WAURIKA NEWS MISC-BITS

People

LOCAL HAPPENINGS, July 1910

From The News

• G. A. Nelson has returned from a visit to Enid.
• Mrs. Van Madry is reported ill at her home.
• O. P. Turnage was a Duncan visitor last Friday.
• C. H. Evans visited friends in Comanche Sunday.
• E. B. Johnson of Hastings was in town yesterday.
• Born last Thursday to Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Nall, a fine girl.
• A. Bollinger made a business trip to Oklahoma City Monday.
• Bonnie Bell Burch visited her grandmother in Ryan Wednesday.
• Bill Green was here from Marlow a couple of days this week.
• S. M. Cunningham of Lawton transacted business here last week.
• Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Arrasmith spent Sunday with friends in Walters.
• B. W. Costen and wife, from Snyder, are visiting the family of A. O. Costen.
• Miss Vera Harraway from Hastings visited Miss Alice Huddle Tuesday.
• Another long rain fell here Tuesday. It put a splendid season in the ground.
• J. L. Morgan and wife have returned from a month’s visit to their old home in Graham, Mo.
• H. Kaurauff, of route 3, was in town Tuesday and made The News a pleasant call.
• Miss Tommie Henry from Jacksboro, Texas, is visiting her brothers in Waurika.
• J. J. McCord and family from Oklahoma City have taken up their abode in this city.
• Mrs. Al Lawler and children returned Tuesday from a two months’ visit to relatives in Illinois.
• J. R. Day was here from Ryan Tuesday. Mr. Day is the only candidate in the county for surveyor.
• A. McCrorey, editor of the Cornish News, was in town last Saturday on his way home from Duncan.
• Judge Chas. London has returned from a visit to Texas. He was in Oklahoma City last Saturday.
• Jake Martin and family have moved here from Oklahoma City. Mr. Martin is operator at the roundhouse.
• Mrs. C. S. Mudd and children returned Sunday from a three week’s visit to relatives at Seymour, Texas.
• Billy Campbell’s little girl returned Wednesday noon from a hospital in Ft.
• Worth much improved in health.
• T. B. Adams, who has been with Durham & Harris for some time, left Tuesday for Oklahoma City, where his home in future will be.

[Taken from a 1975 Waurika News Democrat]:

March 23, 1945

Jerry Brandon won as mayor and Grady Guinn and Walter Welch are winners for the city commission and school board.

May 25, 1945

Names under the Stars and Stripes:

• Marion Leon Hooper
• Cpl. Carroll B. Owens
• Sgt. Robert L. Scott
• Paul Harris
• Sgt. Maj. Edwin Golden
• Major B. J. Cordonnier
• Warren Carmichael
• TSgt. Bill Austin, Jr.
• 1st Lt. Bill Sumpter
• 1st Sgt Dixon Sumpter
• PFC Clifton Stewart
• Pvt. 1/C Troy N. Robertson
• Houston E. Smart
• William C. Brummett
• Pvt. Hugh L. Riddle
• Pvt. Kenneth E. Crutcher
• Roy Silkwood
• Pvt. Eugene Martens
• James Stanford
• Alfred Stanford
• PFC Kenneth Ragan
• Lewis McClarty
• Calvin McClarty
• Lt. Bill Beckman
• Pvt. Charlie I. Green, killed in action

Jerry M. Brandon, mayor proclaims May 30 a holiday.

Hugh DeWoody was county agent.

Names in the news from "Under the Stars and Stripes":

• Sgt. Elmer Brandon
• Clarence Smith, Jr.
• T/Sgt. Sam Haddock, Jr.
• Lt. Roswell Pearce
• M/Sgt Harry McDonald
• Ch. Petty Officer Jesse Sims
• Sgt. H. L. Woodward
• Flight Officer William Givens
• T/Sgt William Reynolds., Jr.
• Otto Hooper
• S1/C Buster Denney
• S2/C William Dean Bell
• Pfc. Bill Guthridge
• Contact Sheridan Brandon Drowatzky