Atchison Daily News Briefs of July Happenings
A long list of local items covers arrests, travel, weddings, teaching posts, and civic notes. People like Mrs. Edmiston, Mrs. Thorp, Sam Collins, and Beulah Johnson figure, alongside farmers, students, and church leaders. Also noted are price trends, public safety steps, a fire department scare, and upcoming events and civic appeals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Thorp
Jim Strong
Washington
Fred Huth
Warren Ferguson
Misswa
Minn
Fire engine relics and social notes from Atchison day book
In St. Louis a Platte county fire engine relic from Weston’s 1840s era rests in a museum. The unit, about a century old, was built in England with a mahogany top and mother of pearl inlays, pumped by twenty men. The town’s fire service evolved after 1896. current gear sits in a modern department. The page also reports engagements, parties, club meetings, births, and local incidents from Atchison and nearby areas, including mosquito malaria notes, a fire at 932 King Street, and social updates across families and businesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Platte County
Weston
England
Atchison
Virginia Charlotte Skelly
Thomas William Merritt
Fay Skelly
Ruth Constance Skelly
Bernice Randolph
Minerva Shepherd
John Nicholson
Will Icks
Elkhart
Ind
Anton Jacobsen
Jackson Park
St. Benedict's College
Bert Baumener
Danco
Ethel Hayslett
O. P. Bell
Louise Nevens
Virginia High
Ford Atzenweiler
South Seventh Steet
William Bailey
Clementine Kasten
The
Christian Church
Bean Lake
M. O. Kellison
W. H. Corning
King Street
Branchton
H. N. Sowers
J. M. Spalding
Spalding
Charles Smith
Tulsa
Oklo
Whitelaw
Frank Clingan
Wichita
John Clingan
James Conlon
Dilgert’s
St. Joe
East Atchison
Henry Mester
North Eighth Street
Death of Hattie Armstrong A Bendena Area Widow
Mrs. Hattie Armstrong, 70, widow of James Armstrong and longtime Doniphan county farmer, died at 4:05 a.m. at her home southwest of Bendena after years of ill health. Funeral at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Armstrong home. burial in Bitner cemetery. Survived by son John Armstrong and daughter Mattie Clemetson of Bendena, plus three grandchildren. Born May 12, 1862, at old Bitner farm near Severance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Andersen
E. G. Burbank
van Nuys
Calif
George Wainscott
The
Commerce Finance Co
Galveston
Tex
Kansas Automobile Club
American Automobile Association
Atchison
Bill Prass
Moving Picture Industry
Roy Walters Jr
Roy
Oklahoma
Kansas
Court House
Fred Swain
Dorothy Broth
Lincoln
Neb
Lloyd Murray
Marian Ernst
Soldier
Kas
D. G. Wilson
North Ninth Street
Mary Swartz
Cottonwood Falls
Gladys Swartz
McKenzie School of Music
Ruth Schaffer
J. G. Schaffer
University of Southern California
Tombstone
Ariz
E. C. Frazier
Kansas City
John O'Rourke
J. B. Scott, Jr
Caroline Schaffer
Prescott
Esther Schaffer
Bisbee
South Seventh Street
Millie Johnscon
Beanlake
Shelby Rice
Newark
Del
R. J. Vallance
Brainard Page
Vallance
John Rummans
Kentucky
Senator Barkley
Rummans
Minnesota
Glenn Seward
Ed Seward
Glenn
Homer Stephens
Atchison High School
Ralph Brewster
Will Randall
Jack Bergin
John Kaley
W. A. Jackson
Bayliss
Jackson
Ray Fletcher
State Penitentiary
Hattie Armstrong
James Armstrong
Doniphan
Bendena
Armstrong
Bitner
Severance
Barr Undertaking
Troy
Hattie Bitner Armstrong
St. Miles
Hogs Rise Amid Election Chatter In Atchison Columns
Wednesday community chatter notes hog prices marching to four fifty, local parade of names and opinions from Atchison and beyond. Farmers worry about funding, officials discuss campaigns, and citizens comment on politics, weather, and daily life with turns of phrase typical to the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Globe
Prince Yogi
Lake of the Ozarks
Coolidge
Atchison, Borah Vs. Challiss
New York Boxing Commission
Jude Johnson
William Allen White
Kansas
Roosevelt
Charlie Mann
Troy
Atchison
Castord
Africa
The
Angels
Leipold
Will Mathias
Charlie Finsney
Hutton
Los Angeles
Aimee Tribe
Switchman
Orsie Feathers
Jake Wallenstein
C. P. Elder
Killarney
Woodrow Wilson
Atchison County
Also Mentioned on This Page
J. M. Edmiston
Ben Fedderson
Boxing Commission
Ed Iverson Jr
California
John Frazier
Robbie Thompson
Lawrence
Ralph Crider
George Calvert
J. H. Curtis
Jane Flint
Andrew Flint
Kickapoo
Charlie Johnson
Hostile
Sowers
Beulah Johnson
Barnard
John A. Craig
Alex Craig
Riley Street
First Baptist Church
Minneapolis
National Baptist Young People’s Convention
South Cedar Street
Ottawa
Craig
Williamstown Baptist Church
Ottawa University
Bethany College
University
Nancy Smith
Lester Holman
Gilbert Guthrie
Parallel Street
Malinda Hansen
Floral Club
South Fifth Street
William Grippen
Clarence Hansen
Peter Griswo
Betty Hansen
Intfen’s
Stanley Mepes and Sons
Jackie and
Jerry
Mapes
Dorothy Robinson
Omaha
H. C. Paulsen
Missouri Pacific Women’s Roster Club
Ted Baker
Jack Owsley
Will Harrison
Charles Ham
Charles Dunham
B. J. Kelly
Frances Hansen
Frank Roche
North Second Street
Jack Roche
Jack
Tom Elder
Elder
Kirk Hilton
R Street
Coffeyville
Charles Spencer Logan
Charles H. Logan
Oak Mills
Helen Lacewell
Raton
N. M
Denver
Bishop Furniture Co
Oscar Schmitz
North Third Street
M. T. Dingess
Will Berry
Tom Byrne
A. B. Strathmann
Ames
Jerome van Dylas
Stewart McLenon
Kittie Sullivan
Herman Crouch
Lillian Massenfratz
Fulton’s
Shifflet’s
Bridget Sheehan
Charlie James
Charles Alberts
Donaldson
Carl
Parr Armstrong
Daytona Beach
Topeka
Allie Albers
Joe Connor
Lakeview
Alfred
Addison McKelvy
Midland Milling Co
M. Owen Kellison
Stein Camp
Josephine Mylar
Dick Mylar
David Pemberton
Glenn Binkley
H. B. Mize
Hurley
George Herzinger
North Fifth Street
Keehn
Atchison Hospital
Simon Dolginoff
Gore
Edna Lake
Independence
Ed Lake
Parallel
Lee Cowan
Will Davis
S Street
North Seventh Street
Davis
G. W. Allaman
Vera Whitchurch
Leon
Parkview Hospital
Pueblo
Col
Edmund Pusch
St. Benedict’s College
Kansas Crippled Children Commission
Horton
Sam Connor
Arthur Capper
Albert Armstrong
Veterans Hospital
Leavenworth
Carpenters
Gretchen Lowden
Lowden
Kate Elliott
Elliott
Harry Reisner
McPherson, Kas
Cr. G. Genebach
United Steel & Wire Co
F. E. Hatch
Genebach
Rosalia Finnegan
Greenwood Country Club
Henry Forgey
Bernard Lee
Leavenworth County
Gertrude Lee
Oscar Burnett
Tom Edwards
H. W. Merwick
Burnett
Edwards
Washington Street
Globe Reporter
John Byram
Abilene
Texas
Brick Chandler
Ritchie
Maryland
Emil Drummon
Doniphan Lake
Thomason
Snort
Seventh Street
South Atchison
Missouri
Katie Jurgensen
Emil Schrether
Roy Wallack
Josephine Miller
F. Vv. Firin Finance Co
Marian Chandler
Julius Roloff
Oak Street
Claude Wolfe
Ed Hiller
Near Bendena
Sam Lansky
E. T. Fuhrman
John Leason
James Robinson
Charles Robinson
Earl Hellener
Gladys Winter
Sugar Lake
Ramsay's
Earl Cash
Mgs
Ella Blodgett
Bob Volk
A. B. Stannard
Linneus
Will Baumener
Dave Waddell
Armin Soph
Boonville
Alice Hayter
Boston
Polo
Glenn Gerard
Rudy Lorenz
Lorenz
Will Thayer
Virginia
Victoria
Mary Frances King
Jean Heald
Doris Moore
Gene Carter
C. G. Herrel
A. B. Sharpless
Charles Henneberg
Chicago
Helen Miller
Tony Seeger
Charlie O’keefe
Ed Buck
Lacey Simpson
Muscotah
Grace Stewart
Salina
Clark Henderson
Stein
Mize Cottage
M. E. Tate
Concordia
Missouri Pacific Hospital
Effingham
al Smith
Smith
Claude McLenon
Ropeka Hospital
Holland Furnace Co
Will French
French
S. M. Watkins
Atchison School Board
Boyd Cummings
West Atchison
Arthur Mize
Jerry Shakes
W. C. Linville
Clarence Darrow
Gladys Roberts
Ernest B. Roberts
Lansing
Marshall County
Mr. Jackson
Kings River
Eureka Springs
Ark
O. C. Miller
John Doherty
W Street
David Eugene
Doherty
Jane Scott
David Scott
Harold Cowan
Hiawatha
Kendall Harrison
Gene Harrison
Greenleaf Lutheran Church
Tony Smith
Park Street
Gomer Davies
Concordia Kansan
Aespade
Babe Waggener
St. Patrick's Road
John Jorgensen
Norway
Australia
Frank Brox
Marie
Ralph Weik
Mary Mangelsdorf
Cleve Grover
Wilma Miller
Sst
Mary's
Coral Witter
Jack Hartman
Jerry Lee Green
Hawaiha
North Tenth Street
St. Mark's Lutheran Church
Helen Fink
South Sixth Street
Arthur Matthias, Jr
Nebraska
Badlands
Black Hills
Jerome Phillip
George Delaney
Manhattan
Earl Wood
Elizabeth
Bertha Wood
South Eighth Street
Leta Henderson
Santa Fe Street
Cummings
Daisy Deane Thomas
Tiny Ganter
Bob Cox
Tenth
Commercial Streets
Nicky
Jack Beagles
Spring Street
F. M. Purdy
Fairview
Mary Holmes
Union Depot
Harold Bradley
Holton
Harvey Garoutte
Masons of
Mangelsdort
Frank Roth
J. W. Bollin
Atchison Mills and Elevators
Franklin
Chandler's
Harry Meyer, Jr
C. P. Waisner
Clifford Cecil
Burlington
Internal Revenue Department
Jack Spencer
Spring Grove
John Gutzman
Bud Martin
Gutzman
Lawrence Journal-World
Jim Challiss
Admiral Paul Jones