Volume 12 , Issue 49

Duchess & Sadie's Domain

This is my mountain buddy, Ruff, that I like to start things with. We are the same age and grew up together over the last seven years.

We believe we have some memory joggers for some of you, especially concerning the 1930 Alva High Commencement, May 22, 1930, Alva, Oklahoma. Maybe your ancestors might have mentioned some of these names in their Alva High stories and memories.

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Home Comfort Cookbook (1934) - Cream Fudge

This week's Home Comfort Coobook of 1934 comes from page 129, for Cream Fudge and some variations.

Cream Fudge
2 cups granulated sugar
1 cup rich milk
1 Tablespoon butter

Put milk and sugar into a saucepan, and set to boil; cook until syrup forms a soft ball when tested in cold water; add butter, take from fire, and beat steadily to a thick cream; pour into a well-buttered square pan, and when nearly cool, cut into small squares with a buttered knife.

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NW Okie's R & R

It is peaceful, cool in the southwest San Juan mountains of the Southwest corner of Colorado Rockies. Our Winter temperatures during the day here in Southwest Colorado have been in the range of the mid-40s, but I think we have another cold front moving in now or in a few days.

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WWII - 75th Infantry Division Booklet

75th Infantry Division Combat booklet -- Chris Consiglio's says, "My Dad served in WWII as a combat medic with the 75th in all these actions. He's now 86, and only just beginning to talk about some of what he endured. I would love to have a copy. Thank you so much! Chris Consiglio, Kenmore, NY.

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1930 Alva High Commencement Booklet

Joanne (Email: jnrax@earthlink.net) says, "Just found your Okie Legacy page. In my aunt's estate things I have found a darling little commencement booklet from Alva 1930. It has Mildred Wookey's card inside (must have been a daughter of a friend of my aunt).

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This Day In History - December 6 & 7

December 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment was ratified to the Constitution, officially ending the institution of slavery. With these words, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." It was the single greatest change wrought by the Civil War was officially noted in the U.S. Constitution.

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History of Highland County Virginia

There is a History of Highland County Virginia out there that was written by Oren F. Morton, B.L., 1911. Oren F. Morton also is author of "Under the Cottonwoods," "Winning or Losing," "Land of the Laurel," "A History of Pendleton County, West Virginia," "Pioneer Families of Preston County, West Virginia."


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1954 - 2nd Graders, Dacoma, OK

This photo appeared in Vol. 6, Iss. 43, of our OkieLegacy newsletter and was submitted by Rod Murrow. The photo was taken at Rod's brother's birthday party, May 1954, at the end of his first grade school year in Dacoma, Oklahoma. The teacher for the class was Mrs. Avis McCray.

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History of the Edison Disc Phonograph

Remember the old wind-up phonographs, especially the Edison? I was doing some research on them recently and found out some things I did not know. Such as cylinder phonographs peaked in popularity around 1905. After 1905, the discs and disc players, most notably the Victrolas, began to dominate the market. Columbia records, an Edison competitor, had stopped marketing cylinders in 1912. I am still searching for the old disc phonograph that I had stored at my parents home during their probate. It was not an Edison, though. I think it was a Columbia disc phonograph.

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Raid At Kerr's Creek, Virginia - 10 October 1759

[people.virginia.edu/~mgf2j/warfare.html] -- On October 10, 1759 a Shawnee war party attacked the settlement of Kerr's Creek in present Rockbridge County, Virginia. and killed twelve people, among them John Gilmore, his wife, their son [James], and the wife of William Gilmore. Other victims included Jacob Cunningham, his wife, and their ten-year-old daughter Margaret.

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