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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1966
Page
2
Reader recalls a cross country journey eighteen years ago when four sailors entertained a mother’s 3-year-old, shared meals, and comforted the infant. The child remembers the harmonica and the sailors’ care, highlighting kind acts amid a busy trip.
Bethel No. 31, Job's Daughters, installed Jean Geiss as honored queen at a Thursday ceremony in the Masonic Temple. Anne Geiss led introductions while Cathy Shisler and Becky Reynolds joined Jean in the East as junior officers. Additional officers include Meredith Mavity as recorder and Mary Wayire as treasurer, with Susie Smith and Jana Hindere liter among Messengers. A reception followed with decorations and refreshments planned by local members.
This excerpt includes a sewing pattern notice for Misses sizes and price details, plus a Dear Heloise advice column with quick, prosaic homemaking tips. Topics cover cleaning shower door tracks with cotton balls, salad dressing on leftovers, softening rough hands with petroleum jelly, washing sponges, threading a needle, and a child’s train track idea using a hoola hoop.
Carolyn Fisher daughter of Mr and Mrs Howard Fisher was honor guest at a bridal shower held Wednesday evening. She will wed Paul E Muehring in Trinity Methodist Church Feb 10. Hostesses Mrs Eva Fleming and Mrs Ralph Basel invited classmates and mothers, friends, with Miss Fisher's former teacher present.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Simmons and Fletcher Ottawa RFD 4 hosted a Wednesday dinner. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Roy B. Church Ottawa Socialettes, Mr. and Mrs. Tilfred Simmons and Miss Olga Simmons Ottawa RFD 4, Janet Simmons Emporia, and Alvin Spiegel Overbrook.
The December births at Ransom Memorial Hospital are recorded with names and weights for several newborns. Tina Adesa Rane dall, Patricia Ann Hunt Jr., Billy Bryan Clark, Mark Noel Hill, Stephanie Sylvia Johneson, Vickie Sue Sedom, and Richard Gavin Green are listed with birth dates and weights. Christmas Day dinners feature Ottawa area families with numerous relatives visiting.
The Sue ganna WSCS Circle met Thursday evening at Mrs Denny Petersons home with the lesson Let Your Light Shine led by Mrs Carroll Kirkpatrick assisted by Mrs Peterson and Mrs Marion Coen A nursery trial plan was approved in a business session led by Mrs Donnie Peterson followed by a gift exchange and refreshments hosted by Mrs Raymond Davis and Mrs Clifford Gibson
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