Duchess of Weaselskin

Bayfield, Colorado - Check out our digital photo of SW Colorado mountain squirrel, in the photo on the Right, eating in the hanging birdfeeder.

You should see our Sadie Pug go on point to try to shoo the squirrels, ground squirrels and chipmunks from under the tree and keep the squirrels scampering up the tree and out of the feeders for the birds. It is hilarious for a curly-tailed Pug to go on point. It ain't easy to straighten our tail like real bird dogs do. But . . . Sadie does have the footings and pausing down pat.

It is already July and we hear that Northwest Oklahoma's rodeo season is almost here. We (The OkieLegacy) have just gotten our full-page ad sent off to the Freedom Rodeo program this year. We included an old photo taken of the late 1920's in Alva, Oklahoma. You will have to go to Freedom's Biggest Open Rodeo and Old Cowhand Reunion and buy a program to check it out.

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This Day In History (July 10th)

America - On July 10, 1940, during World War II, the 114-day Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces began attacking southern England by air. By late October, Britain managed to repel the Luftwaffe, which suffered heavy losses. Go to article

On July 10, 1943, Arthur Robert Ashe, the tennis star who was the first black man to win a major championship, was born. Following his death on Feb. 6, 1993, his obituary appeared in The Times. Go to obituary

On This Date July 10th. . .

• 1832 President Andrew Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
• 1850 - Vice President Millard Fillmore became president following the death of Zachary Taylor.
• 1890 - Wyoming became the 44th state.
• 1921 - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister of President John F. Kennedy, was born in Brookline, Mass.
• 1943 - U.S. and British forces invaded Sicily during World War II.
• 1951 - Armistice talks aimed at ending the Korean War began at Kaesong.
• 1962 - The Telstar communications satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
• 1964 - The album "A Hard Day's Night" by the Beatles was released.
• 1973 - The Bahamas became independent after three centuries of British colonial rule.
• 1985 - Coca-Cola Co., bowing to pressure from irate customers after the introduction of New Coke, said it would resume selling its old formula.

NW Okie's Ancestry Corner

Bayfield, Colorado - We want to begin by giving a "Shout out" to the Pine Mountain School District and their teacher, Elizabeth Owens! We received an interesting Thank you email from Elizabeth and her class at Pine Mountain School District this week. As I told Elizabeth, "You never know how many lives you touch through this online media."

Elizabeth told me that she and her class used the genealogy resources from our genealogy website for their class genealogy project. They also sent a link to another genealogy resource [People Search: Genealogy Resources] that they thought would be a good addition to our ParisTimes Pioneers Genealogy resource page. It is listed at the top of our "ParisTimes Pioneers" genealogy resource page.

Some of you might have read Carol Wilmeth's Facebook comment where she says, "My parents were both raised in Guymon, Oklahoma. Dad is 93 and Mom passed away in 2002. I like your stories and fell over your website as I was doing research.

Have you heard about Google+ lately. Check out their Circles, Hangouts, Instant uploads to Picasa, Sparks and Huddle. I am still setting up my "Google+ (Plus)" account, So . . . if you get an invite from me, let this be a fore warning!

Google+ ends social networking fatigue. It isn't just another social network. It's the one place to consolidate all of your social activity.

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Jesse J. Dunn - Oklahoma Territory

Oklahoma Territ - Jesse J. Dunn, a Justice of Supreme Court, was born in Illinois into an atmosphere reverberating the debates of Lincoln and Douglas. Jesse's boyhood was spent in Mississippi, near the home of Jefferson Davis. Jesse was educated in Kansas, and shortly after his graduation from the Law Department of the University of Kansas, in 1893, he located in the town of Alva, Oklahoma.

Jesse Dunn shared the trials of the pioneers, and prosperity of those who persisted. Jesse J. dun had a public career as Justice Dunn began as county attorney in Woods county. In 1903, he was elected president of the Oklahoma Bar Association. He was chosen chairman of the Democratic Territorial committee in 1904. The campaign of 1906 for the selection of delegates to the Constitutional Convention was made under Jesse Dunn's management. Jesse J. Dunn was also a Justice of the Supreme Court.

Northwestern Oklahoma State University has one of its buildings named for him. The Jesse Dunn building sets where the "Castle on the Hill" once stood before it burned down in March of 1935, facing North down College Avenue towards downtown Alva, Oklahoma, in Woods county. View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Do You Dance Like When You Were Young?

America - Steve sent us the following bit of advise that he ran across online. Is this true? This was written by an 83-year-old woman to her friend. The last line says it all.

"I'm reading more and dusting less. I'm sitting in the yard and admiring the view without fussing about the weeds in the garden. I'm spending more time with my family and friends and less time working.

"Whenever possible, life should be a pattern of experiences to savor, not to endure. I'm trying to recognize these moments now and cherish them. I'm not "saving" anything; we use our good china and crystal for every special event such as losing a pound, getting the sink unstopped, or the first Amaryllis blossom.

"I wear my good blazer to the market. My theory is if I look prosperous, I can shell out $28.49 for one small bag of groceries. I'm not saving my good perfume for special parties, but wearing it for clerks in the hardware store and tellers at the bank.

"Someday and one of these days are losing their grip on my vocabulary. If it's worth seeing or hearing or doing, I want to see and hear and do it now. I'm not sure what others would've done had they known they wouldn't be here for the tomorrow that we all take for granted. I think they would have called family members and a few close friends. They might have called a few former friends to apologize and mend fences for past squabbles. I like to think they would have gone out for a Chinese dinner or for whatever their favorite food was.

"It's those little things left undone that would make me angry if I knew my hours were limited. Angry because I hadn't written certain letters that I intended to write one of these days. Angry and sorry that I didn't tell my husband and parents often enough how much I truly love them. I'm trying very hard not to put off, hold back, or save anything that would add laughter and luster to our lives. And every morning when I open my eyes, tell myself that it is special.

"People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there. Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance." View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

History of Woods County Oklahoma

Woods County, Oklahoma Territ - According to the The Oklahoma Red book, page 521, the miscellaneous information shows the County Assessor as T. J. Dyer; County Commissioners as L. A. Clinkenbeard, J. E. Patterson and William Barker. the Population in 1907 was 15,5517; 1910 population was 17,567.

Woods County was created on 1893 from the Cherokee Outlet. The County was named for a noted Kansas pioneer, politician and legislator, Samuel N. Wood, who was assassinated two years before the opening of the Cherokee Outlet lands to settlement. Many of his political followers who regarded him as a martyr, settled in Oklahoma, and in preparing the ballot to vote on his name the letter "s" was inadvertently added. The County Seat is Alva.

The history of Woods county was originally county "M" but by the reorganization of it and Woodward county by the constitutional convention, in 1907, the northeastern portion of the original county was made "Alfalfa" county.

A portion was taken from the south half and named Major. The northeastern part with a small portion of old Woodward, retained the original name of Woods, which name was given it in honor of Sam Wood, a lawyer of Kansas. Woods "M" county back then had an area of approximately 1,200 square miles.

The wooded area back then was about 6,500 acres, the hill region 30,000 acres, and the tillable land about 700,000 acres. Agriculture and stock raising were the chief industries. Wheat, corn, alfalfa, hay, forage sorghum, potatoes and cotton are among the products.

A few weeks ago in the local Northwest Oklahoma newspaper we read where the state legislature of Oklahoma was trying to merge the 77 counties of Oklahoma down to half that number so the counties have a population of 20,000 or more. How do some of you Oklahomans feel about that? Good? Bad? Ugly? View/Write Comments (count 3)   |   Receive updates (2 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe