Prairie Flower School 1915

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="03dc8313.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#669933" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Prairie Flower School 1915<B>   </B></FONT><A HREF="http://www.jaspercountyschools.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jaspercountyschools.org/"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B>   </B><A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Prairie Flower"><U><B>Prairie Flower School</B></U></A></div> <div> <IMG SRC="049b7050.jpg" border=0 width="695" height="517" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Jim Moss of 288 4th Avenue NE, Oelwein, Ia., provides the Standard with the above</div> <div> picture of the student in Prairie Flower school in 1915.  He identifies the students as</div> <div> follows:</div> <div> <I>First ro</I>w, <I>left to right: </I>Fred Klinkseick, Jim Moss, Frederick Dement and Henry Klinkseick.</div> <div> <I>Second row: </I>Al Edge, unk, Harold Miller, Jesse Peek, Warren Edge, unk, and Frank Whalen.</div> <div> <I>Third row: </I>Cecil Hargis, Beulah Peek, ? Roper, Jeanetta Hargis, Lora Dement, Pauline</div> <div> Frances and Pearl Crisp.</div> <div> <I>Fourth row: </I>(five girls) Leona (Lone) Brower, Maggie Brower, Bertha Brower, Lela </div> <div> Moss and Etwoile Whitworth.  </div> <div> <I>Fifth row: </I>Rhea Thompson-teacher, Paul Miller, Esther Hargis, ? Roper, Ruth Miller,</div> <div> Rowena Whitworth, Naomi Whitworth.</div> <bR> <div>  Mr. Moss goes on to say:  "Fred Klinkseick was my school chum and I served as his </div> <div> pallbearer in 1925.  Paul Miller died when about 23.  Pauline Frances died during the </div> <div> school term.  She was an only child.  Frank Whalen's father accidentally killed Frank </div> <div> while hunting that winter.  Al Edge was killed in an earth cave-in in Joplin about 1963.</div> <div> Maggie Brower, Harold Miller, Lora Dement and Cecil Hargis died young.  </div> <bR> <div>  "Pearl Crisp married Bill Dickson, brother of Leo, Cecil, Fern, Marion and Ray.  Pearl</div> <div> Crips's sister was Josephine.  Their aunt, Jenny Dewitt, married Fritz Sandy, uncle of</div> <div> Herbert Sandy.  Lela Moss, my sister, married Albert Danhakl, brother of Antone.  </div> <div> Cecil Hargis married Florence Kay, sister of Amanda, Loren and Homer.  Maggie</div> <div> Brower married Francis Barr, brother of Arthur, Sam, Charlie, Orpha, Bert, Ethel, Myrtle</div> <div> and a girl and  boy.  Orpha married Homer Shreve.  Bertha Brower married Jude </div> <div> Robinson, brother of Clyde, Pauline and Johnny.  </div> <bR> <div>  "I married Alta Williams, sister of Jasper, Floyd, Amy, Dora, Gladys and Herbert, who</div> <div> married Ann Fellhauer, sister of Marge, who married Williams' second cousin Archie</div> <div> Williams.  Rhea Thompson was 19, and a neice of Roy McAboy, longtime Webb City</div> <div> postman.  "Miss Thompson" could have obliged with the coal bucket for the 8-year-old</div> <div> Moss boy to stand by her, has she known she was as dear to him as she was to Paul</div> <div> Miller.  (You teachers, watch that habitual, perfected charm.)  </div> <bR> <div>  "Mrs. Blanche Stoddard Sweezy taught us one year.  Oliver Sandy married Alene, her</div> <div> daughter.  About 1955 Oliver and Alene purchased Prairie Flower for the lumber for</div> <div> their nice home at Stone's Corner.  Jesse Laban Moss, my father, was a carpenter-</div> <div> building contractor.  He may have built the Prairie Flower for I used to take his lunch</div> <div> while working on it.  </div> <bR> <div>  "In 1913 I say Sam Edge and probably Walt Troup moved the first Prairie Flower</div> <div> school to Webb City where it has since been used as a house.  The school name is</div> <div> scared to me partly because of those beautiful prairie flowers that grew in the wild</div> <div> prairie hay fields between Opolis and Asbury on the east side of the road.  I never</div> <div> failed to look for them and now see them through the falling snow, 510 miles to the</div> <div> Southwest.</div> <bR> <div>  "Lon Miller, my A. H. T. A. lodge brother, father of the Miller children, including Kenneth,</div> <div> was a brother of Ed Miller.  He was my carpenter foreman over 50 years ago.  He was</div> <div> a preacher and I cherish the memory of their goodness.  Ed was the grandfather of</div> <div> Bob Miller, editor of this Carl Junction Standard newspaper.  Jim Moss."</div> <bR> <div> Article from <I>The Carl Junction Standard, </I>mostly likely written in the 1970's.</div> <bR> <div>  <script language="JavaScript1.2"> /* Disable right click script II (on images)- By Dynamicdrive.com For full source, Terms of service, and 100s DTHML scripts Visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com */ var clickmessage="Please send an email if you would like a copy of this photo." function disableclick(e) { if (document.all) { if (event.button==2||event.button==3) { if (event.srcElement.tagName=="IMG"){ alert(clickmessage); return false; } } } else if (document.layers) { if (e.which == 3) { alert(clickmessage); return false; } } else if (document.getElementById){ if (e.which==3&&e.target.tagName=="IMG"){ alert(clickmessage) return false } } } function associateimages(){ for(i=0;i<document.images.length;i++) document.images[i].onmousedown=disableclick; } if (document.all) document.onmousedown=disableclick else if (document.getElementById) document.onmouseup=disableclick else if (document.layers) associateimages() </script>  </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>