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What if . . . God couldn’t take the time to bless us today because we could not take the time to thank Him yesterday . . .
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The Oklahoma City Blue Devils began circa 1923–24 in Kansas City as Billy King’s Road Show, a traveling vaudeville troupe. While trombonist Ermir “Bucket” Coleman had nominal control of the band, Walter Page masterminded the musical arrangements. Page’s credentials included study in 1920s Kansas City with Major N. Clark Smith and Charles Watts, who were numbered among that town’s best instructors. When the Billy King Road Show disbanded in1925 in Oklahoma City, Page renamed the group; some say it became “Walter Page’s Original Blue Devils,” but others contend it was the “Oklahoma City Blue Devils.” Once the Blue Devils were reorganized in Oklahoma City, Page persuaded a group of Oklahoma City businessmen to back the venture. The backing consisted of a little cash, a set of uniforms, a supply of meal tickets good at a restaurant owned by one of the sponsors, and the donation of a large hotel room (at the Littlepage Hotel in the “Deep Deuce” district, or Northeast Second Street).
Read morePossibly as soon as April, the City of Wetumka will vote whether or not to change the present form of government from council-manager to statutory town board of trustees.
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NO 32 OF THE 105TH YEAR • PUBLISHED IN WETUMKA, OK 74883
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A Memorial service for ARLIS JO BUCK will be held at 1:00 PM Friday January 6, 2023 at Harvest Time Church in Holdenville, OK. Jimmie Anderson will officiate the service.
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Wanda Louise ( Brumley) Petete received her Heavenly reward on January 2, 2023. She left us while sleeping peacefully at her assisted living home in Norman, Oklahoma. Wanda lived 89 years of a beautiful life.
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