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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JUNE

1
E. J. MURPHY, of Clinton, 70, Custer County pioneer, died. He was an extensive landowner in that county.

F.M. AIKEN, 74, former Tulsa oil operator and civic worker, died at his home in Los Angeles Calif.

2
Old settlers to the number of 1,200 held a reunion at Wellston. F. E. BEAMAN of Oklahoma City, founder of the Wellston News, was one of the speakers.

Mrs. Forrest COGGINS, 25, killed by hit and run automobile driver in Oklahoma City.

When William INLOE, near Commanche, started motor of his car, it was blown up by nitroglycerine, he was badly injured.

4
Two Oklahoma pioneers buried at Oklahoma City, Calvin PROCTOR, 71, and Clara BOWLES, 97.

5
L. J. ROACH, former leading Muskogee attorney pleaded guilty of a charge of embezzlement and faced a term of 13 months imprisonment.

Bank of Commerce of Tonkawa failed to open its doors to business.

J. F. HARTWELL, who established the first jewelry store in Oklahoma city in 1900, arrested at Galveston for shooting Viron D. MITCHELL  in Hartwell's store there. He said Mitchell attacked him.

Gus PEITRUSKY, 58, at one time editor of Neigkelten, one of Oklahoma's two German language newspapers, found dead from shotgun wound inflicted by himself. He was in ill health.

Miss Meridith HOWARD, Tulsa, whose twin sister, Virginia, was "Miss Tulsa" of 1927, eloped with T. Albert SPURLOCK, wealthy athlete of Centre College, Kentucky, June 4.

6
Col. R. A. SNEED, Oklahoma City, elected by acclamation as commander-in-chief of United Confederate veterans at reunion held at Charlotte,N.C.

At Tulsa Miss Mary WALKER wed Charles Thomas BROWNE; Miss Lillian Polly GREEN and Charles W. RANKIN announced they were to be wed July 6.

8
Lester WHITE, said to have shot and killed J. D. CLARK, 30, of Sapulpa, in a restaurant on a lease in the Earlsboro oil field, took his own life as officers were closing in on him.

Paul KITTRELL, 14, drowned in the North Canadian river near Oklahoma City.

9
Bryon D. SHEAR, for many years district clerk at Oklahoma City, one time chairman of the Republican State Committee, mayor for the interim following the resignation of Ed OVERHOLSER, died at his home in the Oklahoma City area.

Ramona FRATES, 6, daughter of J. A FRATES Jr. Tulsa oil operator, died from being shot in the knee by a playmate.

10
Five miles south of Durant an automobile crash caused the deaths of Thomas L. ENGLAND, 41, City National Bank, Dallas, Harry A. GUMP, 39, treasurer Oklahoma Contracting company, and his wife, 38.

O.E. EVANS, Holdenville business man, robbed of $3,000 worth of diamonds and $60 cash in hold up.

Charles VAUGHT, 50, city marshal at Talahina, died from wound as the result of dropping his pistol and shooting himself.

George W PIERSOL Sr., 60, died at hospital at Wichita, Kansas. He was senior member of the Piersol Investment Co, Oklahoma City.

11
Rev. Mordecal F. HAM quits as pastor of the First Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, announcing he would return to evangelistic work.

In the state chamber of the state capitol occured the marriage of Senator U. T. REXOAT, Ardmore, and Miss Mary Wilma TULLIS of  Washita County, a teacher. The ceremony was performed by Justice Robert A. HEFNER, member of the supreme court.

Supreme court of Arizona sets aside the divorce case of Maud Lee MUDD, Oklahoma Indian heiress, who married Earl E. GORDON, Miami, with instructions to grant a new trial.

12
Announced that Preston MCGOODWIN Jr., son of Preston MCGOODWIN Sr. former editor of the Oklahoman, later American minister to Venezuela and now a resident of that country, shortly to wed the daughter of Juan Vincenti GOMEZ, president of Venezuela.

Gordon SMITH, 16, Asher, killed when his car hurtles over 10 foot  embankment at Asher.

Made public that Miss Adelaide ARNETT, stenographer at Enid, is heiress to the estate of her fiance, Robert E. SMITH, killed, with her father, in an automobile accident.

13
G. Lee HANRICK, 60, editor of the Tuttle Times, found dead in bed.

Clyde T. WOODSON, 25, alleged to have staged a daring solo train robbery in Louisiana in December, 1928, found working as a bricklayer for the Rock Island Railroad in Oklahoma City and arrested by United States Postal officials.

Estelle MILLER, Sand Springs, Oklahoma, weds Carl O. EDWARDS, assistant director of the Metropolitan Opera house, New York, Mayor James J. WALKER performing the ceremony.

Ralph KEITH, 30, given 6 year sentence for particpating in hold up of  the Capitol Lunch of Oklahoma City. F. L. WEEMS, another robber, was killed during the hold up by T. F. SPEARS, owner of the stand.

Millard L. TROOP, 24, flying student at Tulsa lost his life in crash when two planes locked wings at an altitude of 6,000 feet.

14
Mrs. Ethel BROTHERTON, wealthy Indian woman of Baxter Springs, Kansas,  charged with the murder of Bonnie DAVIS, Hockerville, Oklahoma, because she took Mrs. BROTHERTON's son, 12, to the movie show.

Sentence of 10 years imprisonment passed on Ray HARRELL, Cotton county for the slaying of Charles HUGHES, affirmed criminal court of appeals.

15
H. C. SPERRY, 72, retired rancher, found dead in his bed in a hotel at SULPHUR. With Mrs. SPERRY, he was returning to his home in Oklahoma City, from a visit to their old home in Sherman, Texas.

16
Dan M. PHILLIPS, 70, pioneer Oklahoma City business man, died suddenly at his home. He founded the Oklahoma Bus and Baggage Co. April 22, 1889. He formerly was a member of the city council.

Six armed thugs beat up John VAUGHN, 40, jailer at Maud, and carry off with them a prisoner who was being held in connection with the recent raid of a two-room house in which was found one of the most complete counterfeit outfits ever found in the state and $400 in spurious money seized.

Helen, 9, and Jack, 2, children of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur LOPP, burned to death in fire at Enid following a kerosene stove explosion.

17
E. D. FERGUSON, Oklahoma City coffee salesman, reported to have shot Dr. George C HAUGHEY, head of a hospital at Odessa, Kansas. Ferguson said to have been accompanied to the hospital by his sister, Miss Tressa YATES, discharged from the hospital several months previous to the shooting.

Jack ZORN, 19, Britton, pleading guilty to two robberies, sentenced to 20 years in the state penitentiary.

J.K.D. SHAFFER, wealthy Oklahoma City Oil man died of injuries sustained in an automobile accident June 9.

18
T. J. HOSMER, 74, pioneer railroad man at Atoka, succumbs to fatal stroke of paralysis.

W.N. WHEELER, 84, pioneer Oklahoma Cattleman, died at Okmulgee.

Miss Dorothy FULTON, Oklahoma City, and James Hugh MARCHBANK, Chicago, wed at the home of the bride's mother and father, Mr and Mrs. Elmer FULTON, in Oklahoma City.

19
Two former Oklahoma educators die--Vernon L. PARRINGTON, former English professor at University of Oklahoma, died June 18 in Gloucester,England, and John G. MARSH, 50, former president at Cameron School of Agriculture, Lawton, died June 19 at Kansas City, Mo.

George IMHOLSE, 20, formerly of East St. Louis, Ill, drowned in 5 1/2 feet of water in Lincoln Park, Oklahoma City.

Robert M. CAMPBELL, 70, pioneer druggist at Guthrie, died.

Shooting at a supposed mad dog, Tate MCCONNELL at McAlester fatally shot his son, Orvis MCCONNELL.

20
Riley TURNER, removed from the state reformatory at Granite, said moral conditions in that institution were very bad and knife battles were frequent. He was being taken to the hospital on account of wounds. Mrs.George WATERS, warden, denied the charges.

Roy WOMBLE sentenced to life imprisonment for the killing of George LAMPOS, near Oklahoma City in October 1926.

Two bandits attempting to rob the State Bank of Moore, south of Oklahoma city, a few miles, one being killed and the other perhaps fatally wounded. The wounded man was Alvin HEATLEY, St. Albane, N.Y. and his dead companion, Robert L. YON of Altoona, Pa. The shooting was done by Roy L. GROSS, a Moore garage man.

Beulah COX, 18, and Helen BRADLEY, 8, killed by lightning at the COX home near Tulsa.

21
Mrs. Mary A ARMSTRONG, 70, Canton, Oklahoma, killed in Automobile accident.

State criminal court of appeals rules that any Oklahoman obtaining a divorce, marries in another state and returns to reside here before the six months period has expired, is guilty of Bigamy. Geraldean McClung QUINN, therefore, sentenced to serve one year in jail.

H. W. TRIPPET, 76, pioneer merchant and cotton man of north Texas and Oklahoma, died at his home in Oklahoma City.

22
J.K.D. SHAFFER, Oklahoma Oil man killed in automobile accident, left $25,000 life insurance to Oklahoma City University.

Eugene UTSLER, 11, drowned at Pocasset.

Sunday movies in Bartlesville declared legal.

Announced that Miss Margaret DEMEGLIO, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Edward DEMEGLIO former residents of Oklahoma City, but now of Shanghai, China, will wed Gehart STRAUSS of Stuttgart, Germany.

Engagement announced of Miss Alice M. GILBERT, Toledo, formerly of Oklahoma City, to Pierce Edward KRESSMAN, Bordeaux, France.

Muriel G. STANDLEY, at Tulsa files breach of promise suit against R. A. JOSEY, wealthy Oklahoma oil man, asking $1,500,000 in damages.

23
John WALKABOUT, 81, Indian Civil war veteran, deaf, stepped in front of a train at Muskogee and was killed. He was a fullblood Cherokee, served several terms in the Indian Senate before statehood and was a  member of the tribal council.

John P. and D. Vernon LIDDELL, Guthrie, each sentenced to 5 years in  the penitentiary for using the mails to defraud.

24
Albert B. DUKE, Oklahoma City and Howard G. KURTZ Jr., Ardmore, announced as graduates from the army flying school at Kelly field, San Antonio, Texas.

25
Leonard L. KLEIN, 56, pioneer hardware merchant, died at Oklahoma City.

J. R. MORGAN, convicted bandit, sentenced to 8 years in prison at Oklahoma City.

26
Fred NAVE, alias John C. EWING, alleged member of the Ace PENDLETON gang, sentenced at Purcell to 5 years in the state penitentiary for participation in the robbery of the First National Bank of Washington, Nov 14, 1928. He was arrested at Buffalo, N.Y. Whitey WALKER, in jail at Lamar, Colorado, in connection with the Lamar bank robbery, charge also with the McClain County robbery.

28
Arthur J. SPARKS, 52, escaped from Oklahoma penitentiary 19 years ago, rearrested at Houston, Texas. Originally he was sent to the prison for three years for a felony committed in Greer County.

Miss Helen Louise STRICKLAND, of Allen, second woman in state to pass state examination in pharmacy.

29
Roy BRISTOL, 16, backing out of a jewelry store in Oklahoma City, which he had robbed of goods valued at $2,870 and pointing an automatic revolver at the proprietor and his wife, lands in the arms of a waiting policeman. Said he had escaped recently from the State Industrial School of California.

Mrs. Ellen Robertson CROCKETT, 79, widow of Rev. D. R. CROCKETT, who established Presbyterian missions at Ardmore and Purcell, died in  Oklahoma City.

George Wiley DAUBENSPECK, 37, war veteran who fought for 18 months with American forces on the french front, died at Norman. He was a Mason.

30
Frank WAGGONER, 50, Locust Grove, killed and his two children believed fatally injured when his automobile was hit by a Rock Island passenger train immediately north of Enid.

Mrs. Martha WILLIAMS, 92, Oklahoma City, died of automobile injuries near Twin Oaks. Eleven other persons were injured this day.

Announced that Mrs. O. O. HAMMONDS, writing a book relating her observations as private secretary of Henry S. JOHNSTON when he was Governor.

Tom CALVERT, held at Oklahoma City as alleged counterfeiter, identified as theatre bandit at Muskogee, in April, and also at Huntsville, Texas, where he escaped serving a 40 year sentence.

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