This 1950 Ford Crestliner is very similar to the one FRANK AND KAY PITCOCK went in on the their first date. There were only 1,760 of these cars made and they sold for $1,700.00. If Frank would have had this car when he had his Holdenville News paper route, he could have finished a lot quicker than he did on his bicycle. Frank and Kay got married May 27, 1961. They recently celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. They are great friends and two of the finest people I have ever known. Congratulations on FIRST PLACE with your car in the “Fabulous Fifties” division.

Because of the generosity of Reggie Davis and his wife Lori Loftis Davis our local American Legion organization has a home. The building is located at 211 e. Main (where Dr. Jerry Anderson’s office used to be).

Sales tax disbursements and use tax disbursements were down for both the month and the year in the City of Holdenville and Hughes County, according to the monthly report released by the Oklahoma Tax Commission (OTC) on Tuesday, June 8. The monthly press release explains that the June 2021 distribution of sales tax collections by the OTC primarily represents local tax receipts from April business. Companies that remit more than $2,500 monthly in sales tax receipts are required to file and pay electronically. The monies they reported this period represent sales from April 16th to 30th and estimated sales from May 1st to the 15th.

Layton Richmond received the Shawn Meek Memorial scholarship, USA Little League Victor Bear Memorial scholarship, the HHS Alumni scholarship, and the Loaves and Fishes Scholarship. Danielle Sullivan received the First United Bank scholarship, the Clow scholarship, the Security State Bank scholarship, the Rose Marie Lowther scholarship, the American Legion scholarship, the CCA Davis Correctional scholarship, and the Hughes County Conservation scholarship.

Seventeen years old and with four years’ farming experience, William Newton Stokes arrived in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) in 1905 and worked as freight agent and at teaming until 1908, when he was appointed clerk of the Seminole County Court at Konawa, a position he held until 1914. Born in 1888, at Bentonville, Arkansas, son of John N. and Mary E. (now deceased) Stokes, natives of that State, he attended the public schools near his rural home until he had completed the course they offered. While court clerk Mr. Stokes studied law, and in June, 1914, was admitted to the bar and formed the partnership of Pryor and Stokes, which has continued since with offices at Holdenville and Wewoka.

Phillip Wood Freda Wilkes (1956 HHS Graduate) Don and Judy Adams Spurgeon. Judy is the daughter of the late Clyde and Zelma Adams Jim Turner and Wanda Chancellor Joyce Lively and Wanda Frederick Jim and Rick Thetford.

MESOPOTAMIA—It was going to be the first-ever Pride Month — a celebration of everyone doing everything they feel like doing in their hearts all the time — when it suddenly started raining and didn’t stop for forty days as God tried to wash all the wickedness off the earth.

Charles Shay was the only veteran at a ceremony in Carentan, where paratroopers landed in the early hours of D-Day, when the small French town marked the 77th anniversary of the epic World War II invasion Friday.