Pictorially
Speaking
MEMORY'S HOUSE
'House of old memories/
so plain/ now
deserted and creak-
with pain. No more
to echo childish
no secret planned
no errands to run./
are your walls/
finger prints show/
tears, scrubbed &
them long ago.
-by LaVeta Randall
Senior Citizens News
everyone notice how
Center looks since
cleaned the carpets,
the windows and
out the flower
classes have
again on Tuesday
Lois has fired the
SeVeral times and says
Seem to work better
less time, so
quilters have "been
steadily, even re:
Some new help, but
Garden" pat-
's take a little
but are so pretty
Mrs. Ham is
on another "Trip
World" quilt top
almost finished. I'm
ready soon, as
the next one to have a
the frames.
Friday noon will be
Dish Birthday
and Wednesday, Oct.
be the Potluck
There's always a lot
done on dinner
Night was well
153 who came to
and hearing
men's Barber-
group from
added their pro-
the usual Country
and Gospel music,
a very enjoyable
everyone. Larry.
the leader (or
whatever) of the Barbershop
group of eight. Mabel
Caldwell and Ruby Dobson
were the kitchen workers.
The musicians called Ruby to
come out and be recognized,
as it was her and Doe's 44th
wedding anniversary. Doc
reports his sister and
brother-in-law in California
are improving.
Jim Rylant lost a sister-in-
law in Ponca City last week.
He spent the weekend in
Fairfax. Recent Center visi-
tors were Ruth Skinner,
Walla Walla, WA., Mr.and
MrS. Doyle Hardy, Farmers-
ville, CA., Ortho and Sue
Glenn, Bartlesville, and
Polly Broyles from Senior score was tied till very near
Citizens at Newkirk, aunt of the end. Kansas State was
Edith Winsor.
The Center is sponsoring a
program on Drugs to be held
each Thursdayat 7:00 p.m. It
will be taught by Steve
Willingham, pharmacist
from the Perkins Drug. It will
indU'de- • .medications pre-
scribed by your doctor for
certain symptoms or condi-
tions, under what circum-
tions certain drugs should
not be taken, which ones
should not be taken at the
same time, and etc., as well
as problems of drug abuse. It
will be about 1 hour each
time and will last several
weeks, beginning this Thurs.
the 20th.
The Center will be closed
on Friday nights for awhile.
Dinner Theatre -- Oct. 18-Nov. 13
Presents Frank Silvano's
$ A MAD, MAD WORLD
Around
the Farm
by Allan Wall
II
The wheat and alfalfa are I might also add that there
coming up but we need some was an airplane flying above
rain! Lewis Stadium Saturday
.... during the game pulling a
I was at the OSU-Kansas sign that read'SOONEROR
State game for most of the LATER FMIO0 KATT.
game Saturday and it was a (KATT is ala OKC radio
lot tougher game than we station.) Well, we'll see
thought it would be. But about that November 5.
OSU managed to pull off a See you next week.
21-14 victory, though the -0-
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Farmers Union
Annual meeting
is Nov. 3
The annual Payne County
Farmers Union meeting will
be held Nov. 3 at the
Cimarron Ball Room. Under-
wood's Barbecue will cater
the affair and serving will
begin at 6:00 p.m.
The featured speaker will
be the Oklahoma F.U.
President George Stone.
Entertainment will be
Country and Westen Music
by Charles Porter and Band.
Drawing for door prizes
will be held during the
evening.
Anyone planning to attend
should contact their Farmers
Union agent soon for
reservations.
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A trip to Payne County
The W
(The following account is my
impression of my family's
move from Missouri to
Oklahoma.
These events are based on
factual happenings, however
some segments are fiction-
alized.
This manuscript is not
intended as a definitive •
history per se, but rather as a
subjective view of a people
and an era in our past.
-J. C. Nininger
(can't. from last week)
The committee lost no
time, but got everything
ready that afternoon for the
trip and started the next
morning.
They were gone about four
weeks--all except Stu Jarvis;
he got homesick and
returned by train about ten
days before the others.
Meanwhile Father had
heard from Joseph Cod at
Clarkson, Oklahoma, who
had written him about a farm
within a mile of the Paradise
Prairie Brethren Church, and
the owner would consider
trading for a farm in
Missouri. The description
sounded so good to Father
that he did not wait for the
scouting committee to return
but went to Oklahoma by
train, made a tentative deal
with a Mr. Rufus Sadler to
not only trade farms, but also
livestock, farm machinery
and household articles, then
they both boarded the train
for Warrensburg, Missouri
to close the deal if everything
was satisfactory.
When they arrived in
Missouri, Father showed
Mr. Sadler our Missouri
farm and spared no words
extolling its virtues. They
then compared notes about
livestock and other personal
property and soon concluded
an agreement to trade, not
only farms, but a goodly
quantity of livestock, farm
machinery, household furni.
ture and other articles too
numerous to mention. This
arrangement was a great
benefit to both parties
because it eliminated a
considerable transportation
expense.
So by the time Mr. Carrier
and Mr. Moore returned
from their scouting trip in
Oklahoma, Father had been
to Oklahoma and back and
had traded for an Oklahoma
farm and many of its
appurtenances and was
ready to make plans to move.
A few days later Mother
heard a knock at our back
door. She opened the door
and there stood Mr. Carrier.
After the usual greetings he
said he would like to see
Jimmie. (All of Father's
close friends called him
Jimmie, as did Mother.)
Mother told him that Father
was in the barn and Mr.
Carrier walked down to the
barn and met Father. After
the customary Brethren
greetings Mr. Carrier said,
"Well, we got back from our
Oklahoma jaunt and we think
it looks pretty good. All of
the interested parties are
going to meet at Mineral
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The Perkins Journal Thursday, October 20, 1977.3
on Train
aFURNITImE
5 miles south of Sfillwater on U.S. 177 372-3390
J. C. Nininger, 1915
Creek Church next Sunday
' after church services to plan
to move. There is talk of
going by wagon train to save
expense, but some plan will
have to be worked out to
move the articles that can't
be moved in the wagons.
Some want all of us to go
partners and charter a box
car, and that, among other
things will be discussed
Sunday and we would like for
you to meet with us. It will be
a picnic dinner like the other
one was..sort of mix
business vith pleasure."
"I'm 'way ahead of you,"
said Father. "I've been to
Oklahoma and back and
traded for a farm down there
and traded horses, cows,
hogs, plows, harrows, plant-
ers, binders, mowers, culti-
vators, household goods and
canned fruit--about every-
thing but cats and dogs."
Both men laughed. Mr.
Carrier looked surprised.
Father explained in detail
about the letter from Joseph
Cod, Father's trip to Okla-
homa, his negotiating with
Mr. Sadler, and finally
making the trade. They
continued the conversation,
mostly about Oklahoma and
getting moved. Father said
he would meet with the
others at Mineral Creek on
the date that had been
planned.
By this time it was noon
and Father invited Mr.
Carrier to have dinner with
us, which he did.
The next Sunday the group
met at the Mineral Creek
Church as planned and
discussed the various details
of moving to Oklahoma. It
was agreed to go by wagon
train and to charter a boxcar
to transport the livestock
(except the horses they
would use to draw the
wagons in the wagon train)
and other heavy and bulky
articles. And it was decided
that Father would accom-
pany the boxcar and tend the
stock and otherwise look
after the welfare of the
contents of the car. This
suited Father because
Mother was expecting t baby
soon and could not travel
until after that occurred.
In making their plans
there was one problem that
required consultation with
the railroad station agent:
The boxcar would travel
much faster than the wagon
train and it would have to be
loaded and wait a few days
before starting, or the
articles to be loaded into it
would have to be stored until
the wagon train got the
necessary lead so that it
would arrive at Stroud,
Oklahoma at the same time
as the boxcar. To work out
this problem they delegated
the original scout committee
to take Father with them and
consult with the railroad
agent and work out a plan.
They made arrangements to
load the boxcar and leave it
on a side track, and pen the
livestock in the stockyards
until time for the boxcar to
leave.
After they had completed
their business with the
railroad agent the four men
decided that they would load
the boxcar November S and
that they would notify Father
if any change in time had to
be made. Anson Moore said
he would care for the
livestock until time for the
wagon train to leave, and
they employed another mem-
ber of the church to care for
them after that until time for
the boxcar to leave.
On November 5 all of the
interested parties were on
hand bright and early to help
load the boxcar. With so
many to help, the job was
quickly and easily done.
There was much bantering
and jesting among the
members of the group. Mr.
Williams said to Mr. Carrier,
"Harley, I've heard that the
cream in Oklahoma is so
thick that they have to gouge
it out of the pitcher with a
spoon. Is that so?"
"Well," said Mr. Carrier,
"I never saw it that thick.
but sometimes it came out of
the pitcher in chunks, and
that's no lie." While they
were all together Jed Larson
made a deal with Father for
my brother John and me to
drive one of his two wagons,
because none of the I.arson
boys were old enough to
drive a team. The group also
decided on a time and place
for the wagons of the wagon
train to assemble. The time
was November 7, the place
was the Carrier home.
Part II
The year was 1899. The
date November 7, early in
the morning. The crowing of
a rooster, the tinkling of a
cow bell in a nearby
barnyard and the clacking of
a moving wagon a quarter
mile distant punctuated the
silence of the crisp, filmy
pre-dawn autumn air as the
dawn slowly pushed the
darkness of the night over
the western horizon.
Thin columns of blue
smoke rose straight up from
the half-dozen camp fires
beside as many covered
wagons grouped in the
farmyard and along the road
in front of the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Harley Carrier near
Leeton, Missouri.
The mouth-watering a-
roma of homemade bacon
sizzling in the skillets and
the coffee brewing in the
pots on the camp fires filled
the air. Mrs. Carrier lifted
the cover of her cast iron
dutch oven and anxiously
inspected her biscuits by the
light of the kerosene lantern
which she carried in her
hand.
Among the wagons could
be heard the munching of the
horses as they ate their grain
and hay, and Mr. Williams,
who was currying one of
them was heard whistling
"Dixie".
While the women prepar-
ed breakfast, the men
curried and harnessed the
horses in order that they
would be ready to hitch to
the wagons as soon as
breakfast was finished and
the camping equipment was
loaded in the wagons,
because everyone was'anx-
ious to get started.
The personnel of the
wagon train composed of the
Carrier family, (Mr. and
Mrs. Carrier and their eight
children); Mr. and Mrs.
Sherman Jones; Stuart Jar-
vis; Mr. and Mrs. George
Gregory; M. and Mrs. Jed
Larson and their five
children; Mr. and Mrs. Walt
Williams; Anson Moore;
Jake and John Nininger. All
of these except the Larson
family and the Nininger boys
had come to the meeting
place the evening before and
had camped there that night
in order to get an early start
the next morning. The
Nininger boys had stayed all
night with the Larsons
because they were to drive
one of Larson's two wagons.
Everyone at the camp site
was ready to go and were
nervously awaiting the arri.
val of the Larsons and some
were complaining because of
the delay.
(To be continued)
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