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Chase County Kansas Historical Sketches


1863 - 2003



Bazaar School

Early students included: Claire Gi!lespie, ? Rumford, Johnnie McClellan, Hazel Yeager, Clara Stewart, Fred Patter, Dewey Steadman. Jim Files, Opal Gaddie, Robert Blackburn, Alice Steadman, Leona Steadman, Joseph Burton

Eulalah Gaddie, Jack Davis, Mary Watchous, Dudley, Quick, Bay Johnson, ? Rumford, Harry Gaddie, Agnes Files, Lester Lewis. Blanche Watchous.

The first schools at Bazaar were subscription schools held in rented log cabins. The first schoolhouse was built in 1860. It was of log slabs. These slabs were also used for the benches with wooden pegs for legs. There was a fireplace at one end of the room. In 1871 a building of stone was begun. This served the district until a modern two room school was built. It was dedicated November 9, 1917. On March 22, 1965 a meeting was held, resulting in the consolidation with the Cottonwood Falls school. The building was then turned over to the township for use as a community building

The Bazaar Ladies Aid furnished funds for a modern kitchen in the room formerly used as a library. Anna Yeager is listed as the first district school teacher.



Chase County Centennial, 1872 - 1972




Chase County Submitted Historical Sketches
compiled and abstracted from the Chase County Courant, Chase County Leader, other sources and newspapers
by Lorna Marvin
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