Mayor Glenn talks about allegations

— Sequoyah County Times, Oct. 16, 1997

From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times

25 Years Ago (From the Oct. 16, 1997, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) –Sallisaw Mayor George Glenn spoke out Monday about a grand jury petition involving the police department and City Manager Jim Hudgens, saying he would have attempted to get Hudgens fired immediately if he thought he was doing anything wrong.

“He is still there because I looked into things,” Glenn said about allegations of wrongdoing by Hudgens.

The mayor also said he was upset by accusations filed by Doug Hodge in the Sept. 2 grand jury petition that certain actions may constitute a criminal conspiracy to cover up alleged actions of Hudgens and possibly, the city council of the City of Sallisaw.

“I am not going to be there to cover up things,” he said about his service on the board.

50 Years Ago

(From the Oct. 16, 1972, issue of the Sequoyah County Times)

—Continued strong economic growth in Sequoyah County was indicated in new city sales tax figures released this week by the Oklahoma Tax Commission.

According to the tax commission figures, all cities and towns in the county which collect the one-cent tax showed increases over the same period last year. The figures reported this week were on sales in August this year compared with the same month last year.

Dollarwise, Sallisaw collected the most tax monies, but Roland was by far the greatest gainer percentagewise.

75 Years Ago

(From the Oct. 17, 1947, issue of the Sequoyah County Times)

—Sallisaw Boy Scouts will start numbering residences and business firms Saturday in cooperation with the Lions Club house-numbering and street-naming program, D.L. Wyatt, scoutmaster, says.

Residents will be charged $1.00 for the three-inch stainless steel numbers, Lou Williams, chairman of the Lions civic betterment committee, said.

Total funds collected from house numbering will determine how far the club can go in putting up street signs in the city limits of Sallisaw.

100 years ago

(From the Oct. 13, 1922, issue of the Sequoyah County Democrat)

—The model Cash store of Marble City was sued in the district court this week by the Muskogee Wholesale Grocer company of Muskogee on an open account amounting to $317.94. the Marble City store purchased this amount in goods from the Muskogee concern during February and March which amount has not been paid. The Model Cash store is among the leading mercantile establishments in Marble City.

—McDonald and Matthews, local merchant‚s have just completed their sweet potato house which has a compacity of 15,000 bushels. They built this house to take care of their own sweet potato crop, and they expect to fill it.

The local chamber of commerce preached sweet potatoes during the winter months last year and plans were almost completed where the local chamber of commerce would finance a sweet potato house to take care of the crop this year, but unforeseen happened and plans were dropped, but McDonald and Matthews went ahead, just like all progressive merchants and built a sweet potato house to take care of their crop. It is said the chamber of commerce will erect a sweet potato house next spring.

McDonald and Matthews have employed V.R. Suggs, of Fort Smith an expert sweet potato man to take charge of the stock and will ship in the spring. This is the largest sweet potato house in the county and one of the largest in Eastern Oklahoma, and marks the beginning of the sweet potato industry in Sequoyah County. This town needs more merchants like McDonald and Matthews.