Volume 10 , Issue 18

May Day, Hummingbirds & Friends

May Day 2008 brought many things to different parts of our world this week. Most of all it brought strong winds blowing a cold front through the San Juan mountains and dropping some snow in the higher elevations and blowing dust from a lake bed.

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Gold In NW Oklahoma Territory

Yep! There was Gold in them "thar hills" of Northwest Oklahoma! It wasn't the sparkling gold, though. It was the Gold Brothers who settled in Woods County, Oklahoma Territory in 1898.

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Memories of Downtown Alva, OK

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1944 - Lt. Craig Barker Missing Over France

"Linda, last week in the Woods County News items that you reprinted, there was a note about my cousin, Craig Barker, who was reported missing over France [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Herb Gold's Street Pickups - 1937

While I was thumbing through the Pioneer Footprints 1886-1986 history of Northwest Oklahoma, I came upon an interesting bio for Benjamin Berry that had a comment taken from one of Herb Gold's columns, entitled "Street Pickups," dated December, 1937, after Benjamin Berry's death.

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Fall 1947, W. B. Hull vs. State of OK

When David was going through stuff in our Maple street house, he found this interesting old Subpoena in Criminal Case No. 1091 -- District Court of Woods County, Oklahoma, State of Oklahoma vs. W. B. Hull.

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Herb Gold Memories

"Linda, Interesting to note that you would come up with something on Herb Gold [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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More Herb Gold Memories

"Who is Herb Gold? Did you know that was not his real name? He was Hubert Heidenbright, Heidenbrecht or something like that [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Monterey House Hotel - Virginia

"My wife Martha has genealogical connections to Monterey, Virginia, the county seat of Highland County [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Growing Up In Oklahoma

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Vallecito May Day

"Vallecito celebrated May Day with a rambunctious wind out of the north and a very few fine flakes of snow [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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1929 - Public Schools of Today

[Essay written around 1929 [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Santa Fe Moves Into One Office

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Alva Review News - 02/16/1958

We have come across an old The Alva Review Courier, Sunday, Feb [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Memories of Downtown Alva, OK

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OkieLegacy Guestbook

4/24/2008 -- POW Camp at Alva, OK [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Early NW Oklahoma Stores & Memorable People

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Highway 281 & Main Road To Alva, OK

I was letting myself ramble through the Woods County history book published in 1986, Pioneer Footprints Across Woods County [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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1958 - ARC Cartoon Fun For the Whole Family

Have you ever wondered what newspaper cartoons your folks were reading way back when? Well! Back in the Winter of 1958, the image to the left gives you a glimpse of what the newspaper cartoons were back then [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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