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| February, 1929 |
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| Transcribed & submitted my Nalora Burns. ************************************************************ Oklahoma Almanac, 1929 Continued FEBRUARY --------- 1st day --------- Dr. J. H. CASH, 66, Veteran physician, dies at Stillwater. ************************************************************ 2nd day ------- George MILLER, 49, one of the owners of the famous 101 Ranch was wedged under his automobile, which skidded on slippery pavement about half way between Ponca City & the Ranch. His skull was crushed & he died before reaching the hospital at Ponca City. Less than a year before, his brother, Colonel Joe MILLER was found dead in a garage from the effect of carbon monoxide gas. -------- Paul LOCKE, Bartlesville student who held up and killed his chum, Forrester BENNETT, sentenced to life term at the penitentiary. ************************************************************ 5th day ------- Mary HANKS, 102, died at her home on HANK's Prarie Farm, six miles west of Depew. ************************************************************ 6th day ------- Texas deputy shot and killed J. J. JACKS, 50, at Hugo, when latter alleged to have threatened his estranged wife. ------- Mrs. O. O. HAMMONDS, former secretary to Governor JOHNSTON, resigns. ------ Mrs. Agnes E. CAMERON, supreme worthy associate advisor of Rainbow Girls, and grand treasurer of the grand chapter Order of the Eastern Star in Oklahoma, dies at her home in McAlester. ************************************************************ 7th day ------- Russell PECK, Tulsa school boy, hangs up record of having never been tardy at school 13 years. ************************************************************ 8th day ------ Jessie F. ODIE of Yukon, sailor on the submarine F-4, commended for bravery for having saved a life of a workman. ------- Dr. Seth R. GORDON, president emeritus of the University of Tulsa and one of the founders of Kendall college, died. ---- Miss Marion Eloise TERRY, 16 of Okmulgee, left a fortune in the will of the late Clinto LYON who died at Columbia, MO. Dec. 5. ************************************************************ 9th day ------- Will of George MILLER of 101 Ranch leaves estate of about $500,000 to his daughter, Miss Margaret MILLER. ************************************************************ 11th day ------- Acting Governor HOLLOWAY revokes the parole of Earl HOLMAN, convicted bank robber. ------- Mrs Ida M. RUBY, 68, pioneer and founder of the women's relief corps at Ponca City and former state president of that order, died at Ponca City. -------- Rudolph ADAMCIK, 25, who for 2 and a half years lived in an Oklahoma City hospital with a broken neck, died. ************************************************************ 12th day ------ Mrs. Nannie GEORGE, Bartlesville, related that at the age of 17 she heard Lincoln's Gettysburg address, going from her home in a neighboring Pennsylvania county. Against her will, as she was with some young companions, she accompanied her father who sat on the platform. "I have dreamed," she said, "of the honor which was mine. After the usual preliminary musical numbers and introductory speeches, Lincoln was introduced as the nation's president. He arose and in a clear, kindly voice, dedicated that national cemetary. I sat about 15 feet from him." ------- Mrs. Homer HILL, wife of superintendent of public schools at Perry, ordained into the ministry of the Christian church at that place. -------- Elevator owned by the John DEAN estate at Ponca City purchased by the Oklahoma Wheat growers association. ************************************************************ 13th day ------ O. P. BOGGS, 81, Union veteran of the civil war and pioneer oil producer of Pennsylvania died at Bartlesville. ------- For the murder of Walter HARP, farmer of Ulysses, Kans., Walter "Blackie" HAGER found guilty by jury in district court at Miami and sentenced to death in the electric chair. ------- Lloyd HOLLINGSWORTH, 27, automobile dealer and garage man at Canton, with a shotgun, killed his father, William HOLLINGSWORTH and his own brother, William HOLLINGSWORTH Jr., on a farm 13 miles west of Canton. ************************************************************ 14th day ----- Funeral services held at Capital Hill for James H. GEORGE, 84, pioneer '89er who still occupied his original claim. He was born in Virginia, fought in the confederate army and was twice wounded. --------- Miss Oletha D. ORNER and Raymond SWARTZ, both students of A. & M. College, married in the state house of representatives by Rev. Mrs. A. SWARTZ, mother of the groom. The bride is the daughter of representative Frank ORNER of Payne county. -------- Mrs. Sarah HOMER, 73, one of the first white women to settle in that part of the state, died at Krebs. ------ Ben Metombie, Choctaw Indian at Durant, age 117, was born when the second war with England was on. and a grown man when his tribe moved from Mississippi to the Indian Territory. ************************************************************ 16th day ------ "Old Missouri Black" a giant timber wolf credited with killing hundreds of head of livestock in northeastern Pittsburg county, trapped by S. J. NOLAN, state trapper in the San Bois mountain region. ----- Charles H. STANE, Byron SHELTON, and H. K. SHELTON, working in a manhole in Oklahoma City, badly hurt by explosion when a boy threw a lighted cigarette in the hole. ************************************************************ 17th day ------- Dr. Gayfree ELLISON of Norman elected president of Cleveland county Medical association; Dr. Ben H. COOLEY, secretary treasurer. ------ Bob ANDERSON, 24, critically wounded by Cheif NOLAN while the former, with three other men were holding up a grocery store Saturday night. ------ Fay Louise MANUEL of Muskogee, in suit for divorce from Luther MANUEL, millionaire Creek Freedman, asks for alimony of $500 a month, $1,000 for temporary maintenance, and $500 for attorney's fees. She cited that the indian had a monthly income of $2,700. ************************************************************ 18th day ------ Eula J., wife of Fred BRANSON, former member of the state supreme court, files suit for $100,000 damages against the Oklahoma News, three Muskogee realtors and two members of the state legislature, charging that, without any authority an appraisal of $12,000 was made on her country home near Muskogee, frustrating her negotiations to sell the property for $30,000. ------ Wirt FRANKLIN, Oklahoma City oil man, testified before a legislative subcommittee that he had "contributed" $500 toward Justice J. W. CLARK's campaign fund at a time when he had litigation pending before the supreme court; that the money was given for fear he might suffer. ------ Mrs. H. A. SHADID, Oklahoma City, died from being struck by an automobile owned by Bert WILLIAMS of Marshall. ------ R. A. GAFNEY, 60, pioneer realtor and loan man, died at Guthrie. ------ Mrs Mary Ann KEATING, 67, the only woman in this section who made the run alone at the opening of the Cherokee strip, Sept 16, 1893, died at Perry. With two baby boys, this woman, whose husband had died only a short time before, won her claim of 160 acres, starving two days to drive away "sooners". ------ Funeral held at McAlester of Greenwood LEFLORE, pioneer of Pittsburg county and many years an employee of the state peniteniary. He was a Grandson of Colonel Greenwood LEFLORE, chief of the choctaw Indian tribe of Mississippi, who as head of the tribe, signed the historic Dancing Rabbit Treaty, under which the Choctaws moved westward to Indian Territory. ------ Miss Elaine WANNER, Tulsa, enrolls in school of architectural engineering at the stat University. Margaret ROBINSON, also of Tulsa, a year previous enrolled in chemical engineering class. ************************************************************ 19th day ------ Roy St. LEWIS, United States District attorney for Western Oklahoma, reports sale in Alfalfa County of small white pellets as intoxicating as brandy. ------ For Having taught school continuously 26 years, Mrs. Martha WATKINS of Madill recieved medal awarded her at a recent State Teachers association meeting in Oklahoma City. She was one of four teachers to recieve such recognition. ************************************************************ 20th day ------ John RIDDLES, voted year after year as best loved cripple at Williams Jennings Bryant school for cripples, died. ------ John A. MCCLURE, 65, who practiced law in Oklahoma 40 years, died in Oklahoma City. ------ R. L. MURRAY, 73, representative of the Choctaw Nation at Atoka treaty conference, died at Durant. ------ Watey A. PALMER, 73, for years a leader in the tribal councils of the Creek Nation, died at Holdenville. ------ Mrs. Pansy HOLLEY takes over job as postmaster at Corine, in Pushmataha County, at $210 a year, to prevent its abandonment by the government. ------ Julius & Jess WILHITE at Wewoka, pleaded guilty to armed robbery & were sentenced to 10 years each in the penitentiary. ************************************************************ 22nd day ------ P. M. SULLIVAN, 85, former enrolling clerk of the California state senate, died in Oklahoma City. He had practiced law 58 years. ------ Sam INGRAM, former Osage county tax ferret, found guilty at Tulsa of fraud in filing county reports. ------ H. B. CATLETT, 66, organizer of First National Bank at Weleetka, organizer of the chamber of commerce, and who served as city treasurer and city clerk, died. ************************************************************ 23rd day ------ Bart ALDRIDGE of Wewoka elected state head of Young Democrats Organization at Altus convention. ------ Jack GILLWORTH, widely-known ranchman, died near Kenton. He came to the Cimarron valley of what was then known as "No Man's Land" in 1882. ------ At Tulsa, embezzlement charges filed agains Herbert W. JAMES, former deputy federal court clerk, & Henry W. BACKUS, recently resigned as Chief deputy in the United States Marshall's office. ************************************************************ 24th day ------ Miss Pauline PRUITT, 17, of Commanche, freshman student at Oklahoma A & M college, Stillwater, died from drinking furniture polish. ------ B. F. BEHIMER, former banker at Boise, Oklahoma, taken to the federal penitentiary of Leavenworth to begin a 10 year sentence. ************************************************************ 26th day ------ Arizona supreme court handed down a decision reversing a decree which three years ago previously annulled the marriage of Maud Lee MUDD, Oklahoma Indian oil heiress, said to be worth $1,000,000, to Earl E. GORDON. The decision state the superior court which granted the annullment in February 1926, had been without jurisdiction because the Indian heiress was not a resident of the state for the legal period one year prior to filing the annullment application. ************************************************************ 27th day ------ Oklahoma City University cites Gretchen SWITCHER, Geraldine MAHAR, Henry MORTON, and Dorothy FULLER as perfect "A" students. ************************************************************ 28th day ------ Ishmael OUTRIGHT, 81, pioneer 89'er who drew a claim three miles north of Yukon and came to Oklahoma city to reside in December 1928, died. He was a Union veteran, having served in Company K, Third W. Va. Cavalry. For 18 years he was manager of the Oklahoma City G. A. R. drum corps, No. 17. |
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