Theo Arensberg Bows To Death
Theodore Arensberg, 63, died of a heart attack at his Atchison home early Sunday. Funeral at St Benedicts Church tomorrow with burial at Mt Calvary. He owned a bakery for over 30 years and cared for violins in recent years. Survived by wife Mary, four children, 12 grandchildren, and siblings including Father Peter Arensberg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Arensberg
North Fifth Street
Arensberg
St. Benedict's Church
Peter Arensberg
Lawin & Douglass
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Atchison
Gannep
Holland
United States
William Arensberg
Illinois
Atchison County
Matt Gerber
Mary Schaap
William
Goodland
Charles
Theodore Arensberg, Jr
Will Zurbuchen
Dodge City
O. A Giles
Lee
W. H. Arensberg
Louis
Pekin
Ill
Herman Guesin
Shannon
Orville Enloe
Day's Doings Highlights Local Notes and Events
Atchison society and business notes include a D of I meeting, births, illnesses, travels, and social gatherings. A prowler report, political club activities, and upcoming elections are noted along with a Roosevelts era public affairs discussion and a play on liquor laws. Local residents named with places and events.
Local notes from Alamo and Atchison area life
A long reading of varied items from citrus ranch life in Alamo Texas to Atchison Kansas circle includes Mrs Hazel’s family travel and crop status, a Knights of Pythias triangle event in St Joe, links to Baron von Richthofen and a Taos connection, statistics and trivia on forests and aging, Y M C A staff changes, police target shooting scores, hobby quotes, a birthday party, funeral services for Theodore Arensberg, medical men’s views, goat farming plans in Ray Ruff, and a Los Angeles visitor to Atchison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alamo
Tex
FE. C. Hazel, Jr
Betsy Ross
Hollywood
O'Brian
Kenneth
Hazel
Atchison High School
Atchison Knights of Pythias Lodge
St. Joe
Order
John Yaple
Chester Yaple
Route 4
W. H. Lawrence
Taos
N. M
Lawrence
Frieda von Richthofen
Baron von Richthofen
Red Knight
Germany
Lady Chatterly
United States
England
G. C. von Neida
von Neida
Wesley Wales
Will Wickam
Wickam
George Johnson
Jake Stuebinger
John Sacks
John Whitaker
Ed Russell
Ira Monroe
Hermat Kings
A. L. Stratton
Jack Flynn
Pete Gearhardt
John McNamara
Atchison Telegraphist Guy E Williams Dies at 50
Guy E Williams 50 a Missouri Pacific telegraph operator in the relay service died after a stroke at his home 826 South Fifth Street He was born March 18 1882 and came to Atchison from Van Buren Arkansas in 1920 He leaves a widow and three sons LaVerne Williams Coffeyville Elmer Williams Bastrop La Roy Williams Funeral arrangements were not yet set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy E. Williams
Missouri Pacific
South Fifth Street
Williams
Harcuff & Buis
Mr. Williams
Atchison
van Buren
Ark
LaVerne Williams
Coffeyville
Elmer Williams
Bastrop
Roy Williams
Mary Bedwell of Potter is Dead
Mrs Mary Matilda Bedwell longtime Potter resident died at her home at 12 30 today after an extended illness with heart trouble and complications. Born December 27 1855 in Platte County Missouri she married Melvin Bedwell February 32 1871 and lived on a farm near Potter before moving to town 20 years ago. Surviving are six children 16 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements pending burial at Fairview Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Matilda Bedwell
Potter
Bedwell
Mattie Hanks
Covington
Jennie Ferris
Cummings
Effie Kuehnoff
Basehor
George E
Boston
Mass
Clarence
Denver
Bonnie Suete
Lizzie Rickett
Atchison Anecdotes and Local Ties Across the Talk of Men
A collage of Atchison names and snippets reflects local personalities and concerns. References span Sheriff Ray Fletcher Judge Frank Wertz Vern Bump and others, with notes on Os coronations, political talk in Topeka and Omaha, and mentions of local histories, roads, and a Beloit connection.
Mrs J A W Hawk Dies in Coral Gables Florida
Mrs Stella Cayot Hawk 47 widow of Dr J R W Hawk died unexpectedly in Coral Gables Florida where she had gone for health. She had been ill last summer improved by Christmas and planned burial in Atchison. Survivors include two brothers W P Cayot and Francis Cayot. W P Cayot traveled to Florida to bring the body back to Atchison for burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stella Cayot Hawk
J. R. W. Hawk
Atchison
Coral Gables
Fla
Wreaths and Wallops Reflect a Wife's Perspective
In Bungie cartoons Josephine Bungie, wife of George Bungie, often evaluates her husband with sharp wit. She notes his habit of aligning with eccentric men but contrasts their fortunes, asserting the millionairess’s money sets the biggest difference between them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bungie
Josephine
George Bungie
George
Peggy
When the low mood ends says Altamont Times
The Altamont Times suggests a simple test for mood improvement. If a grocer hands each child a candy stick like 50 years ago, the low mood has ended, the paper says.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Altamont, Mo
Altamont Times
Atchison Bride Picks Song For Wedding I Do Not Ask
An Atchison bride selects the hymn I Do Not Ask for her wedding service. A local man with a talkative wife muses aloud on who started the claim that conversation is a lost art.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atchison
Husbands and wives spark quiet party chat exchange
An Atchison man asked his wife what they talked about after returning from a party. Her brief reply was “Husbands.” He pressed no further, choosing quiet inference over further questioning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atchison
Walnut Bean Loaf With Tomato Sauce
A walnut loaf recipe combines baked beans and rice with onion salt egg and paprika, baked in a 375 degree oven for about an hour. Turn onto a hot platter garnish with hard boiled eggs slices and parsley, form potato roses around the loaf, and serve with tomato sauce.
Death of Mrs Mattie Surritt Near Doniphan
Mrs Mattie Demery Surritt 78 died shortly before noon at her son Raymond Surritt’s home three miles north of Doniphan. Survived by husband Isaac who died Feb 14 1932, five sons William Roy Arch Frank Jesse Raymond, two daughters Jennie Hazelgrove Minnie Kasten and sister Minnie B Jackson. Funeral 2 pm Wednesday Lawin Douglass chapel Rev M O Kellison officiating burial Round Prairie cemetery. Born November 1856 in Janesville Wisconsin married Weston Missouri 1872.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mattie Demery Surritt
Raymond Surritt
Doniphan
Round Prairie
Surritt
Janesville
Wis
Weston
William
Roy Surritt
Atchison
Arch
Leavenworth
Frank
Silver Lake
Jesse
Salem
Neb
Jennie Hazelgrove
Topeka
Minnie Kasten
Minnie B. Jackson
San Antonio
Tex
Local World News Briefs From Atchison Area
Jack Willis is sick. Bill Crume the barber has recovered. Mrs. Dick King of Massasoit Hal apartments is ill. Herman Kessler is doing well at Atchison hospital. Joe Seibel owns a very unusual ash tray, an ancient Greek work. Mrs. M. J. Horans broken right leg is healing after a fall a week ago. Harold Carr, colored, is back in town after years in Washington. Lorene Jacobs of Dr W K Fasts office returned from Kansas City with friends. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Lee Greene formerly of Atchison at their Red Wing Minnesota home.
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B. L. Godding
Atchison Hospital
Will Allen
P. L. van Horn
North Seventh Street
Scott Jones
Tulsa
Okla
Robert
Stanley Allen
Milwaukee
Burt Allen
W. W. Hetherington
Leavenworth Road
Leavenworth
Carl Gustav Briner
Zurich
Switzerland
America
R. W. Ramsay
Rochester
Mann
American Legion
Missouri Pacific Park
Roger Sullivan
Effingham
St. Margaret's Hospital
Kansas City
Kas
Rey T. Willette
Kansas City, Kas
Chamber of Commerce
Atchison Chamber
Stormont Hospital
Topeka
Venita Blair
Roy Reed
Good Intent
Velentine
Marguerite Wickam
David Beaman
BE. W. Howe
Miami
Fla
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Adelaide Howe
First National Bank
Wallace Brockett
A. H. Lehman
Anton Jacobson
Earl Handke
Mr. Jacobson
Mrs. Handke
Henry Jacobson
P. T. Jacobson
Huron
The
Emporia Gazette
Democratic Party
Democratic Board of Hog Temperance and
Morais
Democratic
Atchison County
Roosevelt-Woodring Club
Hugo Orlepp
Roosevelt Democratic Club
Treasury
Orlepp
Washington
E. F. Back
Anna Hayes
Nan O'Keefe
C. D. O’keefe
John F. McCarthy
Taos N. M
St. Benedict’s Church
Velerian
Frances O'Keefe
Billy Horan
Mr. Horan
Maurice O’keefe
Riley-Wilson Wholesale Grocery Co
Joseph McCarthy
Taos
Hellener
White Clay Creek
Earl
Atchison
Ralph Oswald
Theodore Miller
Treat
St. Patrick’s
Elmer Lassen
Dilgert
Nortonville
Ferrell Allison
W. 5
McFarland
Kansas Avenue
Maxine Franklin
J. A. Young
North Tenth
Clarence Hansen
Patriot Street
Louis Ball
Henry Nestler, Jr
Joe Donaldson
Farmington
Buzz Harned
Betty Ruth
Bud Hunt
A W. Hunt
Central Branch Territory
Missouri Pacific
Muscotah
Franklin Roosevelt
White House
W. S. Pulliam
Maurice O'Keefe
East
Laramie Street
Mound Street
Roosevelt
A.B. Strathmann
Baptist Church
Hammond
George Jackson
June Garnet
Charles Watts
Billy Rentsahler
Edmund Page
Joe Purdin
Gene Lindley
Robert Sheldon
Vernon Browning
Harris Corbett
James Coleman
Bill Worrell
National Congress
Sam Connor
Fred Reisner
Paul Schmidt
Fannie Mallory
Gene Buchanan
Globe Press
Viola Boatwright
Ben Meyers
Beanlake
H. M. Richards
North Eighth Street
Andy Clark
Dick Gilman
Jack Weatherford
Army
Navy
Bill Kruse
Robert Volk
Janson
John Whitaker
Barney Noland
Monroe Brown
East Laramie Street
H. A. Hawk
Olive Wilson
North Ninth Street
Russell Parker
Oak Street
L. D. Cline
Ed .Trompeter
Trompeter
Martha Gaydusek
Everest
John Gaydusek
R. L. Baumann
Main and
Roberts Streets
Harry Warner
St. Benedict’s
Verdi Miller
J. F. Miller
Natchez
Miss
T. O. Miller
John Nolan
Paul Hamilton
Haskell Institute
Sioux City
William Ankrum
Ankrum
West Main Street
Paul
John Sigut
Ralph Diebolt
San Francisco
Leo Sigut
Roger Haines
F. M. Haines
Bell Memorial Hospital
Jack Willis
Bill Crume
Dick King
Massasoit Hal Apartments
Herman Kessler
Joe Seibel
M. J. Horan
Harold Carr
Lorene Jacobs
Dr. W. K Fast
Lee Greene
Red Wing
Minn
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Theo. Arensberg
D. of I
Frank Wilson
South Sixth Street
Bob Gilbert
Palace Cafe
George Washington
Lee Cowan
Tom Ball
H. J. Bird
C. H. Pinney
J. A. Brox
Mary Katherine Paradise
Charles Kurt
M. L. Dilgert
Jule Dilgert
Mt Calvary Cemetery
Raymond Guesin
Henry
J. Arensberg
William Geritz
Jack Patton
Ed Robert
Bob Mixon
Christ’s Hospital
Christ's Hospital
Ray Ruff
B. O. Murray
Los Angeles
Sadie M. Prouts
North Fourth Street
A. A. Bennett
Milton Deutsch
John Morris
Matin Street
Dicey Hughes
South Seventh Street
S. B. A. Hospital
Rita Burns
Rosebower
Oscar Seeber
Clem Tuggile
Frank Wilburn
Patrick's Church
Sarah Snowden
Snowden
Florida
Lou Baker
G. T. Bolman
Horton
Kansas City Star
Horton Lake
Donald Denton
Neola Jean
George Mackie
Pittsburg
Neola Hazel
Denton
Barbara Pollock
Mary Bedwell
Potter IS
Mt. St Scholastica Dramatic Club
the Mount
Mary Katherine Sheldon
Queen Anne
King Hazzem
Louise Hekelnkaemper
Dear One
Agnes Leo Rieger
Catherine Ann Sollazo
Melania Doffing
Anna Margaret Braun
Frances Schabeck
Celly
Josephine Grants
Marguerite Blair
Ellen McGuire
Annie Chamberlain
Audrey Moyer
Clarabelle Mumford
Lucille McFarland
Dolores Hoffmans
Gertrude Schuster
Clare Fleming
Kathleen O'Connor
Mary Anne Horan
Marie Masson
Josephine Granis
Mary Lou Farrell
Clare Allen
Mary Beth DeBacker
Genevieve Stessman
Cicilia Haase
Berenice Smith
Verene Krumm
Kathleen H. O’connor
West
Babe Waggener
Kansas
Congress
Victor Murdock
Wichita Eagle
Mr Murdock
Murdock
Belisle
Ben Huey
Jane Smith
Betty Anne Stannard
Ruth Marlin
Ruth Howard
Jane %Roshous
Dora E. Kohler
M. O. Kellison
Christian Church
J. Wallenstein
Mt. St. Scholastica
Babe Waggener III
Dave Barry
Mr. Orlepp
John McKenzie
Clancy Miller
T. O. Michael
Oleander
O. B. Lusk
Sandy” Buis
Vern Bump
Vern
Virgil Morrison
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Ray Fletcher
Frank Wertz
Bunny” Meyer
Jim Curtis
Abraham Lincoln
Hanks
Blue River
J. H. Brown
Hugh Fisher
Guaranteed Securities Life Insurance Co
Hugh
Shawnee County
Stockton
Lenora
Frank Merriwell
Midland College
Oscar May
Wichita
Senator Oyler
Oyster
Fola
Covernor Alf Landon
Amarillo
Cooney Voelker
Sammy Black
North Fouth
Sam Black Jr
Barney Askren
Salina
Louie Waldauer
Jackson Park
Jackson Prior
Oak Millis
Landon
Snort
O. S
Asp
Pete Johnson
Pete
W. S. Hadley
Beloit
Glen Elder
John Outland
Outlands
Hadley
White Cloud
W. D. Gerdes
Robinson
J. A. W. Hawk
Coral Gables, Fla
Nellie Webb
Mattie Surritt
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