Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1912-12-05
OKLAHOMA NEWS NOTES

light and power plant
The farmers of Garfield county are
shooting hunters dogs
Shawnee has voted $4,000 worth Of
bonds for park purposes.
Many more Texans are coming into
Beckham county. Uklahoma
Free city delivery of mail has been
placed In operation at Aitus
Beaver. count seat OF Beaver county,
reports 45 births during October.
Contracts have been let for the
erection of a new theater In Bristow.
A three-year-old child was crushed
to death at Altus by a bale of cotton.
The Hugo street sweeper has ar.
rived and has been put into commits.
sion.
Tulsa is raising a fund to make q
fight for the 1913 Dry Farming Con.
gress
Good crops of wouldbe postmasters
are reported from all sections OF the
state.
Wednesday. December 4, was set
aside as general cleanup day in
Nowata
Property owners along Main street,
Durant. have voted 10 pave that thor.
oughfare.
The Washington County Farmers
Institute will be held In Bartlesville
December 2l
Business men of Yale. Payne county.
voluntarily have taken slot machines
on their counters
jackson county's cotton report
shows approximately $4,000 bales OF
cotton this season.
Students in the University OF Okla.
homa from Kiowa county have formed
kiowa County club.
Work on new glass factory at Ok.
mulgee is well under way and will be
completed February /.
Baptists have organized Sunday
school in Blanchard, using the city
hall for a meeting place
A Hartshorne cane raiser secured
Az gallons OF sorghum from two and
one-half acres of ground.
Woodward Masons propose to build
fine hall costing over $4,000 part Of
which is already raised.
A new cotton oil mill at Pauls VAL
ley claims to have more orders for
its product than it can fill.
According to the county board of
health, there were only twelve deaths
In Comanche county during October.
A lone man held UP an automobile
party between Sapulpa end Tulsa. Sc
curing a valuable diamond besides
considerable cash
The largest coyote killed in KAY
county in years was shot by farmer
south of Blackwell as it was making
on with chicken in its mouth.
More than one hundred and fifty
criminal cases are set for trial in the
Creek county court at Sapulpa at the
session beginning December g.
The dry season is driving deer
hunters from the Kiamichi mountains.
Scores who went in quest of big game
have returned home empty handed
II, o. Jeffries. editor of the Nowata
Advertiser, was given reception
when he returned home from Clare.
more after being acquitted OF the mur.
der OF Mrs. Irene Goheen, his adver.
tising solicitor.
Washington county veterinary
surgeon got into wrong pasture. per.
formed on wrong horse and was sued
for $3.50 damages.
Every school IN Love county was
represented at the County Teachers
Association meeting at Marietta.
New motor cars on the Missouri
Oklahoma q Gulf made their trial
trips between Wapanucka and Durant.
The next election in Pottawatomie
county will be whether or not TO move
the court house from Tecumseh to
Shawnee.
A Garvin county farmer claims 10
have gathered $40 pounds of pecans
from one tree The nuts were sold
al 10 cents per pound.
Elk City high school has been rated
Al II credits by tho hiph scbnoI Ia