The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-12-27
AMOS APPOINTED
CRUCE ADVISER
Appointment of Vinita Man Is Recog-
milton of Loyalty to cruee BY
People of Craig County.

The appointment Of F. S. E. Amos
of this city as private secretary to Gov
ernor-elect Cruce is a merited honor
and is taken by the people of Craig
county as a recognition of the loyalty
of this ceunty to the Ardmore man in
his two campaigns for governor, Mr..
Amos was one of the most consistent
Cruce workers in the state and his
many friends here are pleased with his
appointment The Oklahoman on Sun
day has the following to say of Cover
nor-eIect Cruces appointment:
"Governor-elect Lee Cruce Saturday,
announced the appointment of his pri-
vate secretary, his chief clerk and the
official stenographer of the governors
office.
OF. S. E. Amos of vanita, editor of
the Vinita Leader, will be the governor
elects secretary, W, f.. Kerr of Okla,
homa City, managing editor of the Ok
lahoman and the Free Press, will be
Mr.. Cruces chief clerk, and Miss
Lavine Woods OF Aranore, will be the
governors stenographer.
These are the only announcements
of appointments the governor-elect
will make prior te his inauguration,
January 9. During his visit to Okla,
homa City, Thursday and Friday last,
Mr.. Cruce made these announcements
to newspaper men, to be made public
Sunday morning.
I'm his appointment of the two men
who will be mUre closely associated
with 1iim in the four years he is chief
executive of Oklahoma, Mr.. Crlice, has
selected newspaper men. That he has
done so is tflSute to the newspaper
fraternity of the estate, and to the tive
men who in the field of journalism
we're among the foremost in supporting
Mr.. Cruces candidacy for governor ol
4Oklailsn1a.
The appointment of private secre
-tary' 'Hnd CLERK, is purely personal
matter with tiBe governor-elect They
do mot come under the head of news
paper appointments. These two men
will advise with him and will assist
him in the condHct of the ship of state
during the next flour years. They are
the purely personal choice of the gov
ernorsefect
Both have reached the top of then
chosen profession in the state. One is
seidtoref a prominent paper of the side
e0fttheeatate, theHother managing editor
of the largest paper in the state They
will bring to the governors office an
experience gained in one of the great
est schools of leErning, newspaper
office Both are young men. Mr.
Amos is thirty-nine years old and Mr.
Kerr is tthirty-two. Both have had ex-
Iperience i'm the pohtical arena.
Mr.. Amos, who is to be the governor
elects private secretary, has been a
school teacher as well as a newspaper
man. He is a West Sirginian by birth,
having been born January'2, 1871 at the
town of Amos, in that state. Later he
moved with his father and mother to
Lampasas, Texas, amt attended the
Aten and Centenary colleges at Lam
pasas, being graduated with an A. B.
and an A. NJ, degree at the latter place.
He was member of the saculty of the
Oklahoma university at Norman for
three gears, when he moved to Vinita,
and taught school for two years. At
that place he took up newspaper work,
and has been associated with the Lead
er since. He is a member of the Vinita
school board, helped to organize the
Oklahoma Historical society. and was
its first president He is an elk, a
Knight of Pythias and a member of
the Modern Woodmen of America.
Billy" Kerr, as the chief clerk of the
gevernor-elect IS known by the prom,
iehA politicians Of the state, is one Of
the best known newspaper men in
Oklahoma.
Miss Woods who is TO be Mr..