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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1987
Page
8
The Department of Public Safety offers Halloween safety tips to prevent common hazards. Emphasizing daytime trick or treating, visible costumes, safe footwear, and mask considerations, it warns about risky roadways, flames, and unsafe treats while advising supervision and reporting suspicious items.
Local Forum warns readers about fraudulent genealogy businesses that mail solicitations to sell family history books. Names like Beatrice Bayley and Elizabeth Ross are cited as operatives in American Genealogies Inc. The piece urges cautious inquiry, notes high initial costs, and points to library resources in Franklin County for legitimate research. It includes sample inquiries from Reno, Nevada, about Henry Tawney and Henry David Grewell, and promotes using Ottawa Library and Kansas historical centers for verifiable records.
Ottawa Library answers readers questions by phone or in person. Topics include daylight saving time clocks set at 2 a.m. Sunday, proper quotation mark usage to protect quotes and copyright, and who painted Pinkie and Blue Boy.
Ottawan Donald H. Anderson and other Pearl Harbor Survivors Association members witnessed Governor Hayden sign a proclamation declaring December 7 1987 Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Anderson recounts his WWII service and attack experiences noting 2400 dead and 1200 wounded in the December 7 1941 raid.
Default judgment entered in Southwestern Bell Telephone Company vs Connie Blivens for $384.28 plus interest after no response. Marriage licenses list eight Ottawa couples. Divorces granted for Candace L and David C Potter. Sheriff’s news reports a 13-year-old Pomona boy’s burglary arrest. various local burglaries and attempted break-ins with losses. Public safety notes cover a service business burglary, a plexiglass window theft, and two car accidents with minor injuries. Weather: cloudy, rain chances 60 percent, highs near 60, lows around 40.
Briefs list class ring sale at Drake Jewelry pricing 64.95 and pet foods iced through October at Ottaw 0-Op. 302 N Main. Free catering by Pizza Hut Ottawa and free delivery meals 242-1212. Hair product perks at Hair Designers 242-3995. Glitter hairsprayHalloween at Kramer. Obsession for Calvin Klein and Poison Dior fragrances at Kramer Drug. Jay's Hardware hours and Sunday closure. Paper drive weekly to support Scout summer trip, pickup 242-5678. Remodeling sale items 125000 BTU furnace and AC gear 242-4930. Body Shoppe offers free demonstrations on toning and tanning. Bird seed and fertilizer at Ottawa Co-Op 302 N Main 242-5170. Williamsburg School Halloween supper Oct 31 5-7:30 with games and haunted house.
Relatives of Mrs Alpha Allison Kramer plan a graveside service at Highland Cemetery at 10 30 am Saturday Oct 24 1987 with Rev Milan Lambertson officiating Memorials to Arthritis Foundation may be left at the funeral home. Mrs Rosa Kirkwood funeral service at Trinity United Methodist Church at 2 pm Saturday Oct 24 with Rev David Petersen officiating Interment in Highland Cemetery Memorials to church may be left at church or funeral home. Mrs Ruth D Shaffer to go to Highland Cemetery for a 2 pm graveside service Monday Oct 24 Rev Jerrold Harnden officiating She will be in state at Lamb Roberts Funeral Home from 4 pm Saturday Memorials to donor's chosen charity.
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