The Democrat-American from Sallisaw, Oklahoma • 1

The Only All Home Printed Newspaper in the County THE OICIAL COUNTY NEWSPAPER (Mji' emnrrat Amer tran DEMOCRAT AMER1CAN Volume 29 Number 23 Sallisaw Oklahoma Thursday July 23 1936 MULDROW SUN VIAN PRESS Vol 20 No 22 the Book formal state last to is not only at fcur and fam nine 1 between Myers and Wal use that office to job any enemies and to Of $250 1 Mr "nr It In clean up the vice youngsters month as of various and about Characters In Cam the the for next 0 Tinney Secretary of Elec tion Board Says He Has Re turned Money to Green That Was Put Up or Expenses The State Mineral Survey under the sponsorship of the Oklahoma Geolog ical Survey was organized during the month of November 1935 During this ROOSEVELT WILL VISIT OKLAHOMA DURING OCTOBER Sallisaw Man Carried Under By Swift Water While Seining In Arkansas River About 8:00 Wednesday describing it in detail is grouped under 3 heads Sequoyah County Is One of the irst our to Qualify to Re ceive unds rom State Wel fare Board Damage Sustained by Stilwell In ire Wednesday Night That Threatened Entire Business Section Large Number Aided During the irst Year of Organization According to Al Stewart the County Supervisor we can as day sheriff country 212 Loans Totaling $856 1921 and 410 Grants Totaling $17 08250 Made to armers In Sequoyah County irst Year's Work of Resettle ment Administration Brings Increase in Livestock for Low Income armers HUTCHENS ISSUES STATEMENT TO THE COUNTY VOTERS Lee carry campaign Rowland fl 4 Vi Jchn Silk Akins Oklahoma Dear Mr Silk: This will acknowledge receipt of your letter of July 17 enclos ing a list of names of people who are of Cherokee blood in the vicinity of the Sequoyah Memorial We will use as many of these as In a Republic there is but one basis for dependable gov ernment an informed deter mined active citizenry a nd of Con Kis 1 July Is a Popular Month or Weddings Records Show schools the part will and REUSES TO PAY WITNESS EES IN RE COUNT CASE OLD AGE PEN SIONS ARE SENT TO THE COUNTY di for Se al The current was swift him down into eper wat fight that is being cen ts really directed at other for am was provided from In led Ben Cal ls supporting aithfully yours RAYMOND DRAKE Re Has although loans were made only to those farmers who had been denied credit by all other agencies ton The present commissioner from that district is Gid Patten a repub lican NYA AIDS 355 YOUNG PEOPLE THIS COUNTY per released for four by John Rogers inspector after had pledged for will Mar It is Se The Paper The People Read By far the largest Bona ide Circulation of any Newspaper in the County food $6984 clothing livestock $7415 seed CHEROKEES REGISTERED July 18 1936 will be a credit to this I was under that time the law my own campaign one penny from in the Sheriff's of no the types of use their Candidate for Sheriff Denies That Underworld are Assisting Him paign President Expected To Speak at air I ark or Lincoln Park Oklahoma City According Sam Battles Receive Application or Old Age Pension Eleven People Under Supervis ion of Tom Matheson Get ting Data In Sequoyah Coun ty Work Is inished be unable to check spread The fire was put out at The City Bakery White Way Waters Dry Goods Co and the Cklahomans are virtually assured an opportunity to hear and see rank lin Roosevelt during his campaign for re election Democratic State Cafe Owen hy rccming house occupied the build ing Revival at Akins Tilman Pope evangelist of the Church of Christ will begin a meeting of the Rcsettle whlle 3458 grants given to Raymond Drake hard to match the ey being spent by persons who are in terested in my opponent's election However 1 will endeavor to sec as many of you as possible before Tues day to personally solicit your help I believe the good people of county will unite on July 28lh elect me Sheriff and my pledge fair impartial administration of duties of that office will be sacred to me and I will make you a good Sher iff Georgia Ann Washington Georgia Ann Washington 95 years RAYMOND DRAKE IN INAL PLEA TO THE VOTERS Old age pension checks of $8 person for July were counties Wednesday state examiner and three of the counties mally to levy 8 mill for county charity as required by law Ray Weems state welfare board rector said checks were released Okmulgee Seminole Atcka and quoyah counties Atoka county had ready met the requirements necessary I before the state relief could be furn i i hed I County commissioners from Okmul gee Seminole and Sequoyah counties went to the capitol by automobile with the signed pledges of excise boards Weems estimated today the state would be unable to start paying the $30 a month old age pension under the initiated measure adopted July 7 before September 1 It is now planned to issue payments for both August and September pen sions the same month "The sales tax foi the pensions can not be made available before August 15" Weems explained "Then we must get some more money ahead and ma chinery set up before we can begin the payments" He said county boards would have the burden of deciding just what a meunt each pension application would receive At least 25 COO applications had been received at the statehouse from the Charley Hutchens defeated candidate and also to further explain the issues in this campaign and to define the policy under which I will operate the sheriff's office "I am still standing on my first plat form I will change all deputies in the office I will live in town and have a telephone in my home and will re quire all office deputies to have tele phones in their homes so that give you night service as well service Which your present and under sheriff lives in the and have no telephones and cannot be reached at night You will not have to pay messenger fees to get in touch with the sheriff or deputy as has been necessary in the past 'Gm Under sheriff' wants to keep on living off the people You know he has only been in the court house 12 years and two years dipping cattle I feel like it is time to retire him "Most of you know that jailer for about two years present sheriff and during I conscientiously enforce I without favoring any pets or trying to MUCH INTEREST IN THE RUN OS TUES JULY 28TH are between Charley Gf NYA work 1935 and June Cranes to Clinton Mr Paul Crane who has been resident engineer for the State High way department since work began on highway 17 left Wednesday for Clin ton Oklahoma where he will be as sistant division manager His family will follow within a few days Much interest is being manifested in the run off races to be decided in the election next Tuesday July 28th Most political talk is centered on the race the slate senate race and the contest for the Senate In the sheriff's race prospects lor a close finish Hutchens former jailer and Raymond Drake present under sheriff the primary Hutchens Jahan who ran third Drake The state senate race trading much attention in this coun ty but seems to be the main attraction in the other two counties of the dis trict Cherokee and Adair Ingle was high man in the primary in which the incumbent senator Carlile was eliminated Charles Rogers of Tahlequah is opposing Ingle Ingle carried Rogers' home county of Cher okee in the first primary and this writer predicts that will carry all three comities on July 28th The vote may be close in Adair county but the Sequoyah county man will roll up a big majority in Sequoyah county or Senator the people choose between Governor land and Congressman Josh believed that Marland will quoyah county Marland's is being managed by Alvis while red Green is the king pin in the county for Congressman Lee Tlia county voters will decide between A Wesson and John Stewart for Tax Assessor and between George Sanders and Guy Thompson for county clerk or court clerk they will choose between Aulda Rosson of Sallisaw and Albert Hammett of Vian Only one commissioner's race is yet to be decided that being in district No I Would Be Sheriff to Serve All the People of County minds People that He Never Been Sheriff "I wish to make this ment to the voters of this county not in any effort at mud slinging but merely to answer some of the charges opponent and another Jas (Dock) Kisey age 52 was drowned in the Arkansas river near the bridge Wednesday evening about 3 o'clock He had been seining with Roy Miller Chas Amos John Amos Claud Williams and Garland Williams and while in water about shoulder deep turned loose of the seine and started for the bank and carried ter His body o'clock A the scene and a pulmotor was without avail He is survived by his widow sons and four daughters hose cf the local fire department would of the fire i about Local Sportsmen Win Prizes Local sportsmen who won prizes at Lake ort Smith Wednesday after noon were: Richard wheeler Perry Wheeler Walton Breedlove Cody and Richard Perry Wheeler Richard Wheeler won a loving cup fcr being first in the distance casting: Waiton Breedlove won a float for ac evraev in casting: Codv wcn a beautiful fly rod for accuracy in cast 1 To percent and are re ling Perry Wheeler received a fiyi SORRY AULDA! A most interesting and lengthy tri bute was paid to Aulda Rosson local man who is a candidate for court clerk in the current issue of The Wa tonga Republican We are sorry that lack of space prevents us re produc ing this article in this paper The Editor JAS KINSEY IS DROWNED IN ARKANSAS RIV OOOiSTl JtaU WORM Sequoyah Leading Newspaper or Over a Quarter of a Century a Welcome Visitor in Hundreds of Sequoyah Co Homes A Community Building Pa per According to Tinney secretary of the county election board he has returned the major part of the $250 deposit put up by loyd Green to de fray the expenses of the recent con test in the county race and has refused to pay all but a few of the witnesses in the case Mr Tinney refused to say under what authority he had acted and ap parently has ignored the order by District Judge Enloe Vernor at the conclusion of the case that all wit nesses be registered by Tinney secretary of the election board and be paid by him out of the money de posited as required by law by Mr Green who had made application for the re count It is understood that Mr Green re quested the election board to return his money and stated in a motion fil ed before the board that he is not liable for the costs It is being rumored that Mr Arm strong the successful candidate in the county attorney's race is liable for the costs and witness fees When contact ed today by a Democrat Amcrican re porter Mr Armstrong stated that he is not liable under the law for these fees but that since the charge was being made that he should pay them he would assist in legal steps to col lect them for these witnesses if they would see him at an early date 5000 ARMERS IN 2ND DISTRICT ARE AIDED BY ARMERS BUY LIVESTOCK THRU RESETTLEMENT An Increase in the amount of live stock owned by low income farmers is enc result of the first year's work of the Resettlement Administration which ended with the month of June Official summaries received by Willie Scott county supervisor covering the period to May 1 show that Resettle ment borrowers in Sequyoah County purchased 195 horses and 131 mules 251 dairy cattle 162 hogs and 989 chickens These livestock purchases accounted for $45292 of the $81580 loaned in to Mrs Carrie Harris district di rector of activities and pro fessional projects visited in Sallisaw Wednesday and brought the good news to us about our library project that was sent in some time ago which will be ready in a few days for operation The Library is to be located in the city room at the city hall We are sure that every citizen in our county will be glad to know we are to have a Library and of course each and everyone will want to have a part in the Library To make it a success we must have so many books to start operation and we are asking that everyone in the city and county who has a book or a number of books and magazines they will donate please get them ready and some one will call at your home for them People in the county who have books to donate are asked to leave them at the city hall Saturday or any day you can bring them in Ws want this Li brary to be your Library and if you donate some books you will have a deeper interest in it each one work to make our Library a wonder ful success Tlie Committee LOCAL IREMAN GO TO THE AID STILWELL to keep them in school This group was paid a total of SI 68604 The six dollars a performance fm work in In the 77 counties of Oklahoma NYA cxpmdcd $32395482 in time employment for 11935 high school youngsters rom Sequcyah County NYA re cords show there were 99 young men i and women attending Oklahoma col leges and universities who received' benefit under the college aid aid program Average wage earned by this group was fifteen dollars a month A total 1 of $3G4838G2 was in Ok lahoma on this phase between September 1 30 this year Project employment fcr 5G Sequoyah County youth 16 to 25 years of age by the National Youth Administration during the year There were $191299 expended in this phase of NYA activity Under There were 355 Sequoyah County young people aided by the National Youth Administration during the first year of the organization's life it was announced today by Al Slewart NYA supci visor for Sequoyah county A total of 200 county youngsters par ticipated in the NYA student aid pio gram through which needy youth be A total of 1474 farm families in the tween the ages of 10 ard 25 ver able Second Congressional District have to earn a portion of funds necessary oren given loans by the Rural Rehab ilitation Department ment Administration Hies have been given These figures were cressman Jack Nichols by A sick the State Director this week The Rural Rehabilitation Depart ment has for its object the removal of farmers from the relief rolls by giving them a new start on the farm or pre venting farmers from being forced on relief by giving them a in time cr Sequeyah County 242 loans were made totaling $8551924 and grants wire made totaling S17G2250 "This report' shows that about 5033 farmers nearly all tenants have been given assi lance by the Rural Rehabil itation Department" Nichols said "I have found that in a great many in stances this has resulted in giving farm families a new chance to get started and I am sure this help is ap was recovered about one Moore ambulance was on used Weems said confederate veterans would be eligible to draw from the state pension fund the difference be tween their confederate and the $30 state maximum insulate summer mapped cut the to the highway department and ether agsncy that may use it interesting clays have been found which are used as a decolorizing agen cy or as ceramic clays Caliche has been found in numerous places material makes an ideal road bed dates: bailisaw Wednesday July 29 McKey Thursday July 30 Vian riday July 31 Marble City Saturday August Blackgum Monday August 3 Gere Tuesday August 4 New Engineer Here McBride of Oklahoma City come to Sallisaw this week to re place Paul Crane resident engineer Chairman Sam Battles has anrounc Moffett and if conditions could be any ed The President has advised and Democratic National Committee man Scott erris that he intends to visit Oklahoma probably in October No definite plans for the huge rally conditions in this county and make the have been made but it is exnected the! highways of this countv a snfs nlam ire that threatened the entire bus iness district of Stilwell last night i Wednesday) completely destroyed the Owenby building one of the oldest landmarks at an estimated loss of $20000 before it was finally 'ex tinguished through the assistance oi fire departments from Sallisaw Tah lequah and other places I he conflagration began about earned up to weanesuay evening and it wages for the ECOn bccame evident that the Chief Interest In Countv Cen ters On Sheriff's Race State I made by my Senate Race and United States Senator townships are studied Wherever measured and tested and field sheets are made formation namely culture and water resources road and construction materials and general mineraU The Survey has made an extensive study of limestone throughout the' eastern part of the state Chemical analysis is made which determines the i value for agricultural purposes its use in the manufacture of lime cement or reck Wool the latter being used to' homes keeping them cool in rounced plans it will be the first time ferity receiving and warm in winter It 1 sand and gravel beds thru campaign address in Oklahoma ponents combined state giving this information His appearance in Oklahoma City willhice that I carried my opponent's home any afford thousands of state residents an precinct by a large majority No bet epport unity to hear and see the chief ter testimonial could be paid me than executive I the vole I received in my home pre I cnct from the people who have known Mrs Celia Polecat ace 56 wife of me ail mv life This Isaac Polecat died at the family home I earnestly solicit your support and near Nicut Saturday evening Death urge my friends to continue working I followed a lingering illness Besides her i for me until July 28th when feet Misses Elizabeth Blaook and Laveta husband one daughter Emma survive that our efforts will be rewarded with Edis spent Sunday night with Miss uneral service and burial was at success Yours truly Margaret Price Bell onte Sunday afternoon CHARLEY this program boys and girls had four) time it has employed approximately types of work community activities I 700 people in 44 counties The organi and recreational development rural ratten has had an office in Sallisaw youth development public service and where it has employed eleven people research who have been under the direction of In the state a total of $326324 03 Mr Tom Matheson In each county was expended by tne NYA In caring fcr this group of out of schoo! youth that is the way I will operate the of fice when I am elected My policies will be to enforce all laws including the liquor laws and to make this county a safe place in which to live "My opponents have charged ms with making an alignment with under woild characters in order to get suf ficient funds to make this race I have not spent any money In this cam in paign and neither have I accepted any money from any except my own rela tives and when I am elected and take the oath of office I will be obligated to no one in any way whatsoever and will be free to do my duty "I have been accused of allowing underworld characters to take over vuvi wuiHj wcu ltauc muu me vi uiis cuuniy a Sale place and mapped president will speak at either Lincoln 'for law abiding citizens to travel and a resource is found it is Park cr air Park in Oklahoma City the churches of the countv respectable I Tnousands of Oklahomans from each (Places fcr people to worshin Tbo Hen in of the state's 77 counties are expected btics I will use in that office will be to hear the chief executive law abiding citizens who are obligated The meeting according to tentative to no one except the people and will plans will be a huge Democratic rally be on duty at all times to assist in with each county delegation display the enforcement of the laws of this ing banners and pennants I County as they should be enforced Detailed plans for the rally will be has always ben sail that a man made later by party offcials who said best known among his own neigh that an arrangement whereby tickets bers and if you will note the results of will be issued to residents of each the July 7th primary you will notice county will probably be made I that I carried my home precinct Paw If the president carried out his an Paw No 1 by an overwhelming ma acnroximatplv fiw hasi Mr Rccsevelt has ever made a sche times as many votes as all of my op Vmi will alert rvrt I CITY LIBRARY TO BE A REALITY IN A EW DAYS at Akins Oklahoma July 29th Every Julv seems to be almost as popular a month for weddings as that of June acording to the court clerk's records of marriage licenses being issued So far this month 24 licenses this county The loans were made been issued averaging one a day thru '36 families of which 228 were white cut the month In June 34 licenses They included 1213 persons The were issued average lean was $343 per family Licenses issued the past few days I Loans for machinery totalled $8718 were to: I harness $1979 James Atkinson to Ella Powell Gore I $4592 feed for Nowell Riggs to Dora Burns Sallisaw $4698 Cass Mcouette Roland to Mabel Welch I Loans bear 5 Muldrow Henry Clay Smith to Lillian payabe in one to five years depend ime for 2nd place in the distance cast Edith Cherry Muldrow Tommy Me upon the kind of goods purchased ing Richard Perry Wheeler five Applicants for old age pensions in Henry to Geneva Carson Sallisaw iwtnty rive per cent of similar loans yEar old son of Buck Wheeler won Commissioner' district Number 2 Win Jackson to Lavenia Daberry made by the Oklahoma rural rehab 1 a cup as irst prize in fly casting also be taken at the following places i i 1 i irvn 4 am IM: 1 if I L4Q rtfiyinuiiu wiiiiiey cvipuiduuii moj iiac Effie Riggs Sallisaw Charley Pettit readE been repaid to Lizzie Comingdeer Sallisaw Harold Burns to Mildred Shepherd Sallisaw DALLAS DEAN PAGE Dallas Dean Page young child of Mr and Mrs Robert Page died late Saturday afternoon at the home of the parents following an illness of three days Surviving are the parents three sis ters Bemiece Lorene and Emma Gene Page of the home uneral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at I the Buffington cemetery with Rev possible on this project and thank cemetery under the direction of the Callahan officiating interment was in I very much for the list Yours truly I Moore's uneral home the Burlington cemetery under the di 1 Thompson Director recticn of the Moore's uneral home Division of Employment WPA This will be my last opportunity to appeal through the press to you your support and honest help Tuesday I ask that you compare any minute propaganda with your know ledge of me and prove to yourself its inconsistencies I do not know all the things that will be told or publishel Lui if they sound strange to you and show a desire to prejudice your mind against me you can readily see their falsitv I am being criticized by some people who are not even interested in the welfare of Sequoyah county for some mistakes made by the Sheriff's office I have never been Sheriff of this coun ty and have only had charge of the records and serving of all civil pro cesses I have been in reality the Civil Deputy only and if elected Sher iff I will and can make a record for myself that county The hard tered on me persons other than myself and reasons I could not help yet I blamed with it I am financing without receiving any person either lice or out and am obligated to one except Mr Callahan and good citizens of our county I will select good honest men from various part of the county for depu ties and select them from what I think their qualifications are and their standing in their communities I have always had a great desire in met my life's am hit Ion has been to be Sheriff of this county and my de 1 sire is to be of ier county boards today vice to the people of this county to serve them well and to make an outstanding record as Sheriff I find it quite large sums mon cld full blood Cherokee Indian died at her home at Nicut riday nizht fol 1 I an illness of two months she has mace her home near Nicut for the past 75 years she was born in Texa' a member cf the Baptist church for 60 old years surviving are two daughters ond zirva rtr I unu ciic i diu Gidllt ICOIUCll wlixlinT'j uneral services were conducted Sat for State Highway department who urday afternoon at 4 o'clock by Rev leaves this week fcr Clirtcn Oklaho Jchn Bowling at the Ben onte ccmjma where he accepted a position as etery interment was in the Bell onte I division manager I Mr McBride will move his family wife and two children to Sallisaw within a few days and they will oc cupy the John Pope home worse there than they are now or Battles bave been for the past four years it is beyond mj comprehension "I promise you that I will Moffett an 1 all the rest of STATE MINERAL SURVEY ACTIVE IN THE COUNTY body is urged to hear this noled Library Committee Now Seek preacher teach the Truth as found in ing Book Donations Library To Be Located in City Com Room City Hall Ji ij.