A quiet day in SW Kansas

So today was follow-up day. First I headed to the County court Clerk’s Office. As usual, Mickie was pissy. I understand this is usual. I asked about any way to find the “two boys” who dragged great grandpa across the prairie for ¼ mile. She was too busy. I offered to return later that afternoon.

Then to the County Clerk of Deeds to see if I could get the Deed where Israel sold the property. Sure. Got it in a second, and then searched to see if he turned around and bought more. Nope. Kept his two grand and went home.

Got a call from the Smith’s. Left the camera case in the minivan. I’ll stop by there in the afternoon. Then back to the Historical Society although they don’t open until 1 pm and it’s not yet 11 am. Janet said something about coming in at 11 on Monday or was it Tuesday?

As I pull in, so does Janet! We head up to the research library, and I suggest that they may have the books of the court, registering the names of the two cowboys who tried to kill great-grandpa. Into the back room, and three of us are pulling big old county registrar books of all sorts off the shelves. Twenty or thirty books later, I retreat to the microfilm machine to review the papers of the area to see if there’s any mention of the case.

I review 6 different newspapers from July 26th through august to see what there is. There is now news about the Jewish Settlers at all. Actually one snippet: Lew … went looking for Goldfarb and didn’t find him.

Goodbye’s all around and Janet tells me that someone told her they got cooperation from clerks by walking in with a box of chocolates. On the way back to the afternoon at the court, I stop at Walgreens and buy 4 small boxes of chocolate. It’s a small town, and everyone will know who got what.

Mickie is there, and when the receptionist says, “ This gentlemen came to see if you had looked for that case”, she replied, “I didn’t know I was supposed to. She disappeared, and returned with some microfilm about 10 minutes later.

She saw the chocolates on the counter and immediately became a different person. Mickie couldn’t do enough to help me! Of course, she couldn’t help me, but so what.

Then I delivered chocolates to Olga and Janet at the historical society and to the clerks and to Pat and Stan Smith as I picked up the camera case. Hope you all enjoy those chocolates. I would have bought a fifth, but my girlish figure must be maintained.

Time out. Laundry should be done washing…need to move it to the dryer.
Done, with a brief nap on the bench outside the Laundry room.

Ready to go to Hutchinson Kansas to see what they were doing there, if anything, in 1900 when they show up on the US Census. Then on to the Kansas State Historical Society HQ in Topeka.

For now, it’s camper clean-up and sleep.