Caddo- My Home Town

John Hill, 1948

I’ve known about the death of John Hill for many years. However, until I recently did some research about the Caddo Lions Club I didn’t know any details about the game or that one of the players was my grandfather, Lee Simmons.

Durant Daily Democrat

November 18, 1948

Donkey Tilt at Caddo Tonight

            !$(%x and other apropos lingo may be the order of the night at the comic donkey basketball game to be staged at the Caddo high school gym tonight.  

            Caddo School teachers and employees will face the Caddo Lions club in the contest which is sure to be highlighted by more than just “high flying” colors Game time is 7:30 o’clock.

            A special squad of reserves will be employed by both teams to assist the “halt and lame” in seating themselves properly on their chargers.

Here are the lineups:

            Caddo teachers- J. N. Broadhead, superintendent of schools; Doyle Sawyers, high school principal; Thomas Edmonds, substitute instructor; Owen Rogers, grade school principal; Raymond Hutchens, vocational agriculture instructor; George Jones, mechanic, and Ruel Choate, custodian.

            Caddo Lions Club- Lee Simmons, carpenter; John Poyner, banker; Russell Fox, rancher; Clovis Calhoun, auto supply salesman; Jess Maytubby, banker; R. L. Chochran, doctor; John L. Boland, lawyer; Sam Austin, merchant; Arvin Ellis, druggist; Henry Bass, merchant; Louis Jordan, hardware salesman; Pinky Williams, stockman.

The Caddo Herald

November 25, 1948

Kick by Mule is Fatal for Caddo Youth

                John Hill, age 16 years, died at the hospital in Durant Sunday at 4am. This death was the result of a kick from a donkey at the Donkey ball game Thursday evening at Caddo Gym.

            Deceased was born in Caddo and was attending Caddo High School. Deceased is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Hill and besides his parents, is survived by three brothers, Thomas, Jack, and Richard of Caddo, and three sisters, Mrs. Margaret Birdsong, Mrs. McKinney, Durant, and Mrs. Ann Alexander, Amarillo, Texas.

            Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Baptist church with the pastor Rev. J. B. Kirk, officiating; burial in Caddo Cemetery.

1949

Winter, 1930

Agriculture, 1916

Durant Weekly News

April 28, 1916

Farm Agents’ Activities

Interesting Reports of Mr. and Mrs. Fash as to Their Work

In this Section of the State During the Past Week

                Following are excerpts from the reports of County Farm Agent Fash and Mrs. Fash, which go to show something about the work being accomplished by these earnest workers:

Mr. Fash’s Report:

                Monday, I vaccinated hogs for the State National Bank of Durant—14 head of them, and 13 for Lewis Paullin, and 16 for Nick Arend.

                Tuesday, I went to Banty, staid (sic) all night with I. C. Teague, and Wednesday I visited the farmers and members of the Boys’ Clubs and their parents, and found some of the boys very enthusiastic over the prospects this spring. All were doing good work.

                Thursday morning, I visited two farmers and their boys and drove to Caddo. Arrived at Caddo about noon, put my team in the barn and took the train to Durant. Took dinner, answered a letter from a farmer who had 30 head of hogs to vaccinate. Got my vaccinating outfit and took the train back to Caddo; got my team and drove 3 ½ miles and vaccinated 17 head of hogs for Z. V. Gordon and one of his neighbors; got through just at dark; staid (sic) all night at Gordon’s and the next day drove northeast of Caddo and visited one demonstrator and three other farmers; then drove back to Gordon’s and took dinner; drove out 6 miles southwest of Caddo in a community where I have 5 corn club boys and here I ran into a hornet’s nest. I had directed the boys where to get good seed corn and they got the corn all right. I had a good time with these boys. The man had sold them seed corn that was not fit for hog feed and had charged them 75 cents per bushel for the corn. The boys were badly discouraged as their corn had never seen daylight after planting it. They still had some of the seed so I could see what they had got. I left them in a good humor and promised that I would have some good seed corn for them by Monday morning’s mail. Saturday, I went to Mr. Lievsey’s and selected some good silvermine corn and fixed it up and mailed it to the boys.

                Everything looks good for the coming season. Corn generally is up to a good stand and oats are looking fine. Farmers are beginning to plant cotton.

Mrs. Fash’s Report:

                Spent the week visiting club members and found the majority of them doing good work. A few are quitting the county and will be removed from the list; also a few who want to attend summer school and cannot do the work. One famer told his daughter that he hadn’t much faith in her work, but if she wanted to clean up a couple of cockle burr patches and put it in tomatoes she could. It will take lots of hard work, but I believe the girl is equal to the task. One mother who has been sick all the week says that her 12-year-old daughter, who belongs to the bread club, took charge of the kitchen and baked pancakes, muffins, and cornbread, and did it much better than she had been able to do.

                I have straightened out several imagined difficulties, among them one for a girl whose mother had gotten the idea that her daughter must plant one acre of tomatoes and the proceeds go to the Caddo Corn Carnival Company, and in spite of it all, the girls refused to give up the work and the outlook for Bryan County is extremely good.

Candidates, 1912

Words of Wisdom for 1915

The Caddo Herald

January 22, 1915

Mother’s Ten Commandments

The following ten commandments were put forth by Rev. Knickerbocker of Denison, last Sunday evening:

1. Thou shalt have no other man except thy husband; neither should thou eye another.
2. Thou shalt not neglect thy home for clubs, or bargain sales, or suffragette propaganda, or any female meeting place whatsoever.
3. Thou shalt not be a peach on the street, a pippin in society, and a lemon at home.
4. Thou shalt not wear $50 bonnets and imported lingerie when thy husband wears 5-cent sox and hand-me-down trousers; neither shalt thou keep thy husband’s nose to the grindstone perpetually, until he is a broken and beaten old man.
5. Thou shalt not play bridge whist for prizes or valuable consideration; neither shall thou sip the sparkling glass on pain of thy son’s damnation.
6. Thou shalt use the same blandishments on thy husband that thou didst use on thy sweetheart and he shall always be thy lover.
7. Thou shalt not nag thy husband nor thy son nor thy daughter, nor the servant within thy house.
8. Thou shalt suffer the little children to come, and forbid them not, for thy greatest name is Mother, and holy shall it be, and thy sons and daughters shall rise and call thee blessed.
9. Thou shalt not neglect to pray for thy children; neither shalt thou neglect to spank them as occasions demand.
10. Thou shalt not rear thy children by proxy, but thou thyself shalt be their mother, and thou shalt lead them in the way they shall go, and when they are old they will not depart from it.

Pep Club 1924

Caddo Cubs

Caddo Herald

October 10, 1924

Football Team Has Name- Caddo Cubs

                Tuesday the Lions Club entertained the high school football team at a luncheon in honor and as a reward for winning their first game last Friday. Twenty young men, ruddy and strong, answered the invitation. Mrs. Williams had prepared a specially good lunch and these young men gave evidence that they still could eat heartily.

                Felicitous talks were made which encouraged the boys to still greater efforts for their school and town.

                The Lions Club was given the privilege of naming the team. The name, “Caddo Cubs”, was unanimously decided upon. So henceforth and hereafter, the high school football team will be known as the “Caddo Cubs”.

                Vice-President Meadows presided at this luncheon, the president being present, but inactive.

February 29, 1925

Caddo Cubs Enter Red River Valley

Coach Dendy announces that next season the Caddo High School football team will be members of the Red River Valley Football Association, composed of those towns in Southern Oklahoma including Durant, Ardmore, Hugo, and Ringling.

He states that there is some very promising material in the team for next year and he thinks the team will give a better account of themselves.

Here’s hoping for their success. Let us encourage the boys to try for the championship. They can win it if given sufficient encouragement.

November 27, 1925

The Cat’s Paw

Cubs 18; Kiowa 12

Caddo Cubs won their seventh victory by defeating Kiowa 18 to 12 in a battle that looked like anybody’s game until the final whistle blew. Caddo was crippled by having Briggs, end, and Henninger, half-back, out in the beginning. (They were injured in the Bonham game.) The scores were made by Sargent, Dale, and Henninger.

Kiowa has a fast passing team.

Everyone is looking forward to the game Thursday with Wetumka. The boys are working hard and do not intend to have their record ruined on the last day of the season.

Come on everybody! Let’s go to Wetumka!

October 7, 1929

Caddo Defeats Lehigh

                The first football game to be played on the home field this season was played here Friday when the Caddo Cubs defeated the Lehigh team by a score of 15 to 0. The day was unusually warm and was not very inducive to good football, but regardless of the fact that 2 of Caddo’s best men were unable to play, both teams played a good game. From the beginning it was evident that the visiting team was out classed, nevertheless they never gave up the fight. The Cubs played well and showed that Coach Shoffner had put them through some strenuous training.

Saturday Morning Advertiser

December 21, 1929

Clifton Wood Captains Caddo Cubs for 1930

                Clifton Wood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Wood, west of Caddo, last Friday evening was elected Captain of the 1930 football squad for Caddo High School. Young Wood already has three years of football experience with Caddo High School.

                The selection of Wood as captain of the Caddo squad took place at a banquet given the football men by the junior class.

                Captain Dale Sawyer of the 1929 squad, will be lost to the team through graduation this coming spring.

                Letters were awarded 1929 players as follows: Captain Dale Sawyer, Clyde Lacy, Clifton Wood, Olvin Ware, Charles Semple, Frank Semple, Homer Geter, Jack Geter, Clarence Horn, Jack Copeland, Jim Green, Leo Mahana, Floyd Flowers, Paul Costello.

                Caddo High will lose two other men through graduation this spring. They are Clyde Lacy and Clarence Horn. Two 1928 lettermen, Monroe Smith and Charles Geter, will be back with the squad next season.

                Shearl Shofner is coach of the Caddo squad and Willis McBride is assistant coach. Both are Southeastern graduates.

Shooting

 

May 19, 1916

Mary Goddard

The Caddo Herald

June 15, 1934

Mary Lois Goddard Succumbs

After Long Illness

Mary Lois Goddard, 20, passed away at her home Tuesday afternoon after having suffered of typhoid fever for the past month.

Mary Lois was the eldest child of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Goddard and was one of the most popular and best loved of the younger set. She was a graduate of the local High School; a student of Southeastern Teachers College, where she was a member of the Alpha Sigma Tau social sorority and a member of the Presbyterian church here.

The high ideals for which she lived were well portrayed by the host of her friends who came to pay their last respects to her from the town and surrounding cities.

Funeral services were held in the Presbyterian Church Wednesday afternoon with her pastor, Rev. Ebenezer Hotchkin conducting. The A Capella Choir of Southeastern Teacher’s College sang lovely tributes to this one of their classmates.

Interment was in the Caddo cemetery.

Mary Lois is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Goddard; one sister, Sarah; a brother James; and her grandmother, Mrs. Odil.

We, with her host of friends here and elsewhere, extend our deepest sympathy to her grieving family in this sad hour.