PTA Officers and Club Activities Highlight Local Society
President Mrs Madge Nelson secretary and Mrs Ruby Payne treasurer. Mrs M J Sperry served as installing officer. PTA meetings will be the first Wednesday at 8 pm. Refreshments from Mrs M E McGregor Mrs Oscar Clark Mrs Harold McGaugh and Mrs Dale Payne. Amity Club hosted by Mrs Clinton Durst at home Tuesday afternoon. W B Brown presided Plans discussed for the coming year and new year books. Fifty members plus families and two guests attended the Bluebird chapter CBS covered-dish supper at Masonic Hall. Merle Summerville and wife presided. Friendship night planned for Oct 10. The charter draped in memory of Mrs Alvina Shoop who died recently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madge Nelson
Ruby Payne
M. J. Sperry
PTA
M. E. McGregor
Oscar Clark
Harold McGaugh
Dale Payne
Charles Garrison
Bluebird
CBS
Masonic Hall
Merle Summerville
Alvina Shoop
Elderly Reporter Pleased With His Search for Truth
HAL BOYLE profiles Joseph E. Sharkey, an octogenarian former AP diplomatic reporter and war correspondent. He recalls decades roaming the world for truth, covering riots and conferences, earning honors from France Belgium and Greece, and cherishing Emerson’s creed that truth is beautiful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Boyle
New York
Joseph E. Sharkey
Richard Harding Davis
Ernie Pyle
Paris
Cambridge
Mass
Sharkey
Harvard University
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Associated Press
Emerson
Washington
Genoa
the Hague
Lausanne
Locarno
Geneva
League of Nations
France
Belgium
Greece
Beatrice
Napoleon
PTA Honors Midway Consolidated School Staff
The Midway Consolidated School staff was honored at a PTA meeting in the high school auditorium Tuesday night. Presiding was Mrs. Cleo Rutherford. devotions by Mrs. Ruby Morton. program announced by Mrs. Loren Van Hoozer. Performances included duets by Mrs. George Cox and Mrs. Junior Braman, solos by Max Dietz and Susie Baird, with piano by Mrs. M. J. Clough. more duets by Don Marple and Otho York. Supt. Charles Garrison spoke, introducing teachers, bus drivers, custodians, lunchroom cooks and families. Gifts from Sunny Stone HDU included tea towels and a nylon-covered cot. Enrollment reached 228. lunches served to 120 students. Mrs. Rutherford elected president and Mrs. Maxine Wing vice president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
Midway Consolidated School
PTA
Cleo Rutherford
Ruby Morton
Loren van Hoozer
George Cox
Junior Braman
Max Dietz
M. J. Clough
Don Marple
Otho York
Susie Baird
Lt Lightfoot Injured In Vernon Texas Car Crash
Lieutenant Jim Lightfoot son of Mr and Mrs George Lightfoot R 1 sustained facial cuts and a scalp laceration when his car was struck broadside in Vernon Texas on a Sunday visit. His companion was killed. Lightfoot, an Air Force jet pilot stationed at Altus Oklahoma, was treated and released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Lightfoot
George Lightfoot
Vernon
Tex
Lightfoot
Texas
U.S. Air Force
Altus
Okla
Italian Girl Wins 8000 on TV Quiz Urged to Return
Giovanna Ferrara, a chemistry student at Pavia University, won 8000 on The 64 000 Question in New York. Her mother in Robbio Lomellina urged her to come home, fearing fatigue and excitement after her first trip abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robbio Lomellina
Italy
Giovanna
Ferrara
Ancient Pavia University
New York
Anna Ferrara
United States
America
Hospital Building Bids Rejected for Blind School in Kansas City
Low base bids totaling 113 802 exceed the funds by more than 23 000 for the new hospital building at the State School for the Blind in Kansas City Kansas. The state architect's office says bids will be rejected and plans redrawn to fit the available funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PEKAP
State School For the Blind
Kansas City
Kas
Oil Well Drilling Totals Rise in Mid Century
The era shows 26 800 wells drilled in 1945 and about 57 000 in 1955, reflecting escalating activity in the oil industry across a decade.
Chanute adopts bonds for sewer district improvements 1956
Chanute Kansas adopts Ordinance 1476 authorizing 48110.40 improvement bonds Series 1956 B to fund Sanitary sewers in districts 1952-2 1954-1 1954-2 1954-3 and 1954-5 and Ordinance 1477 authorizes 79972.04 internal improvement bonds for street and avenue improvements in Chanute with details of bond denominations dates and interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City OF
Chanute
Kansas
United States OF America
State OF Kansas
County OF Neosho
City OF Chanute
Topeka
Aid
Bower
State of
Chanute Tribune
Sixth Street
Allen Avenue
Lafayette Avenue
Chestnut Street
Pine Street
Ispcondi Street
Larson Avenue
Tennessee Avenue
Edith Avenue
Ashby Avenue
Main Street
Rutter Avenue
Tenth Street
Ninth Street
Lafayette
Allen
Main
Oak
Chestnut
Washington
Pine
Breaben
Garfield
Second
Western
Larson
Tennessee
Edith
Ashby
Seventh
Steuben
Forest
Butter
Elm
State of Kansans
Neosho
United States of América
Chafhute
West 1Th Street
2D Street
10Th Street
Sth
1956
Chanute Kansas
Topeka Kansas
Property Descriptions for Newhards Addition Chanute
Lots 1 2 and 3 in Block 1 of New hard s First Addition also known as Newhards Addition to the City of Chanute as designated on record plat of said addition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newhard
Newhards
Chanute
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Frank J. Crandall
Wellesley
Edward R. Dye
Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory
Korea
Ireland
Russia
Siberia
Adm
Kolchak
Dreshky
Omsk
Bolshevists
Monty
PRICE
FED
Lt. Lightfoot
Companion
Debolt Insurance Agency
West Main
Abe" Woodsplitter
Tomlin Mfg. Co
W. MacArthur
Emeryville 8
Calif
GMC
Chanute Nash & Truck CO
South Evergreen
Chanute, Kansas
Clerk
Neoshoss
George Robb
J. D. Lightpoot
Howard Parsons
Leino
The
Cuy
Kanesas
Chenute
Orrick
Kanaan
J. Dpd
Joseph J.specs O'Keefe
Smiels
Boston
O'Keefe
Ervey Dil
Neosho County
McCollum
K. C. McCollum
Erie
Charles
E. Chanute
K Lattorsay
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