Joke of the Week

How happy was the gardener about the arrival of spring? He was so excited he wet his plants.

Large brush fire scorches hundreds of acres

No one was injured, nor was there any major property damage in a brush fi re that blackened more than 200 acres northeast of Cushing Sunday.

Last week to request absentee ballots for April 5 election

The deadline to request absentee ballots by mail is approaching. Applications must be received by the County Election Board no later than 5 p.m. Monday, March 21st. Payne County Election Board Secretary, Dondee Klein,says absentee voting is available to all voters and can be submitted several ways.

Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit Highlighting Changing

The Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street, in cooperation with Oklahoma Humanities council, presents “Crossroads: Change in rural America.” The exhibition examining the evolving landscape of rural American opens at the Pawnee Bill Ranch March 26, with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 1p.m.

Scholarships Available

The Payne County Home & Community Education, Inc. has announced the availability of two $1,000.00 scholarships for Payne County graduating seniors. The scholarship can be used for any post-high school training, including college, trade or technical school, nursing, etc.

Homer Clay Manning: Pioneer Doctor

Looking through newspaper accounts beginning in 1895, one can compile a list of doctors who practiced medicine in a young community which later was to be named Cushing. Among the names of those early-day physicians were Dr. William H. Scott, Dr. John Charles Willard Bland, Dr. Christian T.

To school or not to school

A CPS bus slides off the road and gest stuck near the Middle School Friday morning. Leading some to question wheter school should have been called off.