Historical Highlight (May 2022)

Did You Know...?

Every spring when the roses began to bloom, the school children at Woodlawn would cut the flowers from other people's yards - to give their teachers roses. When told not to pick the flowers out of people's rose bushes, children would come up with little tales of how they acquired such roses. "These are for my grandma's grave..." or "*from* grandma's grave," or "for my kitty's grave..." The citizens finally protested to the principal of Woodlawn, J. Vere Frazier. Frazier ordered for no more flowers to for the teachers. (Creek County Republican, May 9, 1913)