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Carolyn Niebruegge May Michael L. May 
Vol. 2, Is. 47 June
7, 2013
From the
Editor
Well, I’m back with more
Marvin was the only Manager
of the Coop that I ever remember in
As I mentioned earlier,
Marvin was always at the helm, but Eva (Cooper)
Marvin’s real calling came
even later in my years as the “Roosevelt Riding Club” got established and a
significant need for “riding stuff” came to the forefront. Marvin quickly saw that need and immediately
provided what all the members needed--bridles, halters, saddles, and
ropes. Yes, you could call him our
“Outfitter.” Marvin would special order
you a “
I remember him always being
around at nights when we roped. He
didn’t have a long trip from his house as it was just north of the arena. Interesting enough, I’m not sure that I
remember whether Marvin even had a horse or not, but It didn’t matter. He was “the glue” that made the “stuff”
available that we all needed to enjoy our sport.
Yes, Marvin was an integral
part of ‘Roosevelt’s fabric” and one more reason that
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Content
Contributors for the Week
Bill
Hancock
Wayne
Rickerd, Class of 1945
Kate
(Roberts)
All
those who sent messages to the Email “Bag”
Thank
you all!
Remembering…
Bill Hancock Query
This Week’s
Query: Tell us your memories of Toma Brothers Grocery. Who worked
there? When did it close? What did you buy there? How was it
different from the chain stores? We want to know everything you know!
What we learned last time,
about that amazing building just south of Boothe Drug. Wow, what a
history!
This is the building with
the “Anheuser-Busch” on top. We believe the structure was constructed in
1903. We haven’t yet learned why Anheuser-Busch got to put its name on
such a beautiful edifice. But it has a remarkable and diverse history of
owners and tenants.
Here’s what we know about
this great building’s occupants:
1903-07 -- Unknown
1908 – Hotchkiss and
1909-18 -- Unknown
1919-1927 –
1928-1933 –
1934-1940 – Bon Ton Café
1940-1945 – Unknown
1945-1959 – The Man’s Shop
1959-1974 – Ladd’s Men’s Wear
1976-1980 – Bobbi’s Dress Shop
1981 – Quartz Fashions
1983-1985 – Conrad’s Bernina and Fabrics
1985-1986 – Counted Classics
1986-88 – Jerry’s Tackle Shop
1988-90 -- Unknown
1990-91 – Video Plus
1991-2001 -- Unknown
2002 – Etc. by Lynne
2003-present -- Unknown
E. M. Stanley had opened his
first
And you know that
Like so many other
structures in
The Alamo had a long history
in
Bon Ton Cafe, 1933-1940
Gloria Fiorello told us that
her father, Gaines Drug man Russell Goble, owned the building at 405 S. Main
when it housed the Bon Ton Café. Gloria’s great-aunt and uncle, Irene and
Cliff Williams, ran it.
The Bon Ton was originally
directly across the street from this building. So when the Alamo Meat
Market went out of business, the Bon Ton’s owners had only a short move.
The restaurant was immensely
popular. Kiwanis and other civic clubs met in a banquet hall on the
second floor. Children of all ages were fascinated by the dumbwaiter that
hauled food and dishes upstairs and back down. How about that!
Harold Gibson, HHS class of
1939, remembers that second-floor space above the Bon Ton: “It could
accommodate meetings and dinners for groups. When it was not
otherwise engaged, high schoolers and other young people used the room for
dancing. The music source was a nickelodeon located in the restaurant
downstairs. Someone would collect change from the dancers
to activate the nickelodeon and its music was sent to the second
floor (I think to the diners as well).”
The Man’s Shop, 1945-1959
Cecil McCandless operated
The Man’s Shop in this building from about 1945 until 1959. He and his
wife, Leah, were the parents of the wonderful five McCandless brothers.
She became a friend to governors and presidents. He was a
Jim Barnes remembers the
McCandless family as fellow Presbyterians: “As a grade-schooler, I
remember going there with my Dad and
Grandmother every August to buy my new Tuff Nut jeans for school. Mr.
McCandless gave me a shiny, pearly-white-handled Tuff
Nut pocket knife for our purchase.
“In this screwy world today,
can you imagine handing out knives to little kids as an incentive to
buy your product? Then again, the
knives were so small and dull that I don't think anyone
cut off a finger or got killed on the playground by a Tuff Nut
knife! Mr. McCandless also sold Buster Brown shoes, as I recall.”
Ladd’s Men’s Wear,
1960-74
“Cecil wanted to quit
business,” said Gloria Fiorello “and so Ladd and I put in the store after he
left. Cecil didn’t carry any of the kind of clothes that we did.”
Ladd Gwinn and Gloria
operated a first-class business for 14 years. They closed out in November
of 1974. Many
Kathy Holman Barker:
“Always went to Ladd’s to buy nice gifts for the boyfriend(s).”
Jim Thayer: “I worked at
Ladd's my senior year. I worked mostly Saturdays and occasionally weekdays.
I washed the windows, swept the sidewalk, and stocked the merchandise. My
salary was $.65 an hour and I received a raise to $.75 an hour. I
remember the men's club Ladd Gwinn started. The Reverend Joy Eisenhauer
seemed to always win early for a men's suit. He was always well dressed
and a great friend. I received a new sweater as a Christmas gift from the
Gwinn for my employment. Gloria Gwinn
was an exceptional person. She was a good friend of my mother and I
enjoy hearing from her.”
Virgil Brian: “I think
I still have a clothes bag from Ladd’s Menswear. Such a pack rat.”
Bobbi’s Dress Shop,
1977-1980 – Bobbi Smith ran this
women’s clothing store.
Others – Unfortunately we
don’t have any information about who owned and managed these other businesses
that were located at 405 S. Main, or how long they operated. Can anyone
help?
1981 – Quartz Fashions
1983-1985 – Conrad’s Bernina and Fabrics
1985-1986 – Counted Classics
1986-88 – Jerry’s Tackle Shop
1990-91 – Video Plus
Etc. by Lynne – Lynne Morris ran this business, and we know it was
operating in the early 2000s.
Miscellaneous Other
Businesses South of Boothe Drug
Amy Rudkins was one of many
who remember a shoe store (Boone’s) and jewelry store (Payton’s) south of
Boothe Drug. It’s a good reminder that we need to explore the rest of
that block in the future.
Mama’s Food Store
Jim Thayer: “Jim
Barnes and I would frequent Mama"s often. My favorite purchase was
the orange Pop-UP ice cream. What a treat. Lee Kouri and Mama were
always very nice to us.”
Cheryl Hicks: “I loved
to buy candy cigarettes from Mama’s store. I pretended to be a big girl and
could smoke like an adult. Haha! I
thought that was so funny what I think as a young age. (Her brother) Craig and
I loved that place. We either walked to
or rode our bikes to the store. It was a
great memory.”
Gloria Fiorello and Bobby
Stubbs were among those who remember that Mama’s began on
Bobby Stubbs: “I did a
search on Lucy Kouri and found Kouri family records from the 1940 Census.
Lee is listed as Lie. There is a list of names but I only
recognized Lucy and ‘Mama's,’ which I believe is Anna. Edwin told me the
Kouri family was of Lebanese decent; however, their records have them recorded
as American and English as their language. That is great because they
were indeed an integral part of the community and their store became more of
less an icon in
We will inquire about
neighborhood grocery stores soon!
Miscellaneous
Janis Landers, on the Ben
Franklin store: “You could go in there at back to school time and tell
them grade and which school and they had all your supplies already packaged
up.”
Thoughts from
the Squirrel Lair
Walk with Me as I Age
They say that you can measure age-
By the way you feel.
That growing old is optional,
That old age isn’t real…
I have a hard time grasping that,
As my hair turns grey and thin:
And joints that once were supple,
Today will hardly bend.
My strength from other, better days-
Has sprouted wings and flown,
And nearly all my family-
I find are dead and gone.
But I’m not mourning; not at all-
Life does reciprocate.
And beauties oft amaze me-
Especially here of late.
My fading strength has slowed me down-
So now I take the time,
To smell the roses that I pass,
Enjoy life sublime.
Relationships mean so much more-
As I draw near the end-
And family more precious,
As well as every friend.
So slow your step, yea, take your time-
Ere we pass off the stage…
Won’t you walk a mile with me,
As I so quickly age?
(From Gunslinger)
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.
Cooperton Valley Picture Trail
The “
Hello Alumni:
With the summer months upon
us, I wanted to send out this reminder that the 2013 Roosevelt Alumni Reunion
is just around the corner. You should
have Friday, September 27th & Saturday, the 28th marked on your calendars
as the weekend chosen by the alumni at the last reunion to hold this
year’s. I hope you are ready for a
weekend full of fun visiting with old friends and classmates.
The Alumni Committee is
currently planning the activities for the weekend so watch for additional
information around mid-summer. As you
may be aware, there have been questions concerning the alumni association’s use
of the grade school as the location for future reunions. I want to assure everyone that the 2013
Reunion will be held at your home town of
I would like to ask everyone
who receives this notice via email to help get the word out to all our
classmates and friends who do not have an email address. Please contact all your friends via
telephone, Facebook, twitter etc. Also,
I would like to encourage everyone to go to www.classreports.org and register as
alumni of
Finally, regarding the
reunion, if you have any suggestions or events you would like considered,
please contact any member of the committee as soon as possible or send an email
to danhayslip@sbcglobal.net. You
can also post your suggestion at classreports.org.
Looking forward to seeing
you all soon and I am excited about getting our own website up and
running. If someone has old class
pictures they would like to scan in and send to me, I will get them uploaded to
the website. Hope this will be the best
reunion yet.
Dan Hayslip
214-796-3131
********
All alumni from
This Class-Based Reunion Website features dynamic
changing content daily. Stop in to view current Class News. Exchange opinions and stay up to date with the
Message Board. View the Featured Alumni Biography of the day. Send a birthday greeting to a class member
listed in the Upcoming Birthdays panel. Reunion Announcements, Book and Movie
Reviews, Favorite Recipes and Featured Links will keep one checking in
regularly to see what's new.
Class of 1962 member Dan Hayslip has volunteered to
serve as Class Administrator for this all alumni database. Dan would like to invite all Alumni to stop in
and fill out a profile so they can be reached regarding the next Class Reunion. Once you see everything that you can do at
this website, I’m sure each individual class will want to establish their own
for the year they graduate. All that is
needed is one person to volunteer as Class Administrator.
This Class-Based Reunion Website is hosted by
Classreport.org. For a refreshing change
from the large commercial alumni directories, Classreport.org provides
non-commercial class reunion websites for every graduating class of every high
school, and extends full access to all class members without regard to
financial ability. Classreport.org has
no advertising, no pop-ups, no spam, and no registrations fees. Classreport.org pledges to never sell names
and addresses to third parties and to let the website be administered
exclusively by Roosevelt High School Alumni. Other alumni classes from
INSTRUCTIONS TO REGISTER AT WWW.CLASSREPORTS.ORG
1. Go to www.classreports.org
2. Right click on
3. Right click on “CLICK HERE TO REGISTER”
4. Right click on the first letter of your last
name at the time of graduation.
5. Right click on “CLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR NAME”
6. You must input an email address in order to
register but you may click “NO” to not have that address displayed to
others. If you do not have an email
address, you can go to yahoo.com or any other email server and create one for
free. Be sure and remember it and the
password you create as you will need that to login in the future by just going
to your 2009 class page.
7. Once you have everything input, click on
register and then on “EDIT MY PROFILE”.
This should take you to where you can input all your contact
information, a picture, slide show, website, anything you like. Many people include their high school picture
and some also add a recent picture also.
Classreports always defaults to No, in response to allowing your address
or email to be viewed by others so be sure and check yes if you want that information
available to others. Your phone number
will never be available to anyone but the class administrator.
8. Be sure and page down and include your birth
date and information on spouse and children.
Please be sure and include a short bio as it serves to make the website
much more interesting.
9. Once your profile is input, click on submit
data and you can go to the class page to view all the information on the
reunion as it is updated.
Interesting
Tidbits
Wild Gorilla Encounter
A tourist camp in
News
Community
Supper
The
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The Roosevelt Senior Citizens center is
closed for the summer. They will reopen
on Tuesday, Sept. 3 for lunch.
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:
June 8 – Merron Smith
McCormack, Class of 1969
June 9 – Stormy Stucks
June 9 – Ronda Thompson
June 10 – Jerry Hayslip, Class of 1964
June 10 – Sylvia Files
June 11 – Anita Copeland
June 12 – Brad Henson
June 13 – Jessie Collins
Happy Anniversary To:
June 9 – Mark &
LaDonna Turner
June 10 – Dick & Becky
Bynum Tannery, Class of 1965
Humor
Curtis & Leroy
Mule Trading
Curtis & Leroy saw an ad in the Starkville Daily in
The farmer agreed to deliver the mule the next day.
The next morning the farmer drove up and said, "Sorry, fellows, I have
some bad news, the mule died last night."
Curtis & Leroy replied, "Well, then just give us our money back."
The farmer said, "Can't do that. I went and spent it already."
They said, "OK then, just bring us the dead mule."
The farmer asked, "What in the world ya'll gonna do with a dead
mule?"
Curtis said, "We gonna raffle him off."
The farmer said, "You can't raffle off a dead mule!"
Leroy said, "We shore can! Heck, we don't hafta tell nobody he's
dead!"
A couple of weeks later, the farmer ran into Curtis & Leroy at the Piggly
Wiggly grocery store and asked.
"What'd you fellers ever do with that dead mule?"
They said, "We raffled him off like we said we wuz gonna do."
Leroy said, "Shucks, we sold 500 tickets fer two dollars apiece and made a
profit of $998."
The farmer said, "My Lord, didn't anyone complain?"
Curtis said, "Well, the feller who won got upset. So we gave him his
two dollars back."
Curtis and Leroy now work for the government.
They're overseeing the Bailout & Stimulus Programs.
Limit all
One in office
One in prison
From the Email
“Bag”
June
3, 2013
We
were sorry to learn of Johnny’s death.
That was a touching story about him, as a first grader, wanting to sit
in your Mom’s lap. That was
understandable as she was a very sweet lady.
I remember seeing her at church and
********
June
4, 2013
I just can’t understand why
the alumni association wants to keep saying there is a rift between them and
the city when that couldn’t be any farther from the truth. I
just spoke with mayor
Larry Phillips, 1964 grad and owner of Phillips Welding since 1982. Thanks.
Food for
Thought
Freedom
The following quotes give
each of us something to think about.
"Freedom is never more
than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children
in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to
do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and
our children's children what it was once like in the
A veteran is someone who, at
one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States
of America ' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.' – Author Unknown
Obituaries
We
received word of the death of
Useful
Links:
Becker
Funeral Home of Snyder, OK
http://www.beckerfuneral.com/?page=snyder
Peoples
Cooperative Funeral
http://www.peoplescooperativefuneralhome.com/who-we-are/history
Ray
and Martha’s Funeral Home of Hobart,
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http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/listing/user/rooseveltcemetery
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