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Perkins, OK,
was taken in 1918, accord-
Johnson, and depicts the
of Perkins's main
street and what appears to be
veterans in uniform.
nuFnerous
on the south side of the building. Coal was
is that old song, One Picture sold by the hundred pounds in a sack. Sev-
1Killion Words! However, in this eral have informed that a fire destroyed sev-
are many vacant spots to have eral buildings on Main Street and there is
We believe the old water tower is no positive date as to the time of that fire or
L0fthe Old Martin Cotteral Build- just how many buildings.
building was a saloon for quite a The Flag Pole and Marker was almost in
Years, on the ground floor, and Dr. the middle of Main Street and just to the east
his office up there for some of the library today. When was the Flag Pole
the rock building built that isremoved and what became of the Marker as
east of the filling station, on the well as the Pole? Too, just where was the
side. Water Tower and what happened to have this
Zny information has been handedchanged or removed? Where was it moved
:by Johnny Flint. Johnny's mother to or what year?
Cotteral girls. What was her Back to about 1930, give or take a few years:
died suddenly, and her children, the Old Cotteral Building's top floor was
Grace, were taken care of by leased to Lee Kirk and Tom and Frank
Johnny informed me that Chrystal and this became the first boxing and
to take care of the stoves on the wrestling ring in that part of Payne County.
a sack of coal was too heavy for Some type of a club was organized and many
Carry up the stairs that are still of the young people took part, including Ben
and Chet Cundiff, Charlie Rowe, as well as
this Ole Indun. Some kind of an agreement
! Pete Says made with the College in Stillwater for
Note: Frank "Pistol Pete" Eaton training by Mr. Galliger. Many times, good
a column in the Perkins Jour- wrestling matches would be held and the
the 1950s. We will be publish- space was not large enough to take care of
Columns periodically. This one the attendants. Other buildings were rented
in 1954. Let us know what you to take care of this. Where?
My first time to see the Flag was just about
Thanksgiving time, the year 1917 as my par-
there .were two men by ents, Walter and Zoa Maude Jacobs Johnson
John Morrison that got their took a homestead, way out west in No Man's
postoffice and another Land, the Panhandle of Oklahoma, Texas
at Goodnight. There were County, 12 miles west of Hooker. The war
Eatons and I used to get Old
checks and he got my fi- was coming and my parents decided to sell
claim. Jesse Stanton was the homestead and move back to Payne
and he would hand to the County.
to see us open and read it My oldest sister Vera, my cousin Ralph
ours. Johnson and I climbed on to one of the
and his family lived on the Rock Island trains at Hooker and traveled to
of us. He ran a saw mill and Newton, changed over to the Santa Fe, headed
a lot of sawing until Chantry south to Guthrie, where we were met by my
mill in on the place now Uncle Charlie Jacobs and Aunt Vera Jacobs
Myrick. Mrs. Denton and with Wade Johnson doing the driving. When
Mrs. Mathias were two typical
I mean ladies, and we arrived at the Jacobs place, four miles
were like them to a certain east of Coyle, Uncle Wade and my sister, Vera
Denton could cook a good continued on east from Newton to visit with
of next to nothing. When the his family.
COuntry opened they moved About a week later, Grandpa Jacobs, Aunt
about Gracemont, where Vera, Uncle Charlie and I came to Perkins in
Gene, had a claim. Jessie a two-seated buggy. The team pulling the
Owned the claim that the mill buggy was not trained to having a flag flying
to Ike Dungan. Gene or popping in the air so they refused to go by
I had lots of fun coon hunt- the flag. Uncle Charlie got out and led the
Was lots of game of all kinds team by the flag while Grandpa did the driv-
plenty of meat on
were not at Dentons, ing. Aunt Vera got out to go about doing her
at our house. I never shopping while we continued on past the flag
than they were. Continued on Page 12
Per Copy
America
Town Talk...
Perkins Senior
Citizens serve over
200 people during
their annual Memo-
Day dinner last
ionday. It was a recora ? rant says...Tornado
g: One long continous blast on the siren means
take cover. Remember there is no All Clear signal. Causes
too much confusion to sound all clear...
Quote of the Week: "Standing in the middle of the reoad
is very dangerous. You get knocked down by the traffic
from both sides."-Margaret Thatcher
und
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Jim and Shirley Dervin officially take own-
ership of Del-Mar's Grocery this Sunday, June
4, and are in the process of making big plans
to remodel the store.
The store will be closed this Sunday for that
purpose and will reopen Monday under its
new name: Dervin's Food Mart, the Dervin's
told The Perkins Journal earlier this week.
Immediate plans will be to have a new sign
on the front with work to begin on the park-
ing lot "real soon."
There will also be electrical work done on
the building this Sunday as well.
Jim Dervin is in the electrical contracting
business in Stroud and will continue to spend
most of his time with that business which
takes him to many different parts of the state.
The day to day operation of Dervin's Food
Mart will be left to Harold Clark, who has
been named the manager.
Shirley Dervin will also be a big part of the
operation as she will commute back and forth
from Stroud to Perkins. No other changes at
the store have been announced.
like
Del-Mar's Grocery Store has been "home"
to Lonnie and Judy Tabor for the past 17
years, and now that they are contemplating
ending their days as owners of that estab-
lishment, they feel they are leaving family and
friends behind. "When people are customers
for so many years, they tend to feel like fam-
ily because we actually see many of them more
than we do our own family," says Judy, "but
we will be in the store because we plan to work
for the Dervins for awhile." Perkins will still
be home for the Tabors, though.
The Tabors, Lonnie and Judy, purchased the
store from Delmar and Pat Nilesl7 years ago
but Lonnie had been employed there when
he moved to Perkins with his parents, Jewell
and Juanita Tabor. They came to Perkins in
1959 from Glencoe where Lonnie was born
and raised. He had graduated from Glencoe
High School just before moving here.
Judy was in the fifth grade when she and
her brother Joe moved with their parents,
the late Jim and Alta Rylant, to Perkins from
Ponca City when her dad was transferred to
work down by Carney where he was employed
with the pipeline division of City Service. Judy
graduated from Perkins-Tryon High School
in1963.
Lonnie and Judy Tabor are an exceptional
couple when you consider they went against
the thinking of many of their family and
friends and married the summer before she
began her senior year in high school. But
their hearts knew better than the heads of
those who told them it wouldn't work because
she was so young and still in school--for they
have been married now for 33 yearsl!
Since coming here, Perkins has been home
to both Lonnie and Judy except for the one
year when they lived in Spearman, Texas and
the nine years they lived in Fairfax aRer pur-
chasing a grocery store there from Glen Dou-
glas of Stillwaterin 1969.
Del-Mar's Grocery was purchased from
Delmar Niles in 1978 when, due to his
health, Delmar decided to sell and become
an employee there. "I loved working with
Delmar," Judy says. "He was always so up-
beat and excited about anything new we de-
cided to do in the store when we first took
over." Now the Tabors are in the same situa-
tion--they are selling the store because of
Lonnie's health. Says Judy, "We are looking
forward to working for Jim and Shirley
Dervin and to seeing the new things they will
be doing to the store to make it better for the
community."
Judy says there some things they had
planned to do with the store but now, because
of Lonnie's health, they can't do it themselves
but they know their customers will be well
taken care of by the Dervins.
The Tabors are parents of two sons: TOny
and Victor. Tony, a 1987 PTHS, lives in Phoe-
nix, Ariz. with his wife, the former Linda
Ryan, a 1989 PTHS grad. Upon graduating
from Perkins-Tryon High School where he
was active in all sports, Tony attended South-
west Missouri State on a football scholarship
earning a business degree. Later he earned
a teaching certificate from Oklahoma Univer-
sity. After working at Egghead Software in
Oklahoma City for one year, Tony and Linda
moved to Phoenix where he is still employed
by the Software company and is a substitute
teacher in the Phoenix School system. He
hopes .to get a teaching position in the fall as
a teacher of business computers, accounting
and as a coach. Linda is assistant manager
for Harolds, an exclusive clothing store. Her
parents, Don and Kathy Ryan, also make
their home in Phoenix.
Son Victor graduated from PTHS this
spring and plans to continue his studies in
commercial foods at Meridian Vo-Tech. ¢ic-
tor is very artistic," says his mother, and
especially is good at decorating cakes." Not
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Sarah Campbell prepares to turn the
dirt and plant some mere flowers in
the flower pot next to the Thomas
Wilhite Library last week.
Sarah has donated her time and
gardening talents for eeveral years at
the Ubrary|s flower box and also tends
to several others on Perkins's Main
Street including Eadee Hardware
and at the Perkins Tag Agene3t Sarah
is getting ready to take a brief vc a.
tion and wanted to make sur the
boxes were taken care of before she
left.
"l just love this little tow Don't
you?" she asked.
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