Atchison High School 1933 Commencement Set for May 26
The fifty third annual Atchison High School commencement will be held in Memorial hall Friday evening May 26. Diplomas will be awarded to 117 seniors with Rev Parr Armstrong delivering the commencement address. O Wright principal will present the class and diplomas will be handed by Sheffield Ingalls president of the board of education. The high school orchestra will provide music under director William Altimari. Baccalaureate sermon will be preached May 21 by Rev B H Smith rector Trinity Episcopal church.
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Atchison High School
Memorial Hall
Parr Armstrong
Central Christian Church
Kansas City
O. Wright
Sheffield Ingalls
Board of
Jack C. Bergin
Marie Elizabeth Bidding
Ruth Louise Bitfinger
Robert Brashay
Doris Mae Brown
Edwynne Prudence
Brown Edward Vernon Browning
Doris Ellen Bryan John William Buttron
Karl A. Buttron
Leroy A. Byers
James H. Coleman
William H. Collins
Harris B. Corbett
Robert Barton Cowan
Clara Cathern Davis
LeRoy Devers
Adda Alyce Dillon
John Dobbs
Doris Fern Dysart
Verna Fern Fisher
Emma Jeannette Flattre
Ruth Mary Plynn
Geneva Foley
Leslie C. Fowler
June Louise Garnet
Evangeline Greta Goddard
Clara Elmer Gorrell
Hiram Earl Green
Chester Lindell Ham
Kathleen Hamner
Leonard Lawrence Handke
Edgar W. Hanny
Wayman Wesley Harper
Orpha Jane Harrison
Elizabetha
Doris Harvey
Vera May Higley
Earl M. Hoecker
Frank Holbert
Helen Frances Howard Ronald James Howe
Helen Marguerite Hubbard
Eulalia Elizabeth Jones
Ida Mae Jones
Alveda Kautz
Becky Jane Keeh
George Edward Kerford
Edward King
Dora Elizabeth Kohler
Maxine Koontz
Agnes Marie Krall
George Edward Leather
Jean Linley
Jessie Isabelle Low
George Becker Mangelsdorf
Samuel N. Marino
Ruth Hughes Marlin
Robert Seldon Martin
Raymond McLenon
Geneva Elizabeth McPhilimy
Verna Vivian Nance
Lincoln eighth graders win musical contest banner hung
The Lincoln School Week contest crowned eighth graders with 16 points, second place went to sixth graders with 14, and seventh grade earned 13. First prize winners included Margaret Crosswright, Dorothy Chatman, Helen Jones, and Janet Henderson in various categories. Tonight the operetta Maid in Japan will be performed at Atchison High School Auditorium with an 8:15 start and admission.
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Lincoln School Week
Margaret Crosswright
Kenneth Kerford
Dorothy Chatman
Helen Jones
Robert Green
Janet Henderson
Lincoln School
Japan
Atchison High School
Raven Athletes Behind Footlights Friday Night at Benedict's
From Wednesday's Daily May 10 the Black and White Absurdities at St Benedict's college feature Raven athletes in a two part show. Bud O'Neal football captain-elect and Ed McDevitt perform singing acts with two skits by Coach Mullins depicting a 1953 Benedict's homecoming and a life sized political rally.
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St. Benedict’s College
Joseph Staudinger
Day's Doings and Local Notices Update
A compact roundup of small town happenings items include C F Frankenberger having all teeth extracted. Bert Gilmore teases about a remark from Harry Stevens. The path to Mount Vernon cemetery has been dragged. Will Porter couple plan moving to St Joe. Local meat prices quoted 12 to 15 cents per pound for beet shoulder roasts. Farmer Gene Buchanan expects ton quantities of tomatoes this season. A new porch is added to the A B Anderson residence at 924 Santa Fe. Roy Seaton residence interior redecorating on South Fourth street. Leo Askren, switchman, reported ill but able to go downtown this week. Mrs E E Fallowell of Goff visiting daughter Mrs Carl Jesse. Earl Evans the barber tends his garden at 4 am daily. Jimmie Ruth, daughter of Jim Bomar, to have tonsils and adenoids removed next week. Jim Tomlinson at Fred Stein factory completed a wren house of walnut. Carl Vroom of Standard Oil transferred to Tarkio Missouri. family to move after school closes. Free Potter of Leavenworth ill. guests tomorrow planned with Mr and Mrs Jay D Adams but engagement called off. Jim Doyle, W K switchman, continues to improve. Commercial street misses his smile. Jim Beattie bought a shoe shop in Omaha and is in charge. notes many widows in Omaha. Mattie Wells’s birthday celebrated with a surprise party at her home. Woodman Circle No 121 members attended. Mrs G L Brown of Leavenworth and Mrs Lucille Weyand guests. Mrs Pearl Ingels and Miss Naomi Ott won contest prizes.
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C. F. Frankenberger
Bert Gilmore
Harry Stevens
Mount Vernon Cemetery
Will Porter
St. Joe
Ruhlman
Gene Buchanan
A. B. Anderson
Santa Fe
Roy Seaton
South Fourth Street
Leo Askren
E. E. Fallowell
Goff
Carl Jesse
Earl Evans
Jimmie Ruth
Jim Bomar
Jim Tomlinson
Fred Stein
Carl Vroom
Standard Oil Co
Tarkio
Potter of
Leavenworth
Mattie Wells
Woodman Circle No. 121
G. L. Brown
Lucille Weyand
Pearl Ingels
Naomi Ott
Ravens to Appear on the Stage Tonight
The first annual Black and White Absurdities debuts tonight at St Benedict's college gym. Directed by Mullins Staudinger and McKenzie, the show features Willard Tarrant as interlocutor with six end men led by Bud O'Neal. O'Neal Halpin and others perform tap routines, and the lineup includes Joe Peterson Pat McCann Jim Surdoval among many. Admission 35 cents adults 20 cents children.
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St. Benedict's College
Larry (Moon) Mullins
Joseph Staudinger
John McKenzie
Willard Tarrant
Charlie Bassette
Jerry O'Donnell
Bud O'Neal
Jim Helmert
Ed McDevitt
Camillus Lovecchie
Raven
O'Neal
Jim Halpin
Red Cahill
John Beattie
Halpin
Bobby Noll
Coach Mullins
Joe Peterson
Pat McCann
Jim Surdoval
John Chapman
Joe Mermis
Joe Casey
Leonard Davis
Fred Gambold
Walter Kuckleman
Emmett Daly
Chet Nadolski
John Busch
Letter to Governor Landon on Kansas utility rates
A letter from Atchison residents to Governor Alfred Landon requests help in understanding and comparing utility bills. The Globe’s reader asks who in the state house to contact about rates, amps, kilowatts, and nonconductors, and whether Atchison pays more or less than other towns. The piece ends with light humor and best wishes to the governor.
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Alfred E. Landon
Kansas
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Globe
State House
Fred Kenner
Oak Mills
B. Brown
Legion to Meet in Troy Monday
The first district annual American Legion convention will be in Troy on Monday with 10am registration at the courthouse hosted by the Legion Auxiliary. The 1:30pm session will be led by district commander Louis L. Hein, Troy commander Charles I. Clary, and Mayor Roy V. Van Bebber. Gov Alf M. Landon and state commander Ed Carruth are slated as feature speakers at night.
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Roy V. van Bebber
William Alyea
Rock Creek
130Th Field Artillery
Hiawatha
McDonald-Dugger-Duncan Post
St. Joe
Alf M. Landon
Ed Carruth
Herington
Community Chatter Sparks Local Talks and Troubles
A collage of notes from Topeka and Atchison residents covers court tensions over cash basis, local law figures, economic worries, hail damage to lettuce, inflation attitudes, and a range of small-town happenings from marriage licenses to a rattlesnake bite death. It notes hall deficits, farm prices, and local folks like Ed Hiller and Arthur McSorley, with humorous lines and community questions sprinkled throughout.
Absurdities by Ravens Delights Large Ravens Audience
The first annual Black and White Absurdities at St Benedict's College drew a large crowd in the Raven gym on Saturday May 13. The show featured a child cast of ten Atchison boys, standout numbers by Bud O'Neal Charlie Bassette and Vincent Buster, and a clever minstrel portion directed by Father Staudinger with coaching by Larry Mattins. An omitted act loosened the pace but the ensemble delivered strong performances and a dance finale.
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Atchison
Bob
Jack Delaney
Maurice
Terry O
Chick
Vincent Buster
Tennessee
Ed McDevitt
Georgia
Joe E. Brown
Bassette
Willard Tarrant
Jerry O'Donnell
Jim Helmert
Charlie Bassette
Bud O'Neal
Camillus Lovecchio
Jim Halpin
Fred Gambold
Gambold
Leonard Davis
Paris
Jim Sardoval
Spain
Ed DeCoursey
Cuba
Fred
Suppor
John McKenzie
Joseph Staudinger
Larry Mattins
Degrees To 24 Mount Seniors
Mount St Scholastica will confer 24 bachelor degrees at a June 1 ceremony with E H Lindley KU delivering the address. Mary Katherine Sheldon will give the valedictory. Six graduates are from Atchison including Mary Anne Horan and Blanche Mangelsdorf.
Mount St Scholastica closes Music Week with orchestral program
Mount St Scholastica Conservatory of Music presents an orchestral program tonight in the college auditorium Atchison to cap National Music Week. Sophomore Mary Donahue will sing Carmina, others include Barber of Seville Overture Sarasate Les Adieux Kreisler Liebesfreud and a Schubert Symphony in B Minor. Earlier events included a May 9 reception and musicale with 45 Atchison High seniors and 23 Mount St Scholastica academy graduates and a semi public student recital.
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Atchison
Mary Donahue
H. Lane Wilson
Rossini
Sarasate
Kreisler
Schubert
Atchison High School
Mount St. Scholastica Academy
Academy
College
Local notes mix of illness moves and community chatter
Mrs. Clay Metz is ill at 1141 Atchison Street while Turner Hall Smoke House closes for weeks. Various locals travel, work, or comment on events from St. Louis visits to farm relief, bully Baer, party at Potter High, and Billy Eymann’s airplane models.
Federal Aid Money Received Here In Atchison
Part of a $1,500 federal relief grant reaches Atchison to ease unemployment. Funds assist White Clay creek improvements and aid 300 local unemployed. Nationwide, $500 million is allocated to states with two thirds to be locally matched.
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Jimmie Carrico
Maryanne Laughlin
Atchison
White Clay Creek
United States
Railroad rumor hints shifts in Missouri Pacific leadership
Rumored changes proposed for Monday May 15 shift key posts across divisions. J Davis moves from Falls City to district engineer in Southern district based at Little Rock, with W E Lamb taking his Falls City post. John W Ray becomes Little Rock superintendent, Ray Smith to Pueblo as assistant superintendent, R G Bush to Coffeyville, Earl Sullivan to Kansas City, and Lamb noted as inexperienced in local railroading but widely liked. Railroad men see reshuffling as restoring abolished positions amid tough business.
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Little Rock
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W. E. Lamb
Arkansas
John W. Ray
St Louis
L. W. Baldwin
Ray Smith
Coffeyville
Pueblo
R. G. Bush
Kansas City
Earl Sullivan
Smith
Bush
Missouri Pacific
Central Division
van Buren
Ark
Atchison Railroad
Farm relief bill gains cautious support amid mortgage debate
A farm relief bill draws tentative backing as lawmakers weigh mortgage clause impacts. Analysts warn provisions may affect farmers differently depending on loan terms and regional needs, while proponents stress relief measures could ease financial pressure for distressed operations.
All Back the Renovizing Idea Campaign Gains Support
The Atchison renovizing campaign won strong backing from 50 craftsmen including contractors carpenters masons and electricians at a Chamber of Commerce meeting. The drive to hasten building remodeling and create work for the unemployed begins Monday with Boy Scouts distributing home questionnaires to collect pledge selections for summer projects.
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Atchison
Chamber of Commerce
Atchison Boy Scouts
C. O. Wright
Robert Snowden
Wallace Brockett
H. C. Vanstrum
Harry Hearne
Summer Music Work Enrollment Opens in Public Schools
Enrollment blanks and a 1.75 dollar fee are due by June 1 for the third annual summer music school led by William Altimari of the instrumental music department. June 1 to July 14 six weeks of group instruction open to public and parochial students, with three levels beginner to advanced.
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William Altimari
Seven New Reporters From Mt St Scho Globae Feature
In Thursday's Daily May 1 issue Globe includes brief news items, stories, columns and Globe Lights by Mt St Scho lastica college student reporters. They worked with Globe reporters yesterday afternoon and this morning. Names include Ellen McGuire, Blanche Mangelsdorf, Mary Lou Farrell, Louise Hekelnkaemper, Jimmie Carrico, Mary Katherine Sheldon and Maryanne Laughlin.
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Globe
Mt. St. Scholastica College
The
Mount Mirror
Ellen McGuire
Chicago
Blanche Mangelsdorf
Atchison
Mary Lou Farrell
Muskogee
Okla
Louise Hekelnkaemper
Jimmie Carrico
Mary Katherine Sheldon
Maryanne Laughlin
Kansas City
Mount St Scholastica academy to graduate 23 seniors
Mary Louise Farrell reports Mount St Scholastica academy will graduate 23 students in the college auditorium on June 1 at 2 pm. The Most Rev Francis Johannes D D will present diplomas and speak. In Atchison, seniors include Mary Alice Bigham Frances Biodig Geneva Dooley Melvine Flynn Marion Gilkinson Constance Kramer Catherine Lawless Dorothy McCarthy Mary McCrum Betty Anne Stannard Margaret Sullivan Rosalia Wolters. Boarders graduating are Betty Gadbois Frances Hawks Anna Mary Kemmer Ruth Marshall Patricia Mesenbrink Louise Schaefer Marie Sharek Genevieve Sharek Mary Helen Shocklee Isabel Stein and Josephine Sullivan.
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Mount St. Scholastica Academy
Wil
Francis Johannes
Atchison
Mary Alice Bigham
Frances Biodig
Geneva Dooley
Melvine Flynn
Marion Gilkinson
Constance Kramer
Catherine Lawless
Dorothy McCarthy
Mary McCrunm
Betty Anne Stannard
Margaret Sullivan
Rosalia Wolters
Betty Gadbois
Frances Hawks
Anma Mary Kemmer
Ruth Marshall
Patrcia Mesenbrink
Louise Schaefer
Marie Sharek
Genevieve Sharek
Mary Helen Shocklee
Isabel Stein
Josephing Sullivan
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