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These clippings were taken from an old scrapbook of NWOGS Editors. The year 1946 is hand written on most of them. Some have OK written on the also. This would indicate that the articles were taken from Oklahoma City newspapers.
Charles S. Baird, passed away Saturday night at the home of his nephew, Robert Baird, southwest of Sharon, Oklahoma.
Mr. Baird was born on June 25. 1865, near Hennepin, Putnam County, Illinois. He was 79 years, 10 months and 10 days of age. 114 leaves the following relatives; three brothers, W. F. Baird, Sharon, Oklahoma; James Baird, Woodward, Oklahoma; Ray Baird, Dodge City, Kansas; and one sister, Mrs. Maude Reeder, Great Bend, Kansas. Mr. Baird had resided in this community the past 44 years, moving here from Kansas.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2:30 P. M. at the Chenoweth Mortuary with Dr. E. M. Antrirn, pastor of the Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Elmwood Cemetery.
A. J. Prewett, Curtis, is a new subscriber to the Daily Press.
The three year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Harlan, two and one-half miles north west of Woodward, took a long walk in the country and gave her frantic parents the scare of their lives.
The little girl had been playing outdoors and when Mrs. Harlan went to call her in, she was no where to be found. The frightened mother called the police and the sheriff, and officers were dispatched to search for the youngster.
The officers saw some dogs down near the river about a quarter of a mile from the Harlan home and when they investigated, found the three-year old fast asleep in the grass nearby.
Mr. Harlan is head of one of the departments at the U. S. experiment station.
WOODWARD, Feb. 19—Funeral services were held today for Mrs. Elnora Pound, 74, a resident here since 1900, coming here from Stafford, Kans. A native of Parks county, Ill., she was married in 1890 to Samuel Pound, who preceded her in death in 1932. She is survived by the following children: Mrs. E. 0. Ramlin and Elmer Found of this city; Mrs. John Rector of Fort Sup ply: Theodore Pound, Mrs. Von Butcher and Mrs. Ted Hartman, all of Tulsa; Mrs. James Neal of Logan, Colo.; Dick Pound of Oklahoma City, and Glen Pound of Shawnee.
WOODWARD, May 23.—(Special.) —Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Barrick of Boise City have been notified that their son, Ralph Vincent Barrick, has been declared dead. He disappeared together with another seaman while serving aboard ship on April 8, 1945, during a severe storm. Barrick had served over six years and in almost all areas during the war.
WOODWARD, June 8.—(Special.)-Lieut. David C. Kincannon, son o Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Kincannon o Boise City, has been officially declared dead in an announcement to the parents by the secretary of th navy.
He has been reported as missing in action since May 10, 1945, when the plane in which he was flying was she down and he was forced to parachute. He was taken prisoner by the Japs on Kikai Jima, Nansel Shoto.
WOOD WARD, April 16. (AP)- The city of Woodward was never really “founded,” it was just designated. And today there is doubt how it, was named. This seems to be the most authentic:
Following the close of the Civil war a family of several Woodward brothers, who had served in the Confederate army, came into western Kansas. Hugh Woodward became a freighter through this area, hauling to Fort Supply and cow camps. This was good buffalo hunting territory and on one occasion in the 80's Woodward and a companion were in this immediate vicinity on a hunt. A blizzard came up. Woodward, disgusted, posted a sign which read, "5 Miles to Hell: 25 to Heaven," and signed it. The community was named.
Woodward was a railway stopping point, with a warehouse for old Fort Supply, 14 miles distant, when the Cherokee Strip opened to homestead settlement in 1893. When Hoke Smith. then secretary of the interior in Grover Cleveland’s cabinet, outlined the counties in the Strip and named the county seat sites, he designated Woodward. In its first days it had all the color of a frontier—pioneer settlement —a shack courthouse, some stores, saloons, a genuine cowboy center. Woodward is still boastful of being the last portion of the old frontier, the center of the “short grass” country, the hub town of the beef bowl, the town with the most extensive trade and distributing area in the state.
The growth of Woodward resulted from that fact. Its very isolation makes it a natural distribution center. It is built almost entirely on agriculture and livestock and its indusitries are akin to those. If it is really desired to make a friend of Woodward just refer to it as the “New York City of western Oklahoma.” The town folks like that.
Woodwardites still point to the time when it had its gold rush. Seven miles west of town are numerous caliche hills. During the late ‘90s there was something that looked like gold and the rush was on. On all parts of the main hill, in some instances extending into the flatter areas, claims were staked out. Specimens were sent daily to geologists and assayers. Gold wasn’t found.
Temple Houston, son of General Sam, came to Woodward from Texas when the Strip was opened and established himself as an attorney. Another was Jack Love, who in 1907 was elected one of the first trio of corporation commissioners for the new state of Oklahoma. A nearby resident, too, homsteading farther south, was Carr Nation, who used her hatchet first in demolishing a Woodward bar.
Then, there was Billy Bolton, who launched at Woodward “The Livestock Bulletin,” the first of its kind in the southwest. and Dave Marum, attorney-newspaper man. who prided himself on looking like General Grant.
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