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Newspaper
Atchison Weekly Globe
Location
Atchison, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1927
Page
11
Joe Connor notes many duck hunters in town while references to Golden Crown best flour, Brockett's address, Meyer's coffee cake, and Detroit News quip about a go-getter using his horn. Concrete foundations and walls show local building activity.
The Presbyterian ladies report about 260 dollars from their chicken pie supper and bazaar Tuesday evening. Birth announced of Grace Fillen to Mr. and Mrs. R. Hammond west of town. Several locals ill or traveling, including Mrs. Alex McLenon and Miss Hannah Klotsche. State Teachers meeting brings many attendees. Effingham schools closed. Death noted of Jennie Roll, formerly of Effingham, in Kansas City.
A student operation on autos was approved about a week ago. The body will be transported to Effingham tomorrow, expected to arrive near noon, for a short funeral service at the cemetery. Multiple local residents are mentioned in social notes, including Miss Roll, Mrs. Roy Jones, and the Johnson and Beyber families in Topeka and Hiawatha.
George Sinclair found volunteers potatoes as large as walnuts. Teachers left Wednesday evening for Topeka for a Kansas state meeting. Mrs Ross McCoy and two Hutchinson friends visited Mr and Mrs T B Shulsky. Mrs McCoy once Miss Mary Friend lived here. Mrs Phoebe Jepson of Soldier stayed with cousin Mrs W B Allison and Mr Allison. she once lived a mile north of town.
District brief details Mildred English recovering after appendicitis operation at Atchison hospital Wednesday morning. John Oden and four Mountain Grove corn shuckers arrived in Effingham and took jobs at George Petree's. The Handke Plachsbaurth families began the district's butchering season and the Busy Bee club was hosted by Mrs Harve Coots with a quilting afternoon.
Pearl Dittemore injured last Thursday while threshing when a belt jammed and he signaled the engineer to stop. The engineer misread the signal and did not stop, leaving him caught in the belt and severely injuring a leg. He will need crutches for some time. I Moyer senior brought four cars of fat cattle to market on Tuesday. Atkins and Ware brought one car. Duck hunting noted at river club quarters. Methodist Sunday school invites Severance folks for Nov 18 basket dinner. Women Foreign Missionary Society met at parsonage with Mrs. Whittlesey hosting.
Mr and Mrs T L Cline spend the week at Effingham visiting W B and Lloyd Bradley homes and the Clifton Hipple family. Charles Tull works north of his place, Tom McLaughlin unloads cement, Weasel Demel unloads lumber for Ray Nye at Cummings, James Donnelly helps Leonard Cline with a culvert on the county road near the new Curlew bridge. Blue rock shoot Nov 11 five miles west of Potter, one half mile east of Curlew. Weasel Demel ships his wheat to Potter. Robert Bishop builds a new dairy barn north of Curlew. Mrs Clarence Stauffer leaves for Huntington W Va to visit brother George W Tompson in poor health. Seymore school teacher Miss Corrine Bell and pupils had a pot.
A Halloween party at Miss Matilda Graner’s Washington school and a masked guests’ party at W T Ferris home are noted. Prizes were awarded to several attendees. Revival services begin November 6 at Cummings M E church with Rev I N Reid preaching nightly at 7 30. Dr and Mrs C M Simscott visit Louis Linscott home. Verna Leland’s seventh birthday party planned. Community ched meets November 9. An annual death toll from automobile accidents is about 23 000.
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