LELA RODRIGUEZ, of Hugo, was this week’s winner of the Hugo News Football Contest after choosing 12 out of 17 games correctly. Rodriguez guessed closest (463) to the OU Sooners’ total offense figure (414) to edge out Jeanne Rorie and Letha Loftin. Pictured, Rodriguez collects the $50 weekly prize from Claudia Vertiz from First United Bank, where she obtained her winning entry blank. Game selections can be found in each Wednesday edition of the Hugo News.

DOAKSVILLE — Before the American Civil War had ground to a close in 1865, Wallace Willis and his bride, Minerva, both slaves and survivors of the Choctaw Nation Trail of Tears to Indian Territory that followed the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek — had spent many hours working for their master Britt Willis in the cotton fields of Southeast Oklahoma.