Published 2/6/2010 in History Page
The new class of the Volunteer Nurse's Aide Corp which is being organized in Finney County, under the direction of the Red Cross Chapter, is to have the privilege of being instructed in the first unit of the work by Mrs. W.E. Jones, R.N.
Mrs. Jones was instructor for the VNAC classes of both 1942 and 1943. For this new group, her knowledge has been enriched by her experience with the earlier ...
Published 2/6/2010 in History Page
Judge William E. Hutchison and a view of cattle feeding on the Wes A. Wheeler ranch are among the subjects featured in an eight page photographic essay on Kansas in this week's Life magazine.
Judge Hutchison is pictured in his hotel room, standing behind a large, opened dictionary and the capti ...
Published 2/6/2010 in History Page
Garden City basketball fans saw about four minutes of good fast basketball last night and, fortunately for the home team, it was in the last four minutes of the game when the Buffaloes came to life and dropped in 11 points to overtake Syracuse and finally eke out a one point victory, 22-21.
At ...
Published 2/6/2010 in History Page
Quite a breeze out of the north this morning -- it hit close to 50 miles per hour around 9 o'clock and up in Nebraska it was doing better than around here ... Elmer Drew's hat went straight in the air shortly after he left the house this morning. Looking up he saw it doing a couple of wide loops and ...
Published 2/6/2010 in History Page
Occasionally we run across a hidden gem of information while browsing biographical files in the Leola Howard Blanchard Research Library at the Finney County Museum. Perhaps they were gems once known and now forgotten, or just overlooked in the excitement of searching for a chosen topic. Those gems c ...