Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1915-07-02
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w II Warnack was In bennington
on business last Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Anderson were
up from Bokchito Monday.
Prof. A. L. Macready was IN from
Mead on Tuesday OF this week.
w. H. Cummins was in from Ma
toy on business Monday Of this week.
John Hall was up from Bennlng-
ton on business Friday and Saturday
Lewis A. Austin returned wednes-
day from a business trip in Marshall
county.
Frank Albright was up from Box
chito attending to business matters
Monday.
w. c. Carter OF Bokchito spent
Friday night and Saturday here on
busines.
Fred Bentley was up from his
place southwest of Colbert Tuesday
on business.
Tom Hamilton, cashier OF the First
National Bank at Colbert. was here
Tuesday attending TO business.
Mr.. Wilson. of the Wilson Mercan-
tile Company OF Achille. was In the
city on business matters Tuesday.
Judge Jesse NJ. Hatchett and fam
lily returned Saturday fro ma several
days fishing trip among the noun
tains east OF here.
County Farm Agnt L. II. Fash was
in Bokchito Monday spending the day
with the boys and girls corn clubs
Of that community.
]. NJ. Abbott and family left Wed
nesday for sulphur. where they will
spend several weeks. after which
they will visit in South Texas.
Lane Hart, who lived in Durant
for several years. where he served
in the fire department. has returned
from Texas and will reside here in
the future.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank p Hynds have
returned from their honeymoon trip
to Galveston. and are living in the
Geo. Myers home on Sixth Avenue
and Elm street.
The Bryan County Singing Con-
vention has been called to meet at
Roberta Saturday and Sunday OF next
week. by w. w. wessinger, chairman
of the organization.
Ex-United States Senator Joseph
Weldon Bailey of Texas passed thru
Durant Sunday on the Katy Flyer en-
route to Washington, d. c., where
he went on business.
b. G. Brown. OF Brown g. Co,
plans the erection of handsome new
two-story dwelling on his lots on
West Main street. and is now adver-
tisng for bids on same.
Green Thompson left Wednesday
for McAlester to attend a meeting OF
the Southeastern Oklahoma Farm
Bureau, which was recently organ
lied to bring farmers into this coun-
try.
r. d. Hardy. formerly fthis city,
but now OF Hugo. was here the end
of the week on business and visiting.
Reuben recently took the State Bar
examination and made the third high
est grade OF all who took the exam
ination.
Harvey Wilson was here Tuesday
from Bokchito to meet Mrs Wilson.
who retured from "a visit at Gaines
vile. They we're accompanied home
by Mrs. Lee White, who will visit
them for a while.
Gray 'I'ckels of Matoy, and Ben
Hultsman Of Albany. members OF
the Board of County Commission
err, now setting as a board of equal
ization. spent Sunday at their re-
spective homes, returning here Mon
day morning.
Commissioner Nickels OF Matoy
who is here attending the Board OF
Equalization, informs us that his
daughter. Nepple. aged fifteen, stuck
a piece OF wire clear through her
foot last Friday, inflicting a painful
but not serious wound.
While playing in Shuler Park on
Sunday, c. F.. Jr., son Of c. p. Alb
bott, got mixed up in a barb wire
fence and cut deep three-inch cash
clear through his cheek. which re-
quired several stitches 10 close.
County Farm Agent L. II. Fash is
exhibiting a bunch of Timothy grass,
which he gathered on the right of
way of the Frisco railroad at Box
chito. and which is three feet high.
Mr.. Fash says, had the grass been
allowed to grow II would have been
at least a foot higher.