RCNews August 27

Eric and Austin Hurd, sons of Jeff and Kathy Lovitt Hurd, are on the packaging for sports equipment from the company SKLZ.  There will be a total of 12 boxes.  That is Austin on the "Lateral Resistor" and it's Eric's feet!!  on the "Agility Cone Set".  And then you can see little pictures of them on the boxes too.  Two of Eric's friends from his football team were also involved.  We haven't seen the other boxes yet.
 Supposedly, these boxes will be in Target, Walmart, and lots of sporting goods stores like Sports Authority and Dick's the end of October or first of November.  They will be on the sklz.com website sometime in September.  Austin is now in high school, but he's going to the new one, only 4 blocks from their house. Eric will be staying at Mt. Carmel HS. 
 
Carter Morgan celebrated his first birthday at the home of his parents, Allen & Bailey Morgan and Caden.  Guests attending were Layne, Kerrie, Angela and Katlyn Morgan, Pam and Trenn Davis, Michael, Jeridy Morgan and boys, Kevin and Valerie Anderson and family, Deb Rogers, Pat Derr and Kara Lonnon. Saturday,
 
 Jerry Higgins hosted his 12th volleyball clinic at Haven High School.  Chuck Higgins was his ‘assistant’.
 
Alice and David Fox were Saturday overnight guests of Bill and Sharon Lovitt.
 
Deb Rogers hosted supper Saturday evening for Walter & Janey Rogers, Terri Cox, Jennifer Rogers, Kevin & Valerie Anderson and family and Scott and Emily Keener.
 
Joe and Kay Slemp returned home Saturday from a 3,000 mile trip to Kentucky, the Virginia’s, Michigan and Iowa. They visited Ronnie and April Reed in Greenup, KY; David Smith and Chase in Hunington, WV; Don and Ann Shuler, a cousin to James Slemp, in Big Stone Gap, VA.   In Big Stone Gap they toured Southwest Virginia Museum.  The museum was acquired by the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1946 from the Slemp Foundation, established by C. Bascom Slemp, private secretary to President Calvin Coolidge and a member of Congress.  In Three Rivers, MI they saw friends there for the first time since they moved to Kansas.  In Council Bluff, IA they were guests of Jeremy and Ashley Slemp and Dakota. 
 
The parade and reunion pictures are posted on the alumni web site.  There aren’t any of the rodeo as I thought I was getting some from a friend of a friend, but that didn’t happen. 
 
Vida M. Irvin, 86, died August 16 at Hays.  She was born October 31, 1922 in rural Rush County to Earnest L. and Mary R. Wagner Schraeder.  She graduated from LaCrosse High School in 1940.  She married Beverly C. “B. C.” Irvin in LaCrosse on September 5, 1943.  Survivors include a son, Reggie and a daughter, Linda Bittel, four grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.  Burial was in McCracken City Cemetery.
 
McCracken History Notes
August 1899
 
Dr. Brevoort expects to leave McCracken in a few days for Scott City.
 
A large crowd witnesses the 20th Kansas Corporals play McCracken in a hotly contested ballgame Tuesday evening.  McCracken won 13-17.  The Corporals went from here to LaCrosse.  Sherd Edwards and Al Start will join them next week in Great Bend; they are two of McCracken’s best players.
 
August 1909
Farmers are hiring all the men and teams they can possibly find to plow for wheat.  Rush County will put out a wheat crop this fall the size of which will cause some of the eastern wheat counties to sit up and take notice.
 
A glance up and down Main Street Saturday afternoon showed from forty to fifty teams tied on the streets besides those in the livery barns.  The rigs were all good, good horses and harness and it is a safe wager that the owners of these rigs are good people.
 
On account of the dedication of the Methodist Church at Brownell next Sunday, there will be no preaching at the Methodist Church here in the morning.
 
August 1919
Mary Start and Archie Ott were married August 16 at Moline, Illinois.
 
Audice Thompson is the last of the home boys serving in France to return home.
 
Ruth Elmore and James R. Start were married at St. Mary’s August 27.  Attendants were Miss Margaret Lovitt and Mr. Leo Brenner.
 
Ozene Newcomer and Lyle Farwell were married August 27 at the home of the bride’s parents in Alexander.
 
August 1939
The new Meserve Bridge eleven miles north of McCracken will cost $53,923.01. The bridge will be a high water bridge, 437 feet long.
 
School will open next Monday and the buildings are in fine shape.  A new velour curtain has been put in the auditorium and basketball court.  A music teacher has been employed.  There are 105 pupils enrolled in the grade school and 75 in high school.  Thirty three boys reported for football practice.
 
August 1959
A county road north of Timken has been closed as the result of a bridge break down.
 
Pheasant season has been lengthened this year by two weeks.
 
August 1979
The McCracken football team will see their first action Friday night when they will host Pawnee Heights.  Team members are Randy Conrad, Neal Jacobs, Mike Stull, Craig Stull, Doug Elias, Kevin Casey, Phil Swindler, Mitchel Jacobs, Dale Elias, Kellye Irvin, Wade Hinman, Jeff McCormick, Chris Jones, Kevin Rourke.  Coaches, Bill McKinney and Mark Miller. (The Mustangs shut out Pawnee Heights 30-0.  Top tacklers were Kellye Irvin, Keven Rourke, Wade Hinman, Jeff McCormick and Dale Elias.  Mike Stull had an 80 yard run.)
 
The volleyball team will travel to Hanston on Saturday for their opening game.  Team members are Sabrina Higgins, Brenda Barnes, Janet Conner, Sandy Taylor, Kayla Higgins, Kelly McKinney, Kerri Seltman, Sandra Jacobs, Annette Davis, Tammy Higgins, Norma Elmore and Laura Unrein.