Rachel Whitney
Curator, Sapulpa Historical Museum
Tuesday, September 28, 1926, Sapulpa Herald: Rain Interferes with Rival
“While rain kept down the attendance at the special services at the M.E. Church, South, last night, much interest was shown in the sermon of the pastor, Rev. Harry S. DeVore. This meeting, starting Sunday, has been handicapped by the weather. Last night a crowd of 50 to 60 braved the elements to hear the best sermon thus far delivered. Rev. DeVore said he was glad there were some who came out, regardless of the weather. He attempted to repay them for this by delivering what many say was his best sermon since coming to Sapulpa…”
Monday, September 28, 1931, Sapulpa Herald: Adult Education Classwork to be Given Here Soon
“Parents and adults of Sapulpa will have an advantage they have been wanting for a long time now that the opportunity of going to school is to be offered again this year, it was announced this morning by superintendent of the Sapulpa Public Schools E.H. McCune. Night school work has proven extremely beneficial a record given by educational authorities proves and a test of the abilities of adults to learn and retain completely revolutionizes the theories of early psychologists who minimized this capacity in comparison to that of youthful minds. Next Monday evening those enrolled in night classes here will be given their first instruction. The school is under the direction and supervision of E.L. Southard. The classes are to be held at the high school building and classes will be held from 7 to 9 o’clock. Night students will attend two hours a week and their courses will terminate at the end of the 12 weeks…The following courses are to be offered at a tuition of $3 per course: under business, short-hand, bookkeeping, accounting, typing, and business English…”
Monday, September 28, 1942, Sapulpa Herald: Round About the Town
“Chief Copper Edwards was plenty pleased over the way old keys are stacking up in the old metal drive-and there’s plenty of room left for them in the collection boxes. And speaking of scrap metal-the school heads go into huddle today for the purpose of drafting little Mary and Johnny into the program…Zechariah took a tray of food to the county jail for her firs visit this morning and got locked in-not by one door but by two. It looked like she might be up there for the duration-but there’s a way of getting out, particularly in the case of visitors bearing food to those who aren’t…A member from this week’s graduating class in the nation’s largest aerial gunnery school at Harlingen, TX is Adam Wiley-Sapulpa’s erstwhile football flash…Some Sapulpa alleys shows what grass clippers and a lawn mower can do-others show, and how, what they haven’t. And the time is coming when the tall dry grass in these back runways will really be a fire hazard…”
Thursday, September 28, 1950, Democrat News: Police Seek Robbers of Local School
“Police this week were looking for burglars who forced their way into Sapulpa and Kiefer schools last Friday night and robbed the Kiefer school of $55 in change. Nothing was taken from the Sapulpa school, according to James Prince, superintendent, but it is suspected that the robbers were searching for money taken in at the football game. Prince said. ‘They could have saved their time for all money collected at the football game is taken to the bank the same night under police guard.’ Glenn Potts, Kiefer school superintendent, notified the sheriff’s office that the school had been broken into sometime after two o’clock in the morning. Entrance was made through a basement window, and the school’s offices were pilfered. Officers suspect the robbers to be of the same gang that broke into school buildings during the football season last year.”
