‘Kaiser Bill’ alias Goodman sentenced to 15 years
— Sequoyah County Democrat, Nov. 13, 1925
From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times
25 Years Ago
(From the Nov. 12, 2000, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —“A temporary investment for a lifetime of learning” is the slogan for the Carl Albert State College (CASC) expansion project.
Sequoyah County voters will go to the polls Dec. 12 to decide the fate of onehalf cent sales tax which would more than triple the size of the existing Sallisaw campus, Buddy Spencer, Sallisaw Chamber of Commer president, said.
The 23,300 square-foot expansion of the CASC Sequoyah County campus at Sallisaw would include four new classrooms, four computer labs, two science labs and a multi-purpose building that would include a student union and activity center, Jerry Heatherington, member of the CASC Board of Regents, said.
50 Years Ago
(From the Nov. 13, 1975, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —Sallisaw customers can expect an increase of 15 percent on their electric bills effective Jan. 1.
An ordinance authorizing the rate increase was passed at the Tuesday night city council meeting.
Council members heard Don Halloway, an electrical engineer with W.R. Halloway and Associates of Tulsa, describe the need for the increase.
Halloway said the Grand River Dam Authority will increase its rates by 30 percent effective Jan. 1, 1976. To offset that increase it is necessary to raise local rates by 15 percent.
75 Years Ago
(From the Nov. 17, 1950, issue of the Sequoyah County Times) —The Board of City Commissioners announced today that they are asking Sallisaw’s citizens to go to the polls on Nov. 28, and vote on the issuance of a franchise and their signing of a 20 year contract with the Grand River Dam Authority for the furnishing of electric energy to Sallisaw.
The Commissioners, T.M. Hawkins, R.C. Williams and Walter Ivey, City Manager Fred Johnston and city attorney, Roy Frye, have been negotiating with the G.R.D.A. for more than two years and only last week were they able to bring the negotiations to a close.
—Max Quinton Jr., nine-monthsold son of Mr. and Mrs. Max Quinton of Hanson, won first prizes in both the beauty and health divisions of the Grand Prize Beauty contest held Wednesday in the Fort Smith, Ark., high school.
He was one of a large field of entrants, and was awarded certificates and a silver cup. The event was sponsored by the Liberty Chapter No. 402, Order of the Eastern Star
100 Years Ago
(From the Nov.13, 1925, issue of the Sequoyah County Democrat) —Thursday was sentence day in district court, and many who faced the court since the opening date on Nov. 3rd, were brought before District Judge J.T. Parks for sentence.
Heading the list in interest locally, was the sentence passed upon John R. Goodman alias Smith, and who is known hereabout as “Kaiser Bill.” Judge Parks sentenced him to serve 15 years in the state penitentiary, under the old charge against him in 1919, when he was tried and found guilty of bank robbery. He escaped soon after and was located recently in the penitentiary, serving time on another charge from Kiowa County.
—The firm of Mayo & Company this week are making announcement through the columns of the Democrat of the addition of a full and complete line of furniture to their business. A new shipment has just been received and firm members state that this shipment is just a start to the amount of new stock that they propose to install during the fall and winter months.
