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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1956
Page
5
Rantoul W S C S planned a Christmas food basket for a family and boxes of fruit and candy to share at a Thursday meeting. Devotions were led by Mrs. H W Spratt who presided. New members Mrs M R Stevenson and Mrs Ernest Marlin joined.
Mrs Martha Van Meter hosted the G G Club yesterday at her Topeka home with Mrs Emma Hayes a former member as guest. Mrs Elizabeth Walters of Sunset Home Concordia and Mrs Lula McDonald attended. Walters brought greetings from Sunset Home friends. Hayes spoke on First Baptist Church work in Topeka. A letter from Mrs Sarah Bundy now in Washington DC was read. Hostesses served refreshments. Other attendees included Mines W S Barnett J A Blunt Don Harbison Addie Chappell J F Heckman Russell Howard I J Lundstedt F E Fiehler A F Senter and Sadie Steele.
Daily listing of club meetings and social events including Ottawa area groups such as LA SERTOMA, OTTAWA GARDEN CLUB potluck, BEGINNERS SQUARE DANCE CLASS, and WOMAN'S REPUBLIC. Also features A A U W Mammel Art Center events, various women’s circles, church-related gatherings, and Christmas parties scattered through Monday to Thursday with host names and addresses where provided.
A Chicago talk to Home Economics Agents urges readers to engage controversial issues and broaden information sources beyond women's magazines. It notes Hungary Life magazine Africa and Suez Canal as examples and stresses planning work ahead to avoid haste. It includes brief local vignettes about a beauty parlor habit and a child’s Santa letter.
Mr and Mrs Maurice Green of near Ottawa hosted a Thursday birthday gathering for sons Leland turning three on the 28th and Virgil marking his second birthday on the 30th. A large cake, balloons, photos and refreshments were part of the celebration with guests including Mrs Homer Perry and family, Mrs Don Schamle and family, Mrs Gerald Anderson and family, and John and Betty Anderson of Pasadena Texas among others.
Mrs J C Butler of Cherryvale, formerly Ottawa, visits son Walter Butler and family. Amos Reed of Harris is surprised for birthday at the Will Meyersick home with Allen Reed Irene Fay Pointer and Richard and Earl Reed assisting. Savings Bonds Safe investment.
FBI seized William Richard Rose 51 president of Home National Bank of Ellenville in Ellenville New York on alleged 580000 shortage. He was arraigned before a U S commissioner in Kingston on a Federal Reserve Act violation charge.
Dr P H Stevens research specialist for the Wichita farm credit district estimates the average family size farm in Kansas costs 50 000 to 100 000 and nets its owner 2 500 a year He told the agriculture committee of the Wichita Chamber of Commerce yesterday that small farmers cannot afford modern machinery and are selling out at nearly 2 000 farms annually.
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