Volume 17 , Issue 7

NW Okie's Journey

Well! Finally! We were fortunate to see some white winter snow showing up in southwest Colorado. A little late, but much needed. See the photograph on the right as it piles high on our tundra pickup, which was transformed into a monster truck while hidden under more than 28-inches of snowpack. Can find it.

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Walking With Sadie

Woof! Woof! The weekend of 21 February 2015, Saturday, brought a welcome sight of snow to the southwest corner of Colorado. As the snow continued through Monday, 23rd February, we accumulated a total of almost three feet of snow at the north end of the Vallecito Reservoir.

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100 Years Ago, 23 February 1915

According to The Evening World, dated Tuesday, February 23, 1915, The big headlines read: "Second American Steamer Sunk."

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1915 Headlines: 218,000 Women Voters May Swing Election In Chicago

On page 3, of The Evening World, dated 23 February 1915, Tuesday, one of the headlines you might read about is: "218,000 Women Voters May Swing Election In Chicago." Ballots were cast on that day for first time for full city ticket in primary contests.

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1915: Suffragists Confident In Austin

One hundred years ago The daily ardmoreite, 23 February 1915, Had the following headlines: "Suffragists Confident In Austin Today." Texas house loves filled that afternoon of 23 February, 1915, for the vote on the amendment granting woman suffrage.

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Old Opera House Mystery of 1910

This 1910 news article came from The Woods County Socialist, a Woods County for Socialism -- Published weekly at Alva, Oklahoma, in the interest of all the people. Managing Editor, S. A. Beauchamp and Associate Editor, A. S. Hankins. Correspondents were: D. C. Marr, Alva; D. J. Riley, Waynoka; C. E. McOsker, Dacoma; J. H. Morgan, Capron; Roy Seger, Cora; C. J. Swain, Avard; J. B. McMurphy, Farry; and E. C. Neal, Jefferson. Subscription were 50-cents per year in advance. As to the date of this paper (Nov. 11, 1910) they had 365 subscribers. and printed out 1500 copies. It gives us another look of what it was like back then. This murder also followed a county election with Democrats, Republicans and Socialists on the ticket. The Alva local of Socialists had a membership of 47, but some of these were from remote parts of the county. I added local news article to show what it was like back then... (I have left the typos and mis-spelled words as they were in the article.)

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1910 Old Opera House Mystery

The Oklahoma City Times, Thursday, Nov. 10, 1910, front page -- News Article reported on "Alva Girl Murdered - One Arrest." Alva, Okla., -- Nov. 10, 1910 -- With the finding of the dead body of pretty Mabel Oakes, 23-year-old daughter of a well-to-do family here, in the rear of the old opera house block, with a silk scarf tightly wound about the neck late Wednesday, the most sensational murder in recent months was uncovered.

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