I hope everyone had a good Christmas no matter how small or large. We just stayed home, it was quiet and peaceful, just the way I like it. This week’s newsletter will be short, I know many of you are still in the Christmas mode with kinfolk and friends and travels. We received just a…

The daily Ardmoreite December 21, 1910 Free Christmas Dinner All friends who desire to give assistance to the free Christmas dinner for the poor, to be given by the Sunbeam Mission at their Hall, 216 West main, can do so by giving their contributions of money in kettle in front of the First National Bank,…

The Daily ArdmoreiteDecember 18, 1927 Ardmore folk are working individually and collectively to remember poor and needy Ardmore Legion, Auxiliary and Red Cross busy on plans for Christmas Citywide celebration will mark Ardmore’s observance of Christmas this week. More than ever before the true Spirit of Christmas seems to be abroad in Ardmore this year.…

Firemen’s Convention at City Hall and Fire Department, Ardmore, Oklahoma; “Welcome Firemen” banner stretched across street above crowds. Horses hitched to wagonloads of men. Women posed in windows of building decorated with bunting, 1908-1909. September 15, 1949The Ardmore Democrat NewspaperFour churches, Junior high School invaded by would be safe crackers Safe crackers without tools or…

An Old Fashion Oklahoma Christmasby Butch Bridges In the heart of Oklahoma’s winter chill,Where plains and prairies lie so still.A Christmas tale of days of old,In an Oklahoma winter, brave and bold. Beneath the open skies so wide,Where the wind whispers secrets, none can hide.The snow may fall on fields so vast,A blanket of white,…

Double Killing At Madill Friday NightSeptember 24, 1911 Tom Rorie, liveryman, and Sam Reed, special deputy sheriff, shot to death Madill, Oklahoma. – In a difference, which arose over a ticket to a concert given following a circus performance here last night, Sam F. Reed and Tom Rorie were both shot to death, while three…

New Road Asked For Love CountyThe Daily ArdmoreiteAugust 7, 1907 People seek highway connecting Madill with Marietta, it is said. Building highway No. 77 through Love county has not caused people to forget that one of the greatest needs of that section is a highway beginning at Madill in Marshall county, extending south and west,…

The Daily Ardmoreite January 1, 1928Pecan Trees Planted On Courthouse LawnTwo pecan trees have been set out in the courthouse lawn by O. K. Darden, county commissioner. The trees are of the famous Mahan variety. When Darden attended the National Pecan Growers convention at Shreveport in the fall the Mahan growers said they would present…

Tessie Mobley (Lushanya Vinay) was a world famous Ardmoreite and opera singer that we do not hear about.  She was a sister to Ardmore’s Dr. Pepper Bottling plant owner Ben E. Mobley Jr. By the way, Tessie’s father, Ben E. Mobley Sr. (1876-1935) was the first mayor of Wilson, Oklahoma. https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=MO035 https://www.muskogeephoenix.com/news/lifestyles/remember-the-ladies-songbird-of-the-chickasaws/article_5f05f393-d135-5305-b88f-f6e5b04b3c93.html Below is Tessie’s…

Marrin Becknell moved to Ardmore in January 1924 and assumed charge of the Piggly Wiggly Ardmore company, an Oklahoma corporation, as general manager. Mr becknell came to Ardmore from Lima, Ohio where he was local manager of the Piggly Wiggly stores, a link in the chain operated by the Memphis company. At previous times, Mr…