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 Carolyn Niebruegge May                      Michael L. May

Vol. 2, Is. 19                                                                                      Nov. 23, 2012

 

 

From the Editor

 

I’d like to think that at the time of this writing (Wednesday morning) that you are all already where you plan to be for Thanksgiving, but I’m sure that many of you still have that “trek” to make.  If you do, please be safe in your travels.  Our kids don’t allow us to travel on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving or the Sunday after.  Between you and me they really don’t have that kind of control over us yet, but it’s just easier to oblige and let them think they do.  It‘s just better for all concerned.  In addition, it makes a lot of sense.

 

We are in Georgia with Kevin, Brenda, Raegan, and Parker (or as Raegan calls him, “Parker May”).  We had planned to come down on Tuesday, but backed it up to last Saturday so we got one day of that weekend with them and will get all of the next.  I always have a desire to be with family on Thanksgiving and think of those who can’t--especially those serving our country whether in a foreign land or elsewhere here in the states.  Thanksgiving was our family’s biggest holiday--yes bigger than Christmas.  The May brothers, uncles, and cousins were avid quail hunters and between my Uncle Floyd, Granddad Glenn, Uncle Charles, Cousin Earl, and Dad, they had the location of all coveys scoped out for our Thanksgiving morning hunt.  We always met for dinner in Cold Springs at the old two room school house where my Dad and his brothers--Charles and Don started to school.  By that time it had been given by the school district to the Harmony Home Homemakers Club.  That’s where the women always had a Thanksgiving dinner to “die for.”  You understand that there was no such thing as “lunch”--just “dinner and supper.”  If it was really cold, we might go back out hunting in the afternoon for a while or just sit by the old coal burning stoves and play pitch.  What a glorious time gone by.  From Thanksgiving of 1968 until Thanksgiving of 1969 we lost both Granddad Glenn and Uncle Floyd May--the two patriarchs of the family.  Thanksgiving was never the same again.  Family continued to pass on throughout the years and now all of those two generations are gone.  The allure of those Thanksgivings will most likely never be recovered, but we move on to the current time where we have become the Grandparents and we search for ways to establish new traditions for our children and grandchildren.

 

I’m sure that each of you has traditions of your own from Thanksgivings past and present.  Unfortunately, for me it is so hard to give up the past--which actually gave me up as family passed on.  I have always said that every 10 years our families and many of our traditions dramatically change--as we leave home, marry, have children, our parents die, children marry, and they have children.  I believe that even though difficult, it is our responsibility to formulate and foster traditions that our children and grandchildren will remember as we remembered the ones from our past.  Not easy, but definitely our duty.  I challenge each of you to ask yourself, “Am I formulating new traditions and helping make memories that our children and grandchildren will reflect upon in the years to come with the same fondness that I have for my past?”  If your answer to that question is not “yes”--you need to get busy.  With that said, “Let my wish be that each of you have a truly blessed Thanksgiving that you and yours will remember for years to come.”

 

mlm

 

PS  Let us apologize up front if you feel this edition is a little short of our normal effort--had a lot going on this week and promise to do better next time.  Certainly hope we don’t get too many “removes” as a result of this week’s effort.  -- mlm & cnm

 

 

 

Content Contributors for the Week

 

Bill Hancock

Jack Whitson, Class of 1953

 

All those who sent messages to the Email “Bag”

 

Thank you all!

 

 

Remembering…

 

Here is this weekend’s query about Hobart history from Bill Hancock.  Thanks for listening.  We realize many of you won’t have any information, but, well, others will!

 

What businesses and/or homes have been on the southwest corner of Fifth Street and Broadway---late site of the Longbranch Saloon?   (Or is the Longbranch still open?  I’m not the best person to ask about that.)

 

Here’s what we learned last time: 

 

Derrick Oil and Gas

 

Many friends knew that Shorty Derrick owned that station across the street south of Dutch Miller’s Texaco at the southwest corner of Broadway and Highway 9.

 

Corky Maley wrote, “I worked for him after I dropped out of college in 1961.  Dietz Sellars was his number one man.  Pat Terry was his secretary while I was there.”

 

Pam McClellan wrote, “Daddy – Lloyd Hazle—worked for him for many years!  Shorty and Clara were good to our family!”

 

Guy Senter told us that his uncle, Harold Senter, also worked at Derrick’s for many years.

 

Cornell Tahdooahnippah remembers “a Quonset hut that was a convenience-type store” on that corner.  “Crumptons?”

 

Ruth Ann McNutt , who knows that corner pretty well, remembered, “Rex Downs and his wife had a station and little store straight across the street south of the Wagon Wheel where Sunny’s Deli is now, but I can’t remember what was on the southwest corner.”

 

Derrick’s station sold Cities Service products for a while, and also Gulf.  He also sold propane, and did tire and battery service.  The store’s motto was “If It Burns We Sell It.”

 

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Caroland Garage and Gun Service

 

About the Caroland Garage and Gun Service east of the fire station, Joe Ben McElyea wrote, “I had a .22 rifle repaired at the Caroland Gun service when I was a 7th grader.  What would they think about a 12 year old kid carry his rifle around any town or city today to get it repaired?

 

“In 1955 (I think) I remember helping Bill Bernell sell Boy Scout fireworks out of the back of the old Boy Scout bus which was parked across the highway south of Dutch's station.  I also remember walking northeast across the intersection and spending my last 25 cents to buy a hamburger from the carry out window at the Wagon Wheel and it was so very good since I was as hungry as a starved coyote, or something.”    

 

Butch Barker remembers “an old ‘English Ford’ inside that garage that had mechanical turn signals that would extend about five inches to the side of the pillar behind the front doors.”

 

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Service Station at Northwest Corner of Third and Washington

 

Joe Hancock told us about an explosion where “one man was killed.  Seems like a veteran had come home and assumed station operation.  The veteran’s name was Paden.  Maybe he was the guy who was killed.”

 

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Small Building on North Side of Third Street, West of Post Office

 

Don Wolf wrote, “Big brother, Junior, called  and we discussed the location Bill mentioned.  Junior thought a bus station was there.  I seemed to recall a florist shop there.  Is the building still there?  Junior asked who managed the bus station when it moved  across the street from ONG and the old Dairy Queen on Main.  I told him I thought Mrs. John Carlisle ran it along with a florist shop.  I remember my dad used to get his haircuts from Mr. Carlisle.  Their daughter, Mary, was a very friendly and outgoing person.  Seems she married Gary England, the weatherman for KWTV, Channel 9 in OKC.”

 

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Hobart Bottling Works

 

Rachel Lynch has two old bottles “plowed up 20 or so years ago by Glen Pfenning.  I think just south of Hobart.  They say Hobart Bottling Wks, Hobart, Okla.   And in the middle A.E. Fritsche.  MGR.  On the bottom is a large F.  The lip of the bottle is smooth--not for a cap but maybe some kind of stopper.

Would love to know about this company and when they operated in Hobart.  And what it might have held.”

 

Bob Shriner responded to Rachel’s note:  “I found a reference on-line for a "Hobart Ice and Bottling Co." listed via Google in a 1910 directory of refrigeration companies.  I also recall that my grandfather, L.V.Goodson, told me that when he first came to Hobart about 1906-07 he worked for Wright’s Produce, which was on the west (opposite) side of Broadway from the old Hobart ice plant.  All are now long gone but were major employers in the early days of Hobart, according to what I've heard over the years (as was the cotton oil mill and compress on the railroad on the southeast side of town).

“It also occurs to me that the bottle Rachel has might not have been made in Hobart but made elsewhere on custom order for the Hobart Ice and Bottling Co.  I've never heard of a glass works in Hobart; but there were several in eastern Oklahoma, one of which might have been the manufacturer.  Most bottling companies just fill the bottles, with milk, soft drink, or whatever, and buy the bottles from a glass maker.  Just a thought . . . .”

 

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A Bonus Question!

 

Bonus question from Jim Harris:  “What did John Strange use to mow his lawn at his First and Hill Street home in the early 1960's?  Answer:  (I swear it's true)  A remote control reel type lawn mower.  I saw John use it as I threw my papers.  John set on his front porch with the remote control as the mower went back and forth across his lawn. First remote anything I ever saw.” 

 

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Man Killed by Lightning

 

Here’s more on the incident when a man was killed by lightning near Third and Broadway in 1962, from Truett Guthrie:  “Richard Coalson told me that he was in the back yard with that guy renting a room over the garage, who was sitting on the picnic table. Richard told him that they needed to go in since it was stormy and lightning. The guy said something to the effect of:  I’ll stay right here. I figure that when your time comes, it`ll come.’  Then ZAP....Richard was knocked down and momentarily knocked out.  His mother looked out of the window, saw both of them down, and came running out.  By that time, Richard was up.  That`s the way I remembered the story from 50 years ago.”

 

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Jail Cell at Fire Station

 

Jim Harvey wrote about the jail cell at the fire station.  His father, Earl, was Fire Chief from 1935 until 1951.  “This note had a reference to the jail cell in the Fire Station. Since my dad was fire chief and we lived in the apartment next to the trucks, I played "jail" with my friends many times.  In the same area was a fire "pole" used by volunteers who slept upstairs to get down quickly when a call came.  (Frankie Herrick and Buster Herrick, who were brothers of Johnnie Herrick, assistant fire chief, slept upstairs over the cell.)  My only broken bone as a child came when a friend and I were chasing each other, up the back stairs--slide down the pole, etc).  One time I looked back for my friend when I reached for the pole, missed it, and fell to the concrete floor below.  I woke up at the hospital with my arm in a cast.”

 

 

 

Thoughts from the Squirrel Lair

 

Life’s Echo

 

A son and his father were walking on the mountains.  Suddenly, the son falls, hurts himself, and screams: “AAAhhhhhhhh!!!”  To his surprise, he hears the voice repeating, somewhere in the mountain:  “AAAhhhhhhhh!!!”

 

Curious, he yells:  “Who are you?”

He receives the answer:  “Who are you?”

Angered at the response, he screams:  “Coward!”

He receives the answer:  “Coward!”

 

He looks to his father and asks:  “What’s going on?”

The father smiles and says:  “My son, pay attention.”

 

And then he screams to the mountain:  “I admire you!”

The voice answers:  “I admire you!”

 

Again the man screams:  “You are a champion!”

The voice answers:  “You are a champion!”

 

The boy is surprised, but does not understand.  Then the father explains:  “People call this Echo, but really this is Life.”

 

It gives you back everything you say or do.  Our life is simply a reflection of our actions.  If you want more love in the world, create more love in your heart.

 

If you want more competence in your team, improve your competence.

 

This relationship applies to everything, in all aspects of life.

 

Life will give you back everything you have given to it.

 

Author Unknown

 

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Before You Speak THINK

 

T  Is it true?

 

H  Is it helpful?

 

I  Is it inspiring?

 

N  Is it necessary?

 

K  Is it kind?

 

 

 

Alumni Website

 

We have renewed the account that Wanda Jackson had set up at the photo sharing website, picturetrail.com for the Roosevelt Alumni:  http://www.picturetrail.com/rooseveltalumni.  She had posted many pictures from past reunions, class panels, and old schools buildings along with write ups about them.  We thought you might find these interesting if you haven’t visited this site in the past.

 

 

Interesting Tidbits

 

Map of Religions in the U.S.

 

Click on the link below.  When the map comes up, roll the cursor over each state to see about that state!  Very interesting.  Isn’t it nice to see the true facts?  Who said the USA is not a Christian Nation?

 

This map gives you the percentage of Christians and all faiths in each state.  This makes one ask why we are allowing our government and special interest groups, i.e., ACLU, to take God out of culture and schools?

 

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/graphics/pew-religion-08/flash.htm

 

 

 

News

 

Roosevelt Senior Citizens

 

The Roosevelt Senior Citizen Center serves lunch on Tuesday and Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.  The cost is $4 for those 60 and over and $5 for the younger generation.  Stop in and enjoy a good meal while visiting with your friends.

 

The menu for next week is as follows:

 

Tuesday, November 27th:  Hamburgers, Potato Salad, Baked Beans, Salad Bar, and Coffee Cake

 

Thursday, November 29th:  Stew, Cornbread, Salad Bar, and Donuts

 

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A Southern Kiowa Christmas

 

The Southern Kiowa Chamber is continuing to finalize plans for A Southern Kiowa Christmas on December 15 in Snyder.  The event will start with Breakfast with Santa from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. in the school cafeteria.  Pancakes, Blue & Gold Sausage, milk, coffee, and orange juice will be served.  The cost is $5 for adults and $3 for children.  Vendors will be at the tennis courts from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. selling their wares.  The Snyder FFA Show Team will be serving lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Ag Building on Main Street in downtown Snyder.  The menu is soup, chili, and stew with crackers or corn bread and a drink for $5.  Moon bounces as well as other games designed for children will be available from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the tennis courts at NO Cost!  The parade will be down Main Street beginning at 3 p.m. with Santa returning to the tennis courts after the parade to hand out treat sacks.  Elvis, First United Methodist Church, and First Baptist Church members will be singing on stage to put us into the Christmas Spirit throughout the day!

 

In the very near future the Chamber will be selling tickets for their annual Christmas giveaway.  At this time they plan to give away $500 cash, a trailer, a big screen TV, other electronic items, bicycles, and other items.  Tickers are $1 each.  You do not need to be present to win.

 

Begin planning now to be in Snyder for A Southern Kiowa Christmas on December 15.  It is sure to be an enjoyable event for the entire family.

 

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Kiowa County Museum Open House

 

The Kiowa County Museum will host their Open House on Thursday, December 6, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.  Plan to attend the Open House and enjoy some wonderful treats and fellowship.

 

 

 

Birthdays and Anniversaries

 

We have compiled all of the birthday and anniversary information we could from Wanda’s files.  We are sure we are missing some.  Please send us the birthdays and anniversaries for your family and friends so that we can have as complete as list as possible.  We are going to start with what we have from Wanda’s files so if we miss you, please send us the information so we have it for the news next year.  In addition, should any of the birthdays we list be wrong, also please let us know.

 

Happy Birthday To:

 

November 23 – Kristen Rutledge
November 23 – Janet Williams

November 24 – Sheila Muldowney Jones
November 25 – Kevin McCormick
November 25 – Levi Ervin, Class of 1987

November 25 – Kourtney Foster

November 25 – John Horne
November 25 – Erma Welch Krieger
November 26 – Betty Heskett
November 27 – Karen Beth Johnson
November 27 – Pearl Gibbs
November 27 – Jerry Melton, Class of 1964
November 28 – Chance Taylor
November 28 – Bill Mosley, Class of 1943
November 29 – Jeralyn Ellis
November 29 – Lee Horton, Class of 1986
November 29 – Amy Harmon
November 29 – Steve Lyde, Class of 1982

Happy Anniversary To:

 

November 26 – Renny & Karla (Jennings) Jackson, Class of 1969
November 26 – Redd & Judy (Brown) Conrad, Class of 1961

 

 

 

Humor

 

Taking the Mrs. Hunting

 

It was Saturday morning as Jake, an avid hunter, woke up raring to go bag
the first deer of the season. He walks down to the kitchen to get a cup of
coffee, and to his surprise he finds his wife, Alice, sitting there, fully
dressed in camouflage.

Jake asks her, "What are you up to?"

Alice smiles, "I'm going hunting with you!"

Jake, though he had many reservations about this, reluctantly decides to
take her along.

Three hours later they arrive at a game preserve just outside of San Marcos,
Texas.

Jake sets his lovely wife safely up in the tree stand and tells her, "If you
see a deer, take careful aim on it and I'll come running back as soon as I
hear the shot."

Jake walks away with a smile on his face knowing that Alice couldn't bag an
elephant - much less a deer.

Not 10 minutes pass when he is startled as he hears an array of gunshots.
Quickly, Jake starts running back. As Jake gets closer to her stand, he
hears Alice screaming, "Get the hell away from my deer!"

Confused and frightened, Jake races faster towards his screaming wife. And
again he hears her yell, "Get the hell away from my deer!" followed by
another volley of gunfire!

Now within sight of where he had left his wife, Jake is surprised to see a
Texas game warden with his hands high in the air.

The game warden, obviously distraught, yelled, "Okay, lady! You can have
your damn deer! Just let me get my saddle off it!"

 

 

 

From the Email “Bag”

 

November 15, 2012

 

Hi Mike and Carolyn,

I entered our local paper cooking contest and I won first and overall!!! I am so excited!


Now I'm getting ready for our Thanksgiving Day.

 

Bonnie (Pollard) Phillips, Class of 1964

 

Editor’s Note:  Congratulations Bonnie.  If you share recipes, we would love to share your winning recipe with our readers.

 

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November 16, 2012

 

I have great heart felt thanks to Wanda Jackson for starting this newsletter and Mike and Carolyn for continuing it.  My Mother passed away November 15, 2008. She is buried with her Mother in Roosevelt Cemetery.  Thanks to Wanda, Carolyn and Mike, I can visit her and other members of my family who have passed on through the Cemetery Layout, Find a Grave and the entire Roosevelt Cemetery project.

I never had the pleasure of meeting Wanda, but maybe someday I will have the pleasure to meet Mike and Carolyn May.

Roosevelt will always be my home and I will always have the wonderful memories of growing up there and remembering Roosevelt as it was then and what it was like to grow up in the small town of Roosevelt, Oklahoma, where the sign on the north side of town as you are coming into Roosevelt said Pop.750.  Or was it 715?

The landscape is different now, people have moved away and passed away but the memories never pass away.

Thank you Mike and Carolyn May for the Roosevelt Newsletter.  Out of the kindness of your heart you continued what Wanda started and I am so so grateful.

Linda (Elix) Newson, Class of 1968

 

 

 

Food for Thought

 

Health Reform’s Doctor Depression

 

This is an interesting article which should cause all of us concern.

 

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/doctors-377071-care-obamacare.html

 

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Did the Election Save Obamacare?

 

This is another interesting read.

 

http://healthblog.ncpa.org/did-the-election-save-obamacare/

 

 

 

Obituaries

 

Useful Links:

 

Becker Funeral Home of Snyder, OK

http://www.beckerfuneral.com/?page=snyder

 

Ray and Martha’s Funeral Home of Hobart, Mt. View, and Carnegie, OK

http://rayandmarthas.com/

 

Roosevelt Cemetery Layout

http://www.234enterprises.com/Roosevelt%20Cemetery%20Layout.htm

 

Roosevelt Cemetery Markers (Picture Trail)

http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/listing/user/rooseveltcemetery

 

Roosevelt Cemetery on Find A Grave

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99397&CScn=roosevelt&CScntry=4&CSst=38

 

Hobart Rose Cemetery on Find A Grave

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99399&CScn=Hobart+Rose&CScntry=4&CSst=38

 

Hobart Resurrection (Catholic) Cemetery on Find A Grave

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2246374&CScn=Resurrection&CScntry=4&CSst=38

 

Mountain Park Cemetery on Find A Grave

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99042&CScn=Mountain+Park&CScntry=4&CSst=38

 

Snyder Fairlawn Cemetery on Find A Grave

 

 

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