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SEPTEMBER 7, 1994

Senator Nancy Kassebaum is pictured on the front page as she addresses friends and relatives during Burdick's annual Labor Day festivities. She spoke on the importance of small-town values, and how small towns are havens from crime, pollution, and high costs.

A public hog roast has been planned for the Sunday following Old Settlers' Day to benefit the campaign of Carla Stovall, who is a candidate for attorney general of Kansas. Stovall, a Marion native, is the daughter of Carl and Juanita Stovall of Marion.

Few seats remain as Emporia State University's Elderhostel moves to the Flint Hills of Kansas with "PrairyErth — The Book, The Earth, The Land." Participants will live the drama of author William Least Heat-Moon's "PrairyErth" during this Elderhostel program situated in the heart of the Flint Hills.

Kimbra Kay Remmers and Martin Francis Kroupa were united in marriage July 2 at Holy Family Parish in Pilsen.

Births announced in this week's issue include that of a daughter, Caroline Hunt Collett, born to Keith and Anne Collett of Marion at 12:09 a.m. Sept. 1 in St. Luke Hospital.

Dr. James E. Bureman, son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Classen of Marion, has been elected president of the Missouri State Board of Optometry. He is an optometrist and center director of the Missouri Eye Institute, which is a subsidiary of Omega Health Systems, at Springfield, Mo.

Rebecca Richmond of Marion won the Nebraska pedal-powered tractor pull for seven-year-old girls, held Aug. 27. She will compete in nationals Sept. 24 in Omaha. Sunday, she will also compete in the contest at Kansas State Fair.

Dorothy Melcher was guest of honor Sunday at a surprise dinner party at Kingfisher's Inn in celebration of her 80th birthday. The event was planned and carried out by her sisters, Pauline Allen of Wichita and Gladys Pike and husband Kenneth of Eureka, and her son Gary Melcher and wife Debbie of El Dorado.

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