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In order that a written account, intelligible, ac- 
 curate and interesting, may be made, the Session 
 has authorized the election every ten years of a 
 historian, whose transcription of the Sessional 
 events form a record; not taking the place of the 
 minutes, but affording a readable account of our 
 Father's work of the past, and linking with our 
 work at present writing and noting the continuity, 
 both of the conditions and results. Much time has 
 been lost which cannot be replaced. But the Ses- 
 sion has appointed C. A. Hite historian for the 
 present decade, which expires Nov. 7, 1938. 
 
 This leaves the history in line with the Decad- 
 al Past, and a natural plan for the future. The an- 
 niversary program may well be left to the discretion 
 of the Ladies' Aid, only stipulating that the Session 
 — which is the ruling authority — permit nothing to 
 appear throwing doubt upon the Bible as the Word 
 of God. Members of this church only may vote as 
 to historian. In case of the decease or other valid 
 reason, the Session shall declare the post vacant and 
 appoint one to fill out the decade by appointment. 
 No objection shall be made to a second term. 
 
 Few things are more fascinating to the old than 
 the recounting of events of long ago in which they 
 took some part as actors or observers. 
 
 The rising generation sometimes gets a little 
 impatient at the oft repeated tale "of inglorious 
 Miltons," who were not mute by any means. Tradi- 
 
tion, of course, keeps alive for a time the knowledge 
 of many of these events, but the lapse of years, and 
 the final departure of the eye witnesses, gradually 
 envelop the tales with a hazy indistinctness, until 
 they get to be mythical in their outline, and oblivion 
 swallows them up. 
 
 It is well, I think, before the catastrophe occurs, 
 that a knowledge of the deeds, and experiences of 
 our fathers and our friends should be so crystalized 
 in a record that their descendants may know and 
 recognize their debt to these who have gone before, 
 and revere the memory of those into whose labors 
 we have entered. 
 
 I have drawn both upon the sessional records 
 and upon my own memory for much cf the material 
 of this sketch. 
 
 I have been an elder in this church for fifty 
 years, and was a member cf the choir for fifty-five 
 years, and much cf the record is of events which 
 transpired ur.der my own observation. I can imag- 
 ine myself as a weary pilgrim near the end cf his 
 journey. The path has been long and at times diffi- 
 cult, the evil days have ccme and gene, leaving their 
 imprint on him, the clcuds have returned after the 
 rain, they that lock out of the windows are dark- 
 ened. He stands on a slight elevation and looks 
 back at the path he has travelled, shading his eyes 
 with his hand. The soft rays of the setting sun 
 throw a hazy glamour over the view; the shadows 
 are lengthening, the twilight deepens, but he can 
 discern, though perhaps none too clearly, the well- 
 remembered landmarks along the way. There the 
 impetuous temper of boyhood led him into error; 
 there he stumbled, but was helped by a kind friend; 
 
there God's providence tempered the bitter storm 
 of adversity, and comforted him in sorrow. 
 
 These pictures float in my mind, as I look back 
 over most of the 70 yeiars since the organization 
 of this church and doubtless the same pictures are 
 paralelled in the memories of some of the older 
 members here. 
 
 In 1858 the Old School Presbyterians organized 
 a church, being duly authorized to do so by Pales- 
 tine Presbytery. 
 
 There were seventeen charter members, all of 
 whom have been transferred from the church, mili- 
 tant to the church triumphant. 
 
 The only church building in Kansas at that 
 time was the Protestant Methodist, which stood 
 just west of the present Kansas National Bank 
 building. A meeting was called en Saturday, Nov. 
 6, 1858, by the committee appointed by Presbytery; 
 and after a sermen by Rev. Henry Venable, a par- 
 tial organization was effected, and the meeting 
 adjourned till the next day, Sunday, Nov. 7, when, 
 after a sermon by Rev. John A. Steele, the organ- 
 ization was completed. These meetings and sub- 
 sequent services, were held in the Protestant Meth- 
 odist church, until the Presbyterians built their 
 own church some four years later. 
 
 The early records are not full and how reg- 
 ularly services were held, I do not know, nor do I 
 know who preached, except that Rev. Nathaniel 
 Williams and Rev. J. W. Allison were ministers 
 part of the time. Seventeen charter members con- 
 stituted the church when organized. Their names 
 follow: Geo. Brown, Hannah Brown, S. C. Hogue, 
 Martha J. Hogue, Jas. F. Hogue, Samuel Hartzell, 
 
Sarah Hartzell, Cyrus Gocdale, Mrs. C. Goodale, 
 Daniel Shafer, Mrs. M. Shafer, Henry Shafer, Louis 
 Shafer, Henry Bull, Mrs. Mary Shy, Miss Mary 
 Shy and Margaret Barnett, On March 18, 1862, a 
 meeting was held and a building committee appoint- 
 ed consisting of Dr. J. M. Steele, John Y. Allison, 
 Geo. Brown, Thos. Paxton and Dr. Geo. Ringland. 
 This committee was also authorized to select a site. 
 They seem to have worked with ccmmendable zeal 
 for in two weeks they had the site selected and 
 $2,000 subscribed and in another week had the 
 building under contract. The stipulated cost was 
 to be $2,850 and it was to be completed by Dec. 1, 
 1862, but it was not finished until April, 1863. 
 
 The record does not show the exact date of 
 the dedication of the church but it was evidently 
 early in April, 1863. The dedication sermon was 
 preached by Rev. R. A. Mitchell, at that time pas- 
 tor of the Charleston church. Rev. Ellis Howell 
 was present by invitation. 
 
 The bell was mounted on a timber structure 
 near the church, the steeple not being considered 
 strong enough to endure the vibration. The com- 
 mittee soliciting funds to purchase the bell was 
 headed by Miss Matilda Paxton, now [1928] the 
 oldest member of the church. 
 
 The dedication was the first thing I remember 
 of this church and I distinctly remember that I 
 thought the chandelier was the most gorgeous 
 thing I had ever seen. 
 
 The first board of elders were John Y. Allison, 
 Henry Bull, S. C. Hogue and Geo. Brown. On 
 Sept. 9, 1864, the congregation extended a call to 
 Rev. S. B. Taggart as pastor; Mr. Taggart accepted 
 
and commenced his ministry. The salary seeming 
 inadequate, Mr. Taggart supplemented it two years 
 by teaching the public school. I read my first Latin 
 under Mr. Taggart. He was a Princeton graduate, 
 a man of musical ability, and an abounding sense 
 of humor. I think it was his cultivated taste fcr 
 good music which set the pace for the high stand- 
 ard which this church held so long fcr sacred music. 
 Mr. Taggart was pastor for five years, and was 
 succeeded by Rev. Robert Mitchell after a pastorate 
 of 21 years in the Charleston church. 
 
 This brings us to a comparatively modern time 
 fcr Mr. Mitchell's pastorate extended from 1869 to 
 1878. May I here comment brkfly concerning this 
 which I may term the pioneer stage of cur history. 
 This church has been self-supporting from the first; 
 but with the initial cost of the church building and 
 later the manse, with but few members, it was hard 
 sledding. 
 
 Of course I had nc part in the history up to 
 this point, but I knew all these pioneers; they were 
 men and women of like passions with us, they had 
 their faults as we have, but there must have been 
 a substratum of unconquerable faith, a loyal alle- 
 giance to their church, and a firm, unfaltering grip 
 on the tenets of Old School Presbyterianism, which 
 made the term "Calvin ist" no misncmer for them. 
 Some were of exceptional spirituality. Every one 
 knew that Uncle Henry Bull was on the straight 
 road to the celestial city, and he wasn't alone on 
 that road either; but the man who seemed to me to 
 be most indispensable to the church was Dr. Ring- 
 land. Many a time have I talked with him in his 
 office concerning the kingdom, and our hopes for the 
 
future., and on his death bed received his confident 
 assurance that all was well. 
 
 After his death a man remarked to me, "I wish 
 I was as sure of reaching" heaven as I believe Dr. 
 Ringland was." 
 
 But. the pioneers are gone. 
 "Their swords are rust 
 Their bodies dust 
 Their souls are with the Lord we trust." 
 
 We strew flowers upon their memory, we bring' 
 a tardy appreciation of their faithful work; but 
 they need not our commendation. We may forget 
 their work, even their names, but not one of them 
 is forgotten before God. "The Lord knoweth them 
 that are His." The pioneers laid the foundations, 
 the torch falling from their wearied hands has 
 passed on to us. We have entered into their labors. 
 Let us keep the faith. 
 
 The charter members are all gone, a few who 
 participated in the pioneer work, and to whom these 
 reminiscences may bring a gleam of the sunshine 
 of memory over the landscape of long ago, still 
 remain. Mrs. Matilda Kester, who united with this 
 church by letter from the Grandview church April 
 8, 1865, has been a member nearly 64 years. James 
 Bull and Mrs. Candace Shaver date from February, 
 1868. Mrs. Lottie Woodruff from 1872. I brought 
 a letter from the church at Ithaca, N. Y., in 1873, 
 and Mrs. Annie Hite dates from 1876. These six 
 attaining over 50 years' membership in this church. 
 
 The first pastor of this church was Rev. J. W. 
 Allison, son of Elder John Y. Allison. Following 
 him the Rev. Nathaniel Williams was pastor. The 
 sessional records do not give the dates of their min- 
 
istry, but these two served the church from its 
 organization Nov. 7, 1858, until 1864. On Sept. 9, 
 1864, the Rev. S. B. Taggart commenced his min- 
 istry which continued five years. During his incum- 
 bency the manse was built, located on what is now 
 known as the late George B. Nay property. Fol- 
 lowing Mr. Taggart, Rev. Robert A. Mitchell served 
 the church as pastor for about nine years. He was 
 preeminently a doctrinal preacher. Of Scotch- 
 Irish descent, quick tempered, uncompromising in 
 his views, accepting Calvinism as implicitly as his 
 Scotch-Irish ancestors ever did. 
 
 I never heard ar.y one doubt the sincerity of 
 Robeit Mitchell, and no one, who could have heard 
 as I did, his prayer at the bedside of his dying son, 
 cculd doubt the grip his faith had upon God. He 
 died in 1887, as he would have wished — in the 
 harness. He preached Sunday and died, after a 
 brief sickness, on Tuesday. 
 
 Following Mr. Mitchell, Rev. James Allison 
 again served the church as pastor until failing eye- 
 sight compelled him to resign. 
 
 He was followed by Rev. John Gerrish, D. D. 
 No more faithful pastor ever served us than Dr. 
 Gerrish. I remember he and Mr. Dillingham, a 
 later pastor, alike in some respects, very dissimilar 
 in others, both of them not only advocated, but 
 rigidly practiced tithing. 
 
 During Dr. Gerrish's pastorate the cabinet 
 organ, which is now in the room upstairs, was pur- 
 chased and was used for many years. 
 
 In the fall of 1883, Rev. W. A. Cutler began 
 his work here and it was just at the beginning that 
 
the fire occurred which burned the block from the 
 Farmers' bank to the blacksmith shop east. 
 
 The pastorates of Revs. Cutler, Orr, Eggert, 
 Black and Finley were marked by no unusual 
 events. To some of us these faithful servants of 
 God spoke words of comfort and sympathy when 
 the future looked dark and forbidding. In the 
 good providence of God they came to us. They 
 labored faithfully with and for us, they spoke 
 words of counsel and exhortation, they fed the 
 flock as God gave them ability and they left us for 
 other fields of labor, we trust still under God's 
 guidance. 
 
 Following Mr. Finley was Mr. Dillingham, who 
 finished his earthly service here. I have always 
 been glad that neither his age nor his increasing 
 infirmities caused his people to suggest his retire- 
 ment. He died as pastor of this church. 
 
 Our next pastor was Mr. Powers, who com- 
 bined a hesitating and somewhat awkward manner 
 with remarkable intellectual powers and aptness to 
 teach. 
 
 Following Mr. Powers, Mr. A. M. Elliott began 
 his work here Sept. 15, 1901, continuing about five 
 years. 
 
 Our next pastor was Rev. W. C. Snider, who 
 commenced his pastorate here Feb. 1, 1906, and 
 continued until July 19, 1910. Mr. Snider pos- 
 sessed the gift of clothing his ideas with an en- 
 trancing imagery, that held and delighted his listen- 
 ers. I recall two of his sermons especially; one en 
 the raising of Lazarus, and the other Elijah under 
 the Juniper tree. I have no doubt but that many 
 of you were thrilled as I was by them. 
 
During Mr. Snider's pastorate this church 
 building was erected, and during this time the 
 church passed through the stormiest period of its 
 existence — but storms pass, as does every thing 
 else on this mundane sphere. 
 
 The new church was built during the summer 
 and fall of 1909 and was dedicated Nov. 28, 1909. 
 The dedicatory sermon was preached by Rev. Willis 
 Craig of McCormick Seminary. An offering of 
 $3,200 was asked for to complete the cost of the 
 church, and $3,600 was pledged. The records do 
 not show the exact cost of the building, but it was 
 in the neighborhood of $18,000. 
 
 The following year the old manse property 
 was sold to George B. Nay, the eld church was 
 torn down and the present manse erected upon the 
 site. 
 
 Following Mr. Snider, Mr. Ross McCown, a 
 student in McCcrmick Seminary, after supplying 
 the pulpit a few times, so endeared himself to the 
 congregation, that we engaged him as pastor, agree- 
 ing to wait for him until he graduated from the 
 seminary. He remained with us rive years and it 
 was during his pastorate that the pipe organ was 
 installed. This was done at a cost of about $2,200, 
 the late Andrew Carnegie donating $1,000. The in- 
 stallation of the organ was held Aug. 23, 1924. 
 The officers of the church sent a special invitation 
 to Mrs. Jess McAdams, who was the originator of 
 the pipe organ fund which had been slowly ac- 
 cumulating for several years. A recital was given 
 by a representative of the Kilgren Organ. Co., con- 
 gratulations by the pastor and special numbers by 
 the choir, which at this time was perhaps at the 
 zenith of its musical ability. 
 
The first choir was organized by Rev. S. B. 
 Taggart, himself a good singer, with Miss Tucker 
 as organist. Anna Steele, soprano; Samantha 
 Owens, alto; Dr. Ringland, tenor; and Milt Wood- 
 ruff, bass. This was in 1865 or '66. Others o? 
 course assisted. In the lapse of time the personnel 
 changed, but the musical ability was of superior 
 order. Later we had Annie McVey, Eda Juntgen, 
 Stella Juntgen, Claude and Lucy Shaver, E. Y. 
 Allison, Mrs. Carrie Allison and Pope Wilhoit and 
 still later Helen Hite, Aurelia Pinnell and Esther 
 Hite. 
 
 The organists for a gc od many years were E. 
 Y. Allison and Eda Steele, but for the last 16 or 17 
 years John Hite has been cur faithful and steady 
 reliance. 
 
 We seem to have fallen on barren times now, 
 but 14 or 15 years ago it was different. How well 
 do I remember the rendition of the "Te Deum" by 
 Dudley Buck with Helen Hite, soprano, Aurelia Pin- 
 nell, alto, Pope Wilhoit, tenor and the rest of us 
 doing our best; and "The Holy City" and "The King 
 of Love My Shepherd Is." Ah, well, we recall 
 those scenes with a sigh, and feel defrauded that 
 the mutaticr.s of time have denied us such enjoy- 
 ment in these later days. 
 
 After Rev. McCown removed to Pontiac, Mr. 
 Pflug was our pastor and following him A. W. 
 Bartholomew. He had served in the great war and 
 had been severely wounded, was in a hospital for 
 nine months, but recovered and resumed his work 
 in the army of the Lord. Following Mr. Barthol- 
 omew was John M. Newman and following Mr. 
 Xewman came Rev. E. W. Kowalsky. 
 
I make perhaps less comment upon the later 
 incumbents of our pulpit than the earlier ones for 
 two reasons, one is that I have already made this 
 sketch too long, and the other is that the view 
 point is too close, making comment difficult. They 
 have all been good men, varying of course in abil- 
 ity and gifts, but sincere servants of our Lord. 
 
 This church has contributed three men to the 
 gospel ministry — Rev. W. F. Ringland, D. D., Rev. 
 Chess Birch and Rev. C. R. Shaver, all of whom 
 have dene able and efficient work in the vineyard 
 of the Lord. And we sent two, Alice and Bertha 
 Ringland, to the African mission field. 
 
 This paper must close; it is of necessity frag- 
 mentary and sketchy. I have mentioned a few 
 incidents while many more will occur to you. 
 
 As we lock back through the lights and shad- 
 ows of long ago and recall the opportunities for 
 service God gave us and the pale ghosts of the sins 
 of omission which sometimes rise to fill our hearts 
 with regret, we pray that Gcd in His infinite grace 
 may forgive and in His infinite power and wisdom 
 avert evil consequence and we turn to the more 
 comforting view of the unvarying adherence of 
 this church to the inerrancy of God's word and her 
 unhesitating faith in the atoning sacrifice of our 
 blessed Lord. 
 
 The early records of the Sunday school have not 
 been preserved, but it seems to me that these notes 
 would be incomplete without some mention of this 
 department of church work. 
 
 I have been an attendant and usually a teacher 
 in the Sunday school for more than sixty years and 
 have noted the great changes in that period. The 
 
pioneers found many obstacles in the way, but an 
 obstacle is something to be overcome and when the 
 mud was deep, the sidewalks invisible, the roads 
 impassable, Presbyterian perseverance forbade any 
 vacation of the Sunday school. Doubtless Mrs. 
 Kester well remembers when she and Anna Steele 
 came five miles through the mud and stayed over 
 night with friends in town rather than miss the 
 classes they were teaching in the Sunday school. 
 
 The first superintendent I remember was 
 James Hcgue. We then had no International lessons 
 with the abundant helps. The music book was a 
 small yellow back edition, words only, but with 
 meter given so that the old reliable hymn tunes 
 would fit. Sometimes a misfit would occur and the 
 words give out before the tune did, but that could 
 be remedied soon. 
 
 Among the earlier superintendents were Dr. 
 Ringland, John CofTman and John Paxton, and 
 among the teachers, Mrs. Alliscn, Mrs. Russell, 
 Aunt Mary Steele, Miss Tillie Paxton and Anna 
 Steele. It was custcmary in those times for the 
 superintendent and the pastor to teach a class in 
 addition to other duties. Doubtless there was fre- 
 quently a limited ability among us — is yet for that 
 matter — but the limits of faith and willingness to 
 work had wide bounds. 
 
 The successors to these pioneers in Sunday 
 school work have been worthy followers of their 
 predecessors and while I cannot go into detail the 
 work still goes on. 
 
 And what shall I more say, for the time would 
 fail me to tell of the faithful services of the offi- 
 cers, the untiring and self-denying labors of the 
 
women, the continuity of the prayer meeting or the 
 prayers offered when none but God can hear. 
 
 The work has been at times strenuous, but for 
 seme of us, the lengthening shadows remind us 
 that the clcse of day is at hand. Our part is nearly 
 done. Other hands must write the future records. 
 We leave the future of this church to our children. 
 They cannot love it more than we have loved it, 
 but we pray Gcd that they may serve it more 
 efreectively than we have been able to do. 
 JUNE 21, 1934 
 
 I have been asked by the Session to add a 
 brief appendix to the above data bringing the 
 sketch up to the present time. The former article 
 was written in 1928, nearly six years ago, and rep- 
 resented the weary pilgrim as looking backward 
 across the Valley of Regret. 
 
 The backward view had its attractions, too. 
 Recognition of God's loving care; answer to peti- 
 tions; the loving care of His children, as his steps 
 begin to falter, but his gaze is not backward now, 
 frcm his position en the Delectable mountains he 
 looks forward. The frosts cf many winters have 
 whitened his hair, his vision has grown dim, his 
 natural force has abated, the friends of his youth 
 have all vanished frcm his sight as they have one 
 by one entered the dark valley. He recognizes 
 that the time cf his departure is at hand. The 
 broken pitcher at the fountain and the broken bear- 
 ings of the wheel at the cistern evidence that they 
 are but the "Coming events which cast their shad- 
 ows befcre." But while the pilgrim's voice is muted 
 and his strength both physical and mental has 
 failed, his faith, the gift cf God, has not failed. 
 
"By grace are ye saved through faith, and not of 
 yourselves: it is the gift of God." Not many of us 
 can say with Paul "I have fought a good fight," 
 but we ought to be able to say "I have kept the 
 faith." 
 
 But faith concerns the future to a large ex- 
 tent. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, 
 the evidence of things not seen." Consequently 
 the Calvanistic doctrine is true if the foundation 
 principle is true, which it is "Quod erat demon- 
 stratum. " 
 
 I think I stated in my former sketch that the 
 church in its inception, order, and belief was Old 
 School Presbyterian, the tenets of which were the 
 acceptance cf the Bible as the inerrant word of 
 God. Any deviation therefrom, even if labeled 
 ''liberal" Is not allowed, for changing the name 
 does not vouch for the accuracy of the doctrine. 
 
 The aged pilgrim resumes his journey, but 
 you will notice that he no longer looks backward 
 but forward, his chart and compass are still the 
 Bible, his ultimate destination the city which has 
 foundations whose builder and maker is God, his 
 glorious hope to fulfill man's chief end, to "glorify 
 God and enjoy him forever." 
 
 The pilgrim no longer looks backward over a 
 more or less misspent life but forward to that 
 mysterious miraculous change when his soul "made 
 perfect in holiness," his mistakes covered, his sins 
 washed away. 
 
 History ripens slowly, and the causes, purpose 
 and veracity of events plucked too soon will be 
 immature and sometimes misleading in their ulti- 
 mate effects. 
 
Rev, Grimes resigned and removed to Palestine, 
 accepting the pastorate of the Palestine church. 
 
 The past six years have changed but little in 
 fact to be recorded. The church has added the 
 ministry of Rev. E. D. Clark, followed by the Rev. 
 C. J. Grimes, our late pastor, who has made a 
 specialty of young people's work — well knowing 
 that when these who have borne the heat and bur- 
 den of the day, nay, are bearing it, have ceased 
 from their labors, the falling torch must be borne 
 by younger hands. 
 
 Detours are freely offered, urged as a pleas- 
 anter road. The Pilgrim sternly rejects any change 
 in chart, saying "I am persuaded that He is able to 
 keep that I have committed to His care against 
 that day." Christian Science, the Oxford Move- 
 ment, Moscow Group Movement, the attempt of 
 the Nazi to graft Christian principles on a Heathen 
 doctrine, are all efforts to make finite judgment 
 cover the infinite decrees. 
 
 Your Historian feels that his work is done. 
 Other hands must take up the work, other pens 
 must record the future events. 
 
 I close the test work of my earthly pen, with a 
 prayer for those who take up the task as it falls 
 from my palsied hand — may you be true to God's 
 Word and faithful to the doctrines of our beloved 
 church. 
 
 C. A. HITE, 
 
 I can only hope that when the mellow notes of 
 "Taps" signal for me they may record, not the 
 conclusion, but rather the limitless vision of God's 
 love. 
 
PRESENT MEMBERSHIP OF PRESBYTERIAN 
 
 CHURCH OF KANSAS, ILLINOIS 
 
 And the Date of Their Reception 
 
 C. A. Kite 1873 
 
 Miss Fannie Brown 1880 
 
 W. 0. Greever 1880 
 
 Mrs. Lucy Neal 1885 
 
 E. R. Hutton 1887 
 
 Mrs. Ella Hutton 1887 
 
 Miss Zenobia Shaver ___.1888 
 
 Miss Ita Briscoe 1888 
 
 Mrs. Estella Tune 1888 
 
 H. S. Juntgen 1888 
 
 Mrs. Margaret Vickrey 1892 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Mason .1893 
 Mrs. Carrie Allison ......1895 
 
 John M. Hite 1895 
 
 Mrs. Esther Wilhoit .. .1895 
 
 Martin Troll 1895 
 
 Miss Edna McDavitt ...1896 
 
 Harold Whidden 1897 
 
 Mrs. Ada Nay 1897 
 
 Mrs. Kate Hite _. 1897 
 
 Mrs. Lelia McMorris „_ 1899 
 
 Mrs. Minnie Owens 1901 
 
 Miss Marie Allison 1904 
 
 Miss Matilda Carey ... .1905 
 
 Frank Neal ._ 1905 
 
 Mrs. Marv E. Honn ... .1906 
 
 Miss Mamie Honn 1906 
 
 Pope Wilhoit __ 1908 
 
 Mrs. Kathryn Wilhoit . 1908 
 
 Mrs. Eva Smiley 1908 
 
 Mrs. Ruth Moody 1908 
 
 Mrs. Pearl McKinnon .1909 
 Mrs. Myrtle Robinson .1913 
 Mrs. Etbel Robinson .1913 
 Mrs. Grace Robinson .1913 
 Mrs. Lou Wilhoit ......1913 
 
 Mrs. Josephine Bull .... 1913 
 
 Floyd Flannery 1914 
 
 Mrs. Floyd Flannery ....1914 
 
 Horton Juntgen 1914 
 
 Ed Wilson 1914 
 
 Harry Covey 1915 
 
 Miss Helen Covey 1915 
 
 Clinton Flannery 1915 
 
 Mrs. H. S. Juntgen 1916 
 
 Donald Neal 1917 
 
 Maurice Neal 1917 
 
 Mrs. Ray Hughes 1917 
 
 Miss Iva Covey 1918 
 
 Anna Wiedenhoffer .....1918 
 Mrs. H. L, Juntgen __1919 
 
 James R. Honn 1921 
 
 Dr. F. B. Weaver 1921 
 
 Mrs. F. B. Weaver 1921 
 
 Mrs. Martin Troll 1922 
 
 Gaillard Parker 1923 
 
 T. S. Wright 1923 
 
 Mrs. T. S. Wright 1923 
 
 Maxine Wright 1923 
 
 Blanche Williscn 1923 
 
 Mrs. Bertha Strader .1923 
 
 Dale Wrierht 1924 
 
 Donald Troll 1924 
 
 Mrs. Marv Smith 1924 
 
 Ira Simpson 1924 
 
 Harrison Simpson ... 1924 
 
 Leatha Molvin ... 1924 
 
 Luther McKinnon .1924 
 
 John M. Tate 1924 
 
 Mrs. John M. Tate _ 1924 
 
 Francis Vickrey 1924 
 
 Harold Vickrey 1924 
 
 W T alter Laughead 1924 
 
 I Mrs. Arilla Limes 1924 
 
Pearl Limes 1924 
 
 Genelle Mocdy 1924 
 
 Martha Moody 1924 
 
 Roy Melvin 1924 
 
 Miss Katherine Hite —.1924 
 Mrs. Clinton Flannery __1924 
 
 Joe Willison 1924 
 
 Crawford Willison 1924 
 
 Margaret Jean Wilhoit 1926 
 
 O. T. Morris 1927 
 
 Mrs. 0. T. Morris 1927 
 
 Mrs. Ella Morris 1927 
 
 Miss Mainietta Smith —1927 
 
 J. Lewis Monticue 1930 
 
 Mrs. Dorothy Monticue 1930 
 
 Kenneth Tate 1930 
 
 Robert Tate Jr. 1930 
 
 Charles Parker 1930 
 
 Hile Morris Jr. 1930 
 
 Robert Morris 1930 
 
 Robert Livingston 1930 
 
 Mrs. Alice Ashmore 1930 
 
 iMrs. Catherine Crews .1933 
 I Mrs. Gaillard Parker ....1933 
 
 Richard Allen 1934 
 
 | Mrs. Richard Allen 1934 
 
 Mrs. Nevada Edman — 1934 
 
 Hayes Hutchins 1934 
 
 | Mrs. Hayes Hutchins —.1934 
 
 I Don Vickrey 1934 
 
 Everett Duensing 1934 
 
 JHelen Duensing 1934 
 
 (Richard Hutchins 1934 
 
 | Betty Hutchins 1934 
 
 [Margaret Allen 1934 
 
 I Max Allen 1934 
 
 | Sally Mitchell Hite 1934 
 
 I Mary Jane Hite 1934 
 
 Charles Moody 1934 
 
 R. L. Galbreath 1934 
 
 Mrs. R. L. Galbreath —1934 
 
 Eugene Galbreath 1934 
 
 Arthur Clark 1934 
 
Journal Print, Kansas, 111.