University Daily Kansan, December 5, 1980
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old matriarch and Lone Star native, said she thought of the town as a “country village,” where everybody knows everybody else.
She said, however, that she thought "the spirit of the times is different now.
"We weed to depend on the community for so many things, transportation, communication ... well, for example, if you just don't seem like the same place."
Barbara Fishburn, 26, and a third generation resident of Lone Star, said she thought the nearness of Lawrence and the increase in the number of women working had caused the atmosphere of Lone Star to change.
"Lone Star is just kind of dying out. It will always be called a community, but as a together community, I just don't know," she said.
Except for the cars parked in driveways and a few potted plants on porch steps, motorists see few signs of life when they drive through the town on their way to Lone Star Lake. a 200-room recreational lake and 400-acre park.
A DOUBLE YELLOW stripe on the highway cutting through the valley now warms traffic of no passing. Dusty, gravel driveways branch off the one-lane blacktop to white clapboard farm farms with aging barns. Wood posts fence off property lines. A sign: "Lone Star Church of the Brethren" greets travelers as they drive in from the north.
Many of the residents who live in and around Lone Star attend the Church of the Brethren, one of three denominations that actively advocates the simple life, pacifism and piety. The Brethren are included with the Men's Conference of the three historic peace churches whose members refused to fight in wars.
"We hold to the Brethren ideas, but the church was built more as a community church," Anna said, nodding her head slowly.
The town's social life has revolved around the church, she explained. It sponsored mother-daughter banquets, father-son suppers and a dinner party every January to celebrate everyone's birthday.
She said it was also the meeting place at one time or another for the Fraternal Aid Society, the Ladies Aid, the Jolly Stitchers Club, the Literary Society and the Farmers Union. It had about 67 members in the 1920s, and church records now register about 98 despite the demise of Lone Star.
Although the Church of the Brethren does not forbid television sets and recreational electronics as does its church, it has adopted Brethren, it does advocate moderation
and simplicity, according to Tom Hostetler, the parish's minister.
Hosteller moved from a Brethren congregation in a small town in Indiana shortly over a year ago. The Brethren churches tend to be in small towns and the church has been established where the simpler life ideology of the church is more easily followed.
"We're a rural denomination," Weir said. "We rule the rural lifestyle isn't overwhelming."
"When we think of the simple life we always think of doing without, more like the Amish or the German Baptist. No electricity. That's what I think of the Bible. We're compared to other people, I guess, probably do lead a simple life."
JOINING THE CONVERSATION as she offered apple pie to the crowd, Barb's mother-in-law, Angie, 49, said she's been struck by the differences in their family lifestyle and that of others several times during the past years.
"I're really struck me in the past two or three years, how different we really are," she said. "One instance was a friend of mine who is about 55. He invited me and my husband to have a drink, and the invitation said bring your own bottle of liquor. We didn't go, and it's that kind of thing we have just never done."
She and her daughter-in-law both said, however, that they don't spend a lot of time thinking about how simple or how secluded their life is from others.
"It's a life we've grown up with," Angie said.
Lone Star was founded in 1875 by a man known only at Bond, who also became the town's first postmaster. In 1880 the first businesses moved in.
APPLE PIE SCHOOL was built in 1895. Eight grades, at one time 50 students, were taught in the one-room building for more than 65 years. Enrollment went to 40 in 1920 and finally dropped to 12 just before the school closed in 1960. Kids are now bused to Wakarua Valley School.
No one really knows when or how the town got its name.
A star was drawn on the outside of the school's upper level, but has since been painted over and the school renovated into a residence. It sits across the road from the church on the northeast edge of town.
Besides the school and the church, Lone Star once had a bank, a tannery, a cheese factory, a telephone company, a meat market, a feed mill, a doctor, a veterinarian, a wagon maker, a carpenter and a shoe maker.
Friday, Dec. 5 Superman
The Man of Steel returns in an all-star spectacular which convinces you that a man can fly. Christopher Reeve and Stephen King star in Lola Lane. Gene Hackman is nasty baddie Lex Luther, and Marion Brando is goddor Jokel in this epic, aw-impiring illus. Plus, Max Fleshers' cartoon 7:42 (142/10 min). Color, 3:30, 7:00-10:00.
Saturday, Dec. 6
Superman
3:30, 7:00, 10:00.
Sunday, Dec. 7
Lord of the Rings
(1978)
Ralph Bakhti takes on the seemingly impossible task of translating J.R.R. Tolkien's massive, minutely detailed saga and succeeds. A milestone in animation history he leaves in an awesome world life to 131 million. Color: 2:00
Monday, Dec. 8
To Have and Have Not
(1944)
Howard Hawks, with the help of Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacus (in her book) and Bill Nighy, in Himingay's novel into a classic screen adventure. The Casablanca brothers, who used their nighthair boat-and Bacus's singing (allegedly dubbed by Andy Williams), (100 min.)
Unless otherwise noted; all films will be shown at Woodford Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Weekday films are $1.00; Friday, Saturday, Popular and Sunday films are $1.00. Midnight films are $2.00. The KU School of Art has a Union, 4th level, information 864-3477. No smoking or refreshments allowed.
MONDAY, DEC. 8!
Come out to Gammons for the first Sr. class party! Get in free with your Sr. class card! (If you don't have a class card, you can buy one at the door for $13.00.)
Sr. Class Card Holders Receive:
• a Sr. T-shirt
(if you don't already ha
- a Sr. T-shirt (if you don't already have one)
* a free drink
- a chance to win
  - $50 cash prize
  - 2 $25 food and drink prizes
  - lots of albums
Presents
An End of Term Party/Concert Featuring
With Black Frost
Tuesday, December 9th in the Kansas Union Ballroom at 7:00 p.m.
Admission - $3.50 or $3.00 with KUID Beer, Pop, and Refreshments Available!
Christmas '80 in clothes from Mister Guy for men and women. . . hundreds of items to choose from our fall collection perfect for those special people on your list . . . lawrence's only traditional clothier for men and women' . . .
Christmas hours:
M-T-W Th-F 9:30-8:30
Sat 9:30-6:00
Sun.-1:00-5:00
920 MASS
842-2700