Goddard resident carries Olympic torch in Wichita From the Star Files

130 Years Ago

Martins and Guetschow have just received a large shipment of boots and shoes of the latest pattern and quality.

120 Years Ago

Henry Koster has purchased a quarter of land just north of the old Fletcher farm.

J.F. Ritchey visited his daughter, Mrs. Edward Goldsborough at Sapulpa, I.T., the first of the month.

110 Years Ago

On January 3, a large crowd of friends of Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Sears, about 65 in number, gathered at their home for a farewell party as Mr. and Mrs. Sears soon expect to depart for Butler County where they will make their future home.

100 Years Ago

Dr. Koger is sporting a new Ford Coupe. Elwood Yoder also decided to get in out of the cold and has traded his touring car for a Coupe.

Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Dibbens announced the birth of a son January 5.

90 Years Ago

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Reeves and family were Sunday visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Everett White and children. There is no depression as far as the blacksmith business is concerned. The

Yesteryears

From the archives of the Cheney Sentinel, Clearwater Times and Goddard News Sentinel

Johnson and Cable Shop has 150 plow shares on hand to be sharpened.

80 Years Ago Funeral services for Jonas Harmon Pinson, father of Mrs. Tom Palmer, were held Sunday afternoon in Wichita. He died January 3, 1942.

Mrs. D.F. Friesen, chairmen of Red Cross knitting in Morton township, reports that 19 women met at her home Wednesday for the first of the knitting classes.

70 Years Ago

Albert Zerner has sold his interest in the Z&U Farm Supply store and the Cheney Skelgas Company to Henry Brandes of Cheney.

Mr. and Mrs. A.B. Prather plan to leave next week for a three-week trip through the south to Florida where they will fly to Cuba for sightseeing.

60 Years Ago

Mrs. Grace Woolf, Route 1, Cheney, will be one of the 17 graduates of the Wichita Public School of Practical Nursing to receive diplomas January 19, at Jardine Junior High.

From the Argosy Files

From January 1962 Sunshine and warmer temperatures are much appreciated this week. The end of last week brought a severe winter snowstorm and subzero temperatures. School was dismissed Thursday and Friday. The coldest day of the season was Friday with mercury hovering around five degrees or under all day. There was around 11 inches of snow on the ground.

Following are some of the comments made by local residents during the storm.

Orie Cleous: “I am having trouble starting my tractor and truck as well as my car.”

Mrs. Sadie Hamilton: “I think this is the worst storm since the late 1920’s.”

Jim Troyer: “In the winter of 1927 my brother and I skated down the Chickaskia River from where Rex McDaniel now lives south to the river bridges.”

Esther Wulf: “It is a major undertaking to go anywhere.”

Haysville Memories

5 Years Ago

For the second time in less than a month, Campus High School administrators sent emails and recorded phone messages to parents after investigating a possible threat. “Campus High School administrators were notified the evening on January 5 of a possible threat on January 6,” the message said. “After being notified of the threat, CHS Administrators and the CHS School Resource Officer initiated an investigation into the threat. “After investigation the threat was determined to be not credible. All threatening statements are always taken seriously by school officials and law enforcement,” it continued. Officials interviewed an involved student Friday morning and sent out the notifications shorty afterward.

The new year has not been kind to the Campus

50 Years Ago

Sue Clatterbaugh and Charles Bolinger exchanged vows August 1, 1971, at First Christian Church of Loveland, Colo.

Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Moorhouse, Mrs. Blanche St. Clair and Mrs. Lillian Moorhouse visited with Mrs. Ada Kostner Sunday afternoon.

40 Years Ago

Mr. and Mrs. Elzworth Butler visited Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hoyt on Thursday evening. The potluck supper at Senior Citizens Hall was well attended. The hosts and hostesses were Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Fooshee, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Keefe and Mr. and Mrs. Bud Irby.

20 Years Ago

Goddard’s Tish Dimick carried the Olympic torch last week as it passed through Wichita. Dimick was one of about 50 torchbearers from our area. She was nominated by her mother and sister.

10 Years Ago

With a shrinking budget, Goddard’s Discovery Intermediate School physical education teacher Heather Harrison has used grants to help ease the financial strain of keeping programs in place that promote a healthy and active lifestyle for students.

Everett Watson: “This weather is not only rough on livestock, it is rough on people.”

Anna Pagenkopf: “I have a Christmas cactus in bloom.”

Mary Olive Jones: “No news this week except we are housed in with frozen water pipes and all the aggravations that go with a snow storm.”

V.M. Riley: “Despite the snowstorm the Chamber of Commerce membership breakfast was surprisingly well attended.”

From January 1932 Miss Hattie Halverstadt, former teacher in the Conway Springs school, who was captured by Chinese bandits on December 24, was released last Saturday from Futsing, China, a mountain stronghold of the bandits, where they held several male Chinese prisoners.

Miss Bessie Viola Shinn and Mr. Fred James Gordon were married by Probate Judge Hangen at Wellington Thursday, December 31, 1931. The bride is a daughter of Mrs. Annie Shinn, long time resident of this place. Mr. Gordon is a farmer of northeast of town.

From the Busy Hill: Sixth Grade: Those who made 100 in spelling last week are Mike Taylor, Lena Ruth Wheeler, Louise Young, and Bill Genemaras.

At a meeting January 13, at Wellington, of the superintendents, prin- cipals and music supervisors, it was decided that County Musical Festival would replace the usual county musical contest this year.

The Hoot Owls met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Mercer. There were only 10 members present on account of bad roads. Guests of the evening were Martha Jane Shafer, Dorothy Smith, Zelda Mercer and Robert Riggs.

Bids for county printing were opened Monday morning by the Sumner County Commissioners Awards all to Wellington shops were as follows: Monitor Press, legal publications, exclusive of two tax lists, ballots and tax receipts; R.C. Gallemore, job printing; Daily News, publication of the two tax notices.

According to R.E. Lawrence, of the University Engineering faculty and acting chief engineer for the State Board of Health, of the 139 cities with ground water supplies approved by the federal health service, 98 had perfect records the past year in the bacteriological analyses. Conway Springs is included in the list for the fourth time. Many fellows over the county have been receiving a nice income this winter through bounty money. The county has been spending $7,500 per year for this purpose. This week word comes from the County Clerk that Sumner County will pay no more bounty after January 30 on crows or gophers. The regular bounty will be continued on coyotes. Neither your neighbors nor even your wife can get your auto license for you this year. The law compels every auto owner to go to the county seat at least once a year if not oftener. So if you live in Sumner County you must go to the courthouse at Wellington (before Feb. 1 to escape penalty) and present your last year’s receipt from Victor King. boys basketball team, as the Colts dropped their first two games of 2017. The Colts lost a home game Jan. 3 to Salina central, 59-43, then last Thursday lost on the road to Ark City, 55-37. “We have a way to go,” head coach Chris Davis said, assessing where the Colts stand now. “Against Salina Central, you can’t make mistakes. They’re one of the elite teams in the league.”

Beginning this month, the Haysville Sun-Times will begin running stories from the Kansas News Service, a new statewide news service.

1 Year Ago

The USD 261 Board of Education will conduct interviews next week for a replacement for Dr. John Burke, who is retiring at the end of this school year. The district is expected to interview at least four candidates, one per day, beginning on Tuesday. The board does not yet know who those finalists will be, because the first part of the search is being conducted by the Kansas Association of School Boards.

Haysville City Council approved a resolution Monday to sell temporary notes to fund the equipment portion of the city’s new bio-solids dewatering facility. The city previously sold general obligation bonds to finance the bulk of the new facility. However, funds for the equipment were inadvertently omitted from that issue, according to Will Black, chief administrative officer.

The Campus Colts boys basketball team held off a late surge by the Hutchinson Salthawks to earn a 5351 road victory last Friday. The victory kicks off the new year on a positive note and improves the Colts’ season record to 4-1.

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