Le Mars couple’s daughter claims fame as New Year’s baby - Le Mars Daily Sentinel
(Sentinel photo by Beverly Van Buskirk) Margaret Spies of Merrill has plenty of stories to tell about her life, from homesteading in the Colorado prairie to teaching country school. She turns 100 years old Jan. 14, 2010. [Click to enlarge] Madalyn
Colby’s female settlers: Groundbreaking pioneers - Fort Scott Tribune
COLBY — The promise of land attracted many adventurous spirits to Kansas in the 1800s. Melissa Alger was one of them. Alger, a single schoolteacher, journeyed to Thomas County to claim a homestead and to build a future. Alger’s adventure west
Cleanup continues at Homestead National Monument - Beatrice Daily Sun
About 800 artifacts may have been damaged when a water main broke in the Homestead National Monument’s visitors center. Curators were surveying the items over the weekend to determine the extent of the damage. They include ceramic, glass, metal, wood
Wrapping up the first decade of the 2000s - Lebanon Reporter
Lebanon — Well, that certainly was an interesting decade! It was just 10 years ago that many were in mortal fear that computers would not be able to change dates for the new century, and everything as we knew it would cease to exist. People were
Le Mars couple’s daughter claims fame as New Year’s baby - Le Mars Daily Sentinel
(Sentinel photo by Beverly Van Buskirk) Margaret Spies of Merrill has plenty of stories to tell about her life, from homesteading in the Colorado prairie to teaching country school. She turns 100 years old Jan. 14, 2010. [Click to enlarge] Madalyn
Colby’s female settlers: Groundbreaking pioneers - Fort Scott Tribune
COLBY — The promise of land attracted many adventurous spirits to Kansas in the 1800s. Melissa Alger was one of them. Alger, a single schoolteacher, journeyed to Thomas County to claim a homestead and to build a future. Alger’s adventure west
Cleanup continues at Homestead National Monument - Beatrice Daily Sun
About 800 artifacts may have been damaged when a water main broke in the Homestead National Monument’s visitors center. Curators were surveying the items over the weekend to determine the extent of the damage. They include ceramic, glass, metal, wood
Wrapping up the first decade of the 2000s - Lebanon Reporter
Lebanon — Well, that certainly was an interesting decade! It was just 10 years ago that many were in mortal fear that computers would not be able to change dates for the new century, and everything as we knew it would cease to exist. People were