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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1979
Page
3
Local notice notes Mrs. Marjorie Fisher embroidering bear faces for a handcrafted display. Bears to be used in a home-crafted creche scene and available at the bazaar alongside other stuffed animals and figures.
Fashion copy promotes Printed Pattern 4783 for Misses sizes 8 10 12 14 16 18 with 2 yards 45 inch fabric for size 12. It notes rising clothing costs and urges updating wardrobes via the new Fall Winter Pattern Catalog offering over 100 styles plus a free pattern coupon. Catalog price 1. Send $1.50 per pattern plus 35 cents mailing for first class. Include name address zip size and style number to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Ottawa Herald.
Mrs Fisher creates animal and Nativity cloth figures for a family circle and crafts quilts and Christmas items for Trinity United Methodist Church bazaar on October 26. Doors open all day with a bean dinner served 11 to 1 30 p m and 5 to 7 30 p m. Visitors are invited to browse and dine.
Mayor Paul Gaynor proclaims October 7 through 13 as National Alpha Delta Kappa Week. Sigma Chapter of Ottawa, chartered in October 1951, comprises teachers from Ottawa Central Heights Pomona Williamsburg and Overbrook with Betty Moody as president. Founders Day guest night is October 9 at Elizabeth Baker’s home.
Mrs Jerry Fritts of Ottawa RFD 4 is parent to Tracy Lyn born September 28 at Ransom Memorial Hospital weighing eight pounds eight ounces. Tracy has a brother Travis Lee age four. Grandparents Albert Schwegman Chanute and Mr and Mrs John Fritts Ottawa RFD 4. Great-grandparents Mr and Mrs Arthur Shibe 625 S Sycamore and Mr and Mrs J S Cooper Monterey California. J S Cooper also parent of son Stewart Mace born October 1 with grandparents Mr and Mrs Lee Mace Ottawa and great grandmother Ruth Bonskowski Ottawa. Chuck Bailey ECKAN weatherization director conducts six Weatherization Seminars across ECKAN counties and will hold in Franklin County 7 30 p m Tuesday at the Youth Center 115 W 4th. A brief ECKAN Franklin County Planning Board meeting will follow.
A reader asks how to stop children from abusing a prized grand piano and suggests offering alternatives. Ann Landers endorses teaching the piano is not a toy and replacing attention with creative activities. Another reader recounts blessing at a family dinner, praised as a sincere gesture. A note mentions a parenting book and a church discussion on Middle East Mosaic at First United Methodist Church in Lawrence with a 5 p.m. carry-in, 6:30 p.m. supper and 8:30 p.m. film.
Jeannie Reese was honored as Legal Secretary of the Year at a banquet for F.O.A.M. Legal Secretaries Association members in Paola. The selection followed independent judging of essays and criteria, with Bob Green writing the essay. Reese, a secretary for Tom Sachse and Bob Green, received a plaque as the eighth recipient since 1972.
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