel four and a half miles south of Maxwell on October 25 and 26. Noted musicians expected. free transport info available from Mrs. Callie Templeman Vaness Arvey R. Selph Ada or Lannie Black Stonewall.
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Pontotoc Co
Summers Chapel
Maxwell
Callie Templeman
Vaness
Arvey R. Selph
Ada
Lannie Black
Stonewall
Notice to settle debts with Rives at bank
All parties indebted to J. W. Davis must settle with C. H. Rives at the M. and P. State Bank when paper matures. J. W. DAVIS 22-wtf.
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J. W. Davis
C. H. Rives
M. & P. State Bank
Cotton Receipts Rise as Market Holds at 13 Cents
About 1 200 bales of cotton were received today as prices edge up to 13 ¼ cents for the best lots. The county yard logged 1 132 bales by 2 30 this afternoon and round bale gin output stood at 130 bales, totaling 1 197 bales for the season to date, with more in prospect if dry weather continues.
Drilling Resumes in Allen Oil Well Field
M. B. Ronaghey returns from Allen praising the oil prospectors for a full field test. The well, started earlier, reached 200 feet before quicksand forced adjustments. An 18 inch drill is now in use with a contract depth of 2,500 feet, the rig capable of 3,500 if needed.
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Allen Public School
Directors to Form County District Branches Meeting
Pontotoc County branch of the Eastern Oklahoma Agricultural Association calls all school directors to form district branches in their districts on Saturday September 20 and elect delegates for the county meeting at the City Hall on Monday September 22 at 2 o clock. If a district lacks an organizer, a proxy director should attend. J R Walby secretary treasurer.
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Pontotoc County
Eastern Oklahoma Agricultural Association
Haly
O’cloock
J. R. “Walby
Sec
Treas
Burnett trial overrun delays for Sapulpa defendants
Sapulpa Okla Sept 15 The second Burnett brothers bank trial in district court began before Special Judge Frank Matthews. After a bench warrant for the absent stenographer the court fined the offender five dollars for contempt and the jury was discharged and the cases set over to the January term by agreement of all attorneys.
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Sapulpa
Okla
Burnett Brothers
Exbankers
Frank Matthews
Altus
Wade Stanfield
Charles West
Matthews
King
West
Mathews
Two Communications Left Over This Week
The News notes a poem and song were crowded out this week and will be published next week without fail.
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Bessie Danley
Walter Ray
Jud Anderson
Belle
Rena Perdue
Mary Anderson
Jones Chapel
Leater Palmer
Myrtle Palmer
Mrs. Burgess
Mrs. Palmer
Mr. Perdue
Marie, Wilma
Lealie Westbrook
Ora
Amy Vaden
Willie Marcum
Roy Perdue
Mrs. Marcus
Walker
J. H. Southerland
James Thompson
Jim
J. M. Thompson
Marvin
Mr. Capp Overstreet
Whitehead
Oklo
Dave Troutman
Stratford
Center
Lanham
Egypt
Latta
Mrs. Simpson
Mrs. H. Payne
Allen News
W. B. Toney
Dustin
Orel Busby
Muskogee
D. L. Richardson
Arkansas
R. E. Brians
W. C. Threlkeld
California
J. L. Cashner
Calvin
Minnie Graham
Missouri
T. H. Cannon
Effie
Edna Barnett
Durant
Presbyterian College
Alma Daughtery
Col
Lege
Honest Bill
Douglas Tomlinson
San Antonio Express
Bexar County
The
Light
Commissioners’ Court
Chamber of Commerce
Corn Club
Tomato Club
Bexar
Samuel D. Bawden
Industrial Experiment Station
Telugu
India
W. F. Procter
Texas
J. L. Quicksall
Hand
Procter
Quicksall
ONE Price Clothing
Mia
Sherwin-Williams
S.W.P
Gwin & Mays Drug Co
S. W
Allen Oil
M. B. Ronaghey
Burnett
Old Hampshire
Bonn
News Printing
Ada, Oklahoma
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