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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1968
Page
3
Sunny Slope Farms Ottawa RFD 4 has qualified SPF Little Charger 1089855, a Hampshire boar, as a certified meat sire after meeting the requirement of five litters that meet Certification standards.
Open a Bellas Hess credit account now at 120 g Main Street. Advertisement.
Barb Hughes daughter of Mr and Mrs George R Hughes a molecular biology student at the University of Kansas has been nominated for a Danforth Graduate Fellowship providing up to four years of graduate study. She is a senior with a 275 GPA.
George Adkins was admitted to Wadsworth Veterans Hospital in Leavenworth on Wednesday. A Marvin Ross and The Country Gentlemen dance at VFW Hall starts at 9:00 p.m. A pop concert seeks support for the Ottawa Little Symphony with Box 555. IOOF and Rebekah Ham and Beans sells pies at Ottawa Senior High Junior Class bake sale on November 9 1968 from noon to five. Butler's Music Store advertises piano tuning.
Special pricing announced for velvet painting kits at Pomona Gift Center. Kits priced at 3.00 and 1.95, offering budget options for hobbyists and beginners seeking craft supplies.
Gary Jordan extends sincere thanks to all who voted for him and assisted his campaign for County Attorney, acknowledging support from supporters and volunteers.
Ottawa University will host about 30 underprivileged Wyandotte County children Saturday for a day of fun. The Outreach Committee will bring Bethel Neighborhood Center youths to the campus by 10 a.m. They will attend the Andrew B. Martin Soccer Tournament and the VFW parade downtown, with lunch provided by Slater Food Service in the University Union before returning home that evening.
The Franklin County Board of Realtors held its annual dinner meeting at the North American hotel with Mrs. Iva Turner presiding. Speakers included A. J. Dawson and Helen Edgerton of the Kansas Real Estate Commission and John C. Ball. Members signed to finance a single family dwelling for an Ottawa High School class under Make America Better, to give real work experience in home construction.
Hawkins Grange held a Wednesday night meeting led by the grange master with Mrs. Henry Wherry at the piano. The home economics committee reported, a potluck supper was planned for 6:30 p.m. on December 4, and members accepted an invitation to Junction Grange in Michigan Valley on October 21. The group voted to adopt a Christmas family and to send a package to Vietnam soldiers, with Mrs. Wherry, Mrs. Kissinger and Mrs. Hunter arranging mailing duties. Officers were re-elected and new officers installed: Mrs. Niehaus secretary, Niehaus steward, Darlene Rice gatekeeper, and Mrs. J. G. Lytle Pomona officer.
John Wesley Fritts of Baldwin 79 died at home this morning. Funeral at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Towner's Chapel with Rev. Leaford Gavin officiating. Burial at Woodlawn Cemetery Pomona. Surviving wife Nellie Brown two daughters nine sons two sisters and six brothers. Also notes Alva Henderson Nellie Couch Sue Wolfe Floyd Perkins Hugh Blanch Monty Hoopes Charles Rabby Carla Pence Donna Johnston Orpha Foster Eugene Hernandez James Ryan Bud McArdle Roger Kamburg Michael Davison T. J. McDonald hospital notes births and local market roundup.
Labor Spot reports a right to work group challenges a union shop contract at Hercules Inc. and about a dozen craft unions at the Sunflower Army ammunition plant in De Soto Kansas. Hercules runs the plant under a government contract and employs about 3 000 workers.
First published October 24 1968 notice to all concerned that Geneva Regene Shade widow and heir files petition in Franklin County Kansas Probate Court case No 11957 for descent determination of described real estate The S E percent of the N E quarter of Section 36 Township 16 South Range 19 East also begins at the Northeast corner of the Southwest quarter of the Northeast quarter and runs west
Funeral services for Floyd O. Perkins and John W. Fritts will be held at Towner's Chapel at 2:30 p.m. with interments in Wellsville and Woodlawn Pomona Kansas respectively. Nellie M. Coach of R Quenemo Kansas died today with arrangements incomplete and an announcement to follow.
Notices in Franklin County Kansas probate and land cases describe parcels along Marais des Cygnes River in Township 16 South Range 19 East, totaling 127 acres with 12 acres condemned for flood control. Proceedings require written defenses by November 18, 1968, in Ottawa Court. lawyers listed are Wallace & Saunders.
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