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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1908
Page
2
Fragmented railway timetable from Meade Kansas and Oklahoma regions with routes and times including Westhound and Easthound listings. Lacks complete details but indicates departures, arrivals, and station notes including numbers and times.
Ladies Auxiliary meets Thursday afternoons at members homes and hosts a public entertainment on the first Thursday night each month. The group invites all. Also the Ladies Auxiliary to M. Church meets Wednesday afternoons with the men’s group.
Indiana tale unfolds as La Porte authorities probe Mrs. Gutness Guiness, likened to Kate Bender, for luring men with promises then murdering and burying them on her farm. Remains reported on property, fire reveals possible further victims, with residents unsettled by the House of Death legend and fear of continued bloodshed.
Governor Haskell urges the legislature to move public capital planning to a central ideal site in the state. He proposes securing land and raising funds by selling town lots to finance a capital building, citing Jawton and Anadarko sales as successful models. He also calls for temporary school appropriations.
Memorial Services will be held at the courthouse in Keaver on May 24 conducted by Reverends W. J. Leonard and James Ballinger. The Old Soldiers Spanish American War Soldiers and their wives and the War Relief Corps are requested to meet at the hall and march to the service. All are invited to attend. A note on local press: Guymon Herald installed a new linotype at a cost of about 5,000 and plans to eliminate band composition in that office. A stranger asked a local preacher for descriptive literature to pick out a home. the preacher gave him a New Testament describing a home without price.
Nathan Prewitt Jamison born December 28 1887 in Montgomery county Iowa died May 9 1908 near Knowles Beaver county Oklahoma aged 40 years 4 months and 139 days. He married Ollie M Alexander Dee 26 1887 and they had nine children three predeceased him. He lived in Colorado and New Market Iowa before moving to Oklahoma seven years ago and homesteaded on Fairview Flat. He helped neighbors and engaged in religious work as a Baptist member though later drifted from duties. Funeral at home conducted by Rev Harlan Parker and burial Jamison cemetery leaves a wife six children five siblings and many friends.
P and Nipper of the Clark County Tribune bought the Gate Star at Gate Oklahoma and now editors in two states. The Editorial Association at El Reno meeting drew praise from the state press. Miss Maude Thomas, the Herany editor, plans to report on the event. Real estate mortgages quit claim deeds offered for sale by this office.
Notice is published by the Department of the Interior Land Office at Woodnamt Oklahoma stating Louie Blair of Surprise Oklahoma intends to make fiscal proof to support his claim. The filing notes a court clerk and a July 2 deadline with witnesses listed including Henry Platt Surprise Oklahoma Jacob Cook Bo Pin Oklahoma Oliver Cook Sop Bojhia Oklahoma Maen Oe Bessie Go and D. Cohen Register.
Notice is given that Clyde K. Robinson of Clear Lake Oklahoma filed notice of intent to make a homestead proof for the Lot SEQ NWY in Land Lots Tay N Koe. The hearing will be before Clerk W T Quinn at Beaver Oklahoma on May 2, 19xx. Witnesses listed include Robert G Dunlop William E Dunn Herbert Robinson Boardman Brink Dick T Mowell and others from Clear Lake Marengo and surrounding areas.
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