60 years ago
SEPTEMBER 7, 1944
Mr. and Mrs. W.B. Miesse received word from their son, 1st Sgt. Max Miesse, in a letter written August 25 that he had been injured by fragments of a Japanese hand grenade on the island of Saipan. He says his ring finger on his left hand hurts him worse than the wound in his thigh. 1st Sgt. Miesse had been overseas this stretch for two years. He entered the Marines four years ago and was stationed in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked there. He is a veteran of many of the battles in the South Pacific in which the Marines took part.
Jerry Brose has been ill for the past week and is delayed in starting to school.
Ralph Richmond, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Richmond of Lost Springs, sustained some very painful injuries several days ago when a dynamite cap with which he was playing exploded in his hand. The injuries necessitated his treatment at the Hillsboro hospital for several days. Saturday, he was able to come to the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Conyers where he remained until Tuesday when he went home.
Vera Belle Province and Louise Conyers began their Nurse Cadet training at Wesley Hospital in Wichita Monday.
Jack Helmer had the misfortune to drop a tombstone on his foot and was in the hospital three days but was able to go to his home Tuesday.
Miss Viola Thompson presented the following pupils in a piano recital Thursday afternoon: Sarabel Wolf, Mary Margaret Hannaford, Janice Meisner, Marion Fick, Vicki Black, Karen, Dan and Michael Brodhead, Patricia Henry, Carole Schlehuber, Jeannine Williamson, Patsy Rittel, Joyce Keazer, Virginia Wright, Donna Stenzel, Delores Razor, Ruth Klein, Betty Lou Gossen, Naomi Ruth McIntosh, Janice Socolofsky, Donna Hobein.
Nancy Colburn and Carolyn Hayen went to Emporia last Sunday to enroll in the College of Emporia which begins Monday, September 11.
