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Johnson county's first quota in the draft was 208, which was reduced by enlistments to 177, and this number was sent in from this county on the first draft.
The board sent, as its next work, questionaires to 1,713 men, completed these and by volunteers from without the board (especially Messrs. S. H. Coleman, A. J. Hutchinson, Judge W. A. Stephens and G. P. Schooling), made out occupation cards, as required.
The total men who would serve under the draft from the first group to be called are 424. The recorded enlistments in addition to these are 82, and there are probably 18 more unrecorded enlistments.
The Medical Advisory Board, which examined all non-residents, is composed of L. J. Scofield, chairman; W. R. Patterson, secretary : J. A. B. Adcock, W. G. Thompson, D. E. Shy, and J. D. Peak.
The Legal Advisory Board, which with 60 associate members. helped fill out questionaires, is composed of N. M. Bradley, chair- man ; W. E. Suddath and A. Musser.
The County Council of Defense was appointed by the Missouri Council of Defense and organized July 2, 1917. The members are: F. A. Gougler, county farm agent, chairman; W. O. Redford. James J. Haller and Charles H. Houx, farmers; O. G. Boisseau, real estate and insurance agent; Wallace Crossley, lieutenant governor; Ed. S. Harte, miller; and Ewing Cockrell, circuit judge. Charles W. Fulker- son, court stenographer, has been secretary.
The following has been the chief work of the council: (1) Organ- ized work to have cultivated in town and country, especially in 1917. all available ground: (2) campaign to increase wheat seeding in 1917. and provide seed therefor; (3) organization of three home guard com- panies in the county; and (4) miscellaneous work, especially that not provided for by other organizations, including entertainments and meet- ings for boys who left for the army, food conservation displays, and help in securing woman county demonstrator in the spring of 1918.
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The Third Liberty Loan Organization .- This organization was started in February, 1918, to prepare for the Liberty Bond campaign to begin April 6, 1918. It is one of the most complete and thorough war organizations that has been made.
Definite work was assigned to each director and his division, and this work was organized in detail before a move was made to sell a bond. The township committee listed every man in their township who was potentially a bond buyer, and ascertained his financial ability to buy, and other information for the bond salesmen. The speakers' Organization, composed of the Four Minute Men, the Women's Bureau of Speakers of the County Council of Defense, then sent men and women speakers, and volunteer musicians, to numerous school houses and church meetings, before the campaign in each township started. The salesmen then made personal house-to-house visits to every possible buyer. The results were larger than anything that ever before had been accom- plished in the same kind of work.
Speakers' Organizations .- The official speakers' bodies in the county are the Four Minute Men and the Women Speakers' Bureau of the County Council of Defense. The Four Minute Men act under author- ity from the National Four Minute Men Organization at Washington. and are the official and authorized spokesmen for the Government for such messages as the Government transmits to them to deliver.
The County Council of Defense women speakers act under their director whenever their services are desired.
In March, 1918, these organizations united in their work, and also provided a permanent war singers' force, automobile company, and newspaper publicity department.
The Four Minute Men began work February 10, 1918, and since then have delivered about 25 speeches weekly in Warrensburg city, in eight Sunday schools, ten churches, seven public schools, the State Nor- mal School, moving picture theatre, and at all public gatherings. They reach weekly audiences of about 2,200 different people in Warrensburg.
The United Speakers Organization began work April 6. 1918, in the Third Liberty Loan campaign, and in the first week covered 25 meet- ings of all kinds, over the county, with twenty-two speakers and about twenty singers and musicians.
The following are the officers of this organization: chair-
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man of Four Minute Men and director of speakers, Ewing Cock- rell; director of women speakers, Council of Defense, and director of singers ; Mrs. E. L. Hendricks, with Misses Josephine Dixon and Mil- dred Morrow, assistants ; director of newspaper publicity, W. W. Parker; director of automobiles, Christopher L. Johnson; chairman of appoint- ments, W. R. Hardy.
The Home Guards .- The Home Guards of Missouri were organized by a call of the governor through the County Councils of Defense. The Johnson county committee were organized by the Home Guards com- mittee of the county council, composed of Ewing Cockrell. Chairman; O. G. Boisseau and Ed. S. Harte.
Two companies were organized in Warrensburg and one in Holden in August and September. 1917. They drilled steadily twice a week, all fall, found out the men who would stick, and then asked to be mus- tered in. The Warrensburg companies are, one of town men and the other of the Normal School students and faculty. The Holden com- pany is composed of town men and the older high school students. Both Warrensburg companies were mustered November 27, 1917, and the Holden company December 6, 1917.
On March 23, 1918, the three Johnson county companies and the company at Jefferson City, were organized by order of the governor, through Adjutant General H. C. Clark, into the second separate battalion. On the same date, a battalian officers' school was also provided. The officers have given special attention to their work, and all the com- panies have drilled faithfully and are unusually efficient, for the amount of training they have had. The officers are as follow: Major George P. Player, signal corps, Jefferson City, Missouri, temporary battalion commander: Ewing Cockrell, adjutant. Company A (Warrensburg town) : Captain, Thos. B. Lanham: 1st lieutenant, H. Newkirk: 2nd lieutenant, Curtis Doolin. Company B (Normal School): Captain, C. H. McClure; 1st lieutenant, Hardie Wray; 2nd lieutenant, F. C. Allen. Company D (Holden) : Captain, Lucien C. Snyder ; 1st lieutenant, E. E. Weeks: 2nd lieutenant, J. E. Murray.
American Red Cross. (By Charles A. Shepard and J. H. Scar- borough.) [Editor's Note: The Red Cross was organized and the first campaign conducted by Lieutenant Governor Wallace Crossley, personally. Since Lieutenant Governor Crossley has been serving as state fuel administrator away from the county, Mr. Shepard, as chairman
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of the executive committee, has been in charge of the whole work. Pro- fessor Scarborough was one of the organizers of the chapter and secre- tary from the beginning.]
When Johnson county was called upon to raise money for the Red Cross, Messrs. Charles A. Shepard, J. R. Scarborough and T. E. Cheat- ham called eighteen men together at the Commercial Club rooms in Warrensburg one Saturday night. They appointed a committee of about forty men; elected Wallace Crossley chairman and J. H. Scarborough secretary ; divided the town into districts; designated men to each terri- tory and provided for an intensive campaign.
The following Sunday, all arrangements were completed and on the next day, Monday, the Warrensburg territory was canvassed and the quota assigned for the town was exceeded by nearly 100 per cent. After that, similar organizations worked in Hazel Hill, Knob Noster, Centerview, Kingsville, Jackson township, Holden, and Medford.
This organization was made the permanent Red Cross organiza- tion and is such today, and covers the whole county. Previous to its organization societies of women under the French Surgical Dressings Society had been working throughout the county for many months.
Upon the organization of the American Red Cross, these societies gradually went into it. The Red Cross organization in this county now consists of the Warrensburg Chapter and sixteen branches, each branch doing the same work as the chapter.
There are eighteen organizations in the county, including War- rensburg, and the Junior Red Cross. The membership, exclusive of the Junior Red Cross, is 5,089.
Junior Red Cross .- The Junior Red Cross organization was made early in 1918. The officers are the following executive committee: Chairman, Walter L. Chaney ; treasurer, H. F. Berkley; Miss Cora Rice : Miss Gladys Anderson; Edward Beatty; R. H. Boston : James Robeson.
The object of this organization is to enroll all the schools of the county as auxiliaries to the regular chapter. Each school must con- tribute 25 cents per capita to become enrolled. This money is then used to do any work that seems most advantageous. They have already rendered some material service in the sales of thrift stamps in the schools. Up to March 1, 1918. the total amount of money collected by the whole county organization, with all the branches amounted to about $20.000. The total number of members in the county at that
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date was 5,089. The number of members is increasing all the time.
Centerview Branch .- The surgical dressings work of Centerview was started by the Village Improvement Club, the officers of the club becoming also officers of the surgical dressings committee. They raised $400 in money, outside of donations, shipped 4,500 surgical dressings and 210 rest pillows to national headquarters, and received the com- pliment of "beautiful work." Centerview became a branch of the Red Cross March 1, 1918. In the organization of the Red Cross, the follow- ing officers were chosen: Mrs. Jno. Delaney, chairman; Mrs. J. R. Bozarth, vice-chairman; Mrs. Ed. Spence, secretary; Mr. E. B. Repp, treasurer. There are 350 members.
Chilhowee Branch. ( By Mrs. Leslie McElwee. ) Organized December 19, 1918, with the following officers: Mrs. Leslie McElwee, chairman ; Mrs. W. L. Marten, vice-chairman; Mrs. Wm. P. Hunt, treas- urer ; Miss Grace Turner, secretary. Later, Mrs. L. R. Crumbaugh was elected secretary. They have shipped eight large boxes of rest pillows and French surgical dressings to New York. There are 450 members.
Denton Branch was organized January 30. The officers are: Mrs. S. R. Hindman, chairman; Mrs. Frank Behm, vice-president ; Miss Pearl Witteman, treasurer; Miss Lorene Hughes, secretary. The surgical dressings organized sometime in August. They sent out nearly 1,000 pieces of bandages, and took in about $100. Since being recognized as a branch of the American Red Cross, they have completed about 100 pieces of surgical dressings and taken in about twenty-five dollars.
Hazel Hill Branch. (By Mrs. W. E. Allworth.) Organized August 18, 1917. The officers are: Mr. W. E. Allworth, chairman; Mr. W. L. Gott, vice-chairman; Mr. Lee Wyre, treasurer; Mrs. W. O. Redford, secretary. There are sixty-eight members.
Salem and Fayetteville Homemakers' Clubs have made trench pil- lows, pillow cases, cup covers, gave old linen and rags to the surgical dressings committee of Warrensburg, also furnished a number of knit- ted garments at own expense.
Hoffman Branch was organized December 5, 1917. The chief organizers were Mrs. W. W. Parker and Mrs. Merritt Poague. There were eleven charter members. The officers are: Mrs. B. F. Bell, chair- man; Mrs. Merritt Poague, vice-chairman; Miss Mary Fitzpatrick, treasurer, and Mrs. Clarence Fitzpatrick, secretary. They have fur- nished 565 bandages and 79 knitted garments.
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Holden Branch. ( By Rev. Ben. D. Gillispie. ) Organized December 16, 1917, with fifteen charter members. The officers are: T. J. Halsey, chairman ; Mrs. Etta Ball, vice-chairman; Mrs. Kate Huber, treasurer ; Ben D. Gillispie, secretary ; D. N. Danielson, additional mem- ber executive committee. 5,000 pieces were completed and sent to surgical dressings' headquarters, before organization of the branch. Since then 5,440 pieces have been sent. Knitting is also an important part of the work of this branch. Present membership in branch, 666.
Kingsville Branch was organized November 22, 1917. Chairman, J. A. Bryson; vice-chairman, Mrs. F. A. Milliard; secretary, Mrs. Reavis. Executive committee : Mrs. Creel, Mrs. M. L. Fishback, Mrs. D. D. Jones, Mrs. R. A. Berry, Mrs. D. M. Connell, Mrs. F. A. Milliard. There are 349 members.
Quick City Branch was organized January 4. 1918. January 10, 1918, the following officers were elected: Chairman, C. W. Yoder : vice- chairman, Mrs. A. Salmon : secretary, Lena Farnsworth : treasurer. Mrs. Fred Ball. Inside of a month they made 170 pieces of surgical dress- ings and a number of pillows. They work in the Red Cross rooms Mon- days and Thursdays making surgical dressings and hospital garments. Membership, 100.
Knob Noster Branch, organized January 3, 1918. There are 26 charter members. The officers are: Dr. D. E. Shy, chairman ; Mrs. J. M. Kendrick, vice-chairman: Mrs. Ed. S. Harte, secretary ; J. M. Ken- drick, treasurer. They have had a surgical dressing organization since. June, 1917, and have sent 6.500 surgical dressings and 150 knitted articles.
Latour Branch. (By Anna Coleman. ) Organized January 15, 1918. There were 179 charter members. The first officers were: Henry Shaw, chairman ; J. E. Stitt, vice-chairman ; Miss Anna Coleman, secretary and treasurer. The present officers are: Henry Shaw, chair- man; Mrs. John Truninger, vice-chairman; Miss Anna Coleman, secre- tary; D. W. Hampton, treasurer ; J. A. Hallar, the fifth member.
Leeton Branch was organized July 14, 1917. There were 61 char- ter members. The present officers are: Chairman, Mrs. Mary Bassett Hamacher: first vice-chairman, Mrs. Flora Stacy; second vice-chair- man, Mrs. Mildred Perdue: third vice-chairman, Miss Myrtle Glaze- brook; secretary, Mrs. Eva Gunser; treasurer. Mrs. W. F. Reynolds. Mrs. Mary Townsley is supervisor of knitting department and has sent to headquarters 137 garments. The number of garments is 225.
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Magnolia Branch was organized July 19, 1917. There were 21 members. The first officers were: Mrs. R. L. Bills, president ; Mrs. Rex Powers, treasurer; Miss Morrison, secretary. The present offi- cers are: Mrs. R. L. Bills, president ; Mrs. Arthur Elliott, vice-president ; Mrs. Rex Powers, treasurer; Miss Alice Parrott, secretary. They have sent several shipments to headquarters, consisting of all necessary dressings pertaining to Red Cross work. There are 110 members.
Medford Branch was organized December 20, 1917, with 140 char- ter members. The present officers are: Chairman, R. S. Howeth; vice- chairman, Mrs. J. S. Raber; treasurer, Mrs. A. M. Cason; chairman of finance, A. M. Cason; secretary, Miss Clarice Wittenberg. The surgi- cal dressings committee was organized June. 1917.
Montserrat Branch was organized December 4, 1917. Mrs. M. A. Cope was elected president ; Mrs. Geo. Murley, vice-president; Mrs. Leonard Drinkwater, secretary, and Mrs. Geo. Hanna, treasurer. There were nineteen charter members. There are now 87. They have made about 290 bandages. Mrs. G. M. Curnutt is president, and Mrs. Garrett is treasurer.
Sutherland Branch was organized July 6, 1917 with twelve charter members. The first officers were: Mrs. T. L. Cooper, chair- man; Mrs. Lee Miller, vice-chairman; Mrs. Vest Cooper, secretary ; Mrs. P. B. Murray, treasurer. The present officers are: Mrs. T. L. Cooper, chairman; Mrs. Lee Miller, vice-chairman ; Mrs. Vest Cooper, secretary ; Mrs. George Myers, assistant secretary; Mrs. W. W. Draper, treasurer.
Pittsville Branch was organized in December, 1917. There were nineteen charter members. The first meeting was at the Pittsville lodge room. The officers elected were: Mrs. Elsa Henderson, Presi- dent; Mrs. Jim Hutchinson, Vice-President; Mrs. Lucy Miller. Secre- tary; Mr. Tom Rice, Treasurer.
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WILLIAM J. MAVES.
CHAPTER XLI .- BIOGRAPHICAL.
Wm. J. Mayes, the well-known and highly respected mayor of Warrensburg, was born May 7, 1847, in Warrensburg township, just east of Pertle Springs, in Johnson county, Missouri. He is the son of John B. and Martha A. (Gillum) Mayes. John B. Mayes was born December 22, 1821, in Green county, Kentucky. He was the son of John and Nancy ( Berry ) Mayes, who came from Kentucky to Missouri in 1834, and after a year spent in Lafayette county settled in Warrens- burg, where he conducted a hotel and operated a carding machine. Later he removed to Montserrat township. Johnson county.
John Mayes was born in Pennsylvania and with his parents moved to Virginia, and later to Kentucky. In March, 1834, John and Nancy Mayes came to Missouri to make their home in the then thinly settled West. Both are now interred in the family cemetery near Montserrat.
John B. Mayes came to Missouri with his parents in 1834. January 14, 1844, he was united in marriage with Martha A. Gillum in Grover township and to this union was born W'm. J., the subject of this review. John B. Mayes was reared on the farm and his entire life was devoted to farming and stock raising in Montserrat township, where he also for many years conducted a general store. He was justice of the peace in Montserrat township from 1850 to 1861 and county judge for twelve years, taking the office in 1871. He died June 12, 1905, at Montserrat and his widow now resides in Kansas City, Missouri, with her young- est daughter, Mrs. Minnie Gott. Mrs. Mayes was ninety years of age June 22, 1917.
Wm. J. Mayes attended the public schools of Johnson county. At the age of fourteen years he began life for himself, working as a hired hand on a farm. The Mayes family moved to Illinois in 1863. They returned to Missouri in 1865. Prior to 1872. Wm. J. Mayes was employed as cowboy in Texas and New Mexico.
In 1872, Wm. J. Mayes and Anna J. Lee, daughter of Dr. J. L. Lee of Montserrat township, and a pioneer physician of Johnson county, were united in marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Mayes are the parents of the following children: Mrs. Eula G. Lyons, Birmingham, Alabama; Finis E., who lives on the grandfather's farm in Montserrat township:
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Roy B., who is a farmer living in Montserrat township; Elta Lee, at home; Wm. Ray, who is a farmer in Montserrat township; and John Jesse, who is employed as bookkeeper at Knob Noster for the Knob Noster Brick Plant.
Mr. Mayes was elected mayor of Warrensburg in April, 1913. He was re-elected in 1915 and again in 1917 and is now serving his third term in office. He has always known Ewing Cockrell, the author of this volume. In addition to the manifold duties of his office, Mr. Mayes devotes some attention to his splendid farm of fifteen hundred acres in Montserrat township. He is one of the most successful farmers and stockmen of Johnson county and has been an extensive stockman all his life. At present he has two hundred head of young cattle on his farm, which is one of the best in the state.
Mr. Mayes is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Warrensburg Lodge Number 673. He is a director of the Commercial Bank of Warrensburg, of which he was one of the organ- izers, and he is president of the Home Telephone Company. He is also president of the Knob Noster Brick and Tile Company. He is a man of unusual activity and has never taken a vacation in his life. He is a quiet, unassuming man, public-spirited and one of the leading business men of the county.
Marcus Youngs, president of the Citizens Bank of Warrensburg. is a native of Missouri. He was born in 1856 in Lafayette county, son of Edgar and Mary (Mock) Youngs. Edgar Youngs was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1828, the son of Joseph L. Youngs. Joseph L. Youngs and his son moved from New Jersey to St. Louis, Missouri. about 1846. A few years later, they moved to Lafayette county, where the son, Edgar, purchased a farm in 1851. His father moved to Topeka. Kansas, about 1860, and there his death occurred. Mary ( Mock) Youngs was a native of North Carolina. The marriage of Edgar Youngs and Mary Mock occurred in Lafayette county about 1851 and to this union were born nine children: George. Fayetteville. Missouri: William E .. deceased : Marcus, subject of this review : Mrs. Emma Foster, deceased : Mrs. Mollie Greer, Higginsville, Missouri: Theodore. Sharp, Nevada: Mrs. Annie Parker, Warrensburg: Mrs. Mattie Houston, deceased: and Mrs. Fannie Purnell, Higginsville, Missouri. Edgar Youngs died on his farm in Lafayette county in 1910 and his remains were interred in Oak Grove cemetery in Johnson county.
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Marcus Youngs attended the public schools of Lafayette county. the State University at Columbia, Missouri, and Spalding's Commercial College at Kansas City, Missouri. Until he was twenty-one years of age he followed farming as his vocation. In 1877 Mr. Youngs came to Warrensburg as bookkeeper for the old Johnson County Savings Bank and remained in their employ for eleven years. When the Citizens Bank was organized in 1888 Mr. Youngs was elected vice-president and he has been with the bank continuously since that time. Mr. Youngs was largely instrumental in the organization of the bank.
The Citizens Bank of Warrensburg, Missouri, was organized Octo- ber 18, 1888, with a capital stock of twenty-five thousand dollars. The first officers were: J. T. Cheatham, president : Marcus Youngs, vice- president ; O. S. Wadell, cashier; J. T. Cheatham. Dr. C. W. Robinson, W. H. Hartman, J. A. Stewart, O. S. Wadell, Marcus Youngs. G. A. Lobban, J. D. Eads, and E. N. Johnson, directors. March 22. 1911. the capital stock was increased by a cash dividend of seventy-five thousand dollars, making the capital stock one hundred thousand dollars, the present capital stock. The bank has a surplus of twenty-five thousand dollars and undivided profits amounting to twenty- three thousand dollars. The Citizens Bank has paid seventy-eight thousand dollars in cash dividends since its organization. The deposits at the time of this writing amount to four hundred twenty-five thou- sand dollars. The present officials are: Marcus Youngs, president ; T. E. Cheatham, vice-president : W. H. Cheatham, second vice-president ; J. V. Murray. cashier: A. Lee Smiser. assistant cashier: J. A. Stewart. G. A. Lobban. T. E. Cheatham. W. H. Cheatham. W. D. Faulkner. J. V. Murray, and Marcus Youngs, directors. The Citizens Bank gives special attention to farmers and stockmen. Of the original officers of the bank three have died: J. T. Cheatham, W. B. Drummond, and O. S. Wadell.
Marcus Youngs has been closely identified with the business and financial interests of Johnson county for forty years and there is per- haps no better informed man in the county on all matters relative to finance. The noteworthy success of the Citizens Bank has been largely due to his excellent judgment, keen foresight, and marked executive ability.
E. N. Warnick, hardware merchant, of the E. N. Warnick & Son Hardware Company of Warrensburg. was born seven miles south of
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Warrensburg. September 24. 1866, son of R. N. Warnick and Amanda (Oglesby) Warnick. R. N. Warnick was born in Tennessee in 1824. He came to Johnson county with his parents in 1834 and they settled seven miles south of Warrensburg. Amanda (Oglesby) Warnick was a native of Missouri. R. N. Warnick served as probate judge of John- son county from 1886 to 1894. He died in Warrensburg in 1895 and his remains were interred in Shiloh cemetery. His wife died at War- rensburg in 1891. R. N. and Amanda Warnick were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Susan F. Woodford, deceased; S. F. Warnick, a farmer near Warrensburg: E. N. Warnick, subject of this review: and Mrs. R. L. Denton, wife of R. L. Denton, a wholesale grocer at Parsons, Kansas.
E. N. Warnick received his education in the schools of Johnson county and the State Normal School of Warrensburg. He attended the State Normal School two years. Mr. Warnick began life for himself in 1891, but for five years prior to that time he clerked in the hardware store of G. K. Christopher, of Warrensburg. E. N. Warnick's store was first located on the corner of Holden and First streets. In 1899 he moved to his present location. He began business with a capital of four thousand dollars. At present Mr. Warnick carries a stock valued at fifteen thousand dollars. He handles a complete line of hardware and also has the agency for Buick automobiles.
In 1891, E. N. Warnick was united in marriage with Emma J. Whittaker, daughter of Joseph Whittaker, who came to Johnson county from Illinois about 1868. Emma J. (Whittaker) Warnick was born in Johnson county. Her parents are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Warnick are the parents of the following children: Raymond N., who is in partnership with his father; Mabel, the wife of Clayton Bruce who is associated with Mr. Warnick and son in the hardware business; and Robert E., a Junior student in the Warrensburg High School.
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