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Community March 2, 2022 iN} Hh Staff photos by Ashton Colson. One Hundred Years Ago - March 1922 March was a month pune- used one of the OK teams to rabbits when he stumbled and other neighbor. Barnes tried tuated with bad weather, ac- pull them out. When George fell, accidently discharging his to stop him from driving the cidents, strife and little en- A. Thompson was asked how gun and shooting his foot. He cow away and Bliss shot at him. tertainment. —_Grief-stricken he got to town following the was brought to Tisdal Hospital Shirley Moulton of Sayre families dealt with death from storm, he replied, “We carried where the front part of his foot shot Lacy Brower. The young flu, chicken pox, pneumonia a Ford part of the way.” was amputated. men renewed their differences and diphtheria. Bennett O. Davis and Reid ‘Two of Ira Finley’s four Jer- over a previous poker game. On the first Sunday of MarchBiscoe purchased the Davis el- sey cows tested positive for A fight ensued, Moulton drew the temperature was seven- evator and drew up plans for tuberculosis. In compliance BESSIE COMMUNITY ty-eight, but that evening a building a new mill. The mill- with the law, Finley ordered a revolver and shot Brower in & FIRE DEPARTMENT heavy gale came in from the ing machinery was shipped out the two cows killed and burned the abdomen. He was in se- rous condition. north. Within thirty minutes of Oklahoma City, ‘The mill immediately. The government One of the largest social af- PANCAKE the mercury dropped to near capacity was 25 barrels, but a re-imbursed him $30 ($502 freezing! The following night it new power plant was to supply in today’s values) per head for fairs of the season was the St. reached zero. It was one of the enough energy to double that the destruction of the diseased Patrick’s dance hosted by the worst blizzards in this section amount. cattle. American Legion. Green deco- SUPPER for several years! Peyton W. Gum of Sayre was ‘The Kansas City Star pub- rations entwined the pillars Over at Carter, school was run over and killed by an au- lished a photograph of Alex of the rooms and shamrocks cancelled for four days due to tomobile in downtown Sayre. Lindsey and his purebred Po- shaded the lights. Punch was the cold, and the school trucks ‘The driver of the car was pro- land China sow. “Lady Florian” served from a shamrock deco- WHOLE HOG SAUSAGE couldn’t travel the drifted ceeding slowly when Gum had farrowed forty-five pigs in rated table, A Clinton orches- roads. Ted Price lost five head stepped from behind parked her last three litters. Lindsey tra furnished the music for the LOCATION of cattle that fell into a snow- cars directly in front of the on- claimed this was a world re- seventy couples who “tripped filled canyon. Telephone mes- coming vehicle. ‘The accident cord. The sow was over four the light fantastic.” BESSIE GYM sages from Berlin reported the was deemed unavoidable. The years old and weighed 700 This article was written by drifts were from six to ten feet eighty-year-old Gum was an pounds when fat. Lindsey Luanne R. Eisler and taken (Drive Thru Pickup on West side of Gym) deep. Rock Island trains were ex-banker and an old Confed- made a cash income of $500- from items published in The stopped along the tracks. Tow erate soldier. 700 ($8,367-11,714) annually trucks were called to pull cars Over near Doxey, a Rock from her. ‘The previous year he Carter Express, The Elk City MONDAY, MAR. 7", 2022 out of drifts. One truck went Island freight train badly fed her twenty-six bushels of Press and The Elk City News- 4:00 p.m. — 8:00 p.m. out to help a car stuck north- mangled and killed twenty- corn. Democrat; these newspapers west of town and it, too, got two-year-old Dewey Miles George Bliss who lived about can be found on microfilm at Adults - $13.00 stuck. Then a Ford tractor was McMillan from Ft. Worth. He ten miles southwest of Eric the Elk City Carnegie Library. Children under 12 - $7.00 called. Both car and truck were was thought to be a passenger was charged with shooting at Supplementary information so deeply imbedded, the trac- on the train and fell under the his neighbor, John H. Barnes. was taken from Heritage Quest Proceeds go to the Bessie Fire Department tor couldn’t budge them! Isaac wheels during the night. Bliss went to Barnes's farm to and_ https://www.usinflation- S. Wilson of the OK Transfer John Shelton was hunting fetch a cow belonging to an- calculator.com.