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Newspaper
The Weekly Chieftain
Location
Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1910
Page
4
A fragmented OCR note mentions veto actions by local officials regarding a road fee and a related plan. Names and places are unclear, but the fragment implies government scrutiny of a road funding decision. Further readable details are not present to identify the entities or dates precisely.
Fragmented OCR text blends references to Oklahoma governance, public warnings, and editorials. Mentioned topics include state constitution debates, presidential influence, and calls for direct democracy tools, with scattered notes on media figures, international affairs, and social issues of the era.
A fragment notes that many shoppers rely on weekly newspaper ads before shopping. It mentions handbills distributed freely on streets and discarded into gutters, with printers referring to them as gutter ads. The passage reflects early advertising practices and reader behavior in consuming promo material.
Insurgents in Washington push for rule revisions to speed passage of bills. They seek power to dislodge committees and bring bills to the floor, criticizing current delays and calling for reading only the title and limited debate on calendar items. Speaker Cannon governs reading pace for the postal reorganization bill.
Arrangements for the State Bar association annual meeting in Oklahoma City December 28 and 29 are nearly complete. About 300 attorneys are expected to attend with two days of addresses and business sessions followed by a banquet on December 29 at the Lee Huckins bowl. Judge Frank Doster of Atehi von Kang will speak. the banquet aims to be the association’s biggest ever, with Ton P. McMechan chairing the arrangements and other city and state officials aiding.
Charles P Grandfield presents the post office annual report noting 39 586 post offices in operation, gross revenue of 224 128 457 42 and expenditures of 92 997 722 450 with a deficit of 5 443 444 8 23. The report calls for salaries adjustments for assistant postmasters and supervisory staff, raises for expert mail distributors, and pensions for superannuated workers, amid calls to trim Sunday work and improve remote-area staffing. It also urges a $10 000 appropriation to reward workers who patent useful ideas.
Guthrie Oklahoma December 22 The Oklahoma Short Line Electric Railway company was chartered with 1 million dollars capital to build electric interurban routes from Oklahoma City to Joplin Missouri 175 miles and Shawnee to Dennison Texas 125 miles at about 30000 dollars per mile. Routes pass through multiple Oklahoma counties and neighboring states. Incorporators include C C Wright Ada M J Bentley Tecumseh Percy Padlock Oklahoma City V Y Sanders Albermarle and Thomas F E Armentrout Kirkwood.
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