Wewoka High School - Tiger Yearbook (Wewoka, OK)

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Here it stands! Wewoka High School In 1907, when Oklahoma became a state, the V33 ' s, S-L 1 , ' 5 91-Q, Y ff NHII We !If3'.'2: . HE E 15: 3 9 iiuiw HH- a , ' f 'V ' 'f 9.19: H4 E , , 44- is ' vi., Q Slime' ,- , xc : . ,- 'if-2' ' X ' -V -,-... -' , -, V 11' a.1-1: lffai 6- ':f,,f.i-,- 4, , f' Q24-L i- fqyevr 1 1 'rf '-iei v ' Q- g'!IH high school was just a dream of the pioneer Wewoka citizens. nz

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.Mi f0l y 0 !0 CL Wewoka, Seminole word for barking waters, is the oldest town in eastern Oklahoma. lt is rich in ln- dian history and legend, was the capital of the Semin- ole nation, and during the l84O's and l85O's was an important trading post. Wewoka was founded as a tiny Indian village soon after the Seminoles were forced to leave Florida and come to Oklahoma to share lands with their kins- men, tho Creeks. The first post office was established in l867 to distribute mail to the Seminoles with Elisha Brown as postmaster. The first sign of progress came in l895 when the Choctaw, Oklahoma, and Gulf Railway Co. decided to run its line through this point. E. J. Brown, the first white man to see business possibilities in the area, opened the first general store soon afterwards. He later sold his firm to John F. and Jackson Brown, Indian brothers, who named it the Wewoka Trading Co. lt was the largest mercan- tile establishment in this territory for many years. In l897 the Brown brothers, aided by A. M. Seran and C. L. Long, subdivided the townsite and gave it its name. lt was formally incorporated as a town in l9Ol by the federal court in Muskogee. Names prominent in the early history of the town were Brown, Seran, Aldridge, Elliot, Baker, Rob- erts, Tucker, Drs. Linn and Berry, Cranston, Reed, and Douglas. The first talk of oil was being circulated soon after the turn of the century when the town had grown to a population of about l,700. On St. Patrick's day of l'923 R. H. Smith, a Philadelphia oil man, brought in a gusher three miles southeast of the town. The oil boom didn't really get under way until about four years later. At that time the population peak zoomed to an estimated 20,000. At that time Seminole county had the richest oil field in the world. lt produced a half-million barrels of high-grade oil a day. Roads were jammed with heavy trucks carrying pipe and heavy machinery. Millionaires were made overnight. Some incomes hit preposterous amounts- about Sl50,000 a month. The drilling wells, working on a 24 hour schedule, caused the whole area to be lighted up like a vast city. Now the boom has subsided, and agriculture has again joined oil as a major industry. Wewoka has quieted down to a stable, progressive, cultured city of slightly more than l0,000 people. 1 ,Wg V , f 'I N . X .Q -- ,I :-r1Y-:,E-x?- lx' 2.',,,1i, pl, ,.:Q,, . , 5 mu' 1 YT S R lllloll 'f .ff f, ff' I. ' K .ff 1 Za V G ' f V' ff-Z' t f Q .e'i4,w 'f L' 1' f T -, :mil irc- .QNX ' X 96 X ' ff ,' fnz ffgph 'vt Q ,' 04- j' 1 Wh ff' 1 -- aff , I ,ff -1- I f X f 7 1 X -fi wL3 ' 'Pd' 11 Q 11,449 'K 'wj .v IH X .f ' ff! 1 .. i, y .,f. 4 , 4 4, f-J . -, . - 1 k ,.,.,f 1- X. -l., Ji V, --,-5, i: 'f3Q'. r 1 TT J, 17-if tel' 32-4 gil-15:3 2:-j'f.gh-jiegq- L- J... .,-3. . ,- f:.,l1.,f1i, . .L 1 I Qdyig TT535' as :i?.t:-. ,, - Q- .. ... - - . - f f wa .rs -' .4 f 'ft t'2g'3Ai1'. -I ' in - 2 . 'll' fs: -Q Y' '- S I V155 f--- Aff- E ,,,, ...w'- - --571, - t . sy ' - r , 2512 'B ,ggi-, -c5ff.'.'s-J-f,'gd' ,jf --wiigz, 15-,- Fl .r'fQ,ir. K 'M .J . fe- - -. 'fl- lzfwaw-rr-v'i'5ww1rf1,J -we ' x It eff f' - 4ga f 'S lvl ,Ili f ' ' 1 ' 'pl 1' I, Wryrlnl ' 4. V . 1 ,l,,f2l', QE- A- I ,n 1'flpitf:9'N7rlll t +ff'1ff'r r it ll r ' 'fllt ' 2 . , 'rw' H .Q .- vi fwfff 41 we'