First Criminal Case in Franklin County District Court
The article reviews the district court records dating to 1861, detailing early criminal and civil cases, notes on peace bonds, a burglary and larceny case, and the first jury trial in Anderson County that moved to Franklin County. It describes later civil actions, a Supreme Court note on an Indian defendant, and a 1893 entry about the opening of a new courthouse in Ottawa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Crawford
Franklin County
Franklin County District Court
Hendricks
William H. Agnew
Anderson County
Lawrence
Minneola
Peoria City
Centropolis
Supreme Court
Christopher Eister
John T. Jones
Jones
Ottawa Creek
Gauliep Anders
Congress
Ottawa Indian Reserve
City of
Ottawa
Said
A. W. Benson
J. F. Fitzgerald
F. A. Waddle
J. A. Elwell
J. E. Elwell
Court House
Court House Square
District Court
Peoples’ National Bank
2Nd Main
Status Quo Not For Boyd By ELON TORRENCE
A soft spoken farmer from Larned Kansas holds the 1963 Kansas House speaker pro tem post. Rep Ed Boyd 37 youngest top House leader participates in leadership discussions shaping day to day deliberations. Boyd a third term veteran operates 1400 acres of grass and wheat with 50 Black Angus cattle and is buying his first own land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elon Torrence
Topeka
Larned
Kan
Ed Boyd
Charles Arthur
Boyd
Bill Fribley
Southwestern College
Kansas State University
Dust Bowl farmers turn to lime rock business in Kansas
In Pittsburg Kansas dust storms of the 1930s gave way to a new markets as Stark and Nettels convert pulverized limestone into agricultural lime and crushed rock. Their portable plant uses open pit mining to extract limestone, blast it, crush it, and ship lime and roadbed rock to fields across southeastern Kansas.
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Pittsburg
Kan
Kansas
Fied
John J.stark
Girard
George E. Nettels Jr
Rocks
Stark-Nettels Concern
Stark-Nettels
Form Youth Club At Wellsville
Wellsville youths organize a Youth Fellowship Club meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in the Wellsville Schools multipurpose room. Director Harry Johnson of Shawnee Mission leads, with temporary officers John Ferguson president Idonna Haney vice president of activity Danny Carroll VP of management Gary Whiteaker VP of publicity. Open to all junior and senior high students. first meeting moved to Monday February 11 due to a basketball game.
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Wellsville
YFC
Harry Johnson
Shawnee Mission
Wellsville Club
John Ferguson
Idonna Haney
Danny Carrow
Gary Whiteaker
Former Dean Dies at Kansas State University
Helen Moore, 68, longtime dean of women at Kansas State University and formerly at Hutchinson Junior College, died today of a heart attack. Born in Hutchinson, she taught mathematics and served as dean of women at Hutchinson High School and Hutchinson Junior College, then at K State from 1940 to 1957 before returning to part time teaching. She led roles in the Kansas Council of Women and the Kansas division of the American Association of University Women.
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Manhattan
Kan
Helen Moore
Kansas State University
Hutchinson Junior College
K-State
Kansas Council of Women
Kansas
The
American Association of University Women
Sunday School Course Attends 29 at Wellsville Church
Wellsville Baptist Church officials Leroy Price and Virginia Chesbro announce a three week Sunday School course with 29 teachers and staff attending. Participants listed include Josephine Hostetter Hazel Todd Mary Bailey Velma Christie Cal lie Hill Emery Mignot Keith Patton Lenora Millbern Harold Good Elmer DeWeese Damon Higbie T J Bivins Homer Ganong Leroy Price George Kent Gene Lesh William McLaughlin Eldon Whiteaker Clifford Good Robert Cramer Keith Chanay Jackson Dunham Linnie Tyler Rev Ganong Virginia Chesbro and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Damon Higbie, Jr
T. J. Bivins
Homer Ganong
Leroy Price
George Kent
Gene Lesh
William McLaughlin
Eldon Whiteaker
Clifford Good
Robert Cramer
Keith Chanay
Jackson Dunham
Linnie Tyler
Ganong
Virginia Chesbro
Robert Groshong
Robert Courter
Helen Cramer
Rocking Chair Talks Enduring Bank Robber Bailey
In Lansing Kansas AP story, 76 year old Harvey Bailey, famed for 1933 prison yard escape and Urschel kidnapping, paroled from Seagoville Texas returns to Lansing to resume jail sentence for a $30,000 bank robbery. He boasts about schooling in Seagoville including a public speaking course and says he enjoys rocking in a chair.
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Lansing
Kan
Kansas Penitentiary
Jack Kennedy
Harvey Bailey
Midwest
Bailey
Wilbur Underhill
Seagoville
Tex
Husband guilty in Detroit shampoo assault case
Irene Janow ski, a beautician, testified that her husband Alexander Janowski gave her a homemade shampoo of sugar salt ketchup mustard salad dressing meat sauce and macaroni. He pleaded guilty to an assault charge and faces sentencing on March 7 before Judge Arthur Koscinski.
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Detroit
Irene Janowski
Arthur Koscinski
Alexander Janowski
First Negro Undersheriff Appointed in U.S. History
Roland Mennis, 35, of Hutchinson, Kansas, named undersheriff as the first Black deputy elevated to that role in the United States. Reno County deputy for five years, he was chosen after Sheriff Charles Heidebrecht took office. Heidebrecht said he did not seek to set a precedent and called Mennis the best qualified candidate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hutchinson
Kan
National Sheriffs Association
Roland Mennis
United States
Charles Hahn Jr
Washington
Mennis
Reno
Charles Heidebrecht
Heidebrecht
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Solomon O. Thacher
Floyd H. Coffman
Fastens Robe
Herald
Republican County
George
Machine Gun) Kelly
Charles F. Urschel
Okla
Homa City
Rantoul
Lane
W. D. Allis Chalmera
John Deere
Floyd Carter
Mildred M. Higdon
Myers Bros
First National Bank
Douglas Bros
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