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JAY-KOLA

An Oklahoma City staple for fifty years, Jay-Kola served as one of the few African American bottling companies in the Southwest.Percy James and his wife, Hattie, may have started the company as early as 1918 in a building behind the family home at 925 NE 9th, but the soda enterprise was not listed...
JAY-KOLA

Citation: The following (as per The Chicago Manual of Style

, 17th edition) is the preferred citation for articles: Larry O'Dell, "Jay-Kola,", https:// www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry. php?entry=JA015.© Oklahoma Historical Society, " The Oklahoman,” Robert E. Lee, "JayKola Popular 40 Years," June 24, 1991

Clearview News:

The next scheduled town meeting will be on Thursday, May 11th at 5:00 p.m. The town trustees will travel to Stillwater on Tuesday to meet with USDA officials to discuss possible grants for rural communities.
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Wetumka City Citations

3-1 Eric Lorne Hicks-Public Intoxication.3-10 Courtland Prince-Fail to stop at stop sign; Failure to comply with Compulsory Insurance Law Patrick Robert Hicks-Trespassing.3-12 Ashlee Skye Durham- speeding 21-25 over.Yesenja Reyes-Possession of C.D.S.3-13 Matias Noah Ramirez- Trespassing; Eluding...

Beverly Chapman Honored by OHCE

OHCE stands for Oklahoma Home and Community Education. They are a wonderful local organization to Hughes county. They meet monthly and provide scholarships for the county, blankets for nursing homes and military boxes for locally deployed military boxes just to name a few.
Beverly Chapman

Two Fires, One Night in Wetumka

On May 2, 2023 at approximately 2 A.M. the Wetumka Fire Department was paged to a structure fire in the area of North Washita St. and East Broadway Ave. Upon arrival the first re sponders found a garage fully involved and a shed fully involved.Both building were unoccupied at time of arrival.
Two Fires, One
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