ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Following are transcribed newspaper stories found published in archives of Carthage, Missouri's Mornin' Mail, with notations.
History of Colorado's, 1918 biography of Dr Flora, page 843, state he taught at the Kansas City Dental College for many years, from where he graduate in 1896. This may (?) explain his presence in Kansas City in the following articles. I felt he may have taught at the Carthage Colligate College where Rev Knight was president.
1)- 28August1897:
Matter of Location as Yet Unsettled.
The board of directors of the Interstate Chautauqua assembly held a meeting in the offices of Haughawout and Green. Rev. W. A. Oldham opened the meeting with a short prayer. Afterwards, Dr. Stewart announced that the object of the meeting was to decide upon a permanent location for the assembly. Rev. W. A. Oldham and Dr. H. O. Scott reported that the Missouri Pacific had offered, if the assembly was located at Thacker's park, to build a platform, stop all trains there, make liberal concessions in rates, and, in short, assist in every way possible. Nothing had been heard from the Frisco [Gen Manager was Carl Raymond Gray, brother-in-law to Dr Flora]. Dr. W. W. Flora reported that he looked over the Lamb ground and the owners would not consider a proposition to lease but would sell. W. P. Gregory, representing Mack Thacker, reported the latter would lease Thacker's park to the assembly for twenty years at $100 per year and would take the first year's rental in stock.
NOTE, 30 May 2008:
At least I can tell you they did not use Thacker's property that I am aware of. They used north end of what is Park Cemetery now then ran into trouble with the Regan heirs. I think they went directly to Vine & Mound on the other side of the RR apparently owning up to Spring River at one point (or maybe accessible all the way up). We had museum friends from Virginia visit this morning and he is going to look up in family diaries the mention of the Chautauqua outings his family took. He distinctly remembered Spring River reference which would not have been at the first site or Thacker's Park further down by the old McCune-Brooks Hospital. (I have to get used to saying "old" now that they have moved!)
Now that I know the Chautauqua connection, it probably would be better to look at what copies we have for the early years from newspaper microfilm (it will be hit and miss) where organizational matters are discussed more that the actual event program. But I will give them a quick look to see if family was on actual organizing committee and/or officers.
Thanks for all the emails. We print them out and put in folders in vertical files so there is no need to send copies to me. I even have print out of all the website addresses, too. Have a good weekend.
Michele Hansford, Powers Museum
A Museum of Carthage History
P.O. Box 593, Carthage MO 64836
417-358-2667 or pmuseum@ecarthage.com
Visit the museum at www.powersmuseum.com or come in person mid-March through mid-December, Tuesday-Saturday at 1617 West Oak Street (old Route 66).
Also join us for "That's Entertainment! Chautauqua" sponsored by the Missouri Humanities Council, June 25-30, 2008.
NOTE OF INTEREST!!!
June 26 (Thursday) - 2 pm [2008]
"Carthage Chautauqua Assembly One Hundred Years Ago" by Michele Hansford at Powers Museum, 1617 West Oak, Carthage, Missouri, 2:00 pm
Come learn about what Chautauqua was like over a hundred years ago and where it was held and who came and spoke. Some of the most important people of the late 19th and early 20th century visited Carthage as Chautauqua speakers and this program will highlight a few of them. Special display of old Chautauqua programs will also be on hand from the museum's archives.
2)- 11June1898:
LITTLE CARL GRAY HURT.
Falls From a Cherry Tree and is Painfully Injured.
Little Carl Gray, the son of C. R. Gray, division superintendent of the Frisco, was painfully hurt yesterday by falling from a cherry tree at the home of his uncle, Dr. W. W. Flora on Howard Ave. Mrs. C. R. Gray was visiting there with her son, and was going over to Monett with Mr. Gray this morning to see about getting a house to live in after the first of next month. Mr. Gray was telegraphed at Neodesha. He arrived this morning.
Little Carl was up in the tree hunting cherries, and when he fell he struck plump on his stomach. The agony occasioned was frightful and Drs. Thomas and Post were summoned. The injury done was to the stomach and chest, and the posterior lobe of the brain seemed to be inflamed this morning. Dr. Thomas said this morning that the boy was not seriously hurt.
NOTE!!!
Family lived in Carthage 1890 to 1898, with Carl, Jr, (1889KS-1955MN) http://files.usgwarchives.org/me/knox/newspapers/thegrysw6nw.txt , later an army Major-General (head of military railroads in Africa and Europe, WW II, awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his outstanding service in Italy and France, also; Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster: Bronze Star Medal: Army Commendation Medal, www.americal.org/awards/achv-svc.htm : Italian War Cross for Merit: Order Crown of Italy: Knight Comdr. British Empire: Officer Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre with 2 palms(France): Order of Belgium), following Missourian, 5-star General-of-the-Army, Omar N Bradley as "Administrator of Veteran Affairs" 1948-1953, for Harry Truman (Time Magazine, 01 December 1947
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,779446,00.html pus he and his youngest of two brothers, Dr Howard "Howie" Kramer Gray (1901MO-1955MN) are both in Volime 27 & 29 "Who's Who in America", and father Carl (1867AR-1939DC) on page 479, Vol I "Who was Who in America"
3)- 1December1898:
NEW RESIDENCES IN PROSPECT.
F.C. Hodsen to Build at Once-Others Next Spring.
Fred C. Hodson is having plans drawn for a handsome new seven or eight room residence which he will soon begin building just south of Mrs. Hodson's parents. The lot on which the house will stand fronts on Lincoln street and was a gift to Mrs. Hodson by her father, R.H. Rose.
G.A. Rose recently purchased of J.F. Johnson a piece of ground directly opposite the proposed new residence of Mr. Hodson and will move away the two small houses now on it. In their place he will erect next spring, a substantial, modern eight room residence for renting purposes.
Judge J.D. Perkins [Marlin Perkins' father(?)] and Dr. W.W. Flora are each planning to build residences in the spring but have not yet decided on plans or location.
4)- 14February1901:
L. S. Durham Y.M.C.A. President.
Unanimously Chosen at Yesterday's Monthly Meeting.
At the Y.M.C.A. directors' meeting yesterday at 5 p.m., Lee S. Durham was unanimously elected president in recognition of his services in the recent membership contest, as well as his general fitness for the position. Dr. Flora is the retiring executive. Mr. Durham was not present yesterday and will be inaugurated at the next meeting.
Secretary Spencer's monthly report was heard at yesterday's meeting, and Sec'y Spencer and Dr. W. S. Knight were elected delegates to the Moberly convention. Sec'y Spencer left last night, but Dr. Knight will not attend.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Newell had the automobile out yesterday afternoon for a run to the golf links.
5)- 2april1901:
Dr. W. W. Flora, while in Kansas City Saturday, was near at hand on Ninth street when Bud Taylor shot his sweetheart, Miss Nollard, and saw the crowd that attempted to lynch the murderer.
6)- 14October1901:
Y.M.C.A. ELECTION FRIDAY.
Retiring Directors and Nominees for the Vacant Positions.
Four directors for the Y.M.C.A. are to be chosen Friday evening at the regular election from 7 to 9 o'clock. The retiring directors are Jas. S. Ross, T. C. Hodson and Dr. Flora, with Robt. Orchard's place yet to fill. The candidates named by the committee for the four vacancies are Mayor Ross, Dr. Flora, H. L. Bright, R. J. Clatlin, H. A. Montague, Will D. Blake and W. A. Kennedy.
A social good time and music by an orchestra will be furnished during the evening.
Many Carthaginians attended the Forepaugh & Sells Bros. circus today at Joplin, and others will go down tonight. The circus trains passed through Carthage on the Pacific this morning and will go east.
7)- 11December1902:
MISSIONARY FUND DIVIDED.
Goes to Aid King's Daughters Hospital and the Y.M.C.A.
The Union Missionary Society of Carthage has found a way to dispose of its surplus funds in a laudable home work. It was decided to divide the funds on hand between the local Y.M.C.A. and the hospital fund of the King's Daughters.
Mrs. Byron Morgan treasurer of the Union Missionary Society yesterday presented President Flora of the Y.M.C.A. a check for a substantial sum, and it is understood that the King's Daughters also received their portion of the fund yesterday. The latter will apply their money to the hospital, which is eventually to be built and for which they have on hand over $2,000, while the Y.M.C.A. fund will be applied to the general work.
8)- 25June1902:
Big Car From the Hayseed.
The Hayseed mine northwest of Carthage loaded a 33 ton carload of zinc ore today at the Missouri Pacific, sold to the Lanyons att $30. This mine is now expected to produce a car of ore a week right along.
Milton B. Griffith, the St. Louis tenor who sang with the Carthage Choral society in the "Crusaders" left last night at the conclusion of the performance for Tarkio, Mo., where he gives a song recital tonight. He was paid $25 and his expenses, a total of $43.40, for his engagement here.
Mrs. W. W. Flora and children [Harriette. 9 & Frances, 4] will leave tonight for Denver, and later for Maniton, Col. The doctor will accompany them to Kansas City and will then go to the state dental meeting at Jefferson City, being home again Saturday.
9)-18September1902:
REARICK GOES TO GALESBURG.
Successor to Y.M.C.A. Secretary to be a Local Man.
H. C. Rearick, the retiring secretary of the Carthage Y.M.C.A. announces that he will sever his connection here a week from tomorrow, and will then go to Galesburg, Ill., where he will embark in the hardware business for the next year at least.
He goes, he says, because he has not met with the encouragement expected here, and because he was not accomplishing what he wanted to.
It is said Mr. Rearick's successor as secretary here is to be a local man, and that the board of managers now have his appointment under consideration.
President Flora is in Kansas City today, however, and the name of the new man will not be ready to announce for several days yet.
10)- 15 september1903:
CARTHAGE COLONY OUT WEST.
A letter received in Carthage from a Colorado tourist states that W. E. Hall and son, Tom, left Manitou last Thursday for Thunder Mountain, Idaho, to view their mine investments. Their wives are at 121 Hill Top, near Chautauqua amphitheatre. Mrs. W. W. Flora is at 1415 Colorado avenue. At the Sunnyside hotel, kept by Capt. Rogers in Manitou, are Mesdames Greenwood, O. D. Royse, Margaret Lister and daughter, Miss Flo, Mrs. Wallace Matthews and sister, Mrs. Ed Jenkins of Joplin. Others from Carthage are expected there. Mrs. A. F. Wise and daughter, Miss May, are in Manitou.
Miss Mae Pauley now there, is to be married the middle of August and will come to Kansas City on a bridal tour, then live in a cottage in Colorado Springs. Milt McClure, now in Colorado Springs, points out to his tourist friends a mountain top of which he has a claim, and shows dirt which he declares has gold.
11)-8October1904:
Rearick Goes To Galesburg.
Successor to Y.M.C.A. to be a Local Man.
H.C. Rearick, the retiring secretary of the Carthage Y.M.C.A. announced that he will sever his connection here Nov. 15, and will then go back to Galesburg Ill., where he will embark in the hardware business for the next year at least. He goes, he says, because he has not met with the encouragement expected here, and because he was not accomplishing what he wanted to do.
It is said that Mr. Rearick's successor as secretary here is to be a local man, and that the board of managers now have his appointment under consideration. President Flora is in Kansas City today, however, and the name of the new man will not be ready to announce for several days yet.
The Misses Emma and Ida Beattie will entertain in honor of Miss Lora Foster, of Sarcoxie this evening.
12)- 28March1908:
GOOD-BYE TO OLD CHURCH.
First Presbyterian Congregation to Hold Farewell Services Sunday.
Building on Grant Street [700 blk] Has Been Place of Worship For Many Years and Holds Sacred Memories.
[Rev William S Knight, DD. Church's pastor, once head of high school & college created the night of 17 September 1886, then sponsored Carthage Collegiate College (1899-1908) at 1400 Main]
With the transferring of the large church bell from the First Presbyterian church on Grant street to the Westminster church [115 West Chestnut] and with the last services to be held in the former church next Sunday perhaps for all future time, many old and tender memories are being recalled concerning the old church building. For years the members of the church have faithfully attended services Sunday after Sunday in the building erected more than a generation ago when the congregation consisted of only a handful of hardworking people.
Many fathers and mothers who as children went to Sunday school in the church years gone by now have children attending the same Sunday school and in many instances parents have their children married within the sacred portals of the church they attended in their own youth.
The same old bell will chime each Sunday as in the days of old, but it will call the members of the congregation forth to another place than the one which has been their house of worship for years.
-Frame of Oak.
The frame work of the building is heavy, solid oak, while the pews and interior finish are of the finest white pine. The building represents an investment of about $6,500. The bell was not placed on the tower until about 1878, and was bought at that time from a legacy left the church by a man of the name of Hollinsworth. The pipe organ was not installed until 1882.
13)- 7January1902:
NEW FEATURES AT THE Y.M.C.A.
The Y.M.C.A. is to inaugurate several new features in the very near future.
A bible class, to meet weekly, will be organized next week, under charge of Judge W. H. Waters.
The social committees met this afternoon to arrange a regular monthly social, the first to be held Friday night of next week at the rooms. Secretary Spencer is arranging for a course of his weekly evening lectures, to be given at the rooms by business and professional men of Carthage.
James Luke [1854ENG-1925MO], who owns the Y.M.C.A. building, put a plasterer at work today repairing and repapering the gymnasium, which has been more or less damaged by basketball, Indian clubs, etc.
It is the intention of Physical Director Wood to organize four gymnastic classes at once.
(NOTE 5/31/2008: James Luke was a maternal uncle and namesake to Luke J Boggess who married Dr W W Flora's daughter Frances 28 August 1921, and whose father, S C Boggess reigned as Y.M.C.A. president many years when reorganized and after its own building was built 1909 at NE corner Main & 6th where I swam and won diving awards.)
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