Bloody clothes hide a mystery in Atchison
A bloodstained coat and hat found in a downtown alley are identified as belonging to W C Moore a Blackwell and Woodard restaurant man who vanished after visiting Atchison authorities fear murder Moore was last seen Thursday in Kansas City and a car track in the alley suggests a morning intrusion investigators weigh robbery faked disappearance and possible Tulsa bank check for 100 dollars as clue on Moore’s identity
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. ©. Moore
Parrott & Ganter's
Matin
Commercial
W. C. Moore
Blackwell and Woodard
Oklo
Moore
Atchison
BK. FL
Oklahoma
Mr. Huntsinger
Bluntsinger
Oklahoma State Bank
Tulsa
Farmington P T A Backs County School Bill Vote
Farmington P T A met Friday night with a fair crowd. Vernon Deceweiler Maud Schrader and J T Carter spoke. A play fundraiser was planned. A committee endorsed House Bill 498 to create community high schools and support its passage. A committee was named to plan the March meeting. The White bill calls for a popular vote to abolish the county high school at Effingham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmington
PT. A
A. J. White
W. BD. Crick
A.S. Hall
P. Butler
Parent-Teacher’s Association
Co. F. Barnard
A Test Tower for Steinite Laboratory Project
Construction starts on a testing laboratory for Steinite Laboratories beside Bellevue Country Club. A 100 foot steel tower with a 200 square foot apex room will house tests of Steinite products and aerial kite experiments. The project, part of a Steinite plant expansion on Upper Commercial street, costs several thousands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steinite Laboratories
Bellevue Country Club
Fred Stein
Sternite Electrical
Stein
Upper Commercial Street
Flour Output Rises at Atchison Mills in January 1927
Federal Reserve Bank figures show Atchison mills produced 112 545 barrels in January 1927, up from 107 001 in December 1926 and 105 826 in January 1926. Southwest centers include Kansas City 567 885 and 635 977, Omaha 87 019 and 93 023, and St Joseph 147 926 and 188 563. Total Southwest 1 054 2 053 444 versus 2 245 250 for December.
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Atchison Mills
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Atchison and
St. Joe
Southwest
Atchison
Kansas City
Omaha
Salina
St. Joseph
Wichita
New Catholic School Planned for South Atchison
Father Callistus Kramer announces a new Catholic school for South Atchison to cost at least 20000 dollars on the old Ingalls property at Crowell and W streets with a one story fireproof building and basement. Razing of the old St Louis college on Eighth Street is planned as part of a broader parish improvement including a future church and parish house.
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Ingalls
Crowell and
W_ streets
St. Louis College
Eighth Street
Kansas Avenue
Santa Fe Street
St. Benedict's Parish School
South Atchison
Callistus
Pillsbury Plant Expansion Starts Monday
Ed Neill, excavation subcontractor for Pillsbury Floor Mills, was notified today. Driving of piles for foundations will follow. Crushed rock contract for 86 tanks went to QG H Kerford quarry of Atchison. George Kerford will boost crews in three weeks. O Neill plans a clam shell excavator. Engineers lay out lots east of the Pillsbury plant as excavating begins. General contract for the expansion was awarded to Foswell Ahlskog of Chicago for about $250 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pillsbury Floor Mills Company
Ed Neill
H. Kerford
Atchison
George Kerford
O'Neill
Pillsbury
Foswell Ahlskog Company of
Chicago
Burlington Schedule Changes Into Effect
Burlington passenger schedules shift on connections between Atchison Armour and St Joseph Kansas City with fast trains. No. 26 arrives 9 40 p m at Burlington then departs 9 08 p m to Kansas City. No. 112 arrives 5 58 p m then departs Atchison 5 20 p m to Kansas City. No. 31 arrives 5 58 p m then departs Atchison 5 20 p m to Armour arriving St Joseph 6 20 p m. Kansas City husband story notes a wife convicted of taking her husband clothes and ear without consent, a legal consequence highlighted.
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Burlington
Atchison
Armour
St. Joe
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Omaha
Lewman Dies at Home Near Cummings at 72
J W Lewman 72, longtime Atchison county resident, died Saturday at 8 45 am at his Cum mings area home from ulcers of the stomach and complications. Born March 1 184, in Fleming county Kentucky, he moved to Kansas in 1902 living on Buck farm south west of Atchison before settling in Atchison and later Cummings. Funeral at 2 pm Monday at his residence conducted by Rev Roughton of Cummings. Burial Oak Hill cemetery. Survived by his widow seven children and sixteen grandchildren two great grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Lewman
Atchison County
Cummings
Mr. Lewman
Fleming County
Kansas
Buck Farm
Atchison
Roughton
Oak Hill Cemetery
Lewman
Sam Gilkison
J. A. Noonan
Lou Ingels
Leonard
Walter, Curtis
Marvin Lewman
Democrats pick Balie Waggener for Kansas club president
From Wednesday's Daily Globe Atchison representative Balie Waggener was unanimously elected president of the Kansas Democratic club at its Washington birthday banquet in Topeka. The event praised his recruiting work for democracy. Other officers named included State Rep E R Sloan and Mrs Emma Sells Marshall.
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Weodnesday
Dally Balie Waggener
Atchison
Kansas Democratic Club
Washington
Topeka
Holton
Emma Sells Marshall
Sloan
Atchison Democrats
Waggene
James Reed
Missouri
W. A. Ayres
Wichita
Kansas
Cordell Hull
Tennessee
Big Mudhole to Disappear on Doniphan Highway
Doniphan county commissioners ordered immediate repair of a one mile mud stretch between Deer creek and Independence creek on the Atchison to Doniphan road. They consider rerouting via bluffs or macadam work, with funding from the general road fund, after surveying the site with county engineer Roy D. Coleman and local officials.
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Atchison
Doniphan
Deer Creek
Independence Creek
Board of County Commissioners
Ed Iverson
Bud Schulta
Chris Stutz
Iverson
Deer Creek Bridge
Independence Creek Bridge
Roy D. Coleman
Doniphan County
Ray T. Willette
Chamber of Commerce
Deer
Independence Creeks
Willette
Coleman
Muscotah Civil War Veteran William Kinsinger Dies
William Kinsinger 90 a Muscotah resident and Civil War veteran died at Horton hospital after a year with gangrene. Born December 9 1886 in Ohio he served three years in the Union army and endured prison at Libby and Andersonville. He and his wife moved to Kansas then Muscotah where he farmed near town until retirement. No children. adopted daughter Mrs Albert Asqueth of Topeka cared for him until her death. Burial planned in Muscotah with services at the Muscotah Methodist church.
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William Kinsinger
Muscotah
Horton Hospital
Mr. Kinsinger
Ohio
Libbey
Andersonville
Kansas
Brown County
Kinsinger
Albert Asqueth
Topeka
Asqueth
Farrett Ballou
Holton Real Estate Leader Shoots Self in Holton Home
Phil Haas a 56 year old Holton real estate figure and longtime Atchison associate died by suicide yesterday morning at his home. Worries over finances were cited as the likely cause. He left a widow, a son Kendall Haas and one grandson. Funeral plans had not been set.
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Phil Haas
Kansas
Holton
Haas
Atchison
Faas
Ino
Ed Iverson
Exchange State Bank
Daas
Kendall Haas
Bellevue school PTA elects new officers after meeting
Friday night the Bellevue school's Parent Teacher Association held a meeting and annual officer election. Mrs. A M Andrews retires as president. Mrs Jerry Walz elected president. New first vice president Mrs Gladys Winter and second vice president Frank Bracke. Treasurers and secretaries named along with a program of songs, a play, and refreshments. Mrs Andrews is county extension supervisor. a Times note adds a separate obituary item about a prominent Young Woman in Wathens.
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Parent-Teacher Association
Bellevue School
A. M. Andrews
Jerry Walz
Gladys Winter
Frank Bracke
Albert Clem
Alfred Dehn
Eileene Braun
Whispering Hope
Santa Lucia
Will Lane
Winter
Lucy MceAdow
Lucia del Lanmermoor
Glenn Squires
Parent-Teachers’ Association
Jesse Barber
Parents Teachers Association
Max Drimmel
Marry Christian
Chifford Barber
Modern Youth
Demons
Theo Andrews
Orville Skall
Albert Walz, Jr
Charles Stucker
Desires
Ryathanna Wals
Clara Marguerite Walz
LaDora Barber
Edythe Fauchier
Thelma Tucker
Helen Giaman
Josephine Christian
Leona Fauchier
Geneva Drimmel
Virginia Walz
Local Realty Market Buoyant in Atchison County Transfers
Transfers show brisk spring activity across city and rural areas in Atchison county with deeds recorded by Nels Fletcher. Properties span Old Atchison South Atchison Challiss and surrounding additions, including three blocks of city land, farm tracts near Effingham, and Arlington city plots, with several no cash consideration mentions and several $2,000 to $24,000 deal values.
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Atchison County
Nels Fletcher
Register of Deeds
Fletcher
Missouri Pacific
Old Atchison
South Atchison
Locomotive Finished Material Co
The
Commerce Trust Co
Klostermeier Bros. Hardware Co
Henry Klostermeier
Challiss Addition
Eighth
St. Louis College
St. Benedict's School
North Atchison
Atchison
St. Benedict's
Henry B. Smart
George A. Smart
West Atchison
Thomas W. Byrne
Robert R. Low
Jacob Elliott
Glen E. Engelhardt
Vaughn H. Benjamin
Letha A. Epps
Spring Garden
Ruth S&. Ainsworth
Katherine Bilimek
Ior
Bellevue Country Club
Charles
Central Branch Wheat Prospects Splendid
Albert Hf Lehman mayor of Atchison and Dolan Mercantile credit men report green wheat fields across Central Branch from Logan north along Soleomen branch west of Downs and along Steckton fine area between Alton and Woodaton. Moisture and optimism grow after years of disappointment. Music week in Atchison schools under Joyce Wentz showcased orchestras, choruses, and pupils in programs across multiple schools with strong attendance and praise for Miss Weatt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Hf. Lehman
Atchison
Dolan Mercantile Company
Central
West End
Logan
Soleomen
Downs
Solomon
Steckton
Alton
Woodaton
Lehman
Joyce Wentz
Amertes
Washingreben
Lincelmn
Martin School
Roosevelt School
Yuplia
Branklim
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J. F. Padgett
Tenry Street
Jack Cartmill
Andy Clark
Clark Garage
Wiley Chapman
Bert Signor
Walsh
Farmington P. T. A
Steinite
Bellevue Club
Wyandotte County District Court
Joe Keyes
Warney Smith
Billy Brittain
NEW School
Fd. O’neill
Kerford
J. W. Lohman
Democrats
Balie Waggener
Joe Barber
Okla
St. Benedict's College
Globe
Hiawatha
Idaho University
Ralph Love
Pilkington
Georgia Marvin
Georgina
California
Love Home
Love
Memorial Hall
Balie
P. Waggener
Commercial Street
Rhode Island
G. S. Kimbrough
Quincy
Ladies Home Journal
Huron
Jim Challiss
Challiss
Horton
Bellevue P. T. A
Wathens
the Times
Nvck
Register of Deeds Office
Central Branch
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