Volume 5 , Issue 15

Oakie's NW Corner

Besides history breaking Wednesday of this week, I have been busy training, caring for my new Li'l Pug puppy (Duchess) who turned 8 weeks this weekend. It's kind of like taking care of a new born infant. She eats, sleeps, plays and wakes me up about every 3 or 4 hours at night time to go outside and take care of business. We fixed up a dog crate for her sleeping area. She has taken to it quite nicely.

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NW OK - Alva Pioneers

Rev. A. Connet -- He was born in Green County, Pennsylvania, Oct. 17, 1834. He was ordained in Southern Indiana, Oct. 20, 1861. He came from near Dwight, Morris county, Kansas, to Alva and preached his first sermon, Sept. 24 (1893), the second Sunday after the opening, in C. W. Hobbie's new store building. He assisted in the collection of funds for the Union church, and with his own hands assisted in its erection. In it he conducted thanksgiving services on Thanksgiving day, 1893. The church was commenced on Monday and the services were held in it on Thursday of the same week. Mr. Connet married at his home one block south of the center of the square, the first couple, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. McIntire, that were married in the county, on Christmas day, 1903. W. F. Hatfield and wife witnessed the ceremony.

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April Spring 2003

Duchess laying in the frontyard taking in the scents and relaxing with the chickweeds blooming during the April Spring of 2003 [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Mid-1950s Avard Murder Mystery

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Ann Newlin Reynolds' Unsolved Death - Mid-1950s

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Chinese Pugs Pics

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Our Inspiring Climate

This little article (Our Inspiring Climate) was printed in The Alva Pioneer Souvenir Edition, January 1904: "The very air of Oklahoma is inspiring [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Short Grass Country

The following definition is from the new western dictionary: "That portion of the Great American Desert where wheat yields only from 40 to 50 bushels per acre, where corn grows to be only 17 feet tall, and where alfalfa occasionally produces only three crops during one year [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Jack Hayward

"Yes, everybody called him Jack. I believe his actual name was John though. I bid on one of his paintings at auction once. It was one he had done of the terrain west of Alva with Hereford cattle in it. We raise Angus here on our farm, but I remember Jack painting such beautiful pictures of the red cattle. The land around Alva is not lush and green, as it is here in the Tallgrass.

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Mystery of Gobbler's Rock

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Access to Archival Databases (AAD) System

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Kemper Alumni

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Condreay Store

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GWYNN of llandisillio Pembrokeshire Wales

"My name is Gwynn. The earliest I have researched on my family is 1712 when one Morgan Gwynn was born to Daniel Gwynn... a vintner of llandisillio Wales. He was plebed by the people into Jesus College but never finished.

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Wrought Iron Comfort Cook Stove

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The Alva Record, September, 1923

Militia Forbids Special Session - Representatives Disperse Without Argument at command of Military Authorities [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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