SHAMROCK BROGUE 2-12-1916
PAT CASEY MISSING
There is another oil field mysterious disappearance case, and even the
Germans are interested. Harry Weinberger of Drumright asks the Brogue
to insert the following notice: “Patrick Casey had an altercation
with his wife last night during which he left the house and had not
returned up to a late hour. As he was in his bare feet, however, the
police hope to find him, also by the scratches on his nose.”
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DEATH OF N. MCBRIDE
N. McBride, a well known oil field workman, died Monday on the McMann
lease, on-half mile south of Shamrock. The body was prepared for shipment
at the Jondahl undertaking rooms and shipped to Madill, Oklahoma, for
interment. He leaves a widow and several children. To accommodate the
funeral party to the Sapulpa & Oil Field stopped its eveing passenger
train at the McMann lease.
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AGED MAN ARRESTED SUICIDES ON TRIAL EVE
While the attorneys and witnesses were waiting in Justice Lake’s
court here Wednesday for the appearance for trial of H.W. “Mike”
Knorr, the latter was putting a bullet through his brain, committing
suicide. Knorr was a carpenter, 60 years old, and had lived in the Shamrock
district for 27 years, being a landowner here. Knorr borrowed a revolver,
a double action .45-colts, with which he killed himself in the toilet
back of the K.C. Hotel on West Tipperary Road. It is believed that he
was deranged.
Knorr had been arrested on a charge of taking knives from the general
store of Robertson brothers and was released on bond to appear for trial
at 10 o’clock Wednesday morning. When he did not appear Justice
Lake sent a messenger to summon him and Knorr was found in bed. He promised
to go to the court room as soon as he could dress. Instead, however
he went to the toilet and put the bullet through his right temple. Recently
he had been working in the Robertson store. He has a son, a farmer who
lives near Shamrock. Justice Lake summoned a coroner’s jury which
found Knorr had committed suicide, and the body was taken to Jondahl’s
undertaking rooms.
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THREE OF FAMILY DIE SUDDENLY
The deaths are announced from near Mannford this county of Joseph Hillard
aged 66, his wife and their daughter-in-law, Mrs Henry Hillard all within
ten days time. All were victims of pneumonia fever following severe
attacks of la grippe. Hillard who was the father of Mrs. J.H. palmer
of Shamrock was a prominent farmer who had lived near Mannford for a
number of years. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer have been in Mannford for two weeks.
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BLARNIES
Arthur Burkett of Drumright of the insurance firm of Burkett &
Garvin visited Shamrock and the adjoining oil field during the past
week.
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A.W. Sanders the jeweler has moved from the Lee building to the postoffice
occupying it with the Maymax.
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McBride & Gower have had a new twenty foot front built on their
meat market on Dublin avenue next to the Irish Queen café.
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Messrs, Dunn, and Eaton have let the contract to have the city well
corner of Dublin and Tipperary deepened to the Healton sand.
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Mr. Ida Ashley and Miss Berdie Cline the school teachers have taken
room at the John O. Pyle home on Fifth street.
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Mr. and Mrs. Morris Morgan of Sulphur have located in Shamrock he is
a nephew of Postmaster Virgil Morgan and is assisting in the postoffice
work.
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W.F. Parshal of the P. & H. Hardware company is in charge of the
company’s store here; they also have a store in Depew.
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Miss Edith Black of the Litchfield lease will leave next week for Tulsa
to take a course in one of the hospitals there to become a trained nurse.
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The Jondahl Furniture and Undertaking store has been opened at the corner
of Tipperary and Dublin with Harry Jondahl in charge. Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Jondahl are making this city their home.
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L.A. Newton who came here from Kansas City several weeks ago has installed
his stock of hardware in the Dr. M.H. Newman building on Tipperary Road
six doors west of the townsite office.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. Schrum have purchased the Irish Stew café and
have rechristened it the Oil Flyer café located next door to
Jondahl’s Furniture store.
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Mr. M.H. Newman has his building on Tipperary Road south side almost
completed and will soon be ready to open his hospital in the second
story with Owen & Gillespie’s drug store underneath.
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G.B. Sherrin a former merchant at Stecker has opened his hardware store
on Tipperary Road on the lot he purchased from Claude Irwin five doors
west of the townsite office.
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Roy Maxidon of the Maymax has been in Jennings during the past week
directing the shipment of the Tulsa Rig & Reel yard there to Augusta,
Kansas. Maxidon however will live in Shamrock.
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Perkins Journal H. Frame spent last week end in Depew and visited the
“Irish Queen” Shamrock before he returned. He brought home
some copies of the unique newspaper. “The Brogue” that are
certainly entertaining.
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Wellston News--Mrs. Olive Millsops (MAY BE MISPELLED HARD TO READ) who
has been assisting in the telephone exchange for a few weeks has gone
to Shamrock to assume charge of the Pioneer Company’s exchange
at that point as manager and chief operator.
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Stroud Messenger---E.B. Ham sold his grocery stock, cold drinks fixtures
and popcorn and peanut roaster to a Shamrock merchant the first of the
week.
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Stroud Messenger---Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jondahl left Saturday for Shamrock
where Harry goes to conduct the Jondahl Furniture Store at that place.
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Stroud Messenger---Homer Breeding who has been cashier of the First
National Bank here for several years has accepted a similar position
with the First National Bank at Shamrock. Mr. Breeding is a gentlemen
of exceptionally good business ability and makes friends with everyone
he meets. He is a typical Irish gentleman and it is safe to predict
that he will meet with success in Shamrock or any place else.
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Depew Independent---Mrs. Charles Pettegrew was in Shamrock last Saturday
assisting in the Harrington Pettegrew & Co., store.
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Wilbert Harrington of Depew, member of Harrington, Pettegrew & Company
was in Shamrock Friday and Saturday. The firm has stores in both Depew
and Shamrock.
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H.E. Speaker, of East Tipperary Road and a driller on the Hill lease,
has recently enjoyed a visit from his father, J.P. Speaker of Robinson,
Ill., and is having the Brogue sent to him there.
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Col. Tom Payton, the transfer man at Jennings has sold his business
there and located in Shamrock with a bunch of teams.
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Dick Brooks of the Atlas Supply company was here from Muskogee Saturday
inspecting the erection of the company’s buildings in the railroad
yards here.
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W.C. Franklin who with his family moved here from Ripley, is now occupying
his home on Sixth street near Bantry avenue.
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Mrs. G.H. Baker will soon make Shamrock her home as Mr. Baker is in
charge of the Gypsy company’s business here; they are living at
Gwynn south of Shamrock.
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Cox & Acklin have their hay and grain business in complete running
order on East Tipperary road. They came here from Cushing.
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Mr. and Mrs. B.L. Wallis of Iola, Kan., who have been visiting their
son, Bert Wallis on the Hill lease for the past five weeks, have gone
to Sapulpa to visit another son.
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Mrs. Hugh Killinger is a tooldresser on the hill lease.
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Mrs. R.V. Hood, whose husband is an employee of the Prairie on the Litchfield
lease, has returned from a visit with her daughter in Bartlesville.
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E.W. Sander the Shamrock jeweler was in Prague during the past week
shipping his jewelry stock to his postoffice stand here.
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Jim Kuhns of East Tipperary road was a business visitor in Drumright
Tuesday.
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Mr. and Mrs. B.A. Potts spent Sunday and Monday at their home in (UNREADABLE).
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AS COLORADO SEES SHAMROCK
Jack Reppeto the gas man at Oilton has sent to the Brogue the following
clipping in regard to Shamrock taken from the Cannon City Record of
Cannon City, Colo.,
“Mr. J.P. Walts returned Monday night from a ten day visit in
Oklahoma. While away Mr. Walts visited the new boom town of Shamrock,
Oklahoma. It is only a month old but now has a population of 15,000
people, two banks, two hotels, eight restaurants, two daily newspapers
and dozens of grocery, clothing, and dry goods stores.
The papers are loyal to the town so much so that one paper uses green
paper and white ink and the other white paper and green ink. All of
the business houses use green ink on their stationery and printed matter.
There are as yet no substantial buildings nor are there any plans being
made for them thus far. The night Mr. Walts was there hundreds found
it impossible to get lodgings and they walked the streets all night
in a (UNREADABLE) sleet and rain storm. The town was so crowded that
there wasn’t hardly a place to stand up. Mr. Walts slept in a
livery barn in a room with four other men and was mighty thankful to
get that much accommodation.
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CALLED TO HIS COLORS
Jim Thomas, a native Greek who is a Shamrock café man, has received
a call to join his colors in Greece and said today that he will return
immediately whenever was is declared. Thomas, who was born in Lemnos,
Agean Islands, was in the Balkan war fighting clear through that conflict
principally against the Bulgarians. Thomoas says no Greek was surprised
when the Bulgars took the side of the Tentons in the present European
war. Thomas’ partner here Harry Stelas, is also a Green but a
native of (UNREADABLE), Asia Minor. They own the King Chili Café.
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FOR ANOTHER TEACHER IN SHAMROCK
Because of the fact that Miss Ida Ashley has 104 pupils in her room
in the new school building, there has been a petition presented to have
an additional teacher employed for this school. This will make a total
of five teachers in this district, including on in the Gwyn school and
two in the Ardmore school. At the present time there are 408 pupils
enrolled.
The school district board, Messrs, A.C. Fleming, J.M. martin, and F.P.
Bracken, have announced they will receive bids until February 21 for
the construction of the brick school here for which $15,000 bonds were
recently voted.
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OIL FIELD MISSIONARY TO GET BUSY
Rev. E.B. Rankin of Sapulpa the oil field missionary named by the last
Methodist Episcopal conference, has sent notification here that he is
inaugurating a campaign to be started in the near future, which includes
the formation of a Methodist church for Shamrock as well as other place
in the Oklahoma oil fields. He has been in this line of work for twenty
years, going into new places and establishing churches. He was the fist
to go into the Kiowa and Comanche pasture country, when it was opened
several years ago and build the first churches there, and the first
to preach an build a church in Drumright. In the latter town the carpenters
worked all of one Sunday completing a picture show building so Rankin
could preach at night and he had a house “jammed full” to
the doors.
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MERCHANT CRITICALLY ILL
The Brogue learns with regret of the serious illness of G. Allen Roberson,
the general merchant of Avery and Shamrock, perhaps the best known business
man in the old Sac and Fox Indian country. He has been taken for to
a hospital in Oklahoma City for treatment, being accompanied there by
his brother, Warren K. Robertson, the Shamrock merchant. They are brothers
of Judge J.B.A. Robertson of Oklahoma City.
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BLARNIES
Marion Lee of Lee’s dining hall is having T.L. Bentry put the
second story on his building on Tipperary Road.
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H.C. Crawford of Berryville, Ark., a carpenter has located in Shamrock
and has built a home on Sixth street near Dublin.
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B.F. Simmons in charge at the First State bank has purchased a lot on
Fourth street near Bantry and will build a residence there.
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Dr. E. W. Reynolds formerly of the Hill lease was here Sunday from Bristow
enroute to Markham to investigate a smallpox report, he is county health
officer.
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Mr. and Mrs. F.E. Warren have moved here from Tulsa. He is in charge
of the Mike Eneff bakery on Tipperary Road and is an experienced baker
of many years in the business including five years at Mymore, Neb.
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Denny Cawley who is having a building erected on Tipperary Road for
a gents furnishing house, has been in St. Louis all week purchasing
stock.
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Rev. Mackarios Samaha a Syrian Roman Catholic priest was in Shamrock
during the week and purchased property; he is here from North Dakota.
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H.H. Johnson of the American Nations bank of Sapulpa visited Shamrock
Thursday, he is a director in the First State Bank here.
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S.J. Masad of the Star Merchantile company is having an addition erected
to his building on Tipperary Road west of the townsite office.
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Charles Cogin of the Grand café has bought the Dubin rooms building
and added it to his store room on Terry avenue.
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W.F. Parker a former Guthrie boy is now associated with John O. Pyle
in the 101 Barber shop near the postoffice,
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Bristow Record—Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Coggins and children left Friday
for Shamrock where they will make their home.
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L.E. Goble of Chandler has taken a position here with the First State
bank and has purchased a lot on Fourth street.
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Mr. and Mrs. Chester Trask visited in Avery during the past week with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G.A. Robertson.
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Oilton Gusher—John Farris is preparing to open his store at the
new town of Shamrock, and is moving some of the goods from this store
to that point. John has recently become a blazed gas producer in that
he drilled a well close to Muskogee which is good for (UNREADABLE) feet
of gas a day. The gas has been sold so we are informed to the Kansas
Natural.
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W.D. Bowdlear the Cushing merchant visited Shamrock and the oil field
on Thursday. He may locate here.
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L.A. Boone of Sapulpa is erecting a building for a meat market on Third
street between Killarney and Terry and will soon be open for business.
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Roy Wickham of Drumright has closed a contract with L.A. Boone for a
2-story rooming house on Third near Terry avenue.
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Ira L. Hurst is moving a 2-story building here from Oilton and erecting
it on Tipperary Road near the postoffice for a rooming house. He is
a teaming contractor and is putting in stables on two lots at the corner
of Second street and Cork.
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Oscar Baird known in the sport world as the “Shamrock Kid”
has joined the Untied States Navy enlisting at Oklahoma City during
the past week. His action eliminates a bone here between him and the
“Wyoming Wildcat” of Kansas City, Mo.,
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Miss Anna Kelly of Emporia, Kan., writes the Brogue asking for information
in regard to Shamrock and stating she may locate here.
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J.W. Pettegrew and wife and Walter Pettegrew and wife, all formerly
of Depew have located in Shamrock: the gentlemen have opened Pettegrew
Brothers grocery on Tipperary Road just west of the postoffice.
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R.L. Teal the Merchant Transfer man spent Sunday and Monday in Oilton.
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T.L. Lee will open a grocery store in his new building at the corner
of Terry and Tipperary.
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George Griswold of Guthrie is here visiting his father at the townsite
office and may locate here.
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R.L. Bibbs who has built a home on Fourth street near Dublin is opening
a meat market in the J.B. Owensby store. They came here from Drumright.
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Miss Ora Craig formerly of the Independent office at Depew took Miss
Vivian Cotterell’s place at the Hotel Erin several days ago.
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“Larry” G. Post freight agent at the depot has purchased
a lot on Sixth street near Bantry and will erect a cottage.
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Ed L. Dunn, the father of Shamrock, visited in Tulsa over Sunday the
second time out of town since Shamrock started.
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Sam Mersen of Bristow is erecting a building on Tipperary Road between
Cork and Ireland for a clothing store.
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Dr. C.K. Roberts of Shawnee, a dentist of experience, has located in
Shamrock with an office in the Jondahl store, corner of Dublin and Tipperary.
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Ben Bennett the good road enthusiast has established himself here in
the teaming contracting business.
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L.S. Viers has bought a lot on Sixth street near Bantry and will erect
a home at once.
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The Colleen Theater made a hit with its patrons in booking the Nellie
Saburn Stock company for several night stand during the past week.
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G.F. Crabbs, a dray man from Oilton has located here and is building
a home on Fifth street near Dublin avenue.
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Mrs. Marion Lee visited in Oilton during the past week with her daughter
Mrs. J.P. Miller.
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Harry Woodruff has a display of his oil paintings at the Keystone Café
on Third street.
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Blankin Bros. will build an extension to their garage building, corner
of Cork and Tipperary to meet business demands.
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Ira Hansbro of Jennings where was with the Santa Fe, has taken a position
here under Superintendent Granlee of the Sapulpa & Oil Field road.
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John Crownover of the Club Lunch café on Ireland avenue is getting
ready to start in the ice business again in the spring.
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Dr. and Mrs. T.C. Moessner are occupying their new home on Fourth street
between Bantry and Cork.
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Elmore McGinley of Tulsa was in Shamrock several days during the week.
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