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RCNews April 5
An Easter Egg Hunt, sponsored by McCracken United Methodist Church will be held April 7 beginning at 1:00 at the City Park. The egg hunt will be for ages 0-2nd grade; scavenger hunt 3rd grade and up. Please bring your camera. Thanks
The McCracken Country Club will hold a meeting, Saturday, April 14, beginning at 1:30 at the American Legion building in McCracken. Please try to attend and bring some new ideas.
The Fish Fry Dessert Fundraiser was very successful. Thanks to everyone that participated and baked the wonderful desserts. We are gearing up for the Brownell American Legion dessert Fundraiser on Apr 14th. There will be a signup sheet at the post office for desserts. We are selling Casey's Pizza and Donut Cards. We started today and they are selling like hot cakes. Tomorrow is the deadline for the Midnight Madness Pizza orders. Carol Weber will be contacting everyone to get the final orders. This has been a successful fundraiser with 50 + pizzas sold and counting. And, last, but not least, the Flocked ~n~ Flushed Purple Toilet is getting a facelift and will be making the rounds soon!
I sent Mike Lovitt of Dallas a Boondocks St. Patrick’s T shirt, he wore it at the parade and someone ask him if McCracken was close to Hays as he was a Ft. Hays State graduate. Small World.
The Salt City Smash 15 year old girls and under volleyball team played in a 17 year old girls and under tournament in Hutchinson on Sunday. They placed first. There were 8 teams represented. Jenna Higgins and Conner Brening were members of the team.
Frank, Marilyn and Miranda Sidel attended the girls’ volleyball tournament held in Hutchinson on Sunday. Miranda, Jessica Gabel and Morgan Engel were members of the Rush County Bombers who participated in the tournament.
Wanda Fe Bankhead and her sister Pam Bankhead of Florida visited their brother Tony Harp this past week end. Joining them were Wanda’s son Ricky Winters of Sterling and Don and Jeannie Harp of Council Grove. They visited the Bullock-Harp farm north of McCracken and also the McCracken Library where a picture of Billy Harp and the Vietnam Wall are featured.
The Cow Creek Book Festival was held in Hutchinson Saturday morning – afternoon at the Public Library. Featured were Kansas authors. I visited with Marci Penner, who has written about everything to visit in Kansas. She has been to McCracken and taken a ‘tour’; Roy Bird who was instrumental in getting us grant money for our library, he has written a children’s book “Little Ike: Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Abilene Boyhood” and 15 other books about Kansas and the American West; Joanne Pfannenstiel Emerick featured her book “Courage Before Every Danger, Honor Before All Men”; Linda McCaffery wrote “Praying Hard for You”-Love Letters to a Death Camp”, the World War II ordeal of Bill and Jo Brenner; and Amy Bickel who published a collection of stories from the Hutchinson News called “Dead Towns of Central and Western Kansas”. Amy featured Hampton of Rush County as one of her ‘towns’ and Clare Vanderpool who wrote “Moon Over Manifest”. (I still haven’t located my copy).
You think Tony Harp isn’t tough!! He drove himself to Hays Medical Center early Sunday morning last week where he entered the hospital with a possible heart attack. Stents were inserted and he was released in a couple of days.
McCracken Sports History
1933
Coach Carmichael presented last year’s baseball letters and this year’s football letters at a pep meeting last Friday. Those receiving letters were as follows: Baseball—Deward Horn, Cecil Phillips, Forrest Ramsey, Wilbur Hawley, Harley Tanck, Dean Irvin, Sam Higgins, Orel Schadel. Football—Sam Higgins, Richard Ryan, Forrest Ramsey, Dean Irvin, Lester Doerr, Franklin Elmore, Wilbur Hawley, Malcolm Showalter, Carl Higgins, Harley Tanck, Bard Stephens, Thomas Barnes, Woodrow Lovitt and Henry Marak.
1934
The McCracken girls kept up their fast pace Tuesday night at the grade gym and turned back Brownell by a score of 27-23. Playing for McCracken: Phillips, Kueffer, Brackney, Ree, Plotner, R. McGaughey, and I. McGaughey. Brownell: Gordon, Likes, Roser, Rice, Musselman, Feezor, and Edwards. With Dean Irvin out of the game the McCracken boys could not get going Tuesday and lost to Brownell 24-17. Boys: Showalter, Stephens, Tanck, Irvin, Higgins, Hawley and Barnes. Brownell: Butler, Halbleib, Barnes, Zeller, Squire, Ryan and Sauer.
Birthdays: April 5, Sarah Urban, Melodie Casey, Brian J. Fear, Nicholas Petz; April 6, Pat Petz, Chelsea Petz, Sarah Wills, Al Hugh, Norma McNair, Tyron Steinert; April 7, Randy Mills; April 8, Mitchell Pfannenstiel, Elaine Pfannenstiel Fulkerson, Kim Moran; April 9, Darwin Grumbein, Paul Trujillo, Les Diehl, Kellie Marie Rourke, Secily Mills; April 10, Mary Steitz; April 11, Galen Lee Oelkers.
No Anniversaries
Carl and Velma Legleiter and Addie Mills were among the large crowd who were privileged to attend the performance of "The
Living Last Supper" at Beach-Schmidt Performing Arts Center on Sunday afternoon.
Weekend guests of Lynn Kochenower were Robby, Sarah and Kyla Jacobs, Glenn Pfannenstiel and Brad, Don and Lynette Doornbos and family.
We wish Junior and Anna Mae much happiness in their retirement. We appreciate what they did for us on our last two history books.
The lilacs are blooming. The warm weather has made for a beautiful Spring. Now we need rain and no frost.
Our sympathy to the family of Ruby Myers, 92, LaCrosse who died March 29, 2012 at LaCrosse. She was the daughter of Frank and Elsie Earlenbaugh Littler. The Littler family were early settlers of Rush County. Both she and her husband George were members of the McCracken High School Class of 1938. They married May 14, 1940. He died April 26, 1995. She is survived by her daughter, Janice, and husband John Stull; two grandchildren, Mike Stull and wife Jerilyn; Craig Stull and his wife Julie; five great-grandchildren. She will be missed for her kindness and friendship. Burial was in the McCracken City Cemetery.
Our sympathy to the family of Dorothy Kershner, 85, Rush Center, who died March 31, 2012 at Hays. She was the daughter of Claybern and Margaret Hemken Foust. She married Frank Kershner May 8, 1943. He survives. Other survivors included two sons, Robert Kershner and wife, Lois; Bruce Kershner and wife, Ellen; two daughters, Cheryl Summers and Marsha Coslet and husband Ray; five grandchildren; two sisters, Arlene Rau and Velda Lewis. Burial was in the LaCrosse City Cemetery.
A Regional Music Festival for solos and small ensembles was held at Larned High School on Saturday, March 31. Students participating were Stephanie Greenway, Ellis, flute; Katie Showalter, Western Plains High School, Ransom, vocal and Emma Showalter, vocal; Alyse Mantz, LaCrosse High School, vocal; Shannon Keith, Ellsworth High School, trombone and vocal. Accompanists were Linda Seymour, LaCrosse High School; Paula Greenway, Ellis High School and Susan Keith, Ellsworth High School. We enjoyed seeing Janice Showalter, however she had a big brace on her leg. She was in a car accident - somebody hit her. She tore her ACL and they had to repair it. She was happy that was all that happened.
Kansas Questions
1. Veterans Hospitals are located in what three cities?
2. What religious denomination founded Emporia State University?
3. What Spaniard led the first white men to Kansas?
4. Who was the first white male child born in Kansas?
5. Buffalo Bill Mathewson opened a buffalo skin trading post in what city?
John and Carol Waelchli donated a sad iron and a heavy laundry iron to the Jail/Museum.
We have purchased a postcard of a school with the students and teacher through E-Bay. It has a cemetery in the background so it may be Hampton. Thanks to Suzanne Randa for acquiring it for us.
John, Ellen and Josh Moran went to St. Louis for the Elite Eight NCAA tournament. They saw KU and North Carolina State; then KU and North Carolina.
Answers
1. Wichita, Topeka and Kansas City
2. The Presbyterians
3. Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
4. Napoleon Boone, son of Daniel Boone
5. Great Bend
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