Air route could boost Atchison airport bid
Wichita Topeka and St Joe plan a new air route linking through Atchison to Atlantic and Pacific networks. Local officials pressure Atchison to build a regulation airfield with lighting to qualify for air mail, express, and passenger service within six months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atchison
St. Joe
Topeka
Wichita
Carl Wolfley
Kansas City
Wolfley
Town Notes and Local Anecdotes From Atchison
Day's Doings recounts local moves and humor across Atchison Kansas with mentions of famie Blackburn returning to Topeka, new homes on Clingan farm, quotes from Commercial street, and residents traveling to Windsor, Canada. Highlights include Miss Esther Kilkenny vacationing with her father, Steinite workers returning, and pups named Extraordinary, Pompous, Magnifico, Gem, Ordinary II, and Superfluous II among Jim Compton and Dave McCulley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Street
Florence
Gladys Naylor
Smithsville
Clarence Little
Jim Simpson
Bean Lake
Fourth
Commercial Streets
Theodore Otis
al Smith
Hower Fox
Burlington
J. W. Seager
Dolan Mercantile Co
Atchison Hospital
Platt Harburger
Sam Harburger
Kansas City
Platt
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Texas
C. T. Reynolds
North Fourth Street
Clarinda
Iowa
Reynolds
The
Atchison
Jim Compton
Dave McCulley
Jim
Dave
Epworth Convention Chosen For Atchison Next Year
The Epworth League Kansas City district selects Atchison as convention site for next year at the recent district meeting in Olathe. About 100 youths attended, including three from Atchison territory. New officers named: Ora Barthel district secretary Myrtle Puhrman and Harvey Fuhrman district treasurers, all Atchison residents. The event is expected to draw about 100 people to Atchison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atchison
Kansas City
Kas
Epworth League
The
Methodist Church
Olathe
Atchison Territory
Ora Barthel
Myrtle Puhrman
Harvey Fuhrman
Weathering heavy rain and crops in Atchison era notes
A varied Atchison Globe column recounts rain affecting the wheat crop, local social notes, people visiting relatives, moving families, a fire recovery, quirky debt collection, university ties, and a historic Centennial snow storm story. Names include Mrs Clayton Settle, Mrs John A Martin, Dr W A McKelvy, Dick Drury, Jerry Cooley, Dr Stewart, Edward Farmer Jr, Miss Mona McKelvy, W D Pendleton, C A Garside, and places Atchison Kansas City Topeka Winthrop Breezy Point Boulder Boise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clayton Settle
John A. Martin
Strong City
Herbert Hoover
Frank J. Ryan
Dick Drury
A. S. Drury
University of Kansas
West Atchison
Jerry Cooley
Goff
Hanna Poultry & Egg Co
Paul Challiss
Harry Liepsner
Kansas City
Chicago
Pauline Hoy
Fred Challiss
Fred
Edward Farmer, Jr
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Ed Farmer
Santa Fe Street
Gene Sullivan
Boulder
Colo
University of Colorado
Kansas
Commercial Street
Mona McKelvy
Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority
Breezy Point
Minn
Miss McKelvy
W. A. McKelvy
Topeka
W. D. Pendleton
The
Kansas Life Insurance Co
Williamstown
C. A. Garside
Atchison
Boise
Idaho
New Light and Power Rates Cut Costs in Atchison
Kansas Power and Light announces June consumption rebates lowering domestic bills on average 30 percent and commercial use 10 to 35 percent. Example figures show a 40 kW domestic bill dropping from 3.80 to 3.15 dollars and a 100 kW bill from 9.00 to 6.75 dollars. Rates vary by connected load with kilowatt charges from 8.5.. to 4 cents. Officials caution savings total in the thousands annually. Local news also reports on Jake Hastings remaining family, community notices, and various shop and Scout events in Atchison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atchison
Ralph Love
Kansas Power and Light Co
Light Company
Colonel Love
Jake Hastings
Jacob Hastings
Muscotah
Sugar Lake
Anna Vanmeter
Edward
Anna V. Hastings
Marie Davies
Kansas City
Hastings
Alma Meadlock
Larkinburg
Minnie Blakely
Kas
Julius Smith
Topeka
Elks’ Club
Atchison & Eastern Bridge Co
Woodmen of America Lodge
Missouri Pacific
W. R. Suggs
Frank Ryan
D. C. Lawson
F. E. Evans
C. C. Ashley
Concordia
L. E. Phillips
Carpenter O. A. Blair
Dean Asper
Dean
Carman Orlo Blair
Roy Taylor
Charlie McKee
Scandia
S. A. Murdock
Ozarks
Roundhouse
B. FE. Madden
Ed Lindstrom
Atchison Boy Scouts
W. A. Jackson
O. B. Lusk
James Coleman
Walter Boney
John Coleman
Robert Brashay
Jack Grimes
Worley Kaft
Ronald VanWelden
George Richard Poage
Worley Kaff
Lewis Marts
Weesley Wales
Atchison Scouts
Sam Elder
Santa Fe Street
D. L. Lyndon
George Linck
J. E
Smith for President club forms Atchison effort
The Atchison county Smith for President club transfers allegiance from Reed to Al Smith after failing to secure Reed as the Democratic nominee. It plans rallies and seeks appearances by Smith or Joe Robinson, aiming to lift Northeast Kansas support for the Democratic ticket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith
Atchison County
Reed
Club Today
James A. Reed
Missouri
al Smith
Houston
W. P. Waggener
Joe Robinson
Atchison
Kansas
Waggener
Hog sheds stolen from Rube Lollar near Oak Grove
Rube Lollar found his newly built hog sheds missing from his Oak Grove property recently after completing the structures. The incident occurred as he prepared to use the sheds, with neighbors noting the unusual theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rube Lollar
Oak Grove
Atchison Health Board Probes Mrs Cummings Case
Investigation into Eva Cummings and her two year old child stranded at Union depot reveals past hardship history. She begged in Des Moines for $75, has a mother in Fay Oklahoma willing to help but she refuses. Public Health workers note multiple children in Colorado homes, and that aid is available if she moves to Fay with her mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eva Cummings
Union Depot
Cumming
Atchison Public Health Association
Kansas City
Des Moines
Cummings
Fay
Okla
Colorado
The
Health Association
Mrs. Cummings
St. Margaret's Hospital
Fay, Okla
Mary E. Brown
North Third
Atchison Street
Grodick Transfer Co
Homer Ferguson
Potato Hill Farm
Albert Seeber
Postoffice
Commercial Street
Irene Hekelnkaemper
Barnes Hospital
St Louis
Kansas University
St. Louis
George Berry
North Third Street
Monmouth, T
Berry
J. L.-Carey
Tulsa
Holland
Jess
John Groom
John Gronin
Ed Williams
D. & S. Tire and Battery Co
Missouri State Penitentiary
Jefferson City
Heart Attack Proves Fatal to Larkinburg Man
Robert Ward 70 died yesterday afternoon from heart trouble and indigestion while en route to a farm to shock wheat. He had lived near Larkinburg most of his life and was survived by six brothers and a sister. Funeral plans pending at St. Ann's church Effingham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atchison
Phillips Petroleum Co
Phillips Concern
Phillips
Fourth
Kansas Avenue
Seventeenth
Main Streets
Dickholder
Phillips Company
Fred Brink
Missouri Pacific
Brink
Branchton
Louis Weinman
Globe
Matilda Cloyes
Mount Vernon Cemetery
Cloyes
Frank Richley
Miller Chevrolet Co
Nyesa
Ore
University of Kansas
C. J. Posey
Eugene Howe
Jeanne
Amarilla
al Smith
New York
John J. Ingalls
E. W. Howe
John A Martin
Balle
Roebrich Bros
Bosanko
Harry Lyon
Lyons
Brandhton
Lyon
Nortonville
Oskaloosa
Weather Bureau
Jim Frazier
Atchison Hospital
South Seventh Street
Dewey Peterson
Commercial Street
Theodore Franke
Liberal
Ira Wetz
Leavenworth
Belle Park
Good Intent
Bert Bennie
Los Angeles
Effingham
W. D. Church of Shannon
Harry Lyons
Will Oneal
Topeka
Camp Bailey
East Atchison
Robert Ward
Larkinburg
Kas
Clyde
Effingham Catholic
Cathie Ward
Edward
Oakland
Calif
Frank
George
Washington, D. C
John
Rufus
Joe Ward
Dolly Blackburn
Also Mentioned on This Page
Atchison and
Famie Blackburn
Memorial Hall
DeLaskie Miller
Windsor
Canada
Did Clingan
Farmington
Hickory Street
Epworth
Louie Waldauer
Congress
Boston
Lisle Noble
John Baker
de Los Miller
de Los
Old Mill
Eddie Breuer
Fred Stout
Kansas Power & Light Co
Central Branch
Scotsville
Henry Messenger
Jarboro
Potter
Clarance Carson
Lincoln Colored School
Board of Education
Ruth A. Baker
Bassett, Va
Daisy Mae Trice
Pittsburg
Floyd
Tom Armstrong
Main Street
Carmen Shaw
Culver City
Cal
Belle Clark
Jim Branam
Atchison Specialty Co
Fred Evans
Troy Laundry
Dr. W. A. McKelvy
Winthrop
Col
Love
Smith Club
John Ross
Salina
IT. M. Plunkett
South Fifth Street
Virgil Tate
Julius Kaaz
Laramie Street
Tate
J F. Simms
Lige Green
Santa Fe
France
England
Amelia Earhart
Europe
E. E. Marr
Lincoln
Neb
Edgar Mattocks
M. J. Cloyes
Camp Brittain
Clarence Hansen
A. H. Langworth
L. Martin
A. Connor
Jackson Park
J. W. Graybill
Newton
Graybill
Order
Lawrence Day
Ralph Prouts
Ancient Order of United Workers
Hays
Baptist Church
American Legion
M. Owen Kellison
Carey Brewster
John McKenasie
Cliff Dickson
Kansas City, Mo
Orlin Weede
Royal Theatre
Lessie Blackburn
Iola Cooper
Miss Blackburn
Barry Coal Co
C. F. Harman
Jim Walsh
Walsh Clothing Co
Blair Building
Sixth
the Globe’s
John McCormack
Athlone
Ireland
Dublin
United States
John McCrae
Flanders Field
Field Artillery
Mary Virginia Platt
University of California
Santa Barbara
Miss Platt
Atchison High School
Fred Platt
South Eighth Street
Albert Kaufmann
Kauffman
K. C
Atchison, Authorities
Bert Gilmore
Fred Moore
Franke
Ruby McDowell
Gower
Andrew Christian
Pittsburgh
Richard Walker
A. L. Brooks
Commercial
George Deichen
Samuel A. Vincent
Doniphan County
Fullerton
A. J
Mary Hargis
Vincent
Osborne County
Brenner
California
Reisner Park
Owen M Kelso
Christian Church
Wil
Atchison Ministerial Association
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