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Judy Haught presents program ultimately liberated at the sit-in nationwide. It was also end ofthe Civil War. Johnson ateacher who wrote Charles became a minister and a mis- Schulz that Peanuts needed sionary to Africa. to be integrated and Frank- Mrs. Haught moved for- lin was added to the popular ward in history to the 1930s and the Great Depression. comic strip. Lois stated that As part of the New Deal, when her family moved to President Franklin Roosevelt Elk City in 1958 the junior created the Works Progress and senior high school had Administration or WPA. integrated in 1955. The grade Workers in the WPA included schools didn’t integrate until journalists who interviewed 1965. The Hubbard family people who had been slaves had four children attending as children. Though advanced Northeast and also served as in age, those people remem- PTA presidents. They had bered and related their Ezra Randle’s mother and experiences as slaves in what Anna Belle Smith serve as is known as The WPA Slave Narratives. She read an ex- homeroom mothers for the cerpt from the story of former sixth grade. Anna Belle’s slave Laura Clark, who asa daughter Francis Morris was child was sold away from her also the high school basket- mother. ball queen. Moving to the 1960s, Mrs. Sharon Hamilton closed the Robert Behrens and Morgan Hill. Photo sbumitted by Haught read from a speech meeting with prayer that in- Judy Haught presenting at the latest Arimathea by Martin Luther King, Jr. cluded the United States. Sue Bill Behrens. celebrating the 100th anni- meeting. Photo submitted by Lois Hubbard. served a Black Forrest Cake versary of the signing of the topped with cherries and Emancipation Proclamation Behrens and Arimathea met Presidents’ Day in the Parlor of the United Methodist Church. of Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation and of Reconstruction in the by Abraham Lincoln. Haught concluded the program with a discussion of the book Be- baked by Barbara Thompson. Assisting was Norma Warnke and Brad Posey prepared Treasurer, Sheri Phillips, pre- the iced tea. Attending were, Hill to wed South after the Civil War. She coming by Michelle Obama. sided at the registration table gave background information Obama, a descendant of June Conrad, Geneva Far- and passed out the minutes. about the publication of Mark slaves, grew up in a work- ris, Sheri Phillips, Sharon Hostess Sue Newkirk led the Twain’s The Adventures of ing class neighborhood in a Hamilton, Judy Haught, Morgan Hill and Robert Behrens have announced inten- Collect in unison and Lois Huckleberry Finn. She read nuclear family surrounded by Bob Berry, Melanie Randle, tions to marry May 25, 2019, at the First Baptist Church of Hubbard showed a video of a from the book and concen- relatives. She attended pres- Photographer, Lois and Bill seven year old girl singing the trated on the character of tigious schools and ultimately Clinton. The bride-to-be is the daughter of Paul and Liz Hill National Anthem. Jim, who is an escaped slave. became First Lady of the Hubbard, Norma Warnke and of Clinton. In recognition of both ‘Mrs. Haught went on to dis- United States. Sue Newkirk. She is a graduate of Clinton High School and Oklahoma President’s Day and Black cuss the true story of Thomas Lois showed several videos The club will celebrate State university with a degree in elementary education. She is History Month, Judy Haught Johnson in the book Steal including the counter sit-in their 105th birthday with Cul- employed by Clinton Public Schools. presented a program titled Away Home by Matt Carter led by the teacher Clara tus as guests at the Lincoln The prospective groom is the son of Bill and Ronnie Beh- “The Lincoln Legacy: From and Aaron Ivey. Johnson was Luper over 60 years ago at Teen Center on Friday, April rens of Elk City. He is agraduate of Elk City High School an born into slavery, sold away the Katz Drug in Oklahoma Sth and 1:30 p.m. dis employed by Cable One. Slavery to the Whitehouse.” She began with an overview from his family as a child, and City, which was the very first Submitted by Lois Hubbard. One Hundred Years Ago, April 1919 ‘The influenza of the previ- 1,000 students carrying ban- Asan Army volunteer, he the lighted candles.” Elk City ous months was replaced by ners and flags and accompa- was treated among the worst. won its ball game over at Ca- oil fever. nied by teachers marched His shoes were replaced with nute and the crowd stepped No oil rigs were in sight, silently though the streets of wooden ones. Teams of six into the confectionary for an BF-DC students but already county leases town. The new high school Americans, of which he was ice cream “soday.” changed hands daily. Up would be three stories high. one, and 14 Russians pulled a In the Trail Elk neighbor- to $20 - $292.23 - per acre Pvt. Vernon Kendall wrote wagon hauling wood four and hood, James E. Melvin’s fam- attend local were being paid. Geological to his mother about life as a one-half miles back and forth ily hid 150 eggs for an Easter surveys showed that the oil German POW. He had been every day through three-foot egg hunt. About 35 people structure lay through Delhi captured on Nov. 3, 1918. deep snow. Breakfast was a participated in the event. speech contest “We had bad treatment, flats north to Willow directly small piece of finely ground John J. Darendinger and in line with Elk City. Town very little to eat, no fire and sawdust, flour and potato Miss Clara Perry marked leaders pushed for a blocking were as lousy as could be,” bread; noon and evening and contract on a 2500-foot he wrote. meals were soup made of bar- Easter with a beautiful wed- Seven Burns Flat-Dill City Will Rogers students partici- ‘well south of town. Christmas dinner con- ley or scanty dog meat mixed ding at the Church of God. pated in a local speech contest and went on to participate in Over at Carter, a drilling sisted ofa small bowl of water with potato peelings. “...we A public invitation had been company representative had soup with tad-poles and issued in the News-Democrat. the Shortgrass Speech Contest in Cordell. proposed atest well. The drained from sauerkraut. He was transferred to a “punish- frogs in it. I have seen whole The scene was set with a Winning first place in the third grade division was Casen company would drill up toa ment camp and the worst in frogs in soup... so the man stunning arch covered with Kauk. His speech was "How Kids Can Make a Difference 3,000-foot test well for leases Germany [Tuchola in north- was lucky that got the frog.” lavender and white flowers in Wildlife Conservation.” Other third grade students from as large as 6,000 acres. Each ern Poland]... The Germans On the verge of utter and banked by many pot- Burns Flat who participated were Breanna Archuleta, Kylie farmer could hold back one did not beat us very much. starvation, Vernon believed ted plants. The bride wore a Denbo, Cloe Fuentez, and Paislee Tate. Will Rogers fourth fourth of his land. The Carter They tried it when we first his life was saved by his first dress of tan crepe de chine graders competing in the contest were Ryleigh St. John and Co-Operative Oil & Gas Co. came into that camp, but they Red Cross parcel. He had and georgette. The groom, Aubrey Sturgeon. nearly unanimously favored soon found that it would not been so weak that he couldn’t recently returned from camp, The Shortgrass Speech Contest consisted of students from the motion. work on Americans, but they walk or stand. He was in- wore his uniform. ‘The beginning of April saw did beat the Russians and terned for 11 months. Note to self: Do not stab a five schools: Navajo, Carnegie, Sayre, Burns Flat-Dill City, gentle rains that continued Killed lots of them.” Diamond C Dry Goods sty without first sterilizing the and Cordell. until torrents delivered sev- ‘Tuchola was a hastily in Elk City stocked stylish needle! Mrs. Pearl Brannon eral inches. The ground was built facility for housing a suits, coats and capes for Eas- got blood poisoning from the ter wear. Velour and serge suits in navy and Pekin Blue, practice. wet deeper than it had been few Allied, Romanian and for many years. A crop this primarily Russian captives. The above items were sum- year, for sure. Of the more than 100,000 gray and tan were advertised marized from the Elk City in Money Market Rates The school bond issue passed in the election. The Russians interned there, Vernon witnessed about 15 from $15 to $47.50 (§219.17- 694.04 in today’s dollars). News-Democrat, The Elk City day before the vote, nearly die of starvation every day. Georgette crepe dresses were Press and Carter Express and Pérsonal & Business Money Market Accounts similarly priced. written by Luanne R. Eisler. Supplementary informa- 2.00: CONSTRUCTION On Easter, the Catholic church was beautifully deco- tion was taken from www. rated with blooming potted dollartimes.com and https:// plants “which glowed forth en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucho- INSTRUCTOR in all their beauty amongst Ja_prisoner_of_war_camp. Granite Skills Center (Oklahoma State Reformatory) Provide instruction and supervision of students (tt STATE BANK in an open-entry/controlled-exit career and technology training system. 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