The Eufaula
Stories from the past
147 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 5, 1877
(Letters to editor after fire destroyed the Indian Journal office) Editor Journal
I am happy to see The Journal is again on the wing and hope that it may have no more bad luck but ever prosper in the future.
B.E. Porter, Wooster, Ohio
Editor Journal
The first copy of The Journal reached me today and glad I was to see it has arose again from its ashes. The loss of such an interesting and good paper would have been a greet loss to this country, which we cannot afford.
L.A. Rosenthal
Dog Creek Letter from Sulpher Springs, Texas
I am in receipt of a copy of The Indian Journal, which I presume was sent by you. If so: accept my acknowledgements. It is a good paper, well deserving in my opinion of the hearty support of the Indian people. I am truly glad The Journal is not dead, and happier still to learn that its existence is a creature of the public enterprise of the Muskoke people.
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120 YEARS AGO
Friday, August 21, 1903
Fus Fixico’s Letter (Satire by Journal editor Alexander Posey) Well, so Hotgun he say Secretary It’s Cocked was trimmed the wick in his lantern and stuck a match to it, like old Diogenese, and was set out to see if he could find a man that didn’t had his bread-hooks hung up under his coat tail for boodle.
And Tookpfka Micco he say, “Well, so must be honest men was put near all left the range if It’s Cocked was had to fire hunt for ‘em like deer.”
The Hotgun he say, “Well, so I was had to ‘gree with you. They was put near all extinct in politics, and they was hardly ‘nough left in the Republican party for seed.”
The Snake Platform
At the Hickory Ground council ground, the citizens of the Creek nation met in council and passed a resolution providing for submission to the voters of the nation, candidates for the offices of chief and 2nd chef of the nation.
Chitto Harjo is named for the post of chief and Koncharty Micco for the 2nd chief. The provisions of the treaty with the government of 1832 is sufficient for the protection of our lands and money as well as our people and we make thus the platform on which we stand and ask the votes of the people for our ticket.
The vote of every Creek, no matter what his political affiliations, is respectfully solicited. It is desired that the voters of the various voting precincts read this announcement and give it as general publicity as possible.
Notice to Patrons
All laundry must be paid for upon delivery. I am conducting my business upon strictly cash basis and will credit nobody. I appreciate your patronage, but you must pay cash for what you get.
L.H. Wall, Proprietor Eufaula Steam Laundry
Not Guilty Simon (By the IJ editor)
The Simple Simon who makes his weekly brays through the columns of his paper, the Checotah Times, thinks he has a new kick coming, and the brays are prolonged and laborious.
He accuses us of omitting the name of his paper from the report of Cheesie McIntoshs’ convention held in Checotah. We deny the allegation, Simon.
The name of your dirty rag did not appear in the report furnished the Journal. Climb out of the cesspool in which you delight to wallow; shake the slime from your garments and take an injection of carbolic acid and brace up.
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100 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 24, 1924
DIRIGIBLE PASSES OVER EUFAULA
The TC-3, one of the largest dirigibles in the army service, passed over Eufaula about 7 o’clock Tuesday afternoon from Bellville, Illinois, on its way to Brooks Field, San Antonio, Texas.
The ship carries 216,000 cubic feet of helium non-explosive gas, measures a little more than 202 feet in length and stands 57 feet high.
Hundreds of Eufaula citizens watched the giant dirigible as it went over the city.
DISTRICT JUDGE MELTON SUDDENLY ADJOURNS COURT At the conclusion Friday night of the conviction of Bert Best on a charge of murder, District Judge Hare Melton dismissed all members of the petit jury and continued all criminal cases until the fall term of court.
He said that the criminal court term had not been as productive of convictions and adequate sentences as he had hoped.
The jury gave Best four years for killing William Scholl, a cattleman, in a dispute over a water hole in the Red Hill district in western McIntosh county, a year ago. Best claimed self-defense.
Both men claimed rights to the water hole, which was on Best’s property and which Best intended fencing to keep out Scholl’s cattle. It was in the testimony that Scholl was unarmed at the time he met death.
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80 YEARS AGO
Thursday, April 13, 1944
34 County Draftees Will Leave Eufaula For Fort Sill April 20
Thirty four draftees who passed their physical tests in Tulsa several weeks go and were certified for army duty will leave Eufaula for Fort Sill Thursday, April 20, according to Major Washington Grayson, chief clerk of the local board.
Chairman of the local board D.C. Janeway says that they are having a hard time in meeting the county’s quota the war chiefs are insisting they fill.
Surgical Dressing Room Notes Las week the current quota of surgical dressing was completed. The room will be closed until the May and June shipment of gauze arrives at which time the workers will be notified.
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75 YEARS AGO
Thursday, March 17, 1949
Committee OKs Indian School Appropriation The Eufaula Indian Boarding School hurdled its first obstacle to remaining open after this year, when funds for its operation were restored to the Indian service budget by the House Sub Committee on Appropriations last week.
Bill Cowling Defeats Mayor K.C. Burnham Eufaula voters expressed their disapproval of the present city administration Tuesday by electing a new mayor and rejecting one of two councilmen opposed for reelection.
Bill Cowling, a 31-year-old restaurant owner, defeated Mayor K.C. Burnham in his race for reelection for a second term, but C.C. Casey, incumbent, ran away from two opponents in the race for chief of police.
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65 YEARS AGO
Thursday, February 5, 1959
Mayor and City Council Extend Sewer Lines Eufaula sewer lines will be extended three blocks in the west part of Eufaula following action by Mayor Guy Swadley jr., who took the matter up with the city council Monday night, and quickly had council approval and new building property on sewer lines to be quickly available to the public.
The tract is on Grand, in the area of the Ellen Beasley, Fred May homes in the vicinity where Grand is intersected by 5th, 6th and 7th streets.
Baker To Again Head City Schools
Hugh Baker, by a unanimous vote of the Eufaula board of education, was rehired for another year, the 1959-1960 term, at the Monday evening meeting of the board.
Baker, when questioned Monday, said Gary Akers, head of the music department, had submitted his resignation, but denied receiving the rumored resignation of A.O. Beck, principal of the high school.
At the January meeting Parker Pruitt, local filling station man, was appointed school board member from ward two, to replace Boyd Killingsworth, who moved with his family, to Muleshoe, Tex.
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18 YEARS AGO
Thursday, February 2, 2006
Cox escapes for third time
For the third time in as many visits to the Mc-Intosh County Jail, 24-year-old convict Justin Cox found himself chased by local authorities after busting out of what Sheriff Terry Jones is calling a “dilapidated: facility last Tuesday night.
Two Years Later: Who Shot Larry Nichols?
Two years later, and Eufaula residents still want to know who shot and killed city councilman Larry Nichols.
“The public wants to know what happened,” said Eufaula Mayor Dean Smith. “This is a small town. Everybody knows everybody else. A neighborhood has lost its innocence. Lifestyles have changed.”
Nichols had only served as Eufaula councilman for one month when he was found dead with a gunshot to the head.
The 67-year-old Nichols’ body was discovered in the kitchen of his lakefront home around 10 a.m. on Sunday, January 25, 2005, by church members.
To date, no charges have been filed in the case. The OSBI closed the case September 8, 2005, when OSBI investigator John Jones submitted his final report.
In his report, Jones identified two suspects, one male and one female, who are both already serving time in Oklahoma prisons.
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10 YEARS AGO
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Stidham superintendent resigns, takes job with online school Computer-savvy Stidham School Superintendent Bart Banfield submitted his resignation last month to accept a position as assistant superintendent of Epic Charter School, an online, K-12 educational institution based in Oklahoma City..
Boldt chosen to manage school construction projects
The Eufaula School Board, at its monthly meeting Monday, chose the Boldt Company to manage the construction of several proposed projects in the school district.
One of Boldt’s initial tasks will be to help the school board sell voters on the idea of approving a $13.5-million bond issue to fund the various projects.
