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By Phil Brown Henry H. Reynolds was a pioneer Garfield County farmer. He and his sons made the race for land into the Cherokee Outlet on Sept. 16, 1893, all of them staking claims east of Enid. Reynolds was also a voracious newspaper reader, and he would come to Enid on Saturday and walk the downtown Square absorbing information wherever he could, and recording all of the good stuff he learned in a daily journal he kept. His grandson, the late Robert N. Gray, a professor of business at Phillips University, gathered up some of Reynolds' writings in a book titled, Reflections from the north face jacket cheap Roadside East of Town, covering a 14year period from 1914 to 1926. Like the 1950s, the 1920s enjoyed a period of rapid economic growth following World War I. The period was aptly dubbed, The Roaring Twenties. It was the age of the flapper, speakeasies, and national prohibition. Women got the right to vote for the first time in 1920. Most of Enid's largest and most enduring downtown buildings, along with the Presbyterian Church were built during the '20s. As might be expected, things were costing more too even motor fuel. Reynolds made note of the advance in the price of crude oil north face denali jacket sale in the winter of 1925, and the subsequent rise in the cost of gasoline at the service station pump. Carried along by the advance in the price of crude oil, which has been in effect two weeks, gasoline is being measured out at local filling stations for 21and ahalfcents per gallon, representing a raise of oneandahalfcents. Champlin, president of the Champlin Refining Company said, The price of gasoline may touch 30 cents this summer. Wow! Do you remember the Burma Shave roadside advertisements, that consisted of a jingle with one line on each of a series of signs spaced out along the highway so that a motorist traveling at highway speeds could read them easily. I came across one the other day not on the highway in a book: When crossing intersections Look each way, A harp sounds nice, But it's hard to play. Burma Shave. There was a new attraction in Enid late in the summer of 1926. The fact that they wrote a newspaper story about it in detailed, glowing terms is amazing. But then again, this was decades before television, and not everyone had a radio and/or a telephone. In fact there were many rural areas in this part of the country that did not have electricity. And, as a people we were not as blase. Anyway, the story told about a giant searchlight installed atop the Enid Terminal Elevator, at about Chestnut and Van Buren. The article said, It is of the huge revolving naval type and was paid for by Enid businessmen who saw the advertising feature of the powerful light playing its piercing rays along the vast acres of the country surrounding Enid. The light is 7,500,000 candlepower and can be seen on a clear night for 60 miles. It revolves automatically. The light endured for at least another 10 years. I can remember as a kid looking out of our bathroom window over on West Pine on dark cold winter mornings, and seeing the rotating searchlight. Actually it never looked that big to me. Oklahoma Gas Electric Co. had agreed to furnish free power for the rotating light for three hours each night. Now, it's meth amphetamine, but in the summer of 1926 it was another kind of narcotic, and it was causing a problem in downtown Enid. The problem was at, what was described as, a rooming house in the 100 block of South Grand where sheriff's deputies arrested three women and confiscated seven grains of morphine found on a table in the room. Deputies said that one of the women, described as large and muscular was arrested only after a hard fight. Brown is a former managing editor of the Enid Morning News.