The Seminole Drug store in Wewoka was raided and 30 bottle of Jamaica Ginger was confiscated. A charge of maintaining a public nuisance was filed against the owner.

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Heavy trucks "are perforating the water mains" and Mayor Harber and other city officials "are worried about the resulting leaks." The mayor announced "there are now 100 water meters on hand to be installed for those who have waited so patiently."

The mayor also called on residents to cooperate with the city by understanding that when the water is cut off it is to repair broken water lines and "to get your water at the nearest place until we get the line fixed."

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The architect’s picture of First Baptist church was printed in The Producer. The story said the church plans were drawn by Dr. O.E. Burroughs of Baptist Sunday School Board in Nashville, Tenn. The building is to be 60 x 110 feet, three stories including basement, to seat 750 including the balcony and will accommodate 1,000 in Sunday school. "The main auditorium spanned by steel and lighted by art glass will be a thing of beauty," the story said.

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Editor Stanton took Shawnee to task for voting against Sunday movies. "The vote was so close no thinking person will regard the decision as indicative of the will of the people," Stanton said. He asked Shawnee voters if they would ban golf, Sunday newspapers and Sunday driving?

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The H & B Auto Laundry" has announced ready for business by H.H. Hilburn, manager. The firm specialized in washing, greasing and storing of automobiles.

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The State Theatre had the Peek-A-Boo players on stage.

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Saturday’s production in the Seminole field was 339,363 barrels of oil from 322 wells in the 24-hour period ending midnight Saturday.

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The Ritz was presenting "Babe Lamarr and her Naughty Naughties."

The Seminole baseball team, with Stovall, Higdon and Magness as the "battery station" won games over Konawa and Sasakwa over the weekend.

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The federal government announced that bootleggers must pay up their income taxes.

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The Seminole General Hospital, under the supervision of Dr. L.S. Johnson and Mrs. J.B. Bush announced the operation equipment that they have ordered for their hospital here has arrived, and in several days all of the equipment will be in readiness. As the hospital has been previously used as a hotel, the roomers are all vacating and in a day or two all of the hospital equipment and beds will be installed."

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The Sunday night storm blew over a rig of the Sinclair company in the south end of the field on a tent injuring the occupants, Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Williams. Neighbors heard the crash and the screams of the couple and they were rushed to Seminole in a large truck "despite the sand, wind and rain."

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News of the overthrow of the Czar and the establishment of a Soviet government "has just leaked out" - to an island in the Bearing sea, that is.

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The young man who created a mild sensation in Seminole a few weeks ago by representing himself as the son of Thomas B. Slick, oil operator and purchasing all manner of fineries for the lady of his affection, today was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary at McAlester on a forgery charge. He entered a plea of guilty.

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A Page One story said "There must be 5,000 men and women at the state capital asking for the 77 tag agency jobs."

Commissions were received yesterday for six new school board members replacing the former three member school board. The City of Seminole becoming a City of First Class made it necessary to change the school board under state law. Named to the Board by Governor Henry Johnston were W.A. Brame, First ward; Dick Doak, Second ward; Geo. Killingsworth, Third ward; Shelby Livingston, Fourth ward; Grant Hodges and F.B. Carden, outlying district.

The new board replaced C.J. Livingston, C.J. Grimshaw and J.B. Allen.

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City attorney Robert Burns paid the first traffic fine under the new city traffic ordinances. Burns drove his car to town, parked on Broadway, then hoped the train to Wewoka to try a case. When he returned, his car was impounded at the police station charged with overparking for six hours. Burns paid his fine, the report said.

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Services were conducted today in First Methodist church for John Cross, county highway paptrolman killed by robbers southwest of the city.

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The C.R. Anthony Company advertised they are open "In the Grisso Building, 204 Broadway, first door west of Desborn Hotel."

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A news story and an advertisement said the Piggly Wiggly store is ready for warm weather with a new refrigerator cooler by double Frigidaire units and "big as an ordinary room.

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A Saturday morning April 2 EXTRA was issued by The Producer reporting the death of Harvy Shepherd who was stabbed to death "on lower Main street in front of The 49 Dance Hall." Peg Stockton, former deputy sheriff of Hughes county gave himself up to Peace Justice Heath. No witnesses to the fight would talk today but it was learned the former deputy had confiscated a car belonging to Shepherd and The Producer expressed the belief this was the cause of the fight.

The "remains of Shepherd are at Clark-Darland chapel." Shepherd was 25 years of age.

City Attorney Robert Burns reported a settlement with Ralph Kumier and Jack Owens, district manager and state president of OG&E on a rebate of funds for water pumping electricity used by the city. The new rates agreed upon resulted from increased volume of electricity used by the city, Burns reported to the council.

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A new City Hall on Fourth street between Broadway and Oak is nearing completion or the planning stages, Frank B. Reeves, resident engineer of the V.V. Long engineering company announced. "The city hall will be an elaborate two-story building, and will be built in such manner that there will be ample room for the fire department to be housed on the first floor. There will also be an additional space left for any new fire fighting equipment that the city may buy from time to time.

"The new city jail will occupy the first floor and will be modern in all respects. It will be built so as to accommodate about 20 prisoners at one time.

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Western Union reported enlarging of the local office has been completed and there is now two sending and two receiving operators on duty and the number of messages is exceeding 500 per day.

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Oil production for the 24 hours ending Monday midnight was 318,000 barrels from 329 wells. Storms caused some reduction.

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The new concrete reservoir for the city water system is under construction and cement walls are being built around the new city water system pumps, Engineer Reeves reported. "The high service pump house is nearly complete and will have three high speed water pumps installed."

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A 21-room all-furnished hotel at Bowlegs was offered for sale. The Cot House and Cafe at 508 North Main was for sale.

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F.V. Hopkins, a workman for OG&E was injured and hospitalized when another workman dropped a chisel on his head.

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A paving contract was underway and brick and cement was arriving daily for the project. The project is for seven blocks of First street, eight blocks on Broadway, four blocks on Main street, six blocks on Oak street and Evans street two blocks.

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Rains and storms over the central and western areas of the state killed two and injured many, The Producer reported.

A pocket book was found in a "local lumber yard" containing a suicide note, today’s Producer said. The story got full page headlines saying "Police find Suicide Letter." An Odd Fellows card showing the person’s name was found in the pocket book and a tax receipt in the pocket book was for land in Grayson County, Texas. The note said "do not blame anyone else for my death. It is by my own hand. The one who should have been my wife in the past has disgraced my name," The Producer quoted from the note.

Pal Noe, city clerk, and V.V. Long, city engineer, said the note was a hoax. Police Chief Day said his records contained no report of any body being found in the area. The Producer kept the "suicide note" to see if any one would clear up the mystery.

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Seminole Post Office sold $258,927.01 worth of money orders is the quarter of Jan.-Feb.-March, Roy Hoffman, postmaster reported today. Stamp sales were $16,254.72 for the period. "The line at the general delivery windows usually extend out into the streets." The post office receives 120 sacks of mail each day and sends out an average of fifty sacks daily, the PM said.

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A.L. Clark of Bristow is looking over the proposed location for an ice plant in partnership with G.E. Bullington. Clark plans to build a 60-ton capacity ice plant for the city. Clark and Bullington sought Corporation Commission approval for ice plants in New Lima and Seminole.

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Mrs. Clarence Hoskins has local doctors worried. She swallowed a safety razor blade yesterday but has shown no indication of needing surgery, the doctors reported today. Seems Mrs. Hoskins was cutting her fingernails with the razor blade, started to coughing and put her hands to her mouth. Somehow, "she sucked the blade down her throat and swallowed it."

James Larson, a lineman with Oklahoma Gas and Electric company, was killed instantly when his elbow came in contact with a 4,000 volt line at the substation two miles south and one mile east of Seminole. Larson had come to America from Sweden and joined the OG&E construction crew.

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Pott County commissioners announced they would gravel the road between St. Louis (Oklahoma) and Pearson Switch to help the oil field work going full blast in that area.

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Seminole Electrified Water company opened for business today. Owned by Earl Moore and P.D. Spillman, the firm offers water which has been "electrified" with modern equipment.

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Ice boxes, up to 50-pound capacity, were on sale at Burtons. From small ones with limited food space for $12.50, the boxes were priced for 50-pounders up to $47.50.

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Barnsdall Oil Company staked the No. 1 Cudjo and the No. 2 Davis, both in 11-9-5, the Earlsboro field.

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An engineering report by V.V. Long Engineering company was started as a "serial feature" in The Producer. The report stated the city has 15,000 feet of two-inch and one and one-half-inch cast iron pipe installed in the city water system but some of it needs replacing and most of it needs lowering. The cost of this was estimated at $5,000. The report recommended 4,300 feet of new 6-inch and 500 feet of 4-inch in other areas, along with connections, fire hydrants and installation at cost of $15,000 for three projects.

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Local league of Young Democrat members left for Woodward to attend a state meet of the LYD and hear Cordel Hull, former national Democratic chairman "list the inequities of the Republicans."

Asher, the new oil town, is all agog over a doodlebug, or "Whatchecallit," that has been up and down and all around.

None of the inhabitants have had a peek at the doodlebug and curiosity is reaching the breaking point.

It is reported the doodlelbug which is doodle bugging in Asher is of an unusual size and is hauled from lot to lot and from farm to farm in a car.

They dash up and set the thing down, one witness says, without so much as a "howdy," and begin to figure around. Then they load it up and dash away to another site.

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A local jeweler was in the manufacturing business in Seminole. "Burt "Dad Dodd is rapidly gaining a reputation in Seminole as a manufacturing jeweler. He had made some very pretty lodge emblem rings of white gold that stack up with those made any place. It is not necessary to send out of town for jewelry novelties."

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"The blaze was hot, the flames sticking their hungry tongues high up in an effort to reach the buildings on three sides" was the description of Editor Ted Stanton for a fire last night in the alley back of Smith’s Furniture store. The story climaxed with this "Fortunately there was no wind. Fortunately a lot of people got there to do a lot of fire fighting. Fortunately the fire department was able to cope with the situation. Let’s be awfully careful."

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ITIO drilled in No. 2 Davis in 13-8-6, Bowlegs pool, for 6,428 barrels the first 24 hours. The well bottomed at 4225 feet and had drilled into only one foot of sand.

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Barnsdall Oil and Refining Company was erecting many 80,000 barrel tanks, and also some 55,000 barrel tanks in the Seminole area to serve its Okmulgee refinery. Frank Phillips predicted the Seminole field would taper off at 400,000 barrels per day.

"Storms Deal Death," was the banner headline today. The storms were in Arkansas and Mississippi. Three were killed in Bokoshe, in Sequoyah county in Oklahoma by a twister. 6.12 inches of rain fell at Poteau yesterday and the winds and hail did major damage at Ft. Smith in Arkansas.

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Thursday was scheduled for "The First Big Dollar Day" for this oil boom town.

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Joe Yarber and Judge T.M. Heath have personally "made up" since their "altercation the other day."

Apparently the Judge attempted to arrest Yarber and got slugged. The case was transferred to Judge Con Long’s JP court.

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Plans are rapidly advanced for the Thursday evening Ladies Night dinner by Chamber of Commerce in the Armory Hall. This is to be a general jollification meeting and music and various other forms of entertainment will be provided, Chamber Secretary Seger announced.

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The new cold storage plant being erected on Second street by W.T. Wickham is expected to be 24 x 84 feet with a large basement and a 16 x 24 foot cooler. The building is being erected with appointments suitable to the cold storage business.

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City Attorney Robert Burns had some first hand experience with regard to high water that has been keeping the state and nation aghast. Burns had gone to Duncan to appear in an oil case involving $780,000 in money and property. Burns worked all day in getting the case postponed and while he was successful in this he was unfortunate in getting a way back. Finally leaving on a bus the party came up behind a washed out bridge and there they sat until daylight. No, the city attorney was not in the best of humor this morning.

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The Producer professional directory contained advertisement for auto repairs, auto parts, dining rooms, doctors, insurance, dentists, real estate, shoe shops, tin and plumbing shops, veterinarians, hospital, furniture and photography.

The Rex Theatre was due to open next Sunday. Ted Jones, manager of the Ritz is to be manager of the Rex also. The Dubinsky Stock Company, with a full rail car load of scenery, will open the theatre. Star of the show is Abe Rosewall.

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Editor Stanton wrote a lengthy feature today on "The Long, Long Trail of the Magic Dollar." "Everything in America is based upon the almighty dollar," the editor wrote.

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D.W. Dahlgren, superintendent for Ward, Beekman & Brooks, general contractors who have the city street paving contract, said it would be another week before paving work can start. "We finally got a spur from Rock Island on the Tidal-Osage road. We were all ready to begin when the hard rains and storms came. Now we find the trouble is getting sand and gravel shipped from the other end of the line," Dahlgren said. "The Ward-Beekman people have a formidable array of equipment at their camp," The Producer reported.

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Doctors C.W. and J.A. Bates moved from their offices over the post office to new offices over the Armstrong and Day Drug store. In their new offices the doctors have a reception room.

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T.H. Clark, employee of ITIO was injured when wind blew the roof from a building on the lease where Clark was working. Clark was in Ware hospital being treated for broken ribs.

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A story datelined Norman said "lack of funds have forced the closing of the American Legion Hospital here. Plans for the future have not been decided upon by the board of directors. The institution has been operational at a loss for several months. It was constructed in 1925 at a cost of $30,000 and is one of the best of its kind in the state. An outstanding indebtedness of $16,000 is against the institution. Most of the nurses left last week when there was no funds for their salaries.

Two men were sentenced in Wewoka today for holding up the Ritz theatre in Seminole. The jury gave them 12 years in the penitentiary.

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A campaign was on to raise funds for a local baseball park, grandstands and a facility that could be used for summer baseball and school athletics in winter. The Chamber of Commerce baseball was spearheading the drive.

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The state health department announced one case of typhoid fever and one case of smallpox in Seminole county. The state health office issued a special warning to the county to use special care to avoid typhoid fever.

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The Rex theatre, to open Sunday, advertised office space for rent. "Announcing the opening of the finest office building in Seminole," the Rex advertisement said.

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Leroy Taylor, the owner and Lee Moore, the agent for Vernon Heights Addition to Seminole published an advertisement with a plat of the addition (Strothers south to Simpson and both sides of Timmons and Jefferson streets). The big day was to be Saturday, April 23. Ice cream was to be given away at "Hargis Ice Cream and Sandwich Done, two and one half blocks northwest of the big red school building." Also free items were to be at Dean’s Vernon Heights Grocery on Strothers street. The advertisement also reminded folks that oil scouts meet at the Vernon Hotel on Strothers, just east of the Hargis Dome.

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An almost full page advertisement said "Wanted $25,000," and then set out the needs of Seminole Chamber of commerce and the need for this amount of money to finance a program of salaries of the chamber office, some industry effort, to provide for organized charities, to beautify Seminole," to see that Seminole is properly presented before the world, to build a good school system and to make Seminole a real commercial center.

The will of J. Coody Hogson, "picturesque lawyer" who died recently provided for a school to be established on his 560-acre farm northeast of Wewoka and the school is to be maintained from income from the farm. Hogson left his prized diamond-studded watch to Attorney C. Guy Cutlip and willed his law library, one-half to Cutlip and one-half to T.J. Horsley of Wewoka.

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The Producer opened a column of "Letters From Readers" and the first one published was signed Mrs. R.A.Q. She said, "I have read the town’s ordinances and we, the oil field people feel you are trying to impose on us. We oil field workers will be here today and gone tomorrow. It is not right to tax us people to build your town."

There was also a letter from Dr. O.J. Sheridan "from a son to his mother," and a letter from "a friend of Dogs," urging dog owners to vaccinate their pets.

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On an inside page The Producer printed a picture of a small church, with a big bell tower and steeple, located on a corner, and announced this was the first Methodist church of Seminole, built in 1907. The report said the first Sunday School was in the building "now occupied by George Snyder and Polleck’s restaurant." The first trustees were M.M. Turlington, R.R. Chase and J.P. Allen, Charter members of the church were Mrs. R.H. Chase, Allen, Mrs. Turlington, W.M. Scott and Eva and Nettie Allen.

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Harry Pallady, welding shop owner, flew to Oklahoma City in a visiting friend’s airplane and brought his wife to Seminole. "My wife would rather sit in the front cockpit of an airplane and view the scenery from 2,000 feet up than sit in the most expensive New York opera," Pallady told The Producer.

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Rock Island announced that double tracks will be constructed through Seminole and new sidings put in at Lima, Wewoka, Holdenville and Shawnee to help handle the heavy load of rail shipping to the Seminole oil fields.

Mrs. Mabel Bassett, commissioner of charities and corrections, and Mrs. Edith Evans an inspector from that office spent the day yesterday visiting and inspecting the county jail, hotels, restaurants and other places "coming under their jurisdiction." The Producer reported the ladies "were most gracious in their comments about conditions in Seminole in view of the trying conditions under which the city was operating.

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A county ditcher cut the road out between Bowlegs and Wolf but County Commissioner Johnson said the road would be repaired immediately.

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The Community Institute in the high school, sponsored by the University of Oklahoma and state health department, got off to a good start.

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Holden Atwood and W.H. McMurray took over the Retail Credit Association, Miss Holland has been operating the office. Atwood will run the Association from his office over the Manhattan Cafe. Miss Florence Kiker of Shawnee will be employed in his office

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Editor Ted Stanton came up with this "Sixteen people are running around The Producer frantically trying to earn the money they receive. It’s ‘Ted this and Ted that’ and ‘What about Jack’ and ‘Oh Sadie’ - and to top it off, there’s a city council meeting tonight."

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J.C. Chadwick, "who has been ill for some time" left today for the hospital in Wichita, Kansas. W.F. Fowler, water well contractor of 7 University street, broke his foot and Dr. Harver is attending him.

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Schoollegen, Coble and Ligon filed an application with the Corporation Commission to sell ice "in North Seminole and vicinity." In their application they allege present facilities in Seminole "will not sell less than 25¢ worth of ice."

In a big-type Story on Page One Police Chief W.B. Day informed Seminole residents "The city council, at its meeting last night gave me definite instructions to enforce all traffic laws. They gave me no choice in the matter, but told me very plainly that the laws must be enforced.

"This means that mufflers must be closed in the business district. Parking hours must be observed. Stop signs must be observed.

"I will certainly follow instructions and will immediately assign officers to the traffic division and if you do not obey the ordinances you will be tagged for a fine."

It apparently was clear Chief Day intended to enforce the traffic laws of Boom Town Seminole.

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The city council last night called an election on a $100,000 bond issue. The bond money will extend the water system, ($65,000), extend sewer lines, ($30,000) and complete City Hall, ($5,000) for a total of $100,000, the council reported.

"The city hall as it will be without the additional $5,000 provided for in the bonds will be little more than a bare building. In addition to this a public comfort station for both men and women will be built. This, in itself is worth the whole bond issue in the opinion of many," The Producer reported.

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Editor Ted Stanton reported in his daily column "You know there are a lot of people who are sitting on a main spring waiting for the boom to break. When it does they want to be prepared to spring the trigger and hop into the next boom. They want to get in free after the work is all done. Perhaps they will go to heaven in the same manner. If they would only go now, then business would be good because those remaining would put a little in the hopper."

Opening of the new Rex Theatre was the big event of the weekend in Seminole. The event drew banner headlines. Manager Ted Jones and airplane pilot Eddie Spencer flew over town distributing handbills from the air. Jones announced free theatre tickets will be dropped from the air and soon and suggested everyone watch Producer ads to learn of the date they "can get outside with an umbrella - turned upside down - to catch some free show tickets.

The Ritz theatre announced dropping of vaudeville shows and opening at 10 a.m. and running continuously, pictures only, until 11:30 a.m.

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"Federals Raid City" was the headline in the Monday, April 25 issue of The Producer. The story said "federal officers came through Wewoka, pressed the Wewoka police patrol and their car into service" and the arrested persons, all on whiskey charges, were taken to Holdenville and arraigned before federal Commissioner Charles Grutcher. Federal officers would not give out a list of arrests but The Producer said the arrest list "is a long one and many officers are along the different civic spots, on number 3 highway.

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"City Clerk’s clerk weds drug clerk," said a Producer headline, reporting Mattie Lou Saunders, clerk in the office of City Clerk, Palmore Noe weds George Marshall, clerk in the Owl Drug Store.

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Keystone Drilling company was setting a new pump on the new water well and "people of the city are rejoicing that they are just that much closer to much more water."
"Pete Dauphlin of ITIO had the misfortune of having his back hurt and some ribs broken when his horse fell on him. He is in a local hospital."

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Price Chase, "well known around the Ford business in this city," was married to Miss Dorothy Ayres of Drumright in Drumright at 4 p.m. Easter Sunday.

Bandits took $10,000 from First National Bank of Cushing. The May 1 date was set for Child Health Day in Oklahoma.

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The district court in Oklahoma County held that the state highway department had the power and authority to appoint as many auto license tag collectors as it deemed necessary and whenever it deemed such collectors necessary.

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F.W. Harding of Weleetka was employed today as water superintendent and a report from the state health department reported water from wells No. 1, 2 and 3 is "safe and ready for use."

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The Bowlegs-Lima area of Greater Seminole district was extended one location east by the ITIO’s No. 2 Youngblood in 24-8-6 which made 4,172 barrels the first day from 4,334-35 feet.

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Marland Oil and Philmack Oil companies No. 2 Dobbs in northeast corner of southeast 8-9-5, due east of the city of Earlsboro, gauged 6,930. barrels in the past 24 hours.

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The St. Louis, Mo. Goodwill tour of 100 business men of that city is due in Seminole at 11:46 May 11.

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Albert Walker, "the ice cream man," had lost his ponies, one spotted and one a bay. Finders were urged to return the ponies.

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Juries in district court "showed little sympathy" for narcotics peddlers yesterday. One was given three years in prison, another five years and one was fined $5,000 by Judge George C. Crump.

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A three-year-old child drowned three miles north of town while dipping water from a pond where the family secured water for the household.

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The Seminole Chamber of Commerce and The Producer announced establishment of a "Bureau of Identification." The system provided for all persons to register, either at the chamber or newspaper office and a master-card file will be set up so when others are looking for the persons they can be directed to their address.

Dr. J .N. Harber bought two acres of ground "at the end of Evans street, about six blocks west of Main street out of the dust and noise of downtown," where he announced plans for a hospital, a park and a children’s wading pool. The hospital plans call for a brick building of 24-bed capacity, "modern in every way and will be the best money can buy."

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Editor Ted Stanton castigated Campbell Russell over a petition Russell was circulating to increase the tax on oil "from three barrels out of every hundred produced to five barrels out of each hundred." Stanton said it would damage the oil producer, reduce jobs, and cost the state.

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Seminole police found 60 gallons of corn whiskey "in a house on North Fourth street." Two men were arrested and taken to Holdenville for arraignment before a federal commissioner. "The police poured out the whiskey, durn it."

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"MEN BEWARE, The Women Are Organizing." The story was about the planned organization of a B&PW chapter in Seminole.

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The Chamber of Commerce opened a campaign to oil the streets of the city.

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The first postal Statement of Ownership for The Producer was published showing James T. Jackson and Sadie A. Franklin as sole owners - no bondholders or mortgagors - an average daily circulation of 1,948. A story calling attention to the statement said "This quiets the rumors that ‘this bank or that company’ owns the newspaper."

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Judge G.M. Heath has decided to begin a clean-up campaign in the north end on his own hook. Beginning right now, according to a statement from the magistrate, premises will have to be cleaned up and put in a sanitary condition. The squire has set the time for Tuesday morning, May 3, after which an inspection will be made and a fine imposed on all who have disregarded the order to remove the filth and garbage.

Dikes were dynamited below New Orleans to prevent more floodwater backup in the Mississippi river and consequent flooding of New Orleans. Water poured through the dikes onto old plantations in the area below New Orleans.

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Three youthful bandits robbed the bank at Bluejacket, near Miami, Oklahoma and took $1,500. Officers were trailing them into Missouri as The Producer went to press.

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The Producer announced a Better Homes section will be published Sunday.

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Ed Overholser, president-manager of Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce announced 150 business men of Oklahoma City and a fifty-piece band will make the six-day Goodwill trip starting Sunday, May 15. The trip by train goes into the Texas panhandle, then into southern Oklahoma, through Carter county and the Red River county back into the Seminole oil field area the last day of the trip.

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George Killingsworth was elected president of The Seminole Athletic Association - the organization established to sponsor the Seminole professional baseball team. H.H. Howe is secretary and J.E. Riley is treasurer. P.E. Trammell was elected manager of The Seminole Producers, the Seminole baseball team.

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The state equalization board, composed of Governor Henry Johnston, as chairman, Graves Leeper, secretary of state, Col. R.A. Sneed, state treasurer, John Rogers state examiner and inspector, Harry B. Cordell, chairman of the state board of agriculture and Edwin Dabney, attorney general, were wrestling with the tax levies for railroads and utilities. Johnston charged the rails and utilities with submitting one set of valuation figures for rate-making purposes and a much lower set of figures on which tax levies should be made.

Hijackers entered the Earlsboro Dance Hall at 2 o’clock Sunday morning, murdered Otto Jones, the owner and escaped with the money taken in the Saturday night - Sunday morning dance. No trace of the robber-murderers had been found up to 1 p.m. today (Monday).

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Ted Stanton’s daily column in The Producer gave the telephone company a good verbal spanking for their slowness in getting telephones into the mushrooming community. "Why is it," Stanton asked in his column, "that oil companies can run a cobweb of oil lines all over this county and for miles and miles away to a refinery but the telephone company can’t get a line run three blocks?"

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Last Saturday was wedding day at First Methodist church a Producer story said, Rev. B. L. Williams was busy around his house when A.B. Parker drove up with his bride Imogene Martin, and Rev. Williams performed the ceremony. The couple hadn’t got around the corner until Gordon Price and Romie Burton showed up and wanted a ceremony which Rev. Williams obligingly did.

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Police Chief Tex Day announced the six hour parking law will be strictly enforced. "Now that the streets are dry, we won’t permit cars to be parked on Main street more than six hours," the chief warned. "Maybe when the streets are wet the cars couldn’t be moved?"

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Special constable Hugh Reynolds, assisted by Frank Brown, confiscated "more than a thousand capsules of morphine." The morphine was found on a peddler "in the north end of town" and the constable and Brown raided downtown drugstores and made "a big haul of Jake."

"The Southwest Bell Telephone company has heard the cry and appropriated money for the immediate relief of the congested conditions of the service in Seminole" was the 10-point, two-column lead story in today’s Producer. The story said $40,000 had been appropriated by the headquarters in Oklahoma City to set up five new switchboards sections and 36 men would be in Seminole within a week to start expanding the telephone service.

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The committee in charge of establishing a baseball team in Seminole decided it was too late to start from scratch to prepare the park, recruit a team and have any chance of "being a contender" in the league. It was reported Seminole fans wanted a winning team or they didn’t want one at all.

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J.M. Browne applied to the Corporation Commission for a certificate to operate a bus line from Seminole to Tulsa via Little, Prague, Okemah, Henryetta, Okmulgee, Beggs, Mounds, Kiefer and Sapulpa.

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Work started this morning on Dr. Salzerger’s new hospital on North Second street at Evans. Contractor said he would have it completed in three weeks. "This will be one of the nicest hospitals sin this part of the country," the report said.

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The Producer carried an advertisement announcing opening of The Seminole Steam Laundry "about April 15 with full machine equipment for up to the minute laundry work."

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Earlsboro field’s Wilcox sand development was setting a poor record a news story recounted. Nine wells were producing and six dry holes had been reported in the Earlsboro area from the Wilcox. However the story said Magnolia was opening a pool in 11-9-5 and Prairie Oil and Gas was opening a pool in 24-9-5.

Seminole city firemen, under city Fire Chief Jess Pollock, received high praise today from Mayor Harber and many citizens and city officials for the fine job they did last night fighting the fire in the new Grisso Building at Second and Broadway. A graphic account of the fire fighting and the hazardous work by OG&E crew members in protecting the fire fighters from electric lines, was given in the Page One feature story of the day. Homer Grisso, owner of the building, gave each fireman $10 in appreciation for their work in saving his building.

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Baptist minister Bill Smith told a banquet meeting he had talked with residents of Seminole who had moved their families to Shawnee because Seminole didn’t have good churches. The banquet was the kickoff for a fund drive to build a new Baptist church.

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Walter Wheatley was chosen commissioner of public works at Okmulgee, Konawa voted $13,000 in bonds to improve the water system and $65,000 for a sewer system. Holdenville voted $18,000 in bonds for a "White Way" and R.B. Billingsley was elected mayor. E.C. Aldridge, incumbent mayor of Wewoka defeated C. Guy Cutlip for the office in Tuesday’s voting. Helen Wagoner was being presented in a Lyceum Course at the high school auditorium tonight - she does impersonations and her "southern dialect" is especially entertaining, the announcement said.

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Robert Burns, city attorney was instructed by the city council to negotiate a reduction in electric rates for operation of the city water well pumps.

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Eli L. Admire, editor of the Oilton Gusher, an unsuccessful candidate for city treasurer, shot and killed himself Tuesday night at Oilton.

The Earlsboro semi-pro baseball club is being sponsored by the Earlsboro Chamber of Commerce and the playing field has been donated by W.P. Falkenberg. The area plans a semi-pro oil field league.

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A.E. Watts, a Sinclair vice president was the object of a kidnap attempt.

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Seminole businessmen were warned of fire hazards and possible "fire bugs" moving here. The event was a businessmen’s banquet and the speaker was assistant state fire marshal.

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Magnolia Petroleum got a well in Wilcox sand between 4,279 and 4,284 in 11-9-5 and "opened up a new deep zone area." Tidal Oil No. 6-A Frixco in 26-9-6 was flowing 100 barrels an hour from 4,067 feet in the Wilcox. Carter Oil reported total production of company wells. In the Seminole field is 75,000 barrels daily. The Sinclair company got a 25 million foot gasser at 3626 feet in the Searight pool, 3-9-6. Amerada had 1,000 feet oil in the hole at No. 3 Rascoe in SW of 15-8-6. Depth was 4,060 feet in the Viola lime.

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The Seminole Electrified Water company announced it would open for business "about April 15" on the Shawnee Road, about five blocks from town.

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Fred Johnson, city health officer, served notice on all cafes and grocery stores they would have to "clean house" set up trash burners and put lids on garbage cans.

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President Coolidge vetoes an Independence Bill for the Philippine Islands.

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U.S. Senator J.W. Harreld will testify against Albert Fall in the Teapot Dome case, presenting correspondence he had with Fall on the subject of the oil lease.

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Rube Fulkerson, "A Peer in the Art of Acting," was on stage at the State theater.

Governor Henry Johnston vetoed the Rexroat Bill, a bill passed by the recent legislature permitting natural gas to be pipeline outside the state. Oilmen had been urging Johnston to approve the legislation.

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J.W. Tinsley, who was awarded the garbage and scavenger contract for the city said he would have two of his six wagons ready to start cleaning up the town Sunday morning. Dry garbage charges will be 35 cents per barrel and wet garbage and objectionable matter will be $1 per barrel. Palmlore Noe, city clerk, said no persons other than Tinsley or those working for Tinsley will be allowed to gather garbage within the city.

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Ted Stanton, editor of The Producer said in his Page One column "if the twenty-six blocks of paving is going in could all be dropped into place at one time it would cause a mighty big splash. Seminole preachers are not pikers. Rev. Williams of the Methodists and Rev. Scott of the Baptists are making big plans for beautiful churches and they believe in the future of Seminole. The paving is going down. Pretty homes are sure to come. Roses are certain to bloom in Seminole.

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Here is the lead story in today’s Producer: "Bold bad hijackers being held at the point of a gun by their would-be victims until the arrival of police was the starting and unusual termination of a well laid robbery plot on the Independent lease last night.

"W.M. Maybe and Joe Upton had been to a grocery store and were walking home when the sharp command "Hands Up" rang out on the air.

"Quick as a flash one of the men pulled his gun and caused the hijacker to drop his pistol.

"Ode Lewis and John Goss went after the men. They were taken to Wewoka today by Lewis and booked on a hijacking charge."

Those were "the good old boom days" in Seminole.

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The H & B Auto Laundry" has announced ready for business by H.H. Hilburn, manager. The firm specialized in washing, greasing and storing of automobiles.

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"Editor Livingston of the Seminole County News is busy telling his friends all about the fine time he had motoring around New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, etc. Livingston returned yesterday."

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"All you Boy Scouts, get your lips all puckered up and miss supper tomorrow night. Cause you’re going to need a lot of room for all those watermelons Scoutmaster Williams has in the cooler."

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Seminole police held two men on charges of passing counterfeit $5 and $10 bills. Here is the report on it in The Producer:

Last night at the Carnival, the lady selling tickets at the minstrel show discovered she had a phony $5 bill and the passer was watched until an officer could be found. The man who passed it and his companion, however, did not care for the show and went on through and escaped by crawling from under the tent. An effort was made to cash one at the merry-go-round stand and still another at the "Rat Enter" tent.

When Sims arrived on the scene two of the ticket takers identified the men while the third was not sure. At any rate Sims has evidence or at least information to show that a third man was there and it is presumed that it was to him the money was passed because the men arrested did not have any money on their persons.

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A statewide war on bank bandits, payroll robbers and hijackers has been declared by Governor Johnson.

In a signed proclamation he announced a standing reward of $250 to e paid by the state for the arrest and conviction of every person "who robs or attempts to rob by force or fear, any bank or business institution or any common carrier or any person engaged in his work or any person going to or returning from his work."

Nine men sawed the bars off the county jail at Wewoka and tied blankets together to make a rope and lowered themselves to the ground. Officers had been unable to locate any of the nine. No one knew how the men got the saw blades.

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Curtis McClaskey, a truck driver, was relieved of $35 when two men stepped from behind a box car in the Rock Island yards near the depot. One of the two had a pistol.

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J.E. Livingston was killed and T.D. and Charles Cushenberry were severely burned when they cut into an oil line at their mercantile store at Carter camp two miles north of Seminole. The men thought they were cutting into a water line which they were trying to connect to the North Seminole Mercantile Company store at the Carter Camp.

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Officers Mont Grady and Ode Lewis arrested a couple suspected of selling narcotics. Unable to find the "dope" on the couple, the offices called in a woman and after a thorough "undressing" the dope was found - 40 morphine tablets.

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One man was dead and another being held on a murder charge as a result of a shooting which resulted from a poker game.

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Morgan Drug will reopen after a fire destroyed the building. R.A. Furlow is also opening his barber shop in the same building, "bigger and better than ever."

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A local woman was found beside the road near Holdenville where her husband had thrown her from his car following a fight.

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Oil operators agreed to reduce production to 450,000 barrels per day for a period of 60 days to determine if they could make proration work.

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Fifteen persons were lodged in jail last night and charged with vagrancy.

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Pee Wee and Her Personality Girls are on stage at the Rex.

"The work of officer Jake Sims and Chief John Long reads like the exploits of Sherlock Holmes," the lead Producer story said. The story reported a drug clerk faced a murder charge for administering an overdose of croton oil to a man found dead in the alley a few weeks ago. The officers uncovered a bizarre story of doctored whiskey and an attempt to "knock out" a third person with the doctored corn whiskey the dead man allegedly drank.

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Seminole Legion delegates Harold Turner, Pal Noe, Con Long and Leo Nichols returned from the state convention at Guthrie today. Turner was elected a delegate to the Paris, France, national convention this fall. The Legionnaires elected Frank Douglass of Okemah, a Machine Gun Company Sgt. in the 90th Division, state commander succeeding General Roy Hoffman of Chandler. Shawnee was selected for the state convention next year.

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"Bowlegs, as picturesque as its name, has set an example of old fashioned get-up-and-get-energy that other towns could do well to emulate," The Producer editor said in reporting Bowlegs and Seminole residents raised the money to improve the sandy road south of Bowlegs into the Little River oil field.

"One of the Seminole men expressed doubt Bowlegs could raise its share of the needed money. To which a Bowlegs resident replied ‘Is Zat So", and proceeded to start off the contributions which have reached total of $1,000," the news report said.

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A man working for Tulsa Rig and Supply company and living with his wife in a tent on the company property across the street from City Hall, was arrested last night on a warrant from Washington county. "It seems there is a place near Bartlesville called Pantan. Recently an oil field fight started there. It developed into a real he-man fight were hard blows were struck. The Seminole man walked away from that fight. Police Officer Jake Sims said today, but his adversary didn’t get up. He was dead. The man will be returned to Bartlesville to explain how the fight started and to justify himself or he will face manslaughter charges."

The Corporation Commission Tuesday ratified the agreement of oil men of the Seminole field to hold production to 450,000 barrels per day.

Eight 55,000 barrel storage tanks were completed in the Seminole field last week. A field survey shows the area has 223 tanks of 55,000 barrel capacity, 96 of 80,000 barrel capacity and eight 10,000 barrel tanks.

Amarada reportedly had 986,601 barrels in storage; Barnsdall 701,582 barrels; Carter 1,344,100 barrels; ITIO 3,287,233 barrels; Magnolia 3,493,795 barrels; Prairie 9947,102 barrels; Pure 747,654 barrels and Slick 703,454 barrels. A dozen other companies had storage reported from Independent’s 3,500 barrels to Empire’s 499,325 barrels.

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J.W. Fowler has been functioning as city judge and justice of the peace while the regular judge Con Long, was in Guthrie attending the American Legion convention. Judge Fowler took over when the prisoners "got too thick in the city jail."

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A young man was dispatched to district court by Judge Con Long when he was charged with attempting to steal a Chrysler from the C&H Garage. When he was caught and run out, he circled the block and went back into the garage and cranked up a Nash Roadster.

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A speaker at the World Federation of Education admonished the USA that the country should provide sex education (sound natural?).

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A touring car-oilfield truck collision put Everett Freeman, 17, in Salzburg Hospital with internal injuries and many body bruises.

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Earl Morris, a driller, was injured hoisting pipe at 3 a.m. today on a drilling well. The cat line broke, releasing an 8-inch joint of pipe on Morris.

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"The short skirts the flappers are wearing make men good-lookers."

Rev. B.L. Williams in a Page One story reported he is back on the job as Methodist minister in Seminole after an enjoyable vacation fishing in Arkansas. He reported preaching in his mother’s old church in Arkansas where the minister was baptized.

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Seminole Unit of the Oklahoma National Guard Co. L. 179th Infantry leaves Saturday morning for Ft. Sill and the annual two week encampment. First Lt. Harold Turner is excused from the camp because he is leaving for Paris, France and the National American Legion convention meeting there September 1.

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Governor Henry Johnston denied Texas requisition papers for Joe Alvarado, old time Western gunfighter and a former federal officer. Alvarado is charged in Texas with bank robbery. The Oklahoma governor said Alvarado had helped run the Kimes gang out of Oklahoma and he "had no faith in the new robbery charges" filed against the ex-federal officer.

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Rev. Troutman, Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Floyd, their grandchildren, Iva and Ova Reynolds, and Mr. and Mrs. Mansur returned to Seminole today from Kentucky where they have been holding Holiness Church revivals. They reported 67 conversions in Kentucky.

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T.H. Moore, prizefighter with a visiting carnival, reported to Salzburg hospital this morning with a wrist broken in two places. Moore said he hit somebody too hard.

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"Inez, The Original Dancing Girl," was scheduled for The State stage in "Red Hot Mama."

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Jimmy Hicks and Johnny Cruise are managing Fred Whittingten, prizefighter they claim is the Southwest welterweight champion. Whittington meets Berne Irvine Thursday night in the weekly boxing bout main event in the Seminole armory.

Ted Stanton, Producer editor, writes an "Editorial of Thanks" because the predicted typhoid epidemic has not struck Seminole - "and the hot summer is half over" he wrote.

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Assistant County Attorney Bohannon has new offices in Homestake Building here. "He has also taken a few inches off his belt," The Producer reporter said. "He does not go into court with a lot of rot that will take up time and finally be dismissed. Those he does prosecute he prosecutes with all he has and is creating a good impression around city hall,

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Will Grady’s wife was in town, arriving from Louisiana, "to surprise him." The Producer, asking for any one who knows Grady to tell him his wife is here, commented: "It is just another case of the wrong impression that Seminole seems to obtain throughout the land. "Nobody seems to realize that this oil field is wide and broad and deep."

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Flood waters on the North Canadian River west of Shawnee and near Dale caused traffic to Oklahoma City from Seminole and Shawnee to detour through Meeker.

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Mayor Harber reported he had been answering the phones for many months when folks were calling to find out when they "can get a little water." Now, the mayor says, he is getting calls "about too much water." The water tower has been running over, the mayor said, and folks in the vicinity complain the deluge of water is ruining their yards. ""But the twinkle in the mayor’s eye indicates he’s prefer calls about too much water than calls about when folks can get water."

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Rock Island railway advertised, twelve auctions of items shipped to Seminole but unclaimed. The items ranged from a case of canned corn to a large shipment of dry goods.

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Hosey’s Auto Palace opened today at First and Broadway. One quart of oil was given away with each five gallons of gasoline as an attraction for the opening. H.M. Hosey was listed as proprietor.

Lyman Nowell, age 14, was driving on North Second street near Petty Cash Grocery store when the car struck two seven-year-old boys, Raudell Cochran and Merle Rogers. the two boys are in Ware hospital. Both miraculously escaped death. "Newell is feeling mighty blue."

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Good Hope School, two miles north and one mile west of Seminole will add a high school course this year.

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The Producer announced the new Banner Edition is about ready to go to press. "It will show Seminole is a city of homes and churches and not shacks and saloons," the announcement said.

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Zoning Commissioner Paul Meeting "has constructed a home for himself and family at 217 West College." Meeting is zoning commissioner of the city of Seminole. He is demonstrating his confidence in the future of the city by building this home "which cost Mr. Meeting right at $4,000."

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The zoning commission is ready to report to the city council, Mr. Meeting said. One man told The Producer "drillers and tool dressers are people just like folks and they want good homes."

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Judge Crump ruled a grandmother inherited from an Indian child (a grandson) when the child’s parents died. The case was Lena vs. Goforth and more than 20 lawyers were involved in the case. Oil was being produced on the Indian land involved.

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Joe Alverado announced he is again serving as special investigator for Governor Johnson. Alvarado, a two-gun man who was recently charged with bank robbery in Texas, was freed of a grand larceny charge in Osage county.

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Bill Childers and Dan Stoker "old cronies of Rev. Scott of First Baptist church, who now live in Enid, attended the big revival, meeting at First Baptist church last night." The church is starting a campaign to raise $25,000 to complete the $60,000 new building at Second and Evans. Rev. Naney of Wewoka, with his assistant pastor, Bob Turner, are providing the music for the four-night revival. "Turner is a whole show by himself," the reporter said.

City officers were elated "and others who received the information threw their hats in the air," The Producer reported when it was learned Rock Island railroad did more than $7,000,000 in business from Seminole in July."

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Street Commissioner Deck Wright, Fire Chief Pollock, Police Chief Long and City Treasurer Seger were named by the city council as a City traffic Committee at the council meeting last night.

Wright asked the council what to do about cleaning city streets and the council informed the commissioner he had that responsibility. "A large new street sweeper is needed", Wright said.

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Seminole police are receiving a lot of praise in letters from persons who have visited Seminole and from relatives of persons who have been involved with the police, Mayor Harbor reports.

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Twenty six arrests yesterday put a total of $794 in the city bond account in Judge Con Long's court.

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Arranggements have finally been completed to get water pumped into the new swimming hole in Agrerian Park for which Rev. B.L. Williams and his Boy Scouts have worked so hard and so faithfully.

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J.O. Templeton, Deck Wright, D.L. Nichols and Frank Reeves were named by city council as the committee to secure the right of way for new city sewer system. The sewer line is the "next big project tbr the city."

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When L.C. Clark of ClarkDarland company came to Seminole two months ago, he was naturally anxious to have his wife and 7-yearold son with him as soon as possible and contemplated building a small make shift home which would be temporary.

He and Mrs. Clark looked over the situation here and decided they would be glad to always call Seminole home and raise their boy in Seminole schools. The decision resulted in a new $6,000 home just completed at 425 Highland street. This move of the Clark family is but another indication that Seminole is to be a city of fine homes, schools and churches.

"Editor Livingston of the Seminole County News is busy telling his friends all about the fine time he had motoring around New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, etc. Livingston returned yesterday."

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"All you Boy Scouts, get your lips all puckered up and miss supper tomorrow night. Cause you’re going to need a lot of room for all those watermelons Scoutmaster Williams has in the cooler."

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Seminole police held two men on charges of passing counterfeit $5 and $10 bills. Here is the report on it in The Producer:

Last night at the Carnival, the lady selling tickets at the minstrel show discovered she had a phony $5 bill and the passer was watched until an officer could be found. The man who passed it and his companion, however, did not care for the show and went on through and escaped by crawling from under the tent. An effort was made to cash one at the merry-go-round stand and still another at the "Rat Enter" tent.

When Sims arrived on the scene two of the ticket takers identified the men while the third was not sure. At any rate Sims has evidence or at least information to show that a third man was there and it is presumed that it was to him the money was passed because the men arrested did not have any money on their persons.

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A statewide war on bank bandits, payroll robbers and hijackers has been declared by Governor Johnson.

In a signed proclamation he announced a standing reward of $250 to e paid by the state for the arrest and conviction of every person "who robs or attempts to rob by force or fear, any bank or business institution or any common carrier or any person engaged in his work or any person going to or returning from his work."

The Seminole City Council annexed three new city additions to enlarge the city. Vernon Heights is in northwest part of the city. Terrace Garden Addition takes in the northeast section but does not include "the North Main street area. The third addition was Southwest Addition No. 2 and was south of Rock Island and west of First street.

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M.A. Anderson and Swede Jackson were written up as the bricklayers who laid paving bricks on Seminole’s downtown streets. Anderson laid 44,782 bricks one day, his foreman told The Producer. They were laying bricks on East Oak street in front of The Producer office.

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OG&E announced it is completing its Macomb substation and that town will have electric lights in a few days.

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Many barns and small buildings in Okemah and Okfuskee county were damaged last night by heavy winds.

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Panhandle dining room advertised chicken dinners for 50 cents. The Panhandle was at 411 North Main.

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Warrants for the arrest of six Seminole deputy sheriffs, on charages of extortion, had been issued today, with further arrests anticipated in an extensive investigation of alleged illegal raids and arrests in the Seminole county oil fields.

Following the alleged wholesale conditions in plying of unlawful business in the name of the law, County Attorney Homer M. Bishop has instigated a campaign against raids without warrants, false arrests, and the taking of illegal cash bonds.

Each will be required to post $1,000 bond or go to jail, County Attorney Bishop said. The charge of extortion carries a maximum penalty of a year in jail and $500 fine.

While he expected further arrests, Bishop declined to outline the scope of the investigation.

The Pure oil company fire east of the city was described as follows in this date’s Producer.

The burned and charred body of one man lies at the Clark-Darland mortuary, six other men are suffering minor burns, the entire loading station of the Pure Oil Company, a mile east of town on the Rock Island right- of-way, is a mass of ruins and debris as a result of a fire which started of unknown origin at 3:30 this morning.

The Pure Oil loading plant was of considerable importance, accommodation for the handling of 28 cars at a time being in full operation. The capacity, 28 cars, were at the station when the fire was discovered, according to information given out this morning, but the Rock Island switching crew was able to remove 27 cars before the fire reached them. One car of oil became ignited and burned.

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About 30 people were ready to say "Good Morning" to Judge Con Long this morning following the Saturday and Sunday activities of the Seminole City and County Police. The usual number of drunks were on hand and the list today was varied by the addition of a few fights, a case or two of possession, an adultery case, and of course the vags and investigation took up the usual space on the blotter.

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Former Mayor M. McCumber claims to have determined that ten cars a minute is the average which passes his house daily. McCumber lives at Second and Seminole streets. He sits on his porch and counts the cars. This "adds up to 600 cars an hour and 14,000 cars each day," The Producer reporter wrote.

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Okmulgee mortician Arthur Turner, driving near Beggs, with his arm protruding out the window of his car, had the arm "sheared off at the elbow by a passing truck."

A shopkeeper on the Holland Lease about six miles northwest of Seminole was shot to death last night in his room at the Store. Hitchhikers were the suspects in the crime.

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Here is the story of Seminole police and two hi-jackers:

Within a few minutes after W.E. Jackson of the Brown Motor Company, 4th and Broadway reported to the police last night that he had been hijacked, officer Mont Grady stepped out and not only maintained the reputation of the Seminole Police Department for quick action, but enriched himself to the tune of $500 if the reward of $250 each for the arrest of the hi-jackers offered by Governor Johnston stays put.

Seminole police have already established an enviable record for the rapid manner in which they work. They are known to be quick. They have been successful in making some important captures in a few hours, but when Grady got the hi-jackers last night things began to develop a little faster than even Mort Grady, accustomed to such things, was looking for.

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Philips Petroleum Company announced perfection of a new aviation fuel, a special gasoline for airplane motors.

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Jess Pollock, proprietor of Liberty Cafe advertised his "well cooked food is good for your health."

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Rev. B.L. Williams, Methodist minister, made the following appeal in a Page One Producer story:

"The father sick, the mother weak and worn, one little child not expected to live and four other babies actually hungry is the startling revelation of a case coming to the attention of Rev. Williams of the Methodist Church and related to The Producer this morning.

"The Rev. Williams suggested that some people who have an hour or two of time a day could devote it to helping wash the babies, help keep them clean. They need everything from food on down. If there are any good Samaritans in Seminole who want to help with a little cash, groceries, clothing and time to nurse the pretty little babies and per chance same some useful lives telephone to 93 and ask for Rev. Williams.

A well-camouflaged still was discovered in a house in Seminole today by Seminole police. A gas stove, without gas connections and a mash barrel in the attic behind a false wall helped conceal the illegal operations.

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Seven dusky bells from South Wewoka street and nine past masters of the art of "rolling them bones" were taken up by Geo. Brigman and squad last night and business picked up in Judge Long’s court this morning as a consequence.

The girls had been complained of so much for inciting people into their places that Brigman took a squad and cleaned out the gang. Seven names of the women were on the dotted line on the blotter this morning while nine dotted lines were required to list the crap shooters.

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A tank battery of Sinclair Oil Company on the Taylor farm and a Sinclair oil well in 22-8-6, Bowlegs pool, were both on fire today. The explosion at the tank battery severely burned James L. Newlin, an employee of Sinclair.

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A federal dry agent was bound over to face trial on a murder charge in the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old boy at Pitcher.

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Editor Ted Stanton commented on being "hoggish" and not stopping to pick up hitchhikers, suggested "it’s better too look hoggish than it is to look natural on the mortician’s table.

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Jake Sims and a deputy Bob Duncan nabbed a man wanted in Detroit on inter-state car theft charges today.

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Jimmie Hicks of Oil Exchange Athletic Club announced twenty four rounds of "fast boxing" is scheduled for Friday night’s event in the Seminole armory.

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A prisoner escaped the Tecumseh jail and was arrested in Seminole today. The Seminole officers notified Tecumseh and the jailer there was surprised to learn the prisoner had escaped. He hadn’t been missed.

Okfuskee county sheriff Charles Hendrix was arrested for aiding his father, a federal prisoner, to escape from jail. The Producer quoted Hendrix who is called "The Cowboy Sheriff" as saying "anyone who hasn’t nerve enough to let his father out of jail hasn’t nerve enough to be sheriff."

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Dr. L.M. Doss, president of Seminole Motor Company, posted a $15,000 bond and was named a "full-fledged" tag agent today.

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Owner of a Buick auto at Bowlegs loaned the car to a friend. Then he decided to "play a joke" on said friend and called Seminole police, told them it had been stolen and giving them a detailed description of the car. The police of Seminole found it parked and towed it to the station. "That is a good way to get someone killed," a police officer said, pointing out that had police seen the car being driven by the friend, and the friend hadn’t complied promptly with police orders to stop, he might have been shot. Seminole police didn’t think much of the "joke."

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Seminole County Commissioners agreed to build the paved road from Wewoka to Seminole and to pave a road from Wewoka north through Cromwell to the Okfuskee county line and south to Sasakwa and on the Ada bridge.

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Seminole and Hughes County Commissioners employed a highway patrolman to patrol the highways and roads between Wewoka and Holdenville. The trooper resigned, announcing the job was too much and too dangerous at night for one man.

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Two hospitals, the Knight Hospital and the General Hospital, were under construction at Wewoka.

Seminole tribal members were in disagreement over whether the tribe should have a Chief "for one day" to sign contracts with attorneys who have agreed to sue the government for funds allegedly due the tribe.

The last Chief was Mrs. Alice Davis who had custody of The Great Seal of the Seminoles. The report today said no one knows where that seal is at present. The tribal members reportedly said Mrs. Davis refused to sign the deed to the Emahaka school land, even though her son-in-law General W.S. Key, was the highest and best bidder. The segment of the Seminole tribe wanting a "one-day Chief" sought to have Harry Tiger appointed.

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Little River townsite in the NW of 11 and the SW of 2 in 7-6, advertised town lots will be auctioned for two days starting at 1 p.m. on August 30. The site is eight miles west and three miles south of Wewoka; eight miles east and two miles south of Maud; ten miles south and two miles east of Seminole; and eight miles south of Lima. The little River Townsite company listed F.M. Dennedy as sales manager.

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Earl Davis, Seminole jeweler, finally located the man who gave him a hot check three months ago. The man was in the West Virginia penitentiary.

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Seminole Lions Club was organized in Seminole and a banquet in the basement of the First Baptist church last night was host to Lionesses and to District Secretary Cain. Chester Gates was named temporary secretary of the club and a nominating committee was named consisting of Elmer Harber, Doc Grisso, Coleman Davis, L.W. Kitchens and Jess Pollock.

It was decided to hold noonday luncheons in the Baptist church every Thursday.

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H.T. Riddle of First National Bank, who has been out of town, was asked if he had been on a vacation to which he replied, "Naw, I’ve just been over in Arkan-saw."

Seventeen Seminole grocers were arrested for staying open Sundays. Only stores which sell milk and fresh meat are permitted to open Sundays. Judge Con Long told the seventeen to be on their way but "to sin no more."

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State theater invited all kids in town who will be school age and will start to school next Monday, to attend a free picture and vaudeville show Wednesday afternoon.

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The Oklahoma State Fair announced it will present a huge night fireworks spectacle, "The Fall of Try," a 500-foot stage each night at the upcoming state fair.

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Coach Woodall says he has looked over the football squad prospects and thinks he will have a winning season for Seminole high school.

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A man who was reported to have died from drinking too much alcohol, was found today in Pat’s and Fat’s Blacksmith shop. The man reportedly lives in Wewoka.

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Floyd Barton is working double shifts at the fire department while Fireman Everett Broadnex is in Texas.

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First National Bank warned forged checks on Edmundsen Drilling Company and on C.C. Clay are circulating in the area.

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Yale Rooms in Earlsboro were advertised for sale. "Best offer takes it," the ad said.

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Seminole Motor Company salesmen L.M. Doss, J.P.E. Bowles and Edgar W. Marshall asked prospective car purchasers to "Wait for the new Ford."

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The Producer said, Miss Sadie Franklin "fainted" the first time she left Kansas" when a polite man walked up to The Producer office counter and said "Has your missing persons column ever heard of the Burger Boys?" Miss Franklin said the name was familiar but what was their first names? "Ham and Lim" the nice police man said.

Two prisoners from Seminole County were among four convicts who died in the McAlester prison as a result of drinking wood alcohol from the prison paint shop.

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Ted Stanton, in his Page One editorial, urged Seminole telephone users not to cuss the telephone girls for the difficulty in getting the calls through. "The girls are not responsible for the heavy load on the inadequate phone system," Stanton said.

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Oil field mules, wagon and harness were advertised for sale by Tim Stone.

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The oil shutdown was starting. Saturday morning’s gauge showed 526,467 barrels for 24 hours but the Sunday morning gauge was down to 514,503 barrels.

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The First National Bank advertised a warning to be on the outlook for Carter Oil Company checks signed by J. Glen Jerome. The checks were lost and are expected to turn up with forged endorsements. They were made to L. Wilkerson, Byron Knight, E.E. Copeland, B.L. Rucker, A.E. Hendrick, J.A. Smith, C.E. Scott and Guy Nall.

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"A spick and span new Ford Roadster" was reported stolen by a salesman visiting the city. Two youths who gave Seminole as their home address were in jail in Tecumseh charged with the car theft. They were arrested by the Wanette Town Marshal while riding in the car.

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George Killingsworth, president of Seminole school board, is home from a three-week motor trip through Texas and ready for the school board meeting Monday. Killingsworth said the family enjoyed the motor trip, he is glad to be home, and "is sitting pretty" for the Monday evening school board session.

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A son was born to Raymond and Clarice Fulkerson August and a son born to William and Mintha Edwards August 2.

Seminole county was leading the state in car sales "so far this year,’ The Producer announced. The report said the state is starting to crack down on motorists who drive cars in the state without a license.

R.L. Seaman, secretary of the state highway commission wrote all county sheriffs reminding them that 60 percent of the auto license money remains in the county where it is collected. Seaman urged county sheriffs to help enforce the license tag law.

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The street running between Sun Lumber company and the Pentecostal Holiness Church has been renamed Walnut street. It was called Seminole Avenue but there is already a Seminole street and the names are confusing.

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Street lights were ordered installed in 38 locations by the city council last night. The council is discussing traffic stop lights at some of the city street intersections.

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The "Chevvies" had to buy ice cream for the "Fords" at the new Baptist church last night. The teams were in a money-raising contest for the new church. Juanita Morphew led the Fords and Orville Jones led the Chevvies.

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Fred Taylor of the City Barber Shop announced the purchase of the Commercial Hotel Barber Shop and invited his customers to his new location.

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Circulation Manager McDowell advertised for Producer carriers who "can earn from $3 to $15 weekly during the school term carrying Producer routes. The Producer circulation manager announced the newspaper was going to use "the same system of carrier delivery as big city newspapers use."

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The Chase Building at the corner of Oak and Main is being remodeled for a new store. The Style Shop to be operated by Joe Riff and Sam Sharpstein.

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Women may be the weaker vessel but she contains the stronger spirit, The Producer opined.

All operators in the Seminole field have signed up for the shut down and reduction to 450,000 barrels daily.

James T. Jackson wrote a Page One editorial spaced into one-line sentences - charging the oil producers could never reduce the oil production in the Seminole field. Jackson said they might as well try to stem the "flooding Mississippi River."

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An Indian man stopped by the side of the road near Holdenville and started across the road to a watermelon wagon. C.O. Hendrick, editor of The Wewoka Capital Democrat, was driving behind the Indian and was unable to stop. Hendrick’s car struck and killed the Indian.

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Dr. J.N. Harber, mayor, is fitting up an office next to his medical office over First National Bank to be used as a private office for conducting city affairs.

"Folks can talk in private with the mayor when the office is finished," the report said.

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A woman came to The Producer asking help in finding her 14-year-old daughter. She said a man drove up to their home in a camp on Wewoka Creek and asked the girl if she wanted to work - said his wife was ill and needed help in the home. The girl left with the man but the mother didn’t get the name of the man or the address where her daughter was supposed to be going. She wanted help in finding the girl.

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La Salle Apartment House advertised "one room efficiency apartments. Next door to City Hall."

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Burton’s Furniture Store, corner of Main and Evans, offers "Credit to whom credit is due."

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The State Theatre was presenting "Double Wives" on the screen and "The Flame of Argentine" on the stage.

Robbers knocked the knob off a large safe at a Shawnee furniture store last night and escaped with $2,240.

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A plan of oil production went into effect this morning and the flow of oil from the Seminole field was expected to drop drastically. The plan had been approved by oil producers and set up by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. The plan called for holding the Greater Seminole field to 450,000 barrels per day production.

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James T. Jackson, editorially commenting on President Coolidge’s announcement that he "does not choose to run" for re-election, served warning he, Jackson, might "choose" to make the race. James T. assured readers he would never let the country down and leave it without a president.

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Judge Con Long "called off the $16.50 and costs chorus in monotonous tones this morning" as an extra large number of vags, drunks, fighting folks and others paraded before him in police court.

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Seminole’s Jonah Porter American Legion post will meet tonight and members will vote instructions for delegates who will attend the Guthrie state convention. Post officers announced the regular meetings of the post will be Monday nights after the delegates return from Guthrie.

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A family of four were moved from their tent home in a camp on the Livingston lease and hospitalized in Harber hospital. All were suffering from typhoid.

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"The concrete spreader started bright and early today at the east end of Oak street and when this street is paved it will just about finish up the paving of the business district."

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Four men held in the Earlsboro jail on drunk charges, were missing this morning. They took "French Leave" during the night.

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Majestic Cafe advertised installation of "The Peterson Air Cooling System." The Majestic was at 216 Main street.

A suspect confessed to burglarizing the Sooner Cigar Store in the First National Bank building Wednesday night. The suspect said he got a watch and $12 from the cash register.

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Seven persons were listed in The Producer ‘missing persons’ columns. The missing persons project had grown over the past several months a story in The Producer said.

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Judge Thomas H. Doyle of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals castigated two Lincoln county officers last week for searching a private home without a search warrant. Judge Doyle threw out of court evidence obtained by the officers.

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A woman was one of eight charged in district court at Wewoka with narcotic law violations. The woman had to be carried into the court room of Judge Orel Busby. She testified she had been using dope since she was 14 years old. Judge Busby sentenced her to two years in prison.

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Reproduced from a New York Telegram editorial. The Producer said this:

"The Seminole oil field, greatest the world has known, is one year old this month.

"A thousand rigs, fostering abandoned farms, with the pumps dragging 450,000 barrels of oil a day, with all the jazz frontier tramping the twisted, rutted, nine mile road that leads through pineboard fronts to boisterous Bowlegs, already men are talking in hushed voices of the end.

"Never again, perhaps, will there be such a field.

"It pushed the price of crude oil from $2.60 down to $1.30 a barrel. It threw all stocks into a tailspin and Wall Street into a furor. It drove oil barons and plain citizens into hysterics.

And yet tomorrow, and only a quick tomorrow, this flood of oil will be only a memory, and Seminole will have become again a country town, a burnt place in the blackjacks.

"The Seminole field is producing today more than a fourth of the national consumption. But what of tomorrow?"

Oklahoma Highway Commission announced most of the right-of-way from the Pott county line to Seminole has been secured for SH3. D.H. Jones of the highway department said the road from Seminole to Wewoka will be let to contract soon. The road will stay north of the Rock Island most of the way, Jones announced.

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Judge Con Long declared war on girls who pick men’s pockets in Seminole.

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Traffic Officer Sam Nicholson resigned his job with the city police department and announced he will open a detective agency in Seminole.

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County Attorney Homer Bishop complimented the Seminole police department in an interview with a Producer reporter. Bishop announced reorganization of his office in the county, established a full time assistant county attorney in Seminole. The county prosecutor named Luther Bohannon a special assistant county attorney and assigned him to Seminole. Lee Pollock, deputy sheriff, was assigned to Seminole and to the court of Peace Justice Con Long.

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Ira Rinehart, Tulsa oil reporter, told The Producer "there is a joker somewhere in the Seminole shutdown situation." Rinehart said the shutdown agreement set 450,000 barrels per day production. The production the past 24 hours was 486,340 barrels and the 24 hours before that was 501,639 barrels.

Ray Collins, field umpire for the shutdown project said the oil producers "are complying or are doing their best to comply with the Corporation Commission’s proration orders.

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Marie Harber, nine-year-old twin daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J.N. Harber died at an early hour today in an Oklahoma City hospital. She had undergone major surgery for a bone infection. The bone infection, known as osteo myelitis, was discovered last Friday. Examined in Oklahoma City Saturday, major surgery was performed immediately but it was not successful. Services are scheduled from the Harber home, 315 Highland tomorrow.

A meeting of Seminole and Bowlegs road boosters at Bowlegs worked out a joint project to improve the sandy road south from Bowlegs to Salt Creek. Commissioner Johnson has constructed a bridge over Little River. In dry weather the sandy road is almost impassable.

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Seminole County received a check for $122,955.58 from State Auditor A.S.J. Shaw as the county’s portion of the gross production tax collections for July.

Thirty-seven of Oklahoma’s 77 counties received some portion of the gross production tax - that number of counties produced some oil in July.

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During a torrential rain storm last night Irl Norton, a pipeliner, was killed by lightning in the Sinclair bath house one-half mile east of Rascoe.

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Police nabbed a man with 10 capsules of morphine last night.

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Local oil companies agreed to build temporary school buildings in the various camps around Seminole and the Seminole school system will operate the schools. "The buildings may be rough and the campuses muddy but there will be education there," The Producer reporter wrote.

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First Baptist Church opened a campaign for $25,000 to finish the new church to cost a total of $60,000. Teams are in the field soliciting the funds to complete the edifice.

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Doctors Moe and Stebbins offered "dental plates that fit" for $20.

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First National Bank advertised that forged checks are circulating on Gulf Pipe Line, M.E. Tate and C.L. Clay and Company. The bank warned persons to be sure signatures are genuine before cashing checks on accounts of any of the three accounts.

The police have declared war on traffic violators of all kinds.

Chief Sims, Wednesday, put Sam Nicholson and Lon Rudrow out as traffic officers.

They arrested 10 or 12 persons for various violations, some of whom were fined and others forfeited their bonds in police court Thursday.

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H.C. Roberts, employee of the Victor Gas company, is at Ware hospital with painful burns about the neck, face and hands.

Roberts is 32 years old, married and lives near Plant No. 9.

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P.J. Hill, organizer of Izaak Walton clubs, suggested to Seminole residents that a wildlife or game refuge should be established in Seminole county. Rev. L.L. Scott will head up the campaign to establish and Izaak Walton chapter here.

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Residents of the west side of the city appeared before the city council seeking a west side fire station. The fire department has one 400-gallon pumper and one full time man. Jess Pollock is chief and the department is very efficient, city official said. The west side residents asked for a 500-gallon pumper to be located somewhere in the west part of town.

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No relief from the bitter cold weather of the past few days has been promised by the weather man.

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Seminole building permits for this year to November 30, are $739,796.00, the city clerk’s office reports.

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Chicken dinners were advertised at "Sarge’s Place," 118 S. Park, for 35¢.

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A bank robber who took about $1,000 from Inola State Bank this morning was pursued and caught in a grocery store nine miles south of that town this afternoon. He appeared about 23 years old, was neatly dressed but refused to give officers his name.

Hearst newspapers today published a story that four United States Senators are being investigated by the Senate Investigating committee on charges the have collected "over $1,000,000" from the Mexican government.

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Olga, prized police dog of Sam Kerbel was killed by an intruder at the Virgil Chase farm west of town night before last. Kerbel had left the dog at the Chase farm to raise a litter of seven pups. The dog had fought with someone in the yard of the Chase home, evidently an intruder, who bludgeoned her so severely she died the next day. Kerbel, Chase and other friends are raising the seven police pups on bottles.

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Five deputies raided a residence on North Fourth street Wednesday and found a jug of "musical whiskey. It was in the piano in the front room of the house. "That jug has played its last tune," Joe Pollock, deputy sheriff announced.

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Thirty five persons took a civil service examination in Seminole yesterday to become a Seminole city postal carrier. Two will be employed. The examination was conducted by Roy Hoffman, postmaster ad two staff members of the Shawnee post office.

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A traveling man was stopped by hijackers six miles north of town last night, was robbed of his Masonic ring, and the hijackers traded their old Ford for the man’s new Chevy.

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Waite Phillips was elected chairman of the board of Independent Oil and Gas Company after Independent was merged with Philmck Oil Company. In addition to Phillips, R.P. Brewer, Otis McClintock and Gilletee Hill were added to the Independent board. They are major Philmack stockholders.

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Edward A. Spafford, national commander of The American Legion came under strong criticism for his order to other Legion to take a national poll of members on the prohibition question.

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Eastern Star initiated 12 new members last night.

WEWOKA - Mrs. Alice B. Davis, first woman chief of an Indian tribe, now is the seventy five-year-old "guide, philosopher and friend" of 3,100 Seminole tribesmen, whom she ruled for two brief periods in 1922.

She frequently appears in the District court here as an interpreter in litigation involving the oil lands of the Seminoles.

Her father John P. Brown, a Scotch physician and graduate of the University of Edinburgh, had come to the United States as a surgeon during the Civil War. He married Lucy Red Beard, a Seminole.

A son became chief of the tribe and won the title of "Governor Brown."

After the latter’s death, his sister Alice was appointed by President Harding to serve as chief for one day in order too complete business which her brother left unfinished. A month later she was reappointed in order to sign authoritatively a deed in behalf of the Seminole nation. The deed called for the transfer of Emakaha mission to a private individual.

A school for Seminole girls, the mission had been condemned and abandoned and the federal government wished to dispose of it. Mrs. Davis refused to sign the deed. She contended that the land had been sold without the consent of the tribe, and that the Indians received no part of the purchase price. For her refusal she was immediately "separated from her position as chief of the tribe."

Her retirement to private life by no means lessened her activities. She keeps a record of births, deaths and marriages among her people and is always prepared to supply information to a fellow Seminole who wished to prove his rights.

The federal government has sent Mrs. Davis to Florida three times in the last generation to act as interpreter in trials involving Seminoles.

After being educated in Indian missions, the daughter of the Scotch physician and the Seminole maiden became the wife of a white man, George Davis. She is the mother of eleven children.

A new pool, believed to be the discovery of the biggest production in the entire Seminole area, has been located by the Barnsdall Oil company six miles southwest of Seminole.

The new field connects with the Mekusukey mission field, but is further west. It is No. 1 Fife.

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Sam Nicholson, traffic officer and his assistant, Rodrow, have been as busy as cranberry merchants the past several days.

Nicholson and his assistant have opened a traffic school. They have had over 100 pupils since this educational institution was opened. Some of the pupils are making good progress, it is said.

Few arrests have been made, these only as a last resort, but many persons have been warned that running over stop signs is a finable offense.

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OKLAHOMA CITY- Four years after one of the most turbulent state political upheavals in American history when an aroused electorate brought about the removal of Governor Jack Walton, Oklahoma stands today upon the brink of another political revolution of even greater magnitude.

Impeachment charges numbering five with more promised, have been brought against Governor Henry S. Johnston, who has served for a little less than one year.

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G.T. Bryant, industrial commissioner, is holding court in Seminole this week.

This session opened Monday, when police court adjourned, and it is said it will be in progress all this week.

Bryant came down from Oklahoma City Sunday night, after making arrangements for the use of the police court room.

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Mrs. I.H. Terrell who resided with her husband near the Eureka Tool company plant in the north part of Seminole died Saturday night after an illness of a few days. The funeral was conducted Sunday and interment was in Maple Grove.

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F.O. Barton and Winfred Mathews spent Friday on the lake at McAlester shooting ducks.

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E.A. Chaffin advertised he is "A Sole Doctor." He operates a shoe shop.

Marked superiority of women students over the men in the University of Chicago is shown by a study of scholastic records compiled by Miss Mary Elizabeth Sloan in a thesis for a master’s degree turned into the department of education.

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Because of the fact that Christmas Day falls on Sunday, the pleas of the transportation companies for the early shipping of Christmas packages this hear have a real significance. It is decided that all deliveries be completed by Christmas Eve making early shipping even more important than in other years.

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Seminole’s holiday business looms big. Buying, which lagged for a long time, has taken a spurt and the merchants are doing an excellent business. Those who had not been busy all the time have had spurts that carried their sales up well and they look for an improvement the last of this week and the first of next.

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Mrs. W.E. Grisso left for Oklahoma City to be with her husband who fell on the ice and is confined to his room under a doctor’s care in the Skirvin hotel.

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M.M. Rice of Atlantic Oil Company was overcome by gas on the well on the Cudjo well two miles south of Seminole. He fell into the drive belt on the well and was severely injured.

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Mac Q. Williamson, president protem of the State Senate called a meeting of that body in a downtown hotel today to decide what procedure will be followed when the senate meets at the state capitol.

Governor Johnston announced he would not use the militia against the State Senate but would fight that body’s actions in the courts. The Governor had used the national guard to keep the House from meeting in the state capitol.

L.W. Kitchens, superintendent of Seminole schools announced a plan to establish a health unit in the public school system.

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Dr. T.H. Ware was injured in an auto wreck enroute to Wewoka Tuesday night.

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A 1927 Ford roadster belonging to M.L. King was stolen from its parking place on Main street last night.

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Two persons found with articles and goods estimated to be worth $4,500 are in jail and efforts to find owners of the articles are underway.

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C.W. Johnston and R.T. Harber left today for Coalgate where they will spend a day shooting ducks.

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Enrollment in Seminole city schools passed the 3,000 mark this week, L.W. Kitchens, superintendent, announcd today.

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C.E. Griffith, 702 East Evans, advertised he would sell or trade two saddle horses "for anything, anywhere."

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H.M. Reed, 701 North First has a Studebaker Special he wants to trade for a Hupp 8 Sedan.

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There was standing room only at the State Theatre, now showing "What Price Glory," on the screen.

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Chief Jake Sims and his police captured "an entire hardware store of stuff," when they raided a dopey last night. Where all the hardware came from is not known, Chief Sims says.

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Colonel Charles A. Lindburgh is headed to Old Mexico for a visit to that nation, invited there by the government.

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Frank Crittenden of Raney-Wilson Rig Builders was injured today at ITIO camp.

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The Sullivan family, living near the Sinclair plant, sought police help to find a 9-year-old son, Earl, who had run away from home.

Mr. and Mrs. Curtis J. Cothran are the parents of a fine 9-pound boy, Dr. D.D. Mosher reports.

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Miss Dunn, 503 First, is teaching a special class in Music on Saturday to take care of children ages 6 to 12 who cannot arrange for them during the week.

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The East Side Grocery and the Bryant Grocery Company have combined their stock and are operating under East Side management. They have moved the combined stock to 322 Seventh, across the street from the old East Side Grocery location.

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Colleen Moore is one of the new converts to the tilt-your-bonnett style.

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The city’s cook shack is a paying investment. The equipment, installed in a tent in the rear of the city hall, cost $50 to $60.

This was paid for on the savings to the city the first two weeks. The shanty is now operated on velvet.

The city is saving 20 cents a day on each prisoner, which mounts to a considerable sum each week.

It was the custom, until December 1, to supply meals from a restaurant. That was too expensive for Jake Sims, who seems to be related to a Scotchman.

The chief suggested a cook shack. S.D. Powell made the purchase of the equipment. Better meals now are served the prisoners and at much less expense to the city.

The cook is usually a prisoner. Not that the police have been picking on cooks, but because cooks like others often run afoul of the law.

And the police frequently have their meals in the shack. Jim Kiersey has some culinary skill, which he exercises on a steak or chop while some of the fellows fry potatoes.

Mr. and Mrs. Curtis J. Cothran are the parents of a fine 9-pound boy, Dr. D.D. Mosher reports.

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Miss Dunn, 503 First, is teaching a special class in Music on Saturday to take care of children ages 6 to 12 who cannot arrange for them during the week.

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The East Side Grocery and the Bryant Grocery Company have combined their stock and are operating under East Side management. They have moved the combined stock to 322 Seventh, across the street from the old East Side Grocery location.

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Colleen Moore is one of the new converts to the tilt-your-bonnet style.

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The city’s cook shack is a paying investment. The equipment, installed in a tent in the rear of the city hall, cost $50 to $60.

This was paid for on the savings to the city the first two weeks. The shanty is now operated on velvet.

The city is saving 20 cents a day on each prisoner, which amounts to a considerable sum each week.

It was the custom, until December 1, to supply meals from a restaurant. That was too expensive for Jake Sims, who seems to be related to a Scotchman.

The chief suggested a cook shack. S.D. Powell made the purchase of the equipment. Better meals and at much less expense to the city.

The cook is usually a prisoner. Not that the police have been picking on cooks, but because cooks like others often run afoul of the law.

And the police frequently have their meals in the shack. Jim Kiersey has some culinary skill, which he exercises on a steak or chop while some of the fellows fry potatoes.

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A woman leads the band of bandits operating around Barger and in the northwest Seminole county, it is said.

She is described as being a large, well proportioned woman with rather handsome features and brown eyes. Whether those who described her get close enough to the leader to study her features is another matter.

But there is evidence that the gang is led by a woman, it is pointed out. Hands, feet and voice, to say nothing of features, indicate a woman is head of the band.

Barger and residents in that immediate section of the county, are terrorized by the boldness of the bandit gang. Robberies are of nightly occurrence, it is said.

It is said the gang comprises some 15 to 20 persons, some of whom are women dressed as men.

Officers have been trying for some time to get a line on the gang, but thus far have been unsuccessful. It is believed the gang holes in at or near Earlsboro, coming over to Seminole county at night to pillage and plunder.

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The hopes of one man to make some Christmas money, the expectation of his patrons that he would supply them with Christmas cheer, was dashed Thursday when Bob Duncan, Bob Chandler and Lee Pollock, deputies raided his home about nine miles northwest of Seminole.

He lost 110 gallons of whiskey, several gallons of mash and a copper still of large capacity.

The mash was stored outside, but the still and whiskey were taken from the house.

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H.L. VanSandt, employed by P.C. Perry, is in Hancock hospital, where the end of his right thumb was amputated. VanSandt, while at work mashed the end of his thumb, making the amputation necessary.

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Congressman Tom McKoweon sent a list of WWI dead to the newspapers in Seminole announcing depends of these persons are entitled to death compensation from the government. included was the name of "Joney Porter," Seminole’s American Legion Post was named for Jonah Porter.

From the files of The Producer

Dr. W.E. Scarborough of Ware hospital is moving to Pyote, Texas.

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Dr. J.N. Harber, mayor, appointed W.E. Grisso chairman of a five-man committee to work with Rock Island officials on the proposed new depot for Seminole.

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Snow is falling today and freezing temperatures blanketed the state. It will be warmer tomorrow the forecast says.

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Editor J.G. Bennett wrote in his personal column "The state of Texas made a fine contribution to Oklahoma when Dr. M.M. Turlington moved from the Lone Star state and located in Seminole."

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Superior Oil Company had a car stolen last night, the second car stolen this week from the firm.

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Luther Lane, formerly of Tulsa, arrived in Seminole late Wednesday to assume his duties as assistant county attorney, succeeding Luther Bohanan, who resigned and has moved to Ponca City.

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Though Coach Woodall has some mighty good material for the basketball team, the boys have been unable to get any practice. The explanation is lack of a court.

It is probable the court will be made ready in a short time and the squad will take up practice. Woodall hopes to develop a pretty fair team, though interest is not as keen for this sport, it seems, as for football and other athletics.

Seminole high school broke even on the football season, of the 10 games played five were victorious and five were defeats.

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From The Morning News

The first day of the drive in the interest of a money sack for the newly organized United Charities started bright and early yesterday morning and while no figures were available last night. Rev. B.L. Williams, chairman of the Association, stated he was well pleased with the results of the first go-around.

"Businessmen who will be glad of the opportunity to make all of their contributions for charity through one channel are hard to find in one day," Rev. Williams stated last night. "Many of them were out of town today and many others, representing companies and corporations must write for the necessary authority to contribute. Those we did see today, however, were liberal and I am well pleased with the first day go around.

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Three men were hijacked a mile south of town at an early hour last night. Two "road agents" stopped them and robbed them of all their valuables at pistol point, took the coils from their car and left them stranded on the roadside.

Seminole street marking will start Monday. The project has been pursued by the Chamber of Commerce and the city has agreed to start the marking project. The chamber and city officials agreed on large red letters to mark the streets.

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A local character known as "Speedball" was caught yesterday by police after he had snatched a purse and a bag containing the personal effects of a woman and her daughter.

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Seminole Produce company advertised "Fancy hand-picked pecans."

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A new special "trading stamp" called "Rex Chex" was announced by several Seminole stores.

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Good lump coal was available in Seminole for $12 per ton with an extra $1 for delivery.

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Chester Gates, cashier of First State Bank recommended to those folks who are finding themselves short of money for Christmas to start a "Special Christmas Savings Account now," for next Christmas - in his bank, of course.

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Frank Hotel advertised a large porch, pretty lawn, and shade trees.

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H.A. Webster, teamster for Elmer Seybold, was thrown from a mule early today and is in Ware hospital with a severely injured right leg.

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The oil field workers have a post office all their own.

This business was so heavy it could not be handled either at the postoffice or the substation on East Oak, so Roy Hoffman, postmaster opened another branch Tuesday.

Truck loads of packages, addressed to persons back east and in other parts of Oklahoma and the west, were brought to the postoffice branch on East Oak from two oil camps Monday.

It is required a good part of the day to dispatch these packages, but the last of the business was cleaned up late Monday night.

While the men were busy in both offices Monday trying to give prompt delivery an dispatch of the heavy mail, Roy Hoffman was going around town trying to find a suitable building for an oil field sub-station. He got in touch with Dr. J.N. Harber, president of the Chamber of Commerce and F.D. Cardin, representing J.R. Simpson, secretary, and made arrangements to use the Chamber of Commerce Building on Second Street at Broadway.

Seventy-two pairs of shoes, absolutely free to the needy.

These will be given away by the Pevsner Jewelry company at the Producer office, East Oak, beginning at 5 p.m. Wednesday.

These are not just shoes. They are shoes that are worthwhile. They cost nothing, if you need a good pair and are unable to buy them. They are for women only.

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Pupils of the junior high will give an entertainment at the Ritz Tuesday night. It is entitled "The Fighting Eagle" and will be directed by Mrs. C.A. Bell.

The characters are Dorothy Deiner and Kelly Watson, French; Edith Morris and Sylvia Sprouse, Dutch; Mildred Archibald and Mildred Jones, Spanish; Helen Foster, Russian ballet; Hula-Hula, Annabella Prak; Indian, Lucile Sarg; Egyptian, Juanita and Lititia Morphew; American, Mysel Edwards.

Thelma and Betrice Murray and Mary Ross, Charleston dancer.

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The Green Radio company is tying the white way cable across Main Street, near the Rock Island station.

OG&E is setting the transformer, will put on the light globes and test the line to determine whether it will stand the voltage.

If it does, the lights will be turned on. Seminole’s white way will be a reality.

If the cable line will not stand the test, then the needed repairs will be made and the lights turned on.

"I’m trying to get everything ready," said J.B. Redwine, local manager of the OG&E. "If the cables hold, and they should, we’ll have the lights on by Christmas.

Redwine has taken over the responsibility of getting the white way ready. The committee, except for S.W. Livingston, seemed to have resigned the job several weeks ago.

Mrs. Namcu DePrice, 102 years-8 months-11 days old, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lizzie Webb, wife of A.R. Webb, near Little.

Mrs. DePrice sat in her favorite rocking chair for three days and nights before she died.

She was born in Giles county, Tennessee April 10, 1824. She came to what is now Seminole County in 1880, and has been a continuous resident since. She lived a part of her time in this city and has never resided far from it.

Mrs. DePrice had been in good health for years. She was active and retained all of her faculties to the last.

Arising Sunday morning, as well as usual apparently, she talked to her son-in-law and daughter, finally asking Webb how many days it was until Christmas.

"Seven days," he replied.

"I will not live to see it," she said, seating herself in her favorite rocking chair, where she sat until she died early Wednesday.

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Jake Sims, police chief and Jim Kiersey broke up an enterprising manufacturing concern Tuesday night when they arrested a man known as "Smoky" and his pal in a tourist park, in the east part of the city.

"Smoky" and his pal were energetic workers. They made Christmas liquor while you waited, high grade stuff, according to Smoky.

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A pair of 15-year-old boys from Springfield, Mo., are being held in city jail awaiting arrival of parents. The boys attempted to forge a checked signed with the name of J.B. Allen.

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Police Judge Con Long informed a "customer" this morning that since he had paid his fine he couldn’t go back into jail and eat breakfast. "You’re on your own, buy your own breakfast," the judge told the ex-guest of city jail.

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A special Christmas program was presented at the Methodist church. The Sunday School gave the Christmas Cantata, "Spirit of Charity," which was supplemented by special music and speaking.

Santa Claus attended the meeting and had charge of the Christmas tree and the distribution of gifts. The crowd was so great that all were not able to get in the church.

Tickets to the Rich-Whittington 12-round bout, scheduled for January 3, are going like spuds at a bricklayers’ picnic.

The advance sale is better than for any previous fight. Tickets have never gone on sale this far in advance before, but about 50 choice sets have been reserved for the fight.

Maud is coming over strong for the fight. Rich will almost feel he is fighting for a home crowd. Numerous residents have sent word over to hold tickets for them, saying they will be over in a day or two to get them.

Rich is getting in fine shape for the fight. He is a favorite with Maud fans, who will come over ready to bet he wins from Whittington. Whittington got the verdict in the last two battles between them, yet there are many who like Rich’s style of fighting better.

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The bare statement that the theatre parties for Seminole kids at the Rex and State theatres yesterday were very successful is putting it too mild.

Twelve hundred of them! You mothers who have trouble keeping one, two or three quiet and orderly, what would you do with 1,200?

On the whole however, they were perfect little ladies and gentlemen. They laughed, of course, at the funny antics of Fatty and Farina in the Gang comedy, and they shuffled and moved about a bit, but then they wouldn’t be good American kids if they didn’t.

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Seminole police reported three deaths over the holidays. One resulted from an auto accident, one from suicide and one from poison liquor, according to police reports.

Raymnd Payton, 23, missed a curve north of Bowlegs, smashed into another car then the Payton car rolled over an embankment. Payton died in Hancock hospital in Seminole. The suicide was a man whose girl reportedly jilted him and poison liquor was in the room of a local rooming house where the body of a man was found.

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Mr. and Mrs. Earl Heath, 412 East Evans are proud parents of a baby girl. She arrived Christmas Day.

Miss Ruby Chadwick of Chetopa, Kansas has returned home from a Seminole visit with her brother and family, the J.C. Chadwicks.

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The Producer carried a feature story on Wilson Brothers Oil Company of Seminole and Shawnee. Owned by the six Wilson brothers, three in Shawnee and three in Seminole, the owners are Emmet, C.A., L.S., F.T., S.B., and Roy Wilson. The company operated from its office at 400 First street and was described as "one of the most progressive firms in the Seminole area."

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Manager and Mrs. Wozencraft of the State theatre entertained royally for employees and attaches of the theatre at the Majestic cafe Sunday night. A five course dinner was served in banquet style.

Walter "Bozo" St. Clair served as master of ceremonies and made the presentation speeches.

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Officers have been trying to find a motive for trouble on Timmons Street for some time. Police and county officers alike, have been puzzled.

Tuesday, Bob Duncan, Lee Pollock and "Bum" Tatum, deputy sheriffs, made a raid at 205 North Timmons, where they found a small, copper still, four barrels of mash and three gallons of whiskey.

No arrests were made, but the officers say they have broken up a source of supply that has been annoying them for some time.

Miss Ruby Chadwick of Chetopa, Kansas has returned home from a Seminole visit with her brother and family, the J.C. Chadwicks.

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The Producer carried a feature story on Wilson Brothers Oil Company of Seminole and Shawnee. Owned by the six Wilson brothers, three in Shawnee and three in Seminole, the owners are Emmet, C.A., L.S., F.T., S.B., and Roy Wilson. The company operated from its office at 400 First street and was described as "one of the most progressive firms in the Seminole area."

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Manager and Mrs. Wozencraft of the State theatre entertained royally for employees and attaches of the theatre at the Majestic cafe Sunday night. A five course dinner was served in banquet style.

Walter "Bozo" St. Clair served as master of ceremonies and made the presentation speeches.

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Officers have been trying to find a motive for trouble on Timmons Street for some time. Police and county officers alike, have been puzzled.

Tuesday, Bob Duncan, Lee Pollock and "Bum" Tatum, deputy sheriffs, made a raid at 205 North Timmons, where they found a small, copper still, four barrels of mash and three gallons of whiskey.

No arrests were made, but the officers say they have broken up a source of supply that has been annoying them for some time.

From the files of The Producer B.L. Ruek and Grady Hopkins killed a loon while hunting ducks on Lake Wewoka.

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Here's what happened at the meeting between E.J. Kelley, assistant to the general manager of the Rock Island system:

Kelley gave assurance that Seminole would get a passenger station.

It is probable the new station will cost around $50,000 to $60,000.

The station will be erected on the site of the old one, in all probability, but the railroad will give the city another south crossing at a convenient point to relieve traffic on First street, which is part of Highway 3.

The Seminole improvements will be included in the 1928 budget, which is now being prepared in Chicago.

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"The Point," a column by J.G. Bennett said today:

Sam Hammons is a real hard luck guy. He'll tell you that and never smile. Sam has had hard luck with the dogs. He likes to hunt when hunting is seasonable, and he likes good dogs, but if Sam gets a real good one it will either die, be stolen or run down by a car.

One man estimated that Sam had owned something like 30 dogs in past five years, and everyone of them was killed by a car or poisoned by some dirty cuss.

Aside from the fact that Sam sometimes works in his store, he is a pretty good hunter and fisherman. He likes both ends of the outdoor sport. He also may indulge in a bit of the most popular of indoor sports for all I know, but that's none of my business so long as he gets by the police and they don't kick him out of church for it.

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Detroit - Prices of the new Ford car given out today show a lunge from $383 to $570 for the various types of pleasure cars and $460 to $610 for the truck types.

The various types and their prices follow:

Two-door sedan, $495. Four-door sedan, $570. Coupe, $495

Sport Coupe, $550. Phaeton, $395.

Roadster, $385.

Pickup body, $395.

Chassis, $325.

Truck chassis, $460.

Truck chassis, express body, $610.

Truck chassis, platform body, $595.

The new motor car that Henry Ford has built to replace his old model was demonstrated here today before newspaper men in an elaborate spectacle.

Through eddies of drifting snow and over rough roads rim deep in mud the car was driven at 62 miles an hour, twirled around, brought to an abrupt halt and taken around curves at a terrific pace.

From the files of The Producer

"Nation’s Prosperity Breaks All Records" said a Producer headline. It quoted President Hoover as saying "year ending July 1st best in history of the nation."

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Dr. E.W. Stebbins announced he has acquired the full interests in the Dental offices of Doctors Stebbins and Moe in the community building.

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Drilling on a tremendous scale will open in the Seminole area soon after the holidays, according to information received by W.E. Grisso.

Since the lid was clamped down this field drilling has slowed up materially, but the new year will bring activity of the proportions of the old pre-embargo days.

Seminole County has nine new fields, each with one well. Operators are anxious to begin development of these fields, and several of them are planning extensive drilling campaigns for the immediate future.

Efforts are being made by some to continue the embargo indefinitely. But it is said a large number are opposed to it and will seek to have it lifted.

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The Supreme court threw a bomb into the camp of the insurgents Saturday when it handed down a ruling to the effect that any act of extra session of the legislalture called by members of the house would be illegal and void.

The court refused to grant an injunction to prevent the meeting of the legislature next Monday, as announced by Graham, Knight, Johnson and Hill.

With the acts of the legislatuare declared illegal, it is believed administration supporters will apply to the courts for a mandamus to prevent the state auditor paying the salary of the members and other expenses of the session.

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The Art Craft Club met at the home of Mrs. Henry Born Friday afternoon. Those present were Mrs. Virgil Chase, Mrs. T.R. Owens, Mrs. U.V. Darland, Mrs. S.D. Powell, Mrs. B. L. Williams, Mrs Sam Watt, Mrs. Palmore Noe, Mrs Chadwick, Miss Charlotte Meeting, Mrs. L.C. Clark, Mrs. G.W. Dawson, Mrs. D.M. Darland was a visitor. Lovely refreshments were served by hostess.

A man named Long was arrested on charges of wearing a very fine suit of clothes which a man named Lewis charged belonged to a man named Snow. Police stripped Mr. Long (no kin to Judge Con Long), left him his underwear and loaned him a pair of britches, then held the suit and Mr. Long until Mr. Lewis could bring Mr. Snow from Earlsboro to identify the suit as his (Mr. Snow’s).

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An auto backed into the porch of Henry Lewis, Seminole policeman but didn’t stay around to pay for the damage. Lewis is looking for the driver.

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A lone hijacker held up the Magnolia service station at Evans and First Street Saturday evening. The thief got about $8. Many people were passing the station during the robbery but no one noticed what was going on. The robber then forced Thelmer May, in charge of the station, to drive him five miles into the country and let him out.

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Police faced a "decision which would require Solomon to decide," a news reporter said in writing the story about the children and a man named Dixon. It seems Dixon had left three children, one a little girl, with a lady named Caudel in Seminole. Dixon was working in Texas and sends $15 per week for the care of his children. Mrs. Caudel charges a Mrs. Hornbuckle claims she and her husband are friends of Dixon- that Mrs. Caudel is mistreating the little girl - and she intends to keep the child until she can get in touch with Dixon and tell him about it. The police are stymied.

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"Any pedestrian knows the exact percentage of boneheads who are driving automobiles" The Producer quotes the Drumright Derrick as observing, then the Derrick story added "and there’s plenty of darned fools in addition to the boneheads."

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Maxedon Lumber advertised, "We’re Home Folks."

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A man in Holdenville filed for divorce claiming he didn’t know his wife was already married when he married her.

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Three fellows put on an entertaining fist fight adjacent to the OG&E Camp, north of the city. One of them ended up with a broken arm.

President Coolidge, in a message to congress, recommended that landowners along the Mississippi River be charged a portion of the cost of the levies the government will build to protect the land from floods.

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Two boys yesterday brought Ode Lewis, city policeman, a bundle of bloody clothing they had found about two miles northeast of Seminole. The boys found the clothing wrapped in the comic section of a newspaper and buried. They noticed the fresh earth and scraped off the top to find the clothing. Lewis is searching for clues to the identity of the clothes.

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Two postal inspectors are in Seminole mapping routes for the two new city carriers who will go on duty at the post office early next week.

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Editor J.G. Bennett of The Producer reports on City Clerk Pal Noe. "No city has a more efficient clerk. He is one of the foremost workers for The American Legion. Pal seems to have a good time doing his work. He never loses his temper, is a good story teller. Folks are waiting to hear Noe and Judge Con Long get into a debate. Noe quotes Shakespeare and looks like Andy Cump.

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J.W. McNew, an area farmer, died early today from a heart attack. He and his son were moving from the farm they lived on to a new farm and had camped near Seminole last night.

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Roy French arrived home just in time to catch a young man taking the tires off his car. He called the police. The man had two tires off when the police arrived. French works for Rock Island.

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Two men are held on charges of stealing a Sinclair Oil company car from Seminole streets.

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Simpson Brannon, son of Mrs. M.J. Floyd, Commercial Hotel owner, broke an ankle at Bowlegs yesterday. Brannon, who operates a rooming house at Bowlegs, was leaning on a car. When it moved he fell and broke his ankle.

At the meeting of the Lions club Tuesday night, which was featured by presence of 12 visitors from Stroud and 8 from Prague, further steps were taken to extend highway 48 north.

James T. Jackson then told how Seminole got its roads. He said W.E. Grisso would suggest a new road; that he, C.W. Johnston, county commissioner, and Mayor Harber would drive out, look it over, give it a name and grading would start.

An interesting program consisted of a vocal solo by Robert Chase and a violin solo by Miss Morphew, was given.

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Seminole will have a new post office as soon as R.H. Chase can complete new quarters for it, it was announced in Washington Monday. The building will be The Chase Building and will be constructed on East Oak street. Roy Hoffman, postmaster, announced a building had been leased on East Oak across the street from where the new post office will be, and will be used to handle Christmas packages.

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The United States Senate refused to seat Senators Smith and Vare of Illinois because of too great expenditures in their campaigns.

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The bloody clothes found northeast of the city belonged to a youth run over by a Rock Island train last week. The father took the clothes out and buried them.

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"To prevent jury tampering it appears that we must have undercover men to watch the sleuths who watch the "detectives" who watch the jurors," the Holdenville Daily News is quoted as saying.

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Mrs. Cora Milligan became manager of Red Wing Cafe, four miles north of Seminole on the Kingkade Lease, today. J.L. Williams, former owner, has made the country restaurant on the main road into Seminole, a popular eating place. Phonograph and radio music is provided.

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The W.W. Mayberrys, on College street, were parents of their third set of twins. The children did not survive.

Seminole’s post office moved up

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The Producer’s top story was the $60,000 school bond issue to be voted on tomorrow. New school buildings and equipment will be purchased with the bond money. L.W. Kitchens, school superintendent told voters.

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Deck Wright, street commissioner of Seminole reported difficulty in securing right of way for the highway between Seminole and Shawnee. Right of way problems are delaying the construction of the highway Wright reported.

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Police officer Stine is suffering a badly mutilated thumb as a result of the fight which ensued when he arrested S.V. Duffy on a drunkenness charge. Duffy is in jail.

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Boston, the USA’s largest shoe manufacturing center is sponsoring a national "Walk More Week."

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Fire of undetermined origin Sunday night badly damaged the Empire Wilson plant two miles southeast of Seminole. For a time the fire threatened disastrous explosions of the gasoline storage tanks.

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Stones fell from the roof of the building between Piggly Wiggly store and Pace Grocery. The stones struck the awning over the street and fell on persons standing on the sidewalk.

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Gladys Bell Oil Company reportedly sold today the east half of the southeast quarter of 35-8-6 to Blackwell Oil and Gas Company for the sum of $1,500,000, part cash and part oil. The lease offsets the 13,500 barrel per day ITIO gusher which recently opened the Little River field in Seminole County.

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Six men "in a big car" raided the Tecumseh jail early this morning, locked the jailer in a cell and released four prisoners.

A gun battle in front of city hall last night left holes in nearby automobiles and wounded D.R. Adams, "an innocent bystander."

Sifted out of all the rumors about the gun fight, The Producer said it appeared that one A.E. Yancy, who had followed with a crowd when police took two arrested persons to the city jail, expressed resentment at the arrests and pulled out a Luger and started shooting. Four police officers started firing back at Yancy. The hospital removed a Luger slug from the thigh of Adams, who was a bystander and had no part in the shooting.

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Although the construction is not complete, Harber Hospital at the end of West Evans Avenue, is accepting patients. Doctors J.N. Harber, C.D. Dale, W.L. Hunter, D.D. Mosher and W.E. Jones will be the hospital medical staff. Miss Ann Nusko, graduate nurse, is superintendent of the new hospital.

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A joint delegation of Wewoka and Seminole citizens will appear before the Oklahoma Corporation Commission tomorrow seeking construction of an overpass over Rock Island railroad "just west of New Lima."

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Rev. B.L. Williams announced the Boy Scout swimming pool, being built at the east end of Evans Avenue, should be completed within eight days. The pool is being built by popular subscription. Williams said he has $2,100 of the necessary $3,200 to finish the pool and he "expects no trouble in raising the rest of the money." He also reported "no mixed swimming." Boys will use the pool four days each week and the girls two days. There will be no Sunday swimming. Williams is pastor of the Seminole Methodist church.

The $60,000 school issue was approved by Seminole voters yesterday 76-1, with one ballot mutilated. School superintendent L.W. Kitchens announced most of the bond issue funds will be spend on a one-story ward school building to be constructed on north Park street on the grounds of the present ward school.

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Eight-year-old Mable Merrel is seeking her mother Mrs. Bertie Merrell who lives somewhere in Seminole. Mable "stepped off" the fast Rock Island train at 11 a.m. today, arriving from Texarkana, Arkansas, but there was no one at the train to meet here. Mable is at the home of Rev. B.L. Williams, pastor of First Methodist Church.

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The city council ordered paving from College street from First to Highland and Highland street to from College to Broadway, and passed ordinances setting it up as a paving district. Rex Moore, J.B. Allen and Paul Meeting were named appraisers.

Appraisers named for the Main street paving project were Moore, Meeting and George Killingsworth. The council authorized another city water well and enacted ordinances governing use of water for car washing and city sprinkling. The lengthy session adjourned at 2:30 a.m.

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A relative of Will Rogers, at Claremore, was arrested recently for cutting the hair and shaving the mustache of a fellow townsman.

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The Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association announced opposition to the Campbell Russell effort to "harass the oil industry" by a raise in the gross production tax. Russell was reportedly using the initiative and referendum route to enact the proposed tax increase.

Traffic Chief Nicholson "arrested" Little Joe - the only name the small tot would admit to. Little Joe was so agreeable Nicholson took him along on his rounds, then the two had supper. Nicholson then took Little Joe to Rev. Williams at the Methodist parsonage and the small tot took right up with the Methodist preacher. Little Joe wouldn’t tell his full name - but admitted he had been in a fight with another boy. Before Nicholson left Little Joe’s Mom showed up and carted him away. Both Nicholson and the preacher were so engrossed in telling Little Joe good-bye, they forgot to ask his Mom her name.

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Businessmen who have been defying the no-trash-burning ordinance - except in approved incinerators - face $20 fines for each offense. The city council is determined to protect the business section of the city from all possible fire hazards. One store proprietor threatened to whip the sanitarian who ordered him to stop burning trash in an open container. The city council ordered police to arrest all persons illegally burning trash - employer or employee - and to arrest the store owner and make him pay fines for his employees.

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Governor Henry Johnston offered a $500 reward for arrest of Earl and Floyd Jarrett, bank robbers.

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Seminole ranks next to Chicago in the volume of freight handled by the Rock Island railroad, Captain S.T. Bisbee, special representative of The Producer in charge of preparing the upcoming Banner Edition, reported today. The three top cities on the Rock Island truck line, in order of freight volume, are Chicago, Seminole, Kansas City, in that order, Bisbee reported.

County officers, assisted by Seminole police officers, raided McAllister Pharmacy just before 10 o’clock last night and seized more than 100 bottles of "Jake." The raid attracted such a crowd officers had to use tear gas to clear a way to the door when they were ready to leave.

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A man drank a bottle of carbolic acid and died in his room at Ritz Hotel. He left a note saying he loved his family and also loved alcohol - he couldn’t resist the alcohol so he decided to end it all. Despite frantic efforts to save him, the man died.

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More wells came in - and the production in the Seminole field continued to climb. Gauges Thursday morning showed 596 wells produced 475,853 barrels. This compared to 463,785 gauged for the 24 hours ending Wednesday morning.

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Joe Wilson, turnkey in the Tulsa county jail received four months in jail and a $100 fine for permitting prisoners to throw drinking parties in the jail.

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A Page One notice asked J.T. McNeil to report to the city police station for an emergency telephone call.

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Matt Kimes was sentenced to 99 years in the penitentiary for robbing two banks at Beggs and killing the Beggs city police chief. The sentence was pronounced by Judge C. C. Smith of Guthrie, assigned to the Sallisaw district court by Chief Justice Fred P. Branson of the state supreme court.

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Another Main Street hotel is being erected. It is at the corner of Main and Evans and is being erected by Mrs. M.C. Fink of Oklahoma City. It will be named The Bellview Hotel and the first floor lobby will contain a barber shop, soda fountain, cigar stand and clothing store.

H.B. Jenkins, fireman for Summitt drilling company was severely burned early today when a boiler exploded and the scalding water and steam engulfed him. The explosion occurred on the Mason lease southwest of Seminole.

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Seminole oil field was one year old yesterday, and the upcoming Banner Edition of The Producer will cover the first year of the great Seminole Boom, a feature story in the issue reported. "New Yorkers, where thousands of copies will be read, will get an eye-opener about Seminole," the story said.

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"Fighting Ted" Ryan cuffed "Battling Tex" Moore around the ring for three rounds last night at the Ritz theatre and Moore refused to continue the fight. Ryan was given the decision.

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Rev. B.L. Williams announced today the Seminole First Methodist Church will begin construction Sept. 1 on a new $70,000 church structure at Second and Evans streets. The church will be of light brick with stone edges and ornamental fixtures, Rev. Williams announced.

The church will have two main entrances and the auditorium and balcony will seat 750 persons when completed. Wm. C. Meador of Ft. Worth, well-known church architect has been employed to build the church. He says it will be completed within four months after construction starts.

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Seminole Ice Company has received a permit from the Corporation Commission to increase capacity of the Seminole plant from 20 to 40 tons of ice per day. The company is also authorized to sell ice from the plant in the nearby community of Roscoe.

City Attorney Robert Burns urged the city council to establish a "utilitarian fund" for helping children of the city get milk and ice. The city decided to call it a "Milk and Ice Fund."

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Miss Elba Inez Riddle of Shawnee visited her father, H.T. Riddle, vice president of First National Bank, today.

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Salzberg Hospital opened a nurses employment service today, Persons in need of professional nursing care may call the hospital.

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Lawrence Ferguson, Continental Supply company employee and L.P. Smith, Seminole postal employee are in Oklahoma City today taking examinations for National Guard officer commissions.

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Frank Sandridge and his son Lawrence are recovering from burns received when the exhaust of their car caused an explosion in a gas line they were crossing near Rascoe.

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Smith Furniture Company urged everyone to check their batteries and get their radios tuned for the Dempsey-Sharkey fight tomorrow night in New York.

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Mr. and Mrs. R.D. Deckard, Carter employees living in a tent south of the city, were attacked about 1 a.m. today while they slept in their tent home. The intruder struck them in the head with a blunt instrument. Their small son was awakened but could not describe the intruder. The couple was brought to Dr. Billington’s office in Seminole for treatment.

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Seminole’s post office moved up from a third class post office to a second class status today. Postmaster Roy A. Hoffman received word of the change and the information he will be authorized an assistant postmaster, will have a staff of ten regular clerks and six auxiliary clerks. Hoffman predicted the post office would go first class January 1.

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The "well-matched" team that pulls the city water wagon balked on Main and Oak streets. Uncle Henry Lewis, veteran police officer ordered the water tank driver to cut off his sprinklers, then he directed a Gulf tank wagon driver to pull up with his radiator almost touching the horses noses. Then he hooked the end of the sprinkler wagon tongue to the front axle of the truck with a chain - and the truck driver backed away - followed by the team pulling back, sitting on their haunches, but being dragged along.

When the tank truck stopped and unhooked the horses took off pulling the sprinkler wagon without protest.

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"Red" Purcell came bouncing out of the Ritz hotel and landed on the sidewalk. When officers Cash and Lewis couldn’t find out what happened or who threw "Red" out of the hotel, they took Purcell to the city jail and locked him up.

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Highway employees working east of Seminole were reported to be pulling motorists out of ditches - for $1. "Pretty raw" The Producer story said, pointedly reporting that Missouri highway workers pulled cars and wagons out of the mud as a public service.

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Four men in a car drove up to the Seminole Ice company dock as employees sat on the ice dock. "What can we do for you?" the employees said. "Stick ’em up" the four in the car answered. The hi-jackers got $20 and sped away before police could be notified.

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Carpenters’ overalls, "choice of any in the house" were advertised by Born-Killingsworth for $1.89.

"Ideal Milk Bread" was advertised for 8-cents a loaf.

Swift justice was meted out to two hijackers who entered guilty pleas to hijacking Harry Washburn of the Seminole District of Noble Drilling Company, taking Washburn’s Oldsmobile coupe, all of his clothing and personal belongings. Within 33 hours Seminole Police Chief John Long had the men arrested by Wichita Falls police, went after them, returned them to Wewoka where identified and entered guilty pleas. Judge Burk gave the pair five years in McAlester.

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Editor Ted Stanton reported Rock Island railroad business originating in Seminole in April 1926 was "about $1,000" compared to April 1927 when business generated for the Rock Island in Seminole was $1,137,000.

Here are the figures quoted by Stanton of Chicago, Seminole and Kansas City, in that order for each month: $1,648,000, $1,297,000, $933,000 for March: $1,624,000, $1,137,000, 839,000 for April: and $1,515,000, $1,139,000 and $833,000 for May, all in 1927.

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Anthony’s advertised regular $2.49 "no fade" shirts on sale for two days at $1 each and guaranteed a new shirt if the shirt purchased for $1 "fades for any cause."

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First National Bank advertised warnings not to cash checks made to Bert Fields on First State Bank: checks to C.L. Clay and Brothers drawn on First National bank and check of Prairie Oil and Gas company drawn on a Wichita Falls, Texas bank. All are forgeries, the FNB ad warned.

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"Scottie" the Baptist minister, is superintendent of construction on the First Baptist church and has the brick up to the third story. But he is also the marryingest parson in these parts. He admits he is doing a "land office business."

The Corporation Commission late yesterday issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting operators in The Greater Seminole field from drilling new wells in certain specified areas and prohibited the shooting of wells in the Greater Seminole Area.

The action was taken after an all-day hearing before the commission. Many operators entered strenuous objections to such an order. Umpire Ray Collins predicted that unless some kind of emergency control of drilling and production was established, the Seminole Field, Seminole, Searight, Earlsboro, Bowlegs, and Little River will reach 700,000 barrels per day by Oct. 1.

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A man known in Seminole by the first name of George, but by the three last names of Patterson, Summers and Pierson, was found dead behind a rooming house this morning. Doctors said he apparently died of poisoning. No one knows whether it was self-inflicted or not. Coroner Con Long ruled it was "death from an unknown cause."

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"Pedestrians and bystanders were treated to a rare spectacle this afternoon when a heavily laden Ford truck driven by S.P. Scott apparently became weary of its burden and dumped several large sacks of oats into the street at the corner of Main and Evans. "Just at the turn there is a steep shelf made by the scraper operated to prepare the street for paving. When Scott attempted to lessen the jar of the rough place by crossing it diagonally, old man "Center of Gravity" suddenly forsook his proverbial immutability and shifted his position toward the top of the truck cab.

The Ford promptly refused to recognize the priority of such action and turned turtle with a final anemic sputtering to bid farewell to its old self and welcome its new incarnation."

A man named Jim Jones was found in a pasture one mile east of town, badly beaten and barely conscious. Police investigation revealed he had forced his way into a camp, became obnoxious, was said by men in the camp to have been intoxicated and the men in the camp "ejected him" but denied they beat him up. The beating victim was in Dr. McAllister’s office receiving treatment.

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W.A. Markhart of T.H. Rogers Lumber company announced 111 feet of pavement on North Main in front of the company property will be laid with a special cement which hardens in 24 hours. Markhart said the cement would be poured Monday, brick will be laid on it Tuesday and the 111 feet will be open to traffic Wednesday. Normally the cement must se one week before brick is laid on it.

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A Masonic Order of the Grotto was being organized in Seminole by Jack Jones of Oklahoma City. Plans are under way to initiate 150 and celebrate with a big dance in Seminole to get the organization under way.

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Eddie Spencer has established a new airport two miles north of town. He has a new Eaglerock plane. Spencer is a pilot and an instructor. He maintains his office with Pallady Welding company.

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A Letter To The Editor signed "L.L.B." suggested "Let us now begin planning for a Big Clean City a long time after the oil production is at an end. Let’s have lots of big fine homes, lots of industries, good streets, good water facilities, and everything that is necessary for a big city. Let’s begin now to develop a permanent city."

"Oil production doesn’t last forever. Seminole’s half million barrels daily production will increase.

"Some day, some time the peak will be reached. The decline will come. It will come as sure as death and taxes.

"We must face the question some time. Why not face it NOW?

"Or are we to allow Seminole to revert back to a small town, just one of a hundred thousand small towns? What about industries?"

The quoted editorial was by James T. Jackson, publisher, in a Page One signed editorial.

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A campaign is on to eliminate "home brew joints" and corn liquor bootlegging in the county. County and city officers are conducting the campaign,

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Aimee Semple McPherson, the flame-haired evangelist, returned to Barstow from Los Angeles with her Mom, "Ma" Kennedy, who had been threatened with ouster as the Angeles Temple business manager. "Ma" had gone to Barstow where Aimee was preaching to get her daughter to come home and help her keep her job.

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Seminole business firms and the major oil companies are joining hands to oil the highway from Seminole north seven miles and the highway south from Seminole to Bowlegs. Carter Oil company is providing two tank cars of road oil.

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A fire in the Seminole Produce company on south Second street early this morning threatened two blocks of business buildings. Fire Chief Everett Broadnax said the fire started in a "neglected" water heater next door to the produce company.

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"More than 500 cities and towns in the United States have applied zoning principles to municipal growth. Ten years ago only six communities were exercising some kind of control over the use of which real estate may be put."

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E.L. Rosebush, president of Tecumseh National Bank made a flying tackle and downed a bank robber who had threatened to blow up the bank with what he said was a
"can of nitroglycerin" which he held wrapped in paper. After the capture, the man refused to give his name. He was being questioned by Assistant County Attorney Leroy Cooper.

The Producer headlined a story of a 27-year-old man in Shawnee who shot his wife four times then drank carbolic acid in a suicide effort. The wife was in a Shawnee hospital not expected to live and the man was in the county jail at Tecumseh and expected to recover.

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Eight youths escaped from the Granite reformatory. One was shot and killed by a Beckham county deputy sheriff and the other seven were returned to the reformatory. Mrs. W.A. Waters is warden of the reformatory.

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Thomas Phillip Cowan was The Producer’s first baby - born to Mr. and Mrs. Jess Cowan last night. Jess is pressman at The Producer. The proud Dad predicted it would be a couple of weeks before Thomas Phillip could take on a Producer paper route.

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The Earlsboro pool was extended northeast three-fourths of a mile yesterday when Twin States Oil brought in a Wilcox well at 4,320 feet in southeast 2-9-5. The well flowed 3,400 barrels in 22 hours.

The Seminole field reached another high in production when the figure yesterday reached 512,647 barrels for the previous 24 hours. Prairie Oil and Gas brought in the No. 1 Graham in northwest of 10-9-5 for 180 barrels an hour at 4,303 feet. Tidal Oil has a new well, the Watkins No. 2 in northwest 9-9-5, running 5,000 barrels per day. Triple gushers gar reported by Amerada, Texas Company and Independent Oil and Gas. The wells are making 11,595 barrels per day and 11,000 per day. The corporation commission orders for reduced production in old wells is not sufficient to hold down the increase from the new wells.

A Henryetta photographer was in town making pictures for the big "Banner Edition" of The Producer which is due to go to press soon. The headline on one of the Producer stories said "$2,330,000 in booze splashed on Wewoka creek Shores." The story reported many gallons of moonshine whiskey and ‘choc’ beer or home brew, was dumped into Wewoka Creek yesterday when police office disposed of confiscated contraband.

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Woldow Muddey, owner of Seminole Piggly Wiggly was demonstrating a rat trap to a customer - when he accidentally let two rats out of it. Lady shoppers in the store "put on a show, providing ten minutes of pure entertainment for men shoppers" according to the reporter for The Producer.

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Oklahoma State Supreme Court held the 45-mile-per-hour state speed law unconstitutional.

So many speeders are reported on the 10 miles of paving between Wewoka and Holdenville that county commissioners of the two counties are discussing plans to jointly employ an officer to enforce safe driving on the highway.

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A motorist forgot the paving ended at the north edge of town and hit the dirt street at high speed - and then hit a Buick filled with Oklahoma Cityans entering town. After everybody picked themselves up, officers Grady and Sims appeared and took charge of the speeder and one gallon of home brew he had in his auto.

In Oklahoma City police "snoopers" were prohibited by the city counselors from entering private homes in search of liquor.

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Aimee Semple McPherson and her other were having a big brawl at the Los Angeles Temple where Aimee holds forth.

McPherson was leading the effort to exile her mother, "Ma" Kennedy, business manager of Angeles Temple. The Temple committee was siding with Aimee against her mother.

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W.J. Hennigan smashed his auto into the team of W.E. Boyd, severely injuring one of the horses. The teamster "turned the air blue with profanity before calling for a veterinarian and reporting the accident to police."

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Police found "booze" in several cars of the local taxi fleet. Acting Mayor H.A. Born issued new traffic instructions on downtown parking.

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Grady Dewise, a young man who hails from the hill country of Arkansas, while peacefully on his way to church last night was accosted by several maidens on Wewoka street. Grady resisted their efforts to tickle him under the chin, But - in the scuffle, his bank roll disappeared. Judge Con Long sympathized with Grady. He placed one maiden under $2,000 bond - and ordered Grady to report to him at court each morning so he would be sure the complaining witness is available when the trial come sup. Judge Long said o one should go through the district where the gals accosted Grady - unless he was in a big hurry.

"An indignant resident who is spending good, hard U.S. coin to buy and haul water for his own residence and rental properties is sore," said a Page One Producer editorial. The editorial then said, "Some day Seminole will have gallons and gallons and barrels and barrels of water."

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Chief of Police John Long warned no fireworks of any kind will be permitted in the city limits of Seminole over the 4th of July.

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Milton Athens, who filmed "The Seminole Story," was back in town with more than 1,000 feet of film made when Matt Kimes was returned to Okmulgee last week and arraigned.

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Editor Ted Stanton quotes Seminole County News Editor Shelby Livingston’s editorial "of last week" which said "Seminole has more hypocrites to the square inch than any town in the USA." Stanton said the County News editor was quoting "a disreputable sign painter" but then Editor Livingston went on to say he "has verified everything the sign painter claimed."

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Mrs. Mable Bassett, state commissioner of charities and corrections announced she would investigate a charge of Daniel O. Hunt, Seminole disabled veteran and photographer who said he was mistreated while a prisoner in Seminole jail. Hunt was jailed for failure to pay city occupation tax. Other prisoners in the jail kicked him around and injured him.

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Constable Claud Nowlin and City Plain Clothes Officer Jake Sims lost a two-gun man Saturday, but Nowlin shot off two fingers of the escapee, a news reporter today said. Nowlin and Sims know the man and are looking for him.

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Seventy-five locations were staked in Oklahoma last week, a Tulsa oil report said. Thirty-eight of these were in the Seminole field.

Dr. O.O. Hammond. state health commissioner, told Oklahomans in his weekly column "keep your mind off the weather and you won’t feel so hot.

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"Women may be sipping cocktails, smoking cigarettes and swinging the blackbottom, but they are raising babies fast and furious and often and that is the woman’s mission among us," writes Ted Stanton, Producer editor, in his front page editorial comment.

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The Chamber of Commerce decided it could not finance the municipal band being organized by D. Riley, employee of Rexall Drug. The chamber announced it had to many projects underway to attempt the added financial burdens.

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The Texas Company’s No. 1 Rogers in 4-9-5 extended the Earlsboro field one-half mile northwest. The well flowed 170 barrels an hour from the Wilcox at 4,3562.73 feet.

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O.O. Owens, Tulsa oilman held in Oklahoma county jail since April 22 on a charge of contempt of the state supreme court was released from jail recently on an order of the federal court. Owens posted a $15,000 bond. He is president of Riverside Oil Company.

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The new telephone exchange at the corner of First and Evans is nearing completion. The new brick structure will provide facilities for improved local and long distance telephone service.

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The Ritz theatre recently staged a 10-round bout between "Fighting Ted" Ryan of Eldorado, Arkansas and "Battling Tex" Moore of Beaumont, Texas.

Two men were arrested near town, charged with stealing roasting ears from a farmer’s corn patch.

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Thirty capsules of morphine was found on a dope peddler by police officers Nicholson and Grady and Sheriff’s Deputy Duncan last night. Local officers are pushing a relentless war on dope in the county.

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An itinerant health clinic was started in East Park Camp by Dr. Lucille Bachly, director of maternity and infancy in the state department of health.

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The Gypsy Oil company filed protests against the Corporation Commission order reducing the oil runs in the Seminole field.

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W.J. Holloway, lieutenant governor left for the national governor’s conference to represent Oklahoma, Governor Henry Johnson said he did not desire to leave the state.

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"More than 500 cities and towns in the United States have applied zoning principals to municipal growth. Ten years ago only six communities were exercising some kind of control over the use of which real estate may be put."

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E.L. Rodebush, president of Tecumseh National Bank made a flying tackle and downed a bank robber who had threatened to blow up the bank with what he said was a "can of nitroglycerin" which he held wrapped in paper. After the capture, the man refused to give his name. He was being questioned by Assistant County Attorney Leroy Cooper.

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An Air compressor tank blew up on the D.F. Fleet lease south of Seminole, killing W.D. Willis, employee of Forest E. Gillmore company.

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Ted Stanton, Producer editor who writes a Page One Editorial every day, reported "everyone does not agree with my views. One reader said I ought to be shot. But they read The Producer. That is what I get paid to do - make readers for The Producer.

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Police arrested two men and charged them with offering narcotics for sale.

"Look Pleasant Please" was the request of Producer newsmen as they visited Seminole merchants, officials and residents in preparation for the Banner Edition. The pictures are being made to "brighten up" The Producer’s first big special issue.

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Jess Thorston was being sought by The Producer’s missing persons column. Thorston’s mother was dead in Arkansas. The son was thought to be working in the Seminole fields.

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Seminole Police Chief John Long reported to city council last night the force made 585 arrests in June. Forty-nine of the cases were for traffic violations and 536 were for other offenses against the law.

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Green Electric Company, whose store in Morgan Drug store was burned recently, opened a new electric shop at 322 East Oak in a new building 14 feet by 50 feet. "Green Electric Company has shown its abiding faith in Seminole by building this new frame building and bringing in a brand new stock of electric appliances" the announcement of the new store said.

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A nitroglycerine explosion at the Jones No. 3 well of Atlantic Oil company killed one man and injured two others critically at 1:30 p.m. yesterday.

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Sid White, Okemah’s "cowboy attorney" and chief defense counsel for Matt Kimes has chosen Seminole attorney O.L. Wolf to assist in the defense of the famed leader of the Kimes Gang. "Attorney Wolf is a lifelong friend of the picturesque Okemah Attorney" the Producer story said.

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Police department conducted an auction of "recovered autos" yesterday. Highest price was $160 paid for a Ford coupe and lowest price paid was $16 for a Ford Roadster. Average price for the dozen autos was $45.

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Kingfisher reported average wheat yield is 10 bushels per acre this year.

"Thieves of the less dangerous but most annoying variety are giving Seminole police the most trouble" said a Producer story relating the reports on growth of "sneak thievery" in the community.

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The Chamber of Commerce White Way Committee was authorized at a noon meeting of the chamber to "do whatever is necessary and to go all the way" in getting the Main street lighting under way "even including laying the cables" for the lights.

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Police officers Sims and Cash arrested a one-legged man wearing a wooden leg. He had stolen a blanket he had taken from a car while the owner was asleep in the vehicle, but he also had a "cache" of dope in a razor box, tucked away in his wooden leg.

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Tuesday night the No. 3 O’Dell well of Independent Oil and Gas company and Margay Oil Company, at Earlsboro, came in after being drilled to 4,252 feet, 12 feet into the Wilcox sand. The well filled all available tanks and a small nearby stream was dammed up during the night to hold the oil. It is reported flowing at a rate of 600 barrels per hour or 14,400 barrels per 24 hour day. This is the biggest gusher in The Greater Seminole field to date.

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Sam Nicholson, Seminole’s mounted traffic officer, got a new uniform. When he approached his horse, the horse kicked him. Sam smacked the steed in the nose. Now they get along fine. Yesterday Sam sent a young man to the stable to get his horse, but the animal butted the young man, then whirled and started kicking at him. The young man escaped through a window in the barn. When Sam came after the horse he was docile. He remembered the punch in the nose, so the story said.

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A 1927 Hudson Coach equipped with Hodye shock absorbers is offered for sale in Producer classified ads. And J.F. Daniels in Ritz hotel announced he would "trade a drug store in Seminole for a car."

"When you advertise service and give it - When you can build a reputation and keep it - Then your business is safe," was the over-mast Page one message of The Producer to Seminole merchants this date.

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The manager of the Rex Hotel and the proprietor of Purity Cafe plus two employees of Purity Cafe were arrested last night in raids on the two establishments. All are charged with selling whiskey and all are to be arraigned before Federal Judge Bob Williams.

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Advance orders for extra copies of The Banner Edition of The Producer indicate the special issue will have more than 100,000 readers, a report by Publisher James T. Jackson said in today's issue. The issue will be mailed anywhere in US for 20 cents Jackson announced.

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The Producer quoted the Dallas News: "Men no longer can hide behind women's skits. Neither can thewomen."

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An assistant in the office of Mrs. Mabel Basset, commissioner of charities and corrections, was in Seminole today investigating charges of Photographer Dan Hunt that Seminole police mistreated him recently when he was jailed for refusal to pay city occupation taxes. When asked what attitude the state charities and corrcctions office took on city occupation taxes, the lady investigator said that was outside her jurisdiction, that she was only investigating actions of police officers while they had the war veteran Hunt in custody.

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Daniel O. Hunt, the controversial Seminole photographer, started a fund to buy a watering trough "for horses, mules and dogs" in Seminole. Hunt said these animals are suffering daily in Seminole because there is no place they can be watered.

Producer headlines reported a probe of a county dope ring was underway. Prisoners sawed a number of bars from the city jail but were stopped with tear gas when officers discovered the escape attempt.

Twenty-one prisoners in the city jail "retreated" from the window they had partially opened with a hacksaw by cutting through the iron bars. Police Chief John Long exploded tear gas bombs at the window until the 21 prisoners fell back and permitted closing and barring of the window.

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A feature story told of "Uncle Henry Lewis, for forty years a peace officer who had shot only one person in that long career - a man who jerked away and ran and wouldn’t stop. "Uncle Henry shot him in the most obvious spot on his body as he ran. One shot was enough. The man came back with his hands up," the feature said. The story reported Uncle Henry was both a city police officer and a commissioned deputy sheriff.

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In a Page One feature story, Editor Ted Stanton reported latest statistics show Seminole city residents have a per capita wealth of $234.31, compared to $21.10 for the national average in the U.S.A.

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Forty-seven of the 78 new locations staked in Oklahoma oil fields last week were staked in the Greater Seminole Field, the Rinehart Oil Reporting Service in Tulsa announced.

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Green Electric Company was awarded the contract by the Chamber of Commerce to lay the cable on Main street to serve the new White Way. The lights will be installed from the Rock Island to Evans on Main but the cable will be laid one block farther north to Seminole street so property owners in the block can eventually extend the White Way to Seminole street.

The west end of Harber Hospital under construction at the west end of Evans street was blown over by the storm last night.

Scores of Seminole folks awoke "in the wee hours this morning" as wind and rain "roared through" the city and community. A new brick and tile building going up adjacent to the new city hall was demolished to the wind. An oak tree at the rear of Rogers Lumber yard on North Main was "torn up by the roots by the storm" and the windows of Rose Men’s Store across the street and near the depot, were blown in.

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Ben Barrick, town marshal of Bowlegs was injured by a thug who hid around the corner of a building last night, then stepped out and hit the marshal with a big rock. Barrick was "painfully injured."

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The police department’s Hudson touring car is almost "more trouble that it’s worth," police officer Sam Nicholson reports. Nicholson devoted several days to finding the car after it was stolen, then yesterday Police chief Long had to leave the Hudson in Wewoka because the roads were too muddy to get back to Seminole.

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Chamber of Commerce endorsed a swimming pool for "boys and girls and especially for Boy Scouts" to be erected by the city. The chamber also endorsed the plan of city officials to install a "White Way" the length of Main street.

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The city council "took drastic action" Tuesday night to protect residents from disease. The police department was instructed to arrest any person or persons emptying garbage or sewer into the street. The order especially applied to sewage and garbage emptied into paved streets.

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The Ritz theatre had "Step Along Kids" on the stage and "Sorrows of Satan" on the screen.

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Piggly Wiggley advertised beef roast at 16 cents per pound but 28 cents per pound for dressed hens. "Creamery Butter" was 48 cents per pound.

Wacco Henley, young son of Alf Henley, who conducts the Trader’s Grocery, was severely bitten by a big, white, bulldog this morning as the boy walked in the alley back of the Rex theatre. Young Henley is a Producer carrier. The dog is being held by the city for ten days to determine if rabies is present.

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"Slim", "Shorty," "Blackie," and "Skeet," are all well known to their friends and companions, but let one of them get killed and not even their closest friends know their real names. "Unless you have something to hide, let somebody know your real name," The Producer urged in a page one editorial.

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Police arrested a man trying to break up a soda fountain in the burned-out Morgan Drug store. The man said he had been "given permission" by someone he didn’t know to destroy the fountain. Police said they believe the man was one of those who looted stores during the Sunday night fire on Main Street.

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Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Harris of Warsaw, Mo., are visiting their son Cecil Harris, principal of the Mekusukey school, the Indian Mission south of Seminole.

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Dr. J.F. Tanner of El Dorado, Arkansas is in Seminole seeking a place to open an office. He is an eye, nose and throat specialist.

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First State Bank of Agra was robbed of $500 by three masked men who fled in a car. Officers said they believed the robbers were amateurs and lived in the vicinity of Agra.

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Tyrone’s Barber Shop and Bath House was opened the 2nd door south of Rex Theatre.

Dr. J.N. Harber's new hospital is almost complete. It should be ready for occupancy within two weeks. Plans are being made by Dr. Harber for a wading pool to be constructed near the hospital. Dr. Harber recently made a trip to Tulsa to see how Tulsa operates its wading pools.

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The government announced a speedup of airmail service from the east coast to west coast by night flying planes.

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I.W. Sitzler came to The Producer office after reading a story Thursday that his wife is hunting for him. Sitzler said he is working in the oil field near Bowlegs. His wife is ill in Texas.

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S.B. Cunningham made the mistake of driving down Broadway at high speed Friday night. Officers shot at his tires when he refused to stop. A lady driving a roadster invitcd the officers to climb in and she gave chase. Cunningham was caught two miles out of town by the lady driver and the officers, Sting and Cash, arrested the speeder and returned him to the city Bastille. He is charged with speeding, resisting arrest and carrying concealed weapons. "The lady was some driver," the officer said.

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Dr. R.E. Jones of Stigler is coming to Seminole county as health officer and the health department will move into its own building in Wewoka next week. Typhoid shots are to be available to all who want them, Dr. Jones said.

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The city council has authorized employment of two full time city firemen and two traffic officers. The council also straightened up" the ordinance against trash burning in downtown district.

A page one story reported two gals staged a hair-pulling fight "in the muddiest gutter in town" last night. The story said no one knew what the fight was about.

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R.D. Wright was appointed street commissioner, succeeding S.D. Powell "who plans a protracted vacation" in Colorado.

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Rehearsals opened for a home talent play "Seminole High Hat Follies." Rehearsals will be evenings at the high school.

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John Corley, "believed to be a pumper for some oil company" was sought by his mother-in-law from Durant, a news story said today.

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The Seminole moving picture was reported due in Seminole in a couple of days. A preview is scheduled for city officials, Chamber of Commerce officials and news reporters before the picture is to be shown the public.

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Three deaths were reported over the weekend. One man was killed when a switch engine ran over him in the freight yards at the east edge of town; one was killed when he fell from an oil rig on the Mills Tank Farm; and one was killed when a roadster on which he was riding in the turtle back, struck a culvert and threw him into the air. He landed on his head and broke his neck.

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Ritz theatre advertised it is "the coolest spot in town" and advertised the movie "Casey At The Bat" as main attraction. "Mullen’s Musical Maids" were on stage at the Rex.

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Born-Killingswortoh store announced it will advertise "two specials each week which we will sell below cost." The special days each week were to be Wednesdays and Saturdays, the store announcement said.

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Pete Komnitz, employee of Noble Drilling company was in Salzberg hospital recovering from a broken arm.

There seemed to be some question about who knows what about the robbery of the Oilton bank last night. The following was the report in The Producer of this date:

Monday night, as a result of a county-wide hunt for five bandits who held up and robbed the Oilton State bank at Oilton Monday morning. The man was arrested near Olive, an isolated community in the northern section of Creek county, and was brought here.

Chief of police here and other local officers denied they know anything of the men brought here, adding that they know nothing of the hunt for the bandits. Word from Sapulpa, the county seat, however, was to the effect that all available officers had been out all day on the bandit hunt.

The lone bandit was arrested near Olive, where a concentration of the policemen was affected during the early afternoon on a report that the bandits had surrendered. The report was started when an abandoned automobile was found near Olive.

A paper found near the automobile was believed to have been the one in which the bandits had wrapped the $1,000 taken from the Oilton bank. This led offices to believe that the men had stopped near Olive to divide the spoils.

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"Seminole will have a bang-up rodeo June 23-24-25" The Producer announced on this date. Events are scheduled each day for 2:15 and 8:15. H.W. Campbell of the C&H Garage is in charge of the event to be known as "The Merchant’s Rodeo." Cash prizes will be awarded each day.

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The fire department extinguished a small brush fire on West Broadway. A free health clinic is scheduled for Friday in the new City Hall. It will be an all day affair with state and county health officials conducting the clinic.

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The community of Wolf ran an advertisement in The Producer announcing "Wolf, The Coming Oil Town. Watch us Grow."

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Four major firms had representatives in town to bid on city bonds due to be sold by the city council in the meeting tonight.

Canvassing started to secure funds to build a white way on Main street. The lights were to be placed three-to-a-block on Main street from the high school building on the north to the rail depot on the south end. The cost was estimated at $5,600 and Shelby Livingston was chairman of the fund-raising drive.

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Two were fined for driving on the new paving on Main street before the paving was opened for traffic.

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W.L. Hughes, rural mail carrier and volunteer fireman, sustained a severe cut on the right hand while fighting a fire in a house at Fourth and Seminole streets last night.

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Dunlap’s announced opening a new (second) store in Seminole. The advertisement announcing the new store in rear of Commercial Hotel on East Oak street said, "We have opened another store in this city of flowing gold." G.E. Britt was the manager.

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Ladies were admitted free at the Ritz where Eddie Cantor and Clara Bow were starring in "Kid Boots." At the Rex the show was "Long Pants," and at the State Woozy was featuring "Al Bligh’s Blue Bandit Jazz Band."

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There’s a particularly large and juicy mudhole on main street north of Oak, and it was too inviting for some humorist to resist.

The result of his activities has been drawing many a laugh from passers by.

Two neatly lettered signs emerge from the ooze:

"Seminole Fish Hatchery. No Trespassing," says one.

"Positively No Swimming Allowed," says the other.

On the south side of Oak street, just west of Main, will be found a collection of signs, one of which states:

"No Driving, Hard Bottom."

Another says: "Two Jitney Drivers Lost Here; 15¢ Reward."

Failing health, due to the confinement and excitement incident to the duties of his office, following a lifetime spent on a farm, is given by Judge T.M. Heath as the reason for his resignation which he tendered to the board of county commissioners at their meeting Monday.

No information is available at this time as to what action was taken by the commissioners nor has any name been mentioned publicly as Judge Heath’s probable successor.

Judge Tom Heath is one of the best known men in Seminole county. He began the cultivation of an orchard on his farm near here before the oil boom and saw it grow to large proportions. His son-in-law, Claud Holmes, took up the care of the acreage when Heath decided to make the race for Justice of the Peace of Econtuchka township to which he was elected. he took charge of the office the first of January.

While all this was going on the oil boom continued to gather momentum and people came in streams and droves. Because this township touches on the city limits, in fact makes a considerable part of what is Main street in town, Judge Heath found himself magistrate in a city of large dimensions without being in a city at all.

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Tom Nix, with Tony the Wonder Horse, again will be the film feature attraction at the Ritz theatre today and tonight, both starring in their own popular fashion in a western thriller, "The Outlaws of Red River."

When it comes to action, this picture will satisfy the most exacting thrill craver, while the plot is of sufficient depth to match the grandeur of the setting.

The nine piece band that began pleasing everyone yesterday again will be in evidence at the Ritz, and together it is a very satisfactory bill.

Police issued a warning to Seminole motorists to obey the sign in front of the new City Hall. The sign says "No Parking."

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Notice is hereby given that the partnership existing between Dr. J.A. Bates and Doctor C.W. Bates as Doctors Bates & Bates, has been dissolved.

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"Printers," a magazine for printers published in Kansas City, Mo., carries a very complimentary article concerning The Producer and its first editor, Ted Stanton. Says the magazine:

"The Seminiole Producer, Seminole, the youngest daily in the state, lays claim also to being the fastest growing daily. Seminole, a year ago a village of 1,000 souls, now probably between 40,000 and 50,000 is a product of Oklahoma’s black gold.

"Realizing its possibilities, James T. Jackson and S.A. Franklin started the daily Producer March 1. The growth of the paper has been as phenomenal as the development of Seminole oil field.

"Ted Stanton, widely known throughout the west as an able and fearless writer is at the helm as editor and his editorials are doing much to bring the best to the surface and get Seminole out of the hard-boiled, wild and wooly camp class. With everyone more interested in oil than civic enterprise, Stanton has had to hit hard and often to produce results but an extensive paving, building and waterworks campaign is now in full swing and in a few months Seminole should begin to take her place as one of Oklahoma’s leading cities."

Palmore Noe, city clerk, announced a formal dedication ceremony for the new city hall on Fourth street between Oak and Broadway Tuesday afternoon, June 21. Noe said officers and departments will all be opened for the public to view. The City clerk’s office is the first door to the left as a person enters the building. The first door to the right goes into the fire station. The police station is at the rear of the city clerk’s office and the jail runs across the rear end of the building. Upstairs is Judge Con Long’s office, the city court room and the private office of the chief of police, Noe announced.

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A campaign against guntoters was announced by Police Chief Long. City Officer Stine had arrested six persons and confiscate six guns during the past week, the police chief reported.

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The city is fining all vehicle drivers who drove onto the new city paving without removing chains from trucks and tractor wheels. More than $100 in fines and appearance bonds were collected by Desk Sergeant Kinney this morning.

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Over 50 pints of corn whiskey and other illegal alcoholic beverages were collected by Seminole police officers in a series of night raids this week. The liquor was confiscated and charges filed on several persons. The liquor was found in several sections of the city.

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Seminole city water received a "Number One" rating from the state health department.

Leslie Brite lost a finger in a windlass on a Maybe Drilling company rig.

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The Producer announced Rev. B.L. Williams and his Boy Scout troop had won their campaign for a swimming pool for youngsters. It will be a 36 by 70 foot pool, nine feet at the deep end, located six blocks east of Main street on Evans avenue. A 70-foot locker building with shower will be constructed, Rev. Williams announced. Water for the pool will come from wells 400 to 500 feet deep, providing "the purest of water" the announcement said. Rev. Williams said he had $2,100 in contributions and will need only $1,300 more to pay for the pool. He was confident this total would be in hand by the time the pool was finished.

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A.W. and W.E. Huffaker of Madison, Iowa, were in Seminole investigating the cause of death of their father, E.W. Huffaker, who was killed last week in a railroad accident about one-half a mile from the city.

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Miss Dora Inman and L.T. Hensley chose "The Toggery," local men’s store as the place where they wanted to get married Saturday. The wedding was performed by Rev. Scott of the First Baptist Church with ‘Fat’ Bennett, "general genius of the Tog shop" as one of the witnesses. Manager Charles Fronhoff had to wait on a customer and couldn’t be one of the witnesses.

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The leading page one story reported City Judge Con Long’s enjoyment at moving his court from "the shack at Fourth and Broadway into spic and span new offices" in the new city hall building. The story said Judge Long had recently held court from 2:30 p.m. Monday until 7 p.m. Thursday "with only cat-naps at his desk between cases." Judge Long returned to Seminole from Tennessee Law School to take the city judge job, which he started on the 13th of December, 1926, the news story said.

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Of 43 new oil wells started in Oklahoma last week, nine of them were in the Seminole field. The number of new wells started in the state and in the Seminole field was the lowest "in many months."

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A first National Bank advertisement listed W.E. Harber as president, H.T. Riddle as active vice president, H.A. Born as vice president, L.L. Leslie as cashier and C.S. Duvall as assistant cashier.

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The Cromwell Star, weekly Cromwell newspaper, reported drillers are expecting to bring a good well near Butner school in Seminole county, a report to The Producer said.

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Claud Baker, one-armed dare-devil stunt driver arrived in town to participate in the Merchant Rodeo - where he will drive an auto completely blindfolded.

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S.M. Atyia, Oak street merchant challenged the sidewalk ordinance of the city - he placed his merchandise on the sidewalk - and was promptly arrested.

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City and county law enforcement officers announced a campaign to stop "vandalism on city and county bridges." It seems some of the bridges are disappearing and showing up as somebody’s tent floor. Others appear to be sabotaged because some one wanted the truss cables for wire line for anchoring a derrick or some other structure. County Commissioner C.W. Johnson said any person caught sabotaging county bridges will be "prosecuted to the limit."

The First National Bank of Seminole opened a campaign against check forgers. The first of a series of advertisements outlining methods used by forgers and warning against them, was started by The Producer.

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Property owners can now connect to the new sewer line west of Park street connecting with Jefferson street. City Clerk Pal Noe said city permits would have to be procured before the sewer connections can be made.

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Editor Tom Stanton urged city council members to place stepping stones at street crossings and board walks along major downtown streets "where the going is roughest."

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The Producer’s "lost person" effort centered today on hunting Pete Chronister, a took dresser working somewhere in The Greater Seminole field. Chronister’s mother is in Seminole but can’t find her son.

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Police Chief John Long and assistant chief Jack Cummings were each "sporting gold badges today, gifts of members of the city police force."

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J. Bart Aldridge, state representative from Seminole county, is to be married to Miss Marjorie McNamer of Dallas. The wedding will be June 28 and the couple will live in Wewoka where Aldridge’s father is mayor.

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"Red Hot Mama," and Palpitan Pappa," also "Hot Diggity Dog" are among the numbers being presented by "The Bandana Girls" on stage at the State Theatre.

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The Chicago Beach Hotel started a series of advertisements in The Producer.

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Cowboys and cowgirls "are arriving in town by every train" as everyone gets ready for the big rodeo which opens tomorrow.

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Liberty Rooms on Fourth street were raided, whiskey and some stolen goods were found and charges filed against the proprietor and his wife.

A mass meeting is set for tomorrow night to discuss organizing a musical comedy and feature acts to be presented in Seminole as a means of financing many needed items for Seminole fire department.

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Police reported "a dull night" with only 18 arrests.

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Many good business sites were advertised at Wolf, "The Coming Oil Town where honest neighbors welcome you."

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J.W. Smith asked The Producer to print "about half dozen checks" for him. That sounded suspicious. When the man returned for the checks Police Officer Mont Grady was waiting for him. Smith is in city jail tonight - of the numerous check forger suspects working the area.

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In Duncan, farmer Arch Gilbreth walked into the courtroom where B.F. Cox was on trial for raping Gilbreth’s 17-year-old daughter. Gilbreth settled the trial for Cox by pulling out a gun and killing the rape suspect. The Gilbreth girl was the third victim of Cox’s, the state charged.

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James T. Jackson, Producer publisher, returned today from Oklahoma City where he arranged for the engraving work schedule for "The Banner Edition" of The Producer, due publication soon. Jackson also announced Captain M. Bisbee, a member of the editorial staff of "The Nation’s Highways," a magazine, and Frank Muskrat of Tulsa, a well-known state writer, will assist in preparing the copy for the special publication.

The Merchant’s Rodeo kicked off yesterday "with a bang" when the afternoon session took $550 at the gate and the night show netted $1,325 for a total first day’s gate receipts of $1,875.

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Jack Collier and Mildred Spouse "daughter of one of the oldest families in Seminole" were married yesterday by Rev. B.L. Williams in the Methodist parish house.

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The city council advertised bids for awarding a city natural gas franchise to The Seminole Gas Company and advertised an ordinance closing all business firms but drug stores, restaurants, filling stations and oil supply stores from midnight Saturday to noon Sunday.

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Monday will witness the opening of another first class store in Seminole when the Bee Hive tailors and haberdashers, 322 Main Street, will formally open their doors.

M.E. Wilenzick is manager, an experienced clothier with 25 years active experience connected with the New York store but decided that he wished to enter business for himself. Associated with him is his brother, M.J. Wilenzick, also a clothier of long experience.

A cleaning and pressing establishment has been started at the new store and special machinery installed that represents something entirely new in the presssing business.

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"Arizona Bound" was the movie at the Rex Ritz and the State opened its summer run of its own Musical Comedy troupe. A "Millinery Sensation," was advertised in an 8-column banner by Born-Killingsworth store. All women’s hats in the store were scheduled to go for $2.90. $3.90 and $4.90.

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Friday morning’s gauge of the Seminole oil field showed 400,433 barrels, the world’s record for any oil field. Smackover, in Arkansas produced 400,100 barrels for its top. The 24-hour Seminole field record was set on Friday, June 24, this year of 1927.

An "Oklahoma badman" known around Seminole as G.H. Kady of Tulsa, was arrested near Grand Canyon, Colorado and identified as Roy Dooley, member of the Kimes-Terrell bank bandit gang. Kimes was captured in the same area last Thursday.

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The J.K. Means family reached Seminole today after using various routes through Louisiana and Arkansas flood areas for the past few days.

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Miss Lucy Ann Kelley Simpson and Earl Murray went to Ada for their wedding and visited the groom’s parents in Ada over the weekend.

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Derrick Clothing Store opened at 325 Main Street. J. Feldman and H. Hellerman are in charge of the store which is strictly a Men’s Store.

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Rex Moore announced that plans are complete and construction will begin at once on a 12-apartment building at the corner of Oak and Park streets.

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A big fellow by the name of Long was weaving down Oak street late Saturday when he met Police Chief Long who took Mr. Long along with him for a visit with Judge Con Long in the city police court. Judge Long asked Chief Long what was wrong with Guest Long. Chief Long informed Judge Long that Guest Long had imbibed too much. Judge Long made Guest Long an overnight guest of Chief Long in the city Bastille. That was the "long story" as related today in The Producer.

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F.J. McKane announced he will open a new bakery on Main street. McKane said he will feature "Ideal Milk Bread."

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First National Bank’s advertisement today warned of "strictly bogus" checks circulating in the area. The checks are drawn on City National Bank of Wichita and made payable to Prairie Oil and Gas Company.

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There will be a rehearsal of Home Talent Follies tonight in the high school auditorium. Attorney Robert Burns will play "Honorable Seminole" in the follies.

Seminole residents previewed "Seminole’s own motion picture" last night at the Ritz theatre. The film will be shown Thursday and Friday nights of this week, for the two nights only. It will be "shown throughout the United States" the news report said and "is expected to bring big investors here."

The Producer reported the picture "proved a greater success than was anticipated, judging from the complimentary remarks made to Producer Milton Athens after the preview last night."

The Producer reported "the film is a real cross section of Seminole and the oil fields, showing among other good views panorama of the city. One sees the panorama eye-to-eye with Miss Pherne Hickey, called by Director Athens "the most beautiful girl in Seminole." Miss Hickey is shown viewing the city from the top of the highest building, gazing through field glasses."

School Superintendent Ketchum and many Seminole school students are shown, as are traffic activities at both the best and worst - The Rock Island bringing many people to the city, and film of oil wells drilling and pumping. The Producer urged residents to attend one of the two-night showings at the Ritz, "where you may see yourself on the streets of Seminole, maybe talking to a flapper."

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An ITIO company wildcat in 1-7-6 came in yesterday, flowing 250 barrels an hour - 6,020 barrels the first 24 hours. The well had been shut down on the Simpson Sand at 3,985 feet two months ago. It was drilled in with four-inch pipe extended in the new drilling. Four new offsets are announced today.

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Yesterdays fines in police court totaled $990.00.

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Carl F. Killingsworth, Seminole dance hall operator, was killed on SH 3 last night when his car failed to make the turn south off the highway onto the road leading south to Earlsboro.

What has happened to "Butch" Smith, well-known driller who came to Seminole a couple of weeks ago with his Studebaker car and his black-and-white bull dog, Jack?

His wife came to this city today, trying to find out. She had been told at Wewoka, by a man who said he was Butch’s friend, that her husband was killed in an automobile accident on Main Street Monday, but nobody here seems to know anything about it.

Mrs. Smith last heard from her husband about 10 days ago when he telephoned her at Wewoka that he was going to work here.

Anyone having information can in touch with her through the Producer.

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Police Chief Long has been instructed by Mayor Harber to close Broadway to all traffic while paving is underway so that the contractor’s trucks and machinery will have a clear field, Sam Nicholson, traffic officer, was carrying out the order today.

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Some may wail about the low price of oil but Seminole county has no kick coming.

Out of $721,125.16 apportioned back to the counties as their one-third of the gross production tax collected in May, Seminole County received $267,639.55, or approximately one-third of the total.

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Roy Westphall is in Ware hospital, result of being caught between two autos during last night’s heavy rain. His right leg is broken.

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"Canned Heat" artists drew an indignant explosion from Judge Con Long in police court this morning. Twelve were "deported" yesterday but three of them were back in town and appeared before the judge in police court this morning.

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Officer Mont Grade, hearing the sound of breaking glass, rushed to the Marland Filling Station at Broadway and First streets where he found a man inside the office. Despite his protest he "hasn’t done anything," the police officer arrested him and put him in jail.

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Pipelines reported a capacity of 335,000 barrels of oil per day from the Greater Seminole field and announced that capacity would be upped if needed.

Residents at intersection of Oak and University streets heard screams about 11 o’clock last night and caught glimpses of two figures, one fleeing in the darkness and a man’s voice saying "he’s cleaned me of everything I had." No other information about the hi-jacking is available.

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Local electric contractors and officials of OG&E were prepared to submit Main Street White Way costs to the city Council Tuesday night.

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The Producer editorially denied an Oklahoma City newspaper story that Seminole water supply is polluted and unfit for consumption. "The well shafts are sheltered with heavy steel casings," the Producer reported in telling about Seminole’s water well municipal supply," and there is a concrete wall protection at the 200-foot level," the story said.

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"Butch" Smith read The Producer story about his "recent death" and the fact his wife was looking for him, and showed up at The Producer office. The Smiths are together again and their meeting was "very affectionate," the Producer said.

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The Producer masthead had been changed from James T. Jackson, publisher and Sadie A. Franklin, business manager, to James T. Jackson and Sadie A. Franklin, owners. James T. was listed as editor-publisher.

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Forty-six new wells were started in the Seminole field the past week. This compared to sixty wells week-before-last.

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With a weekly payroll of $600, employing 30 persons and operating three trucks, The Seminole Steam Laundry, 148 Park street, is one of the late additions to Seminole’s fast- growing business district. The owners are J.T. Wall and A.D. Ackerman, both of Hugo.

Fire of undetermined origin destroyed the Gregory Style Shop, the Morgan Drug store, Green’s Radio and Electric shop, Burt "Dad" Todd’s Jewelry store and Bob Ferlow’s barber shop. Total loss is roughly estimated at $40,000 and $50,000 with only a faction covered by insurance.

Damage to property of First State Bank from water was not included in the estimate. It was impossible to estimate the loss from wholesale looting which took place at height of the fire. The fire started in the rear of one of the stores and Chief B.E. Broadnax had difficulty bringing the fire equipment through the mud. "Hampered as they were by crowds which apparently were left free to do as they pleased," the firemen had difficulty handling their hose. But they saved the First State Bank on the south and The Famous Dry Goods Store on the north.

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Rex Moore, building contractor, announced that he would begin construction of a new brick building for W.H. Franks at southeast corner of Broadway and First street. The front will house a filling station and the rear a cold storage plant.

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Dorothy Ann Davis and Mary Ann Nicholson of Wewoka, Robert Edwin Hichney of Konawa and Vera Maxine Dutten are entries in the State Fair Better Babies Contest from Seminole county.

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Madam Marie, one-half block south of Seminole Steam Laundry on Park street, advertises she can assure success in business, love and courtship if you will come to her for a reading.

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Bert "Dad" Todd explained in an advertisement the jewelry and watches he had in his store when the Sunday night fire hit are in the fireproof safe among the ruins of his store and he "hopes everything will be there, safe, when I can get into it and open it up."

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The Famous Dry Goods store ran an advertisement thanking the fire department and volunteers who protected their store from fire and thieves. The ad was signed "Deaton and Doss, owners."

The Majestic Theatre, on the west side of Main street near the railroad depot, was gutted by fire. Mrs. Ella Bennett, owner, said she had no insurance. Lee’s Lunch, a hamburger stand belonging to Lee Carnes was also damaged. Looters got a 4-gallon coffee urn from Carnes place but Sgt. Jake Sims of the local police force recovered it from the tent city area on Second street.

Another fire was doused last night at the Barrelhouse Dance Hall at the rear of C&H Garage on west Oak street.

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Jim Thorpe’s "brilliant team of Sac and Fox Indians" will meet the Seminole Producers in Douglas park here June 19, 20 and 21.

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The Methodist minister needs more support in working with local children, The Producer announced editorially. "It is all right for the Chamber of Commerce to pass resolutions but Reverend Williams needs more than moral support," The Producer said.

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The new paving on Second street from Seminole street to the railroad will be opened tomorrow, the city council was told last night. The council appointed S.B. Hammons, W.F. Mathews and J.B. Allen as appraisers to set the property tax cost for the paving.

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Two strangers called at Petroleum Rooms on South First street about 10 a.m. yesterday and asked for W.F. Stone’s room, knocked, went in and shut the door. They left soon thereafter and Stone was found bound and gagged in his room later. His watch and money were missing. City Detective Mont Grady is working on the case.

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Seminole sports fans were due a treat tomorrow night when Gus Pappans’ nationally known veteran of the mat, meets Oreste Vadalfi in a wresting match to the finish - best two out of three falls. It is in the Armory and starts at 8:15.

Difficulty was reported in securing easements for a north-south highway through the city when the Chamber of Commerce met in its weekly luncheon today. Rock Island railroad reported the overpass on University street was almost completed. Dr. Trawick reported on progress of the White Way on Main street. Dr. Harber, mayor of the city and president of the chamber, reminded the luncheon that a city ordinance prohibited trucks with chains using the paved streets of the city. Harber said the ordinance would be enforced.

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A salesman stopping at a local hotel noticed someone had been tampering with the Motometer on the radiator of his new Ford Roadster. He laid down in the seat of the car and waited. Soon a man showed up and started trying to unscrew the Motometer. The salesman hopped out, collared the man, marched him into the hotel and got the police.

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Historic old Emahaka Indian Mission, some three mils south of Wewoka, burned to the ground Wednesday night about 10 o’clock. The building was unoccupied and was being used to store hay. Origin of the fire is not known. The school building was built about 40 years ago and at one time was one of the largest Indian schools in the Indian Territory. It was used as a school for Seminole Indian girls.

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President Calvin Coolidge won’t tell whether he will call a special session of Congress.

The Producer quoted the Daily Oklahoman: "The decision of the supreme court by Justice Holmes that a bootlegger must pay income tax on his net income is no doubt sound law, but it unquestionably reflects an unspeakable unsound condition.

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Ira Rinehart in his oil column in The Producer reported on "depression conditions" in the oil industry.

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Bert Prince, 42, was shot and killed on the main street of Earlsboro yesterday. It was reported the shooting resulted from an argument over a woman.

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The Collier Hardware company which "operates in both Texas and Oklahoma’ opened a store at 305-307 North Main street.

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The following was the lead story in today’s Producer:

"It didn’t require any stool pigeon evidence to cause a City and County raid on the Vanor Rooms, North 4th street, Saturday night. That old stuff called Choctaw beer supplied its own evidence by the noise it contained, according to the neighbors.

"People say you could hear it gargle to the sidewalks."

Anyway, the city and county officers went in and arrested men and women to the total of nine. Eight of this number paid off police court and the landlady was held on a Federal charge.

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Teams signing for the Oil League today included Seminole, Wewoka, Okemah, Henryetta, Weleetka, and Wetumka. It was hoped two out of the three of Holdenville, Ada or Shawnee would sign up to make it an 8-team league.

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Residents were urged to get typhoid shots. Fire destroyed the four-month old "Electric" shop of D.A. Rupe and Leslie Roberts, 110 East Broadway.

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An argument was on between merchants and city officials about oiling city downtown streets. The oily dust ruins merchandise, the business men claimed. The un-oiled dust ruined their houses, housewives claimed. One city department said the city could water the streets. Another city department said there was no water available for the purpose. The argument raged. The dust blew.

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Mr. and Mrs. Lancaster, Delton Keever and Rexall Spurr went to Norman Friday for the track meet which extended over Saturday.

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Mary Sue Simpson gave a slumber party Friday night after the Junior-Senior banquet. The guests were Willie Grisso, Lena Keever, Pauline Warren, Japanita Morphew and Dorothy Spurr.

The "newest of the many towns in Pott. county is Wye" according to reports reaching The Producer. The town was established where the road from Maud and the road from Macomb intersects the north-south road eight miles south of Tecumseh.

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The Producer reported Desk Sergeant Means was helping Deputy Sheriff John Goss when the Seminole police officer pistol whipped L.J. Myers. Apparently a "Judge" Heath, a peace justice operating outside the city limits of Seminole, filed the charges on the Seminole police officer.

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Members of the Oklahoma Press Association, in session at Poteau for their annual meeting, "scored Campbell Russell’s initiated Petition No. 89 to increase the gross production tax on oil and gas and other minerals."

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Eugene S. Briggs, superintendent of schools at Okmulgee is on the program of the National Education Association in July in California.

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Milton Athems of International News Weekly was in Seminole today preparing to film some street scenes in the city. Chamber of Commerce was planning "some special stunts" for the benefit of the camera.

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Ruby Dudley and her "Black Bottom Steppers" were on stage at the State.

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The St. Louis Trade trippers were astonished when they noted the crowd of people in Seminole during their short stay here today and one of them, at the corner of Oak and Main street made the remark "There is more car and foot traffic on this corner than there is at the busiest corner in St. Louis.

"The band which accompanied the tippers and the speech delivered by Lawrence McDaniel, district attorney of St. Louis, were enjoyed by a large concourse of people.

Work on the closing exercises for Seminole schools is progressing nicely. The business of Commencement proper starts Friday of this week when the program will be given out of doors in front of the Grade School Building.

Sunday morning at 11 o’clock the baccalaureate sermon will be preached at the High School auditorium.

Monday, May 16, will be the only program for which an admission will be charged. On that date the senior class will present their play ‘Adam and Eve.’ This will also be in the High School auditorium at 8:15 in the evening. This is a popular comedy in three acts. Fifty cents for adults and 35 cents for children will be charged.

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Deputy sheriffs Bud Gordon and Henry Lewis eased into Bob’s Place on North Main street extension yesterday afternoon and uncovered about 100 quarts of ‘Choc’ all ready to be bottled.

The deputy sheriffs were near the place on other business when they took a notion to enter and walked right onto the beer, according to the statement given this morning.

The proprietor was held on a possession charge and taken to Wewoka to await his preliminary hearing.

Henry Lewis is a member of the Seminole Police Department and also a deputy working under Sheriff Doyle.

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Four new wells were reported in the Greater Seminole field yesterday, three of them gushers.

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A notice today Drs. Moe and Stebbins will open an office May 18 in Commercial hotel. It will be a dental clinic and x-ray laboratory.

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A letter to The Producer from Evansville, Indiana said "will you get hold of Don Livingston and tell him his sister is in Rescue Mission here and they will pay her way to Seminole if he will wire them he will help after she arrives there."

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Ten employees of Prairie Pipe Line company were held up and robbed near Earlsboro last night. The bandits got about $150.

A direct appeal was made to the government yesterday through Secretary Work for help in restricting the crude oil output in the Seminole oil field.

The conference followed one held Monday between Walter C. Teagle, president of the Standard Oil company of New Jersey and Herbert Work, Secretary of the Interior and Chariman of the Federal Oil Conservation Board.

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The graduating class of Seminole high school this year consists of 15 future presidents and three congresswomen.

The Grade School program will be held in front of the Grade School building in the open air tonight. Sermon will be Sunday at 11 a.m. at High School auditorium and from then on out the rest of next week commencement business will be continuous.

Following are the names of the 1927 graduates:

Wincil Kever, Ruth Serngel, Hazel Lancaster, Delton Dever, Hershel Barton, Ray Allen, John Stovall, Themious Lancaster, Wayne Harber, Lindsey Smith, Kenneth Fowler, Kenneth Class, Robert Scales, Harold Ammerman, Eudale Underwood, J.T. Livingston, Wrexel Spur and Roy Munn.

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The Seminole Fire Department and the High Water Pressure on the house lines undoubtedly saved the complete devastation of the West End on Timmons avenue at 3:45 this afternoon.

Fire started in a shack built residence and three of the small wooden residences burned, together with an automobile and some household goods and clothing damaged. But for the prompt action of the Department and the strong stream of water obtainable the fire would have no doubt spread to the railroad.

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Seminole has attained so much prominence in the affairs of the world, both through stock market reports because of the oil under every foot of the city, and through the front page stories carried by the Associated Press and other news agencies, that people from Maine to California are wondering about this wonderful modern Baghdad.

There are people residing here and working in the field from every state in the union and they all try to write home and tell the folks back there just what this greatest of all oil fields looks like.

Arrangements have been made with the Ritz Theatre and a moving picture in all the name implies will be made right here in Seminole. Love, pathos, humor, tragedy, and above all the great discovery of oil and the subsequent happenings will be depicted from actual local scenes and carried in the plot of the story.

That the Boy Scout movement in Seminole is in safe hands with Rev. B.L. Williams as scoutmaster is attested by the plans made for the boys of the City during the vacation period. Asked as to how the work was progressing, the Rev. Williams said:

"We are planning some good things for the boys of the City of Seminole during the vacation that we believe will lead them to the desire for a better, cleaner life, and we feel like maybe the town would like to help in saving the boy.

"Next Monday a crowd of boys will play a game of baseball with the students of the Mission School at Mission. After school is out Friday we are planning on taking a crowd of the boys to McAlester so they can see the penitentiary. We feel that the object lesson will help them go straight and if we can see our boys happy we know we will see a better nation.

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The Barnsdall company may prevent the shutting down of development work in the Seminole field loomed this morning. The Barnsdall is said to be absolutely opposed to the shut down foe the reason that such action would be nothing short of penalizing those companies that have not drilled up their holdings.

The Barnsdall holdings are interspersed liberally throughout this, the world’s prolific oil field, and oil experts point out that the non-corporation of one company so large is in the reduction movement would change the mind of other companies with regard to the curtailment.

President E.B. Reeser of the Barnsdall company, contended that the halting of drilling would penalize Seminole producers who have not drilled up their blocks and proposed that operators of California and Texas be brought into an agreement whereby all wells would be cut down to a daily production of 200 barrels each.

Seminole city voters approved $100,000 in bonds for water and sewer extension and furnishing of the new city hall building.

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Bobbie McClendon, two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. McClendon was lost by his parents in city traffic about noon today. He was finally found by police after two hours of hunting him.

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"Those people who went to the polls yesterday and voted for a better Seminole will have the praise and approbation of posterity years after they themselves have gone," Editor Stanton wrote in his daily column.

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W.H. Miller will be the mounted traffic officer, replacing Sam Nicholson, who goes to the uniformed patrol squad, Chief of Police Long announced today. Miller was the first mounted traffic officer employed in Oklahoma City when that city organized a mounted police squad, Chief Long said.

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Seminole Motor Company, local Ford dealers, announced a formal opening for their new home on the west side of Second street between Oak and Broadway. The formal ceremonies are Saturday and there will be free square dancing and entertainment. Fifteen square dance couples are coming from Holdenville.

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Seminole Local No. 929 Carpenters and Joiners has decided upon staging a real, old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration for the city. Plans are being perfected now for the day, committees being appointed and the work of getting other Unions to join them is now well underway.

A big barbecue dinner will be served and the carpenters are working out plan so that free ice water and lemonade will be provided for all those who come to Seminole for the celebration.

A parade and other forms of entertainment will be on the program, details of which will be announced later.

There was little change in the production of the greater oil field for the 24 hours ending Monday morning. The total was 348,351 barrels from 419 wells, a decline of 10,000 barrels from Saturday’s figures.

Only a few shutdowns were reported by reason of the curtailment plan voted Saturday by Seminole producers. Two wells were shut down by the Gypsy Oil company, two by the Pure, and two by the Carter Oil company. Two of the wells, one owned by the Gypsy and the other by the Pure, are shut down on top of the Wilson sand. As pointed out by Umpire Ray Collins, the process in cutting down production will not be rapid.

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Theft, adultery, hijacking, car stealing, handling stolen property, attempt to kill, reckless driving, bigamy -

This has been a busy day at the court of Magistrate T.M. Heath, when County Attorney Homer Bishop came to town for the preliminary hearing of 14 different cases.

The men of the party made a gruesome looking appearance as they came up Main street from the train this morning, shackled and otherwise made safe for delivery.

Judge Heath said this morning that it was his intention to stay with the cases until his docket was cleared if it took a night session to do it.

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A.C. Jackson, printers’ union representative arrived in town to discuss organizing a union of printers.

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Colonel W.S. Key, Wewokan and county oilman, reported "The Oklahomans, Inc." is receiving inquires about Oklahoma. The organization ran an ad in Saturday Evening Post, containing a coupon. Key said more than 1,200 of the coupons have been received from persons in all states of the union. The organization invites prospective investors to investigate Oklahoma as a place to invest, move or establish a business,

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Carter Oil company has the gusher well of the Seminole field, in its No. 2 Wise, NW corner of NE NE of 23-8-6 Bowlegs pool, which was a well drilled deeper to a total depth of 4,258 feet, and a 20 quart shot was given the last 10 feet of pay, from 4248 to 4258, and this morning the well started flowing 300 barrels per hour, or 7,200 barrels per day. The 24 hours before the shot, it made a total of 3,985 barrels. No. 4 Wise made 2,210 barrels yesterday from a total depth of 4,240 feet in the Wilcox sand.

Seminole women were planning to organize a B&PW Club in Seminole. Here is the story in today’s Producer:

"The Business and Professional Women’s Club, which was started in motion last Tuesday night with a meeting at The Producer office, is scheduled for another meeting at the same place tonight. The members sponsoring the movement have high hopes for a real club in Seminole and many new members and applicants are expected this evening.

"This club has a wonderful record in Oklahoma. Every town has glowing reports of the work as the women have more to do with the affairs of business."

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It seems the alleys in Seminole were not exactly clean in those early Boom Days. Here is what Editor Stanton had to say about this subject:

"Of course, everybody knows that contracts are out for paving and everybody knows that four of the principal alleys will be paved, but if the alleys are not purified before the pavers can reach them there will be few of us left alive to appreciate it.

LORD HOW THEY STINK.

"State Health Board Inspector Watts says he can’t get it done!

"Chamber of Commerce efforts have failed to get it done.

"The city says it’s broke, but a few barrels of lime don’t cost so awful much.

"We don’t like to tell the world that our town stinks."

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Great interest is being taken in the Boy Scout work in Seminole, according to Rev. Williams, local Scout Master. The second examination of scouts, held at the Methodist church last night was replete with interest and Rev. Williams expects more boys to take up the work as they are given an opportunity to understand its objects and benefits.

District Judge Crump ruled that Walter Day, former Chief of the Seminole Police had resigned, in all intents and purposes, whether he signed a written resignation or not, at a hearing given the injunction filed by City Attorney Robert Burns, at the hearing held in Wewoka yesterday.

At the request of the city council, a resolution was passed asking Mayor Harber as the chief executive, to request the resignation of Chief of Police Walter Day.

Chief Day, while he did not resign, signed an order for the refund of the money he had expended for the stars worn by the officers and the books indicated to Judge Crump that Day signed an order for the four days pay coming to him.

Judge Crump ruled that this was evidence of an intended resignation and made the injunction permanent.

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A cashier’s check for $500 and another one for $200 has been found by the Seminole police department. The checks are all that have been found from a total of $6,000 which was stolen from Ponca City last week.

The Ponca City theatres were having a contest and the prizes were to be awarded that night. The cashier of the Security State Bank of that city had issued the checks, cashier checks, made payable to winners of prize No. 1, No. 2, and so on, the name to be left blank. Those checks were delivered to the theatre for the presentation that night. Somebody stole the checks and consternation predominated.

The Seminole police got busy and one of the force walked into the New York Bargain store when a man was buying a suit of clothes. Sure enough, he presented one of the stolen checks and was promptly arrested.

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For the past several days, the Seminole field has shown very little change in its daily output. During the past 24 hours, with four additional wells producing, the total production was 347,040 barrels, which is but 329 barrels less than it made the previous day. There are now 432 wells producing. Divided into pools, the output was as follows: Bowlegs, in 8-6, 100,347 barrels; Seminole proper in; Searight in 10-6. 33004 barrels, and Earlsboro, in 9-5, 65,783 barrels.

Matthew Kimes and his bandit gang who looted two Beggs banks Wednesday morning, killed Chief of Police W.J. McAnally, shot Mrs. Charles Campbell and escaped with $17,961.49 in cash and jewels, were still at large last night and had apparently completely thrown off their trail the hundred or more offices and citizens pursuing them.

Payne county posse lost trail of the bandit car, a Buick sedan, six miles south of Cushing. The bandit car traveling between 60 and 75 miles per hour, was headed north toward Cushing at that time, the Payne county sheriff informed Sheriff John Russell.

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A short meeting of the Business and Professional Women’s club was held Wed. night in the office of the Chamber of Commerce. The meeting was in charge of new President, Mrs. Adair. Chairmen of the standing committees were appointed and plans made for the next meeting which will be held Monday evening at the home of Mrs. Bell. At this meeting a large number of new members will be taken into the club.

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It is the wrong notion to attempt to show the Oklahoma City boosters a booming oil town.

It is the right notion to show the visitors the most thriving permanent trade center in the state now in the making and well along in the job.

It is right the right notion to make them want to come back again.

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"Listen, you are now standing on the richest five-mile square in the known world," James T. Jackson, publisher of The Producer, said in a Page One editorial welcoming the Oklahoma City Goodwill Trippers visiting Seminole today by special train.

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The Royal Rooms and the Vannoy Rooms are no longer the property of Pete Killingsworth, The Producer reported. Killingsworth only had a lease on the rooming houses. The two rooming houses were raided yesterday.

In a sheet iron shed, two blocks from the Rock Island station in Earlsboro, federal agents, assisted by local constables "made the biggest haul this year," in moonshine liquor and contrabands.

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Thirty-three persons ran afoul of the law in the course of two raids staged early Sunday and Monday mornings in which the police vice squad composed of Jack Cummings, assistant chief, Mont Grady and Dick Miller seized a quantity of liquor and "home brew," arresting two batches of prisoners on charges of loitering, possession of ardent spirits and statutory counts.

Officer Cummings declared today that those two raids were only forerunners of a strenuous campaign to "clean up" Seminole with special emphasis placed upon sale of liquor and conducting disorderly houses.

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With more than 400 feet already "shot" and arrangements under way to complete the film as expeditiously as possible, Seminole soon will have a motion picture worthy to represent this city all over the United States wherever news reels are show, Jas. O. Seger, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, announced this morning.

Pictures of the schools and graduating classes were first to be taken, followed by views of the railroad station as the booster trippers arrived, of the street paving work and various bits of action in the downtown business section. Plans have been laid to film features of the oil industry in such a way as to give news interest that will attract favorable attention to Seminole besides being a desirable addition to the bill of any motion picture theatre.

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Seminole defeated Durant 10 to 9 in the Seminole new park Sunday in a fast game, considering the condition of the ground, by connection with 18 hits, including 2 home runs, 1 triple, and 4 doubles. Vangaft and McCorury hit for the circuit, while N. Roberts and R. Roberts for Durant hit home runs.

On account of increased business, Postmaster Roy Hoffman announced today that he had employed two new mail clerks who will work during the night in order to clear the daily grist of letters and packages and have the post office clear for the following day’s business.

Luther Lawson and Thomas Lancaster are the new appointees and will serve as temporary employees until their civil service status is established.

Seminole citizens will thus be furnished 24-hour service in the only post office in the county thus favored.

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Seminole police officials reported today that they have 15 stolen automobiles on hand which have not yet been identified. Most of them are of light, inexpensive make, roadsters and coupes with a few touring cars.

Two such autos were auctioned last week, the practice being to keep them for about 30 days before advertising them for sale.

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Mrs. R.W. Cook who has been completing her college work in Stillwater moved to Seminole today. Her husband has been employed here for some time.

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"Already three large producers, including the Gulf Oil company, a Mellon corporation, have washed their hands of the project," a Washington story said of the proposals to voluntarily restrict oil production.

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Sam Hammons, manager of Hammons Clothiers, has taken his family on a business trip of several days to southern Kansas.

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Bert Stovall of Stovall grocery is spending the week in Hubbard, Texas visiting relatives.

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Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Gilliland have returned to their home in Norman after spending the past week in Seminole with Mrs. Gilliland’s mother, Mrs. Sweatte of Sweatte Gift Shop.

Lacking adequate facilities for handling the work, Jonah Porter Post No. 204, American Legion, has accepted the offer of the Chamber of Commerce to handle matters pertaining to reinstatement of lapsed war risks insurance policies for World War veterans.

Secretary Seger today received instructions from the Veterans’ bureau chief in Oklahoma City, Major H.B. Gilstrap, covering procedure and also with regard to the manner of obtaining loans on adjusted service certificates.

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Governor Johnston is thinking seriously of bringing a tennis ball to his office and dribbling it fifteen minutes each day for exercise.

The governor says he does not get enough exercise and is trying to figure out some way to get it. At his home in Perry, he devoted his time to a large garden, but the duties of the executive office are such he cannot care for a garden.

He is thinking of setting aside a fifteen-minute period during the day when the doors of his inner office will be closed to visitors and he can get his much needed relaxation from office duties by chasing a tennis ball around the room.

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Progress in paving the city streets is marked with special interest this week in view of the fact that the Rock Island railroad already has dumped material at the site for construction of the overpass at University street and work will begin immediately.

Hand in hand with this needed improvement is the announcement that on petition of R.A. Gates and E.O. McKay, the city council has authorized construction of paved surface on University street for two blocks, making a continuous pavement from Broadway to the new viaduct.

Council has taken under consideration a petition to extend the paving on Second street north for another block.

In their effort to meet the over production crisis in the petroleum industry, representatives of twenty petroleum producers operating in the Seminole field, meeting in New York Wednesday decided to continue to limit the output in the area until such time as ten or more of the operators withdraw from the agreement.

A resolution was adopted, approving the report of Ray Collins, umpire over the field, and retaining Collins to continue the direction of the curtailment plan. The resolution also commits the operators subscribing to it to extend the policy adopted in regard to Seminole field to the entire state of Oklahoma.

Collins in outlining his plan, said there are 450 wells drilling in the Seminole area, and recommends that all these should be drilled in, "due to draining and loss of pressure condition," with the exception of twenty-two wells which should be limited to 1,000 barrels from the Wilcox sand to each forty-acre tract.

In addition, he listed 113 wells, drilling in "what may be termed undeveloped territory" and suggested that they be restricted to 100 barrels per day.

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The prospect that Seminole may have a refinery soon loomed large at the noonday luncheon of the Chamber of Commerce today at which ladies of the Methodist church acted as hostesses. Several guests and new members were introduced at today’s meeting.

Secretary Seger introduced H.C. Leete, Tulsa refiner, who proposed that Lake Park Refinery, now out of operation, which is situated just this side of Okmulgee, be moved to Seminole as the "Seminole Refining Company."

The plant cost about a half a million dollars, Mr. Leete said, but could be obtained for Seminole if citizens will subscribe $45,000 to $50,000 and obtain contracts for supplies of crude. When completed the plant would be worth about $300,000, would have compounding and cracking departments and would start by employing about 25 first class men. The capacity would be about 2,500 barrels a day.

James R. Porter, district superintendent of Empire Oil and Gas company was seriously injured in an explosion at the Lacy gasoline plant located in 8-6 about one half mile north of Rascoe.

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The school board announced the employment of fifteen teachers for the school year to open the first week in September. Superintendent L.W. Kitchens told the school board only passage of "the weak school" bill by the state had permitted Seminole schools to stay open under the mushrooming increase in population.

Employed on the faculty, as announced by the school board are: L.W. Kitchens, superintendent; Mrs. L.W. Kitchens, Latin and public speaking; L.A. Woodall, coach; Miss Welda Griffin, music director; Miss Bessie Moreman, Spanish and English; Miss Janice Johns, English.

Grade School: Mrs. G.T. Warren, Janie Adair, Mrs. Ruby Percival, Malcolm Reed, Mrs. pearl Glass, Miss Juanita Enniston, Mrs. Stella Bell.

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If you bootleg to the husband of a sleuth, arrange your bail for "the female species is more deadly than the male!"

That’s the way it turned out for one John Fallin, Seminole soft-drink stand proprietor and according to officers purveyor of hootch.

Fallin had a good system, according to Chief of Police Long, but a system that won’t work anymore, so the Amalgamated Association of Scaffaws is welcome to the idea. The soft-drink vendor who now languishes in the city hoosegow, kept his bottled beverages in an ice box but well hidden by the bottles, Chief Long said. Police raiders found a pitcher full of alleged red liquor. Maybe rye; more likely not, but red and potent.

The prisoner seemed astonished at the direct way in which officers marched up to his ice box and seized the pitcher, said the Chief, but that was easy. The day before Chief Long had received a letter from a courageous Seminole woman who said she and her children were being deprived of life’s necessities because a bootlegger who posed as a soft-drink dealer kept her husband drunk. She followed her spouse, the letter said, learned how it was done and would show the police the trick. She did.

The Producers, Seminole baseball team in the Oil League, defeated Earlsboro yesterday, 13-0. Semi Biggers, Seminole pitcher got a no-hitter game.

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Seminole police recovered two stolen cars last night, a Chevy roadster and a Ford roadster.

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The new swimming pool on North Main street opened Sunday and the manager, T.G. Cotton, announces it is doing "a thriving business."

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A Wewoka deputy raided a "beer parlor" in Sasakwa and arrested the proprietor. The people of Sasakwa were mad at the officer. They liked their beer - and they liked it served cold - over the counter.

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Officers made a haul of more than 1,000 bottles of home brew, a batch of moonshine whiskey and assorted kinds of intoxicants in raids "on shacks along highway 3" last night.

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Weary of their sojourn in the city jail, four prisoners took "French leave" of the city jail sometime during the night.

Escape was affected by poking a stick through the bars on the north side of the run around and snatching a screw jack left just outside the window by men working on construction of the new building. This was set in such a way as to pry the strong bars apart, making a hole large enough for a good-sized man to squeeze through.

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Sam, Joe and Fred Kislin of Tulsa spent last week-end with Mrs. Ben Kislin, 137 South Second street. Mrs. Kislin returned to Tulsa with her brothers Sunday afternoon for a visit.

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Jas. O. Seger, secretary, was in Tulsa today looking after business matters for the Seminole Chamber of Commerce.

Was Matt Kimes in Seminole last night?

Police are uncertain, but Frankie Hall, "trusty," and devoted boyfriend of Nellie Kimes, Matt’s sister, insists that the notorious Oklahoma bandit was here in person. Officers Dick Miller and Sam Nicholson who investigated Hall’s story, are frankly skeptical. Anyhow young Hall came wandering into police headquarters at 3 o’clock this morning with a hair-raising story to tell.

He was driving a Hudson touring car belonging to the police department on a downtown street about 11:30 p.m., he said, when four men accosted him at the point of a sawed-off shot gun and compelled him to drive them east on the main highway for about 12 miles when the car blew out a tire and another machine, arrived on the scene to take away his unwelcome passengers.

In the kidnapping party was Kimes’ cousin, Hall declared, and the other was Matt himself. Hall said he overhead a plot to rob a bank somewhere in the vicinity today but could not name the bank.

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Publisher James T. Jackson had the following "Birthday Editorial" in today’s issue. He said today the paper is celebrating for today The Producer is three months old.

Today The Producer is a welcome and paid for visitor in a large proportion of the homes in Seminole. Today representative business men are using its columns to tell Seminole folks about their business.

Today The Producer is probably the best known small daily in the state of Oklahoma. Today The Producer is a real factor in the continued growth and welfare of Seminole.

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Bowlegs field took the lead in oil production. Bowlegs went to 129,766 barrels for the 24 hours ending Tuesday morning. The Seminole field had 125,600 barrels for the same period. The Greater Seminole (Bowlegs, Seminole, Earlsboro and Seawright) had a total of 363,650 barrels.

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An obstreperous prisoner whose husky frame was filled with fightin’ liquor, caused a considerable rumpus in the city jail last night, Jake Sims, desk sergeant is nursing a battered head and a jail trusty has a broken finger as result of the ruckus.

A story of how Bowlegs got its name was published in The Producer today. It said:

"The name of Dave Bowlegs, full blood Indian, who was killed about fourteen years ago, is perpetuated in the name of this new oil field and town south of Seminole. The oil field is becoming a rival to Seminole proper and is a part of the greater Seminole field.

"Dave Bowlegs was an Indian farmer in this community when there was no town, even a post office or store. A member of the Seminole tribe, Bowlegs was well known among his own people and respected by the whites living in the county.

"One evening in March 1913, a couple of Indians, both drunk, called at the Bowlegs home. They knew him and evidently he invited them into his house. The full details of the slaying will never be known, as Mrs. Bowlegs and the little baby boy were killed and the only survivor was a small boy, who was unable to give a clear account of the affair.

"Bowlegs was shot as he sat in his chair, smoking and reading a newspaper. He was found next day. Mrs. Bowlegs was shot but not instantly killed. her body was found by the roadside where she had walked after being shot. The baby was instantly killed. The boy was found, his head gashed by the butt of a gun. He had been left for dead. Months later he recovered. He picked the slayers from a group of Indians in open court. They were later sent to prison where they are serving a life sentence.

"Silas Johnson, who had a small store near there, later named the store and town Bowlegs in honor of Dave Bowlegs."

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Seminole city council authorized oil drilling in the city limits. Under a headline saying "To Drill Oil Well in Heart of City," The Producer had this report on the proposal:

"An oil well will be sunk in Ward One of the City of Seminole in the near future, according to the plans now being made by Judge Ledbetter and his associates of Oklahoma City.

"An enabling ordinance has been passed by the city council and is published in this issue of The Daily Producer. The matter of the ordinance came before the council at a special meeting held April 20 at the behest of Judge Ledbetter and was decided when Mayor Harber had cast the fifth vote after a tie in the council.

"Councilman Wright and Knappenberger voted in favor of granting permission for this well, while Councilman Born and Darland voted against it.

The ordinance provides that the oil secured shall be piped out of the city and that the streets shall not be obstructed by the operation. No oil or gas well can be drilled on any public street or alley nor within 25 feet of any building without the written consent of the owner thereof. No ward in the city is open save Ward No. 1.

Seminole police department got a shakeup last night at city council meeting. Here is the report:

"A general shake up in the police department was precipitated by the action of the City Council at the meeting Tuesday night when that body formally requested Mayor Harber to "Secure the resignation of Police Chief Walter Day. The matter was kept a secret until after the mayor had been given an opportunity to act, which he did yesterday, by sending to Chief Day a letter in which he told him the department needed re-organization and that his resignation was considered in line. The motion for the resignation was spread on the minute books for all to see, but was not talked about and few knew of the contemplated action, until Day had received the official notification.

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The Rock Island ‘overpass’ torn down in the late 1920’s was agreed upon, a report in The Producer said. Here is the report:

"With the purchase of two lots from J.E. Harbison (col) yesterday by Jas. O. Seger of the Chamber of Commerce it is now possible to open University street on the South side of the Rock Island railroad and the railroad company has agreed to begin the immediate construction of an overhead bridge so that the danger of another crossing is eliminated.

This is the road that is to be constructed by the State Highway Department an as auxiliary to Highway No. 3. The state has agreed to construct the road running down University street in Seminole, shoot over the tracks on the new viaduct, run south and bent over toward the present highway to a point parallel with the bridge crossing Wewoka creek. Here the state is building a twin bridge and will continue the road 100 feet wide until it joins the East and West Highway where the traffic divides anyway."

Bids are now in order for the concession rights at Douglas Park, according to Manager Trammell of the Seminole Producer’s Base Ball Club.

While the local club will play about 80 games before the end of the season in September, there will be 40 of those games played in the local park and the concessions will be available. Especially is this true because the High School games will come in and bring crowds and other games and entertainments will have something doing at the park practically every day.

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Rex Spurr, well-known Shawnee attorney, was making news in Seminole 40 years ago. Here is a story about him:

"As the twig is bent, so does the tree incline,"

Or words to that effect.

If Rexall Spurr keeps up the record he established today the world will hear something about this young man before it gets much older.

Spurr, 17-year-old high school boy, walked into the chamber of commerce office today and said, "Mr. Seger, I know you are pretty busy. If there is any little thing I can do to help you after school and at odd times, you are welcome to my services."

HURRAH!

"That’s the spirit!"

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A group of business men thought the city dads should give Police Chief Walter Day a formal hearing before firing him.

"The signing of a petition by more than 200 business and professional men and other prominent citizens and the circulation of two other petitions upon which no report has been made is the high spot in the development of the day with regard to the request by Mayor Harber for the resignation of Chief of Police Walter Day.

"These people express in the paper the satisfaction they feel in Day as the Chief of Police and they believe more time and better salary consideration should be worked out before dismissing Day for the alleged lack of organization of the department.

"The idea that he has been in Seminole all the way through the boom and then to have him dismissed right at the time when the city is going to do something and make it possible for him to have a police department does not set good," said one prominent attorney who does not care to have his name mentioned for professional reasons.

"Day himself, said that all he wants is his constitutional right to face his accusers and be given an investigation.

The "Get Acquainted Club of Seminole’ was functioning as shown by this story in The Producer:

"The need for the ‘Get Acquainted Club’ was given practical demonstrations here today when Mrs. Cora Evans came to the Producer in search of her cousins Bill and Jim Creel, driller and tool dresser, respectively.

"Mrs. Evans came to Seminole from Fannin County, Texas, and supposed she could immediately find the ones with whom she came to visit. They have families and are probably keeping house some place in the field but nobody had been found who knows their whereabouts and the lady has spent two days aimlessly searching different houses.

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Petty thieves entered the uncompleted Salzberg hospital Thursday night and carried away several pails of paint and enamel. While no clue has been found, it is thought the thief will be discovered as the material was of a brand not obtainable in Seminole.

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Ike Baker, dishwasher at the Eagle cafe, south Main street, is at the point of death with an ugly knife stab in his back which penetrated his left lung.

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Oklahoma City Chief of Police M.C. Binion declared war on dope peddlers and named Joe Jenkins and John Davis as the "dope chasers."

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Dr. B.A. Salzberg went to Oklahoma City last night to purchase the balance of the equipment for the new hospital.

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Merchants were planning a big Saturday promotion and "Bargain Day." H.D. Milligan and brother J. R. announced purchase of the Criswell and Johnson Insurance Agency and H.D. was announced as the manager of the firm.

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Production of Greater Seminole "Slumped" again, dropping to 349,893 barrels Friday. But Earlsboro and Seminole pool were both up. Bowlegs and Seawright dropped enough to bring down the total of the Greater Seminole field.

A new skating rink announced it would open soon at Seminole and Main, just north of the high school.

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Two accident victims, both with broken necks, occupy adjoining cots at the Ware hospital. One T.H. Clark, was in a cast and recovering but the other man, W.P. Cullum, was "in serious condition."

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Judge T.M. Heath fined three and committed two to jail in the county jail at Wewoka. The three were convicted of stealing a car and carrying fire arms.

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Members of the Farmers Union Gin at Seminole met at Good Hope school last night and voted not to sell the gin. Each member of the gin company grew an average of 38 acres of cotton in 1926 but will grow only an average of 13 acres this year, the meeting revealed.

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Daniel O. Hunt ran a paid advertisement chastising the Chamber of Commerce and City Officials for refusing a permit to a disabled war veteran to hawk and peddle on Main street without a license - for free.

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The "Personality Girls" were on the stage at the Rex.

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Southwest Airplane Corporation of Oklahoma advertised the company would be in Seminole with three New Eagle Rock Planes, offering sight-seeing rides for $1.50 and demonstrating the safety of flying. The Eagle Rock company was showing a film at State theatre.

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Carter Oil company baseball team defeated the Pure Oil company team in a Sunday afternoon game.

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J.H. Martin was injured on the Twin State Oil company well east of town.

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"Buildings in Seminole are not of sufficient fire-proof nature to take any chances with fireworks," the city council announced in enacting an ordinance prohibiting fireworks within the city limits.

Special life saving methods for persons rescued from drowning will be given by Rev. B.L. Williams at the Methodist church.

Also J.B. Redwine and Mr. Steele of the OG&E will demonstrate how to revive persons who have been knocked unconscious by contact with live electric wires. About 20 boys are taking the lessons.

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E.P. Miller, driving an auto, was backing from the Drumright Hotel when he struck L.E. James, who was riding a motorcycle. The cycle was smashed and James was bruised but refused to go to the hospital.

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"Charlie," a crippled beggar who has been around Seminole streets the past couple of weeks, was found dead today, Preliminary examination indicated an overdose of narcotics.

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Seminole county will soon be sitting pretty on Highway 48, just designed by the state board.

The importance of this highway can hardly be overestimated, in the opinion of Dr. W.E. Grisso, J.R. Simpson, C.W. Johnson and W.E. Harber.

These men, representing the Seminole Chamber of Commerce, were in Oklahoma City Wednesday. They conferred with the state highway commission, and the road was formally adopted as a state highway.

"It was formerly made up mostly of county roads" said Doctor Grisso. "But it is now to be a state highway of first importance, not only to Seminole, but to other cities and towns.

No. 48 is comprised of a part of what was known as 44 designated as 48 is well maintained north of this city, while C.W. Johnson, county commissioner, is busy constructing bridges and culverts on the south end.

C.W. Huddleston, commissioner in the south end of the county, has completed most of his part of the road. It has been graded and is now in use.

When Johnson completes his part of the road south it will be opened to traffic north and south.

The new highway connects with Highway 9, a mile west of Prague, then strikes a stretch of 25 miles of straight road through Seminole county. The highway goes out of Seminole over Highway 3, which is to be paved. It goes through Bowlegs and south to the Little River field and into Pontotoc county.

Johnson is building a bridge over Little River.

Sunday will be a gala occasion with the Baptist of Seminole and adjacent territory.

The occasion will be one long to be remembered by the pastor, Rev. L.L. Scott, and his congregation.

The double event is scheduled for the church. At the forenoon service, the church will be formally dedicated. Rev. Scott will preach the dedicatory sermon. He will be assisted with a special music program.

In the afternoon the corner stone of the new structure will be laid. This service will be conducted by the Masonic Lodge and Masons from many points around the city are expected here for the event.

The building, modern in every detail, represents a cash outlay of $70,000.

In the copper receptacle which will be sealed under the corner stone will be the history of the church and of the city, together with a list of all city officials for this year and a sheet giving the membership of the Chamber of Commerce. The ceremony will take place at 3 p.m.

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An article by J.G. Bennett read:

"After attending the luncheon of the Chamber of Commerce Thursday noon, I’m here to say Dr. W.E. Grisso looks to me like Seminole’s ace in the hole. Seminole has a deck of good cards, but the doctor seems to be a sort of trick card, running wild- always a trump.

And he’s a good trick taker, too, judging from what he did toward having Highway 48 designated as a state highway through Seminole by the commission. Roads and golf and other things, that will make Seminole a bigger and better place to live, seem to be his present mission in life.

Doctor Grisso has done an excellent work for Seminole. He is a good mechanic. There’s no doubt about that. His job on the highway was well done. His talk to the Chamber of Commerce Thursday was brief and to the point. It told what he started out to do and that he had completed the job.

But in the telling, he did not forget his associates in the work. He is not an egotistical sponge, trying to absorb all the honor. He is just a real, honest-to-goodness citizen, proud to do something, with the cooperation of others, and pass out the information that other fellows were on the job with him.

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The call has gone out, the boys are responding, and nest Tuesday night the streets of Seminole will be spick- and-span- just like that.

And while the school boys are looking up shovels and hoes and other tools with which to clean the streets of the city next Tuesday, the girls are planning a lunch that will please the palate of the laborers.

Not only that, J.O. Seger, Con Long and Dick Harber also are busy. They are in charge of the cleanup work, and are trying to locate wagons and trucks that can be used to dispose of the refuse.

The boys are enthusiastic over the program. They regard it as a sort of holiday, with good eats and all the picture shows they can attend in one afternoon.

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Damage estimated at about $50 was done to clothing in the city tailor shop about 10 p.m. Thursday when fire of unknown origin broke out.

The fire was quickly put under control and the building was out of danger when the fire department arrived.

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Ellis and Buzukus were victors in the double mat event at the armory Thursday night.

Only a small crowd was out for this bill, which was a good one, except that Valdelphia, scheduled to meet Ellis, failed to show. Taylor of Hot Springs took Vadelphia’s place.

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The man who shot Julian Oliver Thursday evening as Oliver sat in his tent, has been trailing Oliver for more than a year. The shooting victim is in the hospital with a bullet just above the heart and in critical condition, but he refuses to divulge the name of his assailant.

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Seminole police officials declared war on petty thieves and charged a man and woman operating a rooming house with receiving stolen property. Police officials said the couple served as a place for petty thieves to sell their items.

J.D. "Ted" Jones, manager of the Rex and Ritz Theatre, has announced a change of policy for the Rex, which has changed program daily since its opening in April.

Hereafter, there will be four changes of program weekly, new shows, both pictures and vaudeville, going on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of each week. The house will continue to play vaudeville and musical comedy productions and first run pictures.

Mullens Musical Maids will be at the Rex another week. This is a versatile company, practically every member of the organization doubling either in the band or other parts. Joe Mullens himself plays ten different musical instruments. His wife is an artist on the accordion and the saxophone.

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Always a busy man, Rev. B.L. Williams, pastor of the First Methodist church spent what probably was his busiest week in Seminole last week.

"The Parson," as a good many of his intimates call him, was on the job early and late. He is ready to respond to a call at any hour of the night or day.

Last week he made 12 speeches, conducted two funerals and performed the marriage ceremony twice. He met with the boys three times and made numerous calls upon the sick and needy persons.

Friday night, members of his church gave him an old fashioned pounding. The invaders carried him lots of good things to eat.

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The first freeze of the season - skim of ice on every little pool - sent duck hunters out galore Saturday.

Some hunters had been out the past several days with more or less luck, usually less, as several of them were arrested for not having a hunting license. It is said the ducks have been rather numerous on Little River, south of Seminole for several days. Some hunters have filled their bag, but all others got arrested.

The cooler weather sent more ducks to this section Friday and Saturday. Some geese were reported, but no one got close enough to them to take a shot. They are wary of the hunter.

A team of runaway horses killed a 15-year-old boy and seriously injured the team’s driver yesterday. The team ran away at the south edge of Seminole and ran to the Empire Gasoline plant about one-half mile south and one mile east.

The boy was Kenneth Nail. The driver of the team, in Hancock hospital in serious condition, was George Fleming.

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The Allen area, recently hailed as "another Seminole," is not proving such high production, a report from the new field says. Wells are shallower, come in for 400 to 500 barrels per day but drop "in a few days" to 200 barrels or less.

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Judge Con Long reported today the only unusual aspect of the court today was "the unusual small number of offenders."

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Seminole Chamber of Commerce announced the correspondence with Rock Island about building a new passenger station was continuing. Luther Bohannon, Seminole attorney, is handling the project, chamber officials announce. The chamber said the problem will be discussed at this week’s luncheon. "Much complaining is being heard about the handling of both passengers and freight here," a chamber official said.

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A big party was thrown in the apartment of newly-wed Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Taylor, she was Fleet Arnell. The party became noisy and police hauled all 15 of those present into court and fined them $11 each. Judge Con Long said today. As it was, the judge said the officers made the arrest, the people involved entered guilty pleas so he assessed $11 fines for each of the 15.

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"Dennizens of Happy Hollow’s underworld" are in mourning following the death of Gene Taylor, the "king of the underworld in Happy Hollow," The Producer reported.

Taylor was popular among his subjects. He was a striking figure among them. Tall and powerfully built, he was a man who enforced his edicts with an iron fist, if necessary. He did not have to exert himself to carry through and project his favored.

Groups of his friends from Happy Hollow paid tribute to their royal dead Monday at Collier Bros. They went in, a few at a time, to take last look at what was left of the man they had once obeyed with the simplicity of a peasant taking orders from the royal throne.

Rev. L.L. Scott, who is preaching each night this week in the new First Baptist Church, will don overalls and preach to the carpenters of the community tomorrow night. Scotty says he has a special message for carpenters and invites all carpenters of the community to attend the service.

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"The Jackson county farmer who puts lightening bugs in his bee gums so the bees can work nights hasn’t anything on the New York guy who has invented illuminative golf balls in order that the fiends may play day and night," says the Atlus Times Democrat.

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Tom Phillips, editor of the Holdenville Democrat believes it possible that flood control will be kept free from the "pork" barrel, but seems to fear the politicians may eat it ground up as sausage. From which one might infer there isn’t any such thing as "ain’t."

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Joe Parsons, who has been ill with typhoid fever at the Martin Hospital for several weeks, is in convalescents and will return to his home in a day or two.

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Dave McKinley, farm boss for Twin States Oil Company lost his life on a lease seven miles northeast of Seminole early Wednesday. A new well was brought in by Twin States late Tuesday on the Hern lease in 2-9-5. It was making 200 barrels of oil per hour. About midnight it burst into flames. McKinley was trapped in the flames, fellow workers said.

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A man posing as pound master took two fine dogs from Seminole residents last week. L.L. Marshall, one of the residents losing his dog, offered a reward today for the thief.

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Hazel Powell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.L. Powell will go to El Reno Saturday where her aunt is entertaining for her with a birthday dance. Doll Hiskitt and Maxine Arnold will accompany Miss Powell to El Reno for the party and dance.

Efforts to extinguish the Twin States oil well fire on No. 1 Hern Lease has failed so far. Steam from seven boilers and a shot of nitro have been tried but nothing has succeeded to date. M.M. McKinley, the oil well shooter, has a plan to snuff out the fire - a plan he thinks will work.

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Seminole Grotto Club will host a dance in the armory tomorrow night.

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Judge Con Long had thirty cases lined up to hear this morning when he entered court. "What have you been doing?" Judge Long asked one defendnt. "The same old thing, Judge," the culprit replied. "The same old fine," said the judge.

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King Ridge left his wife and mother at The Floyd Rooms about 9 p.m. last night and has not been heard from since. The ladies fear foul play.

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Police Chief Jake Sims walked into a rool last night where twelve people wer playing poker. "I win the pot," Jake told the surprised gamblers. Jakes showed his "hand" to Judge Con Long this morning and Judge Long had each gambler add $20 to the "pot,"- the court’s collection of fines.

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Postmaster Roy Hoffman reports postal business is up. Luther Bohannon told the Chamber of Comerce luncheon today that Rock Island officials will come to Seminiole soon to discuss buildingn a new passenger station. George illinggsworth informed chamber members the esxpress company will make free deliveries on all paved strets. Members cheered the anouncement. Ted Stantol told members a new morning daily, The Morning News, would soon be ready to go and delivery would be made by airplane to all homes and camps in the Seminole field.

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The Daily Oklahoman suggested the bill the farmers ned most is the one engraved and printed in green.

Gasoline tax collected by the state auditor for October amounted to $684,995.02 which included $645.44 in penalties, A.J. Shaw state auditor said, in a report Monday.

Oklahoma motorists consumed 32,561,528 gallons of gasoline during the month. The tax collected for October this year was an increase of $112,123.28 over that collected during the same month last year.

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Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States, announced today a tax cut of $225 million will be worked out with the Congress. The surplus in the U.S. Treasury has grown to the point the tax reductions can be made, Coolidge announced.

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Jim Kersey, six-foot policeman, completed 15 years as a police officer this week. "Fifteen years in police service has taught him many tricks of the trade, the Producer story reported.

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The Chamber of Commerce building at the corner of Broadway and Second street will house a permanent free child welfare clinic it was announced today by Dr. Lucille Spire Blackly of the state health department.

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Taxi drivers have their special location on Oak street just east of Main and their familiar cry of "taxmobile" is heard regularly there.

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Seminole Chamber of Commerce and Seminole Lions, in joint banquet in First Baptist church, entertained the Oklahoma highway commission, their engineer and their secretary last night.

Attending were Highway Commissioners Henry W. Langor, Lawton, John G. Parker Jr., Enid, Jesse Bunch, Centrahoma, Charles B. Carter, Ardmore, and W.G. Jones, Westville.

Doc. W.E. Grisso was master of ceremonies and Lion Wozencraft presented an entertainment program. The Producer commented "it rained just in the nick of time for the highway commissioners to fight the mud holes on the highways getting to Seminole."

The Producer reported a rooming and boarding house owner was holding the 15-month-old baby of a roomer and boarder for a delinquent board bill when the two women got into an argument. In the ensuing scuffle the landlady dropped the baby, injuring it. The baby was taken to Salzburg hospital where it is being treated.

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A street fight in Happy Hollow was over and the battlers had disappeared before officers reached the scene late yesterday.

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O.O. Finney, who lives near Sinclair Plant 12 was severely burned when a blow torch exploded in his hands.

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Sam R. Boreland, manager of Ben Cooper Motor Company was robbed last night as he approached his rooming house on University street. Boreland was going home about 9:30 last night when he was hijacked by a gunman who took about $70 in money and $85 in checks from his victim.

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The Twin State well on the Hearn lease northwest of Seminole has been burning for the past three days. Tex Thronton of Amarillo, Texas, arrived by air yesterday and will try to quench the fire with a steel hood.

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George Killingsworth told J.C. Bennett, Producer news editor he drove a team of mules to a wagon from Arkansas in 1905. Everything he had was in that wagon and the only dog he owned trotted along under the wagon. The wagon trip from Arkansas to Seminole took eight days. Recently George drove his auto to his old hometown - and it took him eight hours and 45 minutes to make it.

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Doctor Butler of Ware hospital reports the population of Seminole is booming - six new babies in eight days at that hospital.

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Standard Plumbing company of Shawnee and Seminole advertised they owned the gas line on Wewoka street in Seminole and warned all other plumbers not to work on the line or attach to it.

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Whitbeck’s advertised ten pounds of sugar and one pound of coffee- both for $1.

Herman Mouser, who had been in county jail for 30 days, was released today when County Attorney Homer Bishop could not learn who arrested Mouser, could find no charges filed against him, and witnesses who said they had been called to testify in his case said they had no idea why he was arrested or what crime he is charged with committing. Mouser did not know the name of the officer who had arrested him and the jailer did not know what officer brought Mouser to jail.

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A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jones at Frank’s Corner. The child was the 26th member of the family. The father has 13 children by three previous marriages and the mother has 10 children by two previous marriages. The baby girl was the first for the present marriage of the Joneses.

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The 12 city Producer carriers and their circulation manager and assistant were pictured on the front page of The Producer today. They were A.G. Davis, Charlie Eads, John Riney, C.W. Murrell (manager), Rex Martin, Randall Pace, Claire Cashman, John Hopkins, Severne Pace, Ira Shields, R.C. Johnson, Elwood Shields, Carl Tinsley and George Lorrance.

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Eight fellows were having a perfectly good time playing poker Tuesday night when the police interfered.

The officers watched for some time before they rapped on the door. They saw the fellows passing money, drawing for straights, and flushes.

"Just my luck," one of the fellows remarked after it was over. "I’d been drawing to an inside and straight most of the night and had just made it when I bumped into Jake Sims’ full house.

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The Morning News carried a story by H.W. Hoffman recalling W.E. Grisso was the first business man he called on after arriving in Seminole 21 years ago - Grisso operated a drug store and bought an ad- the first one in sold in The Seminole County News.

A young man who said he had been searching for his mother for ten years drove his speeding auto into a truck three miles outside of Seminole and in the accident severely cut his throat. He died in Ware hospital after absolving the truck driver of any blame. The young man told the hospital attendants he had been adopted when he was a baby and had spent the past ten years searching for his real mother.

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The fire at Hearn No. 1 of Twin States was finally doused after burning six days. The well is making 200 barrels of oil per hour on natural flow. The well is seven miles northeast of Seminole.

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H. Tom Knight, Claremore House of Representatives member announced the House will convene "on its own call" and start impeachment proceedings against Henry S. Johnston.

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The Baptist had 350 in Sunday school in their new church yesterday and they have 50 new additions to the church since its completion, Rev. L.L. Scotty Scott announced today.

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Mr. and Mrs. Harvey opened a nursery and flower shop here. They announce they "expect to help beautify Seminole."

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Mayor J.N. Harber proclaimed Thursday, November 24 Thanksgiving Day in Seminole and urged all business houses to close for the day.

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The National Guard is host to "well-conducted" public dances in the armory Wednesday and Saturday night.

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Piggly Wiggly Grocery was offering "genuine Alaskan reindeer meat" cutlets, loins and legs.

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Judge Swindell of Enid gave a drunken driver a sentence of 30 years in the penitentiary.

The new bridge across Little River on SH 48 is finished and the road south from Seminole through Bowlegs is open to the South Canadian River north of Ada. Some grading remains to be done to fully complete the road, C.W. Johnson, county road commissioner announced.

Grading on SH 3 to Wewoka is progressing, Johnson announced. The work will be completed by Jan. 1 and a contract for a paving slab will be let after grading is complete, he said.

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Auto push-ball and auto pool games are scheduled for Douglas Park under auspices of The American Legion Thursday afternoon, Harold Turner, post commander announced today. "You’ve never seen any thrills until you see those auto-pool and push-ball games," Turner announced.

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Born-Killingsworth company was the victim of a high powered "salesman" who worked a clever scheme to cash expense checks in St. Louis. The unknown "salesman" went to all the wholesale houses in St. Louis, introduced himself as "C.J. Born, Jr." ordered a substantial amount of clothing or whatever items that wholesale firm carried, and since the Born-Killingsworth firm had good credit, no questions were asked. As the alleged "Born Jr." was about to leave each place he would suddenly note he needed to cash an expense check, which the wholesale house gladly did for him, usually in the amount of $70.

Now Born-Killingsworth is getting a lot of unordered merchandise and bogus checks on the Born-Killingsworth firm are coming in to local banks in bunches. St. Louis wholesalers, Henry Born and Jim Killingsworth are hunting for a "slick salesman."

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The airplane delivery of The Morning News Sunday was a success. Eddie Spencer flew "his big plane" between 300 and 400 feet off the ground while Clement Lambdin, Spencer’s mechanic, threw the papers into the camps and farm yards.

The "paper route" was to Earlsboro, the fields around it, Bowlegs, Rasco and Little River area. Morning News copies were dropped at all farm homes, all loading docks and in oil camps.

Governor Henry S. Johnston refused to call a special session of the legislature when a petition from House members was submitted to him. "Using vigorous language, Governor Johnston refused to call the special session saying there was no reason for the state to call a special session.

State Representatives Knight, Hill, Johnson and Graham loosed a blast at the Governor, charging moral turpitude.

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Seminole high school squad meets Dustin’s squad at Douglas Park at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in a game that is expected to be a close one. The game is to be played in the morning of Thanksgiving Day so the park can be used for the auto polo game sponsored by the American Legion in the afternoon.

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Robert Burns, city attorney, will urge the court to name appraisers at once to appraise the right-of-way needed to bring SH 3 from Pott county line to Seminole. Most property owners have provided right-of-ways, Burns said, but a few refused and the property must be condemned. The new rout will reduce the distance to Shawnee from 23 miles to 17 miles.

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County Commissioner C.W. Johnson and Billington Lumber Yard Manager M.G. Bowles heard ducks were on the John Campbell pond near town. They grabbed their guns, hurried to the lake and had shot five ducks before a yelling farmer stopped them. They were tame ducks. the farmer charged the pair $25 for the five ducks.

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A torn mailbag, unopened letters and some packages found in a ravine north of Lima yesterday, brought to light the robbery of Lima post office November 15. No announcement of the robbery had been made. O.L.A. Harden, living on a farm near Lima, found the mail sack and letters and stopped rural mail carrier Roscoe Lawson. Lawson called in postal inspectors.

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Eight-year-old Fred Born entertained Lions club at their weekly luncheon with several songs. Fred was accompanied by his mother, Mrs. Henry Born.

The oil party is moving south and is heavy around Stratford in Garvin county.

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With the new Baptist church being in use for weekday school rooms, all classes will go on full day schedules, L.W. Kitchen, superintendent announced today.

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Lawrence Maganess, SHS football team captain, William Grisso, Raymond Grisso, Bryan Harrell, Earnest Mullen and Kenneth Cox will play their last games for good Ole Seminole High Saturday when the SHS squad meets Coalgate. SHS bested Dustin Thursday morning.

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Harmon and Madison, contractors of the new grade school building, said they would start brick work this week.

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A new railroad from Tulsa through Okemah, Seminole, Maud and Konawa to connect with Katy farther south, was proposed by Editor J.C. Bennett of The Producer.

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Sadie Franklin and James T. Jackson, owners of The Producer, entertained all the Producer employees at dinner Thanksgiving Day in the Bellview Hotel. Twenty-seven attended the dinner.

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S.N. Whitt was in the hospital with a painfully injured foot. Joe Chastain, firing at a rabbit, hit Whitt in the foot instead.

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Coleman Davis of Rexall Drug entertained the store’s employees at a Thanksgiving dinner today.

The Morning News is offering a cash prize for the three best "Letters to the Editor" each week from now until Christmas.

The Seminole Motor Company sales staff was in Oklahoma City to see the new Fords "and have them explained." The salesmen pledged they would bring back pictures of the new cars for 1928.

Postmaster Roy Hoffman announced authority for two additional mail carriers to begin work December 1 has been received. Two years ago Hoffman’s force consisted of himself and two clerks. Today he has a staff of 28 and has the authority to add the two additional carriers.

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Seminole Lions Club has joined the effort to provide street marking for Seminole.

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Seminole Chamber of Commerce organized United Charities last week to handle the charity problems of the community. A campaign will be launched Monday for funds to operate United Charities.

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It was learned today that Jake Sims, police chief, averted a lynching last Thursday night when residents of Mid-Continent Camp decided to hang a man who had stabbed his wife to death in a drunken orgy. Sims told the men that he (the prisoner) had been taken to Wewoka. They called out into the jail for the man but he was so drunk he had passed out and did not answer. The mob decided against going to the Wewoka jail.

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Bowlegs will get mail service twice daily from now on, Postmaster Roy Hoffman announced today.

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F.H. White, principal at Good Hope school announced building of a gym and auditorium would be started soon and be ready for use in the 1928 school year.

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Three persons were arrested in Seminole last night as suspects in the Stonewall bank robbery.

E.B. Guthrey, secretary of the "Main Street of America," Highway Association (US 66) announced all the road to Amarillo will soon be graveled or paved and all of the highway from Amarillo west to the Pacific coast is either paved or graveled except for two counties, Guthrey reported.

T.S. Venable, a tank builder for the Graver Corporation, fell 65 feet from a tank he was building for The Prairie Company two miles north of Lima. The fall killed him.

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The Seminole Ice Company is extending it building and the plant capacity will be doubled, C.W. Craig, manager of the company announced.

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The Edgmont Hotel, a two story and basement structure next to the Marland filling station on West Broadway, burned to the ground last night. Firemen saved the Seminole Motor Company building across the street and the service station as well as some other frame buildings in the area. The hotel was operated by Mrs. Ethel Munn and owned by George A. Robertson. The building was valued at $3,800 and insured for $2,000. The furniture and restaurant of W.B. Parker were both insured but the amount was not known. The hotel had 21 rooms.

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Jim Pitkins and Woody Hunt, were hijacked "while driving with their sweeties" on the Maud road Sunday evening. A Ford car passed the Hunt Chrysler, then stopped, held up the four, and threatened to take Hunt’s Chrysler roadster.

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Deputy sheriffs found fifteen gallon of corn whiskey in a vacant house at Bowlegs. A Wewoka attorney owns the house but it has not had a tenant in some time, offices reported.

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Sid Barbee, who was a painter and paper hanger when Seminole was first established, but who later became paralyzed, came into town this week and gave Rev. B.L. Williams a "substantial check" to help buy a wheel chair for an invalid.

Barbee used a wheel chair to get around in, kept his farm and when oil hit, was ready to lease his farm for good money. "He knows the need for a wheel chair," Rev. Williams said.

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There are stop signs at all four corners. It is impossible to drive past the school house without coming to a full stop which ever way one is driving if the law is obeyed. The ordinance was made for the protection of the school children and has been pretty generally ignored since its passage.

Yesterday Chief Sims decided it was time to stop the violations before some child was either killed or crippled. At his request Officer Mabe stationed himself at First and College and began stopping those who ignored the signs.

A dozen or more were arrested and of this number possibly ten will appear before Judge Con Long this morning or forfeit bond.

Whether Jack Wallace can add another to his list of eight consecutive knockouts will be decided tonight at the Armory hall when the Colorado boy will fight Joe Hughes, of San Francisco, for ten fast rounds in the main event of the evening.

Both Hughes and Wallace are in town and are reported to be in first class condition. Hughes will be remembered as the punching machine that punished Claud Sparks so persistently in the last program given by the Olympic Athletic club.

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A man who thought himself greater than the law is today facing charges of illegal possession of liquor because he didn’t throw the bottle with sufficient force.

Accosted by officers the would-be smartie made the remark that he was too smart for them, as he took the pint bottle from his pocket and slammed it against the ground. The Oklahoma offices must have the evidence to convict a man of possession charges.

Well, the bottle didn’t break, but retained its exasperating wholeness. The man vows that next time he’ll throw the bottle harder.

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The tent house of Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Noble on north Fifth street was destroyed by fire about 11 a.m. today. Noble is proprietor of East Side garage. Fire was caused by a small gas stove, it was reported.

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Saturday will be Dad’s day at OU when the football squad meets Washington University. The record of past OU-Washington games shows OU winning every year but one since 1920, with scores starting in 1920 of: 24-14; 28-13; 0-0; 62-7; 28-0; and last year 21-0.

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Photographer Dan Hunt is mad because for the second time in a month, some one stole the collar off his dog Spot.

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Jones Floral Company of Shawnee announced today it will open a Seminole store in Billington Lumber Company, 206 East Broadway.

Jake Sims, who says he is enjoying his job as Seminole police chief, worked five years as an internal revenue officer with headquarters in Durant before coming to Seminole.

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"The Road to Prosperity Leads Through The Piggly Wiggly Turnstile" the grocery advertisement of that store said. Coffee was 3 pounds for $1. Hams were 27¢ per pound.

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The Producer presented a two column Page One editorial supporting Education Week. The special Education Week, starting today, was instituted by the American Legion and National Education Association.

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Gypsy’s No. 1 on the Bessie Doser farm in 7-8-6 blew in about 3 a.m. Saturday making 80 barrels the first hour but going to 180 barrels per hour by 7 a.m. Most of the oil was lost because no preparations for bringing in the well were made.

The well was reported more than a mile from any production and "opens up an entirely new field" the report said. The well was being drilled by Loffland Brothers and was a standard drilling rig which had been on the well 27 days. Harry Riddle was the driller and J.R. Parker was the tool dresser on the rig when the well blew in. "Riddle and Parker were the two most surprised men in the country when the well suddenly blew in" the report said.

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The Seminole Big Chiefs lost a football game to Holdenville 9-7 when John Hugill Holdenville halfback kicked a 25-yard field goal in the closing minutes of the game. Magness was doing yeoman work catching "forward passes" but Red Knowles made the only Big Chief touchdown. "The Mullen brothers Moon and Kayo did the top job in the Seminole line.

Bowlegs fire department’s red roadster, with a chemical tank on the rear, pulled into the Seminole station for a chemical refill. The Bowlegs firemen had used all their chemicals in a fire last night.

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W.A. Grisso, owner of the Grisso Building and the Grisso Hotel took over active management of the "modern, fireproof structure" today. The hotel has been under the management of R.B. Bates.

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"Barrel House" Bobby faced justice of peace charges of accepting stolen goods. Evidence was insufficient to hold "Barrel House" for district court trial.

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"Bozo and His Gang" have returned to the stage of State Theatre and "Mullins Musical Maids" are on stage at the Rex.

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White Rose Dairy in Seminole is installing the largest Frigidare cooling system ever manufactured by the Dayton, Ohio manufacturing firm.

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Hollis Carlile Jr., who has been seriously ill with diphtheria in the Salzberg hospital, has recovered considerably after the injection of 18,000 units of diphtheria anti-toxin into his system.

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In a by-line story on Page One, Editor Ted Stanton decries the constant effort of news media "from Kansas City to San Antonio" to "bury Seminole"-- "the slow death of Seminole is listed in every one." The Producer editor emphasized, Editor Stanton, insisted it "isn’t so."

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James T. Jackson, The Producer’s publisher also picked up the Seminole ball and ran with it for a touchdown in a by-line column in today’s Producer. "Seminole is the center, Seminole has always been, the center. Seminole was the center of the big cotton market of eastern Oklahoma before oil was discovered. It is the center of the big Greater Seminole Area Oil Boom. Seminole will always be the center," Jackson emphasizes on Seminole’s growth.

Judge Con Long read the "riot act" to a drunken mother brought before him in police court this morning. She had her 15-year-old son with her the report said. The judge let the woman off with a warning "never to appear in this court again." She had been in the court "barrel-house drunk" four times, the judge noted.

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A patriotic program will be presented in all schools of the area November 11, Armistice Day, Hal Turner, Seminole post commander of The American Legion announced today.

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Seminole high school students, to show their pride in Seminole, will don overalls and man brooms next Tuesday to sweep the city streets and clean up the city. The project is under direction of James O. Seger.

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Dr. A.T. Hill issued a warning to city residents--he is treating several cases of small pox.

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Police officers Lee Pollock and Ode Lewis confiscated a 1928 Hudson touring car and the load of whiskey it contained, last night. The driver of the car jumped a fence and took off through the weeds.

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Seminole high school football coach Woodall announced the line up today which will go against Shamrock in the game next Friday night. Shamrock defeated Slick last week and Woodall said Friday night’s game should be a "most interesting one."

Woodall has announced probable line up: J.B. Allen, right end; "Moon" Mullen, right tackle; Bryan Hareld, right guard; Abe Davis, center; "Kayo" Mullen, right guard; Raymond Grisso, left tackle; Manning Davis, center; Murlin Jackson, quarterback, Bill Grisso, left halfback; Gifford, fullback; Magness or Malloy, right halfback.

The transformer arrival was continuing to delay opening of Seminole’s new White Way along Main Street.

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Mr. and Mrs. W.M. Mabry, of Vernon Heights, announce the birth of twin boys.

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Seminole Grocery Company store at 520 East Oak offered a gallon of apple butter for 45¢.

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Raymond Hill, 5-year-old son of J.H. Hill, was severely cut about the face and eyes Sunday when a Chevrolet coupe struck head-on the car in which he was riding with his parents returning from a pecan hunt east of Seminole.

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Mrs. Gage has taken management of the Belleview Dining Room. Family style meals 50¢. Will serve better food. Short orders at breakfast. Fried chicken supper Thursday and Sunday night. Corner Main and Evans Streets, rear Belleview Hotel.

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A by-line story by Howard Brisco reports Seminole school enrollment passed the 2,900 mark this week. That was 200 more than are enrolled in the McAlester city schools, V.V. Porter, assistant state superintendent informed The Producer.

Brisco said 20 new class rooms have been provided and equipped by Seminole school board. A new one-story brick grade school building will be constructed, the report said. Until the new building can be built, the Baptist church will be used for classes.

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"After a wild dash at 55-miles-per-hour over a rough highway north of the city, J. Ed Brown, owner of Brown Service Station, captured a man attempting to pass a worthless check.

"Brown is the man the hijackers can’t shoot. He was fired upon eight times December 28 by robbers but was untouched by their bullets.

"At that time Brown had a large sum of money on his person. He made a fight to save his dough, which caused the hijackers to open fire on him. He saved both his skin and his money on that occasion."

Nine prisoners broke out of Seminole county jail at Wewoka and held up a foursome in a roadster, took the occupants money and the car and escaped, going south from a point south of Seminole where the holdup occurred. The prisoners overpowered William Cross the jailer and escaped with his keys.

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Seminole was due to change over from the old type telephone system to the new Western Electric telephone switchboard, Southwestern Bell announced today. One of the new features is ""audible ringing," which permits the person calling a number to hear the "b-u-r-r" each time the operator rings the called number. Also Oklahoma City is to have prefixes to the numbers "as for instance "Walnut 5400" is the former Oklahoma City 5400 number.

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Seminole high school defeated Sasakwa in the first game of the season Friday evening. The score was 6-0 in favor of Seminole.

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Assistant Chief of Police Jake Sims was named temporary chief by Mayor J.N. Harber following the resignation of Chief John Long. Sims had been named assistant chief following dismissal of Jack Cummings from the office.

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The subject of Rev. B.L. Williams in Methodist church services today was "The Worst Sin."

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Rose Amy Store advertised Lumberjack Mackinaws for $3.59.

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The Belleview Dining Room announced it was now open in its new location in rear of the new Belleview Hotel and chicken dinners were advertised for Sunday at 50 cents. "You may come in through the main entrance to the hotel" the advertisement announced.

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A special four page Movie Supplement was carried by The Producer today and featured the movies which will be shown by the three theaters in Seminole during October.

C.H. (Bill) Spencer, 28-year-old lineman for OG&E was killed when he came in contact with high voltage lines at Sub Station 3 one mile north of Seminole.

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Today was listed as the "fourth anniversary" of the "ditching" of Jack Walton as governor. The Producer reported "four years ago today a special session of the legislature convened which ended with impeachment of Walton."

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Southwestern Bell Telephone company reported it had spent $500,000 of the $550,000 appropriated for the Seminole plant. The plant will get further improvement with the expenditure of the additional $50,000, P.R. Shofstall, district manager, announced.

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Floyd Barton, driver of Seminole’s fire truck warned residents today they must quit crowding the streets when the hear the fire whistle. Barton warned that he was going to the fires as fast as he could drive and folks couldn’t jam the streets and not expect to get run over.

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Seminole high school football team took the Prague eleven 12-0 and began practicing for the game this week with Wetumka.

"The Big Chiefs this year are a fighting bunch of real huskies weighing an average of near 155 pounds," The Producer sports writer reported.

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Al Jennings, former train robber and bandit arrived in the state to re-enact some of his exploits as a movie actor. He says he wants to give "youth a lesson."

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ITIO’s #2 Hull in southwest of 26-8-6 indicates the Little River and the Bowlegs fields will merge as offset wells are drilled. The ITIO well was swabbing 20 barrels an hour at 4,562 feet. It was tabbed a semi-wildcat" by oilmen.

Alleging that thousands of signatures on Campbell Russell’s petition to increase the gross production tax on oil are illegal, A.W. Gililand, counsel for the oil interests, today announced a formal protest would be filed against permitting the petition to go to the public.

The petition as filed by Campbell Russell contained 51,002 names and to be legal it must have a genuine legal signatures of between 31,000 and 32,000 property owners and voters of the state.

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Nine boy scouts in a motor truck supplied by the Seminole Motor company went up one street and down the other yesterday and collected bundles of old clothes, old shoes, old dresses, old everything that the generous people of Seminole had laid out for the poor.

Before the boys had finished the jobs, Rev. Williams, scout master, reported that nine worthy people had been dressed up in a presentable appearance to apply for work.

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Lacy Pace is missing.

Lacy is a 12-year-old boy, a fine little fellow, and at one time was one of the best carrier boys on The Producer staff.

Lacy went to school Friday morning, but did not enter. He left his books and told the other kids that he was leaving home.

Just why Lacy would run away nobody knows. His mother is frantic. His stepfather, Otto Molitor, brother of John Molitor, city superintendent of the water works, thinks no more of his own son that he does of Lacy, insofar as treatment and desire to educate him is concerned

Lacy was show struck, his mother admitted to The Producer this morning. All the money the boy earned in selling papers was his own, she said. He spent a lot of it for shows and at various times he has worked for Mr. Jones at the Ritz and the Rex.

If anybody sees Lacy please tell him to go home because his mother and his stepfather are frantic about his absence.

Funeral arrangements were being made at the Born-Chadwick chapel this morning for a Seminole man who died at the Salsberg hospital of typhoid fever. He was a driller, and when he became afflicted with the dread fever went to the hospital and was apparently doing nicely. The fire siren at 3 o’clock Tuesday morning startled him and his fever immediately arose again and Dr. Salsberg stated that he never survived the fright.

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Two men robbed Sherin-Stimpson Drug last night at gunpoint. The pair entered the drug store, stood around for a while, then ordered everyone to the back of the store. While one held the people at bay with a gun the other robber ransacked the cash register. The drug store reported about $150 taken by the pair.

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The Producer carried the picture of Edward E. Spafford, elected national commander of the American Legion in the national convention in Paris. Harold Turner, commander of the Seminole American Legion post and holder of the Congressional Medal of Honor was a delegate to the convention.

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The Campbell Russell petition for an increased oil tax was attacked in State courts by Okmulgee Oilman E.P. Jones.

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Manager Multon of Green Electric company said he was waiting for the poles to complete the Seminole downtown "white way."

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Wetumka defeated Seminole high school footballers 19-0. "The fighting Seminole squad would make a wildcat ashamed of itself," the Producer reporter said in giving results of the game.

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The Producer published a Style Show Section announcing a style show scheduled to open tomorrow in Rex Theatre.

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Geese are flying south, indicating that winter is coming early.

Seminole Police officers, working with Bill Eads, federal narcotics inspector, have arrested a number of dope peddlers the past few days. Marked currency was used by officers to purchase the dope from the peddlers.

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A state probe at the Canadian Valley Bank at Asher robbery has led to several new arrests, including arrest of former Earlsboro police chief.

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The Producer reported "Women crowd style show here." The style show at Rex Theatre was sponsored by The Producer.

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Joe Long, a tank builder, was in Salzberg Hospital as result of a beer tavern fight where beer bottles were the main weapons.

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Governor Henry Johnson named W.C. Shull, Hugo banker, state bank commissioner.

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M.E. Templeman was host to a deer hunt in Arizona for Charley Johnston, county commissioner, and Dick Harber, Sam Hammons, Pete Sweatte, Dudley Lancaster, Jim Lillard, Allen Crane and Roy Sloan. "It was a great way to get away from the worries of building roads," Johnston said on returning of the party.

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Mrs. L.W. Kitchens announced a number of home talent shows will be presented this year at the high school rather than presenting lyceum courses entertainment features.

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William Henry Hock, 76-year-old father of Mrs. George Shrimp, Prairie Oil company here, died today. He was the father of 16 children.

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The Producer noted that "few Seminole cafes are without three or four piece orchestras to furnish music for the oil field workers while they eat." The Producer reporter indicted this was a sure sign Seminole was becoming a "metropolitan town."

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First Baptist Church announced a Halloween carnival will be held in the basement of the new church.

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Everett Broadnax, fire chief, started construction of a rack on which to dry out fire hose after use. "Leaving wet hose on the truck causes it to rot," the chief said.

Mrs. Claude Jackson, Mrs. L.L. Scott, Mrs. Harley Barton, Miss Frances Moe, Miss Rachel Hefflin and Miss Lucile Wolfe drove to Shawnee Saturday in the interest of the Halloween carnival to be given next Monday and Tuesday in the New Baptist church basement.

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Miss Ollene Brumley, of Ada, and Mr. Robert Griffin of Seminole, were united in matrimony by Rev. L.L. Scott at the Baptist parsonage Saturday.

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Walker Barnes, student at the East Central state teacher’s college at Ada, spent the weekend with his parents in Seminole. Barnes is a graduate of the local high school and now plays the end position on the football team of the teacher’s college.

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Sidney Smith, oil scout for the Barnsdall company, who is stationed in Shawnee, visited friends here Sunday.

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"Skeeter" Lloyd, pre-medic student at the University of Oklahoma spent the weekend with friends here.

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Paul Keye, employed as collection agent by the General Motors acceptance plan here, was in Norman Saturday for the football game.

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When Bill Hitch told Sam Prudy’s wife to shut her mouth and keep it shut, she did. Bill is a dentist.

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Stranger in town last week "did not choose to run" while crossing the street. One less vote in 1928.

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Dave Fezler who was president of Oklahoma City Kiwanis club last year and visited Seminole in the interest of organizing a club here, has moved to Seminole. "Fezler was so impressed with Seminole he has moved here and put in a shoe store in the Gregory Style Shop." The Producer reported.

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In its published Statement, First National Bank reported deposits of $1,840,638.78.

Model Clothing Company presented the Rootin' Rubes of SHS new uniforms in which they will lead pep rallies for SHS athletic events.

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"The Carter Company has its Seminole headquarters and local offices stationed two miles north of Seminole on the road to Shawnee, in what is known as North Seminole. If you were to pay this camp a visit to find out what you could about the Carter system of employment, and its close relations to its employees, you would most likely think about Henry Ford and his system of meeting his wage-earners on a level. That's what it is; Carter Oil Company is to the industry, just what Henry Ford is to the automobile industry. A company that is built with the strength of goodwill and loyalty of satisfied employees.

"A hospital is maintained for the company employees, regardless of the nature of the illness from natural to un-natural causes. Carter takes care of employees and employees' families. One doctor and one trained nurse are maintained at the main camp to take care of the cases that come in, and if necessary outside doctors and nurses are called to meet any occasion.

"The company maintains a telephone system with a balanced P.B.X. operator, with direct connections with the Southwestern Bell Exchange of Seminole and has a separately owned line to Tulsa, or state headquarters. This is a convenience that few concerns have even for company business. To go further yet the employees enjoy the privilege of a six hole golf course and are constructing a tennis court for future pastime. The purpose of the company is to make one big family of its employees either at work or play. Last but not least there is a nice sized community hall that will seat about 300 people and club meetings and social gatherings are held there as the occasions arise.

Seminole is to have two new banking homes in the near future and preparatory work has already started on each structure.

Erection of a two-story brick building to house the First State Bank and the law offices of Grisso and Burns at the intersection of Main street and Broadway will begin within a short period of time, according to Paul E. Meeting, architect and contractor for the structure.

The new bank will cost approximately $15,000, Frank Knappenberger, president announced, and will embody all the modern fixtures and improvements with provisions for greater security and conveniences.

The old building will be torn out. Temporary quarters for the bank and the Texas barber, in the rear of the bank, will be furnished by a frame house adjacent to the site.

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Grading and drainage of roads between Seminole and Earlsboro oil field will be completed within two days, according to an announcement made this morning by C.W. Johnston, county road commissioner.

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A Ford "roadster bearing four dusky Ethiopians" came into town yesterday bearing signs "100 percent a Merry car" and another "pray as you enter." The "enthusiastic" quartet was apparently viewing a boom oiltown for the first time.

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Four sadder and wiser boys of high school age are vowing today that they will never again attempt to emulate the deeds of the "bold bad bandits" one reads about as the consequence of being detected in the act of borrowing a car which they held no title.

At three o’clock this morning Dewey Chapman was awakened by the sound of his car, which was parked near the window of his sleeping room, being started. J.W. Murry who lives in the same house with Chapman was also aroused and fired a shot at the driver of the departing car. Chapman and Murry dressed and gave chase in another car catching the youthful bandits after four miles of jolting over a county road.

Thomas Kelley, three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Kelley who operate a grocery about one and one-half miles south of Seminole, was killed when a milk truck backed over him at the store. The accident was "one of those unavoidable things," the news report said.

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C.E. Majors, 38-year-old deputy sheriff of Seminole county was killed by two of the escaped jail prisoners when the prisoners shot their way out of a rooming house in Wilsonville where officers had cornered them.

Wilsonville was an old community southeast of Bowlegs in the Little River pool area. The prisoners were cornered by Majors and Wolf Constable Jim Villines.

The pair had escaped with seven other prisoners from Seminole county jail in Wewoka when the prisoners overpowered Jailer William Cross and took his keys.

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The shutdown on the Seminole field will expire Wednesday unless the Corporation Commission issues a new order, oil producers said today. A meeting was being held in Tulsa by most of the producers in the Greater Seminole field. They plan to work out some type of restricted production to prevent a break in oil prices, it was reported.

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The Pace Carnival Company today set up a merry-go-round and other amusement operations on the vacant property on Fourth street back of the McCumber residence.

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The plant of the El Dorado Cleaners on east Broadway was destroyed by fire this afternoon.

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"War broke loose on Wewoka street this morning when Roadhouse Jesse and J.D. Pitts started target practice on each other with long-barrel revolvers. Buster Handy took charge of the two until Sims and Kiersey could get there from the uptown police station. The two man and two guns were awaiting trial tomorrow morning in Judge Long’s court.

Seminole boxing fans are eagerly awaiting the battle which is assured when Archie Cooper and Kid Rich crawl thru the ropes tonight at Armory Hall.

Interest is running high in Seminole and in all of the surrounding camps and fields Large blocks of seats have been reserved in advance by those wanting to be assured of good seats.

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Miss Geraldine Wilkes, who has been attending the St. Mary’s school for girls in Oklahoma City, has returned to her home here and has enrolled in the high school.

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While attempting to climb an oil derrick Wednesday, Vernon Mullen, young son of B.M. Mullen of northeast of Seminole, fell and suffered severe lacerations of his left leg when the member came in contact with a sharp pointed staple. He was taken to Dr. Salzberg’s general hospital for treatment and is reported to be much improved today.

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Enraged by the loss of the game last week the Seminole high school girders are ready to leave for Weleetka, The Producer reported today. "The Weleetka Babes will be lucky to get out alive," The Producer reporter predicted. Apparently "Babes" was the name for the Weleetka footballers. There was no indication in the story the football squad was going to Weleetka to dance with female "babes."

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Production in the Greater Seminole field "has reached a fairly stable level" today’s report said. The 24-hour gauge at 7 a.m. today was 433,760 barrels for the past 24 hours in the Seminole city, Bowlegs, Searight, Earlsboro and Little River Fields.

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Virgil Chase reported he closed up his confection and tobacco store at Main and Oak and drove home to his house northwest of the city. As he alighted from his car to open the gate into his yard, he was hijacked by two men. They took his money, had him turn his car around and drive back up the road. Chase was then let out of the car and told to go on home. The hijackers took $60 from him. They assured him he would find his car "in town tomorrow." He did, parked in front of Henry Born’s house.

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Sapulpa filed suit in federal court seeking to force Frisco railroad to return the shops moved from Sapulpa to West Tulsa.

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The Lawton-Ft. Sill street cars have ceased to run and buses are being used for transportation between town and the military post.

Night Sergeant Foster Smith had to settle a fight between three "Irish women" in city jail last night. There were no window pans left in the women’s section by the time Smith got the fight stopped. "It took only about three minutes to stop it but three women can really tear up a place in three minutes," Smith reported.

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Archie Cooper and Kid Rich battled ten full rounds to a draw in the main event of the fight card in Seminole last night.

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Bank robbers took the safe from the Bank of Glenco yesterday and hauled it into the woods, busted it open and took about $4,500 from it, Payne county officers reported today.

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A flood of forged checks drawn on Hammond and Price Drilling company hit Seminole The Producer warned not to cash the checks and described them.

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Eighteen sheriffs and deputies of western Oklahoma joined in a raid in Caddo county which they claim broke up a theft ring that had "operated" several years."

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William Jennings Bryan, Jr. was awarded a divorce from his wife in Los Angeles because "her musical career happiness."

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"The Moonlight Ramble" on stage at State theatre "will be plenty hot," Manager Wozencraft promised Seminole theatre patrons.

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T.H. Vaughn advertised three round trips daily to Okemah "Courteous, Careful, Bonded Drivers," the advertisement said.

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Lindsay Hibler is transacting business in Allen today. A three piece "handsome" bedroom suit was advertised by Clarke-Darland for $60.

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Pace Grocery at 210 Main advertised that they were cheaper at that store because it is "A Help Yourself Store."

Whitbeck’s Grocery at 317 First street advertised they would deliver groceries.

"Mutt of the Mutt and Jeff team of debonair hijackers who have been playing a high hand around Earlsboro," was not expected to live following a "pitched battle" between law officers and a gang near Earlsboro yesterday.

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Mrs. W.F. Jones was installed as Worthy Matron of the newly organized Eastern Star here last night. Dr. T.G. Billington was named Worthy Patron and Janie Adair was named associate matron.

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G.W. Dawson opened The Seminole Sheet Metal Works on Fourth street and has added a new payroll to Seminole.

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Two men were in Holdenville hospital not expected to live and two were out in the river bottoms somewhere being hunted by Sheriff J.A. Doyle and all of his deputies.

The four escaped the county jail at Wewoka by sawing out of the jail cells and going down a rope made of blankets from prisoner’s beds. The two in the hospital were shot as they were discovered climbing down the blanket rope. The other two made their escape into the darkness.

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The November term of district court has scheduled 13 murder cases, 13 robbery with firearms cases, six rape cases, "and one thousand and one other types of cases that will require court time," The Producer reported.

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Cries of "Revolution" and "We want freedom" characterized night life in Norman last week and when approximately three thousand indignant students rebelled at the announcement of a new and more stringent set of rules for the government of social and scholastic activities at the University of Oklahoma.

Extravagant bonfires and more extravagant denunciation of what they call the "seminary system" of university discipline indicated the rebellious collegians to wordy deeds of violence following the mass meeting held Friday evening for the purpose of formulating the "demands of the students body." Masked speakers and ardent revolutionists wearing red hands across the front of the dress shirts at the dances Saturday night advocated wholesale withdrawal from the institution in the event that the authorities do not grant their requests. It seems likely that Dr. W.R. Biznell, president of the University will continue to refuse permission to have dates on week nights and to keep automobiles at the university.

Definite announcement that within the next "few days" a petition signed by sixty-nine members of the house of representatives will be requesting him to call a special session of the legislature to convene on November 15, was made Sunday night by H. Tom Knight, Rogers county representative and one of the leading forces in the move to impeach the governor.

If the governor refuses to call the legislators into session by executive proclamation, then the legislature will proceed to meet upon its own motion upon the theory of inherent power to convene at any time when the "good of the state requires it," Knight said.

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E.R. Filson was severely burned and his ice cream factory and lunch room on West Broadway was almost a total loss today. Filson was asleep in the building shortly after midnight when he was awakened by the fire. No telephone was close by and neighbors attracted attention by shooting a revolver. The roof had fallen in by the time the fire department arrived.

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The National Bank of Sallisaw and the First National Bank of Muldrow closed their doors yesterday.

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Seminole high school gridsters lost to Wetumka last week 39-0 but they are practicing with grim determination to go to Tecumseh and "beat the tar out of that squad" this week.

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A man who called himself "Henry Smith" was in city jail charged with stealing 56 letters from the Seminole post office.

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E.B. Howe was elected adjutant of the local Legion post after Jas. O. Seger resigned. Captain Hubbard offered the armory building as a meeting place for he post.

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There were Spooks and Ghosts at the B&PW meeting last night in the home of Mrs. Con Long. The meeting discussed plans for the year’s activity and a Halloween theme was followed in the entertainment.

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Dr. Grisso made a glowing report to the Lions Club yesterday on plans for road and highway improvements in the area.

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James T. Jackson, Producer publisher in a scathing Page One editorial called for an accounting on the booze that has been confiscated in the county by local and county officers. Jackson wanted to know if the confiscated liquor "had found an outlet that wasn’t legal?"

James T. Jackson, Producer publisher, hit Page One again today, this time to castigate city officials of Seminole for the dirty streets.

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Twenty-eight assorted musicians appeared last night at a meeting held to perfect the organization of a municipal band under the auspices of the Boy Scout movement, according to Rev. B.L. Williams under whose leadership the activity has been started.

Personnel of the band with the instruments they play follows: Saxophone, Lonnie Cummings, Aaron Mastre, Paul Price, G.C. Newman and Junior Hunt; Cornets, Bryan Gareld, Coy Nichols, Leonard Bragg, Charles Williams, Bob Scott and Eugene Owens; Trombones, Fred Williams, Mr. Tucker, Richard Beach, James Hamilin, Roy Franks, Wayne Magee and J.T. Thomas; Clarinets, Mrs. J.T. Price, Kelly Watson, Earl Hoffman, John Freeman, Lewis Beach; Bass, Ray Dorris; Alto, Tony Bishop, Benjamin Lewis and Charles Eads; Snare Drum, Elmer Minick; Bass Drum, to be selected; Baritone, Henry Franks, Jr.

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Grisso grade school, ward No. 1 of the Seminole district system, is located one mile north and one mile east of Seminole on Carter Oil company territory, and like other grade schools out in the oil fields was erected to meet the overcrowded conditions of last year.

The enrollment of the school for last month, was 275 in all of the six grades taught; 150 of that amount being enrolled in the primary, first and second, with the remainder in the next four grades.

There are three teachers in all. Mrs. J.E. Smiith, principal, instructor of fifth and sixth grades. Mrs. Ruth Watson, instructor of third and fourth gardes. Mrs. Frank Overman, first and second grades.

Nineteen valuable draft horses and mules and 200 bales of hay were the principal losses this morning shortly after 2 o’clock when the second fire of undetermined origin this week completely demolished a large storage barn located at the north end of First street belonging to the Clay Brothers Trucking company.

From the unofficial information, none of the property was covered by insurance. The fire department arrived too late to be of any value to the blazing building which was already beginning to fall in.

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Edgar Mason, assistant post master, has been trying his hand at imitation of the immortal Sherlock Holmes while collaborating with C.W. Zumerhly in the detection of petty cases calling for the presence of the post office inspector.

Mason is particularly interested in the cases involving the raising of money orders had accomplished several arrests on that charge. He has been in the civil service now for a little over three years.

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Several violations of the six hour parking law have been observed and arrests will be made if further infringement becomes apparent, Wright said. Lack of proper equipment has hindered him in policing the streets, according to the commissioner.

Wright plans to use the brushing rather than the flood system of cleaning when the city designates a part of the budget for the purpose. Since there are no storm gutters provided in the construction of the pavement the flood system would be decidedly impractical, Wright said.

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A fine spirit of fellowship prevailed at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon meeting at Bowlegs today.

Citizens and businessmen of Bowlegs were guests of the Seminole Chamber of Commerce in Bowlegs, as the Seminole folks moved their regular meeting to Bowlegs this week.

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The story is told of a preacher who received as a gift a fine jar of peaches from a member of his flock. The peaches were preserved in fine pre-Volstsead brandy. Asked how he liked the gift a few days later, the sky-pilot replied, "I didn’t care so much for the peaches, but the spirit in which they were sent was wonderful."

If argument over a transformer to be used to feed the Main Street white way can be settled, the lights should be turned on tomorrow night, electricians in charge of the project said today. The lighting will light the first three blocks of North Main.

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Harold Turner, commander, announced the local American Legion post will meet tonight and plan a period of activity for the year. A Dutch lunch will be served.

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The Producer received a report from Oklahoma City that six active "agitators" are working full time to get a special session of the legislature convened to impeach Governor Henry S. Johnston.

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Two unmasked bandits took $700 from the Sasakwa bank about noon today. They escaped in a new Buick sedan.

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Jess Pollock, desk Sgt. at the police station told jail trustees that if they didn’t work during the day while they were out for that purpose they wouldn’t get any dinner that evening.

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B.L. Chaney and Miss Gertie Kitch were married today in the Pentecostal Holiness church parsonage.

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Grace Flint, reportedly kidnapped from north Seminole last week, is in Tulsa, it was reliably reported in Seminole today.

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Editor James T. Jackson’s Page One editorial today was a hard-nosed demand for better trash service and cleaner streets and alleys in Seminole.

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Tom Manning is in Seminole and looking for Jim Whipkey, a close friend. So far he has been unable to get any information about the man. It is asked that anyone knowing the whereabouts of Whipkey communicate with Manning at the police station.

Greater Seminole Area has produced more than 118 million barrels of oil in the year and three months since the Fixico No. 1 came in to bring on the Seminole Boom.

Opening up a new field, the Gypsy wildcat in 21-10-7 came in Friday evening. Yesterday the well was flowing every fifteen minutes, making 600 to 1,000 barrels daily production. The oil is from the Cromwell sand, which was penetrated only one foot.

This well is five miles north and five miles east of Seminole, seven miles from the Searight, and nearest production. It is on departmental land, part of the allotment to Jennie Wolf, Seminole Indian.

It is also important to the whole field due to its direction. Recent extensions and new wells have been south and southwest. This well extends the great Seminole are seven miles in a northeast direction.

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A confessed bootlegger, drew mercy from the court because he helped government officers clean up conditions in the oil field.

He pleaded guilty to his liquor charge. Government attorneys recommended mercy for the man because of his help in "tipping off" officers.

He only recently was released from the hospital. He told Judge Cotteral he was shot because he refused to pay "protection money" to officers in the oil field. Judge Cotteral fined him only $5.

Fourteen other defendants were sentenced on liquor charges.

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When Seminole oil field has declined to 300,000 barrels daily, and oil men are beginning to get the idea that it will not be long until that figure is reached again, activity in the field will be greater than now.

This is the belief of oil operators, many of whom have virtually suspended operations and have laid off hundreds of employees while the present over-production continues.

Reaching a peak of 527,400 barrels from 626 wells July 30, Seminole has declined to 412,000 barrels from 938 wells, a decline of about 112.000 barrels in 90 days.

Yeggs broke through a window and "jimmied" a safe of the local gas company last night. The burglars took about $300.

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Ennis Riley, 23-year-old employee of Tidal-Osage Oil company was killed yesterday while hanging a transformer at the company’s lease.

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Rex Martin won a Producer carrier contest and Randall Pace came in second.

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Scared footballs that have been tucked away by Bennie Owen, director of athletics at the University of Oklahoma bear silent witness to the power of the Sooner football teams of the early days.

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There’s probably a "big deal" in the offering for Seminole’s boys - at least that was the indication from a report coming out of a meeting here today. Here is the report from that meeting.

School boy ears must have burned today - must be burning yet if there is anything to that old story that "to say good things about a person makes their ears burn." The school boys of Seminole came in for a big share of the talk around the table at the J.R. Simpson home today.

Mr. and Mrs. Simpson entertained at a luncheon a number of men at their palatial home on First street and you know how it is - men will talk.

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Dynamite and grading machines are being used to put the road south of Bowlegs to Salt Creek in first class condition, according to an announcement made this morning by C.W. Johnston, county road commissioner.

Construction of a bridge across Little River to replace the old structure is almost complete and will be opened soon. A road to the new field opening up with the completion of the well in 21-10-7 will be made and a general improvement of the highways in t his county has been made.

The Saturday Evening Post has a team of writer and photographer in Seminole getting a story on "the heart of the oil world," The Producer reported today.

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Seminole’s Big Chiefs are practicing for the game with Prague on Douglas Field here Friday evening. "Since their victory over Sasakwa last week the team takes a greater interest in their play and they are working for a victory over Prague.

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Earl McWilliams ran a restaurant on Evans street directly behind The Producer - but The Producer staff folks didn’t know his name was McWilliams. A brother who was raised with Earl in an orphanage but hadn’t seen his brother since they were separated when sent from the orphanage to separate families, came to Seminole from Texas, registered at The Franks and went to find Earl.

The brother had looked at the 1920 census report. It showed Seminole had a population of 864. He didn’t anticipate "getting off the train in the midst of 40,000 people in a boom oil town." He went to The Producer and told his story. Yesterday The Producer printed it and asked Earl, if he lives here now, to go to The Franks and contact his brother, Jim. Today Earl read the story while working in his restaurant back of The Producer. When he could get away he went over to The Franks Hotel. Jim had checked out and gone back to Texas.

The Yankees won the first game of the world series with Pittsburgh today and The Producer carried the game play by play.

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A man told his girlfriend at 8 p.m. last night "you have five minutes to live." Five minutes later he shot her through the lungs. The woman told a Producer reporter from her hospital bed "he was drunk. He’s jealous of me and when he gets drunk he abuses me." Investigation revealed the man gave the woman’s children money to go buy some cookies and while they were gone he shot the woman. The ruckus took place in the woman’s home on North Second street. Dr. Jones of Oklahoma Hospital says the woman "has a good chance to live."

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The handsome new monument to the memory of O.D. Strother being placed in the Seminole cemetery by J.R. Simpson, his son-in-law and administrator, is being set today and is a big mechanical test. The monument weighs 19 tons and is made of the finest Vermont Granite. The big base was put in position first and the monument itself will cap it today.

The design is of plain marble with laurel wreaths here and there, but not too conspicuous, is the most beautiful recently viewed, and the workmanship is the best possible.

It is said of the late O.D. Strother, whose vision brought in the greatest oil field in history, that he was won’t to sit and plan what he would do with his money when the wells came in. Among the plans cherished by this inspired man was the beautifying of the Seminole burying place for the dead.

It was not the intention of Providence that Strother should do this work for he was gathered to his fathers a few days after the first well came in. The erection of this monument to the memory therefore and the use of his money in beautifying the cemetery is being done by Mr. Simpson is regarded as most appropriate.

The monument will ever be revered by the citizens of Seminole.

A lease broker living northeast of Earlsboro was being held on charges he murdered E. W. Chambless, former Shawnee man who had been a partner in a drug store. Chambless was found near Earlsboro where he had been brutally murdered.

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Because permission had been granted a few people to drive on the new concrete paving, Judge Long dismissed all those who appeared before him this morning charged with a traffic violation for this offense.

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Deputy Sheriff Bob Duncan and Ode Lewis arrested a man last night that tickled them more than if they had caught a hijacker in the act and tickled them more than it they had already received a check for the $250 reward recently offered by Governor Johnston. Duncan freely admitted it this morning and anybody who knows Duncan knows that he is not a man given to much talk.

A man was taken in tow by Duncan and Lewis. He was decked out with a big badge on which was "Deputy." He also had a special policeman’s badge and carried a cheap gun that might have burst the barrel had he ever pulled the trigger.

He was paying visits to the girls in North town. Nobody knows how many he had ‘shook down’ when he was captured. Women of the type visited by him are easy prey. They come from "every place they come from and go to where they are going doing what they are doing."

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Notice Page One: JIM NELSON, see Rev. B.L. Williams and get your ten-year-old nephew.

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Oil production was being held in check by the new proration orders. The total production yesterday was 456,910 barrels compared to 462,923 the day before.

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The New York Yankees made it three in a row with an 8-1 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates in the world series today.

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"Dizzy Daisy" was on stage at The State. The Chevrolet Imperial Landau was advertised by Norton-Gammer Motor Company for $745. The Touring Car was $525.

A "gang" hideout was raided south of Bethany and among the six men and women found there by offices, one woman said she was from Seminole. She was taken to Chickasha and jailed for investigation.

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The Seminole Shrine Club and the local Grotto Club are working to get a large delegation of Seminole Masons to attend the Scottish Rite sessions at McAlester starting Monday.

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Building permits for the month of September amounted to $31,400 according to the statement of City Clerk Pal Noe this morning. Permits granted in the first six days of October shows that October will also see a lot of new homes and business places started.

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The building of rent houses in the form of shacks is being discouraged by the city authorities both from a standpoint of fire danger and appearances. On most of the streets it is impossible to dictate the sort of building to be erected by rules of the city planning commission and all that can be done is to talk to the builder on lines of civic pride and fire danger. Some of the streets, however, have building restrictions and the property is purchased with the understanding that shacks cannot be crowded into small spaces for rent purposes.

Property owners on Jefferson street are preparing to go a little stronger and organize an improvement association with the idea of making this thoroughfare one of the show places of central Oklahoma. A meeting of Jefferson street property owners will be held for this purpose in a short time it was stated this morning.

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The old clothes drive was scheduled for Tuesday morning and Seminole folks were urged to have their old clothes stacked on porches so the Scouts could pick them up.

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Dr. C. Stevens, whose wife is a nurse and his office assistant, announced new offices are being opened in the Bellview Hotel Building. Present offices of Dr. Stevens are over the post office.

E.O. Tankersley, former E. Dorado, Ark. hotel man, bought the Southern Hotel, above the local post office and announces extensive remodeling has been started.

Roy Maxedon told Seminoleans in his Producer advertisement "Make Hay While The Sun Shines," then proceeded to list bargains in paints and lumber available at the Maxedon Lumber Company.

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Born-Chadwick announced ambulance service is now available in Seminole "to go anywhere in comfort," A lady attendant for the ambulance trip is available.

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The State announced "Lula, Where Do you Live" on stage this weekend.

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"Bert Humphrey’s Beauties," a stage full of beauties with minimum amount of costumes hiding their assets, was booked at the Rex.

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Frank Jones, Seminole law student at OU, will be assistant law librarian this semester at the university. Jones worked in the City Clerk’s office for Pal Noe during the summer.

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The Producer sought Mrs. Rosa Clack whose son had been released from the Arkansas Industrial School and had received his last letter from his mother from Seminole - but didn’t have her Seminole address. The youth was staying with Chief Jake Sims until his mother could be located.

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J.B. Overton was injured while working on the rig floor for Frank Fesemeyer Drilling company. An elevator crashed down on Overton’s head when a rough place on the drill pipe unlocked the elevator.

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Seminole Piggly Wiggly store won a statewide contest when it sold 3,016 pounds of Lady Alice Coffee. The announcement didn’t say what prize Weldon Hedley, manager, had won.

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Bing has disappeared and Dr. Butler is frantic.

Bing is Dr. Butler’s black and white spotted English pointer that has won more trophies for the physician than he has room to display. Silver cups that remind one of some high school display adorn the shelves at the Ware Hospital. Bing won them all. Now Bing has strayed from the hospital and Dr. Butler is doing everything he can to find the dog.

For goodness sake somebody find Bing and phone Dr. Butler at 111, the Ware hospital.

A man from Morrilton, Arkansas, borrowed the car of C.H. Porter in Seminole and started home to Arkansas to visit his family. About three miles from Henryetta he picked up two hitchhikers. They pulled a gun, took $38 in money, his suitcase and the auto, and left him in the road, broke, without clothes, a car, or any way to get into Henryetta.

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The Style Shop in the Chase Building, corner Main and Oak, announced it will open for business tomorrow, offering "Ladies ready to wear under garments, hosiery and shoes."

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ITIO completed its sixth well in Little River field. It was the No. 1 Jackson in NW of 1-7-6 and flowed 129 barrels per hour from 4,194 feet.

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Apple Butter in quart jars were advertised for 33¢ by Whitbeck Grocery, 317 North First Street.

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A set of "new disc Chevrolet wheels" were advertised for sale by "French at Rock Island depot."

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The Producer reported the White House in Washington, D.C. has been rebuilt, a new slate roof installed, and from a structure declared unsafe the seven score year-old building has been transformed into an executive mansion.

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Miss Alma Hughes has announced she will open a kindergarten class at First Baptist church next week. Miss Hughes formerly taught at Independent Lease 2 in Seminole county.

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A.M. Campbell of Braver Machine company has two $40 ducats for the Dempsey-Tunney fight. Campbell and Mrs. Campbell plan to attend.

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J.E. Jerrell, head of Shawnee Commercial College is considering opening a business college in Seminole. The college has been endorsed by a group of leading citizens including Mayor J.N. Harber; Baptist Minister L.L. Scott; First State Bank President Frank Knappenberger; H.W. Hoffman and J.S. Livingston of Seminole County News; Henry Born of Born and Killingsworth; R.H. Chase, auto supply store owner; J.B. Allen of Craddock and Allen; and J.R. Simpson of Home Stake Oil company.

The national chief of prohibition says the dry law suffers because of cooked police officials. Many of the federal employees involved in enforcement of prohibition laws have been found to be taking bribes "and sometimes my arm gets sore signing dismissals" the federal dry chief reported.

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The Producer in a Page One Editorial called for some type of local charity organization for the city. A 17-year-old youth died of typhoid and his entire family was down with the fever with no source of public help, the editorial said.

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The State Department of Education informed Seminole school system the number of teachers in the system must be increased 11. The system has 35 teachers. The state board says a minimum number will be 46.

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The Methodist, Baptist and First Christian churches will be used for school classes and the state education department will visit Seminole twice monthly to inspect the schools and "help the city meet its school problems."

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ITIO Corporation Commission Proration Umpire Ray M. Collins were under a temporary injunction issued by District George C. Crump prohibiting them from reducing oil production voluntarily or through any cooperative proration activity. The suit was filed by a royalty owner who wanted all the oil run that ITIO wells can produce.

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A Forum Letter in today’s Producer castigated city officials of Seminole for an inadequate plumbing ordinance and failure to enforce rules governing installation of plumbing. Benjamin S. Woolston was the letter writer.

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R.J. Mazurek announced he is the new manager of the Commercial Hotel Fountain.

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An auction of town lots in Carr City was advertised for September 14 by Maud State Bank and Inez G. Leftwich, owner. Wells Auction company were the auctioneers. Carr City was advertised as "located on the Seminole-Maud highway five miles northeast of Maud, seven miles southwest of Seminole, three miles west of Bowlegs, and six miles south of the Earlsboro pool.

Seminole will get city mail delivery as soon as residents put in sidewalks and the city installs street crossings for the postman to use, a federal postal inspector told Seminole city officials today. "I am glad to see Seminole is moving to do these things as rapidly as you can. We are anxious to start city route deliveries," the federal inspector told The Producer reporter.

The inspector and Postmaster Roy Hoffman have one route "all figured out" and about half of another route worked up, the official said.

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Two farmers, Messers Cole and Gilmore, brought in the first bale of cotton of the season today. It was purchased by Hopkins Gin for 8 cents per pound in the seed. A premium from Seminole business men was presented to the two farmers by a Chamber of Commerce official.

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Deputy Sheriff Cecil Cosby of Ardmore, arrived in Seminole about 2:30 a.m. today seeking a prisoner. Police officers Jake Sims and Patrolman Miller told him to wait at the jail house. "In about a half hour they returned with the man" and Cosby headed back to Ardmore. "Some work" The Producer reporter opined.

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A new athletic club to sponsor local boxing is being organized by George Marks of Broadway Cafe. He has signed Archie Cooper of Ada to fight Marnie Smith of Bartlesville in the opening fight of the new club.

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Chamber of Commerce reported progress in securing expresss delivery service in Seminole by American Railway Express.

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Josh McClardy and Mrs. McClardy announce the birth of a seven-pound girl at Wesley hospital, Oklahoma City. He is the manager of Seminole’s Anthony store.

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Miss Nancy Jo Smith, who has spent the summer as stenographer in the office of Pal Noe, has returned to her teaching position at Pryor.

A ruling of District Judge George Crump of Wewoka that "The lid must come off" of the Seminole oil field proration, will not reduce the production of the field, W.J. Armstrong, chief conservation officer of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission told The Producer today.

E.S. Fatliff, attorney for the commission, Armstrong, Frank Carter and Fred Capshaw, commissioners, were in Wewoka today conferring with the court. Capshaw remained for further conferences.

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The Producer gave large black headlines to a Hollis, Oklahoma, story of a woman who hired a man to kill her husband and then took the slayer into her home as a common-law hubby. She paid the man $100 to slay her husband.

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Tulsa announced plans for "A Worlds Fair for Oilmen" to be held September 24-October 1. The announcement said "between $8 million and $10 million worth of exhibits have been scheduled for the exposition:

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A dopey attempted to swallow five shots of cocaine as he was arrested by Seminole Patrolman Miller. He said he had "just paid $5 for the junk and I didn’t want to lose it."

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Editor Ted Stanton reported "Old Betsy" at The Producer now has a "twin sister." "Old Betsy" was a linotype machine. The "twin sister" made two linotype machines in the Producer plant.

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Permits were issued for $26,600 in building permits in July and $42,150 in August, City Clerk Pal Noe reported today.

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A two-year-old child died in Seminole of whooping cough, medical officials reported today.

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Altus dedicated Lugert Dam yesterday, named for Frank Lugert, founder of Lugert, Oklahoma, a migrant from Austria at age 14 and one of the settlers in the Indian Lands settlement of 1901.

District Judge George Crump admitted he probably did not have any authority to rescind the Oklahoma Corporation Commission’s shut down order for the Seminole field. However, he refused to rescind his order and the case is going to the state supreme court for decision.

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While Judge Con Long took a day’s vacation, Dr. J.N. Harber, mayor, served as police judge. "The mayor did himself proud," The Producer reporter said in reporting on the day’s police court cases.

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A concrete bridge over the draw between First and Park streets on west Broadway has delayed completing the Broadway paving. Marland Oil company was authorized by the city council to complete paving at the corner of Broadway and First streets at the oil company’s expense.

The council approved a paving district to two blocks on Oak and two downtown blocks on Evans street. It was designated Paving District 6.

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It was reported today Attorney Robert Burns had talked J.R. Simpson into taking the job of secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. Simpson is administrator of the Strother estate, a large oil holding estate, and president of Home State Oil and Gas Company. The Producer reported Simpson "a busy man who deals in large affairs."

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The members of the Seminole Police Department are sporting bright, new uniforms which look real nice and citified.

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A national news release said "it looks like the New York Yankees and the Pittsburgh Pirates for the world series."

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An Oklahoma City newspaper quoted one of the songs of Lillian Murry at the Seminole Rex theatre, "My name is Lillian Murry and I’m in the big show. I want a wildcat papa and I’m rarin’ to go."

J.R. Simpson accepted the job as secretary of Seminole Chamber of Commerce when an almost 100 percent attendance turned out at the noon luncheon yesterday.

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Babe Ruth continued to extend his lead in home runs over Lou Gehrig. The score today was Ruth 52, Gehrig 45.

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Henry Born and Dr. J.C. Chadwick today purchased the undertaking department of Clark-Darland Furniture and Hardware. The firm will be operated under the firm name of Born-Chadwick. Chadwick has been in charge of the undertaking department for Clark-Darland.

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The two-story freight house of Rock Island is being expanded by an addition, also two story, on the east end of the freight depot. The building will include 40 feet of office space.

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The friendship class of Methodist church entertained the Seminole school teachers last night in the parsonage home of Rev. B.L. Williams. "If any of the students of the teachers had dropped by last night and watched the games, they would have decided their teachers are just kids growed up," The Producer story said.

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"One Punch O’Day" was featured at the State theatre today.

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S.B. Hammonds and Sons, at 207 Main, offered a new line of suits and top coats "tailored at Fashion Park" at the price of $45.

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Burton Furniture company at corner of Evans and Main wanted to take in your old furniture on purchase of new furniture.

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The new Seminole athletic club, The Olympic, with George Marks as sponsor, will present Archie Cooper of Ada and Jack Masters of Wichita Falls in the feature bout on the first card for the new club. The card will be Monday evening in Seminole. "With fights like this, Seminole is headed for the title of boxing center of the state," The Producer reported.

N.G. Bowles, Charley Johnston, Homer Taylor and W.F. Mathews returned from a fishing trip to McAlester. Bowles said they named Johnston "Moses" because each time he opened his mouth "the bull rushes" out of it.

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City officials were considering making the south side of Oak street from Main to Fourth the official cab stand site in the city.

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Perfection Bakery completed running concrete parking for the bread trucks and customers at Broadway and Highland.

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Producer Ted Stanton opinioned in his editorial column that "with a man like J.R. Simpson as manager of Chamber of Commerce, a man like Attorney Robert Burns as president of Lions Club and a man like Dr. J.N. Harber as mayor, this city of Seminole is bound to go places - and fast."

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Jess Pollock, who recently sold the Liberty Cafe, has started his duties as night police sergeant.

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Pace Grocery, 210 Main Street, announces it is changing to "A Help Yourself" operation.

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A hold-up man who robbed the roomers at the F.G. Sweatte home, 123 Park street, robbed another man in the alley at the house then held up two men under a street light at the corner.

"Don’t hold your hands up too high, a cop might see us," one of the robbers told the pair.

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Seminole organized for the Seminole Day at the Tulsa World Petroleum Exposition September 27. J.R. Simpson was named general chairman. Elmer Harber and Frank Kappenberger were named co-chairmen of the finance committee. Doc W.E. Grisso was named head of the automobile transportation committee for the city of Seminole and Mr. Markhart was the chairman for the oil field area.

Madame Faye, a "Psychologist" plying her profession at Grisso Hotel, told newsmen the oil discovered to date under the Seminole oil field is "not a drop in the bucket to what I see under the earthhouse." She predicted Seminole will be another Tulsa."

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A pipeline worker, W.D. Young, finished the last job on a pipeline for Sinclair near Seminole Friday, turned to his foreman and said, "where do we go from here?" Just as he finished the sentence he fell. He was dead of a heart attack when fellow workers reached him.

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A woman with five children ages 3 to 12 asked The Producer to help her "find some one going to Ada in a small truck" who would take her and the children to that town. She said her husband deserted her here. She is penniless but if she can get to Ada she has friends and can find work, she said. Rev. B.L. Williams was trying to find someone to take the family today.

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Judge Con Long told parents of two small boys in police court today to permit the children to settle their difference without parental participation. "Judge Solomon Long" told the parents children will fight when they play together, "but you must let them settle their own difference without you getting into the fight" the judge told the parents of the two boys as he sent them home "to sin no more."

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The Lions will roar in Baptist church basement Tuesday noon when the Seminole clubs charter is to be signed. All Lions are urged to be present for the luncheon "and to arrive on time."

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The Rex was showing "Ewald’s Trained Goats" on the stage and Wozencarft was presenting "Ain’t
Aggie Awful" on stage at the State.

A Durant man married a girl who had charged his father, the aged sheriff of the county, with "improper advances." The son married the lady "to shield his dad" the news report said. Edwin Dabney, attorney general, ordered the sheriff ousted from office.

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Governor Henry Johnston will speak at 8 p.m. today on stage at Ritz theatre. He will go from the theatre to the basement of First Baptist church where Seminole Lions Club and Seminole Chamber of Commerce will host the governor dinner.

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A "round robin" letter to Seminole grocers located a brother in the Seminole oil fields, for a sister living in Indiana.

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Jas. O. Seger announced his resignation as Chamber of Commerce secretary and will enter a partnership with Robert Burns in the practice of law in Seminole.

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"Councilman and banker Knappenberger and his family have returned from an extended vacation trip which took them into several states and into Canada.

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A lone, unmasked bandit robbed McLoud First National Bank of $4,000 today. "The robber escaped in a speedy roadster."

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Babe Ruth moved one up on Lou Gehrig in the contest for the national batting championship, Ruth 43 and Gehrig 41 home runs.

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The Seminole field produced 447,984 barrels of oil day-before-yesterday and 447-917 barrels yesterday.

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The Ritz Shop, ladies ready-to-wear and millinery, opened next door to the Ritz theatre today. W.C. Franks advertised The Farmers Union Gin, south of Rock Island tracks in Seminole, for sale.

An early-morning fire Sept. 19 at Earlsboro almost wiped the town out. Here is The Producer’s report on the fire.

Fire of an unknown origin was started in a Drug store and spread in two directions at Earlsboro at 4:30 this morning and gathered ferocity until twenty business houses in the best part of the city were destroyed.

The fire burned a block east to the hospital and this building was in constant danger until the Shawnee fire department arrived and saved the structure. While this was going on at this end the fire gained headway and burned a block in the other direction taking several drug stores and other business enterprises until it finally stopped at the brick building wall on front street. All of the burned area is near the depot.

A call was made to the Seminole Fire Department but it was found there was no water available and no pond of water near enough for use so the Seminole apparatus was not taken. The Shawnee department responded immediately and with the more modern equipment were successful in saving the hospital and the possible spread throughout the remainder of the business district.

The fire was hard to control. The brisk wind and the many frame buildings made the efforts of the people to check the flames all but futile. Earlsboro is considered lucky, by those who saw the conflagration, that more of the town was not enveloped in the flames.

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E.P. Miller, 40, engineer at the Carter plant here, was killed in an explosion at the plant late Saturday. Miller’s clothes reportedly were gasoline soaked from his work in the plant. The explosion occurred when Miller pulled an electric power switch and a spark set off the explosion.

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"Ain’t she a dandy?"

"Well I should say, I would never be ashamed of that."

"I’m not ashamed of it, either."

The above conversation was heard in front of the city hall Sunday when Deputy Sheriffs brought in about the most perfect still ever found in these parts The still was of the purest copper throughout, well made, arranged so that the whiskey distilled could not be anything but pure.

The officers got 15 gallons of whiskey hid around nearby, 28 barrels. The still was of the 125 gallon capacity.

Thieves crawled under an old building at the rear of Morgan Drug store, used as a drug store warehouse, then broke down a door between the warehouse and the drug store, to get into the store and break open the two safes and empty the cash register.

In addition to narcotics and other items, the burglars got $350 from the safe and about $50 from the cash register.

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A Ford coupe, loaded with liquor, crashed into a phone pole in front of Belmont Rooms today and smashed the cargo. The Ford was evidently headed for a filling station on Oak street.

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Vice-president Doc Grisso wielded the gavel at the Lions Club noon luncheon today in First Baptist Church. The club decided to meet Tuesday noon each week. Baptist ladies will serve the noon luncheons.

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R.L. Netherly, who has been an evidence officer for the county, was named special enforcement officer by the state highway commission today. Netherly will enforce the law on auto tags in Seminole county.

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A federal judge in Denver charged from the bench that the "dry law" is running the nation.

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Bill LeFlore, Drumright, will meet Norba Vance of Wewoka in the main event on the fight card of the Oil Exchange Athletic Club Tuesday night in the Seminole Armory building.

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The Greater Seminole pool production was 436,633 barrels the past 24 hours.

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A fashion show is on stage at The State.

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A father and son in the dray business in Seminole were arrested for theft. Charges said items to be delivered had been stolen.

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School authorities pledged Seminole parents there would be a full time school operation for all grades sometime in October. With new school rooms completed, the school system will continue to utilize some portions of the Methodist church for class rooms, school officials reported.

Mrs. Reed Hayes, a nurse at Harber hospital, dropped her purse as she rode in an auto yesterday. Before she could turn the car around and get back to the purse, a truck driver came along, picked it up and drove away with it.

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W.O. Milligan and J.M. Hicks died in an explosion on the Goforth lease of the ITIO company.

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Evangelist Willa Short, who has been conducting revival at Pentecostal Holiness church, will baptize about 35 Sunday afternoon in the Grisso Pond.

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Norma "Wildcat" Vance won a bout over Billie LeFlore in a ten round bout at the Armory last night.

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Pace Cash Grocery advertised bread at six cents a loaf and ten bars of P&G soap for 37 cents.

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Burett Cunningham and Beulah Mae Hayes were married last night in the Methodist parsonage. The young folks will continue to make their home in Seminole.

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Arrangements were complete for a 12-piece "brass band" and a truck loaded with Seminole Indian dancers to accompany the Seminole Delegation to "The Seminole Day" festivities at the Tulsa "World Oil Exposition" next Thursday.

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J.B. Riley has been designated as captain of The Mustache Brigade, a group of "elite" Seminoleans who are growing mustaches. The Brigade members measure their mustaches each day. The person who comes up with the longest one eventually will become Captain.

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Editor Tom Stanton, castigating do-gooders who want "a law" against everything of which they disapprove said "The moat in their eye has become knotty and full of splinters, while the beam in their neighbor’s eye has not been removed.

A Rock Island switch engine and a Ford roadster collided two miles east of Seminole. The report said Born-Chadwick ambulance found a totally wrecked roadster "and a badly shaken E.G. Rosell," the driver, when the ambulance reached the scene.

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One man was held and others "are under surveillance" by the police department as a result of the Born-Killingsworth store robbery last week.

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The Producer reported 30 gasoline plants in the area, operated by 12 companies. Eleven of the plants are "of the absorption type, and the others are the compression type plant," the report said.

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An Amarillo woman was in Oklahoma City today seeking gubernatorial clemency for a son serving a life sentence in the Oklahoma penitentiary. The son killed the woman for whom the boy’s father deserted the family, the Amarillo mother said.

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Postmaster Roy Hoffman and Merchant George Killingworth have returned from the national postmasters convention at Niagara Falls. Killingsworth said he was registered as a "guest" at the convention, given a badge and treated "just as if I was a postmaster." The pair reported a grand time.

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Sid Young, Tulsa middleweight is scheduled to appear on next week’s fight card in Seminole. Young recently decisioned Yennie Hendrichs, the Prague speedster well known to fight fans here.

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"The Four Jolly Bachelors" are on stage at the State theatre.

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Dinty Moore’s Place, "one of the best little restaurants in the heart of the city" was advertised for sale.

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A special traveling troupe will present "The Shooting of Dan MaGrew" on stage at the Rex.

The first conference game of the seasons scheduled for Friday night in Douglas Park for Seminole high school squad. The SHS squad’s opponent will be Sasakwa high school. Coach Woodall listed the following lineup as starters for the game: J. Magness RE; C. Mullens RT; R. Grisso RG; Davis C; E. Mullins LG; Harrell T; Criswell LE; W.Grisso QB; W. Melloy RH; Jackson LH; and Gifford FB.

Substitutes include T. Edwards, K. Grisso, B. Davis, Jim Reed and V. Prichard.

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A new Seminole High School pep club has been organized. It is "The Rootin’ Rubers," Miss Elizabeth White is sponsor. (Lissa Bush, a former member of the club, says the gals wore sailor pants, sailor hats and green ties.)

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Twelve auto loads of people left Seminole early today to attend the "Seminole Day" festivities at the world Oil Exposition in Tulsa.

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A cold rain struck last night heralding the first days of winter.

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Ed Phelps, the fighting policeman and Claud Sparks, will be the main feature in the Thursday night fistic events in National Guard Armory.

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The tools on the drilling rig at Tidal-Osage well fell on H.H. McCoy today, breaking a shoulder and several ribs.

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Birth and death registration laws will be requested by Governor Henry S. Johnston, the Governor wrote state newspaper today. The Governor said 39 states now have such laws.

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Little River opened all wells to capacity for one day this week and a record 39,018 barrels of oil were produced in the 24-hour period.

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Wewoka Ice Company and its owner, L.F. Troxall, was fined $500 by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission for selling ice to R.H. Thomas with the knowledge that Thomas would offer the ice for sale in territory of Everett W. Hill Ice Company. Hill filed the complaint against the Wewoka firm.

The smoke stack of a boiler on the Gypsy lease seven miles northwest of town fell yesterday injuring U.N. Rowell, 23-year-old employee of Cunningham and McGahanan Drilling Company.

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The twelve cars in the Seminole caravan that started from Seminole at 5 a.m. arrived in Tulsa at 4 p.m. and were met by mounted police who escorted the Seminole caravan through the city to the exposition grounds. Counting the Seminole cars which had gone on to Tulsa the day before, there were 25 cars in all in the caravan through Tulsa.

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Miss Griffin, music instructor at Seminole high school has organized a Girls Glee Club.

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An Ardmore man went to Dallas and purchased a steamer automobile. Driving it back to Ardmore, the car refused to run. Finding a mechanic who said he knew how to fix it, the man let him work on it. The mechanic lighted the burners but didn’t read the safety valve instructions. The steamer blew up.

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The C.R. Anthony company announced an "Annual Black and White Sale" will be launched tomorrow in all 50 stores owned by the company. C.R. Anthony had made a special trip to eastern markets to purchase the goods for the big sale.

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Automatic cotton pickers may prove successful, W.A. Pat Murphey, state labor commissioner said after viewing four such machanical devices working in the Tillman county cotton fields.

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An 18-room hotel in Maud was advertised for rent. New 5-tube radio sets were advertised for sale for $35.

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The Chevrolet Coach, with "Body by Fisher" was offered by Norton-Gammel for $595.

Seminole police department went through a shake-up today. Mayor J.N. Harber dismissed three police officers, including assistant chief Jack Cumings. "The news came as a thunderbolt from a clear sky," The Producer reported.

Mayor Harber said he "regretted" the story of the dismissals had to appear in the newspaper.

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The Lions club reported 39 members and elected city attorney Robert Burnes president after the dinner for Governor Johnston last night.

W.E. Grisso and Harry Milligan were elected vice presidents. Chester Gates was named treasurer, Judge Hoffman, secretary and Pal Noe tailtwister. Miss Litita Morphew was named an honorary member and pianist of the club.

Governor Johnston told Seminole citizens last night "the first thing I am going to do when I get back to Oklahoma City is to call in the highway department and have them give me all the facts and figures they have on Seminole county roads.

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Obie Burkhart, a Seminole taxi driver changed his mind and brought his taxi passengers back to town after he had started to Shawnee with them The police were looking for them. They are in jail charged with forgery.

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Sam Zorrow and Jake Marks announced their partnership in People’s Grocery has been dissolved.

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The Sac and Fox Free Fair opened at Tecumseh. N. Liaberman, announced he was opening The Economy Store "under new management". The Rex announced a show "For Ladies Only" for tonight. The Producer proclaimed "A wise man never gives advice until asked fort it."

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A man and two women were arrested at a farm house two miles north of Asher today and charged with robbing The Canadian Valley Bank at Asher Friday. The robbers had stolen a car in Seminole and had abandoned it after the robbery. It was found near the farm house where the trio were arrested.

Two-year-old Tommie Oliver was bruised yesterday when a car skidded at Oak and Park and struck the child. The boy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Oliver of the Esther apartments.

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Police Chief John W. Long refused to comment on his resignation any further than to say that he was going to New York to see the World Series and expected to leave tonight for the eastern trip.

Chief Long has been in charge of the department since early in May when the city was changed from a town to a City of the First Class.

At the time the change was made in March Walter Day was the Chief of Police. There was no jail no court house, no city hall, the policemen were without uniforms and no distinguishing star marked them from any other citizen with the exception of a revolver strapped on the side of each man. There was no need of making arrests for ordinary law violations of lesser caliber, Day explained at the time, because there was no place for the prisoners. Those held on more serious offenses were chained to the benches and otherwise detained.'

Day was virtually dismissed from the service for lack of organization in the department.

Long moved his department from the old shack that had served as jail at the corner of Broadway and Fourth before the city hall was completed. He fitted up a "police headquarters" that is a model of office efficiency. A day and a night sergeant was on the job. Records of every case coming into the jail was at hand. The patrolmen were provided with uniforms. An assistant chief was engaged too as a night chief. The records show where more than 2,500 people have been arrested by the department since Long took control.

This kind of department proved somewhat expensive. So men were cut from the payroll. At this time there is but four working policemen of the force, Lewis, Miller, Cash and Mabe. Kendy and Pollock are desk sergeants who cannot leave and a day and night shift of two chiefs.

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Whitbeck's Grocery advertised they roast their own "Hi-grade" coffee and sell it for 50 cents a pound.

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Turner left Sept. 4 for Paris, France, to attend the National American Legion convention held ten years after the first contingent of U.S. Soldiers arrived in France to turn the tide of WWI in favor of the Allies.

Turner, a Sgt. in France in 1918, charged a machine gun nest with his bayonet and captured fifty Germans and four machine guns. he was one of three Oklahomans to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in WWI.

Blanche Satterlee of Sulphur became Mrs. Turner after Harold returned from war. She is accompanying him on this trip to France.

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Stop signals were recommended for Oak and Main; Broadway and Main; and Broadway and First street by a special Chamber of Commerce committee headed by attorney James Seger. The report, released today, Monday, will be ready for city council consideration Tuesday eve.

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J.R. Simpson, wife and five children returned today from a seven week motor trip through California and the Northwest. The family motored in two cars, a Lincoln and LaSalle. Simpson reported they averaged 300 miles per day while traveling.

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Dr. T.H. Ware ran down two men who had stolen his truck. Taking a pistol from one of the men the Seminole physician brought the truck and both men to Seminole police station. Dr. Ware was reported to be very mad about the men taking his truck.

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Oklahoma produced an average of 866,50 barrels of oil in July, the U.S. Department of Commerce reported. The Seminole field produced more than half of that total. The entire U.S. production for July was 2,536,900 barrels of oil.

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Police Chief John Long returned today from Memphis where he attended the International Bureau of Identification convention and was elected vice-president of the world-wide organization.

Chief Long had no further comment on the firing of several policemen by Mayor Harber during his absence. "The mayor acted within his authority," Long told The Producer. He announced Jake Sims will be acting assistant chief of police "for the present."

A suitcase, stolen from the Lincoln automobile of H.S. Steel of Ashtown, Arkansas, contained not only clothing and personal items, but $5,000 in non-negotiable notes. Police officers went to "northtown" and arrested a dope addict who produced the stolen suitcase. Everything was intact, the Arkansas owner reported after searching the bag at the police station.

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Driver Floyd Barton "got the truck away in a second" and a full crew of firemen "grabbed on" to answer a fire call at University and Oak. When the firemen arrived they found it was only a trash heap burning.

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City attorney Robert Burns returned from Claremore where he had enrolled his two sons, Fred and Newton, in the Oklahoma Military Academy at Claremore.

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Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel for the Anti-Saloon League died today in Battle Creek, Michigan. He had been admitted to a sanitarium in critical condition three days ago. Wheeler was a prime mover in passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. That amendment established national prohibition.

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The seventh producer in the Little River Field came in Saturday evening and was shut in to be put on production later. It was the Amerada Petroleum Niety No. 1 in NE 2-7-6.

ITIO brought in No. 1 House for 5,450 barrels in 24 hours. The well is located in NW of 1-7-6.

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The Art Craft Club will met Friday afternoon with Mrs. Virgil Chase one and one half miles west of the city.

Willa Short, an evangelist conducting a protracted meeting at First and Walnut defended the flapper and the jellybean in her sermon last night.

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A woman in Muskogee had her husband drive her to the Muskogee police station so she could file charges against him for beating her up. After signing the complaint, she went to the door and called to her husband to come into the police station. The police sgt. arrested him and he posted a $10 appearance bond. "No, I don’t want a divorce" she told the police sgt. as she left the station arm-in-arm with her husband.

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Mayor Harber named a Seminole Municipal Cemetery Board and the council approved the appointments last night. J.R. Simpson was appointed to the six-year term, J.D. Powell to the four-year term, and Mrs. J.N. Harber, wife of the mayor was approved for a two-year term.

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Con Long resigned as Justice of the Peace and will devote full time to his duties as police judge. J.W. Fowler was named JP and will set up offices in The Homestake Building, the same which houses the assistant county attorney. (The Homestake Building, is the building currently known as the Elks Building, east of the alley south of Broadway and between Main and Fourth streets.)

Judge Long announced that city court will convene at 8 a.m. so city police who work the night shift and go off duty at 6 a.m. can go eat breakfast and return to city court to testify against prisoners arrested during the night.

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The young married ladies of First Baptist church have organized the Euzetian Class of fifty three members.

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Seminole field production was 438,588 barrels for the 24-hours ending Tuesday morning at 7 p.m.

Ida B. Weaver, Wewoka newspaper woman, died as result of a leap from a moving auto on the highway between Wewoka and Holdenville. No charges had been filed in the case today.

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Governor Henry Johnson issued a lengthy letter to his state highway department instructing them to repair and improve Seminole county roads. The governor, a guest of the Seminole Chamber of Commerce last week, had pledged in a speech here to seek help for the county.

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Mrs. R.L. Smith, age 21, with her baby daughter Ellen Madean, 11 months old, arrived in Seminole yesterday but could not locate the husband (father) supposed to be working in the Seminole field. Assistant Police Chief Jake Sims arranged for the mother and tot to stay at the Ritz hotel for the night and Seminole police, and The Producer, are searching for Smith.

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"The eternal triangle," was reported by a Producer reporter which recounted how the wife of one man, warned a certain other lady of the local neighborhood to stay away from her hubby. She didn’t. The story came to light in Dr. J.N. Harber’s office as he sewed up several deep cuts the unhappy wife had inflicted on "the other gal."

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Seminole production, working under stricter rules of production, dropped again yesterday - to 433,469 barrels for the 24 hour period.

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Editor Ted Stanton warned in his Page One Editorial that youngsters are soliciting magazine subscriptions in the city telling sad stories about working their way through school. "Beware," the editor warned. "they are congregating at the hotel each night and laughing about what big chumps you are for falling for their line."

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Hoot Gibson in "The Hurricane Kid" was running at the Rex. Sid Arodin and his "Harmony Kings" are on stage at the State.