Rachel Whitney, Curator,
Sapulpa Historical Museum
Friday, March 17, 1905, Sapulpa Light: Manufacturing Establishment
“Within a few days a new manufacturing establishment will be open for business in Sapulpa. Not much noise has been made about it, but the machines have all been set and everything will be in readiness by the first of the week. The establishment will be known as the Sapulpa Cabinet Works. B. F. Mckee, R. C. White and J.Corbin are at the head of the business. Anything that can be made of wood, will be made here. Native lumber, mostly oak with some elm and walnut, will be used. Ten machines are now installed. The list consists of a rip saw, cus-off saw, 24 inch plainer, joiner, four-sided molding machine, mortising machine, boring machine, 20-inch lathe, jig saw, and a grinding machine. With these machines any kind of work in the wood line can be done. Three more, including a shaper, tenoning machine and band saw, will soon be added. A twelve H. P. Lambert gasoline engine will run the machines. The lumber will all be air dried before used. A kiln will be built and all lumber will be kiln dried for two or three days before worked up. The gentlemen who have started this establishment are Sapulpa men. and old-timers in the business. They will sell to furniture dealers and wholesale men throughout the territory and eastern cities. Mr. Corbin recently returned from St. Louis where he had been contracting with wholesale houses.”
Friday, March 17, 1911, Oklahoma Farmer and Laborer: Sapulpa Backed By Tulsa Sports
“Tulsa sport fans, as many in number as in any other Oklahoma town, greatly resent the removal of the Morris-Schreck contest from Sapulpa to any other town in the state. Fully 1,000 Tulsans and oil men, making headquarters in this city, contemplate taking in the big card on March 28, if it is held in Sapulpa, her neighboring town, but the removal of the event to Oklahoma City or elsewhere will make it impossible, from the standpoint of time and cost, for hundreds to witness the bout. Tulsa is but sixteen miles from Sapulpa. Special trains can be operated from here at noon on the day of the big contest and return to Tulsa by supper time the same day, thus causing but the loss of half a day, and the expenditure of only 60 or 70 cents railroad fare. On the other hand, if it is pulled off in Oklahoma City, or elsewhere, it would take fully half a day to go to the city in which it might be held, and as long to get back home again, thus consuming about twenty-four hours in all to make the trip, necessitating the expenditure of about $2 railroad fare, and the cost of two or three meals in restaurants while away from home. But Tulsa’s sportsmen have another cause to resent the removal of the contest so far from ‘home.’ Morris is soon to be a Tulsa citizen and a Tulsa asset. A Tulsa man, F. B. Ufer, owns the Morris management, and paid $25,000 of good Tulsa oil money for the privilege. The Morris training camp will be removed to the city immediately after the Morris-Schreck bout. Tulsa sports feel that they, in a way, have some claim on Carl and they want him to meet Schreck close enough ‘to home’ to enable all who want to see him do so.”
Friday, March 17, 1916, Creek County Republican: A New Pop Factory
“Sapulpa is to have another pop factory. A. O. Rankin, son of E. B. Rankin of the Bartlett-Collins Glass plant, has made arrangements to erect a modern up-to-date pop factory in the Bartlett addition. All the latest improved machines will be installed and Mr. Rankin expects to have the finest plant in the southwest. Work will begin shortly on the building.”
Friday, March 17, 1933, Sapulpa Free Press: Sapulpa Takes Stonewall Tilt
“After bowling over Stonewall, 30-21 in the first game of the state basketball tournament in Oklahoma City Thursday afternoon, Sapulpa’s Chieftains are confronted with the hardest game of the tourney tonight when they meet El Reno, defending state champions, in the semi-finals. Due to the upset of Oklahoma City Central by Weleetka, yesterday, 29-21, Sapulpa realizes that upsets are in order, and, being the underdog in tonight’s fracas, are determined to end El Reno’s supremacy on the court and take this important battle…”
