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Spring Has “Sprung”

Monthly MeetingSaturday - April 8th

7:30 p.m.

Owasso Community Center

301 S Cedar Street

Owasso, OK--------------------------------------------

Board MeetingThursday - April 20th

6:30 p.m.

Corporate Place Bldg.5800 E. Skelly Dr. Tulsa,

OK

North Door-------------------------

“ITTHC 46thAnnual

National Treasure Hunt”

May 27-28

Creek County Fairgrounds

April

Club Motto: Dig For Fun, Restore When Done

Indian Territory

Treasure Hunters Club

Inside this issue:

Club Member

Reminder:Time to secureprize donations

for our hunt in May!

2017

Saturday April 22nd

Are you doing your part to

Finds of the Month 2

Attendance Drawing 3

DUES ARE DUE 3

Have Civil War Ancestors? 3

ITTHC Message Forum 3

Birthdays & Anniversaries 4

Amazon.com 4

Community Service Project 5

Detectorists Code of Ethics 5

History of Metal Detectors 6

ITTHC National Hunt Flyer 7-8

Upcoming Events 9

Calendar of Events

“EARTH DAY”

April Program

& Outing

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Cookie Volunteers

Ken & Linda Fanning

Jim & Jeanie Webb

Thanks for bringing

treats!

Lori Lewis from the BrokenArrow Museum will be

giving the April program.

If an outing is scheduled youwill be notified.

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Check out the“find of the

month”pictures on ourweb site each

monthat:

www.itthc.com

Find of the Month – March Meeting

Remember to bring your finds each month to enter!

CATEGORY PLACE NAME DESCRIPTION

Valuable Coin 1 Bob Cook 1917-S Standing Liberty Quarter

2 John Freeman 1913-D Buffalo Nickle

3 JJ Freeman 1920-D Buffalo Nickle

Oldest Coin 1 John Freeman 1892 V Nickle

2 Bob Cook 1900 V Nickle

3 Shaun Kucera 1901 Barber Quarter

Oldest Cent 1 Delbert Humphries 1865 Indian Head Cent

2 John Freeman 1892 Indian Head Cent

3 Bob Cook 1899 Indian Head Cent

Valuable Cent 1 Jim Nobles 1912-D Wheat Cent

2 John Freeman 1922-D Wheat Cent

3 Shawn Kucera 1912-D Wheat Cent

Relic 1 Shawn Kucera United Confederate Veterans 50 year

2 John Hamilton Native American brass arrowhead

3 Bob Cook Diamond 6-Lever Lock

Jewelry 1 Howie Rosser 925 Silver Claddagh Ring

2 (tie)

2 (tie)

Gary Carnes

John Freeman

14K Ring w/Diamond

Silver Coca Cola Softball Award

3 Juan Ortegon Silver Ring w/Opal

Military Relic 1 (tie)

1 (tie)

John Freeman

JJ Freeman

.45 cal Slanted Breech Sharps Bullet

.45 cal Slanted Breech Sharps Bullet

2 Delbert Humphries Eagle CW Button

3 Cody Reese .53 cal Unknown Carbine

Display 1 Bob Cook

2 John Freeman

3 Howie Rosser

Display Drawing Winner: Howie Rosser

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Want to find out if one of your ancestorsserved in the Civil War?

“Civil War Soldiersand Sailor System”

Civil War Soldiers & Sailors SystemOverview - The Civil War (U.S. National

Park Service)

President: Greg Wicks

Vice President: Roger Eaton

Secretary: Rachel Hayworth

Treasurer: Terry Humphries

Parliamentarian: John Freeman Sr.

Board: Cody Reese

John Hayworth

John Hamilton

Jim Nobles

2017 Officers

Bill Watkins

Remember to

pay your dues

for this year

Only $25/year Remember that the ITTHC MessageForum is back up and running forposting finds, announcements, andresearch information. Here is the link:

ITTHC Forum

Either click on or highlight and copy thebelow link and paste to the address line of

your browser:

http://www.itthc.com/cgi-bin/bbs62x/

webbbs_config.pl

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Attendance Drawing

ITTHC Message Forum

Attendance Drawing

March 11, 2017 Meeting

Winner

Jim & Ralphetta Dill

Names drawn before the winner

John & Mary Ehmen

You should have been there - you

would have won 10 / $1.00 gold

coins.

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Happy

Birthday

06 Gary Young

08 Shirley Cooper

08 Miranda Young

09 Angell Hayworth

13 Chuck Marcum

15 Howie Rosser

20 Ken Fanning

21 Alneta Mitchell

21 Lee Wierzchowski

27 Shane Curtsinger

26 Jim Bob Shoulders

28 Charles Bohuslavicky

April Birthdays

April Anniversaries

AMAZON.COM

A Big Thank You again to all that have beenpurchasing items from Amazon through theAmazon Associate link on the ITTHCwebsite. With no extra cost to you, you havebeen putting a good amount in the club's AmazonAssociate Account. To find the link just go thethe ITTHC Homepage, scroll down and click onthe Amazon Associate link. You can also link toAmazon through selections in theITTHC "Online Book Store" .

Amazon has things from A to Z forsale. Amazon is not just for books anymore, butyou can still get books, even in digitalform. And if you are buying online anyway,always check at Amazon for their pricing throughthe ITTHC link. Amazon will usually have thebest price on most items and many will have freeshipping.

And if you join Amazon Prime you getunlimited FREE Two Day Shipping and One DayShipping for $3.99 per item on most orders. Andthere are more benefits to being an AmazonPrime member. Just remember to click toAmazon through the link on the ITTHCHomepage before searching for & purchasingyour item and the club will get credit.

Again a Big Thank You to all of you that havealready purchased through the ITTHC Homepagelink to Amazon. Tell all of your friends,relatives, and fellow treasure hunters around thecountry. Below is what the Amazon Associatelink looks like and where it is located on the

ITTHC Homepage:

Prime membership is$99.00

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Community Service Project

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE

APRIL NEEDS LIST

Canned SoupCanned Fruit

Canned VegetablesIndividual, small boxes of

breakfast cerealIndividual juice/fruit drinks

Individual chips/snacks

Bring you donations to the Aprilmeeting and give them to Jody

Hamilton.

Thank you very much for yourdonation.

DETECTORISTS CODE OF ETHICS

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HISTORY OF METAL DETECTORS

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ITTHC National Hunt Info - 2017

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ITTHC National Hunt Info - 2017 (back page)

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April 8: - ITTHC General Meeting -Lori Lewis from the Broken Arrow Museum will be giving the April program.

If an outing is scheduled you will be notified.

April 20: - ITTHC Board MeetingCorporate Place Bldg.

5800 E. Skelly Dr. Tulsa, OK

North Door

6:30 pm

April 29-30: -Three Forks Treasure Hunters Club 30th National

Open Treasure Hunt. http://www.threeforkstreasurehunters.org/

and then click on NATIONAL HUNT.

May 27-28: - ITTHC 46th Annual National Treasure Hunt - Creek

County Fairgrounds.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

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Indian Territory Treasure Hunters Club

P.O. Box 580961

Tulsa, OK 74158-0961

We’re on the web!

www.itthc.com

The ITTHC Treasure News is published by

The Indian Territory Treasure Hunters Club, Inc.

P.O. Box 580961

Tulsa, OK 74158-0961

Editor: Bill Watkins editor@itthc.com

Webmaster: Bob Freeman webmaster@itthc.com

The general meeting of ITTHC is held the second

Saturday of every month at the Owasso Community

Center, 301 South Cedar Street, Owasso, OK

at 7:30 p.m.

VISITORS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME!

Membership dues are: $25.00/year

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