Carl and Anna Baier Bolser were married April 6, 1914, Medicine Lodge. Carl
  Hamilton was second of nine children of W.R. and Naomi Hoagland Bolser, born
  Decmeber 22, 1888, Pratt County. Anna Maggie was fourth of seven children of
  Conrad and Barbara Roth Baier, born October 8, 1895, Eagle Township.
     The Baier family lived sixteen miles southwest of Medicine Lodge. We children
  attended Lockert and Eagle Schools, and our mail was delivered to the Sexton post
  office. To pick up the mail, Dad usually left his horses to rest, and he walked
  across the pastures.
     Our first home (Carl's and mine) was near Lake City, where Carl worked for
  Riley Lake. We moved southwest of Medicine Lodge in 1917 to land owned by my father
  and known as the Shanks Place. Thirty-one years were spent there, farming, working
  together, and raising our daughters.
     Carl and I enjoyed horseback riding. As a young man, Carl earned his livelihood
  riding and participated in one of the last, long cattle drives - 1,640 head of
  cattle from Amarillo, Texas, to Lake City, Kansas, for H.W. Skinner.
     We shared the farm work and, like today's farmwife, I helped by hauling wheat
  to the elevators - with a tam and wagon!
     In 1946 we moved into Medicine Lodge to 520 South Oak. We rented our farm to
  my nephew, Pete Magnison. In 1946 there were no houses between our home and the
  Carry Nation Home.
     Not bothered by city ordinances, we were able to keep our milk cow and hens; 
  I sold fresh eggs, milk, cheese, and butter.
     Carl worked at the lumber yards - Deal, located in the 100 block of West Kansas;
  and J.W. Metz, 209 South Main (now DeWeese Lumber, the only one of the three
  remaining).
     Carl and I also enjoy square dancing and were members of the Do-Si-Do Square
  Dance Club for a number of years. Twenty couples,we met once a week at the V.F.W.
  Hall. At Halloween we held masquerade dances.
     Sudden ill health forced Carl to quit working in 1963. Through the years of
  his illness, we made toys and decorations of colored plastic bottles and stuffed
  patchwork animals. We celebrated our 55th wedding anniversary just six months
  before Carl's death, September 29, 1969.
     Both our daughters are also deceased: Prebble Lucille Hudson, January 21, 1915,
  to October 8, 1977, Sedan, Kansas; and Christine Mae Bloxom, February 3, 1917, to
  July 31, 1974, Medicine Lodge. There are three granddaughters; seven great-grand
  children; twelve great great grandchildren.
     All my life I ahve kept scrapbooks and have several filled with newspaper 
  clippings of county happenings, obituaries of my own family and of many old county
  families, marriages, and births. I enjoy them, and enjoy having the records for
  others who are interested in local and family history.
               
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 110  
     Submitted by: Anna Baier Bolser