Rotary convention and National Guard summer training updates
Mr and Mrs R R Redmond head to New York City for Rotary International. National Guard field training dates set July 24 to August 9 for Ottawa Paola Pleasanton and Topeka units. 75 plus officers and enlisted travel by convoy of 61 vehicles to Camp Ripley Minnesota. Several local arrests and court appearances noted for speeding reckless driving and mufflers. church notices and memorial day activities listed along with community meetings and academic honors for local residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. R. Redmond
New York City
Rotary International
Ottawa
Paola
Pleasanton
Topeka National Guard
Camp Ripley
Minn
Sailor Stephen Hull reports first sea duty on USS Hancock
Stephen L. Hull son of George and Mrs Hull of RFD 2 reports aboard the aircraft carrier USS Hancock at Alameda California on May 22 for his first tour of sea duty. He attended Ottawa High School before joining the Navy. Howard W Myers of 936 S Cedar is among 10 Kansas students in Yale University's list of 2 060 degree candidates for a Doctor of Philosophy at commencement Monday June 8. Joan Roeckers of Richmond is among high school students registered for Kansas State University all state music camp June 7 14. Stock Car Races Sat Nite 7 30. Bop Custer son of Mr and Mrs Robert E Custer Lane is member of Kemper Military School 1959 graduating class Boonville Missouri and received his diploma at the 116th Kemper commencement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen L. Hull
George F. Hull
RFD 2
Hancock
Alameda
Calif
Stephen
Ottawa High School
Navy
Howard W. Myers
S. Cedar
Kansas
Yale University
Joan Roeckers
Richmond
Kansas State University
Bop Custer
Robert E. Custer
Lane
Kemper Military School
Boonville
Kemper
Ottawa Teen Posts Bond On Second Charge
An 18 year old Ottawa girl Christine Williams freed from jail on a $400 bond the second in a week after pleading innocent to disturbing the peace. The complaint filed by Mrs William Albright accuses Williams of driving and backing a car while yelling at Albright for about 20 minutes. Earlier she posted $300 bond after pleading not guilty to simple assault alleged in a separate incident involving a threat with a .25 caliber pistol. The June 4 and June 5 court dates follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Christine Williams
S. Poplar
William Albright
Mulberry
Miss Williams
Albright
Franklin County
Traffic Toll Topeka Kansas 1959 fatalities report
Kansas traffic fatalities listed by the state accident records section for 48 hours ending at 9 am today. To date in 1959 the figure stands, with comparison to the same period in 1958.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
Traffic Mishaps Mark Memorial Weekend in Area
Ottawa and Franklin County law enforcement report a quiet Memorial Day weekend with no fatalities. Two city accidents Friday and Thursday yielded major vehicle damage and minor court citations for following too closely and failing to yield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Franklin County
Sheriff’s Office
Max Gilmore
Cecil E. McAdoo
BE. Wilson
Helena E. Kramer
S. Main
Kramer
Mount Calvary Cemetery
McAdoo
Gilmore
Collins W. Mendel
Emporia
South Main
Hospital Notes Admitted and Births Reported
Hospital notes list admissions for Mrs. Pearl Lewis Burlington Saturday Glenn W. Jackson 508 S Locust Jesse Reed 118 S Oak Louis W Sundin RFD 3 Baldwin Mrs Ralph Garrett RFD 2 Wellsville Mrs Ella Johnson 211 W 7th Sunday Mrs IC Jay Milton 804 N Cedar today Births Francis Koder 418 E Logan son born Friday weight 6 lb 34 oz Mr and Mrs Ralph Shepherd Pomona daughter born Saturday weight 5 lb 13 oz Dismissals N R Fleming RFD 2 Pomona Saturday Mrs Robert Fowler and daughter Williamsburg Mrs Jay Doty and baby son Quenemo Sunday Glenn W Jackson 508 S Locust Mrs Charles Riley 819 N Main Jesse Reed 118 S Oak Mrs Francis Koder and baby son 418 E Logan today
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Lewis
Burlington
Glenn W. Jackson
S. Locust
Jesse Reed
S. Oak
Louis W. Sundin
Baldwin
Ralph Garrett
Wellsville
Ella Johnson
Jay Milton
N. Cedar
Francis Koder
E. Logan
Ralph Shepherd
Pomona
N. R. Fleming
RFD
Robert Fowler
Williamsburg
Jay Doty
Quenemo
Charles Riley
Deaths of Herman Wasmund, longtime farmer
Herman Wasmund, 71, Richmond area farmer, died at Allen County Hospital in Iola after a two week illness. Born May 7, 1887, in Nemaha County, he lived in Morris County before moving to Franklin County in 1947. Survived by widow Mabel, son Leroy, three grandchildren, brother Roy, and two sisters. Services at Towner's Chapel, burial in Four Mile Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman Wasmund
Richmond
Allen County Hospital
Iola
Nemaha County
Charess
Augusta (Sherrer) Wasmund
Morris County
Franklin County
Council Grove
Mabel Wasmund
Gas City
Leroy
Princeton
Roy
Mary Hennes
Laura Nott
Yakima
Wash
Towner's Chapel
Four-Mile
Funeral services for Fredrick B Thielen
Fredrick B Thielen died May 25. Funeral services held May 29 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church with Father Charles Brink officiating. Honorary pallbearers and active pallbearers listed. Children's choir sang. Knights of Columbus rosary observed. Burial in Mt Calvary Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fredrick B. Thielen
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Charles Brink
Len Dietrich
Ed Nolan
Jacob Wolken
Fred Malburg
Lee Barnett
R. D. Waymire
Wayne Dickerson
W. H. Salle
Lee Nichols
Lloyd Brown
Harry Gilliland
Gene Mille
Alfonso A. Mages
Francis C. Golden
Joe Servatius
Leo
Services for A. W. Long Held at McVey-Dengel Mortuary
Death of A W Long on May 26 led to services at McVey- Dengel Mortuary May 29 with Rev Thomas Ingle officiating. Pallbearers were Fred Shoemaker Emmett Taylor Clarence Keith Floyd Perkins W A Fowler and Fred Yates. LeRoy Brock sang hymns with Mrs R L Stevens. VFW Post 5901 provided military rites led by Roy Lambert P C . burial followed at Highland Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. W. Long
McVey- Dengel Mortuary
Thomas Ingle
Fred Shoemaker
Emmett Taylor
Clarence Keith
Floyd Perkins
W.A. Fowler
Fred Yates
LeRoy Brock
R. L. Stevens
V.F.W
Roy Lambert
P.C
B. B. Bruner
Highland Cemetery
Marriage Licenses For Harold L Connell And Lynda A Igel
Harold L Connell age 22 of Brooklyn Virginia and Lynda Anne Igel age 19 of Ottawa obtain a marriage license.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold L. Connell
Brooklyn, Va
Lynda Anne Igel
Ottawa
Monkeys Able and Baker to be kept under observation
Washington AP said Able and Baker two space monkeys will be kept under long term observation to detect any delayed effects from their 1,500 mile flight. Scientists reported they were not hurt and physiological changes were minimal during the mission with heart rates and respiration fluctuating as the Jupiter missile climbed and descended from 300 miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Able
Baker
Little Monkeys
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Atlantic Ocean
Elvis Presley Gets Promotion and Raise in Germany
FRANKFURT Germany AP Elvis Presley has been promoted from private first class to Specialist fourth class in the 8th Armored Division. He drives a jeep in the Scout Platoon of the 32nd Armored Battalion and received a golden eagle arm patch. His monthly pay rises from 99.37 to 122.30 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfurt
Germany
Elvis Presley
8Rd Armored Division
Elvis
32Nd Armored Batallion
Pfe
Presley
Local Market Prices and Court Case in Franklin County
Local market quotes show beans at 2.05, corn 1.05, oats 0.70, butterfat 0.50, and various poultry prices. In Franklin County Kansas a court case No 21-223 lists The Board of County Commissioners of Franklin County versus Alliance Life Insurance Company et al in district court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Batley
District Court of
Franklin County
Mansa
Board of County Commissioners of
Kansas
Alliance Life Insurance Company, Et al
Franks County land mineral rights liens compel broad bar
The Board of County Commissioners seeks a decree barring all claimants from any estate or interest in numerous Franklin County Kansas properties and mineral rights. The filing details undivided interests in oil gas and minerals across many sections and parcels from 1941 through 1949, plus multiple lots in Ottawa Wellsville Pomona and Williamsburg. The pleading requires defendants to answer by July 15 1949 or face judgment by default.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin County
Kansas
Township
Range
Township 16
Township 1632
Kangag
S.W
Middle Creek
N.W
Missouri Pacific Railway Company
Pomona
Brockway
Wellsville
Williamsburg Town Company
Williamsburg
Bartholow
City
Ottawa
City of Ottawa
Kan
University Addition
Binck
Crestview
Poeinalhy
Smith Subdivision
Board OF County Commissioners of
Margaret Kepple
Frank Hn County
Probate notices and estates hear in Ottawa Kansas 1959
Notices in Franklin County Kansas probate court announce Ralph B Logan and Ralph L Scott as administrators for Norman Lee Logan and Frank S Scott estates with nine month claim windows. Other suits include a land title suit by Earl Sink Vern Sink and Ernest Sink against Susan Looker Joshua Barnett Mary Wolf Benjamin Esterly Chas A Bunting and others seeking a quiet title and adverse claims action to be heard in Franklin County district court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of Kansas
Franklin County
Said County
Staite
Norman Lee Logan
Ralph B. ‘Logan
Ottawa
Kansas
Ralph EB. Logan
John Eb, Pirson
Aald County
Frank 8. Scott
Ralph L. Scott
Glenn C. Scott
Frank & Scott
Glenn Ccscortt
John B. Pierson
District Court of
Earl Sink
Vern Sink
Ernest Sink
Susan Looker
Joshua Barnett
Mary Wolf
Benjamin Esterly
Chas A. Bunting
W. R. Rodgers
James H. Rodgers
Mary A. Esterly
District Court
Karl ‘Sink
Plain‘tiffs
Renal Estate
Township 16
Range 19
City of
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Alphonse A. Bettele
Lawrence
North Main
Earl R. Cobb
Marlin D. Cooper
Moscow
South Sycamore
Robert R. Wadkins
Hamblin
Church of Christ
5Th and Cedar
John P. Feighner
Kansas University
Marlin M. Pierson
E. Wilson
Lawrence E. Burns
N. Main
John H. Furbay
Transworld ‘Airlines
Air World Education
Fred Thielen
John Thielen
Aaron Kepley
Gene McMillan
Lonnie Rhoades
Clara Thielen
Pete Rausch
Ralph Boaz
Lucy Muecke
Chanute
Bob Sproul
Raymond Carter
St. Paul
Roy Thiel
Effingham
Bill Hansen
Altoona
Louis Hansen
Pete Weinman
Mary Brown
Olpe
Mike Weinman
Madison
Jake Weinman
Manhattan
Bernard Mickey
Independence
Beautyland
Mozelle Gagne - Jo Riley-Bula Cummings
Board of
Franklin County Farm Bureau
County Educational Committee
Farm Bureau
John L. O’neal
State Weights and Lmeasures Department
John Hamerickhouse
Otis Ikenberry
Overbrook
Gerald Shoemaker
Wilbur Lauver
Elmer Shoemaker
C. W. Shoemaker
Rawleigh Products
Main
E. F. Risdon
Henry Gilroy
Paul Heckman
Maude Heckman
Roger Fredrikson
Sioux Falls
S. D
American Baptist Convention
Des Moines
Walter E. Hegberg
Vera Goodman
Tallymat
Ernest Hemingway
Arewell
Rock Hudson
Jennifer Jones
Vittorio DE Sica
Ranger
AE Watt
Peter Graves
Thurs. “Paratroop Command
Seahawk
Sun
Bartlett
Naughty Girl
Tonite
DE Luke
Cinemascope
Hammer Film Productions, Ltd
Technicolor
Hillcrest Drive-In
Pleasanton National
Alice E. Atchison
Willow
Mendel
Atchison
D. L. Mathias
Virgil D. Mead
Augusta
Mead
John MacDonald
M. Todd Macdonald
Herald
Macdonald
Wasmund
Princeton, Kas
Towner’'s
Karsas
Town & Country Monuments
Lidikay
Owner
P.O. Box
Flant Hills
Strong City
Swope Park
Cottonwood Falls
Sedgwick County
Cecil Cornish
Charles Brown
Roberts Rodeo
Clem McSpadden
Walter Reed Army Research Institute
Aviation Medicine
Pensacola
Allance Life Insurance Company
Teresa Allsup
A. L. Antry
Olive Antry
Burwell M. Barton
Giles D. Barton
George Wiliam Barton
John D. Barton
Robert Barton
Silas E. Barton
A. Bren
Ida Bren
James Branson
Amelia D. Brock Way
H. N. Brockway, Jr
Charles Butler
J. ¢. Butler
Joe S. Butler
Elma J. Cannady
F. 8. Cannady
Malcom Curtson
Malcom R. Carton
H. R. Conrad
Dba
Conrad Spray Painters and Decorators
James Leslie Clark
Hugh Coon
A. W. Craig
Ed Sg. Curby
Lorena Curby
Howard M
Mardell M
L. V. Devine
Frederick Richols
Carl A. Ellison
Daniel Ellison
Peter &. Ellison
Anna Emery
Charles D. Fabert
John Giesy
Gladys Gish
Goldie Gish
Henry Gish
Mildred Gish
Nelson Gish
Vida Gish
Wilbur Gish
Thomas A. Griffin
Edna Haney
A. Hargrave
Ary Har-grave
Ary
Andrew Marconett
Marie McGee
Clyde McMillan
Harlan McMillan
Harold McMillan
E. McMillan
Samuel E. McMillan
Mary J. Metskermm
Neptune
Treve
Treve Neptune (19), Mary Noe (21), Mary Peterson (19), John B. Pierson
Provident Mutual Life Ins. Co
Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company of
Philadelphia
Penn
Mabel Potter
Treta M. Prentice
Lioyidt F. Prentice
Evelyn Reynolds
W. E. Robinson
William L. Robinson
William Russell
Nancy C. Sawyer
Clarence A. Spaulding
Maxine V. Spaulding
Grace Steiger
Pete Tines
Traveler's Ins. Co
Jess Underwood
United Petroleum Corporation
Wilma Waroner
Nia Walls
Arthur Whitaker
FR. B. White
Jne White
W. KK. Whiteford
George Albert Yohe
Faye Young
Maxine V. Cox
Joseph C. Butler
Board of County Commissioners
Legals
Legal Legals
Donaly
White
C. E. Bennett
R. M. Bundy
Fabian J. Kfpple
Petitioner
Sohn RE. Pierson
Pisintifta
Bowers & Bowers
Ada
Avon
Mabel Hans
Mary Jo
Jim Kelley
Elizabeth
Paul Dietrich
Ottawa Lodge No
A.F
A.M
Loren A. Ames
W.M
Charles W. Watts
Secy
Onion
C. ES
Florence I. Windett
Jo. Tetwiler
W.M. Lavern Pence
Retta
Laverne Pence
W.C
Lola Sellers
Sec’y
Prin
Richardson
Overhill Road
Kansas City
Minsoroy
P.O
Woolworth
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