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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1978
Page
6
Osawatomie city library board votes to pursue option to buy two Fifth Street lots from American State Bank and Dr. W. QO. Appenfeller for a future library site.
Two accidents Friday night led to DWI charges. Barbara May Shark 22 Princeton RFD 1 was arrested by DPS after a crash at East Wilson and Milner for DWI possession of marijuana and backing limits. She waits in Franklin County jail on bond. Mary K. Piper 19 Hassell was arrested by KHP after a crash on US-59 two miles north of Ottawa for intoxication and operating with a revoked license plate. she was released on bond. Deborah Piper 18 Russell, sister and passenger, was treated at Ransom Memorial Hospital for facial lacerations.
The library offers help at the Community Information Center. Q A Franklin County area data includes 577 square miles 369,280 acres. 335,085 farmland. 1,197 farms averaging 279.9 acres. density 36 per square mile. Arbor Day is last Friday of April April 28 this year. Humidity data from January 1976 shows varying noon levels. Basketball court dimensions range 74x42 to 94x50 feet with clearance. To write to Australia use 1601 Massachusetts Ave NW Washington DC. Tutoring available via elementary schools. Free tax prep for seniors via LASA call 242-1968 to register.
Advertisement snippets list events including a Senate candidate meet at Ottawa Junior High, a county band and oyster fry in Melvern, Elks steak night, a dance at Eagles Lodge with The Honey Creek Band, and a VFW dance with Leonard and Strangers. Also ads for appliances, TVs, fall clearance at The Clothes Hanger, milk price, bonds from Edward Jones, a free welding clinic, and subscription reminders.
Obituaries for Mrs. Jennie B. Gilman and Mrs. Hazel Ruth Haney itemize their birth, marriages, survivors, and funeral arrangements. Gilman died March 9. services set for 2 p.m. Monday at Lamb-Roberts Funeral Home Baldwin with burial at Oakwood Cemetery. Haney died March 11. services at Ruhamah Baptist Church Rantoul with burial in Princeton Cemetery. Details include prior residences, spouses, children, and numbers of grandchildren and great grandchildren.
MICHAEL FISCHER son of Mr and Mrs Leo Fischer of 1416 Elm has received a spring semester music scholarship at Pittsburg State University. MRS DELORES Morelet of Pleasanton, a former Ottawan, recovers from open heart surgery at St Luke's Hospital Kansas City MO room 134 ETTA Harford of 702 E 5th is a patient at North Kansas City Memorial Hospital room 422
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