Obituaries and public notices from Franklin County area
Multiple funeral notices and public safety items. Elma Widau of Carbondale, 84, died July 12. services set in Overbrook and Admire Cemetery. Oddis Henshaw, 91, die in Ottawa area. services in Lamb Roberts Funeral Home with burial in Highland Cemetery. Ollie Cox Baldwin, 77, died July 10. services in Baldwin with burial at Oakwood Cemetery. Frances Bones died July 8. funeral and Twilight Club notes. Admissions and dismissals at local hospitals. sheriff reports several two and three vehicle accidents with local residents named. Also bridge results and regional market quotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Widau
Carbondale
Elma Orliva Widau
Overbrook
Topeka
Greenwood-Roberts Funeral
Admire
Lyon County
Widan
Frederick and
Lydia Putnam
United Methodist Church
Alfred Widan
Betsy Hunt
Berryton
Sidney Putnam
Belpre
Ollie Fay Cox
Baldwin
Baldwin Flist United Methodist Church
Oakwood Cemetery
Henry County
Missouri
Windsor
Central Missouri State College
Warrensburg
First United Methodist Church
Evangeline Chapter No
Order of Eastern Star
William Cox
Chicago
Baldwin Dry Goods Co
Mary Steil
James Hunt
Palm Beach
Fla
Kidney Foundation
Lamb-Roberts
Frances Bones
Lamb-Roberts Funeral
Highland Cemtery
Harold E. Dungan
Twilight Club
Toby Aguirre
Richard Fritts
Delaine Heckman
Ricky Hicks
Marvin Holmes
Allen Reed
Franklin County
Sheriff’s Department
Centropolis
Leigh Raymond
Wichita
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Fourth
Walnut
Marie Raffelock
Main
Larry Braddle
Fifth and
Ash
Darren Beets
Willow
Mark Rouse
S. Ash
Third
Locust
County adds landfill compactor at regular meeting
Franklin County Commission approved a 35000 dollar compactor to reduce landfill space use funded by federal revenue sharing. They also inspected Crestview Home cooling, noting one unit under repair reducing northwest wing capacity. Tax orders 1 through 3043 issued by the county appraiser reflect vehicle tax adjustments for the year from Jan 1 to Sept 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin County Commission
Victor Warren
Crestview Home
Franklin County Appraiser
Clover Leaf 4-H Club Tour and Cookout
CLOVER Leaf 4-H Club tour begins 6 p.m. Sunday at Bill Woods farm, ending with a cookout at Jim Allen farm. Barracks 2253 WWI veterans meet and lunch at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday at L&M Buffet, followed by a business session. Evangelist Lester Roloff to speak at Calvary Baptist Church at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, with the Bo-voice girls choir from the Rebekah Home in Corpus Christi. Lori Fritts, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ewing Fritts, is hospitalized in room 217-B recovering from knee surgery. Two Ottawans chosen as delegates to the South Central Jurisdiction Conference July 13-15 in Lincoln, Neb., from the Kansas East Conference. Rev Merwin Kurtz and Floyd Coffman will attend. Conference aims to elect and assign United Methodist bishops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Woods
Jim Allen
Lester Roloff
Calvary Baptist Church
W. 7Th
Rebekah Home For Girls
Corpus Christi
Texas
Lori Fritts
Mrs. Ewing Fritts
Princeton
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Lawrence
South Central Jurisdiction
United Methodist Church
Lincoln
Neb
Merwin Kurtz
Floyd Coffman
Kansas East
United Methodist
County Court Citations for Local Offenses
Richard A. Lamberd, 44, Ottawa Rural Fire District 2, cited for running a stop sign and fined 20 dollars. Walter E. Jamison, 18, Ottawa Rural Fire District 4, cited for failing to observe a red flag and fined 10 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard A. Lamberd
Ottawa Rfd
Walter E. Jamison
Ottawa
Wall Street Gains But Faces Profit Taking Pressure
Wall Street advanced with the noon Dow up 3.28 to 1014.49 as gainers outpaced decliners on the NYSE. Traders booked profits after a 34 year closing high and a surge last Friday and Monday. Pan American World Airways led activity, up 6 percent with an 80,800 share block trading at 6 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dow
Pan American World Airways
Summer clearance and notices from local shops
Ad briefs announce summer clearance at the Clothes Hanger with tops 30 to 50 percent off and Faded Glory jeans $9 plus 20 percent off turquoise and coral jewelry. FARM Bureau members warned of a 10 percent tire price increase effective July 15. June's stores also advertising summer clearance. Princeton Radiator Shop will be closed until August 1. Pomona residents urged to contact City Hall before using oil on city streets and to obtain city permission. Register today. A. E. Coffman, Democrat candidate for county commissioner, 3rd District.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Bureau
Pomona
City Hall
Free Thursday kids film The Case of the Elevator Duck
The DPS shows a mystery comedy for children titled The Case of the Elevator Duck about Gilbert an eleven year old part time detective and a duck found in the building elevator. Free screenings run Thursdays at 2:90 through July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert
Young reporters cover Democratic National Convention in Kansas City
Two Kansas City area high school journalists LaDonna Bridges and Cathy Minor, along with four Blairstown Academy students, cover the Democratic National Convention funded by Readers Digest. They interview party figures to compile an educational packet for high school educators by September 1.3 to spark student interest in politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Kansas City
LaDonna Bridges
West Plains
Cathy Minor
Liberty
National Journalism Education Association
USD 287 Opens 1976-77 With New Leadership and Budget
Pomona Kansas USD 287 reorganized as the 1976-77 year began. Leon Winters elected president, Gale Lantis named vice president and led the first meeting. The district set monthly meeting dates, named Citizens State Bank as depository and Ottawa Times as official newspaper, and Davison as fund representative. The budget, still estimated, includes a levy increase under one mill. Board approved a Pomona Elementary Multipurpose room bid of $1,891.16 and planned a salary change to hire a full-time district office secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joanistas Pomona
U.S.D
Board of Education
Leon Winters
Cindy Montague
Winters
Gale Lantis
Citizens State Bank
Ottawa Times
W.S. Davison
Federal Fund
Nitcher
Ottawa
Pomona
Davison
Eileen Bowman
Pilot Light Ignites Fire at Cypress Street Home
Paint fumes near a stove pilot light sparked a fire at a frame house 927 Cypress St. No one was home. firefighters arrived around 2 p.m. Sunday and contained the blaze in about 30 minutes. Damage estimated at $6,000. owner named John Pacheco. No injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cypress
Odom
Ottawa Fire Department
John Pacheco
Tscene
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the Daily Report
Oddis Henshaw
Oddis Flawn Henshaw
Andrew B. Martin
Highland Cemetery
Henshaw
Springfield
William and
Nancy (Davis) O'Connor
First Baptist Church
Royal Neighbors
Thomas Wesley Henshaw
Kansas
Paul Thomas Henshaw
Aubrey Henshaw
Muldrow
Okla
Claude Fitzgerald
Valley Center
Allan Pett
Denver
Col
David Laury
Bess Brown
Orvin O'Connor
Nowata
Kansas Heart Association
Mrs
Ollie Cox Baldwin
Harve Criqui
Janet Bond
E. 7Th
Elsie Robbins
Waverly
Leo Brown
Ben Shambaugh
Walter Burgess
Gon
Clifford McCurdy
Melvern
Hazel Henderson
Williamsburg
Jesse McMickell
Tremont
Patricia L. Lantis
Jeffrey Ryssemus
S. Main
John W. Houston
Richard E. Morrow
Quentin Engelman
Morrow
Farmers Cooperative Association
Larry L. Modlin
Cooperative Association
Probate
Hiram Gordon Blunt
Rosella Birdell Nearmyer
Richard Earl Carlson
Strong City
Kan
Jacqueline Jane Beauchamp
Freda Gilmore
Gene Price
Dot Miller
Katharine McClay
Pat McKensey
Vic Fleming
Don Treflinger
Rick Mooney
Chicago Board of Trade
L&m
Le&le Vestamasl
Wall Street
Ad Briefs
Register Today
A. E. Coffman
U.S
Jedwaun Lb
Jones& Col Panne
NEW York Stock Exchange
Bevan Werte
Gali
Michael J. Esser
George Washington
Young Writers
Abdallah Temple Shriners
The
Shriners
Wyandotte County Fairgrounds
Shrine
Louisburg
Paola
Osawatomie
Wellsville
Gardner
USD
S Sales
Burlington
Recreation Commission
Andy Duffle
Savings and Loan
Pueblo
Colorado
America
Aly
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