Born to Govan and Margaret Hittle Mills, Oct. 6, 1907, was Govan (Babe) Jr.
  in the ranch house built in 1900. The attending physician was Dr. T.A. Coleman 
  and Mrs. Bill (Gram) Draper assisting.
     About this time the Santa Fe built tracks into Lake City and the Lake City
  Bank was incorporated. Lake City was growing and was soon to have a resident
  physician, a bank, three grocery stores, blacksmith shop, livery barn, lumber
  yard, two barbers, and an active feed and elevator exchange and a drug store.
     The local school was District No. 6, and the first teacher I remember was
  Margaret Landis. Others were Belle Groendyke, Agnes Hudson, Cuba Shriver, Opal
  Cox and Raymond Shydler. I also went to the Elsea (Monument) school for one
  year, and the teacher was Edna McCain, in later years, Lucille Mills, Lillian
  Brdenhammer, and Ruth Hittle taught at Dist. #6.
     Graduating from Medicine Lodge High School in 1925, I went to Kansas State
  Agrigultural College and got my degree in 1930. The next six years were spent
  teaching in the high schools of Haviland, LaCrosse and Larned.
     While teaching in Haviland I married Margaret McKenzie of Coats, Kansas, 
  and granddaugter of Mr. and Mrs. S.B. McKenzie, pioneers of Pratt, County.
  Margaret's mother, Blanche, served the Coats area for many years as a trained
  nurse. Margaret's father, Dow, died in the flu epidemic of 1918. We were blessed
  with three children: Beulah Margaret, married James C. Harbaugh; Govan Clifton,
  married Wilma Cox; Hannah Louise, married Charles A. Clarke.
     Coming back to the ranch on Bear Creek in 1936, we participated in the life
  of the Lake City community, the Methodist Church of which I was superintendent
  for several years. Eastern Star and Masonic Lodge. In 1946, we moved to Medicine
  Lodge, as the children were ready for high school. While there, Margaret helped
  as Den Mother in Cub Scouts. In 1951, rural electricity came to the ranch so
  we moved back to the country.
     In the late forties, the old Ranchman's Telephone Co. was becoming badly in
  need of repair and serving only a dozen or more customers caused me to organize
  a group which was later to be the South Central Telephone Association, Inc. I
  have been President and Chairman of the Board, since the incorporation.
     With the help of neighbors we have organized Water District #3, which was
  incorporated in 1978. It will eventually give a pressurized water system to
  sixty to one hundred homes in Lake City and Sun City.
     I was County Democratic Chairman from about 1960 to 1978 and a delegate to 
  the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968.
     When the Barber County Taxpayers Association was formed in 1969, I was elected
  Chairman of the Committee, which was instrumental in causing the County Commissioners
  to bring suit agains the appraisal firm which in final analysis saved the taxpayers
  a large sum of money. The following year I was elected President of the Kansas
  State Taxpayers Association. During my tenure I increased the number of counties
  to be affiliated with the State organization to more than sixty-five which was
  its peak strength.
     Being a country boy in the years 1907 to 1930, was far differnt from that of
  today. Entertainment was hunting for coyote pups, coon, oppossum, and skunk hunting
  at night, drowing out prairie dogs on rainy days, helping neighbors at round-up
  time and an occasional Sunday School picnic or perhaps a box supper or pie
  social.
     We had many wonderful neighbors but some naturally stand out above the others.
  In early childhood, I remember most Elisha McCulley, Clarenc Nichols, Joe Laheys,
  and Homer Juilans. In later years, it was Guy Moss and Waldo Leffler, Harve and 
  Goldie Axtell, Mr. and Mrs. John Cooke, Lillian MOss, Lena Leffler, George Smith,
  Caney farmer, JOe Williams, Chet Springer, Bill Draper, Tim Clawson and Walter
  Swintons.
               
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 329