Airport plan emphasized for Atchison on Kansas side
Ray A Theis of Skelly Oil aviation division toured Atchison and urged a Missouri side airport lease of 120 acres for 600 a year. He argued a bond issue under 50000 could fund a hangar office and lighting, with 2000 annual revenue from rentals and services. Atchison chamber officials weighed location and growth potential for planes factories and schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atchison
Ray A. Theis
Aviation Division
Skelly Oil Co
Tulsa
Floyd Willette
Atchison Chamber of Commerce
Theis
Kansas
Missouri
James Morrow
Skelly Oil Company
Willete
United States
Pennsylvania
Santa Fe
Beom
Atchison News Relay Mixes Edits and Romance
Local items note health updates for Bob Bump Ray Bryant and Carl Harman. A long paragraph tracks Mildred Skinner’s marriage to J M Burke in New York amid Atchison family ties and Omaha theater ties, plus school board talks on Effingham high school building plans and legal questions over funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Skinner
Atchison
Otis Skinner
North Platte
Omaha
Mildred Skinner
Skinner
D. N. Wheeler
New York
Burke
Mildred
WOR
Atchison County Community High School Board
Babe P. Waggener
Effingham
Waggener
O. F. Barnard
Maurice P. O'Keefe
William A. Smith
Barnard
L. K. Bowers & Sons
Topeka
Effingham City
Fruit Land at 208 an Acre Changes Hands Near Sumner
Roy Lister, farmer south of town, buys John Bittner's 12 acre fruit farm on the old Sumner townsite for 2500 dollars. The property adjoins Lister's west and will be operated with his current place. Bittner, a bachelor, plans a one year retirement and a Colorado visit with two sisters. Most of the orchard is apples, trees twenty five years old and some nearing bearing. Bittner has lived on the place 24 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oral Mize
Tuscon, Ariz
Atchison
Tuscon
Homer Brown
Seventh Street
Globe
Topeka
George Mize
Blish, Mize & Silliman
Studebaker Agency
Mize
Studebaker
Bisbee
Ariz
Kitty Mize
Charles Mize
Colony
Kas
Teddy Mize
Elsie Mize
Omaha
Lucille Mize
Fred R. Shirck
Baltimore
Western Theological Seminary
Lawson
Will Hooper
Shirck
Iowa
Fred Shirck
Midland College
Seminary
Stella
Nebr
O. R. Smith
George L. Hunt
E. A. Gilmore
Forest Park Hill
Roy Lister
John Bittner
Sumner
Bittner
Mr. Lister
Colorado
Mr. Bittner
Miles Reed
Babe Waggener
Ed Underwood
John Schmitt
Louise
Reuben
Paola
Ada Smith
Edna Roberts
Holton
Atchison Hospital
Edna Bonnell
Marshall
Julius Dennis
Kansas City
George Baudry
Charlie Howes
Peru
Indiana
Frank Roche
Charles Riley
Grover Allison
Emil Ebner
John Levin
Commercial Street
John Wilkins
McLouth
Prospect Park
Charles Means
Albert Wilkins
Colton
Calif
Lawin & Douglass
Dave Degen
Atchison County Court House
Atchison City
Floyd Willette
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Willette
Kansas City Star
Luther Floyd
Baptist Church
Excelsior Springs
Lawrence
Oklahoma City
Floyd
Timothy Healy
New York
Church White
Thornton Henley
Terry
James Calhoun
Charles Hill
Hill
North Fifth Street
Elmer Jackson
Catherine Schillings
Fred Knight
W. J. Scott
John Whitaker
D. G. Wilson
North Ninth Street
Palmero
Sicily
Carl G. Briner
Zurich
Switzerland
Europe
R. W. Ramsay
Bay of
Naples
Capri
Pompei
Vesuvius
Arizona
Monreale
Bay
Palermo
Spain
William II
William the Conqueror
Moutain
St. George and the
C. W. Ebbs
Jack Little
Port Leavenworth
Sheffield Ingalls
the Commerce Trust Co
Charles Daniels
Frank Wertz
Leo Nusbaum, Sr
Col
Ralph Love
Kansas Power & Light Co
Mary Wilson
Charles A. Wilson
Sabetha
St. Joe
John Nevins
Nevins & Carter
Atchison Daily Notices and Obituary Highlights
Mrs J W Kenady of Muscotah dies at 62 after eleven weeks of dropsy illness. Six daughters and twenty three grandchildren survive. funeral at Muscotah Congregational church with burial at Whiting. Also noted are local updates including recoveries, resignations, arrests, and community notices from Atchison and surrounding towns. The column records deaths of John Wilkins and Jean Boyd, hospital stays, car accident injuries, court actions, and civic events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Kenady
Kenady
Muscotah
Congregational Church
Hillyer
Whiting
Jean Boyd
Atchison
Santa Claus
C. R. Boyd
Kansas Avenue
Kansas City
Kas
Atchison County Expands Apple Orchards and Nearby Crops
County horticultural agent Henry Lobenstein cites progress in Atchison beyond Doniphan and Buchanan counties with 600 acres of new apple orchards in 1928 and growing nonbearing stock, while potato and tomato farming also move toward commercial production. The district’s proximity to markets, favorable climate and low transport costs fuel expansion, aided by local Chambers of Commerce and state college support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atchison County
Doniphan County
Kansas
Buchanan County
Henry Lobenstein
Atchison
Kansas-Northwest
Missouri
Atchison Chamber of Commerce
Kansas State Agricultural College
Atchison County Farm Bureau
Lobenstein
Pacific Northwest
Remembering Christmas 1928 at Atchison Cemeteries
A long reflective piece recounts John H. Brown's Christmas Day among Atchison graves Mt. Vernon Oak Hill and Mt. Calvary. He visits family plots and notes equalizing six feet of earth while recalling friends, employers, and neighbors as he decorates undecorated graves. He later visits Oak Hill and the Catholic cemetery amid historic epitaphs and memories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. Brown
Atchison
Mt. Vernon
Oak Hill
Mt. Calvary
United States
Oak Hill Cemetery
Mount Vernon Cemetery
Country Club
Notable quotes from business and social figures
The piece records brief personal statements from figures such as Fred Stafford John McKenzie Lee Arensberg Walter North Alexander & Co Henry Nielson and Guy Sharp. They reflect on finances plans and expectations for 1929 with remarks on business travel hunting and classically themed growth hopes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Stafford
John McKenzie
Lee Arensberg
Walter North
R. Alexander
Alexander & Co
Henry Nielson
Sam
Guy Sharp
Local man trains for transcontinental bunion derby
M A Trapp of Atchison a Standard Oil filling station operator trains for C C Pyle’s International Trans Continental foot race starting March 31 1929. He aims to run 40 miles daily and pay a $300 entry fee if he can endure the challenge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. C. Pyle
New York
Pacific Coast
M. A. Trapp
Standard Oil Co
Trapp
Oskaloosa
Jefferson County
Atchison
Los Angeles
New York City
Pyle
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Oil Company
Skelly
Bob Bump
Ray Bryant
Carl Harman
Pat McAuliffe
Charles Glenn
Alton
Phil Pillsbury
Minneapolis
Roy Trimble
Henry Kumpf
A. B. Zimmerman
California
Kehler’s
Herbert Ham
James Aherne
St. Benedict's College
Lyman Roberts
Globe’s
Main Street
John Cleary
Millard Miller
Pec
Armin E. Soph
Parallel Street
Gullible
Aightson Hospital
Atchison High
Marguerite G. Cruise
Effingham New Leaf
Merfa
Texas
E. Frank Sharp
Marfa
Sharp
Atlanta
Miss Cruise
Washington, D. C
Arthur Spencer
Spring Grove
Knearn
Toas
J. W. Kenady OF
Fred Heimbach
John Clingan
Mart Miller
John Dawson
England
Federal
Constitution
Dawson
Central Branch
The
Episcopal Church
Frank Harwi
Harwi
Clara Lyons
Lorin P. Lyons
Clara E. Smith
W. B. Logan
Leavenworth
Tueesday
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