Local Social Notes and Upcoming Club Event
A long column of social visits and gatherings from Concordia notes numerous hosts and guests across town including the Skidmore sisters staying with the Doctor family and a first meeting of the Sorosis Study Club hosted by Mrs. A. D. Paul. The piece also recalls Shawnee County’s first tobacco growing certificate issued to Dave Barber in 1872 and historical hopes for Kansas as a cotton and tobacco producer before wheat and corn became dominant.
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Sorosis Study Club
A. D. Paul
Shawnee County
Dave Barber
South
Kansas
Know Your Kansas Oddities From The American Guide Files
Lawrence Reverend Cordley faced a Quantrill raid in 1863 eluding guerillas by crossing the Kansas River. Fort Scott used Dr Gunn’s Family Physician as a mock Bible in a Free State court. Emporia hosts the first state music festival with ten Kansas high schools. Girard hosts one of the West’s first airplane factories in 1908. Kansas City houses the first Wyandot Methodist mission started by John Stewart in 1843.
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Lawrence
Richard Cordley
Plymouth Congregational Church
Quantrill
Cordley
Kansas River
Plymouth Church
Old Block House
Lawrence G. A. R
Fort Scott
Dr. Gunn
Emporia
Emporia State Teachers
Girard
Kansas
West
The
Aerial Navigation Company of America
Curtis
Kansas City
John Stewart
Sandusky
Ohio
Washington Boulevard
Second Street
Walker Avenue
Seventh Street
Lucy B. Armstrong
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Irena
Pauline Skidmore
R. A. Doctor
Mrs. Thomas Hay, Jr
Jerry
Mrs. Hay
Mrs. C. L. Smith
Jamestown
Ivan Stroud
Belleville
Frank Peterson
Hulda Swyhart
Kenneth Ellis
Mr. Ellis
Shickley, Nebr
Axel Jensen and Son
Tom Ledbetter
Everett
Glen Palmer
Marjorie Skinner
Beulah Anderson
M. C. Linnerson
Ossberg
M. E. McGregor
Axel Hedstrom
Loren
Gustava Ostberg
Ted
Charles Tedrow
Cy *A Forsberg
Eri. C. Lynch
S. W. Moore
Harry McGregor
Mrs
John McGregor
Sunny Circle Club
the Park
Concordia
Gene Olson
Colton, Calif
E. T. Olson
Mrs. Olson
Thelma Larson
Evelyn Rasmuss
Carrol Anderson
J. O. Anderson
F. L. Miller
Dolores
C. G. Cummings
Thomas Hay, Jr
M. E. McGregor and Sons
George Jeandebeur
Roy Reager
Mankato
Richard Loring
Ada Aspegren
Norma
Elaine Hammer
C. A. Brewer
Charles B. McNemar
Topeka
Elmer Olson
Sabetha
Marie Sederlin
Ada Kallman
Georgine Johnson
Helen Brown
Mamie Housholder
E. K. Erickson
George T. Arnold
J. C. Everett
Guy Perry
G. A. Samuelson
Axel Smith
Phil
O. F. Brewer
Elk City
C. O. Johnson
Oscar Byrester
Parry Walker
Bob Brewster
Courtland
Gottfrid Larson
Paul
R. A
Oscar Bergstrom
O. F. Werner
Ted Haney
Abilene
Donald Brownlee
May Meade
Gus Samuelson
Andy Perry
Bertha Fogelberg
Rex Gardner
Clarice Widen
Allan Vannice
Ralph Hawkins
Walter English
Norma Aspegren
Elaine Spring
Melvin Brewer
Concordia High School
Concordia Creamery CO
Irvin Street
Pocketbook OF Knowledge
Cee
America
Rochet- Schneider
Belier
Scandia
Chevrolet
Plymouth
Allnutt Motor Co
Scandia, Kansas
the American Guide
Federal Writers’ Projects
Work Progress Administration
Texaco
Cardwell and Son
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