Daily Ardmoreite 5 Dec 1918 - Murray County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Nita 13 Nov 2005 Return to Murray County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/murray/murray.htm ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UaB.2ACI/1335 The Daily Ardmoreite Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma Thursday Morning, December 5, 1918 Sulphur by Miss Myrtle Masters F. T. WHITE was in Oklahoma City. REV. J. W. STEWART, presiding elder of the Ardmore district, spent the past few days in Sulphur holding quarterly conference. PRIVATE CECIL ROBINSON of Sulphur and PRIVATE THOMAS O. WILEY of Mill Creek have been recently discharged from Camp Pike and arrived home this week and will the be first Murray county boys to return to civil life. Both are well qualified young men. D. F. ELLIS and E. M. RICE were in Sulphur holding commissioners court. COL. J. W. SCOTT who is drilling an oil well near Dougherty is here attending to business. PHIL GAFFORD, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. F GAFFORD of this city, is here visiting his parents after receiving an honorable discharge from the officers training school at Waco, Texas. He will return to his former position as city clerk of Sulphur Springs, Texas, from which duties he had a leave of absence while serving in the army. MAJOR WALTER CALDWELL, a cousin of Mr. and Mrs. JOHN A. HASTE of this city, recently won the French cross of honor and the American award for distinguished service in France. MISS LEE, a new teacher for Oklahoma School for the Deaf, has been teaching in Louisiana, arrived to take up her duties as a regular member of the O. S. D. faculty. O. L. SMITH, prominent farmer and former county commissioner living between Sulphur and Wynnewood, was here Monday and received a German helmet from his son MANLY SMITH, who is with the American forces in France. The helmet showed signs of warfare and also had the name of the German soldier written inside the helmet. He prizes this souvenir very highly. SERGT. SAMP P. HALE of Davis, who is now in the serve at Fort Worth, was in Sulphur, transacting business on a short furlough. D. T. PRICE and son of Ardmore arrived to make this their future home. He will have charge of the cemetery. His family is presently visiting in Eufaula. The flu epidemic is raging in the rural districts near Sulphur. Palmer, five miles north of Sulphur, has as many as 60 cases and the communities near Mill Creek and Drake are seriously affected. R. L. BUCHANAN, whose residence burned a month ago in the big westside fire, is now rebuilding a nice bungalow on the same location, West 11th ST. BEN JONES, county chairman for the December Red Cross drive, is very active with his organization. DR. G. W. SULLIVAN has recently returned from an extended visit with his wife at Marathon, Texas. Mrs. Sullivan has been quite ill, but is now improved. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Murray County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/murray/murray.htm