The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-04-13
MRS. R. A. CORE
RECALLS TRIP
HERE IN STAGE
Contrasts Journey Here Last
Weekend TO One Made in
1904 When Student
at Christian.
WOODSON MOSS A PUPIL
Turner Gordon Occasionally
Drove Coach. X. Rog-
ers Was President
of College.

When Mrs. x. A. Gore Of Hannibal
came To Columbia recently 10 attend the
Siama M mothers weekend entertain
mcnt 4, the guest Of her grandson. Hen
N Ia Cossi,. she came on the Wabash
Railroad which, to most people. is the ac-
cepted means Of getting here from Cen
iralia. She Was accompanied by her
daughter Mrs. f. II. Bounds and her
GRANDSON. Joe Bounds. 10 years old.
But the last time Mrs. Gore came 10
Columbia she rode in a stage coach from
Ucntra!ia and came to Christian Col
lcge where she Was a student. The driver
Of the coach was Turner Gordon. who
occasionally drove the coach between Co.
lumbia and Centralia for years. That was
in the winter Of 1864 and 1866.
Il know il seems like an awfully long
time ago To most people and when ! tell
them I'm % years old they think I'm
abou: ready TO die. but I'm not said
Mrs. Gore.
Everything has changed so. There is
noihing at the college that looked ia
miliar TO me except the approach. The
girls in those days didn't have nearly as
many advantages as the girls have today.
You see. il was toward the end Of the
war and money was very scarce. II it
hadn't been for the wonderful manage
ment Of ]. X. Rogers, the president. |
don't know whether the school could
have kept going or moi.
Il remember so well when the news
cf Lincoln's assassination came con.
tinucd Mrs. Gore, in answer TO questions
about the school during the war. THE
president called US into the chapel in the
most sepulchral voice. and if we'd been
going to the guillotine | couldn't have
felt worse because | knew something ter
rible had happened. When We got to the
chapel Mr.. Rogers said. Young ladies,
| have jus; read that our President has
been killed.
"Of course most of the girls there were
Souihcrners and some Of them began to !
clap but Mr.. Rogers said. 1 just want to
tell YOU hat this is the greatest calamity
Thai could have happened to u.s.
GIRLS WORE UNIFORMS
Changing to the subject of clothes. Mrs.
Gore spoke of the uniforms that the girls |
had TO wear. IN the winter We wore
green dresses and green sunbonnets tied
with red ribbons. but in the summer we
wore white dresses and bonnets tied with
pink ribbons. We just had to wear these
when We went away from the college.
Did the girls ever get into mischief"
she was asked. "Yes inded." laughed
Mrs. Gore. 4 remember on Halloween
when the girls stole all Of the pies that
the cook had made for supper. But. Of
course. | wasn't in on that. | was one Of
the good girls" |
The fire burning cheerfully in the CRATE
recalled the heating problem in those
years when there were no furnaces. I'VE
didn't have furnaces then" said Mrs.
Gore. The rooms Sere heated with
CRATES but there was a stove in the chapel. |
And We didn't have any electricity either,
but used candles. The candles had to be
put out at $50 or 10 O'Clock, I've for
gotten which, bu, the girls used to sit up
and read novels by the freight and of
course, they'd get caught sometimes"
Speaking Of the journeys made by stage
coach from Centralia, Mrs. Gore said,
They used TO take as many as the coach
would hold. | remember one time it was
~awfulIy cold and my feet nearly froze but
We had lots Of fun
Mrs. Gore was moi graduated that year
because she was an irregular senior. MY
sister and ] had been at boarding school
the year before but my sister died and my
didn't want me to work too hard"
she explained. land here I've outlived
them all, When | was in college they |