100 years ago in Kansas, 1917:
October 5, 1917
- The W.C.T.U. (Women’s Christian Temperance Union) had made 2,000 comfort bags for U.S. Navy men during the summer.
October 6, 1917
- A contract for ten cars of rabbits for the government was being filled by Koon Beck, Hutchinson.
October 12, 1917
- A federal grand jury at Leavenworth returned an indictment against four persons for participating in an illegal anti-draft meeting at Topeka. An Ellsworth county farmer was indicted for telling his hired men not to register. See previous posts: https://www.kansasww1.org/topeka-conspiracy-meeting/
https://www.kansasww1.org/the-trial-of-the-topeka-conspirators/ - At the request of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, K.S.A.C. instituted a course in wireless telegraphy.
October 13, 1917
- Several hundred Kansas farm women were helping sow wheat, cut hay and husk corn.
Blair Tarr
Blair Tarr is the Museum Curator of the Kansas State Historical Society. He oversees the three-dimensional collections of the Society, but has special interests in the Civil War, Wichita-made Valentine diners, and Leavenworth's Abernathy Furniture. In the last few years he has also done a lot of cramming on The Great War. He is a past president of the Kansas Museums Association and the Civil War Round Tables of both Kansas City and Eastern Kansas. He is currently a board member of the Heritage League of Greater Kansas City.
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