Oakie's NW Corner

Vol 5, Iss 18 Alva, Oklahoma -

The wheat is growing and the mares are foaling (if that is the correct term) here in NW Oklahoma. AND.... April has vanished somewhere along with March, February and January. Have you noticed the quilt pastures of wheat, alfalfa scattered about the countryside lately. Things have a beautiful green to them this time of year. I hope it is a great year for the farmers.

Mertha's 100th Birthday

Vol 3, Iss 6 Alva, Oklahoma -

Beside Valentines Day (February 14th), a real Oklahoma pioneer, Mertha, is celebrating her 100th birthday on February 25th. 

Please go see Mertha's Birthday web site Betty has put up for this real pioneer. This 100 year old (young ) friend of Betty's will be celebrating her 100th birthday 25th February 2001, Sunday. The web site is a surprise for Mertha's birthday. 

According to Betty, "Mertha has a remarkable memory. She was born in 1901 in Arkansas and came to Oklahoma in a wagon, to attend The Normal School, which was then a teaching school for teachers. It is now Northeastern State College. She started teaching at a little country school in 1919. [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Alva Winter Storm

Vol 3, Iss 1 Alva, Oklahoma - Congratulations to the OU Sooners for their Orange Bowl victory over Florida State Universary, January 3rd, 2001, with a score of 13 to 2. I'm $5.00s richer when my brother, Lou, sends me my winnings. :-) I will probably use that $5.00 to buy one-cents stamps for my 33-cents stamps I already have. Here come the 34-Cents postage stamps. [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Oakie's NW Corner

Vol 5, Iss 14 Alva, Oklahoma - Things have been busy this Spring week in NW Oklahoma. The mid-70 and 80 degree weather has found this writer out to pasture with digital camera in tow snapping the new colts, momma mares and other country [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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NW Oklahoma Wildflowers

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1937 NSTC Freshmen Class, Alva, Oklahoma

Vol 6, Iss 43 Alva, Oklahoma - About the 1937 NSTC Ranger Annual -- Well! We have the NSTC (Northwestern State Teachers' College) 1937 Ranger Annual scanned and put up on our NW OkieLegacy Webshots.

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NEW Family Member

Vol 5, Iss 14 Alva, Oklahoma -

Precious, playful li'l Valentines Day Pug is Duchess Jade Rose Chang (Duchess), born February 14, 2003. Duchess' father is Emperor Chen Chang and her mother is Chubby Jade-Pik. Click the above picture to see Duchess in the process of rearranging and making her own bed.

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NW OK Marrigage 1942

Vol 5, Iss 6 Alva, Oklahoma - Lockhart-Reccius - 11 June 1950, Hooker, Okla. - Marjorie Lockhart Weds Lloyd Reccius - Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Lockhart are announcing the marriage of their daughter, Marjorie, to Lloyd Reccius, son of the Rev. and Mrs. A. W. Reccius, Hooker, Rev. Reccius read the nuptial vows for the couple in the First Baptist church in Hooker at 4 p.m. June 11, before immediate families.

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Alva Gets NEW Historical Mural

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July 4, 1928, Alva Drum Corp

Vol 12, Iss 26 Alva, Oklahoma - Coming up next Sunday is the 4th of July 2010. I know that I have showed this July 4th, 1928 Alva Drum corp photo before, but we thought it only appropriate to show what 1928 citizens of Alva and their boys drum corp were doing on July 4th, 1928.

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1950 - Woods County Democrats

Vol 5, Iss 17 Alva, Oklahoma -

I believe this photo was taken in the early 1950s in the Courtroom of the Old Courthouse. The New Courthouse was built around 1956 or later.

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Alva Courthouse 1906

Vol 5, Iss 4 Alva, Oklahoma - 1906 - The Olds Woods County Courthouse on the Courthouse Square. Construction of this eighty-two by fifty-two foot building was completed in 1904 at a cost of sixty-thousand dollars.

Main Floor - housed the offices of the County Clerk, County Treasurer, County Sheriff, County School Superintendent, and Register of Deeds.

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1926 Castle On The Hill - The Ranger Yearbook

Vol 6, Iss 38 Alva, Oklahoma - Fronia sent me three Northwestern State Teachers' College yearbooks dated 1926, 1937 & 1938 to scan and share with you all [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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US Land Office

Vol 5, Iss 8 Alva, Oklahoma -

December 18, 1893 [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Woods County Courthouse Fountain

Vol 12, Iss 30 Alva, Oklahoma - We did a quick search back through all the information that the "OkieLegacy" has gathered over the last eleven or twelve years and put up on our Woods County pages. We had completely forgot about the fountain story with the 2x4 lumber pressed into thewrought iron fence spikes around the fountain on the west side of the square.

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Alva Lad - Roy Dunn - World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion

Vol 6, Iss 35 Alva, Oklahoma - "Watching the Olympics this evening brought back memories of Roy Dunn of Alva. Roy was father to Bruce and Blake, both attended Washington elementary before the family moved to Colorado sometime in the mid-50's.    My father and Roy were friends and we attended several matches in Wichita, this was during the time professional wrestling was legitimate. Anyway, back to Roy.  Roy Dunn participated in the 1936 Olympics in freestyle wrestling but did not medal.  He wrestled professionally and was crowned World Champ by the National Wrestling Alliance.  Roy retired in 48, but came out of retirement in 49, wrestling until 53.

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Ghostly Glowing Tombstone & Flashing Red Light

Vol 6, Iss 43 Alva, Oklahoma - "I don't know if this is still a teenage tradition or not, but when I was school-aged and living in Alva -- after dark, we used to watch for the eerie lights of the cemetery [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Uncle Bob's Marriages

Vol 5, Iss 5 Alva, Oklahoma - In the Vol. IV, Iss. 29 I had Uncle Bob's marriage announcement of his first wife, Helen Louise Soper, that was just another romance during WWII, racing to the altar before they get sent overseas to War. That first marriage of the heart took place 1 June 1944. Uncle Bob and Aunt Helen were divorced 22 June 1948.

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Our Inspiring Climate

Vol 5, Iss 15 Alva, Oklahoma - This little article (Our Inspiring Climate) was printed in The Alva Pioneer Souvenir Edition, January 1904: "The very air of Oklahoma is inspiring [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Gean & Dade Barker Photo

Vol 5, Iss 2 Alva, Oklahoma - "It's a very noble-looking couple and I would love to hang this picture on my wall and claim it as my long-lost Uncle Gean and Wife, but I have never heard of them [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Goldbugs

Vol 6, Iss 38 Alva, Oklahoma - "Several years ago when I was co-sponsoring Student Council at Alva HS, we came across information about other schools with Goldbug mascots [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Alva (OK) Gets New Stop Signs At 7th & Flynn

Vol 12, Iss 24 Alva, Oklahoma - One of our readers sent us pictures of the NEW STOP signs that appeared at the corner of 7th Street and Flynn Avenue, just West of the downtown square in Alva, Woods county, Oklahoma.

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Alva's Runnymeade Renovation

Vol 6, Iss 36 Alva, Oklahoma - "Hey, guess what? On channel 4 - OKC, Gayland talked about the old building being redone in Alva [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Hendrickson & Runnymede Arms Hotel

Vol 6, Iss 38 Alva, Oklahoma - "The Runnymede building was called the Runnymede Arms Hotel in Kansas. When it was moved to Oklahoma Territory in 1893 it was opened as the Hendrickson Hotel. It changed hands several times. In 1912 it became the Rhodes Hotel and in 1918 the Gunn Hotel. Somewhere along the line it became the Runnymede Hotel and that name has stayed with it since." -- Jim Richey [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Company B. Posing in Front of Runnymede

Vol 6, Iss 38 Alva, Oklahoma - "I was looking at the larger view of this picture and trying to make out the building to the right [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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1926 & 1937 Northwestern Yearbooks - Coming Soon to OkieLegacy

Vol 6, Iss 36 Alva, Oklahoma - "I only posted names from the 1938 on the Woods Co message board, but I have a yearbook from 1937 and one from 1926 as well [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Condreay Store

Vol 5, Iss 15 Alva, Oklahoma - "I came across someone who said there used to be a Condreay Store in town (Alva) [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Waters, Pierce Oil Company

Vol 5, Iss 8 Alva, Oklahoma - The Waters, Pierce Oil Company -- According to the Alva Pioneer Souvenir Edition dated 1904, this photo showed three gentlemen associated with this Oil Company located in Alva, Oklahoma Territory [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Hendrickson Hotel - Alva

Vol 6, Iss 37 Alva, Oklahoma - "Was the Runnymede Hotel in Alva, Oklahoma first called the Hendrickson Hotel? -- Posted by Anonymous to View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Alva's Rich Movie Theater History

Vol 5, Iss 2 Alva, Oklahoma - "The Liberty Theater, previously the Grand Opera House, offers talking pictures to Woods County residents for the first time in 1929 [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Duchess Dozing Domain

Vol 12, Iss 30 Alva, Oklahoma - I did not get to see my horse pal, Nugget, but doesn't he look great grazing out at Clark's West Ranch? And what about that little Dun filly, Maggie, and her 2010 filly colt. NW Okie put more photos of her horses along with Clark's Longhorns, on her Facebook photo album.

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Duchess & Oakie's NW Corner

Vol 6, Iss 41 Alva, Oklahoma - The crowds from surrounding communities flocked to Alva last weekend for football and homecoming. The sidewalks of the downtown square in Alva was somewhat packed, but not like it was in the early days.

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Oakie's NW Corner

Vol 5, Iss 17 Alva, Oklahoma -

I am running quite late tonight... later than this Okie would like. As I write this, my Pug puppy is lying in her crate fast asleep. I have made a few changes to her name, though. You see ... when we are outside in the yard she loves to tackle the dandelion flowers and their puff balls. She doesn't eat them. She just picks them as she plows through our dandelion patch... leaving a slight furry residue on her lower puppy dog chin. So.... I changed her name to Duchess Dande-Lion Rose! Duchess is 10 weeks old this Friday weighing in at close to 2 or 3 lbs. A real sweetheart of a puppy.

Duchess & Sadie's Spring Domain

Vol 12, Iss 19 Alva, Oklahoma - We hope all the mothers and grandmothers out there had a great "Mother's Day" this Sunday.

NW Okie received Mother Day roses from an rose bushes via the internet and all the way from northwest Oklahoma. The pink rose bush on the left is an old bush planted by NW Okie's Grandmother Constance Estella (Warwick) McGill sometime back in the late 1940's. It has been blooming, growing ever since! The photo on the right is a closeup of one of those pink roses.

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NW Okie's Ramblings

Vol 12, Iss 29 Alva, Oklahoma - This NW Okie, even being born and raised in Northwest Oklahoma Hot, humid Summers, has gotten so accustomed to the cool rocky mountains of southwest Colorado that she is ready to head back West to the mountains. Duchess is even complaining, panting in this heat.

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1926 Alva Businesses

Vol 6, Iss 39 Alva, Oklahoma - 1926 Alva Businesses - View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

NW OK Marriage 1943-44

Vol 5, Iss 13 Alva, Oklahoma -

Hackett-Jones - Sunday, 5 September 1943, Fort Worth, Texas - Miss Hazel Jane Hackett To Wed Mr. William E. Jones September 5 - Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hacket, 224 College, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Miss Hazel Jane Hackett, to William E. Jones, son of Mrs. Henry Jones of Tulia, Tex., on Sunday, September 5 at the Hemphill Presbyterian church, Fort Worth, Tex. The Rev. J. Hoytt Boles will perform the ceremony.

NW OK Marriages 1942

Vol 5, Iss 4 Alva, Oklahoma -

Smith-Hubbert - Sunday, 1942 - Jeanette Smith and Ford Hubbert Wed In Quiet Ceremony - In a quiet ceremony at 5:30 Sunday afternoon, Miss Jeannette Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Smith, 621 Fifth Street became the bride of Ford Hubbert, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Hubbert, Fargo, Okla. The wedding was held in the home of the bridegroom's parents.

Modern Woodsmen

Vol 5, Iss 18 Alva, Oklahoma - "On the tombstone of Charles Horace Simpson there is a Modern Woodsmen of the world Memorial (what looks like a big tree stump) [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

NWOSU Homecoming 2004

Vol 6, Iss 41 Alva, Oklahoma - It was a sunny, calm, cool Saturday morning when the Rangers, Alumni and surrounding communities marched enmasse while on lookers, young & old, lined the sidewalks around the downtown square, in Alva, Oklahoma, October 2, 2004 [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

April Spring 2003

Vol 5, Iss 15 Alva, Oklahoma -

Duchess laying in the frontyard taking in the scents and relaxing with the chickweeds blooming during the April Spring of 2003 [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

1956 AHS Honors

Vol 5, Iss 3 Alva, Oklahoma - Valedictorian - Martha Newby, who leads the 1956 Alva high school graduating class in scholarship, will give the valedictory address at the senior day program here.

Architectural Blueprints & Photos

Vol 3, Iss 4 Alva, Oklahoma - Dr. Sheila Barnes, assistant professor of education at Northwestern Oklahoma State University , is hoping to find architectural blueprints & photographs of Northwestern's Castle on the Hill building to assist her in a grant project.  Any persons with treasures, blueprints, or photos of the Castle are asked to call Barnes at (580)327-8444.

For those of you who do NOT know,... the Castle on the Hill was the first structure built on the Norhtwestern Normal campus and modeled after a Normal Castle.  Construction of the 3-story building was completed in 1899.  On March 1, 1935, the castle was destroyed by fire. [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

NW OK Marriage 1942

Vol 5, Iss 5 Alva, Oklahoma - Cornish-Behrens - Sunday, 1942, Alva, Okla./a> - Blanche Cornish, John Behrens Vows Read Sunday Afternoon In Alva - Mrs. Pearl Gibson, Alva, announced the marriage of her daughter, Miss Blanche Cornish, to Mr. John Behrens, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Behrens, also of Alva, Sunday afternoon. The vows were exchanged in the home of the bride, which was beautifully decorated with cut flowers. Rev. Ray Vaughan, pastor of the First Christian church, read the vows, at the double ring ceremony.

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1937-38 Student Directory - NSTC

Vol 6, Iss 42 Alva, Oklahoma - View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

NW OK Marriage 1942-43...

Vol 5, Iss 7 Alva, Oklahoma - Julian- Thomas - Wednesday, February, 1942, NYC, NY - Betrothal of Miss Julian Is Announced - Julian-Thomas Wedding Vows Read in Riverside Drive Church - Mr. and Mrs. Dee Julian, Alva, announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Gwendolyn Dee. Julian, to Ensign Howard Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Thomas, Alva, Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Riverside Drive church, New York city, N.Y. The nuptial vows were read by the Rev. C. Leslie Glenn, Navy chaplain of the Prairie State college.

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Roy Dunn's Legend - Lifting Engines

Vol 6, Iss 35 Alva, Oklahoma - "I did some further research and here are the results.  Roy was originally from Harper County, near Buffalo.  Besides Jane Jayroe, from Laverne in Harper County, there was also another famous individual by the name of Mel Harpe who was credited with introducing Knute Rockney to Notre Dame.

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NWOSU's Old Science Hall

Vol 12, Iss 30 Alva, Oklahoma - Northwestern's old Science Hall has seen many changes in its lifetime. It started out as the second building after the Castle on the Hill as built. The only building with any remnants of the towers and crenellations in the design of a castle.

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More Woods County Pioneers

Vol 5, Iss 9 Alva, Oklahoma - View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

1933 - The Old 6 Some Golfers

Vol 12, Iss 27 Alva, Oklahoma - William J. McGill can be spotted in the photo on the left, dated 7 May 1933, entitled "The Old 6 some" Golfers.

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David Cannon Oates

Vol 12, Iss 20 Alva, Oklahoma - David C. Oates came to Woods County with the first settlers, then only a young man, he passed through the struggles of the early days side by side with men who were believers in Alva. He served our country as Sheriff when it was a large county comprising Woods, Alfalfa and Major counties. David Cannon Oates was Under-sheriff - 1895-1898; Woods County Sheriff - 1900-1904; Deputy Warden - 1909-1914.

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Ghostly Spirits of Alva's Old Hospital

Vol 12, Iss 22 Alva, Oklahoma - Alica Hall commented on an earlier feature concerning Ghostly Spirits of Alva's Old Hospital, Vol. 9, Iss. 42 and says, "I have grown up in Alva, and have been to the Museum many many times. Only once did I ever see anything, and it was when I was in 8th grade, back in December of 1996.

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Patriotic and Other Poems

Vol 12, Iss 20 Alva, Oklahoma - Patriotic and Other Poems by - Claud Baird, Alva, Oklahoma, First Volume to Public - 1917. I Love My Country More and More - Click Here to view actual poem.]

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Cummins Family Questions

Vol 6, Iss 35 Alva, Oklahoma - "Hello Duchess! Perhaps your human friend could help us out with some questions we have about Orange Scott Cummins, The Pilgrim Bard, who lived in the Alva, Oklahoma area? My boyfriend is Eric Boyd Cummins and I wonder if there may be a relation between his family and the Orange Scott Cummins family.

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Cummins Family Questions - Reply

Vol 6, Iss 35 Alva, Oklahoma - "I really don't believe there is any connection with Eric's family and Frank's [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Hatfield Park - Alva, Oklahoma

Vol 12, Iss 20 Alva, Oklahoma - There is a Warranty Deed (handwritten, filed in the Woods County Courthouse) dated 20 March 1906 concerning Hatfield Park, Alva, Oklahoma. It reads as follows:

This indenture made this 20th day of March A.D. 1906 between William F. Hatfield and Fannie L. Hatfield, husband and wife of Woods County in the Territory of Oklahoma, of the first part and the City of Alva, an incorporated City of the first class in Woods County Oklahoma Territory of the second part.

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Hi From Las Vegas NV

Vol 6, Iss 38 Alva, Oklahoma - "Linda, I was reading your bio and it seems we are in the same age. I was born in Alva on April 3, '49. The second daughter of  Arthur and Betty Fisher Corbin. I attended Washington elementary school in first grade, then we moved to Las Vegas, NV.

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The Alva Record, September, 1923

Vol 5, Iss 15 Alva, Oklahoma - Militia Forbids Special Session - Representatives Disperse Without Argument at command of Military Authorities [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Duchess Dozing Domain

Vol 12, Iss 29 Alva, Oklahoma - Well! Here Sadie and myself (Duchess) are back in Northwest Oklahoma again. Boy Howdy! Your Oklahoma humidity and Summer heat sure make this Pug pant hard to keep this pug body cool outside. NW Okie will not let me outside for very long. I think I am going to have to drag NW Okie back to the Rocky mountains where I do not pant when I am outside.

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Duchess & Oakie's NW Corner

Vol 6, Iss 39 Alva, Oklahoma - Finally! We have the pages of the Ranger 1926 - Castle on the Hill yearbook scanned and uploaded to our NW OkieLegacy Webshots & Old Albums on okielegacy.net.

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Oakie's NW Corner

Vol 5, Iss 15 Alva, Oklahoma - Besides history breaking Wednesday of this week, I have been busy training, caring for my new Li'l Pug puppy (Duchess) who turned 8 weeks this weekend. It's kind of like taking care of a new born infant. She eats, sleeps, plays and wakes me up about every 3 or 4 hours at night time to go outside and take care of business. We fixed up a dog crate for her sleeping area. She has taken to it quite nicely.

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Duchess & Oakie's NW Corner

Vol 6, Iss 40 Alva, Oklahoma -

They say you can't go home again! Maybe you can! Maybe you can't! Whatever the case may be, things do change. AND... So do you! Nothing ever stays the same. You grow wiser and things seem smaller, older in your hometown. Have you noticed that everyone, including yourself begins to resemble their own parents. AND... there are more vacant business spaces around the square.

Alva Memories

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NW OK - Alva Pioneers

Vol 5, Iss 15 Alva, Oklahoma - Rev. A. Connet -- He was born in Green County, Pennsylvania, Oct. 17, 1834. He was ordained in Southern Indiana, Oct. 20, 1861. He came from near Dwight, Morris county, Kansas, to Alva and preached his first sermon, Sept. 24 (1893), the second Sunday after the opening, in C. W. Hobbie's new store building. He assisted in the collection of funds for the Union church, and with his own hands assisted in its erection. In it he conducted thanksgiving services on Thanksgiving day, 1893. The church was commenced on Monday and the services were held in it on Thursday of the same week. Mr. Connet married at his home one block south of the center of the square, the first couple, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. McIntire, that were married in the county, on Christmas day, 1903. W. F. Hatfield and wife witnessed the ceremony.

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Who Was Claud Baird

Vol 5, Iss 12 Alva, Oklahoma - While digging through some more family treasures, we found this McGill Bros' copy of Patriotic and Other Poems - written, published back in 1917 by Claud Baird. This writer searched through our copy of Woods County History books, but could find nothing on Claud Baird. Does anyone out there know of... or have any information on Baird? [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

NW OK Marriages 1941

Vol 5, Iss 3 Alva, Oklahoma -

Price-Langley - 1941, Abilene, Texas - Engagement Is Announced - Rev. and Mrs. John Price, Coahoma, Texas, wish to announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Patty Jeane, to Fred Langley, son of Dr. and Mrs. M. F. Langley, Alva. The wedding will take place in the First Methodist church of Abilene with Rev. Price reading the ceremony.

NW Okie's Rambling On the Prairie

Vol 12, Iss 30 Alva, Oklahoma - Around mid-week we took a couple of 4x4 ATVs out west to some of our land called the Eagle Chief Ranch to explore and get to some places we could not get to with our Tundra pickup.

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Remembering OkieLegacy Vol. 5

Vol 6, Iss 39 Alva, Oklahoma - Remembering OkieLegacy Vol. 5, Iss. 20 &Iss. 21, -- If you checkout the Mixed Chorus page of the Ranger 1926, you will see a photo of "The Village Cut Ups" - Johnny Brand, Harold Atkinson, Tom Rumsey, Harold Schafer. Didn't the Brand's have Brand's Recreational (or Cigar Store) downtown Alva?

1st Couple Married In M County, Okla. Terr.

Vol 5, Iss 8 Alva, Oklahoma -

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The Old Courthouse

Vol 12, Iss 30 Alva, Oklahoma - Do any of you Northwest Oklahomans remember the Old Woods county courthouse that existed from 1904 to 1957?

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German POW's Castles

Vol 5, Iss 16 Alva, Oklahoma -

Castles were built by German POW's in 1943 and donated by VFW Post 1098, McAlester, Oklahoma [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

http://okielegacy.org/image/Cave.jpg

Vol 6, Iss 50 Alva, Oklahoma - "Is this Alabaster Caverns? Linda Fox (email: echslfox@pldi.net) is from the Gage area. Another lady (Ruth Blackwell, email: oldlockdoc@sbcglobal.net) was going through old photos and trying to figure out who/where/what/why/when.

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The Alva Group - When & Who Are They

Vol 6, Iss 39 Alva, Oklahoma - "We have a portrait of a group of men who we believe lived in or around Alva in the early 1900's.

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NW Okie's Thoughts

Vol 12, Iss 18 Alva, Oklahoma - Someone wrote us this week, "We are not OKIES. They went to Califonia (California) during dust bowl. We are Oklahomans & insulted. signed all Oklahomans"

First of all -- I know it was not signed by ALL Oklahomans, because I know some Oklahomans that do not mind being called an "Okie" and are not insulted by the use of the term.

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The Castle on the Hill

Vol 5, Iss 9 Alva, Oklahoma - View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Haines Store

Vol 5, Iss 16 Alva, Oklahoma - "Several months ago I sent a photo of a town scene, asking if anyone could name the town [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Bricks - Castle on the Hill

Vol 5, Iss 5 Alva, Oklahoma - Larry says, "A gentleman in Reydon, OK and I were recently in a ham radio conversation as I was on my way from Elk City to Alva to see my mother [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Alva High Class of 1960 Reunion - 4 June 2010

Vol 12, Iss 21 Alva, Oklahoma - Bill Beeler, (email: brbeeler@swbell.net) says, "NESCATUNGA ARTS FESTIVAL is Saturday, June 4 on the downtown square of Alva, Oklahoma. The Class of 1960 will be having their class reunion that weekend.

Would like to invite all to stop by our canopy and say hello and visit awhile. Should be fun for all.

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Jack Hayward

Vol 5, Iss 15 Alva, Oklahoma - "Yes, everybody called him Jack. I believe his actual name was John though. I bid on one of his paintings at auction once. It was one he had done of the terrain west of Alva with Hereford cattle in it. We raise Angus here on our farm, but I remember Jack painting such beautiful pictures of the red cattle. The land around Alva is not lush and green, as it is here in the Tallgrass.

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Runnymede Photos

Vol 6, Iss 37 Alva, Oklahoma - "Thanks for stirring up interest in the Runnymede Project in your e-zine [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

1922 Alva Mystery

Vol 5, Iss 18 Alva, Oklahoma - "Hope you are finding the answer to that Alva mystery, because I got another one for you, but no need to bother you with it 'til you get this one solved [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

The Alva Group Photo

Vol 6, Iss 39 Alva, Oklahoma - "Joy Sherman has n old commemorative edition of the Courier which contained the same picture in a 1938 publication. It did not identify the people in the picture, but it did say that the group was the First Grand Jury in Woods County. Because of that statement, I assume that this picture was made in 1907 when “M” County was dissolved and Woods County came into being.

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1st Teachers' Institute In Woods County, 1894

Vol 5, Iss 8 Alva, Oklahoma - Professors Williams, Monroe, and L [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Looking for Ione Hada's Father

Vol 5, Iss 17 Alva, Oklahoma - "My husband is always interested in old Alva history [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Moman Pruiett & Old Opera House Murder

Vol 6, Iss 36 Alva, Oklahoma - View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Sheriff D. C. Oates Daughter's Name?

Vol 6, Iss 37 Alva, Oklahoma - "Hello, I visited the house I lived in on Barnes just recently [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Cover - Oklahoma, The Next Star on the Flag

Vol 6, Iss 43 Alva, Oklahoma - The Oklahoma Book - The Next Star on the Flag -- "I found this book on eBay and did not get the bid for it. The fellow who owned it offered to scan select pages for me, so these are the ones I asked for.

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Downtown Alva

Vol 3, Iss 2 Alva, Oklahoma - Would not swear there were not other Monfort apartments, but there used to be apartments upstairs of most of the two-storied buildings around the square. Above the old Monfort Drug Store, located on the southwest corner of the square, in addition to apartments there were doctor and dentist offices. As I recall, Dr Simon, Dr Shephard, and Dr Ritchey had offices there. Above the Schumacher Drug Store, Hadwiger Law Offices were located. [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe