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Newspaper
The Indian Chieftain
Location
Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1901
Page
3
Courthouse attendance and local notices from Collinaville and nearby towns. Court sessions include Jacob Wolfe’s case and a county juror update. Community items mention purchases at Bal eyclites, wedding news, new business openings, and upcoming events with Cherokee residents and visitors.
A scrambled column of notices reports on incorporation petitions for a mineral water venture named To Bottle Artesian Water, tribal enrollments and court visits, dedications of a new Baptist church in Afton, and upcoming Cherokee Normal School sessions at Tahlequah. It also covers prison escape attempts, lawyer warnings on trial costs, local marriages, a threatening letter incident, and brief notes on local sports, politics, and society events in Vinita and surrounding areas.
Memorial Day events listed with a procession from the courthouse to the cemetery at 10 o clock May 0. Fraternal organizations invited to join the ex soldier in the parade. A Saturday meeting announced committees for program flowers donations and notices and officers of the day Captain G6 White.
Twenty Claremore youths will travel to Memphis for the Confederate veterans reunion next week. They will rope cattle and ride broncs at the Loclan Territory race track as part of the ceremony. The group departs on a special car Saturday night with an excursion by Stand Watie camp veterans.
City council met with Mayor Shanahan to extend gray limits from Thompson street to First street while keeping north and south boundaries. The body also warned the city scavenger foreman to improve duties or lose position. Federal prisoners attempting an escape were thwarted by Deputy Thompson and Deputy Barker in the hold over cell after a hole was found in a cell door.
A discussion on Moglish and Americanisms shaping a distinct American voice. The piece considers slang, coined phrases, breathing and voice culture, and the role of women and girls in public speech. It cites Emerson and Gladstone on voice as a healthful, expressive art and notes music's therapeutic value.
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