Caddo- My Home Town

News 1926

The Caddo Herald

October 8, 1926

News

Walker’s Café Opens

Mrs. G. A. Walker, of Durant, opened the café in the Schwartz building Thursday at noon with a chicken dinner.

Mrs. Walker is in charge of the cafe and invites the patronage of the public.

The new establishment is modern in every way, will serve regular meals and short orders; also a line of groceries and confections will be carried.

 

W. B. M. Society

The Woman’s Baptist Missionary Society met at the church Tuesday afternoon with fourteen members and one visitor present.

Our lesson was on “Personal Service Work” with four members taking parts.

The meeting closed with song and prayer. Visitors always welcome.

 

Epworth League

Subject- The Prophet’s Call of the New Testament

Bible Reading- Matt. 28:19-20; John 20:21-23; Rom. 10:15

Leader- Mrs. G. A. Crossett

Leader’s addresses given by:

Sibyl Braudrick

Hattie Davis

Hilda Guthrie

Margaret Jane McGraw

Frank Williams

Mrs. Grayson

 

Caddo Plays Tishomingo Friday

Friday afternoon the Caddo High School football team will meet the Tishomingo team on the local gridiron. Of course we’ll win, but we could have little pep along with it. Show your interest by coming out and helping us yell. Admission 25c. 

Clock Obit

The Caddo Herald

January 9, 1939

Like an Old Friend, We Miss the Clock

at Guthrie’s Store

 

That faithful old clock at Guthrie’s Drug Store is stopped and its face coved from the gaze of man.

Forty years this faithful old clock has ticked away the hours and the minutes and it had become an institution that we took for granted. It was a habit of us all as we entered the store to glance upward to see if our watches were right or to find out the correct time.

Now its familiar face is covered and it gives out no information as to the fleeting hours.

After forty years service this old clock got tired and needed to rest, a cleaning perhaps before it went on another forty years of timetelling.

At any rate, Mr. Guthrie, rather than to have anything of his give to the people false information, considerately covered the face of that old faithful chronometer.

But it’s like an old friend who has departed. We look, but we see his face not in his usual haunts, and a feeling of sadness creeps into one’s inner consciousness as we glance to where he should be and behold his gaze encounters a blank.

Sic transit gloria mundi.

Even timepieces must go the way of all the earth.

But we miss this old friend, mute but animate, faithful with its ticking of the time. 

Bryan County Fair

The Caddo Herald

May 26, 1911

Bryan County Fair

 

The Durant Democrat of Saturday mentions Caddo’s nerve in connection with the Bryan County Fair. With the article in question The Herald has no fault to find. We admit that it is “Durant’s move”. But when she does move we will take her man, for Caddo already has the game cinched. In poker terms we hold four aces, with but fifty-two cards in the deck.

With the best of feeling toward Durant and her people Caddo expects to hold on to that which it has and rustle for more. It cannot be denied that the only time Durant ever attempted a Fair that they made a complete failure of it. Nothing was there but what the people had to pay for- on the contrary as long ago as twelve years Caddo pulled off a respectable fair, with races, exhibits and prized that were worth going miles to see, and it didn’t cost the visitors a cent. We are willing to let Durant keep her ball team if she can, and have already liberally contributed to is support in the way of attendance and compliment that city on the good showing her team is making (but they got a Caddo boy for manager).

Caddo will hold the fair. The money is ready. The site will be selected probably this week and work begun on the buildings. It will be a Fair of which the whole county will be proud. There will be glory enough for all and Caddo is putting up the dough. Durant might possibly hold a fair, but how would the name “Durant Fair” of “Southeastern Fair” sound when you wanted to give it a name? To assure yourselves Durant people will be given a chance to gaze at the state charter which is already issued to Caddo and only one of these documents will be issued to a county. For the life of us we fail to see where Durant comes in so she had best fall in line and help us to make this the big Fair of the Southeastern part of the state.

 

School Bond, 1904

The Caddo Herald

September 2, 1904

Bond Issue Approved

Word has been received by the school board that the bond issue voted by the citizens of Caddo of $15,000 was approved by the secretary of the interior. This is reasonably quick work. The bonds were voted July 18^th and approved Aug. 24^th.

Advertisements have been sent off and the sale of the bonds will be made soon and they will be dated Nov. 1, 1904 run twenty years, and bear six per cent interest. It is expected that a premium will be paid for the bonds as six per cent interest for twenty years is quite a good investment. The school site has been selected and it only awaits the action of the secretary of the interior to remove the restrictions of Mrs. M. Manning so that title can be made to the ground. If this fails another site will be selected and the building begun as soon as possible. 

Locals, 1904

The Caddo Herald

September 2, 1904

See Craghead Bros. for fine candies.

B. L. Cooper is bookkeeper for P. W. Arnold.

Grover Russell visited in Lehigh last Sunday.

W. M. Stanley was here from Banty Wednesday.

L. N. Craghead was a visitor from Caney Sunday.

H. I Meadows went to the picnic at Matoy last Friday.

New goods arriving daily at Boone’s. Come and see them.

Addison Gage and brother were up from Caney Sunday.

New candies just arrived at Craghead’s. They’re fine.

P. H. Boxley spent Friday attending to business in Denison.

Give Hill Bros. your order for groceries. Everything clean.

Finest photo work at Clinkscales. Satisfaction guaranteed.

C. W. Falkner has accepted a position with Abney & Vincent.

Earnest Massie visited friends in Caddo Sunday from Durant.

J. F. Lamb & Son contractors and builders, shop on Main Street.

P. W. Arnold and A. C. Pace returned Tuesday from St. Louis.

Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Russell returned Monday from a visit to Lehigh.

Grandma Folsom and little Katie Smith went to Durant Tuesday.

Call for a limeade at Dodd’s Soda Fountain. The best you ever tried.

Shoes- Shoes- In all the new shapes and styles. Just received at Boone’s.

John Phillips was transacting business in Caddo Tuesday from Caney.

Let us show you what we have in the way of fine eatables. Craghead Bros.

For Sale- A few nice pigs. Apply, Virgil R. Walker.

We want your corn, oats, and wheat. Bass the Grocer.

If you want a house built it will pay you to figure with J. F. Lamb & Son.

Mrs. Chas. E. Boland and Kate Dawson attended the picnic at Matoy last Friday.

Pit Braudrick was a business visitor to the Eastern part of the Nation last week.

For big bargains see the 5c and 10c counters at the Blue Front on Main Street.

Richard Moffat was here with (?) from the Freeny neighborhood Wednesday.

Mrs. B. F. Maddox and C. W. Hill are visiting relatives in Van Alstyne, Texas.

Miss Rose Bell Hynds, from McKinney, Texas, was the guest of Mrs. H. T. Chiles last week.

Mrs. S. J. Homer and son, St. Clair, have returned from a visit to relatives at Springfield, Mo.

Miss Malisie Baldwin of Durant, visited in Caddo this week, the guest of Miss Rheta Beaird.

The best ice cream in town at the Corner Drug Store. Try it once and you will have no other.

Edward Bates and Chas. E. McPherren were visitors to the Democratic rally at Durant Monday.

Walter Washington left today for Atoka where he will play ball with their team against Coalgate.

Miss Hallie Buss was here Monday from Durant, en route to Freeny Chapel where she will teach school.

Misses Ida and Garnette Hudspeth of Whitewright are visiting their brother, Jas. Hudspeth in Caddo.

Mrs. Edna Hill has an adv. in this issue about her new millinery (at Boxley’s). You should see her stock before buying.

Have your measure taken for that new fall suit by Boone. 1000 samples to select from. He guarantees a fit.

I want to buy a limited number of first class rattle snake hides. See me at Wood’s Drug Store. Luetsinger.

$2,500 worth of property in Caddo to trade for farm or pasture land. J. F. Lamb

Garments that fit always wear better and look better. Let Hill take your measure. He always guarantees a fit.

At the roping and riding contest at Durant last Saturday Chas. Ellis, a Caddo boy, won second money in both.

Misses Daisy and Gaynell Baxter and Nannie Robinson left Wednesday to attend the Presbyterian College at Durant.

Clem Bates and J. T. Jackson were making new acquaintances and shaking hands with old friends at the Matoy picnic last Friday.

Leave or phone your orders for ice cream at Wood’s Drug Store. Only the finest pasteurized cream served. None other should be used.

Miss Artie Skeen from Waco is visiting her sister, Mrs. Beulah Yates, and will probably remain all fall assisting in the millinery store.

Miss Kate Dawson, after a two week’s visit in Caddo, with her sister, Mrs. W. W. Craig, returned to her home at Bells, Texas, Saturday.

We are always in the market for good fat hogs. Also want a limited number of good stock hogs. R. A. Riddels & Son.

The morning subject in the Baptist Church next Sunday will be “The Fatherhood of God”. Evening subject: “Afflictions and Why They are Sent”.

Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Moon delightfully entertained a crowd of young people at their home in Caddo Tuesday night. All who attended report a most excellent time.

Jas. Hudspeth arrived this week from Atoka and is actively engaged in making arrangement for opening the Caddo National Bank. Mr. Hudspeth is cashier.

Forty–eight bales of cotton were marketed here Wednesday the prices ranging from $10 to $11. The cotton market has certainly opened up for good in Caddo.

Caddo young folks enjoyed a social hop at the opera house last Friday night. It was given in honor of Miss Rose Bell Hynds of McKinney, who is visiting Mrs. H. T. Chiles.

We understand Caddo will have twelve cotton buyers on her streets this fall. With this number it is certain that the farmer will get the very top price for the fleecy staple.

Lots of freight for our merchants is coming in. They have all returned from market and are busy opening up the goods received by them. A little later most of them will be able to tell you just what they bought while away.

Mrs. Beulah Yates returned Wednesday from a three weeks’ trip to St. Louis where she attended the fair and studied new millinery styles. She bought a line of fall millinery and wants her friends and customers to come and see her stock.

T. H. Jenkins, who for the past year has been agent at Caddo, has been promoted to be Katy agent at Coalgate. Caddo regrets to lose Mr. Jenkins, who has made hosts of friends here. Mr. Doxsee, from Chicago, will take Mrs. Jenkins place at this station.

Protect your business and your family by insuring your life in the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. Represented by H. Edwards & Co.

Clem E. Bates and J. T. Jackson were transacting business in the neighborhood of Bokchito Tuesday. They say the crops in that vicinity are not as good as they are around Caddo on account of the worm. They also state that the roads are in fair condition.

Profs. Ellison and Morris arrived Wednesday and are making preparations for the opening Monday of the Caddo public schools. The assistant teachers, Misses Slight, Harrington, and Ray will arrive this week and the school will begin promptly Monday morning.

Busby Bros. Show was here Saturday and gave a performance Saturday night. We were puzzled as to the reason they give only one performance, but that was shown us when we witnessed the attempt that night. No town on earth would stand for two such performances.

Claude Williams was here from Denison Sunday. Claude is one of the many Katy strikers who, having been convinced that they couldn’t win, have gone to work. He has enlisted for three years with the U. S. Signal Service and has been assigned the duty near San Francisco, Cal. He left Sunday for that state.

S. A. McCoy and Miss Mae Ellis were married at Caney Sunday morning. They were Caddo young people. The groom was formerly connected with the light company here, but is now in the jewelry business at Caney; the bride is the daughter of Captain and Mrs. B. S. Ellis. The Herald wishes the young people every happiness.

Supt. Gabe E. Parker and Professor F. E. Gunn of the Academy were here Tuesday. The fall term of the Academy began yesterday and enrollment will be about was hundred. The faculty of the Academy is as follows: Gabe E. Parker, Supt.; F. E. Gunn, Principal; Miss Bettie Dilworth, Mary Morley, Lottie Lou Waters, assistants; Miss Ora Gordon, Matron; Mrs. Knight, seamstress; Miss Donna Gardener, assistant, and Ed Terry, Janitor. 

Jannie Jones

The Caddo Herald

November 25, 1910

Mrs. Jannie Jones

Died Saturday Nov. 19^th, 1910 at 3:15 o’clock, age about 40 years. Her husband, Mr. R. Jones died six months and 13 days before she was called to go.

Mrs. Jones confessed faith in Christ when sixteen years old, she joined the Baptist Church and has lived a Christian life ever since. She was a member of the Chapel Church when she died and was buried Sunday afternoon in the home cemetery.

Smooth the locks of silver hair,

On our mother’s brow with tender care.

Lay on her bosom pure as snow,

The fairest and sweetest flowers that grow;

Kiss her and leave her our heart’s delight,

Her pain is over, she sleeps tonight.

 

She died at 3:15 p.m. just as the day was drawing to a close. She went to sleep like a tired child. Surely it was the most fitting time for a pure spirit to take its flight heavenward. With the eye of faith any one could see at the closing of this November day an invisible hand wave a signal and she could hear a voice in softest tones form the one gone on before, calling her on to the other shore, telling her God’s angels were waiting to escort her through the gate.

 

After a long and useful life she died as she lived, honored, trusted and loved by all who knew her best. The children will miss her at home, we will all miss her; there will be a vacant place at home, at church, and abroad. My deepest sympathy goes out to the two daughters- Mrs. Lizzie Lytle, and Miss Nannie Jones- who are left without a mother’s care.

 

May God’s care and protecting hand be with them through life and at last may they all meet again where parting is no more and where there is no sad farewell again to say. Written by request by one who loved her, Mattie Bloom. 

Court 1903

Court Minutes, Blue County, Choctaw Nation

CTN25, Volume II

1903- Guardians and Estate Administrators

 

Most of these have a standard “duty statement” about turning in an inventory, paying debts, etc. attached to them. Each listing also includes the names of men who are willing to serve as sureties and in many cases they are the same men for each estate. So for our purposes this morning I am only listing the name of the guardian and the orphans they were assigned or the administrator and of which estate. If you need more information or a copy of the complete listing please let me know.

 

January- Robert Buckholts was appointed guardian of Ida, Enos, and Rhoda Buckholts, orphans of N. O. Buckholts, deceased.

C. W. James was the administrator of the estate of Bacy Folsom, deceased.

February- J. M. Whittle was appointed the guardian of Jimmie Davis, a minor under the age of ten years, orphan of W. C. Davis, deceased.

Mrs. Martha Nelson was appointed as the guardian of Josephine, 13 years old, and Julie Byington, 7 years, orphans of Charles Byington, deceased.

March- Lowring Roberson was appointed as the guardian of Isaac Mitchell, a minor under the age of 14 years, orphan of Duke Mitchell, deceased.

April- Walter J. Billy was the administrator of the estate of Arlington Baker, deceased.

May- S. L. Morley was appointed guardian of John Slaughter orphans. (no names given)

R. L. Turnbull was the administrator of the estate of Mrs. Laura Kelly, deceased.

Cornelius Hayes was the administrator of the estate of Lorene Hayes, deceased.

June- Jincy Jones was appointed guardian of Abbie, Jasper, and Impson Jones, minors under the age of 21 years, orphans of R. M. Jones, deceased.

J. Q. Adams was the administrator of the estate of Arabella Adams, deceased. He was also the guardian of Nanara (Nanava?) M. Adams, a minor under the age of 5 years.

J. J. Gardner was the administrator of the estate of Georgia Gardner.

D. W. Cochnauer was appointed the guardian of David J., Nicholas, James, Ella, and Marion Cochnauer, minors under the age of 19 years. 

November, 1901

The Caddo Herald

November 1, 1901

J. H. Dobson was in Caddo Wednesday from Emet.

Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Wells were here attending to business from Bennington this week.

Several Caddo people attended the revival meeting of the Holiness at Durant Sunday.

Miss Georgia Attaway and a party of friends were here from Wapanucka Monday shopping.

A box supper was given at R. C. Freeney’s last Friday night. Several of our young people attended.

Miss Eunice Scratch of Atoka spent Friday and Saturday in Caddo, the guest of Mrs. Barlow Roberts.

Doctor Rappolee has moved his residence further within his lot and has it facing north instead of west.

E. C. Johnston from Sherman has spent part of the week in Caddo, the guest of his sister, Mrs. D. B. Williams.

Miss Gertrude Thompson, who is attending St. Xavier’s Academy at Denison, is spending the week with home folks.

Jack Risner was in town from Bennington Wednesday. He brought a yellow yam potato weighing six pounds to The Herald office. It was a fine tuber.

Rev. R. W. Thomspon, from Bartlett, Texas, visited the family of his son-in-law, Joe Self in Caddo the first of the week. He preached at the Baptist Church Monday night.

Charles Franks and Sam Edmundson, from Corvello County, visited their brothers Jess and Will Franks in Caddo this week. They were prospecting and returned home Wednesday.

Messrs Corley and Ewing and Misses Elnora Cooper and Nellie Folsom ate dinner last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Lake Brewer. The party reported a most delightful day and an excellent turkey dinner.

Mrs. Homer’s Sunday School class will render a program at the Methodist Church tonight. A collection will be taken and go toward building the new Methodist church.

The Holiness people began a meeting in the tent near the new Methodist Church Tuesday night. They have had large crowds every night and a number of converts. It will continue probably all week.

A man was recently arrested and fined $25 for listening to a telephone message passing over a line in which he owned a phone and afterward telling what he heard. The theory was that messages or conversations over the wires are confidential and the fact that he owned a phone gave him no right to repeat anything he might have heard either by accident or otherwise.

We were informed that it was possible to prevail upon the townsite commission and other authorities to make the Townsite of Caddo some larger than the present limits, if taken through the proper channels. Now if there is anything Caddo needs more than anything else it is the room in which to grow. That our plat is not large enough is self evident.

 

Beecher C. Parker, 1894-1934

The Caddo Herald

January 21, 1927

Parker Store Robbed

The filing station store of Beecher Parker was entered by thieves Wednesday night and robbed of some $150 worth of groceries, flour, meal, syrup, and lard.

Mr. Parker thinks the robbers got away in a car. They loaded the stuff out of the front door.

The sheriff’s force is on the job. Finger prints were taken, and every effort is being used to run down the thieves.

 

August 28, 1931

Parker has Garden

Beecher Parker has a garden by his store east of the railroad. He works spare hours in it, while waiting for trade to open up. In this garden he raises everything and his wife puts a lot of it up for winter.

 

September 28, 1934

B. C. Parker, aged 40 years, died Wednesday evening at his home here from the effects of a blood clot on his brain which is alleged to have resulted from a fight some weeks ago. The funeral was held Thursday afternoon in charge of Rev. H. T. Wiles of Seminole, who was his long time friend. He had been a long time resident of Caddo, having engaged in the filling station and grocery business until he sold out to his brother, L. A. Parker and after that he engaged in the produce business. He is survived by his widow, two sons, Neathery and B. C. Jr., one daughter, Almazene, two brothers in Caddo, Eber and L. A. Parker.

 

Southeastern Oklahoma Citizen

September 27, 1934

B. C. Parker, Caddo merchant, died late Wednesday from natural causes, a coroner’s jury decided at Caddo today following an examination of his brain by physicians to determine whether a blow he received some eight days ago was a contributing cause to his death. Parker died of a hemorrhage of the brain, three doctors decided, but the blow was not a contributing cause. The verdict absolved Abe Tisdial of Caddo, who had told officers he and Parker had a friendly scuffle in the latter’s store eight days ago and Parker received a blow to the mouth. A few days after this incident Parker began suffering with severe headaches and was brought to a local hospital, even after doctors had informed the family his case was hopeless since the hemorrhage had reached his spine, and it was only a matter of days until he would succumb. He died at his home after three physicians gave the opinion he could not live.  

Football, 1938

The Caddo Herald

October 14, 1938

Caddo 26- Atoka 0

That’s the Story of the Fourth Game

Last Friday the Atoka Gentlemen journeyed to Caddo and engaged in a football melee.

They went home sadder but much wiser men.

They came, they saw, were conquered in an hour of stiff battle that pleased the large crowd who were out to see it.

Mr. Holloway’s men played a real game of ball; by every known means they gained the necessary ground to put the ball where it did the most good.

Passing, line bucking, field running, and stopping the boys were done with equal facility and ease. Four touchdowns and two points afterward tell how it was done.

All teams this season have looked alike to the Cubs. No team has got within scoring distance, not even crossed the 20-yared line in play.

Friday Caddo goes to Tishomingo where anything might happen for that Tishomingo outfit are some team.

But that Atoka game here was a grandstand filler and a ball field filler. The fans will come back for more of the same when Coalgate comes here the next week.

After a good lead was had, Coach Holloway put in his second and third string men and the smaller and less practiced men held Atoka like veterans.

Miss Helen Baxter was the football queen, crowned as the boys rested between halves. It was a pretty sight, adding the touch of loveliness to the battle scarred scene.

Not many high school teams have such a record of winning four in a row and not being scored against.

 

 Not sure who played on the team, but here is the graduating class of 1938:

1. Marlin Ashford

2. Elrena Carlton

3. J. C. Carlton

4. Lucille Dickey

5. Jake Edwards

6. Veda Mae Ellis

7. Margaret Hill

8. Robert Jones

9. James Kropp

10. Juanita McClaskey

11. Lucy Miller

12. L. V. Mills

13. John Owens

14. Annette Powell

15. Tolbert Price

16. Rudell Sawyers

17. Laverne Seago

18. Georgene Sipes

19. Clarence Smith

20. Georgia Smith

21. Alonzo Tate

22. Lydia Walla

23. Zebia Whitney

 

This tail end of the depression class remembers an 8^th grade visit to Chapman Farms in Tishomingo; the beginning of Vocational Agriculture during their freshman year and serving at the Jr.-Sr. Banquet dressed as clowns.

 

Note: This list, which differs slightly from the one above, was printed in the paper, May 13, 1938. Also, football teammate David S. Smith drowned in Blue River in April and the boys from the team served as pallbearers.

 

Marie Ashford

Elrena Carlton

 J. C. Carlton

Lucille Dickey

Jake Edwards

Margaret Hill

Robert Jones

James Kropp

Juanita McClaskey

L. V. Mills

John Owens

Annette Powell

Tolbert Price

L. B. Russell

LaVern Seago

Georgene Sipes

Clarence Edward Smith

Georgia Ella Smith

Bonnie Mae Tisdial

Lydia Walla

Zelia Katie Whitney

Ada Belle Wingfield