Molly Foster Berry DAR chapter holds meeting

The Molly Foster Berry chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution met January 17 at First United Methodist Church. Club news was read including thanks you letters from Fort Dodge Soldiers' Home for Christmas items, and from the Department of the Interior for the flag code cards provided at the naturalization ceremony.

Chapter Regent Sandy Rylander presented the Constitution minute regarding George Washington's service to our country. Following the fighting at Lexington and Concord, the Continental Congress appointed to various committees handling military matters, and on 15 June 1775 his fellow delegates unanimously elected him "General and Commander in Chief" of all Continental forces. Washington accepted the assignment only out of a profound sense of duty, refusing any salary. For eight years, the longest American war before Vietnam, he led the main elements of the Continental Army in combat while also carrying out the broader responsibilities of the Revolution's senior military officer.

Indian minute was presented by Bernita Hill focused on the allied history of the Sac and Fox Tribes. One of the many historical markers throughout Wapello county Iowa is in honor of Chief Hard Fish, also known as Wishecomaque, placed in 1937. Chief Hard Fish followed Black Hawk as the leader of the Sac and Fox Indians and was in charge when the Iowa Governor's Council purchased the Sac and Fox land in Iowa in 1842. Hard Fish and his 2000 followers moved upstream to the Red Rocks in Marion County and left their camp to the whites. The camp was located near the mouth of the Muchakinock Creek on the banks of the Des Moines River.

Nolene Whiteside presented a program for Kansas Day reading from the works of Eugene Fitch Ware. Group enjoyed the poem "The Book" and "Echoes of Pawnee Rock." Following the Civil War, Mr. Ware took up newspaper work and in 1867 he moved to Fort Scott to work at The Monitor. He also studied law at Fort Scott and was later moved to Topeka to practice law.