Volume 16 , Issue 2

NW Okie's Journey

We headed back down to Houston this last Saturday from Bayfield, Colorado, via Albuquerque, New Mexico and turning east at El Paso, Texas and I10, arriving Monday afternoon while spending the night in San Antonio.

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Walking With Sadie

Will! That NW Okie went and done it again! Left me in charge with my companion Ruff & Rob here in the snowy mountains of Southwest Colorado. They left early Saturday morning while I was still groggy from sleep, but NW Okie gave me a few scratches behind the ears and a tummy rub. So I am good for awhile at least. NW Okie says they may be back this way earlier than they had planned, though. That news has me ecstatic to get to see my human buddy sooner than later.

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100 Years Ago, 8 January 1914

According to The Beaver Herald, dated Thursday, 8 January 1914, Beaver, Oklahoma, there was a front page article ("Stub Line A Sure Go!") concerning a survey of possible railroad stub line route to begin the coming Monday, which would connect with the W. F. & N. W. at or near Forgan, Oklahoma. They were promising that dirt would fly on new railroad before the close of he first month of 1914. Railroad was within their reach.

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1914 - Stand By Your Town

In that same 8 january 1914, The Beaver Herald, there was another article entitled, "Stand By Your Town," which they were proclaiming that, "No town can be permanently prosperous in which the citizens and tradesmen dependent one ash other, do not patronize each other."

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1914 January - Neighborhood News of Beaver County

Also in the 8 January 1914 newspaper out of Beaver, Beaver county, Oklahoma, page 2, we found some "Neighborhood News" from District No. 24.

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Old Beaver County Oklahoma

According to the Chronicles of Oklahoma "Old Beaver county (No Man's land) represented the history of the United States. It was included in many cessions territory, tossed here and there at the will of kits, consuls presidents and private individuals. It was what was left after the the great land adjustments in oath America.

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