The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-01-19
A DIFFERENT TOWN IN EVERY
WAY,APPEARANcE. ETC.
THEATRICAL MANS RETURN
To Become Citizen-How He
Viewed Ardmore Tten and
What the Town Looks Like
at the Present

"Ardmore puts on different ap-
pearance in more ways than one
from the first week of March,. 1895.
the occasion of my first visit to
the city" remarked J. H. Knudsen
of the Ardmore Supply Co. yester-
day morning Il was here the first
week of March. 1895, with a show.
and | can tell you was glad to
get out of town alive. At that time
| was trouping through the south
western country with show. play
ing the trombone in band seeking
n location. and when | struck Ard
more | thought IL the toughest town
in the country, and during those
days ! expect 1t was about as tough
a town as you could find.
The company was with was
known as Our Dorothy Co" and
the players in the company We're
dNbhN ho A'hkh a. W. WIN AiA' 'N''f
tion of the band which was compos
ed of fairly good musicians. The
play crs were playing for p'r',aps sal
aries. perhaps the actor and band
man would get his salary aud per
haps lie wouldn't, with odds in IA
or of him not getting it. The man
ager was planting all of the money
that was taken in, and the working
people were getting board and no
money.
II will never for get our first ap-
pearance in the city when we put
on the big parade. | was on the lead
with the band. playing n trombone,
and the main street of the city was
lined up on both sides witch wagons
OF farmers. and the town was full
of cowpunchers and Indians. We
commenced TO play and mules were
darting this way and then that way
and for "A time pardemCGium reigrcd
supreme. but number of cowpunch-
crs had come to town that day for
the purpose of witnessing the pa
rade and seeing the show. and told
us that we would have 20 continue,
which we did. although We were
scared almost to death. We finished
the parade and drew a good house
that night. After the show several OF
the young men about town wanted
to show us the sights and we loaded
up on white line and tangle foot
| booze and went down through the
acre to see what was going on in
the lurg. We were ,uck! that night
| in getting started out to see the
sights. Just few moments before
we got started the deputy marshals
were coming up the street with a
number of young men OF the city
whom they had pulled In a raid In
the tenderloin district. We saw the
sights and had a glorious time drink
ing tarantula juice and tobacco juice
wet goods. We wound up with big
hpLCs and empty JJCke, books
cant see why we were not punctur
ed full of holes on that visit.
Since coming here to live ] have
been ndeavoring to locate some
of the old land marks of my former
visit, but up TO the present time
lLYve not been able TO do so.
"One incident that occurred dur
INK the time, which | will remember
was the action OF blk six-fee
cowpuncher, who came up to m'
after we stopped the parade ant
wanted to know what was the mat
ter that we did not continue. ! tol'
him that We did not care to maxi
the Sorses and mules runaway. liz
replied: we came here TO hear tn
band and see the parade, and we In
tend to see the parade, Those re
marks were enough for US and VI
continued the parade. Everyone II
those days wore sixshooter straI
ped around him that made the eas
tern man feel bit creepy when on
of those fellows walked up to hin
Il was talk;n.; TO Manager Robis9l
of the opera house about that visit
and he recalled 1t TO me, especial
about the arrest of that large crow
of young men who We're up unit
early Sunday morning fixing a
their bonds