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Beeks Erick's house on the hill where the high school now stands. BUSY SPOT --Weatherford was a booming frontier town when this picture was taken. l-lORSE'N BUGGY DOCTOR. Old Doc Wllllams ready to make a call. In early days, doctors traveled on horseback ln two wheeled sulkeys or as times got better, team and buggy. They went at any hour of the day or night. REMEMBER WHEN? Many people now living will remember this early day drug store in Weatherford. was one of rejoicing and celebration. Hun- dreds of persons were on hand to welcome the train. For some time the town was the western terminus of the railroads in Oklahoma and business boomed as home- steaders brought their crops and livestock here and eastern wholesale houses used the town as an outlet for their goods. Meanwhile Press Keen had moved his store to the new site. During the first months. tents housed almost all of the businesses . Ed Sulllvan's restaurant and hotel seem to have been famous . Gamblers crowded into the town and badger games were frequent occurrences . The first newspaper was established by W. O. Mounts . Shortly afterward the paper was purchased by Adolf Bollenbach, who called it the Weatherford Booster. Under Bollenbach's vigorous editorship the Boos- ter made such a name for itself that some old timers still call the present weekly news the Booster. The first church services were held for all denominations in an unpainted small wooden structure. The first Methodist Church, half wood and half canvas, stood where Dr. T. A. Boyd's home is: its pastor was the late Rev. W. A. Randle. The first brick building constructed still stands on the corner of Main and Broadway and houses the offices of the Davenport Insurance Agency, Dr. E. W. Cotton, and the Eaton Drug Company. The second was diagonally across the street and is the present site of Hutto's Dry Goods Store. The first of these went up in February 1899. and the second in Sep- tember of the same year. Sixty-five years have lapsed since the firing of the eventful shot signalling the opening of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe country. Sixty-five years since our town let out a lusty yell at birth. . .and it's been moving ahead, growing, . . .gradually and steadily . . .ever since . QThe staff is indebted to the Weatherford News' tor the story of our town and to the pioneers of this community who contributed the pictures of early day Weatherfordj. Northwest part of Weatherford, 1898. , O .
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The Weatherford School Story The story behind the Weatherford schools is a story of evolution from a one-teacher, no-building, no- budget school to a system of thirty-four teachers, twenty-six other employees, nine buildings, and an annual budget of 5190, 000. Now ranking among the best, the growth of the Weatherford school system has been gradual and steady. This growth has not been one-sided since the broad program of activities and the curriculum offer variety for the well-adapted students who are graduated each year. ln the fall of 1898, the first school was opened in a two-room frame building on North Seventh Street. The population of the town increased so rapidly the first year that a much larger building was needed. ln 1900 a several room two-story brick building was erected on the present grade school site on North Custer. This building was constructed from brick made at a brick plant one mile south of Weath- erford. Because of poor construction, in 1909 this building was replaced by the present junior high school. This new brick structure was considered among the best of its kind. It housed all grades from one through teng in 1915 the eleventh and twelfth grades were included. The first graduation class was in 1917. The three members were Forrest Harris, Mabel Keil, and Leora Stirman. The present senior high school was erected in 1926 at a cost of 546,000. The gymnasium was built in 1935 at a cost of 531, 469, primary frame building in 1921 at 514, 700, shop in 1939 by NYA, home economics cottage in 1940 by NYA, Thompson Elementary School in 1950 at a cost of 5113,000, liast Elementary in 1956 at a cost of 559, 000, and Winn Elenunnary U11956 ata costci 559,000. During this history covering fifty-nine years, the eight superintendents who have served are: 1898-1900 . Pike 1900-1907 . . Lackey 1907-1911 . Faust 1911-1915 Cowart 1915-1920 . . Harris FQ? ago 2 W P-'P-471' NONDNO it-ww UINIO I ,LL NONONO 1410-J uU1XI U'l'Tl'JU7T FQZS ,-,. P1 Q--11 nom v--3:1 H sa FD housed all grades from one to ten Little Red School 1-louse, 1900 model. J.. L
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