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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1956
Page
1
Herald readers are urged to report missing issues by phone and to call a specific local line during a 5 to 6:30 time window. Notices include car service ad details, a piano tuning contact, and a bakery offering fresh baked goods. Several local notices cover postponed meetings, new job placements, a household move and a minor fire scare, plus a traffic collision with minor injuries.
To Florida, County Commissioner and Mrs. Frank Betz leave for a two week vacation spending time in Tallahassee, Tampa, and other points. Visited by Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Roush who travel home to North Lima, Ohio after visiting friends and relatives. Liberty community club to meet Friday evening. Ottawa public school enrollment totals 2,158, down one from last week. Supt. Henry Parker reports three seniors dropped out and two new enrollments in junior high.
Mrs Abigail Ellen Sweasy of Princeton aged 86 died in Lawrence Memorial Hospital today. Widow of F W Sweasy she was the last member of her family born June 15 1870 McComb Ill and had lived in Franklin County more than 50 years. For the past six years she had been in Lawrence.
Mrs. Sweasy of Princeton survives a daughter Mrs. Clare A. Lewis. Funeral services at Lamb Funeral Home Wednesday at 2 p m with Elder C E Andrews officiating. Burial in Princeton cemetery. Dr Forrest Muriel Boff osteopath died at 58 in K U Medical Center after illness. Born July 8 1898 in Hurdland Mo he practiced in Ottawa from 1924. Survivors include daughter Mrs Fred Ferguson two grandchildren and two brothers. Funeral at Towner's Chapel tomorrow at 3 30 p m Rev Charles P Knight officiating. Burial in Highland cemetery.
Admitted Frank Kreusch route 2 Pomo na Mrs James C Frizzell Kirk wood Mo Saturday Mrs Harry Bebee Melvern Sunday Eldon Brockus Richmond today Births Mr and Mrs Burton H Fisher 723 A S Poplar son born Saturday weight 7 lb Mr and Mrs John Birger route 3 daughter born Saturday weight 6 lb 13 oz Mr and Mrs William S Bowers 635 S Main twin sons born Saturday weights 6 lb 2 oz and 5 lb 12 2 oz Mr and Mrs Harry Cathcard route 2 son born Sunday weight 9 lb 10 oz Mr and Mrs George Geiss Jr 407 S Mulberry daughter born Sunday weight 5 lb 10 oz Mr and Mrs Cecil Frieden Pomona son born today weight 6 lb 14 02 Dismissed Mrs Mary Bohnet Pomona Brian Boucek Ottawa Clive Adams 305 S Main Saturday Mrs Ralph E Miskimon Williamsburg Mrs John Seohwinn route 2 Pomona Mrs James C Frizzell Kirkwood Mo Ray Tucker 503 Willow Sunday Miss Mary A Stiles 801 S Cedar Henry Fishburn Overbrook Mrs Charles Lilly Sr 118 S Poplar Linda Jane Hamilton Vassar today
An eightfoot, 250 pound alligator named Alfred escaped from Oklahoma City's Lincoln Park Zoo reptile house into a nearby lake after crawling out through an unlocked door. Officials searched the area and urged caution while recapturing efforts continued.
Adlai E Stevenson announces an eight day campaign tour covering 11 states from Colorado to Florida. The 7 000 mile itinerary begins with a farm speech at Newton Iowa and includes stops in Kansas Missouri Indiana Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa Louisiana Florida Oklahoma and Arkansas. A Denver stop follows the Iowa leg and a Milwaukee TV address is set for September 28.
The Globe-Democrat reports that Don Faurot will retire after this season as Missouri’s head football coach and become athletic director full time. Faurot, 54, says the rumor is unconfirmed and offers no comment. He is in his 19th season and credited with inventing the split-T offense.
Larry Carson Culbertson age 19 from Olathe and Melva Dean Moser age 17 from Spring Hill obtained marriage licenses. The note mentions the USS carrier Sara toga can shift sea position up to 600 miles daily and that an average freight train today carries 66 cars.
In Formosa a typhoon lashed through the area with floods washing away lives and leaving at least four thousand homeless. News reports say five people drowned in flash floods as the storm moved on. In New Delhi President Eisenhower sent Nehru a reply regarding Suez Canal crisis proposals for Egyptian navigation treaties. Sydney’s mail strike ended with postmen back to clear a backlog of letters and parcels.
B B Showalt of Yoder Kansas Farmers Savings Bank died on his 67th birthday after being knocked from a loaded hay wagon as it passed under a tree limb at his son Russell’s farm near Walker Missouri. He formerly presided over Buhler Kansas State Bank and is survived by his widow, a daughter, and four sons. Burial is planned in Conway Kansas.
A two story Masonic Hall in Easton 12 miles northwest of Leavenworth was destroyed by fire. The upper floor housed Masonic and Eastern Star units while the ground floor contained a grocery. Firefighters from Ft Leavenworth and locals stopped the blaze from spreading to dry grass. Mrs Elva Klaus neighbor was hospitalized for shock. Cause undetermined with no loss estimate yet.
Classified brief notes indicate the Savings Bonds safe investment topic in the Herald Want Ads section, urging readers seeking secure returns to review bond offerings and related options as a concise public notice.
Lamb Funeral Home announces the death of Mrs F W Sweasy a longtime resident near Princeton. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2 P M officiated by Elder C E Andrews with interment in Princeton Cemetery.
September sales list includes Roberts Market at East 11th Street Lawrence and Fred Miller Dairy sale 11 miles east of Ottawa. Overbrook Livestock sale occurs in Overbrook on September 19. James Chester White hog sale is September 26 two miles east of Ottawa on Wilson Street with a night sale at 8 p.m. James Firestone Estate sale is at 114 northwest Centropolis on September 27.
A notice lists weekly cattle sales in Kansas including Overbrook Livestock Sale every Wednesday and Anderson County sale every Tuesday in Pomona with October 6 Hereford consignment at Paola Fair Grounds Paola Kansas. It mentions Jack Nelson contact details and dates for the Eastern Kansas sales.
Readable items show weekly Waverly Sale Pavilion sales every Thursday at Waverly Kas with notices of auctions including Albert Stewart and Son Farm Rt. 2 Ottawa and Harold 1917-1. Entries list sale dates Sept 19 H, Sept 21 Pauline Field furniture antiques at 2 miles east on 15th street, Sept 22 Franklin County Sale at Wilson and Logan streets, Sept 22 Wilson Locust sale, and Sept 24 Richard Welch auction 3 miles west of Princeton.
The Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity is described as the oldest national college fraternity open to Negroes. The piece notes that Europeans migrating to the United States under the Refugee Relief Act are largely settling in California, Illinois and New York.
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