2017 Spring Newsletter

President’s Le er We have had several volunteers who have been ill or had surgery since our last Quarterly, so it has been a slow me here at the museum. The ones who were available did a marvelous job of keeping things going. We finished the month of February into March with an exhibit honoring Black History. April 16 is the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I. We have approximately 650 military items at the museum and will have a special exhibit of our World War I ar facts on display in April. May will be Alumni me and school items from the early 1900’s un l today will be exhibited. Would love to have you come by and visit or even become a member!

Colleen Ewan

LIBRARY We received a nice large notebook of family history on the Wren and linked families which include Wren, /VUU 4IFSBS +VOH BOE ,PIMFOCFSH ć JT XBT CSPVHIU in by Patricia A. Miller. It is a nice addition to our Families shelf. 4UJMM HPJOH UISPVHI ĕ MFT BOE XFFEJOH PVU VOOFFEFE sheets of papers. It is amazing how things pile up. *O HPJOH UISPVHI UIFTF ĕ MFT XF BSF UIJOLJOH PG XBZT to “put this information to use”. We haven’t published anything for some time and are thinking we need to do

Library Research ć F GPMMPXJOH BSF XBML JO SFTFBSDIFST UP UIF MJCSBSZ recently and surnames or information being re searched. Pam Beets Kermoude (Beets, Shelton, KELLY, Hind, Lyon) John ------(Ellis B. F.) Patricia Miller (Hittle, Beets, Shay, Kern) Queries DANIEL Sharp is looking for obits for Melville Alonzo Landis and Eva G. (Euliss) Landis who lived in Osawatomie. RobinHall is looking for information on Rev. Alfred Perry Johnson who was here in the 1860s. Linda Arnold wants obits for the Padgett family. Jim Welling is looking for any information on George Hoover and wife Mary C. Elliott Hoover Hampton and fam ily who lived at old Miami Mission. Ann Manning wants information on great grandfather An drew John Sundbey who died at the Osawatomie State Hos pital in Feb 1900. Barbara Mulvihill wants information Emma Tunstall who was a patient at Osawatomie State Hospital in early 1900s. ć FTF SFTFBSDIFST DBNF GSPN UIF TUBUFT PG ,BOTBT

something along this line. Betty Bendorf, Librarian

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: Front Desk (1/2 or full day), computer input, arrang ing displays, moving help, grant writers, interviewers, history researchers

TOMORROW IS ANOTHER TOWN ć F "OBUPNZ PG B $JSDVT An autobiography by James R. Patterson A history of the Great Patterson Shows when the circus maintained winter quarters in Paola. Tax included price is $28.00 " HSFBU HJę How to purchase on page 22

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