147 YEARS AGO
Chicago, March 21 – The Inter-Oceans Sioux City special says the Ponca Indians will be removed from their reservation to the Indian Territory in about two weeks. It is reported that they didn’t know what they were doing when they signed the paper relinquishing their rights to the reservation; that they supposed they were signing a paper to draw their annuities, and that they will forcibly resist any attempts by the Government to remove them.
Deadly Pneumonia
The great scourge of this Territory is pneumonia. We have never seen a section where so large a percentage of able-bodied men died, as here.
We have a fine climate, subject to sudden changes, it is true, but we must look elsewhere for the cause of the enormous mortality.
We are inclined to believe the cause arises from the insufficiency of proper clothing and exposure to currents of air. The wearing of woolen garments next to the skin, we believe, would protect them from this cause and we advise a more general use of woolen fabrics in wearing apparel, even during the summer season. We know that proper protection will often ward off a chill.
120 YEARS AGO
Friday, August 14,1903
Maybe So
Eufaula offered to quarry and haul the stone to the Katy right-of-way if the road would build a passenger station. Eufaulas generosity might be the reason for Katy’s hesitancy in South McAlester.
Cookson Defeated in Election for Chief Is the British returning?
The defeat of Cookson for chief of the Cherokees is attributed to the fact that about 900 fullbloods of the “night hawk” organization Keetoowahs refused to take part in the election.
They believe that Great Britain will interfere in their behalf someday and drive the white man out and give the country back to them.
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100 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 17,1924
MORE MONEY FOR COTTON GROWERS 26TH OF THIS MONTH Oklahoma City, April 16 – (Special) A further payment of $20, $15 and $10 per bale on cotton delivered to the Oklahoma Cotton Growers’ association by members during the past season is announced by officials of the organization, which has headquarters here.
The payment starts April 26 and is expected to be concluded by April 30.
DRIVES FORD CAR INTO COURTHOUSE Loses Control of Tin Lizzie; Almost Hits Judge Losing control of his Ford car, A.B. Wright of Henryetta, drove through the front door of the courthouse here Monday afternoon, smashing a plate glass and almost running over County Judge E.I. O’Reilly.
Wright says he was compelled to run into the court house by making a quick turn or he would have run down a little girl on the street and that attempting to put his foot on the brakes in some manner he stepped on the gas instead and that the car got away from him and jumped upon the curb and into the court room, and before he knew what had happened he was seated in his car facing the judge on the bench apologizing for entering in such an abrupt manner before his honor without being summoned.
80 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 6, 1944
Charles Green Joins Navy Air Corps
Charles Greene, son of Mr. and Mrs. F.A. Greene, former citizens of Eufaula, but now making their home in Maryville, Tenn., has volunteered for the navy air corps according to a letter received by E.W. Gray, deputy in the treasurer’s office here.
HANNA BOY MEMBER AMPHIBIOUS FORCES
Eli E. Rowls, whose family resides at Hanna, is now an integral member of the Amphibious forces of the United States Navy.
At the completion of his preliminary SST training at the Amphibious Training Base, Camp Bradford, NOB, Norfolk, Va. Rowls, has been assigned to the crew of an LST for active duty.
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75 YEARS AGO
Thursday, March 10, 1949
Friday Morning War Hero Reburial
Reburial services for Truman D. Tennyson, killed in action in North Africa, Oct. 16,1943, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday in the Assembly of God Church in Eufaula.
Young Tennyson was the son of Jim Tennyson, Stidham. He was 24 years old at the time of his death.
Last Rites Sunday for Jack Nichols
Reburial rites for former U.S. Representative Jack Nichols, who died in an airplane accident in Egypt in 1945, will be held in Eufaula Sunday.
65 YEARS AGO
Thursday, January 29, 1959
Government Gets Ready For Courts
A second petition within 10 days for the condemnation of land for the reservoir of the Eufaula dam was filed in Federal Court in Muskogee last Friday.
The petition asked for condemnation of 1,107.69 acres in Haskell and LeFlore counties. A Treasury check for $37,788.51 was deposited in the registry of the court representing the offer of the payment to the landowners. The average offered price is $34 an acre.
Baptists Award Contract For $100,000 Building Meeting in their monthly business meeting, Wednesday evening, January 28, members of the First Baptist church voted to award a contract for the completion of their new $100,000 building. Actual construction is expected to be underway in the immediate future.
Contractor M.C. Mitchell and Son of Tulsa, presented the lowest of the six bids offered, and has promised that construction will begin within the next month.
18 YEARS AGO
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Arson suspected in Hwy 9 fires
Wildfires, suspected of being deliberately set, sparked to life in seven or eight spots along S.H. 9 in northern Pittsburg County on Thursday, January 19.
“We were called out around 9:30 a.m.” said Sky King, captain of the No. 9 Volunteer Fire Department, who was monitoring the roadblock on Piney Creek Road at 3 p.m. that afternoon.
King said they were the first called to a blaze which consumed an abandoned structure in Longtown located next to Shurman’s Engine Repair, which was destroyed by fire the previous week.
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10 YEARS AGO
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Cause of fire under investigation
State investigators are looking into the cause of a fire Friday night that destroyed a dozen RVs and damaged eight others at the Twin Rivers RV and Mobile Home Park located on Lake Eufaula on Texanna Road about 1 1/2 miles west of U.S. 69.
City council sets election on whether to change government
The Eufaula City Council wasted no time Monday night in calling for an election to allow voters to decide whether they want their city’s day-to-day business to be run by a mayor or a city manager.
By a unanimous vote, and little discussion, councilmen passed a resolution setting a June 24 election that will allow voters to choose between the current statutory aldermanic government or a new statutory council/manager government.
