Date: November 17 1922

Newspaper published in: Olney

Local Happenings of the Orth Community
Everybody is about done scraping their cotton crop, a little more is scattered about yet. Some are busy sowing wheat and others driving stock to water. There is always something to do on the farm and Orth you know isn’t much of a city.
Sunday School at the Baptist Church Sunday and had a very good attendance. Bro. Strange preached at the Ingleside Baptist church Saturday night.
Mr. and Mrs. R.A. Skyles and family have reutnred from a visit to Mr. Skyles parents in Erath county.
Mrs.W.R. Smedley is doing nices.
Mrs. Gat Jons and daughter, Ola, went to Wichita Falls Thursday, they were called to the bedside of Pauletta Blancett, the grandchild of Mrs. Jones.
Mr. and mrs. Cliff Stevens of Buffalo, Texas, have moved back to Young County, but intend to make their home somewhere in New Mexico in the near future.
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Lowe were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Watkins Sunday.
Mrs. L.L. Still was shopping in Newcastle.
Mrs. Lorena Jones and children were the guests of homefolks in Spring Creek.
Mr. Frank Bailey and Frank Bell were in Olney.
Mr. Leland and Vivian Andrews, and Misses Eva and Edna Faye Bell attended the Queen Theatre Friday night at Olney.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bailey attending the preaching services at Olney.
Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Frady were shopping in Olney.
Genie Jones and Harlan Vaught were in Newcastle.
Mrs. Mattie Martin was shopping in Olney.
Mr. Vaughn of Graham was in Orth.
Stella Young of New Mexico is nursing Mrs. Smedley.
Mr. and Mrs. S.B. Waters went to Hunt.
Mr. and Mrs. John McCary were shopping in Olney.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones have moved back to Orth, where Mr. Jones will be the mail carrier in the community.
R.B. Lasley and wife have moved to Oklahoma.
Lunie Davison was the guest of Miss Lama Daniel.
Mr. Ray Watson of Newcastle (better known as Red Watson of Orth) and visitor of Frank Bell left Thursday to visit his brother Roy at Stamford.
Mrs.Wright McCluskey spent the night with her mother, Mrs. S.R. Jeffery.
Mrs. D.L. Keith retunred home from Mineral Wells and spent a day at home and went back to Mineral Wells.
Mrs. S.R. Jeffery is sick.
Miss Eva J. Bell is sick.

Mrs. Henry Groves, Mrs. Alma Martin and Miss Geneva Groves went to Graham Thursday afternoon to attend the funeral of Mrs. Will Bell.

Mr. and Mrs. Will Greer of Ingleside visited his brother, J.R. Greer.

Mrs. W.E. Williams (nee Oida Brown) of El Paso came to Olney to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hoyte Brown.

J.C. Meaders left Monday for Texarkana to accept a position with the Express company there.

Mrs. W.A. Key wnet to Henrietta to visit her daughter, Mrs. Marvin Moore.

Mr. and Mrs. George Stowe have moved to the Neelley farm.

mrs. J.E. Haley and granddaughter, Opal McCarey, left Wednesday for Mineral Wells.

T.A. Davis has been with his mother who is sick. he returned to his home in Burkburnett.

Mises Flo and Fenton Whitt went to Breckenridge Friday to visit their sister, Mrs. Era Still.

Word was received Thurdsay of the death of Mrs. Will Bell of Graham. Mrs. Bell has a number of friends in Olney.

Mrs. Charlie Cockrell of Megargel was in town.

Mr. and Mrs. Turner Richardson returned from Throckmorton where they went to visit their daughter whose baby is very low.

A deal was closed the first of this week whereby Bruce Neelley and W.M. Ashworth purchased the stock and fixtures of the Young County Hardware and Furniture Company.

Ayton Bishop was kicked on the jaw by a mule early Wednesday morning.

Mr. and Mrs. Cleburne Reynolds of Padgett were in Olney.

Miss Lizzie Massie of Antelope is in the Sanitarium.

Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Burns will leave on the 15th to make their home in Quanah.

Ted Barnett of Lubbock is visiting relatives in the Wheatland community.

Miss Ruby Washburn of Alabama is visiting her uncle, C.H. Wheeless.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Alexander and little daughter, Wanda spent the weekend in Bomarton.

Archer County Convention: J.J. Eagan and sons, Vernon and Ehteridge, Mr. and Mrs. C. West and Herbert, Mr. and Mrs. D. Ivey and family,, Miss Jewell key, Calvin Key, Tom Boddie, Hoyte Brown and son, Gibbs, Preston Anderson and family, Misses Lena and Mattie Moore, Zella Minor.

Mrs. J.P. Alexander received word last week of the sudden death of her brother, James M. Jackson of Colgate. Heart failure was the cause. Mr. Jackson was 62 years old. Mrs. Alexander could not attend the funeral as her mother, Grandma Jackson was unable to go to her son’s funeral. Mr. Alexander went and was accompanied home by W.S. Jackson of Texline, who made a short visit with his mother and sister. The bereaved family have our deepest sympathy.

Hotel Arrivals
Yates
Sunday
Dee Cooper, Powell


Monday
Charles Ray, Wichita Falls
T.E. Seigler, Graham


Tuesday
Mrs. M.E. Wilsee, Dallas
W.D. Hunter, Nocona
Matt Lipps, Bridgeport
J.M. Stockton, Bridgeport


Wednesday
D.L. Metz, Seymour

Morris Hotel
Sunday
E.H. Brooks, Smithville
Louis Holmcamp, Smithville
S. Jacobs, Cincinnati
T.H. Doyle


Drake
H.J. Blackmon, Ft. Worth
J.Hubert Dickey, Ft. Worth


Monday
Poldridge
Gracy
Mr. and Mrs. William Kitching, Dallas
B.P. Williams, Wichita Falls
J.W. Melville, Boston
G.A. Hawkins, Wichita Falls
W.H. Tigrett, St. Louis
J.M. Wright, Graham
H.F. Goble, Oklahoma City
Buford Miller, Burkburnett
Jack Knight, Burkburnett
Tuesday
Rauchelbach, Jacksboro
J.W. Elliott, Ft. Worth
T.M. Payne, Dallas
W.E. Braddock, Graham
T.D. Swaim, Chico
J.R. Dedmon, Dallas
R.H. Dedmon, Dallas
W.R. Gartiser, St. Louis
J.L. Moore, Dallas
H.M. Thornton, Dallas
F.L. Pate, Dallas
Kentz
Pinkerton
Dan Hartnett, Weatherford
J.L. Adams, Dallas
Wednesday
Miss Emma D. Randall
J.L. Heflin, Dallas
A.W. Douglas, Ft. Worth
B. Rosenfield, Dallas
Albert A. Roberts, Graham
J.C. McLaughlin, Ft. Worth
W.G. Arthur, Ft. Worth
J.E. Poole, Ft. Worth
A.T. Rose, Kansas City
William Colegrave, Graham
S. Perkins, Graham
A.J. Ernest, Dallas
G.C. Moore, Wichita Falls
E.L. Barnett, Birmingham