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MONTGOMERY COUNTY THURSDAY ALWAYS JUNE 25, 2020 CLEAN AND 16 PAGES NEWSY! $1.00 PER ISSUE Graduations set for Cherryvale, Independence He will be introduced by his Challenging school mother, Phyllis Blake. Senior class members who year will come to an are candidates for graduation official end for high include Jacobi Barnett, James C. Bone, Dylan Bowers, Jacob school seniors Tate Brooks, Trinity L Camp- bell, Cord M. Dodson, Jessi- Cherryvale and Indepen- ca Ellis, Caitlin M. Fosnight, dence high schools will see a Wyatt Gillman, Savannah C. challenging school year come Gray, William D. Gray, Devon- to an official end this week- ta Greif, Luke Hale, Piper E. end with each school holding Hey, Faith D. Holt, Gavin M. commencement exercises for Hooper, Meghan I. Humaciu, their senior classes. William L Jones, Cory Lee Kel- Cherryvale High School’s ley, Daniel R. Krunze, Zaine Long line for free food in Coffeyville commencement exercises J. Lantz, Seth M. Mahurin, Thursday mornings around Roosevelt Middle School and FIeld Kindley High School in Coffeyville have resulted in long traffic will be held at 9 a.m., Satur- Isabelle V. McGhee, Dylon J. lines as citizens line up to receive boxes of free food that are available through Liberty Produce and USD 445. The free food day at the Logan Park Sta- Morrill, Carson Rylee Niemi- is distributed beginning at 9:30 a.m., each Thursday on the east side of the USD 445 Food Service Center. Boxes of food — dium. Meanwhile, Indepen- er, Allison Belle Poole, Tre’jon ranging from fresh produce to various dairy products — are available to any person with a driver’s license. Food recipients do dence High School graduates Price, Wyatt A. Raida, Vanes- not have to be USD 445 patrons, nor are income guidelines required. The food was made available to Liberty Produce and will be conferred diplomas at sa E. Reed, Gabrielle J. Reh- a ceremony at 2 p.m., Sunday mert, Jordan A. Reid, Kelci USD 445 through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s school meal programs. Because COVID-19 forced the closure of schools in Memorial Hall. Elaine Sale, Austin M. Shafer, in Kansas for final quarter of the 2019-20 school, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is making its food supplies available for • Cherryvale: Cherryvale’s free to food distribution organizations and local school districts. ANDY TAYLOR / MONTGOMERY COUNTY CHRONICLE ceremony will follow custom- • see GRADUATION, page 3 ary order, including a wel- come by senior class presi- dent Kelci Sale, recognition of endowed scholarships, and presentation of diplomas to Surge in cluster cases alarms governor the senior class. riod of COVID-19. from the same location. Those numbers do not take Delivering the valedicto- Rise in COVID-19 numbers causes Gov. Laura However, Kelly said late As of Monday, Kansas had into account an outbreak of rian address will be Alexis Monday afternoon that the recorded 12,465 positive COVID-19 that has occurred Umbarger; Gavin Hooper will Kelly to recommend Kansas remain in phase 3 gradual reopening of the COVID-19 cases (past and cur- at a Labette County long-term present the salutatorian’s ad- state since May 27 has yield- rent), which in an increase of care facility, where as many dress. BY ANDY TAYLOR mending that Kansas remain ed not only a higher volume 406 since Friday. Additional- as 25 people (staff and resi- Tim Blake, a 1986 grad- [email protected] in phase 3 of the state’s re- in COVID-19 cases but also a ly, five additional deaths were dents) have tested positive for uate of Cherryvale High TOPEKA — An uptick in the opening plan. rise in the number of cluster recorded over the weekend, the coronavirus. School, will deliver the Out- spread of COVID-19 statewide Monday was intended to be cases, which is when two or bringing the total number of Montgomery County is now standing Alumnus Address. has Gov. Laura Kelly recom- the start of the phase-out pe- more positive cases are found statewide deaths to 259. reporting 26 total cases of COVID-19 as of Monday. Also on Monday, USD 447 reported that a participant THE COFFEYVILLE RACE RIOT OF 1927 in a Cherryvale Middle-High School summer condition pro- gram has tested positive for the coronavirus. As a result, all summer activities involv- ing USD 447 have been sus- Loud the alarm, silent the memory pended. Of more concern to Kelly Coffeyville experienced was the increase in cluster cases. Kelly said there were violent race riot fueled Stories about the 187 cluster cases reported as by bigotry, mob activity Coffeyville race of Monday, 96 of which are riot of 1927 gar- still active. Of those 96 active BY ANDY TAYLOR nered wide and cases, eight occurred in mass [email protected] bold headlines gatherings associated with The recent attention given to the across the nation, school graduations, funerals Tulsa race massacre of 1921 has as seen in this edi- and Mothers’ Day gatherings. “I know we are all tired of created an abundance of questions: tion of the Fort namely, how did such a barbaric this, and we want to get back Worth (Texas) and murderous event somehow get to normal and be with our Record-Telegram. erased from a community’s memory families,” said Kelly during for more than 70 years? Stories and pho- Monday’s weekly press con- The same question can be asked tographs were ference. “However, we must in Montgomery County, which un- printed in the remain vigilant. The virus is derwent a similar situation of racial Associated Press still in our communities and violence. dispatches from still spreading. Although less bloody than the coast to coast. “Until a vaccine is widely Tulsa massacre, the Coffeyville riot distributed, the only defense of 1927 carries is social distancing, avoiding similar finger- mass gatherings, and wearing FIRST IN A prints: a false masks in public.” TWO-PART accusation Kelly said she and state of- about male ficials determine their course SERIES African-Amer- and a case of historical amnesia. happened. March 18, 1927, described it as “an of actions by evaluating three icans attacking That is because information Except for one newspaper recol- experience more terrible than death • see COVID-19, page 6 white girls, mob activity around a about the event is encased only in lection written in a Caney newspa- itself.” city jail, unfounded rumors, gunfire newspaper articles that have been per in 1961 (the only recollection Two Coffeyville high school girls and looting in a downtown business covered in dust since 1927. You ever written) and a 2018 in-depth — Julia Mooney and Margaret Ak- district, a racially-divided town won’t find photographs of the riot in analysis that appeared in a state- ers — were raped and assaulted by Today’s with railroad tracks serving as the local museums. No locally-written wide magazine, history has been three African-American men at 812 boundary line. book about the riot has ever been muted about Coffeyville’s race riot W. 9th, where Mooney was a tenant. Chuckle Unlike the Tulsa massacre, authored. Looking for a plaque or of 1927. There is no doubt to the story FunnierU.com in which hundreds of dead Af- sign to denote the race riot? You This story will shed light into a of violence, as physicians verified BLM protestors tore rican-American citizens remain won’t find any. dark and forgotten chapter of local that both girls sustained bruises, unaccounted for, the Coffeyville riot In 2020, It’s almost as if the history. scratches and the other trauma down a Ulysses S. Grant did not result in any fatalities. It string of events that brought Cof- * * * * statue in California. did, however, leave a bloodshed . feyville to its knees in 1927 never The Coffeyville Daily Journal of • continued on page 8 I think they skipped U.S. history class. ANDY TAYLOR We must be able to learn from our past INSIDE THIS ISSUE Opinions .........................Pages 4-5 Let’s face it, Montgomery County: we have we handled one of the most difficult episodes description of their assailants, right down to a terrible way of dealing with our history. of local history. the texture of their hair and their body odor. Public notices ............Pages 10-11 We simply want to forget about the ugly This story isn’t solely about a racially However, the story told by the two girls — Classified ads ....................Page 15 stuff. And, forget we do. charged riot that erupted on the streets of which is what readers will discover in next Obituaries ............................ Page 2 The good stuff? It’s told through balloons, Coffeyville one night in 1927. The story is week’s episode — was a fabrication. Yes, banners and buttons. how it erupted: two high school girls — both they were violently assaulted. However, the SEE CHRONICLE SUBSCRIPTION My Let’s get real, folks. white — were viciously assaulted and raped attackers were white. OFFER ON PAGE 12 Montgomery Case in point: the details contained in the in a Coffeyville home. The girls’ version of Rather than deal with consternation and above article, “Loud the alarm, silent the the tragic story was they were attacked by County memory,” ought to make us re-examine how three African-Americans. They gave vivid • continued on page 8 Page 2 Montgomery County Chronicle Thursday, June 25 2020 OBITUARIES Obituaries are printed in their entirety for a $50 fee. 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