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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1958
Page
3
Ann Landers dishes practical counsel on a caller who lied about a girlfriend to impress peers, a widow debating how to draft a will, and a married woman torn by an old flame now working as a butcher. The advice stresses honesty, clear decisions, and choosing lasting fidelity over flashy temptation.
The hospital reports multiple births including Kenton Lynn to Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Cramer of 1234 S Main weighing 4 lb 15 oz, Inda Carol to Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Kirkman Smith of Pomona at unknown weight, Leslie Page to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Samuel Gray of 1005 Cypress weighing 9 lb 2 oz, Gary Dean III to Mr. and Mrs. Gary Dean Thompson of Pomona at 7 lb 6 oz, and Jo-Jene Denise to Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Williams Roberts of RFD 4 weighing 7 lb 12 oz.
A family dinner Sunday at Mrs. Emma Denker's home honored her 80th birthday. Granddaughter Mrs. Garland Smith baked the cake. Guests included Mrs. Bertha Gerhardt, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gerhardt, Chuckie and Nancy of Netawaka, Louis W. Denker and Colleen Princeton, George Denker and Dean and Terry Pomona, J. P. Fiselein Ottawa, Garland Smith and Ricky Scranton, and Bill Kraft with Linda from the home.
Slice canned apples and canned sweet potatoes, mix with sugar and orange juice, bake together. Serve with browned link sausage for a fast, hearty meal. A simple one pan option combining fruit and potatoes with a savory sausage.
Mrs Ruth Hoopes of Elm Grove Home makers HDA shares a Cherry Chip Cookies recipe. Ingredients include shortening sugar hot water quick oatmeal brown sugar eggs flour soda vanilla cherry chips and nuts. Cream shortening and sugar add water then eggs. mix dry ingredients and nuts and chips. bake at 375 degrees for 10 to 20 minutes.
A string of weekend and weeklong social visits plus a community party highlight this report. Dee Spaulding and families visited from Kansas City while Marsha Spaulding stayed with Virginia Magers in Kansas City. Elm Grove hosted a party for Robert Lee Swank and a returning serviceman, with 165 attendees and pink and white decor. Frederick Funk of Hoisington visited Fred Funk’s grandson. The Twyman household hosted multiple relatives from Wheat Ridge, Colo., Lanings of Illinois, and Kansas City. Anna Bryan attended a Sellkne Damn[e] family reunion in Topeka with 53 relatives. Henry Alban’s Sunday guests included Chicago and Colony visitors.
Mr and Mrs H B Sawyer of Orange California were honored by their children with a surprise party for their 40th wedding anniversary at the home of daughter August Lilland. They moved to Orange 15 years ago from Ottawa and were married June 15 1918 in Wellington. Their children include Dorlis Dodrell Carolyn Speich Carolyn Sawyer Bert Sawyer Calvin and others with 12 grandchildren. Frank Anderson and Wayne Anderson are brothers of Mrs Sawyer.
A quick dessert combines instant chocolate pudding with three quarters cup coarse macaroon crumbs and half cup whipped cream folded in. Chill until firm and serve with extra whipped cream. optional quarter teaspoon almond flavoring adds a subtle note.
Wanda Sue six months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs George A Zook of 712 Pecan. She has siblings George Jr 18 months old and Barbara Ann three. Grandparents are Duane Gifford Wellsville and George F E Zook Lawrence. Great grandparents include John Baldwin Jasper Davies Ottawa Damon Highle Wellsville and Harve Gifford Derby Colo.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Johnsett and Stacey hosted a surprise party for Mr. Johnsen and his wife and the couple’s 43rd wedding anniversary. Guests included Mrs. Marie Hansen of Cordova Neb their houseguest sister in law of Mrs. Albert Johnsen and Rex Kirkland Roy Gregg and Richard Cowdin families.
A surprise dinner Sunday marked Charles Higdon's 19th birthday at the Eerl Higdon home near Homewood. Guests included Lloyd Pevier and family, Larry of Independence, Missouri, Austie Ellis and Lane, C. A. Pevier and family, Vernon Johnson and Roy of Osawatomie, Jerry Whetstone and Terry of Paolo, Charles Zook and children, Raymond Davis and family, Clarence Higdon and Everett Higdon, and Floyd, Florence, and June from Oltawe.
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