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RCNews Dec 10
You are invited to attend a reception honoring Marcel Lauer, Sunday, December 13 at the McCracken Community Center from 1-5. Marcel was a foreign exchange student in 1978 staying with Bill and Barbara Baus. Their son, Mark, was a senior in High School. This will be the first time Mark and Marcel have seen one another and they have only been in contact less than a year.
Marjorie Sloan appreciates everyone that took the time to send her a card or an e-mail on her 80th birthday. She said it was a great day.
The St. Mary's Heritage Association committee wishes to say "Thank You" to
all those who came to Mass on Saturday the 28th. A special thanks to Father
Kraus from Ransom for presiding over the Mass. Also to the following
people, Francis Casey, Laura Linsey & family for leading the Rosary before
mass. Amy Casey, daughter of Jerry & Karen Casey Planville and Josh Moran
son of John and Ellen Moran for servers. Michele Moran for leading the
singing, Pam Pavlu for lector, Jamie Conrad, Rose Varmar and Phyllis Conrad
gifts. Wilfred Higgins and Roy Conrad ushers. Also thanks to Twila Higgins,
Marge Moran, Jean Schutte and Laura Lindsey for preparing the Church for
the wonderful Mass; also to Jim Schaffer for some last minute advice. And
if we forgot anybody, we apologize.
Addie Mills met Wilma Jacobs at 4-Corners restaurant last Friday for supper.
Steve Sloan also attended Thanksgiving dinner at the home of his mother, Joann Micheli. Friday after Thanksgiving Linda and Audra Dale were guests of her mother for a week. A good time was had by all.
Verlene Wilson, Treva, Bryan, Anna and Audra Bergquist, Clayton, Kizmin, and Gunner Wilson, Lyndell and Kevin Rorabaugh were also at the home of Bob and Marlene Funk for Thankstiving day. Anita, Jeff and Ursula Butler were in Salina with Jeff's family.
Marge Sloan celebrated her birthday with a small celebration of 14 guests of family and friends with an evening meal at the County Club in Ponca City. Marge had written her life story of 80 years and she shared it with her guests. The girls had written a letter to their mom and Ruth Ann read that. She had pictures from birth to today displayed on a table with the birthday cake. Time was given for anyone to comment and it was all so very nice.
Addie Mills was a Thanksgiving guest of Danny and Marilyn Mills, Brandon and Ryan at Gorham. Enroute home she visited at the home of Allen and Cheryl Werth with family members.
Marty and Tina Mills spent Thanksgiving Day and night with her parents, Bob and Della Miller in Brookville.
Norma and Roger McNair left on Saturday morning and went to Arkansas. Carol & Richard Brown were still there and Ruth Ann fixed Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday and on Sunday we ate left overs. By Sunday evening when everyone was gone Marge came home and was exhausted. The next week on Thanksgiving day she spent at Fred & June Haub’s, the grandparents of Gail’s two boys. The boys, Christopher & Kelsey and his wife Amy were there. On Friday Marge went to Kathy’s at Haven and she had another Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday, returned home on Sunday evening.
Dwight and Sherry Eisenhour came to Cimarron from Texas & had Thanksgiving with their kids, grand kids, & great great grand son. Visited with his MOM, Icis Eisenhour, at the nursing home in LaCrosse. Left on Saturday for Paola for a retirement party for a friend of 35 years, returning to Cimarron on Monday. Left early Tuesday driving our friends from Dighton , who are unable to drive their camper rig. Arrived DEL RIO Wednesday about noon. TIME TO TAKE A NAP!!!
Dustin and Olivia Patterson enjoyed a late Thanksgiving dinner Sunday at the home of her mother, Stephen and Sharon Anderson.
Phyllis Higgins will celebrate her birthday December 12, and we know she would appreciate your cards. Please send them to her at this address: 3101 Spruce, Ellis, Kansas 67637.
Les, Sheryl, Chase and Kelsee attended the Chiefs – Denver football game in Kansas City Sunday afternoon. Richard Baldwin and Steve Stremel were also in attendance. Coming home they saw lots of red lights flashing from all the ‘fender benders’ on I-70. Glad they made it home safely.
The Faith Sharing group of McCracken made cookies, candy, caramel popcorn and rice krispies, filled 3 priority boxes and sent them to Major Jim Slemp in Iraq. Those who helped with cookies etc. were Jean Schutte, Twila Higgins, Carolyn Thompson, Jeanette McCormick, Phyllis Conrad, Joanne Micheli and Shirley Higgins.
Ellen and Addie Kershner, Don and Lynnette Doornbos and Taylor, Connor Blair and Shirley Harp attended Eric Vaughn, magician and his wife Kelly at Beech Schmidt Auditorium on Sunday afternoon. The show was sponsored by the Hays Arts Council. Ellen and Addie also enjoyed lunch with Clinton Kershner.
In the sixteenth century, devout Germans brought decorated trees into their homes. If trees were hard to come by, they built Christmas pyramids of wood and decorated them with evergreen and candles. Not until the mid-1800s, however, did Christmas trees become popular in the U.S., thanks to the influence of Queen Victoria and her German husband, Prince Albert.
Icis Eisenhour, 90, died December 3, 2009 at Rush County Nursing Home. She was the daughter of Ralph O. and Minnie E. Wahlborg McKenzie and was born January 29, 1919 in Trego County. She married Glenn D. Eisenhour on December 3, 1938. He died September 11, 1975. Survivors are sons, Larry Eisenhour and wife, Joyce and Dwight Eisenhour and his wife, Sharilyn; two daughters, Elaine Littler and husband, Frank and Jan North and husband, Arlyn; two sisters, Edna Grate and Virgie Renner; two sisters-in-law, Wanda McKenzie and Helen Ward; nine grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren. She lived in McCracken and served as a postal clerk at the McCracken Post Office. Burial was in the McCracken City Cemetery.
Someone left the barn door open and the cold descended on us. Winter has truly arrived.
McCracken History Notes
December 1889
School district #62, North Hampton, commenced last Monday with Miss Ann Zickefoose in the chair, with eighteen enrolled.
December 1909
Grace, Doyle and Ernest Hicks, Fay Burch, Nina Ward, Claire and Sheryl Hastings have been absent from school on account of sickness.
Will and Ray Brenner are on their way home to sunny Kansas from Oregon. This means that the old folks are also due here soon.
December 1919
The City of McCracken does not owe a dollar outside of its bonded indebtedness. Taxes are 3 mills less than last year.
Cal Wilson and Ed Havlovitz have completed a new schoolhouse in the Whitehead district.
December 1939
Free turkeys and greased pigs were turned loose on Main Street in McCracken to start off the Christmas season. The pigs and turkeys were let loose one at a time the starting line east of Philip’s Grocery. Edwin Wilson caught the first pig; Glenn Juvenal landed the first turkey and Tommy Holden downed the second pig. Only small boys ten and under were eligible for the third chase, Norbert Pavlu of Brownell came back carrying the pig. Tommy Birdsong got the first turkey released from the roof of Phillip’s Grocery. Arietta Foster, high school senior, chased the pig the longest distance, finally catching him.
December 1959
A 32 point scoring spree by Bobby Peters was the difference and McCracken won its opening basketball game Tuesday at McCracken. Fairbanks led Ransom scoring with 18.
A break-in at the Farmers Cooperative service station in McCracken last night netted robbers around $100 in merchandise and money. The thieves’ loot included 54 cents from a pay phone, 75 cents and one-half of a dollar bill from the cash register and 45 cents from a cigar box. Also stolen were 12 cartons of cigarettes and 76 spark plugs.
December 1979
Kent Brown received his B. S. in Business Administration from Ft. Hays.
Harry Janke and Betty West were married Saturday afternoon at St. Luke’s Church in Bazine.
December 1999
Frank and Elaine Littler have moved into their new home in LaCrosse this month.
Just nine days short of one year in business, Robbie and Helena McGaughey’s Main Street Diner and Tavern in McCracken burned to the ground.
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