Wolverine Sports by Tom Turner

Body Softball season opens Holdenville High School sports seasons get underway this week. Coach Angel Johnson’s softball team will open their season at Lexington on Monday and then travel to Lindsay on Tuesday.
Holdenville Head Coach, Angel Johnson was a bit animated when she gave this series of instructions to this group of Wolverines. Coach Johnson and her staff are constantly teaching the game of softball to their players.

Family Talk

Body Rear view Regrets Someone told me “Windshields are big and rear view mirrors are small for a reason. We are meant to live looking forward, not backward.” True that, but easier said than done.
Family Talk

Looking Back...The Year was 1947

Body Mayor John Davis Steps Down--City Leader Leaves Behind a Record Of Many Improvements Many major public improvements were made by John Ed Davis during the past eight years in which he served as mayor of Holdenville.
SATURDAY NIGHT OUT ON THE TOWN! Many of our readers will remember the Dixie Theater located on the 100 block of N. Oak. Notice the bicycle rack and old-timey car out front, but it’s the movies on the marquis that helped us date this old photo. Sweet Genevieve is a 1947 American comedy film directed by Arthur Dreifuss and starring Jean Porter, Jimmy Lydon and Lucien Littlefield. It was produced by Sam Katzman for distribution by Columbia Pictures making this picture dated sometime in 1947.

Country Comments

Body Division of the human family into two distinct political groups began some 12,000 years ago. Humans existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunter/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains in the summer and would go to the beach and live on fish and lobster in winter.
Country Comments

Around Town......by John Bill Martin

Body Help with everyday survival kit One of the first things I learned in Bible School as a youngster in rural Hughes County was that a parable is an earthly story with a Heavenly meaning.