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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1955
Page
4
Mrs. Wayne Brassfield reports a daughter born at St Joseph hospital Wichita weighing seven pounds named Gayle Delson. The Browns at 618 N Pinecrest Wichita, other local births and family notices follow along with church events, marriages, travel, and social visits across Edgerton and nearby towns.
Pleasant Valley News details visits by Scott and Coffman families, extended family gatherings in Ottawa and Wellsville, guests from Colorado Springs to Modesto, a slumber party with girls from local homes, church meetings of the Presbyterian L. L. C., health updates on Harold Rodgers, and community events including a Synodical Meeting, Rebekah and Odd Fellows conventions, and a Topeka eye specialist trip. The report notes long local ties and multiple travels across Kansas and neighboring states.
New York dispatch shows Rev. Joseph A. DeLsine, a Black minister from Lake City, D C, who had been missing since a shooting Oct 10, has admitted firing twice at an automobile. A South Carolina warrant charges him with shooting assault after fleeing amid church arson and threats. He told the New York Post he acted to mark the car believed tied to threats and bricks thrown at his home.
Fulton Missouri. Arthur W. Schofield, charged with first degree murder in the 1947 slaying of Roy Eubanks at a service station south of Moberly, has a postponed trial. Schofield, 46, has been in a mental institution five years and was scheduled to go on trial Oct 25 before a judge granted the delay at his attorney’s request. He was among five men arrested. one informant was paroled after a year of a five year manslaughter term, and three others remain serving life terms. Schofield, called the trigger man, was deemed insane five years ago and committed to Fulton Hospital before being released last June and returned to Randolph County jail. the case was moved to Callaway County on venue change.
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