Volume 9 , Issue 25

OkieLegacy Centennial Moment

On Friday, November 15, 1907, W. F. Hatfield, Editor & Proprietor of The Alva Pioneer, a northwest Oklahoma, Woods County newspaper, started his column with this quote by Henry Ward Beacher:

"There is a distinct joy about owning land, unlike that which you have in money, in houses, in books, in pictures or anything else which men have devised. Personal property brings you into society with men. But land is a part of God's estate in the globe; and when a parcel of ground is deeded to you; and you walk over it and call it your own, it seems as if you had come into partnership with the original owner of the earth."

What a great sentiment to print in mid-November, 1907, fourteen years after the last land run in Oklahoma Territory when our ancestors were walking, settling their own lands and were in the process of becoming the 46th state in the United States of America, November 16, 1907.
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