Schulter will play Midway for their Homecoming tonight at 6 p.m. in the gymnasium. Schulter boys have won both games they have played against Midway, with the girls losing the one game they have played against the Chargers. The boys have a record of nine wins with six losses and the girl’s record is four wins and eleven losses.
25 YEARS AGO – 1998
SCHULTER HIGH SCHOOL GO HEAD TO HEAD WITH MIDWAY FOR HOMECOMING
Schulter will play Midway for their Homecoming tonight at 6 p.m. in the gymnasium. Schulter boys have won both games they have played against Midway, with the girls losing the one game they have played against the Chargers. The boys have a record of nine wins with six losses and the girl’s record is four wins and eleven losses.
Schulter has been preparing for their High School Basketball Homecoming all week. To get everyone ready, this week has been Spirit Week, starting with Monday being Crazy Hair Day. I think most of them probably just didn’t fix their hair after getting out of bed! Tuesday was Pajama Day, they should have had Mondays and Tuesdays together. Then Wednesday was Dress Like the Opposite Sex Day. I heard some of the high school boys made some really pretty girls! With Thursday being Baggy Clothes, Hat and Glasses Day, the Royal Court was a little upset when I took their picture to go in the paper. They weren’t exactly at their best, but they were definitely showing their spirit. Last but not least, today is Black and White Day (school colors), also the seventh grade through twelfth grade participated in a Homecoming Poster Contest, decorating the gymnasium and hallways. A source told me that the sophomore class won 1st place and the seniors brought in 2nd place. The kids have really done a great job supporting their teams and school during Homecoming Week and deserve a pat on the back. Way to go Schulter!
The Homecoming ceremonies will begin prior to the girls’ basketball game with Midway. The Homecoming Queen has been chosen, she is the only eligible junior/senior basketball player, Danna Tourret. She is the daughter of Danny and Sue Tourret and the granddaughter of Tony and Betty Tourret and Ruth and Gene Anderson.
Homecoming King candidates are senior Price Brown, junior Shane Boatright, junior Larry Macaluso, and junior Brandon Baughman. Price is the son of Clifford Larry Brown and Judy Brown. Shane is the son of Richard and Pam Boatright, grandson of Thelma Boatright and Bill Cocke and Jackie Cocke. Larry is the son of John and Linda Macaluso and grandson of Clara Macaluso. Brandon is the son of Jerry and Debbie Baughman and grandson of Randy and Margaret Baughman and Clifford Baker.
The sophomore attendants are Cassandra Thompson and Chris Boatright. Cassandra is the daughter of Eugenia Carol Thompson and Daniel Thompson. Chris is the son of Richard and Pam Boatright and grandson of Thelma Boatright and Bill Cocke and Jackie Cocke.
The freshman attendants are Brandi Baughman and Josh Howk. Brandi is the daughter of Jerry and Debbie Baughman and granddaughter of Randy and Magaret Baughman and Clifford Baker. Josh is the son of Garry and Joni Howk and grandson of Wade and Christine Howk and Georgie, Jr. and Dolores Roland. Everyone is invited to come out and support the Bulldogs tonight!
GIRL SCOUT COOKIE SALE STARTS TODAY
It’s Girl Scout Cookie Time! Girl Scouts in seven counties will begin taking orders for cookies on January 16 and continue until January 30. Cookies will be delivered after March 1. Cost is $2.50 per box. This year there are eight varieties available: shortbread, caramel delights, peanut butter patties, peanut butter sandwich, lemon pastry crèmes, five world cinnamon, iced ginger daisies, and the most popular of all, thin mints.
To order cookies, contact your favorite Girl Scout, or call Lake-Wood Girl Scout Council at 683-7738. Proceeds from the sale fund troop activities and service projects, travel opportunities, development of Camp Pauline Williams, area events, and delivery of the Girl Scout program in the seven county area.
50 YEARS AGO – 1973
10 DIE ON COUNTY ROADS
Okmulgee County was the scene of 10 traffic fatalities during 1972, including one in December, according to the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety.
A total of 841 persons died throughout the state in 1972, with 74 of those deaths occurring during the month of December. Only 27 of the 77 counties in the state recorded 1972 deaths in double figures, with Okmulgee County being one of the unlucky ones on list.
Neighboring Okfuskee County tallied only two deaths for last year, while Hughes County had six and McIntosh County recorded five. Oklahoma County logged the highest number of deaths with 112 and Tulsa County was second with 69.
WERE ALREADY WAY AHEAD AND WE’LL BEAT RECORD SALES OF 1972
Leading businessmen and financial executives in Henryetta are so optimistic about the city’s 1973 outlook they almost keep pinching themselves to be sure it’s not a dream.
Only one merchant, who asked not to be quoted, expressed any pessimistic sentiment whatsoever, among a score of local business leaders interviewed.
Most retailers reported record sales years last year and were confident they would do much better this year. Many referred to the booming national economy, particularly in the retail sales area, and were confident it would rub off on Henryetta. The consumer demand seems to be at an all-time high in Henryetta, as well as the nation.
The one merchant who had a gloomy outlook said the community is still suffering from holdover effects of the bitter retail clerks strike last year, even though it has been settled. Most, however, felt this unpleasant scar on Henryetta business history was over and they looked forward to a bright future.
In spite of the hampering effect of unusually bad weather, some of the more dynamic firms who have been aggressively advertising for business are tickled pink with business in the first two weeks of 1973.
After saying “1973 looks real good for us,” Joe Harrison, manager of OTASCO, was asked why he felt that way. “For one reason,” he said, “it’s already started out that way. We’re WAY ahead of last year already,” he said. While the weather has been an obstacle, Harrison pointed out it has been a mixed blessing. We’ve really sold the tire chairs,” he said, “and promptly proceeded to sell a set to this interviewing newsman.” Earl Wells, Jr., Chairman of American Exchange Bank, declared “I’m really optimistic. I think we’ll have a good year in Henryetta. Our economy is strong. The President hasn’t licked inflation but he has controlled it some and business is still gaining. I can’t help but believe everything is going to be better, both nationally and in Henryetta.
75 YEARS AGO – 1948
SHERIFF GOT LIST, TOO, CHIEF CRIES!
Police Chief Chester Baird today declared that the county sheriff and deputy sheriffs got a copy of that list, too, in reference to the release Sunday of the names of Henryetta federal liquor tax stamp purchasers.
In a “wallet-sized edition” of the list of Henryetta whisky stamp holders, complete with phone numbers, four names were listed and readers were told to contact the police chief if they lose the list.
The Oklahoma Brewer Foundation sends the localized list to law enforcement officers every three months in its efforts to remove from beer the blame it is getting for intoxication caused by illegal whisky.
It is against the law to sell whisky in Oklahoma but bootleggers often buy liquor tax stamps to avoid a clash with U.S. internal revenue enforcement officers, who are stricter than the enforcers of Oklahoma’s bone dry law.
Sunday’s release, in addition to revealing the names of four men in Henryetta, also stated that there are five other stamp holders in the county, all in Oklahoma.
Of the four men whose names were released for Henryetta, Baird has raided all of them but one. Some of them have been raided more than once during the nine months that Baird has been chief of police. In addition, he has raided others who do not hold federal stamps.
100 YEARS AGO – 1923
LAND OF THE MISTLETOE
One hears much wonderment expressed that the mistletoe should have been selected as the state flower of Oklahoma.
“It is not a flower,” say the critics. “It is a parasite, a fungus growth. It does not even have flower. Why? Why?”
There are many reasons that might be offered. First, because the streams of Oklahoma, especially the eastern part, were panoplied by fringes of trees heavily festooned with mistletoe. Perhaps no other state in the union really grows so much mistletoe as Oklahoma. But, as is usual, there is one supreme reason why the mistletoe came to be selected as the state’s emblem in the vegetable kingdom.
While the mistletoe may not be a flower, it serves as the inspiration for the fairest, sweetest, most inspiring bit of song that has thus far fallen from the lips of an Oklahoma poet, and the beauty of that song made appeal to the hearts of Oklahomans in such manner that the mistletoe was selected. In 1906, at the time when Oklahoma was in the throes of birth George Riley Hall, editor of the Henryetta Free-Lance, grasped his lyre and entranced the territories with the following verse: “Land of the mistletoe, smiling in splendor, Out of the borderland, mystic and tender, linked with thy summers of azure and gold.
“O! Oklahoma, fair land of my dreaming, land of the lover, the loved and the lost; Cherish thy legends with tragedy teeming, Legends where love reckoned not of the cost.
“Land of Sequoyah, my heart’s in thy keeping, O, Tulledega, how can I forget! Calm are thy vales where the silences sleeping, Wake into melodies tinged with regret.
“Let the deep chorus of life’s music throbbing, Swell to full harmony born of the years; or for the loved and lost, tenderly sobbing, Drop to that cadence that whispers of tears.
“Land of the mistletoe, here’s to thy glory! Here’s to thy daughters as fair as the dawn! Here’s to the pioneer sons, in whose story, valor and love shall live endlessly on!
“It is not easy to perceive why this verse should win official honor for the mistletoe and for its author, one of those 'pioneer sons,' in whose story valor and love shall live endlessly on?”
WHISKY CASES AND OTHERS IN POLICE COURT WOMEN, BOOZE, GUNS, DISORDERLIES, DRUNKS, ‘N EVERYTHING
“Don must have been mad last night,” remarked “Joe” Foster, woman prisoner in police court this morning.
Don Stormont, assistant chief of police, may or may not have been in that state of mind last night, but there was plenty of evidence to show he had been very busy. He, together with Policeman Dave Sanders, did about a whole week’s work in a few hours. The result was a room full of prisoners in the court this morning.
“Joe” Foster was charged with possession of whisky and entered a plea of guilty, saying she had a quart. She was fined $50. She said she had four children at home. When asked if she could pay her fine she said she could pay part of it, $20. When the Mayor asked if she could not pay $30 on it now, she said no “them kids have to eat.” Finally she dug up $30 and was given a month in which to pay the balance.
Tony Woodrich and Mrs. Billie Bench were arrested at Joe Foster’s place, charged with disorderly conduct, entered a plea of guilty and were fined $15 each.
Tim Carter was charged with selling whisky. After entering a plea of not guilty and insisting he was innocent, he withdrew the plea and entered a guilty plea and was fined $50 which he paid.
Kate Westfall was arrested last night during the round-up and charged with selling whisky. She insisted she was not guilty and her case was set for trial at 2:00 o’clock this afternoon.
The plain drunk cases looked small among all the “bigger fry” brought in last night, but they had put up cash bonds and forfeited them by not coming to court.
Then there was a real case. It was only a gun case but it was a big gun. Sunday night, in front of the Morgan theatre, Chief Stormont picked up a man on suspicion and found he had on him a regular cannon. It has a barrel about eight inches long and shots short 44s, the short cylinder only adding to the lengthy appearance of the gun proper. It has a white stock, bone, turning yellow. On one side of this is cut the letter “P” on the inner frame of the stock there are three notches and the gun looks villainous enough to carry many more notches. The Mayor fined the man, who gave his name as Lloyd Hanmie, $50, and appraised the gun at $60, that being the man’s own valuation of it and who said he had expected to sell it for that amount. He said he was a driller, had been working in the Ibex pool near Breckenridge, Texas, and was expecting to go to work in the Henryetta field; that he carried the gun because owing to present condition in the country it was not safe to ride on freight trains unless a man went armed. He said he had a wife and two children in Fort Worth waiting for him to send them money. He wanted a chance, he said, to go to work.
LOSES LIFE IN WELEETKA FIRE
Jess Gibson, Okmulgee oilfield worker, was burned to death last night at Weleetka when the Hotel Payne at which he was stopping was destroyed by fire. Gibson was sleeping in a room on the upper floor. The charred remains of the body were found after the building burned.
An unidentified man lost his life when the Hotel Payne was destroyed by fire at Weleetka. Too hotel, a two-story structure, was discovered to be on fire at 11:30 o’clock and flames in a minute had spread to the entire building.
It was known that Jess Gibson had gone to Weleetka yesterday in search of a girl who had been his sweetheart and who had learned was in Weleetka. Arriving there yesterday afternoon, he learned that the young lady was married.
This seemed to break the young man all up. He was terribly worried, and people could not help but note the fact.
When the hotel was found to be burning down, all of the people in the house escaped but Gibson. Just whether or not any one remembered his room location is unknown. But it is known that while he occupied a room on the second floor, he was at an open window, and could easily have made his escape.
But when morning dawned, in the rubbish where the building had stood, there were the charred remains of the heart-broken youth. Perhaps no one can ever know just what happened.
Those who saw him declare he was duly sober. Then the explanation must come from some other source. But the sad fact stands out that he retired to his room in a heart-broken frame of mind, and before midnight was burned to death in his bed.
