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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1958
Page
3
Pomona Grange No 20 voted Saturday to sponsor a premium list for the Franklin County fair. It includes food crop beef clothing dairy swine and sheep champions. County Grange Picnic set for Aug 3 at Forest Park with a state Grange official to speak. Tee Cream Social at Princeton City Hall Friday at 7 30 p.m.
About 200 Santa Fe Railroad employees and families from Chanute, Holliday, Wellsville, Morris, Baldwin, Garnett, Quenemo and Pomona attended a watermelon feed at Forest Park. The event, sponsored by the railroad but arranged by the safety committee, celebrated the new eastern division electric line and safety awareness at work and play. The feed followed a power shutoff from midnight to 3 a.m. to enable line changeover, with additional feeds planned in Topeka Ottawa and Emporia. Orris Cox spoke on summer recreation. guests included Chet Gates Jack Eskridge Lloyd Ballhagen.
Gwen C. Tims, 28, was electrocuted yesterday when he stepped into a water puddle while using an electric sander on the hull of a small boat under repair in Wichita.
Miss Nelle R. Buchanan and Miss Jean Jones will be initiated tonight into Beta Pi Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi at Memorial Union University of Kansas Lawrence. Buchanan retired language professor at Ottawa University. Jones teaches at Washburn Rural High School and heads Kansas Chapter of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. James Hartshorn of Ottawa, Ottawa University graduate now doing graduate work at KU, is a chapter member.
James D. Adam 59 of Emporia and formerly Richmond died Monday at Newman Memorial Hospital after five weeks illness. Funeral at McVey Funeral Chapel Emporia with burial at Memorial Lawn Cemetery. Elmer Shea 65 retired Pomona farmer died in Osawatomie after two years ill. Funeral at Lamb Funeral Home Pomona with burial Woodlawn Cemetery Pomona. Surviving relatives listed include spouses, children and siblings. Funeral dates and locations provided.
Admitted include Miss Jessie Waddell 824 S Cedar and Mrs Grace Spencer Princeton on Tuesday. Mrs Morris Wilson 815 W 6th and Mrs Robert Lindsay Mission today. Dismissed include Mrs Brice Bredeson and baby son 737 S Cedar on Tuesday. Mrs Frances Bell 308 Ash and Elmer F Risdon 1032 S Main today.
A police meeting last night echoed with a shout of fight down the street as five of twelve officers rushed out. Harold Gumm, 39, arrested for drunkenness in the 200 block North Main, posted $50 bond and is due in Police Court July 29.
Public notices from Ottawa Kansas include an estate administration for Althea B. Teeter with B. F. Bowers named administrator with will annexed and a nine month creditor claim period. Also published is a special registration notice and a 1958 budget hearing notice from the Ottawa Board of Education with tax levies and indebtedness figures for the district.
In Kansas City an AP report describes two boys aged 6 and 9 who admitted taking $69 from Mrs. Josephine Winslow’s apartment piggy bank. Patrolman Ben Way arrested them and they explained buying ham burgers malted milks flashlights and knives and a chihuahua. The dog will be returned to the pet shop.
Otta Wa University summer session draws students to 7 am classes with many commuting from LaCygne and Mound City. Some praise early hours for fewer distractions, while others fear waking early harms evening plans. Attendance remains solid though students admit tests at dawn are challenging.
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