09.20.05
Posted in History at 6:18 pm by NW Okie
[taken from Renfrew’s Record, dated Friday, August 27, 1920, Alva, Woods Co., Oklahoma] — A tall, 6 foot 2 man, straight as an Indian chief’s arrow, wearing a large white hat, with the top collar button off duty and wearing a broad pistol belt with a big shining buckle, walked into this office smiling Monday evening just as the office force had gone to supper. It was Mr. Dave Harrington, a good-natured gentleman of 54, who spent years on the trail with the cow boys when the wild and wooly west was wide open and in all its unbounded and gilded glory. He left his home near Alva at the tender age of 16 and plunged into the wild life on the plains of the Golden West.
Mr. Harrington spent an hour talking to the writer Monday evening and his recital of his experiences riding the bucking bronchos and keeping from being run over by thousands of cattle on a stampede was highly entertaining, of course. The smile left Mr. Harrison’s (sic) face when he expressed regret that the good old days had faded away and gone forever. The thoroughbred race horse “Prince” died at his farm nearly a year ago; a beautiful sorrel that had outrun every horse that tackled him for a race and he was as intelligent as the average man with “horse sense,” which means to not only be bright but brilliant, to use picturesque phraseology, in connection with some of the world’s most interesting history, that made the cowboys and fast horses.
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Posted in History at 5:54 pm by NW Okie
Some Facts Concerning the Men Chosen by the Democrats for County Offices — [taken from Renfrew’s Record, dated Friday, August 27, 1920, Alva, Woods Co., Oklahoma] — County Treasurer S. L. Walton has been chosen again by the Democrats of Woods county to fill that office for another term. Keeping faultless records of all the money business of the county appertaining is a task almost as difficult as trying to make water run up hill, but it has been accomplished in the most satisfactory manner, to all concerned, by Mr. Walton and his competent deputies. He is a native of Missouri where he spent the first 30 years of his life and where he “showed them” he was a good citizen. He has lived in Oklahoma for 15 years and is a man liked most by those who know him best. Mr. Walton took charge of the office of County Treasurer well equipped with business experience. He had previously taught school for twelve terms in Missouri and Oklahoma and been examiner; he had also served one term as township collector and one as collector in Missouri. The one year as deputy treasurer for D. F. Miller in Woods county and two years under John W. Prigmore added the finishing touches in point of equipment to discharge the responsible duties of the important office well. So the voters of Woods county have said, figuratively speaking: “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.”
County Clerk F. S. Gunn has made one of the best officers Woods County has ever had, according tot he consensus of opinion, and Mr. Gunn is the democratic nominee for re-election to one of the most responsible offices in the county. For 27 years he belonged to that class of men who move the world by producing everything — the farmers, whose prominent position in the world was never fully realized by millions until the great world war proved it to them. Mr. Gunn was hotel manager for fourteen years and was popular as a landlord by a wide range of patron. The records show that he is thoroughly conversant with the plan of keeping the records in the best possible manner and t the entire and perfect satisfaction of every voter in Woods coutny. Mr. Gunn is a member of the Methodist church and of the I.O.O.F.
There is no limit to the prominence a young man can reach if he has ability, ambition and energy and keeps all those essential qualification working all the time and over time, as history has proven, Abe Lincoln is a fair sample of the proposition or suggestion. One of the Democratic nominees for a county office, is L. Z. (Bob) Lasley, who aspires to the office of county attorney and is the Democratic nominee for that office. For eight years this young man has had the determination to become versed in law and by his own and unaided efforts graduated in June from the Law Department of the Oklahoma University.
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Posted in History at 5:42 pm by NW Okie
[taken from Renfrew’s Record, dated Friday, January 23, 1920, Alva, Woods Co., Oklahoma, frontpage article] — At the meeting of the Democratic County Central Committee, Saturday, Dr. G. N. Bilby was elected secretary of the committee to fill the vacancy caused by the death of S. H. Quinlan, a year ago. Dr. Bilby is a sterling democrat and always on the job. He represented the Alva district of Woods County in the constitutional convention before statehood and was chairman of the Woods County Democratic Campaign Committee some years ago. He served in the medical corps of the American army during the war as surgeon on board a troop ship and crossed the Atlantic many times. Secretary Bilby will add strength tot he deliberations of the committee.
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