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PAGE 5. Buxton
Railroad Commission made and offer of $750,000.00 thousand dollars but Brookins refused and asked for a Million; then the railroad commission went to the place where all of the blue prints were made and after collecting the blue prints they did not need him anymore so other than his eleven years on salary was all he received for his invention. Later I heard that it was first used on the railroad Line from Chicago to St.Louis and also placed on foreign franchise on the Brookns Train Control. Dick Oliver was the leader of one of two bands that were in Buxton. He was not only a band leader but was also a composer of band music and one of his compositions was played by the famous band leader in DesMoines, Iowa by John Phillip Sousa. Dick Oliver was also known to have conducted the choir in one of the churches. The other band leader was Dick. Olivers brother who also paraded an aggragation of talented musicians. There were three large prominent churches and two more of smaller capacity. The A M E colored church and the white church was so clost to each other that only a roadway seperated the two churches. On this particular Sunday morning several Club Members were on their way to the Club and in passing the two churches the singing was heard in each one and when they arrived at the club where I was: They said the colored church was singing " Shall There be a Star In My Crown" and the white church was singing: "No Not One No Not One" I said you got be kidding or lieing and the claimed it was the honest truth. They all agreed unanimously but with a gang like that it is not easy to seperate fact from fiction. The other large church was Mt. Zion Baptist church, then a smaller church in East Swede Settlement. The other small church was at the Sharp End and was known as A Seventh Day advent which used Saturday as its Sunday Worship day and the Minister for this church was Rev. Dozier when on a calm day with open air service could be heard from a mile and a half or all the way across town. By keeping some of his congregation from working on Saturday the Consolidation Coal Company tried to stop his Saturday Service without success. The Reverend Farribee was Pastor for the A M E Methodist church Rev. Jackson; Rev. Butler; and others while the large Mt. Zion Baptist churche's Pastors were Rev. Mendenhall; P. M. Lewis and others. Mr. Potter was a choir member as well as an official in the church and his wife played music for the choir. Some of the club women of the Eastern Star were nationally associated in the colored womens clubs; There was the House Hold of Ruth; The Masons; Oddfellows; Nights of Pythias and the organization of Tents which were for children and teen agers. The 12 grade school which required 12 teachers and a principal was on 5TH street and another grade school was on 11th street and the Swede school was in East Swede settlement where it began with white teachers; although the 5th street school was integrated with the teachers and pupils. Miss Harlow from Albin was the white County Supertendant and M. J. Gilliam was

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PAGE 5. Buxton Railroad Commission made and offer of $750,000.00 thousand dollars but Brookins refused and asked for a Million; then the railroad commission went to the place where all of the blue prints were made and after collecting the blue prints they did not need him anymore so other than his eleven years on salary was all he received for his invention. Later I heard that it was first used on the railroad Line from Chicago to St.Louis and also placed on foreign franchise on the Brookns Train Control. Dick Oliver was the leader of one of two bands that were in Buxton. He was not only a band leader but was also a composer of band music and one of his compositions was played by the famous band leader in DesMoines, Iowa by John Phillip Sousa. Dick Oliver was also known to have conducted the choir in one of the churches. The other band leader was Dick. Olivers brother who also paraded an aggragation of talented musicians. There were three large prominent churches and two more of smaller capacity. The A M E colored church and the white church was so clost to each other that only a roadway seperated the two churches. On this particular Sunday morning several Club Members were on their way to the Club and in passing the two churches the singing was heard in each one and when they arrived at the club where I was: They said the colored church was singing " Shall There be a Star In My Crown" and the white church was singing: "No Not One No Not One" I said you got be kidding or lieing and the claimed it was the honest truth. They all agreed unanimously but with a gang like that it is not easy to seperate fact from fiction. The other large church was Mt. Zion Baptist church, then a smaller church in East Swede Settlement. The other small church was at the Sharp End and was known as A Seventh Day advent which used Saturday as its Sunday Worship day and the Minister for this church was Rev. Dozier when on a calm day with open air service could be heard from a mile and a half or all the way across town. By keeping some of his congregation from working on Saturday the Consolidation Coal Company tried to stop his Saturday Service without success. The Reverend Farribee was Pastor for the A M E Methodist church Rev. Jackson; Rev. Butler; and others while the large Mt. Zion Baptist churche's Pastors were Rev. Mendenhall; P. M. Lewis and others. Mr. Potter was a choir member as well as an official in the church and his wife played music for the choir. Some of the club women of the Eastern Star were nationally associated in the colored womens clubs; There was the House Hold of Ruth; The Masons; Oddfellows; Nights of Pythias and the organization of Tents which were for children and teen agers. The 12 grade school which required 12 teachers and a principal was on 5TH street and another grade school was on 11th street and the Swede school was in East Swede settlement where it began with white teachers; although the 5th street school was integrated with the teachers and pupils. Miss Harlow from Albin was the white County Supertendant and M. J. Gilliam was