PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 The Daily Ardmoreite, Ardmore, OklahomaMonday November 8, 1943 Curious Coincidence Marks Tragic Deaths ofTwo Men Killed in Sunday Accidents Air Base Sergeant Dies in Car-Truck Crash;Transient Texan Plunges to Death From Third Floor of Carter County County Courthouse Two deaths by violence, each independent of…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 A GLIMPSE INTO THE PAST The Ardmore Daily PressArdmore, OklahomaSaturday, May 2, 1925 Police Cars to Be Equipped With Sirens The police department are thinking of installing sirens on all cars owned by the city policemen in order that they may proceed with haste in…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 About 2 years after the founding of Ardmore an industry emerged and the Santa Fe invested several thousand dollars building a spur track to a coal mine and empowering about 75 men. The mounds of the mine can be seen today at short distance Southwest…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 Old man winter hit parts of southern Oklahoma pretty hard Wednesday. Lots of sleet and ice. I sure don’t like driving on it, but made it to work and back ok. Reminded me of the many times during my 15 years at Ardmore’s ambulance service…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 A few years ago I posted in my newsletter about a train wreck at Wapanuka. I asked if anyone knew of this incident and the Texas Schlitz beer that was scattered all over the tracks. Everyone said the accident happened in the Fall of 1961.…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 It always saddens me when I read where a friend and T&T reader has passed away. Kenneth Eck of Healdton provided many pieces of history over the years for my newsletter. He was a wealth of historical knowledge in this area of the state. He…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 We have sure been experiencing some crazy weather the last couple weeks. A week ago the temp was down to 4 degrees above zero, today its 75 degrees outside! I saw the eclipse early Wednesday morning, beautiful. The photo below was taken by Freddy Neighbors…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 From my March 1998 newsletter:DOUGHERTY, OKLAHOMA NOW HAS A TOWN HALLby Joe D. Jordan The Town of Dougherty, Oklahoma (Population 273) has never officially had a town hall, for the last 4 or 5 years they have been using the old school building that was…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 The link below is to a website in which it’s authors have done a lot of research on Devils Den north of Tishomingo. Its been closed by its owner since the 1980s. I remember going there several times as a kid, but not often, too…

PO Box 2, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73402 Email: butchbridges@oklahomahistory.net, Phone: 580-490-6823 Here it is Thursday evening and it looks like the bullet missed Ardmore as far as predicted snow/ice. We were supposed to get about 1/2 inch, and sure glad it didn’t happen. But we did get another blast of ice cold weather, like 32 degrees…