Good Old Days Picnic Recaptures The Past
Franklin County Senior Center hosted a 146 guest Good Old Days picnic at Forest Park shelterhouse. Activities included music by Road Runners Osawatomie and DeSordo Bunch harmonicas, croquet shuffleboard and cakewalks with a noon fried chicken luncheon. Guests came from Ottawa Princeton Richmond Wellsville Pomona Beagle De Soto Osawatomie Olathe Melvern Pleasanton Pratt and more, with senior buses and local vehicles adding to the turnout. The scene echoed Chautauqua days with roses on tables and lively conversation. A 1921 picnic memory was recalled by one attendee, suggesting a strong desire for more such events.
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Carol Murphy
Franklin County Senior Center
Shelterhouse
Forest Park
Osawatomie
Road Runners
DeSord0
Princeton
Richmond
Wellsville
Pomona
Beagle
DeSoto
Olathe
Melvern
Pleasanton
Pratt
Ottawa
Fresh Coconut and a Cabbage Slaw Recipe Note
Fresh coconut is a versatile staple in the far East and today’s guide explains selecting cracking freezing and shredding coconuts. It links coconut to a light Indian cabbage slaw with lemon and onion notes and notes on serving with barbecued meat. Also lists a family notice for Callie Lyn Miller with relatives and a calendar of local club meetings for the week.
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Far East
India
Nightcrawlers Camping Club Big Weekend Meet
Five families from the Nightcrawlers Camping Club traveled to Toronto Lake for the District H1 meeting. The group hosted a hospitality area for about 400 people with lemonade and homemade cookies, held flea market sales, a Saturday potluck dinner, a business meeting, and an evening program with music and awards for field directors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nightcrawlers
Toronto Lake
Computer Tests Screen Newborn Hearing in Visalia Pilot
A volunteers built computer tests sleeping infants for deafness at Kaweah Delta in Visalia. Dr. Philip Peltzman leads the minicomputer program to diagnose early hearing loss, with pilots in Southern California and the San Francisco area.
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Visalia
Calif
Philip Peltzman
Dan Patterson
Atlanta
Patterson
Kaweah-Delta Hospital
California
San Francisco Bay Area
Peltzman
University of California
San Francisco
Pacific Telephone Co
Bell Laboratories
Telephone Pioneers
Telephone Company
Kaweah-Delta
Sierra-Pacific Telephone Pioneers
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Ottawa Herald
Ite
New Yorks
M.Y
Callie Lyn
Calvin Miller
W. 10Th
Callie
Harlan Miller
Elm
Francis Flora
Olive
Roy Miller
David Jones
First Christian Church
UMW
First United Methodist Church
F.O.A.M
Legal Secretaries Association Union Chapter
Order of Eastern Star
Wycoff Community Club
Ruth Farris
Social Order of Beauceant
Eagles
Youth Center Daughters Club of
Centropolis
Harold Simmons
Franklin County Action Group
Eckan Betta
True Kindred Christian Women’s Club
Ottawa University Student Union
Latimer
Potluck
Edward Hand
Roberta
By Dottie Wellington
Callie Miller
The
American Cancer Society
Airport Road
GE Elec
Uli
Siegler
Remington
Treadle Sen
Morris
Edison
Vada H. Mehaus
Union Chapel Umw
Don Drum
Dale Douglass
Chas. Holloran
Judy
Body Boutique
West
Waymire
Metzger’s Salvage Center
N. Main St
Kan
Lozier Center Isle
Fairbanks-Morse
Hobart
Globe-Simpson
Tyler
Hussman
Nice
Chatillon
Dayton
Toledo
Masler
Carpetmaster
Burlington
Kansas
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