Alva Public Library - Genealogy Section
"Something you want to look at when you are in Alva (Oklahoma) if you haven't seen them before at the library in the genealogy section there are about 10-12 Volumes of books about Alva and the surrounding area residents or former residents.
Someone had a very time-consuming project - they took archived newspapers (from the Alva area and any other state/city they found any articles in from around the country) and cut out the articles relevant to Alva residents or who formerly lived in the Alva area, etc... (and surrounding towns too). I found poems written by
Rose NICOLA on umpteen pages of this one book and it was a compilation of her poems written weekly for the local newspaper - for over 3 years!
They were all grouped together - which I thought was really neat!
I found obits from California and other states about (former) residents, etc.! ANYWAY, I don't remember what the title of the volumes are called
but they're divided into the volumes and then topic matter (e.g. weddings, deaths, activities, etc.) and indexed! In the instance of the weddings announcements I told you about .... there were 3 articles cut out of a newspaper and then all 3 were Xerox on this one page - (pg. 342) of the Weddings Feb. 1942 section. That page happened to have my mother and dad's wedding announcement - and it also included the
Meskimen - Welty marriage from the Freedom paper (I assume ... since someone has handwritten 'Freedom' just above the article)
and then hand written a date - which I presume is the date it was published in that particular newspaper. Here are the 2 wedding announcements
transcribed as they are on the page:
Meskimen-Welty (handwritten above article - Freedom 2-16-42) --
A marriage of much interest to their many friends was that of Mrs. Ruby Meskimen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wilson, and Ellsworth Welty, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nove Welty, which was solemnized at Coldwater, Kansas, Sunday, with Judge M. M. Cosby officiating. The bride wore
a street length dress of blue, with black accessories. Pete Welty, brother of the groom, and Miss Grace Keon of Woodward were the only
attendants. Mr. and Mrs. Welty, who will make their home on the Ruby Eden ranch, east of town, have many friends here who extend congratulations to the happy couple.
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