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The veterans of the Civil war and their descendants have had a con- spicuous part in developing Butler county and placing it in the front rank as a grain and stock raising county. And in education and social well being, in morals and religion, in all that makes for the welfare and happiness and true good of men and women, individually and collect- ively they have been prime movers and active and earnest supporters. The people of Butler county of this and coming generations do well to recognize their generous and disinterested service and give honor to whom honor is due.
But a few short years will elapse until the deeds of the veterans of the Civil war will be only a matter of history and the place they fill a fading memory. All will have answered the last roll call and will have been mustered out of earthly service.
"An aged soldier with his snow white hair. Sat looking at the night ; A busy shining angel came with things. Like chevrons on his wings; He said. 'The evening detail has been made. Report to your brigade.' The soldier heard the message that was sent.
Then rose and died and went." -Ironquill.
WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS.
By Mrs. Hattie E. Riley.
The work of American women in the great war for the preservation of the Union was that of relief. Relief on the battlefield and in the hospital for the wounded and sick: relief in homes provided for them, of the wives and children of the soldiers at the front, as well as for the widows and orphans of those who went forth never to return.
Ten years after the close of the war much distress was felt among the people of the country; a financial crisis was on; sickness, old wounds, lack of work and bitter disappointment began to make fearful ravages in the veteran ranks.
The Grand Army of the Republic had been doing its utmost to aid and comfort their unfortunate comrades, to assist the comrades.
Then it was that the wives. mothers. daughters, sisters and other loyal women answered again to the call of the men who saved the nation. Thus it came about that in the fall of 1883. Mrs. L. L. Wood. eager to assist the Grand Army of the Republic and to render aid and sympathy to the survivors of the Union, organized, in Wingest Hall. in El Dorado, the order known as W. H. L. Wallace W. R. C., No. 7. auxiliary to W. H. L. Wallace Post of the G. A. R. The meeting was
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composed of twenty-seven members, all stanch, true, loyal women of the city. After the organization was established a charter was granted on November 20, 1883, issued from Boston, Massachusetts, and signed by National President Florence Barker. The charter members of No. 7 were as follows: Carrie M. McGinnis. E. S. Phillips, Hattie E. Riley, S. Beardsley, Mary Ellen Beardsley, Matilda Smith, Mary S. Ball, Laura Wood, Nora Steele, Cynthia Daily Oldfield, Laura E. Jay, Ber- tha Nye, Lizzie Bearse, Margaret Copeland, Sarah E. Boyden, Lon Gordon, Cordelia Story, Mary M. Smith, Laura Tuttles, Dora Jackson McAnally, Mrs. Milan, Lydia Stiver, Eliza Gibson, Clara Story, Mary Tankersley, Mrs. Olive Colyer and Jennie Flenner. Of these charter members only four are living, Mrs. Hattie E. Riley, who has served as president ten years; Mrs. Cynthia Daily Oldfield, who is a faithful at- tender, and who is proud of the fact that she is a charter member of No. 7: Lydia Stiver and Mrs. Jennie Flenner, who are not now mem- bers of the organization.
During the thirty-three years of its existence, over three hundred members have been initiated into its ranks. They have been of inesti- mable value to the W. H. L., Wallace Post. and these old Boys in Blue are always glad to testify to the merits of No. 7.
Not only have they aided and assisted the G. A. R. and perpetuated the memory of their heroic dead, but they have assisted all Union veterans who have needed help and protection, and have extended aid to their widows and orphans by finding them homes and employment and assuring them of sympathy and friends.
For a number of years their meeting place was Wingert Hall. but later the old Methodist church was purchased by W. H. L. Wallace Post, and ever since the W. R. C. meets twice a month in this beautiful G. A. R. hall on Settler street. One would think, as the ranks are growing thinner, that their interest would lag, but not so with W. R. C. No. 7. Their love for the remaining few seems to grow stronger and their ambition to cheer and comfort is something admirably beautiful. In conclusion, let us say that the life history of W. R. C. No. 7 has been that of loving service, and we are reminded of Thomas Buchanan Reed's beautiful poem :
"The maid who binds her warrior's sash And smiling, all her pain dissembles The while beneath her drooping lash One starry tear-drop hangs and trembles, Though heaven alone records the tear, And fame shall never know its story.
Her heart has shed a drop as dear As c'er bedewed the fields of glory.
The wife who girds her husband's sword 'Mid little ones who weep and wonder.
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And bravely speaks the cheering word. Although her heart be rent asunder, Doomed nightly in her dreams to hear The bolts around him rattle, Has shed as sacred blood as e'er Was poured upon the field of battle.
The mother who conceals her grief As to her breast her son she presses, The mother who conceals her grief, Kissing the patriot brow she blesses, With no one but her secret God To know the pain that weighs upon her,
Has shed as sacred blood as e'er Was poured upon the field of honor."
The ladies who have served as president are: Mrs. Conley, Cath- erine Wells, deceased; Clara Doughty, deceased; Hannah Pattee, de- ceased ; Maggie Ripley, Hattie E. Riley, Mollie Avery, Alcuida Fisher, Marietta McCormack; Laura Woods, deceased; Annie Wardell, Cyn- thia Daily Oldfield; Mary Douglass, deceased; Dr. Emiline Tanner, deceased ; (Eliza Gibson, deceased; Elizabeth Collet, Lillian James, Libbie Ford, Addie Gardner, Sarah Boyden.
THE ANTI HORSE THIEF ASSOCIATION.
By H. M. Logan.
The Anti Horse Thief Association was founded by Major David McKee in 1876. The first State assembly of the order was held in Hum- boldt in 1882.
The order is all that its name implies and much more. It is an association of law abiding. peaceable and liberty loving citizens banded together for mutual protection and fraternal assistance to make thie commission of crime more difficult and the capture of the criminal more certain. It is not a vigilance committee. It bears no resemblance to the Vigilants. Regulators or Whitecaps. It is opposed to mob violence in any form. A member who takes part in the actions of a mob will be expelled, and a lodge taking part therein will have its charter taken away. It turns the captured criminal over to the legal authorities and assists in the prosecution with evidence. Thus the innocent are pro- tected and the guilty brought to justice.
The Anti Horse Thief Association holds to the great principle that all men are endowed with inalienable rights of life, liberty and the peace- ful possession of property. It has come nearer solving the problem of dealing with those who molest these rights, than all other methods com-
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bined. In 1911 bank robberies became so frequent, that the State bank commissioner said, "I am simply appalled at the number of bank rob- beries in Kansas." As a remedy, Mr. Dolley and other leading bank officials recommend that bankers join the Anti Horse Thief Association. Many of them did so, and it is a well known fact that bank robberies stopped and but very few have occurred in the state since.
Since the organization of the order in Kansas, other states have fallen into line and now very many of the best people in the nation belong. But, of course, Kansas leads them all with a membership of 22,000 in good standing.
While attending the National convention at Fayetteville, Ark. recently, I was reliably informed that over ninety per cent. of all prop- erty stolen from Anti Horse Thief Association members last year was recovered.
As the years come and go, crime grows less. Butler county has several good live orders of the Anti Horse Thief Association, and all are putting forth an effort to make this a better world in which to live.
CHAPTER XXVI.
WOMEN'S CLUBS.
By Mrs. Frank H. Cron.
FEDERATED CLUBS-BEETHOVEN CLUB, EL DORADO-SHAKESPEARE CLUB- WOMAN'S MUTUAL BENEFIT CLUB-THE AVON CLUB, EL DORADO- DAUGHTERS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION- OUTLOOK CLUB, AUGUSTA -TWENTIETH CENTURY CLUB, DOUGLASS-MUTUAL HELPERS, CASSO- DAY-E. M. B. CLUB, TOWANDA-EVERY WEDNESDAY HOME STUDY ' CLUB.
Verily of the making of clubs, there is no end, at least not yet. Many clubs for various purposes have flourished in Butler county. Clubs fill a large place in the life of the women of the world today. Music clubs, literature clubs, aid clubs, civic clubs, mothers' clubs, thim- ble clubs, embroidery clubs, luncheon clubs and card clubs.
The National Federation of Women's Clubs, the largest organiza- tion of women in the world, has done much for the enactment of better laws. Much to mold public sentiment and much for the general uplift of humanity. There are five clubs in Butler county which are federated : The Woman's Mutual Benefit Club, Home Economics, and Domestic Science of 1914 of El Dorado, the Outlook, Augusta, and Mutual Helpers of Cassoday. Four district federation presidents have been chosen from Butler county, three from the Woman's Mutual Benefit of El Dorado, Miss Sadie Stone. Mrs. R. S. Miller and Mrs. F. H. Cron and one from the Outlook Club, Augusta, Mrs. W. A. Penley.
BEETHOVEN CLUB. EL DORADO.
No story of the clubs of the county could be complete without men- tioning the Beethovan Club, organized in 1870. However, this was no woman's club. Prof. Hulse was leader and S. E. Black, probate judge at the time. and C. M. James was clerk, and were promoters of this club. Queen Esther was presented at the old M. E. Church in 1881. Previ- ously, the old court house was used for their entertainments. At one of these. the club was fortunate to secure Miss Fannie DeGrass of Mil- waukee, who was visiting relatives in Winfield. The audience was delighted with her singing, and Judge Black was so impressed with the personality of the young prima donna that he speedily offered her his
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heart and hand, so they were married and lived happily ever after, even unto this day, in the good little town of El Dorado. So much for the Beethoven Club.
A number of years later, Mrs. Black formed the Rubenstein Club. and established a conservatory of music, which, for many years, was the center of the musical life of the town.
SHAKESPEARE CLUB.
The oldest women's club in El Dorado is the Shakespeare Club. This club is the outgrowth of a reading circle organized at the home of Mrs. C. A. Leland in 1892. Among the original promoters were: Mes- dames C. A. Leland, Lorenzo Leland, Edward C. Ellet, Henrietta Van Dorn, Lillie Parkhurse, Mrs. Charles Ewing and others. In 1898 the club took up the reading of Shakespeare. Mrs. Van Dorn was made first president, which position she held during her life. The present efficient president is Mrs. R. H. Hazlett. The members are : Mrs. R. H. Hazlett, Mrs. C. L. Harris, Mrs. C. A. Leland, Mrs. M. M. Vandenberg, Mrs. Alvah Shelden, Mrs. Charles Selig. Mrs. R. E. Frazier, Mrs. S. R. Clifford, Mrs. C. E. Thompson, Mrs. J. B. Adams. In recent years the club has been saddened by the death of two of its capable memebers, Mrs. N. F. Frazier and Mrs. V. P. Mooney. The social features of this ยท club are particularly enjoyable.
WOMAN'S MUTUAL BENEFIT CLUB.
This club was organized in 1898 and federated in 1899. The club owes its origin to Mrs. Alvah Shelden and Mrs. M. W. Sinclair. The membership is limited to twenty-five. Its course of study is varied. While interested in music, literature and art, this club has always been active in work of a civic nature. For many years, the Woman's Mutual Benefit Club assisted in maintaining a public library, the nucleus of the present Carnegie library. The summer chautauqua was established by this club. Prizes have been given for best flowers grown by children ; a "dandelion day" created much sentiment for beautiful lawns, and a clean up day was appointed by the mayor at the suggestion of this club. The state scholarship fund has received generous support. The following ladies have served as president: Mesdames Alvah Shelden. W. M. Sin- clair, M. A. Koogler, C. A. Leland. G. M. Sandifer, Miss Sadie Stone, Mrs. F. J. B. King, Mrs. M. S. Munson. Mrs. R. S. Miller, Mrs. J. H. Austin, Mrs. W. H. Ellet, Mrs. C. E. Hunt, Mrs. S. P. Willis, Mrs. F. H. Cron, Mrs. M. E. Kilgore, Mrs. Ida Robinson, Mrs. J. A. Wiedeman and Mrs C. E. Boudreau. Many high class entertainments have been given by this club and many distinguished women have been its guests. They have twice entertained the district convention.
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THE AVON CLUB, EL DORADO.
This club was organized November 16, 1906. Its object is both lit- erary and social. The membership is limited to sixteen. Each year many delightful programs and original parties have been given by the clever young women who compose the club. The following were charter members: Miss Flora Leland, Miss Cecil Leland, Miss Alice Murdock. Miss Ellina Murdock, Miss Corah Mooney, Miss Edith Chesney, Miss Laura Wiley, Miss Cornelia Ewing. Miss Olive Clifford, Miss Susan Pattison, Miss Grace Black, Miss Hazel Betts and Mrs. Clara Bright.
Each year the members of this club are given money by certain wealthy individuals. They use this money to bring Christmas cheer to every child in the town. They have an entertainment for the children, both rich and poor, and each child receives some present.
DAUGHTERS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
The El Dorado chapter. Daughters of American Revolution, was organized July 8, 1910. by Mrs. C. E. Stanley, State regent, and named Susannah French Putney, revolutionary ancestor of Mrs. J. W. Kirk- patrick, first regent of the chapter.
The course of study has been American history, current events and the Daughters of American Revolution magazine. The work of the chapter has been in harmony with the general society. The members are: Mrs. J. W. Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Robert H. Hazlett, Mrs. I. V. Horner, Mrs. J. A. Wiedeman, Mrs. B. F. Meeks, Mrs. Dillon Hamilton, Mrs. J. C. Robinson, Mrs. R. E. Frazier, Mrs. N. F. Frazier, Mrs. C. E. Hunt, Mrs. F. H. Cron, Miss Ruth Avery and Miss Edith Chesney.
OUTLOOK CLUB, AUGUSTA.
This very delightful club was organized in 1907 with nine charter members: Mrs. R. W. Stephenson, Mrs. A. N. Taylor, Miss Winnifred Miller, Mrs. H. A. Hill. Mrs. Park Salter, Mrs. A. Holiday, Mrs. S. A. Simpson, Miss Leonard and Mrs. W. E. Brown. This club established a library with about 250 books. The library was opened June 1, 1912, with Miss Pansy Wiley, librarian. The library now contains 750 books. This club has entertained the district federation and supports most lib- erally the scholarship fund. The literary work of this club is especially high and the social features enjoyable.
TWENTIETH CENTURY CLUB, DOUGLASS.
Upon January II. 1907. this club was organized with the following officers: President, Mrs. R. H. Snell ; vice president, Mrs. J. A. Middle- kauff ; secretary, Miss Effie Johnston. There are now twenty-one active
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members and seven associate members. In addition to the regular work of the club, a public library is maintained through the efforts of the Twentieth Century.
MUTUAL HELPERS, CASSODAY.
This club was organized in August, 1914, under the name of "Needle and Eye Club." Mrs. Fred Ray was its first president, Mrs. Albert Sun- barger, vice president and Miss Kitty Green, secretary. The club had a membership of thirty-six. Besides the literary work of the club, the members contribute to the scholarship fund. A spirit of true neighbor- liness has been growing, which is enjoyable to all.
E. M. B. CLUB, TOWANDA.
This club was originally an embroidery club to which the following ladies belonged. Mrs. Lockwood, Mrs. J. C. Robinson, Mrs. Dona Rob- ison, Miss O. Porter. So enjoyable did these ladies find their little club that they resolved to share it with others. In January. 1909, the larger club was organized at the home of Mrs. L. W. Robinson. In January, 1912, the club adopted a constitution and by-laws and was for the first time called E. M. B .- Every member busy. The object is for mutual improvement in literature and general culture. The social side of this club has been found most pleasant.
In October, 1912, the club voted a library which was opened upon January 8, 1913. At this time the club contained eighty-five volumes. which number has been increased to 325.
EVERY WEDNESDAY HOME STUDY CLUB, EL DORADO.
This club was organized December 8, 1897. The study was a course published in the Chicago Record. This club did very good work for about two years and was then discontinued. Among those who were members were: Mrs. R. H. Hazlett, Mrs. C. A. Leland, Mrs. H. A. Miller, Mrs. Frances C. Armstrong, Mrs. E. C. Ellet, Mrs. Alvah Shel- den, Mrs. V. P. Mooney. Mrs. M. M. Vandenberg, Mrs. C. L. Harris. Mrs. S. E. Black, Mrs. Charles Ewing, Mrs. S. R. Clifford, Miss Sadie Schmucker, Mrs. H. H. Gardiner, Mrs. N: F. Frazier and Mrs. W. W. Pattison.
CHAPTER XXVII.
REMINISCENCES.
FIRST COMMERCIAL SIGN-THE NEXT BEER STORY-A BOOZE STORY-AN- OTHER ONE-JUST A STORY-CELEBRATION-SOME THINGS-A MUR- DER-WHEN TIMES WERE YOUNG, BY FRANCES E. MOONEY-IN SO- CIETY-THE OLD HOTEL-ANOTHER TIME.
In telling a story the personality of the narrator enters into it to a greater or less extent. Each person has his own peculiarity in relating an incident, giving it an inflection here, emphasis there, and a grin, ha ha. or imitation where needed, in order to give it the flavor or pep neces- sary to have it properly appreciated. In attempting to put the same story or incident in print, is to loose or omit all those things and thereby the subject becomes more or less "English."
THE FIRST COMMERCIAL SIGN.
In the spring of 1870, the firm of Smith & Bishop was engaged in selling goods, both dry and wet, in the town of Chelsea. As we drove into the little village and past their place of business, the following sign, painted on the lid of a cracker box and nailed to one corner of the shack, attracted my attention : "BERE FO SAIL HER." If their "bere" was no better than their spelling, they would have to go to a prohibition county in order to find a "sail" for it.
THE NEXT BEER STORY.
In an early day, one J. W. Tucker, who was then dispensing the ardent in a limited way at Towanda, sent to Wichita by three fellows, who were going there on other business, for a keg of beer. (How many people in Butler county under 35 years of age, have ever seen a keg of beer?) On their return with the beer in the wagon along with some tin- ware they were taking to Towanda, they met three other fellows on their way to Wichita ; after talking a while they all concluded to sample Tucker's beer. After considerable trouble the bung of the keg was out. and some of the tinware filled with the fluid and foam. The party removing the bung and replacing it was so saturated with the contents of the keg, it being a hot day and the beer escaping as fast and furious
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as possible, that the ordor of the brewery was with him as long as that suit of clothes remained. In speaking of his business afterward, Mr. Tucker remarked: "Boys, you can't sell beer in this town for five cents a glass. I kept an account of every glass out of that keg you fellows brought me from Wichita and 1 didn't make a cent on it. After this, beer is ten cents a glass, or three glasses for a quarter."
A BOOZE STORY.
(The origin of two per cent alcohol.)
During the summer of 1870, one Jim Files came into Butler county and "took a claim," the one now owned by J. J. Edmiston, north of Towanda; returned to Illinois, settled up his affairs, reduced his prop- erty to cash and returned to his claim in the fall in time to build a shack before winter; coming by railroad to Emporia. At Emporia he fell in with a couple of teamsters from Towanda who were there after mer- chandise for the Towanda store, with whom he returned to Butler county, and thereby hangs this tale :
On their way to Emporia the teamsters were stopped by a man living near the then town of Chelsea, who handed them a two gallon jug. with the price thereof, and asked them to go to the wholesale liquor house of Helwig & Lane at Emporia and buy and bring him two gallons of "firewater," stating that he wanted to use some of it for rheumatism, and some for snake medicine. The trip was made, the Red Eye pur- chased and the wagons loaded for the return trip, when they were ap- proached by the aforesaid Jim Files, who requested. and was granted, the privilege of walking behind their wagons, riding part of the time, and accompanying them on their return trip. They left Emporia, drove about three miles and camped for the night on the banks of the Cotton- wood river. Supper was prepared, horses fed and picketed. Everything lovely and quiet as a mid-summer night's dream, when, upon the still- ness came a cry of agony from Files-that is the word that describes it. "Boys, I have lost my pocket book. It had in it not only every cent but everything I have in the world except my claim" (between $100 and $200, which was quite a sum of money for those days.) Of course, the usual questions were asked, where he lost it, when did he see it last. where did he keep it, and so on. He finally concluded that he had used it last at a saloon in Emporia and thought he had left it on the bar. so one of us agreed to walk back to Emporia with him and endeavor to recover it. if possible. The trip was made and needless to say, was unsuccessful. A more dejected, downcast man on the return to camp, I have never witnessed. After arriving in camp and spending some time in bemoaning his fate, he said: "Well. I have my old pipe left, so 1 guess I will smoke, anyway." He went to a tree where he had hung his coat, just before starting back to Emporia, put his hand in his outside
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pocket for his pipe and brought forth-his pocketbook and all its con- tents. You, gentle reader, may have seen, at some time, a man leaving the lowest depths of despair and climbing to the mountain top of relief and joy ; but you have never seen anything that could hold a candle to the change in Jim. From the valley of despair to the height of rejoicing, is a long road but it was taken at a bound, and when the top had been reached, he looked down from his lofty heighth and said, "Fellows, I want a drink. I want to celebrate." And out came the two gallon jug. The next morning, after crossing the Cottonwood river, the old jug was just as heavy and just as full as when it left Emporia; from there on, after crossing each stream, the result was the same. When it was finally delivered at Chelsea, the original two per cent. had been established.
Moral: If you must smoke, use a pipe.
ANOTHER ONE.
The above reminds me. One day in June, 1870, the driver of a team on the road to Emporia from Towanda, for freight, stopped at Sycamore Springs, under the old Sycamore tree. (from whence came its name.) filled his half gallon jug with water and started over the divide to Mer- cer Springs. In going down the slope towards Mercer Springs, he met a man traveling in the opposite direction, driving a span of small ponies and quite heavily loaded. The roads were heavy, man and team worn to a frazzle, scarcely able to get along. Upon meeting the team from the south, said: "Pardner, haven't you anything to drink? I am plumb played out and I hain't had a drop since I left Emporee." The driver of the team from the south said: "You bet I have, some of the finest you ever tasted. "Well, for land's sake give me some. I was never so dry in my life." As the jug was lifted from under the wagon seat and held before him, a look of anticipation and of satisfaction came over his face, which like has never been seen before or since. He took the little brown jug, stroked it tenderly, smacked his lips and smiled with glee, turned up the jug, took one swallow and with a look of disgust and derision seldom equaled, and never excelled, said "Gawd, it's water."
JUST A STORY.
In the early days. an old gentleman came into the Whitewater valley driving a pair of white mules and a span of horses, locating near Towanda. He was very eccentric but seemingly got a good deal out of life. a deservable friend, neighbor and citizen. He was met one day by a German who stopped him and said: "I hear you have a horse what had bots." "Yep," replied the old gentleman. "What did you do for him?" "I give him a pint of turpentine." "All right, much oblige. Yep. Giddap." and each drove on. The next day they met again. Said the old German to the old gentleman. "Vell. I gife my horse pint turpentine for bots and it kill him," said the old German. "Yep, it did mine too. giddap."
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