Ottawa News Briefs Highlights Local Happenings
Fines issued after a motorist failed to stop for a stop sign between 5 and 6:30 pm. Gasswint, arrested by highway patrol, paid fines and costs. Packages found at a city home. Cary family owner to claim at police. Drathen church sent 2MB heifers to refugee families. Sargent spoke of aid in Europe. Ottawa Junior High dramatics showcased talents at a Keys meeting. De Molay plans Christmas formal. Masons discussed advisory roles. Topeka trip for officials. car accident near Richmond caused minor damage. County officials to attend a Kansas assessing officers conference. Funeral out-of-town relatives for Mrs. Burns noted. Hawkins Grange welcomed new members. Christmas program planned. Local residents Sh oemaker family returned from Madison. son Karl to head Rural Sociology at Washington office. Met Monday: Methodist Men's Club to meet for potluck.
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Ottawa
Loyalty Dinner and Election of Officers Event
Loyalty Dinner at 6:30 features guest speaker and special music, followed by church activities and officer elections. Also notes Mr and Mrs Ted Nelson returning from Chicago visit and the International Livestock Show, Claron E Benjamin hired as conservation aid, and Wayne Loughridge hospitalized after surgery.
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Ted
Nelson
Chicago
Indiana
Hospital Admissions and Discharges Listed
Hospital notes show admissions for Charles Bump, Lane on Thursday, Mrs Robert Fowler from Williams burg, and Mrs Don Linden from route 2. also Mrs Roy Gregg at 602 N Cedar today. Discharges include Mrs Thomas Sims at 1334 Oak, Mrs Alvin Houston from Pomona, Mrs James Yokum at 808 Oak, Mrs Pearl Allen route 3, and Mrs H D Jamison and baby daughter from Westphalia today.
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Charles Bump
Lane
Robert Fowler
Williamsburg
Don Linden
Route 2
Roy Gregg
N. Cedar
Thomas Sims
Oak
Alvin Houston
Pomona
James Yokum
Pearl Allen
Route 3
H. D. Jamison
Westphalia
First Christian church hosts loyalty dinner on expansion plans
About 200 members and friends gathered in Garfield grade school auditorium for a loyalty dinner to preview an expansion program. John Hiatt chaired. speakers included Mrs. J L Shelden, John Millard, Walter Coburn, Rev Ernest Worden, and Rev S J Wieth newly installed pastor. The evening featured hostesses and a canvass to raise funds, with committee leaders named and dinner served by Trinity Methodist women. Ralph Emerson supervised the public address system.
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First Christian Church
Garfield Grade School
John Hiatt
Trinity Methodist Church
S. J. Wieth
St. Theresa's Catholic Church
Westphalia
H.shome
Hickory F. Roberts
Bailey
Ville
Garfield
J. L. Shelden
John Millard
Walter Coburn
John Davis
Vincent Skidmore
Lewis Stewart
Ernest Worden
Earl Sexton
Dan Fogle
Warren Mason
Maynard Reinecke
Kenneth Hammond
Albert Hamm
Otis Brock
William Talbott
Robert Duffield
Eugene Saffren
Luther Stevens
Jack Hensley
Charles Waits
Albert Keefer
Jim Pritchard
Local Market Prices For Grains And Livestock
A fragmented item lists prices and notes for Wheat Barley Rye Oats and Corn, mentioning a merry go round device at Watch Hill and Watch Hill's Wheat product. It references soybeans heavy draft horses and various egg butter and savings bond notes with uncertain punctuation and figures.
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Watch Hill
Barley
Soviet leaders greet Kashmir with garlands and flowers
Red Leaders in Kashmir Khrushchev and Bulganin arrived in Srinagar for a ceremonial welcome. The visit marks a display of goodwill as the disputed region hosts the Soviet premier and party leader.
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Kashmir
Srinagar
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Premiser Bulganin
Deaths and funeral notices in Ottawa area and Carrolton
Ottawa friends report the December 7 death of Anna Orchard 85 of Carrolton Missouri long a Ottawa resident who moved in 1948 and died after years of ill health She was survived by nieces and nephews and services were held in Carrolton with a Lamb Funeral Home service tomorrow at 2 pm for Finis A Sparks 69 a recent Ottawa area resident with deep ties to local families Funeral services note Sparks had been born February 5 1886 in Kentucky and had a long line of survivors including wife Flora Yocum and four daughters plus eight grandchildren and a great grandchild The obituary also recalls F D Roosevelt as the first US president to fly in an airplane while in office.
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Ottawa
Anna Orchard
Carrolton
The
Lamb Funeral Home
Finis A. Sparks
Topeka
Princeton Christian Church
Eagles Lodge
Cumberland County
Finois
Flora A. Yocum
Audrey H. Shade
Norma V. Loux
Farn Harper
Joe Sparks
Indiana
Richard Sparks
Kentucky
Roy Bennett
Ella McClister
Harriet Powell
Rose Garrett
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H. Gasswint
Enterphone Herald Office
Theprise
the Herald
United States
al H. Guffer
Pratt
Paeiot
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Cary
Gufler
Billy Gossett
Will Ottian
Boon °Eville, Mo
Fred Hoffman
E. Wilson
Ottawa Junior High Dramatics Club
Suzanne McBride
Cindy Hull
Joyce Bayless
Janie Salmon
Martha Keller
Carolyn Thompson
Merle Bland
de Molay
Franklin
Order of de Molay
Masonic Temple
Masonic Advisory Committee
W. C. Harding
Joe Henning
Julius Raffelock
L. A. Wilson
Max Ward
Ing
Jon List
Richmond
Kansas State Chamberla
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Smith
A.M. Stevens
Gardner Yester
Gardday
Earle Easdale
Bruce Spears
Lee Bonar
Homer Reeves
Frank Betz
Kansas
Louis Burns
Muriel
Hutchinson
Lena Galanis
Bartlesville
Cliff Burns
Waverly
Frank Woodburn
Kansas City
Shelley Burns
Rollie Thompson
Hawkins Grange
Dale
Zelma VanHorn
Grou
Orville McNish
LeRoy Pearson
Loren Gensman
Fred Kissinger
Ann
Alan Genssman
Linda McNish
Deana Barbee
Wayne Kissinger
Connie Burlingham
Linda
Joyce Pearson
Sharon Rice
Patricia
Steve Rybolt
Fred Shoemaker
S. Cedar
Madison
Wisc
Karl Shoemakers
Washington, D. C
Karl
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Federal Extension Service
University of Wisconsin
Shee-makers
Annadale Rd
Falls Church
Methodist Men’s Club
New Aid
Claron E. Benjamin
Garnett
Soil Conservation Service
Wayne Loughridge
St. Luke's Hospital
Wylie H. Gailey
M. Todd Macdonald
Bemea
Angas
Mortuary HD
Louis H. Dengel
Lamb
Sparks
Princeton
Quincy Seymour
Dick Martin
S. Main
Sun Dial
OK Photo Service
C. A. Myers & Son
Centropolia
Hoehler & Koehler
Lawrenna
Jack Nelson
Kas
Anderson County
Neill George
Nelson Madden
Glenn Riggs
Albert Stewart & Son
Harold
Franklin Co. Bale
Wilson and Locust St
Jay Stewart
North
Anna Mary Demoret
Franklin Co. Sale
Wilson
Locust St
Printy & Son
Ben Printy
Cap
M. ‘Seyutualt
Avery
N. Mata
Minnick
DODGE
Lawrence Welk
Channel
Fairbanks - Morse
Ruth Bonskowski
Durbin Plumbing
Ottawa, Kansas
Moose Lodge
Ottawa Herald
Peka
F. D. Roosevelt
U. S
Towle
Madison Jewelers
MEI At
Pagalla
Holy Bible
Star Grain & Lumber Co
4Th & Walnut
Bennett
Christmas Tree & Bell Center
N. Walnut
Bennett Creamery Co
U. 8
He Is
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Peoples National
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