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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 picture, 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 api propriate for growing boys and girls, • and Tcnsing's has a splendid se! lection, with another large ship1 ment due the last of this week.

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^ E v a n Tonsing: •"Many years ago a 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 peaceful. Today a newspaper reporter leads a more prosaic life."

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1943. CHRISTMAS PARTY Mrs. Roy Seaton was hostess yesterday 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 exchange of gifts was held. In contests prizes were won by Mrs. W. B. Winzenried and Mrs. T. J. Dun. ning. During a short business meetI 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.

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urns For boys and girls of high school age Tonsing's offer stationery, a large selection of fountain pens and pencils, books, games, puzzles, albums and scrap books, magazine subscriptions, zipper notebooks and cases, and an almost endless variety of other practical gifts. And for adults Tonsing's provides the largest showing of fancy stationery in this section of the state, desk sets, fountain pens and pencils, blotter sets, diaries and calendars, 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 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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w WHERE KANSAS RANKS 1—Exactly in the geographical center of the na tion. 2—First in \aiicanic ash production. 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 railroads; 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. Second in alfalfa. Second in creameries. Fourth in meat packing. Fifth in dressed poultry shipped. ._•

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Mr. and Mrs. Evan Tonsing and Mrs. p. G. Tonsing has returned children, Virginia and Gene, and Mrs • Paul Tonsing, who are visiting Mrs.' irom Leavenworth, where she visited mm C. B. Hole, a faithful teacher 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 TonMONDAY, JUNE 19, IBM. as teacher after an absence of six sing of Wellington, and their families, will return home this evening. weeka : Mrs. Clayton Settle is here "from ~ - P-'—— — Strong City, Kas., to visit her sister WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1939. Mrs. Paul_ Tonsing. I ' TUESDAY, MAY, 9, 1939. I . 00 .,Rev. Horace F. Martin has resigned TUESDAY, JUNE 20 1939 I Mr", ^nd Mrs. Paul Denton, who have as president of Midland college at 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 actOldest business men on ComW E D N E S D A Y , M A Y 10, 1939. ing president of the college. Rev. Puis mercial street insist more water for several years has acted like a man T h e Martin store room in which wanted Rev. Martin's job. Meanran down Commercial street Matt^Walters' drug store is located who while, Midland is in deep trouble has teen a drug store since 1879. this afternoon than any other financially, and is eternally asking Kansas and Nebraska Lutherans for time in the last forty years. Weghesday, May 17, 1939. money. Rev. Horace F. Martin is well The current of water was so, known in Atchison, having been educated in Midland college and swift and so deep that automo-j & [fcre and Western seminary while those two mi biles became stalled, on the institutions were in Atchison. He will * rjreaboufcs in 1893 II become dean of the Western seminary pavement, in the heart of the at Fremont. He has been president town. | of Midland college since 1925, and was October, 1893: I a hard and intelligent worker for the Countless basements under Midgnd college football team: Paul ! school, but lack of finances greatly stores are half full of water. ronsjg' Rolla Kistler, Chris Hansen, ! handicapped the college during his 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 ; World war. For several years after Hams§ Luther Bright. irain seemed to be localized in this imMerJBSers 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 Nebraska people who pledged money galls SSale, Lee and George Hippie, 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 reThe weather man's face was red. belle Bayley, Mona Cain. Pearl Flet- mained in Atchison and had worked The forecast for Atchison this evencher, l*ljuJu_Fisk, Ruth Hetherington, as hard here as it did in Nebraska, ing was slightly cloudy and warmer. it would not be financially embarBessieyPennell, Alice and Jessie PerMr. 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. Unheralded, the storm sprang from Riggs^Lulu Taliaferro. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1939. nowhere, struck swiftly, with a ven__ I geance, and vanished. It slipped up on Harres Martin has moved his insurSATURDAY, 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. •*• — — 62_. _ • _-; •_ SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1939. The bluffs along the Missouri river, 'on bath sides, were covered with hail NESDAY, MAY 24, 1939. His Atchison relatives have received i ! following the worst part of the storm. to the high school grad-; During the remodeling of the rear ( invitations They looked like snow covered mounof John Maurice Tonsing, son' portiosrof the ground floor of the Mar- i uation 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 , Saturday, June io, 1»3». in, wfc built the building in 1880, did • Cathedral High school in Los Angeles 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 TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1939. Champion when Governor Martin conHarres Martin and Mrs. Paul Tonsing, I iuctecgjt. Harres Martin will occupy a is recovering from a very serious maMrs. Charles Hole of Monrovia, who room j& the rear of the first floor, jor operation in a St. Joe hospital. Her recently underwent an operation at novjng-^his insurance office from the condition is somewhat Unproved, , St. Joseph's hospital In Kansas City, >econd*-floor. The room he will vacate will be brought home tomorrow. apecupied by Dr. W. O. Wallace, enlarge his present quarters WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1939. ft, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1939.

TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1939. _ w^ Hatttes Martin's new office on the east Swe of the Walter's drug store building Is about completed.

Mrs. Charles B. Hole of Muscotah arrived in Atchison today from a Kansas City hospital, and will spend sevcral weeks at the home of her sister mrs. P. G. Tonsing. She is making a "•-od recovery from an operation.

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

MANY BUILDINGS DAMAGED Roof of Park Bros. Transfer Co., Demolished— Downtown Streets Swirling Torrents—Basements Flooded Throughout Business Section—Water Invades Globe Press Room.

Atchison and Atchison county was1 lashed by a vicious rain-and-hail storm which reached cyclonic 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 signboards 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

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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. 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 afterly demolished; nearly half of it was blown into the middle of ^ ~ ^ s t r u c k &t ^ Q,c]ock 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 , , , . ,, . . . _.. , , , . . . ^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_„„. , . . • . , . • rel="nofollow"> Old residents were amazed at the Effingham with, equal force. 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 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 folcould do. Great hail stones were driven through the roofs of^; lowing the storm. •J2. 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 to the southeast as quickly as they had come, leaving the sun 'was no damage in the west part of and only a few harmless looking clouds in the sky. J t h eA city ' ^ nl n Wlnd t n a t c a m e w .

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A telegram received by Atehison ref/ y atives t h e3 : tives this morning mornine- annonnced 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 birth and he a n d his mother are both I doing fine. They are in a Wellington1 hospital. There is another child in I i l '. the family, a little boy, two years old.'' Rev. Tonsing is the son of Mrs. Paul 1 t 3 Tonsing and a brother of Evan Tons- — lng., .a iTn> • I :o'o- s if MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1939.

TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1939 Mr. and Mrs. Allen Settle of Kansas City were here Sunday visiting a n aunt, Mrs. Paul Tonsing, 315 North Terrace. Mr. Settle-works in the sports departm e n t ' o f trie Kansas City Star. His mother, Mrs. Clayton Settle of Strong City, Kas., h a s been visiting Mrs. Tonsing here for a week. IN

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Atchison's storm of last week calls to mind two such storms years ago. The first was in June, 1887, if I remember right, in which there was a terrific hail storm when all of the plate glass fronts on Commercial street facing north were demolished and the roof of nearly every building in town was damaged. The other storm was on June 29, 1890, when every bridge across White Clay creek, from west of the Missouri Pacific shops to Sixth street, was washed out. Pour of them were lodged against the foot of the viaduct at Sixth street. J. P. Perry, Masonic Home, Wichita, Kas.

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GOVERNOR JOINS LANSING ADVISORY GROUP

Junior Tonsing of Los Angeles has arrived for a visit with his mother, • C. L. McCuen, president of Olds Motor j Mrs. Paul Tonsing. He will be here for Works and chairman of the Advisory Com] a week or 10 daysmittee of the Automobile Club of MichiMrs. Paul Denton and her two chilgan's Lansing Division, is shown welcoming dren of Leavenworth are here to visit j relatives and to see her brother, Junior '• Governor Frank D. Fitzgerald as an Adj Tonsing, who has arrived from Cali- visory Committee member. I fornia.

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John Levin: "When I came to Atchison in 1879 the John A. Martin building at Mfth and Commercial streets was being built."

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Governor Fitzgerald has exhibited a keeig' interest in Michigan's travel and resorT* business and has promised every co-opera^ tion in keeping Michigan's second largesg industry at its peak. An analysis show|^ that of" the United States* $4,000,000.00
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T h e annual election of officers was t h a t resulted was the mouse She was t h e widow of Dr. Martin Zimfield and t h e new officers are: Mrs. jumping up and down in his merman, pioneer physician and farmer Leslie Long, president; Mrs. Carl cage. of Doniphan county whose death ocBrown, vice-president: Mrs. Paul TonHowever, Dr. Mellenbruch curred 40 years ago. Funeral arrangesing, statistical secretary; and Mrs. assured me - t h a t the mouse ments are pending. Albert Carr and Mrs. Fied Piatt, r e does its best singing after elected treasurer and recording secMatter-of-fact, shrewd and indusd a r k when all is quiet in the ; retary respectively. Mrs. Winr.enreid trious, Mrs. Zimmerman was a r e a l household. served dainty refreshments, assisted by rugged individualist. She died on the Dr. Mellenbruch was as farm where she went as a bride and ! her sister, Mrs. Ed Olson. much embarrassed as the spent more t h a n 70 years of her life. ] mouse, and no amount of In spite of her age she kept her own wheedling, talk, feeding or FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1939. home, ran the farm, milked a cow and anything else could make t h a t did all the feeding summer and winter T h e Rev. and Mrs. Ernest Tonsing - mouse "sing." The pastor told without assistance. She always h a d [and clvldren of Wellington, Kas., are me t h a t the mouse had been from 350 to 500 chickens and a large ! visaing Rev. Tonsing's irother, Mrs. caught in his home several number of hogs. Each year she proi 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 Because of her unusual personality strange singing noise and t h a t she had been invited on two occasions when the mouse was caught SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1939. to speak over "We. the People," a r a - i it was found said noise came dio program on a nation-wide hook-up, therefrom. T h e Rev and Mrs. Ernest Tonsii.g but both times something interfered. 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 ja visit with their Aichison relatives.! on the program and if she did she ; t h e telephone and said very Rev. Tonsing's sister. Mrs. Paul Denton, j WOUkl make the trip by plane. 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. home for a visit over New Year's. name was Mary White, was born a t : I did and heard some kind of Savannah, Mo., September 20, 1849. sounds which the minister said When she was six years old her parwere coming from his "singents 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 t j Perhaps t h e hardest working m a n In years later she went to live with rela] Atchison Is Abe Tonsing.. tives, Mr. and Mrs. Reggie Stout, on a farm just east of Troy. (l ^ ~n—"" r W> WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1939. In 1864 she was married—when only Evan Tonsing h a d a birthday last 15 — to Dr. Martin Lutheran ZimSaturday and Sunday. Mrs. Tonsing merman a t the Presbyterian church in entertained with a kin dinner in his Troy. There are no immediate survivors. honor. T h e guests were Mr. and Mrs. 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 REV. E R N E S T F. T O N S I N G Moyer grandchildren, Margaret Ann, years ago. and a daughter, Helen, died Sunflower Seed* a t an early age. Clarence and Bobby Moyer; Mr. and , 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 ( Abe Tonsing has a g. g. appropriate birthday cake and candles, recently was elected president of t h e 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 returned from Wellington, Kas., where FOB SALE CHEAP—Boys' books, suitable TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1939. 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 H E R E A B O U T S Globe: One time he had $960,MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1939. MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1940. 000 on deposit in a New York _ IN 1894 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 afcwhile trying to make t h a t last $40,000 he lost $960,- tendance records: 20 years. Dr. C. E= 000 Hixon and Grace See; 17 years, Evely^J FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1939. Mangelsdorw; 13 years, George ManS gelsdorf; 12 years, Mrs. W. B. WinzenS i Yesterday afternoon Mrs. W. B . Winreid; 10 years, Robert, Milton and D o i £ . 'renreid e n t e r t a i n e d t h e Women's Misaid Chew; 5 years, Gene Tonsing a n m sionary society of St. Mark's Lutheran Rose Mary Blohm; 4 years, Mrs. J. Brj church a t h e r home. Mrs. Harry Giles, Beloved Resident Herndon and Marie R u t h Blohm; gq vice president, conducted t i e business 1 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

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J of this section, a n a his talk made Challiss very enthusiastic about the proper town (of Atchison). Abell told 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 the opening settlements, and certainly would become headquarters for t h e , stage and overland freighting lines^, ' a n d later for the Pacific railroad. All these claims were eventually vin- < -cheated, except t h a t the railroad (Cen-
Eaith and Clayton Settle of Chase ooigty to Harres C. Martin for $1 and trjgr consideration—North 90 feet of A The sevenlhy-eighth annual convenihe^east half of lot 1, block 16, Old tion of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod AtiJJiison. Same property described from of K a n s a s and adjacent states v.1H be Graee M. and George J. Mauck to Hare&jMartin for $1 and other considera- •* held E.: St. M a r k s Lutheran church :ioR Same property from Paul A. Marhere April 1. 2. 3 and 4. in%>r $1 and other consideration. Same v Several hundred Lutherans from onjj^rty from Ethel M. and Charles B . churches in Kansas, western Missouri. riole to Harres Martin for SI and other and Oklahoma will attend the convenrorJBderation. Same property from tion. rtiH* M. Tonsing to Harres Martin for : I Twc auxiliaries of the synod the 1 ^ d other consideration. | Women's Missionary society and the =i Mer.s Brotherhood, will also meet here > MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1940. ' curing the synodical gathering. -33 =• Preliminary details of :he conven.cr.s were arranged at 2 meeting of cgaul Denton, jr.. has about recov.he synodical executive committee a; ered. He had his tonsils taken out. TopekA, yesterday. The Rev. S. A. Hamrick. pastor c: St. & WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1940 . Mark's and Evan Tonsing attended the - Toptka meeting. ^ F r o m The Globe of July 16. 1894: T h e Rev. Andreas Bard. D. D.. p a s 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 AugJS known as GranviJ.'e Morrow. '.herar, synod, and will preside over the ust, 1854, the ferry landed near Geo.rtMr. Morrow came to Atchison April Convention here in April. rge Millions claim cabin, on the pres; 5J 1854. two months before Kansas was ent site of the B. & M. round house ,B»en to settlement. At t h a t time George Evan Tonsing: "Going to Topeka 11 (north of t h e foot of Commercial L S . Million ran a saloon in a little log .( morning on the train, w eLi i 's, s l r e•" tj fgianty at the foot of Atchison street, C yesterday w ere stalled by a snowdrift on offered Challiss W h e r e his ferry landed; and Sam Dickthe 11 AAbell lot if he b e l l offered Challiss a H&n had a claim shanty near Dickson's tracks at Nortonville and had to wait|J would build a store, and Challiss pick- . for the snowplow. It was 16 below at [Spring in South Atchison. Sam Dickson led a lot at the foot of Commercial 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 ,-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 carpenteeorge 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 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 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 isborne," and brought t h a t craft to say the very first, settlers came in 1838 and groceries from Weston, Mo. When Bvtchison. On being brought to Atchison j t h e goods arrived a t Atchison, on a ••that boat was loaded with steel rails, to 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 street, (as stated previously, the first from his carpenter and from George fjiotive across the Missouri river here. *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 GeoChalliss' store did a big business ^ . t c h i s o n . He now owns 1,200 acres there, rge T. Challiss. from the start. He kept travelers over I n the spring of 1854 George T. g i n 25 years he has never failed to raise 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 (i>tchison county. 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 oysfirst 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 Million's ferry. Even a t t h a t time the >} Mr. Morrow was born in Wayne counfamous 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. •;

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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 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 started 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 often came to town from his farm at Pardee. He was a free spoken man, and the southern element which then predominated 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 provisions. Butler managed to land safely at Sumner. In about a month he came back to Atchison, although warned not The Rev. Sam Hamrick, above, is the 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 corner of Third and Commercial streets, where a lot of fierce South CarolianWhen the seventy-second anians had collected. The building was nual convention of the Synod of then occupied by the postoffice. The Kansas and Adjacent States South Carolinians were for hanging j opens tonight in St. Mark's LuthButler, but John Bennett, also a south- ! eran church, Sixth and Park em man, plead for Butler's life. Finally j streets, it will be the fifth time Butler was stripped naked, was smear- ! that this synod has been a guest ed with tar, was covered with cotton | of St. Mark's. batting, and was then allowed to leave j town in his buggy. George Challiss wit- I The synod was organized in Tonessed the entire proceedings, and says peka in 1868, and the second conButler was the Aoolest man in the parvention was held here early in ty, although his life was in the greatest 1869, with the Rev. M. G. Boyer danger. as president. Later conventions were held here in 1889, 1899 and 1920.

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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 WellFrom 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- | ed by Kansas militia, and his final re- j treat with his demoralized army to the | south of the Arkansas river. General Samuel R. Curtis then commanded the department of Kansas, but was on the plains, in the vicinity of Fort Kearney. But Curtis returned to Kansas; and took charge of the forces collected to fight Price. George W. Deitzler was major general of the Kansas militia, and John J. Ingalls was on his staff as judge advocate. The militia was called out to resist Price with Geni eral Curtis' regulars. Four companies were organized in Atchison, for the Eighteenth regiment.. of which Matt Quigg, of Atchison, was j colonel. William Bowman commanded | | Co. A; W. B. Kipp commanded Co. B; : i George Taylor commanded Co. C; and Lou Higby commanded Co. D. Dr. W. W. Cochrane, of Atchison, was surgeon of the regiment. The four companies were raised within a few days, and early in October marched to Wyandotte, in two and a half days. From Wyandotte they went twelve miles into Missouri, and helped an Iowa battery guard a ford over the Blue river. But they never got into a fight. Among the men in the Atchison companies were Clem Neal. David Lukens. Dick Hurd. Andy Keithline. John Reisner. 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 McCully, Fred Koester sr., Henry Klockman, John Mclnteer, A. Ostertag, William Schweder. John Merkle, A. B. McQueen, J. W. Truesdell, John Lane, G. W. Glick. J. P. Brown, L. Frank, Hugh McCleary, A. S. Hughes. am B o w m a n came to Atchison in 1860, and engaged in the lumber SiXth a n d streetsSS Commercial In 1863 he bought the old mlU at the foot of Commercial street. In 1872 he built the Central mills. f„^oLi

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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 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 . 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 . 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 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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St. Mark's has been a bulwark of consistent Christian activity. It has provided religious leadership to Atchison and vicinity through three quarters of a century, and has enjoyed the respect of people of all faiths.

THE DINNER CROUP SINGING, Conducted by W. G. Altimari (Herbert Wildeboor, Accompanist) OUR HONORED GUESTS — A Tribute by Pastor

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TRUMPET SOLO — "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" (Goldman) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Robert Berger GREETINGS from the Atchison Ministerial Association _ _ _ Dr. Charles A. Haw ley, President ANNOUNCEMENTS MARIMBA SOLO — "Fantasie-Impromptu" (Chopin) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Valeta Brown ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS _ Dr. T. D. Rinde, Fremont, Nebr. BENEDICTION

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.

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To the Kansas Synod, and to the Church at large. SI. 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, and several have been prominent in the councils of the national Lutheran body. In 1913 St. Mark's was host to the convention of the General Synod, then the national Lutheran synod, bringing prominent Lutheran leaders to Atchison from 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 synodical conventions in 1889, 1899, 1920, and 1940. The St. Mark's congregation was organized September 20, 1808, with 25 members, by The Rev. M. C. Boyer. The first sixteen years of the congregation's life was beset with difficulties; but in 1884 the church was reorganized and incorporated, and from then until today it has made steady progress. Price's hall, on the east side of South Fourth street just south of Commercial street was the congregation's first meeting place. For some time after its reorganization in 1884 the 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 Sunday school building and chapel. The present church was erected in 1909, also with A. B. Zimmerman as contractor. 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 School Music Department group — Herbert Wildeboor, piano; Valeta Brown, violin; Joan Tandy, violin; Winifred Palmer, flute; Doris Handke, clarinet.

More than eighty young men affiliated with St. Mark's are in the Nation's war service.

The Anniversary Committee — Evan W. Tonsing, chairman, Mrs. Homer Pratt, LeRoy Demmon.

Our greatest opportunities lie before us! May we continue to "press forward toward the high calling."

With an energetic and consecrated membership, and able leadership. St. Mark's can be expected to continue lor many years as a definite Christian force in this community.

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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 Yesterday afternoon the three principal 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 consecutive years as treasurer, a record among all the Lutheran synods in the United States. The Rev. Klover h a ' 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, historian; Wayne Easterday, Topeka, statistician, 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 afternoon. She succeeds Mrs. F . W. Juergensen. Oklahoma City, Okla. Miss Helen Fink. Atchison, was elected recording secretary, Mrs. W. C. Jacobson, Oklahoma City, Okla., treasurer, and -Mrs. F. W. Juergensen, young women's secretary. 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, Atchison. •' •

[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 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. ' Last night two highlights of the convention—the Missionary and Brotherhood banquets—were held and botb were largely attended. TONSING RE-ELECTED j Yesterday afternoon t h e synodical Brotherhood re-elected t h e present officers for the fifth consecutive year. 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. Swanson, Oklahoma City, Okla., replaced u C. W. Everhart, Wichita, as t h e * representative of t h e southern conference on t h e executive committee. Evan Tonsing was nominated delegate 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 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 23. ; About 250 attended t h e Brotherhood banquet last night in t h e Masonic temple. I n language n o t theological, t h a t meeting was a wow. Evan Tonsing of Atchison, president 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. -\* MONDAY, APRIL 29, U « k Mrs. C. E. Olden entertained the L members of the W. C. T. U. a t herj home, 1130 Parallel street, Friday afternoon. 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; . 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 " " " freshments. Il

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| against him when the south com.composed of 198 acres. This is now .menced to fail, and his fortune %p.s regarded ss the best portion of the ^reduced to nothing. g> city. As an operator on Wall Streetcar As a member of territorial council, :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 i Central Branch of the Union Pacific. 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. » Miss Ruth Mellenbruch, who is a i from Atchison, and one from the An incident in the career of ftjr. granddaughter of Mrs. Paul G. Ton[mouth of the Kaw. In 1862, there Challiss in New York was the atteiftjp: smg, will be graduated from Whittenwas every reason why Atchison should .of Wcodhull & Claflin, to blacfcrj&il. burg college at Springfield, O., this secure the prize of the first railroad 'him; he made a fight that is ftjli ' spring. Her mother was Miss Orpah 1 through to a connection with the remembered, and sent Woodhull^-fe j Tonsing of Atchison before her marCentral Pacific. The act of congress : j Claflin, Colonel Blood, Stephen Peari ] riage. 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: \ Kansas City saw very clearly, and jand Judge Fullerton. The "Fulleij&jr. ! made a fight to change the route . I quarter'' in Atchison - i s the Ktt< 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; Mr. and Mrs. A. Mylander ' 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. Wedded 50 Years "scnaicr. and that the price was 150,C00 acres of land on the Pottawatomie 5! Mr. Challiss returned to Atchjso:; in 1878, where he has since liffec. Indian reservation. As h result in this change in the j looking after the wreck of his fcrfee: possessions. For three years he ec§ea route, the Central Branch land grant stopped at Waterville, one hundred £ the Atchison Champion, and his *Sii,torials attracted so much attention miles west of Atchison, and Kansas Civy became the leading town in this s j that people wondered who wrote trExr. section. Had Mr. Challiss' bill desig- j | It finally became positively krifitvr. nating the route of the Pacific rail- , that Chailiss himself wrote them/Snc iroad up the Republican valley not e : they were certainly remarkable coigns from a man without early journalistic ! been changed, Atchison would have 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.' On Wednesday, April 10, Mr. ! for the Atchison, Topek* & Santa Fe, j iCol. Martin was in the army, andSJic. and Mrs. August Mylander celeIhis original idea being a southern! the same thing in opposing Jim B&ne brated their golden wedding an| route to the Pacific, and that road I ; in its columns. This opposition rt«st niversary at their home, on Ot• has fulfilled all his early expectations. |"^j| Colonel Martin a brigadier genfflaitawa street. Open house was held The first railroad to Kansas was j ' s h i p . After Colonel Martin's dejath. from 2:00 to 9:00 p. m. Florai • the Atchison & St. Joseph, an ex- . there was sort of irony in the j ^ c t congratulations received from tension of the Hannibal & St. Joseph J that L. C. Challiss became editogof friends made their home a veri'from St. Joseph to Atchison, and this .V| the Champion, and bitterly opposed table flower garden. Numerous was built by- L. C. Challiss, the String- IS tngalls. cards and gifts assured the coufellows, P. T. Abell, S. C. Pomeroy. J ; L. C. Challiss having been abjj§ed •ple of the best wishes of thek and Samuel Dickson. Later this road host of friends and relatives. iwas extended to Weston, as the At- -3/ ; a good deal in Atchison, it is 'jgrlh Mr. and Mrs. Mylander graciousjcliison & Weston, against Mr. Chalj mentioning as a matter of hctory ly received more than one hun• liss' protect, and still later it went ;that he was largely responsibly-for dred .guests. Out-of-town guests to Leavenworth and Kansas City. i making Atchison the terminus of^ the arrived from Sandusky, Port d i n Chtiliss always fought the extension •main line of the Hannibal & StL^Joe ton, Fremont and Toledo. to Weston, but was overruled by his railroad. He brought J. Gould, Hfinry MT. Mylander is 76 years and associates, who claimed that it would N. Smith and Ben Carver to AtJS&OB. Mrs. Mylander is TO years. bring the North Missouri into the ; and they agreed to extend the"' roaci They have two children, Mrs. city. The extension of the road to ; from St. Joe to Atchison on QonCora M. Hetrick and ILaurence MyAtchison was a hard blow to St. Joe, i ! sideration of $75,000 in Atchison Ifends. lander; three grandchildren, Richas well as to Kansas City and Leaven-; I This was agreed to. Challiss haq-rhad ard and Virginia Hethckr-and Karl worth, and Atcliison was more promis| some sort of a deal with Hen& N. Mylander; one. greaj-^gr-andchild,, ,ing then, probably, than ever before ! Smith while they were both opef&ting Richard Heta-ick,5r. .?. : •-„ i or since. Because of it, Atchison beon Wall street, and Challiss clowned '.caiae the leading freighting point to 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.. Joe road here without the $75,92? in F r o m ^ T o i o b e ' s historical edition] II Mr. Challiss made a great deal of j money in Atchison, and in 1864 drifted bonds the people had agreed tfg.giv« of July 16, 1894. • to New Y < rfc from Washington, and v him. _g jl'.e became an operator on the stock : The Atchison Champion of Mgy 11 Luther C. Challiss came to Atchison I ' 1872, contains a half column-^scarc in i » f ftfl» BooneviUe, M c . w h e r e | ; j exchange. Mr. Challiss' sympathies : | were with the south, and he was .head to the effect that L. C. Chjiliis! ihe was engaged ss a merchaiu. He , ' generally a "bull." As long as the south i telegraphs from New York ths* thi Remained here continuously u n a M J t t , . showed its ability to hold out, Mr. | "bridge at this point had been £$ia!l< as merchant, banker, ^ . " g g S S I Challiss made a great deal of money; 'secured. The paper gives the'eredi land real estate operator. Cfaa^J at one time he had on deposit in New of securing the bridge to L. C. Challis addition" was pre-empted by MJ. York $96,000, but the tide turned and James N. Burnes. IShalliss in 1857, and originally was! 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 guests on Wednesday, May 15. After the close of the meeting Rev. and Mrs. Hamrick served refreshments.

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SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1940. Men did the cooking, serving and decorating of the tables at the Mothers Mrs. Paul Denton, who Is raising a and Daughters banquet Wednesday garden for the first time i n h e r life, By A * BENNETT night at St. Mark's Lutheran church. has become a real farmer a n d was And they covered themselves with glory. thrilled with t h e rain. She said t h a t The mothers and daughters are saying 'o s a y g h a t we will get into this war she could just watch her garden grow the food was the best they ever ate. ause Jfe got into t h e last one is to in it. And the decorations the last word in ore t h a i we are a nation of intelliartistic achievement. Floyd Hundley t adults, capable of learning, A letter from Paul P. Hastings, of was the artist who did the decorating. >>~-' t a t h e r g w e will not get into this Chicago, vice president of the Santa F e : <*> • became we did get intc the last 1 /•His idea was to have the decorating resemble an April shower, and although £ ~ - "I return herewith copy of T h e Atchison --ancJ^found out it doesn't pay. : u Daily Globe of September 17, 1938, covno water fell, the silvery ornaments f we I n a k e any mistakes this time ering the opening of t h e new bridge at representing umbrellas, made the April s m a $ 3 some new ones—let's not Atchison and giving also information shower effective. The men served baked ke oliWones over again. about the old bridge. I have always ; h a m , new potatoes with butter and claimed that I remembered the dedicaparsley, corn souffle, green beans, hot tion of the old bridge, but perhaps hereJoncerfilng our participation in t h e y. rolls (two kinds) jelly, pickles. The men after I should say t h a t I was present a t t warjlflid you know t h a t : ^ g a v e their dessert a long French name, t h a t event, for I note t h a t it took place . B r i t S n cut the Atlantic cable to <:but one of the guests a t the banquet on August 24, 1875, when I was not quite r m a n | ~ s o t h a t all news from t h e ^"said. in plain American the dessert was three years of age. We were then living r zone? came via London and was pears, whipped cream and cherries, 7 just, east of t h e school house a t F a r m and she added. "It was delicious." T h e isoredjiby British agents who let / - . i n g t o n but were frequent visitors in toastmistress was Mrs. Floyd Hundley. lericaj&ead what they wanted Atchison and probably father and Mrs. Sam Hamrick, wife of the pastor nericaPto read? This occurred in .mother took their children t o the celeof St. Mark's, gave the invocation, 7 ite of J b u d protests by foreign corbration. I t was an all day trip to drive Mrs. Will Schmeling offered the toast to --«£- to Atchison and back. I remember John bpondwts, protests which the AmerMiss Helen Storin pul£ic never heard. jA. Martin of the Champion and Ed the daughters, and 2. TrK&Lusitania was a British ship u— the oldest of the mothers who were •ut, or w h a t h e reported t o President Sunday and Monday, May 26 and 27, .guests at the banquet, toosevife. will be great days in St. Mark's Luth+ Donffjyou think .he American peoTUESDAY, MAY 21, 1940. ,-tj eran church. For some time t h e comile, who are directly involved in such mittee in charge of t h e reunion of ID I ;onver©tions, have a right to deEvan Tonsing knows a motorcyc's those who have been confirmed in St. Jhj .«_ / nand S t o a t went on and w h a t was Mark's, and those who have been mem- [ / Cs J cop in Kansas pit}'. laid? i> bers, has been working hard to contact o u_ ^ M r s . C. B. Hole has returned t o h e r every one of them. T h e g o n l y security this nation will The first class of which there is any i*-*-""^ home in the Monrovia community. Shej / iind will be in a n army and navy so 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 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 : / ' P^FRTDAY, MAY 10, 1940. 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 — "who once worshiped in our church. B. Hoj* for $1 and other consideration paign during t h e last 25 years he exAn invitation has been extended t o ^ —Soutfr 10 acres of the east half, and 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 . present for the service on Sunday night. east Smarter of 25-6-18. 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.

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15. During his abrence seivices will be j --.a special wire that leads from uiti I who are giving full time service in the .church to his room. Former residents LLord's_WQjJt_fls_ministers of the Gospel.1 A held as usual. of Atchison, who were members of St. J They are the Rev. Robert Gaston of | © J .Mark's, have sent in letters of saluj Bendena, the Rev. Ernest Tonsing of ^ tation. 'Wellington, and the Rev. Gene Harri-i ! The reunion dinner begins at 6:30 son of Hutchinson. The Rev. Harrison' this evening, in the church parlors will speak at the regular service oni Everybody is invited. It will do honor Sunday at 10:30. The Rev. Bob Gaston I to the three young ministers menwill speak at the evening service at tioned above, and to the three oldest 7:45 p. m. All the friends of St. Mark's members of the congregation: Mrs and these sons of Atchison are invited E. C. Harwi, A. B. Zimmerman and to these services. St. Mark's Holds B. D. Zimmerman. The reunion will close on Monday Two-Day Event evening with a great congregational dinner at 6:30 p. m. This is for all of Starting Yesterday TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1940. our members and friends. It is to be a covered dish dinner. Special music, I Two splendid sermons were preached singing, fun and an inspirational ad'in St. Mark's Lutheran church yesdress by the Rev. Ernest Tonsing. terday by two sons of that church, Rev. Gene Harrison and Rev. Robert St. Mark's and her people extend a hearty welcome to all our friends and Gaston. Tonight another son of that invite them to follow "The Call of the church. Rev. Ernest Tonsing, will Lighted Cross" and worship at St. speak at "the reunion dinner" in the Mark's. church. Yesterday and today were set! Two-Day Affair This great occasion is in honor of apart by Rev. Sam Hamrick and his j three of our members who have been congregation, St. Mark's, to honor the j Honored Three loyal to their church since about 1884. three young ministers and the three j They are Mrs. E. C. Harwi, A. B. ZimOldest Members oldest members of the congregation,merman and B. D. Zimmerman. Come Mrs. E. C. Harwi, A. B. Zimmerman I Rev. Ernest Tonsing closed the and help us give honor to these three :and J£, j ) . Zimmerman. | leaders. reunion at St. Marks Lutheran church j Rev. Gene Harrison's sermon yes-1 with a good sermon last night. The I terday morning was the theme, "Every reunion was a two-day affair ho-oring (Editor's Note: Rev. Gene Harrison,! j Person Has Values." It was an en-' Rev. Bob Gaston and Rev. Ernest Tonthe three oldest members of St. Mark's I couragement to individuals who believe sing are St. Mark's contribution to the and the three young men who were jthey can do little or no good on this ministry. Gene is a son of Mr. and Mrs. "reared" in St. Mark's and then entered i earth. "The good Lord can use every Will Harrison, 1003 L streec. Atchison. the ministry. The three oldest mem(Willing person for some gcod," said Bob is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. S..; bers are Mrs. E. C. Harwi and A. B. I Gene. "Every person has some quality, I Gaston. 221 North Twelfth street, Atchi- I and B. D. Zimmerman, all of Atchison. I son. Ernest is a son of Mrs. Paul Ton- | ' some talent, that could exert a good ! The three young ministers are Rev. jsing, of Atchison. Gene, Bob and Ernest influence if that person would get! Ernest Tonsing of Wellington; Rev. 'are the salt of the earth. It is remarkover the defeatist idea that he doesn't i Bcb Gaston of Bendena; and Rev. able that Gene and Bob entered the amount to much and can do nothing." j Gene Harrison of Hutchinson. Rev. I ministry, considering that when they Rev. Harrison is a son of Mr. and i Harrison preached in St. Mark's Suniwere youngsters they were members of Mrs. Will Harrison, of 1003 L street. I I day morning, Rev. Gaston preached •ye editor's Sunday school class.) I He was graduated from the Atchison I Sunday night, and Rev. Tensing high school in 1922; from college in j preached at the banquet last, night. 1929; from seminary in 1932; and was MONDAY, MAY 27, 1940. About 150 people were at the banquet. ordained in Zion Lutheran church at In his address last evening Rev. j ST. MARKS "[ [Hutchinson in 1932. He is now pastor Tonsing referred to the three oldest Yesterday was a big day in the his- | ot a Lutheran church in Hutchinson. members of St. Mark's as being "living I tory of this church which was called i I Rev. Bob Gaston's sermon last night j epistles." I the first annual confirmands reunion j was all frankness. He unleashed "Each one of them is a book and was held in honor of St. Marks j against "liberalism' in religion, poliexploiting individual faithfulness," saidi j three oldest living members, Mrs. E. tics, sociology, economics, commerRev. Tonsing. "Mrs. Harwi and A. B. j C. Harwi, A. B. Zimmerman and B. D. cialism, philosophy, etc. and B. D. Zimmerman have kept the I Zimmerman. Two of the sons of St. I "The liberals curing modern times faith for sixty years in this particular ' Marks, who are now in the active j have promised much wi.h fine words," church. It is fitting that this reunion !1 ministry, were the guest speakers, j said Rev. Gaston. "They have promised honors them." Rev. Eugene Harrison of Hutchinson | as much as do the 'medicine men' Rev. Tonsing if. a son of Mrs. Paul preached at the morning service and of the jungle. And what are the Tonsing of Atchison. He was born in results? Chaos in every phase of Rev. Robert Gaston of Bendena spoke Atchison in 19G8. He was graduated human life. 'Liberalism' throws away in the evening. from Atchison high school in 1926. i old standards, and has nothing except This evening at 6:30 a great reunion He received his degree of Master of! words to supplant the old standards. dinner will be served in the church Arts from Kansas university in 1^32. | The teachings of Christ have been pallors following which the Rev. ErnHe was graduated from theolr*',. _^i i supplanted by nothing worth while." est Tonsing, another son of St. Marks, seminary in 1934, and was ordained j Rev. Gaston was graduated from will be the guest speaker. in 1936. He formerly was pastor at the Atchison high school in 1922; from Mrs. Marie Lunstrum and her son, Valley Palls, and has been at Well'college in 1926; from seminary m Vernon Lunstrum were received into ington since November, 1938. He indeed 1S29; and was ordained in Trinity fthe church membership yesterday. is a worthy son of St. Mark's. Lutheran church in Lawrence in 1930. ! The Women's Missionary society Rev. Bob Gaston, of Bendena, made He is now pastor of St. John's Lutheran Iwill attend a meeing of the society to a few timely remarks at the banquet, church in Bendena, Kas. He is the I be held at Lancaster on Tuesday. in tribute to the three oldest members. son of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Gaston, The church Council will held its reRev. Gene Harrison was unable to be 221 North Twelfth street, Atchison. gular meeting on Tuesday evening at at the banquet, because of the illness St. Mark's church is beautifully 7:30. of his little son at Hutchinson. decorated with flowers, for the reBecause of the service being held B. D. Zimmerman was called on union. Smiles and greetings predoMonday evening ihe Boy Scout troop for remarks, and expressed appreminate. Mrs. E. C. Harwi and B. D. will meet Wednesday evening. ciation. B. D. and A. B. Zimmerman Zimmerman are present at the reunion Pastor Hamrick and his family will have been members of St. Mark's since services. A. B. Zimmerman's doctor leave the middle of the week on their 1381; Mrs. Harwi since 1882. Evan I won't let him leave his room, but he vacation and will be jone until June Tensing and Mrs. Edward Arthur had is hearing the services bv means of

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"There Will Be No Night," whicn ridicules this country for its nonintervention policy and has a powerful appeal to the emotions. On every hand we hear that we should intervene "to save humanity.') (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 over here next; American is too sophisticated, because of its last war experience, to be hooked on the old line of "saving 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 primarily on France's doorstep. Before Hitler came to power France and England had an economic strangle-hold on the German republic, A high official in the German 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 ascension of Hitler. England was willing to grant economic concessions, but France never wavered. The world knows the tragic result. JAMES L. POSTMA,

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. FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1940. Mrs. C. B. Hole leturned Tuesday from the home of her sister, in Atchison. A From The Globe's historical edition of July 16, 1894: The town of Sumner, a few miles south of Atchison, was not named for Charles Sumner, as is generally supposed, but was named after his brother, George Sumner, one of the original stockholders of the town company. At that time Atchison was controlled by southern sympathizers, including P. T. Abell, the Stringfellows, the McVeys, A. J. Westfcrook, and others, and abolitionists were not welcome in Atchison. Being a violent abolitionist, John P. Wheeler determined to establish a town where abolitionists would be welcome, and the town of Sumner was the result.

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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. that exaggerated the town. Among the oon in the Mexican war. and his stones , He adly eventually returned to Keneasterners 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 lithograph was John J. Ingalls. The .tensely interesting. Ingalls used to go ; s e r v ice, and was killed in battlelithograph 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 H hors eback o about ten blocks wide and as many | j jugging for catfish, and spent hours 1 rip to Denver with E. P. Lewis, a Sump blocks long with big buildings along the U "listening to his talk. Finally Ingalls ner capitalist. Lewi* Lewis *»«» was takeri sick on n e r capitalist. river, and five steamboats at port, wrote te River w^r-nn^in wrote his his "Catfish "Catfish Aristocracy, Aristocracy, and and t h ee p-, p-,aattte River at the Wheeler and Ingalls were both acquain- y[Lang ( , „ „ recoginzed ™ ™ i n , » j himself v,™^*- as „.. the fv,= hero. v,<>™ ; r at bncli*and - Ingalls " cta K e"muaama had to 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 ^ 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 „i„ was libelous. , „ „„„ Lane lived ...... -on -a piece o n account of the Sioux Indians being to go west, he asked Ingalls to stop at cle -J Sumner, and then report upon it U * ! a;n £d ? £ f l tf0 f i t h£ wr f tr t h l stifioS ^ T T / ***«m* was thin ^ 0rlobe point for investment of Boston money. * * " * " * ' ° * * ?f ; iea Palmetto, and had a hotel known SO u> 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 so e October 4, 1858. on the steamer, "Dun-^ > <*« set Jed with Lang , w i t h m o n e y myst eriously disappeared, 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 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-' 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< his Boston friend, Walker, to invest, ' m marriage; *~^SO of c o v e r t v a n d sleItnpss_ , , his pension money was a "• of poverty and sickness. as i The hotel building at Sumner at the • curse to him, for it only served to put isonl-e^" 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] 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 In 1858 the Sumner hotel was owned _ \ ,, -remained here continuously until 1861, f son, and managed by JackChicago Hull. newspaper His son. ft« »*P. He continued to live after , as merchant, banker, ferry operator' Paul Hull, a famous others left, and he there was called and real estate operator. "Challiss' man, was born there. Five years ago *> 'be mayor, being the town's only in-addition" ; was pre-empted by Mr. 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 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.") city. and Mr. Hull was covered by "beggars j When the Civil war broke out, the :As a member of territorial council, |e--^_, lice" while trying to find the old foun- .^Atchison men who objected to aboli- ' Mr. Challiss secured the first charter y dation of the old hotel. When Sumner |. tionists settling in their town, were for a railroad west of Atchison, the was in its prime, stage coaches running driven out of the country, and this atbetween 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 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 from Atchison, and one from the \^__ 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 mouth of the Kaw. In 1862, there ] 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 _ was every reason why Atchison should | Albert D. Richardson, a great histor. Mchison dl u seems ro b e \ K> ion. was a citizen of Sumner when Mr. ^ l o c a t e d a s : secure the prize of the first railroad | esc c y c l o n e s _ a tmes through to a connection with the; ^ _ a a 2^J&^-$£d 8L& 3&&-. of hills west or Atchison tend to send the father of Minnie Haul:, who has © f| ; Central Pacific. The act of congress ^__ the bad storms tc the north and to providing for the Kansas Pacific [ since become famous as a grand opera. Lne t/3 S U singer. James Hauk was a carpenter, j that the road should run up j i ° I_" A good many of Sumner's citizens specified and his wife conducted a boarding the Republican valley, a provision I i •also went to Denver, which was then directly to in favor of Atchison, and due zA . house, and Minnie waited on the table. . O ln ~~ is / and was noted among the boarders a s a Kansas; In 1860 Kansas was 683 to the efforts of Mr. Challiss. This le 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 by act of congress, and it is Hauk made a house boat, and floated Lo dry; thore was no rain from the spring as 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 Several years ago Minnie Hauk came is now known the first hot w:nds re out by S. C. Pomeroy, United States to Atchison to give a concert, that did , corded in Kansas to blow in senator, and that the pries was 150,and in began September of the'not attract a large audience. Her hus- -'June, 1860 grasshoppcrs came. All 000 acres of land on the Pottawatomie band, Watcgg, was verybyindiyear gnnat. Count She was accompanied her :• same 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 who still lives in Atchison was one of j ed to Atjhison, and some to farms. stopped at Waterville, one hundred _ 3 'her boarders. I Ingalls first visited Atchison the _, miles west of Atchison, and Kansas David Patton, of Atchiscn, also lived • Sunday following his arrival at Sum- - City became the leading town in this. 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- / o Lift passenger. He took dinner at the read up the Republican valley not school there. I boon changed, Atchison would have E ' Archie Boler, father of Joe Boler, -Massasoit House, then operated by. been what Kansas City is * " • £ - £ ; also lived in Sumner in the old days, Tern Murphy. the same ttRW that Mr. Challiss.. and the old settlers say that Joe comes P John J. Ingalls went to Sumner, a There were only two brick houses in Pikes Peak road, he secured a charter , ^i I—* young man twentyfour, he took great I- Atchison then. One of them is the for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, r^T 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 jhas fulfilled all his early expectations. | was a jug fisherman, melon raiser, | here the downstairs of that brick

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Colonel Martin a bngaaier genenuthe land around him was taken. W e l - ^ ship. After Colonel Martin's death, come Nance, Peter Cummings, John- J there was sort of Irony in the fact ;Taylor and the Widow Boyle, all still; > that L. C. Challiss became editor of living, were on their present farms inj r. (the Champion, and bitterly opposed i.October, 1854, except that Taylor lived'' Ingalls. 'near 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 farm on the south, the south line 3; ! railroad. He brought J. Gould, Henry flor |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 : 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 1357, so far as this section is con- ON bonds the people had agreed to give tin 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 »3 bridge at this point had been finally, chosen as one of the four county com- n missioners, and was made chairman. o ' secured. The paper gives the credit We are not bold enough to print the fir; ; of securing the bridge to L. C. Challiss • local history of that period, or of t h e S and James N. Burnes. period from 1857 to the close of the gCivil 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 quarrel, men of both sides are willing to finally adopted in congress in May, leave the dead past undisturbed, which r? 1854, and a great many people at once 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 alwe 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 martalk over old times with good nature. ket every morning in summer, is generLuther 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 provten years. He went to Missouri from ing that the woman who was contestWashington 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 counroad from Dickerson, did not.get off so try, Mr. Dickerson returned to Miswell: he was murdered in Doniphan, souri, but came back to Kansas the foland because of this murder, Frank Mclowing 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 gonot 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 representaheard 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 Challiss was a member of the senate, as his home. Land offices were not eshaving held over from the time when tablished until 1857, when the squatters the slavery men were in control. In the filed their claims, and began fighting same year, while still a county commisover them. The first land office in this sioner, Mr. Dickerson built the present section was in Doniphan. John W. courthouse. P. T. Abell donated the Whitfield, who was afterward In consite; also block 10 which was sold and gress, was the register. About a year the money used in building the court later the land office was moved to house. (Kickapoo, just below Atchison. 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INVITATION T h e F i r s t Baptist Church of Atchison, K a n s a s will celeb r a t e its seventieth anniversary, August 5, 1928, and all members and friends a r e cordially invited to be p r e s e n t a t a basket 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 Commercial 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 building, 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 Baptists 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 Prayer.

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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 reports 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 absolutely 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 immediately for repairs on the parsonage, for improving the young people's building to make it suitable for use. and for the winter's supply of coal which must be purchased soon. We call for your hearty cooperation in meeting these additional obligations. 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 Received to date For current expenses Rents Borrowed money Special Easter offerins Special offering for repairs Special, ofher funds

$5.47 $2350.34 115.00 198.00 211.71 379.25 117.90

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$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 Remitted to J .

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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 (chairman I . Hazen Scliaffer '30, AVarren Allen '80. Ham Gelwicks '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 0S3Division 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.

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Holliday !of St. Mark's Lutheran church met bushels;. corn — ,production« totaled »•»»«» 6•,- sought and was refused govern| 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 | 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 fuldevotional period as well as of the j ra nge, 377,000 cattle, 147,000 sheep fill and no obstacle proved a deterbusiness. Mrs. J. G. Zimmerman! a n d 330,000 hogs. ment. Colonization and developFew w conducted the lesson and Mrs. Paul' ere aware, in 1866, that the ment accompanied each newly conTonsing 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 especially enjoyable feature of the! prospective settlers looked upon inence for the Texas cattle drives, program was a reading. "Story of j K a n s a s a « Henry Clay earlier had Settlers, encouraged and transportan Indian Laceworker," given by I ^ r e S a r d e d Illinois. The statesman "j ed by the road, steadily moved inMiss Mabel Fink, who was dressed j s a i d of Illinois, " the land in I - J to the newly opened territory, Much in the costume of a native woman j i s utterly worthless for any present^ of the public lands east of Emporia ur nt)t of India. Mrs. J. M. Schott was'?P P°se— 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. Westits 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 immigraMONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1940. for reaching a market, so that no- i tion department, and by the close — —-; 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. ' tages of society and the conven- «j To the fertile region, of presentiences which arise from a social j day Marion, Newton and McPherstate." . J son, the .. Santa Fe brought, direct West A i l * i of Emporia, a detailed sur- *l from Russia, thousands of indusvey nad not been made indeeti jt trious, substantial Mennonttes. In 1875, Carl B. Schmidt of Lawrence, r%IWllIwwll i l l Iwas Santa Fe construction * crews 4 had been dispatched to Europe by demanding a location of the Colo the Santa Fe's land department. 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. listened with deep interest to his FORMED IN ATCHISON O u t Story O n Cyrus Kurtz Holliday, lawyer, descriptions of Kansas. Schmidt: 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 overland to the Kansas terrioi /• erland. Of Berdiansk, the chief port reau has sent the following infor- came tory in 1854, founded the City 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 months after my visit, a Red Star for the great railroad system: toric Santa Fe Trail. Holliday was September 17 at Atchison, offi- beset with many handicaps In- , Line steamer carried a full' cargo of cials of the Santa Fe railway and cluding a lack of funds and a lack j household goods, farm implements, wagons, and personal property of of Kansas, will join with some 25,- of public interest in his project. four hundred families; consigned to» 000 visitors to celebrate the 80th In 1853; BaHiday drew up his own Newton, Kansas."' anniversary of the founding of the charter. It passed the territorial > Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe legislature on February 2' of that FIRST BRANCH^ The Mennonites' contribution to 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 h ^ - ° ^ - 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-, $&??VJ* d .,tts. Inception in Kansas I Luther C. 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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 the 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 . , . . ,. -r-, , .•

big Trail-O-Rama pageant tonight at Amelia Earhart stadium, to be followed by the Coronation Ball at St. Benediet's gym at which Johnny "Scat" Davis and his famousband will provide the music. ! Also the city is marking time for the full day of festivities tomorrow—the dedication of a Santa Fe engine bell j in front of Memorial hall at 10:30, the gigantic parade at: 11, the wild west show at the stadium at 2:30, the fireworks show at the stadium at 7 o'clock, and another. 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.

STfo ffaigag (Titg l i m e s . MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1940. MRS. ETHEL M. HOLE DIES. : She W a s D a u g h t e r of a F o r m e r Governor of K a n s a s .

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ATCHISON, KAS., Sept. 15.—Mrs. j Ethel Martin Hole, daughter of Col.! John A. Martin, t e n t h governor of j Kansas, died a t 3:45 o'clock this morning at her home near Effingham, Kas. She h a d spent most of 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. Mrs. Hole was born in Atchison and was educated a t Midland college and t h e Emporia -State Teachers' college. I n 1903 she was married to Charles B. Hole, a school teacher A few years later they bought a farm and had lived on it since. She was prominent in the Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs and taught in i Sunday schools at Effingham and I Monrovia, Kas. Surviving besides her husband are three sisters, Mrs. Paul G. Tonsing Atchison: Mrs. Clayton Settle

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A THRONG TO ATCHISON C I T Y EXPECTS 25,000 FOR BIG SANTA FE CELEBRATION.

T h e 2-Day F e t e , B e g i n n i n g Today, AVill .Mark t h e R a i l r o a d ' s Eightieth Birthday Anniversary. ATCHISON, KAS., Sept. 15.—It is estimated t h a t 25,000 people—twice the population of Atchison—will converge on this city tomorrow a n d Tuesday for t h e eightieth birthday anniversary of the S a n t a Fe railroad, founded here in 1860. AH preparations are complete to receive the incoming throng. Among the distinguished visitors will be Govern^ Rattier,Harry,.Hi'^oodring.. : | d g | ^ J , v E n ^

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Miss ALOHA HELTON, 17, ATCHISON 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-ORama in the stadium. Tuesday's festivities will start with the dedication of a Santa Fe railroad memorial on the lawn of Memorial hall at 10:30 o'clock and will be followed immediately by a parade two miles in length which will feature 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..

Mrs. Hole was a capable president of the Homemakcrs elub in Effingham. She was literary mindM 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. 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 infectclosest scrutiny. ion that began a year ago. She Her mother the late Miss Ida had takes many treatments in KanGhallis came from one of Atchison's ' sas City for the trouble. Two yean stauncbest, most highly respected ago Mn. Hole underwent an operacitizens. She was a beautiful 3. tion for another eilment and that character, so with the background proved effective. 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 celestainless in reputation, a perfect 9 brated her 62nd birthday anniverlady, 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 3 Lans- H Emporia Mr*. Hole Bttended Mid- City, Okla; Paul Martin, i : ing. Mich.; Mrs. Faitb * 4Ste*le t laud oollegf. SUOO| City; Mrs. Paul Tonsing and % Her marriage to Mr. Hole took Harres Martin, of Atehisen. plaoe Sept.j3. 87 years ago. The Funeral services for Mrs. Hole first year after their marriage Mr. 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, $ 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. Interment was made ia the Monyet broad enough minded to be an 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. i* same denomination in Monrovia. While in Muscotah she was equally Out of town" persons attending-' interested in church activities there, j the funeral services of Mrs. G. b., |1 Mrs. Hole had acted in the capHole were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Day,jjf acity of Bible teacher, Sunday of Superior, Nebr.; Mrs. Faith Settle^ 1 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 t*»*-

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of venicies ueon September 17, I860. Present to of transportation fro n oxcarts and covered wag- i fedicate the polished bronze bell to the city 0 I A t c h l s o n were Edward ons to the streamlined vehicles of J. Engel o f C h l c a g 0 ) p r e s ( d e n t today. ,' Tonight's wild west program will H u r d oi Sar, rFne: sBrUCe Topeka,Include a re-enactment of the spikeolic V 'tor, and a score o ATCHISON BEGINS THE 2-DAY driving ceremony that seventy-eight years ago celebrated the rail head of SANTA FE CELEBRATION. rai^oad officials from Chicago and the Santa Fe here. Taking part Topeka and other points along the In the historically accurate tableau line. In his dedicatory, address, Hurd called attention to the Interest Beards and Billowing Skirts Give will be Indians from thr—Haskell Institute. From the Ft. Leavendisplayed .by the city ,.1 celebration Color to the Festival Which worth post museum have come propof the anniversary of the Santa Fe Marks Anniversary ot erties to lend an authentic historical and establishing "an everlasting reFounding of Railroad. flavor to the pageant. At a ball minder of that historic event." following the tableau, 17-year-old A FITTrNG MEMORIAL. Aloha Helton, Atchison high school IBy a Member of The Star's Stall.) "This 70-year-old bell saw active senior, will be crowned queen of the ATCHISON, KAS., Sept. 16.—This festival. service with our company in the old, unhurried city, one of the first 1870s, less than a decade after the first track was laid from Topeka settlements in the state, turned back | to Atchison," Hurd said. "We of eighty years today as the 2-day an the Santa Fe believed nothing could niversary celebration of the found be more appropriate than this bell ing the Atchison, Topeka & Santa that saw Atchison grow from a Fe railroad got underway. straggling village to a prospering . Visitors from throughout Northcity, the,state of Kansas develop eastern Kansas and Northwestern J from a barren prairie to a great Missouri were pouring into the city, •^ state and the Santa Fe railroad grow almost doubling the town's normal . « m T » m r n j n r n i£ TfL4/)from«a few miles of track to the population of 15,000 persons. Flags L SEPTEMBER lO, LrW\ longest railroad system in the United 1 States." and gay bunting were strung over ihe intersection of Commercial and SISTER OF PUBLISHER The gift was accepted for the city, by T. E. Garvey, chairman of the Seventh streets, the hub of the busiDIES AT KANSAS HOME a; Atchison County board of commisness district. si „(„„„... T_ sloners. In a flaming red and green Display windows in most of the Word was received in Lansing d plaid pioneer shirt, Garvey thanked •stores were crammed with antiques and relics of the days when the Sunday of the death at her farm the sedately attired Santa Fe offiPony Express pounded out from home near Effingham, Kan., of Mrs. cials and told them that Atchison Ethel M. Hole. Mrs. Hole was a sister liked to think of itself as "the seed Atchison and into the West. of Paul A. Martin, publisher of The from which the 13.463 miles of Santa RESIDENTS I N THE SWING. . 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 front of the Soldiers' and yffairs in 6-week-old beards and known school teacher in that sec- Sailors'inMemorial hall on Commer10-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. « , ' - The formal program of the Santa ried September 2, 1903, to Charles eK*—I PARADE IS ON. Fe Days festival will get underway B. Hole, who survives her. There tonight when a great pageant de- i were no. children. Mrs. George J. The big "pageant of transportapicting 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 meand the h'krt stadium by 450 Boy Scouts , Sir. Martin's home here. The funeral ._morial ., reviewing stand. from Northeastern Kansas. ' ' M l be held Tuesday, with burial in Leading the way was a detachment Tomorrow marks the eightieth 1 luuiuuuw inarms uie nguucui i ft*" family, plat at the Atchinson I of motorcycle police and a mounted' ' . 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 ^ " * , tember 17, 1860, that Cyrus KurtzTT A V S A S C I T Y S T A R . . . , - „ \ , '•" ^\ —i ' U X and KoUiday, a lawyer who had c o m e ^ T * ^ O A ° — - " "res ""» daughters of legionand a overland from Pennsylvania, met C {±UI: " p p r p p ^ r - p - p - p 1 7 ICM/V Slant American flaf in. a smallassociates office here twelve *? x.suji\.rtXUX\ L I , L f t t U . borne uniformedLed St.byBenedict's business andwith organized college by students. the 65thje 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— Inter, as president of the railroad, Holliday saw the rails move out • SANTA FE HONORS', CITY IN pj this morning came the score or ; ixonx Topeka and into the town in 1 more of historical floats and relics. WHICH IT WAS FOUNDED. v^hich the project had been conThousands of persons lined the f t • ieived. i roped-off "sidewalks to cheer the : SANTA F S PRESIDENT TO VISIT. 70-Year-Old Locomotive Bell '"" marchers and the bands. / Tomorrow morning Edward J. Set on Stone Monument Is Tonight in the stadium the annf- ' Engel of Chicago, president of the Dedicated—Thousands / versary celebrators will hear a oanta Fe, will visit the town In See Bis Parade. birthday" address by E. E. Mcwhich his road was founded and | k k Innls of Chicago, general counsel for1 t a - ' v t join Gov. Payne Ratner of Kansas the Santa Fe, and a greeting from and Mayor William B. Hayes of (Bjr a Member of The Star'i Staff.) I. Edward J. Engel, president of the Atchison in dedicating the Santa Fe 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 culthe! lawn of Memorial hall. Followminate at a ball at the St. Benedict's 1 Q> - '"*'* .r- ' • K-**-*— ri^'flng-.the dedication ceremonies, Atch- jf motive bell set on a stone monument gymnasium. • [[marker, the Santa Fe railroad bete The Santa Fe special train bear*^.w«-«M««*«oni!ei^ and the thou &S%will participate L ^ V . P^W tribute to the; 'citj^in 1 f ing officials of the road and more members of the Topeka ^ SS ' " * " J * - - ' - 1 w W ^ „ f e y a ? L ? y s t e m ^w_aj|^iQU^di!*;"""**

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Early Days In Atchison No Pink Tea Frank A. Root in his book, "The Overland Stage to California," writes interestingly of the early days in Atchison, an eye-witness account. The following is a condensation of his recollections. There were only a few hundred; people in Atchison in the spring of 1859, he records. In all, there were; but four brick buildings on Commercial street. West of Sixth there were but few scattering dwellings and perhaps a dozen business houses and shops. The road along Commercial street west of Sixth was quite crooked, for it had not been graded, and the street was full of stumps and rem-; nants of a thick growth of under-! brush that had previously been cut. j Atchison was a dirty hole in the j early '60s, before any macadamizing j was done. John J. Ingalls, while do- | ing editorial work on the Champion: at that early period, frequently called the attention of the "city fathers" | to the disgraceful condition of the streets. He characterized the city as a "hog pen,".and styled Commercial street as "a wallow for the vile brutes." As late as the summer of 1865 the mud was so deep on Commercial street at the corner of Fifth that a mule train going out of the city westward got'" stuck, and broke out the tongue of a wagon trying to 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.)

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No Wonder Everybody Here Is A Millionaire--The First Squatter Was George Million 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 winter had lots of fun. The Massassoit House on the northwest corner of Second and Main streets and kept by that genial Irishman, Tom Murphy, was really 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 overlooking 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 National 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 Lawrence. It fronted east and south, stood three stories above the basement, and was elegantly furnished. It did a very large business in those early days when the town was headquarters, 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 Pacific 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 discouraged, 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'

patch. When he arrived in n % list, 1854, the ferry landed near Geo. Million's claim cabin, on M" present site of the B. & M. round house, and the wagon road skirted the bluff to Commercitl • street,where it ran almost due west. Abcll offered Challiss a lot if he would build a ttore, and Challiss picked it out at the foot of Commercial street, as already stated: rather he stuck a stake there .and Abell agreed to give him a deed to the site when the tc.vn was located and surveyed. ••• Challiss -vvenT'at once to Rushville, and bought cottonwood lum'ber at a sawmill for his store. He had but $4.50 in money, so he wrote to his brother Luther, who had become 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 progress. Challiss and the carpenter camped under an elm tree while building the store, and suffered a good deal with chills. The building was enclosed on the 29th of September, j&54. A stock cf goods had been ordered previously—the dry goods from Boonvi'le, and the groceries from Weston—and about this time they arrived on the steamer "F. X. Aubry." Challiss had no money with which to pay the freight, and borrowed from his carpenter, and from George Million. He did a_ big business at once, with movers passing through. He | frequently kept travelers over ;night; they slept on blankets from I stock, paying $2 for the privilege. It the travelers were hungry, Chal."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 dollars over. • The third house in Atchison was built by Dr. J. H. Stringfeilow. It was of brick locatsd pbove Geo. Million's cabin, on Atchison street, just northeast of Mrs. D. N.-Wheeler's present residence. This was in the spring of 1855. The fourth house was built by ira Noirls; also on Atchison' street, in the rear of

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a squatter. - •. P. T. Abell was probably the greatest "boomer" ever known in the history of this ;;ection, and his talk made Challiss very enthusiastic. 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 Missouri river, therefore nearer the opening settlements, and would certainly become headauarters for t h e stage and freighting lines, -""' WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 18, 1940. Among those attending the fu-1 neral yesterday of Mrs. Charles B. Hole at Monrovia were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tonsing, Wichita, and Mrs. Clayton Settle, Strong City. Mrs. Settle is a sister of Mrs. Hole. Mr. Hole's sister, Mrs. Day of Superior, Neb., and her husband were here. Mr. Hole accompanied them home far a visit.

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 ! 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 supported by the facts of recent history a s he applied them to what he knew of the then territory of Kansas." RECALLS A PREDICTION.

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ATCHISON, KAS., Sept. 17.—Amelia 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 Fe railroad reached the climax of j this town's 2-day festival. Governor Payne Ratner and Edward J. Engel of Chicago, president 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

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"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

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 tremendously emphasized. National security 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 "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 agricultural industry t h a t is so represented in this Kansas region. "I am convinced t h a t the industrial surface, too, has only been scratched in this great Santa Fe 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 things. To do this we must keep and preserve all those virtues of freedom which were exemplified by those far-sighted men whom we honor today." • A giant fireworks display presented by the S a n t a - F e in the stadium tonight blazed the conclusion of the 2-day celebration t h a t attracted approximately 15,000 visitors from many points on the Santa Fe line to this quiet old town. In the gymnasium 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 friends. College and school authorities shook their heads tonight and looked forward to drowsy scholars tomorrow when Atchison returns to its normal measured pace.

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Never l; displayed. The garden bouquet in ^ o l the nation, having thus obtameu J trammeled and unafraid. one of the Tonsing windows was I power and honored position, h e : ' a g a i n within the life of this genarranged 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: great nation of people awaits ouri father, Gcbhard Harres. and a i subscribes to the principles ' 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 I longer is in accord with the D e m - I - I a l n e r o f Mrs. Gilbert Guthrie of V The Globe: 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^ f... principles _.:.._;„,„ of „,! TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1940. soundness of which is pretty g e n - | j j s a s foreign to the 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 h e r , the taxi with its weat the state of New York by the Dem-! has made his choice. It is now up J and obliging if o r m l v courteous ocratic of his state; appoint-;. make their one's very door ed as party assistant secretary of the w i the t ispeople not to impossible thatchoice.PI this; c o m e toto some'other "I,!i ^. and ' t awkjen one 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 |ing .I

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and power. Not only has he assumed a right in the transter oi MM uestroyers to absolute and unlimited control of the running of our republic, but be goes further and makes secret agreements which will involve 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 battleships 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 unstable dictator and a military despotism, if t h a t is the kind of a government 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 BY T. A. McNEAL The situation is not, as I see It, really a political party matter. In times past, while I have generally voted with one party, I have not i done so with the impression t h a t the victory of the candidate was es• sential to the perpetuity of our form of government. I believed that i while there might be some marked difference between the manner to which my party would run the government from the manner in which the other party would run it, I had no idea that either party would deliberately follow a course which it seemed to me would disturb the foundation on which our republic rested. I believed most firmly in the principle of a division of powers in control of the government. I believed that the executive branch should he the adviser of the legislative branch, but not its complete dominator. I believed that the legislative branch should always be on guard 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 system of checks and balances in the conducting of our government. I believed that the tenure in office of the president should be limited, either to a single term or to not more than 2 consecutive terms. There was no doubt that Washington could have perpetuated himself 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 Hot entirely abrogated, would have become a mere empty name. We have a t present a president who delights in spectacular performances and experimentation. When it became evident t h a t there would be another World war, probably more horrible than the World war that raged from 1914 to the latter p a r t of 1918, t h e president almost immediately announced in effect 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 we must help them to the extent that would insure their victory, anything short of war. As the war h a s continued and the advantage has been consistently and continuously It* favor of Germany, President Roosevelt has continually shifted his position and insisted on taking a more pronounced and aggressive form of assistance. His latest and most astonishing act in this direction is the sale or rather trade of 50 war vessels for a number of 99-year leases of British islands. He h a s done this without even consulting congress as required by the Constitution. Never in the history of this nation has there been such a bold assumption of power on the p a r t of any president If Mr. Roosevelt has the right to sell, trade or give away 50 warships 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 doing t h a t , but the extreme seriousness of this act is that it destroys the very foundation principle upon which the nation was founded. If it does not make him as much of a dictator as Hitler or Stalin or 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. 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 ambitions to make the world better, to build up an ideal economic 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 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. .».•••• Mr. Roosevelt believes t h a t h e is-necessary to t h e success of our L government a n d t h a t It is necessary t h a t he be continued in office

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1940. A son was born yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Denton, 315 North Terrace, at the Atchison hospital. A picture of the Santa Fe president, the Santa Fe Days queen and her attendants beside the Santa Pe memorial in front of Memorial hall appears in the current issue of "Business Week." TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1,. 1940. Mrs. Paul Denton and baby son have been removed from the Atchison hospital to their home at 315 North Terrace. Mrs. Denton is a daughter of Mrs. Paul Tonsing. The Rev. and Mrs. Ernest Tonsing and their' son, Freddie, of Wellington visited relatives here yesterday. They were enroute to Chicago on a vacation trip of t w o ' weeks. Dr. William E. Wheeler, formerly pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran church here, has been named pastor of the Grace Lutheran church a t Lakeland, Pla„ it has been a n nounced in t h e ' Lakeland newspaper there. Dr. Wheeler, who has been at Lakeland since leaving Atchison a few years ago, will *ake over t h e pastorate October 13. He has been supply minister a t the church there and succeeds the Rev. J. C. Derrick who is going to Leesville, S. C. Dr. and Mrs. Wheeler's many friends here will be glad to learn of his new pastorate. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1940. T Mr. and Mrs. Paul Denton have j •gamed him John Richard. • | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1940. Jon Richard Denton, new son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Denton, is the fifteenth- grandchild of Mrs. Paul

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 Paul Denton: "The new son's do question is t h e leadership t h a t to war." h a s brought these conditions UJIOII'I name is Jon, not John. The next Deletes THIM, of Speech. « s . We question t h a t the men | time The Globe misspells Jon I'll In reading his speech, Lindbergh who were u n a b l e to foresee these j shoot the editor." 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*^-^> TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1940. i t i m e t o p r e p a r e Tor Jt, who recan either bring or avoid a disas-j fused to believe the reports of retrous war for our country" and that i Rev. and Mrs. Ernest Tonsing | 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 were here*' Saturday, enroute to "upon the quality and wisdom of competent to c a r r y this nation their home i n Wellington from leadership that we choose for our "-successfully t h r o u g h a period of Chicago, Des Moines and Omaha. g r e a t crisis. U n d e r their leadernation in November—upon our Con- ship." we have alienated t h e most gress, upon our senate, and, upon •? powerful military nations of both. y E u r o p e and Asia, a t a time when our President." At no point in his address, deliv- i we ourselves a r e u n p r e p a r e d for ered by radio, did Lindbergh men- - a c t i o n , and while the people of o u r nation a r e overwhelmingly tion the names of either Wendell L. opposed to w a r . Willkie or President Roosevelt. United on Defense. Record of Independence? "There is no question about the "I come before you tonight to 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-»— ; •_, 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 a nation with a heritage such as. ways been ready to fight against the- ^ "^ 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 trol, and whose people have fought t o die for t h e independence of-^- ' j2 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 n -i Lindbergh Declares T h a t Admin- i tiny of America were never more in - united nation. I t is only when we 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 of our existence as a free and inde- •* rels of foreign countries t h a t we ^c-£— •a Steadily Toward W a r . pendent people, we opposed, and divide, •o 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 "cU. 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 judgfewer 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 even though we had just emerged t h a t our frontiers lie In Europe. InW e Can T r u s t . 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 million, we forced Spain t o with- informed that we may be invaded,\ g from the ice-bound mountains of K t But Our Destiny, He A s s e r t s , draw entirely from the new world. 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 • "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 less of P a r t y . 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 ! > 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 (By the Associated Press.) W 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^, 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. jnation's "leaders" tonight for a . to this nation that it fears in ma- ^ o u r military forces. These same 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 partaking us and who tell us where we , of leadership that made us a great ticular specialists—to the same speare 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. 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OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 29—(.¥>— The Rev. E. E, Tonsing, Wellington, Kas, was re-elected president of the Kansas Synod of the Lutheran church a t the annual meeting here yesterday. ' T h e Rev. Ray Pfeiffer, Eureka, Kas.. was re-elected secretary. ' Criticism of the church's program was voiced by Mrs. A. H. Havekost,, Wichita. Kas., in an address on " T h e ! Migrant Problem." i Discussing social conditions arising from population shifts, she declared the average church was p u t - ; ting on a village program to meet the needs of a city problem.

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Here and Hereabouts In 1895 Y. Rev. Paul Tonsing accepted a call to become1"7mstor of the Lutheran church at Beioit. ***Rev. Ernest Tonsing wires from Wellington that so far he has been unable to convert John Holman. FRIDAY, JANUARY 81, 1941. . . . . . Evan Tonsing ! is frank. He calls them "Slam" | valentines. .'. . . <"•-- ••+•->>« tim«'W*' WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 5, 1941. Evan Tonsing attended a brother! hood meeting in Lawrence yester!day.

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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, -next session to limit. Tather than extend, the powers of the presi- >. dent to formulate foreign policies, •

, n d especiany to ***£«» " promise intervention in ioreign affairs. _. - — - ^ . - , ' i-----4* FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1941. Wheri John Holman arrives at Wellington we hope he gets converted 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 losing 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 and, two. sons of ^Wellington are visiting Rev. Tonsing's mother, Mrs. Paul Tonsing, 315 North Terrace. Yesterday Rev. S Tonsing attended the committee meeting of the Synod to Kansas City. •; ; j ;'"• J The Rev. S. A. Hamrick and Evan j I Tonsing were in Kansas City yester[ day to attend a synodical meeting, j

PEGLER SAYS MRS. ROOSEVELT IS SHREWP POLITICIAN. Bolder in Last F e w Vonths, She B e v e a l s Herself a.'""Conspirator Against Individual R i g h t s , " H e Asserts, B Y WESTBROOK PEGLER.

NEW YORK, Feb, 10.—After years of masquerading as a rather naive but always well-meaning amateur fuss-budget, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt lately has been revealing herself as a cunning and indefatigable conspirator against the rights and independence of the individual American citizen and an active proponent of power-government. Mrs. Roosevelt has become bolder or incautious in the last few months, particularly since the second 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 Muscovites' formula of entrapment which holds that everyone should join a labor organization. The union, whose members Mrs. Roosevelt addressed, has a strike on in which rioters recently outnumbered and mobbed New York polloe, and is pursuing a policy similar to that of Sidney Hillman's organization, which is to eliminate the small operator by economic ruin, consolidate t h e business in a few big survivors and then take over the indi«-''7N 5S£5iigl0n: m a n a g e m e n t J ^ >

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DO YOU WANT WAR? Do you want war? If you do not want war, you'd better get busy, because the American 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 country 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. Now how can we folks out here in the midwest decide whether or not this country should go to war? My, but that is a hard question. These additional questions have to be" answered first: Is is true that the United States will be in great danger if Great Britain loses the war? Is it true that Great Britain is now fighting for the United States as well as herself? Is it true that a British defeat would be followed up by a Hitler attempt to invade the United States? Is the Churchill remark that England does not wish American soldiers, but only wishes American material, sincere? Or is it subterfuge to get Americans into the war gradually but surely? Is 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 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 principles 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. Assuming 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. 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. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1941. Mrs. Paul Challiss, who has been visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs. J. M. Challiss, and since Mrs. Challiss went to California, at the home of her nephew, Evan Tonsing, and Mrs. Tonsing on Rivervlew drive, is now

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|SfcL John's Lutheran Steps Forward St. John's Lutheran church took a ; definitely forward step last n i g h t in a meeting "of t h e c o n 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 culininI 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 through t h e estate of t h e ; l a t e J o h n Flick who requested $1,000 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 ing any debt, through funds g a t h ered in past years by t h e c o n g r e gation. • T h e project will m a k e available for church use t h e building p r e viously -used for a parsonage, a n d will convert t h e p r e s e n t parish, 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. Action h a s been pending f o r a 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 decided upon last n i g h t b y J f t S ] church:, group a s a w h o l e . . ' ^ ^ | !

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 Shaffer of Saline, vice president and A. M. Hughes of Lawrence, secretary. The Rev. W. W. Klover of Kansas City, Kas., who has been secretary of the synod for the past four years, is the new synod president. Miss Helen Fink of Atchison was re-elected secretary of the Women's Missionary society. J h e synod session closed this afternoon.

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MISS MARJORIE MELLENBRUCH Miss Marjorie Mellenbruch, daughter of the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. P. L. Mellenbruch of 271 W. McCreight ev., has t h e distinction of having the highest grade of the 35 seniors chosen from t h e Springfield High School, who participated in the recent annual state scholarship contest for high schools of t h e state, which included Springfield and Clark C o u n t y . ' Each school of the city and county received its own set of questions on five subjects and Miss Mellenbruch's total score w a s 242, t h e highest in t h e city. She is also an accomplished musician, being accompanist for the Springfield High School Glee Club; playing cello in t h e string school orchestra, q u a r t e t and trio. SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1941. Mrs. Paul Tonsing is visiting h e r daughter in Springfield, O.

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y TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1941. ^v 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 SpringI 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 Mangelsdorf, 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

(At last we can get back at hiinj '.ne a s k s t h e Public to contribute. j toHe's a cause. 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, say som mg nice about every- *• though, without him. body, th. say something small u0 He'll be back in a month or six weeks, but until then all of us here ; and mean about anybody. We ought to know. at The Globe will miss his big bayWe've looked a t his lovable mug window, and his black cigars, and 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 w e We'll 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 «" W e H miss packages of them on our desks for ' him, because he never repayment. asks a reporter to do anything he v o n ' t himself. He is t\ gink who always says: We'll nit we'll nit, him because he's "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 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 ^ _ . « permit these t h i n g s ' t o be said of' him if he were here.

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Do you remember the first time you heard this pledge in the 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 fickle promises made by that rubber stamp convention. Here it is: "The American people are determined that war, raging in Europe, Asia and Africa, shall not come to America. "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 enforce 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." Sounds familiar, doesn't it? You will remember t h a t in the 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 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. 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; we are determined to intervene in the wars now raging in Europe, 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 promise to keep us out of foreign wars was purely campaign chatter not to be seriously considered after the election was over. We were in a heck of a fix last July—all dressed up and no place to go—except, of course, abroad! PARSONS SUN

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ROCHESTER (N.Y.) July 5. pie the facts. They have kept (U.R)—Senator Burton K. Wheel- secret the reports made by Jolegislature calling upon congress Oo er, Montana Democrat-isolation- seph P. Kennedy, former Ameriestablish an emergency national ist, accused the Cabinet tonight can Ambassador to Great Britain. They dare not make public capital west of the Mississippi and of withholding J,he facts of eco- Bullitt's reports to the State Demidway between the Rio Grande nomic, political and military con- partment. and the Arctic circle, in case of ditions in England and Europe "They have kept secret the foreign invasion." The very location in order to "incite America to report made by W. R. Davis, the for such a capital would be Atchiwar by deception." oil man who contributed hunson. Wheeler addressed an overflow dreds of thousands of dollars crowd at a rally sponsored by to the Democratic campaign in MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1941. the Rochester Citizens No-War 1936. Committee. Mrs. Paul Tonsing leaves tomor"They dare not take the people "The Cabinet at Washington into their confidence and give row night for Los Angeles where ( anrl warmongers are trying to them the facts upon the unsound 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 conditions in England and Eution," Wheeler said. ! and Luther, who has a printing es"They dare not give \he peo-i rope." tablishment there. Mrs. Tonsing hasn't seen' Luther for 18 years. She will also visit her aunts, Mrs. Dora FRIDAY, JULY 18, 194L Bennett and Mrs. Blanche Sketch.

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Mr. and Mrs. Evan Tonsing took their daughter, Virginia, to Camp Wa-Shun-Ga at Junction City Sunday where she will attend the camp for a week. They were accompanied by Miss Lola Moyer of Effingham, who has been attending summer school at Emporia.

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Shaped not unlike the caskets of the old Egyptian mummies, it has a gla&s window over the face of the tn i.< . • . - ^—- skeleton and is shaped to fit the body. Elaborate scroll-work is.: wrought into the iron to resemble a i . shroud. Another peculiarity is that t h e ' Residents Recall • casket has two handles on one end MONDAY, JULY 21, 1941. and no handles on the other, It Old Burial was air-tight, whiiSrj .accounts iatCr 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 ^ ing the well-preserved skeleton of some sort of a metal halo-like • , a baby about two or three years old. crown. V E-is probably anywhere from 75 tc U There seems to : be little doubt 3 C a s k e t T o Be 10O years old, it was determined that the skeleton is that of a white today. Re-Buried .'j' L> ct_oa child because of w e costliness of The records of the Harouff i |«. >• i. same depth. Neither Dr. E. T. Wulff nor the For several days, scores and i Charles Palk, lifelong resident of scores of people from all over- this > North Atchison, remembers the mortuary have decided whether or vicinity, as well as tourists passing cemetery and sa3's it must be from <• not to open the casket and remove the body. It may be that the mor- •I through who haTte heard of the dis75 to 100 years old. tuary will remcve the body, for .recovery from relatives here and from Art Eymann, sr., says he played burial, and will retain the cajket filling station attendants, have visin the cemetery when he was » as a historical show-piece ^because ited the mortuary to see the odd youngster 50 years ago. Boys in the of its oddity. Nothing like.^tr has : casket. neighborhood used to make 8 ever been seen in this vicinity. Cars from. Arizona, Oklahoma "short cut" through it, and they uftral.iastipsts.'^i beiieve^Ttiair'ne Nebraska, Missouri.and even .Califound a number of old graves with maee the iron tfcbff in. He was" a fornia and Louisville, Ky., have wooden headstones toppled to the brother of Ed Cole, the South Atchi- stopped to see it, according to M r : ground. Even that far back, he said - • ' **• the cemetery was overgrown with • son grocer." William Martin, who Harouff. • He recalls that his father,, the lives on Harmony hill, believes thl wild brush and wild plum trees. th~3-little skeleton found in the iroif late Jacob Harouff, told him of the There' is talk that it may have been a Mormon cemetery. Many casket was an lnd£|&Jjaby, and that Mormon caravan which was forced, the ircn casket wtffNnade by the to stop near Atchison when stricken years ago the Mormons were victims 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 and caskets. te»A£*&'ifr&?--'< /•&&&•> i PSO*** *->• fetsi?«;tae Okla-. 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 S ^ g S b p ^ c t l o n \ t ^ i c o m p l e t f t f a i i r f ^ r a l i ^ ; hadf'gp, fm$fM cast tafcen, p^cej|jThe] jiddians f didf/ioH

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Going Places With Old Snort j (Editor's note- This Is another in a J series of articles written by Carl Brown, ' editor of The Globe, about a vacation i trip to Canada and the New England;

At Springfield, Ohio, we called 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 and smart daughters in the Mellenbruch home. Rev. Mellenbruch, a Lutheran pastor, got his college and theological education in Atchison. Mrs. L. S. Keyser is the widow of a former pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran church, Atchison. She Is • 82 years of age, and in good health. She lives alone, and does all of her housework. The Keysers lived in Atchison nearly forty years ago. Gretchen and Paul Garvic are i daughter and son of Rev. and Mrs. i Howard C. Garvic, both of whom fare deceased. Rev. Garvic about twenty-five years ago was pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran church in Atchison. Paul Garvic is married, is a papa, and is a salesman for an electric appliance company. Gretchen Garvic is married, has a baby, and her husband is with a transportation company. Rev. and Mrs. j J. L? Neve reside in Springfield. He recently underwent an operation, and is making a good recovery. Mrs. Neve was Miss Charlotte Mangelsdorf of Atchison. Years ago Dr. i Neve was a member of the faculty of the Western Theological Semi nary in Atchison. 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 skeletons of rattlesnakes. Prom "The Gobe's historical edition of July 16, 1894: , — ;-j 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 Mthe fall of 1855. At the same time a Mpostoffice was established, with J. H. BJfii^ngameV. as, postmaster. He left

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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 |

been made arid bids will be accepted the .latter part of this week,' construction to start immediately thereafter. The present library building will be completely rebuilt, from the ground up, and will be thoroughly, modernized inside and out. 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 which will provide an attractive setting for the new building. A donation by H. E. Muchnic of ; the Locomotive Finished Material Co. has made the rebuilding possible. The library board originally owned 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, and filled in a large hole on the 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 half of lot 9, owned by the Lena Odow estate, with the Pomeroy fund. ONE-STORY STRUCTURE The new building," therefore, will have the property from the present library building up to1 the Atchison Business college building, and north to the George Harouff property. Residence properties on lot 11 and • lot 9, as well as the second-hand ' store of W. F. Koontz on lot 9, will I be torn down to make way for the | improvement.' RecenUy another rejsidence property on lot 10 was I condemned and torn down. | It is tentatively planned that the I new building be a modern one-story | structure with basement, and that : the property adjacent to it be 'landscaped and beautified for use as a small park. The Atchison library board officers are Mrs. J. W. Orr, president, Mrs. J. M. Challiss, vice president, j Mrs. H. F. Chandler, recording sec- i retary, and Miss Florence Barth, \ treasurer. The library board members include Mrs. J. W. Orr, Mrs. J. M. Challiss, Mrs Sheffield Ingalls, I Mrs. Wheeler Barlow, Mrs. Arthur Kinney, Mrs. Horace Chandler, Mrs. Gilbert Guthrie, Mrs. Roy Seaton, Mrs.- H. E. Muchnic, Mrs/-H; B. Mize, Miss Effie Symns, Miss Florence Barth and Miss Mayme Lukens. ••'.;. - ...--. ,\ . •'. The new building and property will have: a 270-foot frontage on, Kansas' avenue

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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 public schools has met to study and to probe into the basic causes of delinquency and to formulate, if possible, a means of attacking it at its roots: In an editorial entitled "An Answer to Delinquency'' recently published in The Times a plan was suggested which constitutes the only basic solution f n r our national delinquency, both Juvenile and adult. The article, by Mrs. Walter W. Allen, so articulates and summarizes thp ideas expressed at our conferences End represents so clearly our deepest convictions that we wish to offer the results of our siudy. We believe them to b<> the technique, or necessary steps, by which theory may become practice.

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only imp" "f tins vast number of children for receiving sound moral and spi itual guidance We have solved a similar problem in requiring that our public school children of whatever background or influence pledge allegiance to our Flag. Could we not, as Americans mindful of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man on which the. founding fathers baspd our Constitution, require that these same children rise for a brief moment of prayer at assemblies, or at the beginning of each school clay? Thus, thpy would pledge fitting allcciance tn the God of their country as well as to the Flag of their country. A hymn might some mornings take the place of community prayer. According to Time magazine, .lan. in, 1944, Trotestant, Jewish and Catholic chapMrs. Allen's answer to delinquency lains have printed 10 popular nondenomistated: "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 recfine, 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 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 treatBelieving, with Mrs. Allen, that "our ment to remedy the spiritual vitamin degreatest 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 esdiscipline and obedience for our chil- tablish the moral climate which prodren," 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 their children and all children. We an- avoiding sectarianism. The version swer Mrs. Allen's challenge of "Mothers, could be determined by an interfaith speak' Parents, let us make ourselves conference. Since the Psalms, for exambeard!" ple, are recognized by judges of fine 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. 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 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 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 We have expected boys and girls to the Ten Commandments and the Serl^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 co-operation with an Interfaith comments. The delinquent child is the product of mittee. spiritual malnutrition. He comes from School attendance is compulsory and a the broken or marginal home where con- program such as indicated above would flict and irresponsibility set the stage assure America that her children were 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 reli1"V6 the true, the good and the beauti- gious principles on which this democraK. ful. Our public school system is the cy must depend for its pefpetuatioh.g^-:.

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ice as parents and teachers is to recapture the lost virtues of honesty, neighborliness, clean living, discipline and obedience 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 inordinately proud of them. "The whole world was lost in the darkness of "sin." Indeed! There never was a time when there were not a great majority of decent people, according to their standards. Our high civilization is not inherited from degenerates. The emotional excesses of the "uplifters" should not blind us to the presence of. fine people all about us—old and young. I speak for my grandchildren and millions more. BURDETTE K. MARVIN, Riverside.

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The organization and subsequent history of the Atchison public library is. news again, for only recently it was announced that a donation by H. E. Muchnic of the Locomotive Finished Material Co. has made, possible a complete^reconstruction of the present library building. Through funds left by the late J. P . Fomeroy, the library associa turn has acquired adjacent lots from the library building west to. the Atchison Business college build- j ing, a structure which the library. itself once occupied. SOUGHT CULTURE j | Early establishment of a public li- j ' brary in Atchison was due to the I fact that Atchison was not for long ; a pioneer, frontier town in the sense of log cabins and Indian tepees. Soon alter the community was founded a number of wealthy, cuij tured and educated families moved [here and immediately erected fine ; homes, many of which were lavish ! for t h a t day. To the women of ! those families goes credit for foundI ing many of the cultural institutions jto which they had.been accustomed ! in their eastern homes—churches, school buildings, and the library. Mrs. John Crowell was elected first library board president, protem, and Mrs. A. P. Martin was made, secretary pro-tem. Mrs. W. D. Webb offered the resolution j 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

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. Braddish, Mrs. W. S. Briggs, Mrs. A. F. Martin, Mrs. R. D. Everett, Mrs. G. W. Glick, Mrs. D. C. Newcomb, Mrs. W. L. Challiss, Mrs. A. G. Otis, Mrs. B. F Stringfellow, Mrs. John J. Ingalls, 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 Kinney, 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 . Officers are Mrs. J. W. Orr, president; Mrs. J. M. Challiss, vice-president; Mrs. H. F. Chandler, recording secretary; and Miss Florence Barth, treasurer. T The present librarian, a pleasant, efficient woman, Is Mrs. Elizabeth Shelly, who is conscientious and has a wide knowledge of the library and the books it contains. Her suggesj 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 hisI 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.) ;

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Mrs. Tonsing writes: "Mr.: •£r i WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,1941 I Carter is a short, stocky man with * I September 21 a little beard and does not look Mrs. Paul Tonsing will return • 'Rev, Ernest. Tonsing, p;istor of "from ' Wellington more than 75. He is well educated. \c 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 Califort h a t I had come to see him. He / city, announced to hi* eongrpga- n i a . . ^zr* was much annoyed that a phototiori yesterday morning- t h a t h e 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 birthEvan Tonsing is starting his t h e r a n c h u r c h of Emporia. i day. and refused to pose for him. twelfth year as superintendent of His resignation becomes effectI But as he expressed it 'that m a n t h e St. Mark's Lutheran Sunday ive after Sunday, September 21. i was smart and had his camera all • KrhrwV Rev. Tonsing h a s been h i t h e j set, and when I walked away from THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 11, 1941. j him h e took the picture.' The picp r e s e n t charge t w o years a n d t e n ture appeared in t h e Times and ; £ m o n t h s , h a v i n ? come to WellingI was the reason I wen; to visit Mr Paul Tonsing, jr., is here from Calton Irom VaUey pa]]s Rftn Jfl j Carter. Mr. Carter says h e hates November, 1038 o ifornia and is visiting his mother, ; publicity and when the movie m a n c , I r i ., ^ Mrs. Paul Tonsing. Paul is in the W ,,e hcre he h a s ! appeared to photograph him he ab? " ^ & * Marines now, and looks fine. n u m b e r of jsolutelv refused to have anything ^ c h i c positions, a n d is T h e Rev. Earnest Tonsing will j t o do with them." Mrs. Tonsing's" 1 " a f c Present secretary-treasurer of ' '; take charge of a Lutheran church | address in California is 849 N. Edg- : t h e Ministerial association, t r e a s ^ urer of t h e United City Welfare 'j in Emporia September 28. mont, Hollywood. —-— | association, Leadership chairman " / MONDAY, AUGUST 18. 1941. of District 12, Quivira Council, |: Mrs. Paul Denton, of Oklahoma ;_ City, has recovered from a critical r 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. £*t^-i her foot yesterday. „ C o m m e r c e . H e acted a s . general ; c h a i r m a n of t h e recent United !r SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1941 THURSDAY, AUGUST 28. 1941. FiUl Tonsing will leave Wednes- • urpv&f __ "'Service organizations campaign' i n day for San Diego, Calif., where Mrs. Paul Tonsing is visiting her ' t h e city. . " . ' " . daughter, Mrs. Paul Denton, formerly c T h e Tonsings have two children, j j. he will report to t h e Marine base Ida Tonsing, in an Oklahoma city 'Si: m i e r 24. He will then be sent Freddie, 4, a n d Evan, 2. hospital. Mrs. Denton is improved to Philadelphia for training. Mrs. Tonsing h a s been active in health. Mr. and Mrs, Evan Tonsing a.tin local c h u r c h a n d club work, isas CitA CirA' j—7 SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1941. being program c h a i r m a n of t h e termed the gift show in Kansas 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 Paul Tonsing will leave today for Rev. Ernest Tonsing of Welling- president of t h e Southern conferton will become pastor of the United ence Women's Missionary society 'I San Diego, Calif., where he will reLutheran 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. ^LEAVING Thursday lor California. Will Emporia. He will enter effect there a n d Adjacent States. I take 2 passengers. Write ••California^ the last Sunday in September. Rev. __\ : . . Rev. Tonsing is editor of t h e care Globe. Tonsing. one of the finest of Atchison'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 publicaMONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1941. 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 , His first pastorate was a t Valley is president of t h e Southern conST. MARKS ^~~' Falls, where he served the Luther- ference of t h e synod, a n d f m e m / At a combined assembly of t h e ans for six years. 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MARCH. December, 1859, Abraham Lincoln visited Northeast Kansas. At Elwood he stopped at the Great .Western hotel. In Troy he stayed at Leonard Smith's hotel. At Doniphan he stayed at Low's hotel. In Atchison he stayed in the Massasoit hotel. The year Lincoln was assassinated the hotel at Elwood fell into the Missouri river,, and the hotels at Troy, Doniphan and Atchison were destroyed by fire.

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Special Services For New Pastor Members of St. Mark's Lutheran church will hold special services Sunday night, when they will formally receive Rev. Ernest Tonsing, of Wellington, as the new pastor. The services will begin at 7:30 o'clock and will include both installation and the holy communion. Presiding over the Installation will be Rev. W. W. Klover, president of the synod of Kansas and adjacent states and pastor of Trinity Lutheran 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 superintendent of Tabitha Home, Lincoln,

WednesdayL October 1, 1941. The Rev. and Mrs. Ernest Tonsing and sons of Emporii spent yesterday in Atchison. \ , ^ ; / ' - > j

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Neb. The new pastor and his fam' ily have been In Emporia since September 24 and they are occupying the newly decorated parsonage at 206 West Seventh. Mr. and Mrs. Tonsing have two children, Freddie, four years old, and* Evan, two. While in Wellington, the Tonsing family was, active in church and community affairs. Mr. Tonsing was chairman of the U. S. O. drive, which raised $1,100; chairman of the leadership training committee of District 12, Quivira council, Boy Scout* of America; and secretary-treasurer of the Ministerial association. Mrs. Tonsing was program chairman of the Cosmos, Federated club for 1941, member of the Junior Home Culture club and sponsor of the Young Women's Missionary society of the Lutheran church. HELD OTHER JOBS. Mr. and Mrs. Tonsing are presidents of the Southern conference and Southern conference Women's Missionary society, respectively, in the Kansas synod. Mr. Tonsing is editor of the monthly Kansas Synod Lutheran, and is a member of the synodical executive committee. Mr. Tonsing Is a graduate of the University of Kansas and of the Chicago Lutheran. Theological seminary. Mrs. Tonsing was graduated from Wesleyan university at Salina. Before coming to Emporia, Mr. Tonsing was responsible for having the Wellington church properties undergo extensive improvements, in which the three church structures were redecorated and repaired, without incurring any church debt.

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Hundreds of Christmas cards provements have been made to the were received by The Wichita three properties owned by the congre- ' MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1941. Eagle and staff members this i season but one received by Bob gation without incurring any debt. The H < o Tonsing, Morning Eagle telegraph former parsonage was converted into a editor, from his uncle, Paul A. parish house, and the bungalow used Martin, managing editor of the o Lansing (Mich.) Journal, is in a for parish house purposes was made 1 o. ft class by itself. •< s over into a parsonage. A new church Most people's plans for Christ£ roof, ceiling and floor were installed. : MAY. mas cards had gone so far by 00 < |I ~*rj Each property was r e d e c o r a t e d the time war broke out that they iE The Globe said the first recorded throughout. The congregation has paid used the ones they had, but not VO < bo W »l Mr. Martin. He got out a spe1 c its apportionment in full the last three . marriage in Kansas was that of Silas Pierce and Mary Shook, the cial edition of war time cards, 8£ years, and has been among the fore- ceremony having been performed in the only example of its kind reMS most churches of synod in per capita the Sac and Fox Indian agency in ceived. giving to regular and special causes. Doniphan county July 2, 1845. It is in two colors and gilt and c c shows scenes taken around his It wps among the first synodical cona. o being blown up with a gregation to pay its Tabitha Home THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1941.. house "Bang!" He says: Building Fund pledge in full in cash. "I was just putting together a o Theodore Otis has received word' Christmas card about win~ , of a tragic accident befalling his swell 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 a &S '^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 b» * » *> bo *H *'trtf -away from Atchison more than we* a six year old son, was run over out of gear I just decided to n C 9 by an automobile and killed. The wish you all a Merry Christmas : years, is foreman of a big printing a« g • 1 M <* E S 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 that killed him. Mark Balis Is the beat the devil out of theml" *O. (U E -CS O a 240 pounds. Luther is a son of Mrs. V 3 son of the late Mrs. Margaret Otis -^» be • 'Paul Tonsing of Atchison. 10 C s • A Balis, sister of Thedore Otis. They wJ t C 'are the children of Judge and Mrs. o r u s 2. aa JA. G. Otis, who came to Atchison S v 11n 1852. fe Si fl >*2 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1941. -3 ,*? o u -W 1=. £?J.Mrs. Evan Tonsing, has cmckenpox. ^ T o n s J n g f a m owned 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* up, he fastened his claws in the ^ old Challiss and Miss Irene Challiss. •/recovered. bird's cage. His weight averbal- »E. W. Howe wrote this: •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 .—-. — > cat. on the bottom, absorbed the i Q , Calif." spring of 1854, to look around for a 1941. •' jolt. Since then Tom, evidently \t a> bO TTTK-qnAY DECEMBER M 23, 1941. location, but went back to Saline believing the canary packs an IB.. county, Mo., returning to Atchison , awful wallop, scarcely can be O the following October. During Dick£ coaxed into the house. When he Jg_ erson's • absence Challiss came, in > is in he slinks past the bird's sage _ August, and began building a store.' , as fast as possible. . s.' here. There was no other house on * , . —rr. 7 ^ the town site at the time, except a claim cabin built by George / JUNE: 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 postoffice did a $31,000 budness.- ^ . y ^ ' P ^ j l J t ^ h e - c ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ a ^ t i i ^ 00 the :?i6ot: o t | . Commercial street ^ L u t h ^ ^ a l ^ ' J a m e ' t o Atchison in

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I r1 ; I N : T H E ! G R O O V E ^ W h e n Private Paul Tonsing, United "'States M a r i n e X o r p s , dropped in to say hello to the P.&B. ., linotype department, he set a few lines just to show t h a t ; he hadn't forgotten how. Interested spectators are, left i: to . r i g h t , Russell Huseby, Sammy Platus, Percy Clayton, Jim Pierce, Al Poty and Dick Sallis.

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. It is H. E. Muchnic's present to you—to everyone in Atchison. may confidently appeal to him and Without fanfare, without formality, the doors of Atchison's new receive polite answers to our inquiries. He tells us of streets, cars, public library building will be open tomorrow from 10 a. m. until 9 p. m. I busses, trains, hotels, and what not. for your inspection. He directs the traffic, aiding the j Only a few remaining touches are lacking. There will be more automobilist and guarding the life shelves for book's, the grounds will be graded and landscaped, the chairs and limb of the pedestrian. The very s-lght of him inspires confidence and will be renewed, and downstairs a magazine reference library and a relieves the mind of the perplexed recreation room for story-telling and other children's activities will be wayfarer. created. It is true, occasionally an unworIt is a beautiful building decoratthy man may contrive to hold this ed in pleasing light green and complete remodeling and modernoffice; but do not other offices, cream, well-lighted by window ar- ization of the building; and the trades and professions harbor such? rangements and fluorescent tubing, third commemorating Amelia EarIn my long experience in many with trim Venetian blinds and an n a r t , the late world-famous flier cities of different nations and conattractive floor of black and green | w n o w a s b o m i n Atchison. tinents I have never met wth disapSi asphalt tile, pointment when I had occason to A very generous gift of Mrs. R. W. 00 i Every person In Atchison is in- Ramsay of $500 will be used to re- . request a favor of an officer. He is vited and urged to visit the new model and redecorate the basement almost always nearby on the streets j building tomorrow, and to enjoy and create a recreation room where 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 rectors this wonderful gift made children and similar activities. Also even in outlying districts. possible by Mr. Muchnic. 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 17,000 BOOKS "•• has not been started. honor the government. That inAll the facilities of the library inThe basement also houses a new cludes the police. Let us not forget cluding- its reference room fully n this useful, humble, devoted man, equipped, its children's section, in gas furnace, included in the remodo 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 overAtchison, whether library patrons or building. looked; at times he is maligned and The quarter-block surrounding not; ridiculed. Intelligent and faithful 09 the library was acquired by the A person is privileged, without citizens should not fail to give reccharge and at all times, to visit the board of directors at Mr. Muchnic's ognition to the merit and value of 3* library and read any of the books suggestion and will be graded and this important servant of the nalandscaped this summer. The Atchion its shelves. tion.—The Lutheran Witness, Misson Garden club will help in this Library cards are sold to those souri Synod. 5 work. who wish to take books home from Mrs. W. L. Shelley heads the lithe library, at very nominal cost. A three-months membership costs! brary staff, assisted by Mrs. E. IJFRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1942. only 25 cents, a six-months mem- Kellogg and Miss Estelle Moore, D bership 50 cents, and a full year's The library board of directors inPaul Tonsing is now stationed membership only $1. The cards en- elude Mrs. James Orr, Mrs. J. M. at Camp Elliot, Calif., having comtitle patrons to take from one book Challiss, Mrs. "Wheeler Barlow, Miss pleted his radio training course. He K> to three at a time. j Florence Barth, Miss Effie Symns, is the son of Mrs. Paul Tonsing, 315 • The lobby will contain three • Miss Mary Lukens, Mrs. Arthur North Terrace. plaques—one commemorating the j Kinney, Mrs. H. B. Mize, Mrs. GilC/3 original gift of the land and build- i bert Guthrie, Mrs. Horace Chandler, ? ... s . TUESDAY, MARCH 31^ 1942. ing by-the Congregational church; j Mrs. H. E. Muchnic, Mrs. Ronald 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. -- TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1942. The cost of remodeling and SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1942. rebuilding the Atchison public Allen Settle, son of Mrs. Clayton library building was $16,000. The OPINION AND INFORMATION Settle of Strong City, has been money was a gift from H. E. -J This from a church paper is re- promoted from first lieutenant to Muchnic. In addition, Mrs. R. W. printed at the request of Mrs.-Paul captain of a bomber command at Ramsay gave $500 to remodel the Tonsing of Atchison: Bowling Field near Washington, D. basement rooms and work~on them The policeman is a humble rep& will start soon. The building is open resentative of the government; but C . FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1942. for your inspection until 9 o'clock how distinctly useful he is to all t C us! His very presence prevents o , this evening. ST. MARK'S MISSIONARY j The new Atchison library building many a robbery and assault, At i Mrs. Albert Carr entertained the' is having "open house" allday today 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 of St. Mark's Lutheran invited to inspect your own building, even our property. As a rule, he is j society church at her home yesterday afterthe-library, and see this new a clean, intelligent and reliable !noon/ Mrs. W. B. Winzenreidi pres[addition to Atchison. servant of the people, young and ident, presided at the business"meetold, rich and poor. He demands of ing. The devotionals were given by us no special attention or honor. Mrs. W. E. Brown. "Christian LeadHe moves among us without osten-J r s for Tomorrow" was the topic tation or interference; but it we e; presented by Mrs. Joe Schott. Delneed information or direction, we legates; elected for the Missionary 00 tCOSXention to be held in AbUene

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20, 1942 TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1942. There are 22 members of St. r*- Mark's Lutheran church in the \-* armed forces of the United States _

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 forces nfeave only 7.000 planes. We have soldgrs on six continents. Cordell -, Hulghas been shunted. The Presid 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." L

Paul Denton, formerly of Atchison, is working in a defense plant in Pryor, Okla. He assisted in caring - for the injured after the tornado last week. FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1942.

g r . Pari Mellenbruck resigned as rrMSiister of the third Lutheran ijjfirch. of Springfield, Ohio, Sunday. *" H2} plans to take a position concerned with psychological work in t f f personnel department of the Air Service. Mrs. Mellenbruck is a \ \ d&'ghter of Mrs. Paul Tonsing. ,JtO—— •• - -

John A. Martin, son of H a r r e s i ^ Martin, recently graduated from the! i school of law at Syracuse univer. sity. He was a member of the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity and the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He - was a member of the university band, chorus and orchestra. He is i ' n o w in the army at McClellan, Ala.! i '

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" K daughter, Kathryn, was born t^*Mr. and Mrs. Bruce McPheeters /^^y aglfollywood, Calif.. March 29. Mrs. MjPheeters is the daughter of Mrs. D3ra Chailiss Bennett, formerly of -"' J AFflhison. The little girl has a r Lutheran Minister Takes COYb§)ther, Bruce, jr., six years'old >&6%t ernment Post At Dayton

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The Atchison chapter of the W. The St. Mark's Lutheran children I C. T. U. met at the home of Mrs. W. E. Brown Friday afternoon. I of the church had a picnic Sunday j 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 deDoris and Dave Livers will leave 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 SATURDAY, JUNE 27 1942. tribute to its expense may do so. I 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 Kaufman and Mrs. Von Neida. Mrs. S on e t 0 Chicago to spend the sumPaul Tonsing read a paper on "My ^sr w i t h n e r daughter, Mrs. PaulMother," a splendid topic embracing ' n e Hoye. I the early history of Kansas pioneering and the fine motherhood exFRIDAY, JULY 3, 1C42. i pressed in the life of her mother, ; 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 offered by Mrs. Brown and Mrs. 29. Paul Martin is a brother of HarVon Neida. At the close of the res Martin, the insurance man, of meeting the hostess served delicious Atchison. refreshment. Miss Valeta and Miss Joyce entertained with Marimba and A Decoration day' thought: Many"! piano selections notables are burled in, Mount Vernon cemetery. Three governors of Kansas t • ground. i -The Luther League of St, Mark's are n\>w at rest in that burial ck 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 cemetery; also the graves of two state' ing. chie£-justices, A. H. Horton and David Martiii. And B. P. Waggener's TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1942. grave is t h e r e v / . ' - - '*'• ' , Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tonsing and children of Wichita and Mrs. Em-' est Tonsing and children of Emporia: visited Atchison relatives last evening. _ * Mr. a Mrs. RobetSf Tonsing have returned to Wichita, after visiting his mother, Mrs. Paul Tonsing, 315 North Terrace. .

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Walter Leroy Jordan Morton Katz Lewis Tucker Kew Russell Edward Kiehl Edward Martin Kinney Raymond Wolteis Kistler Flora Caroline Knecht Blair Elwood Knight Flora Helen Knowles Marian Kathryn Ladwig Wanda Louise. Lancaster Irma Mae Lassen Roleigh Craig Lassiter James Leroy Lewis

Patricia June Smart Dorothy Winifred Smith Jeanne Loretta Smith Mary Lillian Snelson Paul William Sowers Mary Julia Stanton Vera Frances Stanton Alice Marie Stephens Betty Doll Stout William Fredrick Taylor William Harold Thomas Mildred Jean Thompson Evan Eugene Tonsing Warren Tracy Arthur Leonard Truitt

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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 Dep 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 , alt 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 apples grow wild and the pineapples a r e t h e m o s t delicious t h i n g I h a v e e v e r t a s t e d . Mild and sweet. T h i s c a m p is really q u i t e r e m a r k a b l e as c o m p a r e d w i t h some of the s u r r o u n d i n g villages, t h e closest a b o u t 20 m i l e s a w a y . It is at least clean a n d w e h a v e a good w a t e r s u p p i y . T h e r e is n o t h i n g to do except w o r k , eat a n d sleep. So I a m doing q u i t e a bit of all. T h e food is good a n d w e l l cooked. Our q u a r t e r s a r e nice, considering eve 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 to get this l e t t e r in t h e m o r n i n g ' s

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 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 getting 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 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 come t h r o u g h a n d d r o p some pap 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 a r e w e l c o m e d . T h e r e is not room for t h e m b y air m a i l a n d b o a t s a r e so u n c e r t a i n .

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73 George Remsburg. Porter ville, Salif-: "July is an important month TO Atchison county history The j^tchisonTown company WftS organfeed 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 <$n the site of Atchison on July 4, 1604. Washburn's Great American ircus. the first in Kansas, exhi:ted in Atchison July 31, 1856. The •old Atchison bridge was completed 3$ July 1875. The Thirteenth Kan' sas Infantry was organized in July 3^62. The first through train ran •tfrer the Missouri Pacific from AtJhison to Omaha in July 1882. A. 33. Symns opened a grocery house Atchison in July 1872. B. P. B »n " W a s glad to h e a r h o w t h e w h e a t 1|yaggener was born July 18, 1847, crop t u r n e d out: F r o m t h e looks irnd gave his first big picnic in of people in s o m e of t h e p l a c e s I A t c h i s o n July 19, 1899. The Globe h a v e seen t h e r e is going to b e lots -issued its famous pictorial, historical jgdition July 16, 1894. E. W. Howe of use for it after t h e w a r . " p r i n t e d his 'Story of a Country " Town' July 5, 1883. Henry Aidoms jjvas appointed postmaster of AtWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1942 c h i s o n July 28, 1867. John A. Martin JSvas elected secretary of the WyanHe is now Major Allen Settle. l odQtte Constitutional Convention And be is somewhere in a "tropical IJjiiry' 5, 1859. George W. Glick was m a i l . " C - <^\\SLK*J-3. \[g / « * • * country." Major Settle's mother is rboxn July 4. 1827. Judge H. M. JackMrs. ClaytOh Settle, of Strong City. §¥?«' was born July 11, 1839. Luther Kas.. the former Miss Faith martin. Martin «• ,» _^f_ 3{CX. Challiss died July 6, 1895. The ALLAN SETTLE WRITES of Atchison. Faith is a dlaughter ^^^i^u/--^ - ^ £ ? ^Missouri river was a t flood stage FROM "SOMEWHERE" , of the late Governor and M rs. John y dfearly in July 1878: The temperature I n an a i r m a i l l e t t e r received A. Martin. Major Settle is in S was from 106 to 108 above zero from 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 .' uly 1 to 12, 1890. The corner stone Force. He is flying most of the ui m e , f the Christian Science church tie l e a r n e d t h a t t h e i r son, Allan, time, and writes of soaring n Atchison was laid July 7, 1912. h a d been p r o m o t e d to the r a n k of,; tropical forests that have no m end <&j£jf~i^C<*&Ey John M. Cain was born July 30, m a j o r in t h e A. A. F . In speaking" For a year and a half he 839. D. C. Newcomb was born July of his p r o m o t i o n , Allan, w h o is War Department headquarters in ^ 13, 1836. Matt Noll was born July Hl*^-*t 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 ' 23, 1859. August Mangelsdorf was ics," h a d t h i s to say: young man. and deserves the gold orn July 27, 1848. John Compton " 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 /, was born July 21, 1859. Capt. David 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 Baker was born July ri, 1833." of t h e month." I h a d k n o w n it w a s coming b u t d i d n ' t k n o w w h e n . MONDAY, JULY' 13rtS*2r 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 (737 Gene Tonsing. son of Mr, and l e a v e s a t t h e officers' club after Mrs. Evan Tonsing, has returned g M r s . . E v a n T o n s i n g is i l l work that night." from Camp Wa-Shur.-Ga located £> G e n e T o n s i n g is w o r k i n g i n t h e ' . 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. S k a r s p s t . fields a t t h e tSi S. Moyer j of J u l y a n d h e h a d j u s t received H a r m n e a r NortonviHe. TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1942. h i s first l e t t e r from h o m e . H e m e n tioned t h e fact b y s a y i n g : "Well, *£• >'i F R I D A Y , J U L Y 24, 1942. Rev. and Mrs. Ernest Tonsing. and it w a s good to h e a r from you a n d children, of Emporia, will arrive is—== t h e service w a s good. Y o u r l e t t e r Ov M r . ' a n d Mrs. Evan Tonsing were 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. -"Hn Kansas City yesterday on a Paul Tonsing. T h e r e is n o t m u c h to Cfcuying trip. Jm o r n i n g . | tell of o u r w o r k h e r e e x c e p t t h a t jSy-~r.-^a-~ qK-_I___. 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. £r SATURDAY, JULY 25, 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 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. _ n i g h t w h i c h h e l p s a lot. Also, w e Pvt. Paul Tonsing. jr., a marine, a r e 20 m i l e s b y b o a t t o t h e only 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[ © T H E C H A S E COUNTY N E W S , I mother has rea 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: :r.. and Mrs. C l a y t o n Settle r e headquarters here. . "word " S u n d a y t h a t t h e i r " W e a r e still in t h e m i d s t of t h e C a p t . Allen Settle h a d a r r i v e d r a i n y season h e r e , b u t t h e soil is fely, « t some u n k n o w n destinaq u i t e s a n d y so it d r i e s u p soon | f c J J M ^ i ^ S 3^1an is in the S-2 after t h e r a i n stops. H a v e b e e n

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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 one dim stamp shows it was on he has been vacationing. exhibition at the Centennial in The Martin building at .Fifth •_._ ----- -—-• » • • • , - . | Philadelphia in 1876. The program and Commercial street is being Mrs. P. G. Tonsing: "People have, at the banquet had a lot of good refaced, and is going to look swell. changed in this: Forty years afo! singing. Carol and Marilou HamIt was built in 1879, and has always people believed they were old when; rick, little daughters of Rev. and been occupied by a drug store. they had become forty. Today peo- \ I! Mrs. Sam Hamrick. sang "God Bless ul think they are young until they § America." Four boys and girls sang C/l become sixty." SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1942 a song that was in effect a flag salute: Lou, Lister, Arlene Nestler, Mrs. Paul Tonsing has received a FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1942. Sammy Hamrick and Dean Pratt. letter from her son, Pvt. Paul TonMrs. W. E. Brown directed the group sing, jr., of the U. S. Marine corps, Dr. P. L. Mellenbruch, who was singing. Miss Margaret Coleman who is believed to be in the Solomon pastor of the Third Lutheran church : sang a very pretty solo. The ringing island battle. The letter, dated July in Springfield, Ohio, for over nine ; male quartet was composed of Evan -~1 27, was written aboard ship. Paul years, and resigned last Easter to j (Abraham) Tonsing, Baepler Nestler.' writes: "We have been at sea sev- take a position in the Air Service j i Ed McBratney and Bill Funke. VO eral days with no sight of land. You Command plant at Dayton, Ohio, The marimba soloist was Miss Val- , VO can hardly realize how much water has been appointed as instructor ; eta Brown, accompanied by her there is. This letter will be mailed in the Psychology Department of ; sister, Lorena Joyce Brown. Sammy J when we reach our destination. We Miami college, a state school located j Hamrick sang "benediction," which were fortunate in getting a beauti- at Oxford, Ohio. The school has an was dedicated to Rev. and Mrs. ful luxury-liner for a transport, and enrollment of 300. Rev. MellenRobert Gaston, of Bendena. Rev. except for being a bit crowded, have bruch's wife was formerly Orpha j Gaston was the first native son of been 'on top of the world.' Our Tonsing, and they have four I St. Mark's to enter the ministry. state-room is first class, with toilet, daughters. VO j Cart (O. S.) Brown was toastmaster. wash-basin, closets, etc. The food is Ov ! At the morning service Pastor fine, too, served cafeteria style, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1942. Hamrick used as the theme for his complete with waiters. Haven't had O sermon, "Upon This Rock." The such -treatment since joining the n Seventy-four years ago yesterday junior choir made its first apMarines. I guess you know I spend about twenty-four Atchison people pearance since last spring. George all my time on deck, just one more Kaufman had charge of the place and I have been on every part met in Price's hall at Fourth and Main streets, and organized an liturgical service. The new heating of the ship. The only excitement system which has been in oparation has been in crossing the equator. English Lutheran church. Yesterday q for over a year was formally dediCertain of the men were picked to the seventy-fourth anniversary of o be 'initiated' and were painted and that event was observed with two ; cated at the morning service by licked unmercifully. I escaped, how- notable services in St. Mark's j the pastor. History: Early in 1867 ever, but had to cut my hair close, Lutheran church, Sixth and Park! J. H. Talbott, called attention to as they were - shaving the heads of streets. The climax of the anAtchison as a point for a Lutheran all 'polly-wogs'. I am now a 'shell- niversary celebration came last ! mission. By correspondence he back' with a card to prove it." Paul's j evening, when tr - Rev. Fred Weigsecured the interest of Rev. Morris a. address is: Pvt. Paul Tonsing, U. S. !man, D. D., president of Midland Officer, then ss:retarj- of the M. C., Unit 315, in care of Postmas- '' college, Fremont, Neb., delivered a General Synod's home mission ter, ' San Francisco, Calif. (Editor's very fine address at :. banquet in board. At the convention of the r note: A pollywog is a Marine who the church parlors. About forty synod at Harrisburg, Pa., in 1868. 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 Rev. M. G. Boyer, then pastor at man, and his speech was a medley 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, © 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, I meeting was opened with group Among the honored guests at the 1868, the congregation was organJ 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. i After the business session an elec- church fifty or more years: A. B. Weber and H. Gehrett, elders; J. Ition of officers was held with Mrs. Zimmerman, B. D. Zimmerman, H. Talbott, J. Beamer, H. Snyder jW. E. Brown, president, Mrs.. A.' Mrs. J G. (Jake) Zimmerman, Mrs. and F. Brendt, deacons. In the - -*••" • 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 George Kaufman, secretary, Mrs. Piatt, Mrs. Katie Hillick, Miss Dora O a loan of $500, which amount was Frieda VonVeida, corresponding ^JCWeinman, Miss Anna Bruce, Mrs. invested in the purchase of an £ retary, and Mrs. Ira Gould, treasAda Chaffee and Mrs. Maude excellent lot on Kansas avenue. urer. Two members were also electWycoff. Mrs. E. C. Harwi, who has There were bright hopes of having ed to serve on the board, Mrs. D. been a member fifty years, was a chapel soon, but these hopes were o Richter of Effingham and Mrs. unable to be at the banquet because 3 scattered when an aged minister P Kaufman. Dainty refreshments she Is very ill. A unique number advised delay on account of the were served by the hostess and a soon the banquet program was music financial stringency of the times, o cial hour followed. on an old time organ, which proband the numerical weakness of the ably is a hundred years old. It church. Among the members at looks like a tool box on four legs, this time was the Rev, A. W. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1942. & Wagnalls, afterward one of the o founders of the publishing house Paul Martin, editor of a big newsand belongs to Mrs. W. E. Brown, j B of Funk & Wagnalls, New York paper at Lansing, Mich., celebrated of 109 East Riley street. Last evenJ» City. While here he was in the real his fifty-sixth birthday last May. It jing, while Mrs. Elmer See played estate business. At his suggestion [seems only a few years ago he was a I the .organ, the assembly sang an \ the .congregation purchased a fifI boy in Atchison. He Is a son of the 00 late Governor and Mrs. .John- A. I old I time hymn. There are no Martin*.---1 ".-..v • . »•_ THURSDAY, AUGUST 20,. 1942.

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! teen acre tract adjoining the city' of Atchison on the northwest.! pastor August 18. 1905. The out- i : o ,fff e n n * achievement of Rev ! ! S meeung to be held in thee which section was platted and I standing church in Renn's pastorate was the erection" ! November. The com offeree, for sale with the hope of r ' p 6 ^ ' " ^ 3 ^ 6 ^ ^ 0 " 1 1 5 0 5 ^ 0f^trE' making enough profit to erect a of the present church building. The I i A. P. Eymann, chairman, Mrs. Garchurch '' 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. After that venture the congre- laid during the summer following gation used the Congregational The building was erected under the THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 19fc\ J@ 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 Under date of August 21 Paul J ^ ^ out a pastor. The Rev. Wagnalls held May 23, 1909. Rev. Renn I Tonsing. jr. writes from ''Some- j lesigned September 1. 1911. The ' where in the Pacific": "Just got I supplied the pulpit now and then my writing materials today. S o o n ' until his removal in 1876, but finally Rev,. Howard C. Garvic was installed pastor the first Sunday in •* after we dis-embarked I fell off a ' the congregation disbanded. The March, 1912. The death of the Pastruck and have been in the hospital lots belonging to the church were since with a fractured collarbone. sold for taxes, but were redeemed tor Garvic in the prime of manMy back is still in a cast but I will at the eleventh hour through Mr. hood in March, 1915, produced a profound impression upon St. soon be as good as ever. We are on i a censored island in the Pacific and Talbott's efforts, and deeded to the Mark's and the city of Atchison. find it more agreeable in many ways ; board of church extension. In 1880 The Rev. Robert L. Patterson. D. D.. than at Linda Vista. But we miss | the Rev. W. I. Cutter, a returned became pastor October 17, 1915. somewhere to go en liberty, and the ; missionary to India, with the Then came Dr. William E. Wheeler: corner drug store. We have a post j assistance of Rev. David Earhart and now Rev. Hamrick. who is lame exchange here with a great abun- | to and his daughter, Mrs. H. E. Mon- in the feet but not in the head. dance of cigarettes and beer, but roe, gathered the English Lutherans they cannot find room on ships for II together again. Mrs. Monroe was I TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1942. | 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 known as the "Atchison Institute," Globe is a good toastmaster. I gum. Evenings out we have a movie,'! 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 ing is also popular. Have read a of August the congregation was re- church Sunday." great deal in the hospital from a ' organized and the following officers elscted: Elders. J. H. Berlin, W H V WEDNESDAL, SEPTEMBER23,1942. ""' library nearby. But our main occu- V 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 town about 25 miles away but it's «**• Fusselman; trustees, J. H. Talbott. ankle. 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 cocoanut trees, etc. During part of this time aid was their home yesterday after visiting. I banana and received from the Home Mission Mr. Tonsing's mother. Mrs. Paul • Greatst danger is being 'beaned' by a falling cocoanut. Bananas are Board. In 1882 this aid was with- -i Tonsing and other relatives. ' scarce for some reason, cost more drawn and Rev. Cutter resigned than at 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 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 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, rejuvenated congregation held its the church with Mrs. Schott as the 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 cannot speak English. They are Snell, 921 South Seventh street. the leader. | likeable and honest people, a great The Odd Fellows' hall was then THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1942. j ^ d e a l like Indians or Mexicans in secured as a place of worship and —-•-•• ~~-. ~ *~~. : . appearance." a Sunday school was organized. Mrs. Paul Tonsing, 315 North ^ Under the leadership of Pastor Terrace, contributed a hot air furMONDAY, 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 city. In February, 1885, the church j a ton. .The hopes it will make it ~ Evan JTpnsing will leave Tuesday to attend The^ftHtionalU-Convention was incorporated as St. Mark's | mighty hot for the Japs. of the United Lutheran Churclf ET Lutheran Church. Rev. Diven reLouisvi'le, Ky. , •, signed in 1887 and was succeeded FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1942. by the Rev. W. F. Rentz, in April, Evan "Tonsing will go to Louis1888. 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 The Women's Missionary society i delegate to the national convention building. The present location, cor-, of the Men's Brotherhood of the j ^>fner 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 Itess. Mrs. John Herndon gave the -Kansas brotherhood. in 1888, the cornerstone being laid August 19, and the church dediMONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1942. devotionals on the theme "The . cated December 16. Pastor Rentz i Christian's Neighbors." The lesson served nine years, resigning in May,'J' presented in an interesting-manner 1897. The Rev. L. S. Keyser became by Mrs. Paul Tonsing, was on the ST. MARK'S pastor November 7, 1897. Rev. R. W. subject "Who is My Neighbor?" The - For the theme for his sermon • Hufford, D. D., served as pastor yesterday Pastor Hamrick used, year book report presented by from J a n j a r y 9. 1904, to November 'God Reaching Through His Word" ^ 1 Miss Anna Bruce, was accepted. 27, 1904. After a vacancy of nine ' Plans were made for a public thank "with Evan Tonsing as the liturgist. months the Rev. A. E. Renn became

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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 member 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 members 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 gathering the food and other gifts donated by the members of St. Mark's Lutheran church Sunday. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1942. Evan Tonsing returned yesterday from Louisville, Ky., where he attended the convention of the United Lutheran Churches of America. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1942.

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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 Pacific," 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 difference in the time required for it to reach here, generally between 25 and 30 days. We have no facilities for V-mail here, and have no stamps : or money-orders. 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 swimm i n g , yet.,;The„, company camp is l pretty nice. T h e company is by itself 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-

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1942. f Mr. and Mrs. Evan Tonsing and family spent Sunday in Emporia. Mr. Tonsing reported to the members of St. Mark's Lutheran church there on t h e V.-, L. C. A. convention which he, recently attended In Louisville.' : i*.J . ••?..-•"'

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Later the hostess served deli- ; devoted earnestly and solely to c a r e te h r e 'hopeful. cious refreshments. _•! reclamation of human souls a n d In the pulpit Preacher Sam was _ p | strenuous, wearing a n d effective: mighty. He preached the old time ! efforts to make humanity physically FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1942. Gospei. His sermons gave hope j comfortable. Nearly every hour of, trather economics brief o l H i c than s a n d fear. His were references I every day of every year he went jj , H i s w a s t h e spiritual, Next Saturday J o h n A. Martin , , _, ' . T , , .. an c a s u a nc.\i, « " " " ) about doing good. Indeed, his zeal ,__ will become a second lieutenant ; , . ° ,, ., . . . „ realm. win ucLumc B , " •»» u_ for souls a n d t h e physical welfare . , . T,„,, H o m r ; „ i - »-TC iAi-t\ 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 •« . . , .* , „ 0 „ t v , „ 0 „ J £*^*-<J in blizzards, he was calling on the i will receive his commission Satyr, , . , . . . . Night and day, in fair weather and (ConiinuejJ on page 5) day Is a t Fort Benning, Ga., and endurance, a n d refused to rest. He 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 ' 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 humanitarian. 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 while others us continue^.' to own selfish ofinterests and" 2> * ^ t MR. AND MRS. P. D. DENTON, / i to live even though we cater seldom are interested in souls only ano^ Community Shocked _// (1405 Sulzberger, a son, in St. An-c* 0 human welfare. By Untimely Death j r ; • feh» • \ Then comes my second impulse, that After A n Operation g*^ > » £ WEDNESDAY, DECEMEER 23, 1942. » a feeling of thankfulness Preacher Sam was permitted to be 90 •in ^ U.I . _ . . Decembar _ , I with us even a few years, because L. A son was born Friday, 18, to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Denton* during his short ministry he did of Oklahoma City, formerly of, more good t h a n some of us have Atchison. done in many years. JCo-&J And in t h a t second impulse I see A son, weighing 9*4 pounds, was 11 opportunity to comfort t h e widow F u n e r a l T i m e Is ^ bom Friday to Mr. a n d Mrs. Paul j | and three little children; comforf / 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. For Friday, 2 : 3 0 VO~USt~ accomplished more in t h e name of the Lord t h a n has been a c - ! SATURDAY. JANUARY 2, 1943. I complished by many people who All of Atchison is grieved -.^ 2 live the traditional three score and j by the untimely death of the 10 years. To be sure, Mrs. Hamrick. ; 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^ always miss him, but eventually! | u l a r p a s t o r 0 f g t . M a r k ' s / ' 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 hosPaul Martin was a t Beloit visiting ' bereaved. Preacher S a m "made pital. A greatly beloved ; his sister, Mrs. Paul Tonsing. good" in t h e spiritual realm and man, the Rev. Hamrick was j in his efforts to help t h e Lord's WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1943. | children in more ways than one. a youth leader in the LuthI 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 him Preacher Sam, because of his j o i T\T t - i ' • -»T constant democracy. I truly believp '!served ' St. Marks since Not 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. 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to have~bien the largest gathering in St. Mark's church since the funeral of the Rev. H. C. Garvic, another youthful pastor of the church, who died about 20 years ago. The Old Snort: "When I was a patient in the services were conducted by the Rev. Atchison hospital, Rev. Sam Ham- Eugene Harrison, Hutchinson, asrick called on me every other day, sisted by the Rev. George L. Search^/ 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 Chithe kind of a big hearted man jc.go, where interment services will Preacher Sam was. His death probably be held Monday. They wil: be attended by relatives and friends! hurts." . „ . ., . . .. . , , 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 there Mrs. Ham-' £ ! L by : p H tel M Maywood, HI., for interment. Stan-J ' n to Haer. 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 noon. Rev. Harrison is a son of Mr. Charles Harkness, both of Greenand Mrs. . Will Harrison, 1003 L leaf. Mr. Harkness was a member ' street, Atchison. .. of the home missions committee of the Kansas Lutheran Synod with Saturday, January 23, 1943. Rev. Hamrick. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer ^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 Kansas ^erday^afternoon... It.was believed [\ '• **s . •» . . ,. .. FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1943.

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Scores of people, who had gone to the lake and vicinity to see the high water, watched while attempts were made to recover the body. A. F. Russel. who operates a store at Bean Lake, directed the recovery operations at the request of Mr. Tonsing. Early yesterday afternoon the Tonsing boy rode to Rushville on his bicycle to buy a bicycle part. His companions, all of whom were Enroute home he stopped at the saved; 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. Evan Eugene Tonsing. who was Mrs. J o h n Casner, 833 Kearney; popularly known as Gene, was born street. in Atchison. December 13. 1923. His Violet Jean Scoggin. 13. daughter father, who was formerly advertisof Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Sccggin. 421 ing manager of The Globe, operates *^sc-£^ North Sixth street. the Tonsing Book Store and PrintAll are junior high school stuery. Gene was the oldest greatdents here. T h e accident occurred about 3:30 j grandson of the late Gov. John A. o'clock and the body of the Tonsing j Martin of Atchisflh. boy was recovered about an h o u r ! PREPARING FOR ARMY ^ ~ and a half later by Roy Johnson | Gene graduated from the Atchiand J. D. Harrison with the use of 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 Atchison, who examined the toody army in May. He was six feet, one itf: after it w as removed from the water, inch tall, weighed 210 pounds, and said resuciation attempts would be 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-mannerdock and about 200 feet from shore ed, likeable boy and an obedient at Moore's Camp on the east side and devoted son. He was indusof t h e lake. T h e dock extends out trious and all through school years from Moore's dance hall. At pres- j, worked after class in his father's ent the water at the dock's end is j. store and print shop, doing practifrom 15 to 20 feet deep. cally all of the press work. Gene Johnson and Harrison, who were was faithful in church and Sunday at Stein's camp on the west side of school attendance and was very the lake, saw t h e boat overturn and active in t h e young people's depart1 rowed across the lake to the rescue. ment of St. Mark's Lutheran church. The men said t h a t young Ton- He was treasurer of the Luther sing went down after swimming a League. few feet towards the dock. Besides his parents he leaves a O SAVED ORIL'S LIFE sister, Ilola Virginia Tonsing, 12 years old; and his grandparents, John Schmidt was credited with Mrs. Paul Tonsing, Atchison, and savin; the life of Patty Little, who could not swim. He Tabbed Patty, Mr. and Ms. Clarence Moyer, Norwho had gone down twice, and tonville. Funeral services will be held a t then held onto the boat with his other h a n d until help arrived. 2:30 p. m. Tuesday a t St. Mark's

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FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1943. Mrs. Paul Tonsing becims great-grandmother for the first time with the birth of a son, John Michael, to Mr. and Mrs. John M. Tonsing May 10 at Los Angeles. Mr. Tonsing, son of Luther Tonsing, formerly of Atchison, is a member of the armed forces. SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1943. St. Mark's was honored at a recent meeting of the Kansas Synod and its auxiliaries at Topeka. Miss Helen Fink was elected president of the Eastern Conference Missionary society and first vice-president of the Synodical society; Mrs. Robert 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 '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, ! and Mrs. Tonsing, Paul is the a "son" of St. Mark's, was chosen "baby" of the promii.wit family and editor of the Kansas Synod Lulike all of the other Tonsing child- theran and a member of the synodren learned the printing trade in his ical home missions committee (sucfather's shop here. When h e e n - ceeding Rev. Hamrick). listed in the marines a year ago he was employed as a linotype operator on the Los Angeles Times. He MONDAY, MAY 31, 1943. is a graduate of the Atchison High sehool. [ST. MARK'S LUTHERAN MONDAY, MAY 17, 1943.

The new American and Christian flags in the chancel are the gift.of Mr. and Mrs. Evan Tonsing and' Virginia as a memorial to the late Gene Tonsing.

ST. MARK'S At the morning service Evan Tonsing gave a report of t h e recent synodical meeting which was held FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1943. in Topeka and William Funke conducted t h e liturgical service. A MISSIONARY SOCIETY The Women's Missionary society congregational meeting was held 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 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 FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1943, Mrs. Dora Challiss Bennett of will be held at the home of Mrs. A. , Hollywood, Calif., writes t h a t she P. Eymann with Mrs. E. F. Fink the a i l i t p U l rt£Uii^ : well remembers the disastrous Mis- acting leader glasHohAsutd ^ o x ; 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), they could see all kinds of debris • St. Mark's Lutheran churchV} 'on. earth live in a n d around Atchi;^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 | ple, t h e beautiful floral tributes to with chickens roosting on them. parsonage today. They moved here | Gene, >the many kind letters and Much of the bottom land was from Rising City, Neb. 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 iteay take some' time for Mrs. Tons- her father, the late Dr. W. L. Chaling 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 ch of them to know t h a t we are to shore many valuable articles, and often timber and logs, so t h a t they ost gratefutl? V - - - ' • ? . - . - *;'." \ ;

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Maj. Allan Settle of Strong City, son of Mrs. Clayton Settle, the former F a i t h Martin of Atchison, accompanied the searching party Chat found Lit. Thomas D. Harmon, Michigan's famed ail-American football star, in the jungles of French Guiana, according to an account in the Kansas City Times this morning. Maj. Settle, his assignment completed, was selected to return with Harmon to the United States. I n 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 I in ice cream than in a thick T-bone : steak. i Settle is a nephew of Harres Marj tin and Mrs. Paul Tonsing of At' chison ,and has visited here many times. Before he entered the army i he was a member of the Star's staff in Kansas City. The major and F. W. Crawford, The Globe's telegraph editor, s t a r t ed together in newspaper work on j a weekly in their home town and j have been friends for a long time.! His career in the army has been i marked by rapid promotion and i m - j portant assignments throughout the i world. I t is not often t h a t he can : tell of his whereabouts or the nature i of his work.

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R e s i d e n t s o n t h e s h o r e s of B e a n a n a S u g a r l a k e s w e r e 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 (By a Member of The Stcr's Staff.) 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 Settle of Cottonwood Falls, Kas., a' t h a n t h a t of t h e A p r i l flood a n d stili rising, p o u r e d into 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 .

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jaccompanied the searching part;*., Water was two feet deep for a distance of 200 yards in ithat found Lieut. Thomas D. Har-" '^-r^^Z^S >mon, Michigan's famed all-Amcricar . places on the north bank of Sugar lake, every cellar was | football star, in the jungles o; full of water and many cottage occupants already had . , !French Guiana. evacuated. Between Bean Lake and the river livestock was j Major Settle, assistant executive | officer of the South Atlantic winr, being removed to higher ground and Ora Kirkpatrick, of the air transport command owner of the Kirkpatrick resort on the west side of the worked with a searching partj-'' lake, said that the residents of that vicinity may have to • which went into the South Amerileave their homes if the rise continues another day at the ^• / "^can jungle in an attempt to fincu .A other members of Harmon's crew, present rate. Railroad section tfoncers are worKwhose plane crashed on an opera- RISES AT ST. JOE 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 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 Highway 7 andI the Doniphan road ers virtually had to chop their way morning. It is expected that this both m b c ke f l° t 7 * *** !i*f J) ahead. Had it not been for Har-j water, added to that from I n d e - ' mon's amazing physical condition^ pendence creek and other t r i b u - yesterday -"-- and today at Independ-—«e , ! 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, ----. mastered the dense undergrowth of1 river a gcod ways above the n i „ h abandoned yesterday in an effort J^jF—jjurTZt to get through the water over the jungle t h a t has swallowed others;— point of April. Rainfall here in the highway 7, still were there today. less fortunate. last 24 hours totaled 3.5 inches. been T ' i e ten. of one of the trucks was Major Settle, his assignment ful-: In fact, t h a t point had i under two feet of water this mornr's 1 o'clock' m g ^ ^ filled, was selected to return with: passed here with today's p m o f t h e t o p rf t h e 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 readLloyd Holder, carrier of Route If In Washington today, Major: ing, according to Don Weatherford, -»>•. of Atchison, was compelled t o Settle could talk of little other! superintendent of the bridke, re- i t „ v _ . . . . ," . 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 months in the tropics. As for ice still was rising. i cf high water. The water went cream, t h a t delicacy held much ciown yesterday evening SWIMS IN BASEMENT encugh early to permit some traffic for more interest for t h e 28-year-old I Over in Missouri across from about two hours, but rose higher Kansan t h a n thick teabone steaks.| At the air base a t Natal,, Brazil,* Atchison the entire farms of Jack than ever during the night. It is there are plenty of thick steaks, U Ellis and Miss Buena Mounce were expected to be over the road most but no ice cream. under water because of the rains cf today Major Settle was a. member ofi which caused ravines to overflow. >j Stranger creek is reported out of / 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. Settle transferred from the public |« and Miss Mounce this morning to The Central Branch passenger relations section of the War de-j save canned fruit. Both cellars were j train due in Atchison at 6 o'clock 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. • ! of Muscotah when the Delaware as intelligence officer for the South Water was over the highway at I river undermined approaches and t-^~-^-^-«-» 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 repairwing.

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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 morning, just after he had returned from a trip down the highway to Weston. .<-• "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 .cottages on the west side of the lake." MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1943.

Pouring into Bean Lake over the flood-gate bridge, the river forced the lake out over several hundred additional acres last night. Most of the residents remained in their homes, however, with the exception of the George Willis family, who were forced out of their home when several inches of water covered the floors; Harry Myers and family, who were taken from their MKOoned residence by boat, and the family of Walter J. Hunter, who moved out yeesterday. Mr. Hunter remained at the house, which is entirely surrounded by 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 protecting 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 west and the Cash store on the east. Because the fall of the river is expected to be very slight for several 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" ment enetneers believe.

Mr. and Mrs. Evan Tonsing entertained 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.

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REV. VANCE BAIRD Alfred J. Beil, D. D., pastor of Trinity Lutheran church a t Lawrence, who is well known here, having been a Midland college student when that institution was located in Atchison. The new pastor, who is 31 years old, and his family now are established in t h e Lutheran parsonage at 901 South Fifth. Mrs. Baird ; before her marriage was Miss Faye

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 reading at 10 and 11 o'clock this morning, when the 23.56 then recorded *?as believed to have been the crest." :

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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 ¥ ] f f £ « * . Topeka, Kansas, t i o n s i n c l u d e d ^ R e v . R. E. RangeffiSh? 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 comb 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 of the Ne£raska> president $vhich the synod is known, business 0 f The Kansas Synod Lutheran, of- -Slvas conducted and decisions arrived ficial monthly paper. Nebraska Synod, represented that §»t with very little delay. Many forOther 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 •Ptaken to assure the world that the Darby Salina, and Ted Davis, Law-Western Seminary spokesman, and girst seventy-five y e a r s in this r e n c e . ' Home Mission Committee: Supt. O. W. Ebright brought word S h e a r t of the nation" area has got- — ^ ^ ^ ^ _ _ _ ^ ^ ^ _ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ _ from Tabitha Home, Lincoln, Nebr. Cordial w o r d s were offered by «^fen the synod out of its infancy well Mayor Frank Warren of Topeka, trt)n toward youth. Although war and by the Rev. L. E. Schwartz, conditions prevented an extensive president of the Topeka Ministerial ^diamond jubilee celebration, yet, be- | '? Association. The Rev. R. R. C. . ocause synod was "born" in Topeka, \ • Friedstrom, pastor of the Augustana f^n the original First Church, the Lutheran Church in Topeka, brought §)lace of meeting lent enchantment to < fraternal good wishes f r o m the J4he scene. The gavel used by Pres- ' Augustana Synod. jident George Whittecar of Tulsa, gOkla., was made of wood from a pew ' CHAPLAIN KLOVER WELCOMED 5 n the original Topeka church, a n d , A genuine welcome was tendered ]|had been presented synod at its U. S. Army Captain Chaplain W. W. ^fiftieth anniversary. Klover, former president of synod, who had been granted a leave to 5SOOD ADMINISTRATION ; attend synodical sessions. Chaplain * To show that congeniality and a Klover took active part, conducting President Whittecar and Secretary g:o-operative spirit permeated the the installation for the presidentS e a r c h "on duty" gmeeting, one finds that almost all the elect of synod, and presenting the ©officers Q - ^ W . , in executive positions were Sre-elected. Those coming under that the Rev. Ernest Tonsing, the Rev. presidents cross. In turn, he was Cferoup included: the Rev. G. R. A D. Havekost of Hays, and Mr. given the past-president s cross. ^Whittecar, Tulsa, Okla., president; H. L. Wortz, Wichita. Midland Col- Three young men were received Cthe Rev. G. L. Search, Waterville, lege Trustees: the Rev. G. L. Search into depleting pastoral ranks in the S e c r e t a r y ; Mr. Wayne Easterday, and Mr. Evan Tonsing, Atchison. persons of the Rev. O. K. Uelke, 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 ) , ^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 ' £#or the twenty-second consecutive theran Church in America, was thor-Midwest Synod; and t h e ^ e v . Sam-,

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Chaplain address on, "When Johnny Comes WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, I S « . *. .. . „ . . D Gilmer's wife was present, and was Marching Home." T h e Rev. Ernest P. Tonsing. p a i formally recognized by synod. tor of St. Mark's Lutheran chmgh WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1943. Among items of business of genat Emporia, and a son of ^*05eral interest, were the restoration of W. C. T. U. Paul Tonsing, 3,15 North Terrajjfc, will be sworn in as a chaplain*fci the $5 apportionment scale, drafting 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 this month, instead of meeting a t cation of the U n i t e d Lutheran for a six-week training period. R e x the Y. M. C. A. as they have been. Tonsing was a former pastor of m. Church in America, and acceptance Mrs. Paul Tonsing led the devoPaul'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 folEvan, will visit with his m o t h w here while h e is attending H a r v a ^ dren's Memorial Church, Kansas lowed by singing "America the 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 "AmerJ is with the marines in the Sot iiran Youth Called to Action—The ! Pacific. O I given a vote of confidence, when the Crucial Issue." It was flower misRev. A. J. Beil of Lawrence was in- sion day and flowers were sent to The Rev. Vance Baird, new paj^> structed as sponsor to seek arrange- several friends and members of the 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 lerBsting speaker, the Rev. Baire synodical camp had formerly been to one in late May, because of the usual scarcity of flowers at this talked on "Practical Patriotism." announced closed "for the duration."* time. The president and vice presgroup of girls from the summe; vocal classei directed by Miss Joycl t ident were both unable to attend. 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^ were Barbara Manning, a very littliy Meeting in conjunction with synod lightful refreshments. miss; Virginia. Tonsing, DorothjE were two of its auxiliaries, the WoAnn Dudley, Charlotte Jessip an^Jj men's Missionary Society, and t h e ' Carolyn Elwell. Others in the group THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1943. i were Letha Laurie, Sally LiggetlQ Brotherhood. The won n held their Bonnie Lou Cummings, J e a n n g ? sixty-third annual convention durA banded carrier pigeon alighted 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 THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1943JT) convocation Tuesday afternoon and care of it. Officers called Harres evening, May 4. Election of Brother- Martin, whose son, Ralph, is an expert on carrier pigeons, and hood officers resulted in the placing Harres T h e Men's Brotherhood of St/ went to t h e Barnett h o m e Mark's Lutheran church met last of Evan Tonsing, Atchison, as pres- and got it. Ralph Martin is working 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 Saturday. T h e pigeon was placed president; S. J. Turille, Emporia, presided. T h e speaker was Edwii in Ralph's cot a t t h e Martin home Marshall, new faculty member o j secretary; Clyde Tressner, Topeka, pending identification. Last year a the Atchison High school and the treasurer; and Frank Hall, Hays, ex- banded pigeon followed his young 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, man and Walter Tschorn was i n * Western Conference. Following their Pigeon club in a race. charge, of the serving. After t h e supper meeting the men listened

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remain for the duration of the war 11 course a t Harvard university,".writes at the home of his mother, Mrs. i of the appearance of Winston Churchill there: Several thousand Paul Tonsing. The Rev. Tonsing army and navy personnel a s will go to Harvard college to be sembled facing the steps of Metrained to become a chaplain in the morial church where we stood from U. S. aarmy. about 11:45 until 1 o'clock. 1 was SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1943. only about 100 feet from the platMONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1943. form, directly in front, so could see Rev. and Mrs. Robert Gaston and —. — i^-.--t^ everything. It was very warm and son, Bobby, of Eureka, are visiting ; i Theodore Otis, 510 Mound, unmuggy, the humidity high. A WAVE his parents, M r - a n d Mrs. Ed Gas- j derwent a major operation at thi up in front fainted and was carried ton. Rev. Gaston was recently a p - , Atchison hospital this morning. off. Cameramen of all types were pointed by the Synod of Kansas and j on harjd. While we stood there Adjr.cent States as editor of the /i Churchill was over in Sanders Kansas Synod Lutheran. He sucLt. John Martin, who is stationed j j theatre receiving his doctors deces- s Rev. Ernest Tonsing of Em- in Australia, recently has written gree from President Conant. We poria who will enter Harvard uni- to his father. Harres Martin, telling heard his address over a loudversity's chaplain school August 15 of his service there and requesting speaking system. Ie was keen and to become an army chaplain. a clipping from newspaper stories I challenging, to say the least. So concerning his cousin. Major Allan : [ we waited, About 12:40 the navy " Settle, who accompanied the party ; s man in charge announced we were THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1943. searching for Tommy Harmon. Lt. to come to 'parade rest' when - Martin has a military background. Churchill appeared, then salute St. Mark's Lutheran church will His grandfather, for whom he was I 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 tember 19. ' served in World War I. — ; salutes" at another bugle note. At Miss Ann and Donna Martin about 1 o'clock Churchill came. daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Harres SATURDTY, AUGUST 28, 1943. ___';people were running all around the Martin, have recovered from an edges of the crowd. There were. attack of tonsilitis. 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. 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 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 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 imThe Evangelical Lutheran synod of j shortly after the death of Mr. Chal '; presses one t h a t he is really bash- j Br Kansas and adjacent states ap- liss, on January 26, 1928. Mr. and 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 i^ English Lutheran church of Okla- southwest of Atchison on the Cur- ! of every person in the crowd the i—i homa City from withdrawing from lew road,.for almost 20 years prior I minute those terse words- begin Cthe synod and affiliating with the to his death. She was born in New j tumbling out. He speaks simply, to; ; the point, and every word is a chalp York state May 18, 1862, and marmidwest synod. U, The Kansas synod, which has ried Mr. Challiss October 5, 18J9, at ; lenge to one to accept it as the O jurisdiction over the number of Sabetha. Mr. and Mrs. Challiss lived ' word of an honest man and, true.. •f* churches In Kansas, Oklahoma and on a tract of land just west of the 1 • I have been gripped by few men as by Winston Churchill. He stressed j *^ Missouri, sought a review of a de- Forest Hills golf club for several our blood-brotherhood with the j © cision by the Tenth federal circuit years following their marriage, and British, our like aims,.our like suf-si also resided in Adrian, Mich., where court t h a t the Oklahoma church 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. is won, by any means, but t h a t it wasj I FredChalliss Challiss, affiliation. up to the army and navy and m i - - l of Chicago; two daughters, Mrs. rines- co-operating with our allie?,: Pauline Hoy, of Chicago, and Mrs. THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1943. to bring it to as quick a terminaMary Cullinan. of Lincoln Neb., and tion as possible by absolute devoLt. and Mrs. Ernest Tonsing and six grandchildren. tion to duty*.' He showed how our. : sons, Freddie and Evan, of Empogeneral staffs, Great Britain anet i ria, arrived yesterday for a short TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1943 U. S., were 'working together con1 visit before Lt. Tonsing enters Harstantly; h o w ; - G ? n . Montgomery | vard university for his army ch£._JChaplains 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 & troops irrespective of their govern| Emporia the last . two years, going which Winston Churchill received ment or nationality, and how every I there from Wellington, where he an honorary degree. Chaplain Tonsadvance 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, onjcollabmother, Mrs. Paul Tonsing, 315 here, are attending the army chaporation, of our two armejR liorces North Terrace, while he is at Hara t „ Harvard .„.™— _ ..— j (he didn't mention . C h i t a ! iortjRusvard. He will be in the same class lain ~school Flash! Evan Tonsing dislocated',<; sia once in the: whole !taB6|(Woul^ with Lt. Robert Cochran of the Atchison Salvation Army. lis jaw at the Kiwanis picnic. I • continue tor manyj; j ^ a r i . i ItR a 0 4 & ' i that 1 such* vicious i ifpjces'i jdia| ( n SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1943. I ever. again gain /. enough • "power, to FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1943. i T | show ;their heads. ,He ; ijaiffi jfirie j g f e T h e Rev. Ernest F . Tonsing'; of I: | bute jAb several Halyard : pr6(e>sc§f* HERE FOR DURATION j who':havei 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|^< The family of the Rev. Ernest! Emporia, formerly of Atchison, who -uw*2 I in, > iot'tinn-'. ift* DasiC chaplain's ffklfrftiaafofy«»t Tonsing is here from Emporia toil la,. JaBng"" the army ;be, taughg all / program a wiener roast was held at the fireplace in the Tonsing yard. The next meeting will be at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Will Harrison.

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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. He smiled broadlyi' made the characteristic victory sign and disappeared into t h e * chapel. Secret service men were all about, - peering into I , the crowd as one sees them in t h e ; ! movies. It was the first really in: temational scene I had ever witnessed a t d the emotional appeal 1 was gripping. I felt as if I had seen greatness and had had a share in its powerful influense The magnetic appeal of t h a t man is phei nomenal, unforgetablc.

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Theodore Otis, who had an operation 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. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER ,16, 1943.

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St. Mark's Lutheran church, Sixth SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18,' 1943. ind Park streets, will celebrate its seventy-fifth anniversary Sunday, with two important services, morning and evening. The program opens with a Sunday school Rally day celebration at 9:15 | a. m., a t which departmental graduation exercises will be featured. The Rev. Fred Wiegman, D. D., —'a—president of Midland college, FreThe St. Mark's Lutheran church, Sixth and Park a t the 10:30 o'clock morning worship T ., >& Luthera service, and both the senior a n d , n congregations west of the g. junior choirs of St. Mark's will sing. I Mississippi river, will celebrate tomorrow the seventy K> Dr. Wiegman was the speaker a t ' . „ • , _ , • „ • , J* the seventy-fourth anniversary ban- : « « " anniversary of its founding. Eminent church . _ quet a t St. Mark's last year, and ] e a ders will be speakers in two servces Q _* ; also has spoken herg" at community' VO and Lutheran events. commemorating tne evenu 8 A pageant depicting several of The Rev. Fred Wiegman, D. D.,! the outstanding events in the hispresident of Midland college, Fretory of St. Mark's, directed by Jane mont, Neb., will preach at the Zimmerman, will be presented at the evening service at 8 o'clock. A morning service, at 10:30 o'clock and 00 special stage has been erected for the Rev. Andreas Bard, D. D., of this feature. Kansas'City, Mo., will speak at t h e ' The speaker for the evening servevening service, at 8 o'clock. j* 1 ice will be Dr. Andread Bard, pastor of the St. Mark's Lutheran A historical pageant, directed by I .* church, Kansas City. Mo., one of Miss J a n e Zimmerman, will also; the most widely known Lutheran be presented a t the service Sunday pastors in the middlewest. evening. Historical highlights will be Rev. Vance Baird, pastor of St. j depicted in five scenes, with Ed Mark's here, will be in general j Arthur reading the descriptions. charge of Sunday's celebration. The : Members of St. Mark's who wil' . congregation invites all • Atchison j participate in the pageant wil!! people to attend the programs and 1 include J. G. Zimmerman, Mr. and participate with this pioneer church j Mrs. Leslie Long, Mr. and Mrs. j in the anniversary event. I Floyd Hundley, Miss Ida Mae Spaun. T. J. Dunning, Carol H a m a. I rick, A. B. Zimmerman, B. D. Zimmerman and Tommy Dunning. Musical settings will be furnished by the St. Mark's choir and Mrs Ed Arthur, organist. INVITO PUBLIC

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Fred C. Wiegman, president of Midland college, Fremont, Neb., and ! one of the most eloquent speakers : in the middlewest, will deliver the anniversary sermon next Sunday . morning, a t the seventy-fifth a n n i versary celebration of St. Mark's Lutheran church, Sixth and Park streets. The service will be a t 10:30 o'clock, and the public is. invited. .. FRIDAY, &B2PTEMBER 17, 1943.

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—The Rev. Andreas Bard, D. D., veteran Lutheran pastor from K a n sas City, will speak at \ h e Seventy-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 t h e most interesting speakers In j 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. "

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The Rally day service a t the Sunday school, opening at 9:15 a. j _ m., also will be a part of the day's r program. The public is invited to attend j these services. Organization of St. Mark's took place on September 20, 1868, a year | after The Rev. M. G. Boyer came 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 members at this time was the Rev A. W. Wagnalls, afterward one of the founders of the publishing house of Funk
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enough lots to pay for the land." 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 resigned a& the end of the year | 1869, and for ten years the church was without a pastor. The lots \ belonging to the church were sold j for taxes, but were redeemed at the I eleventh hour through Mr. Talbott't: efforts, and deeded to the board N of church extension. In 1880 the Rev. W. I. Cutter, a returned missionary to India, with the . assistance of Rev. David Earhar; • and his daughter. Mrs. H. E. Mon- . roe, gathered the English Lutheran? together again. Mrs. Monroe wa<; then conducting a private school known as the "Atchison Institute." *-*

committee ordered to proceed T h e ' of tne last, cornerstone was laid during t h e ! I with t h e exception also built the I summer following. The building was 1 j gymnasium. He 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 was installed pastor the first Sun- jborn. The Renn twins are the only day in March, 1912. The death of I children born to a pastor of s t . 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 duced a profound impression upon 1 years. Marilon Hamrick was about; St Mark's and the city of Atchison : six weeks old when the Rev. a n d The Rev. Robert L. Patterson D i Mrs. Hamrick came. A. B. Zimmerman, B. D. Zimmerman and D., became pastor October 17, 1915. J. G. Zimmerman also helped r,nd served for about, five years build t h e church auditorium. All He was succeeded by The Rev Wi;Uam E. Wheeler, who served St. ' : three men are still active members' church Murk's for 17 years, the longest • of St. Mark's Lutheran here. period cf any pastor in the churchV history. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20. 1943. C H U R C H PASTon D : E S

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R?v. Sam Hamrick. who died last ST. MARKS LUTHERAN and she offered her school room January, came to St. Mark's from * Yesterday St. Mark's celebrated U 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 progrcsRally day in the Sunday school, j congregation was reorganized and - sive leader His death came as a 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. Kistler; deacons. J. L. Heisey, E. D. Van.e Band, who O ^ \f^ 0, MkJ,and colk„e> W M the came here from Rising City, Neb.. Kistler. and John Fusselman; trusguest speaker, and in the evening three months ago. He will be in tees. J. H. Talbott, W. H. Smith Dr. Ar.dreas Bard occupied the 17 gencial charge of the services A and S. J. Clark. Rev. Cutter served puipit. A historical pageant of the j — tomorrow. as pastor two years. During pari church preceded the sermon, under , Not only has St. Mark's been a of this time aid was received from the direction of Miss. Jane Zim- i ^ prominent part cf the community the home mission board. In 1882 merman assisted by various mem- J life cf Atchison, but it has furnished this aid was withdrawn and R«v. errs of the congregation. | c j Cutter resigned. considerable leadership in the A large crowd attended the 75th For two years the church was ' Evangelical Lutheran synod of j dormant, but in 1884 the second ; Kansas and adjacent states, of I anniversary services at St. Mark's c The which "it is a member. Synod ha '• Lutheran church yesterday. organization was revived, and bemet here five times, in 1869, 1889. j Rev. Fred Wiegman. D. D., p r e s - . came a nourishing congregation. In .November of that year the Rev. - 18S9, 1920 and 1940. The church ! ident of Midland college, Fremont, has furnished five presidents of j Neb., was the guest speaker at the George S. Diven was commissioned morning service and the Rev. Ansynod: Rev. M. G. Boyer. Rev. W. F. to come to Atchison and revive the dreas Bard, D. D., of Kansas City, Rents. Dr. R. L. Patterson. Dr. W. E. mission. Its first service was in the home of Henry Snell, 921 South I Wheeler, and Dr. H. L. Yarger. Two j Mo., spoke a t the evening service, which included A historical pag' of its laymen served as treasurers i Seventh street, eant. f"of synod. J. K. Berlin and W. M. j IN I. O. O. F. HALL The Odd Fellows' hall was then Mrs. A. E. Renn, formerly of; cf the officers for the synodical secured as a place of worship and Atchison, ar.d of Indianspolis, writes ! brotherhood. Missionary society and a Sunday'" school was organized. AtChiSOH friends that her twin j Luther League. In February, 1885, the church daughter. Florence, is now Mrs. j ENTERTAINED SYNOD was incorporated as St. Mark's John Scott, and has two children, Lutheran Church. Rev. Diven r e Carole. 5. and a son. John Renn. St. Mark's in 1913 entertained the torn August. 15.' Wert R e m is also signed in 1887 and wai succeeded I i penefftl synod of the Lutheran living in Indianapolis and is u n by the Rev. W. F. Rentz, in April, I church, the national organization, married. Rev. Renn was pastor of ,, 1888 Rev. Rentz set to work at once j t bringing Lutheran leaders here 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 ^ ^ many years ago. building. The present location, cor- j i and Canada. 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 congre1897. The Rev. L. S. Keyser became gation are in the armed services, . 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 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. Zimterday- morning caused damage estiRev. Renn's pastorate was t h e mated at $15,000 to the Walters m e r m a n was the contractor who erection of the present church Drug store and t h e building it built St. Mark's chapel and large j building. The movement began Ococcupies at Fifth and Commercial. j auditorium at Midland college, and ; tober 21, 1907. Plans were adopted 1 The building is owned by Harres Midland buildings I j March 17, 1908, and the building all the other

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Martin. . ' TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1943. Flames had gained considerable headway in the basement of the ,r T h e ' K a n s a s Lutheran Synod-has building when the fire was discovcalled a special meeting to be held j ered. At the time of the discovery Thursday afternoon a t three o'clock" j the drug store, t h e offices of Dr. a t Lawrence. Rev. Vance Baird. | A. E. Ricks and Dr. Wayne O. pastor of the St. Mark's Lutheran j Wallace on the second floor were church, will attend a preliminary filled with smoke, but no flames meeting at Lawrence Wednesday were visible, city firemen said. and Evan Tonsing will attend the Origin of, the fire was in the -Thursday session. . ^ j basement 'and firemen said there were indications of an explosion, but they were not positive whether the MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22. 1943. 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 the walls. Flames creeping up the I partitions caused substantial damage to the of/ice of Dr. Ricks on the second floor, but the offices of Dr. Wallace escaped with smoke damage. No damage was apparent in the Woodmen lodge hall on the third floor. Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Walters—Mr. Walters is proprietor of the store— left for their? home about 10:30 Saturday night, after turning- out the hot water heater in the baseINFANTRY CHAPLAIN — ment and turning off, the lights. Lt. Ernest Tonsing, chaplain in the Everything in t h e b S s e m e n t seemed infantry engineers, was formerly as usual at t h a t time, said Mr. pastor of the St. Mark's Lutheran Walters, who is a former mayor of church in Emporia. The son of Mrs. Atchison and a member of t h e city Paul Tonsing, Lt. Tonsing received commission. his commission September 25 from PLAN REPAIRS Harvard university, Cambridge, Mass., Mr. Martin today is making plans and has since been serving at Bend, for the immediate repair of the Ore. He enlfsted in the service in building. An insurance adjuster August at Ft. Leavenworth. Mrs. arrived yesterday and was still on Tonsing and the couple's two sons the job this afternoon. Mr.'Walters have been living at Bend. Before expects to move the salvage from filling the pastorate at Emporia, Lt. Tonsing was pastor at Valley Falls the fire to another building nearby and at Wellington. and will continue his business until WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1943, the repairs to the Martin building i are completed). Miss Ethel Chew, i bookkeeper, has been given desk': Mrs. George Kaufman relates room in the Tonsing store. some interesting points about the ! The vdense smoke caused by t h e j service flag for members of trie fire is believed to have been caused ! church serving our country. There by mineral oil, a large quantity of were 15 stars placed on the flag Which was stored in the basement. to honor 15 members of St. Mark's Considerable stationefy7 other paper : who were members of the national material and drugs, also were guard in Atchison and were sent burned. *"• to Ft. Robinson, Ark. Since t h a t OVERCOMJ: BY siwoKr: j time the number has increased to 85 service stars* There are 13 famFireman Ed Peasley was over-1 ccme by smoke when he entered ilies of brothers; one WAVE, Bessie the building after firemen broke the Pantle, and one father and son repwindow in the front door but was j resented.. About one-half of the able to resume fighting the fire'in.j group qj boys were members of the a few minutes. The fire was discov- | Boy Scouts of the church troop a t ered by Si Dolginoff of t h e Gore some time or other. A large cross Cigar store,, who saw the smoke as h a s been placed on one star to dishe locked up for t h e ' night and tinguish a son of St. Mark's (Lt. urned in the alarm. Ernest Tonsing) who is an infantry chaplain. Also a white spot to disTUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1943. tinguish a WAVE, Bessie Pantle. 1 Chaplain Ernest Tonsing is! There are 24. boys serving overI stationed at Camp Adair, Ore., in seas. One, Glenn Fedderson, is a | a g Mtffleryjlivjgon. PQS22S °L w a l l a Germany; 3 y ^ .

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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-gory, 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. H There yet remain nine pr acticing 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
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half. Two of their lieutenants n a a j According to Mrs. P. G. Tonsing been killed, the third badly woundi ed. Martin was a replacement f o r ! ^ Q , the old building at 311 Commercial, [ one of the officers. Since t h a t time, j 'I \ I now being razed, was built, by the | L i e u t e r i n t Martin has been with \ I late John A. Martin, probably in the j tire 12&" in its later battles on j 1860s, as a home for the Atchison ; ! i New Guinea.'- He led his men at I Champion. The first home of the j the landing at Saidor in Jap-held j : Champion, a small wooden building ; territory January 1 this year, i n j i somewhere in that block, had been i letters to his father. John praised I ] destroyed by a fire. Tire Champion i his men as real battle-toughened j TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1944. I occupied 311 until the erection of fighters. He described seme of the ! j the building at 500 Commercial, in I Pfc. Paul Tonsing, son of Mrs. campaign at Saidor arfij told how ' 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 lieutenant added, "but I needed a'; Honolulu. The nature of his ! 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 Australian and American troops i stcre. And later,' I believe, the post FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1944. recently united to clean out the office was there until moving into eastern end of the island. its present quarters at Seventh and Pfc. Paul Tonsing of the marines. Kansas avenue." who is in a naval hospital in the WEDNESDAY. MARCH 8, 1944. Hawaiian islands, met Chester Mize, jr., the other day. Chester was THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1944. j Mrl. s. J. Sketch, formerly Miss &. *• the first Atchison person Paul had seen In 22 months. • Blanche Challiss of Atchison, is se- i The Atchison post office was forriously ill from a complication of L George Wolf, cashier of the Exmerly located in the building at o^S\\ National bank, is another \ diseases a' a Los Angeles hospital. | ' ^ 311 Commercial street, now being • \change j She has not been well for some [ ^-^J—razed, and also at 305-07 Commer- ! jhian who has worked all his life i time.and very little hope is held for \f C^i^i in'Atchison. cial street, the present location of 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 . early this morning to the home of; . the town's authorities on early-day her mother, Mrs. C. S. Moyer,; _ ' <• history. D. C. Newcomb's dry' goods • The largest Civil war pension in southeast of Nortonville. because y-vand department store was located in Atchison was t h a t of Mrs. John of a heart attack Mrs. Moyer s u f - ' ^ ' ' ^ ^"*— the building at 305-07 Commercial A. Martin. $40 a month. fered during the night. H e r ' conbefore fcfr. Newccmb built the threecation is crJticife $ ! story building at 623-25 Commer- SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1S44. cial, and moved his store there. (The , • SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1944Mrs. Paul Tonsing received a Theo. Intfen Furniture store is now located at 623-25 Commercial.) Aft- telegram yesterday morning inMrs. 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 ] called to her bedside FTida,y£after and Kansas avenue was constructed Oakland, Calif. . ' 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 post office was moved from 311 to . > • 305-07 cannot be ascertained. The • T U E J O J A Y , MARCH 21, 1944. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1944. 1885 city .directory shows it still located at 311 and that M. G. WinLi. Ernest Tonsing. chaplain of One Atchison man read with avid egar was the postmaster at the the 104th artillery at Yuma, Ariz., interest the Saturday Evening Post's time. The Ingalls history of Atch'• was in Atchison overnight visiting p ison county gives the following in- recent featured article, "The Terhis mother. Mrs. Paul Tonsing, and rible Days Of Company E." The formation on the Atchison post of. his brother. Evan Tonsing, and famstory, one of the most striking sagas fices: "The first post office in Atchily. 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 side of Commercial street, between a:, t^discigsed destination. His wife crossing the Owen Stanley mounON Second and Third. . . . The location tains to attack the Jap flank at "_ ana"yoUOgl} son will go with him. -J of the post office was removed in — Buna village, on New Guinea. When , ' - ; ' - "*•*»••> 1856 to the store of Messrs. Wool- Harres Martin read the story, he WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1944. folk & Cagell, on t>e levee. During began comparing notes and found i | " " : — r ^ --" — the Civil war the headquarters of 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 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 O removed to a building on the north a graduate of Syracuse university you have prohibition, there's bootside of Commercial street, between 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 that in July, 1882, the free delivery diately following his graduation of j f f i ^ b y a civilian. ,„v . system was inaugurated in Atchison K from officers school at Ft. Benning, which, with her money order deGa., in January. 1943. Only a week THURSDAY, MARCH 23,. 1944. partment fully' equipped the post before he joined company E, the office. A number of years later agiunit had been relieved and returned J° Mrs. Blanche Challiss Skstch, whd( to Australia. Their lrarrowing [has been seriously ill for some B f t H r . _ ^ tation was started for the erection . experiences in cutting a new trail fa: in a Los Angeles hospital, is slowly \OZis£<^cn^.. of a new post office, and through the efforts of Senator Ingalls a site 'across the mountains and jungles, recovering and hopes to be able to | and their battle at Buna village, a t the northeast corner of Seventh . . r e t u r n , to her home in the near j had depleted their ranks more t h a n f 1 ir_

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I (DeXyed)MjT):—WhUe the '.*&. s. ai^'i-aft carrier Lexington and batIlleSiip Colorado conducted a widei spr&d search in July, 1937, for | Avi^grix Amelia E a r h a r t Putnam | and sber navigator, Fred Noonan, 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 | aided in the original search. Interest in the American fliers' fate was renewed by an exclusive ! Associated Press report relating ! that an English speaking native named Elieu, age 30. told Lt. Eugene 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 atolls" and that "she was picked I up by a Jap fishing boat" and 1-according to Ajima's account was "taken back to Japan." Relations between J a p a n and American then were friendly, alj though the Japanese allowed no (foreigners to visit t h e Marshalls. ! The officer said the Lexington's search extended to within 350 miles v)f the place where t h e Islander talked to the Japanese trader. ;

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THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1944. j Mrs. Ed Fink, Mrs. Leslie Long, i the Rev. Vance Baird and Evan Tonsing returned today from K a n sas City where they have been since Monday, attending the convention of the Lutheran synod of Kansas and adjacent states.

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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 ; cently read the book and it contains ; much interesting early-day Atoll. -| ison history.) I THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1944. The Intermediate department of | ! SJ,. Mark's Lutheran church held a picnic last night a t Jackson.park. Evan Tonsing is the superintendent of the department.

TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1944. I Evan Tonsing, who was ill yes-1 i t e r d a y a t his home, is unproved J] today. t

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W. C. T. V. MEETS 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 SaturSacredhefs 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 gave a talk on the work of the ! lived there many years, and never 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. 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 „ L by Mrs. O. C. Von Neida and Mrs. yesterday. C. E. Olden. Musical selections were SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1944. given -£p- Mrs.. R. J . Elwood of Effingharil, who sang "The Perfect Capt. and Mrs. Ernest F . Tonsing, Life," and Mrs. Pinder, who played and family, have moved to 716 Bona piano solo. Mrs. D. Richter disfoy, Colorado Springs, from Manmissed the meeting with prayer. itou Springs, Colo. Capt. Tonsing, After the meeting the hostess served who is a chaplain in the army, is refreshments.stationed a t Camp Carson, Colo. SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1944.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1944. j E v a n Tonsing was able to be a t 1 work yesterday after being ill.

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IN NEW GUINEA-^econd Lieutenant J o h n A. Martin, 26, en-*" tered the service In April, 1942, ~> after graduating from the school E of law a t Syracuse university, Syra- r cuse, N. Y. He received his train- j> ing at Ft. Dix, N. J. Ft. McClellan, g Ala.,' and Ft. Benning, Ga., where k he received his commission in^j.December, 1942. Lt. M a r t i n w a s S sent overseas in January,. 1943, fly- J ing to t h e Southwest Pacific. He £ saw service-on New Guinea, includ- E ing t h e American landing at Sal- 5 dor. He was assigned to the in- | fantry and is now stationed In-1 New Guinea. John is a son of Mr. j j and Mrs. Harres Martin. •-_? j ; | g P ' oo

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BERKELEY, CAL., Mar. 22.—(AP WIREPHOTO)—Mrs. Amy Otis Jj&rhart (above), mother of Aviatrix Amelia Earhart, lost on a tr^ps-Pacific flight, said here today she did not hope for her da%hter's return, but did hope for some definite word of what difK^happen "away out "there in the Pacific." Above Mrs. E a r h a r t B ^ p o r t r a i t of missinr. Amelia. Both Mrs. Earhart and her daughter *<JS! born in Atchison. Kan. , _ . . . ' . . before the wedding. So it's some'TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1944. thing unusual that a marine IE waiting in the USA for a WAVE j E&. daughter, Marilyn, was born that has been sent overseas. lstsi Friday at the Atchison hospital ta-Mr. and Mrs. Harres Martin. ' WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1944. ..ON . . . -"Paul Martin, Ralph Martin and Miss Donna Martin, daughter of; A Q J o h n Mangelsdorf are staying Mr. a n d Mrs. Harres Martin, is I l-at£jhe YMCA in Kansas City, M<x celebrating her twelfth birthday; ' Pgil a n d . A l John are working a t ' todav taking care of her baby sis-] t h s North American bomber plant j • ter, "Marilyn, born . last Thursday; • asgriveters and Ralph is a chemist j I at the Atchison hospital. a Q h e Sheffield Steel Co. |. -'" FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1944. Ralph Martin, son of Mr. and ' Mrs. Harres Martin, has entered! five pigeons in a grand pigeon race I from Fort Worth, Texas. His p i - | geons were shipped there Thursday, i - ^ ^ Z ^ <^L^n^4? and the race will begin Saturday I * Jf S , / S ^ , | morning. Members of pigeon clubs ] c/ w | in Kansas City, Mo., Omaha, Neb., L - w £ ^ , K j Toueka and Atchison will enter in | po | the race. First prize will be $75,'

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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 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, lumber yard and other industrial plants are shown in the picture. In the picture below the water n / now overflowing from the river into residences of East Atchison is shown. The high point of the present flood was about 14 inches below that of 1881. T^hrcarried^a^wWte SWM> " * . - ^ u • ^ of Mrs. Paul Tonsing of "Atchison." S of gardenia- Miss ^ » ., Monday, August 14, 1944 The Rev. Hugh W. Jamison read CoWare Pittenger, sister of ttr W^JS \\ I the marriage vows for the ceremony ll the maid of honor, and wore-jMi a which occurred August 12 at the street-length-dress- o r a q u a c r e r * . PITTENGER-TONSING ^ Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Pitten- | Glide Memorial church in San A vocal solo was offered byf Miss ^ Francisco, Calif. The bride, who was ger of Weatherford, Kas., announce Sarah Nicodemus, cousin «<» W j ^ given in marriage,by Warrant Offithe 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.

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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 overseas. MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1944.

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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, secret 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. George W . Martin, t h e present secret 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 ; house of representatives a n d state 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.

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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, preI 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 exception 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. Kaufman, 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,

(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 maxtimum. 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 topcoats. 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 WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 13, 1944. place this time of year. Streams which in many a K a n Mrs. Robert Tonsing has received j sas August won't r u n a cupful a word t h a t her father, Charles | month are gushing from bank to Hornecker, died Monday in Wichbank, with flood stages reported ita. Funeral services will occur this on the Kaw, t h e Blue, t h e Misafternoon. 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. Normal attendance for August: 3.000. But in Florida, in Southern Texas a n d : o n . west and u p t h e coast/'it was t weather pretty much ^StiasaalMiSxceBtiojK^^rjienver's

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Mrs. George Kaufman, 313 Santa Fe. who corresponds regularly with a large number of men in the armed services, has received the following 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 considerateness. 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 import 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» Sng officers:, but if is still up to the also noted that Herman Tabben. individual to come as he wishes to pservic-ps. and to act as he sees fit. who is a 97-year-cld member, was Pas a Christian individual or not. present. Eleven members who havft Splease yive my regards to \ our. served St. Mark's for over fifty years attended. I (•family and also prisy on my best .wishes to any of our church people; Ed F. Pink, president of St. Mark's ! ^•ou meet. Atchison has always been. j brotherhood, announced that the | tfend always will be. home to me, and campaign undertaken by the broth- i 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- !

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- ! ment. Solos were presented by Robert Berger and Miss Valeta Brown. W. Q. Altimari led the group singing. LeRoy Demmon. Evan W. Tonsing and Mrs. Homer Pratt compose the anniversary committee. Mr. Tonsing presided at the dinner.

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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, chrysanthemus 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 in a pot over a hearth fire. They try to give us cider, which is bit- j 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 ter because the apples are bitter.) i bration of St. Mark's Lutheran church this evening, four pioneer y Harvesting instruments are crude L ^ , o ^ L ^ w o - ^ S members of the church will be honored. A. B. and B. D. Zimmerman plows the walking-style. A fewf buili the original chapel, now the Sunday School room, in 1888. T---~-/v-and f horses are about, and some burros. 1 A. B. Zimmerman, lower right, who was a building contractor all his The cattle left by the Germans are I 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 i Germany three and four years, of age and A. B. Zimmerman Is five months younger. Tiie dinner I either as captive soldiers or as forcthis evenlnj begins at 6:30 o'clock. The church organized Sept. 20, I ed labor. Not many children about, 186R, with 25 memhers. ! 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, unance of A. G. Berger. Mr. Fink I touched by bombing. But one I saw burned the mortgage note. Rev. ' was bombed and shelled beyond Baird followed this ceremony with repair, had been used as an obser8 prayer of thanksgiving. vation post by the Germans, its Dr. R. D. Rinde. dean of the lovely art windows blown out and Western Theological seminary at destroyed. One statue left on its .Approximately 165 members at- i Fremont, Neb., chose as the pedestal by the wall, was of God tended the St. Mark's Lutheran : theme- for the anniversary address, the Father, holding in a kerchief church dinner and anhiversajj pro- j "The church's One Foundation." some children with a crucifix in front of his legs, and His feet restgram Wednesday evening, an event j LeRoy Demmon read greetings ing on skulls and cross-bones. The I which commemorated 76 years of j from the following individuals who 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

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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 While a movie newsreel camera : 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." —12 carloads of dried eggs—was' ; transported from refrigerated ; TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1944. • freight cars into Uncle Sam's big \ new subterranean "ice box" at the Two former pastors of St. Paul's : Kerford nuarry Saturday afternoon.! Lutheran church at Va!i?y Falls Many guests, besides the newspaper are serving overseas with Hie armed representatives, were on hand to j watch the history-making event. forces. They are Cap:. Max Gilmer, serving with the inisntry ill New EJclon Richardson of Washineton.' D. C . chief of shipping and storage •Guinea, and Cap:. Ernes" Tensing. | for! the War Food administration. ' who is serving In France. | supervised the proceedings. W. B. ] \ Webb, also of Washington and chief | of t h e WFA information section. .-xted the making of the pictures.

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The spectators saw how the barrels 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 According to Mr. Richardson t h e t ^ ' big cooler v. ill be '.he only one ii»§i 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 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 attending 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> ^•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 storage branch of the War Food Administration.

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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. Richrson 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.

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els of Atchison will be gen- l trailers pulled by gas and electriceral manager of Uncle Sam's j powered "mules." FORCE OF 50 MEN big "ice box" which is locat-^j In outlining Mr. Eckels' respon- M-): ed at the Kerford limestone ! sibilities as manager of the refrigerator, Mr. Richardson said he will mine. be in charge of placing the food

Mr. Richardson said that Atchison 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 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 Friday 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

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1944. &.ST. MARK'S LUTHERAN ja Yesterday v.as Brotherhood Sung"day and at the morning service ,_}Evan Tensing, president of the QEynodical Brotherhood, was the K guest speaker with E. F. Fink, presiB'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.

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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.-Bes 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>

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Lutheran churches ot thirteen communities of northeast Kansas and northwest Missouri will participate in the annual fall rally of the Eastern conference of ' the Kansas Synod, to be held in St. Mark's Lutheran church, Sixth and Park, next Sunday afternoon and evening.

Mo., director of the conference brotherhood, will conduct t h e MJn'a sessions, and James Hayward, jr., of St. Joseph,' Missouri., president of the synodical Luther Leagues, will be in charge of the voting peoples meeting. Lutheran churches of Atchison, Bendena, Lancaster, Lawrence, Valley Falls, Kansas City, anti Topeka. Kansas, a n d Cole Camp. K - visas City. Langdon, Rocksport. S?clalia and St. Joseph, Mo., wi". participate in the Sunday rally. The same groups herd a similar meeting at St. Mark's here io'Jt years ago.

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Speaks at Rally Sunday—Prof. Richard R. Syre. of the faculty of The rally program begins at t h e Western ' three o'clock Sunday afternoon, and Th e o l e g i c a l closes at 8:15 o'clock that evening. Seminary, F r e Opening the program will be a m o n t, Nebr., I twenty-minute assembly, with the will be the | Rev. Herbert Rett, of Lancaster, in ipeaker a t the I charge. Rev. Pett is secretary-treasEastern ConI urer of the conference. ference LuthAt 3:30 o'clock the three Auxiliareran rally at I ies of the conference Will have sepSt. Mark's a r a t e meetings: The Women's Mischurch, Sixth ; sionary groups in the St. Mark's and Park, toI church auditorium, the Men's morrow night, i I Brotherhood in the Sunday school 1 Prof. Syre, a, auditorium, and the Luther League, native of Aus- • young people's organization, i n ' t h e tria, and a( I Trinity Episcopal parish house. 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 six o'clock, and a t 7:15 the evening a Conference ministers early tomorj rally will open in the St. Mark's row afternoon. The service a t St. ' auditorium. Mark's tomorrow night will be 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 cities of northeast Kansas and j | seminary, Fremont, Neb., will speak northwest Missouri will participate | ! a t the conference ministers' meetin the rally. I ing in the afternoon, and at the j evening rally. Dr. S3're is a graduate MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1944. I of t h e University of Vienna, Aus[ tria, and recently came west from I Pennsylvania to become a teachei | at the Lutheran seminary in Freej rnont. At the Brotherhood meeting . ! in the afternoon The Rev. R. Vani Deusen, director of the Lutheran J?j Service center at Kansas City, Mo., will speak on "Men of the Church in a World at Peace."

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feature of the Eastern Confergence Brotherhood rally at St. BMark's Lutheran church next Sunpday afternoon will be an address by the Rev. R. VanDeusen, director 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 benejjt of men and women in the armed Drees.

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Sunday afternoon and night at St. Mark's church, Sixth and Park streets. It was the largest attendance at a fall rally in the history of the conference. Two speakers were featured on the program. The Rev. R. E. VanDeusen, director of the Lutheran Service center in Kansas City, spoke at the Brotherhood rally in the afternoon, and The Rev. Richard 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 afternoon, while the young people of j the Luther League filled the Trinity Episcopal parish house for their rally. * ELECT LANCASTER MAN Edward Kanning of Lancaster, was elected president of the Conference Luther League at the Lea- , gues's business sesion, conducted by James Howard,' jr., of St. Joseph, Mo., synodical League president. Other officers chosen include Robert Wulfkhule of Lawrence, vice president; Miss Mary Wilke, St Joe, secretary, and Bishop Hockens, Atchison, treasurer. At the Brotherhood session A. H. Goult, Kansas City, Mo., was chosen president of the Conferenco brotherhood, and E. F. Fink, Atchison, secretary-treasurer. Mrs. Henry Christiansen, Kansas City, Kas., was elected secretarytreasurer of the Conference Missionary society. Miss Helen Fink, Atchison, 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 societies of St. Mark's had charge of the serving, assisted by young people of the Luther League. ADDRESS MINISTERS Prof. Syre also addressed a meeting of ministers of the Conference at Trinity parish house yesterday afternoon, at which plans were made for the Midland college financial campaign in the Kansas synod, which opens this fall. Rev. H. Vance Baird, pastor of St. Mark's, president of the Eastern Conference, and The Rev. Herbert Pett of Lancaster, Conference secretary, conducted the opening service of the meeting. The 1945 Conference will be held in Trinity Lutheran chruch, Lawrence, 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 armies. There are no peasants here. Tiie. houses are beautiful and immaculate;'. not broken down and

slovenly. Pretty flower gardens in front, fields clean and neat, and 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 Germans were quartered here before us. The place is fitted with numerous bathrooms with modern fixtures, steam heat and electric lights, everything modern — except that none of it is connected now. Our men are quartered in several of the other 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 second- only I have been in since arrival. 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 pouring 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 waterproof 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 Cration 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. Sometimes 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 them5 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 infantry - 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 organization, and if the situation required the man's presence, In cases such as sickness or deatlyor_a_dgj_ rnestic tangle, they would get emergency 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 isMiss 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 of Omaha, has accepted a call W become pastor of St. Mark's churo&l at Emporia, which has been vacara! since the Rev. Ernest Tonslnfi resigned in August, 1943, to entSt the army as chaplain. The pulpS i has been supplied by Dr R & Miller of the College of Emporia^

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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, everything 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 (arrival. 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 pBJirving so hard it almost beat the Sprit I l i n , and yet. we kept dry as timer, t

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Louise Rhoads, Jane Wyatt Pat Patterson, Frank Downing, Billy Adams Dan Bowmar, Rodes Estill, Joan Specht Margaret Garrett, Virginia Murray Tilton William Paul Keith, Jr. Paul Davis, Jr. Dan Bowmar Louise Rhoads Priscilla McVey Joyce Rudolph Ann O'Bannon

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'laughing Gas" A Melodramatic Farce in Three Acts By CHARLES D. WHITMAN

Louise Coleman Set Design Lighjs Make-up Curtain Ushers

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ped to see the wonderful curiosnicB. One man came along who seemed to be particularly interested. John Clifford a clerk, asked him, 'What 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.' 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 threw in the box. Now that man JL-^-C-. Charles A. Garside, a well known | remember, rain was pouring down was no fool, for we heard from some ! Atchison pioneer, Is now living at i in torrents. James hustled into his one that he was just coining money I 2303 Florid street, Spokane, Wash., clothes and we went down with with his show—the two h u m a n - . at the age of 88 years. He suffered him. He had to get cut the tarpaul, faced chickens. Mr. Perkins divided a fall a while back which caused ins and throw the warehouse door ^ t h f i $5> SQ e a c n ,„ t h e s tore—four £= him much pain and inconvenience, r cp:n, and but writes that he is now ok eh iouched land the whenboat the had deck hardly hands _ c f u , _ r e = e i v e Q sl.25." (Charley was then employed by John Perkins, the again. "Charley" Garside, as he is got busy, both black and white, and gicccr.—G. J. R ) affectionately called by his many such loads they carried. Green coffriends, was long a grocery clerk in fee at that time came ,in •• -ks. Charley says that Berlin's grocery Atchison, having been employed at about 200 pounds pt;:h. a £ ^ as had the first automobile deliver}' in various times by several of the leadsurprising to see "hem v * le Atchison—a Srudebaker. ing early day grocers of the city. heavy loads. While the boss, y>. Later he opened a grocery store on lar Simon Legree, did not 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 occurred one Sundsy afternoon, the gentleman. When I lived with my had to be landed, ar.d the igent wind was from the south and cinparents on the old farm south of had to receipt for the same.' ders were flying all over the north Atchison many years ago. "Charley" part of the city. The roof on the Garside\s store was our first stop on "The little -steamboat, R. P. Con- old Congregational church caught , entering the city, when we went to • verse, in charge of Captain Cade, lire, and Rev. S. D. S-:orrs. wno was j market. We sold him lots of promade regular trips between L; aven- pastor at that time, climbed out of | , duce and did considerable trading worth and Atchison." the belfry in his stocking feet and \^\ with him, always finding him a put out the blazes with salt, risking •. ' square dealer. Later. . " "»n we moved "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 newspaper 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 deplaces 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 <Jmany 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 H_ 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.) ,'In the early daj-s," Charley says, two for me. Charley still possesses This happened near the old hospital "a circus would send a man ahead 0 a keen memory of early day events s building in South Atchison." to make contract with some grocer, in Atchison, and recently sent me usually to supply the circus with nea large packet of notes personally Charley recalls "that big storm in cessary provisions, and they would reminiscent of the old days, from 1887, when hail stones as large as sub-contract. One would furnish the which I have selected, at random, hen eggs tore holes in roofs, battered I water, which was then hauled from the following excerpts that should the eave troughs and broke many i, the river; some butcher would fur be of interest to Charley's old 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. | eggs, coffee, etc. Coffee did not come history. blocks. Many animals were killed. i ground in those days. We had a Scudder & Tortat had a grocery coffee mill and All old timers in Atchison will re- r store on the north side of Com- : •smallrt Enterprise . ., . ^ ;all James H. Garside, long a rail- E mercial, between Fifth and Sixth j 2 » - £ ? . £ " ' , t n o s e / h ° «antnnearly i road official and prominent citizen ~ streets. They unhitched their team ! e ?- u ' g r o u n d ' & t n C 3 e ^ here. He was a brother of Charles of delivery mules and ran them in- all families had coffee mills of their I own. It was one hot Sunday in Au- ,^^~-' A., who writes of him: "In the to the store for protection. And I gust and all of rfhe clerks had to . ** early days my brother was steamtalk 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 reFifth 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 • j - --— - i »« o.^wu lire l u i i , nrnHsn w u u i a take a oodconsigned nap. If for at Atchison anytime £ the two hens in a box with slats run into the thousands, so he had freight was „™„ ; „„-^ „ . ».„u;..„„ they would.„ blow their ,whistle 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 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1944.

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Press dispatch by Don Whitehead says: "Even in the short time they havs been in action, the Timberwclves proved themselves to be an outstanding division as they drove to Eschweiler. The Timberwolf diAmong the steamboats that were vision is composed of personnel sunk below Atchison, Mr. Garside drawn from all sections of the recalls the Viola Belle and the ZeUnited States. The troops landed phyr. The Arabian went down near in France September 7, the first the brick yard, heavily loaded with Americans in this war to land In government goods bound for Fort France _ directly from the United Benton. The flagstaff was an ornaStates. They then went into action ment on Jesse Crall's livery stable with the Canadian First army in at Sixth and Commercial streets. the drive toward the Maas river, Above Atchison, the A. B. Chambers i and their patrols were the first to sunk at Rushville Landing; the ! reach the river. With their mission Denver burned at Elwood; others j in the Netherlands ended, the Timrecalled as lost above Atchison were | berwolves were assigned to the big the Pontiac and Hesperian. "There are at least nine sunken steamboats ; push.'' In a letter to his mother. Mrs. Paul Tonsing of Atchison. between Atchison and St. Joseph,'' ; Capt. Tonsing told of enjoying a Charley says. \ visit with Major Wulff in Holland Oharley would like to knew what 11 Mrs. Wulff, the former Miss Lucille became of the old Aetna fire engine Hekelnkaemper, and her two chi'.bell. He says that when it was last I dren, are with her parents, Mr. and seen some years ago it was reposing ' i Mrs. F. W. Hekelnkaemper, 70S in the front yard of Mrs. J. W. I Mound, while her husband is ov<:Burkhart at 514 Santa Fe street. I .seas. The last letter Mrs. Wulff reiteived from her htl&bftnd \^as da;ed ; November 15 but made no^nemicn j The exedus of negroes from the of the big push, which began the : South to Kansas began in 1878, and j attracted not only national but; following day. world-wide attention until thf I spring of 1882. Charley mentions the ! TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1944. | following incidents connected with j Mrs. Evan Tonsing and daughter, 5 I this exodus locally: "A steambcfjf I Virginia, left this morning for S:»» ' loaded with colored refugees from i lina to visit Mrs. Tonsing's sister- ' , the South bound for the 'happy land I in-law, Mrs. Ehnest Tonsing, for a j j of Kansas' made a hasty landing 1 below the brick yard and unloaded few days. j some 200 men, women and children. Some had dogs and chickens and all WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1944. their wcrldly goods in bundles and boxes. The colored M. K. church on Pfc. Paul Tonsing, who's been in.. Atchison street was thrown open to the marine hospital at Oakland. them. Measles broke out among t h * Calif., has been transferred to children. It was not long, however, Camp Pendleton, Calif., where he before they got work on farm?. is now with the marine communicaThere are a few of them in Atchitions service. son now. Another boat load was on its way. The mayor telegraphed MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1945. that they would not be allowed to land in Atchison, so they were unMiss Anna Bruce fell Saturday loaded at Wyandotte (Kansas City, afternoon on the ice at Second and Kan.)." Santa Fe and broke her arm. She was taken to the hospital for XWe will conclude with Charley's ray and her arm was set. She is reference to Atchison's famous small I pox outbreak just half a century now back at her apartment, 315 j ago: "In 1894 we had an epidemic i North Terrace. | of small pox in its worst form—over THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1945. ] a hundred cases, many of which re! suited fatally. Seventy-five cases | were quarantined in the City Park, LT. JOHN A. MARTIN — ' now Jackson Park, where 20 or more has been slightly wounded in action j died. A frame building which stood while serving with the infantry in ! the Philippines, according to word j on the south side of the park was used as a. hospital, together with received by his parents, Mr. and : numerous tents. The building was Mrs. Harres Martin. A bullet grazsci later destroyed by fire. Dr. Trough- tit. Martin's right eyebrow, miss- j ton was in charge of the situation." ing the eye and passing through his right shoulder. He is now in WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1944. the hospital recuperating frcr.i .these wounds as well as sore fc?i Two Atchison army officers are be- caused from wearing wet shoes for | lieved to be in Germany and &> have j i several weeks. been with the first Americans who j MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1945. entered Eschweiler Snnday. They are Major E. T. Wulff, Atchison physi- ] cian, and Capt. Ernest Tonsing, A letter dated December 29 has chaplain. Both are believed to be been received here from Capt. With the 104th division, known as I Ernest Tonsing, a chaplain with the the Tlmberwolves. An Associated | First army on the western front.

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B> ROBERT GEIGER pr An Advanced Pa-ific Base—I.TGLNew rumors have spread througrK otit the Pacific that Amelia EarbS". ' still may be alive on a South PaciiU: , isle, but the man who should kngiv more about it than anyone else s § . "there Isn't a chance she ever vol: be found." y The rumors became so persistent and widespread that navy official* investigated them and question^ j Capt. Irving M Johnson, 39, ofca ; navy warship. c/5 Johnson, a master of sailing shins. sailed thousands of miles seekSf Miss Earhart before the war afic now, as a warship skipper, lj3*s j touched every island where she mab; have crash landed or has talfid i to others who have investigated j such places. He is convinced £tt? • Earhart plane dived into the ocqJR': i in July, 1937, and that the aviatj* 1 and her navigator, Fred NoonaR j were killed. *•* "It was popular rumor when fee war started that the Japs Igd • taken Miss Earhart prisoner, par shot down her plane, because » e had learned, in flying oyer their islands, that they had forti(gfl them," Johnson said. ^ "In the second place, it wo©* have been the best propaganda ffl£ Japs possibly could have capitalists' ".pon if they had found Miss E©iikrt and rescued her. They co<3'' have accused the U. S. of espionage. "But regardless of that phase-of the case, it is virtually impossijtfe for Miss Earhart to have landted • any place but in the ocean. P° ' "She was flying 2,300 miles over

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Keep Christ In Christmas "**The birthday of our Lord draws near, • The "day of days" of all the year, A day of hope and joy and cheer; Keep Jesus Christ in Christmas! Let not old "Santa" crowd him out, He helps the world forget about The loving Christ at Christmas. The day is Christ's by right divine, A day no myth should uryjteVmine, A day when thoughts and deeds sublime Should keep the Christ in Christmas; When every message, every gift, Should in some joyous way uplift One's every thought, to make them dirft To Bethlehem at Christmas. Beyond all else this day should be A day of holiest memory, When all the world should joyfully See Christ, its Lord, in Christmas. Give other things a minor place, But tell to man of every race The story, on this day of grace, Of Christ, his Lord, on Christmas Joseph Clark, D. D.

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1945 Mr. and Mrs. Paul Denton of Oklahoma City announce the birth of a daughter, Ileta Irene, February 8. The little girl has three brothers and a sister. The mother and baby are doing well. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1945.: When Col. John A. Martin was j elected governor of Kansas, A. E. \ Mize. president of the Blish, Mize - ]& Siliiman Hardware company, was ^ ! o n e of the very first persons in I Atchison to know about it. Mr. _ ; Mize. what at the time was a car^—-j rier boy for Col. Martin's newspaper, The -Champion, was allowed to stand behind the colonel and ^_ read the telegraph returns on the election over the colonel's shoulder. j Mr. Mize was a very ambitious boy. carrying The Champion in the L c morning and The Globe in the I J evening. Vr<^ ~• — '• MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1945.

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Earhart is not there. I Fifty years ago on February 20, I water from New Guinea to How-1 "There isn't any place that she ON 1895, Clarence S. Moyer and Nellie j land Island and she radioed that I could have landed, not even a pebKnapp, young people of the Norshe was running low on gas; that! ble or a mythical island, that hasn't tonville neighborhood, were marshe- couldn't see the island and, | been checked." ried at the home of her parents, finally, that'she was out of gas and I The U S. navy dispatched airwas coming down. craft carriers to the area from /? ; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Knapp, south Nortonville. The Rev. Houten, of "Nobody ever knew exactly where [ which Miss Earhart last reported, J^clot o | the Nortonville Christian church, she was because she wasn't able to and hundreds of planes were kept give her position accurately and aloft several days in search for the ^ 3 ^ 3 was the officiating minister. " " * / * Tomorrow Mr. and Mrs. Moyer,! there was no equipment aboard missing fliers. "There were rumors of some highly respected and widely known j that would have made it possible J farmers of the same neighborhood,' for Howland island to locate her. 'mythical' islands in that part of Johnson has visited South Seas will celebrate their golden wed"We do know that she came down ding quietly at their home, 'Wlth-L^ east of the Gilberts, which were islands captured from the Japanese and found no evidence Miss EarL-£-T^Jout formal observance of the 'an-p/held by the British, and must have hart ever had been on any of been near Rowland. My guess is jniversary. Mrs. Moyer has beeriquiteT , that she was within 2C0 miles of them. sill for almost a year, preventing'!— He was retained by the Earhart It. &i a public celebration. . . t-*> foundation, financed by a group of Mrs. Moyer was the daughter of! "The nearest Jap islands were Miss Earhart's friends, to make a" t—* Mr. and Mrs. Albert Knapp, pioneer Mill or Jaluit in the Marshalls, far ' search before the war and in 1940 Q off he course. The Japs still are A coverd all of the Ellice and Gilbert residents of the south of Lowemont in possession of Mili, Wotje, Jaluit islands. neighborhood, in Leavenworth counMiss Earhart; was- on the next

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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 experienced 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 representative 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

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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 commission 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,

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 action 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 after recovering from wounds received 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 :••' '• ; ;- • :;. •

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 Hollandia, 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. jj T h e severe fighting experienced* by t h e 32nd division recently wasEr 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 K>

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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 waterI 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 Ci 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. Sometimes 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 themselves generally useful in domestic 1 situations, etc. It Is an excellent program and the men all like it. These representatives who travel with us, are apportioned one to an infantry - 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 organization, and if the situation required the man's presence, in cases such as sickness or death, or a domestic tangle, they would get emergency 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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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 Baird was re-elected president of stole, and my handy little a l t a r Eastern Conference of the ^ set, and use the Lutheran com- - t - the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Kanmunion service. sas and adacent states. Even Ton"I have as my assistant a M e t h o --»- sinp was re-elected for the ninth ,<, dist young man, who is a prize. H e term as president of the Men's 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 Brotha 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. •3" Gaston. 221 North Twelfth. Miss _ .-,..,. a Jewish chaplain in o u r ' d i v i s i o n Helen Fink was re-elected president ,MISS MARJORIE MELLENBRUCH also. of the Women's Missionary society -^red as Have no opportunity to get to , cello soloist and a s ' of the Eastern Conference any of the larger towns, save Leige, 'first cellist in the Miami orchesone hurried afternoon. L a s t one tra. . ' . i •-; Mrs. Paul Tonsing returned last before that was Antwerp. These A pupil of Miss Elizabeth Potteievening from Oklahoma City, Okla towns in Germany are not pretty, 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. Mrs. Paul Denton. i orchestra. She is completing work Their forests are dark, spooky ...- ' for t h e degree of m a s t e r of fine MONDAY. APRIL 16 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 Ralph Martin, son of Mr. and wandering about because of t h e TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1945. ; f^~— Mrs. Harres Martin, celebrtaed his 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 elwith flood waters April 9 and 10 "Memorial services were held toiminated,or marked off areas w h e r e when the Little Arkansas river inday in the Albany Avenue Baptist mines are found." , - -,. ^ — vaded their home and came within ' church, Kingston, New York, of _ _ 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" •—^-- infantry, who was killed in action m J U I - I Eagle office he had to wade through on Luzon on March 8th. He had T h u r s d a y ^ p r i l 12, 1 9 4 5 » three feet of water to reach his^|— been awarded the Purple Heart home. The Tonsing home was flood' and wore the Silver Star for gal'•'/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, of Mrs. P. GL Tonsing of Atchison. held a presidential citation. He 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 MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1945. late Col. John A. Martin who commanded the 8th Kansas volunteer l ilton. 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 his carents, Mr. and Mrs. Harres TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1945. 1 Martin, he is survived by two 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 major operation for intestinal trouentertain members of the Miami 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. WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1945: *S T h u r s d a y , A p r i l 19, 1 9 4 5 __^ ^ I v..-.— A picnic supper will be served \p Before he was. killed in action the fifty members of the group. 1 - J Miss 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 2 ^ , 8 o'clock in Benton auditorium. The United States. He also received the 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 southwestcitation states t h a t although be. cellist is already known to Oxford 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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feet in dimensions, and four stories high. Then, the last building contained four ice houses, each with a capacity of 18,000 tons. In addiEvan Tonsing, who underwent a tion, the firm had five more ice major operation a t St. Mary's hoshouses at Mud Lake, holding 20,000 I pital in Kansas City last week, is tons. The yards and stock pens : improving steadily. covered 32 acres. . . . Who remembers Frank W. Yale and his wholeTHURSDAY, MAY 24, 1945. sale butter and egg business, at the TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1945. foot of Commercial street in AtchInteresting bits of local history j ison, seme 60 years ago? He was Evan Tonsing entered St. Mary's gleaned from obscure sources: the exclusive dealer of t h a t kind in; hospital in Kansas City Sunday and Atchison once had a patent med- j Atchison at t h a t time. His ship-1 will submit to an intestinal operaicine factory, operated by. T. H. j ments amounted to two and three I tion Thursday. Jackscn, who formulated and made i : carloads a week, and for preserving his own remedies. Perhaps his best! this produce until ready for marTHURSDAY, MAY 17, 1945. known preparation was . "Common < ket, he had a large refrigerator of j Sense Liniment,'' which he put on I I 100,000 pounds capacity. He emI Chaplain Ernest Tonsing writes to the market in 1879 and which was ! I ployed five traveling salesmen in I | liis mother, Mrs. Paul G. Tonsing, sold throughout Kansas, Nebraska, ! Kansas and Nebraska and six men I t h a t he recently visited one of the I Missouri and Iowa. Among his other ' j in the house. Mr. Yale was a New j \ Nazi concentration camps in GerI remedies were "Jackson's Renovat- j | Yorker and came to Atchison in j j many and that the h o n o r he saw ing Powders" and "Common Sense, 188U.-. . . In 1832—two years before i : 1 there was beyond description. J Colic Cure." Jackscn spent most [ of his time on the road, in the in- ; Kansas was opened for settlement— | FRIDAY MAY 18. 1945. j terest of his products. Does any i I olr-timer remember him and what Henry Myers operated a mill for j Evan Tonsing is resting fairly well j beeame of him? . . . Four negro making cottonwood shingles, in the j I following a major operation yester! slaves belonging to a man named Missouri bottoms, three miles north | j day mcrning at St. Marys hospital | Connet in Buchanan county, Mo. of Atchison, and continued in this | 1 escaped to Kansas on July 20, 1861. ! in Kansas City. business until 1867, making the They landed at Elwood, but while roofing for many of the first houses on their way to Troy were capuired SATURDAY. MAY 19, 1945. on both siies of the river. In the by a party of pro - slavery men. latter year he bought 160 acres of Evan Tonsing is resting well to- ; Thomas Dillon, of Wathena, pre-; land four miles north of Atchison, day at St. Mary's hospital in K a n - | sented a pistol a t the head of one! on the Kansas side, where he resas City where h j submitted to a | of the negroes, ccmmanding him to ! mained a prominent farmer until serious intestinal operation Thurs- j ! step, but he said he would die behis death a number of years ago. j day. He received his third blood I fore he would go back to his mas- | Later he acquired several hundred transfusion today. Blood donors! ter. Just west of Wathena, several acres of land in Atchison county, may be needed, for him. Any type : n u n en horseback joined in the j and a stock farm of 320 acres near may volunteer as St. Maiy's hos- | chase, and William Evans and a Severance. Mr. Myers once told the pital has a blood bank. I [man named Frye attacked two of writer t h a t when he first saw the the negroes, when an altercation TUESDAY. MAY 22, 1945. locality around the mouths of I n ' ensued, in which one of the slaves dependence and Deer creeks, the was instantly killed by a bullet Mr. and Mrs. Harres Martn have dead body of an Indian, lashed to a : received the following letter in r e through the head, fired by Evans, stump was observed on what aftergard to their son, 1st. Lt. John Aand Frye was mortally wounded. He ^ward became his farm. Some years Martin, Co. E, 127th Inf., who was was cui in the side in two or three ! later the writer opened an Indian killed in action on March 8: "May places with a butcher knife in the • - '• mound ovedlooknng Independence, I extend to you on behalf of all hands of cr.e cf the negroes. Dillon, j Deer and Rock creeks, on the Myers members of my company, our deepwho shot at one of the slaves, was farm, and interesting disclosures est heartfelt sympathy in the rearrested on a charge of assault with were made. . . . In the late '50's cent loss of your son, First Lt. John intent to kill. Two of the negroes and early '60's the transportation A. Martin, who was killed in action escaped, one was killed and one business in Atchison was immense. March 8, 1945. His death occurred captured. . . . Atchison had an During the summer of 1858 alone, when he was leading his platoon in j "Old People's Club," which met ev- ( 24 trains consisting of 775 wagons, an attack against a strongly de! ery Friday evening at Apollo Hall.' 1,114 men, 7,963 oxen, 142 horsesi fended enemy positon near Santa jscme 60 years ago. G. W. Pennell 1,286 mules and 3,730,905 pounds of Rosa, Luzon, Philippine Islands and : i was president, and M. G. Winegar. merchandise passed out of the city. received a fatal wound in the chest • secretary - treasurer. Wonder how One single train sent out by Hockfrom an enemy machine gun. It may many, if any, of the former membe of some consolation for you to aday. Burr & Co. consisted of 105 know t h a t his body was recovered bers are still living. . . . The Fowwagons, 225 men, 1,000 oxen, 200 and buried in an American cemeler Bros, pork packing plant, esmules, 50 horses and 465,500 pounds tery a t S a n t a Barbara, Luzon, tabiished in East Atchison in 1878, of merchandise. This was the largPhilippines. Appropriate ceremonies I was a mere extensive affair than est train t h a t ever left any point were conducted by an army chap| many old-timers, who were not fafor the West, the goods having lain. The grave is well marked and miliar with it, realize. It was built been purchased to supply a chain well kept. The death of Lt. Marat a cost of $200,000. When runof station stores which that firm tin is a distinct loss to this comning a t . full capacity it employed i had lately located between Atchipany and regiment. He was one of 600 men, and puj, up 3,000 head of json and Salt Lake City. . . . How its outstanding officers. I was one hogs daily. The dimensions of the ; many of these prominent Atchison of his closest friends and all of u s , buildings, all constructed from colored.men of several decades ago, who knew him admired him for his brick, were as follows: The largest, do you remember? Parson Twine, congenial personality, and for his which was t h e warehouse, was 160 Jacob Starr, D. J. ("Doc") Jennings, courage and bravery in the face of feet square and four stories high, George .. BfBMff, Jerry Rucker, the enemy. He will always be rewith an addition on the north side "Doc" MUST Isaac Logan, Merit membered in this organization and 1 for office, which was three stories t h a t memory will be an inspiration Davis, Ben Morton , George A. I high. T h e next building, which was to continue the task in which he so Griffith. Capt. Philip Porter, J. A. gallantly gave his life.-Our thoughts j devoted to getting the stock ready Paris, J. W. Wilson, I. Venable, R. are with you in your hour of befcr packing, contained the boiler M. Wilson, H. A. Lett, P. R. Booker, reavement. Sincerely, William V. l a n d engine house, and was 160x90 I Harvey Potter, Henry Baskett, W. Morris, Captain Infantry, Commanding-" i ?:. _..;'

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A. Covington, Geci-ge Gethard. . Who recall? Pro:. Ernest Kuehl. teacher cf ancient and modern .9 language, who lived in both Atchison 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 Don3 iphan, he held public office there. . He w;s a Prujsion by birth, and was about 24 years of age when he 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 crosses Commercial, lie ob> j street 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 AmerOx ; 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 Dcniphan. in 18G7. Its capacity was. O 4.000 bushels cf grain, and it cost 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 for a number of years and was an early Atchison county school teacher -and justice of the psace. He was an eariy postmaster at Larkin. He came to Kansas with the first earlysettlers in 1854, and took a claim near Wathena, later operating a o mill at Etwcod. He had previously o operated a large mill in Buchanan C/5 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 tobacco manufacturer. He was born in 1617.—G. R>

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Atchison nicmcr. received calls from every part of the city asking for help for everything from flooded basements to helping rescue cowhSATURDAY, JUNE 2. 1945. and goats. Swamped with calls they fat concentrated their efforts in local- z v: * if %t ts Sj Evan Tonsing continues to show rj I ing missing persons reported to improvement and was able to sit ; them. All were checked and reportBI up for 20 minutes yesterday. He is ed safe. a patient in St. Mary's hospital, o jJ ~ c .£ At Fifteenth and Commercial a Kansas City. witness of the flood described is ; >. a. o MONDAY. UNNE 4. 1945. / as a "wall of water" which swept from the northwest to Fifteenth] * H *•" c re Evan Tonsing's condition at St- i - j : and Commercial and down to Six-' *" • teenth and Kansas, washing through § Mary's hospital in Kansas City fc, > improving but he is still very weak, i - the houses in its path. ApproxiB ". His doctors want him to sit up a " / mai.ely fifteen or twenty houses were badly damaged not only in the ' ' Short while each day but he has basements but in the living quarters u difficulty in doing this: His operin this district. The call to the I S B ation was so serious it will be seme fire department was estimated to ' time before he regains his strength. -f-have come at about 12:45 o'clock in 2 o | >• a -C the he aftern afternoon. %g | « In the basement of one house in OX F OR D P RESS Wes; Atchison the flame in a gas . burner, which, was turned on. was ' ° M rOxford, Ohio extinguished and ciiorts were being made to get the gas turned, oft. Thursday, May 31, 1945 Basements of Wosi Atchison store:; were flooded wnen sewers refused C ' E T * to take care o. th? rush of water GRANTED MUSIC and backed tip into the buildings. SCHOLARSHIP i Mud and debris washed into the g ti te Miss Marjorie Mellenbruch, who ; streets and a log settled in Harry 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 and Commercial a kitchen chair - versity Sunday, h a s been granted washes irom someone's porch float. a full scholarship, covering tuition ed In the water. -•; a n d lessons, a t t h e Yale University When the two storm sewers,0111at ^ s u m m e r school of music, t h e sesthe corner o; Fifteenth and Com with '-~7P '3^t sions of which are held in Norfolk, nirrcisl s.:.?; stopped up ^U*M^ Conn. She will study 'cello with ' debris, water stowd nearly three three K a r l Zeise of t h e Boston symphony feet d»ep ir. the intersection. Two . cars were s.ailed in the high water. . . orchestra. The water ran into the basements Miss Mellenbruch will leave for 1 and the force o! the water nearly Connecticut t h e last p a r t of J u n e . washed a garace off of its fountains Ber: Long residence •-.: FRIDAY. JUNE 15. 1945 f-inimercial street.

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In a cloudburst which poured unabated upon Atchi- ( . ,,. son and surrounding vicinity for a full thirty minutes this - z ^ - ^ z ^ afternoon, an estimated two inches of water descended 0 \ upon Atchison and vicinity. In the storm, which began > at, approximately 12:15 p. m., a wind of 40 miles an hour ,-, &jt /VV raged steadily. The result was flooded basements, dam- " ^ yf ^ aged homes, and overflowing creeks. Atchison awoke to a beautiful day this morning but by nine o'clock the skies were, darkening and by eleven o'clock a dusklike darkness had settled. By noon the streetlights had been turned on and it was necessary to drive with headlights.

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The laundry was flooded but nothing Saturday, June 16, llJ4» Santa Fe bridge gave the gathering was stored in it. crowd much to speculate about The basement of the Hagen Growhen the force of the flood waters cery and Bakery housed the thre^ was raising the south side of it and refrigeration plants of the STO/ it looked like the bridge would b» and a rush call to the Atchisoi washed out. A freight train on the Water Co. brought a pumper to main line tied up and waited for the scene. Roy Smart told a rethe water to go down before passing over the railroad bridge at Sevporter: "In my 25 years of business enth and White Clay creek. ;on West Main street I have never Brewery creek went on a rampage iseen the water so high. We have a when the cloudburst struck Atchij $100 damage to stock in our baseson this noon. The home of Mr. | ment." i and Mrs. Clarence Trainer and ' Downtown Atchison reported wa; family was flooded 18 inches. The ter from six inches to two feet in i four room structure is only fifty Extensive damage to the basements of stores ar.d indusj feet from the creek at 1105 Mercuiv. tries. Penney store reported that crops and property, broken '! All the furniture including felt base water was knee deep in their baserugs and radio was moved out by power lines, and crippled ment and the Tonsing book store !! neighbors and is standing on highthat water had almost covered the train and automobile traffic er ground at press time. basement. The same situation was j The Jim Bewley family at 815 from washouts resulted o ; found in every downtown store and Anzieger street was cleaning out the garage from lower to upper Comfrom the worst storm in flood waters of Brewery creek. The mercial. At the Atchison Furniture water just covered the floor of the years which swept the loand Carpet store, 405 Commercial, | home. Their garden was a total cality early yesterday afterj loss. Mr. Bewley is employed at the water came into the back of the ', Midwest Solvents C6. store damaging merchandise which noon. St. Benedict's reportj M. J. Mingier at 806 Anzieger, was stored there. \ employe of the Blair Milling Co., ed that 2.18 inches of rain A report frcm the Kansas Power lost his garden and some water was and Light company stated that a fell yesterday up to six in the basement of his home. 33.000 volt highline west of Atchio'clock last night. It looked like the morning after son had been cut off because of a Halloween night, with all of the i short circuit yet to be located. The Earl Hellener, city enginoutside plumbing washed from its Urouble was first reported at Frar.kfouindation and moved to ,new eer, reported that no particj fort and later somewhere north "U« j Everest. Effingham, Lancaster arc places. ular damage had been done , Muscotah were not receiving power Price Blvd. was covered with debris to the city although it will j service for a time but the ciricuit washed by the heavy surface water was scon repaired. Netawaka, Whittake a week or more to from the southwest slope bordering ing) Everest and Huron were still the street at the city limits. The clean up the streets which eff early this afternoon. high water washed them from a A detailed report of the local are covered with mud and dump that is out of city limits into damage to power was not deter-, the city onto the street and into tlv debris. mined although a wire at some ' yards and parking of the neigh- j point was known to be down. Street Washouts in the streets borhood. j lights were? carried for a time durhave occurred at Fourth ing the storm when darkness that No damage was done to the j was almost night settled over AtchMissouri-Pacific tracks although | arid Commercial, Second ison. they were covered by water from The chickens went to roost at and Mound, on North Sev-,vJ 4;i , White Clay creek from Seventh noon today when the cloudburst street, to Fourth. The Burlington enth, and at Twelfth and g K clouds settled. It took thre? train from Falls City, to St. Joseph hours for the clouds to gathDivision, where w n e r e the t n e conUUM." £• ^ ?Bs is to be detoured tonight through er and when it rained it outdid Atchison over Missouri-Pacific crete str;reet buckled about i m Fred Stein's prediction "That it wili tracks due to tracks which were soon be raining a bucket full." three feet jet the width of thelt if washed out somewhere north of Street lights were turned on and . St. Joseph. The Burlington's regstreet. the Atchison busses ran around i ular route is expected to be rewith full lights. The first time the I According to Mr. Hellener White' headlights were on due to the dayisumed tomorrow. iClay creek overflowed at Seventh light schedule allowed by the ODT. ; At St. Joseph a. 2:10 inch rain street, covering the railroad bridge Over 90 per cent darkness set in fell in thirty minutes with a and everyone ate lunch with lights j forty mile wind blowing steadily. There was more water than the'rr ablaze. Many families sat In near The temperature dropped from 10 has ever been In the creek sine darkness to watch the storm gathto 64 degrees in twenty.-minutes. the big storm sewer was construct* er. When it broke streets all over I Fred Howard of near Cummings; he town ran full with water. The in 1921 and even in the big storr | telephoned that it rained 2% inches Lions' swimming pool got a preI of 1919 the water didn't go ove^ j at his farm in one hour, and that season filling when water from the it was so dark in the houses people I the. bridge. The creek had receded cloudburst filled the pool to 25 per couldn't see to get around. cent;. i to,normal today. A car belonging to W. L. Pinder, guard for the J...F. Prttchard com- I '

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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 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 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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Corn which had just i few flames in gas water heaters been planted was washed out and • in basements were extinguished by , will have to be replanted, mucl water, causing hazards from gas. j alfalfa was damaged and water was and crews were busy repairing such j standing in wheat fields. trouble. Service in Atchison was! One of the heaviest rains in completely out only for a few mo- \ history, a total of 10 inches, fell at ments about eight o'clock last | IHolton yesterday afternoon and last night. I night, causing the Delaware river The Kansas Power & Light had j to go out of its banks at 4 o'clock their trouble chiefly in the district I this morning. At 9 o'clock this west of Atchison where the transj morning the stream was threemission line failed to function in I quarters of a mile wide at Valley several places between here and I Falls and it raged across Kansas Blue Rapids. Crews were out all I highway 4 (the Topeka cut-off) to night repairing the damage. The 8 depth of four feet. The Santa Fe line serves such towns as Hiawatha. j railroad tracks were also covered by ithe flood waters. Many homes and Lancaster, Effingham. Muscotah, | some business places at Valley Falls Netawaka. Everest, and Huron, all were in the path of the raging torof whom have been receiving: service rent. State highway department at high voltage from this end since employes reported that the stream early this morning. was the highest it has been since The Missouri Pacific detoured two 1935. Burlington trains yesterday, one Traffic was being detoured today from St. Joe to Falls City and the I over state highway 92 from Rock other from Falls City to St. Joe, Creek to Ozawkie. Th e flood waters because of washouts of the Burwere expected to reach there at 5 lington tracks north of St. Joe. The o'clock this evening. Burlington service had been reBetween Valley Falls and Ozawkie sumed today. ! farmers were busy this morning The Missouri Pacific train to I rescuing cattle from the path o'. the 'Kansas City due in here at 4:30 | water. Some cattle were marooned. a. m. was delayed at Whiting beStranger creek, southwest of | cause of washouts and was schedAtchison in the Cummings vicinity, ; uled to be in Atchison at noon. The was out of its banks but did not go j 3 a. m. train to Stockton left at over U. S. highway 59. 11:15 this morning and the Red Ball Between Atchison and Topeka on i freight to Concordia which was to 59 highway soil from fields was i have gone out at midnight last washed onto the pavement to a j night left at about noon today. depth of several inches in a number : There, was no trouble on the ma;n of places and had to be removed i line and the Eagle was scheduled 1,with scrapers. for the regular time. Independence creek was out worse | At Muscotah the storm struck at after the rain Friday noon than it! ] about 11:30 o'clock Friday morning has bsen this year. Hundreds of; 'and continued for an hour in a acres of bottom lands were under I terrific downpour. No hail fell there but it was reported that from water two or three hours. between 3U and four inches of rain John Seeger and Roy Williams, j fell in three quarters of an hour I employed at the Missouri Pacific' and almost every house in town ' shops, rescued a two - year - old lost a window pane from the hail.' heifer washed down White Clay At Netawaka, according to Mel creek from Floyd Spaun's pasture Williams, section foreman at Mus-, several blocks away. Four other cotah, between 3>.i and four inches cews were taken out of the pasture of rain and hail as large as baseby the high water, and carried vaballs fell. Mr. Williams attempting rious distances down the creek beto go east of Muscotah in his motor fore they got out on their own car, could not get through the power. * water, which was over his motor. MISSOURI RISES Train service was stopped at Whiting on the west and east of EfRising 4.33 feet in 24 hours, the fingham. i Missouri river today was floodThe river west of Muscotah rose ing some of the lower lowlands rapidly and the little creek east of in the Atchison vicinity, and was town was rover the highway. Manyslowly rising during tbe day. The gardens w ere washed out and one reading here at 8 o'clock this resident's potatoes were lying on morning was 22.18, compared with the ground. Much hay -was down and was ruined by the water.

17.85 at the same hcur Friday morning. At 2:15 o'clock this afternoon 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
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"About 10 per cent of the men In the armed forces are regular irv church attendance," says Chaplain (Capt.) Ernest F. Tonsing, speaking from his experiences with tfie, men of the 104th "Timbcrwolf" artillery 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 redeployment to the Pacific, Chaplain Tonsing, his wife, and two sons, Fred and Evan, of Salina, are visiting at the home of his brother, Robert L. Tonsing, 1657 Arkansas, telegraph editor of The! Morning Eagle. 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

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| to the Koer rivet. r ? o m U t i e n e n 1.0 Cologne, they spearheaded MM . First's drive with the Thiro BT» j rawed, and after the Rhine cross- . inc drove onward to the meetm* i with '.he Russians above Leipzig, i «iP the wav. the chaplains of the . division went forward into combat-I zones to hold services, catching the; men during the rushing forward | into Germany. "We held services i« old bsrns. in garrets, in bombeoout chvrches and one time in a creenhouse.'' the former Lutneran minister continued. 'Beyond tne Rhine we found many more beautiful Protestant chBrehcs intact.-1 Any place servprf for services in ' the mad rush o{ war." Has Hitler Youth Flac * Three objects of the passing ! tyranny that was Nazi Germany, Chaplain Tonsing brought back with him. One is the biack and white Hitler youth flag streamer with which he is pictured (the! 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 "mother's medal," a personal presentation 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.

Chaplain and Mrs. Ernest Tons| ing and sons. Fred and Evan, of "; Salina, arrived today to spend the , week-end visiting his mother. Mrs. | Paul Tonsing. 315 North Terrace. • Chaplain Tonsing. who recently '. returned to t h e ' Slates from the i ETO theater, where he was with • the First army, is now enjoying . | his 30-day 'leave with his family in . i Salina.

vfiaplain Ernest Tonsing To Be Guest Speaker The guest speaker for Parish Day. which St. John's Evangelical Lutheran church a: Bendena will j observe tomorrow, will be Chaplain i Ernest F. Tonsing. recently return- j ed to the United States from the : ETO theater where his division served the secend longest period of ccmbat service in tlie battle of Bu, rope. The day's program begins at 10 \ o'clock with classes for all age groups. At 11 o'clock there is sched- | tiled the festive service of worship j

THURSDAY. JULY 26. 1945.

°J CHAPLAIN TONSING /rjnen. Tney are nonest. ana U uie/; Saave no leanings to religion, they: feay so." j Lands at Cherbourg § Formerly pastor of St. John's! {©Lutheran church at Wellington and] i+£t. Mark's church
MONROVIA Funeral services for Charles B. iHole. 76. were held Monday afterI noon at 1 o'clock at the Monrovia Methodist church with the Rev. C. i E. Nash, pastor Officiating, 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. Atchison.

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 congregations and another message of lasting importance, this one from the Rev. Walter Knutson, who will soon take up his work in the Pacific 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.

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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 September, 1940. '• ! 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 sisters, 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 (/\i Lumberman .who died last October-^. n 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 meetiing 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 overseas and both enjoyed the visits. Captain Tonsing told about the battles his division engaged in. He also gave an interesting account of the Russians. Other guests at the meeting were Pfc. Bill Funke and GM 3-C Bud Kaufman.

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Formerly pastor of the Valley Falls Lutheran church, and later of St. J o h n s church at Wellington, and St. Mark's at Emporia, Chaplain 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 Cherbourg. 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 American army near Aachen and fought through to the Roer river. From Duehren to Co'/gne they spearheaded the first drive with the Third armored, and after the Rhine crossing drove onward to the meeting with the Russians above Leipsig. 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 garlets, 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. Anyplace served for services in the mad rush of w.iv," Three souvenirs of the Passing 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, showing the insigna. Another is the redwhite 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 regular army prisoners. Failure to wear while bearing arms against Allied forces meant death as a spy of brigand." T h e third souvenir is a German "mother's medal." a personal preCAPT. ERNEST TONSING sentation from Hitler to a German tion among the men," he said. "They mother for bearing a state-speciare 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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j n e Atcmson county high school' William H. Seward was given a at Effingham opened September 14,1 reception in Atchison September 28 1891. .! 1860. Kb* Chaplain and Mrs. Ernest TonThe Trades Union, official organ, j JUplf S i n g and sons are now at Camp San Jim Bridger, famous frontiersof the Kansas State Assembly of | ft|||-B.uis Obispo, Calif., where he has j man, arrived in Atchison by stage tht Knights of Labor, established in f l l f i e p o r t e d for Pacific training. 'from the west, September 24, 1861. Atchison, September 5, 1885, b y ' Dr. j . F. Martin, pioneer Atchison Frank Hall, Robert Tompkins and ; county physician, was born SeptemJames W. Reilly. ' '".'"• ^ g J V E D N E S D A Y , SEPTEMBER 5, 1945 ' ber 29, 1828, in Kentucky. The first baptism a t St. Patrick's ! John A. Martin school in North church, south of Atchison, was that of Mary Honorah Clare, and took . Atchison was opened in September 1885. place September 28, 1857. Albert H. Horton. prominent pioJames W. Orr, prominent Atchi< neer Atchison lawyer, district judg^ son attorney, was born September and chief justice of the state, died ! 14. 1855 ,in Michigan. „-iBy GEORGE REMSBURG September 2, 1902. £ $ , . . The first sale of town lots in J T h e rural high school a t Potter T h e . late Z. E. (Ed) Jackson, of ' was opened September 6, 1916. mS ^Atchison occurred on September 21, Atchison, was born September 23. The first issue of Sunday morning Evjl854. United States Senator David 1872. J g -R. Atchison, of Missouri, for whom / Facts by E. W. Beal, appeared in President Rutherford B. Hayes Atchison, September 2, 1883. L*ffjths town was named, delivered an and Gen. Wm. T. Sherman visited The Kansas Territorial legislature j ^ a d d r e s s on the occasion. Atchison and made speeches SepSeptember 4, 1855, established slav- I JlfYHjT The first board of county coml 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: The contract for the Atchison Abolitionist sentiments, disqualified its initial session September 17-18, j county court house was accepted by ; Abolitionists as jurors where t h e ' 1855. ••> j the commissioners, September 13 Gen. B. F. Stringfellow, one c\ ! i glits of slave, holders were involved : 1897. ~» .the founders of Atchison ar.d a t and required al! officers to swear £ \ In September. 1892, ' t h e Demo*B "prominent early attorney of the *w thty would support the fugitive slave ; crats were wearing Cleveland white law. fl town, was born September 3, 1816, hats, A postoffice was established at 5 at Fredericksburg, Va. i-vi In September, 1882. Frank James Highbridge (now Curlew), on Stran" ""g Philip D. Plattenburg became the the outlaw, was wounded and har•5 first superintendent of Atchison I ger Creek, south of Atchison, with bored by friends in Platte county. 2 county schools in September, 1858. J William H. Grandstaff as postmaster, ^ "• President W. H. Taft was" in Th Massasoit' House, Atchison's i September 13. 1888. Atchison for B. P. Waggener's 12th famous pioneer hotel, was opened | The Atchison Institute (school) f annual picnic, September 27, 1911. September 1 1858, bv Col. Thomas I founded by Mrs. Harriet E. Monroe, ' James G. Blaine made an address . i Murphy, -September. 1870. at the Atchison union depot, Sep- ! The Sumner Gazette, pioneer^ 1 Monrovia postoffice established! rti C tember 15, 1882. -^^CZisc-^S^' ' ^ n e w s p a p e r at the old town of Sum- with Henry McEwen as postmaster, Dr. E. S. Bowman was killed by j 2 ; n e r , south cf Atchison, was estab- September 4. "1E57. likrtning ' near* Welch's Branch, in j A W. Pretzel, pioneer bottler, lol i s h e d by John P. and D. D. Cone,^ Doniphan county, September 3, 1883. j cated in Atchison, September 2, '^"September 12, 1857. John N. Reynolds, editor and pub . j _ T h e plat of the pioneer town o! 1868. j Usher of the Atchison Times, in.• tthe h e !' A /7 _^ ,— . . . . „ , . . . , . . , in the^ northern .._ „ rpart ~ . of — . Golden Cross Lodge No. 7, K. of ffiLcMashinah, -j '80's, and author of a book 'The L JJ^ZtZ. JS Atchison county, named for a noted , P.. organized in Atchison. September j Twin Hells," pertaining to the MisMis I V l_j Kickapco Indian chief, was filed by ! 30. 1872. O Major Royal Baldwin, September 21, A. Saint Nicholas postoffice. Mt. J*\ ; scuri and Kansas penitentiaries, in ' both of which he served time, died ** 1857. Pleasant township, established.' with in the asylum at Osawatomie, Sep- j b j Mr. and Mrs. John M. Price ar- Levi J. Boles as postmaster, September 11, 1895. • . fc/* O rived in Atchiosn September 1, 1858. tember 9, 1859. Atchison county people joined in j Old settlers of Atchison and Q T h e old river bridge at Atchison the great land rush on the opening [ ¥A was completed and opened for traf- Jefferson counties held a reunion \ of tht Cherokee Strip, September 5^ fie with a big celebration, Septem- at Nortonville, Sept. 11, 1895. m 16, 1893.' John W. Geary became governor ber 2, 1875. • Robert Forbriger, sr., prominent The Thirteenth Kansas 'volunteeu t of Kansas Territory and assumed Atchison pioneer, was born Septeminfantry was organized at Camp the duties o f his office a t Fort ber 5, 1825, in Germany. Staunton, Atchison, September 10, Leavenworth, the first capital cf Thomas J. Rigg, well known early 1852 ,and mustered • into service Kansas, September .9, 1856. 6t Atchison county official, was born September 28, of the same year. Doniphan county was organized , September 29, 1846, in Kentucky. In September, 1864, Gen. Sterling September 17, 1855. Iowa, Sac and Fox treaty a t Fort ^;. St. Mark's English Lutheran J, ton, September 4, 1858. K church congregation in Atchison Terenct Harkins,^ of Doniphan - 105. ' :• On September 22, .1871, one of po was organized September- 20 1868. county, was killed by Indians 125 the most unfortunate events i n the i.'i-The^cornerstone of the First Pres- miles this side of Laramie, Wyo., j^tn^^-^' history of Atchison county occurred. ; bjfterian church in - Atchison was September 21, 1868. . •:" . On that date the writer of this was ^ i d f September 15 1880. '" rborn £ MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1945.

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Scraps of local history: Atchison's splendid fire department will be 85 years old next month. It was originally organized, on the volunteer system, as the "Aetna-Phoenix Engine & Hose company." The first meeting, 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 headquarters In the old Pioneer Hall at Fourth street and Kansas avenue. Hand, engines were used until 18T6_ when a Silsber steamer was purchased, and three years later the volunteer system gave place to a paid department, although volunteers continued to augment the persotinel. The department was motorized in 1912 Is there any oldtimer living who remembers John H. Rust's hotel, established in 1857, on the old military road, west of Atchison? 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 lateral 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 Volunteers, during (he Civil War. Sixtythree 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, Atchison's first newspaper, promulgated 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 Incident 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 neighborhood 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 Atchison at that time. Col. May was an ancester of Oscar P. May, well known and popular Atchison attorney. 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 weapons of carnal warfare; Mr. Butler put his faith in the power of reason. 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 blazed 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 Atchison 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 perfectly, 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 havesat for a portrait of Cooper's famous frontier hero and Indian trailer. Over six feet in height, angular, muscular, somewhat awkward in repose, 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 detrimental 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.

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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 heater $5. 315 N. Terrace.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1945. Mrs. Ruth Tonsing, 315 North Terrace, 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 business meeting, followed by a generaj. program, replaced th * earlier plans. The state convention, to be held sometime in October, will be in Topeka. 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. Albert 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 parents, returning after a few days to his marine base in San Francisco WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1945.

Kiwanis Club Evan Tonsing was elected president 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 Raphael 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 correI 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 yesterday'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, operator of the Standard Oil Co. serv| ice stalion at Seventh and Main.

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. ^COUNCIL WOMEN MEET The Atchison Council of church women met yesterday afternoon at the Carol Bapiisa church. Mrs. L. A. Indlecoffer was the accompanist for the opening hymn. The devotions were led by Mrs. Paul Tonsing of St. Mark's Lutheran church. Mrs. Ira Parnell of the Episcopal church offered a solo "Come to Me," accompanied by Miss Valeta Mae Brown. "The San Francisco Charter—World Plans for Peace," was reviewed by Mrs. G. L. Cleland, Miss Pauline Rimer, Mrs. Steadman B,all and Mrs. Oscar P. May. The benediction was given by G. F. Oliver, pastor of the Mount Olive Baptist' church. There was a social hour at the close of the meeting in charge of the ladies of the host church. Beautiful mums were used for decorations. Mrs. Rex Davis is president of the council.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1946. Capt. Ernest F. Tonsing of~~Sa jlina, who served as chaplain with ..the 104th infantry division in the _ German invasion, has received his discharge at San Luis Obispo, -Calif., He left there today enroute - t o Salina, where he will join his - f a m i l y . Capt. Tonsing is the son , ^ o f Mrs. Paul Tonsing, 315 North Terrace.

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By GEORGE REMSBURG The Atchison union depot burned January 6, 1888. Col7 John A. Martin, of Atchison, commander of the famous Eighth Kansas Infantry, returned from the army in January, 1865. The late Paul Tonsing became editor and publisher of the Atch- : S ~7 ison Church - Visitor, January 14, 1911.

SATURDAY,. NOVEMBER 10, 1945. Cpl. Paul Tonsuig 01' tne marine . 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 I Los Angeles to resume his pre-war j position at the Los Angeles Times. I He is the son of Mrs. Paul Tonsing, ' 315 North Terrace. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1945. . ,

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- . ur / Evan Tonsing mailed a $1 bond to the police station yesterday because of an overtime parking charge. MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1946.

CLASSES MET The Philomathean and Dorcas classes of St. Mark's Lutheran church met yesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Roy Seaton with a 1 o'clock pot luck luncheon. There were 24 present and NEW KIWANIS PRESIthe three guests were Mrs. A. DENT — Evan .Tonsing, who was Dunavant, Mrs. C. E. Gerkin and & elected president. of the Kiwanis Mrs. Ralph Ringer. The interior club for the year 1946, at their of the home was lovely with beauweekly noonday luncheon Tuesday, j tiful Christmas decorations. These Mr. Tonsing is owner and operator ! of the Tonsing Book store. officers were elected and installed: Mrs. Albert Carr, presiFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1945. dent, Mrs. E. F. Fink, secretary, and Mrs. Ed Olsen, treasurer. Evan Tonsing has renamed from Games were enjoyed with prizes ks Mrs. Clarence S. Moyer, 70, die;1 Fremont, Neb. where he was a won by Mrs. Paul Tonsing, Mrs. yesterday afternoon at 12:30 o' member of the 11-man board of Clarence Hansen and Mrs. Ralph" trustees electing Dr. William P. xlock at her home, three miles Allen. j? Hieronymus the eight president of southeast of Nortonville, where Midland college.- Dr. Hieronymus she went as a bride more than 50 joined the Midland faculty January I MONDAY, DECEMBER. 17 L J945. | years ago. Her death followed an 15 as assistant to the president and Paul Martin, son of Mr. and Mrs. extended illness. head of the department of Chris- Harres Martin, was sworn into the Funeral services will be conduct- 1 tian education. He* was named in navy at Kansas City Saturday after <^ June as director of the Forward passing special examination to ed at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon Midland campaign, a $225000 drive by Capt. Ernest Tonsing, Salina, for a new men's dormitory and enter officer training for naval army chaplain, at the Nortonville aviation. He- will continue his college debt retirement. As presi4 Christian church. Interment will studies at the Atchison high school dent he succeeds Dr. Fred C. Wiegbe in the Nortonville cemetery. The man, who resigned to become pastor until he is called to active duty body will be at the Stanton and of Trinity Lutheran church,. Akron, about March 1. Another son, Ralph Stanton mortuary* here until noon Ohio. Before going to Midland he Martin, junior at Kansas university tomorrow. served as director of parish eduspent the week-end visiting his Nellie Knapp, daughter of Mr.-. cation of the American Lutheran parents. and Mrs. Albert Knapp, wasf born I church for seven-years and prev- { WEDNESDAY, JAN. 2, 1946. October 30, 1875, south of Loweiously was vice president of Au- j mont in Leavenworth county. Her ** ••'—— —' — — —'
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was a schoolmate of the plains-! 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 Bry1 ant of Atchison are nieces anc" Albert Knapp of Atchison is a nephew.

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N a t u r e — a n d t h e K e r f o r d Qui pie were received into churcn Company—came to the rescue. ^,i-; membership. 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 Lenten vespers will be held n e a r Atchison, K a n s a s , is a - h i l l 6 ^ Wednesday, 7:30, and choir rehearsal 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 c h u n k s of l i m e s t o n e for b u u V through Friday and the study pem a t e r i a l . T h e y h a v e left a g r e a t riod will consist of a book review 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 l a y e r of e a r t h acts as i n s u l a t i o n : Ig at the home of Mrs. S. A. Hamc ve k e e p s t h e t e m p e r a t u r e of t h e * & rick with Mrs. Walter Tschcn 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 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 which time Mrs. S. A. Hamrick 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. Rickmillion. 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 to 30 or 32 d e g r e e s . ' <# leader. 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 ,

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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 feasibility of taking over ice skating rinks for food storage. 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 extensive 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, Kansas, 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. Its normal temperature of 60 degrees just about that maintained by thousands of food eaves maintained by farms. That's ideal for preservation of root vegetables. Fruits, cheese, cured and salt meats may,be stored at this temperature, too.

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| summer of '87 when Atchison was recuperating from it boom of the earlier eighties while mine was that particular preteen age that fosters the beginnings of an in-1 sight into grammar. Because of I my failure to correlate our elders' ; expression of the town having 'a boom.' With the meaning of the ! 'word expansion it created the impression of uncouth Americaneese. I recall that it was also hard to understand Challiss Addition before learning that it referred to a definite plot of ground within the town's environs. I wondered if it was some superior type of that form of arithmetic which might render more reliable results than |my own uncertain style of addition. In any event, the boom, then * • * The project, according to WFA. is passing out, was responsible for expected to present three important our taking temporary quarters at Treftz Bakery while hunting a developments. They are: ' For the farmer, it will mean the more permanent location for our Government support price on hogs chattle. Treftz Bakery, rooming will be met, particularly in times of and boarding house was about peak marketing. WFA can continue where Dilgert's and Latenser's are to buy hogs even after commercial now, back a little from Commerstorage has been taken up. cial street and on lower, ground. For the consumer it will mean less It had a wooden sidewalk bridge wastage of food. It will no longer connecting it with the street walk, be necessary to divert eggs to livestock feed or lard into soap, for in- sloping downward to the entrance. \ stance, as WFA finds itself with Just south of Commercial at Sev-, oversupplies. The^gency will simply enth the north and south forks of route the foods fb\Atchison for White Clay creek came together future use., and while there was a culvert over It will provide interim storage for the creek at Commercial at Seva wide variety of agricultural prod- enth, the region south and southucts, particularly commodities from west and where Hotel Atchison is the West and Far West, in seasons now, was mostly creek and gullies. of excess production. John Levin's shoe -shop.-at about Officials also predict it will simplify the problem of holding food the present northwest corner of ; supplies for eventual release to lib- the hotel, was perched on stilts erated countries and nations bene-. to reach sidewalk level. Commercial street was unpaved except for filing under lease-lend. cobblestone gutters; later it, Kan-• • • With a normal temperature in the sas avenue and North Ninth streets 50's and natural insulation formed were paved with Osage Orange' by limestone, the mine presents no | blocks while, I believe South problem for refrigeration engineers. Fourth and North Fifth were pavA number of cooler units strategically placed through the mine will ^ed with cedar blocks. Main street do the job, according to experts. , was paved alternately with four They estimate that between 3,000 to six inches of dust or one to two and 3,500 carloads of food, with an feet of mud. One of the great 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 with ease. Mining of limestone by the pres- from a section of Nebraska where ent owners will continue and is not a two foot hump in the terrain expected to conflict with the new was classified as a saddleback and project, officials say. Under such the hills and gullies here were an an arrangement, new storage space innovation. No doubt the long side.will be continually available. walk bridges, often extended a \ The project is the "brain child" of block from one high street level lit. Col. Ralph W. Olmstead, deputy to another, in places on 18 to 20 L lirector of WFA's office of distribu- foot stilts, contributed to the prosion. Col. Olmstead said he recalled is a boy visiting icy caverns in the perity of tne Howell & Jewett Western deserts. He then directed Lumber Co. Among those rememsearch be made of possible sites bered were those across White r Uncle Sam's biggest storehouse. Clay on South Fourth and Fifth. Atchison mine is the result, ' Sixth had a stone culvert often inadequate to handle flood waters and choking with debris. Others [MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1948. were on Kearney, Laramie, Para| A . r P . Eymann: Atchison's pres- lell and Santa Fe and one that ex-1 e t ~3musing- situation will recall tended from Kearney to Division; £ihanyofIthe older residents a on the east side of North Second. I The bridge across the creek on I lilar condition during the eight' We arrived here in the late 8-%«t?tft«rijTf )r. ..T»-

j Mound, was aHargTsIzeTToTTana^ ] the one at Riley was one of the last [ j to go. All the bakeries seemed to I be operated by Germans: Gerber,! Ioehler, Meyer, Traftz, Seybold. and Hagen. The first three also; had ice cream parlors in connection. Seits and Brunnemann, also Germans had cigar stores, or factories. Drug stores mostly had soda fountains with probably alcoholic drinks behind the prescription case, but did not add ice cream until along in the nineties. Think of it, no ice cream soda in those days and not even chocolate flavored soda. Flavors were vanilla, artificial lemon, raspberry, strawberry and pineapple. Soda drinks at that time were dispensed on the order of a glass of root beer now and was classified by one country boy after tasting it for the first time as: "Soda, heck! Sweet wind!" Old time druggists were John Beltz, Lang & Noll, Bereman & Ritner, Charles Bacon, J. W. Allen, Sam Stoll, J.t W. Simmonds, John Brown, A? W.; Stevens, Barton & Gratigney, John j Bowen, Frank Bonheim and S. E. I Moyer. Not all of these sold liquor j behind the case, but some outlying j grocers dispensed beer and wholesale grocers handled wine in barrels. Among the old printers were; Woodhouse & Shauer on North] Fifth, Caldwells about where the i Y. M. C. A. is now, Haskel's at: 316 Commercial, later becoming' the Home Show Print, the Trade Printing Co. between Fourth and Fifth on Commercial which later developed into Lockwood - Hazel, and Clark's Printery in the basement of the old Price Opera House, also Meyers and Sons on North Sixth, and Burbank's at Sixth and Kansas. The theaters were Corinthian hall on the west side of North Fourth, between Commercial and Kansas, Price's Opera House on the northeast corner of. Fourth and Kansas, later Decoming Seaton's theater i and subsequently changed to the" Atchison theate.. Many of the finest attractions appeared here as well as popular priced productions remaining for a week, such> as Corse Payton, the Spooners-j and North Brothers. Apollo hall, I over the round corner at Third and Commercial, ' was -used for local entertainments but finally degraded into a variety show. The popular Airdome was where Kroger's is now located. At that time all the hotels were bunched/ at the east end of town. The Byrara where it now is, Miller's just across the street, St. James on Second below the Byram and the . Union Depot hotel upstairs in the" present depot building. The original electric fower house was where the Dolan Mercantile Co^ now roasts coffee.

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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.