2025 has finally arrived. I hope the new year bring new hope and health and properity to us all. And above all stay vigilant and safe, ready for whatever comes.
A piece of Ardmore history will soon become history. The Colvert mansion on 12th NW behind Mt View Mall is scheduled to be razed soon to make way for commerical propery. When I was there during the estate sale in June 2023 I could tell it had become rundown and badly in need of repairs. Owners decided it would be too expensive bring up to Code and to repair so the propery was sold. Below is some aerial views of the mansion.
RIP
An Expression of Faith – B. .J. Thomas, born in Hugo, Oklahoma
If we’re only brief candles
Let’s burn for a day
If we’re only poor players
Let’s rush to the stage
And if we don’t know the ending
Let’s begin anyway
It starts in your heart
An expression of faith
It starts in your heart
An expression of faith
HAM Talk by KC5JVT via Echolink
Richard Craven shared a recent newspaper (The Oregon City News) clipping from Oregon about a simulated emergency HAM radio test that took place in Clackamas County, Oregon.
Below is last Sunday’s Arbuckle 97 Net check-ins.
From this week’s Mailbag
the old Lively’s Laundry was at 6th and E NW
Below is from my newsletter archives dated
December 27, 2007 – Issue 570
These next 4 are taken in the windows of the old Stolfa Hardware store. These are replicas and originals of the Christmas windows at Daube Department Store years ago.
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We are still making progress for the big move soon to Lone Grove. I had some gravel put in last week for our new driveway, and needed it smoothed out along with the places where the sewer line was dug. Russell Martin came to our rescue with his Kubota tractor and box blade. Russell had the driveway all level in a little over 2 hours, and its was as smooth as a baby’s gluteus maximus
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Most people use Thompson’s wood preservative, with is great stuff, but they need to mix something with it. Steve said if you mix it 1/3 linseed oil to 2/3’s Thompson’s, this mixture will keep the deck’s wood from turning gray. We have all seen a lot of decks turned gray, might even have one yourself that’s turned gray over the years. Steve said this mixture will preserve it for years to come, and it won’t turn gray either. -Steve Peterson OKC
Here is an interesting 1917 picture postcard of the Ardmore Refinery right after the start of the oil boom here. This plant would have been located on 199 East near the underpass, a lot closer to town back then, then the present day refinery. I had a great uncle fall to his death there in 1922.
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The Wilson News 8/04/1915 submitted by Mindy Taylor
Big Basket Picnic
There will be a big basket picnic at Jackson Springs, seven miles south and one mile east of Wilson, on August 10 and 11. The management promises the public “plenty of water and shade”. Socialists will address those present, while the courtesies of the day will be extended to any other speakers who may wish to talk. Among the attractions of the day will be a base ball game and some interesting “bronco bustin”. Jim Hensley has charge of the concessions.
Gay and Festive Gamblers Running a crude imitation of a roulette wheel under the name of a “penny fortune wheel”, a man and woman giving their names as Mr. and Mrs. J. Thompson and their post office address as the entire state of Arkansas with the whole state of Oklahoma as a forwarding address, street and number, played upon the credulity and pryed upon the pocketbooks of those attending the socialist encampment until Constable Charlie Jones came down upon them and gathered them into the fold, after the manner in which a Kansas cyclone gathers unto itself a ripening harvest field. When Officer Jones arrested the game operators some eight or ten dollars was on the board, placed in nickels, dimes, quarters and halves, upon the “lucky numbers”, while the unsophisticated youths who surrounded the table held pie plates with numbers pasted upon each, corresponding to the numbers the “sport” had picked as the winner.
Thompson and lady were brought into the city and Judge Dillard was called from his downey couch. After investigating the case thoroughly Judge Dillard released the gay gamblers from custody, exacting a cash bond. Encampment for Three Days In mentioning the Socialist encampment in another column of this issue of the News, we inadvertently stated that it was held on only Monday and Tuesday, whereas we should have stated it continued over Wednesday (today). Attorney G. V. Pardue, one of the mainstays of Carter County’s socialism, is expected to address the “comrades” today.
The Wilson Historical Museum now has transcribed records of Cornish newspapers from the early 1900s. Wilson Historical Museum hours: Tues., Thurs., Fri., Sat., 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Our Genealogy department is growing daily!!
Another year has come and gone. So much as been shared here every week by so many, I can not count those of you who help make this newsletter what it is every week. It is appreciated. Some of our T&T family did not finished out 2023 with us, but they will never be forgotten. Every time I see a piece of history in this area, I reflect back to an email. post. message or conversation from someone, somewhere out there shared some insight to it in a past T&T. Now we look forward to 2025 and what it brings and the Oklahoma history that awaits sharing. Thank you for letting us come into your home every week. Jill and I wish all of you a blessed 2025.
Butch and Jill Bridges
Ardmore, Oklahoma
580-490-6823