DREAD DISEASE AT OUR DOORS INPANTILE PARALYSIS ALERT
A Kansas county battles infantile paralysis amid warnings from Health Officer Charles Robinson. Miss Margaret Hartley, 20, and Miss Ruth Buttron, 17, are among recent cases. four schools closed and Sunday schools halted to curb spread. Officials urge prompt medical care, isolation of sick children, and community cooperation to prevent an epidemic.
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Atchison County
Margaret Hiartley
Muscotah
Hartley
Ruth Buttron
Huron
Valley of Death
Victorieria
Ter
Charles Robinson
Amd de
Fie Robinson
Muscotah City
Prospect Hill
Vairview
United States
Kansas
Kansas City
Atchison
Court House
Robinson
Garden City
Sugar Creek Horseshoe Tournament Opens Tomorrow
Tomorrow marks the Sugar Creek fox hunt horseshoe pitching day with a full all day tournament. Contestants travel from Iowa Nebraska Missouri Kansas and beyond to compete for the championship. An old fiddlers contest follows with performers from multiple states. Henry Field plans two fiddlers from Shenandoah and M R Hays leads the event. A radio broadcast will carry the Dempsey Tunney boxing match from Chicago. A large attendance is expected at the Ladies Aid chicken dinner and the day ends with a closing on Saturday.
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Sugar Creek
Henry Field
Shenandoah
M. R. Hays
United States
Alabama
Indiana
Oklahoma
Texas
Arkansas
Iowa
Ladies Aid
Sugar Creek Church
Chicago
Dempsey and Tunney
Joseph DeLonats
Joe
Atchison
Atchison County Mourns As Paraly sis Claims Teacher Margaret Hartley
Miss Margaret Hartley 20, teacher at Fairview school north of Muscotah, died Saturday morning from infantile paralysis after a brief illness that began Tuesday. Daughter of P G Hartley and spouse of Brush Creek area, she taught two years at Fairview and planned a third this September. Funeral arrangements are private with burial in Brush Creek cemetery. Survived by parents, a brother Lawton and sister Susie. An earlier infantile paralysis death in Atchison is noted.
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Atchison County
Margaret Hartley
Fairview School
Muscotab
P. G. Hartley
Brush Creek
Lawton
Susie
Atchison
Clarence Sanders Dies After Illness at 24
Clarence Wilbur Sanders died at Atchison hospital Friday at 4 15 PM after gangrenous appendicitis and intestinal complications. He was 24, born March 27, 1908, son of Mr and Mrs Henry Sanders of Pardee. Surviving are widow Grace Hartman, parents, siblings Harold, Ernest, Merle, Dale, Irma, and grandfather Ben F Sanders. Funeral at Stanton chapel at 2 PM with Rev W C Shank. burial in Pardee cemetery.
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Clarence Sanders
Atchison Hospital
Sanders
Clarence Wilbur Sanders
Henry Sanders
Pardee
Grace Hartman
Henry Hartman
Curlew
Atchison
Commercial Street
James Leland
Warren Beeze
Walter Thompson
Newell Higley
Local Y M C A Announces Wide Winter Activity Program
The Y M C A unveils a heavy winter schedule under Wesley Wales and Bernard Bryan including gym classes for men, boys, high school girls and women, plus near-constant swimming lessons. Businessmen, seniors, juniors, and prep groups have specific weekday times, with pool access for business men and senior boys, and rapid growth in women’s divisions since last winter.
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Wesley Wales
Bernard Bryan
St. Joe
Clysses
Gravel ready on Netawaka Holton road project
Twelve cars of gravel are on the track at Netawaka ready to be unloaded for graveling the Netawaka Helton road. Word was received that the gravel tracks would not be here until Saturday. Other tracks have been hired to haul until then.
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Netawaka
Netawaka- Helton
John J Baker of Troy Dies
John J Baker veteran Doniphan county lawyer died at his Troy home after a brief illness. He was 70 years old and had practiced law forty seven years. Survivors include three children and five step children. Funeral service Sunday at the Troy Christian church. Burial in Mt Olive cemetery. A second note reports Mrs Herman Geisen to St Josephs hospital for goiter operation.
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John J. Baker
Doniphan County
Troy
Ile
Baker
Kansas
Flemingsburg
Kentucky
St. Joseph
Los Angeles
Mt. Olive Cemetery
J. T. Sapp
Herman Geisen
St. Joseph's Hospital
Kansas City
Bellevue Country Club
Ed Lane
Charlies Miller
Vern Bump
Fifteenth
Commercial Street
Eric Schneider
Gus Schneider
Garden Addition
Gift to Atchison Jackson Park enlarges by Guerrier land
Mrs. S G Guerrier donates to Atchison the tract around Guerrier hill adjoining Jackson park. The ~25 acre addition, part of a historic landholding, strengthens the park system with plans for a shelter house, drives and landscaping. A bronze memorial tablet for Col L S Treat T C Treat and S G Guerrier is planned. Jackson park now totals 120 acres and honors George Guerrier.
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Atchison
S. G. Guerrier
Guerrier Hill
Jackson Park
Missouri River
Kausna
Hudson River
Guerrier
Rotary Road
City Commission
Treat
T. C. Treat
George Guerrier
Kansas
Burlington to repair Rulo branch with mixed train
Executives led by FE Flynn, general manager, commit to rehabilitating the Rulo line between White Cloud and Rulo Nebraska. Work will start soon and a mixed train will replace the loss making motor car service.
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FE. Flynn
Burlington
Rulo
White Cloud
Ruto
Nebr
Completes 40 Years as Denton Station Agent
Mrs A Alt celebrated 40 years as Rock Island station agent at Denton. She arrived in 1887 after the station opened, leading the seniority list as oldest operator west of the Missouri. The Globe notes other local updates including Z E Jackson turning 53, John Sullivan’s Chicago trip for vacation, and Ed Hawk’s two week Ohio visit with Alec Blair covering at home.
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A. Alt
Rock Island
Denton
C. K
Globe
Z. E. Jackson
John Sullivan
Express Office
Chicago
Matt Noll
Mc Pike
Kansas City
Bert Williams
Havensville
Kas
E. G. Stebbins
Ed Hawk
Orphans’ Home
Ohio
Alec Blair
Mrs Viola Harvey of Muscotah Dies at 88
Mrs Viola Harvey 88 widow of Albert B Harvey of Muscotah died yesterday evening from a cerebral hemorrhage at her Muscotah home. She taught in Illinois schools, moved to Kansas in 1880, and helped run a fine Muscotah home. Surviving are an adopted daughter Mrs Bishop and niece Mrs Purdy, plus four brothers and a sister. Funeral 2:30 in Muscotah Congregational Church.
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Viola Harvey
Albert B. Harvey
Muscotah
Musccotah
Mrs. Harvey
Washington County
Penn
John Allison
Willam McKinley
Ilinois
Stonehurst
Harvey
Kansas
Lela
A. P. Bishop
Lulu
Edgar Purdy
Kansas City
Congregational Church
Ladies and Society
Bishop
Purdy
Hugh Allison
Stronghurst
Andrew Allison
Wed couple wed then split as husband heads to prison
Carl Pennington 25 and May Wigington 32, both of St. Joe, wed shortly before 3:30 pm yesterday. Pennington was to begin a five year term for second degree burglary in Lansing, while May returned to St. Joe to await his release. Pennington had courted from jail after being charged with chicken stealing. he pleaded guilty Monday.
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Daiy
Carl Pennington
May Wigington
St. Joe
Kansas State Penitentiary
Lansing
Pennington
A. B. DeDual
Seventh
Commercial Streets
Will Coleman
Leavenworth
Mike
Mrs Josiah Harris Dies After Illness at 79
Mrs. Josiah Harris of 1438 South Eighth street died Saturday evening at 8:45. She was 79. Funeral services are set for Tuesday at 2:30 pm at the Presbyterian church. Born in Hancock county Illinois she taught school there before marriage in 1870. The Harris family moved from Illinois to Iowa and Arkansas before settling in Atchison 14 years ago to be near their children. Survived by four children six grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Children listed as R R Harris Villiscia IA Mrs A A Moyer Lenexa KS Mrs A A Bennett and C H Harris Atchison.
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Josiah Harris
South Eighth Street
Presbyterian Church
Harris
Hancock County
Illinois
Ilinois
Iowa
Arkansas
Atchison
County Has 53 in Two of State's Big Schools
Atchison county lists fifty three students at the University of Kansas and Emporia Teachers college for the first semester of 1927 28. Names include Atchison residents with many graduates of Atchison high school and several students from Effingham Kennekuk Lancaster Huron Muscotah and nearby areas. Sixteen of the twenty two Emporia attendees are from Atchison city.
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Atchison County
University of Kansas
Emporia Teachers’ College
Douglas Cain
Ed Farmer
Edith Fox
Lawton Fox
Herbert Gilman
Irene Hekelnkaemper
Mona McKeiry
John Mize
Lawrence Olson
Roy Walters
Florence Vanderstay
Russel Broshous
Dick Drury
Henry Pannen
Alfred Harch
Addison Mize
Elsie Edith Morris
Clifford Stockwell
Effingham
Claibourne Kipp
Kennekuk
Kathryn Fister
Lancaster
Alfred Sprong
Near Potter
Atchison
Viola Barnes
Ruth Frances Byrne
George Coffey
Florence Fletcher
Esther Graner
Ruth Harris
Gladys Hays
Jesse Leighton
Caroline Patton
Isabell Phillips
Carolyn Ray
Mildred Shank
Dorothy Shufflebarger
Mary Swartz
Alphia Welsh
Jessie Wilcox
Emporia
Emma Fankanel
Rose Franklin
Huron
Laura Johnston
Jeanette Munger
Muscotah
City Second In Building In Atchison For August
Atchison ranks second in Kansas towns for August building with 189,258 dollars, according to the Straus report compiled by S. W. Straus & Co. Wichita tops the list with 2,500,075 dollars, while Hutchinson, Leavenworth, and Kansas City also show totals. The monthly figures were received in Atchison yesterday from the national authority on building statistics.
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Atchison
Kansas
Wichita
S. W. Straus & Co
New York
Chicago
Copis
Straus
Mauchison! Co
Hutchinson
Kansas City
Leavenworth
Shenandoah fiddler wins Sugar Creek contest crowd packs church
John Belding of Shenandoah La won the old fiddlers contest at Sugar Creek church before about 1500 spectators. Jeff Thomas Rushville took second and Ambrose Thomas Atchison third. An orchestra and Prof Joseph De Lomas of St Joe performed afterward. Horseshoe tournament first place to Earl Woolston and Elmer Hamil from Rushville.
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John Belding
Shenandoah
Sugar Creek
Mr. Belding
Jeff Thomas
Rushville
Ambrose Thomas
Atchison
Belding
Henry Field
Joseph de Lomas
St. Joe
Earl Woolston
Elmer Hamil
Woolston
Hamilton
Howe Addresses Bankers Banquet In Masonry Temple
FE W Howe of Atchison headlines the Northeast Kansas Bankers banquet in Masonry Temple. The event drew 400 guests, with 350 at business sessions and a record convention for Group One of the Kansas Bankers Association. Howe spoke of temperance, honesty, and old fogies guiding bankers.
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FE. W. Howe
Atchison
Northeast Kansas
Masonicy Temple
Ile
Kansas Bankers’ Association
W. W. Hetherington
Exchange National Bank
John McKenzie
Frank Mangelsdorf
George A. Linck
Dr. Linck
FB. W. Howe
Potato Hill
Mr. Howe
Frank Crane
Experience
Coolidge
Frank Cardwell Dies at 78 From Bronchial Illness
Frank D. Cardwell 78 died Friday at 4 PM at his home 21 North Second Street. Death attributed to bronchial catarrh. He had lived here 14 years, formerly a blacksmith at Locomotive Finished Material Co. born in Illinois, member of Christian church. Surviving widow and four children William, Laura, Lizzie, Grover in Washington, Colorado, Colorado, Illinois. Eight grandchildren. Funeral Monday at 2 PM in Stanton funeral chapel. Rev M Owen Keltsen to conduct.
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Frank D. Cardwell
T21
North Second Street
Cardwell
Locomotive Finished Material Co
Illinois
Christian Church
William
Laura
Lizzie
Grover
Washington
Colorado
Stanton Funeral Chapel
M. Owen Keltsen
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Magnus Johnson
Jim Davis
Nellie
St. Louis
John Walsh
South Sixth Street
Dim Davis
St.Loula
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CITY
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Daly
Alva Clapp
Anna Garrett
Robert Hagen
Ida Tonsing
Nebraska
P. Percy Johnson
John Reinhard
John
P. Percy
Howe
Frank Cardwell
A. Y. Ritter
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