Duchess' NW Corner...
Yes, Oakie! It does rain in Oklahoma in August! BUT... You might
have to wait until the end of August, though! If you are lucky.
This week was a busy week for Oakie! Thay's why she left me in
charge to put this newsletter to bed... so to speak. I have been
pulling Oakie out of bed early each morning around 6:00 o'clock
so we can go feed horses and I can play with my birddog friend out
in the country while it is cool outside and before the Dog Days
of Summer heat up the rest of the day.
We did have a break in the Summer heat starting late Tuesday evening
and during the early pre-dawn hours of Wednesday morning. That is
when NW Oklahoma finally got some of that much needed wet stuff
that falls from the sky. Alva, West and South of here received 1-inch
or more of that wet stuff. I don't know what so special about it,
though. It gets my furry coat wet and I hate having to go out to
do my business in it. BUT... Oakie insists! AND... Out I must go!
I would rather have a bath in the kitchen sink, though.
Wednesday was a great day to get outdoors in the country with the
horses, though. The temperatures transported us country-folk to
Fall-like weather for a day at least. BUT... Thursday saw the return
of the triple-digit temperatures rising to 104F. I think the farmers,
animals and humans alike were ecstatic to see the return of cooler
temperatures Friday morning when they awoke to more rain and Fall-like
temps. The horses, colts were frisky and feeling their oats - rompin'
around the corral Friday morning. It also brought another inch or
so of that wet stuff in this neck-of-the-woods.
Oakie told me she loved the cool weather and almost forgot what
rain felt, smelled like. I guess that is why you could find her
standing out in the fine, misting rain earlier this evening while
I was stuck inside working on this newsletter. BUT... It sure did
cool things down a bit Friday and Wednesday with a promise of more
rain and temperatures in the 70s this Labor Day weekend. Oakie even
let me get outside to play with a couple of my birddog (Charlie
& Spike), Yellow Lab (Ted) and Black Lab (Sally) dogfriends
this week while it was cool. I may be a small Pug, but I feel as
big as those big dogs.
I have to apologize for Oakie, 'cause she mentioned that she promised
you some more 1917 Ranger yearbook - Class of 1918 students pictures
this week. It didn't get done this week with everything else going
on, but I will see that she gets it in next week's newsletter.
Are there any OU (Oklahoma University) and OSU (Oklahoma State
University) football fans out there? Their first football games
start this Labor Day weekend. Hope you all have a safe Labor Day
weekend if you are out there traveling on the highways. See you
next weekend with hopefully some more Okie legacies and memories.
We will probably see some of you PARIS family descendants next weekend
in Chester, Oklahoma for their 68th Annual Paris Reunion at the
Chester Community building.
~~ Duchess ~~
All Paris Descendants...
68th Annual Paris Reunion
Sunday, September 7, 2003
Chester Community Bldg.
(Click below for Map)
Chester,
Oklahoma
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Happy Birthday, DoRight!
31 August 2003
Did the Dynamite come before the DoRight...
or vice-versa? Anyway... this is DoRight Dynamite Dorthy back
in 1988 or 1990 during her campaign for State Representative in
NW Oklahoma. The photo was taken in Waynoka, Oklahoma with one
of her then young supporters. Not sure who the young lady was
back then. She would be about 13 or 15 years older today (2003).
Click the photo for a larger view.
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Mailbag & Links Corner....
Buffalo
Soldiers of Ft. Gibson.... "Through out the History
of what is now known as Oklahoma, blacks have played a very important
part in the building of this state, either as freedmen or as soldiers.
This site is in honor of them! You can learn about the 10th cavalry,
the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry and the Freedmen. You will also learn
about fellow re-enactors, living historians. The main playgrounds
are the historical sites of Ft. Gibson, Battle of Honey Srpings....."
-- Tom Harris
Land
Patent Image - HURT Land Record in Oklahoma... "Hi Linda,
You may have already found this, but I happened to stumble across
it and didn’t want you to not have it... Hurt land record in
OK.
hope all is well." -- Cousin, Linda Hurt
"Certificate of Register of Land Office at Woodward, Oklahoma
..... pursuant to the Act of Congress of May 20, 1862, To Secure Homesteads
to Actual Settlers on the Public Domain, and the acts supplemental
thereto, the claim of John F. Hurt has been established and duly consumated,
in conformity to law, for the north half of the northwest quarter
and the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of Section twenty-eight
and the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of Section twenty-one
in Township twenty-one north of Range fifteen west of the Indian Meridian,
Oklahoma, containing one hundered sixty acres (Sec. 28 & 21-Twp.
21N-Rnge 15 WIM) .... Signed by Woodrow Wilson, President of USA,
18th September 1913 - Record of Patents: patent number 356453."
Smithsonian Vote for Oklahoma... "I hope each of you will
vote for the Oklahoma Black Towns Tour. It originated in Oklahoma
(Muskogee) and I urge each of you to help Oklahoma win the honor.
Thanks! The Oklahoma Historical Black Town Tours has been selected
as one of three preservation finalist for this years Smithsonian
Magazine/TCF Sustainable Tourism Awards. The finalist are: Little
Tokyo in Los Angeles, Fort Delaware State Park and The
Oklahoma Historical Black Town Tours! This is reason to CELEBRATE
& VOTE today. Voting is easy just click on the link below. Congratulations
to Muskogee Oklahoma's Convention and Tourism and Cassandra Gaines.
For more information about the award and Oklahoma Historical Black
Town Tours e-mail Cassandra at Email: cassytours@geotec.net. CLICK
HERE TO VOTE
-- Thank you for voting today." -- Nancy - Oklahoma
Music Hall of Fame - Oklahoma's musicians will make your heart
sing. Muskogee, Oklahoma is the home of the Oklahoma Music Hall of
Fame. Please visit.
Carmen Home... "Real interesting about the Carmen
Home. As I grew up in Carmen in the 50's. It was run by a family
named Mahoney. I don't recall the church sponsor though. My grandpa
was in the IOOF and lived out there as caretaker when the tornado
destroyed the dairy barn. Later Rev. Lemmon administered it as a nursing
home until its close." -- Jim Wilkinson - E-mail: runningman@pldi.net
 1919
Woods County Fair Photo... "I found this photo on eBay and
I am curious to know if any readers might be able to identify the
people. The location of the photo is not certain, but the Woods County
Fair at that time (1919, the eBay description claims) was held in
Dacoma instead of Alva." -- Rodney Murrow, Freedom, OK - Email:
rod@murrow.com
Lookout, Oklahoma
- 1904 Family... "My family moved to Lookout in 1904 from
Norwich, Kansas and I have been trying to locate some information.
Thank you for posting what you have." -- Verda Volmer - E-mail:
featherheart@peoplepc.com
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German Prison of War Camps - WWII... "I enjoyed reading
about the German Prisoner
of War Camps in Oklahoma since Chickasha was also the location
of two facilities. I was told that the prisoners at the fairgrounds
also painted murals on the walls there. However, these have been painted
over and were further covered during the recent renovation. I have
heard stories from the locals concerning the prisoners at both Borden
and the fairgrounds and actually met former prisoners who came to
Chickasha to visit where they once lived." -- Nancy Calhoun -
E-mail: ninnnac@yahoo.com
Colorado WWII Prison
of War Camp...  "Camp
Trinidad - Trinidad, Colorado - This Article
was taken from The
Durango Herald,
Sunday, August 10, 2003, page 5A -- and written by Mike Garrett
- The Pueblo Chieftain (Click on photo to view larger image.)
- POW Camp Once Behive of Activity -- Crumbled cement foundation,
an old water treatment plant and parts of the main gate are about
all that's left of Camp Trinidad, a World War II lockup that once
held thousands of captured German soldiers. Now cattle graze the remote
715-acre prison site, located about 200 miles south of Denver near
the New Mesico border."
Family Surnames: PARIS... "I am researching Martin M.
PARIS, OCT 16 1883. He had a brother Henry and a sister Pearl. He
moved to Texas at some point. In the 1920 census he lived in Greenville.
That census gives birth place as Tennessee for him and his parents.
His wife Lille was from Georgia. If you know anything about the above,
please E-mail me! THANKS!" -- Adeana - E-mail: contessa72@yahoo.com
Labor Day History... "First Labor Day -- The first Labor
Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York
City, in accordance with the plans of the Central Labor Union. The
Central Labor Union held its second Labor Day holiday just a year
later, on September 5, 1883. In 1884 the first Monday in September
was selected as the holiday, as originally proposed, and the Central
Labor Union urged similar organizations in other cities to follow
the example of New York and celebrate a "workingmen's holiday"
on that date. The idea spread with the growth of labor organizations,
and in 1885 Labor Day was celebrated in many industrial centers of
the country."
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