On the Road To Oklahoma

Finally! I get to go to Oklahoma and see my Bud (Clark)! Yep! NW Okie and this Pugster (that's me, Duchess) will be "on the road" to Oklahoma, Sunday, October 29, 2006, arriving in Oklahoma sometime Monday afternoon. I get a break from Sadie, 'cause she gets to stay and help David take care of the horses while we are away.

We plan on traveling East via Hwy 160 over Wolf Creek Pass, through Colorado; towards Kansas and catching Hwy 50 around LaJunta, CO to Dodge City, Kansas. Then our journey will continue onto Lewis, Kansas to gather some photographs. Particularly, Edwards County, Lewis, Kansas cemetery, etc.

How's your gas prices in your neck of the woods? Our SW Colorado gas prices around Bayfield have been hanging around $2.41.9 for regular unleaded; $2.51.9 premium and $2.61.9 for premium plus. We heard that areas around Roswell, NM saw gas prices at $1.93.9.

Don't forget to set your clocks back an hour tonight as we all Fall back and gain an extra hour this weekend. AND... we find that "All Hallows Eve" is just around the corner, so watchout for the spooks and goblins this coming tuesday evening. Will you "Trick" or "Treat?"

Do NOT FORGET... next week Northwestern Oklahoma State University (NWOSU Ranger's) homecoming gets underway November 2nd, 3rd with the Cinderella Coronation and NWOSU's homecoming parade, Saturday morning (10:00 a.m.), November 4th, around the downtown square of Alva, Oklahoma.

Look for this Pugster and her NW Okie coming to a town near you in northwest Oklahoma for a couple of weeks in November 2006. See you at NWOSU's Homecoming parade!
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NW Okie's Uncle Bob

We are reminded that this July, 1951 photo of Uncle Bob McGill was taken Orizaba Acapulco.

Uncle Bob had undergone some treatments for his lung cancer and they thought that they had conquered it. Bob and Felicia (Monfort) McGill were on a much needed vacation courtesy of Bob's mother (Constance McGill). Felicia and Bob McGill had been married about a year by this time.

These notes of Bob McGill were written in the Winter of 1916 & 1917 by Bob's father, Bill McGill. We discover that Bob McGill turned 5-months old in January, 1917, weighing in at 15-1/2 pounds, 27-inches tall, head and chest both measuring in at 17-inches. Bob was sitting up in his high chair; laughing great big, but only loud once in awhile at something extra.

December 15, 1916, Bob felt his Aunt Lulu McGill's face all over; felt his mama's face a few days before. It was the third week of January, 1917 that saw the first cold week of January.

Jan. 15, 1917 Bob could not get enough to eat so his mama decided to feed him "jersey milk" with sugar and tonic water. Bob seemed to like it very much. Bob's mama (and Bob) were sleeping out on sleeping porch all winter.

On January 25, 1917 the Ranger basketball team returns from their trip to the coast, Professor Wyatt was the coach.

January 27, 1917, Bob's older brother, Gene M. McGill was turning 25 months old.

Going through some of Grandma's treasures, we found this June/July 1938 cruise, Special Student Sailing of 1938, on the ship, S.S. Columbus, souvenir program. The student orchestra/band from Kemper Military School of Boonville, Missouri performed aboard that ship with W. N. Gibbens (leader), P. B. Gentry, W. O. Greer, B. L. "Bob" McGill, F. H. Huddleston. Page two of souvenir program page three of program
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Attitude Is Everything & So Is Patience

One morning during this week, NW Okie was awaken and dragged out of bed by us pugsters for our morning feeding and outing.

NW Okie arose from under the warm covers reluctantly, dressing warmly -- fed us pugs and preceded outside to feed the horses. Only to notice that two horses were waiting nearby for their morning feeding. After looking towards the North, across the fence, NW Okie spotted the third horse, Maggie (a yearling), had crawled through the fence and was on the outside side of the pasture.

The little dunn colored, yearling mare had found a place in the fence to stick her head under the top fencing and managed to venture to the other side of the fence to thicker, semi-green grass. It seems that Maggie was waiting for NW Okie to help her to get back to the other side with the other two horses were waiting to be feed.

With a bucket of feed, NW Okie proceeded to patiently encourage this wayward yearling to step back through the fence.

Finally, after waiting patiently for 15 minutes, Maggie stretched, lifted her front knee forward over the lowered fence -- straddling it for a few seconds before moving her hind quarters through to the other side to eat her bucket of oats/alfalfa/barley.

Yep! Attitude & Patience is everything in gaining the trust, respect of your horses. All this happened on a mid-day, frosty, chilly morning earlier this week in this neck of the woods/mountains of this southwest Colorado valley.
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Organizing Family Treasures

NW Okie has been busy organizing some of her great-grandmother's & grandmother's treasures this week.

We have been sorting the penny postcards, photographs into their own little sterlite containers. In so doing, NW Okie found some other treasures, such as grandma's namecards in a brown, leather holder which had "Jamestown, VA" inscribed on the outside. Do you remember those little namecards that our ancestors used as their calling cards? Most of the names on these namecards we recognized as surnames related to our Warwick, Gwin and Hull ancestors that settled around West Virginia/Virginia area. Here are the links for viewing our grandmother's early day namecards - Grandma's namecards - #1 - Grandma's namecards - #2 - Grandma's namecards - #3 - Grandma's namecards - #4

Another treasure that we found amongst Grandma's treasures was a "1954 Alva (Oklahoma) Southwestern Bell Phone Directory." We haven't gotten it scanned completely... yet! We think we also have a 1938 Alva Phone Directy, also! We will be working on it in the future, though.
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Waynoka Historical Society - Photo Inquiry

"Linda, I hope your readers can shed some light on the attached photograph, which was donated to the Waynoka Historical Society. Three people are identified, with their names on the back of the photo, corresponding to the numbers on the photo:

Wilbur Hayes

"I am looking for information about my Great-grandfather, Wilbur Hayes. I want to know about their lives on a Santa Fe railroad car. I don't know the years or how long they were there. Any information would be much appreciated. Thanks! Actually, they were on the train itself and he supervised guys working on the tracks." -- Deborah Cavitt (Opal Ealey's daugher) - EMAIL: dkcavitt@charter.net
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Warrick, Warwick and Brinkley

Message Board Post: "Searching for info for Mary M. Warrick born in Maryland abt 1867. Her children were Ethel, Natalie, Oscar and Amanda. They could have been all born in Kent County Maryland."
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The Rest of the Story

Oklahoma Gas Prices..."We took a trip to College Station, TX, Wednesday, 11 Oct and returned on Sunday, 15 Oct. We arrived there on Fri, 13th in a hard rain. We arrived back home here in NE Kansas in the rain-having driven in rain from Ardmore, OK, all the way home. We saw gasoline prices from $2.199 down to $1.999. We saw people driving NEW cars like they were tanks on the wet Interstate 35. We attended a reunion at Texas A&M University where your's truly attended graduate school courtesy of the USAF in 1969-70. Saw their band practice. [Incidentally, that band ALWAYS wins half-time, no matter how the football team is doing.] We had a good time, though tired when we got back home. It has been raining all day today here. Sure put a damper on the visit of the real Munchkins to Oztoberfest nearby. Visit their site for information." -- James Bradley

Seiling, Oklahoma... "HI, LELAND, I FEEL VERY LUCKY TO HAVE YOU AS A BROTHER!! WE HAD VERY GOOD PARENTS." -- CAROL BURNS

Lookout & Coy Oklahoma... "All these names bring back the memories of my childhood. I attended Church at the Lookout church and also they had church service in the Coy School. I have one sister buried in the Lookout cemetery. Alfred Bliss husband of Laura Bliss was my cousin. I did go to school with a Kurz girl but my mermory of her first name has left me.I remember Frank and Areline and where they lived If I can find it I will send a picture of the Coy store to put on the Coy/Lookout web shots. I have already sent some pictures of Moundridge school which I attended for 8 years. The Moundridge school was one quarter mile west, one north and one east of the old Lookout store. The Lookout store was moved in later years to the Bliss location." -- Marthesia Knabe Myers

Slow, Lazy Fall Weekend... "Regarding gas prices: I filled up Friday evening in OKC, OK & it was $1.99 at 7/11 - drove to Plano/Dallas, TX & the price of gas there was $1.93 at some stores/pumps." -- Jan
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Alva POW Camps

"I am doing research on POW camps in Oklahoma for a history paper. Alva is my home town, but I was sceptical of the information I would find online about this. Your site has given me a lot to go on. What an interesting site!" -- Charity Kornele-Digby - Email: charity.digby@yahoo.com
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1836 Book - The Life of William Penn

This 1836 little book of "The Life of William Penn" was in our grandmother Constance E. (Warwick) McGill's treasure chest.

William Penn was the settler of Pennsylvania, the founder of Philadelphia, and one of the first law givers in the colonies, now the United States, in 1682. The book contains his celebrated treaty with the indians; purchase of their country; valuable anecdotes of Admiral Penn; Also of King Charles II, King James II, King William, Queen Anne; curious circumstances that led Wm Penn to become a Quaker. A view of the admirable traits in the character of the people called "Friends" or "Quakers." Published by Uriah Hunt, No. 101 Market St., sold by Booksellers throughout the USA, 1836. It was written by M. L. Weems, author of the Life of Washington.

We just got the the front page scanned to give you an idea of what was inside. Flipping through the book, though, we did quickly glance the surname of "WARWICK." BUT... NOW we can't weem to find that page - again. We are in the process of reading this little 1836 book and see what legacies we can derive from it and find that mention of the "WaARWICK" surname.
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Do You Remember - Land of Sandra Dee

"Long ago and far away, in a land that time forgot,
Before the days of Dylan or the dawn of Camelot.
There lived a race of innocents, and they were you and me,
Long ago and far away In the Land of Sandra Dee.

Oh, there was truth and goodness in that land where we were born,
Where navels were for oranges, and Peyton Place was porn.
For Ike was in the White House, and Hoss was on TV,
God was in the heavens, In the Land of Sandra Dee.

We learned to gut a muffler; we washed our hair at dawn,
We spread our crinolines to dry in circles on the lawn.
And they could hear us coming all the way to Tennessee,
All starched and sprayed and rumbling In the Land of Sandra Dee.

We longed for love and romance, and waited for our prince,
And Eddie Fisher married Liz, and no one's seen him since.
We danced to "Little Darlin'," and sang to "Stagger Lee"
We wept for Buddy Holly In the Land of Sandra Dee.

Only girls wore earrings then, and three was one too many,
Only boys wore flat-top cuts, except for Jean McKinney.
And only in our wildest dreams did we expect to see
A boy named George with lipstick In the Land of Sandra Dee.

We fell for Frankie Avalon, Annette was oh, so sweet,
When they made a movie, we liked it see it twice.
We didn't have a Star Trek Five, Or Psycho Two and Three,
Or Rockey-Rambo Twenty In the Land of Sandra Dee.

Miss Kitty had a heart of gold, and Chester had a limp,
Reagan was a Democrat whose co-star was a chimp.
We had a Mr.Wizard, but not a Mr. T,
Oprah couldn't talk yet In the Land of Sandra Dee.

We had our share of heroes; we never thought they'd go,
At least not Bobby Darin, or Marilyn Monroe.
For youth was still eternal, and life was yet to be,
Elvis was forever, In the Land of Sandra Dee.

We'd never seen the rock band that was Grateful to be Dead,
Airplanes weren't named Jefferson, And Zeppelins weren't Led.
Beatles lived in gardens then, And Monkees in a tree,
Madonna was a virgin In the Land of Sandra Dee.

We'd never heard of microwaves, or telephones in cars,
Babies might be bottle-fed, but they weren't grown in jars.
Pumping iron got wrinkles out, and "gay" meant fancy-free,
Dorms were never coed In the Land of Sandra Dee.

We hadn't seen enough jets yet to talk about the lag,
Microchips were what were left at the bottom of the bag.
Hardware was a box of nails, and bytes came from a flea,
Rocket ships were fiction In the Land of Sandra Dee.

Buicks came with portholes, and a sideshow came with freaks,
Bathing suits came big enough to cover both your cheeks.
Coke came just in bottles, and skirts came to the knee,
Alas Castro came to power In the Land of Sandra Dee.

We had no Crest with Fluoride, we had no Hill Street Blues,
We all wore superstructure bras designed by Howard Hughes.
We had no patterned pantyhose or Lipton herbal tea,
Prime-time ads for condoms In the Land of Sandra Dee.

There were no golden arches, no Perriers to chill,
Fish were not called Wanda, and cats were not called Bill.
Middle-aged was thirty-five and old was forty-three,
Ancient referred to our parents In the Land of Sandra Dee.

But all things have a season, or so we've heard them say,
Now instead of Maybelline, we swear by Retin-A.
Today they send us invitations to join AARP,
We've "come a long way baby", from the Land of Sandra Dee.

So now we face a brave new world in slightly larger jeans,
We wonder why they're using smaller print in magazines.
Today we tell our grandchildren the way it used to be,
Long ago and far away In that Land of Sandra Dee." -- Author Unknown
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Kendrick's Grocery of Britton, OK

"I may have the only copy of this rare photo of the interior of the original Kendrick Grocery of Britton, Oklahoma and I've not sent this one to very many folks but thought you might like to see it. Appearing left to right are: my grandmother, Martha Elizabeth (Burdick) Kendrick; my dad, John Chasteen Kendrick; my grandfather, Ernest Chasteen Kendrick (hiding the end of the arm that had the hand removed because of lead-paint poison); unknown, but appears to be Roy Avey (for whom I was named); 2 more unknowns and then; my dad's identical twin brother, William Chester Kendrick. I wish I could read the date on that Buick calendar on the wall. It appears to be the same as a 1928 Perry, Oklahoma Buick calendar in my possession. I do NOT know where in Britton this was located but presume that it was somewhere between Western Avenue and the interurban tracks near the highschool, and probably on Britton Avenue. This would have been taken before mom and dad were married, perhaps before they'd met." -- Roy
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Kemper Military Alum - 1910

"Hello fellow Old Boys of Kemper Military School. If any of you can be of assistance. I have a letter from a KMS Alumni family member. He is interested in find out some information about his Grandfather. If you can be of any help in identifying anyone in the pictures. Please respond to: Eden Weber at the EMAIL: edenweber@aol.com. I can only make out that the pictures appear to have been taken on the A Barracks steps. The staff member and other cadets are unknown." -- Ray, KMS 77-80

Crystal White Soap Token

A Palmolive-Peet Co., Chicago product -- On the front side of this silver-colored token it reads: "Good for two cakes "Crystal White Laundry Soap -- FREE - When you buy three cakes." On the Other Side it reads: "14 dealers: This check will be redeemed at your retail price when conditons on the reverse side have been fulfilled. The Palmolive-Peet Co., Chicago."
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