It’s the Story Don’t you just love a good story? Better yet, one set in Pawnee County. Sharla Sitzman of Table Rock collects stories from yesteryear and yesterday.
Above: School girls in 1916, the year Irene Freeman graduated. __________________________________________________________________ left. All the names: Bess Shorter, Ruth Andrew Pousch, Mabel Linn Pugh, Peggy Irene Freeman, Dorothy Phillips Wilson, Ruth Marshal, Neta Gallas Morrison, Leora Carter, Laura Kovanda McGinnis, Grace Scott Taylor, and Dorcas Fellers Mills.
Above: Table Rock juniors on May 3, 1910: Ella Beck Smith, Bessie Hickman Irwin, Ada Mort, Callie Barrett, Addie Wiar Wilcox, Lila Jobe, Gertrude Glenn Trump, and Hazel Taylor Kuhn. Bessie would ______________________________
It hit in October, over a century ago. 1918. Pawnee County knew it was coming. The first wave of the virus had gone around the world that summer.It was often called the Spanish flu because Spain was the first country without war-time censorship so the first reports came from there. But ground zero was a place well-known to many of us in Pawnee County, Ft. Riley. Most scientists believe a...
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