Volume 15 , Issue 2

Duchess of Weaselskin

For the past few days when that Arctic front came through Southwest Colorado, we have been on the chilly side of things with snow everyday. Monday has been a partly cloudy kind of day, but the chill factor is still here. They say the warming might begin in a few days with temperatures rising into the 40's the latter part of the week.

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100 Years Ago Today - 14 January 1913

One hundred years ago today, 14 January 1913, in The Times Dispatch, out of Richmond, Virginia, Tuesday, 14 January 1913, we find the front page article, Virginia Gives Eighth Chief," which mentions Colony gave fourth Kingdom to empire, and State now gives Eighth president to Nation, electors greet Marshall as descendant of Virginians.

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NW Okie's Corner

In our Winter cleanup of The Okie Legacy website, we have most of the folders updated and finished the Oklahoma Mystery folders of the 1910 Old Opera House Murder and the 1956 Avard Road Unsolved Mystery updated.

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History of Rockbridge County, Virginia - Middle Period (1783-1861)

In chapter XII of Oren F. Morton's book, History of Rockbridge County, Virginia, we discover the "middle period," those years beginning with the peace of 1783 and continuing until the outbreak of another American war in 1861. It was a period that lies between two great wars.

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13 January 1913 - Richmond, Virginia

On page nine of The Times Dispatch, out of Richmond, VA, Monday, January 13, 1913, we found this photo, which was titled: "How They Looked Years Ago."

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Judge Robert H. Loofbourrow

In The Beaver Herald, dated 27 October 1910, on page ten, we found the following article concerning the members of Woods County Bar endorsing Judge LoofBourrow of Beaver county, in a paid advertisement.

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Carmen Home Memories

We extracted some memories from our Vol. IV, December, 2002, OkieLegacy that we no longer have on our website for those who are still searching for those memories. [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Avard Bank Held Up (24 Oct. 1924)

It was shortly before nine o'clock on the morning of 24 October 1924 the Avard Bank, in NW Oklahoma had been held up? The headlines in The Alva Record, Thursday, Sept. 24, 1925 read, "Patterson Is Acquitted."

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Monfort Drugs Memories

In our "OkieLegacy" cleaning this Winter, we have extracted a few articles that appeared in our Vol. IV Issues of The OkieLegacy Ezine that no longer exist on our website. Some of those are the memories we received from readers concerning the Monfort Drugstore fire in the mid-1950's.

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Center Parking In Alva

According to the 21 May 1953 article in the Alva Review-Courier, the city council Friday morning adopted Ordinance 508 which amends the city's traffic and parking code, Ordinance 442, and attached the Emergency Clause, thus making effective Friday morning the abolishing of all center parking in Alva [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Hackett Family Inquiry

Still more inquiries picked from the Vol. Iv issues of the OkieLegacy ezine that have been deleted from our website is this inquiry from Nicole Johnson who was doing a search on the Hackett family.

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Karen Hartzel & Janice Paris

Here is another photo one of our readers sent into the Vol. IV OkieLegacy in 2002, showing Karen hartzel and Janice Paris as young girls.

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HURT Family Legacy

Just in case someone out there is searching for HURT family ancestors, here is another piece of genealogy information that might be of some use to another. Since it is about ten years old, we do not know if the email addresses work or have been changed.

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George W. Bell Dies 1925

Articles from The Alva Record, 24 September 1925, Thursday, 24 September 1925, on the front page of the official County paper, in Alva, Oklahoma, The Alva Record's Headlines read... "George W. Bell (age 53) Dies In Wichita."

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