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Cotton Bolls near Canute (Original: 10-15-2000) (Updated: 6-12-2014)
John C. McCornack ![[IMAGE]](bluline.gif)
Highways are
No place
To sleep
Stop your car in Canute
To count your sheep
Burma-Shave
Great Grandma's
Kitchen
Bent over the old oven door,
She wouldn't let you sew on
Sunday
Grand Grandma's Vada's
Kitchen,
She canned everything from
rabbits,
Fluffy hand rolled, hot
biscuits,
Crust flaky, light and
tender
Fried chicken just killed that
morning,
I remember the big family
dinners.
March 12, 2003
SLM©
Cotton Boll Motel in Canute, Oklahoma
Red dirt cotton near Canute
Canute, Oklahoma
It was a town where the early citizenry "raffled"
for lots, held a revival meeting and stymied a couple of saloons that were
beginning to flourish. Indians played a substantial role in the incorporation
of because the name is Indian for a man called Keen who founded the town.
The first Canute was started four miles west and one north of the present
townsite. Keen picked the location and for awhile it bore his
name.
The town's second location was one half-mile west
of Canute and took its name from a store owner at the new place. It was called
Warner. In either 1902 or 1903 the town was moved to its present location
and the Indian name Canute was applied for good.
As the town was being started in 1902 by the Great
Southwest Township Company, residents paid $10 for a chance to get their
names in the lottery box. Lot numbers were in another box and names were
drawn by one person and a lot was drawn by another. Each man whose name was
in the box got a lot but the location was left to chance. Today, Canute has
a population of about 538 people.
Source: Cordell Beacon in
1957
Entrance to a storm shelter
A Little Country
Town
It is a tiny little town in
Oklahoma
Revivals were held in the early
days
You will notice the storm
shelters
You’ll be able to spend the
night
I think some of the best places
© Marilyn Lott
2006
Saw some deer 'long side the road
M. I. Lusby
Fun Facts about Canute, Oklahoma
As of 2012, Canute's population is 541 people. Since 2000, it has had a population growth of 7.67 percent.
The median home cost in Canute is $80,600. Home appreciation the last year has been -0.80 percent.
Compared to the rest of the country, Canute's cost of living is 17.00% Lower than the U.S. average.
Canute public schools spend $5,309 per student. The average school expenditure in the U.S. is $5,691. There are about 13.3 students per teacher in Canute.
The unemployment rate in Canute is 4.10 percent(U.S. avg. is 8.60%). Recent job growth is Negative. Canute jobs have Decreased by 2.99 percent.
In Canute, 94% of commuters drive to work. You'll want a car to get around in the town. Or at least you'll find that a great majority of people here drive everywhere.
1. Since taking the helm at Spanish Cove, I have noticed something very peculiar about the residents who call this place home.
2. They are not normal!!! (Insert long, lingering pause here for comedic effect then try to recover).
3. I mean that, of course, in a good way.
4. A normal person might consider our residents beyond their prime because they appear to be older on the outside.
5. Yet, on their inside, they are doers, be-ers and goers!
6. Their yesterdays may be stuffed with numerous accomplishments but they do not live for yesterday.
7. They live for today and tomorrow!
Photo by Marilyn
While driving on a two lane road
For the fields were green instead
Marilyn Lott
Historical Photo by R. Latimer
Craterville Park, near Cash, Oklahoma.
A Spanish Cove special memory
Casey at a meeting of
Scenes around Spanish Cove
Fresh veggies for sale
Thanks for spending a little time in my world! John McCornack
Email me on:
Couldn't get into your guestbook. I loved the
pictures of Canute. My father was born and reared there and I spent a lot
of time there in the 40s. J. P. Berger, my grandfather, ran the lumber yard
in Canute for many years and my aunts, Doris Berger Gowdy and Nellie Berger
McKee, and my uncle, Clifford Berger and of course, my dad, Herb Berger graduated
from Canute high school. The pictures brought back many wonderful memories
of my childhood.
Someone is watching you!
I do so love the evening when the sun
I sit and ponder today and tomorrow
Selma
A Simple Redneck Poem
If you let red dirt cotton bolls get rotten
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Herb Berger
