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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1956
Page
1
Local notices summarize carrier pay logistics and customer cooperation for The Ottawa Herald delivery. Includes petty crime briefs, holiday travels, court actions, hospital updates, and community notices from Ottawa, Kansas.
Lewis F. Poff, 35, and Charlotte F. Highman, 27, both of Lawrence, secured a marriage license. The filing lists their full names and ages as the primary details from the record.
Hospital notes list admissions including Mrs Lillian Bayles Norma Dee James Lizzie Hanfeld and dismissals for Mrs Henry Hildebrant Mrs Thomas Poe Mrs Roy Alcorn and baby. Local sports fact notes Dick Kepley at 6 foot 8 as the tallest on NC freshman team averaging 6 foot 4. Florida bred King Hairan wins eight stake races as a 2 year old.
Funeral services for Harvey Underwood who died December 17 were conducted December 20 at McVey-Dengel Mortuary with Rev. Newell W. Razak officiating. Pallbearers included William Linden John Mallory Cleve Barnes Herb Johnson Arza Fogle and Dan Fogle. Burial followed at Oak Hill Cemetery Quenemo with Ottawa Tractor and Implement Co. employees attending.
Dartmouth posted its best football record in seven seasons in 1956 with five wins three defeats and one tie signaling a strong season for the Big Green and reflecting steady program progress.
C A Myers Sons announces sales in Centropolis Ottawa Route 4 and Lawrence Roberts Market in Lawrence and Overbrook Livestock Sales in Overbrook with dates from December 22 through January 10. Auctions include Holstein cattle dispersal by Hunt Brothers and an A E Mesenheimer Dairy sale near Overbrook.
Holstein cattle auction notices run every Wednesday at Overbrook in Anderson County with weekly sales located 14 miles west of Pomona. A quarterly Tuesday sale also appears under the county listing, serving local farmers and ranchers with cattle trading opportunities.
Gravediggers in Eastbourne exhumed the coffin of Mrs. Julia Bradnan an 85 year old widow who died in 1952 and Clara Neil Miller who died in 1955 as part of the Dr John Bodkin Adams murder investigation. Adams a 57 year old physician is charged with murdering Mrs Edith Morrell an 81 year old widow six years ago.
DeGarmo, longtime Ottawa Tractor and Implement Co. employee, buys the John Deere Agency in Olathe. The Johnson Farm Equipment Co. becomes the Olathe Farm Equipment Co. Inc. under his management. He plans to sell his Ottawa home at 908 West Sixth and relocate to Olathe.
Topeka Kansas Boys Industrial School earns high praise from Leo Hendrik King head of the Surinam government education school for boys who calls it one of the best he has ever seen reflecting its strong disciplinary and instructional standards.
Graduation exercises were held today for 233 officers completing the 14th associate course at the Command and General Staff College. Hugh M. Milton II, assistant secretary of the Army for manpower and reserve forces, delivered the speech.
King is visiting the school as part of a six month tour of the United States to observe the operation of various institutions.
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