Community notes and school festival highlights in De Soto
De Soto community news covers illness at home care for a local resident, a large High School Music Festival with Tadusburg Wellsville Spring ll Balas Gardner Eudora and ToSoin participants, directed by Dr Gerald M. Carney. Also reports bandage making efforts, church activities, school board banquet in Shawnee Mission, and local marriages and visits.
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Olathe Communty
Lester Warsop
Warsop
Tadusburg
Wellsville
Spring Ll
Balas, Gardner
Eudora Amd ToSoin
Gerald M. Carney
Kansas University
Hilton Wieetiars
Kanny Ballance
Kansas City
Memorial Hall
William Ray Smith
DeSota Marine Coker
Marines
Eavell Manning
Wilredy
Rnelind Park
Lexington Township
Methodist Church
Shawnee Mission
Holy Week Services Open Monday in City
Holy Week observances began with noon and evening sermons led by Dr. Gaston Fonte of Fort Worths First Methodist Church. Noon meetings run 22:25 to 1 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church and evening services at Trinity Episcopal Church. Topics cover nationalism secularism indifference and faith themes with five choirs contributing throughout the week.
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Gaston Fonte
First Methodist Church
Fort Worth
Tex
First Presbyterian
Judas
Herod
Evangelical United Brethren Church Sanctuary
K.U. Chorale
Clayton Krehbiel
First Presbyterian Church
Trinity Episcopal Church
West Side Presbyterian Church
Monaco’s tiny yet bloodyly rich history of a grand romance
Monaco sits on 370 acres facing the Mediterranean, a miniature state with a famed Grimaldi dynasty rule, a royal wedding approaching Prince Rainier III and Grace Kelly, and a long history of gambling wealth and tourism. It blends old world intrigue with a modern rebirth under Aristotle Onassis as tourism rebounds around the royal nuptials.
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Atten
Nine Bay
Grace Kelis
Ant
Cynthia Lowry
Mediterranean
Alps
Monaco
Chicago
Monte Carlo
Ranier III
Grace Kelly
Menrico
France
Italy
Grimaldi
Genoa
Grimaldis
Europe
Fmremun
Rainier II
Principality
Sea Bathers and Foreigners Club of
Nice
Cannes
Leader for Hambletonian Dies in New York at 81
William H. Cane aged 81 longtime head of Yonkers Raceway and promoter of the Hambletonian died at St Francis Hospital Miami Beach after a heart and kidney illness. Known as Mr Trotting he built Hambletonian from failed Lexington and Syracuse efforts into the world’s premier trotting race. He took over the sulky derby in 1930 with Good Time Park Goshen hosting except 1943 when moved to Yonkers due to gas rationing. Born August 5 1874 in Jersey City Cane rose from a stable and trotter background to prominence in New Jersey and New York racing.
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Miami Beach
Fla
William H. Cane
Yonkers
N. Y
St. Francis Hospital
Cane
Trotting
Lexington
Frederick
Brooklyn
New Jersey
Treasure chest yields Confederate bills in Big Spring
Three boys digging an abandoned earthen tank unearthed a chest containing about 1,810 in Confederate currency. The find drew little excitement from the youths or federal agents, with denominations including 1, 5, 50 and 100 dollar notes.
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Big Spring
Tex
Internal Revenue People
Vinland Notes on Festival Visits and Local News
Lawrence residents Hazel Bell and a sister spent time with relatives while George Hoskinson’s family hosted a visit. Vinland schools hosted a World Music Festival with about 250 pupils, directed by Mrs. Blackman and Mrs. Deny, with guest director Robert Ankefer from Kansas University. The Vinland 4-H Club and music department staged The Wonder Hat with local cast members. Community updates include hospital returns, travel, and club meetings in the Grange Hall and WSCS gathering at Mrs. Wiseman’s home.
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Hazel Bell
Lawrence
George Hoskinson
Converse
Kihcard
Waldron Farley
Rodger Farley
Vinland Schools
Clarence Blackman
Rollie Deny
Robert F. Ankefer
Kansas University
Weybright
Fairview
Apple Pie
Twin Mound
Pleasant Grove
Lone Star
Vinland Valley 4-H Club
E. S. Smith
Fort Smith
Ark
Ida Smith
Smith
Tom Wilson
Kansas City
Bill Deay
Cemetery Association
Improvement Club
Grange Hall
Clara Hoskinson
David Olmsteddy
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Myrtle Jamison
Webb Fenton
Harry Renner
Palco
Martin Holco
Girl Endures Pain After Doctor Says Doll Injured
Joy Daygene Berry aged 16 months in Effingham Illinois fell at home last week fracturing her right ankle. Dr R A Hartman attempted to set the bone and compared Joy’s injury to that of her doll which also received a cast. Joy shows more concern for the doll’s recovery than her own.
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Effingham
Joy
Daygene Berry
R. A. Hartman
Ingham Begins Two-Week Consult at Mississippi
Harold G. Ingham activities coordinator for Kansas University Extension began a two week consultanship to the University of Mississippi at Oxford and its Medical Center at Jackson to assist in establishing a program of post graduate medical education.
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Harold G. Ingham
Kansas University Extension
Mississippi University
Oxford
Jackson
De Soto Families Attend Methodist Service After Illness
Desoto residents visit Sahetha during a serious illness of Mrs Woodbury's mother. Mr and Mrs Leo Van Gotham of Kansas City travel to attend services. The MYF and church members visit in Linwood and Emporia. Mrs J A Richmond of Kansas City joins dinner with Rev Hoyt Dudley and Karen. Mrs Richmond is Dudley’s grandmother.
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Harry Hughes
Earl Ryan
Santa Fe Hospital
Topeka
Janice Polfer
Roy Polter
Bill
Bumper) Johnson
de Soto Methodist Church
Cere
Hilton Woolbury
Sahetha
Woodbury
Leo van Gotham
Kansas
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