Volume 15 , Issue 7

Duchess of Weaselskin

[photograph of our home in the eleven hundred block of Maple Street, in Alva, Woods county, Oklahoma, 12 February 2013.]

This Duchess Pug is overcoming, surviving her hip displaysia and has been turning circles on all fours this week, but still have trouble climbing stairs. NW Okie gives me lifts up and down on things, though.

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One Hundred Years Ago - 18 February 1913

Have you ever heard of the famed "Poet of the Sierras?" One hundred years ago today, 18 February 1913, Joaquin Miller (1837-1913), born Cincinnatus Hiner Miller. While his life and his writings have been the subject of much criticism, he helped create some of the enduring Old West myths.

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NW Okie's Corner

Back during the beginning of World War II lots of young men and ladies were getting married just before the men were sent overseas to war. Lots of those marriages did not last, and many ended in divorce after World War II. Just another casualty of war, you ask? Probably! My Uncle Bob McGill was one of those young people getting married.

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History of Rockbridge County, Virginia - The Negro Element

African slavery was almost as unfamiliar too the British people in their own land as it was in the whitest county of the Old Dominion [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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1895 Waterworks Bond Election - Alva, O.T.

It was back on 3 September 1899, Sunday, in northwest Oklahoma, that The Wichita Daily Eagle, Wichita, Kansas, page 9, reported a "Waterworks Bond Election called to be held in Alva, Oklahoma Territory, Monday, 2 October 1899."

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1909-10 Alva Rest Room Guestbook

Have you ever wondered if your ancestors passed through Alva, Woods county, Oklahoma back in the 1909-1910 era? 1909-1910 Alva Rest Room Guestbook was a guestbook of those who visited Alva, Oklahoma back in 1909 and 1910. It was a place that travelers, country folks and others used as a stopping off place to rest before the long journey back home. Some would come in by train from other states, but most were from around Northwest Oklahoma and a few from the other parts of the State of Oklahoma.

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115 Pilots Fly Over Himalayas (WWII)

Did any of your fathers, brothers, friends, family members tell you any stories about the "Hump" during World War II?

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Is Alva Improving - 16 March 1911

According to this 16 March 1911 news article that appeared in the local newspaper, Alva Review Courier, there was a question asked, "Is Alva Improving?" Over a hundred years later can we ask the same question: "Is Alva improving?"

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Four Quarts of Whiskey - 1911

Four Quarts of Whiskey, Five Gallons of Beer, only Permitted in Private Homes. It was 2 March 1911, in Alva, Woods county, Oklahoma, when the Alva Review Courier reported in 1911 a new prohibition bill, containing but three sections, embodying only the most essential features of a law introduced in the Senate by Senator J. H. Langston, of Guymon, in 1911.

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Carrie A. Nation Is Dead - 9 June 1911

It was in Renfrew's Record, dated 16 June 1911, that we read about Mrs. Carrie A. Nation, whose fame as a world-wide saloon smasher, breathed her last in the Evergreen hospital, Leavenworth, Kansas, Friday, June 9, 1911, aged about 66 years.

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Thomas Jefferson Dyer

The following information concerning Thomas Jefferson Dyer, was sent to the OkieLegacy back in 2002, by Jenny White of Weatherford, Oklahoma. In response to our question, "Have you ever read anything about Thomas Jefferson Dyer?"

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Blackwell, OK - Dodge Brothers Auto

Back in 2002 someone sent us the following image of the Dodge Bros. Auto, located in Blackwell, Oklahoma.

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B. F. Wietrick

Back in 2002 when we were researching and writing about the old opera house murder in Alva, Woods county, Oklahoma, we heard from a great grandson of B. F. Wietrick.

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Alva's WWII German POW

Also, back in 2002, Vol IV, of the OkieLegacy ezine, John Webb (email: jdatwebb@cs.com) I do not know if this email is still a workable email address. John mentioned that his grandfather, Abe Regier, worked at the POW camp in Alva, Oklahoma.

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The Liberty Bell School District #9

No doubt that you have notice the 1905 Liberty School Souvenir to the left. I got out my Pioneer Footprints Across Woods County history book to view an Old Woods County map with the townships and school districts located on it. Liberty Bell School was located in the southern part of Liberty township. The school was located 6 miles south of Alva , Oklahoma and 1 mile or so west of highway 281.

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1911 - Alva's Downtown Square (Okla.)

[This is an Alva postcard view of 4th & Barnes, 27 May 1911, found in Glimpse of the Past (an early postcard view of Alva), street scene between 4th & Barnes showing flooding after a hard rain. During 1910 thru 1911 they were paving College Avenue, and the streets around the downtown square; constructing City Hall.]

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