No visitors this week. Visitors are probably getting back into their routines after the holidays.
I received a notice from Google Photos that four years ago this past week a Navy couple came, best I can remember, from Louisiana, to get married. Cindy had the home fixed up nicely. Attorney Susan Williams performed the ceremony. I ask what made them choose Watonga thinking maybe they had family around here and she said she just looked at a map. They wore their uniforms to get married.
Clay has been up and has the back room ready to set up the office furniture on Wednesday when he comes back. He also plans on putting weather stripping around all the doors so the wind doesn’t blow in so easily. The old house doesn’t have any insulation so is pretty cold on its own without the wind rushing in. He’ll do windows as he works on the outside.
Mrs. Augusta Loosen made a display of the most likely costume jewelry. It has pins, three necklaces, ear rings, a watch, a shoe buckle, a tie tack, and possibly a hair ornament. The frame around it is almost as pretty as the jewelry. It has scroll work around the edges in a gold color. Mrs. Loosen was Chris Richardson and Clay Loosen’s grandmother.
From Mrs. Ferguson’s “They Carried the Torch,” One of the difficulties encountered in filming “Cimarron” was finding someone who really knew what the inside of a pioneer print shop looked like and what the equipment consisted of. Very few people knew the hardship of editing a paper in territorial days. The editor was not only a reporter, but a bookkeeper, business manager, society reporter, proofreader, makeup and press man. You could pay a good press man around $8.00 a week provided you could get the $8.00. In these small towns there were usually two or three more newspapers with barely enough business for one. Political lines were closely drawn with the editor a Democrat or a Republican and would fill the paper with virtues of the set of candidates nominated by that party.
We have started planning for Women’s History Month and the Chicken Noodle Dinner. Both will be in March. Then the Easter Egg Hunt in April for 5 year olds and younger. More to follow on all three events.
We are open Wednesday through Saturday 10:00am to 3:00pm. We’re always glad to open for other times if anyone wants in.