December 9, 2015 News

Birthdays: December 9, Jeremy Higgins, Larry Goddard, John Casey; December 10, Jamette Basgall, Scott Herdman, Leigh Barrett; December 12, Phyllis Higgins, Jessica Stull; December 13, Rosemarie Schwindt, Kristopher Taylor, Kasi Taylor, Janice Rein, Cory Molloy, Christina Unrein King; December 14, Garrett McCormick, Rachel Irvin; December 15, Nancy Wiebe, Treva Bergquist, Sonya Conner, Carla Rodeman, Colby Chestnut, Holly Gilbert. No anniversaries.

6:00 P. M., December 19, will be when mass will be held at St. Mary's Catholic Church in McCracken with Father Matthew Kumi presiding.

Hampton History: Early clerks of Hampton Township: S. S. Burgner 1882-1883; W. R. Newman, 1883-1884; Silas Roller, 1887; J. W. Coughenour, 1888; S. E. Hall, 1889-1890; L. L. Darkes, 1891; T. C. Ritter, 1892-1893 and W. T. Ryan, Trustee (both signed); Trustee, J. T. McKinsey; L. L. Darkes, 1894; F. L. Derrick, 1895. Men who provided service to the township included, Rusel, Chenoweth, Keyser, Fear, Warden, Elmore, Plotner, Rodeman, Showalter, Fanning, McCaskey, Newton, Jones, Haas, Ernst and Close.

We all enjoyed both the table decorating event at the City Building and the Cantata at Liebenthal. They were a delight. We were feted in style with the luncheon served on beautifully decorated tables at McCracken. Debbie of A Quilt Corral showed her quilting items and other handmade items from LaCrosse artists. Stop by her new store.

Roxie Thornburg and Carolyn Thompson attended the funeral for Don Strecker on Monday afternoon at Bazine. His wife, Dixie, is an associate member of Jonathan Gilbert Chapter NSDAR.

Some of those attending the Garth Brooks concert in Wichita over the past week and week-end was Lynnette, Tina E., Mitchell, Sandra, Priscella, Neal, Amy, Tessa, Dawson, Herb, Ha, Duncan, John, Tammy, Bryant and Kyra, Pat, Mary.

Some GREAT NEWS: The Alexander School is being refurbished by Terry Rowe. You may go on Alexander School facebook and see the progress being made. He encourages people to stop by, maybe volunteer a little bit of your time, or just see what is happening.

Jim Cole visited with his dad, Bill Cole this week-end, he is in a kind of a nursing home where they do physical therapy. He is improving, it will take time for his knee and back to heal. He cannot put any weight on the one leg that has the crack in his knee cap, so he is moved around in a wheel chair and needs help getting into and out of bed or a chair. His does physical therapy twice a day, working on his arms and his good leg. He is eating well and is in good spirits. The facility is in Overland Park, five minutes from Colette and Perry. It is brand new, he has his own room. It is hard to say how long it will take him to recover.

1972 History Notes

The Brownell American Legion baseball team finished 2nd in the State Legion B Tournament held at Ellsworth. They defeated Ottawa 8-2, down Ellsworth inn 12 innings and lost to Belleville 7-5 in nine innings. Galen Pfannenstiel won the sportsman trophy for the tourney. Team members joining Galen are Lonnie Irvin, Tony Mudd, Rodney Taylor, Myron Schuckman, Dan Conner, Tim and Eldon Pfannenstiel, Rod Fairbanks, Bubba Simon, John Walker, Darwin Grumbein, Larry Higgins, Eugene Flax. Bill Lovitt coach, Doug Higgins ass’t coach and Brad Lovitt bat boy. McCracken residents have recently learned that their town will be an important setting for a new movie about the American Depression to be filmed by Paramount pictures. The movie will be based on the book “Addie Pray” and will star Ryan O’Neal and his daughter, Tatum, directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Carrie Darkes celebrated her 90th birthday on Sunday. Eugene P. Kenny will be the new pastor at St. Mary’s in McCracken. Enrollment in USD 395 will be 717. Alexander grade 50; McCracken grade 57 and McCracken High 7-. This is a drop of 73 students in the district. Kindergarten pupils at Alexander are John Moran, Sean Miller, Terry Showalter, Tresha Zinn and Dixie Bott. Lorraine Norlin, teacher. First grade students: Gary Barnes, Shawn McKinney, Stacy Foreman, Lori Brown, Jay Brack, Donita Johnston, Ricky Yost, Jeff Scheuerman and Richard Wittman. Doug Higgins is teaching at Fredonia and is ass’t football, basketball and track coach. The Mustangs open against Paradise this Friday on a new football field in the east part of town. Mr. and Mrs. John Stull and sons, Craig and Michael have moved from Denver to a farm east of town formerly owned by Fay Jennings. The first filming of the movie “Paper Moon” began Monday, September 25 at the Nichol Cemetery northeast of McCracken. Sand has been spread over the asphalt surface streets, old street lighting fixtures installed and false fronts placed on business buildings. Meyer Hardware Store will be used in the film as a general merchandise store and the McCracken Hotel will have extensive filming. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Miller and family have moved here and he will be the new math teacher. MHS football team members: Dave Derr, Dan Conner, Darwin, McFarren, David Wetzel, Don Casey, Steve Foreman, Greg Hinman, Bill Greenway, Randy Conrad, Daryl Casey, Allen Kober, Glen Ryan, Gene Schlegel, Scott Kershner, Bruce Davis, Tim Rues, Robin Schuckman, Mark McCormick, Jim Casey, John Elmore, Randy Taylor, Robbie McGaughey, Coaches Bill Mckinney and Mark Miller.