Stories and Pithy Sayings

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Sayings to Remember

Stories Woven Through Time

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Stories/ Pithy Sayings

You got it as cheap as I did. (relating to gossip)

Over yonder.

Djeetyet?  No, jew?

How about them apples.

It will never be noticed on a galloping horse.

Feel that sea breeze.

You bet your boots

Don't get on a high horse

Hold your horses

Hog heaven

Beat the band

Hang in there

Thank God It's Friday  TGIF

That's "A Pretty"

High as a cat's back

Shine's like new money

Once in a Blue Moon

Experience is the best teacher

S---- and fall back in it

Another day, another dollar

I have the Whim Whams

Trust me

Wish in one hand 

Scarce as Hen's Teeth

I can see that sticking out

Fine as Frog's Hair

Likes salt (lacking salt)

I feel a nap coming on

If it had been a snake, it would have bitten you

Sick cat

Does a duck have lips?

Does a bear go in the woods

Let your hair down

 

Pick up the house (to clean up)

Take up the gravy

Tell a lie when the truth would be better

It's in the mail

Drinkie Poo

Purt Near It (almost)

Pashaw

That's some kind of ride

That's a good idea

Don't take my word for it

Dad-blast it

Kiss foot, kid.

Nothing (as an answer before anyone asks)

Wheeler-dealer

Cut a fit hog

Crooked as a dog's hind leg

Read 'em and weep

Lordy have mercy

Is you is, or is you ain't

My baby

Make it light on yourself

That sounds like a plan / winner

Slickness of butter

Talking to a stump

Man, that's coffee

Feel like I've been sent for and couldn't come

Dodged lightning

Up a creek without a paddle

Rise and Shine

Loose as a goose

So ugly he means harm

Every old crow thinks hers is the blackest

Hair is getting kinky (sit after ????

You come over (disbelief)

 

 

 

STORIES:

1.  Cleve O'Dell tells about how he met Wensel Krebbs.  "We met at a dance in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma.  I was with a friend and I told him that I was going to marry that girl over there (Wensel).  My friend said, 'Short, you can't marry that girl, she's an Indian'".  

 

Story:

2.  Robbing Indians: 

"James Hanson, age 20, (Cleve O'Dell's cousin) living at Elmore (7 miles south of Antioch), Indian Territory married Dora Howell, age 17, living at Elmore, Indian Territory, September 18, 1905." (Pickens County, Indian Territory, which is now Carter County, Oklahoma. The marriage record is now located in the Carter County Clerk's office at Ardmore, Oklahoma, Marriage Book I, page 397.)

"The case of Jim Hanson tried Tuesday and Wednesday for robbing two Choctaw Indians named Bull a short time ago, resulted in a hung jury. From the best we could learn the jury seemed to be unanimously of the opinion that the defendant was guilty, but under Oklahoma law where two or more persons committ a robbery together, the penalty is a life sentence. On account of the extreme penalty the jury agreed to render no virdict. Indicted jointly with Hanson were Jones and Dunn." (From an old Paul's Valley, Oklahoma newspaper, 5 March 1908. NOTE FROM RALPH TERRY: I am not sure if this is the Jim Hanson, son of John A. Hanson, but because of the time and place, it is possible.)

1920 Imperial County, California census: James HANSON, 33, Texas; Dora HANSON, wife, 29, Texas; Etta HANSON, daughter, 17, Oklahoma; Orvil (sic - Arvil is correct) HANSON, son, 8, Oklahoma; Alma HANSON, daughter, 11 month wehs, California; Elizabeth HOWELL, mother-in-law, 76, Alabama (This was Cleve O'Dell's grandmother); Charles J. HOWELL; brother-in-law, 39, Texas; Lauren HOWELL, (wife of Charles HOWELL), 34, Tennessee.

Additional information about the James and Dora Hanson family is from Kathryn Tabor Scheetz, KATHYSCHEETZ@aol.com, 2005.

 

3.  Grandad Krebbs (Milton) was forced to attend the Indian school at Chilocco, Oklahoma.  Among other things, he was taught carpentry.  He was always building things for Grannie Krebbs (Daisy), and he did a lot of construction for others (including Cleve and Wensel O'Dell).  

However, Grandad wasn't happy at Chilocco.  He ran away from the school 3 times.  This would have been before 1900 or so.  Roads were sparse, and horse and buggy and wagons were only means of transportation in Indian Territory.  Grandad Krebbs probably followed the Arkansas River home, we speculate.  The river is only a few miles north of Chilocco and he could have followed it down to Short Mountain, a prominent landmark on the river, and just a few miles from Cowlington, where the Krebbs family was located at that time.  Google says the distance TODAY from Cowlington to Chilocco  is 220 miles by road.  Grandad never talked about the school that I heard.  All this information comes from Grannie Krebbs who would tell us kids stories about the old days.

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