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April 24 RCNews
LOOKING BACK:
June 1930: The boys up in the little town of Shields played real baseball and Sunday literally played with the home boys. In the first inning the boys from out west got to Phillips for five hits and three runs. After that they almost scored at will. The home boys were lucky to score. Of course Shields was spiked up with outside players but they never had a pitcher with them. Even at that the home boys could not hit with infielders, catchers and utility men throwing to them. Mickey Evans, Aggie football and baseball star for the past three years, came down from Gove to help the ‘west’ team win. For some reason the McCracken team was thrown into a hat, shook up and then dumped out on the field. They lit in most any old position and remained there throughout the game. Infielders played outfield and some fellows who did not know what it was all about, played infield. From what we heard at the game, the team will be lacking in support if some radical changes are not made in the near future. The material is here if the players were placed in proper positions.
Week-end guests of Carolyn and Dave Davenport were Travis, Tina, Katie and Tanner Elias, Ty Elias, Tina and Quintin Harris. The afternoon was spent touring the Kansas Underground Salt Museum. (This is "MUST SEE" museum). Lenora Stremel and Melissa Thompson joined them for dinner. Travis, Ty, and Quintin went turkey hunting with Grandpa Dennis and Grandma Jeannie.
Tanner Higgins, a 7th grader at Hutch Trinity Middle School placed 1st in four events at the track meet held in Moundridge on Thursday. 1st in the long jump 15.5; the hurdles .13; .56 in the 400 meter and 400x2 relay 1.58.
Brian Legleiter was a very lucky young man when he was driving down a county road north of town this week, a pheasant flew into the driver’s side mirror of his car and landed inside, dead, on his lap.
We had a great crew of young men and some of the members redoing the golf greens, cutting out fallen dead wood and re-roofing the machine shed. The lady's fixed a lunch fit for a king or lots of kings. Thank you for all the help in keeping up our golf course. There will be a tournment this Thursday, April 24th with the High School, weather permitting. We love having these things for all to have fun.
This weekend Cory Molloy and Morgan Schultz was blessed with family members to witness their union in marriage. Morgan’s mother Debbie Schultz from Topeka and Cory's Father and step-mother Jim and Claudin Molloy, sister Airel and boyfriend Cory, sister Tracy and Rodney Humbert and children, Taylor, Tyler, Micheal, brother Jeffery Molloy and children Lexie and Colton all from Topeka. Cory’s mother and step-father Norma and Roger McNair of McCracken. The ceremony was at the First Christian Church in LaCrosse by Pastor Tom. Jamie and Dallas DiWitt from Topeka were unable to come but wish them well. We had a supper altogether at Roger and Norma's home after the ceremony. The couple will do a ceremony also on a cruise May the 7th with most of their family present.
A pre birthday party was held at the home of Pat Derr on Sunday for her mother, Grace Thompson on her 99th birthday. A high lite for Grace was blowing bubbles with her great-great grandson Caden Morgan. Family members present were Michael, Jerridy and Reece Morgan, Allen, Bailey and Caden Morgan, Deb Rogers, Emily Rogers, Scott Keener, Jenni Rogers and friend Scott, Kerri, Layne, Katlyn and Angela Morgan, Gerald and Edna Walker, Larry Clark, Dave Derr and Nita Caviness.
Katlyn Morgan and Kelsee Rogers both enrolled at Fort Hays on Saturday.
Kevin and Emily, Lexie, Zoe, Rylin and Kamryn Anderson attended the Shrine Circus in Salina on Sunday.
Rita Brethour of Greensboro, NC spent two days with her parents, Francis and Roberta Wierman, and helped her mother celebrate her birthday Thursday. Friday she took them down to Greensburg, Kansas to view the town.
The Museum has new lapel pins of a blue and gold Mustang for sale. They are $1.50. You can get them from Carolyn.
David Dennis, brother of Carolyn Thompson, will be one of three who receives the 2008 Excellence in Public Service Award in Wichita on Thursday. The awards are given to three people in Wichita each year. Those receiving the award besides David are Sgt. James Espinoza for the City of Wichita and J’Vonnah Maryman of Sedgwick County. David receives his award as a representative of USD 259 of Wichita. The event will be held at the Wichita Art Museum.
Glenn Richardson, 79, died April 15, 2008 at Ransom. He was born September 14, 1928 at the family farm near Brownell to Harve David and Ida Mabel Wagner Richardson. He married Betty Foster on October 24, 1951. Survivors include a son, Dwayne Richardson, half-brother, Kenneth Hearting; half-sister Dorrine Sherrill and two grandchildren. Burial was in Vansburg Cemetery Brownell.
Whitney Taylor, Ellis High School Junior, was named to the 2008 All-Area Girls’ Basketball Team by the Hays Daily News.
Lucile Pivonka, 91, died April 18, 2008 at LaCrosse. She was born January 24, 1917 to James and Marie Frey Wilson. . She married Leo J. Pivonka on January 9, 1937. He survives. Other survivors include two sons, James and Leo, three daughters, Katherine Flannagan, Priscilla Sue Anderson and Laurie Pivonka, 11 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Burial was in the LaCrosse City Cemetery.
Ruth Yawger, Edna Schneider, Al and Judy Hugh, Carolyn Thompson and Carla Rodeman had dinner at Good Samaritan in Hays on Sunday.
McCracken History Notes
April 1908
Protect your buildings from lightning by wizard copper cable lightning rods, sold and warranted by George Nickel.
Samuel Twiselton is improving his shop with a reading table made by Charles Kinnamon. It is a neat piece of furniture.
April 1938
The entire grade school is working on a May Day program to be given Friday. Some of the outstanding features of the program will be crowning the May queen, winding the Maypole, Dutch dance and many others.
Officers chosen for the third and fourth grade students are Kenneth Thompson, Paul Moses, Lawrence Morris, Dorothy Elmore, Helen Thompson, Donald Greenway, Dicky Shiney, Norman Robertson, Joann Juvenal and Bobby Roughton.
April 1958
The seventh and eighth grade pupils of the Alexander grade school entertained the McCracken seventh and eighth grades Friday evening with a party in the school gymnasium.
Bennie Anderson and his sister, Mrs. Ardyth Johnson, Pueblo, visited relatives here during the weekend.
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Norman Brack, Salina, on the birth of a son, Richard Eugene, born April 20, 1958.
April 1968
Ernie Gaschler and Landal Lee Dunaway were married at Salina on Thursday.
McCracken downed Victoria 2-1 on fine pitching by Lance Morgan. Those receiving hits were Higgins, Whitis, Morgan and Davenport.
The scholarship team for MHS includes Kent Bible, Rodney Taylor, Bill Wetzel, Floyd Norlin, Kirby Wendler, Johnny Brack, Jim Rein, Donna Rogers, Pat Foos, Rita Wierman, Lynne Hinman, Karla Wendler, Gloria Baus, Cheryl Casey, Kim Elmore, Leanne Morgan, Claudine Owings, Sharolyn Jones and Kim Wendler.
April 1978
Nancy Higgins plays in the St. Mary of the Plains College concert and dance band.
Joan Harvey has been appointed the new public health nurse for Rush County.
April 1988
Susan Thompson is among 43 student musicians who will perform in the spring concert of the Kansas State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble on Tuesday.
The United Methodist Church of McCracken extends an invitation to all interested persons to join the congregation on Sunday for the dedication of the English Handbells purchased with monies from the memorial fund.
April 1998
Jan and Arlyn North opened the first Bed and Breakfast in Rush County. It is called The Wagon Wheel Bed and Breakfast.
Juanita Caviness and Karen Clark are here visiting their mother, Grace Thompson, and family. They attended the ribbon cutting ceremony at McCracken Grocery on Saturday morning.
The little ones attending the kindergarten round-up in LaCrosse were Clayton Kershner, Robert Sloan, Angela Morgan, Derek Derr and Scott Irvin.
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