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MCGEE INDIAN TERRITORY

THE CHICKASAW NEWS

VOL. 4 MCGEE, I.T. THURSDAY APRIL 26, 1906 NO. 24

RUNAWAY BOY - Joe Tolbert, a youth of about 13 years old, son of Judge Sid Tolbert, of Ada, made the mistake that a good many other boys before him have made in thinking that some other place was a better place than home. Monday morning he mounted his pony and struck out for Lawton. About 9 o'clock Monday Whitt Hyden received a telephone message from Judge Tolbert to look out for the boy and detain him. Inquiry disclosed the fact that he had passed through town about twenty minutes before. City Marshal Everett overtook him about four miles west of town. He was put in charge of a liveryman from Ada. When the marshal overtook him he said "I am glad you caught me, I wan't go home anyhow." Boys, home is the best place all the time.
While J.B. Dickerson was cutting down a tree the other day a limb fell and came very near breaking his neck.
There was a singing at Mr. Shult's Saturday night.
Another mad dog was seen north of town the other day.
Bessie Patterson is spending the week with her aunt, Mrs. G.P. Yeager.
A pack of hounds chased a large gray wolf on spring brook Saturday and caught it near Yinglin's.
Mr. Sullivan is on the sick list.
One of Mr. Kitner's ponies ran into the wire the other day and got crippled very badly.
If anyone wants to be healthy they should eat plenty of pumpkin pie, walk from one to ten miles every day and read the Chickasaw News.
Mr. Daniels has gone to Roff to visit hie sister who is very sick.
Miss Lillie Higgins left for her home last Wednesday. We regret very much that she could not spend the summer with us.
Mary Loyd is on the sick list.
Mrs. Meridith visited her parents last week.
John Dayd said they could all hunt for wild turkeys that wanted to, but he would like to find a Dear he could call his own.
G.P. Yeager has sold his crop to Mr. Halbrock.
BOWIE SCHOOL HOUSE NEWS:
After having a nice rain and spring opening up in earnest, the farmers have a smile on their faces, like a cotton rope without any twist.
Cotton planting is the leading occupation this week in this community.
The railroad crew is camped near Nat Bowie's house, ready to begin work at a word.
Mrs. John Brewer has been very sick for several days.
School is reported to be somewhat lighter than common this week on account of cotton planting.
Something must have broken off or pulled out, we can't say which. The only thing we can tell for certain is that Clayton Blackburn didn't get his land turned.
Edgar Tolbert returned from Maxwell Saturday.
A singing was enjoyed by a goodly number of youngsters at Clayton Blacburn's Sunday night.
Edgar says "he certainly enjoys the old folks company but enjoys the girls a great deal better."
The little year old daughter of Clayton Blackburn was made very sick Tuesday morning from drinking kerosene. The child is not any better at this writing.
Prof. Geo. W. Neal says "it takes pretty plain talk to reach the vital organs of some peoples conscience."
As Pa has a great deal of plowing for me to do I'll bring things to a focus.
I am respectfully,
Pa's Plow Boy
plow"
BYFORD SCHOOL HOUSE NEWS:
Weather is fine.
Planting cotton is the order of the day.
Health is very good this week.
Two of Will Hunt's little children have been sick but are getting along all right now.
Mrs. Dock Byford, who has been sick so long, is able to be up.
We had preaching at the school house Sunday. Seven preachers were present and it wasn't a good day for preacher after all. They preached from 10:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. Guess we are not stayers.
H.M. Byford was at Byars on business the first of the week.
J.R. Byford is trying to sell his place so he can go to the mountains for his wife's health.
Prof. Neal and others were over from Bowie town last Sunday. They want to combine Sunday schools and singing classes with us. What do you think about it?
Henry Goss has struck water in his well.
Dock Byford was digging a well about two months ago and stopped to put out his fruit trees an plant his crop. He started to finish it the other day and was fixing to let his brother, Andrew go down and dig some more, and when they looked into it they found about 20 feet of good water. They had been carrying water from quite a distance all this time.
There will be a musical entertainment at H.M. Byford's in the near future.
Yours truly,
Karl Kuter
The young people enjoyed themselves at a party Friday night at the home of Dr. J.N. Norris. Those who attended report a delightful evening.
J.M. Gray of Byars, tells us he is getting his well auger ready to bore wells in the new town.
When you think of your home in the new town remember J.M. Gray, the well driller.
J.B. Dickinson had a $175. horse down with the blind staggers Monday.
Mrs. W.U. Goodwin is still on the sick list this week.
Be sure and see S.S.Lee's line of New Dress Goods Saturday.
W.N. Young and his wife went to Maxwell Monday.
250 bushels of millet seed for sale at Santford and Strickland's.
A.C. Cromer and his wife visited their daughter in Byars Sunday.
Watch the Bulletin Board at the I&Y grocery for prices.
Prof. J.F. Caudle's kinfolks came to see him Tuesday.
C.O. Wright and wife went to Hart Tuesday.
Roasted peanuts and pop corn at the McGee short order.
Born-Friday to Mr. and Mrs. J.G. Stockton, a girl.
Bring your fat hens to the I&Y Grocery store. We pay 7 1/2 cents per pound.
J.E. Daniels claims the champion Conant colt. It stood 8 ft. 5 inches.
Born-Saturday, April 21, 1906, to Mr. and Mrs. Batholomew, a boy and girl.
Geo. Deathridge, who lives two miles east of Byars was trading in town Saturday.
W.R. Parmer says mice are killing out his corn and threatening not to leave a stand.
M.L. Ledford went to Ardmore Saturday, as a witness in the Bud Belew case.
P.C. Thurman, resident engineer of the O.C.R.R., was quite sick last week.
The I&Y Grocery Co., beginning this week, will pay Shawnee prices for poultry and eggs.
H.L. Potter, of Lindsey, was here last week visiting his cousin, A. Potter, and his mother-in-law.
J.T. Ethridge, from near Midland, was trading in town last week.
Tom Gabbert and wife, of Roff, were called here last week to the bedside of Mrs. Whitt Hyden
Judge S.E. Lewis, of Lehigh, came in Sunday afternoon and is very sick at Leonard Hyden's, his son in law.
Born - Saturday, April 21, 1906, to Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Fleet, a big boy. The father is seventeen years of age.
Carter Sparger went to Ada Sunday for a visit to his father, returning Tuesday. His mother met him there.
The Baptist will have a Fifth Sunday meeting at Hart next Sunday with dinner on the ground. Everybody is invited.
A.S. Morris has started his peanut and pop corn roaster, and lovers of these delicacies can enjoy themselves.
James and Will Price and families, went to ?tory, I.T. on a fishing excursion. They anticipate a fine time.
Leonard Hyden and wife returned Saturday from a visit to Mrs. Hyden's father, Judge Lewis, near Ft. Smith.
J.C. Honaker went to Byars Friday on business. He says corn was up to a good stand and looked fine along the roadside.
Charley Goodwin returned Wednesday from Shawnee, O.T. On his return he took in the ball at Byars.
Statehood does not seem to be very imminent or the railroads would be better prepared for it. They have too much surveying to do yet.
J.W. Witt who went out with C.O. Wright and families says where they found the bottom to the mud it was only knee deep but he had no idea how deep it was in other places.
macg16.jpg"pic Four small boys, Bunk Griffin, Ben McFall, Joe Edwards, and J.M. Lingle, went turkey hunting Monday and slept that night with the earth for a pallet and the sky for a cover.
Great excitement prevails about mad dogs 1 mile southeast of town. On and near the Mood farm 5 dogs were killed in two days, 2 dogs belonging to Eaf Lingle, one to B.L. Tucker, and 2 to Will Atkins.
Our old friend T.D. Jones, who at one time was editor of the Marlow Review, but of late the editor of the Ravia (I.T.) Tribune, has moved his plant to McGee, and is getting out a good paper.-Duncan Eagle.
John Loyd is one man who thinks something else can kick besides a mule. His plow, Monday, reared up on its hind feet and kicked him like a regular Arkansas mule, standing him on his head. W.D. Hayes has the papers on it.
Born - To Mr. and Mrs. Will Atkins, a 12 1/2 pound boy. They are blessed with 4 boys. Mr. Atkins was making inquiries to learn who wanted farm hands, he said he had two fine boys and good workers to dispose of.
Rev. J.R. Haun of Paoli, preached here Tuesday night. Re. Haun was pastor of the Methodist church here last year. He returned home Thursday after visiting with his many friends for several days.
SNAKES ALIVE - Friday two boys, Crimer and Jesse Hart, killed eleven snakes, and T.H. Whisenant the same day killed a large spreading adder. It must have been snake day.
G.W. Roberts, living eight miles south, informs us that Ernest Dake, of Roff, a youth of about 15 years old, accidentally shot and instantly killed himself, while hunting on Blue Saturday.
Rev. J.M. Foster, of Center, filled his regular appointment here Saturday and Sunday. In his Sunday night sermon he roundly scored the practice of the girls riding astride, that he had witnessed at other places.
TRUSTEES ELECTED - The school meeting was adjourned from Friday night to Monday night when the following were elected school trustees for the ensuing year: B.F. Thomas, A.C. Cromer, W.N. Young, G.E. Gray, Henry Bowie.
C.F. Carper, who lives southwest of town and has been trading at the railroad, was in town Monday and told one of our merchants that he could get goods here so much cheaper that he would do all his trading with our people hereafter.
J.T. Martin, a prosperous farmer near this place, has been down near Pontotoc lately throwing a damper on the cause of education. Though he bears a good reputation here, we understand he broke up a school down there - by marrying the teacher, Mrs. Amanda Ketner.
R.O. McFall says he wants it told in Mayor Cromer. Friday night as he returned from the school meeting a shadowy form shaped like a mad dog darted out from behind a building. It was only after His Honor had made a vicious lunge at it with his knife that he discovered that it was a calf.
LOST - Strayed or stolen from my place on Sandy Creek 2 1/2 miles northeast of Walker, one bay mare mule 14 1/2 hands high, branded. 24 connected on left thigh, small horse shoe on left jaw, had on halter when she left. $10 reward for delivery to me. T.T. Carruth, McGee, I.T.
To Lease - Four hundred acres, good grassland, situated 15 miles northwest of Purcell. Also five hundred acres of timbered land, unimproved, situated 1 1/2 miles northeast of McGee. Will cut timbered land in 40 acre blocks. Adress, West L. Cunningham McGee, I.T.
Our merchants are offering some great bargains in goods at auction, Saturdays. Last Saturday Hyden Bros. and the week before Z.Y. Griffin & Co. sold some of the cheapest clothing we have ever seen sold in the Territory. Prof. J.F. Caudle does the auctioneering and his daughters, the famous "midget musicians" help him to entertain the crowd with music, in the interim.
The Wichita Beacon is of the opinion that the people of Oklahoma may as well recognize now as later that there will be no statehood legislation at this present session. It begins to look like the Beacon knows what it is talking about; and yet it must remember that hope springs eternal in the human breast, and that so long as there is light there is hope.-Oklahoman.
Jas. E. Stevens, returned Monday from Ahlosa. He was in a mile of where John Anderson was shot, and people there told him that he did not go into Harkin's house at all to beat his wife, but remained on his horse and cursed around and rode off. That he was followed by the Harkins and shot in the back and back of the head.
macg15.jpgpic EGGS GOING UP-While this paper has nothing to say about the difference, (It is not our time to butt in.) yet as a matter of news for the benefit of our subscribers, we publish the fact of the egg fight now on between two of our merchants. Monday morning eggs, which were already selling high at wholesale, took a sudden rise and thus insured the continuance of the good retail prices which have prevailed here for some time. Monday eggs went to 12 cents.
OBITUARY
After a lingering illness of many months, Mrs. Whitt Hyden passed away Sunday morning. Her children were nearly all with her at the time of her death. Mrs. W.M. Mitchell, of Pauls Valley, Mrs. Tom Gabbert, of Roff, and S.F. Hyden of Ardmore, having been called to her bedside. The remains were interred in the city cemetery, attended by a large concourse of friends of the family.


DID YOU NOTICE THAT ALL OF THE LADIES ARE ONLY MENTIONED BY THEIR HUSBANDS NAME (MRS. HUSBANDS NAME)EVEN IN THE OBITUARIES AND BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS. "SMILES ON THEIR FACES LIKE A COTTON ROPE WITHOUT ANY TWIST"??(SOMEBODY LET ME KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS) I HOPE YOU ARE FINDING YOUR REALITIVES MENTIONED HERE. PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU DO. WELL - LETS GO TO NEXT WEEK IN MCGEE AND SEE IF THE EGG WARS CONTINUE. MAY 3,1906

 

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