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Bucklin And BucklinHold CelebrationBUCKLIN — Parade watchers and merrymakers were 2,000 strong here Saturday as the local Territorial Centennial celebration got underway attended by four representatives from Bucklin, Mo., where a city centennial celebration starts Wednesday.Two youths in a 1924 model car from Bucklin, Mo., and the Mis-sour town’s mayor, were in the Kansas town's parade Saturday morning.ofofAliehiesorsyGifcvirlt;PfiSLater the Missouri mayor, V. E.. Groce, received a sack of Kansas^ wheat from Co-op Elevator manager, Dwight Gaston, to take back to Missouri for the celebration. Letters from civib leaders are being exchanged as part of the ceremony.Several coincidences are present in the two towps, 520 miles apart. Both were named for railroad men named, Bucklin, They are approximately the same size, 850. Difference is Bucklin, Mo. was ® founded 100 years ago and the Kansas town is only 67 years old.To assist in the Missouri town’s 11celebration are four Bucklin, Kas., men. They are J. W. Birney,otia1lt;liStiotlititformer mayor and president of thej Kansas 1 Livestock Association, James Laswell, local Gas Service Co/ manager; Harold Buttolph, farmer, and Virgil Jones, retired farmer.The four are accompanying the1924 model car on its journey back to Missouri. The men with the car, goodwill ambassadors between the two towns, are Franklin Hall, a young minister, and his brother Clarence.The party left for Missouri following parade, a hamburger fry and other festivities in Bucklin, Kas. They expect to arrive in Missouri after a centennial goodwill tour through Kansas, in time for the Centennial Parade through Bucklin, Mo. Wednesday.The celebration of Territorial Centennial for Bucklin, Kas. is being held in conjunction with the annual 4-H club fpir there Aug. 1749. vAtlsa©hIchalig1t€rsIrtttsVsItiiv
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Hutchinson News Herald
Hutchinson, Kansas, US
Sun, Aug 15, 1954
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