October saw typhoid fever, harvest news, soaking rains that hindered cotton picking but helped the winter wheat, and a smattering of Halloween parties.
John C. “Don” Butcher of Canute was coming to town in a hurry and his car turned turtle. He was pinned under the vehicle and died before anyone could rescue him. His back was broken and his ribs crushed. He left a wife of less than one year.
By the end of the month, the county agent estimated 32,000 bales for 1924’s cotton crop in Beckham County. Sixteen thousand bales were ginned, and the average estimate of gin men and farmers is that about 50% of that year’s crop had been gathered.
Lawrence Ripple was not only a schoolteacher but a cotton picker. On J.C. Hager’s place, Ripple picked 440 pounds of cotton. He said it was a good field and he started early., but that night he was almost too tired to live. He averaged picking about 300 pounds daily.
About 140 railroad cars of broom corn shipped from Elk City in 1923. There was a down in the 1924 market due to oversupply. It was said there was enough broom corn on the market to last two years. Regardless, the broom corn factory was a very busy place. Three winders were kept going all the time and they put out 25 dozen high grade brooms every day.
Rev. J. W. Newman grew a rather odd-looking sweet potato. He placed it on four legs or matches and the “animal” caused considerable discussion. The head looked like an anteater while the body looked like a duck, but the tail was something like an aardvark.
Hugo Lamm opened the First State Bank of Canute when he found himself looking down a brace of forty-fours backed by a lone bandit who told him to “stick ‘em up.” The bank men were forced to lay face-down on the floor while the female bookkeeper stood up against a corner. Another man drove up in a car and robbed the vault of $4200 ($74,470 in today’s values), then they locked the bank occupants in the vault and left. The employees were able to unlock the vault door from the inside and were out in a short time. Some suspects were arrested about 25 miles north of Herring.
Dan Mathewson went over to Joe Gabriel’s barn lot to retrieve a pitchfork which Joe had borrowed. Joe had an old sow and young pigs in the lot, but Dan paid no attention to them and was just reaching for the fork when one of the pigs got frightened and squealed. Before Dan was aware of what was happening, the sow struck him from behind, knocking him to the ground. She then grabbed him by the wrist and began chewing on it with all the force of her powerful jaws. Dan yelled for help and DeWitt Holden ran to his aid. As he jumped over the fence into the lot, the maddened animal released Dan who was chewing and trampling on him and made a lunge at DeWitt, but he was able to keep out of her reach. The break gave Dan a chance to exit the lot, which he did in short order. Dan was treated for a badly chewed up wrist and several painful cuts and bruises on his lower limbs where he was trampled.
DON’TS FOR HUNTERS Do not go hunting without a hunting license on your person.
Do not hunt on property without permission of owner or lessee.
Do not kill more than 15 ducks and geese combined in a single day.
Do not kill more than 100 during a season.
Do not kill quail except during December.
Do not hunt quail on Sunday.
D o not kill more than 15 quail in any day nor more than 100 in a season.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, OCTOBER 1924 October saw typhoid fever, harvest news, soaking rains that hindered cotton picking but helped the winter wheat, and a smattering of Halloween parties.
John C. “Don” Butcher of Canute was coming to town in a hurry and his car turned turtle. He was pinned under the vehicle and died before anyone could rescue him. His back was broken and his ribs crushed. He left a wife of less than one year.
By the end of the month, the county agent estimated 32,000 bales for 1924’s cotton crop in Beckham County. Sixteen thousand bales were ginned, and the average estimate of gin men and farmers is that about 50% of that year’s crop had been gathered.
Lawrence Ripple was not only a schoolteacher but a cotton picker. On J.C. Hager’s place, Ripple picked 440 pounds of cotton. He said it was a good field and he started early., but that night he was almost too tired to live. He averaged picking about 300 pounds daily.
About 140 railroad cars of broom corn shipped from Elk City in 1923. There was a down in the 1924 market due to oversupply. It was said there was enough broom corn on the market to last two years. Regardless, the broom corn factory was a very busy place. Three winders were kept going all the time and they put out 25 dozen high grade brooms every day.
Rev. J. W. Newman grew a rather odd-looking sweet potato. He placed it on four legs or matches and the “animal” caused considerable discussion. The head looked like an anteater while the body looked like a duck, but the tail was something like an aardvark.
Hugo Lamm opened the First State Bank of Canute when he found himself looking down a brace of forty-fours backed by a lone bandit who told him to “stick ‘em up.” The bank men were forced to lay face-down on the floor while the female bookkeeper stood up against a corner. Another man drove up in a car and robbed the vault of $4200 ($74,470 in today’s values), then they locked the bank occupants in the vault and left. The employees were able to unlock the vault door from the inside and were out in a short time. Some suspects were arrested about 25 miles north of Herring.
Dan Mathewson went over to Joe Gabriel’s barn lot to retrieve a pitchfork which Joe had borrowed. Joe had an old sow and young pigs in the lot, but Dan paid no attention to them and was just reaching for the fork when one of the pigs got frightened and squealed. Before Dan was aware of what was happening, the sow struck him from behind, knocking him to the ground. She then grabbed him by the wrist and began chewing on it with all the force of her powerful jaws. Dan yelled for help and DeWitt Holden ran to his aid. As he jumped over the fence into the lot, the maddened animal released Dan who was chewing and trampling on him and made a lunge at DeWitt, but he was able to keep out of her reach. The break gave Dan a chance to exit the lot, which he did in short order. Dan was treated for a badly chewed up wrist and several painful cuts and bruises on his lower limbs where he was trampled.
DON’TS FOR HUNTERS Do not go hunting without a hunting license on your person.
Do not hunt on property without permission of owner or lessee.
Do not kill more than 15 ducks and geese combined in a single day.
Do not kill more than 100 during a season.
Do not kill quail except during December.
Do not hunt quail on Sunday.
Do not kill more than 15 quail in any day nor more than 100 in a season.
