Oakie's NW Corner...
This week started out like another glorious spring-like March until
the winds came in mid-week bringing slightly cooler temperatures.
Tuesday was a beautiful day to be outdoors. The week ended with
the "Ides of March" on Friday.
As to Tuesday, though, this writer could be seen with digital camera
in hand -- traveling over in Ellis and Woodward Counties looking
for some bells and other Okie interests for this week's newsletter.
The Bell photos went to a friend in southern Oklahoma that is collecting
"old bells" for each of the 77 Counties in Oklahoma. I
did find a few bells in Ellis County, Woodward County to add to
his collection. If you happen to know of any bells in Oklahoma,
Email Linda a snapshot,
history of the bell so I can forward it onto my Bell Friend.
 Enough
of bells, though. Let's talk Windmills. While I was in Ellis County,
I stopped south of Shattuck, Oklahoma where highway 283 & 15
come together. You need to take the time to see Shattuck's Windmill
Museum. AND... The windmills were actually twirling in the wind.
Click this link to read more about Shattuck's
Windmill Museum on their website.
On some of the plaques located at the Shattuck Windmill Museum
you might read about the "1898
dedication to the pioneer parents and grandparents George and
Kate Haffner Schultz founders of the George Schultz General Merchandise
Store 1901." It was dedicated from their sons and families
Herman and Carrie Bush Schultz, Robert A. Schultz, William and Marguerite
Hennen Schultz, George Ailliam Schultz, Mary K. Squire, N. Terry
Schultz, Ganet E. Wiley, John Mark Schultz, Vernon and Leonore McCarter
Schultz, E. Bradly Schultz, Lois A. Lawrence.
The museum was dedicated to the pioneer families who homesteaded,
ranched and brought commerce to this region of the plains and to
the windmillers who made it possible. There was the Halladay standard,
that was invented in 1854 by Daniel Halladay. The first successful
self-governing windmill.
If you look further past the walls of pioneer names and donors
you might see a Dedication
To A Dreamer... "Marvin A. Stinson - 'Texas born, Oklahoma
raised...' Just the right combination to become an ol' windmiller
placed by the board of trustees in recognition of his knowledge
and guidance in the founding of our Shattuck Windmill Museum and
Park."
Did you know that the regular pattern Eclipse, manufactured for
50 years beginning in the 1860s commonly provided water for the
homesteader, the rancher and the railroads?
The Windmill Museum also has a plaque with alist of "Early
Water Well Drillers." They are....
Carl Anderson, Laverne - 1954-1975; Harold Baird
& son, Shattuck - 1970-1981; Lyle Baird, Sharon - 1950-1970;
Walter F. Berkey, Laverne - 1915-1960; Lusion Bybee, Higgins -
1938-1970; Wm. T. Coffman, Gage - 1901-1950; Ezra Coffman, Gage
- 1917-1971; Lloyd Coffman, Shattuck - 1950-1960; August Dale,
Gatesby - 1902-1962; Steven F. Dale, Gatesby - 1902-1962; L. A.
"Les" Drake, Harmon - 1930-1955; Chris A. Hartman, Ivanhoe
- 1910-1930; Henry Kunka, Logan - 1966-1980; Asa Kile, Booker
- 1905-1936; Clyde Kile, Booker - 1925-1935; Gerald Laverty, Laverne
- 1970-; Ed Sanders, Laverne - 1950-1970; Abe Semmell, Fargo -
1943-1971; Wm. P. Shelton, Arnett - 1914-1980; Shelton Brothers,
Arnett - 1930-1978; Ray Clovis, Tom Fluya; Dan Schick, Shattuck
- 1934-1956; Joe Dan Schick, Shattuck - 1948-1986; R. Steinle,
Shattuck - 1947-1971; Marvin Stinson, Laverne - 1957-; Charlie
Toter, Shattuck - 1934-1944; Wesley Thomas, Tangier - 1954-1968;
A. L. Walton, Shattuck - 1934-1944; Richard Ward, Laverne - 1925-1985;
E. L. Williams, Arnett - 1920-1930
After the windmills of Shattuck, Oklahoma, my journey took me on
hwy 15 towards Arnett, Oklahoma, the county seat of Ellis County.
Don't you just love old courthouses? I do! They have so much more
character than the square-boxed modern courthouses of today. This
is a photo of the Ellis County Courthouse (built in 1912), located
on the square in downtown Arnett, Oklahoma. If you have an old courthouse
building still standing in your community, take care of it and it's
history. They are a dying, dwindling bred crumbling with the ages.
Some communities only have old photographs to show what their old
courthouses looked like long ago.
As I was traveling in the northwest parts of the state, I couldn't
help but notice how dry and barren some of the wheat fields look
this time of year. It is as dry as a bone-dry watering hole here
in the northwest and the panhandle (without the cracks in the
earth). It seems like the wheat shrinks back into the earth
each day we don't get some moisture. When it should begrowing taller.
They say some areas are having trouble with army worms. Will there
be Wheat to harvest? Will there be harvesters this year? Will there
be Rain? What does Rain look like? It has been too long since we've
had a good soaking of that wet stuff. Even the East Coast is feeling
the drought, I hear.
Enough of that rambling the northwest roads, though... One of my
readers remembers to old country stores and getting a bottle of
chocolate pop. Have you ever had "Chocolate Pop?" There
was also another strange flavor pop that you could find out there
in this unique little stores, but its been so long -- I can't remember
them all. Can anyone help me? AND... Can you still find Chocolate
pop out there today?
I heard from a '41 Bugette this week that says, "The girls
of this class started the Bugettes under the leadership of Edna
Donley."
I didn't know that! But... It was a few years before my time. Do
any of you former "Bugettes" remember or have a picture
of the black, woolen uniforms that this organized pep-club wore?
If so, send me some to share with the other readers. As for those
readers out there that don't know what a "Bugette" is...
It was a bunch of High School Girls organized Pep Club that sat
together at school sporting events and cheered their Goldbug team
to victories and losses. I was a "Bugette" from '63 through
'66.
Well! It looks like this weekend began with "the Ides of March"
on Friday and ends Sunday with the "Wearing of the Green"
on St. Patricks Day... Any Irish out there? Have a safe weekend
and I'll see you next week. BUT... before I go let me mention that
this newsletter message goes out to my Uncle Alvin Paris & family
in Colorado Springs, Colorado... We are fondly thinking, sending
our thoughts of Love, Support and hoping that it keeps, finds your
Paris Spirits soaring high as always. Love to All! Wish I were there
with you!
~~ Linda "OaKie" ~~
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G-Grandpa & Grandma Warwick...
This is an old photo of Sigga B. & John R. Warwick with their
grandson (Gene McGill) and a couple of bird dogs. down on the
farm. Click photo to see larger view.
photo courtesy of LK Wagner, Feb. 2002
Tribute to the Windmill
by - Marvin Carnegy, Laverne, Okla.
To the man that invented windmills.
My hat is off to you.
Without the lonely windmill,
The West we could not subdue.
The lonely windmill
It always stands alone.
Away out on the prairie
Is the place it calls its home.
The windmill is most neglected
Of anything on the range.
Although it's so neglected,
It keeps pumping just the same.
It gives our living water
Just like the Son of God.
They both are so neglected
By us who tread the sod.
Yes, the windmill is so neglected --
We let the oil run dry.
Yet it stands tall and erect
With its head in the sky.
Everything comes to the windmill
To drink and quench its thirst
Without this precious water,
We couldn't stay on Mother Earth.
The cows and calves drink their fill
Around that big round tank.
The horses always slobber
After they've taken their good drink.
The kildare and the quail
And the prairie chicken, too --
They all come to the windmill
Just like the Cowboys do.
To you, O lonely windmill --
I do thank you and God.
Without you two together
We could not have made it
On this good old Western Sod.
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Menu:
Linda K McGill Wagner
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PO Box 619, Bayfield, CO 81122
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Shattuck
Windmill Museum... This is just a teaser
of what you will find on the southend of Shattuck, Oklahoma where
hwy 283 & Hwy 15 come together in Ellis County. Ellis County is over
on the western border of Oklahoma and just west of Woodward County.
You can view more of the Windmill snapshots at 
