1 December 2014 Indian Territory Treasure Hunters Club Club Motto: Dig For Fun, Restore When Done Christmas Party Happy Holidays! Calendar of Events Club Christmas Party Christmas Party Volunteers: Inside this issue: Finds of the Month 2 Amazon.com 3 Christmas Party Food List 3 Stocking Stuffers 3 Attendance Drawing 3 Birthdays & Anniversaries 4 2015 Officers & Board Members Broken Arrow Neighbors 4 Christmas Party Details 5 Christmas Party Check List 5 Centerpiece Drawing 5 Board Meeting for New & Old Officers. Club Outings Chosen my Members 4 5 6 Saturday - Dec 13th - 6pm Owasso Community Center 301 S. Cedar Street Owasso, OK (see details - page 5 ) ****************************** Board Meeting Thu - Dec 18th - 6:30pm (see details - page 5) ****************************** DUES ARE DUE $25.00 PER YEAR The Best deal in town ****************************** Scavenger Hunt, Chili Supper, Bingo Party Feb 14th - (Back Bldg) Creek County Fairgrounds Turkey: Mike Mitchell (2) Ham Cody Reese (1) John & Rachel Hayworth (1) Mike Mitchell (1) All Members: (See page 5 for food list) Christmas Party Call Santa s Elf (Pam Cook) 918-336-5691 Email: cogsec3@aol.com By Thurs - Dec 11th with names, age, gender of children attending
I.T.T.H.C. Treasure News Page 2 2 Check out the find of the month pictures on our web site each month at: www.itthc.com Find of the Month November Meeting CATEGORY PLACE --NAME DESCRIPTION Valuable Coin 1 James Marcum 1897-O Barber Dime 2 Ken Fanning 1907 Barber Dime 3 John Hamilton 1918 Mercury Dime Oldest Coin 1 Chuck Marcum 1857-O Seated Half Dime 2 John Freeman 1897 Barber Dime 3 James Marcum 1898-V Nickle Oldest Cent 1 Chuck Marcum 1831 Large Cent 2 Mathew Fortney 1885 Indian Head Cent 3 John Freeman 1898 Indian Head Cent Valuable Cent 1 Jim Nobles 1914-D Wheat Cent 2 John Hamilton 1864 Indian Head Cent 3 Mathew Fortney 1911-S Wheat Cent Relic 1 Ken Fanning Midland Valley Railroad Lock 2 James Marcum 1758 One Reale 3 Mathew Fortney Good For Token Jewelry 1 Shaun Kucera Sterling & 14K Gold Ring 2 Jim Nobles Sterling Ring 3 John Freeman Sterling Saint Christopher Pen Military Relic 1 James Marcum Cartridge Box Plate 2 John Freeman Gallager Bullet 3 (tie) 3 (tie) Cody Reese Chuck Marcum Staff Officer Cuff Button Side Shield Button Display 1 John Freeman Display Drawing 2 Lloyd Coke 3 Mathew Fortney Winner: Lloyd Coke Remember to bring your finds each month to enter! (Except December - hold to enter in January)
I.T.T.H.C. Treasure News Page 3 3 Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful." - Norman Vincent Peale AMAZON.COM Christmas is upon us and some of you will be ordering presents online to save standing in line and possibly to save money with free shipping and best of all have it delivered to your doorstep. If you want some of this money that you spent to go to the club you can do so by going to the main page of the ITTHC web site at www.itthc.com and click on the Amazon icon at the bottom of the page. This will take you to Amazon.com where you can order anything that you desire. By doing this Amazon will give the club 4% of your purchase if it comes from Amazon and 3% if it comes from elsewhere. CHRISTMAS PARTY FOOD LIST Turkeys: Mike Mitchell (2) Hams: John & Rachel Hayworth, Cody Reese, Mike Mitchell Kathi & Bob Avey: Vegetable Dish Pam & Bob Cook: Sweet Potato Casserole, Pickled Okra, Black Olives, and Green Olives. Linda & Ken Fanning: Green Bean Casserole Jean & Wally Dick: Cornbread Stuffing, Turkey Gravy, Shrimp Appetizer (and maybe a dessert) Vicki Lang: Green Beans & I'm not sure what kind of appetizers Bill Watkins: Green Bean Casserole Stocking Stuffers Puzzled about what to buy for that metal detectorists on your shopping list?? Well, here are some suggestions: Batteries Coin Books Coin Holders Compass Flashlights GPS Hand Cleaner Hunting Pouch Jewelry Cleaner Jewelry Polishing Cloth Journal for Notes Magnifiers Maps Multi-Tools Pocket Knife Scale Thermal Socks & Gloves Thermal Underwear Treasure Hunting Books Treasure Magazines Wire Brushes Attendance Drawing Nov 8, 2014 Meeting Winner Vicki Lang Names drawn before the winner James Robert Tim Watts Tommie & Monica Goodner Earline Claxton Jim & Roberta Niessen Bill & Diana Rouse You should have been there - you would have won 10 / $1.00 gold coins.
4 I.T.T.H.C. Treasure News Page 4 December Birthdays Community Service Project HAPPY BIRTHDAY 01 Nancy Cloud 04 Aleah Rosser 10 Mathew Fortney 12 Janet Cawvey 14 Tyler Adams 20 Bill Watkins 25 Jim Nobles 26 Cathy Young 30 Ralphetta Dill 31 Chris Willaby December Anniversaries 04 Bill & Morine Barnes 07 Bruce & Cindy Marten 07 John & Rachel Hayworth 2015 Officers President: Cody Reese Vice President: Roger Eaton Secretary: Rachel Hayworth Treasurer: Terry Humphries Parliamentarian: John Freeman Sr. Board: Tim Adams Bob Cook John Hamilton Jim Nobles Bill Watkins For over eleven years, ITTHC has chosen to assist the Broken Arrow Neighbors Association (BAN) as the focus of our club s community service. BAN is a nonprofit organization and is celebrating its 31st year of serving our local community. In past years ITTHC members have helped fill Christmas stockings which BAN then distributed to children and seniors in our local areas. In addition, throughout the year, we have collected items from BAN s Needs List to help stock their pantries and supplies. BAN has moved into their new facility which is located on the back lot of their old location. They will have plenty of space to accommodate most anything club members would like to donate. There is always a high demand for items such as canned goods, boxed food items, and toiletries. We will be happy to deliver items club members bring to any of our meetings and/or outings. Since the list of needed items is pretty constant, we will forgo the usual monthly list in the club newsletter. In case you would like to see what s on their list, you can visit The Broken Arrow Neighbors website: http://www.baneighbors.org/ and look for the category Current Needs List. Through recent discussions with the ITTHC board, we will continue to support BAN with the following two main projects: Back-to-School and Christmas. Many thanks to all those club members who have already helped this year with donating back-to-school supplies. The second main project is our Christmas Collection and since the holiday season will be arriving soon it s time to start thinking of how we can help others who are less fortunate in our community. This year again, in lieu of Christmas stockings, we are asking club members to donate canned goods and/ or make money contributions to this effort. Any money collected will be matched by ITTHC and will be given to BAN to help with their Christmas basket distribution. We will have a collection can for this purpose at the Oct, Nov, & Dec meetings. Thank you for helping this very worthy cause! Jean Dick and Marge Wierzchowski Santa Wish List: New places to detect Fresh batteries Good Weather Lots of Good Luck
I.T.T.H.C. Treasure News Page 5 5 ITTHC Christmas Party Saturday - December 13th Owasso Community Center (Large Meeting Room - No Kitchen Facilities) Please arrive early to help set up. 6:00 pm - Setup and decorate 6:30 pm - Appetizers 7:00 pm - Dinner is served 7:30 pm - Santa arrives/raffles Families bringing main course: Turkey - Mike Mitchell (2) Ham - John & Rachel Hayworth, Cody Reese, Mike Mitchell Each family is asked to bring one each of the following food items. If your last name begins with: A thru L - Bring appetizer and vegetable dish M thru Z - Bring salad and dessert BRING YOU OWN DRINKS Pam Cook will be helping Santa this year. Children 11 and younger will be given a gift by Santa. Please contact Pam (918-336-5691 or email: cogsec3@aol.com) by Thu Dec 11th with names/ages/ gender of children you are bringing. If you do not notify her, please bring a wrapped gift with their name on it. (approx $5 in value). There will be a centerpiece drawing. Only those bringing centerpieces will be eligible to win in the drawing. You bring one you go home with a different one. There will be a RAFFLE & 50-50 pot at the party. This is typically the largest raffle of the year. Please try to bring donations for the raffle. There WILL NOT be a find of the month. Items found since the Nov meeting can be entered at the January meeting. We will still be collecting for the Broken Arrow Neighbors. (See page 4 for the needs list.) We will also be collecting $$$ to help with the completion of this year s stocking project. Christmas Party Checklist Party Checklist (See list for food you are to bring) Turkey/Ham Appetizer Salad Vegetable Dessert Beverage Serving Spoons/ Spatulas Plates/Utensils/Napkins Centerpiece Raffle Donations Broken Arrow Neighbors Donation Spouse and/or kids/grandkids Centerpiece Drawing This a lot of fun and helps to decorate the tables for the Christmas party. Only those bringing centerpieces will be eligible to win one in the drawing. December Board Meeting Thursday - Dec 18th 6:30 p.m. Corporate Place Bldg. 5800 E. Skelly Dr. Tulsa, OK North Door This will be a combined meeting of the 2014 & 2015 officers and board. Bring your appetite and lots of good stories to share!
6 I.T.T.H.C. Treasure News Page 6 CLUB OUTINGS CHOSEN BY MEMBERS In the past few weeks we have been having difficulties in finding places for a club hunt. Either because we cannot make contact with the landowners, or because of people not showing respect for the property & landowner by just entering the property without permission to detect, or by leaving gates open & breaking down fence and multiple other reasons. If any of the members know of any property that would make a good place for a club hunt and they want to try to get permission from the landowner for this property then feel free to ask the landowner for permission. However, before doing this, the property needs to be around forty acres for twenty to forty members to hunt on. Also, you will need to actually go to the site and visually check it out to see if one could actually hunt on it. That is, is the grass short enough, is it inundated with cattle, does it have parking nearby for several cars, and any other obstacles that you feel will hinder hunting. If you do talk to the landowner introduce yourself and be courteous and tell him that you belong to a metal detecting group and that you are looking for a place to hunt for relics etc. for around twenty to forty people. Be sure to mention that we do cover up the holes that we dig and we will treat his property with respect. We will leave the property as we found it. Even if you just have a family member or friend close to an area of interest, they may know the landowner. And that could make for a good local introduction to the landowner if they are on friendly terms. If you know of a site that you think has some historical significance (civil war, oil field boomtown, ghost town, etc.) and need help obtaining the property owners name and location or need help with research on a site to determine its history, let an officer or board member know about the site. For research purposes a geographical location is needed. It can be quarter section-section-township-range (i.e. -NW ¼ Section 20 T29N R10W), latitudelongitude, EMS address (these are geo referenced), or just mark the location on a map (topographic map or road map). Contact Cody Reese via email: creesejr@hotmail.com or call (918) 504-8490.
7 The ITTHC Treasure News is published by The Indian Territory Treasure Hunters Club, Inc. P.O. Box 580961 Tulsa, OK 74158-0961 Editor: Bill Watkins editor@itthc.com Webmaster: Bob Freeman webmaster@itthc.com The general meeting of ITTHC is held the second Saturday of every month at the Owasso Community Center - 301 South Cedar Street, Owasso, OK 7:30 p.m. VISITORS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME! Membership dues are: $25.00/year Indian Territory Treasure Hunters Club P.O. Box 580961 Tulsa, OK 74158-0961 FIRST CLASS MAIL We re on the web! www.itthc.com