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J
. Stroud
Will appreciate you/ cornmr^
book will appreciate a/T
With best wishes f^J
p**’
9979 Greenfield Drive,
Dallas, Texas, 75238
December 17, 1968
Almost forty-five years ago to the day
1923, I resigned my position as managing eu-
’ ■ 6-s night editor of th_
editor of the Ardmore Press, published by
induced by the Ardmorite to change papers,
employment Mr. John Easley was not con-
but was Manager of the Ardmore Chamber
r'However^he came back to the Ardmorite shortly after
I induced Sam Blackburn, whom I had
Texas to come to Ardmore and help me on the paper.
- ’ -----> close personal friends.
T wpnt to the .Ardmoreite Sam was promoted to my job on the Press,
nwe “came rivals. He continued to live there and we only saw
lach otheS’ once a ctay, <1 inner. We had a ground rule not to talk
shop and each of us did evi „
newspaper had the news first.
If memory serves me :
Mrs. Rockett to start her career
started on the Morning Press and
Other well known newspaper men of
peted with me in those days were Bill Khrone
editor of the Ardmoreite; Claude Bqrrow, .
Banks who later bwcame assistant editor of the Ft. Jorth otae
Telegram. Tom Rexroat was a state senator and Ewing London was
'TTip Ku Klux Klan was most activ© and ,, ,
ConeSr^ mitt” As lU
over the ^r ries of western Kansas and remembered my later experiences
”eU5on, as manager of the chamber of e.wnerea. U. ^med of £iting
a book more or less in newspaper style, about the history of that Mot
interesting area. The dream was finally realized a few months ago
when the Texian Press, of Waco, Texas, came out with Conquest of th .
??a?r£es." I am pleased to senl a copy for y*ir library--and should you
see fit to give it a bit of a review I assure you Iwould appreciare it.
I wrote this book after I passed my seventieth, birthday, ^v”tnout^^^^
sponsorship, at my own expense
without recommendation
thought was its merit.
-ay, shortly after Christmas
1.^ editor of the Ardmoreite
of’the Shawnee Morning News.
fit to give it a bit of a review I assure you
and' submitted it to a perfect stronger
MSb anyone and they published it on what they
' ----------^t and i f you write anything, about the^
few tear copies. /
the holidays, I am,
M Cordially, Ham
Publisher, Daily Ardmoreite
Ardmore, Oklahoma.
Almost forty-five years ago
to accept a position as,night editor
I had previously been
Jimmy Lloyd, but wars
At the time of my
nected,! with the paper
of Commerce.
I left for Shawnee.
While still on the Press
known in Electra, Texas, ------- --
He resided ih my home because we were
continued to live there and we only saw
.-if dinner. We had a ground rule not to talk
everything possible to see that our
right I was responsible 4® inducing
in newspaper work. I believe she too
later went over to your newspaper.
the day who worked with or com-
----"■ !? for many years oil
the Ardmoreire; uxauae Eddie
> assistant editor of the Ft. .forth
Tom Rexroat was a state senator and Ewing London was sheriff.
xom neAxud . - thQ bloody feuds of the early
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