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The four inch snow which fell Tuesday, containing .37 inches of moisture, is not only beautiful but just what the wheat farmers ordered. A heavy hoarfrost this morning, made the landscape a fairyland of beauty.
The new Wurlitzer reed electronic organ and chimes installed last week at the Christian church will be dedicated at the Sunday morning service. The organ is the Christmas gift of the congregation to the church. The whole project has been accomplished under the leadership of a committee comprised of Francis Roberts, Mrs. David W. Wheeler, Bryan Bell and Mrs. August Schoneman.
Donnie Hayen received a broken toe while practicing basketball at the high school gym last week.
Sheriff Lloyd Davies, accompanied by four deputies and flanked by the Highway Patrol, moved in on a four- room farm house Saturday evening and took into custody the proprietor of an open bar, plus an assorted variety of bottled whiskey and liquors. The place was one-half mile east of the Chase County line, just north of Highway 50. J.F. McGrew, known as "Dangerous Dan," operator of the road house, was taken before Judge Jay Hargett in county court Monday where he pleaded guilty to two counts and was sentenced to six months in the county jail and fined $400 plus court costs of $63.25.
Mrs. Fred Batt was badly burned and the Batt home damaged by the explosion when gas in the kitchen of the home, one mile north of Marion, ignited about 6 p.m. Monday night. The accident follows by 10 days the hospitalization of her sister-in-law, Mrs. G.D. Longhofer, who was overcome by gas fumes in her home at 1015 Main, Marion.
