Garvin County News Articles

1911 News
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County Superintendent Miss Bradfield has just completed examination of papers of applicants for promotion from eighth grade in the public schools to the High school department.

There were in all 82 applicants in the various schools of the county, and of that number there were but five who received the required grade. This is indeed disappointing to Miss Bradfield as well as the applicants and their teachers.

There were more failures on arithmetic than any other branch yet the questions in that branch are quite fair, being nothing but ordinary every day problems.

Those who passed are Farron Winn , Hart; Elmer Forrest, Stratford; May Morgan, Maysville; Willie Tollison, Maysville; Ruth Metcalf, Maysville. It will be noticed that the passing grades were made in only two schools out of about twenty.

4. Define and give an illustration of (a) greatest common divisor: (b) least common multiple (c) mixed number (d) complex fraction.

5. A carload of wheat weighing 5 T 617 lb. is worth how much at 93 cents per bushel (60 lb.)?

7. Add .34 yd., 1.07 ft. and 8.92 in. (don't have the remainder of this page.)

Leon Horwitz, a German-Jew and an optician by profession, died here last Friday night after a short illness. Very little is known of Horwitz although he has lived here for about 7 years. He has quite a number of papers in his effects but they are all in a foreign language, mostly Hebrew, and cannot be read by anyone here. Friends of the deceased will have the papers read as soon as a fellow countryman can be gotten. The body was embalmed by the Chickasaw Furniture Co. and is still in their establishment. Unless some evidence of wealth not yet found, is located, Horwitz will be buried by the county as a pauper.

Organized nearly six years ago, developed and conducted on the principle of conservative banking along progressive lines. Has made and preserved a record for integrity and reciprocal confidence. This bank expects to continue to grow both in its capacity and its opportunity to serve its customers and to that end invited the patronage to which it believes it has proved itself entitled.

Miss Roxie Hughes was elected principal of the south side building where her assistant will be Miss Wilcox. Miss Pearl Ward of Cleveland, Oklahoma was elected to a position in the schools.

A petition signed by about ninety five per cent of the patrons of the High school was presented, asking that Prof. Isle be retained as Principal. The proposition was voted down by a vote of three for and five against.

Curtis Edwards who was on trial most of last week charged with murder of Ed Swann, was found guilty by the jury and punishment set at 20 years in the penitentiary. It was a hard fought case and the County Attorney deserves much credit for the verdict.

Earl Witten and Bob Spencer returned Tuesday from Mineral Wells, Texas where they went Sunday to take Will Burks' auto to him. Will and his wife are taking a few weeks' rest and wanted the car to use while there. The boys had the misfortune of getting the machine stuck in the quick sand of Red River and it was necessary to hitch three teams of horses to it in order to pull it ashore.

Dr. Branum received a phone message Friday apprising him of the fact that a residence on his farm between Sulphur and Davis had burned down the previous night. No cause for the fire was given.

Lots 3 and 4 block 7 city of Pauls Valley, lot 3 has house and barn nearly new, front part is frame, well built of 4 rooms, old part in rear contains two square rooms and two shed rooms, well on porch, city water in yard, lots of fruit and fine garden all fenced in chicken wire. If you want a good property see me 5 blocks east of Depot. Sidewalks all the way. Will sell lot 3 with improvements separate if desired. D.B. Hull

The criminal docket in County Court was taken up here Monday with officers, W.B.M.. Mitchell, County Judge, Felix Saxon, Court Stenographer, Miss Vera A. Wignall, Clerk of the County Court, B.R. Rayburne, Sheriff and his deputies, John M. Stanley, County Attorney and his assistant, all in prime condition at their respective posts of duty.

The whiskey cases against Clink Munkus were settled by agreed pleas of guilty in two cases two being dismissed.

Ed Harris, represented by Hon. Joe B. Thompson, secured a jury verdict of not guilty.

John Gentry, a Negro, represented by J.T. Blanton, secured an acquittal by jury in one case for pistol carrying; his case for shooting firearms in public was continued for the term.

Ed Mitchell was convicted before a jury for selling whiskey and given a $50.00 fine and 30 days in jail. J.T. Blanton and John Garrison were his lawyers. G.G. McKinney was the State's star witness.

Henry Black, represented by J.T. Blanton and Carr & Fields, met Ed Mitchell's fate via a jury verdict. This was a case of GIVING AWAY WHISKEY.

As we go to press, W.H. Rice is on trial for alleged operation of a house of ill fame.

The District Court of Garvin County began its regular May Term for Criminal business here last Monday with Judge R. McMillian on the bench confronted by a large docket and assisted by all the County Officers at their respective posts of duty and the County Attorney clamorous for trials in all cases.

On Monday morning, Dave Johnson plead guilty to aiding a prisoner, George Davis, in attempting to break jail (in which effort he was frustrated by the vigilance of Jailer Dave Lobaugh) and was given two years in the penitentiary. He also plead guilty to robbery in the second degree and was given three years running concurrent with his other sentence making his full time in the penitentiary a term of three years.

The case against Friday Williams, a Negro, for robbery was dismissed on account of the flight of the State's witnesses who cannot be found in this State.

L.C. Andrews was chosen as a special judge to try the case against Byron Hawkins for embezzlement, and sustained the Defendant's demurrer to the indictment returned against him last year by a grand jury, and the case was rereferred to the next grand jury for the indictment to be rewritten.

In the case against C.F. Edwards, charged with the murder of Ed Swann, the Defendant, through his attorneys Carr & Fields, Blanton & Andrews, and Thompson & Patterson, filed a long typewritten motion for continuance on the grounds that the Defendant had not had time enough to secure attorneys and properly prepare for trial on the case alleging that the killing was accidental. County Attorney Stanley and his Assistant prepared and filed a replication alleging that the application was made for delay only and that the defendant had had p lenty of time and able counsel to represent him but the Court in whom authority rests in such matters, set the case for hearing on May 30th, 1911, till which time all the witnesses were excused. Till this date, the defendant has subpoenaed on witnesses through the State has subpoenaed all the known eyewitnesses including the relatives of the defendant. The witness F.L. Strickland made a bond for $500.00 to appear as a witness in the case

The case of Eugene and Chancellor Miller, brothers accused of burglarizing a tent in Paoli went to trial before a jury Monday afternoon and failed to agree standing on an average of 6 to 6 for and against conviction on their different ballots.

On Tuesday morning a jury was empanelled in the cases against Henry Allen and Frank Jackson, Negroes, for burglary of a car from Wynnewood. At the end of a heated trial the State failed to make its case and the Judge instructed a verdict of not guilty.

Ebb Hare came into court and after a conference with him the County Attorney caused the dismissal of the cases against Bud Fite and Elenor White who had been confined in jail on charge of burglarizing Hare's house.

Next the trial of George Smith, a Negro, for burglarizing, was taken before a jury. The jury promptly returned a unanimous verdict of guilty giving the defendant two years in the penitentiary.

A jury was then empanelled in the case against W.P. Roberson of Lindsay for selling Whiskey

Judge McMillian came down last Friday to hear the motion for a new trial for Kirk Edwards, w ho was convicted two weeks ago and sent to the penitentiary for twenty years upon the charge of murdering Ed Swann. The motion was overruled and the defendant given sixty days to prepare his appeal Pending the appeal Edwards is allowed bail in the sum of $7,500.

George Weisenhann, aged 81 years, a well known restaurant man of Purcell, committed suicide past Thursday night by hanging himself to a rafter in the back room of his restaurant which was used as a bed room. He had lived in Purcell since 1888. He owned property in Norman worth five or six thousand dollars, which he had willed to the Odd Fellows lodge of that place, and of which he was a charter member. He had been in bad health for a long time, was old and infirm and saw no prospect of any improvement and did not wish to be a burden upon anyone.

In publishing the statement of the condition of the First State Bank of Elmore, we committed a typographical error in that we had the undivided profits $2,007.34 when it should have been $3,007.34. The statement will be published again in this issue and we are glad to make this correction. There is in every printing office a man called the 'devil' and all mistakes are usually laid at the poor fellow's door, but the Democrat is responsible for its devil, though the editor hopes to avoid his company hereafter.

A few ex-Kentuckians met at the court house Monday afternoon, upon the call of W.A. Wickliffe, temporary president of the ex-Kentuckians Association of Oklahoma City, and formed a temporary Association. Dr. Thos. F. Berry of Pauls Valley, was made temporary president and R.A. Hopper, of Maysville, Secretary. J.D. Mitchell, W.P. Hopper, W.T. M. Hart and R.H. Baker were elected delegates to attend a meeting in Oklahoma City.