Dodge City remembered in new Kansas book
Charles C. Lowther recalls the rough Dodge City era once called the Athens of the Cow Trade. In the scene at a Dodge City hotel a corpse is carried through a lobby as staff and patrons react with blunt humor and rough frontier honesty. London’s transportation costs are noted as a contrast.
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Dodge City
Kansas
Athens
Charles C. Lowther
Lowther
Sally
Dorrance
Father
Social Calendar Highlights From Tuesday and Wednesday Events
The social calendar lists events for Tuesday January 21 including The Americat Legion auxiliary at Mra Ellen's home with Mrs Cecil Weaver, Miss Beryl Henry to speak. Also Hope High School Band Auxiliary at the Capital hotel and several church and club meetings. Tuesday Bridge at Mrs Royce Smith's home. Wednesday features Girl Scout Council at city hall, Bay View Reading club program, and several contract bridge gatherings. Seven and One club dinner meeting highlights. Baptist Circle hosts a Monday meeting with Miss Corrigan as host.
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Americat
Legion Auxilary
Mra
R. C. Ellen
Cecil Weaver
Doc Reece
Mes
Ben Edmonston
Beryl
Henry
Ofense
Barlow
Seven
Mary Shull
Aliee Henry
William Summerville
Tendy Thompson
Josephine Mortis
Mary Delia Carrigan
Mary Lemley
Daisy Dorothy Ieard
Local Residents and Visitors Highlight City Social Roundup
New city residents Mr and Mrs F C Kyte and Mrs J P Gillenwater reside at 112 South Washington. Kyte serves as resident engineer on the new Highway 20 underpass. Ben McRae Miss Louise Fuller and Jo Wray return from Hobbs New Mexico visiting Deloris Tolleson and touring state sites. Mrs J T West and Miss Hattie Anne Feild return from Little Rock attending Tarleton Bernier events. BM Saddler of Blytheville guests of Athe Barnes at the Barlow. Mrs W R Campbell of Shreveport visits with the Baines family. Mrs BR Henderson and others were Camden visitors. Thomas Cannon visited Hot Springs. Hop Le is hospitalized at Barnes in St. Louis and improving. Ruth Pickett Evelyn Dossett Bill Sandling Thomas Harlin of Shreveport visited Dossett home. Jane Carter of Hendersonville spent weekend with parents Mr and Mrs Walter Carter. Mrs Harold Cabe of Garden and Mrs George Peek of Arkadelphia to visit Miss Hattie Anne Poild. Harald Robberts and family from Hot Springs were guests of his mother. Flay May Russell, formerly of Wewoka and Dallas, has taken a bookkeeper position with a large Dallas firm. Alathean class editor note mentions game of Contact replacing Con-
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F.C. Kyte
J. P. Gillenwater
Milas
Norma Lewis
South
Washington
Kyte
Highway 20
BR. E. Henderson
Camden
Thomas Cannon
Avith
Hot Springs
Hop
Young le
Barnes Hospital
St. Louis
Jane Carter
Henderson Stile
Teachers College
Arkadelphia
My. Ai
Walter Carter
Harold Cabe
Garden
George Peek
Hattie Anne Poild
Serial story conscript's wife by Betty Wallace Ventermays
Martha visits the Canniry Club with Pact, spends a whirlwind evening with Panis friends, then heads to a nightclub and returns home late. Bill phones from an Army camp, accusing her of infidelity. She lies about a girls bowling club outing, while their strained marriage and wartime separations unfold through a Sunday visit with Paul, work talk, and quiet longing.
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Ventermays Marthe Gove
Panis
Martha Feoohen
Tram
Martha Marshall
Bill
Martha
Qhe
Billy
Gould
Paul
Pace
Cave Alry
Elliott
Marshall
Goodby
Buick Sales Hit All Time High
Buick division of General Motors reports 1940 total retail car deliveries in the United States reached 297,381, a 33.8 percent rise from 1939, with December alone at 28,959 and an average of 103 sales per dealer. The gain came across all regions, led by East and Pacific, while used car sales rose 20.5 percent to 43,918 in December and 515,297 for the year.
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Flint
Mich
Buick Division
General Motors Corporation
United States
W. F. Hutstader
Marth
Buick
Hufstader
Central
Pacific
East
Midwest
South
Buicks
Meeting Minutes Describe Devotional and Seed Exchange
A meeting was called to order with Mrs. Jess Yarberry presiding. She led devotion and prayer, read the months song God Bless America, then Mrs. Hodnett gave a demonstration on land and sea seed exchanges. Guests exchanged shrub and flower seeds before a refreshments break. The group adjourned to meet Mrs. Yarberry in February.
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Jess Yarberry
Yarberry
Hca
Hodnett
Joss Yarberry
Helena Water Flows Altered by Quakes Affect Dry Gulch
Helena Montana reports earth tremors disrupt the water supply. After a 1935 quake Dry Gulch lost flow while a new quake increased drainage into the Oro Fino reservoir, raising daily output by about 100000 gallons.
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Helena
Mont
Spr
Dry Gulch
Oro Fino
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Mport
Germany
Hern
Aliens’ of
Tte
Society
Parson
Hanks
London
Hope High School
Capital Hotel
Hope Gospel Tabernacle
Contract Bridge Club
Royce Smith
Syd McMath
Girl Scout Council
Bay View Reding Club
Rm, LaGrone Sr
John §. Gibson Sr
Charles
Dana Gibson
Thirsty
Huttie Anne
Feild
J. W. Branch
A. B. Spragging
Mee Baptist Circle
Women's Minsionary Society
The
First Baptist Church
A.B. Spragging
Edgar ‘Mirish
Edwin Dossett
Saenger
Rosalind Russell
Brian Aherne
Rialto
Sandy
Sandy Stuart
Jack Holt
Ben McRae
Louise Fuller
Jo Wray
Hobbs
New Mexico
Deloris Tolleson
J.T. West
Hattie Anne Feild
Little Rock
Tarlston- Bernier Mars
BM Saddler
Blytheville
Athe Barnes
W. R. Campbell
Shrevesfort
W. J. Baines
Ruth Pickett
Evelyn Dossett
Bill Sandling
Thomas Harlin
Shreveport
FE. W. Dossett
Harald Robberts
J. J. Robberts
Flay May Russel
Wewoka
Oklahoma
Hope
Dallas
Texas
First Baptist Sunday School
F.A
Hempstead County Lumber Co
Betty Wallace
NEA Service, Inc
U.S
Hitler
Hempstead Motor Company
Max Cox
Hope, Ark
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