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All newsletters include Message from the President, Newsletter Staff, the Society's Bulletin Board, and Schedule of Meetings. Additional articles are listed per issue below:

INDEX FOR YEARS 2001 AND 2002

Volume Seven - 2001 Issues

Volume 7 - Issue 1
"Temperance in Harper County" February 1901
"Happenings Extracts from the Harper Sentinel March 1901
"1909 Heacock Reunion"
Harper County Farm Directory, Circa 1950 (Part 2 of 3)
Queries: Surnames: Littlepage, Ryan, Lee, Corser, Shaw, McDaniel/Hanby, Shaver, Palmer, Willis, Cady, Kennedy, Burnell.

 

Volume 7 - Issue 2
"Decoration Day Program" Anthony Republican 31 May 1908
Obituary: Judge McKaig, Civil War Veteran
"Former Harper County Residents Annual Picnic in California" Harper Advocate 22 Jun 1933
"Happenings" 100 Years Ago. Harper Advocate" 31 May 1901
Harper County Jurors for June 1940
Harper County Bar Docket for June 1940
Harper County Farm Directory, Circa 1950 (Part 3 of 3)
"City Punkin Ball League in Action" Harper Advocate 22 Jun 1933.

 

Volume 7 - Issue 3
Complete List of Harper County Officiers
Index to William G. Cutler's History of Harper County (1883)
Newspaper Articles: "Nearly One Hundred County Schools Will Open Fall Term September 5th 1932" "Going to College" The Anthony Republican 6 Sep 1932
"120 Graduates in this County" The Anthony Republican 20 May 1933
Criminal Cases for April 1933
"Court Docket Results" The Anthony Times 16 Jan 1933
"Meet our Business Men: Melvin Hoopes" Montezuma/Hoopes Hotel, The Anthony Times 13 Jan 1933
"Will Award WCTU Prizes" Miss Fern Cooper, The Anthony Times 22 Aug 1932
Queries: Surnames: Moreland/Mills/Eastman, Calvert, Clemens, Campbell, Lee.

 

Volume 7 - Issue 4
1934 Corn Acreage and Hog Production submitted by member in Anthony, Berlin, Empire, Blaine, Eagle, Spring, Stohrville, and Silver Creek Townships
1944 Harper County 4-H Membership
"1909 A Review of the Year" Harper Sentinel
Queries: Surnames: White/Winter.

Volume Eight - 2002 Issues

Volume 8 - Issue 1
Cherokee Outlet Land Run, Registered Claimets from Harper County compiled by Ivan and Vi Pfalser
1948 Annual Report of the Harper County Home Demonstration: Tailoring Classes. Pictures and Lists
1919 Harper AdvocateArticles: "Mayor's Proclamation"; "Jennings Photo Studio Notice"; "Anti-Automobile Thief Association Association"; "Harper Legion Post Perfected" (List of members); "Another Land Mark Razed" (Saloon built by Ed Royston later to become a barber shop)
"Want Adletts" Harper Advocate19 Sep 1919 (For Sale and Notice items)
Anthony Weekly Journal Articles: "Normal Institute" (List of names and Address of members); "The Churches" Congregational Church, Presbyterian Church, Baptist Church, Christian Church, Catholic Church; "Secret Societies", "Professional", "Leading Business Firms of Anthony, Kansas"
Queries: Surnames: kear/Carr, McDaniel, Cornelison, Williams.

 

Volume 8 - Issue 2
1886 Pensioners List
1894 Roster of the Members and Posts Grand Army of the Republic; includes Bacon Post 451-Bluff City; Charles G. Harker Post 360-Attica; Harper Post 251- Harper; Benton Post 61-Anthony
The Anthony Republican 11 Apr 1918 articles: "Fourteen To Go In Next Quoto" (List of all Class I men in Harpr County); Letters Home from Pete Connell, and Jack Lear
Grove School District 8, 1902-1904, Pictures and list of Pupils from the files of Jean Smith Raberding
The Anthone Republican "The Boy's and Girl's Contest" (List of boys and girls that have entered the Corn Contest); "Over Forty Automobiles" (List of auto owned in Harper County)
Attica Independent Vol 8 No 20, 24 Oct 1902, Attica Busnessmen: J. M. Burkett, Real Estate; Franklin Vale, Attorney at Law; Attica Library
  • Attica Independent Vol 8 No 21, 31 Oct 1902, Attica Businessmen: Peterson Furniture Company, Sullivan's Furniture Store, T. W. Butcher
Attica Independent Vol 8 No 22, 7 Nov 1902, Attica Businessmen: Attica Racket owned by Manwarren Bros., F. L. Collins Barber Shop; Locals
Queries: Surnames: Bacon, Hall, Arnold/Howe, Thorn, Wilson, Fetrow, Downing.

 

Volume 8 - Issue 3
1926 Harper High School Class Roll
Harper County Record of Wills & Letters Testamentry - Book Two, Dates of Death 1898 to 1915
The Field Family History by Harry E. Field, 1891 -1974
Anthony Weekly Journal 4 Oct 1888, "County Commissioners" (Minutes and bills paid)
List of Property Owners in Harper County, February 20, 1915 (Anthony thur Blaine Townships...to be continued)
About the cover "Kansas Postcard/Stamp" Governor Graves dedicated the Greetings from Kansas postage stamp on April 4, 2002. It depicts a picture based on a photo of a grain elevator in Danville, Ks.)

 

Volume 8 - Issue 4
Harper County Enterprise "Connubial Happiness", Strange/Livermore, Hathaway/Deffenbaugh, Eells/Bayne, Sheehey/Andrews, Ludwig/Peyton, Chilson/Todd,Driskell/Buttorff, Gifford/Brunson, Noble/Elliott "Wanted GWINN Descendants" Photos to give away.
"1938 Jayhawker 4-H Club Game Refuge Agreement" List and Map of Club Members Game Refuge in Greene Township and some Empire Township
List of Property Owners in Harper County, February 20, 1915 (Chicaskia thur Grant Townships and Some Green Township...to be continued)
"Computer Corner" Internet sites provided by the Kansas State Historical Society at their website
Queries: Surnames: Fetrow/Downing, Pryor, Share/Thorne, Hoober, Crofts, Wilson, Seibel, Chasey, Suesz.

Back Issues are available for $2.50 each issue, which includes postage. To order any or all, please order on the membership application by indicating which issues you would like and mail along with check or money order to :

Harper County Genealogical Society
Attn: Gail Bellar
1002 Oak Street - Harper, KS 67058.

 

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