Decorating Easter Eggs With Mess-Free Alternatives
Marcia Houce offers methods to decorate eggs without mess using hard boiled shells plaster eggs and egg shaped containers. Ideas include plaster eggs tempered acrylic paints lace trims tissue paper and string wraps to create festive designs for family activities. A related note invites readers to a Franklin County Agricultural Society box supper at Celebration Hall with Wellsville Jazz Band and proceeds aiding the Franklin County Fair in July.
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Marcia Houce
Princess Patterns Spark Spring Catalog Fashion
The Ottawa Herald advertises New Spring Summer Pattern Catalogs featuring dresses tops shirts pants vests jackets and more. Embroidery details and a 75 cent catalog price with a 1.50 pattern coupon are noted along with pattern numbers 4944 and 128 patches plus Afghans doilies and quilts. Names Anne Adams and location in New York are listed for pattern orders.
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Igs Uc Tay
Anne Adams
Ottawa Herald
West 17Th
New York
N.Y
Family Extension Calendar of Upcoming 4 H Events
April line up lists sessions and meetings for 4 H and extension programs across Franklin County. Events include trunk workshop, photography group, kitchen planning, 4 H dog meeting, lamb sale, home economics bowl, Japanese heritage sessions, weigh day for hogs and sheep, geology trip, housing tour, poultry meeting, bee and entomology gathering, and horse project meeting with multiple hosts and locations.
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Homewood School
Dunlap Home
Sunflower Plaza
Courts Building
Tom Chambers
Farm Bureau
Franklin County Fairgrounds
Rex Crane
Franklin County
Milt Sampson
David Kile
Water gardening grows in homes and classrooms
Water gardening and hydroponics gain popularity among home gardeners with guidance on plant choices containers and care. Instructions cover preparing nutrient solutions, gravel bases, avoiding copper brass and lead, weekly checks and four to six week water changes, plus plant lists and light needs. A separate note records a religious circle meeting at Mrs. J F Schwinn’s home in Williamsburg with Hymn books mended and refreshments.
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J. F. Schwinn
Williamsburg
Women's Missionary Circle of Faith Bible Church
Schwinn
Harry Grewing
Wellsville
Birthday Girl Rebecca Robbins Turns Two in Pomona
Rebecca Jo Robbins, daughter of Lloyd and Mrs. Robbins II, Pomona RFD 1, celebrated her second birthday on April 1. She has a four month old sister Amy Kristine and a brother Shane Alan who turns nine this month. Grandparents are Lloyd J. Robbins Jr. and Bill Garrett, with great and great great grandparents named in Pomona, Ottawa and Wellsville areas.
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Rebecca Jo Robbins
Lloyd Robbins II
Pomona
RFD
Rebecca Jo
Amy Kristine
Shane Alan
Lloyd J. Robbins Jr
Bill D. Garrett
Ottawa
Emma Robbins
Nora Klein
Poplar
Arlie Kunard
S. Cedar
O. D. Garrett
Wellsville Rfd
Lillie McCullough
Wellsville Nursing Home
Eisenhower Kindergarten Enrollment Set for April 10
Eisenhower Elementary School schedules kindergarten enrollment for 1979-80 from 12:30 to 3 p.m. on Tuesday April 10. Children must be five by September 1 to enroll. Parents should call 242-7551 to be included in the enrollment schedule.
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Eisenhower Elementary
Eisenhower Office
Ruth Davis Honored At Eightieth Birthday Reception
One hundred twenty guests from Kansas City Wichita Osawatomie Stillwell Emporia Paola Ottawa Overland Park Lawrence Derby McPherson Melvern Princeton Richmond Centropolis Topeka Overbrook Homewood South Fork Colo and Tulsa Okla gathered Sunday at Mrs. Ruth Davis Williamsburg home for a family hosted birthday reception signing the registry.
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Ruth Davis
Williamsburg
Kansas City
Wichita
Osawatomie
Stillwell
Emporia
Paola
Ottawa
Overland Park
Lawrence
Derby
McPherson
Melvern
Princeton
Richmond
Centropolis
Topeka
Overbrook
Homewood
South Fork
Colo
Tulsa
Okla
Patrick Foster Crowned County Spelling Bee Champion
Patrick Lee Foster of Pomona, eleven, won the county spelling bee at Pomona School with the word synchronize. Kurt Layton placed second from Wellsville Elementary and Bobby Lister took third from Garfield Elementary Ottawa. The event, judged by Jerry Peterson Scott Shanahan and Rev. David Hartsell, featured judges and a prize dictionary for the champion.
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Patrick Lee Foster
James R. Foster
Pomona
New County
Patrick
Kurt Layton
Wellsville
Bobby Lister
Garfield
Ottawa
George E. Smith
Pomona Lions Club
Jerry Peterson
Scott Shanahan
David Hartsell
Jeni Lloyd
Williamsburg
Appanoose
Central Heights
Lincoln
Eugene Field
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Ame
By Earl Aronson
AP News
Peoples National Bank & Trust
Langley
Robbins
Eisenhower
Patrick Foster
Elmer Dapron
Dapron
Capron
Tony Jones
Ottawa University
Eldon Rader
Sue Bernholdt
Pepsi & Glass
Taco Tico
S. Main
Nerest
Rorce Era
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