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John T. Bristow. Memory's Storehouse Unlocked, True Stories
Memory's Storehouse Unlocked, True Stories
Table of Contents
INDEX
SUNSHINE AND ROSES
Wetmore
The Mineral Spring
Wetmore in 1869-70
Our New Temporary Home
Roses The Girls Didn’t Get
LITTLE FILLERS
CONSIDERATE KID
THE BOY OF YESTERYEAR
CAREFUL PLANNING
RED RIFLEMEN
A TWOTIMER
TEXAS CATTLE AND RATTLESNAKES
WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE
DONE IN CALIFORNIA
THE OLD SWIMMING HOLE
MISS INTERPRETED
THE “CIRCUS” LAYOUT
Honesty — The Better Policy
INNOCENT FALSEHOOD
FATHER AND SONS
PLUGGING FOR HER DADDY
THE STRANGE CASE OF MR. HENRY, et al
SMALLPOX PESTILENCE
CORRECT VISION
GRAPES — RIPENED ON FRIENDSHIP’S VINE
LOCAL “BOARD OF TRADE”
FAMILY AFFAIR
COMPLIMENTARY TO THE “KIDS”
ANOTHER BRIGHT LITTLE STAR
LLEWELLYN CASTLE
MORE ABOUT THE COLONY FOLK
HAPPY DAZE
ODD CHARACTERS — COLORFUL, PICTURESQUE
MY BEST INVESTMENT
THE VIGILANTES
MOUNT ERICKSON
TURNING BACK THE PAGES
WANTS INFORMATION
MEMORY’S STOREHOUSE UNLOCKED
DESERT CHIVALRY
THE WIFE—AT GOODSPRINGS
MONEY MUSK
GONE WITH THE WIND
WHITE CHRISTMAS
UNCLE NICK’S BOOMERANG
SHORT CHANGED
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John T. Bristow
Pioneer Days In Wetmore and Northeast Kansas
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To enlarge a bit on our ever-flowing mineral spring! It was—and is—near the creek in a natural grove of big trees at the southwest limits of Wetmore. Nathaniel Morris, an early-day merchant, had an analysis of the water made—and talked of developing the spring into a health resort. The water was pronounced medicinally good — mostly iron, I believe. But, beyond attracting large celebration crowds, his dream was never realized. However, Morris induced the railroad to run in an “excursion” train of flat-cars canopied with heavy-foliaged brush against a blazing summer sun, on the occasion of one Fourth of July celebration. Green leafed brush also covered some of the stands on the south margin of the grove. Green brush was the standard picnic coverings in those days.
Then, later, Charley Locknane, Jay W. Powers, and Jim Liebig, undertook to popularize the spring—and incidentally, make some money for themselves. They invested considerable money in improvements. Locknane was a budding promoter with considerable nerve—and a pull with the railroad. He caused a special excursion train to be run out from Kansas City, $1.50 fare for the round trip. Also, Charley organized a Girl Band of twenty pieces, which furnished music for the opening picnic—and many occasion thereafter. The Girl Band gained national acclaim. Locknane was State Deputy for the Modern Woodmen of America—and took his Girl Band to the Head Camp at Colorado Springs in 1901, and to Minneapolis in 1902. The members were: Dora Geyer, Mollie Neely, Nora Shuemaker, Mabel Geyer, Phoena Liebig, Iva Hudson, Daisy Terry, Blanche Eley, Kate Searles, Truda Berridge, Edith Lapham, Pearl Nance, Maude Cole, Jennie Scott, Belle Searles, Grace Maxwell, Ruby Nance, Myrtle Graham, Mrs. Ella Rice and Mrs. Carrie Glynn, of McLouth, Kansas, were numbers five and six in the line-up as written on the back of an enlarged photograph now in possession of Mrs. P. G. Worthy—formerly Myrtle Graham.
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