Caddo- My Home Town

Sports Letters, 1927

The Caddo Herald

May 13, 1927

Letter Men

In a recent check-up the following students were given credit for athletics.

Football:

Albert Smith

Ocie Faudree

Haskell Copeland

W. J. Thompson

Charles Dale

Columbus Wood

Carl Folsom

Max Meadows

Gordon Folsom

Horace Cobb

George Jones

Barnard Freeny

Weldon McGraw

Hardin Meadows

Charles Davis

 

Basketball, Boys:

Ocie Faudree

Horace Cobb

Weldon McGraw

Russell McCreary

Alvin Dunham

 

Basketball, Girls:

Minnie Herod

Odessa Faudree

Marilee Hogan

Virgina Davis

Helen Sargent

Glenna Ruth Sawyers

 

Track:

Ocie Faudree

Haskell Copeland

Carl Folsom

Horace Cobb

Weldon McGraw

Russell McCreary

Alvin Dunham

 

Captains-elect for the next school year are:

Helen Sargent- basketball

Weldon McGraw- Basketball and track

Ocie Faudree- football

 

 

 

 

Dead on the track, 1902

The Caddo Herald

August 29, 1902

Dead on the Track

Caney, I. T. – August 23- An unknown white woman was found dead on the right of way of the Katy, three miles north of Caney yesterday morning. The woman was struck by some passing train in the night. She was about 40 years of age, dark complexioned with sandy hair streaked with gray about six inches long. She had a heavy growth of beard. As far as can be learned she was traveling south. She wore a gray sunbonnet, black sateen tea jacket, black skirt, black hose and black laced shoes, pretty well worn. There was nothing on the body that would aid in identification.

The unknown dead woman that was found three miles north of Caney yesterday is surrounded with mystery. The general opinion of the United States marshal and Dr. Armstrong who examined the remains are that she was foully dealt with. There were horses tracks coming up to the fence where the corpse was found. The horse had been hitched for some time.

The woman had absolutely nothing on her person by which she could be identified. She had on clean under clothing which looked as though it had been freshly ironed.

There were no marks or scratches on her skirts to show that she had been dragged along the track, but there was something dragged along the track north from where she was found lying on her right side about 800 feet.

A small dagger stick has been found by the track where the corpse was lying, which may furnish a clue to her identity.

The remains were buried by the charitable people of Caney last night.

 

Autograph Book

I'm almost finished scanning Vada Hale's autograph book and I'm beginning to upload pages to an album listed on the left. Some of the scans aren't as good as others because the little book is 40 pages and quite "fat". I didn't want to take it apart so the middle pages don't lie as flat as they should for a good scan. I think you can still read all of them. I will be adding pages today and tomorrow. There are names from 1926-1930. Vada was from the class of 1927.

Civic Club, 1927

The Caddo Herald

May 13, 1927

The Civic Club

The Civic and Cemetery club met May 4^th at the home of Mrs. Crudup, with Mesdames Crudup, Crossett and Van Meter as hostesses.

Corresponding secretary reported $8 collected. Cemetery treasurer reported a balance of $92.70. Civic treasurer reported a balance of $219.03. Main Street collection, $21.00; north side, $3.75; south side, $1.70.

Civic Club donated $5.00 to Red Cross for Mississippi flood sufferers.

Mrs. J. L. Williams of Caney was elected to membership.

Mrs. Hagler, representing Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, gave a splendid talk.

The Willow, by Elizabeth Akers

Have I told you lately how much I love the internet? I found this poem on the front page of the Caddo Herald and wanted to share it. However, because of damage to the paper, parts of the seventh verse are impossible to read. I put the first line into the Google search box and immediately got a link to a copy of the poem in an 1866 issue of The New York Times (which by the way, does not list the author). Further searching led to the author, Elizabeth Anne Chase Taylor Akers Allen (1832-1911), journalist and poet from Maine, known as Elizabeth Akers and also published as Florence Percy. She was married to the sculptor, Benjamin Paul Akers. He died in 1861 and in 1865 she married New York merchant, E. M. Allen. I love one of the quotes attributed to her: “I believe… in the prevention of cruelty to all creatures, dumb and otherwise.”

The Caddo Herald

December 28, 1875

Poetry

I do not know who wrote the following beautiful lines. I only know that some time in the year 1866 a friend sent me a paper containing them; and I have never seen them in any other publication. As I was at the time trying to hide from the world a heartache of which my friend could only have known by intuition, it gave me great comfort and has been preserved with care among the cherished mementos of the past. Urania (Lydia McPherson)

The Willow

O willow, why forever weep,    

    As one who mourns an endless wrong?

What hidden woe can lie so deep?

    What utter grief can last so long?

The Spring makes haste with steps elate,

    Your life and beauty to renew;

She even bids the roses wait,

    And gives her first sweet care to you.

The welcome red-breast folds his wing

    To pour for you his richest strain;

To you the earliest blue birds sing,

    Till all your light stems thrill again.

The sparrow trills his wedding song,

    And trusts his tender brood to you;

Fair flowering vines, the Summer long,

    With clasp and kiss your beauty woo.

The sunshine drapes your limbs with light,

    The rain braids diamonds in your hair;

The breeze makes love to you at night-

    Yet still you droop, and still despair.

Beneath your boughs at fall of dew,

By lovers’ lips is softly told,

The tale that all the ages through

Has kept the world from growing old.

But still, though April’s buds unfold,

Or Summer sets the earth aleaf,

Or Autumn pranks your robes with gold

    You sway and sigh in graceful grief.

Mourn on forever unconsoled,

    And keep your secret, faithful tree!

No heart in all the world can hold,

    A sweeter grace than constancy.

Sidney Powell, 1926

The Caddo Herald

April 23, 1926

Sidney Powell Killed, Automobile Accident

George Sidney Powell, of Durant, aged 25, garage proprietor, was instantly killed on the Jefferson Highway, near the fish hatchery, late Friday afternoon when an automobile he was driving overturned and crushed his head.

The tragic accident occurred when Mr. Powell suddenly applied the emergency brake to avoid hitting a mule, which attempted to cross the road just as they started to pass it, according to Ray Tyson, who was with the deceased. Tyson was uninjured except for a few minor bruises. His escape without injury was miraculous.

Mr. Tyson said the brakes when applied failed to catch on the right wheels, thus causing the car to flip over, landing on its side with Mr. Powell’s head pinned underneath. B. K. Pate came along immediately and helped Mr. Tyson to remove the machine from Mr. Powell, who was dead when the body was removed.

Powell was born in Texas, Oct. 4, 1900. The family moved to Caddo in 1903 and later moved to Durant. Sidney was educated in Caddo public schools and Southeastern State Teacher’s College. While in school he was popular in student circles and sports, having been a letter man for three years on the S.T.C. football team. At the time of his death he was one of Durant’s most popular young men, an industrious and competent workman, and had many friends. He is survived by a wife and 4-year-old son; a mother, Mrs. Scott Powell; a brother, C. J. Powell, and a sister, Beatrice Powell.

Funeral services were conducted at the First Presbyterian Church in Durant, Sunday afternoon at 2:30 with Rev. W. N. Sholl, pastor, officiating. Burial was at Highland Cemetery in Durant.

Dear Vada

Someone sent me Vada Hale's 1926 autograph book and I'm having such fun scanning and typing it! 78 entries!!

Senior Party, 1929

Class of 1929

1. Howell Boydstun

2. Horace Cobb

3. Haskell Copeland

4. Sarah Ellen Beck

5. Hardenia Ellis

6. Mable Alice Grewell

7. Myrtle Harris

8. Joe Hill

9. Marillee Hogan

10. Lillie Bell Holman

11. Wanda Mae Hunter

12. Hazel Meadows

13. Lucille Mills

14. Bismark Rhode

15. Gladys Richey

16. Claude Schwartz

17. L. J. Schwartz

18. Macon Smith

19. Juanita Womble

We walked through mud with rubber boots on to the graduation exercises.

It had been raining for three days.

The Caddo Herald

February 22, 1929

Senior Party

 

“Mrs. Grayson at home honoring the Seniors ’29, Monday evening Feb. 11, eight o’clock.”

 

The above invitation written on dainty white cards, tinted in tiny red hearts, was sent to 42 guests. At the appointed hour the invited ones arrived in gala attire, befitting the occasion.

The lovely home of Mrs. Grayson was decorated in the Senior colors, purple and gold, with red and white Valentine colors scattered here and there. Winning King of Hearts met all at the door and escorted them to their places.

To say the party was a success would be putting it in mild tones.

After a popular radio program, names of famous lovers were distributed. We hadn’t realized before that here were so many atheists in our number. Winner of first prize, a Friendship Book, was L. J. Schwartz. Consolation went to Mabel Alice for Romeo.

Tallies of the color scheme and ten tables were placed for Bunco, Cootie, Hearts, and Touring. Bismarck Rohde, Mabel Hauer, and Horace Cobb won high score, and were each awarded prizes. Consolation awards went to Hardenia Ellis and Jack Hancock.

A delightful plate lunch of tiny heart-shaped cheese sandwiches, tuna fish salad and lettuce leaves, individual angel foods inscribed Seniors ’29, candy hearts, and grape juice were served.

Mrs. C. A. Hancock, Mrs. Wilson, Marinell Kuschke, Billy Edwards, and Jack Dale, who acted King of Hearts.

One of the most enjoyable features of the evening was a Fortune Hunt, after which hostess and the King of Hearts presented each guest with charming little favors, a whistle dressed as a Valentine Girl.

There are some things we remember because we like to and this will surely go down as one of the most cherished memories of the Senior Class.

All departed at a late hour declaring Mr. and Mrs. Grayson a most entertaining host and hostess. Those present were:

Bismarck Rohde, BeBe Chiles, Horace Cobb, Hazel Meadows, Macon Smith, Cricket Faudree, Pearl Lynch, Lillie Bell Holman, Midgett Harris, Ray Harris, Mabel Grewell, George Wood, Sara Beck, Homer Geter, Hardenia Ellis, Pete Freeny, Lucille Mills, Clifton Wood, L. J. Schwartz, Gladys Richey, Marilee Hogan, Russell McCreary, Jessie Bell, Claude Schwartz, Joe Hill, Helen Womble, Mabel Hauer, Jim D. Stevens, Mr. Alair, Mary Adeline Boland, Mr, and Mrs. Owen, Howell Boydstun, Clyde Blanks, Billy Edwards, Marinell Kuschke, Mrs. Hancock, Mrs. Wilson, and host and hostess.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lingo-Leeper Lumber

I've been researching Caddo's oldest continuously operated business, which appears to be the lumber yard. Although it has changed ownership a few times, it has been serving the lumber and hardware needs of the community since 1872. The Caddo Lumber Company, located at 108 S. Arkansas, has been owned by Craig and Peggy Hall since 1972, and is currently managed by Misty Murphree. I'm in the process of adding the biographies of Edward Lingo and Walton Leeper to our Caddo website.

Caddo Is Sixty Years Old C. A. Hancock Says

From an interview in 1932-

    “It was sixty years ago last October 15 when I first came to Caddo,” Said C. A. Hancock in a reminiscent mood Tuesday, apropos of the sixtieth anniversary of the opening of the Katy bridge over Red River.

    “At that time there was only a small trading shack owned by Major Harlan in Caddo. A big depot, some 600 feet long was being built to house the enormous freight shipments expected from the north, to be reshipped by wagon train to east and west.

    Major Harlan did a thriving business with his store at the time, trading with Indians and selling supplies to the construction crews of the railroad as the line was built toward Texas. I well remember that on Christmas day 1872 the first passenger train went across the Red River bridge into Texas. P. H. Tobin, still living in Denison, was the engineer.

    Mr. Lingo soon came here and established a lumber yard, the beginning of the Lingo-Leeper chain. Until that time the people had to haul by wagon whatever lumber they had, a great distance from Arkansas. The old Hampton house a mile east of Caddo was hauled that way. It was a show place many years in this country.

The Caddo Herald

June 9, 1899

G.C. Rice, of the firm of Lingo-Rice Lumber Co. of Durant, was in Caddo Tuesday.

February 25, 1910

John Schenk, blacksmith- next door to the Brick Hotel, across the street from Lingo-Leeper Lumber Yard

May 2, 1913

Early Closing Agreement

We the undersigned merchants and business men of Caddo, Oklahoma hereby agree to close our respective places of business at the hour of seven (7) o’clock every evening o f the week except Saturdays, commencing May 1^st and continuing until Sept. 1, 1913: The Bass Co. , H. G. Huffman, S. G. Pherigo, John Droke, Hogan Bros., Art Wright, R. Wilkowisky, Brigance Hardware Co., J. D. Freeny, E. L. Williams Co., Lingo Leeper Co. , Ben Siegel, Walters & Williams, R. L. Pace, Dugan & Ellis, Isidore Schaffer, G. W. Phillips Co., Sam Jed, T. M. Hargrave, Rockwell Bros. & Co.

August 28, 1931

Lingo-Leeper Safe is Jimmied by Burglars

Burglars robbed the safe of the Lingo Leeper Co. of about $20 Saturday noon, leaving signs of their visit but no trace as to the perpetrators.

It was while Bert Fryer, the manager had gone to lunch. He had closed the safe door, but he did not lock it, also he locked the office and gates to the yard, but evidently the thieves entered through a hole in the fence. A jimmy was used to prize open a window, and the same tool was used to open the cash compartment of the safe.

Officers were quickly on the job, and think they have some idea as to who the thieves are.

 

 

 

New Bank, 1929

The Caddo Herald

February 22, 1929

First State Bank to Open Monday- Caddo

National Moves Saturday

 

Unless something interferes to cause a change of plans, the First State Bank of Caddo will open for business in the room of the Caddo National Bank.

The Caddo National Bank will move to Atoka to merge with the Atoka State Bank of which W. N. Green is active manager.

Officers of the First State Bank are G. A. Mason, pres., Henry F. Bass, vice president, Dan Mason, cashier. G. A. Mason, Ralph Ownby, Howard Holmes, C. T. Jonson, W. E. McIntosh, H. F. Bass, and W. W. Boone are directors.

The new bank will start with a new slate, and will take care of the financial needs of the community as they arise.

G. A. Mason is president of the Commercial National Bank of Durant. Dan Mason is his son, who will make his home here. Ownby and Holmes are businessmen of Durant, well known to Caddo people. The other directors are well known Caddo business people.

While regretting to lose the Caddo National, Caddo people as a unit will welcome the new bank and wish it prosperity.