The New State Socialist Apr 1908 - Jefferson County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Nita E. 13 Nov 2005 Return to Jefferson County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.org/ok/jefferson/jefferson.htm ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CaB.2ACI/786 The New State Socialist Cornish, Jefferson County, Oklahoma Friday, April 3, 1908 Vol. 1, No. 1 (The front page has articles about political issues.) Short local items: MRS. PORT PRUITT and little daughter AUDRY are both very sick of measles. W. C. HOGAN went to Ryan to attend an Odd Fellows meeting. AUNT MARY CORNISH and MRS. JIMMIE BECKHAM were pleasant callers at this office Tuesday afternoon. MISS MABLE KIRKPATRICK left Tuesday for Mangum to visit her cousins, DAN WRIGHT and family. PRINCE TRIMBLE of Teck came in Monday and surprised his brother JOHN very much. A. BROSSARD the watchmaker, has opened permanently a watch, clock and jewelry repair shop at FISHER's Drug Store at Terral. MRS. LOVE PERRY, who has had such a time with a complicated case of measles, is now threatened with paralysis. JOHN TRIMBLE and brother PRINCE TRIMBLE went to Waurika after their new goods that they purchased last week. M. E. HARRIS left Tuesday for Sugden and other Rock Island towns which he is visiting in behalf of the Orphans and Old Women's Home. G. B. SPIVEY, deputy organizer of the F.E.C.U. of A., addressed the farmers of Linwood Friday night and expects to organize a local there. SILAS GIBSON and family moved back to town Monday and Mr. Gibson has employed O. T. KELLEY to take charge of the farm. Mr. Kelley moved to the farm Tuesday. D. C. CARPENTER will leave here within a few weeks on a prospecting trip to the west and southwest. He will go first to New Mexico thence to southwestern Old Mexico, then southern California, returning via New Mexico and west Texas. This is what he says, but we will say nothing about it yet awhile. ORCHARD and WOODS--article about organizing miners… All holders of letters in the post office at Cornish are hereby noticed that…pay for the box rent. F. M. TAYLOR MRS. MATTIE WIZE/WISE has been delegated to attend the county Farmers union convention at Wray's Chapel Thursday, April 10. W. C. HOGAN visited the three "county-seat cities" this week. Mr. and Mrs. JOHN PRICE, their daughter RUTH, accompanied by TOMMY MELTON went to Ardmore Sunday to meet their daughter who has been attending school at Gainesville. Notice. Examination of applicants for common school diplomas will be held in Waurika, Ryan and Terral at their respective schools, April 9 and 10. All pupils must be examined in the following branches: spelling, physiology, composition, United States history, arithmetic, reading, penmanship. A diploma will be issued to each successful pupil. These diplomas will admit students to classes in our university and normal schools and agricultural and mechanical college. L. L. WADE, county superintendent. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Jefferson County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.org/ok/jefferson/jefferson.htm