NEWS FROM LONG AGO
May 11, 1900
FROM THE ACKERMAN RECORD, VOL. 2, NUMBER 8 (CONTINUED)
J. Plumer Johnson spent the latter part of last week in Columbus visiting relatives. He is now in the “City of Vapors” in attendance upon the Southern Baptist Convention which met there yesterday. - In a private letter from Frank T. Austin, whose post-office is Antelope, Oklahoma, T’y., he says he is getting along fine; has 14 acres in corn, and 9 in millet; having lots of rain; likes the Territory well; thinks it the place for young people. - We were permitted through courtesy of Mr. J. R. Tipton to see this week the medals which will be awarded to the best declaimers and spellers at the end of the school June the 8th. The medals are things of beauty and are worth work on the part of all who intend to enter the contest for one.
The RECORD editor’s family were recipients last Friday of a liberal quantity of honey presented them by Mrs. S. E. Prewitt, taken fresh from the gum. It was the first we had either seen or tasted this year and was very nice indeed, appreciated to the fullest extent by all who assemble at our board. - Last Friday Mr. W. W. Inman presented us with a sample of this year’s grown Irish potatoes and English peas. They bore testimony to the fact that Mr. Inman is entitled to the blue ribbon as an early gardener so far as we have been able to ascertain. Both the potatoes and peas were planted on Tuesday before the full moon in March. Mr. Inman had a mess of English peas from his garden last Sunday.
The editor and family accompanied by Mrs. J. L. Power and J. M. Harris went to Beech Chita afishing last Monday, making our stopping place at the bridge spanning the creek on the road from Ackerman to French Camp. Our party got 66 all told without the aid of the writer, he having neither taste nor talent for fishing, but great capacity and tact for disposing of them afterwards and in the wind-up held his own.
Several days ago the store of Dr. J. Kolb was entered in the night time burglariously and forcibly and various and sundry goods, wares, and merchandise feloniously stolen, taken and carried therefrom. Until Tuesday the perpetrators were not known, but on that day one Ferman Kennedy was seen by Dr. Kolb with a part of the missing pants on and taking this as a cue Marshal W. T. Webb soon had Ferman Kennedy, Josh Kennedy, Ed Page, Harry Dawkins, and Jasper Gillispie in charge. Mr. Webb found a lot of the of the goods in a trunk belonging to Ferman Kennedy at the residence of Josh Kennedy. There are others implicated n the burglary but the parties named are the only ones arrested at this writing.
