Pape Racing sees success at Lakeside Speedway: We interrupt this marriage to bring you the racing season. A bumper sticker with this message adorns the right rear bumper of Carl and Paula Pape’s pickup truck. The Papes, of Tonganoxie, currently own Pape Racing, the sponsors of the Charlie Fatherly-driven modified which races at Lakeside Speedway. The car recently captured its first feature win after two-and-a-half racing seasons. And the bumper sticker? “It’s very true,” says Paula Pape, “If we didn’t all like racing, it wouldn’t work. This takes all of our spare time.”

Roy Zoellner, a former Leavenworth County native and graduate of the class of 1951 at Leavenworth, retired this year from the Great Bend public schools, Great Bend, after 33 years of continuous teaching, administration and coaching in Kansas schools. Roy Zoellner is one of the original descendants of the Jarbalo Zoellners, who came to Leavenworth County in 1859. Roy’s grandfather was Andrew Zoellner, the oldest brother to Frank Zoellner who established the Zellner Mercantile Store in Tonganoxie in the 1890s. The seventh annual Tonganoxie Days kicks off June 13 at 8 a.m. with a 10K and a 5K fun run sponsored by Friends of the Library.

25 years ago: June 8, 1977

Ben and Letha Langley of Route 3, Leavenworth, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary June 19 with an open house at the Lansing 4-H building from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Hosts for the day will be the Langleys’ three children. (Picture)

While working in his garden this morning Mr. Marvin Throop came across this 5-pound cauliflower, the biggest he has ever grown. (Picture)

Basehor News: Mr. and Mrs. Edward Eberth celebrated their silver anniversary Sunday, May 29, 1977. (Their sons, Eddie and Robert, took a group out to dinner in Kansas City, Mo.

Obituaries: Kenneth C. Bontrager, 69, Holton, died Tuesday; Pearl Norris Burnam, 72, Leavenworth County, died May 15, 1977; Elizabeth Ann Davoren, 87, RR 2, Tonganoxie, passed away June 3, 1977.

Gerald L. Gross, son of Mr. and Mrs. F.J. Cross, Tonganoxie, has been named to the dean’s honor roll at the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina, for the spring semester.

Karr Family Saanens Grand Champions: Article told of the summer dairy goat show circuit and the many awards won by the Karr family goats.

Alan Hand, an electrical engineer student at KU is in Barrow, Alaska, working at the Arctic Research Laboratory. Alan is helping to operate and test a radar unit, which he helped to build at KU this past spring. They are collecting information on icebergs for the Navy.

50 years ago: June 19, 1952

Births: Mr. and Mrs. Ted Allen Shook of Benton, Ill., announce the birth of a daughter, Kathryn Ann, May 28th, 1952. The maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Uriel Harling. A baby son was born to August and Thelma Laster on June 15. He has been given the name Randell Wayne.

Kansas City, Kan., has numbered streets nearly to Basehor. A cow may now be grazing on 135th St.

Death: Kate E. Dorney, mother of J.W. Dorney, passed away in Madison, S.D., on June 13th, at the age of 87.

Robert and Shirley Kasper, West Maven, Conn., will arrive this week to spend a few days with Shirley’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Freienmuth.

Linwood: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lyons have sold their house to Mr. and Mrs. Gene Kueker. The Lyons have purchased the restaurant building owned by Mr. and Mrs. James Smith. The city has issued them a beer license and they plan to operate a tavern in this building.

The Weekly News Reel: Mrs. L.C. Jones on the Nelson Road near Bonner Springs has a hen pulling a new trick. She lays her daily egg in the top of a cedar tree, so Mrs. Jones has to keep watch and gather the egg before it falls out.

75 years ago: June 2, 1927

Mrs. Fred Papenhausen is entertaining from Tuesday this week until Sunday evening, the five sisters’ annual reunion, which is held every year. This year being Mrs. Papenhausen’s time to entertain which is the 13th anniversary. The sisters are: Mrs. Cap Kulmus, Leavenworth; Mrs. Fred Dobler and Mrs. Pat DeLaney, Kansas City, Mo.; and Mrs. John Jackson, Onaga. Sunday, the last day of the reunion, their husbands are invited to attend a family dinner.

Lived On Same Farm 45 Years: Mrs. Fannie Proctor, who was buried here Friday, came to Tonganoxie in 1868. When the earthly remains of Fannie Proctor were laid to rest in Hubbell Hill cemetery last Friday afternoon, after almost 90 years of life, a personality associated with the vicinity since away back to 1868, ended. For in the year 1868, Mrs. Proctor, with her husband, came out across Missouri from Will County, Ill., and bought the old Proctor farm, three miles southeast of Tonganoxie. The Delaware Indians were still on their reservation, and the first abode of the family when they arrived here, was an Indian hut, which the red men had left on the Proctor farm. They lived in this Indian hut until a house could be built. This pioneer family arrived in Tonganoxie when three houses comprised the town.

Pleasant Valley: Henry Wickey has a new Ford car.

Stranger: Oliver Parsons made a business trip to Jarbalo Wednesday.

C.H. Sturgis, Tonganoxie, once sat in a Republican convention in Missouri with Frank James, one of the “James Boys.”

100 years ago: June 12, 1902

Deaths: D. H. Dreisbach, a pioneer of south Leavenworth county, passed away Sunday morning. Mr. Dreisbach was born July 21, 1831, in Carbon county, Pennsylvania; last week’s Mirror contained an account of the sad death of James Howard. Sunday, his brother, too, joined the “silent majority.” His age was 35, and Martin Howard died of consumption. Mrs. Mary Hartman, nearly 78 years old, died last Thursday. Little Lester Robertson was born July 9, 1893, and died June 3, 1902. Morris Brown, age 68, died Monday morning.

Linwood: Linwood people are proud of the new meat market and bakery, which has just been opened here.

M.C. Harris received a telegram yesterday afternoon, that his little grandson, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Porter Harris, had died at Port Arthur, Texas.

As long as the public school children are taught, as they are taught now, to remember Memorial Day, there is little danger that the grown people of the country will forget it, or what it means.