Down Through The Years
By Shirley Erickson
100 Years Ago
The men in charge of the sheep pens have received word that they can expect 2,300 carloads of sheep during the next 2 months. That’s a string of cars 22 miles long, figuring each car at an average of about 50 feet in length or 661,000 sheep in round numbers, basing the estimate upon the figures of 280 sheep to the car which is the capacity fixed for them. Um-Um! That’s enough sheep to keep a dozen little Bo Peeps busy for some time.
Two pen broke into the farm house of Mr. Groves just each of the Plum Creek school house, Tuesday afternoon. They secured $15 in money, a gold ring and some other articles of value. They came towards this place and the members of the C. P. A. followed them and were searching for them here. They were bold ones to enter a house in broad day-light on a highway as public and much travelled as the road from here to Paola.
City Marshal Furness caught a couple of young men in the lower yards Tuesday evening and they are in custody at the time we go to press. They were thoroughly searched but nothing was found upon them that could have been taken from the Groves place.
75 Years Ago
The Zephyr Theatre opened for the past 6 months by B. F. Churchill has been sold to Central States Theatres, subsidiary of the Commonwealth Amusement Corporation and will open Sunday as the Kansan Theatre with one of the outstanding musical picture romances of the year, “Top Hat,” starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Vaughn Mann will manage the new house.
The Past Matrons club were entertained on Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. J. D. Post with Mrs. J. L. Case assisting hostess.
Mrs. Case gave a humorous reading which brought forth hearty laughs from all present.
A guessing game was most interesting and Mrs. Maude Landis received the prize.
Following the usual jolly evening together, a delicious luncheon was served to the following: Mesdames Anna Miller, Katherine Howard, Stella McCurdy, Mary Clark, Alice Campbell, Loda Beckley, Lucy Hughes, Maude Landis, Jennie Post, Eleanor Truxall, Candace Case, Beulah Eddy, Violet Ayers, Edna Sides, Mable Beville, Bessie Lanning, Hattie Isbel, Claudia Rees, Lulu Sellars and the Misses Virginia and Carrie Haigh and little Jean Ayers.
50 Years Ago
Eighteen members of the Osage Valley Lodge No. 24, A.F. and A, M., will receive 25-year pins at special ceremonies the night of Oct. 6.
A dinner for members of the lodge will be served at 6 p. m. Past masters of the lodge will fill the chairs at degree work afterward.
Those to be awarded the 25-year pins are:
Roy Bray, W. C. Buddenhagen, Floyd Cook, Nelson Cowden, Harvey Earp, Sol Freeberg, W. R. Grunden, George Kitchen, Clarence Mooney, Rollie Pierce, Nelson S. Reppert, and Albert Barber, all of Osawatomie; Roy Crane, Cotter, Ark.; Robert Bruce Helms, Prairie Village; Karl Krumsick, Pittsburg; William Oliver, Coffeyville; John David Patriguin, Hawthorn, Calf.; and A. C. Walthall, Kansas City.
HONORMAN – John W. Martin, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Hayes L. Martin, 1145 Walnut St., Osawatomie, has been named honorman by his shipmates at the Naval Training Center.
25 Years Ago
Four decades in the grocery business will be celebrated this week at Ralph’s Food Center, 837 Walnut Ave.
It was 40 years ago this month that Ralph Platz returned from the service and started in the grocery business at his present location. Since that time he and his wife, Pearl, have continued to serve residents of the area.
An anniversary sale is under way at the store. Coffee, cider and cookies will be served throughout the day Saturday and drawings for prizes are planned for the celebration that will continue through Wednesday.
PARKER – An era is about to come to an end.
James and Elsie Wilson, custodians in the Parker and Prairie View school district for the past 18 years, will hang up their mops and brooms effective Tuesday.
The Wilsons became custodians in the Parker school district, spending most of their time in the old grade school, now the home to TRI-KO Inc., in 1969. When the Parker school district was consolidated with La Cygne and Fontana, they became custodians at what is now known as Parker Elementary School.
Over the years, the Wilsons have seen five superintendents come and go, and countless principals. But Mrs. Wilson said the biggest change she has seen over the years is the kids. “They seem to get ornerier each year,” she said.
The Wilsons, who have lived in Parker since he quit working for the railroad in 1969, said they have no big plans for their retirement years.
15 Years Ago
Omicron Mu Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi met Monday night in the home of Tricia Culbertson, 38430 Indianapolis Road, Lane with 13 members present.
The executive board meeting held recently was discussed. Some offices were combined and duties were assigned. At the next meeting, members will sign up for refreshment and hostess duties.
The Christmas trip to Branson, Mo. was discussed and plans were finalized. The youth dance will be held at the Osawatomie High School Nov. 17. Canned goods will be collected for the Osawatomie Community Food Pantry. A Halloween part will be held for members and their families Oct. 21 in the home of Penny Evans.
Carol Cooper won the traveling basket and Teri Auten received the door prize.
WAYNESVILLE, Mo. – Army Pvt. Toni J. Bush has completed basic training at Fort Leonard E. Wood. She is a daughter of Roxann and Steve Griffin of Paola, Kan. Pvt. Bush is a 1992 graduate of Prairie View High School at La Cygne, Kan.
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