The college at Minco is moving on. The building is not complete yet. It will require patience and perseverance to complete the building and get the school in good running order. W. J. Erwin, J. H. and R. S. Tuttle are trustees, and will push it to completion as fast as they can. They now have three teachers, including the music teacher. There are now about ninety pupils and others ready to start as soon as they get more of the boarding department ready. Brethren, let us all encourage this much-needed work. Some good brethren who have money can do a grand work by contributing some of it immediately to assist in finishing up the boarding department. Send your money to either of the trustees, or to Miss Meta Chestnutt, who has labored so faithfully for five long years in bringing the school up to what it is now. She began with a small number of children in a little schoolhouse on the wild prairie, but all the time with this work in view. She has, by persevering until now, brought it to where it is. She is a graduate of Peabody Normal, of Nashville, Tenn., and is a practical, energetic teacher. She begins a thing to succeed. She has but little use for the word fail. Other good teachers will be added as fast as they are needed. One other will be added soon.
D. T. Broadus, "Kansas Notes," Gospel Advocate 37 (January 3, 1895), 14.
Hello. My great grandfather Dr PK Connaway ran drug store in Minco after he became severely ill and had to stop practicing medicine. His first wife, a Chickasaw Indian named Stella Bernadine Johnson, died and he later married my great grandmother Emma Wideman, who came to Minco to teach music at El Meta College. We still have her piano which was hauled from Ok/Indian territory to Deming NM by Ox. Her mother, Mary Bush Wideman was the first matron of women at Ad-ran college which eventually became Texas Christian University. Mary’s brother, Andrew Jackson Bush , was a famous semi- itinerant preacher with th disciples of Christ, and he was very involved in Establishing TCU.
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