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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1908
Page
2
The notice informs that advertising rates for Beaver City are published upon request. It notes reasonable prices and that the notice is entered at the Beaver post office as second class matter.
The directory lists the U S Land Office officials and a schedule of district meetings on first Mondays in January April July and October along with January March May July September and November dates. It notes a new widow’s pension bill offering twelve dollars monthly to widows married before June 27 1890 and expansion to new widows and eligible orphans with removal of the income or property restriction.
Hazy OCR describes a craft pattern for a Merry Widow hat using a cart wheel frame and improvised basket cover, then decorating with flowers and grasses. The text lists many flower names and colors as part of the proposed crown embellishments.
The note describes decorative elements for a Merry Widow hat including blue and brown Peas, lavender ribbon edged with cerise, and loops on the crown. It suggests bamboo for stiffening and a central garden pate buckle. If ribbon is unavailable, paddles or other items can substitute.
Oklahoma shows extensive resources with strong farm and mineral outputs. It leads in brown ore and ranks highly in cotton corn horses and mules wheat and farm machinery value. Mineral resources include coal oil gas gypsum salt and stone. In 1806 1689 factories employed 8,124 people with $36,000,000 output.
A massive tornado swept seven southern states Texas Arkansas Louisiana Tennessee Alabama Georgia and Mississippi last week. It caused at least 184 deaths and 620 injuries with over a thousand more hurt, plus millions in property damage. The storm paralyzed all business across the region.
Helena Oklahoma note in Wichita Eagle discusses trading Oklahoma panhandle counties Beaver Texas and Cimarron for Lipscomb Wheeler Hemphill and Collingsworth in a bid to create a compact state. If Congress approves a trade bill the two state legislatures could enact the needed laws.
Executive orders relocate land offices from Buffalo to Beaver andmerge Beaver with Woodward. The Alva and Woodward districts consolidate with Alva books moving to Woodward by May 1, with changes filed by Cal Newsham and notices in the Herat.
A formal notice records an ongoing land entry contest and proof deadlines. George A Seaver and George Gordon Gordon contend prior rights on tracts in Beaver Oklahoma with hearings set before the county land office. Bean Crabtree files for final commutation proving residency with witnesses from Beaver and Hoover Ohio.
Multiple notices announce public land claims and final proof hearings in Oklahoma and Beaver, detailing names of claimants James Hall and John Pitch, witnesses, dates May 12 and May 18, 1900s, and officials F J Healy and Thomas P Braidwood. The notices specify locations Wordwand and Beaver with associated survey details and claim numbers BE No 1M and BE No 1357.
Henry H. Goertzen of Floris Oklahoma has filed notice of his intention to make final proof for the NWN Sec 9 T0N R6W before W T Quinn Clerk of the District Court Beaver Oklahoma on June 1 1905. He names witnesses Kiaas Fransen Jacob H Goettzen Charles M Gaeway Sam L Long all of Floris Oklahoma. Dick T Mongax Registrar.
The notice records filings by Larenn J. Wale of Duck Pond Oklahoma and James W. Reed of Floris Oklahoma to prove claims on lands in relation to judicial proceedings. It lists dates for proofs before local court clerks, names several witnesses, and notes publication by the Department of the Interior Land Office at Woodward Oklahoma.
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