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Carolyn Niebruegge May Michael L. May 
Vol. 2, Is. 7 Aug.
31, 2012
From the
Editor
Good Tuesday Morning from
Our
“Virginia Kids” will “hit the road” after work today and attempt to get 4 or 5
hours under their belt headed this way.
They are bringing Paige’s cousin Gianna (Mark’s sister’s little girl)
with them so Paige will have someone to play with. Gianna is a year older than Paige, but
they’re both about the same size and literally “joined at the hips.” They get along wonderfully and are much less
trouble when they are together than apart.
Their relationship may center around two things--Paige is the “Alpha
Dog” and Gianna just wants everyone to “be happy.” Whatever, it works! Oh yes, they are also bringing “Lady Belle
Dog” with them. She’s a usual camping
partner--very easy going, has her own portable outdoor pen and roaming
chain. She travels fairly well other
than occasionally “passing a little gas” if she gets excited--sometimes makes
for a less than pleasant “ride.” I’ve
experience her “travel mode” once and can’t recommend it too highly. We’ll run up to
We
so enjoy the outing down here. We have
many friends we’ve made over the years that park around us and come back each
year. It’s just one big “party.” In fact, I’m not even sure we will go to the
race. You must purchase two race tickets
for each RV you park. Four “Good tickets”
would run around $600. Carolyn just
purchased the cheapest tickets possible to get us in. In fact Karen and Mark may leave late Sunday
before the race and head home so they can get Paige rested up a little bit
before starting her “First Grade School Year” on Tuesday. PaPa is just as happy laying on the couch in
the RV and watching the race on TV. That
way, if I get tired, I’ll just take a snooze.
We’ve been coming down here since 2007 and I have yet to go to the race. I just stay at the RV with the babies and one
of the kids or Nana. We’ll just “enjoy the
ride” as long as it lasts.” It’s so
special to be able to spend quality time down here with our immediate and
extended families.
As
we wait to see what Isaac brings us, we keep those in the direct path of the
storm in our prayers. Just praying that
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Content
Contributors for the Week
Jerry
Alford, Class of 1959
Austilene
(Turner) Borum, Class of 1962
Charles
Curtis, Class of 1965
Frances
Herod, Class of 1945
Wayne
Rickerd, Class of 1945
Jim
Whitson, Class of 1957
All
those who sent messages to the Email “Bag”
Thank
you all!
Remembering…
School Memories
As school doesn’t start in
First, let me give you a
list of the items on the Supply List for Paige’s elementary school. Granted these items vary from grade to grade
but are what parents are asked to provide the first day of school for a student
anywhere from kindergarten to 5th grade. 3 x 5 lined index cards, 100 ct.; 1” 3 ring
hard cover binder; 1 ½ “ 3 ring hard cover binder with pockets; backpack (no
wheels); Elmer’s 4 oz. glue; box of tissue; colored pencils, 12 ct.;
composition book; crayons, from 8 to 24 ct.; dry erase markers; glue sticks;
hand sanitizer; highlighter; liquid hand soap--antibacterial; loose leaf paper,
wide ruled 120 ct.; markers, 8 ct. thick; markers, thin/fine tipped, 8 ct.; pens,
black, blue, and red; #2 pencils; pink pearl erasers; plastic 2 pocket folder
with prongs; pocket folders of various colors; paper towels; 12” ruler; round
tip scissors; single subject notebook; spiral notebook, 1 subject; pencil
box/case. Ziploc bags of different sizes.
As I looked at the list, I
tried to remember what we needed when we started school. Yes, I think #2 pencils were on the list as
well as round tipped scissors and erasers.
I remember using a cigar box for a pencil box—in those days they were
fairly easy to find as many of our grandfathers smoked cigars on a regular
basis. I definitely remember the “Big
Chief” ruled tablets that we used as we learned to print. There was no such thing as a backpack and I
never had a book bag of any kind even through college—I remember carrying all
those heavy books across the campus at OSU in my arms and hoping I didn’t drop
one. I think Dry erase markers, glue
sticks, hand sanitizer, etc., were probably a thought in some imaginative
person’s mind when I was in school. I
certainly don’t think they were available in the store. Do you remember what was on the list of
supplies when you were in school? Please
share if you do.
Now, to some other memories
I have of my early school days. When I
was in the third grade, one of the books we read had a story about a Spelling
Bee in an early classroom. The boy
misspelled the word “separate” spelling it “seperate.” The teacher told him to remember that
“separate” had “a rat” in it. As long as
I live, I will never forget this story and I have never misspelled that
word. That is a tip I passed on to both
of our kids and ever so often they remind me of this little tip from that third
grade “reader” almost 60 years ago.
Last week I mentioned that I
didn’t know if they even used “black boards” in the classrooms today. I do remember spending a lot of time at the
“black board” working math problems. I
don’t remember exactly how we did it, but we had competitions to see who was
the fastest with the multiplication tables when I was in the third grade. I guess they don’t do such things today—I’m
not even sure they emphasize the memorization of those addition and subtraction
facts and the multiplication tables like they did when I was in school. Back to the “black board.” I am sure most of you remember that
screeching noise of chalk against the surface.
Chills still run down my back when I think about it. Do you remember the devices the teachers had
that they could put several pieces of chalk in and make lines on the board to
write in? I think that is how they
showed us where we should place our letters as we learned to print and cursive
writing. And speaking of cursive
writing, have you heard that some schools are no longer teaching cursive
writing. Now just how is one going to
learn to sign their name? I know many
things are electronic now but you really do need to be able to sign your name.
Yes, many things have
changed since I was in school—most for the better I am sure. However, I do believe some of the “old” ways
were really good—they certainly worked for me.
I encourage you to share you memories of you school days.
cnm
Thoughts from
the Squirrel Lair
God’s Accuracy
This is awesome! How Great is our
God!!
God’s accuracy may be
observed in the hatching of eggs. For example…
The eggs of the potato bug
hatch in 7 days.
Those of
the canary in 14 days.
Those of
the barnyard hen in 21 days.
The eggs of ducks and geese
hatch in 28 days.
Those of
the mallard in 35 days.
The eggs of the parrot and
the ostrich hatch in 42 days.
Notice they are all
divisible by seven, the number of days in a week!
God’s wisdom is seen in the
making of an elephant. The four legs of
this great beast all bend forward in the same direction. No other quadruped is so made. God planned that this animal would have a
huge body, too large to live on two legs.
For this reason He gave it four fulcrums so that it can rise from the
ground easily.
The horse rises from the
ground on its two front legs first. A
cow rises from the ground with its two hind legs first. How wise the Lord is in all His works of
creation!
God’s wisdom is revealed in
His arrangement of sections and segments, as well as in the number of grains.
Each watermelon has an even
number of stripes on the rind.
Each orange has an even
number of segments.
Each ear of corn has an even
number of rows.
Each stalk of what has an
even number of grains.
Every bunch of bananas has
on its lowest row an even number of bananas and each row decreases by one, so
that one row has an even number and the next row an odd number.
The waves of the sea roll in
one shore twenty-six to the minute to all kinds of weather.
All grains are found in even
numbers on the stalks, and the Lord specified thirty fold, sixty fold, hundred fold all even numbers.
God has caused the flowers
to blossom at certain specified times during the day. Linnaeus, the botanist, once said that if he
had a conservatory containing the right kind of soil, moisture, and
temperature, he could tell the time of day or night by the flowers that were
open and those that were closed.
The lives of each of you may
be ordered by the Lord in a beautiful way for His glory, if you will only
entrust Him with your life. If you try
to regulate your own life, it will only be a mess and a failure. Only the One Who made the brain and the heart
can successfully guide them to a profitable end.
Hope you find this as
fascinating as I did. May God bless you
in ways you never even dreamed.
The Bible
When you carry the bible,
Satan has a headache; when you open it, he collapses; when he sees you reading
it, he loses his strength; and when you stand on the Word of god Satan can’t
hurt you! When you are about to send
this to others, the devil will probably try to discourage you, but do it
anyway.
Life without God is like an
unsharpened pencil—it has no point.
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A Finger Print
This is amazing and really
makes one a believer.
Turn on the sound, run in full screen (left click the little box at the
lower right of the You Tube screen).
Alumni Website
We have renewed the account that Wanda
Jackson had set up at the photo sharing website, picturetrail.com for the
Roosevelt Alumni: http://www.picturetrail.com/rooseveltalumni. She had posted many pictures from past
reunions, class panels, and old schools buildings along with write ups about
them. We thought you might find these
interesting if you haven’t visited this site in the past.
Cooperton Valley Picture Trail
At the request of
Editor’s note:
Again this week, “
Interesting
Tidbits
Beauty and the Beak
This is an incredible and
amazing story.
Turn on the sound. Click on the white box in the lower right
corner of the video. Click on the
picture to start the video. Enjoy.
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1928 Car Repair Mailer
This is a very interesting
ad from days long ago. How different are
ads of today in both content and costs.
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t833112/
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Ed Brown’s Auto Shop
Ed Brown’s Auto Shop near
http://kithannecarclub.com/brown/brown2.html
News
Genealogical
Society Meeting September 11, 2012
The
Kiowa County Genealogical Society will meet at 7 p.m., Tuesday, September 11 in
the Jake Slaner Room in the Jane Phelan library,
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Tommy and
Karen Denton Celebrate 50th Wedding Anniversary
The
children and grandchildren of Tommy and Karen hosted a reception on August 19th
in the Fellowship Hall of the
Karen
and Tommy were married on August 19th, 1962, at the
Karen
sent the following message to us which we want to share.
“Our
son Mark and his wonderful wife Jan, and all our grandchildren did a great job
with the reception for our 50th.
Our oldest son Kyle passed away 2 years ago in Oct. with a very rare
cancer so the celebration was a little bitter sweet. There were about 100 friends and family that
attended. Tommy and I are very blessed
to have all our family living close.
They all worked very hard to make this a special time for us. Can’t believe it has been 50 years, but in
reality we have been together since I was 13 lol. I can still hear Dad as he walked me down the
aisle the day we married, ‘It’s not too late to change your mind’ but I am so
blessed to have Tommy as my husband and best friend. We have been blessed with 5 beautiful
granddaughters and 1 handsome grandson.
Our oldest granddaughter Calli and husband
Ryan made us great grandparents last year with a beautiful girl, Lakyn Kylee (after our son Kyle).
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Firestorm 2012
The Southern Kiowa Chamber
and the Snyder FFA Chapter sponsored a Spaghetti Dinner on Sunday, August 26,
with donations going to support the Snyder,
The Chamber met on Monday
night, August 27, and gave each department a check for $7400 from the donations. More donations are continuing to come in so
additional checks will be issued at a later date.
The following is a link to a
news cast from KSWO TV about the dinner.
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Southern Kiowa
Chamber Meeting
The next Chamber meeting of the Southern Kiowa
Chamber is Sept. 6 at 6:30 p.m. at the Pizza Express. We will start planning the upcoming Christmas
event in December. If you would like to
help with this event, we welcome you to the meeting. We have had questions about membership--Individual
$10.00 and Business $30.00
Birthdays and
Anniversaries
We
have compiled all of the birthday and anniversary information we could from
Wanda’s files. We are sure we are
missing some. Please send us the
birthdays and anniversaries for your family and friends so that we can have as
complete as list as possible. We are
going to start with what we have from Wanda’s files so if we miss you, please
send us the information so we have it for the news next year. In addition, should any of the birthdays we
list be wrong, also please let us know.
Happy Birthday
To:
September 1 – George Farrar,
Class of 1969
September 1 – Tonya Burton
September 1 – Jan (Perkins) Sullins, Class of 1969
September 3 – Jennifer Moore,
Class of 1968
September 4 – Billie
(Pollard) Boren, Class of 1967
September 5 – Kathlene
Niebruegge, 95 years young
September 6 – Reid Davis,
Class of 1973
Humor
Don’t
Force Your Kids to Pray
At dinner a little boy was forced to lead the family in prayer.
Little Boy: “But I don’t
know how to pray.”
Dad: “Just pray for your
family members, friends and neighbors, the poor, etc.”
Little Boy: “Dear Lord,” he
started. “Thank you for our visitors and
their children, who finished all my cookies and ice cream. Bless them so they won’t come again. Forgive our neighbor’s son, who removed my
sister’s clothes and wrestled with her on her bed. This coming Christmas, please send clothes to
all those poor naked ladies on my daddy’s blackberry and provide shelter for
the homeless men who use mom’s room when daddy is at work. Amen.”
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Seniors Don’t Need Print
I was visiting
my son last night when I asked if I could borrow a newspaper.
"This is the 21st century, he said.
“I don't waste money on newspapers.
Here, you can borrow my iPad."
I can tell you this. That darn fly never knew what hit him.
From the Email
“Bag”
August 23, 2012
All
I can say about your article is from Jackie Gleason How sweet it is. Just saying.
Larry
Phillips, Class of 1964
Political
Fodder
The Fence Test
This is straight forward
country thinking from Jeff Foxworthy.
Think about it.
Which side of the fence are
you on?
If you ever wondered which
side of the fence you sit on, this is a great test!
If a Republican doesn’t like
guns, he doesn’t buy one.
If a Democrat doesn’t like
guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
If a Republican is a
vegetarian, he doesn’t eat meat.
If a Democrat is a
vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.
If a Republican is
homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a Democrat is homosexual,
he demands legislated respect.
If a Republican is
down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
A Democrat wonders who is
going to take care of him.
If a Republican doesn’t like
a talk show host, he switches channels.
Democrats demand that those they don’t like be shut down.
If a Republican is a
non-believer, he doesn’t go to church.
A Democrat non-believer
wants any mention of God and religion silenced.
If a Republican decides he
needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that
provides it.
A Democrat demands that the
rest of us pay for his.
If a Republican reads this,
he’ll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh.
A Democrat will delete it
because he’s “offended.”
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What Did You Have for Dinner Tonight?
The following link is to an
article verifying the purchase of lobster and porterhouse steaks with Food
Stamps. This makes one really question
Food Stamp program as it exists today.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/receipt.asp
Obituaries
Pauline
(Hayslip) Hasty, 79, former
http://www.peoplescooperativefuneralhome.com/obituaries/Pauline-Hasty/#/Obituary
Useful
Links:
Becker
Funeral Home of Snyder, OK
http://www.beckerfuneral.com/?page=snyder
Peoples
Cooperative Funeral
http://www.peoplescooperativefuneralhome.com/
Ray
and Martha’s Funeral Home of Hobart,
http://www.234enterprises.com/Roosevelt%20Cemetery%20Layout.htm
http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/listing/user/rooseveltcemetery
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99397&CScn=roosevelt&CScntry=4&CSst=38
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99399&CScn=Hobart+Rose&CScntry=4&CSst=38
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2246374&CScn=Resurrection&CScntry=4&CSst=38
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99042&CScn=Mountain+Park&CScntry=4&CSst=38
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=98391&CScn=fairlawn&CScntry=4&CSst=38
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