November 20, 2014 News

Birthdays: November 20, Bruce Barnes, Verlene Wilson, Lance McCormick, Ellen Moran, Marietta Kirk, Marjorie Sloan, Micheala Ehrlich; November 21, Sandy Gilbert, Norma Herdman; November 22, Gracie Tomlinson, Tyler Seltmann; November 23, Martin Shapiro, Blayke Mintner; November 24, Cory Betz, Seth Packard; November 25, Lorenzo Sabatini, Stacey Schkoda, Robby Anderson; November 26, Terri Cox, Ted North, Richard Showalter, Brian Walker.

Anniversaries: November 23, Francis and Roberta Wierman; November 25, Dave and Sharla Albers.

Congratulations to Alton and LaVern Huddleston on their 65th anniversary and Marjorie Sloan on her 85th birthday.

Larry and Melody Higgins were guests of Wilfrid and Twila Higgins Tuesday through Thursday. On Wednesday evening they met Doug and Mary Higgins at Great Bend at the Great Wall to visit and eat. Grandson Cody and his friend Nick spent the weekend bow hunting. Cody got a large buck. Congrats.

Carolyn Thompson went to Ellsworth on Saturday for the musical, “Little Shop of Horrors” presented by Ellsworth High School. Shannon Keith played Ronnette. Susan Keith was the pianist in the pit crew. On Sunday Carolyn joined Al and Judy Hugh at the Hays High School musical, “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”

On Tuesday evening, the McCracken Main Street Literary Society enjoyed an end of the season dinner at the Cozy in LaCrosse. Those attending were Gary and Susan Rebel, Suzanne Randa, Priscella Jacobs, Shirley Higgins, Linda Seymour and Carolyn Thompson.

Hampton School Item: District 17 - The teacher for the last school year 1945-1946 was Lydia Donecker. The students were Leroy Lang 2nd grade, Walter Rogers, 5th grade and Velma Rogers, 8th grade. This last six weeks ended April 19, 1946. The school board voted to disorganize on March 1, 1946. It was an 8 month school. Courses were Social Studies, Science, Reading, Mathematics, Writing, Spelling, English, Art and Conduct. Walter and Velma came to school at McCracken when Hampton closed.

Norbert and Elsie Urban and Bert Jacobs and Lynn Kochenhower went to Golden Corral on Monday for Veterans Day dinner.

Our sympathy to the family of Larry Earl Brenner, 60, who died November 10, 2014 at his home in Hays. He was born November 17, 1953 in Larned to Earl and Corrine (Janke) Brenner. He married Kathleen Walters Amerine on January 17, 1976. He was an auctioneer and real estate broker for Farmland Auction and Realty, Inc. He is survived by his wife, four sons, Dave, Mitch, Matthew and Adam, his farm Earl Brenner, two brothers Lowell and Lance, two sisters, Laytha Gnad and Linda Lictenwaldt, seven grandchildren. Burial was in St. Joseph Cemetery, Hays.

Our sympathy to the family of Marie Holopirek Reifschneider, 86 LaCroose, who died November 14, 2014. She was the daughter of Ralph G. and Blance J. Smrecka Holopirek. She married LeRoy Reifschneider November 20, 1947. She is survived by her husband, LeRoy, sons, Daryl and Bruce and daughter, Donna Schmidt, seven grandchildren, six great-grandchildren. Burial was in LaCrosse City Cemetery.

The Jail/Museum has received the location contract between Paramount Pictures, Corp. and Nickel's Cemetery for use during the filing of Paper Moon. They paid $50.00 a day. It was signed by Frank W. Marshall, Associate Producer, 202 No. Canon, Beverly Hills, California 90210. The Cemetery received payment for two days in the amount of $100.00 for use on September 25th and September 26th, 1972. The contract will be placed in the Paper Moon display case at the museum.

This is taken from the Sunday’s Hutchinson News. I didn’t receive it until Wednesday...go figure!!

History of Veterans Day. On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in the First World War, then known as “the Great War.” Commemorated as Armistice Day beginning the following year, November 11th became a legal federal holiday in the United States in 1938. In the aftermath of WWII and the Korean War, Armistice Day became Veterans Day, a holiday dedicated to American veterans of all wars. November 11th, 1921, an unidentified American soldier killed in the war was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

We watched Kersten Kober, who is a member of the K-State volleyball team this past week. She is the daughter of Alan and Norma Elmore Kober. We also had a ‘glimpse’ of Victoria Unrein, daughter of James and Diana Unrein, who is a cheer-leader for K-State.

Several ladies from Rush County enjoyed the ‘Mystery Tour’ Thursday which was sponsored by K-State Extension Office.

Melanie Zeller and Sarah Emerson went Friday the 14th to Wichita to see Stephen King at the WSU Hughes Metroplex. There they stood in line in the cold for two and a half hours to get a good seats, the line went around the whole building! Stephen King presented a reading from his new book “Revival”, he also talked about his life and his other work. It was quite interesting and very humorous. It was well worth the long line and the freezing temperatures! At the end of the show on your way out they handed everyone his new book and a few lucky people randomly received an autographed copy. Melanie was one of the lucky ones!

Jacob Townsend has moved to Norcatur, Kansas. He started the correction officer's training program at the prison in Norton on November 17th.

A small deer trotted across the street Monday morning on West Maple going into Austin’s back yard.....

We had an email from our Metz Canadian friends this week. Liz and her sister Debbie went for a trip to Europe this spring. Denmark is where the girls’ grandparents originated. They spent a week in Denmark visiting relatives then went to Elblag, which was Elbing before the end of the war. It is all a part of Poland now and East Prussia is no more. Anyway, they arranged for a tour guide to spend the day and take them to all the towns their family was from. It was very disappointing. The German people were hated at the end of the war and everything that was German was destroyed, the documents, the graveyards, the church records and a lot of the people too. Very depressing. The Polish people that are living there now are so poor and still afraid, they wouldn't come close to talk to us. The only good thing we found was a monument in the village that my grandparents were from. It was a huge rock, must have been too big to bulldoze down, but it had the name of the village on it which was Judendorf. Some of my relatives still don't want to admit that my grandmother was Jewish, but the name of the town means Jews Village.Hitler changed it in 1938, and then the name was changed again when the Poles moved in. It's actually amazing I even found it. From there we went to Germany, which is a beautiful country, then to Paris. I didn't like Paris at all. It's very pretty in the tourist places, like the Effiel Tower and the Lourves but away from that it is very dirty. We rented a van to drive around so we saw what the countries were really like.

Hampton History Notes October 1877

Hampton and Forbes, two of Big Timber’s favorite sons, are drawing stone for two comfortable little houses on their respective claims.

Dr. Goodwin and party made selections of land on Big Timber. There will be about forty families in all. Hampton precinct was granted by the board of commissioners of Rush County. It is twelve miles square. The voting place is on Jacob Forbes’ on Big Timber.

November 1877

Miss Mary Fear, Rush County, married Mr. Ed Tritt, November 1, 1887.

George W. Fear and Miss Emma Peckham were married on South Fork , Ness County, November 10, 1877.

Ness County has a population of 250.

The mail route between Hays and Dodge is of very little service.