VFW Auxiliary members raise funds for Auxiliary projects at a garage and bake sale Fnday at the VFW Post building
in Mankato. Helping with the sale are (from left) Ruth Fleming, Karen Boden, president; Phyllis Smith and Meda Hulbert.
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The local newspaper was read to
the residents and the women made
pumpkin door decorations in craft class.
The video "Toys of the Past - the
Dr. William Furnish Toy Collection"
was viewed.
Church~service were conducted by
pastor Robert Elwell and Lori Bonjour.
Guests attending were Fern Pair, Bob
and Ada Grimm,-Doris Kitts, Gwen
West, Lloyd and Donna Johnson and
Louise Poweil.
Joseph and customs of Egypt were
studied during Bible study. The
"'Gaithers Hawaiian Homecoming"
was viewed.
The book club started a new good
old days book called We made this
Country Great, It is a book to close
your eyes, sit back and go back in time
and remember the common folks that
made our country great. Homemade
honey oatmeal bread was served at the
conclusion,
Devotions and exercise class were
held.
Twelve tourth through sixth grade
girls fromMankato and Burr Oak who
members of the JuniorGirl ScoutTroop
No. 521 made and delivered fall tree
pictures to residents. The girls hung
the pictures in the hallways. Theirlead-
ers are Crystal Cosand and Stacey
Smith.
Several programs on school days
have been given, such as old fashioned
J
school games, group discussions and a
slide program featuring lard buckets,
lunch pails, cyphering matches, knicker
pants and "recesses.
Thadd Hinkle and Rosalie
Menhusen held music.
An article, "Lady Liberty's Little
Sisters" was discussed. In 1950 the
Boy Scouts of America presented 200
miniature versions of the Statue of
Liberty to towns across the USA in
commemoration of the Boy Scouts 40
year anniversary.
Game winners were Monsolete
Trubey, Jane Meyers, John Sipe, Dean
Coder, Jewell Sweet, Aletha Logan,
CleoWilson.MildredThelander. Helen
Oelkers. Lela Huntsinger, Jeanne Grout
and Irene McCorkle. Guest players
were Eva Sanders, Dorothy Leonard
and Eldine Neill. This weeks helpers
were Doris Kitts who called the num-
bers and Shirley Wood assisted resi-
dents.
Visitors to LTC were Nancy
McCorkle to see Irene McCorkle.
Elizabeth Mohler. Amanda Albert and
Wade McCorgary, Robert and Gayle
Albert and Verl and Eva Mendenhall
to see Lena Berry. Fern Tucker to see
Ilene Alcom. Lynette Huntsinger, Cal
and Martha Huntsinger to see Lela
Huntsinger. Robert and Ada Grimm to
see Elizabeth Grimm. Jim and Connie
Hemdon to see Esther Herndon.
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By Roberta Holdren
Illl I
geveral people from this area have
attended the production, "My Fair
Lady," at Salina Community Theater
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Travis announce
the birth of their daughter, Makenzie
Layne, on Sept. 24, 2003, at Mitchell
County Hospital, Beloit. She weighed
8 pounds, six ounces and has a brother,
Taylor, 4.
Murlin Smith is a patient at a Salina
hospital and is expected to be released
soon.
Carole Thompson, Broken Arrow,
Okla., Iris Ozmun, Topeka, and Keith
and Mary Ozmun, California, were
weekend visitors of Lucile Ozmun.
Opal Loomis and Deb Bohnert
visited Kathleen Little, Cawker City,
who is recovenng from knee surgery,
Roberta Holdren accompanied
George Staten and the Russian stu-
dents and teacher on a short trip
around Jewell County. They visited
the Randall Co-op, the Lutheran
Church east of Randall, Palmer Mu-
seum, Lovewell State Lake, old jail,
courthouse and antique tractors and
blacksmith shop in the Mankato City
Park. On the way home they made a
short stop at the Jewell County Lake.
Opal and Richard Brandon visited
Irene Goff and Wanda Russell.
David Knittel visited his grand-
mother, Betty James.
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Thank you,
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our
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for all the involvement and community
service you provide for our whole county.
Jewell County Council on Aging
Kuhlman tells
story on Montel
Williams Show
Shelly Kuhlmann, Mankato, ~s
scheduled to appear on the Montel
Williams Show within the next two
weeks.
Shelly was in New York recently to
tape the show. Her decision to appear
on the popular television talk show
was difficult, because it meant she had
to relive the most devastating time in
her life. It was eight years ago that
Shelly's oldest daughter. Tammy, 6,
died as a result of poisoning. Tammy's
father and Shelly's husband confessed
to the poisoning, along with several
other crimes.
Shelly, along with others whose
loved ones were murdered by poison-
ing, were asked to appear on the show
and tell their stories.
When she received the call, "I
thought it was a joke at first," she said.
She talked to an assistant of the Will-
iams show. Staff members had found
an article from the Kansas City Star on
the internet concerning her daughter' s
death.
Tammy wanted to be on TV
Her decision to appear on the" show
was made when she remembered that.
Tammy had always wanted to appear
on a television show. "The hurt of
reliving it all was on my mind, but I
knew it was something I could do for
her and maybe help someone else."
Shelly remembers exactly when her
daughter became violently ill from tak-
ing poisoned medicine on Feb. 24,
1995. Tammy had been suffering from
an ear infection and Shelly had taken
her to the doctor and medicine was
prescribed. Tammy had been taking
Loans encourage
business expansion
Two established Republic County
,business firms, will received low-in-
terest loans from the county's revolv-
ing loan fund to help finance expan-
sion projects.
Sew Country will receive $53,150
and Havel's Gardens will receive
$15,000.
Sew Country purchased an adjoin-
ing Belleville building and plans to
double the space devoted to the fabric
and quilt supply business. Plans are to
add a machine quilting se,~e and a
line of Christian books and gifts.
Havel's Gardens, a business located
at Cuba, plan a greenhouse expansion.
Growing, conserving and using trees and their products were demonstrated
at this saw mill demonstration at the recent Jewell County Soil Conservation
District tour for county fifth grade students. Jewell fifth grade students observe
the demonstration.
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"September Surplus Sale"
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Items may be purchased
MONDAY-FRIDAY, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
until Friday, October 3, 2003 at the:
USD 278 District Office
301 N. West Street, Mankato, Kan. 66956
785-378-3102
the medicine for seven days and on
Feb. 24, Shelly gave her the usual
dose, not knowing that Tammy's fa-
ther had added poison to the medicine.
"Tammy became ill right away,"
she said. The ambulance was called to
the Kuhlmann home in Esbon, but
Shelly, not wanting to wait, decided to
meet the ambulance. Tammy was taken
to Wichita. She showed signs of brain
damage and the doctors were looking
for answers. "At first they thought it
was meningitis," Shelly said. Shelly
and her husband, Robert Kuhlmann,
remained by Tammy's bedside, along
with other family members. As Tammy
was placed on life-support, the doctors
became suspicious of Tam my's medi-
cine.
Shelly adds, ''There was hope for
Tammy until that last day." She was in
the Wichita hospital for two days and
without any sign of change inTammy's
condition, Shelly, Robert and the fam-
ily decided to take Tammy off life
support. "That was the hardest deci-
sion I ever had to make," Tammy said.
During her final moments with
Tammy, Shelly took the child's limp
body, wrapped in her blanket and
rocked her. "It was just like I had done
with her when she was a baby."
Test results show poison
Six months later, when the results
of the tests on the medicine were re-
ceived, it was learned the medicine had
been poisoned.
Shelly and Robert were asked to
take lie detector tests, but before tbese
were administered, Robert confessed.
He not only confessed to causing the
death of his daughter, but also to start-
ing fires in the area and to using pois~
two other times. He had added poison
to the coffee at the grain elevator facil-
ity in Burr Oak where he was em-
ployed and had added poison to a drink
he'd given Shelly. Both poisonings
had been done after Tammy's death
and in both cases, the drinks were not
consumed as they tasted too bad.
Shelly remembers becoming ill af-
ter she tasted her drink. Robert was
arrested Aug. 8 and remains in prison.
Can't believe husband responsible
Even after all Shelly went through,
she still finds it difficult to think that
her husband, to whom she'd been mar-
ried five years when the incidents oc-
curred, could have done what he did to
their daughter. "He was a good fathex,
until this happened. It's hard for rneto
imagine, even to this day, how you
could kill your child in a cold
murder."
Shelly and a relative, Louarma
Frankes, Delphos, left for New York,
Sept. 16 by airplane from Wichita.
Frankes had a child die of child neglect
by the child's step mother.
Shelly's family hosted a "send off"
party for her in Burr Oak the night
before.
Shelly and Louanna stayed at a ho-
tel on Times Square. "We did some
sight seeing that night," Shelly said.
The next day was the taping of the
show in a studio with a live audience.
Shelly admits to being nervous, but,
she said, "Montel made me feel com-
fortable when he talked to me. He was
very sweet to me and the others that he
interviewed. You could tell that he
cared."
"They took my glasses so I couldn't
see the audience while I wason stage
so that helped," Shelly said. The int~ ~,
view with Shelly took about 20 min-
utes and Shelly believes her interview
was the longest for that show.
Shelly was asked by the Williams
staff if it was all right with her to
include a telephone interview with
Robert. Shelly agreed, but she said
prison officials would not allow the
interview.
Shelly said she has no regrets of
doing the Williams show and was
pleased with the way it was all handled
and presented.
Shelly and Louanna arrived back in
Kansas Sept 18. As of Monday, Shelly
has not heard when the interview will
be on the air. The Montel Williams
Show is on every weekday.
Shelly and her daughter, Cortney,
11, live in Mankato.
for a Self-Pay/Medicare Bad Debt Specialist. Person will be
responsible for working CrediffCollections accounts, monthly
statements, keeping correspondence with collection company,
and some Medicaid billing as well as keying in charges on a
daily basis. Experience preferred.
Please send letter of application and a resume to:
lames McWilliams, CFO
PO Box 327
Mankato, Kan. 66956
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Sat: 11am, 2pro & Spin
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The lewell County Solid Waste Department is now
accepting applications for a part-time laborer position.
Hours of work will not exceed 34 hours per week.
Applications and job descriptions are available at the
Jewell County Solid Waste Department:
100 W. Hwy 36
Mankato, Kan. 66956
Application deadline is October 3
Jewell County is an equal opportunity employment employer
were in
Branson .and were joined by Harold
T-shirt as she
she will appear.
~Stmday aRernoon callers
Smith were Marlin
Gue.gs of the Dana
Th- ~aftemoon were Ed and
honored ~er, Ruskin, and Seth and
l~g" on, Salina.
aa.vy buddy rhe Hobsons
, andElaine
Center,
Trtm~bull, Neb.,
Glenna
in the
I Show.
=trended the
ice cream patty and
wet¢:~fe~: Isaacson and Nathan,
Manhat-
the Republic United
, Ethlyn
Charles, Marge Seybold,
and Virginia Petersen.
Pastm Joyce Beam has been cel-
ebratingtmr bLnhday. She was a lun-
cheon gue, st of Betty Reed, Superior.
; San.dell called on Lula
I and Velda
It care center.
Vida Boman helped her grand-
Moniea
Dav~ Hm~hin~, Erica Davis,
Ethi
Program:
Recognizing drug activities
Jewell Chamber
play, "My Fair
from here.
to take
Ionia
ALl the family
~in Topeka recently.
f'nma Florida, Cynthia from
and Bruce from Wichita.
-Arrilla's aunt in an
home.
Debra Bohnert took Opal
~n Meyer to Cawker
to see Kathleen Little who is
adng from surgery.
~,~ and Jean Rose left
~in Colorado.
,~il~ky Cockroft and Ka~.n
Wt~dltll Meyer all went to Jewett
day~tn-dng.
~ K~'en Moyer had a
.They did quilting i.n
Ladies Clut
night at the
$1~q~Hall. The women were
~lmograms for this year.
#, °ltudent of the
Co/tege gave the sermon at
Sunday. He was accompanied l
fiance. After church they ate
wi~ Stanley and Ann Colson.
Church hoard meeting was
d,~ynight. Plans are beir
Nov. 8.
~:~Farmers in this area have
finished drilling wheat or are in
of it now. Somethat was
ago is coming
The rain that came a
has put
faces.
Richard Ault, Wichita,
with his mother
and leon. He has been helping
and Neva
Sutton
Ilene Schnoor,
met
week. Programs were planned
ne~t meetings. The next
Oct.22. A video of Sue
in Lawrence will be
station in Lawrence
"Home and Away." TheY
and filmed
It was
and also on a
Karen Boden
angels. Each
visited Vo~
Jewell, and ate
available a¢
in Jeweli,
counties, who
i~k](sical losses
~, may now apply for
race Agency emergency loans.
will be
March 17, 2006.
a 3.75 percem
scheduled for
rapidly as feasible,
reasonable
replace
livestock, or bull
ter.
TO be eligible for an
disaster loan, an applicant
operating a family size farm
a
disaster.
loans cover 100
~. Loan is
$5OO,OOO,
)alance of any and all prior
