Volume 17 , Issue 16

NW Okie's Journey

This NW Okie was one of those "baby boomers" of the class of '66, coming back to Alva, Oklahoma this last weekend for the Goldbug 50th Reunion (classes '64, '65, '66), 22 thru 24 May 2015. There was a great turnout of graduates from each of the three graduating classes. I stand and applaud the reunion committee t spending long, hard hours organizing, putting together a fantastic weekend of events for the returning Goldbugs. Thanks to all of you!

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Walking With Sadie

Woof! Woof! So ... the Goldbugs gathering in Alva, Oklahoma this last weekend was not about the Poe character, William Legrand, who was bitten by a gold colored bug, and took his servant and a friend on an adventure after deciphering a secret message that would lead to a buried treasure. Edgar A. Poe's "The Goldbug," was a short story written in 1843, and published in the "Philadelphia Dollar" newspaper, a media periodical.

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100 Years Ago, 25 May 1915, Tuesday

One hundred years ago today, 25 May 1915, Tuesday, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, out of Richmond, Virginia, had front page headlines concerning World War I, with additional news of the sinking of the Lusitania and other ship sunk on that date.

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Memorial Day Ad of 1918

In The Central Record, dated 30 May 1918, page 2, out of Lancaster, Kentucky, we found this ad submitted Jas. W. Smith, the home of Hart, Schaffner and Marx clothes, in Lancaster, Kentucky, which read: Memorial Day May 30th. At first Memorial Day was a day of memories; the graves of the brave men who gave their lives in the Civil War were decorated with flowers; a sign that a grateful people had not forgotten the supreme sacrifice these men made.

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1909 Memorial Day

It was on the front page of the New York Tribune, dated Sunday, 30 May 1909, the headlines read: "Memorial Day this year finds sixteen veterans of the civil war still on the active list of U. S. army officers."

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1870 - 1st installment of Poe's Short Story "The Gold-Bug"

It was in the Orangeburg News, page 2, dated Saturday Morning, 26 March 1870, that we found Edgar A. Poe's published piece titled, "The Goldbug."

"What ho! what ho! this fellow is dancing mad!
"He hath been bitten by the Trantula. All in the Wrong."

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