Adair County Oklahoma News Items

Adair County Oklahoma Community News Items

The Daily Oklahoman September 22, 1908 Page 7
BIG FOX HUNT TO BEGIN THIS WEEK
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CHEROKEES AND WHITES ENTER CONTESTS IN ADIR COUNTY
Muskogee, Okla., Sept. 21--At Candy Mink's spring in the mountains of Adair county will on September 25 and 26 be held the biggest Indian picnic and fox hunt of the year. It will be attended by almost the entire membership of the Kee-ti-wah society, the full-blood organization of the Cherokee Nation.
George Ferguson, of Stilwell, has entered "Shorty" and "Red" well known fox hounds. Bill Rat has entered "Sprinwater," a famous dog of Indian breeding, Wm. Cookston, of Cookston, will enter "Old Joe,' the dog that won the championship at the Monte Ne meeting, and in addition there will be entered dogs from kennels at Muskogee, Tulsa, Red Ford, Sallisaw, Westville, and Tahlequah. The trophy will be the championship collar for Oklahoma.
There is an intense rivalry between the owners of different breeds of dogs. The dogs that will be entered from the larger towns are from kennels of finely bred English dogs. Those owned by the Indians and natives are generally "pot licker" dogs, but they are good ones, and the Indians believe will show up the better bred dogs as quitters in a rough and tumble race over rough country. [Submitted by Linda Craig]

The Daily Oklahoman Nov. 7, 1911
WESTVILLE MAY BE DIVISION POINT
Westville, Okla. Nov 6
Civil engineers of the Kansas City Southern engineers of the Kansas City Southern Railroad have been in Westville for a week surveying for yards, switches and a site for a roundhouse, which will be moved from Stilwell to Westville. It is reported that the shops also will be moved from Stilwell to some point not further south than Westville, nor further north than Siloam Springs, Ark. Westville has offered the company 160 acres of land and free water to bring the shops here. (Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer)

The Daily Oklahoman August 1, 1912
MUCH CONSTRUCTION WORK AT WESTVILLE
Westville, Okla. July 31
Westville is experiencing a building boom. bonds in the sum of $10,000 have been sold for purchasing additional school land and building an addition to the high school; P.J. Dore is erecting a large building block; H. Williams has under construction a new opera house and business block, and new power plant for the water system is near completion. the water mules for the system are being laid, a force of 100 mean being employed. (Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer)

Tulsa Daily World June 13 1912
THE DORE FAMILY IS SURE OF WINNING
Westville, Oklahoma couple will win unless a dark horse appears
Chicago, June 12
Patrick Dore and his wife, of Westville, Okla., arrived last night, the former prepared to do battle in the interest of Theodore Roosevelt and Mrs. Dore to support President Taft.
Dore was postmaster of Westville until Colonel Roosevelt tossed his hat into the ring. Then Dore resigned. Mrs. Dore remained a supporter of Taft and was appointed to her husband's place.
Dore came decorated with a large Roosevelt button and Mrs. Dore wears one nearly as large proportions of the Taft variety. They agreed before leaving home not to argue politics with each other. (Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer)

The Daily Oklahoman October 23, 1913
FEW RECORDS LOST ON STILWELL FIRE
Stilwell, Okla. Oct 22.
There are no new developments in the fire that damaged the Adair County courthouse here Monday morning and many of the reports that the fire was of incendiary origin have been overdrawn. Although many are of the opinion that the building was fired, no evidence has yet been found to substantiate this theory, and as the flames apparently originated in the roof of the building, the theory that defective electric wires caused the blaze id gaining more supporters. It has developed that many records that were believed to have been destroyed were only damaged.
Adair County has been free from county seat and courthouse wars. The present building has been in existence since statehood. the only time the county seat was in dispute was when the city of Westville attempted to be designated as such, but that was years ago and Westville took its loss good naturedly. District Court has resumed operations. The county commissioners expect to take immediate action to repair the courthouse. (Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer)

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Former House Speaker Larry Adair on Monday failed to get the necessary votes in the Senate Education Committee to be appointed to the State Board of Education. Adair, Gov. Brad Henry's nominee to the board, said he was disappointed. If approved by the Senate Education Committee, he would be subject to confirmation by the Senate to serve. The 7-7 vote fell along party lines, with Democrats supporting the nomination and Republicans opposing it. Adair served as a Democrat in the state House. He is now a bank president in Stilwell. He is a former school teacher and administrator. "I am very disappointed by today's vote in the Senate Education Committee, particularly the partisan nature of it," Henry said in a statement. Henry said Adair was more than qualified to serve. Adair in June was appointed on an interim basis to the State Board of Education. Republicans who opposed the nomination said Adair blocked reforms they thought were important when he was in the Legislature. They also cited philosophical differences, including a recent vote by the State Board of Education to lower math standards in the state.
Source: Tulsa World Published: 4/14/2008