May 10, 1935

A move for a curfew law in Seminole was started last night when the school board unanimously adopted a resolution requesting the city council to create a law requiring children to be at home by 10 o’clock each night. The resolution was passed at the suggestion of Dr. Claude Chambers, who said he was tired of seeing small boys matching pennies in hallways at all times of the day and night, and Coleman Davis, who said he was tired of the youngsters swiping things out of his store at night.

The Singer Pipe & Supply Co., today appealed to the state supreme court from a $1100 judgment rendered against it. It was alleged that oil and gas wells operated by the Singer Company were allowed to pollute a stream, rendering it unfit for stock water.

Edith Ray Orcutt, Mildred Nichols, Dollie Mae Twiggs, Valerie Dean and Gaila Hodgson joined the Girl Scouts as new members at the regular weekly meeting Monday evening.

Ben Doyle, former deputy sheriff, filed suit against the Board of County Commissioners today in Superior Court to recover $766 allegedly due him for back salary. In his petition, Doyle states that he served as deputy sheriff from Aug. 1, 1931 to June 20, 1932, for a salary of $125, while the amount due him under the law was $150 per month.

A wool bedspread, which was made 91 years ago, is still being used at the home of Ed Kendall, Hughes County farmer. Two generations of the Kendall family before him used it. The spread was made from wool clipped from sheep raised by Kendall’s grandfather. Thread used in it came from the same source.

May 11, 1935

Mrs. Woody Hunt was the recipient of a most delightful social courtesy on Tuesday evening when Mrs. T.L. Hooper and Mrs. J.W. Pipkin entertained the Le Mardi Club and a large group of additional guests at a cleverly appointed party and gift shower in Mrs. Hooper’s home, 602 N. Second. A nursery theme in pink and blue was carried out in minute detail including a room completely set with handsome furnishings of an appropriate nature which were included in the gifts.

Attack on the $85,750 municipal building bond issue to be voted on Tuesday was opened today by two of Seminole’s biggest tax payers. Dr. W. E. Grisso, in an open letter to Mayor J.N. Harber and members of the city council, declared that he is emphatically opposed to the bond issue. Warning that Seminole is likely to follow the example of Buffalo, Okla., a town that was abandoned because the tax payers were unable to pay for the large amount of bonds they had voted, was sounded at the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce at noon, by R.H. Chase, who owns more property here than any other man.

As reported from Springfield, Ill., hunger marchers poured into Springfield today from all sections of the country in an effort to force the state legislature to pass bills that will reopen relief stations.

Dr. A. C. Kuykendall, McAlester District Governor of Lions, will present the newly organized Seminole Lions Club with its charter at a banquet to start at 8 o’clock tonight in the Methodist Church.

An event of paramount importance in social circles Wednesday was the silver tea at which members of Mrs. Chester Gates, group of the Self Culture Club entertained in the home of Mrs. J.A. Bates, with Mrs. Kib Warren of Shawnee as the guest speaker.