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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1956
Page
1
Newspaper briefs describe a Vacation Pack service for Herald subscribers, plus local notices on a bassinet of events. Items cover a Navy deployment update, a Grange picnic, divorces, arrests, a big junior high band, travel vacations, and a serious automobile train collision with injuries and a fatality.
Mrs. Myrtle Estella Suttle 94 of Fort Worth Texas formerly of Lane died yesterday Born March 19 1862 in Indiana She was married first to Charles Darnell and later to Rev M E Suttle She was the last member of her family
The obituary notes survivors including two daughters Mrs J C Kirk of Moline Illinois and Mrs Lulu Keene of Clermont Florida a son Ray Darnell of Fort Worth and several grandchildren. Funeral services for Mrs Dewey McClay are set for Monday at 10 30 am at Towners Funeral Chapel with Rev R B Craig and burial in Highland cemetery. Surviving siblings include Mrs Lucile Mead in North Kansas City Missouri Mrs Frances Armstrong in Hutchinson Mrs Margaret Eilis in Denver Ralph Sutor Bay City Oregon William Sutor Ottawa Revere Sutor Kansas City and Keith Sutor Kansas City Kansas.
Funeral services were held at St. Mark's Episcopal church in Blue Rapids for Mrs. E. L. Skinner 82 who died August 3. Burial followed at Fairmont cemetery. Edith Goodin born April 9 1874 in Ottawa was an artist trained in watercolor and rug design. She studied at Oberlin and New York art schools and married Rev. E. L. Skinner in 1907. She leaves two daughters Elizabeth Chandler Electric City Wash and Ethel Grace Folks Battle Ground Wash a sister Fred H. McCune Ottawa three grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Admitted Mrs Irwin Heth Williamsburg Leonard Showalter 1125 N Cherry Thursday Max Likes 1040 Walnut today Births Mr and Mrs Bernard Didde 522 E 5th daughter born today weight 7 lb 9? 4 oz Mr and Mrs Eugene Adams Princeton daughter born today weight 7 lb 2 oz Dismissed Robert Beeler 501 Beech Mrs Jack Hensley 616 S Mulberry Robert Sobba Princeton Thursday Charles Rounds Fredonia Mrs Theodore Smith Pomona today
Auction schedule details multiple sales in Kansas with dates and locations including Roberts Market East 11th St Lawrence Baldwin Overbrook Pomona Richmond and the buyers or sellers named such as Mrs Harrid Cook J W Beers W F Eichinger and Russel Kinnison.
Announcements list weekly livestock sales and local notices in Pomona and Ottawa Kansas. Overbrook sale runs every Wednesday with addresses and dates for Aug 16 Aug 30 and Sept 3 noted, including contact names W F Eichinger Russel Kinnison and the East Central Kansas Holstein Breeders Association at the County Fair Barn in Ottawa.
Vice President Nixon and Harold Stassen met separately at the White House but gave no details about Stassen’s push to replace Nixon with Gov. Christian Herter on the Republican ticket. Stassen said his drive to unseat Nixon is continuing and encouraged. A prior meeting last night among Nixon, former Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and William P. Rogers was described as politically significant.
President Eisenhower and Vice President discussed international affairs with reporters. Stassen said his trip was to dump Nixon from the campaign stage but denied meeting Eisenhower or the Vice President. Murray Snyder noted a brief meeting with Sherman Adams, and Nixon commented on Adams but would not discuss Dewey’s support.
In a federal suit filed today the Italian line seeks 25 million dollars for the Andrea Doria disaster. It charges the Stockholm and its crew with fault and negligence in the July 25 collision that doomed the luxury liner.
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