Back in 1915 a song was written by a P. A. Booker and W. B. Freeze and arranged by G. C. Adams of Ardmore about the Big Explosion in Ardmore on September 27, 1915. Below is a link to the info and the original sheet music from that year. I hope a pianist plays this and records it for upload it so me so others can listen to it.
https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1631060
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This picture was taken just this month.
We’ve made some really good progress this month reaching out to Oklahomans with unclaimed insurance money at the State Treasurers Office. We are already over 70 found/connected with and the month is not over. I appreciate those of you who have helped me find these people and let them know they have money waiting for them or their kin to claim. Thank you.
Unclaimed property list Tap or Click HERE
I haven’t mentioned this is decades but this is one accomplishment no other county in this state can claim. That being we were the first officially (approved in a Monday morning agenda) county government website in Oklahoma.
HAM Talk by KC5JVT via Echolink
We are still averaging 50 HAMs daily checking-in with the Boredome Breaker net control. Any HAMs reading this is welcome to check-in between 12 Noon and 2pm Central Time.
From this week’s Mailbag
This is a picture of my brother, Tom Miller’s plaque now on display at the Greater Southwest Historical Museum in Ardmore. -Steve Miller
This is the Norton Bridge that used to be north of Mannsville before a flood took it away on June 18, 2015.
Below is all that’s left of the Norton Bridge where parts of the 1972 movie Dillinger was filmed.
Below is from my newsletter archives dated
August 21, 1999 – Issue 122
A 1915 photo of the Institute of the Feeble Minded in Enid, OK.
On August 10, 1983 on an oil lease south and west of Ringling, Oklahoma Kevin Magee was injured working on a rig. My friend Joe Pack was working on the ambulance that day. The Quintin Little Oil Company here in Ardmore had a helicopter at that time and sent it to the scene. It was decided to transport Magee in the helicopter instead of the ambulance. Joe gave me the following picture of him at the helicopter. It was Joe’s first and only ride in any aircraft. He told me he really didn’t care to take another ride in a copter. Joe’s the one in the center holding the Ambu resusitator.
Steve Miller donated his brother, Tom Miller’s plaque to the Greater Southwest Historical Museum in Ardmore this week. I was around Tom a lot during those days at the sheriffs office. He was dedicated to having the best detention center in southern Oklahoma. One thing I remember well is the cost of providing meals to the inmates. Through careful planning and the help of Bob Bell and Farmers Market, Tom Miller was able to get the cost down to either $1.33 or $1.66 per meal per inmate. (It was so long ago the exact figure escapes me.) With the previous Jal Administrator the cost was way of $2.00 per inmate to feed. I also remember listening to one inmate make the statement: “I’ve been in jails all over this country, but this the best food I’ve ever been served in a jail.”
“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.” -George Washington Carver
Butch and Jill Bridges
Ardmore, Oklahoma
580-490-6823
