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Glen Elder
-- Memoir Lane --

Glen Elder City Hall
213 S Market, Box 55
Glen Elder, KS  67446

Phone: 785-545-3322
Fax: 785-545-3342
E-Mail:  glcity@nckcn.com

 Public Sale! - at Tom Gilbert Farm - October, 0917
                                                                       Taken from the: Glen Elder Sentinel

In the late 1950’s and early 60’s as a young boy I remember sitting on the front porch of my grandfather’s house (he then lived in Jigger, Louisiana) and listen to him tell stories of his younger days in Kansas. He told the story of following the wheat harvest and my grandmother owning a dress shop in town. 

They previously had lived in Arkansas (in late 1800’s) but had gone back to Kansas.   He said they had to sell out and move back to Arkansas due to her health (the dust in Kansas made her sick).

This past weekend I was visiting my uncle who is 83 and talking about some of those stories and he went inside and pulled out a poster that was in an old trunk that my grandfather had. 

(Note: H.A Rush's sale took place on Tom Gilbert's farm.)