RCNews Sept 8

I received this e-mail from Bob Thompson: Last Monday I accepted an offer from my last employer, Austin Community College, to resume as an Adjunct Professor. I was scheduled to teach Digital Fundamentals on Mondays and Wednesdays. On Tuesday I regained
my sanity and wisely rejected the offer.

Some of those entering kindergarten this year in LaCrosse are Taylor Doornabos, McKenzie Derr, Hailey Sherrill and Caden Morgan.
 
Butch Harp and Lynnette Doornabos were among those with the Patriot Guard for funeral services for Bryan Nichols last week.
 
Thanks to Bob, Les and Rose the west side of Main Street looks wonderful. Weeds are gone!
 
Tanner Higgins, a junior at Hutchinson High School, is a member of the varsity football team. They lost to Rockhurst High School on Friday in Kansas City, Missouri 35-20. Rockhurst is considered the best team in Missouri.
Birthdays:  September 8, Gerald Barnes, Daryl North; September 9, Taylor Deines, Haydn Legleiter; September 10, Thomas House, Trenton Herdman, Ron Johnson, Don Johnson; September 11, Norman Pfannenstiel, Juanita Caviness, Lorraine Ryan, Robert Halbleib, Gareth Baus, Vic Parsons; September 12, Logan North; September 13, Norma Bisagno, Ryan Higgins; September 14, Bob House, Jerry Dugan.
 
Anniversaries:  September 8, Leigh and Alicia Rues Barrett; September 9, Bill and Barbara Baus; September 10, Todd and Tambra Pfeifer.
 
Clayton Wilson in his Northern sport mod at the Wakeeney Speedway on Sunday was pictured in the Hays Daily News on Wednesday.  He won the first feature
 
The Dream group met for their first meeting of the fall at the home of Kathleen Kuchar in Hays.  Others attending were Christine Wagner and Carol Heiman, Hays; Shirley Higgins and Carolyn Thompson, McCracken. Shirley and Carolyn then traveled to Sterling for the volleyball matches with Sterling, Ellsworth and Ellinwood.  Shannon Keith plays on the Junior Varsity team at Ellsworth.
 
Everyone is welcome to attend the 4:00 p.m. Mass at St. Mary's Church on Saturday, September 10 with Father David Kraus. 
 
Our sympathy to the family of Lorinda Frank, 85, who died August 29, 2011 at Bazine.  She was raised by her aunt Katie Billinger Pfeifer after her mother died when Lorinda was five.  She graduated from Ness City High School in 1944.  She was an agent for American Family Insurance for twenty years. She married Samuel Frank at Bazine on October 10, 1947.  He died January 18, 1999.  Her daughter is Kathy Smith of Hutchinson.  Grant McCormick is a grandson.  Burial was in the Sacred Heart Cemetery, Ness City.
 
Hays Daily New's Football Watch List includes Andrew Casey TE/LB of Plainville and Taylor Stull QB/DB, LaCrosse. 
 
Butch Hayes is in his ninth year as head coach with the Ellis Railroaders.
 
McCrackenites enjoyed the Brownell Labor Day Parade and Dinner on Monday.  Those attending were Paula, William, Michael and Stephanie Greenway; Brett, Haily and Courtney Gilbert; John and Janice Stull; Roy and Phyllis Conrad; G. T. and Signe Barnes; Hoop and Twila Higgins; Babe and Arlene Gilbert; Eric Scriven and Deb Gaunt; Bet and Jeanette McCormick; Shirley Higgins; Roger and Brenda Legleiter; Gary Barnes and Colleen Kerns; Jean Schutte; Bob and Charmaine Wolfe; Mike, Susan and Shannon Keith; Carolyn Thompson; Ben Thompson, Richard and Carol Brown, McPherson.  The McCracken Fire Truck and Molly the car represented The McCracken Rodeo.  We are always grateful to our surrounding towns for supporting our events so we enjoy supporting them.
 
On display at Old Fort Hays is a new item "Custer's dumbbell".  It was made for the General while at Fort Hays. It was left behind when the 7th left Kansas.  Shortly before the fort was abandoned, a former commander gave the weight to August Schutte who was 15 at the time.  Years later, Schutte met the fort's blacksmith, Thomas Kennedy, who identified the dumbell as the one he had made for Custer.  August Schutte lived in LaCrosse.  A picture of the dumbbell appeared in the "Post Returns" Summer 2011 issue.
 
Faith Sharing will begin at St. Mary's rectory on Monday, September 26, at 10:00 a.m.  The group uses the Quest books and will add the book "Lifting up Our Hearts - Praying with the Third Edition of the Roman Missal". The changes go into effect on the first Sunday of Advent. 
 
Kansas History Notes
Kansas was represented at the Paris Exposition of 1889, and received a gold medal for the best agricultural report exhibited; a silver medal for the publications of the State Labor Department, and honorable mention for the exhibits of the Douglas and Conway Springs sugar manufactories.
 
The Cherokee Strip run took place on April 22, 1889.  1,800,00 acres of land were taken.  40,000 swept into Oklahoma.
 
McCracken History Notes
September 1911
Sunday morning a Missouri Pacific engine pulled out of here a pretty good sized cattle train, about the largest this fall.  At Brownell five cars were loaded; McCracken had ten and Bison five more cattle cars.  Among those who shipped from here were:  one car, Ferris brothers, L. L. Darkes, W. H. Ford, W. B. Close, James Littler, Charles Brackney, Ben Yawger; two cars, Ben Hicks.  This exodus of cattle is on account of the scarcity of feed this winter.
 
September 1941
MHS high school senior class of 1941 is well represented in college this fall.  Enrolled at Fort Hays are Scotty Shiney, Clyde Hinman, Albert Donecker, Ruth Brenner, Kathleen Martin and LoRee Grumbein.  Doris Birdsong has enrolled at Grace Hospital in Hutchinson.  Others from McCracken are Dean Birdsong, Julia Davenport and Marie McCormick at Hays; Fay and Lucille Elmore at Manhattan and Elmore Ryan at Washburn.
 
Miss Neva McCormick is staying at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Marak and attending high school.
 
September 1961
Carolyn Higgins will leave this weekend for Wichita where she will attend the Wichita Business College.
 
Gerald Barnes returned last week to St. Mary of the Plains College at Dodge City to begin his third year.  Jimmy Moran, Hargrave, also entered St. Mary’s.
 
September 1981
A new ambulance based in the City of McCracken is fully equipped to serve the emergency needs of Hampton, Fairview, Alexander and Belle Prairie townships.  Purchase was made possible through donations, memorials and the Citizens State Bank.  A new building, now under construction, will house the ambulance, fire equipment and city office.  EMT's are Bet McCormick, Bill McKinney, Steve Anderson, Bob House, Caroline Davis and Brenda Legleiter.
 
$550.00 was collected for muscular dystrophy at the 4th annual McGaughey-Ryan-Zeller picnic on Sunday.  Nearly 600 people turned out for the food, fun and music.  Music was provided by the Foster Brothers band from Amarillo, Texas.