Birth: Samuel Christopher Cook was born July 19, 1995. His parents are David and Wendy Cook of Tonganoxie.

Jones recalls war experiences (Picture of Ernest Jones posing with the flag his mother made during World War II. The two stars were for Ernest and Jim Jones. A third star was added when Richard entered the war.) Ernest Jones talks with great pride when discussing flying air force planes during WWII. But he knows it wasn’t his skill as a pilot that brought him back alive from the war. It was luck. Jones joined the air corps training command in 1941 after serving four years of ROTC at Indiana University. Jones, 74, joined a bomb group in 1944 and went overseas to the Pacific in 1945.

Deaths: Francis Maude Bouldin, 79, Tonganoxie, died Aug. 8, 1995; Ambrose L. Dempsey, 85, Leavenworth, died Aug. 3, 1995; Eugene Harden Tynan, 81, Tonganoxie, died Aug. 3, 1995.

(Picture of Earl Bailey) A WW II veteran who served in the Pacific recalled his days as the nation celebrates the anniversary of the end of WW II. Earl Bailey joined the navy in 1941. Following his training, he was sent to the island of Guam. “My wife took the train with me to California,” Bailey said. “She was pregnant, and they had to stop the train in Sterling, Kansas, where she had the baby.” Bailey said he would gladly serve his country again, and feels that dropping the atom bomb was the right thing to do. “I think we did the right thing,” said Bailey. “It saved a lot of American lives.”

25 years ago: Aug. 6, 1980

(Picture) Only several weeks ago, as the 1980 Summer Olympics quietly opened, 10 women from the Midwest gathered in Chicago to set a new world record. The event was the 24-hour-marathon relay, and Heidi Wallace, Tonganoxie native, was a member of the “Liberated Legs 11” record-setting team. (Each runner took their turns at running speedy one-mile intervals, with baton exchanges marking the start of the next runner’s turn. The record set was 229 miles, 580 yards.)

The children of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene J. Friday Sr. request the pleasure of your company at a reception in celebration of the 25th anniversary of their parents’ marriage, Sunday the 17th of August, 1982, from two to five o’clock. The reception will be at Hughes Hall, United Methodist Church, Tonganoxie.

Tiffany and Tracy Goepfert spent last week at the Dry Hollow Limosine Ranch in Grove, Okla., owned and operated by their grandparents, Claude and Elenora Goepfert.

Will and Ida Herrington, Ruth, Ward and Gail, attended a family picnic at Smithville, Mo., July 27.

(Picture) The mechanical robots were in town last week, passing out candy to children passing by in the downtown area. They also visited the children at the Country Day Care Center to hand out candy. The robots were Kim Aydukovich, Bill Moseley and Mark Moseley, of the center. The designs for the robots were their own ideas, fabricated from cardboard and flex hose.

50 years ago: Aug. 25, 1955

Dr. Philip L. Stevens has bought the A.P. Laughlin house on Pleasant St. A.P. lived there 20 years.

Basehor: Mrs. Asa Grisham received word of the death Monday of her uncle, Mr. G. W. Zerkle, at Fort Paris, Ohio.

Jim Baker arrived home Saturday evening from Illinois. He has been on construction work there this summer with the Barton Construction Co.

Jarbalo: Mr. Kiester, your correspondent, will soon be home and on the job again. Of course, you all know he has had a substitute, Mrs. Carl Dohrn, for several weeks.

Atlantic Fleet (FHTNC) Enroute to Europe on the summer’s second Midshipman training cruise aboard the escort vessel, USS Sturtevant is Donald E. Werbe, engineman third class, USN, son of Mrs. Charles E. Clark of Tonganoxie, Kansas., and husband of the former Miss Nancy R. D’Amico of Newport, R.I.

75 years ago: July 31, 1930

Hazel Ridge: Elmer Ammel is recovering slowly from the effects of too sudden contact with the heels of a mule.

Pickens District: Alfred Jones has been hauling the milk here the past week for his brother, Howard, who is away on a fishing trip.

Hoge News: Mr. and Mrs. Dan Burke and Mr. and Mrs. James Nihill and Mr. Henry McGraw attended the funeral of Mrs. Nihill’s mother of Kansas City who was buried at Mount Calvary at Leavenworth Friday.

Stranger: Mrs. Thelma Gress is enjoying a two-week vacation from her duties as telephone operator at Tonganoxie.

George Shaffer received word Monday of the death of his sister, Mrs. Ellen Botsinger at Albany, Idaho. Mr. Shaffer said he had not seen his sister for 30 years.

Dr. Coe reports the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Claude Pearson, last Saturday.

Dave Davidson, 65, passed away at his home three-fourths mile south of the Denzer store on the Eudora road at seven o’clock Monday morning. In 1896, Mr. Davidson and family moved from his farm home three miles south of Tonganoxie, where he was a resident for several years. Mr. Davidson came to America from Scotland on a cattle boat to attend the World’s Fair Exposition in Chicago in 1892. Mr. Davidson built the old Colonel Harris home which is now the O.O. Browning farm.

100 years ago: Aug. 10, 1905

Louis Leidy won a silver medal in an Army sharp-shooting contest June 15, held on the Island of Leyte. His enlistment expires in the fall, and he will leave Manila for the States Oct. 15. His folks expect him here about Dec. 1.

The Oskaloosa Old Settlers will celebrate Aug. 16-17. A balloon ascension is one of the special attractions.

The funeral of Mrs. Carrie King, of Neely, was held Saturday from the A.M.E. Church. Rev. S.P. Sims officiated.

Local Briefs: Dr. Gladman reports a son born to Mr. and Mrs. Will Schultz, of Summit, Tuesday. The baby is quite a midget, weighing only about three pounds.

Some women wear corsets to make men think they have. Others, to make men think they haven’t.

The work of disinterring the bodies in the Fort Hays military cemetery for re-interment in the national cemetery at Fort Leavenworth has begun. Many of the soldiers buried at Fort Hays died of cholera in 1863.