Democrats sweep county
From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago
This Week in County History
— Sequoyah County Democrat, Nov. 10, 1922
From the files of Your Sequoyah County Times 25 Years Ago
(From Nov. 9, 1997, issue of the Sequoyah County Times)
–“It is very close to being actually finished,” Bethia Owens said with disbelief as she walked among bundles of building materials at Muldrow’s new public library.
Owens said the opening will probably be after the first of the year. Interior work still needs to be done and steel shelving received and installed before the big move can be made. Most of the work is being done by volunteers, who are expected to be busy with other events during the upcoming holidays.
She explained there was a lot of effort put into the design phase of the public library. The architect, James Childers, listened to what the library staff wanted and asked questions about what would work best for them.
50 Years Ago
(From the Nov. 9, 1972, issue of the Sequoyah County Times)
—The First Baptist Church of Sallisaw is sponsoring “The Baptist Hour” over radio station KREB in Sallisaw each Sunday.
The messages are produced by the Radio and TV Committee of Southern Baptist Convention of Fort Worth, Texas.
Rev. D.H. Corwin is pastor of the sponsoring Sallisaw church and invites the community to listen to the program each Sunday morning.
—Bids for two projects to upgrade a portion of U.S. 64 in Sequoyah County to four-lanes were opened in Oklahoma City recently.
The projects affect a segment starting just west of the Arkansas line and extending west for just over four miles.
75 Years Ago
(From the Nov. 14, 1947, issue of the Sequoyah County Times)
—Chief of Police W.H. Johnson Thursday announced that Sallisaw’s curfew law will be rigidly enforced.
According to Johnson all minors 16 years old and younger, must be off the streets by 9 o’clock at night. However, Chief Johnson said that minors would be allowed to attend and return home from the first showing of the picture show.
Sallisaw has had a curfew law since the founding of the city, but during recent years it has not been enforced. Johnson stated that due to a number of acts of lawlessness attributed to minors the curfew law will be rigidly enforced in the future.
The nine o’clock whistle is the “official time-piece” for scurrying home time for those 16 years old or younger.
—Benton “Peach” Casey, son of the late Wes Casey and Mrs. Casey has been employed by the Sallisaw State Bank, Earl McDonald Sr., announced this week.
Casey replaces Mrs. Jack Strickland, the former Colleen Wardin, who resigned her position.
100 years ago
(From the Nov. 10, 1922, issue of the Sequoyah County Democrat)
—Sequoyah County after two years of Republicanism decided it had enough and Tuesday the county went over-whelmingly democratic and back into the fold of democracy. For the first time in the history of the county all of the democratic county nominees were successful; heretofore a republican or two managed to creep into office, but this time they failed utterly. The democratic machine which was organized and oiled several weeks ago worked so smoothly that republican, precincts returned democratic majorities for the first time their history.
