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Thursday, January 12, 1961
DELHI
(Intended for last week.)
The New Year's Watch party
was well attended at Delhi.
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Klou-
sek and family spent New Years
Day with Mr. and Mr. Joe Kam-
ler.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Reeves
Ava, Bill, Lillian and Mr. Paul
Glaese and Mr. and Mrs. Thos.
Fann were Wednesday evening
supper guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Jos. Jennings.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Ware
and family spent Sunday after-
noon with Mr. and Mrs. J. S.
Ware.
Vicki Ware spent sunday af-
ternoon with Rebbeca Bishop.
Misses Bonnie and Alice Bay-
less and LeRoy Richardson were
Friday visitors with Mrs. Leona
Brakefield and Linda.
Monday afternoon visitors in
the Virgil Ware home were Mr.
and Mrs. Gip Woodruff andson,
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Woodruff,
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Woodruff, Mrs.
Pearl Woodruff, Mrs. Grace
'Hjort, and Mr. and Mrs. Elbert
Kitchen.
Vicki Ware spent Monday af-
ternoon with Linda Brakefield.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ritchie
and family returned to their
home in Colufbia, Mo., Sunday
after spending the holidays
here with relatives and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Win. White and
sons spent Sunday with Mrs. A.
P. White and Miss Jennie Chap-
man.
)
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Cooper and
daughters spent the weekend
with Mr. and Mrs. Claude Stev-
ens.
Mrs. Viola Bayless was pleas-
antly surprised on Christmas,
Day with a telephone call from
her daughter, Mrs. Norton Lee
Hamilton f r o m Sacramento
Calif., and also from Miss Eliz-
abeth Bayless of Oklahoma City
Okla.
Word was receivcd last week
from Mrs. MJ.nne Stall o e Hen-
ryetta, Okla,, that her sister
Mrs. Isadore Rice Mills, had
passed away there on Dec. 20.
The J. M.iRiee fatally'formerly
lived near Hofflin, Mo.
OBITUARY
NANCY ISADORA MILLS
The following article from the
Henryetta, Okla., was sent to
the Cuba Free Press by MI.
Ethel Fann. Mrrs. Mills will be
refembered here as Miss Isa-
dare Rice who lived her about
40 years ago and she attendec
school here:
lancy Isadora Mills, 52, died
in a local hospital late Monday
evening.
She was known to her friends
(and that included mot of Hen-
ryetta) as "Izzy"
Funeral services for the long-
time Henryettan will be held at
2:00 p.m. Thursday in the First
Christian Church with the pas-
t6r, Roy. Jack L. Nichoison of-
ficiating. Burial wlU be in the
family plot in Westlawn eemeo
tory.
Iy was born in Pawhuska
,and came here as a young girl
in 1922. She married R. B.
(Dick) Mills, who pt:eeded her
in death In 1955. She was an
active worker and member of
the First Christian Church and
in service rendered in club ac-
tivRy and civic affairs, she
served two terms as president
of the Amerian Legion Auxil-
iary was the first president of
tre Henryetta Band Phrents and
Boosters Club and with the
young people was a constant
and loyal worker.
She is survived by two dau-
ghteres, Mrs. Nancy Mner,-Ard-
more, and Mrs. Mary Meltshar-
get, Wichita, Kansas; three sis°
ters, Mrs. Joe Stall, Hem'yetta,
Mrs. Blanche Chapman, Wichi-
ta Falls, Texas, and lrs. Lou-
ise Myers, Little Rock, Arkan-
sas; five brothers, Harry, Rob-
err, and Bill Rice, all of Hen-
ryetta, De Rice, Hawthorne,
Calif., and Frank Rice, Okla-
homa City; and four grandchil-
dren.
HEARING AIDS
AH models AH PHe.s
RODGERS' SERVICE
St. James, Mo.
CLOSED THURSDAYS
STEPHAN INSURANCE AGENCY - 102 Smith - Cuba. Mo.
Active pallbearers for the
funeral services Ehursday were
K. A. Hamra, R. E. Thompson,
Jr., Zaymon Clement, Bill
Tharp, Jack Hines and Harley
Millsap.
Honorary pallbearers will be
Fred Mabry, Dr. Floyd Hub-
bard, Vern Sallee, Doyle Cun-
ningham, Leon Giberg, Ted
Berry, Herb Wi*- "Jhn
Schaid and Bob Alsup. "
PRAIRE CLUB METS
The Prairie 4-H Club met at
Lamb's on the evening of Jan-
uary 9, with eight members and
four parents present. Roll call
was answered by giving a New
Year's ResolutiOn. The 4-H
I pledge was repeated and the
minutes of the last meeting
were read.
Program books were finished,
leaders selected for projects,
and projeot bookss were distrib-
uted. Chief projects of the club
are electricity, beef, fobds and
clothing. Meeting adjourned, a
song was sung and refreshments
served.
OBITUARY
Clyde W. Adams
Clyde W. Adams was born at
Spring Bluff, Mo., on January
29, 1904 to the union of Wil-
liam Adamss and Zola Adams,
nee Randelmann, and passed
away on January 4, 1961, at
his home in Bourbon, Moo, at
the age of 56 years, 11 months
and 5 days.
When he was six years of age
he moved to the Bourbon com-
munity with his parents where
he spent rls life. Soon after
leaving school he began work-
ing for Kappelmann-Linstrom-
berg General Mercantile s:e
working with Mr. Linstrom-
berg in the funeral business;
then upon the death of Mr.
Linstromberg in 1930 he dis-
continued the operation of the
mercantile business, but did
continue in the funeraI busi-
On April 1, 1935 he began
working as a ostal clerk: with
Mr. Herman Esssman, the post-
master at that time. In 1946 he
accepted the job of substitute
mail carrier, the sold all of his
funeral equipment; and a few
months later entered into the
funeral business with Paul
Shaklinn usihg the Adams res-
idence as the funeral home. In
1954 he decided establish
the Cottage Inn which he and
his wife were operating at the
time of his death.
In N?vember of 1923 he was
united in marriage to Miss Ma-
ble Linstromberg and to this
union two children were born:
a daughter, Norton Jean, and a
son, William Joe. His daughter,
Noma Jean, died in January,
1943 and in April of the rne
year, his wife Mable passed
away.
On April 19, '1944 he was
united in marriage to Mrs.
Frances Peterson, nee Biting, in
the Methodist ChureN"t Bour-
bon, Mo.
In 1939 Bourbon organized
their fire volunteer flre-depart-
merit and Clyde ewas a charter
member.°He sponsore{I the Boy
Scout Troop in Bourbon. He
was a member of the Odd FeN
lows Lodge. He joined the
Bourbon Lodge on January 31,
1940; re was Past rand of
Bourbon Lodge, also Sullivan
Ladge No. 156. He was always
civic minded and helped any
.time and any way he could.
Those bides his loving wife
Frances, Who survive to niourn
his departure are on on, Wil-
liam Joe Adams; his stepsons,
John, Jim, and Robert-Petero
son; one brother, Woodrow Ad-
ams; three sisters, Mrs. Pearl
Hardy of Sullivan, Mo., Mrs. Vi-
ola Johnson of Fantail, Mo.,
and Mrs. Mae Morton of Holly-
wood, Florida; one brother, Ed-
ward, preceded him in death in
1930. He is also survived by his
grandchildren; one uncle, Eu-
gene Adats; two aunts, Mrs.
Anna Martin and Mrs. Kate
IAntchicum; nephews, nieces,
other relatives and many
friends.
Clyde was one who loved is
friends and neighbors and will
be sadly missed, not only. by
his loved ones but by his many
friends as well.
Mr. A@ams was in state at
the Shanklin Funeral Home
Chapel, Bourbon, Mo., util 12
ocloek noon, Saturday, January
7, 1961 when he was taken to
.the Bourbon High School Audi-
torium where services were held
at 2 P. M. with Rev. H. H.
chaefer offlctsting. Mr. Wil-
Uam Summarville sang sacred
rymns with Mrs. Erna Muellerj
erving as his accompanists at'
the piano.
Memhers of SttlHvm Lodge
No. 1 LO.O.F. paid the re-
spects of the order to their
,brother Friday evening, Januo
ary 6th at 8 p.m. when they
conducted the rites of file or-
der in the chapel. Interment
was in the Bourbon Cemetery.
INJURIES FATAL TO
CUBA WOMAN i
An elderly Cuba, Mo., woman|
who signed herself out of St..]
Louis Courty Hospital follow-|
Ing a Christmas Day automo- I
bile accident, died Friday of in-
nries suffered in the accident
County Coroner Raymond I.
Harris said.
The victim wa9 Mrs. Edith
Diener, 69, of Cuba, Mo.
She was in a car driven by
her husband, William, 70, that
collided with a car driven by
Melvin E. Swantner, 21, of 424
Monroe pt%--Ki;kwood, at Balla
and Ladue bads, Creve Coeur.
Mr. Swantner and his wife,
Marilyn, 22, were a'eated and
released at county hospital. Mr.
Diener was uninjured and Mrs.
Droner signed herself out of the
hospital against the advice of a
staff physician, Mr. Harris said.
Mrs. Diener was visiting her
daughter, Mrs. James D. Chris-
mer, 2420 Havenbrook dr., St.
John, Friday and passed out
twice. She responed' to au in-
halator the first time but was
pronounced dead at 9:30 a. m.
following the second attack.
Mr. Harris said an autopsy
showed Mrs. Dieser died of a
blood clot caused by injuries
suffered in the automobile ac-
cident.
Mrs. Diener lived in the Iron
Center neighborhood west of
Cuba and had moved here about
three years ago.
She is survived by her hus-
band, William A. Diener, and
children, Mrs. Margaret Bisoux,
Mrs. Mary Jane Chrimer, Al-
bert Lane, Varner, Thurman
and Fred Clark; three sisters,
Mrs. Anna Bressler, Mrs. Irene
Wolff, Mrs. Lottie Rapp and a
brother, James W. McElroy and
other relatives.
Funeral services were held a
10 a.m., Tuesday, Ja. 3, from
the Beiderwieden South Side
Funeral Home with interment
in Memorial Park Cemetery.
BLUE STAR EXT. CLUB
The Blue Star Extension Club'
held its regular meeting Jan.
5th at the home of Mrs. Robert
Stewart with Mrs. Lawrence El-
rod co-hostess.
There were 13 members and
three guests, Mrs. Bill Hacker,
Frs. Hal Graham and Mrs. Pew.
The devotional was read by Mrs.
Ed Windle. Roll call Was ans-
wered by something a neighbor
has done for me. The secretary's
report was read and approved,
and the treasurer gave her re-
port.
Mr. Paul Bell was a gues
speaker and spoke on Wills and
Financial Security, which was
enjoyed very much by everyone.
Mrs. Robert Stubblefield and
and Mrs. Ruth Hines "showed
candles and tray they had made
at the handicraft meeting at
Steelvllle.
Games were won by Mrs.
Louis Cody, Mrs. Bill Hacker,
Mrs. E. Souders and Mrs. Har
old Hector. Mrs. Louis Cody re-
ceived a gift from her Secret
Pal. Attendance prizes were won
by Mrs. Fredrickson and Mrs.
Paul Bryan.
DR. E. A. RODGERS,
D.CJPh.C.
Opposite Masonic Cemetery
St. James, Missouri
Hours daffy - Closed Th
THE CUBA FREE PRESS
Thursday, January
19, 1961
Cuba, !
During the social hour delic-
ious cake, coffee and ted were]
served. __ __ __ __ J
BASKETBALL SCHEDULE [
Melvin Moore, Coach J
Jan. 20--Cuba at Cherryville
Jan. 23-28Sullivan Tourney
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Wed., Thurs., Fri. Nights
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A NICE LAYING 200 ACRE 4 ROOM HOUSE,
Farm, 160 acres triable; two home, furnace heat;
modern homes; one 6 room, ing springs; large barn;
bath and full basement; 2nd, 4 acres with 60 acres valley
rooms, bath and utility room; tom; %mile from river; 2
Grade A milk barn hay barn cabin. Termss.
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rooms, large roomy
The
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one room mother-in-law
all city utilities.
• "Ym opposed to any educa-
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morale to help them u it."
4 ROOM MODERN
with full basement, 2
from shopping area.
2 BEDROOMS, modern
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very large garage..
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600 feet from the river. A
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St. Louis. Deep well.
available.
MODERN RANCHETTE
on U.S. 66, 4 room modern
and kitchen, attached g,'
gas furnace; on a ice lot.
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SEE ME FOR YOURS! "'-"-
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TOWN and COUNTRY SALES PHOTO LISTINGS
TU 5-3356 CUBA, MO.
PEOPLES BANK
Established 1901
CUBA, MISSOURI
THANKS
for a good year--- and best
wishes for 1961
Your patronage for the past year has enabled us to
show increased business in many departments ........
and we appreciate it. We hope in the coming twelve
months you will use our services even more.., so'
that we may not only WISH you, but also HELP you
enjoy, a Prosperous New Year.
Pe@,!es Bank of Cuba
MEMBER F.D.I.C. CUBA, MO.
