Volume 10 , Issue 25

The Summer of 2008

Well! We made it through to the 3/4 mark of June, 2008 and into the beginning of the Summer of 2008.

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1926 Woods County Lanman Triplets

Last weekend we shared a news clipping of Woods County, Oklahoma's triplets that were born to Mr. & Mrs. Guy W. Lanman, of Alva, Oklahoma. As we browsed The Oklahoman archives online this week, we found the following dated issue with more information on the Guy Lanman triplets that were born the Summer of 1926, in July. The following information was found in the 1938 March 21, page 2, of The Okahoman.

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Woods County Triplets - Summer of 1926

It was July, Summer of 1926 when the Lanman triplets were born in Woods County, Oklahoma [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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1947 Flying Farmers Convention In Stillwater, OK

Headlines: "Flying Farmers Still Looking For Plane To Do Chores Right."

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Perry, OK Gas Prices Dropped Again

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1960 - John Cronley's Once Over by E. M. Barker

While searching through The Oklahoman archives online, I came across this interesting article written by E. M. Barker and sent to The Daily Oklahoma sports editor, John Cronley for his Once Over column. It appeared March 3, 1960, on page 33, "... Some folks might have wondered when Gene McGill, ordinarily a mild-mannered man, stiffened his upper lip and stayed right in there and pitched when the governor was trying so hard to shell him from the mound ... Although he has no athletic record of his own, his father, the late Bill McGill, is regarded as Alva's most fabulous athlete.".

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Thanks For the Memories

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Growing Up In Oklahoma & Alvord, TX

We are in the process of taking down Kenneth Updike's stories and ramblings of "Growing Up In Oklahoma" because Kenneth asked us, "To remove all of my previous writings to you about my Ramblins [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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1944 NW Oklahoma Memories

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More Alva Square Stuff

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The Skunk Story

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Neuman's Boys Choir Outing (Feb. 27, 1958)

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June, 1955 - Alvan Visits Ranch, Finds Twister Ruins

Alva, June 6 (1955) -- "Gene McGill, Alva resident, Monday learned a tornado had hit his ranch, eight miles north of Waynoka on SH 14 sometime Saturday night [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Membership List - Oklahoma Flying Farmers

We are not sure what year this list of members for the Oklahoma Flying Farmers was made, but assume it may have been around 1946 [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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1945 - National Flying Farmers Group To Be Formed

A national association of flying farmers and ranchers, with the Oklahoma Flying Farmers as the parent group, will be organized immediately by the state group and the National Areonautics association, it was announced here Tuesday [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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1933 - Alva Telephone Manager Transferred to OKC

Alva Telephone Manager Is Transferred To City -- Alva, May 10, 1933 -- (Special) -- Guy Lanman, for 10 years district manager of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Feb., 1948 - Alva Is Headquarters For Army Reserve Unit

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My Kind of Funeral

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