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10 Community September 1, 2021 SWOSU accepting _ homecoming parade entries | Southwestern Oklahoma State event. Forms can also be picked up based on originality, design and University is accepting home- and returned to the SWOSU Public quality of construction, mechan- coming entry forms for the 2021 Relations and Marketing Office in ics, application of theme, and in | homecoming parade on Saturday, Room 205 of the Hays Adminis- comparison to other float entries. October 30, at 1:30 p.m. in Weath- tration Building; SWOSU Institu- Cash awards will be given to the erford’s Towne Centre. The theme tional Advancement and Alumni first, second and third place win- for this year is “Celebrating 120 Office in the Burton House; or ners. Prizes are $1,300, $800 and Years of SWOSU!” American Insurance Group locat- $500 respectively. Forms are available at https:// ed at 301 N. Washington. Dead- For more information regard- share.swosu.edu/Homecom- line for entries is Monday, October ing the SWOSU Homecoming ing2021 or in the calendar section 25, at 12 noon, Parade, please contact the Public of www.swosu.edu by going to Oc- ‘The float competition is open Relations and Marketing Office at tober 30 and clicking on the parade to anyone, Floats will be judged 580.774.3063. fia Elk City Elementary students One Hundred Years Ago get visited by Big Elk mascot September 1921 Over at Carter, Bryant Daughtrey Palace Drug Store. Entrance was exhibited was 414 chickens, 27 LL turkeys, 2 peacocks, 2 pheasants, G| a° Caffectine Column sold the first bale of new cotton made through a transom at the on August 31st at 5 cents “in the rear of the store. Only money was 8 geese, 16 ducks and 6 Guineas. seed” for $54.00 ($824 in today's taken. ‘The greatest attraction was a raffle values). Carl S. Brooks was well known in for three Ford cars. Mr. Peifer ‘he price of Fords dropped. Tour- Elk City and had been employed from El Reno; B. E. Hopper, local here as a cook. After working band director; and Alice Lowry, a ing cars (equipped with starter) schoolgirl, were the winners. ee cost $518 ($7900), roadsters were at the county fair, he headed to $487 ($7428), coupés $697 ($10, Shamrock, Texas. It was there Nanlee Holcomb camped with Dr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Palmer at Yel- 630), sedans $763 ($11,637) and that he was making pastry when With Andy & Renie Bowman a trucks $531.00 ($8099). Marshal Tim Simmons, “full of lowstone Park. When Dr. Palmer spied a large bear approaching rotten liquor,” walked into the res- them, it seemed like a good time “At least those scars prove ‘The bodies of Ivan A. Bell and James F. Bass, who were buried in taurant where Brooks was work- to bring out the Kodak. Miss Hol- France during World War I, were ing, poked a gun into his ribs and comb wanted to have her picture returned to their hometowns and fired saying, “Brooks, I’m going to taken offering the bruin some you have lived” laid to rest. The American Legion kill you.” The man died instantly. candy, but when she tried to pat provided a military guard until Simmons the hour of the funerals. The Red was charged with man- it on the head, the bear grabbed slaughter and released on bond. her hand and clamped down! The Due to the efforts of his attorney Cross ambulance led the proces- brothers-in-law, the charges were doctor ran for an ax, but the crit- Remember the story of a result of a foolishly impulsive have unseen scars that keep sion to the cemetery; the Legion ter had released its hold by the amended to murder in the first de- certain ornery little twelve- attempt at something best left hurting. band played appropriate music. gree. Brooks used to live in Sham- time he returned. Fortunately, he year old boy, who showed up untried. Others could be a re- ‘The scars of the heart. ‘The firing squad fired the final sa- rock, and when he left there sev- had a bottle of iodine to treat the at school one morning with an sult of a serious accident that impressive shiner? His black The death of a loved one, a lute and the bugler played “Taps”. eral years earlier, he was warned wound. Hobart Lewis of Tishomingo was that he would be killed if he ever Walter E. Hocker’s family spent left an unforgettable imprint divorce, the forced distancing eye was truly a thing of brutal on your body. Or you may have from someone who means the returned. their vacation in northern Min- beauty. Upon greeting him, his a scar from having a life-saving world to you. Loss of a busi- killed when he fell beneath a rail- ‘The Beckham County Fair was a nesota. While Mr. Hocker and teacher immediately noticed or life-changing surgery. But road car. He attempted to board ness that you have poured your the Rock Island freight train as it grand success! The new grand- the boys caught a lot of fish, Mrs. and asked him in horror, “Who folks, it shows the world that stand that seated 2000 overflowed gave you such a terrible black you chose to live, accepting the life into. These cause hurt that was leaving the yard. He was hos- Hocker caught a Muscalone forty for the auto polo games and races. inches long! She had it mounted eye?!” His proud response, scar in the exchange. can leave a scar that changes pitalized with one leg traumatical- Other attractions were high wire and it was on exhibit at the Farm- “Heck, Ma’am, they don’t just Andy has proof of various you and your world.... forever. ly amputated and the other badly bicycle acts, the Ferris wheel, go ‘round givin’ these things events in his life. The mark left And it’s going to demand a crushed from the hip down; his ers State Bank. amusement rides, harness and ‘This article was written by Luanne away. Ya’ gotta fight for ‘em,” on his face while chasing a bas- time of emotional pain, con- skull had a compression fracture. running races, aeroplane rides R. Eisler and taken from items Anyone out there who ketball through a barbed wire fusion, and acceptance before He was conscious for a few min- and ball games. The stock parade published in The Carter Express, doesn’t have scars...some- during a wild game at home you can recover and move on included cattle, horses and mules, The Elk City Press and The Elk utes after the accident and able to tell the hospital staff his name and hogs, and goats and sheep. Al- City News-Democrat; these news- where? Scars can serve as a - proof. Lots of work-related with your life - with one more physical record of some of the scars — yet more proof. The one scar as a testimony that “You address. Lewis had been working though several new cattle barns papers can be found on microfilm things we have done. Granted, on his right foot he acquired indeed have lived.” were built, it was still necessary to some scars are the result of a while skinny-dipping as a kid. in the harvest fields of Amarillo add temporary sheds to house the at the Elk City Carnegie Library. How you live with those hobby or an interest, but these Others exist that he prefers to scars, and continue to walk and was headed home. large number of entries. A new, Supplementary information was marks are definitely not proof not talk about. (A story best on bearing that proof of life - Burglars made a haul of between forty-stall horse barn was erect- taken from Heritage Quest and of fun at the exact moment alone for another time.) $150 and $200 ($2288 and $3050) ed, The Ladies’ Clubs planted 60 https://www.usinflationcalcula- that will take determination, when you got them. On the For most of us, the physical in silver and currency from the shade trees. The number of birds tor.com. a sense of humor, and faith in contrary, scars come from a scars we bear usually are not time of pain - even if you were your Creator. still causing us pain. They are involved in something enjoy- simply reminders of what we Scars. They are your proof at able at the time. have done in our yesterdays. of having had pain in your life, All of us probably have scars But that kind of scarring, the along with the pleasures. But that are signatures from our kind that is visible, is not the at least, they show that you “i past. Some scars may be the only ones we carry. Most of us have lived, not just existed. Northfork Electric’s | 82nd Annual Meeting was a tremendous success! We would like to acknowledge the following businesses and individuals for their contributions to our celebration. Lindley Farm Equipment R&R Powerline Cotton Electric Services Allgeier, Martin & Assoc. 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