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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1955
Page
1
News briefs cover theater, local events, hospital updates, crimes, and public notices in Ottawa area. Includes Nightingales show at Homewood, bar exams for Wiley Morrison ton, Centropolis club fall meeting, St. Boniface dinner and bazaar, patient updates at K U Medical Center, car theft report, overtime parking fine, Navy recruiters and local visits.
The Wegeners were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Earl McFadden west of Ottawa yesterday. A district meeting of the American Cancer Society led by Mrs. W. C. Hardin was held today in Lawrence with Franklin Douglas Jefferson and Leavenworth counties represented by about twenty attendees. Also listed: Mrs. O. H. Brock’s aunt and two cousins visiting for her mother Mrs. Wesley O Connor’s funeral. Mrs. William Eyre from Dalhart Texas returned home. Mrs. Ella McHenry and daughter Pearl Kidd staying a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Charles McHenry of Kansas City to visit relatives Sunday.
Ammon Tillery aged 51 died yesterday at his home in the Pressonville area southeast of Wellsville after months of illness. Survived by mother Leah Tillery two brothers Leonard of Chicago Elmo of Ottawa and three sisters Verda Anderson Grace Tillery and Vermel Knoop. Funeral Sunday at 2 30 p.m. at Coughlin Funeral Home Wellsville with Rev J O Rennie officiating burial in Pleasant Valley cemetery.
Admitted Lam ar Ferrer from Princeton on Thursday and Jacob Kreusch of 217 S Cedar and Frank Milton Yeager from route 4 Garnett today. Dismissed Mrs Al Tucker of 421 S Locust and A Kochenower from Princeton to unspecified destination.
U S consular officials report two American civilians boarding a ship at Shanghai as part of a group of twelve detained for lack of exit permits. Emma Angelina Barry, 10, and Robert Howard Parker, 82, aboard the British freighter Hunan due in Hong Kong Sept 27. Four others are slated to depart by ship within two weeks, on various vessels bound for Hong Kong or Yokohama.
Washington reports say GOP leaders plan the 1956 campaign on the assumption that President Eisenhower will seek a second term. L. Richard Guylay and Leonard Hall voiced confidence, while Eisenhower cautioned against overcommitting to one mast as state chairmen debated the path forward.
President Eisenhower, returned from a mountain fishing trip in Denver, reportedly heard from Soviet Premier Bulganin that any plan for exchanging military blueprints must be tied to a broader disarmament program. The report frames the exchange proposal within a larger strategic context.
C A Myers & Son lists sale dates and locations across Kansas. Highlights include Elizabeth Grelschar in Richmond on Sept 27, Overbrook Livestock Sale on Sept 28, Gordon James Chester White hogs at Fair Grounds Oct 1, and Arthur Hook sale near Pomona Oct 11 with other listings around Ottawa and Pomona through Oct 13.
Market notices list Ottawa market sale one mile east on Wilgon Street every Saturday and Anderson County sale every Tuesday starting October 3. Arthur Hook listed, location one half mile north of Pomona in Kas.
Auction notices show events at Waverly Bale Pavilion every Thursday and 7s Center in Melvern area with entries for Sept 26 Eugene Fanning dairy sale four miles south two west and 4% mile south. Oct 3 Francia Fanning real estate closing out sale five miles northwest Melvern. Oct 12 Russell George Holstein registered sale 314 miles southwest of Olathe.
Three Geneseo residents died in a two car collision on a township road 72 miles northeast of Geneseo. Injured were Warren Campbell and Blane Rush. Campbell, 15, and Gary Rush were en route to Geneseo high school football practice. Campbell had won a Hereford heifer championship earlier at the state fair in Hutchinson.
A Topeka blaze last night killed thirteen Beatrice Foods Co. milk and ice cream horses when lightning struck the barn. Only one horse survived as firefighters investigated the destructive fire.
Dean Berlin is identified with Agent 109 located on 109 East Second Street and a contact phone number 386. The brief line suggests an agency or spokesperson listing with dialing details. No further context or actions are provided in the fragment.
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