Local News Briefs and Community Notices
WARREN BLACK Post 60 American Legion meets at 8 p.m. today in Memorial Auditorium. The P T A Council meets at 1 p.m. Tuesday for lunch in the Junior High School with a meeting afterward. Bernhardt's School of Dance enrolls now for BalletEco ballet tap preschool. Farming Frontiers ’68 event Wednesday Jan 10 at Memorial Auditorium with free prizes lunch show. Ottawa Tractor and Implement ad. Lamb Funeral Home seeks photos of a Lamb ambulance or hearse before 1925 or 1930. Contact CH 23550.
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Warren Black Post
American Legion
Memorial Auditorium
P.T.A. Council
Ottawa
Lamb
Lamb Funeral Home Inc
Indoor taffy pulls charm winter crowds at Mont Ida church
Reverend Ralph Loshbaugh and Mrs. Loshbaugh showcase old time taffy making at the Mont Ida Church of the Brethren. For 37 years they have taught pulling, mixing sugar corn syrup paraffin and gelatin to a hard crack stage. The process involves buttered hands, air whipped into the candy, external setting in night air, and careful cutting into chewy tide bits. Deaths
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Ralph Loshiebaugh
Mont Ida
Church of the Brethren
Loshbaugh
Scott Valley
Coffey County
Charles N Heim 55 dies. services set in Worden church
Charles N Heim 55 of Baldwin RFD 1 died January 5 in Chanute Kansas hospital. He was a retired farmer. Services at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Worden E A B Church, burial in Worden Cemetery. Surviving: brother Willard H Heim and four sisters, Mrs Beatrice E Reinke Ottawa RFD 3 and others. Minor damage report notes car collision at Mulberry and 7th.
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Charles N, Heim
Baldwin Rfd
Chanute
Kan
Worden E.A
Notice of Voter Registration and Beatrice Peck Estate Hearing
First published Jan 8 1968 notices announce voter registration open in Ottawa Kansas for residents needing to reregister or change address. Also applies to those not voting in November 1966 general election. A probate petition for final settlement of Beatrice Martin Peck estate seeks court approval of executors acts accounts and heirs with a hearing set Jan 31 1968.
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Otetawa
Kansas
State of Kansas
Franklin County
Said County
Beatrice Martin Peck
First National Bank of
Topeka
R. M. Clogston
Ottawa
Gleason, Doty and Pinet
Attys
Ottawa Herald Review Briefs for January 8, 1968
Front page note itemizes brief Ottawa items from January 8 1968. Highlights include community events, local standings, and upcoming meetings. Names of residents and organizations appear in concise notices amid general municipal updates.
Greenwood Grange Soup Supper Discusses Corporation Farming
Bob Bozworth Franklin County extension agent discussed Corporation Farming at the Greenwood Grange annual Soup Supper held at the Greenwood School. Oyster and chili soup were served and Lois Smith led children in entertainment numbers.
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Bob Bozworth
Franklin County Agricultural Extension
Greenwood Grange
Greenwood
Lois Smith
Social Security representatives visit five communities
Social Security representatives will assist with benefit claims and provide information in Garnett Osawatomie Paola Ottawa and their respective venues this week. In Garnett they will be at the VFW building from 9:30 a.m. to noon on Wednesday. In Osawatomie they will be at the American Legion Hall from 9:30 a.m. to noon on Tuesday. In Paola they will be at the Power and Light Building from 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday. In Ottawa they will be at the Youth Center at 115 W 4th from 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday.
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Garnett
VFW
Osawatomie
American Legion Hall
Paola
Power and Light
Ottawa
Youth Center
4Th
Fire forces elderly to flee seven story hotel blaze
In Philadelphia a published report says a dropped match among newspapers started a fierce fire at the Normandie Retirement Club a seven story hotel housing 325 seniors. Nine alarms summoned 500 firefighters and 75 units as flames roared through the building forcing evacuation. Fire Marshal John Doyle said John Lucy 177 whose cigarette sparked the blaze attempted to douse it before fleeing. authorities reported all residents evacuated safely.
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Philadelphia
Normandie
John Doyle
John Lucy
Lucy
Doyle
Library Notes On Outstanding Fiction Every College Student Should Read
Carnegie Free Library displays a curated list from the American Library Association highlighting novels for college-bound seniors. Read selections include My Antonia Lord of the Flies All Quiet on the Western Front How Green Was My Valley David Copperfield The Caine Mutiny Kristin Lavransdatter The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde The Way of All Flesh The Sea of Grass and more.
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Mllee
Stuent
American Library Association
Carnegie Free Library
Willa Cather
Antoneia
Planeer
Nebraska
Willliam Golding
Erich Maria Remarque
Richard Llewellyn
Green
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
England
Herman Wouk
Kristin Lavransdatter
Sigrid Undset
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dr. Jekeyll
Mr. Hyde
New Eateries On Pike To Bid For Turnpike Contract
The Kansas Turnpike Authority will take bids March 8 for a new contract to run the six restaurants and coffee shops on the turnpike. The deal could be worth about 1.5 million annually, with up to 500 thousand for renovations. The contract would start April 1, replacing Union News Co. after ten years. A Topeka meeting will set prequalification rules and the likely award date is March 11.
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Topeka
Kansas Turnpike Authority
Kansas Turnpike
Union News Co
New York
Authority
Turnpike
Funeral services for Victor Jay Perry held in town
Victor Jay Perry died January 3. Funeral services were January 6 at Dengel and Son Mortuary, with Rev. Garland Bohn officiating. Pallbearers included Glen Welch Homer Perry Benny Stinson Gene Domnanish W. David Brown and Howard Linneman. Burial followed in Princeton Cemetery. Mrs. William Kloster sang with accompaniment by Mrs. Robert Cole.
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Don Walter Risdon
Towner Chapel
Paul W. Pentz
Lee Mace
Clyde Mace
Paul Walter
Wayne Walter
George Walter
Charles Walter
John W. Jones
J. M. Kilgore
Princeton Cemetery
Dessa M, Trabert
Dessa M. Trabert
Williamsburg Methodist Church
William E. Hurtig
Frank Davis
Elston Deckeer
Millard Wren
Willard Binns
Dan B. Fogle
S. T. Thorton
Harry Hoobing
W. E. Hoobing
Luke Patty
S. T. Thornton
Mount Hope Cemetery
Williamsburg
Victor Jay Perry
Dengel and Son Mortuary
Garland Bohn
Glen Welch
Homer Perry
Benny Stinson
Gene Domnanish
W. David Brown
Howard Linneman
William Kloster
Robert Cole
Memorial Record Hubbard Frank Hubert obituary note
Memorial notice for Frederika Hubbard Franklin Hubbard lifelong Ottawa resident and widow of Samuel Rohr. He passed away this morning. Funeral services at Grace Episcopal Church Thursday at 2:00 p.m. Rev Leopold H Hoppe officiating. Interment will be in Hope Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederika Hubbard
Ash
Ottawa
Samuel Hubbard
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Lamb-Roberts
Grace Episcopal Church
Leopold Hoppe
Hope Cemetery
Grace Episcopal Church Trust Fund
Hubbard
Amherst Franklin
Emma
Jenner) Franklin
Samuel Rohrbaugh Hubbard
Harlan Constant
Hubbards Constant Lumber Co
Constant
Episcopal Churchwomen
Edward Hand
Daughters of the American Revolution
Chapter AA
P.E.O
Sisterhood
Roundabout Club
Ricks Madison
Indianapolis
Ind
Frederika (Franklin) Hubbard
Samuel Rohr
Thaugh Hubbard
Leopold H. Hoppe
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Ellis
Rev. Loshebaugh
Rev
Rev, Loshbaugh
Ninth and
Mulberry Streets
Ottawa University
the Daily Report
Henry O. Hildebrandt
Beech
Fred.l. Brandon
S. Locust
Mulberry
7Th
Richmond
Crestview Nursing Home
Flaveous Beavers
L. R. Wilkinson
Ralph Batdorf
T. T. Shelton
Nelson Briles
Edgar Baker
Paul Stineman
George Graves
Highland Cemetery
Harry Fowler
Fred Vogier
Main
Carl Meeks
Melinda Myers
Ray Johnson
King
Charles Shepherd
Los Angeles
Calif
Jay Ellis
Poplar
Lovel O’brian
Pompena
Lillian Bryant
Popelar
Martha Sundstrom
Bill Vietz
Herrington
Dawn Milchler
Richard Kesner
Terry Malott
Pomona
Laura M. Messinger
Laura Quin
S. Cedar
Lucy McKay
Willow
Denny Barnhart
Lawrence
Lennard Wray
Harold Morden
S. Mulberry
Ronald L. Small
N. Mulberry
Henry Hildebrandt
Robert L. Davis
Ronald D, Brasier
Overland Park
Terry L
Rayl
Rantoul
Kanesas
Donald R. Capper
Ottawa Herald
Library Notes
Tures
Samuel Buteler
Conrad Richter
Pike
Kansas City
Mark Herbert
Bob White Jr
Bob White Motor Co
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