147 YEARS AGO
Wednesday, February 27,1878
WISE OR OTHERWISE
– England fed 606,300 out-door paupers last year.
– The Eastern war has greatly stimulated the growth of wheat in Russia.
– The city of Montgomery Ala., pays tramps 25 cents a day for working on the streets. The discovery has been made that some who are not tramps were willing to work for that sum.
The New Pope
Cardinal Pecci, an Italian, was elected pope of the Croman Church on the third ballot.
He has assumed the title of Leo XIII.
HOTEL FOR SALE Near the Depot, Eufaula
I will sell the Eufaula House with or without furniture, and also stables, corn crib, sheds, etc, garden and lot containing about five acres. Cows, horses and wagons.
There is on the place two good wells and a large cistern. All will be sold cheap for cash if applied for in 30 days
119 YEARS AGO Friday, May 25, 1906
NOTICE
It is a violation of the city ordinance to allow weeds to grow or filth to accumulate on or about the premises of anyone within the corporate limits of the city of Eufaula.
Those owning property or controlling the same are hereby notified that all weeds must be cut and all filth removed from the premises owned, occupied or controlled by them at once or they will be prosecuted for violation of the city ordinances and punished in accordance with the provisions thereof.
By order of the Board of Health G.W. West, President W.A. Tolleson, Secy
Lenna Items
– Crops are looking better.
– Some complain of a bad stand of cotton. – Mrs. Joe Burns and her little daughter, Helen, are visiting in Krebs his week.
Cathay Items
– An ice cream social was given at the city hall Saturday night. All report a very pleasant time, especially the marshal had a good time.
– Tom Parks and wife were in Checotah Monday. – Noah Chapman is reported very sick this week with chills and fever.
McAlester Capital Sold
The South McAlester Capital has changed hands. G.D. Hinds is retiring. The paper, which is one of the leading evening newspapers of the Choctaw nation, has been sold to J.G. Puterbaugh, J.J. McAlester, George Mansfield and others.
100 YEARS AGO
Thursday, February 12, 1925
“Swede” Jamerson Goes to Major Leagues Former Eufaula High School Coach to Boston Red Sox
BOSTON, Feb. 10 – The Boston Red Sox today announced that four pitchers had returned signed contracts, including southpaw Charles Jamerson of Memphis, Tennessee.
Jamerson tried out with Muskogee in 1922 but retired early in the season on account of an injured arm. He was coach of the Eufaula high school team that fall and gave the team his nickname “Swede.”
He coached a high school team in Memphis last winter.
He pitched a couple of games for the Red Sox last fall and did well, having his southpaw curves breaking nicely.
He managed and was the star pitcher for the Eufaula ball team in 1923, winning every game he pitched and giving Eufaula one of the very best independent ball teams in the state.
His home is in Arkansas and he is a graduate of the Arkansas University.
80 YEARS AGO
Thursday, January 18, 1945
Buster Douglas Reported Killed in Leyte Action Sgt. James L. “Buster” Douglas of Eufaula has been reported by the war department as a casualty in the Leyte landings in the southwest Pacific theater of operations.
According to the word received here this week by Mrs. Melissa Douglas, his mother, the local lad fell on Dec. 7,1944.
Douglas, a husky, strapping athlete, was one of Eufaulas most popular youths. He gained great acclaim as a football player at Eufaula high school, Bacone, Centenary College and New Mexico University.
He was born in Eufaula, Feb. 22, 1918, and had lived in this city all his life. He joined the National Guard in 1932 and remainea a member of this group for several years.
He enlisted in the army Nov. 2, 1942, and was shipped overseas June 1,1944.
Sheriff McQuillen Arrest Trio for Crimes Sheriff John McQuillen announced today the solution to two baffling crimes, which involved the attempted armed robber of Noah Chapman, and the theft of an automobile tire, with the arrest of three men, all of Muskogee.
75 YEARS AGO
Thursday, December 22,1949
Stockmen Warned to Keep Cows, Hogs Up Jimmie Whiteley, county attorney, this week warned negligent stock owners they may face court action unless they keep their animals penned up.
Whiteley said he had received dozens of complaints about hogs, cattle and other livestock running at large since he took office earlier his month One farmer reported a herd of 50 head of swine belonging to a neighbor running on his place.
Death Rides Highway 69
Four died in McIntosh County accidents on Highway 69 Sunday.
Fatally injured in a head-on collision of two automobiles near Onapa Sunday morning was Mrs. Oleta Seawell, Okemah, a former Checotah resident.
The driver of the other automobile, Howard J. Corman, 25, Chicago, was hurt in the Onapa wreck, but then was fatally injured 20 minutes later when the automobile in which he was being carried to a Muskogee hospital crashed head on with another car near Oktaha.
Two more lives were lost in the second crash and a sixth person injured.
65 YEARS AGO
Thursday, November 12,1959
Engineer’s Land Price Accepted by Eufaula The government has offered the city of Eufaula $10,085 for the land owned by this city being taken for construction of Lake Eufaula and the relocated U.S. No. 69 highway.
These figures were handed the Eufaula governing board Tuesday shortly after noon lunch, at the office of the engineers in Tulsa.
For this money the government will take about 10 Vi acres at the city dump ground southeast of the city limits just across Old Town Creek; the 0.96 acre city park in the East part of Eufaula, one block south of Broadway; 8.68 acres of the 38 acres the city is acquiring from the Indian department, and 4.81 acres immediately adjoining the water reservoir on top of Foley Mountain.
The first two tracts will form a part of the lake basin, and the latter two will be needed for highway relocation.
Mercury Dips to Low 17 Degrees
The coolest weather of the early winter struck Eufaula last Saturday, Nov. 7, when the mercury skidded to a record low of 17 degrees for that date, after going down to 20 degrees on the sixth, said Mrs. Martha Daniels, U.S. weather observer.
She recorded four days of below freezing during the past seven days.
55 YEARS AGO
Thursday, February 26, 1970
Local Girl Stops Home Burglary
Gale Ann Burdine, 12, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Burdine, west of Eufaula on No. 9 Highway, had an exciting and unusual experience Wednesday, Feb. 13, in her home.
After school on Wednesday, from her home Gale noticed a strange car entering their private driveway. She immediately called her mother to see if they had sent anyone to the home for any purpose.
After learning that no one was expected, Gale kept vigil watch to see what the approaching car and driver was going to do.
The stranger first rang the doorbell twice, and thinking no one was at home, he went back to the car and turned it toward the highway, leaving the motor running.
He approached the back glass doors leading into the family room, with hammer in hand and gloves on. He knocked once more.
In the meantime, Gale loaded a .410-gauge shotgun and stood where the man could not see her. When he broke the glass door and reached inside to unlatch the door, Gale then stepped out and said, “You hold it right there!”
The man, surprised at finding someone in the house, said “Excuse ma’am, I didn’t know there was anyone at home.”
He left hurriedly, spinning his wheels in the newly graveled driveway.
Before the man drove away, Gale wrote down his car tag and number and immediately called her mother. Mrs. Burdine hurriedly reported the incident to the Sheriff’s office. In a short time Highway Patrolman Bill Sparks apprehended the man near Whitefield.
NEWCOMERS TO LONGTOWN ESTATES This weeks’ feature of developments on the lake is directed to Fisher-Otis Company’s Longtown Estates.
This development is managed by Betty Otis, widow of the late Roger Otis, who was one of the founders of the development, and Roy Fisher, a rancher living at Raiford.
Mrs. Otis and her family live in the development and her children attend school in Eufaula.
The new office recently constructed at Longtown Estates is five miles east of Eufaula just off No. 9 highway.
Roy Fisher is he general manager of the development and the office manager is Earl Nielsen.
33 YEARS AGO
Thursday, March 19,1992
Library Millage Fails
Voters turned down a two mill levy increase for McIntosh County’s library system on March 10.
The levy, if it had passed, would have provided more library services, increased opening hours and added to the system’s inventory.
Deep Fork Looking for Families in Self-Help Housing Program Deep Fork Community Action Foundation is seeking families in McIntosh County who are interested in becoming new homeowners through the self-help method.
Mutual Self-Help is the construction method by which participating families organize in groups of four to 10 families and utilize their own labor to reduce the total construction cost of their homes.
Albuquerque Sports Hall of Fame Inducts Former Hanna Resident
Jack Rushing, a native of Hanna, has been inducted into the Albuquerque Sports Hall of Fame. Rushing, who is married to the former Theda Douglas of Eufaula, was honored during the 19th annual Hall of Fame Banquet in February.
Rushing, whose sister, Willina Harris, currently lives in Eufaula, has certainly lived up to the Hall’s motto and has also brought honor to all Native Americans.
Rushing, now 76, was the first Native American to bring all-conference honors to the University of New Mexico, where he received his degree, and to his adopted city where, as a coach, he won eight state titles in two sports in 29 years.
10 YEARS AGO
Thursday, March 19, 2015
One dead, 2 injured in March 12 accident
A National Transportation Safety Board helicopter on Monday lifted the wreckage of a medical helicopter from a crash site and deposited it some five miles away at a location on the Fisher Ranch.
The NTSB aircraft made several trips to the remote, difficult to access location, picking up large pieces of the remains of the Eurocopter A5350 and depositing them in a pasture.
The helicopter crashed at about 11:30 p.m. Thursday, March 12 on the side of a mountain on the 10,000-acre Canadian River Ranch in western McIntosh County about 20 miles west of Eufaula.
Matt Matthews died at the scene. Nurse Kim Ramsey and paramedic Ryan Setzkorn eventually were rescued and taken to area hospitals.
The three had left St. Francis earlier in the evening and were returning to their home base in McAlester when the accident occurred.
JERRY FINK, MANAGING EDITOR
