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October 1, 2022 Mountain Man’s One Hundred Years Ago, Axe Throwing & Grub October 1922 ‘The beginning of October saw vided N. W. Gore, Assistant Attor- best X-ray machines in this part of Come Bury the Hatchet at Mountain Man’s cotton rapidly being harvested. ney General, with an escort from the country at Dr. Victor Tisdal’sp All day and night you could see the courthouse to the railroad office. He additionally purchased We Are Aways Graterut For THE hundreds of loads of the snowy station following the conviction a Victor Universal X-ray machine fleece brought into Elk City. Cot- of George Livingston and Walter for “deep treatment work.” The 325 S. Main St. Love Anp Surrort Our Community ton wagons waited all night for Woods. They were found guilty table and all accessories for treat- Snows Us Anp We Are Humsiep To Elk City, OK Recerve Your Votes! their tum to be unloaded. Many farmers were selling “cotton in the of robbing the Beckham National Bank of $1936 ($31,200 in to- ing TB, cancer of the stomach, etc. cost $5,000 ($80,600), 580-799-7186 seed.” day's values) the previous Aug. Merritt Bakery installed fancy www.mountainmanselkcity.com ‘About half the pupils in Sth Woods, 17 years old, received a double-waxed bread wrappers and 6th grades at Carter were out suspended sentence of 20 years and an electric bread-wrapping picking cotton. Their school board in the penitentiary; Livingston machine that sealed the product agreed that, while classes contin- in an air-tight package. They also ‘was sentenced to ten years of hard ued, those who stayed out to pick labor. Gore's castigation of the installed a large electric dough cotton would not be counted as two defendants was so harsh that mixer. absent until Oct, 21st and would be given special attention to help friends of the men threatened Did you know Beckham County regain their grades. Gore to such an extent that the was the home of sweet potatoes ‘The new Hope and Haney Gin sheriff deemed it advisable to pro- and watermelons? Our soil and was about ready to process cot- vide him with a special guard to climate were ideal to grow these ton since a fire two weeks earlier. the train. Local officials requested products, yet in 1922, the coun- Mi ‘Their warehouse was full of seed ty had only a limited market for that Gore prosecute the case in- stead ofthe county DA. cotton and huge piles awaiting the them. Representatives from the mill's start. Large crews of men After deliberating for only 25 State Marketing Commission, Come See Us At Our New worked night and day installing minutes, the jury at Sayre de- Horticultural Dept. of A&M and Location 902 S. Main Street! the new machinery. Due to un- clared that Marshall Downs of Elk was not guilty of manslaugh- the Rock Island Railroad present- expected damage to the engine, City ter. He was charged with killing a new cylinder and many replace- Henry Durham last spring. John ed a program about selecting the best varieties, their horticulture, ment parts had to reordered. Grider was also acquitted on in- Over at the Miller Gin, the gov- protecting them from destruc- tent to kill charges when he shot ernor flew off the engine causing Clyde Canaday and Everett Hupp. tive insects and transporting the the engine room to fill with hot Charlie Martin had two fingers crops. As a result, the Beckham steam. This prevented anyone so badly mangled in a corn binder County Sweet Potatoes and Wa- a from entering the room and shut- that Dr. Thomas D. Palmer had to termelon Association was orga- ting off the throttle valve. Jim amputate one forefinger; the sec- nized. Lewis, the superintendent, tried 902 S. Main St, Elk City to reach the throttle but was over- ond finger of Martin's left hand ‘This article was written by Luanne was in bad shape. Lockey Duree, R. Eisler and taken from items Mon - Sat 11-9:30 « Sun: 11-3 come by the steam. He lay on the daughter of Henry Duree, under- published in The Carter Express, floor prostrated but not seriously went an operation at Tisdal Hos- ‘The Elk City Press and The Elk We Deliver & Cater! hurt. A man wrapped in a quilt reached the valve and stopped the pital for the removal of an eye. A City News-Democrat; these news- year earlier when three years old, wild engine. It was badly dam- she fell while holding scissors and papers can be found on microfilm aged. Workers labored twenty- the point struck her in the eye. at the Elk City Carnegie Library. 580.225.3644 four hours a day re-setting the ‘The eye had troubled her ever Supplementary information was Find Us On Facebook! engine base on anew foundation. since and was deemed unsavable. taken from Heritage Quest and Beckham County's sheriff pro- Elk City boasted of one of the www.dollartimes.com. We want to thank everyone for your love and support. 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