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later went
the day who worked with or com-
• many years oil
Eddie Anderson,
Worth
Almost forty-five years ago to the day. shortly after Christmas,
./ „ iditor of the Ardmoreite
to accept~a~positi'on as night editor/of“the 3hawnee MorningNews.
Jimmy Lloyd, but whs induced by the Ardmorite to change papers
nected,! with the paper but was Manager of the Ardmore Chamber
at my own expense and submitted it to a perfect stranger
**"* anyone and they published it on what they
Will appreciate you/commit and If you write anything about the
book will appreciate a/Zfew tear copies. r , ( * f
With best" wishes the holidays, I am,
Cordially,ZHarryyA. Stroud
9979 Greenfield Drive,
Dallas, Texas, 77238
December 17, 1968
Publisher, Daily Ardmoreite
Ardmore, Oklahoma•
Almost forty-five years ago to the day
1923, I resigned my position as managing^ Cl
I~had~previously been editor of the Ardmore Press, published by
Jimmy Lloyd, but whs induced by the Ardmorite to change papers.
At the time of my employment Mr. John Easley was not con-
nected,! with the paper but was Manager of the Ardmore Chamber
of Commerce. However he came back to the Ardmorite shortly after
I left for Shawnee.
While still on the Press I induced Sam Blackburn, whom I had
known in Electra, Texas, to come to Ardmore and help me on the paper.
He resided th my home because we were close personal friends.
When I went to the -Ardmoreite Sam was promoted to my job on the Press
and we became rivals. He continued to live there and we only saw
each other, once a day, aq dinner. We had a ground rule not to talk
shop and each of us did everything possible to see that our
newspaper had the news first.
If memory serves me right I was responsible inducing
Mrs. Rockett to start her career in newspaper work. I believe she too
started on the Morning Press and later went over to your newspaper.
Other well known newspaper men of
peted with me in those days were Bill Khrone, for
editor of the Ardmoreite; Claude Bqrrow, 7
Banks, who later bwcame assistant editor of the Ft. Worth Stae
Telegram. Torn Rexroat was a state senator and Ewing London was sheriff.
Ihe Ku Klux Klan was most active and all the bloody feuds of the early
days had not ended. Moonshining and illicit manufacture of choc beer
and home brew was profitable and honorable professions. Wii-son,
Healdton and other nearby places were boom towns----
Much water has gone the bridge since then. I spent thirty years
of my life with the University of Kansas where I was a field repre-
sentative in the Bureau of Lecturers and Concert Artists. As I drove
over the nrnries of western Kansas and remembered my later experiences
at Lawton, as manager of the chamber of cowaercfi., U dreamed of writing
a book, more or less in newspaper style, about the history of that most
interesting area. The dream was finally realized a few months ago
when the Texian Press, of Waco, Texas, came out with ’’Conquest of the
Prairies.” lam pleased to send a copy for y«ur library—and should you
see fit to give It a bit of a review I assure you I would appreciare it.
I wrote this book after I passed my sei/nntieth birthday, without
sponsorship, u — „
without recommendation Pfer
thought was its merit.
you/1
a//few tear copies
$:.....
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