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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1955
Page
4
Mrs Anna Wilmoth of Okeene Oklahoma loves her small black and white cat called The Kitten. The cat hunts and eats snakes including rattlers and blue racers, killing twelve reptiles that summer. The Kitten follows her mistress, protects the yard, and even chased a full sized opossum up a tree.
Mary Ann Benham visited home folks over the weekend. John and Alvin Benham traveled to Kansas City to meet Alvin, returning from a business trip in Ponca City. Kenneth Coffman left for Camp McCoy for two weeks with the National Guard encampment. Nellie McAuley of Ottawa stayed with her daughter. Coffman family and Patty Coffman joined a trip to Kansas City. Chronister family hosted and hosted again with relatives in Eudora and Topeka.
Baldwin New York police say two brothers aged 9 and 12 confessed to hanging a dog at Loft Pond park to train it. They denied beating the dog. A $150 reward offered for the animal’s killer remained posted after the animal was found carcass hanged and badly cut near its ears.
Turnpike engineers plan to move more than 5,050,000 cubic yards of rock during excavations for the Kansas turnpike with about half the total in the hilly Topeka to Kansas City Kansas section. They estimate 45,686 cubic yards of concrete will be used in drainage structures along the 236 mile route.
A 15-year-old Leavenworth girl reported missing for a month was found in a Chattanooga rooming house with a paroled ex convict. Detectives said he served part of a Kansas burglary and larceny sentence and was recently paroled. The girl, who had written home with the rooming house as her return address, is in a juvenile detention home awaiting transfer to Kansas authorities for parole violation.
In Tiburon California Jandy Ho vanec owns 3 Mercury Ave Belveron Gardens. A cat disrupted two houses during a May 22 viewing and the prospective buyer declined. Repairs valued at 800 dollars followed as a deposit was taken from a new buyer. Monday night another vehicle crossed lawns of the same two houses and crashed into Ho vanee's kitchen. He doubts the new buyer will proceed.
Mr and Mrs Lester Clark visited Mr and Mrs Fred Walker last Friday evening. Marjorie Maubry of Overland Park spent last week at the Wilbur Lauver home with her parents and other relatives in the community.
Mr and Mrs Charles Maubry hosted relatives Sunday as Thelma Mowder of Overbrook joined Lauver family guests Thelma Mowder and several others visited. Ivan Snyder and Bobby Steele left for two weeks training at Camp McCoy with National Guard. Multiple visits occur with Topeka and Overbrook residents, dinners, and a mountain of family gatherings across towns including Mt. Herman, Tonganoxie, and Topeka.
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