Volume 10 , Issue 24

Happy Father's Day!

We hear NW Oklahoma got some much needed rain this week ... around 2.5 to 3 inches. AND... lots if wind! What would Oklahoma be without wind, hail, thunderstorms and threats of tornadoes around harvest time, though?

I would say our temps here in the valley of SW Colorado have been hanging around the 70's and low 80's and dropping to 40's and 50's in the evenings. There are still mountain tops with snow in the distance. AND... I hear Aspen on the Eastern slopes of the Rockies opened their ski resorts with the fresh snow they received this week.

I was sifting through a box of old letters and other old items that we gathered from my grandmother's and father's stuff that was stored in the garage and found a partially mouse eaten, 1935, Eleventh Annual Junior-Senior Banquet program of Northwestern State Teachers' College. Stored along with it was a cut-out of the "Castle On the Hill" nameplate with my Dad's name (Merle McGill) printed in white ink along the base of the nameplate. Did my Dad go to that banquet? AND... When it came to the group singing of "The Castle on the Hill," all I could make out of the name was of the leader was "W. P. M.....! What was his last name? It wasn't McGill, because great-grandpa W. P. McGill died in 1918!

Someone in Oregon wrote me and ask if the Wrought Iron Co., Home Comfort Range Model CB was approved for coal burning. Does anyone out there know if this is true... or NOT? If you run onto any information or knowledge of these ranges being approved for coal burning, we would like to know. Thanks!

Marvin Wiebener sent us a very interesting and true "Skunk Story" that will tickle your funny bone. Thanks, Marvin, for the story and the mugshot of the writer speeding along at 4-mph.

Amongst the other items that we found in grandma's box of treasures was an old news clipping and photo of Woods County's triplets that were born to Mr. and Mrs. Guy Lanman. Guy Lanman was manager of Southwestern Telephone Company at the time of the birth of the Lanman triplets. BUT... there was no date on the yellowed news clipping. Is there anyone out there reading this that might help us furnish a date of the NW Oklahoma and Woods County birth?

Attention 1958 Neuman's Boys Choir: check out the Mailbag section for an old clipping taken by Fred Neuman in February 1958 as the boys choir had an overnight outing at the Salt Plains lake lodge of their director. I recognized a few in the picture, but not all!

Did one of your ancestor's graduate from Northwestern State Teachers' College in 1936-37? In the Mailbag section is a list of graduates. Maybe you might recognize someone and jog some memory cells loose for next week's newsletter.

This week being "Father's Day" weekend, we have memories of fathers and grandfathers and Ken Updike's memory of his father. Thanks to Ken for another one of his pricelss gems of growing up in Oklahoma and sharing his mugshot with us!

Hope all you fathers out there are taking it easy and relaxing, playing and enjoying your families attention. Happy Father's Day!
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