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As the results started to trickle in Tuesday night, Jessica Winegeart’s emotions were moving along with the numbers.The hay broker from Calumet was battling Weatherford businessman Rick Koch for the opening District 26 seat in the Oklahoma State Senate.

The Josiah Gooden and C.B. Ford homes on South Main street were entered by unknown parties some time during the day last Thursday, and robbed of a number of valuable articles, while others which might easily have been taken were not molested.

Kingfisher County Sheriff Coye L. Barker, in a stunning victory which gave him 80 per cent of the vote cast, was re-elected to a four-year term in Tuesday’s primary election.

Bollenbach and Gilmour, Kingfi sher builders, have been issued a building permit for an office building to be constructed 1614 South Main Street, on the west side. The modern office building will measure 32 by 84 feet, and will be of frame and wood veneer construction.

“Jim Thorpe, All-American,” the life story of Oklahoma’s own Jim Thorpe, football’s all-time great, starring Burt Lancaster, will be shown at the 89er Theatre on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 26--27-28.

The century-old bed recently placed on display in the window of the McCartney Furniture company has been attracting a good deal of attention and comment, both at home and “abroad.

Former Kingfisherite, Now Famous, Returns to Scenes of His BoyhoodKNOWS MANY HEREAppearing in person from the pages of a highly colored novel of adventure, a soldier of fortune, whose life history would put to shame the efforts of authors to make their heroes just a little more romantic than could...

(Times, Aug. 26, 1976