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Newspaper
Atchison Weekly Globe
Location
Atchison, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1928
Page
2
In Kansas the chinch bug is identified as the toughest creature in the state, challenging crops and lawns. The brief notes its resilience and impact on agriculture, stressing ongoing control efforts and the need for vigilance by farmers and homeowners alike.
An old time column notes judges from Manhattan Agricultural College favored small well filled ears over long thick ones at the Atchison corn show. It links fat hog decline to rising lard prices and a broader push for slender waists and lighter goods, forecasting broader cultural shift including autos.
Seventy six people have been killed in local car crashes this year, up from sixty five at the same point last year. Authorities warn that widening city streets and abandoning grade crossings for subways will be needed at high cost. Smaller towns like Atchison may split traffic with two through streets. Resurfacing Kansas Avenue and Main next spring or summer aims to relieve Commercial Street and reduce danger from rising auto traffic.
Dr Wiley warns rural health is worsening due to poverty and low farm incomes. He cites disappearing country doctors, unaffordable sanitary upgrades, and reduced home ventilation as factors while noting better mobile access and roads improve rural medical reach. He questions if farm life genuinely fosters health versus city life.
Mrs. A. W. Seng ill with influenza. Miss Lillie Elwood at the Boston store. South Atchison seeks sewer. Jacobs Jewelry promotes watches and diamond rings. John J. Ingalls school noted in Kansas City. Hale Webber weighs 209 pounds. Various social items, sales ads, and local anecdotes follow including car offers from Curtis-Ham and Miller-Chevrolet. Funeral for Mrs. Mary E. Morris. civet cat misinformation. recollections of Atchison from fifty years ago.
Obituary of A O Weaver Effingham aged about 74 dies Saturday afternoon at Atchison hospital funeral at Effingham Methodist church Tuesday morning Burial in Wetmore. Weaver came to Effingham in 1893 and left a rich church and community legacy with four children and six grandchildren surviving. His sons served their country and he was deeply active in St Mark s Lutheran and local Baptist and Methodist activities with plans for Christmas programs and community events.
Mrs Leonora Quiett, born 1863, dies after a long illness at her Farmington area home south of town. She was active in church life, survived by son Grover, three grandchildren, and several siblings. Funeral services set for Tuesday at Farmington Christian church with burial in Pardee cemetery.
Mrs. Mary F. Keith, 86, widow of U S Keith, died Saturday at 11 55 pm at 412 South Sixth street from pneumonia after influenza. Born in Massillon Ohio, she moved west in 1865, taught in a mission near White Cloud, married Keith, lived in Brown county before moving to Atchison in 1890. Survived by three children, two grandchildren, two great grandchildren, and a brother. Funeral Tuesday at 2 30 pm from home, Rev. W E Wheeler officiating. Burial Mt Vernon cemetery.
This week’s Weston tobacco sale shows an increase of nearly five dollars per hundredweight versus last year’s opening week. The week’s total weight reached 440,845 pounds with $127,759.26 in receipts at an average of 28.98 per cwt. First four days sold about 25,000 pounds less, yet expenditures rose by roughly $15,000. The In dependent Warehouse reported 199,625 pounds sold for $57,896.75, with Monday’s 136,840 pounds at $30.82 average totaling $42,165. Highest crop average hit $87.51 on a 5,925 pound lot by Calvin Murphy and Roy Pepper. Weston gains popularity as buyers from major tobacco firms attended and purchased smoking material.
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