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Newspaper
Atchison Weekly Globe
Location
Atchison, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1927
Page
8
A city note covers Osteopathy with Dr. E R Palmer and weather, plus praise from Emil Ebner about an 18 year old neighborhood youth skilled in art, mechanics, and embroidery. Linley Motor Company and Ford economy mentioned as context.
The Hoard of Commissioners of Atchison Kansas adopt a resolution to grade and pave the alley between Commercial Street and Kansas Avenue from Ninth Street east to the north and south alley in block 1 of Challiss Addition. Concrete paving six inches thick will be fifteen feet wide funded by special assessments. The City Engineer will prepare plans. the City Clerk will publish notice for six days and seek bids. The resolution was adopted March 28.
State of Kansas Atchison County in Tribate Court In the Matter of the Estate of Susan Alder creditors and interested persons are notified that on March 26 the administrator filed a final report and the hearing is set for April 20 to seek full final settlement and determine heirs legatees and devisees Atchison Kansas March 2 127 Prior Dickey Administrator of Estate of Susan Alder Deceased
Jerome Vandyke is named Executor by the Probate Court of Atchison County Kansas. Letters testamentary were granted this day. All persons with claims against the estate must present them for allowance to the Executor in Atchison Kansas. March 21 1927.
The Fampire Trust Company sues Mell Koropchensky Rose Koropchensky and others. Sheriff W H Coleman will sell the West Half of the Southwest Quarter and Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter in Section 23 Township 7 Range 21 at the Atchison County Courthouse on April 16 at 2 PM for a $7 241.33 judgment plus foreclosure of mortgage.
A detachment of Arkansas national guard troops and a posse of over 100 men surrounded a wooded area ten miles from Jasper and Russellville where three bank robbers from Kansas City and Joplin are believed cornered after the Newton county bank raid. Ed Foreman in jail confessed his part, naming Blakie Monroe Joe Martin and Sandy McGhee as the others. A separate report notes Nina Holbrook of Los Angeles injured in a delivery truck collision and state authorities returning Kk. G. Corvin to Atchison for arraignment.
Bud & Pree's advertises Golden Crown best flower for cold weather with top coats priced at 21.50, down from 25 and 30. A police station docket notes Ras Bell drunk again with a quoted exchange between Ras and a desk sergeant.
Homer E. Schrack of Pratt Kansas will become state business manager for Kansas tomorrow filling a $1.4 million annual post. He succeeds T J O Neil Osage City veteran Democrat. Schrack is a Republican with 30 years in mercantile work and prior teaching and county education roles. The salary is $5000 with duties including purchasing for 23 state institutions and overseeing last year’s $1.4 million expenditure. Schrack’s family includes wife and three children.
Topeka reports distribution of the 1926 automobile license surplus with a statewide rebate of 87,273.99 among 105 counties. Sedgwick leads refunds at 5,437.87, Wyandotte 4,780.10, Shawnee 3,560.27, while Stanton shows the smallest registrations. A Steinite Radio corporation deed transfers all plant property to the Steinite Radio company, extending the laboratory’s reach without altering ownership.
A father teases his daughter with a future gift in a light exchange. The daughter hopes for a wrist watch, while the father hints at a beautiful present to come.
Town and country residents are invited to remember that John B Ostertag operates his blacksmithing shop on Kansan avenue between Seventh and Eighth streets in Atchison. The Globe advertises his steady work and the shop’s offerings.
The No 3 mine of the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke corp in Ehrenfeld Cambria county saw 300 miners escape a massive blast while four men were killed. Authorities cite a strong air current spreading the explosion and obliterating windows in 200 local houses as the town mourns. A separate notice records a property transfer in Effingham. An Atchison Rotary delegation to Salina totals about 45 to 50 members, including the American Legion drum corps, the largest ever to depart for the all Sunflower district convention on April 18 and 19.
A fragmentary exchange hints at a rustic setting with a red headed man and ironwork. The dialogue implies a visual appraisal of rust on metal, suggesting a rural workshop scene and a moment of recognition or agreement.
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