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Carolyn Niebruegge May Michael L.
May 
Vol. 4 Is. 4 Nov. 1, 2014
From the
Editor
Another month has passed and
we have stayed busier than ever. I agree
with Mike when he says he doesn’t know how we got everything done when we
worked. I don’t think we did some of the
things we do now but I guess that is what retirement is all about.
We are prepping very hard
for the upcoming General Election on November 4. Mike and I have worked as election officers
at the polls for the past 3 years. That
was something I thought we would enjoy and I think we really do. However, it is a task that takes some
preparing for. We were fortunate to
begin working in a precinct which had a Chief Officer who had been in the
position for many years and was extremely good.
So we had the best to learn under.
Over time, Mike has served as the Voting Machine Specialist, the
Assistant Chief, and the Chief but in all of those instances out friend, the
very experienced Chief, was there to assist if needed. Well, our friend the very experienced Chief
decided to move on to serve the Electoral Board in a roving position to visit
several precincts to insure all was being done correctly. Mike was asked to assume the duties of the
Chief Officer. He reluctantly agreed
with my backing. I must say as he always
does he has studied very hard on all of the material furnished to him and
attended all of the training available.
I know that he will be a very good Chief Officer. I will be there as the Electronic Poll Book
Specialist and will assist him in any way possible. We have six other very competent officers to
assist as well. But needless to say,
Mike will be glad to have next Tuesday behind him so he can move on to more fun
things to do.
We are anxiously awaiting
the call to tell us the new windows we have ordered for the house are in. We fully expected they would be calling to
set an installation date by now but Mike had said if it was too close to the
election he would have them wait until after Nov. 4. Well, we are at that point so it will
definitely be late next week at the earliest and probably later than that. We now have discovered that we have something
causing the driveway near the front steps to sink. The drive has dropped a couple of inches and
the front steps are sinking as well. The
contractor who did the remodeling in the house last winter will be here next
Wednesday to begin tearing out the portion of the drive and the front steps to
determine what is causing the problem.
He will then frame everything back in and have the concrete poured on
Thursday. He is also installing new
lights on the outside of the house. The
10 year old motion detector lights we currently have now think there is motion
all the time and we certainly don’t need them on constantly. In researching for new lights, we determined
that motion detector lights really don’t have a very long life—in fact our
outlasted most by several years. So we
are installing regular lights with timers on the switches. Again, the never ending
saga of home ownership. There is
always something that needs to be done.
We are looking forward to
trip to
Paige has completed a
successful first season of playing softball.
Up to now, the only sport she liked was ice skating and she is getting
very good at that. This fall she decided
to try softball and found another sport she loves. She did quite well—she had a hit in all but
one of her at bats. She also determined
that she liked to play catcher. So we
hope we may have a softball player in our future. She plans on finding a few indoor clinics to
attend over the winter months to improve her skills before the spring season
starts.
Our leaves have finally
begun to fall fairly heavily. Mike and I
blew them last weekend for the first time.
We will have at least 2 more times to go before we have them all for the
fall. Without being here to see what
leaves are like, it is hard to imagine.
Our house and yard sits in the middle of 3 acres of trees, most of which
are over 60 feet tall and full of leaves.
If we don’t blow them several times, the yard and drive would get over
knee deep in leaves. Again
the joys of home ownership. Mike
does love the trees and refuses to cut any down so we will just have to deal
with the leaves.
We hope each and every one
of you have a very pleasant Thanksgiving.
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Content
Contributors for the Week
Clyde
& Mabel Blackwood, Classes of 1943 and 1946
Geary
McDowell
Lloyd
Newton, Class of 1951
All
those who sent messages to the Email “Bag”
Thank
you all!
Remembering…
Cotton Pulling
After seeing several posts
on Facebook about cotton harvest and several mentioning things they remembered
about pulling cotton from many years ago, I reflected back on my early days and
what I remembered about cotton harvest.
The earliest I remember anything about cotton harvest was either my
first or second grade year when school dismissed for a week in the fall for
cotton harvest. That year my Dad was
harvesting milo in southwest
However, the next year was
the big year. I was so excited that Mom
had gotten my brother and me a cotton sacks and made sure the straps were the
right length for each of us. I could
hardly wait to get to the field that first morning—I am sure I was already
planning what I would buy with the money I earned. Well, according to the story my Mom always
told I wasn’t so excited when I came in at noon for lunch. I told her, “I’m not going back. I don’t have to pull cotton and I’m not going
to.” That was a mistake on my part as
Mom quickly explained to me that I did have to pull cotton and I would be going
back to the field every day that school was out. And I did pull cotton every day. Mom would show up with a big paper grocery
bag and pull along beside Kenneth and me.
I would get one grocery bag full in my cotton sack and Kenneth would get
the next one. That was always a pleasant
time as we pulled our rows out a little quicker and our cotton sacks got full
faster. As I recall, I made about $32
that fall pulling cotton. That money
lasted a long time as I wasn’t so ready to spend it. When Mom moved to the assisted living
facility and split things between Kenneth and me, there were a pair of red
Christmas Angels that she said Kenneth and I got her for Christmas that year
using some of the money we earned pulling cotton. I got one and Kenneth got one. We bought them at what was then the Rexall
Drug Store in Snyder—now known as Larry’s.
From that year on, we pulled
cotton each fall that school dismissed until Dad got a cotton stripper. I don’t remember exactly when that was but I
believe I was probably in the sixth grade.
Even then we had to go to the field and pick up what cotton was missed
or dropped at the end of the rows. Those
early strippers didn’t do the job that today’s automated harvesting equipment
does. I continue to marvel at the
advancement in farming equipment and how computers and GPS technology has
changed things. I was talking to Kenneth
a few weeks ago and he told me he was waiting for someone to come
work on the GPS on his tractor so he could finish sowing wheat. His said he could sow in the daylight but at
night it was nearly impossible to sow given he is totally a “no till” farmer so
it isn’t easy to see where you have been in the old stubble. How things have changed.
Now back to the cotton
pulling. Our cousins always pulled along
with us. We had more than one green boll
fight along the way. I remember one year
the cotton in a bottom just below what is now the dam at
I remember the scales we
used to weight the cotton sacks before dumping them in the cotton
trailers. Sometimes the scales were
suspended from a three-legged stand and sometimes the scales hung from a board
(I think this was when we might be dumping in the back of a truck). I also remember someone would get in the
trailer and stomp the cotton down so you could pack more in. The gin was often so busy that it took a few
days to get trailers back so you had to put as much as possible on each trailer
but at the same time be sure it would come out to be full bales. Everyone wrote down in a book that hung with
the scales how many pounds of cotton they had in the sack when they weighed and
emptied. That was how we all got paid—by
the pounds of cotton we pulled.
Now having said all of this,
maybe some of my memories aren’t right but this is how I remember it some 60
years later. I don’t know my kids
wouldn’t understand as they really haven’t experienced much of farm life but I
don’t really think that even farm kids of today would believe how things have
changed.
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Thoughts from
the Squirrel Lair
I saw the following on Facebook from
Fastline.com. It really hit home to me
and I thought our readers would enjoy. I
am sure that if you are like me and have moved away from the farm that early
life as a child of a farmer never really goes away. cnm
8 Things that Have a Different Meaning for Farmers
Farming is a way of life
with many similarities and differences to those who don’t farm. Check out our 8 things that have a different
meaning to Farmers!
1. Holidays -- Holidays
carry a different meaning for Farmers.
Just because it’s Christmas morning, the livestock still needs to be
taken care of. Driving home from Easter
service? There will be stopping to check
on the crops or check on the cattle. The
chores don’t stop just because it’s a special day.
2. Weather -- Weather
is not just sunshine or rain for Farmers; it’s the difference between a great
crop, a good one or a total loss.
Weather affects and determines so much for Farmers. During the polar weather much of the country
experience this past winter, Farmers don’t have the luxury of staying
inside where it’s warm – they have a livelihood to maintain.
3. Weekends – The saying
goes “same stuff, different day,” and that’s what it’s like for
Farmers. Sure time will be made for
Church but not much else changes – chores need to be done, especially if
harvest or plant is going on.
4. Meals -- Most meals
revolve around a table and occur at the same time. Not for Farmers. Their meals vary daily and their table – well
a lot of time its a tailgate of a truck or the cab of
a tractor because they’ve got work to do!
5. Seasons -- Sure there is winter, spring summer and fall – but the most important
ones are Plant and Harvest. Though they
come at different times for different things, those are the seasons that
Farmers operate around.
6. Pets -- Dogs and
cats, sure we’ve got those, but they usually serve a purpose. Barn cats and
farm dogs all help out. But we’ve also
got all of our other cattle, pigs, chickens, horses, goats etc. that we look at
as our pets as well. After all, they
still have to be taken care of and a lot of times have it nicer than the actual
Farmers!
7. Risks – Farming is
a risky job. From the manual aspect,
there are many things Farmers face on a daily basis that most won’t ever have
to deal with. Farm equipment, animals,
grain bins etc. They all carry inherent
risks that Farmers face daily. As to
other risks, between battling mother nature and trying to predict before your
crop will even go in the ground how it will fair – those are big risks that can
determine so much about your profit and whether or not you will make money this
year.
8. Family – A family
that farms together stays together.
Family carries a different meaning for Farmers, not in they value them
any more than the next person, but when you grow up on a Farm, you know you’ll
be working that farm. After all, over 97
percent of farms are Family Farms!
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The Great Architect
I dreamed that I went to
Heaven and an angel was showing me around.
We walked side-by-side inside a large workroom filled with angels. My angel guide stopped in front of the first
section and said, “This is the Receiving Section. Here, all petitions to God said in prayer are
received.”
I looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy with so many angels
sorting out prayer petitions written down on voluminous paper sheets from
people all over the world.
Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section.
The angel then said to me, "This is the Packaging and Delivery
Section. Here, the graces and blessings
the people asked for are processed and delivered to the living persons who
asked for them." I noticed again
how busy it was there. There were many angels working hard at that station,
since so many blessings had been requested and were being packaged for delivery
to Earth.
Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of a
very small station. To my great
surprise, only one angel was seated there, idly doing nothing. "This is
the Acknowledgment Section,” my angel friend quietly admitted to me. He seemed embarrassed.
"How is it that there is no work going on here?” I asked.
"So sad," the angel sighed.
"After people receive the blessings that they asked for, very few
send back acknowledgments."
"How does one acknowledge God's blessings?” I asked.
"Simple," the angel answered.
Just say, "Thank you, Lord."
"What blessings should they acknowledge?" I asked.
"If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof
overhead and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of this world. If
you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish, you are
among the top 8% of the world's wealthy, and if you
get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in the world who has that
opportunity."
"If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more
blessed than the many who will not even survive this day."
"If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of
imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead
of 700 million people in the world."
"If you can attend a church without the fear of harassment, arrest,
torture or death you are envied by, and more blessed than, three billion people
in the world."
"If your parents are still alive and still married.... you are very
rare."
"If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you're unique to all those in doubt and
despair......."
"Ok," I said. "What now? How can I start?"
The Angel said, "If you can read this message, you just received a double
blessing in that someone was thinking of you as very special, and you are more
blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all."
Have a good day, count your blessings, and if you care to, pass this along to
remind everyone else how blessed we all are..........
ATTN: Acknowledge Dept.
"Thank you GOD, for giving me the ability to share this message and for
giving me so many wonderful people with whom to share it."
I thank God for everything, especially all my family and friends!
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 “
Interesting
Tidbits
Stars and Stripes Forever—A
Tribute to Out Veterans
This gentleman is the son of
a Marine and he performs Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever” on a guitar
exactly as if it was being performed by the Marine Band itself.
Amazing rendition and something one would never think to hear on a
guitar!
What an amazing performance
for a guitar, EXCELLENT !
News
The
Roosevelt Senior Citizens has reopened from the summer break. Lunch is served from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00
p.m. Lunch for Seniors
is $4 and for the younger generation is $5.
The
menu for the month of August is as follows:
Tuesday,
Nov. 4: Thanksgiving Dinner, Ham and Turkey w/gravy, Sweet and
Mashed Potatoes, Green Bean Casserole, Rolls, Salad Bar, Dessert
Thursday,
Nov. 6: Baked Pork Loin Chops, Mashed
Potatoes, Sweet Peas, Rolls, Salad Bar, Dessert
Tuesday,
Nov. 11: Hamburger Steak, Mashed
Potatoes/gravy, Corn, Buns, Salad Bar, Dessert
Thursday,
Nov. 13: Burrito Supreme, Refried Beans,
Spanish Rice, Salad Bar, Dessert
Tuesday,
Nov. 18: Beef Stew, Corn Bread, Salad
Bar, Dessert
Thursday,
Nov. 20: Smoked Sausage Links, Fried
Potatoes, Baked Beans, Rolls, Salad Bar, Dessert
Tuesday,
Nov. 25: Bar-B-Q Brisket
Thursday,
Nov. 27: Thanksgiving Day, Closed
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Wild Hog BBQ
The
19th Annual Wild Hog BBQ will be Saturday, Nov. 1 in conjunction
with the weekly dance at the
Because of the time change the dance on
November 8 will start at 7:00 p.m.
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Cooperton
Thanksgiving Feast
The Cooperton Community will celebrate
its Thanksgiving feast on Friday, November 7 at 6:30 p.m. at the
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 1 – Bobbie (Biggers)
Funkhouser
November 1 – Justin Krehbiel, Class of 1987
November 1 – Skyler Simmons
November 2 – Mabel (Block) Blackwood, Class of 1946
November 2 – Jenny (
November 2 – Sammye Jo Cooper
November 2 – Frank Lyde
November 2 – Jean Sears
November 4 – Hazel
(McKinnis) McIntire
November 4 – Jerome Smith, Class of 1980
November 4 – Sam Ward
November 4 – Tony Reeves
November 5 – Trazi Jo Cooper
November 6 – Kinna Garrison
November 6 – Tim Morris, Class of 1987
November 7 – Arlene Boyd
November 8 – Gatlin Jennings
November 8 – Corben Wayne Horton
November 8 – Phillip Liles, Class of 1954
November 9 – Karen May
November 9 – Kylee Dawn Cantrell
November 10 – Clyde Blackwood, Class
of 1943
November 11 – Tommy McCallick
November 12 – Edith McCallick
November 12 – Sharla Bosin
November 13 – Louise (Hopkins) Kendall, Class of 1971
November 13 – Mike Ellis
November 13 – Keyna Liles Metcalf
November 14 – Cade Moore
November 15 – Audrey Stucks
November 15 – Dallon Welch
November 16 – Cory Blaine Moore
November 16 – Andy Goodson,
Class of 1966
November 17 – Gayla (Cook) Miller, Class of 1977
November 17 – Ashlan Thompson
November 18 – Ben Horton
November 20 – Bud Johnson
November 20 – John Gibbs
November 21 – Andurea Melton
November 22 – Bobbie (Alford)
Buckner, Class of 1947
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 2 – Eric &
Kaye Jackson, Class of 1962
November 2 – David & Pam Jackson, Classes of 1975 & 1979
November 15 – Michael
& Brandy Saville, Class of 1993
November 21 –
November 26 – Renny
& Karla (
November 26 – Redd & Judy (Brown) Conrad, Class of 1961
Humor
The following is appropriate at Halloween.
IRISH GHOST STORY
This story happened a while
ago in
~~~~~~~~~~~~
John Bradford, a
Suddenly, he saw a car slowly coming towards him and stopped. John,
desperate for shelter and without thinking about it, got into the car and
closed the door....Only to realize there was nobody behind the wheel and the
engine wasn't on. The car started moving
slowly. John looked at the road ahead
and saw a curve approaching. Scared, he
started to pray, begging for his life.
Then, just before the car hit the curve, a hand appeared out of nowhere
through the window, and turned the wheel.
John, paralyzed with terror, watched as the hand came through the
window, but never touched or harmed him.
Shortly thereafter, John saw
the lights of a pub appear down the road, so, gathering strength; he jumped out
of the car and ran to it. Wet and out of
breath, he rushed inside and started telling everybody about the horrible
experience he had just had. A silence enveloped the pub when everybody
realized he was crying... And wasn't drunk.
Suddenly, the door opened, and two other people walked in from the dark and
stormy night. They, like John, were also
soaked and out of breath. Looking
around, and seeing John Bradford sobbing at the bar, one said to the other....
Look Paddy....there's that blooming idiot that got in the car while we were
pushing it!!!!
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EXERCISE FOR PEOPLE OVER 60 !
This is the best exercise
for seniors, and those that soon will be, I have come across!!! I
highly recommend it!
Begin by standing on a
comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room at each side.
With a 5-lb potato bag in
each hand, extend your arms straight out from your sides and hold them there as
long as you can. Try to reach a full minute, and then relax.
Each day you'll find that
you can hold this position for just a bit longer.
After a couple of weeks,
move up to 10-lb potato bags.
Then try 50-lb potato bags
and then eventually try to get to where you can lift a 100-lb potato bag in
each hand and hold your arms straight for more than a full minute. (I'm at this
level.)
After you feel confident at
that level, put a potato in each bag.
Food for
Thought
As we approach
Veterans Day, this is a good reminder of what our Veterans have done for all of
us.
Remember Me
The following Youtube video
was reportedly made by a 15 year old girl, Lizzie Palmer. I can’t confirm if she was really the one who
put it together but it has had millions of hits since it first appeared in
about 2006.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ervaMPt4Ha0
Obituaries
Joann
Allard, 87,
http://www.rayandmarthas.com/CurrentObituary.aspx?did=add79551-918c-4e8c-b478-8f3825194806
Alice
McCall, 72, Roosevelt, Class of 1958
http://www.rayandmarthas.com/CurrentObituary.aspx?did=a3c5e705-3f99-456d-8527-0da70e698fc2
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,
http://www.234enterprises.com/Roosevelt%20Cemetery%20Layout.htm
http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/listing/user/rooseveltcemetery
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2176228
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?=cr&CRid=99577&CScn=Springhill+Cemetery&CScntry=4&CSst=38&
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=98525
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99399&CScn=Hobart+Rose&CScntry=4&CSst=38
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2246374&CScn=Resurrection&CScntry=4&CSst=38
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99042&CScn=Mountain+Park&CScntry=4&CSst=38
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99397&CScn=roosevelt&CScntry=4&CSst=38
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99439
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