The Cornish News
Cornish, Jefferson County, Oklahoma
A.MCCRORY, publisher

January 3, 1913
Vol. IV, No. 30

W. W. WOODWORTH Purchases Bank Stock
W. W. Woodworth bought controlling interest in the First State Bank.

Mr. and Mrs. WOOD returned from Soper where they spent the holidays with his parents.

Dance and Mr. and Mrs. JACKSON
Thursday night, December 26, Mr. and Mrs. L. JACKSON gave a dance and card party in honor of MISS GERTRUDE WEAR of Denton, Texas who was spending the holidays with friends in Cornish. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. W. F. MCQUAID, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. DULANEY, Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES HARRIS, Mr. and Mrs. IRA PHILLIPS, MRS. MATTIE PRUITT, MISSES BLANCHE DULANEY, BERNICE DULANEY, MALLIE JOHNSON, HELEN DENNIS, CLARA MORGAN of Norman and UNA MORRIS of Wauricka, Messrs. ARTHUR MORRIS, CLIFTON ADCOCK, HARRY DULANEY, PETE MCCANA, FRED GILLEY, HAMP HARWELL, ROSCOE CROW, HARMON CLOUGHLEY, WALTER HANCOCK and EARL MORRIS of Waurika.

H. A. WATSON, formerly of the firm HARRIS & WATSON sold his interest to his partner, W. R HARRIS Jr. Mr. Watson will go to Lawton where he is trying to purchase a stock of goods.

MISS ALTA DENNIS left for Edmond where she will attend the State Normal.

Trouble at Claypool
At a meeting at the school house south of Claypool on Christmas day, a difference between some citizens and the trustees of the school resulted in which is described as a free for all. It appears that the trustees had made a rule that no singings or public meetings should be held in the school building at night, but did not object to day meetings. A discussion took place and the trustees were denounced. One trustee resented what he termed insult and the fight took place. The News failed to learn of the names of all parties involved, but HERSHEL LINDSEY was one of the parties in the fight and several arrests were made.

Management Changed at First State Bank of Hewitt
W. W. WOODWORTH bought controlling interest in the First State Bank at Hewitt.

Returns from Brazil
Anadarko, Okla., Dec. 25—Coming as a peculiar Christmas gift to this place was the return Christmas morning, after an absence of eight months, WILLIAM M. PLUM, former mayor, who returned for about the time set for the disposition of his property at bankrupt sale. For several years prior to his disappearance, Plum engaged in real estate and loan business here, controlled credit to about $500,000. When he departed April 28, 1912, he left two communications, one resigning as mayor and one to his wife saying she would never see him again. Plum says he has been in Brazil most of the time of his absence. He returned two weeks ago. He had communicated with his wife about his possible return and to face whatever charges. For several days, Plum had been at his wife’s father’s home in Iowa, SHERIFF A. J. BLANKENSHIP accompanied Mrs. Plum there and the three returned here. Dubious transactions were uncovered in the bookkeeping…

For sale two good horses. See CLARENCE HISER.

January 17, 1913

REV. W. U. WITT of Ardmore, presiding elder of this circuit, accompanied by REV. MARTIN of Ardmore, president of Hargrove College, were in Cornish. Brother Witt held quarterly conference at Loco.

Buy your groceries from R. J. CREEL.

M. E. HARRIS, state manager of the Cornish Orphans’ Home, was here on business.

MRS. LAURA J. HANCOCK and children left for Ochiltree, Texas after visiting Mr. and Mrs. HARVEY ALLRED here.

H. W. WATSON purchased the stock of general merchandise belonging to ISAAC ROBERTS at Orr. Mr. Watson will reside at Orr and continue the business.

MRS. CLETA MURPHY of Ardmore visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. DULANEY.

Everybody should attend “Esmeralda” at the school house as it is an excellent play and is being put on for a good cause, to pay off the debt of the Methodist church at Loco.

To the Legislature
To the Honorable Governor and Legislature of the State of Oklahoma
We, the citizens of Cornish, being well pleased… petition the governor and legislature to appropriate a sufficient amount of state funds to maintain, support, and educate all the destitute and the neglected orphan children received by the Oklahoma Benevolent and Orphanage Association. Respected submitted by
R. O. DULANEY
R. J. CREEL
W. F. MCQUAID
J. H. CORNISH
J. R. COLE
W. M. COLE
SAM JONES
W. C. WOOD
C. A. DULANEY
JOHN B. BARNARD
W. C. RACHEL
W. C. HOGAN
J. C. TAYLOR
E. D. DILLON
T. M. LEOF
P. F. BUTLER
J. E. RICHARD
H. W. MCPHERONS
J. L. OGILVIE
A.P. WADE
W. L. MORAN
DR. A. G. JONES
L. W. LEOB
W. T. CATES
S. G. WALL
W. G. A. SMITH
LIDDIE SMITH
A.A. MORRIS
A.H. FOLSOM
CHARLES HARRIS
JAMES COWAN
TERRY MORRIS
F. L. MORRIS
C. J. JOHNSON
W. M. CRAWFORD
A.M. DULANEY
W. S. GILLEY
A.A. WADKINS
A.M. DULANEY
BOB HARPER
J. H. HUGHES
J. H. MAHANNY
W. R. GILEY
JOE BRYAN
C. M. ELDER
C. M. GRAHAM
JENNIE GRAHAM
Mr. and Mrs. F. C STEVENS
W. W. WOODWORTH
A.F. EPPERSON
D. L. GRAHAM
J. T. GOODE
W. C. NEWTON
J. L. VOWEL
J. M. HENDERSON
BYRD ASHBURN
JOHN DARNELL
G. W. BURNETT
F. M. TAYLOR
C. C. STROUD
C. F S. GILLEY
JOHN TRIMBLE
R. F. RICHARDSON
ROSE WOODWORTH
C. STEVENS
J. B. STEARNS
H. N. DULANEY
E. BROWN
WILLIAM DULANEY
W. EDWARDS
ANNIE WOODS
EFFIE TURNER
LAURA KEMP
J. M. KEMP
MISS ETHEL ALLRED
J. M. BARNWELL
A.A. SHAW
W. W NEWMAN
W. J. DOSSEY
RICE EASON
J. W. MURRAY
C. O. ADCOCK
A.J. ALFORD
D. F. SPRADLING
J. W. MELTON
G. M. HOLMAN
W. A. ARMSTRONG
W. C. BAIRD
T. J. DULANEY
PETE MCCANN
C. E. CLAXTON
D. J. FORE
H. A. KERLEY
GEORGE SIMMONS
S. E. THOMPSON
J. F. GOUCHEN
SIM STOTTS
W. G GANN
G. W. JOHNSON
FANNIE JOHNSON
AMERICA HERRING
C. W. LANGFORD
W. F CRAFT
J. P. DULANEY
E. C. CULBERSON
JOHN FOSTER
J. A. BARNARD
W. D. WILLIAMSON
E. D. IVEY
N. ALLRED
J. H. MORRIS
D. L. DENNIS
A.B. ASHBURN
SAM THOMPSON
M. D. MARPHOON
BARNEY DAY
L.M. KING
HARVEY ALLRED
G. N. HURST
A.CARPENTER
M. L. NEWMAN
S. B. SMITH
H. T. SMITH
S. T. GIBSON
R. L. ODOM
W. L. PARKER
O.B. GRAVELEY
W. L. EARLES
S.O. TAYLOR
G. L. TYSON
J. A. EDDLEMAN
GEORGE CROOM
E. H. STOCKTON
PETE PEMBERTON
B. F. HAMILTON
J. R. JOHNSON
M. BRADSHAW
W. L. CORNISH
W. A. WILSON
J. S. SHAW
ROBERT JOHN
W. R. CARTER
BOB COOPER
J. A. CUMMINS
A.GOODE
W. P. EARLS
M. M. BLACK
MRS. FANNIE EARLES
DAN KING
C. C. WADE
J. C. COX
H. W. BECKHAM
C. A. SANDAL
G. C. EPPERSON
H. D. HORN
J. D WADE
E. W. STAFFORD
P. L. ELDER
J. R. CROW
J. M. KEMP
W. A. GANN
CLYDE MOORE
Z. A. GREANEALD
SAM AHL
J. A. CUMBIE
S. W. MELCHEN
D. W. BECKHAM
EVAN MOORE
W. F. FARRIS
M. S. LOGAN
M. LOGAN
J. M. COLSOM
B. R. FARIS
W. G. FREEMAN
CLARENCE HISER
J. H. HAMILTON
I.F. CRANE
G. E. ALBIN
EARL JONES
S. G. ADAM
A.N. ODOM
N. L. CAMEL
I.Q. GUIIL
J M. GRIFFITH
W. L. WOODS
I.N.WORLOW
T. D. MANASCO
J. F. EVAN
T. S. MCKASSON
T. B. NELLS
E. H. CORNISH
E. B. KINCHLOE
J. R. SAMUEL
F. C. SMITH
C. M. BECKHAM
L. L. SMITH
B. N. LAWRENCE
J. B. STOWE
C. H. CARTER
J. L. COGDELL
J. L. SHAW
JEFF LANGFORD
G. W. THOMPSON

The History of the Cornish Orphans’ Home
About four years ago, after having been a school teacher for several years and having taught a great number of homeless and destitute children, I conceived the idea of starting an Orphans’ home at Cornish.

At first, I met with all kinds of disheartening failures, people of my home town advised me never to make such venture…

At first I kept several children in a rented house which were cared for by my mother, but just as soon as the new building which I was having erected, was completed, I moved them all to the same and started into secure all the homeless and orphan children that I could take care of…

…statement from MISS KATE BERNARD, Commissioner of Charity, I also give the report of the local board of trustees of the home, showing the true conditions of the home. ..

We have established a receiving Home at Chickasha during the past few months where we receive children from all the state. All children taken in the receiving home who are in a condition to be given to a private family, we immediately find homes for them. All children who are not ready to be given homes with private families are taken to the Home at Cornish where they are carried through a course of training which prepares them to step into any private home and immediately seem like a member of the family.

Yours sincerely, M. E. HARRIS, State Manager

Statement from C. STEVENS, M. D. after his inspection of the home, finding the home in good sanitary condition for institutions of its kind. The children were clean and healthy, free from disease. Building, furnishings, etc found to be dry and clean, no damp or mouldy decaying…

From KATE BARNARD, Commissioner of Charities and Corrections of the State of Oklahoma… found it to be satisfactory…

From the trustees, A. MCCRORY, W. W. WOODWORTH and R. O. DULANEY: rooms of the children are cleaned everyday, children bathed regularly, …

Private Subscription Fund
Expenses and salaries for M. E. HARRIS, MRS. L. A. SWISHER, MRS. M. E. HARRIS, … received 87 children, placed 82 children, general daily average of 31.

Mr. and Mrs. CLOUGHLEY were in Oklahoma City.

Livery Stable, P. H. CARTER, prop.

W. S. GILLEY, who moved from Cornish last spring, returned and accepted a position in my blacksmith shop. We are now prepared to do any and all kinds of blacksmithing and woodwork. S. B. SMITH

HARRY DULANEY went to Stillwater to attend Oklahoma A. & M. College.

JOSEPH CLARK and J. H. RADER of Loco visited here.

J. W. HANCOCK left for Ochiltree, Texas where he will reside.

Mr. and Mrs. J. W. THOMPSON of Chickasha are visiting friends here.

REV. JOSEPH F. RUSSELL and MISS ALENE MORRIS of Grady visited Cornish.

CLAUDE CLEMONS, who has been working at Ochiltree, Texas for several months, is visiting his mother here.

MRS. NORMA DOWNING of Ardmore visited her sister MRS. CHARLES HARRIS here.

January 24, 1913

Court Makes Unusual Ruling
At the January session of the district court of Carter County, the court heard the application of J. R. LEWIS, who resides a few miles east of Cornish, to set aside a former order of the court in which his divorced wife, ELIZABETH LEWIS, was granted custody of their little girl. The court did the unusual thing and placed the little girl in the hands of her father. The child and her brother, slightly older, both testified they would rather live with their father, that he was kind to them, sent them to school and helped them with their lessons. A son, 19 years old, lives with his mother and testified he disliked his father and would rather make his home with his mother.

Accident Delays Play
The play “Esmeralda,” which was to have been played at the school auditorium last Saturday night, was delayed on account of the accident of the leading man in the play. His team ran away while on the road to Cornish and he broke his leg.

J. C. COX, one of Cornish’s progressive merchants, is on the sick list.

Lost, black oil cloth roll containing township plats between Cornish and Waurika, finder will be rewarded. P. H. MILNER, county surveyor.

BUD CROOMS accepted a position as clerk in H. A. WATSON’S store at Orr.

MARION STIDHAM of Atlee was in Cornish.

MISSES BESSIE MCCARLEN, ILA MCCARLEN, MINNIE LEBOW / LEBEAU, and JESSIE BURCHAT of Ardmore visited here.

SID SMITH is on the sick list.

ROY DOWNING and OTHO MURPHY of Ardmore visited here.

In Memory of W. O. BAYLOR
W. O. BAYLOR died Dec. 12, 1912. Brother Baylor was born Nov. 4, 1871 at Fairview, Texas, moved to Wise County in 1873, then to Indian Territory in 189 and was married about 18 years ago to MISS LULA REYNOLDS, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. REYNOLDS. He leaves a wife, five children, a father, a mother, and four sisters. He has been engaged in farming and stock raising all his life. Resolutions from the Atlee Lodge No. 23, committee of JOHN DANIEL, J. G. DAVIS and T. D. GOLDSMITH.

January 31, 1913

Impeachment for Two Officials…

Smiths Acquitted of Murder Charge
J. O. SMITH and his son A. A. SMITH were acquitted last Saturday night by jury in the district court of Carter County on the charge of killing W. A. MCCALL of Hewitt last December.

Charged with Forgery
A check was presented to the Bank of Cornish and was paid by them for $395.00, presumably signed by W. R .WILSON of near Atlee, was made payable to ARTHUR WILLIAMS, also a resident near Atlee. A few days ago Mr. Wilson came to town and the check was declared a forgery. Immediately Constable J. A. CUMMINS went to the home of the WILLIAMS boys and arrested, W. B. WILLIAMS, brother to Arthur, who was supposed to have a hand in the forgery. While here, Cummins found a letter just written and addressed to Arthur WILLIAMS at St. Louis, Missouri. Cummins returned with his prisoner, telephoned the police chief at St. Louis and within three hours, Arthur WILLIAMS had been arrested there….

L. E. BARNWELL, who has been working at Crockett, Texas for the past three months, visited his wife and family here. Mr. Barnwell is foreman of the government lock and dam construction at Crockett.

N. E. BROOKS, A. A. MORRIS, W. R. WILSON, and J. A. CUMMINS were in Waurika for the trial of ARTHUR and W. B. WILLIAMS for forgery.

MRS. HERNIN of Electra, Texas visited her sister MRS. G. L. BENNETT.

G. W. WATKINS of Madill looked after his business interests here.

The little one month old child of Mr. and Mrs. EARL Cornish, who reside six miles northeast of Cornish, died at their home last Sunday from pneumonia.

Mr. and Mr. JACK MULLER of Weatherford are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. STEVENS this week.

MRS. HOWELL of Ardmore visited MRS. C. STEVENS this week.

GLENN CONNER of Waurika visited Mr. and Mrs. CLOUGHLEY this week.

Mr. and Mrs. CLOUGHLEY went to Waurika to get their new automobile which arrived from Oklahoma City.

For sale, one bay horse, one black jack. Will sell for cash or trade for cattle, hogs, or anything of market value. I live on the old SIMONS ranch about two miles southwest of Cornish. C. A. ROE