A Distrubing Lack of Pants
Lovely County, CA
8:33 p.m. – A US62E motel operator said she was disturbed by a man standing outside “with no pants.â€
Found in the Lovely County Citizen
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October 4th, 2006 at 4:35 am
Lovely County? Funny it doesnt appear to actually be a county in California. Must be near Grass Valley. At any rate, if you are disturbed by the sight of a man with no pants, Honey, you shouldn’t be running a Motel. A man with no pants is probably one of the tamest things you will see as a Motel manager.
October 4th, 2006 at 7:40 am
a little misdirection here someone assumed that a man without pants must be in Ca. but was actualy in arkansas
Lovely County existed on the maps for one short year, from Oct. 13, 1827 to Oct. 17, 1828. Arkansas was still a territory with statehood a few years away.
Encompassing what is now northwest Arkansas and a chunk of northeast Oklahoma, Lovely County was named for William Lewis Lovely, the government agent for the Osage and eventually the Cherokee.
The region was to be exclusively populated by native Americans, but after one year the boundaries were redrawn to accommodate white settlers, with the natives being moved west of the newly established line that would become the Arkansas/Oklahoma boundary.
According to the Arkansas Historical Quarterly, William Lovely and his wife, Persis, lived among the Cherokee on a tract of land purchased from the Osage. When William died, the Cherokee honored Persis Lovely by allowing her to remain on the land, the only white person to be granted such permission.
It is the perseverance of Persis Lovely, who endured extreme hardship amid harsh winters, scant supplies, warring tribes and diminishing comfort, that inspired the creation of this newspaper.
October 4th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
Night, I definitely do not want to know why you know all that stuff about a defunct county in AR. I am interested, however, in how Ms. Lovely managed to get her double-wide out to Oklahoma.
October 4th, 2006 at 8:14 pm
I see. It is indeed Arkansas. Perhaps Travis just assumed (as I did) that such looniness could only happen in the land of fruits, nuts, and flakes.
October 4th, 2006 at 11:33 pm
double_wides are easy to move in oklahoma the trick is getting them to land where you want them and with the floor down.
October 5th, 2006 at 12:37 am
Don’t forget the green, green grass, Mike. Were it not for that, the rest, IMHO, would be irrelevant.
lol, night, lol. I have a friend in OK who would probably concur wholeheartedly with you.