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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1967
Page
7
The Alvarado Hotel opened in 1903 serving Santa Fe Railroad passengers with a Spanish mission style complex featuring verandas patios and pools. Notable guests included Presidents Taft and Roosevelt. Regional favorites include carne azada con chili verde with beef cheddar and green chili dishes served with Spanish rice beans and warm tortillas.
A dense roster of local club events and meetings appears, listing groups such as COSMOPOLITAN Alpha chapters, BETA SIGMA PHI Exemplar and Omega Chapters, OTTAWA GARDEN Club, TOPS units, P.E.O. chapters, W.S.C.S. circles, ladies’ auxiliaries, and other civic social groups. Activities include luncheons, dinners, potlucks, programs, model meetings, recruit classes, covered dish dinners, and scheduled times at churches and community halls.
We share the pride of Mr and Mrs Fred Cook of Pomona in their oldest grandson Lt Larry Rottman an engineer in the information office of the U S Army 25th Infantry Division near Cu Chi Vietnam He is the son of Leroy and Betty Rottmann of Columbia Missouri A number of his photos appear in a recent Pictures Sunday supplement of the St Louis Post Dispatch He took them of American soldiers in his area
Lt Rottmann recounts a river crossing and bridge task near Cu Chi in Vietnam for The Bridge narrative while Wichita hosts a month long arts celebration Octoberfest at the Civic Cultural Center. Local officials highlight culture as essential to community growth and identity.
Reader tips share how to mark thread spools with ink or a razor slit for quick catching end. A wall-to-wall carpeting fix uses a small dust pan to guide paint along baseboards without staining carpet. Another reader freezes leftover soap and grates it for hand washing laundry.
Public sale of personal property announced by a seller who has quit farming. The property is located northwest of Paola on highway 68 near Pressonville, then four miles east from Ottawa area, or similar routes including Wellsville vicinity. The notice specifies the sale location and directions for bidders.
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