The Old Paint Says...

[Photo: Doquoti, speaking on the right, and Maggie, mooning us on the left.] -- The Old Paint says, "NW Okie has been pre-occupied, while snowed in the Rockies, with writing her first book that will be about the people, pioneers & mysteries of northwest Oklahoma over the last 100 years."

We shall see how far along NW Okie advances by 16 November 2007, Oklahoma's Centennial celebration. If NW Okie does not make it in time for the centennial kick-off, then perhaps a more realistic, alternative date should be set to the occurance of NW Okie's 60th birthday, February 25, 2008. We shall see! Que Sera Sera!

Our week started out with a mid-week snow storm that dumped 2 to 3 inches in the valley of southwest Colorado, south of Bayfield, Tuesday night and into Wednesday. Have you noticed that the Winter this year seems a bit Brrrrr... chilly, colder than last year? We hear Alva, OK has been experiencing 10 degree temperatures and receiving some much needed snow moisture. BUT... Is it timely?

Speaking of timely... It is that time of year for Phil, the Famous Ground Hog, to make his predictions about Winter vs. Spring. As a matter of fact, the first Ground Hog Day was celebrated February 2, 1887 at Gobbler's Knob in Punxutawney, Pennsylvania.

Did Punxutawney Phil (or his rat relatives) make his annual showing in your "neck of the woods" Friday morning, February 2, 2007? Will there be 6 more weeks of Winter? OR ... Will there be a meltdown into Spring?

Over at the Official site of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club Phil Says, "Spring is Right Around the Corner!" Phil's official forecast as read 2/2/07 at 7:28 a.m. at Gobbler's Knob, "El Nino has caused high winds, heavy snow, ice and freezing temperatures in the west. Here in the East with much mild winter weather we have been blessed. Global warming has caused a great debate. This mild winter makes it seem just great. On this Groundhog Day we think of one thing. Will we have winter or will we have spring? On Gobbler's Knob I see NO shadow today. I predict that early spring is on the way."
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148th Co. - Coast Artillery Corp

We need help identifying these young men of the 148th Company of the Coast Artillery Corp (CAC), during WWI. Notice the baseball equipment laying down front of the seated group of men. We really need your help in finding more information about this 148th Co. CAC during WWI era. Can you help us?

Since the photo was amongst some of our grandma's keepsakes, we assume that one of the young men is Robert Lee Warwick. BUT... Alas! We are not sure which one that is, because we have no recollection or photo to compare it with. That is sad!

Is there anyone out there that remembers the Coast Artillery Corp Company & the soldiers that fought in WWI with the Canadian/British forces?

Robert Lee Warwick enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary forces, April 12th, 1917, serving in France.

We know Robert Lee Warwick was with the C.A.C. in 1914 before he joined the Canadian Expeditionary forces. He enlisted at Fort McDowell, California, January 19th, 1914 and furloughed to the western department in Class A reserve, 18 January 1917, Fort Terry, New York. About four months later he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force under the name of "R. Lee Warwick."
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Woods County, Oklahoma Territory (O.T.) - Newspaper Heritage

A few weeks ago we sent off to the Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS) (2401 North Laird Ave., OKC, OK 73105-7914, (405)-521-2491) for a newspaper genealogy report for Woods County, Oklahoma. Several years ago the OHS received a grant from the Library of Congress to do a genealogy of the newspapers across Oklahoma. Most of this Information is a part of that research.

It was set up into eight (8) Linked Groups and Individual Titles (papers). At one time there were both Daily & Weekly newspapers in Alva & Woods County, Oklahoma. Each of the aggressive newspapers taking a different political viewpoint, contributing to the development of Woods County through their articles, editorials while razzing their fellow editors, citizens for their political views.

If you go up to the NWOSU library on the Alva campus, in Alva, Oklahoma, you can browse over 8000 Alva newspapers that Blanche & Allen Doughty donated during the Summer of 1966 to the Historical Section of Northwestern State College. The newspapers include: Alva Review, Renfrew Record, Alva Record, Alva Daily Record from 1897 to 1941.

Woods County, OK - Newspaper Genealogy

Linked Group 1:

• "Alva Daily News" -Alva, OK, daily paper, March 5, 1908 thru December 31, 1908, was absorbed by "Daily Review Courier," Alva, OK - daily, began in 1908.
• "Morning Times" - Alva, OK, began April 7, 1912 thru November 21, 1914, published by Logan A. Wilhite and edited by Kent Eubanks. Eubanks was co-editor/publisher with Walter Rossin in 1907, at the Alva Courier. In 1908, Eubanks was co-editor/publisher with Harry Bardshaw on The Daily Times. The Morning Times competitor was the Alva Daily Pioneer. The Morning Times front pages were covered mostly with ads with a few leading stories while the inside pages were filled with stories about the community. It carried on a feud with the Alva Pioneer with Dave Woodson as the Morning Times mouth piece. absorbed by "Daily Review Courier."

Daily Editions:
• "Daily Review Courier" - Alva, OK, daily, began in 1908, publication known as Daily Review Courier from August 25, 1919 thru March 27, 1920.
• "Alva Daily Pioneer" - began June 24, 1901, published from July 25, 1903 thru April 9, 1906. [SEE Link Group 2]
• "Daily Alva Review Courier" - Alva, OK, daily, March 29, 1920 thru January 17, 1925.
• "Daily Review Courier" - Alva, OK, daily, January 21, 1925 thru April 22, 1929. September, 1929, merged with "Alva Review-Courier."
• "Alva Review Courier" - Alva, OK, daily, April 23, 1929 thru June 4, 1989. October 1, 1985, the "Review Courier" used a 6-column format, standard advertising unit (SAU).
• "Alva Review-Courier & Woods County News" - Alva, OK, daily, June 7, 1989 thru December 13, 1989. July, 1986, it changed from evening to morning paper, published Tuesday through Friday with a Sunday edition.
• "Alva Review-Courier (ARC)" - Alva, OK, daily, December 17, 1989 thru present. Absorbed "Alva Advocate"; Absorbed "Newsgram (June 5, 1985). ARC has provided news coverage for northwest Oklahoma for over 115 years.

Weekly Editions:
• "Alva Courier" - Alva, OK, weekly, began in 1896 (The First 100 Years of Alva, Oklahoma states it dates back to January 21, 1897); publication dates January 13, 1899 thru January 23, 1903.
• "Alva Weekly Courier" - Alva, OK, weekly, January 30, 1903 thru January 24, 1908; merged with the "Alva Review" January 31, 1908, into "Alva Review Courier."
• "Alva Courier Weekly" - Alva, OK, weekly, January 31, 1908; merged with "Alva Review" into "Alva Review Courier."
• "Alva Review" - Alva, OK, weekly, July 7, 1894 thru February 6, 1908
• "Alva Review Courier" - Alva, OK, weekly edition, published February 13, 1908 thru December 31, 1914, ceased publication.
• "Alva Weekly News" - Alva, OK, merged with "Dacoma Herald"
• "Dacoma Herald" - Dacoma, OK, merged with "Alva Weekly News" into "Woods County News"
• "Woods County News" - Alva, OK, weekly, June 20, 1968 thru May 25, 1989.

Weekly Editions:
• "Alva Pioneer" - Alva, OK, weekly, September 22, 1893 thru July 9, 1897; merged with "Alva Republican" into "Alva Pioneer Republican." It was the first newspaper in Alva, Woods County, Oklahoma Territory, September, 1893; W. F. Hatfield started gathering news, selling subscriptions with the assistance of Oscar Haberlein who worked at the Kiowa News in Kansas. The "Pioneer" was printed in Hazelton, Kansas, brought to Alva, O.T. and delivered to subscribers for the first 6 weeks. After that it was housed in the second story of the first two-story building (20x40 feet) built by Hatfield, around October, 1893, to house his press. The "Pioneer" was the oldest, daily Democratic paper in Woods County. It was published for 10 years in its two-story location and grew from a weekly to a daily paper. Downstairs below the "Pioneer" printing office was located a restaurant opened by G. W. Drake and his wife from the Hazelton, Kansas area.
• "Alva Republican" - Alva, OK, weekly, purchased February 9, 1894 by James Kelley and J. I. Parcell, the first republican newspaper in Alva, O.T.; publication dates February 23, 1894 thru July 2, 1897; merged with "Alva Pioneer" into "Alva Pioneer Republican."
• "Alva Pioneer Republican" - Alva, OK, weekly, July 16, 1897 thru December 24, 1897.
• "Alva Pioneer" - Alva, OK, weekly, December 31, 1897 thru August 16, 1901.
• "Alva Weekly Pioneer" - Alva, OK, weekly, August 23, 1901 thru August 27, 1909.
• "Alva Pioneer" - Alva, OK, weekly, September 3, 1909 thru July 7, 1911, ceased publication.

Daily Editions:
• "Alva Daily Pioneer" - Alva, OK, began June 24, 1901, publication dates July 25, 1903 thru April 9, 1906.
• "Daily Pioneer" - Alva, OK, daily, January 14, 1911 thru April 30, 1917.
• "Alva Daily Pioneer" - Alva, OK, daily, publication dates April 28, 1917 thru April 23, 1919. Absorbed by "Daily Review Courier" (SEE Linked Group 1).

• "Ames Enterprise" - Hoyle, OK, weekly (Major county), November 15, 1901 thru July 4, 1902.
• "Renfrews Record" - Alva, OK, weekly, July 24, 1902 thru February 25, 1921. Founded by by James P. Renfrew, as a weekly in the five hundred block of Barnes Avenue
• "Alva Record" - Alva, OK, weekly, February 21, 1921 thru February 26, 1931. Allen Doughty bought "Renfrew Record" from Timmons & Finch of Cherokee, Oklahoma and changed it to "Alva Record." In 1930, it was printed as a daily; changing to "Alva Daily Record."
• "Alva Daily Record" - Alva, OK, daily, March 3, 1931 thru December 31, 1940; located in the 600 block of Barnes Avenue. In 1941, Doughty sold the it to Joe McBride and Jim Nance. Nance & McBride bought the "Review-Courier"; merging it with the "Alva Daily Record."
• "Alva Weekly Record" - Alva, OK, weekly, September 19, 1946 thru September 4, 1947.

• "Woods County Enterprise" - Waynoka, OK, November 2, 1900 thru June 6, 1935.
• "Woods County Enterprise & Waynoka News" - Waynoka, OK, June 13, 1935 thru April 12, 1984.
• "Woods County Enterprise" - Waynoka, OK, April 19 thru Present.

• "Woods County Socialist" - Alva, OK, October 29, 1910 thru November 26, 1910.
• "Constructive Socilaist" - Alva, OK, August 2, 1911 thru April 23, 1913.

• "Waynoka Tribune" - Waynoka OK, February 5, 1909 thru February 16, 1912.
• "Waynoka Democrat" - Waynoka, OK, February 22, 1912 thru October 16, 1914.

• "Woods County News" - Augusta, OK, August 5, 1899 thru October 25, 1907.
• "Alfalfa County News" - Carmen, OK, November 1, 1907 thru November 22, 1912. Absorbed by "Carmen Headlight."

• "Dacoma Enterprise" - Dacoma, OK, weekly, may 3, 1912 thru November 9, 1917.
• "Dacoma Mascot" - Dacoma, OK, weekly, November 15, 1917 thru June 24, 1920.

• "Alva Chronicle" - Alva, OK, December 22, 1893 thru August 2, 1895. It was the first paper in Alva, O.T.; The First 100 years of Alva, Oklahoma states that, "L. B. Wilson brought it September 21, 1893 from Crisfield, Kansas; Hatfield purchased the Alva Chronicle and merged it with the Pioneer."
• "Avard Tribune" - Avard, OK, June 2, 1904 thru July 26, 1918.
• "Capron Hustler" - Capron, OK, June 16, 1904 thru May 25, 1916.
• "Dacoma News" - Dacoma, OK, February 19, 1909 thru January 27, 1911.
• "Daily Pioneer" - Alva, OK, January 14, 1911 thru April 30, 1917.
• "Freedom Booster" - Freedom, OK, October 19, 1916 thru May 23, 1918.
• "Freedom Call" - Freedom, OK, May 21, 1906 thru November 26, 1914.
• "Freedom Express" - Freedom, OK, May 21, 1906 thru November 26, 1914.
• "Prohibition Agitator" - Alva, OK, march 21, 1906 thru June 13, 1906.
• "Sun" - Dacoma, OK, October 28, 1904 thru June 2, 1905.

Alva Newspaper Info

"You asked for the early history of newspapers in Alva. That information may be obtained from: Alva, Oklahoma, The First 100 Years 1886 - 1986, By: Seekers of Oklahoma Heritage Association, pp. 44-49, Copyright: Seekers of Oklahoma Heritage Association and Curtis Media Corporation 1987. ISBN 0-88108-075-0. Printed and published in the United States by Curtis Media Corporation, Dallas, Texas.

I can, however, give you some information that goes back 60 or more years and which comes from my own memory or things that my father told me. My father was E. M. Barker, a job printer, columnist and sportswriter, who worked for the Alva Review Courier most of the years between 1924 and 1960.

When I was in high school, the Courier purchased what was supposed to be a large, automatic-feed job press. It was built on the same order of the hand-fed job presses that had been in use for over 60 years at the time, but with one difference: It used a system of vacuum hoses to place the unprinted copy and then remove and stack the printed copy. It never worked very well, and was soon abandoned in favor of the hand-fed press.

To move that press from the loading dock in the alley to the job printing area in the Courier required a system of roller pipes and the muscle work of four men, including me. The pipes were laid onto the floor, the press was worked onto the pipes, and the press was slowly rolled on the pipes through the building by retrieving the trailing pipe and placing it at the front. The process took over an hour.

During the process, my father mentioned that one of his first jobs (which must have been in the mid 1920's) was to help move the job presses from the basement of the Monfort building, up the stairs to the sidewalk level, and then 'walk' them to the then Courier site near the middle of the 600 block of Flynn St., just west of where the Central National Bank is now located. Those presses had belonged to the Alva Pioneer, which, I believe, was the oldest newspaper in town at the time.

Later, when I was in college, I worked for three years as the janitor and circulation manager (I'm still not sure which job was more important.) at the Courier. At that time the Courier also published a weekly newspaper called the Alva Weekly News. It was really nothing more than the Thursday edition of the Courier with a modified front page. It was important, however, because the Thursday edition listed all of the grocery and retail store specials that were to be offered on the weekend, when the rural folk would come to town to do their weekly shopping. Woods County had a large rural population at the time. Many rural customers chose to subscribe to the Alva Weekly rather than the Courier as a matter of economics.

Another newspaper that was in operation in town during my memory was the Woods County News. It was operated by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Estle and was a weekly publication. In the late forties and up through the sixties and part of the 70's, it was located two doors south of the alley north of the Central National Bank.

I can't remember the exact year that the Courier moved to its present location on Choctaw Street, but when it did the Estles purchased all of the Courier's hand-fed presses, paper cutter, linotypes, make-up equipment and the duplex, flat-bed press that had been used to print the Courier. Some years after Mr. Estle died, that building burned down and the Woods County News died with it.

The presses were retrieved and I understood they were to be restored and placed in a newspaper publishing museum somewhere and I certainly wish I knew where. I would like to see those presses and the remaining equipment, for they put a lot of beans on the Barker table when I was growing up.

The Courier, meanwhile, continues to operate in its building on Choctaw, and though I am currently retired I still write a column and sometimes cover athletic events for them. The press used today is a rotary press which is much faster than the old flat-bed press and uses electronically-produced plates that are prepared much faster than the old linotype-and hand-set method. In addition to the Courier, the office also produces a weekly trade paper called the Newsgram. The Newsgram is so successful that it accounts for virtually all of the profit. The Courier is published five days per week and is the smallest daily newspaper in Oklahoma. It is also the fourth (I think) smallest in the nation. They introduced color photographs a few years ago, which is something many larger dailies still haven't done.

When I first began working as a newsboy in the late forties, the Courier published every day except Saturday. The Sunday edition came off in four runs: Front page section, society section, sports section, and advertising and classified section. A comic section was also inserted. It was in color and was shipped in from somewhere. It was the job of the newsboys to insert all of these sections before going out on his route. The paper did not finish running on that slow, old press until 2 or 3 o'clock Sunday morning, which gave the newsboys times to run all over the square until the wee small hours of the morning beginning on Saturday night. That's a whole 'nuther story. Suffice it to say that the police regularly patrolled the alley behind the Courier on Saturday nights." -- Jim Barker
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1st World War Soldiers

"Linda, I don't have any information for Mr. Clark, but maybe your readers can help him." -- Sandie, Waynoka Historical Society

Clark's Email: "As you can see from my email address I live in Wales, UK. I sent an email to another person asking for historical society address's of Counties/Towns/Cities in the state of Oklahoma. One of the town/city/county I have is is Alva.

My enquiry is regarding 1st WW soldiers who came from Oklahoma. I have details on one who came from Alva, his name is MONDY, J.H Pvt. in the Canadian army. I would care to ask if you know about this soldier, and is he entered on any Roll of Honour or town memorial.

My interest is on a non-commercial research and write short stories on soldiers from the USA who served in the British or Commonwealth forces during the 1st World War. If you have any information about this soldier I would be pleased to share with you the small amout that I have. Most Grateful." -- SJ Clark (Mr), Wales, UK - Email: clark_sj@tiscali.co.uk
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List of Oklahoma WWI Soldiers

"Thank you for the response to my email that was forwarded to you on my behalf regarding a particular soldier from the 1st WW who is shown on my list as coming from the state of Oklahoma. I have attached the names of seven soldiers/servicemen that are on my database of approximatly 2000 US citizens who joined the British and Commonwealth forces during the 1st WW, all were KIA. On my database it also list where the individual soldier is buried, mostly in France but some are buried here in the UK.

If any of the information is of interest to you please use any of the details as you deem to be correct, it may be of help to any family members if they are still in the areas named in the report.

1st World War Servicemen K.I.A from the State of OKLAHOMA who served in British and Canadian forces - Commonwealth War Dead 1914-1918:

• FROMENT, Sergeant, LEO, 121802. 69th Bn. Canadian Infantry... Died of pneumonia 3rd July 1920. Son of Telesphore and Regina Froment, of 1425, West Main St., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.A.; husband of Vandella Froment, of Charmy, P.Q. Alternative Commemoration - buried in Quebec City (Notre Dame De Belmont) Cemetery.
• REUSS, Private, H H, 925931. 5th Bn. Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)... 15th August 1917. Age 27. Son of Mr. L. Reuss, of 420, West Mansur Avenue, Guthrie, Oklahoma, U.S.A. XIV. K. 2.
• SANDY, Private, FREDERICK GAYLAND, 3105740. 102nd Bn. Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)... Killed in action 30th September 1918. Age 20. Son of James T.and Ida M. Sandy, of 2601, South Central, Oklahoma, U.S.A. C. 21.
• GUNN, Gunner, FREDERICK CHARLES, 41443. 2nd Bde. Canadian Field Artillery... 30th April 1915. Age 29. Son of Charles and Charlotte I. Gunn, of 506, North Quannah Avenue, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A. II. D. 34.
• GRIFFITH, Corporal, JOHN, 316346. 2nd Bn. Gordon Highlanders... 25th September 1915. Age 28. Son of John Griffith, of Oklahoma, U.S.A.; husband of Mary Ross Griffith, of 116a, George St., Glasgow. Panel 115 to 119.
• MONDY, Private, JAMES HIRAM, 887171. 46th Bn. Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)... Killed in action 30th March 1917. Age 20. Son of E. T. and Ida Mondy, of Paynton, Saskatchewan. Native of Alva, Oklahoma, U.S.A. VI. H. 8.
• TAYLOR, Fireman and Trimmer, GUY HARRY, S.S. "Membland" (West Hartlepool)... Mercantile Marine. Presumed drowned 15th February 1915. Age 26. Son of Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Taylor, of Durant, Oklahoma, U.S.A. Born in Texas, U.S.A.

Warwick Obit In Las Cruces, NM

"There is an obituary in the Las Cruces Sun News for a gentleman by the name of Glenn Carroll Warwick. Don't know if there is any connection to your WARWICK line, but thought you might be interested in seeing this information." -- Marvin Henry - Emails: figment1@comcast.net - nmfigment@yahoo.com
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Weather & Bradley Legacy

"Hi, Linda! Cold here in NE Kansas and supposed to get more-so! Last weekend we had 6+" of snow and it mostly just lay where it fell - Hooray! For next weekend the WX-man is calling for it to not get above mid-teens on Saturday and Sunday week.

I am sending an attachment for you to post if you so choose. This man, Andrew Jackson Bradley, is my great-grandfather. He was a Civil War Veteran and member of the Grand Army of the Republic or GAR. He was a member of the Missouri State Militia, sort of like today's National Guard. As you can see, he was wounded and that wound plagued him the rest of his life. We Bradleys are cousins of the famous General Omar N. Bradley. He and us have a common ancestor - seven generations back for me and four for Omar." -- James Bradley
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OkieLegacy Guestbook

"I enjoyed reading other peoples recollections of their past. It really keeps me searching for information on my family. I am searching for info on the EIS/TURNER families that were in the panhandle area of Oklahoma. My grandfather's name was Elbert (Bert) E. EIS. I have been told he was a Sheriff and U.S Marshall there. I have some documentation regarding these statements. I would really enjoy hearing from someone whom could fill in the blanks. Thank you!" --Mark Lemley - Email: energizer69x2@yahoo.com
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The Rest of the Story

Those Oklahoma Hills... "Yes I remember Dr Youngs Clinic. He was my father's and step mother''s doctor. They both died of heart attacks in the hospital that was a part of the Clinic. I believe that he had a clinic at Freedom, Oklahoma, also." -- Marthesia (Marty) Myers

Youngs Clinic... "Dr. Young''s clinic is the south part of the First Baptist Church here in Alva. For a lot of years, it ws used as their offices. it has been joined to the church and now and may still have offices. I remember Dr. Young and his clinic. He was our family Dr. in the 1950's. I don't know when he left Alva. I do know that he had a clinic and hospital in Freedom, Oklahoma in 1946 because I had my appendix taken out at that hospital that summer. Also stayed 2 weeks in his hospital as that was the practice then when a person had surgery. My mother stayed with me all that time. I am Eva Welch of Alva and my parents were Joel and Eva Glenn." -- Eva M. Welch

Rolling A Memory Around... "I believe it was just south of the First Baptist Church. The substructure of the building may have been incorporated into the church annex. I'm not sure about the latter part, however." -- Edward Lyon

Rolling Memory Around... "Yep Terry, you are right. It was Doctor Young, who was an Osteopathic Doctor, not a Medical Doctor who did the surgery on me. Even today, many Osteopaths aren't allowed to work in some hospitals." -- Floyd Thompson

Perry, OK Gas Prices & Weather... "Gas prices here in the Cleveland, OH area have been bouncing around $1.79 to $2.02 in the past 2 weeks. I'll keep dreaming for those $1.00 a gallon days. It''s been in the 20' and 30's up here with the cold until two days ago and it's been dropping every since. We've had a lot of snow fall in my suburb but the northeast area from Cleveland to Erie PA and about 60 miles south (triangle shape) have been in the 2 feet range. "Lake effect" snow can really pile it up. We had a 50 car pile up on one interstate here. They figured that there were a couple of cars going to fast and couldn't slow down for lane changing cars heading into Cleveland. Therefore, boom, bang, ouch !!!! It's always those few who make it bad for the rest of us. May everyone stay healthy and warm and may Spring come early." -- Genevieve Latza
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Craigville Hotel - Minnesota

"We used to stay at the Craigville Hotel as youngster, back in the late 60s and early 70s, back then there were a couple of shacks, the hotel and a bar, Peggys, I think. Dad used to tell us there was no law up there and anyone could get a drink at the bar. The hotel also served liquor. It was run by a couple, I think last name the Parsons. I got to know a couple of their children. One of the first memories I have is hearing a loud commotion going on after we had gone to bed upstairs. Going down to see what was going on... some native american, laying next to the stove with blood trickling out his mouth. My dad saw me and said the guy had gotten into a fight, was pretty strange for a kid from the cities." -- Email: timmer_d55@yahoo.com
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Oklahoma Hospital for the Insane, Supply, OK

"Hello! I just came across your interesting website, through a search for the Oklahoma Hospital for the Insane in Supply, OK. My gg-grandfather, Robert "Barry" Johnson of Miami, OK/Seneca, MO/Arkansas, was a patient at the hospital in 1912. He likely died there that year or the following.

Thanks so much for the reply, and putting the inquiry into your ezine. Since I wrote you the other night, I've found some info, including a listing I think has to be my ggf's burial place (the hospital cemetery), but no month or day of death. The www.usgennet.org - Woodward county website is where I found this list of persons buried in the cemetery. There are also links to other lists of persons thought to be buried in this cemetery, and a little history on the fort/hospital.

Today, I'm hoping to find time to contact the hospital, currently (?) Western State Psychiatric Center at (580)-766-2311, the FHL in Woodward, and Woodward City Library, just in case any of the old records might have survived. An article I read last night (in "Genealogy" magazine?--was at a bookstore) said probate court records (in the home county) are sometimes helpful in searching for someone committed to an "asylum". I'm not sure if this would have been Ottawa Co., OK, or Newton Co., MO or where, so will start with the above first!

We had no clue what became of my "Mamaw's" father until a 1912 letter from the hospital turned up in family papers. Thanks for your website. I'm sure I'll be referring back to it. Thank you for your time reading this." -- Vicki Cochran - Email: aacmom@yahoo.com
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Prairie Connection - Childhood Stories of Summertime

"Linda, we are getting a good following of readers in the Enid area, thanks to our Prairie Connection news racks at Wal-Mart and Willow Inn Cafe, plus some mail subscribers. We would like to find some folks who would share their childhood stories of summer time with us for our upcoming Spring and Summer issues. Up to 1,200 words. email story to: iread@prairieconnect.com." -- Rosalea Hostetler, Volunteer Editor, Prairie Connection, 121 W. Main, Harper, KS 67058
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Que Sera Sera

"Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) is a popular song written by the Jay Livingston (music) and Ray Evans (lyrics) songwriting team. It was published in 1956 and was featured in Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much (which Hitchcock had previously made in 1934) with Doris Day and James Stewart in the lead roles.

Doris Day's recording of the song for Columbia Records with catalog number 40704 was a hit in both the United States and the United Kingdom. From 1968 to 1973, the theme song for the sitcom, The Doris Day Show.

The song reached the Billboard magazine charts in July, 1956. Listed with the alternate title, Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera). it received the 1956 Academy Award for Best Original Song. It was the third Oscar in this category for Livingston & Evans, who previously won in 1948 and 1950.,br>
The phrase came from a movie called The Barefoot Contessa, where the character Rossano Brazzi's family motto was "Che Sera, Sera." The motto in the film was Italian, but Evans and Livingston switched the "Che" to "Que" because more people spoke Spanish in the USA.

Doris Day was a little reluctant to release it because she felt it was a children's song. In addition, Doris Day's character sang it to herself in a scene from the 1960 film, Please Don't Eat the Daisies." Jerro - New Alexandria, PA)
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Windows Vista? ... Or Not?

Have you checked out CNET.com concerning its "CNET Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor ?" It allows you to check to see if your system meets the Vista requirements and makes recommendations so that you can decide if you want to stick with the OLD Windows XP ... OR ... Jump to the latest from Microsoft. Give it a run and see where you stand.

This NW Okie did it for her PC laptop. It told me that it was Vista Capable, but my bluetooth and smartwi may not work with Vista. AND... I would have to do a "clean" install of the Vista Windows and reinstall all the software that I have added on my PC. I just did that when I upgraded my PC laptop. Not sure that I will jump on the Microsoft Vista bandwagon just yet! I think Windows XP Professional is good for awhile, at least.

Since I have been using Apple's Macbook Pro, I have fallen for the "Mac Windows" over the PC & Microsoft Windows! I never thought I would be a "Mac" person and say this, BUT ... Where would Windows be if it wasn't for the Mac? If you don't jump on Microsoft's bandwagon and are thinking about getting a NEW computer/laptop, I would consider a the Mac with the "intel 2 duo" and "OS X 10.4 Tiger" operating system.
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