The Oklahoma Almanac, 1930
IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE YEAR IN OKLAHOMA, 1929.
printed by The Oklahoma Publishing company.
Contributed by Nalora Burns [email protected]

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E. T. SMITH, Hollis, elected president of the Northern Texas and Southwestern Oklahoma Peace officer's association.

Superior court at Okmulgee gives verdict awarding Jasper BRISCOE, attorney, $10,000 damages from Rev. W. J. BOSTROM, for alleged alienation of affections of BRISCOE's wife.

24
J. C. WEST, 87, first deputy United states marshal in eastern Oklahoma and an Indian policeman for many years, died at Porum.

25
Dr. H. E. VAN HORN, pastor University Place Christian Church of Oklahoma City died at Des Moines, Iowa, his former home.

Mrs. J. M. CORNELIUS of Antlers died. She was the mother of of the late Lieut. W. L. CORNELIUS, one of the famous army "Three Musketeers" of aviation, who was killed in a plane crash in Sept. 1928.

John T. SIMPSON, 37, wholesale grocer at Coalgate, mysteriously shot and killed in his office. About three years before he was kidnapped by Emmett BALES, notorious convict, and held several hours along with his family, until BALES was shot and killed by a deputy sheriff. At the point of a gun SIMPSON had been forced to sign a check for $15,000 in BALES' favor. BALES had been dissatisfied with the prorata division of funds when a co-operative store at Tupelo, in which both were interested, burned.

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George COURTNEY, 23, contender for the middleweight boxing title, and Miss Virginia HOWARD, 21, a featured singer in Ziegfield's midnight follies, both Oklahomans, married at Greenwich, Conn.

A. W. WHITTEN, Birmingham. Ala, filed suit against Eugene ARNETT, known as "The Prophet" in connection with his work at Putnam City, a suburb of Oklahoma City. WHITTEN asked $100,000 solace for a letter which is said by WHITTEN to represent him as "the greatest egoist the Lord has ever allowed to live."

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Ika's fancy, a mature jersey cow owned by A. W. HENDRICKSON, Perry, won State championship for cows over 12 years old.

F. R. BUSKIRK, Rock Island train dispatcher, El Reno, aged 70, retires after 56 years railway service, begun with the Michigan Central at Detroit as a telegraph messenger.

Charles F. MARTIN, president of Ponca City board of education and one time vice-president of the Marland Oil Co. in charge of the land department, died.

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John BROGAN, 86, pioneer of Oklahoma in 1889, died.

F. T. CRAWFORD, with a record of two former convictions, for violation of liquor laws, was fined $1,000 and sentenced to one year in jail upon pleading guilty before Judge E. S. VAUGHT.

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Betty SCHUMAN, held to be the common law wife of W. E. MCKALLIP, wealthy Okmulgee oil man, given $41,000 in settlement out of court in case in which MCKALLIP's daughter, Edith, presented a purported will in which  the SCHUMAN was bequeathed $9,000 to be paid at the rate of $30 a month. The daughter claimed Miss SCHUMAN was the house maid and housekeeper and no more. MCKALLIP died in New York City, Oct. 31, 1927.

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Miss Dorothy MCNATT, Oklahoma City, and Jack FRANCE, Lawton, married at the First Methodist Episcopal church, Oklahoma City.

Maj. A. G. WINNINGHAM, 85, color-bearer trans-Mississippi Dept. U. C. V., buried at McAlester. He was with the Army of Northern Virginia in every engagement from the second battle of Bull Run. He served under both General Lee and General Jackson.

Their motor boat overturning in the swollen current of the Arkansas River near Muskogee, John D. ROCKEFELLER, high school athlete and distant relative of the Standard Oil Magnate, gave his life to save his companion Dale DECAMP, who could not swim.

April

1
Lew WENTZ, Ponca City oil man, accepts appointment by governor as head of the state highway commission.

John FIELDS of Oklahoma City named as president of the of the federal land bank at Wichita.

C. E. DUDLEY, Antlers, appointed chairman state board of affairs.

James CRAWFORD and W. E. CRAWFORD plead guilty to theft of diamonds worth $10,000 from Mrs. T. A. HUNT in her Mayo Hotel room at Tulsa and $8,000 worth of diamonds from Mrs. L. K. STUBBLEFIELD in her Wells hotel room.

2
Announced Lloyd WANER, Oklahoma City boy, outfielder of the Pittsburgh National league club, to wed Miss Frances Mae SNYDER of Pittsburgh.

Noel MELTON, 19, Oklahoma City bandit, given sentence of 25 years in penitentiary.

At Ardmore, Fred KEITH, 14, who shot and fatally wounded his father, Sam KEITH, 51, freed by decision of justice of the peace when his mother and brother testified the boy's father was trying to kill them with a knife when the boy shot him.

5
Paul WANER, Oklahoma holdout, signed for the season with Pittsburgh team of the National Baseball team.

Pleading guilty to five robbery counts, Harold MARKHAM, 32 and Emmitt VILLARD, 32, sentenced to 10 years in prison.

7
R. H. DUPUY, keeping plumber's supply store at Duncan, ends his life with a shotgun while in a bath tub.

Since Sheriff C. H. KING took office on Jan. 1, of 88 arrests made by him in Beckham county, 64 persons pleaded guilty, more than half the number being liquor charges. He was elected on a dry platform and made good. Beckham county long the bootlegger center of the state has been pretty well dried out by this efficient officer, residents say.

8
Charles DIDWAY, 16, from the hills of Talihina won the tenth district champion oratorial contest.

While dynamyting stumps, Miller A. DAVIS, 35, Broken Bow, was killed by a blast that hung fire.

Miss Mary Frances MULLINS and Max Raymond THOMPSON wed at Marlow. Both former O.U. Students.

9
Charles D. CARTER of Ardmore, 20 years a representative of Oklahoma in congress and recently member of the state highway commission, died suddenly at his home of heart failure.

Gloria GULAGER, junior at Muskogee high school and cousin to Will Rogers cowboy-comedian, won district oratorial contest at Muskogee.

10
David WILLIAMS, Tulsa, pays $125,000 for the residence of Pat HURLEY assistant secretary of war.

Sam BRODSKY 16, Tulsa, won oratorial contest in third district.

Mrs. Olga Bell HALMARK, 53, died. With her husband, she came into ten-mile flats, west of Norman in the run of 1889, where they lived until their removal to Oklahoma City in 1908.

Mrs. Mabel C. SHERIN of Walters elected worthy matron of the Oklahoma Eastern Star.

11
Laverne GEESLIN, senior in the Cherokee high school won oratory contest in the second district at Ponca City.

Frank WARE, Osage Indian at Pawhuska, given life prison term for murder. While drunk and driving a motorcycle he struck and killed Carl SNODGRASS, Webb City, on the Ponca City-Kaw City highway.

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H. G. BEAN, whose Houdini tricks kept him out of the penitentiary for four months, off and on, again is placed behind bars. He originally was sent to prison for 20 years for burglary.

Charged with embezzlement while city clerk of Pawnee, Mrs. Effie BISHOP, wife of a Pawnee barber, was sentenced to serve 3 years in the state penitentiary.

F. E. CHAPPELL, supreme court referee, files application for the disbarment of Lee EYLER of Okmulgee county because of his recent conviction and sentence to the state penitentiary for 18 months for chicken theft.

W. M. CRAWFORD, late disbursing agent of the Osage Indians at Pawhuska, buried. He had been in government service 30 years.

Dr. James Edward WEBB, 72, 30 years a practicing physician at Tulsa,  died.

13
David P. MARUM, 82, of Woodward, editor of the Woodward Democrat and former state senator, died at his home. He came to Oklahoma in 1882 from Minesota and settled at Fort Supply.

14
Mrs. J. P. ELLIS, 86, pioneer Oklahoman of 1889, died in the Oklahoma State Soldier's Home. She was married at Warrensburg, Mo. Jan. 12, 1865.

Miss Elizabeth Ellen FERRELL and Will VAN DER HECK of Oklahoma City were married.

Miss Edna ANDERSON and Murray HOLCUM of Buffalo, Oklahoma, married at Ponca City.

News recieved that Miss Harriet INGHAM of Oklahoma City in attempting to extinguish a fire in a small rug in the bathroom of her apartment in Baltimore, Md., fell nine stories to her death.

Mr. and Mrs. P. A. SMITH, El Reno, celebrate their 63rd anniversary.

15
Vincent DALE, 16, Guymon, won the first district oratorial contest.

W. H. JACKSON, formerly county treasurer of Pushmataha County, is exhonerated in shortage case brought against him in 1922.

16
Joseph P. MUSSELMAN, 97, a member of Sherman's Army in its march to the sea, died at Tonkawa.

George W. DILLON, Fairfax. first justice of the peace in the Cherokee strip after the run of 1893, celebrated his 90th birthday. In a  covered wagon he moved from Ohio to Illinois in 1884 and in 1879 to Winfield, Kansas.

William H. MOORE, 17, Altus, won fourth district oratorial contest.

Mrs. Julia E. HOUK, 70, pioneer and federal weather observer, buried at Durant. She came to Durant in 1891 from Indiana.

Murray A. BARNES, bank robber, convicted at Shawnee, given 30 years in the penitentiary.

Rev. D. D. SWINNEY, Newkirk, elected moderator of the Enid presbytery, Buckley RUDE, Enid, clerk.

17
Donald HUCKABY, Amber, won oratorial contest in the fifth district.

Mrs. Dennis T. FLYNN, 70, Oklahoma Pioneer, died in Boston, Mass. She was the wife of D. T. Flynn, first postmaster at Guthrie and several  times Oklahoma Territory's delegate in congress.

Babe HUNT, Oklahoma heavyweight pugilist, and Miss Mayble HERD wed at Tonkawa.
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Waldo MONTGOMERY, Sulphur, winner of the oratorial contest in the eighth district.

Rev. R. A. COLLIER, pastor of the first baptist church at Gage, beguiled by suave stranger to take an auto ride and relieved of $19 at the point of a gun.

19
Harry HALL of Pauls Valley selected to represent the seventh district in the national oratorical contest.

20
Walter M. HARRISON, managing editor the Daily Oklahoman and Times, reelected president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors at its Washington meeting.

21
Bill TILGHMAN, son of former marshal of Oklahoma City who was killed when marshal in the Cromwell oil district by Wylie LYNN, also an officer, in November, 1924, arrested at Davenpor as F. B. WISNO--25 years for  cojoint robbery---escaped prisoner from the Tennessee penitentiary at Nashville. Tilghman was arrested as he stepped from a bus and said he was awaiting the arrival of Wylie LYNN on the next bus.

22
W. S. SPENCER, of Denver, former Mayor of Guthrie at its birth, addressed the 89ers at Guthrie.

23
Miss Lucile HUDIBERG, Alva, wins first prize of $1,000 in Illinois Federated Women's Club contest in voice.

H. D. POWERS, head of the psychology department, and Bernie O. WELLS, his assistant in Oklahoma Baptist University at Shawnee, discharged from the faculty as a result of a sex questionaire which they prepared for distribution.

Rev. and Mrs. F. O. STOCKWELL, Methodists, Bartlesville, announce they have entered into Missionary service at Foo Chow, China.

Earl STINNETT, 22, Pawhuska, pleaded guilty to participation in $4,000 robbery of Shidler National Bank Aug 20. R. E. WILLIAMS, convicted as one of the robbers, was sent up for seven years.

Will WARD, chief of police at Wilson, exonerated of murder charge in recent slaying of Tom RAMBO, farmer at the farm house of J. R. JONES.

24
William A MAURER, former United States district attorney, died of paralytic stroke at his home in Oklahoma City.

Harvey CRUTCHFIELD, McCurtain County school boy reports not absent from school in 12 years.

Kit CARSON, 68, found guilty of theft of $1,210 from Frank SOVEY, 72, his bachelor friend in Oklahoma City.

Miss Nina Lee AVERITT, 22, wife of Lewis AVERITT, taxi driver, found shot through the heart with a pistol which the police believe she held in her own hand.

25
Eddie COLEMAN, newspaper worker, formerly of Oklahoma City, charged with shooting with intent to kill of J. W. PATTON, editor of the  Konawa Leader, Aug 19, 1928, sentenced to five years in the  state penitentiary. At the time of the shooting, Coleman was preparing a special edition for Patton.

26
Four members of the Frank LAIRD family killed in automobile accident at Maud.

Johnnie MARVIN, 32, Victor artist, ukulele perfomer and former barber in Oklahoma City, revisits the city and also his father and mother of Butler, Custer County. Announced he would take them on a trip to Europe.

With her subject "The Constitution and its relations to the Negro Race" Johnnie Mae WASHINGTON, Douglas High School student, Oklahoma City, won the state oratorical championship for negro students.

Neal HOLLINGSWORTH, 11, Wewoka, won the state spelling contest, remaining on the floor three hours.

27
George SUTTER, 55, Prague banker, dies.

George C. BOOGS, former postmaster at Shawnee, and former banker at Asher, died at Chandler, fell from the roof of his house, struck on rain barrel, and died.

28
Miss Birdie WATKINS, 22, of Waurika, was killed, and her sister, Viola, 15, who had just eloped to Chickasha and wed Alonzo HARLEY, was  critically injured, when the automobile in which the bridal party was riding plunged off the road into a ditch as they were returning to Waurika.

Lester DUNCAN, negro police character at Oklahoma City, resisting arrest, was shot and killed, and Jake O. ROBERTSON, motorcycle officer, seriously wounded.

29
At Spaulding a loaded gasoline truck collided with a freight train. The gasoline exploded, shooting flames 300 feet into the air and spread over a radius of more than 100 feet in every direction. Hoyle BOLES, 20, of Konewa, driver of the Shell Co. truck was killed and  3 others badly burned.

Bert SMITH, 60, farmer living five miles north of Guthrie, killed by a negro.

30
Mrs. C. E. MCWETHY, 45, in learning to drive automobile, killed when it  collided with telephone pole. She formerly was Mrs. Leon COFFEE, of Muskogee and had been married since December.

The will of the late Mrs. Dennis (Addie) T. FLYNN gives one third of her $150.000 estate to her husband and the balance to her children; S. C. and Olney FLYNN and Mrs. Dorothy F. Richardson, N.Y.

The will of M. S. SINGLETON, who on April 8 fell from his sixth floor office window, left his property to his wife, Mrs. Stella P. SINGLETON.

MAY

2
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. FELL, farmers near Cherokee, celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary.

Pete BLAIR, Eufala, charged with robbery with firearms, sentenced to 22 years imprisonment.

3
Charged with alleged fraudulent acts in connection with tax refund cases in Oklahoma county, in which the county lost $766,799.87, attorneys W. F. SMITH, Adelbert BROWN, and Gordon SLATER gave bonds in the amount of $5,000, as did M. E. DURHAM, manager of the Taxpayers association. Besides the indictment, the grand jury presented accusations against Walter BENSON, J. Will LAWS and George H. GIDDINGS Jr., justices of the peace, asking their removal from office. Accusations were also signed against H. E. DERRINGTON, road superintendent, R. D. HANSON, clerk of the consolidated school district No. 6, Fred JORGENSON, director of  the board in school district No. 6, and Ed MOTLEY, constable.

4
Charles BECKER appointed police chief of Oklahoma City, to succeed Ben B MOORE resigned.

Arthur G. HEAD, insurance broker, killed, and Miss Emma BODURTHA, city hall stenographer, severely injured, when plane they were riding in crashed to the earth at Oklahoma City.

5
Robert GOODNOUGH, 20, and L. O. GUGHLER, 26, identified by their wives as two men slain by detectives during robbery of a Tulsa drug store.

6
Buck GARRETT, 58, former sheriff of Ardmore, died of paralysis.

12
John L. MCGEHEE, pioneer commissioner of Noble county, drowned near Red Rock.

M. S. COOTER, founder of the Ridenour-Baker wholesale mercantile establishment in Oklahoma City in 1901, coming to the city from Holden, MO., died.

Alvin P. GROUPE, 54, pensioned veteran Oklahoma City fireman, died in Oklahoma City.

13
Mrs. James WEBB, 16, McAlester, who mistakenly thought her husband dead and married Edgar V. WHITESIDE, takes a week after husband NO. 1 appears to decide the matter and choses to remain the  wife of No. 2, meanwhile, WEBB has disappeared.

14
"Aunt Frank" MILLER, Purcell, celebrated her 100th birthday anniversary. Born in Fayette County, Ohio, she pioneered in North Dakota and came to Oklahoma in 1889.

15
Billie BARNHILL, 18, Paul W. DAVIDSON, 29, and Paul le Brun DAVIDSON, 5, drowned when their boat capsized at the city reservoir, Oklahoma City.

Ollie WILSON, 52, Oklahoma City, former labor leader and politician, died. He at one time was city commissioner of public works.

E. M. LEWIS, Sapulpa, undertaker, director of the chamber of commerce, and prominent Mason, died.

16
Tom KING, president of the American National Bank, Okmulgee, committed suicide by shooting himself.

17
Jerome HARRINGTON, former Watonga banker, died in Chicago on the way with his family to spend the summer in Europe.

Jack BREEDLOVE, former traffic officer, arrested at Tulsa, charged with throwing acid in the face of Mrs. Glen CONDON, wife of the director of public relations of the Skelly Oil Company. She said it was a case of unrequited love; that they had clothed and fed the man; that he had threatened to "make her so that she would scare little children".

18
George COYLE, 65, general superintendent and member of the board of directors of Prarie Pipeline Company, died at Tulsa.

Announced from Okmulgee that the defalcation of Tom KING, president of the American National Bank at Okmulgee who committed suicide May 16, would be "considerably in excess of $100,000."

19
Louis SCOTT, 19, killed in airplane crash at Pawhuska.

Maj. Josef H. NOYES, Oklahoma City killed in Airplane crash at Kankakee, Ill.

20
A distinguished service cross and citation awarded posthumously to Dick Bland BREEDING, second lieutenant of Company A, 167th Infantry, 42nd Division was awarded to his mother, Mrs. Eliza BREEDING of  Holdenville, Charles L. ORR, a local attorney, represented the war department in presentation of the medal.

Rev. Frank BARRETT, 63, Lawton, presiding elder, Lawton district of Southern Methodist church, died.

22
D. B. BURNS of Bowie, Texas, elected manager of Chickasha chamber  of commerce.

J. C. JACKSON, Ada, sentenced to life imprisonment on charge of killing his nephew, Millard FILLMORE, whose life insurance was taken out by  Jackson and made out to Mrs. Jackson.

Mrs. S. W. MOSELEY, 82, mother of the first boy born in Oklahoma City, died.

23
Ervin KILL and Howard JEFFRIES, slayers of F. D. STALFORD, dentist at Walters, sentenced respectively to 25 and 35 years in prison.

24
Gang of five armed bandits hold up and rob Charles VOWELL, messenger for the American First National Bank, of $75,000, at 10 o'clock in the  morning, shoot Vowell in the arm and make a clean get away.

Bernard MCCOMB, formerly of Oklahoma City, while landing a large fish at Galveston bay, fell in the water and drowned.

Charles H. FILSON, 75, pioneer of Guthrie, died. For 25 years national bank examiner, and in territorial days served as secretary of the school land commission and as clerk of the supreme court.

25
Ms. Sarah M. POLLARD, Pauls Valley, widow of a veteran of the civil war, gets 20 years belated back pension of $5,373.63 and $40 a month in the future.

James H. NORTHCUTT, 61, Texas peace officer, slayer of Eng Joe, cashier of Oklahoma City restaurant, found not guilty of murder by jury.

26
Miss Minnie RAYL, 55, arrested at Hutchinson, Kansas, and $19,207 in money identified as stolen from the American First National  Bank's messenger in Oklahoma City May 24, found in her car. She was brought to Oklahoma and placed in jail incommuncado.

C. W. "Doc" THOMPSON and his foster son, Bob THOMPSON arrested by police in Oklahoma City as suspects in a bank robbery case of May 24. W. D. CRISS, cab driver who witnessed the robbery, identified "Doc"  THOMPSON as the man who shot Charles H. VOWEL, the bank messenger was not certain as to the identity of Bob THOMPSON.

Clarence LEE, 22, sentenced to the penitentiary at McAlester for 25 years for highway robbery, to which he pleaded guilty.

27
N. A. MCLEAN, pioneer 89'er and first assessor of Canadian County, died at El Reno.

Mrs. Alberta FOUREYES, 44, daughter of a tribal chief of the Ponca Indians, wealthiest member of the tribe and land-owner in Kay County, died.

28
Jack ZORN, 19, Britton, sentenced to 9 years imprisonment for holdup. Noel MELTON, his companion, sentenced to 25 years.

29
W. K. HALE, serving term of life imprisonment on murder conviction, advises his lawyer to stop efforts for a new trial, as he is resigned to life term.

30
Dr. Clyde Elwood STOUT, 44, Beaver City, buried at Oklahoma City. Jay THOMAS, one of the most versatile high school athletes in Oklahoma, died at Chickasha.

J. M. WORKMAN, 28, killed when steel flagpole he and five fellow workmen were attempting to erect, came in contact with a public service power line carrying 30,000 volts. Virgil STICE, 24, and  Chris MABLE, 19, were believed fatally hurt.

31
Guy COOKE, 47, for seven years professional of Lakeside golf and country club, Oklahoma City, died suddenly at Tulsa.

Franklin Benjamin SHROYER, 72, pioneer 89'er died at Moore.

Frank SPRINGSTEAD, Bartlesville investment broker, sentenced to two years in state prison for hitting John BATTY with an automobile and killing him.

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