Elderly Kansans Apply for Active Employment Numbers
Washington reports the social security board lists 18 women and 125 men in Kansas over 65 who applied for active employer account numbers while still eligible for old age benefits. May relief funds declined slightly as Works Progress Administration activity rose, with 16,892 general relief cases averaging $11.99.
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Washington
Social Security Board
Kansas
Works Progress Administration
Employment Service
May Pipe Gas Out
Representatives from Texas and Oklahoma counties and six Kansas counties meet the Guymon chamber to discuss a 24 inch pipeline from the panhandle to Minnesota. An association of land and royalty owners may be formed to market Hugoton area gas to north central industries. A $50 million RIC loan approval is needed to proceed, with drilling to start in Texas county and several Kansas counties if granted.
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Guymon
Okla
Texas County
Oklahoma
Kansas
Guymon Chamber of Commerce
Oklahoma Panhandle
Minnesota
J. F. Langston
Hugoton
North Central States
Langston
Mesaba Natural Gas Pipeline Company
Texas
Finney, Grant, Seward, Morton, Stevens
Haskell
Eastern Kansas Expected to Have Good Corn Crop
Eastern Kansas fortunes brighten as forecasts call for a good corn crop across eastern counties. Reports cite early corn maturing and late corn improving with better soil moisture. Sorghums thrive in most areas, though dry western zones face stress from heat and moisture shortages.
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Kansas
Topeka
Federal
State Departments of Agriculture
Early Sorghum Burned. Wheat Seedbeds Near Complete
Early planted sorghums suffered heavy burn in western Kansas while eastern regions reported better stands. Seedbed preparation for drilling winter wheat nears completion across the state. The weekly summary notes alfalfa seeding this fall likely to be the largest in years.
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Kansas
Local Minders Report Social News and Visits in Woodstock
Woodstock notes cover travel to Baltimore for Archie Landon by Glen Martin, visits from Rev H B Massie and Vida Sutton, and gatherings at Wells and Wellman households. Rogers family reunion at Bales grove on August 14 includes many relatives from Atchison Lawrence Easton Round Grove and McLouth. Public sale attended near McLouth marks local activity.
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Archie Landon
Baltimore
Glen Martin Airplane Company
H. B. Massie
Zion
W. A. Wellman
Albert Pippert
Vida Sutton
Baldwin
Howard Wellman
Leland
Roy Sharkey
Topeka
Val Hehn
Circle Club
Ion
Bales Grove
Theodore Scott
Edith Scott
Harry Scott
Atchison
C. M. Jones
Esther
Walter Helmstrom
Lawrence
Homer Willits
Margaret
Easton
Harry Willits
Zelma Tarr
Round Grove
Howard Williams
McLouth
Dee Rogers
Leavenworth
Donald Williams
Independence
F. S. Champion
Harry. Wellman
Herbert Champion
Frank Champion
Hansen Armstrong
Homer Armstrong
Jackie
New York
Ladies’ Aid Society
Dave McDonald
W. H. Hitner
John Harding
Bankhead-Jones committee named in county
New county committee members for the Bankhead-Jones farm tenant act are R. D. Shaw Lawrence G. L. Shirley Perry and Earl Ferguson Valley Falls Farm tenants and laborers are urged to apply for the emergency wheat loans at the farm bureau office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Velma White and Cleo V Hamilton married August 14 at the First Christian church in Lawrence with Rev Harold C Barr officiating.
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R. D. Shaw
Lawrence
G. L. Shirley
Perry
Earl Ferguson
Valley Falls
Farm Bureau
Velma White
W. H. White
Cleo V. Hamilton
F. E. Hamilton
Blue Mound
First Christian Church
Harold C. Barr
Massachusetts Street
John Wise
Ernest Sellberg
Sellberg
McPherson
Old Settlers Creekside Updates and Travel News
A flurry of visits and travels among area families and friends. Notables include Gaskill sisters from Ithaca and Buffalo, the Cornish librarian Miss Gussie Gaskill, and Mrs. Slight a former local teacher. Several couples vacationed in Colorado and New Mexico, with Des Moines area residents and Miami Oklahoma families visiting Benson Minnesota and Omaha.
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Ida Worsewick
Gussie Gaskill
Ithaca
N. Y
C. C. Slight
Alice King
Buffalo
Gussie
Cornell University
Slight
Terry Gaskill
Richards
Lawrence
Birdena Burnett
Old Settlers
Gertrude Goldman
John Sutton
Charles Sutton
Carlsbad Caverns
New Mexico
Colorado
David Grayson
Green Mountain Falls
Colo
Frank Nesbet
Nesbet
Old Settlers Reunion Highlights Local Weekend
The town hosted the 37th Old Settlers reunion with large crowds, speeches by Sen. George McGill and Hon. Fred Harris, daily high school band concerts, and a strong vaudeville showing. Numerous out of town guests and local families joined in, and various residents returned from trips or visited relatives.
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Etta Brown
Phyllis Weibel
Queen Esther
M. BE
Light and Power Company
Old Settlers
George McGill
Wichita
Fred Harris
Ottawa
Odell Shaver
George Wilhelm
Marie Kennedy
Herbert Fairchild
Kansas City
Waldo Harvey
Lee Marshall
Edward Davis
Perl Davis
Lucy Raines
Margaret Ford
Fred Burdick
Topeka
Joe Edmonds
Will Rice
Frank Hosford
Terry Gaskill
Effie Silvis
Ellen Gaskill Day
Frank Brown
Lawrence
David Edmonds
McLouth
Harry Riley
Charles Davis
Elizabeth
McKemmy
Winchester
Susie Anderson
Perry
Ed Sheldon
Burlington
Ed Saylor
Ozankie
Florence Larkins
Howard Larkins
Fairbury
Neb
Will Larkin
Osawatomie
Shaver
St. Joseph
E. B. Slade
Oscar May
John
Clifford Neece
Sam Naylor
Atchison
Osceola Pooler
Detroit
William Johnson
Montana
Carolyn Hannah
Wisconsin
Lois Ijams
Carolyn
Lois
Pasadena
Calif
Merle Thorp Goddard
Waggoner
Okla
Rebecca Obrien
Nickum
Poggemyer
Thompson
Leavenworth
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Malden
Mass
Greater Boston
Jimmy
Dachau
Munich
Germany
Spritz
Kurt Schuschnigg
Austria
Richard Schmitz
Vienna
Woodstock
Alvin Smith
Wiedemann’s
John N. Parker
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Tcum
J. W. Shaw Lumber CO
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Cristo
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Cova the
Matera
Ernest Torrence
Torrence
Valley
Jack Randal
Lucile Lake
Liberal
James Gibson
Don Allen
Fredolin
Milwaukee
Don Huddleston
California
T. A. Huddleston
Fred Benson
Lansing
Ansel Crouch
Boydon
Robert Crouch
James Lester
Ft. Riley
National Guard
Lester
Camp
A. C. Wilson
Jordon
Mont
J. H. Johnson
Sheldon
Burlington School
Mary. Spurlock Stout
James Spurlock
Cottonwood Falls
Penrod
Mauch Twins
Myrna Loy Franchot Tone Rosalind Russell
Border Patrol
Revenge
Joes
Frank Morgan
Florence Rice Alse
Porky Cartoon
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Mickey
Kate Douglas
Wiggins
Anna Shirley
Ruby Keeler
Ellison
Fay Beinter
Walter Brennan
Facki Krager
Virginia Wee
Ace
Charlie McCarthy
Clyde Lucas Band
Poe
Pooney
America
Goldwy- Mayer
Norma Shearer
Tyrone Power
Marie Antoinette
Peices
Aera
Dickinso
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Ecstacy
LaMarr
Segrid
Adv
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Gurie
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ETON
Marjorie Ever
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Carradine
Lynn Bari
Edward Bromberg
Fritz Feld
Tyrone Alice
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Ethel Merman
Jack Haley
Helen Westley
John Carradine
Paul Hurst
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