Youngtown: Sieger donates grandfather's saddle to museum
By MARGARET IRELAND
Youngtown correspondent
(620) 382-2713
Eileen and Skip Sieger took a day trip Wednesday to the Cherokee Museum at Arkansas City to contribute a saddle that her Grandfather Frank Pavey had used when he rode in the 1893 Cherokee Strip Run. They toured the museum and viewed the video of the run.
Eileen said the museum was delighted to get the saddle because most of the souvenirs of that event have been placed in museums in Oklahoma.
Arkansas City was one of the starting places where people gathered, and a photographer was on hand to take pictures, which later were sold (see photo).
Eileen said her grandfather wasn't successful in establishing a claim. He grew up at Youngtown and lived in the Florence area for a while after his marriage. He lived in Centre Township until his death in 1991.
Eileen Sieger attended a planning commission workshop Saturday in the Old Town Conference Center at Wichita. The workshop was a training class for people across the state.
Dorothy Hayen called to report they had received .90 rain Friday morning. Leon and Cate Hayen called to have Dorothy and John meet them Thursday for lunch in Florence. Virginia Downing joined them. They all came back to the Hayen farm to visit in the afternoon.
Virginia Downing and Marilyn Geis spent Saturday afternoon cleaning Dorothy's house and getting her ready for Sunday. Brent and Paula Hayen, who now live in Herington, visited a while Saturday afternoon with Dorothy and John.
Leonard and Rosalie Klassen spent the past weekend in Wichita with Vickie and Marv Fisher, Aaron and Allegra. Leonard and Rosalie attended the Farm Bureau dinner and meeting Saturday evening at the city building.
Alvina Hoffman, Shirley Bowers, Rose Olive Hett, and Margaret Ireland attended the Mission Study on Mexico given by Belinda Engler Wednesday evening at Eastmoor United Methodist Church.
Shirley and David Bowers attended the Sunday evening planning meeting and picnic at Eastmoor church. Shirley Bowers played piano and David helped with the singing Thursday morning at both Marion Manor and St. Luke Living Center.
Cy and L.Dena Goertz visited Diana and Clint Jost Saturday afternoon. Sunday evening callers at the Cy Goertz farm home were Ray and Eleanor Davidson.
Alvina Hoffman shared a watermelon with her friends at September One sometime last week. Guests were Evelyn Mott, Alberta Olsen, Helen Bailey, Annie Hanschu, Edna Winter, Elsie Switzer, and Kathy Hurst.
Elizabeth Gravenstein of Nevada City, Calif., is coming to K-State to join her cousins, Liz and Katie Erickson. Rick and Collette Erickson hosted a back-to-school party Saturday evening to give them a send-off. Guests included the girls and Howard and Beth Collett, Keith and Ann Collett, Hank, Lucy, and Caroline, and Martin and Melinda Gravenstein, and Don Argo of El Dorado.
Rose and Greg Davidson, Sarah and Rachel, and Christine Schwartz attended the Tampa hog roast and dance Saturday night. They drove to Wichita Sunday to give Christine a tour of the town.
Steve Smith of Trot was a Friday through Tuesday houseguest of Bud and Roseva McLinden. Jim and Karen Link of Crowley, Texas, and Bob and Terri Guetzler of Freemont, Neb., were weekend visitors of Bud and Roseva McLinden, Richard and Patty McLinden, and Chuck and Laurie McLinden, Lauren and Jarret. Bud and Roseva attended the funeral services on Friday for Fred Pracht at the funeral home in Cottonwood Falls.
Gerry Mills, Charla Wheeler, Betty May, Donna Avery, and Margaret Ireland had Sunday lunch together at Kingfisher's Inn.
