Opinion

Ferguson Features

The Ferguson Home Museum had several visitors on Saturday. Two men who are the great-grandsons of the Cordell family that owned the home after purchasing it from the Ferguson estate. One of the men was a retired Navy officer living in New Hampshire now.

A Bubble Off Plumb

Although I love fall with a passion most people reserve for a favorite sport, or for oceans and rivers, a love that breeds deep anticipation, savoring of each moment spent there, it is also a time of growing bittersweet melancholy.

Ferguson Features

I thought I would like to tell you about Governor Ferguson. His name was Thompson Benton Ferguson, not Thomas as some people think. He was educated as a Methodist minister and taught school for a few years in Sedan, Kansas. Mrs. Ferguson’s father was a newspaper owner/editor. Sometimes T.B.

Knick-Knack Paddy Whack (Don't Give Me Anymore)

After nearly 50 years of wedded bliss (Is that an oxymoron?) I've become quite the connoisseur, collector you might say, of many miscellany knick-knacks, tchotchkes, and gewgaws.

SENIOR CENTER NEWS

  Hi everybody! I hope you had a great week. The weather has basically been nice, but John and I covered our plants, so they survived the frost and cold. I have one plant I put out. It’s a mild pepper plant. It has one good pepper on it and a bunch of buds.

A Bubble Off Plumb

We want to send a special thanks to Russell at Codey Seelke’s repair shop in Okeene. He got our delivery van back on the road Wednesday with no fuss, no drama and would only accept thanks for it. That kind of service in this day and time deserves a shout out! So, many thanks, Russell.

Happy Hallo-Thanks Christ-New Year!

I know it's getting to be that time of year, but I sure wish everyone on the popular social media page I stalk...I mean, I check out several times a day would stop reminding me how many days we have left until Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. We won't discuss New Year's Eve.

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, The Ferguson Museum has been an important part of the city of Watonga since it opened Oct. 3, 1972, fifty years ago. The 16member Mother’s Self Culture Club, later renamed GFWC/ Watonga Women’s Club, with the foresight of then club president Mrs.

A Bubble Off Plumb

I spent some time Thursday night at a football game. I was there to shoot for the paper, and even though the merciless heat was very reminiscent of my own high school days, little else was similar.

Housewife or House Drudge?

Don't you just hate it when you go to any office, let's say your doctor's office, where the receptionist shoves a novella of paperwork in your hand and an ink pen with a feather, plastic spoon, bouquet of fake flowers, or some other ridiculous object glued to it so one of their absentminded clients...