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7 years ago

FROM THE EUDORA NEWS

November 1995

The Kansas River bridge north of Eudora was slated to be closed Jan. 2 and remain closed until June 15 while the deck was being replaced on the 30-year-old structure.

The project, tagged at $1.4 million, was financed jointly between the Kansas Department of Transportation and Douglas County. The county's portion was $297,690.

¢ LaDonna Lickteig, Eudora, was awarded the American Pheasant and Waterfowl Society Novice Breeder of the Year Award during the society's annual convention in Grand Rapids, Mich.

¢ At the Eudora High School Booster Club fall sports reception, Darrin Bretthauer was named football most valuable player, while Kari Neis took the same honor for the Cardinal volleyball squad and Eric Bloom and Jessa Stein for the cross country team.

¢ Tom Pyle Jr. entered a gingerbread rendition of the historic Holy Family Catholic Church and parish house in a benefit for the Topeka Performing Arts Center. Pyle's creation featured lollipop trees, walnut stone walls and a candy sidewalk.

¢ Darren Hendricks, Eudora, was selected for Who's Who Among Students in American University and Colleges. He was a senior at McPherson College.

¢ The Eudora High School Scholar's Bowl team of Molly Mersmann, Eric Bloom, Abram Chrislip, Patrick Everley and Daniel Broers took first in its pool and placed second in the Jefferson County North tournament.



65 years ago

FROM THE EUDORA WEEKLY NEWS

November 1937

Herbert Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Brown, was taken for a wild ride at the point of a revolver that ended at Carleton, about 18 miles southwest of Abilene.

Brown picked up two men shortly after midnight at the Willard cut on Highway 40 west of Lawrence. They asked to ride into town. As they approached the business district, one of the men displayed a gun and ordered him to drive across the Kaw River bridge. Near Midland, they ordered him into the back seat of his car, a 1936 Chevrolet sedan, and blindfolded him. He wasn't allowed to see until they were approximately 25 miles west of Topeka. There the blindfold was taken off and he was ordered to drive. He held the wheel until they reached Junction City, where he was blindfolded again and one of the two kidnappers took the wheel and drove through Abilene and then to a point near Carlton, southwest of Abilene.

The two men held Brown there until another car stopped. The men quarreled for a short time, then took $4 from Brown's billfold, blindfolded him and told him not to move until they had time to get out of sight. He then returned home.

¢ Mr. and Mrs. John Sturm celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.

¢ Mr. and Mrs. Richard Erwin moved to the Kaiser house in the southeast part of town.



88 years ago

FROM THE EUDORA WEEKLY NEWS

November 1914

The following high school pupils made no grade lower than an 80 percent during September and October: Bernice Giffee, Tracy Harvey, Lydia Kanzig, Ethel Kindred, Agnes Page, Esther Pfleger, Helen Pfleger, Concie Harvey, Esther Kohler, Fannie Reusch, Hulda Thoren, Otto Vitt, Harry Broers, Lizzie Copp, Otto Lotz, Florence McCurry, Louis Schurle and Hilda Ziesenis.

¢ John Gottstein was very sick with typhoid fever.

¢ The Rev. Fred Stoerker, the new pastor of the St. Paul Evangelical Church, and his wife, were expected to arrive from the Glarkens church in Ft. Smith, Ark.

¢ Deborah and Lou Morris of Hesper, entertained the Misses Minnie McCrea, Laura Cooper and Daisy Garvin for dinner.