RCNews Oct 6

Carolyn Davenport attended the Scentsy convention in Fort Worth, Texas. Every six months Scentsy has a charitable cause warmer the Scentsy consultants sell and the profits go to that organization. Scentsy just wrote checks to the Breast Cancer Foundation for over $600,000.00 and to the Autism foundation for $523,000.00. Current charitable cause is for the Ronald McDonald foundation.
 
A junior varsity volleyball tournament was held at Valley Center, Saturday, October 1.
Teams playing were Buhler, Campus, Circle, Clearwater, Derby, Garden City, Goddard, Hutchinson, Valley Center, Wellington, Wichita Southeast and Wichita South. Hutchinson was undefeated in pool play. They then played 3 matches with Garden City winning the 1st then losing two close matches.  They were defeated by Valley Center in two. Hutchinson placed 3rd.  Jenna Higgins is a member of the Salthawks team.
 
Ellen Kershner, Rose Diehl, Bruce & Sue Davis, Sid & ‘Bubba’ Osborne, Sandra Jacobs, Paula & Michael Greenway and Ron Crawshaw spent the weekend ‘sprucing’ up the park for the Octoberfest, Saturday, October 8. Don’t forget to come and enjoy good food, fun activities and great conservation. There will be free bingo, homemade ice cream, and the BIG auction along with Valerie Anderson painting fun things for kids and adults.
 
Dave and Carolyn Davenport, Hutchinson attended Tanner Elias 8th grade football game between Colby/Scott City. Colby won 34-12. Also, attending was Travis, Tina, and Katie Elias, Wyonna Wente of Palco and Dennis Elias. Travis is a member of the Colby team.
 
Alex Casey was busy this week-end during all kinds of work related chores for McCracken  and the residents.
 
Sunday, October 23, will be the next fundraiser for the pool and the Methodist youth Sunday school class. They are purchasing wreaths for the military graves for Veteran’s Day. Not only will there be good food, the Sunday school class has something special planned and there will be a raffle table. If anyone would like to donate items for the table, please contact Carol Weber, 394-2343.
  
Birthdays:  October 6, Leslie Irvin Tip, Courtney Gilbert, Kellye Irvin; October 7, Rachel Legleiter, Bill Harp; October 8, Diane McFarren, Heath North; October 9, Wacey Shelit; October 10, Jeffrey Hinman, Cameron Horesky; October 11, Julie Stull, Kristana Anderson, Katelyn Stull; October 12, Dale Elias, Bob Wolfe, Phyllis Conrad, Todd Borger.
 
Anniversaries:  October 6, Les and Rose Diehl, Larry and Ellen Hinman; October 7, Ivan and Peggy Janke, Leslie and Sheryl Rogers; October 8, Terry and Helen Showalter; October 11, Craig and Julie Stull; October 12, Pete and Terri Cox. 
 
Congratulations to Kellye Irvin on his fifty birthday.                                                          
 
The Rush County United Fund Drive is starting! This
is an important annual event for Rush County. Many local organizations benefit
from this drive. Donation forms were mailed out with McCracken water bills.
They may be sent back to Tomi Rues, P.O. Box 38, McCracken, KS 67556 or taken to
the McCracken Library. Any amount one donates is much appreciated!!
 
Our sympathy to the family of  John Robert Tacha, 46, of Norton, who died Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011, in Norton. Services were at Norton on Monday at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Norton. Burial was at Norton Cemetery. Visitation was held at Enfield Funeral Home in Norton with rosary at 7 p.m. He was born Oct. 30, 1964, in Norton to Claude and Barbara (Wetter) Tacha. On Oct. 14, 1989, he married Kayla Higgins in Hays.  Survivors include his daughters, Lindsey Tacha of Hays and Nicole Tacha of Battlefield, Mo.; brothers, Pat Tacha and his wife, Connie, of Meriden and Lynn Tacha and his wife, Sandy, and Jim Tacha and his wife, Lori, all of Kearney, Neb.; sisters, Mary Jo Montgomery and her husband, Gale, of Norton, Sharon Poage and her husband, Vance, of Grainfield, Kan., Anita Covey and her husband, John, of Wheat Ridge, Colo., and Marcia "W.J." Tacha of Hays; and many nieces and nephews, other relatives and many, many friends. John grew up in Norton, attended local schools and graduated from Norton Community High School in the class of 1983. He attended Fort Hays State University on a football scholarship. He and Kayla made their home in Norton. John worked as a sales representative for F & A Food Sales.   John was a member of St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Knights of Columbus and Norton Area Chamber of Commerce. He was a past member of the Eisenhower Elementary Site Council and past chairman of the Northwest Kansas Golf Association .John loved most sports and was an All-State quarterback and played in the 1983 Kansas Shrine Bowl. If there was any kind of game, J.T. would play. He was a lifelong Dallas Cowboys and Cincinnati Reds fan and loved Oklahoma Sooner football. John enjoyed his family and friends very much, always had a smile on his face and loved to laugh. He was preceded in death by his parents, grandparents and an infant sister, Gloria Lea. Memorials are suggested to the John Tacha Memorial Fund for his daughters' education and Norton County Hospital.
 
Verlene Wilson and Carolyn Thompson went on a weekend pilgrimage to Denver sponsored by the Serra Club of Salina.  They were in Denver to support the seminiarians of the Salina Diocese who attend Seminary at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary.  The five seminarians are Deacon Brian Lager, Deacon Gale Hammerschmidt, Ryan McCandless, Shawn Kuhlman and Luke Thielen. Deacon Lager and Deacon Hammerschmidt will be ordained at Salina at the Cathedral on May 19. The pilgrims visited the Seminary and attended mass at the Church of the Holy Ghost and the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception.  They also toured the Mother Cabrini Shrine west of Denver and the Hammond Candy Factory.  There were two busloads from the Salina Diocese.
 
Edwin Engel, 85, Hays, formerly of Loretto died September 29, 2011.  He was the third baseman for the Loretto Semi-Pro Baseball Team, who was the Coca-Cola Award District Champions of the 1948 Northwest Kansas District Tournament.  Ballplayers from McCracken will remember him.
 
Our sympathy to the family of Jack L. Horlick, 80, Overland Park, who died September 29, 2011.  Jack was born in Brownell and graduated from Brownell High School in 1951.  He worked in the grain elevator business for 30 years as an owner and manager.  He is survived by his wife Marjorie, two daughters, Jacque Schippers and Debra Horlick-Mills; a sister June Ruff and four grandchildren.  Military graveside services will be in Johnson County Memorial Gardens.
 
Please keep all the sick in your thoughts.
 
Kansas History Notes
The greatest discovery and development in Kansas, in 1894, was in the oil and gas field.  Nineteen flowing wells were reported in Wilson County.
 
Mr. Charles H. Sternberg, found in 1894, in the northeast part of Lane County, a bed of fossils containing nearly the entire skelton of the hairy mammoth, similiar to that found in Siberia and preserved in St. Petersburg.  Over 150 elephant teeth were also discovered by Mr. Sternberg.
 
McCracken History Notes
October 1911
Notice is hereby given that the Ness County Superintendent of schools will sell to the highes bidder the old Jolly Waring School House, District 28 on October 31
 
October 1941
Those receiving 100 in spelling Friday at Thistle Grove School were Corinne Janke, Alvina McCormick, Goldie Higgins, Marvel Ann McCormick, Marguerite Washaliski, Elma Jean McCormick, Marjorie Casey, Maxine Janke, Tom McCormick and Caroline Klee.
 
A new convent of the Dominican Sisters in Great Bend was dedicated by the Most Rev. Christian Winkelmann of Wichita.  The new four story building of colonial architecture was built at a cost of $350,000 by A. Jacobs of the Jacobs Construction Company of Hays.  The services were witnessed by more than 100 sisters of the diocese.
 
October 1961
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Irvin are the parents of a son Kellye Lynn born October 6 at Great Bend weighing eight pounds and 13 ounces.
 
October 1981
Kindergarten students are Tyrel Elias, Klara Miller, Nicole Moran, Crystal Bearly, Donnie King and Maria Carr.  Teacher:  Lorraine Norlin.
 
First grade class members are Bobby Bearly, Arlene Mills, Brian Harp, Ted North, Rebecca Halbleib, Nathan Showalter and Matthew Seltmann.  Pat Petz: teacher.