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Embracing the Present Envisioning the Future The Barry County Museum is located south of Cassville on Highway 112

It is that time of year again. When the water is still cool, but the days are getting longer and warmer. When you INSIDE get out of bed early just so you THIS can get to your favorite spot ISSUE: before anyone else can. The gun shot rings loud and clear Roaring River & 1 and everyone knows what it means, TROUT DAY IS Fields’ Featured HERE! March 1st, a.k.a. Trout Photo Day, has been a tradition for Featured Recipes

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Annual Student Art Show

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Swindle College

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Volunteer Spotlight

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Recent Displays

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Recent Happenings

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ATTENTION! Book Signing

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A Publication of the Barry County Museum

Roaring River

Treasuring the Past

MUSEUM HOURS! 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Monday—Saturday

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avid trout fisherman and their families for many years. For example, the picture in the background is of Opening Day in 1935. It is from Fields’ Photo Archives, along with the pictures below. We have many pictures of Roaring River throughout the years available for purchase at the Barry County Museum. They make excellent gifts, or as memorabilia from the park. Get one to hang in your office or den, or to give to your favorite fisherman; they will be sure to enjoy it! New this year! WE HAVE PICTURE MUGS FOR SALE, see page 7 for more information!

Both of these photos were taken at Roaring River Opening Day in 1935. Individuals are unidentified. Do you recognize anyone in these photos? Let the Barry County Museum know if you do!

We have numerous displays featuring Roaring River this year as we always have had in past years. Our photo board features Extraordinary People of Roaring River, with pictures, information, and antidotes. You will be sure to walk away with new knowledge of the park and its many entrepreneurs throughout the years. We also have a “Roaring River Display Room” this year. Displayed are pictures, the history of Roaring River and many items that will peek the interest of the fisherman (or woman) in anyone.

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Featured Recipes We have a lot of those “long story, small world” happenings at the Barry County Museum, and this is just one of those instances. A staff member of the museum, who interviews for our Lifetimes of Memories series, discovered through an interview with Bill and Adella Horner that their common relative, Vasta Webb Hagood, had a restaurant in Washburn called Vasta’s Café. (Her infamous bread recipe is featured on this page.) The cookbook featured below, Rumford Complete Cookbook by Lily Haxworth Wallace, belonged to Hildra Fogg Hagood, mother-in-law of Vasta. It was loaned to the museum by Phyllis Hagood Norman Baker, daughter of Vasta.

Hildra Fogg Hagood

How to Make Soap by Hildra Hagood 1/2 gal. water 4 lbs. grease 1 can lye Cook 1/2 hour. Only two chemicals are needed to make the reaction we get from baking powder (hereafter refered to as b.p.). These two chemicals needed to be kept separate until time of baking to prevent this reaction. In 1861, Eben Horsford published The Theory and Art of Breadmaking. In 1864 he obtained a patent for a self-rising flour containing the same two ingredients found in b.p. In 1869, he thought to combine the two chemicals with corn starch to prevent the reaction until being mixed with a wet ingredient. (This is why we combine the dry ingredients first and then add the wet ingredients.) Horsford chose the corporate name “Rumford Chemical Works,” which recognized the scientific achievements of Benjamin Thompson, a.k.a Count Rumford.* b.p. was first sold in glass bottles, but Horsford was interested in using metal cans for packing, another reason he added cornstarch, to make it more moisture resistant. The b.p. (at this time, still two separate chemicals) devised by Horsford first carried his name, Horsford’s Bread Preparation, only later becoming “Rumford Baking Powder.” “Rumford Baking Powder” is the only aluminum-free b.p., and is still in production by the Clabber Girl Company. *Benjamin Thompson was born on March 26, 1753 in Woburn, Massachusetts. At age 38 the King of England “Counted” Thompson, and Thompson chose the name Count Rumford. Upon his death in 1814, he left a large sum of money to Harvard College, as a result of which Harvard created a professorship. The third professor to occupy the Rumford Chair was Eben Horsford.

The Rumford Complete Cookbook was first published by Rumford Chemical Works, Providence, R.I. in 1908, and republished numerous times until around 1950.

Vasta’s Bread Recipe 3 cups warm water 2 packages of yeast (dissolve in warm water) 3 tablespoons sugar 3 teaspoons salt 3 tablespoons melted shortening Add sifted flour until dough is stiff enough to work with and knead easily. Knead until smooth and elastic. Let rise until doubled in bulk. Put on a floured board and knead down. Make loaves or buns. Let rise again until almost double in bulk. Bake at 400 degrees until brown. —Vasta Hagood This recipe was written at a time when making bread was an every day thing. Vasta increased the amount to 1 ½ times many years ago and it has been handed down with those changes. Also the amount of flour is not specified as it varies with weather conditions, type of flour used, etc. Vasta would have told us to keep adding flour until the texture feels right.

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You are invited to the

March 12th through May 5th Featuring both 2-D & 3-D works of art from Barry County Art Students Schools participating this year are Cassville, Exeter, Southwest, and Wheaton!

2-d & 3-D Ar t from Exeter

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Come see all the local

Sculptures from Exeter and Cassville

Talent! Both Color and Black & white 2-D from Cassville

Multiple

works f rom Sou thwest

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A blacksmith father, a large five-fireplace home, and a son so bent on learning that he "walked all the way to Columbia University" - these are the foundations of the subscription school founded by Professor John Swindle in 1882. Located at the spring after crossing Pogue's Creek two miles south of Corsicana, the Swindle residence provided space until the Swindle College building was erected on the hill in 1885 or 1886. Beginning with the first grade, the courses taught were comparable with those of higher college levels. Professor John offered courses in advanced mathematics and literature. His daughter Hattie recalls, "Visiting the school when all those grown people were pupils." The college continued to grow, and students of all age came from far away, boarding at the Swindle's and neighboring farms, all eager to learn from the fundamentals to the specifics. The boundaries were not confined to the building, only the limits of the mind. Swindle College suffered the fate of other rural academies, becoming a consolidated school with Wheaton, and the building being sold to Gary McMillen in 1955. Professor John died in 1930. Holding lifetime certificates in Missouri, Arkansas, and Kansas, and devoting half a century to teaching, he pioneered the progress of education in southwest Missouri. - excerpts from Back to Barry article by Orma Swindle Carr

Professor John Swindle

1939-1940 Irene Decocq, Teacher

Photograph and information provided by Ralph and Betty Lamberson The bell was purchased in November of 2009 from the Speer family in Cassville after it was found on Craig's Courtesy of List. Several descendants of students Fields’ Photo Archives who attended Swindle College, former The only name identified in this picture is the teacher, Irene Decocq. If you recognize students, and friends contributed to the anyone please let the museum know. The school picture is the lower grades, but we purchase of the bell and placed it in have one of upper grades as well (taken same day). The names that follow are from the Wheaton Depot Museum. the 1939-40 Roster. The ages range from 5 through 16. If you have information on Swindle College School Bell Donors Swindle College please let the museum know. Barbara Reed Ammerman Brattin, Barbara D.; Brattin, Junior; Brattin, Levi; Brattin, Lorene; Brattin, Loudon; Cherry Bailey Brattin, Minor; Brooks, Ralph; Cantrell, Abe Robert; Cartwright, Evelyn; Cochran, Donna Haddock Cooper Bill; Courdin, Junior; Decocq, Cecil; Decocq, Freddie; Decocq, Norman; Francisco, Patty Killion Duncan Beatrice; Francisco, Betty; Francisco, Dolly; Francisco, Leroy; Garrison, Cordella; Garrison, Dale; Garrison, Gaylord; Garrison, Joe; Garrison, Ralph; Gill, Bobby Ray; Colleen Lauderdale Grosvenor Gill, Christine; Keeling, Betty Ann; Keeling, Margaret; Keeling, Max; Keeling, Jo Ann Fox Hughes Maxine; McMillen, Peggy; Overton, Mary Evelyn; Pierce, Margaret; Santee, Fern; Ralph and Betty Lamberson Santee, Glen Robert; and Tarvin, Russell. Patty McWilliams Donald D. Overton Swindle College is just one of 112 rural Barry County schools currently being Jill Paden researched by the Rural School Project. Fran Bolton and Penny Bailey meet Jon Paden most Wednesdays from 10:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. at the Barry County Museum, Ron and Linda Reed please call to confirm. If you have photographs, information, memories or anecdotes about any rural Jim, Molly and Elizabeth Smith school, please contact them through the Barry County Museum (417) 847-1640 Jerry Watley or [email protected]. and the Barry County Museum

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VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT

Harvey and Nancy Stockton

Nancy was born in Kansas City and moved to Raytown, near Kansas City, when she was a teenager. At one time Nancy worked at the Research Medical center as a unit secretary, where she sent out doctors’ orders and ordered medicines and tests. Prior to her retirement Nancy worked at the Sunshine Center, a school for children with disabilities, at which she assisted with fundraisers and school projects. She said it was very fulfilling. When she quit in January of 1998, the oldest students were 18, and had been there since they were two years old with the same teacher. They wanted a prom, so Nancy returned and helped them with that event. She says, “That was great!” Harvey was born in Shell Knob and lived in Cato during his childhood. As a young man he served in the Air Force from 1960-64. He was not directly involved in Vietnam, but was a schoolmate of Rocky Edmondson, who was declared MIA during the Vietnam War.* Nancy in front of the new Centennial Families of Barry County display

Harvey moved to Kansas City and w o r k e d i n construction for 17 years as a dry wall installer, a general contractor building houses, and contracting out dry wall jobs. He then worked for 25 years until retiring, at Independence Regional Hospital as an operating engineer. He was responsible for operating the steam boilers and general m ain t en an c e with in th e hospital. Harvey and Nancy met and were married May 21, 1964. They resided in the suburbs of Independence, Missouri. They were back and forth from there to here for about five years before they finally settled in Cassville. Harvey and Nancy have two children. Their son, Wade, lives in Florida and has two children, Hannah and Caleb; both children were born in Honolulu. Their daughter, Julie, lives in Blue Springs and has two boys, Levi and Marshall. Nancy says, “By the way, grandchildren are WONDERFUL!” When she is not volunteering, Nancy enjoys gardening, and also enjoys canning the fruits and vegetables she and Harvey raise. She cans green beans and beets, makes pickles and chowchow, and also freezes corn. She enjoys reading books, including

mystery, but her favorite type is Bible study. She does genealogy and also enjoys quilting. She relates, “I have put two quilts together and have finished one for a great nephew. My mom taught me how to sew. She made all my clothes and passed that along. I like to sew.” Harvey's interests include old cars and tractors, and of course gardening. He is currently restoring an old Cub Cadet lawn tractor, and enjoys using his numerous pieces of farm equipment—what man, or boy, doesn’t like playing in the dirt. When asked what brought Nancy and Harvey to the Barry County Museum as volunteers, Nancy replied, “To meet people. I like to set up displays and things like that. I just wanted to meet people and get involved in the community.” She also enjoys the historical aspects of things. Nancy and Harvey had just moved to town and she had been active in Independence where they had previously lived. When she found out about the museum, she thought, “Let’s see if they need volunteers!” The museum hadn’t even commenced its volunteer program when the Stocktons inquired; they got in on the ground floor of the volunteer program. Specific projects that Harvey and Nancy have helped with include the Christmas displays.

New Rotating Display! Centennial Families of Barry County! This new display area is designated for the Century Families of Barry County. The first family that was featured was The Stockton Family. Family history and heirloom items are being displayed to tell the Stockton’s story. This display will be rotated every two months to feature another family. If your family has been in Barry County for at least 100 years and you are interested in doing a display on your family, please contact the museum!

She helped more than one year in assembling the Christmas Village that has been displayed in previous years. “Harvey and I also helped with the Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit, including its set up and tear down. Also, we circulated flyers for display in store windows.” The NEW Centennial Families of Barry County Display was recommended by Nancy and Silva (Stockton) Blankenship. Nancy is always giving the museum sugges tions for displays and items to use in our facility. Her favorite project to date was the 2010 Christmas float. The float was constructed by several museum volunteers. Nancy says she and Harvey enjoyed not only working on the float, but also riding on the float in the parade. As with all of our volunteers, the Stockton’s are important pieces to our puzzle. We appreciate everyone in our volunteer program. Thank you Volunteers! *Rocky Edmondson Park was named for this local soldier. On a trip to Hawaii, Harvey and Nancy visited the National Military Cemetery and the "Punch Bowl", an inactive volcano, where there is a granite wall with the names of those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country in the Pacific. While visiting the Punch Bowl, Harvey made a rubbing of Rocky’s inscription.

Harvey in front of the front porch displaying Stockton farm equipment.

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Crocheted items and numerous quilts made by Anita Stufflebeam’s mother, Lorean Laney Smith, and other family members, were on display through February.

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We have updated the surveyor’s chain display with fresh new pictures and vintage newspapers. The surveyor’s desk and equipment are also on display.

Baskets

Loaned by Christine Davidson

MONOPOLY Display

March Quilt of the Month Marjorie Ryder’s Fish Quilt!

Photographers of Barry County

We are always looking for quilts to display. Let us know if you are interested in sharing one in a future month.

Upcoming Displays Our calendar year for displays is full again. If you have any items that could be used in one of our displays please contact the Barry County Museum. We always appreciate the help of the communities with the displays! These are just a few of the many displays that are planned for 2012: This Ain’t My First Rotary Rodeo; Be Collection of brown glass Prepared; Creative Works by Freda Wolf; Able bleach bottles 2 Products, Inc. 40th Anniversary; I’ve Been Loaned by Charlotte Woods Workin’ on the Railroad; Take Two, and Call Me in the Morning; Home of the Free, Land of the Brave; and the 2012 Annual Christmas Showcase!

At the beginning of the year, the museum also displayed vintage typewriters and calendars. If you missed either of these displays, look for their return at a future date.

Wendy (Thompson) Miekley’s love of MONOPOLY started as a child, playing the game with her sisters. It progressed as her very own game was given to her on her birthday by her Beck Grandparents while in high school. Her collection continued to grow through the years. More recently her Cassville Middle School students have helped her add to it with gifts, and her family gave her a MONOPOLY stained glass lamp for her birthday. Her newest game came from Romania, picked up by her parents on their recent trip overseas. Part of her collection is on display at the museum during the Spring of 2012.

Courtesy of Fields’ Photo Archives

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Crocheted Christmas by

Chloe Weathers

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The votes are in!

Votes of the 2011 Christmas Showcase contest were tallied after the first of the year. The individual winner was Crocheted Christmas by Chloe Weathers and the business winner was Precioso by Kim Lopez. Reserve your space for the 2012 Christmas Showcase today!

Fields’ Photo Archives Picture Mugs

RICHARD C. LEMONS March 2, 1921– August 26, 2011 Taken from a letter written by Johnnie Lemons Batson, daughter of the late Richard C. Lemons. We were in the museum just recently and bought 3 more books in your series of “Voices of Barry County.” My husband Jim had told you how I took the first three books I had purchased to my father at the nursing home and read them to him. He had so much enjoyment from them. They reminded him of stories that I had never heard him talk about! Dad was born in Avoca, Arkansas but his family moved to the Pierce City and Cassville areas in his early years, so he recognized many of the names mentioned in your books. He served in the Navy during WWII, and married Mary Hester Mullins of Cassville. They had two children, my brother, Dick, and I. I was born in my grandparents’, Harry and Pearl Morris, home just east of Cassville off 248. Dad was quite a musician. He loved music, especially bluegrass. He learned how to play the mandolin as a very young man. He also played the guitar and dobro. While in the nursing home he started a bluegrass band “The Lemonades” which performed for the home and at other places. Our family was able to visit him often and we all played music and sang as a family. Dad always said, “What does a family do if they don’t have music.”

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Precioso Kim Lopez Fields’ Photo Archives Postcards

Introducing Limited Edition Picture Mugs from the Fields’ Photo Archives Collection. Featuring pictures including the C & E Engine, R. R. Fisher’s Blacksmith Shop, Fly Fishing at Roaring River 1935, and more coming soon! Postcards! We also have a limited supply of postcards available, featuring pictures of the Mountain Maid, All American Red Heads, C & E Railroad Engine # 345 at Exeter Depot, and an aerial of downtown Cassville 1964. These can be purchased together to make a Limited Edition set, or separately.

Here are some of the events that were scheduled in the first few months of 2012. The Chamber Quarterly Luncheon, Ruth Higgs’ 100th birthday party, a surprise 40th birthday party, Barry County Museum Volunteer Appreciation Lunch, and Rotary meets every Wednesday from 12:00—1:30 p.m. Our Community Room at the Barry County Museum is available for events of all kinds. Call to reserve your date and time TODAY! Times fill up quickly so advance notice is appreciated. If the space at the museum doesn’t suit your needs, we have other options available.

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VOLUME V, ISSUE 1&2 The Barry County Museum Collecting, preserving and exhibiting items that illustrate the past, present and future of Barry County. Fields’ Photo Archives — a collection of more than one million negatives available for public viewing and researching. Oral History Project—capturing the stories of long-time county residents to create a collective memory of Barry County life. Display space for community art exhibits, collections, and various displays. Community Room—available to reserve for special occasions, business or other meetings.

Are you reading a borrowed or complimentary issue? Would you like The Barry County Reflections to be mailed to you? Become a Museum member! Refer to color insert for joining or renewing your membership, or call for more information.

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ATTENTION!! Volume 17 Lifetimes of Memories, Voices of Barry County Book Signing April 2012 will be the release month of Volume 17. The date for the book signing event is Friday, April 27th, 2012 from 3 to 5 p.m. Refreshments will be served and Volume 17 books can be purchased and signed. If you are unable to attend the signing but want a signed copy, please let us know, we can reserve one to be picked up at a later date. The narrators, or a representative for them, will be on hand to sign this volume. Featured in this volume are Doyle Bowman, Ralph Hilburn, and Dortha (Bush) Roller. Ollie Garrett, Glen Garrett’s step-mother, is pictured in front of “Ollie Garrett’s Place.” As you look at the photo, the left end of the building was used as a dance hall, the middle section was a general store, and the right end was Mrs. Garrett’s café.

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