The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1913-03-27
OKLAHOMA NEWS NOTES

lhe Town cOunCll having ordered them
The Alva Commercial Club will take
up the matter of building a high school
at Alva.
Contract has been let for the erec.
tion of six bridges in Comanche
county.
The Wilburton Gazette is advocating
the establishment Of a state Keeley
Institute
William Short, K. o. Perrin and
others are building a sawmill in
Broken Arrow.
Petitions are in circulation at Strong
City, Roger Mills county, to have that
town incopoated
Cleveland will have three tickets in
the field in the spring election-the
Democratic, Socialist and Citizens.
Fires have been lighted in the
"gumbo pit" at Shawnee to furnish
burned ballast for the Rock Island.
Carthage parties are planning the
construction of a modern, fireproof,
three-story concrete hotel at Dewey.
The Mothers club of Lawton is be.
hind movement to establish a public
restroom in the center of the shopping
district.
The farm residence Of S. A. Wilson,
southwest of Chickasha, together with
all the contents. was destroyed by fire.
The Methodist church at Broken
Arrow has received a new organ
which will be installed in the new
church building.
NARROW will utilize the product of
the gas well southeast of town, and q
company is putting in the gas mains
over the town now.
The old school building at Tecumseb
Is being torn down and in It's stead
a modern $4,000 educational structure
is to be erected.
Pete White of Alex was bitten by an
opposom and has taken the PasteuI
treatment to ward off a possible attack
of hydrophobia.
Construction work will begin next
week on the new Missouri, Oklahoma
e. Gulf shops at Muskogee, which will,
cost, 1t is estimated, $4,000.
Hardy reports that a miniature cy |
clone passed over that town, doing
some ssmall damage and causing mucS |
fright to the inhabitants.
Idabel has purchased a new engine
and boiler for It's water plant and both |
have arrived. The new equipment
will be installed and placed in opera
tion at once.
Twenty-Five convicts are being |
worked on the streets at Granite. The |
main street of the town is being |
piowed and graded and placed In first |
class condition.
M. Jones of Bristow has secured |
charter for the establishment of q
state bank in Drumright, Greek |
county. The institution will be capi |
talized at $4,000.
The contract has been awarded for
furnishing a postofflce building az
Cleveland, and it is expected to be |
iSouJ AOi OCCUPANCY ny May l..
1t is expensive enough to get drunk |
at Tulsa on week days, but doubly ex.
pensive to imbibe too freely on the !!
Sabbath. Double fines are now being |
assessed against Sunday drunks at |
that place
Conflicting reports are received from |
the fruit growing districts of the state |
as to the effect the recent cold snap |
had on the trees. However. il is |
stated but few sections were damaged |
seriously.
Initial steps have been taken at |
Purcell to make this years McClain |
county fair outstrip any previous one
held
Wednesday, March 10, marked the
fifteenth anniversary of Muskogee.
that enterprising city having been in
corporated as town by order of
court on March 10. 1898.
Work will soon start on the new
dormitory at the State College for
Women at Chickasha for which an
appropriation of $4,000 was made
last week. The building will be ready
for occupancy by September.
Glen Barnhill, indicted by the Cot.
ton county grand jury on two charges
OF horse stealing. one for burglary
and the fourth for "panderng." which
has to do with white slavery" was