Duchess' Wildlife Domain

First of all, I would like to thank my friend and neighbor, Duchess, for letting me take over domain this week. The last week's temperatures around here ranged in the mid-forties as us bucks, deers and elk grazed in this San Juan valley and mountains. Four to five elk were spotted crossing the county road 501, around the curve, near the dam at Vallecito Lake yesterday evening. NW Okie had to slow to a stop to watch and keep from running into to this small herd in the evening hours. It was too dark to snap a photo, though.

As this second week of January 2010 begins, we are expecting late afternoon and evening snows in this neck of the woods in southwest Colorado. They, the weather from Albuquerque, New Mexico, tell us that most of the week will be filled with rain turning into evening snows and ending around Friday or Saturday.

NW Okie wanted me to ask you if you remembered the businesses in Alva, Oklahoma during the mid-thirties, especially, 1937-1938? Do you remember when they referred to Oklahoma Blvd. as Normal Street? Did any of your ancestors attend Northwestern State Teachers College in 1937-1938?

We have a couple of linked PDF files for those family genealogists who are looking for evidence of their kin during that time period. You can find for downloadable PDF files in the articles below. There is also a Student and Faculty Directory of the 1937-38 time period.

Roy of Perry, Oklahoma says on 16 January 2010, "It's been foggy for three nights in a row but clears up in the daytime. The gas prices have dropped a couple of cents since it warmed back up. The price at our local downtown Conoco here in Perry, Oklahoma has been $2.56.9 for the past three days now."

Have a Great week and watch for slick, snowy patches along the roadways as you travel to and from your destinations.
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1937-38 Student Directory NSTC

1937-38 NSTC Student & Faculty Directory -- Have you ever wondered what businesses were around the square, on College Avenue and along the street (Normal Street) that ran in front of the Castle on the Hill, in the small, rural community of Alva, Oklahoma back in the mid-1930s?

According to the 1937-38 Student directory of NSTC, published by the Delta Sigma Epsilon Sorority, we have found a few businesses that advertised in this 1937-38 Northwestern State Teachers College directory that the Delta Sigma Epsilon, Delta Chapter compile of the students and faculty during those mid-thirty years.

In compiling the roster of college students and faculty members the Delta Chapter tried to give the information most sought after by both those affiliated with the college and the townspeople. They published their 1937-38 Directory with the hope that it would be of service to all. The names of all the students whose schedule cards were checked to the Dean's office on Friday, September 17, 1938 were included in the directory.

Delta Sigma Epsilon, Delta chapter, active members:
Alice Eckel, faculty sponsor,
Lois Miller, president
Mildred Simon, recording secretary
Helen Pierce, corresponding secretary
Louise Parker, treasurer
Ruth Hadwiger, sergeant
Vona Boucher, reporter
Pledges: Lois White, Ruby Wright, Edith Conrad, Ruth Yeoman, Louie Litton

Church Directory

The churches of that period showed the following churches at their locations in the Church Directory at the end of the booklet.

Christian church, Church and Fifth
First Baptist church, College & Church
Methodist church, Church and College
Presbyterian church, Church and Seventh
Catholic church, Church and Twelfth
United Brethren, Fourth and Center
Lutheran church, Third and Maple
Episcopal church, Fifth and Church
Seventh Day Adventist, Church and Tenth
Church of Nazrene, College and Locust
Church of God, first street
Latter Day Saints, Noble and Center
Pentacostal church, Twelfth and Barnes
Christian Science Society, City Hall

1937 Ranger Schedule

The Ranger football schedule showed the following games from October to November of that 1937-38 school year.

Sept. 25 at Hays, KS
Oct 1 at Wichita, KS
Oct. 8 Central at Alva collegiate conference, night
Oct. 15 at northeastern, collegiate conference, night
Oct. 22 at West Texas, canyon
Oct. 29 east central at alva, collegiate conference
Nov 5 at southwestern, collegiate conference
Nov. 12 southeastern at Alva, collegiate conference
Nov. 19 OBU at Alva, collegiate conference night

Businesses Directory:

The following at the businesses listed with the description of their ads and their locations and telephone numbers. Remember back in the old days when you picked up the telephone and waited for an operator's sweet voice so you could give the operator the short two, three or four digit phone number you were trying to call?

Rialto - Ritz - Ranger, the three r's of amusement, matinee each afternoon, operated by Jones amusement company.

Farmers' Co-Operative Oil Company, Eason dictator gasoline, firestone tires - quaker state lubrication, southeast corner square, 14th and Normal, phone 521, Alva, Okla., Phone 586.

Ranger Taxi, three good cars, C. M. Capps, Owner, phone 363, 6 blocks, for a dime, 10 blocks, 100 cents.

W. R. Maxwell, Florist, flowers for all occasions, special attention given, sorority and fraternity orders, member FTD, PO Box 213, Alva, Okla. phone 28.

Bell's selected milk, makes healthy days. Start serving Bell's today in your home, and equip your boy or girl adequately as "they" traverse the cities of wisdom. Call 149, and a salesman will call and explain the many advantages in serving Bell's safe dairy foods in your home. Milk, butter,cream, buttermilk, green spot orange drink, cottage cheese, dari-rich chocolate milk. Bell's Ice cream, a dairy store at your door every morning before breakfast.

Dr. A. L. Ball, Dentist, office: Monfort bldg., room 12, office phone 152, res. phone 1054.

21 years of service to the students of Northwestern. Give photographs for any occasion. Enlargements, Kodak finishing, oil coloring, Ellis Studio, phone 107, Over Monfort's.

Alva Review-Courier, sorority printing, school programs, announcements and name cards, the latest in social stationery, phones 200-201, Alva, Okla.

Western Auto Associate Store, home owned by Wenninger Motor Supply Co., accessories, auto and tractor replacement parts. phone 250, Alva, Okla.

IGA, Tyree Grocery & Mkt., groceries, fresh vegetables, meats, free delivery, south side square, phones 407 and 406.

Burr's Department Store, welcomes you, 411 College Ave., phone 12.

Tanner Bros. Clothing Company, outfitters from lad to dad, phone 175, West Side.

The Amsden Lumber Co., a pleased customer is our best advertisement, 516 College Ave., phone 134, Alva, Okla.

Alva Electric Supply Co., electrical and radio service, phone 282.

Nifty Meat Inn, across from campus, Ranger headquarters, short orders, cold drinks, sandwiches, malts, 24 hour service, Ray and Ross, props.

Monfort-Smith, Jewelers, at Monfort's Drug store, We are authorized dealers for Bluebird diamonds, green, Hamilton and elgin watches.

Doctor's Service Sta., sixth and Normal, phone 208, Ralph Doctor, mgr.

Monfort, The druggist, cut prices on drugs, toilet articles, books, over quarter of a million prescriptions filled here. School books, school supplies, The college store for Northwestern.

Railway Ice Co., modern meat locker storage system 621 Choctaw.

Rice-Huff Clothiers, griffon clothes, arrow shirts, nunn-bush oxfords, hole-proof hosiery, west side square, Alva, Okla.

Magnolia, on the hill, Mobil oil and gas, D. W. Grimwood, phone 800.

Breford Super Service, across the street, city service products, koolmotor gasoline and motor oil, the best in oils, pennsylania, pennzoil, penaline, quaker state, US tires, 24 hour service, phone 801.

Kavanaugh & Sheer, phone 101, hardware and plumbing, allis chalmers implements, Alva, Oklahoma.

Geo. Putuznik, "Let George rebuild them" since 1909, polishes and laces, phone 494, shoes dyed any color.

Deep Rock Oil Corp., wholesalers and retailers, "sudden service" fifth and mormal sts., phone 242, O. L. Crutchfield, mgr.

Jett's - always on display - beautiful handkerchiefs 25 cents 35 cents 50 cents to 1.50, phone 96, for sheerness, for beauty for value Berkshire silk hosiery 59 cents, 79 cents, 1.00 1.35.

Dr. C. L. Ritchey, Dentist, Monfort building, office phone 54, res. phone 1133.

E. W. Tanner Company style and service, distributors for Marshall field, wholesale, redfern, betty rose, coats and suits, Hats by toaster, phoenix hose.

Palace Cleaners, 511 College Avenue, "no better than the best but better than the rest", phone 360, cleaning, pressing, dyeing, hat blocking, alterations, repairing, Loren C. Van Sickle, Mgr.

Nall's Cafe, air conditioned, home of good foods and courteous service.

Bob Green, Mgr. Phone 320, Texaco 64 Service Sta., Normal and Fourth, Alva

McGill Brothers, everything in furniture and floor coverings gas stoves and used coal stoves, goods sold on installment if you like, see us before buying. phone 112, SW Corner Sq.
The Ranger Cafe, 2 doors west of Hotel Bell, meals, lunches, steaks our specialty, a good place to eat, Ranger Cafe.

Powder Puff Beauty shop, all work guaranteed, phone 11, 503 college, See yourself as you want others to see you.

Bynum's Sandwich Shop, all kinds of sandwiches, candy, cigarettes, beer.

Drink Coca-Cola, delicious in bottles.

Kavanaugh & Sheer Service Station, sibling air-cooled guaranteed 35,000 mile, tires. phone 236, 7th and fly.

McCormick Jewelry Store, at Rexall drug store, diamonds and elgin watches, we make a specialty of repairing swiss watches such as green, bulova, and all cheaper grades. Call on our repair dept.

Maxwell Printing Co., wedding announcements personal stationery, name cards, woods co. Bank bldg. phone 316.

Sears' Bootery, we fit feet, fortune and bostonian shoes for men $4.00 to $7.00, north side square, alva, okla., Fashionable footwear, for young women $2.49 to 46.50.

Collier Studio, portraits, commercial work, kodak finishing and picture framing, open sundays and evenings by appointment, phone 291, north side square.

Beegles' Drug Store, try our fountain, phone 124, north side square.

Ellison's Women's Wear, exclusive dress and hat shoppe, quality and style at reasonable cost, 603 barnes, phone 336, south side.

A former Northwestern student welcomes you to our city, J. C. Hess, Insurance.

Dr. J. A. Townsend, dentist, Beegle building, phone 166.

Welcome! Drop in and get acquainted with Ruby Herrick, Myra Thomas, Lou Ella Provost, Virginia Miner, Lois Hutton, experienced in all lines of beauty work, Herrick Beauty Salon, phone 68, air conditioned, 507 College.

Hub Dry Cleaners, cleaning, pressing, dyeing, hats cleaned and blocked. the factory way, phone 15, alva, Okla., we call for and deliver, suits made to order.

The Alva Daily Record, job printing, publishing, we print the Northwestern News, courteous service, phone 157.

Sullivan's Grocery, 416 Normal Street, for meats, vegetables, groceries.

Minton Creamery, the most of the best for the least, butter and ice cream, ice cream service at your door, Cecil Pierce, Prop. phone 469, Alva, Okla.

Warrick's, the one stop shoe store, exclusive admiration hose, for entire family, style and quality, south side square, phone 884, expert fitting.

Vivian Pinegar Beauty Shop, phone 333, north side square, over people's store, where beauty is made more beautiful permanents, finger waving our specialty all lines of beauty work.

Kent W. Johnson agent for the Travelers Insurance Company at phone 60. He will provide your accident ticket on 5 minutes notice. Woods County Bank bldg., Alva.

Winter's Shoe Shop, for better shoe repairing, 607 Barnes, phone 665.
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1938 NSTC Ranger Album

We have been sharing a scanned copy of the 1938 Ranger Album with family genealogists for awhile and thought perhaps some others might be interested in downloading a PDF file of the 1938 Ranger Album. It is a large file. You can either open it up in your web browser and save a copy to your computer -- OR -- right click on the link and "save as" to a folder on your computer for further genealogy research.

Here is the link for those of you looking for a copy of the 1938 Ranger yearbook, Northwestern State Teacher's College, Alva, Oklahoma, I have scanned it into a PDF file. Contact Linda McGill Wagner at email: mcwagner.lk@gmail.com and I will send you a link to the pdf file if you are having trouble viewing it in your browser and can not figure out how to "save as" to your computer. -- 1938 Ranger yearbook.
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Kemper Military School Class of '38

For those family genealogists searching proof of their ancestors that went to Kemper Military school, high school and junior college, in Boonsville, Missouri during the 1938 time period, you might want to run down the list of students that we have transcribed of the Class of 1938, 1939 thru 1943 classes.

We did find a mention and photograph of Clyde Winston Garrett, of Eastland, Texas listed in the Class of 1940. We do not have all the photos scanned as of yet, but we are still working on them for later issues of the OkieLegacy ezine. Thanks for bearing with us!

The names read from left to right, starting at the top and moving down each row.

Class of 1938:
Top Row:
Richard Rowe Anwyl, Valley Junction, IA;
Bernard Opison Arado Bailey, Newton, IA;
Sargent Buckingham Barnes, Decatur, IL;
James Griffith Barney, Cape Girardeau, MO.;
Frank Richards Becker, OKC, OK;
William Wilson Beckett, Kansas City, MO;
Conrad William Bischof, St. Louis, MO;
Howard Norman Bischof, St. Louis, MO;
Roy Logan Boals, Fairbury, NE;

2nd Row:
Henry Joseph Boehner, Chillicothe, MO;
J. Philip Boerstler, Henryetta, OK;
Allen Markel Boggs, Plain Dealing, LA;
Joe Mark Bower, Tulsa, OK;
Fred Brinkop, St. Louis, MO;
Ronald Earle Britton, Atlantic, IA;
Dale Eldon Buchanan, Chanute, KS;
Gordon Fulton Burnett, Fargo, ND;
Birn Cardner, Byers, TX;

3rd Row:
J. Lee Carter, Wellington, KS;
Gilbert Irving Clark, Eastland, TX;
Richard Cain Colby, OKC, OK;
Harry Ray Cook, OKC, OK;
Matthew Ervin Culp, Duncan, OK;
Howard J. Curry, Ava, MO;
I. Thomas Curry, Lebanon, MO;
William Frederick Dahlstrom, Bloomfield, NE;
John Robert Davidson, Mount Vernon, IL;

4th Row:
Russell Loury Davies, Kansas City, MO;
Gilbert Arthur Dourlass, Storm Lake, IA;
Gray Hartwell Doyle, CArbondale, IL;
Herbert Halliday Ewing, Cairo, IL;
Maurice Leroy Filson, Wewoka, OK;
Charles William Finley, McLean, TX;
Newton Gates Flippen, Dallas, TX;
James Byrne Francis, Dallas, TX;
Billy Valega Freeman, OKC, OK;

5th Row:
Donald Francis Gordon, Chillicothe, MO;
William Olus Greer, Kansas City, MO;
William Edward Greiner, Dallas, TX;
J. D. Hostetter Haley, Bowling Green, MO;
Dominic Hart, Fort Worth, TX;
Jack Monroe Haus, St. Louis, MO;
John Jacob Helfrich, Wichita, KS;
James Shackelford Herring, Glasgow, Mo;
Daniel Robert Hopkins, Topeka, KS;

Bottom Row:
Lyle Edward Jones, Slater, Mo;
Wilbur Lincoln Kent, Caruthersville, MO;
Henry Floyd Kinyon, West Plains, MO;
Edwin Newton Kittrell, Tyler, TX;
Sturat Bateman Lambert, Lesingon, OK;
Carl Emil Lauer, Port Arthur, TX;
Walter Carey McClelland, Des Moines, IA;
Bob Lee McGill, Alva, OK;
George Walker Macpherson, Joplin, MO.
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Kemper Military School - Class of 1938 & 1939

Here is more of the Class of 1938 & 1939 (Mehew to Wyche & Adams to Bell, NE, respectively)

Top Row:
Fred Mehew, Kingfisher, OK;
Max Earl Meyer, Alliance, NE;
Harold Frederick Monson, St. Joseph, MO;
Robert Max Montagomery, Clay Center, KS:
Lester Taylor Mooney, Norman, OK;
Homer Gail Moore, Benton, IL;
Brady Lee Mootz, Gallipolis, OH;
Carl Edwin Morgan, Jasper, TX;
Russell Dale Mott, Des Moines, IA;

2nd Row:
Warren Harding Newton, Kansas City, MO;
Charles Joey Nitz, West Point, NE;
Ruskin Curry Norman, Ava, MO;
Edward Kellerman Owen, Lebanon, MO;
James Ward Owen, Lebanon, MO;
Joseph Asa Phelps, Clinton, IL;
James William Porter, Festus, MO;
Akbert Byron Potter, OKC, OK;
Joe Davis Powell, Kansas City, MO

3rd Row:
Roy Sylvester Randerson, OKC, OK;
Ed Dickens Reynolds, Dallas, TX;
James Dean Rickman, Wichita, KS;
Claude Elmo Riley, Wichita Falls, TX;
John Howard Roberts, Dodge City, KS;
Herbert Robinowitz, Rosenberg, TX;
William Edward Samuel, Tyler, TX;
Randolph Eugene Schmidt, Boonville, MO;
Earl Spiker Schofield, Belleville, IL

4th Row:
Fred William Schroeder, Abilene, TX;
Frank Garver Searcy, Webster Groves, MO;
LeRo Arnold Skinner, Webb City, MO;
Elliott Wilcoxson Smith, Fayette, MO;
George Allen Smith, Fayette, MO;
George Aflred Smith, Kansas City, MO;
Henry Douglas Smith, Amarillo, TX;
Robert Nelson Smith, Fort Scott, KS;
Thomas Burbank Soddy, Calumet, MI

5th Row:
Joseph Ray Southwell, OKC, OK;
William Sanford Steffen, Sheridan, WY;
Frank Joseph Storm, Amarillo, TX;
Ephriam Brevard Walker, Mobile, Ala;
Jack Harold Walker, Sprindale, Ark;
Earl Alexander Wells, Henryetta, OK;
Kenneth fRancis Webley, St. Louis, MO;
John Livingston Werner, Mount Vernon, IL;
Aylmer M. Wyche, Benton, LA;

Bottom Row:
Jim Val Adams, OKC, OK;
Jim Turman Alston, Bogalusa, LA:
Philip Ryder Anwyl, Valley Junction, IA;
John Vernard Ash, Bastrop, TX;
Benjamin Rush Barns, Columbia, MO;
Rex Parker Barrett, Columbia, MO;
Arthur Murray Beardsley, Cape Girardeau, MO;
Harry Charles Beaumont, Decatur, IL;
Ned Emmons Bell, York, NE
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1937 Kemper Yellowjacket Grid Squad Championship Team

In 1937 the yellowjacket Grid Squad of Kemper Military School were Champions of the Missouri Junior College Conference. They were also known as the "A" Company Intramural Grid Champs.

At that time there was a principal unit in Kemper's $50,000.00 improvement program which included stadium, football, field and track, complete with modern detail of design of construction in 1937-38 school year.
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December 1926 - Frisco Western Division

According to The Frisco Employes' Magazine, page 50, December, 1926, the Transportation Department, Western Division - Enid, written by Cambell and Campbell, reporters, were reporting on the Western Division for the towns along the Western Division of the Frisco Line.

Campbell and Campbell reported, "L. H. Harshey, draftsman on the western, has been appointed roadster on the central division, stationed at Hugo, Okla. Good luck, Lew.

"H. V. Yerby (Squeegee) comes from Ft. Smith to thee western division as 'transition' in the division engineers' office. Fel sure he will like the western."

A Sad Tale

Campbell & Campbell go on in the article to say, "This is dedicated to radio fans on this division and I must say we have lots of 'em:

"Here lies the remains of a radio fan, who is mourned by his many relations; he filled his gas tank while smoking hi pipe, and was picked up by twenty-one stations.

"On November 1 two Frisco veterans in the interest of 'The Small Town Advancement Society,' of which they constitute the official body, made a trip over the Avard sub-division. While the real purpose of their trip and their accomplishments have not yet been given to the public, it is known that they made a thorough investigation of social and business conditions with the object in view of writing an appropriate slogan for each town.

Their efforts were as follows:
* If you've a girl and gonna marry 'er, Remember livin's low in Carrier.

* 'Twill pay all men to move to Goltry, Who love to look on fairer poultry.

* Fair Helena needs no boostin', she's always on the top aroostin'.

* If you marry, don't be silly, but build a love nest at McWillie.

* If you would make a fortune farmin', success awaits all men at Carmen.

* The bathing beauties of Dacoma lead all the rest in Oklahoma.

* Hopeton, hope of all the hopeless -- Wineless, womanless, and dopeless.

There was an note to Mr Editor at the end of the piece that read, "The official body decline to submit their slogan for Avard, stating as their reason that Avard is on the main line of the Santa Fe while only on a Frisco branch line. Moreover, the literary merit of the Avard slogan is so far ahead of that of the others that its publication would be an injustice to the Frisco Lines. As a substitute slogan, they give the following cryptic words:

* Avard: Where we stayed over night and had breakfast.
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Whittet Family Origin & Connections

Rowland Whittet, email: whittet@midcoast.com says, " So far as I can tell all Whittets originate either in Scotland or England. The earliest in Scotland seem to go back to Dundee on the Firth of Tay east of Perth c. 1500 but not long after that. -- whittet family txt file. They are in Kintillo and Kin fauns and elsewhere around Perth and Lord Greys estate.

"There is a Whittets Ait on the Thames in Londown, a Whittet drive leading to the Glenmoray scotch distillery and a passage about Whittets as an establishment in an Old English poem.

"My ancestors were married on board ship as they embarked for the New World where they arrived about 1830 making their way to Detroit and later Sarnia in Lambton County, Ontario where they were among the founders.

"From there the Whittets spread out to NY, MN, OK, KN, TC, CA, FL, MA, RI... you can get a good idea where by searching for whittet on Google maps.

"Margaret Cross Whittet, born c.1810, wife of William Whittet b. c.1804, whose sister, Jane, died at birth. They were the parents of Rowland Cross Whittet, my g grandfather.

"Margaret was the daughter of Henry Cross who was the forester of Kinfauns.

"Henry Cross married a second wife Ishbel Drummond of Methven in 1807 and died of Typhus in 1824. His surviving children were Henry, Jessica, Margaret, William, Charles, Rowland and George with Jane dying at birth and Belle and Rebecca Dying of the Typhus epidemic that killed their father.

"Rowland Cross, who was a jointer, married Mary McLean, the daughter of John McLean who was living in St Clair.

"Margaret Cross married William Whittet who was the foreman of the farm laborers of the Kinfauns estate. They were married on board the boat that took them to Detroit in 1834. From there they moved to a 100 acre lot in St Clair about a mile from John McLean where they were visited by Rowland Cross who ended up marrying Mary McLean.

Moore Township WHITTET
William Scot FC 56 Farmer b 1805
Margaret Scot FC 51 b 1810
Henry Ont FC 26 Labourer b 1835
William Ont FC 24 Labourer b 1837
Isabella Ont FC 22 b 1839
Jane Ann Ont FC 20 b 1841
Rowland Ont FC 19 Labourer b 1842
Margaret Ont FC 17 b 1843
Jessie Ont FC 15 b 1845
Elizabeth Ont FC 13 b 1847
Charles Ont FC 11 b 1849
Linus Ont FC 8 b 1851
McNIECE, John Albert, married 17 Apr 1872, to Jessie Cross Whittet."
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