The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1913-04-24
OKLAHOMA NEWS NOTES

Durant Okla is planning 70 organ.
ize fair and racing association
A pipe line route is being surveyed
from the Electra oil field in Texas 10
the Gushing Okla field
After considerable delay. caused by
unfortunate accidents. drilling has
once more been resumed a. FL Reno
test veil No. Q.
A Chinese baseball team from the
Chinese university o. Honolulu twice
defeated the Alva normal school ball
team In two games played.
The Hugo Huson.an thinks the jury
there was 'cinchy' because it grant
60 no awards Of more than 81 900 out
Of all the cases # tried.
Cofeyville has voted 70 donate &30.-
900 10 the sIggins Electric Compl ~
and an electric line is now assured as
far as Nowata.
Excavations are being made for the
pit and boot Of a new grain elevator
at Alva, and a force Of men is ready
70 begin the stone and cement work.
All Protestant churches in Harts-
horne have united In a great revival
y eeting and reports from that place
indicate the sermons are doing great
good.
Commercial clubs in southern Okla
homa towns are purchasing approved
grades Of cottonseed and distributing
It among the farmers Of surrounding
territory.
While watching a baseball game at
Mangum a small boy was struck by a
foul ball, which broke the nasal bone
and fractured the cheek bone of the
youthful fan"
Professor Woodson Of the Okla
homa Agricultural and Mechanical
College at Saltwater, lectured at
Shawnee recently. his subject being
"Kafr Corn"
Enterprising business men Of Eldor-
ado. have organized a fair association
and will hold an agricultural and live
stock exhibition this fall after the
crops are harvested.
A company is being formed at Dur
ant 10 be incorporated as the South
eastern Oklahoma Fair Association"
and capitalized at SI25OO. and it is
stated that the fair grounds viii be
built within the city limits.
Plans have been perfected and the
preparatory work is under way for the
construction Of an air dome theater
at Checotah. II VIII be so arranged
that If necessity demands. il may be
converted into an opera house
The big round up" that has been
held in Dewey for several years and
which has proven so popular in that
section OF the southwest, is TO be
staged again this Summer. AS usual |
1t is to be held July 4, 8 and 6.
That the FIRE vRlch destroyed the
City hotel at Wilburton recently was
purely accidental was the verdict of |
G. G. Hammonds, state fire marshal |
who has been at Wilburton for the |
past several days Investigating the F..
blaze.
The seventeenth annual convention |
Of the Oklahoma Bankers association |
will be held in Muskogee, the opening |
session being on May 8. and the clos. /
ing session on May 9. An elaborate |
program is being arranged in Mus
kogee
The First National Bank Of Stroud /
distributed 100 bushels Of the best
pure back-hulled white kahr corn |
seed obtainable for 400 farmers IN
their trade territory enough for each |
farmer 10 plant about five acres Of /
kahr for feed
At sale Of thoroughbred cattle, in /
Watouga county, $4,000 worth Of stock /
was sold, one head at a time, I'm two |
hours and thirty-Gye minutes.
The good feeling cyistlug between .
the city Of Hobart and the Frisco Rail. |
way company was eXemplned by the |
railroad company offering 10 allow the |
local chamber OF commerce to select |
the site for ne new depot
The Lincoln County Poultry Asso,
citation is making elaborate prepare. |
tions for their annual poultry show, |
10 be held at Stroud December 1. 2 /
and 3, and has secured tie services /.
OF c. A. Enry of Carthage, Missouri. |
to score the birds.
Active deveopment of the big
dolomite quaries at Creta, l8 miles
west Of Altus, ~ the Frisco railroad.
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