Caddo- My Home Town

Typhoid Vaccine, 1922

The Caddo Herald

August 18, 1922

Typhoid Prevention

            The State Health Department is receiving almost daily shipments of anti-typhoid virus which is furnished free to the doctors of the state on application.

            I wish to impress on the people the great necessity of being vaccinated as a preventative measure against typhoid fever.

            It has been proven beyond the question of doubt that persons taking the vaccine are immunized against the ravages of typhoid for a period of from 2 to 3 years.

            When it is a known fact that this treatment has almost eliminated typhoid from the army, as was proven in the last great war, it seems almost impossible to realize that there are still people who do not believe in the efficiency of the treatment.

            For a convincing argument in its favor, we have to go no further back than the Spanish-American war, when the vaccine was unknown, and our solider boys in concentration camps in the south died like flies.

            Since then, education, vaccination, and sanitation have done wonders in decreasing the death rate from typhoid fever and it is my firm belief that if everyone would get themselves immunized every two or three years, the disease would be practically unknown.

Note: I assume this was written by Mr. Crossett, the editor and owner of the Herald.

Fords, 1923-24

Catholics, 1916

Lions 1942

Radio Broadcast, 1936

March 1936

“The Electric Refrigeration Show”, sponsored by Oklahoma Gas & Electric, was broadcast on KVSO by “remote control through the Ardmore radio station from the old Penny store building on West Main Street”.

Birds, 1921

November 1921

 

Durant Daily Democrat

November 2, 1921

Caddo News

Ralph Evans, correspondent

            Presbyterian Chapel, Sunday School, 9:45 am; Christian Endeavor will meet here in the future Sunday evening 7pm. There will be preaching in the Chapel this Sunday, as the pastor preaches in Caney on the first Sunday each month.

United Church Service

            The Baptist and Presbyterians united last Sunday night to hear Dr. M. O. Robertson, a medical missionary of the Presbyterian church from Korea. Dr. Robertson did not come to secure funds, but in a most interesting manner, he explained the work in Korea and the immediate demands for additional Missionaries in the foreign fields.

            Dr. Robertson’s address was so interesting that many wanted to hear him again. Rev. Beasley immediately took steps to have Dr. Robertson and his wife to stop over in Caddo Tuesday morning as they were enroute to Louisville, Ky. Professor Shaw readily consented to the use of the High School auditorium and Tuesday morning at 10:30 the High School students, teachers, and many people of Caddo filled the auditorium at which time Mrs. Dr. Robertson gave a most interesting talk on the work in Korea. Professor Shaw then arose and said he thought that they had learned more from Mrs. Robertson’s address about Korea in a few minutes than they could have learned from class books in a year.

            While in Caddo, Dr. Robertson and wife were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Allen. After expressing their delight with the hospitability of Caddo, Dr. Robertson and wife left on the Flier for Kentucky.

            Next Sunday the Quarterly Conference will be held at the Methodist church. This is the last conference of the year. Rev. Blackburn will be here to preside over the meeting.

            The teachers of the High School gave Halloween entertainment last Monday night at the High School auditorium. An enjoyable time was had by all those present. The proceeds were given to the fund with which to buy sweaters for the letter men of the football team.

            Mrs. June Robinson, Miss Kaliteyo Maytubby, Mrs. Bilbo, and Mrs. W. F. Dodd will be the delegates from Caddo to the Oklahoma State Federation which meets in McAlester, Nov. 7^th to 11^th. Mrs. Robinson and Miss Maytubby represent the Music, and Mrs. Bilbo and Mrs. Dodd, the Woman’s Club. Miss Maytubby and Mrs. Bilbo will be on the program.

            Mr. and Mrs. Harkey of Matoy were shopping with the local merchants yesterday.

            Mr. A. P. Braudrick’s mother came in yesterday from Durant where she has been visiting.

            Mr. and Mrs. Hardy left yesterday for Kemp, Texas, where they will visit his parents.

            Mrs. Paul Hancock and babies and Miss Ruth Hancock returned yesterday from Achille where they have been visiting Mrs. Hancock’s mother, Mrs. Mapp.

Caddo News, 1913

April 25, 1913

Caddo's Growth

The Caddo Herald

May 16, 1902

Caddo Three Years Ago

A Comparison or Two- by the Editor

            It has been three years since the editor came to Caddo the first time, and as our mind carries us back to that time, and we think of what our town is today, we are prone to say, “the world do move”, paraphrasing, it would be, “Caddo do move”.

            Three years ago, Buffalo Street contained only five brick stores, and about a dozen wooden shacks, most of the business done on Main Street. The store of W. H. Ainsworth is the only one of the larger, better frame buildings left which were here then. On Main Street we had the stores of G. W. Phillips, D. McCoy, W. H. Masterson, C. A. Hancock, W. H. Ainsworth, P. W. Arnold, House & heath, livery stable, The Caddo Courier, opera house, and The Caddo Herald; and in the Hampton building near the Masonic Hall was the store of W. J. Moon.

            On Buffalo Street were the establishments of W. T. Smith, F. S. Harvey, Franks Bros., E. T. Hamer, B. F. Bryant & Son, Homer & Elting, Dr. Long, Ben Siegel, Farmers & Merchants Bank, R. T. Lynch, C. A. Manning, H. T. Ahrens, E. O. Harrison, Smith & Swinney, and the Racket Store. Where Moon’s large brick buildings are now was almost a swamp; a two-room residence occupied the lot on which Smith’s Pharmacy now is, and where the Choctaw National Bank and Dunlap Robert’s building, A.S. Rutherford & Co., and Jno. Droke are was a large deep pool with the McCoy gin behind it. A. C. Pace and Smith & Belote occupied the iron buildings now occupied by Smith, Cobb & Pace. Where W. T. Smith, W. P. Booker, Arnold & Attaway, Abney & Allen, and The Herald now are were vacant lots with only the stone foundations laid.

            There’s considerable change now; we have only one part of a block of the original frame buildings; others being replaced by imposing substantial bricks; we have a number of new firms and new enterprises. We then had only one gin; now we have four. We had no telephone system, no graded streets, no adequate title to lots, no national bank, no power printing presses, no prospects for electric lights, no free schools, no 1500 population, not as good market for hay, grain, provisions, cotton, or livestock. All these things have been added unto us in the last three years and we hope the next three years will bring us much more improvement.

            We have other improvements than mentioned above; the new blacksmith shop of B. F. Self, and the brick shop of Peter Bloom. Leeper & Chiles were the only lumbermen. Others have come and gone. Now Arkansas Street has two fine yards, that of Leeper &Chiles, and Rockwell Bros. & Co. J. F. Lamb was in the undertaking business, but had not yet added furniture to his stock.

            During these three years we had a cyclone, hail storm, green bugs, red bugs, and humbugs, bad crops, good crops, fires, rains, drouth, heat and cold, yet we prospered.

            Verily, Caddo is a good place to live in, work in, to thrive in. Our prospects are as good now as ever, and progress is our forte. We predict as great progress the next three years as we made the last three.

Shower, 1947

 

Durant Daily Democrat

April 14, 1947

Caddo News

Margarette Boland, correspondent

Shower Given to Favor Mrs. Bryce Cochran

            Mesdames Phillip Royal, C. C. Bilbo, Ivan McGraw, A. E. McCreary, H. F. Bass, W. L. Guthrie, Glen Cunningham, W. E. McIntosh, Joe Brown, and Kate Pitchlynn, honored Mrs. Bryce Cochran, a recent bride, with a shower Monday night at the home of Mrs. Phillip Royal.

            Guests were met at the door by Mrs. Brown, with Mrs. Pitchlynn presiding at the guest book. Mrs. Glen Cunningham had charge of the program giving a reading after several contests.

            Ice cream in the shape of lilies and cake were served Mesdames J. C. Hogan, ___ Moran, Raymond Hitchins, C. A. Hancock, Jim Hogan, Houston Boydstun, G. A. Crossett, H. S. Powell, R. L. Cochran, J. B. Kirk, W. L. Guthrie, L. M. Wood, Mary Wilson, Kate Pitchlynn, W. E. McIntosh, Horace Power, W. E. McIntosh, Jr., Ray Pace, Glen Cunningham, H. F. Bass, Joe Brown, A. E. McCreary, Minnie Braudrick, R. L. Dickey, Ivan McGraw, Virgil Slack, C. C. Bilbo, J. W. Warrick, ___ Kuschke, Mises Margarette Boland, and Ruth Cochran, Mrs. Christine Maddox of Durant; Mrs. Glen Simpson, Norman, Okla.; Mrs. J. C. Carlton, Stillwater, Okla.; Miss Mary McIntosh, and Mrs. Royal.