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Checotah Stories from the past
News
December 5, 2024
Checotah Stories from the past

114 YEARS AGO McIntosh County Democrat Thursday, January 5, 1911

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

City Attorney John Vaughn is just now busy speculating whether the two sticks of dynamite found in his yard Monday morning was an attempt to blow up his home or whether it was intended as a warning of what will happen.

Speculation, however, does not alter the fact that the deadly explosive was deposited there and Mr. Vaughn appears to understand the reason why, as does the attorney’s friends.

It may be true that Mr. Vaughn has said and done things that might incense some citizens and been too hasty in some of his movements. It is surely no license to jeopardize the lives of his wife and three little children, if it was the purpose to dynamite the home. Besides the lives of neighbors were in danger had the dynamite let go.

PROSPECT GOOD

G.A. Nash, of Vicksburg, Mich., is in the city feeling the pulse of the people with regard to the establishment of an up-to-date canning factory here. Mr. Nash is a man of practical experience in the canning industry and is making splendid headway in enlisting the farmers and businessmen for it is proposed to make the industry a cooperative affair.

••••• 100 YEARS AGO McIntosh County Democrat

Thursday, November 6, 1924

PRESIDENT COOLIDGE RETURNED President Coolidge has been elected to the presidency of the United States by the largest plurality ever given a presidential nominee and it is estimated that he will have at least 2 million more votes than did the late President Harding in the big republican landslide of 1920.

••••• 90 YEARS AGO McIntosh County Democrat

Thursday, November 1, 1934

NEW PIPELINE TO CITY LAKE IS COMPLETED

The city of Checotah has a shiny new pipeline from the Onapa lake site to the reservoir two miles south of the city, but hasn’t a drop of refreshing lake water to put in it.

The question of the water supply is about settled though and the City Dads are awaiting final word from Washington before letting the contract and starting construction on the gigantic new lake at Onapa.

Mordy Duke’s House Is Afire This Time Mordy Duke, a local second hand man, is the hard luck champion when it comes to fires.

Last week Mordy’s store building and the entire contents went up in flames in a midnight fire.

Early this week his residence caught fire. Firemen subdued the flames in short order.

Girl Will Die By Guillotine

PARIS, France – The guillotine will end the life of Violette Nozieres, 18, who was convicted of the poison murder of her father and the attempted murder of her mother.

Her case brought suspicion on many Parisians named Emile, as she mentioned a mysterious “Emile,” never identified, as her “protector.”

••••• 80 YEARS AGO McIntosh County Democrat

Thursday, June 1, 1944

TARAWA STORY BRINGS LUCAS PRIZED AWARD

Former Checotah High School Student Is Honored The year’s outstanding combat correspondent award, a national headliners honor, was won by Lt. Jim Lucas, former Checotah High School graduate, for his work in reporting the battle of Tarawa, Chairman Braten Gardner of Penn State College, announced this week at Atlantic City, N.J.

Lucas, a marine sergeant at the time of the landing during the invasion of the Gilbert Islands, was at first reported killed but the unarmed correspondent came through unharmed to write a story that was a masterpiece of journalism.

He was commissioned after his return to Washington, DC.

Lt. Lucas appeared on several national radio broadcasts before beginning a bond sales tour of the middle west. At that time, he visited relatives and friends in Checotah

City Officers Warn Local Dog Owners

This week the city administration acting on the advise of Dr. A.J. Snelson, city health officer, has posted notice to all dog owners to keep the animals at home or otherwise under strict observance due to a recent indication that Checotah might be in for a siege of rabies.

••••• 75 YEARS AGO McIntosh County Democrat

Thursday, November 3, 1949

C. OF C. TO SPONSOR TOUR OF PASTURES A pasture tour of the Frank Smart farm, nine miles east of Checotah, will be staged at 3 o’clock next Wednesday afternoon by the Checotah Chamber of Commerce, the Soil Conservation Service and other federal agencies.

Smart planted 87 acres of Bermuda grass pasture last April.

Early Day Chief of Police is Dead

B.F. Morgan, early day chief of police in Checotah, who has resided at Porum for many years, died at the Baptist hospital in Muskogee Wednesday afternoon.

Burial will be in the Indian cemetery eight miles east of Stigler.

Old timers recalled that Morgan, while serving as chief of police, killed a man in the Gaulding Grocery at the site of the present Checotah Hardware, who threatened to kill him with a cheese knife.

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25 YEARS AGO McIntosh County Democrat Thursday, November 14, 1974

NOTICE TO PUBLIC

When the Council met on Nov. 4, they hired a dog catcher. He will be picking up all strays that do not have a tag on their collar. If you have a pet you want to keep, be sure your pet has the rabies vaccination and a tag on his collar. If your dog should be picked up for not wearing a tag it will cost you $5 plus the cost of the rabies shot and tag to reclaim the dog.

Bynum Grocery Changes Owners After 34 Years

Mr. and Mrs. Gene Spaulding have taken over ownership of Bynum’s Grocery on South Broadway in Checotah effective November 8. The Spauldings also own and operate Spaulding’s Grocery and Station east of Checotah on highway 266 where they have been in business for six years.

••••• 18 YEARS AGO McIntosh County Democrat

Thursday, March 23, 2006

Burn ban lifted as rains drench McIntosh County

Gentlemen, start your grills. Just be really, really careful.

That’s the word from cautiously optimistic state and local officials who, thanks to a moderately drenching weekend in and around McIntosh County, have lifted the longstanding burn ban that has until now snuffed out countless bonfires and cookouts since November

Hometown Blues

Tony Mathews, who played with the legendary Ray Charles for 18 years, made his name as a musician starting at a young age.

He has been around the world, but is humbled by the possibility of having a street in his Oklahoma birthplace renamed in his honor.

“I love DC and Selby for initiating the renaming of the street,” said Mathews via a phone conversation from his Los Angeles home.

At the March meeting of the Checotah City Council, blues legend Selby Minner approached the council about changing Wineblood Street in Checotah to Mathews Street.

Mathews, born in Checotah and raised in Checotah and Rentiesville, wanted to be a singer first. He was strongly influenced in his youth by gospel music and a host of musically talented relatives.

••••• 10 YEARS AGO McIntosh County Democrat

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Getting an education in teamwork

Whether they are painting a giant red, white and blue flag on the school’s wall or a giant yellow target on a blue painted board on the playground, these girls are doing it together.

The group of about 10 fifth-grade girls at Checotah Intermediate School are part of the after-school program that ends at 5:15 p.m. daily.

Custodian Juanita Coleman leads the girls to do projects that are part of the Physical Education Program or PEP grant.

They are painting the basketball poles, four square, bean bag target, hopscotch, a checkerboard and other games on the playground.

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