PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 I am running a little later then usually tonight getting out my T&T. After work  (no I’m not retired, wish I was) I stopped by Great Plains Rent-All and rented a stump grinder.  There were about 15 stumps, mostly smaller ones around 4 inches across,…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 Derek Helmke, deputy sheriff, with the Carter County Sheriffs Office, recently started compiling a list of those who served as deputy sheriff in Carter county since statehood. Derek is turning to various sources for the information, and he is also looking to the public to…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 It’s Thursday evening and I’m sitting here typing on the T&T and watching the snow come down, howbeit not much, in south central Oklahoma. The snow is barely falling this evening, and most of the snow is only seen on the grassy areas.  We were lucky…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 We’ve talked about Ardmoreite Jake Hamon and his death at my kinfolks hotel (by marriage), the Randol Hotel on Main street, in the 1920.  Murdered by his lover, Clara Smith Hamon, it was thought to be back in 1920 a love affair that went bad,…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 Last week Al Cullum of Overbrook stopped by. I never know what history he will have to share but I always smile when he walks in because I know its going to be worth the visit. Al asked me if I ever heard of Snuff…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 Today is Valentine’s Day and I hope everyone remembered their sweethearts with something special. I gave my sweetheart aka Jill Bernardy Bridges a miniature rose plant since she loves plants and flowers, and the miniature rose bush can be replanted outside and continue growing. Since…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 Hello from Lone Grove, Oklahoma! Jill and I finally moved in to our new home south of Lone Grove last Saturday. The move nearly killed me, moving is hard work as I would guess many of you know, since you’ve been through the same thing.…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 Its been over a month or two since I updated everyone on a marker memorial for those killed in the Great Explosion of 1915. Last week I stopped by Wilson Monuments at Lone Grove and Billy showed me a granite marker he would donate to…

As I mentioned a month ago or so, the Seth Thomas Tower Clock at the courthouse has been ailing a little.  I called my friend Stephen Nelson in Edmond, Oklahoma about it.  He originally helped me get the clock going in 1996 after it not running for about 10 years.  Stephen is owner of SNClocks in Edmond and specializes…

Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 Back around 1997 Leroy McDaniel sent me some photos he took when he was around 16 years old (about 1943). The photos are of the cotton gin fire in Ardmore located on the east side of South Washington in the 300 block. The reason I’m bringing this up…