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EARLY HISTORY IS RECALLEDi!IN NEW ELDRIDGE CEREMONY/Fate of Hiventsof Free State Struggle inKansastTRIGG URGES LANE AND ROBINSON MEMORIALSmmm-mPioneer Citizens Guests of Honor at Cornerstone LayingC.onnellev Tells of FreeState Hotelf;amAnotehr enoch in the historvOXJk Vawrrmce was mark;*ML » *with The laving * f t • •• •• rner stone**£ the New Eldridcre/a few people who had merely come* here to “settle”.not settled as oth- j er states were settled. The men and to] on the j Women who came here in 1855 did,site of the second Eldridge hotel | not come to jump claims; they!came to fight for a cause, They were not seeking land. If that hadbeen their object they could have ■'better land in Illinois and Iowaj andthe Free State re*-! on the same ; Missouri. They meant tr. establish;r iwh: h wa ;dostsixty-two {vears ago ir.* Qiiarrrii: and’Wr. ;• .. •«- -jig ■ • 7-_j*5» •’‘■Vf .‘i-J . ’**'• ’.-v. Praiders o'even v - a r? before thatsite was destroyedb vhorde?, *fians ard San• /lt; . J. J rr •*.homes )u«.w a sthe- establishing cmmhomes* %The ceremony was held in front•Acause.incident* riu a great | In other words theydel ;•c,r the New Eldridge -’Vniding ar.dnot come to Kansas mereU to livethe speakers addressed the crowdplatform swung along thef- a f t. .. w a 13s. V V. ( . .'Simon s w a schairman of trr* 'meeting and after the invocation by Rev. Charles W,Simons\r V -a- . y.; • . * ^ ^ ■**ing for a principal*poII ;-t« r\ CenteredAll the History they made centerThomas student pastor of the Firsted in the Eldridge House', With the{Bapt 1st church, he introduced Mrs. |Mary Eldridge Learnard, daughter Of roi. S. W, Eldridge.tructmn or this odfhVrrv* *11 Uy *made sacred by its service and its. i' ,-1 _ r ,iOther guests of honor were Mrs.t h a tmemories, goes the 1 as1 tie links us with the memory of thB. Front;--s. widow of the woh-ItTi J Vmmknown Dr. S.B.Tentiss, pioneerPny -; ;a*; rf Law r-T.r' ; Mr:-.state.’’And v. hatH. Brooks, whose husband had theKansas, doing tcpreserve any of rNat history?' 'rffirst tore in Lawrence: Mrs. Anna L. Hutson, mother of W. G. Hut-#■ - •. barring perhaps Mcssacn i-setts, is so rich in historic interest$on, owner of the Eldridge hotel:M rs.S.ofas Kansas. .No city more ricn inhistoric interest of a national char-ThemJoseph Savage, well-known early settler; Mrs.' Frank M. Holliday,tvife of Mavbr Holliday,Gardner. T. J. Sweeney, VV. 0. Hutson ard M*.nt J. Green. Mrs. Anna Lane Johnson, daughter of JimLane, was also introduced 'to theaudience. No attempt had beenmade to have all of the old settlersthe platform or toraid' survivors as guests, |on account of lack of room.acter ban Lawrence. Whnfbeing: done to preserve it 7John Brown was not a leader in '1V . . i i . f 1 31 ^ . .7.. * — ; i T—' ‘ fT . - ... .' i.,- . „. r ^ r ' l. W .3_ Sjthe fight for a free stat *. I amnot here to cast any stones at John Brown. He served hi?, pur-pose and his time. But he was not of the men who laid the foundation upon which Kansas waf 11built. He was fighting a 'differ-; 1ent fight. He was not a man ofonhave thOMust Keep Early IdealsIn introducing the first speaker.peace.4 *Thu men who built Kansas fromLawrence fought a peaceful fight ithey won because they were \Mr. Simons socke of the newr • \ '• e • done--* of the A '-Fire Mrright, guns andaThev•': g h twith \cam. -nr They fought |1progress and civic improvement.i v .\ ictorv.fight, andwon a moralHe: 3 *» r v. i :: ■ »v : ’ erial pr* -pursuedg * is d ira if -the COS% r**+ MilaIL- • \ ictorv W r; Won1.: ’c s o fiie Americans boast, some*times, t h a * our government nevern defeated. ‘We've neverwhich moved the fouyrders of the, town, Lawmenee will have lost rather : nan gained in the exchange, j One f the great things ab ut Law-is a popular sioBut the government was ‘licked/— .J T ..... .. .... *! * ? ^ .11 _* iX *
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Lawrence Daily Journal World
Lawrence, Kansas, US
Sat, Aug 22, 1925
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