Ruth Martin Tonsing, "April 27, 1939 to April 8, 1946," newspaper clippings, held by Linn, Dot, 2400 S.

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1943. ^ E v a n Tonsing: •"Many years ago a

CHRISTMAS PARTY
Mrs. Roy Seaton was hostess yes-
terday afterr.con to the members of
the Philamathean class and the
Dorcas class of St. Mark's Lutheran
church. A one o'clock covered dish
luncheon was served and an ex-
change of gifts was held. In con-
tests prizes were won by Mrs. W.
a. B. Winzenried and Mrs. T. J. Dun-
. ning. During a short business meet-
I ing Mrs. Albert Carr was elected
I president of the Philamathean class;
| Mrs. Winzenried, vice - president;
I Mrs. J. E. Olson, secretary, and
1 Mrs. E. P. Finic, treasurer. The
i class voted to give money to three
; of the most needy Lutheran causes.
Mrs. Winzenried has been teacher
of the class for more than 25 years.
Mrs. Paul Tonsing is the teacher of
the Dorcas class.
lad.The Kaiser Won?—
Had the Kaiser won in the last,
Fwar, on our refusal to enter the con-
flict is never pictured by those
tirj who say, the United States should
a have listened to the isolationists
i" who then opposed our entry. If
MP the Kaiser had won then wc and
our institutions would cot have
H? suffered like we will if Hitler
^ win-s. Tire Kaiser would not have
MI mistreated the Christian people
5 ' nor the Masons nor the Jews. It
° will be really terrible shc-jld Hit-
s': Icr win.
Monday, December 8, 1941.
Tcnsing's A Shoppers'
Few stores in northeast Kansas
offer a wider variety of practical
gifts for every age than Tonsing's,
S02 Commercial street.
A Globe reporter who wandered
about Evan and Bess Tonsing's
store this morning was amazed at
the unusual variety of gifts, as well
as by the reasonable prices.
For the youngest children, she
noticed linen books, and "stand-up"
elephant beads, tinkertoys, blocks
and many other items.
Especially attractive are the pic-
ture, cut-out, story and many other
types of books for older children, as
well as simple jig-saw puzzles,
blackboards, games, and other gifts
children will appreciate.
Model airplanes are especially ap-
i propriate for growing boys and girls,
• and Tcnsing's has a splendid se-
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lection, with another large ship-
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ment due the last of this week.
newspaper reporter led an exciting life,
had many strange and rough expert- i
ences and ran into quantities of welnl J
and gruesome stories. But the world
has settled down, and is more peace-
ful. Today a newspaper reporter leads
a more prosaic life."
Jimmy Tonsing has become as big
as a^ljoipsef
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For boys and girls of high school
age Tonsing's offer stationery, a
large selection of fountain pens and
pencils, books, games, puzzles, al-
bums and scrap books, magazine
subscriptions, zipper notebooks and
cases, and an almost endless va-
riety of other practical gifts.
And for adults Tonsing's provides
the largest showing of fancy sta-
tionery in this section of the state,
desk sets, fountain pens and pen-
cils, blotter sets, diaries and calen-
dars, books of every description,
games, globes, wall maps, leather
cases, and hundreds of other gifts.
Tonsing's is also showing the
largest selection of Christmas cards it jj£
in recent years, and offers prompt
imprinting service if desired.
After visiting Tonsing's, there was
no doubt in this reporter's mind that
it is really ''the store of thousand
gifts."

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WHERE KANSAS RANKS
1—Exactly in the geographical
center of the na tion.
2—First in \aiicanic ash produc-
tion.
First in deposits of native chalk.
Second in grain rorghums.
Third in salt production. —
Third in chat production.
Third in zinc output.
Fourth in oil production.
Eighth in mineral production.
Tenth in cement output.
3—Served by 9,000 miles of rail-
roads; served by over 9,000 miles
of state highways bisected by the
:a )sat number of U. S. highways.
4—Supplied with an abundance
of loyal, intelligent, American-bom
labor.
First in per capital wealth.
First in college studuits per 1,000 persons.
Fourth in percentage of high school students.
5— First in whsat, frhrofc storage and flour milling.
First in the shipment of eggs. - i:'z
Second in alfalfa.
Second in creameries. -
Fourth in meat packing.
Fifth in dressed poultry shipped. ._• t s : N>
 ft, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1939. Mr. and Mrs. Evan Tonsing and
children, Virginia and Gene, and Mrs • Mrs. p. G. Tonsing has returned
mm C. B. Hole, a faithful teacher Paul Tonsing, who are visiting Mrs.' irom Leavenworth, where she visited
of tSe Monrovia church school Bible Paul Tonsing's two sons, Robert Ton- • nw^aughter^Mrs.'"Paul Denton.
classg'was able to be back Sunday sing of Wichita and Rev. Ernest Ton-
as teacher after an absence of six sing of Wellington, and their families, MONDAY, JUNE 19, IBM.
weeka will return home this evening.
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— Mrs. Clayton Settle is here "from
WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1939. Strong City, Kas., to visit her sister
I ' TUESDAY, MAY, 9, 1939. Mrs. Paul_ Tonsing.
I . 00 .,- Rev. Horace F. Martin has resigned
I Mr", ^nd Mrs. Paul Denton, who have as president of Midland college at TUESDAY, JUNE 20 1939
beenjjjiving with Mrs. Paul Tonsing Fremont, Neb., and Rev. Charles A.
I at 3w North Terrace, have moved to Puis, pastor of a Lutheran church AUTOMOBILES STALLED
Leaviaworth. at Lawrence, Kansas, has become act-
W E D N E S D A Y , M A Y 10, 1939. ing president of the college. Rev. Puis
Oldest business men on Com-
for several years has acted like a man mercial street insist more water
T h e Martin store room in which
Matt^Walters' drug store is located who wanted Rev. Martin's job. Mean-
while, Midland is in deep trouble
ran down Commercial street
has teen a drug store since 1879. financially, and is eternally asking this afternoon than any other
Kansas and Nebraska Lutherans for time in the last forty years.
Weghesday, May 17, 1939. money. Rev. Horace F. Martin is well
known in Atchison, having been The current of water was so,
& [fcre and educated in Midland college and
Western seminary while those two
swift and so deep that automo-j
mi biles became stalled, on the
* rjreaboufcs in 1893 II become institutions were in Atchison. He will
dean of the Western seminary pavement, in the heart of the
at Fremont. He has been president town.
October, 1893: | of Midland college since 1925, and was
I a hard and intelligent worker for the Countless basements under
Midgnd college football team: Paul ! school, but lack of finances greatly
ronsjg' Rolla Kistler, Chris Hansen, ! handicapped the college during his stores are half full of water.
G7~Wg[Miller, c. E. Faulkner, J. L. presidency and before he became
Buckjj\ F - Guthrie, Harvey Fair, Roy president. Midland college moved from According to the Missouri Pacific'
KrebsPpA. Albers, John Fulton, Joe Atchison to Fremont shortly after the railroad's local dispatching office, the
Hams§ Luther Bright. ; World war. For several years after irain seemed to be localized in this im-
MerJBSers of the Oxford club (social): removal the college made progress by mediate vicinity. During the storm no
Dave^Auld. Elwyn Blair, Howard adding many departments it did not rain fell at Huron, 16 miles to the
Brynihg, Douglas Cain, Burt Cosgrove, have while in Atchison. But hard northwest. No rain was reported at
GeorgST Durgan, Claude Farwell, ITH times came along, and some of the Muscotah. The rain extended to the
galls SSale, Lee and George Hippie, Nebraska people who pledged money southward only as far as Oak Mills.
Adriaff* Holbert, Ed Jackson, Will to get the school to move to Nebraska
Johnsro, Henry King, Tom King, Perry did not pay their pledges. It is believed "Slightly Cloudy"
Seip, Charlie Weber, Grace Bliss, May- by some that if the college had re- The weather man's face was red.
belle Bayley, Mona Cain. Pearl Flet- mained in Atchison and had worked The forecast for Atchison this even-
cher, l*ljuJu_Fisk, Ruth Hetherington, as hard here as it did in Nebraska, ing was slightly cloudy and warmer.
BessieyPennell, Alice and Jessie Per- it would not be financially embar- Mr. Flora had announced before the
kins, j^Effie Symns, Annie Silliman, rassed today, storm that the rainy spell was over,
EdithtsJShulze, Maud "Smith, Mollie except for a few scattered showers.
Riggs^Lulu Taliaferro. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1939. Unheralded, the storm sprang from
__ I nowhere, struck swiftly, with a ven-
Harres Martin has moved his insur- geance, and vanished. It slipped up on
SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1939. the blind side of the weather prognos-.,
ance office to his new headquarters in
ticators. 1' "
» ' ' * T h e M a r t i n building, Fifth back of the Walters drug store. Temperature here dropped from 80 to
Uad sSimmercial, was buUt 67 years
igo. •*• - — — - SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1939. 62_. _ • _-; •_
The bluffs along the Missouri river,
NESDAY, MAY 24, 1939. His Atchison relatives have received i 'on bath sides, were covered with hail
! following the worst part of the storm.
During the remodeling of the rear ( invitations to the high school grad-;
They looked like snow covered moun-
portiosrof the ground floor of the Mar- i uation of John Maurice Tonsing, son'
tains.
gin b u y i n g at Fifth and Commercial of Luther Tonsing of Los Angeles.
>treetiiLa vent was found that Harres ] John, who is a grandson of Mrs. Paul j
VlarthBson of Governor John A. i\lar- i Tonsing, will be graduated from the
in, wfc built the building in 1880, did • Cathedral High school in Los Angeles , Saturday, June io, 1»3».
lot know existed. The vent probably • on Tuesday, June 13, at the Wilshire ^••M* " ••—•—:
jvas ufed when the basement v.s.s oc- i Ebell theater. Mrs. Ethel M. Hole, who lives near
mpieegby the press of the Atchison Monrovia and is a sister of Atchison's
Champion when Governor Martin con- TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1939.
iuctecgjt. Harres Martin will occupy a I Harres Martin and Mrs. Paul Tonsing,
Mrs. Charles Hole of Monrovia, who is recovering from a very serious ma-
room j& the rear of the first floor, jor operation in a St. Joe hospital. Her
novjng-^his insurance office from the recently underwent an operation at
St. Joseph's hospital In Kansas City, condition is somewhat Unproved, ,
>econd*-floor. The room he will vacate
apecupied by Dr. W. O. Wallace, will be brought home tomorrow.
enlarge his present quarters
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1939.
TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1939. Mrs. Charles B. Hole of Muscotah
w^ _ arrived in Atchison today from a Kan-
Hatttes Martin's new office on the sas City hospital, and will spend sev-
east Swe of the Walter's drug store cral weeks at the home of her sister
building Is about completed. mrs. P. G. Tonsing. She is making a

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ATCHISON SWEPT BYl
MOST VICIOUS STORM
IN YEARS-BIG LOSS
Wind and Hail Accompany Rain of Cloud-
burst Proportions This Afternoon—
No One Injured

MANY BUILDINGS DAMAGED

Roof of Park Bros. Transfer Co., Demolished—
Downtown Streets Swirling Torrents—Base-
ments Flooded Throughout Business Sec-
tion—Water Invades Globe Press Room.

Atchison and Atchison county was1 lashed by

a vicious rain-and-hail storm which reached cy-
clonic proportions this afternoon, a tremendous
downpour of water and ice such as has not been
seen here for years.
Streets were flooded curb to curb, and boxes j
of tea, puffed wheat, empty bottles and sign-
boards floated down Commercial street on the
crest of a volume of water which was two and
three feet deep in places.
Two plate glass windows splintered in the
Kroger grocery store at Sixth and Commercial
streets when hail machine-gunned against it. A
window gave way at the Nass grocery, Fifth and
Commercial street. Sign boards were down all
over town; trees and huge branches blocked the
streets; two billboards in West Atchison were
toppled by the high wind.
Missouri Pacific officials here said their communication
lines were down on the Northern Kansas division, hence it
could not be learned if the storm reached into the rich, ripe
wheat fields of the Central Branch territory.
They said, however, that first reports of the tremendous
storm came from Huron,?rolJing swiftly from the northwest to
the southeast. ' It struck Atchison with full force about 1:15
p. m. and lasted for more than 20 minutes. Hail Is <a Foot yThick on 'High- 8-
West windows of The Globe, althdtjgjj tightly locked and- way and Windows Are
screened, were unable to hold back th<f fury of the elements. Broken in City.' "":..-%... -:'
Water and hail poured through the cracks and crevices, flood- H
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This was true of almost every other building m Atchison, £ s t o r m w i p e d o u t crops_ ^ ^
as awed employes and businessmen stood aghast at the power a foot t h i c k o n TJ. s highway NO.
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of the sudden hurricane. 59, destroyed property and flooded
The roof of the Park Brothers Transfer Co. was complete- the streets of this city this after-
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Main street, and the rest curled up like a piece of shaving. Twenty-five minutes later it was
It was definitely established that a tremendous amount J over, and water three feet deep ran
of damage was done to the wheat crop in Atchison county and ! d o w n t h e ualley mck of commercial s
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Effingham with, equal force.

_.. , , , . . . ^street, the mam thoroughfare.
probably m adjoining sections. The about-to-be harvested gram" Residents estimated four inches of
was pelted mercilessly by the rain and hail. The storm struck_ r a i n fel1-
_„„. , . . • . , . •> Old residents were amazed at the
s e v e r i t y of t h e s t o r m M a n y of t n e m
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Motorists caught out on the highways pulled their cars to^;, frightened badly, were reported ill
the side of the road and waited—there wasn't anything else thejr"anc* in' bed f™m nervous shock fol-
could do. Great hail stones were driven through the roofs of^; lowing the storm. •J2. B
P a r t of City Spared.
some cars as if pounded by a rivet-machine. Apparently the storm struck in the
A few minutes after the bombardment the clouds vanished^; h e a r t of ^ business district. There n
to the southeast as quickly as they had come, leaving the sun 'was no damage in the west part of Ha
and only a few harmless looking clouds in the sky.
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home, 212 North Ninth street, was blown down against t h e from north to south and six miles'
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house, completely demolishing a bay window and scattering th< Ion?- u destroyed an crops in that! |
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debris through the dining room. No one was injured in thc^ ""watermelon plants were beaten to '' Q-
house, according to neighbors. J bits by the hail. Weeds six feet-tall C
Hardly an awning in the downtown district was left in-^- b>' roadsides looked as if they were j r
cut with a scythe. Wheat ready for |
tact. ^^ .the combine next Monday looked as
ThP r-pal r a t a s t r o n h e took** ™" ' ""^ if " alr eady had been cut. From
m e real catastropne COOK, WEDNESDAY> j ^ ^ . 21> I 9 3 9 C. Sego,
2000 t 0 3 0 0Plez
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place at Armour Junction. Hail IT hail on She highways near Armour .,. . jstroyed.
Sanford wheat Worrell,onGuy the Allison,
farms ofEm- L. to
sclaams he e de i cg rhot p si n tco
h epieces,
s deep ao n dn tbhee- i! J u This
n c t i o nis yesterday afternoon
a fact: There was sothat armett
much,C. Allison, Sterling Patton, Mann
PjttsSego, Plez Little, Bill Gordon
, , r o a d grader was put to work. f and William and Gordon Mor-
ground. _ ! * igan, all In the rich Missouri river; 00
T h e G l o b e c o u l d n o t a s c e r - i E v a n Tonsing: "Yesterday afternoon bottom land, was wiped out.
, . .... . . -I there were six feet of water in t h e " Clow to Tobacco Rnf.cM
t a i n c o n d i t i o n s in n e a r b y t o w n s , I basement of mv store" T„ >>.. *«U „ L ... 8
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as telephone a n d t e l e g r a p h ^ ?Z ~Z> JJV, ^directly east of Atchison on the Mis-
wires were down.
It seems that the storm was(Jfe $Mi$d$ (&{$ Wmt%SX*t$Z S?S ten Jl
local to Atchison and the Mis- WEDNESDAY". JUNE 21. 1939.
days. Those crops were destroyed.
That section is an important tobacco
souri river. The west end of producing area.
Division street did not get half- 4*/ Atchison residents thought the 1 ''
bluffs east of the city across the I
as much rain and wind as down
town Atchison.
river were covered with snow. They
'drove over there and found hail a ' I
foot deep. They scooped it up in 3
That Lasts Twenty-five ^ out to seetothe
In the Forest park region and 7 Streets. Are Flooded in a Storm m * buckets storm
show damage.
others who drove
Hail broke windows of farm dwell-
the Holder neighborhood be- Minutes, ings in the area. In Atchison twen-
yond the park very little rain /-jty-five plate glass windows were
fell. , / broken.
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The flood on Commercial U BIG DAMAGE TO CROPS ipJPlAS^SSSSiSS^
the storm was Bernard Witt, son ofS
Fred Witt, a tinner. - ". '••-• ,
street reached two-thirds up on i High Wind Carries Destruction |'^'j when
The father and son left the shop L
the storm broke. Bernard
the wheels of parked auto- Through Path Six Miles jwent back into the shop to get some**-— -J

mobiles. I plans in a desk^ and while he i w a s ^ — -

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virtual rivers on some thoroughfares, the wind tor*" roofs off of buildings and the hail broke window
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suffered a leg cut and was treated DAMAGE AT ST. JOSEPH. I1 Wvati and Wall Dry Goods com-
pa'ny at Sixth and Francis streets. K
at a physician's office. i Police reported that in answering
A Wall Wrecked by Tire. | More Than an Inch ol' Rain Tails j a burglar alarm at the St. Joseph
I)| 12 Minnies. : Tobacco company, that the base-
I A tall maple tre/" stood in the yard
'• of W. B. Levin. It blew down on the (By The Star's Otcn Service.)
ST..JOSEPH, MO., June 20.—One of
| ment there was filled with water
and that heavy stock damage would
brick dwelling, caved in the dining as
=tfc room wall and scattered bricks about I the heaviest brief rains ever' re- ' j result. i
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-J Water was eight inches deep in ' corded inin St.
the main streets. Water flooded the j; resulted
Joseph early tonight | police headquarters at Seventh and
damage that is expf cted _ Messanie streets, at the foot of a 8
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basement of the Globe and spoiled ! of
a carload of newsprint. dollars. In twelve minutes more,
than an inch of rain fell and sewers
Groceries floated down the flooded were unable to carry off j h e water.
streets and alleys. Store windows : Eighth and Felix streets, center
released displays into the streets. of the retail business district, be-
The downtown flood resulted from
a sweep of water moving southwest j
on Frederick avenue and meeting;
drainage from other hilly streets at j
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The roof of the Park Brothers came a lake that stretched across the Eighth and Felix intersection, j
Transfer company, a 2-story build- I the intersection above the curbs, At the weather observatory it was !
s ] ing, was blown in. The front of the the flood pouring into basements of said that hail stones of unusual disc I
shape measured 1U by 3-8-inch, 8
I Grodick Transfer company was de- buildings. Hundreds of cars staiied
molished.
Awnings were blown down and hubs.
in the streets, water over the wheel
The hail continued five minutes, j
Reports from Cameron, Mo., were
that four inches of rain fell within j
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3 torn by the hail. Motor cars stalled The fire department reported four : thirty minutes. Wind in the vicinity j
on flooded streets, unable to move , feet, of water in the basement of of Gower. Mo., ripped down trees
—- against the strong' current of the j the Central buiiding at Felix street j and-Unroofed barns and the hail was j
temporary rivers. i and Frederick avenue and unesti- said to have, flattened wheat and
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company, Fourth and Issdore!
streets. Water was being pumped \
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THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1939.
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A telegram received by Atehison ref- / y
atives
tives this morning
mornine- annonnced t h e3 :
s n n n n n ^ tu^ . -£s&-*
birth of a son to the Rev. and Mrs.
Ernest Tonsing of Wellington, Kas., a t -
10:35 o'clock last night. The baby
weighed five pounds and 11 ounces a t O
birth and he a n d his mother are both I O
doing fine. They are in a Wellington1 C/3
hospital. There is another child in I
the family, a little boy, two years old.'' i l '.
Rev. Tonsing is the son of Mrs. Paul 1 t 3 8
Tonsing and a brother of Evan Tons- —
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MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1939. \L£^
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ITash! Rev, and Mrs. Ernest Tonsing
iof_ Wellington, have named their new ^ Z - ^ <i
son .after Evan Tonsing, the fat uncle, j
of Atchison. b
TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1939 £
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Settle of Kansas !
City were here Sunday visiting a n aunt, S3
Mrs. Paul Tonsing, 315 North Terrace. O
Mr. Settle-works in the sports depart-
m e n t ' o f trie Kansas City Star. His
mother, Mrs. Clayton Settle of Strong
City, Kas., h a s been visiting Mrs.
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Tonsing here for a week.
IN A F E W MINUTES, THE GALE T H T T " S T R U C K ATCHISON KA'S'"
FRIDAY, JUNE .30, 1939.
\ YESTERDAY AFTERNOON RlPPED OUT PART OF THE BRXCK P R O N T OF THE
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GRODICK TRANSFER COMPANY " BUILDING AT FOURTH AND M A I N —.—..They;
, STREETS . I T WAS ONLY O N E OF THE MANY STRUCTURES DAMAGED. Hlsing nicely as a trio: Earl Westgate,,
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I Dr. Ricks, Abe T o n s i n g . - . . . »' •* -' to
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T h e Globe: H
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I Atchison's storm of last week calls to
mind two such storms years ago.
Registered U. S. Patent Office-Copyright 1939 by AulomobiU Club of Michigan
OFFICIAL P U B L I C A T I O N OF T H E AUTOMOBILE CLUB OF MICHIGAN
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The first was in June, 1887, if I re-
member right, in which there was a _VOL. XXI NO. 9 • MARCH 1939
terrific hail storm when all of the plate
glass fronts on Commercial street fac-
ing north were demolished and the
roof of nearly every building in town
-~1 was damaged.
The other storm was on June 29,
VD 1890, when every bridge across White
VO Clay creek, from west of the Missouri
Pacific shops to Sixth street, was wash-
ed out. Pour of them were lodged
against the foot of the viaduct at Sixth
street.
J. P. Perry,
oo Masonic Home, Wichita, Kas.

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Mrs. Clayton Settle, who has been
Visiting her sister, Mrs. Paul Tonsing,
left this morning for her home in
Strong City, Kas.

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f Paul Tonsing of Los Angeles is on his
way to Atchison to visit his mother,

Gene Tonsing, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Evan Tonsing, was hit by a skyrocket
the Fourth. It hurt his arm.

TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1339.

f Junior Tonsing of Los Angeles has
GOVERNOR JOINS LANSING ADVISORY GROUP
arrived for a visit with his mother, • C. L. McCuen, president of Olds Motor Governor Fitzgerald has exhibited a keeig'
IO j Mrs. Paul Tonsing. He will be here for Works and chairman of the Advisory Com-
] a week or 10 days-
Mrs. Paul Denton and her two chil-
mittee of the Automobile Club of Michi-
interest in Michigan's travel and resorT*
business and has promised every co-opera^
gan's Lansing Division, is shown welcoming tion in keeping Michigan's second largesg
dren of Leavenworth are here to visit j
oa relatives and to see her brother, Junior '• Governor Frank D. Fitzgerald as an Ad- industry at its peak. An analysis show|^
j Tonsing, who has arrived from Cali- visory Committee member. that of" the United States* $4,000,000.00<L,
I fornia. tourist industry Michigan receives §300,^
000,000 annually and it is the Governor'^,
THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1939.
THE WELLINGTON NEWS belief that the proper cultivation of t h i a
Wellington, Kansas industry will increase it to bring Michigan's^
John Levin: "When I came to At- daily income in excess of $1,000,000.
chison in 1879 the John A. Martin Saturday J-J.?- Z'7. :CCG Shown seated are Mr. McCuen and th*-
building at Mfth and Commercial Governor. Standing, from left to right, arc}
streets was being built."
THURSDAY;. JULY 20, 1939.
TONSING TO TALK James I. Herndon, Lansing manager; C. C Q
Carlton, vice-president of Motor Wheeg
Julian Tonsing, who has been visit-
ing his mother, Mrs. Paul Tonsing, j
AT UNION SERVICE1 Corporation and vice-president of the AutoBJ.
motive Safety Foundation; and Paul Marting
publisher, The State Journal. §
will leave tomorrow for his home in
Glendale, Calif. O
I Pastor of St. John Lutheran
TUESDAY, JULY 25. 1939. Church Will Speak On
8 Redecoration of the Tonsing Printejr "God's Need"
As his sermon topic, Rev. Ton- •
I
and Book store is in progress.

4 FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1939.

', .Rev. and Mrs. Pearl Mellenbruch
I and;-four daughters have arrived from
I Springfield, O., to visit her mother,
00
'Mrsf Paul Tonsing. , -
sing has chosen "God's Need." A
special anthem, "Blessed . is the
Nation," by Carrie B. 'Adams,
I
Rev. Ernest Tonsing, pastor ! "will be sung by the choir of St.
of St. John's Lutheran church, John's under the direction of
has been selected as the speaker Jesse Hangen.
for the union church service to be Hymns to be used include "All to
held Sunday evening at 8:00
Hail the Power of Jesus' Name," 00
o'clock on the third ward school "Where He Leads Me," "He
grounds. .-.-.. Leadeth Me" and "Jesus'-is Call-
 of "Wichita, his uncles, nil of
§ i Rev. W . W . O w e n , ' p r e s i d e n t !
_of the ministerial association, whom w e r e p r e s e n t .
gHvill p r e s i d e . Rev. L. F . S a r g e n t TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1339.
Swill have the scripture reading
S a n d t h e e v e n i n g p r a y e r will be Mr. and Mrs. Paul Denton have mov-
4-given by Rev. M. L. F e r g e s o n . ed back to Atchison from Leavenworth. 7 H
* R e v . Owen will pronounce the Mrs. Paul Tonsing has returned from |
1
^benediction. •
J j T h i s j s t h e f o u r t h S u n d a y of
"foinion e v e n i n g services in t h e city
;Jsw'hich will l a s t u n t i l t h e f i r s t of
ft visit with her sons, Bob Tonsing and
his family a t Wichita and the Rev. E r -
n e s t Tonsing and his family a t Wel-
lington. •
I
"^September. ,
fj ~
^1
TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1939. /r -^1
( j Rev. and Mrs. Pearl Mellenbruch, who j ' C T I O N g ^H*tM '-ll^ts
misited her mother, Mrs. Paul Tonsing, 1 THE
^ffeve returned to Springfield, O.
aaAfcg • o
CLAIM OF "SINGING" MOUSE 8
L TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1939.

Miss Virginia Tonsing is spending

fohis week with ner grandparents a t
(
\DVANCED BY LOCAL PASTOR i
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4-Nortonville. _ _ ^ _ ^ „
^WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1S39. \i
' B "If you take 1 peck ripe tomatoes
seeled and chopped), 2 dozen apples,
dozen onions (all chopped fine).
, oil all these together one hour. T h e n
f|jdd 9 teaspoons salt, 6 teaspoons
fijnnamon, 3 teaspoons cloves, 6 tea-
I
oons black pepper, 4 green peppers n
hopped fine), 1 quart vinegar, 2
f
f unds sugar. Boil all together 1 hour,
al hot, and you will have St. Louis
Fpauee. Mrs. Paul Tonsing, one of At>-
gjiison's finest women, and best cooks,
I
y
SSJ10 makes this sauce, tells us it is
Ctery, very good, and Mrs. Tonsing's
r
—'arantee is enough for us. We know
Louis sauce is "lelicious. r
MOND/W ^-uGUST 28, 1939.

QMrs. Paul Tonsing visited her d a u - j j

I
J n t e r , Mrs. Paul Denton, in Leaven-{ I
^ y r t h yesterday.
a
1
r*- ^__ n . ! to
18 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1939. **-p"
~W. C. Jacobs: "In the old-time notes [ |
8
i ^ T h e Globe this week someone asked
fiere t h e old Challiss feed mill was o
uated. The Atchison Specialty Co.
Berry Hatchery buildings east of
aaha Junction are on the site of
Challiss mill." •**»«-*-* ji*

| H E WELLINGTON NEWS (
"_ Wellington, Kansas r
2 .—,
fflonelay, September 18, 1939 I
i l e r e For Baptism
5 T h e i n f a n t son of Rev. and Mrs.
QSrnest Tonsing^ E v a n Alva, w a s
b a p t i z e d a t t h e 1 1 : 0 0 o'clock w o r -
ship service S u n d a y ^ m o r n i n g a t
t. J o h n ' s L u t h e r a n church, w i t h
e b a b y ' s f a t h e r officiating. T h e
„ iild wore t h e same dress in which
Ibis m a t e r n a l great-grandmother
*was baptized. H e w a s t h e eighth
T<hild to be baptized in it.
-> T h e b a b y ' s sponsors w e r e Mrs.
jJYed P e t e r s o n of F a l u n and Mrs.
P a u l T o n s i n g of ; Atchison,
g r a n d m o t h e r s , , ajjt* -Evan T o n s i n g
^^y§Pa3a^SK96?^. : T<)nsing
REV. DR. PAUL H. M E L L E N B R U C H AND
To Walt Disney of the ani-
mated cinema belongs the
power to m a k e animals per-
form like h u m a n beings.
And now comes the Rev. Dr.
P a u l H. Mellenbruch, pastor of
t h e Third L u t h e r a n Church,
advancing the claim of a "sing-
ing" mouse.
W i t h some distrust of any-
his t h i n g t h a t pertains to the ro-
d e n t family, particularly mice,
I paid a visit to t h e Mellen-
bruch residence, •21s-W. Mc-
8
I
MOUSE
Creight av., las£~week 16 find '< 9
out more about this Ripley
wonder of the mouse family. o
Dr. Mellenbruch told me E
I
t h a t the mouse keeps the fam- ;
ily awake a t nights by its
continual singing, which r e -
sembles something between the
chirp of a cricket and the f
K>
notes of a canary. ! ' - , -
00
So into t h e dining room of
f t h e Mellenbruch; residence I,<
walked,., hopeful of a concert.,.
louse.- . I
 There I found that Dr. Mel- Mrs. Mary Zimmerman, 90, beloved
lenbruch had gone t o . the i presentation of the lesson was most
resident of ^Doniphan county who was I inspiring. A lovely feature of the pro-
trouble of making a nice wire
rtj | known t o h e r intimate friends as gram was t h e jinjing of "Silent Night"
cage for the mouse.
jin German by Mrs. Albert Carr and
But a long w a i t for the ™ ' "Molly Tilart" arid "Aunt Molly," died
shortly after 7 o'clock this morning Mrs. S. A. Hamrick. There was an a t -
mouse to burst into song pro- at her home five miles south of Troy tendance of 26 at the meeting with
duced nary a sound . . . all on highway 7 following a long illness. Mrs. Floyd Hundley as a new member.
t h a t resulted was the mouse T h e annual election of officers was
She was t h e widow of Dr. Martin Zim-
jumping up and down in his field and t h e new officers are: Mrs.
merman, pioneer physician and farmer Leslie Long, president; Mrs. Carl
cage.
of Doniphan county whose death oc- Brown, vice-president: Mrs. Paul Ton-
However, Dr. Mellenbruch
assured me - t h a t the mouse curred 40 years ago. Funeral arrange- sing, statistical secretary; and Mrs.
does its best singing after ments are pending. Albert Carr and Mrs. Fied Piatt, r e -
d a r k when all is quiet in the Matter-of-fact, shrewd and indus- elected treasurer and recording sec-
;
household. trious, Mrs. Zimmerman was a r e a l retary respectively. Mrs. Winr.enreid
Dr. Mellenbruch was as rugged individualist. She died on the served dainty refreshments, assisted by
much embarrassed as the farm where she went as a bride and ! her sister, Mrs. Ed Olson.
mouse, and no amount of spent more t h a n 70 years of her life. ]
wheedling, talk, feeding or In spite of her age she kept her own FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1939.
anything else could make t h a t home, ran the farm, milked a cow and
- mouse "sing." The pastor told did all the feeding summer and winter T h e Rev. and Mrs. Ernest Tonsing
me t h a t the mouse had been without assistance. She always h a d [and clvldren of Wellington, Kas., are
caught in his home several from 350 to 500 chickens and a large ! visaing Rev. Tonsing's irother, Mrs.
number of hogs. Each year she pro- i Paul G. Tonsing, at her home on North
weeks ago, after the family
duced several acres of tobacco.. Terrace,
for some weeks had heard a
strange singing noise and t h a t Because of her unusual personality
when the mouse was caught she had been invited on two occasions
to speak over "We. the People," a r a - i SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1939.
it was found said noise came
therefrom. dio program on a nation-wide hook-up,
but both times something interfered. T h e Rev and Mrs. Ernest Tonsii.g
I had returned to the office and children returned to their home
She had told friends that she hoped
b u t a short time, when Dr. in Wellington, Kas., last evening afler I
to go to New York sometime to appear ;
Mellenbruch called me over on the program and if she did she ja visit with their Aichison relatives.!
t h e telephone and said very WOUkl make the trip by plane.
;
Rev. Tonsing's sister. Mrs. Paul Denton, j
excitedly t h a t t h e mouse was
Mrs. Zimmerman, whose maiden | and her children accompanied them
singing and asked me to listen. name was Mary White, was born a t home for a visit over New Year's.
: I did and heard some kind of Savannah, Mo., September 20, 1849.
sounds which the minister said When she was six years old her par-
were coming from his "sing- ents moved to western Kansas where
ing" mouse. her mother died when Mary was 12.
She was sent to St. Mary's convent a t
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1339. Leavenworth to be educated. Three
j Perhaps t h e hardest working m a n In years later she went to live with rela-
<t% " t Thus
] Atchison Is Abe Tonsing.. tives, Mr. and Mrs. Reggie Stout, on a
farm just east of Troy. (l
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1939. In 1864 she was married—when only ^ ~n—"" r W>
Evan Tonsing h a d a birthday last 15 — to Dr. Martin Lutheran Zim-
Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Tonsing merman a t the Presbyterian church in
entertained with a kin dinner in his Troy.
honor. T h e guests were Mr. and Mrs. There are no immediate survivors.
Clarence Moyer and daughter, Lola, Her son, J o h n P. Zimmerman, who
from Nortonville, and three of t h e lived on an adjoining farm, died three
Moyer grandchildren, Margaret Ann, years ago. and a daughter, Helen, died
Clarence and Bobby Moyer; Mr. and , a t an early age.
*
REV. E R N E S T F. T O N S I N G
Sunflower Seed* g
Mrs. Paul Denton and children, P a u l !
Ernest and Dorothy Joan, and Mr. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1939.
Tonsing's mother, Mrs. Paul Tonsing. — — WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1940.
A delicious dinner was served with a n Rev. E r n e s t Tonsing of Wellington (
appropriate birthday cake and candles, recently was elected president of t h e Abe Tonsing has a g. g.
Southern K a n s a s conference of t h e FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1940.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 28, 1939. K a n s a s L u t h e r a n Synod, U. L. C.
Mrs. Paul Denton and children have
FOB SALE CHEAP—Boys' books, suitable TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1939. returned from Wellington, Kas., where
for scout library. Mrs. Paul Tonsing. 313 g . they visited Mrs. Denton's brother, the
North Terrace. 65 H E R E A N D May, 1894 {[Rev. Ernest Tonsing, and family.
W h a t L. C. ChaUSTToIcTTlW
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1939. H E R E A B O U T S Globe: One time he had $960,-
MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1940.
IN 1894 000 on deposit in a New York _
bank. He intended to retire Certificates were presented in Sundag'l
when h e increased t h a t amount to $1,000,000. But school to those having established afc-

'Aunt Molly' while trying to make t h a t last $40,000 he lost $960,- tendance records: 20 years. Dr. C. E=
000
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1939.
Hixon and Grace See; 17 years, Evely^J
Mangelsdorw; 13 years, George ManS

Dies At Troy i Yesterday afternoon Mrs. W. B . Win-

'renreid e n t e r t a i n e d t h e Women's Mis-
sionary society of St. Mark's Lutheran
gelsdorf; 12 years, Mrs. W. B. WinzenS
reid; 10 years, Robert, Milton and D o i £ .
aid Chew; 5 years, Gene Tonsing a n m
Rose Mary Blohm; 4 years, Mrs. J. Brj
Beloved Resident church a t h e r home. Mrs. Harry Giles, Herndon and Marie R u t h Blohm; gq
1 vice president, conducted t i e business years, Ernest Nestler, Mrs. Paul Tonsing
Of D o n i p h a n County.
session a n d Mrs. Leslie Long presented a n d Charlotte Schmidt; 1 year, Nell
Succumbs Today the lesson. T h e program centered Darlene Schmidt; Walter Tschorn, jr.,
around t h e birth of Christ. Christmas Doris Tschorn, Charles Kaufman, Mrs.
h y m n s were sung a n d tAxs. Long's J . M. Schott, Frederick Schmidt, Betty
LoiWBlohm. John Carl Scnmiat, vir- J of this section, a n a his talk made
Sinfi Tonsing. Evan W. Tonsing. Wal-
ter STschorn and Beulah Biohm.
FRJX>AY, JANUARY 19, 19-3.
Challiss very enthusiastic about the
proper town (of Atchison). Abell told I
FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1940. A Church Convention
Challiss t h a t the site of Atchison was
farther west t h a n any other point on
the Missouri river, therefore nearer 1
Eaith and Clayton Settle of Chase
ooigty to Harres C. Martin for $1 and Here In April the opening settlements, and certainly
would become headquarters for t h e H
trjgr consideration—North 90 feet of A The sevenlhy-eighth annual conven- , stage and overland freighting lines^,
I
ihe^east half of lot 1, block 16, Old
AtiJJiison. Same property described from
Graee M. and George J. Mauck to Har-
tion of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod
of K a n s a s and adjacent states v.1H be
e&jMartin for $1 and other considera- •* held E.: St. M a r k s Lutheran church
:ioR Same property from Paul A. Mar-
' a n d later for the Pacific railroad.
All these claims were eventually vin- <
-cheated, except t h a t the railroad (Cen-<-
tral Branch) from Atchison west was
I
here April 1. 2. 3 and 4. not in competent hands, and stopped
in%>r $1 and other consideration. Same v Several hundred Lutherans from out on the prairie instead of being ex- k 3.
onjj^rty from Ethel M. and Charles B . churches in Kansas, western Missouri. tended on to t h e mountains; Whereas
riole to Harres Martin for SI and other and Oklahoma will attend the conven- ;
the Union Pacfic from Omaha was I
rorJBderation. Same property from tion. pushed on to meet the Central Paci- "
»—*
rtiH* M. Tonsing to Harres Martin for v©
:
1 ^ d other consideration. I Twc auxiliaries of the synod the :fiC. u>
| Women's Missionary society and the Atchison had ft railroad (The Han- g
=i Mer.s Brotherhood, will also meet here ininal & St. Joe extension from St. Joe) 8
> MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1940. ' curing the synodical gathering.
-33
=• Preliminary details of :he conven-
ifrom the east before either O m a h a , , . >
Kansas City or Leavenworth, but t h e
cgaul Denton, jr.. has about recov- .cr.s were arranged at 2 meeting of boomers of t h e Atchison road to the
ered. He had his tonsils taken out. .he synodical executive committee a; west became discouraged, or quarreled. ( 00
TopekA, yesterday. or r a n out of money, and Atchison did"'
The Rev. S. A. Hamrick. pastor c: St. not become the terminal of a Atchison
& WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1940
. Mark's and Evan Tonsing attended the to the Pacific railroad.
- Toptka meeting.
^ F r o m The Globe of July 16. 1894: T h e Rev. Andreas Bard. D. D.. p a s - 9
George T. Challiss says the site of
5«The oldest inhabitant of Atchison to- tor o; the large St. Mark's church in
,§iy probably is J. G. Morrow, general- K a n s a s City, is president of the Lu- Atchison orginally was a brush patch. -
When he arrived on the site in Aug- •8
JS known as GranviJ.'e Morrow.
.rtMr. Morrow came to Atchison April
; 5J 1854. two months before Kansas was
'.herar, synod, and will preside over the ust, 1854, the ferry landed near Geo-
Convention here in April. rge Millions claim cabin, on the pres-
I
,B»en to settlement. At t h a t time George ent site of the B. & M. round house
Evan Tonsing: "Going to Topeka 11 (north of t h e foot of Commercial
L S . Million ran a saloon in a little log .( 33
fgianty at the foot of Atchison street, C yesterday w
morning on the train, w eLi i 's, s l r e•"
tj
33
ere stalled by a snowdrift on
W h e r e his ferry landed; and Sam Dick- the 11 AAbell offered Challiss
b e l l offered Challiss a lot if he
H&n had a claim shanty near Dickson's tracks at Nortonville and had to wait|J would build a store, and Challiss pick- .
[Spring in South Atchison. Sam Dickson for the snowplow. It was 16 below at y
led a lot at the foot of Commercial sr
l&t the time was really the only man on the depot there." I street, as already stated.
£e Atchison town siie. as Million lived £.
! Challiss t h e n went to Rushville, and 1 a.
,-here East Atchison now is. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1940. ! there bought cottonwood lumber at a
(—iMr. Morrow at once went to work for isawr mill, for the new store he was tr.
tfieorge Million, assisting in operating I Very early local history, as related j start at Atchison. He had but S4.50 in
She ferry boat. I n the spring of 1855" by T h e Globe's historical edition of money, so he wrote to his brother,
r. Morrow and John Alcorn tstablish- July 16, 1894: Luther, at Boonville, M o , for $150.
a horse power ferry on the river. Luther sent t h e money. George T.
fSoon after D a n and Louis Burnes and T h a t p a r t of Missouri adjacent to- Challiss then hired a Rushville carpen- a
teeorge Million were partners with Mr. Atchison, Kansas, was settled in ;1C3. 'I ter, and soon work was started on the
&Iorrow in operating the ferry, the William Kyle, with whom the writer -1 second' building in Atchison. ChalT.'ss
OLouis Burnes." of this talked recently, has lived on and the carpenter camped under an O
O
0/5 I n 1857 Mr. Morrow became captain t h e same farm near I a t a n fifty-five elm tree while the building was being C/3
t h e steam ferry, "Ida." owned by the •years. Mr. Kyle's father located there t1 constructed.
halliss. He held that job eight years, in 1839, by which time nearly every T h e house was enclosed September
en he went to Brownsville, Pa., and quarter section was occupied by a set- 29, 1854. Challiss had ordered a stock
ere built the transfer beat, "William j tier. William Kyle heard his father - :
of goods—dry goods from Boonville
B
isborne," and brought t h a t craft to say the very first, settlers came in 1838
Bvtchison. On being brought to Atchison j and groceries from Weston, Mo. When
••that boat was loaded with steel rails, to t h e goods arrived a t Atchison, on a
T h e second house built in Atchison steamboat, " F . X. Aubry." Challiss was
|j%e used in constructing the Central
was a Cottonwood store building, 20X- broke again, and h a d to pay the
oferanch. T h a t boat was the ferry t h a t
p a r r i e d the first Central Branch loco- 40 feet, a t t h e loot of Commercial freight bill with money he borrowed
fjiotive across the Missouri river here. street, (as stated previously, the first from his carpenter and from George
*r In 1869 Captain Morrow began farm- building was George Million's shanty) Million, t h e ferry man.
| » n g in the Missouri bottoms opposite T h e second building was built by Geo- Challiss' store did a big business s
^ . t c h i s o n . He now owns 1,200 acres there, rge T. Challiss.
g i n 25 years he has never failed to raise

(i>tchison county.
I n the spring of 1854 George T.
from the start. He kept travelers over
night; they slept on blankets from
* a crop. He also owns two farms in Challiss and Luther C. Challiss were/i t h e stock, and Challiss charged t h e m
clerking in a dry goods store in Boon- £j $2 a night. If t h e travelers were h u n -
Mr. Morrow's recollection is t h a t the •viile, Mo. T h a t year George T. Chal- gry. Challiss cooked canned cove oys-
I3
first store in Atchison was operated by '.liss came to Weston, Mo., by boat. At ters and charged another dollar. He
m a n named Steve Johnson, who came Weston h e met P. T. Abell, who said charged 25 cents a drink for whisky
rom Platte City, Mo., and who built a h e , Abell, was president of a company t h a t cost him 40" cents a gallon. During
Klog house near the corner of Fourth and • t h a t would build a town in Kansas. t h e winter of 1854-55 Challis was able t o
3 Commercial streets. Mr. Morrow has al- T h e next day Abell brought Challiss pay all his debts, and h a d a thousand
ii ways understood t h a t George Million ito t h e site of Atchison in a buggy; dollars over. :
™ had a flat boat here late in the forties. 'they crossed t h e river here or George George Million, the ferry man, was a
>} Mr. Morrow was born in Wayne coun- Million's ferry. Even a t t h a t time the famous seven-up player, and was wor-
•—ty, Ky., J u n e 27, 1827, on a farm. I n members of the town company had a- ried because Lee Oldham, of Weston,
£21874 he was married to Miss Sarah J. greed to n a m e the new town in honor claimed to be a better player than;;
• George, of Cass county, Mo. Robert ;of David Atchison, Missouri senator. Million. I t was arranged to have Mil-'.
George, t h e first engineer of the ferry j P. T. Abell was probably the gxeat- lion and Oldham to play a m a t c h in]
boat, "William Osborne," was Mrs. Mor- I est "boomer" ever known in the history Challiss' store^hCTe^The games were;j
row's brother. •;
 to be played for $20 per game un «*.^.
points. Came the night. Challiss had
agreed to keep up the fires and lights,
and receive $1 per game.
The next morning both Million and of July 16, 1894:
Oldham were losers, but Challiss was
$72 ahead. In the total count, Old-
ham, of Weston, beat Million by three 1856, and went into partnership with
games.. ^ Q his brother, George T. Challiss, mer-
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1940.
| partnership, and George T. Challiss
An item, or two: Evan Tonsing's
linotype machine will soon be 40 years clerk.
old but still does excellent work
! From The Gobe's historical edition of
July 16, 1894:
The second stock of merchandise in
Atchison was put in by Sam Dickson,
now of St. Joe. The stock was installed
in a shanty on the river, east of the
Challiss store, which was Atchison's
first store. Dickson started his store in
the fall of 1855. At the same time a
postoffice was established, with J. H.
Blossingame as postmaster. He left
Atchison the next fall, and Henry Ad-
doms became Atchison's second post-
master. This statement is on the au-
thority of George T. Challiss, and cor- j
rects the common opinion that Addoms i
was the first postmaster.
The first newspaper in Atchison was I
the "Squatter Sovereign," and was es- !
tablished in 1855, by Dr. Stringfellow j
and Bob Kelley. The newspaper office
was on the present site of the Ogden
block.
The third store in Atchison was start-
ed by Berry Davenport, who is still a
familiar figure in Atchison (1894). The
store was opened in the spring of 1856,
by which time Atchison probably had
fifty houses. This is the estimate of Mrs.
George T. Challiss. who arrived In
Atchison in June, 1856. Her father was
John Bennett, who is credited with
having saved Pardee Butler.
Butler was a real abolitionist, and of-
ten came to town from his farm at Par-
dee. He was a free spoken man, and the
southern element which then predom-
inated Atchison seized him, put him on
a raft and "sent him down the river. -
George T. Challiss says the raft was a i
safe one, and was stocked with provi-
sions.
Butler managed to land safely at
Sumner. In about a month he came
back to Atchison, although warned not
to do so. Then Graff Tomasson, a big host pastor of the Lutheran convention
Missourian who ran a saw mill near the being held in Atchison this week.
site of the present B. & M. round house,
pulled Butler out of his buggy, and took
him to a building at the northeast cor-
ner of Third and Commercial streets,
where a lot of fierce South Carolian-
ians had collected. The building was
then occupied by the postoffice. The
South Carolinians were for hanging j
Butler, but John Bennett, also a south- !
em man, plead for Butler's life. Finally j
Butler was stripped naked, was smear- !
ed with tar, was covered with cotton |
batting, and was then allowed to leave j
town in his buggy. George Challiss wit- I
nessed the entire proceedings, and says
Butler was the Aoolest man in the par-
ty, although his life was in the greatest
danger.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1940.
| Prom The Globe's historical edition
Luther Challiss came to Atchison In
chant.
A few months later they dissolved
built another store at Fourth and Com-
mercial streets. S. C. King was his first
Carr & Headley, the lawyers, were
also here in 1856. So were P. T. Abell
and family.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1940.
Tonsing's Printery received what
appears to be a forged check for $8,
police were informed Saturday. The
check was cashed by a colored woman
about 40 years old, wearing a brown
coat, and was signed by George Irving,
payable to Madge Irving.
MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1940.
~JZ ~ ^ ~
' [f OS* I BSTOf
The Rev. Sam Hamrick, above, is the
Fifth Time Here
When the seventy-second an-
nual convention of the Synod of
Kansas and Adjacent States
opens tonight in St. Mark's Luth-
eran church, Sixth and Park
streets, it will be the fifth time
that this synod has been a guest
of St. Mark's.
The synod was organized in To-
peka in 1868, and the second con-
vention was held here early in
1869, with the Rev. M. G. Boyer
as president.
Later conventions were held
here in 1889, 1899 and 1920.
I
The 1872 convention was held
at Monrovia, Kas., 15 miles west
of Atchison, where a flourishing
Lutheran congregation was in
existence at that time.
FRIDAY, APRIL 5. 1940. H
. o
• p
If there is a harder worker than Evan j CO
Tonsing. we's like to hear about it.
mi— . . .
The Rev. Ernest Tonsing's family
ell had the flu and didn't come to
the convention here with him. He is
pastor of the Lutheran church at Well-
-J
From The Globe's historical edition
of July 16. 1894:
In the early part of September. 3864,
' General Sterling Price began his fa- j
mous march through Arkansas and Mis- I
souri. resulting a month later in his at- j
tempt to invade Kansas, his defeat on ,
£
the border by United States forces, aid- | CXI
ed by Kansas militia, and his final re- j
treat with his demoralized army to the |
south of the Arkansas river.
0\
General Samuel R. Curtis then com-
manded the department of Kansas, but
was on the plains, in the vicinity of
Fort Kearney. But Curtis returned to
8
Kansas; and took charge of the forces *T3
collected to fight Price. George W.
Deitzler was major general of the Kan- -8
a
sas militia, and John J. Ingalls was on >-i
his staff as judge advocate. The militia o
was called out to resist Price with Gen-
i eral Curtis' regulars.
Four companies were organized in
fI
Atchison, for the Eighteenth regiment.. era
y
of which Matt Quigg, of Atchison, was j S3*
colonel. William Bowman commanded |
| Co. A; W. B. Kipp commanded Co. B; : 2.
i George Taylor commanded Co. C; and
Lou Higby commanded Co. D. Dr. W. W.
Cochrane, of Atchison, was surgeon of r
the regiment.
The four companies were raised with-
in a few days, and early in October
marched to Wyandotte, in two and a o
half days. From Wyandotte they went o
twelve miles into Missouri, and helped K>
an Iowa battery guard a ford over the 4*.
O
Blue river. But they never got into a o
fight. t/3
Among the men in the Atchison com-
panies were Clem Neal. David Lukens. o
Dick Hurd. Andy Keithline. John Reis-
ner. John C. Harrison, C. Weber, D. C. j
Newcomb, John Raterman, J. E. Wag- j
ner. L. A. Alderson, J. C. Auld. W. H.
Crookham, George Brenner, Joe Mc-
Cully, Fred Koester sr., Henry Klock- ON
man, John Mclnteer, A. Ostertag, Wil-
liam Schweder. John Merkle, A. B. Mc-
Queen, J. W. Truesdell, John Lane, G.
W. Glick. J. P. Brown, L. Frank, Hugh
McCleary, A. S. Hughes.
8
&
o
f„^oLi
am B o w m a n
came to Atchison 3
v
in 1860, and engaged in the lumber
n
streetsSS SiXth a n d
Commercial
>!?
In 1863 he bought the old mlU at the
foot of Commercial street. In 1872 he
built the Central mills. 8
WE»NESDAY7 APRnTloTTMOr I
Theodore Otis: "My horse is dead.
It is up to my friends to get me a
new horse. I'm busted, and if I can't
run a dray wagon I'll be up against to
it. I have been a drayman at Fourth CXi
and Commercial twenty-five years."
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OUR HONORED GUESTS — THE FOUR ZIMMERMANS

Seventy-Sixth Anniversary Celebration

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A M e m b e r of t h e Evangelical Synod of K a n s a s and A d j a c e n t

states of t h e United
No a n n i v e r s a r y c e l e b r a t i o n of St. M a r k ' s w o u l d be L u t h e r a n C h u r c h in A m e r i c a )
c o m p l e t e w i t h o u t a t r i b u t e to t h e p i o n e e r m e m b e r s w h o h a v e
so faithfully a n d consistently given of their t i m e a n d t a l e n t s
t o t h e p r o g r e s s of t h i s C h r i s t i a n b o d y . ~K
A m o n g t h e m a n y to w h o m St. M a r k ' s owes so m u c h in
r e s p e c t a n d g r a t i t u d e a r e t h e " F o u r Z i m m e r m a n s , " to w h o m
this S e v e n t y - S i x t h B i r t h d a y C e l e b r a t i o n is d e d i c a t e d .
B. D. Z i m m e r m a n (lower left), a n d his cousin, A. B .
Wednesday, September 20, 1944
Z i m m e r m a n , h a v e been m e m b e r s of St. M a r k ' s lor 65 y e a r s
each; M r s . Lizzie S n e l l Z i m m e r m a n (Mrs. J a c o b G.) has been Six-Thirty o'clock
actively affiliated w i t h t h e c h u r c h for 63 y e a r s , and " J a k e "
(a cousin of t h e o t h e r t w o Z i m m e r m a n s ) has been a faithful
a t t e n d a n t at St. M a r k ' s for 44 y e a r s — a g r a n d total of 237
y e a r s of e a r n e s t , a c t i v e service for t h e s e four splendid folks.
" B . D . " is t h e s e n i o r of t h e g r o u p — 87 y e a r s old l a s t
J u l y 5 — a n d " A . B . " is only five m o n t h s y o u n g e r . Total age
of t h e four is 314 y e a r s .
In especially h o n o r i n g t h e "four Z i m m e r m a n s " t o n i g h t
St. M a r k ' s e m b l e m a t i c a l l y also p a y s h o m a g e to t h e t h o u s a n d s
of o t h e r faithful L u t h e r a n s w h o h a v e c o n t r i b u t e d so m u c h
to t h e p r o g r e s s of t h e L o r d ' s w o r k t h r o u g h this c h u r c h in t h e
•past t h r e e - q u a r t e r s c e n t u r y . M a y t h e i r lives be an i n s p i r a t i o n
to u s a n d to f u t u r e g e n e r a t i o n s !
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P R O G R A M In celebrating its seventy-sixth birthday tonight, St.

Mark's completes another year of service to the community,
and to the United Lutheran Church in America, of which it
is a part.
INVOCATION . . . . Rev. H. Vance Baird, Pastor
St. Mark's has been a bulwark of consistent Christian
activity. It has provided religious leadership to Atchison and
THE DINNER vicinity through three quarters of a century, and has enjoyed
the respect of people of all faiths.
CROUP SINGING, Conducted by W. G. Altimari To the Kansas Synod, and to the Church at large. SI.
(Herbert Wildeboor, Accompanist) Mark's has given a fine type of leaders through these many
years. Its pastors and members have held every office of
responsibility in the Synod, including five of its presidents,
OUR HONORED GUESTS — A Tribute by Pastor Baird and several have been prominent in the councils of the na-
tional Lutheran body. In 1913 St. Mark's was host to the
convention of the General Synod, then the national Lutheran
TRUMPET SOLO — "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" (Gold- synod, bringing prominent Lutheran leaders to Atchison from
man) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Robert Berger all parts of North America and several foreign fields.
St. Mark's entertained the second meeting of the Kansas
Synod, in 18G9, and was the meeting place for subsequent
GREETINGS from the Atchison Ministerial Associa- synodical conventions in 1889, 1899, 1920, and 1940.
tion _ _ _ Dr. Charles A. Haw ley, President
The St. Mark's congregation was organized September
20, 1808, with 25 members, by The Rev. M. C. Boyer. The
ANNOUNCEMENTS first sixteen years of the congregation's life was beset with
difficulties; but in 1884 the church was reorganized and in-
corporated, and from then until today it has made steady
MARIMBA SOLO — "Fantasie-Impromptu" (Chopin) progress.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Valeta Brown Price's hall, on the east side of South Fourth street just
south of Commercial street was the congregation's first meet-
ing place. For some time after its reorganization in 1884 the
ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS _ Dr. T. D. Rinde, Fremont, Nebr. services were held in the home of Henry Snell, father of Mrs.
J. G. Zimmerman, and in other homes. In 1888 the first church
building was erected by A. B. Zimmerman, now used as a Sun-
BENEDICTION _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Pastor Baird day school building and chapel. The present church was
erected in 1909, also with A. B. Zimmerman as contractor.
"God Be With You Till We Meet Again" Eleven pastors had served St. Mark's in the 75 years
prior to the coming of our present pastor last year. Only one
of them. Dr. W. K. Wheeler, is still alive. Two pastors died
— • — while on the Atchi.son field. The Rev. ft. C. Garvic and The
Rev. S. A. Hamrick.
Music during the dinner is furnished by this Atchison High More than eighty young men affiliated with St. Mark's
School Music Department group — Herbert Wildeboor, are in the Nation's war service.
piano; Valeta Brown, violin; Joan Tandy, violin; Winifred With an energetic and consecrated membership, and
Palmer, flute; Doris Handke, clarinet. able leadership. St. Mark's can be expected to continue lor
many years as a definite Christian force in this community.
The Anniversary Committee — Evan W. Tonsing, chairman, Our greatest opportunities lie before us! May we con-
Mrs. Homer Pratt, LeRoy Demmon. tinue to "press forward toward the high calling."

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W h * has become of the old fashion-
ed prHfcht.- who always had a long
face? S church convention was held
recentK in Atchison, and the preachers
laugh<3. more and had a better time
t h a n ffld the laymen. ,
"ThegLutheran synod convention
here lpst week was t h e filth held in
AtchisSi in 72 years.
AtcftYson entertained the second
convention of the synod in 1869. T h e
svno*ftciet here in 1889, 1899 and 1920.
KHURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1940.
;>4 — United States. The Rev. Klover h a '
We^jniss Pau". Tonsing. He was a
kind.vacongenial man and was a real
=3= FRIDAY,
APRIL 19, 1940.
. Abfironsing has two printing "presses,
both oo good working condition, which
1
were"jorinting before he was born.
NO ' "
F r o ^ T h e Globe's historical edition
I of Jttljf 16, 1894:
»•
I I n 2l860 Atchison had forty law
| f irmsw
i In"§894 the only lawyers here t h a t
were^Jiere in 1860 are G. W. Glick,
A. G^»Otis, John J. Ingalls, and John
M. Pgc;.
Fr*3" Koester was here in 1860, and
is a g a r b e r here in 1894.
J. JB, McCully & Brothers, here in
1894„"were here in 1860. J. C. McCully
is n«of county treasurer.
Clffli Rohr was a harness maker
hereTJi 1860, and is'here in 1894.
O l ^ t h e merchant tailors here in
1860^-4V. M. Da vies, Henry Klockman
a n d t j t o b e r t McCrie are here now.
O p Atchison's fourteen physicians
in lgao, only Dr. W. W. Cochran and
Dr. W, L. Challiss are here in 1894.
D r ? J. H. Stringfellow and S. C.
Porn^oy are here in 1894, a n d are t h e
onlycreal estate men here now who
w e r Q i e r e in 1860.
SvEDNESD.AY, APRIL 3, 1940.
Synod Gro
H|Id Annual ^Lutheran Synod ^ J
Efents Tonight -Convention ^J
Eutheran Officers
^-Elected
^Closes Today
Sessions Here
At
Two major events of the Evangelical
Lutgsran synodical convention—now in
its giird day—will occur this evening. U«-t/
The^auxiliaries of the synod, the Wom-
en's-JVIissionary society and t h e Men's
Brriffierhood, will hold their annual 0
bartegiets. The women's meeting wi)
occflr a t the Methodist church and t h e
men's at the Masonic Temple. Both will
start a t 6:45 o'clock.
The convention wiTITJe brought to a
close tomorrow a t noon in, St. Mark's
church following a second address on
the rural church problem by the Rev.
Martin Schroeder, Lincoln, Neb.
RE-ELECT OFFICERS
A Yesterday afternoon the three prin-
cipal officers of the synod were r e -
elected. They were the Rev. Andreas
Bard. Kansas City, Mo., president; t h e
Rev. W. W. Klover, Kansas City, Kas.,
secretary., and Louis T. Bang, Emporia,
treasurer. The terms were for the usual
one year. Mr. Bang has served 23 con-
secutive years as treasurer, a record
among all the Lutheran synods in the
served three previous terms, t h e Rev.
Bard one term.
Lay representatives elected on t h e
executive committee of the synod were:
Russell Keithline, Atchison, eastern
conference; Charles A. Harkness, jr.,
Greenleaf, western conference, and L.
A. Swanson, Oklahoma City, Okla.,
southern conference. Other officers
elected: Dr. E. E. Stauffer, Wichita, his-
torian; Wayne Easterday, Topeka, stat-
istician, and the Rev. Ernest Tonsing,
Wellington, editor of the Kansas Synod
Lutheran. T h e Rev. Tonsing is a' son of
the late Paul G. Tonsing of Atchison
who printed the first issue of t h e L u t h -
eran monthly 26 years ago.
Mrs. W. W. Klover, Kansas City, Kas.,
was elected president of the Women's
Missionary society late yesterday after-
noon. She succeeds Mrs. F . W. Juergen-
sen. Oklahoma City, Okla. Miss Helen
Fink. Atchison, was elected recording
secretary, Mrs. W. C. Jacobson, Okla-
homa City, Okla., treasurer, and -Mrs.
F. W. Juergensen, young women's sec-
retary. Re-elected were Miss Stella E h -
ret, Oklahoma City, Okla., statistical
secretary, and Mrs. G. K. Mykland,
Chapman, historian.
WOMEN'S BANQUET
Mrs. Leslie W. Long of Atchison will
preside as toastmistress a t the. i'omRn'c j
banquet tonight. T h e invocation will be
given by Miss Mabel Fink, Atchison.
Mrs. James Craig, Atchison, will sing
with Mrs. Edwin Arthur, Atchison, as
her accompanist. T h e principal address
will be given by Miss R u t h J u r a m ,
Philadelphia. A pageant, "The Lord's
Prayer," will be presented by the L u t h -
er League of St. Mark's church, Atchi-
son. •' •
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1940.
_-**• f -•"_'__
Fail To N a m e
1941 City
For Sessions
T h e seventy-second a n n u a l Evange- > « _ ! entertained t h e Women's Missionary
Ileal Lutheran synodical convention—4
also t h e annual meetings of its auxi-
liaries, t h e Women's Missionary society
[and the Men's Biotherhood-e-adjourhed
'here early this afternoon without 3
j naming the 1941 convention city. T h e ^
m a t t e r of selecting t h e next convention If
place has been referred to the executive w
I
committee of t h e synod.
Just prior to the convention's close = ^ "
Dr. Martin Schroeder, Lincoln. Neb., -
j spoke on a theme of vital interest, t h e r^ §
rural church problem. ' VI
Last night two highlights of the
convention—the Missionary and Bro-
therhood banquets—were held and botb
were largely attended.
TONSING RE-ELECTED j
i
Yesterday afternoon t h e synodical
.-a
Brotherhood re-elected t h e present
officers for the fifth consecutive year.
NO
Evan Tonsing, Atchison, was. r e -
designated president; R. W. Rifenbary,,
St. Joe, vice-president; Ed Goult,.Kan*§
sas City, treasurer; and Dr.. F r a n k I
Shaffer, Salina, secretary. L. A. Swan-
son, Oklahoma City, Okla., replaced u
C. W. Everhart, Wichita, as t h e *
representative of t h e southern con-
ference on t h e executive committee. NO
Evan Tonsing was nominated delegate ON
to the national Brotherhood c o n v e n t i o n
at Omaha, October 6-8. Ed G o u l t ' w a f ^ /
made the alternate. Dr. F r a n k Shaffer, U 5
synodical secretary for t h e brotherhood,
was appointed chairman of t h e camp
committee in charge of the program
at Wa-Shun-Ga leadership camp, June
i
23. ; e>
About 250 attended t h e Brotherhood
banquet last night in t h e Masonic f
temple.
I n language n o t theological, t h a t
meeting was a wow.
Evan Tonsing of Atchison, president
f
of the synodical brotherhood, presided
as toastmaster.
T h e speaker of t h e evening was
Rev. W. H. Traub, pastor of Kountz
Memorial church in Omaha. T h a t is
the largest United L u t h e r a n Synod
church in t h e United States. -\*
a
MONDAY, APRIL 29, U « k N)
Mrs. C. E. Olden entertained the L 8
members of the W. C. T. U. a t herj on
home, 1130 Parallel street, Friday after-
noon. There was a good attendance at •
the meeting, which was conducted by
Mrs. J. M. Phillipi, t h e president. Mrs.
Paul Tonsing gave the devotionals and
after the business session Mrs. A. H.
Lehman read an article, "Alcohol Versus -
Christian Life." Mrs. R. D. Thompson fc-"
had the lesson subject and Mrs. G. C.
Von Neida presented a talk on "Spiri- —-j;
ON
O
. t u a l Life Versus the Liqour Traffic."
6 Mrs. Ira Gould closed t h e meeting by*
- p r a y e r . The hostess served dainty re- j " " " o
7
!CST.
freshments.
ST^MARKS
Il
i
r
The Women's Missionary society will{
a meet Thursday afternon, 2:30, a t Vn& ~**+~
ft
Jr
""home of Pastor and Mrs. Hamrick. Mrs.J
Paul Tonsing will be the leader. *? % ^ 8
&
__ _SATURDAY^JiAY_4, 1946. o
The Rev. and Mrs. S. A. Hamrick 3
J»
- j
society of St. Mark's L u t h e r a n church
i—»
a t their home T h u r s d a y : afternoon. to
There was a splendid attendance a t 00
t h e meetings. Mrs. Floyd Hundley
h a d charge oX. t h e d e v o t i o n a l . p e r i o d j

I and the lesson was conducted by Mrs.
Paul G. Tonsing. St. Mark's Women's
Missionary society has been invited
by the Women's Missionary society
of the Children's Memorial Lutheran
church of Kansas City to be their
H guests on Wednesday, May 15. After
O i Central Branch of the Union Pacific.
P the close of the meeting Rev. and
w Mrs. Hamrick served refreshments.
ft
Miss Ruth Mellenbruch, who is a
if granddaughter of Mrs. Paul G. Ton-
smg, will be graduated from Whitten-
a. burg college at Springfield, O., this
to spring. Her mother was Miss Orpah
-J Tonsing of Atchison before her mar-
riage.
£ Kansas City saw very clearly, and
| Mr. and Mrs. A. Mylander
Wedded 50 Years
g C00 acres of land on the Pottawatomie 5! Mr. Challiss returned to Atchjso:;
1 route, the Central Branch land grant
Si
o
f section. Had Mr. Challiss' bill desig- j | It finally became positively krifitvr.
I nating the route of the Pacific rail- , that Chailiss himself wrote them/Snc
C3*
ft
On Wednesday, April 10, Mr.
and Mrs. August Mylander cele-
brated their golden wedding an-
niversary at their home, on Ot-
a tawa street. Open house was held
from 2:00 to 9:00 p. m. Florai
congratulations received from
O friends made their home a veri-
© 'from St. Joseph to Atchison, and this .V| the Champion, and bitterly opposed
C/2 table flower garden. Numerous
cards and gifts assured the cou-
•ple of the best wishes of thek
8 host of friends and relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Mylander gracious-
ly received more than one hun-
dred .guests. Out-of-town guests
arrived from Sandusky, Port d i n -
ton, Fremont and Toledo.
MT. Mylander is 76 years and
Mrs. Mylander is TO years.
They have two children, Mrs.
8 Cora M. Hetrick and ILaurence My-
lander; three grandchildren, Rich-
& ard and Virginia Hethckr-and Karl
o Mylander; one. greaj-^gr-andchild,,
3
s> Richard Heta-ick,5r. .?. : •-„
0 '.caiae the leading freighting point to
g F r o m ^ T o i o b e ' s historical edition] II Mr. Challiss made a great deal of
o of July 16, 1894.
I Luther C. Challiss came to Atchison I
in i » f ftfl» BooneviUe, M c . w h e r e | ; j exchange. Mr. Challiss' sympathies
ihe was engaged ss a merchaiu. He ,
Remained here continuously u n a M J t t , .
to
00
as merchant, banker, ^ . " g g S S I
land real estate operator. Cfaa^J
addition" was pre-empted by MJ.
IShalliss in 1857, and originally was!
| against him when the south com-
.composed of 198 acres. This is now
regarded ss the best portion of the
city.
As a member of territorial council,
.menced to fail, and his fortune %p.s
^reduced to nothing.
As an operator on Wall Streetcar
g>
:that time, Mr. Challiss outranked firli
Mr. Challiss secured the first charter jFjske and Jay Gould, and was Sie
for a railroad west of Atchison, the ! peer of Anthony Morse and the Jer<£ik
Atchison & Pike's Peak, now the j Jay Gould was a very common nw)n
at that time, compared to Chal&s
About this time there were three ;and a very little thing might h»vc
! Pacific railroads talked of from the I'.nade Challiss instead of Gouid S i t
I Missouri river; one from Omaha, one Croesus of America. »
i from Atchison, and one from the
[mouth of the Kaw. In 1862, there
was every reason why Atchison should
An incident in the career of ftjr.
Challiss in New York was the atteiftjp:
.of Wcodhull & Claflin, to blacfcrj&il.
secure the prize of the first railroad
'him; he made a fight that is ftjli '
through to a connection with the 1
remembered, and sent Woodhull^-fe j
Central Pacific. The act of congress :
j Claflin, Colonel Blood, Stephen Peari ]
providing for the Kansas Pacific ;! Andrews and George Francis T i ^ r I
specified that the road should run up to jaii, where they remained tfK |
| the Republican valley, a provision i .months. Finally they left the couigry I
directly in favor of Atchison, and due :
.ns a result oi a compromise. M r !
to the efforts of Mr. Challiss. This j j Challiss' lawyers were Roger A. P^fo: \
jand Judge Fullerton. The "Fulleij&jr. !
made a fight to change the route . I quarter'' in Atchison - i s the Ktt&lt
to the Smoky Hill valley. This was "|of the suit; Mr. Fullf .on receiving
done by act of congress, and it is : ''it as a fee. Mr. Challiss also broueh;
' still believed that Atchison was sold s" | the famous Pacific mail suit, | t t h
out by S. C. Pomeroy, United States „ j was equally famous.
scnaicr. and that the price was 150,-
"-
Indian reservation. in 1878, where he has since liffec.
As h result in this change in the j looking after the wreck of his fcrfee:
possessions. For three years he ec§ea
stopped at Waterville, one hundred £ the Atchison Champion, and his *Sii-
miles west of Atchison, and Kansas ,torials attracted so much attention
Civy became the leading town in this s j that people wondered who wrote trExr.
iroad up the Republican valley not e : they were certainly remarkable coigns
! been changed, Atchison would have from a man without early journalistic
been what Kansas City is today. At . training. One of his feats as an edWor
; the same time that Mr. Challiss [j was swinging The Champion, fanS*..-
', secured a charter for the Atchison & , s as a Republican paper, into fee
: against John J. Ingalls. Mr. Ingflls
• Pike's Peak road, he secured a charter i , ' was editor of the Champion w^iiit.'
! for the Atchison, Topek* & Santa Fe, j iCol. Martin was in the army, andSJic.
Ihis original idea being a southern! the same thing in opposing Jim B&ne
| route to the Pacific, and that road I ; in its columns. This opposition rt«st
• has fulfilled all his early expectations. |"^j| Colonel Martin a brigadier genfflai-
The first railroad to Kansas was j ' s h i p . After Colonel Martin's dejath.
• the Atchison & St. Joseph, an ex- . there was sort of irony in the j ^ c t
tension of the Hannibal & St. Joseph J that L. C. Challiss became editogof
was built by- L. C. Challiss, the String- IS tngalls.
fellows, P. T. Abell, S. C. Pomeroy. J ; L. C. Challiss having been abjj§ed
and Samuel Dickson. Later this road
iwas extended to Weston, as the At- -3/ ; a good deal in Atchison, it is 'jgrlh
jcliison & Weston, against Mr. Chal-
j mentioning as a matter of hctory
• liss' protect, and still later it went ;that he was largely responsibly-for
to Leavenworth and Kansas City.
i making Atchison the terminus of^ the
Chtiliss always fought the extension •main line of the Hannibal & StL^Joe
to Weston, but was overruled by his
railroad. He brought J. Gould, Hfinry
associates, who claimed that it would N. Smith and Ben Carver to AtJS&OB.
bring the North Missouri into the
; and they agreed to extend the"' roaci
city. The extension of the road to
Atchison was a hard blow to St. Joe, i
as well as to Kansas City and Leaven-;
; from St. Joe to Atchison on Qon-
! sideration of $75,000 in Atchison Ifends.
worth, and Atcliison was more promis- I This was agreed to. Challiss haq-rhad
| some sort of a deal with Hen& N.
,ing then, probably, than ever before ! Smith while they were both opef&ting
i or since. Because of it, Atchison be- on Wall street, and Challiss clowned
that Smith owed him $170,000.(3Fhey
!the west, and secured the overland finally settled the matter by Snitr-
'mail route as. well. agreeing to bring the Hannibal ^ S..
j money in Atchison, and in 1864 drifted
Joe road here without the $75,92? in
bonds the people had agreed tfg.giv«
v • to New Y< rfc from Washington, and him. _g
jl'.e became an operator
on
| were with the south, and he was
the stock : The Atchison Champion of Mgy 11
' 1872, contains a half column-^scarc
:
.head to the effect that L. C. Chjiliis!
' generally a "bull." As long as the south i telegraphs from New York ths* thi
showed its ability to hold out, Mr.
| "bridge at this point had been £$ia!l<
Challiss made a great deal of money; 'secured. The paper gives the'eredi
at one time he had on deposit in New
of securing the bridge to L. C. Challis
York $96,000, but the tide turned and James N. Burnes.
 FKID AY, APRIL 12, ig$0.
Cifmmunity Chatter
By A * BENNETT
'o s a y g h a t we will get into this war
ause Jfe got into t h e last one is to
ore t h a i we are a nation of intelli-
t adults, capable of learning,
t a t h e r g w e will not get into this
• became we did get intc the last 1 /•His idea was to have the decorating re-
--ancJ^found out it doesn't pay. : u
f we I n a k e any mistakes this time
s m a $ 3 some new ones—let's not
ke oliWones over again.
Joncerfilng our participation in t h e y. rolls (two kinds) jelly, pickles. The men
t warjlflid you know t h a t :
. B r i t S n cut the Atlantic cable to
r m a n | ~ s o t h a t all news from t h e ^"said. in plain American the dessert was
r zone? came via London and was
isoredjiby British agents who let
lericaj&ead what they wanted
nericaPto read? This occurred in
ite of J b u d protests by foreign cor-
bpondwts, protests which the Amer-
in pul£ic never heard.
2. TrK&Lusitania was a British ship
id wsffi sunk two years before we
iteredllhe World war—and had little
nothing to do with our entry intc . J intelligence, and most attractive per-
, , X
Le wl r a! )f f
3. AnSrica d i d n o t increase its mil-
ary jjsfces until after we entered
U M | and our regular army was
len dhly 80,000? I n other words
/ I la the word, and convinced her hearers
SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1940.
Men did the cooking, serving and
decorating of the tables at the Mothers
and Daughters banquet Wednesday
night at St. Mark's Lutheran church.
And they covered themselves with glory.
The mothers and daughters are saying
the food was the best they ever ate.
And the decorations the last word in
artistic achievement. Floyd Hundley
was the artist who did the decorating. >>~-'
semble an April shower, and although £ ~ - "I return herewith copy of T h e Atchison
no water fell, the silvery ornaments
representing umbrellas, made the April
shower effective. The men served baked
; h a m , new potatoes with butter and
parsley, corn souffle, green beans, hot
^ g a v e their dessert a long French name,
<:but one of the guests a t the banquet
pears, whipped cream and cherries,
and she added. "It was delicious." T h e
toastmistress was Mrs. Floyd Hundley.
Mrs. Sam Hamrick, wife of the pastor
of St. Mark's, gave the invocation, 7
Mrs. Will Schmeling offered the toast to --«£- to Atchison and back. I remember John
the daughters, and Miss Helen Stor-
beck responded with a toast to t h e
mothers. The speaker of t h e evening
was Mrs. Jerry Tolle. a woman of rare
7;sonality. She talked of mother's place
i that not only has mother a place in the
i world, but it is a very important, far-
reaching one. Miss Elizabeth Sagg p r e -
i son, nounty in 1890, so most of the peo-
SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1940.
Mrs. Paul Denton, who Is raising a
garden for the first time i n h e r life,
has become a real farmer a n d was
thrilled with t h e rain. She said t h a t
she could just watch her garden grow
in it.
&z?~
A letter from Paul P. Hastings, of
Chicago, vice president of the Santa F e : <*>
Daily Globe of September 17, 1938, cov-
ering the opening of t h e new bridge at
Atchison and giving also information
about the old bridge. I have always
claimed that I remembered the dedica-
tion of the old bridge, but perhaps here-
after I should say t h a t I was present a t
t h a t event, for I note t h a t it took place
on August 24, 1875, when I was not quite
three years of age. We were then living
7 just, east of t h e school house a t F a r m -
/ - . i n g t o n but were frequent visitors in
Atchison and probably father and
.mother took their children t o the cele-
bration. I t was an all day trip to drive
jA. Martin of the Champion and Ed
<iHowe of The Globe, both of whom
were father's friends and he used to
stop to visit them when in town and
take me With him, b u t t h a t was later
7*
(J t h a n 1875. I moved away from Atchi-
j w g g f f l j now came after my time."

FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1940.

'sented a vocal solo, accompanied on t h e
mericfe was very, very poorly p r e - 'piano by Miss Helen Fink. Little Arlene
ared. £ INestler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E r n -
4. American rights were violated-j~ | est .Nestler, was adorable when singing
lore often by Britian t h a n by Ger- r , •"My Mother's Rosary" and "God Bless
lany ^ i r i n g 1914-17? The same h a s » America." She was accompanied on t h e
een e of the second World war piano by Mrs. Walter Davenport. Shir-
ar ufheran
) fa.Tf
5. G E m a n y made a sincere peace
ley Berkson, talented violinist, present-
ed a violin solo. Miss Helen Fink led the
ffer $ l d was ignored by the U .S. . community singing, with Mrs. Ed Ar-
nd tiKned down by Britian before / thurs at the piano. There were two
Church To Hold Bi -*-«-
•e ent&ed t h e war?
O
Also cin t h e last war no one ever
families represented by four genera-
t i o n s . The head of one family was Mrs.
Ed McBratney, whose daughter, grand-
new tjie results of t h e "fact-finding" ^ daughter and great grand daughter £ BY REV. SAM HAMRICK
eisnion S<
«
rip r n g i e by Colonel House of Texas,?- were guests. Mrs. McBratney's great
Since 1869 St. Mark's Lutheran]
•ho w i s sent by President Wilson to • - grand-daughter was the youngest per- ,1 church has been a part of t h e city of
urveJfSw European situation. - ^ s o n there. Mrs. Mary Rousey is the head ^ Atchison, T h e congregation h a s grown'" t^-z % -aV
Anddfto one will ever know w h a t 1 of the other family represented by four
u m n e j f Welles did, or said, or found ^ generations. Mrs. George Wallack was and today has a baptized membership ^
the oldest of the mothers who were of 725. <-->u—
•ut, or w h a t h e reported t o President
toosevife. .guests at the banquet, Sunday and Monday, May 26 and 27,
+ will be great days in St. Mark's Luth-
Donffjyou think .he American peo-
ile, who are directly involved in such TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1940. ,-tj eran church. For some time t h e com-
mittee in charge of t h e reunion of ID I
;onver©tions, have a right to de-
nand S t o a t went on and w h a t was Evan Tonsing knows a motorcyc's those who have been confirmed in St. Jhj .«_ /
cop in Kansas pit}'. Mark's, and those who have been mem- [ / Cs J
laid? i> bers, has been working hard to contact
o ^ M r s . C. B. Hole has returned t o h e r every one of them. u_
T h e g o n l y security this nation will
iind will be in a n army and navy so
P home in the Monrovia community. Shej The first class of which there is any i*-*-""^
has been undergoing observation in a record was in 1889 and of this class! /
g i e a t a n a t any other nation will be t Kansas City hospital the past week, several are still active in the local
afraid^to deliberately antagonize us. Theodore Otis writes The Globe ask- church. An effort has been made to
. , jing why the local Democrats do n o t buy contact someone in every one of t h e
a P^FRTDAY, MAY 10, 1940.
T j a horse for him, considering t h a t for classes from t h a t date down to the
present time. Letters were mailed to a l l : / '
many years he has done valiant work
fy for the Democratic party. Theodore calls sections of the nation a n d i t is hoped \
E l m * a n d Laura Hole to Charles i\, attention to the fact t h a t every cam- J j t h a t we may hear from many of those —
B. Hoj* for $1 and other consideration "who once worshiped in our church.
paign during t h e last 25 years he ex-
—Soutfr 10 acres of the east half, and An invitation has been extended t o ^
ploited Democracy personally and on
southHEive acres of the east half of ^_ the sideboards of his dray wagon. Theo- f Karl Krueger, director of the Philhar-,
t h e northeast 40 acres, of the n o r t h - dore is deeply grieved over the fact t h a t "•-monic orchestra of Kansas City, to be
east Smarter of 25-6-18. . present for the service on Sunday night.
now t h a t he is "busted," and his horse
•_Mr. Krueger a t one time was a member
-£|is dead, t h e local Democrats seem i n -
of our church and the organist.
different toward him and leave him t - S t Mark's is proud of her three sonsj
;?: horseless.
 iffiiw-frffflr8""'"
I who are giving full time service in the
LLord's_WQjJt_fls_ministers of the Gospel.1 A held as usual.
J They are the Rev. Robert Gaston of | © J
j Bendena, the Rev. Ernest Tonsing of
'Wellington, and the Rev. Gene Harri-i
son of Hutchinson. The Rev. Harrison'
will speak at the regular service oni
Sunday at 10:30. The Rev. Bob Gaston I
will speak at the evening service at
7:45 p. m. All the friends of St. Mark's
and these sons of Atchison are invited
to these services.
The reunion will close on Monday
evening with a great congregational
dinner at 6:30 p. m. This is for all of
our members and friends. It is to be a
covered dish dinner. Special music,
singing, fun and an inspirational ad-
dress by the Rev. Ernest Tonsing.
St. Mark's and her people extend a
hearty welcome to all our friends and
invite them to follow "The Call of the
Lighted Cross" and worship at St.
Mark's.
This great occasion is in honor of
three of our members who have been
loyal to their church since about 1884.
They are Mrs. E. C. Harwi, A. B. Zim-
merman and B. D. Zimmerman. Come
and help us give honor to these three
leaders.
(Editor's Note: Rev. Gene Harrison,!
Rev. Bob Gaston and Rev. Ernest Ton-
sing are St. Mark's contribution to the
ministry. Gene is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Will Harrison, 1003 L streec. Atchison.
Bob is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. S..;
I Gaston. 221 North Twelfth street, Atchi- I
I son. Ernest is a son of Mrs. Paul Ton- |
jsing, of Atchison. Gene, Bob and Ernest
'are the salt of the earth. It is remark-
able that Gene and Bob entered the
I ministry, considering that when they
iwere youngsters they were members of
•ye editor's Sunday school class.)
MONDAY, MAY 27, 1940.
j ST. MARKS "[
Yesterday was a big day in the his- |
I tory of this church which was called i
I the first annual confirmands reunion j
and was held in honor of St. Marks j
j three oldest living members, Mrs. E.
j C. Harwi, A. B. Zimmerman and B. D.
I Zimmerman. Two of the sons of St. I
' Marks, who are now in the active j
!1 ministry, were the guest speakers, j
Rev. Eugene Harrison of Hutchinson |
preached at the morning service and
Rev. Robert Gaston of Bendena spoke
in the evening.
This evening at 6:30 a great reunion
dinner will be served in the church
pallors following which the Rev. Ern-
est Tonsing, another son of St. Marks,
will be the guest speaker.
Mrs. Marie Lunstrum and her son,
Vernon Lunstrum were received into
fthe church membership yesterday.
! The Women's Missionary society
Iwill attend a meeing of the society to
I be held at Lancaster on Tuesday.
The church Council will held its re-
gular meeting on Tuesday evening at
7:30.
Because of the service being held
Monday evening ihe Boy Scout troop
will meet Wednesday evening.
Pastor Hamrick and his family will
leave the middle of the week on their
vacation and will be jone until June
15. During his abrence seivices will be j --.a special wire that leads from uiti
^ .Mark's, have sent in letters of salu-
Lutherans In
Reunion Here
St. Mark's Holds
Two-Day Event
Starting Yesterday
I Two splendid sermons were preached
'in St. Mark's Lutheran church yes-
terday by two sons of that church,
Rev. Gene Harrison and Rev. Robert
Gaston. Tonight another son of that
church. Rev. Ernest Tonsing, will
speak at "the reunion dinner" in the
church. Yesterday and today were set!
apart by Rev. Sam Hamrick and his j
congregation, St. Mark's, to honor the j
three young ministers and the three j
oldest members of the congregation,-
Mrs. E. C. Harwi, A. B. Zimmerman
:and J£, j ) . Zimmerman.
j Rev. Gene Harrison's sermon yes-1
I terday morning was the theme, "Every
j Person Has Values." It was an en-'
I couragement to individuals who believe
jthey can do little or no good on this
i earth. "The good Lord can use every
(Willing person for some gcod," said
I Gene. "Every person has some quality,
' some talent, that could exert a good !
influence if that person would get!
over the defeatist idea that he doesn't i
amount to much and can do nothing." j
Rev. Harrison is a son of Mr. and i
I Mrs. Will Harrison, of 1003 L street. I I day morning, Rev. Gaston preached
He was graduated from the Atchison I
high school in 1922; from college in j
1929; from seminary in 1932; and was
ordained in Zion Lutheran church at
[Hutchinson in 1932. He is now pastor
ot a Lutheran church in Hutchinson.
I Rev. Bob Gaston's sermon last night j
was all frankness. He unleashed
against "liberalism' in religion, poli-
tics, sociology, economics, commer-
cialism, philosophy, etc.
"The liberals curing modern times
have promised much wi.h fine words,"
said Rev. Gaston. "They have promised
as much as do the 'medicine men'
of the jungle. And what are the
results? Chaos in every phase of
human life. 'Liberalism' throws away
old standards, and has nothing except
words to supplant the old standards.
The teachings of Christ have been
supplanted by nothing worth while."
j Rev. Gaston was graduated from
the Atchison high school in 1922; from
'college in 1926; from seminary m
1S29; and was ordained in Trinity
Lutheran church in Lawrence in 1930.
He is now pastor of St. John's Lutheran
church in Bendena, Kas. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Gaston,
221 North Twelfth street, Atchison.
St. Mark's church is beautifully
decorated with flowers, for the re-
union. Smiles and greetings predo-
minate. Mrs. E. C. Harwi and B. D.
Zimmerman are present at the reunion
services. A. B. Zimmerman's doctor
I won't let him leave his room, but he
is hearing the services bv means of
.church to his room. Former residents
of Atchison, who were members of St.
tation.
! The reunion dinner begins at 6:30
this evening, in the church parlors
Everybody is invited. It will do honor
H
to the three young ministers men-
tioned above, and to the three oldest
members of the congregation: Mrs
E. C. Harwi, A. B. Zimmerman and
B. D. Zimmerman.
3
TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1940.
Church Reunion \t
Two-Day Affair
Honored Three
Oldest Members
I
Rev. Ernest Tonsing closed the
| reunion at St. Marks Lutheran church
with a good sermon last night. The
reunion was a two-day affair ho-oring
the three oldest members of St. Mark's
and the three young men who were
"reared" in St. Mark's and then entered
the ministry. The three oldest mem-
bers are Mrs. E. C. Harwi and A. B.
and B. D. Zimmerman, all of Atchison.
The three young ministers are Rev.
Ernest Tonsing of Wellington; Rev.
Bcb Gaston of Bendena; and Rev.
Gene Harrison of Hutchinson. Rev.
Harrison preached in St. Mark's Sun-
Sunday night, and Rev. Tensing
preached at the banquet last, night.
About 150 people were at the banquet.
In his address last evening Rev.
Tonsing referred to the three oldest
members of St. Mark's as being "living
epistles."
"Each one of them is a book
exploiting individual faithfulness," saidi
Rev. Tonsing. "Mrs. Harwi and A. B.
and B. D. Zimmerman have kept the
faith for sixty years in this particular
church. It is fitting that this reunion
honors them."
Rev. Tonsing if. a son of Mrs. Paul
Tonsing of Atchison. He was born in
Atchison in 19G8. He was graduated
from Atchison high school in 1926. i
He received his degree of Master of!
Arts from Kansas university in 1^32. |
He was graduated from theolr*',. _^i i
seminary in 1934, and was ordained
in 1936. He formerly was pastor at
Valley Palls, and has been at Well-
ington since November, 1938. He indeed
is a worthy son of St. Mark's.
Rev. Bob Gaston, of Bendena, made
a few timely remarks at the banquet,
in tribute to the three oldest members.
Rev. Gene Harrison was unable to be
at the banquet, because of the illness
of his little son at Hutchinson.
B. D. Zimmerman was called on
for remarks, and expressed appre-
ciation. B. D. and A. B. Zimmerman
have been members of St. Mark's since
1381; Mrs. Harwi since 1882. Evan
Tensing and Mrs. Edward Arthur had
 ( § | $ * : J C T C e Brown gave a piano
,»
" " " p l vsolo by Miss Althea
I Karl Krueger presided " a t the pipe
organ. He is now director of the Kan-
sas City Symphonic orchestra. In 1913
TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1940?;
I
,:and. a trumpet solo by and 1914 Herbert Walker was St. 'I Mrvjan.d Mrs. Paul Denton
..Nestler were features. Rev., Mark's organist. He is now manager '/their children and Mrs. Gordon
I v r ^ ^anirick, pastor of St. Mark's,} of the NEA newspaper feature Taylor and her famiiy picnicked at
[^Owtlfhi' meeting .with inspirational dicate, at Cleveland, O. St. Mark'! COmt H
Malr'sh^ y lake Sunday,
^ ^ J p ^ T h e ladies £of the church J—>—•>«
organist ^in «1918-19
i o - i a was Rob ]Roy Peery §
served a delightful meal.
^Thejjtoastmaster submitted this
new residing
.-„ *1ncw resirlinor in 1Phiiart»ir!v,- „ - • w j» .
composer of note. H e i s a n M i E d V 2 . M O N D A Y . ™* 22,
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It should please the young because I Ka.. She writes feat "he to m v.™ fc°In- N e h
S M S S ^ i
t gives them opportunity to express P°°r health. Others on the 1st « L '
NO their appreciation of the services ^ W i «iam Stanton, ir of AtrhiJn AT : NO
o rendered by the elderly. It rfJJ 7 \ » Bache Cormcie T Shannon;! u>
please the elderly because it Is a n # Mrs. Cornelia Dysinger Grothe of vo
8 assurance to them that the church Washington, D. O.J Mrs. Genevra
will be in good hands after their 8
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Adams Schilling, of Beloit, Kas.;Mrs.
departure from this world. On one Eleanor Adams Miller of Galesburg,
'hand we have three young men, Rev. ,<zIll.;Criss Simpson, music teacher at
Bob Gaston, Rev. Gene Harrison, Rev. g.
Kansas university; Mrs. Vola Barnes
^ Ernest Tonsing, three young sons of; Greider of Millbrane, Calif.; and Miss 00
%+k NO
I St. Mark's church. On the other hand I Lois Worrel of Atchison. The present
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we have Mrs. E. C. Harwi, A. B. Zim- y organist of St. Marks is Mrs, Edwin
merman and B. D. Zimmerman, the Z Arthur.
three oldest members of the church.:
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i How delightful it is to honor all six, •
because this occasion welds the b e a u - ^ <
JTHURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1940. '
II
I tiful past with the present and the
future in a way to bestow on the
present and the future a much needed
Not
even m» hot waathw slowi I
down Evan Tonsing's walk.
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f confidence. I'm sure that the spiritual

stability of the three elderly persons MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1940. '«*

1 |we are thinking about tonight is an

.inspiration to the three young men
I we are thinking about. So, with tha HOOVER'S MISTAKES
elderly three inspiring the threa (Reprinted from the Wallace (Ida.) Miner)
; youngsters inspiring the elderly three,
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ithis meeting tonight is more than An inspired piece from one of the New Deal propagandists says
that "Hoover was a complete failiu-e." So he was. He failed in a lot
a social occasion, but is rife with a of things. He failed to draw out his salary of $75,000 a year while he $
co-operation that will vindicate and
i promote spiritual fundamentals. To the
three elderly persons we have tonight
was President, turning it all back into the Treasury. He failed to
have his sons organize insurance company firms to write insurance on 9'
*9»
government enterprises. He built a Rapidan resort for fishing and
we joyfully shout, "Thank you for recreation at his own expense and gave it to the government. None O
F your imny years of faithfulness," and of his sons went racing through the divorce courts to the disillusion-
;\ve say unto you that faithfulness is ment of the public. He never bundled up a lot of government docu-
igZ ro*-
to the most eloquent of sermons. We ments to seil as a book to the faithful as a huge profit to himself to
oo*=. thank you because your faithfulness L and he never sold himself into political slavery to a labor organiza- o
o
inspired three young, men of this | tion for a $500,000 campaign fund. He gathered a marvelous collec-
CO congregation to enter the ministry tion of war stuff and built a museum for it, but failed to ask Con- CO
duiing a commercial age. To the three gress to pay the bill—he paid it himself.
young men we honor tonight we He did not preach and promote class hatred and he did not try
joyfully shout, "Thank you for entering to pack the Supreme Court. He did not plow up every third row of
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the ministry during an era of business. cotton and he did not promise the American people one thing while at
Even if you are young, your faith- the very same moment doing everything t5 accomplish the directly

=tfc
fulness is marked, else you would have opposite result.
entered commercial pursuits instead He did not ask Congress to assess the taxpayers $1,000,000 every
n
of the high calling." To all six we time someone shot off a firecracker in Europe and he did not go on »-^
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heartily extend our thanks, because fishing trips on government warships accompanied by a fleet of ON
they are a welding together of the destroyers. Neither did he kill off all the farmers' little pigs or en-
faithfulness the world so much needs. courage the importation of Argentine beef. In fact there were a lot
8 of foolish things that Hoover didn't do that some other people have <C |
FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1940.
done. There are a lot of constructive things he could have done if
he had not had the opposition of a Democratic congress but anyway f?
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he did not leave the American people $45,009,000,000 in debt.
Mrs. Hoover never made speeches or raced hither and yon on un- N
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I " ' ., . " . . important matters. She never wrote silly drivel on her everyday life o
| Information from the photographic a n ( , s o W j(. tQ t h e n e w s p a p e r s a n d s h e n e v e r s o l d s o a p o v e r t h e r a d i 0 .» jJF
I history of the former organists or s>t. H e r o n ] y p u b l i c a p p e a r a n c e w a s M a n n o n o r a r y me mber of the Girl
8 ! Mark's Lutheran church, as compiled S c o u t s o f A m e r i c a s h e n e v e r i n v l t e d communist youth to the White I
jby Mrs. W. E. Brown, who resides H o u s e a s h e r g u e s t s . The Hoover family seems to have made a W.**?! 8
o on East Riley street: In the early 90s faiiUre of about everything that goes nowadays.
the organist was Miss Rose McClellan, .....
now Mrs. James Weir of Santa Ana, \J=
. Calif. From 1895 to 1901 the organist I WEDNESDAY AUGUST 7, 1940
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was Miss Effle Painter, now Mrs. &&.—n HE
Elmer See of Atchison. In 1901 nnd LET UNCLE SAM KEEP
1902 the organist was Miss Gertrude HIS NOSE AT HOME
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Painter, now Mrs. Carl Brown of Why the World War of 1914-1918 was a failure: I t did not end
Atchison. In 1909 the position was wars, and twenty major wars have been fought since. *
'held by Miss Ruth Altman, now Mrs. The twenty wars were as follows:
|Percival_Reed_of Leavenworth. In 1919
 i918-1919-^E,dlesv35d Ukrainians fought for control of Eastern"
Sbalacia, which was finally awarded to Poland for twenty-five years/'•'
,,.'A, 1919—Red Russia crushed White Russians led by Admiral Kolchak
i in Siberia, General Deniken in the south and General Yudenich in
TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, £$40.

I Tonsing's book store received two

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•^Estonia, all of whom were assisted by the Allies. (ftons of school books Saturday. That
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s 1919-1921 Guerrilla war in Ireland, conducted by 2,000 armed
publicans against 7,300 British auxiliaries known as "Black and
Pis only a part of the school book
I shipments.
f C*Tans" Treaty.of peace resulted in Irish Free State,
fe-s 1919-1922—Spanish war in the Riff (Morocco). At Melilla' (July,
§gM$L) Spain lost 10,000 men killed. - •
Evan Tonsing caught cne of his
fingers in a paper cutter at his
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j 1919-1926—Conquests in Arabia by Ibn Saud, who drove King store last evening and lost the end
Husain from his throne at Mecca. of it.
1920—Russia attacked Poland (March) and threatened Warsaw
but was heavily defeated (October) by the Poles.
1920—Turkey attacked Armenian Republic, capturing Kars and
Alexandropol and securing direct access to Russia.
Mr. and Mrs. Evan Tonsing of
i the Tonsing Book store are in
Kansas City today doing their
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\-\ 1921-1922—Greeks invaded Asia Minor but were finally defeated (Christmas gift buying.
by Turks in a month of battle on Sakaria River. Smyrna burned

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Sh-witri loss of $200,000,000. Many inhabitants massacred.
§??> 1925—Druse rebellion in Syria against French Administration.
psiDamascus bombarded (October).
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1940.
Mr. luTd Mrs. 6. B. Hole went] 8
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!> 1925-1935—Prolonged struggle between Bolivia and Paraguay over
I rival claims tQ Chaco.
1926-1928—Activity of Kuomintang, Communist and Nationalist
I -forces in 'China. Moderates established Republican headquarters at
to Kansas City Sunday. Mrs. Holej
went for a recheck at the hospital.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1940.

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OS ij Nanking.
Mr. and Mrs. Harres Martin will
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I 1931-1932—Japan invaded Manchukuo, drove out the Chinese
!t-£, governor, Marshal Chang Hsiaoliang, and set up Henry Pu-yi, last
•["•"?' of the Manchu Pynasty as Emperor.
.drive to Kansas City, Kas., Sunday
t o bring their son, Ralph, home
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1932—Furious fighting in Shanghai between 50,000 Japanese and
k'V'v 120,000 Chinese. Damage to city estimated at $350,000,000,
from Bethany hospital. Ralph un-
flerwent a major operation on his I
s :fM ' 1935-1936—Italy conquered Ethiopia.
1936-1939—General Francisco Franco with Nazia nd Fascist sup-
lye last Monday. It is the third
iteration he has had on the eye.
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f | -'port" led a rebellion against the Spanish Republic.
1937—Japan invaded Northern China.
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l' ''"'-' 1939—Italy invaded Albania. <
1939—Germany invaded Poland. Great Britain and France later
SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1940.

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! joining in the war against Germany, Japan and Russia fought an
undecla: ed war along the borders of Manchukuo, Korea and Siberia
['-'.. until an armistice went into eftect September 16, 1939.
Mrs. C. B. Hole continues to be!
quite poorly.

MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1940.

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J'H'-- 1939—The Russo-Finnish war.
(••••' And what does it all mean?
Joe Enzbrenner, route 4, was ar-
£
* It means that the United States cannot stop wars in Europe and
Asia, because "war" is the second nature over there. rested for operating a motor car
i; The United States will never be permitted to write a treaty for without good brakes after his ma-
ij
•L home.
Europe arid Asia—hence the United States should keep its nose at chine hit a parked car, belonging to
Evan Tonsing, near the intersection
of Sixth and Park streets about 11
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"There Will Be No Night," whicn
A.
.MtUadOJcf S&i"• ridicules this country for its non- a. m. Sunday. A fender on the
Tonsing car was damaged.
M
intervention policy and has a power- >°
</J ful appeal to the emotions.
On every hand we hear that we Theodore Otis, in the realm of s
should intervene "to save humanity.') literature, is a worthy successor of o
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SPEAKING (Twenty-four years ago it was to
"save the world for democracy");
that the Allies are fighting "our"
war; that if Hitler wins he will be p
the late Ira Sickler. -
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American is too sophisticated, be-
cause of its last war experience, to
be hooked on the old line of "saving
I Miss Virginia Tonsing is spend-
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«MIND • humanity." It is difficult to see just
how this is "our" war. The United
States is not responsible for Hitler
Germany. The blame must rest pri-
. FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1940.
Mrs. C. B. Hole leturned Tues-
day from the home of her sister,
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H e Hears War Brums.
o Lawrence, Kas.—To The Star:
£ •The war drums in America are be-
ginning to roll. Softly at present,
but louder and louder will they be-
o come until the United States is swept
into the European holocaust on a
E George Sumner, one of the original
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wave of fear, hysteria and emotion.
The mouthpieces of Mars are such
men as Clarence Streit, author of
"Union Now," who forecasts the end
of American democracy in event of
00 a Hitler victory; H. R. Knicker-
bocker who is going about the land
scorning pacifism, isolationism, and
urging immediate intervention by
>the United States in favor of the
t Allies^ the new Lunt-Fontanne play,
marily on France's doorstep.
Before Hitler came to power
France and England had an eco-
nomic strangle-hold on the German
republic, A high official in the Ger-
man government pleaded that the
throttling tariffs be removed, and at
the same time he warned that if
they were not, it would be the end
of German democracy and the as-
cension of Hitler. England was will-
ing to grant economic concessions,
but France never wavered. The
world knows the tragic result.
JAMES L. POSTMA,
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in Atchison. A
From The Globe's historical edition
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of July 16, 1894:
The town of Sumner, a few miles
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south of Atchison, was not named for •
Charles Sumner, as is generally sup-
o
posed, but was named after his brother,
stockholders of the town company. At If
that time Atchison was controlled by
southern sympathizers, including P. T.
Abell, the Stringfellows, the McVeys, A. |
J. Westfcrook, and others, and aboli-
tionists were not welcome in Atchison.
Being a violent abolitionist, John P.
Wheeler determined to establish a town
where abolitionists would be welcome,
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II Sumner was laid out in 1856, and the j tru 1 ck Ti f^ h ^^^^JSHt^HStl. \ building was occupied by Ed Grime's *
next year Wheeler went east with the I ard. Ingalls says Lang really was quite d r u g s t o r e > a n d t h e u p s t a j r s by James
famous Sumner lithograph, a drawing; a bright fellow. He had been a drag-j A_ H eadly and J. C. Carr, lawyers. I I
that exaggerated the town. Among the - oon in the Mexican war. and his stones , He adly eventually returned to Ken-
easterners attracted to Sumner by that ,of his experiences in the west were in- , ; t U e k y - C a r r e n t e r e d t h e confederate
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lithograph was John J. Ingalls. The .tensely interesting. Ingalls used to go ; s e r v ice, and was killed in battle-
lithograph showed Sumner as being |ont in Lang's beat when Lang was | I n 1 8 6 1 ^ l l s m a d e ft
hors eback H
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about ten blocks wide and as many | j jugging for catfish, and spent hours 1 rip to Denver with E. P. Lewis, a Sum-

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blocks long with big buildings along the U "listening to his talk. Finally Ingalls ner capitalist. Lewi*
n e r capitalist. Lewis *»«»
was takeri sick on
river, and five steamboats at port, wrote wrote his his "Catfish
"Catfish Aristocracy,
Aristocracy, and and t h ee p-, te River
p-,aattte River at the w^r-nn^in
Wheeler and Ingalls were both acquain- y[Lang ( , „ „ recoginzed
™ ™ i n , » j himselfv,™^*- as „.. the v,<>™ ; r at bncli*and
fv,= hero. - Ingalls
- had to " cta K e"muaama
c-nTof
ted with a Boston man with means, Lang was very indignnat, and threaten- h i m f o r t h r e e w e e k s T h ^

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Samual A. Walker. Wheeler wanted
Walker to invest In Sumner, and as ed to sue Ingalls, having been advised through Marysville, Kansas, and found'
Walker knew that Ingalls was anxious b,y I T / ^ ^ l . ^ r 1 ^ 6 , - ^ a L t h f 5 " l - s e t t l e r s f r o m t h e w e s t collecting t h e r e c ^ C
to go west, he asked Ingalls to stop at cle „i„ was libelous.
, „ „„„ Lane lived ...... -on -a piece o n account of the Sioux Indians being
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Sumner, and then report upon it U * ! a;n £d ? £ f l tf0 f i t h£ wr f tr t h l stifioS 0rlobe
^ T T / ***«m* was thin ^
SO point for investment of Boston money. * * " * " * ' ° * * ?f ; iea Palmetto, and had a hotel known SO
SO So Mr ingalls arrived in Sumner "u a»l l« *r • *t r uthe othern e day hat it was ac- a s T h e R o b b e r s Roost, where travelers u>
October 4, 1858. on the steamer, "Dun-^ > e
<*« set Jed with Lang , w i t h m o n e y myst eriously disappeared, so
can S Carter," which left St. Louis ? o£ no r La a s a c ksero f f l o l J r a n d a s l d e o f b a c " '- The route to Denver ran by wav of
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four days before. The town of Sumner ; " S ved in the Civil war Long Fort Kearney and Julesberg. Near Fort
contained about 2,000 people, which after the war s close, when Ingalls was Kearney buffalo began to appear in*
was 500 more than Atchison had a t " President of the United States Senate, great numbers. E. P. Lewis, the com-'
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that time, but Sumner was then de- be secured Lang a pension and a lot panion of Lewis on that trip, finally 00
dining, and Mr. Ingalls did not advise . of back pay. But this he squandered c o m m itted suicide in Montana a result ^Zt<
so his Boston friend, Walker, to invest, ' m marriage; , , his pension money was a "• of of c o v e r t v a n d sleItnpss_
poverty and sickness. *~^- SO
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i The hotel building at Sumner at the • curse to him, for it only served to put as
I time really cost $16,000. It was built by i a lot of wolves on his trail. «j Luther C. Challiss came to Atchison] isonl-e^"
B Samual Hollister, who lives in Atchison There, is nothing in the story that j n 1855, from Booneville, Mo., where ! a
in 1894. Lang was ever elected mayor of Sum- -i ho was engaged as a merchant. He L
•8 In 1858 the Sumner hotel was owned son, _ \ ,, -remained here continuously until 1861, f
and managed
Paul by JackChicago
Hull, a famous Hull. newspaper
His son. ft«»*P. He otherscontinued
left, and to live
man, was born there. Five years ago *> 'be mayor, being the town's only in-addition"
he there was calledafter , as merchant, banker, ferry operator'
and real estate operator. "Challiss'
; was pre-empted by Mr.
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Paul Hull visited Atchison and was habitant. Ingalls still has the official | Challiss in 1857, and originally was o
taken to the site of Sumner by the seal of Sumner. It's motto is, "Pro lege j composed of 198 acres. This is now
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writer of this article. That was 1889. \*- et grege." ("For the law and the regarded ) as the best portion of the
The site was then overgrown by weeds, '/people.")
and Mr. Hull was covered by "beggars j When the Civil war broke out, the :As a member of territorial council, |e--^_,
city.
lice" while trying to find the old foun- .^Atchison men who objected to aboli- ' Mr. Challiss secured the first charter
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cr dation of the old hotel. When Sumner |. tionists settling in their town, were
was in its prime, stage coaches running driven out of the country, and this at- for a railroad west of Atchison, the
between Jefferson City and St. Joe \ tracted a gocd many of the citizens of ' Atchison & Pike's Peak, now the
stopped there every day. Jefferson City j s u m n e r to Atchison. But Sumner's Central Branch of the Union Pacific.
was then the west end of the Missouri I d c a t n D ] o w c a m e in June, 1360, when . About this time there were three
Jr Pacific. The Missouri Pacific now runs I n e a r i y e v e r y h ouse in the place >vas Pacific railroads talked of from the
through the deserted site of Sumner, ^either blown down or badly damaged Missouri river; one from Omaha, one
and directly over the foundatim of the ) b y a t o r n a d o ^ ^ w a s l h e Jim a n d from Atchison, and one from the \^__
I wagon factory built by Levi A Woods. o n ] t o m a d o j n t n e h i s t 0 o f l h i s im _
Albert D. Richardson, a great histor- dl
ion. was a citizen of Sumner when Mr. ^ l o c a t e d a s
u . Mchison seems ro b e \
c y c l o n e s _ a tmes
mouth of the Kaw. In 1862, there ]
was every reason why Atchison should |
: secure the prize of the first railroad | K>
*>• a a
esc
through to a connection with the; ^ _
2^J&^-$£d 8L& 3&&-.
the father of Minnie Haul:, who has of hills west or Atchison tend to send
; Central Pacific. The act of congress ^__ © f|
8 since become famous as a grand opera. Lne the bad storms tc the north and to providing for the Kansas Pacific [
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C/J singer. James Hauk was a carpenter, j i ° I_"
X and his wife conducted a boarding A good many of Sumner's citizens specified that the road should run up j
the Republican valley, a provision I i
•also went to Denver, which was then directly to
I house, and Minnie waited on the table. .
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in favor of Atchison, and due zA . O
and was noted among the boarders a s a Kansas; In 1860 Kansas was 683 to the efforts of Mr. Challiss. This
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smart little girl with a long yellow i rm s long east ana west, and extend- Kansas City saw very clearly, and
braid down her back, who could play I tog to the summit of the Rocky moun- made a fight to change the route
the piano pretty well. The next year j tains. That spring was particularly to the Smoky Hill valley. This was
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Hauk made a house boat, and floated Lo dry; thore was no rain from the spring by act of congress, and it is
down the river to New Orleans. t f 1 8 5 9 t o September, 1860. So far ag-fls>»0 still believed that Atchison was sold as
Several years ago Minnie Hauk came is now known the first hot w:nds re out by S. C. Pomeroy, United States
^ Q to Atchison to give a concert, that did , corded in Kansas and in began September to blow in senator, and that the pries was 150,-
of the'-
not attract a large audience. Her hus- -'June, 1860 grasshoppcrs came. All 000 acres of land on the Pottawatomie
band,
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She wasWatcgg, was verybyindi-
accompanied her :• same year
these circumstances conspired to wipe •", Indian reservation,
mother, who kept the boarding house ^-Sumner from the face of the earth.'! As a result in this change in the o
in Sumner in 1858. Matt Gsrber, who | Some of the Sumner houses were mov- route, the Central Branch land grant
Q who still lives in Atchison was one of j ed to Atjhison, and some to farms. stopped at Waterville, one hundred _ 3
I Ingalls first visited Atchison the _, miles west of Atchison, and Kansas
'her boarders.
David Patton, of Atchiscn, also lived • Sunday following his arrival at Sum- - City became the leading town in this. ¥
4 in Sumner in 1858. So did his wife, who 'jner. The Sumner ferry boat ran up; section. Had Mr. Challiss' bill desig- ^
was Miss Ellen Young, who taught Tithe river to Atchiscn, and Ingalls was mating the route of the Paciuc ran- /
school there. Lift passenger. He took dinner at the read up the Republican valley not
' Archie Boler, father of Joe Boler, -Massasoit House, then operated by. I boon changed, Atchison would have
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also lived in Sumner in the old days, Tern Murphy.
and the old settlers say that Joe comes <? hotel and sat at the head of the table,
by his worthlessness honestly. When " B . F. Stringfellow sat next to Pease. secured a charter for the A^luson & ;_>
been what Kansas City is * " • £ - £ ;
the same ttRW that Mr. Challiss.. I B
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to John J. Ingalls went to Sumner, a There were only two brick houses in Pikes Peak road, he secured a charter , ^i
oo young man twentyfour, he took great I- Atchison then. One of them is the for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, r^T I—*
to
interest in such characters as Archie r present office of the Atchison Water his original idea being a southern r 00
Boler and Jonathan Gardner Lang. I Company. At the time of Ingalls' visit route to the Pacific, and that road j-
was a jug fisherman, melon raiser, | here the downstairs of that brick has fulfilled all his early expectations. |
 The first railroad to Kansas was
;the Atchison & St. Joseph, an ex-
tension of the Hannibal St St. Joseph
jfrom St. Joseph to Atchison, and this
was built by L. C. Challiss, the String-
| fellows, P. T. Abell, S. C. Pomeroy.
and Samuel Dickson. Later this road
was extended to Weston, as the At-
# chison & Weston, against Mr. Chal-
liss' protect, and still later it went
to Leavenworth and Kansas City.
ChBlliss always fought the extension
to Weston, but was overruled by his
associates, who claimed that it would
bring the North Missouri into the
city. The extension of the road to
Atchison was a hard blow to St. Joe,
as well as to Kansas City and Leaven-
worth, and Atcliison was more promis-
ing then, probably, than ever before
or since. Because of it, Atchison be-
came the leading freighting point to
the west, and secured the overland
mail route as well.
Mr. Challiss made a great deal of
money in Atchison, ana in 1864 drifted
to New Ycrk from Washington, and
he became an operator on the stock
exchange. Mi-. Challiss' sympathies
were with the south, and he was
generally a "bull." As long as the south
showed its ability to hold out, Mr.
Challiss made a great deal of money;
at one time he had on deposit in New
Ycrk $96,000, but the tide turned
against him when the south com-
,'menced to fail, and his fortune was
reduced to nothing.
As an operator on Wall Street at
that time, Mr. Challiss outranked Jim
Fiske and Jay Gould, and was the
peer of Anthony Morse and the Jerome
Jay Gould was a very common man
at that time, compared to Challiss,
and a very little thing might have
made Challiss instead of Gould the
Croesus of America.
An incident in the career of Mr.
Challiss in New York was the attempt
of Wcodhull & Claflin, to blackmail
him; he made a fight that is still
'remembered, and sent Woodhull &
J Claflin, Colonel Blood, Stephen Pearl
| Andrews and George Francis Train
J to jail, where they remained sis
months. Finally they left the country
as a result of a compromise. Mr.
Challiss' lawyers were Roger A. Pi-yor
and Judge Fullerton. The "Fullerton
quarter" in Atchison was the result
jOf the suit; Mr. Fullerton receiving
;it as a fee. Mr. Challiss also brought
I the famous Pacific mail suit, which
was equally famous.
Mr. Challiss returned to Atchison
in 1878, where he has since lived,
looking after the wreck of his former
possessions. For three years he edited
the Atcliison Champion, and his edi-
torials attracted so much attention
that people wondered who wrote them.
It finally became positively known
that Challiss himself wrote them, and
j they were certainly remarkable coming
from a man without early journalistic
j training. One of his feats as an editor
I was •swinging The Champion, famous
,'as a Republican paper, into line
against John J. Ingalls. Mr. Ingalls
was editor of the Champion while
Col. Martin was in the army, and did
the same thing in opposing Jim Lane
«l§ tfrL, SotattML This opposition lost
•^:
Colonel Martin a bngaaier genenu-
ship. After Colonel Martin's death, the land around him was taken. W e l - ^
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there was sort of Irony in the fact come Nance, Peter Cummings, John- J
that L. C. Challiss became editor of ;Taylor and the Widow Boyle, all still; >
(the Champion, and bitterly opposed i.October, living, were on their present farms inj r.
1854, except that Taylor lived''
Ingalls.
'near
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Dickerson, and afterward came in-J "i
h: P-. phalliss^Jiaying Jieenjibused : to possession of his present fine prop-1 j
' a good deal in Atcliison, it is worth lerty by "jumping" the claim of B. F. 2.
i mentioning as a matter of history istringfellow's father-in-law, who hadj {
! that he was largely responsible for !not complied with the law. The B. F ;
'making Atchison the terminus of the jstringfellow estate still owns most of £
| main line of the Hannibal & St. Joe ;the quarter section adjoining the Tay-> 3
! railroad. He brought J. Gould, Henry flor farm on the south, the south line 3;
|of which is within a stone's throw of ^
IN. Smith and Ben Carver to Atchison, 'A. B. Symns" residence and the Cath- ~j
and they agreed to extend the road olic monastery. Those mentioned above _
!from St. Joe to Atchison on con- are the only survivers of the settlement o
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sideration of $75,000 in Atchison bonds. of 1854 within a radius of ten miles f£
| This was agreed to. Challiss had had from Luther Dickerson's place. Andy ^
some sort of a deal with Henry N. Colgan did not come in uutil 1857.
:
Smith while they were both operating The settlers of 1854 were mostly from
on Wall street, and Challiss claimed Missouri. In 1855 was organized a band
that Smith owed him $170,000. They of South Carolinians, whose objective Si
finally settled the matter by Smith was to make Kansas a slave state. Then 00
agreeing to bring the Hannibal & St. followed the fierce and relentless fight
Joe road here without the $75,000 in ,with the Free State men, which ended
bonds the people had agreed to give tin 1357, so far as this section is con- ON
jcerneu; that is, in 1857. the Free State
him. men won control, and have practically
The Atchison Champion of May 11, kept it ever since. In the fall of the !
11872, contains a half column scare year the Free State men elected their
| head to the effect that L. C. Challiss ] county ticket. Luther Dickerson was
. telegraphs from New York that the I
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bridge at this point had been finally, chosen as one of the four county com- n
' secured. The paper gives the credit missioners, and was made chairman. o
; of securing the bridge to L. C. Challiss • We are not bold enough to print the fir;
and James N. Burnes. local history of that period, or of t h e S
period from 1857 to the close of the g-
Civil war, when the Jayhawkers were in TO
It is not definitely known who is the control. Many outrages were committed |i"1
"oldest inhabitant" of Atchison county. on both sides, and we have remarked Cr
The Kansas and Nebraska act, which that in interviews with survivors of the £<
opened the territory to settlement, was
finally adopted in congress in May, quarrel, men of both sides are willing to
1854, and a great many people at once leave the dead past undisturbed, which r?
we have accepted as an admission that
located in Kansas, particularly along there were excesses which neither party
the eastern border. Prior to May, 1854, approve of now. Either this is true, or
Kansas was Indian territory, and only time has softened the old quarrel, for
white men who held permits were al- we have noticed that men who were o
lowed here. fierce enemies during the decade ending
Luther Dickerson, who lives north of in 1864, are now best of friends, and o
town, and who is seen on the city mar- talk over old times with good nature.
ket every morning in summer, is gener- Luther Dickerson was a Free State
ally known as the "oldest inhabitant." man, and was fought by all the Mis- C/l
He came to this country in June, 1854, sourians and South Carolinians. His
immediately after the country was land was contested, and he was beaten
opened for settlement, from Saline in the land office, but he finally won f?
county, Missouri, where he had lived before the secretary of interior, by prov-
ten years. He went to Missouri from
ing that the woman who was contest-
Washington county, Ohio, where he was ing him was a foreigner. Hiram Letham,
born in 1825.
a Free State man who lived across the
• After looking over the Kansas coun- road from Dickerson, did not.get off so
try, Mr. Dickerson returned to Mis- well: he was murdered in Doniphan,
souri, but came back to Kansas the fol- and because of this murder, Frank Mc-
lowing October, and squatted on his Vey left the country, and never came
.present farm. George T. Challiss has back. The men who killed Letham were
I lived in Atchison continuously since ferried over Independence creek by
'August, 1854, but Mr. Dickerson was Dickerson, and noticing that they were
here the previous June, although he did armed, he asked where they were go-
not take up his actual residence in the ing. They said they were going wolf
county until October of that year. hunting.
From 1854 to 1857 were the "Squatter In 1858, Luther Dickerson was elected
Sovereign" days of which we have all amember of the house of representa-
heard so much; that is, a settler could tives which metTat Lecompton, and"
have no title further than the fact of then adjourned to Lawrence. L. C.
his settlement on the land he selected
as his home. Land offices were not es- Challiss was a member of the senate,
having held over from the time when
tablished until 1857, when the squatters
filed their claims, and began fighting the slavery men were in control. In the
over them. The first land office in this same year, while still a county commis-
section was in Doniphan. John W. sioner, Mr. Dickerson built the present
Whitfield, who was afterward In con- courthouse. P. T. Abell donated the
gress, was the register. About a year site; also block 10 which was sold and
later the land office was moved to the money used in building the court
(Kickapoo, just below Atchison. house.
When Mr. Dickerson squatted on his j A - G - Otis was county attorney when
claim in October, 1854, two-thirds* of [the Free State. men came into power,
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 INVITATION
T h e F i r s t Baptist Church of Atchison, K a n s a s will cele-
b r a t e its seventieth anniversary, August 5, 1928, and all mem-
bers and friends a r e cordially invited to be p r e s e n t a t a bas-
ket dinner which will he held a t t h e c h u r c h . T h e dinner will
be followed by an interesting p r o g r a m .
The F i r s t Baptist Church w a s organized in Allen's Hall,
which stood on the northwest corner of Second and Commer-
cial streets, by the following p e r s o n s :
Rev. L. A. Alderson and wife,
Mrs. Mary C. Challiss.
I. C. Allen and wife,
Aaron .Stephenson and wife,
T h o m a s Wise,
Williei foiee Inmlevy,
D r . \V. I* Challiss was added a few d a y s l a t e r .
In the a u t u m n of 1S59 a neat and substantial brick build-
ing, with a tower and bell, was completed on t h e corner of
Ninth street and K a n s a s avenue.
This w a s t h e first house of worship erected by t h e Bap-
tists of Kansas. Rev. h. A. Alderson w a s the first p a s t o r for
a period of t h r e e years.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 1928

MORNING WORSHIP, 10:45
Organ P r e l u d e .
Doxology.
Invocation.
Gloria I ' a t r i .
Hymn Xo. 113.
Scripture R e a d i n g .
Prayer.
Hymn No. 141.
Notices.
Offertory.
Quartet. "Love and Praise"—L. O. E m e r s o n .
M r s . A. W. Smith, Mrs. Carl Benson, Walker Taylor.
Roger Wilcox
Sermon. " T h e Contribution of the P a s t Seventy Years to the
F u t u r e of the Church"—By the P a s t o r .
Invitation Hymn No 121.
P r a y e r and Benediction.
Organ P o s t l n d e .
COMMUNION SERVICE

DINNER, 12:30 P . M.
Music by orchestra, led by Clifford Dickson.
H y m n , " P r a i s e God From Whom All Blessings Flow."
Prayer.

AFTER DINNER PROGRAM

H y m n No 1 5 1 .
Reminiscences by Mrs. C. B. Hole and Mrs. A. C. B r a d l e y .
Solo, "Come Ye Blessed "—John P r i n d l e Scott.
W a l k e r Taylor, with Flute Obligate by Clifford Dickson.
Reminiscenses by J o h n W. Barber, and o t h e r s .
Duet, Selected. Mrs. E . C. Boyington and W a l k e r T a y l o r .
Address by Rev. F . L. Streeter, K a n s a s City, K a n s a s .
H y m n N o . 187.
P r a y e r and Benediction.

B. Y. P. U. MEETING, 6:30 P. M.
 TRUSTEES' LETTER
To the Members of the Church
The trustees call your attention to the financial reports
for the first half of the current year. We think every member
of the church ought to know exactly how much money is
raised and how it is spent. We expect you to read these re-
ports carefully and prayerfully, and to ask yourselves how
can the church make its work more efficient in the next six
months.
We call your attention to several things that are absolute-
ly essential to the prosperity of the church: Loyalty in prayer,
loyalty in church attendance, loyalty in financial support, and
loyalty to the work of all departments of the church. If we
could have a greatly increased attendance at all our Sunday
services we would have no difficulty in "going over the top" in
all our undertakings. We feel that the joy of such loyalty is
ample reward for all sacrifices involved.
We find it necessary to spend considerable money immedi-
ately for repairs on the parsonage, for improving the young
people's building to make it suitable for use. and for the win-
ter's supply of coal which must be purchased soon. We call
for your hearty cooperation in meeting these additional obliga-
tions. Our work must not falter and it need not if all take
hold and help.
For the Trustees.
W. H . SAWTN, chairman

TREASURER'S SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT

Balance on hand. January 5. 1928 $5.47
Received to date
For current expenses $2350.34
Rents 115.00
Borrowed money 198.00
Special Easter offerins 211.71
Special offering for repairs 379.25
Special, ofher funds 117.90
Total $3372.20
Total S3377.67
Disbursements
Pastor's salarv $1133.00
Janitor 1 280.00
Music 330.00
Pearl Beanchamp 90.00
Improvements 441.04
Advertising 51.65
Week-Day School 90.00
Tax 29.88
Insurance 57.48
Light and gas 177.06
Bulletins -«• 112.15
Fuel 110.25
Borrowed money 100.00
Miscellaneous 356.02
$3358.53
Balance on hand 19.14
Total $3377.6T
A. A. BEXXETT. Treasurer.
 REPORT OF MISSIONARY TREASURER
F r o m J a n u a r y 1st, 1928, to J u l y 1st, 1928
Receipts $1907.87
Remitted to J . T . Crawford 1007.37

Estimated No. of c o n l r i b u t o i s f<> Current Expense 250

Estimated No. of contributors hi Missions 307
Amount contributed for .Missions. J a n u a r y 1 to July
1 . $1!M 17.87
P E A R I , r.E.U"<'IIA.Mr. Missionary T r e a s u r e r .

DIRECTORY OF CHURCH OFFICERS

P a s t o r — R e v . J . I I . AVoodsum, 321 X . 3rd, Phone 002.
Moderator— R . AV. R a m s a y , 013 L a r a m i e , I'lione OSS.
C l e r k — M r s . A . C. B r a d l e y , 1525 A t c h i s o n , Phone 2149AV.
T r e a s u r e r — A . A . B e n n e t t , Business A d d r e s s , 50S Coml.
Missionary T r e a s u r e i — M i s s Pearl B e a u c h a m p , 118 N . 5 t h .
D e a c o n s — W a r r e n Cnderwuod '2S, S . J . Blytlie J r . '2$. \V. U .
A r m s t r o n g ' 2 S , J . AV. B a r l i e r ' 2 0 , A . A . Bennett '20 (ciiair.
m a n ) , I I I Gould '20, Floyd Cole '30, C. 1*. Brudinsj '30,
G . C. VonXieda "30, I t . AV. Ramsay ' 3 1 , T . E . Garvcy ' 3 1 .
Chas. Bender '31.
Trustees— It. V. Wilcox - 2S, AV. E . Go'-ke 28, \V. H . Smvin '28,
R . AV. Ranisny '20, Bert B a r b e r '2ft, T . J . Ritner '29 (chair-
man I . Hazen Scliaffer '30, AVarren Allen '80. Ham Gel-
wicks '30.
Sunday S c h o o | _ S u p t . , T . E . G a r v e y : S e c , Miss Mary T a y l o r :
T r e a s . , George M c K i n n e y .
W o m a n s ' Auxiliary—President, M r s . R . AV. R a m s a y , 013 E a r
amie S t . , phone 0S3-
Division L e a d e r s — N o . 1, M r s . Geo. Mover, 511 T S t . , N o .
2, M r s . Chas. Symns, Forest Park; No. 3. Mrs. B. E.
F o r e y , 14J7 A t c h i s o n ; N o . 4, M r s . E. A. Holbrook, H 1 7
N . 4th.
W o m a n s ' Missionary S o c i e t y — P r e s i d e n t , M r s . T . J . R i t n e r ,
. 925 N . Gth, P h o n e 2096.
King's D a u g h t e r s — P r e s i d e n t , M r s . Emil Wolf, Phone 2577.
B. Y. P. U . — P r e s i d e n t , George J a c k s o n , 1537 Coml.
Baptism C o m m i t t e e — M r s . AVarren Allen. Airs. 11. Crawford,
AA'arren Underwood, M r . and M r s . A . A . B e n n e t t . ,
Dorcas C o m m i t t e e — M r s . Vernon B r i t t , 1016 L a r a m i e .
Finance C o m m i t t e e — R . AV. R a m s a y , A. A . B e n n e t t , Hazeu
Schaffer, T h o m a s G a r v e y , Miss Pearl B e a u c h a m p .
House C o m m i t t e e — ( F o r T r u s t e e s ) R . AV. R a m s a y , M r s . T .
J . R i t n e r , M r s . R . V . AV.lcox, F . J . Cole.
Music Committee—Miss E v a Taylor, Roger AArilcox, Sam
Blythe J r .
O r g a n i s t — M r s . G. R . W h i t e , 837 K a n s a s A v e . , Phone 2500.
Choir Director— M r s . Carl B e n s o n , P h o n e 2655J.
O r c h e s t r a Director—George J o h n s o n , P h o n e 688.
Head U s h e r - F . J . Cole.
Editor Church Bullet n — M r s . S. J . B l y t h e , J r . , Phone 2121.
Janivior—Jackson H o d g e s . P h o n e 1374.
 and resigned, John M. Price being ap- the growth and prosperity oi me StringfeHow, C. H..Fairchild, Peter
pointed in his place. Sunflower state. J". Abell, S. C. Pomeroy, L. D. Bird,

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Luther Dickerson raised the first
company of soldiers ever organized in
the state of Kansas: In May, 1861. The
ORGANIZED IN I860 [F. L. Crane, Jacob Safford, and R.
' M. WeightaQ.au—«acfr subscribed
The Santa Pe railway, was or- $4,000 and organized the parent I
first military order issued in the state
was directed to Luther Dickerson, sign-
ganized in 1860, less than year pre- Santa Fe line. HolSday was- elected
ceding the advent of statehood for president; the others comprised the I
ed by John A. Martin, assistant ad- the Kansas Territory. There is a j directorate.
H jutant general. While Dickerson's com- striking parallel in the early devel- * « :
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o pany was the first company organized, opment of Kansas and the Santa During the following year, the
SJ
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it happened that his commission as Fe. Civil wax disrupted national af-
captain was the second issued. The fairs, and Holliday's efforts again
I' commission was signed by Governor In 1860, Kansas territory had • were stalemated!.. Troubled' years
Charles Robinson before the state had
an official seal. Afterwards, Mr. Dick-
erson served in the regular volunteer
Ten years later, with the Santarjsr VPV~ter^=?- - - s ..v-« iiiii.il i l O \ "

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service as first lieutenant.
Fe's construction well under way. ember, 1868, that ground was brok-
the population of Kansas had in- en at Topeka for the beginning of
creased to 364,399 persons. Of the the Santa Pe. On August, 1870, the m
I
I Tuesday, September 3, 1940. 48.000.0CO acres which today com- line was extended to Emporia; in
Mrs. C. B. Hole is quite ill with prise the farms of Kansas, the July, 1871, to Newton; and during
acreage under cultivation in the . 1872, to Atchison, Hutchinson,
heart trouble. early 60's was comparatively negli- j Great Bend, Lamed and Dodge
— * gible. City. On December 28, it reached

I SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1940. the Colorado line.

In 1866, Kansas harvested 69,000 . The building of the Santa Fe was
I Tlie Women's Missionary society acres of wheat, a yield of 1.292.00C \ a private undertaking. Holliday
t
!of St. Mark's Lutheran church met bushels;. corn — ,production« totaled
»•»»«» 6•,- sought and was refused govern- 00
| Thursday afternoon in the church L 076.000 bushels, harvested from 217,- mental aid in the form of bonds
j parlors for the regular monthly F* O00 a c r e s . There were 7,000 acres of and credit. -From the outset, both
as | meeting. Mrs. Leslie Long, president j n a y a n d 55.000 planted to oats. In the state of Kansas and the Santa
•of the society, had charge of the'^ 1 8 6 7 * Kansas had on feed and or. Fe seemingly had a purpose to ful-

1 devotional period as well as of the j ra nge, 377,000 cattle, 147,000 sheep fill and no obstacle proved a deter-
business. Mrs. J. G. Zimmerman! a n d 330,000 hogs.
conducted the lesson and Mrs. Paul' Few w
ment. Colonization and develop-
ere aware, in 1866, that the ment accompanied each newly con-
a
n
| Tonsing gave an interesting resume j Arkansas Valley lands were capable i structed suuciea rail-mile.
rail-mile. Dodge
Dodge Cit: City
of the missionary work in India. An j£ o f producing excellent crops. Most ) quickly usurped the railroad prom
8 especially enjoyable feature of the! prospective settlers looked upon inence for the Texas cattle drives,
o program was a reading. "Story of j K a n s a s a « Henry Clay earlier had Settlers, encouraged and transport-

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an Indian Laceworker," given by I ^ r e S a r d e d Illinois. The statesman "j ed by the road, steadily moved in-
Miss Mabel Fink, who was dressed j s a i d of Illinois, " the land in I - J to the newly opened territory, Much 1
in the costume of a native woman j i s utterly worthless for any present^ of the public lands east of Emporia
f of India. Mrs. J. M. Schott was'?P P°se— ur nt)t
because it is not fer- | had been taken up prior to the
the hostess for the meeting and at J t i I e . b u t i ° r want of wood anc. construction of the Santa Fe. West-
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its close she served refreshments. water, and from the fact that it it, *• w a rd, a survey was undertaken by
' inaccessible, wanting all facilities the Santa Fe's land and immigra-
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1940. for reaching a market, so that no- i tion department, and by the close f
F — —-; body will go there and settle while j of 1872, settlers had located a total
\ . it is so destitute of all the advan- J of 250,637 acres. •M

to
Publicity for ' tages of society and the conven- «j To the fertile region, of present-
iences which arise from a social j day Marion, Newton and McPher-
state."
West
. J son, the.. Santa Fe brought, direct
A i l * i of Emporia, a detailed sur- *l from Russia, thousands of indus- O
vey nad not been made indeeti jt trious, substantial Mennonttes. In o
c/a Jl¥$Pillicit!? lH i - '
1875, Carl B. Schmidt of Lawrence, OS
r%IWllIwwll i l l Iwas Santa Fe construction * crews 4 had been dispatched to Europe by
PS
demanding a location of the Colo the Santa Fe's land department. 8
p rado line that encouraged govern- J Schmidt visited Mennonltes inPrus—
ment engineers, in 1872, definitely i sia and southern Russia. Crowds
Santa Fe Sends to locate Kansas' western boundary. K greeted him in public halls and.
O u t Story O n FORMED IN ATCHISON listened with deep interest to his
Cyrus Kurtz Holliday, lawyer, descriptions of Kansas. Schmidt: as
H i s t o r y Of L i n e Pennsylvanian, visioned and found- visited other European points, ln.-
The Santa Fe Railway News Bu- ed the Santa Fe railway. Holliday cluding south Germany and Switz
I reau has sent the following infor- came overland to the Kansas terrioi /• erland. Of Berdiansk, the chief port
8
f
tory in 1854, founded the City
t mation to every newspaper in the ' Topeka and immediately set aboUi. ! for the Mennorrite colonies on the
midwest, and it is a splendid ad- fulfilling his greatest ambition—to J Sea of Azof, Schmidt later wrote:
vertisement for Atchison as well as iink by rail the far outpost's of his- "1 "It was from this port that, four
for the great railroad system: months after my visit, a Red Star PS
o toric Santa Fe Trail. Holliday was O
September 17 at Atchison, offi- beset with many handicaps In- , Line steamer carried a full' cargo of
fr cials of the Santa Fe railway and cluding a lack of funds and a lack j household goods, farm implements, ¥
i of Kansas, will join with some 25,- of public interest in his project.
000 visitors to celebrate the 80th
wagons, and personal property of
four hundred families; consigned to»
In 1853; BaHiday drew up his own Newton, Kansas."' m o
anniversary of the founding of the charter. It passed the territorial E
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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe legislature on February 2' of that FIRST BRANCH^
Railway.. Company. The event year. The following year, on Sept
promises^ to be a highlight in the 'ember IT, im a small brick building Kansas' development, particularly
>
The Mennonites' contribution to I
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^ - ° ^ - f - K a n s a i s a n d t h e railway-I in -&teWsQi£ Hbflfday me* with in, the hirtrodjietioir and" propaga-, J°
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00 $&??VJ* d .,tts. Inception in Kansas I Luther C. CBaniss,, Joel Huatoon, E. tisn of haT* whee* varietiBs; and]
iS2y5l!£&lks .contributed much to s GL Boss, Mitton 'ft. Dickey^, £ H. tSieefevsraas^of Kansas; to t&»,n*:f
• " • ' ' " — — * * • •" ' " - ' • ' • " ^ ' • _ - j ^ _ • _ y j £ ± ~ L_ JL i _
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 I tim* ranking wheat proaucmg. g ^ o f entertainment, parades,
state, cannot be minimized.
The first Santa Pe branch line. plays.
band concerts and fireworks dis- ;
I
Newton to Wichita, was constructed
in the spring of 1872. The branch
j from Florence down the Walnut TUESDAY, ' SEPTEMBER 10. 1940.
*
I ' Valley to El Dorado, was placed in
l operation about July, 1877. In 1879, Weather conditions Sunday night
j the branch from Emporia was built caused two display windows at
. through Eureka to the south line Tonsing's book store to expand and
of Greenwood county and then ex- crack at the corners. The windows
tended to Howard. The branch to were replaced with new ones yes-
Wichita was continued in that year terday.
to Mulvane where it subsequently MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 16, 1940.
3 extended two ways: to Wellington
> and Caldwell and the county line,
reached in 1880; and to Winfield
thence due south to Arkansas City
near the border of Indian Territory.

I Branches to Marion and McPher-

son were added in 1879.
Meanwhile, the Santa Pe had ex-
tended westward to Pueblo and
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Santa Fe. From its eastern term-
inal, Kansas City, the road inter-j
•la- changed passengers and freight;
with various railways converging at i
the Missouri rived. Thousands of;
tonrists were transported into and •
.across Kansas.
•SI Kansas became the feeding
ground for livestock destined from
Texas and the Southwest to mar-

I kets at Kansas City, St. Joseph, St.

Louis, Omaha, and Chicago; and
i Kansas products were being ship-
ped to national markets.

r KANSAS THE LOCALE

As the road grew, Kansas be-
came the locale for its shops, gen-
-r eral offices and widespread activi-
ties. Apprentices, particularly in
the mechanical phase of operation,
were trained in Topeka by a system

f developed only on the Santa Fe,

and as experienced mechanics were
transferred throughout the system j
lines. ' I
8 On January 1, 1940. the Santa Fe §
C/3 comprised a total of 13.443 miles, all i
under one management. The once 1
p
tiny road, laboring westward from I
Topeka, today extends from Chica- I
go to the Gulf of Mexico, and to I
the Pacific ocean. '
Kansas, too, has gone far. On and the float on which she "rode in
January 1 last, the state had on The theme in Atchison this week]
is the history of transportation.1 that parade.- That was a joyous day.
feed a total of 3,851,000 cattle (all), Two years later came gloom—Amelia I—*

1,519.000 hogs, and 690,080 sheep, Aviation is a development in trans- o\

and lambs. During 1939, Kansas]
8 harvested 111,657,000 bushels of]
wheat, 45,2QO;GO0 bushels of com, j
21,173,000 bushels of oats, 1,649,000 J
;tons of tame and wild hay, 7,480,- j
o ' 008 bushels of barley, and 1L186.0001
bushels of grain sorghum—figures
considerably under production for
g " 193V. rreflTniirary figures; give the
state of Kansas a 1940 population
of 1,798,8155 persons.
Governor Payne Ratner and a
group of Kansas state officials are
expected to-fee-in AtcitisoB Septem-
! ber IT, as vrfE Presirijent BE f. Bftiger
00 ! of ia» Santa B* and ether execu-
I tiresoff the) ifce, FreparBfifcns have
portation. In truth, a startling de- Earhart'! plane became lost in the
velopment. Kansas people cannot
think of aviation without thinking of
Southern Pacific ocean. She and the
plane were never seen again. The I
valiant, charming Amelia Earhart,
who perished in behalf of aviation,
last message received from the plane
was on July 2,- 1937. The death of
Amelia Earhart was a sacrifice to
I
and before her death had become
the world's most famous aviatrlx. • progress. Progress has ever been §
painful, and often times has record-
Amelia Earhart was born and reared
ed fatalities.
in Atchison. The house in which she^ Time marches onl n
was born is at 223 North Terrace,
and is owned and occupied by Mr.
and Mrs. George Wolf. Mr. Wolf
Is assistant cashier of the Exchange
g
"National bank. Amelia Earhart was -J
Atchison's guest June "7, 1935. A
: great parade was given in her honor.
(The above picture shows Amelia

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Al^-^iSgffPfe.ted: fb'r^a fulfday's pro-

Mrs. C. B. Hole Dies
At Home Hear Effingham
Mrs. Ethel Martin Hole, 62, wife '
of Charles B . Hole, died a t 3:45
o'clock yesterday morning a t h e r ; ?
home, four miles southeast of Ef-,
fingham. s h e was the daughter of
Col. John A. Martin of Atchison,
tenth governor of Kansas, and Mrs.
Martin, and spent most of her life-
time in Atchison city and county.
Death was due to a heart attack.
Mrs. Hole had been ill about a year
and a half.
The body will be taken to the
residence tomorrow morning from
the Sawin & Douglass mortuary
here. .There will be short service at ^
the home a t 1:30 p. m. tomorrow
(Tuesday) with the funeral service -
at 2 p. m. a t the Methodist church
in Monrovia. The Rev. Hubert L.
sparks and the Rev. Phonce M i t c h - ^
ell will officiate. Burial will be in
the Monrovia cemetery.
A graduate of the Emporia S t a t e " '
Teachers' college, Mrs. Hole taught
the Good Intent district school f o r i
one term, 1902-3. Her marriage to
Mr. Hole occurred at the Martin
home, 315 North Terrace, in Atchi-
son September 2. 1903. At the time
Mr. Hole was a teacher in the rural i
schools of the county. The couple
lived in Atchison for a few months
and then moved to a farm near
Steele City, Neb., where they made
their home six years. Returning to
this county they settled on the
farm which they later purchased.
Ethel Martin Hole was born in
Atchison September 6, 1878. Her
father, prominent Atchison editor
and soldier, was governor of K a n -
sas from 1885 to 1889. Her mother
was Ida Challiss Martin.
Before going to Emporia Mrs.
Hole attended Midland college.
She was prominent in the state
federation of women's clubs and
was a member of the Home Makers
club of Effingham and the Wom-
en's Methodist Missionary society.
Jl While Mrs. Hole was a life-long
* member of "the First Baptist church,;
ON Atchison, she worked in the Meth-!
-J
odist Sunday schools of Effingham;
and Monrovia because they werej
nearer her home. She was teacher
of t h e adult Bible class of the Mon-
rovia Methodist ohurch when not
9 prevented by illness.
o Throughout both the Effingham
and Monrovia communities she
¥ stood high in the love and esteem
of everyone who knew her.
Surviving are her husband; three
sisters, Mrs. Paul G. Tonsing,
Atchison, Mrs. Clayton Settle,
Strong City^'and Mrs. George J .
~0
Mauck, Oklahoma City, and two
brothers, Pattf A. -Martin, managing
to
edfto^of;theState Journal, Lansing,
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Martin, Atchison.
Jimmy Tonsing got two fingers in 0Z7 I
his dad's printing press Saturday,
and they were mashed quite badly.
There will be no permanent ill ef-
fects.
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ngyished Guests Begin /
Arriving For Santa Fe Days I
Celebration—Opens Tonight -J
Traif-O-Rama And Coronation
Ball Features Today—Big
Parade On Tuesday Morning 00
S a n t a F e officials f r o m C h i c a g o a n d . T o p e k a b e g a n to j i
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ri i n A t c h i S O n t o d a y as the city r e a d i e d itself for the
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big Trail-O-Rama pageant tonight at Amelia Earhart s
stadium, to be followed by the Coronation Ball at St. Bene-
diet's gym at which Johnny "Scat" Davis and his famous- I R
band will provide the music. !
Also the city is marking time for the full day of fes-
tivities tomorrow—the dedication of a Santa Fe engine bell j
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in front of Memorial hall at 10:30, the gigantic parade at: (A
11, the wild west show at the stadium at 2:30, the fire-
works show at the stadium at 7 o'clock, and another.
k
i ihnny Davis dance at St. Benedict's gymn at 9:30.
The Trail-O-Rama, in which nearly half-a-thousand
Boy Scouts and Haskell institute Indians wll participate,
will start promptly this evening at 7:30 o'clock at the'
stadium. to
i Strong City, and Mrs. George 7 r
STfo ffaigag (Titg l i m e s . Mauck, Oklahoma City, and two
brothers, Paul A. Martin, managing
editor of the State Journal, Lansing, cr>
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1940. Mich, and Harry Martin, Atchison.
MRS. ETHEL M. HOLE DIES. : 8
She W a s D a u g h t e r of a F o r m e r : A THRONG TO ATCHISON
Governor of K a n s a s .
(By The Star's Own Service.) C I T Y EXPECTS 25,000 FOR BIG
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ATCHISON, KAS., Sept. 15.—Mrs. j
Ethel Martin Hole, daughter of Col.!
SANTA FE CELEBRATION.
ON
John A. Martin, t e n t h governor of j
Kansas, died a t 3:45 o'clock this O
morning at her home near Effing- T h e 2-Day F e t e , B e g i n n i n g Today,
ham, Kas. She h a d spent most of AVill .Mark t h e R a i l r o a d ' s E
her lifetime in Atchison city and
county. She had been ill about
eighteen months. Death was due to
a h e a r t attack.
Eightieth
Anniversary.
Birthday
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ATCHISON, KAS., Sept. 15.—It is
Mrs. Hole was born in Atchison n
and was educated a t Midland college estimated t h a t 25,000 people—twice
f
I
and t h e Emporia -State Teachers' the population of Atchison—will con-
college. I n 1903 she was married to
Charles B. Hole, a school teacher A
few years later they bought a farm
verge on this city tomorrow a n d
Tuesday for t h e eightieth birthday
and had lived on it since. She was anniversary of the S a n t a Fe rail-
prominent in the Kansas Federation road, founded here in 1860.
of Women's Clubs and taught in i AH preparations are complete to
Sunday schools at Effingham and I receive the incoming throng. Among
Monrovia, Kas. the distinguished visitors will be
CO
Surviving besides her husband are Govern^ Rattier,Harry,.Hi'^ood-
three sisters, Mrs. Paul G. Tonsing
Atchison: Mrs. Clayton Settle ring.. : | d g | ^ J , v E n ^
^_,.iiJsi&.-<-»'lJ'"*i**- lifS—l»1»n I. '•• ' '••"" —";
 i n c ^rtiji.a r e , a n u £.. £*.
general counsel for the Santa Fe.
All of these men will take part in
the closing program of the celebra-
tion at Amelia Earhart stadium
$ Tuesday night.
Miss Aloha Helton, 1,7-year-old
Atchison girl, will preside as queen
of the celebration. She will be
crowned at the coronation ball to-
morrow night in the St. Benedict's
college gymnasium. She was elected
for the- honor by popular vote and
her attendants will be the run-
ners-up in the voting, Miss Mary
Lou Thorpe and Miss Rosemary Utz.
The program for the celebration—
Miss ALOHA HELTON, 17, ATCHI-
SON HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT, WHO
WAS ELECTED BY POPULAR VOTE TO
B E QUEEN OF ATCHISON'S SANTA F E
DAYS. SHE WILL BE CROWNED AT A
CORONATION BALL SEPTEMBER 16.
call«d "Santa Fe Days"—will open
tomorrow night with a Trail-O-
Rama in the stadium.
Tuesday's festivities will start with
the dedication of a Santa Fe rail-
road memorial on the lawn of Me-
morial hall at 10:30 o'clock and will
be followed immediately by a parade
two miles in length which will fea-
ture a pageant of transportation.
There will be Indians, covered
wagons, people In early day costumes
and many other things to recall the
pioneer days of Atchison.
In the afternoon there will be a
wild west show. Starting at 7 o'clock
at night will be the big birthday
party in the. stadium..
ttttiiiiiiitt,
Mrs. Hole was a capable presi-
t*»*- dent of the Homemakcrs elub in
Effingham. She was literary mind-
M n . Charles H o l e
ed, read a great deal and used her
Mr*. Ohas B. Hole passed away inherited ability from her father
at her home south of Monrovia as a writer to great advantage.
I
Sunday anorning at 3:43.
The entire life of the deceased
Death was due to heart trouble
was an open scroll, inviting the H
that was reused by a sinus infect-
ion that began a year ago. She
closest scrutiny.
Her mother the late Miss Ida
I
I
had takes many treatments in Kan-
Ghallis came from one of Atchison's '
sas City for the trouble. Two yean
stauncbest, most highly respected
ago Mn. Hole underwent an opera-
citizens. She was a beautiful 3.
tion for another eilment and that
proved effective. character, so with the background
of sueh parents Mrs. Hole certainly
Ethel Martin, the daughter of the
would be expected to be firm in >3
late Gov. and Mrs. John A. Martin,
principle, blameless ia conduct,
was born in Atchison. She cele-
stainless in reputation, a perfect 9
brated her 62nd birthday anniver-
lady, good Christian womaa and *S
sary Sept. 6
she was all that.
A graduate of the Emporia State
Surviving beside her husband "_
Teachers college, Mrs. Hole taugbt;
are the following sisters and broth- j£
the Geod Intent district stboel for
one term, 1902 3. Before going to ers: Mrs. Grace Mauck, Oklahoma
Emporia Mr*. Hole Bttended Mid- City, Okla; Paul Martin, Lans- H 3
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laud oollegf. ing. Mich.; Mrs. Faitb * 4Ste*le t
SUOO| City; Mrs. Paul Tonsing and %
Her marriage to Mr. Hole took
Harres Martin, of Atehisen.
plaoe Sept.j3. 87 years ago. The
first year after their marriage Mr. Funeral services for Mrs. Hole
and Mrs. Hole lived at SteeU^Nebr.. j were held In the Methodist Church, 3
on a farm. Coming from there to In Monrovia, Tuesday afternoon,
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the home where Mrs. Hole's death the Rev. Hubert Sparks, Baptist tr
occurred. With the exception of pastor of Atchison conducting the n
three years retirement spent in service with the assistance of the
MuBCOtah Mr. and Mrs. Hole had Rev. Phonce Mitchell, pastor of the &
lived continuously on their home Methodist church ia Monrovia.
farm. Mrs. Mitchell sang Shadows and
Mrs. Hole early in life united Crossing the Bar; Rev and Mrs. a
v
with the Baptist church in Atchi- Sparks, He Knows. ^ Mrs. Wra to
son. True to her faith was she, Sharp played the accompaniments.
yet broad enough minded to be an Interment was made ia the Mon-
on
ardent worker in other ohurohes rovia cemetery with Andrew Wal-'j
since the church of her choice was ton, Louis Routh, of Muscotah; John
not located nearby. Snyder, Ralph Olson, Win Sharp
She labored in the Methodist and Carl Tuley acting as body
church in Effingham, altio with the bearers.
same denomination in Monrovia. i*
While in Muscotah she was equally
V\
interested in church activities there, j
Out of town" persons attending-'
the funeral services of Mrs. G. b.,
|1 Mrs. Hole had acted in the cap-
Hole were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Day,jjf
acity of Bible teacher, Sunday
1 of Superior, Nebr.; Mrs. Faith Settle^
school and Missionary superintend*
0
ents, and never once shirked a duty. Strong City; Mrs. Paul Tonsing, Mrs?
In fact Mrs Hole performed church Nina Bradley, Mr. and Mrs. Harre* •
work when she was not physically Martin, Atchison; Mr. and Mrs.'
able to do so.. She had e wonder- Bob't Tonsing, Wichita; Messrs an* •
ful Biblical knowledge and hot onal ,Mesdames Frtd Walton, Aadrevl
j Walton and .Louis Ruth; Muscotah,J
v.-r*^iaui . ^f-~r
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 NSAS CITY STAR. MONDAY,
% ; SEPTEMBER 16, 1940 in a 2-mile parade
picting the history
of venicies ue-
of transporta- on September 17, I860. Present to
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tion fro n oxcarts and covered wag- i fedicate the polished bronze bell to
ons to the streamlined vehicles of the city 0 I A t c h l s o n were Edward
CLOCK BACK 80 YEARS today. ,' J. Engel o f C h l c a g 0 ) p r e s ( d e n t
Tonight's wild west program will
Include a re-enactment of the spike- Sar, rFne: sBrUCe H u r d oi
Topeka,-
I ATCHISON BEGINS THE 2-DAY driving ceremony that seventy-eight V olic
'tor, and a score o

I SANTA FE CELEBRATION. years ago celebrated the rail head of

Beards and Billowing Skirts Give will be Indians from thr—Haskell
I Color to the Festival Which
Marks Anniversary
Founding of Railroad.
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Aloha Helton, Atchison high school
IBy a Member of The Star's Stall.)
ATCHISON, KAS., Sept. 16.—This festival.
old, unhurried city, one of the first
settlements in the state, turned back |
eighty years today as the 2-day an
a
00
- niversary celebration of the found
ing the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe railroad got underway.
. Visitors from throughout North-
ON eastern Kansas and Northwestern
Missouri were pouring into the city,
"' LANSING, MICHJ
almost doubling the town's normal . « m T » m r n j n r n i£
8 population of 15,000 persons. Flags L
the Santa Fe here. Taking part
In the historically accurate tableau
rai^oad officials from Chicago and
Topeka and other points along the
line. In his dedicatory, address,
Hurd called attention to the Interest
Institute. From the Ft. Leaven- displayed .by the city ,.1 celebration
worth post museum have come prop-
erties to lend an authentic historical
of the anniversary of the Santa Fe
and establishing "an everlasting re-
flavor to the pageant. At a ball minder of that historic event."
following the tableau, 17-year-old A FITTrNG MEMORIAL.
senior, will be crowned queen of the "This 70-year-old bell saw active
service with our company in the
1870s, less than a decade after the
first track was laid from Topeka
to Atchison," Hurd said. "We of
the Santa Fe believed nothing could
be more appropriate than this bell
that saw Atchison grow from a
straggling village to a prospering
city, the,state of Kansas develop
J from a barren prairie to a great
•^ state and the Santa Fe railroad grow
SEPTEMBER
TfL4/)from«a few miles of track to the
lO, LrW\ longest railroad system in the United

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and gay bunting were strung over
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ihe intersection of Commercial and SISTER OF PUBLISHER

States."
The gift was accepted for the city,
U,
Seventh streets, the hub of the busi- by T. E. Garvey, chairman of the
DIES AT KANSAS HOME a; Atchison County board of commis-
O ness district. si „(„„„... T_
sloners. In a flaming red and green
f Display windows in most of the
•stores were crammed with antiques Word was received in Lansing
and relics of the days when the Sunday of the death at her farm the sedately attired Santa Fe offi-
d plaid pioneer shirt, Garvey thanked
(2.
Pony Express pounded out from home near Effingham, Kan., of Mrs. cials and told them that Atchison
Atchison and into the West. Ethel M. Hole. Mrs. Hole was a sister liked to think of itself as "the seed
of Paul A. Martin, publisher of The from which the 13.463 miles of Santa
RESIDENTS I N THE SWING.
a . State Journal She had been ill for Fe track has grown during the last
Only the visitors were clean- 9 several years, her condition having eighty years."
shaven and short-skirted. Atchi- • been critical since early summer. The bell monument placed on theI O J J - C )
^ son's men went grinning about their Prior to her marriage she was a well- l£wn
yffairs in 6-week-old beards and known school teacher in that sec- Sailors'inMemorial front of the Soldiers' and
hall on Commer-
10-gallon frontier hats. Women ' tion of Kansas, while all through cial street was unveiled by Miss
.shopped and strolled in massive her life she was actively engaged in Aloha Helton, 17-year-old queen of
punbonnets and billowing skirts. - 1 club and church work. She was mar- the celebration. « , '
a - The formal program of the Santa ried September 2, 1903, to Charles
Fe Days festival will get underway B. Hole, who survives her. There PARADE IS ON.
eK*—I
tonight when a great pageant de- i were no. children. Mrs. George J. The big "pageant of transporta-
picting the early days of Atchison's , Mauck, a sister of Mrs. Hole, from tion" parade swung down Commer- l&UJ.
history is presented in Amelia Ear- •Oklahoma City, Okla., is visiting at cial street past the unveiled me-
8 h'krt stadium by 450 Boy Scouts , Sir. Martin's home here. The funeral ._morial .,
and the
reviewing stand.
C/5 from Northeastern Kansas.
Tomorrow marks the eightieth ' ' M l be held Tuesday, with burial in Leading the way was a detachment
1
luuiuuuw inarms uie nguucui i ft*" family, plat at the Atchinson I of motorcycle police and a mounted' ' .
K anniversarj' of the founding of the cemetery. ^ ^ ___ ^ J color guard, and following closely ^^Tk^-
Santa Fe railroad. It was on Sep- ' """'"••««•'" —— u n jts of the American Legion ^ " * ,

ON
tember 17, 1860, that Cyrus KurtzTT A V S A S C I T Y S T A R . . . , - „
KoUiday, a lawyer who had c o m e ^ T * ^ O A -
overland from Pennsylvania, met C {±UI:
in. a smallassociates
business office hereandwith twelve *?
organized
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" p p r p p ^ r - p - p - p 1 7 ICM/V
L I , L f t t U . borne
and a

college by
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and

uniformedLed
students.
—i
daughters of legion-
Slant American flaf
St.byBenedict's
the 65-
p. '

thje road that was to connect the * IN BOND WITH ATCHISON piece Santa Fe band that arrived
Eiist with the West. Two years
Li here on special train from Topeka tf—
8 Inter, as president of the railroad,
Holliday saw the rails move out • SANTA FE HONORS', CITY IN pj this morning came the score or
I ;
ixonx Topeka and into the town in 1
v^hich the project had been con-
• ieived.
WHICH IT WAS FOUNDED. more of historical floats and relics.
Thousands of persons lined the f t
i roped-off "sidewalks to cheer the :
SANTA F S PRESIDENT TO VISIT. 70-Year-Old Locomotive Bell '"" marchers and the bands. /
f Tomorrow morning Edward J.
Engel of Chicago, president of the
oanta Fe, will visit the town In
Set on Stone Monument Is
Dedicated—Thousands
See Bis Parade.
Tonight in the stadium the annf- '
/ versary celebrators will hear a
g which his road was founded and | k
join Gov. Payne Ratner of Kansas
birthday" address by E. E. Mc-
k Innls of Chicago, general counsel for1 t a - ' v t -
the Santa Fe, and a greeting from
I and Mayor William B. Hayes of
Atchison in dedicating the Santa Fe
(Bjr a Member of The Star'i Staff.) I. Edward J. Engel, president of the
ATCHISON, KAS., Sept. 17. — With 1 road, and Governor Katner of Kan- j
memorial, a giant locomotive bell, on
f the dedication of a 70-year-old loco- "~sas. The 2-day festival, will cul-
-J the! lawn of Memorial hall. Follow- minate at a ball at the St. Benedict's 1 Q>
ri^'flng-.the dedication ceremonies, Atch- jf motive bell set on a stone monument gymnasium. • - '"*'* .r- ' • K-**-*—
*^.w«-«M««*«oni!ei^ and the thou [[marker, the Santa Fe railroad bete The Santa Fe special train bear-
&S%will participate L ^ V . P^W tribute to the; 'citj^in 1 f ing officials of the road and more
SS ' " * " J * - - ' - 1 w W ^ „ f e y a ? L ? y s t e m ^w_aj|^iQU^di!*;"""** members of the Topeka ^
 I Chamber of uommercewas met at
I 3G-
the station by the 60-piece Atchison
'high school band and a delegation
of business leaders headed by Frank
G. Todd, president of the Atchison
Chamber of Commerce.
Atchison, Kansas,
§ Squatter Was George Million
Tuesday, September 17, 1940.
I: The funeral of Mrs. Charies B.
i Hole was held this afternoon from
the Methodist church in Monrovia
with burial in the Monrovia ceme-
to j tery. The pallbearers were: Andrew
-J • Walton, Louis Routh, John Snyder.
! William Sharp, Ralph Olson and
] Carl Tulley. Sawin & Douglass were
! lit charge.
t Early Days In
Atchison
B
id
No Pink Tea
1/ Frank A. Root in his book, "The
Overland Stage to California," writes
Si interestingly of the early days in
I Atchison, an eye-witness account.
The following is a condensation of
I
er
his recollections.
There were only a few hundred;
people in Atchison in the spring of
<L 1859, he records. In all, there were;
but four brick buildings on Commer-
cial street. West of Sixth there were
r but few scattering dwellings and
perhaps a dozen business houses
and shops.
a, The road along Commercial street
west of Sixth was quite crooked, for
to it had not been graded, and the
O street was full of stumps and rem-;
O nants of a thick growth of under-!
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brush that had previously been cut. j
Atchison was a dirty hole in the j
8 early '60s, before any macadamizing j
was done. John J. Ingalls, while do- |
ing editorial work on the Champion:
n
=tfc
at that early period, frequently call-
ed the attention of the "city fathers" |
to the disgraceful condition of the
as streets. He characterized the city as
a "hog pen,".and styled Commercial
8 street as "a wallow for the vile
brutes." As late as the summer of
1865 the mud was so deep on Com-
I mercial street at the corner of Fifth
that a mule train going out of the
If city westward got'" stuck, and broke
out the tongue of a wagon trying to
6 get out of the mire.
A narrow, rickety wooden bridge
!
was spanning White Clay creek
where that short but treachernous
stream crossed Commercial, at
Seventh street. (Over which now
stands the Hotel Atchison.)
No Wonder Everybody Here
Is A Millionaire--The First
Between Sixth and Seventh streets,
north of Commercial, was a frog
pond, occupying most of the block,
where the juveniles, with poles,
used to push dog rafts in high
water, and where the boys and girls,
utilizing it as a skating-rink in win-
ter had lots of fun.
The Massassoit House on the
northwest corner of Second and
Main streets and kept by that gen-
ial Irishman, Tom Murphy, was real-
ly the only first class hotel in the
city in the spring of 1859. Three
other houses were in operation: the
pioneer National, erected as early as
1855—a plain log structure on the
north side of Atchison street a few
rods east of Second, and overlook-
ing the Missouri river; the Tremont,
a two-story frame, at the southeast
corner of Second and Main; and the
Planters, at the southwest comer of
Commercial and Sixth, on the site of
which now stands the Exchange Na-
tional bank. The Planters was a good
hotel but rather in the suburbs.
A substantial and rather imposing
frame building the Massassoit was
the pride of the city because it was
the finest public house in the state
outside of Leavenworth and Law-
rence. It fronted east and south,
stood three stories above the base-
ment, and was elegantly furnished.
It did a very large business in those
early days when the town was head-
quarters, for overland staging. All of
the stage lines departed from the
Massasoit It was a favorite place
later, for the Pacific railroad. All
these claims were verified, except
that the railroad from Atchison
to the west was not in competent
hands, and stopped on the prairie,
while the. Union Pacific from
Omaha was pushed on to meet
the Central Pacific. Atchison had
a railroad from the *?st before
either Omaha, Kansas City, or
Leavenworth, building an extension
cf the Hannibal & St. Joe, and
the logical route for the first Paci-
fic railroad from the Missouri river
was from Atchison, the distance
being shorter. than from any of
the other points, as the freighters
and stage ..coach men demonstrated.
But the boomers became discour-
aged, or quarreled, or ran out ot
money, or something of the kind-
_and the prize went elsewhere,1"
! Mr." Challiss fays that the site of
Atchison was originally a .brush'
I
H
o
p
patch. When he arrived in n % 1' 4
list, 1854, the ferry landed near
Geo. Million's claim cabin, on M"
present site of the B. & M. round
£
St
house, and the wagon road skirted to
the bluff to Commercitl • street,-
where it ran almost due west.
1
Abcll offered Challiss a lot if he
would build a ttore, and Challiss
picked it out at the foot of Com- e i
mercial street, as already stated:
rather he stuck a stake there .and
Abell agreed to give him a deed
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to the site when the tc.vn was
located and surveyed.
Challiss -vvenT'at once to Rush-
ville, and bought cottonwood lum-
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3
'ber at a sawmill for his store. He
had but $4.50 in money, so he wrote
to his brother Luther, who had be-
n
come a partner in the store at
Honnville, for a loan of S150
which request was granted. He also
hired a carpenter at Rushville, and
in a few days, wcrk was in pro-
f
gress. Challiss and the carpenter
camped under an elm tree while
building the store, and suffered a
cr
n
good deal with chills.
The building was enclosed on the $
29th of September, j&54. A stock
cf goods had been ordered previ-
ously—the dry goods from Boon-
vi'le, and the groceries from Wes-
ton—and about this time they ar- J*
rived on the steamer "F. X. Aubry." to
Challiss had no money with which ©
to pay the freight, and borrowed
o
t/5
from his carpenter, and from
George Million.
He did a_ big business at once, 8•
with movers passing through. He
| frequently kept travelers over
;night; they slept on blankets from
I stock, paying $2 for the privilege.
Ji
It the travelers were hungry, Chal-
OS i
."iss cooked them a can of cove
oysters with an Old chafing dish,
and charged them another dollar"
Whisky that cost him 40 cents a
gallcn he sold for 2f cents a drink.
During the winter cf 1854-5 he
paid his debts and had a thousand
I:
dollars over. •
The third house in Atchison was
built by Dr. J. H. Stringfeilow. It
was of brick locatsd pbove Geo. 8'
Million's cabin, on Atchison street,
just northeast of Mrs. D. N.-Whe-
eler's present residence. This was
in the spring of 1855. The fourth
V
house was built by ira Noirls; also s°
on Atchison' street, in the rear of 00
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 freight for Rushville was unloaded
Mrs. Wheeler's, and' is still stand- | took him up to a building- at the
Somewhere between 1841 and 184S £

I
ing. northeast corner of Third and
A good many houses were built Commercial streets, where a lot of
in 1855. T h a t was the year of the^ficice South Carolinans collected.
Mormon Immigration. The M o r - j T h e building was then occupied by
Million built a flat boat ferry, and
operated it, and ! n 1849, during
the great rush to California, he
i
aid a thriving business with his
mons crossed the river here to t h a j
i ferry. Million accumulated money,
number of eight hundred of a j the postoffice. The South Carolin-
ians were for hanging him, but 3_and late in the forties« operated-.
thousand, and outfitted at Chal-
a store, trading with the Indian's H
liss' store. Theie was no other store John Bennett, who was a southern §
man, plead for his life. Finally for furs, and buying hemp from en
in town, and he did a big business.
The Mormons camped a few weeks Butler was stripped .naked, smear-
at a point four miles wast of town,
ed with tar, covered with cotton
the farmers, which he
down the river.
shipped
I'
and the nlace is still known as .
bailing, and ullowed to leave town •£ In May, 1854, when the Kansas-
"Mormon grove." Afterwards Uncle j l n h l s bu?S>'- G e o r § 2 C h a l l l s s • *
n
Jacky Martin entered this l a n d , \ ™ j } ] eA e
™^ e
*?*£?*J!2.L
Nebraska bill passed, f.nd this side'
of the river was opened for set-,
i
fays t h a t Butler was the coolest tlement, Million "squatted" on the' •J
-J and it was the scene of his cele
present town site of Atchison,
brated fight with -he Jayhawkers,-; man in the party, although his life
the building a log shanty near the \ —
vo wherein Uncle Jack and his s o n l i * " latest *•*»• .
present B. & M. round house, on o
Sid, then 12 years old, stood off;: ^ e r e was no law m Atchison
tight Jayhawkers all night, k i l l i n g , : " f e
«*««• »D? » m f w « a t the Missouri river bank, north of
3 one and wounding three others, f a b e r t ? -° «<> what he pleased un >-» Commercial street. Later he sold
til he r a n into a man of equal 'his squatter's right to the Atchison k
I
oo
Uncle Jack and his son Sid live
at Effingham.
The fifth house erected on the
i size and courage. In those days,
particularly in 1856, many of
Mthe
town company, which entered it as
i town site. Million never lived on
this side of the river until he mov-
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j site of Atchison w t s built by A. citizens slept at George Million's
ed to the faim where the Wells
| H. Allen, father of John W. Allen in East Atchison, where travelers :
asylum now stands. He died there ^ , OS
ON nd Mrs. E. K. Blair en the site i were entertained. •A\\\ 1859, and is buried in Mt. V e r - " * > '
of the old First National bank, at Luther C. Challiss came to Atch- p e n cemetery. During the nine, S 13

1 Second and Commercial. Mr. Alien ison in 1856, and went into part-
operated a bakery and hotel.
years following, his widow c o n - )
_ ,nership with his brother. The old cucted a dairy at the same place,
n
T3

j
The second stock of goods was store was made a hundred feet- marrying Gabe Wade, w-ho now
put in by Sam Dickson, now living long, and a warehouse oi the same -aj.ives in Jewell county. They after-
1
in St. Joe, whe put up a shanty on • size built beside it: They c.id con- | wards separated and Mrs. Million
B!
the river, cast of Challiss' store. • siderable jobbing business during jis at present conducting a room--
This was in the fall of 1855. About this year, but dissolved in a few jing house in Oakland, Calif., known
the same time a postoffice was months, and Geo. T. Challiss built as the "Million House.*' 5'
! established, with J. H. Blassingame another store at the coiner of 00
as postmaster. Blassingame left <Foyrth and Commercial streets. S. Million's flat boat ferry was fol- - ^ 13*
lowed by Port Lamb's horse power CD
Atchison the next fall, and Henry C. King was his first clerk. Carr
Addoms became postmaster. T h i s . & Hc-adley, the lawyers. wc»e also ferry, and in 1857, Million was cort- *S
5T statement is on the authority of here in 1856, and P. T. Abell's fam- nected with the first steam ferry, 4T
-v^ Geo. T. Challiss; the general im- .ily.
pression is that Addoms was t h e ' — ** -'.. / t "*"•"
controlled by W. L. and L. C. Chal-
liss.
That portion of Missouri now tri-
• The very first settler on the
a v
vt
first postmaster.
\ The first Atchison newspaper, the M. Million.
| Squatter Sovereign, was established
town site of Atchison was George r
.. „- "
butary to Atchison was settled in
1838. Wm. Kyle, with whom the I
As early as 1841, George Mil- writer of this talked recently, h a s *~s to
•u
•the same year (1855) by Dr. String- _ lion occupied the present site oft lived on the same farm near Iatan o
| fellow and Bob Kelly.. The office. East Atchison as a- fartn. He was fifty-five years. His father located o
| was on the site of the present of German descent, and came 6oJ< there m 1839, when nearly ever;/ $ en
00
jCgden block. this part of the country from Cole quarter section was occupied by a
; T h e thirci stock of goods was put county, Missouri. The log house he settler. Mr. Kyle has heard his
• in by Berry Davenport. This was first built in East Atchison is still father say t h a t the very first set-
R
| in the spring of 1856, by which standing, and is used by Ferdin- tlers came in 1838, and t h a t the
| time Atchison contained probably and Reuthinger, as a stable. .J very first man in the country se-
fifty houses. This is the estimate lf led a very poor farm because it
Million settled first in the vicin-
of Mrs. Geo. T. Challiss who ar- ii*d a spring on it.
ity of Rushville, Mo.', where ha ON
ON rived in June of that year. Her r The second house built in Atch-
-J married Sarah E. Dixori before she
father was John Bennett, who is •son was a cottonwood store, 20x40
credited with saving Pardee But-
was 15. At t h a t time the bottom o
8 ler's life. Butler was an abolition-
inland just eastf-of Atchison was feet, a t the foot of Commercial
covered with tall rushes, and was street. It was built by Geo. T. Chal- E

t
ist, and often came to town from
known as "Rush Bottom." T h e liss. When Challiss first came,, to
Aichison in 1854, he came by boat
_ his farm at Pardee. He was a free town of Rushville was originally
known as Columbus, but the name | to Weston, Mo., where he m e t Pv
spoken man, and the southern ele-
ment wihch predominated sent him-t was afterwards changed to Rush-
, T. AbeH who explained that;* he n
n down the river on a raft. Challiss ville because of the rushes in the
was president of a town compahyj

8
organized to build a town in Kan-^
says the raft was a safe one, and bottoms.
was stocked with provisions. B u t - 0 Million finally drifted: down the
sas. The next day Abell. brought g
I ler landed safely a t Sumner. In river to East Atohison; as near as {Challiss
about a month he came back to can be ascertained; this was in 1.841. ^(crossing the river; on George,; Mil-
Atchison again, although warned During the winter he cut wood, and ''Jion's ferry, t h e name "Atchison:,;'
to Atchison ' I n ,a .'•buggy,'
I
-J , *".. | not to. Graff Thornssson, a big hauled i t to the river bank,.where in honor of David R. Atchison, }»ad
j Missourian who ran a sawmill near ' lie sold it ttfsteamboateirTsurhmer. Teverl then' betri;"agreed .-upori,i'"but
to •\ ^ p r e s e n t B. * H round house, j Two miles above Million's place j the 'town company Irad not purchV 00
00 "site;iis
g ^ f ^ o u t of h i , o ^ g y " ^ j &* "Manley> i a n d i n g . y ^ - ^ ^ l * * * ? J H
$fe 3B05
 a squatter. - •.
P. T. Abell was probably the
I3>
greatest "boomer" ever known in
the history of this ;;ection, and his
talk made Challiss very enthusias-
tic. The favorite story then, as now
was "Natural advantages." Abell
said t h a t Atchison was faither west
t h a n any other point on the Mis-
souri river, therefore nearer the
opening settlements, and would
certainly become headauarters for
t h e stage and freighting lines, -""'
Si WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 18, 1940.
Among those attending the fu-1
-J
neral yesterday of Mrs. Charles B.
Hole at Monrovia were Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Tonsing, Wichita, and
VO
Mrs. Clayton Settle, Strong City.
Mrs. Settle is a sister of Mrs. Hole.
Mr. Hole's sister, Mrs. Day of Su-
a-
00
perior, Neb., and her husband were
here. Mr. Hole accompanied them
home far a visit.
She jzu$as flUty (limes.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1940.
SANTA FE FETE TO PEAK
1 MORE T H A N 6,000 GATHER FOR
ATCHISON CELEBRATION.
Governor Ratncr mid the Presi-
& dent of I lie Road Tell Throng
a. of History in the Line's
Development.
f (By o Member of The Star's Slaf).)
ATCHISON, KAS., Sept. 17.—Amelia
j* E a r h a r t stadium held more t h a n
6,000 persons tonight as the eightieth
anniversary celebration of the S a n t a I
8 Fe railroad reached the climax of j
this town's 2-day festival.
•in Governor Payne Ratner and Ed-
ward J. Engel of Chicago, president
8 of the road, were here as special
guests. Officials said the crowd in I
the stadium on the outskirts of the '
city was of record proportions. I
Bands and floats depicting the long
history, of progress in this corner of |
Kansas trooped into the amphithe- j
ater to open the high point of the
|
celebration.
Governor Ratner, a late arrival,
pulled into town shortly before the
final program t o n i g h t Introduced
by W. B. Hayes, mayor of Atohison,
i the governor called attention to the
individual responsibility upon which
the national defense program rests.
SEES COUNTRY'S CALL.
.8 "Our country is calling upon each
ol you," he said, "to do our share in |
t h e most vital task which can be
given to the people of any nation. I
Kansans have never failed to accept j
their patriotic duties; we shall not |
ifail now. The colorful years when !
• t h e - S a n t a Fe was first being d e - |
& velqped are now part of the glorious I
j history ol American achieveme. j .
I We know of th progress made in
the last eighty years. What the
next eighty years will bring to K a n -
sas and the nation must depend
j upon how well we as modern pioneers
; blaze the trail which lies ahead."
The thousands gathered in the
j stadium heard from E. E. Mclnnis
I of Chicago, general counsel of the
! Santa Fe, a discussion of the build-
' ing, the growth and the economic
! "I am convinced t h a t the indus-
importance to Kansas and the
; Southwest of the road that links the
I Great Lakes, the Gulf and the Pa-
! cific ocean.
1
Mclnnis challenged the belief t h a t
; Cyrus K. Holliday, the 33-year-old
! Pennsylvania lawyer who came to
i this town to found the Santa Fe,
• should be ranked with the visionaries
; who helped develop the American
\ West. It was not t h a t Holliday had
a, dream and t h a t t h e dream came
true. Mclnnis said; rather "he had
B concrete idea, realistic and sup-
ported by the facts of recent history
a s he applied them to what he knew
of the then territory of Kansas."
RECALLS A PREDICTION.
Speaking at the railhead when the
Santa Fe track extended only seven
miles from Topeka, Holliday pre-
. dieted eventual linking of the East,
I the South and the Southwest by his
I road. In 1886, Mclnnis recalled,
I only nineteen years after Holliday's
j prediction, his goal was reached.
"The naked prairies had become
j farms and gardens, the cattle cross- I
I ings had become cities, the railhead '
\ and the plow had advanced together
I to develop a vast new American em-
; pire. The history of the Santa Fe
\ and the history of Kansas are inter-
;
woven from the beginning. In a
j large measure each has depended
upon the other for its development.
' The problems of the Santa Fe were
! not solved when its transcontinental
lines were completed or when its
network of branch and feeder lines
was constructed. Always in the later
j period as in the earlier and more
i colorful years, there has been the
same interdependence of the Santa
I Fe and the great regions which it
serves.
| "In the quietest day of peace the
, railroads are indispensable. In this
j day of immediate and pressing need
I for the betterment of national de-
!
fense, their importance is tremen-
dously emphasized. National secu-
rity depends on how well each per-
. son succeeds in handling his own af-
| fairs with broad vision of the general
i good. The railroads are aware of
; this responsibility and are ready for j
: any contingency."
BELIEVE IN FUTURE.
Present to extend a brief greeting j
to the people of Northwestern K a n -
sas, Edward J. Engel, president of
the Santa Fe, urged the anniversary
listeners never to doubt the: future
of their country. He told t h e m of
his own conviction t h a t "This is a
land in which there is still & great
freedom of opportunity." i Tonsing, when she was a little girl.
"This freedom of opportunity is
constantly expressing itsell in a
great variety of ways and} in all
walks of life. While it is t r u e t h a t
t h e early pioneers transfpruned the
prairies ihtcTproductive farms, it Is l
also true t h a t those who succeeded '
them and who operate the '.farms of
today are continuously finding it
possible to adopt improved methods
to develop finer breeds of livestock,
to preserve and improve the quality
of the soil; it is not reasonable to
believe t h a t perfection has been
reached in_ the American agricul-
tural industry t h a t is so represented
in this Kansas region.
trial surface, too, has only been
scratched in this great Santa Fe 3"
territory. I t is fitting t h a t in paying
tribute here today to our founders
that we join hands with you in the
march toward greater and better
IIt
things. To do this we must keep
and preserve all those virtues of free- .-I
dom which were exemplified by those
far-sighted men whom we honor to- Ml
(j I
day." • V)
A giant fireworks display presented 5'
by the S a n t a - F e in the stadium to-
night blazed the conclusion of the
2-day celebration t h a t attracted ap-
proximately 15,000 visitors from
many points on the Santa Fe line to
this quiet old town. In the gym-
nasium of the St. Benedict's college
here, a n anniversary ball followed
the celebration a t the stadium and
provided the ultimate outlet for the
high spirits o f Atchison and its t
friends.
I
College and school authorities
shook their heads tonight and looked
1
forward to drowsy scholars tomor-
row when Atchison returns to its
normal measured pace.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1940.
Mrs. Clayton Settle of Strong
City was here, for the funeral of
her sister, Mrs. C. B. Hole. Mrs.
iGrace Mauck of Oklahoma City,
another sister of Mrs. Hole, is with
I her brother, Paul Martin, in Lan-
I sing, Mich. Neither Mrs. Mauck nor 9
Lift, Martin were able to come to
'Atchison for the funeral of Mrs.
Hole.
c/t>
Antiques
Fascinating and full of historic!
interest are the windows decorated
for the Santa Fe Days celebration
at the Tonsing Printery Sc Book
Store. Probably the greatest feature
is a copy of Atchison's first news-
3
paper, Freedom's Champion. <The
paper h a d a news story of the dedi-
c a t i o n of the Santa Fe 80 years
i ,.
§
ago. There is a picture of Evan E
1
.Tonslng's uncle, Luther Challiss,
jene of t h e founders of the Santa
Fe railroad in the window. Also,
there is a charm string made by
Evan Tonsing's mother, Mrs. Paul c
There's a wonderful display of but- s
tons. Some of the buttons are
valued a t $15 apiece and they be-
long to Mr. and. Mrs. Ben Fedi
. derson, who. also have milk glass K)
I
\ pew At Dedication Ceremony $ $

..'V
^4fslll
£J" Dedication of memorial presented by the Santa Fe railway to Atchison was impressively performed by E. J. Engel, the railroad's pres-jjj
"~Jnt from Chicago, and Bruce Hurd of Topeka, Santa Fe solicitor. Standing to each side of the 6C0-pound engine bell from an early Santag£
•.locomotive may be seen, from left to right. Bruce Hurd, who made the dedicalory address. William K. Etter, Santa Fe vice president from^.
iik-apo, Miss Aloha Heltoh. queen of Santa Fe Days, and E. J. Engel, the president. The marker reads: "This Marker Commemorates th(V<
sfrrtinding of the Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe Railway at Atchison, Kansas. September 17. 18C0." The marker is placed on a concrete pedestal)—J
T f r o n t of Memorial hall. In the background from left to right may be seen th» following local committee heads—George Ahlborn, generaip
Sairman of the Santa Fe Days celebration; Frank Todd, master of ceremc.iics at the dedication; and on the other side Harry Muchnic, hostP
rjthe railroad officials; and behind him Carl Brown, editor of The Globe. Ql
displayed. The garden bouquet in ^ o l the nation, having thus obtameu J trammeled and unafraid. Never l;
one of the Tonsing windows was I power and honored position, h e : ' a g a i n within the life of this gen-
arranged by Mrs. M. T. Ding-ess. 1 chooses to betray his political ben- j i eration will the voter face a more
In the other windows are Will «ief actors and cast his lot with the jj s s r i 0 U S a n c . far-reaching election.)
Krusemark's daliahas. In the win- Crumps, the Pendergasts, the Kel-| ij^ay we face it thoughtfully, coura-i
;
dows are paper money; 5 10, 15. 7.1 leys, the Nasties, the Hagues and;'; geously, prayerfully, and with t n e
and 50 cent pieces in paper, which t h a t element in American life! ; i u l i understanding that the » « - !
were used 60 years ago. A picture whose only philosophy is t h a t • ; u l n y ol representative government'
cf Amelia Earhart's great grand- -Might makes right." He no longer |'J. a r y j the liberty and freedom of a:
father, Gcbhard Harres. and a i subscribes to the principles great nation of people awaits ouri
> framed hair ornament :ire shown 'Thomas Jefferson, the founder or decision. '
in the Tonsing windows, which also (Andrew Jackson, Grove; Cleveland, H BENJ. F. DAVIS.
display general school merchandise. : Woodrow Wilson and other defend- Indianapolis, Ind.
e r s of Democratic principles. He no;L (Editor's note: Mr. Davis is the

The Globe:
V I longer is in accord with the D e m - I - I a l n e r o f Mrs. Gilbert Guthrie of
ijocratic partv of todav. but he pre-!.. Atchison)
'Birds of a feather flock t o g e t h - j . f € r s w c h a m p i o r i a n e w p a r l y whose';. a
er,' is an age old maxim, thei; fundamental concept of government^'"" „ ««•«».««»« ,n^
soundness of which is pretty g e n - | j j s a s foreign to the f... principles
_.:.._;„,„ of „,! TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1940.
erally accepted. Never in political]• Jefferson as the Socialistic State; Mrs. Paul Tonsing: "I would like
history has the truthfulness of this: jg foreign to the American Way of I to add my protest along with many ^
proverb been more clearly demon-]• Life, f others in regard to the proposed
jstrated than by the president. Mr.! y e a , verily, we judge a tree by the bus line in place of the 10 cent |
IRoosevelt, born of old-time Demo-i,fruit it bears, and a man by the,. taxis Be it cold or hot, good or
v
' 'taxis os i* www
bad weather, the * taxi • with
"
cratic parents; made governor of company he keeps. Mr. Roosevelt j j weat h e r , the taxi with its
the state of New York by the Dem-! has made his choice. It is now up J if o r m l v courteous and obliging
ocratic
ed as party of his
assistant state; appoint-;.
secretary of the w i the t ispeople
not to make their
impossible thatchoice.PI
"I,!i ^.
this; and ' t awkjen one c o m e toto some'other
one's very door
door
• navy by President Wilson, and \ election will be the last in which ,J ^ ^ p a r t o f t Q W n N o tiresome
may
j elected president of the United!; the people of this country j 1 " ' » £ , ' on a corner and then walk.
j States by the old-time Democrats 1 exercise their right of suffrage un-j a block or more to the desti-5
.I |ing
 \ nation. There * have been many
j times when I h a d important en-
gagements and without the taxi I
& could not have been there."

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1940.

j Mrs. Ira Gould and Harres Mar-
j tin both observed birthdays yes-
i terday and in honor of the occasion
•Mr. Gould and Mrs. Martin plan-
jned a lovely surprise dinner for
them. The party, which was car-
ried out very successfully, was
[given a t the Edwards' tea room,
'203 North Second street. Other
guests a t the dinner were Mrs.
George. Mauck of Oklahoma City,
Mrs. Paul Tonsing and Paul, Donns?
land Ann Martin.
and power. Not only has he assumed a right in the transter oi MM ue-
stroyers to absolute and unlimited control of the running of our re-
public, but be goes further and makes secret agreements which will in-
volve our people in war, and he also wants to dictate to business how
it shall be conducted. As a matter of fact his transfer of the battle-
ships was an act of war. He also has already engaged in a secret treaty
with Canada, and when Canada needs our physical nelp she has the
word of Mr. Roosevelt that it will be provided.
If Mr. Roosevelt is elected next November, in my opinion we will
no longer have a republic. We will be under the direction of an un-
stable dictator and a military despotism, if t h a t is the kind of a gov-
ernment the readers of Kansas Parmer Mail & Breeze wish they
should vote for Mr. Roosevelt. Personally, I believe t h a t his election
for a third term would be a profound calamity.

TOM McNEAL, VETERAN TOPEKA EDITOR, SIZES THINGS UP MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1940.
BY T. A. McNEAL
The situation is not, as I see It, really a political party matter. In A son was born yesterday to Mr.
times past, while I have generally voted with one party, I have not and Mrs. Paul Denton, 315 North
i done so with the impression t h a t the victory of the candidate was es- Terrace, at the Atchison hospital.
• sential to the perpetuity of our form of government. I believed that A picture of the Santa Fe presi-
i while there might be some marked difference between the manner to
which my party would run the government from the manner in which dent, the Santa Fe Days queen and
the other party would run it, I had no idea that either party would de- her attendants beside the Santa Pe
liberately follow a course which it seemed to me would disturb the memorial in front of Memorial hall
foundation on which our republic rested. appears in the current issue of
I believed most firmly in the principle of a division of powers in "Business Week."
control of the government. I believed that the executive branch should
he the adviser of the legislative branch, but not its complete domina-
tor. I believed that the legislative branch should always be on guard TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1,. 1940.
to check any indication of a desire on the part of the president to act
the p a r t of a dictator. I n other words, I have always believed in the Mrs. Paul Denton and baby son
system of checks and balances in the conducting of our government. have been removed from the At-
I believed that the tenure in office of the president should be lim- chison hospital to their home at
ited, either to a single term or to not more than 2 consecutive terms. 315 North Terrace. Mrs. Denton is
There was no doubt that Washington could have perpetuated himself a daughter of Mrs. Paul Tonsing.
v in office and have developed into a dictator, and if he had done so our
• -republic w:ould have been short-lived and the rule of the people, if The Rev. and Mrs. Ernest Tons-
Hot entirely abrogated, would have become a mere empty name. We ing and their' son, Freddie, of Well-
have a t present a president who delights in spectacular performances
and experimentation. ington visited relatives here yes-
When it became evident t h a t there would be another World war, terday. They were enroute to Chi-
probably more horrible than the World war that raged from 1914 to the cago on a vacation trip of t w o '
latter p a r t of 1918, t h e president almost immediately announced in ef- weeks.
fect t h a t it would be, when it started, that it was in fact our war; that
the democratic nations of Europe composed our front line, and that Dr. William E. Wheeler, formerly
we must help them to the extent that would insure their victory, any- pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran
thing short of war. church here, has been named pas-
As the war h a s continued and the advantage has been consistently tor of the Grace Lutheran church
and continuously It* favor of Germany, President Roosevelt has con- a t Lakeland, Pla„ it has been a n -
tinually shifted his position and insisted on taking a more pronounced
and aggressive form of assistance. His latest and most astonishing act nounced in t h e ' Lakeland news-
in this direction is the sale or rather trade of 50 war vessels for a paper there. Dr. Wheeler, who has
number of 99-year leases of British islands. He h a s done this without been at Lakeland since leaving At-
even consulting congress as required by the Constitution. Never in the chison a few years ago, will *ake
history of this nation has there been such a bold assumption of power over t h e pastorate October 13. He
on the p a r t of any president
has been supply minister a t the
If Mr. Roosevelt has the right to sell, trade or give away 50 war- church there and succeeds the Rev.
ships h e h a s the right to give away not only all of our navy but all of
our military equipment. I do not say that he has any intention of do- J. C. Derrick who is going to Lees-
ing t h a t , but the extreme seriousness of this act is that it destroys ville, S. C. Dr. and Mrs. Wheeler's
the very foundation principle upon which the nation was founded. If many friends here will be glad
it does not make him as much of a dictator as Hitler or Stalin or to learn of his new pastorate.
Mussolini, the step to such a dictatorship is so short t h a t it may be
taken by him whenever lie decides to be a dictator, and t h a t thought
I feel sure is to his mind right now. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1940.
T h e dictators who have risen and flourished in the past have not
an been evil-minded men. No doubt some of them were actuated by T Mr. and Mrs. Paul Denton have j
ambitions to make the world better, to build up an ideal economic •gamed him John Richard. • |
condition where every subject of the dictator would be prosperous and
willing t o give t h e dictator t h e credit. But history also shows that t h e THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1940.
tendency has always been for the dictator to try t o increase his power
and to more and more disregard the legitimate needs and desires of
his subjects. .».•••• Jon Richard Denton, new son of
Mr. Roosevelt believes t h a t h e is-necessary to t h e success of our Mr. and Mrs. Paul Denton, is the
L government a n d t h a t It is necessary t h a t he be continued in office fifteenth- grandchild of Mrs. Paul

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1940.
:'
Paul Denton: "The new son's
name is Jon, not John. The next
time The Globe misspells Jon I'll
shoot the editor."
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1940.
i Rev. and Mrs. Ernest Tonsing
were here*' Saturday, enroute to
their home i n Wellington from
Chicago, Des Moines and Omaha.
upon men, regardless of their party, " W e do not question the need lor
who will lead us to strength and r e a r m a m e n t , f o r reform, for n
peace, rather than to weakness and better economic system. What we ft
do question is t h e leadership t h a t
to war."
h a s brought these conditions UJIOII'I
Deletes THIM, of Speech. « s . We question t h a t the men |
In reading his speech, Lindbergh who were u n a b l e to foresee these j
deleted from the prepared text a conditions in time to avoid t h e m , i
statement that "our vote next month I'who could not foresee the war in et*^-^>
i t i m e t o p r e p a r e Tor Jt, who re-
can either bring or avoid a disas-j fused to believe the reports of re-
trous war for our country" and that | a r m i n g abroad when t h e r e w a s
the future of the nation depends ; still t i m e to t a k e action, a r e now
"upon the quality and wisdom of competent to c a r r y this nation
leadership that we choose for our "-successfully t h r o u g h a period of
g r e a t crisis. U n d e r their leader-
nation in November—upon our Con- ship." we have alienated t h e most

(j^HE Morning KANS gress, upon our senate, and, upon •? powerful military nations of both.
our President." E u r o p e and Asia, a t a time when
At no point in his address, deliv- i we ourselves a r e u n p r e p a r e d for
y

ered by radio, did Lindbergh men- - a c t i o n , and while the people of

an a
o u r nation a r e overwhelmingly
tion the names of either Wendell L. opposed to w a r .
Willkie or President Roosevelt.
Record of Independence? United on Defense.
"I come before you tonight to "There is no question about the
fundamental courage and solidarity E
enter a plea for American independ- of Americans when our national [
ence," Colonel Lindbergh said. " I t v. elf are is at stake. There is no
is amazing that-one-should- have to ^ division among us about the defense >v-»— ; •_,
1
y JgNTSAR C I T Y , O C T O B E R 15, 104C p l e a d f o r A" 1 ***** iriacpendenCB in ol our own country. We have al- , >0
I ON a nation with a heritage such as. ways been ready to fight against the- ^ "^
ia: ours; in a nation which in its in-!_ interference of foreign powers in o u r - c ^ ^ w , " -
fancy revolted against foreign con-' affairs. If need be, we are ready J p

"MEED LEADER trol, and whose people have fought t o die for t h e independence of-^- '
time and again against the a r m i e s * America, as our forefathers died b e - e ^ ^ C - , :
i and interference of the old world, j fore us when necessity arose. On \
Yet the independence and the des-| a clearly American issue we "stand a
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n
Lindbergh Declares T h a t Admin- i tiny of America were never more in - united nation. I t is only when we -i
jeopardy than they are today.
i s t r a t i o n ' Is Leading Us "In the first century and a quarter ~ are asked to take part in the quar- | y
Steadily Toward W a r . of our existence as a free and inde- •* rels of foreign countries t h a t we ^c-£— •a
pendent people, we opposed, and divide,
opposed successfully, all the majoi * "The fact is today t h a t we are t
powers of Europe. * divided; we have not confidence in "c-
U. S, FUTURE AT STAKE "We won our independence from J our leaders. We have not confidence /
England when we were a nation of ' in their efficiency or in their judg-
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fewer than 4 million people. We ' ment. Instead of a Washington
Flier Declares W e iMust Select numbered only 10 million when the warning us.against the wiles of for- • • $
Monroe Doctrine was established., eign influence and excessive par- \Jn \
Someone W h o s e P r o m i s e s With a population of 35 million,' tiality for, any nation, we are told
W e Can T r u s t . even though we had just emerged t h a t our frontiers lie In Europe. In-
from four years of civil war, we stead of a Liricoln telling us t h a t
made France remove its invading * danger ever reaches us it must
armies from Mexico. Later in the spring up amongst us, and that it,
HE MENTIONS NO NAMES century, with a population of 75 i cannot come from abroad, we are \_A) fro
Sr4 «-,

million, we forced Spain t o with- informed that we may be invaded,- \ g

t But Our Destiny, He A s s e r t s , draw entirely from the new world. from the ice-bound mountains of K
Puzzled bv Change ^Greenland; and by fleets of npn-J ^
Depends Upon Men, Regard- ,„„. * ? * ^?'Jansf; ' e x i s t e n t trans-Atlantic bombers. f •
less of P a r t y . "Why, then, with 130 million peo- , „ W e f i n d t n e s a m e m e n w l ) 0 h a V e gj
pie, are we being told that we must L ) e d u s t 0 the greatest national debt £
give up our independent position, f i n o u r history, now telling us t h a t ! >
(By the Associated Press.) that our frontiers lie in Europe, and j a s a n a t j o n w e a r e w e a k and unpre- - « -E
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—Col. Charles f t h a t our destiny will be decided by I p a i e d ; that we must appropriate l^ei^, W
European armies fighting upon S m o r e b iiH 0 ns of dollars, and devote I &
A. Lindbergh sharply criticized the | European soil? What has happened • m o r e y e a r s 0 f time, to building up to.
nation's "leaders" tonight for a . to this nation that it fears in ma- ^ o u r military forces. These same j-
t u n t y the forces that it conquered ] d e r s who have failed to solve even S
"consistent record of promise fol- in its youth? What change has , e a peacetime problems, who have! - "L
our
lowed by failure" and asserted t h a t jj come over us; what foreign i n f l u - ^ a consistent record of promise f o l - ^ ^ ^ L - P
they are nijw leading t h e country ence has sprung u p among us? i 0 wed by failure, now ask us to put
Where is the blood of such leaders ourselves in their hands again ast •*
"steadily toward t h a t climax of all as Washington, Jefferson a n d they lead us steadily toward t h a t a * * ^ * :
political failure—war." Lincoln; blood that stood firm on climax of all political failure-rwar^
"Above all," h e said, "we must American soil against the threats, They do not tell us openly w h a t /
select leaders whose promises we \ the armies and the navies of the - their intentions are. T h e y say we,—
greatest empires on earth? should leave our decisions and our,
can trust; *fwho know where they are i "What we lack today is the type destiny to specialists—to their par-
taking us and who tell us where we , of leadership that made us a great ticular specialists—to the same spe-
are going. ' nation; the type that turned adver- cialists who have made us a weak-
"The entire future of America and sity and hardship into virility and e n e d nation i n the c e n t e r of a n i A -
.of our system of life hangs upon the success. No one doubts that we are £ antagonistic world. They harangue ?~*J
in the midst of a world crisis. No s about 'democracy,' yet they leave; /
action we take and the judgment we one denies that our defenses are Uus with less knowledge of the direc-!
use. It.'-does not depend upon the weak, that our debt Is great, t h a t ; tion In which we are headed than? £|
' S ^ 0 ™ , 6 91 t h e war in Europe, but dissatisfaction is rising^ among^us. J if we were citizens of a^totahtarian'j j-
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 state. We are told t h a t we are being
.prepared to defend America a t the
same time t h a t orders are placed for
the type and quantity of armament
t h a t would be used for a war in
Europe.
Need n Clear P r o g r a m .
"We do not need untold thousands
of military aircraft unless we intend
to wage a war abroad. What we do
need is a thoroughly modern and
1
efficient air corps, trained, equipped,
and maintained for the specific mis-
sion of American defense.- W h a t we
need even more, however, is bal-
anced action, a clear-cut plan, and a
consistent attitude.
"Adequate defense does not neces-
sitate this alarm and confusion. With
.r.telligent leadership, we could have I
built an impregnable defense for
America without disturbing seriously
our national life and industry. We
have already spent more t h a n
enough money to have done this.
"The same thing is happening to
us that happened to England and
France. We have been led to debt
and weakness, and now we are being
led toward war. Instead of building
their own national strength, the
peacetime leaders of England and
Prance told their people t h a t se-
curity lay abroad, t h a t the best way
to defend their own countries was
to fight for Poland. They followed
, this advice and failed. Now we in
America are being told under simi-
lar circumstances, and by leaders of
similar caliber, t h a t our security lies
abroad; that the best way to defend
our own country is to defend Eng-
land. All the lessons of Europe have
passed unheeded before us.
Must Be A m e r i c a n .
"If we desire strength, and free-
dom, and independence for our
country, the first step must be to
assure ourselves of leadership which
is entirely and unequivocally Ameri-
can. When a man is drafted to
serve in the armed forces of our
country, he has the right to know
t h a t his government h a s the inde-
pendent destiny of America as its j
objective, and t h a t he will not be |
sent to fight in t h e wars of a for- j
eigri land. The doctrine t h a t w e :
must enter the wars of Europe, in :
order to defend America, will be |
fatal to our nation if we follow it. I
When men are called upon to fight i
and to die for their country, there j
must not be even the remotest ques-
tion of foreign influence involved.
"If we desire the unity among
our people t h a t is essential to n a -
tional life and strength, we must
select leaders who believe sincerely
in national defense, but who are
whole-heartedly opposed to our in-
volvement in foreign wars. Above
all, we must select leaders whose
promises we can trust, who know
where they are taking us, and who
tell us where we are going.
The broadcasting company a n -
nounced t h a t Col. William J. (Wild
Bill) Donovan would "answer" Lind-
bergh in an address tomorrow night
on its network a t 7:15 o'clock Kansas
City time.
[WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16 1940. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1 9 4 0 ~ !
Paul Denton's new son$ Jon, is i
| a member. \ **•*• R - D- Holder of The~G^r ;j
celebrated a birthday yesterday "£
I
was also Evan Tonsing'., b i r t h d a "
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1940.
Jon Denton, who will be three
H
{ You Get 1
weeks old Sunday, made a visit
down town this morning. He is the
baby son of Mr. a nd Mrs. Paul
Denton. J
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1940.
Reasonable Prices i
{ W h e n Y o u Order Your
Tonsing Again H e a d s * ^
Lutheran S y n o d C ^ W f
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 29—(.¥>—
The Rev. E. E, Tonsing, Wellington,
TING
Kas, was re-elected president of the
Kansas Synod of the Lutheran h o m U
X W h e n y ° u find that
church a t the annual meeting here
your stock of Statements, Let-
yesterday.
' T h e Rev. Ray Pfeiffer, Eureka, terheads, Envelopes or other
Kas.. was re-elected secretary. ' Printing Needs is running low,
Criticism of the church's program contact us at once. We will
was voiced by Mrs. A. H. Havekost,,
guarantee a satisfactory job, "9
Wichita. Kas., in an address on " T h e !
Migrant Problem." - i delivered promptly. Mr. Tons-! 1
Discussing social conditions aris- ing will be glad to call on you o
ing from population shifts, she de-
clared the average church was p u t - ;
ting on a village program to meet
the needs of a city problem.
T<>nsing s
I 9
The Rev. Tonsing is formerly of
5 0 2 Com'l Phone 4 5 5
Atchison and Valley Falls. He is a !
brother of Evan Tonsing of t h e ; •sr
Tonsing Book store and at one t i m e '
was a linotype operator on The S THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1940.:
Globe. He is a former pastor of t h e
Lutheran church at Valley Falls. Here and 5
in-
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1940. Hereabouts In 1895 t o
o
224. Paul Benjamin Denton, At- 00
FEBRUARY.
chison.
_ rrr _-._£,
A photograph in Kltckner's win- »
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1940. dow showed five generations: Mrs. £.
Maria Harres, Mrs. W. L. Challiss, 5.
^Order_ Numbers Mrs. John A. Martin, Mrs. Paul 3T
Tonsing and Evan Tonsing. ,*
224. Paul Benjamin Denton, At-' THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14 _ 1940.^
- ; p\
/
/ ' S o I t ' s W a r t h e Bishop W a n t s . "
To The Star: So Bishop James
* Here and • I fe
; Cannon, jr., wants war. That's fine;
•j but did he say whether he would go Hereabouts In,1895 t
i over and fight or is he too old and
knows h e won't be called? The
only men I have talked to who w a n t <• -March. 1895:
j war are those too old to fight. I t looked like Paul Tonsing wouli
II I remember going through Fitz- become pasto?"-.of' t h e Lutheran/
l| simons hospital at Denver when church at Beloit.'
i1i I was 15 years old and seeing men
\ without arms or legs or eyes, who
1} were praying to die. They h a d
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16,. 1940
9 known the glory of fighting some-
V one else's battles. A . beautiful marker has
"\:,?.'.' ". E. E. WOOLEY,
X . 3118 Campbell street, placed a t t h e grave of Mrs. OV
Hole by her brother, Paul
of Lansing, Mich. •• '
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A SMALL GROUP OF GALLA TRIBESMEN... I PROPPED C/5

ANi AERIAL TORPEPO RIGHT IN THE CEMTER, ANI> THE • 3 >

B GROOP OPENED OP LIKE A FLOWERlMG ROSE. IT WAS
MOST ENTERTAIN IMG.* ^/rrcfe/o rtt>SSoL/rtl *
AFre/z Trie cortocsesr OF ertf/owA.
II SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1940.
of the missionaries from abroad wilt
be present as a-guest speaker. There
was an election £ officers and the I -
MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1940.
^ ^ ^ a m e m b e r of t h e e(J_
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o The Woman's Missionary society

£ of St. Mark's Lutheran church met
Thursday at the church. Mrs. Floyd
entire staff of the present officers ^ ^ g t a f f
was re-elected to serve another ; m
»year.
» * The officers are: Pres.den , d u t y ^
^
m Kansas
ordered to actiy8
^ Qffice of t h e c h i e f
fflt
U*|
I Hundley was hostess for the meet-
ing. The topic for the day was "Our
Lord Immanuel." Mrs. Roy Seaton
Mrs.. Leslie Long; vice-president,h
Mrs. E. F. Fink; recording secre- ^
^ ^ ^ tattmgenoe.of'
^ d e p a r t m e n t ta W a s n i n gton.
tary, Mrs. F. W. Piatt; satistical D. C. Settle holds a commission M< 1
f had charge of the devotional period
and Mrs; S. A. Hamrick, who con-
secretary, Mrs. Paul Tonsing; and first lieutenant in the U. S. army j
treasurer, Mrs. Albert Carr. Mrs. reserve corps. He has been given ft
8 ducted^ the: lesson, read a very in-
spiring paper on the subject ~o
Hundley served delightful refresh- leave of absence by the Star. Allan »

I Christmas. Christmas hymns were

sung.„puring,"the business session It
ments at the close of, the meeting, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton - y
assisted by Mrs. Russell Keithline. Settle of Cottonwood Falls. His f
The January meeting will be at the mother was formerly Miss Faith ,_ .
^ ^ ^ e 4 , tohold a public meet- home of Mrs. Roy Seaton. I Martin of Atchison,7 ;- j
;2?S*r- future, when-one
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[WEDNESDAY," DECEMBER 11, 1940.*|.._,
THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1941.

GOVERNORS OF KANSAS
Occupation Politics Term Here and
Born Died
1861-1863
Charles Robinson 1818-1894 Physician
Merchant
R
% 1863-1865 Hereabouts In 1895
Thomas Carney 1824-1888 R 1865-1868
Samuel J. Crawford 1835-1913-1 Lawyer 1868-1869
Minister R Y.
Nehemiah Green 1837-1890 R 1869-1873
James M. Harvey 1833-1896 Parmer 1873-1877; Rev. Paul Tonsing accepted a
Lawyer R
Thomas A. Osborn 1836-1898 R 1877-1879 call to become1"7mstor of the Lu-
George T. Anthony 1824-1896 Publisher 1879-18831 theran church at Beioit.
R
John P. St. John 1833-1916 Lawyer 1883-1885
Lawyer D
George W. Glick 1827-1911 R 1885-1889 ***Rev. Ernest Tonsing wires from
- 0 * * 9 John A. Martin 1839-1889 Editor 1889-1893j Wellington that so far he has been
Lawyer R
' Lyman U. Humphrey 1844-1915 Pop 1893-1895] unable to convert John Holman.
Lorenzo D. Lewelling 1846-1900 Business
Banker R 1895-1897 i
Edmund N. Morrill 1834-1909 1897-18991
VO
John W. Leedy Farmer Pop FRIDAY, JANUARY 81, 1941.
1849-1935 R 1899-1903]
8 Wm. E. Stanley
Willis J. Bailey
1844-1910 Lawyer
Farmer R 1903-1905 . . . . . Evan Tonsing
1854-1932 1905-1909
t
oo •
! Edward W. Hoch
Walter R. Stubbs
George H. Hodges
1849-1925
1858-1929
1866-
Editor
Contractor
Business
R
R
D
1909-1913
1913-1915
! is frank. He calls them "Slam"
| valentines. .'. . . <"•-- ••+•->>« tim«'W*'

Arthur Capper Publisher R 1915-1919 WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 5, 1941.

1865- R 1919-1923
Henry J. Allen 1868- Publisher
I Jonathan M. Davis Stockman D 1923-1925
1871- Evan Tonsing attended a brother-
Ben S. Paulen Banker R 1925-1929
1869- R 1929-1931j ! hood meeting in Lawrence yester-
Clyde M. Reed Publisher
Harry H. Woodring 1871- D 1931-19331 !day.
1890- Banker
Alf M. Landon Oil Operator R 1933-19371
,Walter A. Huxman 1887- D 1937-1939.
1887- Lawyer
I Payne H. Ratner R 1939-
1896- Lawyer
m MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10,
I Capper Sums Up / f V o
Farming Matters
By Sen. Arthur Capper
m a t he cannot make a mistake;,
too certain that the United States,
"Under his direction, has a rendez-j
vous with destiny somewhere in t
Europe. So I shall do what I can,
"MASK 0FE" FIRST LADY 1941'. f
Cangress^ absolutely refused to -next session to limit. Tather than PEGLER SAYS MRS. ROOSEVELT IS
8* consider at*this i i s t f i t m e n t o f extend, the powers of the presi- >. SHREWP POLITICIAN.
i—* legislation desired by President dent to formulate foreign policies, •
Roosevelt which would have given
a. Bolder in Last F e w Vonths, She
•r him the power to intervene, or to
promise intervention, in European
disputes.
, n d especiany to ***£«»
promise intervention in ioreign af-
" B e v e a l s Herself a.'""Conspir-
ator Against Individual
fairs. _. - — - ^ . - , ' i-----4* R i g h t s , " H e Asserts,

I I think that is right. The United

States cannot hope to police the
world; certainly it cannot hope to
settle the age old boundary dis-
putes of Europe, even if that were
(/J
V desirable. Thru the Monroe Doc-
trine the United States has served
notice, on Europe that the United
States does not propose to allow
B European nations to interfere in
affairs of the Western Hemisphere.
, On -what ground we can, at the
f same time, empower President
Roosevelt to throw the resources
and influence :ind ultimately the
, man power of the United States
£ into European affairs I cannot see.
8
I
»,•"..' And the same applies to Asiatic
t affairs altho our holding the Phil-
r*"- ippines leaves us in a more vul-
- nerable position in the Orient But
{' \pe have no Philippines in Ehirope,
•f'' and I say it would be very unwise,
n - voluntarily, to go to Europe look-
l;. tag for trouble—we would be al-
# and, two. sons of ^Wellington are vis-
FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1941.
Wheri John Holman arrives at
Wellington we hope he gets con-
verted by Rev. Ernest Tonsing, who
is pastor of a church there, i ^ .
Old Snort hM neve" W J I abl?
to convert John
MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 194L
Mrs.' Evan,Tonsing reported los-
ing can; envelope containing $5.85 on'
the streets. " '
Rev. Ernest Tonsing and family of j
Wellington are visiting his mother,;
Mrs. Paul Tonsing. ....... . '
TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1941.
The Rev. and Mrs. Ernest Tonsing
B Y WESTBROOK PEGLER.
NEW YORK, Feb, 10.—After years
of masquerading as a rather naive
but always well-meaning amateur Hi
fuss-budget, Mrs. Eleanor Roose- P j 8.1
velt lately has been revealing her-
self as a cunning and indefatigable £ i
conspirator against the rights and
independence of the individual
|f»| I
American citizen and an active pro-
ponent of power-government.
Mrs. Roosevelt has become bolder SlateS* "
or incautious in the last few u u a-• X •
months, particularly since the sec-
ond re-election of her husband, and
on Thursday she attended a rally of
a semi-communistic electricians'
union of the A. p , of I* in New
York, joined i n whooping "God Bless
America," and reiterated the Mus-
covites' formula of entrapment

8 fvi^most certain to find it.

Let iuT.Kf'Vy., at home and try to
iting Rev. Tonsing's mother, Mrs.
Paul Tonsing, 315 North Terrace.
which holds that everyone should
join a labor organization. The union,

I "solve our own "'problems;. Heaven

t knows there are en\ough of these,
j a n d they are large euxmgh to oc-
Yesterday Rev. S Tonsing attended
the committee meeting of the Synod
whose members Mrs. Roosevelt ad-
dressed, has a strike on in which
rioters recently outnumbered and
P.- p

' cupy our best minds a&d all our to Kansas City. •; ; j ;'"• J mobbed New York polloe, and is
Energies and time. \ The Rev. S. A. Hamrick and Evan j pursuing a policy similar to that of
Sidney Hillman's organization,
.Very frankly, I do not tnast the I Tonsing were in Kansas City yester- which is to eliminate the small op-
'judgement of President Roosevelt [ day to attend a synodical meeting, j erator by economic ruin, consolidate
rtien'it comes to dealing with ftar- t h e business in a few big survivors
' affairs. He is too eager sto and then take over the indi«-''7N
' of things;' too certaip
-*.«-fcjfcJ 5S£5iigl0n: m a n a g e m e n t J ^ >

%
 BALLYHOO FOR UNION.
i
Mrs. Roosevelt's partiality to col-
lectivism has been apparent for a
long time, but always in the guise
of a warm, humane desire to pro-
mote brotherhood and willing co-
2 operation, a pretense which she still
maintains in words. But it is be-
coming apparent that her purpose
is to discredit as selfish and unde-
I
serving reactionaries all who reject
her advice and thus subject them
to the many ingenious forms of per- "
i secution which labor unions employ
to capture unwilling members.
Her attendance at the rally of
the strikers was a valuable act of
ballyhoo for the union in a labor
dispute, and obviously was intended
to create a political effect, although
Mrs. Roosevelt, of course, still will
pretend to be acting only as an in-
dividual citizen who does not par-
take of her husband's office. She
offered this pretense in her enthu-
siastic encouragement of the com-
00 munistic youth congress which con-
tinued until the congress became so
notorious that it would have been
an unbearable political embarrass-
ment to her to continue the asso-
ciation.
EARNINGS TO WHOM?
Mrs. Roosevelt is extremely shrewd
in her manipulation of her pub-
licity, as was observed by the ob-
serving when, after election, she
made print in a large way with a
story of her great generosity in
giving away all the earnings which f
she had acquired by exploiting her
husband's office as a journalist and
lecturer. The fact still remained
that the question was not what
she did with the money but why it
was paid to her, and moreover, she
refused to say to whom she had
given it. A detailed statement as
to that would be much more inter-
esting than the news that she gave
it away, and certainly would cause
a much less pleasant public reaction.
She refused to give the information.
Lately Mrs. Roosevelt was quoted
as having said that the President
could take over Henry Ford, and
.•s. soon^ afterward the President him-
self in a press conference, reiterated
this contention in slightly modified
form, not failing incidentally, to
cast a smear on Ford, who is en-
gaged in strife with the C. I. O. and
the labor relations board.
The effect of Mrs. Roosevelt's
shrewd and deceptive campaign will
bj minimized if it be kept in mind
that she is always a politician,
that James A. Farley long ago de-
scribed her as one of the ablest
politicians of his acquaintance, and
that her objective is collectivism
and ultimately, some scheme con-
taining the most binding elements
In of communism and Httlerism. Her
innocent, wholehearted, humane en-
thusiasm, the whooping awkward-
ness and the baby-kissing in its
many variations are only a disguise.
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SATRUDAY, MARCH 1, 1941.
*?
DO YOU WANT WAR?
Do you want war?
If you do not want war, you'd better get busy, because the Amer-
ican administration, rightly or wrongly as the case may be, is headed
toward war.
The administration may not believe it is headed toward war but
it is headed toward war because it is doing warlike things.
The administration probably feels that it is only providing war
materials for Englnd, but the fact remains that the administration
has done enough warlike thinks to give the Germans technical rights
to shoot at American boats.
And the minute an American boat is sunk, that minute this coun-
try is in war. The minute an American boat is' sunk, hysteria based
on indignation will break out in this country, and we will be in the
war and probably will have to participate in the war until all powers
become exhausted and begin clamoring for armistice.
The administration at Washington says American soldiers will
never be sent to a war on foreign shores. But it does not speak
plainly in answer to the question, "Will American sailors fight on the
big waters?" Really, there is much evasion when that question is put.
Anyway, a majority of American statesmen sincerely believe we are
headed for war. oo
Now how can we folks out here in the midwest decide whether ?/?' Z&*~
or not this country should go to war? My, but that is a hard ques- ' *£*** fi
tion. These additional questions have to be" answered first: J^
Is is true that the United States will be in great danger if Great ' s
Britain loses the war? Is it true that Great Britain is now fighting 3
for the United States as well as herself? Is it true that a British de- ,
feat would be followed up by a Hitler attempt to invade the United
States? Is the Churchill remark that England does not wish Ameri-
can soldiers, but only wishes American material, sincere? Or is it
subterfuge to get Americans into the war gradually but surely? Is c-esAs*
Great Britain as democratic as she claims to be? Did Great Britain
show a lot of appreciation when the United States pulled her out
of great trouble 20 years ago? When the World war of 20 years ago
ended, did the United States have the privilege of writing a lew
paragraphs in the peace treaties? In the event of British defeat,
could the Germans invade the United States, considering that up to
now they have not been able to cross 20 miles of water, the English
channel? Is Germany as strong today as many people believe? Is it
patriotically and economically wrong to stand for American isolation?
Would isolation, painful as it might prove to be, be as painful as
actual participation in war might prove to be? Is one ounce of
American blood worth as much as the entire situation in Europe? Is
it sensible to espouse the proposition that the United States should
arm itself solely for self-defense on our shores, and not for aggressive
warfare? Was George Washington wrong or right when he warned 5
against foreign entanglements? Was Lincoln right in 1838 when he
stated that no foreign foe would ever be able to destroy the United
States, but that foes within might dissolve this nation and its prin-
U^
ciples of government?
Now that we have submitted the questions above, how about get-
. ting back to the original question? How can we folks out here in the
midwest decided whether or not this country should go to war?
If you, Globe readers, decide that we should prepare for defense
only, what can you do about it? There is only one thing to do about
it: Write your congressman or your senator your opinion about the
matter. And if you think you should write, do it at once—because the
administration, maybe without realizing it, is headed for war. As-
suming that the administration does not want war, we feel that the
administration has done things that can result in a hysteria making
it impossible for the United States to avoid war with blood as well as
with materials. ^LU.®
As for this editoralist, speaking only for himself, he is disgusted
with the opinion of some people that this country must go to war to
save the economic fabric of this nation. We believe it is better for
the United States to suffer economic hardship for a half century than
lose one drop of the blood of its young manhood.
the guest of Mr. and MrsTCIarence
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1941. Stauffer, south of town. When Mr.
and Mrs. Stauffer were a young
married couple they lived on a farm
Mrs. Paul Challiss, who has been
visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs. J. next to the one where Mr. and Mrs.
M. Challiss, and since Mrs. Challiss
went to California, at the home of
Paul Challiss lived. That was a good
many years ago, but the,! friendship
her nephew, Evan Tonsing, and Mrs. formed then has survived-'the years. &
Tonsing on Rivervlew drive, is now Mrs.. Challiss has many friends in to
tbat 4 neighborhood.^whonfc she win oo

• be glad to see again, and they will
I be very glad to see her. '
MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1941..
^
# Here and
I Hereabouts In 1895
I AUGUST.
I Paul Mantin, son of Mrs. Ida C. j
Martin, was nine years old. (In
1941 Paul is editor of a big daily
newspaper in Lansing, Mich.)
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THE WEEKLY^HOPPER
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8 %VELLINGTON~ h^^^>^*<C
> Left-hanc'.ed printers pop u p in
FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1941
|SfcL John's Lutheran
I printers. She writs* me that one of
OS
g Steps Forward
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St. John's Lutheran church took
a ; definitely forward step last
o n i g h t in a meeting "of t h e c o n -
f setter's stick in the right hand. T h a t •
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gregation held following' t h e ; L e n -
t e n - M i d w e e k service. ' L ~ ~ U T ' :
Deliberations which began a.week
ago a t a previous meeting culinin-
r I ated in action ori t h e p a r t of t h e
i congregation, to repair extensively
* r t h e three pieces of property, o n
t h e corner of Ninth a n d Jefferson.
F u n d s recently m a d e available
It through t h e estate of t h e ; l a t e
J o h n Flick who requested $1,000
to
be given t h e church w a s carried
out by his son a n d d a u g h t e r , Alvin
Flick t>f P e r t h a n d M r s . I v a n
K n i g h t of May field, are t o b e use J
for t h e m a i n p a r t of t h e i m p r o v e -
ments. T h e remainder of t h e worlc
will be completed without i n c u r r -
I ing any debt, through funds g a t h -
ered in past years by t h e c o n g r e -
— gation. • Each school of the city and
T h e project will m a k e available
O for church use t h e building p r e -
E
I
viously -used for a parsonage, a n d
will convert t h e p r e s e n t parish,
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house for parsonage purposes. T h e
church auditorium will be c o m -
pletely redecorated, a n d a n e w roof!
installed.
O Action h a s been pending f o r a
E
I n u m b e r of m o n t h s on "the churc^l.
council, t h e actual p l a n s : fbem^5.j
I decided upon last n i g h t b y J f t S ]
church:, group a s a w h o l e . . ' ^ ^ | !
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life jpriili M§ "ffimes.
THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1941.
/Jew York
'^^^S^Bj^^ THE SPRINGFIELD DAILY N%S,
Charles B. E&scoll FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1941. 8
my mail with persistent frequency.
Eut Mrs. Paul Tensing of Atchison.
K".!.. tcps some sert of record by
raising three left -handed sons, all
t h e sens is new a newspaperman in :
Wichita, or.e a printer in Los An- j
geles. anci the third <or first> r u n s ;
his own printing business in Atchi- j
ton. where the boys all learned ,
priming from their father. MTS
Tensing doesn't say whether any ]
of the boys can set type from the '
ca.se. left-handed, holding the type- j
kind of left-hander seems very
scarce, though I've had two or three
such prodigies cited to me in letters
lrcm interested primers.
THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1941.
Mrs. Paul Challiss returned Tues-
day t o Lincoln, Neb., where she will
be with her daughter, Mrs. Culhnan.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1941.
Evan Tonsing, president of
Lutheran Synod of Kansas and
jacent states, is in Lawrence today
attending the annual convention
Principal speakers at the banquet
this evening are Dean R. A. Schweg-
ler, Kansas university, and Dr. Fred
Wiegman, president of Midland eol-
lege, Fremont, Neb. ( V 3 t * w * « ' 7 T * -
In 1866 Atchison's city office and
police court were in t h e Price
theater building a t Fourth and
Main streets.
THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1941.
They returned from Lawrence to-
day: Mrs. Leslie Long, Mn$*£aul
Tnnnlrjc." Mrs. Walter Tschorn, Ed
Gaston and Rev. S a m Hainrick.
They attended a Lutheran conven-
tion there.
T h e Atchison Brotherhood of St.'
Mark's Lutheran church had the
largest delegation present at the
banquet in Lawrence last night i
when 14 members attended the L u - J
theran Synod convention. During
t h e afternoon business meeting Evan
Tonsing was elected president of
t h e Brotherhood of the Synod for
•the sixth year with Dr. Frank
I
Shaffer of Saline, vice president
and A. M. Hughes of Lawrence, sec-
retary. The Rev. W. W. Klover of
Kansas City, Kas., who has been
secretary of the synod for the past
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four years, is the new synod presi-
dent. Miss Helen Fink of Atchison
C/3
was re-elected secretary of the
Women's Missionary society. J h e
synod session closed this afternoon.
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HIGH IN TEST
MISS MARJORIE MELLEN-
BRUCH
Miss Marjorie Mellenbruch,
daughter of the Rev. Dr. and
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Mrs. P. L. Mellenbruch of 271 O
W. McCreight ev., has t h e dis- o
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tinction of having the highest
grade of the 35 seniors chosen
from t h e Springfield High
School, who participated in
8
the recent annual state schol-
arship contest for high schools
of t h e state, which included
Springfield and Clark C o u n t y . '
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county received its own set of
questions on five subjects and
Miss Mellenbruch's total score
o
w a s 242, t h e highest in t h e
city. She is also an accom-
plished musician, being accom-
IE
panist for the Springfield High
School Glee Club; playing cello
I
in t h e string school orchestra, O
q u a r t e t and trio.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1941.
Mrs. Paul Tonsing is visiting h e r
daughter in Springfield, O. g
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Question FDR's Right H
To Naming Price Czar
WASHINGTON, April 12—(.P)—
Senator Taft (R.-Ohio) questioner
today President Roosevelt's right tc
set up the new office of p r i c i ^
administration and civilian supply^
and said he was studying severa '
of the chief executive's recent ac^
tions to determine whether he h a 7
1^
exceeded his authority.
The president set up the ne
office in an executive order y e s -
terday and designated Leon Hen
derson, a member of the securities
commission, to manage it.
Taft declared he was "a good y,
deal concerned about the tendency*-*
of the president to act without
authority."
"If he can set up a price-fixing J?
agency without congressional au- \'
thorization, congress might just as : *
well pack up and go home," the ,
Ohio senator continued. "If he can L ,
Jo that he can practicallv run the
government by decree." ' :,
SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1941,
< - ,
Evan Tonsing did fine work with'
the publicity for the American Leg- _
ion convention. He sent publicity £
to 29 newspapers.
TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1941.
Freddy Tonsing, eldest son of Rev. .
and Mrs. Ernest Tonsing of W e l l - ^ .
ington, had his tonsils and ade- ,
| noids removed Friday in a Wichita ^
I hospital. He is getting along nicely.
MONDAY, MAY 12, 1941.
Mrs. P. G^ Tonsing, 315 North
! Terrace, has returned from Spring-
I field, O., where she spent two weeks
'visiting her daughter, Mrs. P. L.
! Mullenbruch, and family. Former
Atchison people she visited in
Springfield included Mrs. L. S.
Keyser, whose husband was formerly
a pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran
church here, Mrs. J. F. Krueger,
Conrad Krueger, Mrs. J. L. Meve,
formerly Miss Charlotte Mangels-
dorf, and the children of the late
Rev. H. C. Garvic, Paul William and
Gretchen. Mrs. Tonsing found the
country between Kansas and Ohio
verdantly beautiful.
MONDAY, MAY 26. 1941.
jTCommunity Chatter
By AL BENNETT
I t is said that Old Snort really '€4>'
hasn't gone to Canada at all.
It is said he is in Dalbey pasting j"2 w
Canadian labels on his Windshield R 1 * 2 !
and suitcases.
(At last we can get back at hiinj '.ne a s k s t h e Public to contribute.
j toHe's
a cause.
I
the fella w h o w o u i d r a t h e r < U
The old office isn't the same, I,
though, without him. say som mg nice about every- *•
He'll be back in a month or six body, th. u0 say something small
weeks, but until then all of us here ; and mean about anybody.
at The Globe will miss his big bay- We ought to know.
window, and his black cigars, and We've looked a t his lovable mug -
his booming voice, and the hat he every day for a million vears. And
always wears cocked over one ear. we know him
pretty well.
§
We'll miss him fumbling through "4
I
We'll
w e en
his well-known "filing cabinet" " miss him, because he's the
(everything's filed under "Z ") and ^ k m d of a guy who won't "kill" a
the way he always mooches *™* " e m for a m i l l l o n d o I 1
cigarettes during the week and then b n b e — b u t will if the fellow i n 1
suddenly dumps three or four "- t r o u t ) l e lias a mother who Is sick «"
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i
packages of them on our desks for
repayment.
W e H miss
' him, because he never
asks a reporter to do anything he
a
v
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^ o n ' t himself. u>
He is t\ gink who always says: We'll
we'll nit
nit, him because he's VO
"Take three or four days off it you j. always patient, and always willing'
don't feel well," and never takes | to push back his chair for a mo
.<*<- 8
a day off himself. ! ment to listen to our troubles ^J2. >
He's the guy who digs up a few is Most of all we'll miss him because
bucks from his own pocket before . he's the kind of a guy who wouldn't
g,
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^ _ . « permit these t h i n g s ' t o be said of'
him if he were here. ON
THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1941.
THE PIFFLE THAT IS IN PLEDGES
Do you remember the first time you heard this pledge in the
1
Democratic platform of the last campaign? If you happened to
be listening in on the convention that hot day last July when the
committee brought the piatform before the convention you will
remember that it was more lustily cheered than any of the other
I
fickle promises made by that rubber stamp convention. Here it is:
3*
y "The American people are determined that war, raging in Europe,
Asia and Africa, shall not come to America. cr
^v "We will not participate in foreign wars, and we will not send
our army, naval or air forces to fight in foreign lands outside of the
Americas, except in case of attack. We favor and shall rigorously en-
force and defend the Monroe Doctrine.
"The direction and aim of our foreign policy has been, and will
continue to be. the security and" defense of our own land and the
maintenance of its peace." O
Sounds familiar, doesn't it? You will remember t h a t in the o
last days of the campaign, when it seemed that the war issue
might determine the election, the candidates of both political
parties, for the Republicans had an antiwar pledge just as strong,
gave their solemn assurance this pledge would be upheld. You t/J
will remember how the Amer.can people stood and cheered when
/ their leaders crossed their hearts and hoped to die if they ever
took American boys into another foreign war. p
fa The St. Louis Post Dispatch says:
"The question might be asked as to how many votes would the
Democratic party have received if its platform and its candidate
* had said:
"We will participate in foreign wars, all over the world; we will
send our forces to fight in foreign lands outside the America's;
ON
we are determined to intervene in the wars now raging in Europe, -J
Asia and Africa."
If Mr. Roosevelt had made any such a statement we probably
would have elected Wendell Willkie, who now admits t h a t his
8
promise to keep us out of foreign wars was purely campaign &
<. chatter not to be seriously considered after the election was over. We o
were in a heck of a fix last July—all dressed up and no place to I
&
go—except, of course, abroad! PARSONS SUN
n
MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1941
© Here an?~ /
Hereabouts in 1895
.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Denton and j
children from Tulsa, Okla., were
g
! P ' guests at the home of Mrs. Paul
JUNE ' * Tonsing, 215 North Terrace,' yester- I
Tonsing's I I day.
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f^~~ y*&£pTUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1941.
. i p ^ ^ S ^ T l k e " Old" Short's - Suf^ 1
' festoon - that the White House be
M. lingyed to Atchison may bear some
fruit. W. C. Jacobs clipped a piece
from the May 31 issue of the
Saturday Evening Post as follows:
"Rep. Gus Kasch of Akron intro-
duced a resolution in the Ohio
legislature calling upon congress Oo er, Montana Democrat-isolation- seph P. Kennedy, former Ameri-
establish an emergency national
capital west of the Mississippi and
midway between the Rio Grande
and the Arctic circle, in case of
foreign invasion." The very location ditions in England and Europe
for such a capital would be Atchi-
son.
MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1941.
Mrs. Paul Tonsing leaves tomor-
row night for Los Angeles where (
she will visit her sons, Junior, who
I works on the Los Angeles Times, | I incite America to war by decep- economic, political and military
! and Luther, who has a printing es-
tablishment there. Mrs. Tonsing
hasn't seen' Luther for 18 years. She
will also visit her aunts, Mrs. Dora
Bennett and Mrs. Blanche Sketch.
8 TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1941.
o
1} Bob Tonsing of the Wi'c'rttta Eagle
fras in town_ yesterday. . -~
I The front of the Tonsing Book'
f jjstore is being repainted. .____; .
TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1941.
F M r s . Robert Tonsing of Wichita
is the superintendent of the Luth-
eran youth camp located out of
Junction City. Mrs. Bob Gaston of
r Bendena is serving on the faculty.
Other Bendena visitors at the camp
I are Miss Merle Albers and Miss
a (Mildred Albers.
J* Mr. and Mrs. Evan Tonsing took
their daughter, Virginia, to Camp
O Wa-Shun-Ga at Junction City Sun-
O
(75 day where she will attend the camp
for a week. They were accompanied
by Miss Lola Moyer of Effingham,
B who has been attending summer
school at Emporia.
8
I
I fancywork wrought into the iron.
n was midway between Maple street
§ While the casket has not.yet been
g opened. It is possible tosee-a baby's
I cap stillHn good condition on the
oo
England.
^
abinet Deceives U.S. Public
tbout War, Wheeler Charges
ROCHESTER (N.Y.) July 5. pie the facts. They have kept
(U.R)—Senator Burton K. Wheel- secret the reports made by Jo-
ist, accused the Cabinet tonight can Ambassador to Great Brit-
ain. They dare not make public
of withholding J,he facts of eco- Bullitt's reports to the State De-
nomic, political and military con- partment.
"They have kept secret the
in order to "incite America to report made by W. R. Davis, the
war by deception." oil man who contributed hun-
Wheeler addressed an overflow dreds of thousands of dollars
crowd at a rally sponsored by to the Democratic campaign in
the Rochester Citizens No-War 1936.
Committee. "They dare not take the people
"The Cabinet at Washington into their confidence and give
anrl warmongers are trying to them the facts upon the unsound
tion," Wheeler said. conditions in England and Eu-
"They dare not give \he peo-i rope."
FRIDAY, JULY 18, 194L
Uncover "Mystery Grave" In
North Atchison—Skeleton
Of Child In Strange Coffin
The "mystery grave" of a carefully-buried small child,
possibly not more than a year old, was found quite by acci-
dent this morning in the 0 street right-of-way.
Ted Sowers, employed by the city, was grading the
roadway and heard his grad°r strike something solid. He
jfound the grader hacTcut away a'portion of the top of i*j
small cast-iron casket..
Atchison police dug up the coffin" coffin and the body a thorough ex-
while D r . ^ . T. Wulff, acting coro- j amination in order to determine the
j ner, and the Harouff & Buis mor- I identit/ of the baby. He said it will
be possible to determine the appro-
tuary were, being notified.
I The > casket was., one of the !
ximate age and whether the baby
was white or colored. Meanwhile
| strang^t* ever seen in this part of undertakers interested in the case
!
the country, according to underta- ' will attempt to establish the prob-
kers. Not more than four feet in able date of the unusual casket.
length, it was of cast iron with a-
'•* 'small glass window over the baby's SATURDAY, JULY 19, 194L j
face. No identification was found on ]
• i
Rev. Ernest Tonsing, formerly
of Atchison and now pastor of the
j
the casket, which was covered with Lutheran church in Wellington,
Exact location of the discovery
will be one of the teachers at the
Luther league camp, Wa-Shun-Ga
at Junction City, during the next
^session. *>-*, i_
and Highway No. 7, on O Street.
i Mrs. Evan Tonsing: "We mowed
I and raked the yard last night, and
head of the skeleton below the glass.
The body appeared to have been
buriedfor many years. •
weren't bothered by one mosquito."
This is the first good news we've
'heard for some time;' but they'll
\ prSbabJr stage a comeback. ;''•_...
Dr. Wulff said he. will give the j
iv •"' *•'---'•*"
 r-iw- -.».--—1 iron, one for the bottom and one believe in burial, fearing that tne
for^the top, bolted together in the Great Spirit could not find the 'dead;
jnidslle. '. i
who were' oinderground. But' Uncle
Shaped not unlike the caskets of Sam did not believe it good.for the
the old Egyptian mummies, it has health of a community to "have the

Here May Be a gla&s window over the face of the

tn i.< . •
skeleton and is shaped to fit the
body. Elaborate scroll-work
dead become decomposed* in the
. - ^—- -
open air', so the government per-
suaded the Indians to use iron cask-
is.:
ets, sealed t h e caskets andj their

100 Years Old

Residents Recall
wrought into the iron to resemble a i
. shroud.
Another peculiarity is that t h e '
deaded to be" put on platforms -above)
grcund. - . J.

• casket has two handles on one end

Old Burial and no handles on the other, It
was air-tight, whiiSrj .accounts iatCr
c MONDAY, JULY 21, 1941.
Ground the remarkable preservation of the
tiny skeleton inside. Through t h e y
The wrought-iron casket taken window can be seen the child's
taken from the "mystery grave" in head, still wearing a baby's bonnet.
North Atchison yesterday, contain- On top of the head appears to b e ^
Coffin Left
ing the well-preserved skeleton of some sort of a metal halo-like • ,
a baby about two or three years old. crown.
is probably anywhere from 75 tc
10O years old, it was determined There
V E--
seems
y Mormons
to : be little doubt 3 C a s k e t T o Be U
today. that the skeleton is that of a white
child because of w e costliness of Re-Buried .'j' L> ct_oa
The records of the Harouff <fe the casket. A hundred years ago In O a k Hill ."" | . —
Buis mortuary go back for more
than 70 years and nowhere in them <i-^ there were no embalmers, only ft nas been definitely established &4&&
— "-—• •—*• -« »— ^-M
is there a notation o f . a burial of dealers who sold caskets and cof- that the three-foot wrought-iron \ "-
any sort made near the location fins. It appears likely t h a t this 4 casket taken from the "mystery] "mystery \0 I?
where the odd casket was found. particular coffin was purchased grave" in North Atchison last week
Lifelong residents, however, clear- from such dealer who obtained it T"was buried" by tne "Mormons, pfob-
ly recall that there were remnants from the east, and that the family 1 ably about l0$»years ago, * accord-
of an old cemetery on that site buried the child's body without em- ing to George Harouff of t h e Har-
well over half a century ago. balming, and selected the burial ouff & Buis mortuary. ' ;.«§:''•-..-..
IS ON EXHIBIT 3 site in the old, forgotten cemetery. The little casket will be re-buried,
The strange casket is on exhibit MORE GRAVES as it, in the "baby section" of Oak
in the north garage of the Harouff t C i t y E n g i n e e r E a r l H e U e n e r s a 5 ' s Hill cemetery to 10 o'clock' torhofr
& Buis mortuary and may be seen ^ t n e section of O street in which a row morning, the funeral ;v<an^
there by the public. Scores of per- ^ road-grader driven by Ted Sowers announced. I t will be placed, -in a
sons already have marveled at it. unearthed the grave yesterday has recorded grave so if any relative;
George Harouff recalls the old ? b e e n i n existence for 25 years at appear the grave can be located.
Ieast r r
cemetery which was located ap.- ' ' - The °ad 8 &de is four feet •~ | Also it will be marked if any his-
nine incnes
proximately on what is now O below the level of the torical society should want addi-
street, beteen Maple street and ^surrounding land, which would be tional information. ., - .*;-*£»•
Highway No. 7 to Troy. However he * tne
approximate depth of a grave, At
The casket, which contain* the
remembers discussing it with His '' Hence in all probability there are \ skeleton of a small child about two,
father, the late Jacob Harouff, who many other graves in the roadway "fl or three years old,- will • not V x be
said he had never made a burial in and on either side at about the opened. I t will be buried in its
>• i. same depth.
|«.
i Charles Palk, lifelong resident of Neither Dr. E. T. Wulff nor the
> North Atchison, remembers the mortuary have decided whether or
i present condition. .? >i
For several days, scores and
scores of people from all over- this
cemetery and sa3's it must be from <• not to open the casket and remove vicinity, as well as tourists passing
75 to 100 years old. the body. It may be that the mor- •I through who haTte heard of the dis-
tuary will remcve the body, for .re- covery from relatives here and from
Art Eymann, sr., says he played burial, and will retain the cajket
in the cemetery when he was » as a historical show-piece ^because filling station attendants, have vis-
youngster 50 years ago. Boys in the of its oddity. Nothing like.^tr has ited the mortuary to see the odd
:
neighborhood used to make 8 ever been seen in this vicinity. casket.
"short cut" through it, and they Cars from. Arizona, Oklahoma
found a number of old graves with uftral.iastipsts.'^i beiieve^Ttiair'ne Nebraska, Missouri.and even .Cali-
wooden headstones toppled to the maee the iron tfcbff in. He was" a fornia and Louisville, Ky., have
ground. Even that far back, he said brother of Ed Cole, the South Atchi- stopped to see it, according to M r :
the cemetery was overgrown with • son grocer." William Martin, who Harouff. • - • ' **•
wild brush and wild plum trees. lives on Harmony hill, believes thl He recalls that his father,, the
There' is talk that it may have th~3-little skeleton found in the iroif late Jacob Harouff, told him of the
been a Mormon cemetery. Many casket was an lnd£|&Jjaby, and that Mormon caravan which was forced,
years ago the Mormons were vic- the ircn casket wtffNnade by the to stop near Atchison when stricken
tims of an epidemic while passing government. Mr, Martinin about-* by an epidemic. His father," ne « # j
through the Atchison vicinity and ' 1903 was a freighter; in- Oklahoma, calls, mentioned that the . Mprf'
coffins
stopped Here to biu%s»ny_ of their - and.remem^rE^at.llte 'government mons carried their own
te»A£*&'ifr&?--'< /•&&&•> i PSO*** *->• fetsi?«;tae Okla-. and caskets.
kin TH*HTCASKET^?* ^ ; C S - 4 h o B l a Indians, ffelfidtths c&JHfoSe< i Also Mrs. David Harned, 208.East
^ ^ i ^ ^ V ^ ^ & ^ c S ^ J days praciicM fifffW^m Jqt Plac- J Riley street; gave'weight teethe ex^
y™*:?™ • u ^ n j ^ s k e f ^ p i i c h ? ing t h ^ dead pn[lbutd6of plat-| Iplanation when she ? viewed*:;, the
J'Wffi-*'- ^ ^ : y ^ ; t h r e « ,,ieet in , forms, Ieavirig.the retoains there un~f_jcasket and told of seeing "a number
&f>other£^caskets, • similar inf^very
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Going Places
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I Old Snort
j (Editor's note- This Is another in a
J series of articles written by Carl Brown,
to ' editor of The Globe, about a vacation
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At Springfield, Ohio, we called
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on the Rev. Pearl Mellenbruch fam- '
ily, Mrs. L. S. Keyser, and Gretchen
and Paul Garvic. Mrs. Mellenbruch
was Miss Orpal Tonsing, of Atchi«
son. There are four good looking
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and smart daughters in the Mellen-
bruch home. Rev. Mellenbruch, a
Lutheran pastor, got his college
3 and filled in a large hole on the
and theological education in Atchi-
q son.
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1 Mrs. L. S. Keyser is the widow
of a former pastor of St. Mark's
Lutheran church, Atchison. She Is
B • 82 years of age, and in good health.
o half of lot 9, owned by the Lena
She lives alone, and does all of
f her housework. The Keysers lived
in Atchison nearly forty years ago.
Gretchen and Paul Garvic are
g* i daughter and son of Rev. and Mrs.
i Howard C. Garvic, both of whom
if? fare deceased. Rev. Garvic about
twenty-five years ago was pastor of
St. Mark's Lutheran church in At-
chison. Paul Garvic is married, is
a papa, and is a salesman for an
a electric appliance company. Gret-
chen Garvic is married, has a baby,
to
and her husband is with a trans-
portation company. Rev. and Mrs.
K) L j J. L? Neve reside in Springfield. He
recently underwent an operation,
and is making a good recovery. Mrs.
03
o Neve was Miss Charlotte Mangels-
dorf of Atchison. Years ago Dr.
i Neve was a member of the faculty
of the Western Theological Semi
2 L nary in Atchison.
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On the Bowery in New York it is
possible to get a hair cut and a
shave for a total of fifteen cents;
and a pint of whisky for eigh'
cents. The whisky is made from the
I skeletons of rattlesnakes.
•5' Prom "The Gobe's historical edition of
July 16, 1894: , —
8 ;-j The second stock of merchandise in
Atchison was put In by Sam Dickson,
I now of St. Joe.-The stock was installed
in a shanty on the river, east of the
I Challiss store, which was Atchison's
first store. Dickson started his store in
w Mthe fall of 1855. At the same time a
Mpostoffice was established, with J. H.
BJfii^ngameV. as, postmaster. He left
*>'••;
Atchison the next fall, and Henry Aa-
doms became Atchison's " second post-
master. This statement is .on the au-
thority of George T. challlss, and cor-
rects the common opinion that Addoms
was the first postmaster.
The first newspaper in Atchison was
the "Squatter Sovereign," and was es-
tablished in 1855, by Dr. Stringfellow
and Bob Kelley. The newspaper office
was on the present site of the Ogden
block.
The third store in Atchison was start-
ed by Berry Davenport, who is still a
familiar figure in Atchison (1894). The
store was opened in the spring of 1856,
by which time Atchison probably had
fifty houses. This is the estimate of Mrs.
George T. Challiss, who arrived in
Atchison in June, 1856. Her father was
John Bennett, who is credited with
having saved Pardee Butler.
, Butler was a real abolitionist, and of-
ten came to town from his farm at Par- j
dee. He was a free spoken man, and the
southern element which then predom- I
inated Atchison^seized him, nut him on
a raft and sent him down the river.
George T. Challiss says the raft was a
safe one, and was stocked with provi-
sions.
Butler managed to land safely at
Sumner. In about a month he came
back to Atchison, although warned not
to do so. Then Graff Tomasson, a big
Missourian who ran a saw mill near the
site of the present B. & M. round house,
pulled Butler out of his buggy, and took
him to a building at the northeast cor-
ner of Third and Commercial streets,
where a lot of fierce South Carolian-
ians had collected. The building was
then occupied by the postoffice. The
South Carolinians were for hanging
Butler, but John Bennett, also a south-
ern man, plead for Butler's life. Finally
Butler was stripped naked, was smear-
ed with tar, was covered with cotton
batting, and was then allowed to leave
town in his buggy. George Challiss wit-
nessed the entire proceedings, and says
Butler was the coolest man in the par-
ty, although his life was in the greatest
danger.
THURSDAY,. .1ULY 24, 1941.
. Mrs. P. a . Tonsing will return
from California about August 20.
MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1941.
New Library
Building
for Atchison
Big Improvement
Planned At
Fourth A n d Kansas
Atchison will have a new
public library building. .-.;..;;.
Final ^arrangements, /have |
n
been made arid bids will be
accepted the .latter part of
this week,' construction to
start immediately thereafter.
The present library build-
ing will be completely re-
built, from the ground up, H
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and will be thoroughly, mo-
dernized inside and out.
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The library board used funds left
by the late J. P. Pomeroy for the
purchase of three lots and the south
half of a fourth on Kansas avenue
between Fourth and Fifth streets
to
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which will provide an attractive m I
so
setting for the new building.
A donation by H. E. Muchnic of
; the Locomotive Finished Material
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Co. has made the rebuilding pos-
sible.
The library board originally own-
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ed lots 13 and 14, block 7, Old
Atchison, on which the present
building is situated. Later the city
acquired lot 12, next to the library,
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property. This lot will be iaeded to
the library board. Finally, the
library acquired lot 10, owned by
the Ida Moxcey estate, lot 11, owned
by Anna Kiffinger, and the south
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Odow estate, with the Pomeroy
fund.
ONE-STORY STRUCTURE
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The new building," therefore, will
have the property from the present
library building up to1 the Atchison if
Business college building, and north
to the George Harouff property.
Residence properties on lot 11 and
• lot 9, as well as the second-hand o
' store of W. F. Koontz on lot 9, will o
I be torn down to make way for the r*
| improvement.' RecenUy another re-
jsidence property on lot 10 was
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I condemned and torn down. |
It is tentatively planned that the
I new building be a modern one-story 8
| structure with basement, and that
: the property adjacent to it be
'landscaped and beautified for use
as a small park.
The Atchison library board offi- as
cers are Mrs. J. W. Orr, president,
Mrs. J. M. Challiss, vice president, j
Mrs. H. F. Chandler, recording sec- i i
retary, and Miss Florence Barth, \
treasurer. The library board mem- i
bers include Mrs. J. W. Orr, Mrs.
J. M. Challiss, Mrs Sheffield Ingalls, I
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Mrs. Wheeler Barlow, Mrs. Arthur
Kinney, Mrs. Horace Chandler, Mrs.
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Gilbert Guthrie, Mrs. Roy Seaton,
Mrs.- H. E. Muchnic, Mrs/-H; B. g
Mize, Miss Effie Symns, Miss Flor-
I
ence Barth and Miss Mayme Lu-
kens. ••'.;. - ...--.
•'. The new building and property
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will have: a 270-foot frontage on,
to
Kansas' avenue 00
 BV MRS, B E M R J I ' R W. CRA'l./l.dSR
For som° lime a croup of mother? of
boys and girl? in the Los Angeles pub-
lic schools has met to study and to probe
into the basic causes of delinquency and
to formulate, if possible, a means of at-
tacking it at its roots:
only imp" "f tins vast number of chil-
dren for receiving sound moral and spi
itual guidance
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We have solved a similar problem in 2
requiring that our public school children
of whatever background or influence
pledge allegiance to our Flag. Could we
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In an editorial entitled "An Answer not, as Americans mindful of the Fa-
to Delinquency'' recently published in therhood of God and the brotherhood of
The Times a plan was suggested which man on which the. founding fathers
constitutes the only basic solution f n r baspd our Constitution, require that
our national delinquency, both Juvenile
and adult. The article, by Mrs. Walter
W. Allen, so articulates and summarizes
these same children rise for a brief mo-
ment of prayer at assemblies, or at the
beginning of each school clay? Thus, thpy
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thp ideas expressed at our conferences would pledge fitting allcciance tn the
End represents so clearly our deepest God of their country as well as to the
convictions that we wish to offer the re- Flag of their country.
sults of our siudy. We believe them to A hymn might some mornings take $
b<> the technique, or necessary steps, by
which theory may become practice.
the place of community prayer. Accord-
ing to Time magazine, .lan. in, 1944,
Trotestant, Jewish and Catholic chap-
Mrs. Allen's answer to delinquency lains have printed 10 popular nondenomi-
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stated: "Delinquency being a moral prob- nationa! hymns and the 2r!rd Tsalm in a
lem, the answer to it can only be r moral leaflet entitled "Hymns From Home."
one. Control of delinquency must come One million copies of this leaflet have
from within. No amount of superim- been affixed In the K rations of the men
posed, environmental cures, however going into battle. Our armed forces rec- S
fine, will r^aeh the root causes. The pre- ognize that "man docs not live by bread
scription for our disease is a program alone" and, therefore, supplements, the m
of moral re-education. "We must raise up soldier's regular. 4cod allotment with a
a new generation more adequately food rich in spiritual vitamins. If words
grounded in the principles of democra- of life on wings of song have bpcome
cy, as conceived by the founding^fa- government, issue for grown men in the
thers." service, why not apply the same treat-
Believing, with Mrs. Allen, that "our ment to remedy the spiritual vitamin de-
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greatest national service as parents and ficiency of our children?
leachers is to recapture the lost virtues And what about the Bible?
of honesty, neighborliness, clean living, We believe that it would further es-
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discipline and obedience for our chil- tablish the moral climate which pro-
dren," we submit \ the conclusions ar- duces right living if at school assemblies
rived at by a group of mothers who inspirational selections from the Bible
know thai, they want these virtues for were read, without interpretation, thus O
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their children and all children. We an- avoiding sectarianism. The version J*
swer Mrs. Allen's challenge of "Mothers, could be determined by an interfaith K>
speak' Parents, let us make ourselves conference. Since the Psalms, for exam-
beard!" ple, are recognized by judges of fine c/a
In our study, public school education writing as among the finest and noblest
was scrutinized carefully and certain de-. products of man's pen, we contribute to
ficiencies recognized. Jn thp light of cultural as well as spiritual illiteracy in
present delinquency- figures, we, in Cali- failing 1o expose our children to 1hem.
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fornia, who have secularized public school We believe, then, that prayer, or a
curricula to complete omission of any hymn, plus selections from the Bible at j3
expressed allegiance to God, and of any assemblies, would create the spiritual
responsibility for teaching moral laws climate in which the next step is to be <J\
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and ethics as based on the Bible, should taken . . . the direct-method teaching of
be the first to say "Mea culpa." moral values as laws of God, based on
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We have expected boys and girls to the Ten Commandments and the Ser-
l^ve God and keep His laws when most mon on the Mount. This could be done
of them have not been 1 aught either to in full accord with the nonsectarian code
know God or His 10 basic command- of the California State Constitution, in pa
ments. co-operation with an Interfaith com- o
The delinquent child is the product of mittee. Jr
spiritual malnutrition. He comes from School attendance is compulsory and a
the broken or marginal home where con- program such as indicated above would 8
flict and irresponsibility set the stage assure America that her children were I
for his misconduct. He is not learning taught to pray to Gdd and were trained
by precept or example in the home 10 and grounded in the fundamental reli- 1
1"V6 the true, the good and the beauti- gious principles on which this democra-
ful. Our public school system is the cy must depend for its pefpetuatioh.g^-:. K. —
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Poll Wanted
I have just finished reading the article
by Mrs. Beatrice W. Challiss on juvenile
delinquency. This is a fine article and
should .be read and taken seriously by
every parent of school-age children.
Now why can't something be done to
find out what the majority of the Times
leaders think about it? And assuming
that each Times reader talks it over with
at least one non-Times reader, it seems
to me it would soon be a widely dis-
cussed subject.
It didn't take long to find out. how
people felt about the Jap situation
here on our coast. I suggest a similar
poll to get the public reaction to the sug-
gestion "that the Bible be read in the
schools. MRS. R. PAUL,
North Hollywood.
ice as parents and teachers is to recap-
ture the lost virtues of honesty, neigh-
borliness, clean living, discipline and obe-
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dience for our children" . . . "Recapture
the lost virtues!" Indeed! In no prior
age have such marvelous young people
gone forth to war, so that we are inor-
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dinately proud of them. "The whole
world was lost in the darkness of "sin."
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Indeed! There never was a time when -J
there were not a great majority of de-
cent people, according to their standards.
Our high civilization is not inherited
from degenerates. $
The emotional excesses of the "uplift- >
ers" should not blind us to the presence
of. fine people all about us—old and
young. I speak for my grandchildren
and millions more.
Riverside.
BURDETTE K. MARVIN, I
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Praise Given
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Praise and respect are due you for the
two readers' editorials you have printed
written by Mrs. Walter W. Allen and
Mrs. Beatrice W. Challiss.
Lack of morality is the great cause of
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most of our troubles and misfortunes and, £
as both ladies truthfully say, our afflic-
tions come from lack of instruction to
our children in character and morality
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so vital not only to a peaceful life but
also to preservation of the foundations
of our system of government: freedom
and liberty. JOHN R. CASE,
Los Angeles. to
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A Protest
With entire serenity I may yet regis-
ter emphatic protest to a 'statement in 9
the carefully written letter by Mrs. Chal-
liss in your leading reader editorial of
Jan. 24.
She wrote: "Our greatest national serv-
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CENTURY MARK—Lewis
1 ClEHh Birthday, near home
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Lewis S. Carter. 100 f l 4 2
Pirn k» V M ' ° ' ^ - i t 0 ™ A : d o w t p the drugstori
Fifth '.St., Santa Monica, d « m « f % r l i l f t mtffi and then I ' v i
of all the Grand Army of the | got to take my morning w a t t *
Republic men in Southern Cal Sure enough, a moment late"r_
ifomia, celabrated his 100th Carter seized his cane, w a l k e d
birthday yesterday, but he-\vas out of the house and starteS
deeply offended. blithely up the street to t h ^
"They're- telling it around drugstore:-1- '• .,.-.-. K>
that I'm 102," Carter said with Carter is the'Iast member BTi
indignation. "It isn't true. I'm the John A.-Martin Post N g
just 100 years old today. That's 153, G.A.R., of Sawtelle. Th&
old enough for any man and I post was disbanded a year a g ^
don't like this exaggeration!" when only two members r £
mained and the colors wen£-
Despite this small cloud surrendered to the -command'
which besmudged his birthday ant of the Veterans' Facilitt.
party slightly. Carter still had "a Still . active,,,. Carter admo9?
twinkle in his eye and an agiie ; ished The Times reporter, as hfe*
foot for a man of his age.- j started for the drugstore: £
"Son," he said, "hurry up "Be sure to correct that r i v
with your interview. 1 have j port about my age. I'll seg"
some errands to do. I've sot I you next year, son."
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L. A. •y fI
Under clear skies and a blazing air circulation and lower temptWa«
sun, the mercury climbed to 89 de- tures was forecast f6r tomorrow,
grees in Los Angeles this afternoon, when the weather experts foretHrM
the mercury would reach only SsL
equaling yesterday's maximum, hot- Indio was the hottest Southland
jtest of the summer. community yesterday—it was ^fbl
Temperature readings hour by there. Other high temperatures ***.
hour today and yesterday compare ported included: Sierra Madre, HI;
Azusa, 100; Arcadia, 99; Monroga,
as follows: 98; Covina, 97; San Dimas, ^94;
Y e s t e r - Puente, 90; San Gabriel, 100; N©--
Today day. hall, 100; Pasadena, 96. 2.
68 San Fernanr"" -alley points T*ere
3 a. m 70 67 hot, too, wif> ;ana and Canlj>£s
1 II- in 69 67 Park reporti: -degree tempan.-
66 tures. At San .•.• ^rnando, it was wB;
fi a. m 66 68 at Van Nuys, 99; at Burbank. ?&:
7 a. m 71 74 at North Hollywood, 93. M
77 ~1 When the mercury climbed tcgsr.
9 a. in 85 81 degrees in San Diego, a 43-year<D!r.
in a, m 86 heat record for that city was mfU
1). a . m . . . . . 86.5 8ft marking the hottest Aug. 13 Hjr,
89 87 record. The former high mgrl-
But a gradual return to better 'there was 82 degrees, set in 188
MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1941. j
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ubilc Horary Association
Organized Here En 1879
W h e r e a s it is e x p e d i e n t a n d d e s i r a b l e for t h e genera^} -
c u l t u r e a n d i n t e l l e c t u a l e n j o y m e n t of t h e citizens of A.U
chison a n d vicinity t h a t a p u b l i c l i b r a r y b e e s t a b l i s h e d , b3£
it r e s o l v e d t h a t w e , w o m e n of A t c h i s o n , o r g a n i z e for th£j"
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purpose.
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Tnus with a minimum of words.*
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Carter t a k e s Stroll on his lie Library
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association organized 00
Santa-Monica. T i m e s photo P > 1879> a t a m e e t i n s held in
' ' - ,-, : what was known as Corinthian hall.

The organization and subsequent
history of the Atchison public li-
brary is. news again, for only re-
cently it was announced that a do-
nation by H. E. Muchnic of the Lo-
comotive Finished Material Co. has
made, possible a complete^recon-
H struction of the present library
o building.
s Martin, Mrs. R. D. Everett, Mrs. G.
Through funds left by the late
1" J. P . Fomeroy, the library associa
turn has acquired adjacent lots
from the library building west to.
the Atchison Business college build- j
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ing, a structure which the library.
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K> itself once occupied.
SOUGHT CULTURE j
U) | Early establishment of a public li- j
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8 fact that Atchison was not for long
; a pioneer, frontier town in the sense
> also donated a beautiful piece of !
of log cabins and Indian tepees.
Soon alter the community was
founded a number of wealthy, cui-
j tured and educated families moved
[here and immediately erected fine
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; homes, many of which were lavish
! for t h a t day. To the women of
I ! those families goes credit for found-
I ing many of the cultural institutions
•8 jto which they had.been accustomed
! in their eastern homes—churches,
o school buildings, and the library.
en Mrs. John Crowell was elected
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first library board president, pro-
tem, and Mrs. A. P. Martin was
made, secretary pro-tem. Mrs. W.
CA
D. Webb offered the resolution j
s which organized the association a n d ;
"24 directors were chosen. All of j
them were women, and each sue-1
ceeding board up to the present day
has been comprised of women.
: NOT! SELF-SUPPORTING
By its very nature the Atchison
' public library has never been self-
supporting, nor is it today. I t relies
for revenue upon some help from
C/> the city, the income from a few in-
i vested" gifts of money, and from
! the sale of library memberships.
p The first summer of its' existence ;
the 24 women directors exerted |
themselves individually and collec- j
tively to raise money to rent a room !
for the library and fill it with books.!
CTs They made a house-Jo-house c a n - '
vass selling library tickets for $2.50'
o each. And they sold 300 tickets.
E I n September of that year the j
& first order of books arrived and the j
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ladies rented the second floor of a :
new building erected by Owen E.
Seip at 607 Commercial street. Mrs.
M. F. DeForrest was engaged as li-
brarian, and on November 21 the
o library opened its doors to the pub- j
E jlic.
I j Both In the early struggle for ex-
| istencV and during later years up
: t o - t h e "present time,' revenue has
n o t ' c o m e easily to the library nor
ft*. * * fine ladies. who—then and
00 ?°w—devoted their time' and inter-j
r
shows a series of suppersT dinners,
dances, amateur entertainments and
programs to raise money to pay li-
brary expenses. . [.
TWO MONEY GIFTS
In its span of service the library
received two generous gifts — one
•-from--the late 3: P; Pomeroy for';
$10,000 and one from the late - A. J . '
Harwi for an equal amount.
The Pomeroy fund was given in
1887 by the coal and lumber .mer-
chant who had originally planned
to use it to erect a Memorial build-
ing on" Commercial street. He
changed his mind, however, be-
cause of what he termed the indif-
ference of the citizens and lack of
interest shown by the city in not ]
procuring suitable grounds for a!
; building, as he had requested. He |
statuary, "The Wrestlers," which :
was a copy of the original in Rome. '
I t is still in the library.
A. J. Harwi in 1910 also gave $10,- j
000 and his gift, now invested, i s ;
being currently used as a bcok fund
to supply and renew the book I
shelves and their contents. Mr. i
Pomeroy's gift was used for main-
tenance of the library and it dwin-
dled during the passing years. The
remainder of it was used to p u r - :
chase lots adjacent to the library j
only this month.
Mr. Pomeroy had no strings to
his gift, and a portion of it was
used to buy the " present Atchison \
Business college building at Fifth
and Kansas avenue — the second
floor of which was being used as
a library a t the time. The lower
floor was rented for stores.
The Congregational church t h e n '
gave the library its- church edifice !
and grounds and the library has I
been located there ever since.
Perhaps never in its history has •
the Atchison" public library been!
used as universally by people from j
this community and the vicinity as I
it is today. Thousands each y e a r !
enjoy the privileges of the free read- (
ing room, where it is possible to |
select a book and read it on the i
premises without charge in a quiet,!
orderly atmosphere. Not as m a n y :
citizens have library cards—which!
permit books to be taken from the j
library—as should have them.
The library shelves contain mod-
ern, up-to-date books which from
time to time are listed in The Globe.
Books are available for all ages and j
creeds. Each morning when the li-
brary opens a group of youngsters
is there to enter and enjoy the
books. Some, too young to read,
find pictureo*hooks with which they
entertain and educate themselves
throughout . t h e morning. Many
adults also a r e dally visitors; one
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m a n is.reading every piece of Uter-
$,turg h e 4 can find 'on the life
Abraham Lincoln.
T h e first board of directors of the
library was as follows: -
Mrs. John M. Crowell, Mrs. R. A.
Park, Mrs. W. H. Shulze, Mrs. W.
W. Guthrie, Mrs. J. T. Berry, Mrs.
W. F. Downs, Mrs. W. D. Webb.
Mrs. R. F. Clark. Mrs. A. B. Brad-
dish, Mrs. W. S. Briggs, Mrs. A. F.
W. Glick, Mrs. D. C. Newcomb, Mrs.
W. L. Challiss, Mrs. A. G. Otis, Mrs.
B. F Stringfellow, Mrs. John J. In-
galls, Mrs. A. C. Faust, Mrs. L.
Friend, Mrs. Harriet Monroe, Dr.
j Lydia Stockwell and Miss Nellie
' Allen. Officers were Mrs, Crowell,
• president; Mrs. Martin, secretary;
[and Mrs. R. A. Park, treasurer. Mrs.
! Leontine Scofield, beloved Atchison
. wonoan. served the longest period as
librarian.
Present board of directors is com-
' prised of;
; Mrs. j \ w . Orr. Mrs. J. M. Chal-
liss, Mrs.\sheffield Ingalls, Mrs.
Wheeler B a r W , Mrs. Arthur Kin-
ney, Mrs. Horace Chandler, Mrs.
Gilbert Guthrie.^Mrs. Roy Seaton,
Mrs. H. E. Muchnic>Mrs. H. B. Mize,
Miss Effie Symns, ^ i s s Florence
Barth and Miss Mayme l i k e n s . Of-
ficers are Mrs. J. W. Orr, pres-
ident; Mrs. J. M. Challiss, vice-pres-
ident; Mrs. H. F. Chandler, record-
ing secretary; and Miss Florence
Barth, treasurer.
The present librarian, a pleasant,
T
efficient woman, Is Mrs. Elizabeth
Shelly, who is conscientious and has
a wide knowledge of the library and
the books it contains. Her sugges-
j tions always have proved helpful to
[library patrons a n d ' s h e is always
willing to make suggestions; if* sre-
| quested to do so. '
(Editor's note—Some of the his-
I torical material used in the fore-
; going article was compiled by the
| late Joe Rank, former Globe editor,
I in a story which appeared in The
Glebe on December 28, 1912.) ;
Evan Tonsing and family went
on a buying trip to Kansas City
today. .
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 194L
ON
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Here and
i
Hereabouts in 1896
JANUARY.
A daughter was: h o n f 'to Rev
and Mrs.. Paul Tonsing, who were •f
living at Beloit.
-8
THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1941.
' ~Tonsing|s^are extending the bat- |
cony in their store. .'-. m—«• .--.—"»»•*»•-'
Miss Virginia Tonsing has r e - r
u>
t u r n e d a f t e r visiting Miss Patty Lit-
—
Of Rushville. • • s •'' |>'» : ij.« ! oo
 FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1P41. a n d repairing all three uuim-i

I Mrs.' Paul Tonsing of Atchison.

who is in California, writes The
Globe that she recently visited J
THE MQNI16R-PRESS.
Wellington, Kansas
ings. • Tlic old parsonage w a s made j
into a parish house, a n d t h e for- j
m e r parish house into a parson-
•Pi
I
age. T h e latest part of t h e pro-
.Lewis s. Carter. 100 years old, t h e ; M o n d a y , , S e p t e m b e r 1 j ' J W l
I last survivor of the John A. Martlr .——-—*===- •• ^i, ~-i~~ j g r a m w a s completion of a new
H I GAR post in Los Angeles. The post; .-. « — — — _ I floor i n t h e church auditorium
H
§
(A
| was named in honor of Col. John I
i A. Martin of Atchison. Mrs. Ton- y j
. TONSING I last week.
§

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' sing's father, at one time h a d a L^i
membership of 1.000 and was or- j ; CCEPTS CALL- TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1911• i *
/ I
to
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ganized in 1887. Col. Martin estab- ! j
lished the Sawtelle Soldiers h o m e f ;
j a t Los Angeles ana Mr. Carter lived !^ i
TO EMPORIA 7 Mrs. P a u l T o n s i n g wDl return this •
week from Wellington, where
has been, visiting a t the home of ^ v ^ -
she
~ — ^
i
: at the home until five years ago. «- j
| He is now at Rest Home in Los I Pastor Of St. John's Luth- ".:-. and Mrs. Ernest Tonsing.
VO
I Angeles. Mrs. Tonsing writes: "Mr.: eran Church To Leave •£r
I Carter is a short, stocky man with * I September 21 i WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,1941 O
«^-
a little beard and does not look Mrs. Paul Tonsing will return •
more than 75. He is well educated. \c 'Rev, Ernest. Tonsing, p;istor of "from ' Wellington o

i
tomorrow. She:
intelligent, and was very pleased St. J o h n ' s L u t h e r a n chinch of this spent most of the sumer in Califor-
t h a t I had come to see him. He / city, announced to hi* eongrpga- n i a .
was much annoyed that a photo- . ^zr*
tiori yesterday morning- t h a t h e 00
1 grapher came from the Lo:, Angeles was resigning from this p a s t o r a t e WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1941.
Times recently to take his picture -s_j to accept a call t o S t . Mark's L u -
^ ^
on the occasion of hi? 100th birth- Evan Tonsing is starting his
t h e r a n c h u r c h of Emporia.
I i day. and refused to pose for him.
I But as he expressed it 'that m a n
i was smart and had his camera all
His resignation
ive after Sunday, September 21.
becomes effect- twelfth year as superintendent of
t h e St. Mark's Lutheran Sunday
a
CD
*
j set, and when I walked away from Rev. Tonsing h a s been h i t h e •KrhrwV
8 j him h e took the picture.' The pic- p r e s e n t charge t w o years a n d t e n THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 11, 1941.
1
1 ture appeared in t h e Times and ; £ m o n t h s , h a v i n ? come to Welling-
I was the reason I wen; to visit Mr Paul Tonsing, jr., is here from Cal-

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ton Irom VaUey pa]]s Rftn Jfl

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j Carter. Mr. Carter says h e hates November, 1038
; publicity and when the movie m a n c , I r i .,
W ,,e hcre he h a s
o ifornia and is visiting his mother,
^ Mrs. Paul Tonsing. Paul is in the
er ! appeared to photograph him he ab- ? " ^ & * Marines now, and looks fine.
n u m b e r of
SL jsolutelv refused to have anything ^ c h i c positions, a n d is
a. j t o do with them." Mrs. Tonsing's" 1 " a f c Present secretary-treasurer of ' T h e Rev. Earnest Tonsing will
'; take charge of a Lutheran church
| address in California is 849 N. Edg- : t h e Ministerial association, t r e a s -
mont, Hollywood. ^ urer of t h e United City Welfare 'j in Emporia September 28.
—-— | association, Leadership chairman r
MONDAY, AUGUST 18. 1941. of District 12, Quivira Council, |: Mrs. Paul Denton, of Oklahoma " /
;_ City, has recovered from a critical r
a Ann Martin, daughter of Mr. and Boy. Scouts of America, . a n d a I illness. She is a daughter of Mrs.
Mrs. Harres Martin, ran a nail i n / l m e m b e r of t h e J u n i o r C h a m b e r of UiPaul Tonsing of Atchison. a
£*t^-i o
her foot yesterday. ; „ C o m m e r c e . H e acted a s . general r*
THURSDAY, AUGUST 28. 1941. c h a i r m a n of t h e recent United !r SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1941
C/3 __ "'Service organizations campaign' i n FiUl Tonsing will leave Wednes- • urpv&f o
Mrs. Paul Tonsing is visiting her ' t h e city. day for San Diego, Calif., where in
. " . ' " .
daughter, Mrs. Paul Denton, formerly c T h e Tonsings have two children, j j. he will report to t h e Marine base
8 Ida Tonsing, in an Oklahoma city
hospital. Mrs. Denton is improved
Freddie, 4, a n d Evan, 2.
'Si- : m i e r 24. He will then be sent
R
to Philadelphia for training.
in health. Mrs. Tonsing h a s been active
in local c h u r c h a n d club work, Mr. and Mrs, Evan Tonsing a.t-
SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1941. being program c h a i r m a n of t h e termed the gift show in Kansas isas CitA
CirA' j—7
ON local Cosmos federated c'.-ab t h i s la». evening.
• Abe Tonsing's shape is being *:._& a n d a member of t h e Junior WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,1941.
iriiized. Home Culture club. S h e is -also
, 8 Rev. Ernest Tonsing of Welling- president of t h e Southern confer- Paul Tonsing will leave today for
8
ton will become pastor of the United ence Women's Missionary society 'I San Diego, Calif., where he will re-
o Lutheran church. St. Mark's, a t of t h e L u t h e r a n Synod of K a n s a s i port to the marine base.
Emporia. He will enter effect there ^LEAVING Thursday lor California. Will
a n d Adjacent States. I take 2 passengers. Write ••California^
n the last Sunday in September. Rev.
Rev. Tonsing is editor of t h e care Globe. __\ : . . O
Tonsing. one of the finest of Atchi-
son's products, was born In Atchison, I ^ a t e m o n t h l y L u t h e r a n publica-

8 end is a son of Mrs. Paul Tonsing tion. T h e K a n s a s Synod L u t h e r a n ,

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1941.

I His first pastorate was a t Valley is president of t h e Southern con-

Falls, where he served the Luther- ference of t h e synod, a n d f m e m -
ans for six years. He went to St. ber of t h e synodlcal > *|cultve
ST. MARKS
At a combined assembly of t h e
^~~'
/
John's Lutheran church in Welling- committee. . intermediate and adult departments
ton three years ago. ' of the Sunday school, Dr. C. L. Hix- r
, This year, t h e S t . J o h n ' s c o n - on conducted t h e annual election,
^^y^^f^^-^^^ j gregation undertook a n extensive -of officers for that body. Evan W.
00
p / I Improvement program^ redecorating Tonsing was re-elected as general ] OO
cS'.n- -
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i Church
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U>
n wis
8 ^JJIAV*^
t i
3.
ON
superintendent for the twelfth con-
9
secutive year. He and the other el-
ected officers will be installed at
6> iUhe;morning service next Sunday.
A number of the members of St.
9 Marks attended the Brotherhood
f and Missionary rally in Kansas
City, Kas., yesterday.
I WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24,1941.
n ally receive Rev. Ernest Tonsing, of
Evan Tonsing is starting his
twelfth year as superintendent of
* the St. Mark's Lutheran Sunday
school.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1941.
a states and pastor of Trinity Luth-
f Here and
c/3
hereabouts In 1896
8 MARCH.
December, 1859, Abraham Lincoln
visited Northeast Kansas. At Elwood
he stopped at the Great .Western
4*1 hotel. In Troy he stayed at Leonard
t—»
o\ Smith's hotel. At Doniphan he stay-
-J
ed at Low's hotel. In Atchison he
aI stayed in the Massasoit hotel. The
year Lincoln was assassinated the
hotel at Elwood fell into the Missouri
river,, and the hotels at Troy, Doni-
i phan and Atchison were destroyed
by fire.
o the Wellington church properties
WednesdayL October 1, 1941.
8 which the three church structures
I
The Rev. and Mrs. Ernest Ton-
sing and sons of Emporii spent
yesterday in Atchison. \ , ^ ; / ' - > j
U> THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1941.
£3
00 Evan Tonsing has resigned ^ d i -
rector of the St. Mark's Lutheran;
Uavurch choir after 12 years of serf. JREV. ERNEST TONSING.
' A New Pastor Here. •,
iiwttiyiitn'i- * i J
THE EMPORIA DAILY GAZETTE
Fridav. October 3 , 1 9 4 1
Special Services
For New Pastor
Members of St. Mark's Lutheran
church will hold special services
Sunday night, when they will form-
Wellington, as the new pastor. The
services will begin at 7:30 o'clock
and will include both installation
and the holy communion. Presid-
ing over the Installation will be
Rev. W. W. Klover, president of the
synod of Kansas and adjacent
eran church in Kansas City, Kan.
Mr. Tonsing comes to Emporia
from Wellington, where for three
years he was pastor of St. John's
Lutheran church. He succeeds
Rev. O. W. Ebright, who resigned
this summer to become superin-
tendent of Tabitha Home, Lincoln,
, Vi
»
August 0,1941 PlLoi
<r
Left: Children of the •
I
Choir, S /., \ !>
Mark's, Atchison, Kan- H
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\t 8.
as
3
fl>
1
Neb. The new pastor and his fam-
' ily have been In Emporia since Sep-
tember 24 and they are occupying I
the newly decorated parsonage at
206 West Seventh. Mr. and Mrs.
Tonsing have two children, Freddie,
-3
four years old, and* Evan, two.
While in Wellington, the Ton-
sing family was, active in church
and community affairs. Mr. Ton-
w
OQ
y
sing was chairman of the U. S. O. tr
drive, which raised $1,100; chair-
man of the leadership training
committee of District 12, Quivira
council, Boy Scout* of America;
and secretary-treasurer of the Min-
isterial association. Mrs. Tonsing
was program chairman of the Cos-
mos, Federated club for 1941, mem-
a
o
ber of the Junior Home Culture s*
bJ
club and sponsor of the Young
Women's Missionary society of the
•u
o
o
Lutheran church.
HELD OTHER JOBS.
C/5
Mr. and Mrs. Tonsing are pres-
idents of the Southern conference 8
and Southern conference Women's
Missionary society, respectively, in
the Kansas synod. Mr. Tonsing is
editor of the monthly Kansas Syn-
od Lutheran, and is a member of
the synodical executive committee. ON
Mr. Tonsing Is a graduate of the -J
University of Kansas and of the
Chicago Lutheran. Theological sem-
inary. Mrs. Tonsing was gradu-
8
s-
ated from Wesleyan university at
Salina.
Before coming to Emporia, Mr. o
Tonsing was responsible for having
O
undergo extensive improvements, in
were redecorated and repaired, 8
I
without incurring any church debt.
o
j J* TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21,. 1941.
That is a swell window in Ate
I
Tonsing's bookstore, with-: Gene !3
Howe's Saturday Evening Post ar~ 00
ticle as the theme." ~ i i
I
t THE LUTHERAN £1 *m FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26,: 1941..-,

I O c t o b e r 8, 1941
1856, and became a partner of his
brother, George T. Challiss."
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1941.
Mr. and Mrs. Evan Tonsing and
family spent Christinas at the
The Rev. Ernest Tonsing, pastor of home of Mrs. Tonsing's parents,
St. John's Church, Wellington, Kan., j John Marsh, 1443 South Seventh, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Moyer in
has resigned as pastor to accept a call I and Evan Tonsing, 1027 Riverview Nortonville.
H to St. Mark's Church, Emporia, Kan. - j drive, drove cars which collided
o
He will enter upon his new charge Sep- ! Saturday night at Seventh and W I C H I T A EAGLE,
tember 28, succeeding Dr. O. W. i Commercial. Marsh had stopped at
Ebright, who is now super rtendent of i| a stop-sign as Tonsing backed from
Tabitha Home, Lincoln, fNeDr. :_
the curb.
— ,t~.—?—y
DECEMBER 25, 1941^
sf - <

I During Mr. Tonsing's three-year pas- & In October there were only seven'
torate in Wellington, extensive im- days on which it did not rain. * Timely Christmas Card'
Hundreds of Christmas cards
r&
provements have been made to the were received by The Wichita
i
three properties owned by the congre- ' MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1941. Eagle and staff members this
VO season but one received by Bob
gation without incurring any debt. The
H < o Tonsing, Morning Eagle telegraph
former parsonage was converted into a
parish house, and the bungalow used
> Here and editor, from his uncle, Paul A.
Martin, managing editor of the

I •< s
£
o
1 o.

< |I ~*rj
for parish house purposes was made
over into a parsonage. A new church
roof, ceiling and floor were installed. : MAY.
Hereabouts In 1896 Lansing (Mich.) Journal, is in a
class by itself.
Most people's plans for
mas cards had gone so far by 00
Christ-
ft
I
l-J» iE Each property was r e d e c o r a t e d
The Globe said the first recorded
the time war broke out that they

I '
1 si < bo W
»l
1 c

8£
w
throughout. The congregation has paid
its apportionment in full the last three . marriage in Kansas was that of
Silas Pierce and Mary Shook, the
years, and has been among the fore- ceremony having been performed in
used the ones they had, but not VO
Mr. Martin. He got out a spe-
cial edition of war time cards,
the only example of its kind re-
MS
I most churches of synod in per capita the Sac and Fox Indian agency in
giving to regular and special causes. Doniphan county July 2, 1845.
ceived.
It is in two colors and gilt and
1 c c
a. o It wps among the first synodical con-
gregation to pay its Tabitha Home THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1941.. house
shows scenes taken around his
being blown up with a 4
I Building Fund pledge in full in cash.
Theodore Otis has received word'
, of a tragic accident befalling his swell
"Bang!" He says:
"I was just putting together a o
Christmas card about win-
f a &S
~ ter, summer, birds and flowers
TH^RS D A Y . OCTOBER 16, 1941. ^ j n e p hew, Mark Balis, Chestnut Hill, when—all of a sudden those Japs S'
00
b» * » *>
'^Luther Tonsing, who has been J, * \ w h e n » • B a l i s ' s ° nl y c h i l d - proceeded to jar my thoughts so i </>
I bo *H
C 9
a«
• 1 M <* E S
g
*'trtf -away from Atchison more than we* a six year old son, was run over out of gear I just decided to n
: years, is foreman of a big printing by an automobile and killed. The wish you all a Merry Christmas
little boy was on his way to meet and a Happy New Year while »—•
.house in Los Angeles. He has a son
s> B - X. ° " who is 21 years of age and w e i g h s ^ . his father when struck by the car I see what I can do to help
*O. (UE -CS O a 240 pounds. Luther is a son of Mrs. that killed him. Mark Balis Is the beat the devil out of theml"
V 3
-^» be • 'Paul Tonsing of Atchison. son of the late Mrs. Margaret Otis
10 C s
• A Balis, sister of Thedore Otis. They
wJ t C WICHITA EAGLE, ft
9 Here and
u s 2. aa r
'are the children of Judge and Mrs.
JA. G. Otis, who came to Atchison
o
a S
fe Si flill
v
-3
Hereabouts In 1896
,-
11n 1852.
>*2 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1941.
, JANUARY 10, 1942 £
*? o w
u <b -
I Virginia, daughter "of Mr. and Bluffing a Cat
h »*l o o-.3s APRIL
D.
-.J> -W 1=. £?J.Mrs. Evan Tonsing, has cmckenpox. ^ T o n s J n g f a m owned
A canary by the Robert
i l y h a s a jo.pound
George F. Challiss died April 30, \£i cat bluffed. After gazing long
1896. He was 69 years of age, and 'THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1941. ingly at the feathered morsel for P
was survived by his widow and months, Tom decided the other C
three children, J. C. Challiss, Har- •/ Miss Virginia Tonsing has about day to try for a meal. Leaping 5*
old Challiss and Miss Irene Challiss. •/recovered. up, he fastened his claws in the ^
E. W. Howe wrote this: bird's cage. His weight averbal- »-
•2 ._ —„....-. •- — anced the stand and down came ti-*
"George T. Challiss possibly was Paul Tonsing, jr., is now in a cage, bird and cat with a crash. j£j
the oldest inhabitant of Atchison. Fortunately for the canary, the
marine radio school at San Diego,
'4 Luther Dickerson came in the
, Calif." .—-. — > cat. on the bottom, absorbed the i Q
spring of 1854, to look around for a
a> bO
location, but went back to Saline TTTK-qnAY DECEMBER M 1941. •' jolt. Since then Tom, evidently \t
23, 1941.
county, Mo., returning to Atchison believing the canary packs an IB..
, awful wallop, scarcely can be O
the following October. During Dick-
erson's • absence Challiss came, in >
Here and £ coaxed into the house. When he Jg_
is in he slinks past the bird's sage _
August, and began building a store.'
here. There was no other house on * ,
Hereabouts in 1896 , as fast as possible. .
. —rr.
s.'
7 ^
the town site at the time, except
a claim cabin built by George / JUNE:
WlCHITAJtEfiCONp
Million, who ran a ferry here. Buts^- 'Miss Irene Challiss died..She was CAT VS. CANARYS|ft.4;
Million never lived in his claim ,27 years old. . . _.. . . -—11 A cat and a canary. a$.thevRpbert,_
cabin, therefore, Challiss was the ~ ~.~ [Tonsing. home .have"? been\ejreingjo
firsts man to build a house on the WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1 9 4 L | e a c h o t h e r viciously of l a f e The ^ ,
town site of Atchison, and occupy ns= •—~J \ showdown 'finally,' 'came'Avhen.' the u>
i t - T h e : Challiss^building was at One day this week the Atchison j cat.: tried/ to. c a t c h u t h e c a n a n ' byj3
the :?i6ot: o t | . Commercial street postoffice did a $31,000 budness.- ^ . y ^ ' P ^ j l J t ^ h e - c ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ a ^ t i i ^ 00
^ L u t h ^ ^ a l ^ ' J a m e ' t o Atchison in
 r=^tit)t not tne csnary—tor tne cage;
itumbled down on top of him, "mak- THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1942.
ing such an impression on him that,
•even good-natured coaxing on the Entertain Choir.
I !part of the family can't get him to;
i,. near the .cage. .'
< ^ >
Mr. and Mrs. Evan Tonsing enter-
tained the members of the St. Mark's I
•H2&- Lutheran church choir Tuesday ev-
ening at their home. Games were
played during the evening. Refresh-
•\ ments were served from a beautiful-
H ly appointed table centered with H
o
§ poinsettias. Miss Helen Wallick and
CO

I Mrs. Edwin Arthur presided.

Monday, January 19, 1942.

3
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to
© H e r e and
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Hereabouts In 1896 VO
\0 JULY.
Marriage: Ben Dekker, of St.
Louis, and Miss Amelia Challiss, in -^1
* the First Baptist church. fr
00 oo
* MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1942.
SO Mrs. Paul Tonsing: "When I was
ON & child our beloved family phy- Os
sician, Dr. D. J. Holland, who was
Very tall ar.d very distinguished,
ftlv/nys rode a hcrse that was a very a
light gray color, almost white. He
must be the physician referred .to i
by the person inquiring through
The Globe." 1
f MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1942. ff
1
ST. MARK'S..
The following boys of St. Mark's

I who are now in their country's ser-

vice are Bill Griffin, Clinton Ehret,
Jack Signor, Raymond Jacobson,
Ernest Jacobson, Glenn Pedderson,
r1 Henry Klinefelter, Paul Tonsing and r
Ralph Lorenz.
; I N : T H E ! G R O O V E ^ W h e n Private Paul Tonsing, United
a "'States M a r i n e X o r p s , dropped in to say hello to the P.&B. O
., linotype department, he set a few lines just to show t h a t ft
; he hadn't forgotten how. Interested spectators are, left
8 i: to . r i g h t , Russell Huseby, Sammy Platus, Percy Clayton, 8
GO i Jim Pierce, Al Poty and Dick Sallis.

~The7 — picture shows that he k

n Marine Visits hasn't forgotten the proper 8
stance and to prove it he filled in
for a couple of nights to help out.
I Ex-Coworkers ;
Upon his return to the Marine
Base at San Diego he expects to
become a student in the radio
J
=tfc
ON t—*
-J ; Tonsing Proves He Still school. Paul says he is enjoying ON
Army life, getting plenty to eat
8 £ Can Operate Linotype
;
and good exercise. He has p u t on
O
E
I A recent visitor to the J o b
Office Linotype Department was
a,, former member. Private Paul
several pounds in places and lost
weight where it was out of place.
P a u L wears two medals—one I
Tt$£ Tonsing, U.S.M.C., -who I for marksmanship and the other o
O dropped in lfor for expert bayonet technique.
u i Jhis
i i o ifirst
i i & i visit
VJSIV since
— ' - r r v " ."»•
enlisting in the Marine Corps.
since
i
He was just "starting a 10-day
furlough and,, a* he had not I
touched a machine since leaving
Tbe^Times several months ago,
N*jr former coworkers doubted
>55
I
s ^ h e still knew the keyboard.

L.._..__._
oo U
m
Att ilgQQ, Kansas, Thursday, February 5, 1942. i Here and
^'Bundles for Congress" Movement Gats Underway Hereabouts In 1896 j I
AUGUST. 8
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1942. j

• Mrs. Maria Harres celebrated h e r H

<W* 99th birthday. She was the mother.
'• of Mrs. W. L. Challiss.
o
13
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^
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1942;
Paul Tonsing is a marine, and is, !>
MLUOHgi being schooled to become a radios *2
operator. He Is at San Diego. I &
, —• • ••' to
Gene Tonsing, 18, 1027 Riverview
drive, fortunately escaped injury
yesterday afternoon a t Fifth and
Commercial streets when an auto-
' mobile struck the bicycle he was O
riding.
i
ON

3
•9
DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE WAfUTAX&S |
! 121
«w GET THAT JPENSIQN-FOR&ET THE AXIS o
| - BUNDLES Fc* gR.TAJN ?AW BGKOIES FOB HAWAII ? # 0 / S t ^ E S ^ O ^ E S - J O /
f
t_. This cartoon, appearing in 'Washington, D. C , newspaper, helped launch the Spokane (Wash.) Athletic €&t* /CV*^-*^'
I
^ c l u b ' s "Bundles for Congress" campaign. The movement was launched after the law-makers voted them-
Cuselves pensions.
•V

~$lew Atchison Library Opens Tomorrow FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1942

J^rn^t^ CJ5L.

£^£jC^**~t£y m

>k
?:
us£j2e>P^
•:• •

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Atchison's new public library buliding-beautifuj y lighted, comfortably heated and attract v£y decor
a t e d - w i l l be open for public inspection and use all day tomorrow from 10 a. m. to, r p . m W*™?
a Hft to the whole community from H. E. Muchnic, president of the ^ » » t l « E » ^ ( * J g t . g r a d e d
*
^£~Z^
p a n " Atchison's largest industry. T h e building is m o i e r n in every respect and the grounds will gra
00 and landscaped this summer. r ____ to
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I YOU ARE INVITED TO INSPECT YOUR OWN W I

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BUILDING-THE NEW ATCHISON LIBRARY
. It is H. E. Muchnic's present to you—to everyone in Atchison. may confidently appeal to him and
I Without fanfare, without formality, the doors of Atchison's new receive polite answers to our in- H
public library building will be open tomorrow from 10 a. m. until 9 p. m. quiries. He tells us of streets, cars, i
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I busses, trains, hotels, and what not.
for your inspection.
I" j Only a few remaining touches are lacking. There will be more
He directs the traffic, aiding the

2 shelves for book's, the grounds will be graded and landscaped, the chairs
will be renewed, and downstairs a magazine reference library and a
automobilist and guarding the life
and limb of the pedestrian. The very
s-lght of him inspires confidence and
relieves the mind of the perplexed
i
recreation room for story-telling and other children's activities will be K>
wayfarer.
created. It is true, occasionally an unwor-
It is a beautiful building decorat-
ed in pleasing light green and complete remodeling and modern-
thy man may contrive to hold this
office; but do not other offices,
s
cream, well-lighted by window ar- ization of the building; and the trades and professions harbor such?
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f rangements and fluorescent tubing, third commemorating Amelia Ear-
with trim Venetian blinds and an n a r t , the late world-famous flier
attractive floor of black and green | w n o w a s b o m i n Atchison.
In my long experience in many
cities of different nations and con-
tinents I have never met wth disap-
>
Si asphalt tile, A very generous gift of Mrs. R. W. pointment when I had occason to
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i Every person In Atchison is in- Ramsay of $500 will be used to re- . request a favor of an officer. He is 00
vited and urged to visit the new model and redecorate the basement
j building tomorrow, and to enjoy and create a recreation room where
almost always nearby on the streets
of large cities, and now that we have
with the staff and the board of di- there will be story -telling hours for j highway patrols, we may find him
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rectors this wonderful gift made children and similar activities. Also even in outlying districts.
1 possible by Mr. Muchnic.
17,000 BOOKS "••
K handy magazine reference library j The Bible teaches us to pray for
will ife placed downstairs; This work j all that are in authority and to
All the facilities of the library in- has not been started. honor the government. That in-
n cluding- its reference room fully The basement also houses a new
equipped, its children's section, in gas furnace, included in the remod-
cludes the police. Let us not forget
this useful, humble, devoted man, 1
o fact all of its 17,000 books, are avail- eling work, which provides an even, but show him our appreciation and
able to anyone and everyone in comfortable heat throughout the respect. All too often he is over-
Atchison, whether library patrons or building. looked; at times he is maligned and 1
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not;
A person is privileged, without
The quarter-block surrounding
the library was acquired
charge and at all times, to visit the board of directors at Mr. Muchnic's
3* library and read any of the books suggestion and will be graded and
by the
ridiculed. Intelligent and faithful
citizens should not fail to give rec-
ognition to the merit and value of
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this important servant of the na-
on its shelves. landscaped this summer. The Atchi- tion.—The Lutheran Witness, Mis- a
Library cards are sold to those son Garden club will help in this souri Synod.
5 work.
who wish to take books home from $
the library, at very nominal cost. A Mrs. W. L. Shelley heads the li-
three-months membership costs! brary staff, assisted by Mrs. E. IJ-
only 25 cents, a six-months mem- Kellogg and Miss Estelle Moore, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1942. "I
D bership 50 cents, and a full year's The library board of directors in- Paul Tonsing is now stationed
j* membership only $1. The cards en- elude Mrs. James Orr, Mrs. J. M. at Camp Elliot, Calif., having com- o
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title patrons to take from one book Challiss, Mrs. "Wheeler Barlow, Miss pleted his radio training course. He
to three at a time. j Florence Barth, Miss Effie Symns, is the son of Mrs. Paul Tonsing, 315 o
• The lobby will contain three • Miss Mary Lukens, Mrs. Arthur North Terrace. to i
C/3 plaques—one commemorating the j Kinney, Mrs. H. B. Mize, Mrs. Gil-
original gift of the land and build- i bert Guthrie, Mrs. Horace Chandler, in
ing by-the Congregational church; j Mrs. H. E. Muchnic, Mrs. Ronald ? ... s . TUESDAY, MARCH 31^ 1942.
another commemorating Mr. Much- j Ramsay, Mrs. Sheffield Ingalls and y^SYU^*—«SK — •—."'• S S r i
nic's gift which makes possible j Mrs. Roy Sea ton.
:
Mrs, Paul Tonsing is. better. -- -
The cost of remodeling and TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1942.
SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1942.
rebuilding the Atchison public
library building was $16,000. The Allen Settle, son of Mrs. Clayton 3t
OPINION AND INFORMATION Settle of Strong City, has been
-J money was a gift from H. E. ' aX
Muchnic. In addition, Mrs. R. W. This from a church paper is re- promoted from first lieutenant to
printed at the request of Mrs.-Paul captain of a bomber command at
8 Ramsay gave $500 to remodel the
basement rooms and work~on them Tonsing of Atchison:
The policeman is a humble rep-
Bowling Field near Washington, D. O
& will start soon. The building is open resentative of the government; but C . -
for your inspection until 9 o'clock FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1942.
how distinctly useful he is to all t C o
o , this evening. us! His very presence prevents ST. MARK'S MISSIONARY
j The new Atchison library building
is having "open house" allday today
many a robbery and assault, At i Mrs. Albert Carr entertained the'
the risk of his own life he is ready
O ;; until 9' o'clock tonight. You are to defend ours and, for that matter, j members of the Women's Missionary
i
1 invited to inspect your own building, even our property. As a rule, he is j society of St. Mark's Lutheran

I the-library, and see this new

[addition to Atchison.
a clean, intelligent and reliable !noon/ church at her home yesterday after-
Mrs. W. B. Winzenreidi pres- g;

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servant of the people, young and ident, presided at the business"meet-
old, rich and poor. He demands of ing. The devotionals were given by
us no special attention or honor. Mrs. W. E. Brown. "Christian Lead-
-J He moves among us without osten-
tation or interference; but it we e; presented r s for Tomorrow" was the topic
by Mrs. Joe Schott. Del-
need information or direction, we legates; elected for the Missionary
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a 28-30 were Mrs. W. B. Brown
..Mrs. Winzenreid with Mrs. WW;
T s c h g h and Mrs. Ed Olsen al-
l a t e s . & a t e in the afternoon the
- s s agisted by Mrs. E. F. Fmk •
: ds&cious refreshments. I . M .
:t" mefting will be held at the!
ne of gtrs. Paul Tonsing May 1. I
JOBSPAY, APB& 7. 1942
W. P. Lambertson
"<#'gressman
"We are in the war. We must win
! it. Hj^e must use our resources for
' o n r e o n e purpose—winning the war.
To "Sin the war. we must know ths
t r u t o We are losing more boats
thajflwe are making. Our armed for-
ces nfeave only 7.000 planes. We have
soldgrs on six continents. Cordell -,
Hulghas been shunted. The Presi-
d e n t no longer consults him. We .
mult forget high wages and big pro- :
fitjg The government must quit ex- y
traffigance that has nothing to do
witjET war. Japan didn't attack us ^
firs? Mr. Roosevelt gave Japan a \/>
secret ultimatum before the tragedy
of jj&sarl Harbor."
jyEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1942.
g r . Pari Mellenbruck resigned as
rrMSiister of the third Lutheran
ijjfirch. of Springfield, Ohio, Sunday. *"
H2} plans to take a position con-
cerned with psychological work in
t f f personnel department of the Air
Service. Mrs. Mellenbruck is a \ \
d&'ghter of Mrs. Paul Tonsing.
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" K daughter, Kathryn, was born
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t^*Mr. and Mrs. Bruce McPheeters
aglfollywood, Calif.. March 29. Mrs.
MjPheeters is the daughter of Mrs.
D3ra Chailiss Bennett, formerly of -"'
AFflhison. The little girl has a
b§)ther, Bruce, jr., six years'old
SERVCE
'£ REV.. P. L. MELLENBRUCH
" --t'C
,¥I X T IB E R G
\KL«t herein er
Published mor.thlv in Springfield, Feb.
Vol. II, No. 2
Ohio, by WittenberK Collece
'
L . sity. He was a member of the Phi
ttenb
Music QF rui tazr t e Holcker;^
t t e directed
REV.lELLENBRUCH
/^^y
/QUITS PASTORATE
J \j£. Piatt was appointed secretary of f
r Lutheran Minister Takes COY-
>&6%t ernment Post At Dayton
The Rev. Dr. Paul L. Mellen- J
bruch of 271 W. McCreight av., for
;the last 10 years pastor of the
\Third L u t h e r a n Church, Center and J
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t-^s ''; Liberty sts., announced his resigna-
t i o n at the Sunday morning church
„. ;.' |service to accept appointment in ,
*' | the Division of Occupational Stan-
idards, Vocational Section, Air Serv-
ice Command.
5- Dr. Mellenbruch was Inducted
.into t h e service last Friday, and
• ^ ' " I f o r the present will be stationed in
1 Dayton.
Born in Hiawatha, Kans., Dr.
&*\ Mellenbruch received his A. B. de-
•7 jgree at Midland College, his mas-
t e r ' s degree from the University of
j Kansas and his Ph. D. degree from
^ U n i v e r s i t y of Nebraska. He also
^ ^ • j h a s been granted honorary fellow-
" ships on several occasions for ad-
7 ^ | v a n c e d studies at Ohio State Uni-
b 1
^ ^* | versity.
After teaching at Midland Col-
^ j l e g e , Dr. Mellenbruch was profes-
sor of psychology at Wittenberg
College for nine years. He also has
/^jdone considerable psychology work
in the local schools and courts and
for local social service agencies.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1942.
There are 22 members of St. §
r*- Mark's Lutheran church in the \-*
armed forces of the United States _ ¥
MONDAY, MAY 4, 1942.
Paul Denton, formerly of Atchi-
to
son, is working in a defense plant
in Pryor, Okla. He assisted in caring
- for the injured after the tornado
last week. VO
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FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1942.
John A. Martin, son of H a r r e s i ^
Martin, recently graduated from the! 00
i school of law at Syracuse univer-
Delta Phi legal fraternity and the
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He
- was a member of the university 3
band, chorus and orchestra. He is i o
' n o w in the army at McClellan, Ala.! i '
tring LUTHERAN MISSIONARY
SOCIETY ^
In
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Professor
The Women's Missionary society
s I of St. Mark's Lutheran church ._' T3
T3
-ff. met yesterday afternoon at the - ° - " ~
'• home of Mrs. Paul Tonsing. Mrs,
r jW. B. Winzenreid, president, presi-
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^ - * cied at the meeting. Mrs. S. A. " tr
^ Hamrick gave the devotionals and
£_^ also reported on the convention ~ ~ ; ^
f": held at Abilene recently. Mrs. Fred
£.
pC- the Box Work. Later the hostess ±-f /
\ | served delicious refreshments a s - I /
\ \ sisted by Mrs. J. G. Zimmerman
I 1 and Mrs. Otto Storbeck. The next |
! meeting will be held June 4.
"***1 Donna, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
! Harres Martin, has the mumps.
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THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1942.
Ruth and Marjorie Mellenbruch, >^£-
daughters of the Rev. and Mrs. P.
L. Mellenbruch, Springfield, Ohio,
narrowly escaped serious injury a H
few days ago when the car in which
they were riding collided head-on \
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with a speeding car in which two
boys were riding. The accident o
occurred on the grounds of Witten-
berg college. Ruth had slowed up
to let Marjorie out when the other •
car came around a sharp turn and | * * p
crashed into the Mellenbruch m a -
I
chine. Both girls were badly shaken O
up, bruised and cut about the face
and head. Marjorie was unconscious .
for a time. One boy went through y
the windshield of the other car. All
figuring in the accident »$• making 1/7
g
a good recovery. t/
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MONDAY, MAY 25, 1942.
Bill Keihi and John Keihi of Atchison, Kansas, Monday May 18, 1942 89
Mrs. Paul Challiss is critically ill Keihi Bros., and Gene Tonsing, son
at the home of her daughter, Mrs. of Mr. and Mrs. Evan Tonsing, will,
Al Cullanhan in Lincoln, Neb. She harvest on the Keihls' farm near
formerly lived in Atchison. Burdette about June 20.
1942 ATCHISON
H w. e x . y. TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1942.
o
3 The Atchison chapter of the W.
C. T. U. met at the home of Mrs. The St. Mark's Lutheran children I
W. E. Brown Friday afternoon. I of the church had a picnic Sunday j
SENIOR HIGH
Eight members were present. The j at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Evan I
meeting was conducted by the pre- Tonsing on Riverview drive. Miss i
sident, Mrs. C. E. Olden and Mrs. Helen Fink is their sponsor.
Ira Gould presided during the de- Doris and Dave Livers will leave
SCHOOL
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votional period. Roll call was ans- tomorrow for their home at Water -
wered with "A Tribute to Mother." ville, after visiting Mr. and Mrs.
It was decided to spend-$5 on liter- Evan Tonsing.
ature to send the boys in training
camps. Anyone who wishes to con- j
GRADUATES Gene Tonsing r^

tribute to its expense may do so. I SATURDAY, JUNE 27 1942.

The program opened with articles!-,. ' ' ' '
and poems on Motherhood and Home Mrs. Fannie D. Challiss, formerly,
iread by Mrs. Olden, Mrs. George °f t t f e Curley neighborhood, has j
00 Kaufman and Mrs. Von Neida. Mrs. S on e t 0 Chicago to spend the sum-
Paul Tonsing read a paper on "My ^sr w i t h n e r daughter, Mrs. Paul- so
Mother," a splendid topic embracing ' n e Hoye. Os
I the early history of Kansas pioneer-
ing and the fine motherhood ex- FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1C42. 9
i pressed in the life of her mother,
1 ; Mrs. .-John A. Martin. A vocal solo, Miss Betty Reynolds and Robert
"Mother McCrea" was offered by C. Martin, son of Paul A. Martin of
Mrs. Brown followed by a vocal Lansing, Mich., were married on the
duet, "The Church of Long Ago," Milwaukee-Muskegon steamer June
Q
offered by Mrs. Brown and Mrs. 29. Paul Martin is a brother of Har-
Von Neida. At the close of the res Martin, the insurance man, of
meeting the hostess served delicious Atchison.

I refreshment. Miss Valeta and Miss

Joyce entertained with Marimba and
piano selections
A Decoration day' thought: Many"!
notables are burled in, Mount Vernon
t • cemetery. Three governors of Kansas
i -The Luther League of St, Mark's are n\>w at rest in that burial ck
ground.
Lutheran church enjoyed a pot- They are George ; w . G« . John A.
luck supper last evening at the Martin and w S i s J. Bailey. The4gra-ve
home ol Mr. and Mrs. Evan Tons- of 'Senator John J 4 Ingalls Is in that
ing. cemetery; also the graves of two state'
chie£-justices, A. H. Horton and Da-
TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1942. vid Martiii. And B. P. Waggener's
a grave is t h e r e v / . ' - - '*'• ' -
o , Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tonsing and
children of Wichita and Mrs. Em-'

Ingalls High Schoo

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to est Tonsing and children of Emporia:
visited Atchison relatives last eve-
8 ning. _ *
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Mr. a Mrs. RobetSf Tonsing
ft have returned to Wichita, after
visiting his mother, Mrs. Paul
Tonsing, 315 North Terrace. . 1.9L4L2 f
TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1942.
0\ I
as Julia Ann Casad Patricia June Smart ~J !
Harres Martin, the insurance Walter Leroy Jordan Dorothy Winifred Smith
man, was riding in his car west of Oscar Edwin Coen Jr. Morton Katz Jeanne Loretta Smith
§ Doniphan the other day, and saw a
colored man named J. R. Johnson.
Bobby Fay Coit
James Gerald Coupe
Lewis Tucker Kew
Russell Edward Kiehl
Mary Lillian Snelson &
Paul William Sowers
F
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He was in a wagon with cultivator
wheels, and with two billy goats
pulling it. He carries a plow alonj
Dorothy Irene Cox
Norma Louise Criss
Bernard Martin Cummins
Edward Martin Kinney
Raymond Wolteis Kistler
Mary Julia Stanton
Vera Frances Stanton
I
I In his Wagon, and earns his living Flora Caroline Knecht Q
Alice Marie Stephens
o by plowing peoples' land, the goats
pulling the plow.
Roberta L. Cushinberjy
William Richard Dame
Blair Elwood Knight
Flora Helen Knowles
Betty Doll Stout Jf'
8 THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1942.
Delores Elizabeth Davenport
Patricia Ann Davenport.'
Marian Kathryn Ladwig
Wanda Louise. Lancaster
William Fredrick Taylor
William Harold Thomas
Mildred Jean Thompson
eo
! E Miss Ruth Mellenbruch, daughter
[ Ifit Rev. and Mrs. P. L. Mullenbruch
,* of Springfield, Ohio, and granddau-
Virginia Lee Day
And r sw Jasper Downing
B- ira Ellen Dukes
Irma Mae Lassen
Roleigh Craig Lassiter
James Leroy Lewis
Evan Eugene Tonsing
Warren Tracy
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-a [',ghter of Mrs. Paul Tonsing, is in Arthur Leonard Truitt u
f |New- York City taking a ten weeks oo
00 • Tcourse in Art Studies. She is staying
at t h i home of Rev. H«||A Martin.
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THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1942.
73 George Remsburg.
Salif-: "July is an important month
TO Atchison county history The
Porter ville,
j^tchisonTown company WftS organ-
feed Jul.»>''27;rl854. Atchison county
* a s created by the first territorial
legislature in July 1855. Bourgmont's
Expedition crossed what is now
j^tchison county in July 1724. The
§ftwis and Clark expedition arrived
<$n the site of Atchison on July 4,
1604. Washburn's Great American
I n t e l l i g e n c e division of t h e A r m y
A i r F o r c e . H e h a s b e e n located
in W a s h i n g t o n , D. C , for over a
y e a r and a half in t h e W a r De-
p a r t m e n t h e a d q u a r t e r s . H e writes
t h a t he is g e t t i n g q u i t e a t h r i l l out
of h i s first t r i p to t h e " j u n g l e s . "
P a r t of h i s l e t t e r follows:
" T h i s c a m p is b u i l t on t h e top
of a sort of a l o w p l a t e a u a n d
s p a c e for it h a s b e e n c u t r i g h t o u t
of t h e j u n g l e . A n d I do m e a n j u n -
gle. O r c h i d s by t h e t h o u s a n d s , al-
getting in s o m e t e n n i s r e g u l a r l y
and it c e r t a i n l y is a h e l p after t h e
confinement in W a s h i n g t o n .
" T h e j u n g l e is r e a l l y terrific
h e r e . It is p a r t i c u l a r l y i m p r e s s i v e
w
w h e n you get u p a b o u t 5000 feet
in the air a n d all you can see in
any direction a r e t r a c k l e s s w a s t e s .
B u t I w o u l d n ' t t a k e a n y t h i n g for
t h e liberal e d u c a t i o n t h a t is b e i n g
t h r o w n in w i t h t h e j o b . I a m get-
ting in p l e n t y of t r a v e l a n d a t t h e
p r e s e n t r a t e w i l l p r o b a b l y cover
s o m e t h i n g like 20,000 m i l e s this

t ircus. the first in Kansas, exhi-

:ted in Atchison July 31, 1856. The
•old Atchison bridge was completed
3$ July 1875. The Thirteenth Kan-
' sas Infantry was organized in July
3^62. The first through train ran
•tfrer the Missouri Pacific from At-
Jhison to Omaha in July 1882. A.
33. Symns opened a grocery house
B »n Atchison in July 1872. B. P.
1|yaggener was born July 18, 1847,
irnd gave his first big picnic in
A t c h i s o n July 19, 1899. The Globe
-issued its famous pictorial, historical
jgdition July 16, 1894. E. W. Howe
p r i n t e d his 'Story of a Country
" Town' July 5, 1883. Henry Aidoms
jjvas appointed postmaster of At-
c h i s o n July 28, 1867. John A. Martin
JSvas elected secretary of the Wyan-
l odQtte Constitutional Convention to get this l e t t e r in t h e m o r n i n g ' s
IJjiiry' 5, 1859. George W. Glick was
rboxn July 4. 1827. Judge H. M. Jack-
§¥?«' was born July 11, 1839. Luther
3{CX. Challiss died July 6, 1895. The
^Missouri river was a t flood stage
dfearly in July 1878: The temperature
was from 106 to 108 above zero from
uly 1 to 12, 1890. The corner stone
f the Christian Science church
n Atchison was laid July 7, 1912.
John M. Cain was born July 30,
839. D. C. Newcomb was born July
13, 1836. Matt Noll was born July
23, 1859. August Mangelsdorf was
orn July 27, 1848. John Compton
was born July 21, 1859. Capt. David
Baker was born July ri, 1833."
MONDAY, JULY' 13rtS*2r
(737
g M r s . . E v a n T o n s i n g is i l l
£> G e n e T o n s i n g is w o r k i n g i n t h e ' .
S k a r s p s t . fields a t t h e tSi S. Moyer j
H a r m n e a r NortonviHe.
*£• >'i F R I D A Y , J U L Y 24, 1942.
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Ov M r . ' a n d Mrs. Evan Tonsing were
-"Hn Kansas City yesterday on a
Cfcuying trip.
jSy-~r.-^a-~ - qK-_I___.
£r SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1942.
Jlyimy Tonsing has taken a "job at j t, t h o u g h in t h e h e a r t of t h e tropics,
P a m h y a s h u n g a near Junction City. I s- w e sleep u n d e r a b l a n k e t e v e r y iilyof Emporia are here visiting.
[ © T H E C H A S E COUNTY N E W S , I
:r.. and Mrs. C l a y t o n Settle r e -
. "word " S u n d a y t h a t t h e i r
C a p t . Allen Settle h a d a r r i v e d
fely, « t some u n k n o w n destina-
| f c J J M ^ i ^ S 3^1an is in the S-2
t h o u g h if y o u p i c k t h e m you u s -
u a l l y get yourself full of little red
a n t s . So y o u u s u a l l y don't pick
t h e m . Of course b a n a n a s a n d p i n e -
m o n t h . We a r e p r e t t y well cut off
h e r e e x c e p t for a few s h o r t w a v e
radios. W h e n s o m e of t h e p l a n e s
apples grow wild and the pineap- come t h r o u g h a n d d r o p some pa-
ples a r e t h e m o s t delicious t h i n g I p e r s or m a g a z i n e s t h e y c e r t a i n l y
h a v e e v e r t a s t e d . Mild and sweet. a r e w e l c o m e d . T h e r e is not room
T h i s c a m p is really q u i t e r e m a r k - for t h e m b y air m a i l a n d b o a t s a r e
a b l e as c o m p a r e d w i t h some of the so u n c e r t a i n .
s u r r o u n d i n g villages, t h e closest " W a s glad to h e a r h o w t h e w h e a t
a b o u t 20 m i l e s a w a y . It is at least crop t u r n e d out: F r o m t h e looks
clean a n d w e h a v e a good w a t e r of people in s o m e of t h e p l a c e s I
s u p p i y . T h e r e is n o t h i n g to do ex- h a v e seen t h e r e is going to b e lots
cept w o r k , eat a n d sleep. So I a m of use for it after t h e w a r . "
doing q u i t e a bit of all. T h e food
is good a n d w e l l cooked.
q u a r t e r s a r e nice, considering ev-
Our :_ ^ s
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1942
e r y t h i n g . B u t t h e r e is lots of w o r k
to b e done and 1 will h a v e to h u r r y He is now Major Allen Settle.
And be is somewhere in a "tropical
m a i l . " C - <^\\SLK*J-3. \[g / « * • * - country." Major Settle's mother is
Mrs. ClaytOh Settle, of Strong City.
Kas.. the former Miss Faith martin. Martin «• ,» _^f_
ALLAN SETTLE WRITES of Atchison. Faith is a dlaughter ^^^i^u/--^ - ^ £ ?
FROM "SOMEWHERE" , of the late Governor and M rs. John y
I n an a i r m a i l l e t t e r received A. Martin. Major Settle is in S
S u n d a y , Mr. a n d M r s . C l a y t o n Set-, Intelligence Division of Army .'
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tie l e a r n e d t h a t t h e i r son, Allan,
Force. He is flying most of
time, and writes of soaring
h a d been p r o m o t e d to the r a n k of,; tropical forests that have no
the
ui m e , r
m end <&j£jf~i^C<*&Ey
m a j o r in t h e A. A. F . In speaking" For a year and a half he *
of his p r o m o t i o n , Allan, w h o is War Department headquarters in ^
s t a t i o n e d " s o m e w h e r e in t h e t r o p - 3 Washington, D. C. He is a valiant ' Hl*^-*t
ics," h a d t h i s to say: young man. and deserves the gold
" W a s q u i t e t h r i l l e d w h e n m y • oak leaves recently pinned on him /,
p r o m o t i o n c a m e t h r o u g h t h e first j by a general o
of t h e month." I h a d k n o w n it w a s o
coming b u t d i d n ' t k n o w w h e n .
O
Was also q u i t e p l e a s e d w h e n t h e
G e n e r a l p i n n e d on t h e gold o a k Gene Tonsing. son of Mr, and
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l e a v e s a t t h e officers' club after Mrs. Evan Tonsing, has returned 05
work that night." from Camp Wa-Shur.-Ga located
A l l a n ' s l e t t e r w a s d a t e d the 15th near Junction City.
of J u l y a n d h e h a d j u s t received
h i s first l e t t e r from h o m e . H e m e n - TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1942.
tioned t h e fact b y s a y i n g : "Well,
Rev. and Mrs. Ernest Tonsing. and
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it w a s good to h e a r from you a n d
t h e service w a s good. Y o u r l e t t e r children, of Emporia, will arrive
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p o s t m a r k e d t h e 8th got h e r e t h i s this week to visit his mother, Mrs.
Paul Tonsing.
Jm o r n i n g . T h e r e is n o t m u c h to
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tell of o u r w o r k h e r e e x c e p t t h a t
t h e r e is p l e n t y of it. W e a r e b u s y WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 19. 1942.
p r e t t y long h o u r s . H o w e v e r , e v e n
The Rev. Ernest Tonsing and fam- j
_ n i g h t w h i c h h e l p s a lot. Also, w e
a r e 20 m i l e s b y b o a t t o t h e only Pvt. Paul Tonsing. jr., a marine, M
n e a r b y t o w n . I c a n ' t s a y in t h e in is the Pacific war theater and
l e t t e r w h e r e w e a r e located as t h e y may be engaged in the Solomon Is-
mother has re- 8
a r e s u b j e c t to censorship b a c k in lands fight. Hi:
ceived a letter from him
t h e S t a t e s . I a m censor for o u r that he is below the equator. stating:
headquarters here.
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" W e a r e still in t h e m i d s t of t h e
r a i n y season h e r e , b u t t h e soil is u>
q u i t e s a n d y so it d r i e s u p soon to
after t h e r a i n stops. H a v e b e e n 00

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I THURSDAY, AUGUST 20,. 1942. Gene Tonsing has returned from I £J> numbers or words on the organ
Waterville and Kansas City where [ J D indicating when itr was made, but
he has been vacationing.
The Martin building at .Fifth •_._ ----- -- —-• » • • • , - . |
one dim stamp shows it was on
exhibition at the Centennial in
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and Commercial street is being Philadelphia in 1876. The program
Mrs. P. G. Tonsing: "People
refaced, and is going to look swell. changed in this: Forty years afo! have, at the banquet had a lot of good
It was built in 1879, and has always people believed they were old when; singing. Carol and Marilou Ham-
H been occupied by a drug store. rick, little daughters of Rev. and
o they had become forty. Today peo- \ I! Mrs. Sam Hamrick. sang "God Bless
1 ul think they are young until they America." Four boys and girls sang §
J SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1942 become sixty."

Mrs. Paul Tonsing has received a FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1942.

a song that was in effect a flag
salute: Lou, Lister, Arlene Nestler,
Sammy Hamrick and Dean Pratt.
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letter from her son, Pvt. Paul Ton- Mrs. W. E. Brown directed the group
a sing, jr., of the U. S. Marine corps, Dr. P. L. Mellenbruch, who was
who is believed to be in the Solomon pastor of the Third Lutheran church
singing. Miss Margaret Coleman
: sang a very pretty solo. The ringing
>J island battle. The letter, dated July in Springfield, Ohio, for over nine ; male quartet was composed of Evan -~1
t—» 27, was written aboard ship. Paul years, and resigned last Easter to j (Abraham) Tonsing, Baepler Nestler.'
VO writes: "We have been at sea sev- take a position in the Air Service j i Ed McBratney and Bill Funke. VO
VO eral days with no sight of land. You Command plant at Dayton, Ohio, The marimba soloist was Miss Val- ,
can hardly realize how much water has been appointed as instructor VO
8 there is. This letter will be mailed in the Psychology Department of ; eta Brown, accompanied by her
; sister, Lorena Joyce Brown. Sammy J

i when we reach our destination. We Miami college, a state school located

were fortunate in getting a beauti- at Oxford, Ohio. The school has an
ful luxury-liner for a transport, and enrollment of 300. Rev. Mellen-
j Hamrick sang "benediction," which
was dedicated to Rev. and Mrs.
Robert Gaston, of Bendena. Rev.
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00 except for being a bit crowded, have bruch's wife was formerly Orpha
been 'on top of the world.' Our Tonsing, and they have four j Gaston was the first native son of
vo state-room is first class, with toilet, daughters. I St. Mark's to enter the ministry.
VO
ON wash-basin, closets, etc. The food is j Cart (O. S.) Brown was toastmaster.
fine, too, served cafeteria style, ! At the morning service Pastor Ov
13 complete with waiters. Haven't had MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1942. Hamrick used as the theme for his
ft such -treatment since joining the sermon, "Upon This Rock." The O
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Marines. I guess you know I spend Seventy-four years ago yesterday junior choir made its first ap-
about twenty-four Atchison people pearance since last spring. George
1 all my time on deck, just one more
place and I have been on every part met in Price's hall at Fourth and
of the ship. The only excitement Main streets, and organized an
Kaufman had charge of the
liturgical service. The new heating 1
has been in crossing the equator. English Lutheran church. Yesterday system which has been in oparation q
Certain of the men were picked to the seventy-fourth anniversary of for over a year was formally dedi-
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be 'initiated' and were painted and that event was observed with two ;
licked unmercifully. I escaped, how- notable services in St. Mark's j
cated at the morning service by
the pastor. History: Early in 1867 f
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ever, but had to cut my hair close, Lutheran church, Sixth and Park!
as they were - shaving the heads of streets. The climax of the an-
all 'polly-wogs'. I am now a 'shell- niversary celebration came last !
back' with a card to prove it." Paul's j evening, when tr - Rev. Fred Weig-
J. H. Talbott, called attention to
Atchison as a point for a Lutheran
mission. By correspondence he
secured the interest of Rev. Morris
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address is: Pvt. Paul Tonsing, U. S. !man, D. D., president of Midland Officer, then ss:retarj- of the
a.
a- M. C., Unit 315, in care of Postmas- '' college, Fremont, Neb., delivered a General Synod's home mission
r ter, ' San Francisco, Calif. (Editor's very fine address at :. banquet in
note: A pollywog is a Marine who the church parlors. About forty
board. At the convention of the
synod at Harrisburg, Pa., in 1868.
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has not crossed the equator. A shell- years old. Dr. Weigman has mature the Rev. Officer persuaded the
back is one who has.) judgment yet the spirit of a young
a man, and his speech was a medley
Rev. M. G. Boyer, then pastor at
Marklesburg, Pa., to become a
of common sense and fine idealism. missionary to Atchison. Rev. Boyer
MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1942. His was a splendid tribute to the and his young wife arrived here
forefathers and timely advice te the June 30, that year. Price's Hall, ©
8 j W. C. T. U. generation now stepping into the South Fourth street, was rented o
Mrs. Paul Tonsing entertained j world's activities. Dr. Weigman's and fitted up as a meeting place.
the members of the W. C. T. U. first pastorate was a Lutheran Services were begun and a Sunday
Friday afternoon at her home. The I charge at Nebraska City, Neb. school organized. On September 20,
8 I meeting was opened with group Among the honored guests at the 1868, the congregation was organ- t
J singing followed by devotionals giv- banquet were the following, who ized with twenty-five members. The
ien by Mrs. D. Richter of Effingham, have been members of St. Mark's first church council consisted of C.
Jl=tfc i After the business session an elec- church fifty or more years: A. B.
Ition of officers was held with Mrs. Zimmerman, B. D. Zimmerman,
Weber and H. Gehrett, elders; J.
*-* H. Talbott, J. Beamer, H. Snyder
ON jW. E. Brown, president, Mrs.. A.' Mrs. J G. (Jake) Zimmerman, Mrs. and F. Brendt, deacons. In the - -*••" •
~-4 W. B. Winzenreid, Mrs. J. W. spring of 1869 the board of church
H. Lehman, vice - president, Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Elmer See, Mrs. Fred extension granted the congregation
8 George Kaufman, secretary, Mrs.
Frieda VonVeida, corresponding ^JC-
Piatt, Mrs. Katie Hillick, Miss Dora
Weinman, Miss Anna Bruce, Mrs.
a loan of $500, which amount was
invested in the purchase of an
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retary, and Mrs. Ira Gould, treas-
urer. Two members were also elect-
ed to serve on the board, Mrs. D.
Ada Chaffee and Mrs. Maude
Wycoff. Mrs. E. C. Harwi, who has
been a member fifty years, was
excellent lot on Kansas avenue.
There were bright hopes of having
a chapel soon, but these hopes were
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Q Richter of Effingham and Mrs. unable to be at the banquet because scattered when an aged minister
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Kaufman. Dainty refreshments she Is very ill. A unique number advised delay on account of the
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were served by the hostess and a so-
cial hour followed.
on the banquet program was music
on an old time organ, which prob-
financial stringency of the times,
and the numerical weakness of the
o
£ ably is a hundred years old. It
looks like a tool box on four legs,
church. Among the members at S
I FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1942. this time was the Rev, A. W.
Wagnalls, afterward one of the &
Paul Martin, editor of a big news- and belongs to Mrs. W. E. Brown, j founders of the publishing house o
paper at Lansing, Mich., celebrated of Funk & Wagnalls, New York B
J» of 109 East Riley street. Last even- J»
his fifty-sixth birthday last May. It City. While here he was in the real
u» [seems only a few years ago he was a jing, while Mrs. Elmer See played estate business. At his suggestion
to I boy in Atchison. He Is a son of the I the .organ, the assembly sang an \ the .congregation purchased a fif-
late Governor and Mrs. .John- A. I old I time hymn. There are no 00
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Martin*.---1 ".-..v • . »•_
! teen acre tract adjoining the city'
of Atchison on the northwest.! pastor August 18. 1905. The out- i : o ,fff e n n
which section was platted and I standing
offeree, for sale with the hope of Renn's
achievement
pastorate was the
making enough profit to erect a of the present church building. The I i A.
of Rev ! !
erection" ! church
S meeung to be held in thee
in
November. The
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P. Eymann, chairman, Mrs. Gar-
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church '' building. "In this the movement began October 21, 1907 ' | r e t t Ricklefs and Mrs. William
Lutherans were disappointed," says Plajis were adopted March 17, 1908, l Brown. The November meeting will
the historian, '•for they sold only and the building committee ordered *be held at the home of Mrs. Albert
enough lots to pay for the land." to proceed. The cornerstone was |] Carr. H
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After that venture the congre- laid during the summer following P
gation used the Congregational The building was erected under the
church building. Rev. Boyer resigned
at the end of the year 1869, and supervision of A. K Zimmerman,
for ten years the church was with- contractor. The opening service was
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 19fc\ J@

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out a pastor. The Rev. Wagnalls held May 23, 1909. Rev. Renn I Tonsing. jr. writes from ''Some- j
supplied the pulpit now and then lesigned September 1. 1911. The ' where in the Pacific": "Just got I
until his removal in 1876, but finally Rev,. Howard C. Garvic was in- my writing materials today. S o o n '
the congregation disbanded. The stalled pastor the first Sunday in •* after we dis-embarked I fell off a ' -4
lots belonging to the church were March, 1912. The death of the Pas- truck and have been in the hospital
sold for taxes, but were redeemed tor Garvic in the prime of man- since with a fractured collarbone.
at the eleventh hour through Mr. hood in March, 1915, produced a My back is still in a cast but I will VO
profound impression
Talbott's efforts, and deeded to the Mark's and the city of Atchison.
board of church extension. In 1880 The Rev. Robert L. Patterson. D. D..
upon St. soon be as good as ever. We are on i
a censored island in the Pacific and
find it more agreeable in many ways ;
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the Rev. W. I. Cutter, a returned became pastor October 17, 1915.
missionary to India, with the Then came Dr. William E. Wheeler:
than at Linda Vista. But we miss |
somewhere to go en liberty, and the ;
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assistance of Rev. David Earhart and now Rev. Hamrick. who is lame corner drug store. We have a post j
and his daughter, Mrs. H. E. Mon- in the feet but not in the head. exchange here with a great abun- | to
roe, gathered the English Lutherans dance of cigarettes and beer, but
together again. Mrs. Monroe was I TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1942. | they cannot find room on ships for II ON
razor blades, soap, tooth powder or ,
then conducting a private school A. L. Carr: "Carl Brown of The soft drinks. Very little candy or i X.
known as the "Atchison Institute," Globe is a good toastmaster. I
gum. Evenings out we have a movie,'! R
and she offered her school room enjoyed seeing and hearing him
renewed every other night. Swimrri- j
as a place of worship. On the eighth preside at the St. Mark's Lutheran
of August the congregation was re- church Sunday."
ing is also popular. Have read a
great deal in the hospital from a ' j
organized and the following officers
elscted: Elders. J. H. Berlin, W H V WEDNESDAL, SEPTEMBER23,1942. ""' library nearby. But our main occu- V s
Kuhns and N. D. Kistler; deacons,; - : \ pation is just loafing and talking'
J. L. Heisey, E. D. Kistler, and John L Mrs. Evan Tonsing has a sprained I over our experiences. There is a
Fusselman; trustees, J. H. Talbott. ankle. town about 25 miles away but it's «**•
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W. H. Smith and S. J. Clark. Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tonsing and | dark and with little amusement. I
Cutter served as pastor two years. son, Bobby, of Wichita returned to.. i The island is beautiful and has | ^ 7
During part of this time aid was their home yesterday after visiting. I banana and cocoanut trees, etc. n
received from the Home Mission Mr. Tonsing's mother. Mrs. Paul • Greatst danger is being 'beaned'
Board. In 1882 this aid was with- -i Tonsing and other relatives. by a falling cocoanut. Bananas are
drawn and Rev. Cutter resigned
' scarce for some reason, cost more
than at
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Not until 1884 did the second ST. MARK'S / " home, when we get them
organization flourish. In Novembei i " "" 1'" *£r-All our food is imported and pretty
of that year the Rev. George S. ^ ° ^ ° A Y ' SEPTEMBER 28, 1942.
friendlv, so much so, it is an effort
Diven was commissioned to come The Women's Missionary society ^ t o c a r r y o n s o m e t i m e s . Each one a
to Atchison and revive the mission will meet Thursday, 2:30 p. m. at inquires" if vou are his friend and
New interest was taken and the
rejuvenated congregation held its the church with Mrs. Schott as the t r i e s t 0 t e a c h y o u t h e n a t i V e lingo,
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first service in the home of Henry hostess and Mrs. Paul Tonsing as <_-„-,• n a v e n e v e r m e t o n e however, who O
Snell, 921 South Seventh street. the leader. cannot speak English. They are C/3
The Odd Fellows' hall was then | likeable and honest people, a great
secured as a place of worship and THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1942. j ^ d e a l like Indians or Mexicans in
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a Sunday school was organized. Mrs. Paul Tonsing, 315 North ^ o

Under the leadership of Pastor Terrace, contributed a hot air fur- MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1942.
Diven this school is said to have nace yesterday to the fire station +
quickly become the largest in the [i scrap pile which weighed over half p ,c^T
city. In February, 1885, the church j a ton. .The hopes it will make it ~ Evan JTpnsing will leave Tuesday t—*
was incorporated as St. Mark's | mighty hot for the Japs. to attend The^ftHtionalU-Convention Os
Lutheran Church. Rev. Diven re- of the United Lutheran Churclf ET
signed in 1887 and was succeeded Louisvi'le, Ky. , •,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1942. o
by the Rev. W. F. Rentz, in April, Evan "Tonsing will go to Louis-
1888. Rev. Rentz set to work at one; MET YESTERDAY ! ville, Ky., tomorrow, to be a staate; J
to secure a lot and erect a church
building. The present location, cor-,
The Women's Missionary society i delegate to the national convention 8
of the Men's Brotherhood of the j ^>f-
ner of Sixth and Park streets, was
purchased. The chapel, now the Parlors with Mrs. J. M. Schott hos- al years Evan was president of the |
Sunday school room, was erected P
Itess. Mrs. John Herndon gave the -Kansas brotherhood.
in 1888, the cornerstone being laid ft
August 19, and the church dedi- MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1942.
cated December 16. Pastor Rentz
served nine years, resigning in May,'J'
devotionals on the theme "The .
i Christian's Neighbors." The lesson $r
presented in an interesting-manner
1897. The Rev. L. S. Keyser became
pastor November 7, 1897. Rev. R. W.
by Mrs. Paul Tonsing, was on the ST. MARK'S
subject "Who is My Neighbor?" The - For the theme for his sermon •
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Hufford, D. D., served as pastor
from J a n j a r y 9. 1904, to November
27, 1904. After a vacancy of nine
months the Rev. A. E. Renn became
year book report presented by
Miss Anna Bruce, was accepted.
yesterday Pastor Hamrick used,
'God Reaching Through His Word" ^ 1
Plans were made for a public thank "with Evan Tonsing as the liturgist. '
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1942. j
Evan. Tonsing; who attended a
Lutheran: convention in Louisville,
Ky., is now visiting his sister, Mrs.
Pearl Mellenbruch in Oxford, Ohio.
Rev. Pearl Mellenbruch is a mem-
ber of the faculty of a college in
Oxford. -
MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1942.
W. C. T. V.
The Atchison chapter of the W.
C. T. U. met at the Y. M. C. A.
Friday afternoon with Mrs J. M.
Phillipi leading in the devotionals.
Mrs. Ira Gould led in prayer. Roll
call was answered by eleven mem-
bers and one visitor. Mrs. Paul
Tonsing was appointed to look after
the necessary arrangements for the
comfort kits to be sent to the men
in the service. The invitation is
extended to all mothers of boys in
the service, particularly the 'teen
age group,: who are to be called
soon^ to j a t t e n d the meetings and
become'members. The organization
i s ; interested in the Temperance
Education of Youth.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1942.
The truck from Tabitha Home in
Lincoln is in Atchison today gath-
ering the food and other gifts do-
nated by the members of St. Mark's
Lutheran church Sunday.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1942.
Evan Tonsing returned yesterday
from Louisville, Ky., where he at-
tended the convention of the Unit-
ed Lutheran Churches of America.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1942.
Mr. a n d ' Mrs. Ernest Tonsing of i
Emporia were visitors in Atchison I
Tuesday.
Paul Tonsing; jr., a U. S. Marine
stationed*"Somewhere in the Paci-
fic," writes to his' mother, Mrs. Ruth
Tonsing: "Was tickled to get your
V-mail letter and two copies of the
Globe. There seems to be little dif-
ference in the time required for it
to reach here, generally between 25
and 30 days. We have no facilities
for V-mail here, and
stamps : or money-orders.
have
Other
supplies are trickling in so we have
no hardships. Have been back on
duty a week with nothing but a
little ache'""now, and, then in the
shoulder. Have gained' weight since
landing here, and-imagine I anf up
to 200. Play a little -volley ball now
.and-. then : b u t , haven't been swim-
m i n g , yet.,;The„, company camp is l
pretty nice. T h e company is by it-
self so weT are not crowded. And
have a mess-hall in a building. Also
have -showers and a r e " putting in
electric lights: Hope I can start
using the electric razor again. We
are on duty from 7 to 11 a. m. and
from 1 to 4 p. m. so have plenty of
'< „sJ>are time; T h e natives, do pur laun-
dry, and d o a "good joo, urn, M*U
charge more t h a n in the states. They
beat them so they might not last
long. I went across the road and
got a bunch of green bananas. They
m' Word has been received here of
will not ripen on the stalk, so most
of us have them hanging in our
tents. We don't see much of the n a -
tives except the ones working here.
The Marines take up a. large area,
and I haven't been out of the gate
for a m o n t h or more. There are
shows every night where we can
hear the news. The pictures are old,
but we enjoy the brief escape back
to the life we long for."
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1942.
Another letter from Paul Tonsing,
jr., who is somewhere in the Pacific
with the marines. It is dated Octo-
ber 2 and states: "Received about 30
Globes and 40 Times (Los Angeles),
so haven't read them all yet. Also
'•\ a lot of letters. Saw the article in
•j The Globe quoting my letter, and
J we got quite a thrill out of it here.
j Took a 10-mile hike through dense
[ jungle yesterday, and I guess you
know I was among the last to fin-
ish. The jungle is just a mass of
trees, vines, creepers and old rot-
ting logs. I t was raining and the
trail, solid mud, ankle deep. At the
end I waded out into the water and
you could see by feet steam. We
bought bananas from natives and
they insisted on two cents apiece,
and all they have to do is to pick
them. Have been trying to get
stamps to send a package home I
with my "Blues" (the marine u n i - !
form), and some" other things we i
don't need here. I go through my j
sea-bag often and throw stuff out,
' but it hurts. We can have so much j
I bulk, and the excess you have to j
carry on your back. I did it once—|
| and never again. Went down town
j last Sunday and got some ham-
j burgers and ice cream. They were
• really good. Was invited to a native
: birthday dance, but I had to start
back the 25 miles to camp. Walked
part- way and the natives would
come out and walk with me, and
one girl came out and took my hand
and walked along, inviting me to a
Methodist prayer meeting. They all
speak English, and we are beginning
to pick u p phrases in the native
no
tongue, so we have little trouble.
The letters take between 20 days
and a m o n t h t o reach me, including;
the V-mail. T h e latter are perfectly
legible. Would appreciate any pic-
tures you can send. I so enjoy my
album. Had "to turn in my camera
here, as n o picture-taking is al-
lowed."^ . .' .' _
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1942. f
Mr. and Mrs. Evan Tonsing and
family spent Sunday in Emporia.
Mr. Tonsing reported to the mem-
bers of St. Mark's Lutheran church
there on t h e V.-, L. C. A. convention
which he, recently attended In
Louisville.' : i*.J . ••?..-•"'
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1942.
the death November 11 of Mrs. Fred
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Challiss of Chicago. Mrs. Challiss
is a niece of Mrs. Paul Challiss, and
is survived by her husband and a
daughter, Evelyn. Mr. Challiss for-
merly lived in Atchison.
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1942.1
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Recently Evan Tonsing delivered
an address in a Lutheran church
at Beloit. He occupied the pulpit
from which his father, the late
Rev. Paul Tonsing, preached in the to
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'nineties. The Beloit church was
Rev. Paul Tonsing's first pastorate.
DELTA ALPHA CLASS 3
The Delta Alpha class of the St.
Mark's Lutheran church will meet
Friday evening at Mr. and Mrs.
Evan Tonsing's home, 1027 River-
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view drive. A covered dish dinner
will be. served a t 6:30. Following
the dinner, the group will wrap
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and prepare for mailing packages
for the church's men in service.
Plans will be discussed for a white g
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elephant sale to be held in the fu-
ture. I
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1942.
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Jimmie Tonsing is taking post-
graduate work in Atchison high
fj
school.... — • -
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1942. cr
n
The t r u t h :
We now have gasoline rationing
in the midwest because the eastern
•r
states are sissies and cried that if
they were to be rationed all other
states should be rationed.
The eastern states "can't take I t "
a
o
•r-
j • Maybe gasoline rationing is on
| a parity with killing 6,000,000 little
pigs several years ago.
I Killing those little pigs was the Crt
. most idiotic thing we ever heard
j of, and we have heard of many 05
idiotic things in fifty years. a
• Here and
Hereabouts In 1897 t—»
.Mrs. H. E. Monroe sold the Tri- o
Mountain hotel to Herman Bahr. E
Dr. Challiss* mill near Omaha I
Junction was struck by lightning
and. was destroyed. i
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1942.
O
MISSIONARY SOCIETY
The members of t h e St. Mark's
L u t h e r a n . Missionary society met
yesterday afternoon a t the parson?'
gS -
age with Mrs. S. A. Hamrick hostess.
Miss Anna Bruce gave the devotion- CO
I—»
als and Mrs. Paul Tonsing, leader, N>
gave the lesson on "Open Hearts 00
and Open Doors." Mrs. W. B. Win-
1
I zenreid president, presided at I M I
business meeting. Officers elected,
HE "SERVED GOD AND MAN | minded in t h a t h e knew t h -
Rev. Samuel A. Hamrick, stalwart | weaknesses of human nature, an
servant of Go* a n d wonderful i t h a t e r r o r i s man's natural conduct
for the coming year were Mrs. Win- •
zenreid, president, Mrs. Walter; , • j r ti j i
Tschorn, vice-president, Mrs. Leslie ] friend of man, died last night.
Long secretary- Mrs. Albert Carr, with bitterness. •
treasurer a n d Mrs. Paul Tonsing,
... i and he was sorrv rather than
i , , ; .. , ..,.
i condemnatorv about t h e frailties o*
to cry out | mankind. He was sympatheitc
Bitterness, because Rev. Hamrick rather than stern, and every vis-
V I
statical secretary. There were nine-1 having been but 40 years of
teen members present for t h e meet- itation made by him left t h e
was in t h e midst of age, , r e c i p i e n t feeling better a n d more
ing. Later the hostess served deli- ; devoted earnestly and solely to c a r e te h
r e H
cious refreshments. 'hopeful.
_•! reclamation of human souls a n d In the pulpit Preacher Sam was I
_ p | strenuous, wearing a n d effective: mighty. He preached the old time en
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1942. ! efforts to make humanity physically Gospei. His sermons gave hope |
j comfortable. Nearly every hour of, trather o l H i c than economics
s a n d fear. His were brief
references
Next Saturday J o h n A. Martin
nc.\i, « " " " )
will become a second lieutenant ; ,
win ucLumc B , " •»» u_
I every day of every year he went
, , _, '

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about doing good. Indeed, his zeal
. . .
for souls a n d t h e physical welfare
„
jj
. an c a s u a
,__
realm.
.
, H i s w a s t h e spiritual,

, . T,„,, H o m r ; „ i - »-TC iAi-t\

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He is the son of Harres Martin L » * • ^ As pastor . ^ ^ f * " ^ * ' ^ * i
whgorawaSs governor or Kansas a n d ^ ^ . 5 ^ ^ . Hamrick M * « M » « » * - * - * h i , M £ , ~
whn was a n Atchison editor and ' , , .., • ,_• bv doing too much pastoral worn,
publisher.
wno v,as <;T h e young m a n who t o o m u c n confidence in his own • jv •« .
will receive his commission Satyr-
. , .* , „ 0 „ t v , „ 0 „ J £*^*-<J
in blizzards, he was calling on the i 8
, , . , . . . . Night and day, in fair weather and
day Is a t Fort Benning, Ga., and endurance, a n d refused to rest. He (ConiinuejJ on page 5) %
is "attached to t h e infantry. Last forgot self in his great concern for
spring h e was graduated from the others; t h e fact is, h e died f o r ' WW

law department of Syracuse Uni- others. j!

versity a t Syracuse, N. Y. Yes, my first impulse is to b e ' !
bitter about t h e untimely death
of so splendid a m a n a n d human-
OKLAHOMA CITY TIMES itarian.

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13
In my first impulse is chagrin
over t h e premature death of so
MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1942.-' wholesome a n d effective a m a n of
God,our
to while
own others
selfish ofinterests
us continue^.'and"
2> * ^ t MR. AND MRS. P. D. DENTON, / i to live even though we cater
_// (1405 Sulzberger, a son, in St. An-c* seldom are interested in souls onlyano^ Community Shocked
0
human welfare.
j r ; • feh» • \ Then comes my second impulse, By Untimely Death
g*^
90
•in ^
> » £ WEDNESDAY, DECEMEER 23, 1942. » a feeling of thankfulness
U.I .
A son was born _ . . Decembar
Friday, _
Preacher Sam was permitted to be
, I with us even a few years, because L.
18, to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Denton* during his short ministry he did
that After A n Operation

A Leader In Afcfisson
I
y
of Oklahoma City, formerly of, more good t h a n some of us have
Atchison. done in many years.
And in t h a t second impulse I see
And Synod Ac&rfffer JCo-&J k
A son, weighing 9*4 pounds, was 11 opportunity to comfort t h e widow
^ bom Friday to Mr. a n d Mrs. Paul j | and three little children; comforf F u n e r a l T i m e Is r
Denton of Oklahoma City, formerly in the realization that their husband 3 Tentatively Set
/
of Atchison. They have three other and father i n a short career |
children, two boys a n d a girl. accomplished more in t h e name of
the Lord t h a n has been a c - !
For Friday, 2 : 3 0 VO~USt~ a
SATURDAY. JANUARY 2, 1943. I complished by many people who All of Atchison is grieved -.^ o
2 live the traditional three score and j by the untimely death of the O
10 years. To be sure, Mrs. Hamrick. O
Here and ; and "the threT little children""wffl j I R e v . S. A . H a m r i c k , 4 0 , p o p - QQj^ C/5

always miss him, but eventually! | u l a r p a s t o r 0 f g t . M a r k ' s / '

Hereabouts in 1897 thev will smile through their tears ] T .
in the luiuwk Ige UWkt ikiev. ".i'tunrici Lutheran church, which oc- ?
, , , , /

met with t h e approval of God and curred at 6:13 o'clock last

June: folks in every condition of life.
A. H. Kigbie. So there is t h e solace I offer t h e evening at the Atchison hos-
Paul Martin was a t Beloit visiting ' bereaved. Preacher S a m "made pital. A greatly beloved Ufa
;
his sister, Mrs. Paul Tonsing. good" in t h e spiritual realm and
j in his efforts to help t h e Lord's man, the Rev. Hamrick was ON

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1943. | children in more ways than one. a youth leader in the Luth-

IB
I hope t h a t my reference to him -, i
as Preacher Sam is not a departure j e r a n S y n o d o f K a n s a s a n d
from dignity. I always liked to call a d j a c e n t states. He had

EV. SAM him Preacher Sam, because of his

constant democracy. I truly believp '!served '
j o i

t h a t he liked to be called P r e a c h e r - j v e m b e r . 1 5 1939.

Sam because of t h e friendly tone j he enlisted in the United
of that designation. He was no
always flaunting ministerial garb States navy as a chaplain
St.
T\T t - i ' •
Marks since
-»T
No-
Last fall
I
o
and mien, b u t preferred to be . and was awaiting call to the - o < r » - - V
considered h u m a n and one of th" colors.
g
folks of t h e community. On forma'. . o
occasions in t h e church his bearin;; » Although t h e Rev. Hamrick, whose B
was dignified, but in his d'ail: size and stamina made him a star
, routine of going about ministering ' _ -a
&^Z„
to people h e wished to be con- / *—*
sidered one of them. He was broad- / 00

BR?«fti*,..
 youth. He was sponsor of the
synodical Luther League and was (O2J
director of both of the Lutheran
Youth camps held last summer at
Camp Wa-Shun-Ga near Junction
I
City. Boy Scout work in Atchison
benefited greatly by his efforts.
He was a member of the Atchison
ministerial association.
BA^^1"
Besides his wife he leaves three )<<
U&' §
children. Samuel, age 10, Carol,
five, and Mary Lou, four; four
'brothers and three sisters.
f
| THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1943. i
tsi

wick At SO

, Mark's Church Tomorrow t

REV. SAM HAMRICK
athlete in college, appeared to be
in ~perfect health, he had been
bothered by an intestinal ailment
for some time. Last Wednesday
evening he became very ill during
the annual congregational meeting
of his church and he was taken
to the Atchison hospital. Thursday
an operation was performed and
it was discovered he was suffering
from a serious abdominal infection.
His condition was critical from the
start.
The time of the funeral has been
tentatively set for 2:30 p. m. Friday.
The services will be held at St.
Mark's. Stanton & Stanton is in
charge.
A son of Mr. and Mrs. C. F.
Hamrick, both of whom are now
dead, Samuel Arndt Hamrick was
born August 16, 1902, at Woodstock.
Va. He was educated at Weidner
| Institute in Indiana, Carthage col-
| lege, Carthage, HI., and Maywooa
j seminary, Maywood, HI. He held
itwo baccalaureate degrees, bachelor
of arts and bachelor of divinity
During his college days the Rev.
Hamrick was a star athlete in three
major sports, football, basketball
and baseball, being named to the
1
All-Illinois intercollegiate basketball
team as a guard.
December 25, 1931, he married
Miss Eleanor Haertel, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Haertel of
Maywood, HI.
St. Mark's was the second
pastorate of Rev. Hamrick. For
seven years he was pastor of Unity
mission church in St. Louis, Mo.
The Rev. Hamrick's ministry was
marked by the highest devotion to
duty.""Possessing unusual ability and
personal charm, ..Rev. Hamrick
worked zealously. The outstanding
success which he achieved in every-
thing he undertook was well earned.
[.His ability was recognized through-
out the Synod of Kansas and
adjacent states. He served the synod
»as chairman of home missions-and
VsfSs-''one of its chief leaders of
1A
Funeral services for the Rev.
S. A. Hamrick, pastor of St. Atchison State Guard company,
Mark's Lutheran church, will be
held at 2:30 p. m. Friday at
of which the Rev. Hamrick was
a former member.
I
St. Mark's. The Rev. Eugene During the services there will
Harrison, pastor of Zion church. - be only organ music. • R
Hutchinson, assisted by the Rev. The pallbearers will be Walter
George L. Search, pastor of St.
Mark's church, Waterville, will
Tschorri, Louis Chew, Lesl'-
Long, Vernon Lundstrom, George
I
officiate. The Rev. Search is Kaufman and W. E. Brown. a
secretary of the Synod of Kan- Honorary pallbearers will be - o
sas and adjacent states.
The body is at the Stanto-
& Stanton mortuary. At noon
members of the church council:
G. A. Ricklefs, --Homer Pratt,
A. B. and B. D. Zimmerman,
f
tomorrow it will be taken to Otto Storbeck, Ed Gaston, A. C.
the church to lie in slate unt" Berger4 Tom Dunning, Evan
*
the funeral time. A guard of Tonsing, C. W. Runyan, Ernest
honor will be posted by the Nestler and Russell Keilhline.
to have~bien the largest gathering
FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1943. in St. Mark's church since the fu-
neral of the Rev. H. C. Garvic, an-
other youthful pastor of the church, S
Old Snort: who died about 20 years ago. The
"When I was a patient in the services were conducted by the Rev. O
Atchison hospital, Rev. Sam Ham- Eugene Harrison, Hutchinson, as- o
rick called on me every other day, sisted by the Rev. George L. Search^/ C/9
to Inquire if he could help me. And \Vaterville. The flowers were beau- '
i I believe - that at the time he was tiful. The body was shipped last
a sicker man than I was. That's night to Maywood, HI., near Chi-
n
the kind of a big hearted man jc.go, where interment services will
Preacher Sam was. His death probably be held Monday. They wil:
hurts." . be attended by relatives and friends!
„ . ., . . .. . , , I from Illinois and Indiana. Mrs.
Hundreds atUaded the funera of H a m " r i c k j w h o h a s b e e n i u , d l d n o t .
the Rev. S A. Hamnck this after-1, M a v w 0 0 d. The body was
^The^ Jbody
^ Jwill
£ £be Fshipped
£ j £ tonight
* £ t to :i accompanied
Maywood, HI., for interment. Stan-J
: £
'
p
there
! L by
H
Mrs. Ham-'
tel M
Haer.
I
I
n to
ton & Stanton is in charge. j tel, Oak Park, III. Rev. Hamrick's
Rev. Gene Harrison and the late I brother, Paul Hamrick," Minneapolis,
Rev. Sam.Hamrick were classmates] I Minn., who arrived, just before the
in Maywood Lutheran seminary in services yesterday, accompanied the
Chicago."Rev. Harrison, who is pas- body as far as Kansas City, then
tor of a Lutheran church in Hutch- returned home. Among those from
inson, preached the sermon at the out of town attending the services
funeral of Rev. Hamrick this after- were the Rev. J. Ernest Messer and 8
noon. Rev. Harrison is a son of Mr. Charles Harkness, both of Green-
and Mrs. . Will Harrison, 1003 L leaf. Mr. Harkness was a member
' street, Atchison. .. - of the home missions committee of
I
the Kansas Lutheran Synod with
Saturday, January 23, 1943. Rev. Hamrick. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer -J
^Rennicke, Kansas City, were here.
~Nearly~~500 attended the funeral j\j) The honor guard at the bier of Rev.
ofthelateRev.S.A^Haimickyes-UHamri
u
^erday^afternoon... It.was believed [\ '• **s . •» . . ,. ..
Kansas
 | State guard company, was composed
| of First. Sgt. R. E. Michaels, Pvt.
Jess Bunch, Cpl. John Burke, Pvt.
_• , , . , ., „ . | Carl Brown was only
The body is at the c a w m | m o n t h s o l d w h e n h i s f a t h e ! . d i e d |
& Dou°"lass chapel and will j and he was reared by his widowed:
three!

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Jvhn Miller, Pvt. Tom Enright and
Sg:. P h i r Eckels. The ushers were
lie in state at the church Sun- ' mother, who earned a living for the
little family by working as a seam-
Carl Brown, jr., Bud Kaufman, day afternoon from 1 o'clock j stress. Her task was a difficult one I
Donald Chew, William Punke, Gene I and she had to labor long and I
until the funeral time. i. tiresome hours. Carl Brown recipro- L H
Tonsing and Robert Chew. o
£ The pallbearers will b e seated the love and devotion of this i 9
C/S
I SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1943. George Cleland, wonderful woman to the fullest I
W a l t e r extent. The editorial he wrote j .
I' Tschorn, 0 . P . May, Frank ,for The Globe when she passed \_£S$^-tfff
i Mrs. Paul Tonsing, who has been away here J a n u a i y 22, 1923, was a !
J j visiting h e r daughter, Mrs. Paul Todd, Matt Walters and classic and soul-warming. It re- '
'Denton, at Oklahoma City for two Fred Kenner. .vcaled the great tenderness and a
to
'months, left today for Wichita to
The members of the St. Mark's ' /kindliness that permeated the _ -o
(visit her son, Robert Tonsing, of
church council will act as- an hon- splendid man who wrote it and V
the Wichita Eagle. She will return
orary escort. i was one of the finest tributes to ^ / ^
^to her home in Atchison in about
o Ai the start of the services the motherhood that has ever been
' 10 days. i penned.
casket will be closed ar.d will not 8
S be re-opened. CAME HERE IX 1903

| DAILY OKLAHOMAN
Kansas Newspaper
In 1903. upon the suggestion of
Mr. Brown had been a resident ',her friend and former pastor, the
of Atchison 40 years and was con- late Rev. Paul G. Tonsing, Mrs. I
nected with The Glob;- for 3G years. . Brown and her son moved to Atchi-
i
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5 While he had not been If) perfect, son so that young Carl could learn j
Columnist, Editor Dies hep'th ffl? "'"erAi y:~ - . .Mr. BVCWJi ; the printing "business and also go |
continued active and at no time , to school. The Rev. Tonsing who ',_^/
ATCHISON, Kan., Feb. 11.—UP)—
Carl Brown, 57 years old, widely neglected his newspaper work. in later years operated a printin:
known as "Old Snort," columnist for Carl John George Brown was shop in Atchison, was a pastor of i a
o
Kas. September 3,
1 the Atchison Globe, died Thursday - born in Beloit, Zion Lutheran church in Beloi'i t i * « « r ^ f c - ,
night in a hospital where he had un-^18HC. the son of Mr. and Mrs. John prior to 1898. Mrs. Brown and her
I
I dergone an operation Wednesday.
had been ill since December.
He
- Brown. His father W a s a n e a r l y
' ?"" "m I*
He became editor of the Globe in - *l e>u a l ffZJl*£tSjS»t
" \l
into the
!
son
'*' ere
members of the church i
Por a short
a*.

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Si 1927, and had been staff member business in Beloit. ! here voung Carl worked in the Pan!'
HI •
since 1907.
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and then enrolled in the academ
department of Midland college.. I
91 While still in school he began his •rl'
newspaper career as a typesetter, j '
make-up man. paragrapher and
a?
a
reporter on the former Atchison j C ^ .
Champion. $
At Midland college he was a ;^_
football star, playing on the team ! .
as a halfback. Old timers still re- *
call his ruggedness and skill on j
A the gridiron. a
I £ He left school in 1906 and im-1 ' o
mediately began his work on The j ^ ^ o u ^
i en Globe. While on the Champion staff j
Mr. Brown showed unusual ability 1
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Illness Dating From December Fatal; si t as a paragrapher and attracted the \^C^f
attention of E. W. Howe.
From the very start of I •V^^C^ p
8 association there was a close'
To Beloved Globe Editor; Funeral friendship between Mr. Howe and •
Mr. Brown. It lasted until Mr ••-tr-i^ —
Howe s death. October 3 1937 E W
A t St. Mark's Sunday Afternoon Howe said on numerous occasions
Carl Brown, editor of The Globe, succumbed" a f 1D:1U that Carl Brown was the "most
outstanding country town reporter
o'clock last night at the Atchison hospital following an ill-
-J
in the middle-west." He also ad- ,

8 ness which began December 14. He was 56 years old. <£e mired Mr Brown's ability as an
. editor and paragrapher, and was I r
* ^ " ^
'
8
Death resulted from a tumorous growth, 'involving the j ;
proud to have developed such a &
& o
large bowel, and heart complications. Mr. Brown's con-! brilliant newspaperman.
o
dition was satisfactory following a major operation per- i , AN ACTIVE CHURCHMAN O
Iformed Wednesday but took a sudden turn for the worse j w
4st
From the time he came to Atchi- |
<
n , . , A _ son Mr. Brown was a member and V3 -U-- ^?'
f early yesterday afternoon when his heart began to fail.
His life slowly ebbed away.
^ g T ^ t o o k an
an active
active interest
interest in
m St. Mark'
st. Mark's
Lutheran church. He served t h e
\ ^ O
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8 church as superintendent of t h e

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Funeral services will be conducted a t 2:30 p . m. Sun-
day at St. Mark's Lutheran church by the Rev. Thomas D.
n- J n
D. D.,Neb.,
n
deanwho
J
of the
a xi Tir J. mi. i • i „„~,;™,-,r
f.
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Sunday School department,' p r e s i - '
dent of the Men's Brotherhood
taught, in the Sunday school several
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at Fremont, was Western Theological
a close friend of Mr. seminary
Brown's. v^/^ * ill
years
was and at the
teacher time hepeople
of young became
of I to
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The Rev. Rinde will be assisted by the Rev. Loyal Northcott
!o and the Rev. C. A. Hawley. Interment will be in Mt. Ver- ' ?
non cemetery. . ,__ ).._.
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8 November 27, 1907, Carl Brown

lively interest In everything thati
interested "Young Snort" and they i 1\
#as united in marriage to Miss
3ertrude Painter, daughter of Mr. were more like brothers than father
and son. . I
OLD SNORT' BROWN O ."•:"£ti
9* •i."-! i
uid Mrs. George Painter of Atchi- ».'i
n son. Mr. Painter was an early day
manufacturer of tents and awn-
Mr. Brown was a (Jevoted hus-
band and his family life was ideal. OF ATCHISON PASSES M f.'}
£o ings and also mattresses. His wife and boy are his only.
immediate survivors. Two cousins, j
SM
The Brown home is at 1015 North
Fifth, street. Mrs. Earl Cummings and Mrs. Globe's Editor, O u t s t a n d i n g m
E m
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One of the happiest events in
Mr. Brown's life was the, birth of
his son, Carl Brown, jr.,' who is
Claude Bailey, reside in St. Louis,
Mo. " " " . ' -3 '
in K a n s a s J o u r n a l i s m ,
111 Since D e c e m b e r 1
now 17 years old and a. senior in
DHh |Atchison- Higii school.? He was |
WICHITA EAGLE. ATCHISON, Feb. 11. — UP) — Carl
BTOwn, widely known as "Old Snort,"
. t i r e a l pal and the finest Icihd'of; columnist for the Atchison Globe,
to
00
)sf;father to.his^boy, He?itdolc; aj FEBRUARY, 12, 1943 died tonight in a hospital where he
£?*?*?>*'?-*

I people were taken to safety by $
1 and were trying to make the east
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O esc t » u &g
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CARL "OLD SNORT" BROWN
had undergone an operation yester-i
K_ g S « | day. He h a d been ill since December.!'
He became editor of the Globe inl'
1927, and had been a staff member
3 < £ !> CJ almost continuously since 1907.
B o m in Beloit. Kan., September 3,
i 1886. he went to Atchison in 1903
to attend school. He joined the
Globe staff in 1907 as a type-setter,
makeup man and reporter.
He purchased the Ida Grove, la.. (
Recorc, a semi-weekly, in 1926.
but ten months later returned to
1 Atchison.
TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1943.
The Rev. and Mrs. Ernest Tons- '
ing and sons. Freddie and Evan, of <
Emporia, are visiting at the home **
r of Mrs. Paul Tonsing. /•
SB.-*urai.y,A-.r IC,
O W • • • . ,
o T h e accident occurred about 3:30 j grandson of the late Gov. John A.
i, : C£l»iltg v i l l M
N)
*>. havfl uo do doubl
O and a half later by Roy Johnson |
o and J. D. Harrison with the use of
(/J _of t h e FA'fentrftlical
8 Atchison, who examined the toody
hsiu in ^opoktf khv 4
ex. o , i * s l t j t h » 3«fiv i v i l
*
t h tI Tt-Pi !; •'"• <. •" Q'-1 h a y -
i ohurah h^a b*«* • jfist^rJ
i from Moore's dance hall. At pres- j, worked after class in his father's
:« lO^lH-nat^Q t o Ret
as p a s t o r d u r i n g thfi . '
Convention.
8 The men said t h a t young Ton- He was treasurer of the Luther
I j^onclsv. A-rr
Hrv*n ionainir rod« a
$4.;
bicvc-1* f-j , over
d&v,
Pleasant Little, jr., Jack Casner and
MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1943. Violet Jean Scoggin were able to
swim to the dock. All of the young
Johnson and Harrison.
Waves on t h e lake, whipped by
the strong wind, were running from
two to three feet high.
The young people were returning
lrom a second crossing of the lake
bank. According to the Little
children. Gene Tonsing had been
rowing but on t h e last trip Jack
Casner was pulling the oars. He
A bicycle excursion and was not strong enough to reach
land and the Tonsing boy was t a k -
picnic to Bean Lake by six z ing over the oars when the boat was
Atchison young people yes- swamped by the waves.
A few minutes after the tragedy
terday afternoon ended in* the parents of Gene Tonsing were
tragedy. notified a t their home here by
telephone and drove to the lake.
Evan Eugene Tonsing, 19, u CROWD AT THE LAKE s
only son of Mr. and Mrs. j, Scores of people, who had gone
to the lake and vicinity to see the
Evan W. Tonsnig: 1027 \
high water, watched while attempts
Riverview Drive, drowned were made to recover the body. A.
when the rowboat, in which ;£ F. Russel. who operates a store at
Bean Lake, directed the recovery
the six were riding, capsized ! operations at the request of Mr.
in the flood-swollen waters j Tonsing.
of the lake. ;
Early yesterday afternoon
Tonsing boy rode to Rushville on
the
His companions, all of whom were his bicycle to buy a bicycle part.
saved; Enroute home he stopped at the
J o h n Schmidt. 14. son of Mr. and f Pleasant Little home, which is about /
Mrs. Carl Schmidt. 1115 Ash street. I a half mile east of East Atchison.
Patty Little. 12, and Pleasant! There he met the other young people
Little, jr., 13, children of Mr. and"; and they invited him to accompany
Mrs. Pleasant Little, of near East > them on the bicycle outing to Bean
Atchison. Mo. |. Lake. They left the Little home
Jack Casner. 13, son of Mr. and j about 1:30 o'clock.
Mrs. J o h n Casner, 833 Kearney; Evan Eugene Tonsing. who was
street. popularly known as Gene, was born
Violet Jean Scoggin. 13. daughter in Atchison. December 13. 1923. His
of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Sccggin. 421
North Sixth street.
father, who was formerly advertis-
ing manager of The Globe, operates *^sc-£^
All are junior high school stu-
dents here.
the Tonsing Book Store and Print-
ery. Gene was the oldest great-
o'clock and the body of the Tonsing j Martin of Atchisflh.
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boy was recovered about an h o u r ! PREPARING FOR ARMY
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Gene graduated from the Atchi-
son High school in 1942 and was
grappling hooks. The Atchison fire doing post-graduate work a t the
department rushed its pulmotor t o school in aeronautics and m a t h e -
the lake but Dr. M. T. Dingess of
matics preparatory to entering the
army in May. He was six feet, one itf-
F :
after it w as removed from the water,
said resuciation attempts would be
inch tall, weighed 210 pounds, and
was a member of the football and
useless. track squads his senior year in high
The boat capsized about 50 feet school.
from the end of a partly submerged Gene Tonsing was a well-manner-
dock and about 200 feet from shore
' at Moore's Camp on the east side
ed, likeable boy and an obedient
of t h e lake. T h e dock extends out
and devoted son. He was indus-
trious and all through school years
ent the water at the dock's end is j. store and print shop, doing practi-
from 15 to 20 feet deep. cally all of the press work. Gene s
Johnson and Harrison, who were
at Stein's camp on the west side of
was faithful in church and Sunday
school attendance and was very
the lake, saw t h e boat overturn and active in t h e young people's depart-
1
rowed across the lake to the rescue. ment of St. Mark's Lutheran church.
sing went down after swimming a League.
few feet towards the dock.
SAVED ORIL'S LIFE
John Schmidt was credited with
Besides his parents he leaves a
sister, Ilola Virginia Tonsing, 12
years old; and his grandparents,
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savin; the life of Patty Little, who Mrs. Paul Tonsing, Atchison, and
could not swim. He Tabbed Patty, Mr. and Ms. Clarence Moyer, Nor-
who had gone down twice, and tonville.
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then held onto the boat with his Funeral services will be held a t
other h a n d until help arrived. 2:30 p. m. Tuesday a t St. Mark's
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Eeil. pnstor of Trinity Lutheran
church, Lawrence, will officiate. I n -
FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1943.
had a supply of fuel to last inrougn
the next winter. At one time the
, high water threatened the supports
of the river bridge, at the east end
w
I terment will be in Mt. Vernon
cemetery. At 1:15 o'clock there will
be a private service for the family
With Marines where it joins th<*. land.—Contest
item submitted by Mrs. Paul Tons-
ing.
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a t the Stanton & Stanton chapeL
From 1:30 until the funeral time FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1943.
the body will lie in state a t St.
H Mark's. The casket will be closed Mrs. Paul Tonsing becims
§ at the start of the service. great-grandmother for the first
time with the birth of a son, John
I' The pallbearers will be Billy
Funke, Milton Chew, John Kiehl,
Bud Kaufman, Earle Westg-le and
Michael, to Mr. and Mrs. John M.
Tonsing May 10 at Los Angeles. Mr.
Tonsing, son of Luther Tonsing,
jCarl Brown, jr. T h e usheio will be:
Leslie Long, Roy Demmon, Adolph formerly of Atchison, is a member
Ehret, Donald Chew and Walter of the armed forces.
Tschorn.
The Rev. Biel is manager of the SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1943.
Lutheran camp a t Junction City
where Gene Tonsing worked last St. Mark's was honored at a re-
summer. He was also a classmate cent meeting of the Kansas Synod
of Gene's father at Midland college and its auxiliaries at Topeka. Miss
> here. , Helen Fink was elected president

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1943.

The funeral yesterday afternoon
1 of Gene Tonsing, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Evan T. Tonsing, was attended
ON by hundreds of people. St. Mark's
9 Lutheran c h u r c h ' was filled and
many sat In the adjoining Sunday-
school rooms. The service, marked
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by simplicity, was conducted by the
!Rev. Alfred Beil, pastor of Trinity
j Lutheran church, Lawrence, who is
! and Mrs. Tonsing, Paul is the a "son" of St. Mark's, was chosen
o like all of the other Tonsing child- theran and a member of the synod-
a close friend of the family. The
f IRev. Beil was director of the
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Junction City Lutheran camp where
Gene worked last summer and paid
a splendid tribute to t h e youth's
character. Interment was in Mt.
Vernon cemetery. The marry floral
tributes were very beautiful. Attend-
ing the services from out of town
were the following relatives: Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Moyer, Mr. and
Mrs. Bert Moyer and children,
Margaret Ann and Robert, and Miss
o Lola Moyer, all of Nortonville; Mr.
J* and Mrs. J o h n Weidameier, Perry;
Ernest Moyer and children, Clovis
and Clarence, Valley Falls; Robert
on
Tonsing, Wichita; Mrs. Ida Denton,
O k l a h o m a City, Okla., and t h e Rev.
and Mrs. Ernest Tonsing, Emporia.
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David and Doris Livers, twins from
p Waterville, who were friends of
Gene at camp, attended. There
were also many others from out of
town.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1943,
a i l i t p U l rt£Uii^ :
of the Eastern Conference Mission-
ary society and first vice-president
£
of the Synodical society; Mrs. Rob-
ert Gaston, Eureka, a "daughter"
I of St. Mark's, was chosen president
of the synodical Missionary society;
! Evan Tonsing was elected president
Paul Martin Tonsing (above) of (of the synodical brotherhood and
Atchison is with the U. S. marines | a member of the boaTd of trustees R
'somewhere in the South Pacific." of Midland college, Fremont. Neb.;
A son of the late Paul G. Tonsing, | a n / ^ 7 ' E r n e ^ D T o n s " i n Emporia,
"baby" of the promii.wit family and editor of the Kansas Synod Lu-
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ren learned the printing trade in his ical home missions committee (suc-
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father's shop here. When h e e n - ceeding Rev. Hamrick).
listed in the marines a year ago he
was employed as a linotype oper-
ator on the Los Angeles Times. He
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MONDAY, MAY 31, 1943. cr
is a graduate of the Atchison High
sehool. [ST. MARK'S LUTHERAN
MONDAY, MAY 17, 1943.
The new American and Christian Z
flags in the chancel are the gift.of
Mr. and Mrs. Evan Tonsing and'
ST. MARK'S Virginia as a memorial to the late
At the morning service Evan Gene Tonsing.
Tonsing gave a report of t h e recent
a
synodical meeting which was held FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1943.
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in Topeka and William Funke
conducted t h e liturgical service. A MISSIONARY SOCIETY 8
congregational meeting was held The Women's Missionary society - c/3
and resulted in extending a call of St. Mark's Lutheran church met
to Rev. Vance Baird, Rising City, yesterday afternoon at the home of o
Mrs! Edward McBratney. Fifteen
Neb., to become pastor of St.
members and three visitors were
Mark's. present. Mrs. W. B. Winzenried
gave the devotionals and Mrs. Paul
TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1943. Tonsing gave the lesson, "Unto the
Least of These." The next meeting
Mrs. Dora Challiss Bennett of will be held at the home of Mrs. A. ON
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, Hollywood, Calif., writes t h a t she P. Eymann with Mrs. E. F. Fink the

8 well remembers the disastrous Mis- acting leader

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souri river flood of 1881. From t h e
bank in front of their home at 203
& ,ing. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1943.
Evan Tonsing; "The finest people North First (now North Terrace),
o 'on. earth live in a n d around Atchi- they could see all kinds of debris • St. Mark's Lutheran churchV}
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5 ;^on. The sympathetic understanding floating down the stream, houses new pastor, the Rev. Vance Baird j
of hundreds and hundreds of peo- barns, and sometimes chicken coops and his family are moving into the | ft
ple, t h e beautiful floral tributes to with chickens roosting on them. parsonage today. They moved here |
8 Gene, >the many kind letters and Much of the bottom land was from Rising City, Neb. Jr
Qther messages of sympathy, all washed away on the Missouri side,
jfeelp to j tide us over these days. I t including a whole farm owned by
8
l iteay take some' time for Mrs. Tons- her father, the late Dr. W. L. Chal- s-
ing and me to express to each of liss. Men stationed on the Kansas
tliese friends our gratitude for their j side of the river, used long poles
any kindnesses, but we do so want with hooks on the end, and pulled
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ch of them to know t h a t we are to shore many valuable articles, and
ost gratefutl? V - - - ' • ? . - . - *;'." \ often timber and logs, so t h a t they
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of Atchison ministers in our Lenten Friday services. TheJ O* .-
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participating, each conducting a part of the service. £?<
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12;25; Rev. Indlecoffer, 12:50; Rev. Tiarner* 1:15; Bev.
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of St. Mark's an opportunity to fully observe this
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TUESDAY EIGHT, at eight o'clock, The KEIFS BBOTHEB-
hood will sponsor the Holy Week service, and the
speaker trill be The Bev. H. H. Pett, new pastor of
v© the Lancaster Lutheran church* 111 are urged to VO
hear Rev. Pett, and welcome him to northeast Kansas.
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day evening, at eight o'clock. Br* Rinde will be 00
NO the minister. It is imperative that every member
ON participate in this sacred event* ON

R 5*0 SERVICES will be held, next Sunday, Easter—the s

i pntm»i sunrise service at 6;30 a.m., and the regular
Easter Memorial service at 10:30. Dr. Rinde will
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service Holy Communion will "be served for those who
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next Sunday,-Easter, please notify either Miss Helen tr
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lallick or Miss Helen Fink this week. s
F KEN OF THE BROTHERHOOD have tickets for the city-wide
Men's banquet April 37, at which "Phog* Allen will
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WE ARE DELIGHTED that Tom Harrison, Margaret Coleman, tyi
, and Tom McMyne, all of whom underwent operations re-
cently, are all getting along nicely*

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SO LEAGUE MEETING this evening, because of the Sunday
School Easter Pageant.
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8 P.M.*

Directed by . . M r s . Janes P. Haggard,*?

a s s i s t e d by . . . . Marjorie Heckel and Baelah Blohm5
Organ Prelude . . . . . . . . . . . . Mrs. Edwin Arthur^
Solot "The Old Bugged Cross* . . . . Miss-Betty Bradley-
Invocation oc
Announcements and Offertory
Presentation of the Pageant 1
"There Is a Green Hill 'Par Away* Junior Cboi^
"Klien I Survey the Wondrous CroBB* . Duet§
Misses Helen Pink and Helen fcallick
" In the Cross of Christ I Glory* . . . . . * . * . . . .ChoiC
"Lead Kindly Light"—Solo , »• Evan Tensing^
"Up Prom the Grave He Arose*. • Choi*1
"I Know that My Bedeemer Liveth" . . . . . . . . Choii§-
"Christ the LCrd Is Bisen Today* . ChoiP
Benediction Marjerle Martlflf
Seven-Fold Amen .* . . Choir^
Organ Postlude . Mrs. Edwin ArthttiT
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Stranger . . .- Leslie Lon$
Marcellus Leroy Deramog
Spirit of Easter '. . Marjoris Marttg
Pharisees . . . . . . Bishop Beckens, and Robert Pantle^ m
and Tommy Hielson h ' * -••*£,
Mary Magdalene Betty Blels(
Mary, the Mother of James Joyce Jrc
Salome . Charlotte Schmij
Joseph of Arimathea Boh Abbue
John Leroy Demm8»
Peter . . - . . George Xaufmaja
Mothers Faleta Brown, Hazel Burgfe
Children Marie Blohm, Freddie Dick Funkg,
MaryLou Hamrick, Sammy Hamrici
Choir Directors . . . . . W, G. Altimari and Helen Fi
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TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1943.

Major Allen Settle

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MIAMI UNIVERSITY Returns With Harmon o
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Maj. Allan Settle of Strong City,
Oxford, Ohio son of Mrs. Clayton Settle, the icp
former F a i t h Martin of Atchison,
accompanied the searching party
Chat found Lit. Thomas D. Harmon,
The School of Fine A r t s Michigan's famed ail-American
football star, in the jungles of
j l
to
French Guiana, according to an ac-
count in the Kansas City Times
this morning.
Presents
Maj. Settle, his assignment com-
pleted, was selected to return with
Harmon to the United States. I n
Ifr
Esther Mellenbruch Washington today, Maj. Settle
I could talk of little other than ice
' cream and snow. He would like to
see snow again after 10 months in
i-the tropics and was more interested '•a
I in ice cream than in a thick T-bone ON
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steak.
( P u p i l of I s a b e l C l a r k ) i Settle is a nephew of Harres Mar- 13
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j tin and Mrs. Paul Tonsing of At-
' chison ,and has visited here many v>
Assisted by times. Before he entered the army i
he was a member of the Star's staff 1
in Kansas City. .n
MARJORIE MELLENBRUCH, 'Cellist The major and F. W. Crawford,
The Globe's telegraph editor, s t a r t - jo
( P u p i l of E l i z a b e t h P o t t e i g e r ) ed together in newspaper work on j
a weekly in their home town and j
have been friends for a long time.!
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His career in the army has been i
marked by rapid promotion and i m - j
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portant assignments throughout the i ft
world. I t is not often t h a t he can : *
Italian Concerto Bach tell of his whereabouts or the nature i
of his work.
Allegro
TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1943. O
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and Evan Tonsing are in. Topeka o
Waltz, Op. 64, No. 3 Chopin attending the convention in honor o
of t h e 75th anniversary of t h e
Scherzo in E Minor Mendelssohn Synod of Kansas and adjacent
states along with the meeting of
Cracovienne Fantasique Paderewski the 64th convention of the Women's
Missionary Society of the Lutheran I
church. Mrs. Robert Gaston will
preside a t the meetings of the mis-
Sarabande Corelli sionary society as acting president
Petite Ballade Arensky and Miss Helen Fink is recording t—*

secretary of t h e society;, Mrs, E. F .

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The Bee Schubert
Fink and Evan Tonsing are dele-
Marjorie Mellenbruch gates from St. Mark's to the con-
vention. The meetings will be held
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Accompanied by Joan Staubach at the First Lutheran church in
Topeka. The convention began last o
night 'with a reception for the del- 3
egates and ends Thursday'noon. ; .~
Capriccio Brilliante Mendelssohn o
Orchestra part played on 2nd Piano by 2
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m a k i n g p l a n s to m o v e f r o m t h e i r h e m e s this a f t e r n o o n a s
WASHINGTON, April 26.—Maj. Allan:: w a t e r from t h e Missouri river, swollen to a point h i g h e r
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former member of The Star's staff i t h e l a k e s a n d o v e r f l o w e d the b a n k s .

as jaccompanied the searching part;*.,
ithat found Lieut. Thomas D. Har-" Water was two feet deep for a distance of 200 yards in i
3 >mon, Michigan's famed all-Amcricar . places on the north bank of Sugar lake, every cellar was '^-r^^Z^S
| football star, in the jungles o; full of water and many cottage occupants already had . ,
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!French Guiana.
evacuated. Between Bean Lake and the river livestock was
p
j Major Settle, assistant executive
| officer of the South Atlantic winr, being removed to higher ground and Ora Kirkpatrick,
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of the air transport command owner of the Kirkpatrick resort on the west side of the R
5 worked with a searching partj-'' lake, said that the residents of that vicinity may have to •
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which went into the South Ameri-
can jungle in an attempt to fincu
other members of Harmon's crew, present rate.
leave their homes if the rise continues another day at the ^• / "^-

whose plane crashed on an opera- RISES AT ST. JOE

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Railroad section tfoncers are worK-
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tional flight. ' ! At St. Joe the river rtose two-tenths ing on the Mud lake levee, the
capacity of which i" being taxec.
•? The party of fifteen was able to- of a ioot between 7:39 this mcrning A sudden rise might put the river
rcrake only one and one-half miles^ and 1 o'clock this afternoon and over the dike to flood hundreds cf'
per day through the jungle. Trees was still rising. Creeks in that vi- acres of farm land in and around - r
were 100 to 125 feet high; under- cinitv were swollen again following M u a la e
brush was so dense t h a t the s e a r c h - ^ a rain of 4.85 inches earlv this «W ^ - .
ers virtually had to chop their way morning. It is expected that this Highway 7 andI the Doniphan road
both m b c ke
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ahead. Had it not been for Har-j water, added to that from I n d e - ' f l° t 7 * *** !i*f J) r*
mon's amazing physical condition^ pendence creek and other t r i b u - yesterday -"-- and today at Independ-—«e ,
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O it is likely t h a t he would not have 1 taries to the north will take the er.ee creek. Two
«»-<«=""«»' » • " ' •large
— • - milk trucks,
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O mastered the dense undergrowth of1 river a gcod ways above the n i „ h abandoned yesterday in an effort
to get through the water over J^jF—jjurTZt o
00 the jungle t h a t has swallowed others;— point of April. Rainfall here in the C/3
less fortunate.
highway 7, still were there today.
last 24 hours totaled 3.5 inches. been T ' i e ten. of one of the trucks was t
(a Major Settle, his assignment ful-: In fact, t h a t point had i under two feet of water this morn- PS
filled, was selected to return with: passed here with today's r's 1 o'clock' m g ^ ^ p m o f t h e t o p rf t h e
p

Harmon to the United States.l* reading of the Atchison & East-!

other was visible.
Harmon will rest here and undergo __ ern bridge gauge, which was 22.90:
a complete physical checkup before |* feet. The high point of the April CREEK OVER ROAD
returning to combat duty. flcod was 22.70. The 1 o'clock read- Lloyd Holder, carrier of Route If
In Washington today, Major: ing, according to Don Weatherford, -»>•. of Atchison, was compelled t o -
ON Settle could talk of little other! superintendent of the bridke, re- i t „ v _ . . . ON
-J . ," . M „ , "' „„„ ,
than ice cream and snow. He would I vealed a rise of .81 of a foot since . turn back at Inaepenaence creek
like to see snow again after t e n g 6 o'clock this morning and the river J both yesterday and today because O
8 months in the tropics. As for ice still was rising. i cf high water. The water went E

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cream, t h a t delicacy held much
more interest for t h e 28-year-old I
Kansan t h a n thick teabone steaks.|
SWIMS IN BASEMENT ciown
encugh earlyto permit
Over in Missouri across from about two hours, but rose higher
yesterday evening
some traffic for I
At the air base a t Natal,, Brazil,* Atchison the entire farms of Jack than ever during the night. It is 3
o there are plenty of thick steaks, U Ellis and Miss Buena Mounce were expected to be over the road most to
but no ice cream. under water because of the rains cf today o
Major Settle was a. member ofi which caused ravines to overflow. >j Stranger creek is reported out of /
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The Star's staff from 1937 until r This water is not from the river. I its banks at Farmington, Cummings,
1940, when he was called t o . active! Jack Ellis swam in in the basements j Curlew and Potter, but not as high y
duty in the army. I n June, 1941,! of the homes of Mrs. J . W. Worrel las it was early last week.
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Settle transferred from the public |« and Miss Mounce this morning to The Central Branch passenger
B relations section of the War de-j save canned fruit. Both cellars were j train due in Atchison at 6 o'clock E
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partment to the army air corps.! i almost full of seepage water frcm i this morning was marooned west
Shortly afterwards he was selected! ' the river and Sugar lake. •
as intelligence officer for the South
! of Muscotah when the Delaware I
Water was over the highway at I river undermined approaches and t-^~-^-^-«-» KJ
00 Atlantic wing of the air transport! the Burl Wheeler farm and several - threatened to damage the bridge,
command and recently was named; other places along the Missouri A train of livestock also stepped
assistant executive officer for thej bank of the river this afternoon, there, but the tracks were repair-
wing.
 ed and both reached Atchison early
this afternoon. A special train to
accommodate passengers to Kansas
City was made up and left here
: about 8 o'clock.
1 STRANGER OXEEK HIGH
At Muscotah the Dslaware got up
; to the F. M. P r a t t farm home,
i which was flcoded in high water
i early last week. Water from
Stranger creek was reported over
hundreds of acres of bottom land,
although the creek was not as high
as, last week. Crop damage in all
the creek bottoms is expected to
be severe.
SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1943.
NEVER SEEN IT AS HIGH
"In almost a lifetime in the Bean j
Lake vicinity, I have never seen as
much water here as there is t o -
day," said A. P. Russell this morn-
ing, just after he had returned from
a trip down the highway to Wes-
ton. .- <-•
"You can get in a boat at Bean I
Jake and row all the way to Weston.
The thousands of acres of rich farm !
land west of the highway are cov- ,
ered with water clear to the river, i
except for a few high spots. It cer- I
tainly is a depressing sight. Men
were wading in Alfred Nower's '•
wheat field near Weston, gigging;
fish. Bean Lake is bank full and
backup over farm land is in all
the lower places. It stands four or
five feet deep in the Sea Scout club
house and is in most of the .cot-
tages on the west side of the lake."
MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1943.
Mr. and Mrs. Evan Tonsing en-
tertained the catechical class of St.
Mark's Lutheran church yesterday
j with a breakfast at their home.
j This class of eight had been con-
| firmed Sunday, June 13.
The Rev. Vance Baird preached
his"" first sermon as pastor of St.
Mark's Lutheran church yesterday
and made a fine impression.
o u r i Recedes
d =»=
From 35«Year Crest
At noon today it was believed the Missouri river flood I
had reached its peak and at 1 o'clock had started a slow j
downward tendency expected to continue until it gets
back to normal. The crest passed St. Joe during the night,
and the 1 o'clock reading at the Atchison & Eastern bridge
here was 23.51. This was .05 of a foot lower than the read-
ing at 10 and 11 o'clock this morning, when the 23.56 then
recorded *?as believed to have been the crest." :
Pouring into Bean Lake over the
FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1943.
flood-gate bridge, the river forced
the lake out over several hundred
Dit
additional acres last night. Most
of the residents remained in their
homes, however, with the excep-
Will Install
tion of the George Willis family,
who were forced out of their home
when several inches of water cov-
New Minister H
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to
ered the floors; Harry Myers and Sunday evening at 8 o'clock, the
family, who were taken from their Rev. Vance Baird, who came to
Atchison last week from Rising
MKOoned residence by boat, and
City, Neb., where he has been
the family of Walter J. Hunter,
who moved out yeesterday. Mr.
pastor of a Lutheran congregation,
will be installed as pastor of St.
a*
Hunter remained at the house, Mark's Lutheran c h u r c h here. The
which is entirely surrounded by installing officer will be the Rev
water.
LEVEE HOLDS
Patrolled by around 50 railroad
section workers and farmers, t h e *
Mud Lake levee continued to hold
the river back, although those pro- 9°
tecting it almost despaired. The
danger of a break in the levee now
is believed past.
At Sugar Lake the situation was
about the same as yesterday, with
water in several cottages and the
road barricaded from the turn east
of Joe Connor's residence on the I
west and the Cash store on the
east. a
Because the fall of the river is
f
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expected to be very slight for sev-
eral days due to the fact t h a t much
water from up-the-river overflows
still must ccme down, the thousands
of acres inundated in the Missouri
river bottoms and near Oak Mills
on the Kansas side may be under
water most of next week, govern-
REV. VANCE BAIRD 4
" ment enetneers believe. Alfred J. Beil, D. D., pastor of
Trinity Lutheran church a t Law-
rence, who is well known here,
a
having been a Midland college
student when that institution was
located in Atchison.
I to
The new pastor, who is 31 years
old, and his family now are estab- 8
lished in t h e Lutheran parsonage
at 901 South Fifth. Mrs. Baird
; before her marriage was Miss Faye
p
o\
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Roberts, who" was a member oi n u
o
graduating class a t Midland college,
Fremont" Neb., in 1934.
After teaching a year in the
jjr
! Bennington, Neb., high school, Mr.
Baird entered Western Theological
seminary a t Fremont, and was g
graduated in 1938. During his
seminary years he supplied the
pulpit of t h e St. Joe Lutheran
'church during an absence of the
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(pastor, and also substituted for the
u>
to
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 pastor of Trinity Lutheran church
i at Sioux City, la. He preached while K
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PO a student at numerous other
£ : Lutheran churches in Nebraska,
^ i l o w a , Kansas, Missouri and Wyom-
S ! ing. He has been pastor of the
E j Rising Sun church since his grad-
lUTHERAn
Ej-.j uation.
H Mr. and Mrs. Baird h a v e , four
2 children: three sons, seven, four H
R and two years old, and an infant
M\ daughter.
MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1943.
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Mr. and Mrs. Evan Tonsing re- Seventy-fifth Milestone Passed
turned last night from Emporia
3wh«« they visited Mr. Tending's Kansas Synod at Topeka, Where Organization Beqan
J brother, Rev. Ernest Tonsing. and r
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vQMrs. Tonsing over the week-end. „ C D M C C T TTMWICIM/-
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^ R e v . Tonsing is pastor oftne Luth- Y ERNEST T O N S I N G

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« i eran church there.
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» W H E N the Synod of Kansas and t e r m which is still something or a .
- | d j a c e „ . States passed to seventy. r e c o r d i n t h e U n i t e d S L . S S L H S A M £ ^ « X
gfth milestone, m session in beauti- Church in America. Other re-elec- f r o m h i _ .f , f infLiratinn a T i
F 4*
¥ ] f f £ « * . Topeka, Kansas, t i o n s i n c l u d e d ^ R e v . R. E. Range- ffiSh? c r L t i ^ T a T u X
_May 4 to 6, there was no sign of de- i P r host nastor to the Tabitha Home , , -,-, • 7 ,
er . .' . .. 1 rif ,. ler, nost pastor, to tne l a r a i n a n o m e gettable memories of pleasant com- g
b i n i n g vigor in its deliberations. Board of Trustees, and the Rev. p a n i o n s h i r j D r J C Hershev Lin
| V i t h the u s u a l - z e a l and zip" for E r n e s t Tonsing, Emporia, as editor c o l Ne£raska> president of the
$vhich the synod is known, business 0 f The Kansas Synod Lutheran, of- - -- rD
Slvas conducted and decisions arrived ficial monthly paper. Nebraska Synod, represented that
§»t with very little delay. Many for- Other posts were filled as follows: body; President Fred C. Wiegman
i^yard looking words were uttered, Lay members on the Executive Com- spoke for Midland College, Fremont,
Jtind equally forward-looking steps mittee: Ferris Hill, Emporia; PaulNebr.; Dean T. D. Rinde was the I'
•Ptaken to assure the world that the Darby Salina, and Ted Davis, Law-Western Seminary spokesman, and y
girst seventy-five y e a r s in this r e n c e . ' Home Mission Committee: Supt. O. W. Ebright brought word n
S h e a r t of the nation" area has got- — ^ ^ ^ ^ _ _ _ ^ ^ ^ _ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ _ from Tabitha Home, Lincoln, Nebr.
«^fen the synod out of its infancy well Cordial w o r d s were offered by
trt)n toward youth. Although war Mayor Frank Warren of Topeka, r
conditions prevented an extensive
^diamond jubilee celebration, yet, be- |
ocause synod was "born" in Topeka, \
and by the Rev. L. E. Schwartz,
president of the Topeka Ministerial
'? Association. The Rev. R. R. C. .
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f^n the original First Church, the • Friedstrom, pastor of the Augustana o
§)lace of meeting lent enchantment to < Lutheran Church in Topeka, brought J*
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J4he scene. The gavel used by Pres- ' fraternal good wishes f r o m the 4*.
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jident George Whittecar of Tulsa, Augustana Synod. o
gOkla., was made of wood from a pew ' c/a
5 n the original Topeka church, a n d , CHAPLAIN KLOVER WELCOMED o
]|had been presented synod at its A genuine welcome was tendered
^fiftieth anniversary. U. S. Army Captain Chaplain W. W.
Klover, former president of synod,
5SOOD ADMINISTRATION who had been granted a leave to 1—»
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* To show that congeniality and a ; attend synodical sessions. Chaplain -o.
g:o-operative spirit permeated the
gmeeting, one finds that almost all the
©officers
President Whittecar and Secretary
S e a r c h "on duty"
Klover took active part, conducting
the installation for the president-
elect of synod, and presenting the
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Sre-elected. Those coming under that the Rev. Ernest Tonsing, the Rev. presidents cross. In turn, he was 3
Cferoup included: the Rev. G. R. A D. Havekost of Hays, and Mr. given the past-president s cross. to
^Whittecar, Tulsa, Okla., president; H. L. Wortz, Wichita. Midland Col- Three young men were received o
Cthe Rev. G. L. Search, Waterville, lege Trustees: the Rev. G. L. Search into depleting pastoral ranks in the If
S e c r e t a r y ; Mr. Wayne Easterday, and Mr. Evan Tonsing, Atchison. persons of the Rev. O. K. Uelke, 8
fTopeka, statistical secretary; and This group of midwesterners likes Glasco (now on leave of absence &
BE. E. Stauffer, D.D., Wichita, his- to entertain guests. This year the while a chaplain in J e U . S . A r m y ) , o
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^torian. Mr. L. T. Bang, Emporia, visit of the Rev. Dr. F. E. Reinartz, and the Rev. Herbert Pett, Lan- |
^treasurer, was returned to his office representative of the United Lu- caster, both transferred from the ' P
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£#or the twenty-second consecutive theran Church in America, was thor-Midwest Synod; and t h e ^ e v . Sam-, to
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 uel Jensen, Sedalia, JVlo., irom uic
Illinois Synod. Mr. William Eller,
student in Western Seminary, was
licensed for one year. Dr. W. I. Guss,
supply pastor at Trinity Church,
Kansas City, Kansas, was made an
advisory member of synod.
One saddening note was sounded
y r-
in the memorial service for the Rev.
S. A. Hamrick, former pastor of St.
Mark's, Atchison. The Rev. Ernest
Messer, convention chaplain, memo-
rialized this young man's passing, in
which the clergy of synod lost one
who was becoming increasingly val-
uable to the program of synod and
the Church of Christ.
Five men were found to be serv-
ing in the chaplaincy of the U. S. Evan T o n s i n g , B r o t h e r h o o d P r e s i d e n t ; D r . F. E p p l i n g R e i n a r t z ; 00
Army from synod: W. W. Klover, Convention C h a p l a i n , J . E r n e s t Messer; P a s t o r R. E . R a n g e l e r ,_,
J. O. Ensrud, Max Gilmer, Norburt attentively to Dr. F. E-. ReinartzV-
Zabel, and O. K. Oelke. Chaplain address on, "When Johnny Comes WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, I S « .
Gilmer's wife was present, and was Marching Home." *. .. . „ . . D
formally recognized by synod. 'A
T h e Rev. Ernest P. Tonsing. p a i -
tor of St. Mark's Lutheran chmgh
Among items of business of gen- WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1943.
at Emporia, and a son of ^*05-
eral interest, were the restoration of W. C. T. U. Paul Tonsing, 3,15 North Terrajjfc,
the $5 apportionment scale, drafting will be sworn in as a chaplain*fci
The W. C. T. U. were invited to the army Monday. He will repeH
of a petition to the Board of Adjudi- meet at the home of Mrs. Ira Gould to Harvard university August ^ 5
cation of the U n i t e d Lutheran this month, instead of meeting a t for a six-week training period. R e x
Church in America, and acceptance Mrs. the Y. M. C. A. as they have been. Tonsing was a former pastor of m.
Paul Tonsing led the devo- Paul's church in Valley Palls. His
of an invitation to hold the seventy- tional period following the singing wife and two children, Fred a^3
sixth annual convention in Chil- of^ihe crusade hymn. This was fol- Evan, will visit with his m o t h w
dren's Memorial Church, Kansas lowed by singing "America the here while h e is attending H a r v a ^
Beautiful." T h e reports for the Rev. Tonsing is the second of M*t.
City, Mo., the Rev. Dr. J. A. Mc- previous meeting were given by the
| Tonsing's sons in the armed sdr?
Culloch pastor. Youth work in con- l secretary and treasurer. Mrs. Ross I vices. Paul, jr., her youngest s<
nection with Camp.Wa-Shun-Ga was JKnowles had an article on "Amer- J is with the marines in the Sot
iiran Youth Called to Action—The
given a vote of confidence, when the Crucial Issue." It was flower mis- ! Pacific. O I
Rev. A. J. Beil of Lawrence was in- sion day and flowers were sent to
structed as sponsor to seek arrange- several friends and members of the
;
The Rev. Vance Baird, new paj^>
g|
union, along with appropriate notes tor of St. Mark's Lutheran c h u r c l ^
ment for a convention at Wa-Shun- to those who were out of town. The "clicked'' in a talk yesterday befoi®
Ga for Leaguers this summer. The date for this day is to be changed the Kiwanis club. An easy and iri/i
synodical camp had formerly been to one in late May, because of the lerBsting speaker, the Rev. Baire
usual scarcity of flowers at this talked on "Practical Patriotism."
announced closed "for the duration."* time. The president and vice pres- group of girls from the summe;
t ident were both unable to attend. vocal classei directed by Miss Joycl
Mrs. Jim Phillipi presided a t the Wentz, sang selections from t b _
AUXILIARIES IN SESSION meeting. The hostess served d e - play, "In the Southland." Soloist^
Meeting in conjunction with synod lightful refreshments. were Barbara Manning, a very littliy
were two of its auxiliaries, the Wo- miss; Virginia. Tonsing, DorothjE
Ann Dudley, Charlotte Jessip an^Jj
men's Missionary Society, and t h e ' Carolyn Elwell. Others in the group
i THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1943.
Brotherhood. The won n held their were Letha Laurie, Sally LiggetlQ
sixty-third annual convention dur- A banded carrier pigeon alighted Bonnie Lou Cummings, J e a n n g ?
Spencer, Judith Fan-ell and Kittpj'
ing the full synodical session, while in the yard at t h e P. W. Barnett and Violet Scoggin.
home, 1305 Division, late yesterday
the Brotherhood met for its annual and the police were called to take
convocation Tuesday afternoon and care of it. Officers called Harres THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1943JT)
evening, May 4. Election of Brother- Martin, whose son, Ralph, is an
expert on carrier pigeons, and
hood officers resulted in the placing Harres went to t h e Barnett h o m e T h e Men's Brotherhood of St/
of Evan Tonsing, Atchison, as pres- and got it. Ralph Martin is working Mark's Lutheran church met last
night a t - t h e home of Mr. and Mrsj
ident; Paul Darby, Salina, vice- in Kansas City and will be home Evan Tonsing. Russell Keithlind
president; S. J. Turille, Emporia, Saturday. T h e pigeon was placed
in Ralph's cot a t t h e Martin home presided. T h e speaker was Edwii
secretary; Clyde Tressner, Topeka, pending identification. Last year a Marshall, new faculty member o j
treasurer; and Frank Hall, Hays, ex- banded pigeon followed his young the Atchison High school and the
devotionals were led by Ed F i n k i
ecutive committee member from the ones into the cot and was identified Al Berger was t h e program chair?!},
as one released by t h e Moline. HL,
Western Conference. Following their Pigeon club in a race. man and Walter Tschorn was i n *
supper meeting the men listened charge, of the serving. After t h e
 program a wiener roast was held at remain for the duration of the war 11 course a t Harvard university,".writes
2? the fireplace in the Tonsing yard. at the home of his mother, Mrs. i of the appearance of Winston
The next meeting will be at the Paul Tonsing. The Rev. Tonsing Churchill there: Several thousand
will go to Harvard college to be army and navy personnel a s -
home of Mr. and Mrs. Will Harri-
son. trained to become a chaplain in the
U. S. aarmy.
sembled facing the steps of Me-
morial church where we stood from
75
about 11:45 until 1 o'clock. 1 was
SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1943. only about 100 feet from the plat-
MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1943. form, directly in front, so could see
Rev. and Mrs. Robert Gaston and —. — i^-.--t^
son, Bobby, of Eureka, are visiting ; i Theodore Otis, 510 Mound, un- everything. It was very warm and
muggy, the humidity high. A WAVE
f his parents, M r - a n d Mrs. Ed Gas- j derwent a major operation at thi
ton. Rev. Gaston was recently a p - , Atchison hospital this morning.
pointed by the Synod of Kansas and
up in front fainted and was carried
off. Cameramen of all types were
era
Adjr.cent States as editor of the », ': .'"v j on harjd. While we stood there
/i Churchill was over in Sanders
Kansas Synod Lutheran. He suc- Lt. John Martin, who is stationed j j theatre receiving his doctors de-
ces- s Rev. Ernest Tonsing of Em- in Australia, recently has written
poria who will enter Harvard uni- to his father. Harres Martin, telling gree from President Conant. We
versity's chaplain school August 15 of his service there and requesting heard his address over a loud-
to become an army chaplain. speaking system. Ie was keen and
a clipping from newspaper stories I challenging, to say the least. So
concerning his cousin. Major Allan : [ we waited, About 12:40 the navy
8 THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1943.
" Settle, who accompanied the party ; s man in charge announced we were
searching for Tommy Harmon. Lt.

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- Martin has a military background.
St. Mark's Lutheran church will His grandfather, for whom he was I

tember 19.
to come to 'parade rest' when
Churchill appeared, then
two seconds lated at the bugle
celebrate its 75th anniversaiy Sep- ' named, was a brigadier general in ! , , ; blast, and hold it throughout the
! the Union army and his father '•' British national anthem, then drop
salute

' served in World War I. — ; salutes" at another bugle note. At

Miss Ann and Donna Martin about 1 o'clock Churchill came.
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daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Harres
SATURDTY, AUGUST 28, 1943. ___';people were running all around the
I' Martin, have recovered from an

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1 attack of tonsilitis.
edges of the crowd. There were.
possibly 4,000 or 5,000 civilians on
Mrs. Fannie Downs Challiss, 81, [ all sides trying to get a glimpse of
I pioneer Atchison county resident, | him. We could head sheers and
TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1943.
A3 j and the widow of Paul Challiss, I clapping and laughter as he came
,died at the Bailey hospital, Lincoln, ! cut of Sanders theatre so we clap-1
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U. S. Supreme Court j Neb., August 24, following an ex- ! ped vigorously and almost missed J
j : tended illness. Funeral services : saluting. A funny thing about .him i
To Hear Church Case I: were Thursday morning, at Lincoln, ' is his magnificient personal mag-
|! after which the body was cremated. 1 netism. He is a short, sawed-olf, j
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. — W — ;! M r s . Challiss left Atchison county I bulldog like, little fellow, and im-

r The Evangelical Lutheran synod of j shortly after the death of Mr. Chal
Kansas and adjacent states ap- liss, on January 26, 1928. Mr. and
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pealed to the supreme court today Mrs. Challis had been operators of | f ul, and wants to shrink out of the r > t X _ £ .
In an effort to prevent the First the Challiss egg- farm, three miles I limelight. But instead he gets hold . ~
English Lutheran church of Okla- southwest of Atchison on the Cur- ! of every person in the crowd the i^
homa City from withdrawing from lew road,.for almost 20 years prior I minute those terse words- begin i—i
the synod and affiliating with the to his death. She was born in New j tumbling out. He speaks simply, to; C-
midwest synod. York state May 18, 1862, and mar- ; the point, and every word is a chal- p
a The Kansas synod, which has ried Mr. Challiss October 5, 18J9, at ; lenge to one to accept it as the U,
jurisdiction over the number of Sabetha. Mr. and Mrs. Challiss lived ' word of an honest man and, true.. O
to churches In Kansas, Oklahoma and on a tract of land just west of the 1 • I have been gripped by few men as •f*
Missouri, sought a review of a de- Forest Hills golf club for several by Winston Churchill. He stressed j *^
, ©o our blood-brotherhood with the j ©
cision by the Tenth federal circuit years following their marriage, and
C/3 court t h a t the Oklahoma church also resided in Adrian, Mich., where British, our like aims,.our like suf-si
Court u i a i uic u i u o u u i . , " -• » ™ »woj-.... . —— fering for the sins of ourselves andj j &
was an independent congregation; their youngest child, Charles, was others. He said the war was n o t ' j
and had the right to change Its survived drowned by in one
1900.son,
Mrs.
FredChalliss
Challiss,is won, by any means, but t h a t it wasj I
affiliation. up to the army and navy and m i - - l
of Chicago; two daughters, Mrs.
Pauline Hoy, of Chicago, and Mrs. rines- co-operating with our allie?,:
THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1943. to bring it to as quick a termina-
Jl Mary Cullinan. of Lincoln Neb., and
Lt. and Mrs. Ernest Tonsing and six grandchildren.
tion as possible by absolute devo-
: tion to duty*.' He showed how our.
sons, Freddie and Evan, of Empo- general staffs, Great Britain anet
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-J i ria, arrived yesterday for a short TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1943 U. S., were 'working together con-
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visit before Lt. Tonsing enters Har- stantly; h o w ; - G ? n . Montgomery
| vard university for his army ch£._J- Chaplains Ernest Tonsing and and G e n . . ' MacArthur in their
: Iain's training. He has been pastor Robert Cochran were present at the j 'I .**?•; ~ — ; *
of St. Mark's Lutheran church at exercises at Harvard university a t ' ! spheres of conimandership s e n t j n &
| Emporia the last . two years, going troops irrespective of their govern-
which Winston Churchill received ment or nationality, and how every I
there from Wellington, where he an honorary degree. Chaplain Tons-
advance was; made when the gray-'n
was pastor several years. Mrs. Tons- ing, son of Mrs. Paul Tonsing" of
heads had talked it over and ar- ' 1
ing and sons will remain in Atch- Atchison, and Chaplain Cochran,
rived a t - J o i n t decisions. He said
ison a t the home of Lt. Tonsing's
former Salvation Army captain t h a t this arrangement, onjcollab-
8 mother, Mrs. Paul Tonsing, 315
North Terrace, while he is at Har-
vard. He will be in the same class lain ~school
here, are attending the army chap-
a t „ Harvard
oration, of our two armejR liorces

I with Lt. Robert Cochran of the

Atchison Salvation Army.
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lis jaw at the Kiwanis picnic.

— j (he didn't mention . C h i t a ! iortjRus-
Flash! Evan Tonsing dislocated',<; sia once in the: whole !taB6|(Woul^
I • continue tor manyj; j ^ a r i . i ItR a 0 4
& ' i that 1 such* vicious i ifpjces'i jdia| ( n
FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1943. i SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1943. I ever. again gain /. enough • "power, to
T | show ;their heads. ,He ; ijaiffi jfirie j g f e
(to HERE FOR DURATION j T h e Rev. Ernest F . Tonsing'; of I: | bute jAb several Halyard : pr6(e>sc§f*
00 who':havei
The family of the Rev. Ernest! Emporia, formerly of Atchison, who ish 1 ^ r o i e acoUaDo&tea.;
o r ^ f e f f f f t t o, w
g nl ia^Ti Sb raas|^<
-uw*2 I in, > iot'tinn-'. ift* DasiC
Tonsing is here from Emporia toil la,. JaBng"" the army chaplain's ffklfrftiaafofy«»t ;be, taughg all /
I
who wish: to; ilea'rri English in a
short while; (600 nouns). It was a
simple, brisk, speech, and not an
eye left him until he was through.
Of course ; the. ovation must have
been heard 15 miles away.
smiled broadlyi' made the charac-
He
teristic victory sign and disappear-
H
I
ed into t h e * chapel. Secret service
men were all about, - peering into I
, the crowd as one sees them in t h e ;
I" ! movies. It was the first really in-
: temational scene I had ever wit-
nessed a t d the emotional appeal 1
was gripping. I felt as if I had
seen greatness and had had a share
-J in its powerful influense The mag-
netic appeal of t h a t man is phe-
VO i nomenal, unforgetablc.
V©
Theodore Otis, who had an oper-
f
00
ation at the Atchison hospital and
for the past two weeks has been
at the Prospect Park sanitarium,
returned to his home yesterday. He
liked the sanitarium but was so
homesick for his dog t h a t he
decided to go home. The m a n -
agement at t h e sanitarium liked
Theodore very much.
II
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER ,16, 1943.
1-1
O
f charge of Sunday's celebration. The :
I congregation invites all • Atchison j
o The Rally day service a t the
o
s*
.8
en
6 SPEAKS SUNDAY — Dr.
Fred C. Wiegman, president of
Midland college, Fremont, Neb., and
! one of the most eloquent speakers
:
O in the middlewest, will deliver the
anniversary sermon next Sunday
E . morning, a t the seventy-fifth a n n i -
versary celebration of St. Mark's
I Lutheran church, Sixth and Park
streets. The service will be a t
n 10:30 o'clock, and the public is. in-
vited.
8 .. FRIDAY, &B2PTEMBER 17, 1943.
I t h e most interesting speakers In j
I 1st Mark's
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St. Mark's Lutheran church, Sixth
ind Park streets, will celebrate its
seventy-fifth anniversary Sunday,
with two important services, morn-
h SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18,' 1943.
ing and evening.
The program opens with a Sunday
school Rally day celebration at 9:15 |
a. m., a t which departmental grad-
uation exercises will be featured.
The Rev. Fred Wiegman, D. D.,
president of Midland college, Fre-
mont, Neb., will deliver the sermon streets, one of the oldest and most prominent
a t the 10:30 o'clock morning worship T .,
service, and both the senior a n d ,
junior choirs of St. Mark's will sing. I Mississippi river, will celebrate tomorrow the seventy K>
Dr. Wiegman was the speaker a t ' -
the seventy-fourth anniversary ban- : « « " anniversary of its founding. Eminent church . _
quet a t St. Mark's last year, and
; also has spoken herg" at community'
and Lutheran events.
A pageant depicting several of
the outstanding events in the his-
tory of St. Mark's, directed by Jane
Zimmerman, will be presented at
the evening service at 8 o'clock. A
special stage has been erected for
this feature.
The speaker for the evening serv-
ice will be Dr. Andread Bard, pas-
tor of the St. Mark's Lutheran
church, Kansas City. Mo., one of
the most widely known Lutheran
pastors in the middlewest.
Rev. Vance Baird, pastor of St. j
Mark's here, will be in general j
people to attend the programs and 1
participate with this pioneer church j
j in the anniversary event.
ANNIVERSARY SPEAKER
—The Rev. Andreas Bard, D. D.,
veteran Lutheran pastor from K a n -
sas City, will speak at \ h e Sev-
enty-fifth anniversary service a t
St. Mark's Lutheran church, Sixth
and Park streets, next Sunday
night. The service opens at eight
| o'clock. Dr. Bard has spoken in
Atchison several times in recent j
years, and is considered one of i
midwestern Lutheran circles. He'
has been pastor of t h e large St.
Mark's Lutheran church, 38th and.
Troost, Kansas City, Mo., for more-p
t h a n 30 years. " Lutherans were disappointed," says
£
St. Mark's Passes Markeri
In Long Road Of Success
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The St. Mark's Lutheran church, Sixth and Park<F
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>&
Luthera
n congregations west of the g.
. „ • , _ , • „ • , J*
] e a ders will be speakers in two servces Q
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commemorating tne evenu
8
The Rev. Fred Wiegman, D. D.,!
president of Midland college,
mont, Neb., will preach at the
Fre-
i
morning service, at 10:30 o'clock and 00
the Rev. Andreas Bard, D. D., of
Kansas'City, Mo., will speak at t h e ' 1I
evening service, at 8 o'clock. j* 1
A historical pageant, directed by I 8 .*
Miss J a n e Zimmerman, will also;
be presented a t the service Sunday J
evening. Historical highlights will be
depicted in five scenes, with Ed
Arthur reading the descriptions. i
Members of St. Mark's who wil' .
participate in the pageant wil!!
include J. G. Zimmerman, Mr. and
Mrs. Leslie Long, Mr. and Mrs.
I
I Floyd Hundley, Miss Ida Mae
Spaun. T. J. Dunning, Carol H a m -
I1
rick, A. B. Zimmerman, B. D. a. I
Zimmerman and Tommy Dunning.
Musical settings will be furnished
by the St. Mark's choir and Mrs
Ed Arthur, organist.
INVITO PUBLIC
a
o
Sunday school, opening at 9:15 a. j r*
_ m., also will be a part of the day's r
program.
The public is invited to attend j
t/3
these services.
Organization of St. Mark's took k
place on September 20, 1868, a year |
after The Rev. M. G. Boyer came
g
to Atchison from Harrisburg, Pa.,
to form t h e pioneer congregation.
Twenty-five members immediately
joined the churh.
The first church council consisted
I of C. Weber and H. Gehrett, elders;
J. H. Talbott, J. Beamer, H. Snyder
and F. Brendt, deacons. Among the
ft
members at this time was the Rev
A. W. Wagnalls, afterward one of
the founders of the publishing
house of Funk <te Wagnalls, New
1
York City. While here he was in o
the real estate b u s ' " " " **• ' "
suggestion t h e OOBSW*"*^ V
chased a fifteen acre t r a c ' -•:••<•,-•
the city of Atchison on the north- i 1
i west, which section was platted and
offered for sale with t h e hope of
making enough profit to erect a
church building. "In this the
SI
vj 1
the historian, "for they sold only 21
oo 5
 enough lots to pay for the land."
I After t h a t venture the congregation
used the Congregational church
building.-
TEN YEARS LAPSE
Hopes' of continued growth were
dashed., when The Rev. Boyerf
H resigned a& the end of the year |
O was installed pastor the first Sun- jborn. The Renn twins are the only
P 1869, and for ten years the church
committee ordered to proceed T h e '
cornerstone was laid during t h e ! I with t h e exception of tne last,
summer following. The building was 1 j gymnasium. He also built the I
erected under the supervision of: \ professor's hemes on College Hill.!
A. B. Zimmerman, contractor The ! And it so happens t h a t he also '
Opening service was held May 23 j I built the house which is now St.
1809. Rev. Renn resigned September I Mark's parsonage, and is the house
1. 1911. The Rev. Howard C. Garvic '. \ in which the Renn twins w e r e l i "\
day in March, 1912. The death of I children born to a pastor of s t .

I' was without a pastor. The lots \

belonging to the church were sold j
the Pastor Garvic in the prime j Mark's during his pastorate here,
cf manhood in March, 1G15, pro- ! and t h a t covers a period of 75 <P
i
for taxes, but were redeemed at the I duced a profound impression upon 1 years. Marilon Hamrick was about;
eleventh hour through Mr. Talbott't: St Mark's and the city of Atchison : six weeks old when the Rev. a n d
efforts, and deeded to the board N The Rev. Robert L. Patterson D i Mrs. Hamrick came. A. B. Zim-
of church extension. In 1880 the D., became pastor October 17, 1915. merman, B. D. Zimmerman and
Rev. W. I. Cutter, a returned r,nd served for about, five years J. G. Zimmerman also helped
missionary to India, with the . He was succeeded by The Rev build t h e church auditorium. All
assistance of Rev. David Earhar; • Wi;Uam E. Wheeler, who served St. ' : three men are still active members'
and his daughter. Mrs. H. E. Mon- . Murk's for 17 years, the longest • of St. Mark's Lutheran church
roe, gathered the English Lutheran? period cf any pastor in the churchV here.
together again. Mrs. Monroe wa<; history.
> then conducting a private school
C H U R C H PASTon D : E S MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20. 1943.
known as the "Atchison Institute." *-* 'f
and she offered her school room R?v. Sam Hamrick. who died last ST. MARKS LUTHERAN
January, came to St. Mark's from * Yesterday St. Mark's celebrated U 00
as a place of worship. c*-©_y
St. Louis, in November. 1938. and ^ her 75th anniversary beginning with I
On the eighth of August the was a most successful and progrcs-
-Ft congregation was reorganized and - sive leader His death came as a Rally day in the Sunday school, j
ON promotion exsreises and installation j_
the following officers elected: Elders shock to the entire community. of the new officers. At the morn- 1
J. H. Berlin, W. H. Kuhns and N. D.
8 Kistler; deacons. J. L. Heisey, E. D. Van.e Band, who O ^ 0, MkJ,and colk„e> W M the \f^
Kistler. and John Fusselman; trus- came here from Rising City, Neb..
-3 tees. J. H. Talbott, W. H. Smith three months ago. He will be in guest speaker, and in the evening
Dr. Ar.dreas Bard occupied the 17
and S. J. Clark. Rev. Cutter served gencial charge of the services A
puipit. A historical pageant of the j —
as pastor two years. During pari tomorrow.
church preceded the sermon, under ,
O Not only has St. Mark's been a
of this time aid was received from
the home mission board. In 1882 prominent part cf the community
the direction of Miss. Jane Zim- i ^
merman assisted by various mem- J
Jh
this aid was withdrawn and R«v. life cf Atchison, but it has furnished
errs of the congregation. |
j Cutter resigned. c
considerable leadership in the
For two years the church was ' Evangelical Lutheran synod of j A large crowd attended the 75th
dormant, but in 1884 the second ; Kansas and adjacent states, of I anniversary services at St. Mark's
c
organization was revived, and be- which "it is a member. Synod ha '• Lutheran church yesterday. The
came a nourishing congregation. In met here five times, in 1869, 1889. j Rev. Fred Wiegman. D. D., p r e s - .
.November of that year the Rev. - 18S9, 1920 and 1940. The church ! ident of Midland college, Fremont,
George S. Diven was commissioned has furnished five presidents of j Neb., was the guest speaker at the
to come to Atchison and revive the synod: Rev. M. G. Boyer. Rev. W. F. morning service and the Rev. An-
mission. Its first service was in the Rents. Dr. R. L. Patterson. Dr. W. E. dreas Bard, D. D., of Kansas City,
a home of Henry Snell, 921 South I Wheeler, and Dr. H. L. Yarger. Two j Mo., spoke a t the evening service,
i Seventh street, ' of its laymen served as treasurers which included A historical pag-
j IN I. O. O. F. HALL f"of synod. J. K. Berlin and W. M. eant.
•fc*
The Odd Fellows' hall was then Mrs. A. E. Renn, formerly of;
secured as a place of worship and cf the officers for the synodical Atchison, ar.d of Indianspolis, writes !
C/3 a Sunday'" school was organized. brotherhood. Missionary society and AtChiSOH friends that her twin j I 00
In February, 1885, the church Luther League. daughter. Florence, is now Mrs. j
05 was incorporated as St. Mark's ENTERTAINED SYNOD John Scott, and has two children,
o Lutheran Church. Rev. Diven r e - St. Mark's in 1913 entertained the Carole. 5. and a son. John Renn.
signed in 1887 and wai succeeded I i penefftl synod of the Lutheran torn August. 15.' Wert R e m is also
by the Rev. W. F. Rentz, in April, I church, the national organization, living in Indianapolis and is u n -
1888 Rev. Rentz set to work at once j t bringing Lutheran leaders here married. Rev. Renn was pastor of ,,
Sfc to secure a lot and erect a church 1 £ f r o m all parts of the United States St. Mark's Lutheran church here ^ ^
ON
building. The present location, cor- j i and Canada. many years ago.
^1 ner of Sixth and Park streets, was \ • Three sons of St. Mark's are in
purchased. The chapel, now the ], the active ministry: Rev. Roberl MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1943. 'J-JO^LCI—'
Sunday school room, was erected 1 Gaston. Rev. Gene Harrison, and
in 1888, the cornerstone being laid 1 Li. Ernest Tonsing, a chaplain in
August 19, and the church dedi- : tlie United States army.
' cated December 16. Pastor Rentz 1 Seventy-three young men and one
; served nine years, resigning in May, young woman from the congre-
1897. The Rev. L. S. Keyser became gation are in the armed services,
o . pastor November 7, 1897. Rev. R. W. their names and stars filling two
Hufford, D. D., served as pastor large service flags placed in the
from January 9, 1904, to November church auditorium. Rev. Hamrick
g
5.0
27. 1904. After a vacancy of nine h a d enlisted as a chaplain in t h e
months the Rev. A. E. Renn became navy at the time of his death, and
pastor August 18, 1905. vvas awaiting a call to service.
I ERECTED BUILDING Fire shortly after midnight yes-
! The outstanding achievement of " Someone recalls t h a t A. B. Zim- terday- morning caused damage esti-
Rev. Renn's pastorate was t h e mated at $15,000 to the Walters
m e r m a n was the contractor who
to erection of the present church Drug store and t h e building it
built St. Mark's chapel and large j
00 building. The movement began Oc- occupies at Fifth and Commercial.
tober 21, 1907. Plans were adopted 1 j auditorium at Midland college, and ;
The building is owned by Harres
j March 17, 1908, and the building all the other Midland buildings I

L
 I Martin.
Flames had gained considerable
headway in the basement of the
building when the fire was discov-
ered. At the time of the discovery
• ^ the drug store, t h e offices of Dr.
A. E. Ricks and Dr. Wayne O.
H Wallace on the second floor were
§in filled with smoke, but no flames
were visible, city firemen said.
I
" Origin of, the fire was in the
basement 'and firemen said there
to
were indications of an explosion, but
they were not positive whether the
explosion started t h e fire or not.
ALT. BADLY DAMAGED
Most of the joists supporting the
floor of the drug store were burned
in two, and merchandise stored in
the basement was totally destroyed.
The entire stock of merchandise in
> the store and the fixtures were
badly damaged by smoke and fumes.
There also is some smoke damage
at the Tonsing Printery & Bookstore
next door to the Walters store.
Smoke entered the building through
I
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the walls. Flames creeping up the
I partitions caused substantial damage
to the of/ice of Dr. Ricks on the
1 second floor, but the offices of Dr.
Wallace escaped with smoke dam-
age. No damage was apparent in
the Woodmen lodge hall on the
third floor.
O
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Walters—Mr.
Walters is proprietor of the store—
I left for their? home about 10:30
Saturday night, after turning- out
the hot water heater in the base-
S3* ment and turning off, the lights.
Everything in t h e b S s e m e n t seemed
as usual at t h a t time, said Mr.
Walters, who is a former mayor of
Atchison and a member of t h e city
commission.
PLAN REPAIRS
Mr. Martin today is making plans
ft for the immediate repair of the
building. An insurance adjuster
N>
•U arrived yesterday and was still on
O the job this afternoon. Mr.'Walters
• O
expects to move the salvage from
the fire to another building nearby
and will continue his business until
K the repairs to the Martin building i
are completed). Miss Ethel Chew, i
bookkeeper, has been given desk':
room in the Tonsing store.
P The vdense smoke caused by t h e j
=tfc fire is believed to have been caused !
by mineral oil, a large quantity of
Which was stored in the basement.
Considerable stationefy7 other paper :
8
|
material and drugs, also were
burned. *"•
o OVERCOMJ: BY siwoKr:
8 Fireman Ed Peasley was over-1
ccme by smoke when he entered
the building after firemen broke the
o window in the front door but was j
f able to resume fighting the fire'in.j group qj boys were members of the
a few minutes. The fire was discov- |
o ered by Si Dolginoff of t h e Gore
Cigar store,, who saw the smoke as
E he locked up for t h e ' night and
I urned in the alarm.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1943.
3 tinguish a WAVE, Bessie Pantle.
1 Chaplain Ernest Tonsing
JP I stationed at Camp Adair, Ore., in
-J
| a g Mtffleryjlivjgon.
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1943.
,r T h e ' K a n s a s Lutheran Synod-has
called a special meeting to be held j
Thursday afternoon a t three o'clock" j
a t Lawrence. Rev. Vance Baird. |
pastor of the St. Mark's Lutheran j
church, will attend a preliminary
meeting at Lawrence Wednesday
and Evan Tonsing will attend the
-Thursday session. . ^
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22. 1943.
INFANTRY CHAPLAIN —
Lt. Ernest Tonsing, chaplain in the
infantry engineers, was formerly
pastor of the St. Mark's Lutheran
church in Emporia. The son of Mrs.
Paul Tonsing, Lt. Tonsing received
his commission September 25 from
Harvard university, Cambridge, Mass.,
and has since been serving at Bend,
Ore. He enlfsted in the service in
August at Ft. Leavenworth. Mrs.
Tonsing and the couple's two sons
have been living at Bend. Before
filling the pastorate at Emporia, Lt.
Tonsing was pastor at Valley Falls
and at Wellington.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1943,
Mrs. George Kaufman relates
!
some interesting points about the
service flag for members of trie
church serving our country. There
were 15 stars placed on the flag
to honor 15 members of St. Mark's
who were members of the national
guard in Atchison and were sent
to Ft. Robinson, Ark. Since t h a t
j time the number has increased to
85 service stars* There are 13 fam-
ilies of brothers; one WAVE, Bessie
Pantle, and one father and son rep-
resented.. About one-half of the
Boy Scouts of the church troop a t
some time or other. A large cross
h a s been placed on one star to dis-
tinguish a son of St. Mark's (Lt.
Ernest Tonsing) who is an infantry
chaplain. Also a white spot to dis-
is! There are 24. boys serving over-
seas. One, Glenn Fedderson, is a
PQS22S °L w a l l a Germany; 3 y ^ .
SATURDAY, JANUARY- 8, 1944.
MISSIONARY MEETS
The Women's Missionary Society |
of St. Mark's Lutheran church met
Thursday afternoon a t the home of I
Mrs. Roy Seaton. The program was I
presented by Mrs. Paul Tonsing and L
Mrs. E. F. Fink. The n t x t meeting a
will be in February a t the home of g .
j Mrs, J. E. Olson, 1432 Santa Fe. if
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1944.
RsJphf son. of Harres Martin, ba&g
bjen notified that he passed t h e - j
army V-12 examination which h e ^
took November 9. He is a freshman>g
at St. Benedict's college and plans^o
*n become a chemical engineer. £{•
THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1944. "O
To The Globe: JJ
Last Saturday when the dean of1
Atchison's physicians was r e m o v e d ^
by death, it closed a long life. of4£
usefulness, and Dr. Dingess had. >
been truly a living benediction to^"
hunareas, yes thousands, of suT-^j
ferers, a record of which any phyjq
£ician might well be proud. We laudg
men on the battle fields for theifO
deeds of heroism, and well we-")
may, but Dr. Dingess was on theg.
firing line, all hours of -day a n « §
night, throug'i cold and h e a t , antfi.
the storms that tried merFs souragecj
He fought a great fight and die<}/>
practically fighting. ' t3*
His departure is a solemn re-CL
minder of the high death toil™
among Atchison physicians in tff^T
last two decades. I venture to giv^M
tlie death list, entirely from mem-g-
ory, but not attempting to give i p
in the order of their deaths. W—
have resided in Atchison a l i t t l ^
longer than 20 years and as I re**
I call the list is as follows: Dr. S h e l l y ^
| Dr. Pitts; Dr. George W. A U a m a n o
i Dr. George Baudry; Dr. C h a r l e ^
Howe; Dr. William Smith; Dr. Lef 5
Cowan; Dr. T. E. Horner; Dr. Chars*
ley Johnson; Dr. Gress; Dr. C. /{»
Lilly; Dr. W. K. Fast; Dr. W. &
Pulliam; Dr. Horace Sheeks; D j f
Virgil Morrison; and Dr. M. 'S'
Dingess.
There yet remain nine pr acticing
H
physicians who have been in prao-j""
tice here 20 years or more as foSj'
lows: Dr. Hugh L. Charles; Dr,
W. Abner; Dr. L. A. Salzer, chir
praetor; Drs. Alice and C. W. Ma
hugh, Dr. E. R. Palmer and
Elizabeth Wood, osteopaths; Dr.
h: Stewart and Dr,' G. A. Pattoi
Two prominent practitioners of 20),
years ago have retired. Dr, C. JJS-'i
Finney, age 79, has retired on ao^ '
count of poor eyesight and infirm©
ties, and Dr. C. W. Robinson, E -
breakdown on account of overwork i
This whole list is subject to corre<g
ti'on.
E. A. PALMER.
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I SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1944. | and Karsas avenue was purchased
-is*:;?-

j from Dr. Cochrane by the govern- half. Two of their lieutenants n a a j

According to Mrs. P. G. Tonsing
, the old building at 311 Commercial,
I now being razed, was built, by the
I late John A. Martin, probably in the
j 1860s, as a home for the Atchison
I Champion. The first home of the
: Champion, a small wooden building
i somewhere in that block, had been
] destroyed by a fire. Tire Champion
I occupied 311 until the erection of
j the building at 500 Commercial, in I Pfc. Paul Tonsing, son of Mrs.
I ment, an'i the contract was" awarded
j for the erection of the post office
j June 24, 1892, at a cost of $61,703.17/'
1
Anyone knowing any further his-
j iory about the building at 311 Com-
( !mercial is invited to submit it to
-J The Globe.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1944.
been killed, the third badly wound-
i ed. Martin was a replacement f o r ! ^ Q
[ one of the officers. Since t h a t time, j 'I
| L i e u t e r i n t Martin has been with \
a \
j tire 12&" in its later battles on
; !
i New Guinea.'- He led his men at
j the landing at Saidor in Jap-held j
; territory January 1 this year, i n j
i letters to his father. John praised I
i his men as real battle-toughened j
fighters. He described seme of the !
campaign at Saidor arfij told how '

i
I the late seventies. "The post office Paul Tonsing, who has been in the a Jap sneaked up to his foxhole a t ;
I was at 311 Commercial many years," Southwest Pacific with the marines, night and stole his shovel. "He I
i states Mrs. Tonsing, "and where the is a patieirc in the naval hospital didn't moii-st me," the young I
j Troy laundry now ?iands was a a'; Honolulu. The nature of his lieutenant added, "but I needed
! two-story wooden, g i l d i n g occupied iilness is not known here. that shovel." Presumably Martin is
| by the D. C. Newccmb Dry Goods still on New Guinea where t h e
VO Australian and American troops
w i stcre. And later,' I believe, the post
office was there until moving into FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1944. recently united to clean out the
its present quarters at Seventh and eastern end of the island.
Kansas avenue." Pfc. Paul Tonsing of the marines.
who is in a naval hospital in the
Hawaiian islands, met Chester Mize, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 8, 1944.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1944. jr., the other day. Chester was
*• the first Atchison person Paul had j Mrl. s. J. Sketch, formerly Miss &.
The Atchison post office was for- seen In 22 months. • Blanche Challiss of Atchison, is se- i
merly located in the building at George Wolf, cashier of the Ex- riously ill from a complication of L
311 Commercial street, now being • \change National bank, is another \ diseases a' a Los Angeles hospital. | ' ^ o^S\\
razed, and also at 305-07 Commer- ! jhian who has worked all his life j She has not been well for some [ ^-^J—-
cial street, the present location of in'Atchison. i time.and very little hope is held for \f C^i^i
A her h recovery. y
the Kessler building which houses
the Dave Condon Motor company. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1944. FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1941.
This information was supplied to
The Globe by Charley Brown, 723
Mrs. Evan Tonsinj? was called
North Third street, who is one of
the town's authorities on early-day : Atchison In 1898 . early this morning to the home of; .
her mother, Mrs. C. S. Moyer,; _ ' <•
i history. D. C. Newcomb's dry' goods • The largest Civil war pension in
and department store was located in Atchison was t h a t of Mrs. John
the building at 305-07 Commercial A. Martin. $40 a month.
southeast of Nortonville. because y-v-
of a heart attack Mrs. Moyer s u f - ' ^ ' ' ^ ^"*—
before fcfr. Newccmb built the three- fered during the night. H e r ' con-
story building at 623-25 Commer- SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1S44. cation is crJticife $ !
cial, and moved his store there. (The , • SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1944-
Theo. Intfen Furniture store is now Mrs. Paul Tonsing received a
located at 623-25 Commercial.) Aft- telegram yesterday morning in- Mrs. Clarence Moyer of Norton- I
er the Newcomb store vacated the forming her that her son, Pfc. i ville continues seriously ill at her '
post, office moved from 311 to 305-07 Paul Tonsing, has been transfer- • heme there. Her d a u g h t e r s Mrs.
v;here it remained until the pres- red from the naval hospital in •;Evan Tonsing of Atchisbi£?5jfcas
ent past office building at Ssvcnth Hawaii to the naval hospital in
a and Kansas avenue was constructed Oakland, Calif.
] called to her bedside FTida,y£after
. ' h e r ' m o t h e r suffered a s e v ^ ^ i e a r t •
in the nineties. The exact date the atu ck Thursday night, ''",Z .•'•'••• i
to post office was moved from 311 to
305-07 cannot be ascertained. The - . > •
1885 city .directory shows it still THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1944. • T U E J O J A Y , MARCH 21, 1944.
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located at 311 and that M. G. Win- Li. Ernest Tonsing. chaplain of
egar was the postmaster at the One Atchison man read with avid the 104th artillery at Yuma, Ariz.,
time. The Ingalls history of Atch- interest the Saturday Evening Post's '• was in Atchison overnight visiting
8 ison county gives the following in- recent featured article, "The Ter- his mother. Mrs. Paul Tonsing, and p
formation on the Atchison post of- rible Days Of Company E." The
story, one of the most striking sagas . his brother. Evan Tonsing, and fam-
fices: "The first post office in Atch- ily. He left early this morning to
ison was opened in a small, one- to come out of the South Pacific, visit his. family at Salir.a for two
describes t h e , Herculean task of
story, stone building on the south
Company E, 126th infantry, In I weeks After which he will go to
<3\
side of Commercial street, between crossing the Owen Stanley moun- a:, t^discigsed destination. His wife
-J Second and Third. . . . The location tains to attack the Jap flank at "_ ana"yoUOgl} son will go with him.
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of the post office was removed in Buna village, on New Guinea. When , ' - ; ' - "*•*»••> —
8 1856 to the store of Messrs. Wool- Harres Martin read the story, he
folk & Cagell, on t>e levee. During began comparing notes and found i | " " : — r ^
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1944.
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the Civil war the headquarters of
o t h a t the outfit is the cne which his There's prohibition on the beach-
the United States mail service were son, John, an infantry lieutenant, j head,. Fifth army officials having
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5 removed to the law office of P. P. joined when he wa iirst assigned ! fotlaidden the sale of liquor to all §
Wilcox. From there the office was to active duty. Lieutenant Martin, rmilitary personnel. As always when
P3
removed to a building on the north a graduate of Syracuse university O
O side of Commercial street, between
you have prohibition, there's boot-
school of law. was rushed to the legging but not much. It consists
Third and Fourth, and it was there Southwest Pacific by plane imme- of the occasional sale of a bottle
8 that in July, 1882, the free delivery diately following his graduation of j f f i ^ b y a civilian. ,„v .
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system was inaugurated in Atchison from officers school at Ft. Benning, K
which, with her money order de- Ga., in January. 1943. Only a week THURSDAY, MARCH 23,. 1944. I
partment fully' equipped the post
office. A number of years later agi-
before he joined company E, the
unit had been relieved and returned Mrs. Blanche Challiss Skstch, whd(
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-J tation was started for the erection to Australia. Their lrarrowing [has been seriously ill for some B f t H r . _ ^ .
of a new post office, and through experiences in cutting a new trail fa: in a Los Angeles hospital, is slowly \OZis£<^cn^..
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the efforts of Senator Ingalls a site 'across the mountains and jungles, recovering and hopes to be able to |
a t the northeast corner of Seventh and their battle at Buna village,
. . r e t u r n , to her home in the near j
had depleted their ranks more t h a n
f 1
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1 ia. His mother, Mrs. Paul Tonsing,
Rumors Persist Japs
I Found Amelia Earhart
M A R S H A L L I S L A N D S , March 5—
I (DeXyed)MjT):—WhUe the '.*&. s.
;
ai^'i-aft carrier Lexington and bat-
IlleSiip Colorado conducted a wide-
H i spr&d search in July, 1937, for
o That we
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| Avi^grix Amelia E a r h a r t Putnam
| and sber navigator, Fred Noonan,
I' the afepanese said: "There is no
needpbr American planes t e search
the M&rshall islands. We will search
• them.?-.
This was disclosed today by the
j executive officer of a carrier who
^1 | aided in the original search.
Interest in the American fliers'
fate was renewed by an exclusive
! Associated Press report relating
! Your Buddy misses you.
that an English speaking native
named Elieu, age 30. told Lt. Eugene
Mark's Lutneran church at Empor-
resides at 315 North Terrace.
TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1944.
Qf MEMORY OF GENE T O N S I N G
Life is a book t h a t we study
Some of its leaves bring a sigh
There it was written, my Buddy,
must part, you and I.
Buddies thru all of the gay days.
Buddies when something went wrong,
I wait alone t h r u t h e gray days
Missing your smile and your song.
Nights are long since you went away,
I think about you all t h r u the day,
My Buddy. My' Buddy.
No Buddy quite so true.
Miss your voice, the touch of you hand,
Just long to know t h a t you understand,
My Buddy,-My Buddy,
EJjt. DuWayne Woolston, Africa.
A daughter was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Bruce McPheeters of Holly-
wood, Calif., on May 7. She has
been iamed Challiss, and has a
brother, Bruce, jr., and sister, K a t h -
ryn. Mrs. McPheeters is the daugh-
ter of Mrs. Dora Challiss Bennett,
formerly of Atchison.
THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1944.
Atchison in 1898
From the April 22, 1893, file of
The Globe:
I --
Mrs. W. L. Challiss hr.s written j
| and published a book entitled "The
I Story of the First Baptist Church."
• It is the history of the Atchison
Baptist church. (This reporter r e -

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P. Bogan of New York City, civil
affairs officer on the staff of an
atoll command, t h a t "a J a p trader
named Ajima told m e t h a t an
American woman flier came down
between Jaluft and Ailingalapalap
<3\ atolls" and that "she was picked
I up by a Jap fishing boat" and
1-according to Ajima's account was
K "taken back to Japan."
Relations between J a p a n and
T3 American then were friendly, al-
j though the Japanese allowed no
(foreigners to visit t h e Marshalls.
! The officer said the Lexington's
search extended to within 350 miles
1 v)f the place where t h e Islander
I talked to the Japanese trader.
TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1944. j E v a n Tonsing was able to be a t
s W. C. T. V. MEETS
1 work yesterday after being ill.
THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1944.
j Mrs. Ed Fink, Mrs. Leslie Long,
; cently read the book and it contains
; much interesting early-day Atoll.
-| ison history.) I
i the Rev. Vance Baird and Evan THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1944.
Tonsing returned today from K a n -
sas City where they have been since The Intermediate department of |
Monday, attending the convention ! SJ,. Mark's Lutheran church held
of the Lutheran synod of Kansas a picnic last night a t Jackson.park.
and adjacent states. Evan Tonsing is the superintendent
of the department.
TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1944.
I Evan Tonsing, who was ill yes-1 MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1944.
i t e r d a y a t his home, is unproved
J] today.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1941

THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1944.^

The W. C. T. U. met a t the home Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tonsing and
of Mrs. J. M. Phillipi Friday after- two children of Wichita, were forced
noon/- Devotion, entitled " T h | to evacuate their home last Satur-
Sacredhefs of Life," was in charge day because of the flood waters,
of Mrs. C. E. Olden, who also gave j and are staying with friends. Water
a short talk on Union Signal and was in their basement within 16
Youth Crusader. Mrs. D. Richter 1 inches of the floor above. They have
O gave a talk on the work of the ! lived there many years, and never
O W. C. T. U. among t h e soldiers,, ; before have the high waters reached
sailors,and marines. Short talks on I that part of town.
what the church is doing about
temperance were given by Mrs. ; FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1944.
g Paul Tonsing and Mrs. Ira Gould.
Evan Torsing was not able to 1
A playlet on the department of r
tempeii ;rce and msisions was given be a t work in his print shop. again j
by Mrs. O. C. Von Neida and Mrs. yesterday. „ L
C. E. Olden. Musical selections were
4fc given -£p- Mrs.. R. J . Elwood of SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1944.
ON Effingharil, who sang "The Perfect
Capt. and Mrs. Ernest F . Tonsing,
IN NEW GUINEA-^econd
-a Life," and Mrs. Pinder, who played Lieutenant J o h n A. Martin, 26, en-*"
K. and family, have moved to 716 Bon-
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a piano solo. Mrs. D. Richter dis-
missed the meeting with prayer.
After the meeting the hostess served
foy, Colorado Springs, from Man-
itou Springs, Colo. Capt. Tonsing,
who is a chaplain in the army, is
tered the service In April, 1942, ~>
after graduating from the school E
of law a t Syracuse university, Syra- r
refreshments.- cuse, N. Y. He received his train- j>
o stationed a t Camp Carson, Colo.
ing at Ft. Dix, N. J. Ft. McClellan, g
9 SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1944. WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, vL944^_ Ala.,' and Ft. Benning, Ga., where k
he received his commission in^j.-
n Word has been received t h a t
Evan Tonsing is in Fremont, Neb.. [!
today to attend the meeting of the I
December, 1942. Lt. M a r t i n w a s S
sent overseas in January,. 1943, fly- J
Ernest Tonsing has been promoted card of Midland college. • l!
from lieutenant to captain. He« is ing to t h e Southwest Pacific. He £

I stationed ' a t Camp ' Carson, near • MONDAYS MAY 22, 1944. saw service-on New Guinea, includ- E
Manitou,t Colo., and will be in ing t h e American landing at Sal- 5
training Oiiere with the 104th field I Mrs. Blanche Challiss Sketch, who dor. He was assigned to the in- |
artillery for about three months. j has been seriously ill, is gradually fantry and is now stationed In-1
Previous <(> his entry into the ser- . recovering in a hospital at Holly- New Guinea. John is a son of Mr. j j
4YAcesfeftuijgeryed.as ^pastor of St. wood, Calif., and hopes soon to be and Mrs. Harres Martin. •-_? j ; | g P
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&ti3H&**te.

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p | second prize S50, and other smaller ;
! prizes will be given. Ralph released '
! some pigeons from Tulsa. Okla., I
i some time ago and they averaged j
5. THURSDAY MORNING, j 60 miles per hour coming to their j
•^ MARCH 23, 1944.
j home loft. 2
STILL AWAITS WORD OF AMELIA MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1944.
/£^<sw^t<-c ^ J - M L * * V «
Pred Tonsing, son of Capt. and §
Mrs. Ernest Tonsing, is seriously ill
at Colorado Springs where the fam- r
iJy is residing, c a p t . Tonsing is sta- j
tionec! at Camp Carson, near Colo- :
racio Serines.

ATCHISON, KANSAS, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1944.

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Backwaters from Sugar

lake continued to recede •
slowly today while water 1
from Mud lake still ran over; -i
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hichwav 59 between the l
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if
Burlington highway crossing |
and Armour but was kept;
from running over the Bur-1
1
lington Atchison - Armour- 18.
track by night and day
crews of Burlington section
men and volunteer farmers. r
Residents of the Sugar lage dis-
trict estimate that the Sugar lake
backwaters have gone down a p - a
BERKELEY, CAL., Mar. 22.—(AP WIREPHOTO)—Mrs. Amy Otis proximately 15 inches since the
K>
Jj&rhart (above), mother of Aviatrix Amelia Earhart, lost on a peak of the flood reached Atchison
tr^ps-Pacific flight, said here today she did not hope for her O
Tuesday. Water from Mud lake,
da%hter's return, but did hope for some definite word of what o
north of the highway started r u n -
difK^happen "away out "there in the Pacific." Above Mrs. E a r h a r t po
B ^ p o r t r a i t of missinr. Amelia. Both Mrs. Earhart and her daughter ning over the highway Tuesday :
*<JS! born in Atchison. Kan. , _ . . . ' . .
before the wedding. So it's some-
night and prospects are that- the
two portions of the highway n o w .
i
'TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1944. thing unusual that a marine IE under water will continue so several
waiting in the USA for a WAVE days. j
j E&. daughter, Marilyn, was born that has been sent overseas. Estimates of the Sugar lake f a l l :
lstsi Friday at the Atchison hospital are higher t h a n the actual fall in
ta-Mr. and Mrs. Harres Martin. ' WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1944. the river since Tuesday's crest read-
..ON . . . ing of 24.25 at the Atchison and
-"Paul Martin, Ralph Martin and Miss Donna Martin, daughter of; Eastern bridge, the reading at noon
A Q J o h n Mangelsdorf are staying Mr. a n d Mrs. Harres Martin, is I today indicating a drop of only j
l-at£jhe YMCA in Kansas City, M<x celebrating her twelfth birthday; ,66 of a foot since t h a t time. The
' Pgil a n d . A l John are working a t ' todav taking care of her baby sis-] reading at noon today was 23.59, j 5
t h s North American bomber plant j • ter, "Marilyn, born . last Thursday; i
compared with yesterday noon's j
• asgriveters and Ralph is a chemist j I at the Atchison hospital. 3
23.92—a drop of .33 of a foot in 24;
a Q h e Sheffield Steel Co. |.

I Ralph Martin, son of Mr. and '

-'" FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1944.
hours.
At Bean lake it was said today j
that the water went down only I
it
Mrs. Harres Martin, has entered! about half an inch last night. W a t -

I five pigeons in a grand pigeon race I

from Fort Worth, Texas. His p i - | -
geons were shipped there Thursday, i - ^ ^ Z ^
and the race will begin Saturday I * Jf
<^L^n^4?
S ,
er still was over all the bottom land i
, from Bean lake to Weston on the \$/?~
^ west side of-highway 45. and w a s ! ^ - ^ — " /
over the high way near I a t a n to a
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'-^^>^A<— j
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^ , | morning. Members of pigeon clubs ] c/ / S depth oof a foot or more for almost I ~ __ J •J
w | in Kansas City, Mo., Omaha, Neb., L - w £ ^ , -a mile.
K j Toueka and Atchison will enter in |
po | the race. First prize will be $75,'
 LANDOWNERS MEET MONDAY
g)A great deal of interest was being
Siown- today by residents of the
ortorns on both sides of the river
Sttween St. Joe and Weston in a
Meeting of land owners to be held
P" the Rushville high school Mon-
j«jy afternoon at 2:30 o'clock Flood
t ntrol measures, means of collect-
or damages from the government
S r flood damage, and other rela'ted
anbects will be discussed at the
mjeting.
-QA. P. Eymann of the Lotus En-
f|§}ving Co., who took pictures of
Hit high water for The Giobe, said
today a comparison of pictures tak- "'-;
e*g of the Atchison and Eastern
bQpge in 1881. when the river
si#ead from bluff to bluff, and at
tSl peak of the present high water
indicated the water this year was
dQfew inches higher than in 1881 t^^^a #.'•'•>••:;• .--•", A
Wirt Hetherington and Gene Howe I By? I
eompared a picture taken in 1S81 H
sath the stage of the river at the I
mmkm
I l^idge this year and estimated t h e ; ^ ^ ^ f ^ *
' present peak to have been about 'M~^0^.
j as inches below that- of 1881. Ora 'Sj^sXMM
j iSrkpatrick of Bean lake said that
ygpks at his home on the lake left mm%®fc

t the 1881 flood were about two

t higher than this year's- water.
RRENT SWIFT AT BEVEPvLT
f"~*rank Beauchamp, who divides
time between Atchison and his
wm&

ii near Beverly, Mo., said today

t water in that vicinity is trav-
ejyig down the river much faster
tEaji in this vicininty, due to gov- "- ~~ - •*.li«e!^V
eftrment engineering work in that
\tfikiity last year. The river at Bev-
erly, he said, is about 18 inches low-
egthan here because of the swifter
cjlrent.
(floy Johnson of Bean lake, one of
tllS land owners sponsoring the
irreeting at Rushville Monday after*
n§Bn, said today that dikes in the
rigr, which he declared, were not
properly placed, probably were re- ^5g
sponsible for the river leaving its
bSgks this month and also in April.

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ALMOST UP TO OLD BRIDGE—The top picture was" taken as the crest of the
.~ -3 >*< — ^ c: i r X » - 9 M flood waters readied Atchison Wednesday and shows the river almost up to tne floor of the Atchison <K
Eastern bridge. Comparison with a similar picture taken during the 1881 flood indicates the present high
r fcs3 ™ water is only aBout 14 inches below the bluff-to-bluff flood that year. The higher structure seen above
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the old brifige is the new Mo-Kan bridge. Below i.; shown one of u.e several crews of Burlington
workmen piling sandbags at the ec'ges of the track between Atchison and Armour, now being
w SI
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used not only by the Burlington but by the Santa Fe and Missouri Pacific trains between
w s Atchison and St. Joe. Water shown has run over highway 59 near where the track crosses it. Should
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water get over trie tracks it would join backwaters from Sugar lake to cause an almost bluff-to-bluff
& £ e 2 a s » g j £J| flood in the Missouri bottoms. The ftock Island is again using its own tracks.
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"of tL~ E A S T A T C H I S O N IN 1881 A N D N O W — F l o o d w a t e r s w h i c h w i p e d o u t t h e n f l o u r -
chisonste
sent hi
ishing industries in East Atchison in 1881 are shown in the above picture', furnished The Globe' by
Wire Hetherington of the Exchange Rational bank and his sister, Mrs. Ruth Todd. A packing house,
I
:en absi
.urling&fcfff'1 lumber yard and other industrial plants are shown in the picture. In the picture below the water
Of m I / now overflowing from the river into residences of East Atchison is shown. The high point of the present n
befcwgh flood was about 14 inches below that of 1881.
t. Shoffld T^hrcarried^a^wWte SWM> " * . - ^ u • ^
of Mrs. Paul Tonsing of "Atchison."
f-to-bSff L ., Monday, August 14, 1944 The Rev. Hugh W. Jamison read CoWare S of gardenia- Miss ^
Pittenger, sister of ttr W^JS \\
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:S • the marriage vows for the ceremony ll the maid of honor, and wore-jMi
'.» a
PITTENGER-TONSING which occurred August 12 at the street-length-dress- o r a q u a c r e r * . ^
w Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Pitten- | Glide Memorial church in San A vocal solo was offered byf Miss ^
K> ger of Weatherford, Kas., announce Francisco, Calif. The bride, who was
00 given in marriage,by Warrant Offi- Sarah Nicodemus, cousin «<» W j ^
the marriage of their daughter, bride. Albert Collett was\the best ^
Miss Martha Pittenger, U. S. marine cer Charles V. Gutensohn, com- man. Pfc. Tonsing is a graduate of
|cprps,jt6_Pfc, Paul Martin Tonsing, I'manding officer otj the groom, wore the_Atchlson nig}Lf£iooi an^brforel .
iS§38yL.naarine corps, youngest' son I a. street-length" dress of yrhite crepe.
I *li5*F-: •&-••.
 h e enlisted i n t h e ; marines in 1942
was employed on the Los Angeles
Times as a, linotype operator. He
recently returned from duty in the
South Pacific. ''
THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1944.
Mrs. Paul Tonsing, who has been
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Paul
Denton, in Oglahoma City, and her
son, Robert Tonsing, in Wichita,
-.eturned heme last evening.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1944.
. Capt. Ernest Tonsing, chaplain
in the army, is on his way over-
seas.
MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1944.
| The Weather
I Thermometer_j-ea flings:
| 3 a - m. 50 Noon" ~~
1 9 a. m.__._: M , t p. m
; 10 a. m 60 2 p. m _ 79 '
u_jh_m...„ 64;a;» P. .1 '."..In-
I Lowest last nigiit,_46~ Temperature I
hero a year ago this afternoon. 84. '
Is Genera
(By the Associated Press)
Prom Wichita to Boston the
nation shivered in abnormally low
temperatures.
I t never got above 65 yesterday
(Sunday) in Kansas City, the third 1
day in a row t h a t the thermometer
had set a record for a low maxt-
imum. And a mark t h a t h a d stood
J for €6 years in Charlotte, N. C ,
fell chattering when t h e mercury
dipped to 54.8.
Fires'^- were lit in North Georgia
(low 59), and in Indianapolis (59).
while fall clothes were trotted out
on New York's Fifth avenue (51).
And many of t h e 30,000 fans a t t h e
Athletics-Red Sox baseball game
4 n Philadelphia (51) were tickled
they had fetched along their top-
coats. Boston had a low of 53, Des
Moines and Detroit 52.
But t h e queerest quirk came in
Kansas. Not only was it cold, it was
wet. And on these normally hot.
dry Kansas; plains cold a n d wet
are two adjectives usually out of
place this time of year.
Streams which in many a K a n -
sas August won't r u n a cupful a
month are gushing from bank to
bank, with flood stages reported
on the Kaw, t h e Blue, t h e Mis-
souri.
I n Kansas City the Swope p a r k
swimming pool, scene of t h e Wom- TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1944.
en's National A. A. U. swimming
meet only a week ago, is closed to
await t h e rebirth of summer. Nor-
mal attendance for August: 3.000.
But in Florida, in Southern
Texas a n d : o n . west and u p t h e
*:3&g#t-
coast/'it was t weather pretty much
^StiasaalMiSxceBtiojK^^rjienver's
•*'m$£JS,gi
•
eight-inch hail storm (Saturday).
i And things certainly were h u m m -
ing in Yuma, Ariz. The thermo-
meter hit 113 there.
•fUL
K a n s a s City J o u r n a l : I t is u n -
usual t h a t four m e n of one n a m e
a t t a i n t o high office in one state. B u t
t h e M a r t i n s have done so in K a n s a s .
J o h n A. Martin was governor, secre-
t a r y of t h e W y a n d o t t e constitutional
convention,, state senator, and
colonel of the Eighth Kansas
regiment. John Martin was
United States senator, district
j u d g e , twice Democratic nominee for
governor, a n d a m e m b e r of t h e house
of representatives. David Martin w a s
chief justice of t h e s u p r e m e c o u r t of
K a n s a s , a n d judge of t h e district court.
i George W . Martin, t h e present secre-
t a r y of t h e K a n s a s State Historical j
society, h a s been a m e m b e r of t h e ;
68 ; house of representatives a n d state
70 |
printer.' N o two of t h e big four w e r e !
related. There a r e twelve other M a r -
tins w h o h a v e been m e m b e r s of t h e
K a n s a s house of representatives, a n d
t h r e e of the senate, a n d none of these,
either, w e r e related.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1944.
W. C. T. U. MEETS
Mrs. Lillian Bostwick entertained I
the WCTU for the August meeting
j a t her home last Thursday. T h e ,
; president, Mrs. J. M. Phillipi, pre-
I Sided, Mrs. C. E. Olden had charge!
I of the devotional period. Annual!
\ reports from department heads'
were given besides reports of the
1
secretary and treasurer for the
previous meeting. A short program
followed, including a memorial trl
bute to one member, Mrs. C. C.
Leighton, who died during the year.
Election of both local and board
officers were held. With one ex-
ception the officers remained the
same for the local union. Mrs.
Olden was elected vice-president
because of the illness of Mrs. R.
i Thompson who held the office last
j year. Mrs. Phillipi, president; Mrs.
I r a Gould, who has served for 25
years, treasurer; Mrs. G. E. Kauf-
man, secretary; and Mrs. G. C. Van
,Neida, corresponding secretary. New
board members are Mrs. P. G. T o n -
sing, Mrs. A. H. Lehman, and Mrs.
Von Neida,
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 13, 1944.
Mrs. Robert Tonsing has received j
word t h a t her father, Charles |
Hornecker, died Monday in Wich-
ita. Funeral services will occur this
afternoon.
S t Mark's
To Observe
ary
Members of St. Mark's Lutheran
church will observe the 76th annl-
| versary of its founding Wednesday
:
by serving a pot-luck supper a t six-
U h i r t y a t the church. The supper
will be followed by a program fea- 11
;
turing Dr. Thomas D. Rinde, presi- |
' dent of the Western Theological 1
Seminary in Fremont, Neb., as
principal speaker.
By dedicating the program to four
pioneer members of t h e church, B . .
D. Zimmerman, A. B . Zimmerman,:
and Mr. and Mrs. Jacob G. Zim-
merman, St. Mark's also pays horn- :
age to the thousands of other faith- l
ful Lutherans who have contributed ,
so much to its progress in the past
three-quarters century.
TRIBUTE BY PASTOR
I Before the dinner the Rev. H,
Vance Baird, pastor of .St. Mark's,
j will present the invocation. Group
I singing conducted by W. G. Alti-
mari and accompanied by Herbert
Wildeboor will be followed by P a s -
tor Baird's tribute to the honored
guests.
A trumpet solo will precede a
greeting by Dr. Charles A. Hawby,
president of the Atchison Minister -
! ial association, and Miss Valeta
j Brown will present a marimba solo.
Following Dr. Rinde's anniversary
address, t h e program will be con-
cluded with the benediction by the
, Rev. Baird.
I An Atchison high school music
group made up of Herbert Wilde-
boor, Valeta Brown, Joan Tandy,
• Winifred Palmer, and Doris Handke
will furnish music during the din-
ner.
Evan W. Tonsing and Mrs. Homer
P r a t t compose the anniversary
i committee.
Mrs. George Kaufman, 313 Santa
Fe. who corresponds regularly with
a large number of men in the arm-
ed services, has received the follow-
ing letter of appreciation from
Capt. Ernest F. Tonsing, who is
serving as a chanlain overseas: "I
have wanted to write t o you about j
the gracious letter ycu wrote before]
our departure from t h e States, andj
t o ' t h a n k you for its considerate-
ness. i realize how many vou have!
with whom to correspond and so
feel it was a real effort on your
part. T h a n k you. You are doing a
fine work. Also, I feel you are one
of the vital links in t h e chain t h a t
is bindinc: many of the men and
women of t h e service to their own
churches. Any encouragement along
t h a t line is vital to their life in the
armed service and far more impor-
t a n t t h a n any of us realize to t h e
churches in their nfter-the-war
program. I often have men come to
see me with letters from churches,
pastors and service-mothers like
yourself, and they do so with pride
in t h e home organization. And
 specking as n chaplain, everything
the hnr.ip foHc? can do if jus! so singing the Rev. H. Vance Baird, 1
nuch lew work for the 'chaplains. pastor of St. Mark's paid tribute to ;
Ava so much help given ti.rm in I A. B. and B. D. Zimmerman and
Uheir sometimes difficult task. Wc "Mr. and Mrs. Jake" Zimmerman
Sieceivc. or. tiie other hattd. every • for their grar.d total of 237 years ol
^encouragement from our command- active service to the church. 3»
Robert Gaston of Eureka; and
Chaplain Ernest. Tonsing, who 1= ,
serving his country overseas.
Music during the evening was j
' furnished by a group from the I
: Atchison high school music depart- !
n
Sng officers:, but if is still up to the also noted that Herman Tabben. ment. Solos were presented by Rob-
individual to come as he wishes to ert Berger and Miss Valeta Brown.
pservic-ps. and to act as he sees fit. who is a 97-year-cld member, was W. Q. Altimari led the group sing-
Pas a Christian individual or not. present. Eleven members who havft ing.
Splease yive my regards to \ our. served St. Mark's for over fifty years LeRoy Demmon. Evan W. Tonsing
(•family and also prisy on my best attended. I
.wishes to any of our church people; Ed F. Pink, president of St. Mark's ! and Mrs. Homer Pratt compose the
^•ou meet. Atchison has always been. j brotherhood, announced that the | anniversary committee. Mr. Tons-
tfend always will be. home to me, and campaign undertaken by the broth- i ing presided at the dinner.
pgit Mark's remains the finest kind erhood in July to remove the j
t^f church home one could have." I I church's debts has been success- ! TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 26. 1944.
Capt Ernest Tonsing, chaplain,
in the army, is now in France.
Evan Tonsing was in Kansas City
SUndtiy to attend a meeting of.the
representatives of Lutheran Broth-
rrhood to plan for the Eastern Con- -
icrence Brotherhood rally to be held •
U: Atchison. October 29. Mrs. Tons-
ing ant! Miss Virginia Tonsing ac- j
companied him. .
ffis**"
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1944.
Chaplain Ernest Tonsing writes ^JZ^^f
from "Somewhere in France": We j f
are in a pretty part of France with: /
a nice ocean voyage behind tis, and ;
•§ unknown experiences ahead. Thank
you for your good wishes and .
: vers—for wc will likely need &a*«f*
them all. The country here is beau-
<<W S i , tiful, many flowers and trees, but
few birds because of late season
Among flowers are sweet peas,
geraniums, hollyhocks, chrysanthe-
mus and bachelor buttons. But we
: haven't seen a rose. The "famous"
hedge rows have in them elms.
^ scrub-oak. elderberry, blackberry,
smyrna fig. privet and other
growths not identified. Houses are
stone, single room with stable ad- As\
joining, and most peasants cook
^Xf
in a pot over a hearth fire. They
HONORED T O N I G H T — A t t h e 7 6 t h a n n i v e r s a r y c e l e - try to give us cider, which is bit- j
bration of St. Mark's Lutheran church this evening, four pioneer ter because the apples are bitter.) i
y Harvesting instruments are crude L ^ , o ^ L ^ w o - ^ S
members of the church will be honored. A. B. and B. D. Zimmerman
buili the original chapel, now the Sunday School room, in 1888. T---~-/v-and
A. B. Zimmerman, lower right, who was a building contractor all his
f
plows the walking-style. A fewf
horses are about, and some burros. 1
The cattle left by the Germans are I
V\
active life, built the present church building in 1909. B. D. Zimmerman beautifully marked Guernseys, and I
was a building contractor before he became a merchant. B. D. and are well fed. However, it. is said only;
A. B. Zimmerman are cousins, and each has been a member of St. one of three are left. Some sheep
Mark's for Co years. Mrs. Lizzie Snell Zimmerman, upper left, has and goats are seen also. Many of
been a member 63 years, and her husband, Jacob G. Zimmerman. the populace are destitute. They.
a cousin of B. D. and A. B. Zimmerman, became a member of the as a whole, are glad to see us. Many
church 44 years ago. "Jake" Zimmerman came to Atchison in 1901 and of them tell of husbands, fathers
worked on the new building In 1909. B. D. Zimmerman Is 87 years I and brothers who have been in
of age and A. B. Zimmerman Is five months younger. Tiie dinner i Germany three and four years,
this evenlnj begins at 6:30 o'clock. The church organized Sept. 20, I either as captive soldiers or as forc-
186R, with 25 memhers. I ed labor. Not many children about,
! some few young men and women,
I but mostly older folks . . . I have
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1944. fully completed. With the assist- ! seen several. beautiful churches, un-
ance of A. G. Berger. Mr. Fink
burned the mortgage note. Rev. I touched by bombing. But one I saw
| Many Attend Anniversary Baird followed this ceremony with
8 prayer of thanksgiving.
' was bombed and shelled beyond
repair, had been used as an obser-
vation post by the Germans, its
Csiebration At St. Nark's Dr. R. D. Rinde. dean of the
Western Theological seminary at
lovely art windows blown out and
.Approximately 165 members at- i Fremont, Neb., chose as the destroyed. One statue left on its
tended the St. Mark's Lutheran : theme- for the anniversary address, pedestal by the wall, was of God
the Father, holding in a kerchief
church dinner and anhiversajj pro- j "The church's One Foundation." some children with a crucifix in
gram Wednesday evening, an event j LeRoy Demmon read greetings front of his legs, and His feet rest-
I which commemorated 76 years of j from the following individuals who ing on skulls and cross-bones. The
cemetery is untouched, and marked
i Christian leadership and activity in j were unable to attend: DuWayne by various shaped wreaths affixed
Woolston, who is serving in the
i Atchison and surrounding vicinity. armed forces in Oran; the Rev. to upright crosses over each grave,
Following the dinner and group j

and m a d e of colored beads. One,
grave even had a photograph of the |
deceased, a middle aged woman, on
the headstone . . . We live in the
little "pup"' tents and when it rainsI
we put a rain-coat over the en- j
trance. We are eating well, sleep,
well, and are working hard. The i
religious services are well attended.
We hold them in the open pastures.:
neat little plots of ground, beau- ;
tifully carpeted with blue-stem and
other succulent grasses. I receive j
i T h e Globe in bunches, but it does i
I come, and I go through it with j ground away, and the shutters of;
j pleasure. One letter from home; news cameras clicked, the firs* food •
! reached me air-mail in six days."
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1944. • freight cars into Uncle Sam's big
Two former pastors of St. Paul's : Kerford nuarry Saturday afternoon.!
Lutheran church at Va!i?y Falls
are serving overseas with Hie armed
forces. They are Cap:. Max Gilmer,
serving with the inisntry ill New
•Guinea, and Cap:. Ernes" Tensing.
' who is serving In France.
] \ Webb, also of Washington and chief
s ^ 1,(1W
1 According to Mr. Richardson t h e t ^ '
<B
Info Mim
While a movie newsreel camera :
—12 carloads of dried eggs—was'
; transported from refrigerated ;
\ new subterranean "ice box" at the
Many guests, besides the newspaper
representatives, were on hand to j
watch the history-making event.
EJclon Richardson of Washineton.'
D. C . chief of shipping and storage
| for! the War Food administration.
| supervised the proceedings. W. B.
| of t h e WFA information section.
.-xted the making of the pictures.
The eggs, in 175-pound Barrels,
wore loaded onto small four-whec:
trailers which accommodated three i(c
barrels each. A string of four
trailers were drawn to the mine
entrance by gasoline '•mules." The
| mules 'are small tractors. From t h e .
! mine entrance to the place of
storage, far in the interior of the
mine, t h e trailers were drawn by j •
: electric mules.
The loading dock, located between I j
j two Missouri Pacific spur tracks, j
j is located about 250 yards from t h e ! 1
| mine portal. A road was built | j
I connecting the two and runs
! through a deep cut in a bluff. •
i Newly all of the road Is uphill. j
| TO ERECT CANOPY
According to the WFA officials.
| a wooden canopy will be built over; '
1 the loading dock and the entire •
! roadway to make possible the oper-
j ation during inclement weather.
i,Also under roof will be a t u r n -
around area at the mine portal.
The canopy over the dock will have
the additional feature of a catwalk
for use when refrigerator cars
require icing.
The spectators saw how the bar-
rels of dried eggs were placed onn>
Jjwooden pallets at the refrigerator?
?*'cars. Inside the mine the palietsg!
were picked uo by electric telescopisg
fork trucks. In this manner theQ
barrels were easily piled three h i g h . 0
big cooler v. ill be '.he only one iiȤi
the U. S. operated 100 per cent w i t h g '
pallets and power handling equip-00
ment.
The crowd enjoyed watching the ^
-(Paramount newsreel photographer
"making pictures. For
tures lie placed fiare:- on
\ and then photographed
trains as they wound their ways
through the mine.
T h e camerman. E K. Edwards o f Q '
Denver, makes all newsreels for©
Paramount from Sal; Lake City to
Kansas City and from Canada to to
Mexico. He has photographed 17 O
plane crashes in which not less

s t h a n eight people lost their lives!r/j

and accompanied Wendell W i l l k l e ^ 1
when he campaigned for president, to '
Mr. Edwards said the pictures P
made here will be issued out off
New York City tomorrow (Tuesday^ [
and will probably be available in j
this p a r t of the country in about
a week. It is hoped that the pic- jjj
tures will be shown here. j
Missouri Pacific officials attend-
ing the opening of the refrigerator 2
were Walter Wicker. Falls City, —
Neb.. C. H. Goehner and R. D f t r
Pierce of S L Joe. _F, E. Pcnnington^S
and S. H. DeFoe. Kansas City, anc]
Jack Sanders. Atchison.
Paul Phillips. Topeka, d i s t r i c t
supervisor of the WFA in Kansas
IOVIES AT FOOD COOLER—As barreled dried eggs were conveyed into the nev w a s
Jernment natural cooler at the Kerford quarry stone mine, Paramount news movies were taken b>
prese
Jl!:
8
^•K. Edwards of Denver, who makes all P a r a m o u n t news reels from Salt Lake City to Kansas City and
an Canada to Mexico. The movies probably will be seen in the theaters oi this section within the
Jet few days. They are distributed from New York. Standing beside Mr. Edwards watching the t r a c -
[J-pulled trailers enter the cooler is Eldon Richardson, Washington, D. C , chief of the shipping and
I--4
storage branch of the War Food Administration.
is)
oo
 R* any time. x
BOULEVARD AISLES <\
There will be many boulevaS!
aisles in the mine and it is anfe
cipated that because of the greS
size of the warehouse it will &
necessary for the . handling Cre*k
to be directed to storage destina-
tions by means of route cards _i
Foodstuffs will be placed in' tKfc
mine as fast as the contracted
make space available. The instaJB-'
lation of refrigeration n'o.chinery<Jfs
expected to be completed next
month. ">
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OOD IN THE COOLER—Barrels of Kansas-produced and processed dried eggs are

own in the above picture jus: after they had been conveyed into Uncle Sam's new natural cooler in
the Kerford Quarry stone mine south of Atchison. The man in the picture is Eldon Richardson,
eneral traffic manager of the Lever Bros. Soap Co., who is chief of the shipping and storage branch
if the War Food administration with offices in Washington. Between the barrels are pallets Mr. Rich-
rson designed for the protection of the containers and to permit air space between them. In the near
future cured meats, lard and other productss that will keep in the cooler's 54-degree temperature will be
taken into the cave. The boy in the picture is John Eckels the son of Phil Eckels, who has just been
appointed manager of the cooler. Large nuantities of lend-lease foods and food for the occupied nations
will be stored in the cooler, and installation of electrical refrigeration machinery late this month will
cake the temperature down to 28 to 30 degrees. The machinery will be installed by J. P. Pritchard &
Co., Kansas City refrigeration engineers.

els of Atchison will be gen- l trailers pulled by gas and electric-
eral manager of Uncle Sam's j powered "mules."
ores
big "ice box" which is locat-^j In outlining Mr. Eckels' respon- M-):
ed at the Kerford limestone ! sibilities as manager of the refrig-
mine.
Mr. Richardson said that Atch-
ison is to be congratulated in hav
ing a man of Mr. Eckels' abilit
and qualifications. He also state.
that the community is fortunat
in possessing a cold storage firr
Appointment of the At-1 with facilities sufficient to handl
chison Ice company as the. the mine contract. The arrange
ment, he said, means that th
contracting firm to operate cooler will be Atchison manage*
the government's natural re- and operated.
frigerator here was announc- This afternoon the mine is beins
i! thrown open to photographers anc
ed today by Eldon Richard- newsmen. The road to the entrance
son, chief of shipping and was too muddy Thursday and Fri-
day to permit the removal of
storage for the War Food government-owned foods into the
administration. It was also cave from the newly constructed
loading dor*:. Those gathered at the
• .> announced that Philip Eck-; mine saw 12 carloads of dried eggs
unloaded from the freight car and
c/a
FORCE OF 50 MEN
erator, Mr. Richardson said he will
be in charge of placing the food
in the enormous warehouse and
•—*
filling the orders, as received, for -ON
outgoing foods. He will also have
charge of maintaining all cooling O
equipment and the various types E
of handling equipment and the
icing and care of all out-going
refrigerator cars.
I
Working under Mr. Eckels will be 3
a force of some 50 men.
The mine, Mr. Richardson said,
is the largest known cold storage
V to
O
unit in the world. Its interior is1
polygon-shaped and has_ a gross
area of 615.440 square feet—roughly |
15 acres. The mine has an average o
csiling height of 14 feet, thereby: 9
creatine between 7 and. 8 million J*
euW^*?3it of interior. It is esti- <i
mated that from 30.000 .to 50,000
tons of food products may be stored &5J
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I N T O M l i C U U J U t K — A b o v e is s h o w n t h e first food t a k e n i n t o t h e n e w g o v e r n -
ment natural cooler at the Kerford mine Saturday. The barrels contain dried eggs—175 pounds to
the barral—and are conveyed to cooler by small tractors such as appear in the picture. Under the barrels
are shown the pallets designed by Eldon Richardson, head of the shipping and storage branch of the
War Pood administration, on which the barrels are stored in the cooler. Each of the trailers holds three
barrels. The men without coats standing on the left of the tractor are, left to right, J. F. Pritehard,
Kansas City, president of J. F. Pritehard & Co., re frigeratlon engineers in charge of equipping the cooler
with refrigeration equipment; W. B. Ward, Washington, D. C, chief or the information section, War
Food administration, and Mr. Richardson. .

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R E A D Y F O R C O O L E R — T w e l v e c a r l o a d s of g o v e r n m e n t - o w n e d d r i e d e g g s p r o -
duced and processed in Kansas are shown here on the new service tracks recently completed to the-
huge natural cooler in the big cave of the Kerford quarry south of Atchison. The cars were moved to the
j'new dock between the tracks Friday afternoon and the dried eggs were being conveyed into the cooler
.this afternoon. A tractor is shown working on the rr ;w fill at the end of the dock. \ : :
 MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1944.
&.ST. MARK'S LUTHERAN
ja Yesterday v.as Brotherhood Sun-
g"day and at the morning service
,_}Evan Tensing, president of the
QEynodical Brotherhood, was the
K guest speaker with E. F. Fink, presi-
B'dsnt of the local organization.
ff*conducting the li f "-. -1 service.
,2* Evan TOnsillg returned Saturday j
jjfrwj) Minneapolis. Minn., where he j
A t t e n d e d the national convention of .
g l e n ' s Brotherhood of the United j
" Lutheran church in America las! I
soveek and also the opening session! j
^£bf the United Lutheran church ccn- j
Z&entiot) which opened Wednesday.
^
>THURSDAY. OCTOBER 26, 1944.
A truck from the Tabitha Luth-
LPoeran orphanage at Lincoln. Neb., will
3>e in Atchiscn. tomorrow to pick up
•feanned food stuff.s and vegetables
Received at S:. Mark's Lutheran
rfhurch last Sunday morning a; the
npnhual harvest iheme festival.-Be-
s i d e s more than 100 quarts of fruit
*tt nd several bushels of potatoes and
A p p l e s a cash offering of more than j
J$30 was received for the same pur- j
rpese.
FRIDA> OBER 27
I ; sionary groups in the St. Mark's
SPEAKS HERE SUNDAY—
feature of the Eastern Confer-
gence Brotherhood rally at St.
BMark's Lutheran church next Sun-
pday afternoon will be an address
by the Rev. R. VanDeusen, direc-
tor of the Lutheran Service center,
I at Kansas City. Mo. Rev. Van-1
3?eusen will discuss "The Man of
S h e Church and the World at
* e a c e . " Lutheran Service centers
^re supported by all branches of
t h e Lutheran church, for the bene-
jjt of men and women in the armed
Drees.
V.
Mo., director of the conference
brotherhood, will conduct t h e MJn'a
sessions, and James Hayward, jr.,
%f I
of St. Joseph,' Missouri., president
of the synodical Luther Leagues,
will be in charge of the voting peo-
ples meeting.
Lutheran churches of Atchison,
Bendena, Lancaster, Lawrence,
Valley Falls, Kansas City, anti To-
peka. Kansas, a n d Cole Camp. K - vi-
1
Lutheran
thirteen
churches
communities of
northeast Kansas and north-
ot sas City. Langdon, Rocksport. S?-
clalia and St. Joseph, Mo., wi". par-
ticipate in the Sunday rally.
The same groups herd a similar
i
to
-~1
west Missouri will partici- meeting at St. Mark's here io'Jt
years ago.
pate in the annual fall rally
of the Eastern conference of SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1944.
' the Kansas Synod, to be held
in St. Mark's Lutheran Austrian To Specsk !
church, Sixth and Park, next 00
Sunday afternoon and eve- at Church Meeting
Speaks at Rally Sunday—Prof.
ning. Richard R. Syre. of the faculty of
The rally program begins at
three o'clock Sunday afternoon, and
t h e Western ' s*X^
closes at 8:15 o'clock that evening.
Th e o l e g i c a l
Seminary, F r e - s
Opening the program will be a
m o n t, Nebr.,
I twenty-minute assembly, with the
| Rev. Herbert Rett, of Lancaster, in
will be
ipeaker a t the
the 1
I charge. Rev. Pett is secretary-treas-
Eastern Con-
I urer of the conference.
I
ference Luth-
At 3:30 o'clock the three Auxiliar-
I ies of the conference Will have sep-
eran rally at
St. Mark's
8
a r a t e meetings: The Women's Mis-
church, Sixth 00
I church auditorium, the
I Brotherhood in the Sunday school
Men's and Park, to-
morrow night, i
1
auditorium, and the Luther League, Prof. Syre, a,
young people's organization, i n ' t h e native of Aus- •
I Trinity Episcopal parish house. tria, and a(
graduate of the ,
Ministers of the conference will
Prof. R. R. Syre University of:
j meet at 4:30. in the Trinity parish
Vienna, will also preach at t h e St. j
house, for a business meeting.
John's Lutheran church, a t Valley
All groups will join in a pot-luck
j Falls, tomorrow morning, and come
supper in the St. Mark's parlors at
i here for a meeting with Eastern to
six o'clock, and a t 7:15 the evening a
j rally will open in the St. Mark's
Conference ministers early tomor-
row afternoon. The service a t St.
u^-C-
' auditorium.
Mark's tomorrow night will be c/i
FEATURE TWO SPEAKERS open to the public and visitors are
Two speakers will feature the , invited. It will start a t 7:15 o'clock.
program."Dr. R. R. Syre,- of the , Lutheran churches from thirteen
faculty of the Western Theological
8
cities of northeast Kansas and j
| seminary, Fremont, Neb., will speak northwest Missouri will participate |
! a t the conference ministers' meet-
I ing in the afternoon, and at the
in the rally. n
j evening rally. Dr. S3're is a graduate —
•*
I of t h e University of Vienna, Aus- MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1944.
OS
[ tria, and recently came west from
I Pennsylvania to become a teachei
| at the Lutheran seminary in Free- |
j rnont. At the Brotherhood meeting
. ! in the afternoon The Rev. R. Van-
i Deusen, director of the Lutheran !
J?j Service center at Kansas City, Mo.,
to
will speak on "Men of the Church
in a World at Peace." o
The R;v. H. V.-"t- Baira. pastor
of St. Math's 1% pr«.*!3eat of the
More than 300 persons from 13 ¥
conference, SIM Wfll conduct the
northeast Kansas and northwest
• Missouri communities attended the i
I
evening r.-llv. M;-- H-'en Fink, of
Atchison. Is n-;?-;'---f- of the con- j Eastern Conference rallv of the
ference m;.-?;-"-™- <™?!fii}r. and will
Evangelical Lutheran Synod of
bs in Hhs'-ss <~' th? rr.tritnr.ry ses-
~Z Kansas and Adjacent States, held J»
sion. A. H. Goult, of Kansas City,
-J
*-»
to
00
 Sunday afternoon and night at St.
9 front, fields clean and neat, and
Mark's church, Sixth and Park
streets. It was the largest atten-
dance at a fall rally in the history
of the conference.
Two speakers were featured on
§ the program. The Rev. R. E. Van-
I Deusen, director of the Lutheran
Service center in Kansas City,
spoke at the Brotherhood rally in
the afternoon, and The Rev. Rich-
! ard R. Syre gave the address at
the closing rally service last night.
Both the auditorium and the
Sunday school room were crowded
for the Misisonary rally and the
Brotherhood meetings in the after-
noon, while the young people of j
the Luther League filled the Trin-
ity Episcopal parish house for their
rally. - *
ELECT LANCASTER MAN
Edward Kanning of Lancaster,
was elected president of the Con-
ON ference Luther League at the Lea- ,
gues's business sesion, conducted by
s James Howard,' jr., of St. Joseph,
a Mo., synodical League president.
Other officers chosen include Rob-
11o
ert Wulfkhule of Lawrence, vice
president; Miss Mary Wilke, St Joe,
secretary, and Bishop Hockens, At-
chison, treasurer.
At the Brotherhood session A. H.
Goult, Kansas City, Mo., was chos-
en president of the Conferenco
brotherhood, and E. F. Fink, Atchi-
son, secretary-treasurer.
Mrs. Henry Christiansen, Kansas
City, Kas., was elected secretary-
treasurer of the Conference Mission-
ary society. Miss Helen Fink, Atch-
ison, is president of the group.
The largest crowd ever served in
St. Mark's parlors participated In
the Conference pot-luck supper
served last evening, more that 300
people participating. Missionary so-
cieties of St. Mark's had charge of
the serving, assisted by young peo-
ple of the Luther League.
ADDRESS MINISTERS
Prof. Syre also addressed a meet-
ing of ministers of the Conference
at Trinity parish house yesterday
afternoon, at which plans were
made for the Midland college fi-
nancial campaign in the Kansas
synod, which opens this fall.
Rev. H. Vance Baird, pastor of
St. Mark's, president of the East-
ern Conference, and The Rev. Her-
bert Pett of Lancaster, Conference
secretary, conducted the opening
service of the meeting.
The 1945 Conference will be held
in Trinity Lutheran chruch, Law-
rence, of which The Rev. Alfred
J. Beil is pastor.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1944,
Chaplain Ernest Tonsing writes
from Belgium: "We had pictured
Belgium as a nation of peasants,
i beaten down and trampled by arm-
ies. There are no peasants here.
Tiie. houses are beautiful and im-
maculate;'. not broken down and
slovenly. Pretty flower gardens in
everybody genuine and gracious.
Someone has said that the Belgians
live more like Americans than any
other European nation. Right now
I am in a chateau, where some of
us officers are quartered, in the
third story. The large house is
new, concrete and well built, but
the rooms are bare. They say Ger-
mans were quartered here before us.
The place is fitted with numerous
bathrooms with modern fixtures,
steam heat and electric lights, ev-
erything modern — except that none
of it is connected now. Our men
are quartered in several of the oth-
er farm buildings. We are all in
love with Belgium, the prople are
• so very friendly; they gave us a
"ktvjyal welcome as we came through.
By the way, this house is the sec-
ond- only I have been in since ar-
rival. And the days under a roof
I could count on two fingers and
have some left over. Have been in
^ront opening, with the 'tab' at the
i_pup tents when the rain was pour-
ing so hard it almcst beat the tent
in, and yet we kept dry as tinder.
JWe hang our rain-coats over the
"neck over the tent pole spike, and
the sides pinned down on each side
of the tent as far as they will
reach, then stick the 'tails' of the
rain-coat under the end of the bed
roll. Makes a surprisingly water-
proof job. A candle or two lighted
inside heats the tent sufficiently
to bs comfortable. Boy scouting
sure comes into its own here. We
have little German stoves which
heat with a tablet, and when not
able to use the camp kitchens, heat
our cans of food over them. The C-
ration consists of two cans — one
containing a meat ration, the other !
coffee, candy, cigarettes and four
'dog biscuits.' The cans are the
size of small condensed milk cans,
and fill one up. Are for emergency.
The drink may be lemon juice, or
cocoa or coffee, all condensed anu
good. The Red Cross is fine. Thty
have units that go about to the
various troop bivouac units, and
serve coffeee and doughnuts. Some-
times the combat divisions have Red
Cross units attached. We have
three Rsd Cross representatives in
our division, who loan money to
the men, or give it to them, who
process telegrams, and make them-
5 selves generally useful in domestic
situations, etc. It is an excellent
program and the men all like it.
These representatives who travel with
,us, are apportioned one to an in-
fantry - artillery combat team. All
three have been with the divisions
since its organization, and are tine
men. In the U. S. they investigate
all critical situations at the men's
homes, through their national or-
ganization, and if the situation re-
quired the man's presence, In cases
such as sickness or deatlyor_a_dgj_
rnestic tangle, they would get emer-
gency furloughs, supply train fare,
etc. In fact, an emergency furlough
can be secured only after Red Cross
investigation. I have helped on
many of these cases. I am very busy
all of the time. The past month
' have. Written, by hand, 57 letters
to families of some of my men.
Greetings to all Atchison friends."
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1944.
"Country Cousins", a comedy pro- ~.
duced by the ladies of the St. o
.Mark's Lutheran church, had its' S~"
! third enthusiastic rudience Thurs- g '
day evening when it was presented?"
to the veterans, in the Wadsworth *
hospital in Leavenworth. The cast J ? j
was composed of Mrs. Adolph a. i
jEhret, Mrs. Clyde Zimmerman M'-s • i
i Walter Tschorn, Mrs. Russell Moen £j '
'Mrs. Ralph Holland, Mrs. A r t h u r s *
McBratney, Mrs. Robert Godfrey to !
Mrs. Walter Davenport, Mrs RoyB 1
Demmon, Miss Helen Storeb-ck is-
Miss Arline Nestler, Mrs. Victor?
Johnson, and Mrs. Evan TonsingJ?"
Mrs. Lester Long directed the play^S. $
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1944. "°? I
The Rev. Willard W. Alexand<&f i
of Omaha, has accepted a call W
become pastor of St. Mark's churo&l
I
1
at Emporia, which has been vacara! i
since the Rev. Ernest Tonslnfi 9
resigned in August, 1943, to entSt I
the army as chaplain. The pulpS i '
has been supplied by Dr R &
Miller of the College of Emporia^
_ "a:"
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER ,8, -194*>g
I Chaplain Ernest Tonsing writs
from Belgium: "We had picture^
Belgium as a nation of peasant^
beaten down and trampled by army
ies. There are no peasants her«S
The houses are beautiful and i n P
maculate, not broken doWn arg
slovenly. Pretty flower gardens W
front, fields clean and neat, ai®
everybody genuine and graciot®
Someone has said that the Belgians
live more like Americans than aq£
. other European nation. Right n ®
! I am in a chateau, where some S
| us officers are quartered, In tne
! third story. The large house jjfi
] new, concrete and well built, iSt
the rooms are bare. They say G ^ r
mans were quartered here before
The place is fitted with nume:
bathrooms with modern fixti
steam heat and electric lights, ev-
erything modern — except that n<
of it is connected now. Our
are quartered In several of the o]
er farm buildings. We are all
love with" Belgium, the psople
so very friendly; they gave u:
royal welcome as we came thro
By the way, this house is the
ond only I have been In since (ar-
rival. And the days under a ,ttbl
I could count on two fingers "find
/thave some left over. Have beeiQn
AlStront opening, with the 'tab' atffiie
j 'pup tents when the rain was pBJir-
ving so hard it almost beat the Sprit
I l i n , and yet. we kept dry as timer, t
00
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(In Order of Appearance)

Mrs. Merlino, an Italian landlady * Kathryn Mellenbruch \

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Penny Whitman, a young visitor in New York Shirley Farmer *"
Miss Amy Whitman, her aunt ; Ernie Brown
Olga, a Swedish housemaid Dorothy Lee Honaker
Vivian Whitman, Penny's sister Priscilla McVey
Chris W y n n , a young detective story writer Paul Davis, J r .
Flavia Winterspear, a modern poet Joyce Evelyn Rudolph
Paul Van Doren, a radio actor William Paul Keith, J r .
Kitty Doe, a chorus girl Joan Specht
Ambrose Rosenbloom, a policeman Jack Barker
T o n y Laporti Lewis Hammonds
J u d g e Haley Dan Bowmar

SCENES

The action of the entire play takes place in the living room
of a furnished apartment in Greenwich Village, New York City.

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The Junior Class

PRODUCTION STAFF
of University High School
Director Mrs. Gladys M. Greathouse
Junior Class Sponsor Miss Margaret Bell Humphreys
Presents
Prompters Louise Rhoads, Jane Wyatt

'laughing Gas"
Business Pat Patterson, Frank Downing, Billy Adams
Publicity Dan Bowmar, Rodes Estill, Joan Specht
Properties Margaret Garrett, Virginia Murray Tilton
Stage William Paul Keith, Jr. Taylor House
Paul Davis, Jr. Haywood Alves A Melodramatic Farce in Three Acts
Dan Bowmar Pat Patterson
Louise Rhoads Billy Adams
Priscilla McVey Billy Boggs By CHARLES D. WHITMAN
Joyce Rudolph Ray Burch
Ann O'Bannon Jack Barker
Louise Coleman
Set Design Halliene Ramsey, Margaret Garrett
Lighjs Edward Bailey, Taylor House, Paul Davis, Jr.
Make-up Miss Louise Galloway, LeGrand Briggs,
Mrs. Elsie Patrick Ware
Curtain Taylor House
Ushers Betsy Houston Betty Zane Rowland
Elizabeth Erdman Ann O'Bannon
Jimmy Stewart
Directed by
GLADYS M. GREATHOUSE

WE WISH TO THANK —
December 13,1945
8 o'clock
Wheeler's, for furniture
Mrs C. R. Ramsey and Mrs. W. S. Raymond, for furmture University High School Auditorium
. nA Ooerations for lumber and other supplies
Department of Maintenance and Operations,
Guignol, for costumes

er
Ruth Martin Tonsing, "April 27, 1939 to April 8, 1946," newspaper clippings, held by Linn, Dot, 2400 S. MacArthur, #167, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73128.
 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1944. ped to see the wonderful curiosnicB.
fQ:
One man came along who seemed
to be particularly interested. John
Clifford a clerk, asked him, 'What
Yd.
Charles A. Garside Tells can I do for you?' The man re- i
, plied 'I do want those chickens, but
| I haven't got $10; I have only $5.'
°f Old Times In Atchison John appeared indifferent about ,-V-
-*£<. selling them, and the fellow sure t-"^"-
locked disappointed. Finally John
BY GEORGE REMSBURG I said, 'you can have them', and r''J1
I receive trie same. One night, X wen
Charles A. Garside, a well known | remember, rain was pouring down threw in the box. Now that man JL-^-C-.
Atchison pioneer, Is now living at i in torrents. James hustled into his was no fool, for we heard from some !
2303 Florid street, Spokane, Wash., clothes and we went down with one that he was just coining money I
at the age of 88 years. He suffered him. He had to get cut the tarpaul- with his show—the two h u m a n - .
a fall a while back which caused , faced chickens. Mr. Perkins divided
him much pain and inconvenience, ins and throw the warehouse door ^ t h f i $5> SQ e a c n ,„ t h e s tore—four £=
r
but writes that he is now ok eh cp:n, and
iouched land the
whenboat the had
deck hardlyhands _ c f u , _ r e = e i v e Q sl.25." (Charley was
again. "Charley" Garside, as he is got busy, both black and white, and then employed by John Perkins, the
affectionately called by his many such loads they carried. Green cof- gicccr.—G. J. R )
friends, was long a grocery clerk in fee at that time came ,in •• -ks.
Atchison, having been employed at about 200 pounds pt;:h. a £ ^ Charley says that Berlin's grocery
as
various times by several of the lead- surprising to see "hem v had the first automobile deliver}' in
* le
ing early day grocers of the city. heavy loads. While the boss, Atchison—a Srudebaker.
Later he opened a grocery store on lar Simon Legree, did not
y>.
i a I Mr. Garside tells about "the fire
South Fifth street, which he oper i whip, but sure did use his tongue,
a ted for m2ny years. I have known I r.nd hew he would curse those poor that wiped cut all frame buildings
flitt) practically all my life and al- ! deck hands; and they did keep or. both sides of Commercial street,
ways found him to be a splendid moving. Rain or shine, all freight between Fourth and Fifth streets. It
gentleman. When I lived with my occurred one Sundsy afternoon, the
had to be landed, ar.d the igent wind was from the south and cin-
parents on the old farm south of had to receipt for the same.'
Atchison many years ago. "Charley" ders were flying all over the north
Garside\s store was our first stop on part of the city. The roof on the
"The little -steamboat, R. P. Con- old Congregational church caught ,
entering the city, when we went to • verse, in charge of Captain Cade,
market. We sold him lots of pro- lire, and Rev. S. D. S-:orrs. wno was j
made regular trips between L; aven- pastor at that time, climbed out of | ,
duce and did considerable trading worth and Atchison."
with him, always finding him a the belfry in his stocking feet and \^\
square dealer. Later. . " "»n we moved put out the blazes with salt, risking •. '
"Near the old hospital one time a ,. his life, but he did save the church. I
to Atchison, and I b e c . n e a news-
paper reporter there, Charley's store j horse fell into an old well. The own- It was a miracle that the whole '&u=>-+~— I
was one of my regular stopping'j er tried every means to get it out, ncrth part of the city was not de-
places on my rounds of the city, V . but finally gave up. He then offer- stroyed. It occurs to me that this •
and Charley's name was always con- 1 ed five dollars to the person who was in the late '60s." (Rev. Storrs
spicious in my "South Atchison! would get It out dead or alive. So was pastor of this church from 1852
Notes." I am grateful to him for i young James Conway, colored, to 1867. the building was completed <J-
many favors, and also to the late : sharpened up his butcher knives, during his pastorate, so Charley no
lamented Mrs. Garside, who nearly climbed down the well, cut the horse doubt is approximately correct as to ,
always had a good news item or j up, ar.d had it hauled out in pieces. the time of the fire.—G. J. R.) H_
two for me. Charley still possesses This happened near the old hospital ,'In the early daj-s," Charley says,
a keen memory of early day events s building in South Atchison." "a circus would send a man ahead 0
in Atchison, and recently sent me to make contract with some grocer,
a large packet of notes personally usually to supply the circus with ne-
Charley recalls "that big storm in
reminiscent of the old days, from cessary provisions, and they would
1887, when hail stones as large as
which I have selected, at random, sub-contract. One would furnish the
hen eggs tore holes in roofs, battered
the following excerpts that should I water, which was then hauled from
the eave troughs and broke many
be of interest to Charley's old i, the river; some butcher would fur
plate glass windows on Commercial ^ U V *
friends, and readers of the Globe \ street. At that time Commercial j nish all the meat, and the grocer
who have a liking for early local I street was being paved with bodark i would furnish the groceries, butter.
history. | eggs, coffee, etc. Coffee did not come
blocks. Many animals were killed.
i ground in those days. We had a
Scudder & Tortat had a grocery
All old timers in Atchison will re- r store on the north side of Com- : •smallrt Enterprise . ., .
coffee mill and
;all James H. Garside, long a rail- E mercial, between Fifth and Sixth j 2 » - £ ? . £ " ' , t n o s e / h ° «ant- ^
nnearly
road official and prominent citizen ~ streets. They unhitched their team ! e ?- u ' g r o u n d ' & t n C 3 e ^ i

here. He was a brother of Charles of delivery mules and ran them in- all families had coffee mills of their
A., who writes of him: "In the I own. It was one hot Sunday in Au- ,^^~-'
to the store for protection. And
early days my brother was steam- I gust and all of rfhe clerks had to . **
talk about storms—the worst Atchi- ! report at the store and help to
boat agent in Atchison, with office son ever had In hail storms!"
in the stone warehouse on the u \ grind 200 or more pounds of coffee. I S7
levee. We lived at that time on The following ludicrous incident I We had to take turns, and that was i £ .
Atchison street, between Fourth and is related by c'narley: "You can sell the hardest — w uday's„ , „ work
„ W J l ±I can re-
Fifth streets and from our upstairs ~ anything If placed in an attractive r member of doing. The head man of
window we had a good view of the way. A farmer brought in a load of I the circus came down to the store
river for miles below, or as fa» - chickens among which were two J i n a rage and wanted to know why]
down as Sumner or farther. Always hens, the beaks of which had been i the feed, contracted for from the
at night, just before retiring, James frozen off in one of our coldest \ farms, had not arrived He said the
would-take a good lock down the ^ winters of those days, and they V animals were getting hungry and if
river to see if any steamboat lights sure resembled human beings so far | they would die Mr. Perkins would
could b seen, and if not he could ; as faces were concerned. I placed have to stand the loss, which would
take a • j - --— - i »« o.^wu lire l u i i , nrnHsn w u u i a
freight was oodconsigned
nap. If forat Atchison
anytime £ the two hens in a box with slats run into the thousands, so he had
they would.„ blow
„™„ ; „„-^
their ,whistle
„ . ».„u;..„„
near ! n a i l e d on _ p u t t h e b o x o u t s i d e a n d to S end a man out in the country
the brick yard so many times call- | made a sign which read: Two Hu- and bring them in. Finally the
ing the agent to be on hand to 1 man Faced Chickens. Value, $10. butcher, the baker, the grocer the
It sure caused a crowd. People stop- man with the water and the farmers

saved the day. Mr. Perkins said it-
I was the last time he would make
such a contract with a circus."
Press dispatch by Don Whitehead | He was safe at that time and wrote I
says: "Even in the short time they ; that the men in his unit felt the!.
havs been in action, the Timber-
wclves proved themselves to be an
outstanding division as they drove
I tide Qf the German counter^
i offensive had turned. tj.

Among the steamboats that were to Eschweiler. The Timberwolf di- FRIDAY. JANUARY 19. 1945. 5
sunk below Atchison, Mr. Garside vision is composed of personnel
recalls the Viola Belle and the Ze- drawn from all sections of the Evan Tonsing has returned frcrf?
H phyr. The Arabian went down near United States. The troops landed Fremont, Neb., where he attende^
o
p the brick yard, heavily loaded with in France September 7, the first a meeting of the board of trustees
en government goods bound for Fort Americans in this war to land In jof Midland college. g-
Benton. The flagstaff was an orna- France _ directly from the United -j tre-
ment on Jesse Crall's livery stable States. They then went into action THURSDAY, JANUARY 25. 1S45" ,
at Sixth and Commercial streets. with the Canadian First army in
£ Above Atchison, the A. B. Chambers
sunk at Rushville Landing; the
the drive toward the Maas river,
i and their patrols were the first to
' -• g-
M If Evrn Tonsing hod a loot's
Denver burned at Elwood; others ! reach the river. With their mission •jerr«*«*d in St. Joe Wednesday. 5j
recalled as lost above Atchison were j in the Netherlands ended, the Tim- S>
the Pontiac and Hesperian. "There | berwolves were assigned to the big i Mr. and Mrs. Harres Martin ha-ve1
are at least nine sunken steamboats ; push.'' In a letter to his mother. I received a letter from theSr son,
between Atchison and St. Joseph,'' Mrs. Paul Tonsing of Atchison. John A. Martin, who was wcur.de]
Charley says. ; Capt. Tonsing told of enjoying a in the invasion of Leyte in the PhiP
\ visit with Major Wulff in Holland Ippines, that he is making a god?
Oharley would like to knew what 11 Mrs. Wulff, the former Miss Lucille recovery in a New Guinea hospital
3. became of the old Aetna fire engine Hekelnkaemper, and her two chi'.- ; A slug struck him in the rigra
bell. He says that when it was last I dren, are with her parents, Mr. and shoulder, grazed his right eye aiS;
seen some years ago it was reposing ' i Mrs. F. W. Hekelnkaemper, 70S broke his glasses. He may not too
*0 in the front yard of Mrs. J. W. I Mound, while her husband is ov<:- able to go back to combat duty ai,
<3\ Burkhart at 514 Santa Fe street. I .seas. The last letter Mrs. Wulff re- :
he is near-sighted and would be s?g
iteived from her htl&bftnd \^as da;ed ; ; ricusly handicapped. So far he haj^
The exedus of negroes from the November 15 but made no^nemicn j
1 : South to Kansas began in 1878, and
j attracted not only national but;
of the big push, which began the
following day.
not bsen fitted with glasses. Army*
surgeons decided the slug in his
shoulder need not be removed a2
1 world-wide attention until thf
I spring of 1882. Charley mentions the !
| following incidents connected with j
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1944.
it probably would cause no troubkj
but Lt. Mar,in wants it out of therJE
Mrs. Evan Tonsing and daughter, 5 'I don't want to carry that JaB
I this exodus locally: "A steambcfjf I thir.g around the rest of my lifer1
' loaded with colored refugees from Virginia, left this morning for S:»»
i lina to visit Mrs. Tonsing's sister- ' he wrote. His eye was not badi^.
, the South bound for the 'happy land hurt. 2;
I" j of Kansas' made a hasty landing I in-law, Mrs. Ehnest Tonsing, for a j >a
OQ
below the brick yard and unloaded
some 200 men, women and children.
1
few days. j Dateline Pacify
n Some had dogs and chickens and all B> ROBERT GEIGER pr
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1944. An Advanced Pa-ific Base—I.TGL-
their wcrldly goods in bundles and
boxes. The colored M. K. church on New rumors have spread througrK
Pfc. Paul Tonsing, who's been in.. otit the Pacific that Amelia EarbS".
Atchison street was thrown open to the marine hospital at Oakland.
them. Measles broke out among t h * ' still may be alive on a South PaciiU:
Calif., has been transferred to , isle, but the man who should kngiv
children. It was not long, however, Camp Pendleton, Calif., where he more about it than anyone else s § .
before they got work on farm?. is now with the marine communica- "there Isn't a chance she ever vol:
a There are a few of them in Atchi-
son now. Another boat load was on
tions service. be found." y
The rumors became so persistent
its way. The mayor telegraphed and widespread that navy official*
that they would not be allowed to MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1945.
investigated them and question^
land in Atchison, so they were un-
8 loaded at Wyandotte (Kansas City, Miss Anna Bruce fell Saturday j Capt. Irving M Johnson, 39, ofca
; navy warship. c/5
Kan.)." afternoon on the ice at Second and
C/3
Santa Fe and broke her arm. She Johnson, a master of sailing shins.
sailed thousands of miles seekSf
was taken to the hospital for X-
3 We will conclude with Charley's
reference to Atchison's famous small ray and her arm was set. She is
Miss Earhart before the war afic
now, as a warship skipper, lj3*s
I pox outbreak just half a century now back at her apartment, 315 j touched every island where she mab-
j ago: "In 1894 we had an epidemic i North Terrace. ; have crash landed or has talfid
| of small pox in its worst form—over i to others who have investigated
=tfc ] a hundred cases, many of which re- THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1945. j such places. He is convinced £tt?
C^ ! suited fatally. Seventy-five cases • Earhart plane dived into the ocqJR':
-J | were quarantined in the City Park, LT. JOHN A. MARTIN — i in July, 1937, and that the aviatj*
' now Jackson Park, where 20 or more has been slightly wounded in action j 1 and her navigator, Fred NoonaR
8 died. A frame building which stood while serving with the infantry in !
on the south side of the park was the Philippines, according to word j
j were killed.
"It was popular rumor when fee
*•*
used as a. hospital, together with received by his parents, Mr. and : war started that the Japs Igd
o numerous tents. The building was Mrs. Harres Martin. A bullet grazsci • taken Miss Earhart prisoner, par
later destroyed by fire. Dr. Trough- tit. Martin's right eyebrow, miss- j shot down her plane, because » e
ton was in charge of the situation." ing the eye and passing through had learned, in flying oyer their
O his right shoulder. He is now in islands, that they had forti(gfl
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1944. the hospital recuperating frcr.i them," Johnson said. ^
.these wounds as well as sore fc?i "In the second place, it wo©*
g Two Atchison army officers are be- caused from wearing wet shoes for
have been the best propaganda ffl£
Japs possibly could have capitalists'
o lieved to be in Germany and &> have j i several weeks. |
".pon if they had found Miss E©-
S been with the first Americans who j MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1945. iikrt and rescued her. They co<3''
J" entered Eschweiler Snnday. They are have accused the U. S. of espionage.
Major E. T. Wulff, Atchison physi- ] "But regardless of that phase-of
cian, and Capt. Ernest Tonsing, A letter dated December 29 has the case, it is virtually impossijtfe
chaplain. Both are believed to be been received here from Capt. for Miss Earhart to have landted
00 With the 104th division, known as I Ernest Tonsing, a chaplain with the • any place but in the ocean. P°
the Tlmberwolves. An Associated | First army on the western front. ' "She was flying 2,300 miles over
I SATURDAY, DECjEMBER 23. 1944.

to the last leg of a round-the-world |

flight when she disappeared. She \
held a number of world flying rec-
u I
?_*£-£ ords, including that of being the
H first woman to make the flight H
o from 'Hawaii to the mainland, o
3 -longest scheduled non-stop water
to

J" flight in the world. |

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1945.
w The Rev. Vance Baird and Evan
^j Tonsing are in Kansas City today
0 attending the executive committee
C^o
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__ of the Lutheran churches to make
Keep Christ In Christmas ' plans for the annual meeting of the W
Synod of Kar.sas and adjacent vo
"**The birthday of our Lord draws near, • states.
The "day of days" of all the year, 9
A day of hope and joy and cheer; WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1945 >
Keep Jesus Christ in Christmas!
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Denton of
Let not old "Santa" crowd him out, Oklahoma City announce the birth oo
He helps the world forget about of a daughter, Ileta Irene, February
The loving Christ at Christmas. 8. The little girl has three brothers OS
and a sister. The mother and baby
The day is Christ's by right divine, are doing well.
A day no myth should uryjteVmine, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1945.:
8
A day when thoughts and deeds sublime
Should keep the Christ in Christmas;
When every message, every gift,
When Col. John A. Martin was
j elected governor of Kansas, A. E.
1
Should in some joyous way uplift \ Mize. president of the Blish, Mize n
- ]& Siliiman Hardware company, was ST.
One's every thought, to make them dirft
To Bethlehem at Christmas.
^ ! o n e of the very first persons in 1
Beyond all else this day should be
I Atchison to know about it. Mr.
_ ; Mize. what at the time was a car-
^—-j rier boy for Col. Martin's news-
I'
A day of holiest memory, paper, The -Champion, was allowed
When all the world should joyfully to stand behind the colonel and
^_ read the telegraph returns on the
See Christ, its Lord, in Christmas. election over the colonel's shoulder. y
Give other things a minor place, j Mr. Mize was a very ambitious boy.
But tell to man of every race carrying The Champion in the
The story, on this day of grace, L c morning and The Globe in the
I J evening.
Of Christ, his Lord, on Christmas Vr<^ ~- • — '• roD
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Joseph Clark, D. D. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1945.
to
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Mr. and Mrs. Clarence o
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on
Evan, Bess and Virginia Tonsing.
Moyer ZJ Observe-^, 8

and Arrio but I am convinced Miss Fiftieth Anniversary n

Earhart is not there. =8=
I water from New Guinea to How-1 "There isn't any place that she I Fifty years ago on February 20, H^
ON
j land Island and she radioed that I could have landed, not even a peb- 1895, Clarence S. Moyer and Nellie ON
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she was running low on gas; that! ble or a mythical island, that hasn't Knapp, young people of the Nor-

I
she- couldn't see the island and, | been checked."
finally, that'she was out of gas and I
was coming down.
The U S. navy dispatched air-
tonville neighborhood, were mar-
ried at the home of her parents,
craft carriers to the area from /? ; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Knapp, south
8
o "Nobody ever knew exactly where [ which Miss Earhart last reported, J^clot
she was because she wasn't able to and hundreds of planes were kept -
Nortonville. The Rev. Houten, of
| the Nortonville Christian church, I
give her position accurately and aloft several days in search for the ^ 3 ^ 3 was the officiating minister.
there was no equipment aboard missing fliers. " " * / * Tomorrow Mr. and Mrs. Moyer,!
that would have made it possible "There were rumors of some highly respected and widely known j O
for Howland island to locate her. 'mythical' islands in that part of J farmers of the same neighborhood,'
8 "We do know that she came down Johnson has visited South
east of the Gilberts, which were islands captured from the Japanese
Seas will celebrate their golden wed-
ding quietly at their home, 'Wlth-L^
held by the British, and must have and found no evidence Miss Ear- L-£-T^Jout formal observance of the 'an-p/- g
i been near Rowland. My guess is
, that she was within 2C0 miles of them.
hart
He
ever
was
had been
retained by
on
the
any of
Earhart
jniversary. Mrs. Moyer has beeriquiteT
sill for almost a year, preventing'!—
It. foundation, financed by a group of &i a public celebration. . . t-*> -4
t—* "The nearest Jap islands were Miss Earhart's friends, to make a" Mrs. Moyer was the daughter of! -
Mill or Jaluit in the Marshalls, far ' search before the war and in 1940
off he course. The Japs still are A coverd all of the Ellice and Gilbert
in possession of Mili, Wotje, Jaluit islands.
\t Mr. and Mrs. Albert Knapp, pioneer
residents of the south of Lowemont
neighborhood, in Leavenworth coun-
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Miss Earhart; was- on the next

 ty. The Knapp farm was near that
of the pioneer Cody family, and
her father attended school with
William F. (Buffalo Bill) Cody.
Mr. and Mrs. Moyer moved onto
the farm they occupy the day after
their marriage. Mr. Moyer, an ex-
perienced carpenter, had built their
farm home previous to the wedding,
and they /lived there ever since.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Moyer have
been active in Christian church
U,nd Masonic circles at Nortonville'
jfor many years. She is a past m a -
Itron of the Eastern Star chapter
| at Nortonville, and Mr. Moyer is
I a past master of the Nortonville
Masonic lodge, as \vr r as a past
patron of the Eastei*. Star.
I n addition to his farm work, Mr.
Moyer built several residences and
farm structures in the Nortonville
area i d in recent years has been
active as an insurance representa-
tive and real estate dealer.
Four children were born to Mr.
and Mrs. Moyer, and three of them
were at the family home yesterday.
Miss Lola Moyer,' a teacher in the I
,Nortonville schools; Bert Moyer,!
j who lives on a farm adjacent to j
i the home of his parents, and Mrs. \
Evan Tonsing, of Atchison. T h e i
other son, Ernest Moyer, of To- \
peka, was unable to be present be- j
cause of illness in his family. There j
are also six living grandchildren.
Among the relatives at the Moyer
home yesterday were six who had
been present at the wedding of Mr.
and Mrs. Moyer 50 years ago: Mrs.
Birdie Keener, her sister, of To-',
peka; William Knapp, of Kansas',
City, and Louis Knapp of Norton- I
ville, her brothers; her aunt, Mrs. I
John Roach, and Mr. Roach, of I
Lowemont, and Mrs. George Sprong,
also of Lowemont, a cousin of Mrs.
Moyer. B bombed or shelled to rubbleQso
KANSANS' SON HONORED
ATCHISON. Mar. 5—iTP)—John
A. Martin, son of Mr. and Mrs.!
Harres Martin, has been awarded
the silver star for gallantry in ac-
tion on Leyte last December 11 and
promoted to first lieutenant, his
parents have l e a r n e d . Martin,
wounded three times, refused to be
evacuated until his platoon's ob-!
jective was taken, the citation said.!
SATURDAY, MARCH; 10, 1945.
Mr. and Mrs. Harres Martin
have received a letter from their
sbii, John A. Martin, stating that
lie .has .rejoined his-'.company
somewhere In the Philippines aft-
er recovering from wounds receiv-
ed on Leyte. He hitch-hiked by
airplane making the trip from
New Guinea in 11 hours. Upon his
return to his company he found
h e had been promoted to first
lieutenant and awarded t h e Silver
Star:, v A :••' '• ; ;- • :;. •
Wednesday, March 28, 1945
John Martin
Loses Life On
Luzon Island
First Lieutenant John A. Martin
27. son of Mr. a n d Mrs. Harres
Martin, 1316 Santa Fe, was killed
in action on Luzon, Philippine
islands. March 8. his parents were
notified in a telegram received this
morning.
Lt. Martin h a d been through
much of the Important fighting
in the South Pacific since h e went
overseas in January, 1943, flying to
t h e area. He received his com-
mission as second lieutenant In
December, 1942, having entered the
sen-ice i n April of t h a t year after
his graduation from the school of
law at Syracuse university, New
York. His first army training was
at Ft. Dix. N. J., from where he
was transferred to Ft. McCellan,
LT. JOHN A. MARTIN
Ala., a n d then to Ft. Benning, Ga.,
where h e received his commission.
THREE WOUNDS
Soon after arriving in the South
Pacific, where he was assigned to
Co. E, 126th Infantry, 32nd division;
Lt. Martin participated in t h e
landing a t Saidar, New Guinea,
fought through the New Guinea
campaign to t h e conquest of Hol-
landia, and then was transferred to
Morotai island, whre he commanded
t h e northernmost outpost of t h e
American army for several months
prior to t h e landing on Leyte. I n
the Leyte invasion he was wounded
three times, and spent several
weeks in a hosiptal at Mew u w i i c a . .
While awaiting orders to return
to his company, which during his ^
stay in the hospital had taken part m
in the Luzon landings, Lt. Martin CJ.
frequented an army airfield looking U,
for a plane going to t h a t area. s<
When h e found one he hastily ob- i
tained permission'to make the trip,la"
and after reaching Luzon hitch-,_j
hiked to his company.
T h e severe fighting experienced*
by t h e 32nd division recently wasEr
jj
described in a Saturday Evening 1 *
Post article, which followed the di-U
vision through t h e many landings*-
and campaigns in which lt has haoa
a p a r t in the South Pacific war. W
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THE OXFORD PROS
OXFORD, OHIO,
T h u r s d a y , M a r c h 1, 1945 3 .
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Editor's Mail . . . ~
CHAPLAIN T E L L S O F <3s
WORK IN GERMANY '
S3
Editor's N o t e : T h e following as
excerpts from a letter receive? I
Mrs. P. L. Mellenbruch frog, hi
brother, Chaplain E r n e s t Tonsil
who is serving in Germanv. ™
o
" W e live indoors a s m u c h § £ s •*
can, t a k i n g over a n y buildfiSfes T
find habitable. Most every (A t\x
for b a s e m e n t s when seeking*>qua
ters, for these German undeifirKiu
rooms a r e built massively, e§*£ c
stand a g r e a t deal of a r t i l l S j f
a n d bombing. They a r e rhftde
bricks from two to five fegj 1 d«
in the ceilings a n d w a l l s P M
of the t i m e t h e u p p e r stoiTes :
basements a r e all t h a t is \g&i.
" W h e n w e can settle dowfo> fo:
few days, we connect into t & =•
erator, and h a v e electric lig5rls ;
a radio. T h e n w e d r a g in a 3 si<
a n d set it u p for heat. ThejgJ ba
m e n t s would be unbearably v*
it not for h e a t a n d light. » e i
have carbide l a n t e r n s we <&n 1
very h a r d q n t h e eyes, h o w e t e r . .
candles, w h e n w e can get them,
heat, use brickettes, which 3feen
be s t a n d a r d fuel for w e s t ^ i C
many, and which a r e by-product
the stupendous Rhine v a l l e £ lig
mining i n d u s t r y .
"We found a w a s h - h o t ^ ,
w a s h i n g m a c h i n e and l a r | i w
heating vat, besides plenty j$f v.
from a pump. W e wash ouQclc
once every two weeks or so< I :
h a d m y l a u n d r y done oply
since leaving t h e states 1*« f
m e r a n d almost lost it tr{gp A
we m a d e a move. I g e t a & t h
a week in t h e w a s h - h o u s e 3 a '.
tin tub. Most gorgeous rJaths
ever h a d ! "' ,~-J
" C h r i s t m a s w a s not verar hi
but it w a s busy. I. h a d lfjjser
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"The Fortune Hunter."
- H by Winchell Smith
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presented by
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SENIOR CLASS OF ATCHISON HIGH SCHOOL

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CAST OF CHARACTERS
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> Nathaniel Duncan, "Nat," the fortune hunter Parker Fox
Henry Kellogg, a rising young financier Clarence Wheeler
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oo George Burnham, a promoter John Boatwright
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VO James Long, "Jim" j Two Wall Street Robert Ritner
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ON Lawrence Miller, "Larry" \ young men .... Addison McKelvy
Willie Bartlett, a millionaire's son Frank Martin
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.ffi VILLAGE CHARACTERS
1o Sam Graham, the druggist Robert Tonsing "i-
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| Mr. Lockwood, the banker Robert Ritner
_ 3" Tracey Tanner, the liveryman's son Frank Martin
$ Roland Barnett, the village "beau" William Ashcraft
If
._,- <T> Pete Willing, the sheriff Roland Mot
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p.;.:-
s Mr. Sperry, the drummer
"Watty," the tailor
Addison McKelv.
Herman Kessler
r Herman, the errand boy Eugene Mangelsdorf
I Betty Graham, the druggist's daughter .... Marie Hekelnkaempv
o Josephine Lockwood, the banker's daughter....Margaret Cochrp
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Angie, the friend of Josie Henrietta Vt.
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i>. 8 ACT I. The sitting room of Henry Kellogg's bachelor apart-
?.'•'(SB ment in. New York City.
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ACT II. Two months later.
ville. Pa.
Sam Graham's drug store in Rad-

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I ACT III. A month later. Same as Act II.

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-J ACT IV. Same evening as Act III. Yard of Sam Graham's
home.
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 kWe hang our rain-coats over the
jieck over the tent pole spike, and
the sides pinned down on each side
of the tent as far as bhey will
reach, then stick the 'tails' of the
rain-coat under the end of the bed
roll. Makes a surprisingly water-
I proof job. A candle or two lighted
inside heats the tent sufficiently
to be comfortable. Boy scouting
sure comes into its own here. We
have little German stoves which
heat with a tablet, and when not
able to use the camp kitchens, heat
our cans of food over them. The C-
i ration consists of two cans — one
containing a meat ration, the other
coffee, candy, cigarettes and four
'dog biscuits.' The cans are the
size of small condensed milk cans,
and fill one up. Are for emergency.
The drir.k may be lemon Juice, or
cocoa or ccffee, all condensed and
good. The Red Cross is fine. Tmy !
have units that go about to the
various troop bivouac units, and
serve coffeee and doughnuts. Some-
times the combat divisions have Red
Cross units attached. We have
three Red Cross representatives in
our division, who loan money to
the men, or give Jt to them, who
process telegrams, and make them-
1
selves generally useful in domestic
situations, etc. It Is an excellent
program and the men all like it.
These representatives who travel with
us, are apportioned one to an in-
fantry - artillery combat team. All
three have been with the divisions
since its organization, and are fine j
men. In the U. S. they investigate j
all critical situations at the" men's
homes, through their national or-
ganization, and if the situation re-
quired the man's presence, in cases
such as sickness or death, or a do-
mestic tangle, they would get emer-
gency furloughs, supply train fare,
etc. In fact, an emergency furlough
, can be secured only after Red Cross
investigation. I have helped on
!! many of these cases. I am very busy
all of the time. The past month
have written, by hand, 57 letters
to families of some of my men.
Greetings to all Atchison friends."
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(full-length) on Saturday, Sunday fallows:

and Monday, one in a bitter cold K a t h r y n Mellenbruch, superior
open church (opened by artillery in p i a n o ; Virginia Stark, Gwendo- Oxford 'Cellist
shellfire which laid the roof r i g h t lyn Wright, and J a m e s Peterson,
excellent til* violin; Borgny Ann
Plays In Benton
in the center of the floor), a n o t h e r
two in a beer hall and others in Peterson and Gwendolyn Wright,
mess halls, etc. W e have five s e r v - excellent in piano.
ices (full-length) each Sunday, in • - Nearly 100 contestants from t h e
the five battalion and command _, & high schools of Butler, Preble, and
post areas, then try to reach isb- ™* H a m i l t o n counties^ attended t h e a u -
lated batteries during t h e week. ditions. Because of war conditions
Often takes driving in bottomless — it was n o t possible to have any large
mud, or more recently, over glazed ensemble groups attend.
ice roads and ruts. The men a r e
very receptive and m a n y times a r e ~ * ^ FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1945.
grateful for the services. I c o n d u c t '
an entirely "free" service (non- - ,i At a Synodical meeting a t Eureka, /*C |
liturgical), but use the chaplain's "" ' Wednesday noon the Rev. H. Vance
stole, and my handy little a l t a r Baird was re-elected president of
set, and use the Lutheran com- - t - the Eastern Conference of the ^
munion service. Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Kan-
"I have as my assistant a M e t h o - sas and adacent states. Even Ton-
dist young man, who is a prize. H e
--»- sinp was re-elected for the ninth ,<,
term as president of the Men's
*e
is an excellent mechanic and keeps
* Brotherhood of the Kansas Synod.
our jeep and trailer in A - l condi- --t-t Theodore Kloepper. of Lancaster *
tion. He sets up the a l t a r and acts was elected treasurer of the Broth-
a s 'deacon, elder and usher.' My erhood. The host-pastor for the f \
fellow chaplain is a Roman C a t h o - J~7-, convention was the Rev. Robert E.
:
lie, and we get along fine. We have Gaston, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. S.
a Jewish chaplain in o u r ' d i v i s i o n •3" Gaston. 221 North Twelfth. Miss _ .-,..,.
also. Helen Fink was re-elected president ,MISS MARJORIE MELLENBRUCH
Have no opportunity to get to of the Women's Missionary society -^red as
, cello soloist and a s '
any of the larger towns, save Leige, of the Eastern Conference
'first cellist in the Miami orches-
one hurried afternoon. L a s t one tra. . ' . i •-;
before that was Antwerp. These Mrs. Paul Tonsing returned last A pupil of Miss Elizabeth Pottei-
towns in Germany are not pretty, evening from Oklahoma City, Okla
evening from Oklahoma city, wusMj. g e r _ M i s s M e n e n b r u c r l played last
flau nler
b u t have winding, narrow streets, where she visited her 8 '• S U m m e r with t h e Dayton symphony
and a hodge-podge of architecture.
Their forests are dark, spooky H Mrs. Paul Denton.
MONDAY. APRIL 16
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i orchestra. She is completing work
for t h e degree of m a s t e r of fine
things, thick with pine, fir, a n d ' -4 a r t s at the university t h i s spring.
sometimes cedar. AVe never go
wandering about because of t h e Ralph Martin, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harres Martin, celebrtaed his TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1945. ; f^~—
prevalence of 'shoe' mines, booby
19 birthday yesterday a t home. w
traps, etc. Where we go t h e e n - Ralph is a sophomore at Kansas Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tonsing of
gineers have already combed the university. .... 7> Wichita had their second experience
a r e a with their detectors a n d el- "Memorial services were held to- with flood waters April 9 and 10
iminated,or marked off areas w h e r e day in the Albany Avenue Baptist when the Little Arkansas river in-
mines are found." , - -,. ^ — ' church, Kingston, New York, of vaded their home and came within
_ _ f I which he was a member; for First a few inches of the living-room
! Lieutenant John A. Martin, 126th floor. When Mr. Tonsing returned
H E O X F ORD PR '
from his work a t the Wichita"
m J U I - I •—^-- infantry, who was killed in action
on Luzon on March 8th. He had Eagle office he had to wade through 7
T h u r s d a y ^ p r i l 12, 1 9 4 5 » been awarded the Purple Heart three feet of water to reach his^|—
and wore the Silver Star for gal- home. The Tonsing home was flood'
'•'/t^Urs. J a m e s Exline, d a u g h t e r of
lantry in action. His company also ed last year. Mr. Tonsing is a son
Dr. a n d Mrs. P . L. Mellenbruch, held a presidential citation. He of Mrs. P. GL Tonsing of Atchison.
is serving as supervisor of a r t in > v was named for his grandfather, t h e
t h e Fairfield school south of H a m - late Col. John A. Martin who com- MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1945.
l ilton. manded the 8th Kansas volunteer C. B. Hole has been quite poorly f^7
^ i n f a n t r / in the Civil War. Besides this spring due to h e a r t trouble, j
Peters Entertain his carents, Mr. and Mrs. Harres
1 Martin, he is survived by two TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1945.
Orchestra Members brothers, RalDh and Paul Martin
I and three sisters, Donna, Ann and Evan Tonsing will undergo a
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Peters will £ i Marilyn Martin. 1
entertain members of the Miami major operation for intestinal trou-
ble at St. Mary's hospital in K a n -
university orchestra at the home O X F O R D P R E S S sas, city- nest week. *^
7 of Miss • Marjorie Mellenbruch, o n ' ^_
Sunday in the late afternono. T h u r s d a y , A p r i l 19, 1 9 4 5 WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1945: *S
__^ ^ I v..-.—
A picnic supper will be served \p
the fifty members of the group. 1 - J Miss Before he was. killed in action
Marjorie Mellenbruch,
on Leyte. First Lt. John A. Martin,
Mr. Peters is the conductor of the. daughter of Dr. and Mrs. P. L.
son of Mr. and Mrs. Harres Martin,
orchestra. 4 Mellenbruch, will be presented in was awarded the Silver Star, the
• graduate'recital Sunday evening at second highest award made by the
Announce Placings' 2 ^ , 8 o'clock in Benton auditorium. The United States. He also received the
In Music Audition public is cordially invited to hear Purple Heart for wounds received
Miss Mellenbruch, whose ability as in action previously. T h e Silver Star
Oxford winners in t h e southwest- cellist is already known to Oxford citation states t h a t although be.
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ern district music auditions held at audiences, phe having previously-J was wounded three' times while at
Miami university Friday w e r e ; as

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tacking strongly entrenched Jap
positions, Lt. Martin refused to
leave his men until the objective
was taken, and proved an inspira-
tion to them. He was a member of
Co. E, 126th infantry, which received
a Presidential citation.
TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1945.
Evan Tonsing entered St. Mary's
hospital in Kansas City Sunday and
will submit to an intestinal opera-
tion Thursday.
THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1945.
I Chaplain Ernest Tonsing writes to
| liis mother, Mrs. Paul G. Tonsing,
I t h a t he recently visited one of the
\ Nazi concentration camps in Ger-
j many and that the h o n o r he saw
1 there was beyond description.
FRIDAY MAY 18. 1945.
Evan Tonsing is resting fairly well
I following a major operation yester-
j day mcrning at St. Marys hospital
! in Kansas City.
SATURDAY. MAY 19, 1945.
Evan Tonsing is resting well to- ;
day at St. Mary's hospital in K a n - |
sas City where h j submitted to a |
serious intestinal operation Thurs- j
j day. He received his third blood I
transfusion today. Blood donors!
may be needed, for him. Any type :
may volunteer as St. Maiy's hos- |
pital has a blood bank.
TUESDAY. MAY 22, 1945.
Mr. and Mrs. Harres Martn have
received the following letter in r e -
gard to their son, 1st. Lt. John A-
Martin, Co. E, 127th Inf., who was
killed in action on March 8: "May
I extend to you on behalf of all
members of my company, our deep-
est heartfelt sympathy in the re-
cent loss of your son, First Lt. John
A. Martin, who was killed in action
March 8, 1945. His death occurred
when he was leading his platoon in
an attack against a strongly de-
fended enemy positon near Santa
Rosa, Luzon, Philippine Islands and
received a fatal wound in the chest
from an enemy machine gun. It may
be of some consolation for you to
know t h a t his body was recovered
and buried in an American ceme-
tery a t S a n t a Barbara, Luzon,
Philippines. Appropriate ceremonies
were conducted by an army chap-
lain. The grave is well marked and
well kept. The death of Lt. Mar-
tin is a distinct loss to this com-
pany and regiment. He was one of
its outstanding officers. I was one
of his closest friends and all of u s ,
who knew him admired him for his
congenial personality, and for his
courage and bravery in the face of
the enemy. He will always be re-
membered in this organization and
t h a t memory will be an inspiration
to continue the task in which he so
gallantly gave his life.-Our thoughts
are with you in your hour of be-
reavement. Sincerely, William V.
Morris, Captain Infantry, Com-
manding-" i ?:. _..;'
WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1945.
Evan Tonsing, who underwent a
major operation a t St. Mary's hos-
I pital in Kansas City last week, is
: improving steadily.
THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1945.
Interesting bits of local history
gleaned from obscure sources:
Atchison once had a patent med- j
icine factory, operated by. T. H. j
Jackscn, who formulated and made i
his own remedies. Perhaps his best!
known preparation was . "Common <
Sense Liniment,'' which he put on I
the market in 1879 and which was !
sold throughout Kansas, Nebraska,
I Missouri and Iowa. Among his other ' j in the house. Mr. Yale was a New j
I remedies were "Jackson's Renovat- j
ing Powders" and "Common Sense,
J Colic Cure." Jackscn spent most
[ of his time on the road, in the in- ;
j terest of his products. Does any
I olr-timer remember him and what
j beeame of him? . . . Four negro
! slaves belonging to a man named
| Connet in Buchanan county, Mo.
1
escaped to Kansas on July 20, 1861.
They landed at Elwood, but while
on their way to Troy were capuired
by a party of pro - slavery men.
Thomas Dillon, of Wathena, pre-;
sented a pistol a t the head of one!
of the negroes, ccmmanding him to !
step, but he said he would die be-
fore he would go back to his mas- |
ter. Just west of Wathena, several
n u n en horseback joined in the j
chase, and William Evans and a
I [man named Frye attacked two of
the negroes, when an altercation
' ensued, in which one of the slaves
was instantly killed by a bullet
:
through the head, fired by Evans,
and Frye was mortally wounded. He
was cui in the side in two or three
places with a butcher knife in the • - '• mound ovedlooknng Independence,
hands of cr.e cf the negroes. Dillon, j
who shot at one of the slaves, was
arrested on a charge of assault with
intent to kill. Two of the negroes
escaped, one was killed and one
captured. . . . Atchison had an
j "Old People's Club," which met ev- (
! ery Friday evening at Apollo Hall.'
jscme 60 years ago. G. W. Pennell
i was president, and M. G. Winegar.
• secretary - treasurer. Wonder how
many, if any, of the former mem-
bers are still living. . . . The Fow-
ler Bros, pork packing plant, es-
tabiished in East Atchison in 1878,
I was a mere extensive affair than
| many old-timers, who were not fa-
miliar with it, realize. It was built
at a cost of $200,000. When run-
ning a t . full capacity it employed
600 men, and puj, up 3,000 head of
hogs daily. The dimensions of the
buildings, all constructed from
brick, were as follows: The largest,
which was t h e warehouse, was 160
feet square and four stories high,
with an addition on the north side
for office, which was three stories
I high. T h e next building, which was
j devoted to getting the stock ready
fcr packing, contained the boiler
l a n d engine house, and was 160x90
feet in dimensions, and four stor-
ies high. Then, the last building
contained four ice houses, each with
a capacity of 18,000 tons. In addi-
tion, the firm had five more ice
houses at Mud Lake, holding 20,000
tons. The yards and stock pens
covered 32 acres. . . . Who remem-
bers Frank W. Yale and his whole-
sale butter and egg business, at the
foot of Commercial street in Atch-
j ison, seme 60 years ago? He was
the exclusive dealer of t h a t kind in;
Atchison at t h a t time. His ship-1
ments amounted to two and three I
: carloads a week, and for preserving
this produce until ready for mar-
ket, he had a large refrigerator of j
I 100,000 pounds capacity. He em-
I ployed five traveling salesmen in I
! Kansas and Nebraska and six men
| Yorker and came to Atchison in j
: 188U.-. . . In 1832—two years before i
Kansas was opened for settlement— |
i
Henry Myers operated a mill for j
making cottonwood shingles, in the j
Missouri bottoms, three miles north |
of Atchison, and continued in this |
business until 1867, making the
roofing for many of the first houses
on both siies of the river. In the
latter year he bought 160 acres of
land four miles north of Atchison,
on the Kansas side, where he re-
mained a prominent farmer until
!
his death a number of years ago.
Later he acquired several hundred
acres of land in Atchison county,
and a stock farm of 320 acres near
Severance. Mr. Myers once told the
writer t h a t when he first saw the
locality around the mouths of I n -
dependence and Deer creeks, the
dead body of an Indian, lashed to a
stump was observed on what after-
^ward became his farm. Some years
! later the writer opened an Indian
Deer and Rock creeks, on the Myers
farm, and interesting disclosures
were made. . . . In the late '50's
and early '60's the transportation
business in Atchison was immense.
During the summer of 1858 alone,
24 trains consisting of 775 wagons,
1,114 men, 7,963 oxen, 142 horsesi
1,286 mules and 3,730,905 pounds of
:
merchandise passed out of the city.
One single train sent out by Hock-
aday. Burr & Co. consisted of 105
wagons, 225 men, 1,000 oxen, 200
mules, 50 horses and 465,500 pounds
of merchandise. This was the larg-
est train t h a t ever left any point
for the West, the goods having
been purchased to supply a chain
of station stores which that firm
i had lately located between Atchi-
json and Salt Lake City. . . . How
; many of these prominent Atchison
colored.men of several decades ago,
do you remember? Parson Twine,
Jacob Starr, D. J. ("Doc") Jennings,
George .. BfBMff, Jerry Rucker,
"Doc" MUST Isaac Logan, Merit
1
Davis, Ben Morton , George A.
Griffith. Capt. Philip Porter, J. A.
Paris, J. W. Wilson, I. Venable, R.
M. Wilson, H. A. Lett, P. R. Booker,
I Harvey Potter, Henry Baskett, W.
 A. Covington, Geci-ge Gethard. .
^ Who recall? Pro:. Ernest Kuehl.
teacher cf ancient and modern
.9 language, who lived in both Atch-
ison and Doniphan many year- ago?
He iocrted in Atchison in 1872. and
Uved there a number cf years,
later moving to Doniphan. He was
a member of th* Turner society and
H Schiller icdg? of the Odd Fdlovs, •
o at Atchison. After moving to Don-
3 witness of the flood described is
iphan, he held public office there. .
He w;s a Prujsion by birth, and
was about 24 years of age when he
I came to Atchison from St. Joe
The KaftSSl Historical Quarterly, in
its cttrr?::; number, prints the loi-
: lowins item from th? Frecdcm's
Champion, of Atchison, dated June
8, 1861: "On Tuesday morning last
a man cr.me.i:-. town with a wagon
so ' for Relief, from the Big Blue, and
3 . when on the bridge where Seventh
> j street crosses Commercial, lie ob-
served the Stars ar.c! Stripes waving
j ever th* Champion office, when he
oo : tcck cfi his hat and carried it in
j his hand until he passed the office.
SO .He remarked to a man as he was
X passing :ha: it was the first Amer-
Ox
; ican Hag lte had seen for eighteen ,
j months, and he considered it im- "
j polite to pass without takhig off
; his hat." . . . What is said 16 have
| been the first elevator in Kansas
; was built by Adam Brenner, at Dcn-
iphan. in 18G7. Its capacity was.
O 4.000 bushels cf grain, and it cost
f j S16.000. It was burned in 1872, With
i a large amount, of gram stored in
! it, and i t was almost a total loss.
' only S3.000 of insurance having been
• collected. . . . An interesting early
I day figure of this section of the
j country, about- whom little is known
to ;he genera! public, was Col. R.
! C. Sweany. He lived at Arrington
r for a number of years and was an
early Atchison county school teach-
er -and justice of the psace. He was
an eariy postmaster at Larkin. He
It came to Kansas with the first early-
settlers in 1854, and took a claim
o near Wathena, later operating a
o mill at Etwcod. He had previously
C/5 operated a large mill in Buchanan
county. Mo., which burned at a big
loss. He was a native of Kentucky,
where he served as a colonel in
th;- militia, a peace officer and to-
bacco manufacturer. He was born
in 1617.—G. R>
SATURDAY. MAY 26. 1945.
I Evan Tonsing was resting easier
vesterday at St. Mary's hospital in
I Kansas City * ' n e r e h e
underwent a major operation.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1945.
The condition of Evan Tonsing;
remains the same. He underwent |
a major operation in St. Mary's
hospital in Kansas City May 17 and.!
although steadily improving, r e - !
mains quite, weak.
THURSDAY. MAY 31. 1945.
The Rev. Samuel E. West. jr.. and
Harvey Buckley visited Evan Tons-
ing yesrrday at St. Mary's hospital 1
in Kansas City, Mr. Tonsing's con-
tiiii'.»n i.- improved but he is still Atchison nicmcr. received calls
•.cry weak and they were allowed from every part of the city asking
to see him only a few minutes.
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for help for everything from flooded
basements to helping rescue cowh-
SATURDAY, JUNE 2. 1945.
and goats. Swamped with calls they fat
Evan Tonsing continues to show concentrated their efforts in local- z v: * if %t ts Sj
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I ing missing persons reported to
improvement and was able to sit
up for 20 minutes yesterday. He is ; them. All were checked and report- i Ii " 1 BI
a patient in St. Mary's hospital, ed safe.
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Kansas City. At Fifteenth and Commercial a o
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MONDAY. UNNE 4. 1945. / as a "wall of water" which swept
from the northwest to Fifteenth] * H *•"
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Evan Tonsing's condition at St- i - j : and Commercial and down to Six-' *"
Mary's hospital in Kansas City fc, teenth and Kansas,
improving but he is still very weak, i - the houses in its path. Approxi-
His doctors want him to sit up a " / mai.ely fifteen or twenty houses
Short while each day but he has
washing through
were badly damaged not only in the ' '
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difficulty in doing this: His oper- basements but in the living quarters u
in this district. The call to the I S B
ation was so serious it will be seme
time before he regains his strength. fire department was estimated to '
£S
-f-have come at about 12:45 o'clock in 2 o | >• a
-C the he aftern
afternoon.
In the basement of one house in %g | « >
OX F OR D P RESS Wes; Atchison the flame in a gas .
burner, which, was turned on. was ' ° M r-
Oxford, Ohio extinguished and ciiorts were be- 00
ing made to get the gas turned, oft.
Thursday, May 31, 1945 Basements of Wosi Atchison store:;
were flooded wnen sewers refused
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GRANTED MUSIC to take care o. th? rush of water
and backed tip into the buildings.
SCHOLARSHIP
i Mud and debris washed into the
Miss Marjorie Mellenbruch, who ; streets and a log settled in Harry
g ti te s
is a candidate for t h e degree of ; Voting's back yard at US North
master of fine a r t s a t Miami u n i - • Fifteenth, in ;h'.- lake at Fifteenth
- versity Sunday, h a s been granted and Commercial a kitchen chair
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washes irom someone's porch float-
. a full scholarship, covering tuition
-•; a n d lessons, a t t h e Yale University ed In the water.
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When the two storm sewers,0111- at ^
s u m m e r school of music, t h e ses-
the corner o; Fifteenth and Com with '-~7P '3^t
sions of which are held in Norfolk, nirrcisl s.:.?; stopped up
Conn. She will study 'cello with ' debris, water stowd nearly three three
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K a r l Zeise of t h e Boston symphony feet d»ep ir. the intersection. Two n
. cars were s.ailed in the high water.
. . orchestra.
The water ran into the basements
Miss Mellenbruch will leave for 1 $
Connecticut t h e last p a r t of J u n e .
and the force o! the water nearly
washed a garace off of its founta-
ins Ber: Long residence •-.:
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In a cloudburst which poured unabated upon Atchi- ( . ,,.
son and surrounding vicinity for a full thirty minutes this - z ^ - ^ z ^ - 8
afternoon, an estimated two inches of water descended
upon Atchison and vicinity. In the storm, which began
at, approximately 12:15 p. m., a wind of 40 miles an hour ,-, &jt
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raged steadily. The result was flooded basements, dam- " ^ yf
aged homes, and overflowing creeks.
Atchison awoke to a beautiful day this morning but
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by nine o'clock the skies were, darkening and by eleven
o'clock a dusklike darkness had settled. By noon the
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streetlights had been turned on and it was necessary to
drive with headlights.
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i dren have enjoyed the affair Ev-
9 tween St. Andrew's Chcpel and the
j ^ " " " Finnegan store ar.d ran 18 Inches
, erywhere they found cold muddv
deep between the two premises.
The high water added to an al-
ready flooded condition behind the
i
§ buildings running from Smart's
grocery west to Velvet Produce Co.
Water stood four feet deep in a
vacant, lot just west of the Taylor
laundry. Also the basement of the
to
laundry was flooded but nothing
was stored in it.
The basement of the Hagen Gro-
cery and Bakery housed the thre^
refrigeration plants of the STO/
and a rush call to the Atchisoi
Water Co. brought a pumper to
the scene. Roy Smart told a re-
! porter: "In my 25 years of business
;on West Main street I have never
iseen the water so high. We have a
j $100 damage to stock in our base-
| ment."
' Downtown Atchison reported wa-
ter from six inches to two feet in
the basements of stores ar.d indus-
tries. Penney store reported that
water was knee deep in their base-
ment and the Tonsing book store
21 that water had almost covered the
o basement. The same situation was
f found in every downtown store and
garage from lower to upper Com-
I mercial. At the Atchison Furniture
and Carpet store, 405 Commercial,
water came into the back of the
store damaging merchandise which
was stored there.
A report frcm the Kansas Power
and Light company stated that a
f in the basement of his home.
33.000 volt highline west of Atchi-
son had been cut off because of a
i short circuit yet to be located. The
a Urouble was first reported at Frar.k-
o j fort and later somewhere north "U«
J* j Everest. Effingham, Lancaster arc
© , Muscotah were not receiving power
O j service for a time but the ciricuit
C/3 was scon repaired. Netawaka, Whit-
ing) Everest and Huron were still
eff early this afternoon.
8 A detailed report of the local
damage to power was not deter-,
mined although a wire at some
point was known to be down. Street
j lights were? carried for a time dur-
ing the storm when darkness that
o\ was almost night settled over Atch-
ison.
, The chickens went to roost at
g noon today when the cloudburst
clouds settled. It took thre?
I hours for the clouds to gath-
er and when it rained it outdid
Fred Stein's prediction "That it wili
soon be raining a bucket full."
Jr Street lights were turned on and
the Atchison busses ran around
with full lights. The first time the
g headlights were on due to the day-
f
light schedule allowed by the ODT.
Over 90 per cent darkness set in
and everyone ate lunch with lights
ablaze. Many families sat In near
darkness to watch the storm gath-
er. When it broke streets all over
t3 he town ran full with water. The
00 Lions' swimming pool got a pre-
season filling when water from the
cloudburst filled the pool to 25 per
cent;.
Whatever the damage, the chil-
pany at the government cooler souui i
of town, was practically destroyed I
when it was washed down the creek
water to wade in. Much to their
near the entrance to the grounds, i 2
Mr. Pinder tried to move the car I
mothers' dislike two boys were from a low spot when the water i
swimming in a vacant tot just west started rising, but high water stalled j
of Taylor's Laundry were the flood the car. He waded to safety. The j
waters stood four feet deep. flood took the car over one bridge j
The greatest excitement was at
Seventh and Main street where and under another and deposited
White Clay creek was overflow-ing i t ' in the creek several hundred I
yards down stream.
and running 12 inches deep and ten
feet wide down the south side of
the Atchison railroad tracks. The
Santa Fe bridge gave the gathering Saturday, June 16, llJ4»
crowd much to speculate about
when the force of the flood waters
was raising the south side of it and
it looked like the bridge would b»
washed out. A freight train on the
main line tied up and waited for
Rain And Hail
the water to go down before pass-
ing over the railroad bridge at Sev-
enth and White Clay creek.
Brewery creek went on a rampage
Damage Crops
when the cloudburst struck Atchi-
son this noon. The home of Mr.
i and Mrs. Clarence Trainer and
; family was flooded 18 inches. The
And Property
i four room structure is only fifty Extensive damage to
j feet from the creek at 1105 Mercuiv.
'! All the furniture including felt base crops and property, broken
rugs and radio was moved out by
power lines, and crippled
!! neighbors and is standing on high-
er ground at press time. train and automobile traffic
j The Jim Bewley family at 815 from washouts resulted o ;
Anzieger street was cleaning out the
flood waters of Brewery creek. The from the worst storm in
water just covered the floor of the
| home. Their garden was a total
j loss. Mr. Bewley is employed at the
', Midwest Solvents C6.
years which swept the lo-
cality early yesterday after-
j M. J. Mingier at 806 Anzieger, noon. St. Benedict's report-
\ employe of the Blair Milling Co., ed that 2.18 inches of rain
lost his garden and some water was
fell yesterday up to six
It looked like the morning after o'clock last night.
Halloween night, with all of the Earl Hellener, city engin-
outside plumbing washed from its
fouindation and moved to ,new eer, reported that no partic-
places. ular damage had been done
Price Blvd. was covered with debris
washed by the heavy surface water
to the city although it will
from the southwest slope bordering take a week or more to
the street at the city limits. The clean up the streets which
high water washed them from a
dump that is out of city limits into are covered with mud and
the city onto the street and into tlv debris.
' yards and parking of the neigh- j Washouts in the streets
borhood.
No damage was done to the j have occurred at Fourth
Missouri-Pacific tracks although | arid Commercial, Second
they were covered by water from
White Clay creek from Seventh and Mound, on North Sev-,vJ 4;i
street, to Fourth. The Burlington
train from Falls City, to St. Joseph
enth, and at Twelfth and g K
is to
Atchison
be detoured
over
tonight through
Missouri-Pacific
tracks due to tracks which were
Division, wherew n e r e the
t n e con-
crete str;reet buckled about i m
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washed out somewhere north of three feet jet the width of thelt if
. St. Joseph. The Burlington's reg- street.
i ular route is expected to be re- I According to Mr. Hellener White'
isumed tomorrow.
iClay creek overflowed at Seventh
; At St. Joseph a. 2:10 inch rain
fell in thirty minutes with a street, covering the railroad bridge
j forty mile wind blowing steadily. There was more water than the'rr
The temperature dropped from 10 has ever been In the creek sine
to 64 degrees in twenty.-minutes.
the big storm sewer was construct*
I Fred Howard of near Cummings;
| telephoned that it rained 2% inches in 1921 and even in the big storr
j at his farm in one hour, and that I of 1919 the water didn't go ove^
it was so dark in the houses people I the. bridge. The creek had receded
couldn't see to get around. i to,normal today.
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guard for the J...F. Prttchard com- I '
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. Most ot the damage seems to
have occurred in house basements, j
Fifteen or 20 houses were knownj
tn have had flooded basements and •-"
there were probably many more.•
In one or two houses at Tenth and^
Riley the 'water may have reached ;
the first floor. At the home of Mrs. :I
Rhea Scott and family, S25 Com-
mevial. water forced its way to the i
kitcTfan -?.n£ the 'amily cleaned mucl;
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from the floor for an hour and
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FLOOD WATERS IN ATCHISON Friday noon when
a two-inch cloudburst forced White Clay Creek out of its banks and .
the storm sewer was unable to handle the water. The flood water
streamed down Main street, the railroad yards, and spread out over
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Commercial and Utah avenue. Above is a scene near the Blair mill
at Fourth and Utah with a large truck stalled. At the left above
shows water over Fourth street at Main, the railroad yards and
Utah, with two cars and a truck stalled in it. The picture at the 8
left below was taken in the rear of Commercial street stores between
Fourth and Fifth, showing 7?ater standing in the alley.
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a halt Thirty-six little chickens
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belonging to John Scott, small son !
of Mrs. Scott, which had been put I
on the back porch for safekeeping.!
were drowned with the exception
o: two which he was trying to save
I today.
George Ahlborn, district manager
§ of the Kansas Power & Light com- i
V) pany, said that one or two gas j
mains were exposed by the wash- \
outs. A few wires were down, |
weighted by the excessive moisture,
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and a few transformer fuses down,
probably from lightning. Quite n !
i few flames in gas water heaters
~~1 • in basements were extinguished by ,
water, causing hazards from gas. j
and crews were busy repairing such j
trouble. Service in Atchison was!
completely out only for a few mo- \
ments about eight o'clock last |
night.
a. The Kansas Power & Light had
their trouble chiefly in the district
west of Atchison where the trans-
mission line failed to function in I
| several places between here and I
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Blue Rapids. Crews were out all
night repairing the damage. The
1 line serves such towns as Hiawatha.
Lancaster, Effingham. Muscotah,
Netawaka. Everest, and Huron, all
1 of whom have been receiving: service
at high voltage from this end since
8 early this morning.
The Missouri Pacific detoured two
Burlington trains yesterday, one
I from St. Joe to Falls City and the
other from Falls City to St. Joe,
because of washouts of the Bur-
lington tracks north of St. Joe. The
Burlington service had been re-
sumed today.
if The Missouri Pacific train to
'Kansas City due in here at 4:30
a. m. was delayed at Whiting be-
| cause of washouts and was sched-
O ; uled to be in Atchison at noon. The
o 3 a. m. train to Stockton left at
J* 11:15 this morning and the Red Ball
to
freight to Concordia which was to
o 59 highway soil from fields was
o i have gone out at midnight last
C/3 j night left at about noon today.
: There, was no trouble on the ma;n
i line and the Eagle was scheduled
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for the regular time.
p | At Muscotah the storm struck at
] about 11:30 o'clock Friday morning
'and continued for an hour in a
terrific downpour. No hail fell there
but it was reported that from
o\ between 3U and four inches of rain
-J fell in three quarters of an hour
and almost every house in town
g lost a window pane from the hail.'
At Netawaka, according to Mel
Williams, section foreman at Mus-,
i cotah, between 3>.i and four inches
of rain and hail as large as base-
balls fell. Mr. Williams attempting
o to go east of Muscotah in his motor
•3' car, could not get through the
water, which was over his motor.
g Train service was stopped at Whit-
ing on the west and east of Ef-
fingham.
The river west of Muscotah rose
rapidly and the little creek east of
town was rover the highway. Many-
gardens w ere washed out and one
00 resident's potatoes were lying on
the ground. Much hay -was down
and was ruined by the water.
At Farmington it 'was reported
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that the water washed out all the ,
corn and was over the wheat. The
creel; was all over the bottoms as a
result of the 2-inch rain which fell
in half an hour.
Little Stranger creek east ol
Monrovia flooded the Andy Don-
ovan home. The house basement j
was filled raid water ran into the
first floor. Water was up to the top
of the mail box and the bed of the
[hayrack was swept downstream.
Traffic was stopped until evening.
Damage to crops in this vicinity
was extensive. Corn which had just
been planted was washed out and
will have to be replanted, mucl
alfalfa was damaged and water was
standing in wheat fields.
One of the heaviest rains in
history, a total of 10 inches, fell at
IHolton yesterday afternoon and last
I night, causing the Delaware river
j to go out of its banks at 4 o'clock
I this morning. At 9 o'clock this
j morning the stream was three-
quarters of a mile wide at Valley
Falls and it raged across Kansas
I highway 4 (the Topeka cut-off) to
8 depth of four feet. The Santa Fe
j railroad tracks were also covered by
ithe flood waters. Many homes and
| some business places at Valley Falls
were in the path of the raging tor-
rent. State highway department
employes reported that the stream
was the highest it has been since
1935.
Traffic was being detoured today
I over state highway 92 from Rock
Creek to Ozawkie. Th e flood waters
were expected to reach there at 5
o'clock this evening.
Between Valley Falls and Ozawkie
! farmers were busy this morning
I rescuing cattle from the path o'. the
| water. Some cattle were marooned.
Stranger creek, southwest of
Atchison in the Cummings vicinity,
was out of its banks but did not go j
over U. S. highway 59.
Between Atchison and Topeka on i
washed onto the pavement to a
depth of several inches in a number
of places and had to be removed
1,with scrapers.
Independence creek was out worse
after the rain Friday noon than it!
has bsen this year. Hundreds of;
acres of bottom lands were under I
water two or three hours.
John Seeger and Roy Williams, j
I employed at the Missouri Pacific'
' shops, rescued a two - year - old
heifer washed down White Clay
creek from Floyd Spaun's pasture
several blocks away. Four other
cews were taken out of the pasture
by the high water, and carried va-
rious distances down the creek be-
fore they got out on their own
power. * are visiting at the home of his
MISSOURI RISES
Rising 4.33 feet in 24 hours, the
i Missouri river today was flood-
ing some of the lower lowlands
in the Atchison vicinity, and was
slowly rising during tbe day. The
reading here at 8 o'clock this
morning was 22.18, compared with
17.85 at the same hcur Friday
morning. At 2:15 o'clock this aft-
ernoon the stage was 22.42. a rise
of about a quarter of a foot since
8 o'clock this morning. The high
reading of the river in 1944 was
24.25 on June 20, when water was
all over the bottoms.
TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1945.
Capt. Ernest Tonsing, a chaplain
I with the First army in Germany,
! is expected home soon.
FRIDAY, JUNE 29. 1945.
Marine Pic. P.ml M. Tonsing has '
recently re'.urnrd from Samoa and :
Hawaii and :.< now a.MiRfifd 10 the •
i San FrarJfllaro Marine Depot of '
j Suppifes. H?"is a SOU of M: . Paul j
' Tonsir.g, 315 North Teviiicr. arid his j
i wife. Martha Pi.ic:igor Ton? ing. re-
\ sides in W<-:iS::e:-loi<i. T?x-is. Before j
;
.io'r.ir.g the marine corps September
24. 1941. Pli' "U'toism work d as a j
ii:;cypc c;) ;.\vor ftjj the Los An-j
i geles Times. j
MONDAY. JULY 2. 1945.
| C. B. Hale and his sister, Mrs. I
j Fred Day of Superior, Neb., came j
Thursday, to get Mr. Hale's house- I
hold goods ready for his sale at his ,
farm home Saturday afternoon. j
MONDAY. JULY 9. 1945.
Chaplain and Mrs. Ernest Tons-1
ing were Atchison visitors yesterday j
at the homes of his brother, Evan j
Tonsing, and mother, Mrs. Paul ,
Tonsing. Capt. Tonsing, who has i
been overseas for 11 months, serv- j
ing with the First almy, 104th divi- \
sion, was enroute from Leaven- ]
worth to his home' in Salina where !
he will see his boys, Fred and Evan.
Capt. Tonsing's division was in com-
bat 194 days, only one other divi-
sion having served longer, and that
I was 196 days.
TUESDAY MOK.VnVG,
JULY Mi 19J5
"About 10 per cent of the men
In the armed forces are regular irv
church attendance," says Chaplain
(Capt.) Ernest F. Tonsing, speak-
ing from his experiences with tfie,
men of the 104th "Timbcrwolf" ar-
tillery division in Holland and
Germany.
Just returned to the United.
States and on a 30-day furlough
before returning to San Luis
Obispo, Cal., for training and re-
deployment to the Pacific, Chap-
lain Tonsing, his wife, and two II
sons, Fred and Evan, of Salina,
brother, Robert L. Tonsing, 1657
Arkansas, telegraph editor of The!
Morning Eagle. m
This 10 per cent attendance!
among men of his outfit some-|
times jumped to as high as 20 or
25 per cent, "but fear has little
to do with this," he stated. "There
is very little deception among the
m
oof
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Chaplain and Mr*. Ernest Tonsing :
ilfe Deception kmmg 01 s, and sons. Freddie mid Evan, 'will :
be guests of his mother. Mrs. Paul ,

I Timberwolf Chaplain States! Tonsing. and brother. Evan Tonsing

for the week-end

SATURDAY, JULY 28. 1945.

Gapff Ernest F. Tonsil*, Swk from Service in lu-j Chaplain and Mrs. Ernest Tons-
| ing and sons. Fred and Evan, of
r&e, Reports 10 Per Cent of M M in Armed "; Salina, arrived today to spend the
, week-end visiting his mother. Mrs.
F^ces Regular in Church Attendance •?*<•.
| Paul Tonsing. 315 North Terrace.
• Chaplain Tonsing. who recently
| to the Koer rivet. r ? o m U t i e n e n '. returned to t h e ' Slates from the
1.0 Cologne, they spearheaded MM . i ETO theater, where he was with
First's drive with the Thiro BT» j • the First army, is now enjoying
rawed, and after the Rhine cross- .
inc drove onward to the meetm* i . | his 30-day 'leave with his family in
with '.he Russians above Leipzig, i . i Salina.
«iP the wav. the chaplains of the .
division went forward into combat-I
zones to hold services, catching the; vfiaplain Ernest Tonsing
men during the rushing forward |
into Germany. "We held services
i« old bsrns. in garrets, in bombeo-
To Be Guest Speaker
out chvrches and one time in a The guest speaker for Parish
creenhouse.'' the former Lutneran Day. which St. John's Evangelical
minister continued. 'Beyond tne Lutheran church a: Bendena will j
Rhine we found many more beau- observe tomorrow, will be Chaplain i
tiful Protestant chBrehcs intact.-1 Ernest F. Tonsing. recently return- j
ed to the United States from the :
Any place servprf for services in ETO theater where his division
' the mad rush o{ war." served the secend longest period of
Has Hitler Youth Flac ccmbat service in tlie battle of Bu-
* Three objects of the passing !
tyranny that was Nazi Germany, , rope.
Chaplain Tonsing brought back The day's program begins at 10
with him. One is the biack and \ o'clock with classes for all age
white Hitler youth flag streamer groups. At 11 o'clock there is sched- |
with which he is pictured (the! tiled the festive service of worship j
flag is folded to the center third 1
showing the insignia.) Another is,1
the red, white and black arm band
of the D e u t s c h e ! ' Voikssturm'
Wehrmaeht ' t h e people's army.ii
"When they wore this arm band.]
Mie Germans were treated as reg-!
uiar army prisoners," the chaplain,
observed "Failure to wear this!
band while bearing arms against'
Allied forces meant death as "a spy
or brigand."
The third object which Tonsing
displayed was the German "moth-
er's medal," a personal presenta-
tion from Hitler to a German
mother for bearing a state-speci-
. fied number of children in a given
time.
"I found that in one of the
battered homes near Halle," the
chaplain said.

THURSDAY. JULY 26. 1945.

°J CHAPLAIN TONSING
/rjnen. Tney are nonest. ana U uie/;
Saave no leanings to religion, they:
feay so." j i E. Nash, pastor Officiating,
Lands at Cherbourg
§ Formerly pastor of St. John's!
{©Lutheran church at Wellington and]
i+£t. Mark's church <rin Emporia,!
i p h a p l a i n Tonsing became an army!
^ c h a p l a i n in July of 1943. Follow-)
"jjng the training at the army chap-j
S a i n ' s school at Harvard univer-]
K^ity. he joined the 104th and went.
Koverseas. landing in Cherbourg.:
Q France, in September of 1944, with:
S t h e first outfit to disembark in a'
^ c o n t i n e n t a l port.
i g With the First Canadian army,;
Wf.he 104th helped clear the Ant-|
FJwerp estuary in Holland, then;
paioined the First American armyj
' ' n e a r Aachen and fought, _throughj
MONROVIA
Funeral services for Charles B.
iHole. 76. were held Monday after-
I noon at 1 o'clock at the Monrovia
Methodist church with the Rev. C.
Mr.
Hole was & great- lover of sacred'
I music and and several selections '
I of sacred music were played in his
I memory. Mrs. C. E. Nash at the
I piano. Pallbearers were John Wer-
;ner. John Turner. Ralph Olson.
; Mitchell Gore. Andrew and Dean
I Walton. Those from away attending
! were his sister. Mrs. Fred Day and
:Mr. Day Superior. Neb.: a niece.
'.Mrs. Kathe.rine Jones and Mr. Jones
of Kansas City; H a n e s Martin and
his sister. Mrs. Paul Tons'ng. Atch-
ison.
CAPT. TONSING
at which dime there will be special j
music and a worthwhile message |
by Chaplain Tonsing. His topic will j
be "Soldiers of Christ."
Chaplain Tonsing's family will j
also be guests for the day. A pot- I
luck fellowship dinner will follow
the service of worship.
An inspirational service will be
held at 2:30 o'clock at which time
there will be greetings and musical
numbers from neighboring congre-
gations and another message of
lasting importance, this one from
the Rev. Walter Knutson, who will
soon take up his work in the Pa-
cific Synod of the Lutheran church.
His topic will be "Tne Challenge of
Full Time Christian Service."
 T n e psator. Rev. Arthur i'reeDurg,
'p::;c".' ; .. ; " »acft mrmbsr and every
; friend of St. John's a welcome to
' Palish Day.
MONDAY. JULY 23, 1945.
0C-
Deafh Take
Charles B. Hqje. V, of Effingliam,
died Saturday ,£vemng at 5 o'clock
| at th St. Joljn's hospital, Kansas
! City, where he had been a patient
| two weeks In failing health the
j past year he entered the hospital
j for observation...
Funeral service were held a t the
I Monrovia Methodist church today
' at 1 o'clock, with t h e Rev. C. E.
I Nash, pastor, officiating. Burial was
| beside his wife in the Monrovia
j cemetery.
Born in Nebraska, Mr. Hole went I
j to the Effingham communtiy as a I
i young man and lived there for over |
j half a century. Attending the Uni- J
I versity of Chicago he studied for'
i the ministry, but never took a
| pastorate. In September, 1903, he
, was united in marriage to Miss;
i Ethel Martin, daughter of Mr. and j
Mrs. John A. Martin of Atchison.;
They made their home' on a farm
south of Monrovia where he lived
until less t h a n a month ago when
he went to li\e with his sister, M B .
Fred Day, in Superior, Neb. His
wife preceded him in death in Sep-
tember, 1940. '•
! with the Russians above Leipsig.
ZEALOUS BIBLE
A highly educated man, Mr. Hole
was a zealous Bible student. After
the death of his wife, who was
teacher of the adult Bible class a t
the Monrovia Methodist Sunday
school, he was chosen teacher, and
continued until his health failed.
Mr. Hole Is survived by two sis-
ters, Miss Myra Hole of Boston and
Mrs. Fred Day of Superior, Neb. He
was preceded in d e a t h by "fcwnrt ~ N
brothers, Franklin, a former state
representative and Elmer, the ""\j>
former editor of the American
Lumberman .who died last October-^.
TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1945.
| Charles B. Hole' of Effingham, j
;who died Saturday, July 21, was 76 ;
I years old.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27 1945.
i Capt. Ernest Tonsing. chaplain m
| the 104th infantry division of the
i First army, gave a very interesting
i talk on his experiences in France
| and Germany at the weekly meet-
iing of the Kiwanis club. Maj. Edwin
T. Wulff, Atchison physician, also
a member of the First army, was
present.! Capt. Tonsing and Major
Wulff met several times while over-
seas and both enjoyed the visits.
Captain Tonsing told about the bat-
tles his division engaged in. He also
gave an interesting account of the
Russians. Other guests at the meet-
ing were Pfc. Bill Funke and GM
3-C Bud Kaufman.
MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1945. ;0b
Chaplain Ernest Tonsing
Tells Of War Experiences
About ten per cent of the men in the armed forces are regular in
church attendance, says Capt. Q u e s t Tonsing, chaplain of the 104th
(Timberwolf) artillery division in Holland and Germany, who recently
returned to the United States on a 30-day furlough before reporting at
San Luis Obispo for training and redeployment to the Pacific. Chaplain
and Mrs. Tonsing and their two sons, Fred and Evan, are dividing his
leave among relatives, visiting a t the home of his mother. Mrs. Paul
Tonsing, and his brother and family, Evan W. Tonsing, of Atchison,
and his brother, Robert L. Tonsing. telegraph editor of the Wichita j
Eagle, and other relatives.
Stating that attendance at church Formerly pastor of the Valley Falls
sometimes Jumped as high as 20 or Lutheran church, and later of St.
25 per cent, Capt. Tonsing said that J o h n s church at Wellington, and
fear had little to do with the in- St. Mark's at Emporia, Chaplain
crease. "There is very little decep- Tonsing became an army chaplain
in July, 1943. Following training at
the Harvard university school for
chaplains, he Joined t h e 104th and
went overseas, landing at Cher-
bourg. France, in September, 1944.
with the first c , fit to discmb.'.:!:
in a continental port.
With the First Canadian army.
;he 104th helped clear the Antwerp
estuary, then joined the First Amer-
ican army near Aachen and fought
through to the Roer river. From
Duehren to Co'/gne they spearhead-
ed the first drive with the Third
armored, and after the Rhine cross-
ing drove onward to the meeting
All the way, the chaplains of the
division went forward into combat
zones, catching the men as they
rushed forward into Germany. "We
held services in old barns, in gar-
lets, in bombed-out churches and
one time in a greenhouse," Capt.
Tonsing said. "Beyond t h s Rhine
we found many more beautiful
Protestant churches intact. Any-
place served for services in the mad
rush of w.iv,"
(/\i Three souvenirs of the Passing
n tyranny t h a t was Nazi Germany,
Chaplain Tonsing brought ' h o m e
with him. One is the black and
white Hitler Youth flag streamer
with which he is pictured. The flag
is folded to the center third, show-
ing the insigna. Another is the red-
white and black arm band of the
Deutscher Volksstrum Wehrmacht
(the people's army.) "When they
"•••ire this arm band," he explained,
j "the Germans were treated as regu-
lar army prisoners. Failure to wear
while bearing arms against Allied
forces meant death as a spy of bri-
gand."
T h e third souvenir is a German
"mother's medal." a personal pre-
CAPT. ERNEST TONSING
sentation from Hitler to a German
tion among the men," he said. "They mother for bearing a state-speci-
are honest, and if they have n o ! tied number of children in a given
leanings toward religion, they say ! time. He found it in in one of the
so." battered homes near Halle.
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Margaret Armstrong V Addison McKelvy
John Boatwright (Theodore Mangelsdorf
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Esther Fannen \ Robert Ritner
Parker Fox ..Kathleen Simpson

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Victor Gray
Marie Hekelnkaemper
Emah Lentz
t' Robert Tonsing I
^Charles Voigt
| Clarence Wheeler
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•r Mary Armstrong Katherine Ward
Annie Cummings r OdeliaWard
-Nellie Cummings Winifred Wert
a Grace See

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05 Margaret Cochrane Roland Moore
Ruby Goff Bertha Nielson
Virginia Howard Margaret Smith

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Howard Anderson Elizabeth Lake
i—< William Ashcraft ' Nellie Leland
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-J Azalia Black Frank Martin
Caroline Mize.
i Zelma Bradford
Walter Broshous
Florence Byram
Marie Purdy
Vanston Ryan
o Lola Dickens Ruth Schaffer
3 Marcella Ebling Beulah Scott
Ervin Hargrove Maurice, Seybold
Rowena Hawkins
Byron Shifflet
i Lorene Jacobs
Herman Kessler
Lena Kohn'
Henrietta Volk
Agnes Willock
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 j n e Atcmson county high school'
£ MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1945. at Effingham opened September 14,1 William H. Seward was given a
1891. .! reception in Atchison September 28
Kb* Chaplain and Mrs. Ernest Ton- The Trades Union, official organ, j 1860.
JUplf S i n g and sons are now at Camp San of the Kansas State Assembly of | Jim Bridger, famous frontiers-
ft|||-B.uis Obispo, Calif., where he has tht Knights of Labor, established in j man, arrived in Atchison by stage
f l l f i e p o r t e d for Pacific training. Atchison, September 5, 1885, b y ' 'from the west, September 24, 1861.
Frank Hall, Robert Tompkins and Dr. j . F. Martin, pioneer Atchison
^ g J V E D N E S D A Y , SEPTEMBER 5, 1945 James W. Reilly. ' '".'"• ; county physician, was born Septem-
The first baptism a t St. Patrick's ' ber 29, 1828, in Kentucky.
!
church, south of Atchison, was that John A. Martin school in North
%£Lemember of Mary Honorah Clare, and took . Atchison was opened in September
place September 28, 1857. 1885.
Albert H. Horton. prominent pio-
^September James W. Orr, prominent Atchi-
son attorney, was born September
! 14. 1855 ,in Michigan.
< neer Atchison lawyer, district judg^
and chief justice of the state, died
„-iBy GEORGE REMSBURG
September 2, 1902.
£ $ , . . The first sale of town lots in J T h e rural high school a t Potter
mS ^Atchison occurred on September 21, ' was opened September 6, 1916. T h e . late Z. E. (Ed) Jackson, of
The first issue of Sunday morning Atchison, was born September 23.
Evjl854. United States Senator David 1872.
J g -R. Atchison, of Missouri, for whom / Facts by E. W. Beal, appeared in
Atchison, September 2, 1883. President Rutherford B. Hayes
L*ffjths town was named, delivered an
The Kansas Territorial legislature j and Gen. Wm. T. Sherman visited
^ a d d r e s s on the occasion.
September 4, 1855, established slav- I Atchison and made speeches Sep-
JlfYHjT The first board of county com- l tember 9, 1879.
^ ^ m i s s i o n e r s of Atchison county held • ery, made it a felony to express I:
Ci* its initial session September 17-18, Abolitionist sentiments, disqualified
; Abolitionists as jurors where t h e '
The contract for the Atchison
j county court house was accepted by
m 1855. ••>
Gen. B. F. Stringfellow, one c\ ! i glits of slave, holders were involved
~» .the founders of Atchison ar.d a t and required al! officers to swear
j the commissioners, September 13
: 1897.
£ \ In September. 1892, ' t h e Demo-
m *B "prominent early attorney of the *w thty would support the fugitive slave
law. ; crats were wearing Cleveland white
fl town, was born September 3, 1816,
5 at Fredericksburg, Va. A postoffice was established at hats,
""g Philip D. Plattenburg became the Highbridge (now Curlew), on Stran- i-vi
" In September, 1882. Frank James
•5 first superintendent of Atchison I ger Creek, south of Atchison, with the outlaw, was wounded and har-
2 county schools in September, 1858. J William H. Grandstaff as postmaster, ^ bored by friends in Platte county.
Th Massasoit' House, Atchison's i September 13. 1888. "• President W. H. Taft was" in
famous pioneer hotel, was opened | The Atchison Institute (school) f Atchison for B. P. Waggener's 12th
September 1 1858, bv Col. Thomas I founded by Mrs. Harriet E. Monroe, annual picnic, September 27, 1911.
i Murphy, -September. 1870. ' James G. Blaine made an address .
The Sumner Gazette, pioneer^ 1 Monrovia postoffice established! at the Atchison union depot, Sep- !
rti
' ^ n e w s p a p e r at the old town of Sum- with Henry McEwen as postmaster, C tember 15, 1882. -^^CZisc-^S^'
2 ; n e r , south cf Atchison, was estab- September 4. "1E57. Dr. E. S. Bowman was killed by j
l i s h e d by John P. and D. D. Cone,^ A W. Pretzel, pioneer bottler, lo- likrtning ' near* Welch's Branch, in j
'^"September 12, 1857. cated in Atchison, September 2, Doniphan county, September 3, 1883. j
. j _ T h e plat of the pioneer town o! 1868. John N. Reynolds, editor and pub
,— . . . . „ , . . . , . . , in the^ northern
ffiLcMashinah, .._ „ rpart
~ . of
— . Golden Cross Lodge No. 7, K. of j Usher of the Atchison Times, in.• tthe h e !' A /7 _^
JS Atchison county, named for a noted , P.. organized in Atchison. September -j '80's, and author of a book 'The L JJ^ZtZ.
l_j Kickapco Indian chief, was filed by ! 30. 1872. j Twin Hells," pertaining to the Mis- Mis I V
O Major Royal Baldwin, September 21, A. Saint Nicholas postoffice. Mt. J*\ ; scuri and Kansas penitentiaries, in
** 1857. Pleasant township, established.' with ' both of which he served time, died
b j Mr. and Mrs. John M. Price ar- Levi J. Boles as postmaster, Sep- in the asylum at Osawatomie, Sep- j
O rived in Atchiosn September 1, 1858. tember 9, 1859. tember 11, 1895. • . fc/*
Q T h e old river bridge at Atchison Old settlers of Atchison and Atchison county people joined in j
¥A was completed and opened for traf- Jefferson counties held a reunion the great land rush on the opening [
5^ fie with a big celebration, Septem- at Nortonville, Sept. 11, 1895. \ of tht Cherokee Strip, September
m
ber 2, 1875. • - John W. Geary became governor 16, 1893.'
The Thirteenth Kansas 'volunteeu t of Kansas Territory and assumed Robert Forbriger, sr., prominent
infantry was organized at Camp the duties o f his office a t Fort Atchison pioneer, was born Septem-
Staunton, Atchison, September 10, Leavenworth, the first capital cf ber 5, 1825, in Germany.
1852 ,and mustered • into service Kansas, September .9, 1856. 6t
Thomas J. Rigg, well known early
September 28, of the same year. Doniphan county was organized Atchison county official, was born
In September, 1864, Gen. Sterling September 17, 1855. , September 29, 1846, in Kentucky.
Price attempted an invasion of K a n - s H. C. Lee, 94 years of age, was Iowa, Sac and Fox treaty a t Fort ^<r^Ccs-=L
sas. , killed by cars in Atchison, Septem- "* Leavenworth relative to the removal
The Kanses City, Leavenworth & ber 28, 1895. of these Indians to their present
Atchison railroad, now the" Miss'ouri Newell D. Todd, long superintend- reserve in the northeast corner of
Pacific, was completed to Atchison ent of the Chicago. & Atchison Kansas, September 17, 1836.
in September, 1869. Grasshopper invasion in eastern
Bridge Co. and prominent Atchison ' K a n s a s , September, 1866.
The Atchison union depot was
citizen, was born September 16, The Kansas 'State Teachers' Asso-
completed September 7, 1880. A
1845, in Michigan. .;' ciation was organized at Leaven- j
James Adkins, of Port William.-| v
was appointed sheriff of. Atchison The Soldiers' Orphans' Home was worth, September 29, 1863. V
county, September 5 1856. - Adkinq located at Atchison September 11, The late William E. Oliphant, of J
-i^-. Oak Mills, was born. September 5,
ta was a lieutenant in the famous 1885. . \
Cantonment Martin, or Cow I s - : 1857, in that locality..
t^C^t^Zpf
j!r! Kickapco Rangers a unit of Gen. 1
2 '• David R. Atchison's pro - slavery land, was abandoned in September, A long drouth in this section end-
g , army and took an active part in the 1819. J ed September 18, 1882. During t h a t ^
;
; " Border War. A diststrous fire aceurred at Wes- month there were hot winds, and
1
u>;. St. Mark's English Lutheran J, ton, September 4, 1858. en the 12th the temperature reached \
K church congregation in Atchison Terenct Harkins,^ of Doniphan - 105. ' :•
po was organized September- 20 1868. county, was killed by Indians 125 On September 22, .1871, one of
i.'i-The^cornerstone of the First Pres- miles this side of Laramie, Wyo., the most unfortunate events i n the
history of Atchison county occurred. j^tn^^-^'
; bjfterian church in - Atchison was September 21, 1868. . •:" .
^ i d f September 15 1880. - '" On that date the writer of this was
rborn

Scraps of local history: Atchison's
splendid fire department will be 85
years old next month. It was origin-
ally organized, on the volunteer sys-
tem, as the "Aetna-Phoenix Engine
& Hose company." The first meet-
ing, of which Col John A. Martin
was chairman, was held September
3, 1860. Major S. H. Washer was the
first chosen president and Mayor
W. S. Downs was the first secretary.
The following committee on by-laws
was appointed: Dr. W. W. Cochrane,
C. F. Foster, S. R. Washer, A. H.
Horton, and H. L. Davis. The ways
and means committee was composed
fo the following: A. S. Parker, J. S.
Schell, James Atherton, R. L. Pease
and Julius Holthaus. The newly
formed fire company made its head-
quarters In the old Pioneer Hall at
Fourth street and Kansas avenue.
Hand, engines were used until 18T6_
when a Silsber steamer was pur-
chased, and three years later the
volunteer system gave place to a
paid department, although volun-
teers continued to augment the per-
sotinel. The department was motoriz-
ed in 1912 Is there any old-
timer living who remembers John H.
Rust's hotel, established in 1857, on
the old military road, west of At-
chison? It was one of the first, if
not the first in Atchison county,
outside of Atchison. This pioneer
hostelry did a thriving business with
overland travelers on the historic I
old mlitary highway; the Parallel
road out of Atchison and other lat-
eral trails. 'Squire Rust, as he was
called, was one of the early justices
of the peace in Atchison county,
having been elected in 1858 and was
also an early county commissioner.
He served three years'' and three
months as Quartermaster Sergeant
of Campany D, Second Kansas Vol-
unteers, during (he Civil War. Sixty-
three years ago he was postmaster
at Lancaster. He was a native of
the Bucheye "State, and was born
in 1819 Ninety years ago on
the 28th of the present month, or
to be more explicit, on August 28,
1855, the Squatter Sovereign, At-
chison's first newspaper, promul-
gated Its principles In the following
statement: "We will continue to tar
and feather, drown, lynch and hang
every white-livered Abolitionist who
dares to pollute our soil." This
statement closely followed the In-
cident in which Rev. Pardee Butler
was tarred and cottoned and sent
down the river on a raft by border
ruffians of the Nazi stripe
About the time of the opening of
the Civil War there was organized
in the Pardee-Mt. Pleasant neigh-
borhood a strong company for home
defense .under the leadership of
that fearless, fighting Atchison
county Kentucky Abolitionist and
"Union men, Col. Caleb May. This
company was ' called the /'Atchison
County Antelopes," and was the
only one of its kind outside of At-
chison at that time. Col. May was
an ancester of Oscar P. May, well
known and popular Atchison at-
torney. Col. May and Rev Butler
probably did more to hold border i
ruffianism in check in Atchison I
county than any other two men. |
Col. John A. Martin wrote of them: i
"Among the Free State pioneers of
Atchison county, Pardee Butler and |
Caleb May were first in Influence j
and usefulness. The two men, in \
their personal characteristics, had
nothing in common. Col. May was
a man of very limited education;
Mr. Butler was schooled in books.
Col. May had lived all his life on
the frontier; Mr. Butler came from
one of the oldest communities in
Ohio; Col. May believed In the weap-
ons of carnal warfare; Mr. Butler
put his faith in the power of rea-
son. Both were men of approved and
unquestionable courage, but if the
pro-slavery mob had attempted to
capture Col. May, a revolver, held
in a steady hand, would have blaz-
ed Its defiance. Mr. Butler submitted
without resistance, to the mob's will.
The ruffians did not understand this
peaceful but resolute antagonist, but
they were compelled to respect his
determined. When Col. May wrote
to their leader a letter telling the
pro-slavry rulers of Atchison that
his home was.his castle and if any
man attacked .it, he would meet
with a bloody "reception, and that
he (May) Intended to come to At-
chison whenever he pleased, and
meant to come armed, they laughed
?t his rude chirography, and made
merry over his 'spelling by ear,' but
they understood his meaning per-
fectly, and knew, also, that he would
do exactly what he said. And they
never disturbed him. In personal
appearance, Col. May was an ideal
'Leather Stockings.' He might have-
sat for a portrait of Cooper's fam-
ous frontier hero and Indian trail-
er. Over six feet in height, angular,
muscular, somewhat awkward in re-
pose, with cool," bright gray eyes,
deep set under shaggy eyebrows, and
having an immense reach of arm—
his was an Imposing figure. Mr.
Butler was born Puritan; Col. May
was a born frontiersman. Mr. Butler ,
opposed slavery on moral grounds,
and because he hated Injustice or
wrong in any farm. Col. May hated
slavery, and fought it, because he
believed the institution was detri-
mental to his own race. Born in
.Kentucky and reared In Missouri,
he had seen the effects of slavery
all about him, harming him and
' his, and so he hated it. Kansas owes
jboth of these pioneers a debt of
I respect and gratitude."—G. R.
, _ - ••... _.., gg
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1945.
MONROVIA
Cleve Hitchner H has bought the
C. B. Hole farm one mile south of
here. Clarence Hegarty made the
sale.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 12, 1945.
KNEE HOLE DESK $10, small wood
i! heater $5. 315 N. Terrace.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1945.
Mrs. Ruth Tonsing, 315 North Ter-
race, entertained the W. T. C. U.
members Friday, September 28. The
meeting had been planned for the
evening, to be held in the parlors
of the Presbyterian church, the
program to include two educational
films, but due to circumstances, it
had to be postponed. A short busi-
ness meeting, followed by a generaj.
program, replaced th * earlier plans.
The state convention, to be held
sometime in October, will be in To-
peka. The president, Mrs. J. M
Philippi, will be the delegate from
Atchison. All members who can.
are urged to attend. Five new Bible
story books and subscriptions to
"The Young Crusader" have been
placed in the school libraries by the
Union.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1945.
MISSIONARY SOCIETY
The Woman's Missionary society
of St. Mark's Lutheran church met
yesterday at the home of Mrs. Will
Schmeling, 1001 Santa Fe. Mrs. Al-
bert Carr led the devotions and
Mrs. Paul Tonsing gave the lesson.
The next meeting will be at the
home of Mrs. Amy Sea.ton.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1945.
Cpl. and Mrs. Pau} Tonsing, who
have been visiting relatives here
tne past few days, left for Wichita
and Oklahoma City yesterday. They
will visit his brother, Robert, at
Wichita, and his sister, Mrs. Ida
Denton, in Oklahoma City. Prom
there they will go to Weatherford.
Texas, to visit Mrs. Tonsing's par-
ents, returning after a few days to
his marine base in San Francisco
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1945.
Kiwanis Club
Evan Tonsing was elected presi-
dent of the Atchison Kiwanis club
at the weekly, noon-day meeting of
the club yesterday. Mr. Tonsing is
the owner and operator of the
Tonsing Book store and a fotmer
member of The Globe staff. He will
take office the first Tuesday in
January, 1946.
The Rev. Sam West, jr., was
elected first vice president and Ra-
phael Marlin second vice president.
Father West is rector of Trinity
Episcopal church and Mr. Marlin
 Is with the Western Weighing ana
Inspection bureau.
i John Kaufman 'spoke on- his ex-
! periences as an army war corre-
I spondent connected with the Stars 5
and Stripes, and as a radio reporter, j ^
He gave a running account of hi;< j.
battle experiences from D - day
through Prance to the fall of Berlin.
He was in a team of three men, a
photographer, reporter and a jeep
driver. Nine such teams Covered the
front line action for the army's
newspaper and most of this news
was immediately released to the
press associations.
New members attending yester-
day's meeting were Lloyd Bell of the
Farm Security administration; John
j Baker, owner of the Atchison Seed
I and JUcwer store; R. A. Mabary, op-
erator of the Standard Oil Co. serv-
| ice stalion at Seventh and Main.
NEW KIWANIS
DENT — Evan .Tonsing, who was
PRESI-
elected president. of the Kiwanis
club for the year 1946, at their
weekly noonday luncheon Tuesday, j
Mr. Tonsing is owner and operator !
of the Tonsing Book store.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1945.
Evan Tonsing has renamed from
Fremont, Neb. where he was a
member of the 11-man board of
trustees electing Dr. William P.
Hieronymus the eight president of
Midland college.- Dr. Hieronymus
joined the Midland faculty January I MONDAY, DECEMBER. 17 L J945. |
15 as assistant to the president and
head of the department of Chris- Harres Martin, was sworn into the
tian education. He* was named in navy at Kansas City Saturday after <^
June as director of the Forward passing special examination to
Midland campaign, a $225000 drive
for a new men's dormitory and enter officer training for naval
college debt retirement. As presi-
dent he succeeds Dr. Fred C. Wieg-
man, who resigned to become pastor until he is called to active duty
of Trinity Lutheran church,. Akron, about March 1. Another son, Ralph
Ohio. Before going to Midland he Martin, junior at Kansas university
served as director of parish edu-
cation of the American Lutheran
church for seven-years and prev- {
iously was vice president of Au- j
gustana college.
Evan Tonsing: "Every store win- -terday from Nortonville where shej t named for the famed "Buffalo
dow in downtown Fremont, Neb
was badly soaped Halloween night'
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 3, 1945.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1946.
Capt. Ernest F. Tonsing of~~Sa
:
. ^COUNCIL WOMEN MEET
The Atchison Council of church
women met yesterday afternoon at
jlina, who served as chaplain with
..the 104th infantry division in the
_ German invasion, has received his
n
the Carol Bapiisa church. Mrs. L. A. discharge at San Luis Obispo,
Indlecoffer was the accompanist for
the opening hymn. The devotions -Calif., He left there today enroute
- t o Salina, where he will join his
were led by Mrs. Paul Tonsing of
St. Mark's Lutheran church. Mrs. - f a m i l y . Capt. Tonsing is the son
Ira Parnell of the Episcopal church , ^ o f Mrs. Paul Tonsing, 315 North
offered a solo "Come to Me," ac- Terrace.
companied by Miss Valeta Mae
Brown. "The San Francisco Char-
ter—World Plans for Peace," was January In
reviewed by Mrs. G. L. Cleland, Miss
Pauline Rimer, Mrs. Steadman B,all tLocal History
and Mrs. Oscar P. May. The bene-
diction was given by G. F. Oliver, By GEORGE REMSBURG
/ The Atchison union depot burn-
pastor of the Mount Olive Baptist'
church. There was a social hour at ed January 6, 1888.
the close of the meeting in charge Col7 John A. Martin, of Atchi-
of the ladies of the host church. son, commander of the famous
Beautiful mums were used for deco- Eighth Kansas Infantry, returned
rations. Mrs. Rex Davis is president from the army in January, 1865.
of the council.
The late Paul Tonsing became
SATURDAY,. NOVEMBER 10, 1945. editor and publisher of the Atch- : S ~7
ison Church - Visitor, January 14,
Cpl. Paul Tonsuig 01' tne marine 1911.
. corps received his discharge this
week at Oakland, Calil., after serv-
. in;_ in the armed loic„> »„»• ijur
j years. Cpl.A" Tonsing will return to The condition of Mrs. C. S.f ^
I Los Angeles to resume his pre-war
j position at the Los Angeles Times. Moyer of Nortonville, mother of
I He is the son of Mrs. Paul Tonsing, Mrs. Evan Tonsing of Atchison, 1*7 ?
' 315 North Terrace. continues extremely critical. Mrs V
Tonsing is with her. » *~'t
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1945. . , - . ur /
Evan Tonsing mailed a $1 bond
CLASSES MET to the police station yesterday be-
The Philomathean and Dorcas cause of an overtime parking
classes of St. Mark's Lutheran charge.
church met yesterday afternoon MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1946.
at the home of Mrs. Roy Seaton
with a 1 o'clock pot luck lunch-
eon. There were 24 present and
the three guests were Mrs. A.
Dunavant, Mrs. C. E. Gerkin and &
Mrs. Moyer
Mrs. Ralph Ringer. The interior
of the home was lovely with beau-
tiful Christmas decorations. These
Dies After
officers were elected and in-
stalled: Mrs. Albert Carr, presi-
dent, Mrs. E. F. Fink, secretary,
and Mrs. Ed Olsen, treasurer.
Long Illness
Games were enjoyed with prizes ks Mrs. Clarence S. Moyer, 70, die;1
won by Mrs. Paul Tonsing, Mrs. yesterday afternoon at 12:30 o'
Clarence Hansen and Mrs. Ralph" xlock at her home, three miles
Allen. j? southeast of Nortonville, where
Paul Martin, son of Mr. and Mrs.
<u
she went as a bride more than 50
years ago. Her death followed an
extended illness.
=8=
Funeral services will be conduct- 1 >
ed at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon
by Capt. Ernest Tonsing, Salina,
army chaplain, at the Nortonville
aviation. He- will continue his 4 Christian church. Interment will
studies at the Atchison high school be in the Nortonville cemetery. The
body will be at the Stanton and
spent the week-end visiting his
parents.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 2, 1946.
tomorrow.
2
Stanton mortuary* here until noon
Nellie Knapp, daughter of Mr.-.
and Mrs. Albert Knapp, wasf born I
October 30, 1875, south of Lowe-
** ••'—— —' —
— —' <n* mont in Leavenworth county. Her
birthplace was near Cody Hill,
n
Mrs. Evan Tonsing returned yes-;
was called last Friday because of! Bill" Cody, who was born and
the serious illness of her mother,, J reared in the locality. Her father
Mrs. C. S. Moyer.

was a schoolmate of the plains-!
J: man and she also knew him.
February 10, 1895, she was mar- i
,
ried to Clarence S. Moyer. Shortly J
before their marriage Mr. Moye_ |
| completed building the home |
where they spent all of their mar-1
ried life. He was a member of the |
i Kansas legislature from 1914 to i
•1918 and is prominent in Demo-1:
! cratic and Masonic circles.
I Shortly after her marriage Mrs
Moyer united with the Christian .
church at Nortonville and was one !
of its most faithful members. She'
was a Past Matron of Mount Zion
chapter, Order of Eastern Star,
at Nortonville.
A truly Christian woman, Mrs.
Moyer lived an exemplary life and
was greatly beloved for her many
qualities of heart and mind. She
was patient and cheerful during
her illness. Her chief interests
were her family and home, and
she was a loving and kind wife an-"
mother.
Besides her husband she leaves
four children, Mrs. Evan Tonsing.
1
Atchison; Bert Moyer, Nortonville:
Ernest Moyer, Topeka, and Miss
Lola Moyer of the home; six
grandchildren; two brothers, Lewis
Knapp, Nortonville, , and William
Knapp, Atchison, and a sister, Mrs.
Birdie Keener, Topeka. Mrs. Ra>
Montgomery" and Mrs. Rolla Bry-
1 bility of taking over ice skating rinks for food stor-
ant of Atchison are nieces anc"
Albert Knapp of Atchison is a
nephew.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1946."
The Rev. Ernest Tonsing, son of
Mrs. Paul Tonsing, has been pro-
moted to major, and is now at Sa-
lina on terminal leave. He will re-
turn to San Luis Obispo, Calif., for
his discharge.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1946.
v-«—
The Rev. Ernest Tonsing, former
army chaplain, is attending a I
seminary near Chicago where he
is taking, a six-month refresher \
course. Sponsored by the U. S. fito
government and the national I
church organization of which the
Rev. Tonsing is a member, the
course is designed to prepare
chaplains for resumption of pas- l a r g e
t OS
i toral duties. The Rev. Tonsing's 3,500 carloads of food?
] family will remain in Salina while
;he is taking the course.
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1946.
» Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tonsing of
((•Oakland, Calif., are the parents
of an eight-pound son born yester- t o n s of food to send t h e m . S o m e of
day. The baby, who. has been this food comes from t h e farms of t h e
named Charles Richard, arrived M i s s o u r i Valley; Uncle S a m ' s p r o b -
on his father's birthday.
MONDAY, MARCH U , 1046,
ST. MARK'S LUTHERAN
For the first Sunday in Lent icebox b i g e n o u g h for -a giant. I t •
Pastor H. Vance Baird used as w o u l d h a v e cost 15 million dollars t o
the theme i o r his sermon, "The b u i l d s u c h a cold storage p l a n t .
_Cross_and Temptation." Two peo-
"^i^M&
Sfc.-^
N a t u r e — a n d t h e K e r f o r d Qui
rr~4M-
pie were received into churcn Company—came to the rescue. ^,i-;
Or
membership.
Lenten vespers will be held O n t h e b a n k of t h e M i s s o u r i R i v e r E , j
Wednesday, 7:30, and choir re- n e a r Atchison, K a n s a s , is a - h i l l 6 ^
hearsal will follow this service. limestone. I t is a hollow hill. F o r 7
Services of prayer and study y e a r s , m i n e r s h a v e b e e n t a k i n g x>;
will be held this week Monday
through Friday and the study pe- c h u n k s of l i m e s t o n e for b u u V
riod will consist of a book re- m a t e r i a l . T h e y h a v e left a g r e a t
view by Mrs. Paul Tonsing. These d e r g r o u n d c a v e . T h e cave h a s a r o
meetings will begin at 2:30 and of d i r t a n d stone 100 feet t h i c k : Th_
the one held Tuesday will be
at the home of Mrs. S. A. Ham- l a y e r of e a r t h acts as i n s u l a t i o n : Ig
c ve
rick with Mrs. Walter Tschcn k e e p s t h e t e m p e r a t u r e of t h e * &
as the leader; Wednesday, at the 50 d e g r e e s , w i n t e r or s u m m e r . % j g
home of Mrs. LeRoy Demmon
S o m e foods w o u l d spoil a t t h a t terte
and Mrs. G. A. Ricklefs will be perature. Late in the summer, the
the leader. Thursday, at the
W a r F o o d A d m i n i s t r a t i o n instaU«!B ; |
\
home of Mrs. Leslie Long, at
which time Mrs. S. A. Hamrick r e f r i g e r a t i n g m a c h i n e r y . T h i s c<M j
will be the leader, and Friday
only one million, dollars, i n s t e a d of | 5 j
at the home of Mrs. G. A. Rick- million. I t took t h e t e m p e r a t u r e dSjvnj
lefs with Miss Anna Bruce as the
leader. to 30 or 32 d e g r e e s . ' <#
The Altar Guild class will meet T h e big cave is filling u p w i t h t % u -
Friday night at the home of Mrs. - s a n d s of t o n s of l a r d , m e a t , d ^ d
Ted Pickerell, 409 Laramie.
fruits, d r i e d eggs, a n d d r i e d rrflik.
S o m e of t h e food is c a r r i e d in t r u c k s ,
• 9 4 6 - G A K P t N SPOT GUIDE A N D A L M A K A C
BIG ICE BOX
Uncle Sam's ne^er .satisfied with anything but the
biggest and the best. When war-time demands for
food storage began to get out of bounds, hundreds of
suggestions were made to alleviate the condition.
Some Government officials thought about the feasi-
age. At first reading, that sounds odd, but there ere
a lot of big ice skating rinks in America's major cities
. . . with an amazing amount of floor space, and ex-
tensive refrigerating equipment.
Then existing storage faculties were augmented by the
world's largest ice box . . . a combination of the old
fashioned farm root cellar and the most ultramodern
scientific refrigerator . . . with temperatures varying
from thirty to fifty degrees . . . and a total of 8,000,-
000 cubic feet of space, to permit storage of more
than 50,000 tons of food!
It's a 75-year old limestone mine, near Atchison, Kan-
sas, a huge, dry cave, insulated by 100 feet of earth
and stone. The War Food Administration leased the
mine for the duration of the war, with option for two
additional years, and immediately turned its 15-aere
area, with the 14 foot ceiling into a giant ice box. Part of the underground Icebox Whici
Its normal temperature of 60 degrees just about that contains about one-fenlh of the coiWlry'f
maintained by thousands of food eaves maintained
by farms. That's ideal for preservation of root vege- total refrigerated storage space. Tb& ice-
tables. Fruits, cheese, cured and salt meats may,be box will constantly grow larger. foiQsfoBC
stored at this temperature, too.
is still being taken out. " • .;
JC&U&X, Jp/l a Qia#ltvM<k drive right into the icfbox
. O t h e r food is t a k e n in b y g r a i n s o:
sm a l l cars
mall cars pp uu lul ee da boy
y tu<».iuia.
ractors.
• H o w w o u l d y o u like an icebox as
N o w U n c l e S a m is looking a l b u m
as four city blocks, filled w i t h for n e w c a v e s to c o n q u e r .
WFA Is Leasing I
After football practice or a p a p e r -
gathering trip, that might seem about
t h e r i g h t size for y o u r appetite.
Uncle S a m h a s millions of soldiers Underground I5
w h o get j u s t as h u n g r y . H e g a t h e r s u p
Natural "Icebox"!
By MALCOLM LAMBORNE Jr£j I
(Special to North American Newgptotr
Alliance.) Rj"
l e m is t o s t o r e t h e food u n t i l it is WASHINGTON,'July 3—The f S r :
needed'abroad. Pood Administration is complewog
T h i s s u m m e r , h e h a d to h a v e a n e w arrangements for leasing a 75-y£ i
old limestone mine near Atchfcl'a.
Kans., and plans to store in^Jts
12,000,000 cubic feet of space Cjjv*
,. ernment-held lard, eggs and oSger
. : < {| perishables in an unprecedented
*,££-
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project which promises to have sig- | summer of '87 when Atchison was j Mound, was aHargTsIzeTToTTana^
nificant effects on the nation's food recuperating from it boom of the ] the one at Riley was one of the last [
and agricultural programs, it was earlier eighties while mine was
learned today. j to go. All the bakeries seemed to I
The mine, which will be equipped that particular preteen age that be operated by Germans: Gerber,!
with refrigerator machinery giving fosters the beginnings of an in-1 Ioehler, Meyer, Traftz, Seybold.
a. temperature between 30 and 32 sight into grammar. Because of I and Hagen. The first three also;
degrees, thus will become the largest my failure to correlate our elders' ; had ice cream parlors in connec-
single cold-storage house in the expression of the town having 'a tion. Seits and Brunnemann, also
United States. Its total cubic foot- boom.' With the meaning of the ! Germans had cigar stores, or fac-
age alone is equivalent to about 10 'word expansion it created the im- tories. Drug stores mostly had
per cent of all public cooler space in pression of uncouth Americaneese. soda fountains with probably al-
existence in this country.
I recall that it was also hard to coholic drinks behind the pre-
WFA officials, who are hopeful of understand Challiss Addition be- scription case, but did not add ice
placing portions of the mine in op-
eration by Aug. 1, estimate it will fore learning that it referred to a cream until along in the nineties.
save the Government as much as definite plot of ground within the Think of it, no ice cream soda in
.$3,400,000 annually in storage bills. town's environs. I wondered if it those days and not even chocolate
To construct a building with equiv- was some superior type of that flavored soda. Flavors were vanil-
alent floor space today would cost form of arithmetic which might la, artificial lemon, raspberry,
approximately $15,000,000. The render more reliable results than strawberry and pineapple. Soda
Atchison project is not expected to |my own uncertain style of addi- drinks at that time were dispensed
cost more than one-tenth this figure. on the order of a glass of root
* • * tion. In any event, the boom, then
beer now and was classified by
The project, according to WFA. is passing out, was responsible for one country boy after tasting it
expected to present three important our taking temporary quarters at for the first time as: "Soda, heck!
developments. They are: Treftz Bakery while hunting a
' For the farmer, it will mean the more permanent location for our Sweet wind!" Old time druggists
Government support price on hogs chattle. Treftz Bakery, rooming were John Beltz, Lang & Noll,
will be met, particularly in times of and boarding house was about Bereman & Ritner, Charles Ba-
peak marketing. WFA can continue where Dilgert's and Latenser's are con, J. W. Allen, Sam Stoll, J.t
to buy hogs even after commercial now, back a little from Commer- W. Simmonds, John Brown, A? W.;
storage has been taken up. cial street and on lower, ground. Stevens, Barton & Gratigney, John j
For the consumer it will mean less It had a wooden sidewalk bridge Bowen, Frank Bonheim and S. E. I 8
wastage of food. It will no longer connecting it with the street walk, Moyer. Not all of these sold liquor j
be necessary to divert eggs to live-
stock feed or lard into soap, for in- sloping downward to the entrance. \
stance, as WFA finds itself with Just south of Commercial at Sev-,
behind the case, but some outlying j
grocers dispensed beer and whole- 1
oversupplies. The^gency will simply enth the north and south forks of sale grocers handled wine in bar- n
route the foods fb\Atchison for White Clay creek came together rels. Among the old printers were;
Woodhouse & Shauer on North]
'l
future use., and while there was a culvert over
It will provide interim storage for the creek at Commercial at Sev- Fifth, Caldwells about where the i
a wide variety of agricultural prod- enth, the region south and south- Y. M. C. A. is now, Haskel's at:
ucts, particularly commodities from west and where Hotel Atchison is 316 Commercial, later becoming'

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the West and Far West, in seasons now, was mostly creek and gullies. the Home Show Print, the Trade
of excess production. John Levin's shoe -shop.-at about Printing Co. between Fourth and
Officials also predict it will sim- Fifth on Commercial which later
plify the problem of holding food the present northwest corner of ; developed into Lockwood - Hazel,
supplies for eventual release to lib- the hotel, was perched on stilts and Clark's Printery in the base-
erated countries and nations bene-. to reach sidewalk level. Commer-
filing under lease-lend. cial street was unpaved except for ment of the old Price Opera
cobblestone gutters; later it, Kan- House, also Meyers and Sons on
-• • •
With a normal temperature in the sas avenue and North Ninth streets
50's and natural insulation formed were paved with Osage Orange' North Sixth, and Burbank's at
tsi'
by limestone, the mine presents no | blocks while, I believe South Sixth and Kansas. The theaters
problem for refrigeration engineers. Fourth and North Fifth were pav- were Corinthian hall on the west
A number of cooler units strategi- side of North Fourth, between
cally placed through the mine will ^ed with cedar blocks. Main street Commercial and Kansas, Price's
do the job, according to experts. , was paved alternately with four Opera House on the northeast
They estimate that between 3,000 to six inches of dust or one to two corner of. Fourth and Kansas,
and 3,500 carloads of food, with an feet of mud. One of the great
later Decoming Seaton's theater i
8
estimated tonnage between 60,000 novelties to me was the numerous
and 70,000, can be stored in the mine sidewalk bridges here. We came and subsequently changed to the"
with ease. Atchison theate.. Many of the fin-
Mining of limestone by the pres- from a section of Nebraska where est attractions appeared here as
ent owners will continue and is not a two foot hump in the terrain well as popular priced produc-
expected to conflict with the new was classified as a saddleback and tions remaining for a week, such>

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project, officials say. Under such the hills and gullies here were an as Corse Payton, the Spooners-j
an arrangement, new storage space innovation. No doubt the long side- and North Brothers. Apollo hall, I
.will be continually available. walk bridges, often extended a
\ The project is the "brain child" of block from one high street level over the round corner at Third
lit. Col. Ralph W. Olmstead, deputy to another, in places on 18 to 20 and Commercial, ' was -used for
L lirector of WFA's office of distribu- foot stilts, contributed to the pros- local entertainments but finally
ion. Col. Olmstead said he recalled degraded into a variety show. The
is a boy visiting icy caverns in the perity of tne Howell & Jewett popular Airdome was where Kro-
Western deserts. He then directed Lumber Co. Among those remem- ger's is now located. At that time
search be made of possible sites bered were those across White all the hotels were bunched/ at
r Uncle Sam's biggest storehouse. Clay on South Fourth and Fifth. the east end of town. The Byrara
Atchison mine is the result, ' Sixth had a stone culvert often in- Q
where it now is, Miller's just
adequate to handle flood waters across the street, St. James on
[MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1948. and choking with debris. Others Second below the Byram and the .
were on Kearney, Laramie, Para- Union Depot hotel upstairs in the"
| A . r P . Eymann: Atchison's pres- lell and Santa Fe and one that ex-1 present depot building. The orig-
e t ~3musing- situation will recall tended from Kearney to Division; inal electric fower house was
£ihanyofIthe older residents a on the east side of North Second. I where the Dolan Mercantile Co^
The bridge across the creek on I now roasts coffee.
lilar condition during the eight-
' We arrived here in the late
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Ruth Martin Tonsing, "April 27, 1939 to April 8, 1946," newspaper clippings, held by Linn, Dot, 2400 S. MacArthur, #167, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73128.
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Ruth Martin Tonsing, "April 27, 1939 to April 8, 1946," newspaper clippings, held by Linn, Dot, 2400 S. MacArthur, #167, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73128.
Rum Martin Tonsing, "April 27, 1939toApril 8, 1946," newspaper clippings, held by Linn, Dot, 2400 S. MacArthur, #167, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73128.
Ruth Martin Tonsing, "April 27, 1939 to April 8, 1946," newspaper clippings, held by Linn, Dot, 2400 S. MacArthur, #167, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73128.
Ruth Martin Tonsing, "April 27, 1939 to April 8, 1946," newspaper clippings, held by Linn, Dot, 2400 S. MacArthur, #167, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73128.
Ruth Martin Tonsing, "April 27, 1939 to April 8, 1946," newspaper clippings, held by Linn, Dot, 2400 S. MacArthur, #167, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73128.