THE ODLE FAMILY GOT TOGETHER in November 1947 to celebrate Terry Odle’s first birthday. Pictured are (front row, from left) great-grandmothers Hattie Muir and Nettie Baxter; (back row) grandmother Lola Muir Baxter Jackson, great-grandfather Albert Muir Sr., grandmother Sophia Odle, grandfather Bert Odle, mother Delores Odle, father Gale Odle and Terry Odle.

* And So They Say: Dave Oyer: “The only dirt I own is in my ears.” Lloyd Hollern: “I caught the biggest fish I ever caught in my life on the Fourth of July—a 9 1/2 pound channel cat.” L. D. Fuller: “My son, Lorenzo, and I are the same age—both, 4 and 5. He is 45 years old and I am 4 score and 5.” Ollie Ochampaugh: “I don’t complain about the weather because it wouldn’t do any good, and besides that, everyone is tired of hearing about it.”

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M. Jepson, just east of town, harvested last week a pretty fair crop of oats from a field of 35 acres on which last fall he had sown wheat. Last year the field had produced oats and enough had rattled out to make a good even stand. In the fall Mr. Jepson sowed wheat, which because of dry weather, did not germinate, or rather the oats got there first and took the ground. The old scriptural phrase: “Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap,” finds its exception in Kansas where the unexpected always happens.

The names of suspects charged in the burglary at Home Cookin’ were made public. Brett Kreutzer and Nicholas Nix, both 18, both of Stockton, had been charged with identical counts of Burglary, Conspiracy, Theft and Criminal Damage To Property. The charges allege the young men broke the window glass in the east, rear door of Home Cookin’ and took the money bag and money from the cash register, with a value of less than $1,000. Kreutzer had been an employee of the restaurant. A robbery occurred at Midwest Motel June 30th, between 12:30 and 1:00 a.m. Unknown person or persons entered the office through an unlocked door and took cash from the register. No suspects had been arrested, and an investigation was ongoing.

Last Saturday morning at two o’clock people living near the culvert bridge on east Main Street were aroused from their slumbers by a tremendous crash and then all was silent. In the morning a small Dixie flyer car badly demolished was astride the cement guard at the side of the roadway No mangled forms of victims were to be found in the neighborhood, nor did the owner of the car appear to tell how it happened and all sorts of speculations were made as to how it got there and how badly the driver was hurt. At ten o’clock Ralph Hickerson of Osborne, showed up and said it was his car. He had hit the side of the bridge in the dark and was thrown out in the ditch, but was not hurt. He got up, went to bed and had a good sleep before investigating as to the injuries of the car.

The new office building at Webster State Park was officially open as the staff had moved into the facility on June 19, 2006.

A RIBBON-CUTTING was held for Rockin’ K Shoe Repair in the early summer of 1997. On hand for the occasion was (from left): Joanni Grover, Elaine Davenport, John Forshee, Kevin States (owner of Rockin’ K), city manager Gary Hobbie, Lee Phelps, Lanny Hanks, Margaret Welker, Ruth Phelps, Roma Smith and Sandi Rogers.