Community Chatter Highlights Town Personalities and Anecdotes
George Mesigh recalls seeing Walter Mills in Oklahoma City as becoming portly. J T Scott plans an attractive bungalow on South Seventh Street after moving from Brenner area. Tip Young reflects on the restaurant era and polite service. Residents discuss travel plans, tailoring, corn prospects, and Rotary club changes. Roy Lister describes Sumner townsite bounds, while Bill Dunton motors from Dallas to Atchison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delly
George Mesigh
Walter Mills
Oklahoma City
J.T. Scott
South Seventh Street
Fletcher
Brenner
Mr. Scott
Kansas
Tip Young
Sglinger Boys
Jim Gilkison
Lo‘leary
Pr. J. Hegarty
Nd Lukens
O. B. Lusk
al Lehman
Rotary Club
Tom Horner
Ed Mattocks
Professor Charles Kennedy
The
Globe
Professor Kennedy
Roy Lister
Sumner
Missouri River
Terman Reichle
Robert Gilland
Bill Dunton
Dallas
Texas
Motors
Atchison
Daily Atchison notes and local updates
Walter Stubinger remains downtown while Mrs John Holthhusen of Oak Mills recovers from blood poisoning. Dr IB W Vickery visited Judge Gundy in Excelsior Springs. The Missouri River nears Lake Contrary and may reenter the river. Mugene Clark returns from Northern Michigan with a new car. Pete Weber of Nortonville returns home after a broken arm hospital stay. A skunk in Jackson Park died after entering a 2 inch sewer pipe. Frank Koenig mocks the corn crop as a weed patch. Emmett Jackson notes a new fast baseball team forming in Atchison. Mrs Douglas Harrison and son Eugene return to Wichita from a visit with the Harrisons. Atchison County owes 49012.49 on bonds due July 1. Roy Modder returns from Wichita vacation. Rev Jesse Bader preaches in Atchison then sails to Australia for church work returning in October. Blair elevator foundation work continues for a new head-house. A state warrant for shooting with intent to kill to be filed against Mrs Margaret Sheldon for shooting Billy Sheldon at 310 Kansas Avenue. she is detained in the city jail. Sheldon’s wound not serious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Holthhusen
Oak Mills
IB. W. Vickery
Excelsior Springs
Judge Gundy
Missouri
Lake Contrary
St. Joe
Mugene Clark
Michigan
Pete Weber
Nortonville
Atchison Hospital
Jackson Park
Vom Beattie
Frank Koenig
Emmett Jackson
Atchison
Douglas Harrison
Kugent
Harrison
William Casey
Main Street
Wichita
Atchison County
Ellsworth Cummings
Roy Modder
Symns Grocer Co
Modder
Modeer
Jesse Bader
Christian Church
Pacific Coast
Australia
Bader
Blair
Maurice P. O'Keefe
Margaret Sheldon
Billy Sheldon
Kansas Avenue
General Smith to Speak Here Atchison Fourth of July
General Harry A. Smith of Omaha and commander of the Seventh Corps area will be the Atchison Fourth of July guest. He will speak from a platform at Jackson Park in afternoon patriotic exercises and travel from Kansas City on July 3 for the celebration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry A. Smith
Omaha
Seventh Corps
Atchison
Jackson Park
Smith
Ray Willette
Atchison Chamber of Commerce
Willette
United States
American Legion
General Smith
Atchison Notes and Local Happenings Show Town's Ties
A roundup of Atchison items covers public figures, travel plans, and neighborhood life. Notables include A Rubiman Billy Crawford and Ed Reinhard's visits, A H Langworth in Kansas City for Postal Telegraph managers, and Johnny McCarthy's Denver trip with car woes. Community events feature Rotary talks by Dr George Linck, a golf trophy display, a trust company visit from Kansas City, and a large family dinner in Bean Lake. Also noted are river levels, weather effects on wheat, and a call for bicycle light safety downtown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Linck
Linck
Rotary Club
Harry Haegelin
Atchison
W. R. Wolf
Centralia
Land Sharks Face Possible Prosecution In Texas Land Frauds
Atchison county officials report three or more women have been defrauded of 7500 to 8000 by Texas land schemes. County Attorney Maurice P. O Keefe plans to take evidence to Topeka for a possible state or federal action with Attorney General Smith. The case centers on false land sales promising a rich harvest, with victims so far women in Atchison County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atchison
Texas
Maurice P. O'Keefe
Topeka
Smith
Kansas
Atchison County
O'Keefe
Insurance Money to Turner Says Court
Roy M. Turner now serving life in Missouri penitentiary for the murder of Mrs. Dora A. Gage in a Kansas City hotel last year is ruled to have no right to the $16,000 life insurance estate. The New York Life Insurance Co. paid the policy into district court to determine rightful ownership. Heirs of Mrs. Gage claim Turner illegally possessed the policy, which Turner said secured an未sold property, and a double indemnity policy paid on death by any cause other than natural causes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy M. Turner
Missouri Penitentiary
Dora A. Gage
Kansas City
W. A. Jackson
Katie Marie Stanley
Gage
Turner
New York Life Insurance Co
Mrs. Gage
American State Bank
Oscar Osthoff
Overland Anderson Motor Co
Harry Brown
Atchison Motor Co
Henry Nielsen
W. C. Rogers
Nortonville
F. C. Kincaid
Atchison
Ed Bilimek
Leo Tappan
Sixth
Riley
H. C. Paulsen
Matt Funk
Town
Locomotive Finished Material Co
Henry Biche
George Campbell
Commercial
Lineous Griffin
Carlton
Mr. Griffin
Edwin Griffin
Commercial Street
Lincous Griffin
San Francisco
New York
George
Archie Shackleford
Orlin Weede
Ivanhoe Temple
Harry A. Smith
Verge Tate
Seventh
U Street
Sud Wendling
Wendling
Ed Kidwell Dies Suddenly at Home Near Bean Lake
Ed Kidwell 47 prominent Missouri farmer died of heart trouble at 1 pm at his Bean Lake area home after heat in the harvest field. Survived by wife and four children, lifelong Atchison County resident known for trading on Commercial Street. Funeral plans not listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fa Kidwell
Missouri
Bean Lake
Mr. Kidwell
Atchison County
Buchanan County
Kidwell
Commercial Street
Atchison
Ile
Atchison County Obituary Notes and Local Updates
Mrs Jane Hawley Robertson of Atchison county dies at 85 in Independence neighborhood near St. Louis church. Survived by husband F G Robertson, three children Mary D Williams Samuel Robertson, and three grandchildren and great grandchildren. Funeral Wednesday at 10 at home with Independence cemetery burial. Also notes Bible conference at Evangelical church led by Rev Wertheimer of Ada Ohio. Various town updates including court, arson arrest in Horton, local improvements, and missing teen Marion Brightee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Hawley Robertson
Atchison County
Independence
St. Louis Church
F. G. Robertson
Land
Robertson
Mary
Mt. Vernon
Evangelical Church
Max Wertheimer
Ada, O
Wertheimer
Billy Sunday
H. L. Fox
Leavenworth
Alfred KE. Lewis
Atchison
Hannibal and St. Joe
Burtington
Lewis
Also Mentioned on This Page
C Hotel
America
Walter Stubinger
Emil Ebner
Paul Brooks
South Fourth Street
Brooks
Robert Holland
Ray Holland
West Point
Field and Stream
Scarsdale
N. Y
Raymond
New Mexico Military Academy
Roswell
N. M
Robert
Raymond Holland
Zelma Oldham
First Christian Church
Miss Oldham
First Christian Church of
Myron T. Hopper
Bill Dudley
Maple
Division
Bill
Board of County Commissioners
Henry Scholz
Near Doniphon
Atchison-St. Joe
Bill Sheldon
H. D. Mason
Amarillo
Mr. Mason
Blish, Mize & Sillisman’s
Mary Crawford
Miss Ruth
Cawker City
Kas
Minnesota
Canada
Link Preston
President Coolidge
Albert Armstrong
North Tenth ‘Street
A. Rubiman
Billy Crawford
Byram
Bill Hayden
Missouri Pacific
Ed Reinhard
Johnny McCarthy
Denver
Viday
Frank Vorhees
Parallel Street
Sue Arnold
J.L. Lafferty
F. L. Lafferty
Trenton
G. R. Alexander
Gerald Garman
Atchison High School
Chicago
Glenn Harman
Harvey Reece
Muscotah
James Harman
Atchison Barber
Ford Edwards
Oakland
Calif
J. W. Abner
Ford
Stephen
Bellevue Country Club
Herber Ham
Harry Stephens
John Noonan
Forest Park
Albert Lehman
Oklahoma
Arlene Spatz
Little Rock
Amy
John O'Connor
North Fourth Street
Miss Spatz
Kansas City Trust
O’keefe
Maxwell
Iowa
Everest
Stella Tryant
Elmer Davidson
Davidson
Stella
Tie
Tony
Lawrence Ramsel
Ted Triggs
Ray Meecke
Paul Loar
Wathena
Joe Weiland
Hubert Broadley
Topeka State Journal
Robert BE. Vermillion
Public Service Commission
Legislative Investigating Committee
Vermillion
Disabled Veterans’ Bureau
John Grundmann
Trinity Lutheran Parochial School
Norfolk
Neb
George Timby
William and
Albert Schmelling
Wilhelmina Ida Kaaz
Kaar
Julius Kaa
Johnny George
Jack Hartman
Sugar Lake
T. J. Ritner
Iowan
City Commission
Bert C. Wells
Earl Hellener
George Marsh
Black and Veatch
White Clay Creek
Wirth ‘Street
ED Kidwell
Colorado Rockies
Santa Fe
Fred Harvey
Colorado
C. M. Rathburn
Union Depot
Atchison, Kansas
Jane Robertson
North
District Court
John Levit
the Globe
J. J’. Adams
F. W. C. Jesse
Albert Jesse
Concordia
Charlie Leathers
Frank Hoecker
J. B. McGrath
Dauhie Martha Ellen
Paola
Floyd Stillings
Dalby
Sullivan
Central Branch
Otto Kaaz
Kaaz Manufacturing Co
Lincoln
Amateur Athletic Union
Walter Thompson
Eighth Street
Bil Dudley
G. A. Clark
Rock Island
Horton
Frank Mangelsdorf
Wartman
Sugarlake
Cousins Lumber Co
Jackson
Marion Brightee Wathena
Hale Sayley
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