Volume 14 , Issue 11

Duchess of Weaselskin

NW Okie says every once in awhile, "Duchess, you are in the driver's seat!" And NW Okie keeps pulling out my baby pictures to proof that point, such as the photo on the left taken about eight years ago when I was just a young pup! Do I look determined and know where, what I want?

There were a few days last week that we got into the 50's temperature-wise with some melting of snow running into Weaselskin Creek. A raccoon or a gang of raccoons have been raiding our suet feeder for the birds, also. Some northwest Oklahoma people have mentioned it was too muddy to drive out into pastures to look at horses. So . . . Have you all had some much need moisture in the form of rain, snow or what?

In our OkieLegacy Ezine dated 2010-01-25, Vol. 12, Iss. 4, we mentioned the town of Wolco, Oklahoma and asked where exactly is was and if anyone had ever heard of Wolco. We recently heard from someone that told us that Wolco was originally a Wolverine Oil Company camp located in the Avant oil field in the 1910s. Originally it was just called Wolverine and the name was changed to Wolco in 1922 with the establishment of a post office. The town was located 5 miles east of current day Barnsdall, Oklahoma (also named for an oil company). The town was built around the Wolverine gasoline plant and included a residential area, company building, a club house with swimming pool, school, and 10 private businesses. In the 1920s the population varied from three to four hundred people. In 1922, Wolverine was acquired by Shell. The refinery was shut down after World War II and by 1957, the post office was closed. Shell sold the property in 1965. All that remains of Wolco today are concrete foundations and the old drayage barn. Thanks to D. W. Taylor for sharing this information with us at the OkieLegacy Ezine.

NW Okie is still at researching the "Suffrage movement" and the women involved in working to get women the right to vote. She has found that the Democratic party had been generous to women's suffrage and there was no doubt about that, back in the early 1900's as they continued their fight in the Women's Suffrage movement. The Democrats had opened political doors and the consciousness of this gift impressed the individual woman who were attending the convention in some official capacity with a tremendous sense of her responsibility. It was no longer a question of whether women must make good in order to win recognition and credit for their sex. They were so intimately associated with the policies and achievements of the Democratic party that its success is inevitably tied to the women's suffrage. This is the case today! What women in their right mind would vote for the GOP!

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