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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1957
Page
3
Parents are urged to delay toilet training until the child can sit up well and show readiness. Start around the end of the first year or later for unpredictable schedules, guiding with praise during successful attempts and avoiding scolding after accidents to foster calm progression.
Sizes 32 through 46 offered with long line and regular lengths. Pattern 4715 includes printed directions and sizes 32 34 36 38 40 42 44 46 with long and regular options. Send 35 cents plus 5 cents for first class mailing to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Ottawa Herald New York.
Seventeen members of the Columbian Shakespeare club sewed 25 rug rags yesterday in the Christian Church to benefit a veterans hospital during an all day sewing session. Mrs Judson Lee won first in the Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs literature contest with her essay and district contest prize for her poem When Winter Comes. Hostesses Mines W L Pickering Walter Brauer Albert Hamm and Owen Fowler served coffee at noon and lunch.
Entertains Club Far and Near Club enjoyed a Thursday afternoon gathering hosted by Mrs. David Brown. Mrs. Birdie Macy led the meeting and members shared their most unpleasant household tasks. Door prize went to Mrs. Howard Linneman, with a large group of attendees including the Mines Gene Domnanish Carolyn Jim Earl Schmitt and Jon Denny Peterson Bennie Stinson J. C. Taylor Harold Bones Grant Carey Elmer Louderback Joyce Wayne J. C. Hannaman George Kersley Robert Roger Roberta Linneman Sharon Craig Mare Brown and others.
Mr and Mrs Glen Fitch returned home last evening from a few days at the Lake of the Ozarks. They were guests of Mr and Mrs Lee Taylor Shorecrest Mo. Others present were Carolyn and Marilyn Saxton and Mr and Mrs Russell Fitch and Bonnie of Kansas City. Ever heat canned pears and serve with a chocolate sauce and whipped cream. Drain the pears of course.
Greenville Michigan report notes 33 boys in a domestic science class taught by Miss Catherine Stall. She claims boys excel at dishwashing, table setting, candy making, and baking, with dishes often appearing clean after their work.
Elliott Valentine of Providence visited his parents and brother Bill Valentine this week. Various local families shared weekend and weekday visits, dinners, and quilting gatherings with neighbors including the Willing Workers meeting at Mrs. Sanford Shaw’s, and visits to Garnett Ottawa Topeka and Lawrence by many residents.
The Ottawa Herald records a Pleasanton weekend visit with her parents Mr and Mrs W di Johnston. The brief item notes extended family time and local social ties in the community.
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