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Carolyn Niebruegge May Michael L.
May 
Vol. 4, Is. 6 Jan. 1, 2015
From the
Editor
We’re running a little late
with this month’s edition of the “Roosevelt News – East Coast Edition.” Guess we let visiting our
As we move into 2015, I
think we all wonder what’s going to take place in “The Puzzle Palace on the
Glad to be back home
although we had a great visit in
We have gotten our van pool
operation down to only two vans on the road and are most likely headed to ONE
within the next month or two. Just not
the interest in vans that there used to be.
Too many people working from home one to two days a week and not wanting
to pay a full fare for a van. I
understand that, but we can’t operate with them just paying when they want to
ride. I think it’s just one of those
things that simply “goes out of fashion.”
That’s really not all bad as we’d like to be TOTALLY retired. They are always in the back of our minds when
we’re away from home. I just think it’s
time. The biggest problem is finding buyers
for 3 vans.
We have snow this
morning. Just spoke with our daughter
who said that there are roads closed and wrecks everywhere. They didn’t close schools and some students
have been on buses for over 2 hours and are still not to school. I can see a lot of nasty emails headed
towards the school system. Karen says
she’s keeping Paige at home. I think
that’s a great idea. The snow is very
light and fluffy, but it’s 28 and when it’s driven on immediately turns to
ice. Karen suggested that I try my
backpack blower on the drive. That might
just work. At least I’ll give it a
try. Not sure if it’s quit snowing yet—can’t
tell looking out. Maybe I’d better get
some clothes on and go check it out.
Wish me luck!
mlm
Content
Contributors for the Week
Charles
Curtis, Class of 1965
Geary
McDowell
All
those who sent messages to the Email “Bag”
Thank
you all!
Remembering…
1928
Car Repair Mailer
This is a bit of history. Interesting.
http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/118802/141743.html?1274243433
Thoughts from
the Squirrel Lair
Happy New Year!
Sissel is a Norwegian soprano.
Her career has spanned 28 years, mainly in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxSqMbsHeJ8&feature=youtu.be
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Happy New Year!
My wishes for you.
http://www.pinecam.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&p=1613610
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The Candy Bomber Story
This is a little long but I
encourage you to listen to the end. It
is a great story. And yes, it would have
been nice to have it for the December issue but I still think it is worth
watching today. cnm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjz8yu5MWC0
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
For Those Who
Thought They Knew Everything
This
is an interesting bit of trivia.
http://www.siliconhell.com/humour/knoweverything.htm
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1914
I am forwarding this without
any fact checking. The sobering thought for me is that I lived
thru 1/2 of this period.
THE YEAR IS 1914
This will boggle your mind!
The year is 1914 --- One
hundred years ago. What a difference a
century makes! Here are some statistics
for the Year 1914:
The average life expectancy for men was 47 years.
Fuel for this car was sold
in drug stores only.
Only 14 percent of the homes
had a bathtub.
Only 8 percent of the homes
had a telephone.
There were only 8,000 cars
and only 144 miles of paved roads.
The maximum speed limit in
most cities was 10 mph.
The tallest structure in the
world was the
The average US wage in 1910
was 22 cents per hour.
The average
A competent accountant could
expect to earn $2000 per year,
A dentist $2,500 per year, a
veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000 per year, and a mechanical engineer
about $5,000 per year.
More than 95 percent of all
births took place at home.
Ninety percent of all
Doctors had NO COLLEGE EDUCATION! Instead, they attended so-called
medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press AND the government
as "substandard."
Sugar cost four cents a
pound.
Eggs were fourteen cents a
dozen.
Coffee was fifteen cents a
pound.
Most women only washed their
hair once a month and used Borax or egg yolks for shampoo.
The Five leading causes of
death were:
1. Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke
The American flag had 45
stars...
The population of
Crossword puzzles, canned
beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented yet.
There was neither a Mother's
Day nor a Father's Day.
Two out of every 10 adults
couldn't read or write and only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from
high school.
Marijuana, heroin, and
morphine were all available over the counter at the local corner drugstores.
Back then pharmacists said,
"Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the
stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health!"
(Shocking?)
Eighteen percent of
households had at least one full-time servant or domestic help.
There were about 230
reported murders in the ENTIRE U.S.A.!
I am now going to forward
this to someone else without typing it myself.
From there, it will be sent
to others all over the WORLD - all in a matter of seconds!
Try to imagine what it may
be like in another 100 years.
News
The
Roosevelt Senior Citizens serves lunch 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 January is as follows:
Thursday,
Jan. 1: Closed for holiday
Tuesday,
Jan. 6: Beef Stew, Corn Bread, Salad
Bar, Dessert
Thursday,
Jan. 8: Baked Pork Loin, Mashed Potatoes
w/Gravy, Corn, Rolls, Salad Bar, Dessert
Tuesday,
Jan. 13: Sot Tacos, Refried beans,
Mexican Corn, Salad Bar, Dessert
Thursday,
Jan. 15: Spaghetti w/Meat Sauce, Green
Beans, Garlic Bread, Salad Bar, Dessert
Tuesday,
Jan. 20: Meat Loaf, Mashed Potatoes
w/Gravy, Broccoli, Rolls, Salad Bar, Dessert
Thursday,
Jan. 22: Ham w/ Pinto beans, Stewed
Potatoes, Corn Bread, Salad Bar, Dessert
Tuesday,
Jan. 27: Hamburger Steak, Mashed
Potatoes w/Gravy, Green Beans, Rolls, Salad Bar, Dessert
Thursday,
Jan. 29: Baked Chicken, Mashed Potatoes
w/Gravy, Sweet Peas, Rolls, Salad Bar, Dessert
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Cooperton
Community Meal Postponed
The
first dinner of 2015 was planned for January 2 but because of bad weather it
has been postponed until, Friday, January 9 at 6:30 p.m. at the
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The
Kiowa County Genealogical Society will meet at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 13
in the Slaner Room at the Hobart Public Library in
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The
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Sunday,
December 7, the
of the traditional Tour of Homes sponsored by Xi Episilon
Tau, Hobart. The
county museum, housed in the old train depot which was built in 1909,
provided a memory of an "Old Fashioned Christmas" complete with an
old
fashioned Christmas tree. Our members baked lots of special refreshment
goodies which covered the tables and Tommie Riley, our new museum curator,
served her own special recipe of spiced apple cider.
The Kindergarten children at the
ornaments for the old fashioned Christmas tree which was strung with popped
corn located in the main reception room. The Junior Main Street Students,
board and museum members helped with tours of the museum. Cara McKay
provided her special entertainment of Christmas Carols.
Over 100 people signed the museum guest book as visitors, took the tours and
enjoyed sampling all the goodies on the tables.
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:
January 2 – Michael Muldowney, Class of 1967
January 3 – Virginia
(Simmons)
January 6 – Dolores (Eaton) Earley, Class of 1959
January 7 – Brenda Saville
January 7 – Mijo Chard
January 9 – Heath Thompson
January 9 – Darian Thompson
January 10 – Linda Clark
January 10 – Betty Starcher Moore
January 10 – Krystal (Mahoney) Lancaster, Class of 1991
January 10 – Glenda (Terry) Hebensperger
January 10 -- Robert Brown
January 11 – Shane Everhart
January 12 – Curtis Liles, Class of 1979
January 12 – Lisa (McCollom) Liles, Class of
1975
January 13 – Leon Chain
January 13 – Kyli Ellison
January 14 – Jill Harmon
January 14 – Sharon Raasch
January 14 – Leslie Smith
January 14 – Lauren (Thurmond) Wilson
January 14 – Dante Smith
January 14 – Eusebio Alonzo, Class of 1977
January 15 – Cotton Talley Mathis, Class of 1948
January 16 – Carolyn (Wiser)
Melton, Class of 1967
January 19 – Laira Downen
January 19 – Lakin Sage Cole (
January 19 – Kruz Kendall Lile
January 19 – Jackie Felter
January 21 – Sharon Wood
January 22 – Debbie (Peterson) Wager, Class of 1978
January 24 – Lloyd Newton,
Class of 1951
January 24 – Ann (Baden) Thurmond
January 25 – Kelsey Franks
January 25 –
January 25 – Anna Matteson
January 26 – Tom
Johnson
January 27 – Mickey Reeves
January 28 – Mandy (Cole) Carter
January 28 –
January 28 – Cale Garrison
January 28 – Paul Merkey
January 30 – Mike May, Class of 1965
January 30 – Sherrie Gibbons Webb, Class of 1983
January 31 – Marjory Brooks
Happy Anniversary To:
January 24 – Buck & Louann Cook
January 27 – Anita & Tom Copeland
January 28 – Rich & Rhonda Ainslie
Humor
Tall Tale??
The rain was pouring and
there was a big puddle in front of the pub just outside the Air Force Base.
A grizzled old retired
Marine fighter pilot wearing a faded baseball cap emblazoned with a VMF 323
squadron patch, his tatty leather flight jacket with many more squadron
and aircraft carrier patches was standing near the edge with a fishing
rod, his line in the puddle.
A curious young Air Force
fighter pilot came over to him and asked what he was doing.
"Fishing," the old
Marine simply said.
'Poor old fool, another dumb
Marine fighter pilot, the Air Force officer thought and so he invited
the ragged old timer into the pub for a drink.
Sipping his Chardonnay semi-sweet white wine and watching the old Marine
drinking a Johnny Walker Black label scotch whiskey, he felt he
should start some conversation. The
haughty Air Force fighter pilot asked, "And how many have you
caught?"
"You're the
eighth," the old Marine fighter pilot answered.
From the Email
“Bag”
December
5, 2014
The recent Food for Thought
article really is food for thought. Where
did this article originate? The article
starts with APPARENTLY the White house referred to Christmas Trees as Holiday
Trees. When they say White house. do
they really mean President Obama or someone else in the White house. The word apparently can have a wide scope.
When you use the word apparently it usually means you are not sure of the
information you are giving.
Thanks,
Larry Phillips
Food for
Thought
90 Seconds You
Won’t Regret Seeing
This
is very powerful!
https://www.youtube.com/embed/YjntXYDPw44
Obituaries
Jennie
(Roberts) Hill, 89, Apache, Class of 1944
http://www.swoknews.com/obituaries/jennie-hill
Lonnie
Eugene Hayslip, 86,
http://www.pecangrovefuneral.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=2892679&fh_id=10185
Shirley
Griffee76, Canute
http://www.whineryfs.com/obituaries/obituary-listings?obId=369645#/obituaryInfo
Editor’s
Note: We just received the following
obituary which isn’t available online.
Verdell S. Jackson,
84,
Verdell
Stevenson-Jackson was born June 24, 1930, in
Born
and raised in
Verdell was a
compassionate Nurse Aide and Caretaker for over 20 years before retiring and
moving to
She
was proceded in death by her parents, her husband,
Elvin, brother Willie Charies “Willie C,” Stevenson “Wardree”, and her three beloved children, Carolyn Ann
Willis, James Coy Jackson, and Thomas Lee “Peter” Jackson.
She
leaves to cherish her memory one son, Elvin O’Neal Jackson, Jr., her devoted
niece Annette Atkinson, five grandchildren, six great grandchildren and two
great-great grandchildren.
Useful
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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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