Happy Thanksgiving Day from our home to yours!
Hope this newsletter finds everyone enjoying Thanksgiving day. We are just hanging out around the house, Jill is cooking one of those 3 pound Butter Ball turkey breast along with other goodies. We don’t eat a lot and sure couldn’t eat a whole turkey.
I look back over the year and all the blessings we have to be thankful for. I know one is I’m starting my 5th year of searching for Oklahomans with unclaimed insurance. I gave up trying to keep count of how many people I’ve connected their unclaimed insurance at the State Treasurers Office in OKC but its probably 1,000 or more for sure. I could write a book about all those I’ve found and united with their money.
Just this week I found an 84 year old lady in the Durant area with way over $40,000 waiting for her to claim she didn’t know anything about. I helped her get the paper work started to file her claim. Her husband died 2 years ago and she said she could sure use the money right now. This is just one example of the blessings I’ve received from my hobby the past 4 years.
Anyway, this weeks newsletter will be a short one. Enjoy
Oklahoma Highway Patrol headquarters in Oklahoma City – 1964
Ardmore Police Department 1950
If anyone can point out names, let me know.
I’ve lived in Oklahoma my entire life. I’ve never heard of the Sans Bois Mountains until today on one of my Facebook groups. We’re never too old to learn!
https://www.wildlifedepartment.com/hunting/wma/southeast/sans-bois-wma
From this week’s Mailbag
Elk in Big Sky, Montana. -Monroe Cameron
Photo 1 by A. M. Hartung photographer at Ardmore, Indian Territory. Children are holding the name of the Ardmore school and date on a slate tablet. -Robert Hensley
Below is the school slate, it looks like New Hope school??? Anyone know for sure if this is correct?
HAM Talk by KC5JVT via Echolink
I received my $20 refurbished Cisco SPA 525G IP (VOIP) Phone (and power supply) I ordered from eBay last week. Its in perfect condition. I submitted a copy of my HAM license and paperwork to HAMshack Hotline, was approved and given the extension number 6103249 on their private Ham network (10,000+ members worldwide). This morning I provisioned my IP phone following their directions and it works great. I called my HAM friend Eddie Collins in Ada, Okilahoma who has an IP phone on Hamshackhotline, we had perfect connection and audio. This new way of communicating with HAMs worldwide is going to be fun! My next project is setting up a laptop on Allstar network.
https://hamshackhotline.com/
HAM check-ins Sunday Dec 17th at 8:00pm on the 97 Repeater. The Arbuckle Net is held every Sunday night at 8:00pm.
Below is from my newsletter archives dated
February 8, 2007 – Issue 524
Ardmoreite Mae Scott received a prestigious recognition from her Eastern Star a few days ago. The award is in recognition of her 50 years (actually 52 years) of service to the organization. The four people in the picture are from left to right: Barbara Benton, Most Worthy Grand Matron; Mae Scott, Past Matron; Ann Barnes, Worth Grand Matron; and William “Bill” Barnes, Worthy Grand Patron.
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“Butch…………. Here are three 1929 post cards of Prices Falls & Turner Falls.” -Grover Wells
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“Butch: I can’t get over the amount of excitement concerning the discovery of a bald eagle over Lake Ray Hubbard last month. For Leeper Lake, just south of Winstar Casino and north of Red River, this is almost a regular visit by one or two bald eagles that spend several days catching our fish. Many years back when we had some 75 foot tall cottonwoods on the north bank the eagles built a nest! I believe the eagles are making their annual flight back north to the sanctuary near Tulsa. Even more outstanding was a visit several years back which I witnessed of a Golden Eagle!” -Joe Leonard Jr, Gainesville
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142819455/joe-means-leonard
Q. “Good to read your letter each week. I’m 70 years old and have lived in this area forever. Have went down Plainview Road for years and have wondered what the half of a cement building is. You go South from the school about a mile and it is on the east side of the road. We had heard it was a fort at sometime but I don’t know, Hope to hear from you. Thanks.”
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A. The concrete building used to be a dairy and is located on Don Bostwick’s land.
“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Butch and Jill Bridges
Ardmore, Oklahoma
580-490-6823
