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Speaking
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Around
the Farm
had some warm
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and leaders of
strike are meeting with
Carter...Watch
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special treat, Santa Claus
answers your questions
about Christmas! Inside it
had 8 tabs, with a question
on each tab. To find the
column next week for a answer to each question, you
announcement...If you open the L tab for Santa's
got your Christmas answer. Here are six of
3 .... Except ye become as little children, ye shall not
enter into the kingdom of heaven.
4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this
little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of
heaven.
yet, you better hurry up. them:
of an artificial tree,
not go out and chop a Q: What do you call your
tree? Cedar trees are helpers?
a parasite to good A: Subordinate Clauses.
when there's so
of them. A few are Q: Why do you have
but more are coming aliases such as "Kris
so don't worry Kringle" and"St. Nick"?
causing a cedar A: I run a fly-by-night
g one tree. operation.
.... Q: How do you weed your
a Christmas card that garden?
on the front: As a A: Hoe! Hoe! Hoe!
und Off!
LaVeta Randall
all-time high. At any rate,
some of this reading must be
done by those who find TV
programs dis*asteful.
Reports indicate that
movies, which may in many
instances be no better than
the TV programs in question,
are attracting record crowds.
Warner Bros. saysit had its
second-best year in history in
1977. United Artists reports
profits that "shot through
the roof." TV specials seem
to have higher ratings than
regular shows.
Reading is Fundamental,
Inc. (RIF), is a national,
non-profit organization de-
signed to motivate children
to read by giving them the
opportunity to choose and
own inexpensive books.
Founded by Mrs. Robert S.
McNamara, Washington, D.
C., in 1966, the program is
growing across the U.S.
In 1975, Congress estab-
lished an inexpensive book
distrilSution project. They
contracted with RIF to
administer and assist public
agencies who wish to
participate. It is something
for various groups and
community organizations to
look into.
Your columnist respects
their privilege to "sound
off" about many topics
which interest them, but if I
could have one special wish
for the new year, it would be,
PLEASE take a minute to
..... (Continued on Page 8)
to the thoughts
last week in this
about the need to
better material, it was
to learn that this is
in part at least.
writer says that
apparently are dis-
with the supposedly
thrust at them
and as a result,
books are booming
rebel against the
network shows." AI-
many have registered
at some old
I, personally, can't
the more popular
are any improvement.
you believe that
is one of the three
are ON OUR
BOAT, I am
familiar with
which is certainly
I know nothing
the other, On Our
Matthew ! 8:3,4
the alternatives
too much if any
Since TV
to be catering more
to the "teenagers
adults," sources
there isn't much
for mature or
adults. So
books are being sold
ever before, MacMil-
PUtnam and Dutton are
reporting a terrific
business. Paper-
(no preference
also, .cJPim an
Q: Why don't you use an
airplane instead of reindeer?
A: How would the pitter
patter of little landing gear
sound on your rooftop?
Q: Why are you so jolly?
A: You'd be jolly too if you
only had to work one day a
year!
Q: Do red noses run in
Rudolph's family?
A: Only in the winter time.
Here are the stories
behind the Christmas carols
that I promised last week..
"Harkl The Herald Angels
Sing" was written by
Charles Wesley, brother of
John Wesley, the great
English preacher of the
1700s who founded the
Methodist Church. John and
Charles were quite a prolific
pair. They worked together
for 50 years and were always
on the go. John preached
over 40,000 sermons and
wrote 233 books on the road.
Meanwhile brother Charles
was writing hymns. He wrote
6,500 of 'eml
One of these was "Harkl
The Herald Angels Sing!",
which he wrote when he was
thirty. In the 1800s the words
were set to some music of
Felix Mendelssohn-Barth-
oldy, a Christian Jewish
composer.
week), it was written
specifically for a particular
Christmas service. Phillips
Brooks, preacher of a church
in Philadelphia, who had
visited Bethlehem several
years earlier, wrote the
words and gave them to the
church organist and Sunday
School Superintendent Lewis
Redner to write the music.
But Redner did not claim to
be a composer and carried it
in his pocket day after day,
but the melody didn't come.
The inspiration for the tune
for the Sunday morning
serv€ didn'f cdnie to ii"
until the night before. So the
children of the church sang
the song the next morning,
and a carol was born.
"Joy to the World" was
written by Isaac Watts of
England. Watts got his start
in 1690 when he told his
father that most church
hymns bored him because
they were behind the times.
His father told Isaac that the
hymns were "good enough
for your grandfather and me,
and they will serve you just
as well." Isaac replied that
the words were also mean-
..,'.
o.,
ii but Trailer laughed. "now,
you get over to your wagon
"" and if you so much as look
like you want to tell lies
about Indians to the chil-
dren, I'll settle with you in a
way you'll never forget."
"O Little Town of Bethle- Trailer cocked his fists,
hem" was written in 1868. squared himself, took two
Like "Silent Night" (see last steps toward Mr. Carrier and
ingless and Nd.fashioned.
(Continued on Page 4)
Senior Citizens News
By Clarrcy Cook
Attendance has been good
at the Center this week in
spite of all the other
activities going on so near
Christmas. Making ceramic
pretties is still big business
and the ladies keep finding
new things to add to the
favorites which are done
each year.
Several gathered Wednes-
day for the Potluck Dinner
and to quilt and play games.
Ruby Albright's quilt was
put in the frames Thursday
so there would be plenty of
room for everyone to quilt on
Friday. Mrs. Combs' quilt
was finished Friday. It is one
of the prettiest quilts that's
been done at the Center.
There were 54 at the
Center Friday, but only four
honorees for the Birthday
Dinner: Alice Clark, Sophia
Rogers, Clarrcy Cook and
Lee Troxell, for whom it was
a very special day since both
his daughters and two
friends came from Cushing
to share his birthday dinner
with him. They were Trudy
Case, Debbie Miller, Gloria
Buckles, and Sarah Daugher-
ty. The beautiful white and
gold cake was furnished by
the Kenneth Strattons.
Was good to see Beulah
Thompson out to the Center
again. Jack and Winnie
Moser brought a large box of
snack crackers to be enjoyed
at the Center. A new electric
corn popper and popcorn was
brought by Clarrcy and Sue
cook for use at the Center. A
A large group was present
Monday night to enjoy the
music. The Christmas Carols
were especially enjoyed by
everyone. Jo Knapp and
Mabel Caldwell were the
hostesses. We miss the
Easters.
We know the Senior
Citizens who were visited
Wednesday night by the
youth of the Christian
Church appreciated the
Christmas Carols. We enjoy-
ed hearing them, too, while
visiting friends.
Visitors recently included
Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Rogers of
Tempe, Ariz., O. J. and
Laveda Cunningham, Jeff
Savage and Oscar and Edrie
Davis from the Stillwater
Center.
Remember the Christmas
Party Friday at 2:30.
Women are to bring a gift for
a woman, men for a man and
snack foods to be shared at
the Center.
The usual Monday Night
Music Program will he
presented December 26th.
Wednesday the 28th will be
time for the Potluck Dinner
again at noon.
Cathy Stinson RN took
blood pressures Friday but
the machine was unavailable
for doing blood sugar tests
that day.
A trip to Payne County
The Perkins Journal Thursday, December 22, 1977.3
The Wagon Train
(The tallowing account m 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. Nin!nger
(con't. from last week)
"I didn't go .o a girls'
chool like I suppose you'did,
and learn to cook. I notice
that you do most of the
:ookin' in your camp and let
your boys do your men's
work. Cookin's women's
work and I don't do woman's
work. I could learn to cook, if
I wanted to and I bet I could
do a better job at it than you
do."
"I dare you to try to cook
just one meal for you and
your wife," said Mr. Carrier.
"Or are you afraid you both
might be poisoned?" and all
said, "If you want to settle
anything, why don't you do it
right now?"
Harley Carrier did not
move back an inch, but the
other men moved in a little
closer and surrounded Trail-
er and Mr. Carder---all eyes
glued on Trailer and
flashing.
It looked like war was
going to start even before we
got into Indian Territory.
Trailer saw the hostile look
' in the eyes of the other men
and his belligerent attitude
suddenly subsided. He drop-
'ed his hands to his sides i
and, without another word,
slunk over to his wagon and
dissapeared inside it.
When we crossed the state
line from Missouri to Kansas
the terrain on both sides of
the line looked the same, but
this was not so when we
crossed from Kansas into the
Indian Territory. It looked
like we might be in a
different country all to-
gether. The roads did not
follow the section lines like
they did in Missouri and
Kansas; there were less
prosperous looking farms;
there was less industry;
there were many Indians
with their blankets, feathers
and moccasins and many of
them lived in teepees.
When we were preparing
to leave our camp near
Caney, Kansas and head for
Bartlesville, Indian Terd-
tory, Mr. Willians stood up
on the spring seat of his
wagon and shouted, "All
aboard for Bottlecork where
you can get your blankets,
feathers, moccasins, beads,
buffalo meat and Indian
ponies. This will be your first
chance to get yourselves
dressed up in style."
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The road from the Kansas
line to Bartlesville was really
'not a road at all, but only an
angling, trail through wild
country with tall grass
growing everywhere and
trees growing along the
creeks. We expected to see
wild buffalo, coyotes, wild
turkeys, and many wild
savage Indians. About all the
wild life we saw were a great
many jackrabbits and a few
cottontails.
The altitude of Bartlesville
is 694 feet above sea level. It
is now the County Seat of
Washington County, Okla-
homa. It is the center of an
extensive oil and gas field. It
has large smelters, foundries
and machine shops, etc. It
was named for Jacob
Battles, a famous pioneer.
Its first enterprise was a grist
mill for grinding corn, built
in 1868. In the early days Jim
Finch established a freight
line of wagons and four-mule
teams to serve this section of
the Indian Territory, and
which vas a going industry
for several years.
On April 15, 1897, the first
"commercial" oil well in
what is now Oklahoma, was
brought in across the Caney
River from the old mill. The
same year (1897) the
region's first telephone line
was set up, connecting
Bartlesville, Indian Territory
with Caney, Kansas. The
first railroad, the Santa Fe,
was built in 1898.
Bartlesville is situated on
U.S. Highways 60 and 75.
The country around
Bartlesville was a wooded
country, which provided
plenty of firewood for our
camps. When our wagon
train passed through Bartles-
ville, it boasted a general
store, a blacksmith shop, the
old mill and quite a number
of Indian teepees, for we
were now in real Indian
country and everywhere we
could see little black heads
with sparkling wide black
eyes peeping at us from the
flaps of the teepees. We saw
few white people except the
storekeeper and his wife,
and the blacksmith and his
wife, hut many Indians and
Indian ponies were in
evidence.
Here we bought a supply
Santa-Logan Is Wild
of bailed hay and oats at the
general store. The hay that
,-ould not be put inside the
vagons was tied on the sides
and on top of the feed
troughs at the back of the
wagons. The families who
were short of food bought
bacon, beans, flour, pota-
toes, etc. The store had quite
a stock of Indian blankets,
moccasins, beads, Indian
headdress, etc., but
our group could not afford
many luxuries, so, as far as I
know, none of them indulged
in any of them.
Between Bartlesville and
Pawhuska we camped by a
small creek on a small area
)f level ground with hills all
tround and one tree on the
:.rea.
After supper, about a half
'ozen of the boys of our
,roup walked up on one of
:he hills and sat down by a
fig rock in the light of the
moon and told wild Indian
stories and listened to the
coyotes howl and the owls
hoot. The louder the coyotes
howled and the faster the
owls hooted, the faster we
told the stories and the
bigger they got. Finally, we
got scared at the coyotes and
the owls and our own stories
and ran back to the camp as
fast as we could go.
The men did not pretend
to be expecting trouble, but
it was obvious that they were
apprehensive, because they
arranged the wagons in a
semicircle with the open side
of the semicircle facing a
curve in the creek in such a
manner that the wagons and
the creek formed a complete
circle and the camp fires
were built inside the circle,
and everyone was cautioned
to make as little smoke as
possible.
Just about dark about
fifteen young buck Indians
rode up to our camp on theft
ponies, bareback. Some of
them wore headdresses of
feathers and others were
bareheaded; some wore
blankets and others wore
only breechcloths; some
wore moccasins and others
were barefoot.
All of the children were
frightened because of the
Indian stories Mr. Trailer
had told them and they ran to
their wagons as fast as their
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little legs could carry them
and scrambled aboard. They
thought their time had come.
This amused the Indians and
they laughed among them-
selves. Everywhere wide-
eyed little heads could be
seen peeking out from under
wagon covers. The women
also left their work and
climbed into the wagons, but
they pretended to not be
scared and were more
leisurely about it than were
the children. Mr. Carrier
went to the Indians and
asked them if he could help
them. They looked at each
other questioningly and did
not answer. After Mr.
Carrier had made several
unsuccessful attempts to
make them understand, he
returned to his work.
The Indians sat on their
ponies talking in their
language and gesticulating
for seemed to us about a
half-hour, then they turned,
kicked their ponies in the
flanks, gave a loud yell and
rode away in a gallop.
Everybody in our camp
was relieved, especially the
women and children. The
men did not admit to being
relieved, but the sole topic of
conversation that evening
was "Indians", but they
kept their voices low because
they said they did not want to
frighten the children, but
that night every man slept
with his gun within reach---
and loaded.
Soon after we left this
camp we came to a house
which showed signs of being
occupied by white people,
and the men were not sure
they were on the right road,
so we stopped to inquire.
After their inquiries had
:onvinced the men that they
were on the right road, Stu
Jarvis asked the woman if
there were any dunkards in
that part of the country.
The woman replied, "I
don't know, but my husband
has got a lot of hides tacked
on the side of the barn. You
kin go and look at 'em; iffen
they's any dunkards around
here, some of their hides will
be among 'em. (Dunkards
was a nickname for the
Brethren Church.)
(To be continued)
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