Volume 11 , Issue 17

Dear Duchess

NW Okie and David have been busy preparing for some personal business coming up this next week in Woods county and this pugnacious Pug shall again be your guide through this weeks newsletter. Hope you donot mind.

Last Monday morning we were packed and hauling an old Karmann VW that my buddy, David, had picked up for next to nothing in SW Colorado, and hauling back to NW Oklahoma.

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NEW: Familynet - ADD New Relations

Our NWOKTechie has been working on our "Okie FamilyNet. Once visitors are logged in, they will be able to see the form with their login information that will enable them to add other relations.

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WWII POWs & Haskell, OK

Susan says, "Is there a place to post notices for folks who were either related to POWs or lived in the towns where the camps were? I was a baby, living in Haskell, OK when the POWs were staying in the National Guard Armory, just ? block from our house.

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Looking Back ... To 1891 - Clark Pioneers

January 3, 1891 Clark Pioneers In Oklahoma Territory -- The following story is a recollection of the Pioneers, the Clark's that came to Kansas, around Kiowa, and made the run into Oklahoma Territory, November 16, 1893. The Clark's mentioned below are ancestors of J. L. "Bud" Clark of Alva, Oklahoma.

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Insight Into Grandma 1904

This weeks letter from John C. McClure to Constance Warwick takes us back to May 29, 1904 with John still attending Gem City Business College, Quincy, Illinois. It was postmarked May 29, 10P.M., 1904. It had a delivery received date at Alva, Okla., of May 31, 7A.M., 1904. It sounds as though at this time the St. Louis Fair was going on through the Summer of 1904.

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Turkeys In Alva OK (4/13/2009)

Jim says, "I'm attaching some photos of wild turkeys that pass back and forth through our yard [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Deer Grazing

Jay at "Scenic Videos" says, " Cattle and deer all over the world tend to align themselves with Earth's magnetic field, according to new research.
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1919 - Alva Capt. Cited For Unusual Bravery

July 1919, front page article in The Oklahoman, had the following headlines: Alva Captain Cited For Unusual Bravery - Held Advance Post While Cut Off From Support.

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1904 Broomcorn Men Organized In Alva O.T.

It was mid-September, 1904, that the first organization in the Oklahoma territory at Alva that the broomcorn men were organized. it was the first organization in the territory perfected at Alva -- keeping the price up.

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1908 - Fugitive Banker of Alva Dead

Does anyone out there remember L. A. Westford, a defaulting cashier of a bank at Alva, Oklahoma? He allegedly was a fugitive of an Alva, Oklahoma bank and was found dead in Tennessee. What was his story? In The Oklahoman, dated August 12, 1908, page 6, these headlines were found: "Fugitive Banker of Alva Dead In Tenn." - "Ticket For Europe and Money in Two Banking Institutions."

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1903 - Hot Time In Court Room In Alva

This next story takes us back to February, 1903, in Alva, O. T., to a "Hot Time In Courtroom." There was a damage trial going on and the case at Alva attracted more than its full quota of attention. It seems one of the attorneys pulled a gun and assumed a threatening attitude.

This article was found in The Oklahoman, dated February 11, 1903, page 2, with the following headlines, "Damage Trial On." The article did not talked much of the pulling of a gun by attorney, but mentioned something about Richards adopting and returning a child to Wichita after a few weeks and the county Deputy searching Richards place near Rusk.

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1904 Oklahoma Exhibit At St. Louis Fair.

We found this article in The Oklahoman dated May 29, 1904, page 4, with the headlines that read: "Our Exhibit At St. Louis." So ... in May, 1904, it seems when John McClure was writing Constance Warwick and asking if she was going to St. Louis in August, it was because of the Fair going on in St. Louis. The front page of The Oklahoma carried other front page headlines that you can see in the image on the left.

The article on page 4, stated that the St. Louis fair had been characterized by many adverse comments on the showing Oklahoma made by its agricultural exhibit. Most papers had taken occasion to express surprise, not to say disgust, with the agricultural exhibit of Oklahoma.

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1904 Oklahoma Notes

These Oklahoma notes came from The Oklahoma dated May 29, 1904, page 4, with the headline of "Oklahoma Notes." Did you know that Guthrie only had fifteen high school graduates and Oklahoma City had twenty-seven?

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1909 Ballgame Between Waynoka & Alva

This article was found in The Oklahoman, dated May 19, 1909, with headlines that read, "No Hit Game For Alva."

Waynoka, Okla., May 18 (1909) -- "Peden, a young collegian, twirled a remarkable game against Waynoka in the Border league last Sunday.

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1908 Alva Ballgame Spat Tragedy

Alva, Oklahoma was not and has never been immuned from violent attacks of aggression, as I am finding as I stroll through old news articles in The Oklahoman. Especially, this one dated June, 1908, with the headlines reading, "Alva Ballgame Spat Tragedy."

Special to The Oklahoman. Alva, Okla., June 6, 1908 -- "A knife wound four inches long on the left side of the neck barely missed the jugular vein of Ralph Crowell and he will recover. Frank Urban is held on the charge of attempting to commit murder, and his companion, Sam Hames, must answer to the charge of aiding and abetting in the crime.

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AHS Class of '59 Reunion

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