Native American artifacts displayed at museum

The spring storms came in with a bang in the middle of the night and let us all know they had arrived.

On Friday, I went to the basement twice, looked out the windows and watched the water in the streets. I was more concerned with how our new plumbing works outside were handling the water. After all, I do want this several million dollar project to do what the city hopes it will do.

So far it looks pretty good and I did not end up with water in my basement. Perhaps Buffalo Brook stayed where it was supposed to and all the other enormous things that were buried along my front yard did what they were

Polo History

Betty Obendorf

meant to do.

This week, we worked at the museum with Silas, and all the rest of Dale Blough’s Native American artifacts were spread out on the tables. The cabinet then was emptied out, ready for another display. Then he cleaned the cabinet until all the shelves sparkled.

Dale Blough’s artifacts will be put in a different cabinet and Joe will help with that.

We decided to put a Muench Shoe Store display in the cleaned cabinet.

Remember Bud Muench was in business for 65 years in Polo. Silas carefully put in a shoestore display and we were finished for the day.

Later in the week, Linda and I started to put together something on the Peek Home and the Camp Fire Girls in another new cabinet. We call that our Olsen cabinet. We have this neat Camp Fire Girl’s Native American dress. Does that dress go with the Native American displays or somewhere else?

First we had to find out more on the

Camp Fire Girl’s organization. It was started in 1912, but what was the connection with the Native American world?

It did not take long to find out that this organization was inspired by the Native American history. So much of their program all across the United States had the theme of Native Americans.

Lillis Lawrence Bracken started the Polo group in the 1920s and Mrs. E. J. Diehl started the second group in 1926. We will find out more about what went on in Polo.

• Betty Obendorf is a retired teacher and a volunteer for the Polo Historical Society.