2017 Summer Newsletter

President’s Letter The Miniature Art Show of the Heartland Art Guild is going on at the museum right now! It will be open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday thru Saturday. The Reception and Awards Ceremony was held July 15th. from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. A Paola Chamber Coffee is scheduled for Friday July 21st. at 10:00 AM We also have an extensive collection of World War I artifacts and an extensive exhibit telling the story of World War I - especially the involve ment of Miami County soldiers. Our new Indian Room is still somewhat of a “work in progress”. Every week something new is being added. Stop in and check it out. Volunteers and new members are always needed. Hope you will come join us.

Colleen Ewan

Library Research The following are walk-in researchers to the library recent ly and surnames or information being researched. Wendi Bevitt (Miami Mission, Fontana area) Bert Shaffer (Hatten, O’Brien, Indianapolis School) Kenneth James (Grewell) Bates County Museum (Ayres court cases)

LIBRARY We received from the family of Joyce Lang quite a li brary of books of the states of Missouri, Kansas, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, North and South Carolina and Kentucky. They represent certain counties in those states. Joyce used these books in doing her family research. Contact us for the complete list. These books are in per fect shape, most are hard back but a few are paperback. It would be great to get them in your library. These books are for sale to intersted persons I would like to say, Joyce was a long time member of the Genealogy Society and for a number of years was the one to put out our Quarterly. She helped us do research in the Library. We definitely missed her when she couldn’t come in anymore. Betty Bendorf, Librarian Alice Joyce Lang 1921-2017 Alice Joyce Lang, 96, Osawatomie, died March 10, 2017, at her home. Service at 1 p.m. today at Eddy-Birchard Funeral Home, 203 Main St., Osawatomie, followed by burial in Osawatomie Cemetery Memorials to Osawatomie First Baptist Church or Osawatomie Senior Center, send c/o Eddy-Birchard Funeral Home, P.O. Box 430, Osawatomie, KS 66064.

Mary Alice Bergfeld (Roberts) John Hinkle (copies of obits) Jim Sutherland (Sutherland Store photos) Don Everhart (Ephraim Bair) Lois Pearce (Bowen)

Richard Jeck (newspapers on film and records on line) Rosalie Brisky Sode (Bucyrus History, Trail of Death)

These researchers came from the states of Kansas, Missouri and Arizona.

TOMORROW IS ANOTHER TOWN The Anatomy of a Circus 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 A great gift. How to purchase on page 22 The Museum has reprints of past Newsletters for sale at #2.00 an issue.

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