Miss Amy Jones is celebrating her 25th year as operator of a retail store in Iola. She began as a partner with George Williams when he started his typewriter store, took it over when he died in 1931 and changed the name to Jones Typewriter and Book Store. She deals principally in business machines, office supplies and equipment, books and her lettershop work from her second floor office in the Iola State Bank building.
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Jimmy Jones, 5 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Allen Jones of Gas City, was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Wichita Saturday where he is being treated for polio. He is affected in both arms and legs but is responding to treatment and is expected to return home in about a week.
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Construction work is starting on a new skating rink that Martin E. Haney will build on North State Street to replace the business he lost in the July flood.
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Following the promise made by State Superintendent Adel F. Throckmorton, the dissolution of the Mount Pleasant School District was accomplished by attaching the property of about 13 families to the Savonburg district and the same number to the Elsmore district as they had requested be done.
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HUMBOLDT — Bobby Works, eight-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Works, is responding to treatment for polio at St. John’s Hospital it has been announced by his father. There seemed to be no indication of paralysis.
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Jackie Sue Lamons, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lamons of Humboldt, who has been a patient in the Shriners hospital for the past three months for treatment of polio, will be dismissed from the hospital. Her mother has gone to St. Louis to return her to her home. Jackie Sue underwent surgery during the process of treatment. She is reported as improved.
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Henrietta Cleaver, daughter of Mrs. Minnie Cleaver and a member of the Geneva Boosters 4-H Club, is the state champion in the garden and potato project this year. In addition to the state award, Miss Cleaver will receive a wrist watch from the Sears-Roebuck Foundation. Henrietta produced 350 quarts of vegetables from her 100 by 75 feet garden.
