Oakie's NW Corner
I suppose you all made it through the Super Bowl weekend of commercials and the snowstorms in the northeast USA. The weather here in Oklahoma still changes every three or four days from Spring to Winter to Spring and back to Winter again. The head cold is gone, though!
I have spent this week browsing through an old June 25, 1950, Alva Review Courier this week and found some goodies to share. One of those goodies was a 1950 Political Ad for State Senator that my Dad, Gene McGill, had placed on page 9 of that newspaper. It read as follows, "Let's Elect Gene McGill Democrat for State Senator, Woods-Woodward Counties."
On that same page was a marriage announcement of the 21 June 1950 marriage of M. Felicia Monfort, MD to Robert L. McGill. I also found an Ad for Monfort's Drug Store advertising fireworks, night displays for homes, safe sane fireworks for children and fireworks headquarters at Monfort Drug Store.
If you turn to page 12 of that same paper, you would find MORE Political Announcements, "Lt. Gov. James E. Berry, Democrat; US State Senator - Elmer Thomas, Democrat; State Senator - Claude Davis (Democrat), Gene M. McGill (Democrat), J. G. Jim Powers (Repub.); State Rep. - Ben Easterly, Democrat; District Judge - Tom Hieronmus (Democrat), Fred Spellman (Repub.); County Comm. Dist. 1 - W. C. Bill Romjue (Democrat), J. M. Jay Wert (Democrat); County Comm. Dist. 2 - Frank Nickelson (Repub.), J. F. Remiattee (Democrat); Court Clerk - Wesley Everett Ellison (Democrat), Orvel E. Brown (Democrat).
While I was transcribing the NW OK Marriages this week I found several of the couples that had graduated from Horace Mann High School and Northwestern High School. I assume at one time that those were names of the high schools in NW Oklahoma and Alva. If anyone out there has any information concerning these high schools in NW Oklahoma, please share it with us here. Thanks!
Check out the 1934 Seniors of Lamont High School - Read about the early 1900s Cimarron Valley Clipper Editor, Clarence & Grace Wandell, that a lady sent to me recently - And ... Someone is looking for information, origins of "Chocolate Gravy" for a speech project. If any of this week's newsletter jogs some more memories out there, I would love to hear from you all!
This weekend we celebrated the Chinese New Year and it is that time of year when that famous Ground Hog does/not peek his/her head outside his home (Sunday, Feb. 2, 2002). Will we have six more weeks of Winter? Is Spring just around the corner?
From Listen to the People by Stephen Vincent Benet -
"..... All one, all indivisible and one
Find it and keep it and hold on to it,
For there's a buried thing in all of us,
Deeper than all the noise of the parade,
The thing the haters never understand
And never will, the habit of the free....."
Soar like the Eagle - Be not afraid of the storm! Be as strong! Be smart enough to soar above it! See you all next weekend with more Okie Legacy goodies. ~~ Linda "oaKie" ~~
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