Butler County Genealogy Trails Kansas Bertha Belle Shore Bio

BUTLER COUNTY'S EIGHTY YEARS BIOS

BERTHA BELLE SHORE

(Transcribed by Peg Luce)

Bertha Belle Shore, newspaper reporter and columnist, was born in Hiawatha, Kansas, October 15, 1897, at the home of her maternal grandfather, Michael Lucas Klinefelter. She is the sister of Chester K. Shore, editor and owner of the Augusta Daily Gazette and has been identified with him in publishing that paper since December 1928. She is the daughter of Benjamin Butler and Laura Ellen (Klinefelter) Shore. (See sketch of Chester K. Shore)

She was educated in the grade schools at Lawrence and attended high school at Hiawatha and Pleasanton, Kansas graduating at the Pleasanton High School. She also attended the Emporia Teachers College, Colorado Teachers College at Greeley, and Pittsburg Teachers College. A teacher for eight years she specialized in primary work, teaching school at Powhattan, Herinton and Great Bend.

From 1926 to 1928 she was an associate editor for The Kansas Municipalities, a monthly magazine for Kansas City officials published at Lawrence. Her brother was managing editor of the magazine at the time. While at Great Bend and Lawrence she was a regular contributor to the Starbeams column of the Kansas City Star. She has also written poetry, some of which has been published. She was taught the rudiments of Pennsylvania Dutch cookery at an early age by her grandmother, and if she did not like reporting better than anything else in the world, she would be a cook.

She is a member of the Kansas Women’s Newspaper Club, the Kansas Editorial Association, Kansas Press Association, Kansas Day Club, Kansas Women’s Republican Club, Butler County Republican Women’s Club, American Legion Auxiliary, Book Club of Augusta and member of the Girl Scout Council at Augusta. She is secretary for the Auxiliary and Girl Scout Council.

Her hobby is a great interest in poets and poetry.