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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1958
Page
3
Ann Landers advises a 47 year old widow that a man who keeps his sick mother, freeloads on meals and laundry, and wooes another woman will not marry her. The reader is told to end the arrangement and avoid future dependency notices.
Mrs Wayne Huffman hosted Aug 23 honoring her son Bob on his second birthday. A circus theme featured hats and whistles as favors. Invited guests included Lydia Huffman Denice Huffman Saruel Ruggles La Van Ruggles Shannon Sheridan Scott Sheridan Eddie Brinkmeyer Brenda Jenkins Cindy Jenkins David Doepke Mines David Huffman Jim Sheridan Merle Ruggles Vernon Brinkmeyer Glen Doepke and Robert Jenkins.
Mr. and Mrs. Nels A. Olson of rural Chanute observed their 65th wedding anniversary on August 27. They married August 27, 1893, at the bride’s parents home in Big Creek township with Justice W. H. Ketch officiating. The Olsons have four daughters and three sons, with extended family noted and long residence in Neosho County.
About 200 members of the Missouri Association of the Deaf attend the 17th triennial convention at the Hotel President in Kansas City. The event closes Monday morning with members conducting substantial affairs in sign language and silence, the pace described as busy yet quiet.
Social calendar items list events for Monday September 1 and Tuesday September 2 1958 at Chanute Country Club Tioga Hotel First Baptist church EUB church Odd Fellows hall and Carpenters hall with times for buffet dinner scotch foursome duplicate bridge cheerful workers class Barathea service guild CWF guild LAPM and textile paint club plus a note from Mrs Homer Waggoner R1.
Announcement of Dorothy Jean Munding engagement to Hubert W VanLeeuwen of Chanute and their Oct 25 wedding at St Patrick's in Parsons. Bride Anita Grace Munding also engaged to Neal Kimble in a double ceremony with Dorothy.
Hard frozen roasts require about one third to one half more cooking time per pound than fresh roasts, according to guidance for adjust oven times and heat levels.
Erie district reports enrollment through yesterday with 306 in grade school and 190 in high school compared to 305 and 186 a year earlier. Superintendent Krieger expects slight gains with Tuesday’s opening. This item notes visits by officials to Topeka hearings, intercity highway link plans, and local civic activities.
Farmers Home Administration announced its office will relocate at once from 2152 Main to the Theodore Little room on South Main, a ground floor site. The Erie Golf Club held a regular family night covered dish supper with hosts Mr and Mrs Ed Naanes, Mr and Mrs Lester Shepard, and Mr and Mrs E J Richey. Ralph Greeg, in poor health, suffered another heart attack and was taken to Mercy Hospital at Parsons.
Chanute Little League All-Stars were edged 1-0 by Iola All-Stars in a tight pitching duel. An fifth inning infield error started the decisive run. Chanute outhit Iola five to three with seven base-runners. The Teener game followed, Iola winning 10-1 on the same field with altered distances.
The Rev. Roy Holloman superintendent of the Kansas United Dry Forces will speak at the Church of the Nazarene Island Lafayette at 10 45 a m and again at the early morning service at the First Baptist church. The engagements are part of a summer tour for the dry forces work.
Harvey Rhodes with assistants Butch and Joe Morgan present a magic program at the Grady Community Center. Visitors include William McNeill family from Kansas City and Marion Plummer party from Burlington visiting Paul Lowe at Neosho Memorial Hospital over the holiday weekend.
Police said 25 lights on Grant Walnut Wilson and 3rd Streets were shot out in the night likely from a car. Mrs. H M Kemmerer hosted relatives from Pampa Texas and Wichita over the past week. Families returned from Grand Lake and a three week vacation. Barbara Wilson completed an affiliation in Milwaukee and plans to enroll. Ditmars family obituary notes Ditmars born 1869 near Chanute and survived by wife two sons two daughters grandchildren and great grandchildren. funeral at Koch Skinner Memorial Chapel with burial Elmwood Cemetery.
The Chanuts Tribune notes visitors from Clinton Iowa and Eureka California arriving to visit relatives in town. John Johnson and Julie Ann join Mr. and Mrs. Glen Shook and Mr. and Mrs. J Wilford Johnson. Rose Marie Matthews from Tempe Arizona visited relatives W A Coonrod and Merrill Brock family and Earl Young. They toured Disneyland Pacific Lumber Hoover Dam and stopped in Las Vegas on return trip.
Admittances Friday include William Caldwell and Mrs. George W. Moon of Humboldt and Mrs. Vick Fredrick at 315 IN Central for surgery or medical care. Admittance today lists Dale Dalton of 118 N Grant. Dismissals yesterday note Mrs. Lottie Nesbitt and Mrs. James Laymon plus her son at 1701 S Malcolm.
Ted Crossfield, brother of Ruth Crossfield of 711 S Lincoln, died yesterday in a tractor accident while working in a field near Elk City. Miss Crossfield left this morning for Elk City.
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