Atchison Burghers Back Plan to Raise Steinite Loan
The Atchison Chamber of Commerce agreed Saturday to raise 75000 dollars as a loan to fund a 45000 square foot two story daylight factory for the Steinite Corporation. The goal is to lure a new radio cabinet plant to Atchison and expand local employment to about one thousand workers, with Steinite stressing its commitment to remain in Atchison amid external offers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steinite
Atchison Chamber of Commerce
Steinite Corporation
Atchison
Fred Stein
Steinite Company
Chamber of Commerce
Stein
United States
Atlantic
Pacific
Gulf of Mexico
Canada
Chicago
Radio Corporation of America
General Electric Co
Westinghouse Electric Co
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Steinite Co
Lester S. Abelson
Doniphan County Clerk George Strahan Dies At 84
George W Strahan aged 64 year Civil War veteran and 26 year district clerk of Doniphan County died at his Troy home after a stroke on November 21. Born in Ohio he served in 131st Pennsylvania volunteer infantry. Funeral Monday at 2 p m from the Methodist church. He leaves widow two sons Robert and William and is survived by nieces Maud and Daisy Smith. E C Winter serves as deputy clerk. The obituary notes Strahan’s wide acquaintance in the Northeast Kansas legal community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Strahan
Doniphan County
Troy
Mr. Strahan
Ohio
131St
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
Leona
John B. Kennedy
Robert G. Strahan
Rock Island
Blair
William H. Strahan
Maud Smith
Daisy
Kansas
Buchanan County
E. C. Winter
Berkson
Lower Commercial Street
Kansas City Times
Globe
Floyd Dozier
Kansas City
Dozier
Atchison
Missouri Pacific
Dodge Brothers
CXN
Bell Telephone Co
Whippenny
N. J
New York
Jim Jarslow
Mary Esmessman
Sumner
New Mexico
William Scott
Esmessman
Elche
Moberly
Fred Marks
Fred Sanders
Bill Blair
Kansas University
Bill
Atchison County
Frank Roberts
St. Benedict’s
Central National Bank Five
Topeka
Roberts
Peabody Furniture Co
Local man holds up victim in Atchison street chase
A report from Atchison recounts a holdup near Jackson Park where Delbert Shockley was forced at gunpoint to drive, then robbed of 45 dollars before the bandit fled in a Ford roadster. Police and sheriffs investigated, arresting several suspects but not identifying the bandit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Lonnecker
Miss Lonnecker
Ninth Street
Kansas Avenue
Jude Johnson
Nicholas Noodle
Big Mouth
Mont
Jude
Little Nick
Commercial Street
Grandpa
Jodie van Horn
Missouri River
Virginia Slemp
Juanita Slemp
Eva Black
Minnie Livengood
Langdon
Atchison Sheiks
Short Jenks
Mary Lee Birch
Charles Burford
Buford
J. E. Koccour
Andale
Atchison
A. G. Frankenhoff
Delbert Shockley
Jackson Park
Shockley
Sherif
Deer Creek Creamery
Tobacco crop from two acres sells for 500
Lowell Tomlinson of Rushville raised two acres of tobacco last year and put it on the market this week. It brought more than 500. Oklahoma sparrows are killed in a Rushville war on sparrows. Epiphany observations noted at local churches. A call for inoculation against diphtheria urged for school children. Community notices include birthdays, marriages, and local incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. C. Green
Pete Johnson
Bendena
Bill
Jim Hayes
Frank Blodgett
Pat Byrne
Charlie James
Jess Thorn
Express Office
Bill Prass
The
Royal
Atchison
A. J. Parrott
Roy Parrott
Will Parrott
Whiting
Dave McCulley
Kansas City
Louise Buckner
C. O. Wright
Balkans
Chicago
Oklahoma
Den
Fred Duehren
Lowell Tomlinson
Rushville
Shank Resigns From Atchison First Baptist Church
The Rev W O Shank announced his resignation from the First Baptist Church of Atchison after eight years as pastor He will become pastor of the downtown First Baptist Church in Kansas City Kansas on Feb 1 The Kansas City church seats about 800 and will pay moving expenses and a 4000 annual salary with annual increases This church note also covers his Legion post leadership and World War service with the Atchison church set to search for a successor
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atchison Community Training School
Baptist Church
Talmage Fry
Methodist Church
C. K. Davis
Davis
Austin Davis
Charles E. Medlock
W. O. Shank
T. B. Portwood
E. F. Hofer
D. Richter
Effingham
Vera Whitchurch
A. H. Lehman
M. O. Kellison
First Baptist Church
Kansas City
Kansas
Kas
Shank
Atchison
Fleming-Jackson-Seever Post
American Legion
Stuckey
Birmingham
Ala
Atchson
Atchison Church
Lagra
Married 27 Years Yesterday Verg e Tate Comments on Weather
Notes from Atchison county and Topeka include wedding anniversaries, social visits, and local happenings. Verge Tate jokes about weather delaying fishing while Mrs Beryl Patchen visits Topeka, and Mrs D W Magers’s sisters arrive. Local crime reports note two soldiers AWOL released, a stolen Reo coupe found insured, and Toll takers reporting tar crossing the Missouri River into Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheffield Ingalls
Verge Tate
Beryl Patchen
Topeka
Walter North
Joe Koebrich
Blair Milling Co
D. W. Magers
Cr. E. Kemp
Farmington
Atchison County
City Hall
F. W. Lincoln
Fred Lincoln
Elizabeth Brandner
Anna Porter
Atchison
John Raterman
Detroit
W. H. Arensberg
Fort Riley
Charles Merritt
North Fourth Street
Missouri River Bridge
Missouri
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hershel Berry
Lancaster
Doniphan
Provincetown Harbor
Krebs
Marion
Rolla C. Krebs
Los Angeles
Donald Weller
Rolla Krebs
C. H. Krebs
Second
J. H. Ward
Lieutenant Weller
Nebraska
St. Joe
Chambers of Commerce
Atchison, Leavenworth
George Gilkison
Wichita
Jerry McCarthy
Mary Marceline
McCarthy
Gilkison
Amelia Fox
Kenneth Dinklage
Irene Taylor
Roosevelt School
Miss Fox
Dinklage
Theodore Arensberg
Fred Duehre
Times
Roy Lister
Ralph Fletcher
Charles Askren
Jake Myers
Jake
Central Branch
John O’brien
Harry Lowder
Atchison Hospital
South Fifth Street
South Atchison
Harry
Lowder
Adam Haines
Ole Harry Lowder
O'Leary
Valley Falls
Alice Smith
Miss Smith
Calvin Smith
Pioneer Valley Falls
Charles T. Griffin
E. Remsburg
Ingalls High School
Board of Education
Fred Mangelsdorf
Parent-Teacher Association
Jake Elliott
Burlington Freight House
Missouri Pacific Page
Will Kautz
Neal Munger
Orpheum
Riverview Drive
DeKalb State Bank
Robert Tompkins
Robert
Atchison Community Grocers
Byram
Henry Thorne
Oscar Brittain
Floyd Armold
Kreening
Fourteenth
Main Streets
Santa Fe
Mororists
Seth Elson
Drake's Landing
Seth
Sam Gallup
Charles Fierabend
Cooney Jacobs
Myrtle Oswald
Clarence Oswald
Princeton
Earl Oswald
Hugh Sidey
Greenfield
Iowa
Arthur Sidey
Ferrill Martin
C. C. Leighton
Atchison Jabt
P. G. Porter
Lincoln School
Bryant Lanier
Finey
Norris
Des Moines
Sim Norris
Fred Brune
Homer Armstrong
Phoenix
Ariz
Jim Green
Old England
St. Benedict's
Sacred Heart
Trinity Episcopal Church
Cana
England
Thomas Wosser
Round Prairie
Wosser
Buffalo Bill” Cody
Cody
Frank Goddard
Leslie Lawrence
Susie Asbury
Sugarcreek Church
Walter Lawrence
Dick Stanley
Alya Linotype
Globe Office
Josephine Edmunds
Glen Stanley
Globe Force
Cliff Eiche
Potter
Rebekah Lodge
Odd Fellows Hall
Tom Ball
Noble Grand
Inger Carmode
Will Grippen
Cora Ferguson
F. L. Falkner
H. M. Sowers
Lillian Miller
Ralph Prouts
Episcopal Church
W. G. Beitzel
H. P. Mize
C. L. Mize
J. C. Savory
A. C. Childs
Harry Shifflet
N. W. Todd
R. G. Sithen
David
David Gingrich
Big Kansas City
Legion Post
Kanbas
George W. Alexander
Jessie Alexander
Joseph C. Filholm
Christina Filholm
Pialinati
Li L
Challiss
Jnesse Alexander
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!