27 Jun 1929
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Newspaper
Atchison Weekly Globe
Location
Atchison, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1929
Page
1
A new two hour parking limit ordinance is expected to be adopted soon. City officials say the measure aims to curb long parked vehicles in business districts and will set enforcement rules and penalties upon final approval.
City commissioners study a proposed traffic ordinance limiting parking to two hours on 21 downtown blocks including Commercial Street from Third to Tenth and Kansas Avenue sections. The draft, likely to pass soon, also updates street car rules, raises speed limits to 15 mph on ordinary streets and 20 mph on through streets, and keeps a six mile limit at intersections.
Prank Corkadel has recovered. Skolnick's children visited Mrs Jo Ducker in Atchison Friday. Blair Mackney traveled to Ottumwa for Blair Milling Co. Edwin Draper is unwell. Mrs Elmer Kramer starts a two week vacation from Woolworth's. Lola Higley heads to Chicago for Chicago Musical College. Local quotes include comments on early marriages and a jingle about missing an umbrella. The Woods Construction Co. of Lincoln bought stone for river near Beanlake. R A Preston, sick, returned home from St Luke's hospital. Andrew Shearer recalls landing British money in Atchison 59 years ago. Mrs Fred Taylor and daughter to visit Bristow. Fred Taylor buys a can opener and cock book. Charles T. Gundy notes two detectives on umbrella thief. Manhattan to mark 75th birthday Oct 22 with festivities. Atchison rumor mill doubts celebration. Jack Hartman’s Sugar Lake bass rumor debunked. Floyd Willette surveys Atchison for a possible factory site. company HQ in New York City. The question is about Bernice coal storage and delivery.
Mrs. Nettie Lambert Henry, aged 52 and wife of H. E. Henry, longtime area farmer, died suddenly at her home near Nortonville after returning from Atchison hospital. Heart trouble cited. Surviving husband, Claude Henry, and children Miss Clara May Henry and Ortonville, with other relatives. Funeral at Pleasant Grove church with burial in its cemetery.
Miss Mary Amanda Phillips married William Phelps Cunningham at 3 p m on Saturday at the Phillips home four miles north of Effingham. The Rev H E Ballou officiated with only close relatives present. The bride, a 1927 graduate and art prize winner, wore shell pink chiffon. The groom, son of Kansas City residents, is an architect with the Charles Bacon Rowley firm in Cleveland. They will honeymoon in Europe after a stay in Cleveland and Cape Cod.
Mrs. Joe Bluma of 921 South Seventh died at Atchison hospital at 2 PM from a heart attack after a brief illness. She was 40 and survived by husband and five children aged 17, 15, 13, 13, and 9. Formerly Miss Betty Hundley, she lived in Atchison county all her life. Body at Lawin & Douglass parlors. funeral arrangements not yet made.
John W. McChesney known as Jug died in Kansas City at 90. A longtime traveling salesman for Red Wing stoneware, he lived in Atchison Marysville and Waterville. Civil War captain who later sold pottery then stoneware, survived by two daughters and mourned in local obituaries.
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