June 23, 1894 - Mayfield Voice
Page 359 - "Mayfield: Then & Now"

Mayfield has been visited by quite a few tramps on their way to join the Coxey Army.

Quite a number of our Mayfield people attended Children's day exercises at Silver Creek.

The Mayfield Voice was published from March 16, 1894, until February 28, 1895.  Subscription price was $1.00 per year in advance, and it was published every Friday by Lyman Naugle. Office of Publication on Washington Avenue,Wellington, Kansas.  Telephone No. 26. 

June 15, 1894 - Corbin News - page 359, Mayfield Then and Now

June 15, 1894 - Corbin News in the Mayfield Voice
Page 359, Mayfield: Then and Now

Charlie, when you go swimming, don't leave your clothes in the wagon unless you tie your team.
("Mayfield: Then and Now" co-author Elaine Clark's note: I'll bet everyone in Corbin - and many in Mayfield - knew Charlie's last name!)

(Sherry's Note: I love old newspapers!  You never know what you'll find when you turn the page, but small-town news often had cute little tidbits like this!)

The Mayfield Voice was published from March 16, 1894, until February 28, 1895.  Subscription price was $1.00 per year in advance, and it was published every Friday by Lyman Naugle. Office of Publication on Washington Avenue,Wellington, Kansas.  Telephone No. 26. 

December 24, `1891 – The Sumner County Standard
Page 358 - "Mayfield: Then & Now"

Mr. Editor, we thought to furnish the many readers of the STANDARD a few facts in reference to the productiveness of Osborn township and vicinity of Mayfield, would not be amiss, and following we will give names of farmers from who we have gathered this information.

Sanford McCormick

50 acres of wheat average yield per acre         27 bu
30 acres oats, average per acre                       50 bu
50 acres corn average yield per acre               40 bu

John Baker
60 acres wheat, average yield                          27 bu
40 acres corn average yield                             35 bu

James Daily
50 acres wheat, average yield                          30 bu
50 acres corn average yield                             35 bu

B. P. Brummett
60 acres wheat, average yield                          25 bu
40 acres corn, average yield                            40 bu
 6 acres oats, average yield                              60 bu

Minor Umau
11 acres wheat, average yield                           32 bu
50 acres corn, average yield                             40 bu

W. J. Nunn
300 acres wheat, average yield                          20 bu
45 acres corn, average yield                              40 bu
60 acres oats, average yield                               40 bu

Goodrum Bros
100 acres wheat, average yield                          27 bu
90 acres corn, average yield                              40 bu
100 acres oats, average yield                             40 bu

John Good
90 acres wheat, average yield                             25 bu
35 acres corn, average yield                               45 bu

Alexander Hill
70 wheat, average yield                                      20 bu
35 acres corn, average yield                               45 bu
15 acres oats, average yield                                50 bu

Weeber Bros
115 acres wheat, average yield                            23 bu
15 acres oats, average yield                                30 bu

Ed Threlfall
110 ten acres wheat, average yield                      23 bu
40 acres corn, average yield                               40 bu

Lee Evans           
100 acres wheat, average yield                           27 bu

Raider Bros
45 acres wheat, average yield                             26 bu
18 acres oats, average yield                                62 bu
50 acres corn, average                                       40 bu

"Women Writers on the Santa Fe Trail" - Saturday, March 18th

          

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

March 12, 2017                                     Sherry Kline, 1^st Vice President/Programs
Sumner County Historical & Genealogical Society
PH: 316-833-6161; skline09@gmail.com
www.ksschgs.com; www.ks-schgs.blogspot.com

“Women Writers on the Santa Fe Trail"

Wellington –Dr. Leo Oliva, author and former professor of history at Fort Hays State University, is fascinated by 19^th century Kansas early settler’s history, Native-American, and military history, and is currently working on a book with Alice Anne Thompson about women who traveled the Santa Fe Trail.

“I’m mostly interested in the 19th century,” Oliva said, “twentieth century seems too recent”

Oliva will present a few of his stories about “Women Writers on the Santa Fe Trail” to members and guests of the Sumner County Historical & Genealogical Society on Saturday, March 18th, at 1:00 p.m. at the Wellington Public Library. Everyone is invited to attend the free program. For information or weather cancellations: President Jane Moore - 620-441-9835 or Vice-President Sherry Kline at 316-833-6161.

Dr. Oliva has been a member of the Kansas Humanities Council Speakers Bureau since 2010. He attended college at Ft. Hays State, received his PhD from the University of Denver, Colorado, and is the author of a dozen books, most about frontier military history (including Soldiers on the Santa Fe Trail and six of the eight fort histories in the Kansas Forts Network series).

“We are working to find stories on all the women that we can,” Oliva said, adding that they are continually finding new stories, many coming from the descendants of those women.

Oliva said that the trail was used by a very diverse group of people: African-American slaves and non-slaves, whites, Native Americans, Mexicans, and more.

According to Oliva, Susan Shelby Magoffin, Kentucky, was granddaughter of Isaac Shelby, the first governor of Kentucky, and traveled the trail in 1846 with her husband’s wagon train.

“There was an African-American woman who served in the Army for two years,” Oliva said.

“We think that she decided she wanted out of the Army because of the poor treatment of African-Americans in the service,” Oliva said, “even the discharge papers don’t state that she was a woman.”

“Another woman served in the Mexican American war and was discharged without any mention of her being a woman,” Oliva said, “she applied for a land warrant and the soldiers testified in her behalf and she got her land grant.”

Marian Sloan Russell traveled the trail five times from the age of 7 to 17, with her “single” mother. Marian’s mother, Eliza Sloan, was married to an Army officer.

According to Oliva, Marian’s grandsons have located two marriage records for Marian’s mother Eliza, but no divorce records. From all evidence, she traveled the trail with her daughter, married and remarried, and - leaving both husbands behind, though not divorcing either, continued to travel the trail. (Possibly to avoid being in the same area as either of her ex-husbands?) Oliva said that she even ran a boarding house at Ft. Hays for a short time.

Lydia Spencer Lane, who was an Army officer’s wife, traveled the trail at least 7 times, Oliva said, and Katie Bowen traveled the trail in 1851, and suffragist and abolitionist Julia Archibald Holmes, traveled the Santa Fe Trail across Kansas Territory to the Rocky Mountains, where she became the first woman to climb Pike’s Peak.

Dr. Oliva is a founding member of the Santa Fe Trail Association and Fort Larned Old Guard, served as editor of the Santa Fe Trail Association Quarterly, Wagon Tracks, for 25 years and writes a weekly newspaper column titled “Our Kansas Heritage.”

Dr. Oliva and his wife Bonita operate the family farm in north-central Kansas.

This talk is being presented thanks to a grant from the Kansas Humanities Council.

Kansas Farm Bureau Century Farm Program

Monday, September 26th, 2016 

 "The Kansas Farm Bureau Century Farm Program"

Wellington – Sumner County Historical & Genealogical Society will host “The Kansas Farm Bureau Century Farm Program,” a presentation by Helen Norris, Wellington, on Monday, September 26^th, at 6:00 p.m.  at Good Taste Chinese Buffet, 1311 E. 16^th St., Wellington.  Buffet available from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.; business meeting at 6:00 p.m.  Everyone is invited to attend the free program. Contact Jane Moore, President, at 620-441-9835 or Sherry Kline, Vice President, at 316-833-6161 for more information.

“There are some very interesting stories included with some of the Century Farm applications,” Norris said, adding that she will share a few from Sumner County, as well as some from across the state.

Norris stated that many of these farms have been in the farm families since early statehood, and she will share a PowerPoint presentation with the group along with her talk, and there will be time for questions and answers.

What are Century Farm Requirements?

According to www.kfb.org, to be eligible in the 2017 program, the current owner/operator must be related to the owner/operator of the farm in 1917 or before.

The farm must have been owned for 100 years within that family, and it must have at least eighty acres of the original farmland. 

How Can You Apply?

The applications are available to print out at www.kfb.org/Get-Involved (click on Century Farm Program). To be considered for the 2017 program, you must submit your application to the Sumner County Farm Bureau by May 15, 2017.

The application asks for the date of the original purchase, and requires that you list the legal of the property and all the owners from the first family purchaser to the current owner. (Information easy to obtain at the courthouse).

The application also has several questions that are not required to be filled out, but that future family historians will appreciate knowing if you do. For more information about the Century Farm program, email Debbie Hargrave hargraved@kfb.org

The farms that qualify will be recognized by the Kansas Farm Bureau and receive a farm sign that designates its Century Farm” status.

According to www.kfb.org, twenty-three Sumner County farms have earned the Century Farm designation, and more than 2500 Kansas farms have qualified since the program’s inception in 2000.  

For more information about “The Kansas Farm Bureau Century Farm Program” in Wellington, Kansas contact President Jane Moore 620-447-3266 or Vice President Sherry Kline 316-833-6161 or visit www.ks-schgs.blogspot.com.

August 27th 2016

 “Wichita’s Dockum Drug Store Sit-Ins Make History”

Wellington – The Sumner County Historical & Genealogical Society will host “Wichita’s Dockum Drug Store Sit-Ins Make History,” a video presentation and discussion by Dr. Galyn Vesey, Wichita, on August 27th at 1:00 p.m., at the Good Taste Chinese Buffet, 1311 E. 16^th St., Wellington.  Buffet available from 12:00 Noon to 1:00 p.m. The program is free. Visitors are always welcome. Contact Sherry Kline, Vice President of the Sumner County Historical & Genealogical Society at 316-833-6161 for more information.

In the mid 1950’s Galyn Vesey was attending junior high and working in the kitchen at Kress’s.

Vesey said this was an era when blacks sat in the back of the bus and most job opportunities for blacks were for kitchen or janitorial work.

It was a time when young Vesey could work in the restaurant’s kitchen, but was not allowed to eat at that restaurant’s counter.

When Vesey was a twenty-one-year-old Wichita University student and a member of the of the Young Adult Chapter of the NAACP, the Young Adult Chapter decided to address these inequalities.

“Because, see, it was not unusual to be treated shabbily downtown, so our leaders were looking for an activity of a civic nature,” Vesey said.

The group decided to hold a sit-in at the Dockum Drug Store Lunch Counter.  A lunch counter that only served whites. The sit-in was to be a peaceful demonstration during which young black students would sit down at a. lunch counter they had never been allowed to sit at, and politely wait to be served.  

Vesey said that the planning and preparation for the 1958 sit-in began in 1957. Because of violence in other parts of the country, including the treatment of the high school students in Little Rock, and the murder of Emmet Till, Vesey’s group was concerned enough to prepare for anything that might happen.

They prepared by rehearsing all the possible scenarios, each playing a different role.  They were instructed to wear their “Sunday best clothes.” They were told to be polite.

“I went during the day or on Saturday mornings” Vesey said. According to Vesey, twelve to twenty young people, usually students of high school, college, and some of elementary school age, came and took turns sitting at the Dockum Drug Store counter waiting to be served.

“Sometimes if some whites came in and saw what was going on, they would turn around and leave,” Vesey said.

“There were youths whose parents knew they were down there,” Vesey said, “and there were other youths like myself, whose parents didn’t know.”

“My father had the kind of job that if they had known, my father could have lost his job,” Vesey said, “my dad died and never knew what I had done, but my mother lived long enough to attend the banquet in 2006.”

In August of 1958, after approximately two weeks, the sit-in was over when a Dockum Drug Store executive said “Serve them, I’m losing too much money.”

They had no idea when they began that their success would have such far reaching effects. Sit-ins were staged across the nation, and restaurants began to be desegregated.

“Once I got up to Syracuse University, and started reflecting on my life I decided that it needed to be written about,” Vesey said, “when I was working on my PhD, a light came on about all that.”

Now, Vesey is the Project Director for the “Research on Black Wichita” Project, (www.robwks.com), which focuses on black history from 1873 to the mid-1970’s.  

Vesey said that the project will focus on individual interviews, focus groups, and “all the documents that I can find.”

“To make it come alive, I get into the individual adversities that individuals had to deal with,” Vesey said, “sometimes people are in their graves before they are recognized. Now that I look back there were a lot of heroic people in Wichita.”

“I’m proud of what I did. It took some bravery.  We could have been thrown in jail or worse,” Vesey said, “it takes a lot of steps to get someplace and it took a lot of steps to make this a better planet to live on.”

For more information about “Wichita’s Dockum Drug Store Sit-Ins Make History,” in Wellington, Kansas contact President Jane Moore 620-447-3266 or Vice President Sherry Kline 316-833-6161.  Or visit www.ksschgs.com or www.ks-schgs.blogspot.com.

1954 8th Grade Graduation - Mayfield School, Mayfield, Kansas

Mayfield: Then & Now

Mayfield School, Mayfield, Kansas

1954 8th Grade Graduation

Page 178

Today, Nancy Kollmorgen is an SCHGS board member
and dedicated volunteer!

Special September Meeting! Presentation Explores Multicultural Workforce of Harvey Girls

2015 - Saturday, September 19th - Special Program!

                   

          Presentation Explores Multicultural Workforce of Harvey Girls

[Wellington, Kansas] – Sumner County Historical & Genealogical Society in Wellington, Kansas will host “The Harvey Girls’ Multicultural Workforce,” a presentation and discussion by Michaeline Chance-Reay on September 19, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. in the meeting room of the Wellington Public Library, 121 W. 7^th, Wellington, Kansas. 

Members of the community are invited to attend the free program. Contact the Sumner County Historical & Genealogical Society at 620-447-3266 or the Wellington Public Library at 620-326-2011 for more information. The program is made possible by the Kansas Humanities Council.

The Fred Harvey Company not only hired recent immigrants to work in their famous Harvey House restaurants, they actively recruited them. Eventually, African American women became part of the workforce, and during World War II American Indians and Mexican Americans were hired as well. This presentation explores the job duties and working conditions of Harvey Girls from 1876 to the early 1950s.

Michaeline Chance-Reay teaches courses in Women's Studies and Education at Kansas State University. Her current research focuses on the Harvey Girls and historic sites on the K-State campus, especially those related to women.

“Women in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who wanted jobs or careers outside of the home had few choices,” said Chance-Reay, “but the Harvey Company offered unique opportunities.  It was demanding work but also offered a decent salary in a protected environment, in addition to travel and adventure.”

“The Harvey Girls’ Multicultural Workforce” is part of the Kansas Humanities Council’s Humanities Speakers Bureau, featuring presentations and discussions that examine our shared human experience—our innovations, culture, heritage, and conflicts.

  

The Kansas Humanities Council conducts and supports community-based programs, serves as a financial resource through an active grant-making program, and encourages Kansans to engage in the civic and cultural life of their communities.  For more information about KHC programs contact the Kansas Humanities Council at 785/357-0359 or visit online at www.kansashumanities.org.

For more information about “The Harvey Girls’ Multicultural Workforce” in Wellington, Kansas contact the Sumner County Historical & Genealogical Society at 620-447-3266, the Wellington Public Library at 620-326-2011, or visit http://ks-schgs.blogspot.com/p/programs.html

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Amanuensis Monday - Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Frambers Home Robbed!

Wellington Daily News
7 January 1915

Page 2

Frambers Home Robbed

Frambers Was Robbed 

While Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Frambers were at the revival Wednesday night, their home at the north east corner of C and Fourth was burglarized.  The house was entered at the back, the intruder cutting through a screen door and then raising a window.  Mrs. Frambers' watch was taken, also a revolver.  The most annoying damage was the taking of a lot of papers of no possible value to the thief, but much needed by Mr. Frambers.  These included deeds, mortgages, notes and other valuable papers, absolutely worthless to the present holder.