Volume 9 , Issue 40

Cattle Drovers, Homecoming & Demolition

We are still in Northwest Oklahoma this weekend, but headed back to the cool, Colorado rockies sometime this next week.

This week has been a busy, long week filled with cattle drovers, NWOSU Homecoming and more demolition work on 12th Street here in Alva, Oklahoma. The cattle drive was not in Alva, though! That took place about 45 minutes East of Alva at Hwy 64 & 81 JCT. at Medford, Oklahoma, Wednesday, October 3, 2007.

As for the NWOSU Homecoming... we have put together some digital and movie clip of NWOSU's 2007 Homecoming on our OkieLegacy - You Tube site. The annual parade was held in Alva, Oklahoma this Saturday morning, October 6, 2007, between 10:00 to 11:30 a.m., around the downtown square.

Boy! The bands have shrunk in size and so have the floats, crowds. Woodward had a fancy built float in the parade. K101 radio was also broadcasting from the West side of the square.

Thanks goes to Eleanor Ring for sending and sharing the Medford cattle drive 2007 photos with us.

Wednesday of this week the Cattle Drive 2007 drovers made the Medford, Oklahoma and headed North towards Renfrow, Oklahoma and Caldwell, Kansas. Eleanor sent us this photo of the "Longhorn Stare" Max Oakes was getting from one of the four-legged, long-horned participants.

Have you been keeping track of the 140th Chisholm Trail Cattle Drive 2007 that started September 10th in Texas, followed the Old Chisholm Trail Route along Hwy 81 through Oklahoma to Kansas. It completed its 2007 journey October 5th in Caldwell, Kansas, about 2:30 p.m., this Saturday. Here is a link to the Cattle Drive 2007 site.

Did anyone get down to the annual "Czech Festival" at Yukon, Oklahoma this weekend, Saturday, October 6, 2007. You know... the place with the homebaked kolaches and Bohemian baked goods! AND... What about the Oklahoma/Texas rivalry across the Red River, in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. Go Sooners!

As to last week's story of the camels at Waynoka sand dunes, has anyone ever heard of a five-legged animal that allegedly was at the sand dunes in Waynoka, Oklahoma?

AND... Does anyone know anything about "Gloyd Lumber Co. of Avard, OK? We have noticed that most of the lumber in the 12th street house to the South along Oklahoma Blvd., in Alva, Oklahoma, came from a lumber company in northwest Oklahoma. It had the following written on the 2x4 wood: "Gloyd Lumber Co. Avard, OK." We did some research and found that M. G. Emmert was the manager of the Gloyd Lumber yard and one of the first started in the city of Alva. Mr. Emmert arrived in Woods county around 1902.
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