March - April 2003 - Lenexa Historical Society

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A Newsletter for Members & Friends of !be l.eDeu Historical Society
March/April 2003
Volume 21, Number 2
The Boehm Family.....as compiled by illS President Robert Lillie
John and Mary Windisch Boehm, of German descent, immigrated from Oedenburg, Hungary, to the
USA in late 1865 with their seven children, Paul age 15, Isaac age 14, Coleman age II, John age 7, Stephen age
4, and Lena age 2. Upon arrival in New York City, Paul was separated from the family and was never reunited
with them.
In the 1860's it was possible to travel from New York to St Joseph, Missouri, and take a steamboat to
Westport Landing. This is possibly how the Boehm family got to Kansas City. The earliest record of the
fami ly in this area is from a deed dated 12-] 1-1865 to 27 acres purchased in Jackson County, Missouri , on the
inle Blue River, now at old residential district in northeast Kansas City. Mary died short1y after, in 1867.
John and Mary were possibly buried on this propeny, but their graves were never found.
The oldest son Isaac became a brakeman on the railroad . In 1889 after
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Lenexa Historical Society Membership Meeting Saturday, March 29, 2003 Lenexa United Methodist Church, 9138 Caenen Lake Road 9301 Pancake Breakfast lOam Program "Jim Bridger: His personal life" by William A. Strickland, Jr., Phd, retired Dean of the School of Pharmacy, UMCK Everyone Welcomel
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The Boehm Fcmily....(con't from page one)
1983 their place was hit by a tornado, after which he
farmed and raised cattle. Their third child, Michael
an injury in a train accident, Isaac and his ""ife Anna
was born in July of 1960.
Hi~
Bleier Boehm bought an 80 acre farm on the east side
Michael graduated from Olathe North
of Lackman Road at about 79th Street. They lived
School in 1978. He attended Kansas University where
there until 1920 when they moved to Lenexa.
he earned his BS Degree in Business.
After
Coleman married Bertha Geneva Wimmers on
graduating from the U of Kansas, he was employed by
1-1-1880. They purchased the 27 acre farm from
the First National Bank in Olathe from 1982 to 1985 .
John . They then moved to Johnson County in 1886
In 1985 he was employed by the Lenexa National
where they purchased an 80 acre fann one mile west
Bank, until i1 became Commerce Bank in 1993. He is
of Lenexa. This land at about 91st and Lackman
currently Vice President at the Lenexa Branch. Mike
stayed in the family for over one hundred years until
was appointed to the Lenexa Planning Commission in
it was sold to become part of the Country Hill West
1991 and served until ]995 . From 1995 to 2003, Mike
subdivision. Coleman also owned 60 acres on the
served on the Lenexa City Council. On January 14 of
West side of Lackman Road across the road from
this year, Mike became Mayor of Lenexa.
Isaac. Coleman also owned two houses in Lenexa.
One was on 9 1st Terrace in oLd town between the
Methodist Church and the Lutheran Church. The
other was across the street at 13308 W. 91st Terrace.
Theresa, first daugher of John and MaJ)',
married Charles Beck. She died young, as did her
mother and younger sister Lena. There is no record
of her date of birth or death.
Stephen married
Theresa Mandl. Tbey lived on a farm near Gardner,
Kansas. Leno married Joseph F. Wimmer. They
owned 100 acres southwest of Lenexa at about l03rd
Street and Lackman. Lena died at age 32.
John lived with his father until his father's
death in 1876. He married MaJ)' Elizabeth Caenen on
MaJ)' Kay Smith, 888-0144, Chair
3-27-1883 in Shawnee, Ks . They lived on a 140 acre
farm on property now occupied by ShaVtnee Mission
Park. MaJ)' died in 1904 and John in 1928. Their
son, Charles Stephan Boehm was born in November
of l896. After serving in \VWI he married Anna
Hauser on January 4, 1921. They lived on a farm also
in the Shawnee Mission Park area. He died in 1963.
Their second child, Edward M. Boehm was
born in 1926. He married Marilyn Koch on FebruaJ)',
22, 1954. Edward was a dairy farmer on their farm at
the southwest comeT of Hiway 7 and 95th Street. In
Eleanor Boley
888-5816
Ann Foster
599-1563
Sharon Hammontree 498-8117
Beryl Hennigh
888-3087
Susan Hetherington
888-0574
Ernestine Johnson
888-3106
Carolyn Keech
648-0438
Pat Lierly
888-5645
Lorraine Starr
268-8402
Pat White
492-6335
Legler Bam Museum To Host Speaker ~
The Legler Bam Museum will sponsor a special
lecture in honor of Women's History Month at the
Lackman branch of the Johnson County Library Sat.
March 15, 2003 at 2 p.m.
Carey McDougall, Endowed Catron Professor of An
at Washburn University in Topeka will present a
lecture and discussion on various intersections of
women in an entitled " Elusive Femininity: Essential
Questions for loday's Women Artists." She will
explore pivotal Questions such as Why have there been
so few great women artists?, Is there a kind of art
women make?, and Do all women even have a room
of their own yet? McDougall will explore how far
women and an have grown in tenns of their
History. A reception to honor the exhibit artists will
relationships and how far both still might have to go.
follow at the Legler Barn Museum _ The Museum will
remain open until 6 pm. More information is available
McDougall currently is teaching "Gender and Art" and
~Reframing
the
Female
Figure"
at
by calling the Museum at 913-492-0038.
Washburn
University. As a perfonnance artist, her work plays
The Feminine Canvas: Women, Art, History exhibit
with constructions of femininity, public and private
will run until May 3, 2003. Don't forget to stop by
demarcations, and fluid models of self.
and vote for your favorite painting!
The lecture is in conjunction with the Legler Bam
The Lackman Library is located at 15345 W. 87th St,
Museum exhibit The Feminine Canvas: Women, Art,
Lenexa, KS.
Recent Assessions ....... C.mpiled by Peggy StaDt••
Sidney Merle and Elaine Sparlin have offered the Historical Society a school desk of the 1950's that was
used at the Bonjour Elementary School in Lenexa.
From Paul Lauck we have received the donation of a doctors bag to go with the doctor's wagon recently
donated to the Historical Society.
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The Boehm FamIlV....(con't from page one)
1983 their place was hit by a tornado. after which he
fanned and raised cattle. Their third child, Michae1
an injury in a train accident, Isaac and his wife Anna
Bleier Boehm bought an 80 acre fann on the east side
was boro in July of 1960.
Michael graduated from Olathe North
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of Lackman Road at aboot 79th Street. They lived
School in 1978. He attended Kansas University where
there until 1920 when they moved to Lenexa.
he earned his BS Degree in Business.
After
They purchased the 27 acre farm from
graduating from the U of Kansas, he was employed by
the First National Bank in Olathe from 1982 to 1985 .
John. They then moved to Johnson County in 1886
In 1985 he was employed by the Lenexa National
where they purchased an 80 acre farm one mile west
Bank, until it became Commerce Bank in 1993. He is
of Lenexa. This land at about 91st and Lackman
Stayed in the family for over one hundred years until
currently Vice President at the Lenexa Branch . Mike
Coleman mlll'lied Bertha Geneva Wimmers on
1-1-1880
it was sold to become pan of the Country Hill West
was appointed to the Lenexa Planning Commission in
1991 and served until 1995. From 1995 to 2003 , Mike
subdivision. Coleman also owned 60 acres on the
served on the Lenexa City Council. On January 14 of
West side of Lackman Road across the road from
this year, Mike became Mayor of Lenexa.
Isaac. Coleman also owned two houses in Lenexa.
One was on 9 J51 Terrace in old town berween the
Methodist Church and the Lutheran Church. The
other was across the streetat 13308 W. 9 1st Terrace.
Theresa, first daugher of John and Mary,
manied Charles Beck. She died young, as did her
mother and younger sister Lena. There is no record
of her date of birth or death. Stephen married
Theresa Mandl. They lived on a farm near Gardner,
Kansas . Leno manied Joseph F. Wimmer. They
owned 100 acres southwest of Lenexa at about 103rd
Street and Lackman. Lena died at age 32.
John lived with his father until his father's
death in 1876 He manied Mary Elizabeth Caenen on
3-27-1883 in Shawnee, Ks. They lived on a 140 acre
farm on property now occupied by Shawnee Mission
Park. Mary died in 1904 and John in 1928. Their
son, Charles Stephan Boehm was born in November
of 1896. After serving in WWI he married Anna
Hauser on January 4, 192!. They lived on a farm also
in the Shawnee Mission Park area. He died in 1963 .
Their second child, Edward M. Boehm was
born in 1926. He married Marilyn Koch on February,
22, 1954. Edward was a dairy farmer on their farm at
the southwest comer of Hiway 7 and 95th Street. In
Mary Kay Smith, 888-0144, Chair
Eleanor Boley
888-5816
599-1563
Sharon Hammontree 498-8117
888-3087
Beryl Hennigh
Susan Hetherington 888-0574
888-3106
Ernestine Johnson
Ann FOSler
Carolyn Keech
648-0438
Pat Lierly
Lorraine Starr
888-5645
268-8402
Pat White
492-6335
NEWS FROM THE LEGLER BARN
MUSEUM ADVISORY COMMITTEE,
aka '"The Transition Team-
VISITS LOCAL SCHOOLS
C-pilcd by Jim Spaeth
[Note" The
"team"
LEARNING ABOUT LENEXA consists
of
three
LHS
rq>resentatives: Ernestine Johnson, Mary Kay Smith.
and Jim Spaith, and two City representatives:
Every
fall and spring
Councilman Dick Dyer and Councilwoman Jane
Klein, with ex officio members Bill Nicks (Director
of Parks and Recreation) and Peggy
the
Stanton
Lenexa
Historical
(Museum Director). The meetings are held at City
Society and the
Hall and are facilitated by Assistant City Anomey
Eric Arner I
Legler
Bam
Museum
vi sit
At the committee's regular meeting on December 9,
the
Ibe addition of "historic" or "historical" to the name
classes here in
c#. the museum was recommended. Also discussed
was the denial of the City's grant application to
Lenexa .
Burlington Nonhern for funds to refurbish the
of
Clboose in Sar-Ko-Par Park.
About
Bill Nicks requested a special meeting of the
CX1Il'Imittee for Tuesday, Febrrary 18, to discuss
options with respect to City's budget crisis vis-a-vis
museum staffing. At the City Council's retreat the
first weekend in February, there was objection to the
plan to cut museum staff hours trom 90 to 36 per
week. (This would save the City $36,000 per year.
Overall, the City's budget will be reduced by $4.2
milli on in FY2003 and by $7.1 million in FY2004;
each department is to reduce its budget by seven
percent.)
The committee considered the possiblity of LHS
hauling staff hours on a contract basis, as well as
mgmenting lost staff time with volunteers. It was the
concensus of the committee that one profesional staff
person be given as many hours as possible for
continuity, rather than tying to divide 36 hours among
me current three staff members.
3rd
history
grade
The
section
Learning
Lenexa
features
three
parts, a visit by city planner Octave Chanute. an oraJ
history of the founding of the Lenexa, and a tour of
the Prairie Schooner 'Wagon. We are always in need
of volunteers to help out with the Learning About
Lenexa program. Listed below are the times and dates
of the spring schedule. !fyou are interested in helping
out please contact Allison Elliott at the Legler Bam
Museum 913-492-0038. I would be happy to hear
from you !
Thursday April 10,9:00-10:30 am Holy Trinity
Catholic School
Tuesday April 22, I :00-2:30 pm
Elementary
Rising Star
Thursday May 8, I :00-2:30 pm
Elementary
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Strang Carriage House Historic Sites In Johnson CouDty.._.. CompilatioD & pk..... by Ma,,' KO, Smnb
This rough-cut limestone structure was built around 1910. It is located in Santa Fe Commons Park
between Overland Park Drive and Santa Fe Drive, south of 80th Street It was bult to house the chauffeur and
personal transportation vehicles of William B. Strang. The plan to build a new house to accompany the carriage
was abandoned when Mr. Strang died in 1921. Mr. Strang built the interurban railway which operated between
Westport and Olathe from 1906-1940.
The building is owned.by the City of Overland Park and is occupied by the Overland Park Historical
Society .
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The Lenexa Historical Society Soup
Luncheon was another successful happening for us.
organizes the kitchen; gets her helpers and when the
soup comes in she gets it all together and makes it taste
We can be proud of those people before us who
staned this even[ and those who stilI think it is
so good! Calls went out for cornbread, cakes and pies
worthwhile. Thank you all for the contributions of
reported there would be 29 pies, 11 cakes and corn­
your time, money, and effort.
bread, plus other items for the bake sale table . I think
At press time, just
plus others items for the bake sale. Mary Kay Smitl .
there were even more and they were all wonderful!
over $2100 had been received r
The drink table is very important and has to have
In order to bring this to fruition we first have to have
volunteers. We had some new waiters this year from
a location. We are grateful
Lenexa Park and Rec
Premier and Commerce Banks. We had plenty of
Depanment for allowing us to schedule the use of the
waiters and folks to carry trays when needed. The
Communi ty Center for the second Wednesday of
Sebring Company. located in the old Lenexa Hotel
February each year. Planning begins with publicity,
building, has been storing cooking utensils and
theme. and phone calls. Sharon Hammontree. a new
supplies for us for several years. This is very handy
board member, took care of publicity and table
for us but it does take a truck and muscles to get those
decorations. There are eight people who are asked to
supplies to the Community Center and returned again
prepare steak. soup recipe, mulitplying it by five.....
after the luncheon
some have cooked this for years fo r us! The ingredi­
who helped us transport supplies.
to
Thank you to Sebring and those
ents are purchased by a comminee member or
donated by HyVee on 87th Street, Lipton Company
WE APPRECIATE EVERY ONE OF YOU WHO
and Walmart (that was this year). We appreciate
ANSWERED THE CALL AND HELPED
those businesses! Remember them! There are two or
TIllS A SUCCESS. TIVI.l'IK YOU SO MUCH .. .AND
three who make ham and bean soup. Donna McClure
TIlANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CAME & ATE!! '
It was a perfect day in
Lenexa for the LHS
Annual Soup
Luncheon. It was a full
house and just cool
enough which made the
day ideal for hot soup,
delicious desserts,
sharing lunch, and
conversation with
friends' Hope to see
you there next year!!
£enexa :J{istorical Society general cJWeeting Breakfast Meeting 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
Program 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
"The King of Mountain Men" James Bridger, was born in 1804 and
died in 1881 in Kansas City, Missouri.
He was the famous mountain man
Indian fighter and Indian friend ,
explorer, scout, and merchant.
Program: "Jim Bridger, His Personal Life',
presented by William A. Strickland, Jr., Ph.D. ,
retired Dean School of Pharmacy, UMKC
Satu rday, March 29, 2003
Lenexa United Methodist Church
Schneeberger Hall
91 st & Caenen Lake Road
Come and enjoy a pancake breakfast,
with sausage, orange juice, coffee and tea.
Free Will Donations
Call for reservations: 913888-0144 or 913498-8117
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Grand Opening of the New l enexa Conference
Mike Boehm
Ma i ot Lenexa
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PHOTO GALLER -Bob Sten!. ;:::;ojeG: Manage~, M:::Cowr. Gorden
C::: le. MeC:;·wn Gorden Corr:.
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By BiJl Nicks Jr" LBS Member
The Ne-Nex-Se (Lenexa's Shawnee Indian Namesake) Bronze
starue (at right) that you read about in the last LHS newsletter was
recommended for city acquisition by the Lenexa Arts Council. The
Lenexa Arts Council was fonned in 1981. Mayor Gunnard Nelson
appointed the first board and the city council confmned the
appointments.
One of their first meetings. much to the di spleasure of the Kansas
Anorney General (something about open public meetings) was held in
the living room of my friend, and the council 's first chainnan. Gloria
Gale. Gloria., along with her living room, has since been banished to
Overland Park and Judy Tuckness now presides as chairperson.
The goal of the Arts Council is to " .. .serve the community by
stimulating an awareness in the arts for Lenexa residents." Throughout the years, the Arts Council has recommended art purchases that makeup the City of Lenexa's art inventory. Hopefully, sometime soon, the Ne¥Nex-Se statue will be added to that Jist. Three of my favorite city art pieces are listed below. American Bison is a marble sculpture by Tom Laisure. This piece honors the Kansas State
Animal and is on display in the Lenexa City Hall.
Swimmer is a copper sculpture that can be found on Rose 's Pond in Sar-Ko-Par Trails Park
during the non-winter months. During the winter it is removed ITom the pond and stored under
protective cover. Artist David Hickman says the Swimmer is a female fonn .
Windswept is a bronze sculpture of an eagle. It is soaring in front of the Lenexa Police
Station. The artist is Patti Stajcar.
These and 12 other pieces of Lenexa City Art are detailed in an "Arts Visitor's Guide" which can be
obtained at the Legler Bam Historical Museum. The guide was put together by the Arts Council with a grant
from the Kansas City 150th Anniversary Legacy Fund.
The current nine members of the Lenexa Arts Council are: Vera Adams, Lloyd Cedarholm, Carolyn '..:_ ..
Debiak:, Mary Lewis, Carol B. Napper, Kay Plaster, Karen Olsen Poe, Judy Tuckness, and Duane Youngquist.
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Official INeNews Crossword Puzzle for
MarchiApril as approved by
Ka~sas/u5A
rr"la Master
Walter T. McKenzie
Across
3. The number of dollars a corporation invests to be at the "stonemason" membership level
5. First name of the man who portrayed
Je Nichols at the January Membership Meeting
6. One of the choices of soup served at the February 12 LHS Soup Luncheon
10. Last name of Lenexa's Trivia Master
11 . JOCO city where the first airport west of the Mississippi was located
12. The type of tree that commemorated the George Washington Memorial, and was a cutting from Mount
Vernon, AND was planted near our fire station (87th & Lackman)
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1. Female relative of A. Leglar who works for the City, at The Museum at Legler Barn
2. City where the first colle&e in JOCO was located
3. The number afyears old, the Museum at Legler Barn will celebrate this coming May
4. Historical figure to be portrayed by Bill Strickland at the March LHS Membership Meeting
7. The first name of the Legler who has a barn named for him, in Lenexa
8. Beverage served at he the 2002 Old Town Lenexa Christmas lighting ceremony
9. Lenexa's namesake
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Lenexa Historical Societv
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GAMilY IIAMC£1!S' BALL 2003
expensive items are donated to warrant it From
By Katie Evans, Committee Chair
reading about other fundraisers in the paper, it seems
that silent auctions raise a lot of money .
After all the expenses and revenues had been
The last thing we discussed was music. Since so
tallied up, we found that we lost about $100 on last
few attendees have stayed to dance at prior balls, we
year 's ball. The ball committee had a discussion, and
discussed whether or not to even have a band or dj.
decided that we were willing to give it one more big
That point is still under discussion. It would reduce
the cost of the ball , therefore
enabling us to reduce the cost of
push, if the board was.
In order to increase the attendance
and the corporate donations, the
tickets.
Since
some
have
committee discussed ways to change
complained that the price of $75
the event to appeal to more people.
per ticket was too high, we have
First, we decided to change the name
been exploring ways to reduce that.
of the ball. Too many people don't
if possible. On the other hand, we
know what a gandy dancer is. We
want to produce a quaJity event,.
decided that to better reflect our
and making it cheap to attend is not
mission, we would change the name
the point.
There were some ideas that
to the Preservation Ball.
To further support our mission,
were brought up, then discarded . ]t
and to bring public recognition to
had been suggested that we have
those who have worked toward it, we
the ball on New Year's Eve at the
are going to name two people as ball
new Lenexa convention center.
honorees . Those two people will be
That idea was discarded because of
presented the Preservationists of the
the cost of renting the facility
Year award at the ball. The names of the people will
($900), and fears that other parties would undermine
be revealed at a later date, but be assured, they deserve
attendance.
the award!
detennined that by hiring a caterer, paying hall rental,
Next, we decided to keep the slideJlive Lenexa
history show, but to drop a second historically related
presentation. In place of that, we decided to have a
silent auction. and possibly a live auction, if enough
We
researched
other
places.
and
and other expenses incurred from not having it at the
Holiday Inn, the cost was prohibitive.
We will continue trying to think of ways to
improve our ball.
KaNSaS Cit~'S passport to Ad1l"NWre offer.; local residents a summer full
of family fun with prizes
at the end of the season. The Passport to Adventure is a project of the Interpretive Site
Coalition, of which the Legler Bam Museum is a member. This year's adventure kicks off at
1:00 p.m. on April 27,2003, at Union Station.
The Interpretive Site Coalition is a not-far-profit organization
(con't next page)
(passport, Coo'l) of nearly 20 historic sites, nature
centers and
like agencies in the Kansas City
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metropolitan area. The group began in February of
199 1 with the purpose of establishing a cooperative
volunteer recruitment program that would benefit
staffs, volunteers and the communities served because
of a di scerned need for volunteer training and a need
to come together and compliment each other' s
interpretive progiam efforts. The Legler Bam has
been a member at least since 1998.
ONTHISDIlY
IN KANSAS HISTORY
2002 is the tenth year ISC has sponsored the
Ka..'l sas City Passpon to Adventure. This year 14 sites
are participating.. Each participant will receive herlhis
own passpon book (for the past two years edited by
our oo.n Allison EliOl). m "hith each participating
site has a tv.-.rpage spread and a question that can
ani) be answ~ by a personal visit to the location.
(Taken from Kansas Day by Day
by Rob Bird., available in LHS Gift Shop)
.\larcb 27, 1897
;\fore than 200 people, including Governor
Lpoo correcdy answering the question for each site,
John W . Leedy> observed an "unidentified flying
the participant earns a stamp that is placed on that
object" (UFO) circling the statehouse dome. Several .
site's page. Advenrurers have until September 27,
time during 1897 flying objects had been seen in
:003. to visit each site and obtain the site ' s stamp.
ctifferent parts of the world . Repons of CFOs over
E\~'one
Kansas continued throughout the spring. Alexander
who completes the adventure will receive a
com pletion prize at the end of the year.
Hamilton, a Kansas Farmer. claimed to have seen a
300-foot cigar-shaped spaceship hovering thirty feet
The kick-off at Union Station on Sunday.
above his cow pasture. The undercarriage looked to
April 27th will offer an opportunity for a visit to the
be made of glass, and strange creatures inside spoke
beautiful Union Station, panicipation in activities at
some language foreign to Hamilton. He claimed the
each site's booth, the opportunity to visit with wild
extraterrestrials lassoed one of his cows with a cable
and endangered species from various nature centers
and snatched it into the flying machine.
and
generally
enjoy
a farnily-oriented
Sunday
afternoon, Passport Booklets can be picked up that
On this day a similar UFO was spotted flying
day, as well as any day thereafter at the Legler Bam
leisurely over Topeka, " I don 't know what the thing
or any of the other participating
is," said Governor Leedy, " but J hope it may yet solve
sites. Please remember the Kansas
the railroad problem," His unusual remark to the
City Passport to Adventure when
uneanhly
you are casting about for things to
considering the replacement of railroad travel by
do ",ith children or grandchildren
aircraft.
this summer. Check the website
finished capitol dome a couple of times before
at. www.isckc.org.
speeding ofT to an unknown destination.
incident
sounds
prophetic
tooay,
The Topeka UFO looped the recently
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Oil This Day III KaIlIlGS History F'<.JT<.JR6 M6M66RSHIP M66TING INF'O
........ Mark your Calendars! I
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(labrt
May 22, Thursday, 6:30pm
March 15, 1867
It was ti me to sow
spring wheat. But in 1867
Italian Dinner & Meeting
Lenexa United Methodist Church
Program by Peggy Stanton, Director of Legler Barn Museum
"Treasures of the Barn" SlidesfIalk
not many Kansas fanners
grew wheat. For the first
forty years of the state' s
history. com was king of
crops. Fanners grew wheat
only to supply their own
flour. But in 1867 some
July 24, Thursday, 6:30pm
Potluck Picnic Indoors & Meeting
Lenexa United Methodist Church
Program by Walt McKenzie, LHS Board Member
Second Annual "Kansas Trivia Contest"
agriculturists believed that
wheat was bener suited to
Kansas than com
The wheat grown in
'K"".., at thi s time was soft
spring wheat., planted in
September 25, Thursday, 7pm
Lake\lew Village, 9100 Park
Program by WIlliam Worley as Tom Pendergast,
the nortorious political boss of Kansas City, Missouri
March and harvested in late
Because it was
summer.
planted early in the spri ng,
it was easily hanned by
frost, and it could not stand
weather.
dry
grasshopper
The
plague
of
1874, which destroyed com
November 20, Thursday, 6:30pm
Dinner & Meeting
Lenexa United Methodist Church
Program by Ruth Hursh, Greatgrandaugbter of Henry Wedd
"Colonial Coinage:
John Hull, First Mint Master in Massachusetts"
yields, establi shed wheat as
the
principle
crop.
as
farmers harvested it that
year
before
arrived.
the
Also
in
twenty-four
immigrant
insects
1874,
Turkey Red hard winter
Mennonite
wheat, the basis of the
families
left
a.ussia for new homes in
Kmsas .
carried
Each
two
family
gallons
of
modern wheat varieties
that have made Kansas
the "Wheat State."
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'MIN I, sur 'MIGHT'Y
LHS Fund Raiser.....
Starting with the March .\1embership Meeting. we will have a
Treasure Table available every meeting., whereby those who
attend may bring "treasures M you no longer need, and donate
them "for sale" , to other members. Items like small antiques,
collectables, gently used objects, any "treasurer" that may
have value to someone willing to buy them! All monies will
go directly to the LHS General Fund. Please suppa" this
MlNI, but potentially MIGHTY, effort to raise money for
LHS!
Thanks from the General Meeting Committee:
Answers to our ..... -.w.
Denni s & Katie Evans
Crossword Puzzle,
)01anin & Sharon Hammontree. Chair
found elsewhere in this
Bob & Beryl Hennigb
newsletter. are above.
Bill & Pat Lierty •
Kent & Jeannie Lundgren " ----------------------------~~~~
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