Feb. 17, 1921

DEFUNCT BANK LEADS IN TALK AT OKMULGEE

OKMULGEE, Feb. 17 – An offer by a St. Louis insurance company to anyone who will re-open the defunct Bank of Commerce, to place a deposit of $100,000 in the bank for twelve months, was made today by the Okmulgee representative of the company.

The offer was communicated to George A. Simons, chairman of the board of directors of the failed bank, who has been active in efforts to reorganize it and the banking department has also been informed of the offer, Elmer Kincaid said.

OKMULGEE, Feb. 17 – Judge Mark L. Bozarth’s grand jury panel in district court was drawn yesterday.

Sheriff Frank Sowers and Court Clerk William Campbell drew names of twenty four venirmen to report for grand jury duty February 27 in accordance with an order issued Monday.

The list of jurors is fairly proportioned over the county with five living in Okmulgee, seven in Henryetta and the others from various parts of the county.

This is the list:

F.W. Tuepker, Okmulgee.

H.P. Flippin, Okmulgee.

B.S. Fenselr, Okmulgee.

Dave Franke, Okmulgee.

A.E. Dixon, Okmulgee.

W.B. Hudson, Henryetta.

B.F. Agnew, Henryetta.

W.C. Pogue, Henryetta.

W.H. Walters, Henryetta.

J.W. Dorsey, Henryetta.

Foley Smith, Henryetta.

Frank Daskell, Henryetta.

W.R. Wriley, Beggs.

Otto Hamilton, Beggs.

Doyle Alcorn, Nuyaka.

Will Logan, Nuyaka.

J.T. Dodson, Nuyaka.

M. Miracle, Dewar.

Will Morris, Beggs, Route No. 1.

W.A. Smith, Haskell, Route No. 1.

J.R. Vaughn, Okmulgee, Route No. 2.

R.V. Dipbody, Morris, Route No. 2.

C.E. Bassford, Okmulgee, Route No. 2.

S.T. Walters, Morris, Route No. 2.

Summonses were sent out yesterday in special delivery letters by Court Clerk Campbell.

KING KOAL KARNIVAL

The King Koal Karnival committee will have a luncheon on the evening of Friday, February 24. An effort will be made to have this an affair worthy of the big work of which it is to be the beginning. From this date the actual work of preparation for the annual Oklahoma Coal Exposition and King Koal Karnival, to be held in Henryetta June 12-14, will be pushed forward. There will be some good speakers at the banquet, excellent music and it will prove, as it is intended it shall, a proper “sendoff ” for this year’s great event.

FRISCO PLANS TO BUILD NEW FREIGHT DEPOT

George Green, industrial agent; Agent Carter, of Tulsa; Mr. Simpson, of Springfield, Mo., and Superintendent Bassett, are Frisco officials who have been here this week on several missions.

One of these was in regard to the construction of a new freight depot in Henryetta, to replace the one recently damaged by fire. The new building will be 180 feet in length and 60 feet of it will be two stories in height. Work is expected to begin on the structure at once.

Among the others was the securing of additional commercial trackage in the vicinity of the Boerstler Wholesale Grocery Company’s building and a piece of ground for a large extension of the yard tracks.

The Frisco will make extensive improvements here in many ways to meet the rapidly increasing business.

SEVEN BUILDING PERMITS WERE ISSUED YESTERDAY

Since the new ordinance went into effect the greatest number of building permits for one day were issued by Fire Chief Boaz yesterday. The ordinance makes the chief building inspector and provides that he shall issue all permits.

With the construction of buildings in every part of the city the chief is about the busiest man in the city. This morning he had a gas inspection in Blendale addition and from there he had to jump to one in Oakwood addition, two extreme outlying sections at opposite sides of the city and then another north. The city does not provide the chief with a car and he and the firemen are using one belonging to a volunteer fireman who kindly loans it to them.

The chief said he has the work now divided up, one man being on flue inspection, one on has installation, one on general work and he on wire inspection, so they are all employed. The flue ordinance which has been in effect since 1913 and has apparently been a dead letter, is now being rigidly enforced and all flues must be built up from the ground. Many persons do not know the law requires this and it takes constant work to keep after them and see that they comply with the law. With so many buildings being erected, the work of inspection is rapidly approaching large proportions and will soon overwhelm the fire department and will have to be made a department of its own, it is indicated now.

BASKETBALL REPORTS

In the game last evening between the high school team of this city and the Sapulpa high school team at Sapulpa, resulte3d in the score of 45-25 in favor of Sapulpa.

The score of 31-21 was the result last evening at the high school auditorium here, when the Baptist team played the American Legion team of Okmulgee.

CASE OF BURGLARY

Some person or persons broke into the building of the Boerstler Wholesale Grocery Company last night but got away with nothing. At least nothing has been missed. A lot of cigarettes and other small article had been piled on the floor preparatory to being taken off but the burglar or burglars had evidently been frightened away.

DEPUTY SHERIFFS FUND

According to the Okmulgee Times the fund from which deputy sheriffs are paid has been exhausted and the commissioners find no fund from which money can be transferred to this one, so the deputies will have to quit work or wait until after July 1, for their pay.

FIRE IN POST OFFICE

Last night about 8:00 persons in the Odd Fellow building noticed a blaze in the rear end of the post office and turned in an alarm. The firemen found a pile of trash on the cement floor burning. They put out the fire with a chemical and no damage resulted. The chief did not learn how the fire originated.

Jan. 19, 1922

K. K. K. BANQUET FRIDAY MIGHT BE BIG AFFAIR

The King Koal Karnival banquet, to be given next Friday night, February 24, is already assuming proportions going to show that it will be one of the most interesting affairs of the kind ever undertaken in the city. It is intended as the beginning of the vast work to be done in preparation for the next annual Oklahoma State Coal Exposition and King Koal Karnival, an event thoroughly established and readily acknowledged to be the greatest of its kind ever promoted in the entire state.

The committee has determined to make of this banquet an opportunity to briefly review former accomplishments and predict and outline the coming explosion and carnival. Larger things will be undertaken this year, even when what was accomplished last year was a surprise to the state at large and readily acknowledged, as the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce always described it, “big town stuff.”

This banquet is being arraigned along lines in keeping with the greatness of the organization. There will be speakers from out of the city, splendid music will be furnished and the banquet proper will be one of the kind of which Henryetta is always able to boast.

Ben C. Eastin, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, said yesterday they had invited Ed J. Keist, editor of the Dallas Times-Herald, and president of the Dallas State Fair, to be present and deliver an address. Mr. Keist advised him yesterday that he will try to come and that he will give him a definite answer Monday morning. Mr. Deist is one of the leading editors and publishers of the Lone Star state and has won more than a national reputation as president of the great Texas fair, of which he made the most remarkable business success.

Attendance upon this banquet must necessarily be limited to the number taking tickets in order that proper arrangements be made for perfect accommodation and pleasure to all and to this end Secretary Eastin said it is also absolutely necessary that they know by Tuesday the exact number to be present.

It is an event in the progress of Henryetta. It marks the beginning of the city’s greatest undertaking, one in which not a single citizen can afford to have the word failure written when it is all over, but that it shall be crowned with success, as was that of last year and to this end it is well that every business man in the city lend his presence at this initial banquet.

NOTIFIES THE JURORS NOT TO COME TO COURT

In the superior court, a jury had been called for last Monday, February 13 and the jury civil docket set to begin at that time, but in a telegram received by Clerk Hugh J. Connor last Sunday, from Judge Christopher, the latter instructed him to dismiss the jury for a week and to push the docket forward for that time. Most of the jurors appeared last Monday and were instructed to go home and return tomorrow.

Yesterday, acting on the presumption that there would be no judge here tomorrow morning to open court, Clerk Connor advised the jurors not to appear. He also advised the lawyers, litigants and all others interested in the trial of the cases set down on the jury civil docket that it would be unnecessary to attend. Mr. Connor said he was doing this in an effort to

Mr. Connor said he was doing this in an effort to save trouble for the people and money for the county; that should the jurors who have been summoned all appear it would only place an unnecessary burden on the tax payers.

At the time he sent out the notices he had received no word as to the whereabouts of Judge Christopher even had the latter intended to appear here tomorrow, which was considered not at all likely. There are many cases on the jury civil docket

There are many cases on the jury civil docket which had been set for trial, some of them involving matters of much importance to the litigants.

Attorneys continue to file cases in this court and process is issuing as usual. One case in which a writ of injunction is sought and which had been filed in the court, was left with a motion for dismissal on file and a new suit instituted in the district court, where a writ of injunction might be obtained.

“THE MESSIAH” MAY BE HEARD IN HENRYETTA

It is rumored that Henryetta people may prepare and render “The Messiah” for the visiting multitudes at the King Koal Karnival.

This is, so far as we can learn nebulous just now, but once it gets under way, it will be done.

There is little doubt but that Henryetta people can do it, and that they will do it. In fact these Henryetta people have not fallen down on anything they undertook, and should be able to stage this great oratorio if they undertake it – and they will.

That would be a very interesting attraction, and added to all the other features provided, will make the K. K. K. festival absolutely compelling to the public as far as it is possible for them to come to Henryetta on June 12.

WITH WHAT RATIO?

One of the keenest minds in our city made the statements today that Henryetta would double its population in a five-year period. He is not a man who is given to idle talk, and his statement was a surprise.

But when we digest the figures carried in a news story in the Free-Lance of yesterday, we find that even on our past year’s increase of population the prediction is verified. Our gain during the past calendar year was about twenty percent, and that, in five years, would fully verify the forecast.

But this is not fair. The reason is that the increase is now geometrical. The increase for 1922 will not be the fifteen hundred estimated for 1921, but will take a ratio that will make the figures very different.

Thus a far shorter period than five years may suffice to run our population up to twenty or twentyfive thousand people. Now we do not desire to excite our neighbors about this, but you may figure this out as well as any one. Think it over.