From the newspaper: THE VINITA LEADER, Craig Co., OK.
5-9-1907 Brush
Creek Will
Cooper and wife visited with Mrs. Walker Sunday.
5-25-1911 Maybelle
Mr. Cooper and his partner took about 100 pounds of nice fresh fish to
Welch Friday for which they received 1 ½ cents per pound. Evidently
Welch was fish hungry.
7-27-1911 Jay
Ed Burris and wife called on Will
Cooper and wife Sunday evening.
Frank
Cooper went to Lynch prairie Saturday after a load of corn.
Bill Stone and son Earl took dinner at Woll Cooper’s Sunday.
8-24-1911 Okoee
Miss Eulah Morgan visited Miss
Nola Cooper Sunday.
9-7-1911 White Oak
Misses Lanna Cox and Janet
Cooper visited Miss Sadie Casto Monday and Tuesday.
9-21-1911 Jay
Clyde Washbourne and Mr. and Mrs. Shelby Francis spent Sunday with Will
Cooper and wife.
Miss Mary Genter called on Mrs. Will
Cooper Thursday.
9-28-1911 Jay
Rev. Cooper preached here Sunday.
1-4-1912 Jay
Will
Cooper, wife and little son left Friday for Gravette,
Ark., to spend Xmas with Mrs. Cooper’s mother.
1-11-1912 Military
Thos. Cooper lost a horse last week.
1-11-1912 Okoee
Mr. Cooper lost a horse one day last week.
1-18-1912 Military
Tom
Cooper moved Tuesday on the place vacated by Mrs. Benefield.
1-18-1912
Welch Scott Thompson, Correspondent.
Miss Etta
Wells of
Bartlett, visited the latter part of the week with her sister Mrs. John
Cooper, returning to her school duties in the Altamont high school Monday morning.
2-8-1912 Jay
Wm. Cooper will be in the south end of the county the greater part of this week with E.W. Reynolds, the stock food man of Wichita,
Kansas.
2-15-1912 Carselowey
Mrs. Ben
Cooper and daughter
Nola visited with Mr. and Mrs. Perry Lawremore Sunday.
2-15-1912 Success
Mr. Cooper and family moved from the Wade farm Monday.
Mr. Cooper and family spent Saturday with her parents near Okoee.
3-21-1912 Ketchum
Mr. and Mrs. Wade and children called on Mr. Cooper Sunday evening.
3-21-1912 Success
Mr. and Mrs. Wade and children called on Mr. Cooper Sunday evening.
4-11-1912 Okoee
Mrs. Ella Tucker, Mrs. Farrel, Mrs. Nancy Hains, Mrs. Oran
Parrish, Mrs. Sarah
Cooper and Mrs. Anna Quishenberry called on Mrs. Farlow Sunday afternoon.
4-18-1912 Fairview
Miss Meda
Pyle went to Coffeyville Sunday to stay with her sister Mrs. C. Cooper a few days.
5-9-1912 Oak Grove
W. Cooper returned home after two weeks absence.
5-16-1912 Fairview
Miss Meda
Pyle came home Monday from Coffeyville, where she has been staying with her sister, Mrs. Chas. Cooper for several days.
5-16-1912 Mineral Hill
Mr. and Mrs. T. Cooper visited Mr. and Mrs. Orrin
Parrish Sunday.
8-1-1912 District 44
The Misses
Cooper, Miss Chloe
Hall, Surce
Taylor, Tom
Hall and
Dallas Emmons went to the party at Mr. Gleason’s after the meeting and they report a fine time.
8-1-1912 Iron Post
Those who called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James
Armstrong and family Sunday were as follows: Mr. and Mrs. S.A. Clark and daughters Mabel and Faye, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smith and little daughters, Myrtle and Lillie, K.E. Oldham, Elmer
Cooper, Roy Layton and Frank Oldham.
8-8-1912 Prairie Center
Mrs. W.A. Phillips spent the latter part of last week with Mrs. Geo. Cooper of Chetopa.
8-15-1912 Mineral Hill
Ike
Parrish and Tom
Cooper were in Vinita Saturday.
8-22-1912 District 44
Mr. Cooper is plastering his house this week.
8-22-1912 Okoee
Ben
Cooper was in Okoee Tuesday.
12-13-1912 Grant Mound
The neighbors and friends of J.W. Leka and family gathered at their home Thanksgiving with baskets full of good things to eat. The days was pleasantly spent and the guests departed at a late hour. Those present were: Theo. Metzen and family, J.P. Apperson and family, J.L. Knott and family, Amos Griffith and family, Elmer Dobkins and family, Ora Leka and family, Frank Leka and family, Al Flatt and family, Mrs. C.C. Peters and sons, Mrs. Belle Rogers, Mrs. Mart Ragle and son, Mrs. Myrtle Hollis and family, Roy Apperson and wife, Lillie Knott, Treva Wagner, Vernie Griffith, and J.R. Cooper.
1-2-1913 Russel
Creek F.B. Duncan and family accompanied by Miss Janet
Cooper of Vinita, Mr. and Mrs. Grant
Gregg, Mr. and Mrs. Stanton
Gregg, both of McCune, Kan., visited with Dr. Strain and family Sunday.
1-30-1913 Iron Post
Alfred
Cooper called on the
Armstrong boys last Sunday.
Born to George
Cooper and wife Friday a 9 pound boy.
1-30-1913 Mineral Hill
Mrs. Tom
Cooper who has been quite sick is able to be up.
11-6-1913 Success
Mr. Cooper has gone again this week to Parsons,
Kans., to the eye specialist. His eyes are not better.
Mr. and Mrs. Basey spent Sunday with their daughter and family, Mrs. Cooper.
Several of the neighbors are shucking out Mr. Cooper’s corn today.
12-3-1914 Long View
Miss
Nola Cooper visited with Mrs. Perry Lowrimore from Saturday until Monday.
2-11-1915
Dupree A quilting party was given at the home of Mrs. C.T. Cooper on Wednesday of last week. A number of friends were present and worked with a will enjoying a good visit and also the delicious dinner which Mrs. Cooper served. Those present were Mrs. Tom Donnelly, Mrs. J. Ford, Mrs. J.D. Muncey, Mr. and Mrs. B.R. Taylor, Mrs. Wright
Dupree, Miss Emma
Dupree and Mrs. Dallas ????
2-18-1915 Long View
Miss Fiona Lawrimore visited with Miss Zelma
Cooper Wednesday night.
2-18-1915
Petitt W.A. Cooper and family visited at Oliver Petitt’s Saturday night and Sunday.
3-18-1915
Dupree C.T. Cooper is enclosing a hog pasture with a good new fence.
3-18-1915
Golden Rod Mrs. Geo. Cooper and little son Kenneth spent Sunday with Mrs. Ab Clark.
4-15-1915
Dupree Among those who were shopping in Vinita Saturday were, Mr. and Mrs. G.F. Cooper and son, Lowell,
Dallas Emmons, Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Ridd??, Joy Lionberger, E.P. Thomas and wife, Misses Sybil Wilson, Ethleen Jackson and Elizabeth Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Elliott.
4-15-1915
Petitt J.B. Petitt and a party of friends surprised Mrs. Petitt last Tuesday with a dinner, it being her birthday. Those present were: W.K. Evatt and family, Mark Dent and wife, I.F. Furlow and family, W.A. Cooper and family, Mrs. Etha Bass, Alvin Pettit and wife, Boot Miller and wife, and Mrs. Holterman of Coffeyville. All report a nice time and plenty to eat.
6-3-1915
Golden Rod Elmer
Cooper attended children’s day exercises at Anthracite Sunday.
9-2-1915 Centralia
Mr. and Mrs. Cleve
Cooper of Fayetteville,
Ark., arrived here last Saturday afternoon to visit the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Marrs, east of town.
10-26-1916
Golden Rod Mrs. Dave Burrows called on Mrs. Geo. Cooper Monday afternoon.
12-28-1916
Golden Rod Clarence Short called on Alfred
Cooper Sunday.
1-14-1917 Hollow
Miss Verna Hobbs and Johnnie
Cooper called at the Bender home Sunday.
6-11-1931
Welch Uncle Josh
Wells of
Bartlett,
Kans., and daughter, Mrs. Ray
Taylor of Denver, Colo., spent the week-end in
Welch, visiting with their daughter and sister, Mrs. John
Cooper and family. Mrs. Taylor returned to Denver this week, after a visit of the previous ten days with Oklahoma and
Kansas relatives.
10-13-1932 Cleora
Monroe and Dempsey Ralston, who have been visiting their mother, Mrs. N.C. Cooper, left last Wednesday for Texas, where they will be employed by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
10-20-1932 Nix
Mr. and Mrs. Pat Coyne and son, James, and Jack Clardy visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Cooper and family of Estella.