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Newspaper
Atchison Weekly Globe
Location
Atchison, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1927
Page
4
A Sunday blaze swept two stores in Denison, sending flames and smoke through the town. Firefighters battled the inferno as residents stood watch, with authorities tracing the rapid spread to a building junction. No injuries were immediately reported, and cause was under investigation.
Fire struck the Simmons building in Denison twelve miles northwest of Valley Falls early Sunday, destroying the Simmons store and nearby barber and carpenter shops with losses near 30000 and estimates of 380000 for the wider damage. Volunteers formed a bucket brigade, saving the City hotel across the street as water supply ran low. The Simmons building, owned by a Beloit woman, faced 23500 in damage with 15000 insurance.
Gener Bubb declares readiness to plant cork while Herman Kessler returns from Chicago and Des Moines. Farmers on the Central Branch have planted corn. Perry Bean undergoes appendectomy at Atchison hospital. A newborn, Rodney Rudolph, born at Atchison hospital. Rudolph is Standard Oil district manager. City market work to start with sheds at Sixth and Main, cost near $1000. Firemen Dolecek Olsen and others mourn Miss Margaret Bird with a funeral in Trinity Episcopal Church.
District No. 60 hosts and neighbors gather with Thomas Hegarty and families visiting Robert English. Various households entertain guests including Reynolds, Petree, Oswald, and Williams. A local youth, once mistaken for theft, shows resolve to attend trade school. Social clubs host dinner and bridge at Bellevue. Weather and travel notes, births, marriages, divorces, and education news round out the week.
Prof P G Porter of Salina named principal of Lincoln school for the term starting next September. He resigns from Dunbar colored school after six years there and will move to Atchison with his family. Porter previously led a large colored school at Olathe and is a Pittsburg State Teachers College graduate. He succeeds W E F Gray who led Lincoln for 34 years before resigning.
Miss Donna Byers visits relatives in Topeka while George Jones dies in Stuttgart Ark after eight weeks sick with heart leakage. DeMolays stage treasure hunt in Atchison with a big kettle of hot wieners. Mrs. L. B. Case of Atchison dies in Pocatello Idaho, survived by husband daughter and Jackson relatives. Funeral for Mrs. J. Jones to be in Los Angeles area. Fire endangers Sixth street viaduct as a storage shed burns near Blish Mize. Community notices include Pratt dinner for Kent Kinniburgh and local reminiscences about Vic Frank’s store history.
Prof Ray McClellen 45 is run down on Main street Highland by a Chevrolet coupe driven by Mrs W D Sheehan of St Joseph. He dies at St Joseph hospital after being taken from Highland. Sheehan and husband left town but were overtaken by Sheriff Sid Lucas at Hiawatha. Coroner's inquest set for tomorrow morning. Witnesses say he stepped into path of the car. He is survived by his widow and two daughters.
A large assembly gathered at Trinity Episcopal church in Atchison for the funeral of Miss Margaret Bird, who died Saturday evening in Kansas City after a long illness. She lived a life deeply tied to the church, taught Sunday school, and served as organist. The service, led by Father A H Kotke beck, featured Lonnie Childs’ tenor and organ accompaniment amid pink roses. Burial followed at the local cemetery beside her parents. Margaret Bird, daughter of Lorenzo D D Bird, was born in South Atchison and educated in Europe and the United States, later teaching piano to many children and remaining active in music, theater, and community life. Her family includes noted lawyers and relatives in Kansas City and beyond.
Report of Red Cross flood relief gifts shows Franklin school contributed zero while a fifth grade pupil, taught by Mr Marghret Armstrong, provided six dollars raised from a candy sale. Children donated after distress over flood victims, money earmarked for school storm relief.
Former Easton girl Margaret Bonally will teach at Easton High School next year after graduating from Kansas University this spring. A bus line now connects Easton and Leavenworth. The senior class will host a carnival at the high school on Thursday evening May 12. Mrs. Nellie Shuck resigns from Transcript office. Clara Louise Didde of Nortonville and Paul J. Schmidt of Easton announce their engagement. The wedding will be scheduled soon. Mrs. Carrie G. Gane and Mrs. Hattie Porter attend Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star in Hutchinson. Rev. O. S. Selby preached at the Methodist church. A special Mother’s Day program was arranged.
Mrs Griese knows victims as a tornado swept through Atchison causing about 60 deaths. Frank Griese of 17 North Seventh Street and Poplar Bluff Missouri had lived there years before moving to Atchison. Her father was in the devastated area and she has relatives in the city. She learned several of the dead were personal friends from a list she reviewed this morning.
Mrs Harry Bierig is alarmed as she cannot reach her parents living in Volar Bluff after a storm swept the city yesterday.
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