Volume 6 , Issue 15

Murals of Buffalo, Oklahoma...

Alva is not the only Northwest Oklahoma community that has murals gracing the walls of it's buildings. If you travel 50-some miles west of Alva towards the panhandle, you will come to the small rural community of Buffalo, Oklahoma. On highway 64, heading west on their main street through town you will find this mural painted on the eastside of this downtown building (Clark's Flowers) on the south side of the street.

I received some interesting snail-mail this week. One was more information and copy of photos about Elm Flat District #58 - Elm Flat Christian Church. I do not have the photos scanned yet, but will get to them in the near future. Elm Flat District #58 was organized 3 May 1894. Before statehood in 1907,"M" county comprised the present Woods, Major, and Alfalfa counties. After statehood, Alfalfa county re-numbered all their districts, Major county retained all the previous numbers and Woods county has a mixture of retained and re-numbered districts. Especially re-numbered are the districts acquired from that portion of Woodward "N" county north of the Cimarron River. The map, taken from the 1906 Old Woods County Atlas - Twp23-R12WIM, shows the original boundaries for the three school districts of Elm Flat, Ruby, and the Colored school which existed until desegration. By that time there were few colored children living in either #58 or #155. The colored families were enumerated in District #58 although they did not attend Elm Flat school. This map will give the families in the district as of 1906. To date the name for Dist. 155 other than "Colored School" is not known.

The other snail-mail message was a copy of a photo of an old Home Comfort Range that someone sent to me. You can see the old photo of the early 1870s Home Comfort Range in the Mailbag Corner below.

With Easter just around the corner... Duchess, Ruff and all of us here in the NW corner of Oklahoma would like to wish Y'all a Happy Easter, Rebirth of Spring, April Showers for May Flowers and Lilacs blooming and spreading their fragrance throughout the neighborhood. We hope to hear/share more of your Okie Legacies here in the weeks ahead. Here's the lyrics to the Easter Parade - by Irving Berlin that we promised you...

In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it,
You'll be the grandest lady in the Easter Parade.
I'll be all in clover and when they look you over,
I'll be the proudest fellow in the Easter Parade.
On the avenue, Fifth Avenue, the photographers will snap us,
And you'll find that you're in the rotogravure.
Oh, I could write a sonnet about your Easter bonnet,
And of the girl I'm taking to the Easter Parade.

See you all next weekend.
~~ Linda "oaKie" & Duchess ~~

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