…building, there are eight brick cottages which house from 25 to 35 children each, a well equipped hospital, being a two-story brick building, a commissary, garage, laundry, power plant and a nice new two-story brick school building which is so situated that it is completely surrounded by the other buildings…
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Craig County has an area of 775 square miles of land, mostly level prairie land, nearly all of it being of first class agricultural soil. During the years gone by, great quantities of prairie hay were cut each year and much of it shipped to northern markets. Some of the…
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…the little church house, which he had just completed, carried away by a wind storm. This misfortune did not seem to dishearten the parishioners, however, for they soon got busy and erected a better and more commodious building. The Christian denomination was the next to organize a church. Rev. J….
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…year after the commissioners entered upon their duties 1,000 criminal cases were docketed, and as the commissioners and deputy marshals were paid in fees, their work was very remunerative. During the years 1891 and 1892, 2,700 persons were charged with crime and 2,200 were found guilty. Soon after Grover Cleveland…
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…profitable business. The short, mild winters make it possible to pasture cattle with little or no extra feed, throughout the year. Sequoyah County is fairly well supplied with railroads, the Kansas City Southern line traversing the county from north to south, and a branch of the Missouri Pacific crossing the…
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…resented the approach of the Cherokees. Upon several occasions the Cherokees missed some of their horses and cattle and finally traced them to the Osage camps. The Cherokee, becoming tired ‘of the spoliations charged to the Osage, went on the warpath and encountered their enemy at Claremore Mound. The Osage…
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…during the past four years. The city of Claremore furnishes her citizens with the finest of drinking water through her municipal water plant, 98 per cent of the residents using the hydrant water for drinking purposes ; the water having passed a thorough chemical and bacteriological examination of the State…
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…of the district court to report to the state commissioner of health, at the close of each term of court, all divorces granted during the term just closed. In addition, the commissioner of health was authorized to make rules and regulations concerning the keeping and reporting of divorce records. Acting…
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…1 to No. 2 because of the fact that Guthrie Commandery had been originally chartered first. Muskogee Commandery has always exercised a strong influence in the Grand Commandery. James A. Scott was elected grand commander of the new Grand Commandery of Oklahoma in 1915. At the present time Muskogee Commandery…
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Wagoner, the county seat of the county bearing the same name, is located fifteen miles north of Muskogee, at the junction of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas (Katy line), with the branch of the Missouri Pacific, known as the Iron Mountain Railroad, but originally called the Kansas & Arkansas Valley…
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