The Daily ArdmoreiteArdmore, OklahomaTuesday, September 19, 1917Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Adams of Legate, Oklahoma, uncle and aunt of Miss Beulah Crabtree, who was killed at Pauls Valley last week, when she fell from a parachute, passed through Ardmore yesterday en route to Sherman, Texas where the body was taken for burial. Miss Crabtree is…

John Henry Rutledge and wife, Lillie Magnolia White Rutledge, lived in the Halletsville-Rosebud, Texas area where the Rutledges had lived for many years. The recollections of their eldest son were of the family living in Denison, Texas, where John Henry was a brakeman on the railroad. Following an accident resulting in a badly broken foot,…

Decades ago Ernest D. Martin (1921-2010) told me about a water well he and his friend dug by hand in the NE corner of Meridian and Myall Road south of Lone Grove. He was a young man when they dug, probably around the late 1930s or early 40s. He said it sure was cold and…

A Glimpse Into The Past Three Shot, One Killed, Two Wounded, Alleged Result of Family RowSaturday April 13, 1918 – The Daily Ardmoreite, Ardmore, Oklahoma W. B. Bentley, a carpenter, who lived at 315 Fourth avenue northwest, was shot about 10 o’clock last night at his home and died at 3 o’clock this morning at…

The above picture of the Carter County Courthouse was taken by a drone Doug Williams owns. Doug has a Mini Camera Drone Combo with 4K UHD Camera with Axis Gimbal Stabilixation he’s been using to take video footage all of the county. On 7/13/25 Doug made a video of downtown Ardmore and posted on his…

Herman Cheek is killed at ArdmoreThe Daily Ardmoreite – 1956 H. R. Cheek of Holdenville was called to Ardmore Sunday by a message from that City stating that his son, Herman Cheek, had been shot to death by an Ardmore officer. Herman Cheek was proprietor of the barbershop in Ardmore and was killed Saturday night…

Hope everyone is enjoying the Fourth of July holidays, even if it HOT outside. Back when I was a wee kid, like maybe 10 or 12 I had some firecrackers to pop. I guess my mother didn’t like the idea so she took them away from me and hide them in a Chest of Drawers…

The Marietta Monitor did a feature story this week on the Bill Washington Ranch House in Love County. I vaguely knew about the Bill Washington Ranch near Marietta, but thanks to Ron Jacobs and his research in the Museum Musings I was enlightened to more detail of this historic place. Just click on this link…

The Daily ArdmoreiteSunday, October 19, 1930 TEMPLE TO BE OPENEDSOUTHERN OKLAHOMA CITIZENS CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND Ardmore Masons Have Realized Dreamof Many Years in Building HomeThat Will Make Ardmore theMasonic Center of Southern Oklahoma For 30 years Masons have lived in hopes that some day the fraternity in Southern Oklahoma, particularly in Ardmore, would have…

Unincorported Newport, Oklahoma is 10 miles NW of Ardmore and old enough to appear on a 1911 Rand McNally map of the county. Newport was an established post office from May 17, 1892 to May 26, 1961. Probably the most rememerable event to take place at Newport was the death of Ruby Hardy, wife of…