Volume 11 , Issue 17

1904 Oklahoma Notes

These Oklahoma notes came from The Oklahoma dated May 29, 1904, page 4, with the headline of "Oklahoma Notes." Did you know that Guthrie only had fifteen high school graduates and Oklahoma City had twenty-seven?

There was a "protracted meeting that had been going on at Waurika for the past month in 1904 and over 100 conversations, of which twenty-four were baptised on a Sunday and others would follow. A new Baptist church was to be erected in the near future. Also gambling houses and saloons were closed.

A man named Bullard, living east of Lawton was chasing a cow through the brush when a limb caught him under the left eye in such a way as to cut the ball loose from the socket but did not sever the nerve and so destroyed organ.The eyeball was replaced and the wound sewed up so that in a few weeks, except for a scar, the man would be as good as new.

Paul's Valley Enterprise: W. D. Gibson told a pretty hard joke on the town and the worst of it is that it was true. There was a boggy place in the street near Gibson's house which he has been trying to get fixed for some time. It had gotten impassable and all travel went round on another street. So thoroughly had travel been suspended on this street that wild ducks had been lighting in it for an early morning swim.
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