Local grain men this morning estimated that Allen Countys farmers have most of their wheat in the bin. They said local fields yielded an average of 30 bushels to the acre and put the value of the countys crop at $1,400,000. The crop is one of the best in recent years.
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Emerson Lynn, Jr. and associates announced today the purchase of the Bowie News, a weekly newspaper in Bowie, Texas. Lynn, who sold the Humboldt Union to Malcolm Higgins May 1, has been active in Kansas newspaper work since 1950. He has worked for the Wichita Beacon, the Topeka Bureau of the Associated Press and was editor and publisher of the Humboldt Union for five years. Lynn is now in Bowie where he assumed ownership of the News yesterday. His wife and their four children will remain in Humboldt until a house can be secured.
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Six Kansas cities, including Kincaid and Moran, will become only flag stops on the M-K-T railroad under a decision handed down by the Kansas Corporation Commission yesterday. The other four are Paola, Parker, Chetopa and Centerville. Under the ruling, trains will stop only when there are passengers or freight to be loaded or unloaded.
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Iolans are accustomed to buying chewing gum just by dropping a coin in a slot. Next Monday they will be able to rent a washing machine and dryer in the same easy way. The Coin-O-Matic Laundry will be owned by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Chiles of Fort Scott and located at 112 E. Jackson, with 20 washers and six dryers. Mrs. Chiles will be in charge. She has a similar business in Fort Scott.
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The Rev. Robert Means, 58, pastor of Baptist Church in Russell, has accepted the pastorate of First Baptist Church in Iola, effective Aug.
1. The Rev. Means, blind for more than 40 years as a result of a fall in childhood, is president of the National Association for the Blind and will attend its annual convention later this month.
