Atchison Population Soars to 16794 in Polk Directory
The 1928 Polk directory for Atchison shows a population of 16794, a 30 percent rise in eight years. It highlights home ownership, wife names, and a county tax list, with free reference in libraries and a feature directory titled Meeting Place of Buyer and Seller. Also notes the death of Helena Miller Gildehaus of Covington Kentucky and burial plans next Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atchison
R. L. Polk & Co
Polk Company
Atchison County
Cit
Association of North American Directory Publishers
Atchison Chamber of Commerce
United States
Canada
Jarrett E. Abbott
King Street
John Zuzas
Santa Fe
Johnsons
Joneses
Wilsons
Daily Doings in 1900s Town Social Notes
A Tuesday column lists local happenings and remarks. residents and visitors such as Mrs. Harry Bell recovering from illness, Mrs. W. B. Henderson moving to Indiana to live, and a daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. James B. Hussey in New York. It records friendships, travel plans, work changes, and small humor from barbershop chatter, with notes on community figures like Paul Tonsing, Ed ONeil, and the American Legion auxiliary officers elected at Mrs. R. G. Bosanko’s home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Bell
B. L. Brockett
Caroline Ray
Emporia
Paul Kautz
Texas
Arizona
California
James B. Hussey
New York
Huey
Margaret Flanagan
Atchison
Ed O'Neil
Farr Hayes
Boy Scout
Hiawatha
Will Shelly
Atchison Hospital
A. B. Howe
North Third Street
Huron
Paul Tonsing
American Legion Auxiliary
R. G. Bosanko
Ed Back
Lee Smith
John Weatherfod
Jstole Warner
Weller Stuebinger
CC. V. Jacobs
Bosanko
Charles Houston
Doniphan County to Hold School Board Convention
Doniphan County will host its annual school board convention on January 18 and 19. Friday’s Troy session begins at eight o’clock in the high school auditorium, while Saturday offers Severance at 10:30 a.m. and Highland at 2 p.m. Principal speaker W. D. Ross of Emporia will discuss the school enroll commission report for the legislature. Rural high school clerks L. W. Stewart and A. W. Fenton preside at Troy and Severance respectively, with George B. Kelley presiding at Highland. Mr and Mrs R E Townsend hosted about 30 guests at a bridge party Saturday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doniphan County
Wathena
Troy
A. W. Fenton
Rural High
Denton
Severance
George 3B. Kelley
White Cloud
Highland
R. E. Townsend
Death of Mrs Laura Mayhood and local notes
Laura Ellen Mayhood widow of Ed J Mayhood longtime Atchison mail carrier died at 6 46 pm at 1431 Commercial Street after years of ailment. Born December 2 1869 at Mt Pleasant Ia she wed Charles M Ayler in 1885 and had three daughters Nellie Violet and Mrs Herman Linnewell. Widower Ayler died 1895 and her second husband Edward J Mayhood died seven years ago. Funeral 2 30 pm tomorrow. she lived in Atchison 37 years. Also Local brief items include highway law on horses motorists and public bus service improvements, civic notes, and social items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laura Ellen Mayhood
Ed J. Mayhood
Commercial Street
Laura Ellen Seton
Benjamin and
Nancy Seton
Mt. Pleasant
Tla
Waterville
Kas
Charles M. Ayler
Missouri Pacific
Atchison
Nellie Ayler
Violet Hines
Kansas City
Herman Linnewell
Charles Ayler
Piper
Link Tax Hire and Refunding in Effingham Nortonville Lea venworth roads
A Kansas county committee of ten with T P Armstrong of Shannon elected chair to lobby for highway legislation in Topeka. They seek reimbursement from gasoline taxes for benefit district road costs and aim to compel county funds to start reimbursements promptly. The group endorses a three cent gasoline tax and a state highway program while organizing petitions and outreach to Gov Clyde Reed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. P. Armstrong
Shannon
Effingham
Nortonville
Leavenworth
Armstrong
Topeka
Atchison
P. C. Greiner
Potter
Harry Shumaker
Ralph A. Prouts
Babe P. Waggener
A. J. White
Atchison County
Hastings
Clyde M. Reed
Kansas
Nyhart
Clem Higley
Charles Falk
Greiner
Cormode
Shumaker
Harmony Garden
Holton man wounds wife and kills himself
A Holton man, Samuel F. Fairbanks, forced entry into his estranged wife’s home and shot her multiple times. He then killed himself as officers and neighbors heard shots. The wife survived with non serious injuries as a maintenance suit loomed in district court. Three children were present during the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holton
Samuel F. Fairbanks
Fairbanks
Hutchinson
John D Wiseheart Dies Near Rushville at 74
John D Wiseheart of near Rushville died Saturday in a St Joseph hospital after three weeks illness and two operations. Born December 9, 1854 in Buchanan county he lived there 74 years except one year in Kansas. Survived by a brother W C Wiseheart of Horton and a niece and nephews. Burial at Sugar Creek cemetery after services in Rushville Christian church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Wiseheart
Rushville
St. Joseph
Mr. Wiseheart
Buchanan County
Couny
Kansas
Barah Hudson
Wiseheart
John Wiseheart
Richard Frakes
Stanton Frankes
Methodist Church of
St. Louis
Iva Beaver
St. Joe
E. C. Baird
Rushville Christian Church
Sugar Creek Cemetery
Main Street to be repaved from Fifth to Fifteenth
The city commission approved repaving Main Street from Fifth to Fifteenth using brick, concrete, or asphalt on the existing foundation at an estimated cost of about 70 000 dollars. A remonstrance was deemed insufficient, with 357 337 feet in favor and 988 185 not remonstrating. Bids will be sought for foundation work at present street car barns near Tenth Street where tracks will be removed.
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Main Street
Fifth
Fifteenth
A. W. Seng
Earl Hellener
Tenth Street
Death of Miss Emmeluth Notices Atchison Ties
Older Atchison residents learn of the death of Miss Emmeluth in Raton New Mexico a week ago. She was a little over 70 and died of paralysis. After leaving Atchison she lived 28 years in Honolulu where she warmly hosted Atchison tourists. She and her brother John shared a home there. Born in Cincinnati Ohio she came to Atchison with her father years ago. She once worked for Mangersdorf Bros and her father labored in the old furniture factory south of the union depot. Her death occurred at a sister’s home in Raton and she had visited Atchison Mattocks homes years earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena Miller Gildehaus
Covington
Lucy Nielander
Parallel Street
Will Gildehaus
Atchison
Will Bush
Waurika
Okla
Gildehaus
Germany
Kentucky
Helena Miller
Lutheran Church
St. Mark's Church
Latonia
Bush
R. S
Harry Ham
Detroit
Shrine
Harry
Derby
Clyde Reed
Topeka
Edith Heeny
Ralph Prouts
Babe Waggener
Fred Stein
W. C. Oberlin
Conrad Voelker
Effie Loader
Roger Wilcox
Harry Lloyd
Art Spatz
Blish, Mize & Silliman
Kiwanis Club
Louie Waldauer
Old Snort
Kiwanis
W. A. Jackson
District Court
South Atchison
Third and
U Streets
Riverview Drive
Henry Hess
George Williams
Horton
Williams
Los Angeles
St. Benedict’s Monastery
Bill McNamara
Axsur Kinney
South Fourth Street
Rosalie Wohletz
Huron
Atchison Hospital
Charles Wohletz
Lester Abelgon
Steinite
Chicago
D. Rutherford
Bill Crume
Bob Fitzsimmons
Fitz
Missouri Pacific
Ed Drimmel
Tribune
Chuck Frankenberger
Oscar Johnson
S Street
Elsie Johnson
St. Louis
Missouri Pacific Hospital
Johnson
Frank Dilgert
V Street
Kenneth Neidigh
Western Union Telegraph Co
London
Liverpool
Birmingham
Bristol
Bradford
Manchester
New Castle-on- Tyne
South Hampton
Dundee
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Belfast
Belgium
Tanemen
Kansas Power and Light Co
Andy Larson
C. A. Vassar
Kansas City
Vassar
Kansas Power and Lirat Company
Fifth Street
Utah Avenue
Matilda King
Norman King
Charles T Gundy
Arthur Beverforden
J. Vincent
Leavenworth
Nathan
Gertrude
Litle
Maggie
L. Wines
Walter M. North
North Atchison
C. C. Leighton
Mary A. Snodgrass
John D. Unrein
West Atchison
Della
Harry Hall
Eva
Clarence E. Smith
Charles I
Lillian Alban
Minnie
Charles H. Martin
Elizabeth
Robert M. Dockendorf
William F. Alban
Mary Amanda Alban
Muscotah
Allen Brockhoff
Australia
J. M. Challiss
North Terrace
America
Brockhoff
Ed Lukens
St. Joe
Lukens
Dave Lukens
Coral E. Pfrang
Globe
George L. Pfrang
Nemaha County District Court
Seneca
Ruth Leone
Barbara Louise
W. A. Morgan
Lancaster
Bob Winn
Fort Worth
Tex
Jim Todd
Falls City
N. D. Todd
George Baudry
Maurice Baudry
Houston
Maurice
Texas
Ted” Kayser
Springfield
Bennie Baker
John Baker
Anna W. Baker
L Street
Ralph
Nebr
Frank
Homer
John
Louis
Henry
Roy
Florence
Aine
Stanton Funeral Home
Miss Emmeluth
Raton
N. M
Emmeluth
Honolulu
Steid
Cincinnati
Ohio
Mangersdorf Bros
Union Depot
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Albert Kohler
John Fleming
J. J. Laughlin
Charles Kennedy
Enery
Roy Kessler
Compton
McGrath
Oklahoma
W. B. Henderson
Indiana
Oneida Pepper
Deer Creek Creamery Co
Mildred Johnson
J. Mayhood
J. T. Berridge
Aimie McPherson
Jack Jones
Sahara Desert
Frank Johnson
Frank Jarrell
the Earth
Norine Lawless
Anna Mae Bruns
Albert Kraetth
North Tenth Street
Jerry Kermode
Kansas Avenue
Fourth and
Eighth Streets
Fannie McAdam
Adda Adderson
Cride
Mildred Smith
John Gunter
Omaha
N. O. of F.lodge
Tom Foley
St Benedict’s
P. H. Lambert
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
Lambert
Matt Walters
John Kaff
John Keaff
Ernest Schweder
Paradise
Jackson Park
J. A.mcmond
T. B. Portwood
Carl Haegelin
Sabinas
Mexico
Joe Haegelin
San Antonio
Laura Ballou
Kansas City Theater
Horace F. Chandler
Kansas City Times
Miss Ballou
Kansas University
Dover Reed
Ballou
Gir
Vern Bump
West
Walter Neumann
A. FE
Herbert Ham
McCandlish
William Wilson
Long Oil Co
Manhattan
Harry Shelver
Hal Waisner
Laura Wolters
Ed Lindstrom
Henry Allez
Walters Drug Store
Adolph Seeger
Hatch
Great Bend
Sadie Katz
New York City
Allan de Witt
Fred Hagen
C. Aeilly
Michigan University
Ann Arbor
Mich
Department of
Pet” Pennell
Pennell
Lower Third Street
John Mick
John Walker
Twelfth
Wirt Hetherington
Andy Sheldon
Jack Little
Missouri
Pete Peterson
Japan
A. R Morley
Joe Clark
R. W. Ramsay
Frank Roche
Don Shockey
Bill Barnes
Cor! Latenser
Suedene Schall
J. R Gttman
Blair Hockney
Southwestern Millers Association
Alfred Saggs
West Main Street
Walter Dippel
Bert Gilmore
Postal Telegraph Co
Ed Medlock
Sam Connor
E. W. Emery
Gene Howe
Lila Gilman
Independence
Missouri River
Kerford Brothers
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