I and a a a a a a a a a EDINA SENTINEL 4 State dado A A Historical Society AND KNOX COUNTY DEMOCRAT COMBINED SEPT. 10, 1925. EDINA, KNOX COUNTY, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1960. VOLUME 92, NUMBER NINETY-ONE YEARS OLD. Soils and Crops Conference The annual soils and crops conference is scheduled for next day, Feb.
3. The meeting will the get under way at 10:80 o'clock in morning with reports from Knox County farmers on various soils and crops practices which they have had experience with in 1959. Among these will be the use of chemicals for weed control in corn, results with improved pasture, including top dressing; a summary of dwarf corn results in Knox County and results from the use of nitrogen compared with no nitrogen on corn. Other items which will be reported on will be the 1959 soybean variety test in Knox County, and a summary of the 1960 Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation program by Clayton Ely. The afternoon program will consist of a 15-minate discussion on various rates of LA, 26.
Easter Seal Campaign For County Is Headed By Mrs. G. R. Epperson of Edina Heading the 1960 1 Easter Seal campaign for Knox County will be Mrs. G.
Roy Epperson of Edina. As chairman of this month 1 long appeal, Mrs. Epperson will direct teams of volunteers who will work from March 17 through Easter Sunday, April 17, to raise funds for maintaining and expanding services of the Knox County Society for Crippled Children and Adults. Mrs. Epperson is one of more than 1000 volunteers in Missouri who is giving her time and efforts to join the fight against crippling.
The Knox County Society is an affiliate of the Missouri Society, and together affiliates with rendered the 115 services other to county children and 456 adults last year. 1 These services consist of care and treatment at rehabilitation and speech therapy centers in addition to home therapy programs, sheltered workshops, day camps, nursery schools, scholarship programs, social services, homebound teaching, case diagnosis and evaluation, and transportation. The procurement of orthopedic appliances and 1 equipment is another important function of each society. "It is my hope," Mrs. Epperson said, "that all the people in the county will respond in the interest of crippled children during Easter Seal month." Leslie B.
Hicks of Baring And Edina Died Friday Morning In Kirksville Leslie B. Hicks, 69, of 1108 E. Alexander, Kirksville, and before of Edina, and Baring previously, died at a hospital in Kirksville at 3:30 o'- clock Friday morning. Mr. Hicks was a veteran of World War serving in the quartermaster corps, and was a member of the American Legion in Edina.
His name was distinctly remembered as being in the drawing of names to go in the war, the editor of The Sentinel, F. E. Schofield, recalls, and when he came to Edina afterwards he rented the old Harry Bostick house of Mr. Schofield. He farmed in Knox and Adair Counties for a number of years before tuking employment with the Santa Fe Railroad with whom he worked for 20 years, and drew a pen-: sion for it after he quit.
He retired in 1951 and moved to Edina, and to Kirksville in 1958. leaves an only son, E. Donald Hicks, who himself worked in the Santa Fe station at Baring, and elsewhere for the Santa Fe, some years. Besides the son he leaves his wife and a brother, Orval Hicks, of Buffalo Gap, Canada; and a sister, Miss Buela Hicks of Brashear, and a stepsister, Mrs. Florence Buchanan, of Portland, Ore.
He was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers. Mr. Hicks was a son of Elmer E. and Elizabeth Ella Brooks Hicks and he was born in Brashear Oct. 27, He married Miss Margaret Bell in Kirksville March 2, 1918, and they had only the one son.
The funeral services were at 2 o'-' clock Friday afternoon, Jan. 29, at the Funeral Chapel of Davis Davis in Kirksville, with the Rev. Archie Cooper and the Rev. L. M.
Gill officiating. Burial was in the Maple Hills cemetery. Military rites were conducted at the graveside by the MacDougall-Lowe post of thy American Legion of Kirksville. Spring X-Ray Is Coming The Knox County Tuberculosis Association has made arrangements for its annual county chest X-ray survey with Walter Parrish, representative of National X-Rays, which has serviced Knox and surrounding counties in this capacity the last several years with satisfactory results. The survey will be made about the middle of April; the date and further made publicity concerning it will be at a later date.
The generous purchase of TB Christmas Seals by Knox County people makes this annual chest X-Ray survey possible, the purpose of which is to give everyone in the county from high school age up a chance for an annual chest checkup at a nominal cost. If there are those who wish to contribute to the TB fund, contributions will still be acceptable and appreciated, says the local TB association. Arrested For Texas Authorities Charles R. Harrington, who came here from Texas and has been in and around Edina for the last year and who was recently arrested by Sheriff Vern C. Goodwin after a car he was driving struck a car driven by Mrs.
William Perry in the northeast part of town, was again arrested Tuesday evening at his room in the Gibbons Hotel here by a state and Hugo Branham, city policeman, after it was learned the car he had been driving was stolen in Texas. The car is being held at Taylor, and Harrington is in jail here and will be turned over to FBI authorities. Albert E. Dye And Miss Donna Lee Gibbons Married Saturday; Will Live Here Albert E. Dye, only son of Mr.
and Mrs. Leo A. Dye of northeast of Edina, and Miss Donna Lee Gibbons, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Gibbons of Edina, were married at 23, 1960, by Terence Mulo'clock Saturder, morning, Jan.
lins at the parochial residence here. The attendants were Mrs. John Hopkins of Kirksville, matron of honor, a close friend of the bride, and Jackie Gibbons, older brother of the bride, best man. Attired in a cream colored brocaded satin dress with a tight fitting ice and full skirt, the bride had shoes dyed to match her dress and had light blue accessories, hat and gloves, and a red feathered carnation corsage. Her only jewelry was a gold cross necklace belonging to her great-grandmother.
The matron of honor's dress was a light blue knit dress and she had a corsage of pink carnations. The bridegroom wore a light blue busi; ness suit and the best man a charcoal colored business suit, and both had white carnation boutonnieres. The bride is a graduate of the Edina High School, class of 1958. She is now empolyed at the Citizens Bank of Edina and she will continue working. The bridegroom is a 1956 graduate of the Baring High School and a member of the Army Reserve Unit of Memphis.
He is employed as plant superintendent with the Mark Twain' Telephone Company. After the ceremony a small reception was held at the home of the bride's parents. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. James Gibbons and sons, and Mrs.
John Hopkins, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Dye, Mrs. Kenny Kline, Mr. and Mrs.
Tommy White and Mr. and Mrs. Billy Joe Ausmus. Mr. Dye and his bride are living in an apartment owned by Ralph W.
Miller a block south of the southeast corner of the square in Edina. Baring Won A $750 First Prize For 1959; Second For $150 In 1958 Competition The Baring "Planned Progress" organization has won a first prize of $750 cash award in the "Planned Progress Program" of 1959. The group won a $250 second prize in 1958 for Towns over Missouri are grouped in their proper population categories and Baring is on the 300 or less population list. The contest is sponsored by the Missouri Power Light Company. This was the fourth year of Baring's participation.
Projects reported on this year were installation of a new fire alarm system and a sewer project. There was much ground work to be done in regard to the sewer system, in that the town had to be voted a fourth class city in order to secure bonds. Bulldozing was done on the old Santa Fe lake grounds for a future picnic area. The benefits derived from participiation in the "Planned Progress Program" have been many, and varied. Most small towns, where competition is greatest, have been brought realize their need for improvement to maintain survival.
Falls and Breaks Hip Here Last Week Mrs. Martha Swann, who slipped on the slick street near her home two blocks east of the square Wednesday evening of last week, suffered a severe break in her right hip. She was taken to Columbia Friday morning where she was admitted to the University of Missouri Medical Center Hospital. fertilizer and a demonstration of various rates as they appear on the ground and a discussion of recommended crop varieties by J. Ross Fleetwood, field crops specialist from the University of Missouri at bia.
The meeting will get under way in the vocational agriculture shop in Edina and luneh will be served at noon by the home economics class of the Edina public school. The soils and crops committee has indicated there will be a number of attendance prizes, which may be drawn by the folks who attend the conference. Of special interest to the women will be a program on garden tips. This will include both planting and fertilizing the garden and will be in the afternoon. Methodist Church Rally At Knox City Sunday Evening; Drama In Three Sections A big rally for the Methodists of Knox County is scheduled to be held at the Knox City Methodist Church at 7:30 o'clock Sunday evening, Jan.
31. There will be special music, and the main program will be the presentation of a drama which depicts the highlights of the history of the Methodist Church. Three factors of this history will be acted out, the organization of the church in 1784; the break between the South and the North in 1844; and the reunification in 1939. Some six dozen persons are on the cast to portray these important historical events. Those who will give the first act come from the Hurdland Methodist Church, those who will give the second act are from the Bee Ridge and Knox City Methodist Churches and those who will preform the third act will be drawn from the churches of the Edina Methodist Parish.
Refreshments of sandwiches cookies will be served with coffee after the program. Each family is asked to bring its own service and either sandwiches or cookies to share. The drink will be furnished by the host church. Contract Let For Road At Greensburg To Fabius; Work Can Start Feb. 7 Lee Hardy and Son, Shelbyville, has been awarded a contract to build about miles of state supplementary Route in Knox County by the Missouri State Highway Commission.
The project, which will cost about $43,270, is for grading and gravel or crushed stone surfacing. The improvement leaves Missouri Rt. 15, at Greensburg, and extends in an easterly direction to a county road junetion, at Fabius. The contractor has been notified that work on the project may begin on or about February 7. Route is another former Knox County road which has gained 1 permanent state highway status and improvement as such under the terms of the 10-year state highway modernization and expansion program.
It was first taken over by the department, August 1, 1956, for maintenance as a temporary state route. Then, after right of ways needed to improve it to state supplementary highway standards were available without cost to the state, a program requirement, it was given a permanent state highway rating, Nov. 14, 1958, and put in line for development as funds and conditions permitted. This contract provides for that development. Construction wilt be carried forward under the supervision of the department's District 3 office at Hannibal, where George E.
Wolf is the district engineer. Roy C. Meyer, district construction engineer, will direct the work with Resident Engineer G. F. Megown of Edina who will have active charge of the work involved.
This is one of 31 counties in the state on which the Missouri State Highway Commission has completed contracts for work on 176.3 miles of the state's highways costing 916 under bids received December 17. The work includes 14.2 miles of Interstate system construction, 72 miles of Primary system roads and 90.1 miles of Secondary (farm to market) system routes. Death of Mrs. William Shubert Mrs. William Shubert of Milton, Iowa, wife of a former resident of Edina, died Wednesday, Jan.
20, 1960, at her home. She had suffered a heart condition in December, since when she had not been well. She was 75 years old. Funeral services were at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Christian Church in Milton by the Rev. Ray Pierson.
Burial was there in Sunnyside Cemetery. Mr. Shubert is the only survivor besides nieces and nephews. As Gertrude B. Abernathy, one of the seven children of William and Lucy Blanchard Abernathey, Mrs.
Shubert was the last one of her family and she was born May 27, 1884. She and Mr. Shubert were married May 23, 1923, and they lived on a farm near Baring some years ago. Mr. Shubert is the youngest son of the old time Sam Shubert of Edina.
Winner of Vacation Trip To Nassau Roscoe Coram is the winner of a paid vacation trip for two to Nassau in the Bahamas. Mr. and Mrs. Coram of the Edina Lumber Company here left Edina Saturday evening and went to Kansas City, where they attended the Southwestern Lumbermen's Convention until yesterday. Mr.
Coram, who is the president of the Northeast Lumbermen's Association, was the winner of the vacation trip when his name was drawn' as an attendance prize. The expense of the which can be taken any time in 1960, are paid for by the association. Hatfield To Preside At Church Meet The men of the Christian Churches of this area will meet in an annual rally at Paris, Feb. 15, and Dr. N.
R. Hatfield of Edina will preside. Dr. Kenneth A. Kuntz of the church at Hannibal, a Missourian 1 who spent his boyhood at Kahoka, will be the speaker.
Barn With Grain And Small Pigs Destroyed By Fire Here Sunday Evening The large barn, owned by Nolan Harris of Madrid, lowa, and located at the east edge of Edina on Highway No. 6, was completely destroyed by fire about 7:30 o'clock Sunday evening. The farm is operated by Lloyd Cullifer. Thirty some little pigs were destroyed in the blaze along with about 1000 bushels of corn and a thousand bales of hay. The feed and hay was insured, Mr.
Cullifer said, but some items, such as a hammermill some small tools, carried no insurance. Mr. Cullifer said he had no idea as to how the fire started, even though he had a heat bulb in the barn for the warmth of the little pigs. The blaze didn't seem to start in that section of the barn, he said, and a sow which was with some pigs near the bulb emerged without getting burned. 4 Mausoleum Here Is Now Incorporated Official papers of incorporation were received here Saturday for the newly constructed mausoleum in the Linville Cemetery, It is incorporated as the Linville Community Mausoleum, and the original incorporating committee is Mrs.
J. H. Fisher, A. C. Patterson and Lee Greenley, Jr.
In the near future a special meeting will be called and officers will be elected to look after any business that may come up. Fire In House Near Knox City A fire was discovered Friday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mauck of north of Knox City by Austin Ewalt. The Knox City fire department was called and the fire was put out by fire extinguishers.
The fire damaged a portion of the wall between the kitchen and dining room. There was no one at home at the time a as Mrs. Mauck teaches in the school at Knox City and Mr. Mauck had gone to bring her home. MR.
AND MRS. W. 0. DODDS Court House Being Redecorated Work is well under way here at the complete Knox County redecorating court house program. Withe court room has been repainted and new window curtains have been put up.
All offices in the building are to be repainted, along with the halls and stairways. Work is being done by LeRoy Karhoff and Harold Comley and they will be about another estimatefore the work is complete. This is the first time the building has been completely redecorated since it was constructed in 1935. Striping For More State Highways; 5500 Miles Are Added For This Work The Missouri State Highway Commission, at its regular January meeting in Jefferson City, made a revision in the centerline striping program in effect in Missouri's state highways. This revision added some 5500 miles of the state's roads to the program.
The increased mileage of the centerline, striping program was determined by adding to the program now in effect all state highways which now have an average traffic count of 250 vehicles or more for each 24 hour period. estimated cost of striping this additional mileage of roads is $300,000 for the current year. Striping of Missouri's highways include the broken white line stripe separating lanes on two lane highways, and broken white lane lines on multiple undivided lane pavements. All striping will be done by the Highway Department's Division of Maintenance forces. Modern Beauty Shop Is Modern The Modern Beauty Shop, here the last 34 years by Mrs.
D. S. Riley, has just been completely furnished with new equipment and fixtures. Two hair dryers, white and black in color, are of the very latest design, being air conditioned with the chair and dryer being one complete unit and which contains 2 automatic control. A new dress.
table has also been installed along with new red leather trimmed operator's chairs, a new shampoo unit and chair is also a part of the new equipment and a white leather and chrome sofa and additional chairs for the patrons. Mrs. Riley, who will celebrate her thirty-fifth anniversary in business in Edina in May, plans a special open house in the very near future. Magazine Crew Chased From Town Every now and then Edina, along with other communities, is the target area for a bunch of magazine peddlers who are "working their way through college," and Friday evening was just such a time when a bunch of "young veterans" hit town just at dark and began working the neighborhoods simultaneously. Several complaints were turned into local police authorities and by 6 o'clock Sheriff Vern Goodwin made the first pickup shortly thereafter, and with the help of Hugo Branham, city night policeman, and Jim Leigh, deputy sheriff, the bunch were soon rounded up and told to leave town.
As far as has been learned, nobody was "taken in" by the peddlers. Everett Reitz, 71, Dead In Idaho; A Boy of Edina, He Had Been West Many Years Everett. Frederick Reitz, age 71, of Bruneau, Idaho, died at his home near there Saturday, Jan. 16, 1960. He was born in Edina, Oct.
22, 1888, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Reitz. His father was a foreman in the old Miller wagon factory in Edina in the heyday of the farm wagons, before he moved to Southern California. Everett was married to Mabel Wade at Kirksville, Feb.
14, 1915, and he and his wife lived on a farm for several' years southeast of Edina before they moved to Sunnyside, Wash. In 1922 they moved from Sunnyside to the Midvale-Cambridge area in Idaho, and then they moved in 1936 across the Snake River from Payette, Idaho, to land just across that river in Oregon. In 1958 he moved to an artesian well area near Bruneau, Idaho, and farmed there until his untimely death. He leaves his wife and five sons: Frederick, of Seattle, Conrad, of Ontario, Oregon, who still lives on his Oregon ranch; Harold, of Weiser, Idaho; Donald, of Moses Lake, and Ronald, of San Louis Obispo, and one daughter, Ruth, Mrs. Edwin Brock, of Boise, Idaho, and eighteen grandchildren.
He also leaves four sisters, who live in Southern California. He was a member of the Methodist Church to which he was much devoted. Services were held in the Shaffer Memorial Chapel and interment was made in the Rosendale Memorial Park in Payette, Idaho. His oldest brother, Chester Reitz, 63, of Huntington Park, died April 19, 1949; the second oldest brother, Walter, 58, died March 21, 1945. The sisters are: Elsie, Mrs.
Harry Fortney, Belle City, Cecil, Mrs. Will Frazee, San Bernardino, and twins, Evalyn and Katherine, Mrs. Cleo Sawyer, Pasadena, and Mrs. Katherine Brown, Huntington Park, or Los Angeles, the last addresses at hand. 0.
Dodds Is 95 Years Old; Married 73 Years To One Woman; Quite a Record Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Dodds celebrated their seventy-third wedding anniversary and Mr.
Dodds' ninety- enteenth birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Dodds received many lovely flowers, gifts and cards. fifth birthday Sunday, Jan.
24, at a dinner given in their honor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Willard C. Dodds, The couple was married Jan. 23, 1887, at Iowa City, Iowa, on Mr.
Dodds' twenty second birthday. They have seven children, seventeen grandchildren, and thirty-four great- grandchildren. Those attending the dinner were: Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Dodds of Kirksville, Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Arnold, Mrs. Lola Szlapka and Mr. and Mrs. LaVerne Dabney and daughter, Kristin, all of Edina.
Miss Marilyn Dodds, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Dodds, and the youngest grandchild cf the older couple, was also celebrating her sev- Mrs.
F. E. Robinson's Hip Broken Mrs. F. E.
Robinson, fell at her home about 4:30 o'clock Monday afternoon and broke a hip. She was taken to the Grim-Smith Hospital in Kirksville, where it was thought the bone would be wired together yesterday, but the operation was put off. Mrs. Robinson had painted spots worn off from the linoleum in kitchen of her home earlier in the afternoon and then had gone to visit a neighbor. Returning home it is supposed she stepped on a painted spot, which had not dried, slipped and fell.
The break was in her good leg, the other having a limp. She was found about 5 o'clock by another neighbor, Mrs. John O'Donnell, who went over to Mrs. Robinson's home, when she did not answer a phone call from Mrs. O'Donnell.
Her son had been home and left but was called back. Church Men To Farm Again The Bee Ridge Methodist Men's Club of the church will have another farming project this year. A committee has been appointed to see about getting land, and on it are: Merle Klocke, Harold Masten and Jim Lindsay. New chairs and tables have been purchased by the church, and a new room divider was built by DeVere Harrington. A new tool shed has been built in the shop of Ralph Kennedy to house the new riding mower and other small tools of the church.
These things came out at a regular meeting of the Men's Club last Thursday evening, at which prayer was by the pastor, the Rev. Raymond Lindsay, and there were refreshments of coffee, cake and daughnuts served. Arlie Says, "Except The Weather" In last week's issue of The Sentinel, a former Knox County man, now of Mesa, Arlie Rector, who is a real estate broker there, made the statement that Missouri, in his estimation, was the greatest state in the union. To better classify his statement, Mr. Rector said, "Except the Weather." After The Sentinel reached Arizona last week, Mr.
Rector said he received many calls from former Missourians out there and who wanted to know if he had "gone off his rocker." First Candidates File Here The first candidates to file for office in Knox County in the 1960 primary election were Vern C. Goodwin, who seeks re-election as sheriff, and D. S. Riley, seeking the office of treasurer. Both candidates are Democrats and presented their petitions.
yesterday. Officers to be nominated in Knox County in the primary are: Judge of the eastern and western districts for a term of two years; sheriff, four years; assessor, four years; coroner, four years; public administrator, four years, and prosecuting attorney, two years. The treasurer's office is for the unexpired two years, created by the death of Claud E. Moyers. Thrown From Car Into Snow Bank Mr.
and Mrs. Dewey Ausmus were bruised but escaped serious injury about 12:45 o'clock Sunday afternoon when the Ausmus car was struck by a car driven by Alvin E. Shanley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Shanley of northeast of Edina.
The cars collided on Route AA about six miles east of here. Mr. Ausmus was thrown from his car i into a snow bank, which probably prevented his receiving serious injury. Both cars were damaged to quite some extent, but Shanley was not injured. The wreck was investigated by sheriff Vern Goodwin.
John Deveny Is Married John Deveny and Miss May Stewart, both of Edina, were married Wednesday evening of last week, Jan. 20, 1960, by the Rev. Terence Mullins, pastor of St. Joseph Catholic Church, at the parochial residence here. They were attended by Mr.
and Mrs. Jerome Kriegshauser are living in the bride's home in Edina. They and Mr. Deveny's brother, William Deveny, and his wife were entertained at dinner Sunday by the men's sisters, Mrs. Fred Kriegshauser and Mrs.
Philip Clark, and Mr. Kriegshauser at the Kriegshauser home. Marriage of Don Baker In Iowa Donald Lloyd Baker, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Baker, now of Cincinnati, Iowa, but natives of Knox County and former residents of Edina, was married Dec.
26, 1959, to Miss Angelina Marie Swab, also of Cincinnati, at the St. Mary Catholic Church in Centerville, Iowa, by Father Robert Reinhart in a double ring ceremony. Miss Helen Baker, Cincinnati, a sister of the bridegroom, was maid of honor, and Miss Patricia Raskie, Cincinnati, bridesmaid. Harold Baker, Burlington, Iowa, cousin of the bridegroom, was groomsman, and Lawrence Baker, the bridegroom's brother, best man. Cousins of the bride were ushers, flower girl and ring bearer.
After the ceremony a reception was had in Cincinnati, one of the servers being Miss Elizabeth Baker, Burlington, a cousin of the bridegroom, who poured the punch. Approximately 225 guests were present, including those from Mystic, Seymour, Burlington, Chariton, Newton and Ottumwa, Iowa; Topeka, Kansas City, Rock Island, and Edina. Mr. and Mrs. Charley Baker of here and Mrs.
Mary Alber of southeast of town are the grandparents of the bridegroom, and Mr. and Mrs. Baker attended the wedding..
