Rachel Whitney, Curator,
Sapulpa Historical Museum
Saturday, March 19, 1910, Sapulpa Evening Light: Kiefer Gets Its Brand New School
“In the election held at Kiefer yesterday the proposition to issue $20,000 bonds for the building of a school! house, carried by the vote of 151 to 8. As the result of the election Kiefer will have one of the handsomest school buildings in the county. Plans for the structure are already half completed in the office of Dougan & Griffith, local architects. The building will be three stories. The first and second floors to be used for recitation rooms. On the third floor will be an auditorium with a seating capacity of 600.”
Tuesday, March 19, 1912, Sapulpa Evening Democrat: Meeting of Businessmen
“A meeting of businessmen at the Commercial club rooms was held late Monday afternoon at which city affairs were considered and it was decided that funds must be raised to keep the fire department in operation and the business men present declared that they would guarantee the salaries. A statement having been made to the effect that there was a large amount of outstanding water rents, a committee was appointed to confer with the city authorities in reference to the collection of the amount. That committee will meet with the city auditor and commissioner of finance tomorrow morning and they will go over the situation together. Arrangements will also be taken to secure funds necessary to pay for salaries of appointees who are to continue in the service. One thing is certain and that is that at the meeting of commissioners beads will come off.”
Thursday, March 19, 1925, County Democrat News: Enumeration in Creek County Schools, 22,601
“Enumeration of the Creek County schools has just been completed by County Superintendent Hattie Peters. The report show there to be 20,601 persons in the schools of the county. 4,306 of these being in the Sapulpa schools. There are 1,807 boys in the Sapulpa schools and 1,871 girls. There are 316 boys and 312 girls in the colored schools of the city. In the county there are 10,195 white boys and 9,952 white girls. Negro school children of the county total 2,454. The report shows there to be 190 Indians in the schools of the county and 16 freedmen. Eleven persons of school age are reported…Drumright is the city next to Sapulpa in total enrollment, having a total of 3,000 as compared with Sapulpa’s 4,306. Bristow comes third with a total of 2,300 enrolled.”
Friday, March 19, 1937, Sapulpa Free Press: Harry Hibbard Drove City’s First Delivery Truck in 1912
“There were traffic jams in Sapulpa as far back as 1912. And the city then had a total of about four horseless carriages and one real gasoline delivery truck. The delivery truck, which was a ‘Wichita’ by name but a ‘rough rider’ in action, belonged to the Sapulpa bottling works. It was the first delivery truck in Sapulpa that wasn’t horse drawn. Its first regular driver was Harry Hibbard, now owner of the Standard Motor Supply company. Hibbard went to work for the bottling company when he first came to this city in 1911. In 1912, when the ‘Wichita’ became the property of that company, he was the first regular driver. And the ‘first’ out-of-town delivery made in a gasoline vehicle from Sapulpa was made to Bowden in that same year with Hibbard at the wheel…”
