129 Old Timers At Friday Reunion
Glenwood Opinion
October 14, 1948
One hundred and twenty-nine Homecomers signed the register at the Masonic Temple last Friday, many of whom graduated from Glenwood high school in the last century.
Starting with Miss Mary Tolles, who graduated from the local schools in 1878, and who lives in Glenwood, the list reads:
Rose Lyon LaChapelle, Denver, Colo. 1884
Katherine French, Glenwood 1886
May Meadows Rowe, Glenwood, 1887
Mary Daniel Records, Glenwood, 1889
Martha Davies De France, Omaha, 1889
Rollie Warren, Glenwood, 1889
Allie Stranathan, Glenwood, 1892
Josephine McCoy, Glenwood, 1893
Etta Ewing, Glenwood, 1893
Jessie Stone, Glenwood, 1893
Emma Hanna, Glenwood 1895
Kittie Geil, Glenwood, 1896
Pearl Miller, Glenwood, 1897
Other out of town old timers registering were: Mrs. King Gaston, Shenandoah; Mrs. Rose Claiborne Leachman and Mr. and Mrs. Berkley Leachman of Des Moines; Iva Buckingham Riley and Ambrose Riley of Bolckow, Mo.; George C. Baker, LaJunta, Col.; Mrs. J.A. Rubey, Bernice Burwright, Cort Tisher, Ina Tisher all of Council Bluffs and Mabel Cogley Cody of Riverton, Iowa.
Glenwood Opinion
October 14, 1948
Martha Davies DeFrance, another old timer attending the reunion is well known to the Glenwood Girl Scouts as she deeded the lot where the girl scout cabin now stands to that organization.
Glenwood Opinion
October 14, 1948
One of the most enthusiastic Homecomers was Mrs. Rose La Chapelle of Denver, a former Glenwood resident who lived here for thirty years. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Lyon, were proprietors of a hardware, pump and windmill store that was located on Sharp street between Walnut and Locust.
Her husband, the late Joseph LaChapelle who passed away in 1927, was publisher of the Mills County Journal for eleven years. The office was located over the present location of the Holmes Furniture Store. They later moved to Ashland, Nebr. where Mr. LaChappel published the Saundars County Journal. He was in the Nebraska legislature for three terms.
For the past twenty-one years Mrs. LaChappel has lived in Denver. Although 82 years of age, she is very active. She attends opportunity school three days a week where she is learning dress making and millinery.
Glenwood Opinion
October 14, 1948
Mary King Gaston, another old timer, was born and raised in Glenwood. Her father, Charles P. King, was proprietor of a hardware store on the north side of the square in 1866. Her husband was the late Willard E. Gaston who died in 1944. Mrs. Gaston has lived in Shenandoah for the past twenty-five years.
~ Transcribed by Roseanna Zehner & Betty Franks
