Volume 7 , Issue 19

The Alva Review-Courier - July, 1935...

Besides traveling from the cool mountains of SW Colorado to NW Oklahoma, we have been traveling back in time to "1935" by way of a local NW Oklahoma newspaper, The Alva Review-Courier, dated 19 July 1935. That Summer the mercury again was held to 99 degrees as Alva was going through three consecutive "cool" days, 17th thru 19th July (1935). The maximum temperature on the 19th July stopped at 99, to the relief of the perspiring citizens. That evening it sank to 70 during the night as a trace of rain fell.

The Alva Review-Courier (ARC) was published daily except on Saturday and entered at the postoffice at Alva, Oklahoma, for transmission through the mails as 2nd-class matter. It was a member of United Press Association with Telegraph Press Reports Daily. The publisher & General Manager was Horace T. Newton; News Ed., Schuyler Allman; National Advertising Representatives were Frost, Landis and Kohn. The ARC was the official County & City paper with subscription rates and delivered by carrier -- Per week rates, 10 cents; per year (in advance), $5; In Alva and adjoining counties per year, $2; Zones outside Woods County and adjoining counties, $3.

Just glancing through the headlines we learn lots of things about Woods County and Alva, Oklahoma. The Mayor in July, 1935 is A. G. Sutton; District WPA Administrator, Walter Berry; and the Water Superintendent, Wes Warren. The Frontpage Headline Stories consisted of a few of the following:

• City To Reconsider Budget In Effort to Find WPA Job Funds
• Number of Needy To Gvoern WPA Grants
• New Postal Chief Named For City Job
• Veterans' CCC Quota Sought
• Legion Asked To Help Fill Army's Ranks
• Two Must Die For Killings
• AAA Boards To Vote August 6
• Sewage Plant Work Is Urged
• Child Slayer Is Given Life
• Enid Man Hired As County's Engineer
• 175 Names To Office of NRS
• Waynoka Port Work Started

We have started transcribing the four-page newspaper from NW Oklahoma, dated July 19, 1935. The Front page headlines can be read in PDF form with Acrobat Reader 6.0 -- ARC19July1935pg1.pdf.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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