view. However. we encounter-
ed no snow or rain while tra-
veling.
Mildred stayed with us one
day and went on to Manhattan
Beach where we Joined themI
in the Christmas festivities
later.
IIowever the holiday vaca
tion was a bit tough for Anne.
She. being a registered nurse,
the demand for nurses was so
great, that she has worked 7
days a week for several,w, eeks,
Luckily her mother, Mildred.
was perfectly capable of tak-
ing over the household duties.
i However we did just about the
same as you did -- had a
decorated tree surround-
ed with gaily wrapped pack-
Principal speaker for' the ages, all sizes and shapes
Annual Native Sons and from the size of a suitcase to
£)a~hters banquet will be The a tiny case of jewelry. And,
Hen Charles E. Whittaker with all these, and a boy with
former Associate Justice, Um an electric train, hub-bub
ted States Supreme Court, ac- reigned for awhile, but it was
cording to Native Sons Presl- fun for all ages.
dent Doral llawks, His ad- After the Christmas festivi-
dress, "Circling the Square," ties, the Rawaks had a chance
will be the climax of the din- to visit friends of the time
her program January 27 at when they lived in North Hol-
the Hotel Jayhawk Roof Gal'- lywood or Burbank. So we
den. did not start for home at Sat-
Justice Whittaker, who was atoga until Wednesday.
*born February 22, 1901, on a Early Days at Mankato
farm near Troy, is the only Chapter Ill
native Kansan ever to serve Incidentally. in 1895 the Co.
on the Supreme Court of the Supt. decided the High School
United States. and Common School gradua-
Other features of the dinner tion exercises would be to-
meeting include Greetings gather. As this had never been
from Governor Docking, the done before, we rebelled!
presentation of the Haucke We protested vigorously and,
Award to the Winner of the we thought, Justly. The Super-
Oratorical• Contest. and pre- ior Express chronicled the in-
sentation of the Olive Ann cident, and dubbed us "The
Beech Award to winners of the Dudes and Dudesses" of that
Pioneer Factual Story Contest, high school class.
by Mrs. Frank Boyd, St. of In fact, there had been very
Mankato, Also to be presented few graduation exercises be-
is "Kansan of the Year", Jim fore the class of 1885. In 1894,
Ryun, University of Kansas a class of Walter and William
miler, the only Kansan to be LaBar, Grace Forbes, Olive i
so honored two consecutive Angevine, and perhaps three
years, or four more (I do not have an
Banquet tickets are avail- old "Mankatoan" which gives
able at the Hotel Jayhawk. all the graduates at hand
now).
e The year before there were
Justus Lynn, Fred Fuson. No-
ra Cole, and perhaps two or
Mrs. Ira L. ~'hite three more.
Sometime during these years
I don't believe I have told the Kramer Furniture Store
you that Mildred has traded became a fixture on the south
her 'Ford in on a Stationwa- side of Main Street, and,'.~H.
gon - Volkswagen, which is LaBar started a furnit(ire
well broken in by now. So store on the east side of Corn-
Dec. 15 we started for Los mercial Street. It was his
Angeles so she could spend "twin sons that furnished the
Christmas with her two daugh urge to organize on Alumni
ters, Anne and Ellen, who arc Association, and the first
employed there, Alumni Banquet was given in
Anne Is private secretary to honor of the class of 1885.
the head of the Chevrolet S. C. Smith had quite an
agency, and Ellen is recep- extensive store, groceries, la
tionist with the Ralph Parsons tar added dry goods, still la-
Agency. ter added millinery, making
I stopped at Alice's, which it quite an establishment, just
Is not far from San Jose, Sar- north of the alley, and south
atoga (her address) and Los of that alley was the post of-
Gates, an area not far from rice most of us remember, but
San Francisco. Alice and hus- I remember one in the block
band, Bert, are about the best across from the Commercial
Santa Claus I know of. for Hotel. And the postmaster was
he tries to get everyone just a man by the name of Gee.
what they want, so all were Bancroft. (There is quite a
bountifully remembered, story in connection with him
We were favored by perfect that I will not now repeat.)
weather for the drive. Had a However, Mankato's first
perfect view of Mt. Shasta. post office was in a building
heavily covered with snow, but on the west side of the rail-
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During Pebruary a repre-
sentative of the Kansas Vet-
erans' Commission will be in
Mankato on Feb. 9, 1967 from BERKSHIRE
9:00 to 11:30 a.m. at the City
Hall to assist veterans and
their dependents or survivors Discontinued Colors Reg. $1.35 - Now
with veterans service work.
Anyone unable ¢o contact us
at that time may wrttp, nhone
or visit the office listed below:
Kansas Veterans Cnmmls-
slon, Courthouse, Marysville,
Kansas. Phone HT ~.~c81 Clay-
ton G, Morton, Field Repre- •
sentatlve. '
l~lrs. Edith Oat, Mrs. Beulah
l'~J'i':~w,~r~h spent the weekend
in Lawrence with their chfl:
dren, l~Ir. and Mrs. Edgar
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