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SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1943
THE DAILY ARDMOREITI
PAGE FOUR
Memorial Day, 1943
Do You Remember?
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Alaskan orchids.
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bring in a big oil field.
W. D Clark, who sold town lota In
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CONGRATULATIONS'.
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To one of the oldest institutions
Get Mike Gorman to tell
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You could not hove remained
into the '
in service to the people of your
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community.
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MUNGLE BUS LINE
May your success continue
CONGRATULATIONS
for the next 50 years.
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section and the people of your
state and nation had you not,
the past 50 years, had the
goodwill and respect of ^our
We are proud to have had the privilege
of executing the engraving in thia fine
edition.
S A Milla, the local Indian agent
here, than whom a more popular ef-
The Bob Bell boarding house at
the comer of C street and Stanley.
The old Bob Dick residence In the
triangle formed by the crossing of
Broadway and West Main street.
to appoint him federal
judge with the coming of statehood.
The BftBaw Tire and Rubber com-
pany, which was to start Ardmore on
its way to being another Akron.
Dr. Hardy’s alrplafte, which brought
Dr. Hardy on many hurried trips of
mercy to the oil fields and other sur-
rounding territory.
When Ardmore had grown enough
to boast of two picture shows, one run
by LeRoy Blckle and the other by
Amelia Hunter, both in the keenest
I of competition and friendly rivalry.
The wonderful excursion trips week-
ends up and along the Santa Fe tracks
at the Washita gorge.
The Poland well drilled near the1
Santa Fa track* northeast of Ard-1
to be held summer nights at the end
of the street car line In a little band-
stand at Lorena park. ,
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11:40 AM
11: 36 PM
1:40 PM
2:00 PM
1:10 I’M
8:55 PM
4:2b I’M
5:20 PM
0:25 PM
ARDMORE-RINGLING STAR ROUTE
5:00 AM                   10:00 AM
2:00 PM                    «:00 PM
ARDMORE POOL EVILLE STAR
ROUTE
5:02 PM
2:59 AM
10 AM
2?4~ AM
1:25 AM
7:25 PM
2:55 PM
Arrival
of
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NEW MEXICO?
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Lloyd Waner, younger brother of Paul.
By William
Ferguson
—" How BUI Potter, with his magic
numbwr-gueaalng game, managed at
th* oxpor.se of visitors to keep his
office force well supplied with free
watermelons every summer. Of course
he was ably aided and abetted by
<• sweet, pretty Natalie Williams.
Dr.
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FRISCO
Train No. 774
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1:30 PM
3:20 PM
Atoka
Wapanucka
Coleman
Fllmnre
Tishomingo
11:30 PM
12:10 AM
13:30 AM
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ITALY
HAS AN AREA ABOUT
THE SAME AS THAT OF
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10 East Main All Buses Carry Express Telephone 615
READ UP
PM
6:00
4.05
3:50
8:35
8:00
2:45 PM
3:80 PM
3:50 PM
4?1« PM
4:40 PM
5:45 PM
7:85 PM
Bob said hts car
had one advantage, and that was when
a cylinder was missing it didn’t take
him long to find out which one.
The old days when It was customary
for the pallbearers to fill the grave
winter or summer and almost re-
sulted In apoplexy in faithfully doing
the job under the broiling hot July
sun. i
How the farmers would bring in
their wagon toads of waterme’on*
and wait at the corner of Washin 4ton
and Main to sell- their wares. Many
of the customers would alt right down
at th curb, open their melons and
•hvt them with every passerby.
Ardmore’s great hope that the lign-
ite coal deposit on the Ford place
southeast of Ardmore was but the
forerunner for a great industrial de-
velopment.
7:25 PM
8:20 PM
9 30 PM
11:35 PM
: How the local company was about
i tn lose it* street car franchise through
1 failure to Start operations In time.
and how Joe Robison scared up a
] little four-wheel Toonerville trolley
The hot domino games In Ike Ma-
son’s office, on the second floor above
the old First National bank, partic-
ipated in by Ike, Polk Anderson’, Cas-
sius Byrne and others.
spilt, Roosevelt /would have been elect-
ed. Instead of Wilson, and what of the
World War I?
Gilbert Shuman and his little res-
taurant on West Main street and his
floral business in southwest of Ard-
more, where the Ardmore Floral com-
pany now Is located.
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a specially created sub-division which
afterwards turned out to be in one of
> the richest parts of the Healdton oil
flcient servant the Interior depart-
ment of Uncle Sam never had.
The Coalgate convention in 1912—the
first congressional convention called
in the United States, when the Ard-
more delegation blocked Dynamite Ed
Perry’s plan to stampede the conven-
tion and force Roosevelt to run against
his former friend. President Taft. G.
A. Ramsey, a schoolmate of Taft,
was the leader of the Ardmore delega-
tion. It was afterward learned that
Dynamite Ed made a secret visit to
Teddy Roosevelt, who had assured him
that If this, the first convention In
the United States, Instructed its dele-
gates for him he would throw his hat
in the ring Had that occurred, the
republican party would not have been
That awful night7 on Caddo street,
when could be heard almost all night
the awful walling cry of a poor moth-
er whose son had just been killed
The terrible gasoline explosion in
September, 1915, when the heads ot
the Ardmore Refining company owned
by Crosbie and Armstrong dared not
coma to Ardmore until they were re-
assured they would not be lynched.
Vai Mullen of Ardmore Switch, and
i offering to bet with anyone, but cash
only and no checks would go.
whose bell and whistle you could hear’ more, which everyone felt sure would
most any time, day and night. bring In a big oil field.
the boy tolling up the stairs with a i
goose under his arm.
11:00 PM
11:55 PM
1:00 AM
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COP«. UM BV HE* SERVICE. wc.
6:00 PM
7:10 PM
5:10 PM
5:30 PM
The great contest between the prop-
erty owners of North Washington :
on one side and those of West Main |
on the other for the location of the
postoffice.
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Col. A. V Doak. and the many
humorous stories told of his stutter-
ing habits.
When J. W. Krueger and wife and
sons located In Ardmore and put In
a modern shoe store on West Main
street.                              /.
The wild excitement that attended
the opening of the Brock field. Oil
was worth three dollars and fifty centa
a barrel, and every one had visions
of another Healdton or Hewitt right
at the edge of Ardmore.
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Ar. Wiiaon  
Ar. Healdton ....
Ar. Comanche ...
Ar. Ringling
Ar. Weurika____
Ar. Waitsra
Ar. teuton ......
Ar. Frederick ....
Ar. Vernon ......
R A. Howard and hl* one-lunged
Brush, which managed pretty well
5:in AM
  8:46 AM
 9:05 AM
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The old Johnson boarding house
run by Captain and Grandma John-
son on West Main street, where many
visiting strangers so enjoyed the
southern hospitality therein dispensed,
as to constitute a deciding factor Id
Inducing them to make this city their
home.
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M J. Parker with his printing of-
fice on the second floor .of the little
brick building on South Main street.
Of how active he was at primary
election time when hl* smiling face
and rotund form waa busy soliciting
orders and getting out campaign
hand bills and candidate cards.
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cause he had a wooden leg of which
he was very sensitive, and if care
was not taken on turning corners ac-
cidents would happen.
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Of how elated Ardmore was when
natural gas was first piped Into town
in 1907 from the old Wheeler field,
and what a letdown it was when
several years later the supply was
so nearly exhausted that wood as the
source of heat was. becoming popular
again, and how relieved everyone waa
when gas from the newly discovered
Healdton and Fox fields came in, and
became available.         /
pie to the ball park at the end of the
street car line where a Frenchman
with a little boxer type bl-plane fctu-
ally got his fragile craft up 1..— ---
air.
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Ar. Tishomingo —.
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Ar, Ada ..........
Old Captain T. B Johnson, with his
market basket on his arm doing the
dally'shopping. The qld captain was
a loyal Kentuckian, an ardent Baptist
and a fighting republican The story
goes that a boarder at his place, If
from Kentucky, got a month’s credit
and no questions asked; If a Kentuck-
ian and a Baptist, three months and
no dunning; but If one were a Ken-
tuckian, a Baptist and a republican,
he could have free board from here
on out.
’ and ran it up and down Main street
| for several day*, giving averybody
who wanted a free ride.            \
10:18 AM
2:25 AM
6:64 PM
How Joe Robison, manager of the
Robison Opera House and who In the
summertime ran the Airdome on West
Main street, waa fitted up for *um-
mer ahowa.
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Connect* with Jordan Btis Line* In Tishomingo. Connect* with Grey-
hound, Ranta Fe, Denco, and Jordon Bus Lines in Atoka.
Julius Kahn, the popular chef, sec-
retary and all-around factotum of the
Elks club. How he had forgotten
hl* key* and sent the colored port«-
\ home for them, and after some delay
,     .... —w,.      Julius, chagrined and irked at seeing
The first airplane that came to,
Ardmore that drew thousands of pen- i
fe
The old shuttle passenger train serv-
ice the Fri*co maintained between Ma-
dill and Ardmore, pulled by a little
coffee pot engine. No. 2275, and
dubbed the “twenty-two six blta,”
Mammoth Edition
Memento of Event
(Continued From Png* 1)
active participation, contributed no
small part to the success of the effort.
The advertising end of the enter-
prise was under the general supervl-
I slon of Ernst P. Riesen. business man-
j ager of The Dally Ardmorelte.
The editorial work was under the
direction of Sam W. Blackburn, city
editor, with the able assistance of
Jack Snyder. Mrs. Ethel Rockett and
Miss Sally Jo Malloy of the city news
staff.
Special photographs—and their
number was great—for this edition
were made by John Robert Riesen,
staff photographer of The Daily Ard-
morelte.
Harry Arnold, advertising manager,
with R C. Homor and Grant Owen
drafted the hundreds of advertising
layouts, contacted the score* of busi-
ness establishments and Individuals
and accomplished this vital and Im-
portant phase of the task without
fuss or confusion—at the same time
carrying on their regular assignments
in conection with the regular dally
edition.
1*1*00 AM1
-----11:60 AM
SANTA FE
NORTH BOUND
Train No. 6
Train No. 16
Train No. 25
SOUTH ROUND
Train No. 5
Train No. 15
Train No. 27
Graves Leeper, one of the greatest
humorist* and kindliest ot men that j
1 God ever created; and the stories and |
j joke* that he waa forever telling and
pulling on his old cronie*. J. B.
’ Spragin* and Col. Sidney Suggs.
How visiting girl* had so moil
prank* played upon them by sui^i
local awalns a* Gene Cruce, Ed Gal’.
Joel Buchanan and others. Especially (
how they were warned to be careful j
j of dancing with some young man, be- :
How “Red” Snyder of the Ardmore-
lt* met every train to record the
goings and the coming*. I believe
he was the firat man I met' on getting
off the train at Ardmore the morning
I came up tfom Texas. Jack wore a
red sweater and so red was his hair j
and face that it was hard to tell '
where one ended and the other began.
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The big celebration held at the out-
skirts of Ringling, celebrating the
completion of the Ringling road, when
special passenger trains were run out
to the end of the line; and the big
speeches, liquid refreshment* and hl-
| larlty that featured tha occasion.
J. R. Armstrong and hi* Union Re-
view on B street southwest, which
was the organ of the Farmers’ Union,
a potential political force in that day,
and whose support was solicited by
every candidate from constable to
governor,                            '
"hedgehog oepensg*
CITIES, STRONGHOLDS ALON& THE
GERMAN EASTERN FRONT, GET THEIR
NAME FROM THE LITTLE EUROPEAN
HEDGGHO&, WHICH, DEPENDING ON
ITS iPG/CAYVf BK/Sre/Z^GAffMOfi.,
ROLLS ITSELF INTO A BALL. TO
WITHSTAND SIEGE FROM WITHOUT/
...BUT HEDGEHOGS£>O PERISH, AND
HITLER’S GUN-STUDDED STRONGHOLDS
The popular picnic* held on the old
I road to Overbrook at what 1* known
j as Rock Crossing
The “oil” well drilled on the West- ;
The colored boy who brought the
first, automobile to Ardmore for hire, |
who would charge 50 centa per pas-
senger to speed them up and down
Main street, and who took such de-
light in trying to run over the pedes-
trians.
Al Butzow and hl* mattress factory
in southwest Ardmore. Misfortune
stalked him and hl* family. Al. hl*
wife, son and daughter all dead.
Ardmor«-Wilaon-Com*nche-Waurika-Frederick
J:i0 PM
7:25 PM
7:45 PM
8:55 PM
Judge Walker, the roommate
Taft, who was finally rewarded
the president, and appointed to
Alaska position.
Ardmore-Ada Division
12:40 PM
2:05 PM
3:05 PM
8:35 PM
Joe F. Robison and his street car
system and Lorena park which he
started to afford traffic for hi* car
line.
The old iron foundry, where the
Ice Service company Is now located,
which was owned and operated by a
big Irishman named Harding and of
the fond hope that some day Ardmbre
would be an Important iron and man-
ufacturing center.
in easy chair* on the pavement and
sidewalk in front.
| field, and to develop some of which | f*®* typographical ^job that is
the Geneva Pearl Oil company was "
formed.
F. A. Redmond, who in his posi-;
j tion in charge of the Santa Fe fuel
' oil department, had charge of the;
| development of the production at'
I Wheeler, with Colquitt Sykes, super-1
intendent of operations. The big CadU-1 3 J in a m
Ardmore-Durant-Hugo Division
6:00 PM
5:55 PM
7:10 PM
9:00 PM
10:45 PM
8:20 PM
9:10 PM
DURANT-ARDMORH STAR ROUTE
2:00 PM                   10:00 AM
The Chickasaw Refinery organized
by John L. Owens, who gave up a
The old Cathey livery stable on
North Washington street, where a
couple of pugnacious goat* added ;
their pungent perfume to the cus- j
tomary aroma* of a livery stable.
The tong bitter fight over the
postmastership betweri the old-guarS
republican* headed by C M. Camp-
bell, S. A. Douglas and others on the
one aide, and the “New Deal’’ repub-
licans heade# by Sam Week*, Jim
Burns and others on the other, with
S. A Douglas finally winning Out
over Jim Burns.
Ardmore
Mail Schedules
Mall
Leave*
Offlc*
Judge Hosea Townsend and his
great disappointment, which he never
overcame, because President Roose-
velt failed
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in Southern Oklahoma . .
The beautiful tree* at the home ’
of Mr and Mrs. Lute Johnson, where ;
the Wirt Franklin station now stands,
which was always a popular gather-
ing place for young people In the cool
of summer evenings.
The day* when the W. R. Moore
home was (and still 1«) the show
place of Southern Oklahoma.
Sell Every One of 3200
Memorial Poppies
Assigned to City
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The Ardmore American Legion aux-
iliary Saturday sold every one of the
3200 memorial poppies assigned to
this city, Mrs. Roy McAlister, poppy
chairman, announced Saturday night. !
She expressed appreciation of the ;
splendid work of members of the aux- !
lllary who braved the rain to sell
the ilttle tributes to the heroes of two
wars. She declared the patriotic re-
sponse of the people of Ardmore was
wonderful and was fully appreciated
by all legionnaires and auxiliary
members.
The slumber party given by Mrs
N. C. Wood in honor of visiting girl*
from Cincinnati, when Clarence Gregg
and others m the middle of the night
pulled off a fake fire alarm that
scared all the young ladles out of the
house In their night clothe*.
All Worked Hard
In the mechanical department,
under the direction of M. M. Bram-
lett. plant superintendent, and in the
pres* room, where Orrle Fulllngim,
pressman, presided was achieved the
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i fleeted in the finished product. All
of the members of the mechanical
staff have worked tirelessly and en-
thusiastically on the Job.
Distribution of the paper to the
subscribers was another and final step
In the project. This morning, when
I newsboys began placing this mam-
moth newspaper on the doorsteps of
the subscribers was the final act in
a drama that has been In the pro-
cess of enactment for nearly three
months.
The Dally Ardmorelte. therefore,
presents with pride and a sense of
I deep appreciation to its public, it*
50th Anlversary edition, with the
sincere hope that it will be an ocea-
i slon of Interest and satisfaction to
ita readers and it* patron*.
Ardmore _ 4:16 AM
Madill 7:to AM
Durant  — *:20 AM
Hugo ______10.25 am
Idabel __ 12 J>5 PM
Kingston 7:36 AM
DsnlBon 8:25 AM
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helmer farm west of Marietta, and the ]
false report that caused Max to drive |
excitedly all night to see the oil that,
was reported to have been struck, and I
Max’s worries where they would get
the barrels to put it in.
When the Innes band, being flooded
out was stranded in Ardmore several
days, and H. G. Spaulding secretary
of the commercial club, arranged for
a large tent on the lot where is now
located the Ice Service company, and,
how with thousands of people in the
tent, a big rain and windstorm blew
the tent down, soaking and almost
drowning nearly everyone, but for-
tunately seriously injuring none.
What a sight that was to see Ard-
more’s finest of both sexes with shoe*
and stockings in hand, plodding home
through the mud and water as be-
draggled as chicken* caught In a
rain storm 1
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By R. M. J.
The awful flood year of 1908 when
30 Inches of rain fell in the months
of April, May and June. When the ,
Banta Fe was out of service for
nearly one month with the Red river
bridge washed out and the tracks
washed out by the Washita at Crusher
and the South Canadian at Purcell.
When, for a time both the Frisco and
Rock Island were flooded out and
the city was without train service
from any direction.
The old Frisco morning train, run-
ning out of Ardmore, leaving here
about 5 o’clock, with the engine
hitched on to the back of the train
until the train could be turned around
1 on the Y at Madill.
The hottest month I ever spent in
all my life was June, 1911, when the
thermometer reached over one hun-
dred every day but three, reaching an
official reading of 112</2 with only
three days with the temperature drop-
ping below a hundred, and averaging
105 for the month, according to
Weather Goseryer D. T. Nesbitt. A
soaking rain finally broke the hot
spell and the town's business was
adjourned for an hour’s song and
praise service, which was held / in
the courthouse under the leadership of
George Henley
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1893 . . . that was the year . . . just
a hundred years to a year after Victor
Hugo sat on rocky Guernsey Island
and said something like this: "Oh boy,
ain't this some milk from that old yel-
low cow. She will have a new home
some day, probably in America." .
IN THE BASEBALL WORLDS
PAUL WANER IS KNOWN x-w
AS Z^SAFOAZ/WHO
IS KNOWN AS X/ZZZ#X8C>ASOA/|
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When the Elks hall was the "plus;
ultra” of Ardmore society. When one
was elected a member of that order
he had certainly arrived. Ed Gall
- was so anxious to reach the coveted
! goal that he fudged a year on his agj
and but for the keen recollection aL
R»rt F<v>t*r ;voiild have entovejd ■
The old Randol hotel on West Main        privileges a year before he tral
i entitled to them.
sprinkled with Ardmore people, sitting                  /
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The old well drilled on the Town-
send tot off Twelfth avenue north-
west. when so much gas wa* en-1
I countered that traffic had to be roped
j off tha street.
How Vai Mullen enjoyed the ball
' yames at Lorena park, telling every-
I body wherever he went that this was
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How Walter Crltchlow bade the;
northbound Santa Fe passenger engl- I
neer good-bye at Marietta back in | (
1913, and drove to Ardmore in time | (
to meet him at the depot, I don’t j
yet see how that was possible with
the intervening thick sand and high '
stumpy.
When Ardmore wa* entitled to be
called a metropolis because a locjil
hotel was finally able to advertise a
room with bath, with the Bath tub and
I plumbing fixture* in full view in one
! corner of the room. Judge Ralph
I Campbell always had the honor of b«-
I mg assigned to this room.
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Inc car shining with nickel and brass, | 10:28 AM
that was the apple of Redmond's eye.
The jokes he played on local girls by
telling them he had lost his magneto
cover and letting them trudge through
the ankle deep sand in the moonlight
unsucessfully trying to find same.
Ellen Dickson and Marjorie Williams
can supply the detail*.
-Whe snmyil hunting parties into the
ChoctaW Nation participated in by two j
groups, one called the Sunday school,
crowd and one the other kind. :       dwn hn]
1 had nna advantno
The many joke* that were pulled
upon J. B. Spraglna. in these hunting
trips, losing him, feeding him on}
elaborately cooked chaparral and j
stacking the cards on him so that
he thought he had lost everything
! he had. C:t Z—t:
| ySu of some of the Instances, and he
can tell you who belonged in the
i poker crowd and who did not.
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The popular little dances that used