Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-04-12
LOVE NATIVE STATE.
MISSOURIANS IN EXILE ARE
ORGANIZING.
Two CLUBS OF Persons from That Big
State Formed in Outside Territory,
One In Chicago, the other In Texas
Prominent Men Join.

Although MissourIans are to be
found in every state in the Union and
make up a large number of the orig
inal settlers and prominent citizens of
the states west of the Mississippi, they
have always been so busy extending
their influence and investing their cap
ltal possibly, that they have failed to
cultivate that state spirit and fraternal
feeling which some other states have
manifested TO such a pleasant degree,
says the ST. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Every man who has left the state has,
however. deep in heart a warm spot
for "old Missouri" and it was only
necessary for some one to take the
initiative in order that the Missouri
club might hold its own with other
kindred organizations. There are at
present only two Missouri clubs, one
formed recently in Chicago, and the
Missouri association of Texas, a still
younger society, with headquarters at
Dallas, but both of these promise to
become flOurishing organizations, and
the pioneers in the movement are in
dulging in great expectations in regard
to the Worlds Fair. 1t is confidently
expected that by that time nearly
every state in the Union will have its
Missouri club. The Missouri club of
Chicago was organized November u,
and started with a membership of
business and professional men of Chi
cago. The club rooms are in the West
ern Union building where business
meetings will be held, social affairs
being enjoyed az the Grand Pacific
hotel. The club will have a ladies'
auxiliary, the object being to promote
sociability among ex-Missourians. DR..
Coleman c. Buford was elected presi-
dent. DR.. Buford is physician who
began practicing in Chicago in 1896.
souri,, in 1872, receiving his early
training in the Wentworth Military
academy at Wentworth. Mo. He was
graduated from the Northwestern Medi-
cal college of Chicago in 1894. He
spent two years of practical work in
the insane asylum at Kankakee, after
ward studying surgery under Dr.
Christian Fenger for three years. He
has since 1896 been instructor of sur
gerry in the Northwestern Medical
school at Chicago. The Missouri So
ciety of Texas was recently formed at
Dallas, Tex, the purpose being to
promote fraternal association and good
fellowship among the eX-Missourians
of Texas All persons who are now
residing in Dallas who formerly lived
in Missouri, and members of their fam
lilies. are eligible to membership
Thomas ID. Miller, manager of the Dial
las Gas and Fuel company, is presi-
dent; DR.. A NJ Elmore. a prominent
physician, is vice-president; II. l.. S.
Kniffen, a wholesale coal, grain and
lumber dealer, is treasurer, and Thorn
as b. Love, of the law firm of MOroney
& Love, is secretary. The directors are
Judge f. b. Perkins, general attorney
of the ST. Louis and Southwestern
railroad of Texas; Hugh n. Fitzgerald
managing editor of the Dallas News;
Dudley G.. Wooten. a prominent law
yer, and j. w. Maxwell, general sup
erintendent of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas railway, of Texas. All
these gentlemen live in Dallas, and
those from Austin are Hon. Joe Lee
Jameson, state revenue agent, and
Hon. j. S. Kendall, state superintend-
ent of public instruction; Paul NAPLES
a wholesale grocer at Fort Worth: r
V. Bowden, a lawyer of Ell Paso; Judge
J. A. L. Wolfe, a lawyer of Sherman
and William C.. Cloyd. of the Rush
Journal, of Rusk, and other members
The society proposes to cooperate in
every way to promote the best possible
representation of the interests and re-
sources of Texas at the st. Louis
Worlds Fair, and will endeavor t.
procure the governor of Missouri anC
his staff, the state officers and promi
nent MiSSourianS. The association j.
carrying out a systematic plan By
which they hope to enroll as members
every eX-Missourian now living III III;
Lone Star state.
Education in Philippines.