ABSTRACTED FROM GARVIN COUNTY NEWSPAPERS
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The President's Statehood proclamation which he has promised to issue Saturday will put an end to our territorial form of
government and usher end the new state government. With the advent of statehood there will be a complete change in the
officials from Governor down to constable.

The plan now adopted is for District Judge R. Millan and county judge W.B. Mitchell to go to Guthrie Saturday to attend the
inaugural ceremonies and there be sworn into office themselves. Judge Mitchell will return home and administer the oath of
office to all county officers. The County Clerk as soon as sworn in will be ready to file commissions of Notaries Public, then
township officers can have the oath of office administered by the Notaries.

It is not probable that the county officers will be inducted into their offices before late in the day Saturday and possible many
of them not until Monday. There will no doubt be a great deal of confusion at the county capitol for a few days as no officers
will have any blank books, furniture blanks or any kind of supplies until the Commissioners court meets and provides these.


Arrangements have about been made whereby the federal courthouse owned by Messrs Garvin, W. G. Kimberland and the
Grant estate, will be leased in order to accommodate all the county officers, it will be necessary to cut one of the jury rooms
up into offices and possibly cut one off with commissioners or county courtroom. The county commissioners are not going
to be miserly in providing for necessary expense of county officials or taxpayers may rest assure that not one cent will be
expended above what is necessary.

The Enterprise has tried very hard to find out who the various officers will appoint as their deputies, but we have received
very few definite answers to our questions. some of the officers have not yet decided fully who they will appoint and others
who have, do not care to make their appointments known until they are actually in possession of the office.

County Attorney Mitchell was approached directly on the subject of a deputy, but said he did not care to make his
appointment known until he had taken the oath of office. We exerted our smelling proclivities to the limit and believe we
scented the first assistant county attorney in the person of honorable G.I. Jordan of Wynnewood. It is doubtful if there is an
available man in the county better adapted to the position or one who would suit a greater number of people. We hope we
have guessed right.

Register of deeds W.D. Harris will have the first assistant Miss Flossy Stalder who has been holding a similar position in
the U.S. Clerks office in the past year. Her experience in this work makes her at once one of the most competent helpers
about the temple of justice.

District Clerk T.J. Austin could not be interviewed but there seems to be a general impression that he will call to his
assistance the popular Faber Pusher H.S. Shackelford editor of the Wynnewood New Era. It is to be hoped this
appointment will be made for Mr. Shackelford would make a most excellent incumbent for this office.

Sheriff Chas Worley will appoint George Welch of Lindsey and Tom Ferris of Stratford as field deputies. B.R. Rayburn of
Walker has been tendered the position of Chief Deputy. it might be interesting to not here that Mr. Rayburn had been
insisting on the appointment of the lamented Kathy for this position and Mr. Worly had decided to make this appointment.
Now since Mr. Cathy's death the position is being offered to the man who insisted on the appointment of the fearless City
Marshal. It might also be mentioned here that Mr. Rayburn was a candidate for the nomination for Sheriff himself and was
next to Mr. Worley in the number of votes received.

County Clerk Twiggs it is said has offered a deputy ship in his office to Mack Deal now bookkeeper in one of the banks at
Wynnewood. Mr. Deal is well qualified to fill the position as he has had a great deal of experience in clerical work.

Voters of Garvin County seem to have exercised excellent judgement in the selection of their officers and the later seems
to have made equally as good selections for deputy.

G.A. Porter at present U.S. Marshal for the souther district, has been appointed to a similar position in the eastern district
the same to take effect when Statehood is declared a strong petition will be sent up from here to Mr. Porter asking him to
reappoint H. Webb of this place as one of his deputies. There is scarcely a law and order citizen in town but would sign the
petition. Statehood will be effective here next Monday or possibly Saturday. On account of their being no one authorized to
administer an oath as quite likely none of the new officers will be sworn in on Monday or at least late Saturday.. The
Federal Officers are getting ready to turn over their books in the courthouse to the new officers. The financial conditions
seem to be about the same as for the next two weeks. Pauls Valley banks are doing business the same as usual except
they are not loaning money to buy cotton or corn. One Pauls Valley banker stated to the editor that his bank had paid every
check on it that had been presented and although they had not received any money from other banks they now have more
money on hand than at the beginning of the panic. He also stated that the bank had enough cash on hand to pay every
depositor with possibly the exception of their board of directors. We presume the other two banks in the city are in about
the same condition.

W.J. Harris and Judge W.B. M. Mitchell and Commissioner Gabbert went to Oklahoma City Sunday afternoon to be
present at the meeting of county Judges. Register of deeds and county commissioners of the state. We note from the daily
papers that Judge Mitchell was a very prominent character in the convention. By action of the convention it was decided to
buy blank books and supplies for all the counties at the same time and thereby save to each county about one thousand
dollars. The commissioners court of Garvin county will meet Monday and will doubtless do as recommended by the above
convention. The first session of the commissioners court will likely last several days as many matters of importance are to
be transacted.

J.F. Amonette left at this office Tuesday a fine sweet potato weighing --and 3-5lbs. He did not raise the potato but came in
to possession of it in a rather pleasant way. He had rented a small amount of land to a gentleman who was also in debt to
Mr. Amonette a small amount. Crops were not very promising and the renter feeling he would not be able to pay out left for
parts unknown. A few days ago the sweet potatoes were dug and amounted to be more than a hundred bushels paying
several times over all debts left behind. T.G. Wofford another good friend of the Enterprise also brought us a sweet potato
this morning which made the Amonette potato look small it tipped the beam at 9 and 1-8 lbs.

Corn Burned

John C. Elliott had the misfortune to loose about 3,000 bushels of corn at his feeding pens on his farm about 3 miles south
of town. Mr. Elliott is feeding about 300 head of hogs and had the corn cribbed at the feed yard. Hands had been cleaning
the yards and burning some trash and it is likely fire started from this source. Mr. Elliott was in town the next day as jovial as
usual and said he was sorry but it was too late to worry about it.

Special Grand Jury Convened.

Special Grand Jury was convented at Purcell this week for the purpose of inquiring into the murder of R.W. Cathy and also
to investigate some charges of introducing. A large number of Pauls Valley citizens were summoned as witnesses going
up Monday and returning Tuesday.

The enterprise is informed that Jim Stevenson was indicted for the murder of Mr. Cathy and held without bale. It is
understood that several indictments were found on the charge of introducing. Sam Winningham referred to in other column
of this paper is said to have been indicted for introducing and his bond is set at 1,000 dollars which he had not given when
last heard from.



L. Rodke the big farmer and stockman of near Paoli was here Tuesday looking after business matters. Besides being a
stock raiser of considerable note he is a stockholder and director in the National Bank of Commerce here. Last year he
purchased several head of fine Herefords from the North and it seemed would soon have one of the finest herd of
"whitefaces" in the country. but as is too often the case, they all took fever during the summer and all but 3 died . He says
he is positive that 2 of those which died never had any ticks whatever on them as he kept them up and washed and
disinfected them almost every day. Government experts claim that the fever is communicated only by the fevered ticks
which are abundant in this country.



All indications point to the musical treat when the "rajah of bhong" appears here on the night of November 15th. Francis
Carlton's name is well known to lovers of light opera and he is recognized as a composer of merit. He regards this play as
his best work both from artistic and popular standpoint. "The Rajah of Bhong" boasts of an unusually talented singing
chorus.

The city has had a force of hands at work this week tearing down the wires and other belongings of the Washita light
company now may be found on the streets. The company seems to be entering no protest and it is assumed that a new
franchise will be granted to a new company soon.



BED QUILTS washed at the laundry 25cents each.

J.F. Myers went over to Bromide Monday to be gone a few days. He has some farm land over there which he is looking
after.

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