Local Social Notes Reflect Weekend Visits and Travels
Earl O Briens Baldwin and Marvin Pickett moved through recent affairs with family calls and a Western Union transfer from Manhattan to Sterling Colorado. Families including Mersmans Hart Romy Miller and Hart visited Ken neth Fords and George Harts, while Alfred Rockers Paola attended Fred Rockers. The Cunningham Spencer reunion is set for Thursday at Kenneth Cunninghams and Amherst Milliman hosted Sunday gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl O'Briens
Baldwin
Fred Wiesners
Marvin Pickett
Western Union
Manhattan
Sterling
Colo
Henry Mersman
Kenneth Fords
Homewood
Melvin Stockard
Gene Mitchell
Alfred Rockers
National Guard
Wisconsin
Arnold Hart
Ottawa
Romy Miller
George
Fred Rockers
Cunningham ~ Spencer
Kenneth Cunninghams
Amherst Milliman
Community Notes Cover Visits Births and Local News
A swelling stream of visitors and family moves fills Edgerton and nearby towns. 79-year-old Yor Ginivan celebrated with relatives in Marion and Topeka, while Johnny Alliman joined the Schroeders for a Marion visit. Weddings, new babies, farm sales, and local athletics highlight the week as Rev. Joe Groh’s passing is noted and Edgerton Athletics thrill a 8 to 7 win over Gardner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yor Ginivan
E. F. Schoeder
Marion
R. W. Ginivan
Topeka
Kate Mersman
Johnny Alliman
Schroeders
Leon Akin
Sterling
Jimmie McHone
Wichita
Scott Gaults
la Plata
Arkansas
Allan Austenfeld
Emporia
J. R. Smithheislar
Bert T. Moherman
Kansas City
Hubert
Peine
Roger Browns
Ottawa
Peines
Mon
Richard Bellefuille
Pontiac
Mich
Ernest Henderson
Ann Casida
Sandy Sims
John Wilcox
Tulare
Calif
Edgerton Mourns Mrs Della Blaine Death
Friends here mourn the death of Mrs Della Blaine. Funeral services were held Tuesday at Coughlin's Chapel Wellsville with burial in Edgerton cemetery. She cared for seven siblings after her mother died at sixteen and helped her father keep the family together. Surviving are three sisters and four brothers living in Wellsville Delta Colorado Gardner Cedaridge Murdock Minnesota and a Navy husband Ross R Blaine who died January 17 1939. George Knabe and wife joined Sunday dinner guests of Ray Lefmann.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Della Blaine
Coughlin
Wellsville
Edgerton
Presbyterian Church
Ross R. Blaine
Navy
Blaine
Maude Thorne
Edith Ackley
Ethel Rice
J. D. Shores
Delta
Colo
A. C. Shores
Gardner
R. C. Shores
Cedaridge
F. W. Shores
Murdock
Minn
George Knabe
Ray Lefmann
Dry Weather Hurts Corn
Topeka reports fading corn and hay prospects across Kansas due to continued hot dry weather. Sorghum generally withstands conditions but needs moisture. corn fields except extreme northeast corrode, yields drop sharply. Central and southern counties have harvested corn for silage. third alfalfa cut underway with light yields and insufficient growth. Pasture and range feed dried up in central and western counties, providing limited feed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
Federal
State Departments of Agriculture
U. S. farmers use electricity and grain figures from 1954
July 1954 electricity use averaged 373 kilowatt hours, 46 more than July 1953. Rodent and insect damage to grain could feed 10 million hogs. Arizona shows 2,152 miles of railroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Arizona
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Mabel Chandler
Lon Mishler
Bud Mishler
A. J. Bibens
Monroe
Bibens
Long Beach
Gene O'Mara
California
Alfred Sigler
Sigler
A. P. O'Mara
Rantoul
Jerry Milchest
Mike
Maurice Pontons
Camdenton
Herbie Wolf
Glenda
Herbie
U.S.S. Carson
San Francisco Bay
Frank Gerhold
Colorado
Wilbur Duffey
Merritt McDonalds
South Lake
Garnett
W. P. Calder
Eldon
Roger Kelly
Olathe
Flavo Shores
Art Donovan
Oden Gerlach
Dorthea’ Everett
Smith Hunter
Will Gnase
George Knahe
Charlie Kirkpatrick
Jay Smith
Jerry Rothwell
Earl Calder
DeSoto
Arthur Larrick
Reece Hospital
Ray
Nadine Sawyer
Wayne Brassfield
Donna
Jay
Fred Lewis
Clarence Dwyer
John Skinner
Highway 50
Joe Groh
Groh
St. Francis Hospital
Methodist
Woon
Paris
FR Co
eReason
Anne Baxter
Steve Forrest
Simone Renan
Maurice Tyrac
Tor Sanger
Frank Alex Jovejoy
Nicol Barry
Bruce Sullivan
Bennett
Glenn Miller
Sh Allyson
Michigan Valley
WMI
Windrave
Tina
Gehl
S. Walnut
Matinee
Frank Sinatra
Kathryn Grayson
Gene Kelly
Ase
Penney’s
Seersucker and
Cot
Cloth Oxfords
Hood
Fords
Orion
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