December 3, 2022 Issue, Page 10 of 10

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Community 10 - The Elk Ci News December 3, 2022 WOCS held a Veteran’s Day Program First ever Veteran’s Day Program, planned by Mr: Carey. Pictured students singing in honor of the veteran’s and and veteran’s who had family attending the school. One Hundred Years Ago, December 1922 “Christmas Givin’ by Aunt Ag- While hunting, Ira C. Thur- stating that he intended to kill Mamas, one you can cook on. gie mond and Richard A. Vose himself. Goodbye, Margaret McComas.” .. There Wa’n’t no thought 0” of OKC discovered Herman Letters to Santa were pub- Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Bates barter or gifts with strings to Faulkner, the nineteen-year- lished in the newspapers. Irma served a Christmas banquet to them. old orphan boy living with Os- Moore wrote, “Helo Santy more than twenty guests. The When Christ was sent to us, car A. Burwell. Herman was in Claus, thot Id rite to let you table was loaded with tame back there in Bethlehem, The great agony and nearly blind know I was in town and thot I goose, chicken dressing, veg- comfort still’s in follerin’ the with ulcers of the eyes. The two rite you to let you no I want a etables, cabbage salad, cran- example from above; The spir- it o’ that first Christmas was pure and simple love.” men insisted on taking him to a specialist--at their expense. doll anda vanity box and please berries, preserves, jellies, fruit don’t forget Aunt Alice bring salad, cakes and cakes and ‘The boy was hospitalized at St. her something to just keep her more cakes, pies, etc. It was a Bull rider Cole Many oil field trucks overload- Anthony's where he had a nice smiling for she always tells we feast fit for a king! ed with casing, drill stems and room with steam heat. kids about Dear Old Santa and ‘The heaviest loaded Christmas oil boom what-not thundered After his bandages were re- while you are filling my stock- table was that of Mr. and Mrs. Fischer to compete at through the streets of Elk City moved, Herman wore glass- ing think of all the poor little Albert P. McClung who were and vicinity. The oil pool lim- es with smoked lenses that kids without a papa or mama having dinner for some friends its remained ambiguous; they shielded his eyes from bright given them something to make when the table collapsed under 2022 Wrangler NFR might have been in Roger Mills light. them a Merry Xmas. the load! County, but more likely they Russell Duke, twenty-three- I have lots of cousins with COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. can dream it, but there is a lot “Good-bye, Old Year! —we were west of Elk City. Contracts year-old stepson of Jim Duke, no papa so please remember loved you well; We found your - Due to unique and unusual that has to go right, and it is a were drawn up in all directions Sayre, went hunting with them.” circumstances, the PRCA has long year.” within a thirty-mile radius of friends near Rankin. The boys “Dear Santa-I will ask you treasures dear, But you have made the decision to take 16 Fischer, of Elk City, Okla., is the great gasser at Sayre. stopped to clean their guns. to bring me a few things for died as monarchs die-- And bull riders to the 2022 Wran- optimistic about what he can Miss Grace Leverett opened a Russell sat down on the run- Christmas. I want a pair of so—Long live the Year!” gler National Finals Rodeo accomplish in Vegas. Beauty Parlor. She had recently ning board with the gun be- skates, sled bicycle, and au- Nan Terrell Reed, in N. Y. presented by Teton Ridge. “T have faith in my talent,” he graduated from the Burnham tween his legs where it some- tomobile, bring my teacher a ‘Times This article was written Cole Fischer will now make said. “My talent has got me Beauty Culture School of Okla- how discharged and shot off piano and remember the other by Luanne R. Eisler and taken homa City. the back of his head. children” — Myx from items published in The his Wrangler NER debut Dec. this far and I’m just going to Approximately $720,000 For months, Claude Shrieves, Thompson. Carter Express, The Elk City 1-10 at the Thomas & Mack go and have fun and enjoy it. ($11,603,320 in today’s values) a thirty-three-year-old vet- “Dear Santa-I played a good Press and The Elk City News- Center in Las Vegas. It is a dream come true, but I was paid for Elk City’s cotton eran from the 36th Division in joke on you, I drew your picture Democrat; these newspapers “I don’t really know if this has don’t want to take it too seri- crop in 1922. Between 5600 France, was “unbalanced” fear- and am sending it to you. And can be found on microfilm at sunk in yet,” said Fischer, 30. ously. I want to go in and enjoy and 5700 bales of cotton were ing the KKK “would get him.” I have been Oh, so good, so I the Elk City Carnegie Library. “Any cowboy who puts his every minute of it. You never ginned and marketed here. The know you will bring me a pink Supplementary information He killed himself with a 32 Colt hand in a bull rope it is their know when you will get the lint and seed crop sold for the automatic using a head shot. kimono, a pair of skates, and a was taken from Heritage Quest dream to make the NFR. You chance to be there again.” same amount. He left six letters to friends big sleepy doll, and a stove like and www.dollartimes.com. A yearly flu vaccine is the first and most important step in protecting against flu viruses. Everyone 6 months or older should getan annual flu vaccine. Protect yourself. Protect your family. Get vaccinated. ee xX Take everyday preventive actions to help stop the spread of flu viruses! 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