2017 Fall Newsletter

MINI MINUTES The following are highlights of Director meetings, for your information, and a way to let you (a member) in on the workings of the museum. JUNE Larry reported on repairs needed on the roof flashing damaged in the earlier storm. The roof has been checked and will need attention at a later date. LuAnne passed a sign up sheet for Directors to work in July on Saturdays. Colleen discussed the Chamber of Com merce coffee to honor the WWI exhibit on Friday June 23. The Art Guild is sponsoring the Miniature Art Show again in July. New phones are needed so LuAnne and Coleen are in charge of purchasing them. The air conditioner in the upstairs rental is needing to be replaced. Larry will take care of this. Paul Davis, our upstairs renter, is wanting to televise inter views of MIAMI County people. JULY Larry is getting a bid proposal on the roof flashing hope fully by July 10. A new window conditioner has been pur chased and installed upstairs. Remaining open on Satur days is in question as there is a lack of visitors coming in on Saturday. It was decided to discontinue to be open as the phone number is on the door for anyone to call for an appointment. Jim is checking and accessioning all the Emberlin indian artifacts received for the Indian Display Room. Nina made a motion to accept Ann Roark as a Director, Carried. Betty reported that the family of Joyce Lang has donated some of her research books to the Museum. As most are for other states and we can’t use them, they are available to anyone. Paul Davis of MC TV, our renter upstairs is converting the space into a studio to produce a Miami County TV series. He intends to copy these to DVDs with proceeds coming to the museum. He is asking to be able to install a securi ty system with no expense to the museum. An agreement document needs to be drawn up. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: Front Desk (1/2 or full day), computer input, arrang ing displays, moving help, grant writers, interviewers, history researchers

Queries Sharon ???????? is looking for Sarah Good born 1855 and later a patient at Osawatomie State Hospital David Keal wants a list of teachers and students of the Bucyrus school in 1899. Brian Wagner wants informa tion on the family of Jacob and Susan Wagner. Carrie McCrea needs information on history of her property at 702 W. Amity in Louisburg. Helena Hurst hopes for information on Elizabeth F. Moore Ball, a patient at the State Hospital in the 1890s. Gary Bartlett hopes to find information on Lucina and George W. Covell that are buried in the Spring Grove Quaker Cemetery in Lane, Ks. Carol Seck Grubb wants family information of grand parents Anthony J. and Mary L. Dauwe Seck. Cliff Herod wants Dist. Court records on Elizabeth and Frank Hurd Dave Conklin wants information on family of Josiah Conklin that lived in Osawatomie in the 1870s. Betty Francis is hoping to find information to Francis Willaver who was at the state hospital. Megan Shrub from Finding Your Roots PBS, wanted information on August Knecht for a TV program. Laura Miller wanted to know about abandoned rail road roundhouse and directed her to the Osawatomie Railway Museum. Cynthia Clugston wanted picture of oil well Lykin #1 from the 1860s Craig Bobby is interested in the building of Henry M McLachlin house. Connie Johnson wanted information on the Hudson murders in 1912. Linda Simons wants obit for David E. Maddox and his parents and sister Elizabeth Glassock. Christine Hiller wants obits for David Heenan and Emaline Heiskell (nee Peery These Queries have been researched by Iris Kluber

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