This information is offered FREE and taken from http://www.okgenweb.net/~okcaddo/ If you have arrived here using a pay site please know that this information has been donated by volunteers in a joint effort to provide FREE genealogy material online. Caddo County Newspapers - 1911 Anadarko American Submitted by: Sandy Miller ***************************************************************** August 31, 1911 published on Thursdays INJURED IN COLLISION A collision between J.J. THOMPSON's automobile and JOHN GASPER's buggy occurred at the corner of Broadway and third street at 9 o'clock Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. Gasper were the occupants of the buggy. The former was badly injured, being unconscious for some time. Mrs. Gasper was slightly injured. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, MISS PEARL and GEORGE THOMPSON, and MR. AND MRS. L.C. SNODGRASS were in the automobile. Mrs. Snodgrass suffered a broken thumb. The accident was purely accidental and in the darkness, practically unavoidable. The automobile was running slowly. Mr. Gasper is getting along nicely. His injuries consisted of cuts and bruises about the head. SCHOOL OPENING The Binger schools will open September 18 for an eight months term. PROF. COOLEY will be the superintendent. He will have three assistants. BINGER'S FIRST BALE Binger's first bale of cotton was brought in Thursday by I.F. STOUT, who lives three miles southwest of Oney. He received $4.50 per hundred and a premium of $25, a total of $95. THE POST OFFICE The Anadarko postoffice is again in good running order after the move from Broadway to Main street. The new fixtures are elaborate and the new style combination lock boxes easy to operate. Postmaster W.I. LACEY has a force of four assistants. Besides, there are five rural route carriers out of the office. When the savings bank is installed and the city delivery inaugurated the present force will be materially increased. PLUM AND ELLISON HAVE GREAT TEAM Anadarko Champions Have Won 48 Games and Lost Only Five METS NEXT VICTIM Locals Confident They Will Take The Series From "Cy" Young's Oklahoma Citians. The Giants, the Tigers, the Cubs, the Athletics and all the other big baseball teams of the nation haven't anything on the Anadarko Champion baseball team when we compare records. The Anadarko team has just completed a series of three games with the Durant team of the Oklahoma-Texas league, and as usual the Anadarko team won all three games. Anadarko has now won 48 games out of 53 played and manager ROY ELLISON is still hunting for baseball teams for his Champions to play, hoping that some day he will be able to find a team that will give his boys a strong argument. True, the Oklahoma City baseball team is billed to come for a series of three games just as soon as the Texas league season is finished, but the Anadarko club isn't worried. It's just waiting and hoping that the Mets will be able to interest them. Early in the season, merchants and Anadarko boosters began to talk baseball. Everybody wanted a good baseball team, but everybody knew that it was a pretty dry year, and they couldn't quite see where the money to support a team of real champions was to come from. At that juncture MAYOR WILLIAM PLUM, who is a 32nd degree fan, stepped into the breach and announced that he had the money. He told Roy Ellison to get the team. Roy surely has made good. Game after game has been won, and to date the Anadarko team has never quit nor played 'hoss' on the diamond. All the members of the team have conducted themselves as gentlemen at all times, and the fans of Anadarko have taken pleasure in attending the games to give support to a fast team of clean baseball players. Among some of the teams that Anadarko has played this season are Marlow, Verden, Hinton, Thomas, Geary, Bowie, Mangum, Frederick, Lawton, Ardmore, Chickasha, Durant, Oklahoma City All Stars, Oklahoma City Leaguers, Hollis, Fort Sill and Watonga. Anadarko has never yet lost two games out of any three played with any of these leagues. (the rest of the story was continued on page three, and was missing on the microfilm.) THE YOUNGEST SUBSCRIBER The first person to walk into the American office and lay down a dollar for a year's subscription was MASTER OTIS FARRNGTON, son of REV. F.L. FARRINGTON, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is also the youngest subscriber. Otis is a carrier for the Daily Tribune and is a bright and hustling youngster. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION The Caddo county Sunday school convention began its sessions here yesterday. It will adjourn this evening. Schools from all parts of the county are represented by delegates. BOARD OF EDUCATION SELECTS TEACHERS Services of Superintendent Dispensed with--Leazenby Succeeds Pratt At the meeting of the board of education last week, J.M. LEAZENBY was appointed to fill the vacancy from the second ward occasioned by the resignation of H.C. PRATT. It was decided to dispense for a time at least with the services of a superintendent. The duties of this office will revolve upon MISS POPPLEWELL, who was elected principal at $100 per month. Other teachers elected follow: At $75 a month, MRS. LOUTHER and MISS ROSE GODFRES. At $70 per month, MISS MARY HALL. At $65 per month, MISSES ALICE HASTINGS, DRISCOLL and MAMIE BROWN. At $60 per month, MISS CARRIE RICHARDS. At $60 per month, MISSES E. ROMICK, MABEL DAVIS, MARIAN FRANZ, J. CARTER, MABEL WALLIS, KATE CONLEY, GEORGIA WEAVER, THOMAS and IDA MITCHELL. Two janitors were employed at $50 a month, each, a cut of $20. The following examining board was selected: J.R. GODFREY, M.D. MILLER and MISS EDITH WIDAMAN. L.W. TINGLEY acted as clerk in the absence of MR. STRATTON who is away. School will begin September 11, the term to last eight and possibly nine months. BLUE AND GRAY HOLDING THEIR REUNION McKinley Post, G.A.R. and Citizens Go To Bridgeport Today A reunion of the 'old boys' of the Blue and Gray is in progress at Bridgeport this week. It began yesterday and will close tomorrow. Former Governor Ferguson is billed as the principal speaker. Several members of the McKinley Post, Grand Army of the Republic, will leave Anadarko this morning for the reunion. Many other townspeople will go. The Rock Island has granted a rate of one and one-third fare for the round trip. NEW BOOK STORE W.L. (Jack) MOORE, cashier of the First State Bank, has opened a book, news and stationary store in the lobby of the new post office. The name of the place is the New Post Office Book Store. The store and fixtures are new. Mr. Moore is deservedly popular here abouts and will of course, be successful in the new venture. BRILLANT THOUGH BLIND AND DEAF Wolcott Coombs Attracts Much Attention in Kansas, City, Missouri BECOMES FAMOUS-Newspapers of Kaw City Devote Much Space To The Young Anadarkoan. WOLCOTT COOMBS, the 18 year old deaf, dumb and blind boy of Anadarko, is in Kansas City posing for motion picture films. The newspapers of the city have devoted several columns to him. The following is from the Star: "Wolcott Coombs who came to Kansas City this morning to pose for a motion picture company did not seem unlike an ordinary 18 year old boy as he sat at a typewriter at the Hotel Kupper writing of his trip here from Anadarko. He arose when a visitor entered the room. He felt the presence of the newcomer he explained. When H.L VIRDEN who taught Coombs in the school for the blind at Fort Gibson, Okla., had introduced the visitor by spelling out his name in Coombs' hand, Coombs shook hands heartily. The deaf and blind are intereined intensely in words. Coombs can read Latin readily and is rapidly learning German. He desires to take up Greek next. About two years ago Coombs began teaching himself the use of a typewriter and he is now an expert on the machine. He can not hear the bell ring when the end of the line is reached but he can tell by the dragging of the machine that the bell has rung. For recreation and exercise the boy swims, wrestling and joins in many other games that the ordinary boy plays. 'Have you been swimming much this summer?" he is asked. "About a dozen times," he replied. A rope is usually put around him as he loses his sense of direction in the water. The blind boy has a bird-like alertness about him. His features are keen and intelligent, and although surrounded by darkness and silence he preserves an attitude and the appearance of listening as he sits, clasping Mr. Virden's hand, through movements of which are conveyed all he knows or can hope to know of what is going on around him. He is here to pose for moving pictures, through the agency of which he and his teacher hope to arouse a greater interest in the work that is being done for the blind. Coombs has been blind and deaf since he was 9 years old. Most of the objects that are familiar to other persons he never has seen except with his mind's eye. Yet he can describe with almost the exactness of a mechanical draughtsman the shape and appearance of a motor car. With a greater exactness than the ordinary person could employ he can describe its parts, explain its mechanical principles and probably could run one, given an unobstructed road. He can do the same thing with a gattling gun, an aeroplane or a watch. And that doesn't mean that is a mechanical 'genius', for he has shown no particular aptitude for mechanics and is quite as proficient in other lines. It means simply he has been 'shown' these things, handled them and made them a part of his world of darkness. In the same way he has made himself a student of literature and history. He knows the poets--some in the dead languages. He reads for pleasure as well as instruction and has favorite passages, just as those he calls 'sighted' persons have. No books are closed to him, no knowledge is foreign. he can spell out on his fingers Milton's sonnet on his blindness. He knows his Euclid and has safely crossed the Ponsassinorum. He knows as much astronomy as any person not a professor. OVER THE STATE A negro was burned at the stake in Purcell last week in the presence of 3000 people. He had assaulted a woman, beating her almost to death with a gas pipe and set fire to her home. The arrival of her husband kept her from burning to death. A GOOD SELECTION FRANK CARPENTER of Bridgeport was in town a few days ago. Frank was recently appointed assessor of Caddo county. The American editor has known Frank for nine years and we believe that Governor Cruce exercised splendid judgment when he named him as our assessor. He is well qualified for the position. From a political viewpoint he is also deserving of the place. STORES CONSOLIDATED R.M. HENKLE, Broadway grocrer and the Crescent grocery on Main Street, J.W. COPLEY, proprietor, have consolidated under the name of the Crescent Grocery and Market. The Henkle stock has been moved to the Main street store which will be the permanent location of the new firm. Both members of the new firm are well and favorably known. The consolidation means one of the largest grocery stores in the city. A meat market will also be maintained. HYMENEAL ELMER W. GISH, one of our bustling young business men, deserted the ranks of bachelorhood August 8, and succeeded in keeping the fact to himself until a few days ago. He was married on that date in Winfield, Kansas to Miss EDNA RICHMOND of Caldwell, Kansas. Elmer returned here immediately after the wedding and Mrs. Gish arrived Sunday. The bride is well known here having trimmed in J.W. HAMMOND's millinery store for two years. She is very popular and, with her husband, has been busy this week receiving congratulations. The couple will live in H.G. HARVEY's house. WILLIAM F. RIPPEY, of Lawton, came over Sunday and married an Anadarko girl--Miss CORA MAXWELL. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J.F. HARVEY at his home. PRESTON M. BRIGANCE, one of the Rock Island's accomodating depot employes, and Miss ELIZABETH MAUD GRAHAM, a charming and popular young lady from Watonga, were quietly married at the parsonage of the M.E. church South at eight o'clock Saturday evening. The pastor Rev. J.V. STANLEY, performed the ceremony. The young couple will reside here. MISS NOYER GRAHAM, a sister of the bride, Miss PEARL HERALD and G.V. WINSTON were present at the wedding. Miss Graham returned to Watonga Monday. Mr. Brigance came here from Watonga a short while ago when he was chasier for the Rock Island. He has made many friends since he took up his work here all of whom wish for him and Mrs. Brigance a happy and succssful married life. NEW STATION IS OPEN TO PUBLIC The Rock Island Has Erected Handsome Depot in Anadarko--Cost About $25,000--New Passenger Train Equipment and Quicker Oklahoma City Service Wanted Next. The Rock Island's new $25,000 passenger station will be open to the public today. Several of the high officials of the line were intown Tuesday and it was then that they decided to accept the building and the oening date agreed upon. This depot compares favorably with any similar building in Oklahoma. The Commercial Club is responsible to a large extrent for the erection of the building. It was through this body that the Rock Island secured the site, the club paying $300 of the purchase price. The old frame building will be moved to the rear of the city hall and converted into a freight depot. A 32-car transfer platform will be added. A passing track will be laid in the yards, after which the railway company will proceed to pave the street crossings where the city has put down paving. Coal chutes will also be built on the north side of the tracks between Fifth and Sixth streets. The people of Anadarko appreciate this splendid depot. It is a thing of much beauty and of many conveniences. The other improvements will add to the facility for handling freight. Now if the Rock Island will get us in-and out of-Oklahoma City a little quicker and get some decent train equipment on the lines running through here the community will forgive this sinful old corporation for many of its past transgressions. WHITE WAS HERE Postmaster H.A. WHITE of Hinton was in the city Monday. White started the Hinton Record away back in 1902 when the American editor was trying to eke out an existence publishing a moral guide up at Bridgeport. White, being a republican--was promoted to a lucrative Federal job and doesn't have to work anymore--anyway, not until CHAMP CLARK or some other good emocrat kicks him out in 1913. But we're glad White got the job. He is a pretty good sort of a fellow regardless of his political beliefs. And when he is kicked out he will probably go back into the newspaper business and proceeto lambest the stuffin' out of us just like he used to back in 1902. MOVED CAFE MRS. F.F. DAVIS has moved her Cafe to the rooms on Sixth street recently vacagted by the Acme Cleaning Shop. She has a neat and attractive place and has named it 'The Midway'.