Volume 11 , Issue 35

Ruff's Renderings

Happy Birthday, Dynamite DoRight! Let's have a poker party under the gazebo!

This last week, Wednesday, August 26, 2009, we said goodbye to a true leader and liberal lion of the U.S. Senate, Edward M. Kennedy, who found his voice, purpose in the US Senate and challenged us all to live out our noblest values.We give thanks the legacy he left behind, which benefits us all and inspires us still.

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Stories From An Old Lady

Have you by chance browsed over to D. J. Roe's website, Stories From An Old Lady? Get over there NOW! You shall come away with a fresh, new understanding of this remarkable talented Lady and her philosophy on life!

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The Dreams Shall Never Die!

"The work goes on! The cause endures! The hope still lives! AND the dreams shall never die!" This week we pay tribute to a "Liberal Lion" of the US Senate, Senator Edward "Ted" M. Kennedy. The Irish eyes will remain shining on this legacy that Ted, his brothers and family have left us ALL to carry on. We should all take up where Sen. Ted Kennedy left off and make sure that ... "The Dreams Shall Never Die!"

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Irish Eyes Are Shining & Smiling

When Irish Eyes Are Shining:
There's a tear in your eye, And I'm wondering why, For it never should be there at all. With such pow'r in your smile, Sure a stone you'd beguile, So there's never a teardrop should fall. When your sweet lilting laughter's Like some fairy song, And your eyes twinkle bright as can be; You should laugh all the while And all other times smile, And now, smile a smile for me.

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1932 -- The Peoples Chronology

The Peoples Chronology, by James Trager, page 888, states that Oil wells within the city limits of Oklahoma City were drilled by local attorney Robert Samuel Kerr, 35, and his brother-in-law James L. Anderson who had acquired control of a contract drilling firm and had borrowed money to post $200,000 liability bonds in a gamble that large oil companies had refused to take. Kerr and Anderson would make a profit of some $2 million on the venture.

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Insight Into Grandma & John C. McClure

September, 1905 finds Constance Warwick heading back to Oklahoma Territory from wisiting her Warwick cousins in the area of Mountain Grove, Monterey and Vanderpool, Virginia. There are three letters from John C. McClure dated September 1st, 10th and 21st, 1905. John's mailing address is still J. C. McClure, Box 133, Alva, Oklahoma. Miss Forbis, Lowe and Mr. Bolte are again mentioned. Do these names ring a bell with anyone out there?

September 1, 1905, addressed to Miss Constance Warwick, Vanderpool, Virginia and has a letterhead for The First National Bank, No. 5587, of Alva, Oklahoma, J. A. Stine, President, Geo. W. Crowell, Vice Pres., G. E. Nickel, cashier, Frank G. Munson, Ass't Cashier.

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The Hummers In Hand

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WWII - POW Camp Alva

Leonard (EMAIL: Cyborgboogieboy@aol.com - lnbostick@aol.com) says, "I lived in what was left of Camp Alva in 1947-48 and played in and around the two barracks. In 1948 I was 7 years of age and lived in barracks that had been converted into apts. Four families each (College Camp or Cottage Camp?).

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Northwestern's Abe Lincoln Statue

A reader wrote in and asked about the two kids climbing on the Abe Lincoln statue at Northwestern. The photo on the left had a hand-written date of 1920 on the backside.

The two boys standing on the Abe statue on the Northwestern State Normal campus are Bob McGill (left, about 4 years of age) and Gene McGill (right, about 6 years of age.

I just love the hats and outfits and shoes they are wearing, don't you.

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