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| Transcribed and submitted by Nalora Burns ************************************************************ April ------ 1 ------ Lew WENTZ, Ponca City oil man, accepts appointment by governor as head of the state highway commission. ------ John FIELDS of Oklahoma City named as president of the of the federal land bank at Wichita. ------ C. E. DUDLEY, Antlers, appointed chairman state board of affairs. ------ James CRAWFORD and W. E. CRAWFORD plead guilty to theft of diamonds worth $10,000 from Mrs. T. A. HUNT in her Mayo Hotel room at Tulsa and $8,000 worth of diamonds from Mrs. L. K. STUBBLEFIELD in her Wells hotel room. ************************************************************ 2 ------ Announced Lloyd WANER, Oklahoma City boy, outfielder of the Pittsburgh National league club, to wed Miss Frances Mae SNYDER of Pittsburgh. ------ Noel MELTON, 19, Oklahoma City bandit, given sentence of 25 years in penitentiary. ------ At Ardmore, Fred KEITH, 14, who shot and fatally wounded his father, Sam KEITH, 51, freed by decision of justice of the peace when his mother and brother testified the boy's father was trying to kill them with a knife when the boy shot him. ************************************************************ 5 ------ Paul WANER, Oklahoma holdout, signed for the season with Pittsburgh team of the National Baseball team. ------ Pleading guilty to five robbery counts, Harold MARKHAM, 32 and Emmitt VILLARD, 32, sentenced to 10 years in prison. ************************************************************ 7 ------ R. H. DUPUY, keeping plumber's supply store at Duncan, ends his life with a shotgun while in a bath tub. ------ Since Sheriff C. H. KING took office on Jan. 1, of 88 arrests made by him in Beckham county, 64 persons pleaded guilty, more than half the number being liquor charges. He was elected on a dry platform and made good. Beckham county long the bootlegger center of the state has been pretty well dried out by this efficient officer, residents say. ************************************************************ 8 ----- Charles DIDWAY, 16, from the hills of Talihina won the tenth district champion oratorial contest. ------ While dynamyting stumps, Miller A. DAVIS, 35, Broken Bow, was killed by a blast that hung fire. ------ Miss Mary Frances MULLINS and Max Raymond THOMPSON wed at Marlow. Both former O.U. Students. ************************************************************ 9 ------ Charles D. CARTER of Ardmore, 20 years a representative of Oklahoma in congress and recently member of the state highway commission, died suddenly at his home of heart failure. ------ Gloria GULAGER, junior at Muskogee high school and cousin to Will Rogers cowboy-comedian, won district oratorial contest at Muskogee. ************************************************************ 10 ------ David WILLIAMS, Tulsa, pays $125,000 for the residence of Pat HURLEY assistant secretary of war. ------ Sam BRODSKY 16, Tulsa, won oratorial contest in third district. ------ Mrs. Olga Bell HALMARK, 53, died. With her husband, she came into ten-mile flats, west of Norman in the run of 1889, where they lived until their removal to Oklahoma City in 1908. ------ Mrs. Mabel C. SHERIN of Walters elected worthy matron of the Oklahoma Eastern Star. ************************************************************ 11 ------ Laverne GEESLIN, senior in the Cherokee high school won oratory contest in the second district at Ponca City. ------ Frank WARE, Osage Indian at Pawhuska, given life prison term for murder. While drunk and driving a motorcycle he struck and killed Carl SNODGRASS, Webb City, on the Ponca City-Kaw City highway. ************************************************************ 12 ----- H. G. BEAN, whose Houdini tricks kept him out of the penitentiary for four months, off and on, again is placed behind bars. He originally was sent to prison for 20 years for burglary. ------ Charged with embezzlement while city clerk of Pawnee, Mrs. Effie BISHOP, wife of a Pawnee barber, was sentenced to serve 3 years in the state penitentiary. ------ F. E. CHAPPELL, supreme court referee, files application for the disbarment of Lee EYLER of Okmulgee county because of his recent conviction and sentence to the state penitentiary for 18 months for chicken theft. ------ W. M. CRAWFORD, late disbursing agent of the Osage Indians at Pawhuska, buried. He had been in government service 30 years. ------ Dr. James Edward WEBB, 72, 30 years a practicing physician at Tulsa, died. ************************************************************ 13 ------ David P. MARUM, 82, of Woodward, editor of the Woodward Democrat and former state senator, died at his home. He came to Oklahoma in 1882 from Minesota and settled at Fort Supply. ************************************************************ 14 ------ Mrs. J. P. ELLIS, 86, pioneer Oklahoman of 1889, died in the Oklahoma State Soldier's Home. She was married at Warrensburg, Mo. Jan. 12, 1865. ------ Miss Elizabeth Ellen FERRELL and Will VAN DER HECK of Oklahoma City were married. ------ Miss Edna ANDERSON and Murray HOLCUM of Buffalo, Oklahoma, married at Ponca City. ------ News recieved that Miss Harriet INGHAM of Oklahoma City in attempting to extinguish a fire in a small rug in the bathroom of her apartment in Baltimore, Md., fell nine stories to her death. ------ Mr. and Mrs. P. A. SMITH, El Reno, celebrate their 63rd anniversary. ************************************************************ 15 ------ Vincent DALE, 16, Guymon, won the first district oratorial contest. ------ W. H. JACKSON, formerly county treasurer of Pushmataha County, is exhonerated in shortage case brought against him in 1922. ************************************************************ 16 ------ Joseph P. MUSSELMAN, 97, a member of Sherman's Army in its march to the sea, died at Tonkawa. ------ George W. DILLON, Fairfax. first justice of the peace in the Cherokee strip after the run of 1893, celebrated his 90th birthday. In a covered wagon he moved from Ohio to Illinois in 1884 and in 1879 to Winfield, Kansas. ------ William H. MOORE, 17, Altus, won fourth district oratorial contest. ------ Mrs. Julia E. HOUK, 70, pioneer and federal weather observer, buried at Durant. She came to Durant in 1891 from Indiana. ------ Murray A. BARNES, bank robber, convicted at Shawnee, given 30 years in the penitentiary. ------ Rev. D. D. SWINNEY, Newkirk, elected moderator of the Enid presbytery, Buckley RUDE, Enid, clerk. ************************************************************ 17 ------ Donald HUCKABY, Amber, won oratorial contest in the fifth district. ------ Mrs. Dennis T. FLYNN, 70, Oklahoma Pioneer, died in Boston, Mass. She was the wife of D. T. Flynn, first postmaster at Guthrie and several times Oklahoma Territory's delegate in congress. ------ Babe HUNT, Oklahoma heavyweight pugilist, and Miss Mayble HERD wed at Tonkawa. [wow...a herd/hurd/heard/hird/hard/hord] ************************************************************ 18 ------ Waldo MONTGOMERY, Sulphur, winner of the oratorial contest in the eighth district. ------ Rev. R. A. COLLIER, pastor of the first baptist church at Gage, beguiled by suave stranger to take an auto ride and relieved of $19 at the point of a gun. ************************************************************ 19 ------ Harry HALL of Pauls Valley selected to represent the seventh district in the national oratorical contest. ************************************************************ 20 ------ Walter M. HARRISON, managing editor the Daily Oklahoman and Times, reelected president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors at its Washington meeting. ************************************************************ 21 ------ Bill TILGHMAN, son of former marshal of Oklahoma City who was killed when marshal in the Cromwell oil district by Wylie LYNN, also an officer, in November, 1924, arrested at Davenpor as F. B. WISNO--25 years for cojoint robbery---escaped prisoner from the Tennessee penitentiary at Nashville. Tilghman was arrested as he stepped from a bus and said he was awaiting the arrival of Wylie LYNN on the next bus. ************************************************************ 22 ------ W. S. SPENCER, of Denver, former Mayor of Guthrie at its birth, addressed the 89ers at Guthrie. ************************************************************ 23 ------ Miss Lucile HUDIBERG, Alva, wins first prize of $1,000 in Illinois Federated Women's Club contest in voice. ------ H. D. POWERS, head of the psychology department, and Bernie O. WELLS, his assistant in Oklahoma Baptist University at Shawnee, discharged from the faculty as a result of a sex questionaire which they prepared for distribution. ------ Rev. and Mrs. F. O. STOCKWELL, Methodists, Bartlesville, announce they have entered into Missionary service at Foo Chow, China. ------ Earl STINNETT, 22, Pawhuska, pleaded guilty to participation in $4,000 robbery of Shidler National Bank Aug 20. R. E. WILLIAMS, convicted as one of the robbers, was sent up for seven years. ------ Will WARD, chief of police at Wilson, exonerated of murder charge in recent slaying of Tom RAMBO, farmer at the farm house of J. R. JONES. ************************************************************ 24 ------ William A MAURER, former United States district attorney, died of paralytic stroke at his home in Oklahoma City. ------ Harvey CRUTCHFIELD, McCurtain County school boy reports not absent from school in 12 years. ------ Kit CARSON, 68, found guilty of theft of $1,210 from Frank SOVEY, 72, his bachelor friend in Oklahoma City. ------ Miss Nina Lee AVERITT, 22, wife of Lewis AVERITT, taxi driver, found shot through the heart with a pistol which the police believe she held in her own hand. ************************************************************ 25 ------ Eddie COLEMAN, newspaper worker, formerly of Oklahoma City, charged with shooting with intent to kill of J. W. PATTON, editor of the Konawa Leader, Aug 19, 1928, sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary. At the time of the shooting, Coleman was preparing a special edition for Patton. ************************************************************ 26 ------ Four members of the Frank LAIRD family killed in automobile accident at Maud. ------ Johnnie MARVIN, 32, Victor artist, ukulele perfomer and former barber in Oklahoma City, revisits the city and also his father and mother of Butler, Custer County. Announced he would take them on a trip to Europe. ------ With her subject "The Constitution and its relations to the Negro Race" Johnnie Mae WASHINGTON, Douglas High School student, Oklahoma City, won the state oratorical championship for negro students. ------ Neal HOLLINGSWORTH, 11, Wewoka, won the state spelling contest, remaining on the floor three hours. ************************************************************ 27 ------ George SUTTER, 55, Prague banker, dies. ------ George C. BOOGS, former postmaster at Shawnee, and former banker at Asher, died at Chandler, fell from the roof of his house, struck on rain barrel, and died. ************************************************************ 28 ------ Miss Birdie WATKINS, 22, of Waurika, was killed, and her sister, Viola, 15, who had just eloped to Chickasha and wed Alonzo HARLEY, was critically injured, when the automobile in which the bridal party was riding plunged off the road into a ditch as they were returning to Waurika. ------ Lester DUNCAN, negro police character at Oklahoma City, resisting arrest, was shot and killed, and Jake O. ROBERTSON, motorcycle officer, seriously wounded. ************************************************************ 29 ------ At Spaulding a loaded gasoline truck collided with a freight train. The gasoline exploded, shooting flames 300 feet into the air and spread over a radius of more than 100 feet in every direction. Hoyle BOLES, 20, of Konewa, driver of the Shell Co. truck was killed and 3 others badly burned. ------ Bert SMITH, 60, farmer living five miles north of Guthrie, killed by a negro. ************************************************************ 30 ------ Mrs. C. E. MCWETHY, 45, in learning to drive automobile, killed when it collided with telephone pole. She formerly was Mrs. Leon COFFEE, of Muskogee and had been married since December. ------ The will of the late Mrs. Dennis (Addie) T. FLYNN gives one third of her $150.000 estate to her husband and the balance to her children; S. C. and Olney FLYNN and Mrs. Dorothy F. Richardson, N.Y. ------ The will of M. S. SINGLETON, who on April 8 fell from his sixth floor office window, left his property to his wife, Mrs. Stella P. SINGLETON. |
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